⭐┃nospoilers_general

[wicked current]

but i mean, its really up to you.

[finite dragon]

so, if that's the case, what mods?

I've heard about memories of the zone

[hushed aurora]

I can't think of any besides Autumm Aurora but that one changes the gameplay a bit so

Yeah that one is good too

but they also change some gameplay stuff

[wicked current]

i was gonna say that ^

i dont know any mods that only make the graphics better

[finite dragon]

I'm reading on the moddb page, that gameplay changing stuff is only in a separate folder and it's up to the installer

[still ridge]

autumn aurora is probably the best graphical mod for SoC, but it changes a lot of things

[wicked current]

well thats excellent.

[finite dragon]

I can't finish my installation of the mod

since I don't have a "bin_x64" folder and "XRengine.exe"

INSTALL:

Step 1: Download and install a fresh copy of STALKER: Shadow Of Chernobyl patched to version 1.0006. The Steam and GOG versions are perfectly fine.
Step 2: Open the "Base" folder, and drag everything inside into your install folder. This is usually something like "C://GOG Games/ STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl".
Step 3: Read through the optionals folder. There is a readme included for every addon so you can see what you might like. Read each readme for an addon before you install them.
Step 4: Open the bin_x64 folder and create a shortcut to XRengine.exe. Launching the game from steam or GoG Galaxy will not work.
Step 5: Add the -steam parameter to the end of the "Target" field in your game shortcut properties. If you don't do this, the game won't launch! (This applies to all copies, even DVD, as it tells the engine that you are playing the Worldwide/English version of the game.)

When I try to start it through Steam, it crashes after the logos

[tepid karma]

Step 4: Open the bin_x64 folder and create a shortcut to XRengine.exe. Launching the game from steam or GoG Galaxy will not work.

[finite dragon]

I don't have a bin_x64 folder

and I can't find an application called XRengine.exe anywhere in the game's folders

[tepid karma]

XRengine.exe has to be there somewhere

[finite dragon]

where, if not in Steam>steamapps>common>STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl folder?

[leaden hamlet]

If you were wondering, @finite dragon, I think this is why 80% of the people here say "you should play vanilla first" do so; The nature of X-Ray modding is such that it's extremely hard to find a mod that actually does only what it says it does, if you've played vanilla before then you can better pick up on when little things that you wouldn't like to have changed have...

[finite dragon]

What if I don't see replay value in the game

it's up to me whether I play eye candy or vanilla SoC

[tepid karma]

only mod I've played is Lost Alpha on moddb

[finite dragon]

so if you don't have any way to help me with installing this mod, please don't waste your time arguing with me

[leaden hamlet]

Whoa, okay. Never said it wasn't up to you, my friend. If that's the impression I was giving off then that honstly wasn't my intention. I'm sorry if that was the case... 😟
You were asking "modded or vanilla" so I thought I'd offer some insight. I wasn't trying to start an argument. Just giving you a bit of info that it took me YEARS to figure out...

Errrm...So re the issue at hand: have you edited "fs_game.ltx" file? That usually tends to catch people out (me included), but it's considered such an essential step in using S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mods that most mod-makers don't bother putting it in their read-mes anymore, it's kind of like an unspoken "step 0"...

[finite dragon]

yes

I'm reinstalling the whole game rn

also forgot to mention that I installed ZRP before playing the game

[hushed aurora]

What mod is it

[finite dragon]

scroll up

[hushed aurora]

Motz?

[finite dragon]

yes

[wicked current]

beef, try asking those questions in #🔩┃trilogy_modifications, you'll get help there faster, perhaps.

cuz folks that spend their time there have a better know-how when it comes to mods

[still ridge]

Move it to that channel or #🔨-technical

[wicked current]

^

[leaden hamlet]

Have you checked if ZRP is even compatible with...This other mod?

[finite dragon]

Hold on, Viper is already helping me quite a bit

uhhh, yeah it actually is a part of MOTZ

[leaden hamlet]

@finite dragon It's alright, hop down to #🔩┃trilogy_modifications and I'll follow you mate!

[hushed aurora]

Another thing, in vanilla SoC there isn't a bin_x64 folder, atleast not for me

and the game exe is XR_3DA

[fair rover]

Guys, after completeing the mission "get the documents from lab x-16"...i didn't get the optional primary mission -"Meet with Guide"...i got a info on pda Talk to barkeep for a mission and i got the mission "Turn Off The Brain Scorcher".....am i missing out anything??

my version is stalker shoc installed version 1.005 with ZRP 1.07 R5 RC vanilla.cfg mode.

[hushed aurora]

alright so

Idk what could be,

Maybe it's ZRP as dumb as it may sound

[fair rover]

did i messed up?

[hushed aurora]

and i though 1.006 was the lastest SoC version

[leaden hamlet]

It is.

[fair rover]

v 1.006 has too many bugs it was told to downgrade to 1.005

[hushed aurora]

Huh?

[fair rover]

on pcgamingwiki site

[hushed aurora]

I can tell you i've beated the game almost thrice on 1.006, it has bugs but nothing game breaking

[leaden hamlet]

That's unusual, there was such a hype about the update that people unpacked the update to find out what they did. 1.006 changed one thing that isn't even related to the game itself just where it puts the saves default options...

[fair rover]

okay so i should proceed then?

[hushed aurora]

A scrpit thing yeah

[fair rover]

as it is?

[hushed aurora]

||If you can't talk to Guide, you can't met Doc, so no decoder, no canon ending|| iirc

[leaden hamlet]

No clue what exactly ZRP changes but I've seen people go meet with Guide literally AS everyone else is rushing like head-less chickens to the Power Plant. Should still be able to.

[hushed aurora]

idk if you can meet guide later

Or if you need the ovjective to do so,

So i really dunno

[robust forge]

Technically speaking you can take the decoder

[fair rover]

i followed the zrp guide to keep the game as vanilla as possible @leaden hamlet

[robust forge]

But you need a body of a monolithan

And use it as a battering ram

[hushed aurora]

And you can even get the canon ending without decoder

||Use a gauss to open the door||

[leaden hamlet]

X-19 goes off, wanders back to Cordon, meets Guide, does [redacted] then [redacted] and being [redacted] then wander back to Pripyat like nothing happened. I've seen it! I've seen it with me peepers!!!

[fair rover]

Okay lets see i am playing for the first time im getting overwhelmed....

im proceeding as it is....

[hushed aurora]

Alright then

Gl and have fun

[fair rover]

thank you.❤

[hushed aurora]

Np

[fair rover]

Okay so i decided to replay the x-16 mission and this time i successfully got the mission.

relief!!

[solid dome]

1.006 was mainly a multiplayer update. FYI.

[fair rover]

Yeah

1.005 is best suited for singleplayer.

[finite dragon]

mod that would make combat even more satisfying?

[still ridge]

What game

[finite dragon]

SoC

would be cool if I wouldnt need to start everything again

or its not how it works?

mmm

[still ridge]

You’ll need to restart in most cases

also the gunplay doesn’t get any better unless you install a new weapons pack, which will require you to restart

[finite dragon]

hmm, alright then, what mods do you recomend?

[still ridge]

I suggest you finish vanilla, and then install autumn aurora

AA is more of a complete overhaul, though

More of a complex install

[finite dragon]

hmm, Im not looking for better graphics, I just want more combat ngl

[lucid elm]

What is paluchait skatina?

[sand fiber]

Play vanilla.

[finite dragon]

need more action

[sand fiber]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. isn't Call of Duty

[finite dragon]

ik

[sand fiber]

[finite dragon]

its just killing bandits are fun, and there're not that much in Garbage area

[sand fiber]

There will be more further

[finite dragon]

really

that's all you had to say

[finite dragon]

Does anyone have screenshots of Mikluha being mentioned in dialogues?

[grand pendant]

not screenshots but i have all the dialogues which mention, if that helps

[finite dragon]

Sure, they will do

[grand pendant]

We found a hero - the main guy from Freedom. Everyone thought that he went back to the Big Land, but actually he took a small team and somehow made it past the scorcher. Now there's a man.
In the formerly inaccessible zone one of the Freedom detachments was discovered. How did they manage to get through unharmed and then survive a few weeks here? Can't even imagine. I guess we underestimated these guys.
Imagine this - they found our Mikluha! And the guys that were with him also survived. They sneaked past the braineraser, and then spent a month just killing time, couldn't get back out.
I don't get one thing: how could the members of the Freedom faction hold out for a month here? Do they have invisible cloaks or something? There's no way!
Did you understand what's going on here? Well I just gained new respect for Mikluha! Imagine - to survive four weeks in this crap, and not to lose any of your guys either!

[finite dragon]

Thanks a lot 👍

[frail spire]

Every time I'm not constantly looking around some random npc ignores the laws of sound making and headshot-squats me

[signal dove]

I'm almost done with CoP and I gotta say, man

I love ||Strider.|| He's my favorite of the group and he's just the funkiest boy

[wary cove]

Welcome to the ||Strider|| gang

[sick topaz]

man, i forgot, whos ||strider|| ?

[tired anvil]

Monolith dude from CoP that can hop on Deggy's trip

[sick topaz]

oh my b

its been a while

[still ridge]

Yeah strider is a chad

hope he makes an appearance in S2

[sick topaz]

i mean, i wonder who all is going to

like, nimble i hope

[wary cove]

uncle Yar, hopefully

[lone leaf]

I can't imagine nimble would be retired.

I'm more interested in what sort of shenanigans are in the new story

[sand fiber]

[lone leaf]

That and how different from reality life has become ever since the artifacts started to get exported. Some of those suckers have potential to do wild things

[sick topaz]

dude, i neeeed nimble in me

who knows

[lone leaf]

I imagine you could revolutionize power production and a lot of medical care if we assume the kind of artifacts in Roadside Picnic are also on the table

I mean a lot of the ones in game would be outright life saving on their own

[signal dove]

Aight uh

Things I picked up at the ||Kindergarten in Pripyat||

[gusty shore]

what is it

[sand fiber]

wait

how did you complete all quests at yanov so fast?

[signal dove]

||1. Thise poltergeists are probably dead kids.
2. It's the scariest part of the game besides X8, because of the freaky lion drawing
3. Why is there a thick-as-hell fox painted on the wall||

[sand fiber]

[gusty shore]

rush

wait

[signal dove]

Nah, I've been playing for 3 days straight

[gusty shore]

kids got evac

[gusty shore]

3 days

[sand fiber]

"It's the scariest part of the game..."
Oh-ho-ho, you haven't seen SoC yet

[signal dove]

And taking the sidequests slow. I got every artifact, visited every anomaly, sided with the Loners, almost sided with Freedom but didn't complete Transaction and gave the Space PDA to Duty, got all the science stuff done, went through Pripyat Underground with everyone intact

Got a bunch of achievements...

Now I just hit ||Kindergarten|| and came back to inform yall about the thick-as-hell fox drawing on the wall while objects are hitting my head

Also I grabbed everything from ||X8||

[gusty shore]

good

[signal dove]

I can sprint in my exosuit now and I just want the game to end

[sand fiber]

What about your team in Pripyat-1? Have you found Strider?

[gusty shore]

have you found all the letter's from strelok?

[signal dove]

@sand fiber I found everyone. I love Strider. I love him so goddamn much man I love that man

Also, letters?

[sand fiber]

I bet he haven't even found that... Um...

[gusty shore]

yes

oof

[sand fiber]

Drone

Yes, drone

[signal dove]

Nah I didnt find those

[gusty shore]

and give it to strelok

[sand fiber]

Wait

[signal dove]

Strelok's in the game????

[wary cove]

find them asap you can return to the other maps

[sand fiber]

Bruh

[gusty shore]

find it all

[signal dove]

I know his rifle is but Strelok??????

[sand fiber]

Yes, he is

[wary cove]

they will serve you soon

[sand fiber]

You'll meet him later

[gusty shore]

yep

[signal dove]

What other maps

[gusty shore]

in the evac mission

in pripyat

[sand fiber]

Stop spoiling this

[gusty shore]

right

[signal dove]

You can go to other maps? Besides the main 3?

[sand fiber]

No

There are no other maps

[signal dove]

Oh

Man I wanted to go to Garbage where I belong

[sand fiber]

Uh?

Ah.

[gusty shore]

install CoC mod

[sand fiber]

[sand fiber]

No

[gusty shore]

yes

[sand fiber]

He haven't played SoC yet

And CS

[gusty shore]

sandbox game

[signal dove]

I played Last Day up until they told me to play CoP first

[gusty shore]

i recommed not playing it

teh mod

[signal dove]

I just want Degtrayev to be happy again because I messed my boy up so bad that he cant even think

[gusty shore]

did all of your group survived?

[signal dove]

Yeah

[gusty shore]

good

[signal dove]

Hate how my boy ||Zulu left|| but still

[wary cove]

No, I mean check if Garry is at the laundromat
you can go back to jupiter to look for these letters

[signal dove]

I went to check on him and see if he was okay but he was just gone

Oh

[gusty shore]

Zulu died easily

[signal dove]

Oh yeah

And even at the end he just left

[gusty shore]

so rip Zulu

drinking problem

[signal dove]

I ended up killing ||Noah|| because I didnt want to tell him who I was because he shot at me

And he didnt want to talk to me

[gusty shore]

noah is just paranoid

dont kill him

[signal dove]

So I just did what my gut told me to do and wasted the gremlin

[sand fiber]

Well, the only thing that you will miss - one slide in the ending.

[gusty shore]

yes

[signal dove]

Worth

[sand fiber]

[wary cove]

and a pkm in your inventory

[signal dove]

Noah has no redeeming qualities other than lookin cute for the camera

[sand fiber]

Well, he can help some Stalkers

[gusty shore]

yes

[signal dove]

I really dont care bout them they aint me

[sand fiber]

[signal dove]

™️

[gusty shore]

i recommend you finding the drone

[signal dove]

Drone?

[gusty shore]

yes

[signal dove]

What is that

[gusty shore]

Noz tell him

[wary cove]

a drone

[gusty shore]

but dont tell the location

[sand fiber]

Juan, that doesn't affect anything except two more lines with Strelok

[gusty shore]

ik

[signal dove]

I dont even know Strelok personally but I still miss him

[sand fiber]

And those lines can spoil SoC story, so...

[gusty shore]

have you played SoC?

[wary cove]

[signal dove]

No

[sand fiber]

He hasn't

[gusty shore]

hmm

[signal dove]

Only CoP. Aint done.

[wary cove]

welp

[sand fiber]

Rawrfunkle, you totally need to play SoC.

[gusty shore]

yes

[wary cove]

absolutely

[signal dove]

I need money for that

[gusty shore]

oof

well um

[sand fiber]

Hm...

[gusty shore]

go sell things

[signal dove]

Before someone says to pirate it, no, someone already told me that

[sand fiber]

It was me.

[signal dove]

I would sell uh

GsC is it?

[gusty shore]

well i pirate it mine

i played it since 2013

only pirate

[signal dove]

Yeah I would sell the devs four bones in my ribcage, my tibia, and a kidney

For any reason

[sand fiber]

Ahem

[gusty shore]

stalker Trilogy

[sand fiber]

And yes, GSC, not GsC.

[signal dove]

I heard you can get Strelok's rifle

[sand fiber]

GSC Game World*

[gusty shore]

you can

[sick topaz]

oh?

[signal dove]

Oo

[gusty shore]

find that drone

[signal dove]

I aint gettin that rifle because I gave my boy Deggy his very own rifle

A FM-200M with all fire rate upgrades so it turns into an SMG

[sand fiber]

And yeah, GSC is literally Grigorovich Sergiy Constantinovich (one of the founders)

[signal dove]

Three devs or just one with a really long name?

[gusty shore]

god of Stalker fans

[wary cove]

just a long name

[signal dove]

God what a nerd

[wary cove]

the man, the myth, the legend

[signal dove]

Yknow

[sand fiber]

Name is Sergiy
Surname is Grigorovich
Patronymic is Constantinovich

[signal dove]

Degtrayev is one of the only characters I want dead for other reasons than hating his guts. Up there with the protag of Spec Ops: The Line and that weird dog chick I keep seeing from Full Metal Alchemist

Mostly because of what I did to him

He cant even think anymore

[sand fiber]

[wary cove]

wut

[signal dove]

I'm surprised he can even get angry. He survived three emissions and he cant even think anymore

[sand fiber]

Yeah, that achievement is based

[signal dove]

Yeah

I hope he gets help from the scientists at the bunker because my man is clinically braindead

[wary cove]

I really miss these whispers tho

[signal dove]

I never even noticed them in the first place lmao. Also really fits, because eventually, everything in the Zone just becomes so normal that you tune it out

[sand fiber]

Well, if you used anabiotic more than three times, yes, his brain is the same as Monolith soldier's brain

[signal dove]

Further reason to believe that he and ||Strider|| are best bros

Actually everyone in the squad are best bros

[sand fiber]

Vano...

[signal dove]

WE LOVE VANO IN THIS HOUSEHOLD

And his beard

[sand fiber]

Ey, schas posmotrim, gde zdes' ne bol'no byet

[wary cove]

if anabiotics are a treatment for intrusive thoughts, sign me in

[sand fiber]

And, by the way, english voice acting in CoP sucks

And in CS. And in SoC.

[signal dove]

Nah man I loved it

[gusty shore]

same

[sick topaz]

i mean

[sand fiber]

You just haven't heard the original one

[sick topaz]

i personally prefer the russian

but like, english subs

[wary cove]

if only there were a subtitles option...

[signal dove]

The only time I hated the voice acting was with "WOOORM FOOOD" and the guy that ||offed himself because of the controller||

[sand fiber]

Russian voice acting gives +100 to the atmosphere

[signal dove]

||Or, rather, the radio broadcast of his screams||

[sand fiber]

And... What they did to Yar in english localization...

Is just...

[signal dove]

Is Uncie really that bad in english?

[sand fiber]

Yes

Absolutely

Totally

[signal dove]

It felt unnatural but not that agonizing

[wary cove]

and the ALOOOOOOOHAAAAAAA!!!

[signal dove]

I love it when he says that

[gusty shore]

love it

[signal dove]

I love hawaiian

And ||strider||

[sand fiber]

Hawaian is weird in all localizations, so yes

[wary cove]

that's the single reason I avoided trading with him

[signal dove]

Really???

God he was my favorite

[sand fiber]

But again, in english he sounds as alien

[wary cove]

a dumb pet peeve of mine

[sand fiber]

[signal dove]

He is the kindest soul.

Also I really like the monolith squad's voice

Also ||strider||

As you can see, I like him a lot

[gusty shore]

btw who told you to play CoP first?

[wary cove]

and the ||preacher ||

[signal dove]

I played cod since i

[sand fiber]

Again, you should listen to the original ones

[signal dove]

Oh

I forget lmao, it was cause I played modded first

[gusty shore]

why

[wary cove]

why, indeed

[sand fiber]

I bet it was either Crimson or Slyth

[signal dove]

Eh, I was in it for a sandbox experience

With no goals, either

[gusty shore]

maybe

[signal dove]

Just run around and support the gang

[gusty shore]

but there's a goal

[signal dove]

In CoC?

[gusty shore]

and mission

yes

[signal dove]

What, just turning off the brain scorcher?

[sand fiber]

Yeah

[gusty shore]

there's more

[sand fiber]

Yes-yes, but it's useless

[gusty shore]

i finished all of them

with Infinite weight mod

[sand fiber]

[wary cove]

[gusty shore]

first i came for the wish grandter

and get rich

[signal dove]

Yeah but its like

A BoTW feel but you get like infinite missions

And can tackle the Brain Scorcher whenever you feel lime

[sand fiber]

Yes.

[signal dove]

With the daunting task of running all the way across the Zone to complete a quest

[gusty shore]

yes

[signal dove]

And then running back.

[gusty shore]

yes

[sand fiber]

Yes.

Freeplays, always the same.

[signal dove]

Legit tho why is that lion picture in the kindergarten so terrifying

[sand fiber]

Lol

[gusty shore]

he high

[sand fiber]

I remember the same at my local clinic

[gusty shore]

dentist?

[sand fiber]

Uh?

[gusty shore]

syringe

[sand fiber]

[gusty shore]

btw are there any secret area in the red forest in SoC?

[signal dove]

Is there an alternate way out of Kindergarten

[sand fiber]

Um-m...

[signal dove]

Also I dont feel like tagging stuff in spoilers anymore

I dont want to see that lion anymore please

[sand fiber]

No-o?

[gusty shore]

hmm

[sand fiber]

It's cute.

[gusty shore]

3 dead scientist

or Ecologist whatever you called it

[wary cove]

through the roof

[sand fiber]

It's not a secret, it's just three dead scientists

[gusty shore]

hmm

stash

[sand fiber]

There is a cut build story about them, btw

[signal dove]

No it is not. His body is contorted. Whoever drew it in the 80s deserved to get radiation poisoning.

Why couldnt they use the cute one downstairs

WHY IS IT THERE TWICE

[gusty shore]

that lion looks fine to me btw

not even creep out

[signal dove]

I hate him so much this is the worst part of CoP by far

[sand fiber]

His body is okay, and paintings like this were spread over many buildings in 60s-80s

[wary cove]

it's creepy tbh
or maybe that's because I went to the kindergarten at night

[signal dove]

See now im boutta go home

[sand fiber]

It's the most atmospheric

[signal dove]

Hhh hhhhh

I found some dude in a closet, im out

[sand fiber]

Hehe

[signal dove]

Its over

[wary cove]

the kindergarden and izumrudnoye are cursed

[sand fiber]

If this lion scares you, then you obviously won't be able to play SoC

[signal dove]

What is izumtudnyoe

[sand fiber]

Izumrudnoe*

[wary cove]

it's in Zaton

[sand fiber]

Boat in Zaton

[wary cove]

where you hunt the chimera

[signal dove]

Ohh

OH

Oh that place is ok and kinda boring

[wary cove]

not at night

[signal dove]

I shall return

and see that place for myself. When the walky boy returns I mean

[sand fiber]

[wary cove]

alright

[signal dove]

I FOUND STRELOK

He looks high

And like a mouse

[gusty shore]

right

[sand fiber]

His appearence is different from SoC-CS. Really different.

[wary cove]

If you only knew where he has been and what he saw

[gusty shore]

[signal dove]

All I know is that he went to the center of the zone

And always looked like a gremlin

[sand fiber]

You will know more, if you play SoC

[signal dove]

And fell off a truck

[gusty shore]

yes

wait

[signal dove]

I completed CoP and ended up making the zone better for loners, but also lost a lot of lives along the way

Named soldiers, Noah

Zulu died, for some reason.

[gusty shore]

Zulu killed by Monolith snipers

[signal dove]

Oop

Not my problem, I didnt like him

At least the main squad survived. And strelok.

[sand fiber]

Nah, you must go to Pripyat school in order to save him

Zulus is good man

[signal dove]

Eh, I'm happy with how he went out

[sand fiber]

Anyway, now play SoC

[signal dove]

Just wish the military survived tho

[sand fiber]

Btw, what about Cardan and scientists?

[signal dove]

Cardan dipped and left the zone forever

[sand fiber]

Bruh

[signal dove]

The scientists got their funding

[sand fiber]

Why you didn't help him

[signal dove]

I forgot about him

[sand fiber]

Sad

[gusty shore]

sad

[signal dove]

After I got my exoskeleton all souped up I left him

[gusty shore]

my mind is telling to play CS

[signal dove]

Before yall get sad over him

That man has over a mil. of my rubles

He's fine. He beat his addiction regardless and left with my money

[sand fiber]

1 000 000 rubles? Huh, only 13 400 dollars

[gusty shore]

wait

[signal dove]

Yeah he dead screw him

[gusty shore]

1 mil ruble?

[signal dove]

Yeah

[sand fiber]

He isn't.

[gusty shore]

where did you get that kind of money7

[sand fiber]

Anyway, now play SoC

[signal dove]

Artifacts

[gusty shore]

hmmm

[signal dove]

I need the MONEE

I was a rich man

[gusty shore]

pirate it

[signal dove]

NO

I will give my SKULL to GSC

Just to make them happy

But no piracy, never

[sand fiber]

Wait a second

It costs literally 2,5 dollars

[signal dove]

I'm broke

Im gonna

make a fanfic. And god can't stop me.

[sand fiber]

Nah

Play SoC

And only then

Fanfics

[signal dove]

Jeeze just buy it for me

If you want me to play it so bad

[sand fiber]

It costs literally $0,25 in GOG and ~$1.2 in Steam

[signal dove]

What little I have is reserved for Cyberpunk

I can't force my penny jar into my computer without breaking it

[signal dove]

I have no idea why Dynamic Music is never on by default. That stuff slaps.

Only found out when I tried it at the very end of the game

[sand fiber]

Dynamic music spoils the atmosphere.

[signal dove]

Oh

Idk man I was jammin p. hard

[sand fiber]

[signal dove]

Well, thats it

CoP changed my life forever

[sand fiber]

[gusty shore]

GOG

I remember installing that

[lean ember]

Do i ask about mods here?

[leaden hamlet]

Can do if it's quick stuff, but you're better off heading down to the #🔩┃trilogy_modifications channel generally. 👍

[lean ember]

I wanted to ask if anyone would reccomend OGSE,but idk if thats quick or not

[leaden hamlet]

It isn't super important, just if the convo goes on too long then the mods ask you to move it.
Re OGSE; I haven't played it so I couldn't say either way. Sorry mate... 🙁

[lean ember]

k

[solid dome]

OGSE: A must, fellow traveller

OGSR may be better tho. Improved engine.

[robust forge]

OGSR is pretty much OGSE but with more content

[finite dragon]

OGSR is better

[solid dome]

OGSR wins

Dollchan loses

[sullen sierra]

i just had a thought

why not include something like a buzzer in the stalker 2

[still ridge]

What do you mean

[sullen sierra]

let me get a link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2EKWgTNEYU&t=

here

[still ridge]

would get annoying really quickly

[still oriole]

Who says it needs to play all the time tho

[sullen sierra]

it could be a easter egg

or a monolith complex being a nod to the UVB

since its also said that this station is also a numbers station for russian agents

look up UVB-76 transimssions

those transmissions were heard all over the worl on same frequency of 4.625 MHz

[sage badge]

tbh that really does sound like a mind control device

[still ridge]

Feel like it would play in labs and stuff

Which take time

[untold temple]

hello

[sullen sierra]

hello

[ripe rain]

hi

[spice rover]

Русские вперед!!!! 6

[still ridge]

@spice rover #504592667716354048

[signal dove]

CoP felt

Arcade-like, now that I think of it.

Even at the highest difficulty the game still felt fun, but like a cakewalk

[hushed aurora]

It's the easiest aye

Should have played SoC first

Now do it

[sand fiber]

^

[sage badge]

yeah CoP was way more of a sandbox
SoC was more hardcore

[finite dragon]

A friend encountered a bug in CoP

Uh

Basically, he was talking to Cardan

Then all of a sudden Cardan punched him

[grand pendant]

keep your distance bro we're quarantined again

[sand fiber]

[robust forge]

Was Slyth a janny?

[tired anvil]

Became one not long ago

[robust forge]

Yeah

The colour doesn't suit him tbh

[tired anvil]

Agreed, purple was a lot better

[grand pendant]

mod role color changed once, it can change twice

[still ridge]

Nah crimson needs to stay crimson

[hushed aurora]

I think it looks good ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Not a fan of purple

[signal dove]

I love how sometimes in Anomaly, folks will comment on your kills and relay them to friends

Made me feel warm inside when they said "I just saw a Freedomer slam some guy from Duty" after I yote him with a shotgun

[grand pendant]

based

[lyric forge]

Any update on S2

[obsidian crystal]

[sick topaz]

we can hope

[sage badge]

so is strelok gone forever

[obsidian crystal]

gunslinger dead

[lean ember]

Any of u like the idea of coop singleplayer with friends?

[rotund fox]

i hope so

[wicked current]

yes.

[hushed aurora]

Coop
Singleplayer

But yes ofc

[lean ember]

I think u get what i mean

[hushed aurora]

Yeah

[lean ember]

Like in the forest i guess

[hushed aurora]

Plenty of ppl suggested it already so let's hope they listen to us

So they implement it

[lean ember]

Rlly?

[hushed aurora]

Could be pretty nice

[hushed aurora]

Yeah many suggestion were about coop

in the suggestions channel

[wicked current]

a co-op campaign.

[hushed aurora]

Ig it's a common feeling among us

[lean ember]

Man i thought i was the only one who thought that lol

[wicked current]

i'd rather like a freeplay thingy with friends.

[lean ember]

I would really like to play the story, but as a sort of squad

Like u have companions

[wicked current]

and as rebel says, it's a very wide-spread wish.

[hushed aurora]

Yes

indeed

[lean ember]

It would be really cool

[sage badge]

i like to think the ukrainian government gave him a cozy farm as compensation or smthing

[lean ember]

Hmm

Prob did

Coz he never died in the base games

And essentially got the main researchers out of the zone

[sage badge]

he ||leaves in the helicopter||

[lean ember]

Ye iknow

But in anomaly he dies i think

[sage badge]

they could also just like silence him or something

[lean ember]

Yeah

[still ridge]

They kicked him out of the military, no?

Iirc

[lean ember]

Pay him so much he gets silenced about his experiences so the outside world doesnt know the real zone

[still ridge]

lmao as if it was his fault that the stingray mission failed

Military incompetence

[lean ember]

Yeah

No it was lack of info tbh

[still ridge]

He managed to hold out against the monolith

[sage badge]

are you talking about strelok???

[lean ember]

I dont think he is

[still ridge]

Kovalsky

[lean ember]

Ahh

[sage badge]

oh yeah kovalsky is p dumb tbh

[lean ember]

^

[still ridge]

Misinformed

The military didn’t know about the positioning of anomalies after emissions

[wary cove]

he ||gets kicked out aka "offered a honorary discharge" or something like that||

[lean ember]

Werent all the people in the stingray misinformed tho

[lean ember]

This

[wary cove]

This ^

[still ridge]

Also, considering the fact that he held out against the monolith in Pripyat, I’d say he’s pretty damn good as a commander

[grand pendant]

we don't know which ending is canon for Strelok, but Deggy gets offered Colonel rank in the army but declines and gets honorably discharged. Probably became a stalker again

[lean ember]

I dont think he did tbh
Prob wrote a book lmao

[still ridge]

no it never said he got discharged

just that he turned it down

[lean ember]

Yeah

[still ridge]

Why would he get discharged? He literally accomplished his mission

[grand pendant]

almost
requested to be sent to the Zone again

[still ridge]

That should be canon imo

[grand pendant]

you can complete the game without doing the mission

[still ridge]

Deggy belongs in the zone

[signal dove]

I hope Strelok has a happy life

[still ridge]

Unlikely

[lean ember]

Can you?

[signal dove]

I want him to be happy

[grand pendant]

yes, that's what i said

[sage badge]

idk being a stalker while in the military sounds p boring

[lean ember]

I mean

[sage badge]

almost everyone hates you

[lean ember]

Ur there for a reason

[sage badge]

he should just leave before returning to the zone

[wary cove]

Not if you are a ||permanent observer||

[sage badge]

true ig

[lean ember]

I mean deg was some next level intelligent guy
He never revealed his rank

[wary cove]

Possibly sent to do further investigations, etc

[still ridge]

Chances are nobody would give a damn if his position was revealed

[lean ember]

Well
Hes in the army

[wary cove]

Umm who knows
Zulu was quite salty about the truth revealed

[grand pendant]

everyone hates the military, so probably most people will

[lean ember]

^

[sage badge]

ye lol

[still ridge]

Talking about free stalkers in particular

[grand pendant]

free stalkers especially

[wary cove]

Vano was like OK cool

[lean ember]

They dont like the military bro

[sage badge]

the military constantly harasses the village

in the cordon

[still ridge]

Free stalkers would be indifferent

[grand pendant]

they got meme'd by the military horrendously in 2011

[still ridge]

He’s not a soldier

[grand pendant]

so much they got active fighting squads against them

ofc he is a soldier

a soldier sent in a special mission, but still a soldier

[lean ember]

Also
Is the storming of the labs by the army in ShoC called something?

[grand pendant]

not really

[lean ember]

Thoughy it would have some wild codename

Like

[wary cove]

Rather than hating soldiers, people in the Zone seems to be wary about anything related to the government

[lean ember]

Kill the strelok

[lean ember]

True

[grand pendant]

nah, they do hate them

[lean ember]

Especially renegades

[grand pendant]

it's clearly stated in Clear Sky

they're cool with ecologists though

[sage badge]

and in CoP

[lean ember]

Oh yeah

[still ridge]

I mean deg has gained the trust of basically everyone in skadovsk

They would easily vouch for him

[grand pendant]

which is why eco-stalkers exist and quite literally sign contracts with the goverment

[sage badge]

Beard says the stalkers would hate it if the military stayed at skadovsk

[still ridge]

Are we forgetting how Garry saved sokolov

[grand pendant]

that could be Edi, if he left the military

[wary cove]

Even scientists are treated like weirdos and weaklings by almost everyone except duty and a few stalkers working for them, right?

[grand pendant]

when you are a soldier you follow orders, he will shoot anyone at any time if they order him to

[still ridge]

Sokolov, who was wearing a military uniform

well he stayed in the zone for a reason

[lean ember]

Ima go pray to the monolith

[sage badge]

freedom likes the eggheads

[grand pendant]

he stayed as part of the Military

[wary cove]

[still ridge]

Stayed in the zone as a “permanent overseer”

doesn’t sound very militaristic to me

[grand pendant]

requested

you can't just leave the army because you feel like it either

[lean ember]

UN

[wary cove]

[still ridge]

You can though

It’s called deserting

[grand pendant]

UN doesn't go inside for now

Then he would join duty

[still ridge]

although I doubt he would go that far

[lean ember]

Guess the UN could get into this

[still ridge]

nah duty’s ideals don’t necessarily align with Deg’s

[lean ember]

Deg becomes a UN peacekeeper in pripyat after the news of the expanding zone is leaked

[grand pendant]

unbased

[sage badge]

degtyarev likes the zone yeah

[grand pendant]

Zone isn't expanding and UN is just at the borders, not Pripyat

[still ridge]

UN doesn’t have a very good history of keeping the peace

[lean ember]

I like fantascising oo

[still ridge]

Didn’t they say it expands by one square kilometer every emission

[lean ember]

@still ridge ye

[grand pendant]

who said that?

[wary cove]

[sage badge]

thats duty propaganda

[still ridge]

I’m almost positive that it was explicitly stated that the zone expands after every emission

[grand pendant]

nope

[lean ember]

Yep

[grand pendant]

but even Duty soldiers don't believe the Zone expands

play CS and talk to them

[lean ember]

Duty soldiers dont believe anything bruh

Theyre so based they dont think

[sage badge]

i also remember reading that i think it was on SoC

[lean ember]

Ye

[wary cove]

||they're just for the equipment||

[grand pendant]

In SoC Barkeep says the Zone expands every time someone grants a wish

but that's obviously false

[sage badge]

right right

[lean ember]

I heard that it expands every emission

Wasnt it lebedev?

[sage badge]

i havent played SoC in a long time

[grand pendant]

that would be a Great Emission, and he said that the Zone will expand if a Third Disaster happens

[still ridge]

Duty soldiers don’t think

[lean ember]

Damn
Some wild mandela effect right here

[still ridge]

Well the zone expanded after the first, second, and third emission

We know that

[wary cove]

Idk maybe Lebedev was being dramatic just to get Scar work for them(?)

[grand pendant]

no, we don't Edi

[lean ember]

Everyone remembers one thing but we are all wrong

[wary cove]

Ye

[grand pendant]

some paths opened, others closed

not expansion

[lean ember]

Probably

[sage badge]

i blame zone exposure 😎

[grand pendant]

Lebedev is clearly right though

[lean ember]

[wary cove]

[lean ember]

Im 99% sure i heard someone say it wxpands after every emission and soon it will take over the whole world

[still ridge]

No, it was stated that the zone expanded after the first and second emissions

CoP intro

[grand pendant]

the Zone expanded by 5km after a Great Emission

[lean ember]

What about the ghosts at the end of SoC?

Didnt they say anythin?

[grand pendant]

regular Emission =/= Great Emission

there is a story about SoC ghosts in folklore, yes

[still ridge]

Emissions are a regular occurrence

By this logic, there will be another great emission eventually

[grand pendant]

no dude

[sand fiber]

No

[grand pendant]

Great Emissions only happen when someone gets near the Center

[still ridge]

And who’s to say that someone won’t?

[grand pendant]

last guy who tried it died

[sand fiber]

Great emissions either caused by C-con or by some real serious disaster, as generators explosion

[grand pendant]

that's mostly desdocs but yeah, whenever someone gets near the Center

[lean ember]

Ahh wait i think i remember

Im pretty sure the ghosts at the end of soc said that there was an emission in 2006 that expanded the zone

But idk

Prob wrong

[sand fiber]

Zone was created in 2006

[grand pendant]

after the second disaster that created the Zone it expanded by 5km

[lean ember]

Ye something like that

[grand pendant]

that's it, nothing else about expansion

[lean ember]

Wasnt it created in 1986 after the first disaster?

[grand pendant]

no, it was after the second disaster in 2006

[sage badge]

yea

[lean ember]

Man

I need to learn my history

[sage badge]

the first disaster just created the normie exclusion zone

[lean ember]

Ive forgotten sooo much

[sand fiber]

The real Zone - yes, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Zone - in 2006

[grand pendant]

April 12 or June 10, depends on who you believe since every game changes it

[sage badge]

the second disaster is where the wacky stuff got made

[lean ember]

Ye

I know its just

Ive forgotten a lot of the lore

[sand fiber]

In S.T.A.L.K.E.R. lore there was 1986 disaster

[lean ember]

Yeah

[sand fiber]

So ye

[still ridge]

Isn’t it said somewhere that there were anomalies prior to 2006?

[sand fiber]

Eh-h...

No-o?

[hushed aurora]

That's a translation error

[grand pendant]

that's a misstranslation in CoP

[hushed aurora]

In CoP

Aye

[sand fiber]

Ah yes, english localization

[still ridge]

I see

[hushed aurora]

I am learning

[lean ember]

Oh now i remember yeah

Its the language barrier

[still ridge]

English moment

[hushed aurora]

Aprende Ruso mejor, mas preciso

[lean ember]

Ye i know what u guys were talking about now
Its just my small polish brain had to comprehend it

[sand fiber]

I feel so sorry for english community...

[lean ember]

Lmao

The english translation is so bad

[grand pendant]

i don't, english translation is better except a few mistakes

bunch of dialogues got fixed that came wrong in russian texts

[sand fiber]

Maybe, but voice acting

[lean ember]

Its not the translation im talking about its the voice actors

[sage badge]

"hey bro"

[grand pendant]

idm them except in CoP

[lean ember]

In the polish version of the game there were no voice actors
We had a movie guy (the guy that dubs movies) and he did dialogues for all the characters

[hushed aurora]

Lmao

[sand fiber]

And, by the way, the translation is missing a lot of things that could not be translated from russian

[lean ember]

It was actually very cool

And not gonna lie
Enjoyable

Better than the english ones by far

[sage badge]

do you have a vid of polish localization?

[lean ember]

Hmm

Could find it for u

[sand fiber]

Wait a second, i'll send it

[sage badge]

i cant believe 1 guy can make a better job than the like 4 people that localized the english version
actually
i can believe it

[lean ember]

He did tho

Its just it got weird when 4 guys spoke at once

And they all had the same voice

[still ridge]

HOWDY HO

[grand pendant]

english voice actors are mostly the original actors

[lean ember]

Aloha!

[still ridge]

I wish certain characters got unique voices

[sand fiber]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlrV-6opR6w
3:38

[sand fiber]

Nah.

[grand pendant]

Yah.

[still ridge]

Strider has a generic monotone

[sage badge]

hey bro

[still ridge]

Nimble sounds like any other stalker

[lean ember]

Ye

Also wolf

[still ridge]

Yar tho

[sand fiber]

Yar...

[still ridge]

I like yar’s voice

[sand fiber]

[lean ember]

Aloha!

I loved that

And azot trying to say hey bro

*nitro

Anyone played in any other stalker translations?

[hushed aurora]

Spanish here

[lean ember]

Oh nice

How was it?

[hushed aurora]

I think it's the same as english except copy pasted translated

[lean ember]

Oh

[hushed aurora]

but the voice actors where in spanish too

[sage badge]

google translate localizations are the best

[hushed aurora]

It sounded kinda weird sometimes since im not used to the spain accent

[lean ember]

Ye man

[lean ember]

We didnt even bother translating they were all ukrainian but the dubbing spoke over them lol

[hushed aurora]

Kek

[sand fiber]

Russian*

[lean ember]

Well

Not the same but i wont go into that since its a huge subject

I prefer stalker anyways

I hate bloodsuckers

[sand fiber]

Ukrainian is more Polish than Russian, but anyway, yes, that dubbing was awful

[still ridge]

How

[lean ember]

The dubbing was great

[still ridge]

Isn’t Ukrainian just Russian without “i” and a few other things

[sand fiber]

Of course not, lol

[still ridge]

Thought it was minor differences only

[sand fiber]

It's like saying that English is German but without that S-B letter

[still ridge]

Aren’t words like

The same

[sand fiber]

No.

[lean ember]

Who here hates bloodsuckers?

[still ridge]

but Russian has I in their alphabet

[lean ember]

So does ukraine

Literally called ukraina

[still ridge]

I meant the other way

Sorry

[lean ember]

Oh

[sand fiber]

Ukrainian is still slavic, but slavic languages aren't the same

[still ridge]

I assume Ukrainian is closer to Russian than English is to Spanish

[sand fiber]

Like yes, you can understand Polish, Serbian and Russian if you only know Ukrainian, but no, they aren't the same

[lean ember]

Thats why im learing interslavic

[still ridge]

Well that’s what I meant

[sand fiber]

Interslavic is useless

[lean ember]

Well

Its a meme

And most people will get what ur trying to put through

[sand fiber]

What about Ukrainian and Russian similarities - grammar and some words are the same, others are really different.

[still ridge]

Here’s an example of English and Spanish words

English: Present
Spanish: Presente

Are we talking major differences?

Like completely different word structure?

[grand pendant]

probably the same as us, some words are obvious, others you can kinda get the meaning and others are totally different

ik most russians can at least understand ukranian in its majority and vice versa

[still ridge]

So not dissimilar to English vs Spanish

just trying to get a scale of how similar Ukrainian and Russian are

[wary cove]

thankfully they didn't copy-pasted the google translation of "One of Ours" achievement
For some reason it translates "Свой парень" as "your boyfriend" to english

[sand fiber]

For example:
Russian - Любить [Lyubit']
Ukrainian - Кохати [Kokhaty]
(Be in love)
Russian - Учиться [Uchit'sya]
Ukrainian - Вчитися [Vchytysya]
(Study)
Russian - Читать [Chitat']
Ukrainian - Читати [Chytaty]
(Read)
Russian - Разбивать [Razbyvat']
Ukrainian - Розбивати [Rozbyvaty]
(Break)

И in Ukrainian is Ы in Russian (Ы is something as EE, but the tongue needs to be pushed back), Е in Russian is Э in Ukrainian (YE), Э in Russian is Е in Ukrainian(E), I in Ukrainian is И in Russian(Obviously I), and Ukrainian doesn't have some letters, like Ё(YO), Ъ(Hard sign), Ы.

[still ridge]

I see, appreciate the help

[sand fiber]

No problems

[sage badge]

will stalker 2 have PiP scopes
this is the real hype

[signal dove]

Anomaly is whack man

I was carrying some idiot around after he got captured by Monolith, and once we hit Jupiter, halfway to Yanov, he got hit by a chimera

He took the thing out by himself and survived with 94% health.

[sage badge]

what difficulty are you in

[grand pendant]

bruh

sometimes anomaly ai is top tier (or just op) and other times braindead

[tender cedar]

h e l l o

[hushed aurora]

Oh no

It's rorschach

[tender cedar]

Yay, someone read watchmen.

Good comic.

Ngl

[hushed aurora]

Yes

Best comic

My fav

[signal dove]

Easy but I cranked health to Average instead of great

So I am getting clapped, yes

I have died. So many times

[tender cedar]

same buddy

"DO IT!"

Epic.

[hushed aurora]

Yes

Dang i love watchmen man

Especially how his first kill (rorschach's) is way more like messed up in the comic than the movie

[tender cedar]

I don't remember so good thr comic.

The*

I have the original comic

No copy

No stupid copies

THE ORIGINAL

[hushed aurora]

Noice

I have it in digitla

Not physical sadly

[native ibex]

Hey

Why is my name yellow

[sand fiber]

[lone leaf]

Pp boys

[sweet lintel]

@native ibex Because you got the role of Free Stalkers

[native ibex]

But why

What have I done wrong

[sweet lintel]

Did you do the Faction choice?

[native ibex]

No, never heard of it

Staff gave me my Merc role

[sweet lintel]

Go to #👥┃faction-choice and click one of the icons for your faction

[native ibex]

Ah

I am restored

Thanks @sweet lintel

[sweet lintel]

No problem

[fathom sorrel]

Ok so what happens if i may have just murdered the entire military checkpoint force, in shadows

Any bad side effects if the megaphone still is screaming about a attack

[grand pendant]

nah

[fathom sorrel]

So it'll just go on like that?

Is there a limit on how many soliders come because I assume I just wiped out the checkpoint.

Off to hope they DONT respawn

[grand pendant]

probably will respawn

[fathom sorrel]

Soo? go grab loot while I can?

[grand pendant]

yeah

[fathom sorrel]

Lets goooo

I also assume they dont respawn while your inside the base

[finite dragon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BStEEMrQtqk&feature=emb_title&ab_channel=STRIFER

is this available for COC?

[gusty trench]

Nope. Gunslinger mod itself hasn't released yet, so we only can see some imitation of it.

I have seen Anomaly weapon mod with guns and animations like in Gunslinger

[finite dragon]

oh, alright, thanks.

[finite dragon]

Imagine thinking that the anomalies themselves make the beep when you approach them

[robust forge]

afaik they stole Gunslinger's stuff from the author

And tbh that's a good thing

The guy wanted to hoard it for himself

[wicked current]

[gusty trench]

It's possible, but it will take a lot of time and money.

[wicked current]

i guess it makes sense to make a mod like that compatible with the base game primarily

maybe in future? i aint got a clue.

for me the base game would be enough, but thats just me.

[leaden hamlet]

You sure that wasn't Demosfen instead of Anomaly?