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

[finite needle]

I shit on Stalker 2 but Oblivion/Fallou3-NV/Skyrim was another level

[golden hazel]

At least Fallout would run for me for like half an hour before crashing

[finite needle]

Oh right I forgot, you can't run Stalker 2

[golden hazel]

WHERES MY GODDAMN PATCH GSC

[finite needle]

this week, it has squirrels

[golden hazel]

I swear if I still can't run the game

It makes no sense, I could run it mostly fine in the launch patches

The slavjank, it's too janky

[deep lodge]

when fps no longer goes down from 70 to 10 and instead buildings dont render anymore just another anomaly in the zone i guess

[finite needle]

that or your gpu might be fried

[golden hazel]

It must be a new type of memory leak

[finite needle]

NEW FEATURE: Rostok will now operate at normal FPS

[deep lodge]

nah it worked but then i reloaded a save because i decided to face tank 10 monolith solders but remembered that losing 20% durability is 12k coupons

[golden hazel]

You have it easy these days

Back in my day, 20% durability would cost you 100k coupons

[finite needle]

on release prices were like triple

Pretty sure you had to farm artefacts to finance the damages you would take hunting artefacts

[golden hazel]

And everything sold for less too

[deep lodge]

i played on day 1 but after i got to town in lesser zone i couldnt be asked because of fps problems

at least it improved a bit

[golden hazel]

I remember being so broke that I threw all my finances at repairing my suit and only used the Skeeftol for most of the game

[finite needle]

Gotta hand it to them, after the frist few patches I gained around 10/12 fps average

[golden hazel]

Same

[warped monolith]

[deep lodge]

frame generation is my saving grace making it go from 40 to 70-80 fps

rostok is a different story though, i did the arena side quest and had to relaunch the game 8 times because of fps dropping to 7

[finite needle]

Never had that problem, but whoever came up with psydog vs boomstick needs to be deported to Brno

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/psy-gangnam-style-oppa-gangnam-style-gif-9227998

[deep lodge]

hopefully in 2 years we get inverno mod for stalker 2 need that winter apocalypse feeling

[finite needle]

Man I can't wait for someone to make Misery 2 and see Asmongold pretend to like the game

[golden hazel]

He ain't gonna be alive that long

[finite needle]

God I hope so

[warped monolith]

now that we're not gonna get GAMMA 2 and another Drewski following, gotta hope for the "next best" thing ey

[golden hazel]

Average server IQ dips into the negatives

[deep lodge]

nexus mods and moddb gonna get overloaded again 💀

[finite needle]

||I found out about GAMMA because of Drewski, but in my defense I already had played all of the og trilogy plus Lost Oblivion and Anomaly||

[golden hazel]

[lime umbra]

[finite needle]

[warped monolith]

I heard about GAMMA from the Cheeki Breeki channel on youtube

so it was just like... days before the Drewski incident

[golden hazel]

I learned about it after installing a bunch of Grok's mods and being like "Oh shit he has more of em? AND THEY INSTALL AUTOMATICALLY?!"

I remember popping in and I'm pretty sure the first thing I asked was where to find an M4 and Green Man was like Go to the Brainscorcher hon hon or something like that

[finite needle]

I honestly didn't partake in any chat tomfoolery until I cleared my first brain scorcher run (I had like an AK-74M, a Remington shotgun, not many AP ammo and some Duty berill armor. It was an experience.)

[golden hazel]

I did it with a ppsh and an m4 that I found after stabbing a monolith to death

[slow verge]

Squirrel A life has just been confirmed

[golden hazel]

Nah, it's probably going to be the same spawning system as the npcs already have

Somehow it will break and the squirrels will start hyper spawning and eventually kill you

https://tenor.com/view/smoking-duck-cigarette-cigarette-duck-blunt-duck-smoke-duck-gif-4275462109028563488

[slow verge]

Nah the devs confirmed squirrel life 2.0 it takes precedence over actual a life

That’s how important the squirrels are

[golden hazel]

[finite needle]

With how jaded some parts of the fanbase is right now, I can't really underestand why they showcased squirrels

[golden hazel]

GSC pulling a Mojang

[finite needle]

Reminds me a bit when CDPR did a whole ass roleplay presentation of them changing the spawn of cops to be further away from immediately in front of you to like 90 meters

[golden hazel]

[finite needle]

I'm the kind of guy who is willing to give all the second chances you might need but even I felt that was incredibly tone deaf

[odd fjord]

squirels you mean or?

[golden hazel]

The G in GSC stands for the G in Mojang

[odd fjord]

nah it stands for

https://tenor.com/view/gotcha-bitch-gotchabitch-gif-22679594

[finite needle]

Nah the CDPR thing, squirres are ok but seemed a bit out of touch

[odd fjord]

they are lost

[lime umbra]

well you see development is incredibly slow

its like trying to steer a cargo ship

anything you want to do or react too might take months

[odd fjord]

it takes 5 business days for their jira to update for each change

https://noosphere-gw.atlassian.net/\

yes thats their real jira

[finite needle]

They really are using jira huh

[lime umbra]

at least it isnt sean murray with 32 lies a minute per talk

[golden hazel]

Adding the AN94 or the F2000 or literally any of the old guns from the og trilogy
Adding more side quests for the duty/freedom war
Adding more melee weapons
Adding actual goddamn lighting to the game
Adding Squirrels to the game

[finite needle]

In their defence, squirrels might be the easiest of the thing of that list.

Plus the AN-94 doesn't even exist irl

[warped monolith]

[lime umbra]

[odd fjord]

imagine not owning this game, hearing news articles how the game released broken, reading now and then that there is still no roadmap, no comment on broken features other then the usual, no info on modding tools or mp, bare communication and then you read they updated and added squirels

[finite needle]

There are like 20, all of them in the zone

[odd fjord]

honestly would feel sorry for the players of that game

[lime umbra]

https://youtu.be/gtMssTSnRHU?si=8we4V39lViXsyI-m

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/evil-laugh-the-dark-knight-heath-ledger-joker-gif-4141377

[golden hazel]

Gun Jesus

[finite needle]

Now, chat will demonstrate to me that a weapon I jokingly said it doesn't exist because it's extremely rare actually exists.

[lime umbra]

its better if you say the jackhammer isnt real

[warped monolith]

"Next you'll say: I was only pretending to be retarded"

[finite needle]

BUT IT'S TRUE I MAKE THAT JOKE ALL THE TIME AHSHDAIUWHDUAIHWD

[golden hazel]

Yeah it's a battlefield 3 exclusive weapon

[finite needle]

I know about the jackhammer because it was in Project IGI, but back then I didn't know there was like 1 of them

[warped monolith]

jackhammer was the best shotgun in Fallout 2

[lime umbra]

the funny bit is how its not even a real gun its a frame on a pipe

[past ivy]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/741945274901200897/1349340011236950066/nkvd1.gif

[finite needle]

Btw in that game the best way to snipe was to target someone with your binoculars, point the head, switch to a pistol and shoot. Great game.

[undone summit]

I assume, aside from squirrels, it's all bugfixes

[slow verge]

Who’s gonna tell him

I FUCKING HATE SQUIRRELS FUCK SQUIRRELS USELESS AS FUCKING ANIMALS

[split crown]

wait... they're adding squirrels? What?

[remote eagle]

can someone share the patchnotes?

[brazen lake]

[remote eagle]

p!who

[plucky ibex]

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[split crown]

[remote eagle]

classical russian no brainer it seems

anyway

[ancient kite]

stalker 2 fuckin sucks

im downloading gamma again

[golden hazel]

HoC Tuah

SKEEFA ON THAT THING

[remote eagle]

SKEEFA THAT GUY SAID STALKER 2 SUCKS STRIP HIM OUT OF COPPER WIRE

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker2-character-stalker2-stalker-gif-18333679

[warped monolith]

do not listen to the tourists skeefa

[deep lodge]

sometimes i wonder why skif's pistol with ap rounds can 2 shot a monolith soldier but a fully modified ak with ap needs 3 shots in the head

[golden hazel]

Because it's lore accurate

[deep lodge]

who calibrated the bullet dmg

[golden hazel]

Skif solo'd the zone with a makarov

[deep lodge]

true enough every cutscene the makarov is pulled out

[warped monolith]

Skif, obviously

is it still true that Burers can't yoink the Skiftol from your hands?

[golden hazel]

It should be, it was always intended

Skeeftol is supernatural

[cursive egret]

Actually an AK74S requires 9 headshots with AP to down a single monolith exo lol

A buket though? 2 shots with AP

They really overcompensated with making lesser zone weapons useless so fast

[deep lodge]

i wish they went down in 2 hits but my combantant ak needs 3 shots to the dome

maybe its just highest difficulty thing idk

il just say this thought faust fight sucks ass

[cursive egret]

Combatant has the same damage and penetration stat as a regular ak74s, so yeah it sucks

I get the number of headshots required from this chart, but it's a bit inaccurate sometimes https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L6jBHJtw8AZrJZmOiFekiS2YVudHS3rQVGQN-oOaNMk/edit?gid=1165972690

[cursive egret]

Yes

[deep lodge]

welp here goes the whole days budget i guess

ez -25k xd

[remote eagle]

[deep lodge]

this shit kinda hot ngl

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/drinking-energy-drink-drinking-non-stop-yaniv-stalker-stalker-2-gif-10074497999482227562

[remote eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-chernobyl-strelok-looking-up-worried-gif-17874458

[deep lodge]

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

[cursive egret]

really? that's all the light a lantern gives in a pitch black room? lol

[split crown]

SKEEFA, IS THERE COPPER IN THAT MAKAROV???

[rustic lotus]

Hello! Little bit of help here, I can't download the gamma mods, I am getting this

[golden hazel]

This is the Stalker 2 channel

[rustic lotus]

git config --global --add safe.directory 'D:/GAMMA/.Grok'''s Modpack Installer/resources/Stalker_GAMMA'

[trim iron]

https://discordapp.com/channels/912320241713958912/1026866080347603065

[remote eagle]

dark matter copper with uranium

[remote eagle]

@finite needle bring me the horizon got stalker 2 gameplay right

[proud ruin]

[icy basin]

Where

[brazen lake]

@icy basin it was under this message

seems to be missing....

[icy basin]

[remote eagle]

i deleted it

[brazen lake]

ah well then that

i sent the ss right after the message so

[eager solstice]

@dire widget (ya_risuy_svaston) has been muted for 3 days for reason: Spelling out the n-word in emoji reactions gets you muted. Better change your Discord account name too, just in case. -3d

[remote eagle]

[proud ruin]

[timid oyster]

https://x.com/Stalker2News/status/1899885761295536600

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

Squirrels are coming to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 with Patch 1.3 🐿

X · Mar 12, 2025, 6:10 PM

[timid oyster]

свастон??

[golden hazel]

GSC Game World, formerly known as Mojang

[timid oyster]

Oh.

[remote eagle]

svaston means nazi

[timid oyster]

I figured that out

[remote eagle]

[icy basin]

Swastika slang

[timid oyster]

What else would be the symbol of an edgy n-word saying guy?

[icy basin]

[west moth]

[rare needle]

Hey guys, what A-life mod seems to be the best? I'm currently using Shays one but there are another ones that also can be great.

[remote eagle]

[finite needle]

Shamelessly stolen

[remote eagle]

[jovial berry]

Wools Alife found a way is the other one you could try

[golden hazel]

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

[remote eagle]

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

[rare needle]

Yeah, thats what I just discovered and I got interested of trying something else

Love the game but the ai is kinda shit

I don't think any alife will fix that but atleast make it more bearable

[jovial berry]

Yeah it's quite unfortunate

Shameless plug-in but make sure to go try Dynamic Weather Overhaul a try :3

[rare needle]

You made it?

Was thinking about that too since I have been seeing dark rainy weathers for days now, it gets kinda annoying

[jovial berry]

Lol they should've fixed this already

You might need to use UE tools to get your weather unstuck first. In my Nexus page there is a post on how to do it

Get version 2.2.4 not the 2.2.5 preview thats a bit broken atm

[rare needle]

I'm gonna give your mod a try, and I do hope I'm not stuck on that rain, atleast it felt like the weather was on more than off lol

[jovial berry]

There are as a bug at the end game where the rain wouldn't stop after you enter Pripyat

[rare needle]

I'm not in Pripyat yet 😛

While on modding topic, can u recommend tool to unpak/pak. I have been doing texture overhauls on many games, but not so much on ue games.

Was kinda hoping to do something on stalker2, this game doesnt need a terrain textures overhaul though, looks great.

[jovial berry]

#╟⚒stalker2™-mod-resources message

Although I'm probably not the one to tell you which are best since I haven't touched Textures

[rare needle]

Oh damn, I must have been blind to not see that

Any other mod recommendations for some immersion? I thought about mutant loot, but it kinda breaks the economy.

[jovial berry]

You can get some of the overhauls like Desolation or Modular Hardcore Mod

Modular Hardcore Mod -> Misery-like STALKER 2

Desolation -> Expanded feature rich Vanilla

Maklanes Zone Overhaul -> Improved Vanilla

[remote eagle]

Misery

[jovial berry]

There's a bunch on Nexus. Don't forget to use a merging tool if you have conflicting mods

[remote eagle]

got it ty

[finite needle]

Considering squirrels are gon break mods, I'd avoid installing them today of all times

[remote eagle]

squirrels more like fps eaters

[finite needle]

Now they said in the Q&A that the patch was gonna be mostly QoL and small stuff, but announcing squirrels really rubbed me off the wrong way, and I've been extremely charitable to them. Like my man, read the room

[remote eagle]

[rare needle]

When can we expect the new update, is there eta?

[finite needle]

Same energy as this

[golden hazel]

Rostok wont be 10fps zone anymore, it'll be 5

[finite needle]

They aimed for this week so no actual ETA, but they are adding squirrels for sure and move some endgame exclusive stuff into areas reachable before the point of non return

[rare needle]

squirrel update lol

[remote eagle]

SKEEFA C-CON STOLE ALL FPS SKEEFA

[rare needle]

so pretty much nothing actually valuable is coming ? :d

[finite needle]

I'm fine with them adding squirrels, I'm just not really happy about the fact that they made it the main point of the patch almost

[rare needle]

Yeah I mean if they show off squirrels as the main thing, there is not much hope for the rest of the patch 😄

[finite needle]

I'm gonna get my mods broken because you added squirrels in the game, I'm not really enthusiastic about it

[rare needle]

I'm also fine having something new like the squirrels but yeah

Can you even block updates nowadays from steam?

[finite needle]

You can revert, idk how for Stalker 2 tho

[rare needle]

Hated playing CP77 when the constant updates ruined the game

[finite needle]

Yeah I think CP2077 had a sweet spot, like patch 1.06? Where shit was running ok-ish, but then they started trying to fix other stuff and the game got a lot worse before it got better

[golden hazel]

Hopefully HoC tuah gets better

[finite needle]

Well at least they didn't do a roleplay annoucement with youtube video when they moved the spawn of NPC from behind you to 95 meters

[golden hazel]

[remote eagle]

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA THE WARDENS DONT SPAWN BEHIND YOU ANYMORE

[finite needle]

ngl if it was like that I wouldn't even been mad

[golden hazel]

[rare needle]

Have you guys found multiple artifacts in same place or is my game bugged

I came to an area which spawns shit ton of em

nvm its just psi shit

[finite needle]

psi damage irl

[rare needle]

i gotta say this game does that LOL

[finite needle]

KLONDIKE ARTIFACTA SKEEFA

[deft folio]

🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️ 🐿️

[finite needle]

милі білочки

[odd fjord]

squirels might just be prop

like you see the crows? they arent entities they are visual effects

thats why shooting them has no use

[finite needle]

Man I can't even shoot them

[odd fjord]

thats because they are just a lightweight animation effect

dont know the exact name for it but its same as static smoke in an area

[finite needle]

The only positive is that I got to shoot some squirrels becasue why not

now you take away even that from me

[odd fjord]

well you cant prob, it will go through them

yeah since they are effects and not actual actors simulated

they will also not have a controller to move them properly resulting in squirels being absolutely unfaded by gunfights next to them or tushkans running in between

[finite needle]

Just like the crows, who are really janky looking

[odd fjord]

and to top it off im curious if emission will trigger their look for shelter but since they are prob like crows they will be unfaded too

so all in all what we got is a new effect hand placed around the map that does not interact with anything in its enviroment and only adds to screen smear by shitty lumen and temporal stuff they use

[finite needle]

idk why they felt the need to announce it like they did. I still can't get over it, what did they expect the reaction was like? "ahah nice meme I love squirrels?"

[odd fjord]

mine, found a way, roadside panic are the 3 working ones

[odd fjord]

out of touch upper management seeing the video in their company channels and thinking its a good idea to also post on socials

mol1t! blyat this 1 minute test video of QA for squirels seems fun, quick post it on socials, we got new animals!

[golden hazel]

Mojang Game World

[remote eagle]

Stalker 2 is minecraft 2 confirmed?

[finite needle]

Actual Elon Musk shit

[deep lodge]

this endurance bonus should be available at start of game

feels like i can actually run

[finite needle]

Not being able to run is a way to encourage use of stamina related consumables and artifact + travel lightly thing

The joke here is that they added a pseudo survival thing in the game and everyone hates it.

[deep lodge]

i wouldnt mind carrying soda

but like 5 sodas are 2kg

[finite needle]

I never said it was well balanced or fun

Plus soda/water doesn't even do that much except give you a very small bonus

[deep lodge]

also idk who it was yesterday but someone told me ak scales like shit into the late game so i switched to integral a and life is a bit easier now

not gonna question the balance but if it works it works i guess

[finite needle]

penetration is the most importat stuff because the later you get in game the heavier the armors are

the balacing is very flat and progressive, you simply get more powerful weapons the more you go north/on with the story.

[deep lodge]

yeah but you dont even go north with the story you just go south

[finite needle]

AKs are meant to be starter weapons, then you get the Fora which is Tier 2 and Dnipro which is Tier 3 for that ammo and so on

[finite needle]

You know what I mean, the further you progress the better the gear

[worthy sparrow]

Is A life accessible to modders in Stalker 2? I'm wondering how much of the original system was used, if any at all.

[dreamy yacht]

can anyone recommend a good flashlight mod? im sick of shooting back at the occasional muzzle flash out of a pitch black room, I CANT FUCKING SEE SHIT THE GAME IS SO DARK

[clever pawn]

!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]

Man the things I would do for a better flashligh/flashlinght progression/night vision because that shit really makes the game almost unplayable at night. I can program stuff during daytime only for so long until the main story progresses to the point where it forces me to have a firefight nighttime

[clever pawn]

there's literally no reason for the flashlight not to have better range than 2m in front of u, but they did it anyway. bad design by choice

[worthy sparrow]

That's what I fear

[dreamy yacht]

it not just at night, im trying to fight monolith at duga right now and its like 1pm, but as soon as im indoors i just cant see these mfs unless they are 5 meters in front of me because the flashlight is so shit. Ive been fiddeling with brightness and gamma but it just doesnt fucking do anything

[finite needle]

a life is apparently actually in game, just disabled because it doesn't work. Which is fundamentally the same

[dreamy yacht]

how am i gonna have gunfights if i cant see the enemy by default, how is that ever a good design choice

[worthy sparrow]

I just think they might not have really coded A-Life at all, tried to mimick it.

The lack of night vision and torches is yeah really crazy

I'm guessing performance is the issue? The engine has that software ray tracing doesn't it?

[dreamy yacht]

find mr monolith please

[worthy sparrow]

damn

[dreamy yacht]

totally read your message wrong btw thats my bad

[clever pawn]

i also like how the game has unique weapons, and their main feature is that they limit your options because you cannot remove attachments. but you can add attachments to the slots which are free. so basically, they are just worse normal weapons. this was fixed by a modder, so why could it not have been just GOOD from the start?

[dreamy yacht]

thank god for oxa amirite

at the same time ppl tend to forget that stalker 2 and stalker gamma are very different things, gun custimization in gamma was never a feature in the original stalker games

[worthy sparrow]

I always wonder why modders have to fix everything

[rare needle]

There is a flashlight mod that I used before

[worthy sparrow]

gamma feels like a fairly natural evolution to me

[rare needle]

u can change the radius, range etc

but it doesnt work with ue4ss, which is needed for ultra+

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/221 this one

[rare needle]

@dreamy yacht check the comments few rows up

[finite needle]

GAMMA is anything but a Stalker game my man

[proud ruin]

Noooo drewski told me gamma is the stalker game that doesn’t fake survival!!!!

[clever pawn]

weapons in general are a joke. extremely gamey stats that literally deny real life physics. weapons have arbitrary damage and range that make no sense. what the hell is "flatness" separate from the range?

[rare needle]

didnt the vanilla game have bullet drop to ground from like 20+ metres

[clever pawn]

didn't the original stalker have a-life? maybe they should have done that

[finite needle]

Well, SoC's A-life wasn't very complicated and didn't go more in deep than NPC moves from camp a to camp b, then plays guitar until you clear the game

CoP they just moved to points of interest, mimicked actions and then got into fights with enemies. That's about it. Clear Sky was more complex in that regard, and way more ambitious.

[clever pawn]

and then modders combined most of those features in a free mod without asking for $60, while the multi million dollar studio jokes about adding squirells to a broken game

[timber tangle]

anyone found a fix for the shaders error in the default gamma pack?

[worthy sparrow]

I played the original back in the day but I think Gamma is still Stalker. The systems add to the immersion depending on player tolerance. It just doesn't have a new story or mistery to solve.

[clever pawn]

GAMMA might be a bit too tedious with the crafting and inventory management, but overall it really combines all the best features of different mods with thoughtful balance. Probably more thoughtful than Stalker 2 design.

[proud ruin]

Gamma players will spend hours straight doing the needlessly tedious repairs and crafting and be like “this game is goated”(I’m one of them)

[finite needle]

Same btw

[rare needle]

I played gamma for a while back in the day, gotta say I enjoy Stalker 2 more than that. Maybe its because I have gotten older and prefer more casual approach to gaming rather than the grind

used to love the grind before

[clever pawn]

not a fan of the grind but I appreciate the option of crafting your own ammo, meds etc or some unique items you cannot buy anywhere. it's definitely more rewarding than finding hundreds of AI-2s everywhere

[rare needle]

Stalker 2 definitely needs some more variations for this.

[clever pawn]

not to mention, it plays into a wider experience. you have to actually be prepared to go into the zone, think about what you might need, what you're missing, what you can sell off etc.

in stalker 2 you can just run and gun, and the only difficulty is the bullet sponges and random 5 bloodsucker spawns

[rare needle]

Well yeah. I'm excited for the future though with sdk and new mods. Another playthrough in few years will be different 😛

[fading monolith]

They release 1.3 yet ?

[deep lodge]

whoever designed this spot is such a troll

cant even cross it and need to go all the way around through wild island and zaton now to get 1 collar

[finite needle]

I mean, Stalker was always a hero shooter, it's gamma the odd one out. But I kinda agree that a more methodical gameplay is better. Just, it's not an identity issue because Stalker 2 is very much more of a Stalker game than GAMMA. It's not quality that is in discussion, is fidelity (lot of people assume that saying Stalker 2 is more similar to older Stalker games than Anomlay or Gamma is shitting on the latter, I have no idea why)

[jovial berry]

Also the reason why I enjoyed S2 for what it is. I didn't have the Gamma/tacticool mindset for it

I mean I played OG soc game when I was like 13

[remote eagle]

me too

[jovial berry]

I think my biggest gripe has been how shallow the AI is, and emissions

And the lack of dynamic jobs/side content/faction specific content

[finite needle]

Combat AI is really bad, you won't catch me disagreeing with that

More concerned about the lack of side content on this side. The game is too big to have this little content around.

after you leave Zaton it just dries up. I can't believe Malachite has 1 side quest.

[jovial berry]

Yeah exactly, the only reason I deviate from paths is to go check out half empty stashes

Would be nice to get side jobs to different locations which you can hit up on the way to objectives

[finite needle]

Now, there IS some cool stuff to find if you explore, but by itself it isn't clearly enough.

Also, more scripted events like the car scam or the dude who is watching the anomaly could be nice. I liked getting the radio call from a Stalker in need of help and so on.

[remote eagle]

yeah lack of side content/faction content is big L for stalker 2 rn

(for me)

[late kernel]

Stalker 2 is just so bad in many ways it needs a Cyberpunk treatment

and im a massive stalker fan and veteran

[west moth]

Let's pray GSC will finish S2

[jovial berry]

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-gif-25117042

I'm just hoping with SDK it'll be easy to add more weather events and better emissions

And stormy weather can barely be called that since it's pretty rare and, imo, looks kinda ugly af

[remote eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-infinity-gauntlet-snap-finger-snap-gif-12502580

[finite needle]

Someone will, we'll see who

[clever pawn]

By the way, when talking about how Stalker 2 is underwhelming people always say "it's not supposed to be GAMMA" and that's fair enough. What about Radiophobia or IWP? Those are both excellent mods and are true to the original games in terms of gameplay and vibe. Better than Stalker 2 definitely

[wanton arch]

hello is there any posibilty that stalker 2 can look more sharp

couse vanilla is so much mess

[finite needle]

Ok, but we're in the GAMMA discord in the Stalker 2 server, I don't know nor care about Radiophobia nor IWP. Whatever point you might be making it ain't gonna get across necessarily

[clever pawn]

honestly, I would just turn up display sharpness if this is an option for you. The game as far as I remember doesn't allow to sharpen the image, and using reshade costs 10fps (REAL fps)

[wanton arch]

no dobra dzięki

[clever pawn]

nie ma sprawy 💪🏻 🦅 🇵🇱 ⛰️

[clever pawn]

The point is that even the mods that do not focus on grind and survival crafting are better Stalker games than S2.

[finite needle]

I will absolutely try it, but from what I read it's just SoC, but modern?

[icy basin]

Uh-oh, rude in DMs

[finite needle]

My man has svaston in his name, I don't think he's ever gonna be productive

[eager solstice]

@dire widget (ya_risuy_svaston) has been banned for reason: Went into DMs to be rude, see ya

[finite needle]

Imma try Radiophobia but I swear to the Monolith if it's just another tacticool conversion for SoC I'm going to be upset.

I read it does add more quests and story tho, so that can be interesting if done properly

[clever pawn]

In Radiophobia (when I played in early 3 versions) the Monolith are well-armed with modern guns and there's A LOT of them

There are also new quests and characters. I think they are rather well done

[finite needle]

But it's still just SoC.

[clever pawn]

Yeah, it's a "remake" of SoC

You can try IWP for freeplay and CoC storylines

[finite needle]

Yeah that might be better for your argument, telling me heavily modified SoC is a better Stalker game than a Stalker game is not helping, I don't know if you follow

[remote eagle]

[finite needle]

But I'm honestly interested in Radiophobia. I'll try it anyway.

[clever pawn]

Whatever. I think that if the work modders have done for free is better than professional developers have done for money, it says a lot about the developers. Though I guess fingers should be pointed at the people in charge who directed the game and decided on an unfinished release

[finite needle]

Hey, game has to come out eventually. It's not the first time GSC released an buggy mess of a game because they ran out of time

[clever pawn]

Excuses, excuses, excuses.

[finite needle]

I'm not making any excuse? I don't think saying "yeah they ran out of time" is an excuse

If you think it's a justification that's on you. It's not for me. If you have a project with deadlines and can't respect them it's your fault

If you program something, put it in game but still can't get it to work after 3 months is a much worse situation than "lol a life is not there", because effectively you wasted time and effort to obtain the same result as just not even bothering.

[clever pawn]

And it's another thing to lie about the product entirely, and to attempt to conceal the incoming disaster by such ways as review embargos. No need to show good will to someone who doesn't do that in return.

[proud ruin]

Radiophobia 3 is goated

[finite needle]

Sounds actually pretty cool, a bit heavy tho. 60gb?

It better be standalone

[proud ruin]

Something like that

[proud ruin]

Yeah it is

It’s the best way to replay soc imo

[finite needle]

Btw I get @clever pawn 's argument that the Stalker fanbase has been altered to the point where just making a Stalker game isn't gonna be enough. That I understand. I just don't think the comparison between a HEAVILY altered version of SoC and a brand new Stalker game is going to fit that well.

I actually think the same way, i.e. Stalker fan base has changed, thus the new game had to lean a bit more into that than it does right now, ignoring the glarign AI and lack of content problems + optimization and lightning looking like crap

[deep lodge]

there is 1 thing this game did right that none of the others have and thats sprinting into doors and slamming them open

so satisfying to do

[proud ruin]

When I picked up a gun in stalker 2 and it worked immediately i uninstalled

[warped monolith]

FACT. Gun shoots straight as soon as I pick it up? What is this, a game for casuals?

[remote eagle]

[proud ruin]

casual slop

[outer depot]

Stalker 2 succeeded in having an actual intelligible plot with choices that do things

Honestly looking back at the original three games they’re so fucking amateurish in terms of technical execution (as released, not modded after 15 years) and writing quality that it’s truly baffling

I think S2s main problems stem from the fact they went for breadth but in making this Giga fuck map and focusing on the main plot for once, they essentially kneecapped themselves in almost every other supporting aspect (well, that and UE5)

[remote eagle]

[outer depot]

I’m not as held up over A-Life though, mostly because I remember how fucking dogshit and borderline non functional it is in the normal release of the old games. Yeah it had good bones then but it took a long fucking time for it to approach what people think it is, and even then it’s still a buggy mess. I think over time we’ll get closer towards something that mimics the feel of A-Life without having the bones of it and most people just won’t care that the game isn’t tracking Dima Speed being mugged by a Snork 3 kilometers away.

[warped monolith]

unfortunately Gamma, Anomaly, Misery and similar modpacks have made people care about the fate of Max Booba

[outer depot]

I just saw Max Brick get his ballsack torn off by a Chimera in the Truck Cemetary.

Me: Damn, that’s rough. <- is in fucking Zaton

There’s lots of little flavor things that could be added to the mutants and NPCs to flesh them out a little more which would go a long way for a lot less cost and time than redoing the entire AI system

While also being a lot more lightweight on an already badly stressed engine

Fucking Lumen though

My arch nemesis

[clever pawn]

I agree. The open world is severely underwhelming. I think it would be better for them to stick to the interconnected levels (each a wide corridor with natural progression but allowing some breathing room). I can't help but look back at Metro Exodus and how well it works there. Looking back at earier Metro games and Stalker I can't help but think this is the design philosophy that was there from the start

[outer depot]

Metro Exodus has its own limitations, chiefly that by design it’s a far more linear experience. Thing is I really like having this nice big open world, I just wish parts of it had more to do

The place is jam packed with locations and unique geography

Really need more side quests to actually use it

(And a trader hub in the burned forest/southern Duga zone Jesus Christ)

[midnight ridge]

Exodus' world was so limited, linear and empty

[warped monolith]

like a post apocalyptic world should be?

being linear was a conscious design and plot decision since... trains only run on lines...

I'll take a well executed linear game over a shitty open world any day, all day
This kind of debate goes way back to Witcher 2 versus Skyrim

[outer depot]

I don’t think increasing the linearity would have played well with the story they had in mind here

[deep lodge]

is the big bubble in red forest part of a later quest?

i see strider laying on the ground in there but cant interact with him

[lime umbra]

yes you are part skipping

[deep lodge]

i see i just thought there might be an artifact or something inside

[split crown]

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

[lime umbra]

thats what i been saying
its the best part in comparison to the older ones

the old stalker game suffered from nothing going on plot wise for 4 hours

and in the last 30 minutes of the game it goes full

https://tenor.com/view/brain-brain-meme-big-brain-big-brain-meme-big-brain-time-gif-2441110471562975014

and were are supposed to pretend it was a good story

[remote eagle]

[finite needle]

I don't know any of the people who played the game back then that praised the story

Plus the ending section of SoC is horrible and whoever praises it is grifting

[lime umbra]

they fucking did

they call the plot of stalker "one of the best things in fiction"
specially soc with its wanabee jesus plot

[split crown]

MARKED ONE
WHAT DA HELL
BOOM

[lime umbra]

https://tenor.com/view/dies-from-peak-fiction-dies-from-peak-fiction-gif-8241362855452869649

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-strelok-marked-one-pda-stalker-soc-gif-11891098248306079922

[finite needle]

I had this lying around just for this occasion

[lime umbra]

stalker if it was actually good

[split crown]

I've seen this recently. Absolutely based artist.

[split crown]

Here's the artist btw - they draw tons of STALKER themed art. https://www.phixiv.net/en/artworks/125697984

Classic

[split crown]

Gyoza my beloved

[proud ruin]

Og trilogy writing is absolute peak
“Why did you send me to kill myself?”
“idk lol we kinda fucked up I guess lmao”

“did you retards not know anomalys move after each emission? Are you stupid?”

[finite needle]

Strelok is the main character to end all main characters

[lime umbra]

even in s2 hes still trying to be jesus

[outer depot]

The funny thing is how well S2 stitches together the absolute bugfuck insane retarded plot from the other games into something that makes sense and has actual emotional weight behind it

[stoic lichen]

Stalker Trilogy in a nutshell:
SoC: Kill yourself
CS: Bunch of nerds successfully failed at stopping an emission lmao
CoP: The military are a bunch of incompetent dumbasses

Am I spot on?

[warped monolith]

not really

Degtyarev is far from an incompetent dumbass

[outer depot]

Kill the Zone
Kill Strelok
Save these dumbasses you found and escape the Zone

[lime umbra]

deg did finish his mission

so he did win
unlike clear skys 6 hour elaborated suicide plot

[stoic lichen]

That’s why I said the military and not Degtyarev.

[warped monolith]

... and which group is Degtyarev a part of

[lime umbra]

military

[stoic lichen]

Okay, he was essentially cleaning up the military’s fuck ups.

[lime umbra]

[warped monolith]

for all their dumbassery, the military made one good decision: sending Degtyarev

[lime umbra]

yo deg we are fucking up
find out why
and he did

[warped monolith]

it's like that scene in the Chernobyl tv show
of all the career party men, of all the bureaucrats, they made the "mistake" of sending the one good man

... now I gotta watch chernobyl again

[remote eagle]

lmao

[outer depot]

Degtyarev the hunk

[remote eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/who-said-that-gif-7954084

[outer depot]

noisily schlorps ten cans of meat

[stoic lichen]

And then we got Skif in Heart of Chernobyl who just wants his shitty apartment back.

[warped monolith]

what you don't like fighting through hundreds of mono exos just to find some nerds hybernating in cryo chambers while controlling the world with their mind?

[outer depot]

My honest reaction

[lime umbra]

why most stalker go into the zone because they are poor idiots

[stoic lichen]

The same nerds who made the zone… by accident.

[lime umbra]

skiff was certainly special for going
yeah ima go to the murder zone instead of claiming insurance

[finite needle]

Military so bad even Degtyarev is pretending he isn't one of them

[outer depot]

As much as he denies it early on, dude clearly was looking for a way to feel alive again, just like Faust says

[stoic lichen]

I mean… I can kinda see that.

[serene girder]

Holy shit. 5 years ago someone literally joked about the HoC Plot Twist about Strelok because of the Fragging Sid Glitch in SoC.

[outer depot]

Common situation for people who finish with the military, they essentially lose purpose

[finite needle]

Noontide path when

[serene girder]

Idi Ko Mne

[outer depot]

He was already trading in burned out artifacts so going to the zone wasn’t totally blind

[golden hazel]

Rizztyarev*

[outer depot]

Degtyarev is the most competent dumbass

[stoic lichen]

Did the story ever went deeper into Skif’s military past? Would’ve been interesting to know.

[outer depot]

Not super deep, but enough

Agatha basically doxxed him lmao

[serene girder]

Seriously though, Noontide/Monolith Path When? Glory to the Holy Monolith. May her guidance give us direction on how to purge the holy Zone from the Heretics' sinning.

[warped monolith]

excuse me did you just assume the monolith's gender

[lime umbra]

streloks ending with a different coat of paint

[outer depot]

Thinking about Kaymanovs memory of walking in on the already failing experiment “So anyways, I started blasting”

[finite needle]

real talk I felt like a piece of shit after telling him the truth about the Noontide's fate

[lime umbra]

[stoic lichen]

Monolith more like… cringe.

[outer depot]

Yeah better than lying though imo

[lime umbra]

i feel bad only for 2 ppl in s2
richter and strider

[outer depot]

That dialogue at Orbita hits hard no matter what choices you made

Richter just casually getting his neck snapped by Korshunov on the spark path

Dude is just not made for fights

[serene girder]

Until there's a Noontide/Monolith Path, the Canon Path will always be Ward for me.

[outer depot]

He also dies in one headshot like a normal NPC if you take Ward path

[finite needle]

He is wearing starter armor after all

[outer depot]

Yeah it’s just like

Damn

[serene girder]

At least it's a realistic death

[outer depot]

Strelok path is the only one he survives, and he still gets shot once on the approach to Red Fortress and is out of the fight

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-clear-sky-clear-sky-monolith-monolith-exo-gif-13594799489985857333

[lime umbra]

and he will prob die because strelok only gave immunity to you to leave

[serene girder]

Total Monolith Fangirl, so sue me.

[outer depot]

Nah I mean Richter probably survives but everyone is stuck in the Zone

[limpid nest]

he also lives in the project Y ending.

[stoic lichen]

That Monolussy got me acting up.

[outer depot]

Oh right I forgor

[lime umbra]

i dont think he gonna survive the strelok purges

[warped monolith]

[checks something rq]

[limpid nest]

same situation with red fortress tho

[warped monolith]

... yea, about that...

[outer depot]

Strelok only seems interested in keeping people in/out/away from him more or less like the original CCON

[serene girder]

My logic on Ward being Canon, even though it kinda kills any future games, assuming the Ward truly ends the Zone, Skif just wanted his damn house back.

[golden hazel]

Rizztyarev being able to do a hand to hand with Korshunov is top 10 Rizztyarev moments for sure

[outer depot]

Yeah Deggy is a monster

[golden hazel]

That basically implies if it was a regular exo he'd have been bodied by Rizztyarev

[outer depot]

“Imagine a chimera in human form”

[warped monolith]

degtyarev is ukrainian doomguy

[outer depot]

Thinking back to it yeah we pulled some insane shit in CoP

[warped monolith]

Deggy survives meeting Noah every time he walks up to his boat

[serene girder]

My question is this. What is with major plot characters in CoP, SoC, and CS all being tied to C-Con and X-Labs. And I'm only talking about NPCs.

[outer depot]

“Hey Strelok did I ever tell you about the time I found an actual vampire and then he shot himself but missed like seven times and then died of a heart attack?”

[warped monolith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwomc7T2vXU this is what actually happened

[warped monolith]

silly writing choice of making everyone part of the conspiracy I guess I really don't like this kind of storytelling

[serene girder]

Even the damn Tech from Skadovsk in CoP had X-Lab ties

[golden hazel]

He always did

[outer depot]

Deggy wasn’t related to X-Labs, he’s just from Pripyat originally

Strelok wasn’t either aside from his failed brainwashing

[serene girder]

Cardon or whatever his name was literally worked on the Gauss Rifle

[lime umbra]

yeah deg is juts a guy
built different
but just a guy

[limpid nest]

my understanding was that the colonel was wrong about that

[warped monolith]

Cardan

[golden hazel]

And on the leash program

[serene girder]

Cardan worked on the Gauss Rifle. CS Leader worked in the X-Labs. Doctor's true identity is revealed in HoC

[outer depot]

CS was literally headed by MDST/X-program scientists which you can find in CoP

[limpid nest]

Colonel whatshisname thinking "everyone I dont like is an agent of Ccon"

[serene girder]

Novikov likely was a X-Lab Researcher as well

[golden hazel]

Korshunov?

[limpid nest]

yeah

[outer depot]

The long and short of it is that research never actually stopped in the Zone, regulatory board/MDST/Project X was basically continuously going right up until CCON was killed and even a bit after that

[lime umbra]

he wasnt entirely wrong either
which is funny

[golden hazel]

To be fair, he's witnessed their bullshit first hand as a former member of Granite

[outer depot]

Regulatory Board is SIRCAA even

Or at least, controls SIRCAA

[serene girder]

I mean, given everything we find out, CS was literally trying to protect C-Con

[limpid nest]

granite squad? the elite ward minibosses?

[outer depot]

Ye

[lime umbra]

the board is giga powerful
but its pretty lame we dont learn much about them

[golden hazel]

Yes

[outer depot]

We know about the global generator network at least

[limpid nest]

global generator network? what is that?

[lime umbra]

they arrived
funded the CCon all those years ago
funded SIRCA to salvage the fuck up the Ccon did

[outer depot]

Part of the Noosphere project which C-Con jumped the gun on was establishing access across the entire planet, not just the Zone

[lime umbra]

wtf are these ppl

[undone summit]

Side note, did ||Degtyarev die from his fight with Korshunov?||

[serene girder]

Regulatory Board is the SCP Foundation's O-7 Council

[golden hazel]

No

[outer depot]

Nope

[undone summit]

Holy shit thank god

I saw Mozi's cutscene movie and it wasn't clear

[golden hazel]

Come on, Rizztyarev is obviously the real protagonist there's no way he'd die like that

[lime umbra]

probs to Rizztyarev for being soo strong
he is not even a boss

[outer depot]

Regulatory Board basically has access to all of the research being done in the Zone including being able to grow artifacts, which essentially means an infinite money printer

[serene girder]

Seriously though, isn't Degtyarev Ukrainian Spetsnaz?

[lime umbra]

yes

[finite needle]

Yeah he's spetsnaz

[outer depot]

Plus lots of interest in being able to control access to the Noosphere and anomalous energy in general

[serene girder]

Yeah, that's effectively like a Ranger going against a Green Beret or Navy Seal. Not gonna end well for the Army Ranger.

[outer depot]

Korshunov is also walking wounded and probably like 10 years older at minimum

Guy can’t stand after Duga without serious pain

[undone summit]

Ukrainian Special Service
So, Ukrainian James Bond

[deep lodge]

are pseudogiants immortal or something i threw 12 granades and 30 shotgun shells into this guy and he still walks

[lime umbra]

yeah korshu has a broken spine at that point of the game

[finite needle]

And that's the normal guy of the bunch

[serene girder]

Ukrainian Security Service WITH most likely Special Forces Training.

[warped monolith]

Bond name's the james

[golden hazel]

But also an experimental exo that gives him ultra superhuman abilities

[finite needle]

The guy next door, literal ukrainian james bond

[outer depot]

Strelok is also just a dude

[warped monolith]

just a chill guy

[lime umbra]

strelok is jesus

[golden hazel]

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

[serene girder]

My Headcanon about Bond by the way? Dude's the Distraction for the real spies, the deep cover agents, to make their escape.

[undone summit]

What's with the whole Strelok is Jesus thing
Never heard of that until now

[outer depot]

Meme

[lime umbra]

tldr
Socs plot is very much a chosen one narrative
and this can just be summarized by calling him jesus

[finite needle]

It's not even subtle, mind you

[outer depot]

He’s just dead set on trying to undo the damage he’s caused and keep others from gaining control over the Zone

Oh well yeah okay in SOC there’s that

Plus the whole death and rebirth aspect

[lime umbra]

yeah exactly

[outer depot]

Like I said before it’s VERY clumsy though

HOC Strelok is a lot closer to COP Strelok

[undone summit]

Ok that makes more sense

[finite needle]

First character I get to see in Radiophobia is called Seghey Stalin

I understand now

[golden hazel]

[proud ruin]

[proud ruin]

Pretty much

[split crown]

lemme know how you like Radiophobia. I've had its page on the backburner for awhile now to eventually download and try.

[finite needle]

it crashed on me twice and dialogues are horrid, but except from that looks solid

[split crown]

sounds like the usual stalker experience

[lime umbra]

yeah when playing stalker mods
you are in for the gameplay

almost no one knows how to write in these

[split crown]

[finite needle]

The biggest Stalker 2 achievement is decent to sometimes pretty good writing

[finite needle]

Radiophobia is kinda cute tbh. But it's fundamentally SoC.

with some leftist meme tier wall of text dialogues added to it

[outer depot]

Praying for someone to hire an actual writer for their mod dialogue

[finite needle]

People who play stalker aren't usually interested in creative writing

[spark gate]

SoC: Mission is to kill yourself. Goal is to get rich through magic crystal. OR join evil hivemind scientists OR kill them
Clear Sky: Do what these scientists tell you to do for some reason, uh oh emission!
CoP: Military fucks up and you gotta save them, be special agent and mess with the political atmosphere of the zone while widows peak shooter tags along

[finite needle]

I swear to god game hit me with an essay I had to read because there were hints about a mission hidden in there

[golden hazel]

Ivan Radishovich just caused a second disaster! Build the Zone chopper to help out the city!

[spark gate]

i liked the writing, some parts felt rushed, like i feel they shouldve had you do more with strider. Of course since i played the trilogy i already have an attachment to him. but a player new to the stalker universe couldve gotten more time to get an attachment to the character.

[finite needle]

More like "life is hard in the zone but I don't know how so I'll just exagerate everything and make shit stoic to comical degrees, plus everyone curses a lot"

[spark gate]

thats my gripe, besides ||marshal||/scar and the timeline of things

[golden hazel]

The cursing part is accurate though

[finite needle]

Yeah but in mods they don't curse like real people, they curse like 4chan thinks real people curse

[golden hazel]

Oh you mean like viziepop

[finite needle]

Don't say that like I'm supposed to know who the hell viziepop is

[golden hazel]

[finite needle]

Now I have to watch hazbin hotel just to understand what you mean

[golden hazel]

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU FUCKING MEAN YOU FUCKIGN HAVING FUCKING WATCHED FUCKING HAZBIN FUCKING HOTEL

FUCK

[spark gate]

that just reminded me of the time the day before gameplay trailer dropped. and the convo between the players was like the most superficial dialogue

[finite needle]

I have never watched hazbin hotel, but your reaction is kinda pushing me on the direction of not wanting to watch it even more

[spark gate]

ngl me too

[golden hazel]

Good

[spark gate]

honestly the only thing im excited for animation wise is king of the hill

[golden hazel]

It already ended though

Like decades ago

[spark gate]

theyre working on a reboot

coming out this year

[golden hazel]

Oh god no it's gonna be shit isn't it

[spark gate]

probably, but who knows

[finite needle]

No one can know until it's out now

[spark gate]

mike judge is really hit or miss with his stuff

[finite needle]

I remember when edgerunners was guaranteed to be shit based on a completely differen piece of media related to i not being popular at the time

[golden hazel]

[spark gate]

i just switched the voiceover language from ukrainian to english on a whim.

[finite needle]

Idiocracy is pretty much a canon event at this point

[spark gate]

the malachite technician sounds almost like hank hill

[finite needle]

Korshunov is the most canadian man alive apparently

[spark gate]

its so fucking weird to me now. random stalkers have british accents. then some literally sound like theyve been transplanted from kentucky, and others from texas

[odd fjord]

just imagine the zone is in america

[finite needle]

Just Florida

[odd fjord]

take your worst american state and imagined it walled off with the state capitol as epicenter

[finite needle]

Time to bring these back from the dead

[spark gate]

florida, west virginia, alabama, or mississippi

[spark gate]

nowadays theres several

[finite needle]

Fallout 76 is actually set in west virginia iirc

[spark gate]

COUNTRY ROADS TAKE ME HOME

although there is some zone-esque conspiracy stuff in the usa. montauk airforce base is one of them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project

[finite needle]

the if we never sleep we can time travel line of thought is some Spark ass shit

[spark gate]

i mean, even the cia dabbled in the noosphere shit
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/nsa-rdp96x00790r000100030045-6

god i love unclassified documents

[split crown]

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

[remote eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/coolio-gangsta's-pardise-glasses-gif-11659964042751685900

[golden hazel]

Zones a bit chilly innit, jos loikn worchestehrsjrirhire yea

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/snoop-dogg-what-excuse-me-wtf-umm-gif-15790232245841332039

[haughty sierra]

https://tenor.com/view/mass-effect-commander-shepard-commander-shepard-scared-gif-16871998

[pulsar sedge]

quick question: are there any good stalker 2 mods yet? preferably any that add some kind of A-Life instead of the event system?

[proud ruin]

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

[lime umbra]

!alife

[fallen iron]

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

To quickly reach the folder:

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

[lime umbra]

fuck wrong one

[proud ruin]

[lime umbra]

!nolife

[proud ruin]

!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&

[lime umbra]

[spark gate]

holy fuck, i just found out you can get an rpg7 in the 3rd battle in the rostok arena

[split crown]

Like there's one somewhere you can find in the arena itself?

[spark gate]

yes. ||keep your partner alive in the first round, then in the 3rd when youre 1 v 5, kneecap and wound him, and spare his life. before you go into the fight vs a chimera, he'll let you know that theres a special weapon by the side that will help vs the chimera, an rpg-7||

[golden hazel]

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

[proud ruin]

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/good-morning-gif-11437316614611695342

https://tenor.com/view/question-mario-god-filthy-frank-idubbbz-gif-21508154

[split crown]

Oh shit. I had no idea because my partner died the first time I did the arena.

Good to know, thanks

[undone summit]

I didn't even notice the guy fights you in the 1v5

[deep lodge]

shoutout to all my homies in zalissya being the only town that got wiped

[split crown]

Zalissya
more like

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

[wanton arch]

LAUNCH THE NO ALIFE

[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&

[pulsar sedge]

i can not quite follow.. MO2 folder? and what does the changing of the date do?

[lime umbra]

wrong bot command

[lime umbra]

this is what i wanted to send

[golden hazel]

The Sparter has not a command

[pulsar sedge]

so,, are there any mods yet?

that add a-life or something similar?

[lime umbra]

no

[golden hazel]

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

[fading monolith]

pech wen ?

[trim iron]

https://tenor.com/view/waiting-titanic-gif-25999423

[narrow spear]

I'm gonna be honest lads, I feel like I subconciously knew the game was gonna suck the second I heard "Unreal Engine"

[covert eagle]

!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&

[timber tangle]

anyone got a good npc replacer/skin system id like to make the enemies and allies of the zone a bit bewtter looking in gamma.

[golden hazel]

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

[cunning stirrup]

Just got 9070XT

Let's try it out on Stalker 2

[tall swan]

anyone want to hang out

add meeeee

[cunning stirrup]

Hang.....what? Irl?

[warm mirage]

anyone that can help me with a bug

in base gamma support

[ornate veldt]

Pls, can someone help me?

[icy basin]

!support

[fallen iron]

@ornate veldt If you have a question or need help with G.A.M.M.A., please use the correct channel for your problem:

For vanilla G.A.M.M.A. modlist (this means that your modlist is unchanged and untouched): #🔨base-gamma-support

For custom G.A.M.M.A. modlists (this includes mods added by yourself and also mods that are disabled by default in G.A.M.M.A.: #🔨modded-gamma-support

If you are having issues with the installer, or with your G.A.M.M.A. installation: #1026866080347603065

Any other channel ARE NOT support channels. If your question is a support question, you may be asked to go to the proper channel.

[icy basin]

How are all these people with GAMMA problems in STALKER 2 chat

[ornate veldt]

Sr

[west moth]

I have no life

[finite needle]

Stalker 2 is stronger than Stalker 1

So they get better support in the strongest numbered server

[odd fjord]

there are that make it more alife but dont add alife

if you catch my drift

[late kernel]

They can't read

common ailment in this server

[iron walrus]

i find stalker 2 way too easy, especially if compared to gamma...... gamma is a life of struggles and pain. makes you suffer for every little thing you get.... half hour in stalker 2 i have 50 grenades, 3 rifles, armor, shotgun .all the medkits and bandages yyou can possibly need

[icy basin]

Gamer when game based on the trilogy and not on jerking off to "hardcore" game mechanics is similar in difficulty to the trilogy

Especially when GAMMA is like
Incredibly casual

[glossy ridge]

grok jr? who that?

[cosmic mural]

ребят

русская озвучка есть уже?

хэлп плес

[icy basin]

Если не нейронка, скорее всего нет

А официально не будет

[wintry solstice]

Играй на оригинальной, она смешная

[icy basin]

Гугл в помощь, там на mailru есть
Нексус видать нейронки не пускает

[cosmic mural]

уши режет...

[wintry solstice]

Хз, Шрам джокер очень понравился

[icy basin]

СКIФЭ МНЕ НАДА ПРОДАТЬ ТВОЙ ТЕЛИК

[deep lodge]

anyone know how your actions change the cutscene with strider when u enter the pod? i know if you tell him you failed he has like 3 different reactions but what is the factor here to determine which one you end up with

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/lilith-thinking-lilith-diablo-лилит-диабло-gif-14258757914639420574

[full minnow]

hey

does anyone know of a mod that makes the stamina bar not deplete?

like completely removes the staming bar consumption when sprinting? for game version 1.2.1

[warped monolith]

I'm sure there's a cheat for that but I don't know

[undone summit]

It depends on
||Whether or not you sided with ward or noontide
And what you choose to tell him at that moment||

[proud ruin]

[pulsar sedge]

thanks!

[undone vessel]

https://youtu.be/U3AJr0DrZUM?si=MoWkfA7yjJ3J8tWA

[serene girder]

Does anyone else feel the Hilka should have been the direct upgrade to the Echo, with the Bear being superior to the Hilka?

[warped monolith]

why have a new detector if it's gonna be worse than the ones that already exist

[serene girder]

Because it's still worse than the Veles. The Veles is just a Veles branded Svarog in HoC and I prefer the Bear over the Hilka. Directional is better than Range IMO.

[warped monolith]

hilka is a sidegrade as most people said over time in here

meant to find artifacts from "fuck you" distances, then swap out for a more accurate detector when you're close enough

[serene girder]

I think if they'd given it a directional indicator it would have been a better Bear and less of a sidegrade from the Echo. Even if it's a small arrow where the non-range numbers are showing a smooth direction. Like, take everything from the left side, stopping at the Range, and put an arrow there.

[serene girder]

So, the RF and 098 area on that. Boom, Better Bear.

[deep lodge]

man i went to the tornado anomalous area and im pretty sure i heard a wilhelm scream

these devs

[warped monolith]

yep

[icy basin]

Hilarious inclusion

[warped monolith]

[serene girder]

There's also the ArmAverse Easter Eggs too. They're Post Cards in the Post Office after meeting Richter for the first time. There's a Livonia and Sahrani one

This is the art for the Sahrahni one. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dayz_gamepedia/images/e/e3/Sahrani_1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150309020722

There's also a Chernarus Map somewhere too.

[west moth]

Lady looks like she haz a life

[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&

[west moth]

Me neither

[humble hedge]

[high spindle]

the game has not a life :[

[verbal knoll]

DFCG J+9653

[warped monolith]

bless you

[idle ferry]

Has anyone put together a "recommended mod list" to create a more gamma-like experience for 2?

[split plank]

Yes, because the artifacts move around makes it hard to find if you use the shitty detectors, especially Echo and Hilka.

Hilka reads the range too slow.

[serene girder]

A Simple Arrow to the left of the range pointing to the Artifact would have made the Hilka amazing though.

[split plank]

Yes.

[serene girder]

When we get the SDK I almost guarantee someone is going to make that.

[split plank]

The Veles saves your life, it shows anomalies, so you can avoid them while hunting artifacts.

[serene girder]

The Veles is a Svarog. Really, they should have kept the Svarog and Veles, made the Hilka an upgrade over the Bear

[outer depot]

How dare you challenge my baby Bear

Best detector, Veles and Svarog need not apply

[serene girder]

Oh I LOVE the Bear. It and the one derived from it are two of my favourites, especially in Gamma when you're running NVGs.

[split plank]

This explains.

[outer depot]

Bear looks the best bar none

[serene girder]

Though, for sure, the Svarog is nice when you're trying to go through an anomaly field and snatch up every artefact, or have Random Anomalies that are all over the place.

[outer depot]

Veles/Svarog look too fragile, Echo looks like something I made from a stud detector and an LED, and Hilka definitely is going to break in five seconds

[serene girder]

That's why my go to late game in GAMMA is a Grizzly/Svarog Combo. Grizzly with NODs and Svarog when wanting to rapidly grab every artefact or going through unknown territory.

[split plank]

Yeah, this. I like the Svarog so much, but I can imagine it's hard to read when you use the NVG.

[outer depot]

Though I guess with Hilka you can at least just stand at the edge of an anomaly field and know if there’s something in it or not without needing to run all the way around

That’s about it

[outer depot]

Grizz is goated in GAMMA for just being a better Bear that’s also blue

[serene girder]

Yup. With the Svarog Artefact Detection Capabilities as well.

[deep lodge]

there is 1 thing ive learned playing stalker 2 and its that skif fucking sucks fighting 1 on 1 in melee combat, never won in a single cutscene

[limpid nest]

he won against solder though?

the solder fight is definitly the best cutscene in the game

[deep lodge]

I actually forgot about solder damn

he lost every 1v1 besides bread man

[spark gate]

tbf solder is just an unathletic slob

[paper summit]

do i need to talk to sak before doing th labs? i'm a bandit and that would complicate things

[lime umbra]

#╟🔰☢newbies-chat

[outer depot]

he does beat Korshunov after getting beat up by him multiple times

[deep lodge]

id expect no less from a man who has at least 50 rounds in his head before dying

[deep lodge]

i aint gon lie when this game decides not to work againts you and actually runs properly like its supposed to its a pretty good game after all the patches to fix bugs and what not, i enjoyed it a lot (we dont talk about release state 💀 )

[lime umbra]

it is

it just has the misfortune to run like crap

[spark gate]

At that point in the game, mr skeefa can survive everything after getting several kidney stones and having constant ibs from consuming crappy canned food

Uk whats so dumb, zallisya basically stays as a forlorn outpost rather than rebuilding and fortifying. Its just stuck as a hollowed out ruin with just the core traders

[deep lodge]

i thought all the trades there died when i checked u could only sleep and use stash

cuz their bodies were lying on the ground in main building

[spark gate]

Either
1: you didnt do their mission
Or
2: the quest got bugged for you

[deep lodge]

idk maybe

i just passed through saw gaffer and the boys dead and moved on

[spark gate]

You monster!

Basically it fails if you dont check up on them when u leave sircaa, i think rostok is the threshhold when you leave sircaa, beyond rostok means they failed to get any help.

[deep lodge]

il just say this the final area before the ending sucks balls who decided to put 8 gauss rifle monolithians above you

[spark gate]

But i heard some people from earlier patches that it outright fails even though you did the mission and they die anyways

[deep lodge]

never knew you could help them

[warped monolith]

[deep lodge]

i thought they were supposed to die but i found it kinda strange how no other town got affected by the monolith bulldoze

[spark gate]

Basically theyll let out a distress call when youre near and have a quest marker notification

I always help since it gives me a crap ton of good lootable bodies and its simple enough to complete

Usually i like to knock off that quest before going to the sphere and then go rambo on monolith with glutton and then just gather all their weapons since they have mid to high tier equipment in that quest

Literally netted 30k+ after that

[deep lodge]

hm il keep that in mind in case i do a 2nd playthrough

on a side note thought faust is my goat but a bit of a shame his fight is a knowledge check before u realize u do 0 dmg and need to google how to win

[spark gate]

If you do a ward playthrough, get the rpg. After doung the first phase, aim rpg fire cutscene

I did spark first, then after i did ward. Korshunov my goat

[deep lodge]

his english VA also sounds great but we stick with only english subtitles in these types of games

korshunov casually takes 50 shots to the head before his blue bubble decides it suffered enough

[spark gate]

English va is all over the place, but i heard from native ukrainian speakers that the ua voice acting is not much better

But it does help that i dont understand ukrainian

[deep lodge]

idk about others in english va but i like the way faust sounds

only english va i heard

now i just need someone to make a mod with the monolith's voice guiding you in gamma to be lore accurate

[spark gate]

I do encourage a ward playthrough, its different than scar just doing his walter white trying to wake up jesse impression

Skiff sleeping

Scar:

[deep lodge]

how does scar even end up in cnpp is beyond me

[spark gate]

https://tenor.com/view/jesse-breaking-bad-walter-white-gif-25976283

[spark gate]

He remembers the way

[deep lodge]

also idk about other people but that strelok fight was kinda wierd

bro zooms around the area and then gets stuck inside 1 of those amazon warehouse shelves

i thought about restarting the fight but then i would have to keep turning around every second to find this guy and couldnt be asked

[spark gate]

Getting stuck is glitch

[deep lodge]

this was by far one of the longest singleplayer games i played from start till finish though 75 hours is quite a bit

usually they last like what 20 hours maybe

[forest arch]

Guys how much space do I need for gamma?

[lime umbra]

1 #╟🔰☢newbies-chat for gamma questions
2 90 gb

[hoary mortar]

anyone know how to get a gauss rifle with no scope on it, basically ironsights?

[lime umbra]

Reward for ||killing scar||

[split crown]

Wtf
https://fixvx.com/TheCSTimes/status/1900560890254041534?t=oW0wbD0_11S7AnJ9557Kug&s=19

[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&

[proud ruin]

[minor remnant]

I'm not sure what to make of this.

[lone badge]

!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&

[split plank]

The swamp is the worst location in the game.

[split plank]

[fading monolith]

Is nexus having problems with its drop down menus, like changelogs etc. for anyone else ?

[lone badge]

best

[rich mirage]

worth buying stalker 2 ultimate now? It's playable?

[split plank]

I've been playing it since the release, 268 hours in total. Yes, it is.

[rich mirage]

well I got it

68 euro ultimate

[real stone]

can any one tell me why it says i only have 336 active mods instead 516?

[golden hazel]

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

[icy basin]

You found 336 mods for Stalker 2?

[trim iron]

https://tenor.com/view/stressed-out-thinking-of-you-gif-3819355119086486158

[lone badge]

i hate this game

step 1 foot into truck cemetery, chimera. in truck cemetery. die. game closes itself

[deep lodge]

I dont think it matters if there is a mutant in an open area outside of quests since you can just outrun every single one of them

[remote eagle]

there is no chimeras in truck cemetry

bro its stalker 2 chat

[finite needle]

You don't get it, he HAS to kill the mutant, otherwise what's the point of the game?

[deep lodge]

cant believe stalker 2 devs have somehow made it so that i prefer fighting 2 bloodsuckers over 2 cats/blind dogs/psi dogs

idk who designed their movement but these little shits just keep turning left and right as you are about to shoot them like they know where you aim at

bloodsuckers just take a shotgun to the face and turn around and you repeat until they die

cant even hit you

[shadow osprey]

Anyone know if there's a fix for memory leaks? Just happened to me 2 times. I have 32 gb of RAM

[fading canyon]

anyone know if there is a mod making the pso scope on the svd detachable?

[split crown]

Nope. The memory leaks will continue until morale improves.

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

[rich mirage]

Yeah feels like has stuttering even when no fps down and when there's fps down you're screwed

[mystic rampart]

that's me trying to run stalker 2 on macbook air m1

[warped monolith]

wtf indeed

[split plank]

Your PC can't handle the game.

[split plank]

Try Optimized Tweaks S.2 by VynnGfx. The game hasn't stuttered on my PC.

[serene girder]

Hmm, Pre-Order Scientific Monolith Suit(Wanderer Suit) or Ruby Exoskeleton... Ruby.

It's funny though. We literally have every Monolith Suit from the Old Games. Zircon is the Monolith Suit, Wanderer is the Scientific Monolith, Corundum is the Monolith Radiation Suit, and Ruby is the Monolith Exoskeleton.

[warped monolith]

[lime umbra]

what if the monolith is made out of coper wires

[split crown]

it'd be nice if there were more suits in the game; I'd also hoped for more in-depth apparel options, so like say I wanted to wear a trench coat over a sunrise suit like many of the loner NPCs do that you see throughout the game.

[warped monolith]

SKEEFA

[serene girder]

Ya know, the Faust Sermon hits different when you're wearing Monolith Gear.

[timid oyster]

Is this real?

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

[remote eagle]

zero degtyrev gang suits

[split crown]

[deep lodge]

https://youtu.be/A2z_nay2SjU

[peak eagle]

at least it has good lighting lol

[split plank]

When you change the settings to PUBG.

[remote eagle]

[warped monolith]

I'd argue pubg looks better

[peak eagle]

Hiding in the grass while some guy can see you clearly cause he has no vegetation and render distance set to zero

[warped monolith]

something something ULQ in War Thunder

[deep lodge]

1 thing they need to fix is tree branches and bushes having the same bullet stopping properties as a brick wall

so many times i see a guy behind a tree branch shoot him in the head and he doesnt even care

[golden hazel]

My honest reaction to that information

[split crown]

Stalker 2: New Vegas lookin' great

[hoary mortar]

thanks

[split crown]

@finite needle I'm installing Radiophobia 3 to see how it is

[deep lodge]

Time to do a 2nd playthrough and play as evil skif

[rain dock]

Escaping Swamps is the ninth circle of hell.

I can only imagine how awful it was on launch.

[golden hazel]

It was aight

[remote eagle]

best location in game

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/shrek-gif-25336944

[remote eagle]

[deep lodge]

man i just noticed something

nimble is the guy who knocks you out in the tutorial

[remote eagle]

no waaaaaaaay

[deep lodge]

i just see the snork mask on his arm

ja guess whos dying when we get to him in his little cave

evil skif moment

[deep lodge]

most normal looking artifact in the zone ngl

totally not cursed

[golden hazel]

If you notice even closer, Nimble is very Nimble

[deep lodge]

The optimization is definetly noticable though they improved it a lot in zalissya for mid range pc's going from what used to be like 20-25 fps to like 40ish without framegen is good maybe one day we get a clean 60

[deep lodge]

Keep finding so much new shit in this 2nd playthrough the ninth (monolith member) who helped mastiff in the start of the game later appears in a mission where u need to get the regenerator for strider praying nearby

Least i think it was that mission might be a different one

[golden hazel]

It was

[serene girder]

Anyone else find getting to Pripyat early Spooky and Unnerving?

[remote eagle]

how u get to pripyat early tho its got patched

[lone badge]

Restart save and hit open map button

[remote eagle]

nope

[serene girder]

Vaulting/Climbing Mod. Go around the right of Yaniv Station, there's a Chain Link Fence Gate without Barbed Wire touching the building. Climb over it. No Sniper to shoot you and you're home free into Jupiter and Pripyat.

[mellow laurel]

[hollow dagger]

whaat are some good mods to make stalker two feel a bit more like the older games

and also how has it been i havent played it since like the third week after release

[trim iron]

https://discordapp.com/channels/912320241713958912/1310297745679978496 is good with the recommended mods on the mod page.
https://discordapp.com/channels/912320241713958912/1331777727820468336 is good too, although I have not played it myself.
Both are harder than vanilla, so if vanilla is too easy, they will be great options.
MHM also has different levels of difficulty, with master being the most punishing.

[hollow dagger]

How’s a life doing now? I know I did also have the mutant loot mod and patches

[trim iron]

Both Shay's Living Zone https://discordapp.com/channels/912320241713958912/1311758650733236335 and A-Life found a way https://discordapp.com/channels/912320241713958912/1313333226881941597 are popular choices. I only played with Shay's, but Ani that does MHM is regularly testing with both.

[hollow dagger]

For sure I’ll check um out ty

[past ivy]

https://tenor.com/view/foenem-bands-foenem-may-you-spare-me-a-few-bands-cat-money-money-gif-2268887974107818049

[remote eagle]

i was talking about vanilla

[west moth]

Gabe has not a life

[radiant hinge]

😘

[finite needle]

It's SoC but reimagined for Anomaly players. I like it but it's definitely not really the standard Stalker game as some people in here claimed

But it can run the modernized NPC models without crashing so it's superior to GAMMA

[remote eagle]

[hollow frigate]

if richter is a sparker at the beginning of the game, why does he think they’re bad when u meet him at yanov station

[finite needle]

He's not really a Sparker, it's just that some loners tend to work with Spark to spite the Ward. If you pay attention, Richter tells you he doesn't really trust Scar very much after SIRCAA, and after the are we the baddies moment in Duga he is wary of him.

[hollow frigate]

i thought he was cuz the gaffer tells richter not to climb the towers cuz he’ll have to explain why a sparker is around zalissya, and the guy you can save in the house shot at by bandits tells you that richter, him, and some other guys joined spark

[finite needle]

He's clearly on Spark's side at that point of the game, but not officially a spaker. It's a detail, but for all intents and purposes he's a loner.

[lavish brook]

stalker 2 gameplay

[hollow frigate]

truly the game of all time

for me game runs good except for cutscenes…

[finite needle]

Nice meme, but have you considered:

Nah but it do be running like crap. At least doesn't crash nearly as often as I expect a Stalker game to

[lavish brook]

i prefer gamma crashing over stalker 2 running at 3 fps

[lavish brook]

tbf crashing is better because at least you can play

[finite needle]

Man I'm sorry your meme was stale and didn't meet the success you expected, next time try to do something funny idk

like the no a life jokes, those are a classic

and also true, you don't need to even lie to prove a point. Amazing.

[remote eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker2-scar-laugh-gif-12786287499780353633

[deep lodge]

time to collect all the premium piss

[finite needle]

I never used one of those

but why do energy drink incrase hunger?

[deep lodge]

idk ask the devs

[remote eagle]

so people dont abuse energy drinks irl and only drink water

[finite needle]

Btw radiophobia is possibly the best way to play SoC - But only if you have already played the original.

Case in point:

[remote eagle]

[finite needle]

iirc there was a "lore reason" on why devs didn't have holo sights in game (truth is they didn't know how to implement them), which was that the zone fucked the sights up, so only old soviet PSO sights and similar were working or some other bullshit like that

[lavish brook]

are you talking to me lol