⭐┃nospoilers_general

[half glade]

Mutants are zones twisted animals that just kill anybody and anyone and aren't really controlled apart from their primal stuff ofc

[frail spire]

I thought mutants were the result of mount empty-tier experiments

Like the manlet that lifts fridges to fling at you

Or the ghost made of farts that kills you if you sniff it by accident

[half glade]

Lol

[scarlet oracle]

do you guys know which anomaly mod reworks the ui?

[finite dragon]

Idk

[frail spire]

I'm a degenerate who plays vanilla anomameme so dunno, never bothered to check what works on it or not

Since I don't wanna redownload it when it eventually borks

[scarlet oracle]

well do you guys have any good reshades for anomaly?

[hallow solstice]

i like agressor, but it isnt realistic

prosperity is probably your best bet

yes, but also in COP oztersky figured out mutants were attracted to the scientific jammers trying to stop them from getting information about the zone (from what I understood)

also some mutants are lab rats, some are just from the zone

i like to think burers are a group of bandits who stumbled upon something they shouldnt have so now they're deformed monsters

[scarlet oracle]

yeh after looking at it I think I prefer agressor for the tarkovish feel

[half glade]

Burers do be hot

Like sexy hot

[scarlet oracle]

Dont know about that one

[hushed cipher]

is the gunplay realistic? i think im going to buy it

[half glade]

Well it's a hard game and it might not seen realistic playing the first one

[scarlet oracle]

not in the slightest but the game is terrifying which makes up for it

[half glade]

Just one big tip play on the hardest dif

[scarlet oracle]

tru

[frail spire]

I think burers were criminals who got experimented on

Not straight up bandits, just criminals who got sent there

Can't remember about controllers but I'm pretty sure they were also result of some human experimentation stuff

[hallow solstice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE49OFkF-Ko&ab_channel=MiralisIV

i really dislike this

[hallow solstice]

no, your bullets will go a little bit everywhere if you try to run and gun

you need to play on the hardest difficulty for you to max damage

[scarlet oracle]

My cpu's gonna have a fucking field day

[hallow solstice]

the gun play isnt realistic at all, however, long as you crouch, and dont move when shooting, aiming head level will guarantee near instant kills

[hallow solstice]

its a cool idea, but they dont look like stalker characters

all the iconic signs of stalker factions just go out the window and makes this whole new thing. i dislike it

[scarlet oracle]

It just looks like a generic military game

[hallow solstice]

yeah

[hallow solstice]

if you dont aim for the head enemies WILL bullet sponge, and your starting pistol is terrrrrrrrible

[peak basin]

dang thats cool actually

maybe if you want more realistic mode that addon is perfect

[hallow solstice]

i guess

im not gonna lie, it is impressive and the models are very good

BUT it isnt stalker

[scarlet oracle]

The suppressed makarov hits like a truck tho and you get if pretty early on so you'll be fine

[hallow solstice]

yeah, also the viper

getting the free merc suit in rookie village is great too, but you gotta look for it

[scarlet oracle]

I looked for like half an hour and somehow couldn't find it

but save scumming is a thing so I dont need it

[half glade]

Lurk has a good gun play but it's a mod so first vanilla

[scarlet oracle]

mod for anomaly or SoC

[half glade]

Soc

[scarlet oracle]

damn

[half glade]

Ofc

Anomaly only have addons

[scarlet oracle]

ahh

gmod but its stalker

[hallow solstice]

its on one of the rooves

theres a ladder up i believe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfl-bKOqCts&ab_channel=GenericGamerGroup

well little more complicated than a ladder but yeah

[scarlet oracle]

that is the only place I didnt look so I guess I'll check next time I'm visiting that greedy little midget sydrovitch

[hallow solstice]

the bull dog mission caused me problems

i had already raided the freedom base with duty, and then fucked around with the bulldog and left it in the road. it despawned

had to go on a goose chase and killed 4 blood suckers to find the second one

[scarlet oracle]

don't think I'm that far

[finite dragon]

I'm gonna try anomaly again and if nothing funny happening, i will delete this mod again and i won't download it ever again

[peak basin]

wdym funny happening

[finite dragon]

One shot

Juan kill

lets make stalker 2 really brutal

and also unforgiving

[scarlet oracle]

tru

[half glade]

Shoot me hunney

[hallow solstice]

they might but i dont think GSC is gonna deviate too much from the original games

i dont think itll be much more difficult than SOC

[half glade]

There will be mods to make it harder

All i want is atmosfere

[finite dragon]

Ok

[dusk token]

this gives me ptsd after CS

[finite dragon]

[open lintel]

👀

[hallow solstice]

wormfood

[finite dragon]

[half glade]

Military what a joke

[scarlet oracle]

what do I need to mod anomaly?

[copper sky]

JSGME or Mod Manager to make the modding faster and more comfortable

[pseudo yoke]

Mod managers are for zoomers

[finite dragon]

Bruh if ur having problems with fps just go to C , windows and delete system 32

[scarlet oracle]

truu

tried that worked like a charm

[scarlet oracle]

So I'd just put agressor reshade in the mod folder and call it a day?

[copper sky]

call it a day?

[scarlet oracle]

What I mean is do I just have to put in the mods folder and launch anomaly or is there an extra step

[copper sky]

open JSGME, select the mod and activate it

[scarlet oracle]

cool

does boomsticks and sharpsticks still work?

[copper sky]

i havent heard about any conflicts between them

[hallow solstice]

no the page has instructions

it needs to be in certain game folders in the bin and game data shaders

Drop the ReShade files from this download into your Anomaly/bin Folder.

is what the page says

You can make a duplicate of your current bin if you ever wanna replace aggressor with normal files

[hallow solstice]

Yes

It should work, long as it’s at the top of the load order in my experience nothing messes with it

I reccomend tou get item animations with those addons as well, it’s neat seeing your stalker eat beans

[scarlet oracle]

lol doing all of that rn

[finite dragon]

P

[scarlet oracle]

first time modding anything really so I really appreciate the help

[hallow solstice]

👍

[half glade]

Vanilla

[scarlet oracle]

you got any good animation mods I could try out?

[hallow solstice]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/food-drug-drink-missing-animations-patch

Read through the description there’s some extra info

But I use this

If for some reason it doesn’t work

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/food-drug-and-drinks-animations-reuploaded

The original. There’s still a fair few items without animations yet

Most will be animated tho

[scarlet oracle]

thx

[hallow solstice]

Also I enjoy this addon a lot

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/mutants-have-all-mutant-parts

with how many parts you’ll get but it only makes sense. If you kill a boar, it shouldn’t only drop 1 hoof if it clearly has 4

You’ll make a little more money than you’re probably supposed to tho

[finite dragon]

is there any mods for anomaly from sweden that removes misery stuff like repair items, etc

[hallow solstice]

I don’t know if you have them, but Hollywood FX+JSRS sound overhaul are also great

Makes the game look and sound a lot cooler

[hallow solstice]

I believe there’s an addon that removes old ammo, but most misery stuff is there to stay

[finite dragon]

damn

[hallow solstice]

You CAN get a mod that changes the guns that drop’s condition tho

So you won’t get 2% guns, but rather 70-90 if you wanted like the other stalker games

There may be an addon that changes how fast things break as well but idk

If worse comes to worse, you may be able to just adjust it to your liking in the game files

The folks at the anomaly discord server probably know more than I do

[pseudo yoke]

@finite dragon so far no

I am trying to turn anomaly into CoC on a new engine with enhancements

But the repair system and item bloat is ingrained in it

[scarlet oracle]

NONONO

MIGHT HAVE TROJAN

[hallow solstice]

What’d you download..

[scarlet oracle]

the engine bin file from the first link from the fil

downloaded from the google drive link

[hallow solstice]

Yeah

[scarlet oracle]

that's a virus?

[hallow solstice]

It shouldn’t be?

Does your anti virus say it is?

[scarlet oracle]

Thats what windows defender said

[hallow solstice]

Oh

[scarlet oracle]

doing a scan rn

[hallow solstice]

I mean, I’ve played with it before and haven’t had problems.

If you don’t wanna do it you can try the other

[scarlet oracle]

I mean I deleted it basically immediately so maybe I'm good

not sure

[hallow solstice]

You’re probably fine, I don’t think it’s a virus

Probably just had an unrecognized file

I know for certain tho that the original food and drugs animation mod is clean

Maybe not the added animations, but the original is for certain A ok

[pseudo yoke]

imagine thinking you can get a virus

[hallow solstice]

Although I think moddb would’ve screened it for malware so I find it unlikely it was an actual virus

[scarlet oracle]

Yeah that was 100% clean not sure about the google drive link tho

and yeh

hopefully just a false alarm

[hallow solstice]

Most likely

Windows defender will try to stop tou from downloading a lot of them since they’re random files so you’ll need to give it permission most likely

If it has a lot of downloads and comments it’s more than likely safe tho, I doubt there’s any malware on moddb

[scarlet oracle]

k thx m8

still gonna do the scan to make sure but if I'm clean I'll finish the mod downloads

[finite dragon]

There used to be

[hallow solstice]

Maybe some but not many

The staff all scan it themselves before upload

There’s been like maybe a dozen cases from what I’ve seen

[finite dragon]

Cement's fov 1.9.4 thingamajig version got taken down because there's a virus in it

[hallow solstice]

Ah yes i remember that

Didn’t know it had a virus but I knew there was controversy around it

[finite dragon]

what was the controversy

[hallow solstice]

Idk just people saying to uninstall it since it caused some compatibility issues

I think they removed it from the EFP pack

That or another cement addon

[finite dragon]

They did

[stark widget]

Need advice guys. I just got my final Stalker Faction patches in the post so now working out how to lay them out in a nice old weathered frame. But, would anyone have any advice on how to “group” them? I’m thinking things like Bandits next to SIN etc, that kind of thing? Any advice is appreciated. 🙂

[hallow solstice]

Well, id personally do it in a color gradient

[half glade]

Duty ans freedom next to each other cuz they are gay hommies

[hallow solstice]

You could also maybe do favorite to least

[half glade]

From weakest to strongest

[hallow solstice]

So freedom —> duty?

[finite dragon]

oh nyet please no

[pseudo yoke]

Duty is the weakest lol

[hallow solstice]

What’s that? You all became slaves to the zone? Sorry can’t hear you over our super cool 100rads bar and superior exo suit motors

[pseudo yoke]

Doesn't defend the barrier
Can barely keep Rostok safe
can't even hold the Wild Territory

[finite dragon]

duty can't even kill the dogs in front of their base

[pseudo yoke]

Duty got btfo and lost Rostok

[finite dragon]

Bandits couldn't even kill Strelok

[hallow solstice]

Too many dogs

[pseudo yoke]

Freedom raided and slaughtered the military to take over their new base in the Warehouses

[pseudo yoke]

Too many dogs

[hallow solstice]

I always found that hilarious tho, I remember in SOC I had a mission to clear “the dog nest”

Walked over to the corner, 1 dog just sitting there

[finite dragon]

what a coincidence that their origin base got taken by bandit

[hallow solstice]

Shot it once, got 5k roubles

[stark widget]

Some good ideas there before it derailed lol

[pseudo yoke]

Freedom? Yeah they left it empty lol

[hallow solstice]

Those guards are so heckin lazy

[finite dragon]

What a coincidence that the bandit base got abandoned

[tame helm]

freedom can't really defend the barrier either

[pseudo yoke]

Monolith is the strongest faction in the Zone

[tame helm]

true

[pseudo yoke]

They do though

[hallow solstice]

Military actually got wiped out by an emission I believe

[pseudo yoke]

There are no monolith south of the barrier

[finite dragon]

strongest faction

weak armour

Cool

[pseudo yoke]

Did you even play clear sky

[hallow solstice]

Yes

Warehouses was duty wasn’t it?

[pseudo yoke]

Do you not remember clearing out the Warehouses

[stark widget]

Any other ideas welcome- but are there any factions that SHOULD be next to each other?

[pseudo yoke]

No it was military

[hallow solstice]

Wait no

[finite dragon]

Bandits and Renegades

[hallow solstice]

Yes it was military but they were weakened by the emission or something

[pseudo yoke]

Duty works for the military

[tame helm]

renegades are sigma if u think about it

[hallow solstice]

I was meant to fight them with freedom but uh, freedom didn’t like me for reasons

[finite dragon]

Freedom and Bandits

[tame helm]

[finite dragon]

Duty and Free Stalkers

military got affected by the psi emission that time and you got a task from this merc to go to the radio to contact other mercs

[hallow solstice]

So freedom was in dark valley right?

Military was in warehouses

[pseudo yoke]

There are missions in SoC from Voronin requesting you to kill a Stalker the Mil wants dead

[finite dragon]

Dank valley

[hallow solstice]

Duty was in.. place

Agoprom?

No

[finite dragon]

Agrodead

[hallow solstice]

I don’t remember

[tame helm]

do u guys think mercs in lore would whoop most factions

[hallow solstice]

Anyway, I clear military base single handedly like a chad

Freedom takes the glory

[finite dragon]

No because they can't kill Strelok

[tame helm]

nah we wouldn't have strelok in it

[hallow solstice]

No, or else they’d have taken 100 rads

[finite dragon]

Dead

[tame helm]

if scar is a Merc and still alive tho...

[pseudo yoke]

No, they'd lose to Monolith

[tame helm]

[pseudo yoke]

Scar is dead

Or likely Charon

[tame helm]

we don't know for sure

[stark widget]

So, what about Bandits, Renegades abs Sin. Then Military and Duty.

[finite dragon]

Sin and monolith because they are the same

[hallow solstice]

I like to pretend scar may have survived by devs said he’s dead so

[tame helm]

they mostly just do jobs not terrorize

[finite dragon]

mercs are expert assassin and they will kill you without missing a single shot

[pseudo yoke]

Sin is non canon

[hallow solstice]

Their job is to kill duty

Idk why factions work with mercs in stalker, it ends horribly every time

[finite dragon]

mercs come to the zone to make money by taking contract from their leader

[stark widget]

Sin pretty cool tho

[finite dragon]

orthodox cross

a lunar thingamajig

a snake

[hallow solstice]

Weird mutant men

[tame helm]

was sin like this cult like faction

I forgor 💀

[finite dragon]

people who like sin probably commit a lot of sins

[hallow solstice]

Doomsday half mutant people things

[finite dragon]

Absolute monolith kind

[hallow solstice]

Weird folks

[pseudo yoke]

No, Sin doesn't exist

[tame helm]

so are they mutants?

[quick dune]

i don’t get people asking for strelok in stalker 2

[pseudo yoke]

Fan fiction

[stark widget]

Does anyone know where I can easily upload a photos if I lay these out then I can link it here for feedback?

[tame helm]

half mutants

[grand pendant]

i rember 😁

[hallow solstice]

No like half mutants

[quick dune]

or making theories that he will be back

[grand pendant]

they change depending on the desdoc

[finite dragon]

you guys play too much anomaly stop for a while and go outside

[hallow solstice]

Mutated humans I guess

[quick dune]

why would he abandon being a researcher

[pseudo yoke]

He was in all 3 games

[finite dragon]

ok and

[tame helm]

to research better

[pseudo yoke]

I want Nimble to be referenced at least

[hallow solstice]

Imgur I suppose

[quick dune]

either he’s dead or he sits in a lab

[hallow solstice]

Nimble is gonna be in stalker 2 don’t worry

[grand pendant]

no they're not mutated humans nor mutants. They were normal humans that were in a weird satanic cult or stole documents and were controlled by a mutant

[tame helm]

nimble's char model slowly degrades in originality and importance

[pseudo yoke]

I hope we kill Strelok

[hallow solstice]

Watch him take over the skadovsk

[quick dune]

sharex, if you want to save them to your hard drive

[hallow solstice]

I’m almost positive we do

[finite dragon]

Abracadabraaaaaaabracadaaaaaabraaaaa

[hallow solstice]

Skiff had to kill some dude to save the zone

[pseudo yoke]

I hope we blow up NIICHAZ

[tame helm]

can't wait for clickbait youtubers

[hallow solstice]

Who else would that be?

[quick dune]

but what about cardan and nitro

no vehicles in stalker 2

[tame helm]

all new zone car

[pseudo yoke]

I hope their vehicle fails

[finite dragon]

I hope Monolith got reduced

[pseudo yoke]

Watch stalker 2 be a reboot

[pseudo yoke]

They didn't

[hallow solstice]

If it’s truly the whole zone and seem less I hope to god there’s a car

[tame helm]

any faction can't beat all 3 main chars

[finite dragon]

Ok

[hallow solstice]

Or at least a bike

Something

[tame helm]

even monolit

[hallow solstice]

Idk if I can hoof cordon to the CNPP

[grand pendant]

i hope they test drive it straight into an anomaly and people get why cars aren't good for the Zone

[pseudo yoke]

They've confirmed no vehicles

[tame helm]

unless strelok isnt possessed

[hallow solstice]

Man.

[quick dune]

bloodsucker bike

[hallow solstice]

Guess I’m walkin

[finite dragon]

😳

[pseudo yoke]

Walking is better

Makes you healthy

[quick dune]

then efforts of cardan and nitro were useless

[hallow solstice]

Walking in the zone seems unhealthy

[pseudo yoke]

Healthier than driving

[tame helm]

cardan goes back to vodka life

[hallow solstice]

Due to the whole toxic wasteland surprise spring trap thunder fire anomaly things that hurt you a lot

[finite dragon]

Or produce more item 62s

[quick dune]

but he stopped being alcoholism

[hallow solstice]

I find this most likely

[tame helm]

does he have the resources

actually yeah he probably does

[pseudo yoke]

Only Monolith does

[finite dragon]

Scrap guns

[quick dune]

he doesn’t have a manual

[hallow solstice]

I mean, there’s still a MASSIVE one in zaton

[quick dune]

only military has documents

[tame helm]

item 63!!!

[hallow solstice]

Someone will take it I’m sure

[finite dragon]

But he's part of the group that made it?

[quick dune]

and that is if you even went to x8

yes

[pseudo yoke]

Monolith #1

[grand pendant]

they literally helped spetsnaz, yeah. Sent you to kill stalkers in Agroprom because their position isn't "advantageous to our allies" right after they tried taking Agroprom

[quick dune]

you go to cardan to fix it, he needs documents for it

[finite dragon]

Ah damn I forgot

[quick dune]

so he can see how it works

[hallow solstice]

Total speculation, but the trailer shows new animations for the gauss rifle and it looks sleeker with no scope

May be a new model

Either the USS continued testing and it got leaked to the zone or carden made new ones

[tame helm]

imagine if we have a pseudogiant that can leap and has controller like ranged attacks

[finite dragon]

ok

[quick dune]

well i mean they didn’t want to build too many

[finite dragon]

their hands being controller ish

[hallow solstice]

I would simply go to the other room

[tame helm]

big brain

[quick dune]

we can meet degtyarev in the game

[finite dragon]

too many= military with gauss cockrifle

i want to see the making of snorks

[hallow solstice]

He’s the new cordon machine gunner

[quick dune]

too many = too expensive to produce ammo

[tame helm]

the new pripyat machine gunner

[quick dune]

new vova

[hallow solstice]

Keep in mind guys, there’s still a lot of left over gauss rifles IN the CNPP from dead monos

Probably a few scattered around pripyat roof tops and the one clear sky had so

[finite dragon]

Prototypes

[hallow solstice]

If someone felt adventurous they could get another

[quick dune]

yes but mono shreds stalkers and soldiers

[finite dragon]

One man army

[hallow solstice]

I’d like him to be in that apartment next to the moving fruit punch

[tame helm]

that's probably logical considering there's a pkm there

[hallow solstice]

If you manage to get past the BS anomaly you can get 1 tapped by him

[tame helm]

egghead worst faction?

[hallow solstice]

In gun slinger it’s the trophy AKM from clear sky

Kinda cool

[tame helm]

cool

[quick dune]

but he’s an observer

[hallow solstice]

I didn’t use it but I kept it in my stash

[quick dune]

not a machine gunner

[tame helm]

akm shooting dragunov ammo

genius

[hallow solstice]

Close, but I’d say clear sky is

Like lore wise, clear sky is horrible and ridiculous

[tame helm]

atleast clear sky are way better geared

[quick dune]

basically the ak47

[tame helm]

ish

[hallow solstice]

They don’t really make sense in what their goal is, it’s very generic

Although renegades are a close second

[tame helm]

I think they use like ridiculously rare guns in endgame of cs

[quick dune]

they research it, and they can defend themselves

better scientists

[tame helm]

renegades prob kills themselves

[quick dune]

but not funded by the government

[finite dragon]

Lmaoo

[hallow solstice]

They’re just a faction that was to be an enemy for the player, they have no lore or reasoning behind their actions just a group who seems to wanna stop CS for some reason

Only reason they’re not the worst tho is CS killed themselves in a raid, at least the renegades didn’t all get burnt to a crisp

[quick dune]

the clear sky wiped them out and they weren’t seen by anyone

[tame helm]

I've heard renegades are like bandits but don't care about anyone else including other renegaders

[hallow solstice]

Something like that

[tame helm]

that leads to chaos

[quick dune]

it’s probably a special branch/division made by bandits to operate specifically in the swamps

[hallow solstice]

They were strange. Renegades and CS weren’t fleshed out

[tame helm]

if clear sky didn't die by the emission

[hallow solstice]

Freedom is one of my other least liked factions

Bunch of stoner hippies

[tame helm]

They would still be better than eggs

the egghead's rely on mercs or dutiers and military

[hallow solstice]

Eggs have bunkers, CS has a shrek swamp

[tame helm]

true

[grand pendant]

except they do

[tame helm]

but the bunker isn't big

[quick dune]

they rely on mercs and stalkers

military won’t even go there

[tame helm]

I like duty because they have good structure

[grand pendant]

they are outcasts of other factions that nobody likes because they are too wild, so they formed their own faction

[hallow solstice]

It’s a shame, because I find all the freedomers quite likeable, but they all have to die

It’s the only way

[tame helm]

do u remember the chopper in shoc

[quick dune]

duty is one of the most powerful

[quick dune]

i meant that they don’t help them much

[tame helm]

true

military is powerful and all

But mercs with worse armor just defeats a heli

speaking of which

[quick dune]

don’t kill vano

[hallow solstice]

If you put all the factions fighting each other, duty squads usually come out on top

[tame helm]

Berill 5m is such a scam

[hallow solstice]

It’ll be hard. In stalker 2 if I come across Vano I don’t think he’s making it out

[tame helm]

sidor better start selling those instead of stalker suits

[hallow solstice]

Love him, but he’s a dirty hippy

[grand pendant]

well yeah, he had a rocket launcher

[quick dune]

i just bought the exo once i got the wealthy client achievement

[hallow solstice]

This

Pripyat suddenly becomes far far too easy with it lol

[tame helm]

good point but you would expect them to atleast kill some bunch or mercs at that point

[quick dune]

yes but the mono with gauss still one shots u

[hallow solstice]

Maxed exo suit was hilarious with my maxed Val. I was super prepared for the final sequence and everyone died around me and i was unscathed

[tame helm]

pripyat outskirts in cop really has a scary atmosphere to it

[hallow solstice]

A bit underwhelming

[quick dune]

only 2 people died on me in the end

i prefer the vintar more

[hallow solstice]

My soldiers all glitched and strelok just ran ahead to the chopper without going for cover

[quick dune]

mostly one shots people at a cost of bullet velocity

[tame helm]

i used an f2k and armsel for casual exploration

[hallow solstice]

Yeah, but AS Val can do the same technically, just no scope

[tame helm]

is the tide even worth it

I forgot what it does better than the vss

[hallow solstice]

After comparing it to a max Val, no

[quick dune]

but then if u max out tide

[hallow solstice]

Identical damage, better range and accuracy but the fire rate is too slow

[quick dune]

shouldn’t it be better than a max val

[hallow solstice]

No

[tame helm]

did u try

[hallow solstice]

Pretty much the same except for range and accuracy

Y’a

[tame helm]

wow

now I wonder

[hallow solstice]

The tide would be better if it had a nice RPM but it doesn’t it’s like an ak

[tame helm]

svu a?

[hallow solstice]

Slow RPM as well

[tame helm]

AK doesn't even shoot that slow wdym

[hallow solstice]

Honestly just using a gauss is better

[quick dune]

i mean it won’t have good rpm because it’s a sniper

[tame helm]

I had a gauss too during the end

[hallow solstice]

Yeah but it’s slow compared to a val

[tame helm]

mostly used it instead of the tide

[hallow solstice]

End game load out is usually just Val and gauss

Works for any situation

Val for baddies and snorks , gauss for annoying mutants and pesky snipers

[tame helm]

I just rocked the f2k

[quick dune]

kinda underwhelming that u don’t get the end scene if u don’t decide to leave

[hallow solstice]

Going to x-8 and blasting all the burers to kingdom come was very satisying

[tame helm]

used it because it's the endgame weapon in shoc

wild burers in call of Chernobyl are hell to fight

[hallow solstice]

F2000 is super good

[quick dune]

in soc u get alot of ammo

for free

[hallow solstice]

Same with COP tho

[tame helm]

I literally had 200 ammo

[quick dune]

if u loot stashes that is

[hallow solstice]

After getting hunter you’ll have like 2k AP ammo lol

[tame helm]

and it wasn't enough to kill a chimera

[hallow solstice]

Every day you get like 100+ AP

[quick dune]

just use a shotgun

[hallow solstice]

By the time I did the final mission had 1600+ 9x39

[tame helm]

I killed it using a knife tho

[quick dune]

why would you use a rifle to kill a chimera

[hallow solstice]

That calls for a vog to the face

[hallow solstice]

He made the wrong assumption that bullets Pierce chimera skin

It’s infact bullet proof

[tame helm]

yeah

chimeras are too easy when you have a shotgun

[hallow solstice]

I’m curious to see how factions work in stalker 2

[tame helm]

or knife

[quick dune]

this time degtyarev, i’ll beeee bullet prooooof

[hallow solstice]

I may just do a loner run for my first

Idk how long it’ll be

Think it will be like an 100
Hour save game or 50?

[quick dune]

idk if we can join factions

[hallow solstice]

Surely it will let us

Or at least influence

[quick dune]

bandit speedrun any%

[tame helm]

so clear sky is the only game to have faction joining right?

[hallow solstice]

Yeah

[grand pendant]

technically no

[hallow solstice]

COP is close since you can get attacked by freedomers for being to nice to duty

But CS makes it official

[grand pendant]

you can join Freedom in SoC through glitches

[tame helm]

I wonder what the other stalker's attitudes are to us if we slaughtered any stalker we see in shoc

[quick dune]

i was nicer to freedom than to duty

[grand pendant]

not really a glitch, just an uncut dialogue option

[hallow solstice]

It says stalker 2 will be a non linear story

To me that implies side stories

[finite dragon]

Gg

[hallow solstice]

Which means faction relations

[quick dune]

any story was pretty much non linear

[finite dragon]

Except for CS

[quick dune]

clear sky not so much when it came to endings

cop probably the most

[tame helm]

cs is the only one with a linear endinf

[hallow solstice]

SOC felt a bit rail roaded to me

With its levels

COP imo was the least linear. You could change a lot

There’s like 20 closing sequences tou can change through side quests

[quick dune]

can’t you technically not meet doctor and get the decoder without meeting him

[hallow solstice]

I don’t think so

Where would it be?

[quick dune]

if u don’t leave the zone the stuff u did applies to the zone

[tame helm]

I'm pretty sure it's inaccessible if u do not use glitches

[quick dune]

maybe he had a special key stuck up his bum

[hallow solstice]

Yeah I mean you COULD do the gun in the door

[quick dune]

that he gave u to open the apartment door

[hallow solstice]

COP had mini stories

The whole skadovsk arc, the railroad arc etc

Other games didn’t seem to have that

[quick dune]

did u take over skadovsk

[hallow solstice]

Or at least wasnt noticeable

[quick dune]

with the bandits

[hallow solstice]

Nah I kept it stalker led

Screw sultan

[quick dune]

sultan is a meanie but i am probably gonna test what happens if u take it over

[hallow solstice]

You’ll get to collect taxes from bears

Beard

Reduced prices with owl

Think that’s about it really gameplay wise

You won’t get the increased artifact sell costs and artifact orders tho

[tame helm]

stalker path = tax evasion

[hallow solstice]

Financially, you’re better off being friends with beard so you get those juicy 24k for a bubble tasks

[quick dune]

i wouldn’t sell a bubble

unless i couldn’t fit one

[hallow solstice]

Well goldfish then

[half glade]

Owl stinks

[hallow solstice]

The problem with the radiation was if I wanted to wear compass+night star I needed 2 bubbles

But nothing else wiould fit without rad poisoning

[random vortex]

Racoon stinks. 😠

[tame helm]

night star and goldfish is so hilariously bad in shoc

for it's rarity

[half glade]

NOOOOOOO u can't even type raccoon correcty 😔

MEANIEEE

[hallow solstice]

By the time I had the svarog I’d find bubbles in concrete bath and swamp fairly often

[finite dragon]

Fat cockoon

[hallow solstice]

+easy wrenched and goldfish

[half glade]

I know I have fat one

[tame helm]

@half glade 🤔

[finite dragon]

Also how are you

😳

[hallow solstice]

Honestly just selling the artifacts from all of zaton was worth 60k roubles a day

Didn’t need more than that realistically

[scarlet oracle]

update: found something in the scan might be an unrecognized file but I'm not sure can you take a look?

[mental vessel]

Quary and plavniy are good sources of chemical artifacts too

[potent bluff]

[half glade]

I am bored at work reading a book yesterday at work I finished roadside picking

[hallow solstice]

Never had luck with them

[finite dragon]

Ok(e)

[hallow solstice]

Magpie sure did tho

[half glade]

Ok 😔

[quick dune]

magpie was baddie

[hallow solstice]

Splinter definitely didn’t luck out

[finite dragon]

sed

[half glade]

Its always okay but never are you ok

[hallow solstice]

Magpie was@executed

[tame helm]

did any of u guys wake up bloodsuckers in the lair stealth

[hallow solstice]

Snag was also executed

[potent bluff]

Never

[hallow solstice]

No

[half glade]

No

[finite dragon]

I am not ok kek

[tame helm]

good

[hallow solstice]

But

[quick dune]

did you?

[tame helm]

No

[half glade]

Kek I hope you get better

[hallow solstice]

Jumping on the shelf

With some grenades

[finite dragon]

Thanks 😳

[hallow solstice]

And some shotgun amp

Ammo

I didn’t need to get gas is all I gotta say

[tame helm]

I committed warcrimes using gas

[hallow solstice]

Grouse got pretty beat up but uh I sorted everything out so

[quick dune]

the game would be alot shorter and underwhelming if you didn’t complete any sidequests

[tame helm]

did anyone experience the tremor glitch

[finite dragon]

I just killed them after I got Grouse out

[hallow solstice]

Yes

[tame helm]

rip

[quick dune]

i opened gas valves and ran

[hallow solstice]

Laughed, then vogged him

[tame helm]

lmfao

vogfed

[mental vessel]

Once in quary I found 2 fireflies and a bubble, in plavni meat chunk and another bubble

[scarlet oracle]

@hallow solstice do you know if anomaly uses a the file HackTool:Win32/Product key

[hallow solstice]

What was it

[scarlet oracle]

well it was the hack tool

[quick dune]

don’t install anomaly

spare your hard drive

[scarlet oracle]

I got the space

[tame helm]

a snork is actually really easy to counter in shoc if u know the strats

[quick dune]

not talking about that

[tame helm]

it dies from 2 knife backstabs

[scarlet oracle]

what then?

[hallow solstice]

I believe that’s to bypass COP

[quick dune]

about the cancer it’s gonna get if u install it

[hallow solstice]

It’s so it becomes a standalone game

[scarlet oracle]

got it

[hallow solstice]

It can be used maliciously technically but if it’s in the anomalt@folder, that tou downloaded from their discord, it is safe and used to bypass needing COP

[quick dune]

did u play the original games before installing anomaly

[hallow solstice]

That’s my assumption anyway

[scarlet oracle]

SoC

[quick dune]

play the rest then

why start with mods after finishing only one

[feral bronze]

You shouldn't play mods imo until you finish all 3 games

[tame helm]

already played coc after shoc and cop

[finite dragon]

SoC on ps2 when

[hallow solstice]

Playing mods will make you hate CS more

[finite dragon]

I wanna see the yellow-ish look gege izi

[scarlet oracle]

Unfortunately I'm broke so I cant play the others

[feral bronze]

I love CS

[quick dune]

soc on steam deck

[scarlet oracle]

I actually played anomaly before I played SoC and I'd say I actually enjoy SoC a bit more

[quick dune]

pirate the rest instead of playing mods, imo it’s better to do that

[scarlet oracle]

tried pirating once and it didn't go too well

[finite dragon]

Wish all games never got DRM

[hallow solstice]

I liked it to, but I didn’t like 3 bandages for bleeds or the swamps

[quick dune]

yes

[hallow solstice]

Encouraging him to steal from GSC 😭

[quick dune]

too many bandages

[quick dune]

devs won’t get money either way tbh

[hallow solstice]

What’s their steam/GOG cut

[quick dune]

probably 75 or 85 %

[tame helm]

600 ammo is like unnecessary for games like coc or cop but 600 isn't even gonna cut it in shoc

I packed 500 for x16 with my tunder and I ran out of ammo before reaching sewers

[hallow solstice]

Aim for the head

[tame helm]

the gun shoots like shotgun

it's strong but innacurate

[hallow solstice]

Crouch when shooting

[finite dragon]

Nah nah

[tame helm]

doesn't help

[hallow solstice]

It’s supposed to

[tame helm]

the gun was on half dur or smth

[finite dragon]

Just aim and shoot them in the head

[tame helm]

so yeah that explains

[hallow solstice]

Oh that explains it

[tame helm]

it's pretty much the only good gun I had

[hallow solstice]

Unfortunate

[tame helm]

I switched to sniper as val when I finished the quest needed

[hallow solstice]

GP37 spoiled other guns for me

Nothing felt good enough

[tame helm]

and I still had good relations for freedom and duty after purge the freedomers

how to loner

[tame helm]

didn't really like it due to its weight

[hallow solstice]

It’s essentially an f2000

[tame helm]

mostly used tunder because of supreme dmg and fire rate and also light

[tame helm]

f2000 still has a launcher and slightly better stats

[quick dune]

zulu’s machine gun is the best guys

[hallow solstice]

But isnt 9x39 a very heavy ammo?

[tame helm]

I meant the tunder 545

[hallow solstice]

Oh

[tame helm]

barin died in the dog entrance to bar lol

[hallow solstice]

Funny fact, you can repair guns in SOC

[tame helm]

wait what??

[hallow solstice]

Get 5 electric absorption artifacts

[tame helm]

oh yeah I remember

[hallow solstice]

Go in an electric field

Wait 1 hour

[tame helm]

that doesnt work

suits only

[hallow solstice]

Negative damage

[tame helm]

I mained ssp99m because of this tho

had 4 batteries

[grand pendant]

a CM implied it's about the same, pirating and standalone mods. Since you don't need to buy the base games to play

[hallow solstice]

Oh, guess tou can farm mercs in wild territory until you get a high durability 5.56 then

That’s what I did

[tame helm]

can't do that when u have an exclusive weapon

😔

[hallow solstice]

I see

[tame helm]

some guy made a video on how to get f2k early game

[hallow solstice]

I suppose, but if I bought the games it’s based on I’m not a bad guy right?

[pseudo yoke]

Hey @grand pendant what is the servers opinion on "trap" spam and other nsfw topics

[tame helm]

it abuses save and loads and locations in arena

[quick dune]

to the wish granter with your guns

strelok sgi the best

[grand pendant]

any type of spam is bad, nsfw topics aren't allowed either

[pseudo yoke]

I see

[grand pendant]

yeah, that's fine

[hallow solstice]

Goin to bed

It’s late

Gnight

[tame helm]

gn

[marble cipher]

yoo

you guys think stalker will have gun animations similar to cod MW ?

[quick dune]

[marble cipher]

lmao

[random vortex]

Probably more similar to Halo tbh.

[finite dragon]

similar to me

[feral bronze]

Hopefully the entire game plays like cod MW /s

If you can't noscope a bloodsucker at 1km away then what's even the point 😉

[tame helm]

man rubber bullets 😔

[finite dragon]

[feral bronze]

Add taser gun. Non lethal difficulty mode, no kills allowed, gotta knock out every enemy for entire game. Would be 100% fun guaranteed. Just be ineffectively zapping Bloodsucker with your taser over and over as it sucks all your blood 👌

[tame helm]

[finite dragon]

nyet spasiba

[half glade]

It can suck my D

Funny bloodsucker man

[finite dragon]

Day X of checking #🖤┃s2-pre-order to find no POL/EU stores

[finite dragon]

Mr weed smoker

[quick dune]

bruh

who would want a bad gauss rifle

[finite dragon]

i swear reading that just gave me level 3 radiation

even antirad can't cure it

[languid fern]

guys sorry for bothering but, i just curious... when you guys think stalker 2 will be set? in 2013,2014 or 2021? call of pipyrat was in 2012 i think

[quick dune]

i think it's supposed to be 2021

[finite dragon]

from what i heard, stalker 2 will be set in 2021

[quick dune]

but i want it to be 2013-2016

maybe not 2013

[finite dragon]

from that time, we will be having a lot of new anomalies and new mutant i guess

[quick dune]

because the zone wouldn't grow like 60 km in a year

[languid fern]

yeah, it makes sense

[half glade]

No no freedom

[wispy walrus]

tbh

2013 would make more sense

in the context of the zone 2021 is a MASSIVE JUMP

[finite dragon]

Yea

[wispy walrus]

cs > shoc > cop happened in under 12 months

[finite dragon]

It will be a totally new place

Maybe loners will be the only old faction besides bandits

[wispy walrus]

doubt given they showed duty suits already

[finite dragon]

I see best faction prevailed

[wispy walrus]

I hope its not a case of CoM/Anomaly writing

[sharp spear]

i doubt that CoM changed the story to massive levels

[wispy walrus]

where the zone is stuck in limbo canonically basically

[sharp spear]

anomaly did as a excuse to get modern stuff

[wispy walrus]

everyone is in the same spot

none of the factions changed

[finite dragon]

Those mods are just made while waiting for new stalker

To fill time ig

[wispy walrus]

if its actually 2021 the zone would be very different

[tame helm]

what's com

[sharp spear]

call of misery

[wispy walrus]

by that point the whole thing will probably be on lock down more akin to roadside picnic than stalker

[tame helm]

ohh

[sharp spear]

imagine call of chernobyl but it has misery in it

[finite dragon]

Its a slav country, we arent the best for locking down

Or working too much

[wispy walrus]

i'm more betting s2 is like 2014

[finite dragon]

They probably let any lot for a small fee

[wispy walrus]

depends

its similar to roadside picnic in that regard

the zone was like that early on

then the army got replaced by a specialized branch and division

they robotized defenses

etc

Ten years is a long time even outside the realm of stalker where big things happened all within one year like the last 3 games

the equipment would have drastically changed too, which it seems it hasn't based on the art

[frail spire]

I'm mostly guessing we're gonna have more modern guns

Maybe gsc will meme on us a little and make the g11 the best rifle

Or add boatguns

[tame helm]

I doubt anyone will smuggle a rare and delicate g11 into the zone

assuming they brought in tons of ammo that is

[sharp spear]

the power of black market

[tame helm]

yeah I'm not sure if the black market can even manage to get alot of g11s or ammo for it

[sharp spear]

black markets are hella insane

[tame helm]

yes

[sharp spear]

if lucky you can get a black market nuclear warhead if you have enough money

[tame helm]

man

[sharp spear]

so thats where the stole military nukes went in stalker

[tame helm]

gyrojet in stalker

[finite dragon]

poggggggggg

renegades

[wispy walrus]

the black market doesn't exactly have "rare" guns more weird stuff

like mauser 90A browning hi powers

mg34s, colt woodsmen pistols, etc just odd stuff not rare stuff

[finite dragon]

i was playing analmaly and was trying to get to doctor hideout and then i hear a bloodsucker screaming in the distance luckily i got a shotgun with me and then the bloodsucker jumpscared me and suddenly my penis hurts

[half glade]

What ye nerds talking

[finite dragon]

about you

[half glade]

Awwwh

😳

[finite dragon]

about your smell

[half glade]

I know I smell great

[finite dragon]

makes me want to vomit

[half glade]

U must have covid since when gun oil and gunpowder make u vomit

[pseudo yoke]

You realize less than a thousand G11s were ever made and only like 4 exist right

The "black market" can't get something that doesn't exist anymore

[tiny olive]

Bandits smuggling and manufacturing 3D printed pistols

Cardan won't be delighted

Trapper gonna hunt a chimera with a Taser X26

[still ridge]

You mean glock?

Americans know what I mean

[maiden salmon]

Manufacture 3d gun with filament you need to smuggle in and a constant and reliable power sources. Or just smuggle in guns already manufactured. Hard to choose

[pseudo yoke]

Or you can just smuggle in one of the hundreds of thousands of AK rifles available

[languid fern]

Can I run stalker anomaly with addons with an potato pc?

[solid dome]

Indeed

[finite dragon]

[copper sky]

I ran it with an i3 and 2 gb ram at 30-50 fps, in the lowest settings obviously

[finite dragon]

[quaint trout]

Retail for eng community when?
"In a few days"

https://tenor.com/view/bones-skeleton-waiting-bored-gif-14221479

Also: i got in touch with Gamestop and that point they dont even have any info if they will get it.

[native ibex]

Yeah, kind of not worth the hassle building a specialized firearm for the very unnecessary purpose of caseless ammunition

[finite dragon]

Why do bandits say

I took an olive

Its a synonim for bullet?

[indigo wind]

He had to mod the game to make a lot of adjustments (i.e. surpassing hardcoded 65535 item limit in the Zone) but yeah he got the game day 1 and is still playing it on the very same savegame.

Not literally day 1, but in 2007.

I have some admiration for people like him. Not superficially exploring one mod and jumping into another right away but actually taking time to explore all the game has to offer, and more.

[olive basin]

the g11 is barely real lol

prototypes are just prototypes

if you want obscure look at something like the g41

actually used in service, rare and barely produced

[random vortex]

Even if you did manage to smuggle a museum piece G11 into the zone, you wouldn't find any ammo for it there.

Unless you ask the wish granter or something.

[maiden salmon]

Imagine the repair cost on it too

Costs 800k to go 10%

[ornate compass]

Yes bullets look like olives

[potent bluff]

🫒

[tiny olive]

Yes, just lower gfx

[golden moon]

does shoc have rng for whether your shots hit?

[frail spire]

Lmao GET GOOD

YOU SCRUB

[pseudo yoke]

No

Look at this

[frail spire]

don't hit anything
instantly blame the game and not yourself thinking "Maybe I suck ass"

Cmmon man

[golden moon]

my guy

calm down

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

i was trying to tell him its not like that lol

ive played shoc

[frail spire]

It's like the people who think dark souls is hard

[golden moon]

dark souls is hard

i can player stalker easily on the sane hardest diff but dark souls iunno man

[hallow solstice]

dark souls is a game of memorizing from what i can tell

its hard until you memorize the boss

then its easy

stalker can be hard. but only because of total BS

like clear sky AI tactical nuking you with 5 grenades

[frail spire]

The only hard part of dark souls games are the pants-on-head retarded janky hitboxes

Oh you dodged a hit perfectly? Well too bad get hit anyways

[tiny olive]

What's the armor of the Bandit sniper before entering Limansk in Clear Sky?

Merc Bandit or Bandit Jacket?

[narrow jackal]

Sorry if this is asked a lot but is their further information on the physical pre-orders? All I've found is a post over a month ago saying they'll be available in a few days

[stark widget]

it'll be in a few days apparently

[narrow jackal]

Well as long as I haven't missed out 😆

[solemn tapir]

Dark souls is related with stalker?

[stark widget]

just out of interest does anyone still have that date from when they said it'll be available in a few days? How long has it been?

[narrow jackal]

In pre-order there's a post from june 14th stating that

[half glade]

U can order it

If u are in Russia or Ukraine

[narrow jackal]

But they get the real life experience already

[half glade]

Indeed getting robbed by bandits at gun point sounds realistic

And drinking vodka like water

[quick dune]

russia doesn't get real life experience because they are inferior

[finite dragon]

real

[fervent cave]

good afternoon bros

[finite dragon]

Help im in X18 lab for the first time and a skull is keep throwing at me

Its an invisible force that throws a skull at me and jumpscares me

I peed myself

just ignore it and keep moving

I heared a roar when walking down stairs

Its gonna be bad isnt it

well yeah but dont worry

[fervent cave]

oh yes

i hate labx18

[finite dragon]

Its pretty ez man

X 18

Just shoot everything

[solid dome]

X18s good. Just stock up on useless ammo for the first time and shoot each side upon each sound you hear

Get a Chaser and unload hell

X18 equals pure bed love, however

[finite dragon]

oi blin, is leaning gonna be available?

[mental vessel]

It wouldn't make sense if it wasn't, it is one of my favourite features

[finite dragon]

Same but like it's gonna be on console

Which is daft coz stalker isn't a console game

Imagine putting Arma 3 on console

Or many other PC games that have a lot of keybindings

[solid dome]

One would hope GSC won't do the 4A mistake

Remove stealth completely

[finite dragon]

There was no stealth in the first place tbh

Enemies can see you through walls in stalker

And sneaking behind them doesn't work

And in the stalker 2 trailer, the guy equipped a suppressor and didn't even stealth kill anyone, that was such a pointless thing, they should have leaned and quickly popped the guys

[pseudo rivet]

Agroprom Stealth Run challenge (SoC)

No detection, no kills

[tender cedar]

Hello

[pseudo rivet]

'Sup

[tender cedar]

Waiting next class to start

[pseudo rivet]

Oof

[tender cedar]

Sleepy, as I slept 4-5 hours I think

You?

[pseudo rivet]

Waiting for our Session 0 for D&D

[tardy tide]

Waiting for ur mom to call me back

Ohhhhhhhhhhh

[pseudo rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/roasted-for-hogger-bee-silly-hump-gif-14515451

[solid dome]

Oi, @pseudo rivet explain this in #📸┃screens_and_videos

[pseudo rivet]

Because you returned

You left the Great Swamps and returned, so that's why

[solid dome]

Meaning...

I'm not sure I get that

Now I have to walk all the way up to the Cordon....

[pseudo rivet]

You can still take the path at the Northern Farmstead

[solid dome]

Yeah but why the heck the options disappeared, I'm paying TOP rubles here

Played thru CS 3-4 times and never had this before

[oblique crypt]

Dang, just learned about there being no companions in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2.

[half glade]

Big diiick

Most of ya don't have it

[pseudo rivet]

Most

[half glade]

I got a big one

[oblique crypt]

Oooo

[pseudo rivet]

Nice

[solid dome]

You got a fish stick, bud

[oblique crypt]

[half glade]

I got a whole ass salmon

In my ass

[solid dome]

[half glade]

[pseudo rivet]

Answered in #🔍┃ask_gscarchive?

Because that looks like an NDA question

[solid dome]

No companions?

[pseudo rivet]

[solid dome]

Like what, mutants?

[half glade]

Awww man no companions

Oh well even tho story based it would make sense cuz its easier to survive

But its also easier without companions as well cuz most of them are dumb as rocks

[solid dome]

Who in the heck needs a pseudo dog to howl next to him in a situation of No Seva, No Ammo and 10hp

[half glade]

Not those companions human one u mong

[solid dome]

Oh

Who needs those...

Braindead AI to attract all kinds of nasties

Like a case I had before

A RARE ONE!

One of the friendlies threw a grenade but there were obstacles in front so instead of throwing it far ahead, he threw it in his legs

I was next to him, we ended up dead

[half glade]

Give companions all gauss rifle

Profit

[solid dome]

And no grenades

[solid dome]

Basically aim-assist AI

[half glade]

It worked for my anomaly play through tbh

Cuz they suck so gauss rifle makes it easy cuz one shot 1 kill

[solid dome]

AAAAAAAAw. I'm gonna go wreck those mutants and see if I can guide-travel safely, boomstick in hand!

[finite dragon]

Where to get gauss rifles

[half glade]

in soc u can get your first gauss in dark valley there is like a barn thing at the end

[finite dragon]

Where to get multiple to give to companions

[half glade]

well in anomaly your best shot is raiding cnpp and ofc pripyat also doing the main mission of anomaly that sucks

[pseudo yoke]

No they can't

They can hear you through them

[finite dragon]

No

I double crouch and they still know

[pseudo yoke]

.

Stealth in Stalker is very very easy

[finite dragon]

But there's no stealth lol

[pseudo yoke]

Just don't be in line of sight and hold ctrl

[finite dragon]

Stalker Anomaly has some stealth

[pseudo yoke]

You can easily stealth Agroprom so idk what youre talking about

Anomaly is bad

[finite dragon]

No u

Anomaly is good

[pseudo yoke]

Lol

Freedom, British and likes Anomaly?