📸┃screens_and_videos

[tawdry herald]

Anyone help with a character frozen problem?

[regal plume]

this reminded me of Home Alone lmfao

https://tenor.com/view/home-alone-gif-23464828

[regal plume]

one thing i love about S2 is going to all the locations from CS and SoC and seeing how they have changed heres the Duty checkpoint in Rostok

they turned the Arena into a resteraunt/bar

good to see Ganja is still alive!

[tepid adder]

i think the A life update might have a slight spawn rate bug

i watched them all spawn in

[regal plume]

i thought this game was fixed? also look at my RAM usage too while you watch this...the later i get into the game the more problems im having YET AGAIN..what a shocker...just like last time. I think this will be my 2nd and final playthrough of stalker 2.

[regal plume]

that shit aint ever going to be like Clear Sky so just forget it

i feel bad for people who have gpus with less than 12GB of VRAM and 16GB of ram they prob cant even play this game

and the new Steam Machine only has 8GB of VRAM 😆

[regal plume]

literally just got stuck in this hallway at the bar for 10 minutes the guys kept spawning in here and they would block eachother in then eventually i got pinned in the corner

this has happend to me at the Sultanske as well after resting they would all get stuck in the stairwell and i couldt leave i would be stuck in there

[finite eagle]

This guy scared the shit out of me lmao i thought he was a ghost or smt

#anomaly

[regal plume]

yea def a glitch i was just there too

[leaden mountain]

i play on 8GB VRAM with 60 stable fps xd

[regal plume]

what 1080p Low with FSR + Frame Gen?

https://tenor.com/view/thumbsdown-happygilmore-adamsandler-gilmore-gif-5027720

[timber tapir]

[leaden mountain]

native AA w/o framegen

[olive palm]

👋

[stark ocean]

Update 1.7.1 - artifact in the cave by Rookie Village

[scarlet vale]

If an artifact was bored before the update, it’s likely gonna stay borked

[placid bramble]

Ayo whats going on in the sphere 😭

[deft wraith]

Did you start NG?

[stark ocean]

Nope

[stark ocean]

Wait, so the main feature of the Stalker 2 will be start new game after each update?
Like i have currently almost 20h on Master diff

[scarlet vale]

This has been a thing everytime they fixed the artifacts unfortunately

[stark ocean]

That’s starting to ridiculous tbh. I don’t know really what to do. Probably a break from the game is inevitable.

[scarlet vale]

Ok?

[red isle]

I’ve heard you just gotta wait for an emission to reset the artifact spawns

I dunno myself tho

[scarlet vale]

Not the preplaced artifacts

[red isle]

Ohhhhh right I get ya is there a preplaced one in that cave?

[scarlet vale]

Yes

[red isle]

Gotcha oh well

That cave is a death trap 🪤

[scarlet vale]

It is called Death Cave after all

[regal plume]

yea man, ive had a pretty bad experiance once i got to Rostok (up until SIRCAA i had a great time)...the performance and the spawning npcs behind you, i get pinned in stair wells with npcs blocking the way ive almost got softlocked twice because of it i posted a video earlier on here @ 1:33. Looks like its gonna be another year wait before i try again. Game probably isnt going to be 100% til 2030 sadly still havnt got DLC no Multiplayer. UE5.1 Lumen is dogshit.

Keep an eye on leaves near water blowing in the wind and watch the reflection...it looks TERRIBLE, The Screen Space Relections ontop of the RTX Reflections is abysmal when you look down it reflections in water turn into huge black blobs, absolutly NOTHING like in the trailers...idk what game is in those early trailers but it sure as hell aint this one thats for damn sure. Im sorry!

[stark ocean]

Everything is tweaked for current audiences and their hardware… visuals are still pretty, the only irritating part is constantly being pushed back by some ridiculous new features bugs.

[amber zealot]

@paper minnow maybe ask gsc if they can add the 1887

[paper minnow]

Jack has been lobbying for that already:' D

[amber zealot]

hey. why has it been deleted?

[young creek]

YOU CAN A PROUD RTX 2060 6 GB USER (just at 10 -12 fps...)

[paper minnow]

What?

[amber zealot]

my vid about me showing off the airsoft gun. its deleted.

[calm relic]

is it true what this guy is saying ?

[paper minnow]

wasen't me, but it's not really stalker related so probably has to do something with that

[quartz bear]

I love this atmosphere 😄

[craggy hamlet]

GSC give us a photomode with native freecam plz

[graceful tangle]

so long as you are standing still, stalker 2 is the most beautiful game in the world

is this really vanilla?

[glossy hill]

No, modded

[graceful tangle]

dang 🙁

[marble summit]

Why are the artifacts malfunctioning and breaking the texture when equipped?

[glossy hill]

Ultra+, DWO, Forest Rebirth (no big oaks), Dead Zone and a reshade 🙂 So not that many!

[granite knot]

Anybody seen this before? I took a pic of my monitor so it looks bad but the water isn't rendering reflections to the edge of my screen

Only happens when I look down too

[stark ocean]

Enemies and guns falling through the floor - the fire exchange was above.

[feral sable]

What a game (Although i have got to say getting all the artifacts sucks with RNG xD) But i really really enjoyed it ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ (Also mostly silly but could Molt or one of GSC heart me, my life will be complete 😂 )

[charred kestrel]

@sly meteor pls complete this mans life

[sly meteor]

damn, so easy to make one's life complete

[charred kestrel]

you've peaked @feral sable

[feral sable]

I have achieved acknowledgment xD

[past jetty]

e sempre bellissimo sto posto

[thick heath]

The mod no longer works on Xbox. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it several times, but it just doesn't work.

[feral sable]

https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1387353128268988519
https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/1387353275405307934

[pastel pivot]

GSC, plz make a stalker Crpg game. 😊

[amber zealot]

No

[timber tapir]

❄️ 🚬

[red isle]

@sly meteor @silent sail quite the bullets you handed these guys!

Shooting through the ground and concrete

[stark ocean]

It’s a new feature !

[amber zealot]

since when is there a seperate toggle for immersive mode? is it a mod maybe?

[mellow jasper]

Ever since the expedition update

[crisp marlin]

Your honor he spooked me

[quartz bear]

Lel, how did he get there 😄

[amber zealot]

the miracles of le zone

[quartz bear]

Of course!

[amber zealot]

i mean. between quiet and the moontide base, there are these half submerged train carts. technically, npc's cant reach that, because you need to crouch through the card from quiet's side, or jump over the train cards from the base's side. which npc's in this game cant do yet

so how the hell do i still end up finding patrols there? its a zone mystery!

[burnt hornet]

is that dead zone? and what reshade if you mind me asking?

[odd surge]

Yes its dead zone, no reshade just Clear Sky by PanKotan + addons with custom engine.ini

[burnt hornet]

damn it was looking too good i thought it was reshade lol, but wow

[buoyant hazel]

can anyone help me find this song? i looked all over the wiki, used shazam, and i still cant find it.

[arctic knoll]

just saved christmas in the zone

[crisp marlin]

I took my eyes off him for a second…

[lyric peak]

Such is life in the Zone

[amber zealot]

why is quiet have pickle? why can we not eat pickle?

this is discrimination. we are stalkers! we need pickle!

[violet osprey]

It sure does get dark.

[leaden mountain]

@normal marlin Look on the ping

[normal marlin]

Oh no damn I'm opposite direction bro

[leaden mountain]

Oh brother, have a good and safe trip then.

[normal marlin]

@leaden mountain it has to be one of thoose 2 buildings, right? Wich one is it?

[normal marlin]

Ok thx bro u saved me lot of time

[leaden mountain]

You're welcome! Have fun brother!

[pine imp]

Cool bro!

[fresh stump]

1.7

trailer

[red isle]

Mine looks closer to the top one then the bottom

[fresh stump]

The one above is version 1.7 and the one below is the trailer, Nobody games looks like they do in the trailer.

[red isle]

Oh wow

[red isle]

Trailer normally looks better not in this case

[fresh stump]

well...

[last crest]

ye i cant walk thru, jog thru or crough under em

@charred kestrel nahhhhhh, defenitely not too heavy-

Okay and ofc its still broken

@charred kestrel I think i found it

[charred kestrel]

ooh f*ck....

[stark ocean]

Wut you done with trees

[fresh stump]

Nothing, that's the difference between the trailer and what we have

[stark ocean]

Holly Scar, that’s a lot

[fiery apex]

What's this thing supposed to be? North of Rostok.

[red isle]

Flying fox

[scarlet vale]

Oh so you’re just gonna get prison jumped then

[keen fossil]

just typical stuff, optimization, project itemization reborn, etc

[keen fossil]

Project Itemization Reborn has pickle!, and weed!, and cocaine!

Even has a animation for eating pickle!

Sure it's just a modified animation of eating the sausage but still

[frail merlin]

Finally found the Kolobok! 🥳 , Gotta find 'em all!

[feral sable]

Welcome to the hell of rng 😅 But it's fun

[frail merlin]

The collection must grow 🤣

[stark ocean]

Stacks xD

[feral sable]

Don't worry, I know 😉

[frail merlin]

Nice - I don't have an updated screenshot of my current collection but thats cool!

DUGA Loot Run, There should be a Radio at the Officer's Quarters to call in a Trader or Technician .

[normal marlin]

Hope yall like this meme I made (btw 75% durability mf jammed twice, I didn't even shoot first round)

[odd knoll]

[normal marlin]

Trip back home was fire yesterday 😭

[past jetty]

If I were Skif I would have already left rather than find the artifact for money. Anyway its beatiful atmosfere

a stalker snack

[torn copper]

nice

[deft wraith]

wtf is this?

[young creek]

matrix eating bugs

[deft wraith]

gaming chair

[normal marlin]

@scenic saffron

[normal marlin]

@scenic saffron is this the place u meant for gen 3 NVG? There's a Dam and the crashed helicopters

I mean looks like a Dam, or maybe its just a bridge idk😭 now that I think about it, might be a bridge

[scenic saffron]

I mean Yantar in the bottom left corner somewhere

[scenic saffron]

@normal marlin

[normal marlin]

Idk what to tell u, I guess it is a thing then😭

[normal marlin]

Thx, I'm top right corner rn

[charred kestrel]

https://streamable.com/rhgxra

[full wolf]

Knife is useless

Well, you did good but you wasted way too much ammo

[charred kestrel]

yeah, missed a lot of shots

but it's only cause it's bugged there's so many bloodsuckers, wouldn't be more than 3 if the game functioned as intended 😛

[full wolf]

That location was always a bloodsucker lair

Usually having 5 or 6

[charred kestrel]

in my first playthrough i literally never encountered bloodsuckers there

[full wolf]

I did actually hehe

[past jetty]

@charred kestrel but it's a really crazy thing, holy Jesus, what artifact is that you have in the radiation-safe place and the assault rifle which one is it?

[charred kestrel]

Thunderberry for stamina, and Kharod assault rifle

[past jetty]

I never found that one

I found the lower ones for stamina

[stark ocean]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GULz8J3dblM

[normal marlin]

Radiations? Never heard of em

[raven rock]

tyy

[lapis light]

who is this man

[lyric peak]

Probably one of the devs, there's a lot more photos like that in game.

[lapis light]

he stared into my soul, i was immidiately imploded upon gazing

[scenic saffron]

https://tenor.com/view/ted-cruz-zodiac-killer-ted-cruz-gif-5317791

[past jetty]

he view is really very beautiful I would like to go visit it but skif doesn't want to

[compact fossil]

yeah i was bit disapointed there is no way in on quests O.o

but yes there are some beatiful views ❤️

[quartz bear]

I really hoped, that we would visit Nuclear Plant and its inside!

[acoustic kelp]

That's a DLC we're waiting on

[reef gust]

(over audio is from a slimecicle meme)

[timber tapir]

Winter on ultra wide hits different ❄️ 🚬

[scenic saffron]

I assume Bruise is still not fixed as a trader?

[scenic saffron]

LESS GOO

[odd surge]

Good image of Zalissya with graphic tweaks, no reshade

[plush field]

One of my favorite shots so far.

[quick wing]

[lunar estuary]

The hardest part about playing stalker is trying to get the damn thing to run properly

[lunar estuary]

Ok well thats odd I only get this when I try and add a open scope mod

[past jetty]

if you could use just one of these tanks you know where the razed sircaa would go😅 🇮🇹

[scenic saffron]

Interesting

[stark ocean]

Not to shabby

[normal marlin]

6 tries in wich one of them i actually killed him too fast with the Rhino, I had to lock in, all this for a trophy (I wanna get platinum trophy)

[glossy hill]

Wow broo, new mod?

[winter saddle]

Update for the mod

[hollow heath]

uh...

[past jetty]

Stalker 2 may have a lot of flaws but none are like him, not even Cyberpunk, what do you want to say to him, it's just a shame that it takes time to fix everything

[wraith elbow]

duty's secrets

[compact fossil]

winter? how O.o

[timber tapir]

Freezing anomaly o.0

[raven rock]

🌈

[leaden mountain]

Nexus mods/steam workshop 🙂

[wary mulch]

uhhh

[leaden mountain]

hmmmm is it those copies that zone creates? Anomalous dugout spoke about that...

[lunar estuary]

Ykw that does it tpp's your stalker

[sharp cradle]

Night time !

[plush onyx]

Snowy day at the Slag Heap

[scarlet reef]

Whoever posted those "artifact run" routes the other day, youre a legend. Got these from cordon to cement factory

[obsidian wraith]

Cinema!

[vernal crystal]

"Crete" anomaly, a harsh way to go out.

[raven rock]

ayyyyyyyyyyy

[scarlet reef]

Would an RPG with 10 warheads even be enough here?

[scarlet vale]

https://tenor.com/view/clearing-swat-machine-gun-pkm-shooting-gif-12659850772700977031

Glutton fully loaded mag dump

[faint shale]

what gun is in the first pic

[vagrant crane]

What a beauty the Wolverine is^^

[atomic jolt]

Що не так і спавнами мобів ?

[cerulean pollen]

Зона. Зона never changes.

[raven rock]

i love this

[raven rock]

wow these are amazing

[past jetty]

weather,atmosfere,solitudine,STALKER 2,no open world is like this

[broken summit]

Hello! How can i take this?

[undone edge]

Wha
235 PMs?

[scenic saffron]

Im collecting them, im repairing every single one i find

[undone edge]

My stuff right now, 50 hours through the game (master difficulty, so... actual playtime is only about 30 hours due to reloads, especially on random one-shots from anomalies)

Going in plain Spark SEVA and Combatant, because it's good enough for it's money, cheap to repair. I need to save funds for later.

[scenic saffron]

ARGHHH I NEED THOSE DROPLETS

[undone edge]

Other stuff I just happen to have.

Some I will sell after SIRCAA, because it will become more expensive to sell.
Some I'll keep hoarding because I love hoarding.

[scenic saffron]

My greatest treasure

[torn copper]

friendly reminder #📸┃trilogy-screenshots

[fallow parcel]

I apologize, i was not aware

[torn copper]

no worries, its nothing serious

[fallow parcel]

I deleted all of em here

Thank you for the info by the way

[torn copper]

yeah, good hunting

[sudden oak]

I am the only one who sell all stuffs when I d'ont use it ?

[scarlet reef]

Nah i do the same thing, I've sold basically every piece of armor and every non-unique or less effective gun ive found so far

[limber shuttle]

Wow huge bummer, for months now I have been using the Stalker 2 "Looking for Group" feature on Xbox to share the mod collection that I've been working on with my fellow Xbros. Well I went to go re-share again the other day with literally the same copy/paste message that I have been this whole time, and received a 2-day comms ban because of it somehow with no appeal option or further details on why this happened

[scarlet reef]

That sucks, maybe due to the links? Or posting the same links multiple times was seen as spam?

[limber shuttle]

It actually won't let you post at all if detects a direct link, but spacing it out as such had worked for me there and in the past with no issues. Lol I've probably been posting this same message weekly since mods dropped back in July. @sly meteor I imagine this is well beyond GSC and some issue with how Microsoft mandates such content, but shame all I've been trying to do with the LFG posts is spread the good word about mods, updates etc. because community voice is very lacking on Xbox with 0 activity from the "official group" page as navigated to from the store. Not a huge deal, only a 2-day comms ban but definitely makes me wary of how I will go forward in sharing this content in the future

And I pity the poor joyless soul out there who saw my post & decided to report it instead of checking out the mod collection

If it's not an issue with the link itself, my money is on the mentioning of going to a third party website for mods ...even though I'm strictly referring to the mod.io platform officially supported by Xbox. Unfortunately due to minor length of infraction I have no recourse to appeal the ban, nor any way to seek more in-depth info as to why that suddenly led to comms ban

[sonic linden]

Actually got a question on that. Can you install mod.io mods on Stalker 2 even tho they dont show up in the mod menu inside the game ?

[limber shuttle]

You can use the website to enable mods within your own game when signed in with mod.io account but you cannot for example install ones that don't appear on Xbox, because they aren't ported yet & won't work by just enabling them from the browser.

[sonic linden]

Aww that's a shame

[limber shuttle]

Yeah you can go on the website and filter specifically by Xbox but anything else doesn't actually have a working version for console yet

Thank god for easy alts on Xbox lol, whoever he is I hope that mf sees this one too

[scarlet reef]

NPCs activate scanners now? Ran up on this guy, no idea who he was

[scenic saffron]

This has always been the scripted event at the Rostock scanner

The idea is that Nestor has been selling them to literally everyone

[scarlet reef]

Ohhh okay

[unkempt quartz]

those 25 grenades are gonna be put to work

[terse vine]

Malachite is a good place to sleep, even for monolith.

[lunar estuary]

Yall dont mess with George....hes a gangster

[quick wing]

good picture quality

why don't you take a screenshot and paste it here? It's better trust me

[lunar estuary]

Cus i didn't have it binded and I was likely not gonna find him again

[scenic saffron]

If you have a Windows PC and a normal regular literally an keyboard you have a print button

[lunar estuary]

Im a dumbass that didn't screenshot

Oh what am I doing ik I cant reason with discord people

There that a good enough explanation for yall

[scenic saffron]

It's not

[lunar estuary]

Oh no......anyways

[scenic saffron]

Here's the full one for reference

[past jetty]

🇮🇹 duga is best place in the night

[frail merlin]

Parkour from one rock to the other 👍

[broken summit]

I can climb to the rock. But i cant take the artefact. Is under the rock i think

[frail merlin]

Oh boi, It's lost then. move along 😭

[delicate rampart]

wonderful, thank you!

[quick wing]

look at that charisma

[rigid lichen]

?

[cerulean pollen]

Just for admiring this beauty of an art

[acoustic kelp]

Grok is this true?

[quick wing]

wow bro nice one

[cerulean pollen]

yes https://blog.playstation.com/2025/12/15/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-drops-a-free-story-and-content-update-on-dec-16/

[acoustic kelp]

Oh that's tomorrow

[rigid lichen]

"they've taken away everything from me"

[past jetty]

ok and time to run🫡

[vapid osprey]

In italian, the game is telling me i can activate the saving function again in master mode if the game becomes too difficult. Is this not true?

[leaden mountain]

<@&1429819918492368916> i think this guy clicked a wrong link 😛

[full wolf]

Scamboy?

[cerulean pollen]

Skif's brother

[undone edge]

Glad they have made those things bulletproof

[normal marlin]

When stalker multiplayer pvp drops yall are not safe, I will cast artillery shells on yall

[cunning hull]

@flint bough

[dry meadow]

stalker 2 turned the tables, now WE are swamp renegades

[finite eagle]

Can someone tell me what is this weird looking thing hiding in the bedrooms lockers?

[scenic saffron]

Its an old soviet sqeaky toy

if i were to guess its supposed to be a cipollino toy

Its like a little onion charachter very popular in the soviet union

[finite eagle]

Very interesting, it actually kinda looks like that

[finite eagle]

Oh so it is facing the corner like if it was grounded

[limber shuttle]

Let's see what this mysterious signal can do to a Zone Legend

[plush field]

@timber tapir

[hollow ruin]

What was I shot by?

[undone edge]

Pretty sure drawing distance is still 75m

[charred kestrel]

it's never been 75m though

[undone edge]

This Mario crossover always costs me so many deaths...

[vocal kraken]

[past jetty]

f they don't fix the spawn of these damned ones I swear I'll go to GSC, they'll take away your weapons and on top of that they'll drop upgraded weapons under the ground I lost a 360 cracker with all the upgrades damn them

[finite eagle]

In my 350 Hours of S2 ive only heard skif BURP twice

I wonder if the burp got removed or something, id be upset if it did lmao

Could be just a very rare thing, or something under specific conditions

[undone edge]

Well, I've expected food to have terrible value per weight, but...
Uhhh...

[undone edge]

Alright, that's a bit better...

[past jetty]

NICE

[bright stirrup]

Inventory check while playing on Master

[hollow heath]

i dont think the hair shader was working 100% right

[quick wing]

based...

[stiff hull]

I love this game sm. Its atmosphere is unmatched

Very spooky at night (I got attacked by a bloodsucker literally 10 seconds later)

[stiff hull]

Might have gotten a little spooked by a flesh

[wanton epoch]

Wow he is even quite proficient in this

[stiff hull]

Such a pretty game

GSC did a wonderful job with the atmosphere and vibe of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Sometimes I just like to take a moment to admire the surroundings

[blissful cape]

Mutant Yoga ... 😂

[verbal hollow]

Arrived at the Yantar Production Complex with little ammo, thinking: "What's out here?"

To my unfortunate surprise, a bloodsucker den welcomed me with open arms. I ran like hell, resorted to using the roof of this car to shield me from them. I count 8 of them there.

[raw mango]

Got to love it when they improve the game, by making it possible to run on the spot and literally not go anywhere.

https://jumpshare.com/s/ODH0MUVbVzFLVnpBCsLK

[magic imp]

I'd definitely grab more medkits and some extra food but that's just because I'm a hoarder

[fallow parcel]

Yeah I realized I don’t need bandages with my artifacts. I have bunch of other Medkits, yellow blues etc in my stash have no idea what to do with those so I hoarded them but I guess time to pull them out lol

[magic imp]

yeah the hypercube does the trick well 👌

[fallow parcel]

Plus weird nut I’ll probably never bleed lol

[small plaza]

new stalker player here.. is this much cake needed for the zone?

[shadow walrus]

When I move the viewing angle, the black color on the edge of the night vision device will tear.

[earnest jay]

let's go

[earnest jay]

like how are you supposed to do this quest lol

[bright stirrup]

Are these good temperatures for a laptop?

[narrow stratus]

Shitting his guts out

[normal badge]

its without mods btw

[limber shuttle]

you are the luckiest Pierre of all

[undone edge]

Time for the very expensive in repairs SIRCAA run on master I guess...

[dry forge]

good enough

although the gpu temp is probably not showing the hotspot temp which is the one that actually matters.

if your on a 50 series card you need to check the other things like wattage and clock speeds to determine if the gpu is throttling (becoming slower)

[lucid bolt]

These two goobers just having a smoke as SIRCAA burns

[undone edge]

-Clean your gun, soldier!
-But I don't have any...
-Disobeying the order, huh?
-Alright, alright...

[undone edge]

You can even hear rubbing if you come close
Great attention to details

[undone edge]

I think it's a major safety technique violation to place flammable tank near the vent only covered by two flimsy planks...
Not cool, SIRCAA, not cool.

[bright stirrup]

I've got RTX 4060 Laptop

[undone edge]

Oh no...
Time for the most heartbreaking choice in the game

[scenic saffron]

Waiting out an Emission with Duty Frens :3

[undone edge]

[loud slate]

Thats a lot of sucky sucky tentacles

[normal badge]

Wait, i thought its my bug in my save

[loud slate]

Looks like you got more than me

[normal badge]

Yeah, i farmed 32 tentacles

[loud slate]

Damn, only 9 🙁

[charred kestrel]

had an invasion a few days ago as well: #📸┃screens_and_videos message

[scenic saffron]

NUT STATUS: ACQUIRED, CHARGED AND READ TO BURST

[loud slate]

Its funny how they fixed garbage horde spawn in this update, but now Rostok horde is happening

[charred kestrel]

mine was in lesser zone 😛

[scenic saffron]

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

[near viper]

thats relatively low tho. mine is like 97

[stiff hull]

https://tenor.com/view/gulp-cat-cat-gulping-inefablejuly-gif-8427085978329786179

[normal badge]

Why.

[quartz bear]

Artifacts in game are pretty!

[dry meadow]

Wild Territory continuing the tradition of throwing a brigade of mutants at the player

[undone edge]

Eh

It was fun to hoard all that stuff, but sadly, I need the money so most of my collection has to go

[fathom tinsel]

I like the new rat update

[raven rock]

ik iv sent these before but i forgot i had them so i thought id share again. irl zone looking spot near me

[real dirge]

I remember these

[raven rock]

OG

it’s never been that foggy since lol so i haven’t been able to take cool pictures

[restive oar]

Just got into the most epic brawl wild island has seen

[magic imp]

These are a darn cool vibe stalker.

[raven rock]

Ty stalker

[magic imp]

1,3,5,6,7 are the best imo. I can totally see these in the actual zone or as new areas.
"Road to Plains"
"Sandbanks"
"Plains"
"Pipe Heap"
"Lonely Chimney"

[raven rock]

Oooooo i love those names they sound like they would actually be in the game lol

[hollow ruin]

Anyone want invisible AK? It best gun, I give for good price lol

PS : the mod in question is oxide's Expanded armory, which is out of date and extremely buggy since it's only a light port of the original

[magic imp]

Ratstacker

[lucid ether]

weird light bug

[limber shuttle]

Would be great for modularity to have some difficulty customization baked into the vanilla game as such

[marble summit]

Every time I start the game I find a different visual bug; now the scientist's body is in red and white.

herobrine

I don't know if I think this is a cool detail or a bug.

[torn copper]

oh i think i remember these.. either way, 👌

[past jetty]

in so many hours I hadn't seen such an anomaly as Jesus

[stark ocean]

Stalker still dominant

[past jetty]

stalker is dominant

[versed bay]

from my red forest journey (i play on 10% saturation for vibes idk lmao)

[lyric peak]

Watching combat footage not too long ago to this made me have a whiplash for a second..

These look great btw, looking pretty real

[undone edge]

Are psy beacons now indestructible?

[stark ocean]

Probably for the new quest only. I as well couldn’t „switch” it off

[earnest jay]

shiny

[stark ocean]

You ripped off halv of the zone from coupons?

[sharp cradle]

Vanilla or Dynamic Weather mod?

[earnest jay]

it's on veteran difficulty too so 🙂

[copper barn]

Amazing

[earnest jay]

I just hunt mutants and turn the parts in the STC and I also hunt the endless waves of monolith in Prypat. You make a lot of money

[quick wing]

https://youtu.be/t1zM3ePkYPo?si=c242mSjZVqUatTT5

hey GSC, will you improve AI?
hmmm, maybe next year I don't know

[deft wraith]

I've never seen a skin like this before

[quaint flower]

Stalker 2 v1.0

• We deactivated A-Life due to performance issues and because it wasn't complete (We didn't do A-Life)

[undone edge]

Damn, I'd really love to have an actual stash in there...

[tribal prawn]

huh?

[leaden mountain]

27 hours in the game

[pallid barn]

There is when you complete the quest chain in that exact location actually

Just gotta make it a hub first which only happens at the end of the quest chain (if you don't spoiler) until then it's a baby hub

[leaden mountain]

Okay? She will suck me till i bleed i guess.

[pallid barn]

Lmfao

[dry meadow]

lmao if that mutant honse wasn't overly buff but with tiny twig legs it might've been a bit creepy

[scarlet reef]

Lol for me there is. Its a second stash box clipped halfway through the "broken" one, fully accessible though

[dreamy dawn]

rat spawn gone wrong

[buoyant hazel]

I WANT THE SHINING ZONE TO BE REAL

[quick wing]

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

[undone edge]

Random Exo drop makes me really exited

(Even though Operator isn't a good Exo by any means)

[scarlet reef]

From lootable zone?

[undone edge]

Nope, vanilla

[scarlet reef]

Oh damn, nice

[undone edge]

From what I've noticed - any pre-placed (not a fresh kill) corpse has a chance (although small one) to drop the outfit in good condition.

[heady rune]

We peep the fit so far

[earnest jay]

someone is going to die... me or him

[stiff hull]

I don't think this situation could have gotten any worse for me

A second bloodsucker showed up after these clips

[surreal folio]

Guess he dug a bit too much

[vagrant crane]

@plush field @latent seal

[latent seal]

Post a pic of the exact door

Not map

There’s 2

[latent seal]

https://game8.co/games/STALKER-2-Heart-of-Chornobyl/archives/486183

There’s a map on this site

Interactive

All codes shown

[earnest jay]

I wonder how updated it is

[vagrant crane]

Yea ok take a look on the interactive map and take a look from the screenshot of my map and tell me if you can find the code there because i cant see it there!!!

[naive geode]

Just finished the Journalist's Adventure, and oh boy this View is gorgeous from his Apartment

[gaunt siren]

🫡

[vagrant crane]

So no help?

[surreal folio]

Is this really reasonable that a trader can sell this for 9 and I sell for 0 on master?

2 selling vs 36 buying.....why so expensive?

[fallow parcel]

Rate my drip this my stalker difficulty run bout to go to the swamps

[scarlet reef]

diamond exo
gauss rifle
Just now visiting ||clear sky base||
Somebody was a little sneeki breeki trespasser

[limber shuttle]

Are these all possible locations to pick up Banzai's radio transmission to start the new quests? I personally got it as I wandered from Burnt Forest into Chemical Plant at the southeastern-most encircled area.

[fallow parcel]

@scarlet reef damn right them streets are too quiet if you know what I mean 😏

[plush field]

@fierce lark

[mellow jasper]

Thats funny, I took the exact same photo of that ladder

[vital valley]

So like what is that arm lol

[lyric peak]

The Zone consumes and the dead become one with the Zone

[glossy hill]

Funny that there is a bus station from ShoC, sadly not enterable 🙁

[limber shuttle]

Here's hoping that & the rest of unfinished Pripyat arrives in a future update! 🙏

[glossy hill]

Yeah, cannot wait for Jupiter factory and northern part of Pripyat and its outskirts

[limber shuttle]

The combination of exploring older/leaked content as well as actually exploring those areas in-game out of bounds has me itching for that. The ol' Bitumen Anomaly sure seems to have gotten out of hand

[glossy hill]

There was even DLC planned there, Sandy Plateau

Also there is Kasharivka location marked north on Pripyat in physical written map that we got with game editions

[limber shuttle]

Yeah I do recall as such, I wonder if that will happen too (thought I heard more definitive rumors of the other 2 Limansk & Cold Island) though I guess I'd at least settle for expanded Pripyat

[glossy hill]

So maybe those plans are still up in GSC, I hope so

[limber shuttle]

I dream of the fullest version the devs had in mind at some point, not that the map isn't wonderful but it definitely leaves ya wanting that bit more if you've seen some of what had been cut and potentially what's to come

[glossy hill]

Initially there was 3 dlc expected

[glossy hill]

That's true. Really miss Korogod, it was meant to be a real atmospheric place

[limber shuttle]

Here's a good EN translated version of what we are talking about for anyone similarly intrigued https://imgur.com/vlBONJm

[quick wing]

so good atmosphere

[quick wing]

is this Zone map?

[glossy hill]

Idk if we are allowed to post here such things but yeah, it could be awesome

There are at least 3 versions of this map made in various stages of development

[glossy hill]

Yeah, initial map few years before the release and some cut outs

[quick wing]

included Iron Forest, Dead City and CNPP etc... ?

[limber shuttle]

Amen to that & frankly having Doctor's House way out there would have made waaaay more sense to me in terms of believability vs. the Red Forest's Under The Dome as well as made for a nice journey to an area unknown

[glossy hill]

There were no Dead City planned

[glossy hill]

Yeah

[limber shuttle]

Though I get a lot of players had issues already with all the running around towards the tail end of campaign, I think we can agree it isn't just the idea of having each next main mission be spread so far geographically, but also the notion that now there's nothing particularly out there for you to do at that point (if you've been a completionist) beyond just following the main story path, as compared to the first third of the game chock full of side content to help pad out your journey between main story moments

[glossy hill]

Also heard that the cutscenes with doctor in the field from ShoC were in Korogod so we could get a simple look how the vibe of the location could be, dark, dead and grimmy

But all of these are currently speculations

[torn copper]

@raven rock

[pallid pumice]

lazy sunday

[mossy basin]

Thanks I have the steam recorder working while I play, occasionally I get really good footage.

[quick wing]

escape from emision and reach the shelter, this always feels so good

[daring musk]

Stalker 2 ps5 new anomaly 🤣 or bug

[pale dove]

bugged sprinting

[frail merlin]

UUUgly!

[fallow parcel]

Interesting…

[raven rock]

Ooooo i love the night time onesss

[raven rock]

why are bros jst sitting in it wasn’t it used to like remove the most radioactive debris

[frozen bone]

Never in my life in the zone I saw it jump that far

[raven rock]

https://tenor.com/view/deepfriedwoomy-gif-20893284

[lucid bolt]

im seeing double

[mossy basin]

some ambiance

surprise visitor

firefight

ambush

[stiff hull]

That is a very ominous red

[raven rock]

go outside and check it out

[undone edge]

And here went all my savings...
To fully kit the exo from the last journalist stash
(Fully kitted Diamond is still probably better and I probably will farm enough money to do that as well)

[fallow parcel]

Yeah, Fully upgraded diamond indeed better, here is a screenshot just for your reference:)

[fallow parcel]

Falcon is very good until Pripyat, and diamond you will find Naturally before going to Pripyat:) don’t think you need exo before that, had been rocking Seva D suit, then found Falcon and now Diamond. Repair cost is utterly insane on Exos. Not worth it early-mid game.

[undone edge]

I am very well aware, not my first playthrough.

Though I was interested in checking out that journalist Ward exo, as my first playthrough was before the ultimate edition upgrade.

My armor of choice is Spark SEVA or SSP-100 usually, but here I am on master difficulty, when maxed out physical resistance is really needed. So I went with upgraded Falcon on SIRCAA and further. Expensive to repair, but... manageable considering how much of a hoarder I am.

Though I am usually using cheap guns to save on repairs.
Combatant is amazing on that regard. Love the AK vibes, does the job, cheap, and has increased durability.

[stiff hull]

I found my diamond exo in Pripyat, at one of the Monolith's main bases

It was a school I found it in, I think?

[violet hare]

bro, what is your weight.. are you using a weight mod or sm

[frozen bone]

The mod that gives like 50% extra carry weight with other additions to the game

And exo weight upgrade too

[violet hare]

oh

[undone edge]

Yes, but there's also one in Spark Bunker

[undone edge]

I personally use a mod that gives you flat 30kg carry weight.
Going from 80max to 110max.

I have a weird feeling that Skif has least carrying capacity out of all Stalker protagonists....
I mean... granted, Strelok also has about that much, but back in SoC we needed to carry so much less stuff at all times...
(Partially due to money being worthless as traders don't have anything of use to spend it + very short game)

[woven sinew]

not sure if this is the game or most likely the mods fault, just wanted to share cuz it caught me off guard.

[stiff hull]

I am too stupid to go looking for the spark bunker

God, I cannot WAIT for an Anomaly/GAMMA modpack for S2

[wanton epoch]

Huh, something is wrong with this lantern. It's the lantern near the sunken barge from 1.8

[undone edge]

Gamma is an achievement of over a decade of modding experience.
Stalker 2 has a long way of modders learning just how to UE5.

[stiff hull]

I know, but it's gonna be a blast once it happens

Not gonna lie, I kinda want the OG bandit voice lines in S2

The new Cheeki Breeki voice lines aren't as iconic

[undone edge]

I'm kinda sick of Koloboks, Flytraps and Crowns...
Not like they're bad artifacts, but I'd love some other stuff as well for my collection...

[finite eagle]

Can someone explain why did gsc gave em cake?

I'm glad there's cake but danm

[undone edge]

That's not that much cake, just magic of hitting the right pose

[raven rock]

same here

[finite eagle]

Nah bloodsuckers and monolith have cake most of the time

[raven rock]

true bloodsuckers always do

[finite eagle]

[undone edge]

Did another routine stash clearing for a little bit of money (around 120k)
Time to chose a new loadout...

[acoustic kelp]

That's a fat stack of cash you got there

[acoustic kelp]

Bro why do you need 445 PTMs

[scenic saffron]

Im gonna sell them to american larpers and become rich

[acoustic kelp]

Nah the indians can have em

[scarlet vale]

Unironically you’d make a fat chunk in the US market

[timber tapir]

[fallow parcel]

^_^)

[scenic saffron]

Lil bro didn't even know what hit him

[fallow parcel]

Always love to see this:)

[scarlet reef]

Based

[glossy hill]

I keep smoking and waiting for DLC at the gates of Limansk

[opaque mason]

Ant known fix to this one...?

[lyric peak]

Turning flashlight on and off worked for me

[opaque mason]

Ill try it appreciate ya

[fallow parcel]

Sadness:(

[stark ocean]

So far i never seen a game with such a visuals and atmosphere, and constantly amazed from what i see.
Perhaps Elden Ring comes 2nd place as unique atmospheric experience.

[quick wing]

where are the Sin

[leaden mountain]

Stalker ahh graphic

[stark ocean]

Typical Polish landscaping

[leaden mountain]

Yeah and this is 500 meters before one of the biggest cities in Poland xD

[blissful cape]

i use 'Utlimate Engine Tweaks' from Nexus. Thats an engine.ini file. I have a 21:9 and had this problem before.

[stiff hull]

Just needs a bit more fog

[leaden mountain]

My camera doesn't capture that much fog but there was more of that

[stiff hull]

Fair

Totally didn't get jumpscared by Bloodsuckers, wdym

Been thoroughly enjoying SoC and the other games. I do not regret buying the Legends of the Zone trilogy

[icy stratus]

Ah yes the spas ,,mutant deleter" 14

[raven rock]

I love thissss

[undone edge]

Thanks, random bandit corpse, I guess...

POV: You need to clear just a little bit of inventory space to escape overweight

[leaden mountain]

I love my polish landscapes too

[undone edge]

Wow
Actually, plain Diamond is kinda on par with fully upgraded Shturm (minus lead containers)

[pallid whale]

It's patch 1.6 all over again.

[dusk tulip]

why is chemical plant so overpopulated with bloodsuckers

[scenic saffron]

Just having a sosig watching the view

Only one more to go

[undone edge]

How the hell guy is still alive after I've blasted him with RPG

Oh, this gonna be the hardest fight on Master diff so far...

UPD:I've misplaced my shot, I've took him down in one rocket on a second try

But it's actually really hard to nail it

[dry meadow]

I've got 442 hours in this game and still haven't gotten every artifact lol

[stiff hull]

Fighting Faust?

[lyric peak]

You need to aim for his lamp at his hip, he's not going to die in other ways.

If you focus on nothing else but the lamp he will die fairly quickly even on master diff

[gentle portal]

Cheeki breeki convention

[gentle portal]

It's the holiday season, so the family from all of The Zone reunite to give presents to the little bloodsuckers

[naive fractal]

anyone knows how to fix it? its the quest of the stories untold

[lucid ether]

Are you using mods

[naive fractal]

yes

[lucid ether]

Can you send your mod list

[naive fractal]

im using those ones

[lucid ether]

Ok, I think it’s because oxa and sleeping bag mod have conflicting localizations. Go into your mods folder and delete the localizations from each and then download merged localization

[winter saddle]

Localization no update for 1.8

[scarlet reef]

Leaving STC Malachite and traveling to Duga

[naive fractal]

you are right, how do I download the merged localization?

[scarlet vale]

Imma need your visual settings for Xbox brother

[scarlet reef]

Literally whatever the default setup is, i didnt change it at all. I do a tiny bit of editing on my pics (just changing some contrast/saturation stuff) but nothing major.

The pics always come out way better than the game looks as i play it

[lucid ether]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1394

And don’t forget to delete the oxa and sleeping bag localizations

[mortal hatch]

I still can't get over how good this game looks sometimes

[stark ocean]

Right? Still amazes me, especially when lately i did smoll adjustments to the saturation.

[mortal hatch]

I said "sometimes"!

[scenic saffron]

It usually looks fine but sometimes this shit happens and i get mad as hell

[small plaza]

found a gauss rifle from a dead mono in condor woohoo

[feral sable]

I was using fully upgraded diamond the whole end game

[undone edge]

Pretty sure everyone does

[feral sable]

It's expensive but oh boy does it work

[frail merlin]

I used the Merc Suit till I found the PSZ-9I Falcon, Used that for 75% of the game then switched to Diamond for Maximum hoarding/hauling 😋

[small plaza]

found another gauss in condor lol

[feral sable]

https://tenor.com/view/xrd-exrd-crypto-btc-eth-gif-23801255

[obtuse parcel]

I managed to beat each game on master and very close to platinum!

[small plaza]

All that cake cushons their fall during jump attacks

[frail merlin]

The Collection Must GROW!

[small plaza]

And a third Gauss... No clue what I did that made the monolith spoil me, but im lovin it

[undone edge]

Marvelous

[undone edge]

Almost maxed out
Almost...

(Redundant physical protection from compass is for when armor loses it's durability in a prolonged missions)

[undone edge]

She won't give me new mutant part quests until I finish all the current ones, won't she?

I have no idea where to get a sufficient amount of those, considering only 1 in 10 drops the leg, and I need 10 of those.

Why wouldn't she ask for bloodsucker tentacles instead? I have 60 of those...
Or 30 burer fingers...

[undone edge]

For how hard to get 10 tushkan legs, payment is insultingly low
Measly 6.5k
Compared to 90k for arguably faster to get 9 Bayun whiskers

[gentle portal]

ª

[past jetty]

@gentle portal you are magic

[quick wing]

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

[raven rock]

i think you drank a little too much vodka

[lyric peak]

It was all in your head !

[quick wing]

https://tenor.com/view/goodnight-bye-peace-see-ya-g2g-gif-5181030

[raven rock]

true lol

[acoustic kelp]

Running Error script 445

[undone edge]

How do I even do monolith hospital on stealth?

Guy just never goes away, and there's no way to sneak past

I mean throwing bolt kinda distracts, but also alerts the whole hospital so they start to walk all over it fast

[mortal hatch]

Walkin in a winter wonderland 🎵
(Modded)

[fiery canopy]

another day in the zone

[undone edge]

Hair doing funny think again

[gentle portal]

Is this a reference to something?

I think it is a reference of the CoD Teddy Bear, but I could be wrong

[undone edge]

Wha?
Corps and Monolith on Kordon?

... Any why there are clearly fresh scientist corpses in X3 if it was abandoned long ago? Should have been mummified.

[raven rock]

I was just sitting by the fire on the floor above that first image

[valid stump]

Same! 😄

[hot wind]

is this a reference to something?

[raven rock]

https://tenor.com/view/svalker-gif-19793866

[violet hare]

probably some cut content or smth

or just a random model gsc decided to stitch together

[near viper]

Fallout?

[raw mango]

Wow! More game bugs

[raw mango]

Yes, bugged... Like so much of this game

[raven rock]

stalker having bugs?! no….

[dry meadow]

zomg licherally unslappable

[tender spade]

Oh forgot her. So 3 girl characters in total

[past jetty]

in fact it is true that there are few women in stalker 2, which is very strange given today's politics.

[stark ocean]

Correctness don’t do liberal women lol

[empty crater]

I feel like we often underestimate how horrid the people inhabiting the zone actually are, especially in regard to bandits, and to whatever renegades have done to receive their status. That said, why would they want to be there?

[lucid bolt]

Okay yesterday I saw two scoutmasters. I now see three

And two Banzais

[summer fulcrum]

@hot wind I was wondering the same thing it looks like a fallout helmet lol

[undone edge]

Bruh, get the hell out of the doorway! I need to get out!

[mortal hatch]

(modded)

[past jetty]

noo again but fix it come on

[past jetty]

its crazy very beatiful

[past jetty]

where are you here

[undone edge]

New 1.8 hub in burnt forest

[signal berry]

I have no idea what this anomaly is called, but Emissions aint got shit on it.

[past jetty]

and this thing is really annoying anyway

[mortal hatch]

probably rat swarm

[signal berry]

Rat swarm? Everytime I’ve ran into one it seems like a scripted event though. And I’ve been through that area of Rostok several times

[mortal hatch]

idk if they fixed (or changed?) it but that specific rat swarm respawned multiple times for me

[violet hare]

oh these arent too bad i guess

[undone edge]

For some reason, console doesn't spawn exactly plain Shturm.
By the cog icon (and price), seems like it has something by default.

[violet hare]

oh yea the base shturm is upgraded or something

[undone edge]

Yea, I've checked.
Already two physical protection upgrades and a container all by default

[violet hare]

what you can do is calculate how much the upgrades do add to it based on a ward exo

cause they actually might just be the same in some aspects

[undone edge]

No, not really. In price and physical armor maybe.

Again, even defaultly upgraded Shturm is still inferior to plain Diamond.
And after upgrades it's just a wider gap.

[violet hare]

i mean good on gsc for making the best item in the game free

[undone edge]

Honestly, yea

There's no real reason why Skif isn't given at least on option to give out Strelok and asking about this facility directly to Korshunov, BEFORE breaking in and killing a lot of guys, if he went Ward path before that

(Obviously Skif is a C-Con agent programmed to be agreeable to anyone, so other C-Con agent Richter can guide him without Skif knowing what he have gotten into

Strelok said to just break out - Skif agreed.
Some "Would You Kindly" shenanigans)

[stiff hull]

I hear a Burer but do not see a Burer

[stiff hull]

I went against Baldy and Scar my first playthrough, ended up getting ||Strelok's ending||

Also, I can't get these pop-ups to go away

Idk why, but not a super big deal since I can load and play the games

[cerulean pollen]

Skif didn't "break in and killed a lot of guys". He didn't know the badge won't work. If you mean the "non-badge" route, then, I hope, it's clear that at that moment Skif wasn't fully commited to the Ward cause - after what Strelok showed him in X3, after Orbita, he's pretty much was on the Strelok route, before the moment where he chooses his final side.

[brazen kindle]

Uhmmmm

I think there's something wrong with my HUD

[brazen kindle]

He's hidden somewhere there, I don't remember how I killed him

[mortal hatch]

(modded)

[stiff hull]

Do you have a HUD mod installed? I had the same issue

[pallid whale]

First Barkeep's freeloaders vanish in fron of my lies when I kill the last one, and now this lol.

Oh damn, another (small) Cheeki Breeki Convention

[quick wing]

Skif is a C-Con agent?

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

🤣 GSC knows best dude, don't question it

[grand parrot]

started out a master difficulty run, i havent seen this anomaly before
https://medal.tv/games/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-heart-of-chornobyl/clips/lLrzjlP1TNSw6W71Z?invite=cr-MSxpSDgsMTQ2ODEzMDY0&v=15

[red isle]

May need further tweaking to your liking but it’s a good start point for controller settings

[pale moss]

THANKS !!!

[pale moss]

And for the brightness ?

[red isle]

No problem bro. Look in the general chat I answered

[past jetty]

The problem is that there is an annoying bug that poltergeist burers that throws things at you through walls and you have no defenses.

[glossy hill]

Doesn't the background in GSC's latest Christmas post remind you of Limansk? DLC Easter Egg? 😜

[scenic saffron]

It looks like 80% of all cities in eastern Europe I wouldn't think too much about it

[glossy hill]

Wouldn't be so sure about that 😉

[real dirge]

Maybe.But Limansk has all those short buildinds with terraces and balkonies

[glossy hill]

It also got bigger buildings in the background. I'm sure that they gonna expand it much so there so much of possibilities

And I doubt they would just give some random ordinary town for the post where you can see that it is abandoned. Pripyat looks different. Only the ferrywheel doesn't suit here.

[pallid pumice]

stuck, i think pro tip is do not play stalker 2 endgame on veteran plus

[limber shuttle]

is that Zulu? and who? some new relevant character from upcoming Flame faction? or is this Mavka the Arena announcer we never physically see?

[scenic saffron]

I dunno Zulu was balder and it looks like he's wearing heavy metal armor and like a sword or hammer

[limber shuttle]

I was thinking maybe but wouldn't be the first time we saw some degree of character redesign, and also can't be from Cossacks because he has shotgun shells on the arm bracer + everything else in windows being S2 relevant

[cerulean pollen]

@scenic saffron

[scenic saffron]

I figured this was just an Easter egg

[grave relic]

Considering that there is a direct order to Strider and the final scene, one can conclude that they were acquainted

[scenic saffron]

I'll be reaching x5 soon I'll take a closer look at everything I honestly can't remember from the last time I was there

[grave relic]

There’s nothing else interesting there.
The only thing I’ll say is that nearby there’s Strelok’s stash, which the Doctor often visited. Probably, when Faust was searching for information about his past, they accidentally ran into the Doctor in the same location

[sleek gulch]

@undone edge you would see a bunch of sewer exits and only one will be accessible and lead into malachite (this is also tied into a story mission so no clue if anyone can access it)

[normal badge]

Oh my. . .

[compact fossil]

yeah i just wanted to save my ass in this situation, leading to an end in S2 i never wanted :/

damn quicktimeevent

[undone edge]

Guess this is my final artifact collection, with 398 artifacts in it.
It's been a good run, but I don't have anything to do in the game anymore in between emissions
Still 67\69, so I give up.
RNG have won over my nerves.

[dry meadow]

Burnt Forest stalkers already making a name for themselves for being a little... freakaaay

[undone edge]

Goodbye, hoard
I won't need it anymore...

[thin gale]

Does Thé super generator artifact you get from a ward corps in a side quest count for the acheivement ? Cause indont see it in your stash

[undone edge]

The what?

[thin gale]

Its like a soul or a Moonlight but you Can only get it via a side quest AT thé begining of the playtrhough, and i dont know if it count for the acheivement

[undone edge]

It's just a normal Soul artifact, nothing special about it

[thin gale]

It dosnt stack with mines , dis they change something ? Also i think it dont have thé same effects evenbif it share thé same appearence

Cant show a screenshot rn

I just have this

[undone edge]

When I've picked it up, it was just a normal Soul for me
I didn't check if it stacks so I just gave it in for the quest

Time for arguably the worst place in the entire game on Master
Especially with how enemies seem to just shoot through solid conrete

[thin gale]

On my second playtrhough that i started on 1.7 it was liké a seperate artefact

[undone edge]

Hey, comrade Colonel, check this out!

[undone edge]

Nevermind, Colonel on master is even worse than tearing through countless monolith troops

[fallow parcel]

Just save scum bro

[undone edge]

Even after upgrades... it's not that good, isn't it?
Plus, only 1 lead container against 4 lead containers on Diamond.
And no carry weight for the mission where you probably want to bring A LOT of stuff.

How that's for the X7 loadout?

Sure it sounds more reasonable to abandon X7 suit and go with Diamond, but...
I kinda want to go for it as intended, idk...

[undone edge]

Alright

Through some AI abuse, I've done it.
Still wasn't easy, as one missed shot from Gauss or one second of loafing around, and he just kills you in one burst through any cover

Alright, Scar on master straight out one shots, and there's no room for mistake...

[sand nymph]

Holy shit, it's literally a Slavic Flipper Zero.

GSC, why must you keep torturing us with awesome unobtainable suits like this?

[past jetty]

beatiful

[undone edge]

Oh...
Final march through the death room
No idea how it's doable on master without shooting through walls fix

Guys don't even spawn until you jump down...

[undone edge]

I give up...

[undone edge]

400+ deaths, even with cutting a few corners like the final killroom
It was kinda fun ride (until it wasn't)
While no regrets, I would also not recommend playing master mode to anyone

[gaunt path]

Could I get some help finding this stash in Lesser Zone? I cannot find it for the life of me

[regal plume]

who is that lady?! female stalker!!! is she new?

[regal plume]

usually if its not above ground its probably under ground u might have to look around for a hole or soemthing..i found a gun that i was looking for it was inside a wishing well!! i had to jump into it and fall down under the ground to get it!

[regal plume]

i use tainers when playing on super hard like that...so i can enjoy the advnaced AI and stuff without geting 1 shot

[limber shuttle]

Have seen some calling her Mavka who is the Rostok Arena announcer but I don't believe we ever see her world model in-game (why wouldn't she also be in flecktarn?) I'm more inclined to believe she is upcoming relevant new member of datamined ||Flame|| faction especially with the Zulu feature in upper left corner, who also seems to play a major role in upcoming DLC with ||Law||

[pallid pumice]

yea for that part u need to like take cover into a tiny box on the left, it work for me on veteran plus, ill never play master difficulty again

[regal plume]

did they forget to put Dalins voice actor in a place holder? 🤣

thats def not him saying that thats someone else

[lyric peak]

I had something like that happen with Richter once

[regal plume]

lol

this happens everywhere in this game

Lumen is such trash. that looks horrible

[bright anvil]

Lag of doom

[regal plume]

is this from console?

QUALITY!!! why does it still do that? have they not figured out how to fix this by now???

Its the Traveler!!!

[pallid pumice]

i think the ball you see is the screen space reflection, the reflection you see when look down is lumen thats why it look bad. the game would be laggy if they use higher quality lumen reflection

[torn copper]

very jolly 👌

[regal plume]

watch when the peices of debre fly over this puddle...

they need to do baked in shadows or reflections for some of these spots cause this is just terrible. Batman Arkham Knight or MGS5's doesnt have this problem. MGS5 especially since thats a 24hr real time Day/Night cycle

I am just hoping alot of these problems are fixed whenver they update to UE5.5

[cold lion]

Yeah the reflection of the game is just terrible

[frail merlin]

New Trees ? 🤣

[regal plume]

GSC Game World REALLY needs a QA team because this game is clearly still Early Access...this is just one of MANY examples of Quest Markers not even near where you are suposed to go

then when you submity a bug report with video, they want you to do 50 trouble shooting steps instead of just owning it and just fixing it

[fallow parcel]

Is this ingame or real chornobyl?

[torn copper]

in-game

[quick wing]

play Stalker 2, you'll like it

[fallow parcel]

I do play it bro hahaha

[fallow parcel]

Crazy this is modded on a high end pc isnt it?

[torn copper]

no; im using a few of pankoatan’s mods on xbox series s

[fallow parcel]

Thats crazy wtf the game looks nothing like this on my ps5

[torn copper]

yeah, the graphics can be a bit bland on vanilla. i forgot but, does playstation have mods yet?

[fallow parcel]

No we dont unfortunately i adjusted my tv and ingame settings tho to make the game look more realistic and gritty. But these screenshots are on another level i cant imagine what it looks like on a high end pc

[torn copper]

that sucks.. speaking of pc, you should see desolates, they’re pretty photorealistic imo

^^ i could also share my display settings if you’d like; not sure if they’d work as well on playstation though, no hdr including

[fallow parcel]

Im good bro thx i already composed a super realistic setting with the help of ai its the best i can get atm on ps5

[fallow parcel]

Nice setup although i really dislike the taste of "blutwurst" are you german perchance?

[sterile bear]

Yes I am

[sterile bear]

I liked it

[fallow parcel]

Nice bro haha you go get that blutwurst 👀 lass es dir schmecken und frohe weihnachten diggi ^^

[sterile bear]

Danke dir auch 🎄🎁

[torn copper]

gotchu ✅

[fossil warren]

Why do I have such horrible graphics lately?
The Nvidia app can't optimize the game and keeps the details low in the preview even when I have epic settings in the game.

[past jetty]

why its frustating mod master mod

[scarlet reef]

"Such horrible graphics" thats just what my game looks like on xbox

[fossil warren]

I have it on PC through Xbox. But I didn't have it like this before.

[normal badge]

Oh. . . Ah. . .

[leaden mountain]

Mage hand from baldur's gate?

[cerulean pollen]

That anomaly must've hurt

[sand nymph]

Where's the key to unlock this door? I want that stash, even if it isn't anything good.

I came through here from the back using nothing but my bolts and sprinting. Is your average stalker really so inept that they couldn't get passed the barrier through here without some special, modified SIRCAA scanner?

Lore stuff meant for #s2-lore-discussions.

[scarlet vale]

There’s a hole in the floor in the building above the door, in a room with a flytrap anomaly

[bright stirrup]

I think bro is really in need of help

[scarlet reef]

Me after eating taco bell

[bright stirrup]

True

[pallid whale]

60 hours in and this alwasy happens. whether upon death, or spawning in

[graceful raft]

Caught it all

[feral sable]

https://tenor.com/view/holy-shit-shades-off-shocked-surprised-wtf-gif-214049199930703289

I mean that is pretty cooll

No dammit i don't need to spend more money 😭 xD

[graceful raft]

I want to paint them so bad, yours are pretty cool :D

[feral sable]

Random image i found, not mine 😅

[feral sable]

I wish, you def spent more...
But the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Core Pledge + Stretch Goals + Zone Survival is $270 here, on sale 😅

[graceful raft]

i dont have it from pledge, i collected it from everywhere, for example i found core box + monsters for 80eur :D sealed btw

[feral sable]

Damn, nice

[graceful raft]

and if i count right, i saved circa 100eur compared to pledge xd

[graceful raft]

wait till u see the second part with mutants

[feral sable]

How much it cost all up? 😅

[graceful raft]

ah, only 60 eur xd 250eur overall

on gamefound its 310 for these set

[feral sable]

I mean for the whole set you bought, everything. How much you pay all up?

[graceful raft]

250 as i said

i bought it from ppl who didnt knew what they have ig

[feral sable]

Why does that seem like crazy cheap? xD Oooooh

Oh this was last year it came out xD
I wouldn't have been able to pledge anyways 😅 Didn't know what stalker was

$540 i would have had to pay (AUD)for the whole set besides the collectors chest thing.... Hey i mean that's not bad tbh xD

[feral sable]

Also why i refuse to go down the Warhammer rabbit hole xD

[graceful raft]

I think it will be slowly released worldwide, in our country they released it localized in our language in 9th December

[graceful raft]

My wallet would cry

[feral sable]

I can buy the base version for $270

[graceful raft]

yeah, its sadly in waves

[feral sable]

Or i can get ripped off and buy from this american seller the whole set for $1200 😅 (2x what i'd pay)

[graceful raft]

i tried to contact these guys beacuse of duty and freedom, but they want 200-300USD for this (retail is 80btw)

[feral sable]

Jeez, yeah it will go up in price sadly. Just how board games are

[graceful raft]

Im new in this, but i think its best time to stop, that thing is in my calculations probably 350hours of unique content xd

115 missions and every mission is about 3 hours

[feral sable]

xD
Sounds like a blast tbh 👍

[graceful raft]

Yeaah, the rules is quite simple too, it has training mission that explain everything u need for play :D

[signal berry]

Why does bro have Albinism? I've tried changing every possible setting under the sun.

[obsidian cipher]

toolbelt has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[signal berry]

I had a similar issue earlier in Duga with a similar sequence, except it was neon red hair. Changed the shadow quality to low which fixed it, but now I'm bumping into EXPLETIVE Guy Fieri over here

For the most part the game is beautiful, but man the moment hair enters a cinematic? It's joever bro

[acoustic kelp]

You can count the hair he has on his face

[signal berry]

A great feature of Unreal Engine, the ability to literally count hairs from a mile away. Guy is a living lantern.

[acoustic kelp]

He looks like a darksouls enemy when you get too close with a lantern

You good bro?

[scarlet reef]

I called this number and my cat exploded

[undone chasm]

Yea im just exposing some guy number

[scarlet vale]

<@&1429819918492368916> some chucklenut potentially doxxing a random number

[solar sedge]

montreal

[wary kestrel]

!ban 929882898822217728 posting random phone numbers as a fresh account

[obsidian cipher]

iceycali has been banned

Reason: posting random phone numbers as a fresh account

[solar sedge]

dude

i was literally

[wary kestrel]

[solar sedge]

greedy bastard

[scarlet vale]

It really is just ringing the dinner bell isn’t it

[wary kestrel]

kill confirmed

[scarlet vale]

Least it wasn’t as bad as some jackass joining and trying to ‘hire’ people like a few I’ve seen

[wary kestrel]

one day i should count my total number of bans

[scarlet vale]

Like I said, make a leaderboard

[scarlet reef]

Sometimes The Zone is quite beautiful

[pallid whale]

Just standing there as I fight the Ward for them

[quick wing]

[frail merlin]

Merry Christmas Stalkers! 🎉 🎁

[slate blade]

happy christimas for everyone (brazillian video)

[maiden coyote]

GUYS GUYS, this is the first time I meet a friendly Monolithian, I met this dude after killing Faust, he talks about Monolith and not attacking me. Weird ( Sorry for weird non-Eng language)

took me 350 hours to meet this rare dude

[fallow parcel]

Cool beans is he at duga? And also what language is this actually?

[maiden coyote]

yep, he's in Duga, and it's Vietnamese, I have to manual install the language package though

I met him here

I don't think it's bug, they even made voiceline about Monolith for him haha

[quick wing]

what's the story background about it?

[maiden coyote]

idk, just random guy without being hostile

[quick wing]

why isn't Monolithian acting hostile towards us dude