📸┃screens_and_videos

[full wolf]

Sleep walking?

Hmmm

[marble citrus]

Sleep banning

[median mountain]

Sleep moderating

[full wolf]

Seems about crimson to me

[marble citrus]

sleep crimson

[full wolf]

Sleep crimsoning*

[marble citrus]

Everything is sleep and sleep is crimson now

[median mountain]

*Weep Crimson

[marble citrus]

ing

[median mountain]

[full wolf]

Imma go crimson then

Job is done here [chat is all red and purple]

[median mountain]

Samesies

[marble citrus]

ua oftop be like

all purple

time to sleep fr

to crimson I mean

[full wolf]

Single-handedly purplized it?

[median mountain]

Furry rp mod chat be like

[marble citrus]

https://tenor.com/view/i-want-the-zone-to-disappear-strelok-wishing-strelok-facepalm-strelok-cnpp-gif-5127137257313069451

[full wolf]

Go crimson your crimzy mods

[marble citrus]

full democracy mode

[median mountain]

Soon™

[solar sedge]

attention users: #moderator_furry-erp does NOT exist. do not ask about it

[paper minnow]

-# yet

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/544757291682103300/1367224622529122325/mood.gif

-# -make thread
-# -invite Tampico as sole member
-# -leave
-# -profit

[stark leaf]

This is cursed

[bitter jacinth]

Just a snowy Zone

[icy stratus]

Artifacts are so beautiful in this game

[solemn sinew]

https://tenor.com/view/crocodile-dundee-thats-a-knife-gif-22200887

[frail merlin]

The Collection 😋

[hazy hornet]

Stalker 2 Nature

[obsidian cipher]

robotix80 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[acoustic kelp]

Mmm yes the best words out of a Duty member

[stark leaf]

didnt stick the landing

code brown

[timber tapir]

Why don't you have a shotgun?

[glossy inlet]

old clip from like around release no clue where the blood sucker was going

[stark leaf]

GAS GAS GAS

[torn copper]

forgot to pay his taxes. wards after him

[gloomy urchin]

Very scary

[quick wing]

so much atmosphere

[obsidian cipher]

steevoweeno has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[dry meadow]

The only b*** I see is the one sitting in front of me.
"Probably got this off a stiff."
Yeah, duh. Like 95% of every other stalker in the Zone, including Duty lmao. Oh but I'm sure all the black market arms and munitions your trader pedals were ethically sourced and totally not looted.

[solemn sinew]

Honestly, the coolest cutscene in the whole game is so easy to miss.
I missed out on it in my first two playthroughs!

[scarlet reef]

Love this cutscene, i remember the first time i got to it in my first save

[solemn sinew]

||Too bad I'm going to side with Ward and get a sick AK from them for free and see the other sickest cutscene in the whole game ||

Mistook the electrical anomaly for a poltergeist through the night vision goggles

And yes, my bloodsuckers are ten times scarier because they have glowing eyes like they should

[scarlet reef]

I love the way your HUD looks, whats the mod called? Im on xbox so ill have to wait til something like it comes to console sadly

[solemn sinew]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/866

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1217

[solemn sinew]

I use these two for the ultimate classic feeling

[solemn sinew]

I only wish I could toggle the HUD with a keybind but I’ve asked GSC about it

[solemn sinew]

CNPP and the Zone will never get boring to look at

[plain moat]

ya know, out of ALL things I have seen in the zone, THIS IS THE ODDEST & Most terrifying for some reason

[cerulean pollen]

John SIRCAA

[plain moat]

Checking the list, and counting it twice , Buer is coming to Town #☢┃stalker-general message

[torn copper]

@raven rock

[torn copper]

also bonus video

[indigo glen]

im getting never ending bug like this: what mutant audio is that??

[bright anvil]

Its a controller like Faust run

[craggy cave]

I missed this game! 😄

[solemn sinew]

Bloodsucker

[raven rock]

beautifully done

[harsh delta]

Oh baby

I'll grab my screenie collection later these are fire btw majestic

[tired stag]

!warn @river tusk self ad

[obsidian cipher]

drippedgravy has been warned

Reason: self ad

[cedar wharf]

saw this old facebook post i posted today

[plain moat]

kenndy a reddit Community manager said we are getting combat updates, be it I thought the NVG update brought the second one

[plain moat]

Well new announcement means a new roadmap checklist to be done
Check marks means either a CM or Molt said it, alluded is towards the gas mask comment which seems to fit the immersive display idea and otherwise any white line just means it will most likely be coming together based on how similar/connected they would be (like new weather & the extended day night cycle)

Otherwise crossed out in black means it already came (if I am wrong, correct me however)

[prime pier]

thanks for doing this list man

[orchid barn]

I remember molit saying something about extended day/night cycle. He said its a bit tricky because of quests are tied to the cycle as well so that one might take sometime.

[misty current]

the new weather scenario was confirmed, no? there was smth about light rain

[deft wraith]

Why are zonekit tools "unlikely"?

[plain moat]

didn't see that, any idea where it was?

[plain moat]

stands to reason it would be paired with engine update

[fresh stump]

aaa nothing mb

[plain moat]

Ah, the gas mask bit

well I possibly misunderstood one for another so my bad there

[quick wing]

do you mean ?

[plain moat]

#📜┃gsc-answers message

[prime pier]

guys im hungry, should i eat bread or sausage?

[smoky lantern]

Real

[rapid basin]

@kind parrot What's going on bro

[hybrid tinsel]

removing evidence LMAOO

[hollow pawn]

Pretty sure your images have to be STALKER related to post it here

[rapid basin]

lol why are you deleting my stuff

[hollow pawn]

Cause it’s not stalker related, go to #💬┃en_offtop

[fallow parcel]

#💬┃en_offtop

[rapid basin]

It is related to stalker, you have stalker images in that image

[orchid current]

Its literally got a Stalker screenshot in it

[fallow parcel]

Awesome. Take that to #📸┃trilogy-screenshots

[solemn sinew]

I love the mod that allows me to do offset aiming, even without NVG's on.

Same thing with the animations, being able to hold my gun low or high at a keybind to give me just a tad bit more visibility around corners

[obsidian cipher]

forossanflint has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[shadow dragon]

oh i need canned aiming.
what mod it is?

[solemn sinew]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1656

[solemn sinew]

Super handy for weapons with a long range scope or weapons with laser beam attachments.

[shadow dragon]

i would use it mostly for style points

[solemn sinew]

Also I did not know bloodsuckers can open doors, you learn something new everyday in the Zone even after hundreds of hours

[solemn sinew]

I also run an animation mod which has hotkeys for raising and lowering my guns.
So I can hold a weapon at a low ready or a high ready which gives better visibility and just looks sick.

Best part of the whole mod is that it also adds in the gestures Skif does in dialogue cutscenes.
So I can flip people off, clap, thumbs up and down and also sit down anywhere I’d like.

[shadow dragon]

which mod

[solemn sinew]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1674

The gestures come with default keybinds but they’re horrible and overlap with opening your PDA.
Flipping someone off overlaps with L which is the default keybind for flashlight and NVG’s.
So you first turn on your NVG’s and then give someone the bird.
You can change them yourself in the engine.ini
It’s listed in the mod description.
I have them on my keys for del, home, ins, right alt, pg up / down.

[shadow dragon]

thats so funny

[solemn sinew]

And if you don’t like gestures or the weapon ready, you can’t just unbind them too 🙂

[plain moat]

pretty sure every mutant can open doors

[obsidian cipher]

chingbillin420 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[reef oriole]

They all re spawn. So if you want to farm them go back and forth between cultural , the mall and the building east of cultural in Pripyat.

[frail merlin]

I had a Pseudogiant bug where it kept respawning in the Swamps 😂 😭 - Tis was also before the mutant parts update 😥

[daring rain]

Lewangoalski himself

[fallow parcel]

No wae

[crimson willow]

Time to GTFO!

Oopsy! Muh bad gaiz!

I did the entire swamp storyline missions, plus the return, then Sircaa - not realizing everything was going to go crazy and then had to bloody escape. I was carrying 3 suits of armour and about 6 guns... it was sooooooo good to see home. Or at least, somewhere with a stash lol

[solemn sinew]

Did the exact same on my first playthrough, ||ran out of ammunition at SIRCAA.||
After that I always carry 300+ rounds of ammunition on me.

For just my main gun.

[crimson willow]

Oh Lord! I think I was very lucky, because I somehow gained ammo and by the time I hit Sircaa I had 700+ rounds. Just lucky my main gun was using the same ammo type that most of the bandits and co dropped. But my armour was shot, my main gun and pistol were both jamming every so often. It was the most Stalker I've felt lol

[quick wing]

I really wonder this game so much

[quick wing]

I think someone got jealous of 10 Chambers and deleted the video

[plain moat]

O Boy. That is one walk

[crimson willow]

It was a crazy adventure man!

[plain moat]

Please tell you made a pitstop after sircca at the boats

[crimson willow]

Yeah that's the screenshot - I felt actual fatigue when I finally saw the boat in view haha. LIke... omg, I'm home!

[plain moat]

I still recall my first time playing, was doing Ward & Thought "I need to unload" when to ircas to find not safety but just death. ended up treking t o the boat afterwards

[quick wing]

https://tenor.com/view/military-salute-hunk-resident-evil-umbrella-corporation-re4-gif-10964846216827613989

[quick wing]

use shotgun for bloodsuckers, you are wasting your ammo

[solemn sinew]

I don’t have a shotgun for this playthrough.
Perhaps once I come across a Saiga.

It’s a shame that effectively countering mutants just comes down to having a spammy shotgun.
Previously I always had a combination of a SPAS-12 and an assault rifle because that’s the most economic and functional way to play.

This playthrough I’m opted to get an exosuit as fast as possible and pair it with some whacky weapons like submachineguns and rifles to give some spice to it.

[quick wing]

yes, you are right. You don't have to use shotgun, you can use whatever you want. I saw you are using a lot of ammo for bloodsuckers and I just say that

mutant hunting with Riffles and SMGs, a lot fun

[solemn sinew]

Only exceptions!
For Pseudogiants and Chimera’s I have an RPG-7

[quick wing]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker2-scar-laugh-gif-12786287499780353633

[solemn sinew]

The unique Tank machinegun also works wonders but eh.

[plain moat]

To be blunt, the mosin ain't half bad either (very prior to exiting the lesser zone)

[dry meadow]

there hasn't ever been a single game that jumpscared me as much as STALKER 2's lightning

[fallow parcel]

Any particular reason why I need to be made fun of with this?

[fallow parcel]

Don't insult my intelligence

[crimson willow]

Lol that's awesome!

[crimson willow]

Is this modded or no?

[crimson willow]

I'm confused - what lol?

[scarlet vale]

I genuinely think he has issues at this point

[fallow parcel]

You're only scratching the surface

[scarlet reef]

We schizoposting now boys

[obtuse yew]

the icon in the upper left is purple yes.

[quick wing]

because Stalker 2 isn't a horror game

[stark leaf]

your game sounds like it has more talkative enemies which I like

[solemn sinew]

It is, weather overhaul, different weapon holding, tilted aiming and an animation mod which allows me to do gestures and raise and lower my gun on command.

[solemn sinew]

That’s all vanilla

[stark leaf]

Nice, wondering why my bandits don't talk that much.

[solemn sinew]

I snuck up on them, it varies per area though.
Even ISPF has a ton of dialogue you barely hear because the spotting system.

[crimson willow]

OK sounds really similar to my modlist. In mine I've headshot BS before too, and they just seem angry at me.

I made an attempt, but this guy was running along the horizon and I whiffed it heh.

[solemn sinew]

The attack I hate most is when they knock me down and then get stuck next to me and just keep backhanding Skif as he slowly gets up like an old man with arthritis

[solemn sinew]

I also run a HUD and cursor mod that looks like the old STALKER games

[crimson willow]

Do you do YT videos? This is sounding eerily familiar heh

[solemn sinew]

Nope

But I’ve played the games since I was a kid, started around 2009 with SoC and then years later I played through them all in sequence.
That fist Bloodsucker in the underground area actually scared me so much that I couldn’t sleep as a ten year old

So I’m very nostalgic for anything that makes it feel like the original games.

[crimson willow]

Oh damn lol - yeah that's fair. I don't think I would have slept if I was that young when I saw Mr Bloodsucker

[crimson willow]

Rough day

[frail merlin]

Hehe

[crimson willow]

Damn! It must be Monday haha :D

I found a fren! 🫶

[paper minnow]

Looks like a waspspider: D

[crimson willow]

Damn, bro had quite the commute

[crimson willow]

Yeeee! :D Funny thing is when he went up the silk thread, he disappeared into the concrete haha

[paper minnow]

yeah, I've seen hedgehogs walking on walls

[crimson willow]

The little guy is going places, and ain't no concrete wall gonna stop him!

[scarlet reef]

Just another day in the zone

[bright anvil]

Still there 💔

[quick wing]

stop sharing ass photos

[solemn sinew]

Guess who made it to Pripyat early
Strange thing is that there are way more mutants if you arrive early and neutral ISPF.

[violet barn]

Who is this? Zombie NPC named "Director"? Anyone seen this before?

[bright anvil]

🥺

[bright anvil]

Npc in SOC i think

[torn copper]

probably just a randomly generated NPC. mostly happens with sparkers and corps

[violet barn]

huh, just strange name but aight, I was just worried it was some important NPC, thx

[solemn sinew]

Pripyat is an awe-inspiring place.
It's beautiful but eerie, with so much waiting to be discovered.

[solemn sinew]

Time to blow it all up, that's the Duty way

[quick wing]

[solemn sinew]

Like random Monolithians in a 'safe' zone.

Caught me off guard.
Same as the Chimera in a broom closet

As much as UE5 is horrible, I love it for these little things.
Throwing a bolt to break a glass window and the lighting can be so beautiful at times.

[violet barn]

I don't get it, if you're already using F1 / F2 keys, why not F1, F2, F3, F4 and get rid of the annoying long-press that have gotten me killed at times when I really needed short press for radiation meds?

[solemn sinew]

You can bind the quick slots to multiple keybinds now?
Wasn’t like that on release

[violet barn]

(Not on vanilla no) I thought you already had mods, my bad..

[solemn sinew]

I do run a ton of mods

[violet barn]

Well, that's what I thought, but I guess you just bound F1 / F2, I thought that was a mod too, nevermind (I hope they remove hardcoded keybinds)

[glossy hill]

frogs

[unreal tusk]

Snork hatred is always warranted

[reef oriole]

That sign reads 'Bussie parts. Scrap for cash.'.

[frail merlin]

Sure it does .... 🤣

[bright stirrup]

How do you rate my inventory?
Is it useful?

[solemn sinew]

Needs a lot more ammo

[bright stirrup]

True

[solemn sinew]

Genuinely though, you've got a lot of wasted space.
Get some more grenades and ammunition, lose a bunch of the food and ditch the scientific and military medkits.
You also don't need 36 anti radiation drugs on you at all times unless you expect to go out of bounds, especially with those artifacts and an exosuit.

More ammo is always the answer.

Also did some bandits steal your coupons?

[bright stirrup]

Had to repair my equipment

[solemn sinew]

Biggest bandits of them all, technicians.

[bright stirrup]

Also yeah, I plan to eventually do a little sorting of my inventory to make more space for grenades/ammo. Just wanted to see any opinions on my equipment

[solemn sinew]

Artefacts are solid, armour is the best you can have, I don't like Hilka so I just use a Bear, the superior detector.
Nothing wrong with the equipment.

[solemn sinew]

If the Emissions won't kill you, smoking won't either

[bright stirrup]

So I sorted out my items a bit and this is also what I have stored

[supple quiver]

Carrying way too much food

[bright stirrup]

Just a little bit

[bright stirrup]

This is bearable performance

[bright stirrup]

Like who would live near this anomaly

[fallow parcel]

It not hurting nobody

[bright stirrup]

But the noise

also I just find out it is a warp thingy, oops

[ebon patio]

Meanwhile Deggy has outpost with his men right next to Polters nest, and they often run upstairs to throw buckets at them.

[solemn sinew]

Jump into it

For science

[solemn sinew]

Don’t forget the random Monolithian Girl Scouts that sell cookies at Degtarev’s closed door as seen here;

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[timber tapir]

21:9 is game changer

[magic geyser]

The Zone seems to have expanded

[glossy hill]

Unmasked Snork looks like The Gurning Rave Guy

[dry meadow]

what too much cheeki breeki hardbass does to a stalker

[bright stirrup]

Brother it's daytime, you can pull away your NV

[frail merlin]

My Loadout

[bright stirrup]

that reminds me I need to get some shotgun ammo

[frail merlin]

I carry 150 secondary and pistol and 300 for Primary

[bright stirrup]

Just found myself another legendary artefact in the Silent Hill ahh anomaly

[frail merlin]

If you have the Weird Pot Equipped and drink the Limited Edition energy drinks and get a 0.5kg Weight carry capacity increase per can

[bright stirrup]

So basically I get fat?

[frail merlin]

You can carry more

[bright stirrup]

Oh I read it wrong lol

[frail merlin]

I typed wrong lol 🤣

[bright stirrup]

Well, off I go try to get the Weird ball, which I have no idea how to get from Bulba

[frail merlin]

||Hide behind the cars as it pulls you in||

[bright stirrup]

Noted!

[frail merlin]

Autosave frequently

[bright stirrup]

Ball!

[frail merlin]

The frog's gonna get it first

[quick wing]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-gif-18174868

[quick wing]

you are absolutely not hacked man

[crimson willow]

Banger shot man! o_o

[bright stirrup]

[crimson willow]

Can we chill game?!

[quick wing]

absolutely

[crimson willow]

Omg, I'm stuck in a watch-tower by The Sphere, and under me are 3 Blood Suckers all fighting a Pseudodog and now the Monolith just showed up.

Ahahaah, they killed them all! This is amazing!

My saviours!

Oh... oh boy. There are a few more than I thought. I can see 9 here and there is one walking off - who I thought was my saviour.

[bright stirrup]

Gotcha!

[crimson willow]

Wot is that? o_o

[scarlet reef]

Weird Bolt, the tornado in the background can be found in Yaniv region

[solemn sinew]

This was the most annoying legendary artifact for me, I couldn't grab it.

[bright stirrup]

I now need to find the last one in the ||Cooling Towers||

[amber zealot]

vashe zdorov'ye!

[bright stirrup]

Finally, all arci-artefacts collected

[amber zealot]

nutting weird

[bright stirrup]

I think it is actually useful kinda?

I dunno if I should replace it with Compass though

[paper minnow]

It is

[bright stirrup]

But it is better than the Compass?

[quick wing]

[balmy gale]

Stalker 3 leaked screenshot (totally real)

[real dirge]

bruh lumen looks so ass, why is it so blurry? reflections look bad too... UE5 is such an aweful engine /s

[dry meadow]

hurr durr something something slop

[solemn sinew]

Running Kaimanov Terror Emission for the first time, the Emissions actually made me feel like how they did in Clear Sky / Call of Pripyat.
Scared me senseless, especially with the buildup and 'blast' waves.

One tragic thing is that my FPS drops by half if I look in the direction of the CNPP!
@jovial moon

[solemn sinew]

This is on an RTX5090 and i7 14700k but might be down to the engine.ini I’m using currently.

[frail merlin]

Grave of Stalkers

[bright stirrup]

[prime pier]

Put the bolt in the nut and you can have infinite ammo

[wanton epoch]

I should seek for mental advise after seeing that behavior like this is a deliberate design solution.

Note that the group is even firing at building when I went upstairs.

[prime pier]

Based, this is stalker 2

[dry meadow]

Army Warehouses has some weird spawn shenanigans

[scarlet reef]

Yeah lol, 15 enemies popping into existence only after you're entered the 2 store building

I went there a while back and found it empty. An emission hit and somehow spawned a group of zombies and a group of (friendly) loners after it passed, then as soon as i exited the building all the towers were manned by snipers (i had already climbed them and confirmed they were empty previously) and 10 enemies were scattered around the area

[prime pier]

they added schizophrenia in the game

[dry meadow]

there's a special typa psi radiation at the warehouses

it doesn't zombify you but it makes you hallucinate bad guys

[plain moat]

new gsc answers, new list update based on roadmap

[vocal kraken]

[solemn sinew]

What mods did you use to get close to the generators?
I assume some sort of godmode?

[vocal kraken]

yep, i use fling trainer for godmode

[solemn sinew]

Could you share a link? I’ve been looking for a trainer or console enabler for a while but most either don’t work anymore or have other side effects

[vocal kraken]

yeah, i will dm you

[raven rock]

i haven’t taken pictures in a while but i thought these looked pretty nice

[delicate prawn]

Noon is on the left, Ward is the other one

Depends on your preference, I never liked Ward

I went with Noon, but I like them

You've got a lot of game before you even meet him lol

Yeah those are all visions from Shadow of Chornobyl

[frail merlin]

He's tasting the floor 🤣

[tight sinew]

https://tenor.com/view/eric-andre-andre-eric-gif-19835265

Oh I see he's giving you a sign. Rear entrance it is then. DONT RING THE FRONT DOOR BELL!

I only return if you remove the mask. If the milk turns to be sour I'm not gonna be the one to drink it!

https://tenor.com/view/sidorovich-laughing-sidorovich-stalker-gsc-game-world-gsc-gif-10511308776135339550

[stark leaf]

this has happened everytime I active the power in the building, starting to think its an actual event that gets triggered cause of the loot inside that building.

[wanton epoch]

Yeah it seems so. Still IMO it's a cheap and lazy way to design the encounter.

[stark leaf]

https://imgflip.com/i/abvefg

this is going to be us very soon

[torpid zenith]

Ready for 1.7

[solemn sinew]

Lucky! They’re not available over here

[scarlet vale]

Everytime I see non stop I get annoyed it’s like 30 big ones a can on Amazon or EBay in the states or some ridiculous price

[compact fossil]

didnt know they exists iRL xD

[torpid zenith]

Zone bless Ukrainian shops in Poland 😄

[scarlet vale]

Just saw a crate of 24 for over a hundred bucks on Etsy

[quick wing]

Y

[obsidian cipher]

patnor has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[scarlet vale]

He can see your sins

[scarlet vale]

I need someone to make this an emote, I can’t stop laughing at it

[dry meadow]

"Let's try these Nightmare Vision Goggles on....... everything looks exactly the same."

[solemn sinew]

Only way to be able to properly see Whirligig anomalies

[acoustic kelp]

Gaben is that you?

[bright stirrup]

Thank you game

[obsidian cipher]

notvrairhead has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[wind halo]

Why does my gun have these weird outlines whenever it rains heavily in-game, does everyone have this issue?

[cerulean pollen]

Subtle World glitch

[acoustic kelp]

The budget ran out

[stark leaf]

Are you a console player, because I noticed this happens whenever there is either extreme darkness or obscuring conditions from the environment (like rain).

If you're a console player it might be a accessibility function that you system provides for anti-aliasing (lines and how smooth/dark they appear.)

[stark leaf]

photo realistic stalker 2

[vagrant moth]

please ignore the fact I forgot to turn off my hud, first time doing a pc run so I'm getting used to everything

[lyric peak]

Still a good image regardless

[solemn sinew]

Clear Sky & PRZ?

[real dirge]

Material bug.... I've been looking to fix this for a while with no effect

[crimson willow]

No comment. 🤣

[frozen latch]

GYATTT

[crimson willow]

The zone is a funny place lol - I wasn't responsible for this. I was on my way back to HQ, and on the bridge was a dead bandit and this...

[obsidian cipher]

vpn17 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[bright anvil]

Zawg 💀

[solemn sinew]

I keep constantly getting ambushed by mercenaries

I have been stuck in a Space Anomaly for the last 30 minutes until I finally solved it and got out.
Felt like General Tachenko, founder of Duty for a while

[bright anvil]

No clue what accent that is

[solemn sinew]

You can't tell?
It's Robin Atkin Downes trying to sound Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Indian and British at the same time.

[solemn sinew]

So far I had a door stuck moment and Skif has developed schizophrenia from too much exposure to psi-radiation and controllers

[scarlet reef]

What gun is this again?

[solemn sinew]

SA-U Gabon, shortened AS Lavina for CQB which has a ton of upgrades

Obtainable from the journalist stash at Duga

[rotund phoenix]

The Zone is amazing when you just stop and look around.

[amber zealot]

this can be beautiful too

[sand nymph]

Cool looking benign anomaly. Don't think I've ever seen anyone point this out before. Eastern Red Forest near that bunker with the half-buried tanks and the zombified stalkers.

Also I found a locked vault door in the basement here. Anyone know how you're supposed to get in? I think there's an "activated" enemy in there but I can't figure out how to open the door to kill it.

[timber tapir]

stalker graphic 🔝 🔝

[wind halo]

I am playing on PC.

Anyone have this flickering problem?

[placid berry]

Name mods pls?

[timber tapir]

PRZ

[placid berry]

Does this thing take up a lot of FPS?

[timber tapir]

Yeah its very heavy its. reshade+modified UE settingd and dlss for better reflections and LOD:

I have 5070 and it takes around 50-80fps (without im getting 190fps on 3440x1440res) - so when on its 110-130fps

[frail merlin]

||Story Progression - Entrance to the North East||

[reef oriole]

Also story progression.

[frail merlin]

Oh yeah right hehe

[amber zealot]

map is a bit off set here for...reasons

[stark leaf]

quest related

[crimson willow]

Do you see what I see?

[crimson willow]

I guess I can't pick these up? Not NVG right?

[crimson willow]

BWAHAHAHAHA

[solemn sinew]

Drivers / Unreal Engine moment.

Try turning STALKER 2 on and off again, does it persist or is it a random occurrence?
Use the Windows + Ctrl + Shift + B keyboard shortcut for graphics driver reset.
Check if you have the latest graphic drivers / reinstall.

[solemn sinew]

Binoculars…
1.7 teaser I suppose, were told we will be getting them in the future just like how we had them in the original trilogy

[solemn sinew]

PRZ looks stunning!
I wonder how it’ll end up on my system.
I’ve got an RTX5090 and i7 14700k, playing in 4K without frame generation and with a custom engine.ini for additional performance I only manage to get about 90fps most of the time.

UE5 works in mysterious ways.

[crimson willow]

Nooooooooooo! How do you design something like this and then not let me go in?!!

[crimson willow]

Why does the game keep doing this to me...

[hearty bluff]

Can ya'll guess where I was for this?

[solemn sinew]

CNPP

[solemn sinew]

My thousands of hours of playing all the STALKER games and watching documentaries have paid off

How’d you manage to get on the roof though?

[solemn sinew]

Or even get close considering you can’t access the area at all normally speaking.
Another worthwhile trip for you would be the Generators or Iron Forest!

[hearty bluff]

On Console as well mind you. And its easy. There's stairs that are physical that you can climb up. All you have to do is get passed the Radiation wall.

I can just show you if you want.

[solemn sinew]

Wherever there’s an inaccessible or dangerous area, there’ll always be a cheeky stalker to worm his way through.

Same thing with getting intro Pripyat early, there are so many spots on which to jump across the barricade of trains, through gaps or even over roofs and containers.

After my playthrough I’ll install a trainer / console and freely explore around 😉
Benefits of PC

[hearty bluff]

That aint...thats not how I did it.

[vocal kraken]

father and son

[oblique rover]

CNPP?

I have been there before Quite the sight to behold

[crimson willow]

Am I meant to destroy these or something?

[lyric peak]

The lamps? Some are randomly place that don't seem to do anything if you destroy them.

[lyric peak]

@timber tapir Here's some of them

[crimson willow]

OK thanks

[lyric peak]

There is one mission where you have to destroy them tho, but if it's unmarked then it's not important.

[subtle heart]

I love the weird benign anomalies. Very scattered and rare, but the places near the water with fish floating about are nice and silly

entirely unrelated bogos

[wind helm]

Greetings from Zone Stalker! The Playstation 5 release of Stalker Stalker 2 is coming soon! We're looking forward to seeing you!

Screenshot from Xbox Series S 👍

[crimson willow]

This basically looks like real life lol

[harsh delta]

Its pretty nuts

[solemn sinew]

Power of PRZ I assume.
Did you do a lot of customising to make it look good or just drag and drop?

[bright stirrup]

Why do I hear boss theme

[dry forge]

sadly still looks pretty bad outside though 😔.

[hearty bluff]

Yes Skif, the CNPP. The Unfinished and poorly optimized Console one. XD

[oblique rover]

I should go there fr

there was a funny Structure in there I ate it

[hearty bluff]

I only went to see The Monolith

[oblique rover]

looked like this

[oblique rover]

oh that its uh gone

the ward never took it from the CNPP I just ate it and they covered it up so nobody found out

[hearty bluff]

SKIF NO, Ohhhhh thats why Faust called you The Envoy. It makes sense now.

[oblique rover]

huh?

[hearty bluff]

Cuz you ate Him. You ate the Monolith

[oblique rover]

hm I guess?

[austere kernel]

i on a strelok ending and i got soft lock

[bright stirrup]

Brother got send back like that

[strong raptor]

Is this an alright setup?

[fallow parcel]

Get a better suit

[strong raptor]

Any you recommend?

[mortal hatch]

Just had... the ever-living dogshyte scared out of me. That guy was NOT there when I went up the stairs.

[scarlet vale]

Zircon

[crimson willow]

I dunno man... #📸┃screens_and_videos message

[frail merlin]

PSZ-9I Falcon, also maybe use weapons which ammo is abundant...

[mortal hatch]

SEVA suit! Classic ❤️

[dry forge]

It's still pretty bad. It just looks alot more acceptable in a picture. 3 big things that ruin it for me is the unavoidable anti aliasing blurring, tree LODs and the whacky ssr. And there's probably more things I haven't realised. All this while also running terribly.

[glossy hill]

Need to agree, game looks much better on screenshots. I'm really waiting for lumen lighting improvements in the engine update and also more foliage would be great (waiting for proper forests, not a pile of sticks like we have now, even with mods).

LOD's also need a total rework. It's nothing worse than you climb a tower and see a beautiful view - an empty landscape with no trees or very low poly lods of trees and buildings

[dry forge]

I'm also just waiting to see what the engine update brings, I don't want to get my hopes up to much though.

[glossy hill]

S2 have its moments graphically but 60% of gameplay doesnt look that good actually

[dry forge]

Ikr.
In the scene on the crane where you turn around a bunch and the distant buildings don't load fast enough is just depressing 🤣.

[dry forge]

Forsure

[glossy hill]

Yeah, this type of lods are the worst in pripyat. Like the whole buildings are loading when you turn

I cannot imagine how CDPR is making Witcher 4 on this engine and it looks that good. Hopefully 5.5.4 will bring improvements

[dry forge]

Better do something 🙏

[frail merlin]

Tonk

[crimson willow]

You guys complaining about the game graphics and saying it looks "bad" are drunk at the wheel. Pull over, take a time out. You have no idea how good you have it.

[dusk tulip]

hello there

[dry forge]

It just doesn't look good, especially considering how insanely demanding it is on your pc. If it actually ran well and looked like this it'd be alright but it runs shit and looks shit. But again it's mainly outdoors, indoors it looks fine.
If you honestly think it doesn't look bad your either crazy or don't have good eyesight/don't notice it.

[craggy hamlet]

Out of curiosity what other open-world game do you think looks better than Stalker 2 with mods ?

[quick wing]

-- cutelikeshadows:

"the game is looks good"
-- 1stfg_wildcat:
"you don't have good eyesight"

[dry forge]

Kcd2, horizon forbidden west, cyberpunk 2077 etc

[dry forge]

Mostly a joke way of saying it. but alot of people tend to just not be able to see alot of these issues, or easily overlook them.
Talked to a person a few days that couldn't notice the bad motion blur on their VA monitor, even after having it all explained.

[cerulean pollen]

Rip bush people

[solemn sinew]

The manpig!

[mortal hatch]

I never saw this LOL

[scarlet reef]

Oooh nice

[shadow dragon]

@slender tartan watching the video you linked...

i feel so validated, i always assumed the alife system was based on GOAP and didnt know original devs actually said this.

[slender tartan]

yeah, it was. Fear was GOAT and thats why Stalker was also GOAT

[cerulean pollen]

is*

[covert spear]

Holy shit thats a great picture

[quaint flower]

Is anyone experiencing a bug where they can't shoot more than one bullet?

[quaint flower]

I fixed it by loading an old save.

[narrow stratus]

Vet was nothing. Now i gonna play Master

[tropic atlas]

is this 1.7 update?

[quick wing]

yes, brother. Dig it

[hazy hornet]

At least lighting is way better from lamps on tables, game feels smother on 1.7.

[tropic atlas]

why no announcement in steam or dc that its released w patchnotes

nvm my dumb ass fogor i pressed read on mobile noti a while ago

[quick wing]

#📰┃announcement message ?

[tropic atlas]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

[tropic atlas]

HAIL THE MONOLITH!

[real dirge]

BTW. In the pause menu there is now an Immersive Mode button that removes the HUD

Bottom right when you pause. Make sure to get a lot of good shots of DWO 😉 ❤️

[hazy hornet]

oh thanks will look in to it.

Nice

So ingame its just "=" key on keyboard

[earnest jay]

still spawning below the map

[exotic moth]

15 seconds into the new patch to test and this damn bug is still here 🗿

[spare wolf]

1.7 still here xD

[quick wing]

https://tenor.com/view/ghost-cod-call-of-duty-call-of-du-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-ii-simon-ghost-riley-gif-27104686

[clever slate]

memory leak ... 1 year after

[wanton epoch]

[scarlet reef]

Genuinely terrifying

[wanton epoch]

Disturbing indeed

[wind helm]

The New Immersive Mode is so good♥️😍👍

[lyric peak]

[wicked turret]

🫥

[acoustic kelp]

Good luck parry for you can't pass my Rat trap

[plain moat]

yonking this for later

[bright stirrup]

Beginning of my new Master difficulty playthrough

[quartz bear]

Any ideas how to get this artifact (military tunnel)? 😅

[clever slate]

i've try, for the moment, the only diff i saw with veteran, is mutant life, again enough ammo, enough heal, just can't save until center

[old dragon]

Anyone else getting this? Anytime I use red dots screen gets funky

Playing on Xbox

[amber zealot]

this type of lag is not normal... and why only when looking at him

[crimson willow]

lol!

[boreal mica]

aaaaa what happened 1.7 ?

[ember wagon]

how do you got shadows like that? Is it mods?

[hazy hornet]

No mods, even medium settings on shadows.

[amber zealot]

turn off dlss

[solemn sinew]

https://tenor.com/view/american-psycho-1-fps-gif-3691076786749255056

Very strange issue multiple people see to have when they look at any NPC in the game.
Mostly the ones with a lot of facial hair.

Do hair settings change anything?

[ember wagon]

For me it fixes by turn on/off the flashlight 🔦

[limber hound]

https://medal.tv/games/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-heart-of-chornobyl/clips/lwRqnx5mY-EVy_sAz?invite=cr-MSx1dFMsMzgzNTYxNTQw&v=30
loving the ragebait GSC

[real dirge]

LMAO

[amber zealot]

can i go back to 1.6 maybe...

[real dirge]

Clean your shaders. might help

[amber zealot]

how do i do that?

[real dirge]

do you have NVIDIA or AMD?

[plain moat]

that the one in the burned forest, correct?

[amber zealot]

nvidia. but it seems fixed by loweing textures from epic to high. not happy about it. makes the game looks less polished. but it does the job

worked just fine at 1.6. so at 1.7 they fixed the shadowing issue, but it comes at a cost maybe

[real dirge]

No that makes no sense, wed be seeing much more people with the issue.

Go to %localappdata%/NVIDIA/DXCache and delete the top 5 largest files there

Return to high Texture and see if the issue still is there

[dawn atlas]

My master run is off to a great start

[zinc fractal]

A-Life working as intended

[torn copper]

short-barrel 😆

[hearty bluff]

OH MY GOD THE PAIN 😭

[zinc fractal]

Hes trying

[clear dawn]

I guess 1.7 introduces theft in zalissya? theres no power lines anymore lmao

[hearty bluff]

Sometimes my game breaks and loads me in right here.

[brazen schooner]

I think my holographic sight is a little to bright

[vocal kraken]

[lyric peak]

So scrumptious

That first image is lovely

[vocal kraken]

i waited 6 minutes for him to raise his hand

[indigo glen]

this game sooo pretty

[reef oriole]

As of 1.7, the door is still closed.

[viral nexus]

have you used the handle /button in the room with the desk? I was stuck there for an hour until I figured out there is just a button for the door.... 😅

[bright stirrup]

Pretty good start of the Master difficulty

[reef oriole]

I don't see the button for the door.

If I stream it in Discord, can someone show me where the button is?

[viral nexus]

It's hard to see that's why I missed it as well I finally watched a yt vid where I saw it. sadly that was months ago so I am not sure about the position any more >_> let me look for the vid...

[reef oriole]

Alright, thank you.

[reef oriole]

I thought so. It's blank for me.

No interaction.

[viral nexus]

damn. have you collect all the docs in the room (the ones in the save)?
Or it is really just bugged 🙁

[reef oriole]

If I stand in this room it shows me I should move 84 meters to the objective, like everthing is done. But the door is still closed.

[viral nexus]

do you have a save before entering the room to retry the whole step with collecting the docs and stuff? when I was stuck there it was simple because of the stupid switch (and me being blind) but I was able to interact with it and the door opened.

[reef oriole]

My save is from before going in there. There is just not anything in keymanovs office.

[viral nexus]

no docs to collect in the save either??

[quartz bear]

https://streamable.com/5qq5ld
Is this a bug or just artifact effect (Lyre), that I can run smoothly like I am not overweight? (81.9 / 82kg) 😅

[viral nexus]

there should be somthing in there

[quartz bear]

It is on west from Zalisya

I will show later where it is exactly on map

[reef oriole]

Nothing

[real dirge]

I hope you're enjoying DWO 2.6! Let me know what you think

[viral nexus]

Then I'm out of ideas... except maybe trying an even earlier save. Sry!

[reef oriole]

I don't have one. I guess I will just redo this entire thing again some time.

[deft wraith]

the Zone needs more unique trees

[crimson willow]

Ridiculously gorgeous in Immersive Mode

[quick wing]

not funny

[crimson willow]

Then... why did I laugh?

[swift edge]

FSR happened

[quick wing]

where did I laugh?

[crimson willow]

No, me. I LAUGHED. I care nothing for what others do.

[quick wing]

YOUR BRAIN ARE PSI FRIED?

[crimson willow]

"SEE FRIED?" What?! >_<

[quick wing]

Y

[vocal kraken]

works great, looks great. yall cooked with this one

[real dirge]

I'm glad! Let me know if you guys like my version of light rainy. The mod on Nexus has a special file that will use GSCs vanilla Light Rainy in case people want to check it out alongside DWO

[hybrid linden]

STC "Malachite"

[grizzled wind]

holy. unmoded?

[quartz bear]

Have similar, I changed on FSR and now It is okay

[timber tapir]

Winter in the Zone ❄️

[plain moat]

this the one just west of the chemical plant across the rail bridge?

[lyric peak]

Currently running through this issue even with dlss turned off already

[lyric peak]

I think this just worked for me too

[stark ocean]

yes 1.7 update on ultra.

[quartz bear]

Liquid rock ❤️

[dry meadow]

the most common rare artifact

[obsidian cipher]

dameinu_mookon has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[quartz bear]

I found it accidentally 😄

[marsh carbon]

Anyone having issues with sights after the update?

[shadow dragon]

sometimes i dont know if im watching a real life image or a game , is this in game? 💀

[native sluice]

so yea, dunno how to fix this, does not happend this agressive always but it is annoying as hell

[reef oriole]

Oh this is new to me.

[native sluice]

yea, no idea what to do with it 😄

[torn copper]

[odd knoll]

Damnit Nimble. Welp, see you in CoP and S2.

[tiny wigeon]

the cutscenes in this game are so rad

[torn copper]

@raven rock first batch

[raven rock]

very niceeeee

[scarlet vale]

Uh guys, you not gonna help your buddy?

[harsh delta]

this may be a light rain thing, hope in the zone

[cursive sleet]

what is this guys.

[lyric peak]

Turning flashlight on and off fixed this issue for me

[cursive sleet]

Let me try. Thanks bro.

[lyric peak]

If not, then try turning off dlss if it isn't already off

[rich flax]

Dealing with the same bs unfortunatly

[rich flax]

did you find a fix?

[lyric peak]

Hopefully those two solutions work, seems to be what people are doing. If not then I think you're cooked for now till a hotfix comes around or something.

[cursive sleet]

The flashlight trick worked for me. Thanks bro.

[rich flax]

Flashlight also worked for me. thanks alot stalkers

[hybrid linden]

My sights disappeared for a minute or two when I launched the game. They soon became normal again

[lunar estuary]

Fine I'll give yall money ig

[restive crest]

i see they have still not fixed the fsr issues on nvidia gpus xD

[lyric peak]

flashlight on and off

[restive crest]

oh, to late ive closed the game gimmie a min

boooooooooting it back up

[hearty bluff]

Just like the Wi-Fi or any device when you call Tech Support.

[lunar estuary]

Nah youre just going through an anomaly

[lyric peak]

Turning off dlss seems to be another solution, but this did not work for me (I already had it off)

[restive crest]

hey so i turned my flashlight on, fixed. turned it off, back to flickering

[quartz bear]

I got These graphic glitches appear when i start game second time

[restive crest]

tsr does work

[lyric peak]

So far it seems to be going away for me when I spam my flashlight on and off. I don't know what else would work atm.

[quartz bear]

Yesterday I got these graphic glitches but I did what this guy said and helped, but I can bet it appears when I start game second time 😅

[restive crest]

most my playtime has been put towards this @lyric peak @hearty bluff

[lyric peak]

I thought that mask had cat ears for a sec

[restive crest]

omg 😭

[lyric peak]

Someone ought to make one. One modder did for Re4 remake.

[hearty bluff]

So you showed John Ward the Monolith PDA.

[restive crest]

yes!

[lyric peak]

[hearty bluff]

Faust may I speak to you for a moment? In private?

[restive crest]

oh god did i make a bad choice because imma be real i thought my ONLY choice was to show john ward the pda

ive sided with the evil mecha stalin faction by mistake or something 😭

[hearty bluff]

No no. The Zone is about making our own choices.

[restive crest]

I DIDNT MEAN TO SIDE WITH THEM I THOUGHT IT WAS MY ONLY CHOICE

[hearty bluff]

MILLS UR GOOD RELAX

[lyric peak]

Wait, is this your first playthrough

[restive crest]

ja (yes)

this guy is just walking back and fourth in a very buggy way

[lyric peak]

Interesting

[restive crest]

feels like starfield all over again..

[hearty bluff]

You are going to make a decent amount of choices in these next few missions. My advice to you? || Go through all of the wishes.||

[restive crest]

OH GOD NOW THEYRE BOTH DOING IT

[lyric peak]

They're about to kiss

[hearty bluff]

Dude read my mind.

[restive crest]

oh hell yea free yaoi

[restive crest]

oh my god he looks like gorbon freeman, also brb

dude im soft locked i chose to talk to this gordon freeman looking ass and because hes in this weird buggy state i cant

okay nevermind i can just take the other mission

[hearty bluff]

You got this.

[restive crest]

i am now in the tunnels, emmision started as i entered the tunnels, perfect

[lyric peak]

Images go here I guess, not cosplay related. But this is how my Freedom patch looks like.

Trident kind of borked, but I can live with that.

[hearty bluff]

The one above that is Watch Dogs. Aiden Pearce/The Fox to be exact.

[lyric peak]

It's supposed to be their bag's brand logo but now that you mentioned it

[amber zealot]

Freedom Cosplayer

[reef oriole]

So did no one notice I was in the wrong spot? The X7 elevator did not take me to the scar ending. It took me to the ward/skif/strelok ending. That's got to be why the door didn't open.

[reef oriole]

From the same play through... That doesn't make sense.

One Elevator took me to two different areas.

[stark ocean]

@quick wing

[crimson willow]

What anomaly is this?

[crimson willow]

[restive crest]

I didnt think i had a choice i thought i had to show it to the ward, first playthrough

[restive crest]

Nobody taking note of the fact that i have a god tier artefact in my third slot 💔💔 i worked so hard for that thing

[crimson willow]

Lol - I did the same thing!

[crimson willow]

Dude, I have that one! It's the max durability one right?

I want to find this one again...

[restive crest]

I can't reallly remember its affects tbh, i think it has max rad resistance and stamina tho, cant remember what the third one is for the life of me, also max tho

[crimson willow]

I will show you shortly, just loading my game.

[restive crest]

Kk!

[crimson willow]

I'm using these two (the top two, for some reason the highlight isn't very obvious in a screenshot heh) on my one guy.

[restive crest]

The one in the first slot is the one i spent like two hours hunting for and have equipped!

[crimson willow]

Yeah its a goody! It's crazy to me that I've got about 170 hours in the game, and people post artifacts I've literally never seen before.

[restive crest]

Also nice guns :3 we have a pretty similar setup, i think im as close to yours as i can get at my point in the game

[restive crest]

I only have 50 hours people mention entire settlements ive never heard of

[crimson willow]

Yeah and when GSC drop a big update that changes a lot of things, I can't help starting over... I've not actually finished the game haha.

Oh yar, you do have a similar loadout! 🤜
Ths is my other save who has take a totally different path through the zone. Story-wise he isn't as far as the screenshots above^^ I got super distracted and just ran off into the distance lol

What is this gun you have actually, I'm not sure I've come across it - do you remember?

[restive crest]

To be honest i think i have all the guns youre using in this screenshot sitting in my personal lockbox, ill send it tomorrow

[restive crest]

I think its one of the journalists stash exclusive preorder things, not sure though. Definitely got it from a stash within the chemical plant/cordon/garbage kinda early game areas

Knowing me tho i may have gotten it from Yantar because im a loot gremblin and booked it for every journalists stash i could LOL

[crimson willow]

Oooo OK. I haven't found all his stashes yet as unbelievable as it sounds.

[restive crest]

To be fair i dont think a majority of players have, because im in the minority of stalker 2 players who preordered the ultimate edition lmao, i get to enjoy all the cool weapons whilst the peasants scrounge around for ak-74us (im below the poverty line (iirc) i am the peasant atp)

Im gonna sleep, goodnight!

[shadow dragon]

@charred kestrel

[crimson willow]

Night man! See you on the flipside!

[quaint hinge]

any one else have Max.150 kg ? I just reinstalled the whole game deleted everything in the steam common folder and even under appdata local but still

shouldnt it be 80 max?

[solemn sinew]

Part of the journalist stash for the ultimate edition, believe in the Military Barracks
Flora with an internal suppressor

Not linked to a pre-order but rather which edition of the game you have.
You can also upgrade to deluxe or ultimate like I’ve done.
Great way to support GSC and get the upcoming DLC’s as well.

[crimson willow]

Ah nice thanks - I have some journalist USBs, but I actually don't recall what edition I bought heh

[solemn sinew]

DWO my beloved

[solemn sinew]

I have no clue what you've done, I'm at 100.5kg after chugging non-stop energy and with 16kg extra weight

[quick wing]

[solemn sinew]

The only thing I love more is the Bear detector, best detector hands down.
Everything else is too fancy and feels like cheating

[solemn sinew]

Childhood trauma's from X-5

Exactly where you encounter the first bloodsucker in SoC and the first controller too.
Only thing missing is the squeaky light on the wall.

Although I’m not sure, was it X-5 in SoC as well?

[timber tapir]

Winter Cold Fog 🌫️ in the Zone 2 ❄️

[shrewd mesa]

Nope, X-5 is a part of the underground system of tunnels simply called "Ahroprom Undergrounds" in the trilogy. Tho it's definitely a good choice to locate the X-Lab that was working on the "Controller" project in there, given both first time encounters with controllers in ShoC & CS did happen in the Ahroprom Undergrounds.

[misty current]

"local save backup restoration" was added in 1.6

[celest tangle]

Hit this guy so hard he buried himself

[deft wraith]

This UAZ reminds me of the main menu of OGSE

[fiery apex]

I took the opportunity of the new cinematic mode to try recreating some pictures I took in real life

[scarlet reef]

Wait you actually visited the exclusion zone?

[fiery apex]

Yeah, I've been there a couple years ago! Was really stoked to see it with my own eyes.

[dense patio]

this is....something figured i'd play the game after a major update only to be greeted with this upon a new game

[lyric peak]

Spam your flashlight on and off, it might help

[fiery apex]

It's incredible how much detail was put into recreating even the less obvious places in the exclusion zone

[scarlet reef]

Dude thats crazy cool, ive wanted to visit for years now but its obviously quite expensive to get there from the US. Not to mention the added difficulty with current events

[fiery apex]

Yeah, I've been planning on going there again, but can't really do that now.

[hearty bluff]

Alright, theyre finally all in one place. Behold, some of my Stalker 2 screenshots.

[stark ocean]

When we will get?

[dull osprey]

imagine 3rd person

vibes

[wise nymph]

We are set chat ! Super excited

[quartz bear]

O wow, you got into CNPP 😄

[hearty bluff]

I am True Stalker.

[hard kelp]

missing textures that fade away based on distance anomaly 1.7 no mods

[torn copper]

got struck by lightning for the first time

[indigo glen]

Those photos are so cool? Did you like go find the spots in game that you had real life photos of? Or the othercway around

[fiery apex]

Yeah, I was browsing through my photos from the trip and looking for matching locations in the game to take screenshots for comparison. Pripyat was pretty easy, I could retrace my irl route through it pretty easily, despite there having been way more foliage and trees obscuring stuff irl. A bit trickier with Duga, because a lot of it is locked out of reach in the game, but I was surprised to see how well Chernobyl-2 got recreated.

[torn copper]

woah. where did you take the last screenshot?

[sharp walrus]

Genuinely never seen a game with performance and bugs this bad

[latent marten]

Never thought I’d see the day

[hearty bluff]

If ur on PC, its either your specs or one of your settings.

[sharp walrus]

On a 4090 and the clip was at the lowest settings with frame gen off

[reef oriole]

Did you remote play to the deck, because it looks pretty good. Does the towns slide show for you on the deck?

[latent marten]

Nope not remote play

There is a mod that helped a ton

[vocal kraken]

its a gap between pripyat and jupiter

[quick wing]

😯

[crimson willow]

This has been happening to me a lot lately. GSC are doing it on purpose I'm convinced.

[cunning bison]

Stalker 2 threw me to beginning to game after death, I can't press any button, is this normal

[wanton epoch]

Hey! Some bystanders helped me to deal with the burer. Heartwarming view! 🥰

[hearty bluff]

Yes.

[indigo glen]

Thats awesome! Great photos

[dry forge]

close ups with dalin

[thick zinc]

LETS GOOOOOO

[dry meadow]

immersive mode is a godsend

[torn copper]

cool

[rocky current]

You need to pay F16 fighterjet for pc to run it 5 fps extra or you can buy a ps5

[nocturne charm]

lol

[deft wraith]

He thought for a moment

[dry forge]

he's the guy that will have the mental break down after seeing one of his teammates kill the enemy

https://tenor.com/view/vietnam-flashback-traumatized-cat-gif-7852054576948114551

[deft wraith]

he realized that he was living in a simulation

[nocturne charm]

weird bug after turning flash light off

[reef oriole]

Disregard this and go play the game.

[primal pollen]

🔥

[wheat rain]

HOW

[solemn sinew]

Big love for Kaimanov's mod that lights up the whole Duga.
Looks far more impressive for a mega ||brain scorcher.||

[sharp walrus]

I fixed by going on low graphics and using Tsr 🙁

[hazy hornet]

RTX 3060 DLSS Quality High and some medium settings 1440p.

[hazy hornet]

Have you tried cleaning all shader cache? then recompile shaders?

Find file in C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved
D3DDriverByteCodeBlob_V4318_D9475_S1175919066_R161.ushaderprecache

Delete it, then do same on Nvidia cache, clean and run game, let it compile, don't run any other apps in background.

Clean all in that folder, skip used files.

[sharp walrus]

alright thanks

[hazy hornet]

also try this ini mod, maybe that helps. https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17?tab=files

[hazy hornet]

But this rly is strange performance bug, specially on 4090, maybe some nvidia driver mess things up? there is hotfix driver for low performance on some games GeForce 581.94 Hotfix, you always can try DDU fully drivers, then install hotfix, as last resort.

Also check if game realy uses your GPU not iGPU thats in CPU, sometimes that can happen.

[sharp walrus]

I'll check if new drivers are out becuase I last updated them a week ago then if it's not fixed I'll try the hot fix driver

[hazy hornet]

Yeah, hotfix is here from official nvidia site https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5750/~/geforce-hotfix-display-driver-version-581.94

[sharp walrus]

Thanks

[hazy hornet]

np Good luck there 😉

[solemn sinew]

Immersive mode is a godsent, love GSC.
As soon as I'm done with my current ||Ward|| playthrough, ||I will have done every possible ending of STALKER 2.||
||Except for the Spark ending since I made it all the way into Pripyat before 1.6 broke my save file, but I know what happens with the Spark ending.||
Planning on downloading a ton of visual mods like photorealistic zone and just cheating myself in a neat gun and go exploring with a freemode mod.

Set-up a plan for this already.
No HUD, absolutely nothing.
Start at the Cordon and work my way up to Pripyat, then Generators and CNPP.
The Strelok route.

This would be my fifth playthrough

[glossy hill]

Which one do you think looks better? Vanilla foliage colors (Summer) or Autumn Mod? Have a bit mixed feelings about the Autumn/Dead Zone mod in 1.7 because author had to change the foliage quality to maximum and it takes for me around 10 - 15 fps comparing to vanilla. Is it worth it?

[solemn sinew]

Hold up, if the game is set in summer…
That’s what summer looks like in Ukraine?
Continuous rainstorms and lightning on my end.

Honestly I don’t see much of a difference other than slightly more saturated orange leaves on the ground.
Get the mod that adds more foliage or go for winter for a totally different experience.

There’s one mod that really turns the flora and fauna up in the zone to make it feel more naturally alive, totally overgrown and green but I don’t think it’s 1.7 ready yet

[scarlet vale]

wtf is happening

I only have like three mods and they don’t touch bodies iirc, so why is Goodwin packing a small armory

[scarlet vale]

Still my favorite guitar song in S2

[hearty bluff]

Why you no turn off the radio

[limber cliff]

Never had a problém with S2 until now..

.

[glossy hill]

I have Forest Rebirth installed on these screens if thats what you had on mind 🙂

[hybrid linden]

STC Malachite

[lunar estuary]

This is literally all I have installed tf is the problem game

[granite thorn]

Just enjoying the lighting changes.

[amber zealot]

@ocean cipher

[ocean cipher]

you mean the marked sniper?

or the SIRCAA at the top?

[vale holly]

1 and 3 look the best to me

[glossy hill]

So green foliage?

[vale holly]

yea

[glossy hill]

Thanks!

[shrewd mesa]

Is "your end" somewhere close to the west like Lviv? That'd explain it 😁

[cursive sleet]

My UI change from ps to xbox constantly. Kinda annoying.

[real dirge]

make sure you dont have both controller connected, or is this in a PS5?

[cursive sleet]

In PC. And no, i have both but the xbox was off.

[lost quiver]

got no clue what could cause this but maybe i've got a useful question. is steam input on in controller settings? for stalker 2 specifically i mean

[real dirge]

yeah steam input can cause this, sometimes if you brush on the touch pad

[lost quiver]

ah yeah, could be your fingernail touching the touch pad too I guess

[cursive sleet]

the steam input was default setting, off. And my finger nail didnt touch the touchpad as u see in video.

The ui change itself not a big problem for me but whenever ui change, it reset pointer location, make it impossible to use map.

[lost quiver]

hm. are you running ds4windows at all

[real dirge]

Could be GSC bug then. Make a report on it and hopefully theyll be able to fix it up

[cursive sleet]

no sir, not anykind of 3rd party software.

[lost quiver]

well, guess I got nothing then. good luck figuring it out

[real dirge]

o7

[quick wing]

https://tenor.com/view/sidorovich-laughing-sidorovich-stalker-gsc-game-world-gsc-gif-10511308776135339550

[solemn sinew]

Double check if they’re up to date.
Especially PDA Radio, that’s what kept crashing my game in 1.7 on PC

[timber tapir]

30mins of hardcore reshade calibration and now idk is that real life or stalker??

[solemn sinew]

Calibrated so well I can’t even see the picture since it’s a black screen

[timber tapir]

Hah this screen size is 12mb

[solemn sinew]

Just opened on mobile, looks sick! Do you use PRZ?

[timber tapir]

Yeaah

[solemn sinew]

So can you just load up PRZ and it’ll look good or does it require a ton of tweaking?
Planning on using it for my free-roam playthrough.

[timber tapir]

Ton of tweaking like SOLID TWEAKING xD

Bcz every monitor has diff colors and contrast i copied preset from my laptop to uwqhd monitor and needed to tweak again

[solemn sinew]

Aha. Well I’ve got an OLED monitor so I’m intrigued to see it on my system.

[timber tapir]

@solemn sinew Sunny weather preset done

[past jetty]

amazing image good.

[timber tapir]

Im shocked also, I never calibrated reshade that good and i even decided to record some short clips with different weathers and locations - just editing video now maybr i put link to my presets in description

[dry forge]

kinda looks like you just took a picture of your screen using your phone

if you can somehow fix all the graphical issues that stalker has as well i'll be impressed 😭

[quick wing]

https://tenor.com/view/mr-robot-elliot-alderson-adderall-elliot-gif-27371171

[solemn sinew]

I also really like the settings that this bloke on YouTube has, his channel is called Post Emission Clarity

[solemn sinew]

This is the channel for STALKER 2 screenshots, you're looking for #📸┃trilogy-screenshots
Also classic SoC, getting launched upon death

[timber tapir]

Which graphical issues? I dont have any significant

[quick wing]

https://tenor.com/view/sidorovich-laughing-sidorovich-stalker-gsc-game-world-gsc-gif-10511308776135339550

I thought you were gonna dodge all of them

[amber zealot]

look at skif ejecting that drum mag like a pro

[quick wing]

he is a pro already

[gilded cave]

Guys i’m on the factory basement building in the zone with the spark and the bloodsucker, is there any way to open this door? I’m looking for the key but can’t find it

[torn copper]

its enhanced combat vfx and potentially pda radio & focus aim. other than those 3 i know for sure the rest are up to date

[dry forge]

bad lighting, shadows (lumen and ssr stuff), textures and aliasing. probably other stuff aswell.

[timber tapir]

Rare thing game looks amazing most of time

[dry forge]

it really doesnt

[dry forge]

i saw this earlier, sort of covers it all and gives examples.

https://youtu.be/yFMjQvlyOcY?si=3uGyYxWeqEiZRmUu

it is a little goofy

a quick thing to do to see one of the issues is just to pull your knife out, there will be duplicates of the knife shown as the pull out animation happens.

[timber tapir]

these are really small things, I love Stalker2 for the atmosphere and graphics

[dry forge]

But there's so many small things that they all add up, especially if you don't run the game at 4k with a high end gpu. objectively it doesn't look good or great, at most it looks okay but also has a massive performance hit.

if i were to switch to something like TLOU2 or cyberpunk then go back to this i just die inside, yes they have fairly different art styles but the same graphical things in those games can still be achieved in stalker.

I can run cp2077 in the city at the highest settings with full psycho RT at 55-60 fps or 75-90 with fsr4 which looks great, or play stalker 2 at 45 fps in settlements and 75 in the open with way worse visuals. cant even use fsr4 in stalker either, you get a ton of shimmering.

[gilded cave]

I hate the eye adaptation

[timber tapir]

Ah thats why i dont see any problems xd cuz im running 3440x1440 on 5070, graphics is maxed out + heavy mods for even better graphics

But my laptop with 4060 runs well in 1080p with thede mods in 60/70fps and game also looos very good

[dry forge]

the game itself is pretty good, i have already played it twice, well almost twice i'm resisting doing the last mission on my second playthrough. it being as good as it is just makes it looking and running terribly be so much worse.

[dry forge]

i play it at 1440p on a 9070 xt, same settings as you without the mods. so are experiences are very similar.

[timber tapir]

This is screenshot high settings 1080p +mods as on pc

[dry forge]

in screenshots alot of these problems dont show up, its very easy to avoid them in a still image.

[timber tapir]

Mayhe but inplay till relase and i havent noticed anything that could make me break from the game

[dry forge]

you mean that brightness adjusting thing in cp2077?

[dry forge]

idk what to say, but its all there.

[solemn sinew]

On an RTX5090 and i7 14700k I get about 60-90fps in STALKER 2, this is modded and with relatively high but min-maxed settings.

Meanwhile I can run CP2077 on maximum with path tracing on 120+ fps.

Biggest frame eater is the resolution though, I kind of regret getting a 4K monitor for this reason.

[dry forge]

do you notice the issues that stalker suffers from?

[dry forge]

yeah that definitely tanks it. i'm assuming it does look pretty nice though :P.

[gilded cave]

I’m speaking about stalker 2, yeah that adjust between interiors and exteriors looks unnatural to me

[dry forge]

gotcha, deffinitly one of the many weird things that happens. same kind of thing is done in cyberpunk, but it looks way more natrual.

[stark ocean]

Getting ready for Master Difff

[reef oriole]

If I remember correctly there is a shock anomaly with a path through a long corridor with big crates against the wall almost like a ram. Key is there, but can bumped behind them unfortunately. Good luck. I have never seen that door open.

[gilded cave]

Congrats hehe i get this recently too

[gilded cave]

Yeah after beign looking didn’t find it so i just leave it, that spark anomaly was a pain in the ass

[reef oriole]

That anomaly is a real stinker.

[fallow parcel]

any idea why the screen doesn't record properly?

[fallow parcel]

I shouldn't have this problem

My new rig. 4070 rtx. I shouldn't have bugs like this

[hybrid linden]

View from the Cement Factory

[amber zealot]

rad optimization tricks for stalker 2! lower your graphics options!!!

[normal marlin]

Risked my life for this
(its just a meme not intended to offend or insult anyone)

[short stratus]

I got this yesterday while I was walking with my gun holstered. Not sure what happened.

[normal marlin]

Cleanest dap up in the whole zone

[fallow parcel]

be careful dude my mom is bonkers and will hurt you for fun

[vocal kraken]

[urban void]

Is his voice supposed to be able to change like that

[solemn sinew]

I had Dalin swap between himself and a Ward soldier when I asked him “What’s new around the Zone.”
Must be the project X induced schizophrenia.

[placid berry]

what mods use for graphics?

[night agate]

Anyone else would sometimes have this issue?

Its only when I ran into them

Changed dlss performance to quality and now its this

[lime matrix]

Been Loving the new difficulty A-life is still not quite there but i think I'm finally ready to leave the lesser zone after 8 hours

[quaint hinge]

how do i get rid of this? it only appears if I turn my flashlight off. I was able to get rid of it in the past by turning off or on vsync but it doesn't work anymore and I can't play like this. Having the vanilla Flashlight on all the time looks horrible and is annoying

[frail merlin]

I only encountered this During a Cut-Scene, that was before 1.3 or 1.4 I think

[pulsar cedar]

A random cleaning agent i took a picture of like 4 weeks ago

This is from 7 weeks ago pic

Looks like it is straight from the zone

[prisma ginkgo]

https://youtu.be/9x-NDtoifXk

[torn copper]

what do these have to do with stalker?..

[pulsar cedar]

It looks like it's a cleaning agent with a swamp growing out of it

[timber tapir]

Winter calibrated

[restive ibex]

new decorations for tunnels

[little crystal]

Why is there no button in the elevator? I can't move forward from here.

[crimson willow]

I mean it would help if you selected the game capture to start with instead of the audio capture lol

[crimson willow]

Great shots man! These are basically just real life lol

[sleek sorrel]

Thank you x)