⭐┃nospoilers_general

[marsh ocean]

that is being said in every suggestion related conversations about games.

[frail spire]

More like "hey why doesn't this game works EXACTLY like my GAME does?"

[marsh ocean]

that too

[tired anvil]

Anomaly is standalone, so you could even compare it differently

[frail spire]

"Why does it have to be different?"

[tired anvil]

People talking about how they want the game to be, man I just want it to release this time

[frail spire]

I never said your opinion is wrong

[tired anvil]

Btw, censoring swears is not allowed here either sadly(

[frail spire]

I just said theres a lot of other things to work on

[marsh ocean]

oh. dang

[leaden hamlet]

man I just want it to release this time
Me too...

Man cannot subsist on Anomaly alone...

[marsh ocean]

We all do. Modding the 20 year old game can stretch only so far.

[frail spire]

Dunno, at least we don't have our own Fallout Frontier

So don't jix it

[leaden hamlet]

Heh, I'd be lying if I said my relatively-recent surge in opinion about the franchise wasn't down to the fact that a sequel has been confirmed...

[leaden hamlet]

Yet

[frail spire]

YAMERO

[leaden hamlet]

Bless you.

[frail spire]

I'm having flashbacks of jokingly suggesting an amazon-like faction

Don't bring those monkeys paw'd memories back

[marsh ocean]

tho i noticed in anomaly mod. that i have to set the cpu affinity in task manager every time to all cores when i launch it. otherwise it tries to squeeze the game trough 1 core only

and that caused massive stutters on me

[tired anvil]

Ever saw that a good amount of buildings in it were from SoC?

[frail spire]

I literally instantly recognized the cordon building

I wanted to scream so hard

Which in an ironic way reminded me of people calling stalker a russian fallout

Lmao

[marsh ocean]

would be nostalgic tho to start Stalker 2 in the same small village as the first game did

[tired anvil]

Fallout is American Stalker

[frail spire]

I would rather not deal with sid again

[marsh ocean]

:D

[frail spire]

Maybe your main trader is this guy who always sold rare gear in CoP which name eludes me

[tired anvil]

Let it be Toad

[boreal sky]

Yup, more budget than quality, 'tis the American way

[frail spire]

Just like the tanks

[tired anvil]

Slavic folk making quality because they know that the 3 Euro budget will go to 0 and starving if they don't make quality

[frail spire]

I can't say I fully approve the method but it sure delivers

Underrail coming to mind

[marsh ocean]

well. now that microsoft owns zenimax / bethesda. We can hope the next fallout game isnt trash

[frail spire]

mc owning it
expecting it to be good

Big ligma

[marsh ocean]

well... Not good but... Better than 76 :D

[frail spire]

It will probably be w10 exclusive and always online

And of course mods won't be allowed

[marsh ocean]

... that would suck

[frail spire]

Effectively killing the fallout franchise

Then bethesda would be blamed and microsoft would shelve the IP forever EA style

[tired anvil]

And extremely big risk and big reward one. Too many projects fail before delivering due to the lack of budget

[marsh ocean]

But hey. least we have Diablo Immortal coming...

[tired anvil]

Sorta like what almost happened w SoC

[boreal sky]

Well thank god for Epic Games! Sweeney is twice as rich as Gabe Newell and he seems to like sponsoring promising projects with budget issues

[frail spire]

I'm still waiting to see how the ruin a new Age of Empire

[tired anvil]

Sweeney is sponsoring many things, though I'm still probably more confident in Valve

[tired anvil]

Didn't they say that this won't happen or am I completely wrong?

[frail spire]

Why would I believe them?

They can say whatever they want then release it being W10 exclusive like State of Decay

[woeful lynx]

It's the other way, actually: Stalker is just Russian Fallout

[tired anvil]

That's why I wrote it

[frail spire]

Stalker is just regular Russian

[woeful lynx]

with a bit of sci-fi

[tired anvil]

I wonder, how many people don't know that it's Ukrainian, even though it's mentioned in a lot of places

[woeful lynx]

well, and magical artefacts

[frail spire]

I know it's ukrania but still

People won't understand unless you say "russian"

[tired anvil]

[frail spire]

Which kinda bugs me off

[woeful lynx]

Yeah, you're right, it's Eastern European Fallout

[boreal sky]

Beat me to it, STALKER isn't Russian but it gives that certain theme. I don't really know of any actual Russian games that stand out

[tired anvil]

Tarkov

[frail spire]

Atom?

[gusty trench]

Tarkov

[woeful lynx]

Atom was made by a Russian team, iirc

[tired anvil]

I mean, you can't really disagree with it giving “that certain theme”, but at the same time, almost any area in the post USSR world gives it

[boreal sky]

I thought Tarkov was East Europe as well, I guess not!

[tired anvil]

Tarkov is some ficitonal city in Russia

Might be Central Russia as well

[woeful lynx]

Russia is Eastern Europe, tho

[frail spire]

Then we will go with "Commie themed"

[woeful lynx]

so you weren't wrong

[gusty trench]

Russia is Russia

[tired anvil]

Welll

[frail spire]

[tired anvil]

What place are the devs of Atomic Heart from?

[frail spire]

I just had a flash, what if next Stalker is about a bandit redemption arc

[tired anvil]

Renegades coming back

What if Skif is a former Renegade

[gaunt basin]

I won't be surprised if it's a monolith redemption arc

[acoustic parcel]

sdalger is ukrainian Metro

[acoustic parcel]

^

[gusty trench]

Looks like Mundfish is placed in Moscow

[tired anvil]

This might sound controversial, but

Stalker is Stalker

[frail spire]

NONSENSE

[acoustic parcel]

[gusty trench]

Stalker is Eastern Fallout

[acoustic parcel]

isn't eastern like China and stuff?

[tired anvil]

China, Korea, Japan - yes

[frail spire]

Stalker is cold africa

[gusty trench]

After the end of World War II, the world was split into two -- East and West...

[tired anvil]

It's set on the cold side of the pillow 😳

[acoustic parcel]

fun fact: when you stand on the sarcophagus, you can Chernobyl NPP in the distance

[marsh ocean]

but... whats between east and west ?

[frail spire]

After the war the world was split in two
Gamers
and
Society

[tired anvil]

Silly, the world isn't just Europe

[tired anvil]

Berlin

[gusty trench]

[boreal sky]

Yeah but Europe was the border zone

[tired anvil]

Anyway, back to Sdalger

[boreal sky]

between East and West

[tired anvil]

So which game should it rip off

[frail spire]

All of them

[tired anvil]

Make sure to add PDA mini games

If a Tesla car can do it, so can the PDA

[marsh ocean]

Splatoon

[tired anvil]

So you just run into an anomaly and splash your blood everywhere huh

[marsh ocean]

sounds like stalker to me

[boreal sky]

Brap Brap Brap SPLAT

[frail spire]

Oh no

OH NO

[woeful lynx]

OH YES

[marsh ocean]

tho gotta admit... having to stalk around with your friend in max 4 player invite sessions in stalker 2 would be fun

can walk to anomalies hand in hand

[tired anvil]

Just wait for XRMPE

[frail spire]

Yes, it would be fun to push them into the anomalies

[tired anvil]

The fun and toxicity of feeding your rookie friend to a Bloodsucker

[frail spire]

The fun of telling him to sneak into the cordon military camp only to see him run straight for the minefield

[tired anvil]

Going to Cordon from the Swamps through the south

[hushed aurora]

The only way it has to be

[boreal sky]

Let's have a chat

[finite dragon]

How long is the campaign I am going to buy 1 through 3

[wicked current]

bruh, sorry for ping

[opaque parrot]

@finite dragon Which game exactly?

Actually all 3 have a pretty long campaign

[finite dragon]

Stalker's game series

[opaque parrot]

But for me CoP has the shortest one of all 3

[finite dragon]

I am doing solo

[opaque parrot]

Yea but I was thinking about which one in particular

[finite dragon]

my friends are to dumb to buy it

[boreal sky]

CoP is shortest but has the most side quests

[opaque parrot]

CoP is shortest but has the most side quests
@boreal sky

This

[finite dragon]

Can I use a controller?

[boreal sky]

Never tried, it is an older game so maybe not.

[tired anvil]

I doubt he can use a mutant

[boreal sky]

Oh I'm sure there's a mod somewhere!

[leaden hamlet]

"No Gamepad Support.jpg"

[hushed aurora]

Never gets old

[boreal sky]

Let's keep the series idiot proof

[tired anvil]

Every series has to have interesting people, it's a bit late for that

[leaden hamlet]

it's a bit late for that
50 shades of OOF, mate. 🤣 🤣 🤣

(I mean I don't necessarily disagree with you, but still...)

[lucid elm]

This person has got to be trolling

NoGaMePaD support? Durrrrrr

[leaden hamlet]

I...Don't think they are, sadly... 😕

[lucid elm]

What an R word

[finite dragon]

ahh pls new stalker trailer. photo ....

[finite dragon]

it creates unfiltered anger like that one greentext where an anon keeps getting bullied by his sister and mother over a pc

[keen flint]

If we think so

AK is op almost in every game possible

But only in stalker it sucks

[hushed aurora]

Which one

[keen flint]

Any lol, other guns completely outshine them

[gusty trench]

AKM-74/2u sucks for real. But AKM-74/2 is pretty good.

[pseudo yoke]

Just use mods

A gun is a gun and 5.45 has better post penetration "daamge" than 5.56 anyways

Games should reflect reality

[pseudo yoke]

My biggest issue with stalker mods is that the remove a lot of the atmosphere

Army warehouses is a lot scarier when you cant see more than 15ft in front of you

[lucid elm]

@finite dragon why do you keep calling me?

@magic perch can you ask them why they keep calling me? I saw they they dont speak english

[magic perch]

?

[lucid elm]

youre a mod

and they keep calling me

ive never talked to them before

[magic perch]

Just ignore them

Or add to Black list

[lucid elm]

very well

[gusty trench]

Maybe bs you are a good person

[lucid elm]

lol

you wouldnt have any idea why? also do you know them?

[finite dragon]

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

LET'S STALK SOME PEOPLE

[copper sky]

get kutznetsoved

[boreal sky]

The AC-96/2 carried me all the way through CoP no problems whatsoever, along with the 'Predator', I'd say any pistol in the game is virtually worthless and a waste of space once you start acquiring good weaponry

[obsidian surge]

lol not russian s.t.a.l.k.e.r. fans

[pseudo yoke]

Groza is my raifu

[frail spire]

that no gamepad support pic
Sorry, I'm not mentally disabled

[prisma wave]

yo im new

to like rp dayz

anyone wanna give me a hand

[robust forge]

Oh

Buddy

Gotta break it to you

It's not a DayZ server

@tired anvil come here mate

[tired anvil]

Uhh

Sec

DM'd

[pseudo yoke]

I wonder if GSC will ever pull a Nintendo

and DMCA stuff related to stalker

[slate terrace]

Is it release yet?

[pseudo yoke]

No

Release date was pushed back to 2025 because you asked

Hail Rock

[desert flame]

[strong furnace]

is there a mod that increases weapon damage

in stalker shadow of chernobyl

[hazy helm]

yes there is

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/alx0bx/weaponsdamage_mods_for_soc/

[strong furnace]

ty

[finite dragon]

i have a question fellow stalkers

im doing my first playthrough of SHoC but there is a twist (played 2 other ones)

[pseudo rivet]

SoC?

What's up?

[finite dragon]

im doing only starter guns run

that includes armor

[pseudo rivet]

Nice

[hushed aurora]

PMm run?

Nice

[finite dragon]

plus sawn off

the problem is

the game feels much harder than the other ones and i cannot even get past the vilage

btw im going rambo

[pseudo rivet]

Good

[finite dragon]

do you have any advice?

[pseudo rivet]

Well, all I can tell you is

PMm Gang

I'm sure you know about Q and E

[finite dragon]

i know all the stalker stuff

i even killed chimera once with a sawn off

clear sky faction wars

[pseudo rivet]

It's just a lot of saving and low crouching

[finite dragon]

i have an idea

cuz i always run out of ammo i should just loot something and buy it

man im very stupid

ok, gonna do it now, btw i will stream if anyone wants to see me fail

[hazy helm]

@finite dragon peak corners and use "stealth"

flank

works every time

[finite dragon]

I GOT IT

[clear dawn]

so one smol question can anyone aproove that there will be NO fast-travel?

I just really hope there wont be any

[gusty trench]

I guess I can answer it with words of Oleg Yavorsky from the old interview (2007)

Stalker-Portal.Ru: Will the Fast Travel system be realized like in The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion?
Oleg Yavorsky: That system we have is clearly stalker-themed and fits the game's concept well. There will be guides that know special paths and ways in the Zone which aren't available to the player. If you are lucky enough to find one and understand each other, you will be able to get to the place much faster. Beside that, appear of those characters during the game and the paths they escort are controlled by us. We think that such solution of the problems which appear because of long distances will be more organic and, the most important, interesting.

I don't think they will cardinally change the concept.

[solid dome]

https://vk.com/wall-15844953_553060

Um... nobody talks about that

Enough with those ciphers, please

[gusty trench]

Why nobody?

[solid dome]

Useless waste of time

I haven't seen someone discussing "new cipher" in the past two weeks IN HERE

[gusty trench]

People have gone nut for real

[hushed aurora]

[gusty trench]

I mentioned it in #💬┃en_offtop a little bit.

Like. Yesterday?

[hushed aurora]

Gaj explained most of it too

[solid dome]

Bruv

[hushed aurora]

And some dude uploaded a video about it

Aswell

[solid dome]

Where was I?

In the shiphole looking for loot?

[hushed aurora]

If you don't know, how could i

[gusty trench]

You could be anywhere

[solid dome]

I feel obsessed with my own retardness

[hushed aurora]

[solid dome]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky5xZoI1X1c&feature=youtu.be
What the ugly hell.

Come on GSC, if you spend so much time making this, story better be golden

Looks something like Wikileaks infographic

[frail spire]

I wonder how much dick new stalker ending section will suck

It's tradition at this point

[muted sail]

Hmmmmm.....

[lucid elm]

[muted sail]

This is getting weird.

Oh, hello.

How are you today?

[lucid elm]

Hello

[leaden hamlet]

OG Controller sees all, OG Controller knows all.

[muted sail]

Hey, hello. We meet again.

How have you been?

[leaden hamlet]

Hello hello! I've been pretty good thanks, just got my new keyboard set up and now MS Teams has decided that it hates me for some reason and won't let me in. 😫
How about you? They treating you alright around here?

[muted sail]

Well, that's good that you got that setup.
And sad that your folk have some misunderstandings. I hope they are cleared and they let you in again.

I am doing good too. Thank you.

Which moment of the game was your best?

[leaden hamlet]

I'm not too bothered about Teams, I've still got it working on my phone just in teeny-tiny eye-strain-o-vision. But it gets the job done. 😆

[muted sail]

Nice.

[leaden hamlet]

Which game?

[muted sail]

STALKER, any of the 3.

[frail spire]

Whichever had many monoliths to kill

[pseudo rivet]

Killing all the Dutyers in CS

[frail spire]

I don't have one moment, having one moment is boring

[leaden hamlet]

Hmmmm...The two that stick out in my mind the most are both from SoC. First being the first Bloodsucker in the Agroprom Underground, the second being the Power Plant slowly emerging from the fog as you approach it from the South during the final missions.

[muted sail]

True.

That was a good surprise when I first played.

Got me addicted to the game.

[leaden hamlet]

Sure, but you can just pick one. Doesn't need to hold any weight, it's not like the other moments you don't pick will vanish from not being orally recognised as "your favourite" in that one instance.

[muted sail]

True indeed.

Yet again.

[pseudo rivet]

Doing the Pripyat-1 run with no armor and only a PMm

[muted sail]

My PC however is a bit weak, but plays the game well enough.

[leaden hamlet]

The CNPP for the first time definitely sticks out in my mind, the atmosphere inside and out, the voice, the struggle.

[muted sail]

The voice near the CNPP was a keeper.

[finite dragon]

👍

[frail spire]

I guess my favorite part is pretty much sections with surprise enemies spawning, knowing stuff is there is completely different from being ambushed

[muted sail]

Hmmmmm, good point. Fair enough.

[wary cove]

SoC: labs quests, pripyat exploration, battle at cnpp
CS: red forest and limansk quests (especially the bridge)
CoP: bloodsucker lair and pripyat quests (especially the get the unidentified weapon one)

[muted sail]

Nice.

[wary cove]

Forgot to add: exploring the marshes at night in CS somehow it felt so peaceful

[muted sail]

Yes, especially when most work is done alone.

Taking land for the CS faction felt great.

Mostly when roaming the land.

[wary cove]

All green dots on map

[muted sail]

Right.

[solid dome]

Better not be a cheap one like mine

Media keys dont work in old games

Stalker included

You minimize the game, turn down volume, go back at it again

[leaden hamlet]

(I don't actually use media keys much, although I did have a remappable button I had set to middle-mouse-click cos mine is dying a bit)

[hazy helm]

"media keys"

if you use a 60% you dont havve the,,miss em

[leaden hamlet]

Yeah, I assume he means stuff like pause or play, etc.

[hazy helm]

the F1-F12 keys too

I truly do

[leaden hamlet]

Ah I'd be lost without my F-keys though. So many different buttons to use, especially when working.

[hazy helm]

I shouldve bought a 80%

TKL

[muted sail]

Right.

But, I hope I do not offend anyone, but I shifted a lot of keys for mine and did not do much with the F-keys, tho.

[leaden hamlet]

It's alright mate, everyone's different!

[hazy helm]

the f keys are useful,like really useful

can be used as hotkeys

but my 100% got wrecked somehow so

[muted sail]

Hmmmm.

Thanks for understanding. You guys are great.

[dull latch]

Hey fellow stalkers

Can I have some vodka

[hazy helm]

get a tourists delight to bot

[dull latch]

@hazy helm takes a sip NOICE

[muted sail]

Hello.

Sure have some more.

[hazy helm]

getting flashbacks to cardan

[muted sail]

Now make some good reapirs.

And upgrades.

LoL.

[dull latch]

Hehe boyeee

Now I'm ready for the zone

[muted sail]

Hehehe indeed.

Yes.

Cheers to the zone.

[dull latch]

[muted sail]

And its gifts.

[wary cove]

*uncle yar's voice*: guess you're tired from the road,eh? have a bite to eat

[muted sail]

Ooo, don't mind if I do.

Noice.

[willow charm]

[earnest tinsel]

hey, does anyone knows about cypher and his report of the code given already?

[lucid elm]

Navalny moment

[tired anvil]

Do you mean after you enter the code to him?

If so, after he said to wait at least a week, nothing has happened since

[earnest tinsel]

yeah, i know that he said after a week he would say something, like, report back... i was asking about the report, if he said already something after that, cuz it has been a week, today it was supposed to be that day

but i guess we didnt get the report back yet

sad :(

[tired anvil]

He said at least a week, which is the error that many people made, he never said in exactly a week x)

It can take any time from a week to a year ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[earnest tinsel]

rly??

xD

omg

[tired anvil]

no less than a week
Indicating that a week is the bare minimum

[earnest tinsel]

AND "If you haven't screwed up that is."

xD

but yeah, thx :)

[tired anvil]

[hazy helm]

I can feel it

soon

well have our answer

[tired anvil]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[hazy helm]

or more questions

I mean

fun to try in vain to solve problems that are impossible to solve in english

[tired anvil]

They are hard but not impossible

[hazy helm]

I do need to learn russian...

[manic egret]

Удачи)

[stone token]

hey folks

i have request

[manic egret]

???

[tired anvil]

'sup

[stone token]

can we have stalker music server, anything russian, anything gaming , but most importantly to provide our young stalkers the heritege songs of the stalker

[tired anvil]

Спс

[tired anvil]

I mean, people can sorta just share songs in #🔮┃fanart_and_cosplay or #📸┃screens_and_videos or even one of the offtop channels

It's never really been a problem before

[stone token]

yes true.....

but it would still be nice

[frail spire]

There better be a god damn good radio on S2

[tired anvil]

Well, 3 years ago GSC asked people to make a 3D radio if they were interested in working

I think that might be one of the first models they made

[hazy helm]

what songs will they make I wonder

it's gonna be a blast if FireLake and MoozE come back

[tired anvil]

MoozE stated in 2018 that he's not working with GSC, and idk if FireLake will happen, since Oleg Yavorsky has his own company to run

[pseudo yoke]

I have to commend GSC for this cypher thing

Also

Hail Rock

[still ridge]

@pseudo rivet aye is there something about duty using harder drugs in their life support systems on certain armor?

I think there was, but I might be remembering something from a mod

[pseudo rivet]

PS5-M Universal Protection

Care built-in system
Antiseptic substances
Anti-Tetanic substances
Stimulating substances

Varyag field support system
Adrenaline
Blood clotting substances

PSZ-9d Duty Armor

Field Doctor built-in system
Anti-Tetanic substances
Anti-inflammatory substances
Streptocide substances

Skif field support system
Healing substances
Blood clotting substances

Fury adrenalin injector
Adrenalin

Hydra hemoglobin injector
Hemoglobin

Phoenix restoration system
Dubious content

CoP

[still ridge]

Thanks

You’re the man

[tired anvil]

They said that they're not related to it so...

[leaden hamlet]

But it totally is though, right? Cos if it wasn't then it'd of been sued into oblivion by now.

[tired anvil]

No profit is being made and fan-made ciphers have been made in the past, so I don't see why it couldn't be one

Ofc all the signs point to GSC, but what they stated atm is what I'm telling everyone else

[leaden hamlet]

and fan-made ciphers have been made in the past
Ah fascinating. I did not know this! 😀

[hazy helm]

well that's sad

having them come back would be really nice

[tired anvil]

Tbf idk what MoozE is doing as of late at all, haven't really heard of him for a few years now

[high field]

Does that "around march 2021" date still stand?

[tired anvil]

@high field it never stood

As it was never stated by GSC

[high field]

Who tf said that

[tired anvil]

You tell me lmao

[high field]

I know for sure it was said to be in 2021

[tired anvil]

Nope

It was a cipher

Never said to be a release year or anything like that @high field

[high field]

Bruh everyone was saying its gonna be finished around 2021 back in 2019

My life is a lie

[grand pendant]

it could be, and everything points to such date, but GSC never said so

[earnest tinsel]

true :/

[tired anvil]

They were also saying it back in 2018

The 2.0.2.1 website was a cipher that ran from 2018 to early 2020

[earnest tinsel]

well, GSC never stated that Stalker 2 is coming in this year, but the thing with "2.0.2.1." is... idk :/

[earnest tinsel]

but its weird being that number

"number"

[grand pendant]

that's kinda the point tbh

[tired anvil]

Again, it was a cipher

2021-186=35=first clue

[grand pendant]

1835

[earnest tinsel]

what ever it is, they are doing a great job with all the mystery

[tired anvil]

#📰┃announcement message

[robust forge]

It's been 3 years already since the cipher?

[tired anvil]

Technically yea

[strong rivet]

thres supposed to be a new clue coming out soon right

[robust forge]

Jesus christ

3 years

[tired anvil]

Not really

Since GSC never said that they're a part of this new one, we can't expect anything

[strong rivet]

oh its not GSC?

til

[tired anvil]

Well

[strong rivet]

i hope people have fun nontheless

[tired anvil]

It most likely is, but they aren't admitting to it

[grand pendant]

i bet the boys are having fun with it

[tired anvil]

Recently translated everything, most of the text is pieced

[strong rivet]

ive been having a lot of fun

like a lot

with anomaly

[earnest tinsel]

wait, what do they mean by 1st dot? are there 3 more cipher things? to complete all 4 dots? I'm confused

[tired anvil]

No so like, the 2.0.2.1 on the website

[strong rivet]

It's an amazing mod

[tired anvil]

The first dot is the dot between the 2 and the 0

2**.0.2.1.**

[earnest tinsel]

oh, I'm reading now the rest

mb

they explain the dots after

ok got it xD

[finite dragon]

Attention! You are approaching the secured perimeter of a ecological disaster's Zone! Illicit crossing of the perimeter is a criminal act!

[sharp frost]

Кот

[lucid elm]

What if you wank in the zone

[robust forge]

The zone makes you into a femoid

Idk

Karlik grabs you from the bushes or something

[lucid elm]

Kek

[reef flame]

is stalker co op i dont know very much about the game and want to play with a friend is that possible

[hushed aurora]

The original trilogy (SoC,CS,CoP) has a multiplayer mode but it's just mostly simple deathmatch, 95% of the game is SP

About Stalker 2, i don't know

[reef flame]

is there mods that allow for co op?

[hushed aurora]

Well there are some in Development

Xray Mulitplayer Extension and Ray of Hope are the ones i know

I doubt they are gonna release soon tho

[reef flame]

ok thanks man for the help

[hushed aurora]

No problem

[high field]

Ray of hope is not getting released

If it does, stalker 2 will be 5 yrs old already

[hazy helm]

haha

[finite dragon]

woah

@tired anvil has the card cypher guy replied yet

[tired anvil]

Said minimum of a week, so no

[finite dragon]

hm

[finite dragon]

stalker 2 sneakpeak? >_>

[boreal sky]

Haha REAL FUNNY

[lucid elm]

ip grabber monkaS

jk

[boreal sky]

Whelp, while we're waiting for this bizarre secret code stuff/more info I guess I can try a sniper/pistol run on CoP, instead of my usual AKM(humans)/Shotgun(mutants) setup I did in the past. Here goes..

[simple tusk]

still nothing on cypher?

[lapis yew]

Heyo. Any advice when going into Agroprom underground? Currecntly playing SoC, and I'm... STALKER is basically my first survival horror FPS game. If I remember correctly, blood suckers and controllers dwells in there.

[tired anvil]

Get ammo and git gud

[lapis yew]

That doesn't give me any confidence...

HELP

[shadow drift]

best advice i can give? first half is hard, second half is easy
the middle point is the strelok's stash where you can get equipped properly and easily deal with the scond half

deal with the bloodsucker by standing on the platform that's right in front of you when you enter a big room

[lapis yew]

And the controller...?

[tired anvil]

Knife it

[lapis yew]

A veteran giving a rookie with strange advice by telling him to knife a mutant that is capable of mentally hurting you

[fair crater]

yeah

knife it

also dont look at it

you see iven, if you no see controler

controler no see yu

[shadow drift]

use the ancient tactic of literally not fighting it and keep going forward

let it stay there with countless dead bodies

alone

in the dark

[lapis yew]

I prefer to deal with that thing because I feel like its going to bite me back if i don't do anything about it.

[shadow drift]

do not grant it the mercy of death

or you know

throw like 2 grenades and hide behind the corner

that works too

the thin walks like a grandma

thing*

also the knife thing isnt really a joke

it either has a dangerous range attack or a weak melee

stay close = guy tries to melee you

it's like a revenant from doom

[lapis yew]

So basically... wait for it in the corner and stab it?

[shadow drift]

or run straight up to it

[lapis yew]

Is it true that it won't affect you if you're not looking at it?

[shadow drift]

nope

it's like a sniper
as long as you're in fistfighting distance or in cover - you're good

[lapis yew]

Ah okay. Will it try to follow you as well? Because if so my general tactic atm will wait for it in a corner with a shotgun, or knife.

[shadow drift]

it tries, yes
but the thing is - it comes around a corner behind you way off in the distance and you can just run to the exit and not engage at all

but if you want to kill it - yes

or peek corner -> throw grenade -> wait for the explosion -> repeat until lit's dead

replace "throw grenade" with "shoot a bit" and it works fine

[lapis yew]

Okay then. Oh shit, I forgot I ditched my shotgun. Meh, AK-74 will do. Though, the Barkeep is selling AN-94's, should I just get that instead?

[shadow drift]

i'd say the best of those is in the strelok's stash

[pseudo yoke]

Is he playing vanilla

[shadow drift]

are ya?

[lapis yew]

I have ZRP, and that's it

[shadow drift]

in that case, just make your way to the strelok's stash and dont worry for now

you'll see why

[pseudo yoke]

Does zrp add repair kits?

[shadow drift]

i think it's optional

[pseudo yoke]

Oh ok

If it doesn't

[lapis yew]

Optional. Though I enabled it in-case I find a rare gun that I want to keep and put into mint condition.

[pseudo yoke]

Look up how to anomaly repair

Ah ok

[lapis yew]

Because even do I like AK's and Russian made guns in general, I want the G36 and F2000

[shadow drift]

that's... a thing?

[pseudo yoke]

Yes

[shadow drift]

and it's not just for suits?

[pseudo yoke]

I'm not sure, I haven't played unmodded soc in about 6 years

[shadow drift]

actually im pretty sure that's not a thing at all

[pseudo yoke]

It is

[shadow drift]

i know you can regen health by abusing resistances but that's it

[pseudo yoke]

Equip 4 batteries and jump into a whirligig

You'll heal and according to the wiki repair your suit

So it's just for armour

[shadow drift]

batteires? i thought batteries are electric resist

maybe electra?

[pseudo yoke]

Spring for whirligig

My bad

Batteries for Electra

[shadow drift]

ye alright makes sense then

[pseudo yoke]

And some pellica for fruit punch

[shadow drift]

all of those are a huge pain to find sadly so
might as well go about without it

you can use the gun from strelok's stash for like the next 25% of the game

and by then other powerful guns are plentiful anyway

[lapis yew]

Yeah, even the common AK is bringing me to far places.

I'm looking forward to getting myself an AS Val or Vintorez though. But eh, that's probably near the endgame or something.

[shadow drift]

it's crazy how differnt the game is when you get a proper weapon

up untill then it's all bullet sponges

[lapis yew]

Yeah, PM Makarov sucks and my strategy basically goes "keep shooting until they're dead"

And the sawn-off shotgun is just... "get me close!"

Thankfully, the MP5 helped me out

[shadow drift]

the mp5 is a blessing thanks to the crzy fire rate/reload speed

[lapis yew]

Took out a bandit, and stole their AK

[shadow drift]

throw the 1000 bullet stash in the mix and yeah

[lapis yew]

Yeah, still keeping my MP5 in-case my assault rifles failed.

[pseudo yoke]

I can give you a hint for finding a vss early game if you want

[lapis yew]

It helped me when I was retrieving the brief case on the research center.

I'm listening.

[pseudo yoke]

Freedom base in one of the barracks, there's a vss hidden

[lapis yew]

Ooh. I'll remember that. Currently hanging out with Duty atm.

[pseudo yoke]

Can't remember where exactly

[shadow drift]

barracks to the left of the entrance bridge iirc

second one i think?

[pseudo yoke]

I think so

There's also ammo too

[lapis yew]

Nice.

[meager plover]

I don't understand why GSC doesn't give us an estimate on STALKER 2

I mean

It you have to delay it, delay it

Pull a SoC if you want to

we just want a date

even if doesn't mean anything

a date

[main obsidian]

We've waited 11 years since CoP. I think we can wait another year or two

[meager plover]

but now we're being teased just a little too hard

[main obsidian]

True lel, but I still feel hyped unlike a lot of game releases I've seen teased over the past few years tbh

[lapis yew]

I'm just thankful that STALKER, despite its age and difficult start, is still running with a huge community behind it. I mean come on, this game is like held together by duct tape, but its community loves it enough to fix it and even make awesome mods for it.

Though, my PC might not be able to run STALKER 2, I'd like to see it.

[tired anvil]

That'd be dumb

Just imagine the press: "GSC Game World delays S2 again!!! Could this be the end of the franchise?!?!?!?"

Much smarter to not say anything, Cyberpunk is a great example of devs being harassed over delays and mistakes

[crystal crescent]

They learned a lot about communication since Stalker SOC development

[meager plover]

Are we the "Cyberpunkians"? No. We're Stalkers

[tired anvil]

The journalists are the same

[meager plover]

The journalists are crap

nobody cares about them

[tired anvil]

Yea well they also have a loud voice

[robust forge]

I'm not sure if I'm a stalker or a cyberpunkian

But what I know for sure

Is that I'm a moron

[tired anvil]

I was expecting the r word

[meager plover]

[pseudo yoke]

All I want is merch

[meager plover]

who's gonna boycott GSC? IGN???

[tired anvil]

I'd answer but I'd be getting political

[meager plover]

how is IGN politics

[tired anvil]

IGN wouldn't be my answer

[meager plover]

tell me, mentioning it isn't talking about it

so...

mention it

[tired anvil]

Countries might get mad

I'll put it like that

[meager plover]

bruh

[tired anvil]

They already were

[meager plover]

you ain't gonna be assassinated

unless it's China

[pseudo yoke]

Send me back to the Zone

reeee

[lapis yew]

Bah, I'd rather keep most game journalists away from this game. Stalker doesn't even have Journalist Difficulty, even Novice is going to make them cry.

[solid dome]

Polygroan

Stryker, someone will mod godmode for them to play

Kekw

[leaden hamlet]

OLR moment; is Journalist difficulty easier or harder than Master? 🤔 😁

[arctic rover]

gog version of clear sky got an updade

in installation

now there are all official localizations when you install the game

poggers

[pseudo yoke]

Nice

[solid dome]

which are?

Russian, English, Russian #2, Chinese SImplified Complex Local, Korean Almost Traditional?

[boreal sky]

Cyberpunk had an atrocious development cycle with lots of managerial infighting and resignations at the top all the way through it. A really bad case of getting carried away from a smash success (Witcher 3). GSC doesn't have that elevation to fall from.

[tired anvil]

GSC literally has a cult following

[solid dome]

May be worse

Fans are true fanatics

One badly handled thing in ST2 may ruin everything for everyone

Everything has to be perfected, else....

[boreal sky]

Exactly xD

[solid dome]

HOLY CROP

https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lYygTDk=/

[tired anvil]

The 5000 different opinions don't help either

[solid dome]

People made an interactive map about the 2nd cypher

[tired anvil]

Bruh

It existed for weeks now

[solid dome]

New to me

[tired anvil]

It's alright

[gusty trench]

Wait

Replies...

[gusty trench]

Sadly, people are becoming more and more aggressive towards GSC

[tired anvil]

Well aware of that

[boreal sky]

Why? The same reason Epic Games is getting aggression?

[gusty trench]

Not really. Part of the community is angry just because YTbers said them (like, Антишнапс told a lot of bad stuff against GSC CMs and PR manager), another part is angry because of what CMs did or do and their lack of knowledge about the games (I don't find anything bad about it) and others just think that the new game is going to be a big fail.

[tired anvil]

Schnaps only really made a joke as far as I recall, nothing serious

Some are a bit displeased with the CM's not knowing 100000% of the lore, but that's perfectly fine imo, can't just know absolutely everything from 14 years ago

[meager plover]

isn't Sergei Grigorovich kinda hated by his employees?

[tired anvil]

The main reason is because of the amount of actual information about S2 since the announcement in 2018

[gusty trench]

Why?

And why would he be?

[tired anvil]

See where do you people get these myths from

You just randomly say something, others start to believe it and the reputation gets dunked on for 0 reasons

[solid dome]

Man has an expensive sports car

[gusty trench]

I don't think his succes is the reason of his hate 😏

He made his company when he was 16 or so

[solid dome]

People falsely or not think he wastes company money for his endeavours

[meager plover]

I dunno I watched a development video of SoC and apparently the team kinda hated him cuz of low pay and big demands

[gusty trench]

Ah. You meant the ex members?

[solid dome]

Low payments are to be blamed on the Ukrainian parliament, not one person

lol

[tired anvil]

Man has multiple cars, man got rich from work, so man rewarded himself

[solid dome]

Multiple?

Goshdamit

[meager plover]

GSC is the richest game company in Ukraine I think

[solid dome]

You forget 4A, albeit not Ukraine based anymore

Still Ukrainian

[meager plover]

4A got sold to Germans I believe

so no

[solid dome]

When?!

Wot!

[meager plover]

it doesn't count

[solid dome]

Oh Deep Silver?

Well...

[gusty trench]

Yeah. It was part of his payment system. If developers do the game great - they are paid more.
Didn't work well but the game was developed for 6 years or so and only for 7 millions (4 of them were spent on the advertisement). Plus they had a lot of work because of the engine (it is glitchy and buggy)

[tired anvil]

I mean, Sharpe literally said “you won't get paid until the game is out”

[meager plover]

Either way you put it

SoC WAS dev hell

[tired anvil]

Sergiy gets blamed for too many things that aren't his

Well yea

[gusty trench]

Some of the developers left the development and made their own companies.

[solid dome]

Vostok

Blrghhhhhh

[gusty trench]

4A Games

[tired anvil]

Vostok, 4A, West Games

[meager plover]

Ironically 4A also got help from Dean Sharpe

[gusty trench]

Yeah. He was very interested in the game

[meager plover]

and Dean became it's CEO I believe

[solid dome]

Vostok - Gosh. Utter crap. West - Dear Lord, please no.

[tired anvil]

Yep

[solid dome]

[gusty trench]

He even told it to some GSC member.

[tired anvil]

Vostok isn't utter crap

[finite dragon]

But we do know he had (and still has) a rampant pepsi addiction)))

[meager plover]

Never heard any of these

[solid dome]

Survarium is

Vostok Games, dude

[tired anvil]

Nooks and crannies

[meager plover]

Hey I admitted I don't know everything

staph it

[tired anvil]

You don't know a lot

[gusty trench]

Blood and bacon

[solid dome]

Has Vostok done anything new besides Survive-the-absolute-hell-rum

[tired anvil]

Smetoniškos giros addiction

[tired anvil]

Fear the Wolves, game-mode for PUBG

[finite dragon]

[meager plover]

fear the wolves

DISGUSTING

[finite dragon]

Fear the wolves is a massive failure.

[tired anvil]

Indeed

[solid dome]

Wasn't that made by West?

I'm lost

[tired anvil]

No

[finite dragon]

But it does run on a modified Xray 2 doesnt it?

[tired anvil]

Stalker Survive or smth was made by West Games

[meager plover]

You bastard...

[solid dome]

Why people invest in such crap I wonder

[tired anvil]

Rumored to be smth similar ±

[finite dragon]

Same engine as Survarium right?

[tired anvil]

Survarium got moved on to UE4 I believe

[meager plover]

Survavium is UE4

[finite dragon]

AFAIK GSC did sell Xray 2 to Vostok games

[gusty trench]

Survavium runs on some modification of the X-Ray engine

[tired anvil]

“Spiritual successor to stalker” + like 5 old devs + big depression after S2 being canned

[gusty trench]

Griga called it X-Ray 2

[tired anvil]

Rather leased/allowed to use than full on sold

[tired anvil]

Not anymore, it got moved to UE4 in 2018 or so

They originally called it the Vostok Engine, but I recall reading about it being changed to UE

[solid dome]

Whatever

Survarium sucks rotten legs

[meager plover]

Vostok is dead now innit?

[tired anvil]

No

It's working with PUBG

West Games is dead

[gusty trench]

Also. Metro 2033's builds also were running on the X-Ray... first.

[tired anvil]

Yup

[meager plover]

Even more disgusting

[solid dome]

No crab?

I didn't know

[finite dragon]

I'm pretty sure its still on vostok engine

[meager plover]

A lot of early Metro stuff was just stolen Stalker stuff

[solid dome]

[boreal sky]

Uhg UE4...

[tired anvil]

Hm, according to their wiki it is still the Vostok Engine, so you're right ig

[finite dragon]

Not stolen. Re-used.

[meager plover]

[gusty trench]

If I recall correctly, GSC also filed a lawsuit against 4A

[solid dome]

And what happened after?

[tired anvil]

Old GSC devs stole from themselves

[meager plover]

it did yeah

[gusty trench]

Nothing.

[tired anvil]

They sued West Games as well iirc

[solid dome]

Motherfrog!

[tired anvil]

?

[meager plover]

If it's a different company using another companies assests, that is stealing

[solid dome]

Sarcasm, yo, Catman-Scatman

[meager plover]

unless it's under CC

[meager plover]

My gosh how could've I been so stupid

[solid dome]

Catahman is one-time GOAT user.

[meager plover]

IT'S AS IF I WOULDN'T CARE TO SEE IT

[solid dome]

Shush

[meager plover]

no u zibba

[solid dome]

I have no clue what zibba means, do know I'm coming from different era

😆

[meager plover]

imma let you in a little secret

it don't mean nothin

[muted sail]

Ooo, which secret?

Hmmmmmmmmmm?

[meager plover]

check #💬┃en_offtop

[muted sail]

Yes, thanks.

[arctic rover]

Russian, English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Polish

[solid dome]

I have to try it in Italian

(laughs in confusion)

[boreal sky]

I usually set text to english and voice in russian.

[solid dome]

Ya

ST2 better have text language option like in the trilogy

Screw that stupid Steam client language change crap

Useless

"Hey, your WIndows language is set to English, we'll have the game use English too"

Literally the most useless feat

[tired anvil]

Idk, sounds pretty useful tbh

[hazy helm]

then why does my game switch its language set from english to portuguese

[solid dome]

Usually devs either use that or never include language option ingame

Both cases, worst

You're locked to using specific set of audio & text at once

How is that useful...

[tired anvil]

I personally passed this to GSC in the past, how many people want EN dialogue but RU audio. They said that it will be taken into consideration

So I think we are sort of worry free for that

[shadow drift]

can i just say that i really really wish there was an option in steam to pick specifically which language do you want for the game before installing

[tired anvil]

That depends on the game. I think ETS2 does it

Though idm 8 languages in the game and me being able to just choose it

[shadow drift]

you have to download all of them tho

[tired anvil]

I mean, it just all comes with the game and doesn't take a lot of space so I don't really mind it

[shadow drift]

nah i mean
sometimes a game is voiced in different languages

and THAT takes a loooot of space

[boreal sky]

Most modern games come with built-in language options, may take a bit more space but I think it's worth it

[shadow drift]

raycevik made a really good video on this topic
this and a combination of a ton of other things makes games sooo unnecessarily bloated these days

[tired anvil]

Raycevik, the guy with 1 Stalker video with like 2mil views?

[shadow drift]

correct

[robust forge]

Raycevik made an awful vid about stalker

I think that from all of these popular reviewers Mandalore did the best one

[shadow drift]

how is it awful btw? just curious

i liked it

[robust forge]

Uhh

For example him throwing away the trilogy completely

And reviewing CoC

Even sseth did a better job

[tired anvil]

The video is about modding Stalker

[shadow drift]

he seems like the guy that wants freeplay and having the experience suit him rather than experiencing things "as-is"

so mods

[tired anvil]

So yea, no wonder he sorta “threw” it away

[shadow drift]

it's not reall a "review" video is it

really*

[robust forge]

It is

He makes reviews

Also, I think that it was about stalker in general

I need to watch it again

[tired anvil]

The title literally says modding it

[robust forge]

He has a damn pleasant voice to listen to

[shadow drift]

he does, but they are "X several years later" and his other vids are just him rambling about whatever he wants to

[tired anvil]

The best Stalker videos are from G-Man Lives

[shadow drift]

if it was "stalker 10 years later" - sure
but it's like
modding stalker, straight up

[pseudo rivet]

Oof

[robust forge]

G-man did a review?

[pseudo rivet]

G-man did a review

[robust forge]

Neat

[tired anvil]

Might've been Gman actually

They were sorta trash

[pseudo rivet]

"Neat"

[tired anvil]

Some more recent and nicer reviews were made by a channel called “Strat-Edgy Productions” recently

2/3 games, but I imagine he's probably going to make a CoP one soon

[robust forge]

I liked Mandalore's review tbh

[tired anvil]

I don't remember it much, but I don't recall hating it

Still waiting for him to do a CS and CoP one though

[solid dome]

This also

Steam is overall crap in this regard

[shadow drift]

any gaming platform as of date*

[solid dome]

Gog rules tho

[tired anvil]

Meh, maybe I don't use it enough, but I don't see anything fancy in it

[shadow drift]

same
i mean no drm is cool and all but
what's really the point since i bought the game anyway

[solid dome]

No internet required to install anything once you download

Also no limit on how many PCs you can use

Basically buy once and install on 100 pcs after

[shadow drift]

yeah but
once you install, does a person with 1-2 pc's really need those benefits

[solid dome]

Depends

[tired anvil]

I mean, Steam has the same deal

[solid dome]

If you travel a lot between locations

[tired anvil]

If you have the game and it doesn't need internet to work, you can play it

[solid dome]

Not if you forgot to tick offline mode

You still need to log-in

And nobody keeps offline mode always enabled

[tired anvil]

You can log in with offline mode

[solid dome]

Yeah?

[tired anvil]

I can test this theory right now

I'll log out of Steam, turn off the internet, turn it on in offline mode

[solid dome]

I always had to turn the internet on

[tired anvil]

Brb, will test to be 100% sure

[solid dome]

Aye

Blog it after (DM maybe)

[tired anvil]

Ok so yea, if you log out and the internet dies, you can't log in, but if you close Steam normally, it'll work fine in offline mode

[tired anvil]

What's the deal w this though? Last time I checked Steam can support an unlimited amount of devices as well

[red ledge]

garbage in s2 confirmed ?

[woeful lynx]

catacombs confirmed

[delicate chasm]

Zone confirmed

[woeful lynx]

plateau confirmed

[pseudo rivet]

Yes, but which Catacombs are they referring to?

[woeful lynx]

might be Cordon Catacombs

[pseudo rivet]

Lmao

[robust forge]

It's most likely Pripyat-1

[red ledge]

so we're gonna have zaton

[woeful lynx]

i wonder what Plateau would look like

[red ledge]

noah in s2

[pseudo rivet]

You've got Agroprom Catacombs, Pripyat Catacombs and, well, not directly referred to as a catacomb, but you've also got Pripyat-1

Just a different section of the Pripyat Catacombs, honestly

[robust forge]

Yeah

And seeing as it was shown before, I'll head towards P-1 with my thinking

[spice pivot]

oh shoot one sec

done

[tired anvil]

You know, I had a strong feeling that smth will be posted today

[robust forge]

The big rock sent you a vision?

[tired anvil]

No, probably the schizophrenia

[robust forge]

Same thing

[tired anvil]

Swamp Catacombs

[hushed aurora]

#504592667716354048

[potent bluff]

The new soundtrack feel like METRO

and I dont mind METROs soundtracks because I love them

[pseudo yoke]

New track is great

[pseudo rivet]

[sonic rampart]

Yeah it is really good

but It is a bit different from the stuff from the older stalker games

[pseudo rivet]

Sounds like something from a Dungeon Crawler

Imagine that

Going into the most unexplored area of the Zone

The Underground

Dungeon Crawler Style

[pseudo yoke]

Honestly tho

[pseudo rivet]

[pseudo yoke]

I will throw a FIT if we dont get the OG guitar tracks back in

If I come across a group of loners and I dont hear "He was a good STALKER"

ill destroy the worlds pepsi supply

I sware on me mum

[shadow drift]

that track would fit in stalker perfectly without the guitar as ambience i feel like

at least compared to previous games

[pseudo rivet]

You can't do that, man

How do you expect me to survive without Pepsi?

[sonic rampart]

Destroy Cola

[pseudo yoke]

Put the tracks in and I wont

[pseudo rivet]

[tired anvil]

If you destroy Pepsi, how do you expect GSC to work?

[grand ridge]

I prefer Cola, btw, but in GSC Pepsi is way more popular.

[tired anvil]

I remember one of the workers received a can of pepsi in their gift from GSC

[pseudo rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/christmas-movies-merry-christmas-gif-10604736

[tired anvil]

Regular Cola or some flavour?

[pseudo yoke]

The best Cola Ive had was "Baikal"

[tired anvil]

Baikal is nice

[sonic rampart]

My favourite cola is pepsi with lime flavour

[pseudo yoke]

I wish I could find more

[sonic rampart]

I've never tried Baikal

[pseudo yoke]

If you can get it, I recommend it

Tarkhun is good too

[tired anvil]

I can find both of those in almost any shop

Also Buratin

[sonic rampart]

I've drank natahtarin

[pseudo yoke]

I can find everything except Baikal

[sonic rampart]

which is like lemonade from georgia

but i can't find any baikal anywhere

[grand ridge]

regular or vanilla, coffee was fine too

[sonic rampart]

even in the russian stores

[pseudo yoke]

Kvass, Buratin, Tarkhun

Baltika 0% alcohol

[sonic rampart]

Kvas is good

[tired anvil]

I've had vanilla only once

You can find lime or peach/cinnamon flavour here

[pseudo rivet]

Cherry

[pseudo yoke]

Send me Baikal and Ill send some vanilla)

[pseudo rivet]

Gang

[sonic rampart]

The only coke tastes we have in here are cherry and OG

[tired anvil]

Had cherry once, was good

[sonic rampart]

aah and the cinnamon one around christmas times

[pseudo rivet]

Yeah, cinnamon is only available around Christmas

It's alright, but I don't know if I would drink it all the time

[finite dragon]

i love it