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

[charred ocean]

True dedication to a game and a fanbase. Thats what I love about GSC, you don't see that with other developers

[pseudo falcon]

@bronze elk btw stalker 2 updated

[bronze elk]

[remote eagle]

[twin pebble]

We need an adult

[kindred violet]

Just report the user with the report feature of the server

[eager solstice]

@solemn canopy (radibalansa) has been banned for reason: spammer

[twin pebble]

I think I did it correctly.

[haughty sierra]

🍪 this is for @twin pebble

[twin pebble]

People probably click those links accidentally while scrolling, they are so common

[twin pebble]

Yum

[wanton arch]

@haughty sierra Some of their messages are still not deleted #1070432217655943219 message

And this

[warped monolith]

[vapid slate]

Do we have an official timeline for the events between trilogy and stalker 2 - and stalker 2 itself? I know there is a canon timeline for trilogy and events before them but what about stalker 2?

[warped monolith]

Not that I'm aware. I only know that Stalker 2 takes place about 10 years after call of pripyat

[vapid slate]

I am curious about the events between

[twin pebble]

@vapid slate
The ARG game with the journalist is in between the trilogy and 2 I believe.

Edit: ARG, not VR

https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/2021_ARG

[plain void]

Farming monolith soldiers may just be the way to make money

[warped monolith]

I am now imagining Skeefa with a hoe tilling the ground and putting monolith soldiers into the dirt and watering them

[vapid lodge]

.

[cunning nest]

Is this a good time to jump into stalker two or should I wait for more updates

[somber crescent]

dont jump into stalker 2 at all

[somber crescent]

its seriously a boring, empty, sad excuse for a stalker game

[cunning nest]

Jesus that bad huh

[somber crescent]

i'm not gonna say that its a horrible game, you can have fun with it but as far as getting your money's worth, this game is not wort it at all.

they overpromised and under delivered, same as any other AAA release the past 5 years.

no amount of updates will fix the fact that this game was made on unreal engine 5

[plain void]

No it isn’t that bad infact it’s a really good game

[warped monolith]

yea it's not nearly as bad as the doomers claim

it's not great, it's not amazing, but it's far from terrible

[somber crescent]

not one engaging questline in the game

[warped monolith]

subjective

[somber crescent]

also there's next to no quests after you get past garbage

[warped monolith]

that is true and not subjective

There was an image making the rounds here some time ago showing how many quests per zone

it's VERY HEAVILY front-loaded with quests at lesser zone and garbage, and almost nothing in most other places. There's like 3 or 4 areas with zero quests.

[somber crescent]

I'm not gonna deny that a lot of work went into this game, but you have this huge map, and an interesting world. but its also empty after the player progresses in the story, and at that point i have to ask. "what was the point of making the map so large if you're not gonna fill it out with actual content"

the older stalkers were always shorter games on the story side. but the amount of side content that was avalible slowed down the game's pacing by alot

here you might have a really slow start if you're trying to complete every quest you can find but after you're done with all of them. all you have left is the main story

[warped monolith]

I ask this question about most open world games, and I agree it's awful to have so much empty space

there was a Starfield dev defending that "it's fun exploring the universe and finding empty planets", like wtf

[somber crescent]

starfield tried to be too many things, i dont often forget about the existence of games, but somehow starfield always manages to slip my mind.

it was such a forgetable game

[noble verge]

Is Stalker 2 worth it if I already have Gamma

I kinda wanna play it for the lore. And mods if the mods are good

[split crown]

Yeah, that Starfield dev gave the most NPC explanation imaginable lmao.

[split crown]

Both Starfield and Outer Worlds imo

[twin pebble]

IMO the best vanilla stalker game.

[golden hazel]

HoC Tuah Skeefa on that Zone

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

[shy steeple]

https://tenor.com/view/scared-heavy-creepy-sir-space-cow-gif-19500873

[vital jungle]

You will get different opinions. Idk about vanilla because i started to use mods basically from very start. Modded S2, if you are not afraid to change the game for your liking, is one of the best games i played. Sure there is still some issues and bugs but anyways i enjoy the game a lot.

[kindred violet]

I feel like we need a "form your own opinion" sign to tap

[nova lake]

if the only experience with S2 is modded then you shouldnt opinate on wether S2 is good or not since, at that point, you have had your experience changed by the mods themselves
and by that I mean mods like OXA, Craftable Zone, and the Ballistics mod

[vital jungle]

i dont see logic in this statement. If my experience with modded S2 is very good i shoudnt tell people that modded S2 is good because i didnt play vanilla? what?

[nova lake]

if your only experience with S2 is modded with such mods you shouldnt opinate on if S2 is bad or good the base game

[vital jungle]

but thats what i said, idk about vanilla so my opinion is about modded S2

[true bough]

999% radiation chemical and psionic resistence

[nova lake]

I will extend this actually, if you played with a no weight mod, your opinion is invalid, no jsut on Stalker 2, on everything

[vital jungle]

as you say boss

[warped monolith]

ppl playing with cheats disguised as mods

[warped monolith]

meanwhile -10000% electrical resistance

[twin pebble]

I've played all the games vanilla, weight never has really been an issue.

No one really needs to Carry that 10th assault rifle back to stash

[warped monolith]

I do when I need money, and I deal with it. I don't pussy out and cheat

I'll walk at 1% movement speed like a real man should

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

[twin pebble]

A fun trailer, not on PS5 though.

Where is that bandit camp in game?

With the skull banners

[shy steeple]

funny trailer

but i play already ee stalker with ps5 controller

[remote eagle]

[shy steeple]

if they did same vibration control like in ee then bullshit

better connect keyboard to play game than controller

also i cant download zone kit

[remote eagle]

wtf

[finite needle]

Me after I found out I could attach a shotgun under the m701

Btw I'm kinda glad my extra scuffed workaround to the no sound bug in GAMMA is still being useful 3 years later

[shy steeple]

how tf i should download this

[vital jungle]

after i completed mission "On the edge" || im getting radio message that Zalyssya was destroyed however i killed all monolith and completed all mission objectives. Is it possible to bypass this bug?||

[shy steeple]

[slim moth]

word of warning, don't try to run the playtest.

[shy steeple]

im still thinking i download game without game

not fucking sdk

[kindred violet]

I mean, you're basically downloading an unpacked version of an UE5 game, so it's going to be this big (unfortunately)

[slim moth]

and when you run the playtest, it runs every asset in the game uncompressed and will blow up your ram lmao

[maiden egret]

i regret buying it but some people like it

[strange shoal]

im thinkin about getting it, while its %30 off i think

[winter jackal]

Does anybody know how to fix those sparkling effects indoors in stalker 2

[twin pebble]

Running ultra+? I had those at the highest settings but they went away at high preset.

You can probably play with some of the lighting settings to get them away but I didn't experiment with it.

Maybe someone here is more knowledgeable

[winter jackal]

Yeah I’m trying to mess with it rn

[winter jackal]

None of it really seems to be changing anything sadly

[slim moth]

gd

he didn't stand a chance

[shy steeple]

still loading like i start it 1 h ago

[nova lake]

put the folders where you installed the zonekit as exclusions in your Anti Virus, that should help you

[shy steeple]

this just crash after pop up

[nova lake]

what are your specs

[shy steeple]

min

[nova lake]

what? can you even run S2?

[shy steeple]

YES

i talk about min specs for zone kit (32 gb ram, 4060, 7 5800x)

also i have second computer for work (i use this shit too)

[knotty onyx]

Wow the Ukrainian voice over has so much more gravitas than the English one.

Every other sentence starts with Zona...

[warped monolith]

[stone vault]

Anyone know a workaround for really bullet sponge HUMAN enemies?

Playing on stalker difficulty and I get 2 tapped, but most enemies are taking 4-5 headshots just to put down, and nearly a mag to the chest

Looked at certain mods on nexus, but I'm only able to use the integrated mod browser, so Ive been limited on options 😔

[compact mist]

No mods, I get random freezes after approx 10minutes each time, music is still going but I have to "end task" to get stalker to close, no crash, no "stalker is unresponsive", just a freeze forever randomly. Is there some graphic options that could cause this or other things I should know ?

[twin pebble]

In vanilla? Penetration and damage is based on the actual gun and not the ammunition, which means only some guns are actually good while the rest just generally under perform against late game enemies/mutants.

Use the Khorad, the Dnipro, saiga, whip unique, the ratkiller unique bizon, the m700 and the Texan/whatever the non unique is. Oh Gauss guns are good too.

Night stalker 1911 is good as an upgrade to skifs pistol. The rest of the pistols are kinda trash except the revolver, but it's fire rate is slow.

[stone vault]

Damn, thank you. Still, disappointing to see 762 and 545 be pitiful

[wooden glade]

https://mod.io/g/stalker2/m/better-ballistics#description

this might sound like self promotion but idc

I recommend lowering your difficulty, since BB's difficulty is one level up compared to vanilla

[twin pebble]

Yeah I think the sensible solution is finding a ballistics rework you like and running that.

It's perfectly reasonable that guns may effect velocity/pen to some degree, but imo ammunition should be the primary factor here.

Helps avoid the unintuitive issue of some guns just hitting like wet noodles for no reason

[stone vault]

Thanks, I tried this but kept getting one tapped. Ill lower the diff to rookie and see if that changes it

[wooden glade]

yeah I haven't mentioned it on the modpage yet, but Rookie is rather similar to vanilla Stalker/Veteran in terms of NPC damage

[near sage]

what ammo do you guys use on mutants with saiga?

Since I've only played gamma before stalker 2, I'm using buckshot but some posts are mentioning that armor piercing is better, what about special rounds?

the only problem with using special is that you are required to install an upgrade that locks you out from using buckshot

hm, looks like special rounds are modded in... guess ill give them a go

[astral kernel]

Base game yeah mutants for some stupid fucking reason have armor

[strange shoal]

Good time to get s2 while 30% off?

[lean lichen]

Boutta make bad apple in stalker watch me

[wet oriole]

Any one got tips for the agroprom underground in base anomaly

[warped monolith]

This channel is for Stalker 2, try #╓☢stalker-chat

or #╟🔰☢newbies-chat if you can't access that.

[wind moss]

Hi guys can you please help me why there are no ads in the ads tab in the PDA

[kindred violet]

[slim moth]

uninstall adblocker

[stoic lichen]

Use the Nightstalker so you can go John Wick on the Monolith.

[twin pebble]

Nightstalker in vanilla is actually insane lol

[kindred violet]

Nightstalker pog

[rugged bolt]

https://youtube.com/shorts/pMJ3_aA3SMY?si=tzuJ6Qvb9vQMR5I9

[warped monolith]

[pale haven]

ive been playing stalker 2 for about 60 hours now, i still want to feel the grinding of finding weapon/armor and fixing it with getting a lot of sidequest on the fly. And i wished the stamina and carryweight was improved more

i still love it both gamma and stalker 2 ❤️

[wind moss]

Thanks bro it helped

[tacit glacier]

So, this is the longest break between updates so far 👀
about 60 days
1.6 might be the largest update yet. Not to mention, the PS5 trailer might've been shot on 5.5.4 version of the engine already.

[warped monolith]

hopium

[wanton arch]

Is the game fine to play without mods now or should I immediately look for some before even starting my first playthrough?

[midnight ridge]

You should

[wanton arch]

Okay, thanks

[inland prism]

What is the best (subjective I know) hardcore/gamma-esque overhaul for Stalker 2 atm on 1.5.3?

I was using Oxa Prototype on 1.5 a few months back, just wondering if there is anything else out there?

[timber flame]

Not gonna lie I kind of regret buying this game. It’s still broken. I keep dying over and over to an emission while I am inside an apartment building that is also specifically quest marked as a shelter from emissions.it’s absolute bullshit!

[rugged bolt]

https://tenor.com/view/eren-rumbling-eren-yeager-eren-yeager-season4-eren-titan-eren-gif-24441053

[rotund mantle]

Same lol preordered this and still waiting for it to be good 💀

[warped monolith]

[kindred violet]

[late kernel]

Wake me up when the entire zone has opened up and A-Life reached at least Anomalee standards

[warped monolith]

you'll be in a coma for a good while

[vital jungle]

its strange, ive never encountered this personally

[timber flame]

literally like the 3rd emission I've experienced

I reloaded to ~3 minutes prior and somehow the emission never happens because I turned around. So that's weird.

[split crown]

[stoic sphinx]

wait im new here and its probably been answered, but does grok have plans to make a GAMMA for stalker 2?

[split crown]

Not really, no. If he does garner any interest for doing so, it'll probably be many years from now.

[eager solstice]

@left talon (bonnie_voice) has been banned for reason: Compromised account

[rugged bolt]

I remember they did a mod thing for dragons dogma 2 but idk how that is

https://youtu.be/e4Gb5G2JwcQ?si=UGjKt5cAJNCR87yu

[knotty onyx]

A lot of them are scripted for the story and you have to go all the way to the quest objective to survive. They usually give you plenty of time so not a big deal, but it's weird to adjust because it's different from how emissions work in previous games.

[torpid relic]

when the game came out balancing was so awful that that one ecounter with a bloodsucker in a cave made me actually rage quit and install a mutant hp nerf. i the only played with that and it was pretty nice. FFW to now the game on its own is solid enought, but i have experienced lots of graphics bugs and issues due to me messing with graphics related game files, so maybe keep your hands od them or alternatively make backups and read unlike me.

[torpid relic]

emissions have hard scripted save spots, just like COP back then. i remeber hiding in jupiter station building and dying over and over again, untill i relaized theres hard coded save points, even tho this big building should be enought.

[icy basin]

Dogamma moment

[wanton arch]

Stalker 2 is the goat as usual.

[rotund mantle]

itll be goat when they give us the game the promised us or russian modders fix it whichever comes first

[warped monolith]

[warped monolith]

basically the same kind of "hobo phase for 50 hours" CBT bullshit

[twin pebble]

Hi guys

[warped monolith]

[split crown]

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

[vital jungle]

anyone got an issue that with enabled reshade but without any effects on it tanks fps? From 60-62 fps dropped to 42-45. I disabled all effects but figures are the same and it doesnt matter how many effects are on 3 or 7, fps stays the same. It shouldnt be like that right?

i changed few reshade presets but fps drops to 42-45 all the time, something is definitely wrong lol. Any ideas?

[vital jungle]

okay just in case anyone is wondering i found the solution. Under Addons tab there is "generic depth" enabled. After disabling it reshade works fine.

[steep pivot]

I just did Swamp mission in stalker 2 and has to be the worst experience ever in vet difficulty 🤣

[unborn kelp]

clear sky base?
yeah, piss on that

[steep pivot]

Yep, I think the only annoying part is dark, and water everywhere to slow u down.

[twin pebble]

Go in the morning

[steep pivot]

You can't, it's scripted to be dark

[twin pebble]

Really?

[steep pivot]

Yeah, especially after Emission will start while a tanky chimera hunts you down lol

So yeah that's why it's probably the worst experience ever in highest difficulty even.

1.6 update night vision will make that quest easier. As NVG can navigate the non watery area of the swamps better. It was only hard cuz it's dark and can't see shit even with flash light.

[twin pebble]

Oh it's scripted to be foggy, not night

[steep pivot]

This makes me want to go pripyat early, to get the Diamond exo. But the game might bugged out so it's kinda risky.

The game is mixed Open world and story progression which is a weird mixed lol...

[twin pebble]

I don't think swamps are that hard. Hardest part is rushing the controller with the zombies.

Whats the possible bug for breaking into Pripyat early? Never experienced that.

Currently on a Unlimited overhaul ironman run. Broke out of lesser and into Pripyat to grab a Seva suit before starting the main story and haven't experienced any issues yet.

[steep pivot]

I dunno it said it has a duplication bug

[molten osprey]

Was swamp the part where every mutant in the game is fighting each other or was that just my early playtrough

have to see if i find a clip

[steep pivot]

Nah Mutants do fight each other but it's very rare occurrence for me.

[toxic wraith]

made a comeback to the game with the help of some mods but holy the input delay is terrible

[steep pivot]

Yeah, me turning off Frame Gen helps a lot tbh.

[toxic wraith]

turning frame gen off in the economy?? ugh

[steep pivot]

But the game will be moving to 5.4 version of Ue5 soon. Few more waits and it will be better than ever!

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/pudgypenguin-hopium-penguin-gif-26360923

[toxic wraith]

pretty much all mods are gonna break again then?

[steep pivot]

Yes

[toxic wraith]

only reason i got back into the game icl

[steep pivot]

That's why I play the game vanilla version for now lmao

[toxic wraith]

desolation and oxa have been life changing

[steep pivot]

Nice I'll only start modding once they moved to the newer engine. As it gives better performance at best.

[toxic wraith]

tbh unreal is just a bad engine, i understand why they went with it but god i hate the anti aliasing

plus it runs like shit

[steep pivot]

The only mods I want is probably shaders / weather mods, and additional gears/ guns. And more enemies encounter.

[toxic wraith]

Desolation and oxas have you covered for gear and counters, a very gamma like experience

[steep pivot]

True, but devs are part of it for being badly optimized tbh

Not all Ue5 run like shi that's why

[toxic wraith]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/164

if you want weather without affecting performance or anything this is a go to!

[steep pivot]

I'll probably try it out someday, but for now, they're gonna keep updating the game so it's kinda hard to stick around with mods.

I heard Clear sky mod is pretty good.

[toxic wraith]

i've paused updates for now, their next update will be for ue5 which is gonna introduce a fucktonne of bugs

no point updating for another year or two tbh

[steep pivot]

We'll see but hoping for miracle there will be no game breaking bugs atleast 😂

[toxic wraith]

gl with that 😂

[last nova]

Hey everyone

[toxic wraith]

these mods are the only reason im even playing the game, base stalker 2 is just lacking so much

[steep pivot]

Aslong as there is performance boost + only few bugs that acts like an anomaly then it will be a miracle for sure lmao

[steep pivot]

Hello

[toxic wraith]

ive just put my settings down to high, turned off frame gen and kept DLAA at 100% image quality and somehow the image is smoother with less delay

[steep pivot]

I like modding as wel but for Stalker 2 is a refreshing game and much more relaxing than the Anomaly mod packs.

[steep pivot]

Good, I absolutely don't know why a frame booster makes the performance worser lol

[toxic wraith]

unreal engine, thats literally it lmao

[steep pivot]

Ue5 is quite a standard now and + it's a much more common to many programmers. Also have a lot of good next Gen things for future proof projects. While Xray is literally old an requires some training to master.

Limitation of the engine also won't really help.

[toxic wraith]

the problem is that big developers are dropping AMAZING engines just for unreal engine because new gen devs cant use anything else and it allows for lazy game making

like cd projekt red dropped their red engine that literally produced one of the cleanest looking games ever made just to use unreal engine for the new witcher

[steep pivot]

I mean unless they announce publicly the problem, then we won't know. Red Engine for sure was amazing and CP does have super realistic mods.

[toxic wraith]

"easier for the developers" was what was said during the witcher 4 tech demo

[steep pivot]

Since part of the teams left and they needed a new replacements, they probably need training to work with the engine.

[toxic wraith]

im so keen to see the vampire game the ex devs are cooking up

[steep pivot]

And with work schedules, Ue5 was the plan B probably.

[toxic wraith]

they should open source red engine or at the very least lease the engine to other studios

[steep pivot]

Didn't they get hacked before tho?

I've seen the Vampire game, it does look good tbh. I don't see it flopping. But at worst, I could only see it as an underrated Gem.

I can't wait for the stalker 2 DLC. Hoping it's large enough with more story progressions, sidequest, and equipments.

[toxic wraith]

the newest gameplay from ign looks so much better then the original gameplay showcase, they listened to the feedback and changed the combat camera and sword fighting

[toxic wraith]

im assuming its gonna be based off the strelok ending

[steep pivot]

Skif should be the new legend

[toxic wraith]

yeah well strelok in stalker 2 is nothing like the OG strelok

i know the mind control didnt work on him completely, but i reckon it defintely still had an effect

[steep pivot]

Probably partially, but with his experiences, it shouldn't matter to him

[warped monolith]

[tacit glacier]

Seems like overestimated the progress. 5.5.4 not in 1.6

[steep pivot]

Damn 😭

If they had few people, I guess it's reasonable.

[warped monolith]

that's to be expected, they had already said they were gonna try to update the engine on 1.6 but couldn't guarantee it'd happen

to me that's just... "we want to but we can't"

[steep pivot]

I'm gonna be sniffing copium for months till official release date for it

[vital jungle]

If anyone is playing with TrueEpic mod then i suggest to change value of this line r.Lumen.Reflections.MaxRoughnessToTrace=0.35 to 0.32 I had small chat with mods creator and 0.35 tanks fps at rainy weather. As i can see mod wasnt updated yet so changing it manually will be really helpful. I got +6 fps personally at rainy weather

[twin pebble]

Wait did they release patch notes for 1.6? I can't find anything

[tacit glacier]

Nah, they put a gsc-answers

In other news
Modders are cooking

Gotta love the broken wrist

[twin pebble]

Yeah not sure I would hold a large flashlight like that lol

[warped monolith]

nice, it's even much brighter than the headlamp from the base game

[tacit glacier]

tbf you can mod the headlamp to be brighter and even look like the og trilogy one

But it's not compatible with crafting zone mod due to how game handles blueprint mods

Thankfully, that's going to change sometimes this year

[warped monolith]

speaking of, I wonder if they'll directly implement any changes to the flashlight. Hasn't it been universally shat on by players

either that or I'll just install a mod when I play the game I guess

[kindred violet]

my wrist hurts looking at that image

why not position it so the gun arm rests on top of the flashlight arm

[twin pebble]

Yeah I use Aces Flashlight mod with OXA standard

[slim moth]

engine update will be with the ps5 release more than likely. i wasn't expecting 1.6 to have it.

[main dome]

Meow

[slim moth]

[toxic wraith]

just saw this and decided to download the mod, WHAT SORCERY IS THIS, ITS AMAZING

[toxic wraith]

mod link my good sir?

[main dome]

Mrr

[tacit glacier]

Don't have one
I think early access link is on official stalker server, didn't look

It's unfinished and I'm waiting for 5.5.4

[toxic wraith]

dang 🙁

[slim moth]

basebuilding and temperature system in the stalker2 modposting

[warped monolith]

temperature system is interesting

especially if some mod manages to add the passage of seasons... or at the very least add winter

[vital jungle]

Yep, i love it. Tbh i cant play S2 without it anymore 😆 which one you downloaded with increased draw distance or without? If 2nd one then i assume you dont have 4090 or 5090 same as me and i can tell you if you want how to optimize it a bit if you want some extra fps.

[toxic wraith]

I'm using the full mod, I'm on a 4080 super, also for someone reason it's reduced my input latency with frame gen by a shit tonne

[vital jungle]

Great, enjoy then))

[toxic wraith]

I can't believe how good the lumen Raytracing is

[vestal cargo]

not for me but anyone know stalker 2 performance mods for a low end gpu like gtx 1660s ?

[fierce hearth]

Oddly enough, you can see an Electro on SIRCAA from miles off, wheras everything else in this game doesn't render unless you're like 50 meters away.

Actually, that might be a flickering bug

[knotty onyx]

I suspect that the frequent waves of layoffs across the entire industry are a large part of the reason why UE5 is getting so popular.

Retention is just too low for people to gain a lot of experience with proprietary systems.

So when a lot of companies switch to UE5, it will be easier to maintain a higher level of experience despite the high rate of employee turnover.

But in this transition period where many companies are moving over to UE5 we are going to get a lot of poorly optimized games.

But for the most part the problem will continue until companies stop laying off 20% of the studio after every release.

[eager solstice]

@eternal spoke (im.just.ken) has been banned for reason: Compromised account

[pale haven]

question about lore

|| whats the differences between monolithian and STALKER that is brainwashed (agent of C-Conciousness ||

[pliant hare]

anyone got any ideas

[icy basin]

||A monolithian is just a soldier of CCon protecting its interests and killing anyone not Monolith affiliated||
||A STALKER marked individual is more like a sleeper agent, whose personal goals and desires are subconsciously made to align with the goals of CCon -- which makes them perfect for infiltration, it's just a regular dude that happens to be really interested in finding Strelok or becoming Minister of Defense||

At least that's how I understand it all

[pale haven]

ty for explaining it 🫶

[kindred violet]

Yeah that sounds about right

[knotty onyx]

Mfw main story wouldn't happen if Skif had renters insurance

[icy basin]

TBH he needed to return
His ass smelled adventure and took the first excuse

[kindred violet]

I mean your apartment burning down is a pretty good excuse to have

I just wonder how skif met herman

[trim iron]

Wasn't ||Solder|| the connection that brought them together?

[knotty onyx]

||the game very much implies that Skif just didn't like civilian life after he was out of the military and may have even been a mercenary, I think the house is just his self justification for his lifestyle and choices. ||

[kindred violet]

I very much think that's the other way around

[trim iron]

I figured that since Solder sold "them" information, he was the common denominator.
Skif has an artefact that he believes is linked to the zone, so he goes off in search of information... Finds Solder, who then tells him about Herman with his "scanner" and sells them the information.
But it could probably also mean that they met before that. If so, I don't remember the game providing details about their interactions earlier in the timeline.

[kindred violet]

That's the thing, I don't think it's indicated that solder and skif had already talked since he mockingly calls him "mr client"

So it makes more sense to me that skif would have first contacted Herman, who set up the whole deak and everything

[summer vapor]

I wonder what exactly mean these points

[kindred violet]

I would imagine it means that you can have more than one blueprint mod simultaneously

[tacit glacier]

At current point in time, you cannot use Flashlight mods and Crafting Zone because they both modify BP_Stalker2Character
Trying to do so breaks crafting zone functionality
The update to Zone Kit should fix that

[copper saffron]

lol no such thing for a force-majeure like a hocking anomaly spawning in your apt

[copper saffron]

Localizations

[remote eagle]

[warped monolith]

[slim moth]

[pale haven]

|| so if i to recap: Strelok, once got into CNPP but failed, he got brainwashed and turned into the mark one STALKER. He survive of something that Red picked him up and brought to Sid, After all the journey and what he went through to go to CNPP once again, he didn't get triggered by screens or the "sleeper agent" stuff to be awoken, assuming the psi protection he had protects him. Im not sure if the monolithian knows who are these STALKER agents. And assuming that Strelok is the one normal dude that got into the center once, the c-conciousnes use him as an agent since he is really capable and have a mission to off himself? which a bit confused for me why they didnt kill strelok. ||

question about lore

[tacit glacier]

Hey @haughty sierra @cobalt parrot
Another compromised account

[eager solstice]

@woeful inlet (nexalyalin) has been banned for reason: scam

[molten osprey]

||From what i understood of my years trying to understand it, the CCON always knew streloks group got closer and closer so they started the S.T.A.L.K.E.R program, not predicting that he would actually get caught in it when he reached the CNPP||

[twin pebble]

||Steloks brainwashing failed. He suffers side effects but he's not controlled by CCON. It's in his CCON report||

[floral hamlet]

Hey all, just curious to your advice regarding S2. I’m looking to play it again and wanted to ask which mods bring it relatively close to Gamma, although it’ll be way off in comparison but currently I’m thinking of installing a mod called “Craftable Zone and New Game Start” if anyone can advice on any other “Gamma like” mods I’d appreciate your help

[twin pebble]

New game start effectively just removes content. And I had some strange behavior when I tried starting as Monolith.

My advice would be to run Unlimited+OXA standard+Shays ALife. Unlimited and OXA standard usually aren't compatible with lootable & craftable zone.

If you really want crafting i believe Rusted Dawn Modpack packages Unlimited+OXA standard AND craftable and lootable zone together.

Crafting+lootable, I think it cluters the inventory and possibly makes the game too easy though.

Unlimited does a lot to solve replayability and makes the economy more engaging by randomizing gear loot and removing like 90% of consumable drops. You can be 1 tapped without armor or light armor.

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1561

[floral hamlet]

Ok so literally this one “Rusted Dawn” modpack is all I actually need to install? Sounds good

[twin pebble]

Follow the instructions in the description. I believe he says to install most of the other mods as his "Modpack" is a compatibility patch for all of them to be loaded last in the load order

[floral hamlet]

Oh yeah I’m looking at the installation guide now. Do you recommended I install every single mod or should I leave some out depending on your experience with it?

[twin pebble]

If using rusted dawn you need to install all of the required mods

[floral hamlet]

Understood. Will do this now once I finish downloading S2 and will download Rusted Dawn Modpack. Thank you very much for your help

[twin pebble]

I hope you have fun

[hexed kestrel]

!magazines

[warped monolith]

[kindred violet]

[minor sierra]

[floral hamlet]

Me again, just wanted to know that when installing some of these mods there are different versions within the mods, for example with OXA Expanded Armory there’s the Prototype version and Standard. I haven’t seen a list explaining exactly which to choose and which is or isn’t compatible with Rusted Dawn. So I’m hesitant on which ones are correct

[twin pebble]

It's located on the OXA description.

Prototype is the full overhaul version of OXA. Standard is just the restructuring and additional weapon attachments without the broader reaching overhaul of mechanics.

Prototype is incompatible with Unlimited, so rusted dawn specifies to use OXA standard.

[floral hamlet]

Thanks for pointing this out. I will download standard. Wish me luck😂

[floral hamlet]

Struggling to figure out how to install Herbata's Mod-as-DLC Loader. I’m not very tech savvy, all other mods are installed but not sure how to do this one

[floral hamlet]

Another thing to mention is the movement with the mouse regarding looking around and aiming seems very delayed. Is there a way to make the mouse movement feel more instant? Even when I press space bar to jump it’s like delayed by half a second

[twin pebble]

That seems like a lot of input delay. Unsure, I didn't have that issue.

[floral hamlet]

Yes input delay is what I’m trying to explain.

[twin pebble]

Oh, if you have a 4080 or better and are okay with sub 120 fps I would recommend Ultra+. Other people here like TrueEpic too. They are graphic mods but definitely hit performance.

Ultra+ claims to have better performance at lower presets but in my experience both "High" and "Ultra" with the mod are much more demanding than vanilla "Ultra"

As for your input lag maybe try disabling frame gen/vsync if your hardware setup will allow it. Other people suggested running the game in exclusive Fullscreen too.

Found this too https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gvy5sx/mouse_input_lag_fix/

But I can't say what will work with you, I didn't have the issue and I imagine it could be a couple things.

[warped monolith]

year of our lord 2025 and games still don't have mouse acceleration/smoothing in the settings menu so we can turn them off

[floral hamlet]

Thank you I’ve added this into input.iniand loading back in, hopefully it’ll be much better

[loud pine]

Do yall think there will ever be a day where stalker 2 on 3060 6gb vram will run stable with low-medium?

[pale haven]

|| is there reasons why his brainwashing failed or are there more like him? ||

[twin pebble]

|| I interpreted it as a literal software glitch or human error. Either way he received the order to kill himself erroneously and I think this contributed to his brainwashing failing. He still suffered from amnesia, and still does suffer from short term memory loss judging by his notes found in his hide out, but he definitely has free will. ||

I'm not aware of anyone else like him.

||I guess strider and formor monolith before their reintegration would be similar to him ||

[pale haven]

|| thats an interesting paradox ||

[nova lake]

||C-Con is human, and they made a mistake and when mass brain washing bodies they selected marked one without knowing, they thought he had escaped, therefore, he broke his brainwashing because his mission was impossible to complete whithout him himself dying ||

[pale haven]

|| from what i learned, C-Con is not much of a adaptive thinking like human's brain do, but only take personality and memories, acted like an AI from MGS series called The Patirot, only can make such patterns and decisions. Or i misunderstood about C-Con? ||

[nova lake]

||Streloks brainwashing is contained within SOC, and in SOC, C-Con is the merge of 7 humans brains, they are a collective, they are still human however, just a merge of 7 very smart humans, they arnet machines||

||important to say that that was what happened in SOC, since S2 did do retcons, you can say that they acted diff in S2, but that is how they acted in SOC and that is the reason why it happened at that time||

[pale haven]

|| about that, and the ending of stalker 2, where a character goes into that one pod using the Heart Of Chornobyl artifact, does that overwrite the user? meaning that the C-Con is no more and over taken by that character ending? ||

[twin pebble]

||I think we have to assume so, as each ending reflects the will of the person entering the pod||

[pale haven]

|| now if thats true, either the dlc of stalker 2 would be during the game or before the ending to make it logic, since the endings of stalker 2 changed the zone so much ||

[warped monolith]

chat turned into scp

[pale haven]

what makes chat turned scp?

[nova lake]

||the DLC will be like in New Vegas, it will be side adventures that go onto expand stuff inside the game as opposed to try and expand after the games end, the later would be a dumb choice for Stalker 2||

[pale haven]

ah i see ty

[molten osprey]

Tbf the Patriots were Humans as well until Solids time

Dont remember how they were called in MGS3 times

[pale haven]

i think they were just called the Patriots, they were presence at the end when Snake got the title of Big Boss, i think they turned into the AI after MGSV or after Peace Walker, since the idea of AI controlling human fates started in Peace Walker. i might be wrong though

[molten osprey]

Yeah that should fit the timeline

Nice to see another mgs enjoyer

[molten osprey]

Ah in MGS3 the name was The Philosophers

[pale haven]

wait, isnt the philosopher died before MGS3? they were the ones collecting the fund of WW2 and volgin wanted to take advantage, and lastly passed down to Zero. In MGS2, they were list of members of Patriot that died long ago

[molten osprey]

Could be that they are dead in mgs3, i just remember volgin yapping about them but not exactly what he yapped. Last playtroughs were a good 8 years ago

[pale haven]

Volgin yapped that he wanted to have the dead Philosopher's Legacy, was arranged by his father at that time to be hidden. There are 2 pieces of The Philosophy Legacy tape of the hidden place of funds, the first one was handed to Zero by Eva, and the other one was Ocelot finding it himself, not sure what happen at that time

[molten osprey]

Oh man i have to play them again

[pale haven]

well the remake got launch not long ago, but ofc its pricey and not optimized performance, unless you really want to see the Snake high fidelity looks, or Eva, or Ocelot, or whoever you want

[molten osprey]

Im thinking about getting it for Xbox because PC is a potatoe, but maybe i will just play HD Collection on my PS vita while chilling in bed

[pale haven]

it still the same story so you dont miss much about the remakes. good and have fun

also do you think Snake can survive the zone? being a Stalker?

[molten osprey]

Easily tbh

At least Solid and Naked, liquid would cry too much about his dad and probably ask the wishgranter for outer heaven lmao

[warped monolith]

Liquid would be fine with all his superpowers

[pale haven]

liquid will try to recruit the monolithian and faust for sure

[molten osprey]

Raiden would just throw a metal gear ray at everything

[pale haven]

hes gonna look at chimera and chopped em like a kebab

[molten osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/raiden-poncho-raiden-metal-gear-raiden-mgr-mgr-raiden-mgr-gif-25469575

[pale haven]

ah shoot i dont have the gif permission

[warped monolith]

adios amigos

[pale haven]

amigos taco

idk what to say, im very sorry

[molten osprey]

I think you just have to remove the newbie role thingy

[pale haven]

ah shoot, ill try to find a way to remove it

[vital jungle]

@twin pebble how is it going with unlimited so far? I enjoyed it a lot but as soon as i got basic exosuit and khorad with x8 scope (after siirca) the game became easy as it was 🙁 after i upgraded everything i spend money only on repairs and fancy ammo but im swimming in koupons anyways. Also i got artifacts that gives me from 20 to 70 additional hp depends from loudout and with exosuit im like terminator, just poppin headshots with that scope and tank huge amount of dmg. Looks like creating your own rules might be the best "balance" for this game, im thinking to drop exo and x8 scope otherwise gunfights are boring

[pale haven]

i wonder if theres a difficulty mod to rebalance, but then that might just make the enemy tanky as the gun grinding is still easy

question: is there mod manager for stalker 2? so far im just using download the mod into its folder manually

[vital jungle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3AJr0DrZUM

[vital jungle]

i think unlimited has pretty well economy rebalance, at least i enjoyed it till mid game, Its just end gear which breaks everything. Dont get me wrong i like unlimited even now, i just feel like i need to create my own rules at this point

[pale haven]

ah ty

[pale haven]

rhino only, cowboy stalker edition

[vital jungle]

bought seva suit with twice less physical protection and took g36 with ads scope instead of khorad with x8. Will see how it goes

[twin pebble]

I finished a sparker playthrough and enjoyed it. My current playthrough is a low death run. Currently in Zanton with 1 death.

[vital jungle]

Thats interesting idea. In this case such powerful gear is helpful

im playing it wrong looks like, 200 deaths 😄

[twin pebble]

my first playthrou was like that lol

[vital jungle]

btw do you have this bug as well that to change scope on g36 you always need to buy upgrade first at technician?

[twin pebble]

I have not used that gun, that sounds really strange though

oh

[vital jungle]

its really powerful mid game gun, you can one tap most of enemies with AP

what guns do you use?

[twin pebble]

ive used an as val, a fort converted to 556 and a dnipro this playthrough

I think you need to get the upgrade to remove the built in scope and add a rail system. I think that is on purpose because there is no original rail system

for the g36

[vital jungle]

if you mean upgrade for rail system at technician then thats what im doing. I get upgrade, put on scope and after some time i see that i cant change it so i need to visit tech again and get this upgrade again because it disapears for some reason

[twin pebble]

ohhhh

yeah that sounds like a bug, does it charge you again?

[vital jungle]

yes 😄

[vital jungle]

decided to stop saving the game so there will be only auto save files, its already more entertaining

[warped monolith]

hope you don't die to any bugs or physics glitches

[vital jungle]

i hope so 😄 i think i had only 2 crashes in 220h if i remember right

[strong forge]

is stalker 2 worth

[modest minnow]

it'll maybe be worth it in a couple of months

[strong forge]

how so

[modest minnow]

the ai, the visual bugs, game breaking bugs, atmosphere, but mostly the npc ai, the stalker trilogy is better by... a lot

[strong forge]

does it at least run well

[modest minnow]

lowkey no, the fps is stable on my pc tho

but i wouldn't classify it as playable

[strong forge]

is it AT LEAST properly open world?

like it wont force u to play the story

[nova lake]

what do you mean by this

[strong forge]

idk how else to word it

[modest minnow]

it is open world, yeah

[nova lake]

you arent forced to do any quest you dont want to but you will always have it in your quest log and Pripyat is locked behind quest progression

[vital jungle]

modded S2 yes but there are people who dont like it even modded so... only after trying it you will understand on which side you are. Do i enjoy S2 personally? Yes, a lot

i saw someone said here that he regrets that he bought it, so its a lottery

[kindred violet]

Generally speaking just gotta give it a go see if you like it

[umbral mesa]

is anyone else having this issue where the companions just eat your backpack when you have them hold it

[nova lake]

what

[knotty onyx]

What's ur PC specs and how good is the AC in the room your PC is in?

[strong forge]

I changed my mind, stalker 2 looks like every ue5 demo I've seen in the past 3 years

doesn't feel like stalker to me

[knotty onyx]

I like the game but my PC runs so hot on it that it makes my bedroom hot after a few hours

[strong forge]

that's crazy wtf

just open a window

[knotty onyx]

The window is open, but I'm in Albuquerque so the air outside is as hot as the air from my PC and my AC sucks ass.

[kindred violet]

depends on what "feels like stalker" to you

[knotty onyx]

The wild dog packs definitely feels like SOC with the mutants spawns glitch lmao

[twin pebble]

Yeah, I always thought that was really weird. S2 is very similar in structure and content to the original trilogy.

Mechanics, depth, and even similar bugs.

Which is crazy because they are different engines 😂

[knotty onyx]

Yeah to me it feels similar to the vanilla games. I think a lot of people are accustomed to playing with mods.

[twin pebble]

GAMMA + tarkov texture replacer + a romance mod

[kindred violet]

naturally

the bane of the stalker community

[rotund mantle]

i never saw the appeal in romance mods lol

[pale haven]

romance with who?

[twin pebble]

I'm waiting for the Richter romance mod. We will go settle down I'm Limansk

[knotty onyx]

Mfw Richter cheeki on my breeki until an emission occurred in the zone

[warped monolith]

[pale haven]

well he is a polite one

[kindred violet]

I mean, that scar tho, sheesh

[twin pebble]

I bet he smells great

[brisk gate]

Is there a good modpack for stalker 2 or one that feels like gamma?

[heavy marten]

I discovered a way to quickly take tasks via PDA on J, now I can't exit this page in PDA. Please help.

[remote eagle]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/969924176842473482

[frigid narwhal]

Unfortunately, agree. Spent like 20h trying to find vibe in that game, but still no luck. And bugs make it even worse

[knotty onyx]

OXA prototype is pretty cool but it's unfinished.

[brisk gate]

I will give it a look, thank you

btw, where can I find it?

[knotty onyx]

Nexus

[brisk gate]

Ty

[marsh niche]

anyone know which weapon can attach Cortex optic LPVO?

[subtle compass]

Wrong channel. But I think the VSSK Vykhlop can.

[marsh niche]

thx

[meager vortex]

does anyone know why cant i skin or loot mutant in stalker 2

[meager bramble]

its a rare chance to loot a mutant they dont always drop loot

[meager vortex]

if a dots there its mean i can loot right?

[meager bramble]

yea

[meager vortex]

but i cant even then

[meager bramble]

you have to be ontop of them

then push F to interact

[meager vortex]

i played gamma that kinda thing exists

but no luck

[icy basin]

Did you do the mission that enables skinning?

[meager vortex]

no

u have to do misssion for that?

[icy basin]

Ye :)

[meager vortex]

what mission can u tell?

[icy basin]

I haven't replayed since January

So idk

[kindred violet]

frankly I haven't had to do a quest to do it myself, but I toss that up to using mods

[remote eagle]

u dont have to do mission for skinning at all lol

its just not 100% that u can loot a mutant

[meager vortex]

cant loot anyway

[remote eagle]

[nova lake]

if you are using a save from a earlier save go to malachite and talk to everyone to trigger the ability
if your save is from the up to date version make sure your files are up to date and that you arent or werent before using outdated mods that mess with player stats
if you can see a loot icon in a mutant but cant loot, thats a tell tale sign of outdated mods
verify integrity of game files

[meager vortex]

who is malachite

[nova lake]

https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/STC_Malachite_(location)

[meager vortex]

so u cant skin mutats from start of game?

[nova lake]

as I said before, if your save was made with an earlier game version and you are still using it you need to trigger the ability
if you are using a save made with the newest version you will be able to do so from the start

if you have the latter, do what I said after the first thing

[meager vortex]

i am also using a mod

[nova lake]

check if it aint outdated, most likely is

[meager vortex]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1475 this one

[nova lake]

i cant see that I dont own a shit-nexus account

[amber sedge]

Can someone give me a hand with a crash, After i go to the station Strelok tells me to go to, I decided to try to escape, but after I wake up with the cells my game keeps crashing, anyone know why?

[strong forge]

dude i got stalker 2 and on the lowest settings i barely get any fps, and wtf are these binding settings, i play jkil and it legit does not support it at all, all my binding do something else that i cant unbind

the most insane stutters ever

[strong forge]

could do with some help

[vital jungle]

you can try to test different performance mods on nexus

[amber breach]

any talks or smth about in makes of stalker 2 quest mods? I mean those like in anomaly where every npc can give u random go kill/bring ect type of quests to do

[kindred violet]

Iirc that's planned to be a feature of the second stage of the zone kit

[amber breach]

😮 if it will have it even for super simple bring me kill stuff it will be amazing thats what I love in stalker the msot random easy tasks to have on side with exploring

[opal vapor]

hoi hoi, any mods that fixes the enemies aim botting and how freakishly accurate and far they can see?

[nova lake]

its on the roadmap

[idle swift]

What i want to know is who did the Ward hire to go paint all the ladders and break able boards yellow?

[slim moth]

npc combat overhaul helps.

[slim moth]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1623?tab=description

[split crown]

thank fuck lol

[split crown]

The zone has many doors, stalker

[kindred violet]

Evidently someone concerned with accessibility

[bronze dew]

i wanna play stalker 2 now

[icy basin]

Leon S. Kennedy did a lot for Ukrainian North

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/leon-s-kennedy-leon-s-kennedy-women-resident-evil-leon-kennedy-resident-evil-leon-women-gif-25703124

oh right, I guess gifs and stuff are still dead

[dense lichen]

You need performance cuz stalker 2 is quite laggy honestly unlike the other,which can run stalker 2

Trust me

I'm lying honestly

[bronze dew]

i check the request, its decent enough for my pc

[dense lichen]

But how old is your pc?

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/resident-evil-4-inventory-eggs-leon-s-kennedy-briefcase-gif-26327693

[icy basin]

Honestly wait for UE5.5.4 update

[split crown]

if only we had that version of UE5 from the get-go for S2

[bronze dew]

5 years

[dense lichen]

Damn

Hang on brother

DM me

[opal vapor]

Thank you!

[potent bridge]

Su

[strong forge]

how do i skin mutants

[kindred violet]

Not every mutant can be skinned and if it's possible it's quite finicky to find the activation dot

And by not every mutant I mean that there's a chance that it's lootable

[cinder sleet]

Work is so fucking boring I’ve spawn here

I might just redownload Stalker 2 for the fuck of it

[deft crystal]

@mossy acorn السلام عليكم ورحمه الله وبركاته
انا كلمت صديقك العب معاه knights of honor 2 sovereign
وقال انه مش بيلعبها واعطاني الاكونت حقك

[mossy acorn]

وعليكم السلام تعال خاص لان هذا شات للستالكر كاما

[fleet warren]

Hey I have a question about Stalker anomaly I’m doing the main quest the monolith story I just completed the task find the wish granter I completed it but there’s nowhere to claim my payment or next quest location is my game bugged?

[warped monolith]

Try #╟🔰☢newbies-chat , this channel is for stalker 2

[fleet warren]

My fault thank you

[exotic vine]

For me im going to play Stalker 2 after more updates and fixes etc. I liked it but sometimes it felt like a task doing maybe mods fixes that..

[void vortex]

gog gave me 40% dc on stalker 2, do i go for it?

[kindred violet]

Fuck it we ball

[twin pebble]

Damn that's a lot

[stable brook]

yeah fuck it

[molten osprey]

Tbh you wont get a better Discount i think

[void vortex]

Nah, i decided to just let it go, waittil final version release then piraten mod the hell outta itor even get it on 50% or more dc forit

[molten osprey]

Most Discounts on steam were like 10€

[void vortex]

I got my titanfall 2 for free back when no server was up and steam decided to give it for free, and i also got some games on 50%> dc on steam b4 so

Cant rmb which games were they or it

[kindred violet]

Well you'll most likely wait a long ass time for a better deal on a game that is still actively being developed for

[queen elk]

Only steam all other is pirates 😄

[warped monolith]

lmao

[twin pebble]

Hey guys

I have a belly ache

[remote eagle]

[twin pebble]

Who's hotter?

Richter talking about ferris wheels

or Strider while choking you?

[warped monolith]

3rd option: burner anomaly

[lunar pilot]

Can someone tell me if the STALKER 2 situation has improved ? (I mean optimisation)

[slim moth]

well.. wait till 1.6 and see if it fits your needs. if not, wait for UE5.5.4. update around when ps5 version comes out.
There are multiple youtube channels that review the performance on multiple cards. Most of the people in here hate the game, so you're not going to get very good opinions. formulate it yourself.

[vital jungle]

I saw one yt video about performance after 1.5 patch which showed that fps increased

[slim moth]

my base fps goes up every patch. but i do have a 4070. cant speak for any of the other video cards.

[paper python]

why does my MO2 show 669 mods active? fresh install and accidentally disabled all mods. I just renabled all mods and now 669 total

[slender hull]

there arent even that many mods out for stalker 2

[trim iron]

Wrong channel. Try https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/922555488665743391

[signal cargo]

anyone got recommended mods to use with stalker 2 trying to get back into it

[twin pebble]

The one where you can date Strider

[torn ridge]

So...

I've refunded STALKER 2 (for the 2nd time...) because of GSC's inability to improve the NPC AI over the past year... Basically, nothing was fixed, the spawning and shit remains the same.

The OG trilogy has a much better and more realistic NPC AI.

Am I going to hell for this?

[slim moth]

news flash, nobody gives a single fuck lmao

[torn ridge]

that's not the point...

[slim moth]

what you said isn't facts

nice try tho

[torn ridge]

Q is - how the hell are you keeping up with the crappy AI?

[torn ridge]

ZoneSlug has documented everything very well.
Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/@ZoneSlug

Sadly, it is factual information. No fanboy can deny it.

[slim moth]

i do not play vanilla so idk

my AI experience is nothing like vanilla.

[torn ridge]

which AI mods you're using?

[slim moth]

why does it matter? you obv don't care about the game and you refunded it

[torn ridge]

I do care about it, I bought it twice lmao.

[slim moth]

and here you are, queen

gg

[torn ridge]

damn, it feels you were personally attacked. Sorry I hurt your pride.

defending something you don't own, so majestic.

[icy basin]

Idk, I liked the game, barely modded

[slim moth]

if you go to the official stalker discord you will definitely find more people that will shit on the game with you, lmao.

[torn ridge]

I loved the game, absolutely, gunplay, sound design, environments are great.

But I just couldn't get into it due to very incomplete NPC behaviors.

And spawning system is so terrible...

[slim moth]

are you on pc or console

[torn ridge]

I thought GSC was consulting Epic Games programmers on how to tame UE5 :/

[icy basin]

You expect

A LOT

From GSC

This is the very same company that lost its 3-4 main devs a year before Shadow of Chernobyl released because the CEO stole wages and bought a lambo instead

Those devs went and made a far better game - Metro 2033

[torn ridge]

for real? what the actual fuck

[icy basin]

Look up how the dev team behind Metro 2033 was formed

It's got a wikipedia article

[torn ridge]

so GSC CEO is basically a criminal in disguise, since Ukraine had very sloppy employment laws at the time?

[icy basin]

No he's just a regular twat

He named the company after his own initials, took the earnings from Shadow of Chernobyl, and then they still made Clear Sky

He's still in GSC

[torn ridge]

he's not regular... idk...

he made millions of $$ in assembling a team and using it to the MAX, for his economical purposes.

[slim moth]

gsc ceo is a twat that will dumb down a game for a toddler and consoles as long as they make more money.

[torn ridge]

this is what investors and publishers want these days, right?

the humans in management positions who have never played a game in the past 10-20 years

and learn about games from Powerpoint presentations?

oh and from their children

lovely conversation with all of you, Gamma fans

I gotta get back to the rat race now

[remote eagle]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1309526198833119303

[tawny vessel]

Stalker was always dumbed down

[late kernel]

Stalker was always a casual game

[torn ridge]

em... Clear Sky, hello?

NPCs throwing grenades right on top of your head, every goddamn time?

unless you're being /s 😮 which I've failed to understand.

[late kernel]

We call that a "filter"

[torn ridge]

"IQ filter"

as a teen at the time, I loved Clear Sky and how painful it was.

gave a whole different perspective on SOC and COP.
and appreciation for COP's much better game design.

[icy basin]

-# Side-note: IQ score determines how well you can take IQ tests, and should not be used to determine anything really pertaining to intelligence

[remote eagle]

[warped monolith]

even Epic doesn't know how to tame ue5

[nova lake]

yes Clear Sky was casual

[slim moth]

i don't think it's casual at all.

I mean, S2 is.

[warped monolith]

it's definitely not hardcore

[slim moth]

not vanilla nah

[warped monolith]

maybe somewhere inbetween

the only "hardcore" game mechanic you need to worry about in the OG trilogy is repairing your guns and armor

[knotty onyx]

Vanilla Stalker has always not been very different from Far Cry but people refuse to realize this.

[slim moth]

i feel like they are nothing alike.

fallout would've been a better comparison.

even then, still pretty different in terms of overall mechanics. Fallout is way more casualized than Stalker.

Far Cry is hella casualized. Far Cry 6 is unplayable

[warped monolith]

that's... even wilder. Stalker barely has any rpg mechanics

just a quest and reputation system

[late kernel]

Completely different setting and gameplay mechanics

Fallout is nothing alike stalker

[slim moth]

I don't think there's any game quite like stalker tbh

[knotty onyx]

When was the last time you played vanilla stalker?

[knotty onyx]

Look I love stalker but it's just a shooter with a few more mechanics than other ones have.

[warped monolith]

and setting-wise it's basically Fallout with some SCP weirndess

before SCP got popular, that is.

[slim moth]

oh, vanilla stalker 2 kinda plays similarly to far cry now that i think of it. i agree with that. as far as interactions with npcs and story cut scenes, mantling, all that stuff. And most of those things aren't bad. it's just when they released the game with barely any items to make the game replayable. At least they're adding more shit in and modders completely change the game.

[warped monolith]

"completely"
even stalker 1 wasn't "completely" changed by mods

[slim moth]

that's subjective though. i'd argue that GAMMA or Anomaly are nothing like the original games, and i prefer those over the originals. 🤷 vanilla is too arcadey for my taste.

[warped monolith]

that's not subjective at all
They don't change the maps, don't change the npcs, don't change the anomalies or artifacts. There's still a long way to go for either of them to "completely" change the game

and that's not even their objective, at the end of the day

they just took everything that's already there, added a bunch of stuff on top of it and made it a CBT simulator

and that's perfectly fine. but it doesn't "completely" change the game

[slim moth]

The setting and atmosphere are the same, duh. But most of the mechanics, UI, AI, repair systems, health systems, quest systems are completely different or extended

[knotty onyx]

A.R.E.A is the true CBT simulator. Gamma and anomaly are just a bit harder.

Area has a mechanic where you have to keep your money dry lmfao

[warped monolith]

quest system is the exact same, it just has more quests.

A chocolate cake with more chocolate is still a chocolate cake

[twin pebble]

|| does Duga Assault 2 happen after or before the ward assault on malachite? ||

Question about the order of specific missions. I've played the game 5 times but I forgot 😭

[warped monolith]

the repair system from the vanilla games is still there in gamma and anomaly
They added an extra layer for you to make your own repairs but the original system and mechanics were untouched

(which contributed to the horrible item bloat that makes gamma/anomaly shit, but that's another discussion)

[knotty onyx]

After |||if you mean the fight with Faust|||

[slim moth]

i'd rather there be too much than too little. it can be overwhelming at first, but it's not hard to get a hang of once you realize you don't have to pick up every single thing.

but that's a universal complaint i've seen as far as gamma.

[twin pebble]

Thanks you a real one

[warped monolith]

good thing there's a middle ground between "too much" and "too little"
and... "you don't have to pick up every single thing" in a modpack designed to make you suffer through hobo phase for 50 hours thanks to inflated trader prices because of a conscious design decision to make the game "more hardcore" is an insane thing to say imo

[slim moth]

i think hardcore is a stupid buzzword to use for video games

[late kernel]

its not hardcore, its tedious artifical difficulty

[slim moth]

that's most games tho.

souls game abuse the fuck out of artificial difficulty and people love that shit.

I personally can't stand when a boss/enemy can 360 slash and your character cant. the animation looks weird and it just makes it feel cheesy

[late kernel]

Those are the same kinds of people who like to play with arbitrary difficulties set for themselves because ""that's how it should be played and if you dont do the same, you're playing it wrong""

[knotty onyx]

All game difficulty is artificial. The entire thing is contrived.

[twin pebble]

anything that is shy of permanent consequences for poor play/planning isn't really difficultly just tedium.

Grind isn't difficulty, as pointed out already.

I hope to see the new master difficulty or mods in S2 add loose of gear/death count limit.

I don't want to scrounge for 25 pieces of garbage to combine into a functional acog scope that will take 3 irl day, but I do want to be punished for poor planning, pushing when I shouldn't, missing my shots, falling off a building, ect.

[slim moth]

man, play a game how you want. make S2 into Far Cry or make it into tarkov. It doesn't bother me if a person beats a game vanilla or on god mode the first time they play. it's just a single player game and imma try to make it as survival and punishing as possible cause that's my preference, but it's not the "right way to play"

[warped monolith]

not nearly as much as gammanomaly does
it doesn't inflate trader prices just to fuck with the player, soulslikes are very much a game of reading enemy attack patterns and basically a "turn-based" thing of waiting for an enemy to attack, avoid it and then hit it while it's recovering

soulslikes are easy btw, only people who think they're hard are stupid morons who have no clue how to manage distance, positioning and stamina

[twin pebble]

I'm past sircaa/all pre monolith side quests on my unlimited mod ironman playthrough and it has been way more rewarding than just making me look for random shit for days

[slim moth]

I prefer anomaly. Whenever i do gamma, i turn off like 200 mods, so i change the economy from whatever grok does

[twin pebble]

I hate Tarkov for this reason, Tarkov isn't hard, it's just tedious. The hardest thing in Tarkov is actually finding people to kill under the correct circumstances that will fulfill your asinine quest objective.

"Kill 40 people on lighthouse with a SMG at a distance of 40+m in-between dusk and dawn"

Meanwhile there is not central objective so people are incentivized to avoid me unless they have the same quest

[slim moth]

single player tarkov is lit and not as miserable.

[twin pebble]

I can see that, bots won't actively avoid you and are probably easier to find.

But I also love PvP most of the time

[slim moth]

but I still find it hard to play cause I have to pull up a map from a browser to know where tf im going

[late kernel]

Tarkov is a Wiki game by design

your are pretty much fucked without guides

[slim moth]

I don't mind the idea of PvPvE games, but I suck at them. Beautiful Light is another one im looking forward to. it just feels like everytime i get into it, people figure out the meta and it takes the fun out of the experience.

[twin pebble]

I love them but I understand if you dont. The barrier of entry can be very high, especially if you didn't learn from the inception of the game.

I'm super jazzed and keeping an eye on beautiful light.

Pvevp with heavy inspiration from stalker AND they came out and said they want the gameplay loop to be objective focused and not loot focused like Hunt showdown .

I really hope they pull it off. Probably very difficult to make a game of that scope. Rooting for them.

[slim moth]

Stalker has potential to have a awesome PvPvE extraction mode, i think.

wont ever happen. just get knock off games that look like ass trying to be Stalker rip offs

[twin pebble]

Yeah, I wish they would attempt it. Stalker community seems to hate on extraction shooter genre when it's suggested though. But, we can have both.

We will always have trilogy+S2. They won't take that away lol

[warped monolith]

if Survarium hadn't died it could probably pull it off

[late kernel]

When do we ever get extraction shooters with persistent matches and actual open world without stupid timers?

[slim moth]

I think Chernobylite was pretty cool, but it still felt arcadey

[warped monolith]

BSG said they wanted to do that for tarkov, ages ago.
They wanted to have all maps interconnected as a single open world-style map but ofc that promise fell through the floorboards

now there's just the stupid-ass transit system taking you from one map to another

[late kernel]

Eastern European Devs with no skill but big ambitions, classic

[slim moth]

maybe in 25 years.

[twin pebble]

While I will concede Tarkov is special and a pretty good loot based extraction shooter, I think they have a really poor development cycle.

It's top class in its genre because it lacks actual competition.

Problem being developing a game of that scope is probably very expensive and hard.

[slim moth]

Tarkov has amazing detail and clutter to their maps which is why the game is very performance intensive. Smooshing all that into one map seems unrealistic with the amount dev's want to optimize and rely on upscaling

[late kernel]

its performance intensive because the game's code is garbage with no actual optimizations other than downgrades and workarounds

[slim moth]

I updated the SPT and notice a huge performance boost with the new maps. i didn't notice the downgrades, but i don't play it often enough to notice.

i use to get like 50-60 fps in the city level, now it's around 80 to 90 which is nice.

probably just the upscaling tbh

[nova lake]

Stalker is built like an RPG, your player character has various different build possibilities by matching different defense prospects like fire damage or bullet damage etc etc, artifacts also help this, you will level these defenses up as you go along and find better equipment with better statistics, the game encounters are also design like RPG encounters, the economy, balancing is based on RPGs

its not an RPG but its deeply inspired by design

[twin pebble]

I think it's more like a point and click adventure but with fps elements

[slim moth]

It's real-time turn based rhythm shooter

[kindred violet]

It's an immersive sim

[warped monolith]

wack

every game is a rpg because you 'play a role' in every game

[slim moth]

so even if it says it on the steam page, it's still not a RPG?

[nova lake]

I know its a new experience for you but, there are actually people out there that do this!
touch grass that is

[twin pebble]

RPG= Real Player Game?

[steep pivot]

Stalker 2 the goat

Stalker 2 is peak gaming tbh, it just needed more content and it will literally blow every games in history.

[turbid moon]

Maybe but it need optimization 100%

[wanton arch]

It needs a lot of things to be good

[silver orchid]

Well, the first expansion is going to add a lot of content.

[late kernel]

PAID CONTENT

LIMANSK, IRON FOREST AND CNPP, THREE ICONIC LOCATIONS BEHIND A PAYWALL

[silver orchid]

And more.

[late kernel]

https://tenor.com/view/doge-dogecoin-pirate-captain-ocean-gif-16296042634591047056

[warped monolith]

like I said, it's an RPG because you play a role

[golden hazel]

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

[stable brook]

It's really funny how in gamma cats are basicaly just sneaky dogs while in stalker 2 they are legit monsters and an insane challenge to kill

[verbal scaffold]

Does anyone know what happens if you go the prypjat before noon becomes hostile?

[twin pebble]

You can explore

[rotund mantle]

we need S2 cats ported to gamma

[stable brook]

NO WE DON'T

[rotund mantle]

[remote eagle]

damn there is already base buildin mode in development for Stalker 2

[golden hazel]

Oh yeah, battle pass coming soon then

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

[remote eagle]

mod pass more like

[stable mica]

i have reached point of no return, ward is our saviour, the zone is hell...

[stable mica]

..

[steep pivot]

I got my arsed kick by Faust...never go against him without thousands of bullets lol.

[twin pebble]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GfTyqAXOOJg

[steep pivot]

What's that

Next time I'm brining RPG and send him flying next time

[twin pebble]

Defeating Faust with 6 buckshot shells

[steep pivot]

Damn I should have brought saiga then

[twin pebble]

You can do it with any gun really, I just find it easiest with a spread shotgun.

Shoot his emitter, not him

[steep pivot]

I brought maxed out Trophy, Lynx and Nightmare and ran out of bullets due to the amount of bs soldiers they threw on without useful drop of bullets I use. I could have went kharod + Saiga.

[twin pebble]

I wish vanilla balancing wasn't so wacky.

There is like no reason to use 80% of guns

[latent finch]

anyone got a good modlist 🥺

[trim iron]

Didn't you refund it just the other day?

[slim moth]

so weird.

[slim moth]

he bought it a 3rd time

[late hemlock]

why is there a stalker 2 chat but no gamma chat?!?

[kindred violet]

[late hemlock]

how to unbind the disguise key? If i enter "unbind disguise" it gives me "cant find corresponding id for action_name"
IN GAMMA

[kindred violet]

#🔨base-gamma-support

[remote eagle]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1029824156289732649

[remote eagle]

" im communist but 5 bucks is 5 bucks "

[brave moth]

roblox enjoyer, gtfo pls

[icy basin]

Oh that's fun, nobody reported this

[eager solstice]

@blissful python (angela15000) has been banned for reason: Pirated/cracked games "sale" advertisement, probably compromised account

[icy basin]

Wait a minute, they deleted their message

Was that a genuine dumbass

[kindred violet]

Topkek

[queen elk]

in version 1.6, although large, there will be no engine version update yet and you have to wait longer, right?

[summer vapor]

Yes

[queen elk]

sadge

[rotund mantle]

i can't wait for the engine update ngl i think that is when i'll finally replay it

[queen elk]

theoretically it must be a big milestone, but in practice who knows

[rotund mantle]

fr only time will tell i want to have faith but my trust in GSC is a bit rocky ngl lol

[queen elk]

the differences between 5.1 are enormous in graphics, potential and optimization

[rotund mantle]

man i cant wait for much better preformance

[queen elk]

I don't know what your specs are but on 4080 super 7800x3d the game ran well on ultra even in the city at 60fps native dlss quality no framegen with framegen 120fps on city

so I can only assume that the game must be fully playable on a reasonably good PC after so many fixes and updates.

[rotund mantle]

got a 4070ti, i7 12700 it ran decent enough but i dont like using frame gen ngl

[queen elk]

After all, it's a UE5 game, you can't expect it to run well on a 5-6 gen processor and a 2000-3000 graphics card.

many people who complain have something like this

Of course, optimization improvements are always the best, but I personally am waiting for the expansion of the game itself, bug fixes and better A-life, I have no problem with how the game runs

[rotund mantle]

fr tbh i want the 50+ sidequests added back

they cut so much out of the game its barren as fuck

[queen elk]

;P but let's be honest the game looked amazing at launch, after the update it might be even better, I was so happy to have the opportunity to visit such a beautiful refreshed zone after all these years

[rotund mantle]

fr it did look great

[queen elk]

animations are top-notch, shooting is super fun and satisfying

I replaced the RTX 2080 with a 4080s specifically for this game and I was happy with it

and in general I don't regret that I didn't wait for the RTX 5000 because it's the same shit with Mfg x4 and what do I care if I have a frame generator up to x20 with lossless scaling

[queen elk]

I would like to get an expansion of the Duty and Freedom storylines in the DLC

Currently it's practically dead and I haven't even seen the main duty base in the first game XD I had to skip it

Throughout almost the entire game you only interact with Freedom

[undone vessel]

https://youtube.com/shorts/YWAhyzsRhCo?si=6aIOEmYRCq9PLi-Q

[finite needle]

Man I am so excited for the 1.0 release

[thorn siren]

I agree, I actually would have loved like one cutscene where freedom ambushes duty or something and you can choose either to help duty or freedom* and do like a couple of mini quests which don't even have to be related to the main story

[icy bough]

wait there were no nvgs on s2 ? why did they just announce this

[thorn siren]

yup, there was only a flashlight that was about as bright as my lil brain

[icy bough]

[finite needle]

To be fair, trilogy had it but it was just a green filter over normal gameplay

[icy bough]

even more hilarious

[queen elk]

nope I have never used it, even the white 2nd generation night vision device was terrible, it might as well not have been there and I couldn't see anything

I don't know if I've seen worse night vision in any other game than in the Stalker trilogy.

[thorn siren]

you know one thing I really like in stalker 2 compared to gamma

is the interior of the buildings, the detailed furniture and everything
also the open world I guess
man I just wish we could fast forward a couple of years and I could play stalker gamma in stalker 2

[queen elk]

Do stealth kills even work yet? I saw a short on YouTube that showed them working normally and NPCs reacting to the flashlight.

the details and quality of the world's buildings are absolutely top-notch, that's true

Of course, the EU5 haters will not appreciate this and will pretend that it does not exist

[thorn siren]

I mean you can stealth kill if you sneak up on enemies from behind with the knife equipped

[queen elk]

the weather system is also top

I don't know if I've seen more atmospheric and beautiful storms etc. in any other game I've played

anomalies on ue5 are also great

[thorn siren]

I agree, I love the visibility of the anomalies

my #1 priority for stalker 2 would be helmet equip animations, gas mask overlay with visor wiping and #2 for immersion would be playing card games, rolling dice over rubles while sitting at a campfire
or eating/drinking animations at campfires, being able to brew tea/coffee or stuff like that

[queen elk]

Apart from fixing NPC behavior and adding a full-fledged A-life which is disabled, bad balance, bad loot system and too easy difficulty level, the game has a solid foundation to be a goat in the future.

[thorn siren]

agreed, just gotta be patient

[queen elk]

stalker has always been story script game not a sandbox like gamma

[thorn siren]

I really enjoyed my first playthrough, all bugs aside the spark ending was my absolute favorite thing ever

[queen elk]

I don't really care about the lack of A-life

If NPCs would normally exist and live in the 1 location I am in, I wouldn't need more to be happy

100-150m is too low

I don't know what the NPC rendering range is now, but it's definitely too small

so I hope that after the engine update it will move forward more, now due to poor optimization we have what we have

[thorn siren]

I remember going on the toilet in real life while sitting at a campfire in zaton somewhere with a couple of loners, and I had my headphone on, still listening to the game
while I was in the bathroom our campfire got attacked by zombies and the soundtrack I had while taking a dump was insane
when I returned to the game only one loner was still alive but I saved him from the rest of the zombies xD
that was like my first memory of the a-life and I really loved it

it went from stalkers making jokes at the campfire, playing the guitar, to gunshots and groaning zombies, frantic noises, it was epic

[finite needle]

On the positive, the fact that Stalker 2 is a half bust saved my youtube feed from being blasted by Asmongold pretending to like the game

[wet barn]

Doesn’t seem like you can hire guys in S2? Just getting to Heart of Cher after Gamma and Radiophobia

[brave burrow]

I don’t remember companions being a thing in trilogy that’s just a mod thing

[golden hazel]

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

[honest verge]

https://tenor.com/view/gorilla-think-thinking-hmm-what-if-gif-16270296829732390938

[hushed garden]

A-life?

[golden hazel]

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

[terse gazelle]

god forbid they add new mechanics to a new game

[remote eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/old-man-its-peak-its-way-too-peak-its-honestly-more-than-peak-meme-gif-14944785001351870503

[terse gazelle]

keep defending slop

[silver orchid]

HoC is far from be slop but.🤧

[golden hazel]

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

[terse gazelle]

"you dont like the game? you have no life!!"

[slim moth]

it's like the guy who refunded the game twice, swearing it off and still comes here asking questions about the game. either you're interested enough to see where it goes, or you got miserable rage boners you can't help but wave around. nobody cares ppl hate the game. we're obviously waiting to see what it will become with or without mods. unconstructive hate is just boring.

[terse gazelle]

nobody cares ppl hate the game
cant stand me having a different opinion
lol

me when people post in a discord channel:

[slim moth]

it doesn't make sense to interact daily with the things you hate/dislike especially when it's not something very thought out or worth discussing.

[terse gazelle]

daily, i havent said anything in weeks in here lol, you guys are deluded

[slim moth]

You come in here rather often for someone who doesn't like the game.

[terse gazelle]

ok?

[slim moth]

it's weird. i don't go hang out in a Apex discord and shit on the game. i don't like or care for it so i want nothing to do with it.

[terse gazelle]

this isnt a stalker 2 server, dumbass

if you cant stand someone not liking the game, leave

[slim moth]

You don't like the game with mods, why even interact here

[terse gazelle]

?

if youre gonna cry because someone disagrees with you, youre free to leave

clearly youre affected by it

[slim moth]

brother, im straight chillin. I'm just pointing out weird behavior.

[terse gazelle]

no, youre crying and seething

[slim moth]

me so sad sad

[terse gazelle]

stolkor 2 will never be good, you can accept it or not

[slim moth]

mentally unwell.

[terse gazelle]

plebbitor calling others reddit

[slim moth]

do you go to a restaraunt you hate and hang out in the lobby just to talk shit and then just leave?

toxic behavior. i bet you don't put the cart back in the cart rack.

[terse gazelle]

if people are eating shit in a restaurant, i will tell them they are eating shit

[terse gazelle]

waaah toxic behaviour

[slim moth]

why are you at the restaruant in the first place

[terse gazelle]

you are very dense, physically and mentally

[slim moth]

I wouldn't go to a restaurant if it didn't have food that i liked.

You wouldn't have the balls to go up to someone and tell them what they ordered is shit.

they'd look at you like you're a silly nilly goober boober and tell you to fuck off.

cause news flash: nobody cares you hate the game. it's you coming back here to give low iq takes about the game. Nothing constructive.

people talking about subject matter/ something they like
person comes up to the group to literally shit on the subject matter with no substantial value
"u guys should leave if you can't handle people with differing opinions"
-_-

[terse gazelle]

comparing walking to a restaurant to a discord channel, brainrotten

youre tripling down on being one

[terse gazelle]

do you actually have a non functional brain?

[terse gazelle]

you do

this is a stalker 2 channel, not stalker ball sucking channel, if someone dislikes the game, they can say that

the fact that get butthurt about it is your own issue, bitchass

[slim moth]

the mental gymnastics to justify your shitty actions is astounding.

it's hilarious

[terse gazelle]

and whats funny if youre at least 10x as retarded as mbomnis lol

[slim moth]

im genuinely just amused at this point.

I don't hang out places that i hate. i think that makes me way smarter lmao.

[terse gazelle]

keep replying to my messages cuck

[leaden plover]

Choose one:
Skif or Strelok

[slim moth]

im getting paid brother.

[terse gazelle]

i mean cmon

[leaden plover]

You have to choose

[terse gazelle]

obviously strelok

[leaden plover]

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[terse gazelle]

trvke

[terse gazelle]

for being a cuck? good for you

[slim moth]

you talk like a 12 year old

[terse gazelle]

i dont talk like you

[slim moth]

barely.

[molten osprey]

kys

[terse gazelle]

do you walk into a restaurant and tell ppl to kill themselves?

[molten osprey]

Oh i read what you said, its not unreasoned

[terse gazelle]

thats toxic behaviour

[molten osprey]

Yeah it is

[terse gazelle]

some cuck is just mad i dont like the game

if you cant enjoy something without others enjoying it, you dont even like it to begin with

[molten osprey]

You are mad, that some cuck is mad. You see the irony?

[terse gazelle]

im not mad, i want him to keep responding

[molten osprey]

Ragebaiting ruined society

[terse gazelle]

haha, you got me, sire!!

[slim moth]

that was easy

[terse gazelle]

have my reddit gold!!

[slim moth]

those have more value than you ever will!!

[molten osprey]

punctuation marks arent pack animals, one is enough

[low slate]

Who plays stalker2 here, did they finally implement proper alife or nah?

[slim moth]

check out their new roadmap.

[low slate]

They have a road map? Link me

[slim moth]

just look up stalker 2 roadmap on google.

[low slate]

I'm on my phone

[leaden plover]

What the hell are you messing around with here, my friends?
Better tell me what you think about the theory that Monolith is an artificial intelligence

[slim moth]

engine update to ue 5.5.4 prolly when ps5 version drops. 1.6 will be the end of sept with nvg's. stash revamp. probably more a-life updates

[molten osprey]

Theory?

[leaden plover]

(a fact that is canon*)

[low slate]

The fuck, nvgs weren't in the game yet?

[slim moth]

you have mods that added them in for a while. but official ones yes.

[low slate]

Bruh...

[slim moth]

im barely going to use them, so 🤷

[low slate]

By the time the game gets to Prypiat levels of immersion it's gonna be on sale for 5$

[low slate]

Maan did they do the shit thing of making nights bright?

[slim moth]

they'll rerelease it full price for ps6 on UE6 or some shit

[slim moth]

I use DWO and it makes nights pretty dark. They tweaked AI so that it's more appropriate for night time so you can sneak around. flashlight still gives you away.

[terse gazelle]

read your own messages fatass

[terse gazelle]

no

[low slate]

The fuck

[terse gazelle]

you need to understand that they didnt add alife, not because they failed to do so

its a design choice, idk if they will ever manage to make a functional one

[low slate]

Not your message to me, the other one

[low slate]

They literally said in their store page that the game is gonna have fully working Alife, and then they removed that part before launch

It's not a design choice

[terse gazelle]

they obviously threw in any buzzwords that would sell more copies

they deleted the alife from steam, and said some intern made a mistake and typed it in

[low slate]

They never addressed it

People literally called them out on it

[terse gazelle]

i mean the ai isnt good to begin with, you cant expect them to make functioning alife

maybe the modders will make something one day

but that will take years probably

[low slate]

Man is bobbin and weaving the covo

[leaden plover]

Why are you discussing such trifles
let's discuss the plot and lore
I demand the following in the updates:

1. Romance with Dorozhnyuk
2. A trip to the anomalous mushrooms with the Doctor and Strelok, where they will make peace
3. A separate DLC "Fate of the Bar", where this undoubtedly most important point of the Zone could be transferred to the possession of other groups such as - Sin, Black Slugs or Clear Sky 2 2️⃣
   And what would you like to add?

[molten osprey]

People just dont get that alife isnt as magical as it sounds. NPCs in Call of Pripyat just did the same thing every day, going from Skadovsk to the exact same anomaly spot, and sometimes a mutant randomly passed them and they aggrod each other if lucky

[terse gazelle]

a companion dog!!

[leaden plover]

like a Bars

[terse gazelle]

then it shouldnt be so hard to make that, instead you have npcs spawning out of nowhere

[low slate]

Yes, I know it worked like that. But it's that small part that made the illusion of a living world

[terse gazelle]

yea, it was simple but did a lot

if anything they shouldve improved on it further

[molten osprey]

True, but people like to forget that its simple work arounds that made a great feeling. I would also like it back tho. I mean sometimes you actually found some corpse in pripyat of a guy you met in starting areas. Game felt truly alive, but people acted like its magic

[terse gazelle]

they just had priorities somewhere else

[low slate]

That's literally all I want from Alife

[slim moth]

i've had multiple moments like that in stalker 2.

[molten osprey]

I had some moments like that as well, but it was often overshadowed by random guys spawning in behind me where i just walked along

[slim moth]

see, i haven't gotten that bug since like, 1.3. briefly in 1.5.1 or something but, yeah.

[molten osprey]

Like i wouldnt even mind the random spawning if it was done clever, but it was nearly always a pop up in front of me, or people coming from spots i just checked out/walked along

[slim moth]

have you used A-Life Found a Way

[molten osprey]

I finished the game in a rush before 1.3 came out, i was on xbox and feared even more performance issues with 1.3

[slim moth]

oh on xbox

[molten osprey]

My pc too potatoe, had to do play it on xbox

[slim moth]

brother, it is a whoooole different experience

[molten osprey]

Btw, does anybody know if numpad buttons are still hardcoded? some buttons were used to move the camera and i couldnt change that

[slim moth]

i played on my xbox series x and was like, nahhhh.. it felt like i was playing borderlands looter shooter

[terse gazelle]

why tf do devs ever do that, do they ever play any games?

[molten osprey]

Probably didnt expect left handed gamers to actually use the numpad, which i do for example.

[terse gazelle]

ok show me the insults i threw repeatedly beforehand

[slim moth]

i am surprised someone has made a mod for it yet

[terse gazelle]

you being obese is fine, but being a liar is just something else

so smart and quirky!!

[molten osprey]

Maybe if you play the next time you could check if its still like this, Numpad 1/2/3/5 moved the camera. Because if thats not the case anymore, i would actually like to do a new run

[terse gazelle]

yea i did

and i dont see anything

you are fatass

[slim moth]

i got a compact keyboard homie or else i would

[molten osprey]

Compact keyboards scare me, but thats me gaming left handed

funny thing is, im right handed

[slim moth]

numpads are very useful for hotkeys. i've been thinking about getting one for certain games.

[molten osprey]

I grew up playing cod in secret, and since it was my dads setup (he is left handed) i couldnt change controls. Now its hard coded into my brain

[molten osprey]

Games like arma arent even controllable without the extra buttons for example

[slim moth]

i surprisingly haven't ran into too many problems with reforger

[molten osprey]

Oh yeah Reforger is a bit more Streamlined, which is great because it still feels like 100% Arma. I actually played it on Xbox with a controller without problems once i got used to it. Arma 3 tho on the other hand

[twin pebble]

We hopping on ARMA 3 breaking Point?

[molten osprey]

Anyway i did a Post in the communitythingy at steam, maybe ill get an answer till tommorow. I will start the s2 download on xbox over night just in case