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

[grave oar]

i never use english voice dub, I dont even know what it sounds like

[white sigil]

I agree I love it to just gotta wait

[surreal gate]

ukranian voices is the only option

[grave oar]

im too busy staring at subtitles like a chad

[golden hazel]

English dub is like oi bruv go a ciggie innit

[wanton arch]

the ukrainian VAs on the other hand are SO GOOD

[grave oar]

SKIIIIIFA

[late kernel]

I love Ukranian Dub (i do not speak that language one bit)

[grave oar]

listening to the english dub makes me wish for a nuclear winter

[wanton arch]

scar my second favorite characters, just cause i like Korshunov more

[grave oar]

korshanov is a real homie fr

[frozen flame]

richter not being number 1 is upsetting

[wary orbit]

Imagine sie spreken deutsch JA!

[lime umbra]

EN vas are mostly 0 budget
but the main cast is pretty ok

[late kernel]

Sto te blyat?!

[grave oar]

keanu reaves trying to do ukranian accent as Skif

[wanton arch]

|| cant be number 1 cause he dead ||

[frozen flame]

||how???||

[surreal gate]

I thought he sounded kinda like male V from Cyberpunk?

[golden hazel]

Roidin aroun in a rova, iffa see opps then its ova, picking up tennis, ridin round venice amma menace

[wanton arch]

|| ward ending ||

[frozen flame]

||oh i havent done ward yet ive just been doin spark for 2nd run||

[grave oar]

why do you know that by heart

[unreal frigate]

lol Vs stupid east coast accent, iam from Australia and even i knew how out of place that was

[warped monolith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1063755770027573252/1316188196719038527/steam-laugh.gif

[frozen flame]

hes homie tho

[golden hazel]

It amped my abilities when I was doing melee invictus on GAMMA

Propa roight rhytm innit

[grave oar]

theres like 15 different "east coast" accents

[late kernel]

Why are you disrespecting me, bro? My mistake, original gangster. No! This cannot be forgiven. Now empty the compartments of your pantaloons. For what purpose?

[river lintel]

I'm gonna reinstall anomaly, see you guys in 5 years 🤣

[wary orbit]

see you tomorrow

[river lintel]

I meant the download time lol

[thick oasis]

https://tenor.com/view/wolf-of-wall-street-rookie-numbers-gif-20904132

[cerulean root]

SKEE-FA

WE MUST WISH FOR CHEAP SIDOROVICH PRICES

SKEE-FA

[grave kernel]

ladies and gentlemen

the doctor is here

[wanton arch]

https://tenor.com/view/me-atrapaste-es-cine-its-cinema-cinema-esto-es-cine-gif-12869046600151364058

[clever sigil]

Go to Sid and make a trade where you sell him stuff and buy stuff from him in such a way that the trade costs 0 cupons

[cerulean root]

The Dr in question

[river lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-soc-kruglov-ecologist-scientist-gif-24489592

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-gif-18174868

[cerulean root]

https://tenor.com/view/strelok-gif-20097302

[clever sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker2-character-stalker-gif-18333719

You coming stalker?

[warm kite]

How stalker 2 modding future looks? will it be a good modded game? like the og ones

[clever sigil]

Yes, eventualy

Gotta get them modding tools first

[warm kite]

yea sure

it would be amazing to see a modpack like gamma in stalker 2. The definitive fps experience

[clever sigil]

Yeah

[warped monolith]

[livid frost]

every other hour someone says gamma 2

bro gamma took like 10 years to be made 😭

[stoic lichen]

SKEEFA! WE MUST LACE ALL THE COSSACKS VODKA WITH FEYNT!

[river lintel]

it took 10 years and is the child of a mod of a child of a mod of a mod. but this time it will probably be easier since a, there are way more ue devs than x engine and b, people know what they want to do

[livid frost]

gamma 2 equals cool guns and crafting

[clever sigil]

Gamma when?

[sour narwhal]

I hope there's eventually a mod that allows for physical coupons

[tacit glacier]

Let's make a mod that reduces Nanite usage and replaces Lumen with a different lighting system first
That'll easilly give you +100 to FPS

[sour narwhal]

I can't steal currency off of people because its digital. I can steal people's PDAs though but i cannot extract the coupons from their PDA

What is the banking app the zone is using now. or did freedom become blockchain nerds

[golden hazel]

So true innit bruv, slay Docta

[clever sigil]

Encripted

[golden hazel]

It's all on the blockchain, just like GSC tried to make

[livid frost]

gamma 2 is coming out tmr, grok told me

[sour narwhal]

whoever has their hand in doing currency exchanges back to normal currencies

is probably the richest zonedweller ever

[clever sigil]

You mean Sid?

[tacit glacier]

Koupons are basically cryptocurrency

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/lilith-thinking-lilith-diablo-лилит-диабло-gif-14258757914639420574

[arctic pine]

naw

it's blik

[golden hazel]

Thats why they said they dont have plans to add crypto to S2, it's already in the game

[tacit glacier]

O faktycznie

[clever sigil]

Kupons are Sids intention so he can scam with better efficiency

[tacit glacier]

Its just as fast too

[clever sigil]

No but like if there is someone who could do the exchange inside the Zone its Sid and his Black Market

[sour narwhal]

people stole that rifle he has in his booth in shoc and he never forgave them

[golden hazel]

One does not scam THE scammer without divine level consequences

[hushed garden]

Damn I've hit a mental block wall and cant play S2 anymore, I was loving it too. I'm getting too old

[wary orbit]

Watch some Stargate SG-1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGDru_HhYeg still my favorite O'Neill

[hushed garden]

ive started dl old games and mods that ill prob never play lmao

[cerulean root]

SKEEFA! POSION THE BANDITS WATER SUPPLY WITH LAXATIVES! SKEEFA

the tarkov books are so good

[proven vine]

is this anommaly bugged? cant find it for some reason

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/dwarf-dig-diggy-diggy-diggy-hole-gif-24120660

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA WE MUST COOK MORE METH FOR THE SHINING ZONE

[solid ibex]

is underground

[warped monolith]

return to moria gameplay

[proven vine]

Uhhhhh.... is this scope bugged?

[golden hazel]

Biblically SoC of Chernobyl Accurate Scope

[wary orbit]

you had a cutscene recently?

[proven vine]

Yeah, same cutseen that gave me the gun

[wary orbit]

Try saving and reloading if that does not help restart the game its a known bug

[cerulean root]

SKEEEFFFFAAAAAA

[golden hazel]

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

[cerulean root]

https://tenor.com/view/сидорович-сталкер-консервныебанки-хабарпринес-меченый-gif-27171195

[golden hazel]

Maarked waaan get daaaooown

[cerulean root]

GSC LET SID THROW IT BACK AND MY LIFE IS TOURS

[fervent zenith]

i found what Causes my problems and its Forced TTA

how do i disable that?

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA WE NEED TO WISH ON THE WISHGRANTER TO OIL UP SIDOROVICH

[frozen flame]

hes got enough oil in that chicken of his

[cerulean root]

SKEEFA WE MUST WISH FOR THE BLOOD SUCKUSSIES SKEEFA

[hushed garden]

SKKKKEEEEEEEEFFFAAAA

[cerulean root]

SKKKEEEEEEFFFAAAAAAA

[stoic lichen]

SKKEEEEFFFFAAAAA

[wary orbit]

i'm growing so tired of this retarded meme

[hushed garden]

SKKEEEEFFFFAAAAA

[warped monolith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1063755770027573252/1316188196719038527/steam-laugh.gif

[stoic lichen]

Peak comedy

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/true-successfully-deployed-get-this-man-a-true-true-morgan-freeman-true-morgan-freeman-gif-17551062976351461149

[fervent zenith]

Skeeeeeeeefffffffffffeaaaaaaaa

[golden hazel]

Oh no he's ascended

[fervent zenith]

Discord Gave me the Tools to immortaliz things

[golden hazel]

Looks like it's time to replace all of SIRCAA's toilet with refrigerators

FOR THE SHINING ZONE SKEEFA

[cerulean root]

It’s beautiful

[mossy jasper]

||my god strider was done so dirty by the plot||

||monolith bros rehabilitated trying to save the zone? Nah fucking faust offscreens them and turns Strider into a death machine.||

the writers just being petty at this point

[cerulean root]

||Bro please I’m still getting over it||

[frozen flame]

i truly loved strider he was great

[cerulean root]

Had to lie to him couldn’t let him know what happened

[wary orbit]

Strider was a fool and payed for it with his life. He should have purged Faust the second he build a Monolith Effigy

[cerulean root]

Agreed but could he have messed with strider in ways with him being a controller and all?

When you talk to him in the “place” strider doesn’t seem to be willing to allow the monolith to come back at any cost even his own life it’s so weird to me he let fraust live

[frozen flame]

might of been strikers ideas mixed with that

[wary orbit]

last Controller i met wasn't immune to some lead poisoning

[cerulean root]

God the dialogue when you tell him that they were unsuccessful in stopping the mono return is so sad

[frozen flame]

i consider it to be better to tell him as he deserves to know

[cerulean root]

I can’t do it I have to let my boy rest in peice and not live knowing everyone he knows is back to the one thing he never wished for them to happen

Dude sounds so distressed hearing they are back under control and actually goes insane

[wary orbit]

I'm sure there is going to be a DLC where we decend into the poop pipe under jupiter to fix things

[cerulean root]

Can’t wait to see the DLCS so much potential with all of the endings and new lore

Worst part about striders end is during his flashback scene the scene never played and he just stared at me for like 30 seconds and I was so confused on what was happening

[golden hazel]

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

[mossy jasper]

Even worst part is that i expected Faust to be underdog candidate in the conflict but i don't even think there was a single part of Faust's plan that Strider knew about

[cerulean root]

Fausts whole story is the most confusing thing to me and the fraust boss fight

[thick oasis]

foker just gonna regenerate innit

[golden hazel]

chrew innit

[toxic temple]

[thick oasis]

||saving the zone by scrubbing toxic and radioactive material? el em ay oh|| ||10 years i enough to train up, disperse as loners to infiltrate the duty and help them wreck the generators or something||

[river lintel]

Faust is a chad tho

[toxic temple]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-monolith-ryan-gosling-cold-falling-snow-gif-7493567383040129594

It’s just Scar being on crack

SNIFFA WE NEDDA MAKE THE ZONE FUCKED UP AGAIN

[stoic lichen]

SKEEFA, WE NEED TO COOK

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA, THE FLESH ARENT ACTUALLY MADE OF BACON

[stoic lichen]

SKEEFA, I FUCKED A BLOODSUCKER

[river lintel]

SKEEFA DO YOU KNOW WHY THEY CALL THEM BLOODSUCKERS 😏

[river lintel]

Samezies

[wanton arch]

build check before duga

[rugged geyser]

bro got vodka as an artefact

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA WE NEED TO GET MORE RADIOACTIVE SWAMP WATER, FOR THE SHINING ZONE, SKEEFA

[river lintel]

Trash, you need to upgrade your exo to a bandit jacket

[wanton arch]

i just sold one

[toxic temple]

Imagine if Skiff hadn’t come to the Zone

I mean.. Technically Skiff fucked up everything

But anyway. I just want more lore with Monolith

[cerulean root]

We need more Scar lore

[toxic temple]

Please no

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA MR BONES SAID HE NEEDS MORE CALCIUM

[stoic lichen]

Scar is suffering from max brain rot

Too much skibidi ohio rizz

[toxic temple]

No kidding this Spark “choice” road, which I actually didn’t choose, Is like the most upsetting thing I experienced in the game.

Got tired of that oldman-ondrugs-skibidishiningzone shit

And the only option to kill him is only in the end

[warped monolith]

skeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeef

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA WE NEED TO REPLACE THE PDA LOADING SCREENS WITH SKIBIDI TOILET, FOR THE SHINING ZONE

[toxic temple]

bruh

[toxic temple]

This shit is actually sounds more useful than all damn Scar’s quests

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA, I RAN OUT OF CHEERIOS, YOU NEED TO GET ME SOME MORE, FOR THE SHINING ZONE, SKEEFA

[warped monolith]

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

[rose venture]

Idk how yall feel about CDPR but The Witcher 4 was announced https://youtu.be/yWMu6JeT2g8?si=pGGJ_Fk-0pkkhKyt

[golden hazel]

Witcher 4
Stalker 2 Patch 1.0.4

[rose venture]

I SAW THAT TOO

[golden hazel]

FOR THE SHINING ZONE

[toxic temple]

1.0.4

Changelog:

• Now ur fps will be below 20 (It’s normal game behaviour!)

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA, WE NEED TO DROP THE FPS EVEN LOWER, FOR THE SHINING ZONE, SKEEFA

[toxic temple]

Please stop.

[warped monolith]

[golden hazel]

[toxic temple]

https://tenor.com/view/ryan-gosling-gosling-ryan-gif-27474238

[peak eagle]

This place is just Scar shitposting with his chronic brain damage

[wary orbit]

I found blocking them helps a lot with sanity

[toxic temple]

I wish I could block Scar in game

[golden hazel]

Welcome to the Zone

[abstract lagoon]

I will say, I like that the shining zone is joining za monolit in the meme canon of stalker

[warped monolith]

skeeeeeeeeeeeef

[golden hazel]

That's how it goes, something ficitonal sounding in the zone appears, it's probably the monolith

[abstract lagoon]

I enjoy having multiple insane people from stalker to shitpost on

[golden hazel]

Insane? Nah, In The Monolith.

[abstract lagoon]

Za monolit

[golden hazel]

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

[warped monolith]

multiple
simultaneous
devastating defensive deep strikes

[golden hazel]

He's just standing there, menacingly

[sour narwhal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDCNlqMgnvo yknow its kind of crazy it took me 16 years to realize that this song from Sidorovich bunker is sung in english

[golden hazel]

Game has Dirge for the Planet, but it doesn't have Gurza Dreaming 5/10

[sour narwhal]

Was this entire EP written for the game? The album art seems vaguely STALKERish

Its funny a lot of people criticze the english dub for STALKER 2 wondering why they did it but im pretty sure even the original game was like

unusually spoken english besides certain lines that were more common

[golden hazel]

Original games had an amazing english dub

[warped monolith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urK8zFwa-4c listen to this version. It's pretty good

[golden hazel]

Pretty good cover ngl

[sour narwhal]

All i can wonder if her hair is naturally that red

[golden hazel]

[warped monolith]

nope

[sour narwhal]

ya i reaized that after a bit of looking at her roots

its a cute look though i like her hair, i would do the same if covering my ears wasn't massively uncomfortable for me

Also this is a really pretty rendition the guitar is so good

[golden hazel]

The super bit crushed version from SoC on Sid's radio will always be the best though

[warped monolith]

yeah she did good on this cover

[sour narwhal]

https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireLake aaahhh okay they DID make it explicitly for stalker

[golden hazel]

Fighting Unknown goes hard

[sour narwhal]

lmfao

where the hell is is this feature??? ughh

[golden hazel]

This

[sour narwhal]

oh lmao

[thick oasis]

cheeky brickey ahhh smile

lmao preorders 3 years prior to release, it's almost kickstarter backing

[golden hazel]

[warped monolith]

[golden hazel]

[sour narwhal]

LMfao I love how when youre in cordon if you take from sidorovich the mission ||asking you to hurt the tunnel traderes|| and you decide ||not to kill them and instead kill the people that sidor sends after you in return|| he gets pissed off at you and sends some threats but then if you return to his bunker hes like ||lmao okay fine whatever|| and things just go completely back to normal

[golden hazel]

||Those guys were exos, he's probably shitting his pants when he sees you show up at his doorstep ||

[sour narwhal]

At least... one of them was. rest of them were in coats did not expect a skif in a wolfhound with legendary artifacts in his belt to be there with a fkn as val

[warped monolith]

they never expect the main character

[golden hazel]

Ah yes, hello there Unmarked One

[hushed garden]

Marked one gets mentioned

[warped monolith]

[golden hazel]

[mossy jasper]

||Holy shit Scar's faction is on the side of the C-couniousness? Fuck i would have sided with them!||

[golden hazel]

||Ye, he's a C-Con experiment||

[mossy jasper]

||Tbf should have been obvious after the clear sky connection and him literally being a posterchild for "uwu the zone cannot hurt you" ||

||Clear sky slander never dies but Scar and his guys being monolith simps does make their stocks rise||

[golden hazel]

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

[mossy jasper]

||was faust even controlled by the monolith or was he just a rogue guy who wanted to make the monolith great again?||

[golden hazel]

||The logs in the Swamp story mission shows he just wanted to make monolith great again||

[mossy jasper]

||awww homie was genuine fuck||

[golden hazel]

||He felt bad for his noontide brothers and wanted them to be happy again, even if the method was fucked up||

[mossy jasper]

||all these revelations are gonna make the lore of the stalker games so much more complicated this shit is reaching evangelion levels of 5d chess||

[turbid void]

I've gotten to a point in stalker 2 where every human faction I see walking around (except for bandits) are armed with exo suits

[golden hazel]

||Just wait till you find out who The Doctor really is||

[thick oasis]

||he could just get a bunch of heroin for that instead of slaughtering people for the shiny rock||

||it's established that only faust had the memory of monolith times, and everyone else was effectively in coma and yet some willingly follow him?!? bruhs could just brain themselves for the same effect it makes 0 sense||

[warped monolith]

SKEEFA I NEED TO SELL YOUR PDA TO BUY ASTRO BOT

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA IT'S THE ONLY GAME ON PS5, PLEASE, FOR THE SHINING ZONE

[tribal holly]

trying to jump around a dangerous warehouse and this game spawns ten fucking SVDs into my inventory just to make it harder

[golden hazel]

The zone works in mysterious ways

[tribal holly]

my question is what unholy spawn was supposed to have 10 sniper rifles

[golden hazel]

10 sniper zombies most likely

[hushed garden]

and randomly keeps equipting them lol

[zinc sapphire]

Zone be like "stop hopping around you lunatic. Here's some weight to keep your feet on the ground"

Do we know yet what causes random weapons to end up in your secondary/backpack?

[tribal holly]

definitely a bug in spawning nearby enemies

it assigns their weapons to your actor for whatever reason

[zinc sapphire]

Ngl, I hope that actually never gets fixed

It is funny and fits with the zone being at least semi sentient

Giving gifts, spawning bloodsuckers

[alpine robin]

Holy shit... the fights in this game are immersive as shit

[golden hazel]

These fuckers won't stop spawning

[alpine robin]

i thought anomaly was good

[cobalt roost]

Anybody elsoe runs stalker 2 on a gtx 1650?

[cobalt roost]

Yes they are i m in love with this game

[alpine robin]

are you talking abt gamma or stalker 2?

[cobalt roost]

Both hahahahah

[alpine robin]

I had like 100 or so hours in anomaly, did a rlly nice bandit playthrough on medium difficulty, came here did the same thing on hardest difficulty and got into a massive fight with duty that had some of the most immersive and intense fights of any game ive played in a while what the fuck is this

At the god damn flea market in garbage of all places

[cobalt roost]

Yeahbthe firefights are really intens and satisfying

Hahahaha at the flea market? That is crazy hahaah

I mean i got a potato laptop gtx 1650. I rub stalker 2 on lowest setting and resolution so it feels like gamma to me gahahaha

[alpine robin]

dude there were like 5 free stalkers fighting a duty patrol and I just got stuck between under collapsed concrete at the flea market and had to fight 7 of them off while I was cornered with a damn mosin

[cobalt roost]

Hahahahahahaah whooode that is some stalker shit right there!! That is awesome to hear

[alpine robin]

shot a guy till he was on the ground, went to finish him off with a knife and the motherfucker got up and started hitting me

[alpine robin]

I love this game so much man i hate that i didnt get into it sooner

[cobalt roost]

Hahahahahaha sounds about right xD

[cobalt roost]

Yeah i feel you , gamna was my introduction into stalker and itt got me hooked

[alpine robin]

I played into the radius and thought stalker was just some super old game that was okay by todays standards that inspired it

not a damn masterpiece of immersion and atmosphere

[cobalt roost]

Yeah it is true! Its a jack of all trades in a game, an rpg, an horror game, adventure. I love it!

Have you tried stalker 2?

[alpine robin]

ffffffffffffuck duty

[cobalt roost]

Yeah duty kiss my buty

[alpine robin]

Yeah I got it, played for a while but I uninstalled it and im not coming back until A life is fixed

the rest of the game was really good though other than some economy and some ai quirks

[cobalt roost]

Daaamn bro sorry to hear that. I fixed the a life with some mods though

[alpine robin]

completely fixed?

[cobalt roost]

But yeah hopefully it gets vetter in the future

[alpine robin]

What faction do you run in?

[cobalt roost]

Not fully. I do have sometimes they spawn behind me, but i have alot of activity around me and in the distance, i stumble upon fitefight and fights that alreasy happend. So i guess it fixes it a bit

[cobalt roost]

In stalker 2? Im currently not playing gamma due to it not launching

[alpine robin]

Whats wrong with ur gamma? and u dont really have a choice in stalker 2 right? youre kind of a free stalker in the story

[cobalt roost]

I downloaded an update yesterday, before that the game runs perfecr, but after the update i have 506mods for some reason and i get errord when i launch, so someone said it could be possible because inrun an older gamma launcher. I havrnt updated the launcher yet

Yeah true you have no choice in stalker 2, but in gamma i usually go for free stalker or loner. Never did bandit or anything

[alpine robin]

Whats the error? I had an error with the shader cash and I just had to update it again a couple of times, worked for another guy but we were both first install

[cobalt roost]

Sorry for my typing errors, i have a small keyboard on my phone

[alpine robin]

Man I love bandits, just hunting who ever the fuck looks like they might have something you could sell

[cobalt roost]

Fatal error : unhandeld exception occured is what it says

[cobalt roost]

Hahahaha you a savage xD

[zinc sapphire]

Can't wait for the magazine mods, the crafting mods, and all the other stuff thaf make gamma what it is, being made for S2

[cobalt roost]

That would be so cool

[weary cradle]

revisiting the Brain Scorcher after playing gamma got my ptsd kicking in
like there's nothing here why my fight or flight engaged 😭

[cobalt roost]

The zone messing with your head hahahah

[alpine robin]

Im basically a mercenary with worse shit cuz i just take hit man and turf war missions all the time

[golden hazel]

Me when a murder of crows flies over

[cobalt roost]

Hahahahaha

[zinc sapphire]

Kicks in that "oh shit emission" response

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-i-gotta-get-out-of-here-panic-afraid-i-gotta-get-outta-here-gif-1138122925932307046

[alpine robin]

Is there a way to reduce rads cheaper than just slugging vodka? didnt think garbage would be this irradiated and im getting bent over cuz the bandit trader doesnt trust me enough to get me a mask

[thick oasis]

bruh are you talking about 2?

[alpine robin]

no gamma

[golden hazel]

[thick oasis]

it's just that this is the stalker 2 channel mate, gamma is 10 floors higher

[alpine robin]

oh shit my bad

later

[thick oasis]

i got evry confused when ir ead that this game has immersive combat

in my experience AI in S2 does little more than run at you and chuck grenades

[alpine robin]

wdym eating 5.45 with a hoodie is very real and immersive

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/albert-wesker-wesker-albert-resident-evil-5-resident-evil-gif-15801599465879966005

[thick oasis]

eh damage profiles can be whatever but clear sky AI is legendary for taking cover and flanking yo lone ass

dislodging 3 bandits from a house was a campaign in itself

[cobalt roost]

cigarettes reduce radiation also

[alpine robin]

Doesnt feel grea when a sniper that isnt easy to find ammo for just makes them mad

[proven hollow]

home sweet home

[sly idol]

How do you get coordinates I’ve tried doing XShowplayercoordinates but nothing happens

[cobalt roost]

I hate these compiling shaders everytime i launch. Takes so long to load

[cobalt roost]

Coordinates of what?

[sly idol]

No specific place

Just exactly where my character is
I know people have already farmed out “main bases” etc but every map location that’s discoverable no. That and I don’t want to run 3km back to my quest marker

[cobalt roost]

You open pda and theres a button to go to player

[sly idol]

Doesn’t give me cords

[cobalt roost]

But i dont know if it shows coordinates

Aaah i see what you mean. Im not sure if that possible without mods?

[sly idol]

Game doesn’t show cords in general not sure how people are fishing them out

[cobalt roost]

I have no idea either.

[sly idol]

Is there a cords mod?

[cobalt roost]

Euhm maybe on nexus? Im not sure though

[sly idol]

I’m assuming the map is atleast 100kx 100km square radius due to the fact that I think the map is made up of 10000+ grid squares that are 1click in surface area assumingly

[dreamy pecan]

anyone recieving gifts from the zone? i keep getting blessed with m860 crackers and dragunov

[cobalt roost]

Yes the zone is being generous for christmas hahahaha

[thick oasis]

showdebug command will open a window with your current coords

[cobalt roost]

I might be dumd because i have no clue what this means xD

[sly idol]

There are quests and scenarios which for some reason give you weapons to a degree so like the one helping on the train the dude that gives you a SVD that effect persists

[sly idol]

Which command is that because I’ve tried all the debug commands

[dreamy pecan]

i'd like to believe the zone is just being generous for christmas lol

[thick oasis]

literally "showdebug"
used it yesterday

[sly idol]

Nothing happens is it UETools debug?

[cobalt roost]

So do you guys want stalker 2 to become online?

[sly idol]

Command not recognized

Ohhh tf remove the X that’s weird asf

[jolly hatch]

||lore question: in the wishful thinking mission where you see the monolith at sircaa, is it just a hologram shown by the machine or is the monolith an actual shiny rock?||

[dreamy pecan]

https://tenor.com/view/monkeys-2001aspaceodyssey-stanleykubrick-gif-8729999

[thick oasis]

bruh, spoilers! ||looks like a hologram out of a small shiny rock||

[sly idol]

No cus then I can’t cheat when I’ve smashed the game. 😂

[dreamy pecan]

probably should've made that a bit more vague lol or blurred it

[elfin pilot]

LOL I JUST PULLED THE CLEANEST SHOT CHAIN EVER HOLY HELL

[cobalt roost]

I think gamma and stalker 2 are making a cospiracy towards me, after updating gammd stalker 2 keeps crashing, when it never crashed before xD

[elfin pilot]

I shot 3 apples, released the Loners, and 5 more shots for 5 headshots ez

[sly idol]

I just drop a nade during that mission they all died

[elfin pilot]

nah i am doing a lawful good playthrough rn

imma do chaotic evil when I do Skiff pistol only run

[sly idol]

Game is conflicting there isn’t exactly “good choices” only slightly worse at the time but then that choice makes you make an every worse choice later

[dreamy pecan]

||in case you didn't know "/spoiler" will put a spoiler censor on your text||

[sly idol]

As far as I’m concerned everyone is bad in varying levels minus richter my guy just wanna travel

[elfin pilot]

I mean I am doing the choice that doesn't kill unnecessary people unless provoked kinda thing

[thick oasis]

i prefer ||

[dreamy pecan]

honestly didn't know that

[sly idol]

Lowkey I wanted to save a certain NPC tied to the main quest but you don’t get a choice in that towards mid way. He was just a misunderstood zealot

[elfin pilot]

once I do Skiff pistol only, everyone is gonna die

[sly idol]

They gotta patch skiff pistol thing it’s not necessary lmao. Like if there was an achieve for it sure

[elfin pilot]

hope not for now shit is too fun to use

[sly idol]

But that being said if it had special properties would be cool

UDP is just better imo

[elfin pilot]

ngl yeh I wish all the unique weapon had some special properties instead of just skin

[sly idol]

There’s only 1 weapon in the game as far as I can tell that has special properties the Clusterf*** thing is the only weapon with increase damage, accuracy everything characteristics that can’t be replicated by upgrades

As far as I’m aware outside of special ed items

[elfin pilot]

kinda hate how you can't remove SVD, R700 scope

[mossy jasper]

||Being forced to betray the ward even on their path ||

[elfin pilot]

ice

[thick oasis]

rok

[dreamy pecan]

[elfin pilot]

why does this guy look like Gadriel

maybe with lesser of a prominent jaw line but eh

[thick oasis]

the exact moment thousands of gamers lost their anal virginity

[sly idol]

On the flip side there is a special r700 with a red dot so there is that

[thick oasis]

are you asking why a dude looks asian?

[mossy jasper]

All these missions and i still feel like no faction actually appreciates my simping

[thick oasis]

i feel like the ward would, ||korshunov doesn't shoot skeefa on the spot even after i blew him off repeatedly and killed hundreds of his men||

[frigid rain]

I really wish I had not shown that damn pda to ward... I would have liked to do that mission to get into monolith base instead of flashing that stupid badge

[sly idol]

||best rewards is to show everyone the pda||

[frigid rain]

I found squint and two others on wild island after talking to scar and exploring the nearby area. I helped squint escape in his quest but somehow he ends up a zombie?

[thick oasis]

he wasn't the brightest dude

[golden hazel]

You mean that merc from GAMMA?

[mossy jasper]

Korshunov is goofy in-canon he appreciates and helps you, the ward faction? Hell nah!

[frigid rain]

Thanks for that but so far all I got was a completely zeroed AK from ward

[elfin pilot]

no I just thought he looks like Gadriel from Space Marine

maybe due to the scar on his eyes that reminded me

[sly idol]

It’s the best outcomes doesn’t entirely impact ending but it gives you better quest prompts moving forward with less info searching

[thick oasis]

i like how somebody put all the SM2 characters through the mewing filter and gadriel didn't change one bit

[frigid rain]

I've been taking a break from the game for a while, I might find a mod that reduces armor and weapon degredation or at least stops it from happening from external sources other than gunfire or explosions if such a mod exists yet

nothing worse than acid or lava anomalies burning up my stuff constantly

[elfin pilot]

WHAT THE HECK THERE'S A DEER

[thick oasis]

run naked

[proven hollow]

spsa 14 or m860 ?

both have their pros but i like the fact that m860 has a mag reload system unlike the spsa

[thick oasis]

maklane's BZ does that, it's somewhat modular so you can get only the durability one i think
the only time i really wrecked my gear was when i spent 20 medkits in some burner anomalies for a bugged art

[thick oasis]

saiga

[elfin pilot]

I did that for a bit since the game doesn't allow me to fix gear

[frigid rain]

Not every armor has all slots unlocked for anomalies and even then only one with lead lined container

[proven hollow]

Awesome.

[thick oasis]

anytime bby

[sly idol]

||Just do XApplyEffectToPlayer Duty_4_E1_UpDurabilityArmorEffect
And or DurabilityUp30Effect
and or DurabilityPerShotPos20Effect
And or DurabilityPos20Effect
There’s other commands for armor specific called “wearing” but you can legit kind of spam any of those effects they should all stack together or individually the Pos20 I believe means 20% increase etc||

No need to mod weight either there’s a command for that aswell. I’ve had zero issues carrying 2-8 weapons 2-6 sets of armor with 600-800 rounds per ammo type being 140kg is max that is

[proven hollow]

should i invest in upgrading my current armor or should I wait until i come across better gear

[frigid rain]

I got that fling guy's trainer for now but I kinda hate using it

[sly idol]

I wouldn’t use trainers. XApplyEffect is permanent throughout every save upon restarting

[proven hollow]

I'm currently ||in zaton in the sultansk doing the mission for the ward scientist guy in icarus|| point of the game

[thick oasis]

the question is how you don't have a seva already

[sly idol]

So no need for extra processing

[proven hollow]

dawg this is the second time you gave a useless response

not everyone progresses the same rate, just answer the question i asked or dont say nun at all

[vagrant burrow]

Seva-i is op af

Makes a joke out of psi

[frigid rain]

I had to kill some ward to free that spark guy for the detention center mission. I found two sets of their armor on some of the corpses so I stashed them and came back later for them. Ward armor is nice but it weighs too much.

[thick oasis]

i am very smart you can get a seva-d right after little zone but if you want to do it organically you can upgrade psz5-v or whatever it is, it's solid

[proven hollow]

so no, it's not worth upgrading my current kit

[frigid rain]

Following the main story when do we get helmets? I haven't found any yet but I've encountered npcs dead and alive wearing them

[thick oasis]

all the cool kit is in good stashes or advanced traders, main story itself doesn't give you shit

[frigid rain]

Well yeah but the regions that the story requires you to travel to must have them at some point right?

[proven hollow]

you'll have to go out of your way regardless

[thick oasis]

i mean most of the zone is open after the sensor quest in little zone, only the exosuits are barred by main story
but yes the story will first send you towards swamps when the good shit is in the west

[proven hollow]

that's how the game encourages exploration and allat, you gotta obtain it by non-linear means

[frigid rain]

Yeah I don't want to go from tourist suit to badass exo I want to get there organically I suppose. I've been avoiding those youtube videos about how to get stuff early game

I only use map genie so far and only for the region I'm in at the time

[rugged geyser]

I just play it like old stalker games, go around and find random stuff and eventually you get to the end of the game at some point lmao

[frigid rain]

Yeah... but I've got almost 400 mods installed for fallout 4 and if it were not for the main story being in the way I would have stalker 2 over a year ago. Fallout 4 with mods brain is hard to work around. I expect seamless transition from 1st to 3rd person in stalker 2 or any other game lol but nope. I have a mod that allows my character and any npc to take a shit a shower and a pee or a bath too and drink from sinks. Stalker 2 just has odd looking beds in strange places.

I can wipe debris and blood off my character gas mask with a hotkey press and change filters too. I hope these kinds of immersions things come to stalker 2 soon but I can understand that would take some time to master.

[golden hazel]

My day be so fine, then boom Memory Leak

[dreamy pecan]

it sucks, but thankfully quitting doesn't require shader compile anymore lol

[golden hazel]

[frigid rain]

that warmup 0 command for the ini file works fine for avoiding shader cache after launching the game.

[sly idol]

Anyone know if it’s possible to spawn a guide npc much like traders I’m way beyond fixing zaly but I can atleast make it a fast travel point 😭

[abstract lagoon]

Does anyone sell expansive rounds, or can I only loot them?

[graceful temple]

did the patch fix it for you? Ive been holding off on grabbing the weird bolt but id like it now. (Im working on the last ending and think itd help in a certain spot late game)

[thick oasis]

the better question would be why expansive rounds even exist when everything is armored to the tits

[final brook]

can you not go near the external wall without getting one shot sniped? theres a gun just in the range i want lol

[abstract lagoon]

I use mods

[golden hazel]

To blow up the blind dogs

[thick oasis]

such animal cruelty is unacceptable 😔

i just plink them with USP because 50% of their silhouette is the head

[final brook]

the as val better than the vss? statistically and mag wise it seems to be providing i add a scope but its cheaper?

[clever sigil]

Gotta go the Duty way and use the granade launcher against all mutants

[elfin pilot]

i am so bothered by voice actor pronounced the word "psi" as "see" instead of "sy"

[thick oasis]

how do you say psychoactive?

[elfin pilot]

sy-koh ak-teev

[wary orbit]

Gesundheit

[elfin pilot]

I guess downloading the fast travel everywhere mod is a must have for STALKER 2

Paranoid man's home

good to know he stll has shotguns rigged to his door

[gritty hollow]

OKAY, quick rundown of my current save
Like a 1D 18Hrs in
I have the best exoskeleton in the game from the ||Box Exploit in Yaniv||
I have a Hypercube making me self coagulate
A healthy arsenal
Entirely TOO MANY Bandages, bottles of vodka, and Basic medkits
I have the Weird Ball
I fuck EVERYONE but STALKERS and most Loners over to survive, I feel like Skif would have a bit of a chip on his shoulder considering. (FUCK WARD) Noontide has me on the fence, ||hoping i can save Strider somehow||

[thick oasis]

hypercube is an absolute must have

||also strider is hardlocked to misery||

[elfin pilot]

you screwed people to survive

I screwed people over for fun, we are not the same

[clever sigil]

Do it for fun and money

[golden hazel]

DO IT FOR THE SHINING ZONE

[elfin pilot]

gotta say, Faust has a good taste for a pistol

[golden hazel]

Hes blind, but he can see what it takes to have a drippy gun

[elfin pilot]

[clever sigil]

Never.

Wish we could put at bullet trough his head first time we meet

[golden hazel]

Might be dlc ngl

[elfin pilot]

Skeefa, the Bloodsucker with a nice bust Skeefa, you should hand to hand combat with it in your room, Skeefa

[golden hazel]

They have so many angles they can tackle the story dlc

[clever sigil]

What would be nice is a dlc where you play as Sasha and create the Corps.

[elfin pilot]

man I cant believe Swamp is both ass in GAMMA and in here

[clever sigil]

Swamps are more painfull to navigate trough since we have no minimap

[elfin pilot]

and I swear some pieces of area looks like land but once you tried to take it, Skeefa walks at -10km/h

[thick oasis]

good taste would be a suppressed Mk23

[elfin pilot]

nah man

[thick oasis]

yeah dude

[elfin pilot]

USP Match, beautiful pistol

[thick oasis]

THICC

||yes it's basically a beefed up USP, doing another model is hard||

[elfin pilot]

For a religious man, he sure has faith in gun jesus alongside a literal rock

[weary cradle]

me having to listen to Dirge for the Planet in Sid's bunker 🤪

[thick oasis]

the holy tools of keeping stalkers off the monolith's lawn

[elfin pilot]

I wondered if its possible to make a mod that adds new guns now or that has to wait

[thick oasis]

nobody's doing that shit without an SDK as long as there's hope for it's release

[golden hazel]

Imagine they lock the SDK behind DLC

[weary cradle]

the E in Swamps is for Enjoyable

[weary cradle]

somebody once told me

[golden hazel]

And the dogs start coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming

[woven halo]

Truly cant wait to see the graphic improvements modders will do to this game over the next few years+

[golden hazel]

Yeah like removing lumen

[woven halo]

is that the dark to light/light to dark?

[golden hazel]

Pretty sure you're talking about eye adaptation

[woven halo]

...whats lumen lol

[golden hazel]

Lumen is the ue5 ray tracing system

[woven halo]

nvm just looked it up

thank ya!

[golden hazel]

It's straight garbo

He's just floating there, menacingly

[deft vale]

Is it wise to start a new game after the recent updates?

[tacit glacier]

He ascended

[golden hazel]

I talked to solder and he just spawned dead in the next room what the FUCK is the code in this game smoking

[lunar gyro]

smoking on that undefined behaviour pack

[rose venture]

Hol up, I was supposed to be sleeping regularly this whole time?

Poor skif, going a month without sleep

[chrome wind]

man i’m ngl playing S2 after playing dayz feels like going from trying to survive in a max security prison to a stroll through my local park

[rose venture]

I got my difficulty tuned pretty good I feel like

A single shot from an npc will take me out if I don’t have full health

[chrome wind]

are u using difficulty mods? i’m on veteran and human fights still feel p easy

mutant fights still suck tho…

[tall meadow]

All is right with the zone

[rose venture]

Yeye, Groks rebalance, along with Fubar, Realistic Weapon Damage, NPC combat overhaul, and that’s either all of em or I am forgetting one thing

Mutant fights are fun for me rn, a bloodsucker can one or two tap me but they also only take about 5-10 shots from an AR to kill

I’m on veteran btw

[chrome wind]

is npc combat overhaul the one that makes them stop aimbotting from 50+ meters away? cuz that’s kinda annoying ngl

[rose venture]

Any lower and this would be ridiculous easy

[rose venture]

That one and Groks rebalance help that out

But I think either Grok’s or both mods completely prevent NPCs from throwing grenades. Which for me is fine because I got tired of getting 10 grenades lobbed at me at the start of every fight when the game first came out

[sour narwhal]

welp, just fought one of these things for the first time ever, that was fucking scary

[pulsar verge]

how do you get rid of mouse delay?

[sour narwhal]

All of these wardens for one (1) single hog lmao

[sour narwhal]

use an optimizer... if you go on nexusmods and sort mods by the most popular then one of the best ones to use is listed at the top

[pulsar verge]

can i mod running it through xbox pc?

[sour narwhal]

I'm not sure what that is.... like you're using gamepass?

[pulsar verge]

ya

[sour narwhal]

Yeah there are instructions for how you access the game files directory on gamepass

[pulsar verge]

ill youtube it

[sour narwhal]

Game Pass: C:/XboxGames/S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl\Stalker2\Content\Paks\mods

There's also one that involves the "WinGDK" folder I believe?

Right click on Stalker 2, then click Manage.
Click on the Files tab.
Click the Browse button.``` I also found this

[pulsar verge]

hell ya tyhank you

[sour narwhal]

Mhm <3 There's a more definitive answer(s) i think on the mod pages and i remember seeing them.,... probably on the optimizer mod page - here's the one i use https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7

I quite like this one, I use the base one on my deskltop and i use the boost version on my laptop

@pulsar verge From the head honcho himself 😇

[pseudo quarry]

Is there any "sleep everywhere" mode for 3.5.3?

[tacit glacier]

We don't even have a mod that lets us sleep for a set amount of time yet, lol

[sour narwhal]

I always ask myself why GSC doesnt code vehicles in but then I remember the fun that was ShoC and the vehicle you could console in. And how people made mods that cloned that script for other vehicles that you could drive.... and I remember driving a jeep around the zone and how insanely janky it was to get it across a load-point between maps, or the absolute meme that would happen if you ever drove the vehicle into a whirligig or virtually any other gravitational anomaly lol

[sour narwhal]

I remember shoc mods for this u would go to sleep, wake up and your vision would spin 5000 times around before settling lol

[true yew]

What the fuck, I died to a chimera whie going to clear sky

It backshotted me repeatedly, no chance to react

[tacit mortar]

Fren?

Why can't I pet?

[uncut prairie]

I really enjoy Fallout:Ukraine is gud gaem

[sour narwhal]

I really don't get the way the radiation decrease/radiation increase mechanic works in this game. I'm using a mod to show me the stats by-the-numbers on everything....

So... on my belt, Hypercube(-0.5rad), Crown (-0.2rad), Urchin (+0.2radprot), and jellyfish(-0.0? Rad) keeps me, at , when factored into radprot with my wolfhound armor, a net 0 - my rads do not ambiently increase.

But then I replace Hypercube with magic cube (-0.5), Crown (-0.2), Urchin (+0.2radprot) and another Urchin (+0.2 radprot) and somehow my rads are ambiently increasing....

So that's -0.7 rad (which means its adding to your radiation level) and +0.4 radprot, so the net gain is -0.3 rads, which against my armor somehow isn't enough to balance out.... but when i'm using a jellyfish instead of an urchin which just straight up listed as 0.0 rads - not rad protection but actual rads, the red stat, I'm somehow gaining ambient radiation

Hypercube/Crown/Urchin/Jelly should be about -0.5rads plus whatever Jellyfish is. Maybe it's a number too small to be represented by the integer "-0.0" (this is according to the stat number readout)

MagicCube/Crown/Urchin/Urchin should theoretically be LESS rads (-0.3) and yet it increases quicker

I can't tell if something is mislabelled, the math is wrong, or if there's genuinely just some underlying esoteric negative interaction between specific artifacts lol

LMFAO you gotta be fucking kidding me man. I switched the position of the artifacts, I put magic cube in the first slot instead of the third and now my rads are decreasing.

So APPARENTLY this means that individual artifact slots have different radiation protection levels

Maybe this is what the green lights under the first two slots means? Maybe it means that it's like... Those two are the ones that are built into the suit as opposed to added on by suit upgrases so therefore they have better/actual protection against their rads?

[subtle sun]

man

i really want more weapons in game. I'd love an ak12

[molten osprey]

Green means lead Container, no radiation from those slots at all

[rancid inlet]

First A life fixes coming in next patch soon according to GSC on main discord

[subtle sun]

cool

[rancid inlet]

Highest priority 👌

[subtle sun]

it's probably gonna explode the game perfomance until it gets optimized

[true yew]

Bro might've read too deep into it, lol

[rancid inlet]

We will see they will probably keep it tame, mods will expand to crazy levels

[true yew]

What were the features of A-life again? I need to refresh my memory

[sour narwhal]

Ohhh. Maybe I should've taken the time to actually read what it says on the armor upgrade screens

[subtle sun]

many. its easier to search it up on google lol

[sour narwhal]

That's hard to quantify... it exists in-game but it's tweaked in such a way where it doesn't use 100% of it's functionality because they're having issues with making it so that it isn't completely mangling CPU processing times while it simulates. So basically NPCs around you are simulating, and in the background in other places, NPCs are simulating, this means combat, faction relations, squad movements, movements of squads between points of Interest, and "lairs" which are basically like mini-bases. Like a campfire is a POI but a random factory in the woods is a lair.

[subtle sun]

i dont read the upgrade things too. you can imagine i was pretty surprised when my hypercube didnt do any radiation to me on the green slot

[mental verge]

It worked!

[molten osprey]

npcs are calculated persistent. meaning you could meet a group of loners at the start, and you could meet them at the red forest later, and their whole way between those two points would have been more or less simulated. iirc in first alphas of the original games, npcs could do quests and do major main quests for example and break the game by that

[rancid inlet]

Best explanation is dynamic ai.

[proud ruin]

Far Cry: Ukraine goes hard fr fr

[molten osprey]

They also fought pretty smart for ais from 2007, its not like they were trained supersoldiers, but they definitely knew how to pressure you. at least it felt like that. clear sky ai just had mortar teams tho

[rancid inlet]

Kind of like radiant ai in elder scrolls

[mental verge]

But for safety i recommend you to stay away from that bolt

[rancid inlet]

Now it's nothing to do with ai in fighting terms that's the normal ai system which I'm sure will improve. Like no aim bot etc etx

[true yew]

Was porbably looking for this, thanks.

[sour narwhal]

Right now the a-life system is sort of built into the actual pakchunks that compose the gamedata of stalker 2 but they are controlled by way of the config files that are commonly tweaked by modders... So basically in the state that it's in, it can cause CPU lagging because by-the-NPC simulating of this stuff in the form of squads can take a lot of processing power.

So like in the original stalker games, for example in my game, you have wolf at cordon. Eventually as time goes on, the military decides to move from the checkpoint on the cordon, and starts shooting people, running them out of town. This is happening in the background while I'm somewhere in Garbage/Rostok. Eventually I make my way to military bases, and I find wolf migrating around with a group of his stalkers and they migrated on their own out of cordon

[molten osprey]

To be honest, a lot of that feeling from the old games could just have been faked. and i also dont experience the zone as empty as others do. it makes sense that the first few areas are pretty quiet, the zone is way larger and im pretty sure the population didnt grow at that rate. meaning way more space for stalkers to scatter. at the point where i am now the world feels pretty alive without a life already

[true yew]

I knew that. I was looking for specific examples on its function. The knowledge I have on it is mostly from CS cuz you can view npc actions in real time.

[rancid inlet]

Yeah that's the offline part. But alife also is the stuff player sees like ai attacking and moving around player

[rancid inlet]

Well that is faction war system that's ontop of a life we won't have faction wars like that

[sour narwhal]

What GSC basically needs to do is add more of this type of functionality into the actual scripts that are cooked into the main pakchunks for the actual game files. Then they'll add tweakable values into configs that make it easier for modders to write their own, new configuration values for so they can mod it properly, and I think that this is generally what they mean by a lot of native support for mods.

And yeah A-life - physically next to the player you would see a lot of things like flanking maneuvers, you would see AI sneaking, you'd be able to watch them crouch-walk sneak around the edges of a building to get the drop on you or an enemy. In the original stalker games, it was uncannily lifelike in terms of their tactics

[rancid inlet]

Like they will fight and such but won't be a whole system that shows it

[mental verge]

Npcs doing main quests sounds cool

[sour narwhal]

in Clear Sky eventually they experimented with faction war on a bigger picture as simulated by a-life, which I thought was really neat. Sometimes the game would play itself lmao. YOu would get tasked to dispatch an enemy squad and take their position and the NPC's would.... just do it for you

[molten osprey]

best example is how i found a corpse after a long street battle in pripjat, and it belonged to a rookie i fought in cordon with. maybe the game just used the generic name again, but the effect was there yk

[rancid inlet]

Alife once mod tools come out will destroy old one imo

[molten osprey]

they experimented with mortar teams. period.

[subtle sun]

alife originally was supposed to be so much more tho. NPCs hunting for artefacts for example. even helicopters were supposed to get some ai stuff.

[rancid inlet]

There is alot they will be able to do

Oblivion lost remake 3.0 had best a life system

[sour narwhal]

Bro if an NPC snatches my rares or legendaries out from under my nose at a nearby anomaly field I'm going to be so hurt

[molten osprey]

yeah i mentioned that, there was a video of an alpha where npcs did the brain scorcher and strelok wasnt able to do it anymore

[rancid inlet]

They hunted for artifact had inventory and sold stuff etc

Ok back to sleep

A life coming boys time to stay on your toes

[true yew]

That's neat. Not sure if I experienced that. But at the same time, I didn't know before whether what was happening was A-life or scripted. I was pretty late to the party, so yeah

[sour narwhal]

Even to this day if you go back and play the original trilogy you will be genuinely taken aback by the "stuff" that the NPCs can do. Like you wouldn't expect them to be able to interact with the world at that level... but they can, and they do, and it's always amazing to see firsthand

[true yew]

If this happened, we wouldn't get scar we know rn. No more "SKEEFE"

[molten osprey]

i only started playing them in 2022 after i saw the first few s2 trailers and man did i fall in love. the age does nothing on the experience

[rancid inlet]

That's the great thing about it it's not scripted per say makes game alot better feeling

Never safe is the feeling I get

Always have to be aware

[sour narwhal]

yeah literally. And sometimes things would happen to you that genuinely made you wonder "wtf did I do?" like just hanging out in a normally safe area (but a place where you can have your gun out.) And while you're sitting there. Randomly an NPC would go into alert mode and jog up to you and shoot you in the face or something ridiculous lol

[rancid inlet]

Joys of cheeki breeki

[true yew]

It's good enough that I get reoccurring thoughts about A-life when I play on other games

[sour narwhal]

Mutants getting into faction bases. Waves of mutants attacking security details outside of OG rostok. Dog swarms killing the security details and new stalkers taking their place, etc.

[rancid inlet]

Ai is something that is crap in all games. But once it's good we will be gone so it's a issue we won't see fixed

[subtle sun]

I'd like something like that to return, but with side missions instead of main missions

[true yew]

And bandits attacking everyone they see. Even if the mf has an exo

[sour narwhal]

Its like when Cyberpunk and CDPR gassed up that stuff "oh the NPCs all have their daily schedules and literally live their own lives!" and it just doesn't matter they barely do anything. meanwhile GSC was doing PRECISELY that on X-ray engine original and actually seriously, genuinely doing it the right way

[molten osprey]

in the old games the single groups could have targets, they searched for artifacts or hunted mutants. since traders give such generic quests in s2, it could be possible

[sour narwhal]

Sometimes the chaos of original a-life would be enough to genuinely mess up your quest progress too, like NPCs would get migrated away or killed somehow. If I remember correctly I think there was a system for new NPCs to take their place if they mattered enough. I can't remember if I'm mandela-effecting this or not, but I think like if wolf in cordon died somehow, then a new stalker would take his palce or something

[safe flame]

I fell like I'm going insane where do anti-rad artifacts spawn

[true yew]

Would be nice to see in the future some missions where you can fail them because another stalker did it before you could

[sour narwhal]

urchins spawn in acid anomalies, so do mica and slug

[true yew]

||A new stalker did replace wolf. But that was a scripted event where he left and mercs tried to capture the village||

[molten osprey]

so far i havent used a single artifact in s2, when i find one im just happy i have some money for repairments

[safe flame]

Gusess I just have shit luck lmao im like 50 hours in and have only gottent that guaranteed one from them cave with the controler in cordon

[sour narwhal]

So if you want the best chance at getting rad protection arti's then start poking around acid anomalies pinging on your detectors.

Btw the way I hunt artifacts: I run the Gilka as I walk around because it has such a high detection range but inaccurate. Once it starts pinging, I follow it until I can get the number down to 35-30. Once it's at like 30, I switch it out for a bear. Being at detecting range 30 on the gilka means that on the bear you'll be at one single bar and can follow it directly

[true yew]

"I can't believe this stalker sold me a compass!" - Sid

[alpine swan]

hey guys, is there any ram-2 available before yanov?

[molten osprey]

i didnt use artifacts in the originals too. idk somehow it doesnt tingle my brain like giving my seva 20% more protection

[alpine swan]

I have started 2nd slot from scratch and need some good shotgun after Zalessiya

[true yew]

Have you tried going into any anomaly nests?

[sour narwhal]

Gilka x Bear detector at the same time makes getting artifacts so fkn simple.

Also yeah in original trilogy I literally NEVER used artifacts because I just dont think my brain was like... "oh no rads!!! i dont wanna deal with this!" But now I am like, going absolutely hard as hell on arti hunts

[sour narwhal]

Ah okay, that's what I remember then lmao

[true yew]

This could be complimented with the save scumming method. Be at least 150 m away from the area, save, then go inside area hoping for a good arti

[safe flame]

Nests?

[mental verge]

The first chemical anomaly would be the old mill, the second is the garbage vehicle graveyard, another one is top left corner of garbage

[true yew]

Anomaly concentrated areas

[sour narwhal]

There are areas of the zone where like, sometimes the ground is twisted up, sometimes it just looks weird. Usually these are areas somewhere pushed off the sides of the road... You can tell because it just looks weird, and also there's a TON of anomalies inside of it, that's where they spawn

[true yew]

The PDA shows, indirectly

Man, I wish Chornobyl was real so I could go find the heart

[sour narwhal]

Things that look liek this on your map, among other types of things, this is called a claw and it's just a big collection of gravity anomalies like gravi's and whirligigs and artifacts spawn inside of stuff like this

[safe flame]

Yeah been in them, just hit Rostok, every time I've been past a chemical anomaly I've wipped out my detector but no luck

[sour narwhal]

Like this, this looks weird and unnatural to be out in the middle of nowhere, if you go there and theres a crapton of anomalies, then there's bound to be artifacts

[mental verge]

If you see more than four anomalies of the same type, take out your detector

[sour narwhal]

What kind of detector do you have? If it's echo you gotta be close as hell already. I recommend the giolka, the one from the trailers with the antennas sticking out of the side of it

[true yew]

Make sure you're actually inside the area. If still nothing, then it's most likely that it has no arti

[safe flame]

Hilka

[tacit glacier]

[sour narwhal]

Yeah, that one will pick them up from reallllllllllly far away

[molten osprey]

did i just miss 1.04 or huh

[pastel crag]

So I just found out the reason why Scar survives emissions, pretty sick plot twist.

I'm blown away, the story is crazy in this one

[tacit glacier]

Guy mistyped I think

[wicked flax]

I think so

[molten osprey]

ah okay nah was just wondering

[true yew]

1.04 is out??

[tacit glacier]

Point is
A-Life in 1.04

[safe flame]

If it has detected an arti its a non anti rad one lmao

[wicked flax]

Yeah but he's gone completely wacko since the first games so there is a clear side effect

[safe flame]

again probably just bad luck on my end

[mental verge]

Tbh I didn’t see much difference between hilka and bear. On the other hand when I had bear I knew where the anomaly field was

[sharp pendant]

bruh, Sulfur has this sight and Stalker 2 doesnt

[fathom monolith]

big sadge deat hcave artifact still inside the ground even after 10 hours of gameplay

[mental verge]

Does bear have extended range in comparison with echo?

[sour narwhal]

Hilka doesn't have a radar to let you follow down to exaftly where the artifact is... Hilka has an insane range, Bear has less range but that's why I use them both at the same time.

Bear has better range than echo I believe yeah

[molten osprey]

Where did you get this lowspec mod?

[sharp pendant]

It's Sulfur

[sour narwhal]

lmaooo Totally Accurate Zone Simulator

[true yew]

This is why you farm. There's tutorials online

[sour narwhal]

Yeah there's an entire meta to artifact farming

[sharp pendant]

You guys gotta see the guns in it, you'd love/hate it, I'll post a link in offtopic

[true yew]

How does the Hilka exactly work? it just tells you that there's an arti?

[warped monolith]

what's this unturned in my stalker 2 channel

[mental verge]

It works just like echo but with range meter

[sharp pendant]

do we have an Offtopic?

[pastel crag]

I know who you really are now, "doctor"🎭

[warped monolith]

Hilka has HUGE range to detect artifacts. What people usually do is use the hilka until they spot something, then when they get nearer, pull out a more accurate detector like Bear or Veles

[molten osprey]

#╟❓general-offtopic

[sour narwhal]

hilka detects from really far away and it starts at 100 being the furthest away and will drop down to 0 on the display the closer you get

[mental verge]

And it has decent beep sound

[sour narwhal]

ya this is how i do it. use hilka till i get to 30, then I swap it out for the bear

[true yew]

oooh. Though, 100 m? That's within the 150 m of arti gen

[sour narwhal]

I don't think its 100 meters I think its some... arbitrary unit of measurement

[true yew]

Could be ft

Wait, no. Nvm

Might need someone to do distance calculations on that

Only need simple maths to do it

[alpine swan]

where?

[fervent zenith]

i don't think i can be shaved from ghosting and wierd grapical problems as an amd user

No matter what i try the game stills looks wonky

[warped monolith]

shrimple meths

[wicked flax]

If not defo in pripyat

[warped monolith]

[fervent zenith]

see what i mean xD

[warped monolith]

yeah happens on mine as well

[fervent zenith]

am playing on the easy difficulty coze i can't aim well with those grapical gliches and ghosting

but i can play gamma on nearly the same frame rate and feels more repsonsive

[next sluice]

you can pet them with a bullet going a bit faster than you might like

[fervent zenith]

dont get me started on the TREES

[tacit mortar]

I refuse to shoot the only friendly dog I've seen in the entire game

[next sluice]

woah woah woah i never said shoot the dog

[alpine swan]

I have only recently unlocked Garbage

[tacit mortar]

Now do a recording of you scrolling through your graphics settings

[true yew]

Did you optimized your settings?

[wicked flax]

Try malachite

[next sluice]

i thought its yaniv

not too far to run to once youre at garbage and youre free to roam the map at that point

[tacit mortar]

Yaniv, or the hunters in the Red Forest. I can't remember which. They'll sell it.

[wicked flax]

Hunters defo sell it too but I think yaniv does as well

[alpine swan]

Doors locked until quest from their doctor

[fervent zenith]

optimize?

i kinda need frame gen xD

[tacit mortar]

There's a side objective by garbage to the northwest, called the maze. You'll be able to get some keycards for early entry into malachite there.

[wicked flax]

You can get an early pass with a side mission or get one from killing one of theirs

[next sluice]

oh apparently there is a free ram2 near rostock

[alpine swan]

Is it stash?

[next sluice]

dead body

[wicked flax]

Bound to encounter it at some point anyway

[tacit mortar]

Everything set to low

HM WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE SHIT

[next sluice]

and yes at some point enemies also have one

[tacit mortar]

What's your PC man? Why is everything down to bottom of the barrel?

[fervent zenith]

i have gamma set to low with a shader

[alpine swan]

I have Kharod, rhino and integral there. Sadly no ram2

[true yew]

I'm assuming you meet the specs. Yes?

[fervent zenith]

looks better then that XD at all times XD

[tacit mortar]

Okay but what is your PC parts, what are you running this on?

I know you said AMD, but what gen?

[next sluice]

hm wonder if its partly random

[sour narwhal]

The detectors measure a maximum distance from an artifact - this is then represented as a "sphere" around the artifact. Say a detect can detect from 100 units away... maybe that is, like, 75 meters or something. But the game will calculate a percentage. "Player is 100% of maxdist away.... Player is 85% of maxdist away..." This is returned as "100" or "85" on the hilka's display

[alpine swan]

Yes it's random

[next sluice]

guess yaniv it is then for guaranteed ram

[true yew]

Maybe A-life, but the loot gen is kinda random

[sour narwhal]

Ultimately what the numbers mean is percentage of distance between maximum detectable range and the artifact itself, it's calculated "reveal" spot

[alpine swan]

I can get to yanov early game?

[next sluice]

yes

i walked there when i got to garbage for getting the diamond exo

[fervent zenith]

that is not told to me by the adrenalin edition

[tacit mortar]

...do you not know how to check your own pc parts? So you don't even know what your machine is able to run?

[true yew]

Interesting feature

[fervent zenith]

i mean i use cpu-z but even it dosent seem to detect it

[fervent zenith]

here

[tacit mortar]

Dude wtf are you even talking about. I'm asking about what your PARTS inside your MACHINE are. Just go to device manager and look at the individual part names.

[true yew]

Can you try typing system information on the search bar and open it

[alpine swan]

stalker 2 on veteran is insane. I've got a quest for 400 coupons and met 12 dogs... Equipment, ammo and meds etc cost all together at lest 4000+

[next sluice]

the better question is what cpu you have cause that sounds like an APU integarted GPU

[alpine swan]

I'm glad my 1st playthrough I did it on middle difficulty

[tacit mortar]

This is completely unnecessary to identify your parts. Device manager can tell you what your CPU, GPU, hell it even tells you what your shit you got plugged in is

[wary orbit]

Weekend Motherlovers! You have my full attention and nothing you can do against it!

[fervent zenith]

its an intigraded but i run other games of this year just fine but anything Tuched by ue5 looks shit

[tacit mortar]

lol

That's not gonna run anything new worth a crap tbh

[tacit mortar]

Do you have any idea what your GPU is, at all?

It's under display adapters in device manager

[next sluice]

they only have the integrated one

otherwise cpu-z would have the dropdown enabled to select the gpu

[true yew]

I have to tell you that any integrated graphics card will not suffice for any settings higher than low.

[tacit mortar]

Ye you're right.

Dude is trying to play Stalker 2 on a laptop probably.

[wary orbit]

Integrated GPUs are the future. But for now they are not made for gaming anything past games that were made in 2000

[next sluice]

thats fine imo but there will be caviats with graphics quality

[tacit mortar]

Yeah just look at his earlier vids, he has everything set to absolutely lowest, with artifcating and ghost trails on tons of stuff.

[true yew]

Nah, you can play S2 on laptop. Just give it the proper parts

[next sluice]

people have been saying that for years and nothing changed really. i dont think theyll replace dedicated gpus in our lifetime

[tacit mortar]

Not his, just look up in the videos earlier. He doesn't seem to be very tech savy either, so I doubt he'll be one to pop it open and upgrade.

[late kernel]

Integrated Graphics on STALKER 2? Yeah good luck buddy lol

[wary orbit]

I'm gonna life to be 120yo

[next sluice]

not like you can upgrade most laptops these days. replacable gpus are a thing of the past and cpus are also not socketed anymore but BGA soldered

[true yew]

They have to make it both integrated and dedicated

[wary orbit]

if they can't fix it we'll always have Pong

[next sluice]

id hope gpus change though so that AI/RT becomes an accelerator card and not integrated into the gpu. would lower the price for most people and the ones who also want RT or just want AI can get those accelerators anyway

[fervent zenith]

i know. just pain coze its UE 5 and no matter what i do feels wrong to look at

[tacit mortar]

Lumens and Nanites are so great! I love offloading all the engine's costs to the consumer!

[next sluice]

my main issue with stalker is actually the need to run what they call upscaling(?) so i cant turn of TAA/TSR/DLSS/FSR/XeSS

idk why the artifacting goes crazy when its off but its sad

[tacit mortar]

DLSS is the only bearable one for me and it still irritates me.

[tacit mortar]

UE5 was never designed with the intention of having Upscaling turned off.

[next sluice]

but since when is TAA upscaling

[tacit mortar]

Fuck Epic Games. Tired of the stronghold on the market, just for them to flush this hot mess out to the public.

[wary orbit]

DLSS and FSR are the lazy answer to Game development while also being a gimmick to sell cards on. They could just make better cards that don't need DLSS to gain the expected performance, or you know throttle the demands of games, but why would they, the are going hand in hand milking the consumer

[tacit mortar]

TAA is a different form entirely but it's also subject to most of the issues. FUCK TAA.

[next sluice]

the better solution would be less time pressure on game studios so they can actually optimize games and not just pump them out semi playable

seeing CP2077 launch vs now really shows what some extra time could have done

[wary orbit]

no games need to look more photorealistic or at least have more colorful effects each year or the consumer is unhappy because of an apparent plateau in development

[warped monolith]

some 2 years of extra time, right?

[next sluice]

yeah sure those people can just look at demos all day then. i dont need super graphics or such. i want an engaging well realised game

[late kernel]

How could a game look photorealistic when its blurry as a 144p video

[next sluice]

i see you dont need glasses irl

[fervent zenith]

am still conviced stalker 2 would been better off in the XRay engine

[tacit mortar]

"In this Ted talk, I'll explain how somehow TAA is the future while it also makes everything blurry and causes ghosting."

[wary orbit]

easy, you don't have 6k$ to spend on your machine every 1-2 years, well get rich then

[next sluice]

tbf i have seen one article about TAA and it looked phenomenal even when in motion. but idk what they did to get it so nice

[late kernel]

First thing i do in the morning is rub vaseline on my eyes to truly appreciate the beauty of life

[next sluice]

yoooo i do the same

[wary orbit]

The industry looses interest in a product the second they sold it to you unless its a consumable

[true yew]

I think this conversation has left the stalker 2 subject

[wary orbit]

i hope you know vaseline is a waste product of oil drilling

well byproduct really but its sounds harsher when i say waste

[tacit mortar]

See that's the issue. You might be able to actually achieve good TAA in something like an in-house demo.

It's nigh-impossible to keep it from causing blurry, ghosting messes in practice, during live gameplay.

[wary orbit]

@late kernel so what i am really telling you is, your smearing dinojelly on your face

[late kernel]

It's the way to truly appreciate Unreal Engine graphics

[next sluice]

no it was live gameplay and sure it was degraded compared to traditional AA but not as bad as most games ive seen

[next sluice]

turn off upscaling and run around. works in stalker2

[wary orbit]

use DLSS with DLAA

best picture you'e gonna get without getting a nasa computer

[tacit mortar]

Yeah then idk, they may be running it on a different engine than UE5 and got better results, since their engine can optomize it better. I couldn't say for sure, though.

[late kernel]

You mean DLDSR?

[fervent zenith]

am gonna be honest if stalker 2 looked like stalker gamma mida in some of the pics i would been fine with it

[next sluice]

oh yes this was years ago and i believe unity if i recall right

[tacit mortar]

Yep. Now spacial AA and Upscaling is used as Band-Aids for modern game engines and development.

[late kernel]

Using DLSS Quality on 2560x1440 you're playin on like 1708x something resolution, at this rate native 1080p looks better than the other.

[wary orbit]

thats why you either play on 1080p or you take the performance hit and play on DLSS with quality setting set to DLAA which is native resolution

there is a good damn reason i am still running everything on 1080p

[tacit mortar]

Playing in 4k isn't even really playing in 4k anymore

[wary orbit]

But muh 4 k monitor! Yes well how dumb do you feel not being able to use it yet?

[next sluice]

wait does stalker2 handle FSR like FF14 does where FSR set to 100 just renders native?

[tacit mortar]

I believe that's correct

[next sluice]

so i can just not do AA then.... i have to try this when i get off work

[late kernel]

https://tenor.com/view/riddler-paul-dano-new-rockstars-thumbnail-does-he-know-he-doesnt-know-gif-27552850

[next sluice]

ofc it falls back to TAA

maybe ill at least figure out how to change my fov without it resetting everytime i talk to an npc

[warped monolith]

[molten osprey]

faust ost is so good

i think thats the only ost i really remember from stalker, except for live to forget and stuff like that

[ember ether]

im playing too much s2

god dammit why am i hyperfixating on that shit so much

its just like gamma all over again

[warped monolith]

careful with the burnout

[ember ether]

yeah

[clever pawn]

This game fucking sucks and I'm going to uninstall it. It's a mess, and it's BORING. Everything that happens after the institute is half-assed at best. The game is mediocre slop. I'm tired and bored of it. Massive letdown

[ember ether]

its not a masterpiece but the exploration hooked me, specially with the mods

[molten osprey]

Its stalker, thats enough for me

[ember ether]

i wanted a game like this for a while

a new one, i bet they'll get it better just like cyberpunk

so far i can have fun with this mess

160 hours of gameplay

[molten osprey]

No games creates an atmosphere for me like stalker, and no place is as interesting as the zone for me. Bugs are something i expected and find funny, if they get the spawn System right next Patch im completely happy

[ember ether]

ah shit sorry

i really liked it, better than starfield

"but starfield is a completely different game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[clever pawn]

it's a "better Starfield" (and Fallout 4)

[molten osprey]

so far im really intrigued, story is really great and gives everything a fan would want ig

[ember ether]

indeed, cant say the story is boring aah

[molten osprey]

great moments, i also like the characters. expected worse writing under the circumstances they had

[ember ether]

they did a great job on that part, the zone looks beautiful specially the red forest

even if the eneies are tanky as hell, feels ood to kill a very difficult enemy

with shit tons of hp

[molten osprey]

im just using the unique sniper m4, 2 headshots for any exo so far. and doing headshots with a x8 isnt that hard

and im playing on 30 fps locked so

[ember ether]

zombies need like 10 headshots

[ember ether]

damn, with frame generator?

[molten osprey]

xbox series s

[ember ether]

still, you cant use frame generation?

[molten osprey]

only settings i can really adjust are lightning settings. gamma/brightness/contrast, not much more

[ember ether]

yikes

[molten osprey]

xbox series x has a bit more luck afaik

[ember ether]

at least its 30 fps locked, and doesn go lower, right?

[molten osprey]

it never really drops

[ember ether]

nice

[molten osprey]

one particular fight was a mess for the first few seconds

but thats because of something happening in the background so understandable and it rises to 30 quickly after that

[ember ether]

yeah feels like it starts to stutter when the game spawns npcs

[molten osprey]

yeah that too, sometimes you have some small freezes when a lot of scripts get loaded or npcs get spawned, but nothing im not used to from my pc and the og games

[ember ether]

man this game needs a good optimization team to stuy this engine and get to work

if cyberpunk did it they couldd too specially bc they are already fundded with the sells

and try to fit true a-life 2.0 on the game without it crashing or burning our computers

[molten osprey]

i am not looking forward to that patch

[warped monolith]

low bar

[narrow spear]

Happiest eating cold Grilled-Cheese sandwich enjoyer

[timid oyster]

I enjoyed "Lord Of The Rings: Gollum", better than starfield

See?

[narrow spear]

this minecraft texture pack goes hard as hell, shit looks so good

[ember ether]

what other survival open world scavenging shooter game do we have this year

other than stalker and starfield

indiana jones? nice puzzle game, but not really survival

[ember ether]

Stalkercraft

[warped monolith]

stalcraft?

[clever sigil]

how did ya do that?

[narrow spear]

Walked through the burnt forest lmao

[clever sigil]

ah, my perk was memory leak crash

[mental verge]

Glad to see another StalCraft enjoyer

[acoustic ivy]

is there a way to rebind B control to another key?

[bleak token]

Hello 🙂 I can't save at all atm, is there any way to fix this or, force a save?

[next sluice]

why does it look like gmod

[finite needle]

Imagine calling Stalker 2 slop and then liking the meme korean game with hot girl that will kill the woke

I don't get why the bloodsucker is the most common fucking mutant in the game, I've killed more bloodsuckers than fucking dogs at this point

[sweet wolf]

what is best A-Life mod right now? Shay's, Roadside Picnic or A-Life Extended?

[finite needle]

Is there an A-Life mod that isn't just enemies now spawn at 150 meters instead of 80?

[bleak token]

nvm, just carried on the mission and been able to save

[steady swan]

hey does anyone know of any mag mods out yet? or any that let you place more map markers? or any that lets you rotate items in inventory?

[river lintel]

I just learned of the chornobyl relay chat mod. And now I want discord integration on your pda in s2

[warped monolith]

I don't think rotating items in inventory would matter much since there's no actual space restriction

[river lintel]

It isn't slop, but it sure isn't where it could be

[steady swan]

i mean true, but my brain likes when things fit together nicely in my inventory haha

[next sluice]

because they suck

[finite needle]

That's a completely different thing tho.

[warped monolith]

he's not saying it is the same thing

[river lintel]

I was agreeing with you, I think?

[finite needle]

Oh yeah, just pointing out that not being where it could be doesn't make it slop, didn't really want to come out as aggressive or anything

[river lintel]

All I know is the fact that side missions can't auto complete because the target go eaten by a bloodsucker saddens me

[river lintel]

Exactly! Slop this game surely isn't. Just needs thrown in a rock tumbler

https://tenor.com/view/polish-rock-kat-dennings-gif-13359040

[finite needle]

Lemme be real with you, accepting a mutant killing quest, going to sleep and get paid in the morning because an emission happened during the night al the muties got killed isn't exactly masterful design

But I'd rather have that than, well, nothing. Stalker 2 doesn't have much outside of main quest and side missions - which by itself are enough, but it could be so much more

[river lintel]

Masterful? No, but it is pretty realistic imo that I can take the credit for killing bandits that got wiped out by a Monolith patrol. Though I also feel like stalker 2s side missions could use a little more variety imo. But thats just because a life is borked so things feel real samey atm

I'm sure once a life is unfucked the game will feel like wading through a war zone after a certain quest

[plain hedge]

Is this the same Squint that was in the windmill?
He just came at me as a zombie, the outfit is different

[narrow spear]

Doesn't look it

[foggy horizon]

Dude fr and I hate how fleshes and dogs don’t have a brain and run away if you kill a lot of them/ fleshes run away normally if not shot at

[plain hedge]

Is Squint one of the possible random names

[steady swan]

are there any techs in zaton/swamps? my gear is fucked lmao

[narrow spear]

in the Skadovsk

[steady swan]

kk, what if ive killed a metric fuck load of bandits?

[narrow spear]

hmm. kill em again? A good bandit is a dead bandit. Especially sutan.

[steady swan]

I mean will they agro me the moment i get to skadovsk?

[narrow spear]

maybe. maybe not. I've killed a lot of bandits, they don't give me much trouble.

[steady swan]

kk ty

[river lintel]

Just go to Icarus if the bandits hate you

[cerulean root]

Wish we got this type of major D in stalker 2

[rose venture]

Idk what the hell I did in the settings but somehow I was getting 81fps in 4k on max settings

[warped monolith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1063755770027573252/1316188196719038527/steam-laugh.gif

[cerulean root]

Good shit man 👍

[rose venture]

91% Ram usage though

Also, sadly useless to me because my monitor is only 60hz, any fps higher than 60 results in massive screen tearing

[cerulean root]

Rip I know the feel

I’m honestly shocked how important a good monitor is for a good built pc

[proven hollow]

this worth keeping?

[cerulean root]

What’s your current suit?

[wise island]

Hello everyone, has anyone encountered a problem where corpses created by A-life at a distance and killed by other stalkers/mutants (I use the mod "Shay's Living Zone (An ALife mod)" end up underground and marked with a cross, and cannot be looted because they are in
collision

[rose venture]

But I did finally get the lighting issues mitigated, I merged qmqz’s ultra and base .ini’s with Hickey’s .ini, thank you chatgpt fr. I CAN FINALLY PLAY THE GAME AGAIN RAAAAHHHH

[proven hollow]

an upgraded psz 51 hawk

the one from the trainyard in zaton

[rose venture]

If I ever enter politics ima enact legislation banning the use of Lumen in all games

[cerulean root]

I’d say sell it you get far better gear short into the story

You can even get a diamond exo suit right now with a little bit of commitment to a wooden box

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA COLONEL DEGTYAREV IS A WENDIGO

[willow skiff]

Been busy with poe2 lately. Do we have a-life yet?

[cerulean root]

SKEEFA DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE DOWNED HELICOPTERS?!

[golden hazel]

No

[cerulean root]

Can’t wait for the new dayz stalker servers to open up and just become a menace to all major factions

[golden hazel]

JOIN DEUTY

[cerulean root]

Lmao I remember taunting a duty group with a megaphone while hiding on top of their base

[golden hazel]

Certified Deadly Anomalies moment

[cerulean root]

Time to go SKEEFA my scar

[warped monolith]

uh oh the skeefa memes have begun

[cerulean root]

We need this image of scar an a emoji sir

[golden hazel]

[warped monolith]

get Dalin cringe emoji instead

[golden hazel]

Dalin knows nothing about the shining zone

[cerulean root]

Dalin Imprisoned my man Strider
Ward is bad Strelock is sexy still
The choice is clear

[cerulean root]

We need a dlc if whatever the cracked up filter scar sees through

[golden hazel]

Scarvision DLC would go hard af

[glossy lake]

So do you outright lose access to || STC Malachite after it gets assaulted by the ward?|| I thought you could talk to someone after that quest to go back an gain access to it. Currently I can only get into/out of it via the guide's

[golden hazel]

Idk about that but you can use the secret entrance to get out and in

[glossy lake]

I can get in via that sewer entrance but the door always locks behind me meaning I cant get out. Not to mention I have a side quest here that i want to turn in but the quest doesn't exist apparently lmao.

[golden hazel]

[golden hazel]

Yeah shit is just fucked

[glossy lake]

best part is. I can enter via that tunnel and the door is unlocked. But once I'm in... I'm trapped till i use a guide

[worthy sleet]

malachite?

ye cuz outside is full of warden and you are an enemy

[spare forge]

Which one is better the compass or weird ball artifact?

[tawdry arch]

the two ball artifact

aka my nuts bitch

[spare forge]

Ahah how funny and witty omg bro you’re hilarious

[golden hazel]

Deez nutz gadeem

[alpine swan]

wait few minutes. Door will unlock. Works in 1.0.3. Also you need to open it from another direction -- supposed you met with Scar

[spare forge]

I swear this chat is only good for scar memes

[golden hazel]

Hell yes, anomalous desk lamp

[wise island]

Hello everyone, has anyone encountered a problem where corpses created by A-life at a distance and killed by other stalkers/mutants (I use the mod "Shay's Living Zone (An ALife mod)" end up underground and marked with a cross, and cannot be looted because they are in
collision

[frozen flame]

they cannot be looted bc of the church obviously

[glossy lake]

already did, went through the door after i go through it locks. I'm way past that point in the story at that point

[wise island]

good one, any otherth ideas?)

[frozen flame]

nope im simply just silly sorry man

[tight spire]

so

i ve got this problem where sometimess,ocasionally
guns spawn into my inventory lol

but they re only broke ones sadly,and usually when i m already full and going towards a base >_>

[golden hazel]

Very well known issue

[worthy sleet]

happens on vanilla as well

its not related to A life mods

[wise island]

this is strange because I didn't find a similar problem from anyone on Google.
Do people really just not care about this?))

[alpine swan]

hi folks, after which mission you have a chance to find a Thunderberry? Is it bound to some particular map?

[late kernel]

Can someone share the scar wojack meme?

[golden hazel]

Which one