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S is for..Strelok
U is for ukulele.
How to attach grenade launcher to ak in soc
Right click
GO HUNGARY
Where to find one i mean
FREEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOM 
How to acquire a grenade launcher
Ah, well in X18 theres an AKM-74/2 with one attached
@finite dragon there is one in a basement of the bloodusucker village
Ik with scopes u can attach and detach with right click
S-Sempai Sidorovich.. 😩
Thanks so i just need to search
Scamorovich
S is for family@
Sidorovich 🤤
Is not an ak launcher but the bulldog grenade launcher
ahem

Still good
Not really, it kinda sucks
Its better to use an underbarrel one, way less heavier
Bulldog is overkill
Meh
I just need to get a pso for my tunder and im rdy to go
To each to their own ig, i prefer underbarrel launchers
It can be useful in the last push to the nuclear plant
Im going to the brain scorcher now
Thats the only place where you need that much firepower
Came back from xq6
X16
I just need a groza
Oh i didnt Even keep it for so long lmao
And a scope
And some vog 25 grenades
I discarded all my weapons inside the cnpp
After spending all the ammo
It was sad
😎
Does the groza have an integrated grenade launcher?
I just grabbed what i could use tbh
Nice
It has thicc underbarrel
Just need a pso 1
And im rdy
Anyone knows any gun stashes in pripyat or scorcher?
I know exo stash
Well I tell u just loot bodies and use nades
Scorcher snipers 
Just use iron sight ak74 and shoot them
Remember my first time in thr npp
I dont know in vanilla but in autumn aurora the snipers 1 shot you
Very annoying
They do in vanilla too
Ah not 1 shot
So You didnt Even complete the Game in vanilla kek
Ah i see, respectable
When i first played soc, sid told me that i need vodka and antirad in garbage, i tought there was actual radioactive garbage in the small tunnel west of the rail bridge so i drank 20 bottles of vodka and used all antirad and ran through it
I didnt know it was an electro anomaly
And garbage is a different location

Game crashes as soon as I try to leave the first room in SoC? First playthrough, I talk to the first NPC and get a mission, then the game crashes as soon as I press F to leave the room. How to fix?
grog
i've never in my life heard of a subtitle mod for shoc, even if its exists shoc is pretty picky on what patch you're using
Interesting.
try removing it
Ok
see how it goes
I’ll update in like 10 minutes
no
what is the difference between AREA and Anomaly
they're quite different experiences that'd be hard to explain without trying both of them imo
How am I supposed to understand the Russian without subtitles
learn it
Learn it
AREA is just hyper realism
Free =/= good tho
Are artifacts worth equipping? It gives me radiation and I don’t know what that does
Use it when you have artifact that reduce radiation
Depends on the artifact
For example flashes, batteries and moonlights give you a lot of stamina recovery
For no radiation
i've been attempting to learn russian but it's a very difficult language.
stalker is impossible to understand without english most times
Practice it, you won’t become a mater over one night
i do practice. my main issue is learning words given i have no real opportunities to speak the language. but it's fun despite the difficulty
Try to find ways to use the language, I for example view many movies, read books, watch YouTube videos and chat on the internet in English so I have chances to use the language, practice it and don’t forget it, it’s been workings so far
reading books sounds like a very good idea, i'm going to try doing that when i can. thank you for mentioning that
uh so should I play Call of Chernobyl or stalker anomaly?
so like how the heck do you tell how many ironman lives you have in anomaly anyway, tho i'd try it out for once with a warfare + story mode mod
no idea i only have played coc, should I be putting addons on these?
Coc feels pretty oof, I haven't ever found an artifact and making money is near impossible
hm
I've played S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and that's most story I've done
I've been recently trying out these two mods because it sounds fun
not sure
probably tdm, dm and artifact hunt just like in the previous stalker game
I didn't see a online play mark on steam of St2,yet there are some online game skin for pre order one,so…still hope 
and,dame,the movie stalker is awesome
masterpiece
There's no actual proof Stalker killed them
Ok what difficulty is actually better... I’m searching it up online and some people say master causes your bullets to do more realistic damage, while others say that’s just the placebo effect and master actually increases enemy damage resistance. So which one is it?
Just look at this
So enemies are still going to be as spongy on master?
I guess I’ll just play on stalker then
always go master, you do more damage as well as enemies. games balance is primarily designed around it
Ok I’m getting both sides again
@vernal magnet the chart from this guy says that’s not true
Master is harder, as you find less stuff, you get less stuff and you have no magic resistance
You are playing Shadow of Chernobyl right?
Im gonna have to pull a boomer moment here and say im not buying it. i have seen arguments supporting both sides. im not swayed by one chart. people bring up the XML files and a million other things but if it didnt play different than people wouldnt have so much to say about it
the akms and akm full are the same weight in anomaly
Ok but you're wrong
Yeah
id rather be wrong when the game plays better that way 
its the right of passage
master is love
master is life
That's one chart that is pinned on the official stalker discord by a member of the discord staff
it is correct, that is how it is
you and your charts 
I thought that we already established that every copy is individually made so non is the same
see this guy gets it
Just look at the chart, determine if you want a hard experience or something easier
Just dont play on Novice
It ruins the atmosphere of the game if you have no worries about supplies
There is no tension
I see
this 100%
it isnt its just very unforgiving and different

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
not at all
Master difficulty is minimum tier to enjoy stalker
everybody feels like the ballistics suck when they have the crap makarov and double barrel
trust me the makarov is so bad
once you get the ak with 5.45 and then the GP37 you will be crushing it
the first bandit depot is a right of passage. the zone is breaking you down like a newbie at basic training
its molding you into this new world of thinking
I just played the first hour of CoP goin' as fast and wreckless as I could, no deaths and 20k in the bank. It's actually silly. I LOVE the stalker series and vanilla is always refreshing, but it ain't hard
Not so bad
Should I use the original weapons renewal mod
But ye, once you advance
use the Walker P9m
Vanilla 100% for first play through
Ok then
Not even "bug fixing mods"
What about zone reclamation project
Vanilla is pretty stable
heres the thing
some of the jank is part of the experience. but if you want the most polished vanilla experience you need the CD's to run version 1.0005
1.0006 was fixes for multiplayer and it introduced single player bugs back in the day
which all of the current digital platforms use including steam
regardless, vanilla 100% for first run
enjoy the jank
Ok thanks
ZRP has minor tweaks to the game that make it technically not vanilla
but its fine for after your first run
I only remember one important bug in shadow of Chernobyl, when you help the scientist go to yantar when you save he doesn't follow and that's it
the best bugs are from 1.0004, Yantar after the cutscene taking the samples and the camera breaks into a constant shake
Btw does anyone even play the multiplayer
they did until recently last i checked
but you need to download some patch somewhere to get the server list to function
I see
Some days ago I saw some playing it but it never end like seriously playing, or at least when I join
use that link to tweak Shadow of chernobyl for better visuals than the ingame menu supports
fixes shadows in widescreen and minor things like that
I want to modify the Izlom sounds and behavior
You're mad lmao
I don't need anyone to explain it, there's dozens of guides
I know you're a smooth brained little sperg but it's okay, most people can teach themselves things
Shouldn't you be talking about how bad Stalker 2 is going to be?
That isn't an insult, it's a question
I know English isn't your strong suit, but try a little bit

This is actually funny
dont have other things to do probably
No fighting, Kuznetsov said so 
RTS games seem to be making a comeback too now, new Company of Heroes coming up
I sure as hell hope there will be a new C&C
I hope we can control the weather settings in Stalker 2
Doubt that will happen honestly, but I hope they improve the weather system
In the originals it kinda felt random
Lmao
A new CoH
Bet it'll be trash just like the last
Bruh
Anomaly has all these suits
But like 8 helmets only lmao
A pbf
Half gas
Gp5
Steel helmet, spheres and the cloth mask and balaclava according to the spawn menu
That's it, meanwhile there's like 50 suits

There's the radiation helmet too
Maybe my spawn menu is dumb
It has like not even a full row of headwear
End of the day I just use the psz-9d red line or whatever they renamed it after ripping it from dead air outfit overhaul with the other 60% of suits in the mod, so it's not like i care about variety

Me me murder freedumb in psz9d
Based
hello
👋
You fools. Stalker 2 has been out since 2013. It's called Chernobyl Commando
Ah of course, my mistake
No. You can't order in most of the EU either still
Based
What did I miss? 😳
how would you pre order the physical copy of the ultimate edition in Australia or do I still have to wait for that?
wait
man if only i was russian 😦
Just get Russian friends
Vpn
agreed
Why
What happend to the rest of the world in stalker?
Nothing
ok
Its not a full apocalypse like metro
It only get bigger after every emission
By 5km if I remember well
is metro good?
Damn u haven't played it
Metro is different
Well metro and stalker are both really good
It takes a lot of control away from you, which isn't good
It also has a kinda dumb story with mediocre writing
The first games were great tho but stalker is a lot more open
There's a lot of stuff that is similar between SoC and Metro 2033 in terms of atmosphere/sounds/etc
If you can, do not get the Redux versoin
2033 is a good companion to Shadow of Chernobyl
Last Light is when it got really bad with the lack of control
ok
its better to try it for your self
u might like it u might not who cares only you do
i mean there are ppl who enojy hentai games
The cursed games
Stalker hentai visual novels.
mmmmmmmmmm yes
I can make one... i mean... uuuuh
Uhhh
i hate you
Eh alright
He isn't Lithuanian yk
ello
hello are you interested in buying a stalker off the bandits hands
well deranged what ever
I'll pay you 2 souls
but he is
and in return I will take that stalker and
he’s a great fighter, he almost cut me with a knife on the way to our camps
your life
no thanks
Kekw seems I made an unfunny joke yes
how's life, please do tell.
Good
So, any news when we can order the retail versions? Only UA and RU sites so far.
Available Soon
SOON tm
CIS?
real
The current Stalker 2 experience . > pre order announcement. > crowd goes wild > announcement was for digital > community grumbles > community eats sausage and waits further > there’s an announcement > crowd goes wild > it’s a reminder for digital
and to top it off, it's not for the US.
как мне ночять играть на вашем сервере
смотреть надо в канале ru_stalker
Извините, если это плохой перевод, я использую гугл переводчик
там пишут вас нету в списке
GSC не опубликовал никакой информации о нашем выпуске в США, мы все еще ждем
Я имею в виду релиз Retail. Доступен предварительный заказ в цифровом формате. Может быть, у них заблокирован регион, может быть, попробовать использовать vpn?
Привет, ребята, пожалуйста, воспользуйтесь русскими каналами
@keen needle @late vault
GAAAH! let me pre order the Ultimate edition!
Eagerly awaiting a new trailer
eagerly awaiting ALIVE 2
neverrr
It pisses me off
I do not want to ask friends in russia to pre order that, they might get shanked
Just have to wait patiently lol
I just hope the quality is good, $340 is a good chunk of change
How about bandit sawn off shotgun run in vanilla clear sky, conditions: you can only use knife and sawn off (unless asked otherwise) and you must join bandits in the faction war
Damn stalker Instagram post gave me mini heart attack thinkin I missed it
@GSC y'all gonna pay for the medical bills for this high blood pressure you been giving me?
lol I just saw it, but I don't read russian... which actually makes me feel good about it because you know they'll post in english when it's ready for us
cyrillic makes my head hurt
How to make npcs useful, just give all of them a pekcheng, ALL OF THEM
it's kinda easy to memorize cuz letters look the same, очен просто
if even I am pronouncing it right

Oshen prosto?
Gauss
Cuz its 1 shot kill
?
Just found a folder with all the music i used to listen in my teenage years
Mix of cringe and awesomeness
boomer
It is 5:08 am
Latin characters in certain languages too
i try anomaly
do ironman
just finish 3 jobs in warehouse get back to rostok, i somehow lost 30k between the trip from and back

what
guess its a sign
gn
All factions are bandits without calling themselves like that
1k of rpd ammo and 2k of pkp ammo later I managed to capture freedom base from monohomos
There was legit like 80+ squads on map
ah yes
anomaly
"should we make blowouts kill the ai before the wave itself by default"
"no"
its always fun taking cover and the exos outside can ignore the blowout and flank me
its great cause this is the default, and now I already lost a life before finding this out and changing it

Why would the blowout kill before the wave
well
the thing is
there's psi effects
the ai can run around during that
i can't

so they can just dog pile my building entrance as i take cover and just unload into to me until the VERY second before the wave
I mean, you can just gun them as they get near the place you'ee hiding from the storm
If anything emissions make capturing a big place harder if you're going against monoliths since they can walk around just fine
Lmaooo
I just had to rush in inside the freedom base while being shot from every side because otherwise I would had to start the slow invasion all over again while buying squads to help me out
Because I can tell you it's pretty hard to capture a place when theres like 50 squads crawling around the place
Which is why I dedicated the 180 kg weight limit I had into medkits, bandages and everything else ammo
Because otherwise you're going to eventually run out of ammo
If anything thank god capturing rostok wasn't such a pain in the ass
The only real issue was breaking in since the squads would just keep coming out to the entrances making going in a nightmare
ANUUU
they're exos, they can tank an akm mag to the face

Then stop using that trash or at least get ap rounds
ah yes i'll just buy the non existant ap stock from the traders
And just upgrade everything into recoil reduction and magdump the exos
You could also get a shotgun
yes i love steam conmmutiny
you really do get the best tradeafers there!
So every online game in existence?

I mean it's either scams or the underground erp room market
sorry for the late removal of that stuff. but we got it :)
Too late mungo, to the bloodsucker farms
ayy can i discuss something about Anomaly here
Deadass no
why not, it's an awesome mod
No it isnt
whaaaaat
Most people do not like Anomaly
It takes the design philosophy of Misery, ie: Item bloat and unbalanced beginning
and cranks it to 11
awh alright then
the anomaly discord server would be best
Just google "stalker anomaly discord server"
alright, thanks stalker
alright2 I got it, anyways the server's emojis are cool
If you need tech support theirs is the best bet for anomaly too
There are actual people who remove Anomalies and Mutants from Stalker 
Ein bruh
real

you know, I've been trying anomaly again, i wanted to try the DC ver of their story mode cuz why not i got nothing better to do
Finally
Got a few mods for warfare too, being able to do warfare with story mode is pretty great, cuz i can actually level up my rep in anomaly at a reasonable rate by replacing the enemy traders with other traders

Spoiler
You actually need a fix
ive played the main story, just not DC
fix for what the warfare thing or DC
If you finished Operation Afterglow, try out another storyline (It's not hollow boundaries)
I won't spoil you who you need to talk to
there's like a ||Sin|| storymode im guessing
Yes
But you actually can play in your own faction
i'll be honest i dun like the map edits anomaly does
Whatever it was called
why are there all these big TREES in the swamps
Same
they look so out of place looool
Lmaoo
does this enemy faction kills give money thing in warfare just not work

it doesn't, ah classic broken warfare feature at it again
It does
Killing gives you money but you may need to tweak the amount given since you're just given literal pennies even if you butcher a whole squad
did already
Then you did a fuki wuckie and may need to reinstall since theres no reason for it to not be working
You'll need to increase it in warfare section
You get the baseline and the extra deppending on the multiplier that deppends on npc rank
Don't know much about
it
So if a rookie gives 1500 a trainee should give like 1600 and so on
Just kill everyone and check your money
oh ok
its working, traders and all that jazz dont count even tho they're "faction" enemies
Deppends on the trader
im murdering blue berries atm
Iirc there may be a hidden "trader" faction in which certain npcs are dunked in and stay neutral most of the time
Like butcher at garbage who supposedly is or was a bandit
Something very immersion breaking is being Monolith and not being able to kill the Flea Market traders or dude in the train hanger in garbage
Well because those are in trader faction so yeah
Im guessing you can't kill the flea market guy because hes tied to the simp hip questline
and sid
i killed them
they are a bit tanky but arent invincible
idk if its one of my mods
but atleast they made base wiping viable
the npcs carry their base stock on death
I avoid killing traders in general since I don't want random crashes
I remember killing sahkarov would cause a crash for example
Or the monolith trader/guide at pripyat
Also special traders like bear get replaced by generic npcs and won't give you more missions
Although I haven't every single trader so I wouldn't know for sure
And since you have a disguise system sometimes it's for the best to not kill them
the cs traders i killed replaced by duty give the duty themed quests like petrenko, but in the new areas
so seems fine for me

In my cs playthrough the freedom trader moved forward a few inches every time i visited him
Eventually he passe through the wall and he dissapeared in another dimension
Which sucks because he's the only one that sells NATO launchers
Hahaha
stalker dva
nato guns are disgusting
spawning mutants next to traders will always get u crashed
nato guns are good
because they’re the only guns that don’t use the dovetail attachments

dovetail is good
Ofc. NATO guns are build to shoot
i personally like to run through the zone like a maniac in a nosorog stabbing people to death with whatever i can find
how about we complete stalker as stealthy as possible
your first silent gun is a pb1s in cordon so it would be easy
I personally like not playing Anomaly
Anyways
@quick dune have you ever tried stealthing ShoC?
Bri'ish person dedected
if only lmao, im from the land of cheeseburger
Even worse
tell your people to stop asking for americans in stalker
Yes
i agree, i personally play it in the non english dub myself, i hate when people try to shoehorn stuff into the game because "Muh diversity" or whatever, just let the devs make the game they envisioned ya know?
there shouldn't be a bunch of Americans in the zone, it wouldn't make much sense unless the US military decided to go ham and try and find oil there or an artifact that makes it
Oh yes, US troops in the zone = war I guess
Faction wars I mean
US military would be like monilith, nobody wants em there
Ayy
the un government has to keep the zone a secret
its bad enough having the UN, i dont want america in the zone
more people (especially americans) = very bad stuff
"democracy" kek
the americans can be super rich and spies for the us government
then they can tell the whole world about the zone
if they get out
if
i think contract killings would be on them as soon as they would step into ukrainian land
IF
hard agree, mercs would be well paid
Kill Strelok
strelok burgerman
or any other veteran stalker
americans getting to the wish granter would always ask for either money or mcdonalds
"I wish for money and mcdonalds." Seems like "I want to be rich" ending
Blind ending
Lmaooo
the sarcoghagus or whatever
you can stealth the sarcophagus
Sarcophagus is cool
Except that the fact it's a hellhole of radiation
one antirad artifact will do
just enemy spam
there are like ~40 enemies
I had a frickton of antirad meds from dead enemies
everything is canon
Portal Anomalies
the man also stealthed x18
broo nooo
ikr
Not with mods
pretty much the definition of underrated
Since when the the slowmode on #🤨┃stalker_memes is 2 hours
cuz polish
ok cringe lord
ok
polish are the worst
Pretty and traditional
rookie
corrupt
Good wife material
Yes
Broo yesss
hahaha i am better than slavic

right amma fight you
right
LIKE RIGHT NOW
u little hoe
call me slavic
Oh ye?
ripe
no f off
i will fight u here puss cake
"Old Prussian" cry the fact that the other baltic language died
Ure just jealous that we have the best women
i hate women

uhm 2 still exist
U gay bro
but yeah
mans really killed the c-con guy
yes i am very very gay
2 baltic languages exist right the prussians where dumb and shot them self bro
2 still exists (le potato language and zeppelin dumpling language)
AND THEY ARE GREAT
Too bad Old Prussian was near Lithuania
U are just a dirty sniggii
So you let your other brother language die
HOW?
BROOOOO THEY SPLIT US IN HAAAAAAAAALF
By going German
Ah yes I forgot to mention that
But shouldn't we end it or continue it in #💬┃en_offtop
Hunt me den
I don't give 2 potatoes about it
i am gay after all so prepare for pounding
Prussia is part of poland now
and russia
Stargard 
ok so what if the zone gets all over the place and the only anomaly that would appear in poland is burner
so we could rename poland to hell
Couldn't be proud of it
you are going to pland
Too bad I am not Pololish
polololish
h
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l
t
gn guys
Gn fella
👆
I see the cypher has been updated
Bread 👍
cypher?
Sidorovich
The image they just posted with the anomaly has text with underlines on the back. Looks to be continuing the cypher from the past 2 years
Marked one what the helll???
i dont understand the announcement😅 has it anything to do with pre ordering the ultimate retail edition in central europe by any chance?😂
Prolly does, idk
its a cypher
You'd hope thats what @'s are used for these days
What have these cyphers been about over the years?
I wonder more about the 94% positive reviews on Steam, when Stalker 2 is not even out yet. But then again, they may be referring to an average review score of the previous titels or so
Least the institute confirmed 

Look up the Stalker 2 cypher on google to get caught up but it’s been a series of insane puzzles to get voice recordings from some guy in the zone stringing us all along
Something related with Chaz
When does western country store release?????
WHAT DID I MISS WHAT DID I MISS WHAT DID I MISS
Nothing lol
:(
I got excited too
hey mister gsc game world if you want people to buy your game sooo badly just buy it yourselves dumbasses
lol
Lol it /just/ happened
The announcements are straight up teasing at this point. How many digital reminders do we need?
im literally gonna crash my car into a house
if i get pinged again to buy it
if i buy your game will you stop pinging me?
"Important for him to purchase from this specific website" yet we've been told that the stalker 2 site won't be selling copies, just redirecting
Yeah the note says about purchasing. WELL BUDDY I WOULD
IF I COULD
As soon as retail version comes out I'll buy it.
Available Soon
Здарова англичане
I bet the bois at GSC get a good chuckle out of getting us all worked up again and again 
does stalker 2 have multiplayer?

It will supposedly, not looking forward to mmo style though. Playing with friends would be sick
COOP would be epic
but if its fun, its fun
yea, I wouldn't mind a co op thing
I’m gonna be honest. Even if the multi is mindless deathmatch, it will be so much fun to play with the bois like back in the day and set up LAN parties
yeah, but stalker (at least old one) wasn't really MP game
Capture the artifact dudeeee
only if they dont censor chat
No but it was a ballin feature
i wanna say the n word
Coop is different story thought
Nannies 
can i ask you guys when does western or asian country store list release? Never knows?
I wanna buy ultimate version of game.
you dont get anything special for preordering do you?
Depends what you preorder
they say "pre-order bonus"
but is that even worth it?
but I have not seen what that actually includes
But yea campfire tunes for one
campfire tunes?
we don't know
You get extra campfire songs for preordering
Tricked me again GSC..
Thx T.T
Latest pin is as much as we know
Can't believe I'm going to drop $340
@vernal magnet just to listen to in game?
"Season pass"
You know you can believe it 
Seems this way
The most money I've every spent on a game
no - the "pre-order bonus" is separate itiem in the list
whats the difference between the retail and digital
Definitely the most expensive collectors edition I will have ever purchased. I sold a few games to make money and room for stalker 2. Long love the king
depending on what you are pre-ordering you will get only the pre-order bonus (which I don't know what it involves), or other items on the list as well
small stalker story anecdote
heard friendly stalker being shot wounded near the gas station in cop
saw one bandit there, killed him with a headshot with my val, right from the entrance near the back of the gas station fence
wondered if the rest heard the shot (they did)
camped the door for about a min, didn't want to nade it cuz I tought the friendly was wounded inside the gas station, he wasn't
went to push, peaked the room, there were two bandits also camping the door, one on each side, managed to kill one before he took a shot at me, but the second one shot me in the shoulder I guess, got hurt, but managed to headshot him before he could finish me off
very nice a-life
I almost never spent more than ~$50-60 for AAA game
but after EFT $120 beta-access
stalker 2 doesn't look expensive at all
😄
true
Have you been to the website? Digital is digital goodies, retail is all the digital stuff plus a bunch of cool merch
yeah i didnt scroll down and see that it says whats in all of em
Not really true
retail is STANDARD EDITION + goodies
$300 for a game
but if you want season pass + expansions
Ultimate retail has everything from every other preorder
then you have to go digital
It literally notes "includes digital bonuses"
I assume ultimate will include all dlc and season pass stuff?
well yes depends on editions
crap, it better. lol
you not really paying for "the game thought" - game is $59
yeah
$300 is more symbolic for supporting devs and some branded goodies

It would be cool if they would sell the back-pack separately
okay so they think if they ping me enough ill just give them all my money?
i will if thats what they want
if the materials to make that lamp arent worth $150 ill cry
they just have to ping me a few more times
digital ultimate + backpack and maybe metal cover for game would cover my needs
I mean, you can turn off the pinging
The collectors should come with all the DLC. I think that’s kind of odd honestly having it behind the ultimate paywall. However I’m assuming the single player DLC will be substantial and merit the additional cost. Especially if comparable to clear sky and call of Pripyat
no the freaking artefact will be worth more than that
as added bonus it will irradiate your home as well
yep, that is why I am looking at Ultimate digital + Limited Retail, that would give me all I need, less backpack.
I have my fingers crossed for official merch closer to launch
I will spend disgusting amounts of money
😄
thats sad
but I guess he saved for at least 10 years
it is time to spend now 😄
I wish they would as well relist retail versions of old stalker trilogy
nothing fancy just DVD in metal box with all updates pre-applied
would definitely buy it again
real
tried imagining super anomalies compared to the current death traps we have 

as long as I can loot the bits of bandits which are left after they explode in anomaly
inspecting half a leg on the ground
Ah this dude has an AK, bullets, and a Medkit 
no good stuff goes to waste in the zone
what a legend - kept his loot in the lower part of the right leg
Oldest trick this side of the swamps
142 new messages
Day 33 of not feeding my family in order to fund Ultimate Edition
What is that new screenshot in announcements? 🤔

The cypher continuing
guess the institute still is gonna be the
"bad guy" ecos
was evacuated to the SIRCAA base for interrogation and further clarification of the circumstances.
interrogation
Wasn't there a scientist faction that got cut from the original games?
isn't it funny that original games were so good
yet so much was cut from them
that it is enough to create 3 more standalone games only from the cut content
I mean, dragon dogma dark arisen originally would have been a game so big it would have redefined a bunch of genres
But it got cut to 1/4 of what they had originally planned
Nah, cybercoom was just bad from the groundup
not so sure about that
based on hacks and leaks
it seems they simply not implemented most of the ideas
Hacks and leaks are done by companies themselves to hype people up
or kept them as placeholders only e.g. police and wanted system as an example
that could be true... as well to justify delaying the patches and overall timeline
not unbelievable, but thus far just a conspiracy theory
It's like the whole "who found out cheat codes on old games?" and the answer being "the companies themselves sold cheats separatedly via guide books/magazines"
It's not a theory, it's literal marketing
sometimes
Why do you think their marketing departments are a moneysink
Because they straight up hire psychologists to herd people into believing stuff
the amount they spent on marketing was absurd
but that is another matter altogether
but I guess that is besides the point
it does not really matter how much is cut from the game
if it makes the solid game in the end
and going back to the topic - SOC is good example
probably 50% was cut from it, yet the game was epic for the time
and that is what I found funny
Not really, companies tend to cut down games in pieces so they don't end up with something that could break the formula the industry is currently using
Why do you think sport games are always the same?
I doubt GSC cared about any formulas with SOC
because sport games are f***ing scam
never played any of them
and the way they raise money is literally a joke
Well you've missed out on games like street soccer that was axed due to being too unorthodox
FIFA for last 5 years is basically the same game
Yes thats the point
and people buy new one for full price just for roster update
but that is the scummy way EA conducts the business
They don't change anything because breaking the formula would mean having to design an actual game and not just model swap every once in a while
not necessary applicable to whole industry
I mean, they do it, blizz does it, bungie does it
especially not applicable for indie developers
Indies are the worst offenders
well
From 1000 games at least 750 will be the same game with color swap and model swap
indies are now playing this stupid - "never ending open beta" game
On top of that you have rpgmakers that also fall on that despite being cool old-style games a few years prior
My point is that while I'm not expecting gsc to break any mold I hope they don't try to fit in too hard
if it going to be anything like original series
then there is good chance they won't
Gotta hit that sweet spot where the game isn't too non-generic to not get hounded by big players like EA nor gotta be way too generic and be boring af and be dead on arrival
but @frail spire
stalker is JuSt LiKe TaRkOv
and should have tacticool modding andhard core features

[Triggered]
we should do a poll of what everyone played first tarkov or stalker
we may be disspointed when it comes to tacticool and hardcore
and if they played anomaly after tarkov, but before the mainline games
I can answer that without poll
Stalker was never a milsim jesus christ when will people understand that
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
for it's time
it was one of the most realistic hardcore games
stalker > eft
That was only because people suck at videogames
Up to a few months ago I wasn't even aware that people struggled with CS machinegun placememt
in tacticool factor it isn't
actually EFT ruined stalker for me
Milsim isn't about strategy nor any of that, milsims are about doing everything by yourself
I had no issues replaying SOC for 30th time with different mod pack
but once I tried EFT
I just can't adapt back to original stalker series
sure for nostalgia
Also arma exists which is still a better milsim that eft will ever be
but when you see that AK is wrong way around











