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

[stuck condor]

Well, even though it works and I basically can spawn 1000 enemies at once 20 new bugs come out

That's the infinite story so I don't care about them

TAA and Lumen? Well, that's another topic to touch.
Without lumen it's really hard to create night/day cycle and overall work on lighting would cause them to delay the game for a couple months. New UE5 assets are designed now to work with TAA which is trash but that's not the devs issue

Pricetag is kind if whatever because AAA game for 10$? That never happened

[arctic marsh]

It's funny how the game doesn't look good unless you have taa on

like shit doesnt render right, the poppy field is atrocious without it

its really weird

[golden hazel]

Gonna be funny as fuck if by the time they release the 1st DLC, Zalissya is still broken

[warped monolith]

might as well leave it broken and call it a feature

"it adds charm to the game"

[golden hazel]

ZALISSYA HAS FALLEN, MILLIONS HAVE DIED

IT'S A CANON EVENT

[acoustic wedge]

the forest doing day/night cycle without lumen or rt🤫

with dynamic tree shadows and destructable objects

while working on gtx 1050 2gb 60 fps ultra

[split crown]

I just wanna play a good game

[acoustic wedge]

Gamma it is

[split crown]

Issue with that is I'm several updates behind, and I have like 200 additional mods on top of GAMMA's default list - so I really don't feel like taking the time to sift through all of that currently.

I haven't even updated to Anomaly 1.5.3 or whatever because I'm unsure if it'll negatively conflict with any of my additional mods.

[drowsy umbra]

I am playing with new start mod and deactivated main story and thats fine to me

[tall current]

im done with my first run. game is amazing

obviously needed some mods but that's stalker

[warped monolith]

[west moth]

[grave frigate]

Is there a way to reaccquire the base engine files? Tried deleting and validating, but they weren't reinstalled

[trim pawn]

Stalcraft was my intro to stalker series, always watched never played. Stalker 2 is really fun, has all the story mode game funky stuff that happens that brings me backto the fallout new vegas days

is the hardcore mode for stalker comparable to anything like gamma? im looking to turn it up a notch but dont want to fully abandon s2

[stoic lichen]

Wait a minute, it’s STILL broken?

[golden hazel]

[stoic lichen]

I think Zalissya is just beyond cursed at this point.

[split crown]

GAMMA is leagues beyond anything that can be called "hardcore" for Stalker 2, lol

[warped monolith]

[split crown]

Stalker 2 just throws all the ammo, meds, and guns you could ever want at you even on Veteran difficulty. GAMMA? You gotta claw your way towards every goal at a turtle's pace.

[golden hazel]

Not if you sprint full speed and stab everything to death

[split crown]

Not a negative outlook for GAMMA at all, but it's certainly some challenging features I sorely miss and can't wait to be added into Stalker 2 someday.

[golden hazel]

Can't wait for Alife to get added

Stalker 2, also known as Somehow, Zalissya was still bugged

[split crown]

haha yea

[proud ruin]

I heard gamma is the game that doesn’t fake survival

[warped monolith]

it fakes a lot of things tho

[proud ruin]

[split crown]

Gamma is what you make of it; especially if you're a long-time fan of it.

[proud ruin]

[split crown]

I only speak from personal experience

I've put many hours into Gamma.

[warped monolith]

[golden hazel]

[golden hazel]

[proud ruin]

[humble hedge]

!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&

[proud ruin]

[humble hedge]

Alife is still horrible. I'll wait a few months for updates and possible mod support.

[stuck condor]

Years*

[stuck zenith]

https://youtu.be/-w669Z_1Z6s?si=M0jtMAqXYAuTsNmh
Gun models and anims are

[finite needle]

The more I play GAMMA the less I like it tbh In all seriousness, while I like the constant feeling of being centimeters away from death (until I get a working Exoskeleton, but luckily that skill ceiling is well locked beyond RNG and getting enough cash by doing menial tasks considering I can craft hellrocks but I can't craft a battery) and generally the gunplay is engaging, I pretty much dislike how boring, dry and repetitive the game is. If the best way to enjoy the writing in a game is to skip it and just go collect bear asses there's something fundamentally wrong with it.

[finite needle]

*abandon all hopes

[elder needle]

народ

guys how to set max settings in Gamma?

[proud ruin]

Settings > visuals > advanced

Also mcm > sss > turn them all up

[warped monolith]

the whole "stuck in hobo phase for 20 hours" simply fails to vibe with me. There's better ways to make a game challenging

[fallow pivot]

Hobo phase is best phase. End game gear gets boring unless it jams often lol.

[warped monolith]

hobo phase is fun when it doesn't last 20+ hours

[split crown]

I'm an absolute loot goblin, so gamma vibes a lot with me

[split crown]

I can agree with this. Not just end game, but a lot of the time when I get to mid-game even I start getting bored and itch for a new playthrough lol.

[warped monolith]

ironically, so am I... but gamma's (and by extension anomaly's) extremely bloated item system is a major turnoff

way, way too many useless junk items that are, in fact, junk
not even worth selling.

[proud ruin]

Noooo I need more item bloat

[split crown]

Fair enough, though it's not enough bloat to deter me I guess.

[finite needle]

smh the game is now casual baby garbage (it only has 1 brand water instead of 6)

[narrow swan]

where's the english voice chat?

Where is it!

Sigh fuck this I'm going to a different server cuz you guys are fucks

you speak english meanwhile you don't listen to a native english speaker

you russians don't make no sense

[undone summit]

[narrow swan]

I so liked watching the russians getting their asses kicked by Ukraine however that still didn't fix yall's dumb FUCKIN MINDS!!!!

getting a bullet into one of you're russian comrades didn't even solve nothin did it?

oh well

you're ignoring me cuz I'm american

what about russian

russians are weak

idiotic

retarded

hahaha you should seen the look on you're faces when the country you started a war with ambushed one of you're military vehicles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlGNGHC0Eo4

anyway tootles you weak russians

^^

click that link and you guys will realize you have been the laughing stock of social media

[west moth]

[split crown]

Sometimes this game has its moments

[warped monolith]

man wouldn't it be great if moderators looked at this channel

[split crown]

lmao

Just think, that dude was waiting the limited time each time he posted too

[winged raptor]

is there a multiplayer mod out for gamma?

[warped monolith]

no, also wrong channel

[winged raptor]

what channel

[finite needle]

Yes if you take lexotan with vodka

[warped monolith]

either #╟🔰☢newbies-chat or #╓☢stalker-chat

[winged raptor]

what if u just take the mod from call of pipryat for mp and put it into gamma lol

[haughty sierra]

are you stupid

[eager solstice]

@narrow swan (olivesnuggles) has been banned for reason: Complete Russian Hatred ( Xenophobic )

[warped monolith]

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

[lime umbra]

[icy moth]

Hello what'd I missed?

[warped monolith]

[thorn plume]

Scroll up.

[winged raptor]

can someone please make a multiplayer mod

[split crown]

YER A WIZARD SKEEEEEEEEEEEFA

[proud ruin]

you’re a gopnik Ivan

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-shadow-of-chernobyl-chornobyl-itstommylove-gif-14403985658201438399

[west moth]

[proud ruin]

[vale bay]

USA lost to a bunch of rice farmers with rusty chinese AKs

Sorry, couldn't hold myself, you can shit on me now

[thorn plume]

He can't see that, you know?

[warped monolith]

[vale bay]

Alright whatever then I guess dunno

I like icecream sandwiches

[mystic tapir]

Wish I could play. I just get major latency issues with or without frame gen on.

I tried optimization mods and what not. Just havent played since.

5900x CPU
4080 Super.

Fuckin' hate UE5 man.

Game is gorgeous, but at what cost...

[warped monolith]

I'd say your cpu might be the problem. Your GPU is better than mine and I don't get such bad performance
either that or it's the resolution you're trying to play in

[mystic tapir]

Yeah its probably my CPU. Im waiting for the 9950x3d to come out and im gonna upgrade. Im playing 1440p, I use DLSS, but you know the shits kinda blurry. I get latency issues with Frame Gen off, and with it On, well your fucked.

Just wish games worked out the "box" you know?

[arctic marsh]

I really hope this update drops early this week

and not on thursday or some shit

[arctic marsh]

I gotta 9800x3d and a 7900xtx and this game flies on it

this cpu has been nothing short of a fucking miracle for the games I play

[mystic tapir]

Fuck yeah. I need to upgrade.

[arctic marsh]

It's the greatest piece of computer hardware I've ever seen

Tarkov single player with all the bot AI mods and shit and the game FLIES

I could barely play SPT before I upgraded and was on a 1080ti and 8700k

[mystic tapir]

Yup. Ive been doing research and watching reviews and stuff. I just need that upgrade bad. I was half tempted to just get the 9800x3d now and just do my build. But I want to see what these 9950x3ds are like. Im going big this time

[arctic marsh]

any reason you are holding off for the 9950? The 9800 is still gunna be faster

the way the CCD chiplets works means the 9800x3d will probably be the fastest still

[mystic tapir]

We sent our messages at the same time lol.

Pretty much what I said above. Im curious to see. But at the same time the 9800x3d is just out of stock all the time at the moment.

[arctic marsh]

unless you need the cores for work or something, but strictly gaming its 9800 all the way

[mystic tapir]

Yeah some work here and there, but honestly, its probably overkill

[arctic marsh]

I got mine from newegg in a combo deal with teh gpu they dont even have the cpu listed on their site without the combo deals 😦

[mystic tapir]

Oh yeah I saw those combo deals.

Dude, im gonna get the 9800x3d, and a beefy ass motherboard, then I have to get different ram. Its a fucking chore, but its always worth it.

[arctic marsh]

yeah I'd just grab the 9800

I wish I got a nicer board I ended up with this x870 gigabyte aorus elite

[mystic tapir]

Thats not a bad mobo.

[arctic marsh]

I wanted a nice ass board with all USB 3.0

[mystic tapir]

Its always Aorus or Asus Hero for me

[arctic marsh]

the USB ports are total bs on boards I swear they keep all the good ports for their like top top tier boards

[mystic tapir]

Yeah. "premium price"

[arctic marsh]

Asrock is the worst they have the WORST ports

[mystic tapir]

Its all about the lanes bro.

[arctic marsh]

the lanes are wack on x870 too

intels setup is way better I think the board prices are out of control

[mystic tapir]

They sure are. Luckily I can do Paypal pay in 4 on newegg. Thats the route im gonna go.

Shits a godsend.

[arctic marsh]

I paid 330 bucks for my Maximus X code for my 8700k in 2018 that was literally one of ASUS nicest boards you could buy for z290

that board would cost like 700 bucks today

[mystic tapir]

I currently have the Asus Dark Hero for my 5900x

500 dollar board.

[arctic marsh]

I wanted another maximus board but they were too much

[mystic tapir]

Asus tax

[arctic marsh]

not maximus, crosshair is the AMD version

dude the fucking STRIX is 400

last time I bought a board the strix was mid tier at best

[mystic tapir]

Mhm

[arctic marsh]

ah well

just grab a 9800x3d you wont be disappointed

[mystic tapir]

Oh I know I wont.

Should of waited for the X3D chiplets in the first place tbh. I was one of those guys waiting to see if they were gonna make a x3d variant of the current cpu I have.

Would of been a easy swap.

[arctic marsh]

yeah sucks youre on am4

I like how they went with the intel style LGA socket on am5 though so much easier

no more tiny fragile pins sticking out the bottom off the cpu

[mystic tapir]

Thank god. I remember when I got the old Bulldozer FX ones.

I bent one of the pins by accident and used a mechanical pencil to bend it back in place. Shit still worked flawlessly.

I think it was the AMD FX 8350

[west moth]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/403419861641854978/1338283043160326164/475361830_1033820502120535_7615345055808439737_n.jpg?ex=67aa84b5&is=67a93335&hm=c3fe27f58d9f14c3d9b79fc2065c298dd4da3a7034bd49671bef9cb883a67d21&

[proud ruin]

rip in peace stalker 2 chat mf is dead

[west moth]

[proud ruin]

[outer depot]

Waiting to see what the update adds with 250 hrs played, been drawing anime porn instead

🗿

[frigid idol]

how to look at the characteristics of equipment if it were 100%?

[warped monolith]

... repair it to 100%

[jovial berry]

Id suggest trying out Modular Hardmode with your next playthrough

hopefully we get mods up to date quickly t oride the wave of the new patch

[outer depot]

Oh I’m modded to shit, I’ve done like four full runs

But I’m just burned out between that much game time and a full time job lel

[arctic marsh]

I still haven't beat the game, I was waiting for my new computer, built it, now I am waiting for this patch to continue

I only ever made it to the swamp and I have like 100 hours in the game lol

[outer depot]

SKEEFA, YOU MUST ABANDON YOUR CAREER TO COME SMOKE ZONE COCAINE

[outer depot]

I’d do it

[arctic marsh]

patch out yet?

[warped monolith]

what patch? did they announce anything for today?

[heavy hedge]

only 12 months left to go until the february patch, get hyped

[west moth]

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/bandit-cheeki-breeki-stalker-gif-27140308

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/itstommylove-tommylove-tommy-stalker-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-gif-6483206215488433506

[arctic marsh]

supposed to be a patch this week

big patch

[warped monolith]

"this week"... it's monday.

[west moth]

It's gonna be the biggest patch ever. A really biggly patch. Biggest i've ever seen. Everybody says this patch will be bigger than any other patch. Tremendous, like no other patch before. CAN'T WAIT!

[golden hazel]

The game after the patch:

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-tv-stalker-build-tv-stalker-build-build-gif-3756457842748169719

[west moth]

Captured on a 5090 fo sho

[heavy hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/mummy-the-mummys-shroud-hammer-films-hammer-horror-horror-film-gif-25204084

mfw patch finally drops

[inland agate]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1211

[lime sail]

anyone get the ".dll omod file failed to load" error?

[shadow frost]

-another fix for Rostok memory leak (aloha build)
-fixed flickering textures by removing textures
-fixed softlocks
-added more softlocks
-fixed NPC aimbot by making the player immune to stagger and bleed
-added A-Life, NPCs exist now in offline mode only

[warped monolith]

"fixed memory textures by removing textures"
peak

[golden hazel]

-Fixed Zalissya quest by removing all monolith spawns completely
-Zalissya fix somehow kills Hamster

[split crown]

-Fixed Zalissya by removing Zalissya from the game

[golden hazel]

Hamster still dies

It's a canon event

[split crown]

Hamster should canonically be related to Sidorovich because they're both so slimy

[golden hazel]

And they both can die due to bugs

[split crown]

lmao wait really

[split crown]

How does that even happen?

[golden hazel]

I don't remember which patch it was, I think 1.02 but it could also have been 1.0.1 or 1.0.3

[proud ruin]

[lone saffron]

Sidorobitch got up and left I see

[golden hazel]

Nah, somebody wished on the wish granter Thanos'd the fat man

[proud ruin]

He’s in his back room goon cave

[golden hazel]

Brother, he was gone, no sign left, no sidustovich left on the ground, like he never existed

[proud ruin]

He’s been recalled by c-con to the sarcophagus to become his final form

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/uhm-meeting-3-hmm-meeting-hmm-pepe-pepemeeting-gif-3714368513695129278

[split crown]

It's truly a wonder how GSC managed to make Swamps in Stalker 2 somehow so much worse than any of the other games

although a majority of that is how Skeefa can't manage to walk or run through knee-high water

[proud ruin]

Swamps is truly the asshole of the zone

[split crown]

on GOD

and for whatever reason mutant packs spawn within like 50 meters of me about every 2-3 min here. Truly Swamps is just hell on earth.

[proud ruin]

No alife moment

Farcry: Ukraine

[split crown]

lmao

I've probably killed 30 or so bloodsuckers in this region alone

[golden hazel]

Every region is bloodsucker region

except the bloodsucker village, that's a pseudogiant region

[split crown]

Nah it's crazy how many bloodsuckers spawn in Swamps man

and they always spawn in packs of 2 or 3

Finally out of the Swamps.

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/shrek-and-stay-out-stay-out-get-out-of-here-dont-come-back-gif-22158650

[fringe jewel]

funny way to find the gauss i guess lmao

[modest crag]

Redownload the game after I finished it once before the big new year patch, hoping it doesn't make my computer kill itself as much as when it first launched

[inland prism]

Anyone else finished the game recently?

Pretty disappointed overall. Feels more like Far Cry: Stalker.

Any soul the originals had isn't here.

[warped monolith]

holy shit it's Scar irl

[modest crag]

I finished the game twice with two different endings and I still enjoyed the story and gameplay quite a lot (although the ai aimbot and lack of long range spawn coupled with bugs is hurting it) up until SIRCAA, where besides the main mission everything else kinda falls appart and even then it's still hurt by every enemy having exoskeletons
Also not a huge fan of some of the map and game changes (rostok ran by freedom, duty lost in cement factory and lack of faction content)

[fading meadow]

Hey guys I was wondering if it’s not possible for the mod to change the life bar to make it less cartoon..

[finite needle]

"Just run through knee high swamp water while carrying 70 kgs of bullshit lmao so easy"

[warped monolith]

[ornate dust]

my Game crashes at certain locations. it never did before . for example it crashes at chemical factory in the Tunnel in Top Right corner both entrances.

[split crown]

My point is he could be carrying 0 kgs of equipment and you'd still have the same result.

[finite needle]

My point is running in swampy, muddy knee high water can't be that easy chief

[willow skiff]

Stalker 2 on unreal engine truly was a mistake
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-dev-witcher-4-has-a-long-road-ahead-on-unreal-engine-5

[finite needle]

I gotta play KCD2, just as soon as I gather the willpower to play KCD1

[west moth]

[warped monolith]

lazy devs when the "easy solution" bites them in the ass

[west moth]

Doesn't matter, had sex sales

[buoyant quarry]

easy buddy. People were saying the same thing about KCD 1 when it released on cryengine

Now look, they mastered the engine, released a great product and everyone loves it (especially because they have the hardware to run it well).

[undone summit]

People have been saying that though, that Unreal Engine isn't good for open world games

[buoyant quarry]

And Stalker 2 isn't good?

[warped monolith]

No.

[undone summit]

Correct

[warped monolith]

CryEngine was created for a game with large-scale maps from inception. It was purpose-built for it. This is the primary difference between it and UE5

[undone summit]

GSC has been put through a hell of a ringer but it does not excuse their products from critique
And there's a lot to critique about, even without getting into the performance

[warped monolith]

They either had to move to UE5 to cut corners in order to escape dev hell, or Microsoft execs told them to use the shiny new engine all the kids love because of Fortnite

[undone summit]

I've been enjoying Stalker 2 for sure but it's not worth the price tag

[buoyant quarry]

hmm interesting

[warped monolith]

either way... this is what we get as the end result

[buoyant quarry]

so you think microsoft forced it on them?

[warped monolith]

imo it's likely. Game wouldn't exist without Microsoft's money, so they were probably behind some of the less intelligent decisions made during the game's development

[buoyant quarry]

like choosing unreal?

[warped monolith]

that's my guess

[buoyant quarry]

well I loved KCD 1, even at launch (it was pretty broken), S2's launch was good by comparison, I LOVE that too, and I also Love KCD 2

I love these games makes snow angels

I think there's something special about sticking with a great game even though it had a rocky launch

[warped monolith]

bragging about sunk cost isn't something I thought I'd ever see, but I suppose

[buoyant quarry]

sunk cost?

[warped monolith]

the idea that, because you spent money (or time) on something you have to stick with it

[buoyant quarry]

what was sunk cost?

I know what it is, but are you referring to KCD 1 and S2 being sunk cost?

[warped monolith]

no, referring to this in general

applies to other games like cyberpunk, no man's sky

and uh... what was that other one

[buoyant quarry]

Yeah, well I didn't try cyberpunk at launch and I've never played no man's sky. They didn't interest me

but there are always flowers for those who want to see them

and if you want to enjoy something, you will.

I take it that people in this server don't really like Stalker 2, huh?

[warped monolith]

you take all that from two people's replies?

not everyone likes unfinished slop
And I didn't say I didn't like Stalker 2. I said it isn't good. It's different

[buoyant quarry]

no, I've been in this server for a long time

[buoyant quarry]

maybe you should try playing it again, 1.1.4 is actually in pretty good shape. the patch notes sell it short. Mutants have routines for hunting, factions are on patrol (I wish they said more things in passing though), stalker in camps have sleeping, eating, patrolling and returning routines, stuff like that. I think GSC didn't mention it because there's still more to add? Idk, but the differences between 1.1.2 to 1.1.3 to 1.1.4 have been massive

[willow skiff]

It was a mistake to use unreal engine for it. As the KCD dev says in the article with examples, every game that was open world that used that engine, had problems on release.

[buoyant quarry]

at the same time, what else were they gonna use?

[willow skiff]

Cryengine duh

[buoyant quarry]

eh, it's pretty much at its peak though

no rt, no mesh shader support, crytek has kinda slowed down in its development.

[warped monolith]

either cryengine or idtech (Microsoft owns Bethesda now)

[buoyant quarry]

idtech for open world?

[warped monolith]

raytracing is superfluous either way

[warped monolith]

can't be worse than UE5, can it?

[summer pawn]

hi

[warped monolith]

and for all its faults as a game, Rage 2 had zero technical issues.

[warped monolith]

hello stalker

[buoyant quarry]

oh noo it's pretty consequential actually. Makes development much faster

[buoyant quarry]

they'd've been on idtech 7, I suppose, the only games to use it have been Indiana Jones and Doom Eternal

[willow skiff]

Not like the lack of RT would have made a difference for Stalker 2. Its not like it's some game with a bunch of lighting effects and surfaces that reflect light like say Cyberpunk 2077

[warped monolith]

Eternal had some pretty vast levels... and Dark Ages show even bigger areas. Wouldn't be a stretch to imagine it being used for open worlds, considering a predecessor version did.
(Unless they retooled it so much and removed all of the openworld-oriented optimization)

[buoyant quarry]

oh there's much more to it than that, rt allowed for accurate material based rendering which devs are only now starting to tap into. Once we see full adoption for RT I think we'll see some pretty incredible stuff. I think of the period we're in similarly to the first generation to use 3-D models. People back then wondered if it was necessary to expend so much processing power on blobby models when well detailed sprites could run so much more efficiently and didn't need to be culled after an NPC died or whatever.

besides, I have a 4070 and at the second to maximum settings I get the same performance in STALKER 2 and KCD 2. When people talk about optimization, they're actually talking about running on older hardware intended for working mainly with vertex shaders and the like

[finite needle]

Hot take: Stalker 2 is good enough

[buoyant quarry]

that's not even a hot take, it's the right take

[willow skiff]

Not when A-life ain't working as it's supposed to yet

Pretty much kills the whole experience

[finite needle]

Yall give waaaaay too much importance to a life

[buoyant quarry]

THIS (which I mentioned earlier): maybe you should try playing it again, 1.1.4 is actually in pretty good shape. the patch notes sell it short. Mutants have routines for hunting, factions are on patrol (I wish they said more things in passing though), stalker in camps have sleeping, eating, patrolling and returning routines, stuff like that. I think GSC didn't mention it because there's still more to add? Idk, but the differences between 1.1.2 to 1.1.3 to 1.1.4 have been massive

and like Monke said + there's SO MUCH handcrafted content in Stalker 2 dude

[thorn plume]

Stalker 2 will be good enough after 2+ years

[finite needle]

I understand that gamers tend to hyperfixate on a particular game characteristic, but this a-life fetish has become a meme at this point, and I honestly stop taking people bringing it up unironically seriously.

[finite needle]

My nephew will enjoy the game greatly I think

[warped monolith]

I feel like I haven't given this question a proper answer so I'll come back to this for a moment

The average GAMMA player doesn't remember (or doesn't know) what the original trilogy is like, and for some reason a lot of them expected Stalker 2 to be a hardcore survival mil-sim game.
However, GSC stated more than once that Stalker 2 would be a sequel to Call of Pripyat, not a sequel to GAMMA or Anomaly or Misery or whatever.
And because of this, the average GAMMA player doesn't like Stalker 2

[warped monolith]

if its systems functioned properly, I would agree. But they don't.

[buoyant quarry]

Well I know this, I even started a whole youtube channel because of it 🦧

[warped monolith]

And it's not like "we" are the ones giving it way too much importance.
GSC themselves hyped it up as the next gen NPC simulation system. The way it came out in v1.0 was almost a bigger joke than Cyberpunk 2077's NPCs

[finite needle]

It's a GSC game that released this year, my expectation on working systems and features is pretty low

[buoyant quarry]

did you play on release?

[warped monolith]

yeah

[buoyant quarry]

what was your experience?

[finite needle]

Dudes spawning out of thin air just to pick a fight with you wasn't really enjoyable, and I'm the one who thinks current spawn system is serviceable

[warped monolith]

and it wasn't even a-life that made me stop playing. I stopped playing because the weird 'weapon swap' glitch made my shotgun disappear and I wasn't gonna fuck myself in the ass for the koupons to buy another one

[finite needle]

not good, serviceable. Not a minus, just fair and doesn't ruit the experience to me.

the gun spawning anomaly is very on brand with STALKER tbh.

[buoyant quarry]

yeah i agree with you. It took me a while to figure out that there was a system designed around spawning npcs after some time. I remember that I noticed it when i got into zaton

[warped monolith]

it removed my 100% shotgun from my equipped slot and replaced it with a 13% Groza for which I didn't even have any ammo, because it was at the start of the game and 9x39mm wasn't available then

people say the glitch swaps your gun out but puts it in your backpack. Didn't happen to me. Then someone else said that sometimes it drops your gun on the floor, but at that point I had already uninstalled

[buoyant quarry]

have you installed again?

[finite needle]

I think it's still present, idk if it will be fixed within my lifespan

[warped monolith]

not yet. Got busy with other games, might come back once I finish one or two games that give me 150gb back when I uninstall them

[buoyant quarry]

Do, trust some rando on the internet with a high tolerance for broken games with the following: S2 is in the best shape it has ever been

[finite needle]

I'll be frank, I got really bored with the game after SIRCAA. Up until then, I was actually liking it a lot. After SIRCAA it kinda drains up a bit, there isn't much to do or explore. Main story is fine, but I also like to fuck around.

[buoyant quarry]

like, I've played it A LOT... and this doesn't show my hours on gog (using a budget machine with an RX480) and xbox

[finite needle]

Now that I think about it, in 1.3 didn't have the fun gun anomaly happen too often, but I've seen people just dying in populated areas instead of being despawned

[buoyant quarry]

I noticed someone kind of opposite to that, duplicate npcs

rare, but I noticed it

[finite needle]

I really gotta get into kcd, but I dislike the save feature (I have like 20 saviour schnapps on me but I don't like the fact that I have to drink them to save)

[warped monolith]

gotta clear some SSD space first, but I will

[buoyant quarry]

I don't like it either, just learned to deal with it

[buoyant quarry]

good my dude

[warped monolith]

Stalker 2 is quite the chonker. Gonna have to uninstall some crap before I jump back into the zone

[buoyant quarry]

I'm really looking forward to it once they bring hardware lumen along

[finite needle]

I have so much backlog is insane, including the Elden Ring expansion that at this point I will never play, Metaphor and the CP2077 expansion.

[buoyant quarry]

rumors about rtdi coming too

[buoyant quarry]

oh I'd put Phantom Liberty on the top of my list there. That changed my life

[warped monolith]

I made the mistake of creating a spreadsheet list with my pending games.
I look at it daily, and despair.

about 104 games. Not counting whatever's on GamePass right now (like Ninja Gaiden 2 Black).

[buoyant quarry]

I just stopped buying games unless I think about them. works for me. like, see a game, wishlist it, forget about it, if I keep thinking about it, i'll buy it.

[warped monolith]

there are games I bought in 2022 that I haven't touched yet.

[buoyant quarry]

the worst thing I did for myself was buy a humble bundle dude

[finite needle]

I have Divine Divinity 2 and I haven't even started it

[buoyant quarry]

bloated my log 100 games I'll never play

[buoyant quarry]

what's that?

[finite needle]

Divinity Original Sin, don't mind me

[warped monolith]

RPG by Larian (devs of Baldur's Gate 3)

[buoyant quarry]

oohh

[finite needle]

Divine Divinity is the OLD ASS game they made first, but I meant original sin

[buoyant quarry]

oh yeah i tried BG3 and didn't quite click with it

it did remind me of runescape, which i played a lot as a kid

[warped monolith]

I played that. They weren't lying when they said the game had a long campaign.
And the later parts were such a slog... for my mage build at least...

[finite needle]

I like BG3, but I simply have so much other stuff that every time I get back into it I want to play another class (and romance Shadowheart because I'm a basic boy like that)

[warped monolith]

Not a fan of Shadowheart but I'd say she's the second best option among the women

[finite needle]

Minthara is the funniest person I know

[warped monolith]

she's hilarious but I dunno if I'd pick her for romance lol

she's like that funny anti-social aunt who secretly has perfect plans to murder everyone she knows

[finite needle]

She's great for a durge run tbh, interesting character as well

[buoyant quarry]

hey guys it was fun chatting but I have to go play KCD 2 now

toodles

[finite needle]

Imma go play Metaphor while I pray some gods that Le Mans Ultimate somehow becomes the new GTR2 and adds a serviceable single player campaign (simracing will be competitive multiplayer only and forever)

[buoyant quarry]

i don't know anything about vroom vroom games

but have fun when that comes

[broken hawk]

nah it cannot be fixed

its destined to be shit the moment they became sony slaves lol

[thorn plume]

You mean Microsoft?

[broken hawk]

s2 is one of the worst game i have ever played lol still salty that its so shit because i wanted it to be good so bad

[broken hawk]

eh did Microsoft buy sony too lol

ue5 can't handle any shit so forget about actual a-life they will never add proper content at this point so the game will lack any gameplay they won't add any nee features or even equipment not even a proper flashlight

muh graphics aren't even good because you can't see shit beyond 50 meters and its all blur anyway + nothing really happens so you don't even have to see....

[warped monolith]

sony?

[split crown]

I've put over 200 hours into Stalker 2, and I'm still questioning myself whether it was worth it.

[broken hawk]

wouldn't even give it a 1/10 honestly there is nothing good about it...
no gun play
anomalies suck
no reason to explore anything beyond latter stashes / main missions because there is nothing to be found no real loot that really matters
no reason to kill and fight anyone beyond progress because they don't drop shit either
gun play is ass and doesn't makes sense
mutants are completely meaningless to fight against you don't even get thropies let alone loot
your only source of light fucking sucks
dead zone
no events beyond basic psy storms that are lame too because it doesn't even really feels real due to ai being so shit
no real characters that you can recognize no adventures not a single npc doing his business other than just spawning in and out
the gameplay us is so shit because you can just run around like an idiot without shooting and ai can't do shit
survival system is shit because nothing gives you passives you have to constantly spam energy drinks and heals and you are good to go its so goofy and lame
graphics are shit because its blurry and can't see shit
the factions all look the same and don't have any depth
no reputation no nothing nothing matters

all in all I can't name a single positive thing about the game

[broken hawk]

quit the game the moment i realized its just empty and is a running sim a to b

[split crown]

[undone summit]

Now I'm just waiting for the multiplayer and story expansions

[warped monolith]

Your honor, I present to you Exibit A: a GAMMA orphan

[broken hawk]

all the features i mentioned were a thing in OG decade+ old stalker games next!

[warped monolith]

patently false, but I won't bother breaking down your yapping

[split crown]

I briefly talked about this some time ago, but I do miss the more in-depth PDA features that other STALKER games had; where you could keep track of your stats like how many other NPCs, mutants, etc. you've killed - how many objects you've destroyed, and even where you rank amongst other stalkers in the Zone. Someone had replied to me that much of that was all Sid's modification to the PDA system so he could keep track of his stalkers, but idk how real that is. There are just so many small things from the older STALKER games that I'm sorely missing in Stalker 2.

[broken hawk]

you can't give one example cuz ur a shill

[undone summit]

You're kinda hyping up the rather basic things the previous games had.

Also lmao, he's far from a shill

[broken hawk]

its a lifeless shitass game will not be good even in 5 years

[warped monolith]

the "survival system" works exactly the same in the originals. Yap more.
And if you think I'm a shill you need to scroll up a little bit.

[broken hawk]

because its to be desired when the game literally has nothing in it

[split crown]

I mean fuck, there was even an info section in older STALKER games where the PDA would give you detailed descriptions of anomalies, artefacts, and important NPCs. Where is that in STALKER 2?

[warped monolith]

that is not an original feature

[undone summit]

I mean
Conversely, where was that in Clear sky and CoP?

[split crown]

I thought I remembered it being in the older games

[broken hawk]

bro its been 10+ years you think it should be same and not improved upon? survival in stalker was spammy too but at least you didn't have to drink 50 liters of energy drinks per day

[split crown]

It's been well over 15+ years since I've played the older trilogy so my memory is rusty on them

[warped monolith]

classic goalpost moving

[undone summit]

Yeah the encyclopedia, talking not just about factions and creatures but even local folklore

[broken hawk]

not really

[warped monolith]

"it doesn't have this feature"
"yes it does"
"well but the feature should've been better!"

[split crown]

Yes the encyclopedia

[broken hawk]

the fucking flashlight doesn't even work properly not even the fuckiiiiing only light source in the game

[broken hawk]

when did i claim it didn't have/ my point was never comparing it to og ones to begin with

[undone summit]

The flashlight in older games was kinda dog too
But it could be excused because you later gained nightvision.

[warped monolith]

you're straight up lying now. lmao

[broken hawk]

im just pointing out whats missing and whats bad in a game 2025 should absolutely have

[split crown]

yeah it's crazy to me how there's 0 nightvision in Stalker 2, yet some NPCs clearly have NODs on their models/outfits lmao

the nightvision mod is a blessing

[broken hawk]

how is that a feature diffirence saying survival is shit is same as it doesn't have one?

??

[warped monolith]

You said you weren't comparing it to the OG games, but you were

[broken hawk]

dumb fuck.

[warped monolith]

[broken hawk]

just read the original one and no all the features i said were not in were not there and the ones i said are shit are pretty much are same from og games or somehow even worse...

completely mis reads having shit survival as not having any//> acuses me of saying it never had any?? xD

[warped monolith]

I said Stalker 2's survival mechanics work exactly the same as the original trilogy

[broken hawk]

when did i said they didn't?

[warped monolith]

You're intentionally being a mouth breather right now, I'm outta here

[broken hawk]

they were shit 15 years ago too so? it should have the same shit? when did i claim it was diffirent on my original message??

[undone summit]

I'm in disbelief that the Nightvision was apparently "cut late in development", yet GSC hasn't restored it to this day

[warped monolith]

I'd say there's more important crap to fix before adding NVG, but that's just me

important quest scripts breaking, stability issues and so on

[split crown]

Why would they cut it

[broken hawk]

😂 again.

accuses me of saying something i didn't then goes onto say im the retard lmao

when did i say og game didn't have the same survival i just said its shit i only said only missing features are in OG

[warped monolith]

time to bring out the big guns

[warped monolith]

it was probably better to cut it than have yet another half-assed, unfinished feature in the game

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/mads-mikkelsen-smoking-cigarette-smoke-glasses-gif-27211121

[undone summit]

I was gonna say, I'm going to guess 80% of dev team is working on story expansions and multiplayer (if they even exist at this point)
20% working on fixing the main game.

[broken hawk]

Stalker 2 is just a scam and a big fuck you to the gamers just a cash grab by the title i rather play any other game hell play the old ass games or with mods over and over again till im 90 over Finnishing this walking sim once

[undone summit]

Am I happy/correct? Probably not

[broken hawk]

amazing cope lol fucking dickhead next time you type just don't because you are a retard

[split crown]

I'm not happy, but I've been coping by just downloading all the Stalker 2 mods I think are interesting via the nexus.

[warped monolith]

I don't remember if they published a roadmap but I vaguely remember something along the lines of multiplayer being a "free update shortly after release"

3 months later, the "shortly" starts becoming "longly"

[undone summit]

Not a roadmap but it was in the store pages

[warped monolith]

mhm.

[undone summit]

I wonder if it's still there

[broken hawk]

man stalker 2 is just shit no amount of updates can save it

[broken hawk]

multiplayer for what? pvp?? just go play Any shooter game out there lmao

[warped monolith]

it'd be pretty sus if they removed it... I don't think they wanna do the same thing CDPR did

[broken hawk]

shooting fucking sucks anyway and it doesn't even makes sense lol

[undone summit]

Do mods prevent achievements? I've been holding out on getting a sprint adjustment for it

[split crown]

See, that's where I share a different opinion; I don't have the mindset of "MAN THIS GAME SUCKS ASS, I ONLY WANT IT TO STAY BAD OR GET WORSE." I want Stalker 2 to get better with each patch/update that gets released. I want the game to only get better from here on.

[split crown]

Nope. Mods do not disable achievements.

[broken hawk]

its not a mindset its a fact mate sorry

[split crown]

[broken hawk]

sprinkling candy on shit doesn't change the fact that it will be still gross

[split crown]

Look at No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk 2077; both of those games did 180's but it took a lot of time and effort for such cases to occur.

[broken hawk]

you can patch and patch and paaatch all you will get is slightly better shit that's going to run even worse

[split crown]

he's literally me

[split crown]

byeah, you can shove in as many mods as you want and achieves are still around to unlock.

[broken hawk]

cyberpunk was meh and is meh now too imo sure its better now but who cares at this point we all know where it goes we had shit taste in our mouth to begin with now i never want to replay it

[split crown]

I couldn't get into cyberpunk because it wasn't vibing well with me. Even so, it's at least playable now compared to when it first released.

[warped monolith]

I took a shower, got dressed up to go watch a movie and the dude is still yapping?

[broken hawk]

I can't think of a single example where a game is just hot steaming pice of shit at release and is very good within 2-3 years

[warped monolith]

I hope you're still here when I get back

[undone summit]

Those games' development should be the exception, not the norm.

[split crown]

100% true

[golden hazel]

What Movius, Morbius?

[split crown]

It's so tiresome how AAA games are released as unfinished, buggy, broken products, and we as gamers are expected to just take it all as is without exception.

[warped monolith]

dunno yet. Find out when I get there.

[golden hazel]

[warped monolith]

there's always the option of not buying the game

[split crown]

ofc

[warped monolith]

"vote with your wallet" doesn't necessarily work (because for every 1 person who doesn't buy, there's a thousand who will)

[broken hawk]

i rather have games with shit graphics but legendary gameplay any time i wish game devs just focused on gameplay

i would play a game that looks like half life 2 in 2025 if it has good gameplay hell would be my favourite if it has a really good story to go along with it

[warped monolith]

but if you don't want to consume slop, don't buy slop

[west moth]

[broken hawk]

instead we have omaaygood super duper amaziing graphics consummee saar but its all just shit with a fancy coat

if i wanted graphics i can just go outside and watch the birds lmao games should have GAMEplay and thats what many games miss

[trim iron]

Bro is a ray of sunshine. Life must be such a joy...

[broken hawk]

thats why old games are goated like men of war black and white 2 medieval total war 2 half life1/2 and its all dlcs they are pure fucking gameplay

[undone summit]

Not always but sometimes
I think even Veilguard technically worked out like that
Apparently it sold comparatively good but had unrealistic expectations so it was never gonna survive

[broken hawk]

graphics just compliment the gameplay and are never the things you care in those games and thats why they will never age good games don't really age

[warped monolith]

so it doesn't really matter how well it sold

if the expectations were unrealistic it wouldn't have mattered either way.
heck I've seen Square-Enix claim FFXVI and FFVII Rebirth didn't sell as much as they wanted. And they're both popular, successful games.

The bigger AAA companies are simply out of touch in that aspect.

wanna sell 100 million copies every time, all the time

[golden hazel]

And wanna raise the price to $100 don't forget that part

[undone summit]

That example sounded better in my head

[split crown]

I was gonna mention this lol

AAA companies so out-of-touch that they ALL wanna make the next new BEST game instead of the next new FUN game

clown world

[undone summit]

Trendchasers and all

[golden hazel]

The problem is that their definition of "BEST" is Best At Monetization

[undone summit]

At the very least, there's shitloads of games, both free and otherwise, that you can play without bothering with AAA companies
Mostly

They may not be stalker or stalker 2 but good, or maybe they're a derivative work of it but at least they're fun

[split crown]

Exactly. They only care about making money instead of making passionately fun games that play well and actually connect with audience bases.

Which is ass-backwards because there are many passion project video games that are held in well-regard while also making ASSLOADS of money for the people whomstve worked on them.

[golden hazel]

Yeah like Bald Engage 3

[split crown]

ayup

[golden hazel]

Imagine a developer listening to their audience in current year, truly a unicorn moment

[split crown]

Well, in that regard I'm glad that GSC is apparently pretty open with their audience; they appear to be taking in criticism from players and are working on the problems, but man there is just an ocean's amount of issues and bugs to tackle with Stalker 2.

[undone summit]

Shareholder moment

[split crown]

Always loops back to money being the root evil....

[golden hazel]

Ocean ain't deep enough to describe the galactic power scaling of the bugs in the game

[split crown]

heh

[undone summit]

It's not that simple I think
Money is still needed to live and people won't just work for passion

[split crown]

That's fair and totally understandable, but like with all things - moderation is key, and when scummy devs intentionally choose to cut corners and achieve their goals as quickly as possible (while knowing about any consequences which may come their way), they shouldn't be surprised once everything around them suddenly bursts into flames.

Of course not every developer is scummy, but all it takes is one major mishap for an entire audience base to lose all faith in said developer. It's a fine line to keep in mind.

[undone summit]

Ye, then you ask yourself
Would the game still be released if it weren't for GSC cutting corners? Could they have taken another delay and still keep going? Or would the game be cancelled from lack of funding and all? Would it have been better, whether or not you knew the game's current state?

Not trying to argue against you, mind you, it's just a thought

[buoyant quarry]

you're right about that!

But Stalker 2 is great

I love it

400 hours. 100% achievements. BEST GAME OF 2024!!! And it did it with quite a few issues, imagine how GOAT it's gonna be when all the feedback we're giving GSC proves instrumental in patching the game to perfection in a perfect combination of the game director's vision + what we want

MMMMMMMMMMM

[sudden dagger]

can someone tell me more about IX-RAY platform. seen it but i cant speak russian

[flat olive]

Am I bad or are these fuckers impossible to fight without cheese?

[golden hazel]

Sometimes they bug out and stomp spam you to death

[split crown]

Yeah definitely worthwhile questions to speculate on.

[thorn plume]

https://github.com/ixray-team/ixray-1.6-stcop?tab=readme-ov-file
You can read about some of its features in here, it's on english.

[lime umbra]

Realistically game already had 2 delays

[split crown]

iirc Stalker 2 got cancelled 2 times in the course of 15 years or something?

[lime umbra]

Yep

Due to funds
And then the studio went bankrupt

They really couldn't push for a third since it's a "self" published game with lots of external capital in it

[split crown]

[arctic marsh]

whats the over under on patch dropping tomorrow

[sudden dagger]

patch?

they need to change game engine

[trim iron]

Dual fully upgraded saiga's will deal with anything in Vanilla. Even on Veteran.

[split crown]

Imagine if we could dual-wield weapons in Stalker 2; that'd be based as hell bro

[split crown]

imagine how funny it'd be if instead of dropping a new patch, the next announcement from GSC is how they're swapping to a different game engine lmao

"sorry guys UE5 too much slop for us"

[sudden dagger]

That be awsome. If they did. That engine is more for resident evil stuff. Not actioned packed open world stuff

[split crown]

Resident Evil has its own engine I'm pretty sure

but I'm at the point where I think just about any other engine would be better suited for Stalker than the UE

[sudden dagger]

I literally stop playing stalker 2 half way bc I couldn't stand all that latency and performance issue. "LaTeNcY is a killing thing for the game. Lod is annoying too. Pop in trees. Even with the lod all the way up.😭

[warped monolith]

dammit I was hoping the yapper would still be yappin by the time I got back

[warped monolith]

ended up watching Mufasa

[split crown]

I've just gotten used to the pop-ins via trees, shrubs/bushes, and whatnot

[proud ruin]

[buoyant quarry]

fun fact. The latest release on the RE engine also received swathes of "omg unoptimized" reviews

the real issue is that people NEED hardware upgrades but there's no stock and new cards are very pricey

[split crown]

oof

[split crown]

Guessing you're talking about the new MH game?

[warped monolith]

I think he means Dragon's Dogma 2

MH Wilds isn't out yet. But yeah, the same thing will happen with MHWilds, considering how the two open betas went

[split crown]

People have been playing the beta of MH Wilds

[warped monolith]

real issue is that most games nowadays are made to require upscaling/dlss/fsr and whatever to run properly. Older cards can't use this tech, so they "need to upgrade"

[buoyant quarry]

watch this, https://www.youtube.com/live/7ET4sNjXL9c?si=TC5LkyCZtyi2bqu9&t=7862
spoiler warning but it's a good example on how to fight them

[warped monolith]

Pedantic I know, but... beta isn't release

[warped monolith]

Cheese is the essence of the Stalker games.

[buoyant quarry]

Rx 480 handles FSR and TSR pretty ok, don't know about nvidia cards though. But I don't mind upscaling, really. Unless you have a 1080p monitor it's a great way to smoothen edges

issue with 1080p is of course the base resolution

[buoyant quarry]

chimeras yes, chonky giants nah

[warped monolith]

Stalker 2 without upscaling looks extremely sharp and jaggedy, it's like there's no anti-aliasing at work at all. It's disgusting

the foliage looks extremely noisy

[split crown]

It's actually ridiculous how they've made chimeras in Stalker 2. In the previous games you could at least have a small window of opportunity to dodge them; now they're like continuously drifting race cars

[buoyant quarry]

I remember one-shotting chimeras with a gauss

[split crown]

I remember one-shotting chimeras with my AK's gp-25; now an RPG from a rocket launcher doesn't even phase them

[buoyant quarry]

this may sound wild, but when GSC included upscaling in the system requirements, it's because the game is designed to be run with an upscaler

maybe it doesn't sound wild actually

[split crown]

Which is a horrible road to go down for game design imo

[lime umbra]

muh auto optimization topic still going it seems

[golden hazel]

Turning off dlss be like

https://tenor.com/view/glass-disappear-effects-gif-15070736

[buoyant quarry]

nah. It's a bandwagon. Most gamers fail blind tests even for frame-gen on one end, on the other, I think complaining about fake pixels and fake frames is kinda like complainig that parallax maps aren't real geometry

[buoyant quarry]

not here

we're talking about upscaling

[lime umbra]

no it is

this is part of the lazy optimization tools ue5 has

[warped monolith]

including it in the requirements isn't wild
but making your entire game dependant on it is

[buoyant quarry]

you can view it as them being lazy or as them allowing for a higher ceiling for their vision

[split crown]

I only complain about it when game devs solely rely on upscaling as their only method of game design

[thorn plume]

Are you all talking just about AA? How about lightning?

[buoyant quarry]

now this is something I think S2 desperately needs. HARDWARE LUMEN

[golden hazel]

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

[warped monolith]

really? It's so easy to tell when frame gen/upscaling is enabled.
The biggest tell is when the game starts looking like a youtube video when there's a lot of stuff going on at once (or you're moving the camera really fast)

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-chernobyl-btr-gif-16949858010542814228

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/lightning-farron-lightning-ff13-shade-savage-gif-15142762

[buoyant quarry]

do you have a frame-gen capable card, Omnis?

[warped monolith]

yes. and I never activated it

[buoyant quarry]

seriously man, I never turn that stuff off. it's great on my end

[warped monolith]

Raw frames or no frames

[split crown]

the frame gen is nice, but I'm well aware of the weird visual effects you get with it.

[thorn plume]

They have made up the settings of contrast/gamma and other shit just so you wouldn't see how messy it actually is

[buoyant quarry]

if you've got your G-sync set correctly and reflex on the input delay is your base framerate's

[thorn plume]

At some point,just play exodus

[buoyant quarry]

i've played it quadrice

[warped monolith]

if I wanted my game to look like a Youtube video, I wouldn't have built this computer or bought the game. I could've just watched a playthrough on Youtube and saved a LOT of money.

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/gordon-ramsay-finally-good-food-chef-gif-11616250

[buoyant quarry]

but it doesn't, omnis

it's pretty good!

at the end of the day, for me if the cost of realtime lighting and physically based rendering is upscaling and frame-gen I'll take that trade. I know in 3 to 5 years we'll be shrugging off today's games even with budget hardware

[warped monolith]

maybe, but I didn't buy Stalker 2 to play it in 2030

[split crown]

I just wanna play a fun game that doesn't give me numerous aneurisms

[buoyant quarry]

It runs great on a 4070 + 5700X3D

[warped monolith]

I know, it runs fine here even without upscaling. Looks like shit because upscaling is meant to smooth out the sharpness, but plays just fine

[buoyant quarry]

I'm sure of it guys, when this generation of cards finally hits stable prices, you're going to really enjoy their benefits if you're coming from anything older than 2020

[buoyant quarry]

oh yeah it does look like shit without scaling

[warped monolith]

... once nvidia can make 50 series cards that don't burn and melt their power connectors.
Again

[buoyant quarry]

oh, yeah, about that. I got a 4070 with a traditional 8-pin

I'm not playing the burning connector game. Besides, AMD has been really good the last 10 years.

[golden hazel]

You're asking for too much

[warped monolith]

I took the gamble and got a 4070 Ti with the 16-pin

no melting has happened yet

[buoyant quarry]

I think the issue is that they start failing after they've been disconnected and reconnected to many times

man looking at video cards right now, the only thing worth getting is the 7600xt

300 though.

[warped monolith]

after seeing the Gamers Nexus video on it I just made extra sure it was connected and seated properly.

[buoyant quarry]

man that thing should simply NOT power on if it's not seated correctly

[golden hazel]

Our lord and savior Tech Jesus

[buoyant quarry]

talk another time boios. Remember, upscale your graphics and don't run with scissors.

time for me to sleep

[proud ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/ramsay-raw-gif-13771788

[cosmic yoke]

Bro where is this patch lol

[proud ruin]

[finite needle]

Didn't they say patch was gonna get out end of February or am I mixing things up with other games?

I wonder what popular youtuber should I watch in order to form my own opinion of Stalker 2, any suggestions? Seems the things I dislike about the game aren't the things I should be disliking about the game

[west moth]

[proud ruin]

[trim iron]

Pick your poison. Most Youtubers will say what they think they should to get views. Not necesserily what you should base your opinion on. Play it and like or dislike what you want. No need to validate it against the majority.

[covert eagle]

Terrible advice, the answer is: the one with the most annoying soypog thumbnail

[proud ruin]

the game that doesn’t fake survival!!!

[west moth]

I'm sure you are joking. But Worth a buy is quite straight forward. One just has to keep in mind he is voicing his opinion with his preferences in mind. This was his release review:

[summer hinge]

has this game become playable yet?

[proud ruin]

[finite needle]

Is as playable as GAMMA, take that as you will

i.e. if you can stand GAMMA's jankyness you'll be fine with the game in its current state

[summer hinge]

gamma wasnt janky at all for me tbh

but like, the ai when i last played stalker 2 and the day 1 mod requirements made me give up

@ me when the ai dont randomly spawn like gta v citizens 💀

[proud ruin]

gamma is delicious jank

[summer hinge]

i dont mind bugs n stuff, the game is just shit

and idk where to find out if they fix it or not

[patent wave]

Map is amazing unfortunately feels empty with lack of content

hopefully the dlc and future updates can make something of what they decided to release

[west moth]

Sometimes my body decides to release gas

[warped monolith]

[warped monolith]

did he whine a lot about the yellow paint?

He had a "phase" where he bitched a LOT whenever a game had visual guides

[west moth]

yes, i think so

[warped monolith]

that's what made me stop watching his videos
(and the fact that he promised to give a V Rising key on stream to whoever guessed what was behind a door he was about to open. I guessed correctly and he never gave me the key)

honorless cur is what he is

[west moth]

That makes him a cunt

[warped monolith]

he was bragging a lot about how that door contained something awesome

I guessed it was nothing.
he opened it
room was empty
but it was supposed to have horses for all his crew

but someone stole them or whatever
regardless, I guessed correctly

[west moth]

He has some asshole vibes despite the honest (but opinionated) reviews

I think he likes to tease ppl too much. And he may think too good of himself

But him being honest on reviews is a big plus. I can't stand magazines and reviewers that are fucking obviously bought

[warped monolith]

he nitpicks way too much imo. Spends a lot of effort to find "something wrong" with a game and hangs on to it like he's drowning

I just can't take him seriously anymore since the "waah waah yellow paint"

stupidest fucking thing to complain about

and he likes spending 5 goddamn minutes yapping about ONE negative thing

[west moth]

Good point with the nitpicking. He's not very fair at times.
Regarding the yellow paint shit i agree with him that it should be optional. Not all gamers are clueless kids that need hand holding. Game design should be enough to get around.
And the ranting, well, that's his trademark. Sure, he overshoots at times, but that's his style

[heavy hedge]

bold move of them to announce and tag people in a... boardgame announcement, of all things, before the february patch kek

[warped monolith]

gotta ride the hype

and hey, everyone does bored games. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

wait, where is the announcement? their discord?

[late kernel]

I can't wait to play STALKER 2 on 2025, Novemer 20th when it leaves early access!

[warped monolith]

bold of you to assume it'll be completed by then

[late kernel]

I can't wait until they finally add a wearable bread armor (this is a totally real leak)

[wooden glade]

shameless plug here but I make mods, and would like some opinion on this. what do you think of the recoil rework for pistols here?

my intention is to have the pistols actually feels good to shoot in game, and actually require input from the end user while still being approachable to an extent.

[warped monolith]

should probably send this in #1309526198833119303 or #╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[limpid quarry]

hey guys, how is stalker 2 currently? havent played in like 3 months any big fixes for Alife or something?

[warped monolith]

!noalife

[fallen iron]

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

[wooden glade]

yeah, I already did anyways just kinda give it a try here myself.

[wooden glade]

and yes this is the state of the game right now.

[limpid quarry]

aight sadge

[livid dragon]

What faction is this? I can't recognize the badge, I'm in Yaniv. Are these the new merc patches by any chance?

Ah nevermind, yeah that's their new patch what the hell

[limpid quarry]

its not mercs

[livid dragon]

Really? Someone said its the corps, or is that a new faction I'm not aware of

[limpid quarry]

its a new faction

[livid dragon]

Are these the new faction strelok sent in when he came back from the mainland?

[limpid quarry]

no youll figure it out dont want to spoil

[livid dragon]

Ah okay gotcha, that's all I need to know lol

[limpid quarry]

enjoy :)

[warped willow]

Hey anyone knows if theres a mod that allows to sleep anywhere or like camping/sleeping bag?

[buoyant quarry]

I think the vanilla weapons feel pretty good actually. Where I would like to see mods is with impact effects and smoke. It would be really cool to see more "spectacle" in those effects.

[buoyant quarry]

It's Call of Prypiat lore

[buoyant quarry]

if skif is tired drink a nonstop, no mods for that yet. I'd actually wait for the official mod toolkit to be released before adding mods. A lot of mods right will break your game, especially when patches roll around.

[warped willow]

Okay. But its not about getting tired, its about being able to skip the night in an immersive way, while out and about

[spare mortar]

MHM has been my go too fixes , balances and adds so much i was missing

[warped willow]

Which one is MHM?

[spare mortar]

modular hard mode 2

i use the AIO VETERAN version

[warped willow]

Ahh, yes. Need to finish my game first lol.

[indigo hemlock]

im going back to 1.03 to try some mods

i want big npc draw distance

[analog pasture]

have there been any real solid a life changes or mods in general that are must have atp, havent played in like 2 months

[wary nimbus]

For me, Desolation is a must have atm

Maybe not a must have since it introduces some hardcore elements but still, completely different game right now

Also check Shay's Living Zone in terms of A-Life. But I play with vanilla a-life and it's good also imo

Additionally, if you want more weapon customization try OXA and LNZ

[pliant bobcat]

am i the only one that felt like the game was very barebones and half baked especially compared to the 3 OG games? Sure, it's a buggy mess here and there, which is not a problem at all as the first ones were as well. but, the game just feels very rushed and boring, especially after you get out of the first two zones. the story falls off and is forgettable, with most choices not even having a major impact. i went into it expecting a lot and with a lot of enthusiasm, and i was very disappointed as the game just feels like dry bread with butter thinly spread on it.

[warped monolith]

[analog pasture]

Game still runs like shit on my 40 series too 😭😭😭

[indigo hemlock]

someone explained it fairly simply in a video, the reason is because the older ones were in house game engines with a-life as a core feature, while this one is a premade engine

[lime umbra]

that hardly has anything to do with what hes complaining about

as far his complaint goes
i do think it has a better story then the 3 ogs

[spare mortar]

have you tried Shays living zone? or roadside picnic

and honestly all new games using UE5 are having alot of the same issue but i also know stalker ahs always been a game atleast for me that is complimented by mods like skyrim or fallout so i dint expect too much from vanilla

[indigo hemlock]

im smacking some mods together with a downgraded version so i can have 900m npc draw distance

[split crown]

No new patch yet

[golden hazel]

It'll come out this week

It could be tomorrow, it could be the day after, it could be the day after

Where's the forkin Doctor with his time traveling port a potty

[split crown]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1306683555488862319/1332854073074126969/game_has_not_alife.gif

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/megamind-gif-26070434

Oh wait just double checked, they said "aiming to release it next week" on the 5th

So it might not release this week

[warped monolith]

it could be on feb 28th

[golden hazel]

[warped monolith]

it could get delayed to August

[golden hazel]

It could be the anniversary patch

A gigantic scroll of bug fixes and memory leak patches, only to reveal that it's less stable than 1.0.0

[split crown]

bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/jesse-pinkman-smoking-images-ignorant-breaking-bad-gif-25788329

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/gallagher-star-rail-soder-have-a-soder-hsr-gif-16269213613552669581

[split crown]

I wonder if GSC could have somehow managed making an updated version of their x-ray engine and just using it for Stalker 2.

[golden hazel]

If it was X-Ray it wouldn't be so fucking blurry

Stalker 2 is the 2nd game to ever make me go "I would be having fun playing GAMMA right now"

[warped monolith]

is the 1st one Starfield?

[golden hazel]

1st one is League

I never even touched [Loading Screen]

Starfield

[split crown]

💯

[split crown]

KEKW

It makes me smile thinking about how fucking dead Midfield is

fuck you todd

[warped monolith]

I wanna play it just to see the shitshow with my own eyes

[golden hazel]

It's all a ploy by Todd to sell more Skyrim

[warped monolith]

wonder if I can use Starfield's ship building system to make a big version of the Pyro-GX from Descent

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

all you'll experience is loading screens :^)

[split crown]

[golden hazel]

He was there, at the Stalker 2 booth, it's all a part of his master plan, he's the real life Aizen

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-it-yes-thats-it-that-right-there-omg-that-thats-what-i-mean-gif-17579879

[tired stone]

I meant to put that in newbie chat but ty for reacting lmao

[hazy scarab]

Are there already mods that add a new content instead of adjust numbers of existing ones? Or with ue5 we are doomed with “<insert name> living zone I tried to increase npc spawn distance” mods?

[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&

[wooden glade]

It already exists in a way, 4A Engine which was made by the same mind behind X-Ray

[lime umbra]

no one that made Xray is still working at gsc

[golden hazel]

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

[wooden glade]

That too, yeah. A lot of old GSC staff are at 4A Games or Vostok now

[lime umbra]

yeah but apparently the modding community doesnt like the 4 engine

given that 4a released the sdk for exodus

[golden hazel]

The real question is where the composers for the CS Sky and CoP of Pripyat battle themes are

[lime umbra]

and no one had done anything with it

[wooden glade]

interesting opinion btw, thanks. That's personally not my goal with weapons, but maybe someday...

[wooden glade]

Far as I know that SDK is very limiting, it's basically just a level creator/editor and nowhere on the scale of GECK/Creation Kit which allows even new modders to add new items with ease

[split crown]

Oh damn

[wooden glade]

Fwiw compared to X-Ray 4A is decently optimized, though I think this is partially helped by the complete lack of A-Life...

But then again Stalker 2 never really had A-Life anyways and it still runs like a turd compared to Exodus, while also looking worse

[split crown]

A-Life...

[proud ruin]

It just works

[feral cloud]

hello friends, no spoilers please, I played all 3 stalkers and am waitin gpatiently to buy the ultimate edition stalkre 2 so i can enjoy being blown away by a weather anomoly

[proud ruin]

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

[cerulean root]

https://tenor.com/view/dnc-gif-20056437

Almost Friday Night

[west moth]

[proud ruin]

[quick epoch]

Sooooo, I played on release, refunded the same day pretty much, how is the game now? Has it improved?

[thorn plume]

Afaik there were a few patches released, but again, there are still more to come. As I've said here earlier, you gotta wait at least a year, honestly. They should release modding tools, also, so that would improve the overall game, too.

[quick epoch]

Hmmm, gonna give it another year, the biggest thing that killed it for me was lack of a-life, without it the game feels like skyrim in term of exploring, where bandits just spawns in randomly

Back to gamma

[west moth]

At this point i hope for a No mans sky or Cyberpunk scenario as long as Grygorovych doesn't take the money and run One or two more years, can't wait for my first run.

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-strelok-shadow-of-chernobyl-shaker-dance-gif-26346044

[quick epoch]

It better has a deep discount.... They want up to €120 for ultimate version with locked quests behind it, then hoping on finish the game years down the road. Imagine if you bought a movie ticket, but only get to watch 2/3 of the movie, then get told the movie will be fully ready in 2 years

Fingers crossed for this to be another no man's sky

[thorn plume]

Grigorovich is having like 5% of the company or sth. He ain't the big guy of the company anymore.

[proud ruin]

[west moth]

Which is a good thing if the rumors of the atrocious business practices from the period of OG stalker development are true

[ember osprey]

!save settings

[fallen iron]

@ember osprey If you want to back up your saves:

1). Go inside your Anomaly folder
2). Open the appdata/ folder
3). Backup the folder called savedgames

[ember osprey]

wrong channel, i apologize

[indigo hemlock]

I think I modded mine to almost be a-lifey but it's still not the same

10km a-life simulation range! Infinite lag!

[proud ruin]

[wooden glade]

I mean...4A Games and the Metro game series wouldn't be a thing if Grigorovich wasn't like that so yeah 🤷‍♂️

[proud ruin]

Lmao bro computer is a heater

[warped monolith]

you may want to dust your puter, maybe change the thermal paste

[proud ruin]

My condolences

UE5 moment

[wooden glade]

To be fair though there are decently optimized UE5 games out there, Tokyo Xtreme Racer just came out and it even uses Lumen while being way more optimized than Stalker 2

[real stone]

gpu?

[warped monolith]

p!who

[plucky ibex]

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[warped monolith]

I don't even know if that's an open world game so this comparison could even be made. Plenty of decently-optimized UE5 games out there indeed, but how many of them are open world?

[wooden glade]

TXR is open world, but then again it's also a racing game... completely different genres anyways

[warped monolith]

only one I can think of is Fortnite itself, and you'd think the creators of UE5 would know how to work with it... so does that really count lol

[proud ruin]

I can’t believe after 15 years stalker 2 came out on fortnites engine

[trim totem]

i needa get back into this game

i love stalker 2

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/i-love-it-gif-18812641

[finite needle]

Man I can't wait for the Studio Trigger STALKER Anime in 2026

[silk dove]

patch is out!

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/cavemanspongebob-caveman-spongebob-react-whatreact-gif-20206670

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1643320?emclan=103582791470242890&emgid=579378232238800945

you guys know the one.

HOLY SHIT that's a lot of fixes in the "story" section

[woven halo]

Holy shite this new patch is yuuge

Size wise, idk. But overall how much they fixed....

[finite needle]

Sigh time to start a 3rd run and drop it after sircaa again

[near dock]

Easy to do when it's effectively a PS2 game being rendered in UE5

[warped monolith]

is A-Life coming back to life?

[finite needle]

The not a life meme is still safe

[drowsy umbra]

time to clear the mods folder 😄

[bold hearth]

gsc panic coding the alife from scratch after release when people noticed that it was 'missing'

[warped monolith]

They must've had to butcher it so badly in order to release on nov 20th that whatever little bits of code were still in, didn't work because it depended on the crap they snipped out

[bold hearth]

they most likely wanted another year or so of dev time but microsoft pushed them to release as soon as the game was in a playable state

[finite needle]

With all the due sympathy, game has to come out eventually

[warped monolith]

true

they had already postponed release twice (or was it 3 times?)

[finite needle]

I think it was 3, but it was to be released in 2021 first time they announced it iirc

[rancid saddle]

I hate Microsoft

[drowsy umbra]

tbf I had a ton of fun with the game already

and at the points its fixed, I will have added tons of hours more

[finite needle]

and among the things you can sacrifice, something that is really cpu intensive but not as important for the core funciontality of the game like a-life is an easy target for cull and optimization

[warped monolith]

tbh the game would probably never see the light of day if it weren't for Microsoft's involvement in the project

[finite needle]

I'm more concerned they addressed enemy aimbot only now but we'll see

[rancid saddle]

This does not change my hatred for microshit

[finite needle]

just that the bandaid they put initially was veeeery heavy handed and literally the enemy trucks spawning out of nowhere in Far Cry 2

[rancid saddle]

I love when things spawn right on top of me

Adds to my immersion

[warped monolith]

I honestly never minded the Looney Tunes enemy spawns

the only thing that truly made me stop playing was getting my weapons yoinked outta my inventory

I know this was fixed in an old patch by now but... now I gotta clear some SSD space before reinstalling
and it doesn't hurt to wait for more patches and fixes.

[finite needle]

I actually never minded the gun spawning anomaly too much, it's very stalkery

[rancid saddle]

After the ||Faust|| fight is where I stopped. That lag fest was so awful

[warped monolith]

if it just put your gun in your backpack, fine. But it stole my gun and put something else in its place

[finite needle]

You now possess a red condition sniper rifle

[warped monolith]

my 100% TOZ disappeared from the game and they gave me a 13% groza with no ammo

I couldn't even sell it to buy another TOZ

[finite needle]

Oh that's nasty, it never deleted my weapons, just tended to add like 5x svds

[rancid saddle]

The zone provides

[finite needle]

praise the monolith

[warped monolith]

someone told me in this channel some time ago that when that happens, the game makes you drop the weapon on the ground

but I never noticed when exactly my gun was swapped, so it was extremely unlikely that I'd be able to find my toz lying around somewhere

[finite needle]

Oh well, that really sucks

btw gonna start another run and be world 1st to pick Spark and not Ward

[warped monolith]

they also fixed npcs looting helmets and suits from other npcs
So now you can't just wait for a npc to loot another npc and then you can loot the armor for yourself

[finite needle]

Now, if only they could have made you not loot the corpse and have the NPC yell to shoot at you if you kept going it would have been more immersive

imma be honest chief, npc looting behavior was probably the leat of my concerns in stalker 2

Stealth, however, might be a good thing. There are a couple of Stealth section in the game

[fathom iris]

https://x.com/Stalker2News/status/1890082866014613781

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 News (@Stalker2News) on X

Secrets unveiled!

X · Feb 13, 2025, 4:57 PM

[finite needle]

huh

that might have been warranted tbh

This might be unironically the best change:

So it was a bug, interesting

[outer depot]

Good shit

[finite needle]

I'm still expecting monos in the endgame to be full exos, but not EVERYONE.

[jolly fiber]

they fixed burner anomalies too

[dawn tundra]

render range please

[jolly fiber]

chuck this in your Engine.ini:

[SystemSettings]
r.LimitRenderingDistance=0

[finite needle]

Mans gonna cook some eggs on that gpu tho

"careful what you wish for" ass moment

[jolly fiber]

it actually improved my performance substantially

[outer depot]

Armor variety fix is bueno

NPC combat/dispersion fix is very bueno

NPC looting and such also nice for flavor, plus now they have specific anomaly death animations

[finite needle]

Can't escape xray's mysterious ways even when changing engine, how

[dawn tundra]

na i mean hope we can get a proper long range distance npc spawn render rather than the measly 100m we have right now

[jolly fiber]

reduces PMO stutter by keeping more assets streamed in at a time

[finite needle]

🦆

[jolly fiber]

ahhh

[finite needle]

It's not 100 meters, more like 80

Then I double dow on the egg cooking gpu sentence

anyway that's a lot of shit fixed, and most of it is shit that needed fixing. I'm honestly excited about armors and bullet spread, I really hope enemies start missing a bit now

idgaf about npcs routines but if enemies can't miss it's gonna bother me a lot

[outer depot]

Lots of good shit in here

[jolly fiber]

little surprised there don't seem to be economy changes but the changes look awesome

[outer depot]

There is exactly one economy fix: veteran side missions from the bar lel

[finite needle]

I'll be controversial, I think economy is ok. Just sell the weak artifacts, they go for a lot of money and are pretty much useless

[jolly fiber]

besides now having to actually pay my guides who i assumed liked me so much they'd lead me around just to hang

[outer depot]

I’ve genuinely never lacked money after the first like 10 hours of any run until I’m upgrading exosuits

Sometimes ya just gotta stop and run an artifact farm circuit or two

[finite needle]

Considering the whole point of entering the zone is collecting the hellrocks and selling them for a profit...

[jolly fiber]

o monolith bless me with another flytrap crown pellicle

[outer depot]

Stalkers when they’re forced to actually stalk

[dawn tundra]

see cant even barely use a sniper rifle at that range

[outer depot]

[finite needle]

counterpoint: Snipe them with your Saiga

[dawn tundra]

8x scope be like, im overqualified for this job

[jolly fiber]

filling an exo face with the val on auto with iron sights is so satisfying

[finite needle]

VSS is a midrange weapon anyway

[jolly fiber]

i use it at point blank tbh

it's wrong but it's right

[finite needle]

can't certainly snipe reliably with it

[jolly fiber]

the one thing on my mod wishlist is SoC era VSS ballistics

[humble hedge]

Is the patch any good?

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/jessica-collins-big-shots-its-huge-blonde-hair-shocking-gif-26604812

[finite needle]

blyat, here we go again

last time I tried one of my old saves it fucked my run beyond belief

[thorn plume]

They have added exe that gives you access to debug tools

[finite needle]

man they better start producing that anime then

[wooden glade]

This is huge btw, flashlight is actually immersive now

[warped monolith]

they haven't improved its brightness tho

[finite needle]

You know what else is immersive? Seeing shit.

[warped monolith]

so it's still worse than the wind-up flashlight in Amnesia: The Bunker

[finite needle]

Eh

ngl it feels a bit better. I still want NVGs.

[outer depot]

The NVGmod is great

Highly recommend it

[finite needle]

flashlight still doesn't do much in open areas, but in closed ones it does have "weight", feels a bit better and, lord forgive me for uttering this word, more immersive.

but just a little bit and just for some moments, most of the time is flat as usual and I don't even know why they bothered with saying they did something to it

[wanton coyote]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1643320/view/579378232238800945
MY GOD THIS PATCH IS HUGE

RIP to everyone’s mods I salute you

[outer depot]

Me needing to delete all of my AI logic mods this evening

And the flashlight shadow mod

[warped monolith]

probably "thanks" to Lumen making it bounce off walls, floor and ceiling

makes sense, at least.

[finite needle]

Also I'm playing on Medium, so maybe it's better with good rigs

Unironically my laptop is able to run the game on high (in 1080p), I should try there

[drowsy umbra]

for my next run idk which ending to choose

I really dont all of them to be canon and most of them are not really good either

[finite needle]

||Imma go spark and then doctor ending just because||

[west moth]

Yeah, but still. And imagine Stalker and Metro devs energy combined. Why do greedy cunts have to fuck up everything.

[warped monolith]

[west moth]

Sooo ... the game still has not a life?

[warped monolith]

there's been

improvements

Fixed a bug with A-Life NPCs unable to properly approach corpses. Now they can pick up the best loot and weapons from them, and switch to more powerful weapons.

Improved corpse looting behavior for NPCs.
Fixed an issue where NPCs could loot body armor and helmets from corpses.
Fixed an issue where NPCs could not loot the corpses of NPCs from another faction.

Fixed an issue where A-life NPCs did not heal friendly wounded NPCs.
Fixed an issue where A-life could spawn corpses near the player.
Fixed an issue that could cause A-Life NPCs to have access to quest locations.

Fixed an issue where A-Life militaries could spawn endlessly near Rookie Village.

everything related to A-Life that I found on the patch notes

[west moth]

Where NVG

[warped monolith]

[west moth]

Goddamit i will have to wait two years at least. It's gonna be like cyberpunk. At least they put some work in

If GSC will pull this off, it will be an epic redemption arc

[finite needle]

game has not a nvg

I've made a huge mistake: I've updated my drivers and now shaders are compiling again. See you on the 15th

[warped monolith]

tell me about it

I updated drivers a few days ago and performance in my games got worse

[heavy hedge]

well, the most important thing for improvement was flashlights. and guess what, they cast shadows now! nice! except the way the flashlight is mounted vs. the camera and that they're glued together movement wise means you basically never see them anyway unfortunately. also, the flashlight itself still sucks fat fuckin donkey dick

[finite needle]

I hate that I constantly talk shit about this game only to start a new run every time a big patch hits

[warped monolith]

[finite needle]

The flashlight really doesn't help with external visibility, but the night seemed a bit less dark?

also I've seen bats around, I don't recall seeing bats before tbh

[cedar ravine]

my games crashing on launch

or well when I launch my save

[west moth]

Game has not a life
Game has not a NVG
You will play with ze bugs and be happy
After shaders be done compilating

[golden hazel]

Assuming they dont break shaders again