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

[warped monolith]

I learned plenty in my time playing dota and counter-strike

[split crown]

Dota really do be the real gaming trenches

[finite needle]

Me being called names for being an Elemental Shaman while pugging Heroic Garrosh back in Mists was top WoW experience for me.

[warped monolith]

that and COD voice chat in the xbox 360 days, but I missed those

[split crown]

That raid sure was a raid of all time

[finite needle]

Not for anything I did, for trying to pug while being an Ele Shammy so we could pretty much negate phase 1 because of the aoe.

[warped monolith]

the only thing I love more than Ele Shamans were Enhancement Shamans. Windfury Totem my beloved. Made my Warrior go brr with the double attack chance. Rage for days.

[split crown]

At least the shaman xmog gear you can get from there is still badass

[deep lodge]

wait is the reticle now permanetly enabled or what

[finite needle]

Oh yeah I had the cache, best shaman transmo in the game.

[split crown]

I saw there's a new mod on the nexus that disables it lol

[warped monolith]

oh right, this is the stalker 2 channel.

[deep lodge]

" "

[finite needle]

Ohy I forgot about Stalker 2 for a hot moment lmao

[warped monolith]

[finite needle]

Anyway I'm playing Radiophobia 3

[finite needle]

You mean withuot a weapon? Pretty sure it's a bug.

[deep lodge]

with weapon

[finite needle]

But aiming down sights, correct?

[deep lodge]

just having it equiped shows the white dot always

[remote eagle]

true thats shit is sooo ass

i love suffer with idiots to get myself gear with SLIGHTLY better stats then i have

no thanks

[warped monolith]

which is then completely replaced by the next patch's crafted set

[remote eagle]

[warped monolith]

farm gil, not gear

[remote eagle]

FFXiV gear system so sucks its not even funny

[remote eagle]

my bro farming big money working in brothel(in game)

[finite needle]

Now that I think about it, reticle was always visible, at lest the dot, no? I never tampered with settings

[deep lodge]

u could turn it off

now they bugged it and its always on

[warped monolith]

phew good thing you said ingame

[remote eagle]

1 million gil in 1 hour

[finite needle]

One day I'll make my comeback to FFXIV only to finally get necromancer

[remote eagle]

[warped monolith]

what necromancer

[west moth]

NecromA-LIFEncer

[deep lodge]

i hate the fact that i just got jumpscared by a guy snoring inside a building

[remote eagle]

200 floors in palace of the dead

[deep lodge]

and the sound makes it so i hear him directly behind me

[remote eagle]

SOLO

[warped monolith]

oh, that.

shouldn't be too hard nowadays.

[remote eagle]

[warped monolith]

@twin kraken please zap this individual

or @icy basin

[eager solstice]

@fair ravine (_levi_akk3rman_) has been banned for reason: Compromised account

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-bart-gif-19916469

[icy basin]

Oh no wonder Discord couldn't take me to the message

It was hidden BY Discord

[deep lodge]

[warped monolith]

yeah

[icy basin]

It sent me flying about 50 messages up

[twin kraken]

yeah, same

[grave iron]

wassap, after patch 1.3, the anomalies became pixelated, I didn't download any mods, nothing in the settings helps, has anyone encountered this?

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

looks normal to me

pretty sure anomalies are meant to distort visuals like that

[grave iron]

I move a few meters away from her and she becomes a pixel cloud.

[odd fjord]

did you just call an anomaly a "she" ?

based

[finite needle]

Strelok moment

[odd fjord]

absolutely BASED stalker comment

[warped monolith]

some languages have gendered nouns for everything

feminine nouns for anomalies in spanish and portuguese, for instance

[odd fjord]

goddamn romantics

[warped monolith]

probably italian too

la anomaglia 🤌

[grave iron]

Guys, this is a Google translator from Russian

[finite needle]

Pretty sure all romance languages

[odd fjord]

не беспокойся 🙂 ( i absolutely translated that)

[grave iron]

😦

[odd fjord]

send picture of pixel cloud, not normal cloud

[golden hazel]

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

[undone summit]

But what if
Stalker MMO :0

[warped monolith]

hasn't that been attempted multiple times already

they all failed

[undone summit]

My only example is StalkerZ

Which is pretty much a mass RP game

[warped monolith]

I think I might be thinking of a game that got rebranded and renamed multiple times

[undone summit]

There are other stalker-likes with multiplayer/co-op which varying success

[warped monolith]

s-zone online, stalker online, exclusion zone online or whatever
then there's stalcraft of course
and the dead and buried survarium

[west moth]

Stalker: Exodus
A-life outside of the Metro

[split crown]

Stalcraft

[spark gate]

Good luck with that, mmos are hard to make unless youre a big ass company

Or you can do an easy money making trick: make a kickstarter, talk a big game. And when they actually send you cash. You run away

[peak eagle]

a tale as old as time

[jolly fiber]

the walls are moving skeeef

[timber flame]

Brothers how is it possible that this game takes eight weeks to compile shaders on a 12600k/32gb/16gb system with nvme storage

[timid turtle]

where is gamma 2

[remote eagle]

Never

[golden hazel]

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/water-balloon-cry-boy-child-fear-gif-24749838

[proud ruin]

Where is romance sidorovich quest

[lyric schooner]

why does it take so long to fix alife

[lime umbra]

to quote sseth

not even the ppl who programed it know what it does

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/sseth-ssethtzeentach-vibe-check-grab-gif-20363655

[finite needle]

Considering they seemed 100% certain to have fixed the NPC blocking doors at least three times now I feel like they don't actually know how to make their owh AI work.

[golden hazel]

Dont forget the collar quest

And Zalissya

[proud ruin]

hey hey people

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/sseth-gif-27687542

[proud ruin]

[drowsy umbra]

SKEEFA

[west moth]

In a perfect zone,
A-Life would not exist.
But this is not a perfect zone

[warped monolith]

extremely complex system and they need to make it work on Xbox.

[late kernel]

Once again, consoles holding back PC games
Tale as old as time

Thousands of fixes and yet the game still feels hollow and shaky

[warped monolith]

millions must perish

[odd fjord]

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only bugfixing with no tangible positive change

[warped monolith]

I mean

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/elmo-exterminatus-explosion-nuke-40k-gif-22693290

[warped monolith]

bugfixing is positive change

[odd fjord]

not when you fix it and it duplicates in 2 new bugs

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/moving-goalposts-goalposts-changing-requirements-gif-25214446

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/smol-smolcat-smolcatcoin-smol-cat-coin-roswell-gif-5927720482554321350

[tacit glacier]

Bruh, I never bothered comparing the trailers with what we got

The current lighting in stalker 2 feels like someone put hd models in a world without proper lighting

[pseudo falcon]

can anyone help
i have mods installed and this error pops up
UpgradePrototypes.cfg need to format

[drowsy umbra]

it needs to work on xbox

[pseudo falcon]

btw
i dont know what mods do this

[icy basin]

Which is where

[warped monolith]

I'm guessing software lumen is the top one

[tacit glacier]

Top one is in game

The trailer from 2 years ago
https://youtu.be/0ZqMt74hO6U?si=JYUeIhc2UT1HOxch&t=136

Lighting is clearly better in this trailer tbh
Probably because at the time it was hardware lumen

[icy basin]

Thankfully I never watched any trailer

So the scene looked fine to me

Though it did freeze for 5 seconds at the end

[tacit glacier]

I think it did for everyone

But yeah the game definitely hit a graphical downgrade as it is usual in the industry, lol
The moment they enable Hardware Lumen performance should improve and visuals will see an uplift tho
At least, I hope that'll be the case

[finite needle]

The only time I recall they didn't do a graphical downgrade from trailers was FFXIV 1.0, and we all know how it went

[warped monolith]

Doom 2016

[finite needle]

Yeah well stuff touched by Carmack doesn't count.

[warped monolith]

Carmack hasn't been a part of id since 2005

[finite needle]

Pretty sure Doom 2016 uses the Rage engine that still has his touch in it

[finite needle]

It do be looking better, I'll admit

[tacit glacier]

DOOM Eternal seen a small downgrade in my small opinion.

Specifically, floating weapons like it's fuken Quake 3 Arena

[warped monolith]

oh, you mean compared to doom 2016? or compared to trailers and whatnot

[tacit glacier]

There was this grounded feeling when Slayer picked up weapons from the ground in 2016 and inspected them.

[finite needle]

You don't mean gameplay wise I hope

[warped monolith]

Eternal is a huge downgrade into arcade territory. Borderline saturday morning cartoon in some moments (rubber toy noise when ripping out a cacodemon's eye, the stun sound effect from the slayer hammer in the TAGs, complete with stars circling the demons' heads)

[tacit glacier]

Didn't make it any less enjoyable tho

[finite needle]

Compared to what, realistic Doom?

I'm glad they went all in with the bullshit. It has a clear identity that isn't this is Doom, but modern. It's for the best, considering the result.

[warped monolith]

I think 2016 is better in many aspects

[finite needle]

I also remember that no one had any hope Doom 2016 was going to be any good Boy were they wrong

[warped monolith]

Eternal has the speed but 2016 has the freedom

[tacit glacier]

Nah, Eternal also has plenty of freedom

[warped monolith]

not nearly as much as 2016 does

[finite needle]

Eternal has a lot of "you need to do this in order to do that" mechanic. 2016 is more similar to the older Doom games.

[warped monolith]

Eternal is full of "do X against this monster or you're playing it wrong", especially in the DLCs with the new enemies that are extremely resistant or outright immune to anything other than two very specific and very SHITTY weapon mods that no one used

Instead of making them more viable, Hugo Martin had the brilliant idea of creating new enemies that REQUIRE the use of these shit mods

Bro worked hard to make Doom not play like Doom, and somehow people love him for it

I just hope Dark Ages doesn't double down on this bullshit

[finite needle]

I feel that they needed to change direction to avoid the game getting a bit stale, there's only so much you can do with basic Doom mechanic that all the other boomer shooters out there haven't already done or tried to do before you. Going full adhd schizo is one of the best ways they could have approached the redesign.

[remote eagle]

I still like first doom the most

[tacit glacier]

Dark Ages has.. A unique twist.

[finite needle]

It's a complaint I also have with Stalker 2. I appreciate them trying to be as close to the OG gameplay wise as possible, but you also need to accept this is not what the player base likes and wants right now. It's up to the devs to find out something that can please the player base and recognize they have evolved into a different direction.

[warped monolith]

yeah I really like this. Reminds me of Serious Sam. Lets you tweak many aspects of the game

[finite needle]

I am officially too old for that shit

[warped monolith]

thanks to modding, Doom is the one game I will always replay at least once a year

[warped monolith]

oh c'mon Serious Sam did custom difficulty settings decades ago

[finite needle]

Yeah but serious sam was played by pressing left mouse, s and picking a strafing direction of your choice, Doom requires a bit more brainpower

[warped monolith]

pressing left mouse, s, picking a strafing direction and... occasionally jumping or dashing?

[finite needle]

weapon swapping in eternal is kinda the whole point, but it has the MMO thing where you press shiny button on cd every time you can

[tacit glacier]

Anyway this is STALKER 2 chat
Not DOOM chat

[finite needle]

Fair

ANYWAY back to the point, lumen looks like shit on my pc and I hate it.

my opinion of the game is lowering the more I play it seems like lmao

[warped monolith]

I already had a low opinion on how pixellated and overly sharp everything looks if you disable upscaling

[finite needle]

Finally, my opinion on what mods I should use for Stalker 2 has dropped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8IYD4OovBw

My man really went on with the "yeah some of the mods are broken because of the new patch" exactly 30 seconds into the video

[warped monolith]

[deep lodge]

electrical anomalies are actually a threat this patch

and skeefa doing artifact inspect animation inside an electrical field doesnt really help when your in the middle of it with no safe spot

[true yew]

oh cool, what changed

[deep lodge]

1 shots you on shit armor

[true yew]

Wow, even the ones in gamma are more merciful

They 2-3 shots you in shit armor-

[warped monolith]

I do not like the fact that he automatically goes into the inspect animation

get out of the fucking anomaly field first, skeefa you dumbass

[odd fjord]

useless video

one of first mods mentioned reverts corevar to 1.0 release

prob same for reload mod

[finite needle]

yeah wasn't impressed by the stuff he suggested either, the a life mod looks like bogus smh

[odd fjord]

wtf heart of misery loot module

increased rewards also messes up cfg

reduced repair too

bro every mod here lol

wtf is the dogshit alife mod even

living zone? what a joke huh

[odd fjord]

was afraid it was extended oh myyy

im just gonna give him the views, even though i should comment saying halve the recommended mods reset 1.3 cfg to previous patches

and thus can create bugs and CTD

[deep lodge]

if you watch the final 20 seconds you will find a hidden sidorovich romance mod

[odd fjord]

where did not see it reee

[deep lodge]

ja its hidden need to search really hard trust

[finite needle]

Man am I glad I play only vanilla lmao

[eager solstice]

@merry moon (xsinx_pl) has been banned for reason: Compromised account/offering piracy

[icy basin]

I NEED TO POST A VIDEO OR ALGO KILLS ME

[hushed garden]

[dusty widget]

What does downloadsmm-dd.7z do?

[lyric schooner]

or because they chose a different method from the original trilogy and now it's harder to change course

(encounter director vs lair spawning)

[late kernel]

It's like most game trailers are pre-rendered to sell you said game

[golden hazel]

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

SKEEFA we need to save the president's daughter

[finite needle]

Magic

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/shook-muppet-meme-oh-no-gif-15103322

[dusty widget]

Whats the keybind for screws by default?

[ember lantern]

5

[dusty widget]

Ah ok seems I just dont have them then, cheers!

[split crown]

SKEEFA WE MUST RID THE ZONE OF ALL ITS COPPER WIRING; THEN ALL WILL BE WITNESS TO THE ZONE IN ITS SHINING GLORY

[indigo hemlock]

is the npc render radius fixed yet or no

[split crown]

Yes and no

[indigo hemlock]

so my guess is someone found a workaround but it was not fixed

[split crown]

Well there are a-life mods, but idk how well exactly they patch things up that are clearly still broken from GSC's end.

[indigo hemlock]

ok, i just want to shoot things more than 90m away

[finite needle]

Wrong franchise for that, definitely wrong game this.

[tacit glacier]

To be fair by the time that trailer released a build of the game already leaked so I'm willing to believe this was ingame

[molten orchid]

Phew

Just finished the game. In true STALKER fashion the last few main missions and combat is cock and ball torture

[finite needle]

The whole population of Belarus vs one single homeless ukrainian boy

[remote eagle]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1306683555488862319/1351304623406714971/SKEEFA.gif?ex=67de8140&is=67dd2fc0&hm=d3335f3ae85d8f71d45cf027b29842bddd05fab2452979a5b1db5eb2e63d6e04&=&width=400&height=225

[drowsy umbra]

they changed the slag heap korshunov cutscene

aaand game crashed

ffs game stability got worse

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/sseth-gif-27687542

[lime umbra]

i for a moment though
wow this might be a cool ending sequence
when suddenly
granite

[split crown]

Hey hey, People

lives rent free in my head

[split crown]

Oh, you don't like your daily helpings of memory leaks?

[drowsy umbra]

who are you and why are you 64 GB huge

[molten orchid]

God that was so brutal. At one point I stopped enjoying it and just kept going to finish the fucking game

[drowsy umbra]

YOU FATSO! (just kidding)

Cant wait for Stalker 3: Shadow Of Pripyats Sky

[split crown]

Sdalger 3: Return of the Copper Wiring

[golden hazel]

SoCCER 4: A Nu Blyat

[split crown]

[molten orchid]

Just waiting for the big Limansk reveal

[golden hazel]

Stalktuah 5: The C-Con Strikes Back

[molten orchid]

Then I will do another playthrough

[golden hazel]

Gonna be funny as fuck if they end up doing completely unrelated to the main story dlcs

OOPSIE YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE SEQUEL TO THE GAME

[drowsy umbra]

Stalker 76: Oopsie whoopsie we made an uwu doopsie bakka wakka OwO

[golden hazel]

Almost cyka west wild island

Cordon roooaaaads taaaake me hooooome to the plaaaace I BELONNNNNG West Wild Island

[lone badge]

i might just go back to efp chat

[tall pecan]

Is there a non 3D AM4 CPU that can run this game at 60fps at 1080p in populated areas like Rostok?

I was planning to get 5600x and finally make my 1600AF rest but even that struggles from what I see

[split crown]

Even with top of the line hardware, I'd imagine people will still find it difficult keeping the game at stable frames with all its frequent memory leaks and whatnot.

[golden hazel]

Memory Leaks WILL continue until morale improves

[pseudo falcon]

i got trolled
the best armor in game is in fact a monolith armor lmao

the right side is the item id

[warped monolith]

[split crown]

yeah well catch me still using the Sunrise Suit over it

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA YOU MUS NAT USE DE LONER GEAR SKEEFA YOU MAS USE DE SPRITE SUITS SKEEEFAAA

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/sam-hyde-hyde-wars-theatre-of-the-aire-gif-23835420

[golden hazel]

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

[lime umbra]

https://tenor.com/view/skif-stalker-2-gif-16760456356210208491

🇸 🇰 🇪 3️⃣ 🇫 🇦 moment

[split crown]

is that meant to be Skeefa

[lime umbra]

that is skeefa

[split crown]

I see. It's actually my first time seeing him since apparently mirrors and reflections of stalkers don't exist in the zone

[lime umbra]

[golden hazel]

[wanton arch]

i jate this guy

[rain dock]

I wish I had upgraded more weapons and armor before mid-game. Holy shit this is a slog.

[split crown]

Found the guy we stole copper wiring from

[golden hazel]

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/bro-own-himself-slapping-bald-gif-9894240325003590084

[molten orchid]

Operator Exo was my endgame armour

[proud ruin]

[true yew]

Skif's appearance might be an anomaly cuz this is what he always looks like whatever what armor he wore

[finite needle]

Isn't Fallout 76 the game the fanbase is clamouring Stalker to eventually become and/or implement alongside the single player campaign? It gots crafting, it gots survival, it gots ruins and weird shit.

Just replace ugly weapon with cool weapon and you're done, it's that easy.

[true yew]

inhales, exhales

[icy basin]

Real gun

[true yew]

What is this update man

[strange heath]

Its the update of all times

[west moth]

Once in A-Life time

[true yew]

Redeeming quality is that I can finally hear the joints of my exoskeleton

[finite needle]

Patch 1.3 being the one when they added missing audio to the game is kinda wild

[odd fjord]

stupid management

[finite needle]

All this patch really do to me is make electro anomalies even more deadly. Hot take, weird water was too powerful for how easy it is to actually grab, and stealth is somehow working now. Seems frame rate is more stable across the board but generally worse for me.

I didn't see any weird shit like the other guys have but I haven't modded my game because I was a sentient human being when Skyrim was new.

Let's just say that I only used patch fixes, Morrowloot and the likes and yet, mod mismanagement managed to create a situation where all the non essential NPCs were deleted from the game for whatever reason.

[wooden glade]

not that easy, I think. art design and whatnot in Fallout 76 is completely different than that of Stalker 2.

for all the shortfalls of HoC it still nails down art and animation really well.

[warped monolith]

He was just talking about making Stalker 2 a sandbox-ish open world co-op survival game like Fallout 76, not change its entire art direction to match Fallout's

[wooden glade]

ah, yeah good point

[nocturne smelt]

I'd hate to watch them even try to implement servers.

[warped monolith]

I'm not sure I'd be a fan of a live service model, especially with how messy (albeit fun) Fallout 76 is right now
If they ever decided to give us non-pvp open world modes in Stalker 2 I'd be happy with just a co-op campaign setting. Anything more than this would be trying to draw water from a rock

[warped monolith]

I mean, MP is coming so that's inevitably going to happen one way or another.

[true yew]

"30 FPS, not great, not terrible"

[nocturne smelt]

I know, I know. Doesn't mean I'm happy to see it.

I'd rather see them just wholly focus on the Single player then invest resources into a multiplayer mode. But I guess it's a selling point for them.

[warped monolith]

they promised it before release, so now they gotta do it

I'm actually excited for what might happen. OG Stalker MP was the kind of messy, laggy experience that I used to have when playing Quake 1, Quake 2 and Half-Life online

tickles a very specific nostalgic itch

I just hope they don't lean too hard on modern MP bullshit like battle passes, skins, events and other kinds of live service shit. Just give me a server browser, a couple different game modes and let me shoot fools

[finite needle]

Mine was a bit of a provocation, but I'm 100% sure that Fallout 76 is the game profile a lot of people wants from Stalker MP. I'm just not sure how good of an idea it actually is, but this is the end game.

My thought goes to the ULTRAKILL guy going "thank god you guys aren't making the game otherwise it would suck"

[warped monolith]

fallout 76 is not a good example of what a Stalker 2 MP could be imo

too live service-y and some features like basebuilding don't feel like they'd fit

[finite needle]

We got basebuilding in GAMMA, sort of. More like squatting, which fits the narrative a bit more than building whole ass compounds out of thin air.

Considering the fanbase is leaning more and more into the survival crowd, I fear a digression into that genre is either unavoidable or just so entrenched withinh the fanbase mindset that Fallout 76, or something along those lines, is kind of unavoidable.

Live service and battle passes because Grig needs a new bike

I'm honestly still on the edge whether I would like to have the game stay true to its original identity or if it needs to lean into the newer crowd demands at least a little. Seems they tried the first and a lot of people was genuinely baffled features contained in modded versions of the game were missing because, and that's the thing, that is Stalker in their mind. The OGs are pretty much outdated, and no one really cares about them (except if we talk about the Brain Scorcher or Swamps positioning) anymoire.

[drowsy umbra]

tbf I dont think so

the fact Stalker is so reduced in so many aspect doesnt make me think that way

[finite needle]

Look it that way, if you let players be the a life you don't need to figure out a life. If you want to be the 3 man loners squad squatting on the bus stop in front of the Train Hangar, than only moves into the Train Hangar whenever there's an emission and then goes back to the bus stop, now you can.

And btw I'm not saying GSC is going to release Stalker 76, just said that ironically Stalker 76 is a game the fanbase would came up with.

[midnight ridge]

I am afraid they won't release anything worth trying

[finite needle]

Who, gsc, bethesda, fans?

[midnight ridge]

GSC

They are lazy as fk

[warped monolith]

they bit off way more than they could chew, and then there was the whole war, Prague office fire and everything else

Game should've taken at least another year in development, but it was probably the Microsoft execs who pushed them to release on November 20th in the shitty state it was

and it's still not great, 4 months in.

[drowsy umbra]

I remember now why my company dis-recommending joining community servers

[midnight ridge]

Oh, one more typical crap enjoyer

[midnight ridge]

I observe GSC's doings since 2004 when most of news about producing Stalker you could get from gaming newspapers, they were promising lots of milestone features, big map being one part, not levels like in OG trilogy, whole original plot of SoC was drastically changed, and then 2007 began, SoC was slightly worser than you could imagine from their promises

[drowsy umbra]

I am not a crap enjoyer, I am a fulltime game tester and you are just wrong with lazy dev takes

[finite needle]

You don't understand, he was born in Pripyat the day the reactor did the funny thing

He just knows

[midnight ridge]

Okay, so not lazy but full of lies, better?

[warped monolith]

SoC was also very much not like what they promised. Huge chunks of map were missing, no vehicles, no seamless transition between areas
SoC was also extremely buggy and its own A-Life system was barely functional as well

people have selective memory and think SoC is like what Anomaly/GAMMA is nowadays instead of... just like Stalker 2 but with 2005 graphics

[midnight ridge]

Exactly, my friend, SoC was crap compared to their promises, promotional materials

And with lots of missing features

[finite needle]

So if a game is missing planned features it's automatically bad and the devs are lazy?

[midnight ridge]

Don''t forget about game breaking bugs

[finite needle]

Should I call Witcher 3 a shit game because they cut ice skating?

Or because they cut the whole ass Iorveth path?

[midnight ridge]

If they charge you with AAA game price for something that is not finished - yep

And mediocre at least

[proud ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-simpsons-gif-26796102

[finite needle]

My bad, I should have not taken the clear bait

I just wanted to point out that at some point Witcher 3 had ice skating in it

[drowsy umbra]

thats management, not devs

[warped monolith]

99% of games don't come out with the full list of intended features and content the devs planned. Fallout and Fallout 2 are great examples of this. Fallout 2 was supposed to have at least 4 (or was it 5) settlements that aren't in the full game, and a whole questline to find/rescue Sulik's sister

[proud ruin]

[midnight ridge]

It's not a bait, for me it's just a shame to sell such a low quality product for such a price, but I know everyone got own perspective

[undone summit]

that Sulik shit still pisses me off

[warped monolith]

We be good with fists, spear, big hammer or submachine gun. We be a handful.

[odd fjord]

we talking s2?

[drowsy umbra]

if you have that opinion, please develop a similar game in similar time with similar budget 🙂

its easy to talk BS when you are not part of the industry

[midnight ridge]

I don't have to be a baker to judge taste of the bread

[odd fjord]

yeah bro just accept they sold you the game half baked and early access? like be happy u payed for a semi finished game after all the years of delays bro wth

[drowsy umbra]

yeah but you only see the result, not the cost of the production

shame you cant enjoy the game but shut up talking shit about the devs

[odd fjord]

i payed for the result not the production, give me a finished cooked recipe not half a platter saying i payed for it to be full later

[midnight ridge]

Don't care, game is advertised as full functional high quality product for AAA price? It should be that way

[drowsy umbra]

I fully agree with that Shay

I have to deal with buggy shit all day

[finite needle]

Mfw the best racing sim game currently on the market IS an early access game with DLCs that you have to pay frull price for it

[odd fjord]

slap an early access on that bad boy and drop price by 20 bucks to 40? no one would bat a freaking eye

[midnight ridge]

Exactly, its's victim shaming as its finest

You cant't be picky about expensive game because devs would be sad

[odd fjord]

but as soon as you sell it as a a "gone gold" full fledge product with 60euro pricetag, i will judge u as that

[drowsy umbra]

its not the devs fault, thats on management that cant do scheduling

[midnight ridge]

Bruh, not devs fault?

They were producing this shit

[odd fjord]

i mean yeah true wtf is devman doing here he has no control, just a pawn

[drowsy umbra]

devs are working after the schedules they get by the producing management

[midnight ridge]

You just love to be screwed

[finite needle]

[drowsy umbra]

no, you are just talking bs

but you are welcome, I smile knowing it better

[midnight ridge]

Yeah, pay lots of cash for ufinished crap, then be happy they screwed you up

[molten osprey]

Not gonna lie, if you feel screwed by buying a game that no one forced you to buy, you are the problem.

[midnight ridge]

This is the way

[molten osprey]

You guys act like someone forced you to buy s2 while telling you its the greatest game ever. no one did that

[finite needle]

I still haven't seen a single squirrel

[midnight ridge]

You know, it's not easy to judge if game is good while every reviewer talk only good thing to not lose cooperation

[odd fjord]

no one is forcing you to pick that bakery! even tho they sell a recipe not seen for years from an old recipe, sucks that you bought it thats on you if its not good, shouldnt have gone into the bakery to get the uncooked cake (while the cake is being sold with full price but not like old recipe)

[proud ruin]

Plenty of reviews about its flaws

[midnight ridge]

Didn't you remember how it was looking when game was new?

[finite needle]

Lots of reviews talking about how it was buggy af and unoptimized

[midnight ridge]

Yea, they were talking about flaws but know as they are really game breaking

[molten osprey]

To know that s2 will be a buggy mess with a lot of problems doesnt need reviews, it needs a little bit of common sense and maybe 2 hours in the classic games to realize you wont get a polished shooter lmao

[trim iron]

https://tenor.com/view/kenan-thompson-kenan-thompson-snl-mmhmm-gif-704775788876592410

[midnight ridge]

Oh, okay, we cant't expect good quality product on this price tag

[finite needle]

I'm just pouring gasoline into the fire, for once I'm not the one doing the arguing

[midnight ridge]

Or at least stable product

[odd fjord]

stop defending a broken product for a full price wth man its that simple

[molten osprey]

You can, but if you dont get a good quality product then, its not the devs fault for your expectation. Maybe the marketing teams fault but not the devs lmao

[midnight ridge]

But whatever, I see you love to make excuses for poor condition of the industry

[odd fjord]

the item is not complete and being sold as one, is that oke? no matter how its produced, its scummy

[molten osprey]

im just trying to get my xp up so i finally lose this dumb white name

[midnight ridge]

Discussion with such a people doesn't make sense

It's easy to blame everyone but not the gsc and publisher

[proud ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/low-rank-shut-up-slap-gif-26286416

[molten osprey]

[warped monolith]

that's the shittiest kind of comeback you could possibly have lmao

[midnight ridge]

To sum up, I was just excepting a little more after years of development, having experience from 3 games and canceled first S2 version

[warped monolith]

what sort of dumbass argument is that.
You don't need to know how to build a car to have an opinion that one car is better than the other

[drowsy umbra]

I know, sorry, I am in a F76 raid rn

[finite needle]

Nah he was right about getting mad being called lazy out of the blue, but he didn't really help his case with that analogy

[warped monolith]

I don't live in the GSC office building but I'd say it's a combination of mismanagement, incompetence and all the extenuating circumstances we already know

[finite needle]

Bit of arrogance too

They clearly chewed more they could bite and didn't have the expertise to make shit work before deadline.

[molten osprey]

I definitely dont like the attitude of "the devs argh!". I call at least 50% of the shit were seeing is a result of xbox participation in the project

[midnight ridge]

They were arrogant since first oblivion lost news

[odd fjord]

game is ass atm be real

[warped monolith]

for better or worse though, this game wouldn't even exist without Microsoft's money.
Would that have been a better outcome? Maybe

[odd fjord]

just alt-f4 because i cant even with this ai atm

[warped monolith]

I'd rather it didn't exist compared to what we got

[odd fjord]

yeah man for sure just put it back i dont need this

if this is what i got for next 10 years i aint having it

put it back in the oven, cook it for 5 more and give me 5 solid years

add in co-op so i can play with my future kid with the tempo they got

[molten osprey]

Im happy it came out after all. I had fun. Because i didnt expect more than what we got because i already assumed it would release like that. Aint nobody forces me to play it now, but i guess people dont like that argument

[warped monolith]

I was enjoying it until all the cracks started showing.
And they started showing fast

[molten osprey]

Maybe i was just lucky with my cracks, or i was just more resistant to it. 90% of the flaws were just like "stalker, huh?"

[midnight ridge]

I didn't expect well polished game too, but what I've received was beyond all low expectations

[molten osprey]

at least the flaws i saw

[warped monolith]

I can chalk most stuff up to 'stalker being stalker' but the memory leaks and some of the glitches were too weird to give a pass

[midnight ridge]

No a-life at all was not a stalker being stalker thing

[molten osprey]

i dont know i just expected a steaming pile of shit, and i got a steaming pile of shit with a fairly nice story. i know why i have a lowbar for games nowadays, i wouldnt enjoy anything

[warped monolith]

a-life is something I care very little about

[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&

[warped monolith]

I have no interest in following NPCs around and see how they behave in the world

[proud ruin]

the lack of content and busted ai is worse then no alife

[finite needle]

I can live without a stalker squad moving from cordon to garbage and stay at the same spot for the rest of my run. I can't stand battles being bad and enemies spawning to execute me in the open.

[warped monolith]

Max Booba can sit in Zalissya forever for all I care

[molten osprey]

99% of the people couldve been fooled into believing that a life exists, with some random ass scripted encounters in the open world. people dont realize that sometimes you would run 3 hours trough cop without any crazy a life encounter

[finite needle]

btw that example is pretty much what a life is doing in Radiophobia

[midnight ridge]

Notorious problem

[warped monolith]

I keep saying that about the OG games' systems. They're absolutely nothing like what people think A-Life is like. Ppl got spoiled by gammanomaly and its 10+ years of tweaking and refining

and even then, the most interesting thing that could happen is a group of loners walk out of base, die to an anomaly or to mutants, and then you go "oh no... anyway"

[midnight ridge]

But still, call of pripyat ai and living squads were more advanced than in 2024 stalker

[molten osprey]

The classics felt pretty alive and filled. Alive and filled with dumb idiots that i dont really miss.

[midnight ridge]

Oh, and waiting for CNPP

They were promising being able to walk to the CNPP till beginning of the game

[warped monolith]

My biggest pet peeve with Stalker 2 has been fixed ages ago, but I don't have SSD space to install it again. Once I finish some games I'll give it another spin

and hope there's no new weird shit that makes me stop playing again

[finite needle]

Fair, I stil have it but I'm waiting for next patch, 1.3 kinda killed my mood.

[warped monolith]

what did 1.3 do?

[finite needle]

Added missing sounds? Idk, nothing.

[midnight ridge]

It didn't improve anything in noticable way?

[finite needle]

broke some mods

[molten osprey]

Im just waiting till i have time again. Too many games on the list and s2 will need 20-30 h for another run. Maybe i will just use old savegames but we will see

[midnight ridge]

Still waiting for SDK

[finite needle]

Fixed a lot of bugs, that's for sure. Oh and the memory leak for inventory, that was big.

[midnight ridge]

What was the funniest thing about S2 for me - on my rig it was working well on high preset while lots of my friends struggled to acquire medium setting with better PCs

[warped monolith]

assuming they work with the version differences

[midnight ridge]

However, I've had lots of bugs in quest and the game itself

[finite needle]

Now, let it be clear, my opinion of the game is mostly positive because I like the single player campaign, writing and characters, which were the most glaring problems the OG trilogy had. Gunplay by itself is nice, and the world/immersion is comparable to the originals. It's just the rest that I ended up disliking, including gunfights.

[molten osprey]

Oh no i didnt think about that

[warped monolith]

oh I bet I will enjoy this game thoroughly.
It was just that I could not be arsed to deal with the weapon swap glitch back in 1.0 lol

[molten osprey]

I guess 1.03 saves wont work anymore fuck

[odd fjord]

they do

[finite needle]

Sadly, the weapon spawning anomaly is gone

[molten osprey]

Without Problems?

[odd fjord]

i still have working 1.0 saves

[midnight ridge]

And weapons of enemies spawning in your hands

[finite needle]

That hasn't happened to me in a while, I think at least since 1.2

[odd fjord]

i got 1.0
1.0.3
1.1
1.2
1.3
all work

[midnight ridge]

Oh, I was strugglin with it in 1.1

[molten osprey]

alright then, i finished my game asap when they announced after 1.0.3 there will be ai patches

[midnight ridge]

I've lost plenty of gunfights because of spawning broken rifle with empty mag when encountering exo guys

[finite needle]

I've even had zalissya fire correctly in 1.3. I suppose seeing progress is making me more optimistic than most people.

[molten osprey]

i figured that will break a lot, which it did from what i heard

[warped monolith]

It stole my guns and replaced them with broken glorpshit

[finite needle]

Just, I grew tired of the overworld fights. The fact that one of the fixes was to reduce frequency should be telling.

[midnight ridge]

Maybe because it's fixing things that should work till day 1

Hope they'll add nightvisiom someday

[finite needle]

Hey, I understand your pov, but better fix later than not at all and run with the money. At least in my book.

[molten osprey]

At some point i just ran away out of vision. not possible all the time but most of it

[finite needle]

Since I've already spent the money, I'd rather them fix it than leave it broken.

[molten osprey]

i didnt even bother wasting ammo or any resources for fights that werent quest related

[midnight ridge]

Oh, and binoculars, and more sleeping points

[finite needle]

Binoculars are useless until they adjust spawn distance. More sleeping points, I agree. Also, please add NVG. I beg.

[warped monolith]

I'd be happier if the flashlight weren't weaker than the Amnesia: The Bunker wind-up one

[molten osprey]

Did they change anything about the lightning in patches? like that you could see nothing in some rooms?

[finite needle]

It's a bit better, my issues are with outside visibility. I've done the Malachite fight against Ward during the night and good lord I couldn't see SHIT.

[warped monolith]

I wonder if eye adaptation is still cancer

[finite needle]

plus one of the goobers spawned inside a car and I was having trouble killing him. Unfortunately, he spawned with a LMG.

[midnight ridge]

Probably still simmilar to eye adaptation of average teenage basememt enjoyer

[molten osprey]

My Biggest issue was the Adapting. Couldnt see shit when leaving a dark building and vice versa. Nothing broke my immersion more

[warped monolith]

This has been the bane of my existence since Bad Company 2

[molten osprey]

I leave my room rarely, but brother just because you were in a bunker for 30 min you wont go blind when seeing the Sun again

[midnight ridge]

However, enemies could see you without any struggle in the darkest night

[warped monolith]

when will devs learn that this is a bad thing

[molten osprey]

When will devs also learn that this weird blur when youre in sights is bad

[midnight ridge]

Probably UE5's gremlin

[molten osprey]

My eyes do that on their own. No need for it

[midnight ridge]

Curious, they've finally fixed bug with infinite rain in pripyat?

[warped monolith]

I'm not sure I noticed that... I assume you're not talkin about derp of field

[molten osprey]

I think it is Depth of field? im not really sure

[warped monolith]

is it when it blurs out the outsides of your peripheral view when you're aiming? It's probably depth of field. Can just turn that off iirc.

most post-processing effects are awful and I turn them all off

[molten osprey]

Yeah i always turn it off, i just dont know why people use it anyway. My eyes create that on their own when i look trough a sight in a game, not as intense as irl obviously but still

But to everyone their own ig

[drowsy umbra]

what I do wonder, is there a specific schedule for emissions?

because sometimes I get 2 emissions within 1 hour and sometimes 5 hour long nothing

[prime thunder]

looks gorgeous

[warped monolith]

... which one are you talking about Stalker 2 is easy to install, just buy the game and click one button

[drowsy umbra]

this is the stalker 2 chat channel as the name suggests

[jovial berry]

probably scripted emissions. Emissions should normally spawn between 2-3 hours of playing ish

the mechanics are tied to weather events

[drowsy umbra]

so its not like a random value that gets diced every x minute

I assume then its more of a weather scenario that is bound to the "dynamic weather" having different probabilities to appear after the current weather event

[hallow plume]

Guys, still have no bleeding:(
I have deleted all mods from the ~mods folder to test
And no bleeding
This problem occurred after the game updated to 1.2
Please help

[drowsy umbra]

update the game to 1.3

delete all mods, verify game integrity, start a new savegame and delete the others first

[hallow plume]

I am aleady on 1.3, the problem still exists

[hallow plume]

You mean reinstall and start anew game?:)

[drowsy umbra]

only reinstall if its necessary, just verify gameintegrity

[hallow plume]

I will try to verify first, thanks

verifying game integrity didn't help

[high spindle]

the AI system is so advanced that it can simulate this man being a fucking idiot

[golden hazel]

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

[high spindle]

bravo GSC Game World

[warped monolith]

[odd fjord]

same ish energy

[golden hazel]

[delicate bison]

hmm, given the 1.3 patch just dropped. Figured I'd maybe give things a go again. How's the game nowadays compared to release?

heard there are still performance issues and no real A-life, though...

[golden hazel]

There is slightly less memory leaks now

[west moth]

What if there is no real A-life? Never has been?

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-heart-of-chernobyl-сталкер-сталкер-2-stalker-stalker-2-gif-4942242057245832811

[delicate bison]

does the zone actually feel a little bit alive now? Haven't really followed things since release

[lunar gyro]

no

[delicate bison]

well, that kinda sucks. Going to wait then

[golden hazel]

[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&

[delicate bison]

no roadmap either apparently

[golden hazel]

[warped monolith]

I'm good with a lack of roadmap. Game's development has been bumpy enough as it is. Getting tied to a roadmap of promised updates is just gonna make things worse for everyone

just let them cook

[golden hazel]

[delicate bison]

not a dealbreaker that there isn't one, but no A-life still stings pretty hard. And the key rebind issue is still around too, I see

[heavy hedge]

not a great move promising a roadmap to start with tbh, i get that they were scrambling to buy back any shred of good will but if they do publish one the likelihood of shooting themselves in the foot is high

and now they've kind of shot themselves in the foot even promising one

[delicate bison]

their communication has been kinda crappy tbh. I don't particulary care, but these days there's many studios that are much more open and clear. Not necessarily in terms of ETAs, but just information in general

[warped monolith]

roadmap implies ETA, and considering they're making a mess of things, I'm fairly confident they wouldn't be able to meet whatever goals they set

[delicate bison]

I haven't looked at the game since a few weeks after release. The fact that I'm kinda searching for information here instead of, you know, official channels is already a bit of a tell their PR has issues

[warped monolith]

It's a shitty situation overall and my vote is to keep the shittening to a minimum

[heavy hedge]

ummmm theyve been communicating plenty havent u been reading all their cool poetry? the zone is like, a thing, and stuff, man

[heavy hedge]

of course since votes dont matter then the only option i have left is to shitpost

[golden hazel]

They couldn't even release the last patch on time

[warped monolith]

1.3? When were they planning to release it?

[golden hazel]

A week before it released

[delicate bison]

eh, this could slice either way. If a bunch of writers or artists in that studio don't have shit to do while everyone else is chugging away, it's a bit weird to be apply criticism on them doing extra stuff on the side

we see a game studio as uniform but it rarely is

[warped monolith]

eh. Just a week, not too bad

[golden hazel]

Idk, that doesn't bode well for actual content patches ngl

[heavy hedge]

i would prefer them being paid to remain silent and doodle in their notebooks until more concrete progress has occurred, as well as other press releases, but my preferences have no real impact on anything anyway

[golden hazel]

The 1st dlc is gonna get added and hamster somehow dies before the zalissya quest

[warped monolith]

true, but I can take a week's delay after the game's release got postponed 3 times and it still came out a stinking mess

it's clear they're struggling so I'd rather just leave them to it

[golden hazel]

[delicate bison]

I'll mentally check out for a couple of months again, I guess

[warped monolith]

they already got my money so there's nothing more I can or would do for them their turn to do their part now.

[golden hazel]

Sergey probably took all the money and ran and left like 2 devs working on it

[delicate bison]

or play GAMMA

[heavy hedge]

what the hells a gamma

[warped monolith]

a type of radiation

[delicate bison]

only a true gamma-male would understand

[golden hazel]

What's Bruce Banner gotta do with it

[split crown]

I agree, but I just hope GSC continues cooking and doesn't just abruptly stop someday before finishing the game

[golden hazel]

Imagine the 1st dlc gets stuck in development hell for 10 years

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/jesus-mcride-gif-20992854

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/looking-at-distance-strelok-stalker-stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl-gif-9607769205614768453

[heavy hedge]

lore accurate stalker release framerate

[golden hazel]

[nocturne smelt]

If it leads to another anomaly type mod I'd honestly be ok with it.

[golden hazel]

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

[west moth]

Keeping the shittening to a minimum will bless us with a life

[warped monolith]

[violet void]

lol

[dusky drum]

Most of the stashes i've been coming across lately have been pretty ass, just two boxes of ammo and a broken Makarov or something

Is this default STALKER or do i possibly have a mod messing up my loot spawns?

[peak eagle]

Few stashes are gonna contain fully working firearms/armor/attachments

[odd fjord]

depends what mods you got?

[heavy hedge]

most stashes in S2 are just breadstops

the harder/more annoying it is to get access to the more likely it has things of actual value

[golden hazel]

This is why you find copper wire and steal it from people, it's more worth

[hallow plume]

Even game reinstall didn't help
Its crazy

[proud ruin]

[golden hazel]

[proud ruin]

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-tv-stalker-build-tv-stalker-build-build-gif-3756457842748169719

[proud ruin]

How did you get footage of my dlss gameplay

[golden hazel]

Monolithtube

[split crown]

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

[proud ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/ioneemno-word-really-reallythough-damn-gif-19505406

[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&

[verbal arch]

Cant ever play this game with my i3 rx580 bye

[lime burrow]

stalker 2 is not canon

[golden hazel]

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

[slow verge]

Don’t worry guys I just made stalker 2 gamma and uploaded it to moddb

It’s available to download right now and has over 875000 different weapons to choose from

[remote eagle]

totally not a scam fr fr

cant wait for mods to replace granite squad guns with one like this (they where locked long enough to become hikkas)

[wanton arch]

So ... for a real S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ... its still not a thing to try then ?

[odd fjord]

stalker 2?

[proud ruin]

[proud ruin]

be poor Ukrainian
go to zone to try and get rich and escape
gunned down by army vet with anime ak

[warped monolith]

what even is "a real STALKER"

[fallen iron]

@wanton arch _ _||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​|| _ _ _ _ _ _ https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/789624196615372815/1159979001989845002/slap_1.mp4?ex=66073f21&is=65f4ca21&hm=f62cbd201a0c93cc5e23f39d1721ad9c6ddb27dbaa8102469a7adf383056aaf1&

[remote eagle]

which are under monolith control

[honest brook]

does this have proper A-life yet?

[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&

[honest brook]

ah

welp, sadness. if it doesn't have it by now i doubt it will ever have it proper

[warped monolith]

They've been slowly improving it but don't expect GAMMAnomaly levels of complexity just yet

[honest brook]

oh no no

no expectations on that, just to match the trilogy

[warped monolith]

they also have to fix all sorts of other shit going on with the game, doesn't look like they can focus 100% on the AI system

[honest brook]

i know gamma (or even base anomaly) isn't actually that like the official games

[warped monolith]

it kinda already is similar to the originals, in a way

[remote eagle]

playing stalker 2 is like playing stalker CoP but at big fucking locations

and more running

and thank fucking good its not like in CS

[molten osprey]

All you need is 7 Tons of energy drinks and a dream

[remote eagle]

nah just 7 Tons of drinking water

[molten osprey]

7 Tons of Energy and 2 Tons of mystery meat to eat because you get hungry every 4 cans

[remote eagle]

thats why u take drinking water

no hungry and stamina restoration

[wanton arch]

its the guy, witch in its young doomer middle European life, first saw the gritty film of almost meaninglessness of daily life, and then read to the bitter end, the gritty zone death trap story of Red ... and then saw ... saw the first trailer and an image was carved in his mind ... an image, NO ... an thought to die for ! ....

[warped monolith]

[wanton arch]

... and then sitting about 10 min. slav-squatting at an edge of a concrete block imagining being this dude :

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/dies-of-cringe-cringe-gif-20747133

[remote eagle]

[wanton arch]

still ... I had the same feeling as some of the reviewers pointed out, that the game was also rushed to the market as badly as the first game. I do not think the original concept of it, as dug out trough the years would be anything better than we got in the end, but I did expect something more would be achieved in the game, of what an great potential it had in their original concepts. ... sadly, LostAlpha somehow doesnt hit the right spot for me neither. Witch is why I hesitate to buy it ...

[undone summit]

Wake me up when I can sprint forever without needing drinks past mid game

[warped monolith]

yes, unfortunately the game was released unfinished even after 3 delays. They needed more time to complete the game because of all the difficult circumstances they were in

[dark pewter]

just install a mod for it

[wanton arch]

Makes me think, if they would rather turn to the fans at that point with a kickstart like pledge, how many of you would be fine with that ... kinda like the KingdomCome started out when investors turned them down. Cause I wouldn't mind pledging for such a cause ...

[warped monolith]

yeah bro, just cheat

[dark pewter]

he wants to sprint forever, what besides cheating would do that

[molten osprey]

More energy drinks

[dark pewter]

he said without needing drinks

[molten osprey]

MOOOOORE ENERGY DRINKS. ITS CALLED NON STOP FOR A REASON

[warped monolith]

enough stamina-boosting artifacts I imagine

but they nerfed some of those, didn't they?

[undone summit]

Moreso they changed how the endurance attribute works
It boosts Stam Regen rather than quantity

[icy basin]

Real STALKER is Strelok starting the journey by walking out of Sidorovich's bunker only wearing poop-boots and brandishing a poopshit PM
Then killing God (C-Con)

So really

STALKER is a JRPG.

[finite needle]

If you get shot at constantly weird ball gives you infinite stamina

[warped monolith]

fascinating

[molten osprey]

Stalker 2 is neon Genesis evangelion in chernobyl cant change my mind

[true yew]

Which one is fucking shinji

None of the protags were screaming bitches

[finite needle]

Well, Scar eventually does yell a lot

[molten osprey]

||Who shinji is, is a pretty good question. It could be Skif given that he sometimes seems confused on what to do. The thing that makes both connect for me is that in both Medias, someone wants to make all humans some weird soulgoo so theyre all connected. Its fps neon genesis evangelion||

[remote eagle]

hardcore jrpg because u cant assemble a party of 4 retards

[warped monolith]

GET IN THE ANOMALY SHINJI
OR SCAR WILL

[remote eagle]

SKEEFA WE NEED TO BACKTRACK TO STARTING LOCATION TO GET THE BEST ENDING SKEEFA

[finite needle]

Gotta do this long ass procedural X Lab dungeon thingy and your PM gets upgrated to the best weapon in the game

[dark pewter]

is there a way to disable the annoying constant rattling background sound or whatever, i already disable music and combat music

[finite needle]

Technically you do in CoP

[remote eagle]

but we talking about SoC

[molten osprey]

i mean, technically, strelok has a party

[finite needle]

In the modded versions you can hire some people, and those are apparently the Canon Stalkers, so...

[molten osprey]

ghost for example, dont know the other names

[finite needle]

Wasn't Mole part of it too? an the Doctor

[molten osprey]

yeah see

he even has a healer in his party lmao

I CAST MILITARY FIRST AID KIT

[slow verge]

Stalker 2 severs are going offline in April

[warped monolith]

what servers

[west moth]

A-Life servers

[warped monolith]

[uncut aurora]

should i lie on stryder or tell him the truth ?

[molten osprey]

I lied to him.

[trim hull]

Hahaha

[tall pecan]

what the hell did i do to my game bruh

[golden hazel]

Left it in the oven too long

[warped monolith]

dear lord

[molten osprey]

Sin city: heart of chernobyl

[fading monolith]

Anyone getting this weird glitch that makes the psy-radiation, hallucinations and music keep happening repeatedly after completing the swamps zone ?

[remote eagle]

its ptsd bro

[golden hazel]

[nocturne smelt]

Have you tried reloading a save or restarting the game? And are you out of the swamp?

I know the audio glitch happening from sphere in lesser zone goes away when you leave the zone.

[fading monolith]

I dont have access to older saves anymore lol

[nocturne smelt]

I mean make a save and reload it. Sometimes just loading fixes some of the audio glitches.

Like the radio static after being contact by someone on the radio.

[fading monolith]

Trued that, still didnt work lol

[uncut osprey]

m

bot

[dark pewter]

Does someone know how to get rid of this weird soundeffect?

it plays at least once per minute and is really annoying

[split crown]

lmao what is it even from

I've never heard that before in my game

[golden hazel]

He's been marked for copper wire extraction clearly

[woven sluice]

Is it me or is stalker 2 way to boring and has a dumb story

[remote eagle]

its u

[golden hazel]

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

[split crown]

I like Stalker 2, but I wish the zone didn't feel nearly as barren and lifeless as it does; the story is also alright, but like with most writing it can also use more touch-ups.

[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&

[woven sluice]

Damn

[woven sluice]

I just find it hard to believe our main character goes to the zone because his mid ass kitchen got blown up

2/10 kitchen

[golden hazel]

He probably had an air fryer

[woven sluice]

Also didnt understand spark and stuff

[split crown]

bro really said "ayo, someone somewhere FUCKED my apartment; I'm out to get REVENGE"

[woven sluice]

Lmfao

[woven sluice]

Either skif is a madman or just done with life

[split crown]

at first I thought Spark might be cool, but then I just realized they're edgy rebellious/anarchy boys

so basically freedom before freedom sold out

[woven sluice]

fr ward and duty all the way

[split crown]

ayup

god I wish GSC didn't shaft both Duty & Freedom so hard in Sdalger 2.

Both factions seem to be just former shells of themselves

[woven sluice]

Fr

Also i didnt come across any freedomers

[golden hazel]

Duty being oppressed by bandits in 2021 smh

[split crown]

You'll find random grps of them patrolling here and there, but they're mainly in Rostok.

[woven sluice]

A

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/itstommylove-tommylove-tommy-stalker-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-gif-9348303416213118815

[golden hazel]

"We have SIN at home"

[split crown]

imagine if GSC randomly tosses SIN into the game at some point as DLC

[golden hazel]

I mean with how sci fi powers are possible now in the series by characters, I would believe it

That's probably what's happening in Limansk

Kalancha with his big head the size of a brain scorcher antenna creating a new type of controller and they end up becoming Sin

[split crown]

Kalancha straight up the 2nd coming of Yakub

https://tenor.com/view/yakub-glaze-lebron-james-lebron-gif-7450672780557101522

[golden hazel]

True

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/giant-bomb-jeff-gerstmann-bigger-mario-party-gif-25290782

[golden hazel]

Imagine a superpowered Scar with burer abilities and invincibility and the ability to jump like Korshunov with his exo

Oh I should probably specify Scar(Clear Sky)

Not that bum Marshall

[true yew]

A superpowered Scar

[golden hazel]

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

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/based-kneel-dark-souls-gif-24182729

[magic hawk]

hey guys, how about NPCs AI in v1.3 ?

[golden hazel]

They get stuck in doors less

[proud ruin]

goty

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/sseth-gif-27687542

[proud ruin]

Thank you to the generous members of the merchants guild

[golden hazel]

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

[magic hawk]

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-shadow-of-chernobyl-chornobyl-itstommylove-gif-14403985658201438399

[magic hawk]

has anyone played 'desolation' mod? It seems to still in testing. I'm curious about how this mod is

[split crown]

yea it's neat - it's also a lot more punishing than vanilla Sdalger 2.

[golden hazel]

Doubt it's more than 1.0.0

[proud ruin]

Woe memory leaks be upon ye

[golden hazel]

I just died to another infinite spawner

I guess that's the new bug they introduced this patch

[sudden raven]

desolation's moddb page seems long dead

[golden hazel]

So that's why they call him Warlock

[tacit glacier]

[golden hazel]

I noticed a few more things now, the penetration stat is gone and you can't skip cutscenes anymore

[tacit glacier]

https://tenor.com/view/chris-pine-oscars-tears-clap-clapping-gif-3819356

[tacit glacier]

Penetration stat still exists, it's just been renamed to Handling

[golden hazel]

[tacit glacier]

Like, that's the entire change

Under the hood it's the same stat as before
Above the hood it's like you replaced a Toyota with a Mazda

But only in looks

[golden hazel]

good ol rebadging

[tacit glacier]

I'm pretty sure the idea is to replace the Penetration stat with Handling as time goes on

Wonder if this means ballistics will start to matter

[golden hazel]

I sure fucking hope not

In a sea of tacticoomer games, the tiered weapon system was a breath of fresh air

[tacit glacier]

Ah yes
I love having one AR that does shit damage because its a slapped together SOFMOD and another AR that's called "CLUSTERFUCK" that does high damage because its a sniper rifle.
Who cares both use the same ammo type

[golden hazel]

It's peak

[tacit glacier]

Or that under he hood the other just has a better accuracy and distance stat

I remember my uniques from shadow of chernobyl

[golden hazel]

Combat Chaser my beloved

[tacit glacier]

That one stash in the garbage tunnel that had an entire Viper Mk5 but switched to 9x18

[golden hazel]

Wasn't there also a viper powered by an artifact

[tacit glacier]

Probably

[golden hazel]

I know the combat chaser was powered by one

[tacit glacier]

The point is, the unique variants were usually weapons with static attachments or upgraded stats that give boost to accuracy or handling.
But nothing to the point of SOFMOD vs CLUSTERFUCK that deal vastly different damage because of a name change.

[golden hazel]

You're literally describing the combat chaser

Exposed never played SoC of Chernobyl smh my head

[tacit glacier]

Never found the Combat Chaser myself

[golden hazel]

Calling the time police to revoke your medical license

[tacit glacier]

Bruh

Combat Chaser at least has an in universe explanation as to why it does more damage. It's upgraded with a gravi

[golden hazel]

[tacit glacier]

CLUSTERFUCK is literally just a sniper tuned AR416

No arts, no other changes

[golden hazel]

Yeah that one's a bit of a bum move on their part

[tacit glacier]

It's literally a case of "This Steel Sword deals 24dmg because its a regular Steel Sword, and this Steel Sword deals 120 dmg because it's named 'The Stinger of Whiterun'" in Skyrim

I haven't played that game in a bit so the naming is random for the sake of it, but that's exactly how it looks like

[golden hazel]

Legit they could've just copy pasted the gun lore from the combat chaser and it would've been more believable

[tacit glacier]

True. Or change the caliber

Like the unique desert eagle Gordon Freeman had.

[golden hazel]

Can't even pick up the crowbar

Damnit all there's still a memory leak in Zalissya

[tacit glacier]

I am waiting for November to see how much changes

[golden hazel]

Maybe by then Zalissya will be functional alongside the quest

[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&

[jovial berry]

Lol, lmao even

[golden hazel]

This is what peak A-Life 2.0 looks like

[tacit glacier]

Nah, that's just Grok's despawner

They seen it in GAMMA and decided to implement it into STALKER 2 to reduce performance impact.

[golden hazel]

Sent straight to France

[tacit glacier]

Straight up fr https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/925027260380102706/1351157370595709053/2025-03-17.mp4?ex=67e1ec9c&is=67e09b1c&hm=8cd80bdc64c46c53302046328e785364e341098e7b3d8597bd0aed7d7f8079c3&

[golden hazel]

He didn't even fuck around, he just found out

[tacit glacier]

They even copied the "disappear into the ground"

[tacit glacier]

Me in 2027 finally redownloading the game once the last patch for the second DLC comes out

[golden hazel]

First*

Second DLC still won't be playable by then I refuse to believe it

[tacit glacier]

https://tenor.com/view/lackoffaith-disturbing-darthvader-starwars-gif-4883104

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/looking-at-distance-strelok-stalker-stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl-gif-9607769205614768453

[remote eagle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1306683555488862319/1351304623406714971/SKEEFA.gif?ex=67e1cd00&is=67e07b80&hm=46c660a09fabf56bcce4c6845e9d1ef42705d5c6c9938f69859be96437ae3612&

[golden hazel]

Me when it gets revealed in DLC 1 that SKEEFA was actually the real leader of Clear Sky

[remote eagle]

SKEEFA the only survival monolithian from CNPP strelok massacre cause he was shitting in toilet atm

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/one-peak-one-piece-one-piece-cry-its-so-peak-gif-13413926760013023520

[tacit glacier]

"I am Skeefa Lebediev"

[jovial berry]

kek

[crimson viper]

https://tenor.com/view/отчим-balbespendosdurnoi-gavrikogv-bebra-gif-26566027

[proud ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/embed-no-no-embed-megamind-megamind-meme-gif-25261934

[remote eagle]

[proud ruin]

[abstract oar]

i just use a kitted out kharod

ive also got the texan for emergencies

[icy basin]

You know what was weirdly the best time I had in S2
Going into a Pripyat apartment complex and getting nostalgia because my grandparents on my dad's side lived in a nearly identical place

And then clearing the floors

[tepid anchor]

dude what on earth is this thing with 50 series and shadows

does anyone know how to fix it yet? 😭

[nocturne smelt]

Is it card specific?

[tepid anchor]

used to have a 30 series and it was fine, ever since upgrading certain game engines have red shadows

[frail oyster]

Did you uninstall your 30 series graphic drivers then install the 50 series ones?

[nocturne smelt]

Should be the same drivers. Nvidia shares them between cards.

[frail oyster]

It's still recommended to always re-up your drivers anytime you upgrade your GPU

[nocturne smelt]

Although idk if you'd have to reinstall the driver to enable new functionality.

[frail oyster]

Had to do it for my new 3070TI when I was getting rid of my 2080TI

Kept crashing any time I played games for too long, now it works fine

[nocturne smelt]

Yeah, I'd say that's accurate. Good to have a fresh install.

[tepid anchor]

yeah there's no trace of any old drivers anywhere, just double checked

[nocturne smelt]

If you want to be absolutely certain you can use DDU and wipe them completely.

[tepid anchor]

might have to do that and give it a try

[west moth]

If you have a modern gfx card make sure Windows is running in the correct power mode (max performance) because they need lots of juice

[tepid anchor]

it's weird though because it seems like it's only R.E.P.O and Stalker 2 that do it, haven't run into it in any other games yet

[frail oyster]

Huh
This was all I could find for a seemingly similar issue, but unfortunately it doesn't look like they found a fix

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/geforce-graphics-cards/5/557949/5070-ti-red-mesh-in-shadows/

[tepid anchor]

just assumed that it was an issue that nvidia needed to fix in a new driver update

ah damn that sucks

[frail oyster]

I would also try rolling back to an earlier driver, as I have heard NVIDIA had issues with their newest one, though I'm not sure if they've fixed it yet. I find driver 566.14 to be the best one for me and performance

[tepid anchor]

thank you for that, fingers crossed it fixes it a bit

[warped monolith]

[molten osprey]

[proud ruin]

[pearl shadow]

idk what channel is appropriate to ask in so I'll just use this, does anyone know if anyone is working on a playable female stalker mod? Sort of similar to L.A.S.S. that exists for Anomaly?

[nocturne smelt]

For stalker 2? It will be awhile before anything like that is possible. We still don't have access to the source code or any official modding tools.

[frail oyster]

Unfortunately, I don't think that will happen until we have the modding SDK, since that would require model swaps and a decent chunk of coding

[pearl shadow]

ah that makes sense, thanks

[hardy trail]

its alive, check their Discord

[mellow dove]

Finally coming back to Grok's place after a few years hiatus, and finally dumping time into Stalker 2. I just got to Rostok for the first time, via story.. I'm supposed to be playing this game at 4 FPS, right?

[icy basin]

I mean you should be used to populated places like Rostok being FPS hoggers

[mellow dove]

I'm playing with a 2080super, and the game likes to memory leak and eat up all 32gbs of my ram. So, wasn't sure if it was just NPC dense, or I had been playing for too long and needed to free up my resources again

[finite needle]

Both, game has a lot of leaks

[warped monolith]

4 fps? Damn you swimming in framerate, share some with the rest of us

[golden hazel]

Heart of Memory Leaks

[remote eagle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1306683555488862319/1351304623406714971/SKEEFA.gif?ex=67e1cd00&is=67e07b80&hm=46c660a09fabf56bcce4c6845e9d1ef42705d5c6c9938f69859be96437ae3612&

[finite needle]

They really recreated the original experience faithfully

[nocturne smelt]

Janky AF?

[warped monolith]

janky, laggy, buggy, glitchy, performs horribly

[nocturne smelt]

It's shadow all over again.

[warped monolith]

everything a STALKER fan could possibly want

[late kernel]

https://tenor.com/view/reddit-soylent-soy-soyface-nerd-gif-11917812235578842485

[finite needle]

They just switched the ass button from animations to lighting

[sturdy sluice]

Hi

[bright owl]

[west moth]

We don't need AI, we need A-Life

[warped monolith]

we need a fully functional game first

[heavy hedge]

looking forward to seeing what s2 is like when it leaves early access and hits 1.0, my oldest will probably be 5 by then (he's almost 2)

[finite needle]

1st DLC will have a life (Clear Sky 2), 2nd DLC will actually release the game as it should have been (CoP). Your boy will be 5 by then for sure.

Anyway sound, animations, actual gunplay, atmosphere and overall feeling are ok. The story is very nice for Stalker standards. The rest of the game isn't really there now, is it?

[odd fjord]

year 2 dlc is limansk, can quote me on that in nov 2027

[warped monolith]

at this point the only thing I'm expecting is for the multiplayer to be as shitty as possible so I can play it for some laughs

[finite needle]

Then the prophecy will be completed, they really would have remade the trilogy once again.

Maybe by that time that Fallout 4 New Vegas mod will actually be out too ( )

[nocturne smelt]

It better be Limansk. The fact it isn't in the game now feels like a betrayal.

[golden hazel]

HoC tuah in 2027

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-bandit-stalker-bandit-banditcopter-gif-14386725360396086584

[odd fjord]

2dlc planned before it

limansk is 3rd

[remote eagle]

one about cold island i know,what about 2nd ?

[drowsy umbra]

cold island?

[outer depot]

They probably want to completely remake Limansk from scratch given how it doesn’t exist at all IRL and originally it’s kind of a fucking mess of a design/layout

[nocturne smelt]

It had such a good ominous feeling about it though. One of my fav areas.

[outer depot]

It’s meant to be a secret little town built by POWs to house what’s effectively a sealed off population of scientists and the radio research facility that looks like a mini rainbow array

It’s gonna be weird and gloomy

But yeah probably just wasn’t in the cards since it’s going to need more work than just being remade and rotated 45 degrees

Cool as it looked it’s basically a linear dungeon crawl

[golden hazel]

Being remade and rotated 46 degrees

[nocturne smelt]

Would be nice if we got dead city also but I won't hold my breath on that one since it never made it into the games.

[outer depot]

tbh I wish we got meadow back in one of the big open areas

[crystal aurora]

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lrKeNXLZBPw&si=HAIJBytjwUVrrfG-

[outer depot]

I always liked meadow

And it’s such a small zone you could basically just stick it anywhere

[west moth]

One of the DLCs will be the discovery of a secret underground subway system that is connected to Moscow. Somehow mutants have developed A Life down there and it's on us to discover the dark secrets of ruthless soviet experiments

[golden hazel]

The alife is so developed that it's called 4A Life now

[wanton arch]

how to get more than 50 fps

[warped monolith]

STALKER x Metro crossover when

[odd fjord]

plateau

[warped monolith]

upgrade your pc, it's a pay 2 win game

[odd fjord]

i got the full lore for cold islans

island, if anyone wants to basically know the story behind it

[wanton arch]

im not upgrading from a 4070 for one game 💔

[remote eagle]

What plateau ?

[odd fjord]

hmmmmm what plateau

https://tenor.com/view/witnessing-tornado-anomaly-tornado-anomaly-stalker-stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl-gif-16083767790079758406

guess where this bad boy was meant to be

[remote eagle]

understandable

[split crown]

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

[west moth]

Byeah

[golden hazel]

Byeah

[heavy hedge]

genuinely do not understand the desire to implement this, nobody EVER played stalker mp and zero people have any desire to play it in the hypothetical format of deathmatch

just comes across like a waste of resources, I guess it "looks good on paper" as an additional feature and is, in theory, straightforward to implement in UE5....? I assume is the reasoning??? (??)

[warped monolith]

source: trust me bro

[heavy hedge]

i asked every stalker player so ya duh

[warped monolith]

clearly

[outer depot]

Stalker MP was fucking hilarious and jank as shit but it’s not what I’d call good

It actually reminded me a lot of HLDM

I think something like a competitive/combative artifact hunt mode might be neat

Or something akin to MW2 demolition but it’s setting up scanners

But it’s definitely going to be shit

[remote eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/armstrong-made-it-up-gif-25653819

[warped monolith]

and that's a good thing

[odd fjord]

the reasoning is:

https://tenor.com/view/money-smell-sus-gif-23801020

[golden hazel]

HoC Tuah Battle Pass

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/cooking-cook-money-money-money-money-money-money-gif-16670048503852599108

[golden hazel]

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

[odd fjord]

strelok skin for mp?

u dont think that would sell? how about sidorovich?

[golden hazel]

Strelok Griddy Emote locked behind Deluxe Edition only

[heavy hedge]

i begrudgingly admit i would buy a sid skin

[odd fjord]

i kid you not i would pay money to dunk on people looking like my boy sid

[warped monolith]

we need wacky skins like Orbb in Quake 3

a miniaturized pseudogiant with a gun strapped to the top of its head

[odd fjord]

but imo absolutely wasted potential to implement an inner circle in the zone that allows mp and just safe hubs inside the inner circle, cnpp darkzone where all juicy artefacts are

[warped monolith]

I'd rather have a separate MP mode than turn it into a pvp extraction live service

[odd fjord]

i would pay dirty money to look like sido in a darkzone like region where i gotta be a rat to extract with an artefact

[outer depot]

There’s a survival mode akin to TF2 Hale mode but it’s just trying to survive against Degtyarev with a knife running around in Pripyat

[heavy hedge]

4 sids, 10 streloks and 2 limited edition early adopter hips all slaughtering each other, another normal day in the zone

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/immersion-schizo-vtuber-immersional-damage-meme-gif-24984030

[outer depot]

Whoever brings Sidor the most chicken wins

Can’t wait for when in fifteen years we finally get a COOP mod and I get to see some other random stalker standing in the corner during the realtime cutscenes

[clever garnet]

hey guys, I'm trying to find an music from the bartender but i can't find it, can someone help me with it ?

[odd fjord]

shazam?

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/gsc-chernobyl-strelok-stalker-freedom-gif-12268763575315961204

[remote eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/хук-сталкер-сахаров-gif-23963854

[zinc egret]

Ah... Hell

[warped monolith]

it's scary when you meet them for the first time, but then you realize you can just jump over them and sprint away

[zinc egret]

https://tenor.com/view/fanta-grenade-fanta-grenade-bomb-fanta-bomb-gif-5452456946779802287