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

[golden hazel]

OI BRUV OWS BOUT WE GIT OH SELVES SORM FISH N CHEPS YEAH

[tawdry vessel]

they will make it political

[golden hazel]

That too

[proud ruin]

Oi bruv do u hav yur arty’fact huntin licens??

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/knife-gif-25052910

Nah FOCK THA WODD M8

[astral idol]

night cato

[pliant sigil]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/662427136216530965/1350772723122442250/moderndayinnovator.mp4?ex=67db4061&is=67d9eee1&hm=4e998c27d5e4e0f424c0a875ca0930899c05bf45ee7bec08754e5f5f2e7987c1&

[dawn birch]

are there any mods that make mag loading manual?

like you actually see your guy load each round into his mag

[lime umbra]

so an animation ?

no because not even tarkov has those

[tawdry vessel]

there is a mag mod for s2?

[wanton arch]

why my game say 420.60 gb patched. how is that even possible

[undone summit]

oh my god, enough with the damn videogame adaptations for a minute

this doesn't feel real at this point

[spark gate]

it will not stop unfortunately

[undone summit]

[spark gate]

the zone is getting commercialized

we saw it first in dalin's office

[golden hazel]

They turned The Monolit into a marketable statue

https://tenor.com/view/monolith-gif-8258942689040280145

[spark gate]

with a cheesy voiceline

but its humanity, if we find something, we'll be bound to commercialize it

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-monolith-ryan-gosling-cold-falling-snow-gif-7493567383040129594

[golden hazel]

It's Monoverlith, brother

[proud ruin]

[golden hazel]

[proud ruin]

mfw when Netflix stalker™️ has women in it

[golden hazel]

Honestly it would be kinda funny if it's the same chick from the fallout show that's the mc of the stalker one

[proud ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/me-atrapaste-es-cine-its-cinema-cinema-esto-es-cine-gif-17729711691959966457

[spark gate]

please no, todd already damaged fallout enough

[golden hazel]

He's coming for Stalker too

Open your eyes, Skeefa

[icy basin]

In what world

Oh okay phew :)

[golden hazel]

Then it unpacks and turns into 460gb

[icy basin]

Knew I shoulda got a 4TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD

[tawdry vessel]

pray that it doesnt fuck up during install like it did for me now i have to reinstall this piece of shit again

[icy basin]

Well too bad I won't be able to check until I'm back home for lunch

[golden hazel]

The SSD shall be consumed

It will be completely Stalker 2, no other game

[tawdry vessel]

kinda weird how no one talks about how gamma's the similar size

[proud ruin]

stalker 3: stalk harder now on ue6

“It just works!”

[icy basin]

[golden hazel]

[icy basin]

Some newcomers certainly do talk about it

And then are wondering why it's got "missing features", like being unable to buy guns from traders
Whoever is advertising GAMMA to others is downplaying a lot of details

[golden hazel]

That's cause it's a game that doesn't fake survival!

[proud ruin]

I heard it’s the best survival game you’ve never played!

[golden hazel]

[proud ruin]

[tawdry vessel]

"drewski's gamma video and its consequences have been a disaster for the stalker community"

[golden hazel]

Byeah

[woven halo]

how?

genuinely have no clue whats up with it

[lime umbra]

tldr from a very long story

[woven halo]

heard

[lime umbra]

it brough all the normies into gamma

then they moved to the community plaguing it with like a billion things that are only gamma related

thus birthing
the gammatards

[woven halo]

well gamma is the tittays

[lime umbra]

disagree but sure

[woven halo]

curious, what would you go for. gamma is all ive played

[lime umbra]

as far as stalker mods go ?
despite me not liking the og trilogy
mods that "fix" it are pretty fine
but mods with that "creative liberty" are also neat
like goldsphere being more based on the books rather than the games

[golden hazel]

I messed with my registry and now the UE slop game works again

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

Of course it would be a registry issue GSC YOU GUYS ARE SO FUNNY BRAVO BRAVO

NO WONDER LITERALLY ANY OTHER GAME I PLAYED WORKED

@glad socket

[glad socket]

and what of it?

as a 5800X3D owner, idk if that makes a difference

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/the-duo-ninis-e-kyns-gif-7812170643907781627

OUR FRAME RATES HAVE NO LIMITS

[icy basin]

Finally
Unlimited framerate of 30

[golden hazel]

More like unlimited framerate of 10

Also

My CPU's temps have no limits

Those shadows

[glad socket]

they truly do not

https://tenor.com/view/we-saiyans-have-no-limits-lets-charge-together-at-full-power-goku-ssbss-vegeta-gif-173130892411182880

[golden hazel]

I am pleased to confirm, the memory leak when looting isn't happening anymore

[tawdry vessel]

does the game still randomly drop to like 15 frames when in populated areas

[golden hazel]

Lemme check

[finite needle]

That's a beloved feature of the franchise, how dare you

[golden hazel]

I've been in Yanov for a bit and I've been hovering 57-60fps

It dropped to 50 for a little bit, unplayable, gsc confirmed doesn't fix shit

Lemme try garbage now

[golden hazel]

That memory leak seems fixed now too

Even turned off DLSS to make sure it's not compensating for the memory leak, yeah definitely seems fixed

[finite needle]

There is still the weapon explosion epidemic (definitely not caused by mods)

[golden hazel]

I found a bug lmao

[finite needle]

Took you long enough

[golden hazel]

Truly a game coded on windows bandera using ms paint

[finite needle]

On the positive, no one uses the GP37 so no one will notice

[golden hazel]

[golden hazel]

da

[finite needle]

Yet another case of "works on my machine"

[golden hazel]

It doesn't always break btw

[finite needle]

Maybe it has to do with the underbarrel stuff, it was glitchy tbh.

Mostly joking but half the complaints I hear about the game is about people who modded it in some way and then tried to load old saves without the mods, because we all know that this isn't going to break anything

We really are back in Skyrim

[golden hazel]

I just died to infinitely spawning monolith

I just wanted to find the caramelldansen building

[mellow laurel]

so

1.3 improved fps in some way? or will my RTX3060+Ryzen 5 5600x+32GB DDR4 3600mhz continue to suffer in Medium-35 fps?

its like a joke atp

[mighty pecan]

Hello, guys. Anyone who played new 1.3 update? Is there something new? Its worth?

[tacit glacier]

See, your issue is buying a GPU from 2021 that is technically a joke on its own

[golden hazel]

Doctor, I finally fixed my game

It was a registry issue

[tacit glacier]

kek

[golden hazel]

One so obscure that it didn't affect any other game at all

Bravo to the hyperspace engineers at GSC that coded this game on windows bandera using ms paint

[tacit glacier]

But yeah, honestly I'd invest in a RX 9070 or 9070 XT at this point to not be dragged down by a 3060

1. RTX 3060 has 8GB's of VRAM (unless you managed to get a 12GB version)
2. RTX 3060 uses a 192-bit bus width.

Meanwhile the RX has a 256-bit bus width, 16GB's of VRAM and apparently actually competes with a 5080 while being at 50% of its MSRP
Who would've thought that Raw Power would outdo DLSS huh

[golden hazel]

Me with an RTX 2060

[tacit glacier]

Refer to above (except you likely have 6GB's of VRAM on the lower end)

[golden hazel]

There's non 6GB versions?

[tacit glacier]

12GB version existed yes

[golden hazel]

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh

[tacit glacier]

But yeah, RX 9070/XT vids show the new AMD card comfortably running STALKER 2 at around 90FPS

[golden hazel]

If only they were in stock

[tacit glacier]

Funny considering it was to have better stock

[golden hazel]

I found the Caramelldansen building and it's not Caramelldansen anymore

RIP Caramelldansen Building 2024-2024

[tacit glacier]

kek

Oh hey, buying an RX 9070 rn would get me Monster Hunter Wilds...

[golden hazel]

Buying an RX 9070 rn would ge tme nothing because they aren't in stock

[tacit glacier]

Tried looking for an RX

[golden hazel]

Only the 7700XT 7800XT and 7900XT are in stock

[tacit glacier]

Found an RTX 5090 for... $5200

[golden hazel]

This is also in stock

[tacit glacier]

Oh hey

Found a store in Poland that has a lot of 9070's that if I bought it now would be in my house by Friday

[golden hazel]

Brb invading Poland

[tacit glacier]

Dammit not again

[golden hazel]

[golden hazel]

Heh

If you grenade a zombie in the middle of its getting up animation, it falls down the map

You can't make this shit up

[proud ruin]

Upgrade to 9950x3d + 5090 for ultra - 30fps (experiences may vary)

[mellow laurel]

I got it on its release so idk wheres the joke

[tacit glacier]

That it was an overpriced "budget" GPU that had poor price to efficiency ratio?

Then again NVIDIA was just on a continuous downward spiral when it comes to making "good" product

[mellow laurel]

yep ill have to upgrade gpu to series 5000 but before that i need to upgrade my rig to AM5 socket CPU and ddr5...

[tacit glacier]

50 series
More like
We don't exist series

Melting ports, missing ROP's (which reduced performance by up to 14% )

[mellow laurel]

At the time it was the best, especially because I played a lot of modded Skyrim, those 12 GB of VRAM were very good, but nowadays with the new games you can see the years

In the past, a GTX 1080 could last several generations of games bc they used to develop on reference, but new technologies led to fake frames and all that shit.

[tacit glacier]

Reason why AMD is better now.

Their GPU's are actually being made to give more actual raw performance over NVIDIA's DLSS bullshit.

[golden hazel]

It's peak

[tacit glacier]

Sure Raytracing wise the latest RX series only match and overcome the 3080, but in raw rasterization they are better than 5070 and 5070 Ti on their own.
And if you undervolt them they apparently gain even more headroom and push the performance even further.

It was fun watching AMD make it a point multiple times to say "without AI"
If you want one more reason as to why AMD is pushing NVIDIA aside look at their latest CPU: Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with Radeon 8060S
Integrated GPU that can run Spider-Man 2, Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p60FPS

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/nvidia-gif-14251978375826396304

[glad socket]

fixed thousands
and introduced a thousand more...

[icy basin]

Update download failed

:')

Guess I'll try it in the evening

[light mural]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[remote eagle]

[glad socket]

In 2026
Time to go home everyone, let's go play uno instead

[tacit glacier]

Dude 1.3 came out less than 24 hours ago
Let them cook first

[late kernel]

When is the next MEANINGFUL update?

[west moth]

Meaning of a life?

[light mural]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[finite needle]

They moved the saiga drum magazine in the open world, that means a lot to me

[late kernel]

WOW

[remote eagle]

no way

best game EVER

[glad socket]

I'm reinstalling when they add as val extended mag

[remote eagle]

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

i have news for u

ITS IN GAME

[glad socket]

Still not reinistalljng

[finite needle]

I mean the reason I haven't given up on the game yet is unironically because I can mount an underbarrel shotgun under and AR

[remote eagle]

[glad socket]

Notify me when they add cnpp/iron forest

[remote eagle]

[glad socket]

https://tenor.com/view/touhou-fumo-maribel-hearn-hifuu-hifuu-club-gif-9026893078862640386

-# unironically tho that's badass, it's a shame as lavina is dogshit

[proud ruin]

notify me when they add romance sidorovich

[remote eagle]

its unic version Trophy is good tho

[finite needle]

Sleep well

[glad socket]

Thank you kind stranger

I will enjoy my year long slumber

[slow verge]

Poop pee shit

[pseudo falcon]

how is the new update?
easier to sneak?

[slow verge]

It sucks

But squirrels exist ig

[west moth]

The squirrels are the replacement for A life

[past ivy]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/945875880050298880/1346730763869225033/attachment.gif

[undone vessel]

https://youtu.be/d2qixNgCXwU?si=rJ6Of0Mqsbo0NrRK

[icy basin]

Why'd they use the Steam Spring Sale banner

[odd fjord]

save few bucks on outsourcing

every penny counts in the world of capitalism and line must go up

if you read this, go like the comment please to raise more awareness (like they dont already know lol)

[true yew]

Vadim did it again

[midnight ridge]

For what is this for

Trailer of released game...

[cedar plank]

someone noticed that there is no ADS zoom when aiming. Or is it just me?

[lone badge]

yo guys who tf is this

[strange heath]

John stalker

[finite needle]

Oh so you skipped the secret Twink faction path

[lone badge]

found out, went chad ward way but forgot about this scene

didnt know leon was a placeholder

[finite needle]

Zone simp

[lone badge]

fym ward seemed cool

and so they were

[finite needle]

||was meant for strelok||

[lone badge]

you aint have to black that

[finite needle]

You never know

[lone badge]

"Zone is my mummy, I will protect my mummy"

"GRR"

[warped monolith]

placeholder trailer guy

[lone badge]

was that cuz the game wasnt done, or they didnt want to spoiler strelick

[warped monolith]

to avoid spoilers

[lone badge]

good game

[warped monolith]

(and then they go and reveal Strelok in the launch trailer, making it all pointless)

[lone badge]

welll

it sold like 1 mil copies in the first 2 days

cya bro thanks for clearing that up

[warped monolith]

now how many refund requests did they get when people realized the game was shit and had not a life

[lone badge]

game was amazing, blashphemy, best game ive played in my existence on this earth

not having a life is not even noticeable, if i cant see a fight thats happening over 100 meters or watever away from me then whats the point in having it

or a pig

[warped monolith]

[lone badge]

who cares if a pig spawns near you or is already existing the whole game, you cant see it so who gives af if its on the other side of the map r not

[midnight ridge]

Good trolling

[lone badge]

just my op

[molten orchid]

Anyone noticed weird NPC behaviour where NPC's who get shot by other NPC's that their faction isn't directly in conflict with, dont get aggro'd and return fire? Once again, was chased by Mercs who in trying to shoot me, shoot a neutral NPC that just stood there and took the hit without reacting or getting aggro'd against the Merc

[odd fjord]

@molten orchid , "vanilla" behaviour

aggro between npc types is screwed

[molten orchid]

I hope they fix it, its so immersion breaking

[lean patio]

HI

[finite needle]

AI can't gang up on you so it just decides to give up, very cool and not infuriating at all

[strange heath]

Ye it appears to be desync in their combat

[outer depot]

It’s weird because I’ve seen it happen before but usually it just doesn’t and they’ll stand there being shot

[finite needle]

I've honestly never seen ai engage on hit. Disinterest is "fine" since it's somehow consistent, but total apathy Is new.

[slim lance]

I do pray a life is eventually brought up to snuff. I'm pretty doomer about the performance situation though. Doesn't seem like its ever gonna improve. Benchmarkers are reporting a performance LOSS with 1.3

[molten orchid]

EXACTLY! THIS!!!!

[warped monolith]

improvements to a-life are inevitably going to come at a greater cost to performance

[outer depot]

Climbed all the way up the fire watch tower in burned forest and the instant I got to the top, emission

[warped monolith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2qixNgCXwU

[outer depot]

when they keep using the EN dub for trailers

[jovial berry]

LMAO that video was actually funny

[warped monolith]

it's the most commonly known international language?

anyway love how this video perfectly demonstrates how shit the flashlight (still) is

[outer depot]

Yeah but it’s just a bad dub

Only Korshunov sounds good for EN and most people have always recommended playing the series in RU/UA

They did do a few using the UA dub, like the Time of Opportunity one

[lime umbra]

you know when someone is yelling shit at me mid firefight i want to know what they are saying without having to read the subtitles

[outer depot]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nZa3kxk_X88&pp=ygUdc3RhbGtlciAyIHRpbWUgb2Ygb3Bwb3J0dW5pdHk%3D

[warped monolith]

It might sound crazy but they may have looked at viewership statistics and decided videos in english get more clicks

[arctic marsh]

man its just gunna be a never ending mod breaking fuck fest for the next couple years

they need to drop that sdk

weapon skins in the new trailer? Anybody see anything else new?

[warped monolith]

I've experienced the contrary... only one or two characters sound bad in english

[arctic marsh]

I thought the enlish VO was pretty shit myself

[warped monolith]

leagues better than any of the OG games for sure

[arctic marsh]

I was using the ukranian but got tired of reading the subs I feel like I miss out on the scenes half the time cause I am reading the titles

lmao yeah thats a fact I just played the old games in russian

[thick cave]

which vid and timestamp

[arctic marsh]

the new trailer its 1.45 seconds just watch it lol

[thick cave]

u say this but i clicked one of the new trailers and its only 1.25 long i didnt see 2 trailers bro just asking

[outer depot]

I honestly thought most of them were terrible, and the range of random attempts at accents makes it worse. This isn’t to say the OG English dubs were any good because those were also laughably bad but idk, I just find it distracting.

[thick cave]

what other trailer i see 1 thats 1.25 long

[warped monolith]

this one #╓☢stalker2™-chat-not-gamma-keep-waiting message

[arctic marsh]

#504592534081896458 message

sorry i thought that was the new trailer didnt realize it was from 6 months ago

[thick cave]

ah yes i see it

thanks

[warped monolith]

oh I just remembered

Youtube sometimes lets you choose different audio language tracks for videos

would be nice if they used that feature to allow both english and ukrainian voices in their trailers

[outer depot]

Korshunov stealing the show in both dubs because they just let the voice actors yell at everyone

[pastel crag]

how is the new update going my friends ?

satisfied ?

[outer depot]

Aside from the usual mod breakage seems to be doing fine for me

[pastel crag]

Stalker community are the only ones who understand me as well as my mother.

[undone vessel]

https://youtu.be/8KSH5O1KLSI?si=nrpn3L7pq0ANICgC

[outer depot]

The Zone tickles everyone’s ass in different ways

[tawdry vessel]

didnt they move the studio to prague when the war started

[late kernel]

Yes, most of them

this is basically sympathy point farming, there I said it, hang me

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/true-morgan-freeman-boombox-gif-10032969651583591257

[split crown]

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

[undone vessel]

Not in one day, and only 50% of employees

[warped monolith]

there goes your loot

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

average NPC response

[finite needle]

It's a patch, definitely.

[warped monolith]

one of the updates ever

[finite needle]

I haven't seen a single squirrel yet

[golden hazel]

There's less memory leaks

But that means there are new ones that I haven't found

[pastel crag]

Patching the patchworks from other patches I believe

[finite needle]

If they finally got rid of the memory leaks and most of the bugs then fine, but I'm at the point where even I want to see more substance

[golden hazel]

Meanwhile me finding out a little bit after installing the patch that grenading a zombie that's in its getting up animation causes it to fall through the ground

[finite needle]

Very tired of the overworld battles. The fact that decreasing the frequence is a positive is telling.

[golden hazel]

[finite needle]

How is this gonna fuck up Zalissya I wonder

[golden hazel]

[pastel crag]

Maybe they fall into the water like skif and die, that's why they are so rare

[golden hazel]

[finite needle]

They could have made water incredibly radioactive like in CS but nooo, nerds were like ackhully, water can't carry radiation 🤓

So skif is the worst swimmer of all time in exchange

[outer depot]

Skif is also usually in an armored suit with about 100 lbs of shit on his back

[pastel crag]

Death Cause:Elephant foot puddle

[outer depot]

[finite needle]

Skill issue

[outer depot]

Also tbh I’d rather them work on stability as much as possible before adding more shit

Because you know adding more shit will just break things in new ways

[finite needle]

Well how long it took to CP2077 to start adding all the crap?

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/splash-puddle-shock-shocked-deeper-gif-22493379

[finite needle]

couple of years?

[warped monolith]

one expansion pack

[outer depot]

Once their big pretty map can run without killing itself and the base story can progress without NPCs vanishing or doors being blocked imo is when you can start adding new stuff

[finite needle]

Yeah so see you in 2026 when the Limansk DLC will add 2 new factions and a life

[pastel crag]

its unreal engine 5 performance is always a problem on this kind of games

[finite needle]

Map is too big for its own good

[golden hazel]

Partial A Life, only for the squirrels

[outer depot]

I think they just need ~2 more strategically placed trader hubs and it won’t feel as big

[finite needle]

Squirrel with Ward and Spark patches going at each other

[outer depot]

Honestly I’d just settle for one in the southern Duga at the stalker camp there

[golden hazel]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1306683555488862319/1351304623406714971/SKEEFA.gif

[finite needle]

yeah maybe 1 more hub per big faction would be nice

[pastel crag]

Map is fine it has River's like in farcry

[outer depot]

So I can actually explore the burned forest without needing to walk 3 km to the nearest trader

Because I really like that entire southwestern part of the map but I hope you brought everything you needed and were strategic about what you picked up

Because it’s a looooong hike to chemical plant or Malachite

[finite needle]

Malachite doesn't even have anything to do in terms of quests

[outer depot]

?

[finite needle]

one secondary quest I mean

[outer depot]

You can do a few for the science nerds tho

[split crown]

oh were you finally able to launch the game?

[finite needle]

i'ts like 3. Warlock alone has the same number

[golden hazel]

It was a registry issue, that's why none of my other games were affected

[outer depot]

Creepy doctor obsessed with the brain scorcher/miracle machine also gives you the standard little artifact hunt gigs and such too

[split crown]

Wtf? A registry issue?

[warped monolith]

dang.

[golden hazel]

Yes a registry issue, the devs truly coded the game on ms paint using windows bandera

[warped monolith]

how did you figure that out?

[split crown]

When will GSC make it so you don't have to wait a full in-game day just in order to grab another repeatable task from the same task giver

[warped monolith]

UNIRONICALLY, Bethesda does a better job radiant quests in fallout 4 just keep coming as soon as you finish them

[outer depot]

Fallout 4 has the opposite problem

[golden hazel]

So back in the early 2010s I used to game on intel hd graphics, as was common at the time, and Mafia 2 didn't work for me until some big brain genius coder hackerman was like "reset your registry and the game should work fine"

[warped monolith]

another settlement needs our help. Here, I'll mark it on your map

[outer depot]

They never STOP throwing useless bullshit quests at you

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/fallout4-gif-5924860

[outer depot]

If I had some fucker yelling over the radio for help every six seconds in S2 I’d blow my brains out

[warped monolith]

good thing you can tune away from the minutemen radio anytime you want

[warped monolith]

and you had leftover registries from when you used the intel card? and Stalker 2 was allergic to that?
this is hilarious

[golden hazel]

No, I just assumed with how a bunch of people were complaining about the latest nvidia drivers that I might as well give it a shot, this is a different computer

[outer depot]

Yeah but then someone you might want to actually use later will fucking die and it’s a pain in the ass sometimes

[finite needle]

Fallout 4 rarely feels empty and without anything to do, that's true. At least that I will concede.

[outer depot]

Unfortunately it’s also Fallout 4

[finite needle]

Yeah, pretty much everything else is worse thank any stalker game to memory.

[outer depot]

It was one of my worst experiences in video game memory

[finite needle]

Eh it's not that bad, it just made me feel like I didn't want to actually go ahead.

The only way to make it palatable was to play in survival mode

[outer depot]

It actively discourages you from wanting to finish it by just being so goddamn bland and repetitive

And the story is a joke

Had a few funny mods but not much that stood out to me

[finite needle]

The Sim Settlements one looked pretty fun tbh

One day I'll play Fallout London, but not today.

[spark gate]

I tried fallout 4 after good memories with new vegas

Boy was i dissapointed

[deep lodge]

Playing gamma again and i dont remember going to garbage from cordon being so difficult 8 bandits 3 mercs 4 dogs and 3 fractures on the way there and me being used to stalker 2 only took 70 bullets

[outer depot]

I remember their whole big tech feature selling point was dynamic debris generation when you shot shit and then I shot a wall with a machinegun and it crashed my game

[finite needle]

Now, if only we had New Vegas on Fallout 4 engine...

[finite needle]

There's a lot of shit going on since last patch feels like, I have played like 3 hours of in game time since last GAMMA patch dropped and there was a firefight every 2 minutes

[finite needle]

SKEEFA ANOTHER WARD SQUAD NEEDS THEIR PENIS EXPLODED

[deep lodge]

im so glad they didnt add fractures in stalker 2 as a finished mutant

[finite needle]

Fractures feel very out of place

[spark gate]

Man i miss that game, i need to do another playthrough. They also did imo the best implementations of unique weapons in a modern fallout game.

[finite needle]

They really are a mutant from another game

[golden hazel]

Alright time to go to the store

[lime umbra]

master class games with 0 issues on launch

[spark gate]

Fallouy 4 and (starfield) basically gave a random effect to their unique weapon, barely any unique skind etc

[finite needle]

Starfield might have been the least hyped I had been about any game ever

it came out and was just fallout 4 in space

[warped monolith]

the video I sent was basically a man-made forced glitch the guy was standing at the transition between maps, npc approached it and made him move to the other map

[outer depot]

Super duper pooper scooper legendary pipe pistol of testicular torsion (+1 damage)

[warped monolith]

there's a difference between uniques and legendaries in fallout 4

[deep lodge]

fallout 4 is a super cool game when i think of cool game designs i think of preston letting me know about another settlement that needs to be saved

[warped monolith]

gear could have randomized legendary effects, but there were unique weapons and armor with specific effects on them. Not all of which could be found in other gear

[finite needle]

Fallout 4 is the only game for which I was happy to have tacticool weapon mods

idk it is a fun game in a vacuum, just don't think too much about the story. Plus I'm sure Emil Pagliarulo MIGHT be a red sox fan and that irritates me.

[spark gate]

Ngl i just dumped fallout 4 maybe 1/4th of the game

I might give fallout london a try

[warped monolith]

it's even buggier than Stalker 2. Good luck.

Crashes like a motherfucker, too. I felt like the good old days of playing New Vegas.

[deep lodge]

stalker has no bugs just anomalies

[spark gate]

Even better then

[finite needle]

New Vegas at release was not an experience I would like to relive

[spark gate]

The crashes i experienced on my old xbox 360 when i was playing fallout nv all the way to 3 am

[finite needle]

Fallout 3 was similar, I remember it crashing anytime I looked at some assets funny

[warped monolith]

I don't even want to imagine that. I bought the goty edition with all DLCs and even then it was torture

even with the unofficial patches

[spark gate]

New vegas had really compelling characters too

[finite needle]

Well, true, but most of the times they were either floating or corpse horrors from the forest

[spark gate]

Wild wasteland was such a fun experience

[finite needle]

Game was compelling but also just didn't work.

[spark gate]

Well, the team barely had any time to reach the full potential of the game

[finite needle]

iirc they were VERY overambitious and had to cut a lot of shit from the game to make it in time

[golden hazel]

Fallout London be like ATLEAST OUR WASTELONDS ARENT SHEWTING GULLRIES

[finite needle]

Average Fallout London NPC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlZzftmtGJY

[spark gate]

They were, they wanted to add in a new zone for players to see what living under caesar was like

[warped monolith]

kind of a moot point, because a lot of games fall in that category (just like STALKER)
also, it's Obsidian. Releasing buggy unfinished messy pieces of crap with good writing is pretty much their entire gimmick

[deep lodge]

idk about new vegas since i only played it for like 5 hours and then it decided to never run again but fallout 3 is my all time favorite game, playing broken steel and nuking the brotherhood was too good

[finite needle]

But why is Stalker 2 releasing new trailers all the fucking time dude lmao

[warped monolith]

... you have my condolences

[warped monolith]

I mean they just released a new update. It's not an entirely insane idea to send out a new trailer and get some more eyes on the game

[finite needle]

I get it, the game might finally be actually playable right now. But it's a lot of trailers

[spark gate]

Well yeah, its either that and meet deadlines or become chris roberts

[warped monolith]

evgeniy POV:

[finite needle]

Fallout 3 gets too much hate, it's perfectly fine for what it is. Fallout was by that time a dead franchise from a bygone era, yall have to unironically thank Big Todd for it.

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-more-gif-21856591

[warped monolith]

I would've honestly preferred that it stayed dead

because nowadays with crpgs being popular again, we could've seen Van Buren actually happen

[finite needle]

That's a fair point, but who knew that crpgs would be popular again?

they weren't when they made Fallout 3

[outer depot]

Fallout 3 was kinda pants tbh

[warped monolith]

no one. but I never thought for a moment that "Oblivion with guns" was a good idea. Ever.

[finite needle]

and weren't 10 years later either

[spark gate]

Fallout 3 was polished and it was ok

[outer depot]

[finite needle]

"POLISHED"

But it did the fantasy of exploring a dead wasteland pretty well. Back in the day kinda wished Stalker also had some kind of free roam open world just like that

Be careful what you wish for I suppose.

[outer depot]

A finger on the monkey paw curls

(Tbh still way better than what I had expected)

[finite needle]

Nah I like Stalker 2 but the open world is essentially the reason why it's so fucked up (I also expected MUCH worse)

[lime umbra]

ppl explored F3 ? shit was empty as hell

[outer depot]

Yeah pretty much

“Wow they kinda fucked themselves by doing it this way, but also damn I expected this to be way fucking worse”

[finite needle]

Most of the cool stuff was on the edges of the world, finding out Harlod was kinda neat

[outer depot]

And they got the story down which is… more than can be said for the older games

[finite needle]

Story and characters are a-ok. That's definitely where I was expecting the worst debacle, considering how mid the story actually was in the older games and how much effort they seemed to put into it

[outer depot]

I also will admit I very nearly did a soy point when I got to see the remade Kaymanov POV cutscene memory

[finite needle]

Was expecting closer to The Frontier

[spark gate]

Compared to nv it was.

[outer depot]

Yeah they actually took some amateurish half baked bullshit and made a compelling narrative out of it

[finite needle]

You win this one.

[warped monolith]

compared to the least polished piece of turd released in the 2010s? Sure.

[outer depot]

Hey

That’s not Clear Sky

[warped monolith]

I'll be very honest here and say Clear Sky functioned better on my PC than FNV did

[outer depot]

My experience was about even

[warped monolith]

on the other hand, Shadow of Chernobyl bluescreened me constantly until I reverted gpu drivers to something 6 months older

[outer depot]

Though base clear Sky had far more frustrating mechanics in addition to being buggy as shit

[finite needle]

I felt something was off when I found out you couldn't use iron sights on pistols

[outer depot]

Oh I mean SOC was outright broken at release

Like full stop, basically didn’t work half of the time

[finite needle]

SoC was vaporware that somehow willled itself into existence.

[outer depot]

SOC should not have existed

[warped monolith]

but I'm glad it does

[outer depot]

There’s bones from like six different games going back to like 2001 in it

[finite needle]

And none of them was a milsim

[outer depot]

Yeah and none of them were even close to the final build lmao

[lime umbra]

i wish

tarkov wouldnt have existed as a result and the guntards wouldnt have grown to plague other games

[finite needle]

Fallout New Vegas would have been their home. For some reason guntards LOVE New Vegas.

[warped monolith]

that would've inevitably happened by someone else's hand

look at what COD is like nowadays... if Tarkov hadn't done it, COD would

[lime umbra]

[outer depot]

Tfw your game is such incomplete jank full of cut features still left in the files that an entire cottage industry of modders doing nothing but trying to restore features and content forms

GSC moment

[lime umbra]

soc should have stayed trying to be a halo rip off

[spark gate]

7 years iirc, went from being some shooter with aztec temples to some stuff with aliens

[finite needle]

idk who came up with roadside picnic vibes but I'm glad they did.

[outer depot]

Bro I’m here for the fucking Noosphere shit

It meshed in way too well to the general idea

[heavy hedge]

GSC would better serve themselves by running completely silent and in relative isolation until they begin dropping parts of the actual rework (as opposed to squashing myriad quest logic bugs), and let off the gas of re-advertising their game over and over again (largely to their existing playerbase that already bought the game anyway lol) which is a surefire way to annoy the shit out of people who just want either silence or concrete progress

Here please read our newest flowery poetry about The Zone we all know and love!

[outer depot]

I can in fact promise you just as many people would be screaming about it being abandonware bait and switch if they weren’t constantly proving they’re still around

[warped monolith]

oh yeah

silence = people whining on reddit that they abandoned the game

[heavy hedge]

That's a fair point, but in that case it seems prescient to communicate about progress of development moreso than repeat advertisements and celebrations of sales figures and etc.

(I don't consider the largely inconsistent and flippant community manager responses to be actual development updates)

I suppose annoy everyone equally is as much a strategy as any other, though

[outer depot]

I mean right now it feels more like the focus is more or less on “finishing” the game to some acceptable degree of polish prior to adding new content

Clearly it should have been left in the oven another six months but at the same time I don’t think they could have done another delay

[heavy hedge]

*massive swathes of old content that they cut so they could get it out the door so Microsoft and other invested parties didn't love them tenderly from behind

But yes

[spark gate]

Well:

say nothing, get complaints about abandoned game.

Say something: people are kept content for a little bit until they get impatient again.

But anyways its the cm duty to eat shit and relay from the consumer and the studio

[outer depot]

GSC and rushed releases with massive swathes of incomplete buggy features and missing content, name a better duo

[finite needle]

Say you gonna release a patch with QoL and bugfixes: People complain about no a life patch

It's also hard to get people excited if the most relevant thing you gonna put into the patch is squirrels or saiga drum mag.

[outer depot]

Saiga drum mag is pretty exciting

[heavy hedge]

I'm not really suggesting they alter what they're already publishing regarding updates, I'm mainly suggesting just cutting the prose and poetry bullshit and the back-patting until the game leaves 1.0

[finite needle]

Oh it is, when I said earlier that it meant a lot to me I was being dead serious.

[outer depot]

ignore the fact it was beyond the point of no return

[finite needle]

But yeah it's not a lot to be excited about

[outer depot]

Hang around Slav writers enough and you’ll come to learn that they greatly enjoy waxing poetic about the most random shit

[finite needle]

Oh I agree, but this is how shit works now. Gotta keep the kids engaged or they will lose interest, whatever that means.

[heavy hedge]

"The Zone is a mysterious place........life n death........n....snow n shiet..........every stalkers path is different.....n stuff........." ya ok keep it in your pants shevchenko

[outer depot]

I wish I was joking, but yeah

Slav philosophical writing and poetry can get real fucking wordy about esoteric bullshit even for those fields

[finite needle]

Hey I'd rather have the extreme and romantic vision of the zone rather than me big merc with cold heart that is here to do a job with his M4A1 Tactical with dovetail sights and underbarrel buttscraper

Got tired of that shit back in 2008

[outer depot]

Ye same I mean, I’m here for the esoteric bullshit tbh

[spark gate]

But but my tacticool gameplay and merc outfit!

[outer depot]

SWAT tactical vest and rusty MP5

I do enjoy greatly that they stuck with “Zone tactical” for the armor suits on mercs and IPSF dudes etc where everything is uniquely tailored for the environment there and absolutely doesn’t really work outside of the Zone

[spark gate]

I was more for the abandoned labs and the mystery surrounding the zone, the philosophical waxing and metaphorical stuff was an added bonus

[heavy hedge]

ill happily read all the most flowery prose you want to tag me with and cheer for your anniversaries and sales numbers, once the game youre hypothetically writing it about has successfully reached the end of its early access period. i say this with the bitter knowledge that it could not have been any other way

[outer depot]

Like the default military body armor just sucks ass because it’s got zero adjustment for the Zone

[spark gate]

https://tenor.com/view/omar-coming-thewire-the-wire-gif-14454117

[warped monolith]

uh oh embed fail

[finite needle]

In a couple years then, people is gonna compare next flop with the coolest, most cherry picked scenes in Stalker 2 and use that as a standard.

[heavy hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/epic-embed-fail-embed-fail-embed-discord-embed-gif-embed-gif-21924703

[outer depot]

Yeah they did a good job of meshing the “unchecked scientific pursuit of knowledge and control of nature” with “messing with shit we don’t really understand but think we do” aspect of it

[finite needle]

I remember they did with Starfield and Cyberpunk

[spark gate]

Classic discord mobile, never works

[heavy hedge]

ya the cycle continues

[finite needle]

Think positive, Stalker has a lot of untapped potential. Some other games don't even have that and area just DOA.

[outer depot]

Though S2 puts the personalities involved at the front of the story and uses the rest to dress their motivations and actions

[heavy hedge]

I'll reinstall S2 in a year or two depending on GSC's speed of progress, hopefully they succeed with enough of their rebuild before they start running out of cash again and have to prioritize DLCs going out the door

[outer depot]

Yeah I mean back to the start of this “Damn I see how they stuck a stick into their own spokes, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as I expected.”

It’s got a core that should be able to be expanded upon

[finite needle]

They seem to be willing to fix the game, if it's just to put a plug on a leak or actually finish the whole boat it's another story.

[outer depot]

Ye

[spark gate]

Yeah, it looks like thats the case. Instead of like cough creative assembly cough cough

[warped monolith]

is warhammer 3 still shit? or are you thinking about another CA game

[heavy hedge]

I'm sure they'll do the best they can with the resources at hand, it's not like they want to be responsible for a half-implemented shitshow, but money is money and companies need it to keep working, and time is money which means your scope is always inherently limited. How extensive that will be given their current resources is the big question, which you noted

[spark gate]

Wh3 marginally is improving after the shit show a year or two ago, but other titles are just maybe a year of skeleton fixes and unto the next title

[heavy hedge]

If GSC were to drop it like a hot potato, shove some DLC out the door and call it finished, whatever they launched next would be subject to intense skepticism

[spark gate]

Maybe rome 2 had the longest support cycle after, but attila.. My beloved

[warped monolith]

... if they ever managed to release anything after this, of course

[finite needle]

You see, all they have to do is release SDK. Then the legacy would be assured.

That's my actual hot take.

[warped monolith]

I don't think sdk is gonna be a miracle solution for everything
some of the glitches and jank in the OG trilogy could never be fixed AND PEOPLE HAVE THE SOURCE CODE

[heavy hedge]

I'm currently very skeptical of whatever speculative SDK they plan on releasing will be tbh, but yes, wherever they drop it modders will surely pick it up and run with it from there. Given their lack of finesse and familiarity on display with their own game currently though, I don't know that there will be a magic bullet handed over

[outer depot]

People already kinda went nuts with the mods while only being able to edit fucking config files lmao

[heavy hedge]

There is only so much that can be blamed on their early UE5 build, which certainly did not help, but is not wholly responsible for the mess we're experiencing with it today

[spark gate]

Well, more eyes are on them now. From what i heard from their yapping. They dont want to be a small niche studio anymore, they wanna be one of those big dogs but in ukraine, they expanded alot over the year iirc, and mr money maxym krippa is at the helm to steer this shit into a netflix tv show LMAO

[finite needle]

Or they could just hire modders like CDPR did when they realized they didn't know how their own proprietary engine worked or some shit like that

[remote eagle]

so they plan to add mosin and colt1911

[heavy hedge]

Ya, you can't underestimate determined modders, for sure

[remote eagle]

dont know if its 100% true

[outer depot]

Stalker comes with a built in modding community unlike anything except idk maybe Skyrim

[heavy hedge]

All I could say to GSC on that front would be "good fucking luck" lmao

[finite needle]

Skywind soon, right, RIGHT?

[heavy hedge]

The stalker modding community is kind of unique in that they are willing to dig into the most esoteric convoluted bullshit and go to insane lengths to change or add things to the game that should realistically speaking be considered impossible by ordinary modders

[finite needle]

And it's gonna be good, right?

[heavy hedge]

you already know the answer within you, yet you fear to gaze upon its truth

[outer depot]

I’ve got my 300 hours ingame now with every ending and afaik all the side content so at this point I’ve gotten my moneys worth and am just waiting to see what else comes

[heavy hedge]

I stopped at around 100, got my money's worth for sure but I'm not going to further sour myself on it until it sees some major tlc

Which is hardly the end of the world. Very difficult to understand people who are so wrapped up in it they can't just step away for a while and do other stuff or even just play a different game. It's as if they live their lives in the game files and they can't continue until an update specifically for them comes out

Just pretend it doesn't come out for another 2 years

What did you do BEFORE the videogame came out? just do more of that. it's just a toy

[golden hazel]

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

[heavy hedge]

Anyway, S2 wasn't an awful experience, but I'm at that threshold of investment where I know if I play any longer my brain is just going to start harping on about perceived flaws and inadequacies rather than enjoy the game for what it is. Worst case nothing changes and I just think about maybe going mod crazy in like 5 years

[outer depot]

I’m working on a stalker outfit and debating buying another AKS-74 to put some 3D printed green furniture on lel

[finite needle]

Yeah I'm at that point myself, starting to find fighting in the open world REALLY annoying.

[outer depot]

I’d just say give it a break, people in our shoes have gotten as much out of the vanilla/lightly modded experience as we’re gonna get for a while

[golden hazel]

The fighting in this game is literally just pokemon random battles

Open a stash? You best bet a squad just spawned behind you

https://tenor.com/view/game-boy-pokemon-viridian-forest-random-encounter-pokemon-red-gif-23083557

[outer depot]

To its credit the stealth system changes seem to have made it easier to just hide and avoid roaming squads

Except in the most open spaces like parts of Zaton or between Slag Heap and Duty base

[golden hazel]

Sometimes the spawns feel like super helldive difficulty on helldivers

But then I figure out that it's just an infinite spawner nearby

Like in one of the shops in pripyat

[outer depot]

I’ve got more stuff I wanna draw from the story

Lots of neat moments

I’m glad I was one of like five people who didn’t have the pre-patch Faust fight bug the fuck out for them because that plus the cutscene after really made an impression on the first run

[golden hazel]

Which one of the pre patch faust fight bugs

[outer depot]

Exactly

Ironically the sole bug I ran into was Zalissya not triggering the defense mission which I got around by kiting some Monolithians down from the sphere

Took about five minutes and then I finished the game bug free

[remote eagle]

my pre patch fight with him was fast cause i brought rpg

[golden hazel]

Meanwhile me on 1.0.0

[remote eagle]

true

[outer depot]

I had about twenty VOG-25s I forgot to use because I was being shot by his psi clone disguised monos too much

[golden hazel]

I ended up stabbing faust to death my first run cause I didn't notice you could break the lanterns till I ran out of ammo, it was peak 6fps fighting

[outer depot]

Absolute banger fucking soundtrack for it too

[golden hazel]

[heavy hedge]

I barely had any quests bug. Most of my annoyance in each playthrough were due to what appeared to be deliberate design choices at the time, but many of which it turns out are just because a bunch of stuff is either not implemented, turned off, or feature incomplete

I also didn't experience tortuous suffering in the form of technical performance since I built a top of the line consumer-grade desktop not too long beforehand

Which was more of a stroke of luck than calculated anticipation

[finite needle]

It took me 2 hours to make Zalissya work.

[outer depot]

I spent so much time wandering around man

That first run was golden for me, even accidentally got my favorite ending

[heavy hedge]

My first playthrough bugged zali but I just didn't care. I don't care about the town or anyone in it. Second time was able to save it, did it, still didn't come back or give a shit ultimately

[lime umbra]

Only good point of zali is proving that freedom is as useless as duty

[odd fjord]

chat game good now?

[heavy hedge]

[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&

[remote eagle]

game of the year id say

[heavy hedge]

Game of the century

[golden hazel]

Peak

[tawdry vessel]

my honest reaction

[golden hazel]

my honest reaction to that reaction

[lime umbra]

Bald

[golden hazel]

The devs are definitely experimenting with adding A Life though, I saw a guy headed towards where a large anomaly field was, but then he just stopped and started running away

But to be fair, it was a freedomer, so he was probably very lost from how blazed he was

[finite needle]

They could have adopted the GAMMA way and made them immune to anomalies. That's definitely not immersion breaking.

[golden hazel]

[finite needle]

Now imagine Stalker 2 went that way.

[golden hazel]

I've seen them walk through anomalies though

[finite needle]

I've never seen an NPC walk through an anomaly simply because I've never seen an NPC last that long

[golden hazel]

I was in an electric field and a squad spawned behind me and ignored all the anomalies

[finite needle]

Not true, I've seen one and this is the result

I kinda tricked it by walking into the anomaly by first disabling it. AI felt the path was safe and walked into it.

[golden hazel]

[outer depot]

Oh yeah NPCs absolutely will wander in

They’ve got unique death anims too

[finite needle]

No no that was cool, just wasn't impressed by how easy it was to trigger AI to talk into it

[outer depot]

Underdeveloped anomaly sense

[odd fjord]

oscar worthy

[outer depot]

Tbh always been a bit silly how anomalies are presented as ultra deadly traps you can just wander into in broad daylight and I’m staring at this floating rumbling gravity sphere like “how are you going to miss that?”

[odd fjord]

lets goooo

[finite needle]

[outer depot]

Some mods for the older games basically made them completely invisible

But it’s always been a little comedic imo

Like the only real explanation is that our protag can just see them better than most people can

[finite needle]

I still step on them very often

[outer depot]

His anomaly sense, lacking

[finite needle]

In my defence, I'm just bad. Naturally gifted.

[outer depot]

Duty brass walks into a spatial anomaly

The spatial anomaly; giant pulsating white orb

[lime umbra]

You could say the stalker protags were gifted with anomaly senses ala ubisoft protag

[golden hazel]

Nah they're more like Resident Evil characters

https://tenor.com/view/resident-evil5-resident-evil-albert-wesker-wesker-fight-gif-16879476

[lime umbra]

Canonical strelok

[golden hazel]

[odd fjord]

ayo my dudes, slight off topic: arma reforger worth 32eu?

[lime umbra]

"Only I can protect her"
First off
Why
Second Why is the zone female?

Strelok ???

[finite needle]

Strelok big simp

[golden hazel]

He's subscribed to the zone's onlyblyats

[remote eagle]

[finite needle]

Have discussion about Strelok
Characters proceed to call him any name except Strelok

Strieltsa, Stretsiy and so on

Just like my russian literature!

[golden hazel]

Hello Marked One

[outer depot]

Marked One, what the hell-

[golden hazel]

AH

[outer depot]

He’s just getting more chicken

[lime umbra]

Soc if it was good

[outer depot]

not dark hair
0/10

[remote eagle]

what if all that was just a dream

[finite needle]

Soc if it wasn't woke garbage

[lime umbra]

Soc if it wasn't Christian

[golden hazel]

The Time I Woke Up With Amnesia And Was Ordered To Kill A Very Influential Figure In The Zone

[outer depot]

Stalker and anime girls

[finite needle]

The Time I Woke Up And Found Out My Beloved Was Reincarnated Into The Chornobyl Alienation Zone?!?

[outer depot]

Wait that’s just GFL

[golden hazel]

The Time I Escorted A Bunch Of Scientists To The Swamps And Got Caught In An Emission

[outer depot]

Actually I guess it’d be easier to explain lore wise now given there are several examples of a new mutant type now in the Zone

Arguably the most dangerous yet

No X-Lab spawned those creatures

[golden hazel]

[outer depot]

Harem Protag Degtyarev

[golden hazel]

He really is

[outer depot]

All they needed to see was him annihilate ten cans of meat and fourteen bread loaves in two seconds to be smitten

[golden hazel]

Rizztyarev taking on the entire zone, rizzing up everyone on way in CoP of Pripyat, then having one of his simps running a repair shop in the Station

[finite needle]

Fuck me new rebalance really made combat armors useless in navigating anomalies

[outer depot]

No anomaly sense 🗿

[finite needle]

You jest but for me it's a tragedy, I am really bad at navigating anomalies

[outer depot]

Sounds like you need to pay a visit to Lex at the Flea Market (why is it still called this anyways when there’s no trader)

[golden hazel]

Rip Flea Market

[warped monolith]

how nice of the anomaly to keep his backpack intact

[outer depot]

Could you imagine if it actually just exploded his inventory like a fucking piñata

[warped monolith]

isn't that what happened in the OGs?

[outer depot]

No I’m pretty sure they’d just drop their gun and explode into gibs

Imagine getting killed by a vodka bottle going 300 m/s from some guy who just got exploded by a whirligig

[finite needle]

I'm also known for being fucking wrong a lot of times, but I'm sure this is what happened

[glad socket]

why is steam installing this when i have the game uninstalled?

no wonder my pc was buffering

[golden hazel]

[peak eagle]

You can never leave the Zone

[golden hazel]

WE SKEEFAS HAVE NO LIMITS

LET'S SOLO THE ZONE WITH A MAKAROV AT FULL POWER!

[outer depot]

A Makarov? Deggy did it with his knife!

[glad socket]

sorry steam
i need that 155GB back

[golden hazel]

It wasn't even sharpened!

[warped monolith]

[warped monolith]

... leaving no loot behind, right? Other than the dropped gun

[finite raft]

hello guys, i need help, the aim marker doesn't deactivate after the new patch, is there a way to remove it? with a mod or manually?

[outer depot]

I thought you meant in the OGs they’d drop their inventory as well

Which AS NEAR AS I CAN REMEMBER they don’t

[finite needle]

Just the gun iirc

[outer depot]

It was always just the gun afaik

Everything else gets vaporized

[warped monolith]

yeah that's what I meant. I don't remember it either, but I'm pretty confident they just vaporize and leave no loot

[finite needle]

My man hasn't played the game since 2024 and still has the game installed

[glad socket]

it was uninistalled until today

steam auto update doing it's thing

[finite needle]

Oh I understand now

[finite raft]

can someone help me?

[odd fjord]

vanilla bug, let me hear around if there is a fix for it

[finite raft]

Unfortunately it ruins my experience, I hate the aim marker. If you find the file to edit I think you can remove it manually but I don't know where it is

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/gta-v-godzilla-kurumi-tokisaki-fubukani23-i-can't-wait-for-gta-vi-and-the-mods-gif-3374666116695682597

[astral idol]

godzilla does not need that weeb crap

even tho he a weeb him self

[proud ruin]

[split crown]

my favorite was when Godzilla collab'd with Miku

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mLDXn_BGZE

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/miku-hatsune-miku-gives-godzilla-low-taper-fade-gif-12747809138573954094

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/psych-meme-dopamine-happy-happy-happy-happy-happy-happy-cat-meme-psychcology-gif-2376777155355443871

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/godzilla-griddy-evolved-fortnite-godzilla-evolved-gif-7104922953451434878

[keen thunder]

Installing S2 again for the fist time in a couple months. Have any of these recent 'Big Updates' by chance fixed the Pop-In LOD issue with the trees?

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/kek-kekw-gif-19460731

[midnight ridge]

Bruh, don't expect much from these lazy bastards

[keen thunder]

Damn, guess I will check back again in 2026! xD

[midnight ridge]

Their only excuse is the war while most of the team being in Prague

[autumn sparrow]

is the "A-Life" system still fake?

[golden hazel]

Yes but they're definitely attempting to give it A Life

[autumn sparrow]

I remember on launch enemies just spawned in sight

[golden hazel]

I have seen 1 guy headed towards an anomaly field and halfway there he turns around and started sprinting away

But other than that, enemies still spawn in front of you

[autumn sparrow]

damn, I guess the world is really still segmented for AI and there will be no true A-life like in OG games

[golden hazel]

There will be once they figure out how to get it to run on Series S

Since they need to have feature parity between the game versions

[remote eagle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1306683555488862319/1351304623406714971/SKEEFA.gif?ex=67dc8700&is=67db3580&hm=2f43ef93495a5baa99a15199f65629df2150093fa0b9d619e9304cd3c6b75ea5&

[hot rampart]

On my first play through, anybody know why no NPCs would be spawning at the detention center when I first enter garbage?

[remote eagle]

cause its quest area

[tawdry vessel]

play it in like 2 years its not done cooking

[light mural]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[finite needle]

It's the time for Balatro

[jovial berry]

https://insider-gaming.com/ark-dlc-trailer-entirely-gen-ai/

[remote eagle]

new stalker 2 DLC looks dope ngl

[finite needle]

Ark is a game aimed at people that is 40+ so it's only fitting they made an AI generated trailer, they demonstrate to understand they player base correctly (I have no idea what Ark is)

[remote eagle]

[jovial berry]

So embarrasing tbh

[finite needle]

Slot Machine quality

[drowsy umbra]

THats Nico Hülkenberg

https://tenor.com/view/hulkenberg-nico-hulkenberg-nh27-hulkenberg-f1-f1hulkenberg-gif-27134746

[slim lance]

How do we feel about 2's map changes? I kinda like them.

[drowsy umbra]

what changed?

[slim lance]

Mostly from what I can tell, Zaton being moved down south with the Great Swamps. Which kind of makes CoP's journey a little strange. Apparently you were walking up through Cordon, Garbage, Rostok, etc on your way to Jupiter the entire time.

Some other east/west changes from old fan assumptions. Basically they made the map a bit more true to life.

[proud ruin]

Brain scorchers new location is retarded

Rest is alright

[fading monolith]

Hows the performance with the latest patch ?

[slim lance]

Reduced from 1.2, but better than launch

[drowsy umbra]

where is the brain scorcher now?

I always wondered why the scorcer is in malachite

while its lore puts it next to jupiter

[slim lance]

Brain scorcher is out east I think? I believe the lore explanation is the brain scorcher itself is a generator, and the array it powered stretched out over the zone.

Strelok is able to bypass the array in Clear Sky. This change just makes Call of Pripyat a confusing and somewhat convoluted journey all over the map.

Unless they make it canon that The Zone reshapes itself like Rose Red. Which isn't really a stretch.

[icy basin]

Wait but my performance worsened with 1.2

[drowsy umbra]

but if the scorcer is only a generator, its location doesnt even make less sense because then it should be near the generators part of the map

[slim lance]

I'm not sure its a literal generator. More like the field generator. Its hooked into an array that spans east to west, dividing the zone.

[drowsy umbra]

but even then you would see parts of the array

from what I know the Scorcher is the array and the generator for it is in the nearby x-lab

and even if the Scorcher is just a generator and its powering an array, yaniv would have been completely dead as it would have been directly within the scorching field

IF you go after the stalker 2 map as canon

from what the lore of Stalker SoC says, the scorcher is an antenna blocking the way to pripjyat

[slim lance]

Scorcher is the part of the array generating the psy field. It is hooked into a zone spanning system that includes the generators, the Yantar installation, and Duga array. They all work together. Different components, same job.

[drowsy umbra]

where is this mentioned?

[slim lance]

C-consciousness reps say this.

[drowsy umbra]

"You know one of these fields by the name of Brain Scorcher."

so following this the conclusion is that you only deactivated one field in SoC

nvm

first you deactivated the one in Yantar

then you deactivated the Scorcher field and I assume that Duga wasnt fully activated at first

[finite needle]

Performance seems to be more stable but generally worse for me. Idk how they did it.

[slim lance]

which brings me back to my main snag being that its just a looong walk in CoP.

[drowsy umbra]

yeah

[slim lance]

I'd like it if they made it fully canon that The Zone reshapes and retcons itself. That reality is semi-malleable over time.

[drowsy umbra]

I really dislike the Stalker 2 map lorewise

could be a DLC

[slim lance]

Yeah it could work as a one off remark somewhere on a PDA and I'd be good lol. Just like "Talked to a guy who was part of the crew who disabled the scorcher. He says it was a day's trip north from Zaton, north of Jupiter? He just shrugged my confusion off."

[finite needle]

Map scrambler anomaly DLC

[drowsy umbra]

like, make the Ward Ending canon but the Zone destabilizes in an extreme fashion

[signal quail]

strelok would solo all of delta force

nah he would probably join delta force

[slim lance]

Man I forgot how much of a goblin Strelok's lines were in SoC

Cocks gun "Cooool"

[signal quail]

cock

[finite needle]

tbh lorewise the need for guides was because paths would be blocked of shift due to anomalies, they definitely knew the zone they created was geographically fucked.

[signal quail]

🤑 🤑

[finite needle]

What GSC didn't know was that the lore nerds would only come up 20 years later

[signal quail]

yes

[indigo marlin]

Does anybody have the glitch at a certain point of the map when your supposed to get equipment there is a random emission and the pointers on the map lead to absolutely nothing

[drowsy umbra]

I am not a lore nerd

[signal quail]

well I am

[slim lance]

Its the same "problem" Star Trek nerds had with Roddenberry trying to say Klingons always had head crests. Fans HATE seamless retcons. They need LOORE. .... I need lore!

[signal quail]

and i think i forgot some of the lore

[drowsy umbra]

I need a whopper

[slim lance]

You will get a McDouble and you will be happy

[jolly fiber]

skeef

let me tell you a joke skeeeef

[odd fjord]

anyone here play with my 3 mods?

[west moth]

Is this the A-Life?
Is this just fantasy?

[finite needle]

I honestly play vanilla until they stop shitting up patches every month or so

100% sure patches fix a lot of my issues with the game but I don't really want to do a full reinstall evety time GSC fixes NPCs blocking the doorway (this time for sure)

[signal quail]

that gotta be the tinniest meth pipe ive ever seen

[molten osprey]

why do you know larger ones ? 0.o

[finite needle]

He's just a silly goober

[drowsy umbra]

https://tenor.com/view/goofy-goober-spongebob-squarepants-gif-18362367895062681294

[hot rampart]

But I have the quest active and it says Meet at the Detention Center?

[remote eagle]

classic patch

[hot rampart]

I have some of the better gunfight mods - could that mess it up?

[finite needle]

Did you meet Star already? Are in the basement?

or is it another quest, ward one?

because maybe I'm hoping you mean the old factory and that patch hasn't fucked up the Spark path somehow

[hot rampart]

Have not met Star yet. I have the mission where it says to meet Richter’s friends and I’m near the map marker

I don’t think I fully explored the basement. There was a locked gate

[warped monolith]

star platinum?

[odd fjord]

when you come to the center, at entrance are there dogs?

[hot rampart]

Yes

I expected to get some radio callouts. I didn’t but I guess I don’t know if I should.

[odd fjord]

and after you got the dogs did you go left inside up the stairs?

[hot rampart]

I’ll double check. I think I just stayed downstairs

[finite needle]

Yeah try upstairs

[civic folio]

Hey guys quick question. Is there any sheet that tells me what does each bottom left UI icon mean?

[warped monolith]

I don't know but if you find out, please share
some icons are pretty self-explanatory, but others not so much

[finite needle]

The fact that there isn't any for the psi effects is such a strance choice. It works if you think about it, but it's inconsistent.

[split crown]

Yea I also thought it was strange how there was no psi meter

[warped monolith]

I should reinstall but I don't have enough storage

gonna have to finish up rise of the ronin first, and that's gonna take a while

[split crown]

at least you're playing that and not Assass Shadows

[warped monolith]

oh right, ubisoft bad

[split crown]

all they had to do was make a good game, and they couldn't manage it

[warped monolith]

it's being well received so far

only negative review I saw on Steam a couple minutes ago was a very legit complaint about mtx in a singleplayer game

[split crown]

I was watching a streamer play hours of it and I did not like what I was seeing or hearing. Both combat and voice acting are super subpar.

...for a game focused on physical combat and assassinations, I don't even know how you fuck up both those aspects

Maybe the JP voices are better (I hope so at least) than the EN ones

[warped monolith]

largely subjective, I'd say

[split crown]

The storytelling and transitions are also kind of weird and abrupt; like hardly any build-up and just like "okay well this is happening now I guess"

[finite needle]

So is there any actual criticism about the game except people being mad about historical accuracy?

[split crown]

Yea shit looks bland and not worth the money they're asking for

[finite needle]

Yasuke being a samurai and not a sword carrying retainer is so immersion breaking smh

[finite needle]

Fair, ubisoft games have been bland for a very long time now.

[split crown]

I'm whatever with Yasuke being there; however, Ubisoft shot themselves in both feet in that regard because at first they were saying how the game was all about being historically accurate, but later on after all the backlash they heavily backpedaled and are suddenly all "OH UH, GAME IS HISTORICAL FICTION HAHA"

[finite needle]

last I played was Assassin's Creed 2 and I think that's enough for me

[split crown]

based

[finite needle]

It was cool but not my cup of tea so to speak.

The fact that the others are apparently much worse doesn't help the appeal

[split crown]

The greatest thing I can say about the game is it does have really nice visuals. That's probably about it though.

[split crown]

iirc, Black Flag looks stunning graphics wise; other than that, I couldn't tell ya. I've only played Assass 1 & 2

[warped monolith]

there's at least 3 games better than AC2

[finite needle]

The series isn't even that big anymore, thus I don't really understand the fuss about Yasuke - but I remember the one in greece was meant to have only female character and the fans kinda bullied ubisoft into implementing a male lead too

[warped monolith]

AC2 gets its dick ridden mostly because of Ezio, but more recent games have way better stories, settings, parkour, combat

[finite needle]

Huh. If you tell me the one in Egypt is good I might even buy it, love Ptolemaic Egypt.

[warped monolith]

I liked Origins but I wouldn't consider it better than 2 for two reasons
1 the map is just too fucking big. I hate bloated open worlds
2 way too many RPG elements in a franchise that worked perfectly well without them

[split crown]

Egyptian women...

[finite needle]

Then it's a pass. Sad.

[warped monolith]

but I would say Black Flag, Unity and even Syndicate are better than 2

Unity and Syndicate started slapping unnecessary RPG elements but it's not too bad

I heard good things about Rogue, but I haven't played it

[split crown]

Oh, btw, Assass Shadows has a battle pass even though it's a single player game lol

[finite needle]

What do you mean

[split crown]

Thought that was quite questionable yet funny

[finite needle]

Yasuke is the least of the problems then

[split crown]

Oh it's TWO battle passes

https://www.dexerto.com/assassins-creed/assassins-creed-shadows-battle-pass-explained-3162708/

Anomalies

[warped monolith]

Ubi is infamous for slapping mtx in singleplayer games

[split crown]

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

[finite needle]

Just like my russian fallout games

[split crown]

yeah they try scraping up all the cash they can because even they're aware of their games sucking ass

[warped monolith]

learned all the wrong lessons from Warner Bros

[warped monolith]

thinking it's more due to the fact that the production costs for these games is extremely huge and 70usd per copy won't make them enough of a profit

[peak moat]

this is their last huzzah before they close down

[split crown]

Ayup

[split crown]

on god I can't wait for Tencent to buy their sorry asses - maybe their women will finally become attractive again

[finite needle]

Unironicall Ghost of Tsushima was pretty much the game that they should have done

[warped monolith]

I'm thinking this might not happen just yet

[finite needle]

And I am aware Ghost of Tsushima only was propped up because people needed to shit on The Last of Us 2

[peak moat]

maybe not right away but honestly if you look at their latest releases and their stock its not looking too good

[warped monolith]

depending on which "latest releases" you're talking about

[split crown]

oof

[warped monolith]

they released two Prince of Persia games that turned out good. They're just not being talked about because they're lower budget projects in more niche gameplay genres

[split crown]

Ubisoft stocks more like penny stocks

[peak moat]

Star wars outlaws flopped, so is this AC and dont even get me started on that avatar game they made

[warped monolith]

and Shadows hasn't gotten immediately bombarded with negative reviews, so that's already way better than most people were expecting

[warped monolith]

this AC flopped?

[peak moat]

there is no way in hell this AC is going to be a success

[split crown]

Yeah it's grim dude

[warped monolith]

game hasn't been out for 24 hours, how do you already know

[finite needle]

Seems to be doing ok according to early reviews? No one here is expecting Baldur's Gate 3

[peak moat]

because if you play or even watch the game is terrible and all the pre release drama doesnt help?

[warped monolith]

just hatemongering

[split crown]

Not as bad as Avowed at least it seems, but still not great

[warped monolith]

you'd imagine the game would get review bombed for it, but it didn't

[peak moat]

its not hatemongering i used to absolutely love AC games and ubisoft but come on guys 40k players on release for an AC game...

[finite needle]

How's Avowed? Considering how mid Outer Worlds was I expected it to be kinda mediocre

[warped monolith]

I will never trust steam charts numbers for a game native to a different platform

[peak moat]

https://tenor.com/view/copium-cat-gif-27161395

[warped monolith]

embed fail

[split crown]

Does Ubisoft still have its own game client? I thought that shit died

[warped monolith]

also not everyone is a "no steam no buy" retard. most intelligent people skip the 'middle man' and buy the game straight on ubisoft's app

[peak moat]

they still have it

[finite needle]

I still regret to this day buying FFXIV through Steam.

[peak moat]

most people already have a steam account with tons of games and would rather add more games to their steam account

nobody is out there happy to open Ubisoft or EA apps

[warped monolith]

I bought it on steam because the game copy itself and the subscription fee are cheaper on Steam for me, thanks to regional pricing. The amount I've saved over time compared to buying it straight off the S-E store is high enough that I could've bought 3 more copies and played for the same 2 year period.

[warped monolith]

oh no I have to click two extra buttons to play a game

[warped monolith]

yeah, those are the "no steam no buy" retards I mentioned

[peak moat]

I guess not wanting to go through extra steps to launching a game and having a centralized library makes you a retard now fine im a retard then

[finite needle]

wasn't ea launcher allowing you to launch games from steam anyway? I seem to remember such a thing when the Mass Effect trilogy remaster was released

[warped monolith]

nice to meet you, retard

[warped monolith]

yep. Ubisoft app also allows it

[finite needle]

or was it Jedi Fallen Order?

anyway, by all accounts I seem to remeber you buy on one platform but can launch on steam as if you bought it there, so doesn't really matter on the convenience side of things.

[warped monolith]

exactly. Which makes me think that someone who completely hinges their criticism on this aspect don't really have a leg to stand on and are just hating for the sake of hating

they even made steam account linking easier so you can do it by pressing one button instead of two.

[finite needle]

Ironically I had to crack my legit steam bought copy of Assassin's Creed II because their launcher was fucked on the Steam version

[split crown]

I'm something of a retard myself when it comes to financial decisions

[warped monolith]

I spend more money buying games for my wife than I do for myself

[finite needle]

Man I used to play FFXIV. I spent way too much money on Fantasia than I'm confortable to admit.

[warped monolith]

I never used even the free Fantasia I got for finishing the ARR story

I'm absolutely not a cosmetics-focused player

[finite needle]

Yeah, I thought that too once

[warped monolith]

I played for 2 years without touching glamors, I'm not just talk

[finite needle]

Then I ended up spending real money so I could play a au ra female warrior with a maid outfit because it was a funny meme

[finite needle]

I admire your restraint. I am a weak man.

[warped monolith]

the 'worst' I did was set a glamour plate for different elemental flavors of weapon

so I could slap elemental bosses with their same element

nothing more ironic than humiliating Shiva with an ice weapon

[finite needle]

Man I was doing Savage and Extreme trials just for glams

[warped monolith]

I was doing them for gear upgrades, until I learned it was pointless and decided to just farm gil instead

[split crown]

I don't even wanna think about how much money I spent on this game.

[finite needle]

Quit just before Dawntrail hit so at least I missed that part of drama

[warped monolith]

but by that point my friends all quit the game so I just let my sub expire

I may be crazy but I'm not crazy enough to play a MMORPG by myself

[split crown]

I was - for years - with WoW

[finite needle]

Nah I've been raiding in WoW since at least Kael'thas

quit after Legion, joined FFXIV because some friends convinced me - and I stress this was at Shadowbringers launch, so before The Great Migration

[warped monolith]

I tried making friends in MMOs, joining guilds, getting a static group to raid with, but it either turns into a second job or devolves into drama. Can't be arsed to deal with either

[split crown]

Legion was probably the last great WoW xpac imo

[finite needle]

Proceeded to lose most of my sanity trying to pug light rampant

[split crown]

WotLK was the greatest xpac tho imo

[warped monolith]

My best friend quit because of light rampant

I still had like 4 days of sub left so I kept trying
managed to clear that in my very last day of sub

I just created a party asking for a carry, didn't care about coffers/loot

and while I was technically carried, I made zero mistakes and did good dps. I just needed ppl who actually knew what to do lmao

[finite needle]

Legion was cool at launch but got so much worse in terms of systems as the game went throuhg. I fucking trashed my Lock because my leggos were trash, I had to play Frost DK because I dropped my good leggos on that toon.

[warped monolith]

biggest stress in ffxiv is getting into a clear/farm party and there's always that one dude who's still progging but sneaks into the group thinking he'll get carried and no one will notice he's the cause of every wipe

[finite needle]

Fair, usually if you know mechanics people will carry you, if you leave the coffers that is.

[split crown]

oof. See, I heard the opposite where the beginning of Legion was not good, but the xpac got much better as it progressed further with time; I came back to the game like midway through Legion.

[warped monolith]

I knew the entire fight like the back of my hand in like the 5th attempt.

yet it took me almost 40 tries to get the clear because there was always someone else breaking tethers during light rampant

and I FUCKING HATE this dumbass savage raid design where one guy makes a mistake = fuck you, get wiped

[split crown]

yeah that sounds horrible

[warped monolith]

biggest reason why I refuse to do endgame content nowadays. Now I just hop into my wife's account and do the daily roulettes to farm tomestones and help her gear up

[finite needle]

light rampant is a mechanic that is somewhat infamous for being not very hard, but just requiring 8 adhd monkeys to be extremely coordinated and precise in a pinch

[warped monolith]

then if she wants to suffer through extremes, savages and whatnot, that's her problem

[finite needle]

or you die

[warped monolith]

yeah savage design is basically
pay attention to 4+ things at once, make one mistake everyone dies

as I like to say, it's a very visually interesting game of simon says

but in simon says, if someone makes a mistake, they lose but the others keep playing
in ffxiv if someone makes a mistake everyone loses

[finite needle]

And I was progging as DNC because life is horrible

[warped monolith]

dnc was very good at the start of shadowbringers

can't remember how badly it was nerfed by the time e8s was on

[finite needle]

You are the SAM bitch

mobility and whatnot, plus you are required to bring a ranged and sure as hell no one was going to add a BRD or a MCH to a party

[warped monolith]

that's kind of a trap mentality... blm and even smn were excellent dance partner choices

actually the game is entirely designed around trapping people

because all buffs are like percentage increases
so it's always better to give +1% damage to the guy who deals 2000 dps than to the one who deals 1800

becomes a vicious cycle of giving more damage to the guy who already deals the most damage

[finite needle]

It's the optimal choice and it's effortless, so why not. Plus makes the DPS feel better about themselves.

[warped monolith]

the entire group benefits, that's for sure

but it does tend to make certain players feel like they're more important than they actually are

[finite needle]

In a way. Just felt like all the stuff that was going to fuck over the game in Battle for Azeroth was starting to be seen in Legion.

[split crown]

Fair enough. I hated BfA lmao

[finite needle]

I wanted subraces so bad.

[warped monolith]

I've never played WoW in official servers I have zero clue what it's like

[finite needle]

You learn a lot of racial slurs

so not so different