⭐┃nospoilers_general

[knotty sedge]

I swear the man must be trolling or something

[gusty trench]

Fake news

[soft ice]

Bruh they banned me for a week

Muted

And this Algerian guy too

[fluid abyss]

?

[soft ice]

Muted me

Like just da book 1984

[knotty sedge]

[hallow bane]

?

[ornate compass]

Some tried, but it wasn't really popular

[frosty coyote]

I don't like bluedrake much since he overhypes every little thing he does/any small indie game that comes out and has a title like "THIS INSANELY IMMERSIVE... AND TACTICAL GAME IS... FREE?" on a subpar game that has like 5 active players. Even then he has like 5 things in development with his team, they don't seem to have a focus on anything at any given time. I don't think he'll be able to do just because of this reason since he has said stuff like that before and the mods never came to fruition or have just been semi abandoned. There is something in the works called stalker ray of hope though, but it seems to be in development hell. Who knows how that'll go but they've made good progress so I wish them luck.

[modern glen]

Offtopic, but happy Valentine's to everyone (no homo)

[warm goblet]

How to get holo sight Ak74

[minor seal]

preorder releases stopped months ago ;-; when will the US get max retail version ;------;

[modern glen]

the hell is that reaction

[long harbor]

most of them are unaccurate (and kinda cringe too)

go watch Rimmy downundergaming arma 3 sdalger video

its so un-accurate that it pisses me off

[earnest urchin]

9 GSC folks online poggers

[vague steeple]

[finite dragon]

doing valentine's day immersive Exclusion Zone ERP

[coarse reef]

mfw no trailer again

[finite dragon]

Lmao the game is going to release without a trailer

[high fjord]

i really hope this game is going to be in english too and not just subtitles.

the first one was in english i think

[finite dragon]

Like zero marketing because they ran out of money after NFT stunt failed

[finite dragon]

According to steam, it will be

[finite dragon]

All three of them were

[high fjord]

oh ok

[glossy blade]

It will be

[high fjord]

good.

i preorderd the ultimate

[finite dragon]

I know your reading gsc guys, give us something for hope!

even if its a sausage we wil celebrate

No lmao

The more they release, the more the game gets spoiled

[opal basin]

No more "Privyet bblyat"?

🥺

[finite dragon]

I can't go in blind anymore since I saw the guns, the knife, bread, the swamps, some random village, dead city, a trader..

i just want anything

Denied

gsc guys! i will sign a non disclosure agreement with you for all the information on stalker 2 including a full download of every asset

yo what will the first multiplayer hacked client look like...

[worthy lagoon]

Dream about it

[finite dragon]

Me too! Except I will leak it and then fake my death and hide in the woods so GSC won't beat me and force-feed 20 barrels of Pepsi

hey gsc! i will give you 5 rubles if you put the 9a91 in the game!

[ashen axle]

Caramel#1196 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[earnest urchin]

wtf

[earnest urchin]

i wanted to answer to this mf and its swear word? welp

[finite dragon]

"mf" is a swear word... what your step...

[earnest urchin]

1984

[finite dragon]

[worthy lagoon]

@earnest urchin

[earnest urchin]

eh?

[worthy lagoon]

Gay

[earnest urchin]

you

[worthy lagoon]

:(

[earnest urchin]

4 days till PC parts arrive

6 days till building it

[silver fern]

[quiet ridge]

As iam alone in Valentines day i bought myself Call of Prypiat on steam :D Happy Valentines day for everyone!

[sharp frost]

everything sucks

everything is so terrible

where are the news on stalker

this day was already bad, stalker devs teasing me with their announcements doesn't make it any better

[finite dragon]

this Discord server has become such a meme, its not even funny anymore.

[high fjord]

Wheres the lore at

[tiny olive]

What's "habar"

[high fjord]

Is there q giod video that summarizes the first 3 games i dont feel like playing them

[sharp frost]

loot

[tiny olive]

Ahhh

[still ridge]

why not?

[high fjord]

im playing too many other games atm

[high fjord]

i have the first one i just cant get into it since it not voice acted

i am not a fan of subtitle reading. i want to watch the game

[lyric atlas]

someone translate the news i cant speak serbian

[still ridge]

fair I guess

Didn’t have that mentality playing the games myself though

[soft ice]

What are you playing instead

Anomaly isnt as fun as the older games, so if you only have time to play 1 game or mod you should just play cop gunslinger or SoC

[long harbor]

stalkers giving each other mutant meat or weapons attachments for valentine day

epic 😍

[still ridge]

He just said he doesn’t like subtitle reading

So I’m assuming he isn’t playing anomaly lol

[worn nacelle]

Noice

[hazy helm]

pretty much my sentiments,besides ROH is still in dev,just in a awful dev hell cycle unfortunalty,cant say Im worried about the project but I wish them luck

[solid dome]

Because going against 20 monolithians and 9 zombies with a PMm having only 10 bullets is lame

The grocery store moment

I had to play rambo

Sometimes I hate CoP in my guts

[gusty trench]

Fair. English localisation sucks ass.

[sharp spear]

they want to port physX into RoH for a game where most other projects decided to cancel themself trying to port physX lmao

[soft ice]

What’s physX

They should finish what they’ve got here

I mean 8 years and 30k in donations

[hazy helm]

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/physx/physx-9-19-0218-driver/

[signal basin]

I've given up on S2.

Elden Ring Male rn

[hazy helm]

me too

[signal basin]

dark souls 1 has DONE something to me

i can now lift more, fun further, jump higher

[finite dragon]

thanks

[earnest urchin]

Elden Ring more like Drones

[solid dome]

Denuvo Ring?

[soft ice]

Is there a boomsticks and sharpsticks doscird

[toxic bone]

love this community

[steel lily]

Got excited by announcement notification. Still no gameplay !! What a bummer

[earnest urchin]

what do you expect

its the valentine

[still ridge]

You get numb to it eventually

[finite dragon]

same

[toxic bone]

The least toxic one

[earnest urchin]

then you haven't been long here

[tall vapor]

Tbagging Russians for Ukraine.

[winter solar]

is there a way to make it so the voices acting is in russian but subtitles are in english? by default

or do you need to use mods to do that

[finite dragon]

I guess not

Afaik if your game is on 1 language then both subtitles and character's voices will also be on that language

Hi

[dusk imp]

so uh, how is the situation in Ukraine going to affect development? Everyone's been more or less told to GTFO for their safety

[gusty trench]

No politics.

[dusk imp]

I mean, ok, but its like there's a hurricane outside and some goes "Dont talk about the hurricane."

[finite dragon]

What's that comparison for? Unlike hurricane's situation, this server forbids politics and it's against the rules to talk about it

[dusk imp]

Well whatever the situation is I hope everyone on the team is safe. 🙏

[finite dragon]

Likewise

[quick dune]

bro what does it even interest you anyways it's not like they're gonna be at danger since they're literal game devs

[worthy lagoon]

no geopolitics

https://tenor.com/view/kaltsit-needle-doctor-chibi-arknights-gif-24309865

[hazy helm]

I can assure you the war wont imped development of the game and any claims otherwise,while heartworming,just arent truthful

[fluid abyss]

You see, the positions that both Duty and Freedom occupy are vital to how various conflicts in the zone pan out. In this essay....

[rough elm]

Ecologists ONLY

[hazy helm]

ecogs arent even a stalker centric faction

[rough elm]

They're very neutral, though.

[hazy helm]

theyre literally a conglomerate of scientists not even stalkers of course theyre neutral,they couldnt give a rats ass about the zones politics they have a concrete meter thick wall separating them from what a stalker is

[rough elm]

Exactly!

[hazy helm]

I mean,if waht you wanna be a whitecoat who sits in a musky bunker all day watching a ball turn green,sure go for it

[soft ice]

The situation at you’re house isn’t gonna stop me from visiting your mom

[still ridge]

Youre mom

[long harbor]

im actually having fun in SoC which is a suprise

wow, go me

[finite dragon]

Just got a mod for anomaly so I can be addicted to crack in stalker as well

[long harbor]

uh oh

don't repeat the mistake of the creator of cheeki breeki hardbass

[lapis trellis]

Fallout vs stalker

settle the age old debate

[soft ice]

Fallout

[gusty trench]

Stakler

[knotty sedge]

stalker, but the games aren't comparable imo

[slim verge]

stalker for more hardcore survival/ horror.

[fluid abyss]

bro if its not about stalker imma have to ask u to put it in #💬┃en_offtop

[knotty sedge]

tf

go outside

pls

[stark steppe]

I love me a exclusion zone of a certain country with a certain group of people that are named with a acronym

[finite dragon]

touch grass

please

[young estuary]

what is crypto

pto is crying?

[finite dragon]

[sharp frost]

296 days till December 8th

[finite dragon]

can someone send me the entire text at the into of call of pripya

[tulip monolith]

the easiest way is to search on fandom

[tulip monolith]

i think the first one was better imo

[drowsy valley]

i hate monoliths

why must they exist

why must they of the existance when im trying to finish SoC

[still ridge]

Because they’re based

[long harbor]

go troll somewhere else

[long harbor]

to stop yo amateur ass from turning off the brain scorcher

[drowsy valley]

i already turned it off

[long harbor]

ah good for you then

i have all these suits and loots on me and now i have to walk through all these anomalies

burner anomalies in SoC are unecessarily bright

[earnest urchin]

[velvet bronze]

Peeing and shitting in stalker is good or no

[earnest urchin]

swear word

[celest solstice]

Way too many pings come from this Discord Channel

[velvet bronze]

I want to poop in monolith corpses

[finite dragon]

[sonic rampart]

Mercenary moment

[finite dragon]

[void shadow]

Waiting for the release of collection edition PC in US
Can’t wait to buy it

[finite dragon]

What da dog doin

[velvet bronze]

I'm popping in monolith

[young estuary]

uh

[vernal magnet]

That's it, your getting sent back to Majestic 12,in a body bag

[earnest urchin]

[velvet bronze]

I hate monolith! Grrrrrr

[solid dome]

Yeah

Monolith funking up my game

Just froze after a dialogue

[elder fiber]

Za monolith

[bronze rune]

You mean fuxking up your game

[elder fiber]

Wait what happened to our faction patches next to our names

[worldly cliff]

FOR FRENCH STALKER : PREORDER FOR COLLECTOR IS LIVE ON AMAZON AND MICROMANIA (if you're premium)

[bronze rune]

They are still there

[solid dome]

For anyone with a brain good enough, don't preorder

[finite dragon]

god need me that bag

[elder fiber]

Weird, must be on my end

[solid dome]

Jeez

Any idea why when talking to Kovalsky about the monolith and the client, the game just stops resonding upon selecing one of the 3 options?

Doesn't even let you quickload, the HUD goes away the guy's moving but the game won't let you do anything

Never had this before

Talking CoP, vanilla

Seems like I have gamebreaking bug

Lol

[worldly cliff]

I've yet to be disappointed in a release. Even CP2077 was pretty good and zéro bug. And i'm a collector

[solid dome]

I'm a collector too but not giving random people money

[earnest urchin]

my only pre-order ever is STALKER 2

[hasty iron]

Tbh im not even gonna pre order stalker 2

Imma wait until it comes out to buy it

Just hoping they dont sacrifice gameplay for graphics

[winged dust]

Running CoP for the first time in a decade, with AtmosFear and Absolute Nature.
...slightly regret not using SGM lmao

[hazy helm]

You could have never predicted the massive size of my stupidity

[soft ice]

Nah it’s good without

Try gunslinger tho

[finite dragon]

b

[hasty iron]

@half glade wym ♻️

[plucky lava]

how’s it goin people?

[half glade]

[hasty iron]

Stop putting ♻️ on my post omg!!! I am shaking and crying rn!!!!!

[hasty iron]

P good hbu

[solid dome]

Your brain did shrink under the influence of the controller

And I still can't find a solution to my problem

I want a REFUND

[plucky lava]

good good

[hazy helm]

I have issued Amazon a refund order,they never came

[solid dome]

I mean I'm stuck like at 90% completion

Can't beat the game

[hazy helm]

What game?

[solid dome]

CoP

#⭐┃nospoilers_general message

[plucky lava]

wait is it possible to get the Physical versions of Stalker 2 in the US? I can’t find a link for one

[solid dome]

Is not possible

[plucky lava]

nooooo

[solid dome]

Yes

Move to Europe

Instant stuff

[hazy helm]

American

Hahahah

[plucky lava]

so sadge

[plucky lava]

o7

[hazy helm]

That's gotta be one of the funkiest bugs I have ever seen

[half glade]

Ofc usa person who could have gussed

[solid dome]

O7?

[hazy helm]

I don't know how you'd fix it

[solid dome]

What's at 07 on the map?

Lab X66?

[solid dome]

There is no fix for this

The game broke permanently

[half glade]

Duty cringe ass pfp yeah yeah ok

[hazy helm]

Good luck with the new save

[solid dome]

Not gonna bother

I started this playthrough July 2021

[hazy helm]

Hahahaha

[solid dome]

And the bastard fell down

[plucky lava]

it’s a salute

[hazy helm]

He has a anime PFP he's not right in the head

[plucky lava]

mean lol

[solid dome]

Salute...

I thought he meant some coords

[hazy helm]

[solid dome]

Dude

I'm mad

I'd issue a refund if I could

[plucky lava]

fixed >:(

[solid dome]

Finally reached the Credits screen

Dang that last cutscene brings tears to the eye

[half glade]

Bullying works

[vale jetty]

Does anyone know wether or not there are any differences in the retail pre orders based on region? I mean if I pre order the ultimate edition from germany will there be any physical differences to buying it in america?

[sonic rampart]

Nope

Besides the shipping

[tired anvil]

Yes

Depending on which regions you get it, there might be a region lock for the key

[vale jetty]

Oh, okay if thats all. I was thinking something like the artbook or the leter from the devs being in german. Thanks

[tired anvil]

Nobody quite knows about that, so it's harder to say

[solid dome]

Most stupid thing ever

Region lock, lol

[tired anvil]

Not really

It's quite smart actually

Just Imagine an American paying like 60% less because he bought the Kazakh edition, yet everything remained the same

[vernal magnet]

@soft ice https://youtu.be/2pDIuZveaKs

I know you hated the idea of xbox but apparently you can use mouse and keyboard with the S

There's really no beating that kind of value. I'm actually impressed

[vernal magnet]

Yea region locks have a valid purpose

[earnest urchin]

PC parts arrive tomorrow

stop consuming usa media

sheep

[soft ice]

@vernal magnet Thats really cool yeah

Maybe I’ll look Into getting one someday

To play stalker 2

How about u take over some bitches

[vernal magnet]

H y p e

[knotty sedge]

[earnest urchin]

[worthy lagoon]

-mute @pastel cradle 8h no geopolitics.

[iron heath]

Auttaja

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[earnest urchin]

[worthy lagoon]

[empty vault]

f stalker spanish :(

[earnest urchin]

[warm goblet]

I love clear sky

[velvet bronze]

Lean bloodsucker

[drowsy mural]

clear sky
lets go
lets go

[half glade]

Dead sky

[drowsy mural]

atleast im not a loner (hehe)

[young estuary]

I like roxks

[half glade]

U might not be a loner but ur still forever alone

[velvet bronze]

atleast we aren't romanians

[finite dragon]

Dick cheese

[crimson tinsel]

Ass cocoa

[earnest urchin]

Clear Sky is more alive than Freedom and Duty combined

[cedar forum]

[finite dragon]

Was

[earnest urchin]

is

[finite dragon]

It's pretty much extinct now

If we won't count few of their members who now aren't even in CS

[earnest urchin]

dont care

[finite dragon]

I do not understand why the clear sky faction is so popular maybe it's because I did not finish clear sky but I genuinely think it's just a trash throwaway faction that is just blue ecologists

[hazy helm]

[finite dragon]

Well they're basically ecos with guns

[finite dragon]

ecologists have guns

[hazy helm]

Ecogs aren't even a proper stalker faction so

[finite dragon]

Wdym by that

[finite dragon]

Many factions aren't tbh

By that logic the only proper factions are duty and freedom

[hazy helm]

The ecogs are a conglomerate of scientists not stalkers,they do not care about the zone like normal stalkers would they aren't stalkers

[earnest urchin]

Clear Sky is a group of people who left or were not given much choice to form the faction and simply try to prevent catastrophe while other factions in the game are just dumbnuts

[earnest urchin]

lmao freedom proper faction good one mate

[finite dragon]

They only made things worse

[earnest urchin]

good

[hazy helm]

Mercs arent a concise faction,it's just an umbrella term for smaller groups that dong allign themselves with loners BC of their line of work

[finite dragon]

My guys were losing to freaking renegades without Scar

[earnest urchin]

oh god not this again

[finite dragon]

If you want to talk about factions not being proper talk about renegades or something

[earnest urchin]

renegades are also dead

wont be coming back

useless faction

[finite dragon]

Not saying that it isn't

But I'm talking about Clear Sky for now

Scar single handedly carried it

[glossy blade]

🤨

[hazy helm]

Renegades make sense,renegades aren't really a faction so much as a term given to traitors of other factions

[earnest urchin]

well you're the player so the plot demands one kill hero

[finite dragon]

They wouldn't even take control over the swamps without him

[hazy helm]

There's bound to be traitors and you would never trust one

[finite dragon]

Pretty much

Basically people that got kicked from different factions formed it

Even former bandits

[earnest urchin]

gameplay wise they would get wrecked but irl Clear Sky would wipe their butts with Renegades

[finite dragon]

I played stalker clear sky for around maybe 2 hours a couple years ago I did not like it off the start

[bitter tulip]

Why is that

[finite dragon]

Tbh I don't like it too much either

Always hate how you are basically forced to take a part of CS vs Renegades faction war

Even if you don't want to

[earnest urchin]

i liked it

mass shooting factions is fun

[finite dragon]

I just got bored really early and when I was given tasks it felt more like doing chores than playing a game

[earnest urchin]

then the series isn't really for you

[bitter tulip]

But what else will you do if you want to leave the swamps?

[finite dragon]

Die by Vist

[finite dragon]

I had fun in every other game and the mods I've played

[earnest urchin]

if you can't finish Clear sky you cannot call yourself STALKER

[hazy helm]

Clear Sky my beloved

[bitter tulip]

I mostly focused on the main story and used what I got off of dead stalkers till the end

[finite dragon]

Good thing is that after you'll leave the swamps you can choose not to participate in any more faction wars

I always used to stay as merc

[sand fiber]

CS is broken as hell, but overall pretty good

[bitter tulip]

Imagine giving up the glorious bandit radio just cause loners hate it

[hazy helm]

How sad one must be to become a Merc

Shameful

[finite dragon]

You can still listen to it if bandits will be neutral to you

[bitter tulip]

What did you be

[finite dragon]

When bandits will try to rob you at the Garbage you can just run away while avoid getting damaged

Your reputation won't decrease with bandits then

[hazy helm]

First playthrough I went loners,always cares little for the petty feuds of the 2 dumbnuts at freedom and duty

[finite dragon]

(with the whole faction I mean, not with the ones that tried to rob you)

[bitter tulip]

WHen they try to rob you again at Agroprom but you have 0 cash

[finite dragon]

I got the pattern of games messed up when I got into stalker and went Soc, CoP, CS

[finite dragon]

Big brain moment

[sand fiber]

Well, at least SoC was the first one

[bitter tulip]

Based

[sand fiber]

[finite dragon]

No mods all vanilla

[bitter tulip]

Lmao

[sand fiber]

[bitter tulip]

Vanilla is unironically enjoyable

[finite dragon]

Not saying that it isn't, but when it comes to faction wars... It can get really buggy

Plus at the beginning you are getting a load of quests to capture different points

[sand fiber]

Vanilla is literally the best thing about S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
After builds and desdocks, of course.

[finite dragon]

When you capture 1 point other quest will be given that says you gotta capture another point

[sand fiber]

[finite dragon]

PDA literally doesn't stop bleeping

[bitter tulip]

And if you wait long enough you will get another quest that says you gotta capture the first point

[finite dragon]

Also this

[bitter tulip]

And Loners in Cordon with exoskeletons and Merc guns getting wrecked by 3 dogs

[finite dragon]

Clear Sky overall was pretty great, no doubt. But gotta admit that it had many flaws

IN CoP on my first run I was in yanov so this is rare and I found what I thought was a bandit wounded and I got close and turned out to be a burer and I had a heart attack in day time btw

Faction war was just one of those flaws

[bitter tulip]

They are evolving

[finite dragon]

The idea of faction war itself was pretty nice actually, but implement on the other hand was honestly meh

It was in complete bright day Idk how it was even out there

[bitter tulip]

Did you rush it with a flashlight?

[sand fiber]

Lore-wise it's completely idiotic, so meh

[bitter tulip]

How

[finite dragon]

Lore wise it doesn't even matter what other faction Scar joined except Clear Sky

Ending is still the same anyways

[sand fiber]

There should be only ~200 people in Zone (not counting Monolith), not 20 000

[bitter tulip]

Fair enough

[finite dragon]

No this was on my first playthrough I had no Idea what it was so it just tore through my ammo

[bitter tulip]

One thing I realised is that Trapper's advice on fighting burers is crap

[finite dragon]

I don't remember that guy maybe It's because I play mostly anomaly

[finite dragon]

More than 200. In SoC, at PDA ranking system there can be from around 500 to 900 stalkers

[bitter tulip]

The guy who tells you to kill 5 bloodsuckers and 2 burers

[finite dragon]

And considering CS happened months ago before SoC did and the fact that Zone felt more alive and populated most likely means that Zone's population also was higher

[bitter tulip]

The ONLY stalker with a manbun

[finite dragon]

oh yeah that guy

But Monolithian numbers are still ridiculously high

In SoC especially

[bitter tulip]

Exactly

[sand fiber]

Eh, let's say the intent was to make Zone lonely and empty. Besides, half of this number is Monolith members

[finite dragon]

Have you ever played warfare mode for stalker anomaly

[finite dragon]

Tbh no

I'm not much of a mod's fan

So cannot say

[finite dragon]

After about maybe 2 or 3 days if your lucky they take over the entire map

[sand fiber]

I've played warfare mod for Stason's CoC fork, it's pretty much the same, y'know

[bitter tulip]

With the Overhaul mod only 2 factions remain, Army to the South and Monolith to the North

[finite dragon]

you can also just deactivate factions in the game settings

for warfare

[bitter tulip]

Deactivate factions as a whole or faction relations

[finite dragon]

if the factions take place in the war

say I don't want the added factions to be in the warfare game I turn off sin and unsc

[bitter tulip]

OK, I understand

I recently tried to take over as the Renegades, did not go well

[finite dragon]

oh yeah you can also make zombies act as a faction in warfare

[bitter tulip]

Imagine zombies yelling orders at each other in a battle

[finite dragon]

it's not like that they can just capture areas

[bitter tulip]

Can you join their faction?

[finite dragon]

Press Z before you make a new game to do that

Who else wonders how Clear Sky, who had just pistols and some shotguns some time ago, received other advanced weapons such as AK's later on?

[bitter tulip]

I wonder how they even managed to somehow appear in Red Forest and who they left behind

[finite dragon]

I always assumed that they started their marching off screen

And player couldn't see it. Otherwise they wouldn't appear in Red Forest in such a short amount of time

[bitter tulip]

I also wonder how the other factions reaced to seeing these guys in strange colours just come out of nowhere

[sand fiber]

Easy. Lebedev was working for C-Con and they supplied him with it.

[finite dragon]

Didn't he left?

[sand fiber]

That's what he tells you.

[bitter tulip]

Must be why he was talking about the Zone being angry

[heady sparrow]

I feel bad for @odd rain someone go watch his stream please

[velvet bronze]

watch it yourself

[finite dragon]

getting my 1070, upgrading today from my 970. i can rest easy knowing i can play Stalker 2 when it releases

oh damn that's gonna be in december

[hazy helm]

congrats tho

[finite dragon]

thanks bro

if i'm lucky i can push 144 FPS for my monitor and enjoy a sublime game of stalker anomaly

[hazy helm]

you gonna sell the 970?you can get a pretty penny in the second hand market rn even for a 970

[finite dragon]

ikr???

it's nuts. i am highly considering it.

i also have an rx 580 that suffered a minor splash. if that could be fixed, that's another chunk of cash.

worst case i can STILL sell it for parts

[hazy helm]

you could sell the rx580 as a parts one,altho I wouldnt recommend it if the card has suffered extensive damage

[finite dragon]

it got splashed with a tiny bit of liquid. have since cleaned it up, but it doesn't work.

it was relatively new. barely a year of service.

[worthy lagoon]

Get a 3070 smh

[finite dragon]

i cannot afford it.

[worthy lagoon]

Wait until the price will stabilise or buy it on BestBuy

[finite dragon]

i already gave a chunk of cash for this 1070

[worthy lagoon]

How much is it?

[finite dragon]

i payed ~350

[worthy lagoon]

1070 is overpriced and outdated now

[finite dragon]

you know how much 3070s are going for?

because oh baby

[worthy lagoon]

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3070-8gb-gddr6-pci-express-4-0-graphics-card-dark-platinum-and-black/6429442.p?skuId=6429442

500$

[finite dragon]

wonder how long it's been out of stock for.

[worthy lagoon]

But at least you would have double the performance

[finite dragon]

i don't have $500 regardless

[worthy lagoon]

BestBuy does restock usually

[worthy lagoon]

Try waiting to get more money

[finite dragon]

i already bought the card. it is arriving today. i'm alright with biding my time with a card like that.

[worthy lagoon]

Or get a 2070

Oof

[finite dragon]

i used a 970 for months, dude.

i cannot take it any longer.

[hazy helm]

I just want a better card man,I am using a 1030 rn so

[worthy lagoon]

Yeah but if you bought a 1070 for STALKER 2 it's meh

[finite dragon]

isn't it in the recommended specs???

[worthy lagoon]

Minimum

[finite dragon]

nah

minimum is 1060

[worthy lagoon]

there isn't that much difference

[finite dragon]

at least my CPU hits the recommended

i have the exact AMD processor it mentioned

it's still like 20-30 percent

which if you're below 60, but not by much on low settings, it can help

hold on let me fact check that

yep

it could push it from garbage to playable

[vernal magnet]

Your going to have a bad time on a 1070

[empty vault]

hola loko

[vernal magnet]

Look at dying light 2 as a reference. Stalker 2 system requirements haven't even been updated yet to a full graph. Anything close to minimum is gonna be a rough time

[earnest urchin]

actually i looked at some dude testing Dying Light 2 on gtx 1060 tho and it ran pretty good on very decent quality

but he had worse CPU than i got

got the 1060 for free from friend

[fickle snow]

Teleport me old one so i can play something :)

[empty vault]

@finite dragon u pfp 🤔

berserk

[finite dragon]

That's right.

[worthy lagoon]

Have you built your pc? @earnest urchin

[earnest urchin]

2 days

i dont know how to build so friend comes over to do it for me

[glad temple]

Dying light 2 is probably the best comparison for fps

Brings 3090s to their knees at the highest settings

Stalker 2 will definitely do the same

Or possibly even worse

[vernal magnet]

Exactly. Especially given it's full RTX implementation that stalker 2 is also featuring

[earnest urchin]

rtx

[velvet bronze]

very detailed radiated watter

drops

[wintry geyser]

im a noob to stalker but how do you install mods?

[tired anvil]

By completing the trilogy first

[wintry geyser]

ok

[earnest urchin]

[graceful cradle]

The closest thing to a mod you should be running for first time is turning down the difficulty for the cordon checkpoint gunner in CS

[wintry geyser]

all i want really is shaders tbf, i know how to get them i just dont know how to install them

[graceful cradle]

which game are you playing?

[wintry geyser]

shadow of chernobyl

[graceful cradle]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/xpresstunings-remaster-edition/news/update-3-reshade-tutorial-custom-preset-download

[wintry geyser]

thanks

[finite dragon]

🙏

[molten pebble]

hey guys!

Is there any way to play Co-Op on shadow of chernobyl?

[tired anvil]

Not really, no

[molten pebble]

Ahhh alright.

Have touched stalker since 2011 since it was singleplayer only, wasnt sure if any mods had come out for that yet or anything

[hazy helm]

There is one for CoP
A project in the works,but aside from that there is none
Also the Devs have said they wouldn't be including one in S2

[radiant turret]

new to the stalker franchise as a whole but have played the metro series anything is should know as far as mods for bug fixes or just quality life mods for the game not really sure about how the community is yet on modding

[molten pebble]

Never understood why the wont add it

Community has always wanted

There games die in 6 months for a reason

Single player games dont thrive in todays times

Not nearly as much as co-op/multiplayer atleast

[hazy helm]

Probably just start the series from SoC and then go to CS and CoP
Vanilla is the best for a first playthrough

[hazy helm]

The Devs said it was against the vibe of heir game,that it would ruin atmosphere,I choose to trust them,they are the ones making the game after all

They have a vision,I won't impede on them making it

[molten pebble]

Stalker has some amazing mechanics, the games are crazy fun to play, but like all singleplayer only games, they become stale and boring after the first playthrough imo

[radiant turret]

Alr

thanks

[molten pebble]

Yeah, we gotta see where it goes first, im sure it will be another amazing game

My liking for Co-op is that anyone can still run the game solo if wanted, but gives that extra option of a friend or two being able to play aswell.

[drowsy valley]

should i buy a exoskeleton for trip to pripyat in SoC?

[tired anvil]

Yes.

[vale quartz]

I did pripyat in a SEVA suit

no problems

In CNPP I found the SKAT 9 suit and used that instead

[earnest urchin]

not really thanks to A-Life

[still ridge]

First playthrough I would go vanilla

[molten pebble]

Whats that?

[earnest urchin]

[molten pebble]

Mod I presume?

[earnest urchin]

STALKER's AI

name for it

[molten pebble]

Ahhh

I just get bored of all singleplayer games past the first playthrough

Most people I know do aswell, co-op I could play the game time and time again and always have a blast

[amber stone]

the thing I adore about stalker is that there's no tryhards and no sweats

it's just you, other stalkers and the zone

[tired anvil]

Have you seen Duty?

[amber stone]

I normally don't play online mp competitive games because I suck

[amber stone]

what's wrong with it

[tired anvil]

"There's no tryhards and no sweats"

Duty.

[earnest urchin]

most of the MP games nowadays suck ballz

[amber stone]

fr

[amber stone]

idk I've never joined a faction against duty

[tired anvil]

Don't need to, just look at how Skull wanted to get rid of Freedom's base in SoC

[amber stone]

I completely missed that in my soc playthrough

in my anomaly playthrough I have like 100 monolith faction patches

[molten pebble]

Some games, sweats are what make it fun, such as Tarkov.

[finite dragon]

big black gay muscular men mod wip

[earnest urchin]

tryharding? no

not fun

[molten pebble]

Thats what Tarkov is...

Its a game meant for sweats and tryhards

[earnest urchin]

tryharding games are bad games

[quick dune]

cope

[earnest urchin]

shut up zoomer

[molten pebble]

For a bad game, 200,000 people playing concurrently seems pretty good

[quick dune]

what even is a zoomer

anything is better than being a weeb tbh

[molten pebble]

gen z

aka 1997-2012

[quick dune]

so what generation comes after 2012

[molten pebble]

gen alpha currently

2012-2027 I believe is all gen alpha

[earnest urchin]

alpha betas

[molten pebble]

gen beta is next from 2027-2039

[quick dune]

yes the generation glizzy gobbler comes when

[leaden vine]

I haven't played stalker 1 since I ran into one of those invisible mutant things 💀

[warm goblet]

Blood suckers

[earnest urchin]

c*m suckers

[warm goblet]

[worthy lagoon]

Like you

[worthy lagoon]

STALKER 1 does not exist

[leaden vine]

Stalker shadow of Chernobyl since you want to be a weirdo

[worthy lagoon]

You know there's a trilogy right?

It's not just Shadow of Chernobyl lmao

[leaden vine]

I clearly mea the second one

[worthy lagoon]

What...?

I think... You should inform yourself a little bit more about STALKER

[leaden vine]

No

[high fjord]

Will Stalker 2 have English Voice Acting or is it only in Russian?

[open lintel]

@high fjord

[high fjord]

thanks

[open lintel]

np

[static compass]

I'm just over here waiting on news

[hexed sierra]

hi

anyone on?

[tired anvil]

Barely, wassup

[main geyser]

Ayo wassup stalkers

[coarse reef]

howdy

[velvet bronze]

guys

whats wrong with starting on red forest

[lyric atlas]

nahh i could name a few examples

weeb isnt the lowest point

even tho it is very low

[viscid stratus]

bruh stalker anomaly is so scary 😱

[finite dragon]

[void vortex]

How are Duty and Freedom any better than each other. Duty has a weird bromance with the Military and ditto for Freedom with the Bandits

🤨

[crimson tinsel]

Wrong channel

[sand fiber]

duty and freedom both are poorly thought out factions that aren't really able to function

[void vortex]

you're a wrong channel!

[crimson tinsel]

What

I posted a yt link on a wrong channel

[void vortex]

https://tenor.com/view/i-want-food-gif-22483506

[crimson tinsel]

https://tenor.com/view/dimden-cat-cute-cat-cute-potato-gif-20953746

[grand pendant]

freedom is totally hostile to bandits though?

[void vortex]

They're cool with them in CS

You can even join freedom as a bandit

[grand pendant]

wacky gameplay mechanic, but lorewise bandits even tried to take over their base in CS

Scar stopped them

[noble stirrup]

if i'm not mistaken, only the player is neutral with freedom when joining bandits in CS, and neutral with bandits when joining freedom in SOC

the NPCs from the two factions remain hostile towards each other

[astral slate]

Hello my friends

Should I buy stalker

[tired anvil]

Hello, yes.

[astral slate]

Which one do I play first

[tired anvil]

Shadow of Chernobyl

[astral slate]

Is It all the same

[tired anvil]

Not quite?

[astral slate]

Is that the first game

[tired anvil]

Yes

[astral slate]

Oh okay

Is there multiplayer

[tired anvil]

Technically, yes

[astral slate]

For which one. I think there is 3 games together

[tired anvil]

There is multiplayer for all 3.

[astral slate]

Are all of them like 3 dlc of the same game or they are fully diffrent games. I couldn't understand that lol

[tired anvil]

They are all games in the same universe but it builds upon what each leaves

So, 3 games, same setting/lore

Though locations are different between them

[astral slate]

Oh...

So they are similar and diffrent games

Thank you comrade than. I'll start from the first

[tired anvil]

Well, it is a series, so they are consistent, yes

Good luck

[astral slate]

Ohhh one more thing my friend. Should I play on hard or easy I heard hard mode is easier than easy

[young estuary]

hellow

[astral slate]

Hello

[tired anvil]

Whatever you prefer, many might tell you to go "Master" but you can change the difficulty at any time

For some the game is hard on the easiest difficulty, for some it's easy on the hardest

[astral slate]

It seems complicated

Like life :D

[tired anvil]

The way the difficulty works is in a pinned message here btw

[astral slate]

I think the last message

[tired anvil]

Yep

[soft ice]

I wish stalker anomaly had coop

[astral slate]

It accually seems easy in easy mode and hard on hard mode I wonder why people said otherwise in youtube videos :D

[soft ice]

Just with your friend

[astral slate]

Isn't It had a multiplayer :(

[tired anvil]

Because trash gaming journalists started a difficulty myth back in 2007

[tired anvil]

Yes, but not co-op

[soft ice]

I mean like normal stalker

[tired anvil]

Also that too, Anomaly is a mod, not a game

[soft ice]

Like you can just do anomalt stuff with your friend

I know what anomaly is

Its better for freeplay than the original gamds

Imagine running up on Pripyat with a few friends

Not even mmo

[astral slate]

Oh..I see . I will try them both probably I will see the diffrence .

[soft ice]

Especially if iou have a friend who’s new to syslker

You can lead them through the zone

[astral slate]

I wish playing main story was avaible. It really looks like a good survival game. I always wanted to play years ago but It seems the time is now

[astral slate]

I would have been that friend hahaha

[soft ice]

U started with anomaly?

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it

[astral slate]

I will buy the game today

[soft ice]

Just curious

[astral slate]

I never played

I think It is cheap these days

[soft ice]

Yeah

[unreal raptor]

I am gay

[hasty iron]

Ok and

[earnest urchin]

indeed you are because W3 pfp

[astral slate]

Should I download any mods or updates for the game

[tired anvil]

Nah, you're fine going vanilla

[hazy helm]

says the anime pfp

[earnest urchin]

[crystal temple]

what

[void vortex]

Yes. don't listen to the purist

[hazy helm]

First playthrough should be pure vanilla

[worthy lagoon]

[void vortex]

@astral slate Play with whatever is comfortable. The game does look ass for people outside of the community

[soft ice]

What mods then

[void vortex]

you may DM me if you need mod suggestions

what game?

[soft ice]

It still looks outdated with mods

[plucky lava]

Yo hello fellow W fan

[astral slate]

@void vortex @hazy helm I got the game finally alright I'll try like that after understanding the game a litte I might install mods than : D . Everything looks scary so far

[worthy lagoon]

https://tenor.com/view/arknights-kurotofu-headpat-pats-theresia-gif-19748179

OHHH, YOU ARE A EMR @plucky lava

Let me show you

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/726152811762548887/942804669368004668/VID_20220214_162217.mp4

[plucky lava]

oh no

[worthy lagoon]

Lifepak 12 my beloved

200J

[plucky lava]

i thought it was going to be worse lol

[hazy helm]

First playthrough should always be with vanilla to experience it first,when you're doing a second one go nuts

[astral slate]

there is a electricy tunnel how do I pass here

[worthy lagoon]

I am going outside to buy some icecream and coke, cuz i have shift in 1 hour @plucky lava

[astral slate]

The fat guy gave me the second mission : D

[worthy lagoon]

Let's meet later at #💬┃en_offtop

[plucky lava]

mmmm food

[hazy helm]

There is a lot of ways,learn the timings,go to the military checkpoint and run through,kill them or bribe them

[plucky lava]

I might have to go somewhere ngl

but I’ll see

[worthy lagoon]

I am a medic

[finite dragon]

Respect Sid

[plucky lava]

Nice

[worthy lagoon]

Well, time for me to buy stuff, who knows what i will find today

[astral slate]

but electricity hit me to hell than I started almost the start of the game lol

[worthy lagoon]

[plucky lava]

[worthy lagoon]

[hazy helm]

It's natural to get killed by anomalies your first playthrough,be cautious of the beeping sounds

[plucky lava]

cursed

[finite dragon]

You don't necessarily have to go through that tunnel tho

You can also go pass the bridge by either paying Kuznetsov 500RU or just killing him and his squad

(I prefer the second option )

[astral slate]

ohhh...

I killed him..

Was he a friend

[plucky lava]

which would cost more, the bullets, or the fee

[finite dragon]

Kuznetsov guy? Nah

[astral slate]

It was marked with red dot so I shoot him with shotgun

[finite dragon]

He's in Military

Military members are your enemies automatically

[astral slate]

I didn't have to money anyway : D

I got shotgun ammo

[finite dragon]

Green dots = Friends, Yellow dots = people who're neutral to you and Red Dots = your enemies

[finite dragon]

You can pick up ammo for AKs and AKs from dead military members

Honestly speaking, I never really liked shotguns in Stalker games. Exception is Eliminator shotgun in CoP but that's just it

[earnest urchin]

backseat gaming

[dawn laurel]

TOZ

[finite dragon]

TOZ is poggers

You can literally use it as a sniper

[earnest urchin]

only useful for beginning then into the trash it goes

[finite dragon]

Pretty much

Still a pretty decent gun though

[rough elm]

TOZ is a classic, you can get some decent mileage out of them in modded STALKER as well

[astral slate]

They gave me good weapons but I think I have to use shotgun or smg only . What can I sell to the store I got many unnsesary things guess

also when I try to run my character tries to catch his breat what's wrong : D

[finite dragon]

Endurance problem

[astral slate]

oh..

[finite dragon]

The more weight you're carrying the faster he's getting tired

[astral slate]

can I sell them to random stalker

so It is all because of weight

how much weight should I carry

[finite dragon]

I used to carry around 20-30 KGs

But there are artifacts that can increase your endurance

If you'll collect 5 such artifacts then your character will regain stamina literally in seconds

[finite dragon]

Depends on what you think is useless to you

[astral slate]

can I storage my equipment somewere

[finite dragon]

Sure. There are blue boxes around the map

1 at Sidorovich's bunker and other boxes at other places

You can put your items in these boxes and they will never dissapear

[astral slate]

but I have to came to the same place to get It I think

[finite dragon]

Yeah

[astral slate]

oh..alright thank you haha 😄

[finite dragon]

Anytime

[rough elm]

Don't be afraid to make stashes of your own, stalker.

Though, for most of the vanilla games, you should be OK without making and maintaining them

When it comes to accumulating wealth, stay humble, only take what you need and turn the profit you need

[lyric fractal]

@hasty iron do you know that the UN won't like tens of thousands people dying in the zone and will try to take control of it and not letting anyone in except their own field research teams (dont forget that zone gets more angry as more people enter it and get closer to the cnpp)

[rough elm]

Trust me, you don't need to crawl at max equip load across a swamp with 3 half-broken AKs

Your time is more valuable than that

[lyric fractal]

pretty sure as soon as the information is out the UN will already know about what's going on

and will lock down the zone forever until it's weakened or/and destroyed

[stark steppe]

looks at the hundreds of rubles i have because ive done basically every quest

Damn

[finite dragon]

It's very easy to farm a lot of money in SoC to be fair

[lyric fractal]

you don't need cash late in the game as you can usually afford all the ammo

and suit repairs

i only needed money to buy suits and good weapons

[stark steppe]

Soc no armour repair moment

[finite dragon]

Just by selling artifacts that are basically at every step can make you a load

[finite dragon]

Sadly

[lyric fractal]

if soc then just use artifacts

4 batteries result in a bug

[hazy helm]

a shame its not in the games

[lyric fractal]

where if you take damage inside of an electro

[finite dragon]

Aye

[lyric fractal]

too bad none of the factions have achieved their goal

[finite dragon]

Only way to repair equipement afaik

[lyric fractal]

for guns you can drop them to zombified

theyll pick it up

reload it

then you kill the poor dude

and get a weapon in good condition

[lyric fractal]

thats whats more likely to happen

[finite dragon]

Honestly speaking, balance in vanilla games is broken as heck

[lyric fractal]

i dont see your point here

if youre expecting the world to just watch

[finite dragon]

I mean money balance

[lyric fractal]

money is never an issue

never had an issue with money

except for the beginning of cs because of how bloodloss works in clear sky

resulting in me spending all my profits on bandages

and medkits

[hazy helm]

until smth shows up I prefer my zone canon,with no outside forces included

[finite dragon]

In Clear Sky it's actually difficult to earn such amount of money you may normally earn in other 2 games

[lyric fractal]

well you see duty's goal IS possible afaik

freedom's goal is not

[lyric fractal]

and its very dangerous

hard to execute

[hazy helm]

I care little for the petty squables going on at duty and freedoms numbnuts

[lyric fractal]

duty is just ok

[hazy helm]

let them kill themselves trying

[lyric fractal]

clear sky is clearly the best

freedom is just

actually i have an idea

freedom knows of the zone expanding but they dont wanna tell anyone

the leaders know*

[finite dragon]

Is it tho? Not a fact that the Zone can even be destroyed

[lyric fractal]

so they can get as much cash as possible

[finite dragon]

Even with all factions combined

[lyric fractal]

strelok is more than just a source

[finite dragon]

Because it's basically a living organism of it's own

[lyric fractal]

he says it in a dialogue and in a voiceline

anomalies have a lifetime aswell

if you destroy the generators then the emissions will stop

[finite dragon]

Duty actually makes things worse

[lyric fractal]

then some anomalies will dissapear after a few weeks

[lyric fractal]

duty stopped destroying mutant lairs unless they pose an actual threat

killing more results in more appearing

[finite dragon]

Because Zone reacts to their actions even worse

[lyric fractal]

they learned their lesson from the clear sky incident™️

[finite dragon]

Like, after they killed mutants the Zone spawns even more mutants and such

[lyric fractal]

my idea is that you can get to the cnpp right after the emission

destroy the generators

and see what happens

most likely emissions will be gone

freedom is only popular because its quite easy to join

if id be a stalker id join freedom simply because its easier

and ill have people to cover my back

+equipment

im not even gonna mention weapons as anything is better than a pm

[finite dragon]

Duty under Krylov was the best, because he eventually realised he could not purge the Zone of mutants, he knew it was impossible because the Zone literally spawns them out of thin air

[lyric fractal]

voronin isnt as bad

he learned what krylov did

and insisted on leaving freedom alone

starting a faction war isnt good

more deaths weakens not only your enemy but yourself

its a good choice

[finite dragon]

Objectively Duty did become a lot worse version of itself under Voronin's leadership tho

[lyric fractal]

duty has a very nice base in soc

[lyric fractal]

elaborate

im curious

i dont see an issue with duty not letting stalkers inside of bar unless theyve proven themselves worthy

discipline and safety

is top priority

[finite dragon]

Stalkers in SoC have to actually pay to being able to even access Rostok. Duty itself seems more hostile to common stalkers and Rostok area isn't even fully clear from few blind dogs

[lyric fractal]

i agree maybe theyre just lazy or maybe they dont want to send their own men

and prefer to send stalkers to do it

if they die too bad, if they dont then get your rubles

not really good moral wise but it works

[finite dragon]

Take example of Duty in CS. Compare their friendliness to Duty in SoC

Very huge difference, isn't it?

[lyric fractal]

again discipline

both have their flaws

so imo theyre equally good though people might argue

[finite dragon]

Duty claims to "defend the Zone" but in SoC Freedom defends it more than Duty does. Freedom actually fights tons of Monolithians and mutants at barrier

[lyric fractal]

im not focusing on duty though

fredom doesnt have a choice

freedom

[finite dragon]

Preventing them from getting further into the Zone

[lyric fractal]

as theyd get overrun by the monolith

they dont have a choice but to defend themselves

if they dont well monolithians just surround the base and start an attack

sure the army base is nice and stuff but the snipers are very exposed

[finite dragon]

Duty isn't even doing anything in SoC (except of Dutyers in Dark Valley)

[lyric fractal]

and theres just one entrance and no way to retreat

[finite dragon]

Other their members just chill at Rostok

[lyric fractal]

i dont really consider soc as valid unless its about armor and some weapons as its the first game

but i see your point

[finite dragon]

They at least could've cleared Rostok area fully

[lyric fractal]

soc is very buggy and a lot of it is corrected

lets take cop for example

duty changed a lot judging by their appearance in call of pripyat

i dont remember who exactly but i think hawaiian says that duty is good for clearing mutant lairs

so i guess theyre still doing what they were doing

[finite dragon]

Yes but it wasn't full faction tbh. Just a squad basically

We only have seen factions squads in CoP

And not actually full factions like we did in CS and SoC

[lyric fractal]

still it couldnt be just one squad

changing completely

there are most likely more people like that

[finite dragon]

Fair point

[lyric fractal]

soc got corrected by the later games

[sand fiber]

SoC is always valid

[lyric fractal]

it is valid unless its proven wrong in the later games

like the sunrise suit protection

[sand fiber]

It's the most S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stalker of all stalkers

[lyric fractal]

in soc it stops pistol rounds

in later games it doesnt

if its corrected in cop/cs then its invalid (or a bug)

duty in soc is kinda wacky yep

oh yeah did i mention that freedom killed a stalker for being annoying?

or even 2

probably long before but basically if you talk to a freedomer near the entrance

the exoskeletoner dude i think

he tells you about some dude being annoying so freedom decided to make him run through a live minefield

that his hand got blown off by a mine

theres also a body near a mines warning sign with both hands

[finite dragon]

Freedom in general got more serious in SoC. I remember one of their members joking about cannibalism

[lyric fractal]

hed get extremely lucky to land like that so i presume his body got carried there

[lyric fractal]

these bodies werent there in cs so its obviously freedom doing that

[finite dragon]

Do not recall the full convo, but he was joking about eating the Marked One

[lyric fractal]

yeah i remember that

i think its more of a build remnant joke

[finite dragon]

Could be

[lyric fractal]

just like ecos being hostile to freedom in soc

i wonder how freedom made their armor so light

you can use an upgrade that makes it

1 kilo from 4

the boots are like 600 grams

[finite dragon]

I assume NATO provides them with such armors

[lyric fractal]

???

their suits are modified stalker suits

[finite dragon]

If they provide them with good weaponry they also should provide Freedom members with that

[lyric fractal]

or a modified military berill

[sand fiber]

Yummy.

[lyric fractal]

their weapons are from the black market

[finite dragon]

[lyric fractal]

💀

[sand fiber]

Though that dialogue was better in builds.

[lyric fractal]

it was funnier

[finite dragon]

Are they? They seem more NATO like to me, tbh

[sand fiber]

(well ignoring the fact that everything was better in builds)

[lyric fractal]

theyre getting weapons from the black market

no way theyd get an outdated l85a1 from nato

aswell as an lr300 which is very rare and expensive

not even used by the nato psure

lr300 is a better m4a1 I think

But it's more expensive

[finite dragon]

Makes sense. They surely have their own supplier as well