#⭐┃nospoilers_general

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hallow solstice
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It won’t

void vortex
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Metro feels like a console game on pc

sharp spear
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since we already have xbox version and PC version for their respective platforms

hallow solstice
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Stalker already fits consoles perfectly, it’s a very arcadey game

robust forge
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Grid inventory

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Bruh

hallow solstice
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They don’t need to change anything I don’t think, if anything stuff can only improve with its base

robust forge
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I want to see that used on consoles

sharp spear
sharp spear
finite dragon
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S2 tetris gg

hallow solstice
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I don’t wanna toot my own horn but I don’t actually find stalker all that hard

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Maybe I’ve just played too much

sharp spear
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and annoy people by how bad its sorted lol

hallow solstice
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But I don’t actually die often. Anomaly’s take me out more than enemies and that’s just because I’m not payint attention

finite dragon
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brub

void vortex
hallow solstice
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Probably

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Once you figure out to just crouch and aim at the head in bursts stalker becomes COD

void vortex
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I saw my gf play on veteran difficulty... I'm single now

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||jk||

hallow solstice
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Real stalker don’t talk to women

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I’ve never seen a woman in the zone, it has to be for a reason

void vortex
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I'm 99% sure there will be women in Stalker 2

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And it's fine. as long it ain't 'hot babes'

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or OCs

finite dragon
hallow solstice
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It actually doesn’t make much sense why there aren’t women in the zone

void vortex
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Like Ecologist women would be ok

hallow solstice
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Surely someone would come with their wife or something

hallow solstice
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It doesn’t, there’d be at least one

finite dragon
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The zone is not a place where you can fondle around with anomalies or something

hallow solstice
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There’s like thousands of stalkers in the zone, and it’s constantly expanding, I doubt there wouldn’t be at least one woman

hallow solstice
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Also as kev said, ecologists

pseudo yoke
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There's less than 500 stalkers

void vortex
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Loners, Ecologist... the rest seems kinda unlikely

peak basin
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theres no women ingame sad

finite dragon
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Gg

void vortex
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It being East Euro doesn't help

hallow solstice
void vortex
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lol

finite dragon
void vortex
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Freedom could do as well

finite dragon
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geg

pseudo yoke
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I dont get why people think there's "thousands" of stalkers

hallow solstice
finite dragon
pseudo yoke
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Ok, that is in a game with endlessly respawning pops

hallow solstice
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Yeah, but I treat the game as a reflection of the world it’s in

pseudo yoke
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In universe, you have less than 500 by Call of Pripyat

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Well you're wrong

void vortex
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100/300+ Stalkers live in the zone iirc

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illegals

finite dragon
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Is legal

pseudo yoke
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in Shadow of Chernobyl they estimate around 300~

hallow solstice
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The game is way to densely populated then

pseudo yoke
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The vanilla games aren't

void vortex
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there are unreachable places too

hallow solstice
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500 people in the exclusion area tou wouldn’t just see people everywhere minding their own business, wars wouldn’t even work

finite dragon
hallow solstice
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That means freedom and duty have like 70ish people, the war would’ve ended in like a week

pseudo yoke
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Not really?

finite dragon
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Well

pseudo yoke
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You overestimate how many people die in a war

finite dragon
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The leaders are like in da 40's or 50's (gg boomers running a faction)

hallow solstice
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Yes, if in clear sky they’re at each other’s throats constantly and I see duty squads drop 10+ freedoms in a minute idk how that war would still be going

pseudo yoke
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Lol

void vortex
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most stalkers are like 30/50+

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General Deg was like 28 iirc

finite dragon
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Old guy is 69

hallow solstice
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For duty and freedom to function they’d need people constantly joining them, but with only 500ish people in the zone, most being monolith and zombies, that means there’s like 200ish normal people

sharp spear
hallow solstice
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And then you subtract military

sharp spear
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GSC had budget issues to just make models, voicelines and such

hallow solstice
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And there’s only a few people coming in every month if it’s only 500

sharp spear
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they may show up in S2 but i doubt it

pseudo yoke
void vortex
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there is little known about the monolith

finite dragon
hallow solstice
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They’d have no one to recruit, the war would be over within a week

void vortex
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and they lost count over the zombies

sharp spear
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one is a mentioned in a PDA story

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and second is mentioned by stalkers randomly

void vortex
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So I assume 300/500 of the stalkers - Military, Ecologist, Zombies, Monolith

pseudo yoke
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There's one girl mentioned as an ecologist

void vortex
sharp spear
pseudo yoke
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Military and Ecologists wouldnt count as Stalkers

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Neither would Zombies

sharp spear
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zombified do be built different

pseudo yoke
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Military Stalkers wouldnt count either, as they are not there illegally

void vortex
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Monolith and zombies are a mix bag

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Since they would count

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technically

sharp spear
finite dragon
pseudo yoke
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"In 2010, the "stalker phenomenon" was becoming more evident. It was theorized that the zone was home to around 300 individuals who called themselves "stalkers" who made money by selling artifacts."

void vortex
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so

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just loners?

finite dragon
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lonors

hallow solstice
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It would make sense if it was 300 loners AND THEN x amount of other people

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But 300 total wouldn’t make sense

sharp spear
void vortex
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Also are Mercs stalkers? They are PMC

pseudo yoke
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Everyone who is in the Zone illegally is a Stalker

hallow solstice
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That means there’s like 200 monolith and zombies

finite dragon
void vortex
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which means they are hired to be there

sharp spear
finite dragon
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plus unknown craps

sharp spear
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not everyone is a PMC

hallow solstice
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Mercs use nato weapons with freedom, who’s funding them 🤔🤔

void vortex
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themselves

sharp spear
void vortex
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you know how much they get paid?

finite dragon
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Funding themselves

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gg

sharp spear
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freedom propably steals horrible quality guns in CS

humble granite
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There's like 360 living monolith in SoC alone

finite dragon
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Freedomers get their guns through black market

humble granite
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That you kill

hallow solstice
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A good artifact could probably net them a weapon shipment

sharp spear
void vortex
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Freedom gets supplies from the EU too keep the war going with Duty and the Ukrainian/Russian military 😳

finite dragon
sharp spear
hallow solstice
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EU should’ve picked bette people the fund, freedom are a bunch of hippies

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They don’t do anything

sharp spear
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that thing just falls apart

void vortex
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Is the Military actually Russian?

solid dome
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Whatcha on about

void vortex
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Or is it local troops only

sharp spear
solid dome
hallow solstice
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All I gotta say, if you see a fight between duty and freedom in any stalker game, one side wins, and it’s by a landslide

hallow solstice
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And that side is never freedom

pseudo yoke
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The military is literally the state security service of Ukraine lol

sharp spear
sharp spear
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duty is NEUTRAL to SSU but not to the military whom send their guys to garrison agroprom to find something and checkpoints in the zone

void vortex
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Aight

finite dragon
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military is military

pseudo yoke
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The troops in Stalker are internal troops

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Like OMON or MVD

void vortex
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Yeah Ukraine has their own Spetsnaz unit

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lol

pseudo yoke
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Are you being sarcastic?

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Belarus has Spetsnaz units

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As do every former soviet state

void vortex
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That's a fact I didn't yet know

finite dragon
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Kazakhstani Spetsnaz gg

void vortex
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I thought it was a Russian exclusive thing

pseudo yoke
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Pretty sure Mongolia still uses a Cyrillic based alphabet

finite dragon
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They're reviving the old Mongolian script

pseudo yoke
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Cool

finite dragon
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Ah yes the language where it's written from top to bottom

hallow solstice
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Kinda goofy how many people I’ve seen who want stalker 2 to be like tarkov

finite dragon
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mongol stalker 2

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stalker 2 but it's dota

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stalker 2 but it's horse riding

random vortex
humble granite
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Yeehaw

finite dragon
pseudo yoke
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Too many people like Tarkov for the wrng reasons

finite dragon
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The nomad kind

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stalker 2 but you play it irl

sharp spear
humble granite
sharp spear
finite dragon
humble granite
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Not enough root toot

finite dragon
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well my laptop cant run games like eft anyway

sharp spear
finite dragon
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cool

pseudo yoke
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Tarkov bad

finite dragon
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please send a video of you suffering

humble granite
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Tarkov do be a bit meh tbh

sharp spear
humble granite
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If you don't play at the start of a wipe and keep playing consistently it gets harder

finite dragon
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i like eft but many people like to milk this and it's really annoying

sharp spear
pseudo yoke
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Tarkov bad
Anomaly bad

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Vanilla good

finite dragon
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real life is good

pseudo yoke
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Call of Chernobyl good

sharp spear
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misery cool

humble granite
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Nah misery do be cool

pseudo yoke
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misery was cool in like 2012 when it came out

sharp spear
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mf rushed to get one of nimbles shotguns

finite dragon
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ah yes, a mod where they added like 100 repair items and not many people understand how tf to use it

finite dragon
sharp spear
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one of nimbles

humble granite
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Say wat

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I was playin misery years before anomaly was a thing

sharp spear
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anomaly calls itself settings simulator

finite dragon
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i dont think there are any good stalker mods. idk

sharp spear
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cant recreate misery black road

finite dragon
sharp spear
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why bother

finite dragon
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Anomaly imo looks like someone has crapped on the zone (this time more crap)

sharp spear
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lvutner one of the devs pretty much set the line of what wont be added

finite dragon
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and anomaly has that gray-ish atmosphere and these normies call it "realistic"

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What won't be added?

sharp spear
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What's not going to be added into Anomaly?
-->DX12/RTX - There is no reason to integrate it. If i'm wrong - give me enough reasons, and show some xray fork with working dx12.
-->Gunslinger - It's unfinished, and porting that mod is pain. Also, AWT is in development.
-->Misery graphics - Why you're suggesting that to us? Just smear some poop on your monitor.
-->Items/weapons/other stuff - NO. We are trying to decrease item bloat.
-->Magazines - NO. See above.

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censored because i dont want to get 1984'd

finite dragon
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They are finally removing some crap in 1.6

hallow solstice
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gun slinger

void vortex
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do you guys have any good video ideas?

finite dragon
void vortex
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stalker related

hallow solstice
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There’s already significantly better adding

sharp spear
random vortex
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At least they're aware of the ridiculous item bloat. Too bad they will never actually fix it.

sharp spear
finite dragon
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STALKER memes

finite dragon
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Like what shidbot420 do

void vortex
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Stalker memes are just too flashy ADD most of the time

hallow solstice
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Food anims+boom sticks>gun slinger by a mile

finite dragon
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Or kracc bacc guy

sharp spear
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they just have a lot

void vortex
random vortex
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In all my years playing Stalker, I've never even seen a multiplayer match.

void vortex
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I did a few times. they never turn fun fun

finite dragon
sharp spear
void vortex
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with other servers

hallow solstice
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I find the “hardcore” stalker mod pack repair features tiresome

sharp spear
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those sunrise suits is just one stat upgrade or upgrade of a suit

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suffering

void vortex
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back when I used to own DoC

hallow solstice
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Having to repair my gun after using a single magazine or else it will be past the point of no return is ridiculous and annoying

finite dragon
void vortex
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yis

finite dragon
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What happened

sharp spear
void vortex
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We'd play against Nikolai's discord

sharp spear
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renegade SEVA suit with upgrades

void vortex
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and some others

sharp spear
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is literally 100% psy protection

random vortex
finite dragon
finite dragon
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Still mediocre

sharp spear
hallow solstice
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It isn’t even realistic if that was its goal

finite dragon
sharp spear
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"i like your funny words magic man" said renegade to a controller

hallow solstice
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And if it’s meant to be “hard” it isn’t hard, it’s just another thing I have to do, it doesn’t make the game challenging in anyway I just need to spend the extra 2500 roubles on gun oil

finite dragon
sharp spear
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renegade-inator in X-1 kekw

finite dragon
finite dragon
humble granite
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Or general mods?

sharp spear
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which tries to be hardcore

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and looks horrendous

humble granite
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I prefer the misery system tbh

sharp spear
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reject modernity embrace tradition

half glade
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eww renegade

humble granite
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Not as realistic but it's nice being able to bring a weapon back from 1%

sharp spear
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oh the irony

humble granite
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Especially if it's something nice or rare

finite dragon
half glade
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we are literally better

sharp spear
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with yoga who likes to tax

half glade
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renegades are the left overs of bandits

sharp spear
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borov whos just yoga 2.0

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and sultan tryna to tame his boys

half glade
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what do renegades do doe

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exactly

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nothing

sharp spear
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have actual freedom than freedom will ever have

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lol

half glade
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stay in swamps surf

hallow solstice
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Stalker mod logic: the military is using guns on 5 durability and can spray whole mags

sharp spear
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6 days in swamps

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less gooo

hallow solstice
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And I guess they only have 2 bullets left every time by the time I loot them

half glade
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well its stalker

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its unfair

pseudo yoke
hallow solstice
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And the people I shoot who never notice me only had 3 bullets in the magazine

sharp spear
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they have 100% condition

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on death it gets a RNG roll

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of how bad it will be

half glade
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getting that dope ass 2% durability

hallow solstice
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I just use an add on that makes gun durability tied to the rank of the owner

finite dragon
hallow solstice
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Renegades are the lamest faction

half glade
hallow solstice
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They’re just an enemy that the devs needed to add that could avoid breaking more

finite dragon
hallow solstice
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Lore*

half glade
finite dragon
half glade
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hahah

sharp spear
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they were made just so they couldnt ruin your option to join bandits

finite dragon
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That's true

hallow solstice
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Renegades miraculously appear in red forest with better weapons just to compete with the player’s better kit

sharp spear
finite dragon
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Renegeg

hallow solstice
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I wouldn’t know I shot them all

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Stinky bandits

finite dragon
half glade
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in red forest it should have been sin not renegedaaes but sin was cut

hallow solstice
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Clear sky’s factions in general were quite weak

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Clear sky was just ecologists with guns

finite dragon
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Failed but

sharp spear
finite dragon
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That's a step forward for stalkers in 2011

sharp spear
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literally CS implies that leadership bad organized squads good

hallow solstice
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Anyone could kick clear sky’s ass it’s just egg heads with tozs

sharp spear
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by a bunch of guys with same armor

pseudo yoke
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Im glad Clear Sky died

sharp spear
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and 2-3 types of guns

hallow solstice
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Clear sky was a weak faction. From what I can tell their goals are no different from ecologists

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And freedom is just ecologists but more laid back

sharp spear
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they wanted to co-exist with the zone

finite dragon
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Man made hell

sharp spear
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that was their ultimate goal

finite dragon
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Made by themselves

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trollge

pseudo yoke
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Wasnt Clear Sky's goal to destroy the zone

sharp spear
finite dragon
sharp spear
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CS wanted to cope with it

hallow solstice
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Literally just lamer egg heads

sharp spear
hallow solstice
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I doubt they’ll be in stalker 2 they weren’t interesting

pseudo yoke
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Theyre dead

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Why would they be in stalker 2

hallow solstice
hallow solstice
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It’s a miracle duty made it to COP

sharp spear
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CS remnants were like "yeah lets just disband it"

pseudo yoke
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I think gsc is smarter than most modders

finite dragon
sharp spear
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nimble and grey are the ones we get to see ingames

finite dragon
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No leadership

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Sounds like Monolith to me but losing

sharp spear
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mainly when scar is dead

hallow solstice
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Or is he 🤔

sharp spear
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who will protect them against renegades who can have zillion or whatever numbers

sharp spear
finite dragon
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Renegades died no?

hallow solstice
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Oh I didn’t read that

sharp spear
finite dragon
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In SoC you no see dem

hallow solstice
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I’d rather make my own lore. Way more fun

sharp spear
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but i doubt english wiki

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but they had kosoy and his gang mentioned

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and pahan

finite dragon
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Ko(soy)

pseudo yoke
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Clear Sky dead
Renegades dead
Bandits? Lame

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Monolith based

sharp spear
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they propably vanished after finding out that CS is dead

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literally like "my job here is done"

finite dragon
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Finding your leader ded

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But still survives

hallow solstice
finite dragon
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That

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Is

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Cool

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But

sharp spear
hallow solstice
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What would happen if strelok wished for the wish granter to disappear

sharp spear
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nothing

sharp spear
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he would disappear instead propably

finite dragon
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And C-Con be like: hmm wut

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Our stone is gone

hallow solstice
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Speaking of ccon, was it me or was that last mission at the CNPP where you’re going through portals to find the CCON annoying af

sharp spear
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didnt one of WG endings end up eating strelok because he wanted knawledge

hallow solstice
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I’m glad COP didn’t have those silly CNPP portal mini games for no reason

sharp spear
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so wish granter lifts him up and literally consumes him

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riches ending gets strelok killed by falling rubble (irony)

hallow solstice
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I like the wish granter endings being decided in how you play

finite dragon
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Strelok controlling the stone

sharp spear
hallow solstice
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Why is the wish granter a douce

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Douche

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Like why not just not grant wishes

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Why does it have to be annoying about it cursing people to death

pseudo yoke
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its a monkeys paw

sharp spear
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like you wish for zone to disappear

hallow solstice
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If the CCON just didn’t do anything with it no one would bother going . First guy there would just be like “yeah doesn’t work

sharp spear
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you get blinded that it doesnt exist

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gets killed by fall damage

hallow solstice
sharp spear
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C-con made it to lure stalkers

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just to not find out that pickled scientists exist

finite dragon
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Lmaoo

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The fact that their spokesperson were like "hmm the guy has found us but why not be cool"

hallow solstice
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If CCON can create a wish granter I feel there’s more effective ways to kidnap people

finite dragon
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And not "OH CRAP THEY HAVE FOUND US TELEPORT THE MONOLITH"

hallow solstice
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Just seems like the CCON are trolling people

sharp spear
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thats the thing

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they are willing to dispose one of their members for a new one

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which would be strelok in one of endings

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and disconnecting from C-con equals death

finite dragon
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Lmao

hallow solstice
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Nah strelok had an empty tube didn’t he?

sharp spear
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there was

finite dragon
sharp spear
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but if they found a new member

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one of them will kill themself to make place

hallow solstice
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I see

sharp spear
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and if you want to know who plugged strelok in

hallow solstice
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Why not just have the wish granter make a new tube 🤔

sharp spear
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C-cons place is filled with group members along with C-con

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so yeah

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if strelok killed C-con

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he killed all the group members with them

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yeah not even columbine can compete with that

finite dragon
sharp spear
hallow solstice
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I think skiff killed strelok

finite dragon
sharp spear
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just everyone in the C-con place

finite dragon
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Good

pseudo yoke
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Cypher says "the shooter is dead"

sharp spear
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he kept the pickled nerds for last

hallow solstice
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The way the trailer talks about how he “killed him to save the zone”

pseudo yoke
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Strelok is shooter

finite dragon
hallow solstice
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Sounds like strelok

sharp spear
hallow solstice
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Skiff must be pretty good if he got strelok

pseudo yoke
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🤷‍♂️ its not like he's a god or anything

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He's just a guy with experience

hallow solstice
pseudo yoke
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Would you consider Isis pretty good for icing 6 Green Berets

hallow solstice
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He’s a monster, average stalker couldn’t kill him

pseudo yoke
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Oh boy

indigo wind
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I mean, I know at least two more guys who spent an in-game year in SoC.

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They may not be as public, though.

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One is still playing on his 2007 save.

pseudo yoke
hallow solstice
indigo wind
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And Tejas mostly played SoC so he does not know much about addons.

hallow solstice
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No they were dudes. But in stalker although strelok is just a dude, he’s a very strong dude

pseudo yoke
hallow solstice
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If he could just be killed he woulda died to the other 400 people he iced

pseudo yoke
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Lol

pseudo yoke
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That isnt how combat works

solid dome
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Are you guys telling each other the franchise plot so you remember what happened in S2?

hallow solstice
pseudo yoke
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He has player character powers, that's it

hallow solstice
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Dude has magic rocks that give him instant cell regeneration

pseudo yoke
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in universe he is a regular guy with experience

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just because you killed 1000 stalkers in a play through doesnt mean thats canonically what happened

sharp spear
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meanwhile scar had players skills justified

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when scar survived a emission

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he got a boost

hallow solstice
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I mean, in that same universe he broke into the CNPP twice and has 400 confirmed kills so he’s still a force to be reckoned with

pseudo yoke
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What 400 confirmed kills

hallow solstice
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The 400 monoliths he iced in both raids

indigo wind
pseudo yoke
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we dont even have a number for how many he killed

finite dragon
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Flock of congoliths

pseudo yoke
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the first raid specifically mentions they were only detected as they were leaving

indigo wind
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And there were three raids, FYI. One that triggered Great Emission, pre-CS, one during CS events and one during SoC events

hallow solstice
hallow solstice
pseudo yoke
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Your number is way to high

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Its more like 40

indigo wind
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50? 100 max.

pseudo yoke
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if that

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He also had Ghost and Fang with him the first two

hallow solstice
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40? There’s like 60 monolith in the red forest

pseudo yoke
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No there isn't

hallow solstice
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Including zombies

pseudo yoke
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Zombies don't count as Monolith

finite dragon
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Counts

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as

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a

hallow solstice
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Ok, but add that to his kill count

finite dragon
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dead

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squads

indigo wind
hallow solstice
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Either wsy, no matter how you slice it he has hundreds of kills, and magic rocks

indigo wind
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Which means that most of those kills are unconfirmed.

hallow solstice
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Also forgot to mention his kills escaping Pripyat

finite dragon
tiny olive
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Ello

quick dune
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rise and shine mister freeman

solid dome
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So in the end, any of you heroic fellas, obtained the black rock and wished for a proper ST2 launch?!

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The black rock - Da Monolith

pseudo yoke
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We'll have a proper launch

void vortex
pseudo yoke
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@arctic rover do you think youre being funny or something?

finite dragon
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Are there trashy mods for stalker?

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Like bad on purpose

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Meme mods

finite dragon
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@finite dragon kot

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You all secretly play anomaly and hate yourselves for secretly liking it

stark widget
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Anomaly's a great modification. Also Escape From Pripyat- amazing gameplay,

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Plus they've also introduced more people to the Stalker world which isn't a a bad thing.

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EFP has really enhanced the whole thing for me- really enjoying it, great immersion and gameplay.

finite dragon
stark widget
finite dragon
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They should absolutely start with vanilla first

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Plus, Anomaly has some un-vanilla stuff

quick dune
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that's why we don't need free standalone mods

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they are gonna mess up people's brains to think that it's the best stalker game and all the og games are outdated

hushed aurora
#

The thing about that is that most people don't even play the original games and go straight to Anomaly, and when they are told to try them they don't because "it's worse", which turns out as people ignoring and despising the great games they are in exchange for some freeplay mod that's honestly nothing too special,

quick dune
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basically a brain scorcher

maiden salmon
#

noooooo, you cant just play a game the way you want Illegal

stark widget
#

as long as they come away with a good feeling about the Stalker world, then it could put them on the path anyway- whether there are some "additions" or not form Vanilla. There's no point trying to make sure everyone who ever comes to Stalker gets the True Vanilla experience first- it's just not going to happen and also as long as they enjoy it what difference does it make?

quick dune
#

it makes the difference that they hate the original games

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without playing them

maiden salmon
#

and?

hushed aurora
#

As far as i'm concerned they can play whatever they want, but when people start asking how to throw bolts you know crap has gotten kinda far

maiden salmon
#

does that hurt you or the franchise? or does it introduce people to the genre and potentially bring them in for future official releases?

quick dune
#

it introduces people in a way that wasn't meant to be

maiden salmon
#

"not as the devs intended"
lmao

quick dune
#

they don't know what is going on

stark widget
#

they'd have to of course, played, the original games before coming to the conclusion they hate them- in which case if they havn't played any mods then they hate them for their own sakes. If they HAVE played a mod- then they simply concluded Vanilla isn't as good as the mod.

quick dune
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soc is a basic stalker game that isn't as complicated

maiden salmon
#

some people play for fun, not for any deeper meaning/lore

native ibex
quick dune
#

people who started with anomaly and think of it as the best stalker game

maiden salmon
#

and? people can have garbage opinions

stark widget
#

as long as the devs are selling units they won't probably be interested in how they got to be selling those units... wether people came thru vanilla as opposed to mods and/or understand the Lore or not...

native ibex
#

I am that.
I like the gameplay.
Doesn't mean I hate vanilla, I'm glad it kicked off the cult following

quick dune
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the devs aren't selling anything if they only play free mods or download pirated games

native ibex
#

I already bought the originals

arctic rover
#

i dont like mods

native ibex
#

There are older games that I love and I feel have aged well.
VTMB, for example.
Vanilla hasn't managed to feel quite as gripping for me

stark widget
#

yes but by playing great mods it might bring a portion of those people to become involved in the past and future of the franchise- by making purchases

stark widget
#

Im out anyway, too hot and too busy XD

quick dune
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i wouldn't call anomaly a great mod but ok

pseudo yoke
#

Anomaly is bad

quick dune
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bad because it brings nothing new, just another freeplay mod

native ibex
#

Is there a great mod

pseudo yoke
#

Great?

quick dune
#

vanilla is a great mod

pseudo yoke
#

ZRP

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SRP

quick dune
#

those are only for bug fixing ^

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wouldn't call them mods

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more like bug fixes

arctic rover
#

anomaly is just fixed call of chernobyl

pseudo yoke
#

they modify the game smile_strelok

quick dune
#

yea basically

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cop > anomaly

native ibex
#

But what if

quick dune
#

cop is the game that these mods are based off, less complication and an actual story

native ibex
#

STALKER 2 Anomaly mod

quick dune
#

no thanks

pseudo yoke
#

What if Stalker 2 is actually good

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lets get to that point first

native ibex
#

I do not feel like the Anknaly fans are the aggressors in these bouts

native ibex
pseudo yoke
#

Anomaly fans should know their place

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just because your favourite streamer shilled it doesnt mean its good

stark widget
#

isn't Anomaly the top of the mod db list still? If that doesn't mean it's a great mod then I don't know what does. And if it's not top then it's pretty damn close.

quick dune
#

stalker 2 might not be very good

pseudo yoke
#

Popular does not mean good lol

quick dune
#

top because it's free and has ok graphics

stark widget
#

...

pseudo yoke
#

popular means it appeals to the lowest common denominator

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Pathologic is amazing, and it isnt popular

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So is EYE

native ibex
#

Like Shakespeare

pseudo yoke
#

Stalker used to be relatively niche, at least in the west

quick dune
#

the actual stalker youtubers that do vanilla games get 10k views

#

talk about underrated

stark widget
#

I'll just let you keep making statements

pseudo yoke
#

iT lOoKs BaD

glossy lion
#

Yo

pseudo yoke
#

Imagine thinking popular = good

native ibex
#

Vyk, stop being salty

pseudo yoke
#

white names lol

glossy lion
#

In protect the stalkers' camp mission in SoC with the bandits come in waves?

pseudo yoke
#

Stop lowering your standards

pseudo yoke
#

No, it's just one steady group iirc

glossy lion
#

Oh

quick dune
#

i don't understand a single word there

maiden salmon
#

I had to go searching for a bandit once because he was cheeky hiding in the bathroom

native ibex
#

Devs, show high quality new psuedogiant model
(Assuming there is a psuedogiant in game)

maiden salmon
#

just walk around and listen for where the random bandit is hiding

quick dune
#

he was cheeki

glossy lion
#

The mission is not completed yet but i killed alotta bandits so far

pseudo yoke
#

I want the devs to show off anything

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that 4K knife was really funny

quick dune
pseudo yoke
#

||it wasnt||

native ibex
brave mantle
#

Cutting edge content :DDDDD

maiden salmon
#

you can also look at which way the friendly AI are pointing their guns to get a rough idea where the bandit is

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because xray engine gives AI xray vision

glossy lion
#

Oh

quick dune
#

not really

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they just point at the place where they heard a noise

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or they saw the enemy

glossy lion
#

I really gotta stop picking PMm bullets

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I have like 1k of them

pseudo yoke
#

What they hear is a lot different from what you can hear btw

stark widget
#

lots of devs on right now- just saying... soon...

native ibex
#

STALKER AI is beyond our comprehension

quick dune
#

stalker stealth is very cool

pseudo yoke
quick dune
#

devs doing a lan party in pripyat

native ibex
#

The devs are going to ban the unfaithful

finite dragon
quick dune
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it looks like autumn aurora graphics

finite dragon
#

Personally I like vanilla graphics

native ibex
#

I don't care how they look

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But I do enjoy the magnificent godrays

finite dragon
glossy lion
#

Some npc is just chilling in a shed where anomalies are all around :/

finite dragon
#

In vanilla or crap graphics mod?

native ibex
#

By magnificent I do mean thick and burning

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Vanilla doesn't have godrays, silly

finite dragon
#

They do

potent bluff
#

They do

quick dune
#

vanilla has good graphics for the years

finite dragon
#

It's obvious you didn't play vanilla.. but I even don't activate the sun rays just because muh PC is crap

native ibex
#

Dang

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Really crap

quick dune
#

if you want better graphics you have to install mods for a mod (talking about anomaly)

potent bluff
#

Clear Sky is the first game that has dynamic god ray back in 2008

finite dragon
quick dune
#

so you literally have to fix a mod with mods

finite dragon
#

My All in One pc is from 2017

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Still good but crap

native ibex
finite dragon
#

At least I can run 3 games

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:D

native ibex
#

Can you emulate the original Spyro trilogy

finite dragon
#

Gg

quick dune
#

if you play anomaly first even before cop you literally don't know what stalker is about and what to do

glossy lion
#

I see the bandits

native ibex
#

It's about making money after the devastation wrought by the soviet union, utilizing the newfound magical break in the laws of physics as your means of newfound income

finite dragon
#

"haha funny shooting russian fallout game XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD"

glossy lion
#

They are just chilling outside the entrance

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There are many of them

finite dragon
maiden salmon
#

there are bandits further near a tunnel, those generally "dont count" for the quest

quick dune
#

russian fallout but worse than regular fallout !!!!!! smiech_na_sali

maiden salmon
#

there should be one closer, either in the train warehouse fence area or just outside the fence/gate

void vortex
#

Stalker is Russian fallout, right?

maiden salmon
#

the one towards agropom

quick dune
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stalker isn't fallout

finite dragon
quick dune
#

and not russian

finite dragon
#

That

quick dune
glossy lion
#

Yeah i wasted them

finite dragon
#

Stalker is a game where you stalk people and stalking woman

maiden salmon
#

time to go on a man hunt, no survivors nutus_loner

glossy lion
#

For the loot :/

quick dune
#

there's a nice viper 5 in that tunnel

maiden salmon
#

oh, also kinda silly, but make sure none of them are wounded on the ground

glossy lion
#

Cuz i am running out of 5.45x39 rounds

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Jeez i do feel bad hearing bandits cry for help

maiden salmon
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I don't

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Duck around and find out

quick dune
#

bandits have the best screams

native ibex
quick dune
#

and monolith

quick dune
#

they know how to make big plan

void vortex
void vortex
#

Me? I enjoy shooting pesky Loners with a sniper

finite dragon
#

I enjoy shooting everyone

void vortex
#

Orders are orders

finite dragon
potent bluff
#

Am I the only stalkers who don't want to kill everyone?

glossy lion
#

Do bandits in the place where there are alot of broken cars count?

potent bluff
#

I just sneak around

void vortex
#

I like loot too much

finite dragon
#

"You are very dark and scary" Hm

maiden salmon
#

Bandits are the same in all series-
Skyrim: "Hey, let's use our iron swords to kill that guy in full heavy dragon with a weapon that glows and just wiped out an entire Dwemer Ruin"
Fallout: "Hey, let's use our 10mm pistols to kill that guy in full power armor with a weapon that literally atomized the Brotherhood of Steel guys that landed on a vertibird"
STALKER: "Hey, let's use our Makarovs to kill that guy running around in full SKAT9 with a G36 and wiped out our other bandit camp without so much as a problem"
I feel no pleasure in putting them down, but they get no remorse from me

void vortex
#

I didn't say I enjoyed it

finite dragon
void vortex
#

I mean

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if you kill targets

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and do self defence

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it's pretty valid

native ibex
finite dragon
#

"Casually raiding enemy bases" I am defending myself

maiden salmon
#

robbing mechanics? the only robbing I ever noticed was extortion and ended up with me getting more free loot

native ibex
#

Them fathers be having g every opportunity to surrender

void vortex
#

you know

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If I were a local and you saw all these snot nose wanna be adventures walking in with butt loads of cash I'd go Bandit too

maiden salmon
#

or just become Sidorovich

native ibex
#

The point is that they don't have much money

void vortex
#

otherwise dump them into an anomaly to search for artefacts

finite dragon
waxen coral
void vortex
#

Being a Loner is too boring

#

might as well abuse them as best as you can

waxen coral
#

f_freedom or f_duty

void vortex
#

Freedom

#

actually

potent bluff
void vortex
#

Loners are the safest and boring faction

native ibex
#

Go Duty

potent bluff
#

Associated with factions is boring

quick dune
#

bandits on top

void vortex
fallen dust
#

hello

finite dragon
#

w

potent bluff
#

Join factions means you have no purpose in your life... you need someone to lead you

#

Free stalkers make ya own story

fallen dust
#

ok

potent bluff
quick dune
#

imagine being

#

free stalker -> bandits -> duty -> monolith -> dead

finite dragon
#

join bandit

fallen dust
#

mmm

#

no

finite dragon
potent bluff
#

Free stalker than dead

finite dragon
#

join your momkardan_drink

quick dune
#

here's to all the dead people

finite dragon
#

Join Merc

fallen dust
#

join your corpse has been ripped apart by a whirligig

finite dragon
potent bluff
finite dragon
fallen dust
#

Join what

void vortex
#

Monkey alone weak. Monkey together strong

finite dragon
#

Join nothing

fallen dust
#

Join yes

pseudo rivet
#

Join me in my basement

finite dragon
#

Join no

potent bluff
#

Apes. Together. Strong MONKE

fallen dust
#

Join agreed

void vortex
#

@pseudo rivetcan you remove Loners?

fallen dust
#

im abouta test this gun sounds mod

potent bluff
fallen dust
#

gun sounds overhaul

pseudo rivet
#

There are no Loners in here

quick dune
#

bandits. together. dead

pseudo rivet
#

Not accurate

finite dragon
#

mercs. together. rich

void vortex
#

There are no Loners in ba sing se

pseudo rivet
potent bluff
#

Im merc but my heart is loners f_free_stalkers

finite dragon
pseudo rivet
#

Neutral Gang, tbh

#

Can respect Free Stalkers

finite dragon
#

Kruglov. no strelok. dead

pseudo rivet
#

But Loners wack

fallen dust
#

join duty and save the innocent kill anarchists

native ibex
#

Mercs forever

potent bluff
#

Free stalkers > loners

finite dragon
#

:D

potent bluff
#

Is loners canon name?

pseudo rivet
#

Neutrals > Free Stalkers > Loners

#

Yes

potent bluff
#

Oh

finite dragon
#

ecologs. no arms. AMOGUS

pseudo rivet
#

But Loners =/= Free Stalkers =/= Neutrals

quick dune
#

i literally had to restart the wounded chimera mission because of bandits, mutants and zombies interrupting me

potent bluff
pseudo rivet
#

Loners are Stalkers who go on their own

finite dragon
pseudo rivet
#

Kinda like the protagonists

potent bluff
#

Hmm hmm i see

quick dune
#

pretty much every protagonist was a loner

pseudo rivet
#

Free Stalkers are like them, but they stick with groups

#

And then there are the Neutrals, who are like the Stalkers from CS and Bes' group

void vortex
#

Free Stalkers = Loners. They look and act the same

potent bluff
#

Loner is lonely peepo_cry

void vortex
pseudo rivet
#

Loner is lonely

#

Free Stalkers go in groups

#

But yeah, Neutral gang tbh

#

Then there are also Eco-Stalkers and Military Stalkers, but those should be obvious enough

potent bluff
#

I wanna see military stalkers in S2

pseudo rivet
#

It would be pretty interesting, since we never really seen them before

void vortex
#

Military Stalkers, Spetsnaz, Airforce, Military ground control

#

😳

pseudo rivet
#

SBU moment

finite dragon
#

A whole new massacring project

pseudo rivet
#

But what about Interception?

hushed aurora
potent bluff
#

Are Military stalker neutral towards Free stalkers?

pseudo rivet
#

No

finite dragon
#

Daily raids in the Military base

potent bluff
pseudo rivet
#
Soldiers who took special training after service in the Zone, or stalkers contracted by the army.

They carry special equipment, are well armed and equipped. Most often they are used to study the causes and consequences of the disaster, and also map the Zone.

They may move alone or in groups of up to five people. They do not let regular stalkers approach, immediately opening fire.
void vortex
pseudo rivet
#

Yeah, but they aren't technically Military Stalkers

#

Degtyarev is, though

void vortex
#

They are Military

#
  • faction
finite dragon
#

Deggy guy was a former Loner no?

pseudo rivet
#

Yeah

void vortex
#

yes

#

Loner turned disguised Military spy

#

🧀

pseudo rivet
#

Turned USS Permanent Observer

potent bluff
void vortex
#

Now kiss

pseudo rivet
potent bluff
#

💏

potent bluff
#

Why freedom and merc fight each other in multiplayer?

finite dragon
#

vs

void vortex
finite dragon
#

Freedom fighters I guess

potent bluff
#

Duty is also warsaw 🤔

void vortex
#

Freedom is more of a free stalker hybrid in multiplayer

#

and mercs more PMC

#

maybe diffrent lore

potent bluff
finite dragon
#

vs

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NATO guys

pseudo rivet
#

Pretty sure it's still something from the builds

quick dune
#

both are bad

pseudo rivet
#

Don't remember what it B

void vortex
#

Freedom had a German flecktern skin

pseudo rivet
#

Nah, that was the Mercs

void vortex
#

and Mercs an US one

#

oh

#

right

pseudo rivet
#

Both are Mercs

#

Freedom had France and the UK

#

Freedom

void vortex
#

where you got these from?

#

Link?

pseudo rivet
finite dragon
#

Looks cool

stuck granite
#

That groin area oh my

void vortex
potent bluff
pseudo rivet
pseudo rivet
pseudo rivet
pseudo rivet
pseudo rivet
# pseudo rivet

And this one is unknown. He just has U.S. Army, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

void vortex
#

Is there a way to edit multiplayer skins without game spy acting up?

potent bluff
void vortex
pseudo rivet
finite dragon
native ibex
#

What I want to know is what kind of journalism Easter europe has where swearing is the considered the highest level of degeneracy

void vortex
#

wat

native ibex
#

We can't swear because of publicity, or something

frail spire
#

You mean here?

maiden salmon
#

yeah, the bot yelled at me yesterday

tardy tide
#

bdrink

frail spire
#

Well thats due to average public relations decisions when making these kinds of groups

tardy tide
#

yurup

frail spire
#

Even if the people themselves are against it it's usually better to do it to avoid any and any kind of lawsuit, cancelation, etc.

tardy tide
#

do not condone

frail spire
#

Since if people said whatever they wanted in here unfiltered that means the whole studio "condones" anything people says

tardy tide
#

discord server gets cancelled because a 12 year old said "f***"

finite dragon
#

metastasis

frail spire
#

Yes, thats usually how it goes

#

When you're dealing with a publisher, corp, etc.

tardy tide
#

i like how european officials dont like online cursing when literally every other country in europe normalized defecating on the sidewalk

frail spire
#

Nah thats americans fault tho, their garbage rating systems has games with "Teen" on games where you execute people but on the slighest sight of a bare leg or a "revised" story or something that would fall under "conspiracy theory" gets an "Adult"

#

And then you have localization

#

See offtop for reference

tardy tide
#

i mean a lot of teen rated games are super cartoony with the kind of violence they have. like fortnite and the newer halo games. i do agree that most mature rated games only fall in that category because of something that could possible offend even one person

#

like a lot of ww2 games are mature rated, probably not because of the violence, but because of the certain people that were involved in the war

#

kinda stupid how you can show literal war crimes on camera and show it to children in school, but its an entirely different story when it comes to video games

#

i hate the videogame industry

#

its not how it used to be

void vortex
#

Shadow the hedgehog got a 16y rating because he said damn and hold guns

tardy tide
#

hes a freakin badavs

void vortex
#

If I owned a game studio I wouldn't think about baby sitting a discord server that comes with it

tardy tide
#

lol

frail spire
#

I mean, you say that now but this is a officially verified one

void vortex
#

most are here just to lurk till Stalker 2 comes out. it seems to bring more trouble than benifits

frail spire
#

It's all fun and games until bergstein&showers sends you a letter with a lawsuit about deniers

tardy tide
#

i only came here for the emotes

void vortex
#

Here to lurk for the retail version btw

tardy tide
#

does the deluxe edition of stalker contain a real aks74u

frail spire
#

When you are a big (or an entity that shows itself to the public) entity you're subjected to public whims, if the outcry is big enough it doesn't if you were right or wrong

tardy tide
#

or a rock covered in radioactive waste

frail spire
#

You get a canvas bag

void vortex
#

You get graphite with your order

frail spire
void vortex
#

from the orginal CNPP

tardy tide
void vortex
#

lmao

frail spire
#

If you don't interact with your people theres bound to be problems anyways on the long run

#

Also you couldn't ask for suggestions nor what the actual playerbase could be looking for

maiden salmon
#

the akm74/2u makes me the most upsetti about vanilla

void vortex
#

fair

maiden salmon
#

why 545 gun have 762 mag cry

tardy tide
#

cause beeg mag

fallen dust
#

Or anarchists have a "mercenary-division"

finite dragon
finite dragon
#

And 1 thing

maiden salmon
#

but the akm74/2 has a "correct" mag, why not just recycle that part of the model and change color

finite dragon
#

Why didnt they use actual guns

#

Names

#

And characteristics

#

They even flipped the bolt to be on thr left

maiden salmon
#

mirroring is common because easier to animate