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

[outer depot]

Sure but the tools available without busting the engine down to the source code are still going to be easier to use and learn. X-Ray is an ancient bespoke mess of an engine, and even after all this time it remains fairly unstable— particularly when you pile mods on top of it.

UE5 is an absolute fucking mess, but it’s an absolute mess more people know how to work with

[warped monolith]

in theory. also we were talking about moddability not stability

[prisma gale]

Oh, im sorry, did they manage to mod in multithredding into the monolith engine?

[warped monolith]

sure modding drivable vehicles into x-ray made it crash like crazy but it was still technically possible. Who knows if Epic will let people fiddle around with UE5 to achieve something similar

it all boils down to how much they'll allow people to mod it

whereas with the source code, you can do anything with it. How the engine handles what you do is an entirely different subject though

[outer depot]

I’d still count stability, it took an immense amount of work just to make X-Ray any semblance of stable without heavy mods on top of it

And in theory importing or grafting features on to UE5 should be a lot easier. High fidelity asset importation especially.

[warped monolith]

alright, but you're only mentioning taking things from somewhere else and putting them into the game. Not creating new stuff, new gameplay mechanics or anything.

I wouldn't want this to simply become another Fallout 4 full of tacticool bullshit for the gun nerds, but that's just me

[outer depot]

Sure. Though people were already getting fairly creative in a more limited sense (looking at Desolation or OXA in particular) pre-SDK

[finite needle]

That's on the fanbase, not the engine. I'm pretty sure Bethesda lets you do almost whatever you want, and yet most of the mods are boobas and tacticool guns, if the fanbase wants to have bloodsucker sex simulator that's what you will get regardless of the capabilites of the modding tools

[warped monolith]

while true, not having access to the source code means adding new mechanics is probably nightmare-inducing.
Which is probably why we don't see those for Fallout 4 but they exist in STALKER

[terse gazelle]

looks like were getting furry mods instead

[warped monolith]

I'm sure those already exist

[cunning estuary]

Correct, there's a furry mod for Skif already

[outer depot]

Where are the GFL mods

[finite needle]

Ah yeah, there is a 100% condition SPAS in Cement Factory

[tacit glacier]

Man walked out, domed everyone and lived

[finite needle]

Sell bloodsucker tentacles to duty guy
He replies "I'm swamped too"

Man I'm glad Freedom took Rostok

[split crown]

Yeah, the memory leaks are still happening super frequently.

at least since I've come back, it's only been happening in settlements (in my case Zalissya since I'm still in the Lesser Zone).

[finite needle]

just had my mandatory Rostok crash

and yeah a life is a thing because the same fucking pack of dogs that attacked me on my way before the crash is still there

something I noticed, now they warn you before attacking, and MIGHT even not attack if you back off quick enough

[split crown]

Ye, it's a nice small feature they added - like what the older games had iirc.

[outer depot]

similar yeah

been replaying the originals unmodded recently

I feel like they made the Flesh a bit more flighty too, sorta like originals

though tbh, like the original, I wish they'd make it so that Flesh only really attack when they can't run away

[warped monolith]

I don't like how they gave it a leap attack. Now it's just a low tier chimera

[finite needle]

It does something now at least

My biggest problem is how tanky the high tier mutants are, especially the giants.

Fighting humans, at least early game, is much less horrible and feels very close to the originals now, with enemies taking (bad) cover and flanking you instead of just standing up in the open and spray you with 100% accuracy. Now accuracy is like 80%, not great, but is better I guess.

[remote eagle]

also not far from there is good duty seva

but u need to PARKOUR to get it

[finite needle]

Yeah, you can probably see the glove of that suit the picture

[remote eagle]

[finite needle]

I know you can get the Spark SEVA in Yantar or the spark heavy suit in Malachite if you so wish, but I don't wish. There is also a 100% condition Kharod and SAIGA in Yantar so that place is great if you know how to navigate it.

[remote eagle]

yeap

cement factory too have a lot of good stuff

like free bear detector

[outer depot]

I still like the Freedom SEVA near Electric Hind (my beloved) in Wild Territory

Electric Hind has given me over twenty Thunderberries

[remote eagle]

[finite needle]

Where is the detector? I don't remember where it is, I know about the SPAS, the Integral and the extended mag and a couple of military suits

[remote eagle]

its in underground

[outer depot]

the detector is down in the sewers

[remote eagle]

near the place where u found spas

[outer depot]

you get it while helping a stalker get his gun back

[remote eagle]

[finite needle]

Oooh I got it, will get there and steal his weapon

nah he can keep it, there's a Fora 221 100% condition close enough

[outer depot]

which is a special skinned Tavor but otherwise normal afaik

so not really worth taking unless you like a green Tavor

I think it's based off some Canadian guntubers rifle but I could be wrong

[remote eagle]

also u can go to cooling towers and get exoskelet(bad one ) and sell it for good money

[finite needle]

if I go to cooling towers then I'm leaving with the dnipro, the coupled mags and the 5.45 Groza

at least

[remote eagle]

bro knows all the juicy spots

[outer depot]

me over here with multiple runs done just using the starting Lummox AK-74

Lullaby is great as well if you want to make a trip to Army Warehouses, it's another favorite of mine

[finite needle]

They gave me the world to explore and I explored

[outer depot]

bro I spent so much time just wandering in my first two runs

it was great

[remote eagle]

[outer depot]

deadass spent 150-ish hours just walking around going down every hole and trying every door I could find

[finite needle]

my 3rd run was pretty much just zig zag to all the good stuff, literally meeting SKEEFA while already wearing all the Spark endgame gear

[remote eagle]

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

[finite needle]

not the first, the second meeting in the sawmill

[outer depot]

yeah I really like how you can run getting a good kit quick with how open everything is and if you memorized the spots, similar to the OG's

it pays to explore (and ignore every normal stash otherwise)

[remote eagle]

[outer depot]

selling stacks of 100 cheese wedges found in random stashes at a time just because there's too many in my stash

[finite needle]

Mosin Nagant covers an interesting niche tho, I didn't even realize how much I needed an early game sniper before, the lummox AK ain't it

[outer depot]

Lummox is just good enough to let you fight a bit further out but it's not exactly hard hitting or particularly accurate

it's basically AK Clusterfuck in that regard, but worse in every way

what I really want someone to mod in are some of the Vepr hunter variants down the line

basically just thumbhole stock civilian AK's in a variety of calibers and with smaller mag sizes, but "accurized"

[finite needle]

real talk: Steyr scout was literally made for the zone

[remote eagle]

m1014 and my live is yours

[sharp sigil]

https://youtu.be/Y3GsITJgrBg?si=CvLvfEICLK6uTVh3

[outer depot]

I'd absolutely bring my 30-06 Mauser with a scout scope if I had to go in... alongside a semi-automatic something to not fucking die

the Zone is a cruel mistress
184 gr soft tip 30-06 is crueler

[finite needle]

no joke, if I had to add "tourists" in the zone I would give them either tacticool M4s or Steyr Scouts just to make them even more obvious

[outer depot]

lol, like shitty tactical

everything too clean and not properly modified for the Zone

sorta like the OG Mercs in SoC

[finite needle]

The Kriss would also be part of the kit, but it's also good in game

[outer depot]

If there's one thing I do like, it's how they make a point of saying the remaining Mercs in the Zone are relatively few in number but far more dangerous... and imo their kit design reflects it well. Dudes like Hog look like absolute beasts, just wish they didn't get jobbed for story reasons.

[finite needle]

They look more intimidating and professional compared to the OG trilogy Mercs, where they were just privately funded stalkers. Here, they look closer to Ward, more PMC less stalkery

[remote eagle]

yeah because in some screen tip were wrote that ward hunted the merc faction

and only the most experienced left

alive

[outer depot]

S2 Mercs are like, peak Zone tactical aside from maybe Deggy Corps

still sad you kill Hog thirty seconds after meeting him

[warped monolith]

eh. Being a passive, prey-like creature made it more believable and unique

nature doesn't have predators only

[outer depot]

I'd be fine with it doing that if you corner them or get too close, but their default should be running away

or even just hitting you once and running

[late kernel]

Has an exoskeleton but can only afford a cheap pump action shotgun

[golden hazel]

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

[prisma gale]

I just don't like that you csnt scare off some of the mutants, it was nice to just freak out some blind dogs so you didn't have to waste ammo

That, and i fucking hate that mutant animals go for cover

[warped monolith]

in this economy you either buy one or the other

[outer depot]

tbh

nice shotgun won't steer you wrong in the zone

this must have angered the gods of RNG because my 97% durability shotgun just jammed four times in 18 shots

[elfin pilot]

wahmen

Crowbar

Gordon Freeman

[warped monolith]

pucker up, buttercup

also imagine you're chilling at your shop and some rude moron with his flashlight on walks up to you and blinds you

[terse gazelle]

did some dev type r instead of t? theyre next to eachother

[warped monolith]

possibly

[elfin pilot]

look at this dude

[slim moth]

long ah face lookin ass

[split crown]

God I wish the memory leaks would stop

they seem to only occur within settlements and if I stay near bodies for too long.

[golden hazel]

Memory leaks will continue until morale improves

[slim moth]

are fleshes moving kinda glitchy sometimes for you guys?

[sweet mica]

after playing 1.5 it seems like a-life is better

[slim moth]

its way better, just needs some hot fixes for what they added.

[sweet mica]

I was just at the slag heap, and the guard post outside to the north I think it was, it got attacked by two bloodsuckers. The loners defending slag heap actually handled it well, one group got in cover by the gate to protect it, and two duos started searching for the bloosuckers. we killed them with zero casualties and another stalker yells something like "good shit guys, we did it!" after scanning to make sure we were safe

[split crown]

I had like 4 of them spawn in mid-air - about 6ft off the ground - as other NPCs in the surrounding area just shot them like pinatas until they died

it was pretty silly, especially since there was only 1 flesh model visually showing in the air. However, as each one died, a corpse would suddenly spawn and fall outta nowhere.

[tacit glacier]

My favorite part about this video is the horrid ghosting.
#╟📸stalker2™-media message

Modern AAA developers will walk in and say
"THIS IS HOW IT IS MEANT TO LOOK"

[split crown]

lmfao

[kindred violet]

Holy ghosting batman

[split crown]

current AAA titles are the dystopian hell we never asked for, yet it's what we've been dealt anyway.

[cedar pond]

Are there chests for all of the keys ?? Fucking ghost threw keys and I can’t find them , also I found 1 but second one is gone (mall in Pripyat ) wtf it’s so annoying

[tacit glacier]

Shay a fucking mage, added weapon lowering days after SDK drops

Want canted aiming? Cause that is being worked on too

[kindred violet]

Hell yeah

[tacit glacier]

It'll be named "Player Weapon Stances"
Current state: It applies position modifiers based on type of movement.

• Lower is applied when walking
• Canted is applied when aiming and walking

[elfin pilot]

I do love eating meat with crowbars

[bleak badge]

i think i picked a bad time to wanna try modded stalker 2? 😭

half of these are not working cause update ig

[elfin pilot]

holy shit, dude's folded

[cyan root]

https://loginportal123.funnyjunk.com/hdgifs/Bruh_6accf9_12578998.mp4

c o m e d y

[true yew]

Can't believe they added a new anomaly and didn't mention it in the patch notes

[tawny vessel]

Gun straight out of destiny 2

[carmine prism]

Seeing mods like these makes me rethink playing the game for the first time now or wait til more improvements and mods

[jovial berry]

A̵͔̕c̷̠̈́c̶̓̃è̸̬p̷͎̀t̵̹͗ ̸̕the void.

[warped monolith]

[warped monolith]

ZALGO

[slim moth]

just check the updated tab in nexus.
boom you have a mods compatible with 1.5.. it takes 2 seconds to see if something works or not. lol

[slim moth]

WHERE

[deft leaf]

Hey guys, recently started stalker 2, playing for about 12 hours and it crashed, my save was gone, started a new save, went to sleep and now my new save is missing and my old save is back. my new save was getting pretty decent and i want to continue it what shoudl i do?

[jovial berry]

Wow that's a first

There is a save back up folder in your appdata. Do you know how to access there files?

[deft leaf]

i couldnt find any saves folder

[deft leaf]

ok i found the save folder, ica n see my latest save last night, how can i meake it current?

[deft leaf]

its inside stalker2/savegames/data

[flint wren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrTa0aVcYnk&t=1s

Check this out

[humble hedge]

Yep

[odd plume]

Is there any mod that removes the weird white static radiaton effect around the screen when in irradiated areas?

[warped monolith]

If you find it, please share. I hate that effect

[prisma gale]

Man, i have no idea on how to solve this one:

anyone speak cyrilics?

[slim moth]

ooo

[prisma gale]

I need answers, not penis jokes!

[slim moth]

I don't think i ever did that puzzle

[prisma gale]

it drops grenades on your face if you guess wrong

[prisma gale]

oh now, it all makes sense!

[slim moth]

try 1986

[prisma gale]

This puzzle is infuriating

nope

[slim moth]

i think it might be on a pda thats found in the vehicle graveyard?

maybe?

[prisma gale]

oh, so you mean randomly within this hell-hole?

Sounds like a fun little week of searching

[slim moth]

Good hunting!

[kindred violet]

IIRC it was to do with number plates

[prisma gale]

Number plates.... In the vehicle, graveyard...

yikes

!!!!

THE EYE

Okay, now i gotta find them all

Oh my god so close

[prisma gale]

wow. That was not worth all the hustle

[kindred violet]

What about the sense of pride and accomplishment tho?

[prisma gale]

yeah that went out the window after the 5th snork pack

[winged eagle]

https://fixupx.com/ZunaSW/status/1939778153737490614

Kyne's Peace (@ZunaSW)

Preview of the crafting mod I'm working on for @stalker_thegame #STALKER2. Its been on the works for a few months now, the Zone Kit made it easier to test stuff. Crafting ammo, devices, medicine, armour, also cooking (even in fire anomalies). All like in Anomaly.

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FixupX · Jun 30, 2025, 8:08 PM

[outer depot]

Me thinks we’ll be eating good here as the SDK fills out

[tacit glacier]

BROOOOO

[winged eagle]

we got anomaly cooking in stalker 2 before gta 6

[tacit glacier]

Yeah
Okay
Now make the game run good on current gen PC's and we're in business for STALKER Anomaly 2

[winged eagle]

maybe if they went UE 5.6 but that will be a lot of work

[warped monolith]

I'll be happy with just a Gunslinger 2

[winged eagle]

They are running a heavily modified 5.1 so going to 5.6 will be rough

[tacit glacier]

Nah. STALKER 2 gunplay and animations rival Gunslinger if not outdo it in many regards.

What the game needs is proper ballistic based balancing

Extra guns will be welcomed obviously.

[winged eagle]

stalker 2 is a diamond in the rough

[tacit glacier]

Honestly my only wish right now is a more modular approach to modding

Methods that will allow us to inject into the game instead of relying on copying original files and overwriting them.

[winged eagle]

i hope u can remove the mutant scream roar with the new modding tools

from the bloodsucker , it doesnt fit a stealth npc

[tacit glacier]

To be fair the bloodsucker does roar
But it should only roar when it spots the player to stun them at the start of the encounter and then do the run around invisible and run in for the jabs.
Maybe with the additional possibility of getting the blood steal attack that will heal it? 👀

But yeah rn we need an option to override specific stuff instead of relying on copying whole files.
Adding a gun will overwrite files which makes adding multiple guns via multiple mods near impossible without merging?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrTa0aVcYnk

[winged eagle]

it should roar maybe only during the fight and rarely, them revealing themselves before you ruins the element of surprise

[tacit glacier]

Nah, I still remember the encounter in Agroprom underground in Shadow of Chernobyl.
The sudden roar after leaving the staircase and something invisible just rushing at you, making you damn near shit your pants.

[winged eagle]

also the balancing is way off but that could be tweaked easily i guess
a lot more squishy but deal a lot of damage

[winged eagle]

ur right, maybe its the slow motion that kinda ruins the tempo i guess?

[tacit glacier]

Yeah the bloodsucker just going still and doing the dramatic roar and pose while inducing stun just feels off.
It should roar while invisible and while running around just making the player panic themselves instead of relying on stun mechanics.

[tacit glacier]

Also seeing GSC already have a beretta ready makes me imagine the next major update will introduce it fr

[winged eagle]

chimeras also double jump sometimes its undodgable and too tanky
but they are scary as fuck in S2, beefy with steroids i like their design

[winged eagle]

NVGs?

[tacit glacier]

Don't know

[winged eagle]

They have a long way to go but the foundation is there
Increase radius of active a life, improve offline a life, more NPC density and optimization

[outer depot]

Give me Nagant revolver next so I can shoot two blind dogs and be eaten alive by the other six while trying to reload

(I also miss the Fora-14)

[analog stag]

Anyone know any alternative modding tools? Vortex is buggy, and the UI is GODAWFUL

[ancient musk]

You forgot to censor the word -pt-m-z-t--n

It's a slur for modern devs, including GSC

[rotund glacier]

what kinda performance improvements have you guys seen with 1.5?
I keep hearing about better performance but my fps is about the same (~60 outside of hubs with a 5700x3d + 3090)

[analog stag]

Idk what everyone is talking about. I havent experienced any lag or stutters, not even on launch

[warped monolith]

[split crown]

fuuuuuck I want weapon lowering...

Still waiting for someone to make a mod that re-enables Steam achievements

[analog stag]

Fr. I shouldnt be bummed out of achievements for a single player game. With the old A-Life, used to run into problems with them spawning behind or sometimes on top of me, and instantly killing me before I can react. Had to download a shay mod to adjust their AI. It ended up making them feel more difficult, similiar to gamma instead of bulletsponges with aimbot

[split crown]

GSC's reasoning for disabling achievements when mods are introduced to the game is because they (mostly Microsoft forcing them) fear people using console commands to enable things like god mode, infinite ammo, and so forth. So I can understand that, but at the same time there are people (like me) who don't mod their games to cheat. And, as you said, it is a single player game, so who cares what people do with their playthroughs, eh?

[lone saffron]

Been a while since I checked in. How's S2 doing? Anything improved?

[brave jungle]

any talk of gamma mods with 1.5 out?

[split crown]

Nada.

Also, I see a-life hard at work with NPCs just standing in a congo line, not moving at all, while in a firefight with other NPCs

[split crown]

lol, same spot the fleshes were stuck in mid-air from last night.

Oh shit. Actually found Valik again... turns out luck still wasn't on his side.

[pseudo falcon]

valik wanders the zone after you save him?

[outer depot]

I found Squint as a zombie by the lumber mill

[split crown]

Apparently so with this new a-life update in patch 1.5

[split crown]

ye, I remember finding him as a zombie way earlier on in like patch 1.1 or 1.2

[outer depot]

I think some specific named NPCs would actually wander/had a predetermined fate once you did their interactions

[outer depot]

where did you find him anyways

was he on his way to Rostok?

[split crown]

maybe yeah

[split crown]

I heard shooting near the factory/boiler building where you save one of Richter's squad members from bandits in the beginning of the game. Military guys were there duking it out with loners, and then I found Valik amongst the dead once everything calmed down.

[outer depot]

huh, neat

I wonder if he automatically goes there or will move with other rando stalkers in lesser zone to take "lairs" or however the system works

[split crown]

I'd guess it's totally random.

[outer depot]

I'll check around lesser zone tomorrow

see if I can find him again

actually that does bring up one point; stalkers in Cordon/Lesser Zone have no way to get to the rest of the Zone unless they can navigate the Warden pontoon bridge checkpoint in offline mode since iirc they wont try and cross the ford to get from Cordon into Wild Island/Zaton

maybe that's something that can be tested

[sweet mica]

Can someone help me understand the story? I understand the scanner business with Nestor and Hermann. Faust and his Monolithians were looking for these scanners for what purpose, to find the alpha?

[outer depot]

I believe they were attempting to draw out the alpha, yes

[sweet mica]

the new zaton theme sounds like a fever dream to me

[prisma gale]

man, am i the only one that doesn't get why they give you this armor fairly early in the game?

[kindred violet]

I've never even seen this suit I think lol

[tacit glacier]

The Attack of the Killer Grasshopper!

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDspnSJnsw

[prisma gale]

You essentially find it through the main story ||while fleeing the SIRCAA compound||

[prisma gale]

means that all the other high military armor that i have found, has been nothing more than a heavy money bag

[kindred violet]

Huh, guess I've always just ran past it

[prisma gale]

Holy shit, you can get a undebarrel shotgun mount to certain sniper rifles

[prisma gale]

actually huh, i remembered wrong it's || on wild island after you escape the sircaa compound.||

[kindred violet]

Ahh, I see
||In my playthroughs I always accidentally skipped that part and went directly to the sphere||

[icy steppe]

So which ending is canon

[prisma gale]

none of them, and all of them

[icy steppe]

Just wondering ||which protags die and which live||

[late kernel]

the ending that expands alife render distance and performance

[remote eagle]

skeefa ending or doctor ending

[icy steppe]

True

[icy steppe]

I mean that's why i ask which one is canon y'know, since it's all different

[remote eagle]

doctor ending

[icy steppe]

Ooohh

[kindred violet]

Daggerfall be like

[prisma gale]

i like the ingame mouse pads

[prisma gale]

i would assume that cannon endings are only revealed during a sequel or something similar

[tacit glacier]

The revolver is so bad it beats the Fallout 4 Assault Rifle

[prisma gale]

He forgot coolness factor

[tacit glacier]

For context, it apparently doesn't even resemble any real life revolvers.
It looks like an unholy combination between a 357 Python and a Raging Bull

It has two cylinder releases

Also the cylinder can be released with the revolver hammer cocked, which is wrong

The worst offender of them all, it's played like a single action when its a double action

[kindred violet]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[tacit glacier]

To be precise, it has a cylinder release from he python, and a release from the raging bull, which is the one the game uses

[prisma gale]

Man, i gotta be real with you. People can of course obsess about details like this, but for me i just care about it going BIG PEW in my post-soviet apocalyptic science-fiction game

[tacit glacier]

Also they named it a Rhino, which doesn't look like a Rhino

[kindred violet]

Yeag

[icy basin]

Based of GSC to do this to gun nuts

[tacit glacier]

[late kernel]

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

[tacit glacier]

Repost

[tacit glacier]

Just a few scrolls up

[late kernel]

Most people dont bother scrolling up when sending messages

[icy basin]

Perhaps

[prisma gale]

that is probably the most fun repost excuse i have seen in a while

[icy basin]

Always could hit with the

[plucky ibex]

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[late kernel]

Excuse? okay buddy

[woeful oar]

when will gsc add official mod support im waiting for ages T_T

[nova lake]

why is this a problem?

Gun Nuts when I name a M9 Berreta de "Brownings M1911"

[vocal marten]

Well, GSC did the first SDK release on the 25th alongside the 1.5 patch, and there is Steam Workshop mod support, so now?

[finite needle]

They clearly made up a gun to make the handgun revolver thing be real, but then it made the gun nuts mad regardless

[outer depot]

I mean it’s also chambered in 9x39 which is

Also funny

[finite needle]

The complains about real guns existing are kinda valid, but I'm pretty sure they had the Desert Eagle in and changed their mind for a revolver last second because it was cooler

[outer depot]

You legitimately get better performance from .45 ACP out of a revolver barrel than you would 9x39

[finite needle]

I, for one, I'm not mad that the 1911 is the best handgun in the game, I'm gonna take it

[outer depot]

2 World Wars and four Zone excursions

Frankly my only real problem with the revolver is I think it looks terrible. If they’re doing 9x39 for some reason and cooking a complete mashup design, make it something that works like the Nagant 1895 where the cylinder presses over the barrel extension to form a gas seal and then have it able be suppressed for maximum memes

[finite needle]

Nah he's right about the rsh tho, just I don't think GSC wanted to make a whole ass ammo only for one gun that wasn't the gauss and diverged from the og design in a more generic revolver, this after they dcided that deagle wasn't it anymore

[outer depot]

Yeah I just think they could have done something more interesting with it if that’s the path they chose

Something a bit more Zone specific in its tailoring (killing mutants or sentries with a completely silent revolver)

[finite needle]

Good news is, you can mod it now

[outer depot]

Someone’s just going to put the deagle brand deagle in

And make it chambered for .45 (again)

[finite needle]

Just like new vegas, I can see someone find out 357 was always in the game and bring it back

to use EXCLUSIVELY with deagle and revolver

or watch GSG come up with the 357 SMG

[outer depot]

Maybe they’re secretly a .38 Super supremacist and they’ll make a rechamber for the Kora

Bro .357 would be kinda neat just because >leverguns

[finite needle]

dunno if they're good for the zone or easy to come by

[outer depot]

Hunting boars with my Henry as GOD intended

[finite needle]

I'm more hopeful for the SKS or some end game 9x39 variant gun, maybe a couple battle rifles

[outer depot]

Would be amusing since a lot of modern lever actions are actually made in Italy as historical repros and sold around Euroland

G3 or FAL would be neat, or an SVT

[finite needle]

Broke ass ilya can't afford some 3k euros italian elverl action rifle

[outer depot]

Broke ass Ilya is walking around with an HK416 in the lesser zone while wearing a sweater and some jeans

[finite needle]

mass produced gun that shoot "cheap" ammo will beat some custom made italian rifle that shoots 45-70

also I think you can probably buy at least 8 hk416 for the price of a single italian lever action

5 for sure

[outer depot]

Nah a lot of Italian shit is cheap

[finite needle]

replicas and whatnot

[outer depot]

They make gucci stuff for sure but they’re also a source of cheap repros

Them and Rossi in Brazil

[finite needle]

the Mateba 6 unica is like 2400 euros tho

the cool shit you might want in game is mighty expensive

[outer depot]

Man you can find $8000 over under shotguns from Italy or ones that cost $400

There’s a wide variety of shit

[finite needle]

No I know, but we talking fancy shit, not shitty under shotguns that are like 200 euros

bird hunting rifles and the likes

[outer depot]

You’re talking fancy shit, I was just talking cheap lever actions if someone adds .357 in

Uberti makes brand new .357 model 1873 levergat repros that retail for like a grand

[finite needle]

Yeah sorry, my mind went like no way Ilya is gonna source that from ITALY

[outer depot]

lol

Someone went on a Zone Safari with their gucci Pedersoli

And proceeded to die in a whirligig

[finite needle]

Unironically something I want to be implemented in game, tourists

[outer depot]

Ye, I think it’d fit to have some people truly out of place or as an escort job in some of the “safer” starter areas (I LOVE escort missions! )

[finite needle]

Who said anything about escorting?

We have a life, let's make something out of it

just have them pop up somewhere, then you do you

out of place tourist full of expensive but ill suited gear? man I wonder what I can do about it.

[warped monolith]

it'd be great if we could see NPCs escorting tourists but Skif just goes "fuck that I'm not babysitting civvies"

so only npcs do it

[outer depot]

I could see Skif absolutely signing on to escort some idiot in a full scientist suit with his fancy rifle to go shoot a “chimera” (Flesh) in Garbage or Wild Territory or something

But yeah maybe a few small groups of mercs with one or two nerds showing up around mutant lairs or anomaly fields

Zone Safaris would absolutely be a thing

[wanton arch]

already were irl

[slim moth]

for you achievement hunters

[prisma gale]

man, i gotta say. breaking windows with bolts is very cathartic

[slim moth]

idk who else has problems with the in-game fov not being ENOUGH fov.
but if you slap this into engine.ini, you get more of a traditional pov vs the weird zoomed in pov that these newer games like to force.

90 actually feels like 90 now, not FOV-55

[cunning estuary]

Your new job is serving as a guide to keep rich idiots from dying to an anomaly and making sure they bag at least one mutant, have fun

[outer depot]

Yep

[finite needle]

Idk why you guys got the impression I want to escort tourists, despite my efforts to state I want them there to just abuse them or have the zone do it for me and bag their fancy weapons

[misty cloud]

So A-Life actualy works now or nah?

[outer depot]

It’s working fairly okay now

About the same as the originals more or less

[outer depot]

Skif gets the opportunity to escort a rich man on a Zone Safari to kill a Chimera with some Gucci as fuck big game rifle

If you refuse you can find the corpses of him and his party later on

And claim the rifle, naturally

[finite needle]

Plot twist: the rifle is the lore accurate anime rifle

[outer depot]

I was thinking more like Ghost and the Darkness where it turns out the thing broke and doesn’t actually work

[finite needle]

yeah I'd do that just to shitpost

rifle is trash and you can either scrap it for quick cash or maybe fix it, but turns out to be just about average like all the rewards of this kind from all the games ever made

[outer depot]

Chimera Hunter with a broken firing pin

extra Zone Safari escort quests you can pick up from the hunters lodge in Red Forest would be neat either way

Vs just sample hunting for Malachite

[finite needle]

Yeah they still need to implement the hunters, they are just there right now, and the place in Rostok remains unused

Plus there is all this talk about Zulu, and the cut OG eco-terrorist squatter Freedom splinter that hates crypto

[outer depot]

Well , hopefully we’ve got stuff to look forward to here content wise now that the general game world is being made more fit for purpose

I’d love for the full duty questline to be restored with the cut lab still sitting below cooling towers ready to go

[finite needle]

Hopefully yeah, we're finally in the open beta phase, where the game just needs the content to be add and overall fixes, which is honestly way shorter than it took Cyberpunk to get there. Although Cyberpunk is overall a much better game, it literally took what, 2 years before it was in a decent state? 1 and half?

[outer depot]

I’d really love for there to be more stuff down in the burned forest region too because it’s really cool but also pretty desolate in terms of hubs and NPCs

[finite needle]

burned forest is desolate for a reason I think, doesn't look like the kind of place people would like to stay, even in the zone

[outer depot]

Oh for sure. Things are moving fairly fast and the more solid the foundation the more they can build on it

[outer depot]

Yeah just meant the whole southwest in general

It’s hard to get there and hard to leave with nowhere to trade

Just one trader somewhere in there or the south part of Duga would help massively

Having to trek all the way to Malachite or Chemical Plant is crazy

[finite needle]

C'est la vie, but I hope by bringing back some sort of dynamicity between Freedom and Duty you can "unlock" trade posts, or better they will take over some places and you can trade with them. Freedom would be down for it, dunno about Duty, but they would make the areas safer? idk.

[golden hazel]

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

[outer depot]

Southwest would make for an interesting duty and freedom battle zone but then again neither of them are particularly close, and Duty is busy in the north

Oh yeah the other area I think could use some love is the sand quarry part of Wild Territory, before you reach the train depot to Zaton proper

[finite needle]

Yeah, but it's the only way I could think of to make that area populated without having loners, who apparently have ignored that zone up until now, suddenly appear with settlements because you finished some main quests

[outer depot]

Kinda empty

[finite needle]

I also think you might need some guidance towards Cordon, you can technically go there right after you leave the lesser zone, but there is no real reason nor breadcrumb quest to direct you there. NOt that there is anything fantastic to get, but it's a beginner area that you visit fairly late, all the loot you get is pretty much outdated.

[outer depot]

The place is lousy with bandits as well as mutants at a few of the camps so could be framed as a sweep and clear op for duty and maybe they can grab army Warhouses since the place is deserted other than some mercs that ambush you

[outer depot]

Yeah I wish Cordon was worked in a bit earlier. Would be nice to have some more early game filler stuff to do there akin to how lesser zone is packed with easy side quests

Especially since the new cordon is actually really nicely done

I mean yeah I guess technically you can go early but there’s no real significance

You can even rescue that Merc that was being hired by freedom to hit a few of Sid’s men out in Wild Territory and that amounts to about nothing because Sid doesn’t care what happens to his peons unless it impacts a job

[finite needle]

Sid is just a lovable sort

[outer depot]

Old bastard Sid

[woeful stag]

for a 5.56 gun do you guys think its worth repairing the unknown ar416 for 10k or just buying a gp37 for 21 kfrom Rostok?

Not sure how accurate these weapon stats are

[radiant ridge]

Whats a good alife mod for 1.5?

or nothing yet?

[trim iron]

What's your opinion of "good"?

[radiant ridge]

I don't know the answer to that lol, what a weird question

[odd thistle]

anyone know how to load mods on the xbox version of stalker 2

nvm its right there, im litteraly so blind, but its kinda like fo4 tho

[trim iron]

You played with both Shay's and A-Life Found a way, then ask for a "good" a-life mod, but don't know what you are asking for when you specifically say "good"?
Are you implying those are not good?

[radiant ridge]

just was looking for stuff for 1.5. I haven't played in forever.

[prisma crow]

it is probably better to try it yourself than to wait for someone to give you an answer

[sweet mica]

they would stop a the top of stairs, so i just stood there and waited for them to come to me

[timid hamlet]

Hey guys, I wanted to get back in STALKER 2, I haven't played since I finished the game right after launch. Do you suggest any "must-have" mods, or has the game changed a fair amount since? I know it got a fair few patches but I'm curious about any recommendations

[proud ruin]

Is this game not shit yet

[sweet mica]

I love how moody it can get

[sweet mica]

its a decent game 7/10

A-life is slightly better, you will find yourself in more interesting and immmersive situations now, but the AI itself is still noticably stupid and the NPCs feel like NPCs still

[proud ruin]

Have they fixed the ai aimbot and retard tier npc spawning

[sweet mica]

wdym retard tier npc spawning?

and no for aimbot unfortunately

[proud ruin]

they would literally appear in front of you on launch

[sweet mica]

its still here sad to say. there are situations that i stumble across, groups that i stumble across as if it was like the old games but i am still have issues where packs of dogs literally come out of nowhere and spawn behind me

I have stumbled across a lot more interactions though with 1.5, than I would have around launch. Ex. bandits fighting loners, freedom duty shootouts, etc, but still meh

[proud ruin]

[sweet mica]

they added mutant skinning which, its a good thing they added it but tbh it does not add a lot to the game at all. they havent even added a vendor for the hunting stand in rostoks bazar

I figured when they added mutant looting it would come in a whole package with hunters, hunting side missions, etc.

[proud ruin]

This game needed another year of development

[sweet mica]

Honestly 1.5 years minimum.

[proud ruin]

I was very underwhelmed and disappointed with the launch version

[sweet mica]

I really don't think the game will be up to communities standards 6 months from now. People keep hoping for a Cyberpunk 2.0 situation, and I hope for that too, but at this rate that update will be like 7.0 in 2027

They have released mod tools so the game will improve a lot in the next couple months due to modders efforts, but GSC is.. idk man

[proud ruin]

I saw the mod tools were like 700gb

[sweet mica]

I am trying to keep hopeful and support GSC but each update is pretty insignificant, the game has a LONG way to go

[proud ruin]

Unreal slop moment

I saw them going on about added 2 new weapons and people were glazing gsc over it in their discord

[sweet mica]

its ridiculous, two weapons does not change the game in any meaningful way

[proud ruin]

Yeah like who cares fix the game you shitters

[sweet mica]

the mosin sucks ass and should be dropped in the first 20 minutes of use, theres better guns, but the kora? Oh man that kora is so fucking good its my main sidearm now

[proud ruin]

I might check back in towards the end of the year see if it’s a better place

I have my doubts though I don’t think gsc will be able to cyberpunk 2.0 this

[sweet mica]

How much have you played? are you waiting for a first playthough??

[proud ruin]

No I played through it once

Like 80 hours

Thought it was mid as tbh

[kindred violet]

You are aware that a studio usually has different teams that do different things right?
So not everyone will be working on "fixing" the game as that's just not feasible

[proud ruin]

Cope fix your game retards

[kindred violet]

[proud ruin]

[proud ruin]

Felt like Farcry: Ukraine

[sweet mica]

why not feasible

genuinely asking not trying to be a smartass, i just think it would make more sense to put more people on the team focused on fixing the glaring issues the game ahs

[kindred violet]

First off not everyone is a programmer, second off there's only so many people that can work on a single issue simultaneously, so you will have specialized "taskforces" that are taking on the bigger issues whilst the smaller bugs are distributed amongst remaining devs.

Debugging doesn't really scale with availabe manpower

Not to mention that they will also most likely be working on future content on the side as well

[sweet mica]

question, how do yall feel about the dialogue of the game? One of my favorite lines was a guy complaining about having just washed his pants and how they're completely dirty again. i find little comments like that make the game so much more real

Talking to random stalkers is pointless in S2 I feel like in COP they had a lot more to say

now its pretty much the exact same lines recycled for every single NPC you run into

[turbid slate]

hello guys did u see new stalker 2 mod crafting like start of the gamma ?

[pseudo falcon]

what mod is this anyway?

share the link to the mod

looks like gamma
which is cool
now i can craft if its possible

[turbid slate]

it isnt finished yet, it is mod by ZunaSW https://x.com/ZunaSW

Kyne's Peace (@ZunaSW) on X

Creature/Character 3D artist for videogames. I also make mods. Forever in The Zone. ☢️

Looking for work!

Support me on Ko-Fi! https://t.co/zgKctkt6pe

X

Crafting mod is coming soon

stash mod is already made

map*

[pseudo falcon]

bruh
why twitter

[turbid slate]

i just send his twitter man

so u can track his work

https://mod.io/u/kynes-peace/

his released mods right now

[odd plume]

I was really disappointed by the launch, and hadn't touched the game until the latest update and it took a huge step in the right direction honestly. I'm actually having fun and will finally finish the story this time around.

Is it perfect? Nah, I think there's much more that can be improved but I think they can do it

[turbid slate]

well without mods stalker 2 feels too empty now

[proud ruin]

The dialogue is pretty mid

Also whoever thought English accents were a good idea should be executed immediately

[turbid slate]

and A-Life system needs a big change

[proud ruin]

[turbid slate]

maybe modding will help stalker 2 to shine again..

[proud ruin]

I heard big overhaul mods aren’t possible on UE5 I might be wrong though

[turbid slate]

well we cant expect the same size as gamma, lets be real.. But mods like crafting can be made

and lets be real we dont need 500+ mods modpack there

[odd plume]

I have no mods that increase the spawn or change the A-Life stuff and I constantly get shot at or see other people shoot at each other to the point where it's almost too much tbh

[odd plume]

All depends on how the mod kit is getting developed now

[pseudo falcon]

so the current WIP of the crafting system like in gamma is still in the works? coz i dont see any crafting in S2 yet

[turbid slate]

yes its still in the works

only map mod is made now

[split crown]

Lmfao. Yeah, I cannot stand the English voice acting in S2, so I only play with the Ukrainian audio and EN subtitles.

[turbid slate]

https://x.com/i/status/1939778153737490614 crafting mod preview

Kyne's Peace (@ZunaSW)

Preview of the crafting mod I'm working on for @stalker_thegame #STALKER2. Its been on the works for a few months now, the Zone Kit made it easier to test stuff. Crafting ammo, devices, medicine, armour, also cooking (even in fire anomalies). All like in Anomaly.

X · Jun 30, 2025, 8:08 PM

[split crown]

Pretty neat and a good start in the right direction for any kind of crafting system.

[turbid slate]

yep

[proud ruin]

Yeah same

[split crown]

The English voices don't fit the game's setting or atmosphere at all

extremely immersion breaking

[turbid slate]

i played on ukrainian voiceact

[split crown]

ye

[turbid slate]

but after Sircaa questline i stopped because world felt empty without much sidequests on further areas

[split crown]

I've also heard that a lot of the regions just have nothing going on with them - quest and NPC wise - so they're just barren lands lol. Like sure you can explore them, but that gets boring after a while too with no purpose set in place for said regions.

[turbid slate]

yes thats the main issue

[odd plume]

What they really need to do now is increase the online A-Life radius to something like 200m, not sure how that's gonna work due to performance but it has to happen, and then give us binoculars back that also show the red and green borders around hostile/friendlies for scouting. Especially now that there's so much nature in the way of seeing things

[turbid slate]

true about Alife, but they have to add repetitive sidequests from simple stalkers

[split crown]

I can only wonder if that'll make the memory leaks worse, lmao. I'm still experiencing consistent memory leaks near NPC bodies or populated settlements.

[odd plume]

Luckily those have stopped for me completely

[split crown]

Agreed + make it so you can get more than 1 repeatable quest at a time from bartenders as well; that way when you finish at least 1 quest from them, you're able to pick up other optional quests they had for you right away.

[split crown]

I'm envious.

My current playthrough is a totally vanilla run with only reshade on.

[turbid slate]

there are no repetitive sidequests only like from barkeep etc.. random stalkers must give sidequests like bring item/artefact , kill group of bandits, mutants etc

[split crown]

I deleted my mods folder

[split crown]

Yeah I'd also enjoy that.

[odd plume]

They really need to not have a timer in-between those quests, just let me grind out some damn money if I want to

[split crown]

100%

[odd plume]

There was a mod for that already but it's not updated anymore

[split crown]

I saw that mod a while back, but I wasn't sure how stable it was.

[turbid slate]

thats true, but random stalkers giving quests would solve that problem

[odd plume]

I used it back when it came out and it bugged one quest that I couldn't get a reward for anymore, I also can't cancel it so that quest giver is basically useless for me now😂

[split crown]

I had that happen to me once, actually, even without using that mod. There was a console command you could input to cancel the quest for whichever NPC you got it from iirc.

[odd plume]

I'm not sure how great that works with them roaming around and constantly dying and your quest failing

Like yeah, it's immersive but probably frustrating

[split crown]

Such is life in the zone.

[turbid slate]

on stalker gamma it is like that and thats immersive

[split crown]

Like yea that used to bother me back in the day when I'd play Anomaly, but I eventually just accepted that shit happens in the zone so oh well. Also, it's just more of a challenge to build up my reputation again if it takes a hit that way.

[turbid slate]

yep

[split crown]

I really just think GSC could learn a lot more about what players wanna see in their game if they peer into their communities just a bit more - especially the modding communities.

[odd plume]

I think the issue with that is that in the older games/overhauls, those quests would target already spawned things in the offline a-life while the quests now work different and will spawn in the specific target instead. That's a big L for questing in this game, makes it feel less alive than actually knowing whatever your target is was already there before accepting quests

[odd plume]

I'm sure they did, a lot of features show that too, they probably just didn't have the experience, time and money to keep going before release. Doesn't excuse it but probably that's the reason.

[split crown]

Sounds reasonable enough, yeah. I for one know just how much of a rabbit hole modding can be lmao.

[odd plume]

Also it's hard to balance what people that don't like the big mods like want from stalker and then there's the people who love the extreme hardcore mechanics of gamma for example

Stalker without mods has always been a more arcade shooter with an extremely atmospheric setting and world building

[kindred violet]

[summer vapor]

in the lesser zone next to the electrical anomaly zone there are still a lot of NPCs and mutants spawning

[sweet mica]

How long has the ward been in the zone by the start of S2? S2 is 2021?

[split crown]

Not entirely sure, but I think their arrival in the zone is still fairly recent.

[sweet mica]

If I'm not mistaken, sirca was built in a year right?

Wards probably been there for a little longer than a year

[split crown]

yeah I'm not sure, so I'm googling. Found this interesting tidbit:

[split crown]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPMYbAy-VfM

[molten osprey]

Dont know why but i thought the ward guys are chill

[split crown]

Yeah, I think they can be pretty alright too.

[molten osprey]

Probably the guy just watching me choking the scientist but in General as well

[split crown]

[molten osprey]

Has game changed enough since 1.03 to justify a playtrough or another year in the oven?

I can only play vanilla because im cursed with xbox so

[split crown]

Definitely needs another year in the oven; the biggest changes they've brought about are the 2 new guns (mosin-nagant & Kortha 1911 pistol) and mutant looting is now in the game by default. I guess AI is a little better, too, and they won't simply disappear once they're out of your vision. Now, they have randomly set paths throughout the zone, and they'll essentially keep moving from spot to spot until something or someone else kills 'em.

Personally, though, I still consistently get memory leaks and my fps will wither down to like 5-10 fps. It's horrible, but sometimes just quitting back to main menu and loading a save fixes it. Otherwise just have to close the whole game and re-launch it lol.

So I'll be considerably happier with GSC once they can finally figure out their game's goofy ass performance problems.

[drowsy umbra]

imo changing A-life online radius wont do with making the zone feel more alive, the individual zones need more interaction and "sense", it needs more types of quests, more interactivity, more rng

[split crown]

Yes.

I wrote earlier on in the channel, but plenty of the regions in-game just simply need more "purpose" thrown into them. Otherwise exploration just gets super bland and boring after a while.

[drowsy umbra]

like, if you play the main story, you will probably never go to cooling towers by default

[drowsy umbra]

or Cordon, like... the Cordon is THE symbol for the zone

and storywise its used like... once?

[split crown]

Yeah idk, I also felt like they kinda dropped the ball with the Cordon.

[drowsy umbra]

sometimes it feels like the game ends with fleeing from SIRCAA

[split crown]

lol, funny you mention that.

[drowsy umbra]

SIRCAA theoretically offers so much potential

but you get there and 5 minutes later everything goes to shit

[split crown]

I got through SIRCAA up to the part where you're trying to escape, and I stumbled upon that major in-game decision you have to make. Did some Googling afterwards, and I realized you literally get locked out of certain areas and/or features in the game based on your decision. Excellent job with that one, GSC. I stopped my playthrough then and there.

[drowsy umbra]

and then nothing happens there

[split crown]

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[split crown]

I did all this, btw, without exploring like the entirety of the western side of the map yet.

[drowsy umbra]

Stalker 2 feels too much as a story game

[split crown]

well it is, first and foremost.

[drowsy umbra]

which feels so different to the exploring sandbox the community is used to have

[split crown]

The problem, however, is it tries to also vastly play into the role of an open-world game too.

[drowsy umbra]

yeah, but even the OG games offered more sandbox

[split crown]

And, as such, the open-world feels rather barren without much purpose to it.

[drowsy umbra]

the open world would be a huge advantage if they would have done anything with it

[split crown]

As the other guy in here earlier was mentioning, if GSC just allowed more various interactions with just about any NPC - whether it's more repeatable side quests and/or dialogue options - it'd be a great start in the right direction.

[split crown]

Yeah.

[drowsy umbra]

the PDA system is missing imo, that was such a nice feature in the OG

[split crown]

100% agreed. The PDA in S2 feels horrible to use; it's only a map and note reader now.

[drowsy umbra]

and also was part of the core OG experience

hell, even make random messages appear from random stalkers, that feels more alive

[split crown]

dude yes lmao

I actually like seeing the random chatter from actual NPCs throughout the zone.

[drowsy umbra]

like, when you are in zalissya, it is mentioned that Rookie PDAs are tracked, so there IS a network

[split crown]

You're right... I didn't even think about that, lol. Lens says as much.

Maybe if enough players complain, GSC might eventually add it in.

Unless some giga brained modder comes along and somehow adds it

[elfin pilot]

wait harry porter

[split crown]

Yeah I found that in one of my playthroughs too lol

[elfin pilot]

I swear the Swamp in this game is a slog to play through

[drowsy umbra]

its also a one time visit

you get there once and then, like a lot of other zones, are done with it forever

[elfin pilot]

if you sent these guys to the swamp I wonder if you can find them later

[split crown]

Yeah, it 100% is. I've only gone through it once so far, but holy shit just that one time was enough. It's complete ass, and I think GSC intentionally made it that way for whatever reason in S2.

[split crown]

Yeah... which is kinda sad

[split crown]

Huh, I don't remember seeing those guys in the Swamp. They must have been added in by a patch after I'd already gone through it.

[drowsy umbra]

nah

they were there since 1.0

[split crown]

Huh

Yeah I don't recall them at all. Strange.

[elfin pilot]

tryna play through as corpo Skif helping Ward

its kinda funny

[drowsy umbra]

I am now doing a coin throw at any decision

[elfin pilot]

Chaotic Neutral

[drowsy umbra]

and as of now the rng almost always decided to go for Ward path

[elfin pilot]

god damn the jumping mouses in this game are absolutely abysmal to fight against

[split crown]

honestly I've been finding it's the most sensible route to play (up to the point I'm aware of, anyway, since I haven't beaten the game yet).

[elfin pilot]

tbh i like Col Kurschokov

[split crown]

Yeah he doesn't seem nearly as bad as stalkers write him up as.

[elfin pilot]

dude's probably the Zone's most reasonable dude

[drowsy umbra]

korshunov also has quite an interesting backstory

[split crown]

Oh? Does the game go into depth about it? If so, I'll look forward to learning more about him.

[elfin pilot]

also its funny how most of STALKER characters in this game like very crazy and insane, and all the Ward characters you talked to are the one that makes much sense tho they are a bit authoritarian

[split crown]

Still can't believe what GSC did to my mans Scar lmao.

[split crown]

Yeah, hence why I said Ward is like the most sensible route to take

[elfin pilot]

I love the new 1911 pistol

shit doesn't kill the enemy, it's absolutely disintegrating enemies' soul

God's Caliber, 45 kills the soul

[split crown]

I've also obtained one, and it do be slappin'

[elfin pilot]

but the balancing in this game is weird

[split crown]

Eh. I still find it irritating how every NPC that shoots at you is an aimbot.

Like surely all those dudes out in the zone with red status durability guns will hit every single shot on me

[elfin pilot]

yeh i hate that too, i tried to download to make gunplay more realistic just to make gameplay dumped down to, shoot 2 guys, heal, shoot 2 guys, heal, shoot 2 guys, heal cuz w the mod they take off like 50% of my health from 1 glance

[kindred violet]

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

[elfin pilot]

STALKER 2 GAMMA isn't gonna be peak

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/mads-mikkelsen-smoking-cigarette-smoke-glasses-gif-27211121

[elfin pilot]

spoiler: it's not good

[split crown]

lmao

I love mosin nagants. I'm still using the one I bought from Hamster as my sniper.

[elfin pilot]

I was kinda hype for Mosin but turns out only you can use it, wish it drops on people

but the thing is if the enemies aimbot you 1 mile away with Viper-5, what's the point of using boltie lmao

[split crown]

Not true. I've seen several other loners carry mosin nagants, and I even killed a military guy who had one up in one of the Sphere's guard towers.

[elfin pilot]

your screen is gonna shake worse than having seizure, or to the point it cause you seizure

[split crown]

For tapping their heads

[elfin pilot]

tbh I just do it w SVD that yopu found after leaving Lesser Zone

[split crown]

Yeah... can confirm this has happened on several occasions lmao, but oh well.

[elfin pilot]

wish you can remove the scope tho, base game can't remove scope is just sad

[split crown]

Fair enough; they should replace that SVD with a mosin nagant since it's so early on in the game. Or replace Valik's AK with the mosin.

[split crown]

Agreed. it's goofy as hell how limited/restricted optics are in S2.

[elfin pilot]

another thing I hate is that ragdolls fly away now and they also take their guns w them so now I can only find 25% of the guns on the ground

[split crown]

pretty much why Oxide's Expanded Armory is so good.

[elfin pilot]

hopefully they fixed it but it's wacky as hell

[elfin pilot]

most of the scope can be mounted on Picatinny platform but idk why we cant just grab MP5 sight onto AKS74U and vice versa

[split crown]

lmao, yeah the flying ragdolls are funny until the fucking earth swallows their corpses when they land. It's also a pain in the ass trying to find dropped guns now.

[split crown]

Mhm.

[elfin pilot]

part of me wish the human character can't target you well through foliage, they beam you through bush and you can't see them

[split crown]

Yeah, shitty aimbot interactions basically. You can't see the NPCs, but they see you through everything.

[elfin pilot]

also I keep remember the game earlier have you shoot PKM with 7.62x39mm

I think they remove it cuz only sees 7.62x54mmR now

wish they added SKS and RPD when they reintroduce 7.62x39mm

[neat sequoia]

I thought the flying npcs was just cause I was mixing infinity and oxa prototype lmao I'm mental though so I don't even mind the conflicts it causes

[elfin pilot]

having AKM would be fun too ngl (there are some wooden AKM in game but the weapon was never used)

[split crown]

Nah, that shit is in the vanilla game lmao.

[neat sequoia]

But now I know it's just 1.5

[split crown]

Would be nice and cool, yeah. Did they take 7.62x39mm out entirely?

[neat sequoia]

I'm like damn that buckshot is KICKIN

[split crown]

Must be using whatever the DOOM guy uses in his boomstick

[elfin pilot]

they did

[split crown]

Interesting. I'm curious to see what other guns and ammo/calibers GSC and/or modders add in the future.

[remote eagle]

did u full upgraded mosin?

[elfin pilot]

man, the enemies died kicking their VSS Vintorez and high value weapons away, bruh

[remote eagle]

sounds like a good money

[elfin pilot]

I swear Strelok can drop from the roof to the ground without losing health and Skif just folded

[neat sequoia]

If they somehow made Gamma open up the world and fixed how factions work in this game with the new dev tools for modders, it would really make this game better. I hate that some areas are just one time and that's it

[split crown]

it's what happens when you skip leg day

[elfin pilot]

the fact that 45 ACP in this game deals less damage than 9x18mm is just astounding

this' some slavabo craps

I just love playing Half Life 3

[neat sequoia]

So much for "gods bullet"

[remote eagle]

colt deals more damage than any pistol in game

[elfin pilot]

its a Kimber

[remote eagle]

[elfin pilot]

I think the unique variant is literally just STI Pit Viper

that shoots 9mm that somehow... deals the same damage as the normal 45 counterpart?

why does Dalin look so goofy

[remote eagle]

yeah honestly all guns need a stat rebalancing

[elfin pilot]

I kinda want more guns like the FN F2000

[finite needle]

Man my new pc got delayed again, fuck me. Last time I use third party to assemble a PC for me go fucking damnit

[elfin pilot]

FOR.. FOR ME?????? DONT MIND IF I DO

[finite needle]

I though very hard about it and decided I want battle rifles as endgame weapons, like a Scar or an AK 104 or that mutant israeli AK that GAMMA has, since GSC has such a boner for israeli guns.

[elfin pilot]

kinda weird how there is a IWI Carmel in game, its such an odd choice

[remote eagle]

500 Aks

[elfin pilot]

ngl

I thought you could modify your AK74M to have short barrel / longer barrel and stuff

ngl that'd be such a cool concept I hope modder could make

[finite needle]

Those are the guns that exist which can use ye olde AK 47 ammo

[elfin pilot]

since SDK is released I think modders can add their own weapons now

[remote eagle]

[elfin pilot]

I still find it so funny that Skif doesn't mind a clean bed, he just flopped his dirty body down onto a clean bed

[remote eagle]

because its not his

[elfin pilot]

also my guy puncture Condensed Milk can with a fucking crowbar

I know its a mod but I cant stop laughing

me when the Burer took all of my weapons and used it against me:

[remote eagle]

just rpg his ass

[elfin pilot]

took my RPG and shot me

[remote eagle]

[elfin pilot]

im not mad, im just astounded

[remote eagle]

just found cover so he cant see u and take peek shots at him

[drowsy umbra]

get a gauss

problem solved

[elfin pilot]

Took gauss and shot me

[inland prism]

Anyone been playing with the mod called Desolation in 1.5?

[pseudo falcon]

why do players want to punish themselves more with scarcity mods

[hearty iron]

i suppose anomaly 2 is now imminent, only a matter of time before enough mods get made for a complete freeplay overhaul to be made

cant wait, if stalker 2 succeeded in something exceedingly well its the enviroments and map visuals, especially the urban and underground areas

just needs modded content and freeplay stuff with better replay value and gameplay depth

[onyx harbor]

Anyone knows of a stalker faction identification mod for 1.5 ? Playing without crosshair is mandatory and yet utterly frustrating

[rotund mantle]

good question tbh

[odd plume]

Even on expert difficulty I keep finding so many medkits and items that I just leave 80% of it on the ground, so I do think the game could do with less items overall on higher difficulty

[odd plume]

Sadly none, if nothing is on nexusmods or the steamworkshop it usually means doesnt exist, I guess you can check modb but thats probably not heavily used for Stalker 2

[kindred violet]

I think it's a feature in oxa prototype but that obviously comes with a lot more other features

[outer depot]

Desolation isn’t even hard

[slim moth]

its more fun

[inland prism]

@pseudo falcon it's almost like modding allows people to tailor a game to their own tastes 🤔

[inland prism]

Their server is quiet tbf, might be working on other things atm.

Seems the only thing patched to 1.5 atm is OXA

That kinda scratches the GAMMA itch.

[tribal sleet]

Will we ever get true a life?

[summer vapor]

Check point of no return

[inland prism]

I mean at this point it seems like A-Life lite, looks like it never existed in the first place.

However 1.5 is a massive improvement.

[outer depot]

1.5 is about where the OGs were

A few areas that need work but it’s generally functioning and can be expanded on

[nova lake]

this is interesting fan fiction

where did you get this? the en wiki? yhea thats why its wrong

[unborn kelp]

stares at technician upgrade garbage

.>

[warped monolith]

[carmine prism]

Ain't no way that guy just tanked 3 headshots from an AK

[warped monolith]

ain't no way stalker isn't an ultra realistic milsim

[carmine prism]

yea... I've played gamma so much I forgot how it was in the og trilogy

I don't remember bandits tanking headshots from an AK tho

[remote eagle]

u playing at veteran?

[carmine prism]

stalker

[remote eagle]

[carmine prism]

no wait, veteran

I only remember it as the second last difficulty

[remote eagle]

all enemies at veteran are bullet spongies

[carmine prism]

[finite needle]

OGs remember when you needed 3 5.45 in the brain to kill a bandit in GAMMA because I don't even remember what the issue was, apparently bandanas and balaclavas were considered helmets in game and gave headshot protection

The only thing that dies with a headshot in gamma is you - the player!

[carmine prism]

I never use 5.45 (I'm a nato gun user) and always play on the easiest difficulty for gamma so...

[finite needle]

I usually play Merc/Freedom and even I have shoot at least once a 5.45 weapon at someone.

But I digress, in short the joke is that headshots not bein a sure kill is very much in line with both trilogy and GAMMA

[outer depot]

Constantly

I love being instantly concussed and unable to do anything as my screen flashes white and sways all over the place because some bandit hit your max level helmet with a 9x18 JHP from 50 meters the instant you poked

[carmine prism]

anyone know what to do with these PDAs?

[outer depot]

Sell them or keep them if you want

[finite needle]

sell them, store them, it's not important.

[carmine prism]

sell to the trader?

[outer depot]

No, to me.

[carmine prism]

sure, for how much?

[outer depot]

$3.50

[carmine prism]

only roubles are accepted in the zone, no?

[odd plume]

The game, if offline A-Life is really properly simulated now, really needs to add back in the PDA chatter between people in the zone, like stalkers saying they saw a pack of boars in this and that location etc....

[icy basin]

Tree fiddy is being forgotten

[outer depot]

[warped monolith]

how about free tiddy

[chrome abyss]

Any info if it’s possible to recreate the weapon part system from gamma with the sdk?

[ocean laurel]

When gamma 2 modpack

[late kernel]

never

[terse gazelle]

hardcore sim is when enemies arent bullet sponges

[torpid relic]

the pda chatter was a purely modded thing from base anomaly I belive.

[odd plume]

Fair enough, it really made the world feel alive though, seems like a good feature to "copy" in my books

[torpid relic]

yea, incredible how such a simple system, that has maybe 200 lines of dialog, makes the game fell much more alive

[odd plume]

Not just that, but hearing about something through that chat, then going there and it actually happening is peak immersion

[heady cairn]

Hello, has anyone experienced an enemy flying into the air? Because I have that happening xD

[odd plume]

Its a bug since the last patch

[warped monolith]

some players mentioned that enemies taking cover are ejected into the stratosphere when they get killed

[odd plume]

will be fixed with the next hotfix

[warped monolith]

some weird ragdoll physics glitch

[heady cairn]

A okey

Is there a mod for that or not?

[heady cairn]

? 😦

[wary nimbus]

I think this would require a working offline A-Life

And Im still not sure if is that working properly now in S2

[barren wharf]

Upgraded containers to protect from rad and found liquid rock shortly after...

[split crown]

I think some wiki page, yeah.

[winged eagle]

u know what would be dope for Q3
A - life online bubble increase with setting options
100m default and you can increase it to 200m-300m-400m depending on ur hardware like a graphical setting

[little sage]

Am i locked out of chemical plant if i side with spark?

[winged eagle]

@tacit glacier https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3513215484

FINALLY

Mutant roars and grenades no longer disable your movement or slow time.
There is still a visual blur effect and camera movement effect, but you no longer lose control of your character.

if only they could roar while moving instnatly at you would be even scarier

[split crown]

I believe so last time I looked that up.

[split crown]

I had a realization last night; blood cykas in S2 don't grab and give you the succ anymore like how they sometimes would in the OG stalkers.

For whatever reason they replaced that attack with the horrible jump attack that incapacitates you for a few moments lmao.

[sweet mica]

I wonder how close modders are to another 3D PDA mod for S2

i dislike the fact that GSC made the PDA the way it is in S2

[split crown]

100% agreed

[winter halo]

yo broskis

any idea why the flashlight shadows in my game are so super weird? I either need to make these smoother or I need to disable them completely because it's driving me nuts

you can see these anomalies by those beams up there, hard to show on picture but they literally distort in shape all the time

[slim moth]

do you use u+

[winter halo]

lemme check

not atm

is it possible some of the setting stayed behind when I removed it?

[slim moth]

no, i was gonna say, it'd probably help

[winter halo]

hmm need to install it for the sake of it

[slim moth]

4.3.2 is out i believe

[winter halo]

ha, fixed it completely lol, thanks!

nexus still has the 4.3.1 as the latest, I don't know if a newer one exists

[sweet mica]

does anyone know what these tall ass flowers are

[summer vapor]

Those are hogweed poisonous plants

[sweet mica]

youre telling me ive been rubbing against poisonous plants in the swamps this entire time??

They've got posion ivy in Ukraine right? That's the closest thing I have to that plant near me.

[summer vapor]

Sosnowsky's hogweed

This plant has an interesting history

[bleak badge]

yea i was looking to try something like mhm

[slim moth]

I always point people in the oxa prototype direction.

[kindred violet]

I've been trying that out these past few days and it's pretty damn cool ngl

Impressive what he managed to do

[wispy saddle]

I have shit fps no matter what'

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/it's-the-best-part-marques-brownlee-that's-the-finest-aspect-mkbhd-gif-14822973903282765409

[elfin pilot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTKjQwrxCeE&list=RDxTKjQwrxCeE&start_radio=1

[elfin pilot]

I still like the only reason that Skif treks and murders the entire zone

is because his home was burnt down

[split crown]

real & true

[elfin pilot]

jesus what the hell are these

[round herald]

In this economy? That apratement was probably worth 80-100k USD

I would be mad af too

[elfin pilot]

man why does it look like none drop weapons anymore

[tacit glacier]

The Wandering Lights anomaly.

It's a psyfield that makes the world pitch black.
It spawns a neat artifact at night though that adds like, 40 extra carry weight and reduces radiation

It's one of the anomolous objects you can find, like the anomalous ball under Bulba anomaly, or blue flower at the poppy field

[winged eagle]

No succy:(

[remote eagle]

https://youtu.be/TrD-gILcaV0

[split crown]

Huh, had no idea those artefacts spawned in each anomalous location. Will have to check for them.

Gonna guess the starter detector will be enough to find them?

[kindred violet]

They spawn without the detector

And aren't indicated by the detectors

[remote eagle]

[tacit glacier]

They essentially spawn in unique named anomaly fields marked with the special unique icon related to said anomaly field.

[nova lake]

at the 20 minute mark, complaining that NPCs no longer take you wherever you want is cheap considering that this is a good change, this feature was a cheap copout to having to plan and walk back and forth towards objectives and bases
tho the larger point is right, there were more interections beetween NPCs mainly bc there was no need for VA, but I do hope we never see the hey random guy, take me to this place mechanic again

[tiny dew]

Guys, I have a 2060 video card, super version of Ryzen 7 3700 X and 32 gigs of RAM, the game runs at 90 - 40 fps in populated areas. Is this normal or is there something wrong with me?

[late kernel]

2060 is a bit low for this game

[nova lake]

the game always chugs at densely populated areas, especially rostok, lots of NPCs and stuff going on there

[tiny dew]

😢

[late kernel]

Lots of NPCs doing NOTHING really justifies the increased CPU usage lol

[tiny dew]

3070 or 4060 will be ok for gaming?

[round herald]

It's UE5 don't excpect anything better

[late kernel]

Get a GPU that has more than 8 GB VRAM

[round herald]

Not really. I have 8gb 2060 super and it should run fine except every UE5 game is unoptimized mess dependent on DLSS

[late kernel]

or any modern game high ultra high textures nowadays

[tiny dew]

sorry i mixed up the chat i wanted to write in gamma hahahahaha and i'm thinking what unreal engen 5

[round herald]

Anything above that is overkill atm.

[late kernel]

2060 is "fine" while i struggled to have a consistent 60 FPS on a 3060 TI with Ryzen 5 5600 on medium settings

this game has non existent optimization

[round herald]

Sometimes it's a case of a single setting wrecking the framerate. From me it's usually global illumination.

[late kernel]

Hate lumen so much, looks bad and performs bad

especially at SIRCAA my eye was tortured

[round herald]

Btw are smoke effects and some trees blurry and pixelated only for me when having DLSS on?

[late kernel]

any upscaler makes any game blurry no matter how much it is improved

[slate pulsar]

so Clear Sky has contact with MDST/The Group and C-Conciseness all along? does that mean Clear Sky was pretty much Monolith style organization but unlike them they're not brainwashed fanatics that shoots everyone (just having string attached and controlled by Lebedev because he's a former member of The Group and still have access/contact to them) ?

[slate pulsar]

nevermind ignore that question because i decided to read further

[molten osprey]

i love s2

[remote eagle]

[molten osprey]

s2 is an awesome game and people have bad expectation management

[remote eagle]

[late kernel]

I love early access games

[slate pulsar]

What is subtle matter?

[odd fjord]

bro dis for real

[round herald]

It's a good game but held back by shitty software

[odd fjord]

its the most full priced early access game i ever seen

oke besides tarkov

[round herald]

ekhm Star Citizen

[odd fjord]

and star citizen, and ashes of creation, and any kickstarted cash grab that never came to fruition

still ranked top 5

• release update
• break entrance to hub
• players cant get in and have to cheat in
• fix date: unknown

[molten osprey]

I love chernobyl far cry

[midnight bronze]

Ok so i wanna play stalker 2 again, its been awhile and i never beat it on launch because if the bugs

[pseudo falcon]

how much items you have before you start crashing

[slate pulsar]

I hate ue5 i can't even play the game now it lags every time I'm in an area with a large amount of stalkers like rostok

[molten osprey]

great game great game

[terse gazelle]

you mean ue5?

[warped monolith]

it's a good game. "awesome" is a bit of a stretch. There's a lot of things wrong with it that can't just be blamed on the use of UE5

[wooden glade]

To be fair though BSG sucks and they can't ever hope to match GSC in terms of communication

I mean literally no one but Nikita is openly hostile to their modscene

[molten osprey]

Its a super awesome game and i definitely dont just write stuff here for xp

[warped monolith]

[kindred violet]

topkek

[finite needle]

Mans's farming reddit karma but on discord

[warped monolith]

the woes of the white name

[finite needle]

real man farm their fancy name by spamming memes on newbies chat

speaking of which, now that I finally have new hardware, it's time to pollute it with russian spyware by re downloading GAMMA

I remember I really disliked all the changes since the last major patch, like weapon durability changes, bleeding etc, I hope situation is better now

[warped monolith]

s2 or gamba?

[finite needle]

Gamba. I unironically prefer S2, since I can at least grab a decent weapon within the first hour of gameplay

Haven't played GAMMA in a year at this point, but I think it's time to go back.

I couldn't escape WoW, I am an addict.

[warped monolith]

eh. I couldn't get into gamma

[tawny vessel]

Nintendo

[finite needle]

man how come I pretty much went from low to ultra settings in S2 and it still looks like fucking ass

the unoptimized allegations were true (I upgraded for The Witcher 4 before anyone asks)

[slim moth]

the ghosting is still pretty bad

[finite needle]

At least the early 90s CGA pixealated lighting is much better

[warped monolith]

ah yes let's buy another CDPR game on release

what could possibly go wrong

[finite needle]

I've bought them all since Witcher 1. I am a weak man.

[warped monolith]

I suppose I shouldn't yap because I buy all Team Ninja games and I upgraded my rig to muscle through their bad optimization

[finite needle]

Every time I upgraded my PC was because it wasn't able to run a CDPR game, and I'm not even joking. Well, technically last time was for Doom Eternal, but CP2077 came out like right after

[warped monolith]

I hope I don't have to upgrade again for nioh 3

[finite needle]

One thing I can say about From Software, I was able to play Elden Ring acceptably on an old ass laptop rocking a 1050M.

[warped monolith]

same here with my old PC, with a 970

[outer depot]

My favorite thing to do is set all the options to maximum in steel division 2 and then zoom all the way to head level and watch it go from 200 frames to 90

[molten osprey]

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

[remote eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/its-peak-old-man-shaking-head-gif-3938163323164042530

[warped monolith]

[molten osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/doctor-talking-timelapse-doctor-talking-doctor-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-gif-885216224063049291

300 more xp for next level, how long shall i stay in this madhole called newbies

my mind aint made for this level of foolishness

[terse gazelle]

tbf the graphics were pretty outdated from technical standpoint, but the game still looks good

[warped monolith]

graphics was never the focus of their games

even demon's souls looked like a PS2 game at certain points

[finite needle]

Dark Souls had that weird japanese thing where characters were maniacally detailed and amazing metallic shaders but buildings were literally boxes with low res textures and no aliasing. Also, dragons asses in the brightest lava you have ever seen.

[prisma gale]

to be fair, the style works aesthetically, even though graphical-wise it is pretty dated

[finite needle]

The Chimera arena fight remains the second worst arena fight in the game after the pseudo dog with the boomstick, who the hell came up with that.

[terse gazelle]

maybe graphics fidelity, they always had style that still made the games look good

[rotund glacier]

you mean the psydog fight you get as round 2?

[finite needle]

yeah the psy dog. If I could cheat to pass it wihtout doing it I would.

[remote eagle]

true it was harder then consort radahn

[molten osprey]

10/10

you can see how i go from "lets try to use as few bullets as possible" to "DIE"

[real dirge]

Any news about Stalker 2 official multiplayer ?

[winter halo]

soooooo, did GSC do anything to weapon rebalance because kharod now handles like uber trash, like swaying all over the place, it's basically unuseable outside single fire

excuse me, I'm talking about dnipro not kharod, haven't tried the latter yet since 1.3

[slim moth]

nowhere near the horizon

[split crown]

I keep forgetting that S2 was supposed to have multiplayer lmao

I bet if they included it on launch, it would have been the laggiest, most unstable dogshit multiplayer ever witnessed

[terse gazelle]

any news about cyberpunk official multiplayer? (yes that was supposed to exist)

[rose frigate]

Is OXA Prototype mod a good substitute for modular hard mode until it’s updated for 1.5. Or how about the Infinity mod? Really wanting to play 1.5 but wanting a more challenging experience

[dawn sierra]

Cyberpunk Orion

Plus current leaks hint at a dlc being worked on by virtuous

[warped monolith]

he means there was an official multiplayer mode announced, that CDPR never delivered

[dawn sierra]

Both the things I mentioned are official cyberpunk projects

[rose frigate]

pretty sure they confirmed the multiplayer was canned before the game launched

[dawn sierra]

Project Orion is the sequel rumored to be worked on rn

[warped monolith]

... a multiplayer mode for cyberpunk 2077, not a separate game

[rose frigate]

yeah that was scrapped

[warped monolith]

I mean... with the whole launch shitshow it's expected

[dawn sierra]

Well it's the cosd name, then virtuous is cooking something up that's rumored to be dlc size

Cyberpunk deserves post year goty

[warped monolith]

[dawn sierra]

Peak game

[winter halo]

Is there any mod available already for reducing weapon sway? my dude is dancing with the red dot like a total noob

[sweet mica]

had a funny moment at the chemical tanks in chemical plant region. My compass goes red and combat music starts so i expect company, and i look at the building near me and suddenly 3 ward guys come running out, followed by 3 loners. So im like, what the fuck is going on that 6 men cant handle?! So after they file out i walk in and theres a huge pack of pseudo dogs, i run past them and run directly into a bloodsucker! crazy fight

not all of them made it though

[stable mica]

damn

[split crown]

bro hittin' that diet pretty hard

[real dirge]

Damn right about that

[river lintel]

hey gents, ive been away for like, 5 months to let S2 cook a bit more. I saw mutant looting got added!

[summer vapor]

I wish the game have more supernatural, mystical elements and not just sci-fi

[split crown]

Is it normal for some merchants to not have their inventories clear out once they restock their items? As a for instance, the loner trader in the Chemical Plant region is holding like 400 KGs worth of items that I've sold him over time lol. He seems to restock new weapons every now and then, but yeah everything I sell him just sits in his inventory and never disappears...

On a vanilla playthrough btw with 0 mods.

[tacit glacier]

Now that's a lot of loot
https://www.vxreddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1lr7w6t/duga_spawning_bug_uh_oh_patch_15/

[odd plume]

Not only is this funny, but it also gives me hope, the performance didn't completely go to 0... Maybe extending the online radius will work after all. If the game can handle this....

[kindred violet]

Really surprised at how smooth it's running in the clip yeah

My game is currently incapable of going above 50 fps and I frankly don't quite know why

Used to be i could get to at least 100

[odd plume]

Disabled DLSS or frame generation?

[kindred violet]

Dlss is on, not using framegen because of the ghosting and floaty mouse

I'll see if I can figure it out when I get home, it's rather odd.
Because it also doesn't matter what the graphics settings are
Same performance on low and ultra

[odd plume]

I turned on frame Gen, the ghosting has gotten a lot better to be honest

I also use ultra plus mod, with DLSS and frame Gen I get 70-100 fps depending on location

[finite needle]

Man I run ultra on my new rig and the fucking ghosting + tree popup when aiming is still there lmao

[kindred violet]

The main thing that annoys me with frame gen is the red dots

[finite needle]

it does run smoothly now tho, there's that

[kindred violet]

I also use ultra plus for what it's worth

[kindred violet]

Well that and that mouse aiming gets floaty af

[finite needle]

aim for me is very smooth, had issues in the laptop after 1.4 and that made me drop the game

[drowsy umbra]

idk, increasing the online radius wont make the zone more alive imo

what does A-Life matter when there is no purpose? and if I want fights, I can also go play Tarkov tbh

[kindred violet]

Okay?

[drowsy umbra]

I mean, yeah, you have a bigger radius of squads and/or mutants running around but you have no variety in interaction

like its just a spawn trigger and not a random event trigger

so yeah, you can even put it to 500m but even then you "Just" have spawns in that range but no variety in gameplay

[pseudo falcon]

since the pkm ammo change on update from 762x39 to 762x54
the dnipro also changed to 762x54 lol

[wooden robin]

should I worry about this?

[finite needle]

Then what uses 7.62x39?

[pseudo falcon]

dunno
i think the 762x39 got removed

[finite needle]

Nope, I have looted it for sure

Maybe we be getting some battle rifles? AK-47?

[drowsy umbra]

what about the mosin?

doesnt it use 762x39?

[sour crystal]

nope

malyuk has a x39 conversion doesn't it?

oh wait nvm i see they fucked it up 🤣

[drowsy umbra]

ugh