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[trim hound]

i checked site and option of retail dissapeared

[tired anvil]

I do as Sergiy is swimming in cash from anything going from the original series and novels to a professional motorcycle racing career and his own track

[worthy scroll]

I only want the physical ultimate edition..not the digital

[trim hound]

me too

[tired anvil]

🇵🇱 | Euro.pl:
Collector's Edition PC: https://www.euro.com.pl/gry-pc/koch-media-s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-serce-czarnobyla-edycja-kolekcjonerska-pc.bhtml
Ultimate Edition PC: https://www.euro.com.pl/gry-pc/koch-media-s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-serce-czarnobyla-edycja-ostateczna-pc.bhtml

[vernal magnet]

not enough to single handedly publish a AAA 2022 gaME

[tired anvil]

Everything is in #🖤┃s2-pre-order

[finite dragon]

halloohaaaa stalkerrssss

[vernal magnet]

theres plenty already to say otherwise

the OG trilogy doesnt pay that many bills

[tired anvil]

I mean sure, there's arguments to both our points, so I guess unless we know officially, we may never know

[vernal magnet]

but GSC already was looking for a publisher

[tired anvil]

Though I imagine if a man has his own motorcycle racing track, he has some money around

[dire galleon]

Still bad thing to do imo

[vernal magnet]

one we now know is Kosh media. same publisher for the original trilogy

it aint just microsoft money

[tired anvil]

Welp, whatever it may be, in the end I'm just happy if the game is out

[vernal magnet]

ill drink to that

[worthy fable]

Yeah i'll smoke to that statment. only thing to do is wait and don't let your expectations get too high

You'll be blown out of the water if you go in with little hype

[vernal magnet]

i think everything except the music will win me over

nobody can replace Mooze and i only like half of what i've heard so far

[tired anvil]

Concept art has won me over personally

[worthy fable]

You talking about the score in the trailer or the website ambient music?

[vernal magnet]

youtube official GSC tracks for the game

the music with the tone like we saw with the weapon showcase nails what i want

everything else feels off big time. not enough somberness and danger

[tired anvil]

Not a fan of Zone Dreams?

[dire galleon]

Damn now i started simping for that one story mission

[worthy fable]

Bro im listening to that RN jeebus it slaps

[vernal magnet]

honestly? not really. the guitar recording quality and the tone just doesnt seem right

i will walk my dog and when S.A.D comes on. im totally in the zone

[worthy fable]

Well it has an a reverb eco on that if you're talking about

echo

[vernal magnet]

the last 30 seconds of zone dreams is pretty ok though

beginning is not for me

[tired anvil]

Sidenote, I like Duga being used as an audio waveform in the video for it

[vernal magnet]

its not the reverb

thats bothering me anyway

[vapid compass]

did i break stalker cop? i had to kill vano and a luitennant because they starting shooting me (theres no green icon in map anymore, just side mission ones)

[vernal magnet]

the Cypher song from the original reveal slaps though.

the sample of the original theme with the new sound is brilliant

[worthy fable]

Agreed

[tired anvil]

You can keep playing, but they shouldn't be hostile

[vernal magnet]

108 bits of the zone is ultra hype for the trailer, wondering where it will fit in the game. maybe the opening? it also slaps

[worthy fable]

That's the interesting thing about music, what peaks my interest might not peak your's, we shall see how big the soundtrack is

[vernal magnet]

now that i think about it...i just dont like zone dreams lol

[tired anvil]

Super cool ending with the CNPP exploding and the music playing, Far Cry 4 style 😎

[vernal magnet]

heck yea

[worthy fable]

I've always been intrested in what will happen to strelok since i think we're supposted to have a new protaganist

[vernal magnet]

if dirge for the planet is not playing in a bunker or bar i am rioting

[tired anvil]

Protag is Skif, yea

[vernal magnet]

if dirge for the planet is not playing in a bunker or bar i am rioting

[tired anvil]

Leave Strelok to the 2011 plot

[vernal magnet]

poor strelok. seems like he gets a bad hand in the OG story and the new one so far lol

[trim hound]

I JUST BOUGHT IT !!!!!

HA !!!!! I CANT WAIT !!!!!

THX EVERYONE FOR HELP SEE U !!!!! :3

[tired anvil]

Cya, have fun waiting

[vernal magnet]

got yourself an ultimate didjya?

[dire galleon]

btw i still wonder, why steam won't add that "upgrade edition" stuff for every game with editions, that would be very useful

But S2 is the only game that i noticed saying this, when I'm trying to get ultimate: SAME PRODUCTS According to our information, you already have one or more items from your shopping cart. If you buy this for yourself, you will not receive additional copies: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl Are you sure you want to make this purchase?

[tired anvil]

Pretty sure that depends on the devs

[edgy narwhal]

Hello there Stalkers

[finite dragon]

Howdy

[celest solstice]

If they don't give NA a chance to buy the physical Ultimate Edition I am going to flip out 🤬

[vernal magnet]

the DLC is not available separately yet. steam is telling you that your purchase will upgrade your content but you wont be able to gift the extra "base" game. basically warning you your paying strictly for the bonuses at the full game price

if you bought regular you gotta refund it or wait for release to buy additional content

[dire galleon]

I didn't. I got standard as a gift while was saving money to get ultimate

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[vernal magnet]

same thing

either way because you have standard you have to wait for the steam listing to be updated

[dire galleon]

got standard as a gift too?

[vernal magnet]

no, im saying that being gifted standard and buying standard is the same thing. you own the standard version so your locked into it for now

[dire galleon]

ah, yes I understand

[finite dragon]

sounds about right

[tired anvil]

They will

[finite dragon]

Too big to miss out on

[solid dome]

Ooof, what a useless anouncement about the bearded lad

Come on, beards don't exist. Bears too. Only beer does.

Fake PR

[worn nacelle]

Sry but, is there a chat for bug reports and help with fixing? Cuz there's either none or I'm blind

[hushed aurora]

#🔨-technical

[spring fossil]

I am literally so stoked to preorder the Retail Ultimate Edition, when it releases soon and all

[hard ermine]

What's the deal with the collectors edditions. Are they available yet?

[dull anvil]

Finally finished anomaly

Gonna play as monolith next and see how far i feel like going

[finite dragon]

It is unknown when the retail ultimate edition will come out

I mean it's been out on Germany

But depends on your region I guess

[wet turtle]

still not working

the body health system even though i use MO2

[delicate sparrow]

You're trying to mod Anomaly correct?

[wet turtle]

yes

[misty tusk]

we're so close to US pre-ordering I can almost taste it

[minor seal]

[finite dragon]

Hope not

[bronze mason]

Greetings fellow Stalkers. I'm looking forward to pre-ordering the physical edition for PC, but can't see anything on their site. Does anyone know when pre-order in Europe starts? Thanks

[finite dragon]

Already started to expand in Europe

[bronze mason]

Do you have a link please? I can see the physical edition on their site but no button to pre-order. Thanks

I just found the option to pre-order digital

[wispy pier]

skiff marked one brother confirm!11?

[finite dragon]

what country are you in?

Either way the link is in #🖤┃s2-pre-order

[bronze mason]

UK

Thanks

Looks like its just the standard edition for the UK at the moment 🦊

[finite dragon]

gotta wait for the manufacturing

[wispy pier]

Pre order copies manufactured : 10

[finite dragon]

probably 100 or so

[bronze mason]

😄

I am very curious to see the price though. The USD was over $300, so wanna see how that compares to GBP, it may be too expensive for me

[wispy pier]

its too expensive for me in asia

[finite dragon]

asian gang

[potent bluff]

yeeee

[finite dragon]

Can only buy the digital standard edition

but eh I am still saving

[potent bluff]

Ultimate Edition Gangz

[finite dragon]

[bronze mason]

The most expensive game pre-order I've bought was Doom Eternal, £200 for the Ultimate, but even that was too much. So I might just stick with the Deluxe edition

[finite dragon]

lemme check what STALKER 2 costs in MYR

eeeeer

it's 189.99MYR

[bronze mason]

£245 for me for physical ultimate. Steep

[finite dragon]

stalker 2 doesn't have the original prices (by it I mean it's just not the same as previous titles)

[bronze mason]

That's just doing the straight conversion, but it will be more because of taxes

Well I don't need an artefact Lamp or a backpack.

[finite dragon]

same

[bronze mason]

The next one down is collectors for £130, more reasonable

I've still got my original STALKER special edition. The tin looks like it's got radiation damage

[finite dragon]

supposed to

[bronze mason]

I know lol

Yes i think it's Collector's for me, unless I get some mad bonus at work.

[finite dragon]

lmao

[wispy pier]

hmm

my game doesnt load up in x10 lab

[finite dragon]

is there an X10 lab?

[finite dragon]

he means the one in brain scorcher i guess

[quick dune]

x10 = x19

[finite dragon]

Ight

[hushed fjord]

Hi

[woeful cape]

i'll cry if they're all sold out before north american pre orders even open

though, at the same time, that'll save me a looot of money

[tepid ibex]

Well guys, I did it. Ultimate Edition has been ordered

[opaque meadow]

sad my laptop probably wont run stalker 2

[weak valve]

Congrats 😄

[finite dragon]

man my laptop can only run stalker in dx8

[limpid cargo]

Where did you order it from if I may ask?

[tepid ibex]

@limpid cargo euro.com.pl
The only shop available in Poland

[limpid cargo]

Oh yeah that store I think its in the pre order tab on discord. Sadly they don"t ship outside of Poland.

[wispy pier]

xDD same

okay im soooooooo close to a bloodsucker spawn in BS Bunker

[spring fossil]

If you close your eyes I've heard the Bloodsuckers can't see you.

[finite dragon]

where i can found teta zombie in stalker anomaly

[oblique crystal]

So S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 Ultimate Retail Edition for PC in Denmark, when? Just take my money!

[halcyon vector]

hey, can someone help me out with the installing stalker?

i'm having some issues and i don't understand why.

[haughty cove]

What’s the problem?

[halcyon vector]

well, i can't seem to be capable of extracting it properly.

[haughty cove]

What are you installing from, Steam or disk?

[halcyon vector]

disk i think.

i got the Stalker Anomaly when it was free and now i am trying to install it agian, and it just won't work.

[haughty cove]

Ohhh Anomaly, okay. So you’re trying to extract the game files from the zip yes?

[halcyon vector]

yes

[rugged scaffold]

I really hope CE is available for the Scandinavian countries too. So far only standard edition listed.

It would be a huge bummer if we don;t even get the chance here.

[haughty cove]

Okay. If you’re not already using WinZip, I’d recommend using that (a lot of people use 7zip, but it just ain’t as good). It might be a problem with where you’re trying to extract it, try just doing it into a folder on your desktop

[halcyon vector]

is there like a way to extract it wrong

if you want to tune in i can show you the way it was extracteed

[haughty cove]

RIP accidental click, I’d go on call but my gf is asleep next to me 😅

[halcyon vector]

oh, i get you buddy don't worry, well, i'll delete this folder and try to re do it

[haughty cove]

I’m not sure if there’s a “wrong” way to extract, you can try either in the application itself or by right-clicking the icon wherever you have it installed

Fair enough man, gl

[manic pelican]

No channels for the original games? Guess I'll ask here. At the risk of asking an inflammatory question, does Shadow of Chernobyl get better? I've gotten myself into the basements of the research building and not enjoyed a minute of it. Is it the same from here on out or does it change?

[tired anvil]

It gets better

[tired anvil]

Anomaly is always free 🤔
Have you played any of the actual games before or not really? Because Anomaly isn't exactly one of them

[manic pelican]

Played none of them before. Figured I'd give them a whirl since they're along similar lines as Metro and I very much enjoy that series. Currently got SoC working with ZRP going too and like I say, not really enjoying myself. Just wondering if there's more to it or if it's more of the same and just not for me.

[tired anvil]

(Also this is a channel for the original games)

Idk what to tell you tbh, for some it clicks instantly, for some later, some replayed it for it to click, for some it never does, for some only 1/3 or 2/3 of the games click

It's really a type of thing where you just sorta finish and decide on your own or ragequit in the process

[still ridge]

If you’re not a fan of the atmosphere and world, I don’t think you’ll enjoy SoC

[tired anvil]

Using mods on a first playthrough

[still ridge]

If you’re not drawn to the zone because of its mystery and horror then I’m afraid you won’t enjoy it at all

[tired anvil]

To each their own

SoC is my least favourite personally, but I still like it

[manic pelican]

I mean so far I've not noticed a whole lot of atmosphere.

I was hoping for an interesting narrative or idea but so far the zone might as well just be a field full of bandits.

Re: mods the only reason I've seen people recommend not using ZRP for a first playtrhough is so you can suffer to see why it's necessary and I'm not a fan of making things harder for the sake of it.

I could be wrong - am just a newcomer here. Just trying to figure out whether it's worth continuing to struggle through this. If it gets better and more interesting I can try put in some more time but if not then not.

[tired anvil]

Up to you, it's really a perspective thing. Like, some don't consider it hard without any mods (I'm one of those people), whilst some consider it a challenge even with ZRP and other stuff

As they say, every copy of Stalker is personalised

[manic pelican]

While I'm here - do the other two games require you to have played the first one or are they all different and unconnected stories in the same world?

[tired anvil]

Clear Sky is a prequel, CoP is a sequel, though it's recommended to finish SoC before playing either of them

They're different but also sorta connected

[woeful cape]

soc is best to play first because of the gameplay, compared to cs or cop

[tired anvil]

What

SoC literally has the least amount of features for gameplay

[manic pelican]

In what sense? Was about to say that so far it seems clunky af

[woeful cape]

that's what i mean

it hasn't aged as well, doesn't have as much polish, etc

so i started with clear sky, and i couldn't get into soc afterwards because of the comparative clunkiness

i wanted to do them in story order, not release order

[tired anvil]

Release order helps with the story though, interestingly enough

[manic pelican]

I mean I can deal with clunky if there's enough narrative in there to keep things interesting but so far I got nothing in SoC other than "find strelok"

[woeful cape]

i've read so much of the wiki anyway, i'm familiat with most of it lmao

going through the story missions and talking to key stalkers is how you get most of the story

think dark souls and item descriptions, but optional dialogue

[tired anvil]

If it helps, the game gets easier as you progress

Sorta designed in a way where your equipment gets better, and the enemies sorta, but it does become gradually easier

[woeful cape]

also yeah, the starting gear is absolutely awful, you will be punished for making mistaked you don't understand early game

[tired anvil]

Until the very very very end, but that's a tiny portion of everything

Low crouch + Q/E: the game

[woeful cape]

i find every stalker game is like that, starts off hard, easy mid-late game, then punishing finale

but i love it due to the mix of horror and exploration, it's not just a sandbox shooter

[manic pelican]

Yeah I figured that. Like I say all I got so far is Fox shot at strelok once, Mole is going to hide for a bit, and there might be a stash somewhere in the basement.

Like I say I'd love for more narrative or interesting stories but not got much else.

[tired anvil]

Well, I can spoil you the fact that CoP and CS will be far better in those aspects

CoP for the sidequests, CS for general lore

[woeful cape]

granted, i haven't played much of soc as i said, so it is possible the story just isn't as prevalent as it is in the other titles

[tired anvil]

Though I'd still finish SoC at least once

[manic pelican]

Well, if I gotta grind through this either way, how long is SoC? Getting as far as I have (Fox, Mole, into the basements) going to be 1% or like 10% or what?

[tired anvil]

10%? Maybe a bit more? Tbh hard to say

Game length depends on the person, some complete it in 10h, some in 30h

[manic pelican]

Yeah, fair.

[woeful cape]

by basements, do you mean underground? the first underground mission is generally a decent chunk into the game

[manic pelican]

Yeah went West from garbage (I think) into the map where you fight a bunch of military to get to Mole. Mole says that Strelok's stash is probably somewhere underground and points you to a basement full of bandits.

[woeful cape]

i wanna say that's the agropom underground, yeah

[tired anvil]

It is

Wonder if he's seen the Controller yet

[woeful cape]

oops
what i meant to say is that i have a very strong dislike for controllers

[manic pelican]

Agropom, forgot the word

Yeah that's it.

If the Controller is something big and noticeable then not seen it.

[finite dragon]

someone call the mod

[tired anvil]

@pseudo rivet

Hi Crimson

[manic pelican]

Trying to avoid spoilers if possible but yeah, just getting through it.

Well, guess I'll give it another go and keep on trying to grind the way through it.

[tired anvil]

Have fun because seems like you aren't lmao

[woeful cape]

i hope you have a shotgun on you, for the underground mission, i find it makes dealing with mutants a lot easier

and don't be afraid to play on a lower difficulty, especially if you're in it mostly for the story

[manic pelican]

Lol yeah.

Since I don't know anything, any advice for getting through this is appreciated

[tired anvil]

Low crouch + q/e

A lot seem to not know about low crouching

[woeful cape]

mmhm

also i know you wanted to avoid spoilers, but maybe watch a video on controllers so you know what to expect?

they scared the pants off me when i first encountered one and i ended up dropping the game for a week because of it lmao

[tired anvil]

They aren't that bad

I have a better tip

[woeful cape]

i can't handle their ||jumpscare type attack||

[tired anvil]

Instead of shooting, run up and knife one of them. You'll know what it is when you see it

[woeful cape]

just realized what time it is, i gotta dip. keep it cheeki breeki fellas and good luck pickleas

[pseudo rivet]

Wat it B

[tired anvil]

Were you not the one to delete the scam link?

[pseudo rivet]

Nay

[tired anvil]

Oh dang

[pseudo rivet]

Was gone for just a sec

Blow did the do

[tired anvil]

[still ridge]

Main narrative is the worst part of stalker

[cedar forum]

May I ask who were the Renegades???

[still ridge]

Imo you play it for the world, not for the characters

It’s far from a character driven story

S2 might change that

[worthy fable]

Well the story is there, just not force fed down your throat. Its a game that the story can be completely ignored if chosen, like darksouls

[tired anvil]

Time to play Clear Sky and find out

[finite dragon]

our old friend

[novel briar]

Renegades are ||same as bandits, but they are enemy to all groups in a game, even to a bandits. As I remember PDA information says: Renegades are past members of that or another faction and they were betrayed by them or they left by themselves.|| - Spoiler. Literally... Just go install Stalker CS and play it.

[worthy fable]

This game will make you ask a billion questions, its better to play and find out for yourself, much more rewarding

[finite dragon]

Any tips for OLR 2.5?

[quick dune]

basically something like a branch/sub-branch or a regiment

[worthy fable]

I love the stalker series, I've done vanilla playthroughs on all of them. The one I find myself coming back to the least sadly is CS just due to some massive bugs. The one that really kills me is the faction system never working properly. Anyone recommend any CS mods that fix the game but doesnt really change the game itself much?

[finite dragon]

WTH

HELICOPTER JUST BLEW ME UP

[worthy fable]

Where you at rn lol? Had a similar thing happen in SOC just now

[finite dragon]

Im playing OLR 2.5

[worthy fable]

Intresting, I've never played a whole playthrough non-vanilla

I've looked at that mod b4 but you would know better, how drastically does it change the game @finite dragon ?

[finite dragon]

It restores most (if not every) feature from builds

From 2002-2004 or smthn

Its harder ofc

Alright i delivered the suitcade

Suitcase*

Heli almost blew me up

[worthy fable]

I enjoy getting tossed around by a game

[finite dragon]

I will preorder stalker 2 before 1 month of the release

[dire galleon]

Ultimate, willya?

[finite dragon]

Depends if i had money in that time

[gleaming mantle]

Hello, stalkers!

[worthy fable]

GET OUT OF HERE STALKER!

[gleaming mantle]

But he said to come in, don't stand there.

[worthy fable]

Best 2 lines in the series

[uncut pond]

When I first came across him I was like... okay, bye, wait then how do I get in? REEEE

[worthy fable]

||Chilling outside CNPP during the emission till i die to watch the effects. I always sprint in full speed and ignore it.||

[gleaming mantle]

That dark rain after the emission...so scary, yet so relaxing

[solid prism]

Can't wait to see emmision in S2

[manic pelican]

Without story spoilers - how essential is playing through SoC to being able to manage the other two games. I'm trying to get through it, but it's just not fun to me.

[hushed aurora]

It's pretty important

[manic pelican]

Well .

[hushed aurora]

Rule 3 moment as well

[worthy fable]

CS takes place b4 and it's events lead to SOC, COP is the fallout from SOC

[manic pelican]

Welp, guess this series isn't for me then.

[worthy fable]

Why do you not like SOC?

[manic pelican]

The obvious clunkiness and datedness, the difficulty for the sake of difficulty for two. But those I could look past if there was a good narrative to back it up but I spend most of my time wondering why I'm bothering to go through all this challenge in the first place.

[worthy fable]

Well on the easiest setting using cover is completely optional and you can walk up to most enemies and shoot them in the face point blank, master most things will wreck you if you don't play carefully.

Idk how all the questions from the intro cutscene and the start havent pushed you along

[finite dragon]

OLR is fun

Kinda laggy, but still fun

[worthy fable]

There is a narrative but it starts out with a mystery

Its not overtly "This is why you are doing this"

[finite dragon]

Also holy hecc these artifact slots 😳

So manu

[manic pelican]

I'm four hours in and there's no interesting narrative in sight. The opening cutscene asked some good questions but there's only so far I want to be having no fun in my leisure time before I give up on the answers.

And don't get me wrong, the Zone is a fun idea but so far it might as well be any other field full of bandits.

[worthy fable]

I heard you say that before but idk what your problem with bandits is? There mean people that want to steal your stuff

[manic pelican]

No I don't have any issue with bandits

[worthy fable]

I assume you're talking about Cordon right?

[manic pelican]

I've been out and back from the research station up to the Duty bar.

My point is so far there's not much of all that interesting Zone lore showing up.

[worthy fable]

How much did you actually do in yantar?

aka where those ecologist scientists are

[manic pelican]

Don't think I've gotten that far

[worthy fable]

You're in for a ride

[manic pelican]

I got to the main bar where you turn over the research lab files and then come here to see if it gets better.

[worthy fable]

adds some background to the zone without it being in your face

You should pay attention to more detail in the backgrounds of these labs, there's a lot more subtext to this game.

[manic pelican]

I mean I guess I can give it another go tomorrow but my patience is wearing thin.

Either way, to each their own so if the series isn't for me then don't let that get in the way of you guys enjoying it

[worthy fable]

||That underground lab X-18 you just got those documents from is a secret lab for experiments, I don't want to say too much to not spoil anything||

Nah ik this is all opinion. You don't like SOC but IMO i honestly hate CS, its such a broken mess for me I've only played it fully once

[manic pelican]

I mean if the other two heavily require SoC I may well tap out. For now, at least.

[worthy fable]

Well it just explains why the others are happening

You don't NEED to play it but it defintely explains the gravity of what is going on

[woeful cape]

like i said earlier, i started with clear sky and i loved it

due to bugs i wasn't able to ||defeat the final enemy, as he ran into an unreachable area|| but other than that i enjoyed the gsme

[worthy fable]

God that is known for being either completely broken or works fine

luckly he went on his normal A.I path and i did the thing

[woeful cape]

eventually after killing all of the regulsr enemies and running around for a bit i decided to look it up on youtube, and figured out what i did wrong that way

definitely a pain but imo there's enough meat to the rest of the game, and the entire rest of the ending was exciting enough that missing that one bit didn't ruin the experience for me

[worthy fable]

Im going to be hearing Иди ко мне in my sleep for the next few days

[quick portal]

hi

[tired anvil]

Hola

[finite dragon]

OLR 2.5 cool mod

I enjoy

[drowsy jewel]

im still stuck at the machine gunner after you leave the swamp. john basilone over there yeesh

for clear sky ofc

[limpid cargo]

Yeah I remember.

I took it back down to novice then I went from cover to cover and ignored them

[tired anvil]

Go behind the rock on the left, then rush to the tree and there is a gap in the fence

[limpid cargo]

If you have hunting rifle with slug, AK or smg then yu can pick some of them off

[drowsy jewel]

alright ill try both! thanks guys i gave up haha

[limpid cargo]

np

[tired anvil]

There is also another route, but try this first

[limpid cargo]

It's one of the more bs parts of the game

[tired anvil]

I love it personally

[limpid cargo]

I didn't say I hate the game. For me stalker is a game I grew up playing

It's just that section

[hushed aurora]

It's really easy once you learn how to do it properly

[limpid cargo]

I guess, but I like to do it the soviet way just running into it until it works lol.

[finite dragon]

Cant wait till tommorow when i get home after school and play more of this masterpiece called OLR 2.5

[worthy fable]

[meager wasp]

It’s too far away from release date

[worn nacelle]

I'm sorry but, should I ask here if for example, people start dying at random even though they're in a safe zone? and the fact I can no long drag corpses?
like, people I have quests with, just, at random, die and I can't do the quests

[tame helm]

wdym with in a safe zone

like in a camp or something like bar

[worn nacelle]

in a camp

[tame helm]

camps aren't really safe

[worn nacelle]

specifically, the second camp in stalker soc

with the many ware houses

[tame helm]

bes can die from too many pseudodogs

[worn nacelle]

those are def safe

[tame helm]

or just die from bandits

[worn nacelle]

the ones that died were def not killed by pseudodogs

[tame helm]

rookie village is safe for the most part

[worn nacelle]

they were normal stalkers in the warehouses

I am 10000% sure they didn't die from enemies

[tame helm]

another safe camp is the farmstead near freedom base ig

the farmstead is usually safe and if there's corpses it's usually from campfires

[worn nacelle]

where people died around the camp fire, guns stuck under the campfire

[tame helm]

yes but most are easy to grab

[worn nacelle]

fr? do they spawn in the campfire or something?

but like, all of them were too far away to be a campfire..

[tame helm]

probably because Alife

[worn nacelle]

and the dude you report to after raiding the freedom base died on me

[tame helm]

body ragdoll physics prob

[worn nacelle]

so I can't finish that

and what about the fact I just, at random, stopped being able to pick up corpses?

[tame helm]

wait did u do sniper mission or after that

oh u can't pick up corpses?

idk

[worn nacelle]

yeah, it's like the moment I kil them, limbs of parts of them get stuck on the ground

but at the same time I can pick them up, but my guy immediately drops them

I used corpses to move loot in mass

[tame helm]

oh

such is life in the zone

[worn nacelle]

had a corpse with like, one god knows how many L85s and sgis and what not just despawn ; - ;

after I quick loaded, sadness

[tame helm]

you should never put loot in non important npc corpses

[worn nacelle]

it never did it

[tame helm]

those corpses would despawn

what corpse did u use

[worn nacelle]

yeah but they never despawned immediately

[tame helm]

indeed

[worn nacelle]

of a dude I had just killed

put everything on him and pushed him off to loot everything else

[tame helm]

but they only despawn after u travel to a different level

[worn nacelle]

could barely move him

reloaded and he was gone

[worn nacelle]

and even then it takes time

[tame helm]

yes

but never trust them for long term loot storage

[worn nacelle]

there are still corpses next to the starter village

from my first loot corpses

[worn nacelle]

nah, I use the blue box next to the bar

[tame helm]

a

[worn nacelle]

can't send pictures here, rip

I'll send it in #💬┃en_offtop

[hallow solstice]

think stalker 2 will have a mosin?

[haughty cove]

Dude I hope

[hallow solstice]

id love it tbh

whether it would be common or not idk tho

id love a hidden gun like the 2000 round PKM or the 7.62x54 ak

[reef stag]

im looking to play cop again yall know some good mods for it

[hallow solstice]

a mosin that uses the SVD ammo but has to be found in a specific quest line would be neat

[hallow solstice]

gun slinger fs

i LOVED my gun slinger playthrough

[reef stag]

alright bet

[hallow solstice]

it feels vanilla but has just enough new stuff with the mutants, meds, and guns that its really neat

[reef stag]

perfect

thanks mate

[hallow solstice]

just be warned about the burers though, they're OP.

like genuinly OP. bring vogs or a gauss rifle when fighting alot of em lmao

[reef stag]

oh alright lmao

[hallow solstice]

that one mission where i needed to kill both in the train hangar took me ages

but once i had a gauss any burer after that insta died so

[reef stag]

damn

[finite dragon]

I want a mosin that chambers 5.45

[woeful cape]

is the svd not also 7.62*54r?

[crystal temple]

i got trolled by stalker anomaly

[wispy pier]

is the code for brain scrocher doors cracked?
its been like 14 years now

[crystal temple]

idk

[hallow solstice]

yeah, thats what i meant

worded it wrong, they use the same ammo and id like a mosin that uses that ammo

[woeful cape]

wait, do mosins in stalker not use 54r? i've always played freedom so i always use NATO guns lmao

[tame helm]

stalker doesn't have mosins

except for mods

[hallow solstice]

yeah stalker never had a mosin, which is why id like it

SVD did though, same with the PKM i think?

[woeful cape]

ah, anomaly has one so i assumed it was in basegame, mb

[hallow solstice]

and that one special clear sky AK

[hallow solstice]

i wish..

[woeful cape]

man i hope s2 has anomaly levels of weapon choices

[wispy pier]

anomaly is making peeps think that a lot of stuff is in the original game

[woeful cape]

i completed cs, and bits of the other two, but anomaly is just so good

it's like the best parts of stalker jammed together

[wispy pier]

no new stalker should start with anomaly

[woeful cape]

100% agreed

the others will suck comparatively

which feels bad to say, but it would definitely be tricky going back after getting used to anomaly

[wispy pier]

you either have to play atleast one game to proceed with anomaly

[robust river]

Yeah, as big of a fan as I am of anomaly it just isn't the same. I cant bring myself to replay it from how clunky it feels, but playing through SoC for the first time was phenomenal

[wispy pier]

its that half of the fanbase that ruins the experience for new stalkers

[hallow solstice]

within reason

i dont want 5+ variants of AKs again

[wispy pier]

yep

[hallow solstice]

stalker 2 should have the originals and then some more, but it should fit the theme. i dont want the zone to have 90+ unique weapons

[wispy pier]

its kinda shame that you cant upgrade in shoc

i would like a repairing animations tbh

[hallow solstice]

stalker 2 shouldnt play like anomaly

i dont wanna have to constantly repair guns, i want it to be like the stalker games

anomaly although fun and with tons of addon variety isnt classic stalker, it plays very very diffrently

borrows too much of misery's annoying mechanics

[wispy pier]

its a good realism add on i like level of details

[hallow solstice]

yeah, but it isnt realistic though

its tedious. you dont need to oil your gun every 60 shots or else it will jam

[woeful cape]

you do need to replace armour plates after getting shot twice, though

[wispy pier]

thats not realism thats just miscaluclated

[hallow solstice]

@woeful cape sure

but duct tape wouldnt fix that would it

[woeful cape]

i'm just being anal lmao

[hallow solstice]

or glue

[woeful cape]

oh yeah for sure, you'd need new ceramic plate

for gameplay purposes that would be extremely unfun

[hallow solstice]

right

anyway, stalker at its core is actually very casual

[wispy pier]

other than the whole mutant things

[hallow solstice]

yeah snorks are somethin else..

[woeful cape]

mutants and rad/psy areas imo

[wispy pier]

f*king bloodsuckers

[woeful cape]

anomalies are easy enough to avoid as long as you're paying attention

[hallow solstice]

i imagine stalker 2 will have the same design philosophy, i doubt they wanna make something like anomaly

[woeful cape]

snorks are why i always carry the highedt tier shotgun i can afford

[wispy pier]

laughs with 100% electric shock

[woeful cape]

mmhm, i'm hoping s2 is a true stalker game

[hallow solstice]

i dont want magazines or limb health or any of that silliness, just a good ol fashioned stalker game with good graphics and locations

[wispy pier]

have you played deus ex 2000? limb health in that game actually was quite nice

[hallow solstice]

i havent

[wispy pier]

try it

even gsc guys played it

[woeful cape]

limb health is an ok mechanic as long as healing them isn't too tedius

like if you get a broken leg while too far from a shop/medic you shouldn't have to spend half an hour irl holding w to crawl to a shop, that's bad gameplay

but imo non-game ruining debuffs add more flavour to gameplay

[wispy pier]

uh

i might have tinnitus

[finite dragon]

yeah had them irl

[wispy pier]

godamn controller

[finite dragon]

So you want cars in STALKER?

[wispy pier]

there were supposed to be cars in shoc

[finite dragon]

Ik

[wispy pier]

removed probably because would like decrease playing time by 70%

[robust river]

i hope there isnt, I hate vehicles in anygame especially survival style

[finite dragon]

one is because of technical limitations

[wispy pier]

like 70% of time you just walking from cordon to garbage and back to garbage and then to bar and then to darkvalley and then back to cordon and then back to bar

[finite dragon]

or something else

[wispy pier]

physiss

[finite dragon]

eh

[wispy pier]

x ray engine wasnt too good back then for cars

[finite dragon]

imagine if STALKER was made on GTA's engine

Have fun driving and steal cars and cannot swim

[robust river]

it seems like they're going a real cinematic route with stalker 2. I didn't like how many unique NPC faces I was seeing

[wispy pier]

the coop open world suggestion is cooll

[finite dragon]

eh we didn't see some familiar faces

like nimble

[wispy pier]

i think S2 would have more cutscenes and not like 5 through the whole game

[finite dragon]

either way I hope stalker 2 has unmirrored weapon models

[robust river]

no familiar faces, but for example the guy dancing with the piano in the trailer. You're going to see that with every playthrough regardless of faction most likely

[finite dragon]

lmao

[robust river]

scripted encounters ruin the randomness I come to love about multiple stalker playthroughs

[finite dragon]

clear sky moment

[wispy pier]

scripted encounters are in the org trilo right?

[finite dragon]

Only in the previous games iirc

Like Clear Sky and SoC

[wispy pier]

holy s*it i tried skipping brain scrocher and pripyat monoliths are veeeeeeeeeeeeeery hard

[finite dragon]

L2p skill

[wispy pier]

my fps is literally 3 in pripyat

[woeful cape]

download more ram

[wispy pier]

brrrrrrrr

[finite dragon]

buy a PC then

[woeful cape]

actually tho, i'm sorry to hear that

[finite dragon]

[wispy pier]

give money then fellow stalker

[wispy pier]

no probs man

[hallow solstice]

i better hear a stalker say wormfood in s2

[woeful cape]

i like the gameplay difference monolith makes tho

[finite dragon]

Buy it yourself, I am not going to be communist

[woeful cape]

goes from rpg to fps when they're involved

[wispy pier]

not very cash money of you

[woeful cape]

if that makes sense

[wispy pier]

i would stalker say rubles in S2

[finite dragon]

Just get an AIO PC

Cheaper

[wispy pier]

that s*it is waste of money

[finite dragon]

Ah, did I tell you that censoring is not allowed? either way I have an AIO and it works great on STALKER

[wispy pier]

its not good for other games

[finite dragon]

[wispy pier]

over heats cant upgrade

[hallow solstice]

Most computers these days can handle stalker

[finite dragon]

At least it can run STALKER dumb retard

laptop crap

[hallow solstice]

But an AIO sure af ain’t gonna run stalker 2 unless you bought one that’s thousands of dollars

[wispy pier]

i dont wanna spend my entire life on stalker dumb stoopid

[finite dragon]

yh

[finite dragon]

You do you then

[wispy pier]

:_)

[finite dragon]

play that AAA game that has crap ai

[woeful cape]

instead of a pc, buy an sks, 1400rds of ammo, and a gas mask and trenchcoat

[finite dragon]

hunt

[wispy pier]

well of course yes

[woeful cape]

like $1100cad total, far less than a gaming pc

play stalker irl

[hallow solstice]

1400 rounds of 7.62 is honestly more than a computer in the states rn lmfao

[wispy pier]

travel to chernobyl

[finite dragon]

STALKER doesn't have a SKS..?

[woeful cape]

anomaly does lmao, mb

[finite dragon]

anomaly canon

[wispy pier]

thats not canon

[finite dragon]

it is

[wispy pier]

whatever idc about anomaly

[woeful cape]

i have one can of 550rds and two 750rds cans unopened

[robust river]

it shouldn't be. 7.62 is like 40 cents a round. Usually like .25

main draw is how cheap it is

[hallow solstice]

That Russian ammo ban is gonna reek havoc just wait

[robust river]

ah yeah, forgot about that

[woeful cape]

tbf mine is all chinese, and i'm in canada

[finite dragon]

because M43 cartridges are chinese

[wispy pier]

19 gigs for stalker anomaly nah im skippin

[robust river]

I mean we've been prepping for this for years though. There are tons of US made AK's already in the market

[hallow solstice]

Feel bad for people with mosins

[robust river]

definitely will spike but I see it going back down in the near future

[hallow solstice]

7.62x54 is gonna be raaaaaaaare

[finite dragon]

ah yes the one's that is chambered in 7.62 and 5.56

but eh at least it's chambered in 5.56 instead

[robust river]

some 5.45's as well

[finite dragon]

Isn't that banned tho?

or something

[robust river]

from russia but you can get like bulgaria essientially to make a clone and ship to US

[finite dragon]

[finite dragon]

wasted amount of days getting it

[hallow solstice]

Not sure why biden even banned Russian ammo imports

[robust river]

I prefer the 7.62 over the 5.56 honestly

[hallow solstice]

I genuinely don’t get it, there’s no reasoning behind it

[finite dragon]

because it yaws

[robust river]

I can see why military personnel prefer the smaller round though

[finite dragon]

and not explode

[woeful cape]

politicians don't need reason when it comes to firearms

[hallow solstice]

Yeah but it wasn’t even a reasonable ban, like it didn’t make sense even as a ban

[finite dragon]

Either way 5.56 is crap imo because it fragments

[hallow solstice]

Wasn’t even in headlines or considered apart of the gun control debate, idk what the gain was from banning it

[finite dragon]

and it's from NATO

[woeful cape]

last year our gov't made all ar15s prohibited, as well as cz skorpions and vz58s

[finite dragon]

the gain is: starting a new cold war

New wall

[woeful cape]

yet we can still buy wk180s, mcrs, type 81s, etc.

[finite dragon]

then fall of the wall

[robust river]

pointless political slaps against russia

[woeful cape]

it's just faffy politicking, it never means anythibg

[finite dragon]

so C7/C8 rifles are prohibited?

wooooooo

[hallow solstice]

Yeah but didn’t we just close an arms deal with them

Like, why ban ammo instead of not doing that deal

[tame helm]

america: Russia bad!!! USSR!!! socialism!!!

[woeful cape]

yessir

[hallow solstice]

It’s just confusing. Tbh only reasonable explanation to me is American fun manufacturers lobby for import bans on foreign products so they can sell more domestically

[finite dragon]

That's not very Canadian

either way can someone tell me that how a 3rd world country got M4s instead of AKs

[hallow solstice]

The US gave them to them

😗

[finite dragon]

aaaaah the assholes

[hallow solstice]

Any country with m4s we gave it to them

[finite dragon]

Not gonna let us expanding our AK arsenal

[robust river]

this still doesn't work out well because to make AK's takes a solid manufacturer and unique tools. A good deal of the parts are hand made/assembled. The US AK's out now are not even half the quality of the imports

[finite dragon]

we just have an RPK

[tame helm]

century arms

[finite dragon]

century piss

[tame helm]

yes

[finite dragon]

Still prefer Canadian M4s imo since C79

[hallow solstice]

🤷‍♂️ idk man

Apparently the ban was in response to the novachok poisonings last year but that’s probably bogus

[finite dragon]

also who tf is putting faction emblems on our messages

[hallow solstice]

I hope stalker 2 has iconic voice lines

I want monolith to sound like the monolith

[finite dragon]

wormfood for life

[hallow solstice]

New monolith voice lines would be sad

[hallow solstice]

You shouldn’t have come here stalker, now you will be wooeueueueuurrrrmmmm fuuud

[finite dragon]

wuuuuurm fuuuuuuuud

[robust river]

I look forward to seeing what they'll do to psy effects and what sound design directions they will go with

[finite dragon]

controlled by the controller

[hallow solstice]

Gun slinger suicide animations

[tame helm]

constant faction emblem

[robust river]

I would like an existential crisis everytime I got hit by a psy-bolt

[finite dragon]

constant hell

[hallow solstice]

Tbh idk why people are so worried about stalker 2 being on console

Stalker is already a super casual shoot em up game, idk why people think it being on Xbox will somehow make it bad

[finite dragon]

kids

[hallow solstice]

What about kids

[finite dragon]

Fortnite kids, CoD kids

[hallow solstice]

Weren’t most people who first played stalker kids lmao

[woeful cape]

mini side missions in an alternate universe, win and you go back to being yourself, lose and die

[finite dragon]

at least they don't call it crap

[robust river]

I never saw it as casual honestly, until endgame anyway

[woeful cape]

would be a neat gimmick

[hallow solstice]

And why would kids playing a single player game matter

[finite dragon]

"heuehehe stalker crap cod guud heuhehe"

[robust river]

console concerns are warranted after so many games got ruined to appeal to general audience

I think stalker personally will be fine

[woeful cape]

mmhm, i trust gsc

[hallow solstice]

Stalker 2 already has a formula for a general audience. Instant healing, mini map, COD like levels etc

[finite dragon]

Stalker on console will more than likely have no mods

They wanna add paid cosmetics

[hallow solstice]

Stalker itself was incredibly generic other than its new setting and atmosphere

[finite dragon]

🤮🤮

[robust river]

if stalker 2 isn't fine, the community will mod it back. It's a win-win really

[finite dragon]

[finite dragon]

unless they still wanna mod pissnomaly

Anomaly is great

[void vortex]

If you read this; a military assault is in progress at your faction base at this very moment

[keen dew]

wtf, military attack ecolads

[finite dragon]

time to evac from defending troops because deserting is better

[keen dew]

we thought you were on our side!

[robust river]

Deserts the military, stages blackout, just to be more radical than the military

[hallow solstice]

Tbh GSC doesn’t need to change its game to appeal to a console fanbase its a silly argument

[hallow solstice]

What about stalker wouldn’t be workable on console? Realistically?

[keen dew]

stalker is so good, console cant handle

only 2009 pc can

[robust river]

the difficulty

[hallow solstice]

That’s why there’s difficulty sliders

[void vortex]

Military is like that one guy that is overworked and (borderline) alcoholic. Duty is that same guy but instead it's that one larper in his 40's that shows up to airsoft matches and tries to work with real life military tactics

[keen dew]

i think the AI might aim too fast for console player

[hallow solstice]

And why would a game need to be easier just because it’s on console

[finite dragon]

ah yes

aim assist

and no mods for lunch

[robust river]

aim assist, loot would have to be plentiful, it'd basically have to be like fallout or you'll get dark souls tier complaints

[void vortex]

I went the Duty route in CoP

good suits though for combat

[robust river]

based

[void vortex]

anomaly protection and artifact slots are poop

[finite dragon]

by dark souls tier complains you mean?

[keen dew]

eheheh, neutral player not getting shanked

[hallow solstice]

Loot was already plentiful

[tame helm]

duty route is gear and freedom route is artifact reliant

[hallow solstice]

You get an AK in the first 10 minutes of SOC

[robust river]

not compared to fallout

[keen dew]

nah, you can go loner and still have the same effect

you just hate duty more

[hallow solstice]

Tbh you gotta explore more for a decent rifle in fallout than stalker

[void vortex]

Duty gets too much hate

[tame helm]

yep

[void vortex]

I like them

[keen dew]

i don't even know what freedom's goal is anymore

[void vortex]

Duty fans just tend to be fanatics lol

irl that is

[hallow solstice]

Blood sucker sex

[keen dew]

they say they want to research, but but eco bois???

[void vortex]

Ecologist ain't no fighting force

[tame helm]

freedom wants to protect the zone or smth idk

[robust river]

imagine being an anarchist, imagine being a neutral

[tame helm]

i forgot

[void vortex]

The goal of Freedom makes perfect sense

[finite dragon]

just like monolith

but eh they protekt da northe

[tame helm]

monolith is more of protecting ccon

and also extremely aggressive

[finite dragon]

gud

[void vortex]

Monolith IS about protecting the Monolith stone. NOT c-con

[tame helm]

after they git brainwashed that is

[keen dew]

duty have noble goal and i really want to join ngl

am too weak to join tho

[finite dragon]

and get killed

[tame helm]

yes they are protecting the monolith stone but ccon uses the stone as brainwash material

[finite dragon]

but hey at least you get drill trainings

instead of spraying AKs

[tame helm]

atleast u get an obokan

[void vortex]

1. Get military training
2. Be send to your death
3. Desert
4. ???
5. Join Duty

[robust river]

the timeline of many legends

[keen dew]

i'll just stick with the mobile lab

[tame helm]

6. get shot by a stray bullet coming from the freedom base because someone was high

[finite dragon]

have fun being dead in labs

[void vortex]

Freedom seems to go toward the established way of thinking over there

[robust river]

imagine being neutral with bandits

[void vortex]

I actually like Freedom a bit more over Duty

[tame helm]

freedom is ecologist enemy

for some reason

[keen dew]

bruh, the bandit is neutral to no one lol

[keen dew]

they used to do research before they got drunk

[void vortex]

Freedom, Mercs, Regenades

[finite dragon]

ah yes pulling the Freedom leader card here

[woeful cape]

isn't freedom known for its snipers too?

[finite dragon]

I forgot his name

[keen dew]

right, forgot the renegades exist

[finite dragon]

Dead

[void vortex]

Yes

They carry them all the time in CoP

and the towers in SoC

[finite dragon]

aimbot snipers smoking weed to increase more aimbot

[tame helm]

yeah

[void vortex]

being hit while high must hurt a lot more though. it increases your sense in feeling

[woeful cape]

joined them in cs and all i got was a lousy lr300

[finite dragon]

dead

[robust river]

he thinks intoxicated degenerates will stand a chance against radical ex-spetsnaz

[hallow solstice]

Joining bandits in clear sky gives you a nice g36c

Also full seva upgrades

[finite dragon]

more like a G36K

[hallow solstice]

Love em or hate em, CS bandits are kinda chad’s..

[keen dew]

imagine not being able to waltz into an anomaly barely unharmed

[void vortex]

Do keep in mind. they keep the border in check and seem to do very fine for themselves. enough so to be an actual thread to Duty who has fewer enemies

[robust river]

freedom only has to worry about monolith

[finite dragon]

border patrols

wake every night to patrol streets

[woeful cape]

and duty

[void vortex]

Duty, Mercs, Military, Monolith, Bandits

[finite dragon]

and the bloodsucker village

[keen dew]

in freedom's defense they did take up to defend the barrier

[finite dragon]

In my playthrough they had too many casualities

[robust river]

that's just a matter of survival, not a sacrifice

Duty would've done the same

[keen dew]

hey, im just trying to be nice to both faction

[void vortex]

Duty is so brave. Deserters trying to take on weed people and still not succeeding over the 3 games

[finite dragon]

too many died

[keen dew]

seeing as how i can't walk without them handholding me through the zone

[finite dragon]

4 alive

[robust river]

they need to appeal to spoiled westerners somehow

[finite dragon]

nO M4S BAD FACTIon

[robust river]

LE WEED

[finite dragon]

rEd? that must be communist

[void vortex]

If anything. Freedom is about turbo Ukraine nationalism

Duty are just old crappy USSR boomer ways

[woeful cape]

anyone know that benjamin franklin quotw about how someone that trades liberty for safety deserves neither?

[finite dragon]

ChDKZ moment

[woeful cape]

freedom fights for liberty regardless of their safety, they deserve both

[robust river]

Red just aint communist

[finite dragon]

better dead than red

[keen dew]

ecologist watching the arguement folding out silently

[tame helm]

america has red = communism? 👀

[void vortex]

Also the fact that Duty is known for their over consumption in vodka and no smoking laws kind of inforce the boomer USSR idea\

[finite dragon]

They'd justify it by saying that's the blood of their martyrs imo

[tame helm]

Le patriotism

[void vortex]

How Freedom was created: Yo bro let's team up and wear flecktarn.
How Duty was created: FGJKDFJKDFGDSGDGKDGDGGKMGGMMRFKGHNFGHNFGDNHJHNJKRNRJNGRGR

[hallow solstice]

Just outnumbered

If you watch duty patrols fight freedom ones tho the dutiers demolish every time

If duty had more men freedom would get wiped out

[void vortex]

then why don't they

👀

[hallow solstice]

Not enough men

Zone only has so many guys

[finite dragon]

prefer staying neutral ig

[finite dragon]

300

[keen dew]

[void vortex]

Also from a game play perspective. Freedom are absolutely a joke in CS

I tried to take over the Duty base and they all get eaten up by Duty patrols

[keen dew]

right, they lost dank valley to the bandits which is their Ex-base

[void vortex]

With Duty taking over Freedom was easier

[hallow solstice]

I tried to assault freedom base, got bored after they kept grenade spamming me at the garbage to dark valley entrance

Never finished

Like it was genuinely constant how many nades they were chucking

And with the 3 bandage bleeds I just could not be assed

[tame helm]

also most of duty aren't even military deserters

[void vortex]

You kind of have to live from Artifacts in CS or bleeding resisting

[woeful cape]

bleed resist artefacts are key to success

[robust river]

Realistically, the zone has to be destroyed. It cant be allowed to just exist as some play pen for lost souls. Governments are getting their hands into it(Mercs/Military are an example of this) and will weaponize it against eachother. Factions like ecologists further this too imo.

General Tachenko knew this and knew he couldnt trust even the spetsnaz to actively destroy the Zone without weaponizing it themselves, a seperation was needed. Every other faction has selfish ambitions of profit or retreat from society. Treat the Zone like the Ring, it has to be destroyed before its disease and wonders tempt others

[tame helm]

resist rad artifacts, embrace bleedinf

[void vortex]

Good luck with that as Duty :p

Freedom all the way

[woeful cape]

freedom all the way, brother

[finite dragon]

freedom all the way to chernarus

[tame helm]

Join duty and save the innocent

[finite dragon]

join duty and piss on freedom

Join monolith and assault the stone

[tame helm]

join bandits and bully loners

[finite dragon]

join bandits and have fun being marked

[void vortex]

Join bandit and bully the innocent

[keen dew]

[tame helm]

join loners and be yourself

[void vortex]

Poor and helpless

[tame helm]

side effects include faction propaganda and bandit bullying

[void vortex]

And military target practice

[finite dragon]

Join scientist and pick up cool shiny spheres

[tame helm]

join military and get abandoned

[keen dew]

free car tho

[tame helm]

free heli doe

[void vortex]

Commit war crimes and acts of treason

[tame helm]

[finite dragon]

[tame helm]

join ccon and rule the zone

[finite dragon]

Go into zone to get rich
die a horrible death and become a zombie

[tame helm]

#upyourgrindset

[void vortex]

1. Get into the zone
2. Die

[tame helm]

and then die to some amnesiac

[keen dew]

1.Die
2.Die

[finite dragon]

The quest givers expect you to voyage on a huge dangerous journey only for enough roubles to heal yourself and buy 2 magazines for your pistol

[tame helm]

true

[robust river]

Any of you looked at roadside picnic?

[void vortex]

Your inventory: supplies to last you 4 months
Other people their inventory: a rusty sawn off shotgun, 3 shotgun shells and one bread. Still owns you hard somehow

[robust river]

if you havent maybe look up a summary of it, its a book that inspired the movie stalker is based off of

I'd also take the time to look up Noosphere theory, really interesting

Stalker movie is also nice, it's considered one of the worst film disasters in history(not from content) they had to reshoot the entire movie 3 times. Some of the actors got major health complications from standing in/around chemical waste

[fervent bear]

I'm pretty much New to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series since I played in my childhood and remember nothing about it.

Is there any good way to start stalking through the Exclusion zone?

Got all 3 games, but there's plethora of mods that I don't understand how they work

I played the Shadow of Chernobyl today, and It was horrible because of the Awful gunplay, even on Master difficulty.

[opaque parrot]

Play CS and then CoP

Then only after that try the mods

Or if you've already played vanilla, try stuff like AA2, Radiophobia, OGSR, Anomaly+EFP, Dead Air, OP2

[void vortex]

Mods are poopoo first run. But i'm not your dad

🍝

[fervent bear]

I see, Vanilla first and Mods later

Btw, Idk why as a Child, Shadow of Chernobyl's gunplay was "Realistic"

Now that I think about it, It's horrible XD

Especiallu with Makarov at the start

[fervent bear]

So, SoC - CS - CoP in the order?

[opaque parrot]

Yes, even tho CS is a prologue, do it in that order

[fervent bear]

Thanks for the guide, I really wanted to try Stalker series again.

[opaque parrot]

Np, good hunting stalker

[fervent bear]

I played in my childhood XD

[opaque parrot]

I play all 3 once every year, the games keep calling me back

[fervent bear]

Well, You can say you hear the "Call" from "Pripyat"

YYYEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH

Sorry

[silver fern]

hello

[finite dragon]

[fervent bear]

[finite dragon]

👎
👍

loner good
bandit good

[ember oracle]

[finite dragon]

💪

[wispy pier]

i wanna leave the zone

[lucid elm]

Rude

[wispy pier]

nah get pranked

[cedar forum]

Why does he eat so much???

XD

[wispy pier]

well

gotta keep the strength up somehow in a nuclear blast zone

[void vortex]

DOG FOOD IS MORE VALUABLE THAN THIS

[finite dragon]

The normal version for S.T.A.L.K.E.R is available for pre-order on Amazon. We'll at least it's showing up like that for me.

[finite dragon]

before you leave, i got something for you

stand still

[woeful cape]

major health complocations, most notably death

[finite dragon]

Where can i get food in OLR?

from the trader or from the enemies you killed

A

yes

i just dont know what to do in olr rn lol. I found strelok stash and i got a new task to find someone idk where tf they are

Where the hecc is that controller in factory

this mod is just= here's a new task, you need to find someone but im not gonna tell where tf the guy is

[digital elk]

so should i play clear sky before the first one?

[woeful cape]

no, it's best to play them in release order, not story order

[finite dragon]

[digital elk]

why not story order? just wondering..

[worn nacelle]

sry but does anyone know what this might be?

I could look at what the problem is if it's just looking for stuff

aka a location

[finite dragon]

well depends on which game you want to start but i suggest you to play the first game( shadow of chernobyl)

[worn nacelle]

I'm playing it

pretty buggy from my experience but nice

[woeful cape]

soc has the least polish, gameplay wise, so going from cs to soc is a big gameplay downgrade

[worn nacelle]

lmao

and a bug I can't find a solution to 😭

[finite dragon]

you mean anomaly?

[worn nacelle]

lmao, nice

but I got an actual problem, that is ruining my gameplay

[finite dragon]

Where is this heccing controller??

[worn nacelle]

walk closer

same here so 👀

[finite dragon]

what kind of bug? textures or npc?

[worn nacelle]

this

[finite dragon]

hmm im not sure if i can help you because this kind of stuff never happened to me before in my playthrough.

[worn nacelle]

Hmm, is there anyone I could even ask about?

Cuz different saves still do the same

[finite dragon]

try asking in #🔩┃trilogy_modifications and just wait for the reply

[worn nacelle]

ty

[finite dragon]

[worn nacelle]

and I'll be praying cuz I'm afraid of playing

cuz an npc that has to do with a quest already died

so those die at random as well, so that's scary

[finite dragon]

where did you ask the npc for a job? in cordon or in the bar?

[worn nacelle]

like

you know in soc when you go into the new trader

and right after you go on the top

where people die as soon as you die and you get introduced to the duty?

the barn thingy above that, next tot he freedom base

the dude that tells you to join them

died before I could report back, and now his corpse is marked for the mission but I can't talk to him

cuz well, he dead dead

[finite dragon]

ohh ok. tbh you shouldn't join them because the duty commander even tells you to not join them on attacking freedom base because freedom has strong weapons and sniper

well just go to #🔩┃trilogy_modifications and wait for someone to reply

Finally, toad is selling some real stuff

[digital elk]

cant run my game, worked fine last night.

any suggestions?

playing on steam

xrengine (32 bit) is running in the background

[finite dragon]

go to properties-local files and then click verify files

[digital elk]

but it wont seem to start like last night

okay ill try that

cant find local files under properties

[finite dragon]

huh

[digital elk]

so left click the icon, then go to properties. right?

[digital elk]

right click sorry

[finite dragon]

yes

and you will find "verify file" and click it

[digital elk]

under what section? cant find the verify file

[digital elk]

and it keeps bring up the cd key when i try to load the game

[woeful cape]

you can hide the cd key by opening your steam overlay, and there will be a window with the key on it, and there's a lil checkbox you can tick that prevents it from popping up again

once you have launched the game, i mean

[digital elk]

thanks, didnt know i had to do it through steam. ill see if it runs

still doing the same thing..

like it will load it up, go to black screen for a second, then just have the icon of the game on the task bar. even tho steam says its running

and every time i click the icon, it will go black, like its bring up the game on the screen. then go right back to the task bar

[wispy pier]

bro theres actually emissions in the next two games!!?

holy crap im so hyped for playing CS and CoP

[wispy pier]

no no no noooooo!

[finite dragon]

yes

[wispy pier]

when emissions appear do they damage mutants like controllers and bloosuckers?

or is it only for the parasite humans?

[finite dragon]

everything

even birds

[wispy pier]

damn

[finite dragon]

and new kind of artifact will appears

[wispy pier]

woo

[finite dragon]

Birds

Them birds fall from the sky 😭

There's a stalker movie?

[modern mason]

Yes

[finite dragon]

Bruh. I did not know that

[modern mason]

Its different than the games

It was made before them

Its pretty good imo

Watch it

Stalker (1979)