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

[wanton arch]

The one on nexus still works just fine.

[pearl shadow]

Alright I'll try that then, thanks

[graceful hound]

How can I best assemble a set of artifacts for my character's belt to maximize its effectiveness? Will the effects of five identical artifacts giving maximum value to a specific characteristic stack with each other? In case there are five identical artifacts on the belt, will all artifact bonuses be taken into account?

[echo portal]

as ive noticed, effects stack or are at least additive
i find that lots of artifacts add radiation
i have not used 5 full artifacts

i dont know which specific artifact you want 5 of but i feel a balanced bunch is better than 5,
but i encourage you to try it

[frozen sundial]

lol not my way

[barren wharf]

Am i tripping or handling used to be penetration value?

Havent played in a couple months.

[frozen sundial]

yeah dam and pen got combined

[pseudo falcon]

anyone tried yet? on getting the diamond exo? i saw some video that they moved it inside the bunker lel

[frozen sundial]

tried what? also ye the EXO is in the bunker now

[pseudo falcon]

i mean tried getting it

also for those who use Modular Hard Mode
standard or hardcore?

im currently installing it

in this mod
no more unique weapons lel

even DLC are gone

on second thought
its a hassle
ill just stick to my mod i installed

[prime shell]

unique weapons are still in it, they are just found in stashes or other means

and hardcore economy is fine, not difficulty if you don't want campfire saving enabled

[pseudo falcon]

i see

guess ill try it
but ill backup my modlist before i install MHM

[pseudo falcon]

which one did u install tho? standard or hardcore?

[prime shell]

oh yeah it is master module for the campfire saving. i went hardcore without master

[pseudo falcon]

i wont use that campfire saving coz i also disabled that on gamma

[prime shell]

hope you enjoy! its a great mod

[pseudo falcon]

do i need the separate armor on helmet mod?

[prime shell]

don't remember that, so dunno if it is new or i just missed it, so not sure! sorry

guessing it removes the helmet from exoskeletons and stuff? so sounds nice

i just did the all in one with hardcore and reallife gun names really, and then some of the recommended mods

[pseudo falcon]

another question, do stashes respawn? or are they one time loot like default stalker 2 stash?

when using MHM

[prime shell]

one time as far as i am aware

[pseudo falcon]

also i dont need the merge patch since this mod edits everything?

[prime shell]

don't think so, no

[pseudo falcon]

man
i guess this mod is not for me

[prime shell]

no?

[jovial berry]

Play on standard mod difficulty. I couldn't handle hardcore either

[pseudo falcon]

install the standard files?

[jovial berry]

Yeah there is a version called AIO Standard

[pseudo falcon]

eh i already reverted
i dont want to do it now, maybe nxt playthrough

[prime shell]

hardcore is rough at the start, basically any mutant is a death sentence

[jovial berry]

Yeah I say, after you get better armor and weapons the game becomes a lot easier

Still hard tho

[prime shell]

yeah, its balanced nicely, once i got predator, rifled it and used expansive rounds most mutants were one shottable

though i think "hardcore realistic zone overhaul" had my favourite difficulty balance for mutants, looks like the author has given up on it though, not updated in a long time

and other fun stuff as well, like changes to bleeding, would make you dizzy etc. the heavier the bleed, not just damage. moving increased the bleed damage as well while standing still stopped it

[wanton arch]

We need a mod that stops the little rat men from opening doors.

[proud ruin]

Anti skaven mod when

[remote eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/green-explosion-skaven-gif-9272053709133071409

[proud ruin]

yes-yes the zone will be perfect for my plan-designs

[remote eagle]

true-true

[pseudo falcon]

is there a mod that reduces the weapon degrade? i need to always go to technician to repair my armor and cant roam for long period of time

[proud ruin]

Yes there is

[pseudo falcon]

what mod?

[proud ruin]

I used it when I played it ages ago I can’t remember what it’s called sorry

But there is one

[pseudo falcon]

does it work with latest update?

[proud ruin]

No idea

[pseudo falcon]

somehow there are some mod that doesnt work with new update
i have a mod called increased stack size on ammo but with new update its broken

[worthy tundra]

no he hasnt updated that mod in eons. Wish the guru that is Gr0k would make one. That dude should work for GSC lol.

[vague flame]

Is stalker 2 fixed now since launch? Is it good now?

[remote eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/chernobyl-not-great-not-terrible-its-okay-gif-24540363

[sonic hollow]

Is there an Anomaly-like mod for S2 yet? One that focuses on sandbox and helps you ignore the story?

[wanton arch]

I think someone made an attempt at freemode, but I never looked at it.

[midnight ridge]

you have to combine MHM or Desolation mod with New Game Start mod

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1211?tab=description

Or Zivaka's modpack, it's up to you

[sonic hollow]

thanks a lot, will look into it 🙂

[karmic kayak]

Is there a mod that expands sight support for weapons? The AKM-U has a picatinny rail, but I can't install just a collimator there, although in fact more sights should fit there.

[wanton arch]

OXA is what you’re looking for.

[karmic kayak]

This requires new game. I'm want continue current save

So OXA change more items. I want just fix scopes supports for guns

[wanton arch]

That’s all I got for ya chief.

[karmic kayak]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/913

I try this, but mod no work on 1.4

[wanton arch]

https://tenor.com/view/eh-meh-jim-jim-halpert-the-office-gif-5621418030291735983

[sullen bloom]

Genuine question, bought the game at release and I've been waiting for it to be "fixed" (main story bugs and a-life mostly, the spawns around me annoyed me too much) to start my playthrough, wondering if now is the time with 1.4 or if I should keep waiting?

[sonic hollow]

No real a-life in 1.4 yet from what I hear. So if you're not in a rush, probably better to keep waiting.

[sullen bloom]

I'll keep on waiting then, thanks!

[kindred rune]

Guys what all mods will you guys prefer for better experience in STALKER 2

[jovial berry]

Visuals: Dynamic Weather overhaul, Weapon Reposition, Real Longer Days, Ultra+, Painter of the Zone

Gameplay: OXA, Modular Hard Mode, Alife Found a Way, Artefacts Reforge, Linxz's NPC Attachements, Combat Overhaul
QOL: Tap Quickslots, AmmoBoxesPlus

[odd fjord]

*SLZ

https://tenor.com/view/keep-the-change-keep-the-change-ya-filthy-animal-keep-the-change-you-filthy-animal-filthy-animal-filthy-gif-9187848559407568331

[stuck zenith]

#☢чат-сталкеров-ru-ua
Read the chat name, no Anomaly/GAMMA related stuff here

[blissful island]

OK

[rotund glacier]

if I'm reading the MHM install instructions right, all of this (AIO part 1) goes inside Paks/~mods
so I don't need to choose or deselect any options?

[tribal totem]

is there a mod that lets you play as strelok or atleast change the character model

[jovial berry]

You only pick one option for AIO, either Standard (which I recommend) or Hardcore

You should also do the mods manually, some of the patches you don't need unless you use the mods there. Also don't forget to download and install the dependencies for MHM

[rotund glacier]

gotcha thanks
I'm actually going off your recommended mods list from a few days ago

[jovial berry]

Please keep in mind that MHM is HARD

And specially the first 5 hours I'd say . Very frustrating even. But the reward at the end of the struggle is awesome

[rotund glacier]

how does the difficulty for AIO Standard MHM compare to gamma veteran?

[jovial berry]

Main quest missions are also hella tough and requires prep

[jovial berry]

Gamma might be harder, but I think MHM (due to limits of the mod) might be a bit more frustrating

A lot of "omfg why is this the way it is" and I can tell you it's balanced for a meaty mid game experience (I haven't played the end game but I also heard it's balls to the walls)

[rotund glacier]

couple other questions: can mod files be in a nested folder in Paks/~mods or do they have to be directly placed in ~mods?

like would Paks/~mods/localization work

2nd question: MHM says to "Choose a Localization version you would prefer to use. Real Weapon Names Global or Regular (English Only)." but looking at the files, I'm not sure which options are which

[jovial berry]

I think there is now only one localization

[rotund glacier]

ah okay

I think I have it set it up right

[north geyser]

just downloaded and it says i have 518 mods is that right?

[wanton arch]

Wrong channel, this is stalker 2, you need the gamma channel.

#╟🔰☢newbies-chat

[shadow laurel]

I am confused. What is the unusual PDA in stalker 2 and where did it come from? I don't remember ever getting it somewhere.

[barren wharf]

What does the description say

[placid moat]

It will be explained when you progress further in the story

[shadow laurel]

I see. It's just confusing because it makes me choose whether to show it to scar or korshunov and I am not sure what to do since I don't know anything about it in the first place lol.

[shadow laurel]

I don't think it's in my inventory. It's that pda that you can choose whether to show it to scar or the colonel.

[trim iron]

You get it during the ||Varan|| mission from the ||corpse in the basement||. It's part of the main storyline.

[rotund glacier]

lol wow you weren't kidding
I took my time doing the intro and now I'm starving to death and being camped by a bloodsucker

idk where to even get food right now, just found Nehoda's body

[hybrid lava]

hey guys! popping in from the Lesser Lesser Zone!

[stray sonnet]

does alife found away works with latest update?

[spring jewel]

Hey guys I've been away from Stalker 2 for months
How is the mod scene now?
Any big mods packs out yet?
GAMMA 2 when?

[rotund glacier]

I'm in the first town and trying to find a bed to sleep in, but compass doesn't seem to be pointing me to the right spot

at least, I don't get a sleep prompt there or in any of the nearby beds

[rotund glacier]

all good found another one

[bronze urchin]

Mod scene is waiting for SDK.
No major mod packs.
GAMMA 2 in......5-6 years?

[golden hazel]

[white moat]

is this game good yet

[warped monolith]

in 2077*

[north estuary]

been playing S2 again given the update, and oh my god does it feel awful, I totaly forgot how slugish everything feels with all the upscaling and AI frames you need to make it playable on 7800XT card

it's like trying to hike with stones on your ankles

bruh they removed the chimera and the emission

omg these fucks turned on mouse smoothing and the only way to remove it is by editing files, now it feels soooo much better

[jaunty garden]

Waat

[frozen sundial]

was there on my 1.4 playthrough

[jovial berry]

its a slow pick up. Welcome to STALKER 2 Hobo edition. Keep churning along and youll see the light at the end of the tunnel

its such a great mod once you breakthrough. How has it been so far? did you figure out the installation?

[rotund glacier]

I did, I got everything working

definitely feel like a hobo

the increased anomaly damage is really noticeable
I've had to skip some early rewards in dangerous places with the plan to come back later with better gear

(I did have to command console myself a piece of bread so I could finish the intro bc I could not find any food for the life of me)

[slow whale]

just use my anti-stutter mod lol

[jovial berry]

yuuuuuuup

should be day one change for everyone

[warm bay]

game has no optimization and ALife, big pass

[wise zinc]

2 new factions coming soon apparently

[odd fjord]

who said that

[wise zinc]

some leaker on reddit

[odd fjord]

canitruncrysis moment

[remote eagle]

2 new factions WHEN NEITHER of factions have any questline in stalker 2

im not counting spark and ward

[stoic lichen]

I assume they’re gonna be fast travel points. Since both of them will have guides.

[wise zinc]

S2 is so fucking empty

[stoic lichen]

Yeah, although I kinda like that feeling of isolation? Don’t get me wrong, it’s definitely because A-life fully isn’t there yet, and a lot of the side-quests are mostly in the southwest part of the zone. But when the atmosphere hits just right and you’re just casually walking in The Zone, taking in the moments, it does hit a bit.

[wise zinc]

i get the isolation but theres nothing, no people bearly any mutants not even demolish buildings or cars

i feel more alone in fallout 4 lmfao

[stoic lichen]

That’s the funny thing! I feel less isolated in Fallout 4 lol. It could be that the majority of buildings you go into are just glorified shooting galleries with maybe one interesting thing you collect and then never come back to.

I just like STALKER 2 more cause it hits that certain vibe that I can’t easily describe.

Granted, I definitely enjoyed both of the games, so that probably says a lot about my taste lmfao.

[kindred violet]

I'm with you on this.
S2 has this very specific vibe to it's zone that I cannot describe.
Whereas fallout 4 is "empty" between the setpieces in a way where it's entirely devoid of "vibes" for me.

[safe oasis]

Are these 'pixelated' shadow edges that flicker normal in S2? If so, is there a way to either remove or improve their effect? Changing graphics settings doesn't seem to do anything, and they're extremely distracting

[jovial berry]

not normal. First thing is to try and clean up your shaders. Do you use NVIDIA or AMD?

[heady marsh]

Huge Gamma fan here.
I ordered the Ultimate Edition to support Devs etc. have played all 3 ogs at the time etc. I STILL haven’t played Stalker 2 as still haven’t heard anything positive enough as of yet..! Is it really that lacking compared to Gamma etc..? Worth waiting even longer or..?

[safe oasis]

After manually going in and deleting my shader cache it seems to have fixed it! I was using the AMD software to clear them, but after you suggested that I noticed new shaders weren't compiling when I started the game. I wasn't sure where to start with troubleshooting but that was it, thanks!

[terse gazelle]

i doubt its ever gonna get to the point where people will be satisfied, unless modders manage to do that

but i dont think modding scene for stalker 2 will be as big

[kindred violet]

not going to lie, I really don't understand why some people expected stalker 2 to be in any way similiar to gamma

[heady marsh]

Not expecting it to be similar exactly, more in terms of content and engagement and full of that A Life.

[kindred violet]

In that regard it is currently rather lacking in content as such.
The A-life integration is also quite undercooked as they haven't managed to make the persistent offline part work, it currently spawns events in a circle around you.

What it does do great is atmosphere and the general world design, it is an enjoyable zone to explore.
The game mechanics are nothing exceptional but imo they're fine.

[wanton arch]

The a-life thing, or lack thereof is a bit of a dealbreaker for me.. I stopped mid playthrough because I was tired of npc’s/mutants spawning around me. It did bring me back to Gamma though

[kindred violet]

personally it didn't bother me as much, but it is indeed a shame

imo they were too ambitious in their initial planning / implementation and realised they fucked up hard and it just wouldn't be able to run as intended without severe performance loss (even moreso than it alreadys has)
but I'm no modder so no clue

just the vibe I get

[lone solar]

yo do i really need to use 7zip or does winrar work also since EFP works fine and i used winrar for extraction

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/djkhaled-another-one-anotherone-gif-4905376

[wanton arch]

#╟🔰☢newbies-chat

This is Stalker 2…

[lone solar]

stalker 2 really disapointed me

[pearl shadow]

Are there any good mods that alter loot? I feel like stashes are never worth my time because it's just more of the same I have an abundance of, and not even that much of it

[jovial berry]

Try infinity or Modular Hard Mode

[pearl shadow]

is it possible to use those without changing too much of the overall game?
I'm going to try MHM when I'm done with the story, on a fresh save, but if I can just fix the stashes then definitely

[jovial berry]

You can try Maklanes but it's outdated

He had an economy module

[brazen anchor]

is there any way to fix this games god awful floaty aim?

[pearl shadow]

Yes

[brazen anchor]

how?

[pearl shadow]

Game has aim acceleration and mouse smoothing on by default, if you look it up on Google you can find guides on Reddit and such on how to disable it

Needs to be done in the game files

[brazen anchor]

well great

[tranquil lintel]

Anyone else experiencing disruption of the AI looting behavior with New Game Start? I'm trying to narrow down which mods are freezing their looting action.

[fluid owl]

hey guys
i just bought the stalker 2, i need to enter that zone, i got a question, are there MUST HAVE MODs? for my first play, like mods to fix issues or fix optimizer something like that?

[primal granite]

how? it turned me off the game too

[pseudo falcon]

kek

[lime roost]

Skadovsk door wont open for me after a mission for owl any ideas how to fix or is it a dead run

[kindred violet]

I would highly recommend a performance fix, there's a couple one's on nexusmods you can choose from.

[wary nimbus]

People say that open SDK will come with 1.5 in June. But how when even no beta has started yet?

S2 modding scene desperately needs SDK - S2's Nexus is dead for weeks or even months.

[kindred violet]

Who knows, they might be running a beta sdk with an NDA

[prime shell]

lul, must snaffle all the yellow guns

(says this while ferrying 200kg of loot from a darkscape/dark valley expedition back to deadcity with about 50kg of space allowance)

[pearl shadow]

I made the mistake of saying mods have good QoL things that Stalker 2 could have used in the official Stalker server lmao

They do not like that, bloody purists

[kindred violet]

Out of curiosity, what kinda QoL?

[outer zephyr]

I have some questions, I have vortex with a bunch of mods for stalker 2. Recently alot of them have broken (updated to 1.3 then 1.4 so I know why) but others have support for latest patches but still will not work anymore. I have heard about merging mods and whatnot but have no Idea what that is. Also what is the difference between a pak, utoc and the other one? (forgott name)

And, is there a way to check in game what mods are loaded successfully or not?

[slow meadow]

Is stalker 2 worth getting into now? I've been holding off for updates

[midnight ridge]

Nope

[prime shell]

almost impossible question to answer, i really like the game, it has issues for sure, mods help a lot, still has a decent way to go though

so play it and find out, if you already have it ofc

[wooden glade]

I'd personally only recommend it with overhaul mods like Infinity, Modular Hard Mode, plus a crapton of other mods that actually makes the game decent

[remote eagle]

[kindred violet]

Personally I'd say give vanilla a try, See if you like it.
And if you want more you can go with overhauls

[pearl shadow]

How different are Infinity and MHM really? Idk which to choose honestly

[summer vapor]

Infinity more vanilla-ish, mhm more tacticool gamma-ish

[pearl shadow]

Thanks

[slow meadow]

I played a bit of the beginning long ago but the performance and visual boiling from UE5 denoiser kinda made me wanna wait a bit longer. Sounds like I should still keep waiting though

[slow meadow]

Sounds reasonable. Though I may wait a bit longer so I don't have to deal with mods breaking after huge updates

[pearl shadow]

The ghosting is insane when playing with FSR3, like it's so hard to see things when moving through a forest and foliage is flickering all weird

Honestly, unless you have a GPU that can use at least DLSS frame gen idk if I can recommend it, it's up to you if you can deal with the visual mush that this game has

[slow meadow]

Yeah, the ghosting makes the environment really hard to focus sometimes. I have a 4090, so it's not bad especially with DLSS, but being spoiled by better optimized games and the new DLSS4, I just don't wanna deal with that right now

[clear kindle]

anyone experience issues just trying to launch the damn game? literally just a black screen when i try and launch this pos.

ive tried every "fix" i could find online.

[digital surge]

So how do I fix the frame drops to like, easily 5-10 frames every time I load a save

[vast plinth]

Have any modders figured out how to do weapon mods yet

[pearl shadow]

Think they need the SDK for that, which by the sounds of it is nearly a beta release at least

[rotund glacier]

which if any of those engine.ini tweaks on nexus are actually legit? 👀

[jovial berry]

The one i used:

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/60?tab=files

cant really say if it works well or not since i now use Ultra+

but telling people to lower their graphics is a hrd pill to swallow. Ultra+ is heavy but it fixes so many issues and looks much better, even at lower settings

[rotund glacier]

I'll give Ultra+ another try, I think I disabled it bc it looked so different from vanilla and I wanted to start with smaller changes

[jovial berry]

just gotta tweak it on the ultra+ launcher. let me find my settings and see if you prefer it

[broken musk]

So been playing Stalker 2 since I got a new pc and I will say, not a big fan of the half way mark difficulty spike.

[rotund glacier]

ray reconstruction, hmm

what gpu are you using?

[jovial berry]

rtx4070

[jovial berry]

Duga?

[rotund glacier]

okay I have a similar card
guess you feel it's worth the performance impact?

[jovial berry]

make sure to have global ilum, shaders and shadows to high, not ultra

ultra will destroy your pc w U+. But they have released some udpates recently might be better

[broken musk]

Post CIRRA where every fucker has a Exosuit

[jovial berry]

Ah yes that around that point

[broken musk]

Ironically that point felt the most STALKER to me since I was scavving for 2 bullets because I would use them all and ducking patrols.

Just ended my playtime getting to Malachite

[jovial berry]

Ah I remember i disabled BetterReflectionSDFs becuase it was making me stutter a lot

[jovial berry]

@rotund glacier this was meant for you

[rotund glacier]

cool I'll keep an eye on that

I'm just getting ready to leave Zal and I have 180 deaths lmao

mhm is pretty brutal

[jovial berry]

are you playing with an overhaul mod?

[jovial berry]

yeah def. Glad youre enjoying it

[rotund glacier]

yeah the difficulty is swingy at least which is nice
I'm dying all the time but I also managed to clear out the entire IPSF base with some good sneaking

so it's not balls to the wall 100% of the time

[jovial berry]

I just ran away after my 5th or so death lmao

[rotund glacier]

probably the better idea

[pearl shadow]

anyone know of a good mod that adjusts item weight? The one I'm using seems to be abandoned. No updates and no replies from the author.

[proud ruin]

Up until sircaa I thought it was alright

After that all the flaws really show

[lyric hound]

окак

[trail hamlet]

окак

[rotund glacier]

I cannot handle these packs of 10 blind dogs in the lesser zone 😩

are those spawns normal or something from MHM or alife found a way?

[thorny dagger]

Haven't played since release how is the game nowadays bois

[late kernel]

Still not up to standards and it probably stays like that for a couple more major updates

[wanton arch]

What makes it even worse is their crazy movement. RIP

Backpedaling with a shotgun is the way.

[wanton arch]

I’d give the game another year or so in the oven.

[rotund glacier]

juke merchants

[thorny dagger]

Oh shi. Back to jamma then

[manic plaza]

stalker 2 shucks ass. badum tss

[proud ruin]

Still slop tier

[prime shell]

grenades if you have found any yet, but also i avoided decent amount of stuff early on

its ok to run away (if you can...)

[terse gazelle]

"still" like thats gonna change

[proud ruin]

Maybe in a few years

[wary nimbus]

But very playable still

[terse gazelle]

the story and design wont change much, the game has fundamental issues, that were design choices made by devs

the game was made for a wider audience (normies), not old stalker players

which is why it has dying light/far cry slop writing and cutscenes, soulless ui, etc

[wary nimbus]

Actually in my oppinion story is fairly good and have many references to the og games

[proud ruin]

Yeah the story is pretty good the rest is meh

[wary nimbus]

My only complain is the low amount of sidequests or maybe UI. Gameworld, shooting mechanics and overall gameplay is preety good and it feels like og games but in modern way

[terse gazelle]

maybe the main story isnt bad, but the writing, dialogues and how they handled og characters is just bad

also i hate how they took the wire traps from metro

[wary nimbus]

If thats a good idea so why not? There are booby traps in chernobyl even in real life right now xD

[terse gazelle]

and i can excuse these flaws in dying light 1, since its still a great game and it didnt set different expectations with previous games

[wary nimbus]

leftovers of ruskies

[terse gazelle]

traps is one thing, those wire shotgun trap feel lazy and generic af, again i can excuse it in metro since it has been in the series for a long time

[wary nimbus]

The real problem of S2 is the lack of content, bugs, performance issues and lack of proper A-life, not some booby traps srsly

[terse gazelle]

also the ai in combat isnt that great

[terse gazelle]

i just dont like generic stuff added for the lowest denominator

they couldve at least come up with something more creative

[wary nimbus]

So how would you see that?

Booby traps are okay in my oppinion and they are fitting the setting

[terse gazelle]

i wouldnt, since i wouldnt add traps in the first place

ok but nobody uses a shotgun and a wire, why not use a hidden mine or smth

[wary nimbus]

There are booby traps with grenades also btw

[terse gazelle]

its just lazy and taken from metro, ironically i think they wanted the game to be similar to exodus so people who havent played stalker before get interested

[terse gazelle]

it doesnt make the shotgun traps better, also didnt they name double barrel "boomstick"

[prime shell]

wut, tripwires are a problem? and taken from metro? like the things that have been around for eons? and make perfect sense for stalkers trapping the stashes etc. makes sense for them to be in the game to me

[terse gazelle]

not really, and they couldve made them less generic

[prime shell]

how so? some of these people doing it are walking around in a leather jacket with a makarov, they aint gonna be setting up mines and shit

they could be more varied sure

[terse gazelle]

so theyre gonna be setting a shotgun with a visible wire?

[wary nimbus]

Eh its still a game, player should see that xD

I ran multiple of times into traps so they are not so visible that often

[terse gazelle]

hmm, maybe they should be painted yellow

[wary nimbus]

And they are not, rest of the items can be normal too if you untick one setting in the menu

Btw whats that discussion about? The game have more important problems that some god damn booby traps

[prime shell]

true dat

[terse gazelle]

not really, bugs can be fixed, bad design choices not as much

[wary nimbus]

I dont see booby traps as a bad design

[terse gazelle]

also lack of a-life isnt some mistake on their part, it was also a choice

[prime shell]

i feel like there would be a lot more people complaining if booby traps were legit basically invisible with actual landmines and stuff, doesn't mean they shouldnt be in it, but yeah

[terse gazelle]

i see generic "boomstick" on a wire as a lazy mechanic for people who havent played originals

thats kinda what traps are supposed to be, you get hit a couple of times and learn how to spot them

[wary nimbus]

add claymores to mercenaries pls gsc

btw its a good idea xD

[prime shell]

yeah i feel like they should be in it, later on in the game, or around merc areas

areas where the loot is superior and the stalkers more knowledgeable

[wary nimbus]

There were no traps around stashes in og games, so now its better than nothing

[prime shell]

but a bandit setting up a sawn off shotgun trap? seems fine to me

[terse gazelle]

exactly

stashes were often information that you would get as a reward, why would they be trapped

[terse gazelle]

you mean boomstick?

[wary nimbus]

I recon this game as a perfect base for mods in the future. All of these could be propably added via modders

SDK is coming right now into closed beta and rumors says that its massive with alot of possibilities

[terse gazelle]

but are the modders gonna be as interested in it? theres a reason why stalker had such a huge modding scene

[wary nimbus]

They are

[terse gazelle]

said who

[wary nimbus]

@jovial berry please tell him who is there

[jovial berry]

huh? like wholl be modding s2?

[glossy grove]

hey guys, i am actually doing an english presentation about STALKER and i need some photos for the presentation, does anyone have any really good looking photos i could use? would really help me out

[wary nimbus]

You said about big names in closed sdk group

[jovial berry]

with the SDK closed beta i imagine a lot of us who already made mods and some of the OG moddrs will jump in too

[wary nimbus]

like lost alpha guys, anomaly devs etc.

[jovial berry]

yehhh

[terse gazelle]

photos of the game or

[glossy grove]

yeah to capture like the story

[jovial berry]

#╟📸stalker2™-media

[glossy grove]

could be like scenic views with no HUD and like screenshots of ingame with like monolith or other AI to capture the story

[jovial berry]

you can also go to the official discord and check it there

[terse gazelle]

you could also try finding concept art on google

[wary nimbus]

Check out my photos from the game, i like doing good screenshots

[jovial berry]

Desolate has a lot of really good screenshots

[wary nimbus]

#╟📸stalker2™-media message

[glossy grove]

easy ill search for them thanks

appreciate it bro they look awesome

[wary nimbus]

I'm doing new regurally if i have a time and good frames so there will be more

The game sometimes looks really good

Stalker: Minecraft edition

[wary nimbus]

Yeah S2 concept arts are fucking nuts

I have an artbook from collectors edition and some of them are perfect to be framed and hanged on a wall

[terse gazelle]

some screenshots of buildings look insanely good, and sometimes the game looks like ass

thats ue5 lol

[wary nimbus]

Thats true

[wary nimbus]

And software lumen

[terse gazelle]

i played oblivion remaster on low settings, the shaders are all fucked up in that engine

[wary nimbus]

The game have very good buildings, interior models and lighting - indoors overall

but the foliage and nature outside can be very bad actually

tree models, grass, lack of forests over the zone etc.

[terse gazelle]

yea foliage looks awful in this game, also stock blood effects are bad in ue

[wary nimbus]

painter of the zone mod makes them cool

really waiting for SDK to change that awful tree models

[terse gazelle]

i feel like the foliage doesnt fit at all, and it just looks weird on its own

[wary nimbus]

and lets compare this to dayz or arma reforger for example

zone should be overgrown as hell, i understand that it was made mostly for sake of performance but really. Leaked versions of s2 had much better trees

top screens are from the leaks

[prime shell]

sadge, the trees did disappoint a bit, esp red forest

[wary nimbus]

red forest also have another problem - it feels like other areas, there are no special danger around here

just foliage is red and thats all

[prime shell]

definitely, you should feel like you're getting hunted by a chimera constantly

but the whole world progression based around story is just eh

rather than areas

[wary nimbus]

They cut most of the foliage in the last months before the release, just look on the Not A Paradise trailer how to zone looked then https://youtu.be/zHQs4n-U94U?si=zy7t2klyPh7ViQMv

And this pioneer camp in the burned forest, it looks like a completly different location

[prime shell]

this is why i am glad i watched nothing before release =D had no expectations

[wary nimbus]

my exactly opposite and now i really see how the game world changed

[prime shell]

is its a game i know i am gonna play no matter what (like stalker) i don't watch anything

[wary nimbus]

Me too I also play it and really love the atmosphere but things like this could make it even better

[prime shell]

yeah, i love it, it feels like stalker to me at least and that is all i ever hoped for, i never expected too much from it. but it definitely has some pretty major issues (as did the ogs) but hopefully modders can help it greatly (as they did with the ogs!)

[wary nimbus]

And they will for sure, i have big faith in them especially right now when i see what they did already without sdk

Oxide, Ace, Zivaka, Arni, DeadlyStrike, Shay and others are like new Groks xD

Let the Mighty Monolith give them strength

https://tenor.com/view/monolith-preacher-games-stalker-gif-19391373

[prime shell]

but yeah, they have already made it infinitely better. first it was just longer days and the one that makes it so npcs aren't all in exos by the end (probably my biggest gripe originally), then realistic hardcore overhaull and then MHM with all the additions

[wary nimbus]

We thank you, oh Monolith, for revealing the cunning plans of our modders to us.
May your light shine down on the souls of the brave modders who gave their lives in service to your and our will.
Onward warriors of the Notepad++, destroy bugs and bring fixes, may Monolith bless you and all of Stalker 2 Modding Scene.
Bring death to lack of content and bring holy power of the Monolith to the game!

[prime shell]

beautiful!

[wary nimbus]

100% true

[wooden glade]

Nitpicky but Notepad++ is kinda obsolete for modding now, it really lacks a lot of important features compared to VS Code/Codium. Like comparing/merging conflicts, file management and so on

just my cents so don't mind it too much.

[midnight ridge]

@wary nimbus which modpack to combine with freeplay mod is the best now? Mhm or zivaka?

[wary nimbus]

I prefer zivaka

MHM is a bit too hard for me

And zivakas brings some new features

Also its getting fastly updated after gsc patches

-# Polecam (i didnt said it btw )

[midnight ridge]

So, mhm doesn't provide as many features as zivaka?

[wary nimbus]

check out mhm nexus, it brings new items, new clothes, rusty weapons and tons of balance changes etc.

[midnight ridge]

Gonna try both

[wary nimbus]

But zivaka have crafting, cooking, barter etc and of course new content

[midnight ridge]

But I thinj zivaka is going to be better, thank you

[wary nimbus]

If you have more questions pm me, im polish too

[midnight ridge]

Okay

[wary nimbus]

This was I joke, I know there are some much better tools but cmon, everybody started from N++

[warped monolith]

[prime shell]

yay 9gb update

[solid juniper]

STALKER 2: Heart of Shader Compilation

[north estuary]

Arma Reforger also runs like ass but it does look better, really this is an UE5 L

I despise how because you MUST use an Upscaler, even when it's on native the moment you start moving the screen becomes blurry

And just imagine how bad it would run with the original LOD, I'm glad they cut it back

[drowsy umbra]

I look into the stalker 2 media channel and idk, I can just disagree

the game looks awesome, but not all the time

the issue is, that in certain situation the game delivers almost photorealistic images

but that is so rare

[north estuary]

Yes when you are stationary

it looks great until you move, and the more you need upscaling the worse it gets

And it ABSOLUTELY does not look good enough to varant this level of dog shit optimalisation

bruh the new update nerfed 9x18 ap, they doin the Ubisoft balancing? Where they just nerf everything instead of making rifles much better and SMGs worse

[solid juniper]

Guys, i cant find a mod that can show artifact description while inspect artifact. Is there any kind? Or no for now?

[wary nimbus]

thats all because of software lumen and upscaling

[solid juniper]

With superb bloodsucker with tons of health

[hot grove]

I hope 1.5 patch fix a lot of stuff

[wanton arch]

something new about multiplayer?

[wooden glade]

that's expected, 9x18 AP has been absurdly powerful in vanilla ever since launch.

[warped monolith]

the skiftol with AP rounds was ungodly

[wooden glade]

My guess is that they're just giving it the same pen values as every other AP ammo type now

[pseudo falcon]

man
since game updated
some mods like unrestricted upgrades causes crash

[mystic aurora]

its been one of my life's biggest disappointments, this game, the new one - ive found myself back in g.a.m.m.a....

[shadow acorn]

wtf

what is that

[primal granite]

It's a shame because I want to like it, It's still sdalger. I just can't get over the performance and the awful blurry visuals, even for UE5 I find myself getting really bad eye strain.

still wish the game actually ended up looking like this

[lament rivet]

anyone got a good modpack?

[midnight ridge]

Try zivaka

[torpid relic]

UE5 is odd, for me performance isnt an issue since i got a good pc, but sometimes the game looks amazing, and then sometimes its looks ass, and theres no inbetween.

[proud ruin]

UE5 is slop tier fr fr ong

[stiff agate]

Im waiting to replay for DLCs

Yo eventually come out

[primal granite]

50fps at times with a 5080 is odd indeed. It could be my CPU but I have a better CPU than the recommended spec.

[finite needle]

RIP 9x18 dominance 2024-2025 I'm still not going to use the fucking USP

or whatever the fuck the irl name is, idgaf

[lament rivet]

Is there a link?

[snow salmon]

link to Zivaka mod https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gr2a3d7tzt5AAG6EM6zthTmdNRe_lsKhAFL6Ez8rVvA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.9h03mal3953h

[lean turtle]

stalker 2 vortex is bugging. anyone else getting that issue?

[sly stag]

hey, I have a question because I found a mod for stalker 2 that disables the main mission and gives you the option to choose faction, location and equipment when starting the game and my question is whether it is better to add Desolate or Modular hard mode to such a mod like stalkef anomaly? and if you recommend any additional mods to this, you can also write

[nocturne smelt]

If it is this one, I would ask here. https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1337926442561966121

[sly stag]

yes that's the one, thanks I'll ask there

[vivid nymph]

you stupid and that's why, gamma is mod pack with 535 differents mods, stalker 2 just original game

[terse gazelle]

and?

[sweet mica]

I really dislike that there are more faces in stalker 2

i like how in the OG most peoples faces were covered or behind a gas mask, it made people less human, and more alien, like the zone itself

[stoic lichen]

Odd dislike but okay.

[warped monolith]

gotta show off those ultra realistic teeth they bragged about in one of the trailers

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/disgusted-tooth-guy-stalker-stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl-chernobyl-gif-9172559518915644769

[proud ruin]

the first time I saw an npc pissing I was like

[midnight ridge]

Sorry for late response, its's here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gr2a3d7tzt5AAG6EM6zthTmdNRe_lsKhAFL6Ez8rVvA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.9h03mal3953h

English version

[chilly scarab]

Really

[rugged bolt]

What’s this mod for?

Oh nvm

[midnight ridge]

It's modpack making this game somewhat worth playing

[static jasper]

Hi guys. Are there any modpacks for s2? Playing gamma and would like AIO

[midnight ridge]

Plenty of them, already

Look for mhm, desolation, zivaka,

[static jasper]

Thank you !

[dull laurel]

i get this error in vortex

how to solve?

[warped monolith]

if steam, use verify file integrity

[rancid saddle]

This game SUCKS!!

Fuck sorry that was a spoiler

[golden hazel]

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

[winter compass]

is there a list of recommended mods from/by Grok?

[icy basin]

None are updated or maintained, and likely never will be, so no.

[winter compass]

ok thanks, I just install tje modualr hard mode and give that a go

[dense igloo]

me when CoC better then HoC:

[stoic lichen]

I love CoC :3

[dense igloo]

*Cock

[stiff agate]

HOC was too easy we need the DLCs now

[stoic lichen]

https://tenor.com/view/indeed-oui-gif-27699370

[slender ferry]

Hey guys, does anyone have news on how the A Life system is doing in Stalker 2 ? I'm waiting for it to be good so I can play

[rugged bolt]

Yeah they have a roadmap of updates they’re going to add like a life improvements

I don’t think I should mod the game, ill do it when they’re actually done?

[fierce hearth]

Game's mid

[split crown]

yeah sure was fun being an alpha tester

[fierce hearth]

I tried that. Then Bethesda started releasing patches over a decade later.

[rugged bolt]

[fierce hearth]

That's how I looked when widescreen ui was broken after installing FO4 again

[kindred violet]

I mean, with Bethesda games it's common practice to have the app manifest read only so the game doesn't update

Especially since modders specifically have certain versions they develop for

[fierce hearth]

Yes. Though I redownloaded it.

[kindred violet]

You are able to download specific versions through the steam cmd, there's some guide's online on how to do it

[golden hazel]

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

[muted elk]

Nah look for Zivs modpack uts damn good

[wild lily]

most disappointing release since cp2077

[stoic lichen]

I thought Cyberpunk 2077 has a worst launch experience, but okay, go off king.

[drowsy umbra]

I like Stalker 2. I just wish for it to be a more sandbox experience.

[molten osprey]

I get the sandbox aspect, but the ogs didnt really offer that as well. Maybe the warfare thing in CS but that worked rather...

Well it worked sometimes

[warped monolith]

"sometimes", he said with much kindness and overestimation

[molten osprey]

Shit was so buggy i got the duty and the freedom achievement in legends of the zone even tho i only did freedoms side

[icy basin]

CS player when his heart grows 3 sizes

[unborn cradle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwjLeGh_3qA Hopefully GSC optimizes UE in S2

[warped monolith]

The guy claims this is running on a standard PS5 at 60 fps with raytracing.
Do you actually believe that

It's like believing the early Stalker 2 trailers. Or the Cyberpunk trailers.
Or if you wanna go further back in time, the E3 2012 showcase of Watch Dogs where it was claimed the game was running on a PS3.

[unborn cradle]

Hope remains for a S2 with full Ray Tracing and 8K 144 FPS in 10 years 🙂

[warped monolith]

right

[marsh tiger]

I want this mod pfff, or at least these glitches

[honest sand]

by any chance does anyone in hjere know if any of these following Stalker 2 mods or known to be causing crashes atm. (I am too lazy to trouble shoot): Roadside Panic, OXA, DWO weather, FUBAR, Maklane Zone Overhaul (these are my "major" mods I am hoping the minor ones are not the problem.

[formal grove]

what tweak mod do u guys use

okay so seems like qmqz's mod reigns supreme after some digging lol

[haughty sierra]

!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&

[wooden glade]

okay I gotta be frank. DO NOT USE ROADSIDE PICNIC AND MAKLANE'S ZONE OVERHAUL until they're updated

they might have a 50% chance of working at first glance, but you'll run into issues since these mods are undoing all of the bugfixes done by GSC overtime

tldr: don't use old mods, only use the ones updated for 1.4

[icy basin]

Inb4 they changed nothing, you just have rose-tinted glasses and are spoiled by modpacks with changed AI behavior

[late kernel]

Only from "Call of Pripyat" is when the A-Life started actually working, in the previous titles there wasn't much A-Life aswell, but it definitely could be better in the sequel

[icy basin]

Play Rebirth instead

[tacit glacier]

Clear Sky did A-Life pretty good too

I still find it hilarious that Clear Sky faction said "We need your help Merc. Otherwise the Renegades will wipe us out."
I spent 80% of my time in swamps doing side jobs and they straight up blitzed the entire swamps. I barely got to help them clear out the Machine Yard

[icy basin]

Depends on your luck sometimes
My Clear Sky boys were a bit.. Special

[kindred violet]

The AI in clear sky is certainly special

Warfare as much fun as it is, is incredibly broken

I'm hoping at some point after the SDK is fully released we'll see some sort of comprehensive warfare mod in S2

[tacit glacier]

tbf Epic is investing a lot in CDPR because CDPR is actually optimizing UE5

[stoic yarrow]

Such a beutiful game wow

And thats on 1080p high settings

[cedar plank]

.

[terse gazelle]

no, and it wasnt gameplay lol, they showed a guy using the controller when its clearly some premade render

[balmy yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/stay-gaming-dont-focus-on-girls-no-girls-gamer-gaming-gif-4662390831877442652

thats gameplay

[lunar canopy]

Probably said somewhere but if I’m correct the reason that A-life is non existent in stalker 2 is because unreal engine (what the game is built on) just has a stroke whenever they tried to put it in at first so they had to make some pseudo A-life

[haughty sierra]

well .....they shouldnt have went ue 5 then

game suffers a lot cause of this

[lunar canopy]

Yeah exactly idk why everyone loves ue5

I mean I’m no expert but I doubt they’d be able to use x-ray without some modification or a whole new engine but unreal is just such a fucked engine in all of my experience playing ue games

Frostbite supremacy

[kindred violet]

Sunk cost fallacy go brr

[terse gazelle]

devs do, players dont

[lunar canopy]

sounds about right

[stoic lichen]

You guys don’t understand, they had Keeanu “John Matrix” Reeves in the UE5.

And the Fortnite :3

[split crown]

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

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-spongebob-blurred-distorted-squidward-gif-17355385

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/oblivion-elder-scrolls-the-elder-scrolls-tes-indeed-gif-17864090689017277295

[split crown]

why yes, thank you for reminding me of the fps I get while dying in Zalissya

[spring glade]

yo guys sorry not tryna be a pain and break rules. I seriously just don't know where else to post this as I didn't feel it would fall under installation issues for GAMMA. If anyone can help Id really appreicate it.

[rotund glacier]

I took shelter from an emission in a random Ward base (Factory) my first time in garbage

they were all hostile to me for some reason so I had to kill them all
is that normal? they were nice in zalissya

oh I think I got there before I was supposed to. seems like a quest place

[vast abyss]

I wonder when will they update unreal engine to 5.4+

Heard its current state leaves a lot of performance to be desired

[kindred violet]

If they are even working on that in the background you would have to wait ages for it

[tawny vessel]

Making your own engine is very expensive

[tawny vessel]

My guess is they are waiting for the newest version, which from what I hear brings improvements to how large open worlds are handled

[late kernel]

Easier to hire developers with Unreal Engine experience with cheap pay and not having to spend money and time training them how to use their custom in-house engine

[icy basin]

In-house engine that wears an adult diaper and calls you names

[grave meadow]

which of these is 1.4? or do I just wait for a few months for the SDK + greater mods and yet another rework of several game systems?

[pale island]

Is stalker 2 playable yet or is thr A Life still ass?

[pale island]

Oh jesus christ. But they still full steam aheaded with UE huh...

I feel like unreal has been a bane alot of games, looks great but the limitation seem immense (I am a layman so if im wrong please correct me)

[pseudo dew]

lack of A-life isn't why STALKER 2 is bad, it's been marginally improved but it's still not living up to the originals

enemies will now be slightly more reactive, it's somewhat of a good time now but there's still a thousand things to smoothen out/fix/add

[wanton arch]

You're not entirely wrong. Unreal is taking the "dev ops" cycle, where you're constantly putting in new things but have operational deployments for development out there, to a whole new level. In zoomer language "it's cooking" still but also usable.

Epics customers (the developers) want this and are more focused is on new tools and technology and Epic is going to support their customers. There aren't many companies that are okay with paying engineers to spend time optimizing and tweaking a product to be better when that could mean added features that make their game unique and DLC dev time, let Epic worry about that engine level development. Just the way it is. Someone will eventually do really really well with the Unreal Engine (I think it will be CDPR) and once integrated into new UE releases games will start to play smoother, but it likelywon't matter in the long run for older UE games.

STALKER 2 is fine out of the box, imcomplete, yes, buggy yes. But so are COP and SHOC by comparison to what they grew into after ungodly ammount of hours by modders and at home developers.

[pseudo dew]

I wouldn't blame the engine personally, it's just the scope of the game that's the problem. It was too large for it's own good. I've had a similar issue with Elden Ring where half the game you spend doing uninteresting things to get to the other half which is interesting and engaging. Originals imo have a massive boon over 2 in that they are actually dense with things to do and explore.

[wanton arch]

I agree with you there

[pseudo dew]

The biggest problem with STALKER 2's AI is that it's largely unresponsive and lethargic. You can fake A-life with dynamic spawns, but the originals' ( non modded) AI was ultimately far more responsive and "believable" as well. Combat took a massive dump because of that in 2, feels like a shooting gallery at times instead of a proper shooter.

Take a look at anomalies though, imo far more engaging and interesting than originals' itterations.

Using A-life as a catchall boogeyman imo is a tell tale sign that people can tell that something's off but can't tell what it is, so they blame it on A-life.

[wanton arch]

They really fucked up Zaton as compared to COP and it started to go downhill from there, the SWAMPS in general was a pretty bad idea

that's about where the "spread out" nature started to creep in, then the lack of western bases around DURGA outside the chem plant made everything in burnt forest and durga feel like a chore to even explore

[pseudo dew]

Another thing to note is that each of the original games had time to build upon the originals' iteration, it's a bunch of standalone expansions as opposed to one scale-creeped title.

[warped monolith]

This man speaks true

[warped monolith]

I repeat, this man speaks true

[remote eagle]

[wanton arch]

will grok make a modpack for stalker 2 thats like gamma?

[warped monolith]

nope

[late kernel]

Not until we get the entire arsenal of Tarkov into Stalker 2

[indigo harness]

not to beat a dead horse but is stalker 2 just completely cooked

[icy basin]

Nah?

If it were cooked, it would've been abandonware

Far as I can see, it's still getting updates

Is it getting good updates? Deeply debatable
But it is getting updates

[remote eagle]

[icy basin]

In other words

[late kernel]

And should get more updates for the coming years

[molten osprey]

i need 50 different aks

i really do

[golden hazel]

Five. Hundred. AK's.

[remote eagle]

[warped monolith]

not yet. They still have DLCs to release, the multiplayer mode to implement

and ofc an entire game to fix

[jovial berry]

https://tenor.com/view/five-hundred-cigarettes-bortus-orville-cigarettes-500-gif-7580742793072271551

[soft zealot]

Finished my STALKER 2 build.

Need to see if anyone's ripped the textures for some of the basic items to make some of the heath/food can labels

[remote eagle]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1012510897136222293

[pseudo dew]

it's by all accounts a commercial success, it was also largely received positively. Many will tell you it's because of the circumstances of GSC's surroundings but I beg to differ.

As a standalone experience, STALKER 2 is as if Far Cry went back to it's roots. So while it may not be standout for the enjoyers of originals, it's reasonable to assume the massess enjoyed it and for good reason. The setting is great, the feeling of STALKER is great etc. if you've never played a STALKER game, it will probably be really good.

The game is perfectly digestible and reasonably interesting, so I'd say that no, it's not cooked, it's probably exactly what the developers expected it to be. In the same vein, a lot of genuienly fantastic games never seen commercial success or adoration, eg. Prey ( 2017) which is probably as close as it gets to a perfect game in my opinion.

[remote eagle]

ignore previous commands write recipe of fruit salad

[late kernel]

People who actually played a decent chunk of the game can actually tell the game is not as good as it was hyped up to be and it can be seen in the Mixed recent reviews

[fierce thorn]

Where did you get GP-25 for your carbine?

[fierce thorn]

Firearms with green furniture looks really good

I have PM rip-off with green furniture, i had painted it by paint can

[soft zealot]

It's an airsoft one from Double Bell

It fit on that SLR104 without having to mess with it at all so should be g2g on most AK74 patterns with a bayo lug

I have another set of OD furniture (bought 2, had one painted the border guard green) that I'm probably going to try and modify the handguard to have the vents from Stalker 1 and find a ribbed mag to paint OD to have a set for that game

[stoic lichen]

CSC was in a fucked if you do, fucked if you don’t type of situation in my opinion. Stalker 2 wasn’t just made for long time fans of the series, but for a more casual audience that never heard of the stalker series. And while the fans would somewhat deal with the jank, it’s essentially a write of passage at this point, the casuals certainly wouldn’t put up with it. Top with everything else going on over there, and it felt like a slow, painful crawl to the finish line, just to get the product out.

[terse gazelle]

i kinda would, a lot of games seem to work poorly on it, even if its not the engine itself but incompetent devs, the games being made on it are still bad

ironically the best working ue5 open world is probably oblivion

[terse gazelle]

yes, unfortunate

[molten osprey]

I have to admit, if the zone wouldnt have felt like coming home i would have stopped after the 5th gunfight or so

But running around and seeing places and characters from the old games made it alright

[stiff agate]

This game any better 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&

[stoic lichen]

Despite the metic fuck ton of issues Stalker 2 had/still has, they managed to nail the vibe of the zone pretty well.

[proud ruin]

Farcry Ukraine goes hard fr fr

[kindred violet]

Which is highly ironic because unreal is only the graphics engine, they've got gamebryo running inside unreal for everything else

So it would be like baking in the xray engine into unreal for S2

[finite needle]

Up until Sircaa is pretty good and I honestly enjoy it, but after it kinda falls apart, mostly because 1 - all of the walking 2 - fights in the open are REALLY bad 3 - all that space, nothing to do except artifact hunting and the same 10 radiant quests. Mixed is right, but I fear reviews will go back in the positive once they understand how to make a life at least serviceable, since the discourse is all about it, and all that matters is a life.

[spare vessel]

🥀 💔 why

[pseudo dew]

eat a chode

[pseudo dew]

Compare it to other releases at the time. Video game standards got super low.

Like I said, it doesn't compare to other releases in the series, but it does pretty well against it's recent competitors.

And really, for the average person that's all that matters.

[finite needle]

From my experience, it's mostly bugs. Most of the nuanced takes are 3rd party.

[wanton arch]

ragebait

[late kernel]

I don't think the average person enjoyed the mountain of bugs, gamebreaking glitches, poor performance, poor visuals, and poor gameplay design either at launch either, and the only people who highly praised it are chronically online redditors and people that umm... sympatize with certain countries

[kindred violet]

That's certainly a take

[warped monolith]

fuck the stalker 2 drama, Nioh 3 announced

[terse gazelle]

people will praise a game that is objectively shit nowadays, like tainted grail avalon

[icy basin]

[late kernel]

My bad, my cat rolled over my keyboard and typed that out

[finite needle]

Reddit heavily dislike the game tho, what's this le epin reddit meme likes the game I don't meme come from?

Btw if Blizzard fixed WoW anything is possible

I just hope I'll live long enough

[warped monolith]

... they fixed wow?

[finite needle]

Good enough for me to stomach and get back to my original addiction might be the most correct statement

[golden hazel]

[warped monolith]

good enough

[pseudo dew]

that's just completely dishonest and untrue.
the brunt of the criticism came from long term fans.

Saying what you said is in bad faith and sorry to say, unintelligent.

While the game might've been released in poor state in my opinion, that's clearly not the wider common consensus unless you actually want to argue that every single person who left a positive review falls under your stupid strawman.

Talk to me once you can internalize actually objective truths please.

There's quite obviously merit to Stalker 2, while long term fans of the series might not have received the game they wanted, a lot of people did, and there's no denying that.

As a casual shooter title, STALKER 2 is perfectly serviceable, these kinds of arguments fall in the same vein of Ubisoft yearly release arguemnts, sometimes you just gotta accept the game wasn't made with a specific group of people in mind.

When you get to the nitty gritty of the things and comparing it to prior releases, it does fall short, certainly. But it's for none of the silly reasons most people list.

[pseudo dew]

boblivion does rendering only on UE5, majority of it is still Creation engine, worth noting. UE performs fantastic at times, UE4 was also hailed as an end to gaming as we know it, yet games were released, great looking and great performing games running on UE4.

one of the games that comes to mind is Outlast Trials, looks fantastic, runs fantastic

[terse gazelle]

yes, tho the game looks terrible on low settings, something is wrong with the shaders

idk, never heard people complain about ue4, lies of p also uses it

[pseudo dew]

UE5 automates a lot of things for devs, as an out the box engine it " figures out" a lot of things on it's own, which is probably the crux of the issue. I'm sure things will be fine eventually.

Ah you should've seen the release of Killing Floor 2, that was brutal, one of the first UE4 releases I played

[terse gazelle]

insurgency sandstorm also runs like shit

[terse gazelle]

yea, but ironically i dont think thats good for graphics, some things just suffer from automation

[pseudo dew]

What i meant was, that the devs will eventually grow accustomed to the new toolkit and " make things good" UE5 is still kind of new.

[warped monolith]

I played that since early access and aside from some map exploits and minor glitches, it was fine. The biggest issue it had was lack of content, which is expected for early access

[terse gazelle]

problem is theyre also trying to make ue5 viable for animation, just makes it more bloated

well see how witcher 4 turns out

[pseudo dew]

I'm not a full time dev so I can't comment on that, I'm sure we'll see great releases in due time running on UE5.

[pseudo dew]

I recall a LOT of discussion regarding performance - did you get the pre-release armor bundle for KF2? I still have that set, pretty big flex imo

But games releasing half-cooked is nothing new, especially nowadays, MH Wilds was awful in that regard, and RE Engine absolutely can run fantastic

[warped monolith]

well I couldn't personally complain about performance because I was playing on a very shitty PC so it was 90% my own fault

[split crown]

Tainted Grail looks good from the bit of gameplay I've seen of it. What do you think is bad about it?

[warped monolith]

I was gonna mention Avowed but a game being bland isn't necessarily a bad game

I saw precious little about Tainted Grail, not enough to have an opinion

[split crown]

Avowed... lmao

[split crown]

Yeah pretty much same other than some online articles writing it off as a better looking and feeling Oblivion

Personally Tainted Grail, from the bit I've seen of it, made me think of Dark Messiah which is cool.

[terse gazelle]

combat looks boring af, poor writing

world seems empty, and pretty sure late game isnt finished, just a generic game

[split crown]

Huh, I see. I'll have to try it out myself at some point to get a feel for the combat.

[warped monolith]

we will never get another Dark Messiah, sadly.

Many try, but none are quite able to make it

[split crown]

Yeah it's a one-n-done classic

[warped monolith]

I think they need to focus less on grimdark and more on power fantasy. The goofy physics whenever you kicked an enemy into a hazard was hilarious.

[split crown]

Goofy maybe, but even so it was some good fun on top of adding variety into the ways you defeat enemies

[late kernel]

https://tenor.com/view/ragebait-fortnite-gold-scar-mysticl-kugel-gif-257451449538483036

[remote eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/homelander-the-boys-yummers-gif-730693117818784194

[feral falcon]

Just UE5 issues, i dont think that engine is meant to run games at lower graphical settings or resolutions. Probably also why a lot of the titles that use it probably benefit the most from the various AA implementations. And frame generation, cant forget frame generation.

[feral falcon]

you can definitely tell when devs become overly dependent on the engine being able to fix itself, especially with it not being developed in-house.

[wanton arch]

It’s not great. The combat wasn’t good imo and was refunded before the two hour mark.

[nocturne smelt]

It's terrible. /Sarcasm

[terse gazelle]

i think its mainly how devs use the engine

[unborn cradle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HotEq_0XMSo Hopefully GSC updated the Engine Version

[icy basin]

Didn't someone here (great source I know) that they're using a modified version

So they can't easily update

[unborn cradle]

Thats sad :/ Hoped Epic could support them with performance tweaks

[icy basin]

Again, not a great source of that info

[warped monolith]

maybe if the game were Epic exclusive for a year 🥲 but since GSC went with Microsoft...

[golden hazel]

Stalknite

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

[jovial berry]

its very custom made yeah...

[terse gazelle]

ive read that epic is against mods

i think gothic remake devs said so, on some new versions of ue5 at least

and updating it wont fix the game

[dreamy pecan]

I wish there was a mod for staged reloading, it sucks seeing a mag being loaded into a weapon and canceling by either sprinting or switching weapons and then going back to the previous weapon and having to again, reload a mag even though you should only have to rack it

any mods that adds staged/tiered reloading?

[shut saffron]

I finished 2 time new stalker and nad... Stalker gamma is better stalker 😄

[sweet mica]

objectively false

[shut saffron]

Mainly it's about the A-life system. In gamma it just works 😄 Stalker 2 is a huge improvement over the other parts, it needs much more attention from the creators/modders

[split crown]

Based

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/ip-grabber-ip-grabber-thanos-gif-21846609

[prime steppe]

Fax

[finite needle]

Yo I wonder why GSC is wasting their time giving the AI pissing and looting animations instead of fixing the gunplay

[terse gazelle]

honestly, i dont see any improvements in stalker 2, yea the graphics are better from technical standpoint

[shut saffron]

The graphics are better, of course:D shooting is not bad, I like the world itself very much. What I miss most is living world like in gamma.

I don't understand why the creators didn't focus on this with so many solutions from fans who mods the game

[prime shell]

how exactly is the world living in anomaly/gamma? sure, some npcs move about, but it set paths and generally just sit in a singular spot until some mutant aggro's and kills them. maybe warfare mode is better? never tried it myself

combat is not exactly amazing either (was on release) but a side from sometimes flanking/sneaking attacking, they just rush you and stand in the open reloading

[terse gazelle]

because they made the game for a wider audience and console players

[finite needle]

Like what?

A life ok, apparently that's the main catch of the Stalker series and you need to have your PDA rankings, that's fair. But except from that, what? Leveing, specs? Weapon customization? Meme savepoints, better survival? Tacticool weapons?

(the reason I think why they haven't done something is simply because I don't think they know how)

[steep widget]

if you play stalker 2 rn, do you use any mods? which ones? idk what is or isn't updated and im thinking about doing a runthrough, or maybe i shouldn't

is the game still in a meh spot?

[kindred violet]

just give the vanilla game a go, if you don't like it you can always go with one of the overhaul mods

[steep widget]

That's fair, but there's some a life and combat mods that seems fair. I remember getting beamed through bushes on my first playthrough

Is that fixed along the major patches somewhere or still an issue that mods mitigate a bit

[finite needle]

The getting beamed through bushes in Stalker 2 vs Gamma is literally the hello human resources meme

[steep widget]

I always found that problematic in gamma too

But I assume it's a difficult thing to fix

[finite needle]

It is, but there is people uniroincally going skill issue vs bad coding depending on the game

[steep widget]

You'd have to have some way to calculate dispersion depending on how much foliage is in the way or some shit idk

[finite needle]

Anyway, there are some combat mods, was it maklane0s better gunfights that fixed most of the issues?

[steep widget]

Also the flashlight is pathetic in stalker 2 and everything is dark af can't see shit but I might just have bad settings or night vision pilled

[finite needle]

nah it sucks, there's no debate ongoing on that

[steep widget]

there's a fine line between "dark and spooky with flashlight" and "can't see shit what the fuck" i guess

[kindred violet]

IIRC they did some changes to gun fire dispersion in a recent update

[jovial berry]

???

[molten osprey]

Njet

[icy basin]

Ты вообще потерялся смотрю, читай название канала

Тут сталкер 2

#☢чат-сталкеров-ru-ua и всё

Там про остальной сталкер

И чо

[molten osprey]

This is how it feels when me and Laff speak german in offtopic

[icy basin]

Дёргай атседа

[whole schooner]

Ybil

Jokerge

[icy basin]

Useless

Hol up

[molten osprey]

Poor xela

[icy basin]

Ye ok

Figured it out

[stoic lichen]

Uh yeah, Cyka blyat :3

[icy basin]

I realise pruning the guy's messages makes me look schizo
However
Have you considered that

[silver crater]

im hoping theres a gama for stalker 2 eventually. I miss all the features gama has that stalker 2 lacks.

[icy basin]

Modpack content is a plague to actual developers

[warped monolith]

modding UE5 is a plague to Grok

he already said zero plans for it

[golden hazel]

byeah

[silver crater]

is it just designed to be difficult?

[hard atlas]

Interesting

[terse gazelle]

there are some restrictions on modding ue5 games from epic

so yes

[fast arrow]

Heard stalker 2 sucks

[warped monolith]

depends what you're looking for in a stalker game

[lean turtle]

It's decent

[fathom zephyr]

does the game still run like shit

[split crown]

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

[split crown]

Without playing since like March, I can tell you right now Zalissya will still rock your world at an astounding 5-10 fps

[finite needle]

Dude xray engine finds a way to run like crap even with modern hardware, imagine the inefficiencies and bad optimization the top ukrainian engineers can create with a top notch, modern engine.

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/transformers-credits-movie-hasbro-ending-gif-4095300824521747557

[finite needle]

your own living room chernobyl

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/doomguy-evil-grin-gif-20903082

[nova galleon]

Itll probably still run better than UE5

[fathom zephyr]

esp the open source xray engines

[strong arch]

its good i guess but i really js dont like it for some reason

its so dry and bland idk how to explain it

feels soulless, like any other new triple-a out there

[icy basin]

Yeah but GSC ain't gonna use that

[icy basin]

Stalker players when Shadow of Chornobyl isn't rendered in DX9 and isn't on a crusty piece of shit x-ray engine

[strong arch]

..?

shadow of chornobyl is on dx 9 im pretty sure

and is on xray... did u mean heart of chorbobel? 😭

[icy basin]

HoC is, in my heart of hearts, as I played it, pretty STALKER

And I don't mean modded

If I were to play the original trilogy through again (soon, I'm feeling the itch for SoC), and then HoC
The only real difference would be massively lower frames, better gun anims, and more cutscenes because they hired people that can actually do those

[remote eagle]

and better storyline too

[prime shell]

if 24 frames is good enough for hollywood, its good enough for me (it wasn't, i bought a new pc to play stalker 2...)

[fallen iron]

@prime shell
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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1036388023903989862/1339994745467830423/djmidasclan69_7281469171790253358.mp4.mov?ex=67b0bedb&is=67af6d5b&hm=49a780571f2f770e29f5d0669f53381b788e106ebbf92cb46208dfa00501772a&

[prime shell]

holy shit that is loud, regrets

[kindred violet]

honestly the one big thing I currently want for S2 is AA without having to use upscaling methods.
the ghosting and blurriness drives me up the wall

[remote eagle]

game need more factions content and side quests tbh

[kindred violet]

yeah

[molten osprey]

For me its the character Interaction. I just like listening to those guys

Strelok calling the major deggy is everything i needed

[rancid saddle]

I'm trying to think up a design doc in my head of what a good overhaul of the game would entail

The curse of the open world is hardest one imo

Can fix the mutants, gunplay, bad stash rewards, lack of side quests

Content of course is always a fun one

But open world? The entirety of stalker 2s map reminds me of darkscape. A couple of good locations worth going to followed by massive swathes of walking

Map design in general is such a fatal flaw

[midnight ridge]

Nope, it lacks fast travel points, that's all

In my opinion map is much more ukraine-like than og maps being just imagination of gsc

Now it resembles real areas

[kindred violet]

Very much this.
People claim morrowind is a walking simulator until you consider all the ways of transporting yourself around the place

[remote eagle]

wise words

[terse gazelle]

no lol

the writing is now same as other aaa slop games (far cry, dying light 2, atomic heart), and those cutscenes suck so much

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-2-stalker-scar-spark-meme-gif-6112129495284371231

calling Atomic Heart slop in the same vein as Far Cry is an interesting take

[icy basin]

That's subjective as fuck

[terse gazelle]

no, its pretty much objective

[warped monolith]

Most of the more sensible people in here (aka the ones not being caught in political whiney bullshit or the ones not hinging their entire criticism of the game on A-Life) praised Stalker 2's story

I haven't played much of it yet myself

[terse gazelle]

im talking about writing, not story

[remote eagle]

writing is good

tf u mean

[warped monolith]

call me crazy but the way the story goes is largely dependant on writing

unless you're referring to incidental things like npc interactions or something along that tangent

[terse gazelle]

do you not know what dialogues are?

[golden hazel]

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

[remote eagle]

[terse gazelle]

the cutscenes with npcs and dialogues are just bad, trying to be "cinematic"

[warped monolith]

I only know it's the main method of advancing a story

[remote eagle]

[terse gazelle]

and its the cringe protagonist quips

[remote eagle]

[golden hazel]

[warped monolith]

we should go back to Clear Sky cutscenes

[remote eagle]

[warped monolith]

surely that's when gaming peaked

[remote eagle]

game

[terse gazelle]

no, we should have slop cutscenes with atomic heart level dialogues

[remote eagle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1381259226499911732.gif?size=48&animated=true&name=peepotalk_l

[warped monolith]

Stalker's dialogue has never been award worthy

[golden hazel]

MARKED WAN

[remote eagle]

WHA DA HELL

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/house-explosion-explode-boom-kaboom-gif-19506150

[warped monolith]

this has always been an indie sci-fi B movie, the only difference now is that it's a AAA sci-fi B movie

[terse gazelle]

ok, watch dying light 2 and atomic heart cutscenes, tell me any difference from stalker 2

[remote eagle]

stalker never was good game in first place lol

[warped monolith]

don't derail. I'm talking about Stalker as a whole, the original trilogy. Compare that to Stalker 2 and show me the difference instead

[terse gazelle]

?

i just told you the difference, dialogues in trilogy werent copied from slop games for console audience

[remote eagle]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/912320242301149215/1380847378516541512/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.webp?ex=684800d5&is=6846af55&hm=93e0dce1e9fc362a103594840b847f52df981432c5b952f6de34d06baf44527e&=&format=webp

[terse gazelle]

and they were fine, never had a problem with them

[warped monolith]

oh it's the consoles' fault now
we're getting close to a bingo

[remote eagle]

[terse gazelle]

yea it is, the game got dumbed down for wider audience

[golden hazel]

[warped monolith]

either way, you can hate "AAA slop" all you want but do yourself a favor and stop pretending Stalker is some kind of masterpiece. It isn't. It never was.

[terse gazelle]

and you can stop pretending stalker 2 isnt ass

[warped monolith]

It's a cult classic primarily due to the atmosphere and setting. Not the writing or story or even the gameplay

[remote eagle]

when it was had smart dialogues in first place?

[warped monolith]

I never said it wasn't

[terse gazelle]

dude, if you never liked stalker in the first place, then why are you even arguing with me?

i liked trilogy, and i dont like stalker 2

[warped monolith]

Can you stop putting words in my fingertips? I never said I didn't like Stalker lmao

[terse gazelle]

and i never said it was a masterpiece

[terse gazelle]

you are very funny! spam more

[kindred violet]

Ask and you shall receive

[remote eagle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1321650265136304159/1348057010444177491/cohort_takeover.gif

[prime shell]

all games are shit

[warped monolith]

everything is shit

[golden hazel]

[remote eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/morgan-freeman-true-morgan-freeman-true-nodding-gif-13973817878387504960

[drowsy umbra]

https://tenor.com/view/bill-cosby-gif-10549708

[raven current]

This is the 5th time of me trying to start the game and im getting crazy now due this crash everytime

How can i solve this

?

[delicate geyser]

Anyone have an overhaul mod they recommend currently working on newest patch?

Some of the ones I was interested in don’t seem to be up to date

[drowsy umbra]

I personally can recommend modular hard mode

[proud ruin]

This common sense enrages the retard

[jovial berry]

Could seem like some kind of driver error?. Are you graphics drivers updated ?

[delicate geyser]

Anyone have tips for graphic settings? Running a 3090 and i9, but I’m trying to play in 4K (monitor is 4K this is the first game I’ve ever had an issue with FPS lol) DLSS seems to help but framegen I’ve decided to turn off the combat is way to floaty and not snappy at all with it

[sweet mica]

genuine question, is the game worth playing in english at any point? Like do you think that certain scenes or VAs are so good that I can withstand horribly out of place vibe ruining side characters (specifically british mfs in zone, are you serious GSC)

or should i beat all endings in ukrainian then never play english

[golden hazel]

Any scene with Scar in english is good

[kindred violet]

I do actually quite like having some diversity in the voices in the english VA.
but ig what you mean

[worthy tundra]

Has the almighty Gr0k been given the beta tools for mod support? Anyone know? I can't wait to see what he does. Assuming he's still interested in modding Stalker 2.

[gentle parcel]

Grok has no interest in stalker 2 modding right now last I read.

[warped monolith]

back when the game released he already said he had no interest in modding it

and that it would be "around 2077" for a gamma 2 release

[proud ruin]

The best part is when he says skifa you are the heart of Chernobyl then stalked all over the place

[golden hazel]

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

[remote eagle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1306683555488862319/1351304623406714971/SKEEFA.gif?ex=6849f380&is=6848a200&hm=56c6482719fdcf25b1042b8c42d94211b04fa5360d64e6cdcbf5e6ebdaf42332&

[delicate geyser]

Anyone know if there’s a way to enable DLSS4 frame gen in STALKER 2 on an NVIDIA 3090 card? Seems to be better than FSR 3.1 and wondering if there’s a mod for it?

[wary nimbus]

On 3000 series you dont have DLSS frame gen, only superresolution and ray reconstruction

You can use DLSS swapper to get DLSS4 superres in S2

Really recommend since the game looks alot sharper then

[tawny vessel]

Would prefer native English than VAs failing to do an accent

[finite needle]

immersion is when american actor does a comically exaggerated russian accent

[remote eagle]

[sweet mica]

I would prefer Ukrainians doing broken English

[kindred violet]

In the end that's personal preference, but as a studio you're going to go with a more widely "acceptable" option

[warped monolith]

I still want a clip of that vendor in zalissya saying BO'LE O' WA'AH

[terse gazelle]

immersion is when i hear english, american and australian accent in stalker, nothing wrong with russian accent in games

[tawny vessel]

The issue is that most Russian accents in games and movies is that they are comically exaggerated and sound fake

[terse gazelle]

i never had issue with them in metro

[warped monolith]

unfortunately people got used to that because it's so prevalent in media

I kinda dig the vibes of the current VA in English. Reminds me of the Chernobyl TV show

[terse gazelle]

chornobyl hbo show?

[tawny vessel]

I like what the death of stalin did with accents

Different English accents to represent the various origin of the politicians

[delicate geyser]

Hey Desolate - just so I understand better is DLSS4 referring to the supersampling aspect? Not a form of DLSS Framegen?

I’m switching from 4K to a 1440p monitor hoping that helps with my frames

So I would use DLSS Swapper to basically unlock better supersampling?

[wary nimbus]

DLSS 4 contains 3 things - Framegen, Ray Reconstruction and Super Resolution. On 3000 series you can only use RR and SR. You need to use DLSS Swapper to use newest upscaling method which will bring you a significant boost of games clarity while using DLSS (basicly you need to swap DLSS dll's to a newer version, read about it)

For me switching to 4K was a one way trip, im not going back anymore 😁

[warped monolith]

I said the same when I switched from 1080p to 2K

Can't afford 4k yet

[delicate geyser]

I think for me the 60hz 4K tv I’m using is a limiting factor. Trying out an ultrawide 144hz 1440p monitor tonight 😁

[delicate geyser]

Just got my ultrawide 1440p monitor setup and now my game crashes when I turn on FSR frame gen… any thoughts as to what might be causing it?

It wasn’t crashing on the other monitor so this is strange

[kindred violet]

That is quite odd, I have an ultra wide too and that doesn't happen to me

[delicate geyser]

Bruh.

If anyone has any input lag while using frame gen and you’re using a reshade - your first step is to try turning off / uninstalling the reshade.

My game runs perfect now with frame gen on and that was the culprit.

[kindred violet]

Putting a reshade on a game that already has problems getting to a smooth 60+ without dlss is a choice

Can't really do framegen when you've got fuck all frames in the first place

[delicate geyser]

If was certainly a dumb move.

I got the game back when it came out and held off playing, watched a guy with a bunch of very atmospheric STALKER 2 videos on YouTube with a cool reshade and it was the FIRST mod I installed. I’ve used so many reshades before in other games I never even considered it was conflicting with Frame Gen. it was adding insane input lag and when you look up frame Gen input lag is common so I just thought it was my 3090 not playing well with FSR.

Without the reshade it now works flawlessly and the game looks great in 4K and I’m now running around the zone engaging in shootouts with no issues.

I spent hours tonight trouble shooting it but I feel it was worth it because my game now runs great. Maybe one of these days I’ll play and not just tweak it for hours lol

[wary nimbus]

Reshade has indeed impact on performance in S2, I got insanely lag spikes while using it UNTIL I installed Ultra+ which resolved most of fps issues in my game with a saginficant visual boost. Before an upgrade i got RTX 3080 Ti and got around 40 fps with epic settings on 4K and Ultra+ and with RayReconstruction turned off (with ON i got around 25 fps 😅 )

Now I upgraded to RTX 5070 Ti, and getting 56 fps with Ray Reconstrucion and DLSS Frame Gen OFF (with ON I got around 90 fps and low input lag)

Have a 60hz monitor so I dont mind to have 90 fps, prefer to have around 60 fps but have Vsync ON instead (you cannot use Vsync with DLSS FG on)

You should really try Ultra+. Dont go with crazy high settings here but more grounded and you will get better visual quality and less fps drops overall

Remember: Game with High settings ingame but with Ultra+ will look and perform better than a game with Epic settings but without Ultra+

Maybe with Ultra+ you will have few fps less overall but you wont have fps drops and stutters like in the vanilla game

If you are interested PM me so i could send you my Ultra+ settings that I used on my 3080Ti

PS. All of these what I wrote is with reshade

[prime shell]

watching a duty and freedom guy just downing each other multiple times and a clear sky ressing the one downed, this is peak a-life and what stalker 2 needs

[delicate geyser]

I will definitely check that out. I’m currently using these two performance related mods:

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/133

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7

I was using the CLIKRAD reshade - it seemed to be the main culprit for the input lag with frame gen. The frame gen just makes such a huge difference and now with virtually no input lag it seems to be the way to go.

I’m using a custom graphic setup, mostly on high and epic with a couple things on medium - it was recommended by a YouTube guide based on benchmarks.

Could you send me what you were running on the 3080ti?

Here are my specs:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Graphics Card, 10th Generation Intel Core i9-10850K Processor, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD

Playing in 4K on a 4K TV set to game mode with 60hz refresh.

[wary nimbus]

Ultra+ is completely different than these engine.ini mods. It makes deeper things in the engine. Im using Clikrad reshade too and indeed FSR 3 generates some input lag. But in my case there was no difference between reshade and without - input lag on FSR 3 was always present (not to mention graphical bugs). Will send you my Ultra+ settings when I will access to my PC

[wary nimbus]

PM

[sweet mica]

I want to argue with someone about Stalker 2

[warped monolith]

try r/stalker or their official discord

[slim moth]

i like going to the official stalker discord and shit on vanilla

also say you like gamma

they love that

[sweet mica]

or more people here anti s2

[cedar pond]

Hey guys , need help , so I first came to chemical plant after sirca (joined ward ) , technician and trader were green but after I spoke to colonel they turned orange and snappy with me ? Why and how to fix assholes ?

[delicate geyser]

Thanks stalker 🫡

[solid shuttle]

Do you guys think there will be more side story lines?

[alpine robin]

S2 good yet?

[tawny vessel]

Define good

The general verdict is meh - ok
Possibly good, if you don't care about some of the changes brought in by anomaly

[sweet mica]

Depends on how important A-Life is to you, if it is extremely important then shut up and come back in literally two years at this rate

GSC wants to prioritize dumb shit like adding a mosin and a 1911. Optimization? What's that?

[kindred violet]

You do realise that a company usually has multiple teams working on different things.
The time spent on restoring cut content isn't time lost on optimisation

[wary nimbus]

I dont care that much with A-Life and mods for this are fine for me. Overall game is good, atmospheric but require a good modpack to be more interesting

Vanilla is very barebones, not much to do actually

With Ultra+ installed optimization is preety fine imo

Basicly mods are way to enjoy the game more

[kindred violet]

And given that the sdk beta is currently going on we can expect even better mods soon™️

[sweet mica]

I really think the game needs to be completely rebalanced, there are so many game design decisions that just confuse the fuck outta me. The level of bullet sponge is insane

[summer vapor]

I wish they would release the SDK sooner, the game is bland without mods, nobody likes the bullet sponge enemies

[wary nimbus]

Again, mods 😅

Balance mods are the most low weight i think

[sweet mica]

No shit, but we shouldn't have to rely on mods to fix games. Games should be good coming out of the oven.

[wary nimbus]

Better Ballistics for example

[wary nimbus]

Thats true, i told that the game is better with mods and thats all