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Nah
it just came in my mind
Sounds wack
@feral verge maybe in the OT
But a pack of hamsters will definitely make you jump in S2
hell any mutant will
Maybe not flesh or boars but whatevs 
Rodents just kinda wack
Fleshes cool
Only way they can actually be a threat is by having a ton of them
But a pack of hamsters will definitely make you jump in S2
@still ridge Nah, they won't
I'll get used to the mutants and they'll just become another annoying enemy I have to get through
Just like the other vanilla games
sooo
X
i installed the anomaly and it crashes everytime the map starts loading. any idea why guys?
i extracted the the zip pack + The 4th update + latest hot how fix
does anomaly have it`s own server?
Yeah it does
Could you send the link to DM?
On the moddb there’s a link at the bottom

No warnings gang represent
Dw, we will ban you before warning 

Nah man
🦼
Better
Sums up freedom 
Yeah that’s accurate
They cause the REEEEE, then they REEEEEE
I've a better one
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🦽🏌️♂️ 

Kek
I too want to whack freedom with a golf club
Y'know
nah in actuality I like both factions
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🦽🏌️♂️ 
I got an idea Edillon
Your avatar
It is that of a Monolithian
What if we changed your role to that of a Monolithian?
Monolit preacher
Free stalkers for lyfe
The monolit preacher with the gauss is just based tho
That speech while massacring the military 
Inspirational across the globe
basically a copypasta
if
@safe flax no swearing dawg
and you can get a role in #faction_choice, i just can't ping the channel 
thanks, you saved the day 
A preach a day, keeps the military away.
Is it me or this sounds not so stalker to me? Sounds like every 2015-2020 game soundtrack. I dont know how to put the things i hear in words but it just seems not stalker to me
https://youtu.be/XHbp2SQPto8
It sounds really modern how do i say
yes, ofc it does. It's a rebirth and a sequel
Like hey 2020 game with the dummmm duuuuun duuuuun sounds
what song is stalker then?

i doubt they'll use 108 bits of zone in-game though
Then why use it to represent STALKER 2?
The new sountrack sounds just too distracting

It sounds too duuuun duuuun duuun
oh yeah, like gay combat music 
Manufactured drama sound
yeah, sadly MoozE isn't working for s2
i always turn it off anyway, but i doubt this will be used as regular SFX
if this is used as part of regular ambient music it would be sad 
Yep
Ur mad
Sad?
It's good music but it's not good stalker music
Me when pripyat day/night music
That speech while massacring the military
Man I love that speech

I think I'm succumbing to the call of the Monolith
I want an option to sell sidorovich to heat himself
@rare rain That's a nice profile picture. I want whatever that is.
So you want a piece of me 😉
What is that? Bread?
Does it have something on it or is that just how it bakes...
sounds tasty
bread is cooked in the sarcophagus, huh, another lore secret answered 
bruh
@rare rain You tasty son of a *****
scoped TOZ-34 
With a cool skin 
Scoped TOZ-34 with slugs is the anomaly meta
Isn’t it poo
Yeah it kinda is, you’d be better off using a rifle with an acog
I’ve never seen anyone call the scoped toz-34 with slugs meta
You don't understand
You get a nice outfit from hip if she doesn't get herself killed first
Super meta, bro
I mean
I could actually call it a meta, I've been using a TOZ-34 ever since I started the game
2 rounda just isnt enough for those mutant packs
is stalker 2 using some resources from chernobylite?
no clue tbh
No. They aren't and won't.
In the russian versions, what is it the stalkers say that sounds like "glavnemo"
Glavnomy - leader of the squad
Why would they?
They tell you to go talk to their leader
Ahh that makes sense ty
Not a fan of the new soundtrack, SoC ost did convey a much better tone to the oppressive desolation of the Zone, near perfect
i will decide whether its good or not when i hear it in game
it depends on the usage, i hope theres not always a soundtrack playing but maybe they might find a way to incoperate it
Hey, the mod at 4:19 of this video. Is that one that shakes loose items from your inventory? If so, that's pretty nifty.
god damn this game is terrifyng sometimes
i hadnt played it for some time, and i go into CoC and im browing around a monolith area and this loud ass lightning anomaly scared the crap out of me
god damn this game is too immersive, i love it with a passion





bruh is CS coming back?
Cs faction may be coming in s2 imo
Oof
OOF
Hey lads me and the boys are auguring over the chronological order of the stalker games. Mind telling me the order
CS > SoC > CoP
^
Well. You're right
Thanks lads
The latest post in the announcement section, can someone please briefly translate that?
🇬🇧 / 🇺🇲
12 years ago, a second part of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy was released.
It told a story of a mercenary, who assisted
a certain faction (which is now only mentioned by veteran stalkers in their tales) to stop the notorious stalker Strelok from entering the center of the Zone.
Lots of features, gameplay and story-wise, were added to the game, making it even easier to immerse into the world of the Chernobyl Anomalous Exclusion Zone.
Scar was added to the roster of fan-favorite characters and became another legend of the Zone, loved by many players even today.
Experienced stalkers surely know how that story ended, but many of them still believe that someday they will be able to witness Clear Sky over the Zone.
Oh my bad I suck
I hope in stalker 2 clear sky will comeback somehow or we will be able to see stalkers wearing clear sky armor
I love clear sky
Yesss add every faction!
Oh Jose
clear sky in stalker 2????
Lmao
thats poggers
it pretty strongly infers it
Not really
Mentions CS birthday
CS in S.T.2
agree to disagree 
I would like to see stalker 2 explore other ideas
And not focus on factions they focused on in the games
yeah that'd be cool, but I'd also be happy if they focused on the current ones only too
It'd be cool if it was like call of chernobyl but with a AAA quality story and better guns and gun damage
Rip CS

I kinda want a good faction wars implementation in S2, would be fun... and hopefully not buggy 
I am just anxiously excited about all the HD bases we get to visit in S2 and interact with different faction members/elites/leaders in good graphics 😭😭
I think we might lose a big portions of our lives for the next years just living in S2 world
Clear shall always be with us
No matter rain or shine they will be with us
Maybe not physically but in our hearts and our minds 
I am hyped for how the gun mechanics and stuff tbh. The stock stalker titles might have had bad animations and gun models, but damn those customization options were cool. Imagine if they expanded on that and gave us cool animations on top of that.
Clear Sky dead as hell
Maybe some of them survived and can form "Dark Sky" ?
and swear to wipe out every other faction in the zone?
Thats arabic
I'm arabic myself but i cannot understand it
Also. Scar S2 Protagonist confirmed? 
That's more like persian/iranian
Idk i know a little bit of arabic but that doesnt make sense to me either so idk XD
I want the protagonist to be strider. Trying to know what happend to himself
Im really curious of it ngl
I want the protagonist (us) to be a journalist
who is deployed in the zone to make a full report of what he witnessed
Didnt that happen in another game?
Not directly
Or it was ww2 game i think
What if they implement clear sky as a fallout faction where only few of them survived in each map?
If the protagonist is strelok again i want him to die at the ending because that man been alive for so long
i mean the protagonist could be "sand boxy" like Stalker: Call Of Chernobyl mod
@glacial quartz thats possible. Like novikov?
In Call of Cherno, you basically choose to be anyone
Yeah, like having certain hideouts and splattered all over the zone like some mythical stalkers
It's up to us, to shape the protagonist
What if clear sky didnt actually fall tho? What if they changed their base
who knows
To a secret tunnel at the edge of the map
What if they live in the cnpp? Because that was the last time we saw them. Right?
It'd be even better but I would really prefer clear sky being in stalker 2 one way or another
Yea that would be cool
Because they are amazing bunches
However it's going to be interesting to meet the Duty faction. I wonder how it's gonna be around their bases since they seen very organized and strict
CS Spoilers ||at the ending of CS you see a bunch of bodies seated in a corridor with screens playing stuff. Who do u think put those bodies there and where do u think that chamber is. Also do u think scar and the rest of CS were brainwashed?|| THIS SPOILS THE ENDING PLEASE DON'T PRESS UNLESS YOU FINISHED CS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
Yeah, that actually confirms for me clear sky will 1000% be in stalker 2
In atleast some way or form
Maybe cs stacked those bodies

Nah it was definitely the big
Whoever pinged me, I'm too tired to scroll
hello!
Heya
just got the games again, is there any mod to play the main story in coop mode?
The moment you are on a killing spree and you feel like a hero shooting down the last enemy and getting cocky and your gun jams
R u n f o r r e s t
does SoC have gun jams?
ugh... i hate that mechanic, far cry 2 made me hate it so much
The more used weapons are, the worse they'll perform, the more they'll jam
what difficulty do you recommend? the games i play on max difficulty is Doom games, quake.
Take a look at the Pinned Messages in this channel. All the way down is a list with all the difficulties which says what they do
Master is kinda a tradition in the community, though
that chart confused me, so high skill equals to faster deaths to me and enemies?
I am playing anomaly, every two meters, my gun jams
Well, that's the beauty of Stalker games, doesn't matter who you are. Just stick your face out a bit and you die
ever ate Borsch?
It just means that you'll die easier, find less equipment, etc
ok so master?
ah f it il play on stalker, ive beaten doom on ultra nightmare.
harosho tovarich.
bruh
Huh?
Clear Sky confirmed to retake the zone?
hahaha probably
I want some gameplay of S2 :(
who doesnt
if i got merc suit on the secret stash on the first area on veteran, what suit do i get on master?

the same one
Same suit
inb4'd
Kek
oh ok

No swearing
some of the mods have shotgun gun jamming with the guns that aren't double barrels
and you have to unload the gun and reload it to get it to fire again
I need proper jam clearing animations for SRALKER 2
Yeah that would be awesome
Pardon my typo
Like gunslinger? 😁
Even better than
Yea but I mean the same concept
Right
Healing animations would be cool too, like the old far cry ones. Maybe I’m asking for too much lol
probably s2 will feature healing animations, after all, but who knows
I dont think they'd be on the same level of farcry
I mean if they are that'd be sick, but it'll probably be closer to fallout 4
If the gunslinger provides 6+ unique animations by only modding then don't worry guys. Even if stalker 2 wouldn't have any, the modders will create them within a few months hence that the devs are going to make S2 available for modding on release date
Most likely, don’t see why they wouldn’t 😎
Far Cry 2 weapon jamming would be too much for me lmao
oh man
imagine the stress of unjamming you rifle mid-firefight with presumably monolith
those were the days though
far cry 2 deserves more love
yeah it does, i love more hardcore fps games like stalker and far cry 2
i actually reinstalled fc2 recently and i was thinking it was kind of like stalker to an extent
it certainly has similar vibes, yes
i love the grit on everything, the brutality in its world, and just underated as hell
it's got the people hunting, lurking in run down buildings, and looking for diamonds in the rough. The last one is a bit more literal.
yeah, lol, but i gotta say, i think that as much as i like the jamming and breaking of fc2, it would get out of hand sometimes
remember, to be a good shooter, get your gun talking at the right time
I want to see some real gameplay of stalker 2
everyone wants to but no one will
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yo guys
Ive got a very beautıful photo from stalker CoC
and i posted in ss channel if you are interested go check it
40 artefacts? A dream come true
amazing isnt it
Im gonna try to collect more but i still have a veles detector
I can hear the noise of artefacts in anomalies but cant detect them
they must require svarog i suppose
if only i had it
@tired anvil @pseudo rivet please change PFPs 
stalker 2 preorder when
cause i need to know if im getting stalker 2 or watchdogs legion first
Does it matter?
I think ban life of boris fans from playing the game🤔🤔
Far Cry 2 really wanted to be Africa simulator first, and a fun game second. Back when Ubisoft was actually making games that weren't the same thing rehashed over and over again.
Well, that and Ubisoft hitting a developmental plateau , where if they were to invest as much time and effort into polishing as many tiny details as possible, they wouldn't be able to pump out a sequel every other year with an ever increasing world size.
And I'm sure as they've found out, it does not pay off, because as much as your average gamer likes to talk about all the little things in Red Dead Redemption 2, during play, there aren't all that many who actually notice of that crap.
Yo, just saw the announcement about clear sky and
Is clear sky coming back in stalker 2?
good question, tho we don't know
Hmmm a question guys, does anyone know why the previous stalker games all have their own titles like clear sky but not Stalker 2?
unknown, though we did get told that cs and cop were more like dlc's rather then sequels to soc
rock told us that once, but that has nothing to do with why this one is called S2.
just something to mull over :o
Hmmm...i don't mind it but it would've also been really nice to have had a unique title for s2
it's still plausible that they might have a name for it after the fact, but yeah most likely is that it will just be Stalker 2.
But I am pretty sure when they release dlcs for stalker 2 in future they will have their own titles
if it gets dlc ofc
Maybe itll be Stalker 2: (Name) when it releases who knows
^ yeah, I figured that was a possibility
It will get dlcs, and not one not two I am sure stalker 2 will get up to 5 dlcs
I wonder what they would call it tho if they did decide to do that xd
that's a bold statement :p
Yeah, I dont know what would fit for a name
People are going to be mind blown about this open world horror game as the gamers from metro series have been thirsty for such an apocalyptic atmospheric game for a decade
It will msot likely have a name that's about the story of the game
this is a personal feeling, but i think s2 is going to be more about an all encompassing stalker experience.
rather then being tied down to one route, but that's just the feeling im getting
could be totally completely wrong
Would be cool yea
Maybe being introduced as a rookie
So you can make an image of your own
I know one thing for certain.
mods will fix everything and anything you don't like about it
Wait a second, are guys forreal doubting stalker won't be so successful it will get dlc!?
I actually like the vanilla games lol
Mate, I am so sure that stalker will surpass metro in every way possible
Sometimes I feel mods try to hard to make stalker what they think it is for them
And people are gonna buy the bruh out of this game
Heck
I have 4 brothers and they all play stalker, even now anomaly everyday lol
@glacial quartz gotta edit out the profanity bud
And imagine how much influence it has
I've been playing gunslinger and its actually cool
I hope staler doesn’t have DLCs, that’s just bad
ty
Sorry
np, rules weren't designed by us moderators :o
Well, I'd say dlcs are a last resort if the game isnt successful
thank the media for that one >->
well, as far as dlc though, that's a concept that you either go into or stay away from. It can and cannot be popular with people
Take a chill pill man, I mean take it easy
But seriously, I am betting my life on stalker 2 being successful
I don't doubt stalker to gain traction and be successful, but as for whether or not they will include DLC is a good question
And REALLY successful
success doesn't always mean DLC specifically however
No DLC, sell me a complete game 
I'm not sure where I would stand on DLC, as I know mods would just add a bunch of stuff anyways. But I would buy all the dlc regardless if it did happen
Stalker skins
How bout expansions?
Why have stalker skins when there are already uniforms and faction armor in the game
Cheekily breeki sawed off shotgun
Why have stalker skins when there are already uniforms and faction armor in the game
@lyric forge who knows, not me
And skins for guns will hopefully just go on workshop or downloadable mod
An entire game base of gamers have been striving for such an openworld apocalypse game for such a long time that they modded fallout beyond its capabilities just to look more like stalker or metro
imagine having an invisible name :o
I just wanna make my own stalker for the game and not play as someone else lol
but a real, invisible name ;)
Wowowow sean you’re invisi man
#InvisibleGang
hello everyone!
Hey stalker
morning stalkers :)
Hey stalker, thinking of placing an order?
evening for me
i really wanna tryyy stalker anomaly but im still finishing up soc
@lyric forge could make you truly invis if you want :o
Im@on iPhone
i really wanna tryyy stalker anomaly but im still finishing up soc
@finite dragon You should probably wait til CoP because as I see it Anomaly has too much stuff it will overwhelm you
well, your a circle on pc
is anomaly for soc or coc?
I agree about Anomaly
It's a standalone I think
I thought my computer when in sleep mode wouldn’t show 
That ain't cool
anomaly is standalone yeah
It's okay-ish
I once played coc as merc and couldnt have a minute of peace without being hunted down
@open lintel I see you’re in inquisitive minds too
Story is not the strong part of the game but...
hum is there any weap/armor mods for soc?
the gunplay in soc is uh..... questionable sometimes.
The reloads are on point tho
?
Better than later games lol
I could give you a nickname that would make your circle disappear, you let me know if you want it :)
Can you do it irl tho?
why are people still wanting to be invisible in chat lol. thats so meh.
Text me the one for iPhone if you can
sorry, that's a trade secret :o
:(
just google it.
sorry to ask. whats the order of stalker games?
soc, cs, cop
(Shadow Of Chernobyl | Clear Sky | Call Of Pripyat)
wich one is the weakest?
Can you change my name to it? :0
weakest?
wich one is the weakest in the Franchise yea
changed for ya bud
have you guys played fallen earth?
weakest in the franchise..? popularity wise? probably cop
at least as far as this server goes, I think most would say that's the worst game due to it's change of pace
I mean, were really close to the center of the zone in cop
Do you mean that by change of pace?
this is not a personal opinion from me, but from the community. They usually have negative things to say about it as far as it has less atmosphere then the first 2
Thanks poppy
I mean, cant get so much of an atmosphere when you're used to the zone imo
I mean, by cop you're most likely a veteran stalker so cant be too surprised about the zone and its environment to get fully immersed
the real question is, if the zone existed, would you live in it
Of course, I would love to test my luck and hopefully die
Definitely!
I love how everyone but the major is wearing the screen helmet in the going to the pripyat underground cinematic in cop lol
Sean how do you get Sidorovich tag
It's something mostly Moderators and Helpers have
It basically allows immunity against the Bots
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Yes
Go to military warehouses where Freedom fend off monolith leaking from Radar, let one of the Freedom members go down or die, pick up their G36.
I found a perfect condition one off them, but I gave him a med kit and got him back up.
It’s not early really, but early-wise as in story progression, you can just run there and get it.
Also if you want a nice Sniper TRS-301, go kill the mercs at there, integrated suppressor and SUSAT 2x(?) scope 
davai
Whatever that means
Do you guys think there will be female stalkers in stalker 2? 🤔
Sounds like an illusion to me
Yea I am just curious if they ever considered it
I remember I got a sig 5k when shooting a red barrel close to a exo clad freedomer at their base in the army warehouses lol
Do you guys think there will be female stalkers in stalker 2? 🤔
@glacial quartz lmao that wouldnt make sense, women arent real so itd break immersion
I would like to see a female playable character
My gf has been only watching me play stalker mods for almost 4 years
She always got bugged over the fact there are no females playable characters ingame but she's too scared to even play the game tho 🤔

Btw, does anyone know if DefiantDucky is on this server? That guy made hd outfits for various factions
His work is so crisp though
Eh
Check it out, they look amazing, especially the Duty outfits
Eh
I like the old ones too, but it's always nice to have HD outfits in stalker 😋

wait .. if theres no females in stalker.... it means, no reproduction comrades
aaahh why cant it SWEAAARRRRRR UGHHH
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Why would you want to have a child in the zone?
W A T
That’s not right
with all the radiation you'd be sterile anyway
Why do mutants get to have babies and we don't?????
Little baby snorks
What are you trying to SAY?
mutants are the future humans hehe
What are you trying to say?
You dull horrible babist
i love cheese . . .
The zone is no place to raise a child, you’d have to be there for at least 17 years before they can go out on their own
People barely last a day in the zone
Yea that does make sense however, if some try to take a risk, they could make a baby with the presence of artefacts so he'd be born like a zoneoid 😂
make babys in the zone so we can make shashlik xaxaxaxa
The zone is no place to raise a child, you’d have to be there for at least 17 years before they can go out on their own
Not to mention the risk of them being born with malformations/illnesses
didnt something like that happen in a book that stalker was based on or something close
baby being deformed and mutated
Roadside picnic?
What if someone pregnant comes to the zone and gives birth there
Plus from a female standpoint, pregnancy and childbirth in such conditions would be extremely difficult and stressful
What if I'm raised by a fatherly controller
What if someone pregnant comes to the zone and gives birth there
Remember Vova Vist? It's not a wise decision to do that
Maybe the son is given some special ability
Like, since they were born in the zone, the zone consider them part of it so its neutral to all mutants(? Idk lol

sort of the jungle book?
that'd be interesting

any chance to see stalker 2 during gamescon?
Imagine getting preggo by zone artifacts
What
no women 
everytime i try to use a bandage on someones inventory(dead corpse) my game crashes ffs.
Duty is back!!
Deadly anomalies, dangerous mutants, anarchists and bandits...
None of them will stop Duty on its triumphant march towards saving the planet!
Which lab
SoC first lab
when you have to get the second batch of documents
id take a screenshot but f12 isnt working or printscreen when im ingame
For F12 on Steam to work, close both the game and Steam, then launch Steam in administrator mode
When you do F12 though, you make a screenshot that goes into your game folder
If you launch Steam in admin mode before the game, you do one on Steam and with the game
thanks. is there any spooky stuff i need to be carefull on the lab?
Pyrogeist? I might be wrong
dont remember im replaying it after years of not playing it
You just shoot them with a gun
Iirc you aren’t allowed to leave x-18 without killing them
Why crows "follow" the player in CoP? I have this issue in Zaton. No matter where I go, there's a bunch of them circling above me 
Iirc you aren’t allowed to leave x-18 without killing them
@tranquil lake fr? I dont really remember oof
Why crows "follow" the player in CoP? I have this issue in Zaton. No matter where I go, there's a bunch of them circling above me
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@wary cove Black raven black raven, circling above the grave
I'm dead inside
thanks. is there any spooky stuff i need to be carefull on the lab?
@finite dragon
Snorks. Literally snorks are the only thing that’s scary down there.
Pyrogeist are annoying, and pseudo giant can be ignored.
?av
Why would you not kill giants, they're free money unless you're using 9x18
It's like saying "I skip on chimeras because I don't want to waste ammo" when you should be saying "I'll get free money from kniffing them to death"
If you don’t wanna deal with the giant take the pipe route, quickly grab the documents from the scientist, and run, they aren’t that fast in any game especially SoC 🤷♂️
Is it me or in COP there are no sidetasks at all?. In Pripyat.
Welp it is mandatory

You can also rescue the Duty fella
- One shot = one kill
- Tools
Colonel Kowalsky is asking me to join a team to find it plus it is marked in gold and i think matked in gold means mandatory. Duty ew let em die
Oh yeah im looking for the tools obv
- Dooty ass saving
Do you dream of kicking saving some Duty butt? Join right in!
hmmmmmh
Finally found the one at the department store
gsc for the love of god remove hamsters entirely from the game
They are worse than two chimeras at once
Hamsters 🤔
They die in 1 hit from everything, even the knife
Tushkanos, maybe?
Yep
Yes, Tushkanos, but I think it translates to "Hamster" or something
I read it somewhere, dunno how true it is
You can ask Garry to help you
Or will the game skip it and take me to jupiter plant to keep my nerves intact
Garry puts you back in the Laundromat, for free iirc
Laundromat?
Where the military guys are
You get a guide after going throught underground
Just go where strelok is and he should be around
Ah i will have to search for strelok

Also for missions iirc mostly are sides rather than mandatory
Tools, the dumbass that walked away and gets swarmed
And dunno, mercs at the bookstore I guess?
Oh wait, thats mandatory story
Should i join duty in Anomaly, im a loner
Tbh you should join the one you see righter
Duty wants to destroy the zone. And freedom are the exact opposite of duty
I would say freedom based on my personal opinions but it is up to you
I kinda stand with duty
Then go for it
Both sides are for brainlets, you have to be bandit
No
Then kill enough stalkers until the point you're allied with everyone
Freedom aint for brainlets 
Except monolith
Actually you can do it for monolith too
At least they got all the weed in the zone 
Get a suit and do random missions from patrolling monolithians
I literally went from all-allied bandit to monolith and then made everyone an ally again
I will see
Got the tools for both cardan and nitro :D
Also i didnt know burers can die from one grenade off a launcher
Should i join duty in Anomaly, im a loner
@runic rapids Wouldn't recommend it
Loner is easily the easiest to play faction for a newbie
Joining Duty makes going past Army Warehouses twice as difficult
Actually the easiest faction is mercs
Ecologists
Ecos are actually hard since you can't kill that many people off the bat
If he's asking what faction to join, I doubt he can start off killing monolithians with a handgun
Ill stay a loner
Mercs are easy mode, you start in dead city and move to liamsk, dunk some monolels for their trash and then come back and sell it
Repeat ad nauseaum
Mercs are also not allowed to do the storylines
Unless you're a scrub you can easily kill monolels from the start
A scrub or a beginner
Remember you'll also come across some mercs fighting them
And most mercs and monos have free grenades most of the time
I can do it easily, some dude who doesn't have that much experience with Anomaly might not
And since he's asking whether to join Duty, he probably hasn't played that long
Play the trilogy on master so you get most of the lore if u didnt
Just stick to Loner and do the storylines to unlock the other factions
You don't have to play on master for any lore
not playing on master at all times
Absolutely pleb
Yea but it gives u combat experience :p
I finished all three games on master and it's basically the same as the stalker difficulty
But enemies tank slightly more
Lemo no
The difference is marginal
You do same damage across all diffs, you're the one who takes more damage
Enemies have more damage resistance on master
Also I wasn't getting hit that much, so I didn't notice the difference in damage taken
Again, if you've player stalker for so long to try mods like anomaly you must be already used to playing at the hardest
Otherwise you legit get bored
Not everyone is, and some people try the mods first
I started in cordon, dunked some military guys at the bridge, looted a mosin off of one of them, went to the garbage, at the entrance multiple times killed by boars, got to bar, did missions for barman, went back to cordon, bought nomad suit and ppm gasmask, went to wild territories, killed mercs, got an ak 74m with silencer and kobra from dead military guy, went to yantar, got artifacts, sold to sakharov and also did missions for him, and then went back to the bar
Thats where im at the game rn
You can play the games on rookie and then go into the mods if you want, everyone plays the games differently
Or just skip straight to the mods, doesn't matter
Honestly I hate loners simply due to having to deal with sid and barman
You can even do a first time playthrough of CoP with STCoP if you want
The thing about mods is that they aren't locked behind playing the vanilla first, and most people simply don't care about the gatekeeping 
Playing vanilla first is a must to avoid nostalgia googles
Not really, people still have nostalgia goggles regardless
I remembered CoP gunplay being super smooth until I replayed it, and I played vanilla both times
You should play vanila to avoid thoughts that Anomaly is a canon sequel to CoP 
Yes
You could also avoid those thoughts by just not being dumb
Like, I can say with confidence that all stalker games sucked ass from mechanical and technical sides but the setting and the story made it a bearable experience
We're all dumb inside
Then go into mods and say "oh this helped and made it fun" or "this sucks whoever came up with this will be turned into kebab"
So there's a group of people, who against all kind of mods
Reborn doppleganger best mod for cs
Why though, you can just fix the stuff you don't like with mods on the first go and have a better experience
Also best game of franchise for me is cs
They called The Patriots... Uh... I mean it's just a group
Not playing mods is as bad as not playing a vanilla run
I can play 30 minutes of CoP, decide I dislike the gunplay and just mod it
I bought the game, I decide how to enjoy it
Thats a completely valid point, but you played it unmodded at first and decided to mod it later
So their opinion is like. Mods are brainwashing people's brain, so they don't know what is canon, and what is not.
Thats my point, you try the devs poor life choices and then fix them via modding
So it's like a nationalistic group, who defends the vanilla games
The only mods i ever got were anomaly and reborn doppleganger
I guess the more mods you try the better but you should never force yourself if you don't find it fun
Which comes down to opinion and tastes
I mean, my favorite stalker game is cs and it had a solid story
The first stalker i ever got and the one i had the most hours into
Honestly the only one I could really enjoy without slamming my head on the keyboard due to bugs was CoP
I never encountered crashes in CS
It had its share but it was nothing compared to cs and soc
It only happened in mp but that doesnt count
In SoC, i had crashes
But in CS, none
But yeah, play vanilla first, then play with mods, see pros and cons, then come here and tell devs that their ideas sucked but that they can do better next time
If they get mad about it, say nothing and let them crash and burn
CoP's recoil system sucks imo
The gun damage was hot trash across the board too
This has been said countless times but they went from having a seizure from firing a makarov to having railgun-tier accurate peashooters
I could go on for hours on how many problems I have with gun balance
just keep in mind that every mod is trash, except the ones i like 
Cop is funny when u get the mechanics the tools
In every stalker game the aks 74 is an all around solid gun for my first clear sky play through I only used the aks 74
Exo with running and energy artifacts tanks shots like a wall of bricks
we all know that snowflakes and bubbles are the only good artifacts of CoP 
Yeah getting all the tools in call of Pripyat turns the game into easy mode
Soc
Mamas beads
Flame battery
Spring
Pellicle
Electro battery
Kolobok
Cs
Bubble
Wrenched
Jellyfish
Compass
Cop
Bubble
Wrenched
Jellyfish
The only artifacts I use in each stalker game
Bubble and snowflake tho
45 acp
Yeah getting all the tools in call of Pripyat turns the game into easy mode
good thing the only way you'll get the calibration tools is by going to Pripyat, so "easy mode" would be pretty late in game
although no game is any hard, except maybe CS sometimes
Well for me call of Pripyat is already the easiest game in the series so getting to Pripyat isn’t that hard unless your trying to keep your whole team alive
CS would be the hardest but that wasn't the point 
For me the hardest game is shadow of Chernobyl and clear sky is only hard if you try to do the faction wars
Yeah the glitches are what makes it hard also your teammates are useless and the game gives unfair advantages to the enemy faction
How is shoc hard
Cs is probably the hard one at the end only
Yea but rubles are easy to get
there is always cheat engine
I beat clear sky by letting the monolith forces kill strelok
And you can carry thousands of bullets and drill thousands of skulls lol
I beat it by hittin strelok 10 times ish in the head lol
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oh no
told ya before bud, rule 3
i forgot man i really did.
alright, don't forget anymore
Next time u forget we will force u to do the holy run 
what is the holy runi can do i
t
what is it
Clear Sky run under Vova Vist's machine gun fire
My homie Вова will show u
vova vist and his MG?
Man it was hella fun to run from that machinegun that doesnt run out of ammo lmao
I say shadow of Chernobyl is the hardest because you can’t repair or upgrade weapons it’s the longest out of the three and many main missions involve clearing out huge amounts of enemies
yeah, really fun. even beard remembers it in COP
I say shadow of Chernobyl is the hardest because you can’t repair or upgrade weapons it’s the longest out of the three and many main missions involve clearing out huge amounts of enemies
@hushed current the last one is really anoyying. for the true ending. the teleports give me headaches
CS medkits don't stop bleeding 
doesnt with everygame?
no
isnt that the bandage job?
Soc is very fun lorewise tho
every medkit will stop bleeding in every game except CS, and bandages barely work
Yeah shadow of Chernobyl has the best story and atmosphere
Plus you can kick anyone u see anywhere
You get involved in an intense gunfight every 5 minutes lol
every medkit will stop bleeding in every game except CS, and bandages barely work
@grand pendant oh yeah i remember spamming f2.. alot
i wonder what stalker 2 would be like...
I still can’t believe it’s called stalker 2 when it’s the fourth game in the series
i finished it with 2 fully upgraded pkm. so no need for reload untill i shoot 400 rounds
No its another series in the trilogy
One trilogy is about strelok and the other will have its own lore
One trilogy is about strelok and the other will have its own lore
@finite dragon what do you mean?
I expect strelok to die in s2 or be the player character and die in the ending tbh
I still can’t believe it’s called stalker 2 when it’s the fourth game in the series
@hushed current CS and CoP are considered DLCs or expansions
strelok will never die
I still can’t believe it’s called stalker 2 when it’s the fourth game in the series
well S2 is basically a rebirth of the series after a decade, i get it. And CS and CoP are considered addons as well
do you think what happened to strelok would happen to scar? they were brainwashed at the same time
Scar most likely died under the emission, even if he survived and was brainwashed there is no way to tell if he survived a trip on a Death Truck, almost nobody does
strrelok was with him and survived
Strelok got into the CNPP, Scar was out
Maybe the saviour did???
dont you rmember? scar is special, survived 2 emmissions, maybe he hid somewhere
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 & Knuckles
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 64
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. First Blood part 3
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Resurrection
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Turbo
anyways i gtg pray bye bye bye
Scar was supposed to die after a few emissions, that was the third one
would be wack if he survived tbh
another wacky retcon or wacky survival story
If he did survive they better give a damn good explanation
also Fenec mentioned smth related to him being "Schrödinger's Scar" now, so i doubt that is an actual answer but it basically means that he is dead 'cause i believe so 
Scar was supposed to die after a few emissions, that was the third one
@grand pendant esxplain to me how strelok survived
Scar incapacitates Strelok using the EM-1 rifle, Strelok is captured and brainwashed to be later sent South in a Death Truck
who knows. maybe scar was captured as well. they were out in the same field
problem is, there is no refugee for Scar to take while the Third Emission is happening. His nervous system would've burn out
Scar according to the CS Physician can survive emissions at a cost of his neurological system being slowly fried
at that point he would die in 1 emission right?
So it is definitely safe to assume scar survived the emission and he is probably brainwashed or alive in the south
and so does anyone else. including strelok.
None of them got into an emission afaik
Only scar is the confirmed person to survive emissions
idk man its just a game
A game with horrible programming and decent lore
would they add magazines? like in tarkov?
i play anomaly with magazines, its awesome and not that hard
i hope so
That doesnt mean he is dead either but in cs ending
Wym magazines
@finite dragon cant fire a weapon unless you have a mag for it. and you fill it up urself
Did you ever wonder who put those bodies like that in this order
Did you ever wonder who put those bodies like that in this order
@finite dragon monolith. maybe the c concioencsess
They were put next to eachother and i assume in the pripyat srea to be brainwashed
warlab? maybe
What if it was CS members though? Also how did people get strelok in a death truck?
who drove it. who fixed it
The death truck was driven by a duty member
and so does anyone else. including strelok.
@nimble saddle Scar failed, Strelok got into the CNPP which is what released the Third Emission. He was safe from the blowout inside
the secrets of the zone everyone...
@nimble saddle Scar failed, Strelok got into the CNPP which is what released the Third Emission. He was safe from the blowout inside
@grand pendant wasnt he outside ? you would fail if he escaped in the cnpp
The fun thing about stalker is it just makes you more curious
lol yes
Canonically, he failed
and even in the game, you can't really see him surviving. The EM-1 rifle doesn't damage the target
which means he could've kept running
and him getting into the CNPP is what released the blowout
"the Third Emission is unleashed that wipes out most of the Clear Sky strike force in the area. " this is from the wiki see how they typed most?
"Scar is presumably either killed, turned into a zombified stalker, or inducted into the ranks of the Monolith"
Or maybe he is alive
fan wiki
"The most likely outcome is that Scar is killed by the emission"
fan wiki
@grand pendant y u want him dead so bad? what vova pissed you so hard you hated cs?
Dude scar cant die that easily from emissions he survived three and he will survive the fourth
But at one point he will run out of luck and get fried
he is more liklly to survive an emmision than a normal person, that is the point
Not more. A lot more
Every emission burns out his nervous system, that was most likely the last one. And i don't want him dead, it's what probably happened
We cant tell so if we assume scar lived
seeing how you can't really survive emissions in-game, it means the third one is the last one
but he has better survivability than anyone
Maybe he got brainwashed
Or maybe he escaped back to the southern parts into limansk etc
seeing how you can't really survive emissions in-game, it means the third one is the last one
@grand pendant you got a point. but i am just saying if strelok survived scar most likely will too
dude change the subject its just a game what the heq
Btw was grey at CNPP?
but he has better survivability than anyone
@nimble saddle at the cost ofhisnervous system being burned.Even if he survived the emission he would've died without immediate help
Btw was grey at CNPP?
@finite dragon no
Well Novikov is alive
what if scar turned into a mutant? a friendly one?

Wat
yes, he turned into Charon
Ya serious 
zombeh
Zombies arent mutants lol
They are just wannabe ooga chakas that didnt get brainwashed properly
i know
no zombies, are from miracle machine. correct me if i am wrong
brain schorcher turns to monolita
Im confused
Im confused
@finite dragon draga darimti teva tosh slogan vain tozia vragov nacho
Im confused
@finite dragon asarisiyanyum tvaim tojitech to adaljis vatvonanias volit vayay
@grand pendant what is he saying
no idea, but you better stop it
gotcha
Zombies are people who got exposed to high levels of psy or got brainwashed by controllers
Monolith are people who got fully brainwashed by the monolith and scorcher
i just dont know how a zombie could operate a weapom
Because it can think
muscle memory
Zombies obey the zone
its brain is melt, but they aren't zombies. They are zombified
waaait, how did strider and his bois came back to their senses? while theyr brothers in pripyat are still braindead?
nobody knows
i hope we learn in S2
When the brain scorcher got turned off the range came down so its possible that strider got his sanity back in the process
But otherwise we dont know because nothing says
wdym range?!
Brainwashing range
it has nothing to do with it, i reckon
off is off. range = 0
Well maybe strider wasnt brainwashed totally like strelok
on is on range = radar
So thats how he remembers some stuff
Well maybe strider wasnt brainwashed totally like strelok
@finite dragon hmm, but strelok was sent to kill himelf. wasnt he?
The thing is strider said that many years of his life were gone
oh yeeaah..
So its just purely strange how he recovered from brainwashing while keeping some of his sanity and knowledge
Side fact. Strider is hot as heck
Side fact. Strider is hot as heck
@finite dragon that is kinda gay, boss.
nothing wrong. but just gay
Im not a guy tho 
well in SoC, when you turn off the Scorcher you still find many monolith fighters. Doubt it has anything to do with it
Im not a guy tho
@finite dragon stalker girl? marry me? i can get you to the wish granter in our honeymoon.
even in CoP, some time later
@grand pendant help me please that killed my braincells
lol
i thought you were a boi
Uhh anyways its weird hoe strider and a whole squad recovered
maybe someone got them out of their misery
keep in mind it's just Strider and his squad though, no other members
Like the weird thing that you might think it was strider only. But why his squad?
Like the weird thing that you might think it was strider only. But why his squad?
@finite dragon an old friend freed them?
It isnt possible
y
think why
According to Kowalski they tried to tie a monolith member and try to fix him
and he comited suicide..
He smashed his head into a wall and cracked it like an egg
no no, i mean someone may fixed them. maybe scientists who knows
Its impossible to actually make them sane again unless you make something emit a negative signal to ths psy-emissions (probably)
wait strider is black. nice
No you are just colorblind 
lightskin maybe
Does it matter tho
there is a difference between Brain Scorcher brainwashing and C-Con brainwashing though, as far as we know Strider can be a double agent dressed as a monolith fighter dropped in there lol
yeah maybe
Why would he help you push into pripyat then?
he says he didnt rmember anything. did he?
there are different levels of brainwashing as well
Strelok was bwshed for a short period. Strider was bwshed for y e a r s
we don't really know that
But slyth's theory is really right imo




12 years ago, a second part of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy was released.
a certain faction (which is now only mentioned by veteran stalkers in their tales) to stop the notorious stalker Strelok from entering the center of the Zone.



