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

[rugged bolt]

I have to install all those 150 gb to see how the game is

[hushed garden]

damn I still get stutters

[terse gazelle]

120 with frame gen
so its not 120

[proud ginkgo]

Try using the new auto detect feature for your graphics, it’ll set everything to Epic. Afterward i turned down global illumination to High from epic and then shadows to medium and it runs smooth now

[hushed garden]

i dislike FG, input lag is detectable by me

[proud ginkgo]

it’s like 60 or so without framegen for me

some of that might be cpu dependent too

[terse gazelle]

are you insane? do you expect studios to optimize their games?

[proud ginkgo]

but from what i noticed the global illumination and shadows are what i found to be the heavy hitters for the 9070xt

[hushed garden]

same thing for most UE5 games then I guess, tanks fps on squad ue5 too

[terse gazelle]

with lumen? i dont remember if you can turn it off

[hushed garden]

My PC is too shit for S2, need to buy a 5090

[terse gazelle]

no, the game is too shit for your pc

it should be better optimized

[drowsy umbra]

games running fine on my 4070 😄

[hushed garden]

maybe one day when a UE5 upgrade is released that genuinely helps with optimisation. heard 5.6 has some improvements for foliage

[terse gazelle]

its not exactly ue5 issue alone, its the workflow that devs decide to use

[hushed garden]

if you need frame gen then game runs like ass

[drowsy umbra]

frame gen is off on my end

[terse gazelle]

i love blurry games with input lag!

[hushed garden]

nice what fps you getting, 90 fps looks choppy on this game#

[drowsy umbra]

I am enjoying the game fine on my 90 fps

[hushed garden]

maybe dlss AA works better

[terse gazelle]

what aa do you use

[drowsy umbra]

DLSS quality

[hushed garden]

FSR 4

Native

[terse gazelle]

how do these compare to taa?

[proud ginkgo]

I think there’s a bug with the upscaler or something, because it was choppy af on Qualify FSR4, but stable on Native AA

[split crown]

....now that you posted this, I had the sudden realization that I've never heard NPCs in my S2 say this line and that saddens me.

[warped monolith]

I never heard them say that in the originals either

wtf did bro do to Strelok

[nova lake]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3507675149&searchtext=Strelok

[slim moth]

omfg

[warped monolith]

[slim moth]

looks like a skyrim npc

but modded weirdly

[warped monolith]

looks like a bad photoshop edit

[barren wharf]

Ok, give me your opinion on 1.5 patch, is good? Worth to install the game again?

[slim moth]

Man, it's up to you

we don't know what's worth it to you or not. i'd say yes, but other's think they were able to fly spaceships across the zone and are disappointed.

[drowsy umbra]

I am just waiting for someone to release a console enabler mod 😄

[slim moth]

even tho there is a roadmap that says everything they're trying to do,

[barren wharf]

Well, do you like the patch?

[slim moth]

you can't use console?

[drowsy umbra]

nope

the console enabler mods like simple mod laoder and the UEtools are crashing the game

[split crown]

Kino feature

[split crown]

Really? Strange

[split crown]

I'd kinda like to play S2 again, but I haven't played since March and would probably have to delete my entire mods folder because everything is out of date lmao

[slim moth]

i'd say it's way better than then.

s2 is good for multiple playthrus imo.

[split crown]

Also something something you need to do other specific things to properly clean out your S2 files because some mods can alter the game - even on new starts/playthroughs?

So I'm wondering if uninstalling and then reinstalling the game would help at all, or if there's a better, more efficient way to go about it.

[terse gazelle]

nobody ever thought that, people are just expecting a decent game

[drowsy umbra]

"decent game" is subjective

I enjoy the game and think its decent

[terse gazelle]

a lot of subjective opinions basically become objective

[drowsy umbra]

opinions arent facts

[terse gazelle]

there is just design choices that arent bugs and wont get changed

[drowsy umbra]

and thats fine for me personally

[terse gazelle]

right, so if someone likes to eat shit, thats subjective

[drowsy umbra]

if thats their kink

its obviously not healthy

but each to their own

[terse gazelle]

lmao, not surprising

[drowsy umbra]

and I really wish that people would stop destroying the joy for the game just because they dislike it

[terse gazelle]

"joy for the game" simply stating you dont like the game

if i liked something and new it was good, no one would "destroy the joy"

[drowsy umbra]

so you want me to dislike the game because it doesnt meet YOUR expectations?

[split crown]

Oh. This is unexpected but neat to see.

[prisma gale]

man. the performance got a serious boost with this patch

[split crown]

Looks like I'm gonna have to remove pretty much everything I've manually added just in case.

[split crown]

Like, boosted enough to turn off framegen?

[prisma gale]

woooooah there, let's not get ahead of ourselves

[split crown]

lmao

I just prefer to keep framegen off because how bad the ghosting/artifacting can get.

[warped monolith]

elaborate

[split crown]

Holy fuck, thank god.

you have no idea how thankful I am for this change.

[terse gazelle]

now if they can only give guns some proper names

[split crown]

Well, that's a complex issue I'd imagine, since GSC would need the OK from each gun's branding to use their proper names I think.

On top of probably paying each gun company for the usage of their gun names.

Hence why they didn't just do that from the get-go

[terse gazelle]

which is why you just change the names, i know you cant always use real life names, but to me three line rifle is just silly

[prisma gale]

i am getting much more framerates, and a more stable FPS in general?

[split crown]

Yeah I understand, although I think "Three-Line Rifle" is just one of the variants of mosin nagants

[terse gazelle]

i assumed its because the scope has three lines

[prisma gale]

also no occasional stuttering?

[split crown]

Known officially as the 3-line rifle M1891

[terse gazelle]

turns out they know more than me

[split crown]

[terse gazelle]

next thing you know, sawn off is known as boomstick

[ivory mango]

i think i never seen this number beofre for any program 😛 700 gb total for the mod kit and the game https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/wanna-make-mods-for-stalker-2-thatll-be-700-gb-of-hard-drive-space-please/

[low hound]

is anyone using MHM on 1.5 yet? does it work?

[ivory mango]

mhm? what is that

[low hound]

modular hard mode

[ivory mango]

ooooooh

[low hound]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/88?tab=description

[ivory mango]

that shit looks cool as fuck

[remote eagle]

from trailer

[ivory mango]

i did not know about this mod

[low hound]

better ballastics got a 1.5 update and it recommends MHM

but idk

alot of comments say its as close to gamma as stalker 2 gets

[ivory mango]

i will check it out.. but then again it probably dont work with 1.5 yet

[warped monolith]

how much fps now compared to before?

[low hound]

hows everyone digging the new update? especially the A life?

[warped monolith]

that does not look like the hair of the guy from the trailer lmao

[remote eagle]

mods

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3494980298&searchtext= how that mod is 1.5 gb

[prisma gale]

i cant remember like absolute numbers, but in general i would say about a 15% increase

[remote eagle]

[prisma gale]

stuttering is just gone for me too. Was actually surprised of how much that increased the overall enjoyment of the game

[golden hazel]

Bro gave Strelok a toupee and thought we wouldnt notice

[timid oyster]

Chat, I present to you https://mod.io/g/stalker2/m/cj-bloodsucker#description

[ivory mango]

oh shit here we go again

[timid oyster]

I need the controller to become low tier god

[remote eagle]

[split crown]

Idk who here said they always do their first playthroughs of games vanilla with 0 mods, but you may be onto something.

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/shad-shadstroy-nikolai-niko-stalker-stalker-gif-12045943941512022740

[warped monolith]

replace the controller with Shrek and I'm gonna play this game

[timid oyster]

BRO

[warped monolith]

the psychic attack needs to have his GET OUT OF MY SWAMP line

[timid oyster]

THEY ACTUALLY DID THAT

[warped monolith]

[remote eagle]

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

[timid oyster]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3GsITJgrBg 0:55

[warped monolith]

oh god

[timid oyster]

HOW TF DID YOU KNOW AHHAHAHAAHHAA

now, your part of the agreement

[warped monolith]

didn't replace the voice

so no deal

[timid oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/hacker-pc-meme-matrix-codes-gif-11310648121341593764

[remote eagle]

[low hound]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3GsITJgrBg

[gray eagle]

How's the new patch

[warped monolith]

you can now field dress mutants for parts, someone said performance was improved

game now has staged reloads

[gray eagle]

The one thing I saw was the new rifle which is awesome, I haven't played since like 1.1

Also saw something about the official mod support?

I'll have to download the game and give it a playthrough

[drowsy umbra]

performance is waaaaay better

its now buttersmooth on my end without stutters

[gray eagle]

I legit couldn't beat the game bc during a certain fight my fps dropped to like 40

Well lower than 40 more like 20

[grave rune]

I haven’t really noticed a change

[hot grove]

super hero landing!!!!

[gray eagle]

in complete fairness its all the non compressed files

[hot grove]

it makes sense now

[empty lion]

why does scar look like he's trying to manifest a kidney stone inside of me with his mind

[golden hazel]

Cause he is

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

[split crown]

SKEEFA, THE CAKE HAS WIRES IN IT - PULL THEM OUT THEY AREN'T LIES TRUST ME.

[cunning estuary]

How is the new update?

[paper dome]

sprinting in this game is somehow more annoying than tarkov

chugging water every 15secs

[warped monolith]

sprinting in og stalker was such a joy

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/miku-miku-fortnite-fortnite-miku-fortnite-king-of-the-hill-gif-17835494048915844562

[mint marlin]

oh gods please someone start adding gun variety and flavor loot asap

and like 1/10 all mutant hp too

[hollow bramble]

whats the consensus on a-life in update 1.5?

[slim moth]

the s2 headshot sfx is so annoying

[warped monolith]

splortch

[hollow bramble]

The video I ended up watching definitely seemed to show improvements but seems like it won’t be substantially better for another year or so. Fortunately we have gamma in the mean time

[split crown]

yeah it was why I grabbed a mod to change that sfx lmao

[warped monolith]

it'd be nice if they allowed us to disable that headshot notification sound. feels like a COD game

[slim moth]

my go to. and hud background remover

[split crown]

100% brother

Gonna guess smaller mods like those are probably still fine to use.

[slim moth]

yes.

[split crown]

I've gotta drop Desolation and other major ones though.

[slim moth]

I had to drop MHM :c

[split crown]

incompatible with the new patch?

[slim moth]

afaik. it'd make sense for mutant loot vanilla and mutant loot mhm to conflict

I have not been able to loot any mutant so far lmao

[split crown]

yeah

[split crown]

Oof. Did GSC add a quest in you have to do to unlock default mutant looting maybe?

[elfin pilot]

eh hem

THEY ADDED MOSIN NAGANT

MUH FORTY FIVE

[golden hazel]

Moist Nugget

[split crown]

love me moist nugget

[elfin pilot]

https://tenor.com/view/cillianmurphygun-cillianmurphy-jazmincoded-gif-3811002643797340103

body shaming again

[rugged bolt]

Is it worth playing now

[elfin pilot]

oh they removed the RPD

THEY CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

[cold dock]

how does one skin mutants? do i need to start a new playthrough?

[dark pewter]

i think you need to do a certain mission first

[cold dock]

which one and where?

[tacit glacier]

That one got scrapped months ago

[elfin pilot]

You don't they are just very uncommon for a skinable mutant to spawn

I killed like a pack of 9 dogs for Nitingale side quest and only got like 1 dog to skin

Just gotta be patient but I cant because game doesnt let me skin a Bloodsucker after such a painful fight

[elfin pilot]

became one with the floor

[elfin pilot]

him

[zinc willow]

guys, I got a 4080 and 7900, I use a blend of high and medium graphic settings.
and DLSS Tranformer model set to balanced. No frame gen. I am getting around 45-55 fps. Is the game just wholly broken ?

[icy basin]

Sounds pretty good

For something running on UE 5.1.1

[zinc willow]

I mean, are they just completely fucked because of the unfortune version choice?

cause I cant force myself to play this slog in this state, and its been over half a year

[zinc willow]

imo, no. check back in 2027

[pseudo falcon]

kek
i just got home

[icy basin]

Try in another 5 years

When they maybe upgrade to 5.6

[pseudo falcon]

so the mods are in mod.io now not nexus?

[nova lake]

you can put your mosd anywhere, mod.io is for consoles, and you can also use steam workshop

i dont know why a pc player would use modio

Stalker 2 modding guides from GSC
https://mod.io/g/stalker2/r
https://cdn.stalker2.com/Mod.io/S2_HoC-Zone_Kit_Full_Modding_Guide.pdf
https://cdn.stalker2.com/Mod.io/S2_HoC-Zone_Kit_Custom_Weapon_Modding_Guide.pdf
https://cdn.stalker2.com/Mod.io/S2_HoC-Zone_Kit_Weapon_Animation_Modding_Guide.pdf

[low hound]

is loot bloat still an issue? what rebalance mods are folks using? I used to use Grok's rebalance, but that mod hasn't been updated in months

[pseudo falcon]

to be safe
use only mods that are updated to 1.5

altho im gonna be an idiot and use most of my mods and see if it breaks (updated some mods of course like OXA)

[low hound]

ya i just can't stand how they balanced this game, one would think simple value edits would be safe but idk

[split crown]

Basically my issue too

[nova lake]

if you are replacing cfgs then it prob wont, since updates rely on adding options to cfgs

[pseudo falcon]

tanky mutants
if they were gamma mutants i would be fine

why mutants even hard armor
i can understand if its chimera, giant and boar(on its front side but weak on sides and back)

[low hound]

the annoying part is when you get a new update to a mod that uses another older mod that is claimed not to work

[pseudo falcon]

i removed mods that relies on game version

hopefully the mods i retained works coz they only edit stuff
or cosmetics

[mint wharf]

Hows patch 1.5 now with A-life?

[nova lake]

roughly on par with SOC

[pseudo falcon]

basic i think
havent tried it, but saw on the video its same as one of the OG games

[low hound]

idk from everything ive watched its pretty basic, but you can actually call it a-life now

npcs are persistent and hold locations

[pseudo falcon]

we need bigger bubble around
100meters wont cut it

[mint wharf]

Held off from buying it till they've done it. I demo'ed on release and completed it. So no more spawning behind you then?

[low hound]

biggest issue is the small 100m "online" bubble; they need 150m

[mint wharf]

No config for that yet then?

[pseudo falcon]

is it 100 meter radius or 100 meter bubble?

[low hound]

the fuck is the difference lol

[pseudo falcon]

still 10mins to finish the update

[nova lake]

yhea, so was SOC tho

[low hound]

exactly

[nova lake]

AMK is what made A-Life actually work since it got the stuff that was cut from SOC

[low hound]

ive got shays living zone in my load order but im having issues with other mods

[pseudo falcon]

we are being too hard to ALife on SoC and stalker 2 since gamma has more mods to make it better
might be in the future for stalker 2

[icy basin]

@midnight wind
Consider adding this to #╟⚒stalker2™-mod-resources ?

[nova lake]

no, I dont really think so

all the nice A-Life features people care about were added with AMK and COC, and were removed from SOC and CS

if anything, Im being too nice to SOC

[mint wharf]

Probs unpopular opinion, but really enjoyed the warfare mode even with its jank.

[low hound]

same

[pseudo falcon]

so anomaly has those included?

[low hound]

i had 80 hrs on a pre-gamma playthrough and i never had an issue with warfare

[nova lake]

yhea, it's a COC fork

[pseudo falcon]

i know COC but what is AMK?

[nova lake]

AMK is the first overhaul mod that was realease in 2007, for SOC

[prisma gale]

To be fair, OG games had a 150 IIRC

[pseudo falcon]

oh

[nova lake]

it added a plethora of stuff, dyanmic anomalies, restored and expanded alife, blowouts, artifact transmutation and some cut stuff, as well as adding a freeplay mode

[mint wharf]

Same here, you can play warfare on GAMMA with some tweaking. I haven't updated my gamma for a while now, but the takeover mechanics can be touch and go.

[prisma gale]

So from a GSC perspective, they have probably delivered what you could call equal to the original games

[nova lake]

yes, but they promised us a better system, and from what we can see in the leaks, the plans were a lot more complex

so you can expect them to expand more and more on the system

[prisma gale]

As far as i remember when the 'monolith engine' was introduced the online A-life bubble was increased to 750 meters

[nova lake]

rn, you can call it an equivalent to Alife 1.0, not Alife 2.0

[serene drum]

Soo the game finally has A life?

[nova lake]

yhea

[pseudo falcon]

yeah
but its basic

[prisma gale]

Similar to the OG games? Yes

[pseudo falcon]

might be expanded with mods in the future

[mint wharf]

Which tbh is insane. At least I think it is.

[nova lake]

the CMs said they would keep improving in the future as well

[pseudo falcon]

is this online?

[prisma gale]

Yes

[pseudo falcon]

bruh

dammit
game let me play
99%

oh phew
time to test it now

[mint wharf]

That said, A-life itself when I experimented a couple of years ago on my old rig introduced a fair bit of stutters. (The expansion of its radius)

[nova lake]

Stalkers outside of a map aren't rendered tho, they are kept in offline alife

[prisma gale]

Ah, just so there is no confusion, monolith engine is the old refactored XRAY engine from the original games

New engine is UE so there might be complications with adding a larger online radius

[pseudo falcon]

man i have to delete 3 save files coz update

no longer compatible lol

[nova lake]

From what I heard the biggest problem with the bubble was memory peaks BC of the garbage collector

Which you aren't supposed to use in Alife

[pseudo falcon]

haha bruh
i guess some mods still needed to be removed

[prisma gale]

Yeah, which is why the 750 meter radius were sometimes superfluous, as maps were fairly small

[split crown]

This is from Better Ballistics iirc

[prisma gale]

Recommend disabling all mods and only use the ones uploaded to the steam workshop for now

[pseudo falcon]

i updated it tho?

[mint wharf]

Was the reliance on a good single CPU core in the older engine which fucked me up when expanding A-life radius in GAMMA, on Anomaly less so.

[pseudo falcon]

well shit

[split crown]

The uploader said he's trying to find a fix for it, but for now he doesn't think any gameplay should be negatively affected if you select yes.

[split crown]

Even texture and UI mods?

[pseudo falcon]

i see
ill try to remove it and test if it works
if some still persist
my modlist goes bye bye

[prisma gale]

I guess the new multithredding is used for graphics rather than simulation

[nova lake]

Just go back to modding CoC with OpenXray

[split crown]

Tbh I should see what kinda mods are being posted on the steam workshop.

[mint wharf]

That would be my guess yeah, I only demo'd stalker 2 on release and havent played the patch versions yet so would be good to benchmark it when I buy the game and experiment with A-life if the radius can be experimented with. Performance was half decent except for slight choppiness, Im on a 4090 mobile now with a half decent Intel core.

[rotund mantle]

ong..

[prisma gale]

If you run into startup problems, yes. But ideally texture mods should not clash with different versions, unless the patch fucked around with naming convention

[split crown]

Gotcha

[nova lake]

Then prob wait for now, the SDK doesn't yet have the possibility to change the AI nor mess directly with the game

[pseudo falcon]

my only texture that i use is replacing the shotgun shells to red

[mint wharf]

That was my line of thinking yeah, wait for the good folks to test and see. Was wondering how far they come when they dropped 1.5

[split crown]

I've got that one and some AK texture replacers

[prisma gale]

To be fair, i had stuttering issues before 1.5 and those dissapeared with the new update

[pseudo falcon]

bruhhhhhhhhhhhhh
game keeps crashing
guess all goes bye bye
and only keep the mods that are updated

[split crown]

[pseudo falcon]

im using oxa standard, thats updated right?

[nova lake]

From what I hear of the SDK testers, the SDK is powerful but very buggy rn, you can directly mess with world entities but they also haven't found out everything that can be done with the editor, barely scratched 1% in their one month of testing

[mint wharf]

Not surprising tbh. It'll take a while for people to see what they can/can't mess with and also optimisation. I mean hells I just checked out MODDB and seen this:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/aoengine

Like this is for STALKER 1 lol

Though its introduced according to comments a slew of bugs.

[nova lake]

Just fork the bit bucket monolith engine and make smth new

[low hound]

imo i wish gsc had kept using xray

[nova lake]

Delusional tbh

[low hound]

idk look how far the community has gone with it, 10 years they took to make s2 they couldve made xray a beast

[pseudo falcon]

i think i found the cause

[low hound]

ya thats not nesscary

you can skip the shader comp in vanilla now

[pseudo falcon]

but better ballistics will still be removed

[low hound]

as far as i know it works just has bad text lines

[mint wharf]

Will wait for S2 to go on sale and more updates. Not gonna pay full price atm.

[split crown]

Believe so yea

[pseudo falcon]

im gonna use prototype on nxt playthrough

[split crown]

What is that? I have it in my folder too, but idr

[pseudo falcon]

wasted my time fixing this game

i could have playing my monolith run in gamma lol

[split crown]

Oh, it just skips the shaders?

[pseudo falcon]

but i got excited on the new update

[pseudo falcon]

ye
before this new update, we dont have it

[rotund mantle]

id personally just wait until 2.0

[nova lake]

The most advanced engines right now are IXray and AXray and they don't meet the specifications needed for S2 being open world and all

[split crown]

Honestly might be what I do.

[nova lake]

Whilst being impressive the entire map system would need a complete rewrite, it's just not feasible

[rotund mantle]

its what im doing atm they are making progress but just aint there yet imo

[nova lake]

And X-ray 2.0 is too far behind

[pseudo falcon]

should i still wait for the compiling shaders since new update?

[low hound]

it has a press space bar to skip prompt

they said if your updating or updating your gfx drivers not to skip it

but other than that your good

[pseudo falcon]

holy shit my modlist still works

i only had to remove the no shader comp mod and better ballistics lmao

i still have 101 mods installed lol

is anyone using mods that reduce mutant hp and reduce repair cost?

[nova lake]

I heard that the mod that reduces repair cost also messes with the mutant looting logic, but there's so many repair cost reducers

[odd fjord]

no, your game is broken. you just dont know it yet

[pseudo falcon]

yeah lol

[odd fjord]

ran into a problem? hha

[pseudo falcon]

yeah

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/head-shake-saturday-night-live-tsk-tsk-disappointed-displeased-gif-10749017719761219804

[pseudo falcon]

fcking hell

i guess only the mods updated are the only one i can use

[odd fjord]

jupppp

pretty much

[pseudo falcon]

can texture mods work?

[odd fjord]

which one?

[pseudo falcon]

shotgun shells to make it red

[odd fjord]

i think thats fine

[pseudo falcon]

neat

[odd fjord]

oh wait its cfg? yeah i dont know

[pseudo falcon]

how about mods that edit only?
like making less stamina and ledge grabbing

[odd fjord]

nonononon

[pseudo falcon]

shit
i guess all of them

[odd fjord]

big NO for those for sure

they touch some very sensitive files, you can grab my pack on steam or individual updated ones/ new ones on steam/nexus

[pseudo falcon]

i want this tho
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1377

[odd fjord]

should be fine i guess

[pseudo falcon]

how about this?

updated it and removed more

[odd fjord]

bro

[pseudo falcon]

?

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/seriously-gif-23861497

[pseudo falcon]

fine
these are the only updated ones

[odd fjord]

joe, merged, oxa, repairs, aiming, vignette, no drunk, no timer, rad vignette

all can cause issues atm

oxa dont work on 1.5 does it?

[pseudo falcon]

hmm ill try

so this one is ok?

[serene girder]

I can't seem to loot Mutants, meaning I can't do the Nightingale Quest.

[pseudo falcon]

iirc they said on the video you need to do a mutant task

or maybe take out your knife to loot them

[serene girder]

So, you can't grab the Collar off the Dog, cause you can't loot it, uhh...

[pseudo falcon]

new game?

[serene girder]

Yup

[pseudo falcon]

so i forgot to remove SML so thats why my game isnt loading coz i installed UE4SS

[serene girder]

So, the Mutant Tankiness Mods likely broke my gsc mutant looting. I compared the stuff in FModel

[pseudo falcon]

i removed mods that affect mutants

[serene girder]

This one however, has been updated literally quite recently. About an hour ago. https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1408?

[pseudo falcon]

im wondering why i cant skip cutscenes

[odd fjord]

still problems?

[misty cloud]

How is the game nowadays bros?

[low hound]

its been updated

[pseudo falcon]

nope
i forgot how hard vanilla stalker 2 is without my mods lol

game super modded im a scrub on vanilla game

i wonder how i got to do it when i first did it when i bought it, iirc only few mods were used

[terse gazelle]

hmm...

[rotund mantle]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3508948639&searchtext= there is this atm i havent tested it yet though

[deft folio]

that sound is so bad, espeically when it doesn't mean they are dead. Just pointless

[rotund mantle]

Right? Feels so cheesy

[toxic wave]

Is the in-game mod menu only available on consoles?

[pastel crag]

Which weapon is next on the list for the roadmap ?

[prisma gale]

i will agree that the audio-feedback feel rather useless when enemies doesnt die

or counter-intuitive is probably a better word

[crimson elm]

when grok made stalker2 gamma?

[kindred violet]

2077

[rugged bolt]

[ornate violet]

do you guys know how to fix this?

[prisma gale]

considering that gamma was started like, what? 10 years after CoP? we will have to wait quite a while

if it will even be possible.

[odd plume]

Why on earth did they make it so that installing mods disables achievements

[prisma gale]

As far as i know, Anomaly or CoC was only possible because the entire codebase for the original game was published when GSC went bankrupt at some point

i might be remembering wrong

[odd plume]

Guess they just need to go bankrupt again.... /s

[grave rune]

True

[prisma gale]

hum. Maybe not bankrupt as far as my googling goes. But source code for xray engine was leaked

[prisma gale]

maybe delete shader cache and make it re-load

[brave terrace]

let game compile shaders

[prisma gale]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1643320/discussions/0/603016959722862893/

[ornate violet]

had an unmodifiable engine.ini due to a mod, deleted it, recompiled and now it fixed

[terse gazelle]

uhh, how else would the player possibly know if there was a headshot?

[warped monolith]

[prisma gale]

i don't know, they fall over and has a huge hole in their head?

tee-hee

[terse gazelle]

like a yellow painted hole? yea i could see that working

[prisma gale]

[golden hazel]

[odd plume]

Crazy how I went from not playing since launch to this update and the game still spawns enemies and encounter squads right ontop of me plus POIs still respawn the same enemy after leaving for 2 minutes. The gate that you pass from garbage to Rostok is the best example. Spawns bloodsucker there, I kill it, come back after a quick stop at Rostok and another Bloodsucker turns up in the same spot...

[warped monolith]

reminds me of Far Cry 2 with the enemy outposts always refreshing

[odd plume]

And I thought the latest update changed all of that...

I feel absolutely 0 difference

[slim moth]

maybe try again next year, idk

[odd plume]

yeah probably

[slim moth]

im having fun. but i don't play vanilla

[terse gazelle]

soc garbage flashbacks

[terse gazelle]

idk if there will ever be a-life that people expected, either from devs or mods, its possible thats its too fundamental to change

[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&

[prisma gale]

to be fair, they expected an A-life that have never been in the original games.

[terse gazelle]

idk how accurate that is to say, and to be fair its nowhere near vanilla anyway

besides, the modding scene is a big part of what kept the series alive, they couldve based some things on mods, while still keeping it similar to vanilla games

[prisma gale]

i mean, original game had a 150 meter bubble of online a-life opposite to the 100 now

and while i agree that it would be nice to have more stuff taken from gamma/anomaly, those essentially has like a decade of fine tuning to turn out how they have.

not to try to come to the defense of GSC i think they have made a lot of mistakes that they could be critized for

[terse gazelle]

and yet it worked pretty well, never saw enemies spawn next to me, obviously its not gonna be a big area for ai to work constantly

[prisma gale]

yeah, that was freaking jank. Glad it is fixed

for example another aspect they should have tried to consider was the entire economy of the game. It's like they wanted to create a real lean economy, but then forgot to introduce valuable loot ooutside of weapons/gear and just mass spamming food/meds

adding economy items like jewelry boxes and etc like the mods did would be an easy fix.

i am just glad they didn't take inspiration for ALL the mods... Uugh. I still have PTSD about Misery

[supple peak]

Crosspost from reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1ll876x/anyone_dug_a_bit_deeper_into_the_new_sdk_you_know/

I have the model and textures for the Tornado 6 revolver fro MGS:V pictured above. IF in need, there might be a way to aquire a better model. Animations could even work from the Rhino revolver, I am just unable (due to shitty PC) to work with the new SDK, so I am in need of someone else. I am ok with work on a commission base. Please hit me up, if you are down.

[stark rock]

Is the A-Life Found a way mod still needed to have decent A-Life? I thought they improved it over the last patch or two?

[prisma gale]

for me i don't have anyone that spawns in front of me or anything

it is a lot better IMO

[finite needle]

It's roughly on par with old school a life, you could say a life 1.0 or some shit.

only big difference is that they pop in a lot closer, but seems they keep trying to get to the Rostok bar and stay there drunk until the end of days just like in the old games

combat is a bit better, mutants look less tanky? I tried the tutorial and the game feels much smoother now. Combat is the same as 1.4.

Anyway, congrats, yall finally got the NPCs migrating from point A to point B with permanence, and pretending to gather artifacts like in CoP.

I'm still waiting my side content, but I suppose they had to reach a stable base first.

I like the mosin

[prisma gale]

i just miss binoculars and being able to identify people's faction

[stark rock]

aww you can't loot the blood sucker in the intro mission

[warped monolith]

Can you still stash all your stuff in the safe before you get whacked in the prologue? and then go back and get it

[slim moth]

simple mod loader updated

flashlight customizer too

[cedar plank]

does anyone know the command for mosin because I can't buy it anywhere?

[slim moth]

probably got the mosin in there somewhere

[cedar plank]

thanks, but I nedd a simple command XCreateItemInInventoryByID not MOD

[outer depot]

Pushing the render radius to 150 meters would do a lot to kill pop-in. 200 meters even more so. There are a lot more places in this game where you can see uninterrupted for hundreds and hundreds of meters, sometimes even kilometers

But 150-200 meters at ground level with uninterrupted sight lines are a lot less common than 100 meters

[slim moth]

consoles

[outer depot]

Yeah well

Make it an option, knowing performance will take a hit somewhat

It sounded like most of their problems with extending it were related to having hubs populate at longer distances without causing issues

Which maybe you could do more aggressive culling of NPCs rendering in the hubs themselves until you actually get there

“People in the bars and hangars at Rostok don’t need to be rendered outside of 75 meters”

[slim moth]

UE5 handles npc's at a distance horribly for some reason, but hell they can make trees look good from 2km away

[outer depot]

Anyways I’m just happy we’ve hit A-Life 1.0 because things should get better faster from here

I just wish I could play, but my AC died in the middle of a heat wave here so I don’t feel like driving the inside up to 95 degrees trying to play stalker until that’s fixed lmao

I hope they add a lot more random little NPC actions and such over time

Sneaking/ambushing/breaking LOS better when being sniped

[finite needle]

game runs much smoother now too, it's not only me

[slim moth]

it certainly doesn't feel as stuttery

[mossy egret]

so how much space on the install now

[finite needle]

my PC is pretty much old junk by now but it's running pretty decently on medium now, didn't even have to tinker to reach decent performance

still 150, that hasn't changed.

[slim moth]

dude ue4ss is giving me some god damn problems

[finite needle]

the partial reload is pretty cool ngl

mutants are a LOT less tanky at least in lesser zone, fights are more or less the same but I've noticed bandits tend to miss you a lot, compared to before at least.

Noticed a lot less weapon drops, will play more in the weekend

[split crown]

Did you end up deleting your whole modlist, or were you able to salvage some?

[finite needle]

Never installed any mod

[split crown]

Oh, my bad, I'm mixing you up with another blue name

[finite needle]

Fair

[jovial berry]

why not? genuinely asking. I thought you beat the game already no?

[split crown]

both of yall are cat themed...

[finite needle]

With a patch released every month? Why would I? Game doesn't need any more jank added upon it

[jovial berry]

very true

did you finish the game tho?

if you did, might be a good time to start trying out mods

most wont break save files either

[slim moth]

sheeeit i'll delete the game, redownload if there is a cool enough mod (overhaul) to try out.

[finite needle]

Honestly, did the doctor ending but I still want ti play one more vanilla

If something really cool comes out great

[slim moth]

yes YOU CAN!

[slim moth]

idk if it's the new reshade ver. but it got BAD stutters

[split crown]

I was actually wondering about how reshade's been doing with S2. Also thinking of dropping the Engine.ini I downloaded from nexus.

[slim moth]

my engine.ini is very minimal

cause i don't want it to clash with U+

but yeah, idk what's up with the reshade. it runs like dog shit even with no filters/effects applied.

[split crown]

Weird

I think I'm like a version or two behind what reshade's current build is at.

[split crown]

I've mostly stuck with the Ultimate Engine Tweaks Engine.ini for S2.

[slim moth]

i stay away from all of the engine.ini's. most of them are filled with variables that don't even do anything

[split crown]

I think what I like most is some of them use a few lines that somehow make the mouse latency not totally awful when framegen is on, lol.

[outer depot]

oh, guess I need to see if the Clear Sky hud mod still works

can't imagine why it wouldn't

[slim moth]

most of the hud ones i use are old and still work

[outer depot]

hadn't played in a minute so I just scrubbed everything so I can re-add them bit by bit as they update or an equivalent comes out

[outer depot]

oh yeah they work

need muh classic UI and inventory

[golden hazel]

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

[outer depot]

huh... performance does seem a bit better

[slim moth]

i need to change something in corevariables.cfg

what is the easiest way

cause i used to just merge and thats fine.

or which pakchunk

[tough trail]

i mean gsc didn't really do anything that new, its the same thing PG did with MW5 kit

you get cutdown ue5 editor (was ue4 in mw5 case) and enjoy

because the real guts are in the c++ sources that gsc will not share, your scope of modding be limited
like with call of chernobyl you have both sources for engine and scripts
tbh you probably don't need sources for ue5's fork that gsc uses for modding i guess, but scripting is not fully open right now and its still a question when it will be

the blueprint scripting available rn is something vs nothing at least

[slim moth]

found it (not)

[split crown]

checking out some of the mod pages on the S2 Steam Workshop
looking at the Alternative PDA World Map mod and see this comment from the uploader

very cool & epic GSC

[slim moth]

So is it on purpose for corevariables.cfg to be literally fucking hidden on FModel?

[split crown]

in an ideal world, modding would be an enjoyable and even peaceful experience

[slim moth]

putting this here for later

i just wanted to change the fov and interaction dots, god damn

[outer depot]

it's probably tied to the achievements system

[slim moth]

https://tenor.com/view/this-guys-a-modder-tool-gif-27133243

[outer depot]

me when i install a new safety lever on my Saiga-12

[split crown]

Welp, I deleted my mods folder, the engine.ini I was using, and verified my game files; launched the game successfully, and I also managed to start a new game successfully. Vanilla run here we go I guess.

[summer vapor]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/981 Do you think it will work fine with version 1.5?

[outer depot]

wake up with richter sounds like a disease

[slim moth]

maybe, merge and find out!

rn is the time to break our shit and find out what works till the hotfix comes around and rebreaks it

https://tenor.com/view/brooklyn-nine-nine-brooklyn99-adrian-pimento-jake-peralta-circle-of-life-gif-13320049

[summer vapor]

there seems to be no need to merge

[slim moth]

then full send brother

no regerts

[tough trail]

mod.io doesnt have this issue? or for every mod?

[cerulean root]

It’s been a hot second is SKEEFA finally able to mod

[nova lake]

The developers are working to open the game to allow you to directly mod with the game entities but right now, it is really volatile

But yea SDK is very phase 1 beta alpha, better wait for it to be ironed out

[pseudo falcon]

if you have mods from before 1.5
seems like it affects mutant loot
i removed a certain mod and i can loot mutants now

the mod that was affecting me was this from looting mutants
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/433?tab=posts

i removed it now i can loot mutants

[nova lake]

From what I can gather mods that change the stats of the main player character conflict with the new update

[pseudo falcon]

ye
thats why i removed them

flesh eye and blind dog nasal gland

[icy basin]

You took the whole ass nose

[tacit glacier]

Nasal gland
Bro that's an entire fucking snout

[icy basin]

[pseudo falcon]

dont blame me
blame gsc

[tacit glacier]

Dry we need a !hasalife

[icy basin]

It do?

[remote eagle]

[tacit glacier]

NPC's presist and stay in the zone until they die.
Multiple people already tested it.

And they actually set up camp in places instead of leaving them empty 24/7
Overall I see a positive reception on a-life upgrades in 1.5

[fallen iron]

Tag "hasalife" successfully created.

[icy basin]

!hasalife

[fallen iron]

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[icy basin]

[remote eagle]

[tacit glacier]

Cool

[odd fjord]

no it doesnt lol

[tacit glacier]

But the tests on yt D=

[odd fjord]

its all still very basic script within constraints visible from the files, its forcing respawn in lairs based on distance and time last seen

it doesnt simulate anything in the background, sure you can say the trilogy did this too but we are talking about alife 2.0

does the game have some form of alife? perhaps. is it one worthy of 2.0 and the words "it has a life" no, not at all

[pseudo falcon]

stalker 2 with OG Stalker Alife lol

[tacit glacier]

What about the instances where AI actually walked all the way from Zaton to Rostok? 👀

[odd fjord]

thats just a patrol script

[tawny vessel]

Stalker 2 being just the OGs in 2020 checks out

[odd fjord]

you can try make them yourself its in Worldmap_WP

just because the game send one unit from x to y randomly because you checked all needed prerequisites doesnt mean the game did it on its own

setting up low expectations now by saying game has a-life just says to gsc you are happy with the current state and how they want to handle things and in future how alife will shape

[tacit glacier]

I mean tbf that's how it worked in original games didn't it?
Clear Sky's Faction War was basically
"If stage = this and taken camps = that then go fuck up shit in bandit base in Garbage"

[odd fjord]

stop accepting mediocre 20 years old script logic as a starter for alife 2.0

[tacit glacier]

Besides the point of the tag is to say a-life is actually present
Not that it's in 2.0 state :V

[odd fjord]

we are 2025 with neural stuff, behavior trees, complex ai controllers and more systems to actually simulate

[odd fjord]

well yes if you accept trilogy levels but its marketed as alife 2.0

is it alife? perhaps like trilogy. is it a marketed 2.0 alife? no

[tacit glacier]

Yeah we are miles away from 2.0

I have a feeling they'll unlock a-life editing once they have it in a place they want it to be

[odd fjord]

its a better way to say it have some resemblance of life

[icy basin]

Ping me for when we need !hasalife2

[odd fjord]

but does it have an actual life?

[nova lake]

you can look at it this way, it is the start of A-life, the game had no Alife so they need to first match the first games Alife so they can add upon it and give us Alife 2.0
You can say it has Alife1.0 in it

[odd fjord]

an honest bot would be that it has alife 1.0 yeab

[tacit glacier]

Then we'll just add 2.0 to the image

[odd fjord]

yeah, but 2.0 is touted as a simulation of the zone

[tacit glacier]

I'm glad it at least simulates enough to make the game feel alive without seemingly spawning AI out of thin air in front of the player.

What is really needed is a online radius increase.

Its still beyond easy to see NPC's go from Online Sim to Offline Sim

[neat pebble]

why my game crashes? I put SSDO High and now crashes

[summer vapor]

the game would benefit from more lairs where only one type of mutants/npc spawns. Random spawn of different types of enemies in the bubble not good for immersiveness. for example, bloodsuckers should only spawn in caves/near buildings, or spawn more often at night

[neat pebble]

help plz

[tough trail]

i havent seen any modsdk for ue that lets you modify sources directly, everyone goes the BP route+editing non-standard scripting that devs use

and BP route is really not fun

[nova lake]

Truth be told, I've only ever modded stalker and source
How's Blueprints diff from a c++ script?
I thought UE Visual Scripting was basically the same thing, or that was how it was sold to me

[pseudo falcon]

man killing headshot and the npc goes flying like wtf

i want to loo the body but i cant coz im still fighting the other npc and i dont know where that body is sent flying

[tacit glacier]

the compass shows an x at least

But the Chornobyl Space Program is a known issue and it's being pacified by GSC

Yes that's how the community people called it on reddit. On stalker server they say 1.5.1 should fix the issue

[outer depot]

Frankly just give the NPCs more stuff to do/more minor actions they can make and expand render to 150/200 and it’s going to be “good enough” as a base, especially once people start tweaking them further with mods

[pseudo falcon]

man
some artifacts have changed, even the liquid rock which is best for countering radation of other artifacts that emit rads when equipped in belt

[jovial berry]

!hasalife

[fallen iron]

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[jovial berry]

https://tenor.com/view/danny-devito-its-always-sunny-applaud-happy-cry-clapping-gif-18958303

holy shit that gif is so high def

[undone vessel]

https://youtu.be/JCLEQsPR3Mw?si=7-Xgz8ntTAT_Jg9V

[undone vessel]

https://youtu.be/Y3GsITJgrBg

[odd plume]

I believe I have read that the 100 meter online bubble is somewhat hard to expand due to it messing up the whole offline component of the game and also outposts that are populated completly bug out or something

[tacit glacier]

I heard Cheeki Breeki iv Damke in game

So its not removed
Just ludicrously rare

[late kernel]

Now make it replace every bandit combat voice lines

[tacit glacier]

SDK doesn't give us access to audio yet I think

[icy basin]

Add Я МАСЛИНУ ПОЙМАЛ to that

[finite needle]

Gonna miss the Gagarin patch

Now that yall got a life gimme fucking content

[warped monolith]

I would if I could, Monke

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/right-here-ludacris-what's-your-fantasy-song-at-this-spot-at-this-place-gif-10189903412767825465

[marble rivet]

Has somebody else was scammed by Game Legends DE eshop? I still didn't received my Stalker 2 collector's edition for 200eur. Or does anybody know somebody else who got same problem?

[outer depot]

The little bit I played before bed last night felt a lot more consistent performance wise

And the AI felt a lot better even without any of the tweak mods

[tough trail]

How's Blueprints diff from a c++ script?
it compiles into cpp and its much slower and visual programming fucking sucks with complex stuff

it is the same in terms of nativeness

but it wasn't really designed for serious stuff, its more so people who can't be bothered to write code could also do stuff

[tacit glacier]

I tested it briefly and removed it

I have a 4080 Super and all these trees just made my game cry in agony (from stable FPS to a fucking mess )

[icy basin]

Having been in a few, lemme tell ya
There's a lot of shit in forests

[slim moth]

so unoptimized af?

thats a damn shame, cause the forests in vanilla s2 are dogshit

[terse gazelle]

foliage in general looks like ass

[slim moth]

it looks like FarCry 3 HBAO and that is just awful

It makes me avoid going to Red Forest as much as possible cause it looks like doo doo

[slim moth]

i got my fucking flashlight back boys lets go

[tacit glacier]

If you want things looking somewhat better I recommend this
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/484

[slim moth]

thats a staple for me. can't play without it.

[wary nimbus]

Lol, in the comments people are writing that they have no fps loss 🤔 Gonna test by myself

[tacit glacier]

Yeah it does some voodoo magic I dont really understand myself

[slim moth]

Its been relatively same fps for me.

with the tree mod

no reshade

is anyone using reshade that is not getting stutters from hell from it?

[slim moth]

anyone else getting npc's stuck in cover till you doink em in the head and they fly?

[tacit glacier]

Chornobyl Space Program
Known issue, gonna be fixed in 1.5.1

[serene girder]

A-Life DEFINITELY works. Didn't expect to see this dude over where the north lesser zone stash is. Sure, it's Old Stalker A-Life but it's A-Life.

And Yup. I'm getting STALKER Space Programme myself.

[slim moth]

i know that they fly, but i was wondering if anyone else was experiencing more of the stuck behind the cover part.

[split crown]

I started a new game last night, and I stopped to go to bed like right after the first few bandits you encounter. Is it literally every time you headshot another NPC that their bodies go flying?

[slim moth]

no, it's only when they're in cover

[split crown]

Ooooh. Interesting

[slim moth]

sometimes out of cover, maybe it's an animation thing. but it's not terrible cause you know it's gonna get fixed. it's pretty entertaining

[split crown]

It is so funny

Immersion breaking definitely, but I don't mind if I'm laughing

[woeful stag]

hey all! got 3 questions as im coming back to stalker 2 from launch

1. did they rework damage/pen to not be totally silly? does 9x18 still beat 5.56?
2. does damage/pen still increase within calibers as gun tiers go up? EG: m4 and AK-74becomes poop past beginner zones
3. is there a simple mod that increases NPC draw distance from 100 to 150/200 and changes nothing else on 1.5?

❤️

[slim moth]

the poppy field watchers are back

[golden hazel]

Makes me wonder if they fixed the infinite spawning monolith in front of you spot in pripyat

[split crown]

No idea because I've never even explored Pripyat in S2 lol

[golden hazel]

bruh

[split crown]

Yeah dude.

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

I made the mistake of doing shit in the main quest all the way up to SIRCAA, didn't realize choices occur at that point and thus locking me out of certain areas and features depending on which choice is made... It really put a damper on my playthrough tbh.

So I stopped there pretty much

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/uhm-meeting2-hmm-meeting-hmm-pepe-pepe-meeting-gif-18064240235739253690

[split crown]

Gotta new playthrough going (started last night), all vanilla with no mods, so I'm gonna see how a default run treats me.

May add mods again whenever someone makes a mod to re-enable steam achievements lmao

Only manual changes I've currently got are the latest dll files for DLSS and AMD's version as well as reshade. Although, I may just keep reshade disabled if it eats too many frames. Trying to play with frame gen kept off.

[fading monolith]

With 1.5, which is the mod you guys use for console ? UE4SS or Simple Mod Loader ?

[split crown]

SML is dead last I checked. UE4SS may be your best bet.

[slim moth]

it was updated

not a false alarm this time.

[steady mist]

did they move around some of the early game equipment locations for cordon? couldnt find the buket-2 or the spas-12

[split crown]

Oh nice

[slim moth]

it's in testing, but it got me my flashlight back so imma use it lol

[sweet mica]

is it just me or did this 1.5 update improve performance?

maybe its placebo idk

[slim moth]

framerate stability is a bit better

[sweet mica]

any chance you know the earliest I can find a kora and mosin?

i saw hamster was selling one for 14k

[slim moth]

i am still looking for one myself

[sweet mica]

oh and i assume no achievement enabler mod?

they fucked up physics, when I headshot people they are flying into the air... seriously gsc

[slim moth]

yeah, when they are behind cover and doink em they fly.

it's a everybody problem rn lol

I noticed the electric anomalies look a LOT better

and their sfx underground actually isn't broken

[split crown]

about time lmao

[sweet mica]

I am having more bugs in 1.5...

Im trying to have faith in GSC

How on earth are modders ahead of GSC in terms of QOL updates too

[pseudo falcon]

with the zone kit
hopefully
more modular weapons
also maybe new ones will be made

[pseudo falcon]

anyone had this problem?
looted this and the loner below the stash aggro when i go near
but also the loner in zalissiya also got aggro

had to reload a save before i looted it

[kindred violet]

Iirc the loners beneath it getting aggro is intended

Since you're "stealing their stash"

But that aggroing zalissiya is def not intended

[split crown]

This has happened to me before, but in the sense of when Nightingale was still nearby; if you wait for him to leave the cowsheds area, then loot their stash and kill 'em, you should be fine.

[pseudo falcon]

i see

this hasnt happen before coz i did it while nightingale was also near and looted it and he didnt aggro

[serene girder]

I wish we could buy condensed milk

[pseudo falcon]

dammit
the dogs with new attack anims made them more annoying
tanky, annoying attack and fast

[split crown]

yeah it changed during one of the previous patches lol

[split crown]

it's nice to know settlements are still fucked and just kill my fps at random
at least such is the case with Zalissya.

[pseudo falcon]

KEK

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/ultrasad-gif-23310565

(it's funny until you realize sometimes their bodies will literally just disappear once they come back down)

[split crown]

yeaaaaah.... I guess the zone just sucks 'em up...

[icy basin]

Happily married men with two children and a 6 figure a month job after seeing a 2 inch opening in the Earth called Satan's Polyp Infested Asshole

He was pronounced dead 4 minutes before the rescuers arrived

[trim totem]

ok wow
im already feeling the alife changes in 1.5 i was stuck at like a building for like a hour dealing with snorks n 4 bloodsuckers n like 3 enemy patrols

awh man the bug i got with subtitles not appearing is happening

actually was geeking

So many dead bodies

[pseudo falcon]

where is that?

[trim totem]

agricultural workshop in yantar

[pseudo falcon]

using a mod called ultimate stashes upgrade mod
and this is what i find on some of them

or this

arsehole

[deep mica]

wth is up with burers they havent been attacking me since the patch

[keen knot]

Hi, which seller want mutant organ in Rostok ?

[finite needle]

V I L N I

Idk about burers, I've started a new run (this time I'll run ward I swear), at least in lesser zone fights are a bit more fun? I actually managed to "outsmart" the "outsmarting" like in og games by expecting the flank and just popping some silly bandit heads the moment they exposed themself from their flank. I also seem to take a bit more damage, but I guess that's from 1.4, I haven'ì played since 1.3

Mutants seem a lot less tanky, the Bloodsucker in the tutorial dies in a single AK burst, before it was a soulslike bossfight in terms of healthbar

Since enemies are persistent now and not spawned, I wish we had some binoculars. Now that I know dude don't just disappear, I suddenly feel the need to scout the area instead of gamba whether area will be populated or not

Game stutters a lot less and feels smoother, except when getting into crowded areas, but that's becaues my cpu is from like 2017 so it's struggling a bit

getting a lot of npcs just sitting and tinkering with their detectors, which slightly more distracting than not having them at all imho. But hey, a life.

[finite needle]

That's the whole ass nose but you do you stalker

[deep mica]

im sure skif doesnt know how to extract a tiny nasal gland

but maybe thats just me

[finite needle]

He gonna get spider senses next time he eats with that knife

[finite needle]

Fair

[odd plume]

How is that infinite psy bug still in the game after all these months 🥲

Is there any fix for it aside from the mod disabling psy?

[finite needle]

Approach mill for Squint quest
Notice some loners are caping close, telling jokes etc
There is a ward group fighting some mutants, they kill the pigs, I get attacked by dogs and kill them
Do the Squint quest
Dogs spawn outside, idk if it's the ball artifact or a mission spawn, they do however appear or migrate or whatever
Kill the dogs
The same Stalker group is still fucking telling jokes on the camp, they never shoot a single mutant

We're so back

[icy basin]

They were like

He went in the dogs spawn in to kill you house

[deep mica]

if i was thise loners id also just wait and see what happens

look at this idiot

[finite needle]

half of them weren't even paying attention, mfs with they faces on they pdas smh

[deep mica]

typical ipad kids

[icy basin]

It's set in the right year for that

[remote eagle]

[finite needle]

I totally believe they didn't help me because they were too focused watching brainrot on their PDAS and didn't even notice

also, I believe they didn't care either, old AI would just attack the dogs becasue why the hell not

[icy basin]

Imagine you could peek into those PDAs
And it's Elsagate

[finite needle]

it's all italian brainrot

[tacit glacier]

Oh wow

I returned to Zalissya after taking care of the debt task.
And it got attacked by fleshes.
One stalker died.

I think they removed auto sorting from the main inventory

Cause I just put stuff in this order and it stayed in place

[tacit glacier]

So much for remembering, after a single trade it got shuffled

[remote eagle]

are those icons from mod?

[tacit glacier]

Nope

Those are vanilla

Part of the changelog: "Made ammo types more easy to distinguish"

[remote eagle]

that a good one

[outer depot]

was what I noticed too

maybe it's not "better" (I do have minor FPS gains running native AA) but it stutters way way less

[brave terrace]

anyone knows why estus vodka isnt on steam workshop anymore and where to get it?

[outer depot]

huh, do Workshop mods and mods in the ~mods folder done manually work together?

the answer is no

[violet furnace]

watch people jump at me like the hunter from l4d2 whenever i head shot them

[swift quartz]

is there a "lite" version of something like OXA that doesn't add NVGs etc? I just want to be able to put an acog on an mp5 basically

[remote eagle]

[slim moth]

oxa standard. it still gives nvg's but allows the customization. just ignore the NVG part?

[leaden roost]

is it just me or is it weird they just NOW added ukraine lip sync support to a ukranian game?

[warped monolith]

it wasn't "added", it was reworked

[nova lake]

[terse gazelle]

it was apparently made for russian first, they decided to change it to ukrainian after the war

[leaden roost]

even then, i played it orginally pre patch and it was awful compared to english, wouldnt even consider it a feature lol

rework is def an understatement

[tranquil lintel]

Having trouble looting mutants with mods, does anyone know if mods altering DynamicItemGenerator.cfg is what causes this to happen?

[brittle tulip]

Does anyone know to how to get the console commands working in 1.5?

[leaden roost]

which mod loader are you using? SPL or UE4SS?

[warped monolith]

I played it in Ukrainian initially and noticed some jank here and there but nothing too awful

[leaden roost]

to each their own, i found it strange it wasnt as good as englishs lipsync imo

[brittle tulip]

i think i was using UETOOLs

what is SPL and UE4SS? do you have links to them.

[leaden roost]

yeah dont it cant be used anymore

[leaden roost]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/560

[slim moth]

you can use both at the same time

[maiden rock]

helow guys anyone have save files (it would be best if it is 100%) because i lost all my saves

[low hound]

so I just finished the Lennox mission (the one where you climb the water tower for the special AK) and after looting the area, enemies literally started spawning on top of me, is this still happening in 1.5? Or is this likely my mods? I've got Shays Living Zone & Infinity that might effect spawns

[outer depot]

sounds like mod overlap

[split crown]

Probably mod conflicts. I deleted my entire mods folder and am just doing a vanilla playthrough.

Tired of game testing (and restarting playthroughs) just to see what is and isn't broken after each patch lol.

[outer depot]

new combat AI seems way better and dynamic to be sure

even IPSF grunts will shred you and everyone reacts a lot faster than before

[pseudo falcon]

man after every fight
why are the dead npc guns dont have a fcking HIGHLIGHT
i cant find them for the life of me

[deep mica]

hmm the shevchenko isnt opening for me

is it bugged?

[undone vessel]

https://youtu.be/PVIYMcQ-9Is

https://youtu.be/VNjm3dgVFQA

[pseudo falcon]

lol

[split crown]

They should have made it an IDEA bag from Tarkov.

[split crown]

I see wardens are just built different

[carmine prism]

I just reinstalled after 1.5. Should I play vanilla or should I install some mods? (Except for performance mods)

[golden hazel]

ALL THE COPPER WIRE YOU COULD FIT IN THAT BAG SKEEFA

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

[delicate sierra]

i have the same question lol

afaik they still couldnt fix the 100m spawn, and mods cant seem to fix it either

[minor hawk]

hey is there a modpack or something thats combined oxa, with shays stuff better balistics and more? some of the top mods?

[dusty dove]

no

[minor hawk]

ah well

[carmine prism]

It's better iirc

like, they don't just spawn simply outside of your field of view

I'm more concerned about the weapons balancing and have been interested in the better ballistics mod

I'm unsure if I should get it for first playthrough or not (I played the og trilogy with vanilla and fixes (minus CS, still can't bear with the accuracy of early guns)

[summer vapor]

can't play vanilla, npc survive headshots

[carmine prism]

normal or exo npc?

[summer vapor]

bandit in a jacket i shot from valik's lummox ak74

[carmine prism]

yup, def installing that mod then

[split crown]

Tfw I still get memory leaks in settlements lmao

maybe one day in some years from now GSC will figure it out

[outer depot]

I must be the only person who has never had memory leak issues in Rostok or Zalissya

[summer vapor]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/512?tab=description cool mod, after gamma I want to be able to climb

[brittle tulip]

Anyone know where to find this upgrade at?

[rose frigate]

How’s the game after the 1.5 update? Haven’t played since February

[outer depot]

Put about 8 hours into a new game yesterday/today and honestly? Feels pretty fucking good.

[icy basin]

Still trying to get the cordon kill achievement

[rose frigate]

They fix how weapons work? I’m waiting for modular hard mode to get updated then I’ll probably jump back in

[icy basin]

Do they work bad in vanilla? Should I be noticing something?

[outer depot]

gotta be more specific than "how weapons work"

they go bang

[icy basin]

Having played for over 100 hours, I gotta say, they work perfect for STALKER

[outer depot]

if you want slightly different bangs there's OXA

which I would recommend anyways

[rose frigate]

They changed something about the weapon stats in one of the previous updates and that’s why the author of MHM stopped working on it. Honestly stopped playing before 1.3 so idk how much it really changed. He said they were now fake variables and no longer calculated by the game.

[icy basin]

Like in GAMMA

[lapis hornet]

Gamma uses fake variables for weapon stats?

[icy basin]

!gunstats

[fallen iron]

@lapis hornet
This bot command regards the numbers you see ON the weapon's stat card

• Accuracy: Measures the amplitude of the weapon's Aiming down sights' aim cone. At 0%, it means the gun has a 1.5° wide spread cone, at 100%, it has a 0° cone.
• Handling: It literally means nothing.
• Damage: Currently, this stat is the result of a formula ((Weapon base damage) x (First ammo listed for the gun*)) / 1.5. Those two values are hidden in the game files and are not readable for the player in-game (pester Grok). *Note: "First ammo listed for the gun" refers to the LEFTMOST ammo icon that appears under the "Ammo" section in the gun's stat card.
• Fire rate: Is self explanatory enough that you SHOULD know what it is without me telling you what it is.
• Max range: Refers to the distance from the shooter at which the bullet fully despawns. For reference, the distance of the straight road that goes along East to West in the Radar, start to end, is about 120m.
• Muzzle velocity: Currently, this stat is the result of a formula ((Weapon base bullet speed) x (First ammo listed for the gun's bullet speed modifier)) x 0.7. See the explanation for the damage stat for more info. The 0.7x modifier on the speed affects only the display text and has no impact on the bullet's actual velocity.
• Reliability: Relates to the chance of any part of the weapon to take condition damage upon firing. See !reliability in #🤖bot-commands .
• Recoil control: Currently, it's the result of a very long and arbitrary formula that doesn't reflect how recoil works in the slightest due to how random it actually is, you should steer clear of this stat.

[icy basin]

Not to be confused with !whatthegundoin (check in #🤖bot-commands ) as that's for gun upgrades, where Handling upgrades actually do something, unrelated to the stat

[finite needle]

I still haven't seen a single fucking squirrel

I'll be honest, I appreciate that I am not the main focus of all the actors that spawn in game and that if there is a firefight that is happening without me, it keeps happening and AI doesn't instant focus me if I just leave

Now, if having the npc routines and persistence everyone wanted didn't break some of the secondary quests triggers (reload fixes them) that would have been great, but I imagine there were conflicts between dynamic NPCs and fixed events, and this delayed the whole ass a life thing.

Reddit complaining there are too many dogs is further proof they never played the ogs

[icy basin]

They have no idea how many stray dogs just exist in the real world

[finite needle]

Hmmm I wonder if loading an old save fucks shit up

aww they fixed the crosshair bug when you switched from gun to underbarrel shotgun

[earnest willow]

Hey guys, so I updated to 1.5, removed the old mutant parts mod, but now when I play I do see the white dots indicating I can loot the mutant but it just doesn't work, anyone else had this?

[icy basin]

Gotta do a task to enable it

[earnest willow]

Do you know roughly when that tasks happens? I'm not far into this new save but kinda figured I would have gotten it by now

[icy basin]

I haven't started a new save yet

[finite needle]

Loading a save might have fucked up something in my artifact selection, or was I drunk when I last played? Why the hell was I runnig 3 radio protection artifacts and the ball?

[deep mica]

guys neither of the boats in zaton opens their doors now

is there a bug report on this?

yeah i am just soft locked out of my stashes and fast travel in zaton time to uninstall again

[finite needle]

man I wish I instaled mods so I could fuck up my game even more

seriously tho, you're not the first one that said that. I simply teleported from Rostok and the door is open, lemme see if letting it close seals it

Door's closed

It opens for me

[deep mica]

i managed to fast travel into the sultansk

but shevchenko doors still wont budge

i read it might be idle npcs stuck in the doorway preventing it from opening. if thats the case i am fucked either way because i cant do anything about it

[finite needle]

GSC vs Idle NPCs blocking the way is possibly the most iconic fight of 2025

Luckily, I have a completed save and another that most likely will never need to get into the Shevchenko ever again. I just hope it doesn't brick my Ward run

Anyway there is something fucky about NPCs, no doubt because of the a life implementation. I've seen Lux Legend just stuck in an animation loop, fixed by saving and reloading, and some NPCs just stuck in place (fixed as said above). If that's the NPCs getting stuck reloading should help, otherwise it's something else, most likely.

[deep mica]

ive reloeaded like 10 times, older saves as well

this is an issue that has been consistent since yesterday and nothing i tried works. i guess the shevchenko is just softlocked, i dont remember if it has main story relevance

[finite needle]

there is the Sultan/Beard questline, but I don't remember if it's main story related. Lemme load that save and check if the shevchenko works for me. Could also be another epidemic of invisible weapons, which ended up being caused by incomplete mod removal.

[deep mica]

i didnt run any mods in this game

[finite needle]

idk man door is just open? Maybe it's another one inside, I don't remember the Shevchenko at all

It's empty for me, maybe that happens once Beard moves back into the Skadovsk. Door opens tho, it closed behind me when I entered so I panicked a bit

[deep mica]

i am trying to inquire about clear sky in the shevhenko and see if the main quest marker did something

so yeah technically its main story relevant

[finite needle]

You can also go into the Sultansk for that, just changes where Richer spawns

But yeah I'm not trying to say that a bug that potentially blocks storage, merchants and quest progression is not game breaking, just that I can't replicate it.

[deep mica]

ik

no i cant now its open all of the sudden

[finite needle]

see? It was waiting for me to show you that it works, and then it worked

[deep mica]

the game just locking off access before i progressed the main story enough

[finite needle]

Could be, strange choice if that's the case. I never remember being unable to access the barges.

I know where it is, I just googled it out of curiosity

[deep mica]

yeah you can get a guaranteed one in garbage

[finite needle]

Yeah this one, was on my way to get it. It's so strange to do the ward path, I just went somewhere else and fucke my monkey brain up

[flint mortar]

SO VERSION 1.5, IS IT WORTH IT OR SHOULD I KEEP WAITING...? I know it's early, but at least now it supports modding, which is a big step. Anyone tried it yet?

[tacit glacier]

1.5 is a solid step in the right direction that makes stalker 2 really feel like the og games.

A-Life resembles the version we had in the old games
Performance is more stable
New guns were added, you can loot mutants again.

[flint mortar]

Is it worth it or should i keep waiting?
gamma is my first real return to the zone since i played the original stalker back when it came out (didn’t even finish it back then). i really respect the stalker 2 devs, but i want an experience at least as good as gamma — or at least not disappointing.
i know modding support is finally in, which is huge… but still feels kinda “soon”? anyone here tried it?

[tacit glacier]

Expecting gamma from stalker 2 is a bad take.
Gamma is a culmination of 15 years of modding by thousands of modders, all who have different views and expectations of the zone.
Stalker 2 is basically better trilogy at this point.

[flint mortar]

yeah, that makes sense — i’m not expecting gamma from stalker 2, but more wondering if it’s worth waiting a bit longer.
do you think it’s better to wait until the modding scene grows a bit more before jumping in?

not trying to trash stalker 2 at all, but i just don’t wanna spend the money if the experience ends up feeling worse — not just different.
i’ve got a lot of doubts, but the idea of a modern version of the zone still gets me a bit excited ngl.

[torpid relic]

oh you didnt even buy it yet? well its probably gonna be a solid experience by now, but honestly it cant hurt to wait till winter/ end of the year too see what happens

[flint mortar]

honestly, considering they keep updating and improving it, and gamma is easily hundreds of hours of content... yeah, i’m gonna hold back my consumerist urges and wait.
I’m still a total noob in gamma and i fucking love it — no rush. Thanks!

[finite needle]

We're at the "definitely buy it if it's on sale" point of the New Vegas/Cyberpunk pipeline.

ngl the mosin adds an interesting variable that was completely lacking in the previous iterations, i.e. early, cheap sniper. I also am enjoying not being forced to use Skif's pistol forever as possibly even the UDP is better now, gotta test it better - and enemy AI fights a bit better, less braindead. Still very static, but it's closer to the OG games.

If they add a third tier 3 AR (idk, CZ-Bren?) and an SKS I think weapon wise we're also good, idk if someone wants more lmgs in the game or some more snipers, I'm definitely good.

[nova lake]

it should realistically be, the Ft200m

[dreamy thicket]

Enjoy in gamma first, after you spend a few hundreds of hours there, stalker 2 could be near level of old games and revisiting all maps in new engine will be nice, nostalgic.

[prisma gale]

"you lucky bastard"

must have the only pair of binoculars in the zone

[summer vapor]

Why don't people compare modded Skyrim with+500 mods with Starfield?

[finite needle]

While I know it's for nostalgia purposes, I don't know if I would be ok with it because 1 - it's an old design. It was popular in games because it looked futuristic and cool, just like the P90, but the P90 has been replaced by the Vector in Stalker 2, and the FN2000 by the Kharod and 2 - There is probably some murky legal reason and yada yada.

First is my opinion, 2nd the most likely reason.

[nova lake]

here is the solution
remove the kharod, it is an awful gun, replace it with the SGI and add the Ft200m as a 5.56 bullpup gun

[finite needle]

Eh, SGI looks too ordinary to be a suitable Stalker end game gun. It has to look a little bit exotic, at least.

Why they picked the IWI instaed of a SCAR or BREN it's anyone's guess. I'd rather not go there.

[nova lake]

the Kharod is mid mid to late game, so it could fit, everyone uses the dnipro for late late game anyway

the Bren is the same as the Kharod, its slop

[finite needle]

What the hell does it mean it's slop, it's a weapon that is readily available un Ukraine due to the ongoing conflict, what the fuck does it mean "it's slop"?

[nova lake]

what does it matter if its readily availabe in ukraine at this precise moment? whta matters is if it looks cool and the CZ Bren and IWI Carmel are ugly as all sin to look at

they are largely the same game, its slop

[finite needle]

huh?

What does "they are largely the same game" mean, I think you're missing something in that sentence. You mean that it doesn't matter because, since they share the same platform or some shit, then it's not Deviant art OG character 100 do not steal and thus slop?

FN2000 looks even worse, I'll die on that hill

[nova lake]

they are both adaptations of the same rifle concept with the same answers to the same problems, finishing with the same rifle with diff but same looking furniture
the FN2000 has a more distinct look, and if you want a 5.56 option just use the HK33 or smth

[finite needle]

I'd rather have the FN2000 at that point

[delicate sierra]

i've sank probably 100-200hrs in gamma, maybe more in anomaly. game mechanic is incredibly polished. awesome sandbox, i wish gamma brought the warzone mode tho

stalker 2 is more like a story game to me. alife update seems good. im planning to play it again with small qol mods.

[finite needle]

Stalker was never a sandbox game, but you would be a fool to deny that Stalker 2 has the foundations to be one, considering the sheer size of the world alone and diversity of locations.

I understand that Grok doesn't want to GAMMAfy Stalker 2, which makes sense considering that 1 - there isn't any mods yet and 2 - he ain't even complete GAMMA 1 yet

[terse gazelle]

or he doesnt want to make gamma 2 because stalker 2 isnt a good base for it

[finite needle]

Mate, I really don't care about your opinion.

[terse gazelle]

cared enough to respond and apparently write an essay

[finite needle]

Eh was about to flame but changed my mind

You can guess why I did

[terse gazelle]

cuz i called you out

[nova lake]

Stalker 2 is happily a fast paced arcade fps just like the older games, this is real good

[finite needle]

Yes, you got me, good job.

[finite needle]

Huh, first time I see two artifacts like that. Makes sense considering what's next to them, but still.

[outer depot]

Stalker 2 is a way better base for a potential GAMMA or whatever the fuck imo, other than the fact that the entire engine hasn’t been torn open, torn down, remade, and then posted for anyone to do what the fuck they want with it yet (and not having fifteen years of mods to draw from)

So, you know

Everything it would take to make GAMMA

[outer depot]

Yeah nice little cash injection if you need one when you find that

[delicate sierra]

i agree but hey im not a mod expert. grok probably spent wayy too much time on gamma to abandon it, which makes a lot of sense

[outer depot]

Personally I think the modding potential for S2 over time will come to eclipse the originals/Anomaly based mods

Simply because there’s way the fuck more stuff in the game and way more people can figure out how to use UE5 than X-RAY

Particularly if the SDK gets filled out

[drowsy umbra]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3511370522 mods are peak

[remote eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/wolf-alone-gif-11375996495065887435

[icy basin]

https://tenor.com/view/vr-chat-cheese-phybogen-protogen-gif-26299847

[prisma gale]

whelp, that didn't take long

now taking bets on how long it will take for someone to introduce a "get fucked by the Chimeras" mod

[remote eagle]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1111141571132407859/1225684432447344640/attachment-3-1.gif

[finite needle]

It's only a matter of time until the mandatory bloodsucker sex mod

[warped monolith]

There's one big difference between modding the original trilogy and this one: the source code.
People managed to dig deep into X-Ray's guts to make the mods we have today.
Epic will never release UE5's source code, so I don't think Stalker 2 will ever have similar modding potential

the SDK and the modding kit might enable wonderful things but it won't compare to having the source code and being able to alter the innermost core workings and mechanics

[keen knot]

where i can open this stash, is in the small concrete turret

[remote eagle]

grenade in vent

its in safe

[keen knot]

Oooooo really héhé

Thank you 🙂

[remote eagle]

enjoy your unic val bro

[barren wharf]

Idk guys, ever since 1.5 released i just cant stop playing lol

[keen knot]

Yeah me too but rostok FPS always the same -_-

[barren wharf]

Worse than zalissya? Lol

Havent been to rostok yet

[barren wharf]

What gpu do you have?

[keen knot]

4070, but my problem is the leak memories, sinch the lauch day

[barren wharf]

I find not dying and reloading save helps 😂

[keen knot]

Sometimes i have to re-lauch my game with the stuttering appear

[cunning estuary]

What happens if I skip compiling shaders?

[barren wharf]

Probably will get more stuttering ingame, in theory

[cunning estuary]

And I have to sit and wait for this every time I launch the game?

[icy basin]

I'm enacting server-wide "No mutant sex jokes" doctrine

[drowsy umbra]

https://tenor.com/view/godfather-marlon-brando-scratch-whatever-shrug-gif-8026134

[prisma gale]

Literally 1984

[finite needle]

They will still compile, but in game. So expect some more stuttering while they compile.

[warped monolith]

wasn't that already in place with the bloodsucker thing

[cunning estuary]

Ok, I can deal with that

[icy basin]

Clearly need to be reminded of it