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[dry forge]

completed the game twice :L

[lyric mural]

Yeah tbh getting struck is rare, but close calls seem to happen constantly. Almost like they programmed it to aim for the player.

[dry forge]

next time i'm playing i'll see if i ever get struck, just stay in the open for a bit.

[pallid rock]

It’s random — across two playthroughs, I took lightning damage exactly twice.

[limber shuttle]

Maybe anecdotal but I feel like it happens to me more standing on rooftops & generally those kind of scenarios one would expect to be more likely struck

[solemn python]

walked to rostok from the red forest (old mine) just now, there was a storm going and lightning struck twice within like 5 meters from me 😲 never got hit, but the whole screen went white for a split second

[buoyant shell]

Same here, although the first time i died to it because i was also getting gobsmacked by a bloodsucker😭

[plain moat]

hmm

[lament jay]

Is this some hidden riddle with an item?

[placid hornet]

Anyone know what the icon on the lower left means? The one I highlighted yellow

[scarlet reef]

I've been wandering for so long...
I finally found it, I'm finally home... right?"

[native island]

if you've downloaded the PRZ cold light mod thats basically the indicator that tells you if the dark nights thingy is active or not

[sacred shuttle]

3 guys in co-op vs the bloodsucker den

[placid hornet]

thank you!

[quick wing]

[frail merlin]

Ducky!

[solemn python]

Where??

[frail merlin]

"White House" in Prypiat

[solemn python]

Aahh OK I'm not that far yet, I was just thinking I like to take my time and explore every new area I find, yet I've never seen a ducky in a gas mask 😆 great find!

[dreamy dawn]

fix, when??

[cursive lava]

Love this eerie feeling.

[plain moat]

didn't expect him this run to get red highlights & glowy eyes lol

[quick wing]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-2-stalker-heart-of-chornobyl-chornobyl-gsc-game-world-gif-11754941621669100866

[graceful raft]

I bought UE today :D

[rocky totem]

https://youtube.com/shorts/Bt2h3AuvxmI?si=ZHKQEkgqbm6iJ--w

https://youtu.be/AX5g4ga4P5o?si=C1lZMQXEqt6j6drp

[violet hare]

do it

[plain moat]

https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/9935251903476509858/D1B52F8C46D9B4FBE6BEF926B34D32347F41211A/

may be broken, & got to open it in browser ; but I did some messing about in OXA prototype

[rocky totem]

https://youtu.be/mSv_QLD30fc?si=8TBK9ZQq_qli8wB0

[celest pewter]

when i turn too quick after looking at a certain spot in the sky, it makes a window where i was looking in the sky, why is the lighting and fog so shit in this game bro 🥀

[quick wing]

cry about it

[past jetty]

this atmosfere of stalker realy beatiful

[quick wing]

@surreal folio

[violet hare]

boorrringgggg

[quick wing]

😭

[frank mountain]

Just me sh*tting myself

[hidden cloud]

Lumen is leaking again gng 🥀

[hidden cloud]

bro got gaslit by PSI-Radiation btw 🥀 💔 🙏

[quaint flower]

welcome to UE5

[pallid barn]

More Guitar I did on top of STC Malachite if anyone wants to watch it feel free thx hope it's good

[celest pewter]

Will the engine update fix this shit

[pallid barn]

I will say it's been forever since I have played this game so tbh it probably sux

[pallid barn]

Probably maybe hopefully we'll see whenever we get the elusive update

[celest pewter]

Isnt it still ue5 tho

The performance and lighting in this game has had a train ran on it honestly

[pallid barn]

Yeah I believe so but it's like a slightly better version of it or something I'm not exactly sure

The first Guitar short (and the only other one I posted) was more popular in Japan and Russia so I'm excited to see where this one ends up

[quaint flower]

Maybe. It depends on the developers

[limber shuttle]

Well that's unfortunate this is the second time now I've received an automated Xbox enforcement action merely for sharing information about my public mod collection using the Xbox Looking For Group post Really I don't know what sour mf is seeing me do that out of my own benevolence and deciding to report it but I guess because of the word mods gets automatically flagged, just another reason we need mod collections to appear in-game beyond individual mods. I know this is some automated Xbox BS and ultimately there's nothing that can be done through here but wtf man this is the second time that's happened, guess I'm just done using that source to share anything with Xboys

Made even more absurd by the fact that there are certain words that are automatic triggers that won't let you make the post, but in this case though mod is not one of them, but still can garner a ban with no option for contesting it if somebody decides to report the post. I have been using this LFG source to share my mod collection weekly since I started building it back in July & it's become the most popular on the site definitely in part to that regular Xbox outreach, but disheartening to know some asshole is out there reporting the posts. Doesn't say any details I guess it could be for "advertising" but c'mon it's just a free modpack through the official source I use myself and just wanted to share with community

[solemn python]

Unfortunately, the only thing we can do against cancerous "communities" is not using them ☹️

[tired stag]

i mean, it do be self advertising

[limber shuttle]

I can't argue with that, but that channel is otherwise dead because the game has no multiplayer & otherwise only used for few-and-far-between " talk stalker and chill" posts, I didn't think trying to outreach to the community it's intended for was anything more than a victimless crime. At the end of the day that experience is curated for my own interests & lmao I gain nothing from sharing the modpack with the public, but just felt others especially in the console space being very underrepresented might want a similar experience & not know such things even exist with the limited in-game mod browser. Though there are always those that will find a way to piss on the parade I guess 🫃

[deft path]

Latest GSC Media post about Cafe “Prypiat” vs PC Epic (version 1.8.1)

I see changes in Foliage, AO, Volumetric Sun Shafts 👀

[past jetty]

faust its NPC with a strong, well-built character
Reminds me a bit of Pagan Min, only less out of his mind

absolute crazy fantastic

[past jetty]

faust

[wide ocean]

Kill

[tawdry sundial]

@full wolf I found it

[full wolf]

sweet

You'll find more, one pretty soon

[tawdry sundial]

it is somehow worse in every way compared to the mosin... probably cuz I have my mosin heavily upgraded 🤔

[full wolf]

Yeah. Upgrades boosts the Mosin stats, but the svd is far better

[tawdry sundial]

If i upgrade the SVD will the stats be better?

[full wolf]

Don't upgrade it yet, don't ask me why you'll get something better pretty soon, so anything you would do now will go to waste

[tawdry sundial]

I see, word of the wise

[full wolf]

Yep!

[tawdry sundial]

thank you for the insight

[full wolf]

Don't rush it yet you'll get your chance in upgrading an svd pretty soon

Just keep farming ammo for now if possible

[tawdry sundial]

oooooooo suspense!

[full wolf]

I don't want to spoil anything

So, you'll see soon enough

[tawdry sundial]

I see, thank you kind stalker

[tawdry sundial]

I found an rpg-7 rocket, this is intriguing

[hidden cloud]

UE5 Does NOT work that way, I use UE5, if it's volumetric (Ground Based) it will not happen, but if some god forsaken reason STALKER 2 uses Screen-space volumetric, it does NOT save that much FPS.

[full wolf]

Keep it

[solemn python]

I found a red RPG-7, lugged it back to Rostok to sell it to that fella but he wouldn't buy it

[bright jackal]

That's probably because it's at 0% durability. I found like 8 broken AKs in the armory to the north of Rostok, brought them to Ragman and found out that I can sell none of them

[quaint flower]

Yeah, it looks like poorly configured screen-space volumetrics combined with UE5 aggressive TAA/TSR

[hidden cloud]

TAA sucks asf.

[solemn python]

No it's 25%, it has one bar out of 4 😞
Anyway I dropped it on the grass outside his shop, it's still there last I checked, many many ingame days later 😆

[limber hound]

Keep it for future encounters

[solemn python]

where did you find it?

[past jetty]

ok Let's play jumping jacks to avoid radioactivity

[tawdry sundial]

wild island underground monolith stash. after you kill the controller and what not

[solemn python]

there is one in the basement of the noontide base too, with 2 extra rockets iirc

[tawdry sundial]

i havent found the actual rocket launcher just a rocket

[solemn python]

ooh I think we're talking about the same place

I just don't remember a controller there 😅

[surreal folio]

It came

[raven rock]

amazingggg

[torn copper]

thanks, i waited an hour for that weather lol

[raven rock]

worth it

[surreal folio]

Just chilling on some SOC

[torn copper]

probably my favorite batch this year (most likely gonna change, but hey)

[obsidian cipher]

tecate.i. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[raven rock]

that last one looks crazy

[limber hound]

x8 really used to freak me out when i was younger

[dry meadow]

I hope X8 comes back in S2 somewhere down the line

[limber shuttle]

Lol shoved a chair from Orbita to the perimeter dam so I could use it to hop over the fence, beautiful views out on the other side

@wild osprey I even went sledding along the way, thanks again for Winter Zone on console, still been loving it even amidst some of the framedrop & missing texture issues

[limber shuttle]

Random bandit going for a swim

[fallow parcel]

Skifa needs nothing but confidence, that 30cm sheet of god knows what over his head is enough to survive an emission (For the curious its a hangar in burnt forest,the one closed off and with a massive hole in the roof)

Front row view

[buoyant shell]

One day, we will be able to fully explore the CNPP

[limber shuttle]

The props are amazingly useful lol just need this mod on console so don't have to spend as long painfully shoving the chair over terrain https://mod.io/g/stalker2/m/grab-objects#description

Used a similar method to get out of Lesser Zone early #📸┃screens_and_videos message

[scarlet reef]

Heading ||underground in Pripyat||, turns out hoarding ammunition pays off

[quick wing]

💯

[frail merlin]

Just chilling with some Duty members...

[zenith sandal]

I'm finally biting the bullet after backing out of the final mission in my route (turns out I missed that Integral-A blueprint in SIRCAA so I can't get that achievement) and after coming back to the area i've realized... there's a lot of people here... like a LOT.

[deft flume]

3 random pictures from the Zone

Sircaa

[hidden cloud]

where did yyou get that?, normal or mods?

[glossy hill]

Mods, of course

[hidden cloud]

what mods?

it looks incredible, foliage and volumetric stuff.

[glossy hill]

Many. DWO, Forest Rebirth, Custom version of Dead Zone, Ultra+, reshade and some others

[hidden cloud]

tbh, I don't know what reshade really does, all I use reshade is for (RTGI) Ray Trace Global Illumination, but it's actually Screen space, Reshade doesn't seem much, other than like DOF, Blur, Motion Blur, TAA.

[glossy hill]

Reshade which I use is preety simple with LUT and Ambient Light

It basicly only changes the color palette and how the light looks

[polar nimbus]

Reshade TAA is pointless tho

[glossy hill]

Most of the work do rest of the mods, DWO, U+, Dead Zone etc.

[polar nimbus]

Smooth bias is the goat.

[hidden cloud]

true, but it deletes jagged edges tho, I mean, when I have to use RTGI in DX9 games, I need to turn in-game anti-aliasing off, but I can use SMAA, TAA, MSAA on Reshade.

but I will forever hates TAA ghosting and blurness.

[glossy hill]

For my eyes, if a reshade is more complicated, oversaturated etc. it looks worse than a simple change of color palette

Thats why I dont use all of these photorealistic reshades, rtgi etc.

[hidden cloud]

facts, people just put brightness and contrast up and call it "ultra-realistic RTX NEW"

is it just me, but Ray Tracing and Screen-space should not work together, if it's still screen-space reflection, why use RT?, but if it's RT + SS reflection, I'm okay with it, BUT STALKER 2 reflections are NOT okay

[polar nimbus]

https://tenor.com/view/bestesterr-nighterbtw-among-us-gbotbtw-gif-19505786

[hidden cloud]

I hate when people understand RTX or Ray Tracing as "Ultra-realistic textures and foliage" it's NOT what ray tracing does.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X-sr1w2qh6k shit like this I hate the most.

[polar nimbus]

S2 uses SW lumen surface cache reflections (+SS reconstruction), which use some sort of algorithm to make better use of screenspace info, which leads to much higher quality SSR, however unlike SSR it requires a denoiser to look right (which leads to smearing, ghosting. Boiling)
And once something is off screen lumen has to fallback to purely surface cache for reflections, which look like mush and are extremely low rez

[hidden cloud]

I know, I hate Software Ray Tracing, if you're going to take my FPS, take it and make the game actually looks better, STALKER 2 use Screen-space for ALMOST everything, Fog, Reflections (which I don't like black goops), Denoiser is bad (Not Ray Reconstruction), Lumen have to quit its job when object is Out of screen

GSC game world should've turned on Hardware Ray Tracing (it will only runs if device have compatible hardware), I use UE5 alot, so I think I know alot.

[polar nimbus]

Lumen HW RT hit lighting does actually provide proper RT reflections when something is off screen

[polar nimbus]

Problem is HW lumen, especially in UE 5.1 is very expensive

[hidden cloud]

you can't turn it on anyway, and yes, you're right, I know.

[polar nimbus]

They shouldve just stuck to UE4, they started dev there anyway...

[hidden cloud]

5.1 is the worst, they need to use 5.3 - 5.6, SW Lumen is so damn bad.

[hidden cloud]

Baked lightning is cooked, Baked Lightning in open-world games? oh hell no, just use like normal lightning and lumen in UE5, or UE4, just please don't be baked lightning in the trailer.

[polar nimbus]

Its the worst engine epic has ever created since UE 4.0-4.10

[hidden cloud]

why?, may I ask why?

[polar nimbus]

UE4 had SSGI, it couldve worked

And it also had proper RT, couldve had that as an option too..

[hidden cloud]

you're cheating lol, you have lower time limit?, SSGI is cooked if they didn't make it good enough.

[polar nimbus]

Just look at OG ark, it uses UE 4.5, it has constant flickering, boiling,shimmering. Ultra crap lighting quality, insane VRAM usage, laughably poor performance for the visuals..

[hidden cloud]

UE4 is bad at Ray Tracing, but it's good, and cheap, UE5 is more expensive, but UE5 is the way (pls do not call me Epic Games Balls Licker or EGBL) UE5 is made for making games for another 10 years, so it needs to have good graphics, and option n stuff.

[polar nimbus]

SSGI, like TSR is much much better in UE4 than it is in UE 5

[polar nimbus]

TSR in UE4 is insanely close to DLSS 4, in UE5 its a pile of total crap

[hidden cloud]

UE5 is good, you just need to adjust the performance, and KNOW what to use Nanite and Lumen with, do NOT use Nanite on trees man, Nanite on trees? crazy, you have Insane VRAM, bc of Trees, do NOT use Nanite on trees.

[hidden cloud]

TSR already bad by itself, Temporal Super Resolution, ohh my god, can I add you btw, I'm sick of slowmode.

it just shakes your screen, but this time at 67% the resolution, or 50%, or 33%

[polar nimbus]

Im no dev, tho the voxelized foliage in 5.7 looks very impressive. Its not aplicable to my example anyway, i was talking about a UE 4.5 game, theres no nanite there..

[hidden cloud]

5.7 is hell, they removed beginner stuff, I have to MAKE and CODE normal stuff myself, I hate Blueprints, especially the "Beginplay" nodes, oh my god.

[polar nimbus]

I disagree that the concept itself is bad. I saw some comparisons between UE 4 TSR and DLSS 4 in stray and kena, and they were identical, same sharpness on both, great clarity, no ghosting.

[hidden cloud]

ghosting is there, in most game, but it blurs my image so much, it's noticeable,

[polar nimbus]

Its using the shake for super sampling, its SSAA but without the need to flatup render a 2 or 4 or 8x higher rez

[hidden cloud]

I hate 2 types of ppl

• dev who release game without optimization

why : they make UE5 look bad in performance

• type of ppl that have bad pc

why : they often complains about UE5 stuff not being above 30FPS, at medium-high settings, WITH GTX 1650 - RTX 2060, it's not good enough, use Low-Medium, NOT MEDIUM-HIGH, HIGH SETTINGS USE SWRT

[polar nimbus]

Yeah, TAA is pure garbage in 99% of games
But im talking about UE 4 TSR here, which is barely used in any games, i think stray and kena are the only games that use it natively without tweaks

[hidden cloud]

isn't like TSR just TAA but 67% the native resolution?, with some AI sharpen + stuff

why're you taking so much time to type, oh you're on a phone ok.

[polar nimbus]

No, its another TAAU algo, which is just short for fancy TAA (like FSR 2+/DLSS2+/XeSS) which has a TON more info and parameters to work with than regular TAA. And it can also be applied to native resolution, it isnt locked to any given rez, you can set it to 100/99/1/4/56% rez too if you want

[hidden cloud]

wait, TAAU... and TSR... OH THEY'RE NOT THE SAME, I like TSR, I thought it was just TAAU but another name, but we all agree TAAU is ass.

[polar nimbus]

TAAU is just the term for the underlying tech they are all using
Temporal
Anti ailiasing
Upscaling/upsampling
UE TAAU, FSR 2-4/DLSS2-4.5/XeSS/TSR ALL fall into that category

TSR and TAAU have many diferent versions as well, even outside of epic

[hidden cloud]

it's still ass, TAAU creates MASSIVE ghosting.

[polar nimbus]

The concept itself isnt bad tho. Look at DLSS 4/4.5 and tell me its ass

[hidden cloud]

concept is fine, but the product is bad, do I need to send comparision?

[polar nimbus]

Ive also seen TAAU look good tho (it can also be aplied to native rez btw) actual TAAU is also barely used in any games

[hidden cloud]

I will send you pics

[polar nimbus]

Some games will call regular ass TAA TAAU..

[hidden cloud]

TAAU

[uneven stump]

john stalkers brother 😂

[hidden cloud]

it's noticeably sharper and better

DLSS 4.5

sry different time of the day.

[polar nimbus]

thats DLTB, (proprietary and archaic engine) i was mostly thinking of UE4 TAAU/TSR

[hidden cloud]

it use Chrome engine.

[polar nimbus]

yeah, and seeing as only techland (dying light dev) has used it for any games its safe to call it a proprietary engine

[polar nimbus]

also what rez scale is this ? i also cant say i see any ghosting, just disoclusion fizzle

[hidden cloud]

yeah, I made my own engine too

[hidden cloud]

50%, ghosting mostly occurs on video, but I can't move while taking screenshot.

my engine is mostly 3d engine but pixelated, I call it PW-Engine

[polar nimbus]

50% is brutal for anything
i mostly meant for native or near native here anyway #📸┃screens_and_videos message

[hidden cloud]

yeah, but it shows the downsides.

[polar nimbus]

its a torture test, i also feel like DLSS4 doesnt look so good here either, maybe its the output rez but especially looking in the distance it looks really pixelated and or oversharpened imo

[hidden cloud]

i'm on 1440p, distance is brutal in this game, Native struggles and just get pixelated, Sharpened.

[polar nimbus]

maybe its just cuz of DLSS 4 ? ive heard and seen quite a lot of cases where DLSS 4 at native is way oversharpened, the old CNN looks more natural, so does FSR 4 from what ive seen

[hidden cloud]

they day Ray tracing and DLSS and Frame generation comes to Minecraft, Roblox, I will be so sastified about it "how tf does it need DLSS and FG"

[hidden cloud]

no, people are just familar with CNN, when they found something better, they will appreciate it, but will look for the downsides and be skeptical about it too.

[polar nimbus]

DLSS 4 / DLSS 3.8 / FSR 3
look at how pixelated DLSS 4 looks here, its as bad as FSR 3 in some spots

[fallow parcel]

Upscaling generally is complete ass, Frame gen is where the juice is at I get 55fps raster and with TSR on 100% and fluid motion frames on I get little to no flickering + "Free" 60fps

[polar nimbus]

AFMF is the biggest POS ive ever seen in my life
use FSR FG (aka in game FG) instead atleast

[fallow parcel]

I don't fully understand what slider means what because there's no description so I have fsr on and the top one switched to TSR because otherwise I get crazy flickering

[fallow parcel]

Isn't that like the same thing?

[polar nimbus]

the FSR option under upscaling is the upscaler
and the "FSR 3.1" option below that is the FG

[fallow parcel]

I figured that out

[hidden cloud]

Turn OFF SHARPENING, turn off Image scaling

[polar nimbus]

no, totally diferent algorithms
AFMF doesnt use game info at all, just works based of off 2 finished frames, FSR FG gets game info as well, so it looks (and feels) much better

[hidden cloud]

No way in hell there's no Sharpening.

[polar nimbus]

you cant, its built into DLSS 4, just looks particularly ass in that game for whatever reason

[hidden cloud]

Nvidia Global Settings.

you CAN.

[polar nimbus]

if NIS was enabled there DLSS 3.8 would look like total ass as well..

[hidden cloud]

turn off image scaling, DLSS 3 - 4.5 needs image scaling off.

[polar nimbus]

it isnt enabled tho

that in settings is just NIS no ?

[hidden cloud]

send pic.

[hidden cloud]

that picture is dlss 3, not even 4 - 4.5

[fallow parcel]

Upscaling is the worst joke on the planet, i get less of a boost than with framegen and terrible image quality loss, as proof theres 3 screenshots and 1 with no framegen ( The three are builtin fsr , Both, and only driver frame gen from amd)

No frame gen for example

[hidden cloud]

that is no fault at FG, DLSS doesn't cause that, it's UE5 Nanite.

[fallow parcel]

Meanwhile fsr upscaling at "quality" mode

[hidden cloud]

I bet you and me to open UE5, and compare no-nanite in distance, with nanite in distance (WHY DO YOU expect stuff 100m away to look like full-LOD)

[polar nimbus]

testing FG is extremely tricky tho..

[hidden cloud]

What model of FSR. that looks FSR 2 - 3 at frames while you're moving.

[polar nimbus]

given its issues are only visible on every 2nd frame, while upscaling faults are there on every single frame

[fallow parcel]

FSR 3 built in on stalker 2 at 66

[hidden cloud]

you're moving.

[fallow parcel]

?

[polar nimbus]

and FG doesnt reduce latency, upscaling does

[hidden cloud]

I could go in STALKER 2 and take a picture of FSR 3 and other Upscaling, so you could know it's not even DLSS/Upscaling fault, that's poorly optimize Nanite, this game doesn't use UE5 fully for performance.

[fallow parcel]

50fps baseline is enough to make it not noticable enough

[polar nimbus]

also do tell what each of these pics are meant to be

[fallow parcel]

Like i took all three in the same milisecond

[hidden cloud]

there is no way in hell you changed upscaling in miliseconds while taking pics.

[fallow parcel]

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

[polar nimbus]

bruh

[hidden cloud]

FSR 3 Performance (50% resolution) while object is around 100-150 meters away.

looks perfectly fine.

[polar nimbus]

these pixel level zooms are killing me

[tired stag]

this sucks

[hidden cloud]

you gotta be intentionally blaming on Upscalers and FG, while object is 200 meters away, and ultra-zoom in, to blame on Upscalers quality, while the problem in Nanite don't render enough triangles, BC it's so far it DOESN'T need to render alot of Triangles.

[polar nimbus]

like what am i supposed to look at here ?

[tired stag]

the guy with glasses wheezes at the other guy with glasses bc they cant see clearly the object that is at 5km away

[hidden cloud]

EXACTLY, he is blaming on Upscalers, WHILE the problem is himself, he compares 200meters object vs Nanite (which he blames on Upslcaers and framegen.)

I hate these type of ppl so much, 200% zoom and blaming on something, but that thing didn't do anything wrong, heck, it's working overtime to render at that distance./

[tired stag]

you dont need to zoom in to find faults with FG
just touch the camera and watch as everything ghosts around as if your grandfather has come back to stop you from playing

[fallow parcel]

My ass just trying to show the overall difference

[hidden cloud]

take a picture of where you're standing, how far you're from object, Don't let me see frame and distance difference.

[polar nimbus]

cant you see ? upscaling is so shit (the right side is FSR 4 at quality)

[hidden cloud]

sarcasm right?

[tired stag]

no, it is noticeably worse

[polar nimbus]

see how much blurrier it is ?!

[hidden cloud]

there is no way he is getting that quality at that distance.

[hidden cloud]

how far are you?, take a full picture, show me how far are you.

[hidden cloud]

you gotta be at Ultra Performance bro.

[polar nimbus]

im just memeing about taking a pic thats zoomed in 500% and being like "oh look ! this sucks so much !"

[hidden cloud]

the other guy just made me confuse sorry.

[polar nimbus]

its 1080p so theres only so much upscaling can do (also not stalker as you see)

[hidden cloud]

"Man, Upscaler looks so shit, i'm just 5km away!" - goofy ahh argument.

[mossy meteor]

Think I overprepared or just enough? (MASSIVE SARCASM, found screenshot from last playthrough and found it funny)

[hidden cloud]

Normal FSR 4 looks better.

[tired stag]

why are you brining spare armour

[hidden cloud]

Just bring 10 normal bullets, and Skif's pistol, you'll be fine, you're overprepared.

[mossy meteor]

Cuz I sir, am a idiot. Last mission didnt wanna have armor break down completely but ya forgot about drops in that mission

[polar nimbus]

foreground looks very similar on the 2, but quality mode does fall away in the distance IMO

[mossy meteor]

Yup, played most of the mission just Gauss, granite I got bored and started using Saiga with AP for fun

[hidden cloud]

I just fcking jumped and strafe, killed whole bandit base with a knife. (Energy Drinks + 1000000 medkits ofc)

[hidden cloud]

true, where is that 500% zoom guy?

[polar nimbus]

its also shaded worse cuz lumen also becomes lower quality when you go to a lower res scale

[hidden cloud]

"Man, Discord server looks so shit with DLSS 4.5 Ultra Performance + FG, i'm just 0.1 mm away"

[tired stag]

you look like shit and you dont even need DLSS 4.5!

[hidden cloud]

not true? it's just shaded and becomes lower quality when it's far away

[hidden cloud]

being with you feel so bad and you don't even need DLSS FG x6 while base fps is one!

[polar nimbus]

check this:https://imgsli.com/NDQ0NzA1

[hidden cloud]

what am I suppose to look?

Lumen Working overtime.

[polar nimbus]

just screenspace reflections being noisy

[tired stag]

damn these Stalker screenshots go hard

[hidden cloud]

God, Can someone remove my Slowdown!???

[hidden cloud]

STALKER 2 new updates are so sick!

I absolutely loves these STALKER 2 graphics update.

[mossy meteor]

My contribution for the random screenshot award, it is titled "Crap, how do you this one again"

[hidden cloud]

Void, wanna see something great?

[mossy meteor]

Sure

[hidden cloud]

lemme find it.

[hidden cloud]

Same tornado btw.

tornado is 2d

[polar nimbus]

ofc it will be at that distance

[hidden cloud]

stop ruining my picture 🙁

[polar nimbus]

https://tenor.com/view/copium-cat-gif-27161395

[hidden cloud]

"Upscalers are so shit, i'm just 5km away"

[mossy meteor]

My second contribution, a note was found next to two human skeletons, note reads "Harry, I dont think this is the way to Hogwarts".

They seem to have been eaten by a Chimeara, but thats insane, why would there be one in the swamps, that would be evil, like can you imagine playing expedition mode and having one of those show up in area with no outposts

[hidden cloud]

https://tenor.com/view/hl2-hl3-half-life-3-hopium-hope-gif-7246120153840726923

[polar nimbus]

u still going on about that ?!

[hidden cloud]

I will never letting it go blud, argurment so bad it stucked with me.

Half Life 3 is tomorrow guys!

[polar nimbus]

kek

[mossy meteor]

I hate that I actually googled it just in case

[hidden cloud]

LMAO

[hidden cloud]

fell for the oldest book in the trick.

[mossy meteor]

Yes, as a millennial I should have burned out all hope already, yet here we are

[hidden cloud]

it will release with the steam machine.

[mossy meteor]

That wont suprise me honestly, more looking forward to the controller

[hidden cloud]

try HALF-LIFE 2 RTX

[mossy meteor]

Huh, not a bad idea for a replay, dont even know if I "own" half life 2, that was a long time ago

[hidden cloud]

what.

[mossy meteor]

Lol, game came out in 2004, back then I wasnt exactly "buying" all my games, now I do, so ya I dont have it on Steam which is funny, but ya Ill get it now for a replay

[hidden cloud]

lol

damn this STALKER 2 chat is definitely about STALKER 2

[past jetty]

che bellezza wanderfull

[hidden cloud]

so beautiful.

[upbeat ledge]

A day in the Zone | S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2

[solemn python]

Pic 4: dinner 👀

[past jetty]

its a gore mod new

[uneven stump]

We need that gore on Xbox

[tired stag]

!warn @bright aurora self ad

[bright stirrup]

Damn, you got quite older, ||Strelok||. Ever since ||SoC||.

[obsidian cipher]

420fluffy has been warned

Reason: self ad

[tight cargo]

Hi, Has anyone explored the railway maintenance gallery?

it is very long....

at a certain point in the gallery you see the flashes of a neon light through the crack but I don't know how to get to that room

I'm posting a screenshot but it's hard to see

[sour pewter]

you should have full access to this area when you are completing the quest School of Life for Honta in Zaton

[tight cargo]

Oh, thank you,
but how can I get to that room that can be glimpsed through the crack in the tunnel? I can't find a way.

[sour pewter]

there is nothing/no room on the other side, it's an lighting (visual) artifact; you can see the same light leak along the tunnel (both sides)

[glossy hill]

+18

[scarlet reef]

Dude these are all amazing

[glossy hill]

Thanks 🥹

[torn copper]

i love the 2nd one

[crude coyote]

i like the lightning

[frail merlin]

[amber zealot]

ho...ly....SHIT!!!! that was so perfect. i installed a mod that make sirens sound the alarm at an impending emission. it sounded during faust's speech.

[real dirge]

My boy always taking the most amazing shots

[limber hound]

good old lab Yantar

the blocked off entrance to the Miracle Machine

[bright stirrup]

How did bro die 💔

[past jetty]

ok bro whats the problem😂

[scarlet vale]

Little shit stole Gaffer’s chair

[glossy hill]

DWO never disappoints 😎

[past jetty]

However, I prefer vanilla weather, I don't know about complete dynamic weather, I like it, but I don't think vanilla weather is that bad

[real dirge]

Vanilla weather has corn a long way. I also think it's more artistically better than DWO

But I've added much more features to DWO than just weather changes

[past jetty]

yes yes I'm not saying it shouldn't be used but when I use the dwo in closed rooms there is always that wet effect and I don't know why and that's why I removed it maybe an update is needed because it did all the various transitions but inside houses even Icarus there is always a wet effect on the bed

[tired stag]

!warn @wind scroll self advertisement

[obsidian cipher]

rudi_rudes has been warned

Reason: self advertisement

[wind scroll]

Oh is there no self advertising regarding stalker content in a stalker community?

[tired stag]

if you want to you need to clear some requirements
#📺┃media message

[bright stirrup]

Where is the "COME HERE, DON'T JUST STAND THERE" fella? 💔

[glossy hill]

I'm playing with DWO for such a long time that I don't even know how vanilla weather looks 😅

But I know that vanilla doesn't have fog yet and for me it's a must have for a top tier atmosphere

[glacial vessel]

I took a few too many photos 🫩 Just over 200MB more to surpass Red Dead Redemption 2 🫩 It's an illness to take so many photos. Help me 🫩

[surreal folio]

Finally got my switch 2 case and all my games in order

Well mostly all of them

[timber tapir]

🚬

[fallow parcel]

THIS GAME HAS BEES?!?!?!?!?\

[finite eagle]

Blurry mess slop

[proud dawn]

Aww a tank

[proud dawn]

Have you ever been so tired you fall asleep with your NVGs on?

[amber zealot]

what i hate most. is fully kitting myself out. and i see people are already dead. and i feel disappointed cause dead people mean less fighting 🙁

more people who died before i was able to kill them. when will this torment end!!!!

[obsidian cipher]

iyrarjin has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[past jetty]

This man hides like an ostrich😅

[surreal folio]

That just means, offline battles happened and that is the aftermath, it's part of A life

[obsidian cipher]

sirob99 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[glacial vessel]

Hello, is it possible to explore this building at Rostok ? There is light inside

[amber zealot]

hmm. isnt that the building used by spark when you meet up with them in rostok?

[wide ocean]

Yes

[glacial vessel]

I don't remember that part 🧐. Do you know the name of the mission I'm watching on YouTube?

[amber zealot]

i have no idea at all

[amber zealot]

https://tenor.com/view/sure-nodding-disbelief-friends-ross-geller-gif-16596956776751194090

[past jetty]

the area can also give us sweet moments, she's sleeping, how sweet

[glacial vessel]

I think I have squirrel syndrome.

my artifact collection 🥰

[scarlet reef]

<4000rnds of 5.45/5.56
You need at least 2k

[obsidian cipher]

kismias. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[plain moat]

emission blowing through

[glossy hill]

Setting this as a my wallpaper lol

[scarlet reef]

Zalissiya is incredibly comfy

[past jetty]

its my finalyyy

what a beauty there are no words to describe the beauty of the zona

[frail merlin]

Its written on one of the walls in the 99 rads bar now I think 😁

[true gust]

😭

[pseudo wyvern]

Just a bit of stalker comedy 👀 are you guilty too?
https://youtube.com/shorts/XPTuVKJrm_E?si=Fn96q-413J5xZSLN

[obsidian cipher]

kismias. has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[glossy hill]

This control room looks cool asf, gonna make some screenshots here too

[compact fossil]

had them in the red forest ^^ hehe

[void sentinel]

U R OK? !!

[static ice]

ultra settings
dlss quality

[static ice]

all artifacts stack, but the soul artifact does not

[hidden cloud]

Lumen and TAA.

[prime pier]

yo guys would i survive in the zone

[prime pier]

TAA and Lumen are good for pics, not for movement, that's why it looks bad

[finite eagle]

I wish we had hardware ray tracing like cyberpunk, and not the software slop UE5 ray tracing

[prime pier]

Cyberpunkp has some crazy graphics i cant lie, if you get the right mods and a high end grid you get it too look VERY realistic in graphics

imagine that and vr

[finite eagle]

And also hardware ray tracing performs and looks 10 times better than the software lumen ray tracing

[prime pier]

also

Ray tracing in Cyberpunk is optional, in stalker you are forced to have these things

[amber zealot]

i found a bug. that allows me to go outside of map bounds...

there are npc's here! im outside of map bounds, and npc's spawn here! wtf!

[scarlet reef]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message
Yeah they sometimes just head out there

[amber zealot]

new bug? stuck menu lol

[scarlet reef]

Are you murdering everyone in Rostok?

[worn mural]

They respawn dw

[amber zealot]

yea. dw. we just casually mass murder everyone

[acoustic kelp]

Man slaughter

[amber zealot]

the slaughter of freedom

[raven rock]

how u make the gore look so realistic

[limber shuttle]

BloodFX mod, not on console yet https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1948

[raven rock]

i hope it comes to console soon

[raw mango]

Anyone been in this tunnel before?

[worn mural]

https://klipy.com/gifs/cut-it-4

devs when i ask to upload that shi on xbox series s

[raven rock]

they just rage baiting

[worn mural]

i think shay will upload a reduced version idk tho

vcr by shay

[surreal folio]

As in qud be quad, but he is barely a double

I suck at jokes sometimes

[scarlet reef]

What game is this?

[surreal folio]

Oblivion remake

[amber zealot]

he looks like he suffers from a few generations of inbreeding

[past jetty]

but how ugly are the snorkels

but how ugly are the snorkels

[fair prawn]

One time my game glitched (?) And these two monolithians were friendly.

[hidden cloud]

Radiation

[prime pier]

oh damn i forgor ab mask

[hidden cloud]

just a friendly invitation to you saying

"Monolith, Please return to your abandoned child, Monolith, Monolith"

[hidden cloud]

12 sieverts btw

[prime pier]

45

[tacit monolith]

@solemn python

[ebon narwhal]

just found a massive anthill and the ants are actually moving damn

[green sun]

sry 1 sec

@narrow stratus do u see it bro

on daybreak the pole cables in zalyssa jitter like it also

but i switched to day save to show u

[narrow stratus]

Video is too much pixelated

[green sun]

uhh

[timber tapir]

[quiet delta]

looks washed out bro but i like some of your mods)

[wild osprey]

it's because i made all screenshots in HDR

[crude coyote]

Emission

[scarlet reef]

Hmmm 🤔

[surreal folio]

https://youtu.be/t2vB4pGNr3g?si=ed-xpy18wimr7gvE

Go to around 3:45 mark to see the chaser aka mossberg @indigo breach

You can see it's normal for the weapon to have no sound when slamming back the handle

[surreal folio]

I take it back, all back 9x18 is just worth 0 in the zone this is on veteran difficulty, I wanted to see the economy difference between master and veteran, and it's the same

[scarlet vale]

pardon?

<@&1429819918492368916> nonsensical spam

[tired stag]

!warning @fair plank spamming gibberish and nonsense

[solar sedge]

leaps and bounds into the arms of leaper

[tired stag]

didnt proc? damn...

[scarlet vale]

This is a new one so far

[fair plank]

Lion do you like cats?

[lyric peak]

Which Lion are you referring to, there's two

There's the Frisian Lion and there's the Ukrainian Lion on this server

[lyric peak]

Damn, I missed it
I wonder what the person wrote

@tired stag Your thoughts

[tired stag]

@fair plank if you keep posting gibberish and scribbles youll be muted

[lyric peak]

Vasim help, what's this guy on

LMAO

[scarlet vale]

Who named him that lmao

[solemn python]

he's not taking that loaf of bread seriously, is he...?

[compact fossil]

dang somebody knows where to find the code? i tried like 10 combinations i found around but not the right one 🙁

[dense sonnet]

Is it the Itercom Tower?
If so, you can find the code on a body ||on the northern edge of the Floodplain with gas clouds east to the Cement Factory||
However for me it spawned under the map or something once, so if anything the code is ||030794||

[amber zealot]

it got delayed again. as predicted.

i already cancelled my order. i dont know why they still send me an email. im probably on their mailing list.

[cinder flame]

Holy shit

[tiny rune]

All hail ball

[surreal thistle]

Anybody know what these anomalys are

[lyric peak]

They kind of just exist

[surreal thistle]

Idk why but they repulse me

[lyric peak]

They do kind of make my skin crawl too. Very odd harmless thing.

[amber zealot]

ferro fluid anomaly. probably not their real name, but they behave as such

[compact fossil]

a big thx on you, it was the right one 🙂

[surreal thistle]

They also look like little weird pulsating worms

[surreal folio]

https://youtube.com/shorts/FDwTus3N4SI?si=ce9mK41HRIoA-0W0

[torn copper]

uhm..

[surreal folio]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man-we-one-gif-18212100

[loud wave]

Has anyone played Scar on Master recently?
He doesn't make any mistakes or misses at all. He shoots through TVs and would shoot through concrete shelters if he could.
A year ago, when playing the game on Veteran, he wasn't as "dramatically" accurate.

[compact fossil]

haha yeah was kinda strange xD

[latent berry]

The only man who isnt a monolithian despite being a noontider

[cerulean pollen]

@warped hamlet the corner

[warped hamlet]

Wow! This is an awesome project!
Not all names are translated, but the images really help!

[indigo glen]

Is that true you can watch an emission from the sphere?

[strange osprey]

99 hours and Scar saying "I've lost my head for this cause, along with all in it" 3 times later, it is done.

[torpid zenith]

Violence Fetish

[torpid zenith]

"Rip and Tear until it's done, Skif." - Scar, propably never

[velvet quarry]

Frogs

[amber zealot]

i think its a bug. he has no side activity for me. but marker is on him

[solemn python]

kill him 👀

[solemn python]

guys wtf is going on in Kazkovyi? it's absolutely infested with bloodsuckers, every time I go outside there's at least 4 or 5 to fight off, it's getting tiresome like 😅

I liked the 3 that walked into the shelter and dropped dead 🤣

your ass is mine 👀

[indigo glen]

The coolest version of roadside picnic ever

[karmic tundra]

How’d you buy? I listened to the audiobook version on Spotify. It was pretty good, but I’d like a physical copy.

[indigo glen]

This version is $$$ from folio society in London. But you can get a 25$ paperback from amazon

[plain moat]

Send Help

Okay, surprisingly I ain't dead, just launched over 120 meters and at least a good two or three stories high at the apex of the whirly gig playing sling shot day

[dapper hamlet]

Any solution for lighting?

[ashen spade]

Compressed for upload

Verified the files, still the same bug.

[ashen spade]

I believe this is the fog graphical setting.
I had the same issue for a while till I tweaked stuff. Try that one, may need to be higher

There are still graphical anomalies I cannot figure out
BenchmarKing has a good video on optimizing settings

[dapper hamlet]

Ty 🫂

[tender owl]

there aint nothing north

[pseudo wyvern]

My HONEST opinion about Sidorovich!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fsFadPZdoOo

[solemn python]

Not yet 😊

[surreal folio]

https://youtube.com/shorts/lAChHuZJ3qo?si=-aCM0VdMjy25uy3k

So who is complaining that the chimera takes too many RPG rounds?

[solemn python]

have this in my inventory as long as I can remember, pretty much since the beginning of the game
any idea what it opens?

ah it didn't capture the popup... it's Old key

A massive old key, probably for some kind of old-timey lock.

[dense sonnet]

Most probably the room on the top floor of the Detention Center (Garbage region)

[ashen spade]

Yeah it's for the detention center

[solemn python]

thanks 👍

[inland hill]

I started the quest

[proud dawn]

Alrighty then.

[granite thorn]

Reworked some engine.ini edits and now I have creepy foggy nights. Enough that even a Bloodsucker can hide in it.

Clap On

[surreal folio]

https://youtube.com/shorts/bn6LbnNox1k?si=qsOV6n4UYQIDvdLU
Wonder if this is the reason npcs can shoot through walls too? Because a 9x18 round can pierce like a 7.62x39, and I believe it should not

[granite thorn]

Nah something changed or is wrong with their formula. Currently using Armor Piercing VS Physical Materials. They have a Cover Pierce that would be separate from damage calculations, but currently it's doing nothing.
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1979

Two choices for an hour long fireplace youtube

[deft wraith]

For some reason they make the interiors very dark... the lamps in the Zalisya bar are useless

[granite thorn]

I don't think it was their intent, but I think 5.1 just made getting things to look like this too performance heavy.

[slender wing]

could anyone tell me how to get inside, where is the key of the locked door

the position is in the place of hell, nearby the camp of duty

[ocean cipher]

Access from below is correct, there was a hallway under the earth and iirc you have to enter it at the oppsite of your green indicator

[plain moat]

it is a part of a job

head towards the smaller building on the NE corner of concrete forest (The PoI directly south of you in the image)

[slender wing]

thanks

[limpid marsh]

stalker diner

[solemn python]

Where vodka

[surreal folio]

https://youtu.be/tbt6wWb2JJw?si=MD2kXL7x5QjV2501

[prime pier]

lowk to make this a stalker outfit i jus need a loner patch

[tired stag]

depressing

[surreal folio]

Didn't realize the zone was holy ground

[sharp sage]

Some "stormchasing"

[vagrant ledge]

peak loot goblin

[sharp sage]

And some more stormchasing (I finally found good usage for immersive mode )

[crude coyote]

🏃‍♂️‍➡️

[finite eagle]

Ik I should not do it... but....

[surreal folio]

Get rid of all the reds unless you plan to use them, can't sell them at that state has to be yellow or above

[scarlet vale]

Ragman

[vagrant ledge]

Loot is loot 🦧

I Read online there is one npc buying them

[ashen spade]

Anyone else can't move Bubble's body?

[dusk oracle]

You guys wanna see Skif fly?

[ashen spade]

This literally happened to me yesterday, same exact spot

[dusk oracle]

Have you also experienced the almighty 14 bloodsucker beat down? Wild times in the zone.

[surreal folio]

Yeah I know, ragman buys them, but by then you won't need the money at all

[queen herald]

AI is blind and cant see me even thought my body is totally visible

[torn copper]

best to ask in #🔩┃trilogy_modifications or the anomaly discord itself

[untold island]

you called that fly?

[dusk oracle]

Man, how come your Skif got a Disney Land joy ride and mine got sent into Stalker 1?

[finite eagle]

Is that PRZ?

[crude coyote]

please translate

[wild osprey]

@desolate12 no, it's my hdr mod

[finite eagle]

Cool, too bad I have a non hdr screen

[surreal folio]

https://tenor.com/view/community-ken-jeong-ben-chang-cant-see-small-gif-5154350

Don't know what you are looking at but I don't see any npcs

[surreal folio]

https://youtu.be/0_GVMWSidVo?si=jY-VF5vfrIs_xx4Q

Small test on how AI reacts to when having a gun out

https://youtu.be/jHvCf1Bs4Xw?si=lS-hDbfmiljYB2IX
New Game with Dave video if anyone is interested

[surreal folio]

https://youtu.be/7svHJNLxQrg?si=IdEgrTu_wgliLCcN

[worn mural]

mindblown🤯

[odd knoll]

Found this solid fella

[torn copper]

that snake is pretty solid..

[scarlet vale]

@tender owl

I haven’t played CoP in a while so I just took the wiki description

[tender owl]

Dont worry I remember it to the letter cause some guy was hellbent on arguing that akhsually the description makes sense

[past jetty]

inside the inventory is pda and take it corp bubble

[queen herald]

Because I killed em all they're all dead behind the thing

[bright stirrup]

COME IN DON'T JUST STAND THERE guy is back??? 🔥

🥹
Those who know

[ashen spade]

When will the Eye detector come out?

[ashen spade]

Anyone else have this lighting affect on their weapons in the rain?
What graphics setting fixes it?

[real dirge]

its vanilla issue

[final rover]

It’s common bandit phrase “don’t be afraid coming in , but don’t cry when coming out “

[plain moat]

Unsure how I got this Santa Monolithian

[wild osprey]

finally, after an year I was able to normally take screenshots in HDR

[granite thorn]

Some more Silent Hill foggy moments

Just so it doesn't appear that I just enabled fog for everything haha

[granite thorn]

Dark and moody I guess haha

Probably should have lightened them a little for sdr

[surreal folio]

Woah, my game on the lowest setting is not that dark, set your HDR blackpoint to 0

Heck my game is bright as hell

https://youtu.be/GtAGSz9ZBQc?si=u2LFFfotNs_PYMYx

[vagrant ledge]

found this thing

killed me 5 times (each time 2 hit)

tried to run (killed me 3 times while running)

after many tries i reach a little hut where its too big to go trough the door, i put loads of bullets into it and finally kill it

crazy ah storm arrives i die little hut offers no protection i got cooked

will try again tomorrow when i am over this frustration moment xD

[solemn python]

who are these guys? which faction?

[faint fox]

looks like those Yaniv guys

[wide ocean]

Dead

[scarlet vale]

Spark

[teal sun]

the blue marks them Spark

[amber zealot]

i guess that puddle is deeper than i thought...

[tired stag]

!warn @golden lichen self ad

[obsidian cipher]

macfiej has been warned

Reason: self ad

[golden lichen]

I though that you can post your videos if they are relates to stalker? If you scroll back there are ppl posting their own videos and didnt get warned,

[proud dawn]

You have to have special permission and a special Role officially marking you as a content creator to be allowed to post your social media content.

[tired stag]

where did you see this happening?

[golden lichen]

oh understandable i had no idea, i though that you can just post your videos.

[proud dawn]

You can apply to receive the role, but I believe there's minium requirements you have to meet such as follower count, percentage of your content that is STALKER-related, etc.

[tired stag]

#📺┃media message
for more information on how to get the role here

[proud dawn]

@pseudo wyvern is one of the people with that role. He's probably the quintessential example of a STALKER influencer.

[golden lichen]

well i just amde a couple vids abotu stalker im not dedicates just to stalker just games in general so i guess it spointless to apply 😄 but thank you for the info 😄

[amber zealot]

Still do it tho. That role gives you image perms

If i wasnt so lazy i would become a cc juat for that

[golden lichen]

im still short on subs 😶

[pseudo wyvern]

Im just a dude in a costume

[limber shuttle]

You are *the dude in a costume my friend, an excellent cosplayer, creator, and all-around great dude.

[plain moat]

So, that one is a case of more health than normal & the emission is going "RUN TO THE BASE!"

[vagrant ledge]

i was deep in the swamps too so not really much to hide in the area xD

[plain moat]

to clarify, the clear sky base

has a bridge that the chimera can't get into from memory

[vagrant ledge]

also there were glass anomalies and water around a lot xD so i either got stuck in water or bleed from the glass. idk i probably gotta load one of my last saves and see what i can do

[plain moat]

mixed with the only safe from emission spot in the southern swamps

[plain moat]

if it helps, the glass shards you can crouch through safely, otherwise they don't do the most amount of damage ever for running through (Main issue is the bleed afterwards)

[pseudo wyvern]

Honestly i just wanna be like Wolf: The guy in Cordon that helps stalkers to survive in the Zone. Sunday i'll drop a video on how to make a DIY Sunrise suit for that.

[scarlet vale]

Truthfully seeing your stuff & all the other great cosplays is what’s gotten me to start making my own, a Merc suit

-# even if I just lost one of the gloves cause I’m an idiot

[pseudo wyvern]

Man if you have pictures, drop them in https://discord.com/channels/504587323577729024/524229636599840769 !

[scarlet vale]

No pics yet, need to get another set of gloves and still need to get the blue camo and mask (army M40 iirc)

[amber zealot]

okey, this bug is just getting rediculous. GSC fix this shit already. bodies should not warp through the floor/ground

[stiff hull]

Let the bodies hit the flo- wait-

[surreal folio]

I mean in a video game, anything is possible

[hidden slate]

STALKER 2 ☢️ + PRZ & ReLOOK - Advanced Visual Presets WIP

[scarlet vale]

PC begging for mercy like Jon Berthal

[stiff gazelle]

It’s so cute 😭

[torn copper]

pretty sick my dude 🤙

[hidden slate]

Thanks

[tender owl]

someone told me if i heal him he will despawn and this gun becomes unobtainable
well this is just west of zalissya and i healed him in that quest

[real dirge]

A-life moment

[surreal folio]

https://youtu.be/P5nuVECxsCA?si=7ZMqVPvEP3Swtzww

[untold island]

yo

[solemn python]

Spider-Man, Spider-Man
Does whatever a spider can

[dry meadow]

Ukrainian ninja

[solemn python]

Ooooh this is familiar, I think I've just been there last night! Is this on the road to Prypiat?

[timber tapir]

Its kazkovijy dlc main place

[solemn python]

ah OK

I nearly said, that small building in the background with the L shaped roof, there's an artifact to the left of it next to a body

that barb wire fence makes it so similar

[timber tapir]

Oo thx didnt know that, gonna check tomorrow

[solemn python]

not in Kazkovyi though! I'm talking about the outskirts of Prypiat town

[timber tapir]

[solemn python]

whoa, mangled stalker

[torn copper]

woah?

[solemn python]

pretty

[simple wren]

Iv spent a solid week 2 get my game like that. I actually need more vram 12gb is not enough lol

[torn copper]

jesus dude, well you sure made your game look realistic

[solemn python]

I won't even ask what you did, because I also only have 12GB vram 😅
but it sure is gorgeous

[granite thorn]

Slag Heap

[ashen spade]

Anyone else ever come across this outfit? Never seen it before till now

[tender owl]

Considering that's the shotgun's name this is pretty sick

[amber zealot]

@faint fox red weight of death

[acoustic kelp]

Shoulder pain

[limber hound]

Sparker ssp99m, theres a lot of those guys at malachite

Id love to be able to wear that armor it looks so cool

[winter saddle]

Update localization for mods

[surreal folio]

Did not realize stalker was silent hill

Literally

[surreal folio]

Even with these settings, aim curve is still pretty slow

[night elk]

That’s so common for me cause I’m literally a rat with anything that I want to collect

[tender owl]

yeah bro i think you shouldnt be talking with that on your head

btw i wonder if the game automatically assigns mono eyes to any hostile noontider or if they just did this on purpose

[acoustic kelp]

I had him at one point a bullet between the eyes

[sand plume]

yoooo what mods is this and what game im lowkey slow

[limber shuttle]

Lol Stalker 2, and he may be using Shay's VCR specifically the Impacts portion causing the exaggerated wound effect

[sand plume]

aii i played stalker 2 for mabye 3 hours before they took it off xbox gamepass and im to broke to buy it LOL

[limber shuttle]

Not sure if you have a Series X but can currently still scoop on disc for $20 via woot, an amazon affiliate site https://electronics.woot.com/offers/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-heart-of-chornobyl

[sand plume]

no disc drive : [

[limber shuttle]

RIP super unfortunate and scummy that Microsoft never released an optical drive add-on

[limber shuttle]

Beyond that though, historically the game has been on & off sale few times now though never quite that low digitally https://xbdeals.net/us-store/game/1350439/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl-xbox-edition

[sand plume]

i just dont like using disks BUT THEN AGAIN if buying isnt owning pirating isnt stealing

i do not condone pirating plz dont ban me

[sinful acorn]

found the sweet spot

[dry meadow]

hope in one update GSC gives mutants and NPCs the ability to clamber and follow Skif up platforms

[glossy hill]

Thats all for now, good night guys

[torn copper]

jesus lad, 60 photos??

[near viper]

So beautiful 😭😭😭🥹🥹

[real dirge]

The mother load

[glossy hill]

Yeah dropped a nuke here

[stoic coyote]

Is this vanilla weather?

[glossy hill]

Not at all. It's awesome DWO by @real dirge

[odd knoll]

Perfect time for a campfire hangout

[hollow crag]

https://giphy.com/gifs/mfw-everything-reddit-oYtVHSxngR3lC

[compact fossil]

Chilling in Journalists Room thinking about the zone and his last words while thunderstorm goin on outside.

sitting one the top of the burning cooling tower and looking over the zone

Catched a little meteor! ❤️

poor lonely little teddybear 😭

[amber zealot]

https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/12441554080579275861/858A9CAC387A05D7BAA536E573EB8556BE79C1EE/

i discovered a new kind of tree

all files validated successfully. mod change bloodfx

[real dirge]

holy shït that video is vibes

[real dirge]

refresh your shaders

[vocal kraken]

fr, desolate did great job picking ambients for his mod

[amber zealot]

https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/10881414237375651739/A47F4528D89222F2A277A606ADA766E308D47DF5/

and now i just found the weirdest thing in the zone. a butcher, or something.

[real dirge]

yeah that sounds track bruh

[vocal kraken]

and ofc that thick fog

[torpid token]

What's the secret behind such beauty? Are there any special settings? Or is it just the photographer's professional skills?

[glossy hill]

I don't know exactly. Have some photographer/videographer skills but I think it's more because of mods and it's visuals and just experience with making screenshots and looking for a good scenery. I just making them on the fly during normal playing 🙂

[torpid token]

What modes do you use?

[glossy hill]

Graphic wise - DWO, Ultra+, Custom version of Dead Zone, Forest Rebirth reshade and others

[torpid token]

thanks

[glossy hill]

No problem, enjoy! 😊

[ripe tangle]

ready for endgame

[torn copper]

gives vibes

[vocal kraken]

whole game is such a vibe

[torn copper]

well said

[strong plaza]

New playthrough vibes!

[compact fossil]

good luck! always fun to see how empty da pockets are when ya all playing. i had 6 nearly fully upgradeed weapons with me for every eventuality xD i fear the unknown without enough firepower xD

the funniest thing was...i thought i would instantly fight tanked monolithians...just to see at the beginning to fight versus creatures xDD but let all the penetrator ammunition at home decreasing my ammunition rapidly xDD

[limber shuttle]

Thought this shot of a controller blasting me as a shooting star goes behind him looked really neat

[limber shuttle]

Lol had an idea not necessarily a good one but thought it was interesting & it may be of some use to somebody so here:

Was messing around with immersive mode FOV being set to the lowest possible value while keeping my FOV really high, and the instant switch with keybind almost gives you Arma/DayZ-like "focus eye zoom" but certainly feels more wonky to use so while not something I necessarily plan to implement into my regular play (also usually on controller & that requires Pause+RS for immersive mode swap) I can recognize this could certainly be abusable, especially with how your scope FOV is similarly affected & so strongly magnified

[limber shuttle]

Just need freelook & prone lol, this "Bohemiavision" is actually kinda nice bound to a mousebutton, could actually see this being useful but I guess opinions will depend if you look at this and think abuse! or ARMA though undeniably it could be used to cheese more distant combat, couldn't imagine how OP this could theoretically be in a multiplayer setting if abused, keeping wide FOV most of the time for situational awareness but hotswapping as needed for distant focus, especially with how ADS FOV is similarly affected

Lol doing this with Gen1 NVGs would be a recipe for motion sickness it's already got me taking some psi-block irl

call me Squint

[surreal folio]

This kind of aiming, is what I want for controller

[limber shuttle]

Agreed, they need to crank what 100% should be as well as finally permit manual keybinds on controller

[torn copper]

welcome to the zone, stalker

[scarlet reef]

Barely made it to the ship

[glossy hill]

Todays topic: Dead City aka Chernobyl-2 and Duga surroundings

[leaden lance]

seriously guys what's going on at depot

[acoustic kelp]

Lambs for the slaughter

[crude coyote]

Nutty Nutty

[primal pollen]

HELL YEAH CNPP

[fair matrix]

I AM HERE TO CONQUER THIS WORLD ( ignore the quick acces spam button )
Ignore the grafics
In normal mode
No mods

[surreal folio]

https://youtube.com/shorts/U4zhqg2Gi0k?si=tihRttf6cIEv7GUa

This proves my point that terrain penetration values are all over the place

[scenic juniper]

pls help how do i fix this

[solemn python]

Is it gamma?

I don't mean Stalker GAMMA, I mean you accidentally the slider 👀

[surreal folio]

Huh, contrast might be the issue

[limber shuttle]

Damn lol Xbox fully getting rid of user clubs in April, would be nice if GSC would do something with the official one on Xbox because it's been a blank slate since launch. Understandably it's a very niche social hub compared to here on Discord & the like, I'm not expecting it to get the same regular updates or announcements from Mol1t but it seems like it was never even established lol

[scenic juniper]

the what ?

[solemn python]

https://www.gog.com/en/game/stalker_gamma

[scenic juniper]

do i need to install it or can i just play and turn it down

[solemn python]

haha I linked that to avoid any misunderstanding, but I only made it worse 😅 it's a whole standalone mod of the original Stalker trilogy, doesn't serve to resolve graphical issues

your issue looks like overexposure on old chemical photos

[scenic juniper]

oh ok

[obtuse yew]

https://youtu.be/DEn_DJHmt00

[solar steppe]

@surreal folio This is their reaction time, It's ass.

[surreal folio]

Nah, that's just you being a dunce, of course they are going to react to you in the open

[scarlet vale]

BRO ONE IS LOOKING DIRECTLY AT YOU, OF COURSE THEYRE GONNA REACT

[solar steppe]

are you stupid? I'm not complaining about them shooting me I am complaining about their slow reaction you idiot

that's the mindseye AI i am talking about

He says Something's not right then takes almost 10 seconds to register me as a intruder when I am in unauthorized territory.

[surreal folio]

You ran into their peripheral which you have to remember the cone of sight, and if you had your UI on you would see a white bar go up, they won't say "Somthing feels off" unless that white bar goes to half, I play on veteran and master and their way of noticing you is faster than what you showed

[solar steppe]

I am playing on master

[obtuse yew]

man my Discord really doesn't wanna play some videos.

[surreal folio]

Also I wouldn't say 10 seconds to register, he immediately turned your way when you came into sight, pretty sure giving the player a time to get out of sight, if enemies were to see an shoot on sight then people would complain and say "Too hard or unfair" this is about the right adjustment for sight to reaction timing for this type of game

[solar steppe]

But its fine to defend pinpoint accuracy while running and spraying. People complained about that too which makes the game way harder not in a smart way in a stupid way.

[surreal folio]

If these AI had metal gear reaction timing even tho you also have plenty to get out of sight, the game would be literally unplayable as there are multiple enemy types that would spot you immediately and would all bum rush you

[solar steppe]

Metal Gear AI isn't even hard and its one of the best AI works out there. even GRB has bettter AI than Stalker 2

Here's the funny part he doesn't see me when I look directly at him but as I turn around and go away depsite not alerting anyone he proceeds to laser me like he's the godamn terminator

But AI is perfect I guess, so lets hype ourselves for a DLC 🤡

[obtuse yew]

do you normally see the white detection thing?

[surreal folio]

On master it disables almost all UI hud elements

[solar steppe]

I prefer playing without hud, but this happens about everywhere where I get dropped off from anywhere, I have to stay on my guard each nanosecond and still can't see anyone in the foggy forest where they shoot me out of nowhere.

[obtuse yew]

so what i am thinking is he knew you were there but he was focused on another enemy but when you went out from the side of the truck he locked onto you.

[solar steppe]

yes that enemy isn't even there because that fight is 400 blocks away, there's even a gate in the way where he stood to the left so he's not getting shot or shooting anyone.

[obtuse yew]

i'd even want to point out that i am not even sure that you came out from the side of the truck from that guy's view.-.

like the corpse on the floor is laying what looks to be a bit before the tire at the front of the truck but you die before you get in line with it?

[solar steppe]

from his view he'd see my feet but we all know that is hyperbole when it comes to their AI they are as blind as a blindfolded chicken before they suddenly decide to shoot through 12 tons of admantium after they slipped.

[obtuse yew]

like the tire stops maybe at the guy's right foot but you're shot at the guy's left hand? that doesn't feel right

[solar steppe]

there's a building behind there he shot through the building and the truck at this point

[obtuse yew]

i do feel like i remember them actually spotting you by any part of your body.

ehh idk if i think the building is in the way but the truck absolutely is in the way.

[solar steppe]

in the footage to the left there's a small house behind the truck.

[obtuse yew]

like the house with that power relay or

[solar steppe]

the center of the truck remains where the arrow is pointing right next to the building

[obtuse yew]

i mean this just doesn't have me sure if it's actually in the way

[solar steppe]

even if it isn't in his way he shouldn't be able to shoot through building then the truck regardless.

[obtuse yew]

right, like i said it looks like something isn't working when you die before even coming out from the truck from that guy's view.

[solar steppe]

yes the bullet penetration rule certainly isn't working he got tachyon bullets.

the blue point is the guy taking cover right next to the explosive barrel

the red point is where I died approximatelyt, you can see its behind a whole building and the truck itself.

he shot from there and this is how the bullet travelled 🤣

[obtuse yew]

i uh, no that has to be way off

you died before you even came ouf from the front of the truck lol.

[solar steppe]

that doesn't make a difference lmao

[obtuse yew]

the point is that the building isn't in the way. the truck still is but the building isn't.

[solar steppe]

the building is in the way dude, he didn't move, when the AI sees you they shoot at you right away, they will stop running around if they don't know where you are at first but they do know they just have to do a stupid animation before proceeding to your location.

[forest smelt]

Cute...

[obtuse yew]

I’d nearly bet you it wasn’t by telling you to go to the puddle and jump to look over the truck. Lol

[solar steppe]

What the hell kind of mutantpede is that

[solar steppe]

do I really have to boot up the game again to just prove my point 😭

[forest smelt]

20+ bloodsuckers, burnt forest, master difficulty with Predator shotgun

[solar steppe]

does bloodsuckers use guns? 😭

[forest smelt]

No, but they are hard to aim at heads when they camo

[solar steppe]

I wish I saw more bloodsuckers than NPC's that can pull of a freddy wong.

[forest smelt]

Oh no, you don't

[solar steppe]

I do

[forest smelt]

You can outrun boolets, but these fuckers, will crowd control you to death

[solar steppe]

right.. I've been trying to outrun them through a whole forest and the bullet comes out of nowhere I don't even know where they come from its like they got a mind of their own

[obtuse yew]

you were so far off on your pics with the red orb and blue line and i don't get how you flipping managed that when the damn truck is in clear view on the picture and in the video you prolly don't even get past the front of the truck.

[solar steppe]

@obtuse yew this is where I about died don't mind the corpse it swaps angles and position each time I retry

[obtuse yew]

tsk, my desktop does not wanna play that 3 second video either.

[solar steppe]

look where the explosive barrel is from that angle

[solar steppe]

neither does mine its annoying, anyway now compare to where I died

[obtuse yew]

Idk how to do straight lines on my phone or the pc but yes that

[solar steppe]

you can see how he skips the building from there he would hit the wall approx here

[solar steppe]

that's not where he was he was next to the barrel

[obtuse yew]

and the line isn't straight because i don't know how to do that on my phone.

[solar steppe]

not infront of it right next to it to the right

[obtuse yew]

either way you died at the corner of the puddle and i think it lines up with where he was, if anything the power relay might have been in the way but he might also have moved when you went around the truck so he could've moved away from that corner and away from the building.

[solar steppe]

he woudd be about here if he was in your angle I'd see the box and the small roof sticking out which is far deeper

[obtuse yew]

it'd be funny if he just shot you through the gap between the truck's bed or what it's called and the front or whatever.

[solar steppe]

I was actually much closer to that ledge

[solar steppe]

it would be except he didn't which makes it not funny

[obtuse yew]

you died at the corner of the puddle.

anyway i don't feel like arguing anymore about if the building was or wasn't in the way lol.

[solar steppe]

Yes but that means he shot behind the house

[obtuse yew]

that's not where you were, that is where dead guy was

ugggh.

[solar steppe]

I told you he was misaligned this isn't a old picture its a new one when I boot up the game their corpse is relocated

I am very close to the edge I am playing 110 fov

[solar steppe]

his corpse is about there his head almost crosses the ledge where I am very close to in the left, the new picture with the relocated corpse is much closer to the sandbag which the original corpse initially wasn't.

and this is the basically the bs he pulled off if he shot through the gap with the tire

[timber tapir]

[timber tapir]

[raven rock]

love the vibes of these

[strong plaza]

Thanks mate, glad you like them!

[surreal folio]

https://youtu.be/h6DYynhRiKI?si=IS7mVYgFVrgmamxB

@peak vessel

[crude coyote]

Swamps hunting

[torn copper]

the man himself

[bright stirrup]

Can't complain (I play it on Master difficulty)

[faint fox]

Gee thanks GSC, going to cost small fortune to repair lol

[real dirge]

Damn they added cars to the zone finally

[surreal folio]

You are sitting on 500k koupons, you are fiiiine

[faint fox]

lol yeah just b eing dramatic, was only 11k to repair

[dusty iris]

ready for whatever happens to the world

[soft heath]

a volcano will erupt so keep your gas mask close

[dusty iris]

voided brain

[surreal folio]

https://youtube.com/shorts/W5z8fWmsKhs?si=uD1CZ8Z3mKT4e3Kc

That's how you know that piercing values are all over the place

[surreal folio]

Bro said he was hiding until 😩

[stiff hull]

Me trying to figure out why OXA isn't compatible

[vocal kraken]

[surreal folio]

https://youtube.com/shorts/FDwTus3N4SI?si=S86iKZa7WMunIJ-P

[crude coyote]

🐐

[forest zephyr]

Debut SEVA

[amber zealot]

https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/18010921577630410791/1B584DC399B4A654655D1D3AE3FD6E29D4668116/

then, a group of duty came, and 2 more of these midgets came. like what the hell. a group of like, 5 burers in that area

9 burers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wtf!!!

[surreal folio]

Bro stands on the side of the Monolith, gets shot by the people on the bottom because it's a scripted warning shot event

Literally a stray bullet hits him, at this point I don't know if he is trolling or not, because it looks like he is running out of material

[limber hound]

i DESPISE pomor

[brazen meadow]

https://youtu.be/X0OhTDKI4MM?si=D4rVRXcdo34j5KKr finally exited my cave and made a thing

[surreal folio]

Lantern is so cool looking

[solar steppe]

Hate that guy.

[solar steppe]

Sharp hairline

[ashen spade]

You like the Fora?

[ashen spade]

Looks like half of Rasmus' face