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

[sharp pendant]

Are there any like, new mutants in Stalker 2?

[royal mural]

not really

[golden hazel]

Just the Pseudodeer and Bayun

[sharp pendant]

Shame, would love to see what they’d have added. I said before it would be neat if someone could mod in the chickens from You Are Empty

This is why you don’t want me learning to mod, I’d only add silly stuff

[royal mural]

mine comes from the same site why are the times different

@clever sigil https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Duty

[clever sigil]

here you go https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline made with the bits of in-game lore and outside THQ sourced lore long time before S2

[royal mural]

yea but its the same site i use why are the dates different

[sharp pendant]

Something I appreciate about Stalker is how most of the factions different motivations and ideas of what should be done with and about the Zone

[hushed garden]

the stashes that are cunts to get to are always worth it

[sharp pendant]

Wait until you try and get the blueprint for the upgrade for that thing

[clever sigil]

its easy. the OG Duty are people from the 2006 operation.

"Duty is primarily made up of the survivors of military expeditions into the Zone, sent to take its territory under governmental control in the wake of the very first stalker incursions in 2009. "

Tis does not state it was created in 2009, but that large portion of duty joined it at 2009.

[royal mural]

so im retarded again?

[clever sigil]

nah not really, i missed it too at first

[royal mural]

i shouldve just shut up or read it in my native language

[clever sigil]

where ya from ?

[wanton coyote]

Ain’t this at malachite?

[royal mural]

AUT

[clever sigil]

ah, so the lil germany

[hushed garden]

yea

[royal mural]

yes

[royal mural]

thats why i said i speak 0.7 languages

[clever sigil]

pfff

[royal mural]

i cant speak good german or english im cooked

[clever sigil]

oof, I got to the point where i can hold english conversation better than one in my native language.

[golden hazel]

This is so saddenemotionthinken

[royal mural]

dont be sad because sad backwards is das and das not good

[clever sigil]

its what working in multinational corpo does to someone

[royal mural]

i cant hold a conversation at all

scar is better at a conversation than me SKEEEEFA

[clever sigil]

love it when the guys at Austrian plant just switch to german mid sentence and I have to ask them to repeat it.

[royal mural]

i just start all my conversations with SKEEEFA now

[royal mural]

when i talk to someone in english i get 2 responses either hey arnie govener or austrian painter

[clever sigil]

man, German dub would hit different in the stalker.

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA I CANT FEEL MY MOUTH AFTER EATING A GRAVI WE NEED TO BURN SIRCAA TO THE GROUND SKEEFA

[clever sigil]

try the tourists breakfast instead

[royal mural]

imagine with heavy austrian accent
SKEEFA COME WIT ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE

[wanton arch]

Does s2 have new iconic voicelines?

[golden hazel]

Yes, SKEEFA

[royal mural]

yes?

SKEEEFA MR BONES SKEEEFA LOOK

[wanton arch]

Like "come in man, I said come in!", and "GET OUT OF HERE STALKER"

[clever sigil]

love that one quest where you help the stalker noobie make joke at campfire

[wanton arch]

Ooh thats a good one

[royal mural]

xD

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/how-do-we-tell-him-gif-8272342975911687520

[clever sigil]

it kept the good old ones around
Good hunting, stalker.

[clever sigil]

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

[finite mountain]

Where's stalker 2 mod posting channel

[golden hazel]

Needs to be this instead

[clever sigil]

going to the cordon was such a nostalgic trip

[icy bough]

do mods nullify "engine.ini" ?

[royal mural]

i was there

[golden hazel]

Logically, only if the mod itself has its own engine ini packed in, but this is UE5 I have no fucking idea

[royal mural]

i think the vanilla game doesnt even have one, mine didnt

[golden hazel]

It doesn't

[icy bough]

because i've seen mods going "don't use mods with this engine.ini"

[royal mural]

oh yea dont forget my bbq

[icy bough]

so i thought "does mods nullify it ?"

[cursive heron]

found duty.. ||such a bummer where they are now... they needed us stalkers|| lol

[royal mural]

the game itself does haha

[icy bough]

it doesn't remove the "engine.ini"

[royal mural]

that just means that ini edits could nullify the mod or vice verca

[icy bough]

[royal mural]

it doesnt make one

[icy bough]

which is why you create on your own lmao

[royal mural]

EXACTLY

yea i created the engine ini myself there was none before

[icy bough]

yup Same here

[royal mural]

and then i kept editing it with lines from other peoples inis

[clever sigil]

love watching the streamers get jumpscared by bloodsuckers

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/shad-shadstroy-nikolai-niko-stalker-stalker-gif-1969884027567264537

[shadow sedge]

bro they are tanks in this game everything is. freaking 80 rounds of 762 to kill a pseudo giant

[clever sigil]

pseudo giant is meant to be tanky

[verbal oyster]

AK-50 when

[golden hazel]

When the SDK drops there's definitely gonna be a port of the cod AK-50

[shadow sedge]

ok another note 25 rounds of 5.45 on a flesh

this is day 1 release tho im updating rn. idk if its dif now

[verbal oyster]

from cod? COD?!

[clever sigil]

it is quite a lot different

[verbal oyster]

[golden hazel]

Yes

[verbal oyster]

straight to gulag, no magical rock for you

[golden hazel]

Wait is that you Commander Charon, man fuck you, I'm going to go wish for another can of cheese pringles

[shadow sedge]

yall ever play cold war zombies. i swear the first mission of the game with the helis and that weird frozen explosion wall. literally just reminds me of cold war zombies for some reason

[golden hazel]

Only thing I remember from cold war is that Frank Woods is an onion

[golden hazel]

Best ending to any game ever

[royal mural]

@clever sigil btw skif ending isnt that butterfly effect?
||gopnik goes ham and destroys world cause his miele washing machine gets destroyed by shiny rock||

[royal mural]

funny enough i dont remember which black ops it was i remember shoot the guy with the hood and he only lived cause it was xbox 360 and my aim with controller was way off

[golden hazel]

That was black ops 2

[royal mural]

am i that forgetful already

[golden hazel]

Elderly moment

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/toby-cry-phone-spider-man-cry-phone-spider-man-phone-toby-phone-gif-12875606672124040541

btw someone else noticed the new gamma main menu music is bandit radio cheeki breeki slowed down?

[golden hazel]

[royal mural]

btw you know what i used to do with the military checkpoint i bought peace for 2 days from sid and went in the checkpoint planting ieds xD

[golden hazel]

ieds

[royal mural]

damn i miss that mod

[golden hazel]

stabbin em loik its london innit

[royal mural]

like this

[royal mural]

mustve been the wind

[humble hedge]

Just finished Stalker 2 with the Strelok quest line. Can someone please explain the ending to me, it doesn't make any damn sense.

[royal mural]

strelok wanted the zone to be by herself

[golden hazel]

The ending means that Skif's hairline is going to get stolen and fed to Strelok's

[royal mural]

SKEEEFA MY HAIRLINE SKEEEFA

[golden hazel]

And thus the zone will love Strelok forever and ever

[humble hedge]

By becoming all that crap he hated? C-Con manipulation, Manaleet and total control?

[royal mural]

he didnt become that tho

[humble hedge]

He literally controls the entire zone with his voice lol

[royal mural]

he just said zone is closed for holiday season thats it no one in a nd oput

[humble hedge]

Total Zone Hivemind

[golden hazel]

I keep trying to ||blow up Faust's psi lanterns early to see if there's a hidden save Strider ending|| but there's a scripted death wall stopping me

[royal mural]

he just used monoliths to keep everyone in

[humble hedge]

I thought the entire point with the Strelok questline, hence my expectation, was to stop the scientists/c-con remains. Then you get the complete opposite. What a shitty questline.

[royal mural]

did you even listen to what he said or wanted

[humble hedge]

Yes

No one leaves, no one enters, everyone is a slave under the new strelok hive mind.

[royal mural]

his goal in s2 was to let the zone be by itself with no intrusions

[royal mural]

idk where you got that hive mind thing from

[humble hedge]

He intruded though

[humble hedge]

He controls the zone to his liking, yes?

[royal mural]

no he just closed it

its like the zone cant be entered or left and the zone does what it does best being there

[humble hedge]

I'm disappointed. Is there any other ending that actually fights the C-Con / Hivemind outcome?

[royal mural]

SKEEEEFAAA

[royal mural]

yep skifs

[humble hedge]

What faction is the Skif ending?

[royal mural]

you side with yourself no faction

[humble hedge]

How?

[royal mural]

||https://i.imgur.com/7HbGxbT.png||

and dont forget the ward col.

[humble hedge]

Thanks I'll check it out

[sharp pendant]

That's heartwarming

So you upgrade this thing with a rail to mount scopes, which lets you mount a scope that doesn't use said rail?

[halcyon orchid]

found a input lag fix that lets you run frame gen and have seemingly no input lag for nvidia cards if anyones interested

[royal mural]

that scope you can use without upgrade tho

[royal mural]

the rail is for other scopes

[royal mural]

always

[halcyon orchid]

can we link posts in here

er post links

[royal mural]

sure

[halcyon orchid]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gwypk4/tip_reduce_input_lag_with_frame_gen_on_nvidia/

[golden hazel]

I hate UE5 I hate UE5 I hate UE5 I hate UE5 I hate UE5 I hate UE5

[halcyon orchid]

did exactly what they wrote and its like night and day

[royal mural]

thats nice

[clever sigil]

Well yeah and you can blame Spark for it.

[royal mural]

yea cause they sabotaged dalin

[stoic lichen]

Oof, that Jawline.
Strelok hasn’t been mewing.

[wanton arch]

doesnt matter, wont fix his hairline

[golden hazel]

[clever sigil]

Yep

[royal mural]

did you ever find the picture of the spark TRUTH in the science bunker?

[clever sigil]

If I recall, that emission was actualy caused by the C-Con itself to protect itself, just like every time when someone got too close.

[royal mural]

||its a pic from the last surviving spark member basically saying spark is dead whoever says they are spark or with them are liars and imposters||

[clever sigil]

||You mean that the spark is actualy not Spark? ||

[royal mural]

YES

[clever sigil]

Yeah

[royal mural]

||scar lied to us from the very beginning and btw in the skif ending its revealed hes a c con agent like dark||

[clever sigil]

No matter what, the Spark is worse than monolith.

Atleast in monolith they can't help doing the stuff they do.

[golden hazel]

(Spark) is just a modernization of Sin tbh

[royal mural]

monoliths are victims the c con with their creation of the monolith are the worst

tbh i was more memeing for the monoliths but since i saw it from striders eyes im just feeling sadge

[clever sigil]

And you have Spark that does the bs like activating Duga of their own will.

[clever sigil]

The Doc scene was something

[royal mural]

||and the ward is literally just c con 2.0 with the ending smh||

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/sanji-one-piece-crying-raining-sad-gif-16617351

[royal mural]

the og scene with strelok and the heart of chernobyl damn that was lit

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/wah-agh-glorious-too-beautiful-bedazzled-gif-8707945

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/its-terrible-day-for-rain-its-not-raining-tears-cry-crying-gif-15563346

[golden hazel]

They cooked with the scenes

[sharp pendant]

FEEEEEESH

[royal mural]

SKEEFA FEEEEESH

[warped monolith]

SKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEF

[floral venture]

||granite squad|| in the end was fun. nice to get a big challenge to close it out. (though some of it was bit bs, tanking multiple gauss rounds is a bit silly)

[royal mural]

dude i did what granite should do i left them standing cause i was fed up

[royal mural]

mid fight i realised why am i doing this itll be over soon

[floral venture]

it was a good excuse to finally pull out my svu and go ham with the ap rounds

[royal mural]

my weapons were all broke at that moment even skifs chadmium firing pistol was done

[floral venture]

i brought in tons of extra guns and dropped any excess items entirely to be able to fit as much as possible, knowing id run into that lol

[ebon depot]

Hey I'm new to modding and all that would anyone be able to help me out for a sec?

[floral venture]

(i still ended up with my dnipro super broken tho)

i think that fight was the only time i experienced jams since the very beginning xD

[royal mural]

did you already take a look here https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1309526198833119303 ?

[royal mural]

another thing that angered me was the x7 suit and the generls dnipro, why at the end where i cant keep using it

[clever sigil]

Sorta. But hey, you get your house.

[ebon depot]

yeah I couldn't find anything about what I was looking for (how to get vortex to work)

[royal mural]

@golden hazel https://i.imgur.com/7KN8qkJ.png

[royal mural]

ahh i dont have experience with vortex i do the stuff manually sorry

[royal mural]

tbh its the same as scars hey you happy with your friends sorta

[shadow sedge]

yes

[royal mural]

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

[clever sigil]

Like if ||Strelok would let you leave the Zone, then it would be the best ending||

[royal mural]

absolutely agree with you

[shadow sedge]

my toxic trait is clicking on spoilers when i indeed dont want to be spoiled

[royal mural]

but in that one flashback you heared them talk about its bad when people that were in left the zone cause they drag weird things out of it( and i dont mean artefacts)

[clever sigil]

Like in the Ward ending you and Colonel get played by the board represantive. I still stand behind the Colonel being a decent guy.

[royal mural]

ohhh he definatly is but its like military hes a loyal fool

[pliant sigil]

||The real reason Degtyarev isn’t in the final boss lineup is because he wouldn’t fight you head on. He’d just trick you into a room stacked floor to ceiling with explosives.||

[floral venture]

deg cannonically the most sane stalker player character from the trilogy (idk if skiff is more tbh)

[royal mural]

@golden hazel what should i blow up first?

[raven current]

I remember when this thing used to cook our brains

[golden hazel]

Agroprom

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/rotfl-laughter-laugh-laughing-hysterically-hysterical-gif-14134279

[clever sigil]

Yeah but he cares about those under him. The first assault at Duga shows it best.

The attack Fails, he gets crippled, but he still is the most angry about the fact that he lost so many people.

[pliant sigil]

I mean Skif’s solution to losing his house is to enter the Zone and become a murderhobo which doesn’t speak well of his sanity

[royal mural]

yes i like him still i couldnt side with the ward cause he is not the highest instance of it

[cerulean root]

@wanton arch that’d actually be fucking terrifying walking into an elevator and falling through it

[pliant sigil]

And it wasn’t even a nice house, it was a shitty apartment

[golden hazel]

It was all he had tf you on about

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/take-it-back-arnold-schwarzeegger-angry-gif-14193165

[clever sigil]

Nah his original goal was to charge the artefact and get money for new house.

Instead he got betrayed and he did what he had to do, untill he got roped into the whole thing.

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/run-explosions-gif-13620594

[clever sigil]

Like he was ex Marine. And wanted to avoid the zone at all costs.

[royal mural]

would the military checkpoint be ok?

[golden hazel]

Yeah close enough

[pliant sigil]

Then why the fuck was that his solution to his money/housing problem

[heady mulch]

this game works with MO2 now?

[clever sigil]

If it was not for Spark botching the experiment, then he would jíst stay ať his appartment.

[clever sigil]

He lost everything he had. That artefact was his only fast choice

[royal mural]

i forgot to tell you when im sneaking i can even put them in someones pocket

[heady mulch]

bet he still had his car, keys and wallet

[pliant sigil]

He still had his service pistol and knife. Should’ve just robbed a bank. Would have been faster and safer than entering the Zone

[royal mural]

[pliant sigil]

The only way he could have fucked up harder was if he took a helicopter or other aircraft into the Zone.

[royal mural]

yea cause he wouldve been shot down before even entering it

[pliant sigil]

Well that and because any flying vehicle the protagonist of a game setting is in, is basically guaranteed to crash.

[royal mural]

xD

[pliant sigil]

That shit is so formulaic and expected by this point I would be more surprised if a helicopter didn’t crash.

[heady mulch]

when does S2 even take place? is ukraine at war during the game?

like in game

[stoic lichen]

Are coupons even worth anything out of the zone or is just basically monopoly money?

[royal mural]

its a fictional timeline

[wanton arch]

that shit got me fucked up

[heady mulch]

set in a nonfictional setting especially with this new map

it has a lot of nonfictional stuff

[golden hazel]

🍿

[thick oasis]

sane people would apply for insurance maybe and crash at a friend's?

[royal mural]

i mean yea last time i checked there werent any mutants in cherobyl

[stoic lichen]

Local eastern european man risks life and soul to buy a shitty apartment for over 5 billion robux

[thick oasis]

still no idea why it's 2022, 2015 or thereabouts would make more sense
basically whatever is just enough to build sircaa

[sharp pendant]

is there not a "upgrade to ultimate edition" DLC?

[heady flax]

anyone have a good modlist for S2 rn? The ones I used before are outdated and rn there's 30 variations of every mod, unsure what to use.

[lime umbra]

[royal mural]

that name haha, did you just change it lol

[heady flax]

lmao I changed it rq before I get dmed by a mod

[royal mural]

||trapussy|| i cant anymore haha

[thick oasis]

maklane's better zone, a-life extended and novichok's AI probably

[heady mulch]

i honestly need one or 2 mods to rebalance human hp

[royal mural]

the mod youre looking for is called this https://i.imgur.com/vk4pFyy.png

[heady mulch]

just need faster ttk, my mutants are good rn but humans are still hella tanky

[thick oasis]

AP ammo bruv

[heady mulch]

i love how i need ap ammo against a gp-5 rubber gasmask lul

[thick oasis]

sorry this isn't tarkov, no facesniping the head is the head

[heady mulch]

but yea im gonna get a guide and just collect all ap rounds

[pliant sigil]

Meanwhile I can headshot anyone short of Granite Squad with a Rhino. The past is now, young man.

[heady mulch]

mark my words, it will be

[thick oasis]

absolutely

[heady mulch]

lul yea rhino is kinda insane

[heady flax]

is there a mod that enables flashlight shadows without having to enable it through commands?

[heady mulch]

stopped using my rifle halfway into duga mission and switched to rhino

[royal mural]

rhino aka nerfed version of skifs pistol

[royal mural]

yes https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/549

[pliant sigil]

I thought the APSB was the nerfed version of Skif’s pistol

[royal mural]

but theres a reason its not in the game rn

[heady mulch]

its just every pistol lol

[royal mural]

everything you put into the pistol slot except skifs is a nerfed verion

[heady mulch]

for me it was turning mutants purple when my flashlight shone on them

[royal mural]

let me guess you used other visual mods or ini tweaks?

[thick oasis]

If you see blocky shadows or purple/yellow mutants, you need to set Shading and Hair quality both to Epic.

RTFM

[heady mulch]

mostly visual downgrades yea

and ini tweaks

ill give it another go then fuck

[wanton arch]

High everything

[heady mulch]

like me got it

[warped monolith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmuU0YoElLQ

dunno why but I love watching @leaden forum play sdalger

[thick oasis]

looted spark heavy exoskeleton off a guy but it's bread with sweater and ejans for 3d fml

[royal mural]

@golden hazel yes those are all what you think they are https://i.imgur.com/0m2lXKD.jpeg lol forget to add the pic

[heady mulch]

this game has some good edm on the radio aswell as just everything else

450 tracks aint no way ill be able to find what i was hearing

[royal mural]

goddamnit i shouldve planted more than 8

[golden hazel]

Budget cuts 😔

[royal mural]

they are fucking expensive to make

[royal mural]

even the explosions look like micheal bay post budged cuts xD

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/transformers-credits-movie-hasbro-ending-gif-4095300824521747557

[cunning river]

The day someone mods a bicycle into Stalker 2 is the day I do my second playthrough

[warped monolith]

ok Freddie Mercury

[royal mural]

here only for you

[warped monolith]

[cunning river]

What, would you prefer a horse

[golden hazel]

beep beep beep beep boom

[sharp pendant]

Honestly a horse probably wouldn’t last long in the zone because a lot of stalkers would want to eat it

[warped monolith]

also it would walk into anomalies

[royal mural]

next time ill get like 50 of them this felt like the avengers skit how many arrows did you bring? all of them like 7

[cunning river]

Hence, bike

Bikes are also immune to psychic fields

[royal mural]

[cunning river]

> Ride bike to technician
> Ask technician to replace brake
> Costs 50000 cryptocoins

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/shad-shadstroy-nikolai-nikostalker-stalker-gif-10076923168065085399

[cunning river]

Thank god Freedom didn't figure out NFTs

[royal mural]

nfts and koupons are basically the same

[golden hazel]

Makes sense with how GSC wanted to push NFTs

[cunning river]

They should have New-Vegas'd it and made Roubles a thing alongside,

[warped monolith]

bike repair costs more than exoskeleton

[cunning river]

Have the 'official' factions value Roubles more

[warped monolith]

nifties

[golden hazel]

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/spanish-laughing-hysterically-old-man-gif-18703719

[warped monolith]

Vodka bottlecaps

"Sorry stalker we only accept cossack's vodka caps in this establishment"

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/i-get-it-omg-danny-devito-oh-my-god-gif-15873107

[stoic lichen]

Ofc a freedomer made some made up bullshit digital money.

[cunning river]

Sorry stalker, the electro anomaly fried your PDA, and wiped out your hardware wallet

All your snorks, gone

[golden hazel]

Not my snorkcoin

[proud ruin]

Skeefa you must buy a NFT to access the shining zone!!

[river lintel]

I've been saying i want a dirt bike or e bike in the game

[proud ruin]

Monolithcoin when?

[golden hazel]

To the moon, brother

[proud ruin]

Stalker: kill yourself (kill the strelok)

[cunning river]

A lotta yall still don't get it

snork holders can use multiple artefacts on a single snork

so if you have 1 duga snork and 3 artefacts you can create 3 new snorks

tonight's artefact mint event is essentially a minting event for both X-1 Suckers and Duty Lickers

[golden hazel]

SoC of Chernobyl: Kill The Strelok
CS Sky: Kill The Strelok
CoP of Pripyat: Rizz The Strelok

[royal mural]

@golden hazel btw that scene was lit
casper spoiler!

[royal mural]

stalker 2: kill the strelok

[proud ruin]

SoC- “why did you send me to kill myself in the death truck?”
“Idk we kinda fucked lmao”
CS- “how do you survive emissions scar?”
“Idk lol”
Cop - “didn’t you retards know anomalys change after each emissions? Are you stupid?”
based writing GSC

[warped monolith]

SoC plot: kill the strelok
CS plot: kill the strelok
CoP plot: don't kill the strelok

[royal mural]

he literally did it like in the opening of SoC ||trying to rip it from your hands||

[real stone]

And strelok || collaborating with the SIRCAA || in Stalker 2 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
Damm every day I play more Stalker I see Monoliths more as the good guys

[proud ruin]

Monolith are unironically the good guys

[royal mural]

when did he do that

[proud ruin]

killing for money and backstabbing fellow stalkers: cringe
killing for glowing rock™️: based

[turbid void]

I can just imagine the psi voices playing

[golden hazel]

Idi Ka Mne

[proud ruin]

Monolit uWu

[royal mural]

Tvoya tsel zdes. Idi ko mne

[proud ruin]

“Come to me stalker.. I can restore your hairline”

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/community-ken-jeong-laughing-milk-laugh-gif-5522491

[thick oasis]

but can you restore the c-con?

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-hev-monolith-dance-forest-gif-23480660

[thick oasis]

aksu beats glowing rock

[royal mural]

i would restore the c con to make the absolute meme library

[proud ruin]

C-con when i join them then stream brainrot memes to them directly from my mind

[royal mural]

thats my goal

[thick oasis]

that reminded me of this

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/call-of-duty-black-ops-1-call-of-duty-black-ops-cod-black-ops-viktor-reznov-alex-mason-gif-1681414047243403443

[royal mural]

its still my biggest curse learning english through memes and videos

[royal mural]

THE NUMBERS MASON WHAT DO THEY MEAN

[golden hazel]

skibidi skibidi toilet

[proud ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/what-do-they-mean-random-numbers-gif-10654449

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/fade-away-oooooooooooo-aga-emoji-crumble-gif-20008708

[proud ruin]

rizz that gyatt

[golden hazel]

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh

[royal mural]

unlocking that scene with zombie when you struggle was fire

[deep peak]

Всем салам!

не могу открыть ссылку на скачивание лаунчера

[golden hazel]

Damn bro is speaking wish granter

[proud ruin]

Strelok had an infinitely difficult decision, to restore hairline or adidas tracksuit

[royal mural]

this channel is english do you mean gamma? or stalker 2

[deep peak]

yep

[royal mural]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/922555488665743391

[deep peak]

can't get to download

[royal mural]

and https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1026866080347603065

[deep peak]

aighty

[royal mural]

ask there they are happy to help you

[royal mural]

@golden hazel https://youtu.be/o-zTenkYANI

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/hxh-hunter-x-hunter-2011-yoshihiro-togashi-gon-gif-16736441875297258786

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/violet-evergarden-violet-cry-sad-happy-gif-22248707

i'm bleeding ..... bleeding mom

[golden hazel]

Meanwhile zombies in S2: KILL OBLITERATE EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/daleks-exterminate-doctor-who-whovian-gif-10468156

[lost bronze]

Is there a trick to finding the real "psydog" in the arena, round 2 ?

[royal mural]

tbh i just push psydogs as hard and fast as i can, btw the real psydog has their own audio

[lost bronze]

oh really ?

[royal mural]

yea i figured that out when i fought 11 of them cause it KEPT REPLICATING

[lost bronze]

what do you mean like, deeper growls ? different steps ?

[royal mural]

cant describe it really i just heard that different sound went for it and like 90% of the time i hit the real one

[lost bronze]

Okay hmm interesting

[royal mural]

tbh could be a shizophrenia episode from me too

[lost bronze]

😂

[royal mural]

but hey then its alteast very accurate

[latent compass]

Any speculation on dlc?

[royal mural]

SKEEFA

[latent compass]

lol

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA WE NEED TO BLOW UP REACTOR 2 FOR THE SHINING ZONE

[latent compass]

I went the scar route, I regret nothing

[royal mural]

SKEEEFA WE NEED MORE MR BONYS SKEEFA

[royal mural]

you cant really regret cause you got eaten by stray dogs

[latent compass]

The game gave me multiple options to turn back, basically telling me I'm just a Monolithian. But the Monolith is my favorite faction

[real stone]

now there's something I don't understand about the Lore. Anyone could illuminate me? || Strelok became a ccounciusness agent.

Strelok also took up the position of chief scientific consultant in SIRCAA. (confirmed)
Agatha seems a ccounciusness agent too(possible)

So Ccounciusness was using Monoliths in Stalker 1 so no other faction exploit the zone power

Strelok destroys ccounciusness, but then he joins their predecessors?
That's dumb
Also, Dalin father was one of they founders of ccounciusness

So with this logic, why Monoliths start attacking everyone again in stalker 2? Who are controlling them?
I don't really see any logic of this, is there anything am I missing?
Theres an old ccounciusness team (destroyed by strelok ) and new one with (strelok + SIRCAA/Agatha) that still doesn't controls the Zone? And the zone itself controls the Monoliths in Stalker 2?
It's just a guess, what do you think? Any better idea?
||

[royal mural]

thats why i chose SKEEEEFA

[latent compass]

Told Richter that faust wasn't that bad of a guy

[royal mural]

well thats only one ending

[golden hazel]

SKEEEEFA I RAN OUT OF BREAD SKEEFA, WE NEED TO RAID ROSTOK FOR MORE BREAD FOR THE SHINING ZOOOONE

[royal mural]

SKEEFA WE NEED TO REACTIVATE THE REACTOR FOR MORE TOAST SKEEEFA

[latent compass]

Killed a friendly for a piece of anomalous bread in my first anomaly playthrough

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/spanish-laughing-hysterically-old-man-gif-18703719

[thick oasis]

worth, one step closer to the shining zone

[royal mural]

i just redownloaded gamma after finishing s2 damn it changed alot and most mods i added myself are now in the base collection thats nice

[latent compass]

I kinda liked being turned into a brainless fanatic. I see people on YouTube and stuff complaining about the lack of choice but the game gives you so many chances to turn back. By the end of the SKEEFA route Skif is brainwashed.

[thick oasis]

||i have spolied myself and strelok ending sounds dumb, surely he would want to dissipate the zone?||

[royal mural]

best thing about gamma rn is the slowed dont bandit radio main menu musik i could listen to that all day

[real stone]

Damn I want to finish Stalker 2 so I can play Gamma 😂

[latent compass]

Yep just what I did lmao. Just updated Anomaly and GAMMA

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-shadow-of-chernobyl-chornobyl-itstommylove-gif-14403985658201438399

[latent compass]

I feel like a lot of people came in with the right expectations tbh. I was afraid that Anomaly/GAMMA tainted the image of Stalker

[royal mural]

||he lets the zone be the zone||

[thick oasis]

||and a gulag, apparently|| ||like how are they even gonna survive without trade with the mainland?||

[latent compass]

Getting LASS to work is always a bitch though

[real stone]

Gamma with cars and multiplayer, that would be 10/10

[royal mural]

tbh i had the discussion i said to my friend like 1 year ago when i said stalker 2 will not be as good as gamma in the beginning gameplay whise but it will still be good and i was not let down

has someone here tried out the call of pripyat coop mod
?

[golden hazel]

Me when Stalker 2 is a sequel to the original trilogy

[latent compass]

Yeah. I'm actually surprised. I was afraid that a lot of people would expect it to be a true sandbox/survival sim that Anomaly/GAMMA are

[golden hazel]

Tacticool minded invdividuals when Stalker 2 isn't a sequel to GAMMA

[royal mural]

tbh if you would be here in this channel alot you see enough of those people coming in here ruining the vibe just to rant

[real stone]

Gameplay wise it's lacking
Visuals stunning
Alife missing
But it's nice, I'm very addicted to the story

[latent compass]

Fair. But there are a lot less of them then I would expect. Some people are just dumb.

[latent compass]

I actually enjoyed the gameplay especially after the balance patches. Working A-Life would make it better though

[royal mural]

they have the right to rant tho i just hate that we are here having a good talk or memeing and they just come here hey s2 sucks ass

[golden hazel]

STOP HAVING FUN

[royal mural]

exactly that

[latent compass]

The map really fucked up my Anomaly brain though

[royal mural]

i mean that https://youtu.be/NNKc7D-Uqa0

[royal mural]

hell yea

[royal mural]

what are those modders expecting!! me having friends?

[thick oasis]

idk about coop but i tried stalker multiplayer back in the day and it slapped, like CSxEFT 0.1

[golden hazel]

my gamma brain has ptsd any time a murder of crows pops up

[latent compass]

The swamps are in Zaton and are east of The Cordon. The brainscorcher is in a corner west from The Cordon. Where is the Army Warehouse? Dead City?

[royal mural]

stalker mp mentioned

[latent compass]

They were making me jump lmao

[royal mural]

i was flabbergasted at the map but hey atleast the locations themselfs are nostalgic af

[real stone]

50 hours in, haven't been yet in Cordon

[latent compass]

You are sent there later into the game

[golden hazel]

Crows crowing OH GOD I NEED TO FIND A SHELTER AH AHHH AHHHHHHHH

[thick oasis]

south-west can go diaf

[royal mural]

you can go there from the very beginning xD

[latent compass]

But once you are able to leave the lesser zone you can just walk to it without much trouble

[royal mural]

SKEEEFA EMIIIIIISSSSSON

[real stone]

I already went to pripyat, but illegally 😂

[hushed garden]

southeast of lesser zone

[royal mural]

you can just jump at the corroded wagon without any exploits

[hushed garden]

i went outside the map tbf

[real stone]

Ye that's what I did

[royal mural]

its only illegal if yanif catches you xD

[golden hazel]

Now imagine coop Misery

[wanton arch]

Don't go through the sout near the wall tho, the gate there was locked for me

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/toad-hype-overload-omg-gif-8722234

[real stone]

Stalcraft Limansk. Full of try harders 😭

[royal mural]

after i saw you can buy stuff with real money and then pvp nope i didnt keep playing

[royal mural]

there where full exo kitted guys waiting outside of the rookie zones

[thick oasis]

https://tenor.com/view/cute-adorable-duckling-haha-classic-gif-17283485

[golden hazel]

Ubisoft Stalker be like

[real stone]

I really enjoyed it. But after I saw I needed to make a daily quest for a month.. To upgrade only 1 gun..

[royal mural]

it kinda is ngl

[latent compass]

It seems interesting but idk much about it. It seems super grindy in a war thunder way

[royal mural]

i already play warthunder i dont need another one of those

[real stone]

Super grindy + try harders + campers + cheaters.
Yup

[royal mural]

i play war thunder since 2013 and i only got about 2000h (playtime not idle) innit lol

fucking fat fingered that sentence god damnit

[golden hazel]

Play Warthunder For Free Today

[latent compass]

As a star citizen backer i understand x1000

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/sseth-ssethtzeentach-vibe-check-grab-gif-20363655

[royal mural]

im a starcitizen backer too

[latent compass]

You're fucked

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/cooked-teaboicooked-i'm-cooked-jover-gif-16743674154211414140

@golden hazel remember i dumped about 40k into steam

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/fabessauro-shaking-epileptic-possessed-gif-12754411

[golden hazel]

Good lord

[royal mural]

yea good thing idk what ubisoft ea and the rest have

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

[verbal oyster]

see that recent stat, something like ~$20B in steam games that have never been played

[royal mural]

i wish it would be only 20

[latent compass]

How much have you dumped into SC?

[royal mural]

not so much

[wanton arch]

|| did they stealth patch the pseudo giant in SIRCA to be invincible? I remember killing in 1.0 but Idk if misremembering ||

[wary orbit]

I need another Lumumba

[royal mural]

can i see that on the homepage?

[latent compass]

Account -> Billing

[royal mural]

yikes

am i allowed to round it down a bit
?

[latent compass]

Nope

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/fade-away-oooooooooooo-aga-emoji-crumble-gif-20008708

[proud ruin]

Is your question who is controlling monolith is c-con is dead??

[warped monolith]

round it down to the nearest million

[latent compass]

I'm ~900

[royal mural]

i am not that rich but now i get why some people say i have a rich laugh

[royal mural]

puhh ok just add 1k to that then you have me approx

[latent compass]

Had to buy the Polaris?

[real stone]

Idk a bit of everything, what's your point of view?

[royal mural]

no

[proud ruin]

Noooo I need 10000 guns, tacticool attachments and body health system where is my gun part mechanics GSC

[warped monolith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EffPnse4WQs

[proud ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/plastic-man-real-real-powder-powder-that-makes-you-say-real-animated-comic-plastic-man-gif-7493651428267836743

[royal mural]

why did you do this to me

[golden hazel]

What do you MEAN every damage isn't based off barrel length and caliber

[thick oasis]

bruh i can fast travel to malachite but not exit the building, legit the closest guide to duga i can use is in rostok

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-laugh-gif-20100362

[latent compass]

Tbf the bleeding system almost gave me a aneurysm xD

[royal mural]

THE SECRET ENTRANCE SKEEEFA THE SECRET SKEEFA

[proud ruin]

The plot is kinda confusing when you really think about, like who is controlling monolith? Is c-con still alive? Idk

[thick oasis]

it is in my game, APS has slightly more damage than skeef's PM

[proud ruin]

literally unplayable

[verbal oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/tây-cười-laugh-nicolas-cage-gif-16813147

[latent compass]

Shoot Bleed Bandage Reload. But bandaging and reloading slow you down so you have to bandage a second time after reloading

[royal mural]

you are right https://tenor.com/view/the-door-is-open-you-may-leave-gif-15357849

[proud ruin]

[thick oasis]

hypercube ✅

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/toy-story-aliens-cute-the-claw-gif-2992999473414330557

[chrome wind]

how's this loadout to y'all? saiga is getting boring

[royal mural]

using corundum -10000 aura

[proud ruin]

Using corundum - based

[thick oasis]

if i dump saiga i'm rolling SVU and PKM

[royal mural]

no chad pistol -40000 aura

[real stone]

What's codendum?

[royal mural]

using corundum is like using exo the difference to based

[chrome wind]

revolver not good for mutant killing?

[thick oasis]

single action? pffffff

[latent compass]

I beat the game before the first patch. I used Skif's pistol most of the game because it didn't break xP

[royal mural]

https://i.imgur.com/lruPNVI.png that my friend is a based loadout

[royal mural]

i used it till x7 lel

[chrome wind]

honestly i'd main the groza if i didn't hate the red dot

[real stone]

Sneak to the north, grab Dnipro + Texas + Diamond Exo = Ez game

[royal mural]

yea but i enjoyed it too much to not used it cause of reddot

[royal mural]

easy? sounds like p!skill issue

[royal mural]

thanks casper youre a real one

[proud ruin]

[thick oasis]

novichok AI bloodsucka would gib my ass ten times over if i used the rhino

[real stone]

Just more fun, could finish stalker 2 only skif pistol

[chrome wind]

fuccc

guess i'm going back to the saiga

[royal mural]

if having it easy is fun for you go for it but just so you know the easiest and cheaty way to beat it is still

[wanton arch]

Stalker2 is the only game so far that made me avoid close range sights like the plague, the irons are ten times better

[verbal oyster]

saiga is closest we have to ak50, so it's required

[royal mural]

i agree but its a named 5.45 its welded onto it

[thick oasis]

PM in tarkov:
PM in S2:

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-gif-13259672441119550833

[royal mural]

nerfed version of skifs pistol

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/overpowered-op-melee-gif-5379026

[real stone]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1254523116856545345/1310575436387975188/averageStalker2.gif

[royal mural]

im off getting my treatment have a good one stalkers =

[latent compass]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker2-explaining-gif-25555840

Who the fuck was this guy?

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/penguin-explode-random-content-aware-scale-meme-gif-11007610120581438319

[thick oasis]

||who is this btw? protorichter?||

[golden hazel]

Leon Strelok Kennedy

[proud ruin]

Helicopters fear the almighty blade of the marked one

[royal mural]

the timeline where the wishgranter granted him hair https://i.imgur.com/Zk98X5s.jpeg

[latent compass]

That's what I'm asking lmao.

[proud ruin]

Strelok if wish granter gave him his hairline back (it was beyond its powers)

[thick oasis]

hair is a burden, interferes with gasmasks

[proud ruin]

Damn bro really doesn’t look great lmao

[latent compass]

I wish... My hairline ceded.

[proud ruin]

What 10+ years in the zone does to a mf

[chrome wind]

what 5 divorces and a lobotomy from a glowing stone do to a mf

[royal mural]

streloks hairline started to go back when he was still in the womb

[latent compass]

3 emissions fried Scar's brain so Strelok's balding is doing pretty good xD

[proud ruin]

Bro was born with a widows peak

[royal mural]

why is it everytime i want to go off it gets funny

[golden hazel]

[proud ruin]

“Gamma discord, come for discussion, stay for the shitposts!”

[royal mural]

someone bonk me on the head pls

[proud ruin]

!barn @hulk for 10000 years

[fallen iron]

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[chrome wind]

this is legit a nuclear grade reaction video

[proud ruin]

[rigid wadi]

has anyone figured out a command to change relations yet? 😮

[golden hazel]

[latent compass]

The feminine urge to be into the occult and true crime

[proud ruin]

The feminine urge to be into astrology

[latent compass]

As soon as I saw where the Spark route was going i decided " Oh yeah being a cultist" isn't that bad

[proud ruin]

There’s nothing wrong with cults, praise monolith!

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA WE NEED TO LEVEL ROSTOK FOR THE SHINING ZONE

[latent compass]

Just spent 1000 points on a vintorez

[proud ruin]

Install the monolith taunt voice lines mod

[proud ruin]

SKEEFA WE NEED TO FLY A 747 INTO THE TOWER IN ROSTOK!

[golden hazel]

IT'LL LEAD TO THE SHINING ZONE FOR REAL THIS TIME SKEEFA

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/brain-gif-20155462

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/itsamanbaby-itsaman-thatsaman-austinpowersitsaman-austinpowers-gif-24686556

[latent compass]

Sir a second shining hit the zone

[latent compass]

Can anyone explain how we saw Strider in the pod?

[proud ruin]

Ahhhh noosphere

[latent compass]

The shining zone

[golden hazel]

Noosphere magic

SKEEFA WE NEED TO SHOVE STRIDER OUT OF THE NOOSPHERE FOR THE SHINING ZONE

[fervent imp]

Essentially the minds of dead people still exist within the noosphere, but I think it's implied that it's more like a mind-prison than an actual afterlife

[golden hazel]

Minds of dead people affected by the Psy experiments

So C-Con and Monolith members

[proud ruin]

Even in death i still serve monolith

[latent compass]

Sounds like the Shining zone....

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA WE NEED TO MAKE MORE ZOMBIES FOR THE SHINING ZONE

[fervent imp]

|| And from what I get from Scar's route, the very idea of the Shining Zone and all that jazz is basically just more lies and illusions - what Scar is looking for and wants truly just does not exist and won't, even if you put him in the spicy pod||

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/serious-fierce-the-shining-jack-nicholson-jack-torrance-gif-15214761

[wary orbit]

lets start with those that continue this Skeefa meme

[warped monolith]

all this talk of the shining zone just makes me think of ↑

[latent compass]

Proof?

[golden hazel]

HEEEEERES SCAR

[wary orbit]

i just block everyone that posts this fucking flashbang into chat from now on

[proud ruin]

[proud ruin]

I’m pretty sure Skif/stelok ending tells you the shining zone isn’t real but I’m also retarded and may be wrong

[golden hazel]

Soylok says it

[latent compass]

Why would I trust Strelok? Scar saw teh shining zone

[fervent imp]

|| Plenty. Scar's a C-Con agent. He dies much in the same fashion Dark did (spasming in front of a TV screen) - and retrieving the casette from that one weird device where you meet Strelok reveals that what Scar thinks is the Shining Zone really just is an elaborate illusion.||

[golden hazel]

And he literally proves it doesn't exist in front of you

[latent compass]

He proves that it exists...

[proud ruin]

Soylok “the shining zone isn’t real, source is trust me bro”

[golden hazel]

Who cares about the source, go kill the old man

[latent compass]

What route shows this? The Strelok one?

[proud ruin]

Skeefa u must kell old myan

[proud ruin]

[final pawn]

hmm, people need to be chaotic more

[fervent imp]

|| I don't remember if it was before or after you locked into Strelok's route properly, but yeah - the Shining Zone is obviously and provably a scam. Even Scar's ending reveals that what they see as the Shining zone just makes everyone live out a fantasy. ||

|| I had sided with Scar up to the point this becomes clear.||

[latent compass]

Hmmmmmmm you just didn't have faith

[fervent imp]

|| That said - all the endings are a shade of bleak. Strelok just says "get out of my swamp, REEEEEE" to uh, everybody. It may or may not be for the best.||

[cerulean root]

Well shit I don’t know how to feel about the best ending I got lmao

[latent compass]

Which was?

[cerulean root]

I’m in a tube

[latent compass]

Ah

that was isn't that bad, as a freedom fan it's pretty cool

[fervent imp]

|| You sided with the Doctor, then? I think the implication there is that you set the Zone free. Uncontrollably free. As in, "starts spreading violently".||

[cerulean root]

I’d rather have that or Sterlock ending rather than letting the orange guys and fake illusions control it tho

[latent compass]

They aren't fake. You just don't have faith

[fervent imp]

Don't force a meme, for the love of god

[cerulean root]

Tahiti, oceans, mangos and paradise

[latent compass]

🥺

Not trying to

[cerulean root]

Well since I beat the game on the hardest difficulty time to do every side quest, every Easter egg on easy mode and cause genocide to everyone in the zone

I do wonder if we’ll get a dlc where we play as a new bunch of stalkers inside of Sterlock zone, would be interesting

[fervent imp]

|| So, the Ward ending is pretty obviously "lol we're turbo-science-fascists :DDDDD" and is ultimately implied to be very sinister for everyone, even if they do end the Zone itself. On the upswing, it might actually be the only ending in which Skif makes it out better than he started off. ||

[latent compass]

I wonder where the dlc will go. I've seen it talked a lot of as something post game

[floral venture]

definitely not post game. with how different the endings are

[fervent imp]

|| In the Strelok ending, I'm not sure if Skif's still trapped inside the Zone, or if he's staring at the new barriers from the outside.||

[latent compass]

True but I wouldn'r be surprised if they just choose an ending as the canon one

[cerulean root]

I’d guess he had to of left considering he agrees with Sterlock the entire time and wouldn’t need to stay

[cerulean root]

All to do now is wait for the 3rd game to get announced then canceled and brought up a few decades later again

[proud ruin]

I’m excited for the limansk dlc

[warped monolith]

assuming we'll still be alive by then

[cerulean root]

50/50

[proud ruin]

Stalker 3 releasing 2050

[warped monolith]

it'll be renamed to Lemonsk because "it's the correct ukrainian spelling" and all textures will be lemon-colored.
And Scar will tell you to lick every wall to make sure it tastes like lemons.

[proud ruin]

based

[fathom monolith]

If I download uetools is there any commands to see if I'm just bad or if the artifact is in the floor?

[fervent imp]

Now for something not ridiculously spoilery

[warped monolith]

sometimes my genius frightens me. I think that message should be pinned

[fervent imp]

I love how Scar and Strelok both have an incredibly fucked up sense of humor

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/jeremy-clarkson-sometimes-my-genius-almost-frightening-driving-car-ride-gif-16463163

[latent compass]

Lick the walls SKEEFA you can taste the shining zone

[fathom monolith]

I'm in like this lava field in garbage and the detector is blinking so fast it's solid white

[latent compass]

Have you tried looking down?

[fervent imp]

In my experience, there are some instances in which artifacts can bug out and be somewhere way above or below you... but that's pretty rare.

If you can't find it, you can always leave the area and come back later, which might fix it

[empty shale]

any news on A-Life 2.0 yet?

[wary orbit]

yes

[empty shale]

well dont leave me hanging!

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/excited-gif-25794812

[river lintel]

What pistol is worth using over skifs? I'm teal late into the game and kinda tired of it

[fervent imp]

From what I gather, what we're seeing right now is basically a severely gimped version of the A-life system, which only actually does stuff - as people have speculated - when the player is very close and leads to the weird pop-in-spawn behavior.

[river lintel]

I mean, I know the answer is probably "just use skif's" but I figured I'd ask if anyone had any better performance with say, deadeye

[fervent imp]

I take this to mean that A-life does exist, NPCs and mutants are still likely tracked...

But we see it in the very dumbed down form of awful spawn-in behavior

[cerulean root]

None

[river lintel]

Nevermind, i tested it on an exo standing outside the rostok market, takes 3 deadeye shots to the head. I know for a fact skifs is 1. I am tired of this dinky makarov

[fervent imp]

I use the revolver because it's fun and has satisfying feedback

But Skif's pistol is alarmingly efficient for the vast majority of the game

I had fun running a USP compact for a while too, but honestly, it's not

better

[river lintel]

Yeah. I'm just bored of it. Especially because I run with my veles and pistol put most of the time

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA I HAVE A NEW PLAN

[fervent imp]

I'd feel much better about it if they made .45 ammo less ball-achingly heavy

It's like, what 4KG for less than 200 rounds?

unacceptable inefficiency

[river lintel]

SEEEEEEFA WE WILL MAINLINE CRUSHED SHELLS AND KILL THOSE WAARRRRD BASTARDDS OUTSELVES!

Yeah .45 is heavy as shit. They also made deadeye look nice but not accep suppressors because it'd a sport variant

go get artifacts for Scar's "plan"

[fervent imp]

As far as I'm concerned, the central conflict of the plot is that Scar is just really fucking fond of Neon Genesis Evangelion and Strelok disagrees with his taste in anime

[river lintel]

I can accept skifs pistol is better than base pistols. But the fact it hits 4x harder than an upgraded Deadeye DESPITE TJE LATTER HAVING HIGHER PEN is a little egregious imo

[golden hazel]

Yeah there needs to be a late game silver 1911 with only 7 round mags

[river lintel]

Nah, let's not encourage that

[plain hedge]

What do people think of every enemy getting a 100% chance to throw a grenade with 20-35 second cooldown

[golden hazel]

Just kill them before they do

[sturdy meteor]

whew!

[fervent imp]

Meh, they're grenade happy, but that's to force your ass out of cover

[plain hedge]

Preemptive grenade

But shouldn't there be some kind of probability scaling with rank?

[fervent imp]

It's more annoying than anything else, but I'm not too upset with it.

[plain hedge]

Like, maybe noobs get a 25% chance to throw, and masters get a 50% chance

that way you'd at least feel the difference between their fighting styles

seems like a missed opportunity for immersion and depth

[lime umbra]

its clear sky

[plain hedge]

or do you think that'd be breaking a core mechanic

[lime umbra]

were renegades would throw 20 nades at you in the tutorial

[plain hedge]

CS was brutal AF...

[fervent imp]

CS grenading was turbocancerous

[warm cliff]

I beat the game yall

[golden hazel]

Foggy Skies, Murky Waters, Renegades AND BANDITS! All of them will stop Clear Sky on its triumphant march towards stopping Strelok!

[lime umbra]

here
ONLY 1 at best will throw a grenade at you

[fringe jewel]

hello stalker 2 chat
goodbye stalker 2 chat

[plain hedge]

I get a steady stream of grenades

[stoic lichen]

Oh god… clear sky… How did they fuck up the combat in that game so badly?

[fervent imp]

They weren't throwing grenades, they were throwing laser guided 2000lbs bombs

[plain hedge]

like, I'll run, and 5-10 seconds later, another one comes at me

[fringe jewel]

goofiest cinematic in that game

[plain hedge]

I'm guessing that's why they nerfed grenades to deal so little damage in such a tiny radius

also, why do F-1s get a larger concussion radius when RGDs are the concussive grenade?

I could see higher damage/radius, but the concussion should be less

[fervent imp]

Because game doesn't do fragmentation modelling.

So in order for grenade to be more powerful, it literally has to have a higher blast radius.

[fervent imp]

I like that Scar is a silly goober

[river lintel]

Okay, so I you know what, sitting through an emission in the Arena Bar in Rostok and I am only thinking on one thing, how fucking cool that place must be when it's packed

[golden hazel]

Ward doesn't like him cause he got too silly

[plain hedge]

But it does model concussion radius and damage radius separately

Concussion is purely the debilitating effect

Hilariously, exploding fuel barrels won't concuss you

Now I've never stood near an exploding fuel drum, but somehow I suspect your hearing would be in some jeopardy

[fervent imp]

Well, worst case is, they didn't really care that much about this. Best case, they were trying to keep the idea consistent (for gameplay purposes) that F-1s are just better, therefore also more debilitating, more damaging, etc etc etc.

[proud ruin]

Sounds like clear sky gameplay

[rose venture]

Ordered a loner patch and monolith patch

[plain hedge]

Do you think it's good for gameplay, or would it be sensible to dial it back some?

[proud ruin]

bandit uses heat seeking grenade, it’s super effective!

[cerulean root]

Hmm I wonder if I should buy a gp-7 for mercenary gear

[golden hazel]

Mercenary Scar uses quantum tunneling bullet, it missed!

[proud ruin]

It would be based if anything make them throw a grenade every 10 seconds

[proud ruin]

the zone must of cast my bullets into another dimension

[plain hedge]

I wish maybe there was a difference in how accurately they would throw them

[golden hazel]

CS Sky gameplay be like

[proud ruin]

I played clear sky once and never again

[plain hedge]

same, the opening fights were so brutal, being forced to go between a shitty pistol with range but no killing power, and a shitty shotgun with power but no range

[proud ruin]

It took my 14 year old smooth brain an hour to get through the 200iq cordon machinegun skill check

[golden hazel]

I just used my monolith powers to fry the MG nest's brains

[proud ruin]

typical based monolithian

Clear sky is a troll of a game

“Surely it gets better once you’re out of the swamps?”

it gets worse

Limansk/deserted hospital has got to be one the most painful ending sequence of all time

[golden hazel]

Yeah

[fervent imp]

Yeah that was a slog

to be honest, the end of SoC and mowing your way into the NPP and within it is also a slog

The endgame running battles are never really the high point except from the narrative view

[proud ruin]

I’ll replay it whenever dead sky releases

[slate nacelle]

anyone in here by chance found a unique kharod yet in the game? been looking all over the zone and havent had any luck yet

[royal jasper]

the end game in SoC was incredibly good.

[golden hazel]

Apparently the alpha is out

[proud ruin]

[spare escarp]

It’s scary, but many people don’t know it yet.......
https://youtu.be/bQ4ND20zKZs?si=chezWtfKqmDPj7J6

[royal jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/vegetarian-no-way-meat-only-ron-swanson-parks-and-rec-gif-5638366

[rose venture]

Hermann yay or nay?

[acoustic ivy]

Todays lesson on how not to shit yourself....dont double swing on ammo boxes unless you know theres not a nade in them. they will boom if hit

[royal jasper]

||Anyone know why an imaginary sniper keeps killing me at Duga outposts? im wearing an exo fully upgraded, and its recently been taken by monolith. i kill everyone, and then some random bullet one taps me.||

[golden hazel]

That means you aren't supposed to go there

[royal jasper]

||i thought just like the other two sites you hold out against, means this ones it too. idno..||

[bleak badge]

Have u done first story quest for that place? 2nd time you have a quest there you gotta go bottom entrance iirc

[keen knot]

Apart from the artefact can we up the maximum load ?

[golden hazel]

Some outfits have weight increasing upgrades

[keen knot]

ok thank you

[ocean laurel]

When next patch?

[lethal echo]

is the file downloads11-20.7z the mods for the game?

[pallid ravine]

Okay they really need to fix the consumables not registering issue

Try to run away from a homing electrical anomaly, waste precious seconds chugging an energy drink to keep running, try to sprint, still have no stamina because the drink did nothing, and I'm dead.

[golden hazel]

The bugs consume

[lethal echo]

wompwomp

[abstract furnace]

SKEEFA :3

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA WE HAVE TO MAKE THE BUGSPLAT SHOW UP, FOR THE SHINING ZONE SKEEFA

[keen knot]

have you the same bug, sometimes i use medikit etc i see the animation but he don't use it, i have to make it a 2nd time

[golden hazel]

known bug yeah

[pseudo jacinth]

Sometimes my skif just eats the medkit

[haughty sierra]

p!monolith

[plucky ibex]

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[steady swan]

does anyone know if you can put a long range scope on the drowned?

[pseudo storm]

Vanilla experience? RU4X

[steady swan]

word thats all i need

already have a few vogs, just needed something to lob them at shit

[restive salmon]

I'm sorry fellow Stalkers but I've committed a grave sin

[steady swan]

did you pull a freedom a fuck a bloodsucker?

[restive salmon]

Did they really do that? And no

[steady swan]

theres references to it, cant remember which game or if it was just in gamma

[golden hazel]

anomaly only

[native epoch]

hot

[golden hazel]

Freedom is just canonically potheads

[restive salmon]

No but stalker is still kind of buggy. So I put it on the shelf for maybe a few months while I go and enjoy some other games. It's just so storage heavy

[fathom monolith]

Hear me out

bro how can I only be like 1/4 of the way through I'm doing the things at noontide ... jeez this game is long

[keen knot]

where is the key ???

[steady swan]

@restive salmon thats no sin, play the game when you want, the zone will be waiting for you when youre ready

[golden hazel]

In your hand

[restive salmon]

I downloaded 7days2die, Hobo tough life, stardew valley, Minecraft and the long dark. Oh and rdr2. Games I've been meaning to actually sit down and enjoy

[steady swan]

do rdr2 so amazing

[keen knot]

i search in all the building just tell me if is here or not

[golden hazel]

your gun is the key

[restive salmon]

I'm on chapter 2 atm

Heard they've done quite a lot with the long dark too

[keen knot]

this fucking flash light it's a wish ^^ i didn't see it, ty !

[golden hazel]

[steady swan]

infinite loot glitch:

kill entire ward squad
stash all there loot on the roof thinking it was a one time encounter
come back for loot, soldiers respawned
grab their loot, hope it was a coincidence
come back, there's more
profit???

[jolly monolith]

is there a stalker 2 get rich mod guys?

[steady swan]

no clue, you check nexus?

[pseudo storm]

Just get the debug tool and add money to player

[jolly monolith]

i checked but to no avail , there is bitlys balancing and money mod but it just gives you 1 mil for a new game

[jolly monolith]

wait there is a debug tool

[pseudo storm]

Yes

[jolly monolith]

how do i get it plz plz tell me

[pseudo storm]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/64

[pallid mirage]

I'm killin myself over the striped shadows on this gun. This is the only gun I have that looks this bad

[jolly monolith]

can we just give ourselfs money through ue5

[pseudo storm]

Not at this time

[abstract furnace]

DAAAMN I JUST WALKED INTO THE ZONE AND SCAR WAS CHEEKED UP BUTT BOOTY NAKED SHEEEEEE-

[radiant ridge]

Maklane's Better Zone - Total Overhaul; do you guys like this mod? what does it do?

[wanton helm]

Why tf does the bloodsucker much more harder to kill

[icy basin]

SKEEEFE DID YOU SEE THAT

[steady swan]

who knows, but theres a mod you can install and you can choose how much weaker to make them

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA WE NEED TO DROP AT TILTED TOWERS

[radiant ridge]

how do I get rid of the compass enemy icons, is there a mod for that?

[steady swan]

yes

[radiant ridge]

whats it called?

[steady swan]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/182

[radiant ridge]

thanks!

[keen knot]

our gun loose durability when we are hit, it's a bug or a genius idea from the dev ?

[grave oar]

whats yalls favorite armor :D

[golden hazel]

Zircon Monolita

[static quartz]

i think the AK looks great bardo

[golden hazel]

And the journalist sunrise because it looks like a doritos locos sunrise

[grave oar]

damn what graphics are you running

im running medium and it doesnt look nearly this good. DAYUM

[golden hazel]

Bro is using an RTX 6090 powered by an artifact

[static quartz]

nah just my mod #1312200348303233105 message

[silver mantle]

do dogs ragdoll in the funkiest of ways for you guys too?

[proud ruin]

Nvidia is the main buyer of artefacts

[static quartz]

i run a 4070

[proud ruin]

Getting my legs torn off in a whirligig trying to get a artefact to power some mfs 6090

[static quartz]

what a beautiful game

[golden hazel]

what a beautiful game

[steady swan]

does anyone know how to make indoor spaces not pitch black? or should i just get a flashlight mod

[golden hazel]

If you turn off lumen you don't have to worry about that

[steady swan]

what setting is that under?

[golden hazel]

You have to make an engine.ini and disable it manually

[stable quarry]

everyone talks about Sidorovich being a cruel greedy bastard, but one of the Artifact retrieval side missions he gives you is because he's getting an artifact to pay off the debt one of his stalkers has incurred to some bandits, like i KNOW he's gonna work that Stalkers ass off to pay for it but if he was as greedy as people act like he is he would just go "RIP BOZO" to the guy

[steady swan]

ah damn, is that very hard to do?

[stable quarry]

also if they wanted to play into his greediness they coulda made him one of the merchants that rips you off by giving worse sell and buy prices, but he's not he's standard

[static quartz]

easier than making a word document ❤️

[steady swan]

is there a guide anywhere? idk how to do it

[stable quarry]

yep nothin weird here, just 4 Loners in exos hanging out in the rookie village

[static quartz]

just make a text file in side
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windows
and then rename it Engine.ini and find the commands he mentioned

[steady swan]

alright ty

[stable quarry]

christ this thing is disgusting, but Harpy's wanting to give me 40k for it

[golden hazel]

What in the glorp is that

[keen knot]

Who broke the door !? 😆

[wanton arch]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[wary orbit]

Da

[wanton arch]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[glad socket]

Greetings stalkers
Has the game gotten any better? What's your impression

[toxic comet]

?

are u talking about recent updates?

[glad socket]

Yeah how are they

[toxic comet]

for same ppl updates did help with the frame drops

not sure for mission cuz i brutforced the zelissian area

[glad socket]

Cuz I'm still having bad experiences
Such as the damn Zelissya quest being bugged

Which actually led me to stop my run

[static quartz]

Praise the monolith

[toxic comet]

it doesnt mater cuz zeli will be lost to the monoliths after you help them defend

[torpid relic]

hell yea!

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/wrong-scrubs-gif-5390756

[toxic comet]

i then back and its ghost town now

[static quartz]

[glad socket]

But Gaffer is too based to lose to some fanatics

[torpid relic]

https://tenor.com/view/predator-arnold-schwarzenegger-hand-shake-arms-gif-3468629

[toxic comet]

in call of pripyat u can get zulus lmg tho ammo is rare

[torpid relic]

yea, as soon as i saw him having pkm in the tunnels i killed him, i was the only survivor, not cause of monolith tho

[toxic comet]

lol he give his weapon after you help him fight off snorks in pripyat near hospital building

[torpid relic]

whoops

[toxic comet]

hmm tank he says cool giants it is then

[gilded verge]

@toxic comet The ammo is not rare if you have complited ALL duty related quests in their favor

[heady mulch]

duty has quests?

[gilded verge]

Only in that case trader on Yanov will sell ammo for it

[wary orbit]

yes, go kill dogs for us

[gilded verge]

A lot of it

[toxic comet]

or go kill freedom xD

[gilded verge]

In CoP quests were made in a very smart contextual way

[heady mulch]

theres a set amount of misc quests? from the trader in their bar?

[gilded verge]

The PDA that you got from Duty traitor on Zaton need to be delivered to Duty leader on Yanov

[toxic comet]

i wanna lick it xD

[gilded verge]

Also the PDA of general Tachenko

[toxic comet]

can only be found after u get veles or svarog detectors

[gilded verge]

Once you have enough points of "loyalty" with Duty, they'll provide you with cheap 9x39 and ammo for PKM, SVD, vog 25, military medkits and 20% discount for upgrades

If you decided to be neutral, you won't get any of that

If you went with helping freedom, you'll get NATO version of the same

Oh, my bad, ammo for sniper rifles are on Freedom side

[toxic comet]

bandits are blind

[gilded verge]

Duty will give you one ammo box for SVD

Man.. Stalker 2 really sucks when it comes to factions

In absolutely every way possible and I don't even know where to start..

[pliant sigil]

Where’s the “fuck all y’all I’m joining ||Degtyarev|| in his cool kids club” ending

[gilded verge]

How about identification issues? How to tell which is which, when most of their equipment is fucking identical

[wary orbit]

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

[gilded verge]

Playing without crossshair is absolute fucking nightmare

Especially later on the game when entire zone is running Exo

[pliant sigil]

Are you telling me Scar isn’t chaos personified?

[gilded verge]

Because lazy progression system

[wary orbit]

i was more concerend with the whole "F y'all" part

[gilded verge]

Scar is a lunatic

[pliant sigil]

There’s no unequivocal good faction to side with, which is both good and bad.

[gilded verge]

But i think it was by design, so first playtrough of player would be about smoke and mirrors

[toxic comet]

weird i heard call for help but no one here well alive

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/vape-smoke-cloud-blowing-out-smoke-vape-smoke-cloud-looking-into-mirror-gif-14244889

[gilded verge]

It is why they made it so Spark seems like rebels and "good guys"

[wary orbit]

Name one instance where "Rebels" have ever been the good guys

[gilded verge]

That's a good point

Even in Star Wars rebels are absolute idiots and Jedi are hipocrites

[wary orbit]

and without them there would not be a galaxy spanning civilwar

[gilded verge]

Exactly

Which is sooo fucking stupid

[spiral lance]

Guys, is there a mod to dissable level progression? In late game fucking everyone wears an exosuit, even on cordon

[gilded verge]

No, not currently

[pliant sigil]

Wear an exo too. If everyone is wearing exo, no one is wearing exo

[spiral lance]

Idk where you saw it, but the first time I saw shram I thought "Idk where it leads me, but im not working with this idiot"

[gilded verge]

That would require an extreme overhaul of everything

The progression is really poorly balanced

[toxic comet]

death screams sends chills down my spine

[spiral lance]

For me Varta seems more like "good guys" they are very straight forward with their intentions, disciplined and basically represent institution which is built to improve peoples life via using zone. Where it leads as result is a separate topic, but yeah

[pliant sigil]

The death screams of Monolith being farmed by Mercs in Limansk

[spiral lance]

There's 10 guys in exos in Novice village

[gilded verge]

Varta or Ward are not good guys, but more like grounded with reality

[toxic comet]

no thanks i had my fill with ghost in metro

[spiral lance]

I'm playing with mod that scales up damage for everyone, and still every enemy take like a mag to the face

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/jump-scare-gif-18504612

[gilded halo]

i just had to 💀

[spiral lance]

Btw Korshunov is awesome guy, really daddy vibes

[gilded verge]

The canon ending is Skif ending because it makes the loop in story which is the sign of good writing

[clever sigil]

Ward are the good guys, The Colonel wants to keep the Zone safe-ish place for people in it.

He just gets used and deceived by that board representative.

just like Danil. he trusts in making the world better place.

[wary orbit]

Bla bla bla... Mr. Freeman

[spiral lance]

And Shram is just some shizo that brags about zone better for stalkers

[gilded verge]

It doesn't matter what Colonel wants

[clever sigil]

his issue is that he got his brain fried one too many times by emission.

[pliant sigil]

Same with Richter, constantly yaps about the beauty of the Zone

[clever sigil]

yet the sparking zone is psi ilussion and was never real.