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

[plucky onyx]

im about to drop kick this fucking cat out of the church attic

[cerulean root]

Hey @golden hazel you know the name of the song that plays in the first section of the scar meme

[plucky onyx]

anyone else getting packs of 3 bloodsuckers now? shit is really hard

[wanton arch]

i have more legendary then common artifacts

[golden hazel]

It's a remix version of Satisfaction I think it's called

[wanton arch]

new a(ss)-life update now has packs of bloodsuckers running around yeah

[true yew]

Found a channel documenting a-life stuff https://youtube.com/@zoneslug?si=d5LTR0eLUoBBRndK

[plucky onyx]

just finished killing 3 and now 3 more just showed up, this shit is so dumb

[cerulean root]

https://tenor.com/view/you-da-man-you-the-man-pointing-you-gif-5861126726214556501

[summer schooner]

I'm scared of those fuckers enough. I mean no disrespect to your mod, I just like how i have it setup rn.

[plucky onyx]

I wish that one controller in the swamps was my dad

[wanton arch]

Swamps mentioned

[golden hazel]

SOME BODY ONCE TOLD ME

[plucky onyx]

SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW

[summer schooner]

Me and the homies hate swamps.

[plucky onyx]

id live in the swamp church tbh

this fucking game sometimes. I kick this bucket and the physics cause my game to all of a sudden go to 1fps for 20 seconds and then crash. Also if I get to close to corpses where im kind of moving them with my feet my game lags like crazy...

[summer schooner]

I just want a not shit flashlight, or some NVGs

GAMMA NVGs are the best NVGs I've seen in a game tbh.

[true yew]

Entirety of CS faction: Good, fuck off

[split crown]

it is pretty wild how they didn't put any nightvision in STALKER 2

[split crown]

also, ive been enjoying this flashlight mod; it at least makes it seem more useful and provides shadows too. Gotta follow the steps though in order to get it installed and working properly. https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/920

[true yew]

Not using flashlight in night is more visible than with flashlight, lmao

[summer schooner]

I'll take a gander when I play again, tanks.

[split crown]

yeah because of the eye adaptation

[summer schooner]

Yeah....it's stupid.

[true yew]

Tbh, I never used flashlight unless it's pitch dark. Also because of fear being detected by other stalkers

[golden hazel]

Loud dour slam and muffled All Star playing

[subtle zenith]

Hey all, hope you all haing a good day. I'm coming back to Stalker 2 after a break. With the last few patches of optimizations is anyone willing to share their current modlist/ tweaks.or same as before just make sure ive got updated / compatible mods.

[plucky onyx]

dont some of the mercs have it on their armor? Also look at the weapon wall in rostok at the western gun trader. the bolt action sniper has a thermal on top. I think they will add all that stuff eventually

thermal vs blooduckers

[split crown]

I'll be real with you; I haven't gotten far enough into the game to even make it to Rostok lmao. The few random merc squads I have come across did not have NVG either, but they were also literally whos just traversing the Lesser Zone for ??? reasons.

[steady swan]

bruh why this game not want me to finish half the side missions

[split crown]

The amount of optimization issues and real life circumstances have really kept me from progressing in the game

[steady swan]

cant finish in the name of science because the door is just closed

[plucky onyx]

hearing several mutant noises in the tall grass in swamps and proceeding to run through multiple glass shard anomalies

[rain dock]

Is it me, or are enemy footsteps really quiet when they are close?

[cerulean root]

Loner you must seek the shining zone in the name of science

[plucky onyx]

let me help you finish in the name of science

||can someone explain what faust was doing at the clear sky base||

[cerulean root]

||Clear sky was abandoned for some reason and there was some monolithian broadcasting system there if I’m not mistaken. Or it was all a mind fuck that fraust created to mess with us||

[plucky onyx]

||yeah I was wondering why he kept repeating "hang. torn apart by dogs. operation monolith" etc. but yeah I think mind fuckery is also at play because it showed him knocking down the scanner but then when skiff is no longer blinded the scanner is still upright||

[plucky onyx]

getting stun locked by a pack of boars

[golden hazel]

Average Malachite Ecologist

[plucky onyx]

le harry potter swamp easter egg meme

sitting waste deep in swamp water staring at my pda trying to figure out how to get through this shit

[lime umbra]

||it was a Ccon communication device and were telling lebadev what to do
the Ccon was in control of clear sky ||

[plucky onyx]

||ahh, but what was faust doing there? Who was he communicating with? ||

[lime umbra]

||its the same tech used by the Ccon to operate the wishgranter
and hes going to do something with it
you dont know at this point of the story||

[tall meadow]

The eye of the storm can eat my ass

[plucky onyx]

||Ive beat the game once already, just think I didnt pay attention to parts or didnt fully understand parts of it||

[lime umbra]

||oooh
he stole got the means on how to activate and change the duga to be a giant brainscorcher ||

[plucky onyx]

aaaaahhh okay, that's pretty cool actually

[lime umbra]

||yeah he only needed 1 more thing for that
And that was the alpha which
dalin generously donated ||

[plucky onyx]

anyone need bandages?

[royal mural]

yes pls i need 267

[golden hazel]

Mummy time

[true yew]

Mmmmmh, dark souls boss...

[true yew]

[plucky onyx]

they dont want you to know this but the BMP's are free

[golden hazel]

Throw thunderberries into the ocean, someone's gotta charge the eels

[true yew]

Why is the Glutton worse in comparison to the RPK??

Less capacity and much heavier??

[rapid jolt]

The RPK is simply cuter, that's why

[plucky onyx]

glutton is 500 round capacity isnt it?

[true yew]

It shows 244

[plucky onyx]

[true yew]

The RPK shows 250
Maybe I should recheck

[plucky onyx]

also not an rpk btw, its a pkm they renamed rp-74

this stupid fucking bartender made me treck between 6 different locations, fight 8 mercs and a bloodsucker, and he gives me 5k coupons

[abstract lagoon]

Before the war, me and my friends looked into buying an old btr from Poland. It was 16k USD. It was a very attractive offer.

At this point though, they've all been sold to Ukraine, so the price has jumped

[plucky onyx]

supposedly friend of a friend has a brdm-2 out in oklahoma or some shit

[abstract lagoon]

Based as fuck

[rapid jolt]

A real Oklahoma mud squirmer

[abstract lagoon]

Honestly would love to see an insanely suped up mtlb smash some mud

Rednecked out. All the armor pulled off and a roll cage installed.

Damn, i really would love to see that

[scarlet granite]

guys i need help. i know im a cheater but hear me out. i spawned a certain quest item through debug mode, but quest not progresses further, what do i do?

!debug

[fallen iron]

@scarlet granite How to enable debug mode: #╭📖faq message

[fallow pivot]

anyone got issues with massive memory leak after 3-5 minutes in rostok after these updates?

It goes from 7-8GB usage (nominal) to all the way to 24GB in a matter of 5 seconds when my screen freezes.

Stalker 2 is fuckin troubleshooting simulator because of these 3 recent updates. rip

[glad socket]

same deal here
rostok has crashed multiple times for me

it's the only spot the game shits itself on thus far here

[wary rune]

Not only did Burer steal my Skif' pistol, the pistol straight up disappeared because it fell through the floor xD

[polar sigil]

bro finally got rid of it

[true yew]

Bro can use other pistols now

[true yew]

Aint no way..?

Never thought it could initiate pop ups like that

[rich gyro]

Hi! Is it worth getting Stalker 2 in your opinions now, or should I just stick to gamma for 1-2 more years until it's fully fixed and more mods come out?
I don't really care about the harsh economy and progression of GAMMA, what I care most about is a-life and challenging gameplay.

[alpine swan]

yeah, Rostok is crushy crush after recent patches

[alpine swan]

stalker 2 feels like arcade after playing gamma (considered you use top difficulty). But I like visuals and open world more, so probably stick to stalker 2

[rich gyro]

I don't really mind arcade as long as it feels good. Is the hardest difficulty challenging enough in your opinion?

[alpine swan]

you need to roleplay a bit, like carry 4 medkits at once. Then it will be fun.

also distances are huge. You need to find Thunderberry ASAP. Or download stamina mod from Nexus. Other than that game is very ok

[fallow pivot]

In vanilla? Challenging in the wrong ways.

• Bullet sponge enemies (including bullet sponge player, imo vanilla player can take too much damage and do stupid shit like stand in the open without worrying. Especially with exosuit, might as well have cheats on)
• World supplies are too common. You never have to buy ammo, meds or food. You often have too much.

I can't even imagine how normal/easy diff feels like. I Imagine its fuckin boring lol.

[rich gyro]

I'll definetly get some mods with it, like the ones Grok posted here

[fallow pivot]

Idk why people complain about repair costs. It gets significantly better the more you meticulously loot stashes, enemies and artifact hunt.

[true yew]

Never once I considered an enemy bullet sponge, most prolly the pseudogiant or chimera

[fallow pivot]

And you have a quantum stash that acts like a global, persistent bank in all main hubs.

[true yew]

I think you're overexaggerating some of the stuff

[fallow pivot]

I dont have that issue anymore. But I havent been playing vanilla since day 2 or 3 of launch of stalker 2.

[alpine swan]

stalker 2 is still better game overall. Just because old shadow of whatever engine is 15-20 years old

[fallow pivot]

You can check my chat history here lol

Games EZ without mods. But thats just me.

[rich gyro]

And how do enemies act compared to GAMMA? When they work well it can lead to some really fun firefights.

[wraith quarry]

The amount of monolithians in pripyat is ungodly

[fallow pivot]

Dumb. Really dumb. Say goodbye to suicidal monolith.

Glad they actually flush you out though with grenades. But people hate that.

[alpine swan]

they are tricky. In current state they even try to dodge your bullets actively

[rich gyro]

Thats a good thing for me

[true yew]

They make you fight smart

[alpine swan]

you can't really compare 20 years old game and modern one

[true yew]

Even with exo and compass, you can still get your ass kicked

[fallow pivot]

Only by mutants. I rushed the shit out of lategame on my 1st playthrough

[wraith quarry]

AYO WHAT?

[rich gyro]

Thanks guys, I'll give it a go with the mods Grok recommends. Do you have any must have mods for it?

[fallow pivot]

Indoor firefights (if the enemies dont bug out) can be really fun though.

outdoor firefights on the other hand... hit or miss.

[alpine swan]

it is like comparing Deus Ex GOTE and something modern. Does it make Deus Ex GOTE bad? No, it is a fantsatic game. Just a bit old

[alpine swan]

you don't need mods for stalker 2. Only stamina probably

[true yew]

Maybe like playing it on vanilla first (not all the way, just as an experience)
Just a nod of respect to the devs

[wraith quarry]

that supposed to happen?

[fallow pivot]

Start from vanilla, see what bothers you.

[alpine swan]

yes, who tf Grok is to tell you which mods to run? Beat Vanilla first

[wraith quarry]

nvm those are fakes artifacts

[fallow pivot]

Then you can look up mods.

One thing this game does really well are stash placements and hunting.

[rain dock]

Outdoor firefights are a bit dependent on whether or not there is cover around. I was about to head toward the concrete plant, but immediately reconsidered since it was just a flat, treeless plain and I didn't have long-range scope.

[alpine swan]

that is probably why newcomers want mods. Because you can't carry 200kg like in gamma anymore

[fallow pivot]

Yeah the NPCs are optimized for combat of 30m or so.

You'll see your bullet drop significantly after around that mark lol

airsoft ballistics level of bullet drop off

[alpine swan]

if you want something realistic try Ground Branch or Ready Or Not. Stalker 2 is not about modern combat warfare

[fallow pivot]

I have all those games. But I also will play how I want. If you want an easy casual time, thats perfectly fine.

I dont. So I want my combat harder. Not easier. Because at the hardest level, I dont think its unreasonable to expect the AI to be challenging lol.

[alpine swan]

I'm talking about ballistics, drop range etc

[fallow pivot]

Yes, but if you have 4x scope, you shouldnt have to aim at the bottom of the 4x scope to hit targets at 50m. When lots of places in the zone are very vast.

There's a middle ground here. Never said you should be able to hit and see targets at 1KM or even 300m lol.

[alpine swan]

the fact that Kharod has 3x armor piercing if compared to AR416 is already something to consider. Stalker 2 is not a warfare simulator. Period

[fallow pivot]

I dont know what you're arguing for my dude. All Im saying is the game wasnt optimized to for long range combat even though the maps are huge.

[alpine swan]

I'm not arguing. I just want to tell you that whole discussion about bullet range, distances etc is useless.

[rain dock]

The thing that infuriates me is how some bandit with a mac10 can accurately hit me from 40 meters away, when it's useless beyond 10 meters if you're the one using it.

[alpine swan]

didn't they fix aimbot recently?

[fallow pivot]

Its not useless, because otherwise mods for A-life and bullet ballistics wouldnt be popular otherwise.

[true yew]

This is a thing that stems from the og games. The dude is just wanting for more immersive/convincing gunplay

[alpine swan]

people just want ground branch in stalker atmosphere. Fair enough. But it is not stalker anymore

[rain dock]

Not sure. My save is from when the game first came out, so there could be issues stemming from that.

[fallow pivot]

Ahh gatekeeping.

[alpine swan]

yeah, there are tons if games to try. Ghost Recon, 2 more mentioned above etc

[fallow pivot]

Anyways. Play what you want. Mod it if you want. Or dont. idgaf. Its going to be stalker even if they start adding faction wars back into the game.

[alpine swan]

I have tested it against 1.1.3 and AI is actually way less acurate if compared to game start

[fallow pivot]

Once SDK's out, the hardcore fans will be satisfied. Ironman mode, better AI, significantly more (ported) weapons.

[alpine swan]

sure thing mate. Don't want do disapoint you, but stalker is not for tacticool junkies 🙂

[fallow pivot]

Ive been here for a while. Whether its ClearSky, or Anomaly, desolation or GAMMA. Im ashamed to admit i probs have thousands of hours. Very used to the "but anomaly isn't stalker" argument for a while.

[alpine swan]

if you are ok with the fact that there is tactical m4a1 and artifacts + psi enegry in the same game, please go on with it

I enjoy stalker 2 by simply artifact hunting. Not sure how it is connected to all this tacticoolness

[fallow pivot]

You say that, yet one of the most common guns is an HK416, Kriss Vector and a Kharod. Some high end and not very common shit and arguably tacticool wepaons.

[alpine swan]

yeah, I also don't understand what these do in a game like this. Probably to increase sales

[fallow pivot]

Variety.

Whats the point of artifact hunting if you cant spend it on good gear lol.

[alpine swan]

sure, there was even mod with CS:GO skins

[fallow pivot]

if people want that, idgaf. they paid for the game. I sure as hell didnt download skins. But if there were tarkov assets ported over once the SDK is out, I aint complaining

[alpine swan]

of course, sales. I mentioned it before

[heavy stag]

Weird take for a 300 man company backed by several multi million dollar companies

[fallow pivot]

you are in GAMMA discord afterall. Boomsticks and Sharpsticks is a massive part of what GAMMA is. lol.

[alpine swan]

tell it to Grok who is removing tacticool stuff step by step

finally after playing stalker 2 I agree with that btw 🙂

[fallow pivot]

But who gives a shit?

Just play the stalker you want.

[heavy stag]

Me omw to moddb to install some mods for 9 hours and then play for an hour :D

[fallow pivot]

The true stalker experience

[scarlet granite]

'Such is the way of the Zone' ahh moment

[olive aurora]

Здравствуйте! Здесь всё пишется на не русском языке?

[broken hawk]

old stalkers have: a life , actuall graphics that are not completely a blurry mess so you can actually see beyond 40 meters better lighting and cooler stuff overall ai is somehow smarter... + less bugs + way more stable+ actually good story

stalker 2 has nothing on old stalkers

i replayed the old stalkers after trying stalker 2 for few hours ( i got bored so fast) and i can confidently say old games are somehow better after decades

[alpine swan]

I can't play old stalker games, they burn my eyes

[west moth]

old games are better in general

[broken hawk]

modern gamers when they can actually see stuff and its not just a blurry mess

playable graphics>illusion of realism

[lunar gyro]

they dont have to be mutually exclusive but unfortunately they are as soon as upscaling comes into the mix

forced raytracing was a very interesting design decision

[broken hawk]

real propbelm is all games are based upon new engines that are basically useless without taa and shit

[lunar gyro]

in most games you can usually just turn taa off tho. here w/o DLSS or another upscaler you'll be playing in a slideshow

like i have a 4080 and this game will bring it to its knees w/o upscaling

can only imagine how bad it'd be for the other 99.8% of gaming hardware

[crystal thicket]

Just get a better pc

[jovial parrot]

Guys , can someone help me and explain to me how to place shelves on the all? i cant rotate it 😄

[crystal thicket]

Wrong channel this is stalker 2 not gamma

[jovial parrot]

frick, my bad sorry

[crystal thicket]

Try holding r and moving your mouse

[broken hawk]

taa off in modern games = tons of sharpness and shimmer so you want taa on but taa makes things blurry now add faking upscaling like fsr or dlss now its even more blurry now add blurry ray tracing over it now the whole game just becomes a modern art painting

[lunar gyro]

also no need to see far away when the enemies only spawn in at 85 meters 🔥

[jovial parrot]

its just snapping to the ground not the walls

[broken hawk]

if you did see far you would need a rtx 7090 or someshit

[lunar gyro]

RT isn't blurry. it's a really good tech but it's still too performance intensive to be practical. RT + RR can be blurry tho, since I'm pretty sure it requires upscaling to be on

[crystal thicket]

ONE THING I HAVE TO SAY IS. The instant spawning of objects is weird as fuck like how do I fix that??

[broken hawk]

rt is blurry by default because all games are made with taa in mind and extra upscaling shit doesnt helps

[lunar gyro]

gsc planned it all along: last stalker game, just make it for hardware 10 years into the future

[broken hawk]

cant game is caped

[lunar gyro]

ehm that sounds like a TAA skill issue

[crystal thicket]

Dude what so there's no fix to seeing trees dissappear and then appear again

[lunar gyro]

no, gsc has to fix that

[crystal thicket]

My immersion!!!!!!😡😡😡

[broken hawk]

i much rather have had a stalker 2 with a life smart ai and fun gameplay with 2005 graphics over this pile of blurry mess without even a life

[broken hawk]

yeah basically best u can do is turn of taa and max out viewing distance object distances etc also fsr of dlls may hurt too

[crystal thicket]

I would play gamma then stalker 2 but gamma seems bugged af rn I can't even travel between levels and the stutter is crazy

[lunar gyro]

it runs fine for me

[broken hawk]

skill issue tbh

[crystal thicket]

Fym skill issue I have a good pc it runs perfectly well at 60 fps then decides to randomaly drop to 46

[broken hawk]

run de bug open the menu and refresh the game

[timber zenith]

Well it runs pretty good for me with a RX7800 XT and a Ryzen 5700X3D, with FSR3.1 and everything on high or epic.

[lunar gyro]

yea that's like the same hardware as me except AMD

w/o fsr it'd be so bad

since any upscaler besides XeSS is like a 40% performance boost

[timber zenith]

Yep without fsr it's unplayable I tried it

[broken hawk]

the problem is not that my pc cant run it hell i play at native res BUT game looks blurry and shit regardless and u cant even see more than 50 meters anyway

[lunar gyro]

there's also a lot of ghosting issues with dlss frame gen. its inherent to the tech but worse off in stalker 2 than it is in many other games

to the extent where i once thought it was an enemy. real-life psi

[broken hawk]

if ur game needs taa and upscaling to even run and look somewhat good tons of blur your game is trash

no other way around it

[rugged glacier]

do you guys know what it means? google translate is not detecting text here 😦

[alpine swan]

yeah, when I start old shadows of chernobyl I can't play it anymore. Too bad graphics, mess

[broken hawk]

u just a weirdo fr yeah sure the game is dark asf but u can actually see shit and its not blurry

arguably better graphics than stalker 2 fr atleast i can see far

[alpine swan]

so you say UE5 has worth graphics than Stalker 1?

[broken hawk]

ue 5 is dogshit

every ue 5 game is eye cancer makes me dizzy asf from all the blur

[alpine swan]

that's indeed very weird

what's your hardware? I play s2 4k / epic and it is very clear. Not blurry at all

[heavy stag]

I get what he means it's not really sharp???

[shrewd kiln]

come in without fear, come out without crying

[heavy stag]

Ue5 standard visuals don't rlly bother me

[shrewd kiln]

it's one of the lines of the bandit trader in clear sky (the game)

[broken hawk]

2 k native

its shit anything beyond 50 meters u cant see it feels like im in a jail cell while playing and not in open field zone

[alpine swan]

idk, is this blurry?

[broken hawk]

very

u cant even see beyond 20 meters clearly lol and 50 its basically just a mix of colours

[alpine swan]

I'm very happy with picture, not sure what you want from the game

[rugged glacier]

I'll try this mod https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/193 since I had to set resolution to 1080p to get 60 fps, DLSS is making me playing like I'm without glasses

[broken hawk]

actually see stuff beyond 50 meters

[alpine swan]

my picture is way better than this square piece of ancient history with emptiness in the horizon. Maybe we have different tastes mate

[broken hawk]

its not taste as u can see u can actually see stuff thats far and there is no blur

regardless s2 is still dogshit lame without a life anyway

it could have 1 to 1 real graphics and i would still rather go play gamma or old stalkers lol

if i want some nice view i can always go outside if graphics dont compliment the game they are useless

[alpine swan]

well, I can see empty hills in s1 in the horizon and in makes me cry

how can you play it?

[broken hawk]

u can see the hills but u cant even see the stuff on it u cant even make out the tree stumps etc or rocks

thats the diffirence

i rather see stuff than not see shit at all atleast its not dzying like i am constantly spinning around and i can only make out the close

[kindred rune]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/926 anyone tried this mod ??

[alpine swan]

is there any video how to get from Jupyter to Yaniv back before story allows you to open door?

I know how to jump through this acid stuff, but have forgotten how to get back

[wanton arch]

jump on the train west of the north entrance of yaniv

near the door that goes to yaniv theres a few trains and one of the west ones you can jump on top

[warped monolith]

!noalife

[fallen iron]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1306683555488862319/1309254531602972753/Screenshot_2024-11-21-21-13-12-76_572064f74bd5f9fa804b05334aa4f912.jpg?ex=6740e9cd&is=673f984d&hm=4c16bf5a7fe14ff8f1b81027f51be666771f1c2eb28f8a82498b0e0f436dea10&

[true yew]

You managed to send that everytime so far

[warped monolith]

the mods made this a bot command and BY THE LAWD it will be used when necessary

[kindred rune]

after installing Reshade my game started getting crash any fix ?

[true yew]

I forgot the ISPF were friendly in Malachite so I accidentally started shooting at them

[frigid rain]

The game freezes and just locks up a shit ton around rostock safe area. I guess rostock is the stalker 2 equivalent to downtown boston of fallout 4.

[west moth]

I'm sure we get B-Life instead of A-Life

[alpine swan]

yep, sadly so. In my case music still plays but then after some time game crashes after freezing

[wanton arch]

stalker 3 with B-life

"we heard the player feedback and decided to reduce pop in spawns in front of the player, now you'll only have encounters in lairs 🙂 "

[true yew]

"A-life this, A-life that. How about you get A LIFE?" - GSC Game World, 2024

[warped monolith]

A-Life 3.0
enemies will no longer spawn in behind you.
They'll just pop into existence before your eyes

[true yew]

They'll pop in the moment you blink

[wraith quarry]

is there even a possibility to explore CNPP area, excluding the final quest?

[lime umbra]

Only the outside

[west moth]

I havent played S2 yet, but apparently not. Might become a DLC

[lime umbra]

The cnpp is not important in this game

[wraith quarry]

but it is still on the map, and you can't even pay a visit to it, especially than you cannot just continue the game after the story's conclusion

[west moth]

A lot has changed since 2007

[lime umbra]

The cnpp was only relevant for the first game

[stuck condor]

In a bad way

[west moth]

Still it would have been nice to have the cnpp play a bigger role in S2

[digital plume]

strelok had some hair and lost it

[lime umbra]

They do say the cnpp is a husk with nothing in it now

[stuck condor]

[west moth]

I try to be assertive, it's just different

[west moth]

Even that would have been impressive to visit. Maybe with some last secrets to uncover ...

[stuck condor]

I love how movement feels, gun animations, that it is open world. Can't say that anything else is better from OGs

[wraith quarry]

i can understand that cnpp interior could be not explorable, but the area around

There is a proper reason why this region is split into three areas:
Generators, CNPP & Iron Forest

and You do not even get to enter those areas, moreover, in one of the endings You don't even get to see it at all

[warped monolith]

it's basically proven to be DLC bait along with Lemonsk, so... just wait for the dlc

[stuck condor]

Graphics? Nah, I can't even play the game because of the how graphics feels, it makes my eyes hurt

Lemonsk 🍋

[digital plume]

or modders ... i mean look at what stalker was and what stalker iss now

[warped monolith]

It sounds funny and I can always pretend "it's the ukrainian spelling"

[warped monolith]

alright... wait 15 years then

[lime umbra]

15 years and we can't edit anomaly maps without it being a total pain in the ass
Thanks xray

[wanton arch]

someone is gonna remake stalker 2 in unreal

[digital plume]

you even got a time frame
what do you want more

[warped monolith]

wat

[wanton arch]

i mean cause unreal is free, someone is gonna remake the game

[stuck condor]

Unreal 4, the better engine

[west moth]

I try to be tolerant because the dev process for this game was extra hard because of a pandemic and a war, but yeah, there seems to be a lot of improvement possible. Also catering to consoles is added enshittification

[wanton arch]

surely someone will

[warped monolith]

higher chance of someone remaking it in gzdoom

[west moth]

We still have the modders and a possible S3

[wanton arch]

someone remake stalker 2 in xray

[frigid rain]

why do other unreal engine games perform so much better than stalker 2? is this because of open world and larger maps in stalker 2 or just bad implementation by S2 devs?

[stuck condor]

[wanton arch]

yes

[lime umbra]

GSC are shit devs
That's it

[stuck condor]

Not possible and you'll need NASA lvl 1 thread CPU to run it

[warped monolith]

probably devs issue
they had the whole russian invasion to deal with
had to swap from ue4 to ue5 thanks to microsoft
and there's like 2 or 3 people from the original Stalker trilogy team. The rest are all newbie devs making their first game

[wanton arch]

chosing the worst possible solutions for every single aspect of the game, from loading distance, to lightning

[frigid rain]

Too bad unity fucked themselves and everyone making a game on their engine earlier this year

[west moth]

There's a difference between UE4 and UE5. And game studios using UE5 seem to put all the FX to the max and not giving a shit about optimization, so they can shit out "good looking" games fast

[wanton arch]

isnt marvel rivals made in unreal? but which one? ue4?

[lime umbra]

5

[warped monolith]

I don't think Unity is a good engine regardless of the bullshit the CEO did

[west moth]

M$ made them go UE5?! Motherfuckers

[frigid rain]

Falling frontier is a game that I think will never be released. The unity fiasco happened just before that game might have released so the dev had to switch to unreal and take moar time to remake the game

[warped monolith]

that name seems familiar
is it the space RTS?

[lime umbra]

Yep

[frigid rain]

yeah

[lime umbra]

The space rts game
Been waiting on it for 3? Years now

[wanton arch]

is unity better then unreal?

[frigid rain]

it looked great on youtube and there was only ONE dev making it until some publisher snatched him up and no release since then

[stuck condor]

That's not the optimization issue. Engine itself. They use ready to go solutions or have to remade the engine for ages. UE5 is full of ready solutions which are worse than proprietary ones. Witcher 4 devs will spend a year for just making UE5 usable

[warped monolith]

after homeworld 3 seemingly flopped, that's the one I'm hoping will scratch my itch for space RTS

[lime umbra]

X4 continues to be best space rts

[warped monolith]

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

[stuck condor]

UE5 by itself is very good looking ONLY for trailers which are rendered for a couple hours, not in real time

[wanton arch]

surely witcher 4 wont be a buggy unoptimized mess

[frigid rain]

So far all the videos of falling frontier seem to be clear of current year crap

[rotund mantle]

2077 sequel on UE5 aswell

[warped monolith]

gotta play about 20 hours in first person mode before you unlock RTS mode

[lime umbra]

[rotund mantle]

UE5 sucks man

[wanton arch]

it do what

[stuck condor]

Red Engine was one of the best engines on the market, they fucking dropped it

[warped monolith]

I don't think so. I think a good dev team can do more with Unreal than they could with Unity.

[rotund mantle]

😳

[warped monolith]

probably because Cyberpunk 2077 is the limit of what that engine can do

[rotund mantle]

they should have just made red engine 2

[lime umbra]

There's plenty of games that run in eu5 and no one complains about them
It's only when bad devs make games in eu5 that suddenly its le bad

[stuck condor]

They fucked up early, lost money and reputation. Now they can't afford making one in regards of time and money

[rotund mantle]

shareholders are the bane of gamers man

[west moth]

There was a viral video not long ago, where a young dev shows how you can make good looking AND optimized shit in UE5

[lime umbra]

Like no one is complaining that dark and darker is made in ue5

[wanton arch]

i guess so, marvel rivals runs on ue5(havent heard people complain about performance) and i play delta force thats also made in unreal as well and it runs buttery smooth on my mid end pc

[ashen ridge]

I mean
If they spent more time making game instead of making a rendering sandbox they might have had less issues

[frigid rain]

The company making those games is total shit. Their devs are idiots they spent the the entire X3 series trying to make an XBOX game and failed so they had to go back to their pc customers every single time. They shoved a bunch of HR shit into their games from X3 to X4 with really stupid dialogue options like non offending swear words for example and somehow argons almost completely turned black between X3 and X4 wtf? lets not forget about space grandma rot ewww... shitty character designs and dumb ideas they never should have used.

[stuck condor]

Devs fear that their mistake will lose a lot of money, nobody wants to take responsibility nowadays. It takes 5 minutes to fix a bug and 2 weeks to publish it. Luckily Stalker 2 devs don't have that problem

[rotund mantle]

ngl i wouldnt have minded waiting until 2026 or 2027 for stalker 2 so it could fully cook

[warped monolith]

Monke game runs on UE5 and yes, it's a hardware-intensive game but it also runs decently, had practically no bugs/glitches and had consistent performance. If you can get 60fps you'll stay at 60fps.

[ashen ridge]

The flight model is also a big meme
X really do be a spreadsheet sim

[west moth]

He showed a lot of facts and argued how its about getting games out fast that look good so they sell, thats why no one gives a shit about classic optimization and polish. It's outsourcing dev work to player systems

[lime umbra]

I literally don't look at the characters in the X games
They are all just shit
And it's an Rts game mostly

[warped monolith]

that's awfully specific
what the fuck even is "space grandma rot"

[rugged glacier]

granite battle is simply unfun

[frigid rain]

Bad character design that made a big impact as it cannot be unseen

X2 was going to be improved and expanded then egoshit changed plans and made a new engine trying to chase that XBOX money and failed big time.

[stuck condor]

Top 5 steps on how to make a bad game

1. Use Halo Infinite as an example
   No need for the rest steps

[warped monolith]

seems you're very worried that the game "went woke" with character designs
sounds like a dog-whistle nitpick more than anything

[west moth]

I would love to see PC only games again, keeping consoles in mind during development is part of the problem

[wanton arch]

they decided it was a good idea to put 4 gauss rifle guys, in a small room, on high ground and with aim bot

[covert eagle]

Oh yeah the Pinnacle of responsiveness..

[warped monolith]

play tarkov. It's a PC only game.

[west moth]

Naaaah, where should i start

[rugged glacier]

yes, they literally have aim bot, I feel like playing mm in counter-strike free

[wanton arch]

its funny that i can feel when a game is made in unreal cause of the movement

[covert eagle]

Yep

[rugged glacier]

I never thought I could rage playing against bots

[wanton arch]

granite squad arent bots, they are gods

[covert eagle]

Skill issue

[warped monolith]

huh. concord used ue5

[frigid rain]

No, I went through the whole X series experience and watched that company screw themselves and modders over. The X3 series had some really screwed up modding problems and they brought on a mod team to make a lot of the content.

[warped monolith]

apparently dbd is ue5 as well

[covert eagle]

Ahh yes, the Pinnacle of responsiveness (again)

[warped monolith]

Delta Force is ue5. Plays fine.

[stuck condor]

Apparently players play old games 60% more often

[lime umbra]

Dead by daylight
Remnant 2
Frostpunk 2
Tekken 8
Satisfactorio
Like there's enough to pick from

[warped monolith]

Everspace 2 is UE5, also plays fine

[covert eagle]

Based players

[rotund mantle]

apparently the elderscrolls oblivion remaster is going UE5 but we gotta see

[ashen ridge]

People really complaining about ue5 when we had xengine before

[stuck condor]

Just a tendency that new games SUCK

[frigid rain]

I hate the story of everspace 2, you can tell the comet mining guy was gonna get his comet bits and they changed it so he didn't since they ripped him off the title screen during early access

[wanton arch]

subjective but

[warped monolith]

and like it or not, Fortnite is somewhat of a technical marvel considering all the bullshit Epic crams into it.
And it plays fine.

[stuck condor]

If there're 5 gems amongst 1000 games, 995 games still SUCK

[warped monolith]

the new Lords of the Fallen is also ue5 and also plays fine

[rugged glacier]

I'm playing again to get ||the other endings, thought strelok was going to help me this time but mf is bleeding while I have 30 scientist medkit|| and man... is there a way to skip this shitshow?

[covert eagle]

Not based

[lime umbra]

Ready or not even

[rotund mantle]

Gamma on UE5 when

[warped monolith]

this is true for the entirety of videogaming history.
We've always had 5 gems among 995 pieces of turd, since the Atari days.

[wanton arch]

im on my 2nd playthrough as well and im not gonna go through the ending just for the achieves

[frigid rain]

ET was not one of those gems lol

[stuck condor]

We had less games overall, do 5/100 instead

[covert eagle]

ET in UE5 when

[rugged glacier]

I'm seriously reconsidering this new save I made xD

[warped monolith]

nah we've always had limitless slop being pushed around
one guy could make 10 games in a year for the Atari

[warped monolith]

remnant 2

[wanton arch]

the ending sequence is way too damn long, could have been 5 separate missions before the point of no return

[warped monolith]

hmm the robocop game is also ue5. Even Palworld

[stuck condor]

Nuh uh

[warped monolith]

payday 3

[covert eagle]

UE5 apologists working overtime ITT

[frigid rain]

Thank indie slop for those stats oh and flappybird

[warped monolith]

doesn't make my statement false. One guy could make 10 games in a year.
Difference is there were less devs then

[wanton arch]

flappybird was peak

[covert eagle]

She won't date you bro (because she's a videogame engine)

[lime umbra]

Its literally all indie slop actually

[frigid rain]

at least the flappy bird dev was like yall go out and touch grass I'm gonna disable this shit now

[warped monolith]

fax
people only remember the 'good games' from the old days
bad experiences tend to be forgotten
also indie slop usually goes under everyone's radar because indie devs don't have marketing budgets to spam youtube with ads

[frigid rain]

THANK GOD

[warped monolith]

just like any other engine, there are good games and bad games made in it

[lime umbra]

Nowadays crypto slop is the new trend of vomit

[covert eagle]

Y'all have ads on your YouTube??

Grayjay exists for a reason

[frigid rain]

raid shadow legends

[covert eagle]

You're Righ-WAIT UHH I MEAN cope harder

[warped monolith]

the definition of cherry picking

[covert eagle]

Hey I'm just trying to save mf's from ads

[frigid rain]

I am hopeful we will get ports of stalker 2 armors and exo armors to fallout 4 next year. That and hopefully one of the major fallout 4 big mods releases next year too but hope is not a winning strategy:-(

[covert eagle]

Fallout 4 what the

[rotund mantle]

fallout anomaly modpack?

or is it miami?

[frigid rain]

Check this user out he has been making stalker in fallout 4 but not releasing yet https://next.nexusmods.com/profile/Kewin568/mods?gameId=1151

[covert eagle]

Skibbidy anomaly fortnite skin???

[warped monolith]

"wifu"
ignored

[ashen ridge]

Ahh yes stalker in an even worse engine

[wanton arch]

[frigid rain]

check his youtube channel for vids of unreleased stuff so far

[rotund mantle]

when can we get a gamma verison of this ong

[warped monolith]

also there's barely anything on that page so "making stalker in fallout 4" is uh... a stretch

[rotund mantle]

this anomaly wabbajack list is alot closer then that modder imo

[frigid rain]

look under his media tab and check his youtube account

[elfin pecan]

is the memory leak still bad in stalker 2?

[rotund mantle]

mixed from what i am seeing

[ashen ridge]

Depends on your settings IG
Usually get a good 3-4 hours before it sets in for me unless I go to rostock

[covert eagle]

No it's great at leaking memory

[frigid rain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDSv_P_j9z4

there it is found his channel slightly different name but it is the same person

[rotund mantle]

tbh i dont really see the appeal if i want anomaly ill just play that the worlds are so different it doesnt really even make sense to mix them imo

[frigid rain]

the graphics in anomaly are worse than fallout 4 and the map jumping creatures are unacceptable

mutants that can jump from one side of the map to the other just to slap you in the face is really stupid

[rotund mantle]

You mean chimeras? The most deadly mutant in the zone ?

Also graphics aren't everything

[warped monolith]

dangerous mutant*

[frigid rain]

Anomaly is other games smooshed together with story removed and the screwed up implementation of mutants in anomaly is just really low tech anims with bad mechanics

[warped monolith]

if you can get the exact same gameplay in two different games, and one has better graphics...

[rotund mantle]

You can't get the exact same gameplay in fallout 4 and anomaly lol

[frigid rain]

graphics matter when you literally can't see hostile npcs until they are right in front of you and have already killed you

[warped monolith]

once Mr. "making stalker in fallout 4" finishes in 20 years, you can

[frigid rain]

also anomaly feels like minecraft I dunno why and the font they use doesn't help either

[rotund mantle]

What

[frigid rain]

I think it is FOV for me but it feels like minecraft lol

[warped monolith]

of all the things wrong with anomaly, those have to be the oddest nitpicks I've seen

[ashen ridge]

Did I just read complaints about anomaly mutants in the stalker 2 channel?

[frigid rain]

a lot of people don't like the graphics old stalker games it is not a nitpick you just really like anomaly

[wraith swallow]

guys, my stalker 2 saves are broken. I heard that I need to find the data folder, but I don't have it. I'm playing through a game pass. What should I do?

[frigid rain]

Rings are not cool go back to what you were doing

[ashen ridge]

Gamma does take the visuals of the game pretty far fr

[wraith swallow]

help please

[frigid rain]

I don't think modders can optimise stalker 2 right? gotta be the devs only doing that unfortunately

[warped monolith]

the graphics aren't great but you complaining about the smallest crap like ... the font and saying it looks like minecraft is just wrong and disingenuous

[ashen ridge]

Yea I can't quite piece together the "Minecraft" angle

[frigid rain]

minecraft smahing things to get what you want, anomaly smashing boxes to get what you want

[wraith swallow]

help

[frigid rain]

the preset FOV and the minecraft looking font does it for me with anomaly and gamma

[warped monolith]

... wow. lmao that's actually retarded

[ashen ridge]

Uhh
Breaking boxes for loot is a game mechanic from long before Minecraft what

[warped monolith]

bro's just baiting at this point. Imma go eat lunch and go back to playing "minecraft"

[ashen ridge]

Leave it to recruit tags to post the most unhinged takes

[warped monolith]

C:\Users<your_username>\AppData\Local\Packages\GSCGameWorld.S.T.A.L.K.E.R.2HeartofChernobyl_6fr1t1rwfarwt\SystemAppData\xgs<long_string_of_characters>\SaveGames

[frigid rain]

hehe

[lime umbra]

[wraith swallow]

where are these fucking saves

[ashen ridge]

Read carefully
The folder after the gscgameworldstalkerblah blah folder has a unique name to your Xbox user

[frigid rain]

there is a bulletstorm joke in this somewhere I know it

[warped monolith]

I tried

[ashen ridge]

Can't take them back to 2nd grade unfortunately

[frigid rain]

search for a folder called SaveGames and see what happens

[wraith swallow]

What?

[ashen ridge]

You can't just copy the file path from discord
It's different for everyone

Navigate there folder by folder

[wraith swallow]

nstead of acting like you're super cool, can you explain what's wrong?

[ashen ridge]

Read
Each
Word
I
Said

[wraith swallow]

У меня нет этих папок

[ashen ridge]

You
Cannot
Copy
The
File
Path
From
Discord

[warped monolith]

the explanation has already been given multiple times. it's up to you now

[ashen ridge]

<long_string_of_characters> is a placeholder that is different for everyone

[wraith swallow]

the explanation has already been given multiple times. it's up to you now

[ashen ridge]

I believe the string at the end of the gscstalker folder can also be different

[lime umbra]

[frigid rain]

xboxoff lol

[lime umbra]

Asks for help
Can't read
Becomes a bitch when pointed out
Tale as old as time

[warped monolith]

I imagine this is what helpers have to deal with constantly in newbies chat

[frigid rain]

try working customer service!

[warped monolith]

and the thing he asked help with can easily by found by googling

[wraith swallow]

I don't even have a data folder

[frigid rain]

we gonna see smashed keyboard or game controller soon

[warped monolith]

I do. Thankfully it's for something actually technically difficult so the requests I have to deal with are relatable

[frigid rain]

HULK SMASH!!!

[west moth]

Turn a life off and on again

[frigid rain]

I blame the cell phone for most current people's lack of file managment skills

[warped monolith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8njvJ0mgLaI This should probably help you better

[warped monolith]

gotta hold their hands the whole way through

[west moth]

Stalker mobile game when

[lime umbra]

Falco exploded when a newbie got mad at him for no knowing what a .zip was

[frigid rain]

almost nobody does file management anymore because they use cell phones all the time and barely touch file explorer on a computer

[lime umbra]

[west moth]

Ppl think google is the internet (aka browser) these days

[royal mural]

not now

[frigid rain]

people dump their phone content to their pc so they don't lose all that stuff but can't find it on their pc afterwards. Kind of like how most people download something 50 times before they realise where it was downloaded

[frigid rain]

ok hehe

[royal mural]

@warped monolith

[warped monolith]

[lime umbra]

[west moth]

[warped monolith]

anyway that video should be enough. If it isn't, then I can't help him. No one can.

[west moth]

[royal mural]

whats the problem
?

[frigid rain]

this reminds me of just how hard it was to play the ET game on atari back in the day... you will fall in that hole and you will never get out of it

[royal mural]

that ET game? that is to this day the worst game in history?

[west moth]

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wasteland_gamepedia/images/1/14/T_Inv_Icon_ET.png/revision/latest?cb=20140927123247

[frigid rain]

yeah cuz there is no way the info is gonna sink in lol

[west moth]

That ended in the dump

[royal mural]

maybe you should let that sink in then?

[frigid rain]

and then someone dug it all up like wtf

[frigid rain]

eloncarryingasink.gif

[royal mural]

@west moth

[west moth]

Let that think in

[royal mural]

i see everything i dont see

[rugged glacier]

Why are you in Local\Stalker2 and not Local\Packages?

[west moth]

The c-conciousness sees everything

[west moth]

Why are you even

[royal mural]

cause there in no data folder in there?

[wraith swallow]

There is not

[royal mural]

ok ill try now

ahh i cant since i use steam ok

[warped monolith]

broski wants to find the savegame folder for the game pass version
I googled it and sent him the directory path
he copypasted it in file explorer

I even sent a video guide showing it step by step. There's no way to make it simpler.

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/math-maths-math-is-hard-dumb-stupid-gif-12084117895207902755

@wraith swallow have you used file explorer before?

in the local folder in there is a packages folder

[rugged glacier]

@wraith swallow for the love of the God you believe in, paste this in explorer
%localappdata%\Packages

[royal mural]

do #╓☢stalker2™-chat-not-gamma-keep-waiting message step by step like mentioned before if not may god forgive you because we wont

@warped monolith do you need something i scrolled up i think you need a vacation, booze or both

good thing you took the work so i didnt have to xD

[wary orbit]

yes

[royal mural]

hello hermann how do you do

[wary orbit]

Christmas is over. Back to regular german disdain.

[royal mural]

[warped monolith]

dis pear

[royal mural]

in spain without the s

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/final-fantasy7-sephiroth-shall-i-give-you-pear-despair-gif-24939913

[wary orbit]

no

[west moth]

Ze germans !!!

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/you-rang-gif-20538562

[west moth]

https://tenor.com/view/i-know-a-little-german-sprechen-sie-deutsch-sprechen-sitting-over-there-top-secret-gif-16743806

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/racist-thats-racist-dats-racist-gif-5036293

[west moth]

Nah its called humor. At least now we know for sure that you are a german

[warped monolith]

is that from the OG addams family tv show

[wary orbit]

i think so

[warped monolith]

unspeakably goated and based

[warped monolith]

and this looks like it's from a Leslie Nielsen movie

[west moth]

https://tenor.com/view/terroraddict-yes-ok-funny-gif-8926102

[wary orbit]

Die Nackte Kanonne 5.4 1 ¾, or whatever

[west moth]

https://tenor.com/view/nice-beaver-gif-3730255703337770445

kurwa bober

[wary orbit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knobmUd-r5E

[warped monolith]

peak comedy
we will never eat this good ever again

[west moth]

Beavers are adorable!

[wary orbit]

No argument there.

[west moth]

[ashen isle]

YOOOOO

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1005

can we add new slots too

[royal mural]

movie is called top secret

i watch it from time to time its hilarious

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088286/

https://tenor.com/view/crawl-boots-oh-fail-top-secret-gif-7841334

[warped monolith]

damn, val kilmer looks like a baby

[royal mural]

i mean its 1984

[warped monolith]

!1984

[fallen iron]

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[royal mural]

makes it kinda sad seeing him in the new top gun

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/my-man-american-gangster-denzel-washington-smile-taking-a-sip-gif-2201845514569820124

[wary orbit]

liked Val Kilmer in Top Gun and thats about it

[royal mural]

tbh on the top of my head i dont really remember all his roles

if i hear val kilmer i go yea top gun

and i like the hot shots movie more than topgun so

[wary orbit]

uh huh

[mint holly]

Heat, tombstone

[timid oyster]

Bober? Gdzie?

[west moth]

A man of culture

[west moth]

Just above, it's stuffed

[timid oyster]

WHAT HAVE THEY DONEEE

[west moth]

I must admit, i like stuffing beavers

[late kernel]

Anomaly players slowly adding item bloat back to STALKER 2 one by one

[hushed garden]

literally getting stuck on compiling shaders every time i load the game lol, the old fix ain't working

[limber flame]

Hey guys, did the recent mega-patches address mutant balance?

Do you still play with Grok's adjustments, if you ever did?

[wanton arch]

not grok's balances but maklanes mutants, which nerfs/buffs things from mutants. Def have to use something otherwise mutants are just bullet sponges

[limber flame]

Nice to see the modding scene apparently coming to life, there seems to be a bunch of interesting stuff in the nexus page, like supposedly fixing AI and all. Any other big, very well regarded mod at this time?

[wanton arch]

depends on who you ask. Only "big" mod im using that makes a lot of changes is maklanes overhaul

[ashen ridge]

I load groks after maklanes
I feel like maklanes blood suckers take too much buckshot to the face at point blank still

[wanton arch]

would also recommend a gun mod that increases the attachments you can equip. Although you have to be careful when removing the mod cause it can cause your game to crash if you have the attachments on a incompatible gun in a vanilla save

[ashen ridge]

My one gripe with my current attachment mod is it misses some potential options and also puts some stuff on aks that cause floating sights, as there are no meshes for a dovetail pic rail in the game somehow

[wanton arch]

im still coping with my PSO on my AK 😭

[ashen ridge]

For all the good they did with the guns
The fact that they use the hell outta dust cover mounted pic rails and no dovetail pics is wild

I can't wait to get to yantar so I can buy the 2x for the val

Just did duga last night so hopefully the mq takes me there soon

[wanton arch]

fuck dude, the reload on the val could be so good but they butchered it. He grabs the old mag while inserting the new one and instead of pocketing it, HE JUST THROWS IT AWAY. I absolutely hate it

[ashen ridge]

Yea the mag tossing on the val and vss drive me a bit mad

At least the animation for the 20 rounder you can kinda pretend skif doesn't just leave them everywhere
But man
There ain't enough bakelite in the world for the number of 10 round vss mags I've left around

[wanton arch]

things like the AK and the HK having their partial reloads toss the mag i dont mind, but the mf just tosses the mag on his hand with the val

[summer schooner]

Is there any updated mod to help with the AI spotting you from across an entire forest?

[clever sigil]

welcome to the gaming problem from the days of Vietcong xD

[summer schooner]

Well, like, they shouldn't even be able to see me. They'll just do a full 180 at 60 meters away sometimes, and instantly spot me despite me being in cover, above them.

[wanton arch]

i dont think theres any that fixes that :/

[steady swan]

anyone know of a fix to not being able to read new notes and PDAs? When i pick them up they dont show in my PDA anymore

[clever sigil]

well, make less sound. Thats only thing i can suggest.

hopefully it will get "fixed" in the future

[summer schooner]

Being completely, utterly, 100% still with no movement is too loud?

I'm being spotted through walls while being completely still trying to eat my sandwich ;-;

[wanton arch]

which PDA is it? ive had a PDA not have a note as well in my game yesterday

[steady swan]

its like everything now, I just picked up a note in doctor's basement and it didnt show

picked up some other pdas and they havent shown either but im only just now realizing it

[clever sigil]

ah ye those moments are pain.

The only stealth segment i managed to do was the one side mission where you go and kill one squad of renegades.

It was the perfect stealth. eliminated enemies 1 by 1 without getting spotted.

---

I think i saw a mod that tweaks the sight/hear range of the enemies, somewhere on nexus, but i dont remember the name.

[wanton arch]

the one i picked up was inside of a body, dont know if its related?

[steady swan]

seems unlikely, this wasnt in a body

[wanton arch]

i picked up a note recently in zalissya and it showed just fine, but that one PDA didnt have anything with it

[steady swan]

though i have picked up a few in bodies and they didnt show either

[wanton arch]

i assume you tried dropping then picking it up again? mine didnt work when i tried

[steady swan]

it didnt even go to my inventory im just noticing, but i definitely picked it up

this game lmao, hope they get another patch out soonish

[wanton arch]

ive had issues with picking up guns from the ground and they not showing in my inventory either

[steady swan]

ive not had that, though sometimes when i kill someone the gun doesnt drop for like 30 seconds

[wanton arch]

1.1.3 last patch of the year unfortunately, hopefully another patch first week of next year

[steady swan]

understandable, im just hoping for one in the next few weeks if anything

GSC has been working like crazy to fix this, they deserve a little break

[summer schooner]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/633

This one.

[clever sigil]

told ya i saw something like that

[summer schooner]

Yeah, I have it in already. Thank you though.

[nimble jay]

Hello everyone, in short, I have this situation, it got to the point with the scar and nothing, as I understand it, a cutscene should start there, but nothing happens and after some time it just teleports into the room and there is no cutscene, does anyone know what to do?

[lime umbra]

theres another door

[nimble jay]

I went to all the doors and nothing

[lime umbra]

the door on the side next to a guard

[royal mural]

that should be the right door here

nothing happens when you get close to it?

what is the quest called again?

[nimble jay]

this door?

[royal mural]

the guard is a little bit off to the left

[royal mural]

what is the mission name again?

[nimble jay]

back to the Slag Heal

[ashen ridge]

I still can't believe I snuck past ward into the lab in garbage near the start of the mq
The mission where the spark guy gives you the silenced pm I totally didn't just put the attachment on skifs

[royal mural]

so far i only know with console

[steady swan]

guess who just found another thunderberry

[nimble jay]

what with the console?

[royal mural]

theres a mod wich enables console and with a command you can try to fix it

but it can happen that you will get bugs in the future from that but i cant say for 100%

[royal mural]

you can try https://youtu.be/-wCweu3Jpak

but i cannot say it will work 100%

[limpid nest]

which one should I use?

[royal mural]

whatever you like more

stat whise integral cause penetration on vanilla >

[rugged glacier]

the one w more damage to hurt bloodsuckers emotions

[limpid nest]

im inclined to go integral because it is more accurate

[steady swan]

id go integral, although only if you have the extended mag for it

[summer schooner]

If you're not using any gun mods, the integral is a lot better.

Shah's mate won't hold up outside of the small mutants and lower tier enemy stalkers.

The guns in this game also generally work off a tier system, meaning if I take a 9x19 gun fron tier one, it'll tickle you. If i take the same bullet and put it in a tier 3 gun, you perish.

An example is the AR416 (HK416) vs the GP37 (G36). Despite shooting the same bullet, the G36 simply does more damage and has more pen. For whatever reason.

[royal mural]

@wary orbit programmed it thats why

[golden hazel]

You must visit the Duty Gym a lot

[summer schooner]

Ya'll still on that shit?

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/шрек-gif-8248931668663923987

[royal mural]

its a running gag now

[summer schooner]

Don't knock it until you try it. Them duty guys gotta workout their frustrations on something, and we sure as hell know it ain't gonna be their job.

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/you-rang-gif-20538562

[golden hazel]

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/the-addams-family-gomez-and-morticia-humanveil-gif-25088135

[steady swan]

They workout eachother

[summer schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-backshots-gif-1172518849162068669

Live from Duty HQ

[golden hazel]

The Faction Next Door

[royal mural]

@nimble jay if you find something that works tell me

wrong ping sorry @wary orbit was it stoneshard who got an update?

[nimble jay]

oh my god thank you very much it really helped me though i was stupid but we will miss that

[royal mural]

dont worry game has many bugs

[steady swan]

so after malachite defense is the base just deserted? I only see the bed and storage box on the map

[royal mural]

for me after a while the traders etc were back

even the guide but the front door was locked and they were sitting inside

[steady swan]

Damn hopefully they come back soon cause its been multiple in-game days and nothing still, which means i have nowhere close to unload my loot in the area

[royal mural]

i mean the stash is there no?

take the poop pipe ladder and unload your shit?

[steady swan]

yea true, i guess i could always run there and drop it, but then i still have to run somewhere with a trader, at that point i might as well just run to zalissya with everything instead

[royal mural]

tbh i cant remember how long it took i was there again after doing some hunting an then i saw everyones back

[elfin pilot]

ohhh shit it's @shrewd kiln

[royal mural]

nice shotgun

[elfin pilot]

kinda hate the mismatch of camo

[shrewd kiln]

[steady swan]

man im really shocked there isnt a mod to increase the number of markers you can place on the map, wonder if it fucks with game stability too much

[elfin pilot]

anyway how do you get to Strelok hideout in Ahgoprom

[steady swan]

If you havent been down there yet its locked behind a story mission

[elfin pilot]

the entire sewer layout is different now

[golden hazel]

Would be funny as fuck if that would end up breaking something like enemy spawns

[steady swan]

i wouldnt be shocked lmao

[shrewd kiln]

it's in the same place

just a little bit further now

since you make a weird loop through the new part of the underground

[elfin pilot]

shotgun is op in this game

no matter how heavily armored a target is a buckshot in face is enough

[summer schooner]

So, I killed this cat in concrete, and it had a shock collar. What do I do with that?

[steady swan]

Its a quest that will come up much further down the line

[keen arch]

i was just about to ask if its possible to go to agropom underground
all the entrances seem blocked (or i fall to my death in the vent cuz the ladder is broken)

[steady swan]

Yup its quest locked

[keen arch]

oooooh right, okay then, thanks

[steady swan]

i had the exact same problem lmao

theres a lot of locations that are quest locked, its just not always obvious

[keen arch]

ye i spent an awful lot of time trying to get in these old locations
i dont think you can get into the bunker in yantar for example
or the lab

[summer schooner]

Extra weight 💀

[crystal thicket]

you can put a acog on the m860 shotgun

[steady swan]

thankfully not too much

[summer schooner]

I already have like, 6 "quest" items.

[lime umbra]

shahs does twice the amount of damage per shot than the integral

[warped monolith]

SHAW

[summer schooner]

Imo, most "quest" items should at least be stashable.

[lime umbra]

fuk

[steady swan]

go do some quests then you silly goose

[summer schooner]

They are glitched items mostly.

[golden hazel]

GREH

[summer schooner]

Items that either weren't removed from my inventory after the quest, or just shit that idk what it's use is.

[steady swan]

oof im sorry to hear that, ive been mostly lucky with my quests not being bugged, only have one side-quest bugged atm

man the zubr-19 is broken

[summer schooner]

I love slapping NPCs down with bolts, to receive no reaction.

Not even saying they should react. I just find it funny.

[ashen ridge]

Yea it's kinda awkward not being able to fence off this ward badge after ya know
Mercing half of ward at the duga

[summer schooner]

I'd personally keep it anyways in case you could use it again.

[ashen ridge]

I spent most of the day yesterday fighting a war with "over the edge"

[summer schooner]

Who cares if your not actually working with the ward? You have their badge, and whoever you are using it on doesn't need to know you fight the ward.

[ashen ridge]

All for a tech that wasn't even skilled enough to upgrade the seva they gave me

[summer schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/взгляд-2000-ярдов-война-war-soldier-gif-3632617944134077161

[royal mural]

some could say... you are over the edge?

[ashen ridge]

That frigging quest
So many bugs it's hard to find info on the one that affects you

And in the end it came down to a console command at the right time

Kinda funny that gaffer got bugged out and every time I talk to him he does the victory speech dialogue where everyone in the room has lines to say, even if they have left the room the camera pans across the whole building to them

[alpine swan]

hi guys, how stealth kill works after 1.1?
I'm stuck at 19 of 20 and can't finish it

[hallow schooner]

does anyone else just get into these weird points where the CPU isn't being used at all and it gives you 2 fps

[fallow pivot]

anyone else getting incessant shell dropping/ejection sounds when they open your inventory?

its so fackin loud and it doesnt stop at stash, vendors or inventory.

[alpine swan]

anybody has unlocked this achievement?

[fallow pivot]

yeah. Need to do the backstabbing animation.

[ashen ridge]

The only way I know for sure is animation locked kills like backstabs

Eg
If you did the stabby stab to the noontide zombie on wild island

[alpine swan]

yes, for me I have 19 animations. No matter how many I do it doesn't increase counter after 19

[fallow pivot]

rip. I did it pretty early on before the big patches.

[ashen ridge]

At that point I would just ||use uetools to give it to myself||

[fallow pivot]

GSC broke lots of stuff before they went off on holiday.

Rostok game breaking memory leak, malachite audio bug that persists on all inventory/stashes/vendors

[ashen ridge]

Would be cool if icing a whole squad without alerting them counted

[wanton arch]

same here, achieve has been bugged since day one for me

[ashen ridge]

Oh is the memleak rostok related?
I thought it just made it worse
Place is a menace

[fallow pivot]

its the only place I get insane memleak in 5 seconds when the game freezes

[ashen ridge]

It's the only place I get ctd outside loading screens

[fallow pivot]

2-6GB RAM usage to 24-26GB lol.

[royal mural]

thats what you get when freedom takes over

[fallow pivot]

Thats fine. Duty's finally useful and guarding CNPP and they have Degy's crew guardian Pripyat.

[ashen ridge]

Hell my first trip I did a full round of upgrades to a seva and val, like 300k worth
Then the game crashed as I went to close the menu

[fallow pivot]

Freedom puts on a better arena.

[royal mural]

atleast dudy arena didnt try to fuck you over

[fallow pivot]

shame you cant do any jobs for freedom directly.

Hey, if Duty Arena gave me good loot, I'd have liked them more.

[ashen ridge]

Yea I got friendly with freedom by healing their hopeless dorks after bloodsucker attacks

[royal mural]

ill let you choose!

ReVolVer enemy has same gear yada yada

[fallow pivot]

Instead, I wipe out Duty base with ease whenever I do a merc playthrough because they're too scared to patrol beyond Rostok lol

and that target is always sitting his ass at voronin's camp.

[royal mural]

cant disagree when i play monolith i wipe out rostok too but only cause how the level is designed there

[royal mural]

but at the same time sports center was easy af to wipe out too

[fallow pivot]

Freedom at least repels Monolith during barrier missions and actually does incursions up north.

[wanton arch]

stalker 2 is getting boring after 230 hours, might be time to install gamma

[fallow pivot]

Anyway. RIP Duty base. They live in shacks now.

[royal mural]

i cant say tbh i never liked freedom since the first time i had the mission to raid it with the duty guys in soc

[fallow pivot]

If only that 1 side duty mission didnt CTD my game the moment I get near the building in CNPP

[summer schooner]

I haven't been to rostock yet, but I feel it's going to be very...different.

[fallow pivot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euwsOMCX5PQ

[royal mural]

ahh its ok if youre a freedom enjoyer

[fallow pivot]

Nahh rostok feels about the same. Just freedom instead of duty. Barkeep seems happier. Arena is actually pretty snazzy.

[fallow pivot]

i no hav microscope

[summer schooner]

Freedom is...meh. I'm back and forth on them.

[royal mural]

then no 20 $

[fallow pivot]

CUT DE BOOLSHIT U BOZOS

[elfin pilot]

YOU CAN CONVERT IT TO M14

[royal mural]

i up you one

[fallow pivot]

Kicks like a fackin mule lol

[wary rune]

My beloved M701 ❤️

[elfin pilot]

anyone here plays with Moth's Weapon overhaul system mod?

[elfin pilot]

kinda ass you can't sort your stash so it looks all everywhere

it bothers me a lot

[fallow pivot]

You can get a 20 rd mag as well

[ashen ridge]

Doesn't it auto sort on close?

[royal mural]

not only you

[wary rune]

Same + the stash window is way too small

[ashen ridge]

There is a mod for that
The loot window size mod

[summer schooner]

Personally, I just toss shit in there and go about my day.

[short wren]

Yeah it gets boring after beating it once

[royal mural]

didnt they remove that cause complaints

[ashen ridge]

Idk
It seems to sort for me on its own to some degree

[wary rune]

This thing shouldn't even need a mod. There was no reason to make the window that small

[royal mural]

gamma 2 is way more sandboxy i feel you

[elfin pilot]

I think they took RGD-5 Concussion Grenade too literally

[ashen ridge]

On god

[elfin pilot]

it's a grenade causing deadly force, not only just "Concussion"

[ashen ridge]

Shit can land under your feet and the real damage is the overpressure, not the fucking shrapnel in your ballsack

[elfin pilot]

if a concussion grenade explodes at someone's feet the only thing left from them is a bunch of red mist

[royal mural]

yea i like sandbox gamma im gonna do invictus now
me=

[fierce harbor]

Is there a mod to disable gigantic tracer bullets?

[short spoke]

stalker 2 is so fucking ass dude omg

[royal mural]

fastest invictus i ever did lasted whole 5 mins as monolith in generator

[wanton arch]

only thing im scared of from getting into gamma more is the learning curve

[royal mural]

i stepped into those fucking mines they have there

[ashen ridge]

The learning curve is with the crafting system tbh

[short spoke]

like i cant fucking do this quest because im getting shot on sight as soon as i enter the base to talk to sb

[wanton arch]

you'll take NPC aimbots and you'll fucking like it

[wary rune]

I love creating my character, picking a starting inventory, taking basic quests from Sid and anyone else in Rookie village only to get my neck snapped by a pack of <whatever mutant is the closest to the Rookie Village> in the first five minutes of actual GAMMA gameplay

[ashen ridge]

What quest, what base
Did you shit in that factions cereal before?

[fierce harbor]

For anyone strugling, this is basicaly a must https://next.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/collections/abvjv4

I cant imagine playing without it, vanila is soooo bad tbh

[wanton arch]

literally me the first time i installed gamma two years ago(maybe 3 i donr remember)

[wary rune]

Literally me every damn time. The only time I had an easy early game was then I found an AWP really early

[royal mural]

oh yea dont forget my shitty aim

[ashen ridge]

Reduced run speed better not be "jog speed"

[fallow pivot]

MK1 EMR does feel really darn good.

Unfortunately. That one mag costs 10-15k coupons

[elfin pilot]

funny man diwn there

[wary rune]

Mine is even worse

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/please-understand-hold-you-respect-gif-18276673

[wary rune]

I can't use that weapon at all. It seems like Assault Rifles are better at crowd control and Sniper Rifles are better at sniping. I find no spot for a precision rifle

[elfin pilot]

god damn M1A EBR is op

[wanton arch]

is the healing system in gamma hard to understand if i never played eft?

[ashen ridge]

Sniper rifles are irrelevant because engagement ranges

[fallow pivot]

precision rifle? Fackin EZ clap exosuits and mutants alike.

[ashen ridge]

It is nothing like eft

[fallow pivot]

I wanted that EMR with RMR sight from that guy in Zalissya

[ashen ridge]

The only thing kinda similar is limb health
But the ways of healing are absolutely nothing alike

[fallow pivot]

unfortunately, if you ever speak to him after getting his gun, even if the quest is marked done, the gun is taken from your inventory OR stash.

[wary rune]

Healing? You mean loading a previous save after getting hit?

[elfin pilot]

frank em john

[royal mural]

@wary rune look at me im the drunken master

[wanton arch]

just spawn it in after the quest

[ashen ridge]

Oh warlocks gun
You can keep it
||If you let monolith wipe them out||

[fallow pivot]

I should do that

[elfin pilot]

is there a mod that let you attach any picatinny rail attachment on any picatinny rail adapted guns

[royal mural]

fucking mercs

[fallow pivot]

Rookie Village must remain Rookie Village. An Uncle Sid needs to teach these rookies what the zone experience is like on day one.

[ashen ridge]

Yea it works most of the time
It does cause some weirdness with some guns like ak dovetail guns having floating sights as the mount doesn't exist in game

[wanton arch]

millions in repairs oh wait its gamma not stalker 2

[ashen ridge]

I need to remember to install the repair kit mod

[royal mural]

the only thing i have to repair after gamma is my sanity

[fallow pivot]

Yeah, because those sights need to be manually adjusted on a grid system or w/e to match the exact position to make those sights look good.

[ashen ridge]

Friggin seva suit is made outta tissues istg
Suit is awesome otherwise

[royal mural]

i had the starter gear that was my duty playthrough i just had a leather jacket and the mask

[wary rune]

The only thing that matters is physical protection. Just find a Bulat or whatever

[fallow pivot]

Also if there isnt a unique that exists of that already, the modder has to painstakenly change FOV for the weapons

[wanton arch]

i think fov are tied to scopes no?

[elfin pilot]

god damn why did the dev station John Stalkers around DUlga's watch tower, they are nearly invincible

[ashen ridge]

Yea I kinda already got that covered with artifacts
That is a question I've been meaning to find the answer to
Do similar or identical artifact effects stack?

[fallow pivot]

yeah, but it looks unnatural if you just slap it on without constant, minor adjustments.

[wary rune]

They are a poorly implemented mechanic that says "You're not supposed to get close"

[elfin pilot]

the fucking flashbang anomaly is so ass

[wanton arch]

i think they have a cap, so if you have a "maximum" artifact it wont go higher, but you can stack two weak or two medium ones

[elfin pilot]

I swear if that thing is in GAMMA that would end so many Invictus run if they don't crash to desktop already

[ashen ridge]

Interesting

Wtb stat page mod

[fallow pivot]

Unless you do vanilla runs, idk if its possible to kill Faust without dying at least once if you have dmg ramped up.

[wary rune]

The "Weak/Medium/Maximum" stat is such a downgrade compared to CoP

[fallow pivot]

Ironman would suck with some of those bossfights.

[ashen ridge]

The lack of literally having stat bars in the inventory is wild to me
Just why not

[wanton arch]

faust is the only bossfight before the end of the game

[wary rune]

There's also that one psy-cat. It can be even worse

[wanton arch]

what psycat

[ashen ridge]

NGL when I fought him at duga I didn't realize what the fuck was going on until skifs dialogue after

[wary rune]

In a building somewhere near Shelter I think. There's a bunch of Duty guys trying to kill it

[ashen ridge]

Unironically rizzed me with the illusions

Had me confused as fuck

[wanton arch]

the cats that make you hear voices? those are regular enemies that spawn in scripted places tho

[wary rune]

Nah, this one makes copies like psydog

[ashen ridge]

Psycat?
Fuck off

[wanton arch]

did i not fight that, i dont remember it

[ashen ridge]

No thanks
Return to sender
Keep the change

[wanton arch]

kinda weird that the most common mutants are bloodsuckers it seems, not rodents or blind dogs

hell i can count on my fingers the amount of times ive fought boars in the wild, and thats wild

[elfin pilot]

this dude has a cooking pot

atleast now I know some of the monoliths are hauling Cocaine and Cooking Pots around

[elfin pilot]

[wanton arch]

what in the fuck

[royal mural]

btw that scope on the m700 is dope

[wanton arch]

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH okay, i didnt know that was a psy-cat i thought it was a regular one

[peak eagle]

Wait till you find the telekinetic pseudogiant

[wary rune]

Well ... on my second playthrough I spammed the building with grenades so I wouldn't notice that as well

[wanton arch]

i the time i have to go back to duga to get a stash underground that i cant go, cause story. Theres a bugged pseudogiant spawn that if you look the other way for 30 seconds it spawns another one

[royal mural]

that one was fun....not

[ashen ridge]

Jesus christ

Not looking forward to that

[wary rune]

I had that with a Burer that stole my Skif' Pistol today. i killed that dude, started looking for the pistol, and another one spawned. Had to kill three burers in total

[ashen ridge]

Oh can they yoink your gun?
I don't fuck with bururs
They get the f-1

[obsidian orbit]

i played the game just after release with the alife mod. i know some alife features have now been enabled by devs etc. should i still be using the alife mod or something similar? looking for thoughts\

[tall meadow]

Here we go

[wary rune]

They can yoink your gun but they shouldn't be able to yoink Skif's Pistol. Somehow this one dude could. It may be because he's set to spawn in that one location I've visited so he's different or something

[ashen ridge]

You should absolutely use an Alife mod

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/shad-shadstroy-nikolai-niko-stalker-stalker-gif-12045943941512022740

[peak eagle]

I just shoot em once to get the barrier up, wait around a corner then bumrush them with a shotgun

[obsidian orbit]

ok so still not good enough to use the base games

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-сталкер-degtyarev-monolith-merc-gif-22302288

[wanton arch]

recommend trying without to see what you think, then try updating the mod if unsatisfied

[ashen ridge]

Base game still drowns you in artificial encounters

[obsidian orbit]

ok fair

[tall meadow]

The door to the north is open for me wish me luck stalker s ....

[obsidian orbit]

ty

[wary rune]

They don't seem that unfair though. Enemies don't know immediately where you are

[peak eagle]

Endgame moment when everyone is equipped with an exoskeleton

[wanton arch]

i tried shay's new update but the zone felt completely dead for me, didnt had anything happen the whole time i had it on, besides mutant spawns

[peak eagle]

Did an exoskeleton factory open up in the zone? Everyone gets one virtually by midgame

[royal mural]

but but the update was a lie....

[ashen ridge]

It is silly when you go somewhere to do a short objective, then fight twice the number of enemies on your return path you just cleared

[royal mural]

there are different versions tho for the mod no?

[ashen ridge]

Most recent shays has been a vibe for me

[wary rune]

Bigger issue is when two groups of enemies start fighting each other. Then they somehow figure out your position even though you're hiding while crouching

Seems like a trigger is something like "if <enemy> is fighting something, then notify it of player's position"

[ashen ridge]

Yea hopefully letswoolgather figures out what broke his ai rework

[wanton arch]

its called a feature of your character "being in combat"

[ashen ridge]

Because it's pretty key for stealthy gameplay imo

Actually being able to use line of sight to confuse enemies and get flanks is pretty neat

[fallow pivot]

i dont like it when enemies lose sight of you and forget you were there 10 seconds ago

[wary rune]

#╓☢stalker2™-chat-not-gamma-keep-waiting message
I'm glad these guys noticed they are in combat

[fallow pivot]

what is this, skyrim? Must have just been the wind

[ashen ridge]

Holy shit I've had some absolute Skyrim stealth moments as well

Absolutely got seen by ward patrol, hide behind some car
They give up 10 feet away

[royal mural]

that one guy in saving private ryan looking for his arm

[ashen ridge]

💀

[royal mural]

that guy was probably looking for a fix to his combat state bug

[summer schooner]

Are there any mods to reduce the cost of upgrades? a 20% increase to a stat for almost 30k is a bit...crazy.

[golden hazel]

[royal mural]

i have a special mod for that

[wanton arch]

if you have a mod that edit corevariables or difficultyprototypes you can edit it yourself. Otherwise search it in nexusmods

[summer schooner]

I couldn't find anything updated by typing in armor, upgrade, or cost.

[ashen ridge]

Have you tried itemization mod?
Adds a bunch of misc loot that really helps make the economy work?
That's one hell of an upgrade cost tho

[royal mural]

i made that and it edits upgrades and traders

[wary rune]

Btw. the funniest thing GSC did so far was putting a damn Pseudogiant in a BLOODSUCKER village. I almost went out of ammo for AK

[golden hazel]

It's because the entire zone is bloodsucker village

[summer schooner]

💀

[wanton arch]

you can get a mod that reduces repair costs and edit it to reduce upgrade costs as well

[royal mural]

use glutton hold down trigger until nothing moves= profit

[ashen ridge]

I just realized I did the same thing at the duga that I did at the brain scorcher in gamma
Run outta ammo for my primary and proceed to fight an army of monos with a fucking pistol

[wanton arch]

how did you ran out of ammo during duga wtf

[short spoke]

why is stalker 2 not using my cpu so i get fucking horrible fps

[wary rune]

Yeah and my heart will stop moving as well after I count the ammo and repair cost

[royal mural]

p!skillissue

[plucky ibex]

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[ashen ridge]

The shit with ward before sapped me

[golden hazel]

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

[ashen ridge]

And I shoulda went back to rostok but didn't
Barely made it to malachite

[royal mural]

tbh thats why i raised the costs when i use ballistics so its balanced and sid gets a hard one cause i raised his costs by 6 times

[ashen ridge]

So that's how they get through the anomolies

[wanton arch]

nah they just pray a little harder and it goes away

[wanton arch]

RATATATATATATATATATATATATAT

[wary rune]

Ah yes, "I'll cover you". Dude shot me more than the Pseudogiant

[ashen ridge]

That flick to the propane tank at the end was pristine

[royal mural]

i didnt know hes friendly cause he shot me thats why i fired back there

[wanton arch]

|| its fine, he dies after that anyways ||

[royal mural]

@wary rune and notice hold down trigger= dead mutant plus debt

[wary rune]

"Go play with your cousin. He isn't that weird"

[royal mural]

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

[wanton arch]

me trying to hold my inner monolith