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

[nova lake]

GSC should detect Vorpex or MO2 in your PC and auto uninstall S2 if it finds either

[steep dagger]

and I was happy I finally got a mod manager

[nova lake]

you will learn how to move files in explorer

[slim moth]

just drag and drop from your downloads folder from a zip and boom your done

[kindred violet]

Yeah, it's plenty easy for S2

[slim moth]

the problem with modding S2 is merging to keep certain things from overriding eachother

i use Stalker 2 Simple Mod Merger. I can pick and choose lines from each mod that overwrites eachother and pick either A or B. or a mix of both (if you know what you're looking at)

it automatically picks what mods are conflicting so it's not super tedious or complicated. you can just ctrl+shift+1 or 2 to pick either mod A or B.

[nova lake]

you underestimate the ability of common internet users

well I mean overestimate
I guess Im in the sstatistic now

[slim moth]

I can give a S2 merge 101 rq

[steep dagger]

do you mean this one? https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/304

[slim moth]

that is SML which is good to use for flashlight mods and OxA prototype

or flashlight customizer mod i should say.

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/369

Like whenever Alife Found a Way comes out with a update, i always have to merge cause it conflicts with my SCAM (realistic movement/vaulting) mod cause they both fuck with corevariables.cfg. So if i have both of them in the ~mods folder and I run the merger follow the prompts, i just prioritize the movement stuff, fov, vault, climb, interactive dots, etc instead of Alife FaW cause it uses defaults that are annoying

not annoying, just not my preference.

When you merge DWO and A-life FaW they always conflict cause of different values in seeing and hearing in certain weathers. You can either prioritize one or the other, or use values that you prefer. it's pretty cool.

[nova lake]

I hope they never fix this tbh

since it incentivizes soup mods

[kindred violet]

You mean people who just "steal" others mods merge them and then reap the downloads

[nova lake]

true to stalker tradition
we shall go back to forum modding

[slim moth]

nah i ain't tryin to plagiarize or anything. but i am making the game to my preference.

[kindred violet]

Yeah I know, i mean specifically the people who upload merged mods to nexus or other places dubious about whether they have permission

[slim moth]

i like for others to know how to do it for themselves

the top downloaded mod for S2 is plagiarism

[remote eagle]

[charred bramble]

has anyone fixed the horrible lumen ghosting since the mod tools dropped?

Oooooooo

[molten osprey]

Daily message because one day

I wanna be blue like droon

[remote eagle]

keep dreaming

[molten osprey]

Keep your Dreams in your heart

And protect your honor

[remote eagle]

&

[molten osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/zack-fair-final-fantasy-7-final-fantasy-vii-final-fantasy-crisis-core-gif-5920752877993529784

[charred bramble]

why do the reflections look like this holy shit

[remote eagle]

[pseudo falcon]

damn i can still continue my run
im on the swamps now lol

they butchered the swamps
before it was annoying
now its just worse

[remote eagle]

[odd plume]

Ive got a very strange question, probably nobody here knows, but, has anyone seen different color cigarette packs? In the game files there are three different colors, all using the same model. I replaced all 3 textures with different brand ones and was trying to find them in game, but every safezone and place Ive gone to has literally only the one color. Are the other ones even used ANYWHERE in the game?

[summer vapor]

I saw different brands of cigarettes in Sultansk, in Ikar, at the Duty's base

[odd plume]

Ill def check that out, Ive been to Rostok, Cordon, Slag Heap Yantar... All the same, which is obaviously all replaced by the same of my replacement brands as well... And I thought maybe they never used the other color ones

[warped monolith]

[gray cloud]

Hello stalkers, I need your help in deciding. Do you think I should buy the Xbox Pass for Stalker 2 or directly from Steam? The price difference is 6 times the price of the Stalker 2 Xbox Pass.

[astral kernel]

you get a ton of games on game pass too, don't you? It's the better option if you're not just playing Stalker and if Stalker is included in game pass

[odd plume]

Unfortunately all the same too, guess the Devs were lazy and only used one color of cigarettes. The only other package I can find is the empty one

[kindred violet]

Interesting, would have never figured to check something like that

[odd plume]

Hmm, maybe theyve used them somewhere in the game? I got no idea, would surprise me if they didnt use different ones in the safezones

All that hard work with replacing the textures... Guess Ill make the mod a "Choose out of 3" option now

[kindred violet]

You been popping off with the sdk?

[near hinge]

We got a get to gamma 1.0 first

[remote eagle]

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

[near hinge]

No I do not

[icy bough]

how do we tell him

[kindred violet]

The sheer amount of people yapping about gamma in stalker 2 is causing me brain damage

[rugged bolt]

Maybe the real gamma 2 are the friends we’ve made along the way

[warped monolith]

he's gonna get stuck to his gaming chair getting fat while waiting for that to happen

[icy bough]

[kindred violet]

so truuu

[green pebble]

I guess spending too much time in the zone fries people's brains xD

[warped monolith]

real

[green pebble]

https://tenor.com/view/vodka-gif-21557121

Time for some anti rad food

[steady rampart]

This game is free no bullsht?

[outer depot]

[warped monolith]

stalker 2? no
gamma? yes. but for gamma stuff you should use #╟🔰☢newbies-chat

[finite needle]

Every game is free my man, if you know how to get them

[finite needle]

He ain't leaving that chair regardless methinks

btw is with a bleeding heart that I declare the Ward path more intertesting than the Spark path, althoug I liked commiting war crimes for no particular reason if not to fuck with the Ward.

[outer depot]

Ward path is pretty fun for the most part

Ward > Strelok transition is probably the most enjoyable run I did

Spark cuts you off from a lot of shit (understandably so)

[finite needle]

Yeah, but I mostly wish we had the old Freedom insteast of schizo Clear Sky and Duty but competent as major factions

[icy bough]

[warped monolith]

ping me when there's a spork path

[finite needle]

although the mysticism of the Zone really doesn't mesh with Freedom at all

[outer depot]

Big want is them expanding freedumb and doody going back to their old antics post-signal so there’s more going on than just mention of the fact faction wars have restarted

[finite needle]

I mean, one of the DLC factions is rumored to be eco-terrorist hippie OG freedom that hates how mainline faction has become crypto bros, they are apparently supposed to take over Icarus after a certain point and I hope to the Monolith this is true.

[outer depot]

Well there’s also all the mentions of Zulu forming his own splinter Doody

[finite needle]

The faction I'm sure has been cut, but not Zulu and his shenanigans

[outer depot]

Like all the setup for Zulu is actually ingame

Just nothing comes of it yet

[finite needle]

"When is GSC starting to implement cut content?" "well, the Mosin Nagant is here"

[outer depot]

Tbh fixing the game up before adding more stuff was the right move

But it’s coming time to get moving now that things more or less work

Doody has a bunch of cut stuff I’d really like to see

[finite needle]

Both doody and freedumb look like they had a ton of stuff cut, which explains why post SIRCAA Stalker 2 is just main quest

[warped monolith]

damn... if you hadn't said this is a dlc faction, I"d be calling that fanfic

[finite needle]

It's actually leaks, I ain't making this up

I WISH because the name Flame sucks

[outer depot]

Yeah and I think it’d give a lot more life to post-SIRCAA if it developed the idea that shit was actually moving now that Ward was crippled and Monolith out murdering people

[warped monolith]

I don't doubt you, it just sounds like it's fanmade

[outer depot]

Which again, all the setup is done ingame to establish… just none of it happens

Also a side quest of exterminating some stupid bunch of hippie stoner Freedomers would be hilarious

I’d actually encourage them being made as cringe and retarded as possible just to make it even funnier

[finite needle]

Considering how negatively current Freedom is potrayed and how pathetic current Duty is, you either pick one splinter faction to take over and defeat the main one

[warped monolith]

for nostalgia's sake I kinda wish there was a questline where you help (or at least witness) a resurgence of one or both of them

[outer depot]

It’s implied pretty heavily that’d be Zulu forming Doody 2

Since Voronin is currently going “all according to plan” while doing nothing

Freedom is going full zone mercantilism but they’re also in a far better position materially

[finite needle]

No one respects them anymore, and they show more than once that they're scammers, cowards and opportunistic sellouts that would do anything for money

Which is not really what old freedom was like, so I really do believe a splinter faction was supposed to exist because Freedom is unlikeable, at least Duty has that beaten dog aura that makes them sympatethic.

and yeah if they give me a half baked Freedom I'll take Duty over them easy

[outer depot]

Doody retakes the bar and Freedom gets pushed back to AW plotline

[finite needle]

Eh I'd live with that, honestly.

[outer depot]

(Could unironically be a thing, would just be a more complex version of Beard/Sultan)

[finite needle]

Beard and Sultan are not ideological enemies, they are just a ghey couple

[outer depot]

Yeah meant mechanically tho

[warped monolith]

I'd rather something new happened to them instead of just reverting to their OG trilogy status

[outer depot]

Well Doody also has that entire scrapped lab plotline in Cooling Towers

Which is still there

[finite needle]

At this point I'd pay for it to be back

I want more labs to explore and funky shit to discover, I re did the Quiet-Sid gizmo quest and left me STARVING for more exploration

Same for GAMMA, fucking Military is the ones that send you exploring the labs???

[outer depot]

Yeah more hole diving is fun

[finite needle]

I'm fine for Noontide being presented like a big faction, helps the later events to have more weight

||Literally how Scar treats the Noontiders as a tool and shows no respect for Strider after a certain mission is what made me really dislike Spark||

[outer depot]

Yeah…

Well we’ve got this great big map now so

Hopefully it can be populated a bit more

It’d be cool to have some more Noontide side quests too

[astral kernel]

i didn't see anything to do when i rolled up during my playthrough - are you telling me their base exists there to be like "woe is us" and the other content was cut?

or did I not do something to trigger the things that duty has in stalker 2

[outer depot]

The main duty side quest was cut, but involved another secret lab under the cooling towers. It was in a pretty advanced stage of completion but had to be dropped to get the game out the door

The lab is still fully modeled under cooling towers though, but you need to noclip to get to it

[finite needle]

So, RAM-2 or Saiga? Because the RAM-2 is literally the Doom shotgun

but takes about a business day to reload

[summer vapor]

I prefer Saiga

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/doom-doom-eternal-doomguy-doom-slayer-doom-guy-shotgun-gif-27413588

[outer depot]

I’m partial to both but I use the Saiga because I own one

it’s not as easy to reload irl as it looks ingame

[remote eagle]

RAM-2 of course

u can get unic version near pripyat but u need to fight 2 pseudogiants(or not) to get it

[finite needle]

I found out when I stumbled into it. There were also 3 bloodsuckers and 8 dogs, we're so back.

[remote eagle]

!hasalife

[fallen iron]

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[little sage]

patiently waiting for ks-23 to be added 🫃

[elfin pilot]

its a 9x19mm Makarov

I am not questioning how is it possible but it just is

[warped monolith]

there's a 9x19 colt too

[outer depot]

9x19 Mak lol, shit is going to fly apart

[elfin pilot]

still dont get how 9x19mm version is more powerful than 45 ACP but that one just delete people w 9x19mm AP

[warped monolith]

because 9mm blows out your lungs, duh

[outer depot]

Mak is too underbuilt for 9x19

[remote eagle]

because it magical makarov

it was doctor's makarov and zone turned it into 9x19

[warped monolith]

I wonder if they'll add different calibers or just new guns for existing calibers.
I wouldn't mind a 10mm weapon

[outer depot]

Give me Vityaz

I could see a Tokarev maybe

And from that maybe something like a PPS-43

[elfin pilot]

despite there are no consequence about killing random NPC it's hard for me to even remaining to be the dick of the zone

[remote eagle]

[astral kernel]

Does my heart good to see a member of the Ward not breathing

[elfin pilot]

you either help a faction of power hungry corporation, or a bunch of eco-terrorists

[remote eagle]

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

[elfin pilot]

https://tenor.com/view/soyjak-spinning-spinning-soyjak-soyjak-jazz-hands-excited-spinning-wojak-gif-25231392

[remote eagle]

[crude tangle]

Something I'm not actually sure on - does radio protection on artifacts affect external radiation or just rads from the artifacts you have equipped?

[willow skiff]

BaS for Stalker 2 ezpz 100% ✅

[warped monolith]

[warped monolith]

I'm not sure, I think it does protect a little from external radiation but it's usually a very low % of reduction

[outer depot]

the background track for Generators legit sounds like hell

[void valve]

what happened to the skip cutscene function precisely?

like why did it stop working

[slim moth]

GSC took it away after like 1.1 or 1.2

[kindred violet]

Funny, occasionally I do still get the option

Like for the meeting with spark in the sawmill

[slim moth]

you have to experience the scene. die, reload, and it gives you the option

[void valve]

interesting, i was curious why there wasn't a mod to make it functional or add a quick start or something similar

[kindred violet]

There is a quick start that skips you to richter

[void valve]

Working in 1.5.1?

[kindred violet]

I started on 1.5 with it, i would assume it to still work

It just skips you around with the console to different quest stages to finish up the prologue

[void valve]

could you point me to it

[slim moth]

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

once you beat the story and you want to to do a freeplay

[kindred violet]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/981?tab=posts

[slim moth]

https://tenor.com/view/delanovanaken-delanoboi-delanofastasfuckboi-fastfuckboi-funny-gif-13688353

[kindred violet]

Haha

[void valve]

Thanks fellas

[kindred violet]

No prob

[slim moth]

The sound design for the tornado is fucking amazing

also

pikel poo

[kindred violet]

A poockel

[rugged bolt]

What type of rifle is the “clusterfuck”

[kindred violet]

It's an AR

[true yew]

Friendly Hog

I don't remember the corps looking like mercs

[odd plume]

Does the game get absolutely messed up with enemy spawns and the likes when in Prypiat for anyone else?

[finite needle]

I got some weird behavior in Prypiat for sure, like military/mercs absolutely rushing the corps base and getting stuck in a door, potentially breaking progression if yu aggro them

[odd plume]

I had a flesh spawn in a tiny room ontop of some lockers, military in some weird ass hole that they couldnt get out of because you need to use a ladder etc. generally spawns that happen while looking away for one second

[kindred violet]

Haven't been in pripyat since 1.2 so no clue honestly

[warped monolith]

it saw a mouse and got scared

[kindred violet]

That's great lmao

Poor little flesh

[finite needle]

Shay getting places, pretty much every mod he's made is getting spotlight from GSC

Time to make the Sid romance mod

[proud ruin]

then it will finally be playable

[finite needle]

Can't wait until modders transform Stalker 2 into Umamusume

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/gold-ship-uma-musume-dropkick-gif-1310520311152972568

which stalker character is the equivalent of gold ship?

[tender dock]

I know stalker 2 wont be GAMMA but is STALKER 2 worth playing?

[crude tangle]

Can you get into or find the entrances of the jupiter/pripyat underground areas in Stalker 2?

[finite needle]

I hate that I know what this means. SKEEFA might be the closest.

[finite needle]

We're firmly in the "buy it if on sale" moment of the Cyberpunk 2077 timeline

[warped monolith]

I mean... I sent the gif for context

[finite needle]

I get it, but it doesn't really help as much as visualizing said horsegirl just deciding she's going to win 3/4 of the way to the end and warping its way to the 1st place from dead last while on bad mood and no energy

I can't believe NL made me play the anime horse girl game

[warped monolith]

I was mostly just referring to the fact that she dropkicks you after winning

[finite needle]

SKEEFA draws a heart on the wall with the blood of his enemies, kinda the same

Btw we already have a mod for free roaming and one for crafting, all we miss for the release of Anomaly 2 is 200 tacticool AK variants.

[warped monolith]

FIVE. HUNDRED. AKS.

[tender dock]

think there will be an anomaly 2 in 5 years?

maybe even GAMMA 2

[ionic briar]

So Im doing the instalation process rn and this maybe a question made a dozen times before already but, why theres not a ready to go version of Gamma? Like plug and play

[warped monolith]

[astral kernel]

Want me to link my Steam review?

[finite needle]

inb4 it's just a picture of a freedomer boning a bloodsucker

I'm slightly mad I've almost always played Spark aligned and the Ward path just feels more like a Stalker game.

[golden hazel]

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

[finite needle]

based and gold ship pilled

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/honse-gif-11041990243891949767

[astral kernel]

definitely not

https://steamcommunity.com/id/cinderblock_us/recommended/1643320/

[outer depot]

OXA has you covered (and I want more)

[finite needle]

Heavily agree on the Pripyat section, with a caveat: There is some interesting stuff if you explore independently, but story wise it's exactly as you say.

all the post sircaa gameplay is heavily affected by the fact that you just beeline toward completion, while the previous areas were dense with activities

[astral kernel]

Oh yeah. I’m not saying my opinion is absolute by any means. They put quite a bit of effort in to making things neat and explorable. The chemical garden maze anomaly thing with the corpses inside was neat. I definitely did some exploring but there wasn’t much else to do besides say “yea this is Pripyat” and shoot pseudogiants/chimeras with a Gauss rifle

[finite needle]

But it is a defect, there are some cool things to find by exploring - just, you never have a reason to go there, like ever.

[outer depot]

Pripyat being locked until the very end when you’re in rush mode does kinda detract from wanting to do a whole lot in it

Even if there is plenty of spots to wander around in

Would also be interesting to see if when free play mods slowly inch their way forwards, they can make it so that maybe you can go there and not just be endlessly flooded with Monos pre-SIRCAA

[astral kernel]

That and didn’t wanna kill my mono-homies

[outer depot]

It’d be neat to be able to just wander and deal with the mutants/occasional bandit/IPSF

And then go back later with it flooded by mono

[astral kernel]

Would very much rather use Gauss rifle on IPSF and bandits than my mono

[finite needle]

I wanna see Doody and Freedumb throw hands

I wanna get hunting content, since it's VERY heavily implied

and we even got mutant parts now

[outer depot]

Yeah hunting lodge missions and stuff for the still missing NPC at Rostok

[kindred violet]

Iirc they're even at war again after siircaa goes down

[outer depot]

Gimme

[astral kernel]

I want Stalker 2 to give me the opportunity to just be a STALKER and not have to deal with some chuds that fuck up everything irreparably

[kindred violet]

I mean, that's just stalker tho

[outer depot]

Tbh you can get everywhere but Pripyat and Duga regardless of where you are in the story

[finite needle]

Dude Stalker is all about some chuds what wat to fuck up everything irrepearably, sometimes it's even YOU

[astral kernel]

Instead I’m stuck listening to some pillow quilt armor douche kiss sircaa ass

[finite needle]

Lore accurate Strelok trying to have sex with the zone

[outer depot]

Frequently you in fact

[kindred violet]

Bro got lost in the freeplay mods sauce

[outer depot]

Anomaly and its consequences

[finite needle]

Stalker 2 captures the fact that you can influence humanity by just trying to sell some funny ukrainian hell rocks to buy a new house pretty well

Strelok is the main character to end all main characters ffs

[outer depot]

He’s the guy

He was number 1!

[finite needle]

Deggy is the most average MC in the saga and he's a Spetsnaz

And he's the closest to an average person you get

[outer depot]

Deggy is also just indestructible

No boss fights against Deggy because you’d lose 🗿

[finite needle]

Skif has to be blessed by the Zone as Faust say because my man has been using that knife to carve out organs out of strange animals AND THEN use it to eat mystery soviet meat directly out of the can

[kindred violet]

Who needs hygiene

[outer depot]

I know it’s for gameplay reasons but clearly the MCs for all of the games have better “zone sense” than the average stalker

[finite needle]

Well, Skif's might be justified if you believe Faust

[outer depot]

Muh envoy of the monolith

Nah he’s just got the most important characteristic a person can have: luck

[finite needle]

Considering your influence, it's hard to deny

A man driven by the rising price of housing

[kindred violet]

Capitalism, the true enemy of s2

[outer depot]

Strelok is driven by zone mysticism, Scar is brain fried but initially driven by the need to save himself at all costs, Degtyarev is driven by his mission, and Skif is driven by the desire to explore

[finite needle]

I mean, Freedom embraced capitalism and they are VILE in Stalker 2

[kindred violet]

At least narratively skif is driven by the need for a home, a place to fit in

[finite needle]

But no, Stalker's enemy is usually scientists and whatever they do

[kindred violet]

At least it very much is if you go with the ward

[outer depot]

Yeah but it usually evolves beyond that unless you chose those options exclusively

[finite needle]

Spark path is more about accepting the zone as your new place, at least initially.

a new start so to speak

[outer depot]

Almost everyone questions Skif at some point about why he’s really there

Kind of amusing actually, fear of the unknown/some degree of mysticism applies heavily to every path but Ward which explains it all in purely technical terms. Even strelok still goes in on zone mysticism when he knows all about project X and its discoveries

There is no mystery if you go Ward… at least, that’s what the people involved try very hard to make reality

[finite needle]

Thing is, mysticism might be the correct angle, it's just the method that is all wrong. Everyone is making shit up as they go.

[astral kernel]

Duty PDA in GAMMA be like

[outer depot]

The average stalker jumping at psi shadows probably has about as much of the correct idea of things as Scar does, ironically

Strelok knows all the project X shit is fake but still believes the Zone is alive

[finite needle]

The concept of god is stronger than the actual existence of a god, doesn't even need it

[kindred violet]

Yeah that's fausts whole point kinda

[finite needle]

You cannot kill god, just like you cannot get rid of the sky up above is kind of a powerful sentence honestly. It really gives you the exact meaning beyond all the zone beliefs.

[outer depot]

I was going to say “god real, church fake” and thought it sounded cringe but yeah uh

[kindred violet]

god's in his heaven all's right with the world

[outer depot]

All of SOC and now Faust so

[kindred violet]

faust has some banger lines

[outer depot]

The religious undertones have never exactly been undertones

[kindred violet]

https://tenor.com/view/im-blind-but-it-is-you-who-cannot-see-im-blind-you-cannot-see-faust-stalker-stalker-2-gif-8351406514290822868

[outer depot]

Yeah I wish there was more to do with Noontide pre-SIRCAA to kinda give them extra story presence

[finite needle]

Couple more activities to better fool you after the inevitable happens would be nice

[kindred violet]

yeah, to really get to know the guys before yknow

would make it impact more

[finite needle]

It is very clear how they don't raelly know how to be persons anymore, but it's kinda hasty

[outer depot]

Yeah

Some extra time doing stuff with Lodochka or via Dubny for Strider

[kindred violet]

I would love for extra stuff to do with Khors

[astral kernel]

Khors just excited to do stuff man

[outer depot]

Which would also make Dubny calling in Mercs to kill you after cleaning up the controller mess at the waste processing plant a bit heavier

[kindred violet]

yeah, poor man's just excited about tech

[outer depot]

Khors and the other guys being leery of killing Zombies but Dubny just being like “yeah they’re fucked, kill anyone affected and anyone else who saw it happen” could have been expanded on a bit more

[kindred violet]

yeah

[outer depot]

And yeah just generally helping around wild island or helping wayward Noontiders make it there would have been a neat way to build some more rep with the faction just to shred your heart a few hours later lmao

More stuff like helping Ninth etc

Oh well. One can hope more side activities in general are in the pipeline to service the underserved

[kindred violet]

fingers crossed

[outer depot]

We’ve got this biiiiiig ole map with a lot of named characters to use, so one would hope they’re used more frequently

I actually liked the little side missions you can do for the Wardens in Zaton

[kindred violet]

yeah, would help with exploration a little more

[outer depot]

Just random dudes for the most part too

[kindred violet]

I also enjoy the little scripted encounters you can find

[outer depot]

never trust the scientists

[kindred violet]

there's an encounter in the burnt forest where you can help a stalker defend the grave of his mentor who's tolik, the guy at the start of SoC you can give a medkit to

[outer depot]

Yep

[finite needle]

Spark just gets you to kill a cat as extra. The rest is the same, but instead of helping the poor little soldiers you commit war crimes.

[outer depot]

My issues with the game world almost entirely extend from the fact that there should be more shit in it for me to do lel

[outer depot]

Oh yeah I meant the stuff at Icarus

[kindred violet]

like getting the armour blueprint stuff

[finite needle]

Yeah, Spark gets very little. But they get an extra lab in Garbage, so that's it I guess.

[outer depot]

Spark legit locks you out of a lot

Which makes sense in context but yeah

[finite needle]

Not only spark, helping the scientist in Icarus instead of Ward locks you out a couple more quests, but WILL send you directly to Echo

[outer depot]

Yep

While dooming the wardens lol

NEVER TRUST SCIENTISTS

[finite needle]

Cut Freedom in SoC was right all along

[outer depot]

Thinking about the medic at Malachite fantasizing about turning the miracle machine/Brain scorcher back on just so he can see what they do to people’s brains first hand

[finite needle]

Inb4 you can do it in a DLC where you can pick the Malachite route and just help Scientists do wacky stuff

[outer depot]

thinking about the entire Project Leash side quest lmao

[finite needle]

||You reward is: I send bloodsuckers to you||

[outer depot]

||become my human test subject or I send my mind controlled bloodsuckers to you||

[astral kernel]

idk how often this gets posted if ever but I think it's relevant:https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1224804451521663119/1389127636852408400/I_miss_the_SOC_stalker.mov?ex=68793e2d&is=6877ecad&hm=b6aca39050c65f9ae54e815c9912880347ca5058f0ff81be6f572edd7ff216bb&

[finite needle]

Valid

[astral kernel]

speaking of which (yes we're in s2 chat) when are we getting Duty Supreme armor

[outer depot]

Anyone remember that ancient picture of a stalker in an SSP-99 ragdolled face down into a burning trash barrel lmao

[finite needle]

There is some cut faction armor, including Clear Sky that might be readded

[finite needle]

I had all of them in my old PC, all gone now. Literal gbs of all the freshest Stalker memes.

[outer depot]

Yep same

All of the greatest hits gone through a double drive failure

Shit that doesn’t exist no more

[finite needle]

But I still have my favourite

I have used this well in the GAMMA newbie chat

[outer depot]

I don’t even have my original art file for the sad Blyat stalker

[astral kernel]

most of mine aren't safe for online communities

[outer depot]

I used to make them for stalker general on vg god knows how long ago

Those were the days

Back when I was playing almost exclusively LURK

[finite needle]

At some point I even somehow liked torturing myself with the king of fake difficulty, Misery.

GAMMA is easy dude. It just takes a few failed runs and then you know everything.

Man I've lost the Monolith anime opening, this is a sad day

[outer depot]

GAMMA is legit easy once you figure out how to survive the first like hour

[astral kernel]

me wondering why im dying and constantly irradiated

(my armor is at 0 because i didn't repair it and i can't make armor repair kits)

[finite needle]

The hobo phase is legit fun, but then Grok decided to make it last YEARS and I lost interest. I honestly prefer Stalker 2 gameplay now, despite spending like the entire 2023 only playing GAMMA and FFXIV

[outer depot]

Yeah…

[finite needle]

Tried the last patches but didn't like the changes to healing, looting, crafting and overall itemization.

[outer depot]

There’s difficulty and then there’s being beaten on the kneecaps with an aluminum baseball bat of game mechanics every time you walk into a room

[finite needle]

Not even hard, just tedious. I liked the chance of getting advanced tools in a white stash in garbage if you were lucky, since not getting basic is, at this point, a skill issue.

Plus I dislike having to use SMG for mutants because .45 Hydroshock is OP as fuck.

[outer depot]

Thing is the tedium makes it hard to keep giving a fuck

That’s the real difficulty

[finite needle]

Farming exos to get the recipe so that I can craft an exo is also kind of a killjoy, considering the other meta armor can ONLY be dropped by mercs, and I main mercs

at least GAMMA doesn't have the drop weapon thing Anomaly has

[astral kernel]

depends on what you're looking for in a game I reckon

the tedium is kind of neat

[finite needle]

I suffered enough, can I be terminator now is kinda my breaking point

[outer depot]

Gamma hasn’t evolved to be harder, it evolved to be more annoying

[astral kernel]

compared to stalker 2's "hey you shot a single .45 round through this military grade pistol, that's an entire percentage of its durability"

it'd be real cool if i could field strip and clean my shit in stalker 2

[outer depot]

I don’t respect things that intentionally waste my time tbh and that’s increasingly what it feels like to me

[finite needle]

Nah leave this milsim crap out of Stalker 2, at least vanilla. Buff durability if you must, but don't give me the GAMMA cleaning gun meme.

[astral kernel]

gun cleaning is legit tho

my pistol was jamming at the range after ~100 rounds

[outer depot]

I’d accept just having a uni-brother what piece of shit pistol do you own what the fuck

[finite needle]

Skill issue, you should be getting to base to resupply and repair

[astral kernel]

oh I'm sorry, going through Duga just FUCKED my weapons

[slim moth]

it's fine to have both, honestly. lol

[finite needle]

Duga does that, I forgive you then

[astral kernel]

walk up to faust with a 20% durability rifle/pistol

[outer depot]

I’d accept just having a universal cleaning kit

Right click repair weapon, done

[finite needle]

Me leaving SIRCAA in full Ward regalia because my Sprite suit was at like 48% durability

[astral kernel]

this is what i mean. Oil, brushes, etc., not this "carry a specific oil for specific guns!"

[outer depot]

The obstacle course casually shredding my armor

[astral kernel]

found myself walking around with 4 maximum durability artifacts at the end of s2

[slim moth]

Vanilla S2 on veteran is one of the easiest games i've ever played

[finite needle]

Generic cleaning kit might honestly be a decent idea, would diversify loot too. I'm tired of getting 1 vodka (I'll never drink it), 1 energy drink, 1 red healing potion and maybe 20 9x19 rounds

[slim moth]

i fuck with this

[astral kernel]

my stash in s2 is literally just vodka, energy drinks, and sausage

[finite needle]

just like me fr

[outer depot]

It really does not take much to clean a gun, just some patches and a little oil does 90% of what you need

[astral kernel]

loot enemy, G D on weapons then push R

[finite needle]

oil that makes your gun jam more

[slim moth]

i ended up with over hundreds of medkits that i had to offload into mystash to not be overencumbered

that to me is not fun

[finite needle]

There is an overbundance of items, that's true. Note, I don't HATE GAMMA's stashes being empty until discovered.

[outer depot]

Then again I’ve put 3k rounds through one of my AKs dry and with no cleaning before and it was still running fine

[finite needle]

It's one of the things I like

[astral kernel]

being able to create a stash in s2 might make me play it for fun

[outer depot]

Seeing my AK-74 lose 10% durability in like 300 rounds ingame makes me

[astral kernel]

if you're using quality ammunition and properly maintaining your rifle, it can go 3k rounds

[finite needle]

Damage being bullet based more than tier based is something I found out wanting out of S2. I get it, the Tier classification is more similar to how it was in OG, but then you have some cool weapons that remain unused.

[outer depot]

Nah dude it was 7n6 lmao

[slim moth]

A dark souls/death stranding like loot placements where people can put down loot in a spot and people can find it in their playthrough

[astral kernel]

there was a video I watched about some 5.56 rifles testing ammunition quality - tula steel case was jamming after like 60

[finite needle]

game adds hololive member in malachite as a tribute to Death Stranding

[outer depot]

Corrosive bullshit ran 3k uncleaned although my gas tube started to get a lil rusty

[finite needle]

It's a main quest character and you can't skip the quest

[outer depot]

Even ARs don’t need to be cleaned that often, they just need to be kept lubed

[finite needle]

GSC believed all the jokes about the Makarov being an unreliable gun compared to the western guns and made it a piece of shit (western guns were generally identical)

[slim moth]

man fuck guns, lemme machete and tomahawk people

fuckin' sneak up behind them, put a knife to their throat then walk them over to an anomaly and push them in.

[finite needle]

Pushing them into anomalies is really some gourmet shit

[astral kernel]

me when merc

[finite needle]

me when merc is just me when loner, but with annoying american accent

[golden hazel]

now imagine running over mutants in a truck after a beer

[marble snow]

is there an updated mod that disables the aim zoom with ironsights?

[honest wadi]

Please help me find a mod for the icons in Stalker 2

[slate pulsar]

also idk why from youtube shorts that i see some of the complaints are about the AIs know where you are

buddy asking like they wanted the AI to not have object permanence

[slim moth]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/76

i highly recommend merging

[hybrid ridge]

anyone get the bug where you can't loot mutants? Idk how to fix it

stuck on the nightingale quest as a result

[marble snow]

bless you

[odd plume]

You probably have an outdated mod in your game

[icy basin]

#🤖bot-commands

[cloud prawn]

I just realized how violently rat swarms tank performance

[finite needle]

You might consider acquiring current day techology or switch to lower graphics.

[hybrid ridge]

It was adjustable weight

[tidal dirge]

Guys any mods for better quest rewards
Like i killed a bunch bandits for just 1800 wtf

[astral kernel]

have you tried literal minimum settings and lowest resolution stalker 2 supports

[finite needle]

Back in my day, I had to literally turn off textures to play my pirated copy of oblivion on a PC I literally assembled from components I found in the trash

No, that was not an hyperobole, it was the situation I was in

[cloud prawn]

Not even, running a 4060 but I might just be cpu bound hard

[finite needle]

Strange, because I was running a 2070s and a i5-10400 with 16gb or RAM and among many issues I never had the rats

[cloud prawn]

Yeah it's weird

Not even high graphics or anything and I'm running from a decent SSD so not a streaming issue

Then again, yeah, my CPU is a 3060 I definitely need an update

[kindred violet]

Excuse me what, what's your cpu??

It's not an intel Xeon 3060 right? Right??

[finite needle]

I think he meant gpu

[kindred violet]

But he claims 4060 here

I genuinely worry this guy is running a 2 thread 2.4Ghz cpu with a 4060

[warped monolith]

[finite needle]

Might be, this is the generation that isn't aware patching your game with mods still installed can fuck everything up

[astral kernel]

I’ll boot to windows and do whatever anyone tells me to do to my game if it’ll make my fps a stable 120fps

But I’ll probably die on the “it’s not a settings issue” hill

[kindred violet]

Have you tried ultra+ ?

[finite needle]

The solution is always throw more money than you should at the problem

[astral kernel]

My brother in Christ I have a 7800xt and a 9800x3d

[finite needle]

I don't speak radeon, translate it to nvidia

[kindred violet]

[astral kernel]

Even with my old 3080 it was performing the same

I could even throw it in for shits and giggles just to show it’s not an amd/nvidia thing

userbenchmark (yes I know those are generally shit) reports 7900XT is "better"

[kindred violet]

I'll ask again, have you tried this?

[astral kernel]

I'll go home today and boot it up

the fuck is ultra+ tho

i see. I'll try it out and let you know how it goes

[warped monolith]

that's how I played Stranger of Paradise

[kindred violet]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/484

it's what helped me improve performance on my game

you can also use "DLSS Swapper" to update all of the upscaling / frame gen thingies to the newest and up to date version

[astral kernel]

upscaling

[finite needle]

Gotta do what you gotta do

it does look like crap tho

[kindred violet]

well, you'll "need" it either way for AA

[finite needle]

upscaling I mean, at least in stalker

[kindred violet]

just run it at 100% res scale

[astral kernel]

we'll see lol I'm remote installing it now and I'll try when I get home to use ultra+

[kindred violet]

hope it helps ya

[late kernel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOVOnMY5jI

[cloud prawn]

Christ no, R5 3600

Also is it me or is clusterfuck just straight up the best gun?

[kindred violet]

Ok good, I was about to have a metldown

[cloud prawn]

Now this was just an unnecessary jab i've been modding since Warcraft 3 times

So, how long do y'all give it before we have a conventionally stable build? Game def still has a few rough edges but every stalker game does

[finite needle]

I'd call 1.5 stable for Stalker standards. I would wait for at least a couple more patches and DLC before declaring the game stable enough for normal people.

And yeah that sentence wasn't really meant for you, more a general consideration

[remote eagle]

i hope game is gonna get better with next patches

its already good enough

but it could be better

[warped monolith]

it always can

[elfin pilot]

I swear this game modding would be so much easier if it doesn't have to hit my face with the Localization shits

[slim moth]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1530 who wants to see how badly this kills frames

[astral kernel]

what you don't like FRAMES?

but yeah my complaint was the game feels like you're moving your mouse through jello

[little sage]

I think theres a huge misconception with how frame gen should be used. Its not "free" frames. It introduces smoothness at the cost of latency. I personally dont agree with using frame gen in shooters, but WCYD

[kindred violet]

the big irony with frame gen is people using it when they don't even have a good baseline of frames

[warped monolith]

native only, if the frames are low I'll reduce graphics and/or tank it
I've been budget gaming all my life, I can handle <60fps.

[kindred violet]

I'm slowly growing more accustomed to low frames again with modern titles..

just a shame for my 144hz monitor

[slim moth]

Im getting angry with the fact that it's being used as a necessity and not a crutch

[little sage]

i think most UE5 AAA titles aim for 30 fps epic settings on consoles xD

[cloud prawn]

Tbh

i blame it all on UE itself, it's a really, really bad engine for most applications unless you specifically design games for it, open world with complex systems like this would've benefited from something more processing-friendly instead of the resource hog UE is

[tidal dirge]

I wonder how things would be if they chose to stay at UE4

Better performance at cost of visuals

[hybrid ridge]

I hope there’s a mod that allows for different stashes housing different things, similar to gamma. It’s so unorganized and cluttered now it’s hard

[late kernel]

Unreal Engine is a resource hog because most of the inexperienced UE developers and other studios who have never used UE before, don’t know how to properly utilize it

Arc Raiders is on UE5, but it looks and runs smooth because it was made by more talented people

[warped monolith]

did you get to play arc raiders? I never received an invite

[slim moth]

SCAM just dropped an update with new vitalparams

[warped monolith]

fuck yeah, cheating

[slim moth]

I use the movement sections.

who tf cares who cheats in a singleplayer game lmao

cheat till your hearts content

[warped monolith]

got defensive pretty fast, dang
I don't care but it's funny when people talk about 'modding' and what they mostly do is just cheats lmao

[slim moth]

I cheat to make the game harder than vanilla lmao

[warped monolith]

[slim moth]

I posted this because there are parameters in OxA prototype that has sleep degradation too high and this is just a really easy way to make an adjustment without actually having to open up the pak file

but there are other very helpful parameters to use to test and see what works for an individual with their set of mods.

[astral kernel]

yeah naw 10fps boost ain't shit when your normal max is 50fps. And the pop-in is insane. I'm good. Gamma clears

stalker 2 made for screenshots and grifting fanboys -- I got caught too

[slim moth]

ultra + has an option to fix the pop-in

[astral kernel]

cool so I can have fluctuating 60fps without pop-in

[astral kernel]

already uninstalled again

[slim moth]

I try to play gamma every now and again and I find myself just jumping back on S2 🤷

oh you got a 7900xt that makes sense

[astral kernel]

what does that mean lol

[slim moth]

a 7900xt playing S2 is not going to be fun

[astral kernel]

[slim moth]

FSR runs like shit and looks like shit

[astral kernel]

oh we still talkin about upscaling

[slim moth]

At one point it was better for latency

[astral kernel]

https://tenor.com/view/veeunus-spongebob-spongebob-squarepants-squidward-done-gif-24674884

tell you what

[slim moth]

So??

[astral kernel]

I'll download the game again just to prove a point

[slim moth]

You can do whatever you want bud.

[astral kernel]

it's actually crazy to say "yeah second best AMD card on the market, you're gonna have a bad time"

[slim moth]

With Stalker 2

?

[astral kernel]

my bad let me go buy a 5090 for another 10fps

[slim moth]

if you say so.

[astral kernel]

well what's your recommendation then if not literally second best amd card on the market

[slim moth]

not an AMD card

[astral kernel]

[slim moth]

get you one of these babies.

[astral kernel]

probably better suited for media but relevant to the discussion here
FPS at the top in steam overlay - vanilla Stalker 2 in Pripyat

Top left: 33% FSR lowest settings 1440p
Top right: native FSR max settings 1440p
Bottom left: 33% FSR lowest settings 1024x768
Bottom right: Native FSR max settings 1024x768

the bottom left doesn't even hit 144 lmao

cpu not the bottleneck either

[kindred violet]

Bros lookin the gift horse in the mouth

[finite needle]

Me with a 5070 having no problems whatsoever with the worst optimized game ever made despite the average AMD fans begging me to buy one of them 7900xt

I am the guy on the left of the bell curve meme

Inb4 anyone feels called out - I don't talk with you people exclusively

[summer vapor]

I can't pull out a knife or a handgun during a sprint, is that the same for you?

[remote eagle]

alife

[remote eagle]

how the fuck they got on that wagon game truly have alife now

[atomic ledge]

guys I have problem with quest "Let No One Leave Unsatisfied". After get the elevator, I can't talk to Strielok (he is wounded and sitting on ground, next to the big wooden chest). Somebody had this problem too?

Just no dialogue option to press "f"

[finite needle]

Why is grok insisting on the artifact crafting route tho

sorry, I know it's OT, I'mt just puzzled.

[warped monolith]

!hasalife

[fallen iron]

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[remote eagle]

i heard they gonna roll out road map next weak

[kindred violet]

👀

[remote eagle]

i hope thats true

[finite needle]

Excited to read that they're3 gonna implement shitting mechanics

[remote eagle]

[vivid sky]

just bought stalker 2

and downloaded it hope its a good purchase.

[finite needle]

Only you can say

[vivid sky]

what do you guys reccomend

[remote eagle]

dont play on veteran for first time

[vivid sky]

Okay

[warped monolith]

[outer depot]

Play on veteran the first time

[dense ember]

veteran d1

[finite needle]

don't play the first time, just watch someone's else playthough

Huh this has been changed, it used to be a Groza, now it's a Vintorez

[warped monolith]

not the AS Val. 1/10.

[remote eagle]

vintorez my beloved

[cedar pond]

Xbox gamers does anyone know if lootable zone mode on Xbox include craftable zone mod ? As I did not see it , Ty

[torpid relic]

holy shit, the bandits actually see Cheeki breeki

[crude estuary]

It does not @cedar pond

[warped monolith]

they always did, since 1.0. It's just extremely rare.

[cedar pond]

Awwww , guess have to wait till they release

[umbral sandal]

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/bandit-cheeki-breeki-stalker-gif-27140308

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-duty-stalker-dance-gsc-gsc-gameworld-gif-22307630

[woven drift]

holy graphics

[stoic lichen]

Finally able to play Stalker 2. And with the current update I will be honest and say it’s a much more enjoyable experience.

[crude estuary]

Mods were night and day difference with all the arcade style design choices.

[warped monolith]

[icy basin]

How is it 260 when I got my B580 for 250

Is it the "sparkle"

[cloud prawn]

Having to manually translate gems like this angers me, really wish we had the translation as subtitles like in metro lol

[odd plume]

rbwaddle is working on an English decal mod, dont know if this kinda stuff is included but id think so

[torpid relic]

did the game always have original like pda sounds? like from the older games?

[vital jungle]

Hello guys. I will try to say it short. After 1 hour of pause i launched the game and realised that after dragging weapons from my personal stash to inventory, my inventory weight doesnt change. I can drag like that 5 weapons lets say +15kg but inventory weight will stuck on 20kg and doesnt show me those +15kg. If i drag back even one item then weight updates and shows me correct numbers. I have 20 hours in this game and i didnt see such thing before. I was blind or is it a bug? I even made clean reinstall (saved my save files before that), started new game and got to Zalissya to test it and got the same result. I have only one gun but same result, weight doesnt update

[finite needle]

Too bad 9x39 is not sustainable until late game, and by then you just don't use 9x39 weapons

[vital jungle]

1st ss is my weight before moving guns, 2nd after moving them, 3rd if i move one item back

is it only me who has this issue?

[finite needle]

I'd say, try submitting a bug report to GSC. Make sure you aren't using any mods and so on.

There is something funky going on with weight transfer tho, I'll confirm. I've had my character being able to run after going clearly over max limit a couple of itmes, but it fixed itself pretty quickly by just removing/adding stuff and I run absolutely modless, so it might be related and might be brought to the dev's attention imho.

[vital jungle]

thank you for you response, at least i know now that something is wrong cuz as i understand you dont have same issue. Looks like this is the only option now, to submit bug report. Weird that it is happening to me even after clean reinstall. I deleted Stalker 2 folder from Appdata and the other one in steam library before reinstalling the game and the result is still the same like what a hell

[remote eagle]

same

its like Skeefa have a dementia about weight of the items he carring

I-M-M-E-R-S-I-V-E

[finite needle]

Dude's a malk now, he just forgets about the weight he's carrying so he can carry anything

[odd plume]

Same thing is happening to me since release, I think its a visual inventory bug

[odd plume]

Yeah, after going even higher than the overloaded weight, it somehow goes back to you being able to run. Its a funny bug

[vital jungle]

oh okay, good to know that im not the only one, thank you for sharing this. So you are playing with this bug and it doesnt cause any other issues right? Cuz im afraid a bit to continue to play in case it will create different issues\bugs and my game will be ruined. Idk maybe im "paranoid" too much

[odd plume]

Hasn't caused any issues and my save is 120 hours in

[vital jungle]

gotcha, thank you

[cloud prawn]

Oh wanted to ask, there an ammo check/magazine mod yet?

[kindred violet]

to my knowledge that isn't doable yet

[remote eagle]

[remote eagle]

nah u can complete game from start to finish just fine

[queen obsidian]

Out of curiosity, and directed to anyone actually messing with the SDK: just how capable is it, and what scope of mods can we expect, assuming no other, more expanded version releases later on? NGL, I've gotten pretty burnt by S2 and while I'm no longer optimistic, I'm looking for reasons to rekindle that optimism.

[warped monolith]

well that's kinda also true for the originals I guess. By the time 9x39mm is 'sustainable' you're using 7.62x51 or sniper calibers to deal with tankier guys (aka exos)

[odd plume]

You're in the Stalker 2 chat

[woven mortar]

mb

[idle minnow]

you guys know how to start mutant hunting?

already about to reach wild island and not a single mutant i have killed was able to be butchered

[odd plume]

Do you have any outdated mods installed? Those break mutant looting a lot

[idle minnow]

fresh install

so no mods are installed yet

wanted to do a vanilla gameplay

[wraith hinge]

The game is playable as it is, but if you played the original trilogy or gamma you will be dissapointed by the broken promises from the devs and empty world

Blind dogs for some reason have fur

[warped monolith]

if you played the original trilogy, stalker 2 is very much in line with what the OGs had (and didn't have)

[kindred violet]

It's so funny hearing this take over and over

[warped monolith]

yea lmao

it's only the gamma folks who feel orphaned because stalker 2 doesn't have its features

[kindred violet]

I'd say it's mostly people who have their opinions heavily influenced by media

[wraith hinge]

Less guns than SoC, calibers unbalanced (skif’s pistol was killing enemies in less shots than AKs), broken A-Life and a bigger world with almost no side quests besides the first two areas and even less stamina than previous games

I have no idea who thought it’s good idea to give Skif asthma in world that is so huge

Not to mention unique mutant behaviors are gone too, but yeah there’s so much else to say about it, the only good thing is the story

[warped monolith]

Including variants, uniques, grenades and the knife, SoC wiki shows 50 guns
Stalker 2 wiki shows 77 without counting the knife, so 78.

So your first statement is false

[wraith hinge]

I mean.. variants are not really any exciting to get im afraid

[warped monolith]

if we discard Stalker 2's variants, then we also have to discard SoC's variants.
S2 will still have a higher count.

[wraith hinge]

Not to mention gauss rifle was super deadly before and now pseudo giants survive like 11+ hits lmao

[kindred violet]

Such as?

[warped monolith]

only 'unique mutant behavior' I miss is Fleshes being passive and skittish. in Stalker 2 they leap at you like Chimeras do

only real peeve I have about stalker 2 is how every mutant is aggressive and has a leap attack now.

[wraith hinge]

Fleshes and dogs were not always hostile, they did not always rush towards you in same patterns, bloodsuckers were hard to see now they have very visible cloaks and even tho they’re supposed to be rare mutants it’s the most frequent ones i fought, with majority of the hits knocking you down making you lose control over your character

Snorks are the only ones that are pretty much same

Also mutants no longer show signs of being damaged too

[kindred violet]

Hey lemme tell you something, dogs aren't always hostile in patch 1.5
You have an auditory cue to get your ass out of there stalker

[warped monolith]

arrooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

that's a cool looking "this" emoji

[kindred violet]

[wraith hinge]

I played before 1.5 and gave up on the game until they at least improve A life

And current improved A life is spawning events and after the events are over the npcs despawm

[astral kernel]

https://tenor.com/view/gunna-fire-writing-heat-gif-25524005

[astral kernel]

Bro did nothing but spit truth

Pseudogiants and chimera just run at you with no hindrance all - their only weakness is “make skif run away, jump on something, shoot them once or twice while they go hide” or “abuse their pathing by running them around a readily available object their pathing respects”

[warped monolith]

I could swear the first few pseudogiants in the OGs were like that too one of them even has its own arena with obstacles to use as cover

[frigid rain]

does patch 1.5.1 fix the suicidal quest giver npcs in garbage and other places?

[kindred violet]

What if I tell you we have A-life on par with the OGs now?

!hasalife

[fallen iron]

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[summer schooner]

What is good mod for rebalance eco?

[frigid rain]

will stalker 2 ever support 3rd person view? being able to see all the stuff my character is wearing is a nice feature if they ever do it.

[pseudo falcon]

is using better ballistics even worth to use? sure i can kill them fast, but they also do the same to me, and some encounters where i am outnumbered, i die before i could fire a shot (taking out my weapon)

[shadow relic]

I haven't had any trouble finishing the game with it except for some boss fights

Stalker difficulty

It makes the gunplay much more satisfying though

[pseudo falcon]

then another issue i have, dunno if its just me, but when npc try to loot dead npc, they just stand there

and i cant access the npc they loot coz they are stuck there
anyone else having same issue?

[kindred violet]

Not having that issue myself, they're able to loot just fine

[pseudo falcon]

i guess i have an old mod affecting them then

[pseudo falcon]

i think i found the culprit

coz when i use this merge tool
it takes time
when i remove it, it takes only 1 sec to finish lel
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/326

ill test it kek

[kindred violet]

no wonder lol, it's from december

I couldn't imagine it not breaking something

[pseudo falcon]

are mods like no drunk effect good to use?
coz they are only visual

they are only visual altho they old

[kindred violet]

can't tell you, not a modder.
afaik if they edit any global config files it's no bueno since it will give you heavily outdated config files

[pseudo falcon]

i see

guess i can only hope someone makes an updated one

[pseudo falcon]

even ledge grabbing mod you dont use? coz its so damn useful when you parkour lel

[kindred violet]

the only "outdated" mod I'm using is the prologue skip

since that doesn't do anything more than input a couple of console commands to skip quest stages

[kindred violet]

whilst useful, I think that kinda breaks the gamedesign a little.

[pseudo falcon]

yeah lel

[kindred violet]

getting places you're not supposed to go etc.

[pseudo falcon]

i only use it to get to stashes

or other parkour i need to go

found an updated one
altho it has other merge with it, like better stamina usage

removed all old mods

well most of them
but i cant let go of the no drunk mod

[magic spoke]

guys im playing STALKER GAMM2 while these poorons are playing STALKER GAMMA

new start mod + craftable zone+ (hardcore difficulty mods) makes for a gamma like experience

[kindred violet]

That's good for you

[pseudo falcon]

still has issues tho

[kindred violet]

Yeah unfortunately you really would need to get rid of all of them to avoid issues.
You could ask one of the modders in here if that ones okay

[pseudo falcon]

i removed some old mods like all upgrades avaialable on technician, i can just go to yaniv station if i want to upgrade anyway

but my issue atm is the drunk effect

[summer schooner]

I haven't been able to loot a single mutant

[frigid rain]

Any mod to buy exos earlier in the game from traders or loot parts of them from enemies and find a tech to assemble an exo yet?

[magic spoke]

not really,just go to pripyat early and use a map to find the exos there

if you want the loner one you'd have to somehow launch yourself up an inaccessible hill with the launch bug and enter that room in X3 from the top

[summer schooner]

I want mutie parts ;-;

Why have no mutans given anything?

[pseudo falcon]

try this?
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1474?tab=posts

it makes them 100% drop
or you have a mod that affects them on why they dont drop

sometimes outdated mods can affect them

[cedar pond]

Hey guys need help , so I am on XBox and I downloaded lootable zone but I can’t find craftable zone mod ? Does anyone knows is it 2 mods in one or if the mod not out yet ?

[pseudo falcon]

they are separate

[cedar pond]

Yeah but I can’t find the craftable one … I can’t even google if it’s on Xbox yet

[summer schooner]

I’ll slap it in when I get in again

I just made my mod list today, so everything is up to date mod wise, or doesn’t effect spawn tables

[pseudo falcon]

for the craftable and lootable zone users
where to find the toolkits?

i only tried it and stopped until on zalissiya

[cedar pond]

I did find med kit and kit for making ammo , but due to me being on Xbox I don’t have craftable zone mod

Both in a lesser zone

[vital jungle]

i played gamma, efp and custom but not original games. I never finished any of those but you know, just created my own story and hopped in zone to have fun.

Im hooked by Stalker 2 right now, i waited a lot before finally decided to buy it and i dont regret it at all. With reshade and some mods for better lightening (almost same as rr) its one of the most beautiful games i ever played. Gameplay is not bad as well, at least at this point im enjoying it a lot but im only at Garbage, just left Zalissya will see how it goes. I agree that there is a lot of thing that could be better but i think devs are doing OK. Hopefully game will get better and become as good as Cyberpunk if we compare its horrible launch and current state of the game.

Well honestly i have more than just one mod for better lightening and i think i would not be enjoying this game so much if i would play vanilla but thats the beauty of the mods, if you dont like something you can change it and enjoy the game

[wraith hinge]

Hey all i can say is hope this opinion sticks with you

But to be honest the first two locations are the most polished with the most side quests as well

Number of side quests per region
Oh also you will see that the best things are unlocked roughly two hours before the end of the game

But visually and story wise I love the game, just wondering if one of the endings makes sense because it was said that ||zone can’t be destroyed and yet one of the endings lets the zone be destroyed, also wondering if wish granter was fake and just brain washing extra protection from the real core of the zone which was c-conciousness, why did strelok get every wish he wanted done and most resulted in bad endings instead of him getting brainwashed?||

[vital jungle]

Yeah, i see your point. Perhaps you are right and i will see more negative the more i progress. Well, i hope that they will polish other locations as well with time

[pseudo falcon]

i wonder why my gun is like this

found the issue
it was coz of this mod
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1534

[split crown]

yeah it's actually insane just how empty and lifeless the other regions, aside from the Lesser Zone and Garbage, feel.

[warped monolith]

if you're talkin about SoC's endings, I think ||it's because he was already brainwashed before (and broke free from it) and Monolith wanted to just kill him||

[warped monolith]

Isn't that kinda how a radioactive, anomalous post-apocalyptic hell hole should be, tho

[split crown]

You mean like how space is an empty void, and Godd Howard uses that as an excuse as to why his Midfield is so boring?

but yeah nah, in all seriousness, even with dangerous radiation levels and anomaly fields everywhere out there, I'd still expect daredevil slavs to be mucking about here and there - scientists, bandits, whatever have you - all with their own reasons for being in said areas. And, if there are people there regardless, I'd expect them to at least have tasks for you, the player, to help them out with in furthering their purpose or agenda.

[warped monolith]

now ain't that a cheap jab but either way, it's even weirder if everywhere was populated even half as densely

[split crown]

yeah I mean each region doesn't need population sizes of like small towns, but at least including more tasks would be nice. Or hell, have NPCs in the more populated regions task Skiffa to head into the more dangerous, not as populated regions for X reasons

although they're mainly fetch quests, I'm mostly thinking about how in GAMMA you can accept tasks from basically any NPC you talk to. Some of those tasks require you trekking about the whole zone, while others could just have you simply clearing out some bandits or mutants nearby.

speaking of GAMMA, I should delete my current version of it and reinstall completely. Been a hot minute since I've delved into it.

[warped monolith]

I find it ironic that people generally hate fetch quests but the moment a game comes out without them...

I may be remembering incorrectly but even in the OG trilogy there were maps that you never went to unless some randomized quest appeared in a trader. Even storyline missions didn't take you everywhere

[summer schooner]

would OXA be breaking mutants?

I've put in mutants plus, and still no parts.

[oak dew]

Hi all im moddign stalker 2, and if im reading the description for ultra+ i should NOT use optimized tweaks S.2 or Ultimate engine tweaks, is this correct?

[summer schooner]

How do you merge mods again, or whatever, for compatibility?

[split crown]

I don't mind them

[summer schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-gif-18890916

[vital jungle]

Anyone knows the mod that will allow to buy any type of ammo from the start? I have guns that i want to use but not enough ammo)) i found one on Nexus but looks like mod creator didnt update it for 7 months. Its called Traders sell all

oh nvm, it actually still works

[kindred violet]

just because a mod still works doesn't mean it doesn't break a dozen things :D

[pseudo falcon]

just got out of sircaa

[nimble mango]

can an echo detector pick up the signal of an artifact without revealing it? cause I swear this shit spawned underground or smth

[wraith hinge]

I see, yes I do talk abour that and brain washing doesn’t make sense to me as ||brainwashing would make sense but the wish granter went beyond that and legit made him experience so many things like having the place collapse on him, turning into immovable object, going blind or have his body and soul consumed by the wish granter||

[wraith hinge]

U got out of sirca and bro made sure to enjoy games on his phone after lmao

[finite needle]

||I don't think those are thing Strelok experienced, although in SIRCAA it's all Strelok experiencing that. One could make various theories, including that Strelok has in truth reached the Monlith multiple times but every time got stopped, which is stupid but it's a theory one could formulate - or that the SIRCAS scene is just fanservice, a callback to the SoC endings, and that the only interaction that matters is of him destroying c-con.||

[wraith hinge]

||yeah from what I understood wish granter was meant to be as protection from anyone trying to reach the scientists connected to c conciousness brainwashing everyone but like.. in SoC we legit get one of the wishes for him to be rich and we already see that the only ''brain washing'' illusion going on was the one where he saw falling debris as gold.. and the debris killed him so i feel like if wish granter is fake and was nothing but brainwasher.. why did so many alternative wishes kill or make Strelok suffer, monolith soldiers only follow orders but they did not go blind or anything else||

[mint current]

the stalker 2 gunplay feels so bad is there any way to make it feel better?

[velvet elbow]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1395078263939797014/1395870472473673798/image.png?ex=687c052e&is=687ab3ae&hm=c169b6ee101b281dc6e56759438368d88fccf0b5a289a62139475c84f6b3b3ae&
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1395078263939797014/1395092643666591894/image.png?ex=687930c5&is=6877df45&hm=fa147a5c75d616ff6b056030f25464a9a2b7ac6ff2778a315da1b3923661b865&
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1395078263939797014/1395091521384222760/image.png?ex=68792fba&is=6877de3a&hm=09da59bd318bcb0d37043e1a95ba1c2506ca6512e750228fa83f68fe78d5c7e8&

[kindred violet]

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

[shadow relic]

Better ballistics makes it feel somewhat better

[stoic lichen]

cough cough (I know it’s not the same thing but) Escape From Tarkov cough cough

[kindred violet]

ofc someone had to bring that up

[warped monolith]

well it is the same thing but yeah, very good point.

[stoic lichen]

Yeah, but seriously the “Hardcore” wipe was such a shitshow.

[warped monolith]

I know nothing about that so I have no opinion

[stoic lichen]

Essentially their idea of making a “Hardcore” experience was to essentially remove flea market, made buying items more expensive while selling items were less profitable to traders. Doubling the item requirement for hideout upgrades, and adding a transit system where you can only spawn at three locations.

Plus they made boss spawns 100% and didn’t assume the meta, min-max sweat whores would exploit the fuck outta that.

[kindred violet]

I love how every time I hear anything about a tarkov update the game's just gotten worse

[warped monolith]

I never played live tarkov. I have SPT installed but it's a version from 2023, and I never bothered updating it

[stoic lichen]

Because the devs keep shooting themselves in the foot. They market themselves as this HARDCORE EXTRACTION SHOOTER GAME for HARDCORE GAMERS.

But

A). The game has been min-maxed to all hell and back.

and

B). The casual experience sucks ass and more people prefer PvE over PvP.

And the reason they got away with so much bullshit was because the competition was/still isn’t there yet.

[kindred violet]

same, I think I have some build from last year installed

[golden rose]

Also after trying realism mod, the health/damage system is so much better, vanilla is such BS, like m855 having trash pen and faceshields tanking 60 roundera

[finite needle]

I'm surprised it's still alive, I still remember playing Wildstar when it came out, and its death was that it was a HARDORE MMORPG FOR HARDORE GAMERS that had insane requirement for raiding + 40m raids and literally no other endgame than 1 (one) raid.

Similar vibe

[leaden plover]

is there a mod manager for stalker 2? vortex is kind of buggy

[summer schooner]

sTILL NO MUTIE PARTS

[little sage]

maybe a hot take, but i think BSG tries to cater too much to group B. Group B doesnt know enough about mechanics and balance in the game so the execution feels like ass

[odd plume]

Kinda sad that they added the Mosing for early game but you can just run to the place next to Zalissya and kill the guy that drops a fully repaired SVD right at the start of the game

Mosin*

[primal drift]

whats the problem with vortex? I think it works fine

[warped monolith]

maybe not everyone knows the sequence-breaking shortcuts to get good gear the mosin might be viable for them

"oh you can just walk here and get better shit for free" well yeah someone had to play the game and find that out
others prefer playing blind

[odd plume]

Thats not sequence breaking, its literally right next to the safezone

I think every person starting the game is going to explore in that place since it gives you a quest to go there

[warped monolith]

it's still some hiking. Not everyone's gonna bee-line there as soon as they can walk, unless they already know what's there (hence: sequence-breaking)
and the quest that takes you there isn't immediately available either, there's a good stuff to do in Zalissya beforehand

[odd plume]

I think generally that the game gives you too much amazing stuff right away Valiks AK with a PU scope on that tower one of the first quests sends you to as well. Just feels like one of those Fallout 4 power armor deathclaw situations. But thats subjective anyway

[leaden plover]

maybe it was my load order or something, but i tried to install some mods and then there were weird text errors in game

[stoic lichen]

I honestly prefer just respecting the game’s progression system, despite its multiple flaws.

[stoic lichen]

Hang on, I’m outta room in my backpack
proceeds to eat 20 slices of bread

[frigid rain]

What about incursion red river is that any good?

[outer depot]

being able to find shit that makes the game trivial after you've played it a few times

yeah, that's Stalker alright

[lapis hornet]

mods channel get nuked?

[split crown]

?

[lapis hornet]

weird @_@

[warped monolith]

gotta make it appear in the channels & roles section

[lapis hornet]

oh nvm found it haha, its at the top under suggested

[summer schooner]

I still haven’t found any mutant parts

[slim moth]

post your modlist bro

i had that bug whenever i used New Game Start and then i just readded some mods. Remerged. Fixed it.

I don't think it was NGS

[summer schooner]

Wool helped me out, I believe.

[slim moth]

I did add this and then removed it cause i didn't like being able to loot every single mutant (too op) and it seemed to have fixed it. not sure

[summer schooner]

It was LNA giving it an issue, and he gave me a changed file for LNA. I'm testing it rn.

[slim moth]

Oh word!

i haven't had LNA in a while, but ik old mods fuck with mutant looting

[summer schooner]

Yeah, it was last u pdated for last patch I believe.

[summer schooner]

Skiff's pistol is so bad with better ballistics

[dreamy trout]

anyone else think the rain looks super basic and flat in this game

I don't mean the atmosphere but the particles themselves, looks like gmod

[split crown]

Agreed. Also quite strange how the rain splash effect from rain hitting the ground is like super bright at night for some reason lol.

[dreamy trout]

its just odd when so many other games do it infinitely better than a game thats usually all about immersion lol

[split crown]

Yet another reason to blame UE5

[dreamy trout]

not really

UE5 isn't to blame for this, you can make great looking rain in that engine

hell I wouldn't be mad if they just bought a rain thing from fab and called it a day

like uds or easyrain

[slim moth]

It's UE5.1 so it's definitely not up to par as most UE5 games.

I think it looks great most of the time, but that SW Lumen is ASSSSSSSS

[split crown]

opens door leading to the outside
immediate blinding flashbang of light

surely just like how lighting works irl

[slim moth]

Ace put out a exposure test that fixes that

[warped monolith]

we should thank EA and DICE for creating this shit in Battlefield, now every other dev does it and claims it's "immersive"

[slim moth]

lens flair, blur, bloom. It was the craze in movies at the time too with JJ abrams

but you had games that used it well like Mirrors edge where it fit that style more.

[split crown]

At least it became a meme to laugh about in Battlefield. Now it's not so funny anymore...

[summer schooner]

opens door inside
immediate, soul penetrating darkness

[pseudo falcon]

man i didnt know
once you got out of sircaa
save then book it to lesser zone coz there is a quest there that seems on timer or else it will fail

[kindred violet]

Which one do you mean? ||The zalissya one?||

[pseudo falcon]

ye
it will appear on ||Gaffer||

if i fast travel, will it make it worse?
coz im on zaton fixing my stuff and unloading before rushing to ||Zalissiya||

[kindred violet]

||I haven't fast travelled but you have some time to get there, obviously not an insane amount but I was able to do the entire wild island part of the main quest before sauntering over there||

[pseudo falcon]

||coz my main quest is after sircaa is to go to where quiet is||

[pseudo falcon]

so i can go to wild island first on foot then head straight to zalissiya rather than using fast travel to rookie to zalissiya?

[kindred violet]

Yeah

[pseudo falcon]

i thought he was monolith
fcker is the reason why i failed it and gaffer was hostile lol

[kindred violet]

Hahahaha ^^

My guy just stacked

||at least the mission actually works properly now, in previous versions you had so many issues with the defend zalissya objectives, missing monolith soldiers that somehow were at the sphere instead of zalissya or just got stuck somewhere else.||

[pseudo falcon]

kek

[kindred violet]

Only just did the quest yesterday

For once I also did the part on wild island usually I skipped that entirely and go to the sphere and then onwards

[pseudo falcon]

yeah, i also killed the weapon trader

[kindred violet]

F to a real one

[hasty beacon]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1m5f2g5/stalker_2_modder_brings_a_fullfledged_crafting/ looks nice

[junior egret]

any way to upgrade from deluxe to ultimate edition?

just showing that i can buy the ultimate edition for 170 dollars... no upgrade for the difference between deluxe and ultimate

[late kernel]

Not at the moment

[ashen plinth]

guys im back to stalker 2 gaming but i need good mods combo to improve game filling

what i need is optimalisation mods 4060ti ryzen 5600 1440p

[ashen plinth]

OK

GUYS Nvidia frame smothing is a thing for ultimate fps

its framegen yea have some artifacts but no imputlag works smoth and 100fps+ 80 in rostok

all on mid 1440p

dlss4 quality

[cloud prawn]

Huh i just realized

I think my game is way too bright

I feel like i shouldn't be able to see much at all in the labs and the || strider || cutscene was definitely too bright compared to trailers and such

Anyone else fighting with that?

Huh, there we go, guess something was wrong with my engine file

[kindred violet]

Hows the aim? Floaty at all?

What's your frames without framegen?

[cloud prawn]

TFW updated the DLSS version of the game and now i don't have the DLSS option

Feels 4060 man

[ashen plinth]

low xD

like 50

aim isnt floaty at all

its like without fg

[cloud prawn]

How do you get it set up?

[ashen plinth]

nvidia app

[cloud prawn]

Ah nice

[ashen plinth]

but for frame smoothing u need developer drivers

feels 8gb vram man xD

need to restart game every 2hr

[kindred violet]

You have 8gb vram??

[ashen plinth]

yea

[kindred violet]

Bro what

[ashen plinth]

like i was upgrading from 1650ti and it was a good deal to 4060ti

now im collecting money for new build

[cloud prawn]

I do too lmao

[warped monolith]

and I thought I was on the low side with 12 gb

[kindred violet]

And I'm over here seething that I only have 10

Bros got giga-scammed

[timber flame]

Common nvidia moment

[kindred violet]

for real, it's BS that only Nvidia is making high-end cards anymore

[ashen plinth]

isnt giga scam i bought gpu 2 month after release for 300$

it was 550 in my country

[late kernel]

Framegen lowers your base FPS in every game. The visual smoothness is not worth for the insane input lag.

You think you get 120 FPS on 60 base FPS but you don't, its because framegen takes a toll on your overall performance

[astral kernel]

Bro still trying to tell people about true performance in s2

[late kernel]

Im talking about in general

[lavish pond]

i have 16gbs and even than i cant use all of it LMAO

[slim moth]

is it 2x 5GB?

[kindred violet]

nah 1x10GB

[kindred violet]

that's good, future proof ^^

[slim moth]

get another 10GB stick and you'd be in a good spot.

[kindred violet]

[slim moth]

It's always better to have 2 sticks of ram.

[kindred violet]

we're talking VRAM

[slim moth]

jfc

https://tenor.com/view/gif-gif-19496493

i forgot what the 4070s has.

[kindred violet]

for regular RAM i have 64GBs 😎

[slim moth]

bro, i stg i thought you guys were talking about RAM and wondering how tf you guys were playing S2

[kindred violet]

yeah lmao, that would be quite silly

bro had me second guessing myself when you said just get more

[slim moth]

LMAOO

just download more VRAM bro tf

[kindred violet]

just add more in regedit

[slim moth]

glow stick?

[summer vapor]

the lighting in the game is very dim

[slim moth]

just lower contrast

this games brightness, contrast, gamma actually make a HUGE difference in atmosphere.

[summer vapor]

I'm just irritated by the dim light

[kindred violet]

yeah I cranked up some gamma and brightness settings to make it all a bit brighter.
still get's pitch black at times but that's the auto adaption that sucks ass

[slim moth]

i also don't have HDR either which will also enhance the lighting a lot.

[kindred violet]

hmmm

[slim moth]

we're all gonna fall for that one vlad

[kindred violet]

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

[slim moth]

what a loser

[kindred violet]

i dunno what's been up but these have been rampant

[slim moth]

is that when you @ a mod?

[slim moth]

nazibots

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/mods-discord-mod-moderator-moderation-clash-of-clans-gif-24080525

[kindred violet]

I love when I reduced the resolution of my display from 3440x1440 to 2560x1440 and a game in fullscreen can just disregard that and use the whole screen anyway

[summer schooner]

any good mods that reduce weapon degredation?

[kindred violet]

man, you see jack shit in rainy weather in this game

[slim moth]

am i the only one that thinks the red forest is ugly as shit?

especially when some trees have a weird forced shadow that doesn't make sense

[tacit glacier]

... bruh this is a stalker 2 chat
#╟📸stalker2™-media message

Nice ak tho

[kindred violet]

The zip tie laser / flashlight is peak

[slim moth]

MW2 (2009) on VR

[molten osprey]

@whole schooner sorry for disturbing you but i feel offended by usage of signs that my ancestors used

[eager solstice]

vlad052060 (vlad052060) has been banned for reason: Hacked account + swastikas in name

[whole schooner]

#🛄report-users-here

[molten osprey]

blabla

scuzi scuzi

[remote eagle]

🫵

[kindred violet]

TIL

[molten osprey]

there

better?

[summer schooner]

What is up with inside buildings being pitch black if you can see light from outside?

[warped monolith]

shitty eyes adjustment post-processing effect

[molten osprey]

Stalker 2 doing its garbage thing called realistic lightning

[summer schooner]

Is there a way to tune it down or something?

[molten osprey]

cant remember that i get flashbanged when leaving my house, and i live in germany so the weather is like the zone, but whatever

[warped monolith]

I don't know. If you find out, please share. I fucking hate it.

[summer schooner]

I can't see the guys that are shooting at me through a pitch black building in mid day.

[warped monolith]

story of my life when I played Battlefield

[summer schooner]

Shit is so fuckin dark I can't even see their flashlights hardly

[molten osprey]

In battlefield 4 it was still alright but got already annoying sometimes, then it got worse with every game

[kindred violet]

I'm pretty sure you can tune it with ultra+

[molten osprey]

i swear i gonna get such an ass whopping because i reported falcos #🛄report-users-here message

[kindred violet]

bro is smart

[slim moth]

look this up on stalker 2 official Ace's modposting and you fix most lighting problems.

unless it's already integrated into DWO im not sure.

https://tenor.com/view/dean-winchester-wink-super-natural-gif-7913432171372415959

[molten osprey]

still dont know what happened here

[slim moth]

a memory sfx?

just a little story telling with audio

[molten osprey]

i dont know i just love how i instantly try to run from the street

[molten osprey]

probably

[slim moth]

that sfx right there is why driving in the zone is a horrible idea lmao

[warped monolith]

probably like what they did in Metro, having "auditory hallucinations" of the events that happened at that spot in the past

[molten osprey]

was the only one i realized in s2 so i was confused

dont know if there are more moments like this

[warped monolith]

I have no idea either

[summer schooner]

👁️

this help with the light issue? I want to see my victims

[remote eagle]

[slim moth]

there are a few. some come through radios. other areas with cool POI's have sound cues. Pripyat has children and shit laughing

[molten osprey]

oh yeah i remember the pripyat stuff but that just felt normal to me lmao

The cats reciting the words of the dead got me often

[drifting rune]

is the game worthwhile now compared to playing gamma?

[drowsy umbra]

how do you define "worthwile"? Stalker 2, even modded, will never be like Gamma

If you play Stalker 2 and expect Gamma, then no, its not worthwile because Stalker 2 doesnt wants to be like Gamma

[stoic lichen]

Can’t believe we still have to say this, but Stalker 2 was NEVER going to be like Gamma. It was going to be like the original trilogy for better and for worse in some cases.

[kindred violet]

For real

[late kernel]

Gamma brainrot is real

[wraith hinge]

Gamma is not made for devs to set the baseline expectations, it’s the original trilogy

And the original trilogy was amazing as it was in vanilla version even through all the bugs

[remote eagle]

[drifting rune]

Yeah sorry i should have really known that they are not comparable

[drifting rune]

I guess i was dreaming i could get similar enjoyment out of Stalker 2 sometime soon

But i guess that won’t happen until it gets Gammad

[junior egret]

game has been out for 8 months lol what's the holdup

[kindred violet]

Because they're busy doing other stuff?

[late kernel]

GSC being incompetent and slow as always, especially when they never used UE5 before for building games

[warped monolith]

and that's not gonna happen for years, either

[warped monolith]

it was the first real "holy shit this game has so many issues but it was worth diving into the deepest recesses of the internet to fix them" experience I had

Shadow of Chernobyl caused BSODs on my computer and it took me considerable time searching internet forums for a solution. Turns out I had to revert GPU drivers to an older version.

First game I had to do that, ever. And until recently, the only game I ever had to do that for.

[wraith hinge]

it was great way to introduce us to the memes about calling new stalker bugs anomalies