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

[fallow pivot]

game is more enjoyable with a slower "run" speed anyway. Im always on yellow weight until i have enough money for upgrades. By which time, I usually just end up carrying more loot and stay on yellow lol.

[rapid jolt]

I want Crysis but with a wider open world and more of the funny NK trolling

[frigid rain]

and vehichles

[fallow pivot]

at least it is if you check every nook and cranny. If you prefer to rush things, then rip. Yeah you'll want to stay green at all times.

[frigid rain]

flying driving shooting oh yeah!

[rapid jolt]

There's something viscerally funny about grabbing one with strength after sprint-cloaking up to one and watching the look of complete horror on his face. You really are a fucking cosmic horror in that game :))))))))

[frigid rain]

for real lol

[rapid jolt]

Man probably doesn't even know what the internet is and you've just rolled up like a hindu deity on his ass

[frigid rain]

if splinter cell games had been like that it would have sold a shit ton more copies

[eternal oyster]

I'm on red

my. pack rat looting ass.

[frigid rain]

once you realized all there is in those wood boxes is the same four or five things you stop smashing them

[elfin pilot]

I just hate how a bread in this game is around 300 lbs

[fallow pivot]

The one time I thought id have enough hercules to make it back to town, I was at the helicopter cemetery near Duga when an emission started.

[plucky onyx]

This is now a Monolith™ chat

[fallow pivot]

Hercules ran out the moment emission started

[frigid rain]

Wait til you get the big piece of bread armor from some npc you just killed

[rapid jolt]

I smash them if I know I need some more consumables and will always smash the ammo ones in the hope that it'll have Malyuk food

[fallow pivot]

Also some quest locked safehouses are still marked as emission safe even though neither you nor NPCs can open the locked doors to them.

[plucky onyx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONmJpAllgsw&ab_channel=DankRobot

[fallow pivot]

I died with a couple of freedom guys because the quest door wouldnt open during an emission. RIP. Watches him turned die before I did.

[true yew]

Anyone remember the 4k bread teaser?

[eternal oyster]

[rapid jolt]

I mean you are carrying like 13 whole loafs of bread... for some reason. Or at least half loafs if the misnomer of an icon is to be believed

[elfin pilot]

pack rat nehavior

[frigid rain]

I screwed up that one scripted chimera moment in swamps with trainer program lol

[rapid jolt]

Bringing water
At all

[eternal oyster]

indeed!

[elfin pilot]

H2O my beloved

[fallow pivot]

Who the fk brings water.

[rapid jolt]

One of the most useless items in the game is water and beer

[fallow pivot]

Just bind energy drink to F2 alt

[rapid jolt]

Both are just lesser versions of energy drink and vodka

[true yew]

Water enjoyers

[frigid rain]

water allows you to run longer before exhaust

[rapid jolt]

Red bull and vodka <3 <3 all a stalker needs

[wicked adder]

Add special ending where if Skiff drank all the limited edition energy drinks he has a heart attack and dies before getting to Pripyat, thats what they shoulda done

[frigid rain]

The bread eating anims remind me of all those skyrim npcs eating bread all the time

[rapid jolt]

Skeefa could probably inhale an entire case of four loko and feel nothing but a mild pep from the end of it

[fallow pivot]

Give anomaly modders 1 week once SDK is out. Guarranteed medical loot's going to be so fuckin rare, it becomes beer and vodka simulator again.

[true yew]

Skeefa is a wasteful eater, ngl

[rapid jolt]

Man eats 40 year old bread and sausage that's been sitting in a dusty bunker with lead paint flakes and asbestos falling from the ceiling

[frigid rain]

and bloodsuckers pooping on it too

[wicked adder]

He only takes two bites of the mysterious jelly meat in a tin

[fallow pivot]

Also, with the fact there are animations for smoking in cutscenes, they didnt add cigs as one of the many useless items in the game is beyond me

[plucky onyx]

average monolithian

[rapid jolt]

Truly the most miraculous thing about the zone is Skif's inhuman liver

[elfin pilot]

as much as I want to love it

the HK416 in this game is ass

[true yew]

An honest worker made that 40 year old bread and sausage that's been sitting in a dusty bunker with lead paint flakes and asbetos falling from the ceiling, he better finish it up

[fallow pivot]

Unfortunately, no suicide bomber monolit

[rapid jolt]

Take that back !!!!

[plucky onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/monolith-preacher-games-stalker-gif-19391373

[rapid jolt]

Clusterfuck is insanely good

[fallow pivot]

5.56? Really? In a 5.45 and 7.62 economy?

[true yew]

Only the clusterfuck redeems the hk416

[elfin pilot]

there's no god damn reason it takes 8 shots to kill an exo helmet

[frigid rain]

bloodsuckers probably have diareaha all the time because they only consume blood eeww... then someone eats food they found near those things like really?

[plucky onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/пригожин-парики-маскировка-ливан-дедушка-gif-8352758906192842865

[true yew]

I wish my guns would survive longer than a gunfight

[frigid rain]

no wonder bloodsuckers run everywhere they are super pissed about eternal diarreah lol

[fallow pivot]

Nah I love it. Give me reason to use up the 1000 7.62x39 and 500 7.62x54 rounds I have stored in my stash and never touch. /s

[rapid jolt]

Are they suppressed?

[frigid rain]

we have that sofmod gun too from the train yard

[elfin pilot]

it's meh

I know cuz im using it rn

[fallow pivot]

I wish almost all animations didnt do the tactical reload when it still has rounds in the mag.

[frigid rain]

they put it in the same area as spark armor too

[elfin pilot]

Skif just flicks off 30 round mag to reload 1 round bothers me a lot

[wicked adder]

You can get a Saiga from a pretty early game quest and, do you really need anything else?

[frigid rain]

spark... the special forces of a theatre actor!

[fallow pivot]

Aks74u is best gun because skeefa never throws away the mag lol

[plucky onyx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4CS0hCFuTY&ab_channel=Gerónimo

[true yew]

...that makes sense

[frigid rain]

saiga even non upgraded kicks ass simply because it shoots fast and reloads fast.

[eternal oyster]

why is he british.

[wicked adder]

Assigned British at birth, very sad

[frigid rain]

I thought he was aussie

[fallow pivot]

Pls. Play in UKR if you can handle reading subtitles

[plucky onyx]

why are you playing the game in english

[fallow pivot]

Do not ruin your experience by playing ENG VA.

[frigid rain]

blackrock says everyone in ukr will speak english sooner or later

[eternal oyster]

because I'm an english native speaker and I don't wanna spend my day staring at the bottom eighth of my screen

[plucky onyx]

[fallow pivot]

So am I, but the difference in quality VA is astonishing.

[wicked adder]

Can't escape the sub vs dub argument even in vidya...

[plucky onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/1-gif-7927775809230802910

[fallow pivot]

Its like watching early good morning Britain TV shows vs an HBO show level of quality lmao.

[cerulean root]

The one scene with ritcher on top of sludge

[frigid rain]

for all the money going into ukr I expect to hear the game in english lol

[fallow pivot]

Brother, leave BS politics out of stalker

we escaped the mainland for a reason.

[wind arrow]

Gotta give this a good repost, makes me laugh my ass off

[tall meadow]

IM RICH

[wicked adder]

Skiff really kills alot of people for the sake of an apartment that... really wasn't very impressive

[frigid rain]

he could have went to work at the local gas station for a while

[fallow pivot]

Another one soon lost to the zone.

[frigid rain]

peddled some of those fake rocks to shady guys for $50 all day long

[plucky onyx]

buying the lada from that one bandit

[fallow pivot]

Touch it. Touch them all.

[plucky onyx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONmJpAllgsw&ab_channel=DankRobot

[true yew]

When/how does one get a velez (or svarog) detector?

[wicked adder]

Fake artefacts are one of the cooler anomolies/Psi effects

[eternal oyster]

[frigid rain]

you get multiple artis with that detector?

[tall meadow]

the red ones are artifacts

[wind arrow]

My personal philosophy is that when you’re in the zone for long enough, it becomes your new home. Mainly why I went with the Strelok ending to protect my new home

[eternal oyster]

ohhhh I thought it was like an anomalous bread situation

[fallow pivot]

Go north of Duga up the hill by the suspicious cone effigy.

There are 20+ "artifacts" there.

[elfin pilot]

can someone give me a hint of how to get this door in Radar

[wicked adder]

Strelok got into too much Vizard veed. In all the endings people say absolute nonsense and skiff really just nods his head to it

[elfin pilot]

oh wait found it

[plucky onyx]

climb on top of the ramp thing

[wicked adder]

Yeah strelok the zone.... Birthed you, for sure dawg

[fallow pivot]

Ward ending best ending

[elfin pilot]

found it

[wind arrow]

For sure, people can figure out who they really are in the zone, free from laws and regulation and free to live life as you want

[wicked adder]

I don't think thats what Strelok wants, considering the fate of everyone within the zone in his ending

[wind arrow]

It’s basically escapism inside escapism

[wicked adder]

Also his boss fight sucks 🔥

[frigid rain]

Free to cap people for the things they need every day instead of live in a civil society

[wicked adder]

and he doesn't stop firing off one liners the entire time

[eternal oyster]

so say I.... accidentally shot an innocent man, let's say it was.... valik lummox? and I accidentally shot him... in the forehead?
am I fucked?

[elfin pilot]

man Radar isn't as scary as STALKER 1

[plucky onyx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhRMWXV0Uok&ab_channel=Pookie

[frigid rain]

I sold his crappy gun then put an 8x scope on the unique ak from ward before patch 1.1

[wind arrow]

His whole philosophy is “I must protect the zone” and he takes that to the absolute, so blocking off the zone allows it to remain mostly as it was while not being disturbed from the outside, much like it was in 2011-2012

[eternal oyster]

im just asking if there's any, how would you say... repercussions?

[wicked adder]

Yeah because hes Crazy, Cracked, come clean undone. Like any other C-Consciousness agent

[wicked adder]

Warlock probably isn't gonna pay you anymore

[wind arrow]

Scar is far crazier than any other C-con agent

[wicked adder]

Scar is struggling with having someone elses memories so i cut him some slack

[eternal oyster]

lets say it wasn't an accident and warlock already paid me and I just wanted to see if it would let me

[frigid rain]

You think that is bad wait til you get stuck with bubba's pda in your inventory forever

[wicked adder]

Other than the consequences on your immortal soul? no

[plucky onyx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrYNsiaCb80&ab_channel=𝓣𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓼𝓸𝓯𝓚𝓲𝓮𝓿

[wind arrow]

Plus, Strelok overcame his brainwashing one way or another, since he isn’t affected by the programming screens unlike Dark One

[eternal oyster]

oh cool cause he had an artifact lol

[elfin pilot]

[plucky onyx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crP6qoyBl_k&ab_channel=Monolith

[wicked adder]

Scar can tank 3 screens before dying, so that doesn't say too much

[plucky onyx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ5UmUOcoWA&ab_channel=RudolfoBosmuler

[wind arrow]

Maybe it’s cause his brain is already turned to mush

[wicked adder]

Hes a deadeye shot for a guy with no brain

[frigid rain]

he would act out how his brain turned to mush

[eternal oyster]

oh and he had a unique AK on top of the water tower. uh, yoink?

[frigid rain]

yeah that one I sold it lol

I kept nightingales gun for a while though

[eternal oyster]

I'm just gonna use it out until I need something better

[elfin pilot]

man the ward took away my Malachite lady

THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

[wicked adder]

She'll be back

[frigid rain]

why do I find a dead npc here and there once in a while at almost any base area?

[elfin pilot]

Siding with Noontide allows you to walk 3000 miles to get anywhere

[wind arrow]

GSC turned Ecologist waifu into a reality, 10/10 game

[wicked adder]

Heart attacks, emissions, card game disputes

Towns are 'safe' but they aren't safe

[frigid rain]

this is why vendors never leave their stalls

[wicked adder]

If an NPC gets stuck on a rock or something during an Emission they will 100% die

[elfin pilot]

someone's into that kind of kink

[frigid rain]

there is one stall in rostok that is roped off so I'm guessing DLC space?

[elfin pilot]

speed

[wicked adder]

Since my guess was that any DLC or big content update will be Faction wars, maybe

[wind arrow]

I’m wondering if there’s any mention of Kruglov in Stalker 2, he’s too much of a chad to die before the game

[frigid rain]

I thought the roped off stall was for ragman when I first got there and maybe I had to go find him in a cave or something but nope he is just around the corner in another building

[buoyant jetty]

Pretend it’s 2026. What kind of huge mods do you guys think we be available for Stalker 2? Like graphical improvements? entire land masses? What can we expect from the next year of modding aside from minor engine.ini changes

[elfin pilot]

BRO WHAT DID THE ZOMBIE PEOPLE EAT THAT THEIR CRANIUM STOPS 556

[cerulean root]

https://tenor.com/view/monolith-stalker-worship-wish-granter-gif-4163859184604151540

[wicked adder]

Is Kruglov not mentioned in the Spark bunker? Its a pain that theres so little documented info about Stalker 2 lore online rn

because it means i gotta load the damn thing up if i really wanna see something

[frigid rain]

Ultra processed foods from murica baked on non stick pans

[wind arrow]

Kruglov worked in the Yantar bunker, but there’s no mention of him there as far as I know

[eternal oyster]

is the poppy field something to be actually worried about, or is like... meh?

[frigid rain]

there is arti in there

[wicked adder]

It teleports you around, and presumably CAN kill you

[frigid rain]

try to explore too long and you die by going to sleep

better have mapgenie open or you never gonna make it through there lol

[eternal oyster]

okay so I assume one of the root cellars is just under a house and pomor was just being an asshole

[eternal oyster]

sorry, the root cellar*

[wicked adder]

The Cellar you want is actually slightly away from the houses

[frigid rain]

the arti in there is lame though

[frigid rain]

I have the parts for that I just didn't think of using them

I gotta ditch glutton for a while so I can knock around chemical plant without getting spotted by ward while wearing a giant silver rubber suit somehow

dam I'm gonna enjoy having that ssp 100 with an exo frame slapped on it in fallout 4 once someone ports all the stuff from this game

The exo frame in S2 is modeled in such a way that any armor could probably fit with it so minimal clipping around the back area probably but nowhere else

[elfin pilot]

I love Tourist suit

[plucky onyx]

diamond exo because monolith

[frigid rain]

that and sunrise

corundum whateveritiscalled because it reminds me of fahahaaba suit in fallout 4

[plucky onyx]

diamond exo because monolith

[frigid rain]

fallout 4 has a shit ton of fidgity fidget innit now thanks to a bunch of mods and also 3rd person view. Once you go gmow and the exo mod modded and about 300 plus other mods you don't go back

[plucky onyx]

or you could go back to monolith

[elfin pilot]

why is he still here

why Malachite people hate me

[frigid rain]

anyone else found that one guy in the underground place where glutton gun is found playing guitar while a bloodsucker runs around stepping on acid pools?

[elfin pilot]

fuck you Scar you made Malachite woman hates me

[frigid rain]

the best looking blow up doll I've ever seen

[plucky onyx]

game devs were wild for this

[forest iron]

bro why in the world do bloodsuckers have so much hp

[elfin pilot]

what da heck

[rapid jolt]

It's impressive how many bozos fall for her

[plucky onyx]

jump into it

[frigid rain]

jump in there lol

free blueprint on the other side

[little plume]

Best fast travel system in the game fuck the guides

[frigid rain]

I thought I had to get to the top of one of those buildings first before jumping in but nope

[plucky onyx]

next playthrough will be no armor- just skif sweater and also only skif pistol

[frigid rain]

skif undees run

[elfin pilot]

uh

[frigid rain]

the name skif sounds like it came from an episode of tripping the rift

[plucky onyx]

damn anyone got a yakuza like a dragon save for the end of chapter 4

[frigid rain]

I got convoy armor after jacking those guys holding star hostage

found two sets of it on almost every ward guy there lol

[elfin pilot]

LOL I MELEE A BLOODSUCKER TO DEATH

[plucky onyx]

i sucked one to death

[frigid rain]

I can't kill anything with that knife

can't hit anything with it that is moving

[elfin pilot]

gotta download mod for that

[frigid rain]

I think I killed two rats with it and I've been through half the game already

smashes boxes real good though

anyone found ward exo yet?

[elfin pilot]

bro what is this fucking Collar quest

[frigid rain]

it sucks

they supposedly fixed it in recent patches but until you get it those collars are dead weight in your inventory

[elfin pilot]

you have to walk across the zone for 5 collars

[rapid jolt]

Ahhhh just like the OG trilogy

[frigid rain]

I keep finding them on dead mutants or stuck on boss level mutants in some quests.

worst one I found is on those clone jujitsu dogs

that quest with nightingale in lesser zone

[elfin pilot]

I swear they need to add back Squad travel

this game is the most painful walking Sim I have ever played

[plucky onyx]

Ive learned to enjoy the walking, problem is ive explored nearly every location and still havent been to siirca

so yeah ton of loot and have everything basically

[elfin pilot]

also upgrading to 45 MP5 barely does anything shoulda kept it 9mm

[plucky onyx]

wish the game was more about the actual cartridge and what barrel length you are shooting it out of

instead of just arbitrary damage value for a gun

[elfin pilot]

this game has the weirdest weapon balancing outside of Helldiver

for a team who tries to make the gunplay looks so cool to fumble badly on weapon balancing

[frigid rain]

ohh... ward exo is operator exo

[plucky onyx]

yeah seems better than diamond tbh

I have diamond, operator, and the duty exo

[stiff agate]

The ai is so op at night i got beignet quest at night and im falling to kill thwm cause im blind smh

[plucky onyx]

ai has predator vision and perfect aim

[frigid rain]

we don't have nvg yet

[stiff agate]

I know

[plucky onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/predator-laser-eyes-searching-gif-15509478

[elfin pilot]

this game combat rn is just to see who outheal who

[stiff agate]

I can do the first tutorial mission CAUSE ITS IN THE DARK and I try to kill them but they manage to 3 shot me when I can see them

[stiff agate]

This game is Fortnite solo cash cups with teamers

[frigid rain]

bloodsucker goes down fast with saiga

[stiff agate]

Tbh I understand why it’s so had

[plucky onyx]

after getting a bunch of artifacts it becomes less of that kind of game. I hated that shit too

[stiff agate]

Hey it’s still decent

[plucky onyx]

pretty fun if you can snipe them if they havent spotted you yet also

[frigid rain]

yep they are visible when far away

they just kinda walk around like they lost their keys or something

[elfin pilot]

another cocaine on Monolith's body

I guess that's how they communicated with a rock

[frigid rain]

cocaine monolith rock: COME TO MEEEE!!!!

[elfin pilot]

this wall gave me PTSD of GAMMA

everytime I see this god damn wall my butt hole tightened to prepare for the nightmare shitshow of GAMMA

[eternal oyster]

post traumatic stalker disorder

[elfin pilot]

time to meet the Sin

[frigid rain]

my first and only start of gamma I spawned into clear sky base and could not hit a dam thing with any weapon. The grass was just too dam tall

I had to run near mutants and get them to chase me towards hostile npcs

[plucky onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/raptor-grass-tall-grass-jurassic-park-gif-9657417438287479393

[frigid rain]

I liked the immersion anims though like puttng on backpack and stuff

I think there was one guy left at the damn pump station by the time all the chaos was over with

I could only shoot him because he was directly in front of me

I have much better chance of spotting npcs in S2 though and it actually should be harder to do

[plucky onyx]

I would always just play in the mode where you switch to someone else when you die

[frigid rain]

gamma was broken gun simulator for real though

[elfin pilot]

no Forester

[frigid rain]

has anyone made a radio on the pda mod yet?

[plucky onyx]

my game is bugged where is says the forester has a mission but I can never get anoption for it when I talk to him

the songs on the radio in this game fucking slap

[elfin pilot]

prob not possible until Mod Kit is created

[frigid rain]

yeah prob, thinking now about all the stuff that would have to be modded to make it work yeah what a pain lol the devs should have added a radio tab

even fallout 4 has a radio tab in vanilla game

I'm suprised most devs don't know they are competing against fallout 4 in single player post apocalyptic category and not press F for 76

There is a shit ton of patreon activity around fallout 4 and been that way for years now

[plucky onyx]

eh dif game in a lot of ways

[frigid rain]

for a dev company that held everyone in suspense for 15 years I would think they could have noticed the mod packs of stalker games and all the stuff going on with fallout 4

[wicked adder]

Its pretty obvious the game was rushed out the door, it needed more months to cook

but with the game already being delayed they probably couldn;t afford to delay further

[frigid rain]

there is a no music filter for youtubers in S2 I think right? in the settings

but no radio tab

[stiff agate]

That’s why because they lost devs due to the war

[pseudo falcon]

uhhh guys is there a good stealth mod, coz AI just spots me even behind cover and can see me through grass and trees

i wanted to stealth play when i can

[pseudo nymph]

Bro what's with the Stalker 2 Graphics? I keep seeing screenshots where I can't decide if it's got old asf looking graphics or brand spanking new graphics

Like you're characters hand and the gun models will look amazing but the wall you're leaning around looks like it could be from 2011

[wicked adder]

Its got a crazy variation

[plucky onyx]

lol nah most people playing on potato graphics ive noticed

playing ona 4070 super and everything is maxed out at 2k resolution

[pseudo nymph]

Like I notice it most often on close ups of those Psy Tranch coat things (Name escapes me) cause the face will look pretty high fidelity but the jacket itself will have dookie textures

It's like the game has a high poly count but not good enough textures or something

Like this image is a solid example I feel

[plucky onyx]

I will say the mutant faces look amazing

well... aside from discord image compression

[pseudo nymph]

The dude holding the PDA has really high detail gloves and jacket, but the PDA is made out of playdough

Then the dude with the guitar has solid textures but it's like it was slapped onto an old model like it's some Texture mod for Anomaly

And yet at other times the game can look like this

Like the game can't decide if it's stuck in 2011 or borderline lifelike

[elfin pilot]

DP12

[plucky onyx]

I want the belt fed shotgun from Metro

[pseudo nymph]

The Bigun?

Or the Abzats

[plucky onyx]

https://metrovideogame.fandom.com/wiki/Heavy_Automatic_Shotgun_(Abzats)

[pseudo nymph]

Yea the Abzats was cool

[plucky onyx]

basically a dskh modified to take shotgun shells

[pseudo nymph]

Couldn't replace my beloved shambler tho

Ngl everytime I return to the OG games I get more annoyed at how poorly balanced Metro Exodus was in regards to weapons. They were all viable but you had to purposefully kneecap yourself if you wanted to run certain things

[plucky onyx]

the 9a91 and the abzat were my favorite I think

[elfin pilot]

god damn the RAM-7 in this game is a blast to use

[plucky onyx]

yeah exodus was okay but I prefer 2033 and last light

[pseudo nymph]

Yea, I love Exodus but I think they fucked the balancing by forcing you to always carry an Tikhar or Helsing

It made the Revolver useless

[elfin pilot]

the heck is this

[plucky onyx]

they just didnt finish the game, like last half is a bunch of levels they cut to shit

[elfin pilot]

Revolver 1 shot nearly everything

[pseudo nymph]

So does the Tikhar, and the Tikhar is quiet and holds it's damage better

[plucky onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/fairly-odd-parents-timmy-turner-gif-22015350

[proud ruin]

Metros guns are based

[proud ruin]

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

[plucky onyx]

I tried replaying last light remastered recently and it looks so much worse than I remember

[elfin pilot]

Metro Exodus the moment you shot a round, your gun is magically filled with 1000lbs of mud

[plucky onyx]

I hope the next game is back in moscow metro, I miss the red line/reich substory and all the stations turned into towns

[pseudo nymph]

It's likely we won't see more of Artyom but we'll likely get side characters

We got Sams Story, Two Colonels, and Khan in the VR one.

[plucky onyx]

yeah I mean his end story is he died on the coast with anna after a long life (with the good ending) right?

[wicked adder]

Uh, not really? It was open ended

The good ending was just ‘We’ve settled down in the coast, things are good’

[plucky onyx]

hmm dont remember I guess, got the bad ending on my first playthrough lol

[wicked adder]

Artyom dying is a consequence of not having enough blood donations

[cerulean root]

Ohh shit we talking metro lore now

[pseudo nymph]

Wasn't really that open ended for Artyom, they make it to Lake Baikal with all of the Spartans and the people they picked up along the way. It's likely they'll live somewhat peacefully

[golden hazel]

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

[plucky onyx]

yeah I think their story is done

[cerulean root]

https://tenor.com/view/metro-metro-exodus-middle-finger-metro-miller-there-is-only-metro-gif-19661553

[plucky onyx]

honestly metro over stalker but obv I love both

[wicked adder]

I wouldn’t count artyom out for sure, but I’d expect a return to Moscow

The setting makes more sense in the… metro, it’s not called Interrail

[plucky onyx]

yeah no more metro books right?

[pseudo nymph]

Personally I'd really love an RPG esque game where you're playing just some Random merc going through the Metro picking up jobs and whatnot, could do it like LOTR Online where the main games are taking place in the background while you do your stuff

[wicked adder]

There is a book that never got a game, but, it wouldn’t translate that well

[pseudo nymph]

They technically didn't even do a 2034 game, the book doesn't even follow Artyom

[plucky onyx]

hmm I have to look into that, sounds interestin

[pseudo nymph]

Listened to the Audiobook when I did overnights

[wicked adder]

It’s… ok

[pseudo nymph]

2034 was really good imo, I'd heard mixed things about 2035 tho

[cerulean root]

https://tenor.com/view/metro-metro-last-light-4a-games-deep-silver-10years-of-metro-gif-19662497

[plucky onyx]

the greatest betrayal of all time

[wicked adder]

atleast he was sorry about it...

[plucky onyx]

he had to die after that, absolute snake

[wicked adder]

He argued for your life! Its just that his boss wouldn't allow it

[plucky onyx]

three muskateers my ass

the only thing I ever learned on the guitar is that one metro guitar song

also bloodsuckers and dark ones are the samething

[true yew]

So dark ones are just neutered bloodsuckers?

[proud ruin]

“Nooo you can’t take your radio to the surface artyom!!! 😡”

[proud ruin]

[proud ruin]

The soy boyband haircut vs the chad crack enjoyer

[wicked adder]

Mm strelok these shards of the wish granter are delicious, what did you call it? Fent rocks?

[proud ruin]

Shard of monolith is code for shards of meth iirc

[elfin pilot]

why are they throwing hands bruv 😭

[proud ruin]

Soylok gets mad when gigachad Skif doesn’t keel senile old man for him

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA THE OLD MAN WANTS TO HURT MY GF YOU NEED TO PROTECT HER

[proud ruin]

😡

[wicked adder]

Strelok when someone working for the zone tasks him with killing strelok:

Strelok working for the zone when skiff won’t kill the guy he tasked him to kill:

[proud ruin]

Typically peak gsc writing

[wicked adder]

Bro is never happy

[pseudo nymph]

Just finished off a bag of Clementines in like 4 days

[proud ruin]

“Why did you send me to kill myself in the death truth?”
“Idk we kinda fucked up lmao”

“Why do you want me to kill old man?”
“Idk he’s dangerous or some shit lmao”

[pseudo nymph]

I fucking love Clementines

[golden hazel]

Top 10 Zonetuber Downfalls, #1, Scar- Went from Granite 3->Merc->Soy

[south snow]

So, what weapon rebalance mod is people's current favorite? Been debating on which to go for, but am thinking of perhaps Better Ballistics

[wicked adder]

I’d love to be in the room when the C consciousness realises it gave strelok the wrong pda

[proud ruin]

The downfall of mersoynary scar must be studied

[wicked adder]

Meant to give him the ‘Kill the Sidorovich’ one or whatever

[proud ruin]

Sidorovich was part of c-con

[cerulean root]

Behold The True Power of the Zone
The SKEEFol

[proud ruin]

He created the zone to get rich scamming rookies

[wicked adder]

I’m part of C con, He’s part of the C con, is anyone here not a C-con agent??

[proud ruin]

No

[golden hazel]

I'm not, I got kicked out of the Monolith for using it as a vending machine

[proud ruin]

Nooo you can’t keep asking our holy idol for pringles !!!!

[wicked adder]

My wish was for the wish granter to stop acting as a monkeys paw…

[golden hazel]

It becomes a bear claw

[wicked adder]

Delicious

[proud ruin]

I asked the wish granter for stalker 2 dlc early and it installed chernobylite on my pc

[cerulean root]

How did we go from this
To the 30+ year smoker voice

[proud ruin]

even introduces himself as major
Lmao SSUs top operative

[golden hazel]

Thank god I played on U-Crane voices

[cerulean root]

Do you know anything about the downed helicopters

[proud ruin]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wtyKEE-hQEI&pp=ygUXU3RhbGtlciBhKyBjb2ljZSBhY3Rpbmc%3D

[hushed garden]

I asked the wish granted for better optimization (wish granters now broken)

[golden hazel]

The og english actors were peak

[proud ruin]

GSC fumbled so badly not having comically bad Slavic accented English VA

[golden hazel]

I SED CAM IN

[true yew]

You can finally sit around the campfire
The con is that you can't do shit while sitting

[wicked adder]

Asked the wish granter for more wishes, it turned me into a stone that grants wishes

[proud ruin]

Spill da beenzzz

[true yew]

Microsoft prolly stopped them from hiring a local slav and forced them to use their AAA VAs

[proud ruin]

Optimising UE5 is beyond even the power of the monolith

[abstract lagoon]

I really like maklane's

[proud ruin]

Hiring random Ukrainian from down the street to read English voice lines would of been goated

[true yew]

I bet someone is already doing a slavic dub overhaul mod in this server

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA WE NEED TO MAKE THE WARD SUFFER, POISON THEIR WATER SUPPLY WITH LAXATIVES

[fallow pivot]

TODEY IZ BEEN SHITTIEST DEY OF MY CREPPIEST LAIFE

Cordon Commander somwhere

[proud ruin]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9JRLCBb7qK8

[fallow pivot]

Spark is already the result of poisoned water.

hve they not learned from Clear Sky?

[proud ruin]

Spark is like temu clear sky

[fallow pivot]

aquamarine* camo. Might as well wear pink.

[abstract lagoon]

Apparently, ol' Alex was actually right about that one. Male frogs were becoming female

[proud ruin]

It was wards doing

[cerulean root]

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

[abstract lagoon]

Nah, it was SIRCAA, but close enough

[true yew]

There are actual frogs in-game

[proud ruin]

They’re putting chemicals in the water !!! SKEEFA!!!

[abstract lagoon]

I remember seeing s frog being levitated under one of those harmless grav anomalies. Was funny

[true yew]

Guys, I don't think I should be doing Spark's job anymore

[proud ruin]

I’m so glad that put the time and effort into making frogs instead of filling the last half of the game with side quests

[true yew]

Foreshadowing or a bug?
Yes

[fallow pivot]

I miss each faction sounding completely different from one another. With the mask filters, they all sound like monolith

[proud ruin]

He has see the way, monolith is the answer, praise monolith

[true yew]

Skeefe, the Monolith IS the Shining Zone

[fallow pivot]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-fortnite-fortnite-dance-monolith-сталкер-gif-18905167

[cerulean root]

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

[cerulean root]

https://tenor.com/view/monolith-preacher-games-stalker-gif-19391373

[abstract lagoon]

https://youtu.be/Atm0GwWs6lw?si=JVKXnNrgeRNblUBz

[abstract lagoon]

Hey so, who supplied the monolith faction in the original games?

[golden hazel]

C-Con

[cerulean root]

I think they got access to old Soviet bunker equipment

[golden hazel]

Monolith existed before the wish granter

[abstract lagoon]

Where'd C-con get the equipment?

[proud ruin]

I wish stalker 2 had a 200iq skill filter to leave lesser zone

[cerulean root]

Where does monolith get money for this equipment

[abstract lagoon]

Also, monolit with Grad rockets when?

[true yew]

You don't need suppliers when the stalkers you hypnotized have stuff already

[proud ruin]

When monolit T-72s?

[abstract lagoon]

Ehhhhh no. They were way better equipped than normal stalkers.

[golden hazel]

Soviet Union and Ukraine's shadow government

[cerulean root]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-monolith-grenade-toilet-bathroom-gif-16805707855488103914

[rapid jolt]

There are also lizards

And waterstriders
And fully rendered dragonflies

The waterstriders impress me the most though

[golden hazel]

strider

[true yew]

Stalker Mitosis

[fallow pivot]

Yeah, rostok is completely FUBAR atm.

If you get stuck in an emission, with the current gamebreaking memory leak, you either have to reload to a save before you get to rostok, risk damaging your gear to get to the guide to get out ASAP.

Reloading save during your stay just fastforwards you to the game completely bricking.

[cerulean root]

Rip Rostok once full of “get out of here stalker” now left with freedom

[true yew]

Can't even do shit for the mfs to increase rep

[fallow pivot]

And then you need to restart your game until the game decides to skip the shader compiler.

God, this is the most broken game ive played this year. And I played a lot of Star Citizen lmao.

[golden hazel]

Sahh dude want some bread or grass

[wicked adder]

The original monolith was made up of military who were guarding the C con

They were super heavy armed.

Later monolithians were made up of the brainwashed stalkers but that couldn’t start until stalkers started reaching CNPP

[summer schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/monolith-preacher-games-stalker-gif-19391373

[wicked adder]

They’re implied to have connections in the military (The death truck from SOC had to have travelled through the military checkpoint at the rail bridge)

And in stalker 2 you see they’ve got crates and crates of canned goods

So presumably all that means they can supply themselves just fine via connections and stockpiled stuff

[true yew]

Chad ragdoll death vs soyjack death screen

They should bring ragdoll death back into the game
But how hard is it do though?

[golden hazel]

I can see that becoming another memory leak very quick

[fallow pivot]

Yeah nah, sorry GSC. Gonna have to leave you a very negative review to dissuade people from buying your game until you fix these issues.

Ive reached my limit. Za monolit.

[true yew]

"Why is my memory all used up?"
STALKER 2 Memory leaks:

[fallow pivot]

from 2-4GB RAM usage to 24GB in 5 seconds.

[true yew]

Wtf, that's more than what my setup can handle
It's a miracle it still runs

[fallow pivot]

Idk how I fought off 40+ respawning Ward with their weapons and bodies getting ragdolled at Malachite yesterday with no bodies disappearing or FPS drop until I left Malachite, but Rostok with most NPC standing around doing nothing somehow causes a memory leak so bad, it no longer stutters it just fucking crashes the game lol

[true yew]

I wonder what's the true cause for that, I'm not that literate in programming

[fallow pivot]

Probably some culling bullshit. NPC's from offline Alife spawning in and despawning or whatever outside of our view.

Or what if its just because there are so many interactables/props with physics, there's like 1 or two causing the game to go haywire

You're not Bethesda, GSC. Stick to what you're good at.

[golden hazel]

[fallow pivot]

the 20+ ammo boxes dont have to be breakable with physics.

[true yew]

The only good games from Bethesda are the ones they didn't make

[fallow pivot]

[proud ruin]

[golden hazel]

I am blind, yet it is you who cannot see. It was an inside job

[proud ruin]

Does bro think Bethesda makes good games ?

[proud ruin]

It just works

[golden hazel]

Good just working, stalker.

[late stag]

Anyone got a save file where they have access to Icarus base? I fucked myself over by not showing the broken PDA to Col. Korshunov

I'm like 20 hours of progress away from that mission at this point

[proud ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-it-just-works-gif-26528247

[fallow pivot]

Thats the whole point. Bethesda doesnt make GREAT games, but somehow GSC makes worse games.
They should thank us for bearing with the bugginess of their games. But the endearment can only get you so far.

https://tenor.com/view/old-man-yells-at-sky-sky-news-simpsons-rumboman-gif-24776455

[proud ruin]

Did you expect something other than a buggy mess from gsc?

[fallow pivot]

No, but I expected to be at least able to play it for 10 minutes before it freezes.

[fallow pivot]

Especially since the first 150 hours were buggy, but completely playable and fun lol

[golden hazel]

I fought through the 6fps boss fights and towns just for the lore, they cooked with it this game

[fallow pivot]

Typical gamedev shenanigans. 1 step forward, 2 steps back type of bs.

Rant over. GL GSC. I'll be back once the community fixes the issues long live stalker

[golden hazel]

Community ain't gonna fix those memory leaks unfortunately

[proud ruin]

I can’t wait for gamma 2, 2075 release

[golden hazel]

Can't be a GAMMA 2 without a Grok 2

[true yew]

Truly, a eurojank moment

[proud ruin]

Eurojank my beloved

[golden hazel]

We need to make a real life C-Con and X-Labs to artificially create Grok 2 so we can have GAMMA 2

[true yew]

We have to birth the zone irl, who here has a STEM degree and visa to Ukraine-

[proud ruin]

Grok 2 will be an abomination created in the bowels of a X lab

[fallow pivot]

It'll be made powered by Caffeine and Prof. Dyupalov's Magic Vodka

[golden hazel]

First will come the Groktrollers, a mutant that will force you to mentally experience the time when ZCP got updated to 1.5d with its psy blast, then the ultimate Groktroller, Grausk

[proud ruin]

He’s French he’ll be powered by croissants

[proud ruin]

[proud ruin]

Groktroller will psychically make you play misery for all eternity with its psy blast

[eternal oyster]

out of pure curiosity, can anyone tell me what this says?

[fallow pivot]

Come join freedom, we have kebab

[wary orbit]

GET A BETTER PICTURE

[eternal oyster]

well don't yell at me, damn

[wary orbit]

sorry caps was active

[eternal oyster]

trying not to have my crosshair sit on it

[golden hazel]

With the loud as fuck controller ear destroying sound it makes

[proud ruin]

[eternal oyster]

there. best you're gettin.

[true yew]

Can't wait for S2:GAMMA
-Super rare and expensive medkits
-Spend 100+ hours if you want a new gun
-A fuck you mod
-Stat sorcery
-Enemies have 0% condition weapons but somehow shoot perfectly
-Tarkov with STALKER elements but no extraction (ofc it wouldn't have extraction, it's a stalker game)
-Did I mention it's a fuck you mod?

[fallow pivot]

Anyone know if theres a way to only have subtitles during active convo?

I dont like seeing subtitles say "Dies" or "Screams in pain"

[eternal oyster]

enemies have 0% condition weapons but somehow shoots perfectly
okay so we've already got that one...

[fallow pivot]

I want to have to double check if the guy on the ground is actually dead or injured so I can deadcheck him lol

[proud ruin]

Gamma isn’t even hard

[golden hazel]

If there's a candidate for GAMMA 2 it's the edits Hulk has made on his game

[proud ruin]

I can’t wait til the weapon packs start being added (I need 100 different ak variants with no stat differences)

[golden hazel]

Nah there's gonna be one with higher stats (The Dusty Camo one)

[proud ruin]

[true yew]

Korshunov thinking he can bribe you with a reskinned AK

[fallow pivot]

Whaaaat? You can keep the skinned AK? Totally didnt know that.

Nuh uh. Psshhh why would I accept a bribe. I mean, i lost my apartment back in the mainland because of this artifact.

Also, unrelated. But fuck the swamps and any marshy area with a fishing hut on it.

[eternal oyster]

are there any artifacts I should actually keep or should I be sellin em all early game

[fallow pivot]

Tbh. if you're doing vanilla, you can upgrade your gear to the point where the passives of artifacts are pointless. Just sell them or collect them imo.

[true yew]

Legendary ones, anti rad ones, arch-anomaly ones, weight ones

[fallow pivot]

Esp since they respawn after emissions.

[eternal oyster]

I pulled a flytrap outta one but idk about the others

flytrap, whirlwind n a goldfish

[eternal oyster]

vanilla?

[wary orbit]

rough translation "Whoever comes from a chemical plant - may shit himself in any weather"

[eternal oyster]

there's mods for this shit already? like... extensive ones?'

[fallow pivot]

Unmodded. Or lightly modded playthroughs

Yeah not really extensive like GAMMA or anything. But some mods change stats of anomalies, prices of repairs, vendor payments, hunting meat from mutants.

[eternal oyster]

MUTANT MEAT

okay it appears my second playthrough will be modded. I... don't wanna ruin my first experience. with mods.
tempting though.

[fallow pivot]

Yeah its relatively straight forward.

Lots of mods edit the same CFG files so they will conflict/ cant work together.

Most modders know to include words like "compatibility: if a mod edits "x".CFG files, it will unlikely work unless you do X"

[eternal oyster]

holy fucking shit is that a gamma reference

[wary orbit]

ur welcome

[summer schooner]

I need a gun degredation mod that works. I fired half my mag (45 regular bullets) and I went from 100% condition to 85%....wtf

[eternal oyster]

yes, thank you. it's nothing monumental, but thanks.

[true yew]

Are the recommended mods pinned?

[fallow pivot]

theres one. But it might be more reasonable to get repair cost mods instead.

[summer schooner]

My issue is, my gun fucks up mid-fight. Not cool.

[fallow pivot]

Unless you find gun jamming a complete deal breaker

[summer schooner]

Idk what happened, I had one and it was working, but now I shoot half a mag and my gun falls apart in my hands

[fallow pivot]

ah yeah, then get that degradation mod instead. I love the extra panic induced by my guns jamming*

Some ammo types wear your guns down significantly faster. + apparently suppressed guns do too. + meleeing with your gun.

[summer schooner]

I don't. It's not cool to literally leave the town, repair your gun, then have it jam in the FIRST fight outside the town.

After spending 2k-6k ro repair it.

[fallow pivot]

I love it.

Money isnt an issue when you sell everything but ammo

[summer schooner]

I just don't see the point of ever repairing a gun if it disintegrates in your second or third gunfight.

Grab one off a dude you killed, go ham until it breaks, rinse, repeat. GSC was...coking with this one.

[true yew]

How to shoot money out of your gun:
-use AP ammo
-supress it
-put it on auto
-use it as alternative to your knife

[fallow pivot]

Upgrades make a massive difference and using regular FMJ rounds without suppressor.

[summer schooner]

No suppressor, regular FMJ, max upgraded rifle with all the wear mods.

[fallow pivot]

I had to resist repairing my guns for the authentic stalker shitty equipment simulator part of stalker I enjoy lol

[wary orbit]

i need this in Stalker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3IQbbygt08

[summer schooner]

Can't even run a full 90rd mag without going into the yellow on durability hardly.

[eternal oyster]

man squint is uh. kinda bad.
almost makes me feel bad for killing him

[fallow pivot]

embrace the zone, SKEEFA

[eternal oyster]

why did he decide to sprint at me? we're in like a 6 foot space. he took two steps and I had 6 rounds of 45 in his ribs.

[summer schooner]

No, fuck this. I'm finding a mod or waiting for one. I'm not spending like, 5k on gun repairs just to have it jam the second I leave the damn trader.

[true yew]

does buying the weathering-resistance upgrade significantly decreasing weathering of the gun?

[eternal oyster]

I'm sure you can read, yes? does the upgrade not have a decription?

[fallow pivot]

Skeefa, embrace the weapon jams during boss fights skeefa

[summer schooner]

I'm going to bed. Not dealing with this shit tbh.

[true yew]

I can read, I wanna check if it's not placebo

[fallow pivot]

took 4 mags of buckshot* before it went yellow durability. Fun as fuck lol

[summer schooner]

That's so stupid...I use guns irl.

[true yew]

Nvm, I could actually check in-game

[summer schooner]

If guns irl functioned anything even within the realm of how stalker 2 guns work, we wouldn't be using firearms, we'd still be using swords.

[eternal oyster]

okay yeah hearing this I'm realizing my USP has gotten low and I should test it...

[fallow pivot]

welcome to the zone skeefa.

[summer schooner]

I'm muting this shit, and you. For the night. I'm not being awoken by @s telling me "Embrace zone skeefa"

[fallow pivot]

Wait, what? lol

[golden hazel]

[eternal oyster]

man im sitting here... are ward good people? they seem like military or duty, but they're... just meh?

[wary orbit]

Thats what radioactive ammo does to guns 😏

[fallow pivot]

How the fuck do you own a gun irl and have the emotional stability of a child. They should strip you of that gun. You're dangerous lmao

[summer schooner]

One of the ward people literally openly talks about how he enjoys "Stepping on people and putting stalkers in their place" so.

[eternal oyster]

I see.

[summer schooner]

Thought they were...okay, until that point tbh.

[eternal oyster]

okay so the sensors go to not them, awesome.

[fallow pivot]

Skeefa, dont listen to te ward.

[summer schooner]

I mean, it's a military faction, that's pretty much all I've seen from them.

[fallow pivot]

if your gun jams and you die, such is life in the zone.

[summer schooner]

If you're useful, cool, they'll work with you. But they'll also shoot you in the back the minute you become a liability, hell, they'd probably do it after you finished enough jobs for them.

[true yew]

Stalkers actually joke around on how brutal they are

[fallow pivot]

Ward's basically just shadow government/Corpo overlord muscles of the people behind SIIRCA.

[summer schooner]

Ngl though ||I showed them the PDA for that badge||

[eternal oyster]

hmm. okay so USP, fully upgraded, fully repaired, one mag (16 rounds) of 45 reduced it by 2% condition.
annoying, but it's like 400 coupons to repair it from 50%

my idiot ass forgetting to put a number

[fallow pivot]

pretty cheap. I really dont mind jams because they add to the grittiness of the zone. Just wish there were emergency repair kits so you could maintain guns outside in the zone.

[summer schooner]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/931?tab=description

I found this one. Rant's mods usually work well.

[fallow pivot]

Can make a big difference. Im sure there are mods already that reduce the durability drain* to extreme lengths because of how aggravating it is for them.

[summer schooner]

That's the only one I can find updated though, the only other updated one doesn't seem to be working well rn.

Either that or 30 rounds of 5.56 will take a G36 from 100% to 80%

[fallow pivot]

That or you have a mod that edits the same CFG files.

[eternal oyster]

handed over ward sensors and richter gave me a suit and mask that I had already bought earlier

[summer schooner]

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

If you like how you could actually find useful stuff in stashes in older games and Gamma, try this. It has optional files for preferences, and you can edit values in the files yourself, but I've found it's still very rare if you get the rare preference.

[true yew]

You buy armor??

[summer schooner]

In garbage I found the face mask armor or whatever helmet it's called, better than the Sphere. Found a fully repaired SVD as well.

[eternal oyster]

I had 20K coupons, sod off

[golden hazel]

[summer schooner]

only 20k? I can burn through that in one visit to a tech. On one gun.

[eternal oyster]

you can. I had a half broken gun and this is my first run. quit trying to make me optimize my coupons and let me buy shit. this isn't gamma.

[summer schooner]

I'm not trying to make you optimize anything, I'm just pointing things out.

[eternal oyster]

not you, you're fine. not going ew at me

[summer schooner]

Its really not worth to buy armor, the only value that really matters is radiation protection.

[wary orbit]

stuff ain't free you know, first people need to requisition it, then a smuggler has to bring it into the zone, then someone has to bring it to where its needed in the zone and finally the tech has to work on your muddy AK. May i recommend living outside the Zone?

[eternal oyster]

I have the money, I am going to spend the money.

[summer schooner]

What area are you in?

[eternal oyster]

now, who should I be selling artifacts too. inv value says way higher than the 4K that hamster or whatever his name is, is offering

[summer schooner]

Don't sell stuff in Zaliyssa.

[wary orbit]

oh don't bother ur not ever getting the price the inventory tells you

[summer schooner]

Trust me. Wait until you go north. It isn't long, and you'll get 2x the value if not more.

Once you find the trader in garbage, do like, 2 missions, and you'll get even better prices once their icons go green.

Stashes use the power of the C-Consciousness itself, to always ensure you have your goods at another stash, anywhere in all of the zone. Drop your shit in a box in zaton, then truck all the way to pripyat for all the box gives a shit.

[eternal oyster]

trader.... butcher? is butcher still there, or do you mean like at the flea market

[summer schooner]

You'll figure it out. The story leads you where I am talking about. Garbage is different than you remember.

[eternal oyster]

simple enough

doing... what is it, seven seals rn? the one where you go to the ribs

[summer schooner]

You're not too far off then.

[eternal oyster]

ohhhh not at all. pulling an all nighter on this one.

[summer schooner]

Also, if you haven't already, I recommend artifacts.

[eternal oyster]

okay nvm my suit's shit I just opened the first reporter stash or whatever. journalist.

[summer schooner]

Iirc there's 3 or 4 good spots to grab em in Zaliyssa.

[summer schooner]

For me it's in garbage?

[eternal oyster]

there's several in the lesser zone, the reporter stashes. ultimate edition <3

[summer schooner]

Oh, that's a different bonus than I have, nvm. If you have the preorder bonus, you'll find a suit that makes that merc suit look silly.

[eternal oyster]

didn't preorder, 135$ CAD, yesterday

[summer schooner]

but most of your protection will come from artifacts anyways. Also, I didn't pre-order either. I jsut got it off CDKeys for half off.

[eternal oyster]

three journalist stashes in lesser zone for me. one in zalissya, two more

that one by the bridge is a regular. got it off some loser or something idk. but this is cool :D

[summer schooner]

tomorrow I'll be trying out a few more mods. Alrighy though, gn.

[tall meadow]

||The zone sure has a sick sense of humor after all these bodies ive stacked show em to me like this ... || END GAME SHIT dont open if you aint past Pripyat

[west moth]

Alright i'm getting a life, finally. Good hunting stalkers

[tall meadow]

End game shit again

||Its the thing ! ||

[limpid quarry]

||bro what the fuck is that, why have i never seen that? hello ? what ending did udo ? ||

[spice temple]

All the loot, smart way!
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1009

[tall meadow]

||Fully loyal to Spark run ||

[limpid quarry]

ahh makes sense i guess ty

[tall meadow]

||Mine now ... || ENDGAME

[proud ruin]

Bro did the scar ending

[clever sigil]

so the ||willingly getting brainwashed ending||

will also have to do it for the achievment someday in future

[true yew]

After noticing how fast weapons degrade, I'm so much tempted to use a degradation mod

[wanton arch]

Also don't use a suppressor since it increases the wear of the weapon. It's only around 5% increase, but it's something if you're doing a long mission

[true yew]

Sucks, cuz I really liked going suppressed
Might mod my run then, and see it blow out cuz devs released another patch

[wanton arch]

From my experience the suppressors don't really make a difference gameplay wise. Almost every time I hit an enemy with a suppressed weapon and there was someone 10m away, they immediately aggroed lol

[eternal oyster]

captivating conversation

even more so

[wary orbit]

Maybe he has Covid?

[pine osprey]

Aiming towards things feels floaty, unresponsive, although I'm getting 90FPS with no micro stutters and I've read smoothing/acceleration are now off by default. Anyone have any idea why that is, how to get the game to be more snappy?

[wanton arch]

Frame gen usually does that for me, makes everything floaty cause of the input delay

[pine osprey]

I can't tell it makes any difference to be fair. 2k or 1080p, with or without frame gen, it feels the same.

[eternal oyster]

YAAAAAAYYYYY

[wanton arch]

Time to get scammed

[eternal oyster]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO

[eternal oyster]

nah I immediately found a Rem 870 I'm happy

besides. what veteran doesn't get happy when seeing "cordon"

[wary orbit]

Strelok

[tall meadow]

So by CoD zombies standards is the Gauss Gun a worthy wonder weapon ?

I think so if it had piercing

[wary orbit]

i don't even know what you are trying to ask.

[wanton arch]

If you see a guy asking for help and has the medkit pop-up, don't help, kill him

[eternal oyster]

[wanton arch]

https://tenor.com/view/soobfad-druski-gif-25646977

[tall meadow]

COD zombies has special weapons you can get called wonder weapons and the Gauss looks alot like the DG2 here

and now im thinking if the Gauss would be a good COD gun

[neon vault]

Man Stalker 2 has the best story in all the stalker games I played.
It rlly is my game of the year or maybe even game of the decade

[molten osprey]

I mean, the DG2 just shoots lightning trough 115 ammo

The Gauss uses magnetic rails to make bullet go weeeeeeeeeew

[tall meadow]

But would it be a wonder weapon?

[molten osprey]

Hmmmm could be. But most wonderweapons are called like it because Element 115 was used

So if they made a railgun/gauss with Element 115, it would probably be a wonder weapon

[peak eagle]

Should be, if the gauss batteries didn't change it would use small pieces of the Flash artifact to charge the magnets

[tall meadow]

Consensus then

[molten osprey]

I could actually see how richtoften gets a gauss from the Box, and has a voiceline like "hmm we tried to build something similar these damn soviets blah blah"

[shell wing]

Considering at least 1 azov guy worked on stalker 2, I'm surprised there aren't any already

[true yew]

Just checked out this mod, it fucks with the clusterfuck stats

[warped monolith]

[wanton arch]

its weird the mod does that tho. The clusterfuck vanilla has the lowest HP at around 600hp, while the default AK has 1600ish hp

[true yew]

HP?

[wanton arch]

yeah as in the "health" of the gun, that gets reduced when you fire it or run into things that damage you in the overworld

[true yew]

Ah, didn't knew it was THAT low
Fsr the mod fucks with the clusterfuck by making it into a normal AR416, which it isn't

Tbh, the devs should rebalance the HP and weathering in next patch

[wanton arch]

could try this one out:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/952

[junior aurora]

where are these stash's in duty base? i checked everywhere around them, are they buged or smthing?

[wanton arch]

its underground, entrance to the west of the base near the water

[junior aurora]

thx man

[wanton arch]

its either that or they are on top of the bar. Theres two stashes on top of the bar. One of them you have to climb all the letters and then parkour on top of shelfs to get it(from inside). The other one is on the roof and you have to fall down from a place to get it(from outside)

[thick parcel]

Heyyyy, did anyone come across some tapestry with deers on it in that stalker?
My brother mentioned that one and I want to find a similar one that I can give him. Pleaseeeee, help would be appreciated ;_;

[wanton arch]

uhh best i can do is get a screenshot from ingame

[thick parcel]

Please please 😭 I would be so thankful

[wanton arch]

yeah for sure, give me a bit since im still opening my game 👍

[thick parcel]

Tyt <333

[wanton arch]

im just unsure what you mean to do with it, try to find a similar one online to buy?

[thick parcel]

Yeah, exactly. I just need to know how it looks like

[wanton arch]

should be this one i think

[thick parcel]

Oh wooooow, so pretty! Thank you so muchhhhhh <333

[wanton arch]

i think theres another one, let me look around to see if i find it or its just the same

i cant remember if its the same or a different one, ill just look around a bit to see if its different

[thick parcel]

That would be awesome! ^~^

[wanton arch]

heres a different one

[thick parcel]

Oh wooooow. Thanks!!! I have now an idea of his taste. Tyyy so much <3333

[wanton arch]

and another one

i had no idea there were this many tapestry around, i thought they were all the same

[pseudo falcon]

guys, question
does killing random npc impacts faction or not yet added?

[wanton arch]

i know killing people at a base will affect relations, cant say for random people in the wild

or killing people near a base, should also affect relations

[pseudo falcon]

only in the wild, not on bases

coz im on cordon and a guy called stets leech or whatever, iirc he has a unique akm-74u that is good for early game

is it ok to kill or wait for him to die?

[wanton arch]

its fine, just kill him

that one in specific is ok to kill, since he has the "special"

[pseudo falcon]

so unless devs add faction karma, or the like in other games atm is ok eh

[wanton arch]

thought you meant something like a random ward patrol, that one i cant say will impact your relations or not

but like this npc and the one that asks you for the "drowned" ak, wont affect it if you kill them

[pseudo falcon]

the ones you meet randomly in map while roaming?

[wanton arch]

yeah, for example if you sided with ward, then decide to kill one of their roaming squads, i dont know if it'll impact relations or not

[pseudo falcon]

from what i see it only affects the traders

if u have good one, they turn green, have better prices?

[wanton arch]

cause every trader is tied to a faction, so if you have good relations(green) you have better prices, neutral(white) or disliked(red)

[pseudo falcon]

the only red i found is on Shah, which i killed before

[wanton arch]

white has 1.0 prices multiplier, i think allied(green) has 0.6 and disliked(red) has 1.4 multipliers

[pseudo falcon]

the trader near shah i mean, he was red and doesnt want to trade

for the drowned, just steal and dont talk to him eh

[wanton arch]

yeah i just wiped that whole thing, i dont even know whats the purpose of that stabilishment yet

[wanton arch]

my first playthrough i gave it back to him to get the money, then shot him when he turned around

[pseudo falcon]

i just killed all the boss of garbage coz of main quest, and also gives coupons anyway and after killed the last boss immediately

[pseudo falcon]

i dont think the owner of drowned doesnt give coupon

no rewards lel

[wanton arch]

i guess i just remember it wrong, its been a while since i did it

[pseudo falcon]

lel

also hopefully, on nxt patches, we can roam even after main quest end

seems like lots of players also ask of this

[alpine swan]

hi folks, do you know where to look for artifacts in the Sandmine? I have spent quite a time there and can find nothing

[broken hawk]

stalker 2 sucks

[wicked adder]

My theory is that the reason that’s not a thing is that players would realise how empty the zone is on release

Like after the main quest there isn’t really a lot of… stuff

With A-life being somewhat fixed there’s arguably more stuff going on, but even that’s still being heavily tweaked

And in Pripyat there’s basically nothing at all

[sour narwhal]

One thing I like about the women in the zone is that they're always shopkeepers so you know, the women are all facilitating the violence, never really partaking in it themselves

[junior aurora]

whats with liquid rock? i have 4 now ... and i searched like 12 acid anomalies

[sour narwhal]

Verrry verrry interesting.......... verrrrry verrrry interesting........ what did GSC mean by this....................

[junior aurora]

how many artefact are in acids? 4-5?

[lime umbra]

Seems like a good story telling idea to keep it the way it is

[wicked adder]

This is also true, none of the endings really leave that open door. They should have taken a lesson from cyberpunk

[sour narwhal]

lmao general chat getting pummeled by bot links

[wicked adder]

Cyberpunk’s end quest gives you all the end quest special items you wouldn’t have gotten otherwise and just boots you to just before the point if no return

This means you’d still be able to get the saiga large mag, Strelok armour/ak etc

[lime umbra]

Eeeeh

It's still a story driven game
It ends when it ends

[wicked adder]

Matter of opinion I suppose

[warped monolith]

[warped monolith]

just like the OGs
even if you choose to stay in the zone after finishing CoP... there's fuck all to do

[ashen ridge]

It's not much different than gamma endgame tbh
Once you are done
You are done
I can't wait for someone to produce a non story mode that functions like basic anomaly

Aquire cool things for the sake of it
Use them
Get bored
New game

[misty cloud]

A-Life works? Might actually reinstall then lol

[keen arch]

somewhat works

[wicked adder]

Yes, it’s hit or miss

Like I said still being tweaked. It exists now, which is better than on release when it really didn’t

[keen arch]

i still had stuff spawn in the exact same rooms that i cleared 2 minutes ago
and a squad coming out of the river lmao

[wicked adder]

That can still happen in some cases, like the apartment in Pripyat where monolith won’t stop spawning

But it means NPCs won’t spawn behind you if you reload a save in which they weren’t originally present

Also enemies don’t always render in at a good distance. They spawn further away (they only used to spawn in a close radius to you), but struggle to load in

[keen arch]

the thing i hate the most besides the performance is reload interrupting
it feels like reloading takes 3 business days
and if you interrupt it 0.1ms before the end of the animation (with sprinting or something else) you'll have to do the entire thing all over again

[wicked adder]

For me it’s the thing where if you’re in an animation when you try to use an item (like a medkit) it’ll do the animation but not actually do it

[keen arch]

yes that too

[wicked adder]

And in situations like fighting big groups in small arenas that can really suck because I’m sprinting to avoid getting shot, which reds out my healing so it doesn’t work

[keen arch]

exactly

the ||faust|| fight was hell on earth just beacuse of this
and also because i had like 32 fps in that fight

[peak eagle]

All the bodies contribute nicely to low fps

[tough kelp]

at release there were some pretty major bugs that prevented the world from working right after a big story event. Are those bugs fixed?

[wicked adder]

Uhh, I think no

The thing at Zalyssia is still bugged for a lot of people

For me it worked on Xbox, but many many people can’t get it to work

And the town never actually recovers and all the important NPCs duplicate, so I’ve got two warlocks in the town hall

[keen arch]

its crazy how 5.56 is like airsoft in this game even with rebalance mods

[inland wadi]

Hello, I have a problem when starting the stalker with mods that have just been finalized. When I hit play on stalker gamma, it tells me
the selected profile "default" does not exist. the profile 'gamma' will be used instead

[cerulean root]

Use this. It’s the strongest weapon in the game as far as I know

[inland wadi]

There is no Spanish language to play the game, before patching with mods it did have it. Did they remove the language once it was patched with mods?

[keen arch]

kek true

also there is a witcher medallion in one of the anomalous zones
nice easter egg

[sullen zenith]

this somehow gives average discord chat vibe

[wicked adder]

And rat is written all over the room

[frigid rain]

I managed to literally sneak past the two guards in front of the trader room at chemical plant but one ward npc over 100m away spots me while I'm behind that room not moving. The AI in this game is some kind of prank on us I think.

I'm doing all the side missions in chemical plant that I can do before moving on in the main story just to see what I can get from them.

The guide in that trader room hates my guts but still takes my money ha! if I shoot either of the two guards the guide will go red and not talk to me anymore.

[true yew]

Turned it into

[stray minnow]

Just checking into the Stalker chat here how has the stability been? Lost a long time save to a corruption and lost all interest so I was wondering if it's improved much since release or if I should 'let it cook' longer before I invest again.

[river lintel]

Been doing a new run on 1.1.3 and things have been stable so far

[stray minnow]

What even version are we on rn?

[river lintel]

1.1.3

[stray minnow]

Ah thanks, kinda lost track of the whole thing Preesh the update

[summer schooner]

This one doesn't do much. At least when I was using it

[rose venture]

We got the stalker patches on my kit now

[abstract lagoon]

Get some gloves. And switch out that camo pattern. Other than that, good to go

Also. Is that a TAP clipped to a plate carrier? Good choice

[midnight ravine]

patch on the front of the plate carrier is wild bro

[warped monolith]

practically asking to get suicided by cop

[rose venture]

I like the camo pattern, fits my area well actually and I got gloves in my TAP rig pocket 😎

[rose venture]

Suicide? Nah bro homicide

[rose venture]

Yurr, my marine homie suggested the TAP, and the plates I’m wearing are Lvl4, heavy mfs

[abstract lagoon]

Oh you're not doing a full impression. Fair enough. Do you king.

[rose venture]

Oh yeyeye If i wanted a full stalker cosplay I would need woodland camo

[midnight ravine]

i see that big iron

[rose venture]

1872 :3

[abstract lagoon]

I do flektarn for a freedom cosplay

[rose venture]

Yeah I was thinking that would be a good fit, i am just building my Larp/SHTF kit, but flektarn would be solid for a stalker based kit

[abstract lagoon]

Sewed some velcro onto the shoulder pocket for the patch

I use a woodland FLC

Don't have body armor yet, though

[rose venture]

Preimier Body Armor sells their Fortis line of plate carrier and they’re pretty cheap, my carrier and plates were around $500, and they’re not Chinese either

[abstract lagoon]

I want a carrier that also takes soft armor

[rose venture]

Soft armor spensive

[abstract lagoon]

I was looking at Beez combat systems. their low visibility balcs carrier seems perfect for me

[rose venture]

My plates got a kevlar wrapping to stop any spall at least

Or whatever material

[abstract lagoon]

Sub 200, takes hard plates and soft armor

[rose venture]

I would like a low vis soft armor vest but they’re like $700-$1000

One that goes under the shirt yknow?

[abstract lagoon]

Ye ye. Safelife defense has a couple

Beez also has one. Both take plates too iirc

Also midwest does BALCS Soft armor panels for relatively cheap

You could probably get a carrier plus panels for less than 700 usd

[rose venture]

I spent all my money for now on kit and guns 💀

Paid for by the US government who gave me way more money than I needed for college

[abstract lagoon]

Based

[rose venture]

State of Texas finna give me more money next month (education grant), I love this country

[abstract lagoon]

USA
USA
USA
USA

[rose venture]

USA RAAAAHHH

Now, tiem for stalker blin

[heavy hedge]

Still waiting on nude sidorovich mod

[covert eagle]

True. You rat.

[covert eagle]

You and me both brother

I wish I was that chicken he's munching on smhhh

[spice temple]

So, let's talk about A-Life in latest patches. Do you feel that Zone became alive, or are A-Life mods still needed?

[wicked adder]

Adjustments are still getting made, so I’m not sure I’d say needed but in the short term the zone still isn’t as alive as I’d like

But things like anomaly and gamma have spoiled people (me included) with how alive the zone can feel

So, people’s expectations might be skewed

[heavy hedge]

A life is pretty good for a first pass, it needs further iteration and expansion/tweaking but it's in a place where I don't feel the need to mod it, given we're still at the stage where frequent patches break mods and there's not even an SDK to work with yet, headache for little gain ime. Same reason I haven't modded the guns to make more sense or AI behavior, it's "fine enough," just waiting to see what GSC does with it.

[proven fable]

Anyone else feel like emissions feel pretty tame in comparison to anomaly/gamma too?

[wintry mountain]

It would probably help if they actually finished setting up collision profiles/channels properly instead of having 90+% of them set to ignore. Which leads the npcs to see/shoot through solid objects/terrain. Heck even one of the collision channels is missing from the current version that's labeled Foundation... and it's oldname if I remember correctly was sound.

[ancient cave]

its because misery emissions are more violent than they ever were in og trilogy

[proven fable]

Probably, but it did help sell the idea that the zone was an angry vengeful deity worthy of respect in the mythos. I recall every emission feeling as if the apocalypse was coming and even when you were inside, the sheer screen shakes would make you worry on some level that your shelter wouldn't be enough. Not to mention the thunderstorms afterwards

[ancient cave]

go play cop and outside of the screen shake its not too bad

[warped monolith]

it was scary enough in clear sky

[wicked adder]

Only got maybe 3-4 emissions through the entire game, and one was scripted

And psi storms seem to have just become… regular storms?

[ashen ridge]

Are you playing on an extended timescale?

I've noticed emissions are very uncommon when on the 8 hour day scale

[warped monolith]

regular thunderstorms remind me of Ion Storms in Tiberian Sun with the sky turning brown/beige

and the lightning strikes being actually dangerous and lethal

[ashen ridge]

The sky checking if you are afk

[warped monolith]

can't wait for people to mod in iron man mode and getting filtered by pure rng

[cerulean root]

https://tenor.com/view/red-lightning-lightning-red-light-red-red-theme-gif-19378823

Why are emissions red filter storm

[spice temple]

Why they shouldn't be?

[cerulean root]

I wished they were more like CoP where it’s like an actual blow over of a storm instead of just a shaky screen with filter over a thunderstorm

[spice temple]

Well, and I am fine with current version

[cerulean root]

Nice 👍

[wary orbit]

what makes the storm red in emissions?

why not blue or green or purple?

[stuck condor]

Women

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/tts-kill-it-sisters-of-battle-angry-battle-sisters-gif-18625876

[warped monolith]

menstruation

[wary orbit]

https://youtu.be/UHNJUgat2i8?si=x_AvIDkcb2VwjvNX&t=112

[devout flame]

what faction are these guys?

[wary orbit]

hard to say i don't see anyone

[wary orbit]

ISPF

[wary orbit]

no

[solid ibex]

cause red is evil and dangerious and menacing and oooh its gonna get you

[wary orbit]

i find purple way more menacing

[river lintel]

I think red is supposed to be the color of Psi Radiation

[wary orbit]

Psi fields are Sepia Mexico Filter

[river lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/wut-shrug-gif-21587752

[cerulean root]

Isn’t it the psi fields?

[broken hawk]

STALKER 2 SUCKS

[wary orbit]

cool

[keen arch]

is there a way to set all quick access slots on different keys? I'm going mental from having to hold F1 in combat

[wary orbit]

No, Microsoft knows best!

[limpid quarry]

not throwing shade or anything but are u in the military or is that privatle owned stuff?

[river lintel]

comes into stalker 2 chat
yells stalker 2 is bad
Why do people do this?

[limpid quarry]

u can just change the keybidns

[golden hazel]

Nah they'll just mod themselves god mode so that they won't die on the hardest difficulty

[keen arch]

ye true but I wish I could change slot 2 and 4 to regular keys instead of having to hold them

[wary orbit]

MICROSOFT KNOWS BEST!

[river lintel]

"ACTIVE SHOOTER"

[river lintel]

Who's to say that wasn't a GSC change?

[limpid quarry]

i think u can no ? iirc i saw an option for that but my memory is a bit hazy the last time i looked at my settings was on release

[wary orbit]

The fact that thats console design

[river lintel]

[golden hazel]

Nice Phillipines Patch

[wary orbit]

So yes obviously GSC did this but they got ordered to by Microsoft, who know best!

[river lintel]

Was Stalker 2 not coming to console prior to Mircosofts money?

[warped monolith]

attention

[golden hazel]

It was just straight up not coming at all

[river lintel]

Fair i guess. Just seems like a waste of energy

[warped monolith]

Herman's just being a hater
half the shit he whines about being a Microsoft console game is stuff we see in PC exclusives

[rose venture]

I’m a civilian, private owned frfr

[warped monolith]

what devil said.
Without Microsoft's money this game would have never been released

[rose venture]

Its the state of Texas

[river lintel]

Ngl i enjoy some console design. Makes things not needless complicated. The key bi d system is fine imo

[limpid quarry]

thats crazy running around in full on Military gear the patches look nice tho

[rose venture]

[limpid quarry]

u got some fancy NVGs aswell or is that too expensive? how much are good NVGs ?

[rose venture]

USA BAYBEE

[warped monolith]

mostly fine yeah. Just wish we could rebind the flashlight key

[rose venture]

Oh dude yeah way too expensive, a good set of nvg would be like $6k

[river lintel]

I think middle mouse makes the most sense

[warped monolith]

gotta live out the milsurp fantasy bruh

[golden hazel]

Kit isn't heavy enough for me to believe that

[limpid quarry]

only 6k ? thats like actualy way less than i thought lol

[wary orbit]

Oh yeah? prove it!

[rose venture]

That’s on the low end of acceptable

[rose venture]

Lvl4 plates bruh

[limpid quarry]

i thought acceptable ones start at like idk 14k or something

[rose venture]

Shiet they might, I haven’t looked into NV or Thermal too heavy

[river lintel]

Low end of acceptable would be "trash" to a more discerning user

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-more-gif-21856591

[limpid quarry]

i am happy i got my blank firearm for new years fireworks in germany

[rose venture]

THERE ISNT ANYTHING HEAVIER

[river lintel]

With the rise of the xm-7 and tungsten rounds they might make level 5 plates lol

[wary orbit]

@warped monolith still waiting for a list of thing i whine about and that half of it being PC game standards

[rose venture]

Maybe, but the weight would be insane, lvl4 is already 7.5lbs per plate. Until they have better materials idk if it’s feasible

[warped monolith]

keep waiting, I'll be right back

[golden hazel]

They need to make em out of this

[river lintel]

They would have to be able to stop a tungsten round from penetrating and not weight 10+ so we are looking at like. Carbon nanoweave shit

[rose venture]

I would kill for an irl texan

[limpid quarry]

u guys think the military got way more advanced stuff than the as general public know about? even with the ukraine war going on ?

[river lintel]

Yes.

[limpid quarry]

looking at the "Active Shooter" patch and your kit thats a threat and i will be suing

[wary orbit]

cool so all talk no substance. not sure why i'm being targeted by you but u do u i guess.

[warped monolith]

It's gonna take a while to search all of your "microsoft knows best" messages, since you say that more often than a pokémon says its name