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Yes, the blonde with black coat
yea
kfc must be so expensive in the zone
zone fried mutants
smuggling kfc into the zone for sidorovich
zfm
sidorovich uses his connections to get alot of KFC
probably bought it with all the money he swindled from rookies
KFC from Coronel Sidorovich
sidorovich is the definition of anarcho-capitalism
no
sidrovich and barkeep the only 2 fat people in the game
sid is more capitalist than mr.krabs
forget kentucky fried chicken, how about chernobyl fried chicken
beard?
yet mercs cant get food
well microwaved with the purist of zone radiation
i think that mf has mucles
yea beard is just bear strong
but yeah i forgot about him
mass
whos more capitalist than sidorovich
And they have keys or very important information.
In SoC the bandit leader is fat also
dushman
bandits
beard looks like he can bench 5 gauss rifles
or mabye mercs?
Nimble
oh sultan
better answer
you can take loans from dushman 💀
Mercenaries indeed, not those lmao
taxation is theft
of all your money and gear
in the zone at least
zones paying taxes weathre they like it or not
ISG is the UN
yes
UNISG
so they're the definition of a what democracy does to a mf
they all want power and money

was unisg a canon but cut faction in the original?
same with sin?
i heard sin was but i never heard of UNISG before getting into anomaly
no idea
yeah
they were a cut factiin
faction
as well as sin and
uhh i forgot their names
strangers
SIN and UNISG are weird factions for their circumstances
and one more faction
a faction which was destroyed by one of streloks friends
last day or something
yes last day
yeh i really wna hear about all of those factions tbh
their lore and stuff
thats why I love this game
UNISG is totally fan made
in CS there was smth named "UN" which people went to call ISG but the latter was never used by GSC afaik. They were a scientist squad which Scar led through Generator (do not confuse with Generators)
Well
I can’t say I wasn’t expecting a delay
Hopefully it won’t be caught in dev hell like the first game
We don’t need another cyberpunk 2077 on our hands
Maybe the zone favor us
I hope so
yey
Considering the current climate I was expecting the worst tbh
a more perfect stalker 2
im happy that they decided to postpone the game cause they love us and also sad because the game was postponed
Maybe we'll actually get gameplay before the release
Maybe ww3 happens before we get S2 gameplay!
Stalker irl would be too good to be true! lol
Does anyone know any stashes in call of Pripyat that have psy block
they're random, i think
just head to the wiki and look
It’s not random
hehehehe
A rushed game is always terrible, a delayed game is eventually terrible. I hate video games
- video asian
All video games are terrible
mods remove emote reactions from delay announcement 
Okay
which has amd radeon 760
but cant play stalker anomaly
how to fix it?
i mean i can play but its choppy
Hello jidroni
Gonna be real with you all, but I’m starting to fear for STALKER 2. I mean the latest trends with delayed games have been... unacceptable.
Not to mention, most footage shown from the game while does look good, does not represent the gameplay. Or at least an extended view of it. Most announcements have been holiday greetings or concept art, ( minus the few rare ingame pictures that in my option look a bit too high-end for STALKER 2 as a Open-world Game ).
I think at least a basic look at combat with the HUD elements for a video wouldn’t be too bad. Nothing spoilers of course.
Of course The Guardian called STALKER 2 a post-apocalyptic shooter, lol
Maybe I'm just too optimistic, but it seems like the bandit camp footage was just scripted-gameplay with no hud
But I do wholeheartedly agree with you
You know, the best footage to show off combat is to show it as how you would play STALKER. As in, you can physically tell a player is playing it with the amount of jumping they do to avoid bullets.
But cinematic is fine if done correctly.
Nobody better complain about the postponement
Agreed
Nah, GSC should take as much time as they need
They just need more time to remove all NFT elements and Meta universe code from game. Be patient. 
im gonna play stalker call of pripyat using reshader mod
Okay
and call it chernobylite 😎
devs could have just announced release date when game is 100% finished. Simple as that. Announced too soon, unexpected delay and lose customer's trust
What's chernobylite? 
bassically stalker but hd and have stealth
No I know what it is
just get some cracked out playtesters to play a bunch, and edit the best clips together
best way to make a cinematic trailer imo
I'd just like to see like 20 mins of walking around the zone
@finite dragon damn discord is saying you are a "likely spammer" and is hiding your messages by default
burh
its probably the loads of numbers in your name + your new discord account
yea tho
Eh I'm fine with the situation, as long as the product is finished on release, I've already waited so long for S2, I can wait a little longer
i delete the old account
I didnt know discord did this
itll probably go away in time
yea
in the old account it has toxic friends
thats why i made the new
one
sorry if nobody asked
Does anyone know when lost alpha + gunslinger is supposed to come out?
yeah, I think devs think many would be feel fine. Announce soon to create hype and boost sale is naturally important for them. Typical corporate move.
I guess asking them to announce when game is actually finished is too much for them
Kind of a cynical take tbh
Honestly I think GSC was just super excited about the project and got ahead of themselves
I could just be naive tho
or marketing team is a separate group of people than the dev team
and marketing team is big dumb
idk tho
That's probably it
yeah, kinda cynical. But I accept the fact that company has to care about money to ensure project's completion. But that doesn't mean they do that in a way to lose trust of customers
Yeah it's better to be skeptical of it than optimistic, I wish I was thinking like you tbh
There's just no way that I can put GSC in the same category as DICE and CDPR, I have complete faith in them to put out a good product
cyberpunk 2077 delayed several times, and people quoted Shigeru Miyamoto: "Delayed game is eventually good". Turns out the game is still bad
ironic
game suffers from main character syndrome
after a while EVERYONE knows who you are and you're the hero and all that
though if you forget to do an early mission and you do it its like people barely do
plus I can't complete the game cuz the tank I want to ride in the end spawns several kilometers underground
Most AAA games are just power fantasies, that's where stalker stands out from the rest
@dusk oasis I hope your trust won't be destroyed when Stalker 2 is out. I don't trust companies no matter how "good, kind, virtuous, and customer-friendly" they are
"virtuous" CDPR got trust from fans, then ruined trust
Excellent point there actually
Because of the Witcher series they were one of the most revered studious, now they're a laughing stock
stalker be like: "not a headshot? do not care"
i have a mod idea for stalker, but i dont know how to mod and dont think i would have time to make it happen even if i could, so im gonna put out a reccomendation if anyone wants to give it a go, what if in a mod, the disaster is worst than fault, and the zone stretches all the way from poland to kazakhstan, and from finland to the southern caucuses and even parts of the balkans? with a whole lot more factions, and even things that hint towards the politics of the zone, for example islamist extremism in the caucuses?
If for some reason S2 is beyond awful we still have the original games 
yeah, why not. If it sucks, I'll get EFP to play
which were awful on release
literally have to unload like 3 magazines just to kill the average army grunt, lmao
I think you just leaked the plot for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 3
AP ammo is a beast
would be sick to see it
Yeah sounds really ambitious, but great idea, would be awesome to see fully realized
We need tarkov gunplay on stalker
also, in clear sky, rifled shotguns with slugs, do a good job
thx
Before anyone murders me, for this very reason I like the anomaly combat a lot more, feels a lot more natural, and like bullets actually have impact
havent played anomaly yet, tbh
say is there a stalker mod where you can utilize the vehicles?
8 Years,
What A Horrid Game
DX>Cyberpunk Simple As;
there's mods for that
Fr i got a mod that makes the damage a lil more realistic
Sad to hear about the delay. But I hope they can use the time wisely and stay away from western media outlets offering "input". 2022 is going to be a boring year. I literally didn't care about anything else save Callisto Protocol and I think that's 2023.
well guys on the bright side, GSC will give a crap about the suggestion channels again hopefully
guys whats the recomended for resolution for no lag
Why are your messages hidden?
good question
maybe cause he spammed someone recently
usually discord flags accounts that spam x amount of users or x ammount of messages in sec
how do i know this? I had a specific account just to send info regarding tournaments to my community members DMs
but in 2016-2017 so I don't know if it changed that much
how to stop
Nice choice from gsc imo
seems like a fairly recent issue , the spammer thing
can we have some real gameplay at least?
At this point E3 xD

i wonder if this is how my messages look like
NS OP-2.2 x64 has just been released. One year of gameplay at least...
Its cooking in deep oil
A 2-second blank screen with a very hard to see scene in the middle.
Opacity is literally set at 1
In my opinion It will not surprise me at all if it will end the same or similiar as Wolfenstein Young Blood with similar grind mechanics, microtransactions or Farcry 6 with clothing-dependent skills: D. Sorry, but I made a comparison between the marketing of this game and the current Stalker 2 and well, it looks very similar.
But Stalker is not an RPG though
fps
Wolfenstain was fps too to the Wolfenstein Young Blood for me of course
With Young Blood... Wolfenstein was already being milked
We're far from that happening to our beloved one
ye ik
more like the fanbase is niche enough for them to not shill

Yeah, @sour raft as you can see the game was cancelled and it'll be released as a tech demo
Source:
https://i.imgur.com/dBhCkAi.png
Woopie, source turns out fake. You almost fell for it.
Stalker 2 will be released as an expansion pack for Anomaly


I prefer them to cancel it and work on a Java version
So I can put it on my glorious Nokia PDA and have fun

Tbh, the delays make me a little less nervous. We were 3 months away from the planned release date, and GSC didn't give us any real gameplay footage. Only supposed screenshots and scripted in-game engine cinematic
If the game in its current stage can't be used for real gameplay trailer, it is better to wait longer
the same things every day and day after that 
Depression, congrats
Some people don’t seem to understand that the delay is definitely a good thing
If the game needs time, give it time.
I saw a post on Facebook and someone was really really angry about that, and he said GSC broke their promisises
But
He flex about playing Cyberpunk and he says it's a good game

On a Stalker group
It's not in the first place
Delays mean bad planning
It was krezzin, obviously
Nono, he's American
Then again, every singe Stalker game to this date, and especially ShoC, had insane delays in release
lol 3 year delay on SoC
proprietary engine moment
be glad S2 isn’t using a proprietary engine
That's a bad thing
If I was born American, I'd have shot myself the day I could get a gun
Lol
using a proprietary engine is a bad thing
look at CP2077 and the original state of SoC
Not if you stay independent
If you sell your ass, they'll surely rape you
xray engine is chad
True, but cdpr engine is not
You're lying to youself, Edi
id Software uses its own tech for 2 decades already and they've been thrown at different owners like a ball
And they still pump out quality stuff
I'm not sure if it would be good or bad if the government lend GSC some funds to help the development
Same happened with The Witcher 3, it's nowhere near bad game
Same happened with the newest Commandos game in the works
Same happened with Cyberpunk
But whatever
Ukraine is not Poland
Nope it was TW3
I think they got bigger problems rn
Or at Bettlefield 2042
And we don't know if Ukraine is already helping them
Try to ask in #🔍┃ask_gscarchive
Ukraine is in deep crap, doubt they'd throw money left and right
#🔍┃ask_gscarchive is useless atm
F
The only questions asked are the ones having most obvious answers
I see no way Ukraine lending them money since GSC haven't put out a quality game since CoP
^^^^^^^^
Civil War for 8 years and economic troubles

We'll be hammered to death if we do cross the line
Brains splattered on the wall
Eyeballs everywhere
Do not!
Ukraine
Or... you want to collect those leftovers and cook them for a spicy meal, @civic drift ?
I prefer to not get banned 
Harriot special?
Wait why is my name @civic drift

_>
Harriot fan...
What if Ukraine isn't involved but...
Griga sold his car collection for good cause?
Hard toimagine but...
That one Ferrari of his would be at least half a mil
That would be one precious marketing campaign
Come on, Griga... stop BSing us
Griga would never do that
lmao
Then what passion is GSC talkin about
There is only war and crime

ask griga not me
Though why would he never do it
He won't take the keys with him in the afterlife
There are no highways down there
Where would he drive that...
Okay
I'm booking a trip to Kyiv, taking @civic drift to be the master chef. We'll put a tent in front of their office and request explanation while serving hot meals, Stalker style.
Cooked tushkanos, boiled boar ribs... marinated sucker tentacles with dip


Actually what if we have a cooking mechanic in ST2
If you're going to wipe 5 suckers and waste ammo and nerves, at least use the meat to return your investment
Krezzin did you forget your meds this morning
I think he might have
Again @civic drift Should we have this I'll hire you to be my co-writer. Title: Most delicious recipes from The Zone.

Also why is my nickname Username 
What you won't try marinated sucker tentacles with fresh dip?
And here is Edi pretending to be hardcore stalker
Rookie in disguise
What kind of fresh dip is in the zone
Besides Cossacks vodka
Stalker energy I guess
NFT soda
Blood-Sucker Goulash, Boar Chops and Fried Onions, Catfish Ukha with Bread, and Puesdodog Pirozhki 
Reason: Bad word usage
Blin this is bad
Name checks out

"Here's to a Steady Hand"
What is the title? I tried to look that up but nothing came up.
Stalker ❤️
Narodnaya Solyanka Cumulative Pack (joint_pack) 2.2
A hardcore soup mod
The "real thing"
Oh it's a mod. I'll look into it.
Psysuckers are strange
Psysuckers aren't canon.
Woah
Breaking news in #🔍┃ask_gscarchive
#🔍┃ask_gscarchive message
One good thing to know for sure, at least one use for this channel
Who's Dmitry

It has been known for quite some time that he is working with GSC again
I see
*The best AI in history and entire universe
if only they stopped walking into campfires
It's a feature
They are kinda lame when minding their own business but when they fight against the player they are 300 IQ
Hmm
Sometimes
I found mercs to be the most difficult on master

Reason: Bad word usage

Straight Facts
playing clear sky again, want to join faction to do funny but don't want to join loners
what do
Based name @near star
dank u
sorta kinda want to join duty this time around but I know trying to yeet ALL of freedom will be a pain, no questions asked
join bandits
ew no
Don't join at all
the games really fun if you join the bandits
why does the wiki make it seem like the opposite
the wiki is lying
40 gigs? wow the stalker soup these days sure is chunky

Speaking of ai i wonder if npcs will be effected by anomalies in stalker2
i think they definitely will but not so sure bout NPCs related to quests n stuff
Pure madness... OP, crazy mod in every single aspect.
Yea id straight up refuse to do optional escort missions if thats the case lmao
anyone know how the preorders work now that the release has been pushed back?
It’s okay they will probably release it when you come home anyways
Also pushed back, I would assume
looks like you don't have to put a deposit back in or anything
Stalker 2 has been delayed. I've hurd this from a reliable source...
damn thats crazy
your question would probably be better answered in #🔍┃ask_gscarchive though
god forbid one swears in the discord server of such a family friendly, PG rated game
"i can excuse horrific monstrosities and gory death, but i draw the line at the 'sh' word"
Stay safe, Stalker 
the owner is actually a boomer
there's no way they set up this server then lol
rang up his gopnik grandkid
its the emojis bro
well the first few days it was total anarchy for that reason
its been molded slowly through the years to what it is now
cringe is a process, it takes time

monolith is all
the monolith is kinda phalic
like the wish granter
if you tried hard enough i mean
nothing is impossible
GSC sold themselves for a frikkin Verified blue icon
gsc fallen from grace
Yeah
And it's cause some parties are too sensitive, meaning whoever decides the "If you have Verified tag you comply with specific ruleset"... anyhow
People be too damn sensitive don't need to be on the internet but here we are
jesus christ lmao
talk abouy being melodramatic
pretty sure it's because of children, right? lol
at least discords verified partner thing, not GSC making any decisions
as i said, the first few days the server had no rules. So basically nwords, nazi stuff, and everything of the sort was spread around so much that journalists bashed the server and the game
Welp the verified tag is there, nothing dramatic at all
yeah that makes sense, i just mean the reason discord has those policies for their verified partnered servers
then i guess yeah, probably for the kids
Slyth is right. This server isn't more special than, say, that other server
A white checkmark in a circle doesn't make it special whatsoever
the point isn't to be special :)
Just like BS
Why bringing the kids into this?

who's bringing kids into it, i'm talking about Discords policy
yes. discord's policy, i was talking about the reason discord has those rules
ffs
forgive him, he's too busy hating on the server because he got striked a couple times
as for why GSC is verified it's for what Slyth mentioned earlier as well as showing they are the offical GSC server
This is why we can’t have nice things
Me?
Is talking now automatically considered hating?

Zack, you've been crapping on the server for weeks if not months now, literally nobody cares bro
I like how the rumors said we would get a new trailer alongside that delay
GSC be like: here’s just a delay, take it or leave it 
What are you even on about, "crapping on the server?"
Does anyone here play Among Us
you can keep doing it, i wont stop you, but who cares
This is the 2nd time I'm getting into a discussion regarding the verification
You're thinking of a different person, my son
"what are on about!?" "you crazy!?" "no way son!"
He was mimicking you, hence the quotes
Yeah he is but he did dodge my question. Means, he's confused.
Everyone can look up I was part of such a talk only once, this being 2nd time, using the search feature
It's up there, says "Search" and lets you filter messages
Though you literally made this up yourself of me crapping on the server like million times
Anyhow

i didn't make it ip but whatever
Putting the verified thing aside i've seen you say some not very nice things about the server and gsc as a whole lol
it doesn't matter, and i don't care. but to say you don't would be a lie
So what you suggest, throw the person in a cage, turn off the lights and let him rot, then throw his corpse in the desert and call it a day.
Anyhow
End of story
Hi GSC. Could you please let the Journos know that STALKER isn't a post-apocalyptic game? Thank you.
Anyone can have an opinion, as long they are not abusing of their power and such 
I'm not saying he can't have an opinion... that wasn't the point anyone was making. It's that he's been saying stuff about the server and GSC and is denying it after being called out
nobody cares bro
Nobody cares at all, and yeah, I'm negative towards GSC since I was literally let down with their last game - never denied this, never will. Doesn't mean I'm the only one whatsoever - let down I mean. 😄
like 10 messages up you did xD
whatever man, im not even going to bother anymore
Its not that they don't know, they just do not want to put the effort into researching it LUL
One of the main selling points of the games for me was that they weren't set in a post-apocalypse.
Only other game set in a "Localized Post-Apocalypse" (that isn't just an active warzone) that I can think of is Escape from Tarkov, but even that came out over a decade after ShoC and isn't really the same thing.
relatively isn't it kinda post apocalypse?
postapo doesnt have to be a global catastrophe.
even though the world isn't like the zone, you never really see any of it, so it doesn't matter, the place you play in is very apocalyptic.
yea, it's 50% post-apo
Apocalyptic, by definition, requires that all of human society has fallen apart or been destroyed to some degree.
which definition, because apocalypsis literally means "revelation"
They have their own interpretation @exotic hamlet
internet one 
Any dictionary will tell you that the "Apocalypse" encompasses the whole world or Earth.
Again, I feel like it's mostly irrelevant. Most people aren't looking that deep. The gameplay, characters, mutants, locations, are all "Post Apocalypse"
Wasn't using the religious definition but, even then, the Apocalypse extends to the entire planet. Not trying to argue about religion here, folks. Keep it civil.
the Zone is a revelation to the entire planet, if using that one
How about call the whole thing dystopia and move on to Alan Wake
Fair point
That's... Not actually a bad way to describe it.
The Zone is very much a dystopia.
stalker is combination of postapo and dystopia mixed with horror elements and retro soviet scifi. But its not 100% of any of this
no man i live in the matrix
I don't really think you thought before saying that
Talk about being perplexed by your own words...
STALKER is definitely Soviet Sci-Fi.
CS has a time machine from a soviet sci fi film 
see?
It's based on two works that were created by Soviets in the Soviets Union, set in a land that used to be part of the Soviet Union, and contains many sci-fi and retrofuturistic elements.
Russia has Duga used for space craft navigation
had*
Remember, the world of STALKER is based on what people in 2002 thought 2012-14 was going to look like.
It's still there, no matter if functional or not
didnt said its not there anymore
Had*
As if it's gone already
Poof, suddenly out for scrap in downtown Rio De Janeiro
There's a lot of technology in STALKER that isn't even possible today, such as artifact detectors, exo-suits, and suits that can keep you 100% safe from radiation.
A lot scientific phenomena that can't happen in real life takes place in STALKER. Artefacts, anomalies, portals, mutants, etc.
you said "has Duga used for...", it's not active anymore
yes because stalker takes place in modern world so obv duga is in ua teritory nowdays
maybe such suits would be op
They don't exist in real life because anything that would keep you 100% safe from radiation would be impossible to move in if you put it on.
Has, as "tech they made and they keep having, alas not operational"
Let's not argue over the use of Has and Had, aye
You would have to wear layers of concrete and lead to protect yourself fully from radiological emissions.
then proper sentence would be "has been used for"
Which comes to the question if humanity would dare venture into researching proper means for protection
And that's just your clothes. You would need a shielded oxygen tank to protect your lungs as well.
there's no suit like thay in the games though
Which makes me think that the only reason that stalkers live through blowouts is because of concrete structures covered in lead paint lol
i thought ecologists have 100% protection from radiation
they don't
Slyth stands correct
Here's how I always saw it. The advanced suits, medications, and other sci-fi technologies you see in the games are made possible thanks to artefacts.
Dialogue explicitly says suits degrade over time
I shouldn't have said "100%"
Even Sakharov tells you that
Things like the SEVA, Ecologist, and even an upgraded Sunrise-gasmask combo still protect you far better than anything you can wear in real life, though.
This goes beyond the galaxy
a sunrise-gasmask is terrible lmao
You can't go on about saying such thing
It's more like apples vs oranges talk, Cleats
unless you have a closed cycle respiratory module and an airthight suot, you're not going anywhere in stalker
gameplay is obviously dumbed down
Way better than the plastic sheets with lead plates around the groin and head that you're limited to in real life.
Wait until ST2 turns out to have some realistic elements
Those experts out there will butcher it to pieces
Anywho, like I was saying, I always that the reason medkits can heal you instantly is becaue they're infused with traces of artifact technology.
Sometimes I'm not even sure what's the perfect "sequel" for some people
Micrograms of chemicals or components from healing artifacts so the medkit actually heals you rather than simply patch up your wounds and leave you to recover over the next 2 weeks.
alright, no bro
Here comes the essay.
the medkit used in stalker is usually an aptechka civilian issued (red one) the only thing you use from there is the morphine to keep you going, which is also why it shouldn't stop the bleeding (it doesn't in CS)
Here comes the intense wall of text
Or, it’s just a game mechanic
there's no artifact technology on them, in fact, they are pretty old
That's just my headcanon justifying the game mechanic
Cleats means you don't need to lay low, put a needle in your arm, get that transparent liquid inside your veins, drink water
Cause if that happens in the middle of a field full of mutants...
That feel when ST2 has the healing animations found in Crap Cry 5/6
It may have it
After all it's a modern thing
^^^^ They are soviet era medial kits ||https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ebayimg.com%2Fimages%2Fg%2F8OkAAOSw~JBfFeNQ%2Fs-l640.jpg&f=1&nofb=1||
I think consumable animations add a lot to a game if they're done well
I'm aware that they're Soviet-Era kits. Or at least heavily based on them.
Are you calling Аптечка's OLD?!
That term is still used nowadays in some countries, sir
And it's literally an aptechka
Old school style
well aptechka means medkit
Literally
call them ai-2 if you want, doesn't matter that much
I meant that they are based off a old medical kit mass produced during the 70s and 80s. Theres a video of a dude swimming in a pile of these in a tunnel though which is pretty funny.
And I say based on them because the real AI-2 had drugs for radiation and toxicity poisoning as well, but it doesn't help with that in the games.
People would swim in a pool of human excrements for attention/money, doesn't mean anything
Unless you use the scientific one is which is obviously a new production
That's another thing, drugs that can just wipe radiation from your body aren't a thing in real life.
lol

You can only urinate so many particles out of your system but it hardly makes a difference.
Wine is self-explanatory and its effect for soft radiation poisoning
It might help if the radiation poisoning you contracted was solely through eating or drinking something that was physically contaminated.
But if you stand near a block of Uranium or get blasted with rays from a haywire X-Ray machine, there's nothing you can do but wait and hope you didn't contract enough radiation to melt you alive.
Nobody here lived close enough to the catastrophe to feel the possible danger for his health or even suffered somehow, I think
tell the guy who put his head in a particle accelerator to drink wine
And even if you survive, you'll have to live in paranoia of cancer for the rest of your life.
I doubt people who literally were part of the suffering are playing videogames, to know exactly what is better, worse or whatever
Vastly increased paranoia*
As I was saying though, drugs/compounds that can just "neutralize" radiation in your body don't exist.
Bros are we really arguing about realism in stalker!?
Some people seek realism
We're discussing the sci-fi elements.
I get that STALKER is just a game set in a fictional universe, but it's fun to justify and explain things in my opinion.
people who want realism in games are ignorants of magic realism which is what is used in games
People who want realism are looking for it at the wrong place, my own take @grand pendant
jesus i sounded like such an ego maniac nerd
Bruh
That word would be unknown to people who glorify Call of Crappy or those other commercial trash products
Too bad a lot of people will start thinking of ST2 to be some sort of arcade shooter
Lol
I can see it coming
If something is explained in the fictional boundaries of a universe, then it makes things more believable while you're experiencing it. Yes, it will always will be a fictional universe with things that are simply not possible, but if explanations found within the medium are good, it makes it more impactful.
Cleats
Honestly, having such a mindset nowadays makes you...
Not sure how to say it without sounding...
Nah, you wanna call me autistic.
That word belongs to teenagers having no understanding of its meaning
I know you do.
I'm not 15 years old, eh
Me neither, but you can go ahead and say it.
Albeit I won't, cause it isn't part of my dictionary
I was saying common sense nowadays isn't seen as... common sense
It's seen as something bad
So, help me understand this... You're trying to stop me from having common sense?
TLDR: If you think too much, you're crazy in the head
do people call you that a lo? you seemed prepared
I'm saying your points make absolute sense
No, but I have engaged in countless arguments on the internet and I've seen it all.
I've been called every slur--including things that simply couldn't conceivably apply to me yet, ironically, may have applied to the person throwing it at me.
Gorp was thinking I'm the usual internet troll having 1 single improper insult in his dictionary
I don't use Reddit or Twitter precisely for that reason.
you actually have 3
Those are...?
I can't stand either site. Especially Twitter though. At least Reddit occasionally has a useful question or answer.
??? Stalker 2?
I don't insult in here, how comes Slyth knows
I sense abnormal loads of sarcasm in 1 sentence @grand pendant
Twitter though, there's nothing on there. I'll sometimes research a screenshot of a Tweet to make sure it's real, or I'll check up on news from game devs, but then I immediately leave.
Reports sucks
Jesus what did I walk into
Just thinking about Twitter makes me angry. Let's stop talking about it.
I don't use
vs
e. I'll sometimes research a screenshot of a Tweet to make sure it's real, or I'll check up on news from game devs, but then I immediately leave.
Those two don't go together
You either use it or not

Touche
There's nothing wrong with talking about realism within stalker, it's just not realism in terms of the real world, it's realism within the world of stalker
^^^^^^^^^
Wait once December 8 comes
which is just magic realism
You haven't seen 0.1% of it yet
Thank you for putting it into the words I was struggling to conjure.
That's the word for it, thank you friend
Ever played World of Warcraft?
No.
You're too slow conjuring food
I go outside.
There you go
based
Gorp's obviously lying
As the intelligent @grand pendant said, it's magic realism, this argument is over, anything else anyone says is wrong 
That's because being horribly sick for 5 days screwed me up.
You can't simply tell this to the newcomers to the franchise
Wasn't COVID. No respiratory or sinus problems. Just an intense fever and weakness.
They'll literally put you on a cross
Flus-ro-dah?
No idea what that means.
Skyrim reference 
With your situation in there
I'm aware it's related to "Fus-ro-dah."
Flu... Influenza... Flu
Elaborate
Come on....
I see. I see.
I tested negative for the flu.
But those tests can be wrong so, maybe.
Those tests are as trustworthy as chinese pregnancy checking devices
I'm out. This is about to get political.

Realism has to be there. Real weapon names, real ballistics, real locations, real tree leafs... realism everything. Or just get good - tens of thousands of insults follow
- People who never ever touched Stalker before
I wouldn't be surprised if accurate weapons and ballistics are a part of it
At least semi-accurate
Because having that aspect keeps the experience grounded
Semi accurate, sure
Fully accurate would leave no room to make the game relatively challenging
Plus, no need for that much of weapon realism
Anyone seeks such, obtain a license to use firearm and hit the shooting range
This
Honestly
Ever since MW2019 came out, everyone expects every single shooter to be like it
I'm staying out of that
And granted, many shooters are trying to replicate it, but that formula doesn't always make sense
Last person on earth to talk Call of Crap with, albeit I have a nickname inspired by a character in the series (the Zak one, not the current)

People just have different ideas of what realism means
For some it's graphical fidelity, others it's details/accuracy
Stalker will do fine, and 1:1 gun accuracy should be the least of people's worries
How dare you hate on FPS games of the new age
Fast FPS?
The two words don't go together, that's like saying you want a salty cake
I would say RS2 but that’s not really fast paced
Never
Rising Storm?
Yes
Yeah rising storm 2
Lul
arcade and realistic don’t go together
RS2 is solid
tripwire makes good FPS games
Except for RO2
Doodoo game
not only solid, its the best mp fps of the last 3 decades, such a shame it's kinda dead. But back to stalker
Tripwire MADE good products
Since it fell into the same ship pit as other developers with the microtransaction hysteria...
Tripwire died in 2010
Last game of theirs was actually a mod for Unreal Tournament
You guess that
RS2 is 2017 game
Exactly
The core team of Tripwire that made good games is not with them since ages
Even their president
Agreed 
Killing Floor was a Jam for a long time. Great game
Not even half a month into 2022 and it's proving to be 2021's twin brother
What a blow with this delay lmao
Yup
My girl was supposed to come back to my city last week, she's coming back tomorrow, but I got covid so can't see her 
Cursed by the Zone
It’s not the best it’s kinda bad
And it’s not really dead at all
It has like 10 full servers anytime
No
She’s getting her back blown out chief, don’t worry keep your head up king
💀💀💀
Monke
okay dude...

Hang in there King
Thanks man
Willem Dafoe smoking a cigarette and holding two pieces of food one sausage
Willem da friend
i think i softlocked myself out of recruiting strider for the jupiter underground mission
i'm so dumb
well i just remained neutral so neither faction wants to take them
well
so you didnt
get the friend or freedom/duty
and didnt assign him to any faction
well then
i find it kind of stupid that
strider doesnt bring his entire group with him to
jupiter
yeah
thats probably for plot reasons
probably gameplay reasons
and to not make jupiter underground too easy
as you breeze through it with like
8 people
Just do the Pripyat-1 run with no armor
you need the seva suit to get through it tho
Zulu died when I did Pripyat underground that’s ok right?
zulu is a dutyer so yeah
zulu is a dutyer so yeah
or was
I know right
Zulu is dooty
Hello
Are there any Russians or Ukranians or anyone else from the region in this chat?
I dont speak russian so I cant ask on your chata
Chats*
I just wanted to ask, what Is your favorite vodka?
Brand of vodka
bro im not gonna lie to you
i played that mission the first time and lost my whole squad
and i was kinda heartbroken
so i loaded an older save, got like 500 extra rounds along with my already 700 for each gun and played that mission over 25 times so everybody stayed alive, the only dude who didn't make it was the monolith guy because i sall them at the start of the game and shot them thinking they were hostile
i think that's the reason my laptop died, i was getting over 110 cpu temps because i told myself i wouldn't go to sleep untill i passed that mission
What happens if you pre-order on stalker2.com? Do you get a Steam key?
they might release it on their own site or epic games
It’s on steam cuh
oh
Since nobody else answered I'll give it a shot, I'm not sure but it's either a steam key or you link your steam account to the site
I could be wrong
Steam only allows so many keys to be generated by a developer before they require that at least a playable early-access be put out
So maybe you link steam account
That’s a Great question, I’ve just preorder the collector’s edition on Amazon but I don’t know which key I’m expecting to have
I pre-ordered Ready or Not directly off their website and they gave me a steam key in the e-mail

I'm going to imagine that's the same thing GSC is doing with their pre-orders because their game is on Steam
any computer nerds here
Unless they plan to drop STALKER 2 on GOG as well.
Me
can you compare something for me
I wanna preorder ultimate edition and then forget about it until it comes to me in the mail
Are you at least 18?
idk what to think
Jk jk
it's just computers
What is it
okay so
Isn’t the wolf that man ?
We don't know who saved Strelok, exactly. Just what he looks like. He doesn't have any cut content from the games (at least any that was left over), the original design documents don't mention anything about him that we don't already see in vanilla ShoC, and he has no name.
hp pavilion
ryzen 5 5600g
rx 5500 regular (4gb vram)
8gb ram
256 gb ssd
like 800 i think
compared to
a pc somebody else built
ryzen 5 2400g
rx 580 (8gb vram)
16gb ram (3600 cl16)
240gb ssd+1tb hdd
like 650 dollars i think
@exotic hamlet
i wonder, if we dowload things from steam, it will be not laggy. but if it is from a website or browser, things got laggy
i wonder
🤔
We know less about him than we do the Death Trucks, and even then we barely know anything about Death Trucks other than they supposedly ship sleeper agents out to the edges of the Zone and that their passengers have like a 99% fatality rate
2nd PC is better and more upgradeable.
i was thinking upgrade to to a ryzen 5 5600x
because after all it is a rx 580 and anything higher would probably bottleneck
The GPU, assuming it's new, is still good today but you may have play newer games at ~medium settings.
that's fine all i really plan to play is eu4 stalker and rovlox
roblox
i was gonna wait a few years and get a 2070 TI bc of the gpu crisis
I had that exact same GPU up until last August so I can tell you with all honesty that it will do you good
guys, ever wonder why graphic cards now is a high price?
what fps did you usually get on newer games?
Don't get an RTX 20x0 lol
Go for the 3000 series
isnt that expensive
RTX 3000 is a far better value
why not radeon? if you are broke, just buy it like me
For some reason, your messages are being hidden
NVIDIA cards are far more stable.
Far, far more stable.
And better value
pretty much
3000 series drop
scalpers started buying them out and sellling them for a much higher price
bitcoin miners buy these cpu's they run out so they buy other cpu's so by supply and demand the prices go higher
this leads to the companies making them 2-3x+ msrp (base value) to somehow someway have to compete with the scalpers and this it what we have today
hmm...the problem is my pc is its prebuild
I typically got 40-60 FPS on Red Dead Redemption 2 with a mix of medium and high settings. Only textures were maxed out.
the only reason i would buy a radeon card over a nvidia is because of amd radeon settings,and at a lower cost ofc
and the system is already input with radeon
nvidia is by far better
i cant just switch brand easily
Yes you can
you get dlss and raytracing on both of them
youre not wrong
Motherboards are standardized.
what's your budget?
and what's the prebuilt you have
My motherboard is advertised for Radeon but my NVIDIA GPU works perfectly fine on it.
just 200? you can't really upgrade that
well im gonna start saving
what gpu do you have installed
in it
Yeah no. Unless you're buying RAM or a motherboard, good luck upgrading anything with only 200
hmm, let me check
but the ram is 16 gb
the psu and fans would probably be upgradeable
disk 1 tera
with 200 i would switch out my thermal paste and put brand new paste in and upgrade the fans
bassically 2 disk but 1 800 gb and 1 200gb
the most mysterious man in the zone
i love having new thermal paste
i just need the gpu+cpu
thermal paste?
thermal paste is what you put on your cpu after you install it so it doesn't yk
explode from the heat
I was only referring to parts that would actually increase your performance
the better the thermal paste lower the temp, longer you have the thermal paste applied less it works
Perhaps.
i like to replace mine every 4-5 months
fans would definately increase performance if you have crappy fans installed
looooooooooooooooooooooool
prebuilts like to crap out on fans and airflow
wait, how about nvidia rtx 1660 super? @finite dragon
is that what you have installed already?
i need what you have installed
wdym
okay so it's settings>device info> scroll all the way down i think
i could be wrong
alr
i put it in my bio so i wont forget
Good evening, Stalkers


If actually given the choice to explore a dangers area in exchange for treasure that could make you rich, how many of you would actually do it?
Me 1
My life is too beautiful for that
If I was anything near suicidal or in a deathly amount of poverty, sure
I think that's actually the case for many stalkers
Idk. I think I'd take the risk if it meant getting rich as a possible reward
I'd rather not die
It just depends on the current circumstances in my life. If I’ve got a lot going for me, probably not, but if my life falls apart, absolutely lol
I am not a scientist, author, or a poor person. I have nothing to gain from the Zone.
if my life is going amazing like im super rich and famous i probably wouldnt but if my life was just normal and boring i would consider it
You're right. Plenty of STALKERs talk about how they were running from the law, poor, uneducated, and/or retired soldiers who only know how to fight.
I wouldn't unless I had to escape circumstances
Sidorovich loves his chicken
Man got betrayed by a link, Sadge
What
Was? Why past tense?
Game delayed to April 2023
Lie
At this point it doesn't matter
Drugstar about to be...
Rockstar's Parent Company Wants GTA on Mobile Platforms
Who needs anything else
Could be
Don't give them ideas
Really ? How did you know ?
He doesn't
So why did he say that ?
Same question could be asked to some other people spreading fake information
It can't be delayed man
