⭐┃nospoilers_general

[soft ice]

It’s a wierd anomaly addition

They have zombies but not the random rotting ones

[worthy lagoon]

Cut content

[soft ice]

I know

It was cut for a reason

[worthy lagoon]

Exactly

[soft ice]

Just like darkscape lmao

[worthy lagoon]

The walking simulator map

Most boring map ever

[soft ice]

The gas station is cool tho

It’s good in rosy to the north

Road

[fresh spindle]

Man I just want to know if there ways to survive attacks from mutants and humans

I cant do crap with bandages

Will Stalker SoC Be the same headache?

I desinstalled anomaly cause its impossible to progress on my end

Can you tell me will SoC be better against enemies

Thats all I wanna know

[soft ice]

SoC has instant medkit and bandage
Medkits and bandages are more common
You have to fight less stuff in cordon

[knotty sedge]

Mutant are survivable unlike in Anomawy

[soft ice]

Yeah

They aren’t silent

[knotty sedge]

and they don't one-shot you

[fresh spindle]

@knotty sedge YES

Thank you for telling me

[worthy lagoon]

Just buy Shadow of Chernobyl

[fresh spindle]

I will get the whole trilogy

[soft ice]

https://youtu.be/v47OG1LBppU

This is horrible wtf

[worthy lagoon]

It's a bit old but y'know what they say: "Old but gold"

[worthy lagoon]

Chad

The order to play is: Shadow of Chernobyl→Clear Sky→Call of Pripyat

@fresh spindle

[hexed zealot]

one day I'll log on to discord and see the US physical ultimate edition linked for sale one day...

[open lintel]

eventually it's bound to be

[vernal magnet]

Yes. The mods are geared towards veterans players who have mastered the games systems and are looking for new indepth challenges

[vernal magnet]

Probably E3 of this year lol

[fresh spindle]

@vernal magnet So i forgot to say this
But I play everything on Normal or medium mode

But how many hits does an enemy have to hit you in stalkers trilogy in order to kill you

Cause in anomaly its 1-3 shots for me lol

[vernal magnet]

You really need to play the original games. Mods have skewed your perception of what the games are

[fresh spindle]

I am speaking on normal diffculty

[vernal magnet]

Yea the original games are much more forgiving on normal difficulties

Even on master it's way more forgiving in the original games

This is why anomaly gets a bad rap among a chunk of the community

People start playing stalker with that because it's free and it's not at all Representative of the original experience the OG games provide

[worthy lagoon]

Play SoC on Master difficult, it's the most balanced one

[vernal magnet]

Yes, 100% this

[fresh spindle]

Cause when I played anomaly

(And look I dont mind a Rng challenge)

But in anomaly the bandages do nothing barley any help during bleeding

And the bleeding affect is worse than any curse or bleeding affect I seen On any game

And the ai isnt smart but theyre fast and even the rabid cats and dogs
Kill you in 2 to 3 shots and every hit takes my gun away from me

As soon as I am walking after a fight

A small creature kills me when I am half health and lose all my progress

[vernal magnet]

"Cause when I played anomaly" - gonna stop you right there

Play the original games

Anomaly is not the same game even remotely

None of the mechanics function the same in the OG as they do in anomaly

Anomaly has bent your perception of how the core game loop works

This is why fans always say start with Shadow Of Chernobyl, no matter what, no if ands or buts

[coarse reef]

Not really they dont play that much different

[vernal magnet]

Nonsense

[fresh spindle]

Thats what I want cause I come here cause I am interested in Post apocalyptic games and especially challenging ones

I played metro and heard the devs are related to stalker

And stalker caught my eye from its atmosphere and gameplay but I really dont wanna spend money on another headache

Similar to what I experienced on anomaly

[vernal magnet]

Buy the trilogy on GOG for cheap and get going with it. These games are terrific

[open lintel]

anomaly is just a facelifted overstuffed sanxbox version of the originals

they play the same overall, minus you have paintball guns in the originals

kek

[vernal magnet]

Anomaly tailors it's mechanics to extending the core game loop and aiming for extended sandbox play. It slows all of its systems down for healing and stuffs a million more in like maintenance and sleeping so that you don't fly through the sandbox unchallenged. The OG games have a completely different balance and structure, healing, weapon ballistics and even what weapons you have access to, etc, it's all different

Anyone who's says anomaly and OG play the same are smooth brain

[open lintel]

ultimately the core gameplay is the exact same, the pace is changed though yeah

which makes sense, since anomaly is just a mod of the original game. Your not going to change the entire genre of a game in that way

[strong drift]

hello everyone

[open lintel]

Run and gun, shoot people, steal stuff, loot stuff, sell.

[fresh spindle]

Yes I am getting to the whole pack and anomaly was just trying to test stalker like environment

But if the games are gonna that difficult to the point I cant progress through 1 mile away from my starting point

Whats the point of getting a game you cannot learn from and base it all on luck

I want a challenge but I need a way to progress

[open lintel]

The only real difference is the story mode, and lack of sandbox

[vernal magnet]

The dynamic of the zones regions and pacing is broken as well. Further north had a linear danger increase to it and anomaly sort of guides you all over I'm an unbalanced manner

[strong drift]

how is your day today?

[vernal magnet]

Like getting quests to fight monolith squads when you just started with a 9mm PMM GG Lol

[fresh spindle]

Dude I just wanna survive more than 3 shots
And not bleed to death while bandages are useless

[vernal magnet]

That's a reductionist view of any FPS. The core loop and goals of anomaly vs vanilla are totally different. I don't starve in OG for example

[fresh spindle]

@vernal magnet wait tou dont starve on any vanilla stalker games?

[vernal magnet]

Anomaly forces the player to tend to self catering systems CONSTANTLY. The OG games are much more traditional and non forced in your play style

[vernal magnet]

See this is exactly my point

[fresh spindle]

Hows the damages system in vanilla games?
How much does an enemy have to do to kill you?

[vernal magnet]

Just play the games and take my word for it

Anomaly is super unbalanced

[open lintel]

yeah, it's a generalized view of it. but overall the games are the same. It's just a facelifted sandbox version of the originals at the end of the day

don't take it too seriously

[vernal magnet]

They aren't the same though

[vernal magnet]

I'm not

[open lintel]

they really are tho

same game, different skin at the end of the day

[vernal magnet]

If that were the case it wouldn't cause such turmoil amongst the core community when newcomers think stalker is anomaly and are unaware of the extreme dichotomy between mods and OG

[vernal magnet]

Super reductionist take

[open lintel]

more of a realist take really tho

[vernal magnet]

Not really. Purists hate anomaly for its butchery of what the original games mastered

By using your metric of what a core game is I could make the same vein argument that cyberpunk 2077 and stalker have much the same game loop of shooting, traveling, looting, etc. That would be incorrect as a whole

And stalker mods adding vehicles hardly make them any closer alike

[open lintel]

I think it's more from the overall idiocy of most people that play anomaly if you ask me

[vernal magnet]

Anomaly is built as an unbalanced free roam sandbox. The OG games are paced and tailored experiences

Of course their loops are wildly different

Having to manually trek through major sections to maintain items and hunger and all these other micro managing systems break the core loop up completely compared to the originals

[open lintel]

~shrugs

[soft ice]

Hes rigyt yeah

[soft ice]

Honestly speaking of quests. The biggest joke of anomaly is that there’s basically 2 side quests

Just copy and pasted

[sick magnet]

i need help in call of pripyat. for some reason there is nobody at the scientists bunker

[sick magnet]

nvm i restarted the game and it fixed itself. i think it was a model loading bug

[strong drift]

soc true good ending questions: when is the quest to deactivate the brain scorcher? do I need to first talk to sakharov then go to guide or the other way around?

[knotty sedge]

talk to guide then deactivate the brain scorcher

[strong drift]

uh

i think I already deactivated the brain scorcher.

[knotty sedge]

brain scorcher or the miracle machine in lab x-16?

[strong drift]

idk

i just have: get out of the lab

get out via the secret tunnel, and talk to sakharov

[knotty sedge]

yeah you just did x-16

brain scorcher is after

[strong drift]

oh OK thank god

then after I talk to sakharov, I immediately go to the guide yes?

[knotty sedge]

yup

[strong drift]

alright thanks stalker

[knotty sedge]

np

[strong drift]

how do I get to streloks hideout to meet Doctor?

nvm found it I think

[long harbor]

skill issue

bro just loot everything you can find until you're almost overencumber

and sell them to the nearest trader

or just do side tasks

[fresh spindle]

Thats if I can get in a building safely without getting mauled

[long harbor]

Stalker CS is run and gun

You have to stay behind a cover all the time if you don't have any allies

first time playing CS i was so pissed i skipped that and played CoP instead

[fresh spindle]

My issue is not skill sense when I see an enemy I always take it down

My issue is ambushes THAT I CANT SEE

I cant take cover if I dont see the enemy

I was playing anomaly not the regular games

Like what I am I gonna take cover from? The wind?
If you dont see the threat how are you certain there is one?
Till it killed you

I run and jump and doge and go up obstacles yet they still kill me

Even in the easiest mode everything is 1 shotting me

Its all based on luck

My best bet is to quick save

[long harbor]

skill issue

bro just give up for a while, play something

miss stalker, come back

[fresh spindle]

Imma get the vanilla stalkers since they are better
The whole pack

Anomaly is said to not be the game for newbies

[soft ice]

Yeah start with SoC

The first mission is really easy

[strong drift]

true

after I did clear sky story, I started doing SOC, the first mission is ez as sitting on chairs, I sat back and watched as my friends ran into the enemy and kill off as much as they could

and I picked off the guys my friends couldn't kill

WITH A SINGULAR PISTOL

[vocal dew]

dang, Putin finally got tired of Duty's bs and decided to move into the Zone himself.

wonder what UNISG is gonna do.......

[finite dragon]

probably send letters telling them how upset they are

[noble stirrup]

Anomaly is a quick save-quick load sim really

[delicate sparrow]

if you SUCK

[fresh spindle]

@delicate sparrow me

Far worse than suck on that game

[noble stirrup]

amateur mod devs have no idea how to design games for people

they only see one way of playing, and they try to enforce it

[fresh spindle]

@noble stirrup but I am stuck with my character filled with radiation

Since I FINALLY got an artifact

I donated it to the trader

But it says I need medical assistance
For radiation

Where can I cure radiation

The anomalies keep surrounding me too

[noble stirrup]

very limited perception and lack of taste go hand in hand and result in what you see on Nexus pages

for all games

[delicate sparrow]

if you are still at the trader you can buy anti radiation medication or an alcoholic beverage

[fresh spindle]

I just drank 1 vodka

Do I need 1 more for it to cure?

[noble stirrup]

in ANomaly, radiation can be cured with drinks like Vodka and also regular water

[fresh spindle]

I drank tons of water too

[delicate sparrow]

if you still are irradiated yeah, it depends on how radiated you are. usually you only need one or two swigs

maybe you're just not wearing enough protection, you keep getting irradiated

[noble stirrup]

if you buy/select at the setup screen a geiger counter and have it in your inventory, you can check your body contamination level if you press a certain button, don't remember which.

[delicate sparrow]

O if my memory is correct

[noble stirrup]

there's like a quick access button, that just shows you your rads

so you don't even need to equip it

[delicate sparrow]

hm, i dont remember that one

[noble stirrup]

yeah, just checked, in the controls key binds page, it is listed as just "Geiger Counter"

[cold roost]

hi

im playin stalker cs and i want to attack somewhere in swamps with clear sky members, how do i make them come with me

nvm they go

[cold roost]

chat is dead

[solid dome]

I know it's waste of time but I'm determined to ask at least 50 weird questions in #🔍┃ask_gscarchive before I give up

Up to trying to beat me, @novel briar ?

[novel briar]

Nope.

[solid dome]

There you see, son. I'm cursed.

[simple salmon]

Why do you want to know such minor things? Especially if literally everything could be added or fixed with mods... I guess people just cant stop spamming in that poor little channel

[solid dome]

It's not about knowing, it's that I consider the channel itself useless because every single question asked, even the obvious ones that, at this point of development - considering we know the game is in bug fixing stage - can easily be answered, however GSC is used to the "NDA" excuse more so than usual.

The whole hysteria around the game' and its development mainly, is fishy

[simple salmon]

Why do you think its fishy? is it in a bad way?

[solid dome]

I dunno, first we're told the delay that happened is for polishing reasons, then every but of information is kept under wraps

Its why I ask those wicked questions that I know won't be answered but at least CMs know the reasoning behind that

😄

[noble stirrup]

people are suspecting that the new game is being developed by a very inexperienced team

[simple salmon]

I can relate, but nowadays things are tough for everyone and i can suggest you to lay off, just to keep CMs sanity at normal level 🙂

[solid dome]

I think you put that wrong, grinie

Or maybe you don't... since there is a lot of freelance work involved

Which is one part of the suspicion

[noble stirrup]

Important people from the SOC team are working at 4A Games. Important people from the CS/COP team are still at Vostok Games afaik. Who is working on S2?

[solid dome]

I asked em CMs once if the game will have dynamic main menu background like the one you see in SoC - I wasn't answered that

This itself explains a lot

If they can't even reveal that piece of info... welp

What stage of development we talk here, drawing board?...

[coarse reef]

they had no plan beyond the nft

[simple salmon]

I know that feeling being "left on read", but you see, there are only 6 CMs, and they cant keep answering all questions

[solid dome]

Whole dev team is keeping their cards close to the chest for one reason: they aren't even sure if people will like the game

Only logical reasoning I can think of

Thus, strictly no information given

By dev team, I mean the Grigas

Designers, programmers, etc aren't to be involved in this

They are there to do the work they are told to

[solid dome]

Those hard questions, spoilers as well, yeah, but people asked even the simplest questions that don't really fall under NDA, yet always answered dodgy

Anyhow

I'm aware why all of this happens, I'm not born yesterday

😛

[simple salmon]

they do no want to spoil you things that you have to feel, find, see etc yourself, they are preparing you to maximum experience you can get.
and also they do not want to give alot of promises

[solid dome]

Nah they aren't sure if hardcore fans - those that will spend a lot of money buying their game - will be disappointed by the changes they've done

...is what I believe is the case

[simple salmon]

hardcore fans will be always disappointed

[solid dome]

They wont reveal anything now, will do changes to those aspects the fans won't like later and the whole situation will be forgotten in no time

Instead of revealing info now, doing changes now and post release and losing trust

[simple salmon]

they expect much

[solid dome]

Common logic

[simple salmon]

you just have to wait, s2 is not a hype train, for now

[solid dome]

I'm the last person that is rushing for anything, just saying how I see things from my PoV

I'm pretty busy translating SoC, CS & CoP so even if the game came out yesterday I won't have time to even play it anyways

[rustic elbow]

what worries me is the "being competitive with metro" thing

cmon guys

no one needs this

[raw forum]

decided to get all the documents in lab x8

my sig is at like 10% condition

never again

[earnest urchin]

i mean they don't need to tell you anything tbh i know its ask channel but still and also i feel like people are taking it for granted that they can even ask GSC questions because i never saw maybe aside from Destiny 2 where the devs communicated which others games literally don't have, atleast i have not saw any sorts of communication on this level.

of course its frustrating when even simple questions get overlooked but eh.

[fierce trench]

They have to err on the side of caution because a lot of things can get scrapped at any point in the development, plus it's about the only way to curb unreasonable hype and expectations, even if people don't like the silence.

It would never be as bad as CDPR's hype machine because they themselves were all over it, but it's still better to avoid the fallout altogether.

It wouldn't make sense for 500 people to work on a non-existent or dysfunctional game, so I'm not too worried about that.

[simple salmon]

spittin straight facts

[still ridge]

Huh?

[noble stirrup]

where does the 500 figure come from?

[fierce trench]

#🔍┃ask_gscarchive message

[icy prism]

This... Especially those who think that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. should be like EFT.

[rustic elbow]

i read it in an interview resume at youtube

[gusty trench]

Attention, anecdote!
Two Freedom members sit nearby. Smoking. And a Dachshund of one of them ran in.
The second one asked:

• Your dog's legs look too short...
  The first one took a close look:
• Nah... Look like they are long enough to reach the ground...

[snow fulcrum]

Can someone please explain to me what a stalker is? I'm new to the series but have also heard that there's stalkers in real life that go into the zone so what is it?

[outer jolt]

Stalker is a backronym for Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killers, Explorers and Robbers

S.T.A.L.K.E.R

a Stalker is basically one of those, or many

[noble stirrup]

stalker

noun [ C ]
uk /ˈstɔː.kər/ us /ˈstɑː.kɚ/
a person who illegally follows and watches someone, especially a woman, over a period of time:
Several well-known women have been troubled by stalkers recently.

[outer jolt]

thats a different kind of Stalker :D

[raw forum]

Is the Tunder S14 based on a real life weapon or is it its own thing?

[outer jolt]

Yes

the Groza

[fluid abyss]

Sigma stalker

I mean

Uhhh

[gusty trench]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R is indeed an acronym.
But in-game Stalkers are people, who go to the Zone for their own reasons. Some stalkers look for romance there, some look for money, some try to research it. Some stalkers try to find the mystical Wish Granter somewhere in the CNPP... Beside them. There are factions of stalkers, which have their own reasons to be in the Zone. Faction like Duty, which consists of the ex-soldiers, tries to destroy the Zone, because it's very dangerous. Freedom try to fight the government, which tries to take over the Zone.
That's who Stalkers are.

[fluid abyss]

It’s all about the schmoneys

And killing people

Can’t forget about that

Living de free life

[noble stirrup]

the real definition is in the book Roadside Picnic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic

fourth paragraph

[tropic wave]

lol imagine freedom tryin to bone bloodsuckers lmao

[gusty trench]

Tunder S14 aka OTs-14 "Groza" is a Russian assault grenade launcher system developed by the TsKIB SOO in 1993.

[earnest urchin]

lol romance

[gusty trench]

Yes

a quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and remoteness.

[noble stirrup]

also this is made-up surely?

[rustic elbow]

kys

[outer jolt]

i mean

[solid dome]

Culkin, #🔍┃ask_gscarchive

[outer jolt]

i asked the same question (what Hung Solo asked) and found that

so im not sure

it says that on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R wikipedia page

[noble stirrup]

yeah, it's even on SOC's Steam page 🤔

to me it doesn't sound like a legit definition, because I remember hearing they added the periods because the term Stalker was under copyright or something, and then it was tattooed on Marked One's arm in the intro video

[worthy lagoon]

no.

[noble stirrup]

the tattoo wasn't present in build 2571 https://youtu.be/W9SEhkiZ7Co?t=109

[earnest urchin]

so every S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is sleeper agent

[worthy lagoon]

Builds aren't canon.

If you are trying to make a point about the present lore of the game you shouldn't look at builds and cut content

[gusty trench]

Zachar Bocharov.

[noble stirrup]

some things lost meaning because parts of the game were cut

[gusty trench]

It includes out-sourcers.

[noble stirrup]

Bocharov said 300, McCulkin said 500

[worthy lagoon]

Like?

[gusty trench]

Bocharov later corrected himself.

.

[noble stirrup]

Like Marked One blowing himself up when entering Strelok's stash to meet the Doctor, for example

just a short cut they created after they cut the Dead City level

[worthy lagoon]

Blowing himself?

When is SoC Marked One does blow himself in Agroprom?

[noble stirrup]

when he tries to enter the stash room

[worthy lagoon]

Which stash room?

There are multiple

[noble stirrup]

well it's hideout not stash

[worthy lagoon]

Still

[noble stirrup]

but there's just one Strelok's hideout

[worthy lagoon]

Which one

There are multiple

[vernal magnet]

No it's official. I even have GSC brand stalker clothes that have the full acronym on them

[noble stirrup]

nope

you enter the same hideout twice for the "real" ending

[worthy lagoon]

Agroprom

Pripyat

Army Warehouses

Probably more

[gusty trench]

He means the time, when the Marked One accidentaly steps into his mine in the Agroprom Underground. when trying to meet the Doc.

[worthy lagoon]

Oh, that one

I almost forgot about that one

[noble stirrup]

originally the mine was set by the mercs, I guess, as you wake up in their base at Dead City together with the Doctor after getting knocked unconscious

in the builds, I mean

[worthy lagoon]

Well yeah but still

[noble stirrup]

then you have a proper conversation with the doctor, who reveals the truth about Strelok

[worthy lagoon]

If we have to make points on the lore it should be on the actual vanilla games, since the builds aren't canon

[noble stirrup]

there's no information about the STALKER acronym in the game, I believe

and why it would be tattooed on anyone's arm

[worthy lagoon]

I think only veterans did that

Or it was on C-C agents

But it wouldn't make sense maybe

[gusty trench]

Attention, anecdote!
So. A dude went to the stalker and said:

• Hey, friend! Can you find a... pseudodog's puppy?
  Stalker told him:
• Are you crazy?! You don't want to live anymore? It will tear you apart in seconds!
• You didn't get me - he said - It's not for me. It's a present for my mother-in-law.

[solid dome]

I wonder where Ждалкер comes from then

[noble stirrup]

from the verb ждать - to wait

Сталкер - Ждалкер

[solid dome]

Yeah I guessed that but why ...

[worthy lagoon]

https://tenor.com/view/g11-hk416-416-gfl-girls-frontline-gif-21353132

[gusty trench]

Nvm. Found the better joke

[noble stirrup]

cause it took 6 years for GSC to release it

[solid dome]

Kek

What about Stucker then?

[gusty trench]

A happy Duty member was walking and swinging his bloody shovel.
And another Duty member went towards him:

• Where are you going from, bro?
• From the funeral!
• But why are you so happy?
• I was burying the Freedom members!
• But why is your shovel in blood?
• They tried to get out three time, bastards!

[solid dome]

This one comes into use when you're playing Anomaly

Fun fact

[noble stirrup]

with several delays

[solid dome]

One should invent O.U.T.S.O.U.R.C.E.D 2 as a hashtag

Since out of those 500 developers, half must be freelance artists

😄

[noble stirrup]

it's already becoming a Ждалкер 2

[raw forum]

ty

[solid dome]

I know why they announced the title with the A.N.N.O.U.N.C.E.D. 2 joke

Thanks @noble stirrup for clearing things up

[cerulean geyser]

Heh, good one

[finite dragon]

o

[timid trail]

For you guys what is the real final of Soc? He manage to destroy the CC or join in? They are both considered as a real final

[lyric atlas]

pretety sure he destroyed it

[solid dome]

The one ending you keep being respawned at the start of the game and you keep playing

[timid trail]

I don’t know. The problem is that in CoP he isn’t giving much information about his journey to the center

[gusty trench]

Actually. The devs wanted the C-Con ending to be the real ending. And that makes sense because of how the second ending looks like. Literally. He just shoots all the scientists while saying he doesn't know if all he did is right or wrong. And then he appears in the middle of nature, like it happens in one of the fake endings.
But later they decided that the ending, when Strelok kills the scientists, is canon.

[timid trail]

Ok so this is the canon ending. But why monolith still exist if CC is gone ?

[gusty trench]

We know from CoP that he couldn't just join the C-Con and then get off the capsules. It makes no sense.

[gusty trench]

Who said that?

[lyric atlas]

monolith are so brainwashed that they still think they have a purpose, theyre stuck in a timeloop within their mentalities

[gusty trench]

The Wish Granter becomes less and less popular among Stalkers.

[lyric atlas]

they dont notice such changes

[gusty trench]

Stalkers almost forgot about it.

If you talk about the Monolith faction... You really didn't notice that Monolith is slowly turning from the brain-dead zombies to human-beings, which are capable of thinking?

The Strider group, f.e.

[lyric atlas]

well i know but strider deserted and got away from uhh pripyat n such
maybe theres like waves affecting these guys brains or something thats within the range of pripyat that makes monolith monolith

[gusty trench]

Also. If you know Russian. You'll notice something strange about them. They look like they slowly become normal if you listen to them.

[lyric atlas]

yeah, thats fairly noticeable

[tired anvil]

Crazy, almost like they are

[gusty trench]

What about the Underground Pass called Pripyat-1?

[lyric atlas]

hmm, the underground pass
im not sure

[gusty trench]

There are many Monolithians. But it doesn't look like the psy-radiation gets them there.

[lyric atlas]

not sure how to comment on that, i really dont know the logic behind how striders group became, well, sane

[gusty trench]

In fact. The Monolithians say that the Monolith left them...

[lyric atlas]

so that must be some kind of psy radiation right

man one thing bothered me about strider on my playthrough

i screwed myself up in such a way where the quest was impossible and neihter freedom or duty would take the group

so it was just stuck completely

i sure hope there wont be cases like this in stalkiyer 2

[solid dome]

Lore hour going on?

I think everyone will be pleased to have Facebook being major part of the story in the next game

As in being a proper Web Scorcher

Once we flip the switch, internet dies and everything becomes better in an instant

[vernal magnet]

I'm suddenly feeling more Monolith than ever

[outer jolt]

wtf Stalker Anomaly is free?

[deep lily]

it was 1000 lek before but now its free

[outer jolt]

lmao wtf

how can you get it

like from where

[deep lily]

moddb

[solid dome]

What would I wish for if I had been to the Monolith, can you guess? @vernal magnet

[outer jolt]

do i just download it?

[deep lily]

yes

[outer jolt]

thanks

[deep lily]

no problemos

[outer jolt]

it has been very foggy for me that is it a game i just click download on or is it a mod i need to place in stalker SoCs files

but thanks to you i know now

Also

Iv compelted SoC, currently playing Clear Sky

and after that gonna pick up CoP

should i play the trilogy through before going on Anomaly? Like is there spoilers?

[deep lily]

you should play the trilogy first, then play mods its way better trust me

[outer jolt]

yeah im aware its better

simply asked is there any spoilers

im certain that nothing Anomaly throws at me is going to be better than the first time i played SoC couple weeks back

dont worry about that :D

[vernal magnet]

I'm not sure, you already got embed perms

I'm gonna have to guess a bottle of Beluga vodka

[vernal magnet]

Technically yes since it reuses certain story beats from the original

[solid dome]

I'd wish for the strongest boombox produced, thus I can blast the living heck of the reggae playlist; this powerful sound coming off that thing I both get permanent hearing damage but destroy the shiny rock to microscopic pieces.

Fighting with Stereo in hand!!!!!

Revenge of the Stereo

[vernal magnet]

Bro I think Ganja in CS got you covered he's rocking some serious speakers lol

[solid dome]

Ganjaman

Yippie

[vernal magnet]

Sigma rule #32, Hold a mirror in front of the monolith to force it to have an existential crisis about who's wish to grant

[solid dome]

Or wear a reflective suit and a helmet

Grant the Monolith's own wish

Cripple the bastard and sell the rock fragments to the scientists for rare type of artifact

[vernal magnet]

Yes it's a fan made mod

[outer jolt]

yeah

i knew that

but i wasnt aware it was a standalone game and free

[vernal magnet]

Monolith ends up wishing for your love careless whisper intensifies

[vernal magnet]

Yea GSC is one of the few who give their blessings on standalone using their OG assets

You love to see it

[outer jolt]

yeh

[soft ice]

Tactical shooters are bad

[timid trail]

Especially today’s tactical shooter

[soft ice]

Yeah Fr

People who play them are just gay nerds

[solid dome]

Standalone mod

It's against GSCs' TOS/EULA/whatever but since they wont do nothing against them cause the old GSC were real dudes...

Anomaly exists

[soft ice]

I wish they would

[noble stirrup]

global mods are generally standalone mods

esp. if they change the story

at least nowadays. Don't remember if, for example, Priboy Story was standalone, probably wasn't

[topaz shore]

♥️

[half glade]

play vanilla

[vernal magnet]

Priboi Story is such an OG mod. Dezo's first big release for stalker

[ripe barn]

I'm at the final of clear sky's I don't have rifle ammo and just got leather coat from loners oof

[fluid abyss]

the final what

[finite dragon]

Which is better Radiophobia or Lost Alpha?

i cant decide

[soft ice]

They’re really different

Lost alpha restored a lot of alpha cut content and jives it a new story and radio phobia basically improves the graphics and gives it new guns and stuff

Uhh speaking of that, are they ever gonna make gunslinger for SoC

[ripe barn]

The final part where I go against strelok

[gusty trench]

Did you know that the Burnt Fuzz anomaly won't damage you if you go through it slowly. But if you run through it, you will get damaged?
https://youtu.be/b-K3wiDKk0k

[tidal frost]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSt5uIgJ5FI

[stark matrix]

ha freedom

[remote crow]

I can relate to Strelok because my two best friends also left me lol

[gusty trench]

Attention, anecdote!
Duty decided to do an ultra secret ambush and intercepted one stalker. He had a full backpack of habar and terrible hangover... a-and remorse feelings:

• Commander, please, let me go... People were telling me that drinking is bad but I didn't listen. If I wasn't drunk - would I go here? - the whole Zone saw you setting up an ambush yesterday!

[west girder]

H

[potent bluff]

I thought everyone know that

[gusty trench]

Nope. It turns out that not everyone.

[potent bluff]

[timid trail]

Where’s my friend @half glade ?

[half glade]

LETS GOOOOO

[solid dome]

I always wanted to play Priboi never did

I think I did a mistake right?

[dusty frost]

Anyone got any idea how the delay till December has effected the physical limited editions?? Ed: Sorry if this has already been asked about a million times already!

[coarse reef]

They're gonna be delayed too :)

[potent bluff]

[twilit field]

Are you sure ?

stalker 2 is going to be delayed again ???!!!

[earnest urchin]

yeah

[twilit field]

Source ?

[earnest urchin]

i already got email 2 weeks ago that my pre-order gets delayed to the 8th december

[earnest urchin]

just read announcements mf

[twilit field]

I already know that announcement

I mean after 8th december

[worthy lagoon]

STALKER 2 is delayed till 8th December 2022, therefore also the retail edutions will be delayed and sent the 8th December 2022.

There's no other confirmation of another delay

[twilit field]

So no other delay ?

[worthy lagoon]

If there would be another delay, it will be announced in #📰┃announcement

[twilit field]

We can hear some rumors from trusted leakers

Like the one who expected the delay to the 8th december

[worthy lagoon]

There are no "trusted" leakers, avoid trusting unknown sources that is not GSC or DKUD, if you have a question you can ask about it in #🔍┃ask_gscarchive, any announcements will be made in #📰┃announcement

[twilit field]

Ok

Thank you bro

[worthy lagoon]

No problem

[tired anvil]

There's a different leaker with each time, so there isn't a dedicated trusted one lmao

[dusty frost]

On my preorder for the ultimate phys ed from Amazon UK it still says its got a April delivery. I didn't know if they where still shipping the physical stuff while just removing the actual game, and just emailing a code when the game releases etc.

[earnest urchin]

i got physical Limited Edition idk

but i think they won't

[loud urchin]

#🖤┃s2-pre-order hasn’t been updated in a while

[worthy lagoon]

They will ship everything in December

[ivory gale]

Wishful thinking. Nothing will ship until December

[vestal phoenix]

Not true. leaker OLDboi leaked that GSC was delaying the game before the delay was announced. He is known for his correct leaks in the past regarding GSC.

[tired anvil]

He isn't a leaker himself. He only says what he gets told

Antischnaps does the same

[vestal phoenix]

well of course he isn't working on the inside. But he is getting told information and leaking it to the public

[tired anvil]

Sometimes right, sometimes wrong

[vestal phoenix]

that is called

a

leak

[tired anvil]

Yea, but he's taking any information found online. He is wrong at times as well

It's the case with pretty much all Stalker YouTubers

[vestal phoenix]

you could say that about 99% of leakers

[tired anvil]

And I would. Which would redirect us to what Kuro said about no "trusted" leakers

[vestal phoenix]

eh

I would consider a trusted leaker to be one that is correct 50% of the time

which I think correctly describes OLDboi

[vernal magnet]

Not yet. It's totally possible that they delay again but an announcement like that won't be seen until the summer. You don't announce several delays back to back like that, it's bad company for and makes the project look off the rails

[worthy lagoon]

Or, it could be that it was a complete coincidence, and after all we need GSC confirmation in the end, so it all comes down to checking #📰┃announcement or asking in #🔍┃ask_gscarchive

[tired anvil]

It wasn't a coincidence

But not everything he says is a fact

[fresh spindle]

In regular stalker vanilla games

Does going on harder difficulty affect the damage done to enemies or anything else?

[tired anvil]

In this instance he genuinely had insider information, he got removed for a reason

[worthy lagoon]

thing is, we don't know if it was or not, there are no proof about what he said, no screenshot, no source, no audio files

nothing

[tired anvil]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/504592685428899851/671927909786583080/stalker_difficulty.png?width=400&height=214

[worthy lagoon]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/504592685428899851/671927909786583080/stalker_difficulty.png?width=400&height=214

[tired anvil]

Oh yeah, so he made some extremely specific guesses right before they happened, and the one time they came true, GSC coincidentally removed him from the Content Creators in the server

If it was the case he would've been gone long ago

[vestal phoenix]

I understand that your a helper and that you are technically working for GSC but it's better to not acknowledge our conversation instead of saying the leaks aren't real.

[worthy lagoon]

Well, doesn't mean much, but i guess he won't leak anything else after that, if he really did

[vernal magnet]

I've seen this chart so many times and it never convinces me that the damage isn't altered. You can feel the difference between Master and novice in si many nuanced ways. Easiest to feel it when speedrunning. Convinced there's damage modifier code people haven't figured out yet or something lol

[fresh spindle]

Hasnt this been debunked by a guy going into the files and exposing this "source"?

[worthy lagoon]

I am saying my personal opinion, when it comes down to games and such it's just better sit and wait for official answers, the game is not released yet, so only thing we can rely on is #📰┃announcement and #🔍┃ask_gscarchive

Especially with GSC which it seems to throw lots of NDA rocks

[vestal phoenix]

well of course you are never supposed to look at leaks as being 100%. But, it's a fact that most people that look at leaks are looking at them for fun to quench their thirst for more information on the project.

[vernal magnet]

That's all we get lol. Stoned by NDA rocks

[worthy lagoon]

I am not saying that, i am saying when i look at "leaks" about STALKER 2 there are never sources, just "trust me", compared to Valve leakers which do leak files from their servers

So yeah, i don't believe to anyone who says "trust me" without any source on hand

Even then it doesn't change your life, so sit, grab a drink, take your time to buy a new GPU until 8th December 2022

[vestal phoenix]

you don't believe that there are people who work at GSC that are passing this info on to leaker? That's literally how most leaks happen. Few leaks happen by going into the game files that weren't air tight.

[worthy lagoon]

If so then i demand the logs of the chat

But it won't happen, even if it's true

Even then, it doesn't change my life

[vestal phoenix]

ah yes, because a leaker is going to dox their source

smart

[worthy lagoon]

The thing is still the same

You need GSC confirmation about delays and such

So you have to wait for them either way

It won't change your life knowing it first or not

[vernal magnet]

I find the historical aspects of leaker info to be the most rewarding aspect. You don't often see the inner workings of behind the scenes and leaks help paint a picture of that. Which is useful even after the games release

[raw forum]

anyone know a way to get a veles detector in anomaly?

[tired anvil]

@worthy lagoon here's a leak

New art soon)

Source: trust me

[coarse reef]

ban for misinfo

[tired anvil]

Nah it's okay since GSC posted it, but it's not really their art

[finite dragon]

Right

[kindred wyvern]

i just thought about it so

is sidorovich in stalker 2

[twilit field]

Let's hope we don't get another delay

[vernal magnet]

Amen

[vernal magnet]

Wouldn't be the same without him, though it's totally possible that he passed on or aged out of grace for the job

[stark steppe]

nda lego, you go anywhere you will probably stand on some

[frank osprey]

Game got postponed because actual GPU can't run it.

All actual cards are 1080p garbage.

[noble stirrup]

Fun fact: Anomaly uses the Russian voice of Sidorovich from SOC and CS, and he was voiced by a different actor in each. He alternates between two voices as a result, although it's not super noticeable.

come to think of it, CS may also have had two voices for him, as the technical state of the game was kind of a mess and there is at least one example of voices being mixed up for other characters.

[quick dune]

give me vanilla facts

[earnest urchin]

cope

1080p based resolution

[noble stirrup]

according to the wikipedia, the Ukrainian version of Clear Sky has the same actor for Sidorovich as Shadow of Chernobyl, unlike the Russian version. The actor passed in 2018, by the way, aged 74.

[coarse reef]

Vanilla fun fact: Most vanilla flavoured products aren't actually flavoured by it, but instead by a chemical compound called "vanillin" that's mostly synthesized as natural vanilla is very expensive, it's the second most expensive spice in the world after saffron in fact.

[sick magnet]

[fresh spindle]

Guys lets say if you were in the Chernobyl zone of stalker

What faction would you stick with?

[finite dragon]

The funny rock purely for the funny

[coarse reef]

probably ecologists because they don't really have many enemies

[vernal magnet]

They could use a different voice again for "age reasons"

[vernal magnet]

Vanilla ice cream goes best with colored sprinkles

[earnest urchin]

[worthy lagoon]

U

[earnest urchin]

U

[worthy lagoon]

us

[earnest urchin]

[vernal magnet]

U

guess what

[potent bluff]

[viscid adder]

Oxi edw

[finite dragon]

[main pike]

привет девочкии

[gusty trench]

@open lintel

[open lintel]

@ripe barn no politics

@gusty trench 👋

:D

[lofty flame]

mmm

[solid dome]

God that latest idea I have in #🔍┃ask_gscarchive about the Monolith is actually something worth of trying once the game comes out

Bang-bang-bang, he shot me down - Monolith

[tall glen]

hi im new to stalker

recently fell in love with it and finished shadow of chernobyl

[solid dome]

Welcome to the exclusion zone then

[tall glen]

cant wait to get blazed because of a random emmsion

[solid dome]

You can't wait to get your blood sucked out by a sucka'

Suck it dry!

[tall glen]

yes

[finite dragon]

[solid dome]

I heard you. We have a potential idea for a spin-off - playing a bloodsucker and trying to kill as many stalkers as you can, clear the Zone out of them. THen you win.

[finite dragon]

Playing as bloodsucker and getting banged by freedom members

10/10 would play

[potent bluff]

I have a feeling that Monolith we see in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2s trailers is just a place holder enemy... the real enemy is something more worse

My feeling always right

[finite dragon]

I also think that Monolith won't be a main villain on this one

But rather NIICHAZ

[tall glen]

damn monolith was such a pain to fight against in prypiat

[potent bluff]

Maybe Strelok that we save in CoP is not the real Strelok

And in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 NIIChAZ kept sending poor loners into anomalies

[finite dragon]

Same Strelok, different personality

In CoP he was pretty depressed

And seemed like "I had enough" kind of guy

[potent bluff]

And his hair is fully growth back

In the end scene

[finite dragon]

That's in his ending slide in which he'll work for NIICHAZ right?

[potent bluff]

Yea

[finite dragon]

CoP combat is ass

Hair fits him tbh

[potent bluff]

Ill miss is half bald head

his*

Slav hair style

[finite dragon]

[potent bluff]

[finite dragon]

Speaking of Strelok, I can definitely see why he was in that emotional state in CoP

That guy didn't had any break at all

[solid dome]

Why not being done by Duty since they are the real freaks?

[finite dragon]

Nah bro, Dutyers only bang eachother

[long harbor]

the ability to bang bloodsuckers as freedom soldiers?

[solid dome]

Nope, playing a notorious vampire

Vamplok versus Strelok

See who wins first

[long harbor]

no

but i realize all these years of modding

some dude who's sick in the head still haven't made the bloodsuckers banging mod yet

[solid dome]

Wasn't that anime mod.... help me out here

How it was called...

Daisy or whatever, something starting with D...

[long harbor]

Dickplomacy?

[solid dome]

Oh Jesus...

[long harbor]

doppelganger?

reborn doppelganger??

[solid dome]

Nope

[long harbor]

dayum

im missing a lotta cool stuff

[solid dome]

Damn can't remember its name

[noble stirrup]

where does that freedom bloodsuckers thing come from?

[potent bluff]

Its from Call of Chernobyl I think

Even the name "Ecologist" is from CoC

Its not canon name

[noble stirrup]

so it is a case of this again https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/894/314/28c.png

[solid dome]

I suppose cause Freedomers are known to use weed, they go on benders and.... wild things happen in the meantime while they're out "in the skies"?

Logic says so

[still ridge]

It’s larp from a mod

Not real

[solid dome]

Larp?

Speaking different languages here, are we

[noble stirrup]

at least in the game files the scientists faction is called "ecolog" so it has some justification

[solid dome]

Far better than Gynecologist

....

[potent bluff]

From which one? From 3 games?

[noble stirrup]

yes

[potent bluff]

Hmpph interesting

[noble stirrup]

how to post code here?

[potent bluff]

Just screemshot it and post in #📸┃screens_and_videos

[noble stirrup]

eh I guess a short bit from Saharov's profile will do
<class>yan_general_ecolog</class> <community>ecolog</community> <terrain_sect>stalker_ecolog_terrain</terrain_sect>

that's from SOC

[potent bluff]

Hmph I see

[noble stirrup]

Darkscape as a name though doesn't make sense cause it's just a portmanteau of Dark Valley and Escape (Cordon). SImilar to Milrad (Military-Radar) and Deadmil (Dead City - Military)

[coarse reef]

Darkscape more like hellscape

I hate that place

[tall glen]

is there a coffee in the zone? if so, im stealing it from everybody

im gonna be that one stalker that instead of energy drinks chugs coffee cups

[vernal magnet]

Coffee gang gang

Brewin in the zone

[raw forum]

Darkscape would've been better if it was like half the size

[solid dome]

Coffee's acidic... Tea for better life.

Who would drink liquid rust....

[icy prism]

Any new from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2??

[coarse reef]

no

[void vortex]

There is some news in the pins

[tall glen]

aaaaay did a true ending of shadow of chernobyl epic

[timid trail]

But ecologist and scientists aren’t the same faction ?

[worthy lagoon]

Ecologist is just a non canon way to describe "scientists"

The word "Ecologist" doesn't really exist

[noble stirrup]

An ecologist is a scientist who studies how animals and plants interact with their environment.

[worthy lagoon]

I mean in the game

[hazy helm]

The ecologists are a faction of scientists funded by the gov,the scientists are members tbe ecologists,ecologists aren't stalkers they're researchers and they don't accept stalkers in they make contracts,just BC your boss is from football team A that you're from football team A

[vernal magnet]

Me everyday lol. Acidic drinks n foods rock lol

[hazy helm]

Yooo Tommy how are ya

[modern glen]

this might be litte bit off topic, but there's S.T.A.L.K.E.R related airsoft summer camps in poland

just saying

[vernal magnet]

Eyyyy my dude. Chilling chilling. Started streaming a cursed clear sky mod. Loving it so far

[hazy helm]

Haaa,good luck with that,hope you have a great time

[vernal magnet]

I wish we had that in the states

[finite dragon]

man i had hoped blocking one of them would be enough to no longer get everyone pinged for a video in a language i dont speak

[solid dome]

You mean the Youtube channel? It's an excuse to compensate for the lack of any news around the game, no...

[chrome cape]

Yeh they got the stalker larp stuff

It's kinda neat

[tall glen]

im planning to have a stalker wear for airsoft lol

gas mask long coat some russian vest and im good to go lmao

[finite dragon]

And a Makarov. Do not forget the Makarov.

[tall glen]

im going for either as val or svd

in terms of guns

who knows i might get my beloved pb as a sidearm

[finite dragon]

Airsoft AS vals aren't cheap.

[tall glen]

every decent airsoft gun isnt cheap

im not buying an airsoft gun just to show off, i need it for airsoft matches as well

[finite dragon]

why is only the monolits patch high quality?

[vernal magnet]

sigh...yea, I had noticed. 400 USD deep starting for a good piece

You can get a real AK for less cash than an airsoft AK. Go figure lol

[tall glen]

wtf

[fringe token]

depends on quality and manufacturer

[vernal magnet]

True but regardless that's still pretty wild

[fringe token]

yea i guess

[plain forum]

aye fellas, any directory/place i could check out every single video/art/screenshot of stalker 2 to date? deciding if i should/n't get a preorder yet or not

[loud quest]

never preorder anything.

[plain forum]

Never am, only project left that I'm curious about, it this one goes tits up I'm done with gaming overall

[loud quest]

preordering is one of main reasons gaming industry is dead

[vestal laurel]

Never pay for something you won’t own right away.

[plain forum]

Blame the publishers mostly, the fellas delayed the game which am totally fine with, don't want them rushing it

But still worried that "some CEO" might buy another Porsche and the team splits again going to make garbage like survarium 😂

[river vigil]

hi

[lyric forge]

I just hope the game comes out before I die lmao

[simple basalt]

eh the hype has died for me

dying light 2 etc has replaced it, pretty sad

it's like hearing aliens are real yet their arrival keeps getting delayed

eventually you just say "ok"

even aliens aren't looking that interesting from the shown footage

i can only hope

that would actually be really nice

[silent lily]

it wont unless epic makes ue5 bad which is not the case

[simple basalt]

uhm

have you played clear sky>

there's rarely any

LMFAO

it's waaay over done the amount of bugs people say stalker has imo

i found more bugs using zrp in SoC than my vanilla playthrough

[grand pendant]

yeah people suck and spread dumb stuff about the game

and others believe it

[simple basalt]

Clear Sky: bad. Why? Idk, trust me bro.

imo it's a major step up from SoC

wbu slyth?

[grand pendant]

definitely

especially in terms of lore

[simple basalt]

SoC was like half life imo

pretty cool primer to the possibilities that are yet to unfold

(not in terms of direct game timeline lmao)

[grand pendant]

there's also game mechanics in CS that people think are bugs, even though they were already documented in development materials

[simple basalt]

when the stalker games were bug messes i wasn't alive anyways

interesting

seems you'd like metro games

very linear

well i mean SoC is quite linear

and CoP is the opposite of that

[potent bluff]

side missions in CoP is da best

[simple basalt]

a shame you didn't play clear sky

i'm not

it's a good set up for SoC

it's a shame

CoP*

jumping straight into CoP after SoC isn't natural imo

simply play it

it's not linear

[long harbor]

Yeah but the bugs suck

[simple basalt]

don't even need to mod it, it looks fantastic

[long harbor]

You can't win Freedumb-Doodies faction war as a Freedomer

[simple basalt]

you've encountered bugs?

[long harbor]

It's 🔥

[simple basalt]

i never encountered more than the usual dosage of bugs in CS

played it 7 times

[long harbor]

I played it like 4 times

I'm trying a new mod rn, The Faction Wars

[simple basalt]

only a few crashes for me

[long harbor]

I haven't encountered any bugs yet, only the Faction Wars stuff

[simple basalt]

that's a bug?

[long harbor]

The Freedom-Duty faction war

It's buggy as hell

[simple basalt]

and?

[long harbor]

You can

You can't win as a Freedomer

[simple basalt]

oh, so you have encountered bugs

[long harbor]

Which really piss me off

[simple basalt]

that's not a bug

[long harbor]

wat

If you lay your hands on any outposts at Aprogrom, Freedom will stop spawning squads to back you up

[simple basalt]

that's how the game is

it's not a bug

[long harbor]

www

wot?

you're a Dutyer arent you?

[simple basalt]

no

i like freedom

the game's mechanics favor duty a lot

it's how it is

[long harbor]

I guess that's how Stalker works

I mean I hate those hippies, but on the Wiki it says tehy'll reward you with an Exoskeleton if you win the faction war

[simple basalt]

i used this guide a while back

"Im playing on master and I have won against duty, and it's not even close to easy. I managed to get garbage secure and I went on to agroprom but squads kept pouring in. So I developed a strategy, first I used my sniper to pick off two incoming squads, then as soon as I took them down, I dropped a bunch of stuff and ran strait for the duty base. I was mad to learn that you only need to take out a few people... You don't have to kill anyone in the big building, only the few guards outside and Kolobok and that guy with all the mutants. Once you destroy their base just run as fast as you can back to the garbage so that duty can't restore their base unless you go back to agroprom."

it worked for me

[long harbor]

saving this

[simple basalt]

basically repel then attack

[timid trail]

Ita?

[wide aspen]

oh crap i found real strelok

better get outa here

[sinful blaze]

I'm so excited for this game

I haven't played the first one but this game looked so good in the trailer

[finite dragon]

[hazy helm]

O well

Guess no monolith knowing for you

[cold roost]

first one? theres 3 lol

shadow of chernobyl, clear sky, call of pripyat

and tons of mods

[cold roost]

as diff games

[hazy helm]

The first one is shadow of Chernobyl tho,clear sky is the second and probs the best

[cold roost]

yes

call of pripyat is uh

idk

[hazy helm]

It is a lot more streamlined

[cold roost]

its complicated

call of pripyat is more like a big dlc for me

but i like the interactions in CoP

[hazy helm]

CoP did some stuff objectively better,others they cut too much from the old games tbh

[cold roost]

like bandit ambush in schevenko or going to trade and getting ambushed

i didnt play CoP much

[sonic rampart]

Both Clear sky and Call of Pripyat are considered to be expansion packs for Shadow of Chernobyl

[cold roost]

i didnt know that

[solid dome]

I think I've asked the most serious question anyone ever asked in #🔍┃ask_gscarchive , what do you think will be CM's reaction?

NDA is obvious but it's not a trustworthy answer

I'd say they'd do the same Techland just did yesterday -- for example

[earnest urchin]

what did techland do

[sonic rampart]

Announce that they are using denuvo for Dying Light 2 last minute

[earnest urchin]

zamn

well Dying Light 2 doesn't look much better than 1st one tbh it looks kinda worse for me personally

[solid dome]

This

Else a lot of those preorders won't have happened

Trickyland

They won't release the product on GOG to spare the fuss, even if they're Polish company

Which means - if a company is playing with your trust, you're playing with theirs

You know what that means

That's why the lead designer tweeted few days ago for people to watch what they're saying about the game (cause a lot of people put lot of work in it, heh, good excuse for their greed)

They knew it coming

😄

It's not about the money or if you're able to play the thing without paying, it's about SERVICE.

Even if people would say it's poor to assume things right now I expect same behavior by GSC (also refusing to do GOG release - for apparent reasons)

[long harbor]

both games sucks

[earnest urchin]

eh its still fun

[void vortex]

What's denuvo? I'm out of the loop

[sonic rampart]

Basically an anti piracy software thingy

I think it makes you not be able to interact with any file in the game folder

[long harbor]

That sucks

[sonic rampart]

Plus it Fs up game optimization

[long harbor]

Well I guess you can't mod the game

[sonic rampart]

Nobody knows if they'll add denuvo

Seeing as they are promising day 1 modding

I doubt that'll be the case

[void vortex]

didn't GSC say they wanted their game to be modable?

I'm simply not worried

[sonic rampart]

Yeah

They have promised full modding support

Nobody has said they will add denuvo

Krezzin is just asking if they'll be doing what Dying Light 2 did

In terms of piracy protection

And tbh

Denuvo isn't worth it

The game is gonna get cracked anyways

[void vortex]

eventually

[sonic rampart]

I know this is a reddit post

But the dude has written absolutely everything bad about Denuvo

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/4s5p2q/why_denuvo_like_any_other_drm_is_bad_for_gamers/

[worthy lagoon]

Denuvo does actually support modding

[worthy lagoon]

Reddit

[void vortex]

https://tenor.com/view/tldr-gif-23942480

[sonic rampart]

''The salient point against Denuvo (and other internet-based DRM) is how it restricts access to games that its protecting for reasons that have nothing to with piracy. If, for example, you can’t access the internet for any reason, Denuvo can’t communicate with its third-party servers for authentication, and therefore cannot authenticate the game, and therefore will restrict your access because you aren’t verified.''

Shortest explanation I could find

[worthy lagoon]

Well yeah, that is a problem

But that's pretty much it

[coarse reef]

Just wait a week and it's gonna get bypassed anyway

[worthy lagoon]

That's kind of true

[sonic rampart]

Yeah, so basically

You don't own the game

[worthy lagoon]

You never own the game on Steam

That is a lie about owning games

[sonic rampart]

I know

But if Denuvo shuts down for some reason

You'll lose the game

[worthy lagoon]

All games on your Steam library are rented

Doubts

[scarlet cradle]

Yo Can i talk about Shadow of Chernobyl here?

[sonic rampart]

Yeah

[worthy lagoon]

Yes

[coarse reef]

Sure

[scarlet cradle]

Man my fav game

[worthy lagoon]

Chad

[scarlet cradle]

Still playing it

Whats the best weapon for u guys

[worthy lagoon]

Groza

[scarlet cradle]

bro Groza has 20 round mag its bad

Sadly u cant upgrade in SOC

i main sg5k with m203

[void vortex]

@scarlet cradle For SoC? VLA, GP37 and Groza

[scarlet cradle]

İ used Vla for Brain schorcher mission all time

[void vortex]

It's really good

[scarlet cradle]

But it has 20 round mag so its big no no

Gp 37 long reload time (for me)

[void vortex]

I ended up using the G36 a lot

[scarlet cradle]

Trs 301 is so underrated

[void vortex]

slecting single shot

[scarlet cradle]

İn soc

[void vortex]

I don't like it lol

jam fest

SIG all the way

[scarlet cradle]

Yeah jamming every 2 seconds

[scarlet cradle]

Respect fam

[void vortex]

SIG is the most underrated

[scarlet cradle]

Yeah

[sonic rampart]

SGI and GP37 are my go to rifles

in SoC

[void vortex]

SIG is a really nice all rounder + Grenade launcher option

[scarlet cradle]

Yeahh

Omg Habar guys

[void vortex]

GP37 feels more like a off brand sniper

[scarlet cradle]

thx for role

[void vortex]

:P

[scarlet cradle]

İ use VSS as sniper

Dragunov is heavy and Dragunov mk2 is just

[void vortex]

I don't really make use of the snipers

[scarlet cradle]

İn soc its useful in my opinion

İn last parts of the game

Pripyat shootout

[void vortex]

Pripyat has only 1 mission that needs a sniper

lol

[scarlet cradle]

Brain schorcher

[void vortex]

yeah. SoC pripyat is really good with a sniper

[scarlet cradle]

Too

[void vortex]

long open spaces

same with CS

[scarlet cradle]

İ miss my cop phase

İ was obsessed with that game

[earnest urchin]

funny how everyone seems to regard CoP as empty but ShoCH feels more empty to me

[coarse reef]

the main storyline in soc was more engaging

cop is mostly focused on side content

that's probably why most people feel like that

[tawdry sequoia]

hello guys, looking to try a new run on stalker, any good standalone mods to try?

[coarse reef]

anomaly

[deep lily]

Misery

[worthy lagoon]

Oblivion Lost Remake

[tawdry sequoia]

i have played anomaly, then what could i add from mods to add up?

[noble stirrup]

Lost Alpha DC

[still ridge]

Play the originals

[tawdry sequoia]

i have played all of them in childhood

[warm goblet]

Strelok has been killed by the UNSIG

[earnest urchin]

strelok doesn't have much character anyway so if he dies welp

[hazy helm]

Wack there's no UNISG in the zone

[sonic rampart]

Yeah, UNISG exists in Clear Sky builds only

[warm goblet]

Kill the strelok

[gusty trench]

Not quite. They didn't have an official name. Only "Delta" group.

[sonic rampart]

That's cool, didn't know that

Haven't watched any videos on the clear sky builds

I've only read about them

[hazy helm]

What about playing them

[long harbor]

just download Anomaly

you can play as the UNISG in Anomaly

[half glade]

no

[warm goblet]

Yes

[half glade]

no

fight me in soc

[raw forum]

I've been wondering

What's behind the locked doors at ||the brain scorcher||?

[warm goblet]

[grand pendant]

nothing lmao

[raw forum]

lame

[grand pendant]

there are supplies in the one protected by a sniper before heading to the scorcher, near the dead scientists

but nothing even worth it

[raw forum]

would've liked a super gauss rifle smh 🙄

[vernal magnet]

Yea the one guy outside sniping next to the road that heads to CNPP has a door you can open with the code 1287975

Good if you need a grip of medkits during a casual speedrun

[still ridge]

No

[raw forum]

what do you guys think is the hardest stalker game?

[grand pendant]

probably CS for some specific points, but still not really hard

[vernal magnet]

Agreed

[raw forum]

I found CS pretty damn hard on my first playthrough

[rough elm]

👋

[grand pendant]

welcome

[rough elm]

long time fan, first time caller :^)

[void vortex]

Hello new members I've never seen before

[rough elm]

Ah, hello stranger

[fresh spindle]

So I bought the Stalker bundle

Hopefully its good

[rough elm]

Which one?

[fresh spindle]

SoC,Clear sky, Call of pripyat

[rough elm]

Ohhh

It's great.

Go in release order IMO

[fresh spindle]

Thats what I am doing

Is anybody here excited for Stalker 2?

[hazy helm]

well considering I already preordered the deluxe edition

Id say so

[sand comet]

glory to the monolith!

and hi everyone

[void vortex]

I smell lurkers

🐽

Don't be shy

[hazy helm]

papa kev

how are ya today

[void vortex]

yo

good man

you?

[rough elm]

vrs?

[deep lily]

👍

[rough elm]

Virtual... Reality?..

[hazy helm]

Im alright

[deep lily]

not even close

[hazy helm]

feel a little weak,though the virus had all washed out of my body

o well

[sand comet]

where monolith?

[deep lily]

gone