⭐┃nospoilers_general

[tepid ibex]

The first thing I'm gonna do once my Ultimate Edition comes, is getting a big jar

[fickle bison]

Do not cum jar the ultimate edition

[unreal veldt]

Why would you need jar? do you need to clean dishes?

[hearty finch]

I have lost so much in that game

[finite dragon]

what igpu is it?

wait no just anwser what cpu it is and ill get you an anwser @slow coyote

[solid dome]

To store his teeth

[open lintel]

im more of a legendary solo merc, stalking the zone c:

Merc Gang

[fringe steppe]

Now i see why you dont have the ecologist tag in your profile

[open lintel]

well actually, that's because they forgot to give us the perms to add that role

since it did not exist when the RP channels were a thing

[solid dome]

Mercs are cowards doing the dirty work for even bigger cowards

More like coward gang?

[hearty finch]

[open lintel]

not sure how mercs could be considered cowards, you would need to elaborate

[solid dome]

Mercs are cowards doing the dirty work for even bigger cowards
Isn't that enough?

Mercs. Hitmen.... Fixers... Paid for this, paid for that. Do the work, get paid. Dirty sons of...

Guns!

Them sons of guns, man. Snipe them all!

[finite dragon]

Mercs ehhh
Not bad for paid guns they got the best masks in the zone TBH along with amazing 5.56 rifles

That’s it though

Anywho

[finite dragon]

Mercs are based

No further explanation needed

[slow coyote]

i7 7700

Sorry, for being late lol

[finite dragon]

Man, i'm loving Shadow of Chernobyl so much, it scared me a couple of times

[finite dragon]

u have a intel hd 610 and a pretty beefy quad core you can't play 60 fps+ but expect like 30-35 on med, maybe a little higher on minimum but the most fps you'll probably get with base anomoly but you can't get graphic mods with that igpu, you could probably get a gtx 650 for about 115 usd somewhere and it's about 80% better but even then that's not alot, you would probably get 50 fps on base game with no graphic mods, you could get a 1030 ti it's a pretty mid gpu but it would run graphic mods with 50-60 fps as it runs 60 fps easy in gta5 with chaos, or splurge and get a 1650, can't do a lot with graphics on a intel igpu

sorry if it's disappointing but that's all i could gather

do some research of ur own i might be wrong

@slow coyote

Tldr please

[finite dragon]

for dummies
cant run shit but low graphics on base anomoly no other graphic mods on 30fps

get a cheap gpu

Eew anomaly

[sand plume]

Anomaly is my main game at this point lol, I enjoyed Dead Air and some other Stalker related mods as well

[dusty sable]

Women are the new anomaly

[finite dragon]

It haunts me

You know what make the girls on every faction but Military, Duty, and Mercs

There integration of it simple

[soft ice]

Hello, does anyone know how similar are the cop and coc sdks to use?

[soft ice]

@slow coyote I heard you can try disabling all but 1 core to improve performance. Because anomaly runs on a single core engine

[slow coyote]

oh

you are fantastic guys

[long harbor]

surviving all by yourself without any friends? man you gonna have depression soon

[slow coyote]

thanks uwu

[edgy holly]

hey did someoen say free stalker 2 keys

big time

[crimson tinsel]

Here's an anecdote

[edgy holly]

monolith = taghut

[crimson tinsel]

What if stalker women wandered around the zone?
The bloodsuckers wouldn't need to kill stalkers to get the blood.

[long harbor]

approached the gate to army warehouse, killed a freedomer who was sitting around the train car

suddenly, like 5 of them came out of the train car and light my arse up

[crimson tinsel]

Duty is bad

Change my mind

[finite dragon]

Forever a loner☢️

[delicate sparrow]

[crimson tinsel]

Freedom is also bad

[elder fiber]

they say as they enjoy the lack of monolith crazies south of the barrier

[finite dragon]

that could be true but you might have to overclock that single core to get peak performance

[deep snow]

can we talk about how freedom holds their own and even beats doody despite being high out of their minds

[deep snow]

doody*

[finite dragon]

just weed, focuses you and probably helps them depending on the strain

i can't wait to get my pc bc im gonna play anomoly with a ton of graphics mods

[deep snow]

have any mods you recomend?

[long harbor]

approved

[long harbor]

#📡-suggest_a_mod

also what game u want to mod

or you're just asking for standalone mods

[deep snow]

i was asking him about anomaly

[stark widget]

Definitely use Escape From Pripyat then tweak to your liking.

[deep snow]

i mean ive played the other games

ive beat soc and cop like 4 times now

[stark widget]

Ive played all games multiple times- Anomaly with EFP is by far my most enjoyable/immersive experience yet

[deep snow]

thank you for the actual suggestions

[stark widget]

Np- I know how it can be. 😂

One thing I did turn off was the Body Health system- I found it s bit too fiddly, but that’s the beauty of EFP- very easy to untick mods and tailor the experience exactly to your needs.

The Toxic Rain mod adds a nice little variation too- in the middle of a firefight outside then this corrosive yellow rain starts. Changes the dynamic immediately. Very tweak able too

But overall EFP comes with close to 300 mods I think?

[granite idol]

Let all the Monolith crazies in they're perfectly fine I swear they can be trusted I'm sure they're sane and nice individuals

[finite dragon]

what do you guys use for tracking fps?

[hearty finch]

My eyes

[sly viper]

msi afterburner

[tepid ibex]

Be me
Freedumb fanboi
Trying out Warfare mode in Anomaly
As a rock worshipper
Go to laundromat in Outskirts
Happen to kill Yar
Game crashes. Every time.

Mfw it's some divine punishment from the great Ganja

[sly viper]

btw guys any predictions on when new "real" gameplay will drop? since no delay was anounced yet we are getting close

[tepid ibex]

Maybe they're avoiding commiting the same frick-up as CDPR

[tired anvil]

Probably around New Years

[tired anvil]

Not quite. They has this plan all the way since back in 2018

Sergiy said so on Facebook at least. So that's a good 3 years before the Cyberpunk mess

[torn pecan]

Hello im new

[abstract fiber]

iirc they stated they would start showing gameplay 3 - 4 months from release. we'll hit the four month mark on the 28th of december, so we're getting there. we'll see if they stick to it though. right around christmas time for the west makes sense but it could just be a coincidence.

[finite dragon]

when does soc take place

[torn pecan]

Anyone here from Japan?

[abstract fiber]

2012

[torn pecan]

Cheeki breeki

[abstract fiber]

probably maybe lol i dunno. i'm not \o/

welcome to the discord tho

[torn pecan]

Thank you random stranger! 🙇

Stalker is best game

[finite dragon]

I had a dream that STALKER 2 was cancelled, I thought it was real and started to tell people, turns out false alarm.

[toxic vector]

any news about Escape from Pripyat 2.5 mod pack guys?

the current available version is 2.2.7

[full abyss]

They decided to skip 2.5 and go straight for 3.0. Should be out.. soon? I guess.

[dawn hazel]

Hello 🙂

[toxic vector]

thanks for that news

[full abyss]

Join the EFP discord server to get info about it.

[coarse reef]

Deserved

[solid dome]

I'm old. We finally met.

[torn pecan]

元気ですか？

[solid dome]

完全

[void vortex]

Bob Marley came down from the skies to smite you

[coarse reef]

guys something odd happened, i finished playing vanilla cop but instead of flying away i decided to stay in the zone, so i went back to the laundromat but on the way there i heard a crackly voice say "the goblins were awakened". what does this mean?

[finite dragon]

Damn, they actually cancel them

respect

[crisp nebula]

.

[still ridge]

You must be playing modded

Right?

[coarse reef]

no vanilla

[still ridge]

Wtf

[potent bluff]

mine is "I don't trust you..."

[solid dome]

He never heard Bob Marley's concert in Tokyo, Japan

What a glorious BM&TW hater

Fun fact about that concert

Because Japanese people didn't know English, they were clapping on each song in a manner they're singing with him

Goddamn commitment there

[finite dragon]

Is there really any point in playing coc when anomaly is out?

Anomaly - Artificial difficulty, terrible inventory with useless items.
Coc - CoP but bigger with nothing to do

Both are a mixed bag.

[solid dome]

Lmfao

[finite dragon]

My God I get it you think anomaly is trash, I've played the originals, they're good. Just asking if coc is any good due to slow internet, have to be careful what I download

[finite dragon]

Disagree about anomaly, especially with efp, but understandable

[solid dome]

Nope

I don't consider Anomaly trash, it's just some aspects are ridden with too much redundant details

Remove that and it's a bloody good mod tbh

Only that nobody will remove anything

[finite dragon]

Yeah Anomaly can be really fun, it just need to be popped so the bloat comes out. Like all the cmaping supplies is basically only for people that really wanna RP but serves no purpose otherwise.

[near star]

Anomaly to me is a certified cool and hip and neat if you want to sink the time in to learn all the systems

It ain't me

[finite dragon]

I enjoy the details- to each there own

[lyric pendant]

hey GSC, i can't tell you how much i appreciate your decision regarding the removal of NFT related stuff in S2! ❤️

gonna preorder the game in january.

[potent bluff]

EFP is kinda outdated... You should try GAMMA

I don't play both of them lol

[tribal gyro]

anyone knows if NFTS are cancelled or just postponed ?

[finite dragon]

#📰┃announcement there will be no NFT in stalker

[fickle bison]

Cancelled, all of them

[tribal gyro]

@fickle bison ah well that’s a shame thanks for the info

[limber bane]

[solid dome]

Nope. 'Rong, 'rong. at least 1 NFT remains hidden in Griga's pocket. Custom Ferrari, with a huge ass pack of Pepsi in the trunk.

[quaint trout]

I am so glad they cancelled the whole NFT thing. Man, i'm tired of hearing about this all the time. Now we can finally focus on the two things we love: Stalker and hating Fallout 76. 😄

[tribal gyro]

idk why the clown face

[finite dragon]

no one likes and wants an NFT in stalker game

thats why

[solid dome]

TFW Stalker 2 turns out to be a sp-based Fallout 76

Oh well

[tribal gyro]

lol im just a developer and thought it was cool because i build smart contracts and NFTS FOR A LIVING

soy for caps

[solid dome]

Name checks out

[finite dragon]

ohh really? Lemme screenshot it

[sonic rampart]

At least GSC isn't working with a 16 year old engine

[tribal gyro]

@solid dome yea lol i did it on purpose for that reason

[tribal gyro]

sure you can lol but you wont make passive income or able to sell it lol

[finite dragon]

Yeah fallout engine remembers morrowind times

[solid dome]

Creation Engine hater spotted

[sonic rampart]

Bethesda's engine is so badly optimised that it is practically held by zip ties and duct tape

Not a hater

[finite dragon]

bla bla blabla blabalb labla blabla NFT NFT NFT blabla

[sonic rampart]

I love all the games on the creation engine

[tribal gyro]

its weird how crypto competes with banks and federal govt who make money out of thin ai and now that we can do same thing its bad thing but its all good

[sonic rampart]

Besides 76 which i haven't played

[still ridge]

Because it’s all predatory

[tribal gyro]

@finite dragon english ? lol lets not act childish we can have a normla adult convo

[finite dragon]

нет

[still ridge]

As a community, we said no NFTs, and luckily GSC valued us over a predatory practice

[tribal gyro]

some of it yea because no actual laws, some projects are legit but sucks that those artist are trying to build something and because of so many scams it tarnishes NFTs as w hole

[tribal gyro]

true im still buying the game

clearly there has to be a game one day to prove to people NFTs arent bad it just cant be a game like this with a fane base already established

[solid dome]

Only one thing you fail to notice. NFTs aren't regulated for the sole purpose of govt. officials possibly exploiting that too.

[still ridge]

Find me one game with NFTs that isn’t predatory

I’ll leave it at that

[tribal gyro]

i just said that there is no laws lol i just said that

[solid dome]

And I said why there aren't any

[tribal gyro]

scroll up lol

[finite dragon]

he just said that guys!

[solid dome]

Scroll up doe

NFTs aren't regulated for the sole purpose of govt. officials possibly exploiting that too.

Where have you said that? You said no laws, not why THERE AREN'T

[tribal gyro]

thats the issue no real set laws so its wild wild west and makes nFTS look bad thats all no big deal

@solid dome dude no one is cursing your mom out relax im just agreeing with people

[quaint trout]

https://tenor.com/view/bill-hader-watching-eating-popcorn-oh-yeah-watchin-gif-8938478

Its getting interesting now, several people are typing

[finite dragon]

You cant control internet. There's a law in UK that "prevents" people form using bots to buy things such as consoles via online shopping. And guess what? Its not working! how can that be?

[tribal gyro]

NFTs arent bad but yea shouldnt be in stalker with a fan base already, because NFTs are wild wild west with too many scams while real artist struggle to show the potential it has

[solid dome]

The mom jokes again

Goddamn, foster homes exist boy

https://tenor.com/view/simon-unge-ungespielt-lachen-laugh-chair-slide-gif-14598372

[tribal gyro]

no one is arguing with you guys lol why are you so offended relax

[solid dome]

Nobody is offended

[tribal gyro]

all i was asking if they were going to have NFTs

[solid dome]

You're making it look like

[tribal gyro]

so whats with the childish comments lol

[solid dome]

Where are those?

[quaint trout]

Cant we just make a stalker based Cryptocurrency and call it Papali-Coin? 1 papalicoin is worth 1 slap by a certified gopnik in your neighborhood.

[solid dome]

I see discussion here, childish comments belong on different boards

[tribal gyro]

thatsnot possible lol

[finite dragon]

it is possible

[tribal gyro]

coins are different from NFTs coins are ICOs while NFTs is a smart contract attached to a MP4 file or j.peg picture

[still ridge]

Krezzin is a registered troll, it’s ok

[solid dome]

Registered troll?

Two words that don't make sense

[coarse reef]

stop with the nfts pls

[solid dome]

How I was trolling is beyond me

[tribal gyro]

yes it is but wouldnt work because you need a reason for people to hold the coins

[solid dome]

ConfusedCrypto brought it, not someone else

[finite dragon]

show me your licence krezzin

[tribal gyro]

i literally build smart contracts ( coins ) for a living on fivverr.com lol

[coarse reef]

im gonna go up to the wish granter and wish for nfts and all memories of nfts to disappear

[solid dome]

#⭐┃nospoilers_general message
Ask him to stop

[quaint trout]

it's possible man. We just need to get some certified gopnik or polish dresiarze. So one papalicoin will be worth 1 slap. If you want to cash your slap you just transfer the coin to the gopniks wallet and he slaps you

[tribal gyro]

all i was doing was asking about NFts here because i wanted to buy thats all lol

[quaint trout]

This is how free markets work man

[spiral plover]

crypti breeki currency

[tribal gyro]

now everyone is active lol

[solid dome]

That's trolling at its finest

[spiral plover]

Now all of Ukraine knows you're here

[tribal gyro]

lol nice then

ooof thank god im in the space i want to educate people on crypto and NFTs but this is insane the amount of hate, im working hard on education vidoes because NFTs are great but if we had proper laws

which we dont but thanks everyone lol

[spiral plover]

Nah, Monopoly money ain't worth a damn.

[tribal gyro]

just like fiat money

but they keep printing more ppfft lol

get a 3 percent raise at work, while inflation goes 6 percent up brutal

oh well i love stalker game im still buying it with or without NFTs have a great day everyone

[finite dragon]

Ok now without a sarcastic jokes, you must be new here and the thing is that many of us are still remember old school game industry and seeing how it shaped into greedy corpo. For many of us stalker games were childhood thing. We dont want to ruin it with some NFT or other bull$ hit. We just want stalker to be stalker, nothing more nothing less.

that why community reacted with agression thowards NFT

[tribal gyro]

yeah of course im tired too of the hype and pre orders with half done games

@finite dragon NFTs gives the power to have people control the outcome with there money as long as the devs dont run away with the money which you can still see what they do with the money

blockchain lets you see what they do every day and min with development

but because people dont understand blockchain and NFTs, a lot think its " scam " when its all public info on " etherscan.io " the blockchain lol

but i get it this is all knew and people get defensive with things that are new makes sense mass adoption will take time

this is 1999 napster with " sharing files " all over again

[solid dome]

Dude's still talking about it. It's a shame nobody wants to get involved in a discussion again.

All hail old school gaming!

[spiral plover]

This man's speaking into a brick wall.

[tribal gyro]

no i was talking to him

[solid dome]

Lmao

[tribal gyro]

not you and its ok

its not a big deal you guys are attacking for no reaosn im not going to get mad

just educate yourself instead of bashing people im not here to troll or curse anyone

im a good person no hate here

[still ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/no-gif-23548728

[solid dome]

I mean you came into a server where nobody shills for microtransactions, lootboxes, crapfts and all

[tribal gyro]

so find peace and love when your talking to strangers instead of looking toxic

[tribal gyro]

i came to ask about nfts are stil green light or no thats it

i didnt come to start anything

[solid dome]

All good, Mr. Crypto

[tribal gyro]

but great community of open minded people

nice way to treat people thanks everyone

[solid dome]

Yeah, stick around.

[still ridge]

Nobody is gonna be open minded about micro transactions and NFTs

That’s just the way it is

[tribal gyro]

nah i can tell when people treat other like crap for having an opinion thanks

[still ridge]

at this point it’s not worth it to continue this convo

so let’s just chill

[tribal gyro]

nah just this community

thank god for normal people outside of here

[solid dome]

Now he's playing the victim. Let's just... move channels

[tribal gyro]

yea lets do that because clearly me talking about it bothers people

[wraith bluff]

God tier trolling if I do say so myself

[tribal gyro]

nice ok guys

ill leave everyone alone

[still ridge]

Or just don’t talk about NFTs and talk about something else

And nobody will be on your ass

[tribal gyro]

yea i just came for info on it thats it lol

sorry that people live in the bubble

i hope everyone enjoys the game

[wraith bluff]

Ditto. Stoked you’re a fan but it’s clear this channel isn’t interested in NFT stuff. I’m sure there are tons of communities where you can talk about it

[still ridge]

have you played the originals?

[tribal gyro]

i have ive been gaming for 40 years and now im a developer

what about yourself

[wraith bluff]

You’d think a developer would be capable of answering a very simple question but what do I know?

[solid dome]

#📰┃announcement if you didn't notice

[solid dome]

He's an A&R for a classic New York-based house label

[spiral plover]

You cannot change the current reality and the Zone kick you out!

Yeah, he left.

[solid dome]

The troll spoke!

[finite dragon]

lost to the zone

[wraith bluff]

It’s been a while since a troll brought me out of creeper mode

[still ridge]

Ragamuffin did the impossible, he stopped being an anomaly only fan and became a chad originals enjoyer

everybody give a round of applause for @spiral plover

[spiral plover]

[wraith bluff]

https://tenor.com/view/thor-marvel-meme-what-heroes-do-gif-14703930

[mint wadi]

record it and make it an nft

[young vortex]

[still ridge]

He already left

[exotic cliff]

will stalker ever be ported to the switch? i don't have money for pc i only have a switch can they please make it for the switch

[still ridge]

Also don’t do that again

[still ridge]

Highly unlikely

Doom 2016 ported to switch wasn’t good, there’s no way Stalker 2 can be

Imo

[finite dragon]

i bet switch would fried up if you would try to play stalker on it even on low details.

[finite dragon]

yeah, not even low end pcs will be able to handle stalker 2

[spiral plover]

A Switch would just die on the spot.

People really overestimate its specs.

[hearty finch]

The steam deck might pull of going good at low or medium maybe ?

[still ridge]

Eh

I have a pretty low end laptop

It has a 1650 and ryzen 5 5000 series

Or whatever the hell the processor is

[hearty finch]

I have a rtx2060 and a i7

I think I might pull of at medium

[finite dragon]

I have a 1050 and a i5

[still ridge]

I should be fine on low or medium

I hope

[sonic rampart]

Well, optimisation depends too

[hearty finch]

Oh shoot, I may actually run it on High

[sonic rampart]

If they don't optimise, you can have the most beastly PC and not be able to play it with a steady framerate

[hearty finch]

[sonic rampart]

I will most likely be able to run it on low/medium

[hearty finch]

Better then nothing I suppose

[still ridge]

I hope I can run it at low with 60 frames

At the very least

Like I can run exodus pretty well on medium and high settings, but that’s not gonna be even close to what S2 graphics will be capable of

[sonic rampart]

I can run games like Forza Horizon 5 on high graphics with steady 60fps

I don't think they are comparable tho

[hearty finch]

Very nice, I run forza 5 on extreme fine with 60fps, but I have only 4gb of VRAM availabe for the game and that game needs at least 6

So sometimes on large mountain

It looks colorful due to missing texture

[sonic rampart]

I also have 4gb of VRAM

But besides the terrain disappearing for a second or two, I've never had any problems

I can also run Red Dead Redemption 2 on medium graphics with some on high with almost constant 60 fps

Unless I go to areas like Saint Denis

Then it drops to the 50s

But tbh these requirements can be a bit misleading

[hearty finch]

Nice, I wish I could run Metro Exoduce enhanced at extreme, but I get fps around 50's during cutscenes and 30-40 around levels

[still ridge]

I start getting FPS drops on high levels for normal exodus

[hearty finch]

Yeah

Exodus is a hefty game

To run

[fickle bison]

My pc somehow reaches the minimal specs

[still ridge]

Get ready for 40 fps on low graphics

[finite dragon]

k

[finite dragon]

I wish 4A Games would pull themselves up on fixing the regular version of the game instead of only fixing the RTX version

I gave the game a negative review because of that, and because their bug reporting methods are absolutely horrid

[finite dragon]

oh bet

im excited for next year because 3 of the games i've been looking forward to and tracking are all coming out in the span of like 3-4 months

[finite dragon]

steam overlay

[finite dragon]

huh

[sly viper]

stalker is peak hype, if it fails cant say there is much to be excited for in any shape or form

[elder wren]

Dying light 2 is going to be hype regardless. There’s that to look forward to!

[tired anvil]

Too bad it got delayed like twice now

[finite dragon]

i feel like that's good, the peaks have been really good and if gsc brings actual stalker, like a good story and really good side missions and good characters and everything the originals did, but with better graphics and touched the public with everything it has it'll be a huge success

dying light 2 is gonna be a success regardless because the last game was amazing and had one of the best stories i ever played, super good game can't wait untill it releases

[steel lily]

Yes I agree @finite dragon

[steel lily]

Infact dead island 2 will also come out

[steel lily]

Forza horizon series is one of the most optimized games out there. Another example you can take is DOOM 2016.

[hearty finch]

Yes

[runic sequoia]

Does anyone know if Steam christmas sale is starting tomorrow?

[sonic rampart]

Nope

22nd

Steamdb is the most accurate site

[runic sequoia]

oh 22?

[steel lily]

Bro I hope its good enough for medium settings @1080p
You have ryzen 5 5600h with gtx 1650 4gb

I have ryzen 4 4600h with gtx 1650ti.
You have a slightly good processor and I have a slightly good gpu 😬😬😬

[runic sequoia]

I thought 20

[tired anvil]

According to this prediction, yea
https://steamdb.info/sales/history/

[sonic rampart]

Steamdb is almost always correct

Never got a sale wrong from my experience

[tired anvil]

Yea, worst case scenario it would only be a few hours off or so

[steel lily]

Hopefully gpu prices will come down in 2022. Hey a man can dream eh

[runic sequoia]

ok ty

[visual radish]

Hi guys

[finite dragon]

dead island 2 already came out

it was a amazing game to, i like the first one better it had a really good story

[finite dragon]

it's better to get a prebuilt now

[finite dragon]

me with a ryzen 5 5600g and a rx 5500

[vernal magnet]

2023*

[fickle bison]

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/LeRkyA

Is this guy an actual employee?

[tired anvil]

Yes

[flat prism]

Are we gonna get any gameplay soon

I don't even care if it's rumors

[dapper ridge]

which edition(s) have you guys gone for?

[tired anvil]

Can't say I've heard of any rumours other than expecting a New Years gift like the previous years

[solid dome]

Current specs you see are estimate. Those are nowhere near final.

Case may be even worse

Expect much more specific specs once the game goes gold. Until then...

[solid dome]

One that requires no pre-ordering, heh

[solid dome]

You mean a calendar wallpaper?

Oh dear...

[opaque parrot]

What's the talk about GSC running out of money now and possibly canceling or postponing the game?

[solid dome]

The talk is there is only speculations

[opaque parrot]

All because of stupid NFTs

[solid dome]

No talk at all

[opaque parrot]

Glad to know that then

[solid dome]

What you heard is 4chan and reddit freak stories

[opaque parrot]

What is 4chan lmao

[solid dome]

Platform only idiots browse

Something like that

[opaque parrot]

Ah, explains everything

Thx for the info brother

[tired anvil]

No, not quite. In 2019 you got the Bread loaf, in 2020 you got the Skif teaser

[solid dome]

I expect tourist delight render this year

[tired anvil]

4Chan ain't really related to this afaik, only a bit of Reddit and Twitter since it went viral there

[tired anvil]

Just a bulletin board where you can find anything and everything

[solid dome]

4chan is often connected with the most weird BS out there

Which is kinda related since we have no confirmation, only bs

[tired anvil]

Confirmation about what exactly? As far as the NFT/running out of money topic going on right now, we have confirmation about it being cancelled and development still happening 🤔

[opaque parrot]

4chan sounds like something anime loving people like

Which means it sucks

[tired anvil]

There's anime people absolutely everywhere now, 4Chan is no exception

But that doesn't mean it's focused on it 🤷‍♂️

[opaque parrot]

I hate those

Vova Vist should deal with them

[visual radish]

LOL

[opaque parrot]

Or even a better solution, and that's @pseudo rivet

[tired anvil]

So you hate the internet

[opaque parrot]

Pretty much I guess

The only thing I like about internet in general is I can get some info on some stuff and ofc Miss Kendra and such

Don't judge me

[pseudo rivet]

Am I the solution, not the problem?

Since when?

[sinful sky]

wait devs wanted to put ntfs in stalker?

what

im confused

[solid dome]

About that Christmas thing we're talking about

There was no tease, no nothing

It could be from a single teaser picture, to a joke

[tired anvil]

Aha, well, there was no Christmas yet either 😄

[solid dome]

Options are infinite

Some places don't even celebrate that to begin with

[tired anvil]

Though I'd expect something more from New Years than Christmas personally

[solid dome]

[tired anvil]

Indeed, and some celebrate it twice

[finite dragon]

i want one of those statue things but idk where to get them

[solid dome]

👆

[tired anvil]

New Years seems more worldwide and more celebrated in Ukraine as well I think

[finite dragon]

like the things that come in a box

[tired anvil]

#🖤┃s2-pre-order

[finite dragon]

looks like stalker 2 is gonna be a little bit of a money grab because of the tiered games

[finite dragon]

cant see any on america

[solid dome]

Tiered games?

What in tarnation would that be

[tired anvil]

Not available yet

[solid dome]

[finite dragon]

different pre orders with multiplayer costumes and weapon skins

feels like EA a little bit

[solid dome]

In 90% of the games nowadays

If this feels like EA a little bit I'm a can of soy beans

[tired anvil]

You are though

[solid dome]

This is far from EA

[finite dragon]

not really, name more then 3 games in the last two years that's given out weapon skins and multiplayer skins in the pre order

your only telling yourself that because it's stalker

[solid dome]

They would have announced microtransactions, in-game minigame with gambling, 100 skin packs, no singleplayer and battle royale

That would have been the EA case if development shifted to them

[tired anvil]

Well, BR got said to not happen, same for microtransactions as well generally

So it's strange to predict how it'll go

[solid dome]

I'm hypothetically speaking as sokolov presumed

[solid dome]

I can't name them because I don't buy new games anymore, I stopped doing that in 2013 with The Witcher 3 being 1 sole exception

[finite dragon]

if their releasing costumes and multiplayer skins in the pre order theirs probably gonna be an in game shop... use your brain please

[solid dome]

Haven't touched a new game for 7 years now

But I keep a close eye on things

[tired anvil]

Cossacks 3

[solid dome]

Are you saying there is in-game shop for Dying Light?

Oh Cossacks 3 too, yeah

Full price damit

I'll regret it till the end of my life

[tired anvil]

Full price of 20 Euros, how terrible

[solid dome]

Considering I don't do 60 either

[finite dragon]

who even mentioned dying light...

[solid dome]

I did and I gave you an example, Techland released tons of skins and stuff

You wanted me to mention a game, I did

[tired anvil]

And you didn't, since it was 20 bucks

[solid dome]

It was full price for that game exactly as it wasn't sold for 60

So to say

Can't buy a game for 60 if it's sold for 20 tops

[finite dragon]

doesn't even look like theirs a multiplayer... dying light the original had skins you unlocked by quests

[tired anvil]

Indeed, contrast to what you essentially said last time

[vast hare]

Is buying any stalker even worth it

[solid dome]

And Techland added tons of crap after, they even still do

[tired anvil]

The trilogy is worth it, yea

Not sure about the 4th game since it's not out

[finite dragon]

your only defending it because it's stalker... you think everybody who made the original trilogy is working on the new game?

[solid dome]

Is that a form of question or rhetorical one?

[finite dragon]

i garuntee it's at least 50% new people

[vast hare]

I legit only joined because I wanted to find out if a video about a Russian guy getting torn to pieces by other people was marketing tricks to publicize stalker now I’m just here

[vast hare]

Genuine question

[solid dome]

Eh

[tired anvil]

Probably. Worth to buy it though

[solid dome]

The first 3 games are considered peak examples of post-apocalypse

Make up your mind

[vast hare]

Do I start at shadow of Chernobyl or?

[tired anvil]

He isn't really defending much tbh, he's just commenting based off of info we have

[tired anvil]

Yeah, afterwards go with Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat

[finite dragon]

shadows of chernobyl
clear skies
call of pripyat

[vast hare]

Alr thx. ❤️

[solid dome]

If you want to go in story order

CS > SOC > COP

[tired anvil]

Don't go in story order

[finite dragon]

peak example would probably be metro or dying light, off realism

[solid dome]

For you, maybe

Not for the general public

[finite dragon]

fallout has robot suit people walking around with machine guns and people from accross the usa shooting from helicopters 300 years from a nuke getting shot off, stalker is kinda realistic

[solid dome]

Why it needs to be realistic?

We talking ENTERTAINMENT here

[finite dragon]

but i find it odd how people think the artifact or anomolies are realisti

[solid dome]

[finite dragon]

i like realistic over entertainment

Imo anomaly is better than the trilogy

[solid dome]

Overly-realistic I don't like

I like realism, but not 99.99%

[finite dragon]

mfw

[solid dome]

Well done but couldn't get trolled

[finite dragon]

anomaly hard as hell though

[finite dragon]

ofc, overly realistic would be people dying left and right your character starving for days on end and eventually dying from a snork attacking you from the side while looting a bus-stop

[tired anvil]

I prefer the trilogy over Anomaly personally

[solid dome]

Your point...?

Stalker sucks, it's not realistic, has anomalies, blowouts, scientists and all while using knife to kill telepathic enemies?

[tired anvil]

His point is that Stalker isn't the peak

[finite dragon]

a good amount of realistic is good, not completely 100% but at least something you could imagine happening in an irl circumstance

[tired anvil]

Or that other games could do it better

[solid dome]

Well

[finite dragon]

and this

[solid dome]

Alright then I can't argue here

I respect that

[finite dragon]

project zomboid is fairly realistic

[solid dome]

I'm okay with that 100%

[finite dragon]

stalkers a good trilogy for what stalker is

i don't think stalkers meant to be 100% realistic

[tired anvil]

Of course not, it's based off of a sci-fi novel and movie

[finite dragon]

there's been games based off sci fi novels that are realistic

[solid dome]

However I don't think we had a game that tops Stalker in atmosphere and execution that gives you the feel of constant danger and thrill, have we?

[finite dragon]

metro is probably a good example

[solid dome]

Metro has too much QTEs

And its linear as hell

[tired anvil]

Metro has anomalies as well

[solid dome]

👆

[finite dragon]

that's true, i think anomoly does it best because there's a certain point in all of the stalker games where you can run around with a pmm and exoskeleton or upgrades seva suit

[tired anvil]

So it's not all that there realism wise, but sure I guess

[finite dragon]

i never encountered metro anomolies i only played maybe half of one game bc the hard drive i had it on got corrupted and i lost basically everything even my old steam account

[solid dome]

Exception! Anomaly isn't a game per se, if we have to define, it's a community created AIO pack on top of Stalker

AIO meaning all-in-one

[finite dragon]

that's true but anomoly really is peak stalker even if it is a mod

i find call of pripyat really good even if they don't portray mutants the way the other games did

[solid dome]

I wouldn't call it that but I respect opinions

[finite dragon]

especially bloodsuckers

[tired anvil]

Agreed

[finite dragon]

in clear sky i'd have to dump three TRS mags and a spas full load into them to kill one

[tired anvil]

Then you don't aim much I guess

[finite dragon]

in soc in that underground right after the bandits i had to dump an ak mag and a few sawed off shotgun rounds to kill one

then in call of pripyat i could kill 2 with a single ak74u magazine

[tired anvil]

Are you talking about a Controller or Pseudogiant?

[solid dome]

I wouldn't call it like that but why? Here I'll answer you, big portion of the fanbase considers Anomaly to be trying to stay away too much from the core concept of what Stalker is known to be with too much fancy content that doesn't belong in the game's DNA.

[finite dragon]

actually a bloodsucker

[tired anvil]

Oh

[finite dragon]

the others are portrayed really good and similar in the entire trilogy

[solid dome]

It has elements that just don't sync well with GSC's vision, tldr if you will

[tired anvil]

Idk, I can kill all 3 of the mutants mentioned above pretty easily with less than a full AK mag

0 mods

[solid dome]

A game doesn't need to be complex to be good

Even the simplest games are true gems

It's just the execution has to be fairly well balanced

[tired anvil]

"Anomaly fans when S2 doesn't have 5000 items for cleaning your weapon [inserted GIF of someone raging] "

[solid dome]

Fk-yeah

[finite dragon]

during the bloodsucker lair mission in cop i lead them out the original thing one time and let the other dude die and did exactly that

[finite dragon]

i think i like anomoly a great deal more because i've spent a good amount of my time playing project zomboid

[solid dome]

See, I don't consider myself a hardcore fan of this franchise cause I started playing waaaaaaay late than anyone else. But somehow even I, who doesn't know the game like the back of his hand, knows what makes STALKER a proper once of a kind experience.

^

See we're collectively thinking here

[finite dragon]

playing the stalker games for the first time we're always a gem, i remember playing cop over 50 more hours after my first game to try to get the perfect ending

[quick dune]

anomaly is eternal virginity
vanilla trilogy is being a real chad

[solid dome]

Anomaly is say...

Well let's not say as I forgot what I had to say

[finite dragon]

i think anomoly would be a good portrayal of a low ranking stalker that isn't a main character of the zone, which is particularly what strelok is

[solid dome]

Anomaly is good for example cause of one thing

[quick dune]

it's the worst mod

in the stalker community

[solid dome]

THAT IS: what modders can achieve with what people thought is broken engine and what quality they can achieve

[finite dragon]

we're forgetting you play as strelok the original two games, and he's known throughout the entire zone by almost everyone i'd think

[solid dome]

That is anomaly, perfect showcase why full modding support should exist for S2, to double on that success

[finite dragon]

in the third game it's different but then again cop is probably my favorite game in the trilogy

i've only played around 5 hours on anomoly so i could be wrong, enlighten me?

[solid dome]

Way too far

Isn't worst, it's badly executed!

[abstract fiber]

i will never understand the hate for anomaly

[quick dune]

no

[abstract fiber]

it wouldn't be so popular if it was that garbage

[solid dome]

It's neither garbage, nor good

It's mediocre

Middle grounds

[quick dune]

it's popular because of all the people that say "free game? stalker game? i never played this one before, it must be the true stalker game"

[abstract fiber]

guess i'm just a sucker for sandboxes then

[solid dome]

This, four thousand times

It's because you don't need OG assets to play

[abstract fiber]

i like the others, though cop's my favorite of the trilogy

[solid dome]

If it required you to own the games on Steam, popularity would be -50% give or take

[quick dune]

"you should play this free game NOW"

[abstract fiber]

well... what about call of chernobyl? it did it first and was wildly popular itself

[tired anvil]

It gets more hate because the trilogy gets slammed by Anomaly fans for not being Anomaly despite coming out 6+ years earlier

[abstract fiber]

ah, that makes sense. i guess. never seen it though i've not been in the discord very long.

[finite dragon]

i like cop the best, then clear sky and then soc

[tired anvil]

Nothing wrong with liking the mod, play what you want, but the fanbase can be a bit funky sometimes

[finite dragon]

i like the games to be hard, granted soc is fairly hard but it's really easy to find anomolies and get rich

[abstract fiber]

SoC kinda wonky, actually really wishing my replaythrough would be over lol

[finite dragon]

the other games are like a grind of running through the map and collecting and selling artifacts

i usually skip soc on replaythroughs

[quick dune]

just click ~ and type in "cam_inert 0.21"

[abstract fiber]

sure thing boss

i'll give it a shot

[quick dune]

it makes the head bob not that big

[tired anvil]

He wrote wonky, not wobbly

[finite dragon]

maybe they just wanted to take stalkers base game and add what they want into it, pretty funky community and game but if it's what they like then it's what they like

[quick dune]

as it is in default

[abstract fiber]

still useful, the headbob is egregious

[quick dune]

in SoC you walk like a penguin

[finite dragon]

clear sky is really the best game to utilize the peak mechanic in

then again their usually dumb

[abstract fiber]

that's the thing about anomaly tho, and all the other call of "_" mods, they're really good frameworks for making whatever experience you want

i wonder if there's a mod for the poltergeist thing lol

prolly is, somewhere, in one of them

[solid dome]

Guys, you better hope you would be able o do something like Anomaly in ST2

Cause with today's games, this is waaaaaay beyond impossible

Except Skyrim

Talking Triple-A ofc

[abstract fiber]

eh? devs said they plan to launch with full modding tools on day one

which is pretty great cause it's running on unreal

[solid dome]

They said. What remains to see is commitment to those words.

[abstract fiber]

of all the things to be worried about, that's the least for me lol

something tells me they know what modding has done for stalker

guaranteed

[solid dome]

You can say a lot but you can decide if you want to fulfil all of it or just half and escape responsibility using various excuses

[finite dragon]

idk about y'all but i cant wait untill unreal engine 5 comes out

granted my pc won't be able to run most of their games on high graphics

jesus gaming is getting expensive huh

[tired anvil]

Is Skyrim really a "today's" game though. It launched 10 years ago...

[solid dome]

Its like laying the foundations of a house. You can eiher, a) do it right and get paid well or b) do it wrong because you don't know if you'll be paid right

[tired anvil]

Thought it came out in Autumn of this year, no?

[finite dragon]

it's still relevant today

[finite dragon]

i mean untill more games on unreal engine 5 come out

[solid dome]

It isn't but do we have any other game with such open modding?

[tired anvil]

No, but if anything that would only further my argument of not really having many "today's" games with it

[finite dragon]

the matrix looks gorgeous and more realistic then most games car crashes and shooting rag dolls physics and everything

[solid dome]

Works for me

I'm not gonna comment on Unreal, not a big fan of it - just the opposite

Since Epic decided to shat on the Unreal Tournament game, even more

That last one they had

They took it out on a busy public street and took a massive dump on it

[finite dragon]

it really looks like one of the most realistic games we've had on the one video i watched i thought it was a movie and they just had actors

[tired anvil]

Clear Sky looks most realistic

[wicked sleet]

whagwan

[solid dome]

Konichiwa

[wicked sleet]

@solid dome hello Imran

[solid dome]

I've been spotted! Retreat! RETREAT!

[wicked sleet]

Price and Soap are ready, I suggest you run

[solid dome]

People rarely know where this nickname comes from

It was one bloody day of Call of Duty 4

[wicked sleet]

I mean McMillan

[solid dome]

[finite dragon]

i remember i was in a server where a community of devs were making their own stalker 2

on ur4

[solid dome]

It comes from a multiplayer match though. I didn't have much creativity back then, literally 1st thing I thought.

[tired anvil]

You were most likely in the one by Dezowave which is working on the 2011 Stalker 2

On the X-Ray 2.0 engine

Or the SoC remake on UE4

[finite dragon]

it was on unreal engine 4

[wicked sleet]

Dezo is working on that ? lmfao

[tired anvil]

SoC remake then

[solid dome]

Whether X in there means X to doubt or not I dunno (Zakxaev)

[tired anvil]

Yup, Lost Alpha boys since they managed to get the docs and some other stuff

[solid dome]

Now picture that happening for Stalker 2

[wicked sleet]

he was just a leutenant back then, doing some wet work

[finite dragon]

wait they've been devving the game for 10 years?

[tired anvil]

No

[solid dome]

Epic would be shooting their ballsacks....

[finite dragon]

huh

[tired anvil]

Which?

[wicked sleet]

there is no way 2012 stalker is ever coming out, mod or otherwise

[solid dome]

Lost Alpha boys doing an improved version of - in this case - Unreal 5

[wicked sleet]

no real work was done on it

[solid dome]

If you get what I mean

[tired anvil]

GSC was making S2 since ~2009 and stopped in late 2011/early 2012. The company shut down and them many years later, in mid 2018, S2 got re-announced by GSC, which stated that it's been in development for a little bit before the re-announcement

[solid dome]

Replace X-ray with Unreal

[finite dragon]

i think there's been a roblox game based on stalker

[solid dome]

I don't see how Epic would allow such a thing if this was the case when SoC released and used their engine

[tired anvil]

But there was

A build of it even got released earlier this year, GSC was cool with it too

[solid dome]

They would sue everyone involved, even PR people behind the mod

[wicked sleet]

@tired anvil i played that build, hence my comment, it's a very early pre-alpha

[tired anvil]

Ah right

[solid dome]

I'll stand my assumption Epic won't allow GSC to let players modify every aspect and parameter of their in-house engine

[tired anvil]

That build specifically yea, though if I'm not mistaken, a very long time ago they commented how ~70% or so of the game was actually done, which may sound surprising given how little we've seen of it. But who knows what they have in the archives

[solid dome]

That until I see people doing it without getting assraped by lawyers

No way anyone can convince me, a huge, enormous corporation will let customers throw its software assets left and right, making documentation of it and expanding it, and they're there just observing

No. Sodding. Way.

[wicked sleet]

no epic assets in stalker

[solid dome]

Engine assets

As in formats

[wicked sleet]

engine is theirs once they pay the bussiness plan

they can do w/e they want

[solid dome]

It's as if you're taking Adobe Flash and making it a free-to-use format

[wicked sleet]

no it's different from that

[solid dome]

I mean SWF, not Adobe itself

lol

So you're saying what, once they pay for whatever they do, they can literally sell it as their own?

Not obliged to comply w anything?

[wicked sleet]

that is exactly what I'm saying

me being an Unity developer, i know a lot about this

[tired anvil]

Guess we'll see how that results. Only ~4 months left after all

Wonder how modding will go for the consoles

[solid dome]

I kinda don't see the perspective of someone ripping apart a proprietary format and sharing stuff about it on the internet without select parties getting triggered to death

Dunno

[wicked sleet]

this developer crap is way deeper than you can imagine man

[solid dome]

I reckon

[tired anvil]

Someone will always find a way to get triggered to death, with or without things going right, so it's okay

[solid dome]

Oh, with Epic it's like fighting with the upper echelon of evil

I mean Epic wasn't like that during the 2003-2007 era

They were rock solid dudes

But once they grabbed the bone...

Boy, you better stay away from a pesky, starving & beaten to the edge dog else...

[tired anvil]

Then they ended up in development hell with Fortnite and later broke through

[solid dome]

Yeah Fortnite broke their waters and from then on, the malformed child was born

Lol

And who throws a living organism, even with malformations, to the trash? You either live with it or don't

Much like what happened with Blizzard, Valve & CDP even if some of their games like the card stuff was successful. That led them to success but in the same time lowered their standards towards quality. Sometimes the biggest success are hidden failures.

And I noticed I'm talking with myself

Sometimes it's good to remind yourself about things!

[finite dragon]

[spiral plover]

yum

[tulip scroll]

4 months and 10 days remaining

[finite dragon]

20 days 5 hours 21 minutes untill i get my pc

19 days*

[pliant perch]

will something change if i dont take all of the documents from X8?

like will i get the full reward or the ending changes

[wispy walrus]

imo i'd have preferred xray 2 even tho its extremely dated by this point

simply because they can give full rights to edit in an sdk

i guarantee modding is going to be neutered due to ue5 and probably like retextures only lel

[modern mason]

For the Item 62 quest you only need the one document, but I'm psure there are more for other quests, I don't think it changes anything in the ending but I could be wrong

[still ridge]

I believe there is an ending change

Iirc

[pliant perch]

i mean the X8 lab not the Item 62 testing site

[still ridge]

Yeah try to find all documents

[modern mason]

There is Item 62 docs in there

[pliant perch]

oh yeah i looked it up and it turns out that the discounts from traders and the money reward is lower

[finite dragon]

I heard Putin will be main character on STALKER 2

[glad temple]

Why would ue5 make it worse?

It’s literally the second most used engine series of all time, there are so many people proficient in it that there’ll be so many professional looking mods in it in no time

[wispy walrus]

you know unreal 5 is like barely even public yet

[glad temple]

And? It has the same layout as ue4 and the ui now is even better and easier to use than ever

[wispy walrus]

if we want an SDK that can do anything remotely good it needs epic's permission as well currently

[glad temple]

Trust me, I work with UE4 and 5

You don’t need epic’s permission to modify the engine, it is free

[delicate sparrow]

my dad owns microsoft

i was the one who made the exclusivity deal

[glad temple]

I should have known

Jk

[delicate sparrow]

lol

[glad temple]

I can’t wait to start shooting trucks from my finger in 8k

As stalker 2 is intended to be played

[spiral plover]

can't wait for lossless cheeki breeki i v damke

[toxic vector]

Can you guys make a comparison between GAMMA mod pack and Escape From Pripyat mod pack?

[fair iris]

Custom maps would be easy

It'd be a few months before things would actually start really rolling with the mods

[soft ice]

I doubt they’ll ever start rolling because literally nobody can play the game

Its hilarious that xray engine is probably a better base for modding at the end of the day despite the age and terrible optimization, thanks nvidia and Crypto and retard elon musk redditors

[fair iris]

Console time

[soft ice]

Id rather just not play video games and go outside

[fair iris]

You're literally in the stalker discord

[blazing surge]

How will Co-op ruin the atmosphere and loneliness of stalker?

If I put on Kino while I walk through the Zone I'll lose it too, but that doesn't mean I don't want it

[ruby delta]

Co-op would be so fun

[fickle bison]

Consider this: PePSI EMMISIONS

[pseudo rivet]

Considered

Processing

That would be hella lit

[silver fern]

[blazing surge]

Yeah Major Degtyrev clipping out of animations in CoP really boosted my immersion

[solid dome]

lol

It will be either textures only or textures and basic code editing

[gritty pumice]

So this is my take regarding the recent nft fiasco, as a comp sci bachelors and an information system masters, I see people completely misunderstand what blockchain is and what its usage in any application actually means. Like most new technologies, especially with not only successful but also highly profitable applications, there are people looking to capitalize on it. Some are really great, some are not, anyone from 2000's remembers every new technology being used for both. Current next gen buzzword is blockchain and the latest application is NFT. Looking at what and how a decentralized public ledger is being used as, certainly comes off as a scam, especially at such a large scale that it has completely illegitimated the word itself. What GSC has done, from what they had and have stated, and my understanding of it, is not a scam. It is a new and quite frankly a unique way of monetization. At the crux of it, they were offering us to put a face in the game for money and the way to verify it by selling it as an NFT so it is available on a public ledger. Do I personally support it? I do not know, I'm pretty indifferent, was it a scam? as per my understanding not really. What I am happy and sad about is the community's reaction and how GSC responded. It shows at their heart they still want to listen to us and that this game has been designed by keeping us in mind, I am sad about how everyone is just blatantly screaming scam without even understanding what they were saying. Maybe it was on them to not be extremely transparent, maybe it is also on us to not understand it completely. As always, im an idiot and maybe completely wrong, feel free to @ me I may reply in a month

[solid dome]

Profanity isn't allowed here because it's a partnered Discord server - weird rules for those @gritty pumice

[gritty pumice]

huh there's no serious profanity in there but let me edit it

[tired anvil]

The poop word counts as well

[solid dome]

Yeah

Doo-doo a huge No

[gritty pumice]

sorry my bad

[solid dome]

GSC is now known as Grygorovych Superior Company

[gritty pumice]

Just gotta support GSC fellas coz imo they did nothing wrong or scammy, but I am happy how they have heard our cries and im really hopeful for the game

[solid dome]

The problem in there is their PR department

There has to be 1 international community manager

One that can explain/prevent a situation with his linguistic skills in a matter of 60 seconds, is what I mean

[tired anvil]

Are they really though, because I feel like 9/10 dudes had no idea why they were pissed off other than seeing the term NFT lmao

[solid dome]

Though I understand why I don't do this

Everyone they hire must relocate to Ukraine

And I bloody guess nobody wants that atm due to Crapvid and all

So they stick with their own colleagues doing PR biz

[solid dome]

5/10 were pissed cause the PR team going full nuts, 9/10 were pissed cause of the NFT talk

So to say

[gritty pumice]

as long as it was like the half life 2 reference in SoC I would have welcomed it. GSC actually smol indie studio unlike volvo

[solid dome]

GSC's nowhere near small indie studio per team size

That term is for when team is comprised of 5-10 people

GSC's manpower amounts to 300+ people

Even CDP had... 150 initially (according google)

TW3 was likely developed by 200-250 people

We talking 300 here, doe

The company developed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with a self-funded budget of US$81 million over three-and-a-half years. The project began with 150 employees, eventually growing to over 250 in-house staff.

[tired anvil]

People call 4A a big studio but then call GSC tiny, despite GSC having more than double the employees of 4A...

[solid dome]

Blin, right

[tired anvil]

According to the website of 4A, they have around 80 people, GSC has over 300, but having 300 already makes it almost 4 times as big in size

[solid dome]

If we ditch pessimism and predict a good game, ST2 should beat The Witcher 3 in density and quality

[gritty pumice]

it was a joke on volvo being called a smol indie studio lol

[solid dome]

Which is HARD to believe because of the eastern europe game dev culture - except 4A

[tired anvil]

Jokes are fine, but it genuinely happens which is odd

[solid dome]

👆

[gritty pumice]

I get they have 400-500 employees max, but volvo isnt indie

[solid dome]

Volvo does games?

[tired anvil]

Griga saying we'll get 100+ hours of content, we'll see how that goes

[solid dome]

Gawddamit

[gritty pumice]

steam index is a game right? Krappa

[solid dome]

100 is not too much, at least 200 cause TW3 was like 200+

His keyboard button was just broken

Instead of pressing 2 cause its broken, he used 1

Griga needs new keyboard with a numpad

[tired anvil]

Isn't that after the DLC though?

[solid dome]

How long is Witcher 3 without DLC?
When focusing on the main objectives, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition is about 55½ Hours in length. If you're a gamer that strives to see all aspects of the game, you are likely to spend around 190 Hours to obtain 100% completion.

Per Google

[tired anvil]

I remember them promising ~100 of content with Cyberpunk, but apparently that wasn't all that accurate from what I heard

[solid dome]

Correct

I think Griga was playing his cards safe

He gave a number that doesn't either disappoint or else

He picked a middle card so to say

[tired anvil]

I definitely won't mind if there is 100h of content for the main stuff though

[solid dome]

For the main stuff? Geezer. Who would!

Only retards would

[tired anvil]

A lot actually

[solid dome]

OR HOLD ON

[tired anvil]

Many get tired of the story past 20-30h or so

[solid dome]

Journalists will, lmao

Cause it'll take them forever to write a review and get paid

[tired anvil]

That too, since they need to finish the story before writing something dumb

[solid dome]

Oh the struggle...

What did they say recently, GSC that is, they had 10 narrative designers? Right?

If at least 5 of those are doing the main plot and the rest doing questlines...

Maybe it'll turn out true!

[tired anvil]

Dunno, was it said in the magazine post or somewhere else?

Oh nvm, found the post. They have 30

[solid dome]

I think before the magazine, don't trust me, I'm old and I don't remember much

Holy batman, 30

Okay it may be true after all

15 per team

[tired anvil]

“Griga expects players to be able to spend 100 hours to see everything S2 has to offer, which includes an instricate plot and non-linear storyline. And with different choices to make, such as which faction to side with, he says it's "impossible" to see everything in a single playthrough. "We have 30 narrative designers working specifically on plot and quests," says Griga" etc etc

Can't post images here, so re-wrote a bit from the magazine

Indeed

[solid dome]

Did you notice something that wasn't revealed prior the magazine

[tired anvil]

?

[solid dome]

such as which faction to side with

This wasn't revealed before

100% I mean

Only CS had this thing

So it must be coming back

I personally never tried that lmao

Never used the faction system, joining factions. Always playing a loner.

[tired anvil]

Merc

[solid dome]

I installed CoC and Anomaly respectively once and twice

I was going for that at some point too

I don't have time for so I ditched it

There is aplenty

[sleek light]

CoP had it as well.
Maybe not side, but support Loners or Bandits (in Zaton) and Duty/Freedom choice in Yanov

[solid dome]

Partially, yeah

Not a full fledged mechanic like in CS

[spiral plover]

Always found it funny how loners are supposed to be factionless, yet have an emblem and share an ideal... like a faction does.

[solid dome]

Well simple explanation

You have to have something so others can identify you by

Else you're a simply a tourist, could be bandit, could be spy

Thats why Loners have a badge

Patch or whatever you will

I wonder what they'll draw for Ward

Maybe some shield and something else for a symbol

Always loved the patch designs

Perhaps a bull standing in front of a shield to indicate power and protection

[spiral plover]

Yeah, you can tell what each group stands for just by looking at its badge.

[solid dome]

Lol

[spiral plover]

I like the Merc one.

They're meticulous and efficient when carrying out contracts, like birds of prey.

[solid dome]

They should have had a bootleg of Fatboy Slim's Birds of Prey for an anthem

More like - Danger, danger, radiation arrives soon. Hide in your houses until further notice! -

Except everyone goes out guns blazing

Poor fellers

They just woke up to end up with their pockets looted

First thing I may do if ST2 is up to my standards....

I'll steal some bandits loot and hide it in a random stash. And wait for other bandits to come pick it up.

[spiral plover]

Easy pickings for the other factions.

[solid dome]

The irony in this is huge

Seeing bandits rob each other... Oh boye!

[spiral plover]

Sigma stalker mind games

[solid dome]

Reminds me of a real case

Bandits went on to rob a bank caught another group of bandits doing it and robbed them

Lmfao

1st group was caught with empty hands while 2nd was gone already

[spiral plover]

Undercover cops disguised as drug buyers arrested by undercover cops disguised as drug dealers

[solid dome]

Same

[primal copper]

Morning brothers

[steel lily]

Its almost evening here. But hey good morning to you @primal copper

[primal copper]

12:36 here rn

[quaint shard]

How do I pass military machine gun at cordon

[quaint shard]

How

[finite dragon]

if i remember corectlly try to stick to left side of the map

[finite dragon]

ShoC CS or CoP? Just want an opinion from you guys.

[solid dome]

4:29 am. Good Jesus!

[potent bluff]

SoC - better atmosphere
CS - more depth story
CoP - better gameplay

I like all of them

[quick dune]

SoC

[dusty mortar]

Do we have any previews/Extracts of the Digital Art book?

[solid dome]

Previews of what exactly?

Digital art book?

[dusty mortar]

Yes, like 1 or 2 pages to see what kind of art it is

[solid dome]

Regarding Stalker 2?

[dusty mortar]

Stalker 2 Digital Artbook Collector/Ultimate edition

[solid dome]

Nope, since nobody received that yet afaik

Previews...

[dusty mortar]

ok, thank you

[solid dome]

Months away from previews

I guess you can expect that closer to March, early March maybe

[solid dome]

All good

👌

[quaint shard]

Alright I'll try

I experienced it

All to the left btw?

Nah I can't not on PC

But I can somewhat picture it inside my head

[solid dome]

You run to the left

If you run to the right you'd want to carry your Hell Pass

So the guards there can let you in

Carry your green certificate as well

Ya never know!!!!!!!!!!

[glossy bear]

Hello Stalkers. I want to get the best Stalker Bundle. If I buy the digital ultimate edition I'll still miss a lot of things of the retail (like the map, figurine and stuff). Is there a way to get everything from retail with the Ultimate Edition ?

[fickle bison]

Well if you want the game with the Ultimate edition and everything from retail, you gotta buy the Ultimate retail edition which comes with EVERYTHING, but costs over 330 euroes

[finite dragon]

Ok here me out the mercs are payed by western powers how else did they get XM40 gas masks LR-300s SG-550s etc and we can see ingame that they are attacking ecologists or forcing themselves over them as guards and fighting freedom in the dark valley everywhere they go has a lab ecologists or a secret area
Are they payed by the un with money and supplies to extract as much info as possible on the Zone? ( far as I saw they aren’t confirmed to be)

[tepid ibex]

You do realize that "customers" usually don't supply merc groups with gear?

Only with funds

[finite dragon]

True

But how the hell do they get prototype XM-40 masks

[tepid ibex]

My theory is that mercs were hired by Russian govt, to destroy all evidences of their horrendous experiments in the past

[finite dragon]

Could be

That could explain the overly American fear

But I’ve heard that in the Russian version they speak with British and German accents

[tepid ibex]

Mercenaries are usually international groups. Plus, it would be stupid for Russians, to hire actual Russians.

Like c'mon. At this point you could use your national agents or something

[finite dragon]

True

But it doesn’t explain the xm40 masks

[tepid ibex]

Like I said, mercs supply themselves with their own preferable gear. Be it from black market, or a few units "mysteriously disappearing from the stockpile"

[finite dragon]

Yes but there’s very few XM-40 gasmasks as they are prototype

[tepid ibex]

I see. Then again, it's just a matter of design. I don't think GSC cared about such small details. They only needed a gas mask, that had notably more western design to it

That's just my opinion tho

[finite dragon]

Yea

My theory now is more that they are getting paid with supplies and money to gather info on the zone by the UN with a background Russia contract to destroy it all and make it a massive cover up

[tepid ibex]

Hmm. That would make some sense too. However, by messing with global superpowers on such scale, their reputation would probably reach the absolute low. Who would hire mercs, who betray their customers?

Probably only some African/Middle Eastern warlords

But my opinion on that matter is just as valid as yours. I doubt the details on Mercs and their customers will ever be officially revealed

[fast crescent]

Just imagine how illegal trip to the zone would have look like... Either paying to smugler and hopeing hes not with the police. Try to hop fence or crawl under on your own, often having no idea what to expect. Maybe try to find someone who REALLY was in the zone in lived? Good luck with that I guess...

[modest current]

On the first day of christmas GSC gave to me..

not the ultimate edition in us stores.......

[haughty brook]

@modest current right, that's what I'm waiting for at this point

[quartz fossil]

We all know the minute a preorder for us shows it will immediately sell out

[fickle bison]

Stalker 2 season pass content: new skin for controller where it wears timbs and a supreme t_shirt

[hard stirrup]

id pay 20$ for that

[tepid ibex]

Or a "I 🦴 mutants" shirt.

[open lintel]

👀

[fickle bison]

Of course its a freedomer

[tepid ibex]

Yes

Damn, my friend was right. Discord does in fact show, what you're currently doing in Anomaly

[sturdy zodiac]

Like, y'know, for example, just purely hypothetically, if you for whatever reason, willingly, decide to be a FREEDOMER in the zone

I mean, what a thing, right? Who would ever do that!

[tepid ibex]

It's too late for another dumb faction war. I'm getting too old for this nonsense

[sturdy zodiac]

And nonsense it is! A good thing that's just a hypothetical scenario.

[solid dome]

Ban faction wars outside of the game

[finite dragon]

[fair iris]

I want the retail but i want the actual digital ultimate edition 😔