⭐┃nospoilers_general

[dusk oasis]

It's human nature for someone who has no idea what stalker is

[soft ice]

True

[grand pendant]

chernobylite is literally trying to be stalker but without being staljer

[tired anvil]

"dark stalker roaming Chernobyl"

Yeah lmao

[soft ice]

I kind of understand fallout but it’s Bluedrakes fault for making people thing it’s like tarkov at all

[dusk oasis]

Oh what's a burrito? It looks like a taco but folded

[worthy lagoon]

How can you compare Tarkov with STALKER

[static compass]

Played a trial of that game, it was... a different experience

[worthy lagoon]

Oh right.. Anomaly players

[soft ice]

People who never played the base games

[tired anvil]

Funny Russian gun shoot game

That is it

[dusk oasis]

Both Russian games with guns, must be the same thing

[worthy lagoon]

Anomaly players

[grand pendant]

chernobylite sucks

[soft ice]

Yeah

[grand pendant]

i know it's true because gajunas said it

[tired anvil]

Love how one isn't even Russian, but yea

[dusk oasis]

[soft ice]

@limber plume Thanks for that…

[grand pendant]

come on bro lmao

[tired anvil]

Meh, I don't think the dev is to blame

It's the communities ignorance, dev just made a popular product

[grand pendant]

and meatchunk is based

[dusk oasis]

Does anyone have a guess on who the stranger is at the end of the gameplay trailer?

[grand pendant]

leon s. kennedy

[static compass]

Gotta be my boy Leon

[tired anvil]

His name is Kennedy

[dusk oasis]

Where even is their message

[grand pendant]

message?

[tired anvil]

I can't recall where, but the Russians found some screenshot of the 3D model with him or whatever and the title was Kennedy

[static compass]

I'm assuming he's associated with monolith in some way

[dusk oasis]

Talking about meatchunk like he said something

[dusk oasis]

[grand pendant]

i'm not following you

[dusk oasis]

No way lol

[tired anvil]

I'll try to find it

[dusk oasis]

This

[tired anvil]

Stg I ain't tripping

[static compass]

Guaranteed a placeholder name

[dusk oasis]

This

[static compass]

There's no way they'd name him that

[soft ice]

I swear they said his name in arg papers

[tired anvil]

They had Freeman, I don't see why not

[grand pendant]

i said he's based because he is a cool guy, he's not only in this server

[visual radish]

Just wanted to say that V.O.L.G. reshade for Anomaly is the best IMO, especially if you use Autumn textures

[dusk oasis]

Oh I see

[static compass]

Well, I suppose it's possible

[gaunt geyser]

I wish that Metro 2033 and Last Light were way more similar to Stalker Call of Pripyat!

[dusk oasis]

What

[soft ice]

The next Anomalu update should make it unplayable without playing the base games change my mind

[visual radish]

Err... How so?

[grand pendant]

it's in his name

schizo

[static compass]

I'm pretty new to stalker in general but I've heard enough bad about anomaly that I'm assuming it's either not good, or people just don't like it when you play that before the og games

[soft ice]

The latter

[dusk oasis]

You beat me

[visual radish]

It's always much better to play the vanilla games before playing any mods

[dusk oasis]

Yeah anomaly is great for extending the stalker experience, especially while waiting for S2, but for actual story, you want to play the vanilla games

[dusk oasis]

Absolutely

That's how you truly get the most immersion and really into the world of stalker

[tired anvil]

So it says Leonid
https://i.playground.ru/p/Kca41joQJ-TLBPjHd8lXnQ.png
http://prntscr.com/261waos

The thing is, the voice actor also shares the same name, so I guess it could be both

[grand pendant]

surdno would be proud

[static compass]

Acceptable name

[tired anvil]

Leon Kennedy

[dusk oasis]

Interesting

[visual radish]

Anomaly is the best mod, especially if you're looking for the most stable and playable mod at all))

[static compass]

I wonder if there's a scene of him fighting snorks John wick style

[tired anvil]

Anomaly was already deleted from Mod DB last year. You missed the update

[dusk oasis]

Yeah anomaly has enough content to last you a long while

[grand pendant]

your opinion is wrong

[dusk oasis]

Huh?

[tired anvil]

Anomaly was deleted for like 2 hours in November or whenever tf it was

[static compass]

I'd always play a vanilla game before a mod regardless

[dusk oasis]

Is it back? I wanted to redownload it to play the expedition mod

[visual radish]

and most important it is stable and doesn't crash with the famous green bug, once you launch it))

[tired anvil]

It got back pretty quickly

[dusk oasis]

Of course, much smoother experience overall

[soft ice]

Next time operator drewski or bluedrake makes a video it should be removed from YouTube for 2 weeks

Or custerplays

[dusk oasis]

Oh alright

[tired anvil]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/504592685428899851/907636280970592296/unknown.png

[grand pendant]

base anomaly doesn't crash a lot on +- mdoern systems, but the base game sucks so much

[dusk oasis]

How so?

[grand pendant]

like look at their story modes bro

or the quests

[dusk oasis]

Holy bayzed

[grand pendant]

and the terribly outdated weapon packs merge

[dusk oasis]

Well yeah plot sucks

[worthy lagoon]

True

[dusk oasis]

But in terms of gameplay I enjoy it

[grand pendant]

you enjoy the useless item bloat ?

[worthy lagoon]

The ai sucks

[dusk oasis]

I enjoy stalking around leave me be

[grand pendant]

that's fine, but the mod sux

happy you can enjoy it though ig

[valid mirage]

Anomaly is great ,i really enjoy it, but the divide between those who love it and those who hate it largely centers around it being a sandbox.

if you like pissing about in a sandbox and making a story for yourself, you'll like it. (im one of those people)

if you like to have a narrative and story focus and don't like sandbox games, you will find it incredibly boring.

[grand pendant]

i like sandbox games, but there really isn't much to anomaly

literally just get rich and more gear until you get bored

[tired anvil]

Dunno, I see a bigger divide in people who play it after the trilogy and people who ignore the trilogy for it

[grand pendant]

it's a grinding game

[valid mirage]

serious question, what do you think stalkers do in the zone?

thats their whole lives

[dusk oasis]

Good point

[valid mirage]

word hard, try to earn money and not die, be sad

[tired anvil]

Yea, but I doubt everyone boots up stalker to play a thief simulator

[static compass]

I'm assuming anomaly just puts you in the perspective of a regular stalker with no story-based goals

[tired anvil]

Some enjoy the story, some enjoy the lore, some enjoy the settings, others hoard or grind

[dusk oasis]

That's exactly what it does

However you can choose a faction and I think there is some sort of lackluster story mode

[valid mirage]

yep, you can travel the zone as you want, help factions fight factions and do randomly generated missions for people

[static compass]

Fair

[grand pendant]

the majority of stalkers are in the Zone for different objectives, like hiding from the law or providing for their families

[dusk oasis]

I enjoy it all

[grand pendant]

the anomaly protagonist is a robot

[valid mirage]

the story mode is pretty mediocre, it really just takes you through a bunch of setpiece locations and has you retrace a lot of the main trilogy's steps

[grand pendant]

playing anomaly without ironman mode is just so dull

[dusk oasis]

What do you imagine yourself doing after finishing the story for S2

[grand pendant]

whatever it is Skif wants to do lmao

[dusk oasis]

Cuz after that it's either replaying it differently, or just grinding

[gusty trench]

Anomaly isn't good as people say about it...

[grand pendant]

nobody stays in the Zone for a long time but a few exceptions

[static compass]

I mean.. wouldn't that technically just turn into anomaly?

[valid mirage]

to be fair thats because most people die

[static compass]

Roaming around with nothing to do but side objectives and artifact hunts?

[valid mirage]

the zone only has a population of like 500-800 people at any given time, with new people constantly coming in and like 20-30 people dieing every day.

very few actually ever leave

[soft ice]

*Moddb

[grand pendant]

do you know what skif wants to do?

[tired anvil]

Get the Scarlet Flower

[grand pendant]

based

[soft ice]

Well, it’s gotta be higher

[static compass]

I mean, for all we know skif is a blank canvas

[grand pendant]

which is why the questio "what do after s2" is dumb

[tired anvil]

Dunno, he seems more than that from the few trailers we have

[static compass]

He's either got his own motivation or he's a vessel for the player to make choices

[dusk oasis]

Considering how non-linear the devs claim the game to be

[grand pendant]

and the people who make it along time get well established

like Voronin, Sidorovich, Nimble, etc

[dusk oasis]

It has to be based off of your choices and not skifs motivation

[grand pendant]

the grind is supposed to be temporary

[soft ice]

I hope stalker 2 is less of a soc “heart of the zone” thing and more of a clear sky / stalker 2 2011 “things happening in the zone” thing

[grand pendant]

not eternal as in anomaly. Like get a billion rubles and the best equipment but still be the average stalker

[valid mirage]

those who live long enough realize its more profitable to run a business for the idiots exploring the deathtraps then explore them themselves

[dusk oasis]

But exploration is where the fun is at

[tired anvil]

I hope stalker 2 is less of a soc “heart of the zone"
I'm sorry but it's literally called "Heart of Chernobyl"

[dusk oasis]

After I finish the story, I'll just explore every inch of the zone to my heart's content

[soft ice]

I know lol

Just saying

[grand pendant]

if you like anomaly for the grind i'd go for a.r.e.a. No matter how much you have it's still hell on earth

[dusk oasis]

I can already tell that no matter what the game is like, a lot of people are going to be pissed off

[grand pendant]

i'll do that before finishing the story

[tired anvil]

This has been a given for years now. Oh well

[valid mirage]

you can't please everyone

[static compass]

That's how you do it

[tired anvil]

The only exploring I'll do after the story would be the branching out paths of the story that I didn't get to in my first run

Since Griga promised that you won't see everything on your first run anyway

[gaunt geyser]

If Stalker 2 turns out to be just another trendy Cyberpunk 2077 or Battlefield 2042, I'll rope!

[dusk oasis]

Oh I hope not

[static compass]

Well it hasn't been overhyped nearly as much as those games were so here's hoping it won't be

[valid mirage]

the great thing about stalker is if 2 sucks the rest still exist

[dusk oasis]

I wonder how many different endings there are

[static compass]

I'm hoping at least more than three

[tired anvil]

CoP has hundreds

[static compass]

Stalker shadow of Chernobyl has like 12 endings if I'm not wrong

[tired anvil]

I'm gonna guess S2 will have a similar deal

[tired anvil]

7

[grand pendant]

SoC has like 7

[static compass]

I was wrong

Still a lot

[tired anvil]

You mentioned wanting to play it on console (or that's what I got from your messages earlier). Have you ever completed any of the actual games ?

[valid mirage]

all i know is i hope they fix the bolt throwing they showed in the gameplay trailer.

that was really jank

[static compass]

Me? I'm committing a mortal sin here, but no I haven't, I await the stoning I'm about to recieve

[tired anvil]

You won't receive a stoning for it

[dusk oasis]

Yeah looked pretty clunky

[tired anvil]

There's worse things going on here

[soft ice]

Aren’t all but 1 just wish granter monkeys paw endings

[valid mirage]

anyone who tries to stone you is an idiot

[dusk oasis]

Incoming

[grand pendant]

2

[tired anvil]

You mentioned having a laptop though, could give the games a try on that

[static compass]

I've never beaten them, I just watch a TON of lore and gameplay vids

[grand pendant]

anomalous dugout?

[soft ice]

Don’t tell me you’ve played anomaly

[static compass]

I'd need a better one

[tired anvil]

gameplay
Oh, you watched Anomaly videos

[grand pendant]

he's kind of the only good lore guy in yt based around english stalker

[soft ice]

Tell me your specs

[static compass]

No lol, I don't watch anomaly vids

[static compass]

They're not good lol

[soft ice]

They don’t have to be

Just tell me

[tired anvil]

Yea he's pretty based

[valid mirage]

the first one is a little dated, they hadn't quite fleshed out some mechanics yet, namely artifacts, but the story is well worth it. as for clear sky and cop, they are great to this day

[grand pendant]

all the games run on almost anything

[static compass]

It's an older laptop, it just doesn't have the memory to run a lot of games

[tired anvil]

Well, Stalker needs less memory than Chrome

[static compass]

He's one of them

[soft ice]

Yeah

It’s from 2007 after all

[tired anvil]

So if you could write some of the specs, it'd be nice

[static compass]

Well true

[gaunt geyser]

Well at least I'm overhyping S2, and my anus is not ready for another devastating disappointment such as Cyberpunk 2077! lol

[static compass]

Yeah I've heard they can be a little jank

[dusk oasis]

Recommended RAM for CoP is 512 MB

[tired anvil]

Every copy is personalised

[grand pendant]

all of them are jank

who cares

L2P and get good

[dusk oasis]

Stalker is jank

That's part of it's niche

[static compass]

I'm aware they are lol

[valid mirage]

its gonna be real weird having an open world stalker.

the switch from zones with loading screens to combined map for monster hunter did so much good for that franchise.

i hope it feels good here too

[soft ice]

They really aren’t that buggy or crashy. But I have to say, the most major bugs are related to saving and loading. In all three games I’ve had problems with doing this in certain areas

[tired anvil]

I doubt it'll be as bad as Cyberpunk. I just have a hard time imagining something reaching the same level. The lack of boasting about features is already saving them from the same faith

[tired anvil]

Why would it be weird? It's the original idea after all. I think it'll work out pretty good tbh

[static compass]

60% of Cyberpunk's funds went into advertising if that tells you anything

[dusk oasis]

It'll just feel weird because it's different from what we're used to

[grand pendant]

like what would the difference even be

[dusk oasis]

Although it is a change for the better

[grand pendant]

just no loadscreens

[tired anvil]

Me and Slyth have been blessed with completing the series multiple times with pretty much none of these bugs. I don't get it

[static compass]

It won't funnel you through certain entry points either you'll be able to just go anywhere

[tired anvil]

Either it's good luck or a skill issue in the end

[valid mirage]

look, im used to playing games from 1990-2010 because nothing good ever comes out anymore.

im not ready for "modern features"

[grand pendant]

open world doesn't mean you can go anywhere right away

[soft ice]

I had the quick load in front of CHNPP in soc bug, quick load in limansk bug also

[dusk oasis]

Well buckle-up and get ready

But take your time we have 4 months

[tired anvil]

Aye, same, I'm just sorta used to looking into original ideas for the series or things that didn't make it, and in the end a lot of the things being possibly re-introduced into S2 just seems normal enough

[grand pendant]

literally just learn every bug and how to avoid it, not hard

[tired anvil]

Stalker is decently open even with the levels, so I don't think 1 map is that bad

[dusk oasis]

Do you think the zone will be plot-locked or something like that

[grand pendant]

yes

[soft ice]

Soc zone is plot locked

[grand pendant]

would be weird otherwise

[static compass]

Isn't the trilogy on sale on steam all the time?

[soft ice]

Same with cop

[tired anvil]

SoC had that as well

[soft ice]

Yeah

[still ridge]

Yeah

[soft ice]

Also this magical site called g2a lol

[dusk oasis]

Yeah but with CoP everything was quite linear

[static compass]

I've heard bad things about g2a

[valid mirage]

the funny thing about stalker though is that it actually is a fully connected open world.

the load screens are there yes, but if you loaded all the maps at the same time they would fit together properly.

hell the npcs literally walk between them, unlike you who gets a load screen.

[still ridge]

Pretty much

[tired anvil]

Pretty much lmao, during every Steam sale it's out there

[soft ice]

Just check the reviews

[still ridge]

Not if you do every side quest

[dusk oasis]

Whereas devs are claiming that S2 will be everything but linear

[soft ice]

Or wait for a sale

[tired anvil]

Yea I'd go with Eneba or something, G2a can be trash

[static compass]

I'll take a look

[still ridge]

CoP is also the shortest

[tired anvil]

Yea they are really hammering that in ngl

[soft ice]

Actually I heard gog stalker was the best

[dusk oasis]

Why, of course I side quest

[still ridge]

CoP can be finished in like 8 hours

[dusk oasis]

Yeah honestly

[still ridge]

I don’t think S2 can be

[grand pendant]

CoP can be finished in like 20 minutes

[tired anvil]

CS can be in 8 I think

[soft ice]

Nah

[dusk oasis]

Inb4 stalker 2 speedrunning

[static compass]

They said stalker 2 would be 100 hours but I'm assuming that's if you try to literally do everything

[soft ice]

Getting the recruits for Jupiter underground kinda drags on, and so does the part when you get i to Pripyat

[tired anvil]

They found ways for the trilogy, they'll find a way for 2

[grand pendant]

i think they said "at least 100 hours

[static compass]

Main quest? Maybe 15 hours or so, that seems to be the standard for most games

[still ridge]

Yeah probably 100~ hours = all content

15 hours is too little imo

if things are plot locked

[static compass]

Could be more, won't know til the game comes out

[dusk oasis]

Including multiple playthroughs?

[soft ice]

Soc is like 40 hours for most people

[still ridge]

No

[tired anvil]

Taken from the article
“Griga expects players to be able to spend 100 hours to see everything Stalker 2 has to offer blah blah blah”

[still ridge]

Griga

[grand pendant]

in the faq it says you need more than 100

we'll see

[tired anvil]

What, never heard that shortening?

[still ridge]

I have

[dusk oasis]

[tired anvil]

They contradict everything 24/7, I just listen to Griga now

Like when someone as an oopsie said that coop will happen and yet that turned out to be false

[soft ice]

Has anyone else noticed that the developer made winter addon for area is called… White power 1.2.1?

[still ridge]

bruh

[tired anvil]

I noticed Renegade cookies by GSC

[grand pendant]

how did you cope after being lied to like that

[still ridge]

I did too

renegades in S2 would be pog, dare I say

[valid mirage]

memer

[tired anvil]

Terribly since at that point it was the 2nd time by GSC that they did me dirty like that

[still ridge]

You’re a criminal

[valid mirage]

need a stalker game with renegade protagonist.

would be super immersive because he would be sad and wet all the time, just like everyone playing as him

[tired anvil]

2011 plot had them

[still ridge]

If they made renegade cookies, I think they’ll be in S2

[tired anvil]

Glad you're as mentally deranged as me

[still ridge]

Maybe this is just a schizo moment idk

yeah lol

[static compass]

Lmao my laptop won't even load my steam page anymore

[still ridge]

cope

[tired anvil]

I just told Crimson that it's confirmation until proven otherwise

[tired anvil]

Yea that might be from the sale

[still ridge]

FR

[tired anvil]

I think it's ending either now or in a few hours

[still ridge]

renegades cookies in 2022

They’ll be in game!!!

[static compass]

Error code 106?

[soft ice]

When does stalker 2 take place

[grand pendant]

after CoP

[tired anvil]

Some point after 2019

[static compass]

I'd say 2022 or slightly after

[grand pendant]

oh the cypher docs say that?

[tired anvil]

No, the gun nerds pointed out that one of the rifles is from 2019

[dusk oasis]

Lol

[soft ice]

So the original games are all 2011-2012

[soft ice]

That could just be a oversight tho

[tired anvil]

Idk, knowing how this community will literally find hidden audio from 1 pixel, I have trust in the gun nuts identifying their models. And I doubt GSC will retcon real life

[dusk oasis]

I doubt it

[grand pendant]

i know, but something tells me it's not that long, we'll see

[still ridge]

Lol it’s not gonna be in 2013

[tired anvil]

Something tells me that it is, but the rest is NDA

[grand pendant]

just say you are screenwriter already

[still ridge]

he is rock_4

[dusk oasis]

And with the comment that made about the tower in the swamp, at least a few years have passed since CoP

[static compass]

They said there were new mutants in the gameplay trailer that no one found but they must have been invisible cuz I've combed through that footage

[tired anvil]

I missed out on meeting the legend himself last year, times didn't match at the last moment

[dusk oasis]

I think it's safe to say it's at least 2019

[still ridge]

Sadge

[dusk oasis]

Did you comb not only the visuals, but the audio

[grand pendant]

there are new mutants, in the magazine

[dusk oasis]

Like the deer

[static compass]

Yeah but they mentioned that there were some in the trailer too

[grand pendant]

they memeing

[static compass]

Probably lol

[tired anvil]

They mentioned a faction in the trailer, which was true. Dunno about mutant

[dusk oasis]

Maybe there's a faint mutant noise in the background

[still ridge]

They said there was a hint for a new faction in the trailer

[tired anvil]

Which was the graffiti in the Bandit scene

[grand pendant]

how could they know it's new

[static compass]

I almost wish I didn't know about the deers abilities because imagine stumbling across that thinking it's harmless

[dusk oasis]

Idfk

I'm grabbing at thin air here

[valid mirage]

nah, its because that flesh wasn't a flesh at all, but a psyflesh, new and improved

[dusk oasis]

Are you for real

[static compass]

Couldn't save it from spooky spiral air exploder

[dusk oasis]

Yeah that would make for a cool moment

[tired anvil]

Idk, I'm assuming that you're a furry so I think you'll deal with them fine

[valid mirage]

me? no. but imagine if that was it, amazing

[static compass]

LMAO

[dusk oasis]

Guys

Maybe Skif is a mutant

[valid mirage]

boom

now your using your noodle

[soft ice]

Maybe the thing in the lab wasn’t a bloodsucker

[static compass]

You just solved the entire plot

[soft ice]

Because it was running on all fours

[still ridge]

Skif is actually Comrade Crimson

[grand pendant]

Scar could be a mutant

he literally was in desdocs

[dusk oasis]

Skif is the result of a freedomer boning a snork

[tired anvil]

I want one of the DLC's to be Scar's last moments or somehow focused on him so much

[valid mirage]

skif is the first handsome controller, well...as handsome as anyone is in stalker

[soft ice]

Yeah

[dusk oasis]

New variation of bloodsucker maybe? Because it seemed quite bloodsuckery to me

[soft ice]

Like scars pda

[tired anvil]

The fact that the ARG docs mention CS founders being extremely related to the C-Con just gives me more hope for CS/Scar lore

[soft ice]

I hope so

[still ridge]

wut

[soft ice]

We already know lebedev worked on the project

[grand pendant]

we have enough bloodscuker variation i think

just that they are all the same despite being different

[static compass]

Monolith scar dlc

[tired anvil]

We know about the founders being related/working on it, but more stuff to back it up is always great

Strider being in the docs is also nice

[soft ice]

I hope strelok and degtyarev are in s2

[tired anvil]

Also the docs were confirmed canon

[still ridge]

Yeah that’s so good

[tired anvil]

Sooooo we finally got it Edi

[dusk oasis]

Would be so cool to run into them

[static compass]

I'm sure strelok will be around

[dusk oasis]

I wonder how they're doing

[soft ice]

Yeah, even running into strelok again in anomaly felt so cool. It felt like meeting an old friend again

[tired anvil]

After years, the Strider faction is finally canon

[dusk oasis]

Yeah, it was an awesome moment

[still ridge]

Ambiguous endings moment

[soft ice]

Is strider in anomaly?

[grand pendant]

Strider's death squad

[still ridge]

No

[soft ice]

That’s a a shame

[tired anvil]

Thought he was

[soft ice]

It would be cool if you could find him at yanov station or something

[still ridge]

Good, they didn’t ruin a good character

[valid mirage]

didn't strider and his boys all join the free stalkers?

[tired anvil]

That's Duty and Freedom in one of the endings?

[grand pendant]

player choice, not canon for now

[static compass]

I think they formed the Noon faction?

[tired anvil]

Well, Strider forming his faction is a canon choice now

[tired anvil]

Yes

[grand pendant]

did he form a faction or was assigned men by Ward?

[valid mirage]

noon faction? oh boy im out of the loop

[soft ice]

Wtf is up with gsc and these names

[still ridge]

The what

the what faction

[grand pendant]

i seriously need to read the cypher docs but it looks so boring for some reason

[static compass]

He and his group were all former monolith I think

[soft ice]

-Last day
-Clear sky
-Noon

[tired anvil]

Same Slyth

I only read a few bits of it

[still ridge]

Fr

[tired anvil]

“Moreover, a group of followers of the so-called Strider is now ready to assist our mission and has been reorganized into the "Noon" faction, aimed at operations to clean up particularly dangerous and contaminated areas.”

[grand pendant]

i mean cipher docs

[static compass]

Oh

[grand pendant]

ok so he did form a faction

[static compass]

^

[tired anvil]

SurDno praises it though

[grand pendant]

imagine not doing a tldr

surdno is lcking

[dusk oasis]

Can anyone post a link to those, I've never read them myself, only heard other people summarize it

[tired anvil]

Pinned message

[dusk oasis]

Sweet

Thanks

[static compass]

Wasn't Ward confirmed to be the faction skif is fighting in the beginning of the trailer?

[grand pendant]

we know their uniforms and no

skif looks like he fought bandits

[static compass]

Probably a new bandit group then

Yeah

I know the guys in the end were monolith tho

[tired anvil]

Ward is the faction on the graffiti in the Bandit scene

[static compass]

Ok I knew I heard someone mention something about them for that scene

[dusk oasis]

And Ward is like trying to be zone police or something?

[still ridge]

Basically

[grand pendant]

yeah, and help the institute

[valid mirage]

hey, thats duty's job

[valid mirage]

only red boys get to be police

[dusk oasis]

Eh, duty is more of trying to control the zone

[grand pendant]

Duty's job is being as useless as possible

[dusk oasis]

Lmao

[static compass]

Destroy

[dusk oasis]

Right, destroy

[soft ice]

Strelok?

His institute

[grand pendant]

it's not his institute

[dusk oasis]

I think Ward is just going to be trying to enforce laws on the stalkers or something

[grand pendant]

but idk, just that they help the institute was mentioned in the magazine

[tired anvil]

SIRCAA has been mentioned everywhere for over a year now and it's messing with me on a whole different level

Trying to solve that cipher really changes a mf

[static compass]

Where do you think the starting area will be? I'm gonna guess Zalissya

[soft ice]

It was at the end of Cop

[tired anvil]

I'm aware, also in 2011 S2, then the ARG/Cipher etc

[soft ice]

Yeah but 2011 s2 isn’t canon

Thankfully

[tired anvil]

Zalissya/Zalesya/however tf you wanna spell it seems like a possible option, especially since as far as I remember it's pretty close to the borders of the Zone irl. Though from the screenshots dunno, seems like it'd be one of the first areas you visit rather than start in

[static compass]

The pistol you carry in the screenshots seems to hint further at that

[tired anvil]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/504592534081896458/918397737089773608/5.png
I mean sure, this could be the starting location, but I think it's just slightly after it

Yea, pistol as well

[soft ice]

Is Zalissya Chornobyl irl?

[static compass]

Yeah it's a village

[grand pendant]

maybe start outside the Zone

[soft ice]

I mean the town of chornobyl

On the border of the zone

[static compass]

I can't be the only one that thinks the first mission should be you breaking into the zone

[soft ice]

Area has that

[static compass]

Having to sneak past the army and such

[soft ice]

Holodilniks area

[grand pendant]

holodilnkik's area

[soft ice]

Yeah

I misspelled

[grand pendant]

dude idk how tf you spell it, wack ass name

but his version is fine

[static compass]

So, what is that exactly?

[grand pendant]

buggy as all hell though, since he is the only one developing it

[soft ice]

Why was Zalissa abandoned irl?

It’s way far from the npp and it’s really close to kiev

Chornobyl wasn’t abandoned and it’s hundreds of kilometers closer

[tired anvil]

They both exist

[soft ice]

I know that

[tired anvil]

Both of them were abandoned. Zalissya was just one of the first despite being somewhat more distant from the NPP

[dusk oasis]

Idk the exact reason all I know is it was abandoned like 1985 or 86

[tired anvil]

86

The reason is the Chernobyl disaster

[soft ice]

Haha 85? They were a little early

It’s really close to kiev and it’s just like 5 buildings

[tired anvil]

No, stop looking at Google maps

That's the wrong one

[dusk oasis]

Don't got all my zone facts down lol

[soft ice]

Ohh

[tired anvil]

The real one is removed from maps and is 25-30KM from the reactor

So it's still in the Exclusion Zone borders

[soft ice]

I think Chornobyl would be a better starting point

[tired anvil]

I disagree personally

It's relatively close to Duga when looking into the grander scheme of things and there's still plenty of cool small areas south of it, so why not include them as well if you're making the biggest Chernobyl related project to date

[static compass]

I'm assuming the NPP is gonna be in the center of the map, but that's just me

Would match up with the whole "Heart" thing anyway

[tired anvil]

http://prntscr.com/2625hdd @soft ice that is where it is

[dusk oasis]

I think @static compass 's idea that zalissya may be the starting point might be right

It makes sense

[tired anvil]

Whilst it would match, imo it's better north

[static compass]

I think it's safe to say that the game starts with you enterting the zone and working your way to Zalissya

[soft ice]

Im still mad and confused about how clear sky halfassed the duga

[static compass]

Well, that's true

[static compass]

That wasn't the duga

[tired anvil]

Most likely

[tired anvil]

Well, in-game it's not, but it's modelled after the IRL one

[static compass]

It was the brain scorcher

[tired anvil]

No

[dusk oasis]

Yeah like you mentioned earlier, gameplay of entering the zone would be cool

[soft ice]

It was obviously supposed to represent it just a messed up small one

No this is different

This is a background object in limansk

[static compass]

Isn't that where the brain scorcher is? Lol

[tired anvil]

Yeah, even devs said so that they wanted to make Limansk like Duga/Chernobyl 2 but the antenna was just too big for the map, so they toned it down

[soft ice]

No the brain scorcher is in Radar/red forest

[tired anvil]

Well, they acompllished their goal ig but not to the max

[static compass]

Oh

[soft ice]

I’ve always wanted to learn how to make mods so I could make an actual Duga map for anomaly or something

With chernobyl 2 and everything

[gusty trench]

[tired anvil]

I think Spintires might have done a half assed version of it lmao

But that's not quite Stalker

[static compass]

If it's in the far north then duga is probably in the north east of the map

[soft ice]

Duga is pretty far south

[tired anvil]

Also hello Mez, I forgot to thank you for your translation despite being somewhat too lazy to read all of it as of now

[static compass]

Not in the game, it's east

[tired anvil]

There's no Duga in the game

[static compass]

If I'm getting my directions right

[static compass]

I meant S2

[tired anvil]

And irl it's west of Zalesye

[gusty trench]

Uh. I made so many translations I'm not sure what translation exactly...

[tired anvil]

Latest ARG ones

[gusty trench]

Oh. Yeah.

[soft ice]

I think we can call the limansk one a duga

And limansk is roughly situated right if you ignore the Pripyat thing

[tired anvil]

We can, but considering the fact that we're gonna have the real thing soon, I am perfectly fine with calling it just the Limansk antenna or whatever

Will be even more wild if both make it to 2

[gusty trench]

I plan to make Google Doc version out of those translations. Just like a dude from Rentgen did for Ua-Ru.

[tired anvil]

That'd be good

[static compass]

Well, geographically, things aren't where they should be, but hopefully the locations themselves are pretty spot on

[tired anvil]

Reading through Discord can be a bit annoying at times

[tired anvil]

Well, in 2011 the map was 100% based off of irl. So

[gusty trench]

If It didn't stop at one page.

But I guess I can start now

[tired anvil]

Here's the 2011 map
https://i.redd.it/mj3fm9jguegx.jpg

[static compass]

Well, I'm just saying, places are in the wrong direction in S2

[dusk oasis]

I think what devs might be doing is pushing major locations closer together, but I'm not sure

[static compass]

At least duga and the npp are

[tired anvil]

We don't know their direction for S2 yet. How can they be wrong?

[static compass]

Could be, centering all the important stuff

[dusk oasis]

People making estimations on location/distance based off of the rooftop scene

[static compass]

I've deduced that when you're talking to the stranger in the trailer you're standing on the reactor 5 building looking East, but you can see the duga radar in the background which you wouldn't be able to see irl

[dusk oasis]

Exactly that

[tired anvil]

Man

I'm pretty sure someone found the actual location of that scene

[dusk oasis]

They did

[tired anvil]

Give me like 10mins to find it

Because I'm certain it wasn't reactor 5

[static compass]

I have pics, but I can send pics here lol

[dusk oasis]

When people were trying to find out the size of the map, they did a whole thing based off of the rooftop scene

[static compass]

I'm not allowed

[tired anvil]

Just DM, I'll tell you if it's the same ones as saw or not

[tired anvil]

We already know the size of the map, so that is useless

[dusk oasis]

They turned out to be far off from the actual map size

[static compass]

One sec lemme find them

[dusk oasis]

This was before we were told the map size

What I'm saying is they figured out the directions if the various locations in response to the rooftop that the stranger is on

It kinda further proves that locations seem to be pushed together instead of being 1-1

[tired anvil]

Well, 1:1 would be a bit extreme seeing how the zone is, but I'm still waiting for the DM from that guy. I'll also try to find the ones I saw a while ago

[gaunt geyser]

When nft's meant for S2 got canceled due to fan outrage. It gives me Hope, but I'm still too traumatized with Cyberpunk 2077 to stop being cynical! lol

[dusk oasis]

Sounds good

[dusk oasis]

You're right to be skeptical of the game, I wish I was

The fact that they cancelled the NFT thing shows that they're at least listening to us so that's good

[static compass]

The duga array is still far away, but it's a bit closer than it is irl

[dusk oasis]

Mhm

[tired anvil]

Finding this image gonna be harder than I thought

[static compass]

I sent those pics btw

[tired anvil]

Yea, saw, not what I had in mind, but thanks

[static compass]

Np

https://youtu.be/OlQwWDEapXc

This talks about it some

[tired anvil]

https://youtu.be/G7SQ1QZ5V7Q?t=847

This does it best

Bit of a long video but if you skip through he shows the places nicely. Cbf to search for the image, this is pmuch the same, will do

[static compass]

Interesting

[dusk oasis]

That's the video I was talking about

[dusk oasis]

That shows it very well actually, very nice

[tired anvil]

Yup, so whilst maybe it won't be 1:1. which isn't surprising considering we know that the map is 64km square, I think it'll be decently accurate

[static compass]

Also, on the topic of the beginning I'm gonna assume skif will start as a loner

[tired anvil]

Probably. It's the best option I'd say as well

Back to the map for a moment though

It's actually real confusing on the size

[limber plume]

?!

[tired anvil]

Ignore him, casual Anomaly hate, nothing special

[limber plume]

lol

eh, you can't please everyone

[dusk oasis]

Wdym?

[soft ice]

@limber plume Can you make your mod unplayable without having played the base games

I love anomaly but I hate it when people play anomaly without playing the base games

[limber plume]

that's not our problem

and base games are old now

can't force ppl to play vanilla first

[soft ice]

Omg

It is your problem uou developed the mod

[dusk oasis]

Holy @soft ice you just got rolled

[limber plume]

That's like blaming Coca Cola for ppl not drinking water

[tired anvil]

This. The area I marked is roughly 64 square km. GSC says that the map of S2 will be that size, yet also one of the biggest in video-games in general. It looks pretty small on the map, and locations like Duga and the village of Chernobyl are relatively far from the marked area. So I guess it will be pretty cramped. Idk. Guess we'll see when they show us the map
http://prntscr.com/2629x90

[limber plume]

spoiler alert: I played Fallout 3, NV and 4 but didn't play 1+2

[soft ice]

Well I mean, isnt soft drinks the main reason people don’t drink water enough

[tired anvil]

Seeing the tap water in America, I'd probably drink Cola before water too

[soft ice]

Detroit water 😂

[limber plume]

isn't computers why we don't sit in a room with real people playing board games? :)

[thin pulsar]

Flint moment

[tired anvil]

Proud Michigan

[soft ice]

yeah

[thin pulsar]

Pure Michigan my hairy nuts

[limber plume]

Lets ban computers, Anomaly and Coca Cola!

[soft ice]

Unabomber

[tired anvil]

Return to unga bunga

[soft ice]

I don’t wanna hate but wouldn’t this be like a good thing generally for people?

[dusk oasis]

Yeah we'll just have to wait, hard to speculate

[soft ice]

Not really anomaly so much as the other two

[vernal magnet]

Tabletop Stalker by the campfire. this is like the Tong ending for Deus Ex lol

[soft ice]

Like don’t you think

[dusk oasis]

Yeah it's awful here, I exclusively drink bottled water

[thin pulsar]

While I agree that you def should play the other games before anomaly you shouldn’t shift out new players from it either

[soft ice]

What does that mean

[tired anvil]

Please we already hate the Anomaly bashing discussion today

[limber plume]

eh, the world changes man, just accept

[tired anvil]

Can we not repeat it at least for a few hours

I loved the useless S2 map discussion

[soft ice]

Yeah but we would be better off without Coca Cola, the internet, and tarkov players who use stalker as singplayer practice

[dusk oasis]

It means not everyone needs to play 3 other games to play another game

[thin pulsar]

It’s good it’s standalone so we can get more people like us and add to our community

Basically

[soft ice]

No, but they should at least play soc don’t you agree

[dusk oasis]

All of the things you mentioned are for enjoyment

[limber plume]

but would we? That's a bold claim, we would be different without those things, but 'better' is a bold claim to make.

[soft ice]

But the problem is they aren’t like us

[dusk oasis]

It certainly helps with lore and immersion, but I don't care what someone else does

[soft ice]

We would have better health, both physically and mentally

[limber plume]

Anyway, it's 5am, I've had enough vodka and I'm too tired to entertain this conversation much :)

[thin pulsar]

Though I am biased that everyone should play the first 3 I’m sure plenty of people have tried anomaly then immediately played the other 3

[tired anvil]

Dunno man, we'd get rid of Twitter. Isn't that a big step?

[tired anvil]

You already did, I love how cool you actually were. Nice talking with you :)

[thin pulsar]

It’s just good solid stalker content for free and it brought a lot of mainstream attention

[limber plume]

Ironic, though, that you're making this statement using the internet :)

[thin pulsar]

What’s to hate

[soft ice]

Yeah I agree. It’s good for them, but also I don’t want to put up with people who have only played anomaly and not the base games

[tired anvil]

Many have, many have not

[soft ice]

😂

[tired anvil]

Then shut off the internet

[limber plume]

https://tenor.com/view/fist-pump-yeah-yes-kip-aaron-ruell-gif-13138134

For real tho, I've really started enjoying white russians (as in the drink) 😋

[static compass]

Let's ask the real questions, will we be able to ride fleshes in S2?

[thin pulsar]

Though they should, believe me I’m a purist aswell but in the end it only benefits us

[soft ice]

Idk how tho

[dusk oasis]

No I don't think we will

[static compass]

Throw a saddle on the piggies

[thin pulsar]

More people in the community

[soft ice]

I just don’t see how we benefit, because these people are like frankly just annoying and feel out of place

[tired anvil]

They said no transport 😔

[soft ice]

Why is that a good thing

[tired anvil]

More money for GSC, some people are cool as well

[soft ice]

And it’s just flaky ass peolle who come for better graphics

[static compass]

It would be cool to see what cardan and Nitro made though

[soft ice]

Yass more money for the grigorovitch Ferrari fund

[thin pulsar]

It’s a gray thing yk? I’m sure it started off many die hard fans careers

[dusk oasis]

You don't benefit or lose anything, someone else's decision whether or not to play the og trilogy doesn't affect you at all

[tired anvil]

Don't lie, you know he looked good near that Ferrari

[thin pulsar]

But u fortunately that does mean some dough heads come with it

[limber plume]

More stalker community, more cool mods to play, more people outside of Ukraine, Russia etc learning about an interesting culture

[thin pulsar]

^

[static compass]

^

[tired anvil]

Yea like meatchunk is African

[soft ice]

Yeah grigorovitch is top 1# of ig hustle pages for sure

[tired anvil]

That already says a lot

[soft ice]

I hate slavaboos

[limber plume]

I've seen a few cool ppl who never did any mods before do some cool work or at least start learning Photoshop/Blender/other tools, it's cool

[tired anvil]

Learning doesn't automatically make you a Slavaboo

[soft ice]

The cool mods are just like imported tarkov animations

[tired anvil]

You can be non Slavic and enjoy it without being a sped

[thin pulsar]

If I’m gonna be completely honest I saw someone playing anomaly and that’s what inspired me to buy the first 3 play through them all

[soft ice]

Me too!

My friend

[tired anvil]

Then you should've stopped talking a while ago

[soft ice]

No?

[thin pulsar]

Anomaly got us both into the series in my eyes it’s proved it’s worth

[soft ice]

Im saying you should play the base games before anomaly, not that you should never look at anomaly until finishing all three games

[limber plume]

eh, any culture/thing that gets popular gets emulated, in the long run it's a good thing IMO, emulation is a form of praise and love

[soft ice]

Ong once again I LIKE anomaly. I just don’t like people who play it before the base games

[tired anvil]

Until you get sued for it

[dusk oasis]

It is so pointless and stupid to try and control people's decisions in what games they play

[soft ice]

Im just curious, have you ever gotten in legal trouble with battle state games

[limber plume]

I hope you mean you don't like it WHEn people don't play the OG games, but not liking someone for something so trivial is pretty harsh, man

[static compass]

Does wanting to learn Ukrainian so you can play without subtitles make you one? Lmao

[soft ice]

Yeah it’s futile but you can see where I’m coming from and most stalker players are gunna agree with me on this

[limber plume]

https://tenor.com/view/tsoi-viktor-kino-igla-zhdu-gif-20585953

[tired anvil]

Not quite, but a lot of them do that, so I'll say that it's close

[soft ice]

I just said I liked it

[thin pulsar]

To an extent I get you I’m not hating on the other fans but they def do need to play the other games

[static compass]

Yeah, agreed

[limber plume]

I didn't mean Anomaly, I meant the second half of what I wrote ;)

[soft ice]

Yeah Fr they do

[thin pulsar]

It would bother me if I hadn’t and tried to play the mod first

[soft ice]

I just don’t want tarkov players to flood into a game they don’t understand, misinterpret it, and change that games image forever

[limber plume]

tbh I can understand why people don't play the OG Stalker games, as amazing as they were and still are, they are pretty dated and hard to get into in terms of how combat feels.

[dusk oasis]

To touch on this, I think devs mentioned being able to side with different factions? I doubt it's from the very beginning, so you're most likely right

[tired anvil]

I can get behind some being turned off by the jank of graphics, though combat ain't that much of an issue imo

[soft ice]

If people get turned away from that then they’re probably pretty annoying and shallow

[static compass]

I'm not going into S2 expecting it to be like anything I've played before

[tired anvil]

Gee I wonder why

[limber plume]

Why so judgemental?

[static compass]

Lmao not just because of that

[limber plume]

Try not to take life so seriously lol

[tired anvil]

Read the 2nd part of his name

He's seen too much

[static compass]

[soft ice]

Because, people who don’t play old games because of graphics, that’s just a shallow thing to do

[ashen axle]

PsychicJake#4853 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[dusk oasis]

Bruh

[thin pulsar]

friend I am worried.

[static compass]

Explain

[tired anvil]

Don't worry he's never played a video game before

[static compass]

What's a video game?

[tired anvil]

Tetris is the only video game.

[thin pulsar]

Lol

[static compass]

Pong

[limber plume]

eh, everyone values some things more than others
for some its combat, some it's the story, some its graphics etc Each to their own

[fickle summit]

Ah yes, my 3 favorite games

Tetris, Pong, and Stalker 2

[limber plume]

pft, Lemmings!

Star Control 2 <3

[soft ice]

https://m.vk.com/wall-177604736_3466

[limber plume]

Xevious on arcade of C64 <3

[dusk oasis]

God I haven't heard that in a while

[limber plume]

"uh oh!"

[soft ice]

Hey on a side note does anyone know where I could find download instructions for this?

[tired anvil]

Sorry, we don't know what a Nintendo is in the post Soviet space

[thin pulsar]

This game has got all the eyes in the room on it rn I’m hoping gsc will pull thru

[limber plume]

lol, I had a NES clone, I think it was the same one popular in Russia at the time, a Dendy or something

[tired anvil]

Yeah

[thin pulsar]

But I am nervous about it’s release date

[fickle summit]

I'm worried about the game and I haven't even played a stalker title

[thin pulsar]

Really?

[tired anvil]

What exactly are you worried about then?

[dusk oasis]

You should be worried

[thin pulsar]

Interesting spot to be in lol

[tired anvil]

He isn't the only one in the convo like that rn

[limber plume]

I'm sure S2 will be delayed, like so many games these days, does't bother me, just hope it's good

[dusk oasis]

There are so many things that GSC could mess up, everyone honestly should be lowering their expectations

[thin pulsar]

Strange idk y I’m assuming everyone’s played them all

[dusk oasis]

I however, am unable to do that, and am extremely hype

[tired anvil]

Same, I got lucky with my copy anyway so idc

[tired anvil]

I mean it would be sorta expected, but not everyone is like that ig

[limber plume]

I wanted a retail Ultimate edition of S2 but.. nothing in SA

[thin pulsar]

Yes that release date does not seem like it shall be accurate considering we’ve gotten no gameplay

[dusk oasis]

Yeah as much as I hate to admit it, it will most likely be delayed

[fickle summit]

I want the game to live up to the expectations I have built up from my limited exposure to the gameplay and story of the previous titles. I have often been disappointed by game developers and this past year in particular was difficult

[tired anvil]

I've the digital Ultimate, it'll be good enough for me

[soft ice]

I don’t get it how people expect stalker 2 to be like anomaly, i hope it doesn’t mess up the reception if the game

[dusk oasis]

I'm praying that they're just hiding an absolute vault of content that they haven't released

[limber plume]

I really just wanted the artefact lamp for my new mancave/studio I built XD

[soft ice]

Like if people are expecting something like anomaly

[tired anvil]

Care to share any of those expectations? Sounds pretty interesting

[thin pulsar]

That would be awesome I’m dying for news rn

[dusk oasis]

Agreed

[dusk oasis]

Honestly, I'm starving, I'd even be happy with another dev blog, just something

[soft ice]

Well only 4 months until the actual game

[dusk oasis]

The radio silence might be a sign that GSC is just working so hard to do anything else

[tired anvil]

Unless a delay

[dusk oasis]

Besides NFTs

[thin pulsar]

We prob getting a delay 😦

[tired anvil]

Wanna know a secret?

[dusk oasis]

Ditto

[dusk oasis]

What's that

[fickle summit]

I would like Stalker 2 to be faithful to the unique gameplay of the original games while also innovating on this in a positive way. I would like the story to be as fascinating as I find the stories of the other games, and I would like the game to be as immersive as so many people describe it to be

[thin pulsar]

Dude those gun models they were showing in the dev diary were so sick

[tired anvil]

You'll get something in 2 days (depending on your timezone). It's gonna be a Christmas greeting because Orthodox Christmas is on the 7th of January. Then you can wait another month or more for anything else

[soft ice]

Have you played them

[tired anvil]

He already said that he hasn't played anything

And his experience is limited

[thin pulsar]

Wouldn’t we all

[soft ice]

I wasn’t there for that

[fickle summit]

As I've said, no. This is my first chance to play a Stalker title

[soft ice]

I guess you don’t have a pc or something

[dusk oasis]

hooray can't wait

[fickle summit]

Yeah no PC just a laptop

[soft ice]

But if you do want to play them, just remember you can run them on anything

[thin pulsar]

Hopefully it does justice in welcoming you to the community

[tired anvil]

Well, the trilogy is on sale for a few more hours before the Steam sale ends. If you have the chance, you could pick it up

[fickle summit]

I've been console my whole life

[dusk oasis]

Honestly man, I just want m o r e

[tired anvil]

A laptop should run it

[fickle summit]

I think I've had this conversation once

[tired anvil]

Dunno

[ashen axle]

Spook#7662 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[soft ice]

Well, you could probably run them on that, so if you want to play them go for it. If you want the best s2 experience I would play the old ones first but it’s up to you I guess

[limber plume]

Don't play the vanilla games, only play mods!

runs and hides

[dusk oasis]

Yeah if for some reason S2 sucks there's always the og trilogy and then anomaly

[tired anvil]

What did I ever do to you

[fickle summit]

You've alerted the horde

[soft ice]

Evil

[limber plume]

hehehehe

[dusk oasis]

Hey character development

[limber plume]

I'm just trollin'

bite me

[soft ice]

https://tenor.com/view/stare-christian-bale-handsome-gif-13379950

[thin pulsar]

Ew

[static compass]

Ah, ok

[limber plume]

atm I'm playing Days Gone

actually quite enjoyable

[thin pulsar]

Agreed

[fickle summit]

I would if I could, but my laptop is a MAC not conducive to running much of anything. Believe me when I say I wish I could play them. If I could, I would've sunk many hours in already

[soft ice]

@limber plume What do you think about the youtuber Bluedrake42 ?

[thin pulsar]

The gun selection was surprisingly* enjoyable in that game

And the hordes r crazy

[tired anvil]

Honestly, pretty sure I've seen someone launch it on a Mac here

I think you have a decent chance

[soft ice]

They’re from 2007, I’m not gonna say anything for you but you can probably run them on a Mac

[limber plume]

You won't believe it, but this game is the most amazing free game to come out, ever!

[fickle summit]

It that's true it's an act of God not an act of man

[soft ice]

Is this FREE GAME the TARKOV KILLER?!??!!???

[tired anvil]

Yea he's right, I definitely won't believe it

[thin pulsar]

He spits out the same video everyday I stg

[soft ice]

I saw someone say they ran anomaly at 20 fps on a Mac

[fickle summit]

Macs suck for anything that isn't office work. All Ivd really need a computer for is said work

[soft ice]

Yes they do, but that doesn’t mean they’re completely incapable of running any video game ever

[tired anvil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDzjp4yTR5U

Guess this guy is a God

Did not expect to find a video like this honestly

[soft ice]

@fickle summit You should give it a shot, just refund it if it doesn’t run well

[gusty trench]

I'll post a link to the Google Docs version of this soon...

[static compass]

Glad I'm not alone

[fickle summit]

For a first time playing a video game on PC, playing unmodded S.O.C sounds like a frying pan into the fire type situation

[soft ice]

Well, you have a Mac

[fickle summit]

Never really grasped the whole WAZD thing

[soft ice]

Ohh I see what you mean

I thought you meant the audio was bad

[thin pulsar]

I’m completely out of the loop rn can someone tell me what this is

[soft ice]

No it’s not that hard or anything

[gusty trench]

Have you heard of the Cipher (also called ARG)?

[soft ice]

It was actually my first pv game lol

[static compass]

If it's what he's been posting, I think it's more lore from the arg

[soft ice]

Shadow of chernobyl

[still ridge]

Literally god

[tired anvil]

There was an ARG going from late 2020/early 2021 which ended like a week or two ago. The events from it are canon for the game universe and reveal some stuff

[thin pulsar]

I didn’t know stalker was running an arg

[tired anvil]

Well, it just ended

And it's the 2nd one

[thin pulsar]

Did we learn anything substantial

[tired anvil]

Yes

We learned that Strider has a faction after all

[thin pulsar]

Really

[ashen axle]

Spook#7662 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[gusty trench]

Bad for you. One day famous YTs got some Stalker cards... And that's how it all started... But it will take too long to explain everything.

[thin pulsar]

Oooo

[still ridge]

Strider gigachad face

[tired anvil]

famous YT

Excuse you

I got a card before any of those YouTubers

[thin pulsar]

Damn bummer sounds cool though

[still ridge]

[fickle summit]

Jej

[tired anvil]

Then I got the rest of them from LifeOfBoris before everyone else

Fun times

[gusty trench]

Shhhh.

Famous YTs and one Lithuanian.

[tired anvil]

What followed was extremely not fun times

[gusty trench]

Anyways...

[tired anvil]

And most of the rest of the jannies

[thin pulsar]

And yt have recent posts about it I could watch?

[gusty trench]

They solved it recently. And those docs I posted - a part of the archive they got for solving it.

[tired anvil]

Not really, since they all got the cards at the start of 2021

[gusty trench]

But I posted translations of them - since they are all in Russian.

[tired anvil]

They all added up to a newspaper about a missing journalist

The details past that are an extremely long and somewhat boring story to explain

Point is, it's solved now

[thin pulsar]

That’s sick

Strider thing is awesome can’t wait to see how that pans out

[gusty trench]

Looks like he worked/works for NIICHAZ ...

The document about cooperation of NIICHAZ, Ward, Freedom, Duty and the Army was written in 2013.

[static compass]

Interesting

[thin pulsar]

Yea I just found the niichaz website so cool

[static compass]

You guys think any of the people from the campfire will be relevant to the story, or just filler for the trailer

[thin pulsar]

Prob filler

[tired anvil]

Well one of them is literally the inventor of the series

[fickle summit]

They seem nice :))

[tired anvil]

So I think pretty important, at least one

[dusk oasis]

Yeah I'd like to get to know curly vitya

[tired anvil]

No. That is the most cursed POS ever and I hate it

[static compass]

Well, I don't know if he'd be in the game tho lol

[thin pulsar]

lmao

[tired anvil]

We see him

[thin pulsar]

he bought the nft

[soft ice]

He looks like beard

[dusk oasis]

Oh he definitely bought the NFT

[static compass]

Yeah, but they could've made him just for the trailer

[static compass]

Pfft

[tired anvil]

Not unless they said that it's gameplay footage

To which they did

[dusk oasis]

He really does

[tired anvil]

So idc until he doesn't show up

[static compass]

Then I presume you could also say that whole campfire scene is in the game

Just without the jumpcuts

[dusk oasis]

I'm sure there will be campfire scenes like that throughout the entire game

[thin pulsar]

i hope

[still ridge]

Nah

[static compass]

I hope the campfire songs are good

[dusk oasis]

Just fleshing out the existing mechanic of hanging around the campfire

[tired anvil]

Yes. That is what I am saying

[tired anvil]

Piss off Edi. We saw Griga. Don't ruin it

[still ridge]

I hope

[thin pulsar]

wait

is Mitay in the campfire the Mitay in clear sky??

[still ridge]

There’s a mitay in CoP too

[thin pulsar]

yea tru

[still ridge]

But they’re different

[tired anvil]

No, most likely a 3rd one

[thin pulsar]

bummer

[gusty trench]

I wanted to ping Sean... But anyways...

[thin pulsar]

I love seeing characters come back through out the game

[still ridge]

We have strider, now where is nimble????

[thin pulsar]

i was just about to say I hope we get nimble

[still ridge]

Spoilers: Nimble runs the zone cartel now

[fickle summit]

The existence of Strider implies the existence of Walker

[gusty trench]

You don't look like you would care about the things the guys wanted to buy in X-labs anyways... Here.

[still ridge]

I would certainly care

[thin pulsar]

that'd actually be kinda awesome to see him progress his business further

[still ridge]

And likely

[tame helm]

nimble becomes sidor 2.0

[still ridge]

probably a higher scale arms dealer

[gusty trench]

[Translation of documents from the Cipher found in the archive]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MospoW9oWbGC_B-KQy2pv6USQo-lRajItmOjt3ze_6M

[thin pulsar]

Imagine you go to see him and hes got like a compound or something

[gusty trench]

Heya, @still ridge...

[thin pulsar]

be so bad ass

[gusty trench]

May you pin it?

[tame helm]

wouldn't be surprised if nimble can sell us endgame items at the start of game

honestly not surprised if he sells a gauss

[thin pulsar]

Can't wait to see exo

[tired anvil]

Guess not lmao

[gusty trench]

I guess he also died doing so.

[The Last Days of the Cipher Solution]

In short
Several months ago a mysterious Reddit user under name OfSonsOrRow asked to find him.
After a long research deciphers found two videos on the YT channel of Roof Sworn So with a secret encrypted message: Ask the right question. After asking who is he, Roof Sworn So gave a link to the profile of Ben Oni.
Ben Oni's Twitter account started to publish posts, which contained only symbols. It was a UTF-8 code. Deciphers converted it to Russian and got the message:
"They all lie. I'm your friend. The only, for a long time. I'm there BMS72"
BMS72 was a name of the YT premier, which had a morse code. Morse code was decrypted - it was a report of NIICHAZ on terroristic attacks of Problesk on their convoys
At the same time, Problesk asked for help. Their base's location was leaked by one of the NIICHAZ agents. But since deciphers got into NIICHAZ secret agency network, they gave them a wrong location - Point C36 - it was an ambush.
Later, Problesk asked for help again. At this time, their guy got captured by NIICHAZ so we had to decrypt an intercepted radiogram:

• It's First, over!
• First, report.
• We cleared out both points. We got into an ambush at the point C36, started a fight, but had to retreat. There's a temporary camp at the point H42, It's almost fully evacuated. Ah. Also we met guys from Ward. Everything is fine. No incidents.
• Do you have anything important to report?
• One of the casualties had a badge with engravings. C14 and a skull with bones. We took one prisoner.
• Don't take a prisoner to the base on H12. Interrogate him and finish off.
• Understood. Everything will be done.
• Great. Update the access codes.
  R-2-3-1. Ring. Kilo. Juliet-Oscar. Position. Charlie. Quebec. Victor. Reflector. Charlie.
• Roger that, over.

Finally. The last message was an exclamation mark on everything that had led to this point...

You did it. I hid it carefully, sent it around the whole Zone, but I hope you did it. We'll make those bastard dance to a tune. I have been on a run for a long time, but I follow everything that happens in the Zone. I collected docs, files, materials, all the dirt I could dig up in all this time. Everybody should see that, show them so they will know. I hid it at the same place.
https://lithi.io/file/71uw.rar

[tired anvil]

Guess not

[gusty trench]

Thanks. But I guess it wasn't neccesary to pin the link, too...

[still ridge]

If you say so

Looks better under pinned messages if there’s an explanation rather than just a link lol

[tired anvil]

Well

There's those other pinned messages

I'd say they do justice

Lmao, bot'd

[gusty trench]

I hate it

I'll better write in DM.

[gusty trench]

It is better to do it like that, otherwise it will be a total mess. I know from experience.

[gusty trench]

As we say in Russia. Just what the doctor ordered.
Thank you a lot.

[still nymph]

how are we boys

[finite dragon]

Hey guys.

[crimson tinsel]

Is that stalker themed arg

[finite dragon]

You can have more than 1 Faction?

[crimson tinsel]

Yes

[finite dragon]

Alright.

[crimson tinsel]

And no

You cant have multiple factions

Tested it just now

[finite dragon]

Oh, Alright.

I was 'bout to search up who Freedom is Allied with so I can choose those Factions.

I know its, Mercenaries, Bandits, Loners, (I think Free S.T.A.L.K.E.R's?), Then maybe Clear Sky?

I do know the Scientists/Researchers are also neutral-Allied with Freedom?

Then Monogay, Dooty, And then Sin are definitely not Allied.

Same with the Military also, Aren't Allied, Except dooty is Allied since dooty is full of ex-Soldiers and stuff.

[delicate sparrow]

kek

[finite dragon]

When I'm playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R Anomaly, Outside of the Army Warehouses, I keep seeing this mini base with some cars and either 1-2 dooty, Or monogay troops always there.

So I get rid of them.

Then I hear gunfire from some or all directions and I pull my AK-47 out then fire some shots and then the gunfire stops.

I do have a tent in my inventory so I can go do some adventure and missions.

Then in Call of Chernobyl, Dooty and Freedom signed some ceasefire?

Then some people say Dooty and Freedom should make an alliance and defeat monolith once and for all.

But monoliths influence is small after the events of CoP.

But why not end them, I've had enough of seeing my dead friends.

I will always collect their badges to remember them.

[delicate sparrow]

homie is writing a novel

[finite dragon]

Sometimes when I talk about S.T.A.L.K.E.R I make a literal book in discord messages.