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

[eternal oyster]

OUUUGGHHHH MY IMMMURRRRSHHHION

[warped monolith]

this is a good thing. I want that.

[mossy nimbus]

it kinda already is (but you need to have propah gun for it )

[wicked adder]

Once Zalyssia and Malachite actually work properly that’ll be a win

[mossy nimbus]

What's the issue with Malachite? I know Zalyssia defense quest was bugged af but that was fixed finally, I think

[wicked adder]

If you do the spark choice then the NPCs spawned to help you… don’t

[warped monolith]

when ppl realize headshot onetaps do not happen in "realistic" games like tarkov

[wicked adder]

And then malachite scientists get set to hostile and become red

[eternal oyster]

SVD lynx my beloved

[wary orbit]

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

[wicked adder]

Zalyssia wasn’t fixed last I heard but, maybe is now

[mossy nimbus]

well, there is an upgrade of sorts of it, called Whip

[eternal oyster]

Cool Hwhip.
I know about the SVU.

[mossy nimbus]

I think it is already, don't see people report it that much anymore. One of last patches definitely fixed it for me, to 99% like I'd say

[wicked adder]

I managed to do the quest but all the NPCs in town got duplicated

One pair in the town hall and another where they’re meant to be

[wary orbit]

@warped monolith https://youtu.be/R3PS12Pt_tc?si=IHoiDdrJRteZsz1b&t=80

[mossy nimbus]

Guess they managed to duplicate Monolith repopulation technology

[wicked adder]

they’ll need it to repopulate the town

[wicked adder]

Eh that bounced!

[mossy nimbus]

In my case it was mostly the trader and his bodyguard dying at town hall doorstep but it was finally fixed
For some reason I still have failed objective to take out those Mono recons at cemetary even though I did take em out and NPC confirmed it but hey, it is the deed that counts, right?

[mossy nimbus]

it's just a flesh wound

[wicked adder]

They only paid me 4000 roubles for saving the town

[wary orbit]

there is such things as ricochet

[eternal oyster]

"it bounced you're fine"
Untreatable life changing brain damage:

[mossy nimbus]

in his case more like broken neck, at the very least

[wicked adder]

Walk it off

Use some Vaseline

[eternal oyster]

use the lip balm that makes you get a concussion for a few seconds

[wicked adder]

Mmm gold star

[mossy nimbus]

I didn't care much about the reward, was just happy to help some genuinely nice folks

[wary orbit]

the times a helmet has saved me from a rifle round in Tarkov i can probably count on 2 hands in 6000+ hours

[mossy nimbus]

that's interestingly... specific and detailed info

[wicked adder]

But weren’t you glad when it did!

[eternal oyster]

golden star balm in escape from tarkov applies a concussion effect for a short time when used

[wicked adder]

It’s always worth it…

[mossy nimbus]

oh ok, I didn't play Tarkov in years so had no idea about that thing

[eternal oyster]

[mossy nimbus]

guess the last nail for me was that Escape the darkness edition failure

[wary orbit]

the whole medical system in tarkov... lets not talk about that.

[wicked adder]

Blacked out limbs being different to broken limbs goes crazy

If the limb is blacked out but not broken then what is it

You’re saying I’ve got no blood in my legs?

[wary orbit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGYjF8gfyHg i love tarkov

[eternal oyster]

extra broken

[warped monolith]

I thought the balm was applied on the cheeks or something

[mossy nimbus]

some things are probably better left unanswered

[wary orbit]

Its a paste made from menthol, camphor, peppermint, kajeput it stings when applied

[mossy nimbus]

peppermint is probably the life-saving ingredient there

[wary orbit]

its used to free your sinuses

you put it under your nose

who ever thought that would be a painkiller, well didn't think much

[eternal oyster]

I figured from where the perspective is, it's like lips or under the nose

[outer depot]

Clearly we need ten million more med types for S2

[mossy nimbus]

wouldn't surprise me if it was more like meme-thing or something like that

[mossy nimbus]

such as?

[warped monolith]

balm.

[wary orbit]

from google. The ointment is suitable for colds, joint and back pain, insect bites, rashes and hives, headaches.

[outer depot]

Claritin D for these allergies

[warped monolith]

rashes... and... hives?

[mossy nimbus]

oh right, that one stalker in Cement factory I think, poor fella

[outer depot]

Yeah lel

[wary orbit]

its basically wick vaporub

[mossy nimbus]

seriously, the only guy who had it worse than the allergy guy was doctor from Skadovsk in CoP

speaking of Skadovsk, was quite disappointed that they changed VA for Beard that much from CoP, previous one had such fantastic voice, in S2 was quite meh

guess everyone went to eat those pizza pops...

[supple echo]

is a stalker 2 gamma modpack out or nah?

[mossy nimbus]

not gonna be a thing for years, I am afraid

lots of work, S2 still not patched out properly, modding tools are yet to be released, etc

But if you check Nexus, S2 already has several mods

[supple echo]

are mods even a thing im tryna get a modpack with vortex launcher but for some reason it wont download the games files to download the mods

ye im on there but when i create the game on the launcher it wont download the files idk why\

[mossy nimbus]

just install mods manually, it is easy

[outer depot]

How long is it going to be before people start porting in GFL models like they did for Ready or Not lmao

[supple echo]

ill try i just hate when mods arent compatable lmao

fr

[wary orbit]

notepad++ da werde sie geholfen

[supple echo]

ich hiesse hamburger

[outer depot]

I just want something to replace the ugly ass holo with something other than a Huey

[supple echo]

ich bin ein madhen

[outer depot]

Gimme Eokek

[wary orbit]

a mad hen huh?

[supple echo]

ye

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/muppets-muppet-show-chicken-chickens-freaking-out-gif-23411347

[supple echo]

nah

[eternal oyster]

peppermint oil is nice

[mossy nimbus]

on pizza pops?

[sour narwhal]

I've got diablo chicken tacquitos

[eternal oyster]

it's been like an hour, I'm way past those!

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/matteo-salvini-crocifisso-rosario-maria-gif-18474112

[eternal oyster]

peppermint oil is nice on the skin

like, a roll on oil. or an ointment.

[mossy nimbus]

one never knows, especially on this Discord server

[mossy nimbus]

what, hungry again by any chance?

hm, I'd love some pizza, just realized

[eternal oyster]

I will not be hungry for like. a few hours? Unlike skif, damn glutton after all those waters

[mossy nimbus]

good point, Skif's metabolism resembles the black hole

I've been chugging energy drinks so much I didn't even realize sleeping was actual need thing until like nearly the end of game

[sour narwhal]

Anomaly added female stalkers?

[mossy nimbus]

erm, that one is a thing for couple of years

[eternal oyster]

I noticed the sleep system once and then stocked up on energy drinks

[golden hazel]

Skif doesn't have Kidney Stones, he has Boulders

[mossy nimbus]

Hip has her own little quest line, basically a bunch of fetch quests

[eternal oyster]

"stone kidney" artifacts

[sour narwhal]

Well to be honest with you I'd played ShoC, CS, CoP and modded them all upon release. played for some time, took a long long break, never touched MISERY or Anomaly or GAMMA, then tried GAMMA one time in november, played STALKER 2 and then just now began playing Anomaly properly the other day

[mossy nimbus]

you had to stock up on energy drinks? Those are everywhere

[sour narwhal]

So I'd never known

[eternal oyster]

I sprint. a lot.

[mossy nimbus]

so does everyone, but still

[sour narwhal]

I wonder where the image files for player portraits are located

[eternal oyster]

um... are you talking anomaly? cause ur in stalker 2 chat still :3

[mossy nimbus]

ugh, Misery... that one was interesting

[golden hazel]

Run into a graveyard, stash of energy drinks, run into a crater, stash of energy drinks, run into a bloodsucker nest, you better believe there's a stash of energy drinks

[sour narwhal]

I'm aware!

[mossy nimbus]

surprised we didn't discovered location called Monster Factory or something like that

[sour narwhal]

Thanks for the concern though!

[golden hazel]

Sponsored by Sidorovich Fried Chicken

[mossy nimbus]

Nah, if it was Sid would be the sole supplier, mf hates competition

[eternal oyster]

just makin sure, made that mistake a few times myself

[mossy nimbus]

and what, somebody gave you hard time here?

[eternal oyster]

well not here but many many times I was offtopic in newbies and the mods patrol newbies chat like hawks

[mossy nimbus]

oh, moderators there are like that, true.
I think it is due to the chat traffic so it would remain on topic most of time anyway

[languid turret]

If like me, some of us here have also never experienced foggy weather in the game, I 100% recommend getting UETools for a long due weather change

[eternal oyster]

installed new mods, time to see how much it hates me

[mossy nimbus]

which ones, btw?

[eternal oyster]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh

[mossy nimbus]

just screenshot it

[eternal oyster]

This is my curse, I install mods and immediately forget what

today's download list

[languid turret]

looks freaking beautiful

[eternal oyster]

BetterDecal is better blood decals

[stuck zenith]

[eternal oyster]

OH HI OFLIN

how's it goiiiinnnnn

[mossy nimbus]

the man, the myth, the oflin, yep

[mossy nimbus]

I went with these and was fairly good experience eventually

so most of them are just like yours, @eternal oyster

[crystal thicket]

is there a map of stalker 2 that shows all faction based quests

[mossy nimbus]

do you check other channels occasionally and CTRL+F your name in case somebody is bitching about you?

[stuck zenith]

yes

i have all but a few channels muted

[stuck zenith]

[eternal oyster]

I need to start calling him ofleen

[mossy nimbus]

healthy approach

[stuck zenith]

offlin, olfin, wolf, fanatic, spoonfeeder

been there done that

[eternal oyster]

nilfo

[stuck zenith]

oflinfans.

[mossy nimbus]

is that some canadian thing I am too european to understand?

[mossy nimbus]

so much money and followers

[sage wolf]

Oflin in stalker 2 chat wild

[golden hazel]

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

[eternal oyster]

no just turning the I sound into an E sound

[stuck zenith]

that's the evil twin

[eternal oyster]

I forgot my last save point was the orb

[eternal oyster]

...so me?

[stuck zenith]

ball.

[sage wolf]

Also imo the mutant tweaks aren’t even necessary after the patches the mutant health is in a good spot :3

[stuck zenith]

are you my evil twin?

[mossy nimbus]

just happily vibin', leave it alone

[eternal oyster]

could be idk

[stuck zenith]

[mossy nimbus]

ooh, the evening of big revelations? (grabs a popcorn)

[eternal oyster]

my name is nilfo and I lead newbies astray and give them bad info

[sage wolf]

Is that a lex the legend reference

[mossy nimbus]

dunno, Chimera is still too much of a bullet sponge

[eternal oyster]

FUCK I FORGOT ABOUT THAT GUY

[stuck zenith]

hey, nilfo still provided answers
just... was rude about it

[eternal oyster]

[stuck zenith]

wasn't niflo in the helper era?

hmm

[mossy nimbus]

everybody does

S2 knock-off from CoP Magpie, almost

[sage wolf]

Yeah chimeras are a bit much. Them being the exception is okay for me. Considering I can burst down burers and bloodsuckers with some quick Saiga shots to the face (like 5-6) it’s alright (: I think they’re balanced around having at least mid game gear tho, they can be real tough before that

[eternal oyster]

except a way less cool quest

it's either take his shitty stash and go kill him, or kill him in front of some loner newbies

[stuck zenith]

something something wanna buy a car? just leave an artefact here

"hey i got this helicopter" lol

[sage wolf]

I could never forget mainly cuz I find neat little small areas and loners that reference him occasionally

[eternal oyster]

"my teacher at the flea market" and then I walk up and the first thing he says is "you can disable an anomaly for a small time by throwing a grenade into it"
he dies.

[sage wolf]

There’s more after that you can find a loner that got bad info from him, or you can find him later on in a different area hanging with his buddies and you can charge him up for giving you bad info and kill him then

[mossy nimbus]

yep, game gets a lot better once you get proper shotguns like SPAS or Saiga's, then you can actively seek and hunt mutants yourself

[golden hazel]

It's not even a moskvich, what a scam

[eternal oyster]

I found him at his second location and when I did they were auto hostile

[mossy nimbus]

good point, unless it is a proper Moskvich or Lada, begone

[mossy nimbus]

free loot

[sage wolf]

Yeah because of his guilt regarding leading you astray. It has been eating him alive and he lashes out in the only way he’s familiar, violence ): a tragic tale surely

[mossy nimbus]

I think you are giving him far more morale credit than the mf deserves :)

[eternal oyster]

oh no, guilt about sending me to a phony stash.
racks AK bolt
how sad.

[sage wolf]

I was tryna use sarcasm :3

[eternal oyster]

there's such a simple joy in tossing bolts at windows

[mossy nimbus]

ugh, disadvantages of communicating online, hard to distinguish tone
Or maybe I am just getting too old

[sage wolf]

I also spent a good 30-45 mins today figuring out how to get to Agroprom underground before the supposed story quest. I finally found my way down and soft locked and tried to find a way around the softlock etc cuz I had 3 purple stashes down there

[mossy nimbus]

did you smash the windows with bolts or with good ol' AK?

[eternal oyster]

the "kids" use this fancy system called "tone indicators" cause we- er, they, all have "autism" and it goes like "you suck /s" for "sarcasm"

[stiff owl]

cock, obviously

[sage wolf]

I have experiences like this in stalker 2 often. I can never tell if I get to a spot and I’m just stupid and can’t figure out how to open a specific door or something, or if the game wants me to wait. Side effect of it being so long I guess.

[eternal oyster]

tossing bolts at windows

[mossy nimbus]

sounds like fun pass-time activity, will try it IRL again somewhere

[eternal oyster]

works better with spark plugs

[mossy nimbus]

proper heavy industrial bolts should do the trick good

[sage wolf]

I have like almost 3 days in my playthrough and I just got to Malachite

[mossy nimbus]

Go Yanov, even better technician

[outer depot]

Electric Hind my beloved

[sage wolf]

Like the length of this game is mega impressive. Compared to most other games these days as well as previous stalker games. Insane amount of content quite frankly.

[eternal oyster]

awww fuck I have to merge two mods or sumn I found a conflict

[sage wolf]

I’ve been to Yanov; I just wanna get green reputation there for the tech

[mossy nimbus]

Content? I dunno. Don't get me wrong, map is beautiful, especially if I compare some sceneries from what I remember seeing IRL but content I'd truly remember...

[eternal oyster]

what

[sage wolf]

Getting green rep is hard sometimes in certain places

[eternal oyster]

how do I accomplish that. what did I do.

[mossy nimbus]

sometimes environmental story-telling is ok, gotta give credit that

[mossy nimbus]

did you just speak with that C-Con representative in Malachite underground lab?

[eternal oyster]

yyyyes I did

[mossy nimbus]

and got mission to cover Scar's escape?

[sage wolf]

I just mean the amount of story and side quests as well as zone locations is very expansive. “Memorable” is a subjective thing I suppose

[eternal oyster]

yessir

[mossy nimbus]

ignore it then, it will auto-complete after some time. Those faction relations are quite bugged

[mossy nimbus]

that true. Gotta give credit to some side-missions, you can do them in more way than one would anticipate at first

[eternal oyster]

I just gotta go figure out how to use two mods that edit the same file...

[mossy nimbus]

merging... Which mods are in question?

[sage wolf]

Yeah a lot of stuff in the second half is still buggy. Zalissya will never be entirely bug free I presume

[mossy nimbus]

like for example those sounds of "continuous distant gunfire" in one or two spots?

[eternal oyster]

Oxide's expanded armoury and Maklane's better weapons

[mossy nimbus]

Check Maklane's optional files and discussion, he tends to merge quite a lot of mods, maybe he did that one already

[eternal oyster]

well shit.

Oxide did it. might check Maklane's page too

[mossy nimbus]

should also be good but won't hurt to check

[mossy nimbus]

gotta give GCS credit for CoP - it is basically 3 and half maps but they did VERY good job with side quests, that game is probably my favorite from OG trilogy

[eternal oyster]

nah Maklane doesn't have a compat in the optional files but Oxide does so we ball

[golden hazel]

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

[mossy nimbus]

could be they already communicated or maybe Maklane already implemented the change, who knows
Anyhoo, good for you

[eternal oyster]

[mossy nimbus]

Think I saw it before but still, by the Monolith

[eternal oyster]

Jupiter underground is what I think of when I think stalker

albeit it's very metro-esque

[mossy nimbus]

it does have that kind of appeal, it has everything - rusted equipment from old era, anomalies, mutants, human enemies itching to kill you, nice companions... what's not to like?

[eternal oyster]

the companion dialogue is really nice in jup underground

[mossy nimbus]

basically rag-tag A-team

[eternal oyster]

fuck, I think I have to setup vortex modding for my S2 cause of these mods

[mossy nimbus]

one of my favorite moments from CoP was drinking with Zulu, those dialogs were golden

[golden hazel]

https://youtu.be/SF6YpvZgtrM?si=GbOD_rpxIQeenN6p&t=26 And then when the combat music kicks in 🔥

[mossy nimbus]

judging from mods you posted simple manual install should be just fine, especially after you got the merged file

[eternal oyster]

it's not merged, it's a compat patch. says "load after OXA and Maklane's"

I do not have the brain capacity to do manual install mod load orders

[mossy nimbus]

gotta be honest I don't remember combat music from CoP since I could finish fights very fast
but music is fire, gotta give credit

[mossy nimbus]

or just ignore one of mods

[eternal oyster]

I cannot.

[golden hazel]

If you haven't had enemies stuck under the map causing the music to always play have you truly played CoP of Pripyat

Same thing happened in Stalker 2 to me

[warped monolith]

LMAO TRUE

also reminds me of... genshin impact when that one elusive dendro slime is hiding in the ground and you walk close to it, battle music starts but it doesn't pop off the ground to fight you

[mossy nimbus]

you know what? Interestingly I had very few issues/bugs in CoP
S2 is different matter entirely though

[eternal oyster]

[warped monolith]

I never even played vanilla cop

or cs

after getting bsod multiple times in vanilla soc I just avoided the vanilla games like the plague

[mossy nimbus]

oof, unmodded CS is a once in a life experience

[golden hazel]

smh my head

[warped monolith]

tbh it was my mistake even playing vanilla s2 because I knew it was gonna be bad

[golden hazel]

The issues were my fault tbh, I was playing Misery

[mossy nimbus]

oh ffs, Misery... that one was weird

[golden hazel]

There was a bug that would crash your game if you set the A-Life online distance too high

[mossy nimbus]

all the talks about immersion and just bs upon bs decisions

was following them for quite a while before they released the damned thing, Anomaly was lesson learned apparently

[golden hazel]

I didn't even play it for muh immersion I did it for the A-Life shit

[sage wolf]

Am I the only vanilla S2 warrior?? 🥺

[warped monolith]

Oh I played it vanilla until the weapons-spawning-on-your-hands stole my shotgun

I'll play it vanilla again soon enough

[sage wolf]

I feel like a madman trying to tell people that the game is pretty well balanced by default 🤣 if I was gonna mod I’d probably whip out an economy change perhaps

[sage wolf]

That’s been fixed but it used to happen to me a lot too

[warped monolith]

I've played games worse balanced than this. I can handle it.

[sage wolf]

It never stole any of my current guns, just gave me new ones but

[golden hazel]

You cannot convince the tacticool mind that the ak74 does less damage than a makarov

[sage wolf]

If you’re referring to Skifs pistol you’re forgetting that’s been modded to shoot psi-enhanced bullets that are coated in skifs pure gigachad energy

[golden hazel]

The tacticool mind cannot comprehend the zone either

A Makarov to it is just a Makarov

Psi Bullets or not It shoots 9x18 which is a very small and underpowered cartridge compared to 5.45 blah blah blah

[mossy nimbus]

Skif's pistol is fueled by pure hatred and need for new KITCHEN SINK

[golden hazel]

John Wick but they blew up his apartment

[sage wolf]

Yeah I’ve been waiting the whole game for some twist regarding Skifs motivation

Cuz that “bruh muh house” thing isn’t selling me anymore with the amount of insane shit he’s had to do

[golden hazel]

Nah, that's it, that's his motivations

He isn't a 5d complex character, he just wants his apartment back

[warped monolith]

people expecting a deep, complex GRR Martin character

[outer depot]

I mean they give you ample opportunity to take his character further than muh sink

That’s just what you’re going to get if you keep doing Ward

The entire Ward path is muh sink

[golden hazel]

In the Strelok ending he shares the same sentiment of "Strelok what the fuck, I just wanted to go home holy shit"

Project Y ending he makes the zone his home, and the Scar ending well, the Scar Ending.

[outer depot]

By that point I think it was more “I’m so fucking done with this” after all the shit you need to go through to get Strelok in that tube

And then he slams the door in your face before you can leave

[warped monolith]

makes the shining zone his shining home!

[sage wolf]

This spoiler has me a bit shooketh plz no elaboration

Cuz all this shit I’ve been through wit Scar and wanting to get rid of him, wanting to ditch him for strelok, if strelok turns on me I will be le sad

[outer depot]

It’s not much of an actual betrayal tbh

[golden hazel]

The only real ending that is a "Betrayal" is the Project Y ending tbh

[outer depot]

Idk if that’s even betrayal so much as

Literally getting bamboozled

[mossy nimbus]

you mean that Doctor identity/mask twist?

[golden hazel]

Yeah

[mossy nimbus]

that was utter bs tbh, I think devs just put it there for the sake of subverting expectations or something, didn't make any sense

[outer depot]

It’s a joke ending

[golden hazel]

You can even find documents about Project Y in the Strelok ending and a speech by Doctor revealing his actual identity

[mossy nimbus]

I mean, the Doctor being one of original 8 scientists was good enough twist but do YET ANOTHER twist at the end of Doc ending was just too much, didn't make sense whatsoever

[golden hazel]

The reveal makes even more sense when you take into account the stuff the merc says when they got attacked

[mossy nimbus]

why not? He was basically a war vet, went through some tough shit, bought a flat with hard earned money and it got blown up by shiny rock, no wonder he has enough

[outer depot]

It makes about as much sense as Strelok wishing to be immortal and then turning into a statue

lel

It’s a literal “gotcha!” ending vs the other more serious ones

[mossy nimbus]

I mean Doc was similar presence in OG ShoC and didn't have to be that bs
Plus if you shoot Doc in Strelok's path he just dies of bullet wound, no illusion break or anything so again, doesn't make sense to me.

[mossy nimbus]

at least that is in line with "Be careful what you wish for!"

[outer depot]

Nah getting turned into a statue is actually goofy as hell and definitely not something the wish granter is shown to be able to do normally lel

Considering it’s just a psi radiation fuckery machine

[mossy nimbus]

the point is that Wish Granter is basically just a bs device not meant for actually giving wishes so I am kinda ok with that. Or the other wish that Strelok wanted the Zone to disappear and WG just blinded him so Zone disappeared for him

!spoiler

[outer depot]

The other ones are all very much more psychic not even monkeys paw tier wish granting where it just kills you or drives you insane

[mossy nimbus]

don't know how to hide things for spoilers, ugh

[eternal oyster]

|| before and after your message

two of em

[mossy nimbus]

ugh

[eternal oyster]

||two of em||

[mossy nimbus]

||Plus you actually kill Faust in Duga boss and loot the body so there is no indication there was another illusion||

[eternal oyster]

there ya go

[mossy nimbus]

thank you kindly, sweetheart

[outer depot]

That’s why it’s a joke ending lel

It’s the ahhh goofy option compared to the others

[mossy nimbus]

and also why it is non-canon so don't have much issue with them

[golden hazel]

And yet even when you kill him there's a dream sequence of him in your head that you can die in, it was all part of his 5d chess plan to see if you are worthy of continuing project Y

There's no way it's a joke ending with all the lore bits scattered around

[mossy nimbus]

by joke ending me and @outer depot were talking about non-canon ShoC ones, I think

[mossy nimbus]

the problem with that theory is that it was specifically mentioned that Faust was just human-like controller made in labs and Doctor just one of original members of Project X. ||Plus Faust could do illusions but not assume someone else's identity||

[outer depot]

Faust is definitely weird but unless you actively pursue the heehaw twist ending I think it’s fairly clear his physical influence on outcomes ends with his death

[mossy nimbus]

I guess I have the issue with it that Doc's ending was no longer that grounded like other 3 endings, it took believability quite away

[outer depot]

Even if his psyche is kicking around the noosphere, it can’t do anything in real space

It would seem an actual physical connection to reality is still required (according to the CCON anyhow)

Now granted we’ve got fuck-ass ghosts in some of the labs but it’s also the Zone, I’m sure the barrier between the Noosphere and the real world is considerably weaker in some spots but still not enough for full manifestation

Part of the second disasters effect was literally tearing a hole through reality which got rid of a lot of the atmospheric interference you see referenced in older lab reports

[mossy nimbus]

My main issue with Doc's ending is that if it wasn't for that Doc identity twist it would be fairly good one

[eternal oyster]

THE THIEVES GUILD!?

[mossy nimbus]

steal that shit!

[mossy nimbus]

hole through reality? Don't think it was communicated that way, it was more like informational field around world but who knows for real

[outer depot]

I mean

A lot of the anomalies are what I’d file under “violating the laws of physics as we know them” and that’s ignoring the wormhole teleporters

Anomalous energy is just weird

[mossy nimbus]

yea but calling it hole through reality? Not sure if those would be words I'd choose

[outer depot]

And it’s clearly at its most powerful where the separation between the noosphere and our plane is at its thinnest or torn

[sage wolf]

Noospehrre theorizing in the chat we love to see it

[mossy nimbus]

I thought noosphere was just above atmosphere or part of it, not necessarily away from it

[sage wolf]

The noospehere is like the blanket of the collective psychic energy of the humans on earth that surrounds the planet

[outer depot]

It’s conceptualized as an invisible energy field from what I remember, but it’s also not energy that behaves like we’d expect

[sage wolf]

It’s not really related to the atmosphere at all

[mossy nimbus]

and I am already tired af, also at work, need a drink for this kind of topic

[outer depot]

Lab reports go to some detail explaining how the old tests always had trouble with interference from the atmosphere (troposphere mentioned at least several times) which is why the mega antennas were so important for experiments

[mossy nimbus]

but don't get me wrong, I love to discuss Stalker lore and so on

[sage wolf]

Just getting off now. A drink isn’t my thing but I have other things I relax with that would make the discussion all the more interesting 🤣

[mossy nimbus]

erm... such as?

[sage wolf]

That’s very cool information

[sage wolf]

I hit up my boys at Freedom man what do you want me to say (;

[sage wolf]

Also if this sounded sarcastic that wasn’t my intent. It’s genuinely interesting asf

[mossy nimbus]

It could also be said that those big ass antennas were used for checking shit on other side of planet due to their output

[mossy nimbus]

it sure didn't sound sarcastic, no worries :)

[mossy nimbus]

ugh, Freedomers would go after anything with blowhole
important note - this jab is not aimed at you :)

[outer depot]

Well yeah but also you need their power and size to do noosphere tests which is why them being large OTH radars is mentioned as a convenient cover for their being built

since experimentation was going on before Chernobyl even

[sage wolf]

I also haven’t beaten S2 yet so idk if there’s any major revelations about the zone toward the end bu yeah

[outer depot]

And well before the second disaster

[sage wolf]

I hate the faction, I just like the weed (;

[mossy nimbus]

just say sex, if that is what you mean and be done with it... I believe we are all adults here

[sage wolf]

I wish buddy I come home and play stalker after work do you really think I’m getting laid currently

[outer depot]

Real

[mossy nimbus]

and since they need such massive energy output it makes double sense those big ass antennas were built next to actual NPP

[sage wolf]

I don’t need sex; The zone fucks me every single day

[mossy nimbus]

How am I supposed to know? Day has 24 hrs, people can fit all kinds of shit in their time schedule if energy and need allows it

[sage wolf]

I thought the fact that I was joking about weed was obvious from the rip bruh my bad :3 But assuming that because I mentioned Freedom I meant raw sex is definitely something 🤣🤣 Is that really the factions main staple in your mind sir

[outer depot]

At least the freedomers have a woman now. Maybe the Bloodsuckers look less attractive.

[mossy nimbus]

I mean everyone and their grandmother know Freedomers like to sex Chernobyl vampires

[golden hazel]

It's also mentioned in project leash that a controller's abilities can be enhanced beyond illusions if allowed to keep their ability to freely think

[mossy nimbus]

Only one woman, in heavily guarded compound. Many Bloodsuckers and everywhere...

[sage wolf]

Yes true but also everyone knows them as lazy stoners

[outer depot]

We’re going to need the “It’s Magic, I ain’t gotta explain shit” except replace magic with psi-radiation

[mossy nimbus]

yea but enhanced beyond to what? It is more like magic like bs at this moment

[warped monolith]

at least it's not the dark brotherhood

[mossy nimbus]

maybe but they seem to hold the Barrier fairly good, at least in OG and Gamma. Plus in S2 they got upgraded even more, inherited Rostok of all places

[golden hazel]

That part I never saw anything beyond the vague sentence

[outer depot]

I mean Faust is clearly insanely good at it. I’m still debating if he actually handed us his pistol at clear sky base or just made us think he handed it to us and all we did was pick it up off the chair in reality

[mossy nimbus]

so that scanner device just fell on it's own?

[eternal oyster]

good pistol either way

[mossy nimbus]

too shame other pistols are just not that good dmg wise compared to Skif's rage gun. Unless you go for Rhino, that is

[outer depot]

If he can basically fucking astrally project himself who’s to say he can’t to a telekinetic force push with his projection too

I don’t know shit for certain

Maybe we knocked it over

I genuinely don’t know. It’s also mentioned you need high level natural psychic resistance to be able to actually use the C-Con tubes too, which Skif apparently can do, but it’s clear Skif isn’t immune to psychic fuckery more than anyone else in practice

[mossy nimbus]

I mean don't get me wrong - the very concept of actual human-like Controller is interesting indeed, especially if you made him Monolith member but make it someone in background influencing events like 5d chess mentioned above? Too much for me, sadly

[wicked adder]

Yeah. I’m not sure why they decided to make the character of the doctor, an enigmatic and mysterious figure and take all the mystery out of him

By merging him with a different enigmatic and mysterious figure in their new game

[golden hazel]

That's what Strelok's artifact was for

[mossy nimbus]

will repeat myself but wth - the reveal of Doc being one of original members of C-Con was actually pretty good, even his motivation just to retreat and try to heal things as an attempt to "seek forgiveness" for what he unleashed was good enough and made sense to me, but the other revelation at Doc's ending was just too much for me

[outer depot]

Oh yeah I fucking forgot about the thing entirely

[wicked adder]

The heart of Chernobyl. An artefact that does nothing but let a new person use the C con machine (unless Strelok is using it)

[outer depot]

I forgot about the literal name of the game

[river lintel]

Also the whole ||Faust|| reveal is interesting to say the least

[wicked adder]

It’s mentioned like twice offhandedly

[outer depot]

Oh that was all excellent; which is why I think killing him is intended to be closing the cycle

[wicked adder]

The thing is that the motivations of the doctor and the motivations of Faust just don’t seem to line up. So I struggle with reconciling the two

[outer depot]

You know, beyond saying as much

Doc is meant to die. The Faust ending is just heeehaw funny

[wicked adder]

The doctor is all about ‘We shouldn’t kill life in the zone because it didn’t choose to be how it is’ and then… takes away peoples right to choose?

Like no shit brother, you’re the one who chose for them to be this way

[outer depot]

He just thinks they did it wrong, not that they shouldn’t have done it

subtle matter is completely fucking bogus though

[wicked adder]

Yeah there’s far too vague information to know anything about it

[outer depot]

It’s definitely a dead end

Noosphere can store information and memories of an individual like a psychic imprint but that’s about it

The original is definitely dead

[wicked adder]

I mean the ending for it is definitely pretty bleak looking

And even crazy scar clearly starts to doubt the plan

[outer depot]

Yep

Well tbh he did have to find out he sat around for three years and then got brainwashed again lmao

[wicked adder]

It’s funny because whatever ending you chose skiff 100% dedicates himself to it regardless of how crazy it is

[golden hazel]

Then girlboss skif is like NO YOU MADE ME GO THIS FAR YOURE DOING IT MF

[wicked adder]

Like at a point skiff is basically forcing scar to finish it

[outer depot]

Believers of the cult turning more radical than the leader. Many such cases

[mossy nimbus]

ironically the Doc/Skif ending is most "positive" one

[mossy nimbus]

Force? More like Scar can't accept he believed in bs

[outer depot]

I think Strelok ending is the most… Stalker-y?

Forms a nice loop back to SoC

I liked it the most

[wicked adder]

Strelok’s ending is probably the worst one, and will just form a cycle

Ward’s ending made me pretty nervous with all those cameras

The doctor’s is the most uncertain one, with the zone growing as it will

[mossy nimbus]

I dunno, Strelok turning from ultimate free guy to essentially Zone dictator was quite bleak

[outer depot]

Scar ending is absolutely the worst one

Streloks ending ensures the cycle will continue

[mossy nimbus]

Doc's ending struck me as most positive one because the Zone might grow more but won't be that aggressive I think

[golden hazel]

The zone in other places without mutants, without the monolith, without radiation

[outer depot]

Man saw eight gorillion people dead set on making everything worse and ultimately it comes down to him having killed the C-Con out of revenge

[mossy nimbus]

if he blew up entire facility and burned everything down - that would be more like his MO

[outer depot]

And spending the next ten years regretting it

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-strelok-gif-6846341429631022830

[outer depot]

SIRCAA would have found a way to connect the generator network at some point

[wicked adder]

Maybe he should busted them too

[outer depot]

If you follow the Journalist stashes it’s revealed there’s a global generator network

[mossy nimbus]

not if those generators were destroyed and Strelok also destroyed documents, it seemed like he had access to final parts to make the thing work again

[wicked adder]

That’s a crazy reveal to drop in a gear based release dlc

[outer depot]

Yeah honestly it is

[golden hazel]

What the fuck UbiGSC

[outer depot]

But it’s also sort of revealed in the Doctor ending

The world map shows the generator network

[mossy nimbus]

probably just created it as sort of backdoor for potential sequels
Honestly have no idea how devs want to continue with series aside of DLCs since all endings are so different and far-reaching

[outer depot]

In the Journalist stashes one of the final messages is Strelok threatening to kill him if he reveals the fact that there is a global generator network

Which is what he learned in Pripyat

[river lintel]

And so he offed himself with the knowledge

[outer depot]

Yep because the info has to die with him essentially

[lone saffron]

Is there any way to get rid of that awful noise on reflection surfaces? I've tried every setting and it never gets better, only worse depending on upscaling.

[outer depot]

Or else, well- you get the worldwide zone

[wicked adder]

SIRCAA just really polishes their floors

[river lintel]

What you gotta do is real simple. Live with it

[outer depot]

UE5 spaghetti

[river lintel]

Thats granite for ya

[rustic kraken]

ini commands to run above ultra

[wicked adder]

Where are all their janitors anyway, that’s what I’m seeing, no janitors

[mossy nimbus]

ugh, granite... already nearly Vietnam flashbacks from that awful section

[wicked adder]

Is that how noontide got inside? Posing as a janitorial team?

[golden hazel]

Yeah the DLC is up to massive speculation cause it could take place before S2, during S2 as an alt ending, or after S2 in one of the endings, but for sure one of the locations is gonna be limansk

[mossy nimbus]

I think it will be one of those fogged out locations
One of them is Iron forest, the other one probably CNPP itself

[wicked adder]

GCW writing room

‘Uhhh yeah have them drop into a small room with no exits for 3 minutes then have them get attacked by hidden enemies. 5 of which have one-two hit weapons and are barely viewable from the ground’

[mossy nimbus]

yea, staircase and that last hall room before very ending
Definitely not playtested before release

[wicked adder]

Limansk is a sure thing, they teased it a bunch of times by mentioning that something happened too it, weird radio broadcasts coming out of it etc

[river lintel]

Well if Skifs ending is the true ending. I'd like it to to be the stort of bioshock follow up of the impact is has

[wicked adder]

I think any option that takes the games out of Chernobyl is likely a non starter

[golden hazel]

And Spirit wanting a nice summer home in Limansk

[river lintel]

nice summer home in Limansk
The place is a shit hole tho?

[mossy nimbus]

Wouldn't be surprised if one of "canon" endings would be Strelok's or Ward's - Streloks imprisons you in Zone and you are looking for way to escape/remove the blockade, the Ward's one is fighting awful corpo

[wicked adder]

Wonder what the hell spirit was looking for

Also I forgot but they just happened to mention that spirit is a monolithian who was ‘protected’ from the signal when it started

And it’s not treated like a big deal

[mossy nimbus]

yep, he was just lucky that was in Jupiter bunker and then somehow moved to Limansk tunnel

[golden hazel]

He was in the Spark bunker which protected him

[wicked adder]

That seems far more significant than skif ever seems to think about

[river lintel]

I think that Skifs is the true ending simply because the song they used for the accolades trailer plays during it and iirc the other endings don't have music like that

[mossy nimbus]

the song imo is there due to fact that it is the ending which has the least spoken exposition so they wanted to balance it somehow

[wicked adder]

But yeah something is going on in Limansk and they wouldn’t hint that so often if they didn’t intend us to go there eventually

[mossy nimbus]

or maybe just callback to OG where Limansk played large roll

[golden hazel]

My guess is thats where Clear Sky is currently located

[outer depot]

I hear Limansk is lovely this time of year

[river lintel]

Maybe? But on the other hand his ending is set up by the journalist stashes

[mossy nimbus]

Dunno, Clear Sky is heavily implied to be all but wiped out, Novikov being one of very few survivors

[wicked adder]

Idk, they could have just left it at ‘all the tunnels to Limansk are gone’ but they piled more stuff onto it

[outer depot]

Clear Sky is why there’s eight billion Monolith in SoC lmao

[wicked adder]

If they wanted you to not think about it why have all the references

[outer depot]

They’re all fucking brainwashed

[wicked adder]

Honestly i assumed half of spark was made up of old clear sky dudes

[golden hazel]

Theyre mentioned by some bandits in one of the places in Zaton to still be around scavenging things hiring bandits to protect them

[outer depot]

Basically the entire faction minus maybe a FEW randos packed up for CNPP and then got nuked

[mossy nimbus]

oh man, what they did with original Spark team, that was just sad

[outer depot]

Ward is asshole

[mossy nimbus]

after helping them out so much in CoP and then have them end up the way they did

[wicked adder]

Ward just randomly attacking pseudo ecologists

[mossy nimbus]

I think the only mentioned survivors are Novikov and Nimble

[outer depot]

And then they got replaced by random bullshit

[wicked adder]

It’s never mentioned why Ward fucking HATES spark so badly

They just do

[outer depot]

Oh Novikov is around?

[mossy nimbus]

it made zero sense even from realistic point of view - I mean why attack bunch of government supported scientists?

[golden hazel]

Spark was Ozersky's group, SIRCAA thinks Ozersky is a quack

[mossy nimbus]

I should clarify Novikov and Nimble were still alive in CoP

[wicked adder]

Yeah, but attacking them out of the blue at the chemical plant, for what? For being wackjobs? They never tried to wipe out any other faction

[outer depot]

Oh I thought he was in HoC too and I’d just missed him

[wicked adder]

Like, I think it’s mentioned in the hint text that Mercs got clapped down on heavily, but other than them

[golden hazel]

Yes, and thus Ward is asshoe and so is SIRCAA

[outer depot]

I think it was because they risked damaging the work done by SIRCAA

that’s about it

[mossy nimbus]

well, Mercs were attached to Jupiter lab in CoP only because that one group was interested in Jupiter factory documents, nothing else... and original Spark team had nothing to do with that research

[outer depot]

Ozersky was clearly flying very close to the sun

[mossy nimbus]

if one thinks about it - huge amount of characters and factions were done incredibly dirty in S2

[wicked adder]

They really made Strelok a crazy zone fanatic

[outer depot]

Given his exposure to the SIRCAA agenda and then being more or less forced out

You can kinda see why

[mossy nimbus]

Loners and Bandits - in shit as usual
Freedom - probably the only winner
Duty - reduced to one checkpoint border patrol
Spark - destroyed
Scar - gone full mental
Strelok - went fanatic
Degty - one of very few who was rather ok

[outer depot]

He fucked up by killing the C-Con and now these fuckheads are coming in to replace and exploit everything to a degree hitherto unknown

[outer depot]

Omg Deggy hi!

[golden hazel]

Freedom no longer is the barrier defending Weedachads, now they're the bread kitchen weed guys

[outer depot]

Damn good bread though

[mossy nimbus]

tbf Freedom in S2 is more like New Vegas winners

[golden hazel]

Deggy even has his own simp now, Harpy

[mossy nimbus]

can you blame her? Deggy is based af

[wicked adder]

I’d understand if he became more ‘close off the zone’ but he’s literally babbling about how the zone created him and he is it’s child

[outer depot]

Can we talk about the fact that Deggy is such an absolute unit that he went hand to hand with Korshunovs super-Exo, got suplexed, and then still managed to drag us to safety afterwards? Meanwhile Richter literally gets snapped in half like a twig

[wicked adder]

And how he is made to protect it

He’s literally spouting off Monolith one liners

[river lintel]

Then he gives us his rifle and gives us the whole "finish the fight"

[outer depot]

He’s a man with a plan

[golden hazel]

That's the power of the real gigachad of the zone

[river lintel]

Bro secretly still has the heart of the Oasis on him

[wicked adder]

shows up

bans people from going beyond Yaniv

refused to elaborate

https://tenor.com/view/degtyarev-major-call-of-pripyat-stalker-gif-15874450334199817648

[outer depot]

We don’t even have the option to fight Deggy in any ending; we’d lose.

[mossy nimbus]

leaves to Pripyat himself

[outer depot]

He is the apex predator, a human chimera

[golden hazel]

We'd get flattened harder than the Strider cutscene

[mossy nimbus]

Deggy is that character in Stalker lore I wouldn't be ashamed to be full homo

[mossy nimbus]

bruh, too soon

[outer depot]

Completely ruined by the fact he’s now known as Deggy

[golden hazel]

Just dont let Harpy hear you

[mossy nimbus]

still

[outer depot]

She can’t have him

[mossy nimbus]

Pripyat herself can barely contain him

[outer depot]

Degtyarev Corps also has the most outstanding drip in the Zone

[wicked adder]

Bros gotta be strong as an ox

Who do you think dragged all the trains to create a barrier to the north? That’s right

Our man lifted em up and built a wall

[outer depot]

Degtyarev is absolutely running endgame artifacts you just know

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/mr-incredible-the-incredibles-workout-beast-mode-strong-gif-4044794

[mossy nimbus]

where are girls when we discuss the real chad?

[wicked adder]

Girls? This is the zone, girls only get to sell guns here for some reason…

[golden hazel]

Recovering

[mossy nimbus]

@sage wolf @eternal oyster Where are you when we discuss topic which needs your input? Chop chop :D

[outer depot]

Why do you think Harpy can’t go on patrol anymore

[eternal oyster]

how dare you

[mossy nimbus]

what, assume your gender?

[golden hazel]

[eternal oyster]

no, ping me. is joke.

[wicked adder]

Doubt loyalty to deggy obviously. Why would one doubt him…

[eternal oyster]

https://youtu.be/41xHa3GqEuw?si=aJed9aTlHzdOjA7V
deggy greentext go, NOW I RUN AWAY

[golden hazel]

Heresy

[sage wolf]

didnt realize anybody cared what i had to say

[mossy nimbus]

eh, guess I am too old to understand why it is a joke

[wicked adder]

We need to know you support the Degtyarev and his brave corps…

[sage wolf]

which topic did you want us to comment on, deggy??

[mossy nimbus]

oh yea, Deggy is basically Henry Cavill of Stalker lore

[sage wolf]

is that the dude from CoP

[outer depot]

Rated D for Deggy

[sage wolf]

the protag

[mossy nimbus]

yep, protagonist from CoP, with gigachad voice and actual competence

[wicked adder]

Gimme a D, gimme E, Gimmie a G, Gimmie another G, Gimmie a Y

[sage wolf]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

my hierarchy of protags is currently sitting like this tbh

Strelok
Skif
Deggy
Scar

[wicked adder]

Bro forgot scar…

[golden hazel]

ITS SO OVER SKEEFA

[sage wolf]

i didnt, just fat fingered when typing

pressed enter without shifting

[outer depot]

SKEEEEEFFAAAA

[wicked adder]

SKEEF, I HAVE TO SELL YOUR PEEESTOL TO BUY MORE WEED TI ACCESS TO THE SHINING ZONE

[mossy nimbus]

Strelok and Scar were quite ruined by S2 but yea, Skif is otherwise very good protagonist with easy to sympathize motivation

[sage wolf]

Skif has kinda grown on me, but to mw Strelok is the ultimate chad forever. Havent encountered him in S2 tho so hope they dont make him worse like they did with Scar

[mossy nimbus]

did you see the IRL actor for S2 Scar? That guy had massive fun recording the character

[sage wolf]

god dammit man

[outer depot]

I don’t think Strelok was ruined in the slightest

[wicked adder]

sorry dawg

[golden hazel]

Scar is the only english VA that put his soul in recording tbh

[eternal oyster]

MY FUCKING SINK, DALIIINNNNNNN

[outer depot]

He’s a fun and crazy guy

[mossy nimbus]

ok, clarification time! The Strelok ending was kinda meh for Strelok but rest of game he was actually pretty good, need to correct that

[wicked adder]

Strelok spent too long in SOC hanging out with freedom

[sage wolf]

I think Scars character was greatly expanded. So i get ppl that say he was basically a non character before S2 but yeah idk. He's just such a dummy sometimes he makes me perma facepalm

[wicked adder]

The vizard veed clearly left a mark

[mossy nimbus]

I played with Ukrainian VO

[outer depot]

SKEEFA

[golden hazel]

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

[wicked adder]

His English Va is really funny

[golden hazel]

I did too

[wicked adder]

He very much feels like someone’s cracked out uncle

[outer depot]

Naturally

[sage wolf]

CoP was the quickest game for me to beat out of the trilogy somehow

[river lintel]

Because Deg is that much of a chad

[wicked adder]

Bro is tweaking and they ain’t even his memories…

[sage wolf]

the only part that sticks out in my mind in CoP is the parts in Pripyat

[mossy nimbus]

when he choked the living shit out of Dalin and good ol' colonel was just standing nearby not giving a fuck I had such good laugh, ngl

[golden hazel]

English Scar is great, he has a more cartoony vocal take on Scar and Ukrainian Scar has a more Crackhead that will steal your copper wires kind of take

[wicked adder]

Zaton was the part I remember the most, and my boy Zulu (richter)

[river lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-why-im-here-obi-wan-obi-wan-kenobi-star-wars-gif-18535648

[sage wolf]

anyways im off to play rivals with my homie so peace peace for now

[river lintel]

Is Zulu Richter?

[mossy nimbus]

sadly not

[wicked adder]

Honestly probably not? But he looks like him, they’re both alcoholic and they live in the same tower

[mossy nimbus]

but Richter is such a bro

[wicked adder]

I strongly believe they were intended to be the same character originally. Especially because Richter seems to know Deggy and also Strelok

[mossy nimbus]

nah, tower is just abandoned after CoP

[wicked adder]

Also Zulu isn’t dead by HOC he’s just… not in the game

[mossy nimbus]

have fun!

[river lintel]

After SIRCAA i wished stalker 2 had companion ai so I could conquer the zone with Richter

[outer depot]

Half of the Ward cutscenes in general are just Korshunov cheeseballing in the background as you give Dalin shit

[golden hazel]

Just like Sahkarov probably

[river lintel]

Because Korshunov is a giga chad

[outer depot]

Zulu is around apparently

Duty guys talk about him a lot

[wicked adder]

He’s mentioned as not being popular by duty generic dialog, yeah

[mossy nimbus]

Korshunov is probably the only reason I would give Ward ending a go

[outer depot]

He’s sort of forming his more hardcore duty version

[mossy nimbus]

was kinda baffled by Dalin's all of a sudden change of opinion and allegiance

[golden hazel]

Duty 2 Workout Boogaloo

[river lintel]

The reason i am. You meet him almost instantly after Zalissya too

[wicked adder]

I’m fully convinced that Dalin always changes sides just cause he’s upset that Korshunov treats him like an ass

Like it’s entirely personal

[river lintel]

And not because he's a man baby with daddy issues?

[wicked adder]

There’s probably some of that too

If korshunov had told Dalin he was proud of him maybe he’d not be so useless…

[golden hazel]

Literally why Hermann went awol

[mossy nimbus]

tbf, Dalin's motivation to change makes sense on human level, don't need to agree with the guy but still

[river lintel]

The fact you can throttle his ass and Korshunov just watches is hilarious

[mossy nimbus]

even Korshunov's threat afterwards is more like btw thing and not to be taken too seriously

[river lintel]

Also it kinda makes sense skif can use the c con pods. He looks at the wish granter and instead of it microwaving his brain for 10 minutes on high it shows you other people's memories

[mossy nimbus]

I think that SIRCAA version of the device was more tuned so it wouldn't fry brains of everyone present, they had means and resources to pull it off

[river lintel]

To me it doesn't come off as a threat but more a stern "command will have my ass if I don't say this" from a co

[wicked adder]

Skeeef just has natural psi protection

[mossy nimbus]

eh, Valve still can't count to 3 so highly unlikely, sadly

[river lintel]

Even still the wish granter only fucks with your mind in a way that you end up popping a dude accidentally

[mossy nimbus]

gotta be that Skif's PM

[wicked adder]

True….

That’s why it’s a key item

[river lintel]

Half Life Alyx is literally just a tech demo for HL3, going off it's ending

[wicked adder]

All valve games are tech demos really

[mossy nimbus]

Skif's Makarov is essentially what Heart of Chernobyl artefact is to Strelok

[wicked adder]

The half life games were to sell their physics engine, alyx was to sell their vr engine

[golden hazel]

Skif's Makarov is the real alpha artifact

[river lintel]

Alyx is amazing and if 3 is in vr I'd be cool with that

[mossy nimbus]

yea, it was quite nice they redid THAT ending from Half-Life Ep. 2 but was quite disappointed they didn't include Merle Dandridge as Alyx's original VA

[wicked adder]

Alyx is really cool, but part of me worries we don’t get a Hl3 until there’s something new to sell

[golden hazel]

Half Life 3 AR

[wicked adder]

A Vr source 2 or something, source 3

[river lintel]

VAs come and go but gameplay is eternal

[mossy nimbus]

well Merle VA didn't change voice wise so I was headscratching big time why did they have to replace her, definitely wasn't mo-cap issue

speaking of VAs - was quite bummed by several changes for characters in S2 - Beard and Owl probably most notable examples, Deggy a little too

[wicked adder]

Voice actors get shafted a lot sadly

Venom snake comes to mind

[golden hazel]

Mason and Woods from cod of doody

[outer depot]

Given how long it’s been some of those dudes might be dead at this point even ignoring the war

Or just stopped doing VA work

[mossy nimbus]

well, the problem is I am like 99% sure they used Owl's original VA in S2, I could swear I heard his distinctive voice on multiple occasions

agree with the other part, especially with the war going on

[golden hazel]

Me when I heard the bandit say Anu Cheeki Breeki Iv Damke in HoC Tuah

I'm pretty sure the line is bugged though cause I never heard it outside of patch 1.0.0

[mossy nimbus]

Was about to ask when did you hear it because I did not hear that legendary cheeki breeki ONE.SINGLE.FUCKIN'.TIME

[golden hazel]

It's a shame with how often it was heard in the trilogy

[mossy nimbus]

and it's iconic!

you know what, gotta go tune Gamma, somehow it feels more Zoneish to me, in certain aspects

[golden hazel]

Apparently there's variations of the cheeki breeki line

The one I heard sounded more like the original VA from the trilogy saying it

Yeah it's definitely bugged

[finite egret]

my save file got deleted somehow and im sad 😦

[mossy nimbus]

my problem is that I didn't hear cheeki breeki once in S2 and I played it quite thoroughly!

[golden hazel]

The videos seem to be from 1.0.0 too

They absolutely without a doubt fucked up the voicelines after that patch

[mossy nimbus]

gotta report it to GCS devs as bug

[golden hazel]

I ain't on their server

[mossy nimbus]

was general suggestion

[golden hazel]

And I'm saying I ain't doin it

[rugged geyser]

don't worry guys they will fix 1,800 bugs and only report about 10 of them being fixed trust

[simple hill]

https://tenor.com/view/the-punisher-gif-22731535

theyre gonna touch armorprototypes and ruin my shit

[golden hazel]

(This creates about 30 more memory leaks)

[rugged geyser]

If they fixed 1800 issues, they should post all 1800 issues that was resolved in a text doc or something, I didn't see it if they did though

[simple hill]

poor interns when john frosty is the boss

[rugged geyser]

Then again they somehow broke shader compiling on startup so idk what they was doing lmao

[golden hazel]

UE5 is a blurry flashbanging mystery to me

[hushed garden]

*they somehow made it worse

I heard the devs call their patches gambles

their dev tools have a big red fuck it button

[clever sigil]

yea but at least here the settings make some sort of sense.

Did you know that in EFT by changing the vaulting from auto to a hotkey you gain 15-20 fps?

[chrome wind]

bruh i was just about to ask if anyone else is having this issue. can’t even start the game after the “press any key to continue” screen cuz somehow nothing i press works lmao

so utterly scuffed like man i just wanna play some S2

[crystal thicket]

Does anyone know if you can actually get good rep with any other faction besides the loners it feels like ive done at least 15 quests for the barkeep at the slag heap now and they are still white (neutral)

[rapid jolt]

I heard it exactly once.

Distinctly. From a bandit in zalyissia

[hallow plume]

ARE THERE any working mod that balances the loot system:((((
modular hard mod loot is outdated

At least medkits, bandages and consumables

[covert eagle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=135aqsBR4uk

You won't get it at all :/

[summer schooner]

Take a look at maklane's zone overhaul

[abstract lagoon]

maklane's is pretty good. doesnt change what comes out of stashes, but reduces meds from bodies

[hoary hollow]

Should i buy..stalker 2 or cyberpunk 2077 since i got 60 dollars

[summer schooner]

Personally, I like the idea of almost every human having at least one food/drink, some rounds for their gun (if not a pistol and rounds for that too), and sometimes have a medkit and/or some band-aids.

[abstract lagoon]

oh, lol, already been mentioned

[abstract lagoon]

only you can answer that question

[summer schooner]

Aren't they both borked to hell?

[abstract lagoon]

cyberpunk isnt borked anymore

[summer schooner]

Ah, well, took them too long for me to start caring again, lol.

[abstract lagoon]

been released for 4 years

[hoary hollow]

stalker 2 they say it's good, I've seen people say that it lasts 100 hours of gameplay for the country and maybe even 150 to finish everything

[wicked adder]

Thats... a stretch ill be honest

the game took me about 24/25 hours to complete and i did essentially all the side quests. There was more exploring that i didn't do, but not many quests

[summer schooner]

That's a...large stretch if you just mean story. If you mean gameplay as in also "Walking around and enjoying the scenery when the game is functioning", then sure.

[hoary hollow]

but honest cyberpunk I like it, the combat is a beautiful, intriguing story, but..stalker 2 is so.."unique" well I played stalker anomaly and also shadow of chernobyl but..

[hoary hollow]

yes, I mean gameplay in general

[summer schooner]

I had to put like, 10 mods into my stalker to make it feel...stalker.

[hoary hollow]

mhh aa and true, are there many mods for stalker 2?

[summer schooner]

Got tired of plinking fellers in the skull over and over and over and over and over, while they had no helmet, and while I had one of the top helmets in the game (that I've found, and it's better than the M12 Sphere from the military), as well as good armor, and I perished in 3-4 shots.

AI has aimbot, (selective) super hearing, and X-ray vision. And the aimbot also includes shotguns. I was at full health and got one tapped by a dude with the fucking two barrel shotgun from like, 50 meters because he got a headshot.

[hoary hollow]

as? Really?

[summer schooner]

That was through some trees and brush. I only knew the direction he was coming from because the detection UI pop up.

[hoary hollow]

Are there no mods that can "fix" these AIs?

[summer schooner]

Oh yeah, mods can. I said I had to put at least 10 mods in my game to make it playable.

[hoary hollow]

mhmhmh, I think I'll buy stalker then

[summer schooner]

If you want a small spoiler ||They pit you against a bloodsucker in the first 10 minutes of the game||

[hoary hollow]

thrilling

[summer schooner]

Yeah, so, mentally prepare for that. I won't tell you when he appears though.

[hoary hollow]

exciting!

[hoary hollow]

I'll be ready in case.

[summer schooner]

I've heard it isn't near as bad as it was on launch, but still. Even the idea that they decided, "Yep, let's give him tier 4 armor, tons of health, and he can almost one shot most players until exo-suits or close to that" was enough for me to slap in mods and not even look at what GSC was cooking in their methlab.

On top of his two new abilities.

[hoary hollow]

this intrigues me, the fact is that I was interested in one thing, so are you telling me that playing stalker 2 in vanilla I can encounter more chances of dying? and be dissatisfied

[summer schooner]

Not more chances of dying. If it's like it was on launch, you'll see your respawn screen a lot. That's a given.

[hoary hollow]

mh

How many hours of gameplay do you keep on Steam on Stalker 2?

[summer schooner]

I have 80 hours rn.

[warped monolith]

You already did

[golden hazel]

[summer schooner]

Not when, just in the beginning. Not when in the beginning.

For all he knows it could appear in place A, B, C, D, etc, he just knows it's somewhere after the game starts before he gets into it deep.

[warped monolith]

It'd help if there were 4 or more places in the "beginning"

[hoary hollow]

are they scary? what does it look like how many jumpscares and heart attacks can I get? are they “hideously ugly?” oh and another thing do bloodsuckers have hair?

[summer schooner]

||Not like the game doesn't tell him where it is pretty much as soon as it happens anyways||

[summer schooner]

The models look good, but I wouldn't call them that scary lookin. Jump scares though...those happen a lot, lol.

Walks into town. Hears cry for help. Walks towards building. 10 snorks come out the door

[summer schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/kurt-kurt-angle-100-yard-stare-what-are-you-serious-gif-4081464694509837388

[hoary hollow]

"coool" uninstall the game as soon as this happens

[summer schooner]

Story wise and event wise, they cooked with this game. Gameplay wise. Methlab.

[golden hazel]

Theyre bald af

[hoary hollow]

Really? not even a hair?

[summer schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/mr-clean-gif-7732473

If you think about it, bloodsuckers are the Mr. Clean of the zone.

[hoary hollow]

TRUE HAHAHAHAHA

[golden hazel]

Less hair than Strelok

[summer schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-strelok-gif-6846341429631022830

[hoary hollow]

I want to create a mod where bloodsuckers have hair with different cuts; Emo type, thug, Drip ones, Fades, justin bieber 2008 hairs,

[golden hazel]

Peak ngl

[hoary hollow]

imagine entering a facility, you turn around and find yourself a bloodsucker with an emo cut who suddenly attacks you, trust me it's scarier to see him like that than bald

[golden hazel]

muffled sound of radio playing linkin park in the background

[hoary hollow]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH while attacking u starts singing Metro Station - Shake It

[rapid jolt]

Psy suckers get mohawks in neon colors...

Swamp suckers get greasy metalhead hair...

[summer schooner]

That would be the scariest part imo.

[winged eagle]

save me from nothing i've become

[wicked adder]

You don't even gotta kill him

Thats the funny part

[eternal oyster]

hoogh ragh

[wanton arch]

discovered stealth knife kills halfway through the story and I love them

[eternal oyster]

I did it in open combat

who needs bullets I have a knife. stabby stabby.

[olive verge]

Is this game optimized yet

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/road-trip-are-we-there-gif-22475897

[summer schooner]

One time I ran outta ammo, so I ran into a building, and the squad broke up to look for me in the building. I stealth killed them all but the fourth one.

[rapid jolt]

Doing this in the Rostok Arena when i had zero ammo and oneshot knife killed Tyrant felt so correct it may as well have been scripted

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/get-real-get-real-meme-stalker-stalker-game-energy-drink-gif-25080407

[summer schooner]

Walks into building. Hears the screams of the damned

Wonder what horror I'm about to walk into...

[sturdy meteor]

My parents house.

[summer schooner]

Is sprinting for the exo an upgrade on all of t hem?

[abstract lagoon]

should be

[summer schooner]

If the cement man can't upgrade it, imma be pissed

[abstract lagoon]

pretty sure you need a blueprint tho

although the diamond exo doesnt need a blueprint

[summer schooner]

💀

Doesn't matter anyways. I don't know a single technician that can upgrade it.

I also don't see an upgrade on this suit that allows it to sprint.

AND I ONLY GET 17K for a fully repaired exosuit? Wtf....buying ammo is more expensive than exosuits to these traders.

[true yew]

There is an upgrade

Harpy can upgrade it

[summer schooner]

There isn't. The suit I have has a weight upgrade in place of sprint.

https://tenor.com/view/my-disappointment-is-immeasurable-and-gif-20080022

[wicked adder]

Yeah not all of them can sprint

It’s like 4/6 exoskeletons that can, or 3/5

[summer schooner]

Also, these uniques seem to suck in comparison to just normal guns.

Not a normal gun of the type the unique is from, but like, the clusterfuck and the SOFMOD just seem to so underperform in comparison to even the G36

[true yew]

Wdat do you mean underperform?

[rapid jolt]

He doesn't know how to use them properly and spam mouse 1

The stats don't matter if you just carry a bunch of ammo and spam click. Clusterfuck in particular is goated at this task because of the scope

Watch as monolith heads are enlarged and become piss easy targets

[summer schooner]

The clusterfuck, to be fair I am running maklane's gun mod (vanilla gunplay is ass), but it literally just seems like a rifle with a scope. Same for the SOFMOD, nothing special it seems.

[outer depot]

idk I like a lot of the custom weapons

Trophy slaps, Lullaby slaps

[summer schooner]

I like the looks of them, but so far they perform the almost the same as the weapon it was before being modified, and, for example, even the AR416 clusterfuck is outdone by a normal G36.

[outer depot]

scoped AK from the water tower is all you really need for a while

[true yew]

Cant comment on that because you are running a mod i havent used.
But yes, they are rifles with attachments because they are

[rapid jolt]

I've been beating the mid point of the game handily thus far with a basic bitch AK74 lol. I only just picked up a GL upgrade. Clusterfuck would be even more OP and, in my first run, it was goated for Pripyat

[outer depot]

Spitfire can be funny

I mean my default loadout is just a 74 with the RPK mag and a GP, don't even use the PSO tbh

[summer schooner]

Yeah, but most of these "unique attachments" I could simply add myself if I had the attachment. The descriptions of most of these guns talk about modifications, but, tbh, even in vanilla I didn't notice much of a difference.

[rapid jolt]

Yes, just obtain endgame attachments when you're still in Zaton lol

Clusterfuck is only redundant if you somehow had access to it's attachments in early-midgame

[summer schooner]

The only weapon I've seen that's really unique, is the clusterfuck.

[outer depot]

Clusterfuck with a 203 and the drum mag for if you REALLY don't like seeing the right half of your screen

[true yew]

Speakjng realistically

You cant really expect much different when putting an acog and foregrip on a weapon

[summer schooner]

Everything else is just a different skin tbh.

[summer schooner]

Some of the guns literally talk in their vanilla description how it changes the weapon.

Yet we.....don't see those changes in gameplay.

[outer depot]

Lullaby is by default suppressed which is neat

[rapid jolt]

I'm pretty sure Clusterfuck is supposed to be a Mk. 12 but the devs didn't want a fully unique weapon model when they already had a high def AR in the game.

[summer schooner]

I got a unique gun, I forgot which because I sold it, but it said the internals were massively modified, and it should shoot slower, but have more velocity. Alright, that's dope. Try it out. Exact same as vanilla gun.

[outer depot]

Clusterfuck is just a regular AR with a MPO on it tbh

[summer schooner]

Yeah, that's all it is. That's fine, that's unique. Can't put an 8x on the AR416 as far as I am aware.

But like....why stuff I have to fight for....just for it to be a gun I already have, but it has a neat skin?

[outer depot]

any decently built AR will be 1.5 MOA vs the average 2.5-4 MOA for an AK so honestly yeah you could get away with it just being a somewhat accurized 416 kek

even the max upgraded 74 is all over the place

[rapid jolt]

Yeah. Hence the assumption about what it's supposed to be

[loud temple]

where do i go to ask about finding specfic mods i wanna turn off? i have no idea where to even start

[rapid jolt]

I forgot what accuracy I got it up to but I think it was near maximum stats

[summer schooner]

Turn off? Did you slap a bunch of mods in and fuck your game?

[rapid jolt]

Stalker 2 chat mate

[outer depot]

Clusterfuck max accuracy upgraded is a laser pointer

[loud temple]

no i just hate the blur effect when reloading and using meds and such

[outer depot]

and it doesn't handle like a stuck pig like the 7.62x54/308 guns

[true yew]

I wish skif could hold his rifles better because wtf is that sway

[rapid jolt]

Ask in one of the GAMMA channels

[loud temple]

oh shit i jsut ralized where i was lol

[rapid jolt]

Yeah dw happens all the time LMAO

[loud temple]

thanks man lmao

[rapid jolt]

Tis realistic :))))))

[outer depot]

max handling upgrade Groza is so fucking sloooooooooooow

[rapid jolt]

For ADS?

[summer schooner]

I found the 5.45 groza. Idk why you’d ever use it.

[outer depot]

yeah it takes actual ages to aim in

[rapid jolt]

Pain. It's a bullpup too idk why it'd be like that

[summer schooner]

AK-74 flat outperforms the 5.45 S-15 Groza

[rapid jolt]

GSC "balance" momento

[outer depot]

all I can wager is "balance" for having a 30 round mag upgrade and the integral GL

[river lintel]

does it?

[summer schooner]

With maklane’s ballistics, it stupidly outperforms the s-15

[outer depot]

AK bullpup ergonomics are garbo, I think Dnipro/Malyuk performs better just because it's meant to be a more modern endgame weapon

[rapid jolt]

Exactly

[rapid jolt]

Also true. Game has a tier system for some reason. I'm not a fan since you can go to Yaniv from the start anyways

[summer schooner]

Irl, bullpups are so the move. I know everyone has a personal preference, but I I’ve used bullpups before, and I find them easier to use than normal rifles. My airsoft guns are all bullpups because that.

[rapid jolt]

It's just pointless "progression" that feels extremely artificial in an open world game.

[outer depot]

the humble 74 carried me through my first run with some experimentations on uniques and such

it's not necessary to upgrade but it does make things easier

[summer schooner]

I’ve ran with the combatant, an Ak-74 with a cool skin since I got it. It slaps.

[outer depot]

1000 rounds of AP and hipfire spamming 45 round mags solves most problems

[rapid jolt]

Like how RDR2 locks you out of buying guns till you go to a new city.. but then the old towns in the boonies also have those guns suddenly. It's just preventing the player from buying something cracked ASAP or whatever...

[summer schooner]

My second gun is an integral-A with the .45 upgrade. Slaps

[rapid jolt]

Clusterfuck and Gauss Gun. Before "unlocking" the Gauss it was the SPAS-12

[outer depot]

I run SPAS-12 because that's always been my favorite and even with the long reload you can still barrel stuff people

[rapid jolt]

SPAS 12 is my anti-mutant rod.

[outer depot]

it's so satisfying to use

[rapid jolt]

I swear I feel my teeth rattle whenever I shoot it lmfao

It's so.. beefy

[outer depot]

SPAS and as many HP slugs as you can find, deletes all mutants

would be nice if I could kit my 74 out a bit

one of the 2x scope options would be a good compromise option

[rapid jolt]

I got Oxide's weapon mods for that in particular

[outer depot]

I spend so much time fucking with my AK's IRL that I constantly want to fuck with them more ingame lel

[rapid jolt]

I forget what you can add to it specifically but you can rice out AKs more than the game will let you normally. I have a red dot glued to mine now

He has yet to add a proper russian mounting pattern to picatinny rail afaik but it's in the works

[outer depot]

honestly one of the main reasons I run the 74 aside from loving 74's in general is just because it takes up so little fucking space onscreen

[rapid jolt]

Stalker is making me want to get a WBP AK74 :////

I already have a gucchi AR so I'm getting it purely because I think it's sex and would be a fun range toy

[outer depot]

just do one of the 74 style ones once they add a folding stock option

[rapid jolt]

Meh I was thinking of all wood

[outer depot]

I have an older AKM pattern WBP in 5.56 that I shoved a 74 brake and some old 74 wood on and it's fine but I miss my 90 degree gas block

[rapid jolt]

Yeah I haven't seen them sell a single 90 degree block on their "74" offerings lmfao

[outer depot]

they're out now

[rapid jolt]

Even though they claim to have it now

[outer depot]

oh the answer there is I think they did a small batch and they got eaten immediately, the 7.62x39 ones are still in stock

[rapid jolt]

Atlantic also doesn't show any of them with 90 degree blocks

Right, that'd do it

[outer depot]

people are hungry for 5.56 AK's

me included

honestly all I run in Gamma is the fucking AK-101/102 lmao

[rapid jolt]

AK-101 is cool but not something I actually really want

I can appreciate it but I already spent like, 3k on a SOPMOD Block II

[outer depot]

I think the kit out for my 106F was something like $2.5 lel

for a much heavier and worse gun

TWS rail, adjustable piston, Eokek EXPS-3 and magnifier, Perst-4, Klesh IR/Vis, railed handguards, a Surefire MD...

[rapid jolt]

I wouldn't spend more than 1.5k on an AK personally. I'm glad WBP is a cheap conscript stick and I will consider it as such. I've seen some people get really, really autistically infatuated with their AKs and ultimately not enjoy ricing them anyways lol

[outer depot]

well yeah because it goes from a fun 7.5 lb package to an 11 lb monstrosity

[rapid jolt]

R e a l

[outer depot]

and AK's are by nature already really nose heavy so it only gets worse

[rapid jolt]

Deni had a fucking WASR that was like 15 pounds out of the box LMFAO

[outer depot]

okay at that point he must be trying to add mass

[rapid jolt]

That's what a dude basically told her when he picked it up at the range lol

[covert eagle]

gun is fine, ivan

[outer depot]

I ended up building out an AR that takes AK-74/101 mags just because I have so many already and it's way lighter even with all my shit on it

[covert eagle]

so amazingly based

[outer depot]

but it's not as fun as AK

[rapid jolt]

Oh yeah that's another thing... needing to stock up on some plums for the WBP...

Future me problems :)))))

[outer depot]

tbh just buy the new production bulgies they're way better

[summer schooner]

I found Gauss rifle cartridges, but no gauss. wtf game

[rapid jolt]

Okay but plums look sex.

[outer depot]

spray paint it gloss purple

[covert eagle]

yeah but a poly ar is SO much more comfy to huck around the woods

[rapid jolt]

Tell Hotshot it's mission locked. He blocked me for mentioning the communist bloc

You get the gauss gun in The Boundry mission and afterwards

[outer depot]

I say this as a plum and bake enjoyer

[rapid jolt]

True.

Idk how much my final AK will weigh. I'll definitely have to investigate

I'm getting aftermarket wood furniture because the stock options WBP has look like shittttt

[outer depot]

if you keep it naked it'll stay light

~7.5 lbs

[rapid jolt]

Yeah I'm literally adding wood and nothing else to my AK lol

[outer depot]

I've got a naked plum furniture 74 that I've been using to try and beat Skifs reassembly time lmao

[rapid jolt]

Canted irons are all a man needs B^)

[outer depot]

real

though the WBP side adapter is actually surprisingly light and well built

low profile too

and I immediately ruined both of those factors by putting a 512 on it

[rapid jolt]

Meh. If I add a rail I'm most likely gonna stick a T-2 or something smol and cute on it

[outer depot]

try one of the PA micro prisms

they actually pair super nice on an AK

very light and smoll

or you could try and hunt down something cursed like a PK-AS

[summer schooner]

Thanks for letting me know it's mission locked.

[outer depot]

people actually wanting to talk about the game being drowned out by gun talk for an hour

many such cases

[rapid jolt]

You're welcome <3

[rapid jolt]

It was mentioned yesterday this server probably needs some gun channel or something

This kinda thing keeps happening

[outer depot]

honestly based off talks in the Gamma channel repeatedly getting shut down over it a while back

yeah kinda surprising there isn't one

[rapid jolt]

Not to mention... not like GAMMA itself is one of those really authentic FPS games...

It's no surprise to me people here talk about and know about dem bangsticks

[outer depot]

I was corrupted into an AK autist at a young age by Stalker

[true yew]

Og stalker so fun it ruined other games for me

[rapid jolt]

Half-Life 2 and Princess Mononoke turned me into a lil gun goober

[outer depot]

There really is nothing like Stalker

I own a Webley because of Castle in the Sky lmao

[true yew]

It made me stopped enjoying games of the same genre for a long time until i got GAMMA

[rapid jolt]

It's kinda funny I should probably own some kinda black powder gun but I have zero. When I become an old man I'll probably get an arquebus

HL2 made me buy a USP tho

[summer schooner]

Whirligigs ;-;

Their tell isn't the same as in Anomaly. Their tell in anomaly is floating leaves. Which are a thing normally in stalker 2. So sometimes I get random heart attacks when I see leaves. And sometimes, I run into whirligigs because brain is wired to look for leaves.

[rapid jolt]

I hate them solely because sometimes the leaves just don't spawn at all

Not as bad as blind dogs though. I feel like the fuckin rats are more evasive than the blind dogs

[summer schooner]

The only tell is the super super faint green glow they give off intermittently.

[summer schooner]

rats are easy peasy.

[rapid jolt]

Yep. But I ain't stopping for nothing usually, I'm just sprintin

[summer schooner]

Grenade, grenade, grenade.

[true yew]

And the anomaly indicator wont beep until its too late

[rapid jolt]

Ah I mean like the big rats. The little hopping dudes

[summer schooner]

my beeper doesn't beep until I'm INSIDE the whirligig

[summer schooner]

Once again....grenade grenade grenade

[rapid jolt]

Blind dogs are just biological homing missiles they only know "go forward and constantly attack lol"

[summer schooner]

I slaughter dog packs before they even reach me.

When I see Tushkanas, I throw a far grenade and a close grenade. Horde gone.

[rapid jolt]

I have Roadside Panic on. So that's probably why I hate blind dogs even more. They spawn in packs of like, 10-14

[summer schooner]

Yeah, huge difference. They spawn like, 4-10 for me.

[rapid jolt]

Yeah

[summer schooner]

I just use SLZ for spawns.

[rapid jolt]

Least I get random overworld encounters with polters, burers and pseudogiants :))) psi suckers too now.

[summer schooner]

Hol' up.....they put a stash.....INSIDE a chemical anomaly?

[wary orbit]

Nah thats just the Fart i left last time i was there

[summer schooner]

I got the stash. It was not worth

Literally a singular vodka, bread, and 5 .308

[wary orbit]

burp

[river lintel]

youre rich!

[summer schooner]

This game...

[wary orbit]

In Metro 2033 you can retire now

[true yew]

Istg these stalkers coudlve just bring these shits along with them

[summer schooner]

Honestly. If you're gonna stash shit, why stash bread and vodka brother?

[covert eagle]

cuz hungie

[pastel umbra]

Been out of town for the holidays. Any talk about ambitious stalker 2 mods? It's much better after 1.1 but still feel more drawn to gamma ...

[river lintel]

large scale ambitious mods are gonna be a minimum of a year or two out before they will start being made. GSC will probably not release the sdk until after their dlc has all launched

[tepid tiger]

Says dude staling from another Stalker... tsk tsk

[summer schooner]

Fuck. Me.

[hallow plume]

I have Maklanes Complete Overhaul- still have tens of medkits from stashes after 5 hours in new game