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

[pliant sigil]

I dislike how often I’m forced to interact with Richter

[gilded verge]

They are representing us, players who are in love with the Zone

[clever sigil]

maybe you, I am here for the money

money and the drip

[pliant sigil]

I am here to find the infinite cigarettes artifact

[gilded verge]

I honestly expected some reveal that Richter is more than he seems

[spiral lance]

Guys, I threew bold, and there's none left

[gilded verge]

The writing almost implies that..

[spiral lance]

I`ve lost my bolt 😢

[gilded halo]

There are 4 poltergeist types in Stalker 2? 🤯

[gilded verge]

I loled hard when they used him to teleport us between story locations

[toxic comet]

CHILL

[wary orbit]

Time for another Lumumba

[gilded verge]

When 70% of the game before that was definitive walking simulator lol

[clever sigil]

i wonder how many people outright died because of the zones and anomalies showing up all over the world.

[gilded verge]

Not much

You missed one crucial detail

The anomalous energy of Noosphere is not what makes Zone the way it is

[clever sigil]

it is the human nature, its the reflection of it.

[gilded verge]

The catalyst os the tragedy of this place and inhuman experiments that took place there

That's why Zone so agreasive and dangerous

[clever sigil]

they quite literally tell people to stay home and dont make contact with anomalies.

[gilded verge]

In other places in the world it will depend on the same catalyst

[clever sigil]

so its 100% not safe

[toxic comet]

uhhh the fuck

[gilded verge]

If the place is somehow connected with something horrible and bad, it won't be pretty

It make sense to not touch anomalous objects

But the point is, in some places it won't be dangerous but more bizarre and miracle like experience with different laws of physics

[clever sigil]

"... numerous reports of unidentified anomalous activity..."
"...If you are outdoors or in open area..."
"An Address from the goverment to the nation is expected..."
"...urging citizens not to leave their homes..."
"..do not approach or make contact with the anomalous objects."

[gilded verge]

Makes perfect sense to report that

There won't be bloodsuckers you know

Nor controllers, nor pseudo

[knotty spruce]

i think i'm done

[gilded verge]

Only anomalous objects which nature depends strictly on the catalyst that got in contact with Noosphere

[toxic comet]

jackpot

[clever sigil]

like yes Doc tells you that the zone is what it is because of the experiments, but in the skiff ending he also says this : "The greatest temptation is trying to control something we do not fully understand. But what do we do when faced with the truly inexplicable? Perhaps all the Zone need is our compassion."

By that you can deduct that the doctors understanding of the zone was not entirely correct.
Also dont forget that the C-Con wants to basically turn everyone into pawns like monolith.

Guess what making multiple zones do? expands their area of influence.

the mutants are not the largest issue, also we have the normal fauna that mutated over the time. not only mutants made from the labs

[gilded verge]

Ah, nah C-Con is no more, it's merely illusion

It is clear as much in both Strelok and Skif ending

[fervent zenith]

i don't get why the doctors in the zone don't sell psy/vicna

[knotty spruce]

looks like you're talking about exactly what i'm trying to process right now

[fervent zenith]

the pills are in the game but i got only 2 left now

[gilded verge]

The do sell hercules at least

[fervent zenith]

huh none of them have so sold that yet XD

[gilded verge]

Later in the game

[knotty spruce]

the game gives you psi block before/after any major psi-intensive fights anyway

[toxic comet]

experimental drugs

[gilded verge]

Still, I only used Hercules few times and Psy Blockade dozens of times

[knotty spruce]

i haven't used vinca once in my entire playthrough

[gilded verge]

Everything else was useless

Including vinca

[clever sigil]

found hypercube before vinca so never had to use it

[knotty spruce]

also i'm mad about the design of the final series of quests, imo they somehow managed to make it worse than SoC

[gilded verge]

Especially vinca

The quests in general are poorly done

Somehow Skif was aware where to go and what to do at every stage of story

And I had no fucking clue

It's like I was guided by marker and that's all

[knotty spruce]

i was confused too, thought i missed some major dialogue

[gilded verge]

Same

[toxic comet]

is this clusterfuck or what xD

[wary orbit]

Quests in Morrowind to this day are the best i ever had.

[old spoke]

Looks like gmod

[fervent zenith]

honestly with how offen psy mutants respawn the meds need to be more avelable

[gilded verge]

Nah, I never had any issues with that

But then.. I have explore all of the Zone

[knotty spruce]

that's a good point, the respawns are ridiculous, i had to kill the same controller in one building like 3 times

[gilded verge]

So I got a lot of pills

Still not as bad as fucking with 2 psydogs

God have mercy..

[fervent zenith]

the explore the zone achivment is still is 0.0%

[toxic comet]

make it 3 and me like nope hell no

[gilded verge]

On Veteran it's absolute shit show

@fervent zenith because there are a lot of out of bounds areas which are bugged

[ornate dome]

How can I do infinity bolts? Searching in all settings, can't find it

[gilded verge]

Game is like 70% ready

[toxic comet]

stalker gamma?

[ornate dome]

yep

[knotty spruce]

so a quick summary of the last stretch of the game:

• weirdly directed story
• a shit ton of vapid bossfights (depending on your choices)
• a repeat of SoC CNPP shooting gallery
• all that while having your gear become broken before you're halfway through
• your upgraded weapons become basically irrelevant since you have to toss them at one point
• the combat was a slog due to bad performance constantly fucking with my aim

everything before The Foundation was 7/10
everything past that is barely 5/10

[fervent zenith]

am surprised theres no mod to make psy-blockers more common or at least vicna witch is the shity version

[toxic comet]

then u just start the game later in settings

[gilded verge]

@knotty spruce same

It's a solid 7/10 game for a fan of series

[gleaming thicket]

killing a mutant causes it to spazz out (unlike killing NPCs). is this a known game bug or is it caused by mods?

[gilded verge]

And 6 for anyone else I guess

[wary orbit]

yes

[gleaming thicket]

thank you, 100% clear now

[gilded verge]

Game doesn't even have codex and enciclopedia

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/safuu-safuuv2-gif-477630602386173025

[gleaming thicket]

so, is it game or mods?

[knotty spruce]

game

[gleaming thicket]

cheers

[gilded verge]

And that's very important for stalker game let alone for new stalkers

[knotty spruce]

it's like they ragdoll into the wrong direction after they finish the death animation

[gilded verge]

How people were suppose to understand who the fuck is Kaymanov and why it's so important?

[knotty spruce]

by playing the trilogy

[fervent zenith]

i got a wierd effect in stalker where my weapons and arms would leave behind shadow traces and stuff like that

[gilded verge]

How would they know that he designed project of Brain Scoarcher also known as Rainbow

[fervent zenith]

and it looks like like little black dots alover the place and yet to find a way to fix it

[gilded verge]

There is no such information in the game, so new players will miss the significant part of his character

[knotty spruce]

it was mentioned at some point (i can't remember when) that the whole installation is named as Kaymanov's Emitter

[gilded verge]

@knotty spruce in Trilogy, yes

In CoP i think? In the X-8

[pliant sigil]

I’m sad we can’t go into the Brain Scorcher bunker

[fervent zenith]

you can't go in most of the labs

[wary orbit]

And why would you?

[fervent zenith]

you know the lab by the old sultans base i can't remeber the name but you can't go into it as well

[pliant sigil]

To see manmade horrors beyond my comprehension, of course!

[wary orbit]

You guys hate Mutants, all i see here day in and day out is you guys whining about mutants and now you wanna wander into mutant central?

[gilded verge]

I bet they simply had no time to make codex before release

[wary orbit]

Next thing you guys say is you wanna go diving in the poop pipe under Jupiter

[gilded verge]

I would

The more locations there is, the better

If not for main story, then for the base game to be used in mods for future

[fervent zenith]

am okay with mutants but controlers and psy-dogs are scearing me now that am finding it harder and harder to find psy-blocks

[gilded verge]

Psy dogs are no joke

[fervent zenith]

coze ones you reach a low enough psy you start spiraling and losing hp no matter what

[gilded verge]

I like what they did with anomalies, much better than in trilogy

I think Gamma should take some lessons from it

Psy field is 10/10

That's what I like the most

[ancient oar]

50gb added since release O.O Stalker 2 is now a bigger install than RDR2. Does this concern anyone else?
(The mutant health pool is whats causing the bloat XD)

[toxic temple]

Psy actually works quite strange. 1 pill can fully block it, which I’m ok with

But sometimes (I think if you were too long under Psy) you can’t take that effect off. Like, I took 10 pills, for like a minute voices disappeared, but then they came back. I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t heal it with medics and etc.

Might be a bug

[gilded verge]

That's a bug

[toxic comet]

what a pain to get it

[toxic temple]

Idk what did they add actually. Cause I flew through all the non-playble locations with console and nothing really changed

Can fixes weight that much? Idk

[ancient oar]

i hate to sound like a nagger, but this comes off as more incompetence to me

[toxic temple]

What a pain begins when this thing starts to brake your saves :D

[toxic temple]

Might be fixed, but not sure

[toxic temple]

Ye

[snow sail]

Do you all enjoy the game btw?

[ancient oar]

I'm reinstalling to see if the game is fun if you use good ammo. I uninstalled after a monolit took 20 headshots to kill

[toxic temple]

Lol. What did you shoot with?

[ancient oar]

buckshot and 5.45x39 ps

[toxic temple]

Pretty yes. But in some cases it begins too feel more and more unfinished product

[snow sail]

F

[ancient oar]

in a word, no

[snow sail]

Double F

[toxic temple]

uh

I had a few situations when a npc took alil too much, but not that much. Bugs, bugs, bugs..

[ancient oar]

The gun animations are amazing. But tech demos are not what I pay for

[wary orbit]

I enjoy the game quite a bit and it also provided me with a unending stream of salt in this here chat to laugh at

[toxic comet]

i want my ks 23 and SR-25

[snow sail]

I wanted to send something here funny stalker 2 related but I think I’ll get banned for that

[toxic temple]

Try

[plain hedge]

Do enemies get any form of aimpunch when you shoot them?

[ancient oar]

as long as you dont use the word "g e y" I think you're good to post it. I'd like to see

[plain hedge]

Feels weird trading fire when I get the first shot and they still beam me mid-impact

[wary orbit]

what do you think

[toxic temple]

Yes. But not every hit

[plain hedge]

I've seen them stagger back, but is there no other system to reduce their accuracy while receiving damage?

[snow sail]

I still wonder why it’s banned word here lol

[toxic temple]

Don’t think so.
Download a mod that reduces AI aimbot

[ancient oar]

maybe Grok's trying to help us mature.

[plain hedge]

Dang, that's unfortunate

[snow sail]

Doesn’t help ig

Solution: remove #🎪bruh-fart

[toxic temple]

Hm.. I wonder.. what if..

[toxic comet]

now this fucker sells veles detector

[ancient oar]

I'll need a new SSD when A-life gets added XD. This game is 10/10 if intended to be a comedy

[toxic temple]

Nah I won’t try it

[pliant sigil]

You can absolutely kill exos with buckshot if it’s a high tier shotgun. During ||Down Below,|| it took me two meatshots to kill them, or one if it’s a close range headshot.

Granted, I was using Texan.

[toxic comet]

same for saiga

[toxic temple]

I think game has like a progression which player impacts with a story line, and it’s impact what do traders sell

[wary orbit]

I never understood why people are so afraid of Exos. The Exo does not make you harder to kill. Its the suit that is the problem.

[pliant sigil]

Also, Texan held up surprisingly well during sustained firing. I think it was only just beginning to go into the yellow as I got to ||Granite Squad.||

[toxic temple]

Same enemy, another suit, yeh.

Shotgun goes boom-boom

[cunning river]

Why do all the radios still work during emissions, lame as hell

[pliant sigil]

Anyone kinda wish there was an upgrade for RAM-2/Texan for a firing mode where it fired both barrels at the same time?

Sometimes I don’t want to go blam-blam, I want to go BLAM

[toxic temple]

Its already fast anough I think

[wary orbit]

Maybe emissions don’t block radio waves

[snow sail]

It would be cool if it did

But like, it’s ok

[pliant sigil]

Imagine if you turned on your radio during an emission and all you hear is the hellish screaming from the Limansk radio

[cunning river]

Okay, but it's spoooooookier when the radios stop working

Also emissions are meant to be like, releases of tension in the noosphere, the informational field with a direct impact on material reality

[snow sail]

I guess it would also mean that Emission would be able to block all radio comms too ig

[cunning river]

Give it like, a 5% chance to play one of the wish granter lines beneath the static

With an accompanying small amount of psi damage

[wary orbit]

And now we are in the fan fiction department

[pliant sigil]

But the Wish Granter is currently in ||the basement at SIRCAA||

[toxic temple]

I don’t trust SIRCAA. Everything can go wrong. Also ||it was literally blown up lol||

[cunning river]

It was made from the noosphere, and in this game the noosphere literally is shown to have the impressions of everything and everyone in the zone imprinted on it

[pliant sigil]

Yeah, that’s the awful thing about working with the Ward. Colonel Kurshunov is legitimately a good guy that cares a lot about his men and doesn’t want to exploit the Zone or use its power for himself, it’s the people above him that are the problem.

[snow sail]

That looks very cool btw
https://youtu.be/2-Wj4-BCcME?si=GCyhvq1vLREWAK2I

[cunning river]

That science man was also pretty underdeveloped, they tried to make something happen with him seeing his dad, but you interact with him not nearly enough

I wanted to hear his plans in full, maybe even without getting punched by the colonel

[fallow pivot]

yeah he kinda just disappears after he ||busts you out of ward jail||

[toxic comet]

pretty

[cunning river]

Also as far as I can tell, it really was Freedom/Monolith/Scar/Whatever that made all his plans go wrong?

[long marsh]

116 Hours and I've beaten it finally. Definitely gonna hold off on a second playthrough though.

[maiden valve]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I JUST FOUND A WOMAN IN THE GAME NOOOOO LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE

[toxic comet]

2 woman xD

[pliant sigil]

If Scar wasn’t running around and being a shit, the Ward would have just rolled over everyone else.

[maiden valve]

its so over

[fallow pivot]

3

[maiden valve]

stalker has fallen

[fallow pivot]

Spark lady, Freedom lady and Agatha

[pliant sigil]

Millions must KILL STRELOK

[wary orbit]

there has always been female custodes

[long marsh]

Also a woman in Yaniv

[toxic comet]

wait so it make 5

[fallow pivot]

Oh was there?

[long marsh]

Yea, the technician

[fallow pivot]

ngl when I got to yaniv, I just wanted to finish the story lol

[cunning river]

Technically techno lady isn't in the Zone, I suspect

[fallow pivot]

Barely spent a few hours there and pripyat. I regret rushing it.

[long marsh]

I spent a good bit of time exploring and updating the map on MapGenie

[cunning river]

She's got that astral projection going on

[fallow pivot]

Its just a more updated project x tech

[maiden valve]

too far

[long marsh]

However I'm not doing a second playthrough until performance and bugs are fixed. Might wait until the DLC's release to do another playthrough, idk atm

[plain hedge]

Is there any way to get the dot crosshair smaller without replacing it entirely? I'd like to preserve the green-on-friendly function

[fallow pivot]

Thats what I thought, now im 30+ hours into my 2nd playthrough lol

[long marsh]

If anything I'll take a break from it.

[fallow pivot]

i tried getting back into anomaly. For some reason couldnt.

[long marsh]

I think im wanting to wait for some good quality of life mods to be made. My big wants are a universal attachment system which I believe has been made but requires a new save. A self repair system so I'm not forced to go back to base if my weapon gets too low. Then there needs to be more loot in the game, because the damn stashes were worthless 95% of the time

[pliant sigil]

I plan on doing a playthrough where my only weapons are three Rhinos. You’ve yee’d your last haw, pardner. -Skif (Revolver Ocelot)

[toxic comet]

X11 is the brain scorcher ?

[zealous obsidian]

is there a way to kill the ridiculous darkness inside rooms if you look from the outside in? , same for reverse to kill the brightness?

[grand glacier]

Hi, i'm at the end of the game ||In the red forest where kaimanov is, but the game won't let me interact with him|| is there a command with uetools to fix it ?

[wary orbit]

probably

[ancient oar]

oh god the dog-whistle mosquito ambient noise when i walk past this "anomaly". I can't play this game

[toxic comet]

weird the game forgot to spawn bloodsucker

[tacit mortar]

You've got a bit to go, brother. Not a ton more, but not quite the end, either.

As for the bug, I've ran into the same issue and had to reload before I fought the mercenaries.

[hushed garden]

Fuck bro how do you have so much time to play, I'm jealous

[toxic comet]

clear sky toy

[wary orbit]

wrong

[toxic comet]

its same shit at swamps area

[fallow pivot]

Recently freed from servitude lol

[wary orbit]

yes and its monolith stuff or to be exact C-Con stuff.

[fallow pivot]

Dont tell me what the item is, but is there anything where the fire tonado is at cooling towers? like close to the center?

[toxic comet]

YES

[fallow pivot]

Sick. Im here and its fucking gorgeous lol

[fallow pivot]

I feel like Im at mount doom

[wary orbit]

then you will find it even more funny that you will retrieve the one ring

[toxic comet]

look for ladder near the edge of inside tower to go up

lucky find

[sharp pendant]

I wish there was a system to muffle sounds coming from underground from you

is this opened in a quest later?

I think he wants out

[grand glacier]

Which point where there was mercenaries ?

[sharp pendant]

because there are snorks behind the door, this musical sting plays every 20 seconds or so

[fallow pivot]

||weird nut?||

[toxic comet]

yes

[true yew]

|| I can't believe I had to use my entire stockpile of hard-earned psi-block just to save some wardens||

On another note, I found a floating tree in zaton. It's speaking to me

[toxic comet]

good spot to farm up meds warning tho lots zombies inside

free weapon fine by me

[true yew]

Ah, quiet's quest. He's so innocent that he got screwed by sid

[true yew]

This in mindscrew?

[toxic comet]

here Zaton

[wanton arch]

I've seen unintentional floating trees lol

[toxic comet]

looks like door code

[slow glen]

whats the best place to sell artifacts?
Price shown in the Inventory is 12k most any vendor will give me is 4,3k

Im in Rostok now

[thick oasis]

i want this silencer on my G36

checks MWSO

[sharp pendant]

isn't the guy in red forest supposed to have a quest?

[hushed garden]

Didn't notice much of a difference with that artifact

[toxic comet]

door here code is 2468

[toxic comet]

wow what Shite

[sharp pendant]

he's marked as having a side activity

[wanton arch]

The weapon vendor in slag heap or the one in skad

[abstract furnace]

unreal engine 5 is so good

[wanton arch]

so good at eating all my vram

[rotund mantle]

i do kinda wish we got to see xray 2 tbh

[sharp pendant]

is there anything in here? seems like just fences, trees, and psi damage

[wanton arch]

its something further along in the main story

[sharp pendant]

I'm holding of on doing Sircaa until there's a fix for something after it

[wanton arch]

the damned zalissya mission

[sharp pendant]

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

[wanton arch]

https://youtu.be/_4iyMIQLaC8
there was the 2011 leak

[rotund mantle]

checking this out now

[wanton arch]

looked interesting

[rotund mantle]

fr this is interesting thank you for showing me it

[junior mortar]

I have a question....if I'm in the wrong place or out of line please direct me 🙂 I was mod lurking on the Nexus when I came across something that I think was affecting my game. I was having issues getting some mods to "work". After doing some reading I think what I am experiencing may be related to this "save cache" issue. I added and merged the kenny ledge grab mod but it didn't seem to do anything (I did merge it and my old merges appear to still be working). Am I correct in assuming doing the load - exit - load - save - load dance will purge the save cache and perhaps fix this? Or what have others discovered?

[shadow sedge]

is there a tech a zalyssia

[slim phoenix]

is there a mod to fix npc's sniping you from 100m away with a shotgun & a mac10

[wary orbit]

yes

[slim phoenix]

they seemingly never miss

[peak eagle]

There is one till after a main story event

[low cave]

any way to fix theses shitty ass reflections>?

[zealous obsidian]

the most BS enemy is the pseudodog. way to much ghosts that spawn almost instant to figure out who is the real one.

[toxic comet]

icarus base

[zealous obsidian]

really , how to deal with this shit?

[peak eagle]

Pray you find the right psydog and kill it quickly

[zealous obsidian]

okay so nope

[sonic reef]

update coming in a few hours am assuming

[wary orbit]

Step 1 light a cigarette, step 2 take a sip of your Lumumba, step 3 reload before your encounter with the psydog.

[zealous obsidian]

even more fun the real dog was 100 meters away and did fight NPCs. and because they dont cary loot. just runn ... not worth anyting

[zealous obsidian]

Quest locations are bad with this 😄

[young night]

Hey guys
I installed the shays living zone mod, the very active version. But how do i make sure that it really Works? Didnt noticed that much change now.
And yes i put it in the paks/~mods folder

[fallow pivot]

woah... is there a merc base at || north of duty base? Like to the right of the cooler towers?||

[peak eagle]

Idk exactly what they're doing there but they got caged mutants there

[stable quarry]

I believe the game has a hidden psy health pool and when it's fully depleted (to where even non-hostile psy effects start doing physical damage) it can take a LONG time to regen and the audio hallucinatory effects won't go away till it's fully regenned, but that's just a guess on my part

[wanton arch]

Was there any fix for the game shitting the bed and going to 4fps for a bit then coming back to normal? Or maybe someone knows the cause? I'm tired of restarting the game

[tacit glacier]

I found one in Burned Forest just now, lol

[fallow pivot]

Yeah there was like 10 of them there. Havent seen the mutants yet. But theres definitely a bloodsucker

its been like a week of vanilla ingame time since I went back to a hub lol.

[wanton arch]

How tf are you not encumbered with loot

[fallow pivot]

Ive had to prioritize shit.

founds a dnipro, a gucci'd out duty exosuit, like 3 artifacts and a fuckton of supplies. But had to store so much shit.

Found a loner stuck in a train submerged in the water that was attacked by zombies, but he was glitched out. Couldnt talk to him, decided to rob him instead.

then this merc base. Pretty eventful. I thought this zone would be empty

[wanton arch]

|| yeah he's a side quest. I think you only get some coupons for it, not too much, but it spawns like 30 zombies so there's a shit ton of guns you can loot ||

[toxic comet]

good name

[zealous obsidian]

fucking zombies that can watch through foliage

[mighty plaza]

they can smell your sausage stash

[rose venture]

I bought the Stalker bundle, thinking about trying the old games while waiting on more optimization for Stalker 2

[grave oar]

ward literally walked in, made everyone sign a peace treaty and the stalkers call them shit, I dun get it

[fallow stone]

Big rok is back on

[rose venture]

So is it impossible to play CoP’s main story with Gamma/Anomaly? I heard anomaly is basically a sandbox

[fallow stone]

Anomaly is it's own thing

If you want the story of the main games you got that one mod that combines all three games together, Call of the Zone

[ember ether]

bruh i finished stalker 2, when doing a new game feels like the game have no sutter at all and runs smoother

[warped monolith]

where's the scarposting

[ember ether]

does the performance fixes if just start a new game or something like that?

[pliant sigil]

But they’re oppressing their rights to be murdering jackasses illegally occupying a military-guarded and restricted area. Woe is them.

[zealous obsidian]

man the chimera is BS

[toxic comet]

what its fun time then chimera pop up out

[solid ibex]

how much waiting does this step take?

[sharp pendant]

you know what would be fun? if at cement factory you see someone running recruits through unconventional training exercises

[zealous obsidian]

forced cutscense with 30 fps and narrow FOV suck. I hape there is a fix some time

[sharp pendant]

"Alright privates, today you are going to learn to reload and operate your firearms with one arm."
"What, that's bullshit!"
"Oh you think that's bad? Tomorrow you learn to do the same with your non-dominant arm. This can save your life, now pay attention"

[tall pecan]

when you look at zone from op top, it really feels very small, im looking at CNPP from Zalissiya here

you can go from one end to other in 5 minute with car

[warped monolith]

DARKNESS

[rose venture]

I may start a new game just to check, ima if true

[warped monolith]

isn't that like
scar telling you to do unconventional shit

[sharp pendant]

but it would be funnier in like, an actual class with a bunch of recruits annoyed that they have to do it

[toxic comet]

hmm

[peak terrace]

what i have to do here?

[wary orbit]

first you take out your detector, then you find the artifact, then you get eaten

[keen knot]

hey hey boy 🙂

[toxic comet]

in old hide out xD

[tall pecan]

oh where is this?

[wary orbit]

agroprom

[toxic comet]

underground area xD

[fallow stone]

Oof do we have any mods that make walking through water while encumbered not render the game unplayable ?

[wary orbit]

yes

[tall pecan]

are they bugged

it feels scart lol

[stoic lichen]

So Strelok’s AK has the barrel of the carbine variant, an under-folder, and a curved mag that seems to take 7.62x39?

[toxic comet]

@stoic lichen

[stoic lichen]

The curve on the magazine looks odd though…

Could just be me.

[versed cloak]

40 round mag

[wary orbit]

its so obviously a AKMS... it should be chambered in 7.62x39mm

[toxic comet]

spawned 6 already xD

[wary orbit]

Glutton is also chambered wrong

[clever sigil]

find artefact and brace yourself

[warped monolith]

it's probably this guy's fault

[wary orbit]

sad i have to put you on the blocklist now

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/discord-blocked-superiority-complex-thanos-gif-22859838

[clever sigil]

i suppose they decided to do that to split sniper and pkm ammo

[wary orbit]

so introduce a different MG

its not like the RPD does not exist

[clever sigil]

was about to say they could have added rpd

xD

[warped monolith]

raccoon city police department

[versed cloak]

dont mention the revolver using 9x39

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/frozen-elsa-fuck-it-all-let-it-go-dont-give-a-shit-anymore-gif-3604383

[spare escarp]

This behavior is extremely harmful to health, but unfortunately many people still don’t know it......
https://youtu.be/WZS_htczDXg?si=9E3Y6gSplw9U4oV5

[clever sigil]

well to be fair there is 12.7 revolver

[warped monolith]

marked one, what the hell

[clever sigil]

MTs569/ MTs570 it does exist

[ember ether]

tell me if it worked

i am using performance boost mod, wasnt working that well before i started a new game

but idk if it has a role on the performance now that i restarted the game

[gaunt path]

they just like your look

[warped monolith]

bro has his own congregation

and thinks it's a bug
use them to start your own cult

[lusty bridge]

hey guys, i installed mod few days ago "artifact rebalance v1.2", after delete mod a can't open chest at the base - game crash every time, how i can delete these artifacts in chest?

[stoic lichen]

It should be, yet the barrel length is that of an AK74U for some reason.

[wary orbit]

easy, you start a new game

[lusty bridge]

dont wanna lose progress 😦

[wary orbit]

i recommend reinstalling the mod then

[clever sigil]

reinstall mod, sell said artefacts, sleep 4 times, remove mod

[lusty bridge]

thanks

[silver cloak]

Guys is 1.05 out?

[warped monolith]

1.0.5? When did 1.0.4 come out

[shadow sedge]

do the ghost dogs do the same dmg

also are they tanky i havent seen one

[toxic comet]

50 rounds xD

[wary orbit]

yeah also wrong its P-Mag60

[brave fiber]

does anyone have any suggestions about mod load order? Some of the mods im trying to install are pretty subtle and I'm not sure they're working, or they're being overwritten

[shadow sedge]

yall thinkur so smart its a pmag d50

[spare forge]

The food items with the best nutritional value are water, and condensed milk. Implying that canonically Skif is absolutely a squirter when he dumps.

[wary orbit]

there is no d50 for 5.56x45

[sharp pendant]

How do I get to the stash on top of that science bunker?

[clever sigil]

they had to put in a buffer. eu rule against mags with more than 50 rounds xD

[clever sigil]

the spark one in Yaniv?

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/shut-the-fuck-up-stfu-gif-9206899

[clever sigil]

too bad this is public space.

[sharp pendant]

the one that is closed entirely

[clever sigil]

yeah but where on the map?

[sharp pendant]

one sec, game crashed alt tabbing

[clever sigil]

do you play on fullscreen and not borderless?

[alpine swan]

is it better than Kharod in semi-auto mode?

[sharp pendant]

I THOUGHT I had it on borderless, hold on

[next sluice]

anyone got an idea how to figure out the quest id of a bugged quest without any name or objectives where all the description says is sid_journal_description__Description

[sharp pendant]

Oh, I wasn't on borderless

[clever sigil]

thought so.

well it could have also been multiple other reasons to be fair xD

[sharp pendant]

I dunno if it's spark but its in Yaniv

yeah, that's it

[wary iris]

if it was eu rule there would only be double barrel shotguns lol

and knives

[peak eagle]

Main story progression or a glitchless method

[sharp pendant]

Ah I see

[clever sigil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7T2wTUfQsU&t=6s

[toxic comet]

it 2 taps exos in the head

[alpine swan]

which difficulty?

[toxic comet]

med

[jade anchor]

Hello.Is there any mod for using medkit item or reload while running in stalker 2?

[toxic comet]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_1S5SS3pEqA

lol

[dusty gale]

turning color correction in accessibility setting "turns off" frame generation resulting half less fps in output. this whole time i was playing 40fps instead of 90. great

despite the fact that MSI afterburner shows the same values ​​with and without correction enabled

[gray aspen]

anyone know any good maps for anomaly fields to hunt artifacts? hoping for one that at the very least shows the fields and at best shows what type of anomalies there are

[warped monolith]

I still wanna know when 1.0.4 came out because some dude asked about 1.0.5

can't find zip about 1.0.4 being a thing, most recent patch I can see is 1.0.3 on dec 3rd

[next sluice]

i mean gog had 1.0.523 and 1.0.542 as well as v424

[clever sigil]

https://mapgenie.io/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/maps/the-zone

this about the best thing so far

[graceful gate]

hi guys this is my load order for 2 mods should i change the Z at the start?

[sharp pendant]

is the Cuirass a tradeoff from the Falcon or is it just better when fully upgraded?

[peak eagle]

cuirass got no sprint upgrade

[junior mirage]

hey , any solution for bugged ( glued ) crosshair ? yes i tried to disable but still there ...

[ember ether]

no way

https://tenor.com/view/emobob-sponegbob-emo-black-gif-15432960

[warped monolith]

weird. Steam has no info about any of those updates

[sharp pendant]

Does the Falcon? doesn't seem like it

[peak eagle]

Falcon is a Bulat suit

Doesn't require anything and it's pretty armored up for what it got

[sharp pendant]

but would the cuirass end up better fully upgraded? like should I keep it in my box and take it out to upgrade until it is better?

[bronze tusk]

isnt GoG using completly different version numbers anyway? AFAIK 424 was the release update with gog galaxy launcher. 434 was the offline download im pretty sure about those because i downloaded the game with a friends gog account before and ran into an updater issue because of that. Now i got the steam version so idc anymore

[peak eagle]

Nah better exos out there later on

[sharp pendant]

What should I keep an eye out for?

[gray eagle]

anyone using the modular weapons mod

[gray aspen]

anyone else get the feeling Richter|| is like a much bigger part of the zone than he lets on, like man he knows scar he know he was trusted enough by noontide to do tasks, he used to be a guide and so much more||

[clever sigil]

well to be fair mercs also did stuff for noontide

[gray aspen]

it just feels like he has a slice in every pie in the zone

and im not sure if that makes him more or less trust worthy

[peak eagle]

Liberty Exo sold by freedom armorer on occasion, regular exoskeleton if you do the main story, gaining access to pripyat for a whole flavour town of exos

[misty kettle]

hello after i install the files i see in the console that the download is done, but if i close it and open again i still see 0 files in mod organizer, can someone hel'^

[sharp pendant]

I'm holding off on doing Sircaa until they fix zalawhateverspelling so best I can get until then?

[clever sigil]

there is ward exosceleton in burned forest

[warped monolith]

yea no clue. I haven't bought the GOG version so it's kinda irrelevant to me

[peak eagle]

Falcon will be good till then

[clever sigil]

also freedom exosuit is a trap

[gray eagle]

huh

[warped monolith]

it takes away your freedom?

[clever sigil]

you will never recover from repairing it

[vernal peak]

Can i disable or lower some settings in game to get more FPS ?

[gray aspen]

also i still dont see why ppl dont like s||car, im past the duga quest where ppl say thye started to not trust him but idk||

[peak eagle]

His brain is liquidy at this point

[real stone]

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 (a new) ccounciusness ? 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? Is strelok bad then?
Idk its just an hyphotesis, what's yours? ||

[clever sigil]

||he is C-con agent, his Spark is a lie since the original SPARK is dead, his sparking zone is a lie and ilussion, also he is the one who sets off the Duga in first place.||

[pliant sigil]

There’s really no good ending in Stalker 2, just varying flavors of bad.

[late kernel]

And that's a good thing

[pulsar oak]

hey quick question, has their been big patches for stalker 2 yet?

[next sluice]

because gog used different versioning and 1.0.3 is the first version thats the same name as the other stores

[clever sigil]

101 102 103

[gray aspen]

welp imma follow scar anyways, im on a minor incident and so far i like his style, liquifying the ward's brains and such

[real stone]

Theres no good guys apparently, also || strelok is retarded ||

[sharp pendant]

GOD I love having a flashlight that works

[gray aspen]

mod?

[clever sigil]

its not just ward but whole zone icluding you, but you do you

[real stone]

new mod?

[sharp pendant]

it was a mod made like day 1

[gray aspen]

i will do me

[sharp pendant]

I'll get the link, but it's incompatible with UE tools

[real stone]

its not on nexusmod?

[sharp pendant]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/221

[pliant sigil]

I personally prefer the ||Ward path if only because Korshunov is a bro. He doesn’t bullshit you, he doesn’t manipulate you, he’s just as in the dark as you are.||

[sharp pendant]

is there a Richter path?

[late kernel]

no

[gray aspen]

nah fuck the ward, i dont like feds and they basically zone feds

also fuck sircca too

[sharp pendant]

dangit, I want a Richter path, like just one where you vibe

[clever sigil]

zone feds are the border partol xD

[sharp pendant]

GOD I hate the guys that take your gun

[pliant sigil]

Ward path is also the only one that doesn’t end with you being a ||terrorist or mass murderer. At least, not directly.||

[gray aspen]

well yea, fuck ipsf too,

[pliant sigil]

There’s absolutely going to be a lot of dead ||Monolith|| either way.

[gray aspen]

honestly, fuck ward, fuck sircca, fuck freedom and dooty now, fuck everyone

[sharp pendant]

are there only the two endings? that sucks

[clever sigil]

4

[gray aspen]

i think they said there would be addictional endings, similar to phantom liberty in CP2077

[pliant sigil]

Imagine if there was an option to say “fuck all this shit, I’m going to go chill with ||Degtyarev|| in his clubhouse.”

[clever sigil]

well nothing is saying the cant add more endings with DLCs

[clever sigil]

the best drip in the zone

[sharp pendant]

Yeah, two gun taking fuckers is SUPER annoying

just you don't get ANY gun to fight them with, fuck you

[clever sigil]

did you know they can also shoot RPGs ?

[sharp pendant]

I assumed

[pliant sigil]

Hide around a corner or whatever, wait for their forcefields to stop, peek around corner, shoot them in the face, repeat until they’re dead.

[clever sigil]

there is this one amazing stash where you go in, take the loot, go out and there are two burers with 3 RPGs

[sharp pendant]

AND THEY PUT GUNS ALL OVER THE FUCKING PLACE IN THIS ARENA WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY ACTUALLY THINKING

[pliant sigil]

I killed Tyrant with a knife because my gun ran out of ammo

[sharp pendant]

like this is actually stupid

[river lintel]

I agree. Man's a Chad but osnstuck working for government spooks :/

[sharp pendant]

I have to uninstall the realistic gunplay mod for this, what the actual fuck

And of course the guns on the ground don’t jam when they use them

[river lintel]

I want a true loner/renegade ending that I can tell everyone to fuck off

[floral venture]

do any of the endings ||set the monolith soldiers free again?||

[sharp pendant]

“Fuck you, fuck you, and fuck you, I’m taking my rock and buying a new apartment”

[river lintel]

That they wanted that burer to be a challenge?

[pliant sigil]

Like with Scar or Strelok you’re constantly wondering what their angle is or how much of what they’re spouting is the truth, while Kurshunov is almost always truthful with you. It’s his superiors and peers you have to worry about.

[sharp pendant]

This isn’t challenge, this is actually impossible with the mods I run

[floral venture]

i wish there was an ending where you just ||destroy the generator devices entirely, why does a dude need to take over||

[late kernel]

Can't wait for the year 1 patch when the game becomes actually good and playable

[gray aspen]

bro jesus why ius the game still just not functional with some cpus?

like why have i seen sepcifically ryzen 7 5800x's just refuse to get used by tis game

fucking 7% ustilisation randomly

like i love averageing 60-80 fps then boom fuckin nothing

[late kernel]

"Memory leak was fixed guys we swear"

[next sluice]

i wonder ||is richter some sort of psi being or c-consciousness projection? he somehow always appears during the story and even gets to places faster than we do if you straight up go there without side quests. also everyone seems to know him somehow. the entire story i got creepy vibes from him cause hes just always too perfectly timed with his appearances||

[clever sigil]

did not had that crash since the last update

[late kernel]

Who said it crashes the game

[sharp pendant]

where's that meme of like "Richter is inexplicable"

[gray aspen]

just makes it run worse that a fucking slideshow

[floral venture]

last night while i was doing the finale i died like 50 times against ||granite|| and it did crash my game eventually xD

[floral venture]

hes just a good guide, so better at getting places than you, and true neutral so all the factions play with him

[next sluice]

or he brainwashed everyone

the entire game actually just plays in skifs mind

[gray aspen]

https://tenor.com/view/reappear-appear-gif-20802583

[gray aspen]

richter every time you need him

[gray aspen]

skiff actually died in his home from the anomaly

[next sluice]

exactly

[gray aspen]

new arch anomaly ?

[sharp pendant]

that's actually a nice looking hand plane, at least if it wasn't currently inside a shovel

[wanton arch]

Insane when Stalker 2 revealed that the player actually had the heart of chornobyl inside them all along

[river lintel]

I think the wildest this is what happens after you deal with ||Faust|| i personally think he is the most sincere person. Even if his reasons are batshit

[river lintel]

You really are the Stalker 2, Heart of Chornobyl

Any udp enjoyers here? May I ask, why?

[floral venture]

big mag good to spam at dogs (the only thing i use pistol for)

[river lintel]

Now you mentioned. I do use it mostly for dogs and vermin

[pliant sigil]

Can get suppressed/extended mag for it super early, many Stalkers carry .45 so free ammo for it

[alpine tinsel]

isnt it 9x19?

also even with spam it is very precise, so more outcome per bullet

[frigid rain]

Where can I find a location list of all upgrade materials for armors? The costs of repairing a suit damaged 50% or more is INSANE and those lava anomalies are a real pain.

[floral venture]

gambit is 9x19, udp is not by default

[floral venture]

map genie has a map for it

[alpine tinsel]

Oh I didnt saw Im actually in S2 chat lol

[lunar gyro]

guys watch out there's this new go outside anomaly that thrusted me outside of my front door and almost burnt my skin off

[toxic epoch]

Anyone tested wind of freedom suit? Wandering if the light armors give movement bonus

[floral venture]

i dont think so, even exos have the same sprint speed if you have the upgrade

[river lintel]

I have ine fully modded out for pretty cheap tbh

[frigid rain]

Thanks found the site and works good:-)

[real tinsel]

Someone had issues with Searching Mastiff's group? In Lesse Zone? The quest doesnt update...

[blissful nebula]

btw, do you generally wanna use AP rounds on tanky things? Like thumpers take what seems to be 50+ buckshot to the face, probably more.
Same for Chimeras.

Maybe I switch to AP rounds too late, so I can't tell but I feel like any time I decide "this is taking long", switch & shoot a couple AP bullets they just drop dead.

[limpid quarry]

use AP for all mutants, they still have weird armor ratings for some reason

some have higher armor rating that endgame humans

[peak eagle]

mutants having armor is weird, considering they're all fleshy and shit, I know some can have thick hides but eh

[river lintel]

Rhinos and elephants need larger calibers to take down quickly, so I buy it

[limpid quarry]

well armor rating is one thing, but their giant health pool is another

a chimera has an insane health pool thats not fun to engage, Eventho i really love the game, the mutants defintly arent one of em and i mostly run kek

[clever sigil]

they should add a chimera into the alive spawn pool, together with that mutated moose or what it was.

[alpine tinsel]

mutants are actually fun part of the game

i better fight mono squad than a chimera cos its scary af

[blissful nebula]

a squad died for this monolith stash apparently.

[river lintel]

Stag? PsiStag? Idk

[alpine tinsel]

99% of stashes not worth it to check at all, only quest ones are (journalist stashes)

[pliant sigil]

I mean, some stashes give you upgrade blueprints

[alpine tinsel]

dunno, completed the game without any upgrades that require bprints

only upgrades Ive done tbh is ones to arti slots, thats all

[surreal gate]

Some stashes also have rare attachments

[blissful nebula]

recently I've found stashes with a gun or like 60 ammo

[alpine tinsel]

ye thats 1% of stashes)

[blissful nebula]

I think since I got past the midgame part & enemies started wearing exo

nah it's been several stashes honestly in a row sometimes.

[keen knot]

Always a little bit of hope for something 🙂

[surreal gate]

A big part is just the itemization being boring. Even though it's all money in the end, it would be fun with more diversified loot just for variety you know. Instead of just hundreds of stashes with medkits, bandages and vodka

[lethal echo]

how do u heal red HP that wont normally heal with meds

[alpine tinsel]

Most annoying part is whole artifact part of the game is boring. "lots of artifacts with different properties" while like 5 of the artifacts givin completely same benefits. And this low medium high maximum thing too.

[keen knot]

40k for a ||psy armor||, can we reduce the price ?

[peak eagle]

Yeah, find a free psy armor

[keen knot]

ahah -_-

[junior aurora]

i encounter some friendly monolith's in yantar, near the lab, (after the became enamy) is it normal or some random mod fked things up

[surreal gate]

Yeah I agree with that. Would have liked some more variety and some more interesting drawbacks than just various amounts of radiation.

[limpid quarry]

i am pretty sure there is a lore reason for it something something no signal something not affected iirc

[final pawn]

If you burn to death you fall down and fire goes around your body and you start screaming

[gaunt minnow]

hii hi, did you manage to get past this? I'm struggling with this now myself, such a headscratcher... I tried noclipping to garbage cause he's apparantly here for me, but when I got here it says he's back in SIRCAA lol 😭

[surreal gate]

I did figure it out, actually. I posted what I did on a steam thread, let me find the link

So far so good, we'll see if something breaks later

@gaunt minnow You need UETools for the console. Standing in the meeting room where Dalin should be but isn't, open the console with F10 and type "XDKFinishQuest E06_MQ01 true" without the quotation marks. Next, noclip through the doors to section D1 of the building with UETools_Ghost and head towards section D2. Type "XStartQuest E06_MQ02" in the console and Dalin should appear in an office in D2, finishing his speech to the meeting room he should have been in. Talk to him after the speech and the story picks up where it left off, giving you the next quest.

I tried this two times in a row and it worked both times.

For a while I think you'll have three main quests active (with one of them being "Talk to Dalin") but just ignore that and head to the lab and it will resolve itself when you return to him again I think

[gaunt minnow]

I got him to spawn thank youuuu! So much noclipping around to trigger shit now but got him thank you again 💚

[tacit glacier]

I gained the object

[surreal gate]

No problem! The key was watching a walkthrough video of the quest and seeing the next location he would appear in, thinking he might maybe spawn there

I also noclipped a bunch before I figured it out, also went to Slag Heap to no avail

[clever sigil]

drink it

[eternal fox]

Guys I need help. After updating to the latest version I'm getting "Failed shader compilation". Haven't had a single problem before that. My active MOD list shows 507 (from 508)

I've unticked force zip extraction before updating it

I was already on 0.9.3

[alpine tinsel]

its stalker 2 chat.

[abstract furnace]

stalk tuah 2

[eternal fox]

oh, apologies

[torpid relic]

did the devs even play there own game? how tf are you suppose to fight a chimera if you cant do anything while sprinting

[warped monolith]

[torpid relic]

well you literally cant win unless you cheese it.

[languid turret]

I know this might not be the best place to ask about this but the official Stalker discord isn't being helpful at all. Did anyone else face constant crashes while speaking with ||Shterev|| in S2?

[wise zinc]

apparently theres a unique AS Val in the game thats a reference to a weapon found on an irl soldier fighting for russia

[languid turret]

I'm getting this error message. Not running any mods.

[final topaz]

you got a location on this secret lore you're talking about?

[high spoke]

Is there a trader in Pripyat?

[wise zinc]

its called "the trophy" i think

[final topaz]

oh that one ye seen that

[tall pecan]

Can we get as val 30 ammo magazine

[limpid quarry]

no

[final topaz]

I spoke to him no issues.
But apparently your game thinks something is getting unplugged... Is there maybe an emission happening while you're talking to him?

[final topaz]

Armor penetration aint that good anyway on that thing 😛

[surreal gate]

There is extended mag for both Val and VSS I think

[languid turret]

No but its raining. Of course lol

[tall pecan]

Looks very cool idc

[languid turret]

what exactly do you mean by "unplugged"?

[tall pecan]

Headshots it is

[peak eagle]

20rd extended for Vintorez, 30rd extended for As Val yes

[tall pecan]

I found the vss but it is just 20 ammo, i want 30 for as val

[final topaz]

check the error message it says GetDeviceRemoveReason() that is a method, to check why something has been removed. Now I dont know what they mean by Device, is it a physical device like mouse and keyboard or some INGAME Item like a Story mission device?....

[peak eagle]

there's one in the Burnt Forest region, in the helicopter depot

[wise zinc]

the comments on the reddit post pointing it out are interetsing

[tall pecan]

Neat thank you

[peak eagle]

in a bagpack between the large oil storages

Now I just want my drum mag for the Grom

[languid turret]

I mean the mouse and keyboard are surely plugged in. Maybe ill try loading an earlier save and go to him again

[final topaz]

what ever your issue might be, if you can't seem to fix it, dont forget there is a UETools mod on Nexus that you could try for all sorts of commands to see if any fixes your issue...

you ofc should be careful, as some commands may break your save for future quests. I used it to pause an emisison that 100% crashed my game

[languid turret]

I've been shying away from mods because they were giving me crashes earlier

But this probaly enables the dev console, right?

[final topaz]

That is a mod which enables Unreal Engine command line, basicly a cheat. It enables you to fix things temporary, that the dev's can't help you with (unofficially tho lol)

[languid turret]

I'll check it out, thanks for your help

[warped monolith]

drink

[keen knot]

WTF where is the artefact

[final topaz]

sometimes they take a lil time to pop up, might need to throw a bolt in a nearby anomaly

[sour narwhal]

stalker 2

[peak eagle]

Under the ground probably, so you aren't able to get it

[final topaz]

no, sdalger II *

[sour narwhal]

ztollga....

[warped monolith]

stalkuh
put your artifact away stalkuh

[sour narwhal]

zdalgadoo

[surreal gate]

Even after patches I've had to "fix" main quests twice with console commands to progress. At this point I'd consider UETools mandatory if you aim to attempt to finish the gamr

[final topaz]

you're probably more then right lmao

[languid turret]

what kinda commands though?

[sour narwhal]

zdalgertoo: harderchernobyl...

[final topaz]

XPauseScheduledEmission

[surreal gate]

One with s teleport NPC command, another I had to force finish and force start the subsequent one

[sour narwhal]

Whoever designed the layout for the noontide base needs to be sent to architectural school before they're allowed to make another building because this is maddening

[surreal gate]

And I'm only half way! I heard the second half of the game is where the bugs get REAL bad

[languid turret]

lol didnt you say that crashed your game?

[final topaz]

this must be a bit more tricky as I assume you must give the command some UID / SID for it to know which mission you're talking about

[surreal gate]

Yes indeed

[final topaz]

no this is the only way my game DIDN'T crash. because the scheduled emission kept crashing, I had to pause it

pause it before it actually happens

[vagrant wind]

is there regional weather in the new gamma update?

[languid turret]

aah!

[final topaz]

might wanna go to #╓☢stalker-chat bud

[languid turret]

ya Ive heard this too. Got jitters already

[warped monolith]

pronounced by someone seconds before having a stroke

[languid turret]

so I managed to get past the dialogue. Loaded an earlier save

[sour narwhal]

That person having a stroke is me if i get another stutter that outright crashes SteamClient

[languid turret]

but yea, I'm still getting UEtools

does that give you some control over weather and the time, as well?

[final topaz]

by sidorovich taking his final bite of the SoC chicken underneath his desk drawer for 14 consequent years

[final topaz]

you can controll all of that aswell, but be aware that it might freeze the time. so time doesn't progress. No day / night cycle and no other weather besides the one you set.

to fix that I think oyu have to sleep in a bed, then it gets resetted (but try it out, im not sure lol)

[languid turret]

Yea, cause the weather and cocaine paced days are simply tiring

[surreal gate]

Weather yeah, you can force weathers with console but I recommend just getting the Dynamic Weather mod

[warped monolith]

[languid turret]

Ill get that

[surreal gate]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1311655930907066461

[languid turret]

what about the time cyc mods? Are they good after the patches?

I tried the one made by the dynamic weather dude

[warped monolith]

based name bio and pfp btw

[languid turret]

didnt work, still 3 seconds a minute

[surreal gate]

Timescale is a subject people are split on. Some claim it might break quests, but I personally have played on 4x longer days from the start and have seen no issues yet

[languid turret]

I was having a jolly good time too but then the second patch came out and caput

went my game... Crash after another

[surreal gate]

I've successfully finished escort quests and I've had random events trigger while roaming. Looks like everything is fine

[languid turret]

link to the one you're using?

[surreal gate]

Uh I mean I've merged a bunch of stuff since it's all CoreVariables.cfg

[languid turret]

aah

there's also one which practically fixes everything, maybe I'll get that

along with the dynamic weather

[surreal gate]

Dynamic Weather mod is absolute top shelf

[sour narwhal]

lmao the noontider zombie on the roof was t-posed when i activated the mission scenario

[vagrant wind]

yeah i just saw the 2 after stalker

[final topaz]

they call it an A-Pose nowadays

[sour narwhal]

weird

[final topaz]

[sour narwhal]

I guess people just stopped putting fully t-posed out as references pose or smth

[final topaz]

people forgot everything and migrated everythign to UE5, soon Aldi will be in UE5

[sour narwhal]

it would make the experience more convenient

lagging during grocery shopping

[final topaz]

no apples in stock, your VRAM ran out

[spice temple]

Project Itemization 0.20 + Faction Patches 0.3 compatibility patch: #1313285567009656842 message

[dreamy pecan]

strange anomaly in red forest, any artifacts in it? really irradiated

[final topaz]

there's something way better in it, but you should progress in the main story to find out

[sour narwhal]

arreseted by loss prevention personnel for my .pak that makes all items cost nothing

u know they have some amazon stores where u just scan as u grab groceries and it debits ur payment method attached to amazon

[final topaz]

the cashier that just lost his job:

[gray eagle]

Literally the only fix the weight system needs is equipped items weigh less/nothing

[warped monolith]

wym "nowadays"
that's always been an A-pose

[sour narwhal]

and in the us there are stores that give u a little scanner gun and u scan the upc's as u go along and just shove ur card or tap to pay on the scanner gun then put it back on the shelf because they are seeking to perfect the perfect antiscoial shopping experience there

[final topaz]

ultimate lifehack

[sour narwhal]

because "become the self-cashier" wasnt enough already lol

[warped monolith]

sounds perfect

[sour narwhal]

i am torn about things like that..who wants to wait in a line but i see the downside

[final topaz]

before you grab that gun you sign a wafer, so they track your shopping experience, ultimate, western, experience

[sour narwhal]

the american dream is to be successfully marketed at

[final topaz]

make me a Y pose

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/dark-souls-praise-gif-25000256

[sour narwhal]

the praise the sun guy

[final topaz]

waiting for elevator music with my head implant when I didnt pay my fee

[sour narwhal]

LOLjinx

wtf is this slowmode eugh this is awful but i notifed if u type really fast it speeds it up

[warped monolith]

considering the average IQ in the general population, the less risk of dealing with idiots the better

[final topaz]

I said Y not KKK

[gray eagle]

this is ymca

[warped monolith]

that's YMCA ya knob

[sour narwhal]

trueeee

[gray eagle]

has anyone used this
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/709

[shadow sedge]

foliage detail takes away 20% of ur fps on anything above low

if the game drops to like 10fps thats ur vram most likely lower ur textures and shadows if you randomly just drop frames.

[final topaz]

if your VRAM is the issue the game will tell you with frequent UE5 Crashes

[shadow sedge]

i have a 2080 super and an i5 12600k and after getting within my vram. and a locked fps of 45 with frame gen to 90 my game is smoooth very little input lag for frame gen and no stutters

fps never does that 10fps bullshit

but before i got my settings right the game was almost unplayable

biggest things are really foliage and textures everything else has minimal impact compared to these 2 settings

[final topaz]

I suggets watching this vid https://youtu.be/814y2OPLsX0?si=7e129DYxINnaVW1B , there's more to it then juts textures, some people tried out all settings to see the difference, things like hair take almost 20% impact if you put in on epic iirc

[shadow sedge]

oh yea hair is another one

[shadow sedge]

i did watch that. but i did more after like using rtts to cap fps with frame gen to lower latency.

[sour narwhal]

My 2080 on my laptop suffers. My Strix 3070 on my desktop suffers less

There is nothing but ess and less suffering with stalker 2 but the suffering never end

[gray eagle]

im not cpu bound, im gpu bound with a gd 3080

[shadow sedge]

i have no complaints with my game. it looks good runs good feels good.

[final topaz]

to be fair the promised the ultimate sdalger experience, so I guess here you go

[sour narwhal]

yes yes true it was this way in shoc cs and maybe cop a little less...

[shadow sedge]

well thats good. ur most likely gpu bound due to ur rendering resolution

[gray eagle]

3440x1440

[shadow sedge]

dlss to 4k

[gray eagle]

my i9 9900k still goin strong

[shadow sedge]

mood. my i5 keeps up with this game really well

[final topaz]

you sure can that even happen? doesn't the game max out at like 70 / 80% CPU usage and is ALWAYS cpu bottlenecked?

[keen knot]

i have a quest in ZATON who i think it's bug, ||its the STALKER who was block in a room and you have to find the key on the roof, they never ended this quest, and after he was free i have a marker on the compass but the men didn't respond|| have you have the same problem ?

[shadow sedge]

would you consider zalissya to be cpu intesive place in the game

i havent left lesser zone yet so this only place i can test

[gray eagle]

Any town normally is

[final topaz]

yes, afaik the game only uses 70 / 80% the cpu thats why it stutters in towns bcs CPU is the unit that computes NPC's spawn and behaviour logic

[shadow sedge]

my cpu usage is 50-60% in town i5 12600k

[final topaz]

there you go, it isn't being properly utilized, else it would stutter less / or not at all

[shadow sedge]

i dont stutter at all

[final topaz]

disable all the fake fancy Frame gen and render like a real man

[warped monolith]

expecting anything different from a stalker game is foolhardy

[shadow sedge]

why the latency is really good and it feels responsive

[alpine swan]

hi folks, after finishing main quest in the Malachite it is locked. I can still fast travel via guides there but I can't get out of the main Malachite building. Is it a bug or feature?

[shadow sedge]

i hate frame gen. but for some reason its really good in this game

[final topaz]

you're trolling right? or you've got 60hz display?

[shadow sedge]

240hz and im being so deadass rn.

[final topaz]

[shadow sedge]

like base frame gen asssss ok yes. HOWEVER im using RTTS to cap renderd frames at 45. with frame gen to 90 and this specific step is what keeps the latency feeling really good

[final topaz]

frame gen is such a lazy excuse to not properly allocate VRAM in UE5 games....

[shadow sedge]

is it noticeable sligtly but i can track enemies and flick and its fine so its really not an issue to me.

its 1000X better than without rtts capping

[final topaz]

cant flick, can't track im aiming like im on water with this frame gen + DLSS crap

[shadow sedge]

im using dlss and frame gen

[west moth]

[shadow sedge]

you should try it out. its night and day difference riva tuner statistic server can cap fps while keeping frame gen

[gray eagle]

try out TSR, performs wayyyy better than dlss

[final topaz]

TSR is a blurry mess

[shadow sedge]

hows the visuals

[gray eagle]

fine for me

I dont see a noticeable difference between dlss and tsr

[shadow sedge]

ill check it ouit

[gray eagle]

I set mine to quality 70% res and upped sharpness to 26%

[shadow sedge]

its not bad turning around fast gives me slight artifacting in the sky. like boxes appear but its not horrible at a first glance.

[gray eagle]

I believe youre thinking of TAA

[sour narwhal]

love walking at a brisk pace directly to the nearest group of friendly NPCs whenever a huge crowd of rats show up

[final topaz]

I think of every upscaler there is, we have hardware so capeable, yet we are forced to use upscalers? a few gen's ago games looked as good as these games, without frame gen....

[sour narwhal]

yeah thats one thing annoys me its like everything is bathed in a disgusting cocktail of psot processing

[final topaz]

those are straight up .jpg's of rats

[shadow sedge]

thats def a cope they did not.

cyberpunk is the best looking game ive ever seen

[gray eagle]

In fairness to S2 they are rendering LODs in real time, they arent baked in. Same with the lighting.

[sour narwhal]

Yeah lmao. because i have to run super ini tweaked on low despite having a 2080. some kind of i7 idk. its some razer laptop but whatever, its for stalker not for gpu...crysis fuckery. i have a 3070 at home for that

[final topaz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJu_DgCHfx4&ab_channel=ThreatInteractive

[sour narwhal]

windowed, 1600x900, fully low'd out

[shadow sedge]

dlss only blurry at 1080p

[final topaz]

[final topaz]

bro called me a peasant on so many levels

[gray eagle]

Yea thats mainly a TAA issue, many older games have it too. TAA became very popular but as games have gotten more complex TAA has massively fallen behind.

[shadow sedge]

i have a 1080p monitor

i use dsr and then dlss and my games look crisp

[sour narwhal]

its not a big deal, i get my graphics fill on my desktop, but yknow. im used to playing shoc cs cop etc

[gray eagle]

But I feel like dlss and fsr should only be needed for 4k gaming, like in my case with a nearly 4k monitor. 1080p should be able to hit 90+ without that stuff and game devs dont seem to care

[sour narwhal]

i play stalker less for the graphics more for the fun of mucking around w a-life... historically have played it for that

[shadow sedge]

like my game upscales to 1200p using dlss. and increases the image quality even on my 1080p panel

[sour narwhal]

i spent a long time working on source engine stuff and working with old stalker ports on source engine so i think my brain is just spoiled by anything that might look better than literally hl2 textures lol

[shadow sedge]

a life is a myth jk but its not in s2

well it IS in s2 but devs have it turned off rn

[sour narwhal]

its in s2, its just not configured right but. you can mess about with it with mods... messing with the structs in the cfgs etc

[shadow sedge]

yea you can

[river lintel]

I don't think it's been "turned off" but rather got fucked up by optimization changes in the game

[shadow sedge]

no they said they turned it off. so the game will run

[gray eagle]

To your credit the Source engine is literally one of the best out there. Black Mesa was made on source and it looks phenomenal

[shadow sedge]

a life makes the game even more cpu bound

[river lintel]

I though they said to make the game run it ended up getting buggier and buggier. Regardless oh the how's and why's. I hope it gets fixed soon

[gray eagle]

They never said they purposely turned it off. They said they were trying to optimize it and ran into issues down the line that must have somehow broke it

[warped monolith]

real and true
HL Alyx looks great, too.

[river lintel]

Alyx is actually breathtaking

[gray eagle]

Alyx is on Source 2 iirc but both engines are insane feats of technology

[river lintel]

It is source 2 yeah

[sour narwhal]

u find zircon suit outside of noontide base but the noontide tech cant upgrade it

[river lintel]

Khors isnt a great tech sadly ||he can't do much at all after a certain point in the story||

[sharp sandal]

Yo how is the game with mods? Is it safe to buy for a somewhat vanilla repaired first playthrough?

[river lintel]

I've found the duty and yaniv techs to be the best so far

[golden hazel]

Brother Khors

[gray eagle]

Biggest issue with modern games is mainly due to the push for raytraced lighting and lumen. Older games had baked in lighting that was way more performance friendly

[river lintel]

I have 60 hours on a vanilla file. A handful of quests can still fuck up but if you keep saves from prior to starting later quests you can reload and brute force it

[river lintel]

FEAR has probably the most realistic light source engine ever, i wish we gotnmore stuff like that witg rtx or lumen

[sour narwhal]

He needs to talk to the magical junk pile so he can get his technology brains back

[knotty spruce]

i'm still sad about ||strider and the fact that his body is still in the same place in the epilogue, wtf doc||

[river lintel]

He does eventually

[sharp sandal]

Sounds manageable, maybe I will dip in earlier than planned. Anomaly is getting repetitive 😅

[shadow sedge]

tsr vs dlls(spoiler) not a real spoiler just to mark whats what is tsr fps gain worth?

[sour narwhal]

one thing and this might just be eng voiceovers but its like u hear some of these people (dalin faust) speak and its like "anyone with half a brain would hear this guys tones and inflection and be like 'nah i dont trust u lol' "

like the way sircaa talking about "a NEW kind of humanity... a NEW step in humanity" yea if that happened in real life people would be like "hahaha fuck no"

[river lintel]

Once you get the ball rolling on the game you can have an amazing time after making it run right. And most big game breaking issues for quests have been mostly fixed and it is the later half of the main quest

[gray eagle]

No shade to the english vas but the dub gives off B list movie energy. The native dub is leagues better

[knotty spruce]

i went full Johnny Silverhand the second he showed up, sounded like a corpo rat from the start

[sharp sandal]

So there might not be a reason to load it with mods? I saw some nice QOL mods, would you recommend them on the first run or should I wait for like 10 hrs of play and later add it in?

[sour narwhal]

i have a feeling eng vas were not native eng speakers lol but people who do eng voices for eu developments

[river lintel]

The English VA also just doesn't do a lot of characters justice compared to the Ukranian. Colonel sounds like a chad, scar and strider sound like they have a lot of character where they sound like generic military men and a clown respectively in English

[sour narwhal]

maybe some were. some pronounce specific words specifically different than eng speakers would

scar sounds like a strange cross between a bro and a scottish fisherman

[final topaz]

tbh this game should have come with russian DUB if it already has russian subtitles

[river lintel]

I don't recommend any mods, especially atm where we might get a patch and it bricks your save depending on what you add. I think people should do a full vanilla run first before they mod any game though

[gray eagle]

Theres a big reason why it doesnt but im not getting into a political debate

[sour narwhal]

they gave their reasoning in the behind th escenes docu

[final topaz]

yeye politics and all that, but why russian subtitles?

[gray eagle]

Why not

[final topaz]

why not russian dub?

[river lintel]

Easy to code words. Not easy to pay Russians to do the work when war

[sharp sandal]

That's true. I may be tempted to buy it then. Thanks!

[gray eagle]

Because the Russians are currently invading their country

[final topaz]

they all speak russian? the code is in russian?

[shadow sedge]

thats what im doing.

[gray eagle]

Ukranian is a different language

[final topaz]

but they alls speak russian.

[sour narwhal]

for some things u can hear ukrainian spoken and read the russian subs because the main differences are in accents loanwords and specific individual words like how freedom is typically understood as volya on the flag but spoken as svoboda in russian - not everything though. not the same language but there are many similarities

[gray eagle]

No they dont

[shadow sedge]

i cant wait for stalker 2 call of misery

[final topaz]

anyone played OG stalker on Ukranian dub?

[final topaz]

you find me one jakey ukranian that doesn't speak russian

[gray eagle]

Im sure lots of people have, most mainstream mods remove the Russian dub

[final topaz]

aight then its only me who still wishes for a russian dub in my heart, I want my cheeky breekis

[gray eagle]

I mean theres nothing wrong with wanting one but you basically already have it by your logic. 90% of the language wouldnt change

[warped monolith]

game has cheeki breeki in ukrainian

[final topaz]

I can't udnerstand jack shit they're saying, becaues its ukranian, not russian:P more then 90%

[warped monolith]

but understandable. If a game were available only in pt-pt it'd bother me

[gray eagle]

wait are you russian

[final topaz]

really? haven't heard it in my 25H playtime

[sour narwhal]

mmm

[final topaz]

yes also

[gray eagle]

I understand wanting a dub in your own language thats my bad, I thought you were an english speaker wanting it

[golden hazel]

It's probably bugged, I only heard it play once at the beginning after you activate the scanner

[warped monolith]

me neither, but it's there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv2SGrXtREM

[final topaz]

is it a scripted one time event then?

[river lintel]

This makes way more sense

[golden hazel]

No cause in my 2nd playthrough I didn't hear it

[final topaz]

damn, maybe must match the FPS to get that voice line

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-it-yes-thats-it-that-right-there-omg-that-thats-what-i-mean-gif-17579879

[gray eagle]

yea, if I knew he was a native russian speaker I woulda understood alot better. im used to alot of ppl in this chat being idiots for no reason

[warped monolith]

[golden hazel]

[final topaz]

[warped monolith]

"I wish this game had russian dub"
bro's immediate reaction: "lol idiot"

[final topaz]

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/sammy-sammy-rage-sammy-super-saiyan-super-power-rage-gif-21693661

[gray eagle]

MB you KNOW how many people here just say shit without thinkin cut me sum slack

[peak eagle]

cheeki breeki

[golden hazel]

A new cheeki breeki iv damke

[river lintel]

Same lol

[peak eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/nikolai-stalker-gif-13904852575181411578

[final topaz]

jakey do be right on that one tho lmao

[sour narwhal]

the freedom flag says volya but the game files refer to their items as svoboda

which i think is just because it smultiple people working on it who may not understand why theres a difference in terminology but i mean...... its there on the flag

[warped monolith]

I mean that applies to everywhere

[wraith quarry]

Anyone knows which technician can upgrade Kharod rifle?

[golden hazel]

Harpy

[wraith quarry]

Where's Harpy?

[golden hazel]

Yanov station

[wraith quarry]

oh bugger

[toxic comet]

start walking xD

[golden hazel]

Gotta pack 30 nonstops

[final topaz]

isn't in their 1:30H xbox sponsored dev video a developer who only speaks russian? would give me the hint that they used "svoboda" bcs not everyone on their team speaks fluent ukranian

[steady swan]

Hey does someone know where the lumen file is stored? was told turning it off would make inside buildings not black holes

[sour narwhal]

unsure ¯_(ツ)_/¯

but svoboda is a term also ussed in ukrainian afaik

[warped monolith]

@icy bough help this man turn off lumen

[golden hazel]

@icy bough He needs a hero

[steady swan]

I really do

[toxic comet]

he needs modders xD

[sour narwhal]

it might be under the appdata

sometimes it might be literally insude of unreal assets depending

[steady swan]

that is a very broad place to be, ive been looking, its not in gameconfig

[sour narwhal]

id imagine its probably in a pak if its not in any of the configs/inis

[wraith quarry]

just download one of the "optmization mods" from nexus mods

usually those paks include configs to disable lumina

[shadow sedge]

honestly tho 2080 super getting 50-60fps at 1080p high-ultra settings with dlss quality no frame gen i feel is reasonable... or is that bad ?!?!? like its a brand new ue5 game. and this gpu is 5 years old

[steady swan]

I technically already have one downloaded, just didnt put it in my ~mods folder yet

[sour narwhal]

that would be nice 😒

[gray eagle]

seems fine to me, with fsr youll be set

[wraith quarry]

I'm running on 4060 with high settings and dlss on quality and i get 60-100 fps

[shadow sedge]

frame gen on?

[icy bough]

I have been summoned. Don't worry my child. Your solution is here

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/bandit-cheeki-breeki-stalker-gif-27140308

[wraith quarry]

ayup, no downsides to it

[steady swan]

whats the move, how do i rid myself of these lumens my liege

[shadow sedge]

yea frame gen i can get up to 120 was just saying without it

[icy bough]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/133

Your solution is here my friend.

Download the "Peak" version to remove lumen entirely.
Although it will also remove lightings too so be aware

[shadow sedge]

cause frame gen is cheating ig. i just dont think this ue5 dlss stuff is that big of a deal.

[steady swan]

when you say it removes lighting, what do you mean

[golden hazel]

Lumen is the lighting

[icy bough]

i mean even caves will not have lighting. So that means the entire game will have the same lighting as whatever the game time is. (if its day time everything will be in the same light)

[warped monolith]

there'll be no different levels of lighting on the environment/characters

[steady swan]

ah ok

[shadow sedge]

bro ak12 its just as bad coming out except its full white lmao

hate that shi

[steady swan]

shit maybe ill just fuck around with a flashlight mod, i like some areas being dark its just crazy how dark they are

[shadow sedge]

real

[golden hazel]

[shadow sedge]

i think the indoor light sources need some work. they only light up like 5 feet away

[icy bough]

wait you want lumen removed because ?

[sour narwhal]

dlss not a big deal but what becomes a bi deal is when the entirety of the indsutry of like making graphics is now about how much fkn post processing fx u can squish on top of each other like a sandwich

[gray eagle]

If you remove lumen the game will have no lighting

[sour narwhal]

nobody makes graphics anymore they just dump post-processing fx on and hope u dont realize that without it it looks worse than games made in 2013

[steady swan]

because some buildings are pitch black, and my flashlight cant light up things more than 15ft away. so enemies can see me but i cant see them at all, making fights indoors at night very annoying

[warped monolith]

dlss was the beginning of cancer because it makes devs too lazy to optimize their games
just make ppl buy rtx cards and use dlss to boost framerate instead of making their game run well

[abstract lagoon]

Hey, can I betray WARD after I side with them at SIRCAA, or am I locked in?

[icy bough]

ye but lumen is corebaked into the game.
if you remove lumen it will look as if you were playing fallout NV or fallout 3

[golden hazel]

Oops, all AI

[sour narwhal]

basically this and this is why stuff like a 1070 and 1060 are still good cards because of the fact that they actually took care to have the real "meat" of a gpu be reasonable and good

[steady swan]

I think I’ll keep it then, found a mod that makes the flashlight stronger

[shadow sedge]

gta5 is an example that game looks good even now

[sour narwhal]

i used a 1060 superclocked for so much time lol

now im on that rtx supercucked

[shadow sedge]

ah yes when i was in hs i got a 90$ 10603gb. worth

[sour narwhal]

some guy sold me my strix 3070 for like 75% less than it costs and it was new lol

i had to use strength to fit it into the case

very large card

[shadow sedge]

i built a pc but was playing on intel 8th gen integrated graphics. at like 800p finally got enough for a gpu thous were the days. before i became anal about having my games look good and nitpick tf out of my visuals. to the point where im gonna get a 4090 just for cyberpunk. what happened to me

[golden hazel]

Live RTX 4090 reaction

[icy bough]

5090 will require additional plug to power the gpu

[warped monolith]

5090 will probably require its own case

[icy bough]

[shadow sedge]

support beams

[sour narwhal]

32cm long lmao

[golden hazel]

6090 will require its own power grid

[sour narwhal]

sorry

[shadow sedge]

*dyson sphere

[golden hazel]

Nah that's the 8090

[icy bough]

7090 will require an entire new setup everytime you start the gpu

[shadow sedge]

eventually they gonna ship them with mini reactors inside of them

[sour narwhal]

70 series cards make ur hair fall out if u play for longer than 6 hours

[final topaz]

the new RAM PC, might be there, might be gone

[icy bough]

in 2030 the minimum requirement will be 64 gb of ram

[sour narwhal]

thats sorta uncommon but not rare i think, maybe 32gb is most common rn

[warped monolith]

probably gonna happen sooner than that

[golden hazel]

96gb feels more realistic ngl

[shadow sedge]

its funny they literally just take advantage of the good new hardware and basically just dont optimize shi

[icy bough]

128 gb

[shadow sedge]

i doubt games will ever even look better they just gonna get lazier and lazier as tech gets better

[final topaz]