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

[warped monolith]

I doubt they were happy to begin with when Microsoft decided they wanted a new game in one of the most niche AA franchises in existence

[golden hazel]

[mint holly]

That's sort of why I'm surprised stalker 2 even exists, I never would expect to get something like stalker 2 in today's industry

All my favorite series are basically dead because of the same reason, they just aren't marketable to the wide masses. Best you can hope for nowadays is indies inspired by them

[gloomy yacht]

Roadside picnic is such a beloved institution though, and the film is considered a masterpiece by the people who can sit through it without feeling like it doesn't stimulate their senses enough. I don't think it's reductive to call stalker niche, but damn, it's such an incredible setting, what's not to love

i'm not surprised it's got such a cult following, so it doesn't shock me that it's here.

[golden hazel]

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

[warped monolith]

I'm still waiting for someone crazy enough to make a Populous spiritual successor

[golden hazel]

What in monolith's name is Populous

[warped monolith]

a "god game" from the 90s

[golden hazel]

What, like the 3d pinball on windows xp or something?

[gloomy yacht]

no like black and white

[warped monolith]

no, "god game" is the genre

[golden hazel]

Ohhhh

[warped monolith]

where you uh... play as a god. you know. god game.

[gloomy yacht]

or sim life. you are an omnipotent creator being thing, and you make stuff and mess with it

[golden hazel]

[gloomy yacht]

it has a storied history of being a genre comprised of pretty good games, weirdly.

[warped monolith]

the "latest entry" from 1998 had a central character, a Shaman that was your focal point for casting spells. You had followers that you could order to build huts, training stations and so on to specialize them as warriors or other roles.
you had basic spells like fireball, lightning bolt and whatever, but you also had terrain-altering spells to create landbridges, ramps, erode terrain to make enemies' base be swallowed by the water.

then there were the crazy spells like meteor shower, volcano (that actually made a volcano pop up from the ground and start spewing lava and fireballs around it)
it was an incredibly good game. Very creative, very fun, very imbalanced and silly

[golden hazel]

Damn, the ancients truly had strange games

[gloomy yacht]

As an old, I can confirm

[warped monolith]

as you progressed through the campaign, in the final level your Shaman attains godhood. She's no longer a controllable character in the game map, and is now part of the "camera" in your perspective. Meaning you can cast spells anywhere on the map instantly
before becoming a god, your shaman had to move into range in order to use a spell at the spot you ordered her to.

[gloomy yacht]

I have a lot of weird nostalgia, like going back and playing Goldeneye for the 64, that has aged like a sunlit potato and i don't really question that it was good "back in my day"

[warped monolith]

and it had quite some complex features. Priests could convert enemy followers (just like in age of empires lol), Spies could disguise as enemy followers and you could send them to enemy bases to wreak havoc.
there were boats and baloons you could build

other wacky spells included tornado (it picked up people and threw them around gloriously, also wrecked buildings), a literal death swamp (foggy spot on the map, anyone walks in instantly dies)

[gloomy yacht]

but i do secretly yearn for a remake of perfect dark, despite knowing better. a lot of those games aren't bad, they just lack modern ux accessibility and the same understanding of what makes a good control schema. Our standards/conventions have become a lot tighter over the last 10-20 years, the 90s were the dark ages

[warped monolith]

an "angel of death" monster that flies around instakilling enemies at random. earthquakes.

[gloomy yacht]

sim life has an almost inscrutable UI

[warped monolith]

game had tons of personality, too. The followers would kneel and worship your shaman if they were idling next to her.
When ordering a big group of followers to attack 1 enemy, they'd make a fight club-type ring around the enemy while fighting them 1v1

when a priest starts converting enemies, he begins preaching and the enemy followers sit on the ground listening to him speak

it was a fun game. It and Dungeon Keeper are two of my all-time favorite games of any genre.

Too bad there's at least 3 (that I know of) Dungeon Keeper successors, only one of them being any good, and zero Populous successors

[gloomy yacht]

i want stalker 2 zombification mechanics. let me blast npcs with psy emitter and "recruit" them. i want to stick a collar on a pseudodog

[golden hazel]

The leash program concept could go places with mods ngl

[gloomy yacht]

conversion as a game mechanic seems like it'd work in other ways in the stalker game world

[golden hazel]

Everybody gansta until a random loner with a pack of psydogs following him shows up

[gloomy yacht]

idk if a stalker game has ever played around with capture mechanics, or prisoners. probably too much AI code for something dubiously useful or interesting

but it'd be neat if squad fights resulted in npcs changing allegiance.

[golden hazel]

Capture mechanics sounds like something that'd get gsc sued by nintendo

[gloomy yacht]

haha not those capture mechanics. i choose you Vasya Badass, etc

[golden hazel]

KRUGLOV, I CHOOSE YOU

[gloomy yacht]

Kruglov tried using UDP! Not enough PP. 😔

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/mediocrely-based-kruglov-approves-stalker-gif-24761841

[gloomy yacht]

as it stands i think there's enough to fix without trying to scope creep faction mechanics. that video comparing old game AI to S2 and the things old games mechanized as events sort of showcases how much crap there is for Npcs to "think about". It's already a big gap without adding more

at least the collar thing has some screen time and might make sense to go somewhere with

[golden hazel]

It'd be funny as hell

[fathom dirge]

I like this cutscene (spoilers obv)

voice actors are amazing for these 2 guys

[gloomy yacht]

lol they had fun

i been playin with ukraine va the whole time, i wouldn't mind replaying just to hear the english va

[fathom dirge]

the radiant NPC voices in ukraine are better but the main character voices in english are better

Skif, richter, and colonel you know what his name is its hard to spell are incredible

[gloomy yacht]

you think english va skif is better? i really like the ukrainian skif

skif's "dobra" (добро) idk, it's just become an internal joke in my head, he's always so chill lol

the va comes off like.. icewater in his veins in every interaction

since i haven't heard the english va i assume he's also cool as hell

[abstract lagoon]

It's all subjective

Some people like one better, some the other

Neither is objectively better

[golden hazel]

[gloomy yacht]

both can be good, i'm not asking which is better

just flatly stating i like the ukrainian va and that will play just to hear the english va. i don't have to pick a favorite, i can just like both for their performance

i only know why i like the ukrainian va skif, i just think he nails that energy of nothing phasing him

i like pancakes -> so you hate waffles moment

[golden hazel]

[fathom dirge]

it syncs a bit better, they're pretty equivelant in acting quality

skif's english VA sounds a bit more expressive but its more like he's holding back than hes just ice cold

[gloomy yacht]

i'm glad we got two solid performances. i always play through a game with native dialog because i'm used to subs anyway and i assume the og dialog is as close to the intended character voice as it gets, but i can keep an open mind

from what i've heard it's good.

[fathom dirge]

it can get a bit awkward with the english VA, it feels like they werent told the context of a lien sometimes lol

something which should be overtly sarcastic said with the most cringe serious voice ever

type shi

but its never rlly the main characters, mostly side character

[gloomy yacht]

ah yeah, that's hard to get right, it goes beyond VA work, that falls to localization, heavily. they gotta find the closest analog for a line, sometimes they gotta make shit up

[fathom dirge]

mhm

[abstract lagoon]

Korshunov's english VA is pretty good

[fathom dirge]

anyway i got a gauss gun lavina, and APSB

very nice loadout
Gauss for fuck you
lavina for mutants
APSB for weak mfers and exos when im bored

[abstract lagoon]

But I prefer skifs ukrainian va

[fathom dirge]

the sync throws me off sometimes, especially in certain cutscenes lol

[gloomy yacht]

ukr skif is very much "i've taken shits bigger than you" energy at all hours

[golden hazel]

My favorite has to be Scar's en VA

[fathom dirge]

ehh i like streloks a bit more

[gloomy yacht]

ukr skif seems like it's a big joke and he's laughing even if nobody else is in on it, and there's not too many times where that cracks.

[fathom dirge]

absolutely nailed that kinda unhinged yet ice cold nature he gives off in the OG games

[golden hazel]

Scar's gives off pure unfiltered uncle that is on at least 5 different types of narcotics at any given time

[gloomy yacht]

it's a lot of stuff at once, but man, the writing/characterization throughout the game felt really well done. i can't complain about the writing.

[fathom dirge]

he just seems schizo to me

especially in the ukr VA where nothing is synced in his cutscenes

[gloomy yacht]

lol

[golden hazel]

The lack of sync definitely made it 250% funnier

[fathom dirge]

yep

I wish we got more strider tho

[golden hazel]

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

[fathom dirge]

and faust, they were both cool

[gloomy yacht]

is en strider va also really good

[fathom dirge]

yess, same with faust

[golden hazel]

we're definitely getting more faust in the future

[fathom dirge]

omg the en VAs nailed the monolith soldiers so much

it is soooooo uncanny how they speak

[gloomy yacht]

ukrs killed it there too. same with korshunov, idk. i didn't think there was a bad va in there, really.

now you really got me wanting to do an english va run. i want to hear everybody

[fathom dirge]

headcanon they purposefully hired shit VAs for the monolith soldiers

[golden hazel]

Monolith are supposed to sound monotone lore wise

[fathom dirge]

its not how they're monotone

they sound inhuman, word choice aswell is funny asf

"take this grenade, enemy."

[gloomy yacht]

lmao

[fathom dirge]

less monotone more pretending to be human if that makes sense

[golden hazel]

I mean, they're basically a text to speech for the c-con

[gloomy yacht]

c-con taunts like chat gpt v1

[fathom dirge]

in ukr they kinda sound drunk TTS yeah

in english they sound like skinwalkers

[gloomy yacht]

someone should mod a bad overdub where all the monolith are chavs for some reason

[fathom dirge]

dub where the monolith use room voicelines'

nothing changes)

[gloomy yacht]

"why they keep callin me lisa" :continues shootin:

[fathom dirge]

"I did not hit her thats bullshit"

[golden hazel]

"(Dies)"

[fathom dirge]

"you're tearing us apart :C"

also can i just say fausts bossfight is either hilariously easy or just straight impossible

you either instantly frag him or the fight takes 9 hours

OH that also reminds me

[golden hazel]

I fought him for like an hour with 7fps until all my guns ran out of ammo cause I didn't realize the lamps could be broken until I missed a bunch of shots and accidentally blew one up, then I stabbed him to death

[fathom dirge]

main character located

he even appears later in the hospital

[fathom dirge]

have you ever met max banana in cordon

[golden hazel]

Nope

[fathom dirge]

:C

[golden hazel]

Here's another banger though

[warped monolith]

eepy

a mimir

[fathom dirge]

[golden hazel]

Then there's also Max Booba that someone found, and then later I found Les Booba

[fathom dirge]

I wonder if vova vist is in the name pool

[gloomy yacht]

I found Max Badass, which someone took a photo of in the subreddit, but pretty sure it is just procgen. Mine was dead, so his name was an exaggeration

[wanton arch]

mama mia

[mint holly]

I don't like english VA just because of Skif, he just doesn't sound fitting at all to me

[stable mist]

Hi what's the current state of Stalker 2 now that mods have had a chance to develop and fixes have released? Looking to come back now that things have settled in.

[wicked adder]

It has not a life

[stable mist]

is it worth reinstalling yet i haven't finished the game yet / haven't left starting area

[golden hazel]

!noalife

[fallen iron]

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

[west moth]

[stable mist]

i'll take that as a don't install the game yet, ok sad

[tacit cosmos]

I hope to see some of the hardcore changes in GAMMA integrated into STALKER 2. Like the health system and maybe even bringing back crafting somehow, im no mod maker I just play them so idk how complex that big of a change would be but I love both GAMMA and STALKER 2, I just feel like the new game is a bit too mainstream. I hope Grok and his team come out with an overhaul like GAMMA or even a nexus collection of some absolute game changers.

[past sluice]

It’s not the same as real a life but I’ve been playing my first play through with MHM + Shay’s a life mod and I’m enjoying it for sure. But definitely not real a life

Mhm in particular is a great mod

[wicked adder]

Very unlikely

Mods? probably, but integrated, not so much

[stable mist]

Any recommended mods to run for a hardcore / more enjoyable experience?

[humble kayak]

Gamma reference?!?!?

[abstract lagoon]

You know that gamma is a form of radiation, right?

Also a Greek letter. Like alpha

Very probably not a reference to grok

[warped monolith]

[warped monolith]

went right over your head, huh?

[golden hazel]

[humble kayak]

obvious reference to the hit stalker mod stalker gamma

you are a fool to believe otherwise

[warped monolith]

Wouldn't it be hilarious if a random stalker NPC was named John Gamma

[golden hazel]

A freedomer named John Gamma

[lunar gyro]

no way they made gamma from stalker into a real thing

[mint holly]

No fucking way

Just found out my monitor has "GAMMA" settings

[past sluice]

MHM + an a life mod (wool's or Shay's) are the main ones, MHM comes pre loaded with compatibility for a bunch of other mods like mutant loot and more meds, it's still nowhere near gamma level but much better than vanilla imo, if you browse here #1310297745679978496 you'll find some mod lists that others have posted recently too

[fathom dirge]

Noice

[feral apex]

guys do anyone know how can I reach out to creator of Mutant Loot somberX ?

[wind timber]

any wayt to make stalker 2 run better? or more consistant?
It seems that no matter if I upgraded my machine, the things refuses to run likea normal game

[humble kayak]

9x39

[wheat folio]

If you're not AI generating 3 quarters of your frames in 2025 what are you even doing

[fathom dirge]

is based

[humble kayak]

worst caliber in stalker 2

[fathom dirge]

LMG :

[humble kayak]

not even joking when i say 9x18 AP is better than it

[fathom dirge]

9x18 AP is good against mutants and can tap exos with APSB

but lavina is great, i like it, all the guns feel very close in terms of balancing (especially the ARs)

but if theres issues, thats why the gauss is there, i have like 100 batteries for it now

[humble kayak]

.308 out of a 701 or 5.45 PP is the way to go

5.56 is mediocre and rarer (arguably) than 5.45

[fathom dirge]

BORING

[humble kayak]

Skifs PM a malyuk and a shotgun are the meta right now until 9x39 damage gets buffed

[fathom dirge]

just spam saiga at that point if ur gunna be such a boring person smh'

[fathom dirge]

saiga and 701 are meta

701 can 1 tap with regular, saiga is just insanely spammable and also 1 taps

also people who say 9x39 is unusable prob just watched a tier list video and then refused to use it

all the 9x39 guns go hard

[humble kayak]

not unusable just impractical compared to other calibers

[fathom dirge]

especially the rhino jfc

[fathom dirge]

literally who gaf if its worse, saiga and 701 spam is boring asf

[humble kayak]

comically heavy compared to 5.45 and 5.56 for a small damage boost

Rhino is the exception as that's the only worthwhile 9x39

[fathom dirge]

cry abt it

i still 1-2 shot headshot exos, but i do it in style

[humble kayak]

honestly quite incredible

[fathom dirge]

richter if he was normal

anyway im killing the ||doctor|| rq brb

[humble kayak]

you will regret that

[fathom dirge]

nah

i'd win

[humble kayak]

It's your choice and not the one I'd choose but hey you'll get to live with the consequences

[fathom dirge]

||between just finishing C-Cons work, handing the zone over to the analogy for the nazis, spreading it to the entire world, and letting some bald guy protect it i think the last option is the lesser of those evils ||

[humble kayak]

||all options suck, just kill strelok and scar then put a rhino to your head and pull the trigger||

[fathom dirge]

||thats just the ward ending||

[humble kayak]

||you can't even just decide not to go along with docs plan, i'd prefer you just kill all the factions and leave the zone as is but in the end you're forced to make a choice with long term consequences that affects the entire planet more or less||

excuse to include the cut freeplay mode

[fathom dirge]

||"all these options suck i wish dev adds" *starts describing one of the endings in detail||

[humble kayak]

||to think this all started off as who the fuck burnt down my house||

[humble kayak]

||i don't even want ward in control of the zone, literally just no one controlling the zone not the c-con spark strelok ward the military or the scientists||

[fathom dirge]

||strelok controlling the zone is the closest thing to no one controlling the zone||

||which is best because if you just leave ward will eventually take it||

[humble kayak]

||he's still in total control of the zone which leads to no one being able to enter or leave the zone (until someone goes and caps strelok in the genies lmao)||

||with strelok in control you just fuck over every person in the zone||

[fathom dirge]

||yeah instead of fucking over everyone else or just everyone in general||

||those attracted by the zone are bad people anyway, that was like the point of the first 3 games, the zone is the culmination of the worst of humanity||

[humble kayak]

||Streloks selfish desire to "protect" the zone leads to hundreds of people eventually dying which is yes better than the entire world being changed drastically but still ends up with a scientific marvel going to waste and hundreds dead just because someone thought the zone gave them a reason to exist and thought they were the so called "protector"||

||In theory if the events of stalker 2 never happened the world that stalker takes place in would be in a better place but here we are with 4 morally gray endings||

[fathom dirge]

||If you think its a scientific marvel going to waste you were NOT paying attention to the first half of the game when it was basically sircaa trying to exploit it for science the entire time||

||again though, lesser of the evils, hundreds die instead of thousands, maybe millions, instead of an eternity of torment or whatever the fuck the ward is gunna do||

||projct Y is OBVIOUSLY 'canon', but its kinda poorly written imo||

[humble kayak]

||Someones gonna exploit it sooner or later but what the zone could provide could save millions if put in the correct hands (coin flip on who's hands it ends up in)||

[fathom dirge]

||save millions while killing billions "in the name of science", srsly were you paying attention to the first half of the game ||

||that attitude is the whole reason the events of the 2nd half of the game happened||

[humble kayak]

||or i could stop trying to be a arm chair philosopher and just say strelok stops me from going to a cool place ||

[fathom dirge]

"ohhh nooo i cant go to fucking area 51, the world has fallen"

[humble kayak]

||yeah i was and i'm aware the sircaa was exploiting the zone but what i'm trying to say is that the zones marvals can outweigh the consequences if said consequences can be properly contained. Just look at all the technological marvels the zone has produced like using artifacts for renewable sources of energy, gravity artifacts being used to help produce load bearing equipment, bloodsucker tenticals being used in the medical industry along with blood cloating artifacts and health artifacts rapidly curing injured people. At the end of the day the zone is both a marvel and disaster at the same time (which leads to it being morally gray which all 4 endinds end up being lmao)||

||People use stuff for good and evil that's basically what this argument devolves into||

[fathom dirge]

||Ur still missing the point, everyone THINKS they can reap more rewards than consequences from the zone, but do you know what happens every time?||

Plus, artefacts can be synthesizes outside the zone

like in the OG book, it is simply technology we do not yet understand, not something exclusive to the zone

humanity will eventually, always, make their own artefacts, or somehting like them

[humble kayak]

||like 1 big fuck up which caused the zone to appear and some minor thing that caused the monolith to grow from the ground? honestly worse things could of happened||

[fathom dirge]

its just a matter of how long it takes

[fathom dirge]

||they couldve, but they were prevented by men like strelok who killed the C con||

[humble kayak]

||Could we just admit at this point that if Skif just offed all 4 big leaders and left the zone we'd be better off, (still only a matter of time until a bunch of lunitics try to gain control of the zone but that's for the future to decide)||

[fathom dirge]

||no cuz then ward would just take over, they're a corp/government, killing a leader doesnt mean they collapse||

[humble kayak]

||Honestly i believe if strelok didn't off the c-con in SoC not much would of changed, it's not like they can do much besides pop an emission out once in awhile||

[fathom dirge]

||They actually didnt rlly control the emissions, they were moreso working to prevent them||

||but they could ""cause"" them by just not trying to prevent them||

[humble kayak]

||they try to take over ---> keep on killing them ----> they keep on coming ---> the cycle continues until one side has enough (theoretically)||

[fathom dirge]

||thats what strelok was tryna do ||

[humble kayak]

||Which leads to Strelok gatekeeping the zone until some fed up stalker goes over to the genies and offs his ass||

[fathom dirge]

||but this is a whole government vs some guys in the zone, eventually they'll just throw everything at skif||

[fathom dirge]

||see? best ending||

[humble kayak]

||Skif has the power of F5-F8 and infinite medkits so i'd like to see them try||

[fathom dirge]

||immortal SVD snipers||

||or they deploy vova vist||

[humble kayak]

||are you suggesting we use Strelok to make everyone fuck off for awhile then off him so we can have fun in the zone again?||

[fathom dirge]

||yeah ||

[humble kayak]

||just toss him in chest high water||

[humble kayak]

||shit why didn't i think of that, yeah go ahead do it i have no problems with this ending now||

[fathom dirge]

or throw 2 ram shotgun exos at him

[humble kayak]

guh?

[fathom dirge]

just one of those guys can take you from 100% to 10% health

but it seems GSC coded the AI to not shoot at you when you're abt to die

[humble kayak]

Really?

i don't think i ever saw a ai with a ram

[fathom dirge]

they're VERY rare, but they are so annoying

[humble kayak]

||it was the granite gausses that usually got me (you either eat 4 gauss shots or die in 1 shot no inbetween)||

[fathom dirge]

theres one in hospital

they aim punch you so hard too

[humble kayak]

grenade spam

[fathom dirge]

the grenade spam from NPCs is annoying

especially considering grenades just never kill when you use them

I threw 10 grenades at a dude once and he just kept going

[humble kayak]

truly a RGD moment

use F-1s to kill

RGDs are better for spamming and hoping you kill something

[fathom dirge]

Also is it just me or do zombies just not die to grenades

[humble kayak]

i just shoot them usually so no idea

[fathom dirge]

go find a zombie and start throwing grenades at it, they jsut dont die lol

its funny to see them all do the falling down animation in sync but

they dont die lol

[humble kayak]

i COULD do that but i'm in duga with a single frag

[fathom dirge]

uetools

[humble kayak]

unmodded

[fathom dirge]

become modded

[humble kayak]

Lazy

wonderful

[warped monolith]

reject gravity

[fathom dirge]

uetools_god

[alpine swan]

hi folks, is there any way to disable consumables' animations?

[full widget]

got here to just yap a little, haven't finished my playthrough yet

honestly I was expecting it to be good, but it is (storyline, lore, details, ideas and thoughts - major points of interest for me) SO GOOD
I'm like fish in a pond (at this point more like lake) in stalker lore, so every plot twist hits hard, and little details even like og exoskeleton color scheme (gives SoC exo vibe) or ||little Kaimanov's emitters around Doc's house|| and etc makes me nostalgic or happy))
maybe it's because I'm old dog on a familiar hook, but it's illusion that I enjoy||, and there are things said and done in story about what's real and what's not that force you to think about your own life, beliefs and choises||
even dropped some tears in ||Strider in C-Con capsule scene||
my advice to anyone who is not too far or haven't tried game yet - dive really deep in og storyline, that way stalker 2 hits like no other game

and tech part - I run it stable 60 fps with occasional memory leaks and quite decent picture (no potatoing) at 1660 super, so I'd say if you know how to click few buttons to install performance mods and expand pagefile you'll be fine at any decent modern rig

[full widget]

pen > dmg
dnipro with 3 pen 1 dmg hits harder than any gun with less pen but more dmg (except shotguns? idk)
same goes for apsb

[fathom dirge]

Kharod with 5.45 is my fav AR

DNIpro just has too much kick, add aimpunch and you never hit your shots

[simple wyvern]

Integral with 2 burst hits hard

[split crown]

I still think it's bizarre how the revolver is chambered in 9x39

[ember brook]

Guys, Its maybe question asked a lot of times, but 😄 I’m starting my first stalker 2 playthrough ( Played OG trilogy and GAMMA a lot) Do you recommend some must have mods? Veteran difficulty, and first mutant is bullet sponge

[restive junco]

Any performance improvements on a 3050Ti from launch? Installed it once and immediately uninstalled it after getting 1-10 fps in the tutorial

[swift nexus]

whenever i try looking at the beutifull sky it gets super dark i think because of exposure anything i can do bout that?

[ivory coyote]

I would recommend playing mostly vanilla. Only mods I'm using are QoL (expanded inventory, no collision sound, reworked scope reticle, doubled durability) and to modify interface/effect I want or don't like (painter of the zone, no zoom dialogue, no white interactive dot, no medkit effect, decreased eye transition effect blooming your face and skip intro/shader ofc). Playing without the HUD also greatly increase the immersion imo.

Just take your time and enjoy the game. Peace

I would stay away from any Alife fixer wannabe or timechanger mod as it risk brinking your game with next update (happened to me with first patches)

Also most of weapon balance mod are pretty bad and will make game too easy. Just get use to it and shoot more and aim better haha, theres plenty ammunition available anyway. Or just reduce difficulty.

Hope this could be usefull !

[ivory coyote]

Highly doubt you will ever be able to get it running whithout optimizing a lot. Maybe lower than native resolution. This is way below recommended spec.

[tall current]

are there known things to avoid that lock you out of main missions

[ivory coyote]

Try eye adaptation fix mod

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/137

[tall current]

im gonna download that

[ivory coyote]

Any idea about mission roadblock sorry I'm not far into the game

[tall current]

the in sircaa is very buggy for me and the very end of the door is closed

[swift nexus]

thx

[tall current]

really frustrating . i loaded a save before playing the mission and im exploring and doing side quests, no idea how to continue the main story

[ivory coyote]

Appart googling it or searching in that discord or main stalker 2 one idk. Good luck though

[tall current]

no worries, i'll figure it out. another guy here had the same bug so it's something you should look out for

[split crown]

Anyone know of any way to make it so you can reload while sprinting? Still find it extremely annoying to be fighting mutants (or anything combat related I guess) and being unable to sprint + reloading while trying to dodge melee attacks or projectiles.

[random heath]

aurora

[wind timber]

buying food

[hollow basin]

Found a bug where i get constant psi damage when i am at the red forest

[wide mantle]

will stalker 2 ever get more weapons added?

i would like to see a 1911 or a beretta

[proud ruin]

When mod toolkit releases I guess

[warped monolith]

maybe the DLCs add new guns

[west moth]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-kill-gun-gif-5611209

[golden hazel]

Ah yes, the HCAR

[neat oxide]

cannot speak in stalker chat true sigma

[fathom dirge]

What was your favorite cutscene in game
mine was when skif went "Its you, the shadow of chernobyl, i followed the call of pripyat to find you" and then strelok said "yes skif, i also found the heart of chornobyl in the clear sky" then they stalkered all over the monolithians

[split plank]

I think it conflicts with the mod. I hope Simple Mod Merger will solve it

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7

[true yew]

Stalker 2: Hoc of Tuah

[fathom dirge]

insane newcomer pfp

[true yew]

My favorite was the part when all the scavengers, trespassers, adventurers, loners, killers, explorers and robbers came around with strelok and he said, "Together, we are STALKER!"

[fathom dirge]

no they said "Together we are STALKER 2 : Shadow heart of clear sky pripyat"

[true yew]

My bad bro, my memory be like that sometimes

[warped monolith]

"cropped porn" status is still not determined

[split plank]

lol Honestly, it's not.

[fathom dirge]

he plays arma so its prob not

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/transformers-credits-movie-hasbro-ending-gif-4095300824521747557

[carmine leaf]

joined this server first time and this is the first thing i see

great

[fathom dirge]

get used to it, half of us are furries

[carmine leaf]

ok im fine with it

[proud ruin]

[proud ruin]

Stalker 3: Stalk Harder

Stalker 4: Pripyat Drift

[proud ruin]

I’ll never understand why there are so many furries in this server

[golden hazel]

They bite people and turn them or something

Maybe it's something sidorovich puts in the weed he sells, we'll never know for sure

[proud ruin]

He’s selling that furry pack

[fathom dirge]

I know why
Gun nerd
Technical barrier for entry
Masked characters

[fathom dirge]

[golden hazel]

[proud ruin]

[fathom dirge]

"i beat dark souls without reading"

[golden hazel]

[fathom dirge]

what does it say guys

[golden hazel]

100 ways to get rich in the zone ft Strelok's Hairline

[proud ruin]

[fathom dirge]

someone needs to make an edit of the "hello skif its dark one" cutscene

[proud ruin]

Hello Skif it’s me big smoke

[golden hazel]

Yeah I'm so sorry I tried to lost to the zone the Strelok, won't be doing that again, going to be focusing more on making a bigger order at SFC

[proud ruin]

Can I get uhhhhh a 3 piece fried tushonka meal and a beards vodka to go

[fathom dirge]

fun fact : before GSC made stalker they visited detroit and they added their experience in the final version of the game in the form of wild territory

[golden hazel]

Sorry sir, the Beard's vodka machine is broken

[proud ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/waah-waa-sad-wah-waaah-gif-25875771

[fathom dirge]

This boutta be you

[proud ruin]

Wild territory makes downtown Fallujah look like the Hamptons

[golden hazel]

We can offer you a bottle of Sultan's Black Bread Beer Brew, will that be alright?

[proud ruin]

[fathom dirge]

that shits poisoned with 30 different rat poisons

only in the zone would you consider drinking vodka from a serial killer

[proud ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-blade-runner-2049-ryan-gosling-anger-gif-16634156

[golden hazel]

Still not as strong as Dvupalov's Magic Vodka

[fathom dirge]

me when the autism diagnosis comes back as negative

[fathom dirge]

that shit so strong it literally nullifies controller abilities

too drunk to be made a zombie

[proud ruin]

Nooo how could it be negative I have over 1000 hours in gamma!!!!

[golden hazel]

[fathom dirge]

the adhd diagnosis comes back

[proud ruin]

When the retard diagnosis comes back positive

[fathom dirge]

in the bladerunner sequel tho i literally couldnt tell if the writers were implying he was a rogue replicant or just a guy so fucking autistic people thought he was a replicant

[proud ruin]

[proud ruin]

real asf

tfw when so robotically autistic people think you’re a replicant

[fathom dirge]

https://tenor.com/view/gosling-sad-gosling-ryan-gosling-blade-runner-snow-gosling-snow-gif-6845320348811377304

when your autism diagnosis comes back positive

[golden hazel]

[proud ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/american-psycho-patrick-bateman-gif-25746875

[golden hazel]

When the radiation poisoning diagnosis comes back positive

[proud ruin]

Why don’t you just chain smoke ? are you stupid ?

[fathom dirge]

average noontider seconds before getting 1 shotgun slug surgically implanted into their skull by a drunk man with his grandpa's boomsticl

[golden hazel]

Those don't exist

[proud ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/chernobyl-gif-20369672

me after being hit with 504927167128 rads in the sarcophagus

[golden hazel]

It's not so bad after the 32nd time

[fathom dirge]

I remember in my OG SoC playthru by the time i reached the monolith i had max stacks of radiation and was just heal tanking thru all the damage

[proud ruin]

tfw skin is melting off bc I needed pringles from the anomalous vending machine

[fathom dirge]

they do NOT give you any radiation meds in that place

[fathom dirge]

its honestly kinda hilarious how not-dangerous the radiation is compared to literally every other threat in the zone

[proud ruin]

mfw damaged nuclear power plant is in fact radioactive

[golden hazel]

It adds extra flavor, Commander Charon doesn't want you to know this

[proud ruin]

The most realistic part of stalker 2 is Skif had to enter the zone and kill 29272627 people to obtain a new house in this economy

[golden hazel]

[golden hazel]

Maybe the DLC will be an alternate route of Skif making the zone great again

Just imagine it, a strong economy and even stronger mutants, new mutants, even, the most tremendous of mutants.

[proud ruin]

Reports of growing numbers of mutants is fake news

loner media cannot be trusted

I heard in rookie village they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats!

[golden hazel]

Sad!

[true yew]

What do you expect them to do? Buy loaves and sausages?? IN THIS ECONOMY???

[golden hazel]

Economy is so bad Sidorovich closed shop

[true yew]

Saw a freedomer tried to make a new mutant with a bloodsucker, I'll pass

[golden hazel]

[fallow pivot]

anyone know why is this building rendered in the game + on the map, but is inaccessible and blurred out? Its in Pripyat.

[ripe hollow]

Are non-quest cpc have some hidden value or you can just sell them?

[sharp harness]

Mb cut content

[west moth]

[tall current]

holy cope

[fallow pivot]

That bloodsucker's got places to be.

That or he just escaped a nearby Freedom squad

[fast breach]

There are 2 ways to make a DLC sadly.

Either the make a sequel story taking after 1 ending what is very likely because GSC already said 1 Ending is canon.

Or

They just make the DLC side content that just add to the overall Story or delivers an alternative route.

[west moth]

What we need is microtransactions, arena multiplayer with pop-star skins and a DEI spin-off

Then we will have a life

[ionic narwhal]

when do artifacts respawn? is it after emissions, after sleep? And does timescale mods affect their respawn rate.

[warped monolith]

in theory it's after emissions. No idea if timescale mods affect that

[void juniper]

hello, may i ask how much disk space for the mod?

[hushed horizon]

@void juniper which mod?

[void juniper]

gamma of course

[hushed horizon]

Oh this the Stalker 2 chat. Further up you'll see newcomers and can ask there

[void juniper]

oh sorry for that

[hushed horizon]

No worries at all!

[stuck condor]

Now I can create glass shards anomaly like in S2 in Unreal...

[night ingot]

Bah, sat binging vids about the game seeing as I can't play it atm - the scene where you talk to ||dead Strider and get his sad response, and then going back to Wild Island and hearing Khors' message on repeat|| still tugs at the heartstrings

[true yew]

||Quite funny how the C-Con made Faust by just giving a controller schizophrenia (Monolith)||

[proud ruin]

120gb

[night ingot]

Wtf, I'm seeing a cutscene about the first time you meet Korshunov, ||he's super pissed off and skips the whole putting the AK back together, ||do you get this if you just murder a ton of Wardens before this point?

[wicked adder]

You get it by siding with Ward in Zalyssia

and i think it has something to do with the PDA

you only get the AK if you don't side with ward in the lesser zone and then show him the PDA

[hollow basin]

There is a mision before that point where do you have to interrogate a bandit you can help the bandit and kill the 2 warderns guardin him.

[night ingot]

Ooh okay, neat. Thanks!

Until I'm re-united with my PC i'm stuck with YT and the many questions it breeds

[arctic marsh]

AMD needs to hurry the fuck up with the new cards so I can build a pc that can actually play this game

[sour totem]

does loose loot ever respawn in s2? ever a reason to go back to a poi?

[ivory coyote]

Nope

[outer depot]

On my artifact collection run and I can’t get the shitties I’m missing to ever drop

Where the fuck is my chocolate bar

[warped monolith]

I don't think this is Stalker 2

[half flame]

oh sorry

[wary orbit]

I want to report a crime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QNTE6jPyUE

[trim totem]

gsc world why did u make a room full of blood suckers

[wanton arch]

fvvvck,,,,..

[novel slate]

yeah i see thanks

[warped monolith]

sir this is a wendy's the stalker 2 channel

[mint holly]

Bro thinks it's food network

[wanton arch]

found an SVD next to this, but I can't interact with this backpack/stash. Left in the game by accident? it feels like I have found a few things I wasn't supposed to around here as well, like clearly intentional paths with no anomalies or loot/missing models

another thing nearby. is this from a cut quest?

[wanton arch]

I love getting a 30 condition dnipro for like 25 minutes of parkour and climbing

[rapid jolt]

Grok is Svoboda?

[rapid jolt]

Easter egg for one of the menus in the old games C:

Would've been neat if you could interact with the backpack

And it has some unusual loot

[ionic narwhal]

That one of the OG main menus

[wanton arch]

fuuuck I thought I recognized it!!!

[wanton arch]

that's so cool!

[west moth]

The game has a life on its own

[split crown]

Is this a reference to the menu screen from SoC?

[split crown]

Ahhh. That's really cool they added that in.

[wanton arch]

only place I've seen a chest like this

would be cool if there were more of them

cool-ass miniature in the ward base

[willow skiff]

been gone for about a month playing poe2 and here to check on the game. A-life working yet?

[wanton arch]

some numbskull left the door open duirng an emission

[humble kayak]

Is it true that Grok is on the mutant predator list?

[ionic narwhal]

has anyone encountered scientist faction npcs outside of sircaa, and if so are they wearing labcoats like the sircaa rats or theyre wearing the ecologist suits? the ones im running into are rocking lab coats n cardigans out in the zone. even the preplaced corpses are in labcoats

[proud ruin]

Yes

[half flame]

to suck you dry

[trim totem]

dude the way u had to sneak around them reminded me so much of gtfo 😭

bc ONE LOUD MOVE N THEY ARE ALL ON U

[true yew]

Still the same since 1.4 patch

[late stag]

It is done, and I crave more.

[trim totem]

the lore of stalker 2 is making me wanna go back n play the older ones so i can fully understand strider

like i am getting the gist of what he wants but not knowing alot about monolith or faust is kinda making it not as impactful

[fair path]

Hi guys, will the mods work through vortex And not through the ~mods folder?

[warm rapids]

i heavily recommend playing the original trilogy

strider is a call of pripyat character but most monolith lore is explored in shadow of chernobyl and call of pripyat

[wicked adder]

Youre probably not gonna find what youre looking for

Faust is a 100% Unique stalker 2 Character, and his 'living zone' stuff is also, pretty much a stalker 2 invention

And you don't ever really get that much insight into Monolith, beyond being told what they are and where they came from. But Stalker 2 also tells you that

[warm rapids]

i mean theres certain aspects stalker 2 doesnt go into

belief in the monolith existed before they were all brainwashed, the first monolithians were like a new age zone religious group who went north
the brainwashing was what made them all psycho hostile though*

certain scenes in sircaa directly reference the various endings of shoc which without context just seem random

[wicked adder]

I mean, even with context they seem random

[warm rapids]

FAIR honestly

[wicked adder]

Why those Two when theres 5 'wishes' that Strelok can ask for

[warm rapids]

you can watch all 5

[wicked adder]

and, what are we meant to interpret from these when we know that Strelok never did use the wish granter

[warm rapids]

it only shows 2 at once, but yeah strelok didnt use the wish granter in canon so... why?

it should be showing skif instead, i really dont understand what they were going for

[wicked adder]

And why are we shown a vision of being attacked at Sircca, is that meant to be a vison of an event thats already happened, or just random Psi interference

[warm rapids]

if i had to hazard a guess i'd say it's the latter since psi fields cause you to hallucinate bullets that are somehow tangible enough to shred your armor

jesus christ the vanilla game is fucking brutal i cant imagine anyone playing 2 on console is having a great time

well, on veteran difficulty anyway

[full widget]

bro this is main menu screen from SoC, lucky you!

[full widget]

||doc's bubble|| blurred too, so maybe it's some quest thing that you shouldn't see accidentally

anyone thought about Richter ||being C-Con agent?||
||knows too much people, ready to die if you go Ward ending (which means replacing C-Con by other entity), and when you ask him what happened, he tells about Joker and Riverboat (Шутник and Баржа, idk how they called in english)||
||we also never see or hear about Kardan (Skadovsk tech from CoP) in game, who is, and Degtyarev, are only two people who were involved with these stalkers, and Richter tells us that he avoids Degtyarev and Corp because "they were his people"||
||obviously he was programmed to avoid him at all costs except when risk worth it, like in endgame if we roll with stalkers, since Degtyarev is only one who could tell real story||
||Richter probably wasn't even around in the Zone when Joker and Riverboat died, and Kardan probably died somewhere north and dissappeared in X7 - looks like canonically Degtyarev never found them and he left to search them instead of co-op with Nitro||

[fallow pivot]

At first, I thought so.

But throughout the previous decisions you make, he vehemently disagrees with you for siding with Ward.

But I just think he's not that well written lol.

He outright tells you to go and die for siding with Korshunov.

[full widget]

obviously he does, because he's ||C-Con agent||
also overall anti-Ward opinions probably not just result of their actions, but also ||C-Con propaganda spreaded by agents||

||Degtyarev could fight you in Foundation, but he doesn't, instead so does Richter, who lacks gear and experience||
it's obvious who is ||agent ||and who is not

[wicked adder]

Theres a list of them at the end of the game, he aint on it

[full widget]

I like how they made it that ||with any choice you make and any side you take, you still feel doubtful and suspicious about their true motives and outcome||
just like in real life

[fast breach]

Well there are few problems:

A. Agents are most of the times Assassins ... because giving them more complicated tasks is waste of resources consider the death rate they have just being transported by death trucks

B. When it comes to Richter i could say he is the closest to a Free Stalker you can get and sticks to his believes, what the overall story is always hinting at what people think what zone is.

C. The reason he is thrown in the Ward ending is to kill the idea of the Free Stalker you as the player are, Richter represents this idea the most part. It is a poetic choice as you kill yourself and reject being a Stalker.

[wicked adder]

Now you could argue the list isn't extensive, sure, but the game seems to imply it is

[full widget]

I just don't think that they could fuck this part so obviously while doing everything else adding up and logical (in stalker world logics, obviously)
it's either that or ||Richter is agent||
list is much more, since there's ||many agents on Big Land||, we just see those who are of interest and actionable in game

[wicked adder]

I think if thats what they wanted to imply his name would 100% be on the list

You wouldn't have implied that about someone, and then added a whole list about the same subject, only to exclude them

[full widget]

not all agents come from death trucks, ||Nestor was recruited someway else and he wasn't doing assasinations, only recruiting others or as supporting link in sophisticated plays, like with scanners||

[full widget]

maybe they left it to figure out ourselves idk

something is clearly off with this guy anyway

[fast breach]

You missing the point, how are they sent out in the zone?

[wicked adder]

A better question is why is he almost identical to Zulu

Lives in Zulu's tower, is an Alcoholic like Zulu, friends with Strelok and Deggy, like Zulu

[full widget]

he's younger, skinner and has higher voice pitch

[wicked adder]

Radiation is a hell of a drug

had a reverse second puberty

[full widget]

death trucks are for those who hit north and passed out/captured/wounded in fights there, like many Monolith operation (CNPP raid that happens same time Strelok goes for it and kills C-Con) military guys|| you can see in X-7||
since there are agents-recruiters, ||like Nestor and Scar (there's file on him in X-7, along with Blackdirt (Чернозём), Strelok and someone else idr)||, there are probably more peaceful ways to recruit people

[fast breach]

Zulu is alive somewhere else as the pda logs about him are recent in the story

[wicked adder]

I mean hes alive somewhere, it doesn't say that Somewhere isn't where Richter is

Richter is, most of the time, alive also

[full widget]

||recruited by C-Con, lost weight during reprogramming, turned back under new name to avoid unnessessary suspicions||

[wicked adder]

[molten osprey]

Am im just dumb or didnt Zulu stay in the School in pripyat? In cop of course. So you wouldnt find him in tower anyway

[full widget]

also death truck agents don't know they are agents, while some others ||like Nestor and Scar|| know exactly what they are doing and for who

I'm also curious why ||Strelok is not affected by STALKER program screens||

[full widget]

he was just hanging around there, chillin, minding his business, and we can help him as Major D

[molten osprey]

Yo just checked it, the canon way is that Zulu was in pripyats School, and when you help him he returns to Rostock and joins duty again

[wicked adder]

He sure ain't with Duty at the Concrete plant

Hes meant to be leading a 'rogue' element of Duty now

[molten osprey]

Idc, only thing i was wondering about why his tower is empty and occupied by Richter. Case closed

[full widget]

he was mid age in 2012, could left Zone by know
or he could be ||Roosevelt||, but that's unlikely

[wicked adder]

I assume itll become relevant whenever they actually add a faction war

[full widget]

it's not like gamma with expanding gameplay and content every update, unlikely to happen

[wicked adder]

Im aware, itll be DLC

They pretty heavily push the Idea that a faction war is about to start towards the end of the game, with the Duty-Freedom ceasefire ending

[full widget]

I wish they did og games remakes as DLC, since there's all neccessary content, just hardest parts left - voicing, animations, plot remaster etc

[full widget]

it was probably to add up to increasing darkness by the end - with ||Monolith out gunning||, people messing up each other, ||Pripyat lockdown|| etc
so you could feel it's not same as when you were green early in LZ, now we're at climax allround

||they also take away regenerator in Strelok and Scar paths and you can't heal last true Spark member, unlike when you play for Ward||
||probably so he won't mess up big secret when rolling with Scar||
||nice attention to details, although without any logical reason||

[languid obsidian]

anyone here know about merging localization files for stalker 2? somethin went wrong with my .300 blackout mod and glitched my inventory

[ionic narwhal]

mf thats not even dlc you know how different each game was in term of mechanics n vision . at least for clear sky, the whole faction war thing, we couldnt even get a life on time rn

[true yew]

Holy fucking shit, what S2 backrooms

There is even voice ambience

Like, psi-emissions but for them X-labs

[shrewd kiln]

i wish for the zone to disappear

[stuck condor]

I wish

Non-lumen lighting in UE5 looks so bad though

[west moth]

[empty forge]

НихHow to disable swear words when killing stalkers?

[shrewd kiln]

i don't remember skif swearing at all during regular gameplay

only during dialogue and cutscenes

[true yew]

Such bullshit that your bullets don't pass through foilage but the enemies' does

[solid ibex]

chat, i just realized that the Spark ending ||can be classified as an isekai||

[wanton arch]

I keep finding weapons that were once "stash weapons" in perfect condition as broken, unrepairable weapons. It happens with quest weapons, too.

[wicked adder]

[halcyon obsidian]

Hello

how are you STALKERs

[sage wolf]

okay this guy is getting a bit ridiculous :3

[halcyon obsidian]

STALKER BEST GAME EVER MADE

[digital plume]

techincally the start of soc involves a truck ...

[noble talon]

We need them DLSS4 files

[west moth]

[halcyon obsidian]

Bro is fan of cats?

ok

Don't react it

[west moth]

yes and cats are sad cause S2 is not as expected

[halcyon obsidian]

WTF

olk

[west moth]

Wut?

[halcyon obsidian]

What* brother and nothing.

[west moth]

[true yew]

Eugene and Ragman will never have beef like Yar's and Ashot's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euwsOMCX5PQ&t=0s

Eugene and Ragman beef: Don't buy from that guy

Yar and Ashot beef: HOW ABOUT YOU SUCK MY CO-

[outer depot]

Cleared the excavator jumping puzzle without dying

I have become the true stalker

[quasi bough]

Fuck Zaton finger anomaly

[sturdy meteor]

Head down and working on something with spotify on shuffle and suddenly a song comes on that takes you out of what you were doing?
dirge of the earth by firelake suddenly got me wanting to play classic stalker...

[quasi bough]

guys help? I found this merc guy on the ground so i healed him....game says he is a quest giver...but he just stands and says nothing

bug or somethin?

[peak eagle]

He should've warned you of a bloodsucker nearby, after that you should be able to talk to him

Also check the corpses near him for a PDA

[timid oyster]

True

Storyline was top tier. I feel sad about Strider and his crew.

Cant wait for my PC upgrade and further updates.

[halcyon obsidian]

I don't know man. I just enjoy the lore and I would probably ask for some STALKER role-play to Airsofters or clubs. Because the Zone and artifacts and anomalies don't exist unfortunately.

[halcyon obsidian]

I can't play any longer, I just have a laptop that isn't powerful and a phone where I just use tools on it. Not even social medias.

[timid oyster]

I have a GTX 1650 in a laptop. I can barely run it on lowest settings with no shadows at 1280x720.

Still it looks mesmerising

[halcyon obsidian]

I swear if the Zone existed, I would make me some great money and explore as a Stalker.

[halcyon obsidian]

Ah sorry for you man.

I hate when something I like don't exist. When I was younger I hated because super-powers didn't exist. Now the Zone don't. Fuck this shit. Is there really no way that persons live and do some contracts in real life near Chernobyl? I want someone to search with me. When I like something I search about it. I'm not joking.

[west moth]

You can check Bionerd23 on yt. She visited NPP and the zone often as a physicist. These days its impossible because of the war

[halcyon obsidian]

But I want to know if anyone confirmed that anomalous activities near or in Chernobyl don't exist.

[west moth]

Nothing real except radiation and mutated plants and animals. There are some rumours and superstition, but unfortunately our world is rather boring in that regard and the IRL zone is no exception

[halcyon obsidian]

Thanks. I'll have to be bored as fuck then.

There is nothing to do in this world.

[warped monolith]

[west moth]

Cheer up, there's plenty to do 🙂 And remember, you are carrying a head full of fantasy with you all the time. If you need inspiration, read the book "Roadside picnic" or watch the movie "Stalker" by Tarkovski. Both huuuge inspirations for Stalker

[halcyon obsidian]

All right thank you man.

Fuck even Russian. I am original of Russia but I barely speak it. I've born in France.😔

[neat oak]

Any new patches?

[cloud wasp]

hi stalker 🫡

[warped monolith]

not yet

[wanton arch]

I did ALL the arena quests and saved the freedom squad for barkeep in rostok but freedom traders still dont like me

what did I do wrong. veteran mode and I have also done a quest or two for duty btw

[rapid jolt]

What gun did you have when you hit the grav anomaly?

That particular glitch seemed to only happen when I had a gauss rifle out but idk

[quasi bough]

fellers who are these guys? patch says Korpus

Im currently at Yantar bunker

[golden hazel]

That's Rizztyarev's Corp

[sterile raft]

Hello everyone. surround sound disoriented. it is difficult to understand where someone is coming from says or mutant running. friends asked and I'm not the only one with this problem. can anyone know the solution?

[wanton arch]

zalyssa mission still broken after all these patches....

I killed all the monolith and nobody has agro. not sure where to go from here -

[mint holly]

Gaffer should do a little speech in the building then that's it, quest will complete once you get far enough away from the town

[true yew]

Clusterfuck and saiga in holster, gauss rifle in inventory. But I had the velez and bolt in hand

[rapid jolt]

Interesting

[novel magnet]

I haven't played since release. Played for like 3 weeks. How much have they patched performance? I could run it "fine" before @1080p with a 4090. I'm wondering how much work they've put in to performance optimization. Anyone?

[outer depot]

I'm getting about 10-15 fps more than the start

performance in towns seems to be the same as anywhere else now

no frame drops as far as I can tell in general

[opal stream]

download01-23.7z did somebody play with this?

[wicked adder]

Guh

[rapid jolt]

What's your CPU?

[proud ruin]

[golden hazel]

[proud ruin]

[west moth]

[cunning stirrup]

Which is better for this game 4070s or 7800xt?

[tall current]

i have a problem with frame gen, it works okay for the first hour of gameplay then it starts being worse than playing without it

[tall current]

the one with the more vram i think

[sleek lark]

Finally finished the game. 124 hours later

What a ride

[sleek lark]

If I crank the game all the way up with my 3080 performance tanks due to Vram limitations. So largely vram and raw raster compute

[cunning stirrup]

didn't expect, i thought DLSS would be very useful in stalker 2

but looks like vram and native performance are more important

aight, go or 7800xt which is much cheaper than 4070 super

[sleek lark]

DLSS is certainly good and helpful, I cant say how good it is vs the other avilable options

It struggled a bit with dark hallways creating weird sparkling artifacts that make it hard to see deep into dark areas. Unsure how the others perform

[cunning stirrup]

FSR isn't great but it is helpful on fps, but consider about AMD might release new frame generation 7800xt might be valuable too

||so i've been watching comparison videos about 4070s and 7800xt for weeks...||

[clever sigil]

I miss the days of raw frame generation without using AI

[clever sigil]

A Yote

[sleek lark]

Tis a Yote Indeed

[clever sigil]

Which ending?

[sleek lark]

Strelok and Skif

[clever sigil]

Gotta do the other two then

[sleek lark]

I watched em on youtube. I dont have the will in me to rerun the game a full 2 more times

I might when they add some new patches nd such

[clever sigil]

So which ending do you like the most?

[sleek lark]

I think Skif's. Opens up alot of possibilities

[clever sigil]

Sorry misread it

Skif and Scar are almost the same at first glance xD

[sleek lark]

I dont wanna say a ton and spoil if for others that havent finished the game yet

[halcyon obsidian]

Skiff is so charismatic

[clever sigil]

Its in the chat description that you should expect spoilers here

[sleek lark]

Ward and Scar are two sides of the same coin

[molten osprey]

wait wait wait there is a skif ending

i thought its spark ward strelok oh yeah i just realize i didnt know the fourth one fuck me

[sleek lark]

its the best one imo

[molten osprey]

i just heard strelok and thought thats it that has to be it and then i was just sad what ive done

but nah the guide i used for the ending just had those 3 i mentioned. oh man here we go again

[sleek lark]

its a branch of streloks

dont shoot the doc and you get it

[molten osprey]

oh man i thought about doing that but i didnt know what would happen then

time to reload a save i guess

[sleek lark]

XD

[west moth]

[split plank]

I thought TSR was best one. DLSS causes the bushes' shadow to flicker.

Yesterday, I played the game. My Ryzen 9 5900X reached 90c... Should I be concerned?

[sturdy meteor]

should be shitting your pants. 90c is too hot

[split plank]

How can I reduce the temperature? I guess it's time to blow the dust bunnies out of my PC, I haven't done that for one year

[sturdy meteor]

watercooled or aircooler?

[toxic wave]

hah my 13th gen i7 hit 95c

[sturdy meteor]

gotta sleep for work. clean the dust out, repaste with fresh thermal if you haven't done it in 2 years (or less if its been getting too hot too often), clean the aircooler (if its stock cooler, replace it for a better aircooler), close apps in the background and it may not make much difference but play on lower resolution on lower settings.
keep monitoring the temps and probably plan for a cpu upgrade or whole upgrade of the mobo and ram too.

[split plank]

Cooling liquid system, MasterLiquid Lite 240

[sturdy meteor]

top mounted?

[split plank]

Yes

[sturdy meteor]

give that a blow out, give the radiator a rattle too incase of evaporation inside

how old is it?

[split plank]

I'm running at 1080p, not 4k.

The cooling system is less than 3 years old.

[sturdy meteor]

might be time to replace that incase of corrosion in the waterblock

gotta sleep. hope its enough to think on

[split plank]

Okay, thanks for the info. I hope my PC isn't in a big trouble. I can't afford fancy parts of PC.

[gusty plaza]

Does anyone know what's the difference between ammo types? I've read somewhere that the armor mechanic is basically non-existent, and the only thing that ap ammo does is dealing more flat damage basically

[warped monolith]

armor is actually very significant. Guns with high pen but low damage outperform guns with higher damage but lower pen on the tougher enemies

[noble talon]

Installed S2 to try the new DLSS4. Much sharper image. Using DLSS Balanced 1440p looks fine. Lumen is still god awful with grass flickering in the wind like crazy. Uninstalled. Waiting for Lumen fixes before playing again

[warped monolith]

only way to fix lumen is to remove lumen

I think there's a mod that does that, but since there's no pre-baked lighting the game will look weird.

[gusty plaza]

Is there any explanation of armor mechanic?

[radiant lake]

is gtx 1650 mobile good enough?

[random heath]

Behold how the powerful Spark Stalker has mastered the anomalous energy of the zone, while the weak scientist is bound by mere physical law

[trim totem]

i cant wait for the next patch

this game is amazing i jst know it can be better

[sour totem]

waiting for item wheel and dismemberment mods

[quasi bough]

Jesus christ the Spark armor color scheme is the ugliest shit i ever seen

[random heath]

Scar got no fashion sense, he just likes blue from his CS days

peak loadout

[warped monolith]

big iron on his hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip

[quasi bough]

Clear Sky Blue woodland was still prettier than this shit

[quasi bough]

Wrong. the SPP-100 Discovery suit is best all rounder

[queen fossil]

Maybe in low and 720p but man, you're gonna struggle.

[wanton arch]

bros what does it mean

[warped monolith]

amogus

[fallow pivot]

It really is. They looked at Clear Sky and said "yep, let's make it BRIGHTER"

[valid panther]

big iron on his hip

[cunning stirrup]

So you are the guy wearing power armor in fallout 4 with 9 revolver in his quick slots

Short barrel revolver, long barrel revolver and Kellogg's revolver

[radiant lake]

I thought this was stalker gamma chat mb lmao

[ripe hollow]

Where do you even get mid-tier detectors? I've just upgraded from second worst detector to veles, as a mainquest reward.

[true yew]

Me with guns with low pen
"You see, the problem with your weapons is that they do the job too quickly. My weapon will turn you into a fine paste in 1 MILLION shots"

[rapid jolt]

You can get the Hilka either after you just entered the Slag Heap if you do one of the sidequests or do a sidequest for Sultan

[true yew]

Theres a free hilka at duga, though i got it after the final assault there. Might get shot there before the quest

[proud ruin]

[burnt acorn]

[proud ruin]

[ripe hollow]

Yeah, i had hilka, probably from sultan, and could also take it from stash from the vodka sidequest on terricon but didn't. But where are the bear and svarog? It kind of breaks feeling of progression.

[true yew]

I don't think svarog exists, since it was a prototype by cardan. I forgot where I got the bear, prolly from a stash.

Oh, I got it from Lodochka. From a side quest

[quasi bough]

its not even clear sky camo scheme

[quasi bough]

bro having exoskeleton, two mide-late game revolvers but early game detector

[random heath]

Just hop the fence into pripyat, grab the diamond and cosplay noontide for the entire playthrough. Also Veles is aesthetically mid

[fallow pivot]

No i know. I'm saying Clear Sky uniforms were ugly as fuck. And GSC decided to make a worse one lol.

[proud ruin]

[finite needle]

I like the mcdonald's sprite color scheme they have

[full widget]

faction war dingus was more like fun experiment so you have something else to do except run-kill-bring-give-fuckoff
if modders did a life - gsc will make it too eventually

[full widget]

isn't exo + compass fixed by now? like you don't get more than you can get with just maxed out exo

why is our boy skif if he's clearly scyth?

[random heath]

tbh stalker 2 isn't difficult enough to care. Even on hard Skif is a fucking tank with an exo

[full widget]

although monos in ||post x11 spinning dingus|| endgame are nasty

[finite needle]

Unless ai stops aimbotting, there's really no way around it but to make Skif tanky af and overload you with medkits

[queen fossil]

Oh, fine then. It's bit less demanding but still, a 1650 is gonna struggle in Gamma as well. Since it's free, you can try 🙂

[sage wolf]

This is probably gonna sound like a stupid question but what exactly does the aiming accuracy mod for a gun do? :3

Like I’m having trouble differentiating between the spread and the aiming accuracy

[knotty kindle]

Is there any mods in which any techinicians can modify late game weapons? Kind of annoying to find a good weapon but have a situation like, the nearest techinician being the slag heap one not being able to do anything with the gun

[tacit glacier]

Wish I had STALKER 2 installed rn
I'd test the heck out of DLSS 4 dll's

Somebody made a video comparing DLSS 3.7.20 with DLSS 4 in Indiana Jones and the motherfucking Performance mode from DLSS 4 looks better than Quality mode in DLSS 3.7.20

[queen fossil]

It's not yet available, isn't it ? Playing with a 3080 laptop here, I'd love to have DLSS4 but I've heard it's gonna be available the 30th of january.

[ripe hollow]

I might be wrong, but accuracy is the single shot deviation and spread is accumulated deviation when firing a burst. I remember seeing an upgrade for one of the guns that was "slowing down spread accumulation by 50%" or something like that

[mint holly]

its not officially available yet, but the dll files have been posted on reddit and stuff. you can download a version of the nvidia profile inspector and turn it on

[bitter fulcrum]

obtained the diamond exo suit

now i need money

[ripe hollow]

What technician can upgrade them?

[bitter fulcrum]

yaniv i belive

past red forest

[mint holly]

for anyone interested, I assume this is fine for me to share here https://www.reddit.com/r/OptimizedGaming/comments/1i89xbn/dlss4_dlls_download_v310/

[ripe hollow]

It feels like I'm approaching late game and ak-74 is still the best weapon solely because of attachments

Dnipro doesn't have x4 scope, isn't it?

[tacit glacier]

I put those in Witcher 3 and my jaw kind of dropped as DLSS balanced looked better than DLSS Quality before doing that. Frame Gen feels a lot smoother as well

[mint holly]

yeah I have basically had the exact same experience. Stalker 2 looks better and has way more consistent fps at a setting lower than I had it before

[bitter fulcrum]

had the chance to buy it but havent checked

[tacit glacier]

Yeah. Hopefully in 5 days NVIDIA drops the driver update that lets us override DLSS versions in games without having to replace dll files.

Because they showed that during the CES. New NVIDIA App tabs for game configuration that allow to replace DLSS CNN with Transformer and override FG to run at 3x or 4x if you have a 50xx

Or to use Reflex 2 which is basically VR's reprojection but on flatscreen

[mint holly]

Yeah, I also seem to have significantly less ghosting on stalker 2 which is pretty great cause that shit is atrocious

[tacit glacier]

Transformer was designed to combat ghosting, yeah

[bitter fulcrum]

also.. i want to try Tushonka, atleast once

[tacit glacier]

This isn't stalker 2 but look at dis
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxMo9kg1kU6lxKQWtfc3lZCY38TXabqf3Y?si=jUkXHXEBP3mqroTx

I'm mainly pointing to the window flickering.

[tacit glacier]

This shit fucking dope. I'd try it in S2 but rn I'm waiting for first DLC to drop so I can go back and do a fresh playthrough, but it'll be a year after release before that so by then DLSS 4 not only will be officially in game, but will likely be improved by then

[bitter fulcrum]

indeed

[ripe hollow]

You mean irl? You can make it yourself pretty easily

[bitter fulcrum]

just seeing the tinned stuff got me curious, though i live in the uk so yea home made probably is the way

wonder if the polish shops store it

xD

[tacit glacier]

Tushonka is basically a can of stewed meat

Fat, meat, and jelly that's full of flavour

[bitter fulcrum]

heard with the tinned stuff you should boil it

open the tin a little first ofc

[tacit glacier]

No? We buy that and eat it out of the tin.
Slice it and put it on bread

Granted its more solid

You can easily make it, too.

[bitter fulcrum]

yea looked at how to make it, though i dont know what alternatives there are to a dutch oven

also sorry people who havent ate yet btw xD

[bitter fulcrum]

oh like in the tin itself

but idk just going off what ive heard

dude is eather dumb or has balls of steel

BRUH

[ripe hollow]

OMG IT WORKS! Game looks so much better on my 3060

[ripe hollow]

You can do whatever with it, even just eating from a can like Skif does is fine

[ripe hollow]

Now pop-in trees seem much more noticeable, lol

[smoky badge]

Maybe

[ripe hollow]

Yeah, bushes in red forest are flickering like crazy

[trim totem]

oh wow....thats much better

[trim totem]

n not only that but im pretty sure alot of stalker 2 will be improved too

how do i activate the transformer model for stalker 2

[tacit glacier]

Get this and replace the dlss and dlssg files

[vague flame]

Is stalker 2 fixed now?

[wicked adder]

Has not a life

Etc etc

[late kernel]

You know what the actual name of STALKER 2's AI system actually is?

HALF-LIFE

i see myself out of this server

[west moth]

The game has not a half-life

[jovial berry]

!alife

[fallen iron]

@jovial berry You'll need to change the date in this mod: G.A.M.M.A. Alife optimization.

To quickly reach the folder:

1. Open your MO2
2. Search the mod using the "filter" option you can find on the bottom
3. Search the mod, right click on it, "open in Explorer"
4. Go inside here: gamedata/configs/alife.ltx and change the date with 26/10/2018

[jovial berry]

Lmao

Whatse the stalker 2 alife command 😦

[golden hazel]

[west moth]

!noalife

[fallen iron]

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

[west moth]

[west moth]

A-life 3 confirmed

[jovial berry]

I just want to show and appreciation to @midnight wind for the modding community he built for stalker. GAMMA really transcended as a mod pack for stalker anomaly and made it into a space where people really wanted to give it their all for stalker, with all the flaws of S2 and all.

Just take a quick look at the official discord and it's modding channel, or the lack thereof of S2 modding. Everyone here, super helpful, making some amazing stuff

[west moth]

Cant wait for the modding tools to (hopefully) come out

[candid thicket]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrdtj14ov1Y

[west moth]

And for GSC to finish the game

[golden hazel]

They can finish the game later I want that new lore from the dlc NOW

[west moth]

True Stalkers know how to be patient

[golden hazel]

My theory still stands that clear sky is hidden in limansk doing experiments with science n shit

[west moth]

I haven't played the game yet, so maybe

[golden hazel]

They still exist in HoC of Tuah, unless it's a late development line they forgot to take out

Or a bugged questline that hasn't been fixed yet

[west moth]

Stalker 3 when

[golden hazel]

23 seconds

Strelok's hairline has taken over the new generators with Faust and Hawaiian's Aloha

[west moth]

What if Stalker, Metro and Atomic Fart had a bebe

[golden hazel]

Stalker 2077 Atomic Sky

[late kernel]

Made this in After Effect

[slim moth]

how to gain access to the cfg's and wwise audio files to fix a bug

these are the files I'm trying to access

[slim moth]

RIP

[maiden coral]

I find it dumb that certain buildings cant protect from an emission

[upper sun]

This game seem so much less polished then stalker gamma, it's so annoying

[spring garnet]

Has stalker2 said anything about official modding support yet like a dev kit etc

[split plank]

The temp dropped from 90c to 70c after blowing out the dust and reapplying the thermal paste. My problem is solved, I'm happy now!

[trim iron]

https://discordapp.com/channels/912320241713958912/1309182885756145685

[proud ruin]

mfw stalker 2 has worse ai then a 15 year old game

[outer depot]

bruh the ward path is so much fucking easier compared to the others tf is this shit

this was the easiest run I've ever had

[golden hazel]

It's on par with a lot of 2024 games though

https://tenor.com/view/it-is-evolving-just-backwards-gif-21647112

[proud ruin]

Me imaging a world where stalker 2 has good AI

[mint holly]

Unfortunately with good AI and alot more being dynamic and such the game might actually set PCs on fire. I feel like at some point the AI was way better

[proud ruin]

wait 15 years for new game
it’s UE5 slop

[golden hazel]

A world where The Game Does Have A Life

[outer depot]

I've enjoyed it greatly even with munted ai

granted I think most peoples perception of A-Life is colored by it being tweaked to fuck by a lot of mods for years

[mint holly]

I've been enjoying it a ton, I do think it's a big shame about the AI, but I've still very much enjoyed the game overall. I really miss alot of the animal behaviors and such. Like I loaded up SoC and within minutes I saw a dog dragging another dead dog and man shit like that is just so cool

[tulip escarp]

why he bent like this?

[proud ruin]

I’m glad they spent the time modelling and animating frogs instead of working on the ai

[proud ruin]

[tulip escarp]

Speaking of A life which mod is the best rn

[sturdy meteor]

Good job

[golden hazel]

Same reason Strider's moaning in 144p

[tulip escarp]

😭

[sturdy meteor]

Smol strider

[outer depot]

AI definitely could be better (thank god for mods) and hopefully they keep working on it

at the same time, I'm 200 hours and four full runs deep and wouldn't hesitate recommending this game to anyone... I'd just make sure I sent them my ~mods folder alongside it

[stuck condor]

Brothers nearby

[mint holly]

seriously can't overstate how much less blurry the game looks with dlss4, its actually insane I feel like I put on glasses

[proud ruin]

I can’t be the only person who when they see a comparison of dlss3 or whatever it is vs dlss4 can’t see any difference

[mint holly]

not sure, there def is one. I mean probably depends on your monitor, resolution etc. for me it is night and day

3

4, I know not the same location but for me I see the difference

[ripe hollow]

Not yet

[trim iron]

Take your pick:
https://discordapp.com/channels/912320241713958912/1311758650733236335
https://discordapp.com/channels/912320241713958912/1313333226881941597
https://discordapp.com/channels/912320241713958912/1310377824007491584

[ripe hollow]

Is there any noticeable difference between them?

[trim iron]

I have only personally played with Shay's because it has add-ons that makes it very configurable to whatever your tastes may be. In vanilla I used the increased spawns (spawns stuff more often and in larger quantities) and with all mutants unlocked and it was like playing Serious Sam in Stalker. Stuff all over the place with Burers, Controllers, and even the deer spawning in the wild.
It was super fun if you enjoy that kind of playstyle. Obviously it throws the balance out entirely. Gear is constantly in tatters because of all the fighting you do and damage you take. You use a lot of medkits and ammo, etc, etc. But with only the base mod, it's much more calmer and you only run into the occasional spawn.
For opinions on the other two, you may need to visit the channels or mod pages and read up what people say that did play them.

[tulip escarp]

Ok tysm

[trim iron]

You're welcome
If you're going to try Shay's mod, I suggest starting with the base mod only and see how it feels. At least get out of the lesser zone before making a call on it. Then you can use the add-ons to adjust it accordingly as you please.

[true yew]

This is likely the closest Stalker will get in terms of a collab with another series (Even if its fan-made) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4AyqRbufYI

[true yew]

Personally tried Shay's living zone. Zone felt more lively yet still empty at the same time (maybe just me B-lining to locations), thankfully reduced the monolith hit squad encounters

[west moth]

Like the zone had a life?

[true yew]

Sadly, no. it's like putting better make up

Has anyone tried scrN's artifact overhaul? Might try it myself

[trim iron]

It depends on what your expectations are. It won't be proper a-life because only GSC can provide that.
That's also why Shay offers the add-ons. Did you try any of those?

[true yew]

Didn't wanna try the add-ons, because i didn't want to stray off that much from vanilla and the main mod is just enough for me

Speaking of A-life, how hard is it actually in terms of implementing it (like OG alife, or better) into the game? Considering the change in engine, technology, etc.

[west moth]

Someone mentioned there are similar systems already present in UE5 engine but they chose to develop their own but it didn't went well so they went with the spawner thing, another theory is that they simply ran out of time and resources besides having a hard time developing because of corona and the war. My impression is that it is fucking hard to develop a decent AI for a game world

Maybe they will deliver later like CP2077 did, and modding will happen too

[trim iron]

I'm sure it's not easy, but if you look at something like X4 Foundations that has a massive living space system comprising of multiple solar systems and factions, all doing their thing all the time, then I can only imagine implementing the system in the scale of S2 should be easier. It's just a lot of calculations that need to happen in the background, tied to timestamps so that it can be rendered when the player comes into rendering distance. That is if they even do a proper a life system and not just imitate it like they currently do and spawn scenarios that imply an a life event took place, but is just a random scripted scene.

[proud ruin]

Og chimera
S2 chimera

[true yew]

I Imagine it would not be that hard but very cumbersome. It's not like they are new to it, just different hardware and software

[west moth]

I guess we will never know what went down. Maybe they had A-life ready but the performance problems made it impossible to roll out so they went for the spawn system. Maybe they weren't able to develop it. Maybe they just didn't give a shit and all they wanted to was to milk the franchise. It is what it is, and all we can do is to wait if they deliver later or the modders make something happen

[round bronze]

Hey does anybody know a mod to skip cutscenes? watching 3 hours of cutscenes over and over makes "speedruning" impossible like half the time is spent on rewatching the cutscenes

[true yew]

I'm not sure if the similar system in UE5 are as sophisticated as the OGs, but oh well

[west moth]

I have zero knowledge on game dev stuff but my impression is that AI systems are amongst the hardest things to make work. And apparently they had the guy on board responsible for original A-life. But whatever, it is what it is. Can just wait and see

[true yew]

There's supposed to be a speed up feature for each cutscenes, just have to hold it down. There's a mod, pretty sure.

[round bronze]

Yes but spae button dissapeared

[trim iron]

They had multiple set backs. Including losing part of their code base, upgrading from UE4 to UE5, etc, etc. We can only hope that they will take the path of No Mans Sky and CP2077 and keep on delivering until we have the game we were expecting.

[true yew]

Huh...

[west moth]

Exactly. What gives me hope is their announcement of wanting to develop Stalker into a long living franchise, i have the impression that this is not just talk. Let's see what the future brings and stay calm despite of dangerous mutants and deadly anomalies

[true yew]

Kinda brings in the question of what they will do after giving stalker (prolly cassocks as well) a good rest. Might something like those or something actually new

My ass, will they make the trilogy of all trilogies? Stalker 3: End of Chornobyl-

[trim iron]

Yeah, and it plays like Sim City where you have to rebuild and provide housing and facilities for the growing population

[finite needle]

||The biggest mystery in the lore for me remains how GSC literally just put a wig on Strelok and everyone is like "Well what about the long haired gentleman in the trailers, where is he about?"||

[finite needle]

I mean, the situation of Stalker 2 isn't nearly as bad as CP2077 or No Man's Sky, I think yall are overreacting a bit to be frank

[trim iron]

I never said it is. I'm loving the game. I was simply discussing the A-Life system.

[west moth]

A multiplayer has been announced, DLCs, more parts, who knows? From a business standpoint it makes sense to keep Stalker going

[west moth]

I havent played yet, i'm waiting at least half a year. It is my impression from the reactions of those who played that S2 has great atmosphere and lore but the bugs and A-life need a lot more attention

[valid panther]

It is true stalker 2 released in an unfinished state but i had lots of fun with it

Ignoring some glitches that almost made me rage quit the game, like the one where you couldnt save the first settlement

[true yew]

Met a dude who's gonna get S2, might do a vet and novice multiplayer run

"You gotta develop your anomaly sense, bro"

[west moth]

I am sure its great to play already but i am patient and i will wait for more patches and maybe there will be some mods

[west moth]

Yeah that's what i want to avoid. It would piss me off to much, breaking my immersion

[valid panther]

Yeah you should wait, the potential for this game is crazy

just polish and change some stuff

[west moth]

That's what i think, but reading about crazy bugs, no binocs, no night vision makes it easy to wait

[finite needle]

A-life is nice and all, but I'd rather them work out on fixes, gameplay balancing and for the love of god, more secondary content for the other factions.

[west moth]

Yeah, flesh it out, finish the game. Hope they made enough money to keep working on it

A-life would be the cherry on top. Imagine if they would release a MMO with faction systems and A-life

[finite needle]

I'd rather have working night vision than a-life, being able to fight during the night takes precedence over Ivan going from Garbage to Rostok and spend the rest of your playthrough there, drunk.

[quartz scaffold]

I bought s2 after much hesitation and have now played for around 7 hours. The atmosphere is awesome - and visiting old places and seeing what they look like now is really impressive. Everything else is terribly tiring compared to gamma.

[round bronze]

YEs you an't skip cutscenes anymore

[round bronze]

Bruh the mod doesn't work I can't skip the cutscene bruh I HATE THIS, I don't want to see them what can I do Is there any comand? Please help

[true yew]

||Some knew it was strelok. Fewer thought he actually grew hair||

Strelok couldn't run away from his recessive hairline

[wicked adder]

When he left the zone in COP he went to turkey

[proud ruin]

Strelok is only 22 years old

what the zone does to a mf

[ionic sage]

Did the game ai get updated yet

[wicked adder]

since when, release?

[west moth]

#1310675708091301930 message

[true yew]

Is there a mf with actual hair? Dalin and the women are exceptions

[proud ruin]

monolith blesses its warriors with a full head of hair

[west moth]

They all have hair, just not on the head

[random heath]

All the Noontiders. Those regenerators work on radiation, bullet wounds and male pattern baldness

[tacit glacier]

Richter has hair
Squint has hair
Nimble has hair
Nightingale has hair
Hera has hair

[true yew]

Forgot about faust, my bad

[halcyon obsidian]

The vc is freaky

[urban mango]

working on overlaying the original maps (including cut content) onto the stalker 2 map. missing: deserted hospital, pripyat, dead city, darkscape.

@ me if you have input

[undone summit]

I'm stuck thinking about how someone joked (or not) about how Stalker 2 was gonna have actual hair physics for their stalkers, but it caused a memory leak
You think that's the reason||Strelok appears balding instead of with his wig?||

[wicked adder]

I doubt it. Him suddenly having hair makes way less sense

Either they didn’t want people immediately knowing it was him, or it wasn’t originally intended to be him

[undone summit]

I mean...
Hasn't it been a decade?

Though, I understand the latter

[wicked adder]

People with male pattern baldness tend not to… grew new hair like that

It’s not really something that goes away yknow, and if he was balding like that from SOC all the way to the end of COP, I doubt he’s just shaving it

[random heath]

One must wonder... is baldness in stalker a representation of some kind of corruption? The noontiders, who have forgotten everything, have been reborn in a way- innocent like a child. They also all have hair. Richter, who has a pure love for the zone in his heart, still has his hair. Meanwhile, every scientist except Dalin is bald- Dalin still innocent enough to think that his experiments would ever turn out well. The others have seen the consequences of their actions. Strelok, who has ventured deeper into the zone than anyone else and dealt with the c-conciousness, is balding. Scar is bald and is a total madlad.
Most damning, Sidorovich is bald as fuck and the most corrupt fucker in the zone.

I look forward to the three hour video essay on the metaphorical meaning of baldness in stalker.

[knotty kindle]

Stalker 2 anime when to give everyone mass amnesia about the bugs, glitches and optimization??

[tulip escarp]

alright what addons do you think are good

[stuck breach]

Anyone got some tips or suggestions to fix the stalker 2 memory leak?

[trim iron]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/484

[trim iron]

It's personal preference and depends on what other mods you use.
I'm currently using Modular Hard Mode, for example. You'd want to use the module specific for this mod.
Otherwise, as I've said. Start with only the main mod and get a feeling for it. The Google Doc has indications of spawn points near the end. You can visit the "hot spots" to see how active it is and adjust accordingly.
A lot of people seem to like the 2X spawn times.
Another thing to keep in mind: If you use a timescale mod (to make days longer) it will affect the spawn timers, so then don't use an add-on that increase the spawn times too much. It's all in the Doc, so have a good read of that.

[stuck breach]

:/ might be the rostock bug

[serene vessel]

At the point where I need to head back to the ||duga|| again with ||spark|| (because I'm chill like that), and i'm wondering what a good weapon to fight ||the monolith|| is? I have the uberfuckmcbigmoney edition and have pretty much every stash so those weapons can be included. My thoughts rn is the Mark 1 EMR.

[quasi bough]

hey guys...anyone experiencing crashes like crazy all of a sudden

my Stalker just cant run after I swapped CPU for Ryzen 7 9800x3d

its always either some weird Dx12 related in game crashes or access violations

[trim iron]

Did you do a clean install of Windows and then all the related stuff, like install latest drivers, etc?

[quasi bough]

yes

complete clean set up. both disks. vanilla both modded stalkre 2 keep crashing on me

[trim iron]

At what point does it crash?

[quasi bough]

previous saves it crashes 3 minutes into the game and crashes 3 minutes into the game with new save too

After doing 2nd clean reinstall of the PC just to be sure, it doesnt even give me any crash logs messages. it just freezes and I have to end task through task manager

[tulip escarp]

LOL HOW DID I SURVIVE

[west moth]

Looks like you had a life

[quasi bough]

AP rounds loaded HK416 or M39 EMR

[random heath]

that's a big vape

[trim totem]

stalker 2 dlc is u going to the basement of reactor 4 to remove the elephant foot artifact

[west moth]

OG Stalker had this in Agroprom underground:

[outer depot]

Huh?

What the-

[split crown]

These damn monolithians are mutating

[serene oracle]

is A-life fixed or is the mod on nexus still better?

[split crown]

!noalife

[fallen iron]

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

[serene oracle]

theres still no alife?

[true yew]

Found the last journalist stash

That was fucked up

[proud ruin]

[wicked adder]

I don't think this strelok guy is so nice...

[young narwhal]

Hi any help needed. I need to talk to Diode but he is not in his room. I've seen online that a ward soldier should be in his place but he is also not there. I can't continue the main storyline.. any help?
Mission: Back to the Slag Heap

[jovial berry]

Have you tried reloading earlier save, sleep for a day or two, etc?

[hollow juniper]

how to touch other faction penis

PENIS