⭐┃nospoilers_general

[pseudo rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/idiot-lafuddyduddy-rules-follow-the-rules-penguin-gif-16685859

[finite dragon]

KOWALSKI

[sudden sapphire]

That Twitter link by the way is for a series of photos from Chernobylite taken by a player.

[still ridge]

ANALYSIS

[wraith swift]

maybe ....

[still ridge]

no

[leaden adder]

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[frail spire]

Also remember how they removed the original 2033 version from shops and shoehorned the "redux" version despite being a downgrade that even messes with AI

[livid prism]

No corner leaning, Depth of field worked terribly, when you were high and aimed trough some bar fence it faded out all the enemies in distance

[still ridge]

AAA titles will not run on a garbage PC

[finite dragon]

welp the release window is confirmed

[tired anvil]

They removed it because they did a final giveaway on it

[finite dragon]

I was actually going to start playing the Metro series this week

[tired anvil]

One of the Metro games is currently free on GOG

Feel free to pick it up

[visual cove]

which one

[frail spire]

LL

[wraith swift]

last light

[leaden adder]

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[finite dragon]

what ultimately killed exodus was them selling out to epic

[sudden sapphire]

That would be Last Light Redux.

[still ridge]

LL probably the best

imo

[frail spire]

lmao no

[finite dragon]

GSC doesn't look like it's heading to be with epic at all so i think we're good

Oh well I already bought 2033 and Last LIght on Steam Sale. They were only 4 dollars each

[still ridge]

I had more fun with LL than 2033

[frail spire]

AI was aids, could run around in circles and AI wouldn't even notice

[leaden adder]

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[still ridge]

I played redux

[worthy lark]

Just remembered last light redux is on gog for free for like 2 days

[still ridge]

Didn’t encounter anything like that

[finite dragon]

exodus is just boring

and takes away from the very concept of metro with it's plot

[pseudo rivet]

Nice one

[wraith swift]

play on ranger hardcore

[still ridge]

Guys.. come on

Let’s be mature

[leaden adder]

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[worthy lark]

[frail spire]

Yeah lets be mature, just black list deep silver for selling out to chinese

[digital tree]

i found exodus too boring and clunky, the open world was very poor

[finite dragon]

walking from place to place just to find attachments and adding resource management and getting 1 shot to it is gonna make it less fun

[digital tree]

facts

[leaden adder]

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[digital tree]

i loved the first 2 metros, couldnt finish exodus tho

[leaden hamlet]

https://tenor.com/view/the-dark-knight-joker-batman-here-we-go-gif-3430376

[finite dragon]

I think going semi-open world was a bad move by 4A games

[frail spire]

"hey guys remember how we were going to release exodus on steam and any other selling platform but due to selling out to epic we removed the games from literally everywhere?"

[worthy lark]

I hate when developers make open world a selling point and them it's barren lmao
Also hotline miami GUUD

[digital tree]

absollutely

[leaden adder]

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[digital tree]

cuz the main scripted mission were fire

[pseudo rivet]

🤔

[finite dragon]

I think the semi-open world would be a blast if all this open world was indoors, crawling through maze like tunnels and stuff

[tired anvil]

Technically, literally every game is linear if you ignore everything else in it asides the main story

[leaden adder]

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[frail spire]

Open world stuff should be optional, no forcing the player to grind for mutated testicles to upgrade their starter peashooter a la ubisoft

[worthy lark]

Yeah but outside open world with nothing to do is ResidentSleeper

[digital tree]

bruh

[finite dragon]

@leaden adder no, stalker had quests, actually threatening and intriguing mutants and many well-developed areas to explore where you can fight against various factions

idk I liked Exodus alot tho

[wraith swift]

same

[finite dragon]

metro is too linear for that experience, and their mini open worlds are way too underdeveloped

[frail spire]

Stalker was a bunch of scripted quests with force spawns

[finite dragon]

don't forget alife

[frail spire]

Metro went from doing the same to "lmao open world"

[digital tree]

AND STILL

[finite dragon]

Exodus has it's good moments, but also it's kinda real buggy where it counts, and really boring in some other areas

[leaden adder]

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[finite dragon]

gatekeeping time

[digital tree]

facts

whos argen

[icy burrow]

Yep,that right

[finite dragon]

I think the guns feel really nice in Exodus

[digital tree]

ah lol

[leaden adder]

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[frail spire]

Hubs were done really well though, I will give them that

[finite dragon]

I am kinda at the point of the game where they take away my guns, and I kinda went "welp, enough for today I guess"

[leaden adder]

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[frail spire]

when the game takes your guns away but makes no difference since you autistically knife everyone anyways

[leaden adder]

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[frail spire]

Devs will never learn

[digital tree]

i felt like exodus open world was going around to find ammo for mission, waste it on random spawned enemies coming from the ground and then search for more ammo

[finite dragon]

also, does anyone else have the issue with how randomly stupid knockout works

[leaden adder]

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[digital tree]

in fact i used all of them because i played in hard

and throwing knifes especially

[finite dragon]

I do be starting first playthrough on ranger, the most infuriating time of my life with the buggy knockout system

[icy burrow]

Hmm, i never use knifes when im playing

[worthy lark]

Throwing knifes would be 5/5 in stalker 2 if it has working stealth

[leaden adder]

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[digital tree]

stalker and working stealth sounds like a dream lol

[finite dragon]

the constant aspect of maintaining the charge of the gun adds a lot

[leaden adder]

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[digital tree]

yes! but i find boring using the same boring gun to push through the game

[sudden sapphire]

I completed Exodus the other day, was quite decent.

[frail spire]

The only game I've seen throwable knifes not being bs op was in underrail lmao

[leaden adder]

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[finite dragon]

also, after playing anomaly I kinda found it funny how guns that use the same ammo type deal vastly different amounts of damage in Exodus

[worthy lark]

This is the same with online shooters, everyone just abuses the most meta guns meanwhile i wanna use all

[digital tree]

thats true lol, still...

[digital tree]

yes because in both cases it is kinda forced

[leaden adder]

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[loud saffron]

the teaser looks hella nice

[digital tree]

had to rant at least one time in my life about that game lol

[leaden adder]

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[finite dragon]

I am playing on ranger, am tryna be nice and sneaky, the "E for knockout" just doesn't pop-up at random times and I get sent back a few years

[worthy lark]

Eh i can do well with the worst guns too just feels dumb seeing 90% of lobbies running the same 2 guns

[frail spire]

Ah yes comrade, CCNP backed game Metro Exodus was very good, have a few yuans for your patronage

[leaden adder]

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[digital tree]

if it has the same problems im gonna address the same problems, not saying exodus is shit, wont be saying that for stalker

[leaden adder]

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[finite dragon]

oof, getting personal
time to bail

[frail spire]

I just said comrade

[leaden adder]

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[frail spire]

I wasn't going for something personal tho, so sorry

[finite dragon]

POLITIK

[digital tree]

he said comrade bc of stalker server of course

it is not offensive in any way lol

my hope for stalker 2 is better animations and sounds btw

[leaden adder]

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[digital tree]

!!!!!!!

[leaden adder]

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[worthy lark]

This. As long as it's upgraded cheeki breeki i'm good

[finite dragon]

Better sounds and animations are a must. The old games are pretty crusty. But I'm confident they will be much better

[leaden adder]

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[digital tree]

LOLOLOL

[finite dragon]

I thought Yuan was the Chinese currency? Or is it Renminbi?

[fervent junco]

will it be

[worthy lark]

Yeah and after that back to anomaly

[pseudo rivet]

Or waiting for mods for S.T.2

[fervent junco]

will it be online?

[leaden adder]

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[digital tree]

nope

[pseudo rivet]

I'm not sure if there will be a Multiplayer Mode

[leaden adder]

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[worthy lark]

That's who he was modeled after

[finite dragon]

I don't know who Easy E is but I know that San Andreas's characters were based on real life celebrities and musicians from 90s Los Angeles

[digital tree]

fact!

[leaden adder]

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[tired anvil]

I can't tell if that's sarcasm or you legit don't know

[tired anvil]

Rapper from the 80's/90's

[worthy lark]

Time to whip out nwa and real muthafin g's

[leaden adder]

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[tired anvil]

Eazy-E was with Dre before Snoop

[leaden adder]

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[tired anvil]

Yes, but he died

[leaden adder]

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[tired anvil]

95

[leaden adder]

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[visual cove]

what aids does to you

[finite dragon]

anything else sighted in the trailer besides the burer?

[pseudo rivet]

#📸┃screens_and_videos

[digital tree]

BURER?!

[visual cove]

but they had peace before Eazy died

[tired anvil]

Burer.

[finite dragon]

OH WAIT GUYS I THINK I KNOW WHERE IT IS

[tired anvil]

4th confirmed mutant now

[digital tree]

WHERE BURER IN TRAILER

[finite dragon]

remember that one building in COP being torn apart by an anomaly next to the 2 commie blocs

[tired anvil]

Near the end, look at #📸┃screens_and_videos

[digital tree]

ok ty

[pseudo rivet]

Too long

Or more accurately, the one you're referring to is too small

[finite dragon]

really?

[worthy lark]

Oh boy i knew something was moving behind the chair

[finite dragon]

i remember it being pretty big

[livid spindle]

STALKER 2: 4A ENGINE

[digital tree]

oh god no

[finite dragon]

also the teaser is obviously a nod to the COP trailer

[pseudo rivet]

Besides, the area near the staircase is blocked off by a wall in the trailer

[worthy lark]

Now i'm wondering what kind of new mutie bois we're gonna see

Inb4 chimera 2 electric boogaloo

[digital tree]

hope bloodsuckaz

[solar minnow]

pls let us have russian voices with english subtitles

[digital tree]

aaaah dont worry about that

[worthy lark]

If that isn't the default i'll riot

[hallow solstice]

ingame engine looks very very pretty

think itll be as demanding as metro exodus or more?

[marble nymph]

I like the trailer)

[carmine pivot]

Probably a little more demanding

[worthy lark]

Propably more but can't really know before we get requirements

[hallow solstice]

maybe. i can't tell if ray tracing was enabled in the trailer either

[tired anvil]

We know that Ray Tracing is confirmed

[carmine pivot]

Awesome possum

[pseudo rivet]

Looks like it's enabled

[worthy lark]

Oh my jesus might need an rtx upgrade for my rx580

[tired anvil]

Probably going to need an upgrade myself

[hallow solstice]

they using UE4 right?

[tired anvil]

Unreal Engine, yup

[pseudo rivet]

I'll probably need to upgrade mine so I can watch it on YT

[marble nymph]

Yep

[pseudo rivet]

[narrow yarrow]

UE4 scales down pretty well

[tired anvil]

Never said 4, but I doubt they have access to 5

[hallow solstice]

hm. ue4 is pretty optimised tho

[worthy lark]

Eh jk i can already run most new games at 80+ fps on mediumhigh/higher i'm not gonna upgrade just for seeing cooler mirror effects

[hallow solstice]

^ same

[tired anvil]

I might need to upgrade, CPU sort of lacking

GPU still decent

[hallow solstice]

my CPU def bottle necks but im saving money for a car rn. gaming can wait 😉

[tired anvil]

Good luck with that

[worthy lark]

I gotta change my ryzen 5 2600 at some point but at the moment it's only like a 5-10% bottleneck so i'm not worried

[hallow solstice]

if i cant run stalker 2 back to anomaly i go

[tired anvil]

Back to CS I'll go

[sudden sapphire]

I've got a Ryzen 5 2600X myself, upgraded to it last year from an i7 3770.

[hallow solstice]

honestly ill be fine if i can only run the game at low. bad graphics isnt new to stalker

what matters is gameplay 👍

[tired anvil]

i5-7400 for me

[hallow solstice]

@sudden sapphire my i7 3770 is still kicking like 5 years in

[tired anvil]

Another thing to take into mind, the bad graphics on S2 will still most likely be better than what we're used to

So I'm fine w that

[worthy lark]

I'll be fine as long as i get 60-144 fps even on lowest because my eyes burn at under 60 fps now that i have a 144hz curved screen

[hallow solstice]

resilient CPU. a real powerhouse for its age tbh. i love mine to bits, however its time is def coming

[sudden sapphire]

I had to upgrade very much everything as my computer was having issues keeping up with everything, especially as the PSU, which was a 500 Delta one that came pre-installed with the computer, wasn't able to keep up with the power demand.

I got the computer back in 2013 by the way as a gift for when I graduated from college.

[worthy lark]

The biggest problem with prepacked pcs is that they mostly use psus that just barely keep the whole thing running

[solar minnow]

in the trailer, on 0:27-28 second mark, is that an arrow on the wall?

[sudden sapphire]

I've noticed that, yeah, Ryder. The PSU I've got now is a RM850X from Corsair.

[worthy lark]

Last prepacked i had from like 10 years ago had like a 250w psu and jesus it started having problems from just upgrading to 16gb ram lmao

[sudden sapphire]

Oh jeez, that's really rough with a 250w PSU.

[humble fiber]

is stalker 2 going to be single player only?

[tired anvil]

We don't know

[worthy lark]

I mean coop would be coolio but i'm not counting on it

[carmine pivot]

I’m guessing it would have multiplayer

[hallow solstice]

stalker multiplayer would be weird.

like when you play stalker i think you're supposed to feel alone, no buddies to watch your back outside of key missions

[finite dragon]

if

[hallow solstice]

would be funny if they brought back clear sky pvp

[finite dragon]

If stalker 2 has coop, id play it alone first, and then with my buddies!

ill be the dumb dumb

I WANT COOP SO BAD

[tired anvil]

Why though?

[carmine pivot]

Co-op would be flat out awesome

I would finally be able to enjoy the game with my friends

[hallow solstice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW_Hz764n0Q stalker 2 PVP leaked

[worthy lark]

Wasn't there a coop mod coming for stalker at some point

[carmine pivot]

Nikolai

[hallow solstice]

@worthy lark i saw it in a menu in COP but never attempted it

[worthy lark]

Not gonna lie was expecting rick roll

[carmine pivot]

Same lol

[pseudo rivet]

XRMPE

But it's not fully completed yet

[carmine pivot]

Does it work tho?

[frail spire]

I mean, they could do a stalker pvp but sell it as a standalone

[carmine pivot]

And how well does it work?

[pseudo rivet]

There's a wave system

[worthy lark]

just read that they just did a test with some defence mode or something, no campaign mode coop yet

[frail spire]

not full price of course

[quiet flicker]

I'm not liking the vibes of the teaser

[pseudo rivet]

Not sure if the Co-Op mode is public yet

[hallow solstice]

will to live online is already stalker 2 😉

[worthy lark]

also there wasn't even a file atleast on moddb for download

[quiet flicker]

I know there's no gameplay and we haven't seen anything but it kind of gives me commercial vibes

[carmine pivot]

Maybe

[frail spire]

All games past 2010 have been a commercial trip

[pseudo rivet]

Well, it's UE4 and it's a teaser

[frail spire]

Thats why people keep repeating "Do not fall for the hype" but everyone keeps ignoring them

[solid prism]

Hey stalkers

[pseudo rivet]

Heya man

Long time no see

[carmine pivot]

Hey hey

[red tulip]

Campaign coop would literally mean they would have to rewrite all the stalker scripts for the story to work properly. As they said - it won't be happening.

[hallow solstice]

well, i think any dev could make a game better than COP

[quiet flicker]

I fear it's going to be a metro clone rather than stalker

[carmine pivot]

Then instead of rewriting, they integrate it from the start and work from there

[solar minnow]

why?

[hallow solstice]

@quiet flicker def not. metro is very linear, and stalker never played like that

[frail spire]

cough too bad metro was a stalker clone too cough

[quiet flicker]

@solar minnow it gives me metro vibes much more than stalker vibes

[carmine pivot]

In a way it might but I doubt it will turn out like that

[hallow solstice]

@frail spire i mean, they shared devs didnt they? not a big surprise

[quiet flicker]

@carmine pivot I don't think it's going to be linear but rather story driven and ''grandiose'' like metro if you know what I mean

[carmine pivot]

Yeah I was just about to say that the metro devs are just devs that split off from the stalker team

[frail spire]

Also we're talking about post-apoc setting which will have some common grounds with other games, always happens

[solar minnow]

when people first watched the metro game trailers, i bet they took stalker vibes from them. concept is kinda similar and some of the devs worked with both games afaik

[worthy lark]

eh could be as basic as throwing a random stalker as the coop players character like some games do but is just a dream my dude

[tired anvil]

4A was made from GSC devs who left before the release of SoC, so yes

[frail spire]

You're thinking a Co-op mode where the host does all the talking and stalking and the guest is just a friendly npc?

[carmine pivot]

Accurate 💯

[tired anvil]

No swearing btw

[solid prism]

Exodus was closer to Stalker but still very far

[tired anvil]

Yes I dislike this rule as well

[frail spire]

I mean it COULD work but dunno, you would have to limit guest interacteability to a minimum to not have to rewrite the whole thing

[quiet flicker]

metro and stalker are almost polar opposite games

[hallow solstice]

metro exodus you see people on the surface, but even then it doesnt have the same tone as stalker. in metro theres NO chance at a normal life. people in the zone can theoretically leave at any moment

[frail spire]

Lmao no

[carmine pivot]

Ehhh I wouldn’t say polar opposites, More like distant cousins

[worthy lark]

like both could do the talking but it would just tell the same story so they wouldn't have to even do new text for a new written character

[carmine pivot]

More like distant cousins

[quiet flicker]

@carmine pivot I would...metro is a linear, story driven almost corridor shooter game whereas stalker is an open world, non story driven rpg...so yeah, kind of polar opposite

[arctic rover]

in engine is like trailer but wandering around and seeing interactivness like in duke nukem forever and pda from gunslinger
nothing interesting

[frail spire]

The only real difference imo between stalker and metro is the size of maps and the freedom given to them, maybe.

[arctic rover]

now i hope only on croteam

[frail spire]

Both games are very linear with sprinkles of open world

[hallow solstice]

metro exodus wasnt even open world tbh. just very wide levels

[carmine pivot]

I remember I’m metro 2033, the word stalker was mensioned when you first leave the metro

[solar minnow]

yeah, i get same vibes from both games especially in buildings and underground levels

[hallow solstice]

@carmine pivot yes, and in last light you can find strelok

[quiet flicker]

@frail spire COP is not a linear game, it's an rpg

[frail spire]

triggered

[carmine pivot]

No. Way. Actually?!

[pseudo rivet]

🤡

[hallow solstice]

yeah hes sitting at a bar with someone ill send a video

[carmine pivot]

Yes please

[worthy lark]

difference is that i can find real open world mods to get my fix of cheeker breekers for stalker

[solar minnow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxa3QGENAOc 05:01

[frail spire]

Theres also a few corpses in LL that resemble strelok to uncanny levels

[hallow solstice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxa3QGENAOc&t=364s 5:16. him and the doc

if it isnt them it looks VERY VERY similar to them. when i saw them i had to do a double take

[carmine pivot]

I’m glad 4A paid homage to their roots

It would be cool to see Artyom make a secret appearance in s2

[hallow solstice]

ha that would be cool

at the very least a spartan flag or something as an easter egg.

[carmine pivot]

Mhm mhm

[quiet flicker]

It looks nothing like strelok...it looks like a generic balding man...I'm not buying it

[carmine pivot]

🤷‍♂️ think what U think

But imo it looks like strelok and doc

[hallow solstice]

aight ima go. deuces 👋

[carmine pivot]

Cya

[tired anvil]

Apparently to the Metro wiki, there is also this “Eastern egg”

[hard stirrup]

first-person sequel S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 and its Zone through the eyes of its main protagonist, Skif

[tired anvil]

Correct

[hard stirrup]

who is skif

[pseudo rivet]

An upgrade

[tired anvil]

Just the new protag

[tired anvil]

Who /=/ what

[hard stirrup]

[pseudo rivet]

He's an upgraded protagonist

[hard stirrup]

[carmine pivot]

I think this has been said before multiple times but it would be cool to see different nationalities in the zone yeah?

[tired anvil]

We already do

[worthy lark]

why they gotta drop the ingame trailer right now tho just started a new vegas playthrough and i have a feeling i'm gonna forget about it and transfer back to anomaly

[tired anvil]

No swearing btw

[pseudo rivet]

Eh, it's just New Vegas

[tired anvil]

There's at least 4 different nationalities in the game

[carmine pivot]

Oh wait what?

[tired anvil]

Ukrainian, Georgian, Armenian, Belarusian and ig you could say Russian so at least 5

Mercs are most likely Westerners as well so yea

[carmine pivot]

Oh my god how did I not know

[worthy lark]

yeah just one of the best rpg games on the planet no big deal lul

[pseudo rivet]

Then there's the Mercs with their accents

[lament flax]

what do you mean, it's just new vegas

[pseudo rivet]

"Best" lmao

[finite dragon]

"Best" lmao

[tired anvil]

Vano is Georgian
Ashot is Armenian
Shamans are mentioned to be from the Belarusian side of the Zone, so we could assume that Hermit is one, but this is never stated

[worthy lark]

what yall mean it sure is up there, i didn't say that it's THE BEST

[finite dragon]

damn

[lament flax]

aye

[pseudo rivet]

It's still pretty bland, so don't worry

[finite dragon]

i dont know how to read damn sorry bro...

[carmine pivot]

We need to add some more “Mercia” this zone

[pseudo rivet]

Eh, we've already got the UN in the Zone

[finite dragon]

No.

[carmine pivot]

||Jk jk lol||

[pseudo rivet]

Oh, misread that as "Murica

[lament flax]

I wonder if you'll be able to switch subtitle and voice separately like in Metro

[pseudo rivet]

[finite dragon]

oh same

[carmine pivot]

I was thinking the same thing

[tired anvil]

There's that American drone in CoP

[worthy lark]

eh compared to the first 2 sure is but as something from 2000s there ain't too many good good rpgs and i don't mean skyrim and it's 17 re releases

[finite dragon]

i have bought skyrim once

[lament flax]

Skyrim is bloody buggy though

[pseudo rivet]

Well, there's also Tactics and F3

[finite dragon]

when i first played it, i expirienced no bugs...

[lament flax]

since Bethesda wouldn't mind fixing it after all these years

[pseudo rivet]

I'd say those two are also pretty fleshed out

[solar minnow]

i thought shamans and hermit were crimean Tatars

[worthy lark]

skyrim is just a prestep of fallout 4 lmao but i haven't seen the bugs

[finite dragon]

now when i played it again for the first time in a while, i literally had to restart the game so many times i started crying

[pseudo rivet]

Nah, they're from the Belarusian side of the Zone

[finite dragon]

for some reason the game got buggier....

[tired anvil]

I can't comment anything about Crimean Tatars, but Shamans were stated to be more-so from the Belarusian side

[carmine pivot]

Yeye

[pseudo rivet]

It's in the Encyclopedia in SoC

[worthy lark]

new vegas is bland but F3 is fleshed out? boeh

[solar minnow]

oh okay

[pseudo rivet]

The story of the battle druids.

They say there’s this one gang... People call them Shamans or Druids. So it appears they don’t use any electronic equipment at all, say they want to stay close to the nature and stuff… Well, they reason the Zone reacts stronger to equipment… To all this electromagnetic emissions or something… They say it attracts monsters. Basically, they believe the Zone is like a living being, you know. Like, it’s no good going into it with all these gadgets. If you’re right in your mind you’ll get by fine without ‘em. Doesn't stop them from carrying assault rifles, though… Guess the old teeth and nails are not up to the task, eh? But then again, you don’t hear a lot of stories about one of them kicking the bucket. Well, at least no more than about us… So, who knows, maybe they are on the right track there… They seem to be coming more from the Belarussian side, though… I’d like to have a look at them one day and check out their pockets for some artifacts…

[lament flax]

I can't even play Fo3 on my pc somehow

[carmine pivot]

The only reason I played F4 was because it took place in Boston lmao

[worthy lark]

it was a crashing mess even on release atleast for me

[finite dragon]

Fallout 3 is okay. It's not the best Fallout game by any means and falls flat compared to New Vegas, but it isn't a garbage game.

[carmine pivot]

It only needed more Boston accents to be good lol

[finite dragon]

I think Fallout 4 is a pretty fun looter shooter.

[lament flax]

and a good story

[carmine pivot]

It was fine IMO, nothing special tho

[pseudo rivet]

Reward for blandest Fallout game goes to F4, honestly

[worthy lark]

i mean yeah there's things to explore but it doesn't have any kind of dangers apart from deathclaws or feeling of real progression with it's scaling enemies

[carmine pivot]

Yeah, not good nor bad

[tired anvil]

Fallout Shelter

[carmine pivot]

Hahahaha yesss

[worthy lark]

yeah managed to clock in 2 hours before just stopping completely lmao

[pseudo rivet]

Eh, fair enough

[lament flax]

I mean come on when you ask ||father|| why he is killing people and replacing them with ||synths|| he just responds to you with ||"It would be to comlicated for you to understand"||

[pseudo rivet]

There's also Fallout Monopoly, if I remember correctly

[carmine pivot]

I was so bored of fallout shelter that I literally downloaded cheats for it just to mess around

[pseudo rivet]

[worthy lark]

my face when i have 6 times the amount clocked on shelter than 4

[tired anvil]

Same actually lmao

[carmine pivot]

It’s satisfying to see your vault grow tho

[tired anvil]

Probably more, because F4 was a cuck to me

Anyone else had the deal where it didn't save anything because some crap in the files was automatically off?

[pseudo rivet]

And yet, Fallout Shelter Online is only available in Asian countries

[tired anvil]

-slow 0

[iron heath]

Slowmode is now disabled in this channel.

[carmine pivot]

That exists?!

[solar minnow]

That's cool lore, the reason i thought Hermit was a tatar is because he kinda looks like one and there is a population of them in Ukraine

[worthy lark]

i seriously enjoyed building a vooolt and seeing my inbred statmaniacs grow instead of the "ey boeh heres a powerarmor after 1 hour of gameplay"

[carmine pivot]

Hahaha

It was super pay to win tho :/

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah, has for a long time, but it's not available in a lot of countries

[carmine pivot]

I can’t imagine a multiplayer

[worthy lark]

didn't even know online one existed

[tired anvil]

Plenty of games are vastly different in the Asian market

[pseudo rivet]

I'm not even sure in what aspect it is online, but it's way more advanced to Fallout Shelter

[tired anvil]

More specifically the Chinese one

[worthy lark]

yeah i didn't mind tho checking in from time to time and doing quests

[carmine pivot]

Also thanks for doing that

[lament flax]

I've found an app on the play store where you could change all the stats of your game and it actually worked

[carmine pivot]

👀

[lament flax]

perhaps I'll find it one day and maybe it's still there

[carmine pivot]

Exactly

[worthy lark]

where's the fun in that when you can train and inbreed 8 generations of lunatics from your starter vaulters

[lament flax]

Aye but as Strelok already mentioned it's hella pay to win

[worthy lark]

ye

[carmine pivot]

Mhm

[lament flax]

so if you're not coming any further you can just give your 100 quantum cola bottles

[worthy lark]

no idea how many of his kids my biggest statman has already breeded lmao

[carmine pivot]

Still a fun little quirky game nevertheless

[sudden sapphire]

Honestly though, 2021 could be a really good year for games with titles like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, Peripeteia, Gloomwood, Fallen Aces and Core Decay.

[carmine pivot]

💯

[sudden sapphire]

Some of the games I listed by the way are indie immersive sims by the way.

Like Gloomwood, Peripeteia and Core Decay.

[tired anvil]

Personally I'm only really interested in S2 atm

[carmine pivot]

Sameeee

[tired anvil]

We finished 2020 pretty decently, if Sergiy's words weren't empty, we should get a good amount of stuff soon

[carmine pivot]

I have 60$ reserved for when it comes out

[tired anvil]

I've triple for the deluxe edition

(assuming there will be one)

[carmine pivot]

Haha good call lol

“Deluxe edition: comes with real anomaly!”

gets gravi 😔

[finite dragon]

I was actually researching Fallout shelters (the irl bunkers meant to survive nuclear war) and it's kind of interesting

[lament flax]

I've never pre-ordered any game before but I think I'll set a new stepping stone with S2

[worthy lark]

i'm a poor student atm gonna just preserve 10€ for xbox game pass when it comes out so if i don't like it too much i can wait for it to get cheaper

[carmine pivot]

Same yeah

[finite dragon]

What would it be like to live in one of those for an extended period of time during a nuclear conflict? Probably not pleasant, but an interesting thing to think about

Essentially, what would living in a Vault from Fallout be like IRL?

[tired anvil]

Same lmao

[carmine pivot]

Weren’t all the vaults malicious

[worthy lark]

fallouts vaults really add perspective to those as in what if somebody really gonna do tests on them

[carmine pivot]

Like they had a dark side to them lol

[worthy lark]

like most of them lmao

[tired anvil]

I've a gamepass key that idk who to give to

[finite dragon]

Yeah, but I don't think IRL fallout shelters are meant to experiment on people

[carmine pivot]

Yourself

[worthy lark]

imagine being in the vault where there is 1 man and 999 women

[tired anvil]

I don't use Xbox services so not that much of an option

[carmine pivot]

Vault 69

That’s just vault 69

[lament flax]

wasn't there a vault for this?

[tired anvil]

And yea, IRL they were just in case the USSR dropped nukes or vice versa

[solar minnow]

I hope they let us play it on geforce now or some other streaming service

[tired anvil]

Look at Albania, it is full of bunkers and shelters everywhere

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah. that's Vault 69

[lament flax]

oh then I remember correctly

[worthy lark]

i got 3 of them when building my pc and couldn't even use 2 of them because i would've had to wait a whole year to use them again without if i remember right buying any time on game pass

[lament flax]

same thing with Switzerland

[tired anvil]

That'll most likely depend on Nvidia, but I think it'll happen if stuff like Ray Tracing is already confirmed

[carmine pivot]

Awesome possum

🦡

[tired anvil]

Switzerland has thousands of explosives under every bridge in case of an invasion. They are next level ready for anything

[carmine pivot]

Wait that’s a badger nvm

[worthy lark]

as long as it's on pc on xbox game pass too im gucci

[hallow solstice]

only one woman in the entire zone

[carmine pivot]

Wait wait wait what

[pseudo rivet]

No women in the Zone

[lament flax]

I heard of that too. In case of an invasion they'll just blow up all the passages and make it almost impossible for the enemy to pass

[solar minnow]

that's nice, don't think my poor 1060 will be able to handle S2

[tired anvil]

Mf

[lament flax]

beside of that, who would invade the swiss?

[worthy lark]

imagine accidentally bumping in to the main BRIDGE BOOM button

[tired anvil]

I'm sitting with a 1060 as well lmao

[carmine pivot]

Don’t Bomber planes exist?!

[red ledge]

is 2021 confirmed ?

[tired anvil]

No

[hallow solstice]

@red ledge yes

[carmine pivot]

You just trapped yourself under artillery fire

[worthy lark]

bruh i used to sit on a r7 270 for almost 10 years lmao

[tired anvil]

Too dangerous to send planes into bridges. Easier to detonate the bridges

[solar minnow]

great card but it's getting older really fast

[tired anvil]

@hallow solstice no!

2021 is not confirmed

[red ledge]

🤨

[lament flax]

well there was some sort of puzzle to solve by the community I think it was a number which I can't recall correctly but yea

[tired anvil]

The description is a guess

[worthy lark]

i ain't waiting 20000 years for the game

[worthy lark]

oh heck you fixed it before i could answer

[carmine pivot]

[pseudo rivet]

||2050 ||

[tired anvil]

Top PR manager states that the IGN date is a guess

[carmine pivot]

2033

[red ledge]

Oh

[lament flax]

I wonder if they'll drop the game on 26th. of april

[tired anvil]

The closest to a date we have is him writing “202_”

[hallow solstice]

theyll drop it when the next Chernobyl disaster hits

[tired anvil]

You're more likely to get it on the 19th of April imo

[carmine pivot]

It will release on the year 202

[tired anvil]

2.0.2.1-1986=35 and the puzzle continued

[worthy lark]

brb gonna get some c4 and heading to ukraine

[celest siren]

[carmine pivot]

Bonus immersion points

[lament flax]

oh yes

[tired anvil]

It got solved earlier this year, you can find all the details in the #📰┃announcement if you scroll up enough

[solar minnow]

we don't have any real in-game footage so it should be at least a year away

[carmine pivot]

So.... 2021 confirmed

[hallow solstice]

stalker 2 has probably been made for years

[tired anvil]

We know that it was being developed before the official announcement

But we do not know for how long

[finite dragon]

The best place to live in case of nuclear war is Switzerland

[hallow solstice]

ingame footage is actually just cutscenes, stalker 2 was made on xray engine 7 years ago

[worthy lark]

all we can do is speculate lul

[tired anvil]

Could be days, weeks, months

Pretty much

[finite dragon]

They have enough shelters to accomodate 114% of their population

They have enough room for guests!

[carmine pivot]

Are we going to have a cyberpunk situation where the devs push it out early despite having tons of time to work on it and it had a ton of bugs??

[finite dragon]

Probably not, and hopefully not.

[carmine pivot]

Due to pressure?

[tired anvil]

Well, unlike Cyberpunk, GSC isn't saying that the game is perfectly ready years ahead of release

[hallow solstice]

stalker bugs are a bonus tbh

more anomalies are always welcome

[tired anvil]

GSC also didn't release a trailer than start working 5 years after it

[lament flax]

I'm just glad they've continued the work on STALKER 2 after it was cancelled

[carmine pivot]

Pretty much

[solar minnow]

not a marketing guy but i think the right thing to do is to release it after major gaming conventions like E3 to build hype and get pre-orders

[tired anvil]

GSC released a trailer 2 years after the game being announced

[carmine pivot]

Bugs are just More things to laugh at in stalker

[mild owl]

Ign messed up lol

[carmine pivot]

It makes my day to see a body glitching in the sky

[tired anvil]

IGN did the typical, like most journalists currently, assumed that it's 2021

[hallow solstice]

long as its nothing game breaking where i need to reload saves then i dont mind

[carmine pivot]

Spot on

You speak for all of us

[lament flax]

Yea bugs and glitches in games such as STALKER can be really funny sometimes unlike in ||Skyrim||

[hallow solstice]

NPCs can run in place and fly for all I care. sounds like stalker

[solar minnow]

like cyberpunk.. lol

[worthy lark]

yeah except if there happens to be a huge release at the same time you can say bye to your sales revenue

[lament flax]

Skyrim in a nutshell

[carmine pivot]

Let the ground suck them in

[finite dragon]

Lmao all the fanboys are going to overhype the 2021 "release date" and will get extremely dissapointed once the actual release date gets revealed.

[worthy lark]

stalker in a nutshell

[hallow solstice]

cant wait for stalker 2099

[pseudo rivet]

[carmine pivot]

Nah I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t release in 2021

The more time they can work on it, the better

[deep forge]

https://youtu.be/uu5mCXFHI0E

isnt skif the idiot who got his entire squad killed in tarkov

[carmine pivot]

Got a cyberpunk ad when I clicked on it

Lol

[hallow solstice]

an omen.

[lament flax]

They should release it once they're done with the game so I don't really care if it's in 2021 or 2024

[carmine pivot]

Stalkerpunk 2099

[hallow solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-chernobyl-strelok-looking-up-worried-gif-17874458

[carmine pivot]

I’m sure we can all agree that it would make us all happy if they released it early yeah

[mild owl]

Honestly I hope the game doesn't come out on 2021, if the game was readyfor next year they would at least showed some gamplay footage. I hope this game comes out when it's ready, maybe by 2025 idk

[frail spire]

Stalkerpunk: New Vegas 2099

[lament flax]

amen

[carmine pivot]

New Chernogas

[hallow solstice]

long as i can shoot bloodsuckers and scream then im fine.

[tired anvil]

Well, not quite

[frail spire]

implying they won't release something unfinished anyways

[tired anvil]

If they ever went with the idea of “promoting 4 months before release” then everything is probs going to plan

But we don't know if they ever agreed to that idea

Could've been just the thoughts of the CEO

[hallow solstice]

stalker 2 only needs ONE thing for sure and thats an even more intense atmosphere than before. i want a game i have to play with my lights on\

[frail spire]

thats what underground is for

[mild owl]

Sure hope stalker 2 has ray tracing lol

[hallow solstice]

stalker is one of the few games where i actually think to myself if i want to open that door or not

[carmine pivot]

Or the x16/x18 labs

[carmine pivot]

Ikr

[finite dragon]

Already /v/ and r/stalker are going crazy that the game is coming out.

Can't wait for them to cry that the game is "Cyberpunk2077", when the release date turns out to be 2026

[hallow solstice]

@carmine pivot yeah, i could have stayed in the labs, but WHY WOULD I?

[carmine pivot]

Same with outlast or dead space

[tired anvil]

It does

[mild owl]

idk, just don't want another broken game on day one

[hallow solstice]

i went in and out. got the documents and left, didnt even wanna see what else was down there

[mild owl]

epic

[pseudo rivet]

Imagine going into a tunnel system dug by mutants, which eventually leads to a mutant lair

[carmine pivot]

It’s got some good artifacts

[frail spire]

Fear factor needs to be limited to certain places or you'll end up with fear overload and just not care at some point
i.e.: playing dark space games so much you don't even care about the thing flailing around that you missed when going into the room

[hallow solstice]

ill get money somewhere else, i can live without the buffs too.

[carmine pivot]

Good point

[lament flax]

I only demand one thing to be in STALKER 2
"bread"

[finite dragon]

WHO THE HELL IS SKIF WE NEED TO KNOW

[carmine pivot]

Stale bread 🤤

[worthy lark]

yeah lmao, the cyberpunk outrage was mostly caused by projectred tho lmao, they overmarketed an unfinished game and then all the blind following lambs got mad that they didn't make any expectations of their own about it

[hallow solstice]

sausag.

[tired anvil]

Breaks neck upon falling down a hole in the tunnel system

[pseudo rivet]

He's the protagonist

That's all

[tired anvil]

MC

Pmuch all there's need to know

[mild owl]

bread

[finite dragon]

we ned to see his face bro

[finite dragon]

Management pushed the game out when it wasn't finished. They had loads of features in production, but they were just too damn buggy.

[worthy lark]

MR MODERATOR FLICKY SAID THE ANTI HEAVEN WORD!!!!

[mild owl]

bro imagine if we could costumize our mc, we could make him/her look like bread

[carmine pivot]

The worst part about lab x18 isn’t going in... it’s going out

[pseudo rivet]

https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/qyP2UiB8cLAY6ewAzCxF0r9DoHjbCJ7oEju3wL36fbo/%3Fsize%3D1024/https/cdn.discordapp.com/avatars/451108184740986880/a_4b2dacd77d9a77ba8ea4a02a1ebc5595.gif

Look, here's his face

[finite dragon]

Looks slavic idk

[carmine pivot]

That’s my pfp if I had nitro

[worthy lark]

all they really needed to do was i dunno start pushing the marketing like at the end of the year or even later

[tired anvil]

I'd prefer no customization tbh

[finite dragon]

That pfp is only reserved to mcculckin

[carmine pivot]

Yeah

[lament flax]

damn only around 90 people in Russia have this as a first/surname

[carmine pivot]

Oh yeah lol

[finite dragon]

NO PLEASE OH GOD IM SORRY

[tired anvil]

A year ago their marketing team said that the game will be a meme

I guess they were right

Perfectly spot on honestly

[carmine pivot]

Mhm

[finite dragon]

I'm pretty sure I heard the name Skiff somewhere. It some mod or design documents...

[pseudo rivet]

Upgrade in CoP

[worthy lark]

sure turned out as one

[tired anvil]

Skiff can be a term for a light boat

[mild owl]

It's better if they don't have a release date rn, making sure the scope of the game isn't comprimised due to time

[worthy lark]

yeah they can take as long as they want if you ask me

i like small sneak peeks in to the art direction like these 2 trailers

[tired anvil]

They have a release date, it's just not public

[finite dragon]

2027

September 23

[mild owl]

Better that way, gamers can be brutal

[tired anvil]

It's the 32nd day of the 13th month of 2019

[worthy lark]

the overhyping bastards are the worst bunch tho

[finite dragon]

Gajūnai can you upload your russian knowledge so I can put it into ?

[worthy lark]

imagine overhyping any game made after like 2008

[carmine pivot]

Where can I post pics?

[pseudo rivet]

#📸┃screens_and_videos

[tired anvil]

Why do you think I'm trying to learn it 😉

[finite dragon]

To play NLC8 obv

[tired anvil]

To help you

[worthy lark]

brb building a time machine before december 32nd starts and supercorona releases

[finite dragon]

Too late we're about to finish

In 2 years

[tired anvil]

[worthy lark]

has anyone watched this one tuber guys Axcell D's stalker videos?

gotta say his current anomaly modpack is prettty tasty

[digital tree]

watching him rn

crying cuz im waiting for anomaly to come out of the beta

[worthy lark]

eh the current beta runs stabler than the current non beta version for me

[frail spire]

As long as it updates I don't care

[carmine pivot]

hey jacket did you hear what happened to biker?

[worthy lark]

he went clubbing

[carmine pivot]

HAHA

[digital tree]

poor gu

[worthy lark]

now that i think about it golfing would have worked too

[solid dome]

The feel of having a portable mp3 player/radio you can play Freedom bangers next to your bed like true slav

Next gen experience

😄

[dreamy island]

Skiff?

[pseudo rivet]

Name of the protagonist of STALKER 2

Without the extra F, though

[solid dome]

Surely his name yeah

[pseudo rivet]

Just Skif

[solid dome]

Nickname tho

Same as Marked One

Though it sounds weird

[tired anvil]

Afaik it's his name

[solid dome]

Even so sounds weird

Interesting teaser

Big ups for them to put it this way

PDA teaser, boy

Who could have predicted

Still

Video description says - main protagonist, Skif

You were right

[dreamy island]

Skif..

I mean, I love exploring a new story but I hope we get to see reoccurring characters from the older games.

[finite dragon]

probably a name lost in translation

[tropic timber]

the question is what is the timeframe

and we saw starting village in the trailer

[tired anvil]

I asked, not really

[finite dragon]

it's obviously in the future @tropic timber

pripyat looks much more overgrown, and the rookie village looks more rundown

its 100% a sequel

[tropic timber]

I mean that might be just because the technical limitations of the previous one

Irl Prypiat is a forrest

[finite dragon]

i am surprised they didn't burn down in the red forest fire

shame yanov station did

[tired anvil]

I don't recall hearing about that

Only about the pioneer camp

[tropic timber]

oh thats a shame that was a cool place to visit

[tired anvil]

Well, on the bright side, I recall asking GSC about if this will affect their work. They stated that they have been to the Zone many times and that it did not affect their work much. They've plenty of pictures and videos and stuff, so it's all good as far as Stalker goes

[tropic timber]

I'd love to see the village of Chernobyl to be represented in some way in the game

[tired anvil]

Can only hope

[finite dragon]

i want to see the belarusian zone

that could be an entirely new can of worms

[tropic timber]

deffinetely could though that would we long way from the power plant

[tired anvil]

A lot of Shamans are from there, who knows what we could see

Also the power plant is ~8km from the border, so it's not that far

[tropic timber]

true

[tired anvil]

It's actually 2 times closer than the village even

[tropic timber]

depends if its gonna be like the previous games with bunch of smaller areas or one big open world personaly kinda hoping for the prior

[tired anvil]

I think it's safe to guess that it'll be 1 world/map/big area

[tropic timber]

okay good to know

[tired anvil]

#📗┃s2-faq for more information

[tropic timber]

hmm so that would put us in the scale of what 50-70 square kilometers?

roughly

[solar minnow]

50-70 is too high

[solid prism]

Not just open world but one of the biggest

[tired anvil]

Heck knows, saying one of the biggest is a lot of words

[solid prism]

Hard to imagine but...

[tropic timber]

50-70 is in scale with stuff like pubg, far cry 2, AC: origins and all of those

[tired anvil]

Will be kind of crazy if S2 somehow managed to revolutionise gaming in it's own ways

[tropic timber]

well we gotta take out the ridiculously sized ones like Dagger fall and MMO's

daggerfall is 161,600 Km^2 fun fact

[solar minnow]

yes but it is that much without details

[tired anvil]

What's that one motorcycle game with an even bigger one

[tropic timber]

here is what I found https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/ehwyj8/sizes_of_the_largest_open_world_video_game_maps/

[tired anvil]

Can you honestly even count games like No Man's Sky

[tropic timber]

and compared to some of those I think 50-70 is reasonable

heck Livonia for DayZ is 163

[tired anvil]

Also this gets makes me curious. How big would the Stalker maps be

[solid prism]

There should be alot of detail in Pripyat but some places i'm afraid they might be empty for the sake of performace

[meager plover]

So is the new protagonist named Skif?

[tropic timber]

@tired anvil
no thats why I went with the more standart sizes

[pseudo rivet]

Yes

[solid prism]

Good question

[tired anvil]

@pseudo rivet any clue?

[pseudo rivet]

What's up?

[tired anvil]

Also this gets makes me curious. How big would the Stalker maps be

gets makes me
Glad my English is still top notch

[pseudo rivet]

Eh, large I guess

I mean, they said it's one of the biggest seamless open-worlds to date, right?

From their games or in the genre?

[tropic timber]

but surely it can't be Arma 3 maps sized can it?

[pseudo rivet]

Or GTA sized

[solar minnow]

The details and objects will lower the size of the map

[pseudo rivet]

Or Witcher sized

[tropic timber]

GTA 5 is small compared to Arma maps

[solid prism]

Altis is 270Km2 or something

[tropic timber]

yeah

[solid prism]

really big

[tropic timber]

and a lot of that is water

[solid prism]

but too much empty space

[solar minnow]

Dunno the trailer they showed has a lot of details but I’m %100 sure the game we will get won’t be like that

[pseudo rivet]

Good thinking

Better to keep your expectations low than getting overhyped

[tropic timber]

like arma style maps are cool and I personally like them but the game would prolly flop if that was the case

[pseudo rivet]

I'd say it would

[solar minnow]

Yeah, I overhyped and pre ordered CP2077 and it wasn’t a cool experience

[pseudo rivet]

Heh

[tropic timber]

heh

[pseudo rivet]

Too bad

Sorry to hear that

[tropic timber]

I burned myself with release of No man's sky

[finite dragon]

atleast GSC is keeping expectations to a minimum

so no ultimate dissapointment

[tropic timber]

that is why I say 50-70 is rasonable

[finite dragon]

50-70 what?

[pseudo rivet]

Which in turn does create more hype

[tropic timber]

km^2

[tired anvil]

Meant the trilogy*

[finite dragon]

Oh

How much is that in football fields?

[solar minnow]

btw I’m okay with Escape From Tarkov like mini open world maps with high detail and specific points to travel through other areas

[pseudo rivet]

Oh, that's pretty lame

[tropic timber]

ooh

[tired anvil]

God damn it wrong reply

[tropic timber]

okay makes sense

[finite dragon]

They specifically said it'll be a seamless open world.

[pseudo rivet]

Oof

[tired anvil]

So no clue on how big the trilogy maps are, right?

[tropic timber]

ooooof

[finite dragon]

Like Red Dead Redemption 2. There's no loading.

[tropic timber]

damn 😄

[gilded remnant]

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[pseudo rivet]

Eh, not in IRL KMs

[finite dragon]

I'm more interested in gunplay and sound design

[pseudo rivet]

One thing I can say for sure is that it's pretty small compared to older open-world games

[finite dragon]

Maps can be small-ish if the sound design and gunplay is on-point.

[solar minnow]

there was a reddit post from r/stalker stating that afaik

[tropic timber]

another thing is with big maps you kinda need some way to speed up the travel time and I am not sure how I'd like cars in stalker it just kinda does not fit imo

[pseudo rivet]

Just return the guides from CS

[hushed aurora]

Motorcycles

[pseudo rivet]

Oof no

[tropic timber]

still

[hushed aurora]

Why not

[tropic timber]

nah

[finite dragon]

Razer scooter

Skates

[solar minnow]

no vehicles... please

[split mortar]

Instant death when anomaly spawns on road

[finite dragon]

Little Tikes car

Tricycle

[pseudo rivet]

We all saw what happened with the Death Truck

[finite dragon]

Pogo stick

[pseudo rivet]

[hushed aurora]

Cars are too big, and won't be able to dodge anomalies correctly at all

But a motorcycle is quite thin and way more handable

[tropic timber]

stalker for me personaly is about shaking my ass sneaking through the wasteland with couple rounds left and bolts in hand

[finite dragon]

Okay, unironically

Maybe things like ATVs and dirtbikes would work.

[split mortar]

As long as its not like the payday 2 one

[hushed aurora]

Lmao

[tropic timber]

and having to do that for say 50km^2 is not sounding fun

[pseudo rivet]

We all saw what happened with the Death Truck

[hushed aurora]

You gonna tell me a Truck is the same as a motorcycle

[split mortar]

What you mean?

[hushed aurora]

Same ammount of mass and weight

[finite dragon]

Okay, but imagine the opportunities working vehicles would grant us

[pseudo rivet]

It's mechanical, isn't it?

[pseudo rivet]

Have you heard of the Shamans?

[finite dragon]

Imagine military convoys moving through the zone on jeeps, technicals, and APCs.

[hushed aurora]

I still wonder how that armored vehicle at the near end of SoC worked

Isnt that mechanical too

[arctic rover]

with adobe flash officially going down, the stalker online project is now quite a lost thing for new stalkers, only videos.

[tropic timber]

hmmmm noh doesn't really work

a zone is a literal minefield that would not work with vehicles

[hushed aurora]

For most yeah

[finite dragon]

I think shutting down Flash was one of the worst things to happen, ever.

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah, but that one is used by the Monolith

[finite dragon]

That like, 80% of the mainstream internet gone.

[hushed aurora]

So it ignores it if it's used by the monolith

[finite dragon]

Should've just made Flash open source and put the burden on the community.

[hushed aurora]

Alr then

[arctic rover]

you cant download it and better to delete it for "safety reasons"

[finite dragon]

I guarantee you it would live on for at least another 50 years.

[pseudo rivet]

Besides, it wouldn't work for a long while, anyways

Especially due to the Emission

[split mortar]

What can withstand emissions? Buildings? Not BTR?

[tropic timber]

remember what happened to helis in I think CoP when those went into the zone

[pseudo rivet]

Depends on the strength of the Emission

[finite dragon]

A faraday cage might protect them.

[pseudo rivet]

Some Emissions are known to have blown tanks away like they were toys

[split mortar]

So gravity kills if rads dont

[finite dragon]

I think running into a burer or poltergeist would be much scarier for a vehicle than any emission or anomaly.

[tropic timber]

faraday cage will not help aganist gravitational anomaly that decides to "happen" in front of you as you are driving

[finite dragon]

Anomalies only appear after emissions

[split mortar]

Just started soc, when will i encounter those?

[pseudo rivet]

||Aerial anomalies||

[finite dragon]

@split mortar nah

[finite dragon]

Pretty soon.

[tropic timber]

yeah

[finite dragon]

just worry about poltergeists

if you do see them, shoot to kill them

Oh, that's right

[split mortar]

At the freedom base now, killed everyone there

[finite dragon]

they look like floating electro anomalies

Burers aren't in vanilla SOC

[hushed aurora]

Burers are only in CoP

[finite dragon]

Forgot

[pseudo rivet]

Bruh

[split mortar]

What?

[hushed aurora]

Siding with Skull is the worst option

But anyways

[tropic timber]

@finite dragon and having to map new routes for cars after each blowout sounds REALLY impractical

[finite dragon]

the real chad move is killing the freedom base then skull's squad

[solar minnow]

first time should be labs but I could be wrong

[arctic rover]

first, everything on your computer (if there is) things which is based on flash will be blocked
second, Adobe will send you messages to delete it

[finite dragon]

and then heading north

[split mortar]

The insurgent dude video with cars is funny

[hushed aurora]

The thing of being hostile to freedom is that they hold the barrier

[finite dragon]

I'm sorry to hear that.

[split mortar]

Not sure what else use outside of funnys tho

[hushed aurora]

So you're gonna have monolith, freedom, and mutants?

[finite dragon]

@hushed aurora that's just more ammo for you

and don't forget the monolith raid

[finite dragon]

Turning a steering wheel isn't really hard at all.

[hushed aurora]

You gonna get cucked from even more sides

[finite dragon]

you won't

[pseudo rivet]

Remember that Colonel Skull is disobeying General Voronin's orders

[split mortar]

Yes but lada not do well over rugged terrain

[pseudo rivet]

[finite dragon]

the last time you'll see freedom and duty after the barrier is in a small skirmish on the intersection where one road leads to pripyat

Pretty much every anomaly can be heard and seen

I'm sure crews in the zone will be trained to spot them

[solid dome]

307 new messages

[hushed aurora]

I am speaking while fighting in the barrier

[solid dome]

Slow down the bird

[finite dragon]

nyet

[hushed aurora]

So yeah

[split mortar]

Pls no spoil, first time player

[hushed aurora]

O

[solid dome]

First timer too

[hushed aurora]

Right

[solid dome]

Don't spoil my fun

[finite dragon]

@split mortar i'll just tell you to not hoard pmm ammo, it will just weigh you down

have fun

[solid dome]

Um not exactly first timer, second timer aye

[tropic timber]

@finite dragon well that applied until now at least

[split mortar]

Not even for silence pistol?

[finite dragon]

nope

[split mortar]

Cool

[pseudo rivet]

PB-1s is the worst weapon in the game, honestly

[split mortar]

What about 9x19?

[finite dragon]

as soon as you get the AK74, you won't ever use a pistol again

[solid dome]

@finite dragon You alive?

[solar minnow]

+100

[finite dragon]

no i am speaking from hell

I like to extract the weapon .ltx files and play around with the damages

[tropic timber]

its understandable from gameplay point of view tho in the book it was not like that at all

[finite dragon]

Although STALKER's damage system proves to be enigmatic.

i remember a video of some russian guy modding the hell out of SOC where he got super jump powers and ran from cordon to the powerplant while shooting down helicopters with his groza

[hushed aurora]

Lmao

tf

[tropic timber]

Morrowind much?

[pseudo rivet]

Sounds kinda based

[hushed aurora]

That's pretty much impossible

But still cool

[split mortar]

Which one should i hold on to, 5.56 or 7.62? Which is more available later in the zone?

[tropic timber]

that was/ is the way to speedrun morrowind btw 😄

[finite dragon]

5.45

i also vaguelly recall another very old video of some guy playing the ''trololo'' song, modding a troll face to every character's faces and then just running around

[pseudo rivet]

5.45

[finite dragon]

old youtube was special

[solid dome]

Hahahahahaha

[solid dome]

Holy boogie

[pseudo rivet]

If you can get a NATO gun, that'd be better

[split mortar]

I do

[finite dragon]

i wish to see these videos again

[pseudo rivet]

Buy tons of 5.56mm ammo

[solid dome]

This, this is why modding has to make it day 1

[finite dragon]

5.45 is hands down the best, most affordable, and most common rifle ammo in all of the STALKER games.

[split mortar]

Looted scoped m4

[finite dragon]

@finite dragon except in SOC

You'll have more than what you know to do with, and you can easily sell it.

when 5.56 will become the standard once you cross wild territory

[tropic timber]

@solid dome I'll wait for Anomaly style mods myself 😄

[solid dome]

Modding in a shovel on the knife's place to take out bloodsuckers

[finite dragon]

Maybe not in vanilla. But in most mods I've played.

[split mortar]

What about 7.62x54?

[finite dragon]

Makes sense. 5.45 would be brought by the truckful into the zone.

[pseudo rivet]

That's only for sniper rifles

Which are pretty situational

[finite dragon]

if there is anything stalker 2 needs, it's ww2 rifles

[finite dragon]

If only. It's a pretty common civilian round irl.

the soviets had huge surpluses from ww2

[split mortar]

Cant buy from sid or bar, only seems to be found on freedom snipers

[finite dragon]

even today

[solid dome]

Its all in @pseudo rivet status.

[finite dragon]

But I think it would be OP if the games replicated it's commonness.

[solid dome]

One Mission, One Purpose. MODDING!

[solar minnow]

wish they could show some more stuff in the trailer, it felt really short...

[tropic timber]

wasn't there an MG irl that used 7,62x54?

[pseudo rivet]

Yikes

[finite dragon]

There are plenty.

[split mortar]

PK?

[finite dragon]

PKM

PKP

[pseudo rivet]

One Mission, One Purpose

https://tenor.com/view/kane-dance-command-and-conquer-gif-11455202

[solid dome]

Ye

lol

[finite dragon]

@solar minnow look for the small details

the chair being thrown for example

behind it was a faintly lit burer

[finite dragon]

DP machine gun

[solar minnow]

books and other stuff in the 3rd room were interesting also

[tired anvil]

Alphabet book for kids in the trailer

[pseudo rivet]

Cool

[solar minnow]

but still need more

[tropic timber]

gonna need you guys to explain those to me can't read that stuff

[split mortar]

Theres a profanity filter?

[solar minnow]

it’s translated as burkov I think

[pseudo rivet]

Yes

Rule 3

[split mortar]

Oh

[tired anvil]

Yep

[split mortar]

Will getting caught in anomalies decrease the condition of items by a noticeable degree?

[pseudo rivet]

Yes

[tropic timber]

oh yeah I completely forgot that in the unmodded game you can survive anomalies 😄

[finite dragon]

you just need several battery artefacts and boom

you can repair your armor for free

[hushed aurora]

Oh yeah

[finite dragon]

bless broken SOC mechanics

[hushed aurora]

You get several artifacts that give you resistant to a certain harzard, until you have more than 100% resistance

Get "damage" from that hazard, repairs armor and even heals you lmao