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

[storm echo]

hell yeah that’s what you need

[outer depot]

I got a pretty good price on one last Black Friday, was like $470

[storm echo]

i was dumb for not getting one with more but at the time it made sense

that’s p good, seems like better cards are even cheaper now too

[outer depot]

Fuck knows the game has performance issues but they haven’t bugged me that much

[storm echo]

if it wasn’t for the input delay I wouldn’t even mind, can’t hit the broad side of a dog as it is right now.

[finite needle]

The game does run better on my laptop with a 4060 rather than my 2070s

[storm echo]

that’s funny

[outer depot]

I was upgrading from a 1070 in 2023

[finite needle]

granted, I'm also running the game on 1080p with the laptop and 1440p on the desktop, but still

[storm echo]

god damn that probably felt amazing

[outer depot]

That build was still using DDR3 RAM because its bones were from 2015

[storm echo]

grandfather, what was your gaming pc like ?

[outer depot]

I couldn’t actually run the OG stalkers when they came out

[finite needle]

Same

[outer depot]

Flashlight turning on would crash my computer

[finite needle]

but I was also so poor I remember trying to run Oblivion on a PC I assembled literally from trash I found on the side of the road

I would just get like 10 to 12 solid FPS

[outer depot]

My acceptance of performance issues might be somewhat skewed from gaming on a PowerPoint slideshow for so long as a child

[finite needle]

Same, and same story with bugs. I honestly remember that one of my first PC wouldn't read CDs unless I manually cleared the PC cache

my ass playing Doom 2 when everyone else was playing Final Fantasy X

And even then, Lumen still looks like ass

[storm echo]

it does tho

[outer depot]

Rock solid 15 fps the first time I launched Skyrim with a Radeon X850 or something

I don’t even remember what that computer had

[finite needle]

Man I was killing kael'thas with 14/20 fps

[outer depot]

But it wasn’t good

But yeah all of my first experiences with the Stalker games at launch were honestly horror picture shows

[storm echo]

I can imagine lol

[outer depot]

God they were FUCKED on release

[storm echo]

I wish I was into it earlier in life i never heard of the series until 2016

[outer depot]

Nooooo lmao

[finite needle]

I remember game crashing because I made the silly mistake of running it on full screen

[outer depot]

The Stalker SOC/CS/COP you know are such different beasts than on release

[finite needle]

borderless would work, but I would lose like 5 fps

[outer depot]

Stalker 2 has been a fucking dream comparatively

[finite needle]

such is life in the zone

[storm echo]

win11 doesn’t even support full screen anymore or something

that’s like a thing now idk what’s up with that

can’t recall if S2 is like that as well, but modern games prefer border less windowed for some reason

[finite needle]

yeah borderless is kinda the norm now

[storm echo]

idk why considering that it’s always been a performance loss

[finite needle]

mfs be alt tabbing

[storm echo]

I mean I can understand how that works

[finite needle]

also, playing mmorpgs, borderless works better usually with addons

[storm echo]

not using x-ray was prob a good start lol

[outer depot]

me trying to go into Rostok shortly after release and constantly hard crashing for days
finally learn how to read bugtrap (I was like 13 at this point forgive me)
the game had deleted an entire NPC model mesh from itself somehow
copy another NPC and rename it to the one it’s trying to reference that’s crashing the game
it works

[storm echo]

incredible, this is why the future generations are fucked, they didn’t have to learn how to fix the games themselves haha

but seriously what’s red bugtrap

[finite needle]

Yeah, I fixed the bugged blades quest in Riften in Skyrim the same way, like replacing a sound file with a random one because they og file wasn't working or some shit

[outer depot]

This actually came back to me years later because Anomaly was having the same fucking crash

[storm echo]

ohhhhhhhh nvm

lol

[finite needle]

GAMMA for some time had that bug where I don't even remember what was not working (audio?) and the only way to fix it was, I shit you not, play a youtube video while running the game

x-ray was magic

[storm echo]

whaat

[outer depot]

There are people now who have never had to manually establish mod load orders

[storm echo]

coming from nodding minecraft and kerbal space program it was a little foreign to me at first

[outer depot]

Or even navigate to manually do a mod without an installer

[storm echo]

i only just recently learned what DLTX stands for

[outer depot]

But yeah game has real issues but I’ve not had it majorly influence my playthroughs. Even found a way around the Zalissya bug without needing console commands. Did avoid the weird bolt hard crashing on emissions though by not knowing the weird bolt existed before that got patched

[storm echo]

that sounds fun i’ll probably learn about it in 2-3 years if they make the game run nice for poor folk like me

was just looking at newer GPUs it’s fucking insane how much they are

[finite needle]

I wouldn't count on it, which is too bad.

[storm echo]

yeah i’m not upgrading anytime soon it’s tragic

cards that cost as much as a single pc would is batshit insane

[finite needle]

To be fair, I'm not joking when I say my laptop runs the game decently, if you're ok with running it on 1080p. Paid like 1000 euros for it, it has a 4060 and 16 gb of ram.

60 fps with high settings, just had to remove mouse acceleration because that's the reason you get input lag (blame frame generation)

[storm echo]

I only kind of disagree on the input lag, it’s much more than just accel, it only goes away after doing all the basic steps and also disabling lumen. It’s def GPU bound in my case

i’d love to play it at 1080 low settings if it wasn’t for the fact it looks like hot garbage with it turned off

for me it’s just a case of not needing to upgrade, and not having a suitable upgrade worth getting for this game

AKA im cheap LUL

[finite needle]

Upgrade might not be worth for the game, but eventually you'll have to do it and the game is the one that made you realize it.

[outer depot]

Lumen being the only lighting option definitely sucks even if it can look really good at times

[finite needle]

back in my days it was The Witcher 1

[outer depot]

Wanna know what fucking filtered me two years back when I started this build? Fucking Metro: Exodus

(And a way too heavily modded Minecraft server)

[finite needle]

I was filtered by Assetto Corsa Competizione of all things. My CPU just couldn't handle more than 10 cars.

[outer depot]

Plus I knew Stalker 2 was going to be heavy on performance

[storm echo]

honestly if this is how games are gonna be going towards i simply don’t care to buy them. Fitgirl will cover me for the sake of trying them out and that’ll probably be it for the most part

[outer depot]

Maybe not this heavy but yeah

[finite needle]

Stalker 2 is definitely too heavy on performance

[storm echo]

Same here I was hoping i’d get something out of it at all

[finite needle]

and it is an architecture issue, because I shouldn't be getting better performances out of a 4060 for laptop over a 2070s

[storm echo]

Definitely

But not just that of course

[finite needle]

Now, 2070s is old, but still performs better than my laptop on pretty much all the other games I own except Stalker 2

[storm echo]

not enough vram i reckon

that’s what I got it’s been great

[outer depot]

I got spoiled by 120 fps on a nice 1440p monitor blasting most stuff at ultra because I was mostly playing Stalker GAMMA or games from the 2010s/late 2000s

[finite needle]

It's weird because I was considering upgrading to a 4070s, but I'm not so sure considering pretty much all I play is Le Mans Ultimate and that shit still runs Rfactor 2's engine

[storm echo]

dude they’re like 1k

maybe 900 for a more basic model but that’s not worth what your missing out on for vram ect

[finite needle]

Yeah, I got a whole ass laptop out of it AND it runs Stalker 2, that's why

I was debating actually buying the card

[storm echo]

laptop gpus aren’t even real gpus they’re scaled down for heat ect

pretty cool to hear it’s running it no problem honestly, don’t hear that a lot regarding gaming laptops lol

[finite needle]

I'm surprised as well, I wasn't expecting it.

and it holds true because it runs everything else comprehensibley worse, just Stalker 2 is the odd one out

[storm echo]

that’s actually really funny

[finite needle]

Just GSC things

[storm echo]

Just lumen things

[finite needle]

yeah it really likes newer stuff I reckon. Compatibility and such.

[outer depot]

If I could just get a consistent 90 fps without framegen I’d accept it and move on

[storm echo]

Try turning it off dog fr

it’s night and day difference

[outer depot]

Oh I know

[tawny elk]

Boys, is A-life still not in Stalker 2 ?

[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&

[storm echo]

Nope, and the mods that “add a-life” really just beef up the spawns, feels more like a fart cry game than anything else.

[stable plover]

this is the kind of thing they were doing in the Zone before the second disaster

[warped monolith]

real

[golden hazel]

real

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/joe-biden-presidential-debate-huh-confused-gif-9508832355999336631

[golden hazel]

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/gun-tears-cat-point-gun-crying-cat-gif-17741904

[storm echo]

i mean no disrespect, love what your doing it’s the games problem.

your discord profile is peak lol

should watch what i say in here lol

[odd fjord]

haha all good man you are allowed your opinion just found it funny, to be fair i dont beef up spawns, i delete them hha

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-soc-kruglov-ecologist-scientist-gif-24489592

[storm echo]

i hope in the future i will be able to fully appreciate your work… someday….

[odd fjord]

you dont have the game atm?

[storm echo]

own it and 30 hours in but basically gave up, hardware doesn’t make the cut atm

actually i’m curious what your experience in terms of performance with messing with the AI systems, id imagine a mod like yours is a little heavier than vanilla? but mostly CPU bound? Would love some insight since i’m pretty clueless regarding ue5

[odd fjord]

nah it doesnt have any impact at all since i just move around things it can do within limits

i also keep it lightweight and even remove scenarios so could say even more stable

since no abrupt large spawns that use a lot of cpu

and understandable about performance, its poopoo

[golden hazel]

Thanoshaydorovich?

[storm echo]

sidorosnap

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-marvel-gif-24087980

[fervent zenith]

Wong- cuts off a guy’s hand with a portal
Thanos- has his source of power on his hand
Strange- there is only one successful outcome and it involves a massacre

[tender crow]

is there any mod to make the crosshair follow the direciton of the gun? lika a dynamic crosshair?

[fervent zenith]

but it dose?

[fervent zenith]

if you want to expirance what your requesting gmod has something like that and its with the alt button XD

[tender crow]

xD}

[fervent zenith]

the cross hair and your weapon can move across your whole screen but then it cant move to the things off screen without unpessing it

a mod like that souds cool but its probably as frastuating then helpfull

[tender crow]

Xd

[fervent zenith]

but i truly understand where your coming from XD

[tender crow]

xD

[fervent zenith]

having the weapon follow the crosshair as your turning your mose as the game has it by default makes it seem like its not following it but do left and right qiuckly and you will notice its ther

[tender crow]

OK

[fervent zenith]

its small movment becose he is a trianed person but its there none the less

https://tenor.com/view/disappointed-so-gif-18681605

more enjoyment out of games

[storm echo]

Like arma? haven’t seen anything like that yet on modnexus

[tender crow]

want me to show you, i can screenshare

[storm echo]

I play arma ik what your talking about

but i have not seen a mod that does that at least on modnexus

[tender crow]

shiet

[storm echo]

Tbh i can’t think of many other games that have that feature at all, idk if it could be modded in even since it has to do with the way the guns fire ect.

guessing that s2 like most others just shoot the bullets from the center of your face

[tender crow]

i see

[storm echo]

helldivers2 is another i’m pretty sure

[tender crow]

yes

[cursive egret]

Why is there a chill guy here

[storm echo]

He’s got nothing to do with this, he’s just a chill guy

[storm echo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQD0zm03_Ik

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/chill-guy-chill-guy-just-a-chill-guy-relax-gif-1579445140409713118

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/chill-guy-chill-guy-just-a-chill-guy-relax-gif-1579445140409713118

[storm echo]

animated threw me off for a sec thought i was tripping

[glass narwhal]

Would someone, who has finished Stalker 2 tell me whether it is a meaningful enough upgrade / offers enough new content compared to GAMMA to be worth a possible purchase?

[cursive egret]

I'm 20 hours into it, still have tons of content to go through. I don't think it's as good as Gamma overall but it has its own advantages like a way better main story and side missions and cutscenes and voice acting and such

I'd suggest playing it on XGP or waiting for a decent sale

Get the base version, Deluxe/Ultimate isn't worth it

[glass narwhal]

Thank you kindly!

[cursive egret]

Oh and the open world was improved too. Areas were expanded and merged with no loading screens in between. Fast travel is more limited compared to Gamma though unfortunately, so more backtracking on foot

[split crown]

I think I bought the Deluxe edition, but that's only because I wanted to make sure I had access to any future DLCs and not have to make extra purchases along the way.

[cursive egret]

The deluxe edition does not include the season pass, only ultimate does. Bro got swindled

[split crown]

Then it was the ultimate edition I bought

[cursive egret]

Ah, fair. But I wouldn't suggest basically preordering DLC that we know nothing about

[split crown]

I wanted the physical merch that came with the ultimate edition too, but there was no way I was paying the $400 or whatever the hell they were asking

[split crown]

well I'm a long-time STALKER fan, so I'd have purchased the DLC regardless to try out myself.

[outer depot]

well you get the journo stashes which have some nice VA'd side lore and unique weapons/armors

that's about it

[storm echo]

you may like it. Make sure your hardware specs are at the recommended or really close it’s a total performance hog. The gameplay seems much more akin to a modern far cry kinda deal, just run to the funny marker and do the thing, talk to the guy, maybe a cutscene where you watch things happen, then you go and do it again. The AI are nothing like the original games, you may have seen memes of it but dudes spawn around you all the time in bases and such. That’s about the time i quit playing was after the first time you get into the military base and can fight them. But everything is voice acted, cutscenes animated, animations are cool, and if your specs are good it looks gorgeous for the most part.

[storm echo]

weird i thought that was a reply well this one is anyways

[split crown]

yeah which is kinda neat I guess but not necessary

[split crown]

idk man, I feel like even with top of the line hardware you're still gonna experience at least some issues with Stalker 2 lmao. That's just how bad the optimization is. Given, GSC has made quite a bit of headway in stabilizing the game's performance currently compared to when it first released, but it's still not in a great state I'd say. Just the amount of memory leaks I've been experiencing in Rostok is quite telling of that. Can't even imagine what Rostok must have been like before all these patches GSC has put out.

[outer depot]

they can definitely do more to work on it

but I never experienced much in the way of the stability issues initially either

not even in Rostok

[glass narwhal]

I've heard about a-life being completely broken. Is that true?

[split crown]

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

[glass narwhal]

Oh... :T Are NPCs still unaffected by Anomalies?

[split crown]

They walk into them and die

[glass narwhal]

:T

Am I correct in my assumption that this means that the OG trilogy has superior AI...?

[split crown]

yes

[split crown]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1zM3ePkYPo&pp=ygUhT2xkIFNUQUxLRVIgQUkgdnMuIG5ldyBTdGFsa2VyIEFJ

[glass narwhal]

This saddens me greatly.

[proud ruin]

Certified UE5 moment

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/unreal-unreal-engine-computer-smoking-computer-smoking-gif-24575019

[split crown]

at least GSC has, with the recent patch, made it so NPCs actually loot other stalker and mutant corpses now. That wasn't in Stalker 2 on release lmao

[glass narwhal]

Then again, OG Stalker had the advantage of a missile strike free environment.

[proud ruin]

[golden hazel]

Not blurry enough

[split crown]

[golden hazel]

[proud ruin]

[true yew]

||I feel so bad, i got the cutscene in subtle matter and I actually killed strider.||

Bro got the shortest end of the stick out of all characters

[silent egret]

Thats a fat rip

[trim iron]

Might wanna spoiler tag that, perhaps

[golden hazel]

Strider cursed in every timeline, just like Hamster

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/barbanne-hams4anne-hamsters4anne-hammies-anneshams-gif-25040675

[golden hazel]

It's only a matter of time before they start adding dynamic anomaly positions and it kills Hamster

[split crown]

god that would be hilarious; anomalies just spawn inside his store after an emission

Tbh I was kinda letdown that there aren't dynamic anomalies by default in Stalker 2.

each emission is meant to change up anomalies all over the map, after all.

[golden hazel]

Yeah

[split crown]

Also, uh, where are the psi-storms?

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/no-vegito-dbz-caption-meme-gif-26332533

[split crown]

fucked up

[remote eagle]

they sleep after long work day

[mortal sky]

If you knew everything you ever knew was going to change forever, would you enjoy your time and ignore it, or try to stop this change.

I know you guys are rearin and ready, or at least out of anyone I'd hope it'd be you guys.

[finite needle]

Shit I've seen NPCs fucking grifting me by looting all the corpses I killed.

[split crown]

and I do the same to them. 👌

[finite needle]

The virgin sending you death threats via zone linkedin but never taking action vs the chad I'll just take your loot don't mind me

[split crown]

man I really wish GSC had implemented random NPC chatter via PDA messages... makes the zone feel more lively.

[finite needle]

It's a bit silly that people would announce to the world they found an artifact worth a brand new car, makes the zone feel lively but doesn't feel like the zone at all imho.

[split crown]

at this point I'm just lookin' for a variety of things that can spice up the liveliness in the zone.

[finite needle]

I don't necessarily agree that the zone needs to be "lively". The current spawn system makes it very lively, I'd wager that if you moved the spawn area from the current to like 200 meters or somesuch no one would even notice. What I'd prefer having is more meaningful encounters, albeit rarer. The random NPC doing his own thing is nice and all, but there's areas where there is no reason to go unless you just want to.

[split crown]

To be fair, ||there's a fuckin' bandit that swindles your ass by selling you a "totally working condition car bro"||

[finite needle]

That's stalker 2, the example I was making was about Anomaly/GAMMA

[split crown]

ah

[finite needle]

Where THAT happens and it's just for the player to take advantage of. This is the thing, idk why people seems so convinced that in anomaly/gamma "you're just another guy" when the zone obviously works around you and your actions.

Which is fine, since you're clearly meant to be the hero or special in all Stalker games.

[split crown]

That's fair. I just don't like the feeling of exploring an empty and void of life zone is all. Random NPC encounters are neat, especially if they're doing their own thing like artefact hunting, chilling at a fire, or whatever

fuck, I need to sleep. Keep fudging my sentences.

[finite needle]

That would be fine, part of making the encounter more meaningful is to make it rarer. Right now there's way too much activity, and it's just hostile activity (everything that spawns spawns just to fight). You're right that there's need for some different interactions. I'll just say, if they just moved spawn rate a bit further and had NPCs spawn chilling on campsites, in the Rostok bar or just artifact hunting more oftne people wouldn't even care about a life the way they do now.

[split crown]

Yeah... that's GSC's current bandaid "fix" for a-life lol; to just spawn in random grps of stalkers full-on sprinting towards whatever their coding has them aggro'd onto in the distance. but yeah, I agree if they changed up the variety of actions NPCs could commit to, that in-of-itself would be quite different from what we are experiencing in-game right now.

[finite needle]

Still better than spawning exclusively to fight YOU. There's some variety at least.

[split crown]

On another note, one of the downsides I feel like with having a voiced main character like Skeefa is it hampers the dialogue/text options in games.

We can only ask random stalkers "WHAT'S NEW IN DA ZONE, STALKER?"

rather than like the 5-6 other questions or whatever options in previous games

[finite needle]

To be fair, it's not a talking game

[split crown]

no, it isn't, but it is an RPG

[finite needle]

So is System Shock 2

That's all the dialogue options, that are all voiced, your character gets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctF-dVNR4jo

I'm half joking but back in the day there was some people theoryzing Stalker was actually an immersive sim and closer to System Shock than it was to many shooters of the era - granted, it was the brown and bloom era

[split crown]

I've never played System Shock

[split crown]

Huh, that's interesting. I've got the System Shock remake in my Steam library; have yet to fire it up and try it out.

[finite needle]

System Shock 2 rather than 1, be aware, but if you have it try it. Game's pretty fun and pretty close to the original so prepare to get lost.

Also, the resemblance is there but is very superficial - it was more about the atmosphere and gear progression being fairly similar

[split crown]

Gotcha

[mortal sky]

Guess nobody here is ready

Id grab at least a Benelli

[proud ruin]

[storm echo]

Non existent, not like the original games. It’s just like any other open world games NPCs.

[odd fjord]

yes

but idk about "broken" being a right word

https://tenor.com/view/kek-kekwait-gif-24161687

[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&

[finite needle]

partially implemented is the right word imho

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/parkour-theoffice-freerunning-gif-5128248

release day -1 vs release day +1

[finite needle]

and by partially I mean bare minimum is there. It just spawns NPCs in zone of interests and makes them interact, and by interact I mean they either look for a fight with other NPCs spawned ad hoc or try to pick a fight with you. Last patch, they will loot dead NPCs, including ones killed by you (which is kinda funny imho). Thatìs about the extent of npc interaction with the world.

[golden hazel]

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

[odd fjord]

in other words

go play kcd2, the ai there has a life and routines

[finite needle]

I don't play games for NPCs routines

If you want to convince me to play a game by telling me oh npcs there jerk off behind bushes while you're not watching you're barking at the wrong tree

[golden hazel]

I like the part in kcd2 where where you're like

[finite needle]

It's simply not something that interests me in a game, I think there's so much more to KCD2 than yeah NPC do stuff

[odd fjord]

well no one factors in the ability of npc in their game purchase per se

unless, lets say....the developers themself advertise it as a core pillar of their game design

well not routines but the simulation and organicness

[finite needle]

Yeah it says guillible on the ceiling and people out there getting mad because the word is spelled incorreclty

But honestly, I'm more concerned about the mystical powers people is attribuiting to a life rather than anything. Kinda reminds me of when people were mad about NPC AI in CP2077 (all they wanted was better police encounters). Similar here imho.

Also the fixation on a life kinda makes the other shortcomings a little less relevant and/or not important because all that matters is NPC routines, it's been made clear that this is what the game is all about

If that's good enough for you to actually fix the game be my guest, they can just, as I was pointing out before, move the spawn distance further, make NPC spanw to sit on camps or pretend they're looking for artifacts and no one will care about "simulation and orfanicness", at least imho. I hope to be wrong.

[odd fjord]

im too non native english to understand that one particular sentence

[odd fjord]

thats what they are trying to do unfortunately

atleast for now, see looting corpse stuff

[golden hazel]

Smh my head GSC couldn't simulate the life of Les Booba, so he ended up spawning dead

[odd fjord]

not per se routines but the evolution of the world, at one moment in your save a region can be controlled by x but as time goes on they are now populated by y, add in other random stuff like some factions having more needs for artefacts and others more need for conquest

and you got a pretty good base to start changing variables to make large scale impact

[finite needle]

To be fair, being grifted by NCPs stealing my kills was kinda funny.

[finite needle]

That wasn't really ever in the games, I don't think this was something that you could find in either CoP or SoC (idk about Clear Sky, game just wouldn't work for me so I never got past the swamps). There is a hint about Duty/Freedom going back at war, but I'd rather be the deciding factor as the game right now really isn't about factions. It's a neat little detail, they tried in Clear Sky and everyone hated it back then. Now it's all people want, how times change

[odd fjord]

its whats in the game tho atm hha

there are traces their alife goal was to make it like clear sky faction war

but have it for all factions

[finite needle]

oh, so that shit is there. Then they're dumber than I thought ahah

[odd fjord]

and mutants

[finite needle]

If it's there I suspect it's for Duty and Freedom after a certain event. Or Garbage in smaller scope.

[odd fjord]

here, this is debug from 2 versions ago, it shows offline lair simulation fighting for control

there are 3 stances: aggresive = capture nearby lairs, normal = chill, defensive = some sort of fallback

you can see bandits lairs are defensive so they have more guards, captures send more stormtroopers

[finite needle]

I kinda get it, you want more organic and dinamic evolution of conflict in the zone. Which is cool, after a certain point I could see it actually being beneficial.

[odd fjord]

haha its there for the whole map

these are all the lair clusters that can get assigned factions from previous pic, the locations

[finite needle]

Idk, seems too risky and able to break stuff. With the game in the current state, I wouldn't dream of even attempting to implement this at large scale.

[odd fjord]

whadayathink broke it all hahahaha

[finite needle]

Game is barely functioning as it is, now imagine having Monoliths rushing in from all positions and fucking you out of quests because they take over places they shouldn't

[odd fjord]

ikr wtf?

[finite needle]

So I kinda agree with the spawn bubbles, just make this kind of dynamic encounter matter in Garbage, then Duty/Freedom (so they have a reason to exist). I also think the arena existing for Freedom is a way to not cut off the Arena quest in case Freedom loses Rostok.

Right now, what I said about bubbles and spawn distance is actually what people really want and need. Rest is cool and all, but without proper implementatio and a whole system to actually accomodate the thing it's pointless

[odd fjord]

nah major hubs dont get lost, all faction hubs have stuff in place to prevent that. the defence zalissya mission is a bugged version of that

[finite needle]

Yeah I suppose they seen Zalissya and didn't want any of that smoke

[odd fjord]

i actually managed to trigger the exact scenario of that mission on release with my mod, a tester triggered it early game

so hubs can get attacked, i had it happen at 1.1 but hubs go in defensive state and close all major quest npc's. since all of them are inside a building they lock the doors and windows

[finite needle]

Yeah taht sounds less than ideal. Considering that this stuff is cool but, at the end of the day, it's background stuff that could potentially break the main course, it makes sense they nerfed it down to the bare minimum.

[odd fjord]

skadovsk under attack here

[finite needle]

It helps but imho doesn't really make the game on itself. Surely, if implemented it would make it better. I'm also kinda scared of the strain it could have on normal PCs, considering the average gaming PC kinda suffers when there are lots of NPCs fucking around

[odd fjord]

nah it just wouldnt run on hubs in background or have some buffer zone for the lairs around hubs, the problem is the trigger and logging of all that stuff, if you increase render you increase trigger distance since there isnt proper offline atm

[odd fjord]

nah the npc's are barely hard on performance, we tested it with over 100 npc's in render. almost no dip

[finite needle]

And yet my pc starts suffering whenever I get close to Rostok

[odd fjord]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHmzK-UsrHI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU1nrKXd2lA

see title

[finite needle]

That's pretty much almost the total population of the zone in march

lorewise should be around 500? I don't remember, something like that

[odd fjord]

about 50% yes, 951 npc's in zone that are part of scripted quests etc so no dynamic

oh no mb, you are actually right

[finite needle]

Then it's just a matter of time. I can't wait to see the many different ways GSC can fuck up the Zalyssia quest tbh. Every patch brings a new one

[odd fjord]

yeah its slightly over 500

see top of picture, this is on new game

[finite needle]

Huh that's some decent attention to detail, I'm not gonna lie.

The fact that there is activity in the swamps concerns me

it's at the edges, granted, but still, who tf goes willingly in the swamps

[odd fjord]

just scripted

all of these are scripted

none of the ones you see will ever move outside of where they are now

[odd fjord]

no dynamic spawned ones in picture

that would be this one

[finite needle]

why just 4 though, they forgot? Seems like

[odd fjord]

i dont knoww djude hahahah gsc be like

[finite needle]

Now this is another mystery of the zone

[finite needle]

You mean dynamically, right? I'd be mad if they implemented the Duty/Freedom war without the possibility for Duty to retake Rostok.

[odd fjord]

i got bad news chief

[finite needle]

God damn it

[odd fjord]

hha, what would you think happens with freedom if they lose their major hub? they just gone?

[finite needle]

idk, go back to AW? It's empty

[odd fjord]

whay they gonna do migrate?

[finite needle]

just fucking kill them all and spawn them again idk

[warped monolith]

[peak eagle]

10 years and not really any new factions and plenty of empty places

[proud ruin]

[odd fjord]

tbh its more like 3

[warm steeple]

энглиши в сталкер играют?

[finite needle]

If you want to be picky, it's actually 3 but not the ones you think they are - Just Ward, Deggy's bois and IPSF are "new", and two of them are military. Spark and Noontide technically already appeared in their infancy during CoP. You can also add whatever Zulu is doing as a new faction if you so wish.

I'm more mad at GSC not doing anything with the OGs, but it was to be expected since this one is pretty much a new beginning kind of game

[fallen iron]

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[odd fjord]

no i meant 3 yeara

years

[finite needle]

Oh fair, I immediately went towards the factions.

[odd fjord]

factions bruh theres like 0 imo

oke maybe spark

[finite needle]

Nah spark is in CoP

[finite needle]

||The fact that exactly none of the founding Sparkers are alive at game start and that the faction is a completely different entity is irrelevant||

[lime umbra]

loners exist just be hobos
ecos exist to get bullied by either ward or spark
freedom sells bread
duty has zulu doing weird shit yet again
mercs only show up to take massive Ls yet again
clear sky is still dead

og factions did a grand total of fuck all

[odd fjord]

tbh its prob cus og writers left

and they had that big lore brain

i havent finished game yet but is there a lore reason for freedom being in rostok?

[lime umbra]

tbh i do think its because they didnt want to piss off anyone

[drowsy umbra]

they needed an explanation of where freedom goes because they used to be at yaniv

[lime umbra]

a truce was made between freedom and duty after ward kicked both of their asses
so it was agreed to hand over rostok

[odd fjord]

ward kicked their asses?

[lime umbra]

canonical ending of cop is now that deg didnt help freedom or duty at yanov which ends in both factions leaving yanov

[drowsy umbra]

ugh

[odd fjord]

ward? after all the stuff they been through? with their experience in the zone? myglocka and degtyarev?

[lime umbra]

yes ward beat the fuck out of both and made them march into generators

which ended very badly

[odd fjord]

is this like in stalker 2 pda and notes?

or quest? or something? wild

[lime umbra]

yes this is why Col. kutz is soo mad

this fuck up costed him alot

its pretty much why devalin is in charge of operations at the start of the game

[lime umbra]

yes turns out both duty and freedom arent worth shit

deg simply fucked off to make his own faction

[drowsy umbra]

the corps

how creative

[lime umbra]

all for the master plan of walling off prip

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/tom-delonge-blink182-wtf-meme-what-the-heck-first-date-gif-25383351

[outer depot]

Ward essentially came in fully backed, geared, and funded by the regulatory board with more manpower than any of the factions could hope to challenge, and not quite as hopeless at navigating the Zone as IPSF/UAF had been

Knocked everyone’s heads together to force a truce

Tried to march to the Generators with everyone (including Noontide) and they all ate shit

[lime umbra]

pretty much yes

[odd fjord]

where in game is this explained? msq? audio logs around map? seems cool to hear or read about

[outer depot]

It’s all over

[lime umbra]

ward arrived
said all of you hobos are marching into generators
in which all of them eat shit

this is also the reason why all factions dislike ward

[outer depot]

Legit there’s bit of info about it scattered to the winds

[drowsy umbra]

where is this explained with the gens?

[outer depot]

Well aside from the fact Korshunov tends to shoot first and ask questions later when it comes to dealing with even ostensibly “friendly” stalker factions like Duty

Since he doesn’t trust any stalker, period

[lime umbra]

still tho he grabed both freedom and duty and put them in a "you will get along shirt "

[outer depot]

I want to say that in particular is a document you find in a secret safe in Dalins office but I can’t remember for sure

There’s two parts to it

One describing assembling the forces for the attack, the other discussing its failure

That and Dead Valley is absolutely littered with old corpses, abandoned mobile science bunkers, and wrecked equipment

As for Duty being so clapped out (aside from the faction war stuff being largely cut), that’s more or less a holdover from the CoP days. They were already on the decline by that point, especially if you run with the idea that you handed over the information regarding their founding to Freedom at Yaniv

I do hope they restore whatever the fuck Zulu is meant to be up to though

Genuinely curious

[lime umbra]

both freedom and duty havent done jack really

freedoms personality changes depending on whos leading them in each game

[odd fjord]

aint he dead?

[outer depot]

Freedom has embraced Zone Mercantilism and fresh bread

[lime umbra]

no zulu replaced petrenko in duty ranks

[outer depot]

^

[odd fjord]

whats the zulu named body i found then? hmm need to check

[lime umbra]

hes not ingame

[outer depot]

You run into a few Duty stalker groups who are trying to join his little sub-faction

[lime umbra]

yeah zulu leads the frontline of duty

[outer depot]

Usually they’re getting their asses handed to them, as per usual

[lime umbra]

petrenko just leads the homebase duty

[lime umbra]

i mean given the dialogue freedomers give out on the topic
duty does clean the zone out of mutants

which keeps roads safe

[drowsy umbra]

https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Operation_Zenith

[outer depot]

Depends, Garbage hub doesn’t seem to think they’re doing a very good job

[odd fjord]

anomalous dugout needs to put updated lore man asap

[lime umbra]

but freedom does
Which is very funny

[outer depot]

There is GENUINELY a fuckload of lore stuff

[lime umbra]

but faction tensions arent as exaggerated as the community believes

[outer depot]

And you can miss a ton of it.

I missed the fucking CS comms log book right next to where you meet Faust in the basement, twice

[odd jacinth]

did the patches fix anything? is s2 worth playin now?

[outer depot]

They’re definitely not shoot on sight that’s for sure, though I think that was meant to change post-SIRCAA with the resumption of hostilities between Duty and Freedom absent of Ward being able to tard wrangle them

[lime umbra]

kinda but no

what you find out is that freedom attaked a duty patrol in the open

but if you go through it more
turns out bandits tricked freedom into doing so

which broke the truce between them

[outer depot]

Well there’s that yeah

But again, probably would have been mediated out at gunpoint

[lime umbra]

but honestly i dont know why this dialogue is even here if you cant do shit about it

[outer depot]

There’s a lot of shit still in that directly referenced the faction war resumption but yeah it’s almost wholly cut

[lime umbra]

yeah its only a stub and it feels pretty bad

[outer depot]

Though honestly it feels like duty would just get rolled

They’ve got no bankroll and are undermanned

[lime umbra]

they are still alive and a per dialogue from other factions freedom included duty has some of the best fighters in the zone

[outer depot]

Even if Freedom can’t really attack Cement Factory I feel like Duty can’t really do a stand up fight either

So back to the Cold War

[lime umbra]

i mean both are funding bandits as a proxy war

[outer depot]

Roosevelt was pretty cool

[lime umbra]

so duty is getting resources out of somewhere

[outer depot]

Glad he comes back later if you don’t shoot him

Well it’s definitely be a good way to flesh out Cement Factory/Cooling towers and do some more fun stuff around Rostok if they include that as a DLC later on. Would also be neat to see more activity in the burnt forest and Duga area

The southwest badly needs a trader, it’s a fun area to explore but then you’re always hit with the 2km run back

[finite needle]

More than a trader, I'd rather have a functioning bridge between burnt forest and lesser zone/cordon

[peak eagle]

It does have plenty of long way around

[outer depot]

Dark Souls ass shortcut required

I honestly thought you’d be able to cross over from the Dam at first

[tough ingot]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1029824156289732649/1131071215793086614/new_spoon.gif

[humble hedge]

No.

[scarlet yoke]

in this default build, can npcs loot caches?

[devout locust]

Why not? Latest patch + some mods make the game very playable with just enough jank

[humble hedge]

[finite needle]

idk why but now I can't launch SMT V anymore

the guy who couldn't launch Stalker 2 cursed me

[storm echo]

A man made virus.

[sinful escarp]

STalker2 has ruined gamma for me... teehee

[storm echo]

Different strokes for different folks as they say

Gammas inventory management is melting my brain at this point late game is a nightmare with all the garbage you collect

[sinful escarp]

Kind of real, yes

Only thing bothering me is some graphical problems that can be solved by Ultra+, but currently it's crashing my game

Lumen is dooogshite

Still, love you GSC <3 you make a world come to life

[storm echo]

make a world come to ~~A-~~Life

[late kernel]

Why not play a True open world role-playing game like Kingdom Come Deliverance instead?

[finite needle]

I've already lived in Czechia for 6 years, I've had enough for one lifetime

"I want to escape reality and immerse myselfe in exotic words" lmao no now you're in Brno

(I am full aware that KCD is set in Bohemia and Brno is in Moravia)

[late kernel]

You can't deny that STALKER 2 is barebones compared to KCD1 and 2

[warped monolith]

[finite needle]

They need to change the save mode and I'll play it, that's it. That's the only reason why I can't get into it

[late kernel]

There's no problem with the saving system, it makes you play carefully and its actually easy to get savior schnapps

[golden hazel]

It's only The Heart after all

[finite needle]

I know, I had like 9 when I loaded it. I just don't like it and it turns me off

Yall migh be into feet but don't feel weirded out when I don't care about them

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/breaking-bad-funny-wtf-wth-jesse-gif-17336046

[finite needle]

or the opposite, whichever you prefer

[late kernel]

What is he yapping about

[finite needle]

idk man my workday has started at 8 AM and still isn't over

I migh be cooked

[golden hazel]

100%

[late kernel]

unpaid overtime

[finite needle]

nah at least I'm getting paid, but I ain't sleepin until at least 3 hours

[storm echo]

not at all game looks real unlike this one

[late cosmos]

Guys, MO2 does not open
I can't install gamma anomaly

what to do?

[undone summit]

#🔨base-gamma-support I think

[late cosmos]

ty bro, but this guide didn't help me
MO.ini file was missing

gamma launcher can't register location because mo2 won't open

[finite needle]

The fact that this bug still hasn't been fixed fills me with joy

[split crown]

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/ascension-sponge-bob-gif-15077046

[sinful escarp]

Any reason stalker 2 would be using 100% CPU and 20% GPU? My mate just bought a 4060 to play the game. He uses an i5 11400 btw

[warped monolith]

background simulations and whatnot are probably more cpu-bound

[golden hazel]

When all else fails, probably memory leak is to blame

[cursive egret]

Stalker 2's performance is an anomaly

My 6650xt is absolutely crying at 100% usage on low settings in rostok

[sinful escarp]

So uh task manager is reading it wrong

100fps with 20% gpu usage doesn't make sense so the pc just doesn't know anything

[finite needle]

I finally found the weakness of the laptop, it's a laptop. Game runs fine until the laptop reaches its limit, then it absolutely shits the bed. Sad!

i.e. it overheats and suffers

[compact lark]

i thought each gen is superior to previous cards

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/unreal-unreal-engine-computer-smoking-computer-smoking-gif-24575019

[finite needle]

Yeah pretty much what happens after 30 so minutes, it starts yelling and game starts to run like shit

[golden hazel]

Flame generation technology, son

[nimble coral]

For modding, what does the .zz etc... indicate? Like priority of the mod load order?

[warped monolith]

[split plank]

Bug? It's just an anomaly, rookie.

[sinful escarp]

Hey so I'm up to entering the ||clear sky|| base and I found myself a ||ssp-99|| independently, and it has the same psy protec as the one you can buy from the Ward tech. But my sub-objective isn't ticked off? do I have to buy the one from tech?

[golden hazel]

I don't think the ssp is enough psy resist for that

You can get a Sprite suit at Yantar and it'll for sure tick the objective off

FOR THE SHINING ZONE SKEEFA

[sinful escarp]

The suit that you buy at Zaton base ticks it off, and it has the exact same stats as my SSp-99

[golden hazel]

It's probably just bugged then

[sinful escarp]

cringe

I guess only 10k less to upgrade it instead of buying it

[golden hazel]

Welcome to the zone

[sinful escarp]

wecome to da zone

[sinful escarp]

I love scar btw.. fuckin character

[golden hazel]

Scar be like "It's Scar'ing time" and then he Scars all over the place, what a classic.

[sinful escarp]

bro can probably kill people with his radioactive uhm.. "product"

[golden hazel]

Scar after subjecting wardens to the most painful death

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

[sinful escarp]

I get a chance to redeem myself to spark after accepting the ||warden badge||, right?

[golden hazel]

Should be able to unless it's bugged

[sinful escarp]

Only met scar for the 'first' time recently so probably not bugged

[golden hazel]

Sprite faction best faction

They're like pre nerf freedom mixed with pure unfiltered crack cocaine

[lime umbra]

I prefer no having to speak with escaped asylum guests

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA HE HAS COPPER WIRES IN HIS BODY, GO RIP THEM OUT SKEEFA

[lime umbra]

[cursive egret]

Took down tyrant with a toz and 5% hp remaining, feels good

[split crown]

Tyrant cheats, so I leveled the playing field by spawning in AP 9x39mm to fuck his face with

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/goku-skill-issue-ultra-insinct-stare-goku-stare-gif-25771968

[warped monolith]

[split crown]

Not my fault he's not immune to AP rounds

[cursive egret]

But that fight was indeed really tight, I had to use almost every slug

On vet

[split crown]

If you choose the revolver route, you literally don't have enough ammo to finish him off. It's required for you to use your knife to kill him once you use up your ammo on the explosives and Tyrant. I also use Better Ballistics, so dmg in my game is not anywhere near what it is in vanilla Stalker 2; it's A LOT more lethal. Skeefa will die quick as fuck. So it was nigh impossible to get enough knife swipes in without just dying.

[cursive egret]

AK prob would've been better but it's funny taking down an exo gigachad with a double barrel shitstick

That's crazy lol

[cursive egret]

So rigged you gotta stab the exo guy to death

[split crown]

I spent probably 2 hours on Tyrant's fight alone just trying to figure it out before I said fuck it and spawned in AP rounds to fucking finally kill him

[split crown]

Yup. Exactly why I needed to "level the playing field"

[golden hazel]

So you rigged yourself

[split crown]

I could have literally just used god mode, but I didn't wanna make it too ez.

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

GSC should have accounted for mods that increase gun and ammo lethality

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/nerd-radar-gif-26553049

[split crown]

Also, the 9x39mm they give you by default (only 18 rounds) is just the FMJ ammo, not even AP lol. Tyrant is in a full exo suit

so you might as well be throwing pebbles at his head

[golden hazel]

So anyway it all comes back to

https://tenor.com/view/dragon-ball-z-roblox-aba-gif-21336044

[split crown]

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

Skeefa is alive, and Tyrant is dead; so who's really experiencing a skill issue?

[golden hazel]

Skeefa isn't alive though, he's Skeefa

[split crown]

Skeefa lives for the fent

it's what drives him forward

[golden hazel]

For the shining zone

[sturdy sparrow]

Stalker 2 Gamma ready?

[golden hazel]

Come back in 7 years

[sturdy sparrow]

LEL

[warped monolith]

in 77 years*

[sturdy sparrow]

[split crown]

yeah bro, just use the Wish Granter

[sturdy sparrow]

[cursive egret]

Yeah after silksong releases

[sturdy sparrow]

may need to upgrade by time gamma 2 releases

[naive sigil]

7 5700X

[outer depot]

swear to god this dude has immediately walked directly into the first electro every single time

[split crown]

yeah that side quest takes some tard wranglin' to get done

[outer depot]

I've done it in five different runs now and he always instantly steps into the first one

[split crown]

checks out

[cursive egret]

what the hell is this monster

it takes like a full minute to empty

[golden hazel]

It's the 7.62x39 dispenser

[cursive egret]

Really didn't expect to find such a ridiculous gun after going in a random tunnel and killing a few enemies lol

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

I still don't forgive GSC for making the PKM use

7.62x39mm
and not using its god-given caliber:
7.62×54mmR rimmed

they could have just thrown in other assault rifles that use 7.62x39mm tbh like the AKM or a modern day Galil

[golden hazel]

Meh

[split crown]

I'm a gun nut so it irks my autism

[golden hazel]

The guns have always used weird calibers in the ogs

[split crown]

Not that I can particularly remember

Can you give an example?

[golden hazel]

The big ben

[split crown]

True, that was a Deagle in .45ACP

[golden hazel]

It used 9x39

[split crown]

Did it???

[golden hazel]

Dex on fraud watch, not a real og stalkerer

[split crown]

I coulda sworn it was .45ACP, huh.

[split crown]

bro it's been like 15 years since I've played SoC

anyway, I found these in my google searching

[golden hazel]

[outer depot]

I think they made the PK in x39 purely so they wouldn't need to increase the x54 spawn rates by a lot

basically so there wouldn't be a shitload of ammo for the SVD's

[split crown]

I suppose, but I mean they kinda did that with 9x39mm eh? You'll occasionally find stalkers wandering around with Vintorez rifles

[icy basin]

Return Big Ben
Let me shoot 9x39 out of a pistol

[golden hazel]

GSC could never

All they gave us was a lousy large metal

[split crown]

a Gargantuan Steel, if you will.

[cursive egret]

nature is beautiful

[golden hazel]

[golden hazel]

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

[proud ruin]

[golden hazel]

[proud ruin]

[sour totem]

anyway to turn off the new flashlight shadows or npcs looting my kills

[true yew]

Best you'd delete that. If those Gammers could read, they'd be very upset!

[icy basin]

https://tenor.com/view/kaperoo-vintage-story-gif-3384487781185669633

They can take a seat

[drowsy umbra]

smickdash

[peak eagle]

Cock n Ball torture

[finite needle]

idk what happened with tyrant, I recall I was able to kill him with the revolver easily, but now I require to knife him to death. On the opposite spectrum, seems like now you can finish the whole arena as soon as you can reach Rostok and is no longer gated behind you reaching the swamps and facing a Chimera there first, and you have enough ammo to kill the chimera now (before you had just barely enough to kill if you hit like 70% headshots)

[split crown]

I've only been to Rostok and done the arena once thus far (current Stalker 2 build/patch), so I don't have previous patches for any reference points tbh. And yeah, I heard about the arena being time-gated behind certain story events or whatever, but now seemingly you can do it all while waiting 1 hour in-game between each round. As for the chimera in swamps, lol, lmao, it's a pain in the ass dealing with that mutant in Stalker 2 compared to the older games. Not to mention you have hardly any time to deal with it before an emission is upon your ass; so overall it's best to just dodge & weave your way to shelter away from the emission while ignoring the chimera.

At least in the previous Stalkers, there was a clear window of opportunity to deal damage to a chimera while dodging its attacks; now, however, it feels like you constantly have to be moving while encountering one.

[finite needle]

That's the thing, you're supposed to be outmatched in the swamps and just avoid the chimera, the game tells you "yeah you gotta run buddy you can't deal with this shit" but people was like nah game wants me to kill the tiger gorilla tank with two hearts while the nuclear holocaust is happening in the background with my trusty Tier 1 wepon, clearly.

Arena was kinda supposed to be your revenge with a high tier weapon, only somehow they gave you wrong weapon with wrong and insufficient ammo, so the only thing you can do is cheese

[split crown]

The first time I encountered the Swamp chimera, I had an RPG on Skeefa

unfortunately, the chimera seemed to take RPGs like they were nothing

[finite needle]

There's a reason hardcore mods actually nerf the chimera

[split crown]

idk how many it would have taken, but it wasn't worth deliberating on because of how quickly the emission comes about once the chimera spawns on you

[finite needle]

while buffing everything else

[split crown]

yeaaaaaah

tbh I don't even have any hardcore or mutant health mods in my game; I just use Better Ballistics to alter the lethality of guns and ammo.

[finite needle]

I play vanilla tbh, with the frequency patches come out and the slow pace I have I don't think it's worthwile to possibly lock myself because new patch came out and all my mods are fucked.

[split crown]

Pretty fair yeah

[finite needle]

Despite what the doomers might say, vanilla Stalker 2 is quite ok-ish. I rember cp2077 was in much worse state 2 months after release (alghouth the base game was much better)

[split crown]

I have a shitload of mods in my game, but I don't think anything I have is necessarily game-breaking whenever new patches hit; like yeah I have stamina, sprint, time of day, vaulting, and carry capacity increasing mods added, but fortunately they get updated relatively quickly when new updates hit.

[split crown]

CP2077 was an omega flop on release lmao

Given, I've never personally gotten into the groove with that game. Can't seem to enjoy it.

I'm sure vanilla Stalker 2 without mods probably is fine, but I'm a sucker for trying out mods I think are interesting and increase the quality of life and/or depth of my experience while playing.

[finite needle]

I loved it on my first run, bugs and all. Never really had game breaking bugs, but I could count the same amount of glitches and shit I've seen up until now in Stalker 2 in the first like hour of Cyberpunk. My favourite was the one that turned off all the commercials in the game if I started as a Nomad.

[split crown]

that sounds like a meme

[finite needle]

Commercials worked fine if I started as Corpo or Streetkid. Just Nomad had that issue. Ironically, that's the bug that actually made me stop playing midway throhg my second run first run I could stomach anything, second seems like I had reached my limit.

[finite needle]

Yeah, to be fair Stalker 2 needs some mechanical tightening and polishing here and there, there are some gameplay choices that I don't really like.

[split crown]

You mean just like commercials on TVs though, right?

[drowsy umbra]

I just want to go to NPP right after the start of the game

just because xploration

[finite needle]

Yeah, all the screens were blank/turned off if I played as a Nomad. All of them would be working fine if starting in any other origin. Truly a mystery.

[split crown]

Strange glitch

[split crown]

There's a lot of polishing to be done, in all honesty

I'm still left wondering what the in-game lighting should be looking like

[finite needle]

Not like that for sure, this is some CGA shit

For people who don't know what the fuck CGA is, here you are:

And even then, I'm sure you could do better illusion of lighting with this palette and graphic capability. Right now it's atrocious and possibly the worst thing in the game. I get that a life was on the tagline and got everyone hyped but goddamn, I get flickering shadows and pixelated lights all the time and THAT is more immersion breaking to me, personally.

[split crown]

what the FUCK

I hate how real this is

[split crown]

100% agreed. I saw most if not all the Stalker 2 trailers, and what they were showcasing is NOT what we received lighting wise lmfao

[finite needle]

Lightening graphics to make the game run on more machines is fair game, and so is presenting the game at the max of its capabilities - but if you have to butcher the graphics, at least don't make a mess out of it.

[split crown]

I really just believe the game could have used more time to cook in the oven; however, it's also clear GSC wasn't allowed to do that probably due to pressure from investors.

[finite needle]

For sure, game has to come out eventually.

[drowsy umbra]

my biggest issue with the game is that it lacks a lot of default features of the ogs

[finite needle]

"a lot" is stretching it tbh

[drowsy umbra]

for example the faction map like in clear sky or the PDA system

[finite needle]

sometimes when people brings that up they talk about the Zone Facebook

[split crown]

Yeah I instantly thought of all the missing PDA features after reading your message lol

I actually really liked those PDA features.

[drowsy umbra]

also I expected a more dynamic faction system

[split crown]

yeah...

[drowsy umbra]

the main problem of the game that it is tailored to the main story

put the main story out of the game and it is a shell

and the ogs + gamma do excel in that so much

[finite needle]

Remove the engine from a car and it won't start isn't as good of an argument as you think it is tbh

OGs are very story focused, especially the first.

[drowsy umbra]

yeah but the main story shouldnt be the engine 😄

a-life should be the engine

with the main story being the transmission

[split crown]

Main story ought to be an obvious inspiration to move forward with the game, but I agree it also shouldn't be the sole life-giver of a game as well.

There should be more life to a game to discover aside from only going down one path.

[finite needle]

I still think that AI generated content, that people seems to hate in other media, is not the answer and I will always prefer hand crafter secondary content. I think CoP did an amazing job with that, since secondary quests were very well entwined with main story.

[split crown]

Not saying that isn't impossible to find in Stalker 2, but it can be apparent throughout extensive exploration of Stalker 2's zone.

[finite needle]

There is stuff to explore on your own in Stalker 2, but there's no reason to and not enough payout to do it, being it lore or a weapon, cash or simply just to unlock something else further down the road etc.

[icy basin]

But Shadow of Chernobyl didn't even really have it

[drowsy umbra]

SoC had intense atmosphere

[finite needle]

People got hyped about the idea of Clear Sky and forgot about Clear Sky

[drowsy umbra]

and HoC lacks a bit of atmosphere

in SoC, I shat my pants when I entered any of the X-labs

because of the dark atmosphere

[icy basin]

Much as I love Shadow of Chernobyl
I play half of it like it's an Apex Legends match with some ambient noises and a depressive atmosphere of an autumn in underdeveloped, abandoned Eastern Europe

[drowsy umbra]

in HoC, the labs etc all doesnt really give that atmosphere

[finite needle]

The world is however much more desolated and detailed in HoC, going around during a tempest really made me feel like what I was doing was stupid and that I should really not be there

Labs are a bit meh, but that's more on the labs themselves not being really memorable in HoC. No lore revelation, no new mutant etc. Most of it happens outside.

But considering the zone is outside the labs now, it's kinda fine. But I agree that labs aren't as cool as they were in SoC, but they never reached those peaks in any other game.

[outer depot]

I genuinely remember next to nothing about any of the labs except X-18 and X-16. I guess X-10 at Brain Scorcher since it’s the original Monolith kill-house and I’ve had to clear it so many times

I did like the Mirror station in HOC, a few others were okay

Promin could get spooky

[finite needle]

Which one is the one that has you kill a goddamn Chimera

[outer depot]

But yeah so much of the original games is reliant on the labs

[outer depot]

That’s Mirror station

[finite needle]

Yeah that's definitely the most memorable one, the others were kinda meh

"Something is blocking the way" and it's a fucking biotank

that and bloodsucker village not containing bloodsuckers but something worse were the funniest shit they've done

[outer depot]

All the bloodsuckers moved about 100 yards up the hill to that underground bunker

[finite needle]

amd the rest of the zone

speaking of which, I've seen today 2 bloodsuckers attack the Freedom defence line in Rostok, from the entrance to Wild Territory. Kinda funny, made me think of Gamma somehow.

[outer depot]

Oh yeah I thought Orbita was neat and dealing with the three Burers there made me want to kill myself less than it did in CoP

Tbh half of the reason the old labs felt like they did was because they just BLASTED a fucking insane background mix of random fucking noises the whole time

X-18 in particular

Being real though, AP Underground, X-16, Miracle Machine, and Brain Scorcher will never be surpassed

They’re a master class of just brute-forcing mood with spooky noises, deep shadows, and bullshit enemies

[warped monolith]

[opal stream]

STCS weapon pack 3.6. for clear sky is op, i didnt like clear sky before but this mod made me love this game

[outer depot]

[finite needle]

Cool another fucking day that my schedule is 8 - 3 AM

[heavy zodiac]

Has the game actually imrpoved in its worst aspects since the last patch? I'm thinking about deleting the game and just playing GAMMA

[peak eagle]

It's gonna take a long while for it to be improved

[wanton arch]

can i walk through bulba anomalies if i activate them

i have to endure the shitty field in swamps

[humble hedge]

It hasn't. Delete it and go for GAMMA. Let's give S2 a year at least. Next interesting catalyst is the "full mod tools" that has been promised.
I doubt they will deliver on that.

[peak eagle]

Stalker 2 needs the cyberpunk treatment, so it's gonna take years to be up there

[humble hedge]

You just beautifully described an important part of my late childhood/early teens. Thank you for the feels

[finite needle]

I'd say one year should be enough, I believe. CP2077 was in worse condition than Stalker 2, although I don't know if it's possible they will ever fix the lighting.

[peak eagle]

the lumen is probably overcooked either way

or undercooked, depending on perspective

[finite needle]

The more I play the more I hate the constant shadow flickering and pixelated light shafts, overexposition, horrible ghosting and so on. It might be my main gripe with the game right now. It's really jarring.

[warped monolith]

if we're going with cooking analogies, lumen in Stalker 2 is like having a perfect lasagna and throwing an entire, raw, unpeeled onion on top of it.

[outer depot]

I turned light shafts off and it honestly looks way better

[finite needle]

Ironically, lighting was the only graphically impressive thing in Stalker SoC. It looked pretty dated then it came out EXCEPT lighting, and now it's the thing that looks the worst.

[warped monolith]

I don't like how pixellated and extremely sharp everything looks without upscaling, but I refuse to use upscaling as a matter of principle

[outer depot]

I just set it to native AA

Best you can do tbh

I tried forcing external AA but it doesn’t work

[warped monolith]

that was with native AA if I'm not mistaken

but it's been 4 months so I may be misremembering it

... holy shit it's been 4 months already. Time does fly

[finite needle]

No way Stalker 2 came out 4 months ago.

[outer depot]

TAA is always trash, I think I was getting the least distortion and ghosting off of TSR at native?

[finite needle]

time really fucking flies.

[warped monolith]

yes way

[outer depot]

I’ve put 250 hours in

🗿

[warped monolith]

considering the state of the game, it'd be pretty funny if they announced the first DLC soon lmao

but I imagine the first DLC may get announced (or even released) within 6 months of release

[outer depot]

DLC paired with more performance fixes would be a good mix

Frankly though they’ve got this huge map so hopefully a lot of the DLC is just access to a sealed areas and populating the side quests in other areas off the beaten trail

[finite needle]

Well, CP2077 had its DLC launched what, 3 years after release?

And to be honest, the state the game was at DLC launch was pretty much the state the game should have been

I expect at least 1 year before Stalker 2 has its first DLC. Or none, like Mass Effect Andromeda, where they teased a quarian based DLC but never released because the game sold like shit

[warped monolith]

all depends on the size and scope of Stalker 2's planned DLCs. There are going to be two IIRC?
Phantom Liberty was more of an "expansion pack" of comparable size to Blood & Wine for Witcher 3

[undone summit]

Kinda shitty that the mentions of dlc/story expansions were removed from the store

[finite needle]

but I think Stalker 2 had generally a much warmer reception than Andromeda

I still haven't played Phantom Liberty, alghough everyone has been telling me it's pretty great

[peak eagle]

completely different from base game

it's pretty good

[finite needle]

I know I can start a new game directly from the DLC, but I really don't want and the character I completed the base game with is straight from 2020, possibly older than some GAMMA players

idk if shit will even work

Plus it was a ping/comrade's hammer build in which I just shoot people through buildings

[peak eagle]

Getting to the appropriate level is far easier nowadays for cyberpunk

the missions aren't level locked anymore

[latent thunder]

The DLC is better than the base game :/

[finite needle]

yeah they changed and shuffled them around quite a bit. They haven't fixed the duplicated npc issue yet though

[warped monolith]

surely that's a great sign

wait, it's still here.

[finite needle]

It's also there on the website, so idk

[warped monolith]

[finite needle]

Maybe he was talking about Andromeda?

(I'm not actually czech, but I ain't revealing my nationality in here)

[warped monolith]

healthy dose of paranoia

wait season pass "2"? what is this, borderlands 3?

[finite needle]

nah it says 2 story expansion and all future DLCs

[warped monolith]

oh

2 after the parentheses. oopsie

[finite needle]

Now, whether they follow through or not it's another story entirely, but they haven't removed mention of expansions from the store.

[warped monolith]

They probably have a contract with Microsoft and have to do it.

[undone summit]

Wtf
I thought it was gone on my end

I'll double check, but I may be blind

[warped monolith]

there's still the promised MP mode as well

[undone summit]

Here's me still hoping for Coop

[odd fjord]

shotdown.

[warped monolith]

I think the devs already said there'll be no co-op
we're just gonna get pvp game modes that may or may not be similar to the OG trilogy

[odd fjord]

24hz tickrate servers with packet loss go brrrr

[peak eagle]

Freedom Vs Duty gamemode

[finite needle]

Here it comes pro Stalker 2 multiplayer and Stalker 2 league

[peak eagle]

idk, maybe some gamemodes about capturing enough artifacts or finding the way into generators sounds like something too

[finite needle]

cp2077 scrapped multiplayer and it probably was the best thing

idk if multiplayer really is gonna be the best focus (watch it become Fortinte 2 now that I said it)

where the game was meant to be a sandbox coop kinda game and the battle royale mode was just a throwaway and it became the second most spoken human language for around 5 years.

[humble hedge]

[finite needle]

I have 144 (and apparently 122 in SMT V Vengeance)

was expecting way less

[peak eagle]

Pretty convenient but completed the game in that time

Granite Squad sucks balls tho

[outer depot]

Granite was easy to clear except the stairwell part because I literally could not see the Gauss snipers

I think I ended up firing something like 30 vogs just to clear them off

[outer depot]

300 hours in Clear Sky mostly unmodded

You think this shit phases me?

[peak eagle]

I got 180 myself

[outer depot]

Clear Sky was my shit

Road to Limansk forever unfinished though. Sadge.

[humble hedge]

Stalker veteran confirmed

[golden hazel]

They've said it a thousand times no co-op

I'm not gonna be surprise when they eventually add the multiplayer mode and announce it being tdm or battle royale or extraction royale people are still gonna be like OHMAHHHGAAAWD THEYRE ADDING CO-OP

[finite needle]

co-op with alife

[outer depot]

If they actually get a decent base multiplayer working maybe it’ll be easier this time than what it took to get coop working for CoP after all these years

[undone summit]

[brisk tartan]

lidawly

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/pray-happily-baby-cute-close-eyes-gif-20852145

[split crown]

https://fixvx.com/ShitpostGate/status/1894870060961054807?t=KsefZ5-fO8zINxGL25erZw&s=19

https://tenor.com/view/byeah-yeah-jerma-jerma985-gta-gif-16194072094781404916

[golden hazel]

Byeah

[proud ruin]

Has alife dlc dropped yet

[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&

[finite needle]

New anime girls released btw, one day I'll update the anime girls Stalker faction thingy

example:

[golden hazel]

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

[icy basin]

NDTwoFives

[finite needle]

tbh I don't really care about the anime girls, it's more of a "STALKER METIONED 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ " kinda mentality since series used to be very niche

SKEEFA if it was good

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA DA FACKIN C CON IS ATTACKING MY BRAIN SKEEFA DO YOU SEE HER SKEEFA TAHTS CALLED A WAIFU SKEEFA

[finite needle]

Lore accurate Scar

[proud ruin]

Skeefa the zone has turned me into a weeb! Skeefa! UwU

[golden hazel]

[proud ruin]

Mersoynary scar

[lime umbra]

what that ccon juice does to a mf

[golden hazel]

[cursive egret]

The 100 rads barkeep gave me 6000 coupons just for grabbing a stash on top of the arena. Took me 1 minute. Bro is lazy as hell

[icy basin]

Some things never change

[wooden glade]

lmao this is so on point

[warped monolith]

[wanton arch]

where can i sell artifacts for the best prize

eee

[jolly fiber]

skeefa I found out why I subconsciously liked all three of these characters the most

“In the English version of Clear Sky, Suslov is voiced by Steven Blum, famous for voicing Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop and Grunt from Mass Effect. He also provides the voice for Freedom leader Chekhov and Freedom technician Yar.”

[finite needle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sMQpWCNTQw

[jolly fiber]

god that’s everything I want in life

[finite needle]

Sorry that's where my mind goes whenever Spike gets mentioned, I had to get it out of my system

[warped monolith]

steve blum do be in everything

[jolly fiber]

i want a dlc where you get to kill sidor

shadow of chernobyl CPP c-con raid style fighting through a thousand exo mercenaries with RPKs as he waddles away firing a makarov at you like big smoke

[limpid nest]

remember the whole side quest with sidor where you have the option to help the tunnel gang set up a competing business? If you help defend the train tunnel guys they say that they must leave but will return. there is no follow up quest

[jolly fiber]

you’ll regret this marked one nobody trades without it going through me he shouts even though you’re not marked one

[jolly fiber]

this is what I’m thinking it’s the perfect opportunity for this very sane DLC

[finite needle]

Guys am I ready for MM?

[outer depot]

Should be a fully upgraded exoskeleton and two full stacks of AP with 50 army med kits and an equal number of grenades for the true “am I ready for miracle machine?” post experience

Followed by someone complaining that Brain Scorcher is too hard and their load out is three pieces of bread, a 30% durability leather jacket, and an AK with 90 rounds of FMJ

[stone mauve]

hey, just a quick question. why does my load order sometimes reset with vortex? where is the load order saved so i can make a backup and just add it again instead of painfully redo the whole thing everytime? thanks in advance

[proud ruin]

[ripe roost]

hey guys what is deal of black market and gamma economy?

[finite needle]

Idk ask in the gamma server

[ripe roost]

ok

[finite needle]

[humble hedge]

I disavow the anime/hentai stuff

[undone summit]

What

[humble hedge]

The Scar memes were funny though

[warped monolith]

ngl for a moment I thought iedy broke containment, but it was monke

[hushed jewel]

Am i the only croatian in the stalker community that played all the older games

[icy basin]

Unlikely

[hushed jewel]

[storm echo]

You’re the only one to me

[warped monolith]

you're the only croatian, period

[mystic tapir]

God im so annoyed with STALKER 2.

I got my new PC Built.

9800x3d, 64gb ram, 4080 Super. blah blah blah....

Game gets way better Frames, but mouse lag and stuttering is still an issue.

I went through the old Mods where performance is improved, disabled mouse acceleration in the ini files.

Not using Frame Gen, even capped my FPS at 60, stuttering was worse.

Capped at 120, latency and stuttering is still an issue.

Im getting average 60-80ms latency.

I just want to play the fucking game.

[late kernel]

Weird, when I tell others the game runs like dogwater they say it runs flawlessly on their 4090

[mystic tapir]

Yeah I dont believe half the fuckers. Im unfortunately very sensitive to latency. Bugs me to hell.

If I see a tiny bit of stuttering or latency, it throws me off bad.

[late kernel]

Nyet, Game is fine, they had to code the game on a laptop in the trenches, give them a break

[mystic tapir]

I get that. Just want to actually play it. Any tips or suggestions, or things that worked for others?

[late kernel]

pray

[undone summit]

Low settings

[mystic tapir]

Thats the shit part... Im on all EPIC and I get 120+ FPS.

[odd fjord]

yes but low might be better for frametime

[mystic tapir]

Yeah im messing around with the settings now.

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA WHERES THE CROW BAR, THE COPPER WIRES ARE LOCKED BEHIND A DOOR

[humble hedge]

Sorry not happening. Devs chose UE because it was financially sound and because they were lazy. Welcome to gaming in 2025.

I got a 9800X3D + RTX 4090 and it still looks and plays like shit

[storm echo]

FOR REAL

its tragic

since you have an NV card try setting your low-latency mode to ultra in NV control panel? Theres also some mods that help with the god awful m/k input ill find em

Personally I had to do all that and turn off the lumen lighting system in the engine.ini to get the frame times up then it felt normal, but only then.

[storm echo]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/181?tab=description installation is in the page there

theres also this mod which might help? https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7 i noticed no difference myself

there is also this mod because I shit you not the devs forced your mouse X/Y speeds to be different because all that matters to them are console normies https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/86

although I think the reduced stutter improved mod does some of these, its not really clear...

thats just the state of the game atm i guess

[mystic tapir]

Appreciate all the info.

Im doing the Optimization Tweaks along with increased LOD because the trees and bushes popping in and out annoys me.

I definetly will do the Mouse Vertical and turn off the Lumen shit.

[storm echo]

turning off lumen WILL make your game look like garbage fair warning

[mystic tapir]

I managed to get my latency down to like 20-30. But when I move my mouse around, the game decides to just stutter beyond belief.

[storm echo]

but it will run 1000% better

[mystic tapir]

I'll give it a go. What should I be looking for and what specific INI file?

[storm echo]

thats odd that you get stutters like that, I dont even get that on a 2070 super....

[mystic tapir]

Who knows. My overclock is stable. Ran multiple bench tests, so I know it isnt that. Im using NVIDIA APP to OC my GPU, un-installed MSI Afterburner because having both of them on at the same time causes crazy ass stuttering (I know this from past experiences)

[storm echo]

Ill find it, its a reddit post somewhere, its definitely a last resort like i said it makes the game look like pseudo-dog ass

[mystic tapir]

I also have a wireless mouse, the Logitech G PRO SUPERLIGHT X 2, tried the polling rate 8000 and 1000, no difference.

[storm echo]

oh and any game overlays including steam should be turned off

[mystic tapir]

Yup. I did all the generic things.

[storm echo]

good man

I'm having a harder time finding this than I thought, I can look at my own engine.ini later to see what I used. I'd say see what you can get without fucking with the lumen for now, if anything try this guide? https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1hhwn3o/engineini_foliage_view_distance_best_reflections/
I'm not sure about a lot of the other stuff in this guide, but the section that may help you will be here: CTRL+F and go to "r.Lumen.HardwareRayTracing=1" and look around there, apparently theres a few steps to it so read up (I HAVE NOT TRIED THIS). If you do end up trying this, it may conflict with the "Optimized Tweaks S.2 - Reduced Stutter Improved" mod. Sorry if that doesnt help lol im more or less quickly looking for this one damn setting i used.

[storm echo]

To be clear, this mod also fucks with the engine.ini afaik so some of these things might already be in there

[spare arch]

Stalkers with 8gb VRAM. Are the RAMLeaks fixed?

[mystic tapir]

Appreciate it. I'll give these a try when a get a chance later on

[humble hedge]

[storm echo]

Good luck lmk if it works out

[split crown]

no lol

[storm echo]

me with 6gb vram

[split crown]

are you still able to play the game?

@golden hazel apparently can't launch the game without it crashing immediately because his GPU is 6gb vram

[storm echo]

Not really, the input delay is quite literally unplayable. only way to remedy it has been to do every fix in the book plus disabling lumen shaders (back to 80+fps no problem lol)

Have not had issues launching as much as crashing after death ect. Interestingly enough the crashes have been pretty consistent per playthrough even on various PCs with similar hardware.

Like at the anomalies when you first get the bolt after you get clotheslined like a dumbass.

I may have actually messed with my windows page file size, maybe that saved me?

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/biolizard-sonic-adventure-2-gif-18169298409514828425

[storm echo]

“You don’t have enough Vram in the Graphics card”

[golden hazel]

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

[remote eagle]

i just got struck by lightning bruh

almost died

[split crown]

yeah it's a meme; it's even funnier when a random stalker in a settlement is struck

[remote eagle]

never saw that but its sounds very funny

[proud ruin]

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/wizard-indeed-agree-gif-10704775973441200096

[mystic tapir]

I damn near got my game to work. Only problem now is when I move my mouse fast it skips/choppy.

Damn it might of been my polling rate. Stalker cant handle 8000mhz

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-2-podpekaet-gorit-gif-14277328277489550766

[icy basin]

Stephen King ahh apocalypse

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/sukuna-domain-expansion-jujustu-kaisen-shibuya-sukuna-vs-mahoraga-gif-3966585850028273519

[split crown]

When the Final Emission hits

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA THEYRE DYEING THE SKY WITH RED40

[split crown]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DON'T INHALE THE RED40 SKEEFAAAAAAAAAAA

[golden hazel]

THE FLESH ARE TURNING INTO CHIMERA SKEEFA

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/arriba-gif-12324188786972117417

[brisk fulcrum]

Hahah lol

[zealous pelican]

Cool stalker 2 screenshot

😎

[eager solstice]

Warned pengus__ for: Keep your diarrhea pics out of this server
Warning: 1

[icy basin]

Actually that's the second time

You don't learn

[eager solstice]

pengus__ (pengus__) has been banned for reason: nvm he posted shit in stalker 2 chat before kekl

[royal mural]

waddafuk is going on here

[split crown]

[icy basin]

Local man expressing opinion on the videogame
A second time

Needs more fiber

[brazen lake]

needs a more balanced meal

[icy basin]

!true

[fallen iron]

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[golden hazel]

[proud ruin]

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

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

[golden hazel]

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

[finite needle]

Average Asmongold content:

[devout locust]

Im going back to gamma

[proud ruin]

[jolly fiber]

and half the time he says true it's false lmao

[remote eagle]

found compass on kordon

and to make it even more funnier it was near rookie village

[peak eagle]

Artifacts are pure RNG now

[jolly fiber]

you should take it into the village and brag to them all

[remote eagle]

[jolly fiber]

then make a big show of selling it to sidor for $2.50 and a half empty can of coca cola

[finite needle]

IF he doesn't have you killed for the audacity of having such an artifact