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

[golden hazel]

[finite needle]

That's actually preferable, it means I can the warmup

[hushed gull]

hey

any opinions on patch 1.2?

[finite needle]

pretty big, lots of fixes. Game clearly needs to be cooked a little bit more yet.

[cedar ravine]

anyone got a fix for this or am I on my own?

I tried validating my game files & reinstalling

[bitter fulcrum]

downloads patch for stalker 2, immediately gets another patch

[tight jacinth]

does the game at least run without crashing every 5-10 mins at least?

[finite needle]

Yes if you have a machine that has been assembled any time after 2016

[tight jacinth]

just fell to my knees in a walmart parking lot

[cedar ravine]

nvm I fixed it my most recent save just got corrupted lol

[tight jacinth]

i’ll update and see how it goes on my machine

[median swan]

Guys, are you absolutely seriously discussing Stalker 2?
GSC Game World really screwed real stalker fans, and you are still discussing this crap???
For what?
It’s clear that the new part is complete crap

[median swan]

1 - why the fuck did they change the location layout globally? (I don't give a shit about seamlessness, as well as the unrealistic old locations in the trilogy)
2 - the lack of normal a-life + I didn't like the style at all (literally everything seems to be from another universe - literally everything in this regard is done poorly)
3 - the weapon pack is so bad
4 - no Russian localization (voice acting, at least there are subtitles)
5 - too long a time skip
6 - why the fuck does stalking even exist and how come it wasn't stopped under the new circumstances

[finite needle]

Bro literally mad a new account just to shitpost on the gamma discord

[median swan]

Why not?

this isn't shitpost - this is a cry from the heart

I've been a fan of stalker for most of my conscious life, I don't give a shit about politics
I evaluate this game as a game
I'm sorry that in the end stalker turned from an original product into a brainchild of ubisoft, and in the worst sense of the word

why? because i was extremely naive and wanted the new part of stalker to come to light
it happened, but it was not at all what i thought

God does have a sense of humor after all

[slate plinth]

guys what do you think of the update, did it improve much?

[hushed gull]

1- this is a non issue for most people
2- a-life issues were aknowledged and being worked on
3- subjective
4- i wonder why
5- again, just ur opinion
6- fair point

[broken hawk]

a life will never ever be added

by the Devs at least

vanilla stalker 2 can never be a good game

fucked from start

[slate plinth]

bro out here with the best responses

[broken hawk]

keep coping ya dogs doesn't matter im still right game is shit will be shit

[wanton arch]

Yo quick question does dalin die in all endings?

[median swan]

no

[fair thistle]

I think Stalker 2 is a decent game, and i appreciate these patches.

[warped monolith]

patch notes are fucking huge, a lot of things were supposedly fixed and improved

[wanton arch]

where u destroy the yk what theres an explosion and i dont see dalin again did he die?

[slate plinth]

yea i was planning on reading everythin but then i saw how huge it was

[finite needle]

Real talk, maybe it's actually copium, but it seems to me that I take more damage from enemies, but also they miss sometimes?

[wanton arch]

It did fix alot of technical issues,and immersion but we will need a few more

[median swan]

yeah

[slate plinth]

hmmm aight

[wanton arch]

Damn

[median swan]

his survival in this situation is not implied by the plot

[wanton arch]

Except all bug fixes and rebalances the only thing they added is npcs can loot bodies with dialogue,and they can revive more often

[median swan]

at the end of scar dalin becomes zombified like other stalkers

[broken hawk]

added bullet deviation+ they buffed ai aim

[spare mortar]

flashlight shadows

[wanton arch]

thats freat actually

[median swan]

stalker 2 still shit

[wanton arch]

didnt check yet

[median swan]

forever

[wanton arch]

Like the game itself aint bad but it needs alot more work

1/3done

[median swan]

stalker 2 is a good game hahahahahaha but without any connection to the original trilogy

[wanton arch]

Well they did fuck up the pda and niche things but the side quests are very good in my op

Yeah pretty shit ngl

[median swan]

the funniest thing is that the gameplay has regressed so much that the plot has become one of the best moments in stalker 2

[wanton arch]

i cant deny that

The main thing im happy about in stalker 2 Is a new engine and base for modding

so real

[warped monolith]

you haven't played the og trilogy and it shows

[median swan]

Welcome to Ukrainian gamedev 2024

[finite needle]

Man who dislikes stalker games plays a stalker games (he ends up disliking it)

stop the fucking presses

[warped monolith]

sequel plays similar to the predecessor
this game is shit and should be thrown in the trash

[median swan]

I'm not bringing politics into this yet and I don't intend to

[golden hazel]

Looks like Brainfart 2 is back up

[finite needle]

We back bois

Man blatantly lies to prove a point (he claims OG Stalker story was good)

[warped monolith]

you're wasting WAY too much time and energy yapping about a game you don't like
go play something else, then?

too bad. Whining about it in discord isn't gonna change anything

[wanton arch]

Stalker 2 is a good base for modding atleast ,and the map is awesome,change my mind.

[median swan]

that true my foreign friend

[warped monolith]

gamma features can be found in gamma

[median swan]

based

[wanton arch]

Every single engine does this

[warped monolith]

I never cared about a-life
story is subjective
"better systems" depends on what you were expecting. You just mentioned gamma/anomaly features so you were probably expecting shit from those modpacks.
It's your own dumbass fault for expecting the game to have features from gamma
please yap some more

I'm too busy playing the game to care if Max Booba loots enemy corpses to use a better gun

[wanton arch]

Mate you dint understand thats a stalker sequel not gamma 2

[warped monolith]

there is an upgrading system, but no crafting

[finite needle]

Dude is just shitposting and using buzzwords, hoping they would make the argument for him. It's pointless.

[warped monolith]

And who said I care about your a-life opinions? lmao

[finite needle]

There is no substance in the discourse, so why even bother

[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&

[finite needle]

Guess you and the game have something in common after all

[warped monolith]

I'll just meme on him from now on

[wanton arch]

It will come.

Like i did in yo mother

🔥

[warped monolith]

anyway. I was disappointed by the weird glitches and bugs the game had. Had to pause my game because of the weird shit going on

[warped monolith]

you're the one who mentioned stuff from gamma. Don't complain

[wanton arch]

is that fucking hermann?

[median swan]

guys, it was a great pleasure for me to deservedly shit on stalker 2 with you
we'll hear from you again
bye everyone

[wanton arch]

crafting wasnt?

[warped monolith]

Third time you try to act stupid. I'm starting to believe you're actually stupid.

[golden hazel]

Classic Max Booba gonna steal from Les Booba

[warped monolith]

Les Booba when Mor Booba walks in

caught in a lie
moves goalpost again
You know what, I'm just gonna report you. You're just baiting for insults.;

"When did I mention crafting?"
"Here: shows screenshot"
"omfg you're actually brain damaged"

[wanton arch]

oh my skibidi

[eager solstice]

@broken hawk (sabbatus) has been muted for 1 day for reason: regardles of your opinion, we have #📄rules

[cobalt parrot]

oh no a typo

alas

shut the fuck up

[split crown]

Heh, nothing personnel kid.

I'm like 100+ hours into a current playthrough. Would yall recommend starting a new game with this new patch?

[late kernel]

We're getting there, for sure

still not polished enough as it should be

[warped monolith]

imo no. if I had that much time clocked I wouldn't restart

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/green-mile-im-tired-boss-michael-clarke-duncan-gif-2375696290766999196

[west moth]

Oh we getting funni guys in here again with da new patch

[late kernel]

A-Life is still garbage, though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcoxAJ5UepY

[finite needle]

Nah, not restart worthy, don't look at me - I had a Ward run and this is a good excuse to go back to SKEEFA

I like big Sparks and I cannot lie

[split crown]

So, on another note, I'm still kind of stuck and conflicted. ||I'm in the middle of SIRCAA doing shit atm, and I got to the point where I have to choose between Noontide and the Ward; however, after doing some googling, I realized that choosing one side or the other locks the player out of certain features in the game. Choosing Noontide will unlock the Spark base in Rostok apparently, but the player will also get permanently locked out of several Ward bases apparently while also becoming hostile with Ward on-sight. Choosing the Ward seems like the more surefire and less hassle option with the only thing the player gets locked out of being the Spark base at Rostok; therefore, I'm wondering if I should load a previous save before entering SIRCAA so I can go explore those other Ward bases before I make my choice that may lock me out of said bases.||

https://tenor.com/view/facepalm-really-stressed-mad-angry-gif-16109475

[split crown]

Wouldn't mind having your opinion on my conflicted situation as well then

[split crown]

Some more context on this: I have yet to even venture to Rostok or most of the western side of the game map yet. I've mostly just been to areas that the main questline has taken me to.

[finite needle]

Better to do all the side faction content you can before SIRCAA, because you have to pick either Spark or Ward at some point. Rest is roleplaying

[west moth]

As is said: Looks like i'm gonna have a life before the game

[split crown]

Right...

Guess it'll be best to just load my save before entering SIRCAA then. That or I may say fuck it all and start like my 7th new game lmao.

[finite needle]

||You can betray both Spark and Ward at some point to go neutral, so you're not 100% locked, but you're going to have different bases. Ward is more practical position wise, since you get to roam in the Chemical Pland and also has an actual base in Zaton. Spark is more, well, Stalker like, but has access to Malachite. Rostok gonna stay neutral no matter what, since you can't pick Freedom or Duty.||

||Not 100% sure, but at some point you're going to lose Malachite as Spark, so Ward would be more convenient, but this is at a time were you would stay north anyway.||

[split crown]

||Is there a way to make it so Icarus doesn't become a literal zombie town? Because they evacuated all the personnel there in my playthrough, and now only zombies roam the streets there||

[split crown]

I see, interesting.

It's wild because in my current playthrough I've been opting to side with Spark all this time, but now that I've reached where I currently am, it just seems like... "wow, Ward seems like such a better option now lmao"

[finite needle]

||In the Ward questline, you have a quest in which a scientist lets you collect data from psi antennas, while the ward leader wants you to destroy them, IIRC, if you destroy them, the base gets abandoned anyway but no zombies.||

[split crown]

Yea, I did that one

[finite needle]

Yeah Ward is the most pragmatic choice, but it's very clear they're no very "stalker" like. Spark is insane, but is more coherent with the stalker lifestyle.

||also I thought the shining zone was a metaphor when I first started the game and thus I sided with Spark, for like a better zone et al, while the ward seemed like just joining the army to get some money for a new home back in the continent.||

[golden hazel]

And here is Hermann before Scar hit the twin SIRCAA towers

[split crown]

I love that Half-Life reference when you meet up with Hermann again lol

[split crown]

Yeah I still feel conflicted, but I may just end up siding with Ward just for convenience sake.

Scar can ligma tbh; I think they heavily exaggerated and dramatized the shit out of his character this time around in Stalker 2.

[finite needle]

Well, there is a reason why Scar is the way he is

[split crown]

guessing it'll eventually get explained along the way lol, but based on what I know from playing Clear Sky, it's because his brain was friend numerous times from being out in the open with emissions going on

[heavy hedge]

dont forget the c con imprint programming

[split crown]

Lebedev wanted to rescue and use him as propaganda for Clear Sky to march on the CNPP

[heavy hedge]

scars brain is monkeyslop

[split crown]

wtf my immersion

unnecessary fix smh

[warped monolith]

game belongs in the trash now

how could they remove a classic feature from the OGs

[finite needle]

Man what's stalker if the bois can't smoke through helmets

literally lore breaking

[warped monolith]

loer

[late kernel]

Tragic update

[humble hedge]

Lets revisit Stalker 2 in a year.

I don't enjoy it in it's current state.

[finite needle]

It's fine, but it can be so much better

[heavy hedge]

don't worry they replaced it with a new feature which is that a floating gun or underbarrel grenade will always accompany corpses

[split crown]

[heavy hedge]

ya, this patch mostly served to highlight how far there is yet to go. best to circle back later

at least, for those of us who already beat it anyway. for those who can finally play it now due to weird technical issues, at least they can hopefully finish now, good for them

[finite needle]

They did fix so much and yet there's a long way ahead anyway

Being stable is stable now, framerate is also decent. Game is very playable, idk about Zalyssia tho, but that quest is hopeless, I read somewhere they fixed NPCs behavior during emissions, so that might be a fix.

the gliches I've seen have however crossed from "shit's hopeless" into "ah typical slavjank", which is bearable to some people (me)

More importantly, I've seen NPCs MISS me with guns.

[heavy hedge]

i was actually able to complete zalyssia last patch without issue, although ya still seems broken for many, I think when they were forced to disable the a-life framework it broke a whole lot more shit than they initially anticipated

the one that they half-shipped with the game just flat out does not work with a bunch of the game logic

[finite needle]

Feels like they butchered it and now are slowly rebuilding it, so I guess that contrary to my previous statements maybe GSC will be the one to fully implement a life into the game

[heavy hedge]

yah, seems like a complete rebuild essentially

[humble hedge]

I never had any performance issues besides the memory leaks, and I was able to finish the story. I don't enjoy it in its current state due to the lack of Alife, the ballistics, the generic quests, the boring loot loop and the creepy feeling of not actually playing a Stalker game, but a soulless AAA game. I get the feeling nothing I do in game has any actual effect.

[heavy hedge]

there was a mod author in here talking about what they stumbled on rooting around in game files, a lot of it is in there, just "paused"/disabled

i really thought the biggest issue with S2 would be fixed this patch based on the notes, which was the flashlight. they did add shadows which is great but the flashlight still sucks lol

ill come back in 6 months

[finite needle]

I kinda disagree with the "soulless AAA" kinda game because I 1 - find the definition a bit lazy, I've seen people use that definition generically for games they just don't like and 2 - Stalker 2 isnt exactly soulless. Just, a lot feels like it's lacking.

[humble hedge]

I say this as someone who played the original Stalker game (And the sequels) on launch, and have been playing pretty much all the stalker mods available, so I do think I provide this critique with some credibility.

[onyx harbor]

Anyone else hates how dogs find cover in Stalker 2? That makes no fucking sense

[finite needle]

That should actually have been fixed this patch, at least some mutant behavior was. Dogs seem a bit more aggressive now, and I've seen the last dog of a pack run away just like in the ogs.

[onyx harbor]

They still hide behind trees and such here

[humble hedge]

I would go into detail on this but I'm pretty sure I would get instabanned if I did.

So I won't.

[finite needle]

It's for the best, I'm not really sober right now and my argumet would involve how Fallout 76 actually isn't as soulless as people think it is, and that stopping at that surface level criticism doesn't let you realize that the base idea just fucking sucks.

But doesn't mean it's soulless etc etc

[warped monolith]

instabanned for expanding upon "soulless AAA"? lmao I wonder what you would say

[finite needle]

Not the best but it's what I got right now and I don't have the strength to make it work

[finite needle]

My only hope it doesn't involve arguments Kanye would make on twitter

[warped monolith]

you can absolutely bet it fucking does

if he's afraid he'd get banned, it's DEFINITELY gonna be a gamer moment

[finite needle]

Yeah better to not go there, definitely

after this, I'm off

[warped monolith]

ever since that crowbcat video calling RE4 Remake 'soulless' and the backlash it caused, there's a huge grain of salt to be taken whenever someone uses that word

[humble hedge]

This

Good night Sdalgers

[trim totem]

how is the update

[warped monolith]

big. huge, even.

[trim totem]

does it fix alot of the issues now?

i saw a ton of alife fixes

[warped monolith]

probably not enough to make A-Life feel... alive

[golden hazel]

Theres an explanation for everything in the game except for Why is Clear Sky looking for shit in the zone still, What the fudge is happening in Limansk, and Where is Strelok's hairline

[warped monolith]

he never had one

[golden hazel]

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

[west moth]

OK stalkers see you in a year ... with a life

[jovial berry]

!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&

[golden hazel]

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

[jagged marsh]

I would say he look like Dalin

[jovial berry]

There's a lot of shadowdropped changes btw

[golden hazel]

As expected

[jovial berry]

Like longer days, it's a big change and not mentioned anywhere

[west moth]

https://tenor.com/view/processing-attempting-to-get-a-life-failed-process-failed-unable-to-get-a-life-gif-17149712

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/dead-gif-5848418847127216186

[split crown]

Oh, they included longer days? Any idea how much longer?

[trim totem]

i mean they just released a bunch of fixes to it

plus im pretty sure the guy who made it is still fighting in the war

[pearl dune]

Do major patches tend to break mods for Stalker 2?

[split crown]

Depends. I'm gonna check on the nexus for mod updates myself once I'm done reading through the patch notes.

[pearl dune]

Might just let 'em cook for a week or so, just to be sure. I have a few A-Life and NPC behavior mods and that seems to be a big part of this patch.

[trim totem]

honestly it alot better than what we had

it feels better but im surre they are gonna release more fixes to it

[west moth]

I get that but i haven't played yet, i would be too pissed with all the bugs and missing content and a shitty spawner instead of A-life and balance issues and and and ... that's why i wait till i start my first run I was patient with Cyberpunk, and it payed off, the same will happen with S2. Stalkers know how to wait

[trim totem]

true just take ur time

atleast npcs can loot corpses now

[golden hazel]

When Stalker 2 Anomaly 2 finally comes out in 10 years and Grok 2 comes out too

[jovial berry]

1.3x time speed at night, 0,75x speed during the day

[west moth]

Yeah don't get me wrong i'm happy the devs are busy finishing and polishing, and this game had extraordinary circumstances, but we are still not at V1.0 and i want to save the first time for that

[wanton arch]

Electric bogaloo

Hot take but honestly A-life doesn't really do much for me don't get me wrong it's a awesome system but whenever I play I don't end up noticing it much

[lyric brook]

Stalker 2 OP 3.0 when?

[trim totem]

stalker 2 phantom libery

[golden hazel]

Stalker Artifact Rising Revengeance when?

[west moth]

Cause it's not in the game, at least not the way it was meant to be. There is a spawner system and traces of an offline simulation but "the breathing, living zone" we were promised is just not there atm

[golden hazel]

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

[wanton arch]

I should've specified in all the games including gamma, that's my bad

[west moth]

Ah ok

Well, off to get a life before S2 gets a life. Good hunting stalkers

[wanton arch]

Lmao

[proud ruin]

[split crown]

Hm, will probably have to get rid of my longer days mod then.

[golden hazel]

[proud ruin]

[golden hazel]

Brother I am venturing back into the zone to search for The Barrier, the infidel Lukash must pay with his blood

[proud ruin]

Mashallah

[hushed garden]

Is it stalker 2 yet or still far cry Chernobyl?

[golden hazel]

[proud ruin]

Farcry: Ukraine fr fr

[split crown]

yoink

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-monolith-tik-tok-tik-tok-dance-gif-3948875391628105368

[proud ruin]

[golden hazel]

Finally a more accurate name

[split crown]

[jovial berry]

I already uploaded a new mod overwriting this new curve. Look for recently updated, Feliche's Real Longer Days

[split crown]

Oooh shit, will do man thanks!

[golden hazel]

Alright time to figure out how to turn off eye adaptation

again

Oh nice my game won't even launch

crashed twice in a row SERGEY CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

https://tenor.com/view/boothill-hsr-boothill-honkai-star-rail-boothill-boothill-frown-boothill-look-up-gif-6111155330644851343

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-writing-gif-2088247993237804628

[golden hazel]

3 TIMES 3 FORKIN TIMES SERGEY YOU MUDDLEFUDGER

[split crown]

hey wait a minute

After Player's rank is updated

HOW THE HELL ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO TELL WHAT RANK YOU ARE

[golden hazel]

It's probably talking about the invisible rank that happens when you progress through the story

[split crown]

I thought they simply just did away with ranks in S2

[split crown]

More than likely... god that's such a dumb feature and way to express progression.

[golden hazel]

Oh no it's not a more than likely thing, it's a definitely pardner

In my second playthrough I was kitted with a big iron and a dnporo and enemies still had pea shooters because I hadn't progressed through the story

[split crown]

man

does the game have NG+ once you beat it once?

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

[warped monolith]

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

I never even thought about trying this

Would always just shoot the locks through windows lul

[golden hazel]

My game has crashed 12 times now

[split crown]

Surely part of the gaming experience

[warped monolith]

only suggestion I have is to either verify files or reinstall

[golden hazel]

Fork me up the alps why's the damn game gotta be so big

[split crown]

Ok GSC but
Where is the necessary option of being able to sprint while reloading

[golden hazel]

Sergey's gonna keep getting away with it

[split crown]

Fucked up Skeefa doesn't have enough brain power to realize he can use his legs to run while reloading a gun

[warped monolith]

I think not being allowed to sprint while reloading is a good thing

I doubt anyone can reliably reload a gun without fumbling while running full tilt

[split crown]

Maybe not be able to do like a full on sprint, but at least jogging yenno

[warped monolith]

and yeah I know I shouldn't cry about realism in a game like STALKER, but even Tarkov has this shit and it's extremely jarring to see it anywhere that isn't a full-on arcade shooter

[split crown]

so a slower run while reloading

[warped monolith]

jogging is our regular movement speed when not holding the walk button

[golden hazel]

[warped monolith]

I only "accept" sprint reloading in silly games like BF and COD

[split crown]

it's just annoying as shit to be basically walking away from a pack of dogs while they're chewing my ass and I'm reloading my boomstick

[golden hazel]

Have you tried switching weapons

[split crown]

if necessary

I'm just saying it's goofy to not at least have some way to avoid mutant attacks while reloading

[golden hazel]

Get the high ground

Most mutants can't reach it

[split crown]

It is funny how if you jump up on a rock, every mutant aggro'd onto you instantly seeks cover lmao

like ah yes, totally normal mutant behavior

[warped monolith]

how can you say what is normal mutant behavior

[split crown]

how animals act in the wild

[warped monolith]

how many mutants have you seen irl

[split crown]

Have you never seen wild animals before?

[warped monolith]

radiation/zone exposure has developed their higher brain functions

[golden hazel]

High Ground Exceptions include but are not limited to, Pseudogiants, Bayuns, Chimeras, Psi Dogs and bugged rats

[split crown]

Clear(Sky)ly

[warped monolith]

Mutants, not animals

[golden hazel]

Psy Radiation, specifically by The Group

So yes they are gonna be smarter than a regular old animal

Legit any "realism" take I've seen in this chat just straight up doesn't hold a candle to the fact that these mutants are canonically manmade eldritch abominations

[split crown]

realism or not, I just wanna be able to move a bit quicker while reloading than the normal/default jog thing we currently have.

[warped monolith]

I recognize that background

[split crown]

holding shift while moving shouldn't be a reload cancel

[buoyant quarry]

are you capable of just accepting the rules the game set out in front of you and giving it a go?

[buoyant quarry]

It's like complaining about the doom 3 flashlight it is what it is

[golden hazel]

No, I must get rid of eye adaptation

[split crown]

eye adaptation is also aids

[buoyant quarry]

you don't want to play this d*ck measuring contest with me

[golden hazel]

Eye adaptation is cancebolaids

[split crown]

I simply responded to your claim which insinuated I wasn't playing the game.

[buoyant quarry]

I said accept the rules

[warped monolith]

I mean... one of the very first Doom 3 mods is the "duct tape flashlight" mod
and they changed it in BFG edition made it a copy of the HEV suit's flashlight in half-life

[buoyant quarry]

i actually enjoy the bfg edition more

[golden hazel]

GSC devs deciding how much eye adapation to use

https://tenor.com/view/demon-core-gif-5957878309421902420

[warped monolith]

it's the better version overall

but if I could revert one change... I'd bring back the old flashlight

[buoyant quarry]

so for eye adaptation you guys are talking about dynamic range looking outside from inside a dark room, right?

[warped monolith]

and vice-versa, yes

[buoyant quarry]

it's better in an HDR display, but I 100% agree

[warped monolith]

I think it's cancer on every game that has it. BF1 was the first instance of me seeing that and going "holy shit this is retarded"

[buoyant quarry]

it was star wars battlefront for me. heh. same dev

[warped monolith]

same dev and engine, so it's probably the exact same feature

outside looking in = THE VOID
inside looking out = staring directly at the sun

[jovial berry]

How do you plan on disabling it ?

As far as I understand, this is Unreal engine baked eye adaptation, which is so ass that GSC actually has some exposure curves to deal with how fucking bad it'd look inside

[golden hazel]

Hollow purple on the entirety of Lumen

Besides it's not like the game will look worse than this

[split crown]

It's what happens when game devs attempt to play god and recreate real life lighting inside video games

[jovial berry]

Holy mother of NoLunination

[split crown]

STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl looking pretty good

[golden hazel]

Nah, it's Buried of Chernobyl, you can tell by the Big Iron in my hands

[split crown]

[heavy hedge]

the worst part about eye adaptation is even though it looks """""""""""""realistic"""""""""""""""", it creates these incredibly bizarre perverse gameplay abnormalities
case in point, someone shows up in the doorway from outside to shoot you. Well, between eye adaptation and lumen or whatever shitty lighting is going on, you are staring into a supernova as far as the game is concerned, when in real life as soon as a person stepped into that doorway their silhouette would be the easiest target on the planet to sink rounds into

Instead, the NPC in the doorway, who is completely unaffected by light levels, is not only impossible to see for YOU but can also detect and acquire you flawlessly despite your squatting in the pitch black corner like youre taking a dump, and riddles you with 3 magazines before you even know what's happening

same shit as motion blur which looks """""""""""""realistic""""""""""""" yet is completely unnecessary and actually breaks the reality of the game simulation by smearing goo in your eyes and making it impossible to orient in realtime using a mouse

[split crown]

yeaaaah I turn motion blur off in any game that offers it.

[heavy hedge]

it all looks great in trailers, of course! and that's about it!

[undone summit]

Holy shit that looks so good

[split crown]

yeah for cinematic effects maybe, but definitely not every gameplay moment lmao

I wonder if Maklane's mod is still necessary for NPCs https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/113?tab=files

because this was in the patch notes:

[golden hazel]

Validated my files twice and the game still won't launch

https://tenor.com/view/mario-judah-meme-fnaf-meme-man-fnaf-meme-fnaf-title-screen-gif-23823003

[heavy hedge]

someone said an NPC missed them with a bullet. i don't believe it personally but there you go

[split crown]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1322530320494628945/1339653854412673044/IMG_0766.gif

[buoyant quarry]

have you modded the game?

[golden hazel]

Outside of turning off mouse acceleration no

And even then I deleted the entire folder when I uninstalled the game

[buoyant quarry]

so you uninstalled manually (the whole game) right? Didn't prompt steam or gog or epic (lol) to do it for you?

[golden hazel]

Nah I did the steam uninstall and then nuked what was left over

[buoyant quarry]

so it was
full nuke -> attempt to run the game -> steam auto verifies and reinstall

[warped monolith]

[rugged glacier]

time to get back to the zone

[buoyant quarry]

I now know why they removed them

[warped monolith]

framerate?

[buoyant quarry]

you can hardly notice them when you're looking straight at something

like an actual headlamp irl

[golden hazel]

Gonna restart my laptop to see if that does anything, fuckin X-Ray level jank will probably fix itself

[warped monolith]

oh, right

[buoyant quarry]

because the light source is so close to your eyes you don't see the shadows behind what you're looking at

if the shadow were offset, you'd notice them more

but they're very noticeable on objects on the edges of the screen

[buoyant quarry]

oh no a laptop

[golden hazel]

Welp, shirt is still forked, but hey I found this screenshot again

[glad schooner]

i had to unblock every dll

[buoyant quarry]

btw it runs on great on xbox

[golden hazel]

Yeah, it's an xbox game after all

[buoyant quarry]

not quite

but it was treated like one. It's self published.

[split crown]

(moaning)

[golden hazel]

It's an Xbox sponsored game, there.

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

my sides

[warped monolith]

stepped on a lego

[golden hazel]

Alright after 35 crashes, I finally made it to the start menu

I lied, it's a black screen and I'm pretty sure it's about to crash again

[split crown]

casual 35 crashes

[golden hazel]

Yup crashed again

[split crown]

riveting gameplay

[golden hazel]

40 crashes now

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/matthew-mcconaughey-smoking-matthew-mcconaughey-intense-intense-stare-smoking-gif-2659849828106643276

[lime umbra]

Do you both run into crash minefields?

[golden hazel]

Crash number 57 and I have run out of ideas to try to get this piece of slavjank working

[lime umbra]

Get a better gaming chair

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-clear-sky-game-soldier-gif-22616292

[buoyant quarry]

so uh

what specs are you running again? @golden hazel

[golden hazel]

i7 10700 RTX 2060 and 32gb of ram

I would run it fine before when there wasn't a memory leak happening

Don't tell me they upped the minimum requirements

Something weird I've noticed is that if the message pops up about the shader workaround it actually makes it up to before the shader compilation screen

Otherwise it just crashes instantly

[buoyant quarry]

oh yeah that wasn't a memory leak you were just running out of vram

[golden hazel]

You sure about that?

[buoyant quarry]

running out of vram is what triggers the memory leak to system ram

[golden hazel]

Makes sense

[buoyant quarry]

when that happens the engine robs the system of all its ram

[golden hazel]

[buoyant quarry]

it's fickle as fuck

[golden hazel]

Looks like I gotta invest in an intel arc card then

[buoyant quarry]

let's see how we can work around this because I was just testing it in my rx480 system (I test on every spec) and found performance to be a bit better actually

[buoyant quarry]

e-gpu might do the trick if your laptop isn't a 6-core cpu clocked below 2.9 ghz

[golden hazel]

It's a 6 core cpu clocked at 5.0 ghz

[buoyant quarry]

good

[golden hazel]

Honestly a lot of the time my gpu is the one dying in modern games

[buoyant quarry]

amd 7000 cards are selling a good prices right now and that line FUCKS it's really good

[golden hazel]

My cpu will be at like 20% and my gpu will be pegged at 99%-100%

[buoyant quarry]

rtx 4000 are great (except the 4060 cards) but they're all out of stokc

[buoyant quarry]

try looking at core utilization instead of the whole unit

but yeah that still looks like gpu bound performance

[golden hazel]

Oh it doesn't max out the cores either

[buoyant quarry]

great. one less thing to worry about for sure

just gotta get you some proper graphics

[golden hazel]

Nvidia hogging all the vram

Isn't the 4060 also 6gb btw?

Ah no wait it's 8gb

[buoyant quarry]

8 is still not enough

gotta look at the consoles as the lowest common denominator.
they've got 12 in practical terms

total 16, but 12 goes to the games' graphics

[split crown]

my 3070 has 8gigs of VRAM

1 video game should not be taking up anywhere near 8 gigs of VRAM by itself.

[buoyant quarry]

yeah lots of people having serious issues with optimization actually just have hardware that doesn't beat the consoles in every way, leading to games overshooting their specs in certain areas, mainly vram. but also for CPUs, because consoles have 8c/12t

[buoyant quarry]

I thought that when I had an 8gb card

then I got something else and didn't think that anymore

8gb is what the Ps4 and xbox one had

[prime garnet]

i was looking at stalker 2 world map and realized,they changed a whole map from call of pripyat

[warped monolith]

it's closer to real life chernobyl now

[golden hazel]

They changed the whole map entirely

[prime garnet]

(I'm not playing stalker 2 yet)
where is deadcity?

[split crown]

I personally don't like how they changed the map layout.

[buoyant quarry]

zaton?

[prime garnet]

no,everything.like whole zone.

[golden hazel]

Me ending up in the Shevchenko instead of the Skadovsk because I got used to the layout of CoP of Pripyat

[buoyant quarry]

well in cop it didn't really matter where zaton was in relation to jupiter and prypiat because of the guides

[prime garnet]

there's no dead city anymore?

[split crown]

I wish they'd just kept all the regions in their original locations like the previous games.

[buoyant quarry]

there was never a dead city. it's cut content revived in coc i think

[golden hazel]

Dead city was on the old maps

[buoyant quarry]

it was not

[golden hazel]

I mean literally in the map itself, not actually playable

[split crown]

I think I may be mixing up Dead City and Limansk from the older games

[prime garnet]

ok so where's mercenary base in stalker 2?

[buoyant quarry]

oh yeah like that it was sure

it's basically duga now in S2

[golden hazel]

Duga is the first official Dead City-like Duga

[buoyant quarry]

dead city is what anomaly uses as merc base, it's not canon though. but you'll find it in duga

[prime garnet]

thank

[buoyant quarry]

sure thing

[golden hazel]

Before HoC tuah came out I thought they were gonna replace Limansk with Duga lmao

Alright, reinstalled it again completley, still crashing on startup

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

Man is this what it was like having a gt 138943190gt thingamajig with 128mb of ram and games started requiring 512mb of ram

[split crown]

Chat I started another new game

[golden hazel]

Oooo you want to go to acquire the big iron

Ooooo you want a whole loadout of big irons

[split crown]

I do. And this time, I will not alter it to shoot buckshot lmao

actually seems to make the damn thing worse

drops the accuracy to like 0% and less damage than the 9x39mm somehow

would maybe be more okay with it if I was also allowed to use slug rounds but noooooooooooooo

[golden hazel]

The pellets must be quantum tunneling like the bullets in Clear Sky when you have a stock weapon

[split crown]

anomalous pellets

[outer depot]

performance definitely feels a bit more stable

lods look better too

[stable quarry]

"Weird Water arch-artifact anti-radiation effect was reduced."
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[arctic marsh]

man I should of just left the game unmodded

I aint modding this shit again till the games been out for a year and updates chill out

still havent beat it and would like to

[stable quarry]

it'll prolly take like 2 months for another patch

[split crown]

what does this even mean

[stable quarry]

before it had maximum, or even above maximum radiation resistance, so they reduced it

[split crown]

oh

[stable quarry]

hmm OR they reduced the effect it had where it would rapidly remove rads from your system once you WEREN'T being irradiated

cause it did both, rad resistance and removal

[split crown]

tbh I don't think many mods were broken this time around. However, I dumped a number of mods for this new game just to make things more challenging for myself.

[split crown]

I see. That is quite nice.

[raw bridge]

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kernel32
ntdll
do you what is wrong please ? 2x reinstall and still

[split crown]

Dunno. Did you verify your game's files?

[golden hazel]

[raw bridge]

what you mean ?

[split crown]

verify your game files in steam

unless you're using a different platform, then idk

[indigo hemlock]

if you installed mods uninstalling the game wont delete the mod files

[trim totem]

wonder what these fixes are

[thorn plume]

Can't you like read?

[split crown]

[true yew]

Never thought the game title would be perfect for valentines

[obtuse sedge]

Is a-life in the game yet? or is it still jebait

[heavy hedge]

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

[obtuse sedge]

Unfortunate, so it was bait all along

Guess we'll have to wait a few more months and see if its playable

[proud ruin]

cucked by GSC

[heavy hedge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/870010830429757512/1328493368296345653/1732878422036103.gif

[golden hazel]

Me when I need 8gb of vram to launch the game

[split crown]

Huh, so since GSC apparently added in a UI pop-up message each time you find a stash from looting corpses, I've noticed looting mutant corpses (with mutant loot) has now started giving me stash locations. Lmao

[golden hazel]

Good ol Mutants with their PDAs

[proud ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/whyyy-emote-gif-27063289

[golden hazel]

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

[split crown]

It'd just be cool if stashes could be refilled over time

RNG and all that

[golden hazel]

There's so much damn loot on the map as it is ngl

[split crown]

You're 100% correct

overall loot can/should be reduced

but it's always a nice dose of dopamine each time ya get a new stash location, ya feel?

[golden hazel]

A loot rebalance would be better post 1st playthrough definitely

[split crown]

even if it's somewhere you've been before, yet said stash location can be refilled

and yeah, since there's just so much loot everywhere, I literally limit myself to how much food/water, meds, and ammo I keep on myself lol

Keep specific numbers of stuff and sell the rest for coupons

[golden hazel]

My limits were 10 energy drinks, 15 med packs, 20 bandages, 5 anti rads

[jovial berry]

I mean just take a look at Desolation or Modular Hard Mode

[golden hazel]

Nah, it's gonna make me even saltier I can't run the game anymore

Pain, suffering, even.

[split crown]

I like what I saw and read of Desolation, but I just don't know what would or wouldn't be compatible in my current modlist with it.

wow GSC, what gorgeous lighting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[golden hazel]

Deep fried Richter

[split crown]

[golden hazel]

Here, have some more time in the frying mechanism

[split crown]

am I a joke to u

[thorn plume]

Iirc even SSS isn't working with it.

[split crown]

SSS? In Stalker 2?

[thorn plume]

Desolation.

Or is it not about anomaly one? Smh.

Mfers can't be orignal 😭

[split crown]

Nah there's a Stalker 2 overhaul mod called Desolation.

[golden hazel]

Just wait till you find out about Misery(Stalker 2)

[split crown]

lmao

[jovial berry]

Why does Richter look so fat here

[golden hazel]

He had some extra tourist's breakfast

[finite needle]

Man I'd hate to be the dude who coded over 200 bugfixes only to hear some dude on Discord ask him what about a life

also mfw by a life people means spawn distace

[wanton arch]

people always find stuff to shit on

Before even the first patch i played for 10h and didnt have a problem with a single thing

cuz' Programming is essentially magic and im pretty sure devs have no idea why shit doesnt work either

[golden hazel]

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

[finite needle]

While I love the meme I don't really understand the hyperfixation on a life. I bet people would be fine with the game if NPCs just roamed abuot and zalissya was fixed (impossible) but everything else would stay the way it was on release

[golden hazel]

Probably cause GSC hyped up A-Life 2.0

It was their Organic branding

[finite needle]

Ok, they also hyped up pretty much everything else, why the hyperfixation?

It doesn't really answer my question on why you personally care

[golden hazel]

I don't get it either, but since the day this chat was free to do as it pleased it was A-Life this A-Life that

[finite needle]

Doing it for the memes is a position I can respect at least

[icy basin]

Simply be like me
Only know one piece of promotion about S2

No trailers, no reveals, no gameplay

[golden hazel]

The game is meme, the series is meme, when stocker understand is all meme, is happy

[tacit glacier]

A bit too late to hold your fire now

[golden hazel]

And The Doctor with his time traveling port a potty appears magically once again

What news of the A-Life do you bring us oh wise Doktor

[tacit glacier]

I haven't been keeping up

Saw update, said "cool", and went on with my day.

[golden hazel]

I went "oh hell yes an update" then found out I can no longer run the game on 6gb of vram

[tacit glacier]

oof

[wanton arch]

Nice. So they disabled offline npc travel, making alife even worse instead of better, nice job.

[finite needle]

Game ruined smh

[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&

[golden hazel]

The real tragedy of HoC tuah is that they didn't bring back the AN94

[wanton arch]

There're a lot of tragedies in this game.

[wanton arch]

the main tragedy is i cant dip my balls in fruit punch

[jolly fiber]

since the update the stutters are back and they're bad. anyone else having the same problem

[wanton arch]

havent played yet

[golden hazel]

I straight up can't even launch the game anymore

[split crown]

I restarted my PC and things seemed to fix.

[jolly fiber]

do you have UE4SS installed within it?

[split crown]

Well, I installed the new NVIDIA drivers that released, then updated Stalker 2 - experienced stutters galore in-game and in the main menu - so I restarted my PC and now things work.exe

[wanton arch]

what is ue4ss?

[golden hazel]

Considering I have no idea what that is, probably not

[jolly fiber]

then that's a no

replied to the wrong one sorry

[wanton arch]

I want to knowndue to half my mods not working

[jolly fiber]

unreal engine modding extension

[wanton arch]

How dare you,may your anomalius bread artifact explode

[golden hazel]

Woah

[jolly fiber]

i just sold all my surplus artefacts i've been hoarding in case the bartenders ask for them

140k coupons

[wanton arch]

Gyaat

[golden hazel]

140k more like still not enough to fix a suit back in 1.0.0

[wanton arch]

Main issue with stalker 2 is balance ,2 guns fire the same bullet the other one has 1,5x dmg 3x the pen, And you can sell a pridtine gun for the price of a snickers bar

[wanton arch]

real

[golden hazel]

That's not an issue of gun balance, that's just how stalker's always worked

[split crown]

hey that's a premium snicker's bar right there.

[wanton arch]

👍

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/сидорович-сталкер-консервныебанки-хабарпринес-меченый-gif-27171195

[golden hazel]

Anyway, behold the conundrum suit fixing price in 1.0.0

[split crown]

[wanton arch]

i remember that shit

[jolly fiber]

to be fair in SoC sidor gave you $10 for a magic rock that could stop bullets

[split crown]

what the fuck suit is that

[split crown]

$7 and that's the highest offer he can give ya

[wanton arch]

you find it in noontide base after sircaa tyrns to shitca

[split crown]

ooooh

[wanton arch]

one of the best phys prot suits

[jolly fiber]

you weren't even exaggering, that's crazy. what % was the suit on?

[split crown]

must be at 0%

[wanton arch]

probs like 40-60

[jolly fiber]

i'd believe it

[wanton arch]

I saw shit you didnt

[split crown]

[golden hazel]

Either 0% or 30% I don't remember what I had it at

[wanton arch]

240k to repair the gauss gun in 1.00

[jolly fiber]

so just under double a 40 hour playthrough worth of artifacts i stashed and didn't need

[wanton arch]

I hate gun condition drops in game too,Like what the fuck do you mean 5%

[golden hazel]

A small loan of a quarter million coupons, Sidorovich is such a tremendous guy, absolutely massive, nobody scams like him

[jolly fiber]

fire saiga barrel falls off

[split crown]

yeah I just wouldn't use it lmao

[split crown]

Poppyfield bro be like "hey man, want this sick totally not broken 416???"

[jolly fiber]

maybe sidor soaks everything in hydrogen to keep the economy liquid

[wanton arch]

Almost all guns are as good as the other,and gsc is still limiting the drops to 10% condition like ehat the fuck

[split crown]

everything Sidorovich touches is left smeared in chicken grease

[golden hazel]

The trick is to obliterate the target before the barrel falls off

[split crown]

LMFAO

[wanton arch]

the barrel is the additional bullet

[jolly fiber]

the saiga mag dump is so satisfying if half of it doesn't hit the roof

[wanton arch]

free of charge

[split crown]

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

[golden hazel]

Extra poison damage if your barrel shrapnel hits

[jolly fiber]

though i like to troll burers by picking up all the guns for ragman

[wanton arch]

Funfact: In duga theres an apartment where you can see the remains of a man who ate the forbidden anomalius bread

Theres blood on every single tile on the toilet

His last words were "worth it"

[golden hazel]

They'll never get my secret anomalous grilled cheese recipe no matter how much they try

[wanton arch]

Also i completed gamma with the anom bread with me

[jolly fiber]

"magic vodka"

still contains an alien's kidney stone

[golden hazel]

Magic

[wanton arch]

Its magic because dwupalov broke the laws of physics to make it more concentrated than possible

[golden hazel]

I like the part where Dvupalov says "It's Dvupalov'ing time" and he made some more vodka, it was so awe inspiring

[jolly fiber]

wonder what that does to the water content

[golden hazel]

The what content?

[jolly fiber]

ethanol forms an azeotrope with water

[wanton arch]

yes.

[golden hazel]

I'm pretty sure whatever Dvupalov made is closer to kerosene rather than ethanol

[jolly fiber]

he seemed perfectly healthy

[wanton arch]

It might even be the forbidden anomalous bread juice

[jolly fiber]

body and mind

[golden hazel]

Nah, he's too alive for him to have drank as much as he did

[jolly fiber]

he was chosen by the zone to be bread juice vodka guy

[golden hazel]

Bread juice that powerful could even possibly restore Strelok's Hairline

[wanton arch]

did you know skif has worde hairline than strelok?

[golden hazel]

No way

[wanton arch]

Free cam under his hood model

[golden hazel]

[jolly fiber]

that makes him more powerful than strelok

[golden hazel]

Alright I can absolutely believe he solo'd the zone with a Makarov

There's 0 doubt in my mind now that I have this knowledge

[jolly fiber]

if he shaved off even more hair he would become immortal

we need to mod the big ben back into the game but with a realistic magazine and grip for 9x39

thicc grip

[golden hazel]

ThiCK

[jolly fiber]

it was originally meant to be chambered in 7.62x54 and i think the stalker 2 version should be too

[wanton arch]

The revvy is the best gun for late game btw

[golden hazel]

Sucks they didn't let you pick up the crow bar

But all in due time

[jolly fiber]

the revvy?

[golden hazel]

Big Iron

[wanton arch]

revolver,Big mf,Big iron

[wanton arch]

1 tap hs monolith clad in exo

[jolly fiber]

lmao

[wanton arch]

2 tap body

[jolly fiber]

perfection

[wanton arch]

A revvie and 4 bottles of vodka is eniugh for the monolith oripyat appartment

[jolly fiber]

we can mod in a wrist integrity mechanic that causes you to one hand your rifle in the non dominant hand until you use a medkit

[wanton arch]

Best weapon combo atm is rhino,integral A,

[jolly fiber]

i refuse to play the meta

[wanton arch]

And one slot for your fav gun

[jolly fiber]

as val 4 lyfe

[golden hazel]

My meta is Big Iron Primary, Secondary, Pistolary, Armory, Helmety

And a Big Iron in a sandwich just in case of Emergency

[jolly fiber]

plus SVU headshots to exos are really nice, but i'd rather not have to carry a shotgun everywhere for bloodsuckers. there are more bloodsuckers than stalkers in the zone now. the bloodsucker village really took off

[wanton arch]

Those are not normal bloodsuckers Freddomers(me included) conteibuted to the population

Protip: Dont do crack near a bloodsucker

[jolly fiber]

"they can't reproduce naturally, they need hum-- oh"

well hopefully this driver improves things

[golden hazel]

[wanton arch]

After a few puffs bloodsucker look extra curvy

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-monolith-tik-tok-tik-tok-dance-gif-3948875391628105368

[finite needle]

I have on my desktop, the laptop runs it just fine so idk.

[wanton arch]

If i could do crack as a monolithian i would have no problems joining the monolit

[golden hazel]

Commander Charon has no problems with that, just don't try smoking the Monolith itself

[jolly fiber]

weird, must be something on my end

[finite needle]

My guess is older cards have this issue, but newer don't. The desktop has a 2070s, while the laptop has a 4060.

[jolly fiber]

you turn into a khajit

[golden hazel]

I have a 2060 and my game doesn't launch at all anymore

[wanton arch]

Thats a very proper idea!

[jolly fiber]

mine's a 4070

[finite needle]

Yeah fine but what about a life?

[wanton arch]

The fucking aristocracy talking

[jolly fiber]

let's see paul allen's gpu

[finite needle]

Don't let them know, but a 4070 is all you actually need (unless you're playing Stalker 2 apparently)

[golden hazel]

What a life can exist if a life never could be?

[jolly fiber]

it was running silky smooth on epic yesterday

[finite needle]

I'll be fair before they invented the shiny reflection thingies my 2070s could run almost anything at max

[golden hazel]

I was thinking of draining the entire city's power grid by saving to buy a 4090

[wanton arch]

Raytrayced piss puddles reflection is wayy to over the top

just make it slightly shimy and fuck off

[jolly fiber]

that's the ironic thing about the 4070

yes i can have real time raytraced puddles

no i don't want to play at 15 fps

[wanton arch]

My 3060 can do that too

[golden hazel]

My 2060 could do that too

Would it be crying to be put out of its misery? Yes. But would I have it doing the puddle thing? Yes.

[jolly fiber]

iirc when they first came out only the 40 series could do rt raytracing. i think?

[wanton arch]

Nah

[jolly fiber]

was i sold a bridge

[finite needle]

I seem to recall my 2070s could do it on CP2077

Haven't played that game in a while

[wanton arch]

Stalker 2 nailed one thing and they did it perfectly,World building

[golden hazel]

Doktor, inject him with 200ccs of Playstation 4 2077

[jolly fiber]

the game world is incredible

[wanton arch]

The atmosphere could br better but the map is 10/10

I went to yantar recently a completely non story related place,and every part was made with perfect detail and there was so much to do

[jolly fiber]

i'm hopeful that the nanite meshes have some extra detail to squeeze out of them > the epic preset so when everyone and their mums have 60 series we can have stalker 2 remastered with zero effort by tweaking a few engine settings

[golden hazel]

All the lore things they have in the game are the only reason I kept going through redoing the boss fights at 7fps

Had the lore not been so good, I would've refunded the game after the tutorial level

[finite needle]

I was playing that shit on psycho/uiltra details, what are you on about?

[golden hazel]

Exactly

CMERE CHOOM

[wanton arch]

What region do yall think is the best?

[jolly fiber]

tbh i like red forest the most

[wanton arch]

Im stansing hard by cooling towers/yantar

[deft folio]

How's the game after the big old patch — don't want to get involved if it's still a mess

[wanton arch]

Good place.

[wanton arch]

Much less buggy but they have along way to go w content

[deft folio]

The red forest mirages are cool as heck

[finite needle]

I'd say red forest is where shit gets fucky weirdy, but I'm partial to the middle region as a whole

[golden hazel]

I'm between Yanov and North Zaton because of the Ships 🏴‍☠️

[jolly fiber]

can't beat the SoC red forest monolith roadblocks though

[wanton arch]

fair

[deft folio]

ahh fair enough! I feel like we are in early access for a year then, at least we have GAMMA

[jolly fiber]

not truly red forest but you know

[wanton arch]

yea kinda like this but thwy are listening to us,we yapped about flashlights and they slightly fixed them

They are still dogshut diffuse lights no effort puddles of white eye sore but atleas tthey make shadows.now

[finite needle]

The will is there, the work too. They've invested too much in the game to abandon it, even though they actually could since the game itself is serviceable.

[jolly fiber]

i think we just have to be patient with patches. people wait two weeks and think it's never coming, but they spent a solid month working hard on this one. next might be the A-life overhaul, only time will tell

[ancient kettle]

there where some A life changes

[golden hazel]

There is no A Life in Ba Sing Se

[finite needle]

What was the command?

[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&

[jolly fiber]

the AI's still a bit jank though. i watch squads walk into anomalies one by one, which is funny as hell but do question how they survived long enough to buy an exoskeleton

ai can't cope with rats and they just wander around as they get eaten to death

[split crown]

Aside from A-life, I'd really like to look forward to not having to need an Engine.ini anymore

[wanton arch]

Stalker 2 is a good base,the devs know what they doing,all of the missing shit can be added no problem

[golden hazel]

Rats are the UE5-Ray version of Dogs

[finite needle]

So just like GAMMA, I reckon

just replace rats with the normie zombies

[jolly fiber]

i like the rats

they remind me there are still things i hate

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/rat-movie-jerma-lore-mystery-of-the-mayan-treasure-pier-rats-gif-16375444

[jolly fiber]

the sound of them gives me a good shot of cortisol

[wanton arch]

I feel like posting my fav thing in the universe but this is stalker 2 chat so i have to improvise

[golden hazel]

Bny

[deft folio]

The A Life 0.2 stuff is wild — I can't play the game currently in it's shooting gallery of misc events state of play

[jolly fiber]

the thing that annoys me the most is enemy squads mingling together with friendly squads

[wanton arch]

it ate my door and maths book

[jolly fiber]

merc blasting at me with stalkers casually walking around him like nothing's happening

[golden hazel]

Truly a desctruive mutant

[wanton arch]

on my part its enemies mindlessly walking towards you

[split crown]

Am I crazy or did GSC change the sound of the notification that pops up when you receive coupons for finishing a task?

[jolly fiber]

that's also kinda weird, but that kind of BDE works on me because if i stick my face out i take 2000 coupons of exo damage

[deft folio]

playing the og trilogy or gamma etc. you realise how good the ai was for the time.

[wanton arch]

use corundun suit

[deft folio]

the fact it's not at that level as a base is crazy

[jolly fiber]

my beloved sits in my stash for artifact hunts

[wanton arch]

its 4.85 armour phys prot and free

Also for those who dont know all protection works like this = for each lvl of.prot 2x less dmg taken

[jolly fiber]

i can understand cause X-Ray was built for a dynamic simulated world but unreal has some other things going on, you have to smash holes in walls to achieve the same results

it's great to see the AI looting dead enemies now

[deft folio]

Unreal is terrible for the industry, every game in mutiple genres seems to suffer similar problems

It's just a nice tech demo. The engine — not S2

[finite needle]

I was about to say, that's a bit harsh S2 doesn't even look that good on lower settings

[golden hazel]

And those holes in the wall make room for bugs to show up

[jolly fiber]

unreal's not a bad engine, but it makes certain things easy to do in a certain way. you can still alter it to your heart's content

[finite needle]

dies of cringe

[jolly fiber]

a lot of the bad press lately has literally just been people using default lumen settings that give it the "unreal look" and some performance issues with PSOs

[finite needle]

Lumen looks like ASS on my spec

[deft folio]

the shader stutter is real

lumen is basically either 4090 max or you have no lighting. Pick your poison

[wanton arch]

Theres one thing i hate about stalker 2 lore its like First part i just wanna get money to fix my house,and then randomly skif is just like hey lets turn the whole zobe inside out cuz why not?

That point happens right after skif gets to sircaa

[ancient kettle]

well the artifact most likely is gonna pay way more than doing those normal missions

[jolly fiber]

can't buy a new apartment with a stalker income

[deft folio]

haha i'd rather the classic wake up in the zone with no memory crap. than a knackered flat.

[wanton arch]

yeah that fits much better

[finite needle]

Yeah Strelok definitely didn't find himself in a situation bigger than himself, just a regular guy

[wanton arch]

they could give skif amnesia after he got blaste din the head by nimble

[jolly fiber]

i always got the feeling that it was only about the apartment in the beginning, then he went native and liked committing war crimes and not showering for six weeks at a time in the zone

[finite needle]

I suppose that's what Spark vs Ward really is about, start a new life in the zone as a stalker vs just get paid to buy you a new 2+kk apartment in Lviv

[jolly fiber]

fallout new vegas

[wanton arch]

both spark and ward are dipshits

[finite needle]

Yo how about we start the Stalker game by making the guy with amnesia look for a guy???

[wanton arch]

One of gsc devs in 2006=

[jolly fiber]

skif is so OP he skipped cordon

[wanton arch]

looking at skifs lifestyle bro could eat a raw onion and like it

[jolly fiber]

stalker 3 will be never getting to leave cordon because sidor's mercs keeps shaking you down whenever it looks like you can escape from farming jellyfishes for him

[golden hazel]

Skif could eat an orange with the peel on

[wanton arch]

Skif could eat the bottle whilendrinking vodka if he was bored enough

[golden hazel]

He's just built Skifferent

[ancient kettle]

he do chug condensed milk like its nothing

[wanton arch]

fuck you mean its tasty

[finite needle]

My man's blood is half energy drink at this point, he just runs on electrolytes or whatever the fuck is in there

[wanton arch]

I like condensed milk myself

[ancient kettle]

yes I know but a whole can

[wanton arch]

skif can drink 4000mg worth of coffeine and get tired after 30 seconds

[finite needle]

Skif sounds like a character straight out of Baki

[golden hazel]

Wait a minute.

[jolly fiber]

i didn't know about the sleep mechanic until mid game on veteran because he was living on non stop until i got weight reduction artifacts

[wanton arch]

We all known the john gamma is the strongest

[golden hazel]

Skif is 4 letters, Baki is 4 letters

[jolly fiber]

and still have the appetite of a 2 year old

[split crown]

his English or Ukrainian VA?

[wanton arch]

The character in gamma can eat a MRE thwt is essentially a massive slab of butter in 4 butes

[split crown]

just built different like that

[finite needle]

idk about the english va, just the fact that he has the worst diet possible and yet accomplishes the most inhuman feats possible while not really knowing WHY this is all happening

[finite needle]

Dude just does it because he can while chugging condensed milk in one single gulp on his way to trouble.

[jolly fiber]

he's fallen for the ultimate reverse psychology. "bet you can't plunder X-16" "NUH UH"

"skif is so weak he would never go to pripyat" "YEAH I WOULD"

[finite needle]

"If you get shot you die" "Not if I don't consent"

[wanton arch]

One time in red forest i got skif.on 20 bottles of vodka

[jolly fiber]

do you sway more by drinking more than one bottle

[wanton arch]

Shit was awesome,i was seeing sounds and hearing images

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/baki-vs-kengan-ashura-baki-hanma-smirk-gif-5256690660318355283

[jolly fiber]

ive not tried it because i care for his liver

[wanton arch]

stack to four while durations stack inf

I care fir his liver too but he needs a reward after soloing a controller witha knife

[jolly fiber]

160 standard drinks

[wanton arch]

Also protip:Hug the controller he cam only slap yo cheeks if ur closer than 5m to him

[jolly fiber]

no less than 8 will do

[finite needle]

oh they added the roar attack to the controller, so they aren't completely harmless once you get withing punching distance

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker2-nonstop-gif-7385508345518191769

[wanton arch]

yeah but it doesnt make you diabled and retarded for a period of time

[jolly fiber]

i did chuckle a bit when there have been balance concerns about the bloodsucker so they souped up the controllers, but tbh they were a bit easy mode

[finite needle]

Bloodsuckers just need less HP or to not be in groups of 3, I like the moveset. Controllers were just pitiful, the addition of zombies really doesn't help them at all, and it's a bit jarring considering how dangerous the rest of the mutants are.

[golden hazel]

The Zone? I think you mean The Bloodsucker Containment Area.

[wanton arch]

Its called thw freedomers breeding excercise facility for a reason

[jolly fiber]

it's really the roving bloodsucker gangs that are intolerable, yeah. getting stunned by one and jumped by two feels bad

[wanton arch]

They take 7 shotgun shells on rokkie

[finite needle]

I dislike that the piggies are hostile, but I suppose they just got fed up with the stalker's shit.

[jolly fiber]

i was only able to tolerate them without running away screaming once i got a combat shotgun with a mag

[golden hazel]

This is why my brothers needed to delete the barrier from canon, so that we could rid the zone of the INFIDEL named Lukash, unfortunately we were too late

[finite needle]

or make bloodsuckers rarer, not so frequent. I can count on two hands the number or boars I've killed in one run, I've doubled that number of bloodsuckers in the lesser zone I think.

Plus I love the always respawning bloodsucker you need to shoot in the face in order to reach the noontide base if you reach from north, very convenient and fun.

[jolly fiber]

i want to believe yar is still alive and will return in a DLC where you have to do something absurd like accompany him to a convenience store run by a burer and fend off an attack helicopter assault while he's making smalltalk

[wanton arch]

who the fuck is yar

[jolly fiber]

cool freedom guy from CS and CoP

[wanton arch]

oh ok

[finite needle]

I want a plotline where I can make Freedom worse (I liked the eco terrorist stoners give them back)

[wanton arch]

Also freedom is propably the morally best faction as they use the zone as it should be,They dont try to destroy or control it,just smoke crack and blow.up shit

[golden hazel]

A leader to surpass Lukash

[jolly fiber]

freedom were immature and it was great

just dude bros with SVDs

[golden hazel]

Nah, the corps is the morally best faction because it has Rizztyarev as the leader

[wanton arch]

yeah forgot abiut them

degtyarev is the bay pripyat toucher

Also how much time does.it take to complete each of the old.stalker.games? Im feeling like buying atleast CoP

[finite needle]

Stalker 2 achieved the impossible, made me pick Duty over Freedom

[finite needle]

Not very long, I think 20ish hours or so? CoP is definitely the more modern one and the closest to current stalker games.

[wanton arch]

True they jinda switched roles,now duty does the dirty work of blasting the monolit and freedom is commiting warcrimes in the arena

[golden hazel]

Took me like 20-ish hours but I liked running around collecting shit so probably less

[wanton arch]

alr was it worth it?

[golden hazel]

Ye

[wanton arch]

Nice

[finite needle]

Definitely worth it, yes.

[golden hazel]

The main story isn't much but the side plots are where CoP of Pripyat shines

[wanton arch]

Is there anyway to remove head bob? Its unrealistic and gives me heada hes also cant see shit

Like who doesnt balance his head like a fucking gyroscope?

[finite needle]

Main story is pretty much an excuse for you to go to point A to B, I don't even remember what's was all about

[golden hazel]

Helicopters are fucked up and shit go look at them, Major Rizztyarev

[wanton arch]

degtyarev is just a sigma on his adventure to find the anomalous bread

[finite needle]

That might unironically be a good synopsis of the main plot

[golden hazel]

And that's why Harpy is his number 1 fangirl

[wanton arch]

In stalker 2 The commander of icarus holding the similiar name and looks of a pretty important guy in polish history has the most rizz and is the best in my opinion , he cares about his.men.more than anything

and gas a crazy jawline

[golden hazel]

[finite needle]

Hot take, I like the sprite flavoured Spark uniform

[golden hazel]

Yes, SKEEFA, give into the sprite

[finite needle]

||Also, Spark is in CoP but suspiciously none of the members you see in that game is present in Stalker 2, I wonder why||

[wanton arch]

the ratatata at chem factory

also how did marshal get fucking kidnapped by ccon

[golden hazel]

Skill issue

[wanton arch]

i dont get the whole thing

Was it scar.or marshall when we first meet the guy in chem fac anyways?

[finite needle]

Definitely, but I think the whole ass story goes back to Clear Sky. DLCs will give us closure just like Dragon Age: Inquisition did

[golden hazel]

Marshall

[finite needle]

You don't really ever meet Scar in game

[wanton arch]

Then how the fuck during a few days he gets stolen by ccon and scar gets marshalized

[golden hazel]

Scar has been Marshall for years at this point

[wanton arch]

ornmarshal gets scarrized

[wanton arch]

yeah henlost his jawline

[finite needle]

See? Spark is more interesting than "I'm merc PMC in the zone nice, I get my apartment back", at least for me. Idk maybe I have a thing for crackheads in the zone

[split crown]

I just want them to bring back the Scar from Clear Sky...

[golden hazel]

Every ending has its own lore reveal and I loved that they actually went into good detail with each path

[wanton arch]

I liked the ward very much until subtle matter

[golden hazel]

My guess is that his memories are in another agent, possibly still working with Clear Sky since theyre still around collecting things

[wanton arch]

the ward itself is pretty fire,blasting into duga with an rpg and glutton is peak

And if the game was made earlier before the world was woke skif would propably shoot agatha at the spot end of story

[finite needle]

Man I hate that the world is now woke

The pegging sessions from the mandatory trans themfriend are starting to get tiring

[golden hazel]

[wanton arch]

wish i was there🙏

..

[golden hazel]

[wanton arch]

The 3 captains mission is peak,you get to contribute in silencing a yappy woman

Also you get the Cludtefucknwhich isnthe closest to an sr25 it can get

I love the sr25

[golden hazel]

The part when they become bros, cinema

[wanton arch]

rreal

beard is another one of the skibidi rizzlers in the zone

I would never shoot beard

May the betraying fat witch rot in hell

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/strelok-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-gif-10863075480991008005

[finite needle]

what is more homoerotic, having sex with a man or whatever beard and sultan have going

[golden hazel]

[wanton arch]

its notnbeard and sultan

Gary and hawaiiann arenhaving an absolute blast

or garry with bascially anyone

[golden hazel]

Hawaiian's aloha is so sad in this game

[finite needle]

Admittedly, he isn't in a good place mentally when you talk to him

[golden hazel]

Yeah

[wanton arch]

Notnsure about that one

[solemn horizon]

stalker 2 more like rushed ubislop

[wanton arch]

it kinda stinks of bethesda not ubi

The way you heal,the flashlight and basically wverything

[solemn horizon]

not sure if thats better

[golden hazel]

Not enough dlc to be ubislop

[wanton arch]

it feels a little fallouty

[golden hazel]

He was always there, it was an inside job

[wanton arch]

Holy fucking shit is that nacho from.breaking bad?

but seriously

who are these people

[golden hazel]

Todd Howard sabotaged HoC tuah to sell more Skyrim

https://tenor.com/view/todd-howard-howard-nodding-gif-13246550

[wanton arch]

Lets debate about stalker 2 world ehich is the only part they nailed 10/10

[finite needle]

I like the guns, atmosphere, crazy wacky story, the mutants, artifact hunting and that they kept the game very loyal to the OG trilogy at its core

[wanton arch]

They did pripyat dirty in HoC tuah

[finite needle]

They have time to improve that tho

[wanton arch]

so much fucking potential but we get "heres 2 explorable building flooded with monolith and fuck you"

It aint THAT hard to make all apartments explorable

matbe add 3 side quests and some hideouts

[golden hazel]

Maybe in the dlc

[finite needle]

Yeah I'm counting on DLC as well

[wanton arch]

I was so mad that theres no limansk and pripyat is just a shithole

Theres 20 minutes of priypyat gameplay top,,

[golden hazel]

Limansk is hinted for being part of dlc content

[wanton arch]

The fucking duga apartments arenkuch better

[finite needle]

But thing is, every issue I see with stalker 2 is something that can be fixed or added in the future, there ain't so many core issues that are unfixable or design philosophy blunders like in, idk, fallout 4?

[wanton arch]

The most random and nitnreally important place at duga has more fucking cintent

[wanton arch]

Yeah thats the good thing,thay released stalker 2 with all hard parts done like story,map,cutscenes

[finite needle]

Small hint, they have removed (possibly a bug) the fog from 2 areas close to the CNPP

[wanton arch]

and jts a gokd base to add onto

[wanton arch]

Iron foredt has litterally 0 potential

racked up.jump.and speed to 30x on wemod jumped ariund

desolate oiece of shit,i demand Limansk and more contenct for piryat n jupi

[finite needle]

Yeah taht sounds like DLC material. The radio signal you get on the bridge to Limansk makes me understand that Limansk is not a place where you want to be

[wanton arch]

If they release limansk or pripyat upgrade im selling my organs for it

[finite needle]

anyway, game has potential, and GSC, despite everything, is actually working to fix it. Someone will make it so that the game will be at its full potential, someday. I think there's worth in investing time in it.

[wanton arch]

looking at the massive progress of an update every month i speculate the first dlc will come out in december

but pripably later

If theres ni hiatus we can expect them to finish fixing the game itself in abiut 5 months

Like over half the bugs are fixed

atm

[keen minnow]

I'm getting an immense amount of hate on reddit for the mod, but honestly, this video I think proves that it IS still needed. https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1056533691

[split crown]

Hate??? Why?

[keen minnow]

who knows

[wanton arch]

why would anyone hate on you or your mod

[split crown]

And I tried my new current playthrough without your mod for a bit. The first bandits I came upon, however, lasered directly into my face with the first volleys of bullets leaving their guns. So I went directly back to using your mod. Lmao.