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

[golden hazel]

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

[split crown]

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

[jolly fiber]

he goes from monolith to form monolith

[split crown]

||Although I haven't beaten the game yet, I actually dislike the fact GSC made it impossible to not save the Noontiders; I've only fucked around in the SIRCAA headquarters as far as my progress through the game goes. Started a new game to I could choose a different path than previous choices I made in the game||

[golden hazel]

Depending on how they do the DLCs, that could change

[jolly fiber]

i think sometimes forced tragedy is necessary for a good narrative

[split crown]

True, it can be

Though also at the same time, it can make certain choices feel unnecessary no matter what you choose.

[golden hazel]

The right man in the wrong place scenario

[jolly fiber]

that can happen too

i don’t think i would have felt the same emotions ||if it was another choice branch though||

||sometimes things are just out of your control :/||

[split crown]

[golden hazel]

Imagine the DLC is Skif's brother Diff that ends up solo'ing the zone with a musket

[lime umbra]

afterall skeeefa is only 1 sdalger

[jolly fiber]

deefeh i need you to pick up my monolith crystals from owl im getting the shakes

[golden hazel]

1 socker that is canonically the strongest cause he solo'd the zone with a goddamn makarov

[jolly fiber]

not even shooting AP either

[lime umbra]

streelok solod the cnpp with only a shitty 74u and a seva without helmet

[jolly fiber]

spitfire slays though

[golden hazel]

It's obvious that Skeefa scales above all but the question is who is #1 among the og trilogy

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/reaction-my-eyes-cant-unsee-burn-gif-7225082

[jolly fiber]

scar, easily

[golden hazel]

Scar or Strelok's Hairline

[lime umbra]

and scar
is well scar

[jolly fiber]

scar achieved great things despite crippling disabilities and mental illness

[golden hazel]

The thing is, Strelok is Wesker and Scar has godmode_1

[icy basin]

Skeefe
I need to sell your TV

[split crown]

Scar becoming what he is in Stalker 2 is also kind of a big reason why I started a new game

[golden hazel]

TV HAVES WIRES SKEEFA I NEED MORE CRACK COCAINE FOR THE SHINING ZONA SKEEFA PLEAAAASE

[split crown]

dude became a living shitpost

[lime umbra]

[split crown]

instead of a living legend

[icy basin]

Scar literally got fried

[lime umbra]

yep surely thats scar

[jolly fiber]

scar may have fallen from grace but he was a fantastic character, i think that’s part of his charm

[golden hazel]

[jolly fiber]

absolute mad lad literally

[lime umbra]

i wonder what marshall thinks of how scar is now

[split crown]

idk I may do a playthrough (again) where I side with Spark and Scar, but as of right now I'm seeing what the Ward can do for me

[golden hazel]

[jolly fiber]

ask not what the ward can do for you but what you can do for the ward

[split crown]

thanks Ivan F. Kennedev

[golden hazel]

Korshunov is such a G though

[split crown]

yeah I like Korshunov's composure tbh

[golden hazel]

It's a shame that Ward is corrupt as fuck

[split crown]

Idk, they seem fine thus far. If anything, it's SIRCAA that seems rather corrupt. I'm sure I'll find out more once I beat the game of course.

[golden hazel]

Ward/SIRCAA are the same damn thing

[split crown]

Fuck SIRCAA; the Ward don't need no haughty ass scientists

[split crown]

Ward is hired on as a personal security/army to keep SIRCAA safe

[jolly fiber]

by the way, I haven’t finished it yet, but is the gen 4 deus ex exo from the SIRCAA lobby available in game?

[split crown]

as I understand things anyway

[icy basin]

Ward if SIRCAA wasn't involved
<Insert technological utopia meme here>

[golden hazel]

Yeah that's the gist of it

[split crown]

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

[golden hazel]

But once you start digging into the Ward lore you'll find that they're corrupt as well, I won't elaborate so you find out why

[split crown]

appreciate it gamer

will be nice & cool if decisions I make can alter any of that

[jolly fiber]

everyone is corrupt except hamster

[split crown]

Hamster is just Sidorovich Jr.

[jolly fiber]

and hamster is corrupt

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/hamster-do-a-back-flip-gif-15498679784377498556

[jolly fiber]

where did you get that footage of him avoiding his responsibilities

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-anomaly-pszeudo-kutya-lurker-gif-25686637

[golden hazel]

All you have to do is walk into Zalissya

[jolly fiber]

by the way

[split crown]

more like lag your way in with 6 fps to spare

[jolly fiber]

cause the AI still hasn’t learned anomaly sensing from lex the legend anomaly fields are really useful for squad wiping without wasting ammo

[split crown]

Lex the legend
I'm actually curious what happens when you pay him money for "advice"

will probably save and do it to see if he runs outta bullshit to say

[jolly fiber]

it’s a whole mini quest it’s fantastic

don’t kill him when you get the dialogue options, just roll with it

[golden hazel]

Lex was also a character in CoP btw

[split crown]

Oooh okay. Because yeah I chased him down to Zaton in my previous playthrough without giving him a single coupon

[split crown]

no way

[golden hazel]

Yes way

[jolly fiber]

me too, I didn’t pay him

whether you pay him or not he teaches you valuable things about the zone

truly great teacher

[golden hazel]

Rizztyarev is the best teacher

[split crown]

truly

[proud ruin]

[golden hazel]

[proud ruin]

[dreamy thicket]

Run the game after 1.2 - NPC shoots me from 100m tru everything - close the game. End

[golden hazel]

Run the game after 1.2 - it instantly crashes

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/bane-the-dark-knight-rises-no-survivors-with-no-survivors-tom-hardy-gif-21912818

[golden hazel]

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

[wispy cove]

I bought it like the day it cane out. The gameplay isn't awful or anything, but I was pissed about the space part. Which was what I was looking forward to the most. But oh well I'm playing STALKER 2 now and having a blast

[blissful zinc]

Morrowind, Skyrim and fall out 4 and new Vegas best rpg of its gent

[gleaming hedge]

myself i just tab out and back in to see if the fps jumps back to 50-60 cause it isn't just AMD drivers that are incredibly stupid sometimes

[split crown]

yeah, I pause my game, alt tab, etc. to fix shit sometimes.

[gleaming hedge]

ehhh, me on the other hand, when i still had starfield installed and needed to sleep early, i just fired it right up and ended up sleepy within like 15 minutes

better than fallout 4 for that

didn't help that it played like a slideshow on the ole 1660s

might not play nice on this RTX3060 either, gonna find out later... much, much later

think i'm gonna wait for TES VI to drop so i can look back at starfield and be like "aight it wasn't all that bad, let's go play it"

[proud ruin]

They’re all mid except new Vegas and Bethesda didn’t make it

[tacit glacier]

friggin

Another hack I think @icy basin

rip stalker 2 media

[signal berry]

Hi guys i'm new here

[tacit glacier]

Be warned
If you ask about gamma in stalker 2 chat you'll get yeeted.

It is how it is xD
Go to #╟🔰☢newbies-chat

[signal berry]

sorry i can't see any gamma chat

[signal berry]

okay thanks

[tacit glacier]

👍

[golden hazel]

Me when no matter what I do the game crashes instantly

[tacit glacier]

lmao

[golden hazel]

I wish I could download an old version

[tacit glacier]

Nah that was about R0N getting hacked and spamming links to "legit™️" $50 Gift cards.

[golden hazel]

That's been happening a lot recently

[tacit glacier]

What's next? Another Roblox raid?

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

wait did something else happen aside from last night's fiasco?

[golden hazel]

Not blinding enough, needs more realism

[tacit glacier]

Anyway, as I was saying before.
RIP #╟📸stalker2™-media - 2024.11.20 - 2025.02.17

[tacit glacier]

R0N got hacked, got their acc back and then got banned off the server by Dry

[split crown]

KEK

[tacit glacier]

Getting banned so we don't get banned o7

[golden hazel]

More realistic now

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/reaction-my-eyes-cant-unsee-burn-gif-7225082

[golden hazel]

That's what UE6 is gonna be like

Eh maybe a bit blurrier tbh

[icy basin]

They likely got his token anyway

[golden hazel]

rip

[tacit glacier]

If he managed to change the password in time the token is reset

But we'll have to see.

[icy basin]

If anything he can just add me through the ban message or appeal with an alt account

(The ban message conveniently tells you who banned you, with a profile link)

[golden hazel]

[tacit glacier]

Fun xD

[icy basin]

I've had to report a few accounts Steam to for nazi spam in my profile comments

[tacit glacier]

Anyway can someone clean #╟📸stalker2™-media and lift the lockdown so people can start posting stalker 2 screenshots/videos there again?

The bot lives

Had to check

[icy basin]

Xela was never killed

[tacit glacier]

Just got exploited the heck out of

[golden hazel]

Just got hit with the scorcher

[split crown]

is there any way to get rid of "quest" PDAs? I'm way past the Lesser Zone by now, yet I'm unable to drop Mug's PDA lol.

[golden hazel]

Normally? no

[split crown]

thanks GSC

[golden hazel]

[tacit glacier]

Anyway I think the lockdown happened when S5n3T hit the server wide lockdown @icy basin

[icy basin]

Ah

[tacit glacier]

Though there are messages 10 minutes after that

[golden hazel]

[tacit glacier]

Good server lockdown
Doesn't lockdown the server

At least instantly

[split crown]

[finite needle]

A bit heavy handed, but this was always the game's intention, that mutants are better avoided, which is why I dislike being forced to kill mutants in order ti use artifacts

[split crown]

I actually enjoy mutie hunting. Gives me a sense of actually clearing out the zone, even if it is just a little at a time.

Scavenging parts off of them is a nice bonus.

[golden hazel]

Unfortunately the game....

!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]

I miss the 1.0.0 balancing ngl

[split crown]

wdym

[golden hazel]

The more expensive everything, the tankier mutants

[tacit glacier]

Ah yes

Flesh Pigs that took 6 shotgun shells to die while in other games it always took one.

[split crown]

yeah nah
fuck allat

[split crown]

yeah if you're shoving buckshot right into the face of a flesh, I'd full well expect it to die in one if not two blasts.

[finite needle]

Tankier bloodsucker gangs in lesser zone was fantastic, saves me the time to flog myself in the morning

[split crown]

And, with the Better Ballistics mod, this is the case with shotguns; fleshes die in 2 blasts

[ashen plinth]

Nya

[golden hazel]

Skeletor?

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/skeletor-running-away-escape-nope-hell-no-gif-11230077378159241796

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/russian-car-vaz-gif-27185015

[tacit glacier]

Flinstones

[golden hazel]

Blyatstones

[finite needle]

Skeefa exploring the zone using the car he bought from those scammers be like:

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

Just your average day at the Slag Heap

[golden hazel]

They must've pissed off Max Booba

[split crown]

more like they pissed off the zone; I think they were stuck on the roof and fell off during an emission

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

always funny how there's always at least a few fellas in settlements that still manage to die during emissions.

!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 game truly is still being held together by duct tape

[split crown]

I've also noticed that my footsteps are muted in some areas. Not sure if it's a specific floor type or what

[proud ruin]

I really hope in dlcs they add more side quests for rostok and yanov ect

Feels like there is 1/3rd that type of content there should be

Also a romance Sidorovich mechanic

[split crown]

romance him with 2 bullet wounds to the back of his skull

[proud ruin]

Don’t talk about my lover like that

[split crown]

he doesn't love you; he loves your money

[proud ruin]

[split crown]

btw, anyone know if any of the carry limit mods are up-to-date/working?

[icy basin]

One automod edit later

[potent forge]

What's Dex talking about

[icy basin]

Carry weight increase mods

[tacit glacier]

bruh
Somebody fell for the hack xd

[tacit glacier]

Doesn't beat the staemcomunility link I once saw

I instantly noticed the misplaced ae but not the comunility instead of community

[icy basin]

[drowsy umbra]

also, did anyone notice how the area around cement factory and cooling towers have no main quest use at all?

(except for that one final main quest)

[shell wave]

Guys, I have a problem. According to the plot, Ward has already left the Terrikon (base on Dump), but the loudspeaker is still Ward's. What could be the problem? Could it be because there are 2 Ward fighters left at the base? They just can't leave the Terrikon. They are standing in one place

[icy basin]

For those unaware, VARTA is Ward in non-English dub

[drowsy umbra]

what is the terrikon?

[modern crater]

Hellou there

[shell wave]

base on Dump

[full hollow]

How do i kill the psi dogs in the arena

[warped nebula]

Jump on the boxes, use pistol to find real psi dog. After you do, spam him with the shotgun. Don't lose track of it. Easy after that.

[full hollow]

It spawns fake pseudodogs inside of itself

Where's Waldo ahh

[waxen island]

hey guys im planning to buy stalker and you have some mods for better experience or they fixed everything that was not okay?

[shell wave]

Mutant Loot
OXA+LNA
Large Loot Box
Ultimate Stash Upgrade
NPCs drop armor (Balanced)
Maklane's Better gunfights 2.5 - NO Aimbot NPCs
Maklane's Better Zone - Total Overhaul (at your own discretion)
No (or reduced) weight for ammo nades meds and food (I choose 50%)
Reduced Repair Cost (I choose on 80%)
Grok's Modular Mutants Health (I choose Balanced for All)
Fully Unlocked Ballistics and Range
Ledge Grabbing (I chosoe Lower)
Axxii's Stealth Mod
Readable Ammo
Adjustable Carry Weight (I have enough 100kg)
Shay's - Living Zone (SLZ) - an A-Life ( alife ) mod OR A-Life Extended

[waxen island]

thanks bro

[shell wave]

i need advice what better Shay's - Living Zone or A-Life Extended ?

[strange heath]

id say shays or FaW
extended isnt really updated

[muted stone]

Is there a mod yet that alters artifact descriptions so they don't read like radiation: probably, weight: lots

[shell wave]

Longer days isn't work ?

[full hollow]

Question how do psi dogs (fake ones) do damage when it's a projection

[mortal viper]

but i shot sultan like a damn pesant

his ghost in is telling everyone when storms are coming now

[full hollow]

Sultan is still in hoc?

[mortal viper]

thats anomly gamma

[full hollow]

Why are you in stalker 2 channel then?

[mortal viper]

regular stalker channel is locked for me

yk after the bot invite invasion

[full hollow]

Use newbie Chat room

[mortal viper]

nah

lol

[full hollow]

Anyways just found out

Idk if this is a spoiler but apparently if you make it past red forest you can get diamond exo

[mortal viper]

a diamond exo?

[muted stone]

https://tenor.com/view/didnt-think-so-morpheus-matrix-oh-well-hmm-gif-25357141

Your mind makes it real

[mortal viper]

ok what the hell just happened? i quickly closed and opened my inv and i mustve miclicked something cuz when i closed my guy opened the pdi, closed it then started bobbinh his head while cheeki breeki was playing

i kept my scar artefact on, that is what happened

[shadow storm]

scar artefact will make you do things

[mortal viper]

yea its pretty helarious, its an op artefact util you forget to take it off

murder is fun

mass murder is even more fun

[tacit glacier]

!topic

[fallen iron]

@tacit glacier

S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2-related gameplay Discussions.

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[mortal viper]

im sorry im sorry

[warped monolith]

[warped monolith]

it's not murder, it's self defense

[mortal viper]

its more like joining freedom and having to kill every living creature in rostok so i could easily visit my loner homies in rookie village

[full hollow]

How do we even bleed from it

Also the propane tanks kinda help

[warped monolith]

the matrix gif is very appropriate here. If the illusion is strong enough to make your mind think you're being hacked to bits by wolves that don't actually exist...

[full hollow]

I wish there was psi health and not it combined into one health bar

[warped monolith]

like chernobylite?

[jovial berry]

Get Real Longer Days

[warped monolith]

recent updates probably broke that mod. Look for Feliche's Real Longer Days on nexus

[covert flower]

Do any of you know if there's an option to remove "visual interaction key" like when you get close to a door it says "F open" or a mod that does it

[shell wave]

Am I the only one who feels like optimization has dropped after the last patch?

[full hollow]

Never played it and meant like anomaly

[warped monolith]

[full hollow]

Wait is it gamma doing the psy health or is it vanilla

[warped monolith]

Vanilla didn't have psy health. You took psy damage directly to your overall red health bar

maybe it had a status effect icon similar to bleed and radiation but I can't remember...

[full hollow]

Psy dog phantoms didn't do damage back then now they do in hoc

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/upgrades-neo-matrix-gif-26140757

[full hollow]

https://tenor.com/view/this-this-is-glorp-this-is-glorpshit-gif-5930131520514232711

[warped monolith]

I think they did deal damage to you in Anomaly

but again I don't remember I'm probably wrong.

[finite needle]

Stalker 2 way of doing psy damage might be even worse than psy ghosts. I don't think we've ever had a good psy mechanic

[warped monolith]

These games (Stalker, Metro, even Fallout) always throw psyker enemies at you... I want a game in this or a similar setting where WE can be psykers

[covert flower]

There could be a mod where you play as a monolithian with semi-free will and an rpg element would be "Granted wishes" that unlocks psi powers via the monolith (I just thought about it, no idea if its lore friendly or already talked about)

[warped monolith]

only Eidolon had actual "powers" iirc

the rest were just brainwashed goons

[covert flower]

can the monolith not do anything else but control brains?

[undone summit]

Not quite
SHoC did have a Psy health. You had to bring up your inventory to see the blue health bar. Yes the very same that's used for your armor condition when outside your inventory
There was also a status icon much like bleed and hunger, that was indicative of your Psi health

[warped monolith]

Wish Granter does all sorts of bizarre shit to Strelok in SoC's bad endings

[undone summit]

It's not clear if it actually happens or if it's all psi hallucinations

That mask the actual brainwashing

[warped monolith]

[finite needle]

self harm caused by allucinations? You do see some shit but in reality you see how Strelok dies in some of the endings, the rich one come to mind.

[undone summit]

Maybe not self harm. Could be psi radiation or straight up actual radiation
The Geiger counter does scream constantly all the while you're in the sarcophagus

[finite needle]

||When you are almost killed by the wish granter in SIRCAA, there are no radiations.||

Might be a combination of both for the SoC Wish Granter, but I wouldn't exclude the psychosis as a cause of harm or death among the main causes, considering how the wish granter can and will manipulate humans

[undone summit]

||Maybe it was a controlled environment?||

Idunno, I love the ambiguity of it all. When you can't explain the mystery, you start believing weird shit

[finite needle]

Yeah the fact that is very ambiguos is nice, although I do prefer the self harm caused by psychosis theory, personally.

Which means, you attack headfirst an entire base full of PMC. Of course you're gonna die.

[wary orbit]

What did you call my mother?

[finite needle]

I'm sorry your mom is german

[wary orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-anger-pixar-inside-out-aaah-gif-5628546

[warped monolith]

he turns himself into a pickle chrome statue
funniest shit I've ever seen

[finite needle]

I mean, if you believe to be a statue and stop moving/breathing/thinking because of the conviction, is it really that much different from becoming an actual statue? We're talking space nuclear psycho wizardry magic, could how it works for all I know.

[warped monolith]

dunno how strong/believable the illusion would have to be to make someone not even attempt to move or breathe

basic survival instinct and whatnot... there would have to be a struggle

[finite needle]

Enough to brainwash pretty much every single stalker that ever came close to touching the thing, apparently

I don't think you can have a satisfactory explanation, it's the noosphere I ain't gotta explain shit works for me.

[undone summit]

Brainwashing is strong enough to make a mono prisoner to instantly fling his own head into a wall and kill himself the moment his captors were distracted

[warped monolith]

yeah but being brainwashed into "behaving like a statue" is counter-productive to the entire brainwashing thing

you're not getting a new soldier for your ranks that way

[finite needle]

Yeah maybe it didn't want another soldier

[warped monolith]

doubt

[finite needle]

Anyway, some shit does happen offscreen, pretty sure some bandits just offed and looted a couple loners very close to my position, because I found some lootable bodies but they were empty except a bottle of water and a sausage. Great loot.

[warped monolith]

holy shit... does this mean

[lavish pelican]

I'm on "In Search for a Guide" mission. How far in to the main story am I? No spoilers.

[warped monolith]

THE GAME HAS A-LIFE?

[finite needle]

||You just have to be very close to the events for them to unfold ||

[finite needle]

Not even half

[lavish pelican]

Thanks.

[finite needle]

Oh yeah the lost boys quest is kinda bugged, it now treats as default you killing The Ninth instead of siding with him. I don't think it really adds much to gameplay, but still, it's amazing I still find shit that's fucked up every new playthrouhg. Really the Cyberpunk 2077 of our age.

[ocean laurel]

guys anyone else is playing this game without undervolting your gpus? with my 3060 12gb 2 fans im getting 70-75c without undervolt and when is applied i got 65c

[finite needle]

No offense mate, but I don't even know what you just said

[cosmic rune]

are artifacts still craftable

[finite needle]

In GAMMA? Yeah. Not in Stalker 2 tho.

[warped monolith]

damn. they haven't fixed it

[warped monolith]

undervolting your gpu means reducing the amount of power it gets from the psu.
It may generally improve its lifespan and in some cases might even improve performance, as crazy as it sounds

[undone summit]

Good thing I did that quest before the patch lmao

[warped monolith]

it was bugged in v1.0 as well.
I took a neutral stance and they still treated me like I sided with the Ninth

or idk maybe that's intended because by being neutral, the stalkers think "if you're not with me, you're against me"

Lazy writing, but... possible. Likely, even.

[undone summit]

I defended him and it was treated as such, Lens even gave skif a sermon about how he may be new but Monolithians are monsters nevertheless and all

[warped monolith]

I guess I should've learned the lesson the Witcher games teach

being neutral just means you get fucked by both sides

[finite needle]

Witcher 1 neutral route is best one tbh

[limpid nest]

So does anyone want to explain to me the ending I got? sided against the ward, spark/scar, and strelok and let the doctor live, and in the ending cutscene it showed Faust alive disguised as the doctor?

[fast stirrup]

Brazilian guys online??? 👀

[golden hazel]

You got the project Y ending

[limpid nest]

Okay but does that mean that the dotor was faust the whole time?

[golden hazel]

Yes

[wanton arch]

GSC is literally preparing Stalker 2 for GAMMA, this is insane

[limpid nest]

then what happened to the real doctor that strelok wanted me to kill? do we ever really see the real doctor in stalker 2?

[golden hazel]

Faust is the real doctor

[limpid nest]

but that means during previous games he wasn't really part of monolith

[golden hazel]

Lots of stuff got retconned to be fair

[limpid nest]

So was C-consciousness real or just an illlusion? what about the shining zone /subtle matter?

[lime umbra]

i wouldnt even call gamma a total conversion tho

[golden hazel]

C-Con was real, then they died, subtle matter is also real but not the "immortality" solution it was said to be, just an imprint of your conciousness in the noosphere

The shining zone was a backup plan by the C-Con to regain hold of the Zone

[limpid nest]

so when we saw C-consiousness in game, it was just an illusion at that point?

[lime umbra]

and Mar- Scar was made to have it spread

[lime umbra]

its an imprint of them on the noosphere
a copy

[limpid nest]

okay got it

[lime umbra]

play soma youll understand what i mean

[limpid nest]

Soma?

[lime umbra]

scifi horror

the premise of soma is about the same to what the ccon does with its shinny zone and sublte matter

[golden hazel]

SKEEEFAAA WE NEED MORE COPPER WIRE FOR THE SHINING ZONE

[lime umbra]

SKEEEEFAAAA

[limpid nest]

So the Shining zone was a lie made back when Ccon was alive to trick people into letting them out all over the zone?

[lime umbra]

kinda
its not exactly fake either
But its an illusion to those alive

so in a sense it allows you to "talk" with the dead

[finite needle]

||Scar's end game is Final Fantasy x||

[golden hazel]

SKEEEEFA WE MUST GO TO ZANARKAND

[undone summit]

Wait that's real?

[finite needle]

I gotta buy FF7 Rebirth I think

[golden hazel]

Big sword guy with the big sword uses big sword to be the big sword guy, classic game

[wanton arch]

Yeah modio integration has been there since 1.0, but only in 1.2 debug tools is it actually openable

[undone summit]

Man these debug tools are crazy
First the photo mode from way earlier, then this

Neat

[left zinc]

guys is stalker 2 worh it ?

[warped monolith]

[warped monolith]

That would be true if GAMMA was a total conversion

[lime umbra]

[warped monolith]

it's a nearly total overHAUL of the game's systems

[lime umbra]

gamma ?

it really isnt

its still anomaly with bits bolted on

a total conversion is like playing HOI4 and turning on a mod that turns the entire game and map into shit like lord of the rings

[warped monolith]

overhaul, I said

as in it changes much of the stuff working under the hood, but not the audiovisuals or the core gameplay

TC mod includes shit like Batman Doom, Desert Combat for BF1942 and so on

[lime umbra]

ooh yeah oops

[waxen island]

hello everyone im experiencing low fps like 40/50 just started the game on epic and low there is not much diffrence my specs are i5 12400f rtx 3080 32gb ram ddr5 anybody know how can i boost it a bit?\

[wanton arch]

Compared to base CoP, it's like the total-est conversion

[warped monolith]

no, it isn't

[lime umbra]

but we dont compare gamma to cop
we compare it to anomaly

and gamma is just anomaly+

[wanton arch]

Technically it is, since first of all it's running on an open source fork of a fork of a fork of X-Ray 1.6, and then the assets are completely reworked in every single way, basically just turning it into the most total of the most total conversions possible

[lime umbra]

thats anomalys feat then
not gammas

[finite needle]

But even then, it's not a total conversion

[wanton arch]

That's Last Day's feat not Anomaly's
That's Call of Misery's feat not Last Day's
That's Call of Chornobyl's / Misery's feat not Call of Misery's
...

[lime umbra]

the thing here is that all of these have been mods
while anomaly is a GAME

[warped monolith]

you have no idea what 'total conversion' means

[wanton arch]

GAMMA is a great thing of its own built upon the work of giants before, you cannot take that away from it by claiming "hurr durr anomaly's feat"

[golden hazel]

🍿

[lime umbra]

its anomalies work
gamma juts changes the work anomaly has made

[finite needle]

Dude has depicted yall as the virgins, it's over

[wanton arch]

Technically they're all standalone mods, except for Misery, so really according to your definition, they're all "games"

[finite needle]

He's already depicting himself as the chad

[warped monolith]

gamma is nothing but a salad of anomaly mods, so basically... all of gamma's merits are anomaly's merits

[finite needle]

But in all seriousness I'll sit this one out

[finite needle]

S K E E F A

[wanton arch]

GAMMA has done an incredible job totally converting Anomaly, honestly it's like a thing of its own that has grown more massive

[lime umbra]

anomalies modding community

[lime umbra]

again its not even a total conversion
its an overhaul

[wanton arch]

Technically Anomaly is also a modpack for CoC, with the milestone that sets it apart being the Monolith fork of Opena Xray

[warped monolith]

technically technically technically technically...

TECHNICALLY, a "total conversion" involves complete replacement of assets.
Neither Anomaly or GAMMA do that.

[lime umbra]

a total conversion would be turning it into star wars with its unique force mechanics

[wanton arch]

Considering they're based on CoP, yes they replace everything

[warped monolith]

... are you being serious right now.

[lime umbra]

anomaly does
gamma doesnt

[full hollow]

I remember I sent a picture of some dude cosplaying a burer

[wanton arch]

well yeah if you trace the lineage back, CoP is the basis

[lime umbra]

yoda burers

[wanton arch]

But okay, let's stop this conversation, we've strayed too much from Stalker 2

[warped monolith]

they didn't replace the map.
they didn't replace the npcs
they didn't replace the mutants
they didn't replace the guns

it's not a TC.

[lime umbra]

the brain has unfarted

[wanton arch]

ugh okay, just one last message, then I swear I'll stop

Gamma, being a very modded CoP, did replace the maps (as in modded the level.spawns), replaced the NPCs, mutants, guns, even modded basic AI logic and systems

And that's why it would totally belong in the Total Conversion section of the Stalker 2 Mod.io menu.
And that's why Grok needs to Grok all over Stalker 2 as soon as possible

[golden hazel]

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

[wanton arch]

If Grok doesn't grok Stalker 2 then I'll grok myself

[lime umbra]

halo 2 is a total conversion of halo CE

[warped monolith]

another perfect example of a TC mod

[lime umbra]

[warped monolith]

bid for power for Quake 3

[wanton arch]

Jeez, now I see why everyone makes fun of this place for the opinions...

[lime umbra]

hoi4 got many and many are funny

[warped monolith]

I couldn't imagine why

[lime umbra]

being wrong isnt an opinion

[wary orbit]

But a option

[final lance]

on my rx 7700xt i got 67c with 1150mV, without uv and my fans are at 35-40%

[warped monolith]

says the most "technically" incorrect things imaginable
muh opinions

[lime umbra]

American grass moment

[golden hazel]

Me finally finding a method I hadn't tried to get the game running, then finally getting an error code I could diagnose, only to find out the method that I used to get the error code caused it

Game still won't run what the hell GSC

[wanton arch]

What is the problem

[finite needle]

Anbennar is a total conversion

[golden hazel]

The game crashes instantly after launching it and gives no reasoning to why it does

[wanton arch]

ctrl+v after crash

in my DMs

[finite needle]

I imagine you already tried redownloading and validating but anyway I'll tell you to do it

[golden hazel]

Multiple times yeah

[wanton arch]

Since we are providing tech support, I'll have to ask you to validate again, and re-download the 150gb game again

[golden hazel]

I removed a file a little while ago to make sure it's actually validating stuff a few minutes ago

[warped monolith]

have you tried turning it off and on again

[wanton arch]

run sfc scannow

redownload windows

[golden hazel]

It's literally only HoC tuah doing this bs

[finite needle]

Try on another PC to make sure you've not been cursed

[wanton arch]

Redownload your RAM
https://downloadmoreram.com

[golden hazel]

[wanton arch]

Nah but it would be pretty cool to read what the error is

[golden hazel]

There is no error

[wanton arch]

There's always an error somewhere. Checked the log files?

[golden hazel]

The log files only have what I'm guessing are the addresses of where the bugsplats get sent

[warped monolith]

karma for making fun of Scar all this time

[lime umbra]

It could be an incorrect setting
You could just delete the .ini and see of that fixes it

[warped monolith]

I'm scared of reinstalling the game and it not working for me as well

[golden hazel]

Nope, still crashes

[lime umbra]

Checked if s2 process is still running ?

[golden hazel]

I feel like it might have some dependancies that came in 1.0.0 and at some point they removed one of them in the later releases, but I would need get my hands on 1.0.0 first

[golden hazel]

It ded 100%

[lime umbra]

🏴‍☠️

[golden hazel]

Wasn't there a way to get older releases on steam though?

[lime umbra]

Through the betas menu

But it's not there always for all games

[finite needle]

Could be your anti virus, I had avast nuking some stuff for me, including Anomaly

[golden hazel]

I don't have one

[finite needle]

"Everyone has an antivirus, you dipshit. It came free with your fucking PC"

[golden hazel]

Defender hasn't locked down any of the files either

[finite needle]

Yeah I suspected as much. Those are the main reasons why the game would just whimper and die before even starting. The format PC and reinstall windows strat might be working, just saying. Not sure Stalker 2 is worth the hassle

[golden hazel]

I doubt it'd work ngl

I play Rivals, which is another UE5 game and it runs fine

Empty logs, no reasoning to why it crashes, shit is fucked up and regarded

[finite needle]

Maybe next patch, but it looks like one of those hopeless situations in which your particular config just hates the game and won't run it no matter what.

[golden hazel]

Gonna try to get 1.0.0 first to see if my hypothesis is correct

I'm in

[lime umbra]

[golden hazel]

Fuckin GSC forcing me to use a console

This is all a part of Todd Howard's plan to make me buy Skyrim, but I shall NOT play that game

[lime umbra]

[smoky badge]

[warped monolith]

you can't stop him

[golden hazel]

I may not be able to stop him but I can delay him

[wanton arch]

1.0.0 is straight up not worth it. 1.0.2 at least lets you play around with debug tools.

Actually you can even run the old debug tools on anything pre-1.1

[golden hazel]

It downloaded the current version

Nah, I'm done

[full hollow]

Why is the boomstick so garbage

I shot a dog point blank with it and it didn't hit it

With sluh

[golden hazel]

Early guns have the absolute worst stats

[full hollow]

Im playing xbox

[warped monolith]

my condolences

[golden hazel]

[full hollow]

I'm in the arena

I almost got it

The real one can be seen by being bloody from shooting it I ended up dying because a blind dog bled me

I got it

[warped monolith]

you got this

[golden hazel]

he got this

[split crown]

I actually really like the break-action shotgun quite a bit

da Toz

[golden hazel]

We're talking about vanilla HoC tuah you goober

[split crown]

even on vanilla I still love it

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

I shot one irl like 4 months ago at an outdoor range, and it's so cool & fun.

[golden hazel]

It really do be a shotgun

[jolly rapids]

Who pingethed

[steady pawn]

i really want to play and enjoy stalker 2 but i just can't get it to look as crispy as anomaly or gamma. there's too much blurring

[potent forge]

What's Dex talking about?

[warped monolith]

tozzing all over the place

[golden hazel]

[full hollow]

A grav anomaly threw me from red forest to yaniv and I lived

[golden hazel]

Oh yeah that's the warper

Such a nice thing to exist

[full hollow]

And I got struck by lightning

And lived

[golden hazel]

Crispy

[full hollow]

Bro how can zombies tank 45 but go down with 9x19

Two mags of 45 and nothing

No exo zombie

[golden hazel]

Guns do the damage, not the round

[full hollow]

Udp compact

And I was also using the integral

A

[golden hazel]

Integral does waaaay more damage than the udp

[full hollow]

Are key coded door codes random gen?

[golden hazel]

No

[full hollow]

Do you know the one in yaniv?

[golden hazel]

Not off the top of my head, no

[full hollow]

Found it anyways

[shell wave]

Does anyone know why the Ward's loudspeaker at the "Slag Heap" base doesn't turn off after the Ward leaves the base?

[full hollow]

Is the loot randomized tho? I found a lmg a shotgun a bizon a pump action shotgun and a svu

Svu is the only mint condition gun

[golden hazel]

Loot is randomized yeah

Wait no actually you said it was a door, those aren't as far as I know

Just the backpacks have random loot

[split crown]

I Toz'd

[full hollow]

I got the diamond exo

[potent forge]

You said that you went to the range and shot guns, do you live in America?

[split crown]

Yes

[potent forge]

Based, me too. I will probably take my coworker to the range this Spring to teach him how to shoot.

[split crown]

Hell yeah. I believe everyone should take the time to learn proper firearm safety and know-how. Recreational target shooting is good fun.

[warped monolith]

I wish it wasn't so damn expensive and full of red tape and hoops to jump through

[jolly fiber]

shooting in VR is great

no ammo costs, no licenses, no storage and safety concerns, no thousands spent on gun and paperwork

[warped monolith]

don't have VR either

[full hollow]

Real

[potent forge]

I agree. I just want to wait until it is warmer outside. Driving to the range on back country roads in the snow is not only unsafe, but, not very fun, as well. I also want to finish my ZPAP M70 remilitarization project, and I want to finish fixing my Colt CR6920, and maybe purchase some 7.7MM Jap ammunition for my Type 99 Arisaka, (shorty,) before I take him out shooting. I want to give him an experience.

[split crown]

[potent forge]

Trust me, as someone who enjoys Communist designed firearms, I feel you there. Ammunition prices are insane. And, Russian imports practically are non-existent, and the ones that are floating around in this country cost more than they're pragmatically worth, in my opinion. Why should I drop $6,000 on an SLR, when I can just buy a really crappy PSA AK as a range toy? I really hope that President Trump ends this bullshit right now so that we can get Ukrainian weapon imports and maybe, just maybe, the Russian imports again, too. Make communist guns cheap again!

[split crown]

Your coworker is in for a real treat

[split crown]

100% agreed

also lol, lmao at PSA AKs. Range toys indeed.

I'm forever disappointed in any American made AK

[golden hazel]

Aren't those the ones that grenade themselves

[split crown]

No, not necessarily. You're thinking of Century Arms AKs

[potent forge]

True. However, nothing quite is more therapeutic than having a real steel firearm in your hands, and shooting at a target with real bullets, and the smell, and the bang, and the badaboom, and seeing the dust kick up. 😤 It's honestly almost as good as sex. Maybe better sometimes.

[potent forge]

Yeah, but he is paying for the ammo! 😁

[split crown]

but PSA AKs also have their fair share of issues; such as internal parts becoming damaged before even reaching 1,000 rounds fired through the rifles, malfunctions that shouldn't be occurring whilst shooting, and probably some other issues I'm not even aware of yet.

[split crown]

lmao fair enough

[split crown]

Caveat on this is: the AKs which Century Arms imports are good to go; however, the AKs they make themsevles in-house are not to be trusted.

[split crown]

Yeah, VR will never replace real life shooting imo. Just 100% wouldn't hit the same.

[potent forge]

Yeah, I purchased one of the AK-74s. I put about, 1000 rounds through it. So far, it's holding up. Most of the complaints about their AKs are from the 7.62 models. Not very many in relationship to their '74 models. I dressed it up with plum polymer, (with the top handguard being legitimate Russian army battlefield pickup from the 2nd Chechen war,) but the PSA receiver is shaped differently than the Russian OG AK-74s, so I had to opt for a PSA made lower plum handguard. I also rubberbanded the stock, complete with a little medical kit inside of it, (same as the bandages in STALKER,) and I threw on a genuine KOBRA onto it, and I have an AK-74 bayonet of Russian manufacture as well. It's a cool build.

[split crown]

damn you really did kit that thing up. Nice man

Yeah I don't want any of these rifles to have the issues some people are experiencing; if anything I really just want PSA's (and Century Arms's for that matter) quality control to improve with time.

[potent forge]

I opted for an M70. I traded an old and beat up Russian SKS-45 and a really shoddily built AK with Russian parts for it. Both firearms had receiver damage and would have required about $1,000 or more to actually repair and bring them up to speed. At that point, I just wanted a practical 7.62MM AK that was an import and the M70 was there so I washed my hands of them and got the Serbian war crime machine. Some people give me grief over trading a Russian SKS-45 for it, but, eh. I put about 4,000 rounds down that rifles pipe, she was a fairly used girl, and she was beaten up. Let her have a new life with someone else.

I'm pretty big into AKs, and after extensive research I came to the conclusion that from a design history standpoint, the M70s are the best built AKs, and the only current AK-47 variant, (not AKM,) being imported into the country as of present. So, that's why I opted for it.

Honestly, other than shooting guns, my favorite thing to do with them is to customize them, and kit them out. If you placed me in a garage full of guns and gun parts, and told me that it would be my job to just build guns, oh man, I would be a kid in a candy shop. Life dream: Achieved. I'd watch something and just clone it. To almost autistic levels of detail. If only... 😔

[split crown]

Sounds like a fine trade to me. I'd probably have done the same.

[split crown]

Yeah, the AK platform is my favorite by far.

I've got a battlefield pick-up Romanian AK myself.

[split crown]

So you'd 100% be a tech in Stalker 2

[jolly fiber]

it’s fun, but i can’t really do that in my country without a lot of overhead

the tradeoff for low rates of gun violence is sadly difficulty getting close to firearms, but I wouldn’t have it any other way tbh

I use this thing - https://www.acexr.com

got a staccato p handset with a holster. pretty fun

[potent forge]

Nice, bro

[split crown]

[split plank]

Some days ago, I finished the game... I started a new second game cuz it's a lot of fun

[smoky rivet]

How do you play games as a deaf demisexual

[split plank]

🤨

[warped monolith]

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-of-chernobyl-televizor-tv-stalker-tv-gif-2191931923659005392

[golden hazel]

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

[naive ridge]

Hello everyone, please tell me how many hours it takes to download mods from the gamma launcher

[golden hazel]

10 years

[split crown]

Wrong channel, but it takes maybe 10 min at most

[unkempt quest]

Anyone have sensitivity recommendations for console? The very large deadzone is making it very hard to aim

[neat elm]

not here

[split crown]

[neat elm]

in afhanistan slow conexion

[split crown]

Oooh

Huh, for whatever reason, Huron's inventory isn't resetting at the Slag Heap in my game; so he's just chilling in his chair with over 330 KGs of stuff on him

[proud ruin]

[proud ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/wesker-albert-albert-wesker-resident-evil-resident-evil-4-gif-5143688443782660001

[wary orbit]

All ur chat is belong to Pineapple 🍍 Pizza 🍕

[golden hazel]

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

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-anime-gif-24423607

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-shadow-of-chernobyl-chornobyl-chernobyl-gif-3707974255428954678

[fiery shuttle]

anyone know the best way to kill bloodsuckers? I'm trying to go through the wild island path but two of the bullet sponging assholes keep killing me

[wanton arch]

is this hell

give them pineapple pizza

or eat a lot of it and they will hate your blood

[devout seal]

Fukushima DLC?

[trail pulsar]

Use appropriate ammo types : hp , apparently they're very vulnerable when invisible

[lusty swallow]

Bring shotgun. Shotgun very good. Slugs and Buckshots very good. Bloodsucker dead fast. Very nice.

[finite needle]

1 - Acquire semi auto shotty
2 - Spam left click as fast as you can

[pearl bear]

welcom @thorn ice kupal

[covert flower]

When i am doing a mission like finding a missing person for Warlock near the flower field, i get a ton of mutants spawning, and if I run and take them out one by one, when i go there again another mutant horde has spawned, so I can never reach the missing person. I'm playing MHM, so i cant just tank them. Is there a mod that disables horde triggers, so I can actually be tactical and not get punished by magically appearing mutants

[warped monolith]

[proud ruin]

[finite needle]

The solution to mod fuckery is always more mods

[molten orchid]

Just had an idea to expand the PDA....

Ability to add custom markers that you can actually name

Afaik you just have this little wheel with four to five options but it would be great to be able to actually type in specifics for them

[full hollow]

Guys it felt like I cheated by getting the diamond exo for free early 😭

[warped monolith]

good. because you did.

[waxen island]

hello everyone ive come a cross a strange problem where sometimes in a fight there is couple enemies spawning without any weapons just throwing granades sometimes someone had this issue before its cuz some mod? help please

[covert flower]

But Mutants spawning at the exact same location just because you move out of that little area for 30 seconds is a little immersion breaking, isnt it?

[finite needle]

Man could have used "shit's buggy" but went with immersion breaking, I hate this word so much I will personally replace every gun with didoes in all the milsim games ever made.

But anyway idk, gotta try doing one of them warlock missions because I've never seen hordes of mutants spawning out of thin air outside of the swamps

[warped monolith]

kill them faster so they don't have time to respawn

[proud ruin]

muh immersion

[covert flower]

Damn

[covert flower]

It's not a bug. When you get close to a zone where there's supposed to be certain enemies, they will spawn. If you kill the enemies outside of that zone and re-enter, the same thing happens. I was simply asking if there's a mod that puts those spawn zones on a cooldown, so it won't immediately re-trigger if you play that way. And no I don't exactly know how the game works, but this happens every time I do it, with or without mods. It was a simple question if anyone knew a mod that could change it. Of course you are free to express your opinion, but I don't see how being hostile does any of us any good

[finite needle]

Now, to answer your question, I suppose some of the a life mods might actually change the area of spawn of some enemies, because it kinda is divided in "cells", so to speak. Never had it happent to me personally but I've seen people able to trigger this stuff by simply moving from an inside to an outside area. Since you have already modded the game, it's possible this is altering the spawn rates somehow, otherwise I'd try one of those a life altering mods. And yes, it's is buggy because I really don't think you're supposed to kill and trigger a respawn of enemies at will

[covert flower]

Thank you.
A bug is when code is executed faulty or with an unexpected result. The game was made to trigger spawns when entering a certain area, which works as intended. It's just bad design that it can retrigger if doing the same thing at the same place again immediately. But it doesn't happen with open world mutants or story fights, only when running the missions like Warlock's. If they have implemented a cooldown that doesn't work properly, then yes it's a bug.
I do use "A-LIFE UH.. FOUND A WAY" and that can indeed affect it since they modify timers, but I remember having that exact same issue when I played it the first time without mods, but that was before difficulty mods so I didn't really care. But thank you for the answer

[finite needle]

Yeah, secondary repeteable quests are pretty much uncharted territory for me since I probably did it once to see if they worked, didn't find them interesting and literally never done one again

[limpid nest]

which Alife mod should I use along with desolation?

[proud ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/wesker-albert-albert-wesker-resident-evil-resident-evil-4-gif-5143688443782660001

[sonic sail]

it has no

[finite needle]

mfw I unironically like Spark more than Ward

||doesn't mean I won't betray them when the times come||

[undone summit]

Why do you like Spark?

[finite needle]

idk, weird underdog, likes the zone, obviously does drugs, it's not ward, I like the sprite themed gear etc

Proper zone lads

[limpid nest]

that line from star sounds too much like Preston Garvey to me

[finite needle]

Well you know too well that Spark of all people doesn't build settlements

[warped monolith]

"we need your help"
"ok"
"awesome. you are now the leader of our group"

[undone summit]

I'll say this about stalker 2

|| I'm actually surprised there was a X-lab in almost every corner of the zone. At least Ahroprom, as crazy as it seems, iirc did mention there was activity associated to The Group/MDST but I feel next the game's gonna tell me there's a X-lab under Rostok next||

[split crown]

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

[west moth]

[split plank]

Does anyone here know why the game doesn't work with fast vsync?

[finite needle]

Shoot six (6) raiders
Kill one Deathclaw
Guide people for about 1 km
Become general

[finite needle]

Man I know shitting on Fallout 4 is the lowest hanging fruit type shit, but I really really hated the opening mission of Fallout 4 with a passion. 15 minutes in the post apocalypse and I already am a faction leader with a powerarmor

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA ANOTHER SETTLEMENT NEEDS YOUR HELP

[split crown]

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. It basically solidified the point of me hardly ever using power armor in the game lol. I did like how they made power armor basically like an actual exoskeleton you put yourself into rather than wearing it like just another uniform/armor set, though.

[finite needle]

To me it did the opposite, taught me that the intended way to play the game was with a power armor

The power armor being an actual power armor was absolutely the best choice though, it was Fallout 3/New Vegas that did it worse due to limitations

[undone summit]

It's crazy to think it was still the same engine

Of course, work was done to push and upgrade it but still

[split crown]

Ayup

[split crown]

I hate when games make you overpowered too quickly; I like the slow, gradual build-up process.

[dim olive]

Can I getaway playing Gamma on a 70% keyboard?

[willow skiff]

Might finally be time to play Stalker 2 again. Fresh start too to enjoy the game the way it was supposed to be
https://www.vg247.com/stalker-2-latest-patch-brings-in-over-1700-changes

A-life finally working

[west moth]

There is not a life working

[late kernel]

AI still spawns around you and the offline simulation is still non existant

Wait until they actually release the next iteration of A-Life fixes

[silver spruce]

привет stalkers can someone give me the link to the latest version of gamma ?

[tough prairie]

Srsly? so long after release they stil couldnt fix it?

Few months after release i played and it felt scripted ( because AI spawn all around player ) and also dead since world felt empty

[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&

[trim iron]

https://discordapp.com/channels/912320241713958912/1092852637847789699

[late kernel]

Yeah. Fly to out-of-bounds areas like CNPP and you'll see

[silver spruce]

I think you can fix it by using some mods

I haven't played it myself tho. does it run well on a rtx 2060 ?

[finite needle]

To be fair, considering the sheer amount of shit to fix, there is stuff that has higher priority

[golden hazel]

As someone with an rtx 2060, the game doesn't even launch anymore

[silver spruce]

That's sad

[golden hazel]

At least I got most of the lore I could from the game

[silver spruce]

developers don't give a shit about optimizing anymore cuz they think dlss or fsr can fix what they can't

[golden hazel]

It is what it is

[humble hedge]

Nope, you're still at the mercy of the spawn bubble.

[spare forge]

Are psy dogs as cancer as they were 3 months ago?

[humble hedge]

Suddenly enemies spawn in, both fight each other for about 7 seconds, then both throw a grenade each which usually kills both groups.
The game is empty and dead, there is still Not a life.

!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]

Me looting the corpses of the fallen:

Hey it's my bottle of beer and 6 buckshots now

[humble hedge]

Then it happens again and again and you get to loot your bottle of beer and 6 buckshot once more.

Looting in Stalker 2 is a form of punishment.

[finite needle]

Then don't, you're not forced to

[humble hedge]

[finite needle]

Just to say, it's artificial but shit is going on whatever you're involved or not. It's definitely better than the nothing personnel kid spawns behind you spawn bubble we had at release

And that used to spawn exclusively to attack you Far Cry 2 style. At least now it's a bit more dynamic. I'm willing to be charitable with GSC on a life, more than I am for may more things.

[cinder sleet]

It has been awhile! is S2 still lifeless?

[late kernel]

yes

[glossy tundra]

S2 ruined the Scar = Charon conspiracy theory...

[warped monolith]

on the other hand, unless you start farming fusion cores and 5mm ammo from minute one, you're not using that power armor or the minigun for long

[split crown]

They've only put a bandaid on the problem instead of outright fixing it thus far.

[warped monolith]

I've been calling it from the start, a-life fixes are not gonna be done quickly

[split crown]

More like it's just a dead zone looting simulator where I'm constantly running back and forth between traders to clear out my over-encumbered inventory

[warped monolith]

stop being a loot goblin?

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

I might as well stop playing the game then

What is Stalker if I can't be a loot goblin?

Also, on another note, is it normal to be able to find legendary tier artefacts in Garbage and the Lesser Zone? I've found 1 in each region on 2 separate playthroughs now.

Or is it just down to luck/RNG

[golden hazel]

As far as I know yes

[split crown]

Interesting

[warped monolith]

apparently yeah, it's pure RNG

[golden hazel]

GSC said rng is cool and made everything rng

[warped monolith]

you can get the best artifact on the second anomaly you find. (not the first one from the intro sequence because that's scripted iirc)

[warped monolith]

A-Life is also rng I guess?

[golden hazel]

Yes

[split crown]

Lmao

Just wild to find legendary artefacts in beginning areas

[warped monolith]

yea. I've seen people savescumming when they didn't get good artifacts in lesser zone

gotta minmax to the max

[golden hazel]

more like to the max

[warped monolith]

true but it's a tale as old as time

save scumming to refresh the loot seed and try to get something better?
people have been doing it since Diablo

[golden hazel]

[warped monolith]

I wouldn't mind getting a thunderbolt or whatever the name was of that max rad resistance and max stamina boost artifact within 5 minutes of starting the game

being immune to radiation + being able to sprint for more than 5 seconds is gonna make the early game so much more enjoyable

[signal berry]

how to get this

[warped monolith]

how to get what?

[fallow fox]

Do you think modders will bother since it's in unreal?

[shadow sedge]

cap

plenty ue5 games running at over 150fps for me no fg

its the open world/forced lumen that makes stalker kinda poop in fps

if they worked on a version that doesnt use lumen game would run fine

in fact disabling lumen now makes the game run like 2x better maybe 3x but it looks like shit and breaks the lighting

[warped monolith]

most of the unoptimized ue5 games are open world, coincidentally

with one or two exceptions. Hogwarts Legacy ran fine here.

[shadow sedge]

hogwarts is ue4

not to be an "um actually"

[warped monolith]

oh. that explains a lot

[shadow sedge]

lol

im telling you its mostly lumen

[warped monolith]

Wukong ran... alright? Had some dips but nothing too annoying

[shadow sedge]

like any ue5 game that has 2 sperate lighting options. (low high lumen low lumen high) run way better if you have it without lumen

like marvel rivals i literally get 200fps without upscaling or frame gen. and thats ue5

also not open world

[warped monolith]

well since I mistook Hogwarts Legacy for UE5 I should probably look at a list of games and see which ones I've played.

oh. Delta Force.

Everspace 2.

[split crown]

What

That shouldn't matter though lol. If you save next to an anomaly field, locate an artefact, but then reload your save, it'll still be the same artefact in the anomaly

[shadow sedge]

nah

[split crown]

??? That's exactly how it is in my game I'm pretty sure tho

[warped monolith]

save far enough away that the anomalous field isn't fully loaded (and the loot table hasn't been rolled)

[split crown]

Unless I'm just clueless

[split crown]

Ooooh. That's devious.

[warped monolith]

for example, save at Zalissya and then run to poppy field

[shadow sedge]

not even that far

[split crown]

Can artefacts spawn in the poppy field?

[warped monolith]

yup. I wasn't aware of that either, until someone told me

[shadow sedge]

personally ive never done it

i need limansk dlc

[split crown]

Wtf lol. I swear every time I've been there, I'd have a detector out but nada

[split crown]

I need a-life dlc

[shadow sedge]

limansk just my favorite map in the game

imagine it not linear asf

and open world

wet dream for me

[split crown]

It's been so long since I've experienced Limansk in the older games, so my memory on that area is pretty rusty.

[shadow sedge]

you can kinda see it in the distance from red forest in s2

prime dlc location imo

[split crown]

Yea probably guaranteed to be dlc then

[shadow sedge]

yeee

[golden hazel]

Accio Unreal Engine 6

[warped monolith]

Accio framerate

[golden hazel]

Accio built in blur

[lime umbra]

avowed is also ue5 and its running quite fine

not ultra fantastic but a whole lot better than S2

[ruby shoal]

I received a message about zombies breaching the barrier. I went there, but there was nothing. I was at that location when it happened. What should I do😭

[lime umbra]

#╟🔰☢newbies-chat

[shadow sedge]

mission failed restart from ground zero

[split crown]

dude, I'm gonna link a video, and it may shock you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhL1NZugsBk&list=WL&index=2

like, if you enjoy Avowed, that's great and fine; however, imo, it's a prime example of peak current day gaming slop

[lime umbra]

next thing you are going to tell me is how great bugthesda is for making water boil when you shoot fire at it in skyrim

the guard thing i can understand

but all the others are kinda whatever if im being honest

[split crown]

Avowed just seems lifeless and boring from what I've seen of it

if something isn't scripted in the game, then literally nothing happens

I think what bothers me the most about that game is its combat though

[lime umbra]

yes and what about it ?
its not like anything happened on the fields on oblivion either

[split crown]

Just giving my personal opinion on it

that's all

[lime umbra]

this is like complaining you cant pick up casigns in shooter games

[split crown]

If a game has boring and uninteresting combat, then that's that

[warped monolith]

hideous destructor

[warped monolith]

well, that's largely up to opinion.
That video you linked had zero effect on me because to me Oblivion also had boring and uninteresting combat. Scratch "combat", boring and uninteresting everything.

Skyrim was slightly less boring and uninteresting because dragons. and the shouts.

[split crown]

Well, the vid is meant to showcase how a game from nearly 20 years ago has features that aren't even attempted in a game that just came out like a couple days ago. Said features of course aren't game breaking or absolutely necessary for a game to function, but they're nice qualities to appreciate nonetheless that imo add depth to the gaming experience. It's the little things that can make an impact sometimes.

And you're right, the combat systems in both Oblivion and Skyrim are by no means grandiose lol; however, I'll take those systems over the sluggish shit that Avowed has implemented into it.

[warped monolith]

I think 'innovation' kinda died about 10 years ago

[golden hazel]

The only innovation is how close games can come close to looking like movies

Nothing else matters to AAA companies

[mint sedge]

hey, does anyone know how to fix armless monolith? mods included

[golden hazel]

Stop giving the engine bad vibes, that's it

[full hollow]

Where is the bear detector sold?

[split crown]

Huron, my brother in christ, you gotta let some of that shit go...

the Zone's strongest trader

[golden hazel]

[full hollow]

Guys

[split crown]

You telling me you don't like watching a movie instead of playing a game?

[golden hazel]

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

[full hollow]

All I got is hilka detector

[split crown]

Try the trader at the Duty base

[golden hazel]

The bear salesman that sells bears

[split crown]

The bearsman that sells men

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/kaden-bear-walk-gif-15031442544519350917

[full hollow]

Question why are some laptops still stuck in windows 98

When it's 2018

[split crown]

some things are better left unanswered in the zone

[golden hazel]

Idk man anomaly lore somehow windows 98 is the true source of zone matter energy that makes Chernobog stronger

[split crown]

Windows 98 was the true source of power all along

[golden hazel]

That's one thing that HoC tuah does better, it has Windows XP instead of 98

[full hollow]

I like how no one is talking about how my skif is wearing a monolith exo

[split crown]

blue night vision makes fire look spooky

[full hollow]

The npcs

Is it possible for me to add nv to my diamond exo?

[split crown]

If they ignore are you, are you really there?

[golden hazel]

early 2000s spooky game lookin ahh

[split crown]

No, it's a mod

[full hollow]

There's no nv?

[split crown]

OG Unreal be like

[split crown]

Nope. There's a neat Nightvision mod on the nexus you can grab though.

[golden hazel]

Could also pass for a night time battlefield 3 map

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/unreal-tournament-ut99-game-gif-11849703558855820644

[full hollow]

I'm on Xbox 😭

[split crown]

It is a sin how GSC did not put any form of nightvision into Stalker 2 by default

I mean some NPC models/outfits literally have NODs lmao

[golden hazel]

Gotta hide the squads spawning in front of you somehow

[split crown]

idk might go back to green nightvision

[golden hazel]

[warped monolith]

[split crown]

the good thing is you can edit the settings

[lime umbra]

the ward ending

[full hollow]

I hate the flash bang anomaly

[split crown]

Same

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/squidward-gif-26612628

[lime umbra]

its predictive on where it flashes but its range will still blind you even if you dodge it well

[split crown]

green machine

[full hollow]

How do I check my reputation with factions

[golden hazel]

On the map it'll either be red, neutral or green when you hover over the base

[full hollow]

Anyways I'm at garbage trying to reach nestors stash and I keep dying even with my exoskeleton on

From radiation

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/hpw-alucard-hellsing-laughing-hysterically-hilarity-gif-20166370

[full hollow]

I took anti radiation drugs and still nothing!!!!

[lime umbra]

its a kill barrier

if you dont walk were the game wants you to go through it will kill you

[golden hazel]

"Open World"

[full hollow]

@lime umbra i survived a kill barrier somehow just now

I jumped off the crane in garbage and ran down hill

[lime umbra]

yeah the kill zones are only on the trash heaps at the top

the rest is normal rads

[full hollow]

I remember one time I got locked out of slag heap

During an emissions

[golden hazel]

[full hollow]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-monkey-banging-gif-4595113817833787583

Me ^

[split crown]

Can cats turn neutral or friendly NPCs against you? Was in that lil village in Garbage ||where you encounter the first cat in the game||, and there was a squad of Wardens also there whomstve were hostile towards me.

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

Oh

Those are rat corpses stretching across the zone

[night tinsel]

What reticle is that

[split crown]

bro ain't no way - I double-tapped this bandito with my shotty, and now he's so dead that the game is having him snore

[split crown]

reticle from Stalker: SoC

it's a mod on the nexus you can grab.

[night tinsel]

Thank you

[golden hazel]

Nobody dies in the game cause dying is bad >: ( not very appropriate

[icy basin]

He's snoozing

[golden hazel]

eepy

[golden hazel]

Mein gott, there he is

[icy basin]

He's mogging us

[golden hazel]

🤌

[arctic marsh]

cool to see how good some of the mods are getting already

and the games barely been out for a few months future gunna be bright

[split crown]

[proud ruin]

[golden hazel]

The dudes getting stuck in the door is because the game has not a life, classic.

[golden hazel]

[proud ruin]

[proper epoch]

he's carrying on the sleepy family legacy

[slim slate]

Sorry boys, was there some kind of update to get stalker 2 stuff into gamma or not?

[haughty ruin]

please tell me how to make sure that your reputation doesn't get worse when you kill an enemy while under disguise using a suit with a patch?

[icy basin]

There aren't disguises in STALKER 2

[haughty ruin]

i miss chanel sorry XD

[safe bridge]

Schleepy eepy boi

[full hollow]

Guys what faction is in yaniv guarding the entrance to pripyat?

[peak eagle]

The Corps, Degtyarevs faction

[warped monolith]

[golden hazel]

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

[warped monolith]

[proud ruin]

[golden hazel]

[full hollow]

Hkw

How

[peak eagle]

Don't question the shadows

[deep hedge]

Fuckin dr octopus

[full hollow]

https://tenor.com/view/its-only-a-spike-itll-soon-stabilize-spiderman2-spiderman-otto-octavius-power-of-the-sun-gif-24494081

Me when looking for artefacts

[devout locust]

Anyone else had this issue recently?

[split plank]

Yeah, I had

[devout locust]

Any fixes?

[split plank]

Nope, I haven't looked up yet. I think the devs are trying to fix it

[devout locust]

It's been 20 days since the issue i think the modder just stopped putting time into it

[split plank]

I mean the issue is tiny 🤏

[finite needle]

a life only seems to exist to either bug out and make your life miserable or just spawn mutants and make your life miserable

[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]

I know about the meme, but the fact that the npc blocking door bug is part of a life failing is amazing

[humble hedge]

Not a life means doors won't have a life as well.

[humble hedge]

Btw, when were they supposed to release "full mod support"? Wasn't it in early 2025?

[warped monolith]

No idea. But "early 2025" could be up until March. The 3rd month of the year is still part of the "early year".

HOWEVER. I'm guessing the amount of issues they've been working to fix since release could probably cause a delay on that.

[finite needle]

Could be delayed, who knows. But I am waiting full mod support waaay more fervently that I am waiting AI realistically shitting behind bushes

[warped monolith]

I think the planned DLCs will be released before full mod support.

Or at least... they should. Because DLC releases = game updates
game updates = mods break

[finite needle]

I mean they're releasing a major patch every two weeks anyway, so I get your point

[humble hedge]

In that case we're talking years...

Uninstalls Stalker 2

[warped monolith]

dunno if it'll take that long unless they have a lot of trouble fixing a-life and all them bugs

[peak eagle]

Stalker 2 gonna need the cyberpunk treatment

a few years more in the oven

[finite needle]

A bit less time, maybe the anime wont' be necessary, but basically yes.

[lime umbra]

Hey maybe some video format stalker that isn't dudes larping and shooting at nothing for 20 minutes would be good media

[warped monolith]

lmao I know exactly what you're referring to

[lime umbra]

[limpid nest]

what is this in reference to?

[finite needle]

Stalker is when gas mask in forest and guns

[warped monolith]

some shitty fanmade "Stalker film"

[limpid nest]

so true

[limpid nest]

you mean call of the zone?

[warped monolith]

Shadow of the Zone, most likely

[finite needle]

Stalker is when superficial resemblance to the most obvious themes of a game that isn't even that fucking deep to begin with

[lime umbra]

Yes shadow of the zone

[limpid nest]

No stalker is deep because it is gritty. the more gritty a piece of media is the more deep it is.

[undone summit]

I'm genuinely surprised the fanfilm is getting roasted
I remember a friend's account of the fanfilm, who's a newcomer and mostly a stranger to the series, sounded pretty good

[limpid nest]

honestly ive seen shadow of the zone and I thought it was pretty good

[lime umbra]

Operator slop

With an Electra as a guest appearance

[warped monolith]

it's a nothing burger of a film

[limpid nest]

I struggle to think of how one could make a stalker fanfilm without it being called operator slop

[warped monolith]

maybe with less operator dudebros walking around with kitted out fancy guns

[lime umbra]

Our you know MAGIC ROCKS

[warped monolith]

if you told me that fanfilm wasn't set in the stalker universe I'd believe you

[finite needle]

I'd pay for a mimino style movie set in the Zone.

[lime umbra]

#╓☢stalker-chat message
Or this bullshit

Actual nothing burger

[warped monolith]

stalker fan movies being made by gamma/efp players

it almost makes me think there's a correlation between both groups having no clue what stalker is about

[lime umbra]

You only need to glance at the anomaly mods

[limpid nest]

What is stalker about in your opinion?

[neat island]

it makes me want to eat uranium

ill just stick to gamma for now yk?

its a simple game to play to like relaz after a day at school

[lime umbra]

About traversing an alien and hostile area were you have to fight other ppl for the treasures it holds

Human combat is a secondary

[warped monolith]

more sci-fi, less milsim.

[finite needle]

Man creates hell, finds out it has oil, different man scramble to find out how to use hell the best

[limpid nest]

and where does my Sidor/Scar fanfic come in?

[finite needle]

Accept responsability and destroy Hell (Duty), accept reality and learn to live with hell (Freedom), Understand why hell is (Ecos), Beats working in the Skoda factory (Loner) and so on and so on

[limpid nest]

Funny rock (Monolith)

[lime umbra]

"Beats working in a factory"

Skeefa why you in the zone ? Didn't you have insurance ?

[limpid nest]

the constant influx of fresh loners into the zone can only make sense if life on the mainland sucks with mimimal social safety net or economic oportunity

[finite needle]

So, Ukraine

[lime umbra]

East Europe

[limpid nest]

Is there ever a satisfactory explanation on how most people enter the zone or smuggle things out of the zone? Doesn't the military/IPSF block people from entering?

[golden hazel]

Next thing you know, the game runs so shitty because of a bug in A-Life too

[lime umbra]

Well thats the joke the ipsf is just corrupt

[finite needle]

Corrupt military? In eastern europe? Color me shocked

[golden hazel]

Sun screen sounding faction name

[limpid nest]

So in canon you can just bribe your way through the main checkpoint south of the lesser zone/cordon?

[golden hazel]

Pretty much yeah

[lime umbra]

Yes that's how most stalkers get in

[limpid nest]

so the average stalker needs both a lack of real world opportunity and also enough money to bribe the guards?

[golden hazel]

Or you could sneak in like the average bandit

[peak eagle]

or smugglers

[golden hazel]

Or spawn in from hell like a renegade 😎

[finite needle]

Or you could collect money to sneak into the zone and THEN attempt to make it big inside

Man I really hope this doesn't happen in our real life as well

[golden hazel]

[peak eagle]

Just create a group to defy the laws of physics and maybe we'll have it

[lime umbra]

even in the originals the military knows theres valuable shit in there
so if they let stalkers in they can shake them down once they try to leave

[limpid nest]

Liveleak must be insane in that universe. Gopro footage of some guy sneaking in and immediantly eating shit from a grav anomaly

[golden hazel]

Looks like it's time for E.W.A. to make a comeback

Straight outta Yantar