╓☢stalker2™-chat-not-gamma-keep-waiting

[grave notch]

Ahh, modding tools can’t come soon enough then. I want it packed to the brim like New Vegas.

[sage wolf]

How are the runs going today guys

[wary rune]

I can't wait for Gunslinger for S2

[sharp pendant]

ok it was outside near the top of the copter

[grave notch]

Honestly itz, if you’re the patient kinda dude, waiting a bit longer wouldn’t hurt.

[ember ether]

EVERYONE IS DEAD

[storm tree]

That's my exact concern, things like NVG's apparently don't exist, people feel as if certain monsters are OP and there are a lof of complains with people who have things like 4090's getting 60 or less than 60 fps on this game

[pearl talon]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/277?tab=description
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/241
just these two made day and night difference for me

[grave notch]

Playing something like Anomaly or Gamma would be more your style, since obviously those things have more additions and content.

[wary rune]

For me the monsters feel reasonable now, but some rooms are way too dark and the flashlight doesn't help in the slightest (dudes beyond 20 meters are straight up invisible and you have to rush them)

[grave notch]

As someone like me who’s just starting, I appreciate it as a nice starting point.

[storm tree]

Alright then I think I'll be waiting a bit to get stalker 2, would rather have my first time be a great time rather than a buggy one

[humble hedge]

High FPS, low input lag with smooth gameplay. How do I get this build? I want this for my Stalker 2.

[grave notch]

Besides finishing this run? It would make me excited to try stuff like Anomaly or GAMMA proper after finishing.

[pearl talon]

if you have the patience 😄 i didnt

[grave notch]

Yerts mods, ray reconstruction mod, base tweaks mod.

[storm tree]

I'm not a hardcore stalker fan so when I see a $60 price tag for any game I'll think about it

Helldivers I'll just throw money at super credits they're like 20 bucks

[pearl talon]

i am so i got me that chonky 100 edition

[grave notch]

Shoot if you got game pass, you can play the whole game thru there

[amber breach]

anyone got the new fast travel mod working?

[grave notch]

That’s what I ended up doing.

[wary rune]

You can (at least could) farm them easily from missions

[storm tree]

You still can just a bit harder to do now, I work a job so $20 for 2100 credits is enough for me

[grave notch]

I play Helldivers, still seems feasible for me.

[pearl talon]

i planned on getting helldivers then half my mates i play games with lost access

[storm tree]

imagine The GAMMA faction in helldivers calling themselves the "stalkers"

[distant heart]

Do we know how Body Armor and Mask Protection work yet?

[long ginkgo]

Look for potato mode mods

[pearl talon]

head is for head protection (headshots) body armor is for body shots

[humble hedge]

Just kidding, my Stalker 2 runs fine except for in Rostok and other high NPC pop locations.

[junior thicket]

is anyone making a skill progression mod like we had in gamma?

[distant heart]

What about Anomaly and Rad Protection?

[pearl talon]

it stacks i think?

[storm tree]

From what I've seen

Pre order 5090

Buy 7800x3D

Install 128gb DDR5 ram

Pray

[long ginkgo]

You're lying, no one's S2 runs fine

[pearl talon]

not sure bout that one

[distant heart]

I would also think it does. I'm weighting my options here.

You'd think everything but the Phys would stack between mask and body.

[pearl talon]

ye

[distant heart]

But, these devs are weird, so maybe Phy stacks as well? idk

[pearl talon]

nah that one for sure doesnt

[distant heart]

Skif's pistol does more dmg than my Rifles after all.

[tough mulch]

Currently? No. The second half of the game is basically an Early Access game.

[pearl talon]

all the pm pistols do more dmg than .45... dumb

[humble hedge]

I ordered new parts a week ago:
ASRock Steel Legend X870 MB
Ryzen 9800 X3D
RTX 4090 (Already installed in my current PC) but I will order RTX 5090 as soon as it releases in Q1-2025
32GB DDR5 6000Mhz RAM G.Skill Royal Neo Gold
2TB M.2 Gen5

[late kernel]

thank god for weapon mods

[wary rune]

Weapons deal damage based on their appearance. Skif' Pistol is peak design so it's the second best pistol

[pearl talon]

yep

[grand geode]

how do you open debug window with UETools again, to see coordinates?

[pearl talon]

its still decent pistol with the extedo and suppressor even when the mod i have reduces the dmg it does by almost 50%

[sharp pendant]

would this be easier to solve if I could read cyrillic?

[pearl talon]

nope

i tried translator with foto traslation... it read something like perv and gibberish

[storm tree]

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

64GB of DDR4

RX 6700 XT

rocking this shit for almost 3 years now I don't touch my computer until I have to

[pearl talon]

5578

[maiden breach]

Hi guys, I have a problem in Stalker 2! Due to a bug I got about 2500000 tokens! But I don't want the money and want to face the challenges of the game! How do I get rid of it? Is there a mod, can I edit anything to get rid of the money! Looting etc. is just no fun like this!

[pearl talon]

how you get the code:
There are four different trucks with scratched-out plate numbers and an eye painted on them. The order in which you have to input them is determined by their position on the plate number, giving you the code 5578.

[distant heart]

just buy things then dump them on the ground.

[sharp pendant]

yeah I'd have never gotten that

[pearl talon]

buy and sell crap

[humble hedge]

I'm using a 5800X3D right now and it works great, but the 9800X3D will make a big difference in games, especially titles such as Stalker 2.

[obsidian thistle]

you could probably try cheat engine to reverse it back to a normal amount of tokens

[late kernel]

Where do I get the code for the Army Warehouse armory

[wary rune]

Multirate's proposal is also viable. He can buy Yanov's entire armory, sell it, buy it again like 5 or 6 times and poof, money gone

[maiden breach]

I tried buying and throwing it on the floor, but it takes forever!

[storm tree]

Only looking into a better CPU cause of Arma, but the newer one is coming sooner rather than later and Reforger seems to use more GPU now rather than 1 core lmao

[obsidian thistle]

if he's in zalissya and doesnt want to run to yanov with a toz-34 it might be easier to go with cheat engine

[pearl talon]

sell it imidiately

[late kernel]

Damn i've been there, must have glossed over it

[wary rune]

True chad would run to the Wish Granter and ask to be poor

[tacit mortar]

||If I progress the questline on Wild Island, does Zalyssia fall? Should I go and ddo that side mission before progressing?||

[humble hedge]

RTX 4090s will probably get a lot cheaper post RTX 50-series launch, maybe you can find a good deal then? I'll be selling mine to try to recuperate some of the cost.

[wary rune]

I'd do it ASAP

[pearl talon]

its bugged

[wary rune]

I think it got fixed at least somewhat

[tacit mortar]

When I tried it the doors never open on the town hall

[pearl talon]

i have yet to see any confirmation about that and i havent got there in my second playthrough yet

[storm tree]

I'll be looking I mean a bunch of cards will probably go up post 50 launch but I'm not looking for more than $500 in a gpu at the moment. Not looking to invest in my computer lmao

[pearl talon]

i got my 3070 in post covid time... still was pricy af

[humble hedge]

Understood - The state of the PC market right now is horrible. I remember when I paid $500 for a very good GPU, now it's almost $2500

[grand fox]

any mods that make people in main areas offer more jobs? I just want to live in cordon

off of sidorvich's money

[peak eagle]

The code is 5578 I believe

[blazing cargo]

for moddin stalker 2 rn is it just better to use vortex or manually throw them into the pak folder, my game refuses to even go beyond a black screen everytime i open it

[peak eagle]

Oh whoop, should've scrolled down a bit more with people already answering lol

[wary rune]

Off of what?

[pearl talon]

im fast af boii

[tacit mortar]

If you're familiar with how to manually mod the files, then do that every time 100%

[prime stirrup]

Lads how do we feel about the new patch?

[pearl talon]

sid still pays in pocket change

[blazing cargo]

atm im doing it manually but rn it just refuses to go past a black screen, guess its time to figure out which one is causing it

[grand fox]

@wary runeI wana live on Sidorvich's 💰 💸 💷 💳 💵 💶 💴 MONEYYYY

but no, for real, any mods that increase the frequency of side quests?

[pearl talon]

he ain got any cuz he keeps hiring guns for hire to kill competition

[humble hedge]

Have GSC made available the Modding tools yet? In some video, pre-launch, they talked about releasing a package of "tools" for modders?

[grand fox]

I dont even wana do main story, I just want my anomaly gameplay loop XD

[obsidian thistle]

they claimed they would be released early next year

[pearl talon]

for now its just file edit mods

[grand fox]

are they planning any DLC for this game? is it...LiVe SeRViCe?

[humble hedge]

Interesting... So far everything I've heard about Mods for Stalker 2 is when people supposedly found reference to Mod IO in the PC System files, which could mean GSC is aiming to setting up a "Pay-for-Mods" system.

[lime umbra]

Yeah there will be dlc

[grand fox]

nice

[obsidian thistle]

limansk dlc, CNPP dlc

[humble hedge]

Sort of like the Fallout 4 Bethesda Store.

[obsidian thistle]

i now have green name

[grand fox]

wait what?? cnpp not in game?? excuse me??

[late kernel]

why does it have to be a dlc?

[wary rune]

Btw. can you still scum with the weapons from tutorial? I'd gladly keep my current inventory

[lime umbra]

You see it but you can't go in

[humble hedge]

It's true, I spat out my coffee when I read it in this chat

[pearl talon]

the full leght ak and the 416 gets removed even if you stash it

[junior thicket]

There are at least 2 confirmed story dlc

[lime umbra]

Thr cnpp was only important in the first game

[sweet perch]

Whats the closest safe zone in red forest?and which direction

[grand fox]

yes bro all u get in tutorial can be saved in one of the 2 stashes before last scan area next to the building. keep the AR146 and 1 mag of bullets for it. the AR is the only weapon that WONT be saved in the stash

[humble hedge]

[obsidian thistle]

yeah CNPP wasnt even in call of pripyat which was the best game in the original trilogy so idk why people freak out about it lmao

[wary rune]

It was both in SoC and CS though

[pearl talon]

the ak74s you cna find in one of the houses also goes poof

[lime umbra]

The cnpp is not even mentioned more than once
It's just that irrelevant

[obsidian thistle]

but CoP was the best game and CS sucked

[humble hedge]

Literally THE most important location of the game, and they left it out.

[junior thicket]

It's just weird, the name heart of Chernobyl and the CNPP not in game

[sweet perch]

Whats the closest safe zone in red forest?and which direction

[peak eagle]

Yaniv, north of Red Forest

[grand fox]

@pearl talon I had too many ak's with me didnt notice. thanks for telling me

[obsidian thistle]

CNPP is the brain of chernobyl, not the heart

[lime umbra]

Only in soc you go inside in cs you are only allowed be outside of it

[stoic lichen]

What in the fuck is this video?

https://youtu.be/K8fi5Zo-5rc?si=81v_xrF04UXmIbpm

[peak eagle]

CNPP was only important when C-con and the Wish Granter was there

[grand fox]

@wary rune be sure to leave yout stuff in one of the stashes before you place the scanner the 3'rd time.

@stoic lichen I think it's low quality bait.

[obsidian thistle]

where the fuck is Quiet. i keep hearing him mentioned and now he calls me on the radio like "hey come make money with me" yet no map marker or directions

[humble hedge]

C-Con is still there, wish granter is still there

[stoic lichen]

I know, but…wow the bar is set in fucking hell at this point.

[peak eagle]

South of Wild Island, other side of the river

[lime umbra]

No the granter got looted by Sirca

[grand fox]

@stoic lichen what bar?

[humble hedge]

And yet, CNPP is not due to devs being lazy. Stalker 2 should be labeled an early access game.

[obsidian thistle]

dis question mark?

[peak eagle]

yes

[obsidian thistle]

wow. very nice. thx

[wary rune]

< Walks around anomalous field with pistol instead of bolt
< Dies
< Blames the game

[peak eagle]

He wasn't blessed by the zone

[grand fox]

@stoic lichen there is no bar here to set, stalker you must be dizzy because of that psydog. and that controler over there

[stoic lichen]

Oh, they’re retarded!

[warped monolith]

This reminds me of Fleekazoid's dumbass thumbnails and titles

[stoic lichen]

Fair enough.

[grand fox]

https://tenor.com/view/skyrim-margin-awake-marginskyrim-gif-20155428

[pearl talon]

under the island

that bottom building

[warped monolith]

skillup energy
"I'm always at high weight"
carrying 5 AKs and 30 bottles of vodka

[tall pecan]

why tf my charachter is fat, ups wrong reply

[peak eagle]

"Always eating tuna"
Clearing eating beef chunks

[pearl talon]

nah he tastefuly thicc

[humble hedge]

Imagine eating tons of Tushanka, Bread, Vodka and Kielbasa everyday.

[late kernel]

thats his vest 🤓

[obsidian thistle]

quiet is not only a monolit brother, he's a Brotha

[winter marsh]

Hey guys is stalker gamma better than stalker 2 ?

[humble hedge]

Yes

[pearl talon]

agreed

[winter marsh]

Im what capacity ?

[pearl talon]

like... every capacity other than story

[lime umbra]

Debatable
Sandbox environments get boring

[wary rune]

Wait till you meed "Swedish"

[obsidian thistle]

zircon, ssp-99, or PSZ-7

[winter marsh]

Is it because you guys are gamma shills or is more reasoning behind it ? Genuine question.

[obsidian thistle]

does "swedish" look arabic

[maiden breach]

Ok, with the console command XAddMoneyToPlayer -2000000 it worked! 🙂

[pearl talon]

75% gamma shills 25% just gamers

[wary rune]

Nah, he's also a "brother"

[obsidian thistle]

lmao

[tacit mortar]

If I download UE Cheatengine for Stalker2, use it to clip through the door in Zalissya(bugged quest), and uninstall the cheats after, will it lock my save out of getting achievements?

[humble hedge]

Stalker 2 is an poorly optimized, early access game with loads of game breaking bugs and general wonkyness.
Gamma is the summary of more than 12 years of modding genious, finalized into a game that focuses on survival, resource management and awesome gunplay.

[humble hedge]

Well yes, duuh

[pearl talon]

the story tho... i love it

[winter marsh]

Makes sense..thank you. Do you think stalker 2 has the potential to become.fantastic with its base ?

[peak eagle]

I suppose SSP99, hope you got some phys protection artis

[late kernel]

Yeah the story is night and day compared the OG trilogy

[lime umbra]

It's like comparing CoP to one of its mega mods like gunslinger

[lime umbra]

Absolutely

[warped monolith]

I wouldn't even make the comparison, but

[cosmic wagon]

1 million percent. Just needs to bake for a bit longer.

[humble hedge]

If GSC decided to side with the Stalker Modding community, and hand over all necessary tools needed, then yes.
Unfortunately, I think it's very unlikely as Stalker 2 already is a cash cow. I think we'll see Pay-For-Mods and an in game store in a not too distant future.
Stalker 2 is a console game adapted for the masses for maximum profit basically.

[pearl talon]

ye rn the egg is missing but once someone mixes that in and bakes it it will be great

[humble hedge]

Hence why we are eternally grateful to Grok and other modders for making stuff like GAMMA.

[lime umbra]

Read anything in this chat with more than one spoon of salt

[pearl talon]

mixed with honey to trap you in

seems sweet till the salt hits you

[humble hedge]

It's funny how you don't provide any arguments.

[lime umbra]

Like what ? That gamma is a shallow experience once your learn it ?

[humble hedge]

Lmao

[pearl talon]

nah we had some real salty gentlemen here earlier today... and some of us have no idea what we are talking about and just guesstimating

[junior thicket]

they didnt fix memory leaks did they

[lime umbra]

Nope

[pearl talon]

some of em... but theres more

[obsidian thistle]

i have a single compass

[peak eagle]

That'll be enough

[obsidian thistle]

but not strong enough radio protection to counteract it

[junior thicket]

i had an emission while running arena round 3, the frame time went like a roller coaster and within 2 minutes the game ate all my 32gb of ram lol

[peak eagle]

get a lead container upgrade on your suit and you can use it

[pearl talon]

in my case i no longer get decrese in performance while playing

[obsidian thistle]

🤔

[cosmic wagon]

Same, first emission from leaving Sphere was deadly for FPS

[median cedar]

is it worse performance ?

[obsidian thistle]

is the SSP good for more than just anomaly protection? i dont run into them enough for the anomaly protection to be very high priority

[junior thicket]

yea but my game just crashed

[pearl talon]

i can avoid anomalies just fine... bullets on other hand

[lime umbra]

Like any stalker game
Anomaly protection is only good once you fuck up

[pearl talon]

pretty much

all i focus on for anomaly protection is fire

[burnt hull]

So,u can upgrade dnipro m to use 762 ammo

Great shit

[wild swallow]

damn me having a potato pc really is showing now

[pearl talon]

i main saiga and the short svd most of the time (unless i run out of 7.62x54)

then its .45 vector time

[bold anchor]

When we gonna get gamma 2?

[pearl talon]

yesterday no clue till the dev tools drop

[limpid quarry]

2077 said by grok

[bold anchor]

Ik

They being stingy with it

[limpid quarry]

the games been out a little over a week bro

[humble hedge]

There's a minipatch for Stalker 2 on steam that just dropped. Approx. 452KB

[pearl talon]

uuu dope lemme check that

aww no change log

[wild swallow]

I'm trying to get this damn artifact (I got it before but died to the fucker that visits you after) but it just doesnt appear this time

[lime umbra]

Tools are not dropping in less than 6 months

[wild swallow]

I've tried everything, no amount of running around makes the artifact pop up

[pearl talon]

quit and start the game again

worked for me

[wild swallow]

my ass I'm not waiting 10 minutes for this shitshow to boot up

[pearl talon]

u gotta tho

[wild swallow]

I'll just sleep fuck this

[humble hedge]

Tools might drop in 6 months. Take everything you read here with more than one spoon of salt.

[sweet perch]

why the grass look like that

[limpid quarry]

ur game takes 10 minutes to boot up ? what u booting it up with a toaster? question answered

[wild swallow]

potato pc is why

[warped monolith]

I love 2D grass

[wild swallow]

My good pc got snatched by the police don't fucking ask me what I use to game

[sweet perch]

is there a roof? or anything above?

[pearl talon]

its the first artefact you need to grab to progress

[wild swallow]

nah its the first one

[sweet perch]

ohho

[deep wedge]

Just ran into the SOFMOD while running to a shalter to get away from an emission, heard a thing or two about it and honestly i thought that gun was like a higher tier weapon
found it in zaton

[pearl talon]

should be in that anomaly splooge hes aiming at

[shadow sphinx]

PSA: Duga has some gear and minor world/story-building set pieces to find post-Faust if you're a turbo completionist autist

[wild swallow]

I might just spend my christmas money on a better graphics card

[short vine]

[spice temple]

Mystery silent patch. No news, no logs. DF

[wild swallow]

what should I get THIS FUCKING SLWOMNODEJAGBOAHEGPIG HAHÄGPEAG

[pearl talon]

what did you just call me?!

[peak eagle]

worm food?

[livid haven]

which one yall went with?

[deep wedge]

I'm running pretty decent on a RX6600xt , 1080p 60fps , dropping from time to time
Tho i do believe stalker 2 is more CPU intensive

[peak eagle]

I went with richter

[limpid quarry]

Zotov gives the possibility of an achievement if u are into that otherwise doesnt matter really

[wild swallow]

how much did u have to pay

[livid haven]

what's gonna be the story difference between picking either?

[hasty mural]

Richter

[gloomy cave]

I'm at a point in the game ||Where some asswipe named Varan's asking me to kill Shah or Roosevelt.|| I'm thinking of ||killing Varan already|| but can anyone pitch me the idea of why ||not to kill either Shah or Roosevelt||?

[limpid quarry]

i dont remember any difference

[hasty mural]

Yeah

[deep wedge]

about €440 but this was about a year ago, pretty sure you can find em for around €300 now or even less

[pearl talon]

get em all!

[limpid quarry]

doesnt matter actually they arent important to the story at all

[wild swallow]

I've never ventured outside the nvidia lands before, should I?

[livid haven]

what's the difference?

[humble hedge]

My Anti-Virus software flagged Stalker 2 after updating it with the minipatch.

[gloomy cave]

I don't really care for story importance; I care more about their character and what they provide to the Stalkers throughout the Zone.

[acoustic ivy]

am i the only one that thinks slug rounds are better for mutants than buck? it just feels like they do more damage

[livid haven]

also like dumb question but if i run slugs is it better against mutatns too cuz of AP or not??

[wild swallow]

damn ukranians!

[deep wedge]

i've been a nvidia fanboy myself but honestly the last 2 GPUs i had from AMD were fkn amazing , had a RX580 before this one and only reason why I upgraded was cuz i had some extra fuck you money and wanted to do something nice for myself hahahah

[humble hedge]

Who knows

[limpid quarry]

which one are uusing?

[peak eagle]

Murder em all

[humble hedge]

A major one

[livid haven]

can anyone help with this?

[wild swallow]

might try out yours, what cpu u got?

[limpid quarry]

nice answer that helps

[keen spoke]

Look at this, i mean look at it. IT'S RIGHT THERE GSC

[pearl talon]

the patch just now
Added – .sync
Added – .sync/IgnoreList (864 B)
Added – .sync/StreamsList (283 B)
Added – .sync/root_acl_entry
Removed – Stalker2/Binaries/Win64/Stalker2-Win64-Test.exe (154.02 MiB)
Removed – Stalker2/Binaries/Win64/PalCoreApi.dll (34.55 KiB)
Removed – Engine/Binaries/Win64/tbb.pdb (5.94 MiB)
Removed – Engine/Binaries/Win64/CrashReportClient.pdb (169.43 MiB)
Modified – Stalker2/Binaries/Win64/Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe (+196.47 KiB)
Manifest ID changed – 8609377637216293114 › 8640144424682546685

[wild swallow]

I don't know this stalker too well but usually slugs are for fucking humans, buckshot is for fucking mutants

[deep wedge]

i51040f , was gunna switch to Ryzen but then need a new motherboard, new this new that and my budged aint that thicc yett so i gotta wait up a lil

[livid haven]

that's in gamma tho

[limpid quarry]

no idea what that means

[humble hedge]

"Removed Crash Report Client" - Well that will certainly take care of the negative reviews.

[crude badger]

Does anyone know of a fix for npc to spawn back in, my friends save just made it so all traders etc are not spawning in no matter what town he is entering.

[pearl talon]

same

[wild swallow]

and every other stalker game up until now? modded or not thats how its been. I'd be surprised if they changed it

AP usually has no effect on mutants, they literally don't have armor

[peak eagle]

First time I've seen a stalker use those NVGs

[pearl talon]

buck for softies, slugs for everything and darts for armor

[grand fox]

why is my dude glowing like he got Uranium Fever?

[wild swallow]

[warped monolith]

URAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANIUM FEVER

[limpid quarry]

ripped a fat one bro

[grand fox]

ahahahahhahahaah

[humble hedge]

Because he's IPSF

[keen spoke]

Plenty of these in Pripyat. Can't see more than 10 meters even with the flashlight at night

[hasty mural]

My friend sided with Varta and the game ||led him to the west and he had business with the Colonel (I chose Richter, the game led me to the north, the quests were different from his).||

[wild swallow]

anyone know if the ks-23 is in stalker 2? I wanna make bandits go flying again

[pearl talon]

nope

[limpid quarry]

confirm

[peak eagle]

Nope

[grand fox]

fuck how do I hide the spoiler

[limpid quarry]

am i confusing ks 23 with something else?

[pearl talon]

probs

ks23 is in gamma tho

[acoustic ivy]

this doesnt seem to hold true with stalker 2. slugs seem more effective as well as ap rounds

[wild swallow]

ks 23 is 4 gauge

[acoustic ivy]

its odd

[pearl talon]

its how it should be not how it is rn

[wild swallow]

I'm probably just gonna wait a month to play stalker 2 until some quality of life and realism mods have been pumped out

[rose venture]

Fought a Controller for the first time. It kept killing me and one thing of psi-block wasn’t enough. So I downed 3 bottles of vodka. It can’t control my mind if there ain’t no mind to control :3

[pearl talon]

theres no dart in staker 2 anyways

[limpid quarry]

only expansive but i dont seem to notice a difference between ap and expansive

[pearl talon]

just buckshot, slugs and expansive slugs

[livid haven]

it's not a hard lock on regions right? like i can go to north even if i chose varta, jus tno quests there

[acoustic ivy]

true i mean if i shot a dog with a slug vs buck i think the slug gonna win

[pearl talon]

both should win 😄

[warped monolith]

I love this message

[acoustic ivy]

both would work but slugs just seem op right now if you can aim

[pearl talon]

one wiill turn it into paste other will turn it inside out

[junior gale]

oh no wonder my vendor bugged out, sold some of the glitched bandit bread armor and now the vendor always has that value of the bread armor saved for every vendor

[rose venture]

Slav tactics

[wild swallow]

irl a slug would be your end. No one can aim that well when a small little fucker is running at you

[pearl talon]

bread suit

[acoustic ivy]

wheres my flammenwerfer rounds yo

[pearl talon]

just for context

[pearl talon]

what a jovial fellow

[wild swallow]

@acoustic ivy why in ur status, it says "Playing Solo", thought the game doesn't even have coop?

[winter marsh]

got it

[acoustic ivy]

the amount of bread you can horde in this game is astounding like i imagine some stalker slaving away at the oven saying MORE MOOOOREEEE

[acoustic ivy]

im not sure lol thats interesting

[warped monolith]

why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food and... idk I forgot the copypasta

[peak eagle]

Fresh Bread in Rostok

[pearl talon]

funniest shit i read somewhere is that nobody knows where the zone bread comes from... so i just immagine some dude sitting in front of anomaly shitting out bread and he collects it and distributes it

[high forge]

why does it say i'm overloaded when i'm only carrying 50 kg

[undone vessel]

https://youtu.be/tnI3xKH3w_g?si=1HS0FiFy8JO3JXTj

[wild swallow]

Sounds about right. Probably some bandit who got way too rich with that

[peak eagle]

cause you're carrying 50kg in a tiny bag

[livid haven]

all the bread we ate was anomalous bread all along

[acoustic ivy]

maybe your trunk too thick?

[rose venture]

https://tenor.com/view/jesse-pinkman-aaron-paul-screaming-need-for-speed-gif-20658918

[junior gale]

bread suits so good all the vendors want to give you money lmao

[obsidian thistle]

is a compass's physical protection in me SSP gonna be as good as the physical protection from me PSZ-7

[hasty mural]

Dunno man, sorry (probably there is no hard lock on regions, I think)

[livid haven]

hopefully 🙏

[high forge]

like this?

[livid haven]

im thinking who i should side with, evil one or evil two

[pearl talon]

his ass so thicc he cant walk around with it

[rose venture]

Oh, yeah dude you can travel wherever as far as I am aware. I went to Zaton early on to grab a legendary gun I wanted

[acoustic ivy]

i mean have you seen the bloodsuckers mouth...?

[pearl talon]

what that thing do

[night ingot]

[peak eagle]

Best exo

[sharp pendant]

is this sight available on anything else? I really dislike how bulky a lot of other ones are

[acoustic ivy]

i imagine that EMT guy saying "come here....dont...no"

[rose venture]

I raise you

[pearl talon]

handguns

[rose venture]

Mmmm SOFMOD 🤤

[pearl talon]

geez at least wipe once in a month

[acoustic ivy]

GAWD LARDY

[sharp pendant]

I may break my "no 556" streak for this thing

[pearl talon]

it went all the way up his back

[acoustic ivy]

adds flavor i've heard

[pearl talon]

da spice

[rose venture]

Whatchu got against 5.56

[acoustic ivy]

https://tenor.com/view/dune-part-two-part-2-paul-atreides-paul-muaddib-gif-9347339596529368519

[frank swan]

guys.....its back

[sharp pendant]

I dunno, just when I started Stalker for the first time I figured I'm in ukraine, I shouldn't use NATO stuff

[high forge]

mfs secure their stash like this just to save a medkit and 4 bullets

[acoustic ivy]

mercs use it

[sharp pendant]

yeah, and I was playing in Rostok with Duty

[pearl talon]

freedom as well

[spice temple]

Well, now you are in modern Ukraine and 5.56 is main

[split crown]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNQBg2yz5MU

[rose venture]

I mean… I’m pretty sure I’ve seen ARs in war footage, they out there irl. And yeah in the lore mercs use it

[peak eagle]

Did ya guys know you can move a box from Yaniv to the Spark Bunker to be able to climb ontop and get the best exoskeleton in the game

[sharp pendant]

(first time I played a stalker game was pre ukraine war of course)

[rose venture]

I mean, they came out before then so y-yeah

[frank swan]

which bunker?

[high forge]

how do you access it without the box

[rose venture]

Ohhh wait I see whatchu mean

[glossy lake]

lmfao, is there a reason some human NPC's take a full mag to the face and dont die lmao

[peak eagle]

main story locked

[high forge]

figured as much

[rose venture]

You avoided 556 in the past games too?

[frank swan]

556 in this game id DOOKEY

[peak eagle]

5.45 for everything, upgraded AKM foreva

[rose venture]

Grok’s rebalance really fixed that

[deep wedge]

ok my SOFMOD just got replaced by a mk1 EMR

[haughty sierra]

@mossy grail loook josta it's Strelok's AK that he used to kill the c con

[rose venture]

I am an AMERICAN ima use 5.56! 🇺🇸

[deep wedge]

didnt have it in inv, and it happened before, had a AR got switched to a spas

[glossy lake]

For human targets? I have no issues with mutants, but there's some npc's that seem to just be able to take a full mag of 5.45 to the face and was like ok cool can i have some more

[pearl talon]

if it doesnt have at least x50+ behind the first number im not interested

[spice temple]

Depends on ammo type

[rose venture]

Yeah, I haven’t encountered any enemy that takes more than two shots to the head, and that’s if they have headgear on. Unarmored dudes just drop

[grizzled ruin]

Anyone else just get a little 452.5kb patch just now in Steam?

[warped monolith]

yeah

[rose venture]

I’m playing on Stalker difficulty though

[pearl talon]

some bug report stuff and diagnostics is seems

cuz it removed the old crash report system

[spice temple]

Boy do I miss reputation tab and unlockable buffs

[short vine]

[obsidian thistle]

the new fit

[glossy lake]

Human target, no helmet on them they are bald typical bald ward dude. I have Gronk's rebalance mod. Yet somehow take full ak mags to the face with no worry lmao.

[gloomy cave]

||Scar, or Colonel Korshunov?||

[shadow sphinx]

probably a GSC cope for "you shouldn't be here, stalker"

[pearl talon]

both

[gloomy cave]

||The unusual PDA||

[glossy lake]

probably lmao or more of the "you shouldn't be doing this"

[pearl talon]

he is both... um wat?

[gloomy cave]

||...Colonel Korshunov and Scar are the same person?||

[shadow sphinx]

lolno

[pearl talon]

nvm i fucked up diffenret comand officer got spliced into scars mind

[gloomy cave]

So which one?

[pearl talon]

what was the question ? 😄

[spice temple]

||Gotcha||

[pearl talon]

who im i anaways? so much confusion

[thick oasis]

needs saiga and then it is perfect (with a stealth fix)

[shadow sphinx]

||There is no spoon||

[pearl talon]

||bread||

[rose venture]

What difficulty are you on?

[thick oasis]

you mean .223 🦅

[livid frost]

does anyone have a 416 with GL?

[plain hedge]

are there any mods for preventing your character from lowering their weapon while walking around?

[tacit glacier]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

X-ray dead

[undone wagon]

does anyone know if a coop mod is in the works or even possible?

[glossy lake]

vet. Majority of human targets take either 1-4 headshots which i have no issue with. But then you just run into a target every now and then who just spits your bullets out there teeth lmao

[rose venture]

They’re the same but different yknow?

[livid frost]

when weapon mods or how do i make my own

[sharp pendant]

I cannot find the last number for the Railway Maintenence Facility

[tacit glacier]

When mod tools drop

[pearl talon]

.223 has less powder behind it

[thick oasis]

real americans don't use metric bruh

[livid frost]

did they say when they would be dropping or no?

[rose venture]

I felt like the difficulty was pretty good on stalker difficulty , hard but not unfair

[tacit glacier]

Modding SDK is currently not the priority.

GSC is focusing on fixing bugs and improving game performance and making A-Life actually work.

[livid frost]

these green aks are criminal

[pearl talon]

what you wnat wood?

[thick oasis]

give people the SDK and they will do the work for you
as always

[tacit glacier]

Green AK's are the staple of STALKER I don't know what you mean

[split crown]

they're a throwback to the OG AK from SoC

[livid frost]

wood, plum, black

[pearl talon]

green is what you get... NEXT

[livid frost]

ik but this one it just looks bad to me

[split crown]

[glossy lake]

I haven't had any issues with majority of the game diffucilty wise tbh. Besides the bloodsuckers being absurdly tanky and then in places having to face 4-5 of them at once >.>
Its just every now and then you run into this one NPC human that eats bullets lol

[thick oasis]

NOT GREEN ENOUGH

[livid frost]

and the way you hold the GL on ak is not good

[split crown]

looks a helluva lot better than the AK from the first STALKER.

[shadow sphinx]

Plum is better 😏

[pearl talon]

theck is this shamrock abomination

[livid frost]

i mean model wise yes, but color is shit

[rose venture]

5.56 and .223 slightly different, you can shoot .223 out of a 5.56 AR but you can’t shoot a 5.56 out of a .223 AR because of the powder load (pressure). At least that’s what I heard, I’ve also heard that’s not true anymore and that .223 and 5.56 are basically interchangeable. But idk, my irl gun shoots both so I use whatever is cheapest to buy in bulk

[livid frost]

and the 416 view model makes the gun look huge

[sturdy meteor]

huh 1.0.2 update is out already

[split crown]

came out yesterday

[shadow sphinx]

modern .223 guns are proofed for 5.56 cause manufacturers know 'mericans will insist on treating them interchangably

[thick oasis]

tldr soviet border guards had green AKs

[sturdy meteor]

im in aus, the updates for us is late if they release by time schedule

[pearl talon]

neat

[livid frost]

wouldnt other colors be way more common

[split crown]

I agree actually. The 416 looks MASSIVE in STALKER 2 while holding it.

[pearl talon]

its low ready in right next to your face

[livid frost]

it is crazy and im assuming optics make it take half the screen up

[pearl talon]

• gl and you cant see to the right

[thick oasis]

well ye but that's what they did for stalker 1 and now it's canon

[split crown]

idunno, I'm just using my AK still since I have like 1,000 rounds of 5.45.39mm lmao

[tacit glacier]

All AKM's were green in STALKER

[livid frost]

i wanted to get acog plus gl on the 416 for the looks

[split crown]

yessir they were

[rose venture]

That’s what I’ve heard. I don’t have a .223 specific AR so I haven’t tested shooting 5.56 out of one of them personally though

[livid frost]

but i wont be able to see

[livid frost]

this color is ok, the new one is just really bad it looks wet

[shadow sphinx]

you don't want to because different barrel twist rates and the zero will be different

[thick oasis]

so a bit of 7.62mm mauser vs 7.62TT

[pearl talon]

heh

[livid frost]

also no akm is criminal as well

[pearl talon]

tho problem with that is that russians measure bore diameter differently than the rest of us

[tacit glacier]

It looks the same.
The front is from some sort of polymer, not wood. Military green since most AK's came from corpses of military I bet

[livid frost]

and having dovetail mount on ak and not being able to mount pic rail is crazy, you can do it on the aks74u

[thick oasis]

there is no problem germans measured by lands as well
7.62TT is literally 7.63mm mauser +P+

[livid frost]

idk to me it looks off

[pearl talon]

oh neat piece of info thanks

[zealous obsidian]

how the fuck to identify the psydodog?

[tacit glacier]

Good Question
Next one, please

[pearl talon]

it looks like french buldogs face on wolf

[zealous obsidian]

good question who are you

[rose venture]

Whatchu mean? I have a 1 in 7 twist barrel and it shoots 55 grain 5.56 and .223 just fine, if you’re thinking about over stabilization or something. As for zeroing, I can’t imagine you gotta make much adjustments between the two rounds, they “kick” about the same. Unless you’re talking about shooting a heavier grain 5.56

[spice temple]

People reporting new exe is infected, BTW. Curious.

[pearl talon]

wasnt .223 ment for bolt action hunting rifles at first?

[alpine frigate]

i love that the spitfire has the AKMSU magazine from the original trilogy. just wish the furniture was black to really match the old aks-74/2u

[rose venture]

I have no idea tbh, I’m sure someone here knows the history tho

[thick oasis]

yes it was a varmint round

[shadow sphinx]

I get a consistent 2 MOA vertical diff between 223 and 556 at 100 yards in my SAR-3 (though that is a strange rifle)

[quartz spade]

Does anyone know when switching ammo for a weapon, is it the ammo icon it currently is thats being used or is the next option you can toggle to?

[pearl talon]

i remembber reading something like that while drunkely looking for proof to my dumb smacktalking

[livid frost]

its the one you are using

[quartz spade]

Thank you

[livid frost]

yes

[rose venture]

Oh that’s an AK, I haven’t shot an AK but I thought they might handle a bit different than an AR, different internals and all that

[pearl talon]

my dad keeps confusing 7.62x39 with 7.62x54 and tried to talk expertise about different callibers so i had to set him right 😄

thats why i know bunch of old useless info about rounds

[rose venture]

I didn’t know about 7.62x54 until I played stalker

[dreamy holly]

@obsidian marlin 5678

[rose venture]

I was shook thinkin AK-47s shot .308 for a sec

[shadow sphinx]

anyways I'm sure once SDK is released Stalker 2 will have every gun including those that shouldn't exist

[coral harbor]

Hey, the info is only useless until you need it! I say its good to know.

[livid frost]

yea i need cool aks in my game

[pearl talon]

the problem is that most of that info is irelevant unless you talking history

[thick oasis]

they do but a barrel is a barrel is a barrel

AK vs M4 grouping, 101 is better because of longer barrel
||AK-74 sucks too much because the info is from ten endurance tests||

[tepid stirrup]

guys, there was a 100+ mb minipatch on steam, any idea what it was

[pearl talon]

so a barrel so long it swings in the wind will perform better than standart

[tepid stirrup]

better range and energy conservation

[rose venture]

I got some pretty high end parts on my AR, assuming I can quit being a terrible shot I should be able to get a sub-MOA. At least on paper anyway

[coral harbor]

The ole flaccid barrel gambit.

[alpine frigate]

long and swings in the wind, oh my

[shadow sphinx]

longer barrel more opportunity for wodka-induced defects to impart their evil on the boolit

[tepid stirrup]

300 meter barrel, straight to the dome

[rose venture]

16in supremacy tho fr

[pearl talon]

23 or miss

[thick oasis]

pike that can shoot gang

[alpine frigate]

i raise you 32. hit, check, or fold.

[pearl talon]

thats tarkov talk btw .D

[rose venture]

I wish Tarkov was free so I could justify playing it :3

[pearl talon]

i beat up my wallet

[rose venture]

Like it owed you money?

[thick oasis]

tarkov owes me neurons

[pearl talon]

stingy bastard

[crimson arch]

I wanna try the Tarkov single player but now that stalker 2 is just better I’ll wait for the multiplayer mod

[alpine frigate]

there is already an unofficial mod to the already unofficial spt for co-op tho

[pearl talon]

single player or not tarkobvv is still to fast paced with limited raid time for my liking

[tepid stirrup]

stalker 2 will be modded into tarkov at some point anyways

[thick oasis]

tarkov gunplay is amazing, everything else i could leave

[pearl talon]

yep

[warped monolith]

fika

[shadow sphinx]

yo what r dey doin https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/16592526/

[pearl talon]

as i said seems to be bug reporting thingy

as they deleted the old crash report

it was useless anyways as all it said is some violation access 0x00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

[shadow sphinx]

love me some null pointer exceptions

[pearl talon]

im hungy again... bye for a bit

[hardy owl]

Anyone know how to fix the psi-rad bug? The eefect still lingers long after it should.

Without rolling back saves

[pearl talon]

we had simmilar issue with a fella that had black out drunk blink effect stuck on... no fix

his save worked fine for me but bugged on his pc

[undone vessel]

https://youtu.be/JHhuii497SI?si=4CYbE4n1dgSq7KLa

[wanton arch]

how do i switch to the under barrel grande launcher ?

[shadow sphinx]

stalker's unmatched immersion goes away once you realize how many of the cool encounters are actually scripted.

[warped monolith]

... I think it's pretty clear the video is talking about sound, not encounters

[devout bison]

Yeah its just about the audio engineering

[onyx crown]

will stalker 2 have a mod like gamma is it being worked on? like with the way you can schoose loadout and have an accisibel zone and all that? just like stalker gamma just in stalker 2 ?

[pearl talon]

no mod tools yet so not rn

[onyx crown]

but it will come ?

[pearl talon]

best peeps can do is unreal engine tweeks and game file tweeks

propably

[onyx crown]

i thought i just head that they would do stalker gamma 2 ?

[pearl talon]

grok is already working on starker 2 ( just file editing for now)

[onyx crown]

yea okay thats cool

[candid egret]

sosugi

[hardy owl]

ok, thanks. Tried a bunch of shit but no luck. Gotta roll back

[high raven]

does anyone know good ai mod ?

[hardy owl]

Shay's Living Zone if ur pc can handle it

much better than vanilla

[pearl talon]

huh... that small update killed something as i now crash every 5 minutes

[wanton coyote]

wtf another 1?

Holy shit they are working hard

[warped monolith]

[pearl talon]

well now thats different... its not just bunch of zeroes anymore.... theres 6 in there
EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000060

[quasi steppe]

My computer turns off whenever I load shaders goddammit I wish I could play stalker 2🙏

[obsidian thistle]

I MUST NOT CLOSE MY GAME

literally shaking rn. this could mean i dont get to play sdalger 2 for the rest of the day if i close the game

[sweet perch]

i was scammed..... ||There was nothing inside||

[devout bison]

Theres a dude that gets flung

[pearl talon]

were you? i took flight

[limpid quarry]

there is

[pearl talon]

gift of flight was enough for me

[sweet perch]

nvm, i thought you said where you*

[obsidian thistle]

am i rarted? how do i find the ||surviving wardens|| at ||azimuth||?

[tacit hedge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0DRkH3r15Y

[obsidian thistle]

omfg theres a basement i missed

[devout bison]

Yeah

Need to use them 👀 xD

[devout bison]

[zealous obsidian]

Those noooontiders are the best, a blow out is happening and this dude is so high is already levitating above the ground.

[eternal magnet]

Finally beat the game this morning, just in time to enjoy the new gamma update

[pearl talon]

im already on my second playthrough with half a mill in my pocket and exoskeleton to keep me safe

[dire anvil]

is there personal chest at SIRCA?

[timid oyster]

You know guys? I am really enjoying the game despite being on a low-end pc, yet I have one thing to say:

I dont find this game too replayable aside from finishing all achievements. It seems like a one time experience. Perhaps when mods and shit will come, the game will have more content to finish up?

[hardy owl]

Sadly, no. Sell ur shit before going there

[timid oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/final-fantasy-vii-remake-cloud-strife-tifa-lockhart-aerith-gainsborough-cloti-gif-27060423

[toxic temple]

[pearl talon]

i played one game and my dad had completely different set of quests

we tried to talk about story points we both had different experiences

[timid oyster]

GAMMA has more replayability, but overall it has a worse map and no story to it except shitty Living Legend and the filler later.

[toxic temple]

Well, GAMMA is a moded anomaly.. which is also a mod..

[livid frost]

they need to make flashlight usable/ add nvgs

[timid oyster]

We have to wait for S2 SDK first.

[pearl talon]

its a mod in a mod... modception

[dire anvil]

what? 😄

[timid oyster]

Mod in a mod thats based on two mods

[pearl talon]

quadromodception

[timid oyster]

GAMMA / Anomaly / Call of Chernobyl + Misery / Call of Pripyat

[toxic temple]

I’m waiting for “anomaly” for st2. Id like to play it really like an open world game.

[timid oyster]

No free roam after ending sucks aswell. BUT the game is a muuuuch better foundation to make mods on. We wont have to wait 9 years for shit like Anomaly.

[icy basin]

FAFO'd

[pearl talon]

they fell and they cant get back up

[hardy owl]

IM guessing they will release a more open ended gameplay mode as DLC and lock away any such modding unless u buy the dlc

[plain hedge]

Why does it look like the game has another update...

[hardy owl]

i.e no story missions etc.

[pearl talon]

it had... and it borked my game

[plain hedge]

w t f

Damn these devs for being so persistent!

[pearl talon]

but in their defence it might be my mods

[plain hedge]

Don't they know that they should wait at least a few weeks between updates??? ||/s||

[pearl talon]

i just cant be bothered to test it

[toxic temple]

Also no actual power plant

I mean, you can see it from the 5th power unit, but you can’t go there.

Same with generators location. DLC stuff

[pearl talon]

theres nothing in there after all...|| monolith got removed by sirca||

or wishgranter or whatever you wanna call it

[toxic temple]

Anyway it would be interesting to go there

[drowsy umbra]

I just want a proper free roam mode

[pearl talon]

that it would

[toxic temple]

Ye

[drowsy umbra]

would be cool to have a sandbox mode like GAMMA with options like Ironman and faction mode

[pearl talon]

gotta wait for those

[toxic temple]

Hell yeah. I wanna be a monolith terminator again

[dark kite]

is stalker 2 more like a singeplayer story game? does it have

[livid frost]

real

[pearl talon]

ye

[dark kite]

is there open world?

[pearl talon]

ye

[livid frost]

yes

[toxic temple]

Yes?

[hardy owl]

How do i switch between granades if i have both f1 and egg granade in inventory?

[pearl talon]

n?

[crimson arch]

?

[hardy owl]

omg im retarded

[warped monolith]

'fika' is a multiplayer mod for spt

[pearl talon]

dont be so harsh on yourself little one

[crimson arch]

Ohh I’ll check it out

[simple shoal]

I'm going to preference this by saying I think Gamma is great. But people online need to stop comparing Stalker 2 to Gamma, it's a sequel to vanilla stalker not a brutally hardcore Modpack lol

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/fnb-get-this-man-a-true-gif-25257480

[zealous obsidian]

I really dislike how heavy the scripting is in this game

[river lintel]

I woke up to the gamma patch and for a hot second thought stalker 2 got ANOTHER patch

[pearl talon]

it did

[simple shoal]

You would think that they would all congregate on Reddit and stuff but it seems most prevalent in YouTube comments

[pearl talon]

doesnt change shit tho

[river lintel]

So we're on 1.0.3 now?

[pearl talon]

my issues came from one of my mod packs getting an update with new stuff and it borked my saves

more like 1.0.2.1

[zealous obsidian]

NEVER add new stuff to your save file if you can not reverse it before a patch

[toxic temple]

Mods gonna be a problem actually. Cause of patching and etc.

[pearl talon]

i can

[zealous obsidian]

most mods dont do that

[river lintel]

Even innocuous mods are bricking saves atm

[pearl talon]

i keep old versions of mods just for these scenarios

its why my vortex looks like this

[worthy sleet]

Spoiler

||If you guys complete the side mission On the Edge
The one to help Zalissya
Make sure you loot these 3 ||

[pearl talon]

they are FULL OF SOUP

[sharp pendant]

Since it’s in UE5, you think the mod tools will have easier map editing than like gamma has with Clear Skies?

[shadow sphinx]

Kharod and Dnipro seem... really simillar stats wise when fully modded -- what am I missing?

[pearl talon]

one mouths shotgun

[river lintel]

If it doesn't I'm sure someone will develop the tools needed

[simple shoal]

Is there really any point to modding Stalker 2 in its brand new state considering that the developers are actively updating it. Which could actively break mods like every single week.

[river lintel]

Not really imo

[peak eagle]

kharod can fit underbarrel attachments

[shadow sphinx]

oh Kharod seems to have less muzzle climb as well

[junior thicket]

patching today as sunday is insane lmao

[pearl talon]

dnipro can be changed to 7.62x39 tho

MOAR DAMAMADGE

[warped monolith]

there's a good bunch of them here as well

[zealous obsidian]

The level designers did a epic job but I really dont like the fact that you will find SOOO much crap all around that you could eat. I mean dafuq, this is absolutely rotten here. Takes away the immersion.

[warped monolith]

Most of the mods available now are rather simple. So updating them is, in theory, rather simple.

[shadow sphinx]

it's insane how good the Clusterfuck is tho

[river lintel]

They seem dead set on fixing the game as fast as possible. Honestly if it gets fully course corrected soon enough it might be inthe running for 25 GOTY

[simple shoal]

Here's an easy question the first patch that came out like 2 days ago did it break mods?

[pearl talon]

nope

[compact widget]

hi
how much time takes the gamma pack to install?

[obsidian thistle]

emission with no cover nearby moment

[warped monolith]

considering we know nothing about what today's 400kb patch did...

[obsidian thistle]

game autosaved at the pig farm just before the first wave of the emission in cordon and nothing around there counts as cover

[junior thicket]

man, faction war is over, people live in the Zone as they would live outside, ofc there is more food around

[obsidian thistle]

not even the side tunnel going under the railroad. like wtf

[simple shoal]

Am I just thinking of mods that are game version dependent?

[river lintel]

Correct. I mean the fact that they are ravenously working on things

[crimson arch]

Unless half life 3 comes out next year, I think stalker 2 has goty

[pearl talon]

as mods rn are just file edits its kinda hard to break those

[warped monolith]

actually my point is are they really ravenously working on things, considering today's patch did nothing at all?

[zealous obsidian]

food and ammo in abandoned facility would be scavenged by this time. if not it is just crap. Do you want to shoot corroded ammo?

[pearl talon]

its like settings file

[warped monolith]

I don't even know what releases next year

[crimson arch]

Considering they dropped 2 multi gig patches yes

[sturdy meteor]

promo for another GSC game

[river lintel]

Metroid Prime 4. Which as amazing as it might possibly be will definitely be overlooked

[warped monolith]

... and most people say the announced fixes aren't effective

[limpid quarry]

||they still didnt fix the bug that despawns every npc in rookie village after u turn in the quest of the lab in cordon|| major endgame story spoiler

[junior thicket]

game is semi realistic, not a simulator..

[warped monolith]

oh. GTA6 releases in 2025.
Sorry, but STALKER 2 won't have GOTY lmao

[shadow sphinx]

hmm apaprently high enuff faction rep with FREEDUM means guide is free

[river lintel]

Oh right, slop...

[simple shoal]

I think Half-Life 3 got a couple more years in development I don't think we're going to see it until like 2026 or 2027. Or I could literally eat my own words and they Shadow drop a trailer at the game awards.

[zealous obsidian]

never said that , read the whole thing

[limpid quarry]

every faction is affected so every faction has that perk

[crimson arch]

Oh damn it’s over already

[junior thicket]

you didnt understand what i meant, whatever

[zealous obsidian]

who cares about the GOTY shit? same for archivements? dafuq is that , console wars?

[warped monolith]

[river lintel]

Unless it gets delayed again lmao

[sturdy meteor]

and a fucking dayz map of cherno lol

[pearl talon]

goty means fuck all to me

[river lintel]

What does that even mean?

[crimson arch]

You’re probably right about 2026 but I feel a trailer is imminent, before June 2025

[fervent edge]

Were you able to find some workaround?

[warped monolith]

I just mentioned that because bro said only Half-Life 3 would stop Stalker 2 from being GOTY

[simple shoal]

I just see game of the year as just extra recognition for a developer doing a good job.

[river lintel]

Goty means a lot for the industry moving forward. Often games that win have a lot of future games ride their coattails

[crimson arch]

People who enjoy things and aren’t dopamine stripped

[pearl talon]

games i play rarely show up in goty so why should i care what slop gets the award

[simple shoal]

I don't watch the game awards for the awards I watched them for the video game trailers lol

[river lintel]

Because it affects what devs think players want

[warped monolith]

"I don't care about this thing, why should other people care about this thing"

[pearl talon]

they think we need more twinks and masculine women

[river lintel]

Yeah, sounds really pretentious

[sturdy meteor]

trying hard to remember who gave their own game goty status when its sales were dogshit and won no awards

[zealous obsidian]

you know what? you are funny because you now react to someone that did not even talked to you. phahha , mem your self

[shadow sphinx]

where is mod that replaces all the womyn in zone with big burly dudes

[pearl talon]

nexus would ban that

[warped monolith]

What is this, the 1800s? I'm not a slave only allowed to speak when spoken to. lmao
I could say the same about the dude talking about how he doesn't care about goty awards. We weren't speaking with him, but he's free to share his thoughts

[uncut gorge]

After this patch. Is the game noticeably brighter to anyone else?

[pearl talon]

you dare to speak to me?! ...do it more often... baka

[sturdy meteor]

flashlights still dogshit, can't illuminate 4 meters ahead of skif

[pearl talon]

use granades

[simple shoal]

That's a real thing, that's so stupid

[pearl talon]

those iluminate everything

[river lintel]

All 3 of them?

[pearl talon]

4

[zealous obsidian]

what is this , someone dears to speak to me .....

[uncut gorge]

Not meaning that. Just the default contrast, brightness, gamma settings have this game much brighter than before.

[river lintel]

Turn up your gamma

[river lintel]

"Dears"

[shadow sphinx]

i've only seen the fat uggo slag in the Sultanks, the butterface in rostok, and the gggurrrrrlboss in Yaniv

[pearl talon]

sirca, malachite, freedom and bandit ladies

[zealous obsidian]

no my dear , deer or whatever derp

[shadow sphinx]

oh right malachite, other girlboss

[sand fjord]

Did some update happen? My game is back to a stuttering mess and I’ve done nothing (I know about the patch, that fixed my stuttering)

[honest sparrow]

hello people

[river lintel]

What makes them a "girlboss?" They seem like any other resident of the zone

[pearl talon]

everyones a prick 😄

[sand fjord]

Hello

[zenith patio]

Hi

[crimson arch]

Hey

[honest sparrow]

how yall doin

[late kernel]

why do i constantly crash in hubs?

[crimson arch]

I’m outside exploring

[simple shoal]

Honestly I think I'd prefer them over that annoying British fuck in the starting town "how is my favorite customer doing" every single time I go to barter with him so annoying lol

[zenith patio]

to much workload for your rig? then again you should have a decent one if you can even launch UE5

[dull burrow]

well ill say it

going from a 7600 to a 7800xt has seen a MASSIVE boost in my performance

[plain hedge]

I'm CPU bound for sure

[river lintel]

Thats wonderful!

[shadow sphinx]

Hamster

[plain hedge]

What did this last update do?

[dull burrow]

i have a 7600 CPU OC'd to 5.4ghz rn, im doing just fine in that but i hope you can get a better performance for you @plain hedge

[simple shoal]

I don't know if I'm the odd one out but I absolutely hate him he's so annoying.

[dull burrow]

oh i ||shot him in the face almost instantly||

[plain hedge]

holy crap that's high

[zenith patio]

im using a 7600, tho i did activate frame generation, 90 FPS most of the time, but the trees look kinda wierd at fast movements, nothing new for someone on a buget, still cant see shit then they hiding in a gunfight - just like old times xD

[plain hedge]

GPU is 4080S so not much to improve there

[dull burrow]

like the GPU? i stil have mine and i honestly think for a budget 1080p card it does phenomenally well

[pearl talon]

OH FOUND HTE ISSUE
Mutant loot mod corrupted saves after patch. This empty slots is a Mutant pieces

[zealous obsidian]

I am CPU limited with the 5800x3d as well when I am near camps.

[dull burrow]

whats your CPU if i may ask?

[plain hedge]

10700f

[pearl talon]

if you had that mod if will bork your save

[zenith patio]

forget what i said, my "i just woke up" ass thought we are talking about GPUs

[river lintel]

That tracks

[dull burrow]

we were lol

[river lintel]

The game doesn't know what to do without that data anymore

[simple shoal]

What's the best A-life mod?

[dull burrow]

i got around 60-70 capped but i also ran on ultra and near native 85% upscaling

[hushed garden]

Anyone have a fix for screen tearing? Not using vsync because of input lag

[umbral prawn]

today i loaded the game now it runs so awful i get single digits FPS

[zenith patio]

oh? then yeah the 7600 it is

[river lintel]

I was capped around that andnturned on frame gen, I now get 120 at the lowest with only 20ms of latency at most

[dull burrow]

t hey are all placebo and hardly work, all they do is tweak the spawn radii to the player so no more 5 man bandit squads on your ass

but ALife is a bit more than that and hence why its a big problem and is basically gonna get its own update

[grand glacier]

Is there a mod to fix on the edge ?

[umbral prawn]

IS IT ONLY me when i loaded the game and i cant play because it runs worse than a turtle yesterday it was good...

[dull burrow]

loved my 7600, but i was wanting a 1440P rig and a decent 7800xt was on sale for only 300 bucks, i just couldnt pass it up

[hushed garden]

Frame gen is great

[river lintel]

I doubt a 200kb patch borked your game. Try reinstalling g drivers maybe?

[zenith patio]

so far my only gripe is the bulletsponge mutants, and the way to short spawn time for smart terrain spawnpoints (mutants and stalkers spawning in your back or even your face if you stick around for to long)

[river lintel]

It's fucking magic

[dull burrow]

i hate frame gen in games, the latency nad input lag compelely ruin the whole experience

[umbral prawn]

@oldcrow i added 2 mods not performacne mods could they have caused it_

[dull burrow]

the fps is great, but who cares if you are being hindered with every movement you do

[shadow sphinx]

ok the anomalies in the vehicle graveyard that make the helo's rotors subtly spin is a nice touch. very charming. quite demure. 10/10 GOTY.

[river lintel]

Mutants die pretty fast after Fridays patch

[dull burrow]

theres so much of little attention to detail is fantastic

[zenith patio]

i play 1440p most of the time, according to the grafticsetups

[warped monolith]

1.0.1 rebalanced the mutants' health. They should be less spongy now

[zenith patio]

maybe my I7 13700KF is the reason?

[river lintel]

Yet I'm not experiencing latency if at all

[zealous obsidian]

try veteran and do it to the psydo giant that is also capable of throwing boxes at you

[dull burrow]

the only muties not touched was the PseudoGiant and hte Chimera, otherwise iirc all mutants get a massive sponge decrease

[shadow sphinx]

omg the spinning rotors are a jumping puzzle

[zenith patio]

wait then did the update hit?

[warped monolith]

2 days ago

[river lintel]

I'm infact on veteran, pseudogiants I expect to be tanks

[dull burrow]

i need to understand how frame gen works and how to counteract it then, bc it was so delayedl ol

[zenith patio]

they still felt spongy tho

[warped monolith]

Combat Balance:
Reduced some mission items' weight (including weight of scanners)
Slightly rebalanced Bloodsucker’s damage.
Decreased Bloodsucker’s strike protection rank (more damage from guns).
Reduced Boodsucker’s HP regeneration outside the combat.
Controller HP is moderately reduced.
Burer HP is moderately reduced.
Boar HP is moderately reduced.
Flesh HP is moderately reduced.
Damage to Boar from headshots changed to 100% of body damage.
Damage to Boar from shots to the limbs is increased.
Damage to Flesh from shots to the limbs is increased.

[dull burrow]

are you on steam or gamepass version?

[zenith patio]

steam

[fringe jewel]

nah i downed the intro bloodsucker with not even a full ak mag

[dull burrow]

then idk man, nearly all mutants gpot a massive reduction their armor values OR hp

[hushed garden]

I'm getting an input lag when in full screen exclusive with frame gen but it's fine in full screen borderless lol

[pearl talon]

yep just tested it with mutant drop mod on and its still borked

[fringe jewel]

the patch defo nerfed bullet sponge mutants

[pearl talon]

there are unusable slots in my inv

[river lintel]

I have no understanding how it works personally. I just know after I turned it on my frames nearly tripled at times and my latency went down.

[zenith patio]

i guess unlike my "im suddelny 14 again and currently shitting my pants" self i assume you did hit him?

[warped monolith]

patch notes indicate Bloodsucker, Chimera and Pseudogiant HP values were unchanged.
Bloodsucker armor was reduced and its passive HP regeneration (when "outside of combat") was reduced

[dull burrow]

man, wanna do Stalker 2

but also Gamma update just dropped... so much to do

Stalker fans are eating good rn

[pearl talon]

bloodsuckers armor class got dropped

[fringe jewel]

i missed some
but it felt pretty fair

[crimson arch]

10% off bloodsucker health mid game

20% early game

[graceful hound]

I had a softlock with the additional quest "what's left", when I got to the territory of the task, the marker did not move to the artifact and it is nowhere to be found. Has anyone had a similar experience and found a solution?

[zealous obsidian]

human enemies look like joke enemies now with groks mod for the veteran difficulty.

[dull burrow]

that last part makes zero sense, bc Frame Gen uses AI to simulate extra inputs and therefore increasing your FPS, so it should feel MORE delayed if anything

[fringe jewel]

i think fleshes should get nerfed a tad bit more but otherwise it feels fair now

[river lintel]

The armor of bloodsuckers is really what mattered. I rock a ram2 for muties and random bloodsuckers are fine now

[umbral prawn]

@river lintel i added 2 mods could they be the reason i didnt add performance mod

[warped monolith]

I wouldn't use Grok's rebalancing mod anymore, it'd probably make the game way too easy

[fringe jewel]

it crashes the game iirc since it's not patched for 1.0.1

[floral venture]

yeah groks mod is not balanced for new patch at all, it doubles up the nerf and makes everything die in 1 hit pretty much

[river lintel]

I know it doesn't make sense. But prior to enabling frame gen my latency was 50ms and now it's 20ish

[dull burrow]

i persoanlly think all mutants are fine

i can 2 shot most meager AI and Fleshes/Bloodsuckers take about 3 shots with my Saiga, more than reasonable but also they still pose a threat

[warped monolith]

It was only meant to help the filtered folks fight mutants in 1.0.0

[zealous obsidian]

the game is to easy without it as it is because everything is so dirt cheap

[simple shoal]

If you have an AMD GPU you have access to Anti lag which reduces the latency while using frame generation

[hushed garden]

Use vsync and you'll have a stroke sir

[dull burrow]

oh? is that in Adrenaline? i need to turn that bitch on then lol

[fringe jewel]

btw if you want to mod use the last updated tab
it's much easier to see what mods are compatible with the patch

[pearl talon]

i use vsync all the time... didnt notice no latency issues ( or i got used to em )

[river lintel]

I can't explain it, only know I have reports from my overlay that tell me performance improved. So I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth

[fringe jewel]

yeah later on they are easier for sure
just a little annoying early on

[river lintel]

I had v sync on but it was causing stuttering like skif had a limp

[dull burrow]

as they should be, i feel they nailed the mutant health/armor/sponge this last update

i just wish there was a point to shoot them

[simple shoal]

Yeah it's driver level.

[fringe jewel]

i used ingame vsync with framegen
kinda made the game unplayable due to input lag
when i switched to driver version it was much better

[fringe jewel]

i have the mutant loot mod so it's not so bad

[river lintel]

The point is to not die as fast lmao

[spare forge]

W/o getting too spoilery does the main quest ever take you to rostok? It feels like I’ve had to go out of my way to go there so far

[pearl talon]

do NOT remove that mid playthrough

[fringe jewel]

[dull burrow]

im sure that is great, but for right now until it works more id rather just wait to use it

[pearl talon]

my save is fucked

[zealous obsidian]

I will not use that because this mod can kill your save files

[pearl talon]

it will if you remove it

[fringe jewel]

so far so good for me
i restarted my run so probably no issues i guess

[pearl talon]

if you keep it on its fine

[simple shoal]

The developers have basically said no co-op so is the coming multiplayer just going to be like the deathmatch game mode from the original games.

[pearl talon]

which was fun

[river lintel]

Probably

[zenith patio]

i did read the same

[umbral prawn]

@river lintel I added 2 mods not performance mods.. do you thnk they broke my game?

[pearl talon]

really liked the map with annomalies and floating chunks

[dull burrow]

ok
i feel like that wasnt supposed to happen lmao
side quest spoiler ahead
||prepatch did the Defend Zalissya quest, but it was borked and you were doomed ot fail no matter what the final wave didnt spawn, then once you get out of render distnace gaffer said that the town has fallen||
||fast forward TODAY and i get a "congratulations we did it" then also a "fuck you skif never show your face around here again" def no intended||

[river lintel]

Probably. Your save is looking for data that doesn't exist

[pearl talon]

so much cheeki breeki happened on that map

[agile matrix]

Does anybody knows how to get on roof on this bunker in Yuniv? To get the exo suit?

[zealous obsidian]

probably , all performance mods did the opposite to my AMD only system

[spare forge]

Not really a fan of that approach tbh. Most people would rather play COD at that point so I hope not.

[hardy owl]

Are the stats on the RPG true? Should it not have more dmg?

[shadow sphinx]

Zalissya is not meant to be saved. it's jover. move on.

[peak eagle]

If you push a box from Yaniv to the bunker you can jump ontop of the bunker without needing main quest progression

[hardy owl]

main quest

[river lintel]

Id like a multi-player mode where teams have to gather and sell artifacts in. A huge open space

[hushed garden]

AMD has some benefits lol

[snow hill]

good morning. Has stalker 2 gotten another patch yet or no? if not I'm fucking off back to sleep.

[fringe jewel]

probably will be normal pvp and tdm
and i guess the artifact hunting mode from the og games

[floral venture]

even if zalissya is saved ||it doesnt have a guide anymore|| and the shops/tech SUPER low level anyway so meh

[hardy owl]

hahaha exacly

[river lintel]

Yes, it's really small and we don't know whay it did

[pearl talon]

the dmg comes from explosion.... tho i would not want to get hit with a dud

[lime umbra]

yeah idk why everyone is soo torn over it

[spare forge]

Just knowing you failed because of something that’s not your fault probably

[dull burrow]

HOLY SHIT IT FEELS AMAZING

[hardy owl]

It should have a billion penetration since RPG's dont "explode" per se

[fringe jewel]

because i wanted to do the mission the way i want to
doesn't need it to be a main quest or have consequences

[spark jungle]

The upgrade for shotguns with rifeling where you cant shoot Buckshot should be changed so Buckshot get's just more spread... because you can use Buck in a barrel designed for slugs.

[snow hill]

i hope it fixed the niche bug i was experiencing

[river lintel]

You guchi?

[pearl talon]

shaped charge is just a cone of molten metal goodness

[river lintel]

Lol maybe

[fringe jewel]

what bug was it

[dull burrow]

that input lag option on AMD software is bonkers what

[forest radish]

no gooning in stalker 2 chat

[lime umbra]

just make the mono raids to encompass most neutral hubs
for the questline to matter

[dull burrow]

too late

[stable quarry]

It's the other way around, civilian ammo actually usually has higher powder load than Military ammo, so a .223 rifle is generally able to shoot 5.56 just fine while you don't want to get into the habit of shooting .223 outta an AR

[snow hill]

door in zalyissya instakills certain npcs walking inside. Including hamster and his merc friend

[zealous obsidian]

there are other goodies 😄

[forest radish]

https://tenor.com/view/evrart-disco-elysium-witching-hour-evrart-claire-gif-15961463896223352079

[river lintel]

Are you using it alongside frame gen or without? Regardless I'm glad it's working for you man!

[dull burrow]

im using it alongside Frame gen ya

[pearl talon]

huh... for reliablity reasons i guess?

[spare forge]

W/o getting too spoilery does the main quest ever take you to rostok? It feels like I’ve had to go out of my way to go there so far.

[silver cloak]

Yes

[dull burrow]

||yes, it brings you mostly all over the zone||

[spark jungle]

Not always. It depends on the ammo type.

[river lintel]

Then welcome to running the game on high/epic at 120+ frames !

[fringe jewel]

i don't think this specific one was mentioned in the notes
might be worth asking in official discord

[dull burrow]

all epic 150FPS Native reso 1440P

[snow hill]

the devs already know about it, one of their reddit account reacted and said they were aware

[stable quarry]

sure there are specialty loads that'll be of differing powder charges, but i'm talking bog standard nato pattern 5.55

[snow hill]

I'll check it out after my morning ritual

[pearl talon]

what i know for sure is 308. is less powerful than 7.62x51

[shadow sphinx]

I have six (6, VI) Springs

[fringe jewel]

report back pwease

[river lintel]

It's glorious

[hushed garden]

ive a 7800 xt just like you but ive a 7800x3d and im getting 120 fps all epic with frame gen and that amd anti lag

[shadow sphinx]

wrong, other way 'round

[pearl talon]

shid

[shadow sphinx]

5.56 > .223, .308 > 7.62x51

[pearl talon]

i know stuff upside down then

[pliant sigil]

Isn't .308 winchester virtually identical to 7.62 NATO except for slightly different headspace and generally spicier loads?

[spark jungle]

Yeah in this case you are right. Military ammo is designed towards reliability, civilian rounds are designed towards precision and power for hunting.

[fringe jewel]

isn't .308 a different name for 7.62x51 ?

[stable quarry]

same load out but also with 96gb of ram, shit's great

[zealous obsidian]

looks like I need a CPU upgrade , cant keep the GPU up to 100 near camps.

[shadow sphinx]

7.62x51 is a down-loaded .308 to improve battle rifle longevity mainly

[fringe jewel]

the americans misinformed me

[hushed garden]

dam im running 32gb cant imagine how good your rig feels

[pliant sigil]

Just download more RAM

[pearl talon]

like butter in between thighs

[stable quarry]

i have over 90 tabs of brave (chrome but with less ads) browser running. i don't feel the extra RAM

[fresh pendant]

Yeah. Same dimensions but there will more variations of .308 due to it being a commercial hunting round.

[amber glacier]

got launched by a springboard so hard i hit the integer limit

[spark jungle]

The 7.62 also uses thicker casings so the same amount of powder charge also puts out less pressure.

[raven current]

this a life sucks like hell. what is the purpose of spawning 3 bloodsuckers behind me which you can't even fight. When 1 kicks you on the ground you get damaged by the other and when you almost get up the other kicks you on the ground. it's not possible to fight it out like this

[stable quarry]

it's a possible fight, git gud

[pearl talon]

crate is your friend

[pliant sigil]

Shotgun. And when that doesn't work, better shotgun.

[stable quarry]

toss nades on ground, floor is lava, get to a choke point, all viable options

[pearl talon]

just stick your toe out for them to nibble on and blast their head apart

[stable quarry]

use anomalies as choke points

[cerulean root]

Have you gotten to the one mission in the swamps yet idk we can spoil it here or not but it fucking blows

[pearl talon]

or use their airways as chokepoint

[spark jungle]

Got ambushed in the old Agroprom military building by 3 Bloodsuckers... chasing me to the end of the hallway to have a clear line of sight to introduce them to Saiga. Was fun.

[stable quarry]

they generally try to avoid anomalies

[zealous obsidian]

the most stupid thing they do is the slow motion thing so that you can not do 360 no scopes to the eyes

[pliant sigil]

Now here's a question. Should I go from a fully upgraded Cracker to the SPAS? I'm basically trading reload speed for fire rate. Yes, I know Saiga beats both but I'm not trying to ruin progression for myself quite yet.

[edgy sun]

beautiful

[raven current]

yes like wtf is the purpose for that

[fresh pendant]

SPAS12 is cracked. Go for it.

[raven current]

It's ok to make mutants stronger but don't keep mutants weak but make us even weaker

[zealous obsidian]

low life console dudes I guess

[spark jungle]

Imo the Slowmo helped me in a lot of cases to see where they are and get the first shots clean in.

[raven current]

with the chim?

[pearl talon]

its ´´scary´´

[stable quarry]

running around doing artifact farming route from chemical plant and it's gotten me a hyper cube, putting me at 2 of those, and liquid rock, putting me at 3 of those

[river lintel]

Wdym? GPU usage is really high for most users it seems

[cerulean root]

Yes by god that was the most frustrating thing on the planet for me I tried for 30 minutes to kill it

[zealous obsidian]

totall fucks up my aim and I never know where they are with this slow motion thing

[fresh pendant]

Mine tops out at like 10-15% on a 1080ti.

[cerulean root]

Playing on hardest difficulty with it just to find out I’m supposed to run away from it instead of fighting it

[raven current]

you had to outrun it into CS base because there was also an emission ocurring

[pearl talon]

looks comfy

[terse eagle]

devs are Andrei Tarkovsky fans confirmed

[cerulean root]

I was at like 70kg of gear lmao and was to loot hungry to let any of it go

[river lintel]

Weird, mine is at 99% a bunch. But I'm on high and epic everything

[dull burrow]

has anyone done any tests of whether a suit/helm is a better choice over a full on suitw/helm included?