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

[golden hazel]

[lean path]

Is stalker 2 worth to play?

[rose venture]

Yeas, but be prepared for bugs

[lean path]

💀

[rose venture]

If you haven’t bought it yet, wait for the next patch as ask us again

[lean path]

👍🏻

[rose venture]

It’s reminds me of Cyberpunk right now, really good gameplay and story but the bugs just wear you down

[golden hazel]

For the story, yes, for the gameplay, as long as you're into bugs

[lean path]

Fr

[rose venture]

But I like it a lot, and i’ve never played stalker before this so is definitely worth playing when it’s fixed

[proud ruin]

Authentic stalker experience

[lean path]

you should definitely get main games

[proud ruin]

buggy asf

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA, THE BUGS ARE HALF THE FUN, SKEEFA IT'S PART OF THE SHINING ZONE EXPERIENCE

[rose venture]

Already did :3

[proud ruin]

Play at least shadow of Chernobyl (or Radiophobia 3) first

[proud ruin]

SKEEFA THE SECRET OF SHINING ZONE IS SLAVJANK!!!

[rose venture]

I learned the entire story entirely through pondering memes

[proud ruin]

[lean path]

actually stalker is a trilogy where you can start by playing call of pripyat, ending by playing SoC

[lean path]

and you will still understand everything

[proud ruin]

Soylok

[golden hazel]

Nah, it's a trilogy where you can start by playing SoC of Chernobyl and you won't miss any important details from the other 2 games

[proud ruin]

U mast kell old mayn skeef! 😡

[lean path]

perhaps

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA MY GF IS NOT SAFE IF THAT MAN IS ALIVE SKEEFA YOU DONT UNDERSTAND

[proud ruin]

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/топдрузябандо-бабаджоба-сталкер-сталкер2-стрелок-сталкер-gif-8086819743968637215

[lean path]

poshel nahuy

[proud ruin]

Lmfao

I love that Soylok gets neo from matrix powers

[golden hazel]

Best part of that interaction is|| Doctor is alive either way ||

[proud ruin]

common Soylok L

[golden hazel]

True

[final brook]

boars at agropom military base wtf

[zinc sapphire]

https://youtu.be/ptgA9BLEcDg

[golden hazel]

@proud ruin Skeefa on Skeefa violence

[zinc sapphire]

Ngl... I forget Skif's name isn't Skif

[golden hazel]

Yup

[tacit glacier]

Bruh

Apparently Monolith bug in Zalissya issue is caused by an emission. It makes offline AI hide in the town hall.

[golden hazel]

The zone works in mysterious ways

[proud ruin]

[rose venture]

It’s Skif to me

[steady swan]

Does anyone know of a way to save sultan and beard? i have a glitch rn where the moment i finish talking to the chick they both die

[golden hazel]

Holy shit it's the guy from the detector

[hardy mantle]

Does taking items in a factions base lower your rep???

OH NVM, THEY JUST ELT ME INTO TEH CHEMICAL PLANT

[tacit glacier]

The Curse of the Green Flesh 👀

[zinc sapphire]

It's what you get if you eat raw Flesh

[tacit glacier]

In any case, 1.0.4 is probably going to be massive after straight up two weeks of non stop dev time

They are even working on Sundays

[zinc sapphire]

inb4
"Fixed - An incorrect texture
End of Patch notes"

[tacit glacier]

I know you're joking, but 👀

[zinc sapphire]

I hope I'm joking

[tacit glacier]

On a random note, Ballistic Based damage mod made clearing out Sphere out of Monolith an actual challenge.

Even on Normal
Few stray bullets were enough to take me down.

[zinc sapphire]

my second playthrough I'm going to use that mod

[tacit glacier]

Like I could just go in, mow them down and be on my merry way in vanilla game.
Then with ballistic mod the moment I took a wrong peek or pushed too fast my ass was cooked

Though that mission made me realize you don't need a silencer
I popped Monolith in the final bit one by one with Fausts USP.

They only realized I was there when only two guys were left and even then they only were alerted and not aggroed yet

[golden hazel]

five. hundred. gigabytes.

[exotic osprey]

How do i get on toooop :(

stupid fucking stash

a n g e r y

[simple crown]

[tacit glacier]

My dude just walk down the road

[exotic osprey]

GOD DAMMIT

[exotic osprey]

bruh I thought there was a hidden ledge or something

[tacit glacier]

Nope. Pretty sure on both sides the hill lets you climb onto the elevated ground and jump down to the stash

[tacit glacier]

Wait is that a transparent death screen?

[exotic osprey]

again. I feel like a lab rat doing mazes for cheese, except the cheese isnt even a good cheddar, its spray cheeze

[exotic osprey]

Nah, I took a screenie before it transitioned into the soyjak sucker

[tacit glacier]

kek
You are probably just jumping around for a box of 5.45 and a can of meat

[exotic osprey]

wrong, i'm jumping around to clear the stash icon on my map

[tacit glacier]

I just stopped caring after a while tbh
I clear them if they are on the way. Otherwise I just don't bother.

[exotic osprey]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I GOT 12 .45 ACP FUCK YEAH

[golden hazel]

I bet the canon ending is ||Strelok's and the dlc is gonna take place in Limansk and is gonna have a Stalker with the REAL Scar's memories look at the camera and be like "It's time to kill the Strelok"||

[tall meadow]

looks safe ?

least theres no bandits down here anymore

[exotic osprey]

super secret special squad (emphasis on "special")

[zinc sapphire]

cries in rechambered Integral-A

[tall meadow]

Hey its the gamma menu

[tacit glacier]

Not anymore

[tall meadow]

what its now?

[tacit glacier]

C-Con

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/912827116427554877/1282746802365399103/SPOILER_anomalydx11avx.exe_2024.09.09_-_18.51.26.05.mp4?ex=676104cd&is=675fb34d&hm=304fedb0ccae2e090ec75a3204a141614af8c35578c6d8ca09c229136417bb8b&

[exotic osprey]

so many guns... left unloved :(

[tacit glacier]

The fact that I can hear bandit radio in the menu ost

[tacit glacier]

Sell them to Ragman

[golden hazel]

The REAL Duty vs Freedom in soccer 2 hoc of tuah is Ragman vs Eugene

[tacit glacier]

fr tho

[rose venture]

What would yall say is the average life expectancy in the Zone, lorewise?

[exotic osprey]

I should make a mod that allows you to cook.

[rose venture]

Let us make the sandwich

[exotic osprey]

I have bread. I have sausage. I have meat. I have condensed milk.

LET ME COOK

[exotic osprey]

40 at most, provided no sudden influx of wannabe stalkers

[rose venture]

Yeah I feel like rookies might skew it down a lot but at the same time, death can come from nowhere

I wish the zone was real, I would totally go there

i mean, it is but it’s not as cool :3

[golden hazel]

Something like 3 months

[rose venture]

On average that sounds about right

[exotic osprey]

Twitch streaming in the zone boutta go crazy

[rose venture]

So real

Go-pro Zone livestreams would slap

“Hey guys, someone told me about this place called the Poppy Field, we’re gonna go check it out”

https://tenor.com/view/sleeping-sleep-dog-dawg-eeper-gif-5083970977419902566

[golden hazel]

Im pretty sure the biggest number carriers would be the newbies that die in the first hour, overzealous loners that die 5-6 months in, and the sussy bakas in the science team living for years

[rose venture]

Then there’s Scar

[golden hazel]

Hes been on the science team since clear sky || technically since even before that cough cough||

[rose venture]

[golden hazel]

The only super long lived non science teamer is Guide assuming he's still alive

I swear to god if GSC retcons him into a ccon agent too im finding the wish granter and wishing for another can of pringles

[rose venture]

Yknow what

Ima go to Chernobyl for real and find the Wish Granter and wish for Stalker 2 to be optimized and stable

For the Shining Zone

[tacit glacier]

Uses Condensed milk and Vodka to make cursed eggnog

[rose venture]

Who wanna buy me a gas mask, das all I’m missing from a full Stalker kit irl :3

Actually you can find the old Soviet style gas masks online for like $17

[golden hazel]

What like a Snork Mask?

[rose venture]

Yeah kinda sorta, the ones with one can

[golden hazel]

Delicious asbestos

[rose venture]

For $50 you TOO can be a Snork!

[golden hazel]

[rose venture]

[tacit glacier]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-snork-gif-5581869612414726216

[golden hazel]

Reminds me of how bayuns just lock on like a heatseeking missile

[pliant sigil]

My current playthrough has basically devolved into “Shit, my Rhino is empty and it takes forever to reload!” (pulls out second Rhino)

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA, THERES BEEN A SECOND RHINO

[pliant sigil]

Soon I will have three Rhinos but I don’t know if that’s worth giving up Skif’s pistol

I guess I could just keep it in my backpack as a spare.

[tacit glacier]

I just read a take that STALKER 2 is more of an RPG game than Dragon Age Veilguard and I couldn't agree more

[sleek laurel]

they just let you back here

[worthy sleet]

holy shiet Father Valerian is in the game. Just fought a wave of zombies with him. Nice

[sleek laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/father-grigori-half-life-half-life-2-hl-hl2-gif-8396026003954622526

[hot pulsar]

seriously this return to chernobyl suck big balls

Im on an i7 11700k cpu with 16 GB of RAM and a support of a RTX 3080 and the game runs terribly at 40ish fps with high preset and drop down to 20 30 fps in town

I get it with the beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder but holy fuk this game visual sucks, everything is too much saturated and popin happens everywhere, npc teleport constantly in the first town and all that crap

[wind arrow]

What settings are you running?

[hot pulsar]

I already used the 2 performance mods but the situation doesn't improved like at all, now I can witness the game crawling at 30ish with the "performance" mods, dayum bruh this game runs like ass

[hot pulsar]

Im on high setting with low shadows and no motion blur

[wind arrow]

Turn on frame generation, simple

Also, you dont have enough RAM for high settings, so just bump yourself down to medium and you should be good

Graphics card isn’t everything, you should have enough RAM and a good PCU to pair for actually decent performance

[toxic comet]

intel cpus suck ass amd better now

[zinc sapphire]

Hell yeah!

[hot pulsar]

I already gave up shelve it and let it cook for some more years, not refund this game purely because of the love I have for this franchise

[hot pulsar]

turning on FSR just reduce my game to 3fps

[true yew]

So you meet something above the minimum specs but decided you can run the game in high settings?

[hot pulsar]

Im on high setting with low shadows and no motion blur, I dont expect the game to be 60fps everywhere, but I expect it to be 40fps in majority of somewhere

[hot pulsar]

If I want to play at 20fps in town, Im gonna watch a powerpoint of the game

[rose venture]

I’ve Pavlov’d myself 😔 My lighting has been okay for a minute so I turned off my CRT filter but now I feel like I prefer the CRT, so I turned it back on

You don’t understand, I NEED Stalker to look like I’m playing it on the gameboy

[late kernel]

That's because any frame generation requires extra GPU power and that could overload it. It's especially worse if you don't have enough VRAM

[rose venture]

Have you tried any of the engine .ini’s on Nexus?

[lapis jolt]

Good afternoon, Im having some issues making ledge grabing and shays living zone working with eachother. Over at the nexus it was mentioned to drop a comment here

[rose venture]

Are you using the Stalker merge tool?

[lapis jolt]

I have it

[rose venture]

That got it working really quick for me

[lapis jolt]

the one its offered by vortex

Ive done the merge up until know with it and it worked for any other mod

[rose venture]

Vortex?

[lapis jolt]

the nexusmods mod manager

It has a merger tool

[rose venture]

Nah use this

https://github.com/Zweite93/Stalker2PakCfgMergeTool/releases

[lapis jolt]

and you can also arrange the mod load order

[rose venture]

I don’t think Vortex has any support for Stalker 2 at the moment, I wouldn’t suggest using it

[lapis jolt]

It has, I have it there

[rose venture]

Well use the merge tool I sent because it works, I can confirm

I’m using both Shay’s Living Zone and ledge grabbing rn

[lapis jolt]

do you place ledge grabing before or after Shays?

[wind arrow]

Frame Generation, the option

[rose venture]

I rearranged the load orders before merging but it had no effect, i don’t think it matters

[rose venture]

Literally can’t get above 25FPS without FrameGen on my 4070. In 2k anyway, 1080p sure

[wind arrow]

Specs?

Ah

[rose venture]

I can get 60fps on full 4k with framegen, resolution scaling, and a custom ini but it’s not stable so I don’t use it

2k still munches 70% of my GPU

[wind arrow]

Yeah generally don’t go above 1080p, I see no need to anyways. If it runs fine on 1080p , then just run it like that

[rose venture]

I got used to 1440p/2k

1080p with DSR is pretty fire though, I might turn it back on, cause those SIRCAA cutscenes TANK my frames

[lapis jolt]

What do you used to sort the load order?

[rose venture]

Nothin

[lapis jolt]

and when you use the merge tool you gave me

[rose venture]

I have faith that my mods will work, and they do

[lapis jolt]

you just run the .bat and thats it?

[rose venture]

Open the .bat with notepad first and set your game directory in the quotes, then run it

[true yew]

View the zone in a kind light
Then the zone shall greet you in kind light
Praise the monolith

[rose venture]

Oh Monolith! We are praying to You! Oh Monolith! Our only Light in the darkness! Oh Monolith! With hope in our hearts we march! We march forward towards the infidels! Oh Monolith! Forgive our sins! Oh Monolith! Show us our Destiny! Oh Monolith! Give us Power to fulfill our purpose!

[true yew]

Faust-pilled
Monolith-pilled

[toxic temple]

[subtle sun]

the zone never left me

😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

[exotic osprey]

hehehehehe pump

[exotic osprey]

damn I got that limited edition apple detector

[true yew]

Gotta pay the 100K/min fee to use it

[vernal venture]

Guys, where can i upgrade my ssp-100M SIRCAA?

[rose venture]

He gonna pump me

Wait no

[molten osprey]

Oh man

I think im pretty close to the ending. I have to climb some fortress and the game crashes every 5 Meters

[wind arrow]

Just finished Stalker 2, well worth the 60 dollars

[sage wolf]

Hello my fellow stalkers. Is there a good way to compare an amor + a helmet to a piece of armor that won’t let you wear a headpiece??? I’m kinda just adding the bars together for the first set and comparing it but idk if it works that way

[exotic osprey]

I WILL NEVER LET GO OF MY LOOT

[sage wolf]

Like for example, is there a mod that shows your overall stats similar to the old games??

[exotic osprey]

as far as I know, there's no way to do that. I sure as hell wish there is tho

[wind arrow]

An RPG and 500 rockets, still not enough to kill a chimera

[sage wolf]

Yeah it’s super annoying

I don’t think adding the helmet and armor bars together works well either cuz it doesn’t really make common sense when comparing to other gear idk

[short wren]

Have you guys ever went to pripyat early game when you aren't supposed to?

[wanton arch]

That's why you just get the weight artifacts

No need let go of loot
Just carry it like chad

[exotic osprey]

:)

[true yew]

honestly one of the best you can get (night star is +1 kg but more rads)

[sage wolf]

Anybody experienced audio logs bugging out?? I just can’t listen to them anymore and restarting the game didn’t help

[short wren]

Nope

[lapis jolt]

It has worked out with the tool you provided, thanks!

[short wren]

The only bug I've ever experienced with audio logs is not being able to play them when the popup comes up and holding p doesn't do anything, I have to go to the pda and then play it

[rose venture]

Glad I could help

[wanton arch]

Mmmm yes

Aluperfection.

Also Weird Water eventually.

[pastel crag]

I grief about the ending of this game 😭😭😭, anyone got a shoulder ?🥲

[zinc sapphire]

Don't forget the liquid rock

[clever sigil]

Which one?

[clever sigil]

Can you drink the rock if its liquid?

Also wouldnt that just make it lava/magma?

[zinc sapphire]

You can try. It's an artifact, though, so results may vary

max radio and chem protection tho

[molten osprey]

Im done

Without mods i did it, my credits have no Sound tho

[tacit mortar]

INFINITE VODKA

Just keep chatting, and Richter will repeat the dialogue and shit out another bottle of Vodka

Maybe just a few more...

The more I drink the more Richter's I see...

[short wren]

Free money?

[pastel crag]

strelok

[molten osprey]

Just did it, no idea what i should think

[pastel crag]

the great sacrifice became a lunatic

thats my opinion

[molten osprey]

Didnt seem to be a good outcome

[pastel crag]

well playing god will corrupt everyone eventually

[clever sigil]

She will never be free

[warped monolith]

freeedaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam

[pastel crag]

kinda hate how they masacred my boy strelok in this one

[clever sigil]

To be fair

[exotic osprey]

Jesus christ you are Z O O T E D

[clever sigil]

Zone tried to kill him multiple times

[exotic osprey]

also I think something's wrong here, I downloaded a mod that allows me to sell at 30-40% of the price instead of the bullshit 10%

but uh, now I can sell shit for 100% of its original price

the fuck

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hi

maybe its incompatible with Shay's Living Zone or Maklane's Zone Overhaul, it was funny though

[vernal venture]

Guys where can i upgrade my ssp-100M SIRCAA?

[wary rune]

Eww, freedom

[exotic osprey]

H E L L O O O O

[wary rune]

Nowhere. It's bugged

[vernal venture]

😦

[wary orbit]

by using the console probably

[wary rune]

No worries. All that matters is physical protection anyway

[vernal venture]

ok, thanks

[exotic osprey]

I LOVE WALKING OUT IN THE RAIN WITH MY MUSKET OUT

bandits? wards? mutants?

MUSKET

[arctic knot]

had this issue and it randomly fixed itself

in y'all opinion should i carry weird water or weird nut?

[golden hazel]

Deadly Anomalies

[exotic osprey]

shut up doody eat slug

[exotic osprey]

damn the emission hit hard

[clever sigil]

Kinda want DLC where you play as monolith defending the CNPP

[exotic osprey]

welp, since the emission hit, time to do my number 1 Voucher Machine scheme

Artefact hunting :D

[warped monolith]

looks like some death stranding shit

[exotic osprey]

nah, lacks ladders

...is this guy basically Maiq?

Bastardi.

the real lessons are the friends we made along the way you scammer

I feel like i keep attracting scammers but sure

god fucking dammit

[wary orbit]

The only correct way to deal with a Chimera is to go to Cordon, bait some noobie Loners to a supposed fat score and have them get eaten by the Chimera. When the Chimera is fat and lazy it will go to sleep and thats when you fire your RPG at it.

[exotic osprey]

or you can just shout to assert your dominance, and unload your bullets into it

[wary orbit]

Sorry the Loner sacrifice is tradition

[warped monolith]

... but then it survives the RPG round and kills you anyway

[wary orbit]

nothing survives a RPG

[warped monolith]

[worthy sleet]

So found the location of one of those special artifacts . looked around everywhere solved the jumping puzzle but didn't found the damn thing `

Went on YT found out its the Weird Nut Artifact and i did everything correct but its not there for me ....

Life is gooddd

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/skill-issue-pikachu-pikachu-skill-issue-gif-3559280283046901335

[warped monolith]

rekt

[worthy sleet]

installed the arch artifact detector mod .. says i m on top of the thing ... still nothing there

proly one more under textures

[wary orbit]

I had multiple artefacts spawn under the map or inside Rocks and such. Console helps

UETools_Ghost and UETools_Fly are the commands you want

to stop flying UETools_Walk, to stop Ghost just reenter the Ghost command.

[heavy hedge]

I must have the magic PC configuration or something. Outside of a few crashes I've had virtually no issues, only a couple bugs—Zalissya defense which I didn't really care about anyway, and ||Scar being mad and shooting me in the face after I accidentally zapped a Spark while defending Malachite from Ward||, which just took a reload and redoing about 5 minutes of progress.
No artifacts have failed to spawn correctly (including all the weird objects), no other quests broken or bugged, good framerate even in towns, total of 3 crashes over more than 100 hours so far (granted that is in "dad hours," so probably half of those are just idling while I put out fires wife or kid have lit or doing house work).

Unfortunately there are still parts of the game that bug me as-is. I've been letting off the gas the last few days to see what happens with the next patch.
I played Far Cry 5 for a few minutes wanting to see what the series is like these days, got it for I think 3 bucks on a sale, got irrationally upset when I saw its (auto-activating lol) flashlight actually casts shadows and has a narrow choke on the light cone while Stalker 2 still doesn't. Crazy to me even OG Stalker had this, such a critical thing in a game where so much time is spent in dark/poorly lit environs.

Still gonna finish out a first run before I officially shelf it before fixes slow down, hopefully SDK drops and modding can come into full swing, but man there are so many seemingly-straightforward playability improvements that can be made to gel the experience that aren't even as involved as fixing and properly implementing A-Life, some of which are just confusing because of how obvious they are.

Thanks for coming to my Tedx.

[true yew]

These arch anomalies are browning my pants

Fucking wilheim scream

[heavy hedge]

my eyeballs rolled back in my head so fast they almost spun right out of my skull when it played

I ended up doing that puzzle completely "wrong" lol, only realized after seeing people post about it later. still got the weird bolt though so it worked out

[molten osprey]

The best Bug for me was how i couldnt progress the defense in malachite because a ward guy spawned in an empty room, behind a locked door. Not like "locked", but like a door that wasnt intented to be opened, or probably was but got cut due to time. And the thing is, how can such a Bug Happen, when i as a dumb gamer can understand the problem here

[heavy hedge]

I was fortunate enough to avoid those. I did have some visual bugs/hiccups, and some occasional NPC behavioral bugs, but nothing that stopped progression which are the main things that would bother me. May be that Malachite in general wasn't well tested, I had a bug where after reloading due to Scar being mad, the Spark guys showed up... after the entire first wave of enemies was dead. Then when the next wave showed up, they just stood there staring at me while I did all the fighting and refused to participate lmao

[true yew]

So apparently the only box near the bunker is near the tornado...
Time to face my fears

[molten osprey]

Yeah my sparks were just watching as well, ward didnt bother with them either

[heavy hedge]

What was strange to me about it is, before I reloaded, the Spark guys were fighting them... but I accidentally shot one, so then all of a sudden everybody was mad at me and I had to slaughter everybody

That some things can be fixed but also broken via reload is definitely an oddity

[molten osprey]

Uh thats Standard stalker, sometimes guys still fought you after reloading in the og games. Reloading put everything back in its place but not the aggro lmao

[heavy hedge]

I don't think I ever actually realized that was a bug, I always figured it was just that I did something bad to somebody that I didn't realize or remember

I always trusted the grudges the game had more than my own memory lol

[warped monolith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6KC6go7pyY

[void coyote]

so how are you guys liking the game so far?

[warped monolith]

10/10 the game stole my gun and replaced it with a broken piece of crap that uses ammo I don't even have

[void coyote]

HAHAH oh damn

im at Zaton right now, so far the game is cool, but I don't know man... the stashes are terrible, you only find sausages and vodka inside, but the exploration is cool. I don't feel like doing some side quests, and I really can't understand the story sometimes

[worthy sleet]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/832

Good mod ( doesn't make game 2 easy but gives meaning for going after stashes)

Its very rng still but some times you get good stuff

[warped monolith]

WOO, CHEATING

[void coyote]

yeah I'm using it, but even with this mod the stashes are really lame sometimes, to the point that I completely ignore them most of the times

[heavy hedge]

I'd rate it a 4/5, largely I'm not a fan of numerical quantifications but that feels about right, 3/5 in its "current state" (so if I wanted to account for crap performance, bugs, etc.).
Bottom line though it's kept me playing and I'll finish it, which is more than I can say for almost any videogame anymore, AND I'm actually looking forward to another playthrough

[worthy sleet]

well idk. for me it did made it more interesting

[heavy hedge]

Modding will bring it to 5/5, but that's also "cheating" as far as an earnest review of vanilla

[void coyote]

look at this, is this a respectable stash to you?

[worthy sleet]

i didnt wanted to get full of amazing stuff stashes all the time
So having one out to 20 thats has an artifact or a good weapon / armor

makes it better thna vanilla

[heavy hedge]

Some of the stashes are garbo, but some of them are incredible. Usually what's actually in the bag will be the least of it, the best stashes tend to be in safes (and even then they can largely just be consumables) but even beyond that, the best stashes are usually hidden in or near otherwise high loot areas with armor sets, guns, etc.
Just a matter of finding em, and a lot won't be marked or you'll need to find em on a PDA or etc.

[void coyote]

it really does, I found some cool stuff in some stashes, but much less than "ideal" I think... but oh well, thats RNG for you

[warped monolith]

I found a couple stashes with free 100% guns, some with helmets/masks... it's kinda silly to expect every stash to have stuff like this

[heavy hedge]

Plus, early to midgame stashes are a fine place to actually drop loot if you're overweight, then mark it on your map and make 2 unencumbered runs to sell crap at rostok or w/e instead of 1 overloaded heavy trek that costs you a half hour of your life

[worthy sleet]

would be cool to have actually stashes of our own that we could hide and get them raided by other stalkers /bandits

And if you wanted a safe you would have to pay (monthly fees) to the trader for example

that could a be a nice feature

[wary orbit]

no

[heavy hedge]

The only reason I don't hit more stashes is because there are straight up so many of them, which is actually perfect, because most of them are just consumables and things, which I like the balance of. It makes it hard to just hone in on the best loot, while still giving you direction as far as potential locations to scout

[void coyote]

speaking of being overweight, (maybe im nitpicking right now) but have you guys seen how much food and drink you find inside the wooden boxes?

[warped monolith]

bro wants GAMMA CBT in stalker 2 already

[worthy sleet]

its rng as well

[void coyote]

it's like a grocery store run

[heavy hedge]

health and food/drink spawn rates are crazy ya, even on vet it's never an issue

[worthy sleet]

ye

[void coyote]

bro, I get back to base with like 60 medkits, 70 bandages, and a shit ton of food and drinks... maybe Gamma spoiled me

[pliant sigil]

I never leave base with more than five medkits, bandages, food items, or energy drinks each, and I always end up with more to sell.

[heavy hedge]

It teaches you to run very lean in stalker 2, leaving any base

[pliant sigil]

Even when I should logically end up with LESS during heavy fighting like Duga or Pripyat.

[void coyote]

I tend to leave with very little from wichever base I end up in, but I always come back with a lot more... i'll send you a pick of my chest in a few minutes

[pliant sigil]

I have over 3000 9x19 rounds I will never use because the only pistol that uses them is Gambit which I haven’t gotten yet

[heavy hedge]

I did end up in a bad spot where I had like 3 bandages and no medkits left during a bad bout with some anomalies then immediately confronted by multiple squads of monolith exos.
But, I think it only took 2 or 3 tries to bring the most aggressive one downs, grab their shit off the corpses, then med up using their supplies; rinse-repeat for the rest of the squads.

So even if you feel like you're totally SOL there is likely still a way out of your problem situation with some baseline tactical thinking.

[pseudo jacinth]

The zone's miracles are wondrous

[heavy hedge]

I wish there were something to do with red armor you don't want to repair. Junk trader only buys red guns, and not even all red guns

[warped monolith]

the shining zone skeefaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[pseudo jacinth]

eat them

[icy bough]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n2KFcs4Dmg

[pseudo jacinth]

ITS ALL AROUND US

[void coyote]

this is my chest, look how many bandages and medkits I have

[pseudo jacinth]

my yearly reminder that Boris exists
God bless

[warped monolith]

is boris good again yet

last time I saw him he was doing silly war thunder videos saying the game "isn't grindy" while playing with a dev account with infinite currency and everything unlocked and ace crews on everything.

[pseudo jacinth]

shit the last time i saw him there was this very popular war getting talked about a lot

[warped monolith]

raid shadow legends?

[pseudo jacinth]

https://tenor.com/view/raid-shadow-legends-raid-gif-20940490

[worthy sleet]

@void coyote you should run https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/88?tab=description

or

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/241?tab=description

they ofer dif takes on economy /loot balancing

[wanton arch]

can yall help me im trying to do the "deceive the deceiver" side quest where you need to lure this guy away from the slag heap but i cant seem to find him

[mental verge]

He is inside the base near the side door by the truck

[wanton arch]

i know where youre talking about but hes not there i think its bugged

[tacit glacier]

Speedrun strats

[warped monolith]

PARKOUR
also interesting hud mod

[tacit glacier]

s2hudeditor + classic style hud (clear sky)

[proven hollow]

should i stay with my vs vintar or invest in upgrading the mk1 emr?

[warped monolith]

compass at the bottom is peak

[tacit glacier]

Second can be found here https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1317650751043928124

[tacit glacier]

Truuuuuue
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/683?tab=description

Mostly works but author is still trying to figure out how to keep the ammo counter from hiding.

[proven hollow]

where can i get a silencer for the mk1 actually

[warped monolith]

tbh I prefer playing without the HUD, but I wish there was some way to check my status effects without going to the menu and turning the HUD on.
I wonder if there's a mod for that.

something with a silly name like "check vitals" mod that adds a keybind that shows the main hud (health/stamina bars and the status effects) for a couple seconds

[tacit glacier]

Mod adds a bind that can be set in engine.ini that lets you toggle hud on and off

[warped monolith]

perfect. that'll work

[tacit glacier]

It keeps subtitles

[warped monolith]

thank you

[tacit glacier]

https://tenor.com/view/respect-doctor-who-salute-tennant-david-gif-7374490000154887372

[sour narwhal]

lmao impressive

[heavy hedge]

wait are you not supposed to do this normally?

[tacit glacier]

[warped monolith]

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

[golden hazel]

Play War Thunder for free today I am no longer asking

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/no-nope-no-way-noo-absolutely-not-gif-20244171

[golden hazel]

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

[steady swan]

Does anyone use this mod? https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/45?tab=posts

does 10% mean 10% less, or 10% of the overall weight? kinda confusing

[clever sigil]

hop in the french navy before britain sinks all them ships

[warped monolith]

sounds like 10% of the base value

[steady swan]

alright i wasnt sure, just want the food to weigh less, honestly wish there was a pak that just affected the food alone (not drinks/meds)

[golden hazel]

sounds like

[steady swan]

the bread should not have the density of a neutron star lmao

[golden hazel]

You're right, it should be more

[steady swan]

youre right, it make sense that bread weighs more than boolets

[tacit mortar]

Anybody know if Project Itemization is good? It seems to add random useless stuff like socks or useless keys, but it also adds baggies of coke...
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/445

[steady swan]

I think you have your answer already

[heavy hedge]

[tacit mortar]

Yeah I just wanted to see if other people have an opinion on it, I'm not sure how I feel about finding a ton of useless stuff laying around now.

[golden hazel]

Holy shit the Misery items pack

The end days are upon us

[tacit mortar]

Wut

[steady swan]

honestly wouldnt bug me much, just dont pick the extra stuff up, but also could be more coupons

[tacit mortar]

Yeah, that's my main concerns really. Too much item bloat and too much extra $. If somebody knows whether it's too much or not, I'd definitely download it.

[golden hazel]

Next we need the ear destroying controller sounds from Misery, and the Oil Drinking sounds when using it on a weapon, and most importantly the dropping a toolbox sound when disassembling a weapon

[tacit mortar]

Fuck it might as well try it anyways. My Skiff deserves some nose candy anyhow.

https://tenor.com/view/nose-candy-gif-27003611

[golden hazel]

Nooooo he must do meth, FOR THE SHINING ZONE

[steady swan]

send it, its probably super easy to install

not me, killing the chimera in swamps and immediately getting hit with an emission and the building im in not counting as cover

[tacit mortar]

[clever sigil]

dont

[limpid quarry]

u'll figure it out

[sour narwhal]

immersive bandit simulator, everything is a quest for cossacks vodka and a place to dry your boots

[heavy hedge]

skeefa you have to take out my dealer before he figures out I duped him with fake coupons

[tacit mortar]

[steady swan]

I mean i just reloaded a save and ran back to a spot to wait for the emission

[limpid quarry]

emission is quest triggered

[pliant sigil]

Bandit simulator ending: Somehow make it through the CNPP with a leather jacket and sawn-off double barrel, ask the Wish Granter for 500 cigarettes

[warped monolith]

people are really desperate to add GAMMA levels of item bloat for "immersion", aren't they lmao

[steady swan]

bruh what, so when i get to close to the clear sky base it starts?

[tacit mortar]

SKEEEEEFA. YOU HAVE TO FREEBASE THE CRYSTAL FROM LAB X-22 SKEEEFAAAA

[limpid quarry]

basically

[limpid quarry]

just run from the chimera

[sour narwhal]

this is the way it has been for the last few years. people love to go to a trade screen and dig through piles of things like dirty rags, socks, watchbands, tire pressure gauges, screwdrivers, calipers, a flea market's amount of useless shit

[tacit mortar]

Yeah that's kinda why I was asking about it. If it's like I'm suddenly finding socks and empty bottles worth 5 K everywhere, it'll be more annoying than immersive. I don't mind finding random junk like that every once in a while, though.

[warped monolith]

so true bestie
now brb gonna play some tarkov

[foggy gulch]

stalker 2 better

[heavy hedge]

I'm not gonna bother modding until at the very least the bug fixes are mostly done dropping, ideally the SDK although I don't think there's any timeline on that at this point

[pliant sigil]

I’m getting flashbacks to having a fully green P90 in GAMMA except it had a broken trigger assembly and a very specific one at that

[golden hazel]

Still cant believe that Stalker copied Tarkov smh my head

[tacit mortar]

I remember watching Stalker 1 gameplay after I got into Tarkov and being like:
"Hmmm... Every single sound-bite sounds like it's ripped from Stalker and used in Tarkov..."

[warped monolith]

I don't like that kind of bait
because there's always someone biting
and it's more sad than funny

[heavy hedge]

*metro

[pliant sigil]

I can’t believe Stalker copied Halo:Combat Evolved

[foggy gulch]

metro is good too

[warped monolith]

I can't believe Doom copied Wolfenstein

[tacit mortar]

I can't believe Stalker coppied the IRL Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. SMH

[heavy hedge]

elden ring truly is the ape escape of playstation to PC ports

[warped monolith]

gaming is truly a cesspool of plagiarism and slop

[pliant sigil]

“it’s chOrnobyl, get it right”

[tacit mortar]

Reminds me of the Homestuck Troll situation where every possible title and storyline has been played out so they have 20 word long titles

[sour narwhal]

I think the concept of everything being derivative in some form, and slop, are two vastly different things

[heavy hedge]

I think my parents were probably right all along about videogames being bad for you and rotting your brain, it's too late for me but maybe I can break the cycle for my kids...

[sour narwhal]

there are only so many ideas before something radically new happens and even then usually its just something we havent had in forever

[heavy hedge]

name ONE (1) single good videogame
yea exactly you cant

[pliant sigil]

I’m already breaking the cycle by just not having kids

[warped monolith]

see @golden hazel , someone always bites and then I have to explain I wasn't being serious and it makes me feel bad

[tacit mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/dylang626-pooti-crypto-cat-pooti-token-cat-meme-coin-gif-17942751157860734646

[golden hazel]

Yeah I see it now

[warped monolith]

be the change you want to see in the world

[warped monolith]

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

[warped monolith]

oh, so you're a gamer?
Name every game

[proven hollow]

do any of these mods conflict? Reading the descriptions I should be fine but I try to be cautious with new games like this

[limpid quarry]

should work yes

[tacit mortar]

If you downloaded Malkane's Better Shootouts seperate from ALife Extended, it might conflict

Modern ALife Extended updates are supposed to include Malkanes mod with it

Either that or it will just be redundant and default to one or the other. Shouldn't crash if it does that, but if it does crash I might look at that first.

[proven hollow]

Yeah those were the 2 mods that I was thinking about too, having modding skyrim in the past stuff like that tend to conflict

that being said if it aint broke don't fix it 🤷

[tacit mortar]

Yep, if it runs, then it's not conflicting. Don't fix it if it's not broke.

Been running the mod Better Ballistics for a bit now and I gotta say, I really enjoy it. You can kill exo's in half a clip or more to the body, but now I also die quick as hell if I'm not taking cover.

I've also been able to turn off the mutant HP mods (had psuedogiant/dogs, chimera's, and Bloodsuckers set to 80% HP) since it seems to be a more reasonable TTK with Better Ballistics

Killed a Psuedogiant just a second ago with 3 & a half clips of AP 9x39 with the Trophy

like 70ish bullets

[sour narwhal]

My takeaway after reaching sircaa: ||this entire situation could've been avoided if skif just asked dalin for him to fork up some dough for a new apartment and a moving company||

[warped monolith]

they always choose the hard way

[molten osprey]

I think Skif wouldnt be happy with that. At this point he wants answers, Real answers

Not that he really got them in my ending, but meh

[rugged geyser]

best to use stalkerpaktool mod to check conflicts

[sour narwhal]

LMao that scene ||where the bubble sends you to the pigs, then the pseudogiant - i unloaded an entire extended magazine of saiga rounds into its face and it had no idea what to do before the bubble took me away again||

[rugged geyser]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/374?tab=description

[molten osprey]

At the giant i was already like nah not wasting ammo for that just wait 5 secs

There was such a sequence in the ogs where you suddenly stood before sidorovich munching some chicken

[tacit mortar]

MARKED ONE?? WHAT THE HELLLL

[molten osprey]

Exactly, man i laughed so hard

I love those games, they just feel like they were made with love

[proven hollow]

what's the modding situation looking like in terms of ease? Idk much about it but is it any difficult at all?

[rugged geyser]

I am ready

[proven hollow]

I also remember csg saying the game would have good support for modders so I assume that makes things easier

[rugged geyser]

it has instructions on its nexus page

simply put, read the nexus page, any new mods you add just use the bat to check conflicting files, if they conflict either delete mod that conflicts or merge them with automerger mod : https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/326?tab=description

[simple hill]

Crane of Chornobyl

[warped monolith]

it should, yeah.

[tacit mortar]

I can't wait for the mod kit to come out. We'll see a lot more cool shit by then.

[rugged geyser]

simply video to show how it works

[sour narwhal]

Can't stand my two dads. They owe me a home but they keep blaming it on my cool friends

[blazing pelican]

Hello, I've been trying to install stalker gamma for literally two or three days. Everything goes well, but 506 mods appear and a red "X" on three mods: 1: 244- Newpy addedd addons 2: GAMMA Disabled 3: 215- Good addons with issues and bugs How do I solve this? I searched and didn't find a solution and would like your help. Thank you in advance!

[short wren]

This is the stalker 2 chat 💀

[blazing pelican]

hahahahahahha sorry!!!

[clever sigil]

marked one? what the hell?

[tacit mortar]

Didn't realize there's a random scanner for an artifact here??

And I immediately got jumped by a BUCK

[steady swan]

Just had the jump scare of my life, killed 1 giant and when i back tracked another one had spawned in, im in swamps so i couldnt see it till I was 2m away lmao

[warped monolith]

I bet Dalin is the top

[void coyote]

yooo look what i found in the swamps

[tacit mortar]

Anybody know what the future planned DLC's will be about? They're supposed to be story add-ons, right?

[molten osprey]

pretty sure one will play in the cnpp or parts of it

[valid slate]

is it true that the game gets worse after visiting sircaa

i keep hearing people say that and im almost there

[molten osprey]

dont think so, got better for me. suddenly random firefights happened and i actually saw guys walking around randomly

[sour narwhal]

This game should let you buy things for richter

i would've given him an exo by now

[final brook]

Dudes in exos start appearing which can increase the difficulty unless you headshot, maybe Increased spawn rate? And the story gets disengaging imo

[tacit mortar]

I'm also thinking that there's possibly plans for the West, past the Red Forest.

There's a mission for a character that's attempting to go there, but he's blocked. I ghosted out of bounds and found like 15-20 buildings out there with some bridges and stuff, where you couldn't even see it if you're in the normal game map.

[molten osprey]

Yeah the map doesnt add up for me yet completely, i get my perception of it is blurred trough the cutted nature in the og games, but still im missing some things

[tacit mortar]

They did say the Zone is constantly shifting and changing.

[molten osprey]

i get that, but meh

[tacit mortar]

I just think it's interesting, and quite possibly a hint, that they might add something to the West of the Red Forest, north of Malachite. There's too many building hidden away out of sight, it wouldn't make much sense otherwise.

OFC it could just be a section they cut for development time.

[molten osprey]

Could be, but doesnt mean it wont be used in the future.

[tacit mortar]

This location is quite literally called "Bridge to Lymansk"
Getting a feeling that this crane will be lowered to allow us to cross for DLC later.

First DLC that's slated to release, from what I've been able to find, is titled:
"Echoes of the Past"

[warped monolith]

that's a FFXVI DLC

[tacit mortar]

The NPC for the quest related to the area, calls back to "having a home waiting for him in Lymansk"

[warped monolith]

oh wait it's echoes of the fallen

[tacit mortar]

AHHHHHHH I'M GOING CRAZY

JUST REMEMBER IF THE FIRST DLC GOES TO LYMANSK I CALLED IT FIRST FOLKS

[frigid rain]

We just need the movement abilitites of dying light 1 in this game and a grappling hook too. Whip out a shield and stop those dam spammy insta spawn bandit bullets!

[pliant sigil]

Skif is ready for the swamps

[frigid rain]

Would love to have the melee system from dying light 1

I can cap npcs in the head but somehow I never get one shotted in the head? Are bandits that bad of an aim?

[golden hazel]

Have you interacted with the Sparker corpse and the radio at the top yet?

[pliant sigil]

You can absolutely get instakilled by headshots, especially if you didn't bother taking a helmet to ||the end of the game because why the fuck would you, it's not like you're forced to use armor that has no helmet or anything, the devs surely wouldn't do that to you.||

[sour narwhal]

||yeah i just got there, rest in piece rofl||

[tacit mortar]

Yep, weird voices and static with crazy sounds. Not sure what it means at all, but the notes talk about getting weird signals coming from that area.

[river lintel]

Rip my mans

[frigid rain]

Thats the thing, I've made it all the way to wild island and never been head shot ever. I haven't found a helmet yet either in loot or for sale just gas masks and suits.

[pliant sigil]

"All the way to Wild Island"

Wow holy shit this guy made it all the way to (checks notes) the early game.

[sour narwhal]

i wonder if "sidorovich" is a reference to "grigorovich" being the CEO of gsc

[frigid rain]

are u stupid?

[river lintel]

I finished the game and took off my seva for a psz5d and mask-1. They have high enough phys resistance that my compass hits the hard cap and since anomaly defense is combined i had higher elec, burn,etc than my one piece suit

[sour narwhal]

To be fair I think that people are just kind of used to games that last about as long as M01-M08 in the modern day

[frigid rain]

exo suits have all the parts as one suit

[river lintel]

Wait what?

[sour narwhal]

You can, if playing through at a pace prioritizing your gear and cash, spend over 45 physically playing hours before you even get to sircaa

[frigid rain]

I really hate it when a poltergeist respawns just because I stepped outside of a warehouse doorway

[sour narwhal]

My timer is at... 1d18hr? And I only just got out of sircaa. but I have an exo, and I've been to pryp

[tacit mortar]

Correct. Not sure why you stated this, though.

[wary rune]

Same goes for military at the Sphere

[frigid rain]

because u are stupid lol

[tacit mortar]

Maybe I need another explanation

[frigid rain]

nah, just get shot in the head that should do it

[tacit mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/crying-cat-sad-cat-me-when-i-dont-get-orod-tickets-gif-17550107775956741096

[pliant sigil]

Wew lad

[tacit mortar]

Guys, he definitely knows what's what.

He made it to Wild Island.

https://tenor.com/view/strelok-gif-26242052

[pliant sigil]

Man made it to Whiterun in Skyrim, don’t fuck with him

[sour narwhal]

dont take it terribly seriously this discord likes to rough-house

[river lintel]

Wtf is this "all the way to wild island " business?

[sour narwhal]

Is this something i need to be underground, inside of shelter to find?

[pliant sigil]

Scroll up homie

[frigid rain]

in relation to how bad bandit aim is not accomplishing progression the game

[wary rune]

As far as I remember you have to go through some sort of a cave or underground entrance

[river lintel]

Oh

[frigid rain]

don't pay attention to swapshitter he is drunk

[sour narwhal]

ah okay its a cave u access from the outside got it. worded weird

[pliant sigil]

Though you should poke around the Shelter when you get a chance, free loot.

[tacit mortar]

Actually you're right on the noze. I'm 4 Dragon's Milk's deep

[wary rune]

And THAT voice recording

[pliant sigil]

Well, for a given value of free. You may have to spend some bullets.

[wary rune]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-crying-cat-cat-meme-cat-crying-meme-crying-cat-meme-gif-1182720488497099882

[rugged geyser]

stalker 2 best

[tacit mortar]

I'M ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE EDGE

AND I'M ABOUT TO BREAK

[pliant sigil]

Everything’s going to be okay. ||Strider and everyone else will make it back safe.||

[wary rune]

I wonder how's the RX570 dude doing

[river lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/dieded-gif-26770341

[river lintel]

Rip my man's

[sour narwhal]

i love how when you go to sircaa, you hang around these ridiculously wealthy looking laboratories, these incredibly expensive, futuristic rooms, even then, even with a beautiful clean kitchen, the absolute height of modern luxury - they're still eating sausage and bread, they have it on the counter, there's condensed milk, and NONSTOP

[wary rune]

And there's absolutely no one guarding the back entrance

[sour narwhal]

i love how Half-Life-coded the SIRCAA chapter is

Yeah theres an entire stairwell that goes down to the swamp and it's just there. lmaoooo

[frigid rain]

I went from an RX590 to an RX7800XT before this game came out. Fallout 4 def likes my new card and london even super bugged still ran with it and proper F4SE mods managing resources. Stalker 2 has some kind of jerky stop movement and mid performance for me. I don't know how anyone could play this game with an RX570.

[river lintel]

I heard the "ACK!" in my head

[zinc sapphire]

Yknow... this storm outside rn makes stalker 2 emissions seem like a pleasant day

[tacit mortar]

I will proceed to Schizo post about the dlc until it releases

[pliant sigil]

To be fair, no one is prepared for ||Scar’s brand of insanity or Monolith 2: Psychic Boogaloo.||

[wary rune]

IMO first DLC won't be a big one and it will focus on OG factions. More sidequests and stuff, probably joining factions

[golden hazel]

My guess is thats where the REAL Scar is located and the Strelok ending is the canon one and were gonna get Clear Sky 2

[tacit mortar]

IT'S REAL I SWEAR IT IS. LOOOOOOOK SKEEEFA. YOU NEED TO GO TO LYMANSK SKEEEEEEFAAAA

[river lintel]

Clear sky worst faction worst game, fight me

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/топдрузябандо-бабаджоба-сталкер-сталкер2-стрелок-сталкер-gif-8086819743968637215

[pliant sigil]

Skif lowers the bridge to Lymansk
oops, it's all monolith

[wary rune]

It's the Clear Sky fight again. With TWO respawning sniper bandits

[river lintel]

Skiiifa the shining zone is reaaal

Unplugs cartridge

[pliant sigil]

500 monolith on rooftops armed with gauss rifles

[sour narwhal]

Yknow. If I were Strider, if I were Dubny. ||And I saw faust building the magical junk pile monolith|| i would've been like "uh, no. Take that shit apart, like now."

[golden hazel]

NO SKEEFA I HAD 500 HOURS ON THAT SAVE FILE NOOOO THE SHINING ZONE

[wary rune]

I think I saw at least one more though in the base

[river lintel]

"BuT iT IsNt hUrTiNg AnYoNe!!"

[crystal thicket]

does anybody else find that burers in stalker 2 are op

[pliant sigil]

I mean if I was former Monolith, I would be scared shitless of any sort of psychic influence. I'd be the tinfoil hat guy.

[sour narwhal]

I wonder how old Agatha is

[river lintel]

I like how ||strelok literally shows you its fake then mocks a dead guy while you watch through said guys eyes||

[wary rune]

They're somewhere between annoying (when you have cover) and straight up overpowered (when you don't). On the other hand Controllers are piss poor weak

[tacit mortar]

They're the main reason I carry 10+ frags. Just hold out your pistol and throw frags.

[river lintel]

Enough

[crystal thicket]

nuh uh controllers hard

[pliant sigil]

Pull out Skif's pistol. Burers literally cannot take it away from you.

[sour narwhal]

She's kinda milfy lmao. The way she treats skif is sorta hot

She's definitely insane though

[tacit mortar]

Erm, wut the sigma?

[wary rune]

You mean Liz Truss?

[golden hazel]

Heeey Skeefa look at me it's ||the Dark one haii||

[crystal thicket]

i tried to do that one noontide misson where you have to get something and kill a controller. i didnt kill any noontide members in the hopes of that when i kill the controller they will lose the influece and turn normal again

[sour narwhal]

hahahahaha

[crystal thicket]

they did NOT turn normal they stayed under the influence of the controller even after its death

there was like 20+ of them whilst i was fighting the controller

[wary rune]

Which proves that Monotide is OP while Controller is weak af

[river lintel]

Look at meee I am allll better now and definitely WONT do that again. Actually had me in tears

[crystal thicket]

nah they had ass aim

[river lintel]

Faust is a chad btw, I won't change my mind

[wary rune]

He is

[golden hazel]

True

[wary rune]

Unless you're zerg rushing Duga for the first time. Then he's a menace

[crystal thicket]

i hoped SIN wouldve been a faction in stalker 2 tbh

[zinc sapphire]

No suicide aura makes controllers a joke

[river lintel]

When he ||controller psy blasted me|| I was genuinely impressed. Least to say the latter reveal

[golden hazel]

Especially at 6fps with a frame time of 3 minutes

[wary rune]

Exactly. They just walk away from you like it's SoC

[sour narwhal]

lmao it's so goddamned funny whenever the game tries to send mercs after me while I'm rolling around with an upgraded merc exo and a fully maxed out hi-capacity saiga

just click in their general direction and they all immediately die

[golden hazel]

Spark literally exists

[wary rune]

Even better when a group of three bandits with Boomsticks and Viper-5s try to blast your ass

[tacit mortar]

Okay, I'm completely lost. Anybody know wtf I'm supposed to do here?

[crystal thicket]

Spark is cool ig....

[pliant sigil]

Spark has the most dogshit camo and I hate that their armor is so good despite that

[golden hazel]

Although ngl if anything they might add a sin-like faction there in the dlc to Limansk

[zinc sapphire]

They're like that one kid in school who will throw shit at you from a distance, but the minute you turn around to sock him one, he runs away like a bitch

[wary rune]

It's literally Freedom camo, while Freedom has Loners camo

They only ones that stand out are Ward (orange), Duty (black-red) and Spark (awful green)

[golden hazel]

DEADLY ANOMALIES

[pliant sigil]

No, Freedom was light green. Spark is this awful fucking turquoise.

[zinc sapphire]

Just be trichromatic colourblind. Solves everything

[river lintel]

Spark actually made me want to reload several hours to side against them

[wary rune]

Dude same! They only redeeming part was Scar going delulu

[warped monolith]

[crystal thicket]

im going to cry burers are so hard

[zinc sapphire]

Ngl, when the most suspicious faction is Spark, not Ward...

[river lintel]

Thst cutscene was bugged for me so I couldn't get him to lol

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA THERES A SNAIL IN YOUR EAR, YOU NEED TO REMOVE IT

[crystal thicket]

i dont even have the time to get into cover he just oblitares me

[wary rune]

Hide when you see their shield. Rush immediately after

[pliant sigil]

Korshunov is unironically the most trustworthy faction leader. It's his bosses you have to worry about.

[river lintel]

He's such a chad too

[warped monolith]

day n+1 of no scar sticker

[river lintel]

I need to make scar tweaking with Korshunov as a gigachad over it

[wary rune]

Which makes him pretty stupid character in my eyes. Dude is this chad, making correct decisions, being THAT guy. Meanwhile his bosses are hilariously villainous and are using him.

[river lintel]

Tbf to him. He is just following orders. He is military after all.

[golden hazel]

The right man in the wrong place

[river lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/half-life-2-g-man-smirk-smile-smug-gif-7973971944599751538

[wary rune]

Should've joined

[zinc sapphire]

Korshunov is a good man who cares about the people under his command. He just has incompetent, power-addled fools giving him orders. Dalin is a shitheel with daddy issues and the woman (forget her name) is a moron who seems to see everyone else as a sacrificial pawn

[pliant sigil]

Korshunov's greatest crime is trusting those around him to not be complete assholes.

[golden hazel]

Another chad to the gachi gym at cement factory

[river lintel]

I was real happy to give Dalin the news ||His dad ain't coming back||

[zinc sapphire]

Ngl, Skif is probably the only person in the zone he could trust fully. Not that he wil or does, given Skif is a Stalker

[river lintel]

I need an update to anomaly that replaces half the rostok barracks with a gym

[wary rune]

That's another weird part. End game spoiler -> ||In three out of four endings, his dad doesn't talk to him. In Scar ending he does for some reason||

[river lintel]

In the ward play through he does a pretty solid job respecting you

[zinc sapphire]

Sure, but respect and trust are different

[heavy hedge]

I wonder what A-Life "improvements" are "expected to be" included in the next patch (per GSC). I had fully expected them not to even touch A-Life until a full set of bugfixes and optimization passes had been made, so I'm curious what exactly they're trying to cook up

[golden hazel]

ITS NOT REAAAL IT MUST BE DESTROYED REEEEEE

[river lintel]

As a loner I'd take not getting looked down on over being told secrets

[river lintel]

Maybe not make squads drop dead after walking a mile

[wary rune]

Or increase the spawn radius because it's ridiculous

[heavy hedge]

Call me a cynic but I feel like anything they do re: A-Life at this point will just be a band-aid, given that they have to maintain feature parity between PC and an effectively last-gen console (lol)

[zinc sapphire]

I mean. Yes. Secrets tend to make you a target in the zone

[tacit mortar]

Well the spawning system is centered around ALife, and parts of missions (Zalissya I'm looking at you) have fucked up spawns due to ALife sperging out.

By circumstance, they pretty much are forced to fix ALife since they need to fix these missions.

[zinc sapphire]

Ngl... thank fuck there are no -official- cognitohazards in the zone

[river lintel]

The series s? Because series x are on par with rigs that tun the game on high

[heavy hedge]

They're fighting a terribly optimized early version of UE5 (particularly with AI, from what I've gleaned), along with being severely resource-restricted on what's available for mobilizing A-Life functionality on the series S, etc.

[golden hazel]

||The weirdest part is that Valentyn seemed to actually know the things that were happening around him and had actual answers for it||

[heavy hedge]

GSC obviously knows more than anybody else on the exact nature of the problems they're facing—it will be interesting to see how it plays out.

[river lintel]

||strider was the same. He was able to process he was dead and answered questions||

[golden hazel]

THE SHINING ZONE IS REAL SKEEFA

[wary rune]

But only in Delulu path because why not

[heavy hedge]

shining zone: your house has chairs, regular zone: you have no chairs
pretty messed up man

[river lintel]

I love that ||the shining zone is just a cartridge for a projector||

[crystal thicket]

you lie. he beat my ass

[river lintel]

Chairs all but went extinct between 2012 and 22 i guess

[wary rune]

[crystal thicket]

he blocks my knife

[golden hazel]

And in one of the tapes from the lab,|| it shows that it worked on topol from og Spark like Strider||

[warped monolith]

use skif's pistol. it can't yoink it from your hands

[river lintel]

Some of the audio logs are chilling, like ||Faust isn't just an inspiration, he's a general||

[tacit mortar]

WHY CANT I POST GIFS AND TEXT GRRRR

[wary rune]

Try hitting him with the sharp part

[tacit mortar]

TFW My loving wife and children disappear as soon as the Shining Zone Emitter is turned off

[river lintel]

Slow mode problems

[crystal thicket]

i was going to post a image of his dead body but i cant do it here

[heavy hedge]

put away your weapon while his shield is up, he can't yank air out of your hands. run around like a chicken with your head cut off to dodge gunfire. you can pick up guns laying around if you have inventory space/weight so the burer can't shoot you with em.
as soon as blue shield drops, draw your best shotgun 2 inches from his face and love his morbidly obese skull tenderly with as many rounds as you can plug in. if shield comes back up, rinse, repeat

[zinc sapphire]

No, no... it's "Have you tried hitting it harder?"

[wary rune]

Due to your Newcomer role

[golden hazel]

The lore in this game goes as hard as the bugs and the eye adaptation

[crystal thicket]

ive been playing stalker for years now

[river lintel]

The role itself needs removed manually

[zinc sapphire]

Eye adaptation makes fighting from the mouth of a dark room/tunnel next to impossible xD

[crystal thicket]

how do i get it removed

[river lintel]

Go to the welcome channel I believe

[heavy hedge]

you have to blow up the duga and put firecrackers in all the toilets at the cement factory hurry skeefa

[warped monolith]

eye adaptation is cancer and I hate it in every game it exists

ever since Battlefield 3

[river lintel]

And you need to streak from CNPP to cooling towers and skinny dip in the water

[golden hazel]

Realism mfs will defend it with their life

[zinc sapphire]

Then you have to shit in Dalin's hat and piss in Korshunov's cereal to awaken the shining zone hurry skeefa!

[warped monolith]

the way it's implemented in games isn't even realistic

[river lintel]

Eye adaptation is cool as fuck but irl your eyes stay adjusted for a few minutes. Let light not flashbang you if you just went in the dark goddammit

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/the-unmatched-power-of-the-sun-sun-power-cop-gif-22776276

[river lintel]

I would love it if it was more, useable?

[river lintel]

Day 43 of not ordering a 100000 lumen cannon

[heavy hedge]

I love when I walk 6 inches one direction and become blind in one 180 degree arc, then back up 6 inches and become blind in the opposite 180 degree arc

[warped monolith]

it's just like dumbasses thinking lens flare is realistic
bitch no it isn't, it's something that only happens on camera lenses that's why it's called LENS flare
human eye doesn't get that shit

[zinc sapphire]

It's why closing one eye while moving from dark to light to dark again helps immensely

[zinc sapphire]

Pretty sure that's just JJ Abrams

[river lintel]

Yar har

[golden hazel]

BUT DA MOVIES IS REAL LIFE

[heavy hedge]

I think people confuse realistic with cinematic, it happens with actual film too where what people mean to emphasize is perhaps "visceral" or "gritty" not necessarily 'realistic' or even 'plausible'

[river lintel]

Oh cool, just shit on everyone who has astigmatism why don't you

[warped monolith]

that's different

[river lintel]

Also, lense flair makes total sense if you have a suit on, since you have a lense on your face

[heavy hedge]

the earlier mentioned battlefield 3 pushed the sort of... found footage/body cam "heightened realism" oversaturated visual chaos, and I think a lot of other games picked up on that visual flair

[warped monolith]

it's just a glass pane in front of you, it's not a lens per se

[river lintel]

But helmetless? Lose it

[golden hazel]

Bluefield 3*

[river lintel]

Depending on the media it's cameras in the helmet, ie destiny esque faceless helmets

[zinc sapphire]

I find 'cinematic' is often too gritty/grimey or too glossy/shiny. Rarely any in between. A lot of older games with heavy bloom tend to look more photorealistic once you drop tbe bloom and turn up the colour saturation and brightness a little

[wary orbit]

what if i wear lenses underneath?

[heavy hedge]

battlefield 3 is visually the same thing as the inception ad BWOOOM music that everyone copied afterward

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/battlefield3-beta-game-engineer-running-gif-20677755

[river lintel]

Or "epic" versions of songs that are just covers with some orchestra and a "bum bum bum" between cuts. Granted some of those go really hard

[golden hazel]

Nothing can top the magazine cover pose in this game

[wary orbit]

@warped monolith it would also explain why we see everything blurry. Skif just has bad eyesight

[zinc sapphire]

Hell,I remember when the first Star Wars Battlefront remake came out, someone cranked down the bloom and pumped up the saturation and brightness, and all the gaming rags were calling it a 'photorealism mod'

[river lintel]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/524246444560089099/1131466565330686002/IMG_1254.gif

[tacit mortar]

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

[heavy hedge]

horror movies really abusing this lately, single adolescent voice singing pop song with no musical accoutrement/accompaniment

[tacit mortar]

SKEEFA. LISTEN SKEEFA. DO WHAT I SAY SKEEFA. IT'S ALL FOR THE ZONE SKEEFA.

[warped monolith]

in my game Skif has 30/20 eyesight. Everything has 2000% sharpness, he sees specks everywhere

[river lintel]

That's what I keep saying is "the blur is immersive for me because my eyes suck and this is how I see"

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA, THE RESIDENTS ARE GETTING EVIL, WE NEED TO PROTECT MY GF

[zinc sapphire]

Especially when irradiated

[heavy hedge]

movies in general, slowed tempo pop song convert to orchestral, add choir, some brief electronic rifts, done

[warped monolith]

SKEEFA, THE HILLS ARE SILENT

[wary orbit]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/634793835179802634/727914974655152168/1534547688634.gif

this is what i think about this SKEEFA Meme

[heavy hedge]

until my eyes adjusted to the upscaling and lighting rendering in UE5, I got killed by so many gravity anomalies I genuinely could not discern from ordinary UE5 blurriness at range

[zinc sapphire]

Imagine having eyesight so good that you can see the aliasing in real life

[heavy hedge]

is that ghosting, or an anomaly about to kill you? are you willing to bet the time since your last save on it?

[rose venture]

CRT Mode guys, I’m telling yall

[river lintel]

Meanwhile I can't see them in anomaly almost at all at times.

[zinc sapphire]

Are you using TAA by any chance?

[warped monolith]

My eyesight was like that after the operation

[golden hazel]

Nah fuck that I need higher fps, eyesight all the way down

[river lintel]

F5

[heavy hedge]

thank goodness no, DLSS, but still

[river lintel]

Imagine, having an amd card

[rose venture]

Shits ass no mater what you’re using

[zinc sapphire]

Was gonna say. TAA is apparently responsible for a lot of blurriness

[tacit mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/chernobyl-elephants-foot-radiation-my-beloved-i-love-gif-22836647

[rose venture]

Fiendin for the next patch

[heavy hedge]

to you and I that's obvious, to many of those on the 'official' stalker server who claim "hours of playtime" lost apparently not as much (and/or console players/gamepass users, who deserve what they get as befits their social station firmly below PC players)

[river lintel]

Everything in this game make me think I'm listing to puddle of mud sometimes

[rose venture]

I don’t like pressing F5

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA WE NEED TO GO TOUCH THE ELEPHANTS FOOT

[river lintel]

But they made it all the way to wild island

[warped monolith]

SKEEFA LOOK INTO THE MEDUSA'S EYES

[heavy hedge]

youre just trying to cover for the fact youre playing using a guitar hero controller, a flight stick and a tomagotchi

[zinc sapphire]

Ah, yes old chap. The console peasants indubitably deserve their lower status for having the audacity to have not built their own PC, I say wot.

[river lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/joaquin-joker-joaquin-phoenix-dc-super-dc-super-villains-gif-17834530

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/family-guy-family-guy-funny-moment-spontaneous-combustion-gif-26196349

[golden hazel]

DO YOU SEE THAT GLOW SKEEFA, THAT'S LIGHT FROM THE SHINING ZONE

[heavy hedge]

smokes pipe

[zinc sapphire]

I know you all read that with a british voice

[rose venture]

Erm actually I’m using a gameboy

[river lintel]

I miss the days of crysis where if your computer wasn't good enough, well then though shit bucko

So when they said it would be on series x, cool, s? Not cool

[warped monolith]

oh man the scanlines

[heavy hedge]

have to chuckle any time I see complaints about games pushing hardware, man until I could get my own computer everything pushed my computers hardware, including newgrounds flash videos

Not that it's an excuse to completely ignore optimizing your game, which is very popular nowadays

[zinc sapphire]

Games don't even use more than 4 cores still xD

[warped monolith]

I bought a brand new pc two weeks before Crysis came out and it still brought my hardware to its proverbial knees

ran silky smooth 60fps on medium settings but OH BOY if I dared to bump the settings to High

[zinc sapphire]

Code optimisation and efficient coding are a lost art I stg

[warped monolith]

vero

all the good coders are either retired or working on AAA coal mines like Call of Duty

[rose venture]

I upgraded from a decade old PC with a 1050 to a PC with a 4070 solely because I couldn’t run Baldur’s Gate 3. Lemme tell you bro, that kind of jump opened my third eye

[heavy hedge]

toiling away in the gamer mines

[warped monolith]

(say what you want about CoD, it's a well-optimized game)

[golden hazel]

five. hundred. gigabytes.

[warped monolith]

heh. Did something similar last year and the results were identical.
Only game that still runs like shit is Tarkov because it's Tarkov.

[rose venture]

Optimized with absolutely 0 compression

[wary orbit]

Kot in german means poop and sounds like code. Coincidence? I think not.

[warped monolith]

compression is for pussies

[rose venture]

https://tenor.com/view/trailer-park-boys-the-way-she-goes-oh-well-gif-14173918

I want to play Tarkov but I’m not sure if I hate myself enough to buy it yet

[warped monolith]

buy?

[zinc sapphire]

I know a dude who is studying compsci as his second degree since his work pays for it. There is no industry standards being taught, proper commenting is basically pushed to the wayside or even marked down, and spaghetti code is the order of the day.

[pliant sigil]

Spooder

[zinc sapphire]

Thank fuck it isn't Australia

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/donkey-kong-gorilla-zoom-in-it-has-expanded-nintendo-gif-17857980

[river lintel]

Youre right, it shouldn't excuse bad optimization. But the new Indian Jones has it right. 20 series onward minimum requirements

[rose venture]

[wary orbit]

Metro 2033 crossover confirmed

[heavy hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/500-ciggarettes-gif-11805300176740010737

[warped monolith]

and mandatory raytracing

[river lintel]

Eh, I'm fine with it

[warped monolith]

let it bite you
gain superpowers
for the shining zone skeefa

[heavy hedge]

I haven't run the new indy game through its paces yet, but it seems relatively well optimized based on the snippets I've seen. Nu-Doom engine, right?

[river lintel]

But I also subscribe to the idea Stagnation is Death

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA WE NEED 500 CIGARETTES, FOR THE SHINING ZONE

[unreal frigate]

the best RT experience i had was half-life, it was such a joy to finally play a game where all materials worked as expected, really cool warp reflections too esp in the xen crystals

[river lintel]

I've not heard complaints

[zinc sapphire]

Not an Australian spider. Chances are good you won't die

[heavy hedge]

Mandatory inventory space: 6 slots, 15 kilos, stays there for 8 main story missions until you can get rid of them

[warped monolith]

making it mandatory is kinda sus because 1. it'll make the hardware a necessity when it could be best utilized for other applications
2. devs will forget how to do lighting and just rely on this shit. All games' art direction will suffer as a result

[river lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-gif-26420462

[warped monolith]

wait half-life has a RT version?

[unreal frigate]

https://github.com/sultim-t/xash-rt/releases

[river lintel]

While those are valid concerns, we need to let's the 10 series finally die

[golden hazel]

This peaks the curiosity of the science team

[zinc sapphire]

Speaking of games suffering. I forsee patent warfare being a thing in the next 5-10 years, and games dev stagnating or being forced underground. Nintendo started it, and now apparentlg Sega is jumping on the bandwagon.

[unreal frigate]

RT looks a bit buggy and glitchy in real low light scenes but its still the best use of RT i've found

[tacit mortar]

I've been walking past this door, locked, for 50 fucking hours. HOW DO I OPEN IT??

ROSTOK BTW

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man-we-one-gif-15701678077601279186

[zinc sapphire]

Is there a window you can see into the other side with?

[warped monolith]

ugh. I don't even have the words

[heavy hedge]

i have the opposite problem, I have a key I have no idea how to use that I cant get rid of in my inventory and can't remember where I picked it up

[zinc sapphire]

What key?

[tacit mortar]

Non.

[heavy hedge]

I'll have to check the description and post it after I get home from "work", from what I remember it's really generic, like "old door key" or something

feel like I picked it up near a bunker crammed full of zombies with a controller

[glossy lake]

the great corporate war is starting

[wary rune]

One google search later

If it's not that one, then it's probably in another reddit post

[heavy hedge]

Nice, thanks. I had honestly just planned to never find out and have the key with me the remainder of the game lol

[zinc sapphire]

Was about to say Prison xD Couldn't remember the name

[wary rune]

I did that with the PDAs

[zinc sapphire]

There is also a key in Hylesk

[wary rune]

Wait, I think I also have this key because I forgor to open one of the doors and can't get rid of it or be bothered to go back there

[glossy lake]

then... what the hell is bubba's pda for i've had that thing on me for god know's how long

[heavy hedge]

everybody stuck with the same damn key, nobody wants to go back to garbage

[pliant sigil]

Man, there are a lot of anomalies in the swamps. Shame I'm never coming back here ever.

[river lintel]

If it was found near/in ref forest theres a door like 20m away

[zinc sapphire]

I think the quest bugged and didn't 'complete' fully

[wary orbit]

Tourist

[river lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/half-life-im-with-the-science-team-gif-27243004

[wary rune]

It's a weird thing from a design perspective. You have a key that you certainly do not need, but can't get rid of it. Why they didn't make a separate inventory for these items is beyond me

[tacit mortar]

I got an extra key from the Trench Zombies in the Red Forest. I used one on the door by the Trench, now I have one left over permanently

"Key"

[heavy hedge]

Especially since it means they're susceptible to regular inventory glitches as a result, quest items for instance

[river lintel]

https://youtu.be/1EZ4RFevbqU?si=_pK10Vrh_G_GN7KH

[wary rune]

Thank god they reduced the items weight. It was ridiculous trying to exit Swamps

[heavy hedge]

Now, it may be realistic that some quest items have weight, but holy hell does it really pin you down when you have no way to actually put them down anywhere even temporarily (like in storage) until you actually get to where you can offload them more conveniently

skif lugs more baggage with him than my mom

[wary rune]

I mean okay, it's realistic for huge ass metal Scanner to weigh a lot, but not everything has to be realistic. Especially when we can use 45 medkits, 60 bandages and eat 145kg of sausages

Set quest item weight to 0 and boom, there's that

[river lintel]

Why are you carrying that much into the field? Leave some at base man!

[wary rune]

But there is that much at field!

[river lintel]

Skyrim has it right where quest items are weightless

[heavy hedge]

Maybe that's a silly complaint since the heaviest quest item you're stuck with for any duration is probably only a couple kilos, but considering your carry weight early on and how big a struggle the economy starts out (meaning every dime of loot you can bring back is meaningful), it would be nice for a little more room to eke out

[wary rune]

I leave bases with 5 medkits, 5 bandages, 1 anti-rad, 5 breads and come back with x10/x20 of everything

[heavy hedge]

Ya, I leave with virtually nothing anymore

[zinc sapphire]

Man, that word just makes me remember Armored Core 6

[pliant sigil]

This loot management system isn't harsh and unforgiving enough. Allow us to only carry six items at a time.

[river lintel]

I feel like that's sorta an issue with most survival games and stalker in general. Once you escape hoboism you don't really go back

[glossy lake]

Wish they went with the old stalker item having uses way instead of just littering stuff everywhere.

[heavy hedge]

Yea, fair point. I don't even really consider the inventory system restrictive or unforgiving at all tbh, it's just the mandatory quest items having weight and not being stashable that mainly bugs me

[pliant sigil]

Fuck, now I want to try a Signalis challenge run. I can only carry six different items at the same time outside of equipped armor and currently selected weapon.

[heavy hedge]

let me be naked. skif nude mod when

[river lintel]

Been playing a lot of anomaly and the amount of shit I've had to leave behind because I cannot carry it back is a little saddening, but realistic imo. You Can't just yoink that exo off that Monolithian and carry it back to base, along with all his squads guns

[wary rune]

For me it's the abundance of items in the field. Having to choose to pick up loot for money or not picking it up because you can't be bothered to slowly carry that shit to base that's 1.5km away feels like a bad design that fits mods, not base game

[crystal thicket]

Gordon freeman! and about damn time too

[river lintel]

I was thinking the same ngl

[wary rune]

I don't want another bottle of vodka, but if I see one, I want to pick it up damnit

[pliant sigil]

No, I’m with the science team!

[river lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/half-life-im-with-the-science-team-gif-27243004

[rose venture]

He totally is Gordon

[river lintel]

Ack! meat giblet sounds

[pliant sigil]

Magnificent microwave casserole

[crystal thicket]

also ive got a question i havent found a answer to online. does the stashes in bases get transported to other bases or not

[glossy lake]

the golden/yellow color ones do yes

[wary rune]

Yes

[crystal thicket]

awsome

[paper plaza]

Did Malachite become enemies for anyone else when coming out of the underground research facility for In Search of Past Glory? It's where you bring the suppressor to Dvupalov.

[zinc sapphire]

You can set it up to run single player with mods or coop with mods

[river lintel]

Yes

[ebon tinsel]

Why can't I post a screenshot?

[wary rune]

Feels like a bug

[tacit mortar]

||Am I not able to save Spirit in the tunnel if I side with Strelok? After I got imprisoned at the Chemical Plant by the Ward, it took the Regenerator away. But I know I could use it for him on my Ward playthrough.||

[paper plaza]

Damnit..

[rose venture]

But can I set it up to not make me suicidal?

[river lintel]

Yeah, there was a whole hostile takeover by ward. You can still fast travel there though and everyone is just hiding

[paper plaza]

Weird

[wary rune]

||I didn't side with Strelok and lost it anyway||

[zinc sapphire]

Maybe? Probably a mod for that

[rose venture]

Idk man, it’s tarkov

[wary rune]

But it wasn't after Dvupalov quest

Or was it? I can't member now

[river lintel]

It's literally useless, thatbquest feels like padding tbh

[tacit mortar]

||So either it's bugged and it gets deleted or it's only possible on a Ward playthrough. ||

[river lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/fredge-half-life-half-life2-rat-chat-gif-18888578

[tacit mortar]

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

[river lintel]

You just can't

I've slowly become an ecologist ....

[wary rune]

Damn this dude was useless. "Go through the tunnel first". Then he proceeded to hit EVERY. SINGLE. BURNER. ANOMALY.

[wary orbit]

literally most misunderstood Aliens in the history of Aliens in Videogames.

[tacit mortar]

||Yeah, just doesn't make sense to me that I can do it on my Ward playthough but not on the others.||

[wary rune]

They are the only good guys then

[river lintel]

I feel like they wrote themselves into a corner and just yoink it

[zinc sapphire]

They just want to sit on your head and suck your brains out

[wary orbit]

no?! They come to fix the Error Gordon and the other scientists made. Why do you think they take over the scientists.

They are trying to help

[wary rune]

Weren't they literally slaves?

[river lintel]

They are trying to close the gate to Xen

[river lintel]

The Vortigaunts were. Yeah

[wary orbit]

The Headcrabs are too

[zinc sapphire]

Idk man, I played HL 1 and 2 when I was a kid and understood nothing beyond "hit funny critters with funny crowbar"

[wary rune]

Did you also get lost during the funny underground train part?

[zinc sapphire]

Probably. That was so long ago now I can't even remember

[river lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/discord-gif-22897697

[wary orbit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slRsexrhbG8&

[wary rune]

I remember driving in circles on that stupid ass train-wannabe. The only mission I remember even better is Mafia's race

[river lintel]

The Nihilnth dialog in Black Mesa is chilling btw

[zinc sapphire]

How is it possible that I came away from this video with less understanding of HL than I had prior?

[short wren]

How big is stalker 2's map compared to other games? I'm seeing some sources say it's bigger than fallout 4's map and gta 5's map while some sources say it's smaller

[wary orbit]

Skill Issue

[river lintel]

It definitely feels bigger but by how much I know not

[mighty saddle]

Hey!

Is it possible to add something to the engine.ini to change the damage I do to NPCs?
like some value so that I only do 50% damage instead of 100%?

[warped monolith]

HoC tuah: 64 sqkm
Failout 4: 43 sqkm
Gyatt 5: 80.3 sqkm

[river lintel]

GTA 5 has the issue where like half of that space instead accessible outside of landing planes on them

[warped monolith]

I also hope they don't include the ocean around the island

because calling an ocean part of "playable game area" is disingenuous

[zinc sapphire]

Drowning is gameplay tho :p

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/wasted-gta-game-over-gif-11967676191833411006

[mortal warren]

Guys, what are the top recommendations for mods?

[dreamy pecan]

agreed, like understandably the bottom portion of the map may be oceanic, but they didn't do an island style map in rdr2 opposed to gtav

[river lintel]

They probably count the glowing sea too despite the fact it's fucking empty

[river lintel]

Wait

[zinc sapphire]

The wait mod is pretty good ngl

[river lintel]

So is the best patient mod

[zinc sapphire]

Expands upon the health system and makes bedrest a thing

[river lintel]

Hot take, i really like the stalker 2 hud and I installed it on my anomaly file

[tacit mortar]

My favorite two are Mutant Loot and Better Ballistics.
(Personally recommend lower dmg Better Ballistics or you kill all mutants in 2/3 clips)

ALife Extended is also great for making the zone feel a bit more active and immersive.

[zinc sapphire]

clips
Reeeeeee

[mighty knot]

hey yall i uninstalled the faster backpack mod but it still affected the animation, is there a fix by any chance

[dreamy pecan]

stripper clips? or magazines?

[river lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/penguinz0-gif-12542788238753910179

[dreamy pecan]

https://tenor.com/view/garand-gun-reload-ww2-cod-gif-15394590

[wary orbit]

i wanted to post that... 😤

[river lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/clint-eastwood-gunslinger-six-shooter-gun-flip-flip-gun-into-holster-gif-12524647873518510513

[tacit mortar]

Wut

Did I pick the wrong dialogue option? Not sure what lead to this question lol

[river lintel]

You said clips, which most firearms do not use

[wary orbit]

get your head out of the gutter not THOSE Stripper Clips!

[dreamy pecan]

so there's clips, which go into a rifle. stripper clips, thats a small piece of metal attatched to the ammo used to dispense ammo from the clip to the rifle, discarding the stripper clip, and magazines, which are magazines

[wary orbit]

actually the Ammo is attached to the Clip not the other way around.

[dreamy pecan]

semantics lol

[wary orbit]

facts

[tacit mortar]

The entire conversation
^
My head

I didn't even realize I said "clips" but I figured most understood it's just slang

[mortal warren]

Thanks! I’ll check them out

[river lintel]

You could say you, clip, it on

[river lintel]

I usually assume it's people not knowing the difference

[wary orbit]

Clips are used by guns that have internal magazines, magazines are used by guns that don't

[dreamy pecan]

greatest example of a clip is an m1 garand

[river lintel]

The "ping" is the internal magazine ejecting out the clip, fixed it lol

[wary orbit]

no

the ping is the clip ejecting from the internal magazine

or magwell

[gilded verge]

Watching S1 lighting and shadows after completing S2 4 times.. makes me cry

[river lintel]

Oh fuck yeah, I explained that wrong lol. Using discord and working

[gilded verge]

Can any of this be fixed by mods?

[river lintel]

Wdym?

[gilded verge]

Or it's just UE5 moment

Shitty lighting and everything around it

[wary orbit]

I'm going to lean out of the window here and say you are misremembering S1 lighting

[gilded verge]

I am playing it now

[wary orbit]

You are playing unmodded SoC and think it has better lighting than a game that came out 17 years later?