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CS Sid best
At least he has hair in Soc. I will check CS once i complete this
I just dont want to go to x18 again because that place made me literally scream
Am i forced to go there?
I just skipped my way all into army warehouse to get some decent weapons
Nothing happens if you get all 6 which is the most kek part
Instead of getting x18 docs
So you can leave with 3 I think
But still the most annoying area in the whole series
Fun fact, stalker2 was originally being made in 2010
Your fear isnt from ghosts or dumb stuff it is fear from what you will encounter and the darkness
Got canned in 2012 and company got shut down the same year
Oof
GSC has a fun story
Spawned the company that made the Metro games if you ever tried those
Metro sounds like a stalker rip off yea lol
Its a linear shooter
Made by SoC devs that left GSC basically a year before release of SoC
A lot of people who enjoy Metro like Stalker and vice versa, though personally I am not a fan
I found 2033 a bit boring and didnt really try the others
Well to put it simply

A Zone doggy
Down doggy
Chill? CHILL?
CHILL as heck
They are the most thing that worries me after snorks
Guess you haven't met a Pseudogiant or Poltergeist yet
I did
Haven't seen a Chinera or Spooky Burer Man yet that's for sure then
Since those are only in CoP
No Chimeras nor Spooky Burer Men in SoC nor CS
CS has smth else for you
The name is Vova Vist
Wait isnt that an ecologist?
An icon in the community
Mah
Nah*
Kruglov is an Ecologist who is pretty cool
Vova Vist is a Military dude
Gotchu
rip that random dude who got killed by that controller in the jupiter tunnel
should've just hidden behind a wall smh
Okay so i aim at the head and shoot
All the bullets fly around the target and when i aim next to the target not even on it the bullets hit it
The target is stationary bruh
rip that random dude who got killed by that controller in the jupiter tunnel
should've just hidden behind a wall smh
Rip that random dude in the Controller cave in CoP who tells you to go away
Poor lad
Also yeah SoC aiming can be a little weird tbh
rip the dude who put a stash in that car under the gas station
Rip CS 
when strelok dies during the final CoP mission
oof
Wait wont i kill him in soc
yes
You will
strelok must've been either piss drunk or massively braindead if he survived that PSY field because oh jesus christ
must've been a lit party in the monolith brainwash room
when strelok wakes up in the village the next day

40 rubles
Gotta love stacking up on Rubles in CS then the big bang happens
2000 rubles, an AK and 2 mags
out into the wild east
Not as bad, as starting with only a jacket 🤔
spent half my money on bread and the other on owl
Most of my money goes on med kits and bandages in anomaly lol
Also can i strip an enemy off their armor in SOC?
Muh exoskeleton nooo
And repairs.......
Most of my money goes on med kits and bandages in anomaly lol
Probably going to end up doing the same in CS
Who knows
i only use bandages and sausage
tactical snack
Welp anyway, sleep time. Hope you have fun with your adventures in SoC Joseph
why do i always end up with 20 grenades that i will never use
Gn
sell em?
i made enough profits selling grenades to buy an exoskelethon
also farming them skadovsk med supplies
xD
Most of my money goes on med kits and bandages in anomaly lol
Well. Since they have cost of pack of shotgun shells, use sniper rifles always use cover
sniper rifles pfff...
i use my 230 ruble broken makarov to snipe monolith from across the underground
xD
good thing that gunslinger mod added neon sight outlines so i can atleast see who im shooting
i never had an AK in STALKER jam
mmm
lol
i like the gunslinger controller suicide animations though, the grenade ones look the best
One of the few things I dont like about anomoly, I wish there were more npcs wandering about doing their thing
Hardly seeing anyone here in Zaton here but there were numerous squads around in CoP
There were also like 30 or more people on Skadovsk at night now theres barely a handful
Just up the numbers of npcs
You can do it in settings
And you can mix gunslinger with anomaly ?
lolno
@exotic bramble there’s a grenade suicide?
Spawned the company that made the Metro games if you ever tried those
also spawned the company that made survarium, if I'm remembering correctly
No chimeras in SOC?
Not officially in the game, but the model exists in the files. You can sort of unlock the "radar ghost" chimera via modding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtFqzwd_IWU
just found out controllers can actually run and jump
How do you get recipes for repair kits?
just found out controllers can actually run and jump
@golden galleon wait what
@golden galleon lol how?
Stalker 2 looks way too dull and despressing
@opaque parrot @past shuttle somewhere around here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtFqzwd_IWU
ok let us check
@golden galleon bro thats just a ghost
and i thought you meant the real one
@finite dragon we will see
I hope there will be some dark cloudy storms, give a nice grim feeling weather at times
I wonder how is player´s rank calculated? By kills or by quests done? 🤔
How do you get recipes for repair kits in anomoly?
stalker 2 hype 


One thing which is weird in Stalker:SOC - psi emitters damaging physical health instead of mental one... 🤔
There are two in SOC, unlike the addons.
Though Mental one is barely used. As I think in vanilla game even controllers mostly damage physical one. I don´t know if I mistake it with another game, but I think that SOC was originally supposed to have weapons based on mental health damage. But as they weren´t implemented and mental health wasn´t thus used, it was cut from the addons.
And not true instead of inventory HUD. Another weird thing - on HUD blue bar is armor. But in inventory, it´s mental health. Which on HUD is instead showed as a head with a 🧠 inside. 🤔
I wonder why devs though that it´s great idea to use same bar for two things. Unless they forgot to cut the mental health in SOC.
Well
I mean
If they were to use a mental health bar, then it "technically" shouldn't restore, due to the psi-emissions permanently affecting your brains
Besides, you go dum-dum
It regenerates itself. OGSE mod makes that you can restore it with Vodka I think or some item. (I wonder if any other mod made Mental health as actual implementation to the game. 🤔 ).
But yes, as we can see in case of zombified stalkers, it´s impossible to cure fried 🧠 . At least in cannon way. (As in OGSE mod it´s possible to cure yourself from being zombified with help of Jellyfish artifact + Ecologists at Yantar).
Though wait, I forgot about one quest in COP, where a controller zombifies player´s companions and if the player kills the controller fast, he unzombifies them.
So in cannon rarely zombified stalkers can be cured of the effect, at least when under control of controller.
The real mental health mechanic stems from slowly waking everywhere
I'm about to take Reginald for my new labor man
Duty f'ing sucks
change my mind
TOZ-34 is the most powerful weapon, too bad it only has two bullets in the chambers
Behind the explosives and GAUSS RIFLE and some other guns
But it's a solid gun
You can even use it as a sniper
s l u g r o u n d s
why do slugs suck so much ass in soch
@silk viper kill people and you find recipes
Military guys are racked as heck with them also SOC weapons suck
They literally hit if you aim next to a stationary target
Crimson is idle, do not disturb
I have been scammed in soc tho
Just blame it on THQ
Can i clean the duty base south of army warehouse easily
Why blame it on THQ? For not adding enough ganja?
Because THQ cut a lot of stuff from SoC
So if it's lacking something, blame it on THQ
Soc has only 10 items lol
Ever heard of the blondie from California who was sent to Kiev to fix SoC?
Artifacts and guns not included also ammo
Then threatened to not pay anyone
I dont agree, blame it on Ganja for smoking out the weed in the storage room
Nah
He do have a point tho
I guess CS takes place before SoC
If it takes place before soc then why am i playing soc first instead of cs lol
Trust us it's better
You dont know CS takes first place in terms of order?
Joseph is new to the series as a whole
But yeah, CS takes events before SoC, though it's better to play SoC first
CS chad
Mainly due to game features and because you would somewhat spoil SoC for yourself if you played CS first in ways
Crimesong appears on the barrier of the Freedom base, asking questions
Question 1 echoes in the distance: "Which type of weed is more healthy, yellow or green?" - asks Crimson, in response a Freedomer goes: "Dawg, we ain't lawnmowers"

If it smok and make u high it good crap

I picture some stoned Freedomers in S2 talking nonsense in an interesting way
Hesitant on Ganja's radio
Wat
With so much playhours, it has to be dead already
Ganja, man, he had the Freedomers song playing on his radio next to him
All day long, 365 days a year
Unless they changed bases
Kek'd
Joseph is already playing the Anomaly mod
Is stealth not a thing in Anomoly?
I didn't know thats what that was for
I thought it was to let you know that something was following you
Coming to get ya
What I love about Anomaly is that if you aren't friends of the Mercenaries, they will send parties of well armed members to hunt you down in certain regions
Lol
Had a merc attack me at the scientist outpost while I was trying to buy things from the trader, so I killed him and for some reason a single ecologist aggroed me and wouldnt stop, but if I shot him the entire camp turned on me
When NPCs attack you for no reason...
Rip
When NPCs attack you for no reason...
Does Jack's Bandits have some script that made them react to the player carrying their leader's Eliminator? They attacked me while carrying it, the funniest part is that I didn't even killed Jack, I found him dead and just picked up the gun
I had inventory full of grenades. And no use for them, as enemies do my job instead with their grenades for me...
Got roaster in fire anomaly. My curiosity killed me.
I’m screwed man
I just wasted like 50 rounds on freedom and 15 monolith come up
HOLY JEESUS HERES ANOTHER 7
Definitely a good tactic against the Spooky Burer Men
I went from 38 kg of loot to around 50
I demolished at least 15 freedom and 30 monolith
i had a hard time destroying the duty base south of the army warehouse
they all have exoskeletons and their guns hit like a drunk uncle ;-;
Why would you try to stop duty
None shall stop duty and their quest to destroy the zone
Best stalker factions and why
best is freedom
at least you don't get morning wake up drills, no WODKA no showering, no sleeping, if you lose your gun you get spanked
Also got Ashot and Yar 
when i get a good gun i'm gonna clean off the duty base in rostok
while playing DOOM OST in the background
There is a faction wars system in Clear Sky, you could join Freedom and wipe Duty left and right
Man why would you join freedom
how can i get a good exoskeleton in SOC
You legit can’t go to the bar
You save up 200k and buy it from the bar
But you can’t go to the bar
also which guy should i hit up if i need to repair my guns
None in SoC
Uhhh, just kill some guys
@finite dragon i think everyone inside the bar is neutral plus if you wear some duty stuff you will never be detected i think
And get new ones
Your legit in early game
You simply kill a bandit and take his viper
is the viper even good lol
Or carry 4 guns at a time like me
Meh
i skip those guns because they don't pierce into anything lol
YES
It’s only good for close range spraying
It's alright for the start I guess
4 GUNS IS BEST LOADOUT
idk what gun i should go for
It's alright for the start I guess
@tired anvil I much prefer a chaser 13 over a viper
But a chaser 13 is fairly mid game
but i want something that can obliterate people and is accurate at the same time
i don't care about Rate of fire i just want to send people to heck lol
but i want something that can obliterate people and is accurate at the same time
@finite dragon g-37
yeah that thing isn't accurate Lol
In single shots it’s accurate as heck
wait how can i switch to that
I just wiped out 40 dudes with it
Forgot the controls for switching firing modes
Always keep a shotgun,obakan and a g-37
Vsl is super good but the ammo is rare unless your in the middle of freedom territory
i just run around with a suppressed pistol and any good rifle
i just run around with a suppressed pistol and any good rifle
@finite dragon shotgun is good for letting the enemy charge you and wipe them out one by one
Chaser 13 is great because it’s semi long range for a shotgun and holds 6 rounds
i tried to use a saw off but the spread is just DISGUSTANG
The double barrel is absolutely garbage past 2 meters
it is lol
does shooting in single shots while on full auto mode affect the accuracy?
Nah
well then why do my bullets fly over and under the targets lol
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G37 is great in single shots at long range because it’s got a built in scope
i just find the Spread system in SOC Quite Disgusting lol
Gp37 best gun
well then why do my bullets fly over and under the targets lol
@finite dragon that’s just the engine
;-;
I hate it when I’m sitting here aiming at their head from 20 meters away and the bullet just
Tunder ammo 2 hard to find, and yeah, bullet spread is disgusting
Starts flying leftwards
Like point blank and it just hits the left
Yep
i just find the Spread system in SOC Quite Disgusting lol
@finite dragon I’m starting to get the hang of gp37 bullet drop and spread
Also, why do people like ak 74 so much
Legit I aim slightly towards the right and abt a meter in the air
Above their head and it usually is a one slap
Also, why do people like ak 74 so much
@timber flame idk man it’s trash compared to other assault rifles
Famous
I’d much rather have an obakan
That's about it
The most annoying thing is when you think you cleared an enemy camp out and they just laser you from the back
And kills you whenever you legit have a stone blood and duty suit on
AK74 is easy to find and its ammunition is aswell
also its modifiable to a nice extent
AK74 is easy to find and its ammunition is aswell
@exotic bramble obakan uses the same ammo and is quite better
yeah but it aint as easily obtainable
Yeah but the first stages of the game almost everyone has an AK74
in CoP you even start with the AK74U
We’re talking about soc
i just want a gun that hits very accurately at longer distances i don't care about anything except how accurate it hits
i want to get my hands on one of the snipers that freedom tower guards have but i don't want to make the faction unhappy lol
Well, the Gauss rifle exists but you won't get that for a while
Oh
Well, that will be somewhat possible if you decide to help Skull
if i help duty i will get freedom to hate me though
Nah it's not exactly Duty
Slightly is but also isn't
Basically Duty sucks, so a colonel with his whole squad left Duty
And you will be able to assist them in raiding a Freedom base, if you don't help them, they will attack on their own
But the option is there
oh
i can get my hands on one of those duty rifles but i will just help him for the Rifle lol
Skull's first mission is to take care of a Freedom sniper, but if you don't help Skull he will get assassinated by it
So you could possibly get his gun
yea
Or you can kill the sniper,get his weapon and then they get screwed from the massive amounts of freedom,which happened in my play through and then take their weapons and the suits in the base> yea
@finite dragon
Wind of freedom is worth it ngl
Got you
I recommend just waiting at the bomb
The duty will demolish at least half the freedom
No
And then you wipe the rest out and take their stuff
You're a hecker
Lick my poop
Gajunas, do as he says
It's fun taking on all of Freedom with a few former Duty lads
@tired anvil I tried that and I got absolutely pooped on and massacred by like 20 freedom dudes
The ai of Soc is complete butt at coordinating so they all try to be one man armies and end up just getting killed off easily
If they stick together then they might actually stand a chance
Gajunas, do as he says
I'd rather not
The ai of Soc is complete butt at coordinating so they all try to be one man armies and end up just getting killed off easily
¯_(ツ)_/¯
I wish they could have done more with the ai
The only sense of coordination in soc is the liners fighting the bandits at the one barn looking thing
Ah
AI could finish the game before you, but that and a lot of other things got cut
The ai would stick in groups though
Rather than players just going up against 30 dudes at once 8 times a day
Or a mass of mutants
S2 says it will have A-Life 2.0 so I guess we can expect them to fight each other better as well I guess
Unless the game breaks
I like watching ai fight each other
Especially factions like freedom and monolith
Who have actual training in tactics but because of the game engine limitations they just use human waves
Untill 6 monolith in exoskeletons rape them
you can never steal from the thief
apply that standard to the monolith and uh uh thing to freedom 
Red forest gay as heck
first time i went there i got shot to death instantly
That's going to be your experience going to Cordon for the first time in CS
are those loners gonna aggreviate me?
aggreviate the one who has always loved them 
You will meet Vova Vist
well it's probably gonna be just a normal gunfight
nade spam?
Nah
Just crashed man
Where did Monolith got all their sexy gear ?
I’m in the red forest with one derad
Where did Monolith got all their sexy gear ?
Made it themselves
Chad monolith engineers
Ok I’m done with frickin soc for a while I’m going on clear skies
xD
Either crashes or I get raped by 16 monolith
Passing me around like a joint or a Vietnamese hooker
CoP is my favorite of the three
Mine same, in terms of gameplay and general polish.
Shame only that GSC was in none of the trilogy able to do faction relationships right. In SOC, almost all relationship are preset and linear, in CS, it´s more about joining one faction in its war (unless there are relationships outside of it) and in COP relationship seems to be group-based rather than faction based.
Wouldn't it have been extremely cool if we got a stalker made with 4A engine
4A Engine is a modified X-Ray Engine, so you have Metro I guess
Is it? O_o
Yes
Is it? O_o
Yes
A modified version of it basically
That's incredible!
The graphics of metro look so good for a stalker game, it just crossed my mind today
bruh Fiend wont leave Rostok so I can kill him.
How come there's relevance between the metro series and the stalker engine?
Perhaps the fact that the people who made Metro made SoC
4A Games was founded by GSC workers basically a year before SoC was launched
I remember reading rumours that GSC blamed 4A for using older version of X-Ray engine as their own. True is, that one of the first alpha versions of Metro 2033 more looks like Stalker mod in tunnels than standalone game.
But the most relevance is that 4A devs were people who originally were working at GSC on Stalker:SOC, but eventually left GSC for some reason. I think that there was some conflict between some developers and their boss or something.
Are you serious????
Then why didn't stalker get promoted through 4a engine? It would have been the twin of metro franchise?!
Man this is so sad to hear... Because if it would have worked out then we could've gotten stalker games with metro quality
Stalker came out before 4A engine
All 3 stalker games came out before the first Metro game
Also maybe because GSC had the X-Ray engine, and not the 4A engine
Yeah I mean if there wouldn't have been any conflict between the devs back then
I am sure with combined efforts there would have been a potential for an even better engine than x-ray and 4a
Well, GSC was making the original stalker2 on a new engine
However, not really sure what to think of it if stalker 2 is being made in UE4, just feel like it feels home somewhere else

Original s2 was going to be a different type of engine one way or another
So nothing too new
I hope at the very least they can give the authentic rustic vibe to the environment
Which x-ray was especially good at providing
I think they'll manage
I have no doubts at all, I am buying the game no matter what, but it's always sort of worth mentioning what could have been
Are there traders other than the repair guy at the post in red forest?
Stalker has the environment and freedom for the player, meanwhile metro has the looks and style
I do agree on that. Metro has potential but it will never be close to stalker
well iirc the sequel to exodus is in development so we’ll see what it can do
Exodus will have nothing on S2
Exodus has nothing in the trilogy
Also they had ideas to make Metro in America so I consider Metro slightly a joke now
I mean...
That could be interesting, it would be a new perspective with new characters
different mutants because different parts of the world
@tired anvil depends on how they do it
it wouldn’t necessarily be bad, in fact, it does have potential
Nah
Apocalypses in the USA are boring as hell
We prefer countries who are used to harsh environments and lifestyle such as russia
Metro and Stalker are two different games anyway. Metro is to me more spiritual successor to Half-life - a linear FPS, story based. While Stalker is open-world FPS, with dynamic world through the A-Life AI. Only thing which might be similar is that both games are post-apocalyptic, but in case of Stalker it´s only zone, not entire world, like in Metro. And probably the mysterious atmosphere.
I didn´t play Exodus though due being Epic and then playing other games, so idk how it´s more open levels compare to open world of Stalker. But it probably doesn´t have anything similar to A-life.
And closest thing which Stalker also has with Metro are some Metro mutants implemented in Anomaly mod. 
Also one thing which is opposite in universe of each franchise- in Stalker, stalkers don´t go much into underground due it being more dangerous than the surface (especially labs). Metro, at least 2033, has it opposite. People live in underground, because on surface, aside of the radiation, are the most dangerous mutants.
exodus has 3 explorable locations
all of exodus’s maps are relatively small
The first two are probably the size of zaton and Jupiter
If I remember correctly
and the third is the smallest
@tired anvil any news
i know for sure that mooze isn't in stalker 2 which is a damn shame
There's your news 
how did STALKER 2 even get this Popular
most people don't even know the other STALKER games but everyone knows about STALKER 2
Stalker is pretty popular in the Eastern European/CIS community, not sure about the American market
Other than that I guess the trailer at the Xbox live show sparked some light
Stalker isn't as popular in the Western Europe as in the Eastern or Russia.
Who would have thought
A game created in Eastern Europe, taking place in Eastern Europe, built around Eastern Europe, is more popular in Eastern Europe than anywhere else
Whilst also advertised a lot in Eastern Europe
Featuring Eastern Europeans
Westerners lack proper taste
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Just from the suggestions, Stalker 2 could be goty... I want it now haha
Having a blast on the beginning of clear skies
Reminds me of a mix of fallout 4 and far cry 5
If they have co-op I hope it would function that your character can be used from your single player campaign in the co-op, think it would be kinda interesting
would def be interesting
Yeah, if in your SP campaign you're hated by a faction, that would cross over to the co-op so your friend could go to that factions camp if he is liked by them but you wouldn't be able to ect... Could be a nice dynamic between co-op an single player
Where can I get recipes for repair kits in Anomoly?
stashes and dead bodies iirc
yeah, the drop rates for everything in anomaly are incredibly low, not just those but for everything in the game. Ammo/ meds / etc.
in my personal version, I amped up all the drops by quite alot, with good variables on % chance for stuff to drop
takes about an hour or two to modify that in though with the way the code is written. It's a nightmare xd
Can you change specific drops or categories?
What do you mean?
can you add certain items to drop? yes
or do you mean, specific drops as in, what items % then yes
Gotcha
that's actually the only way it works
there is no "All drops % chance"
you have to edit every single individual items drop chance, based on what faction and rank of the NPC in one big file
and then ofc you can also change how much of that item drop
so you would have a 0,0 number
the first being how many rolls , and the second of how much you get per roll
Yeah looked for quite some time earlier trying to find where the variable for the repair multiplier is set because it always defaults to 1 if I try to set it lower
so if you have a 3, 15
it rolls three times for a maximum of 45, and a minimum of 0
^ (ammo would be a good example of the above)*
interesting
what are you looking for exactly?
Just want to make repairs more affordable since Im not finding recipes to do it myself
so basically make the cost of repairs at technicians cheaper yes?
Right
brb, ill find it for you
It defaults to 1 no matter what in the game settings
have you edited any files? What do you mean it defaults to 1 in game settings, I am unaware of any settings in game that change prices for mechanics
:o
Its called Repair cost coefficient in Esxtra settings
If I try to set it lower it goes right back to one
I know what's wrong. After changing settings you have to save it. Just tap F5
Reload the game?
Nope. Quicksave
I had this kind of issue. Like. If you'll die after changing smth in the setting tab - it resets to default
hmm, hopefully that works :), wasn't having any luck finding the file to edit to change that xd
Yeah I didnt either
Maybe it's problem with amd or nvidia software 🤔
It re-writes in-game settings
I dont have any profiles set for the game
yo guys will stalker 2 have mod support?
Yeah still no luck
What if scar is stalker 2 protagonist
@open lintel thanks dude 😄
@silk viper load yourself with 150+ rounds for your AEK and go around slaughtering military men
you will get a lot of decent drops to get back the round money plus you will find a lot of useful stuff
@timber flame
Not really. Every game has new protagonist with unique history, so using previous protagonist in new game will look like they made their game only to get some money on franchise's name.
Yea
Yeah I kill all groups I find and loot
But one more emission would have fried him
I know, but considering we never know if he died or not he may still be alive
wait strelok is dead?
should not be, but if you mean as far as stalker 2, that's an unknown.
since anything is possible as far as the story goes
wait strelok is dead?
@finite dragon no
why can't i just find him to kill him for god's sake
do i have to travel to the reactor in SOC?
bruh
hello
I started playing shadow of chernobyl, and its my first game, any tips to start off?
- Don't sell things to sidorovich
@viral sandal
Don't fight when it's not needed
Avoid getting shot
Shoot the enemy before they can shoot you
ALWAYS carry enough Medkits and Bandages
Press Control to crouch, press Control + Shift to low crouch. Both of these increase your accuracy
In combat, Q and E allow you to look around corners
Always check the bodies of your victims and get enough loot
Be sure to unload the weapons of your enemies by right-clicking on them and then unload them
When you use things like bolts or grenades, hold the right mouse button to increase your throwing range
Oh, and make multiple save files, along with saving often
oh yeah, i do know some of these but the grenade and unloading thing is something I never knew
man
the dev team seems super small ngl, im impressed at how they were able to make such a good game
when you think about, STALKEr is basically the russian gmod
someone should make a mod that turns the gunplay into a tedious task lol
like everything on the gun requires one or more button presses
think reciever, if youve ever played that game
yeah but the i m m e r s i o n
not gonna lie the game is already immersive and scary
immersion is already at its best
I like how you have a pic of the game already
yeah
I got to x-16, stuck there.
used to play CoC before, but SoC is much better to me
Ah so you're not completely new
yep
That makes sense in terms of story mode, because COC copy pastes SOC story, but SOC does its own story, of course, better.
Anomaly's story is based on plots of all games in series. 🤔
Anomaly doesn´t use story of COC though, it instead uses the story from the Lost to the Zone trilogy addon + adds its own fourth part for one secret faction.
And it also uses DoctorX Questlines for randomly generated faction story (just random side quests mixed into a "storyline").
Though why there are no questlines for zombified stalkers? 😦
(Story mode option is disabled in Anomaly for the faction.)
Maybe if they could do more than primitive human actions they would have a story
Tbh they do less than primal humans lol
anomaly looks great, but I am not an experienced stalker
Get out of here, stalker!
do not let others harm your fun. anomaly is neat, i like its warfare system but i wish i could do both story with the warfare, having its own campaign a bit like clear sky
@viral sandal give it a try if you want the crunch. don't let inexperience get you down, it is hard work in the zone
I am already having a blast with SoC though, I went in blind with CoC and I had to load my quicksaves a lot
such is life in the zone
sometimes, you see a monolit with a gauss rifle climb up a wall
sometimes you see a dog run through flame park ok. other time you walk on a wood and it kills you
I went from unmodded clear sky to anomaly which was pretty hard but yeehaw 🤠
clear sky is already hard
hide in the swamp until you can get started*
if anomaly is even harder than cs, i might wait a while till i am experienced then
anomaly has the swamp, what helped me start there is the warfare menus
yes, you are rewarded if you pass. this is why i head north through the bandits
It's pretty easy to pass him though
i can deal with bandit, i can not deal with military. when i was a rookie i spent hours trying to get through the military
thats what i did, somehow managed to get past with reloading 5 billion times 
this is why i head to the military, once they shoot at me, i go back and head north. (to start the quest) then go in through the pipe, come out, kill robbers, have a fun day. bandits have no home in cordon
it is a testament to advance beyond rookie
Yeah, which you failed I guess
i passed
I thought you went around
i just go north now once my pilgrimage was done)
In Cordon it´s especially BS that GSC had "great" idea of putting Rookie village next to a military base. So rookie stalkers there might go 🥥 and suicide attack soldiers at the base. Which is especially problematic if you have any mod which adds quest givers to Rookie village (like OGSE).
But yes, I remember having problems with surviving the quest in the Agroprom Research institute building when getting documents from military.
The Holy Run
@tired anvil
Those give me horrible flashbacks kek
It seems that GSC didn´t completely fix multiplayer of Stalker:COP - as when I click on "Forgot password", it links me to non-existing Gamespy page. 🤦♂️
It´s lost somewhere in the Zone now... 
Yep. I don´t care. I just wanted to check if anybody plays COP multiplayer for fun. I just wonder if COP has different MP maps than SOC. 🤔
As SOC doesn´t require registration to play MP online (aside of CD-Key, generated by Steam).
It's a "lil" better but still, abandoned
Mainly russians

THQ should have let GSC do a survival mode
That would be nice.
Survive in a map full of anomalies and mutants. Or maybe enemy AI stalkers.
With day/night cycle. (Which is already in MP).
Somewhat
Though didn´t they not implement A-Life into MP because it was hard to sync?
Instead THQ took the money and... ran
And bankrupted later anyway.
Thief Headquarters!
THQ has died
Now GSC publish their games themselves. At least in case of original trilogy.
Though CS was published by Deep Silver, not THQ.
helo
Funny how Deep Silver later took Metro franchise as new publisher. And hi.
i have a problem
im playing stalker cs
and i there are 2 artifatcs in a room, i cant see them, but they are there, but if i die, the artifact is behind me ( only one )
ill send where i am on #📸┃screens_and_videos
ok
so what do i do
ill sent the artifact that appears when i die
I wonder how is going to work Gunslinger mod in Stalker:COP. Going to try it out.
ok its on #📸┃screens_and_videos
If electro artifacts in CS appear at midnight like in SoC, maybe that's the issue?
yes i got it
Started COP, went into fire anomaly without decent equipment.=Got roasted.
gg
Again I reminded myself how AI cheats in Stalker. Stalker using same gun as me, which is hard to hit enemy for long distance and he is able to snipe me with it fine.
Also greande hits me through wall.
Got that one quest where you have either choose to help robbers rob loners or backstab robbers. I chose to back stab then so I put.... a double barreled shotgun without any ammo in (forgot reload it before...). 🤦♂️

I got outplayed by the stalker in dark valley telling me to buy gauss for 800 roubles
Well played GSC
Been there, done that

Got that one quest where you have either choose to help robbers rob loners or backstab robbers. I chose to back stab then so I put.... a double barreled shotgun without any ammo in (forgot reload it before...). 🤦♂️
kinda happened the same once when doing the waste processing station mission. Left the SVU ammo in Skadovsk so I had to walk all the way there to pick it up
Started COP, went into fire anomaly without decent equipment.=Got roasted.
@hazy raven
lul
@tired anvil Sorry to disturb you. Anyways, can I have some of that roasted meat from Regi?
I feel its quite delicious. I can go and collect his corpse myself if nobody around.
You're lucky I'm not Collector
Sosig again tonight then
is Microsoft the publisher of ST2?
Not exactly
They are cooperating with GSC, but last time I checked on the Microsoft website it said that the publisher is GSC
I thought that GSC created their own GSC Publishing division for it, so they publish it themselves. 🤔
Though on Xbox it´s of course going to be published by Microsoft.
Huh
They already self-public all three Stalker games on Steam. SOC and COP used to be published by THQ and Clear sky by Deep Silver. Now they are all published by GSC publishing.
So will Stalker 2 be on steam?
Interesting though... SOC is published by GSC Game world.... COP too, but CS is published by GSC World Publishing.
And it will eventually be on Steam, question is if it goes Epic or not.
But they already have created Gog.com page for Stalker 2 in Gog Galaxy client.
So it seems that they also plan to release it on Gog. 🤔
tfw i complete a task and i have to travel from X-18 to Cordon in 11 in-game minutes to claim my prize or otherwise the task fails.
if i could save time in a bottle 
You can travel fast directly from Dark Valley.
I thought that GSC created their own GSC Publishing division for it, so they publish it themselves. 🤔
They did
Though on Xbox it´s of course going to be published by Microsoft.
A game being on Xbox doesn't mean it's published by Microsoft
They already self-public all three Stalker games on Steam. SOC and COP used to be published by THQ and Clear sky by Deep Silver. Now they are all published by GSC publishing.
They were published by GSC and THQ, Deep Silver, bitComposer at the same time
At south part of the area. Though it´s only one-way route.
If it goes epic I'm going to die. It'd be nice if they added a car, like the cut section from SOC
it's 11 minutes, by the time i'm at the bridge near X-18 it halves up
11 ingame minutes actually bruh
GSCS Game World publishing handled the Eastern European and CIS publishing of the game
THQ did the rest
@tired anvil bitComposer? Never heard about this one. 🤔
CoP
Which is why different cover arts exist as well
Everyone is used to this one, this is the THQ one
This is the GSC one
So yeah, GSC Game Publishing published at the same time as THQ, it wasn't just one of them
It was a double effort job
What are you confused about?
Interesting that GSC and THQ both published same game. 🤔
Admin pleas shoche duty for bandit I mis
-takerole @shadow palm Duty
Duty successfully removed from Д-Р Клеф#9913.
Somebody is going to have Cheeki breeki moment, I see...
Bandits successfully given to Д-Р Клеф#9913.
Thanks
more like morning wake up drills and getting rekt by freedom all night and day 
breeki
Well not exactly if he left Duty
Shiki Briki
wait he's a bandit
Duty is nice, but resaerch is also nice, so join CS
CS 
i just want to be against everyone
Duty in clear sky best
Okay, most of us may be dead, but we might come back
Join Monolith Joseph
Funny is that in COC Freedom is neutral with Bandits.
i can't join monolith bruh
I can give you the Monolith role
So in case of COC you are fine.
Close enough
On shadow of tshernobly doom
Freedom, more like Free-dumb
it just kinda sucks you can't be a mono in SOC
You can... if you get killed by ||Brain scorcher|| (sort of).
Moonlit no - said strlok
Can be a Mono here 
death truck go kaboommmmmmmm
Though you are more than Monolith, you are S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Secret agent of Monolith.
Which SOC ending do you guys like the best
wait SOC has multiple endings?
7
Yep. 7.
Don't spoil Joseph
WHAT
am i gonna kill strelok in any of them?
Oh right Cheeki also never ciompleted
I THOUGHT THERE WERE 3?
completed*
Yes.
am i gonna kill strelok in any of them?
In 6/7
how about that 1
I may have gotten sidetracked with chasing dogs and trying to save everyone as possible
That one special where you don't kill him
we become homies for life?
In ways you do
but i always die tho
Then play better... Or get better equipment... If you have enough space left.
As Stalker later turns from scavenging sim into a walking/standing sim.
play better
Aren't you the one who never completed Clear Sky
I don´t care. But unlike Fallout, Stalker isn´t about random critical hits.
trust me if guns weren't this inaccurate i would've died a hell ton less
but hey at least CS and COP have better gun accuracies and repairing systems
I found them same in all games. In COP worst though (I wasn´t able to hit anybody with sniper rifle or Gauss rifle, forgot that one quest at Pripyat).
If you mean one-hit swamp bloodsuckers...
No, I don't mean bloodsuckers
The svu in soc was horrendous
Also at least from COC and OGSE I remember that swamps are annoying. Player can go only through specific paths or if he goes into water, he glows. Swamps in Zaton seems like GSC tried to make better swamps.
At least 4 me
in CS i will probably get a shotgun if almost the entire combat is in short range
Well
that's when i finish SOC i'm already at X-18 lol
Vova Vist certainly won't be short range
and i'm sure i won't be finishing this game any soon lol
¯_(ツ)_/¯
There are still tons of content after X18.
the only thing preventing me from completing X-18 is the floating things and stuff plus i once reached the bottom stage but i forgot to quicksave which lead me to start again from scratch
i went like hell no then went to chill with my freedom homies lol
Oof.
yes lol
Yeah so, there's a mutant called the Poltergeist
You can easily dodge them or run through.
Really? Never knew that. 🤔
So crouch walk and he won't hear you, so he won't be able to hurt you with the objects
Since he won't have any indication of where you are
I always just ran through. 
X-18 is a jumpscare fest
X-8 also neat
the two cloakers just jumping at you in a row
i'm not going to X-8 without a Bulldog 6 because i can lol
i'm not touching the map of it without the bulldog 6 with 30 or 40 grenades lmao
Not sure if you will enjoy using a grenade launcher in rooms as wide as elevator shafts
That's X-8 for ya
If X-8 is ||Brain Scorcher||, that sucks. For me worst dungeon - almost empty and then full of human enemies. That´s part where SOC starts going downhill for me.
For me dungeons in SOC are X18>X16>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>||Brain Scorcher||>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>||CNPP||.
X-8 isn't even in SoC so idk why you brought up ||Brain Scorcher||
I have confused the numbers. Because that´s x-something too, I think X-19.
X-8 is in COP, reused Warlab and it´s nice. My second favorite probably after X-18.
The one with 4 Burer bois
CS has Agroprom Underground again and only one and idk how it´s good or bad.
I explored its section in COC and it was...OK.
Agroprom is the controller one, right
Yes
Well there are two controller ones.
One in a program underground and I think the other underground somewhere else idk
“The pushy pully mutant”
wait what does CNPP have in it?
Exoskeleton and some other good stuff
Why does good stuff have to be in the worst parts bruh
So that by the time you get it, you couldn't enjoy it 
great point 
CNPP has much more things than you can ever imagine... 
a heck ton of pseudogiants?
Unfortunetaly, nope. Something worse, but similar.
It has some stuff you will like
is there a way to pause time in the game
Yep, press Pause button.
i want to turn in a task before it fails lol
Pause/Break. On your keyboard.
oh ty
You can press Escape on your keyboard lol
Ah, nope. You can´t. As Pausing the game also pauses the cursor.
And you can´t give in the quest in pause menu. As you can´t process the conversation.
well gotta let this one fail i guess lol
like i literally completed it and all i have to do is speak to sidorovich lol
Classic
Like in real life - you complete some thing, but after a deadline, so nobody cares about it anymore, or you´ll have some penalty. 
the thing is the deed is done but all i have to do is to speak to sidor to claim the reward
Like in real life. You finish some stuff, but don´t give it in in time. And nobody cares about it anymore.
Did you find Gordon Freeman btw
who
Like the half life dude
He probably wasn´t in ||Wild Territory|| yet.
i know gordon but where
So he couldn´t.
Guess not
Rostok Wild Territory?
Yes
I hate clear skies ai
Why
They laser my arm with an ak74u
From 10 meters away and then me with my modded ak74 can’t hit the broad side of a barn
Low crouch
But I couldn´t do the same... AI in this game is so cheating.... Not mentioning of greandes hitting you through wall in COP.
Low crouch
@tired anvil that still doesn’t fix how every military dude is a god
I more found effective to keep moving behind cover. But problem is when there is no cover to hide.
But I couldn´t do the same... AI in this game is so cheating.... Not mentioning of greandes hitting you through wall in COP.
@hazy raven Grenade spam in cs is gay as heck
You can do the same though. 
They don’t drop grenades early game
And if you keep moving, no grenade can hurt you. Also I think vanilla game shows you it in HUD.
Yeah
When there legit 4 meters away is sucks ass
i love how snorks can kill you in just one second kek
Amusing is that in Winds of time (mod) it´s opposite - AI is dumb there - doesn´t notice you and you can snipe them from distance away without them even noticing you. And enemies there love to blow themselves up with their own grenades.
@tired anvil that still doesn’t fix how every military dude is a god
They won't be an issue if you can kill them fast enough
They usually kill me in two hits, but I didn´t play SOC in some time.
Kill or be killed...
Do you love saving homies in games Joseph?
yes
But yep, generally in Stalker you can die fastly. That´s why it´s great to save scum in this game.
You'll hecking hate Pripyat 1 then
first homie to save was Tolik
Depending on how you act in CoP, you will have a lot of not fun saving homies in CoP
poltergeists somehow still detect me when i'm walking slowly kek
Walk slowly and crouch
Throw a grenade at them 
Poltergeists are just a nuisance. Pay then no mind.
They’re actually pretty helpful in certain situations
Despite them trying to throw objects at me constantly in tight spaces, I encountered one outside, simultaneously while it was the dark hours outside.
I was going to raid military base in Cordon, yet I had no NVG to my disposal.
What I had planned was to attract and maintain that of the poltergeist on me because it emits light to help brighten the night up. Since no objects were around, it just followed me about and kept a distance while I picked off military individuals till I had completely wiped them out and looted everything possible. Since it did help me in an odd way, I didn’t bother to dispose of it.
poltergeists somehow still detect me when i'm walking slowly kek
@finite dragon
Usual poltergayst
I'd say Flesh are
mfw i go from X-18 to cordon to The Bar with no ammo and nothing jumps me
i love it when the zone loves me
I ran out of ammo on my gp 37 while attacking borov base, and I ended up throwing nades everywhere and dying
i ran out of ammo while getting out of X-18
by the way do stalkers who die respawn?, important stalkers that is
Important ones don't
Is it a possibility that Stalker 2 will revolve around Monolith faction?
Or I paid 10$ to the front gate guard guy for nothing?
We know nothing
You were probably scammed. 
Though I bet that Monolith faction is going to be in the game. At least its remnants.
but he swore on the soul of his dead mother ... 
so basically dead stalkers are just gone forever never to respawn or be replaced?
so basically you can make an entire faction go extinct by killing all of it's members?
I think that some dead NPCs (both stalkers and mutants) respawn..
At least in generic NPCs, their corpses are removed from game after some time. And in Zone there are spawners which keep spawning new Stalkers/Mutants, until there is set population, which is set for each spawner.
If the Zone expanded Monolith protagonist would be a break-away spin from the tested/true approach of previous installments
Idk how they exactly work though. So this isn´t like Morrowind, where you can kill entire world, if you want.
imagine you re tasked by whatever remains of the Brain Scorcher to ... secure the Zone's expansion
That´s already in one mod. Though differently.
got you
In Winds of Time.
so basically dead stalkers are just gone forever never to respawn or be replaced?
Well the faction members aren't all exactly important
So yeah
great
||Where you are a clone of a stalker Pilot created by Zone, with your imagination making you think that you were sent to the past by Scientists from future and that you need to destroy remnants of the C-Consciusness in order to destroy the zone, but by doing so, you instead enable it to expand unlimitedly.||
time to take on the entire duty faction south of army warehouse alone
One man army let's fricking gooooo
Have cheeki breeki fun.
ty
@finite dragon what's your main quest?
Good luck. You´ll now go through the butchered content though.
wym butchered?
In Wild Territory you were originally supposed to pick side between two factions. But in final version the choice isn´t there and one of the factions is automatically hostile to you.
but i'm not touching that any time soon without a really heavy gun
Buy that Gauss for 800 Rubles again
Too linear though. 😦
Could've been Metro ¯_(ツ)_/¯
god i love the underground labs so so so much
@tired anvil i just cleaned the entire duty base
I might consider buying that gauss again but this time i will get my hands red and i will leave with the rifle 
But was cleaning the base really worth it?
I have no idea why i did it.
Well i will save now but this place will be infested with dogs without duty lol
I will just roll back to the last save probs
The Zone brings more mutants around Duty
So without them there will be no mutants in the base?
Nah mutants still exist, but there's always more around Duty for a reason
I will go into the wild territory now.
Alright
We need more labs in S2
Imo Yantar is probably the creepiest place in the game judging by the massive amount of snorks and zombies there lol
I don't trust the old man either
Yeeting a new stalker into a laboratory full of creepy monsters and poltergeists ain't very cool
Wasn't that Barkeep though
Sidor asks then barkeep receives but yes the x18 task was barkeep
You really don't trust this fine gentleman?
He still yeeted me into agroprom underground
Sidor be lookin kinda hot in that pic doe
STALKER 2 Graphics
Man has a business, gotta respect the hustle
Just business
nuttin personal
its him
You dare talk bad about labs? @tired anvil
that’s it, you’re going to X-69
Have fun
At least I'll see the new mutants before you 😉 @still ridge
@tired anvil Boris doesn't trust him
Who @finite dragon
Life of boris
I meant who does Boris not trust



