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

[warped monolith]

[stoic lichen]

dies of cringe

[tranquil lintel]

finally in game nvgs and canted aiming

[molten osprey]

no fucking fix for the numpad situation

how hard can it be to actually do something about goddamn keybinds

fuck this game

I was so defending of them the whole time, but being too dumb to fix 4 goddamn keybinds in 10 months is EA typa bullshit

[sweet mica]

i am beyond pissed at this new "update"

they changed how my wife looks, I can never look at her the same again, this update is a downgrade (nvgs cool tho)

yo why the actual fuck is this patch going to take me two hours?! why tf does S2 take so damn long to patch?

there goes all my time to play, ill have to go to bed soon

[fading monolith]

How's the new patch ?

[fading monolith]

Who lol ?

[sweet mica]

Harpy, shes mine, my wife

shes so rude to me too, i love her

[fading monolith]

No, she's mine. You can have the gal in rostok

[sweet mica]

Birch? I couldnt care less about Birch idk why

she feels like one of the guys

I like women that are rude to me and treat my like disposable garbage

[fading monolith]

Well, it is the current year 🤣

[sweet mica]

i dont understand

[vital jungle]

idk it took 15 min for me

[sweet mica]

1. fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you
2. are you on ssd? is your ssd mostly full or empty? do you know why this happens?

I have it on my ssd but its almost full, even before that it took forver even for small patches

at this point i feel like i would be better off reinstalling

[vital jungle]

im on ssd 40% full

i think it depends what kind of ssd you have, they have different speeds

[sweet mica]

its at 1 hour 20, i think i will play minecraft while its doing its thang

[vital jungle]

well at least you will be able to play. Yes it took 15 min for me to patch but i cant play anyway because i must wait for Unlimited mod update lol

[fading monolith]

But how's the game now with the new patch ?

[tranquil lintel]

bout to try it with some updated mods, but judging from the modchat things might seem hopeful which has me a little excited

[sturdy heath]

got into dvupalov's lab and now i cant get out

there's literally no exit

can't go out the way i came, the only interactable door is locked.

i love getting softlocked

[tranquil lintel]

could try teleport mod, but I'm not sure if any of them work atm

[sturdy heath]

reloading re-opened the bunker door you enter through,

must've just been a one off thing.

[sweet mica]

from what I heard combat with AI is slightly better, their cover taking behavior and line of sight is better, so stealth at night with nvgs is a lot doable. they have a harder time seeing you if you go into shadows.

i heard with nvgs in certain areas the fps can take a hit. Gonta returns and gives hunting quests.

they added new faces to women sadly, now Harpy is no longer the woman I fell in love with

[tranquil lintel]

enemy weapon attachments and project y seem promising but waiting to see how they hold up to lootable/craftable zone

[sturdy heath]

i wish they kept the trophy as an AK in 7.62x54

[fading monolith]

Wasnt the trophy always an AS VAL ?

[sturdy heath]

in clear sky? the trophy akm.

[sweet mica]

patch is done in ten seconds

i have done nothing in minecraft, builders paralysis strikes again

[sweet mica]

does anyone know how i can make surre i dont have any mods installed so my game will run smoother?

idk if i have any mods leftover that will fuck performance

[molten osprey]

fuck s2

#freenumpad

[sweet mica]

man the performance just keeps getting worse and worse with each update

[white moat]

oh boy

[green pebble]

Hopping in this chat hoping the patch improved performance

[trim totem]

what

[slim moth]

i can't even play the game lmao

[split thunder]

Oh shit they added NVG's?

[tranquil lintel]

canted aiming and improved lasers too

[warped monolith]

yes indeed

[warped monolith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0naul_67_Jw

[white moat]

wait... nvgs were never a thing?

[split thunder]

They appeared on certain models, but they were never smth you could use.

[warped monolith]

some NPC models had them on their headgear but there were no equippable/useable NVGs that you could get.

people got mad about seeing NPCs with NVGs but being unable to buy/get one for Skeefa

[white moat]

updates Stalker 2
corrupted files

[warped monolith]

all while having to use that piddly piece of shit headlamp that produces less light than the wind-up flashlight from Amnesia: The Bunker

[split thunder]

thankfully

[warped monolith]

yea

there was another mod (or was it this one?) that you could tweak the brightness and even the color of the light

[slim moth]

you have to wait till the simple mod loader is updated for that.

[warped monolith]

I can wait

[white moat]

... huh

i shot it and it crashed my game

90% sure its suppose to be fleshes

[slim moth]

that is fucking TRIPPY

boar bandits

[white moat]

THEIR MOVING AHH

[slim moth]

they're LEARNING

[warped monolith]

skinwalkers

[valid basin]

what the fuck LMAO

[teal aspen]

1

[white moat]

hmm yes... auto exposure

[valid basin]

ah fuck sakes i forgot it was that bad in s2

[slim moth]

use DWO's new exposure

[white moat]

oh thats a thing?

[slim moth]

it's in the main DWO file

even better results with U+ Custom Auto Exposure

[split thunder]

MY EYES

[swift delta]

What are you guys talking about

[swift delta]

This looks so immersive

It's like I'm seeing the flash of a nuke exploding 🤯

[rich urchin]

Why can't I send a screenshot?

[buoyant hearth]

Finally nightvision goggles lol

[icy basin]

#⏩start-confirm
Because you don't have the permissions to do so. Take off Newcomer role in the channel above

[rich urchin]

thank you

[icy basin]

Don't ask the same question in three chats next time

[rich urchin]

Does anyone know how to fix these shadows?

[rich urchin]

Okay, I got it

[rich urchin]

I've already changed the graphics in the default settings, but it didn't help

[icy basin]

Dead chat btw, you're gonna have to wait for regulars

[rich urchin]

ok, I'm not in a hurry.

[golden hazel]

Finally, a weapon to surpass sidorovich under the map keeping the xray engine stable

[kindred violet]

Finally manbearpig in S2

[kindred violet]

What on earth lmao, cursed af shadows

[golden hazel]

That's just Lumen doing its job

https://tenor.com/view/mario-unreal-engine-unreal-5-unreal-hire-this-man-gif-2769503345423458224

[rich urchin]

what?

[kindred violet]

It's like your shadows lack anti aliasing

[rich urchin]

I think I've enabled DLS and FSR generation

[finite needle]

The best part about the previous updates is that game now HAS A-life (superior to the og games arguably) and nothing substantial has changed in the overall quality of the game

Hope the new stash rebalance helps with exploration because outside of some hand placed stuff it was never worth it to go check hard to reach stashes

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stay-gold-umamusume-heineken-beer-ステイゴールド-gif-17203209366003823667

[finite needle]

I got nothing to do post SIRCAA but at least now Ivan Ivanovich can go eat shit and die in the Red Forest while I am not watching

[golden hazel]

The only thing to do post sircaa is to delete the save file and start a new one

[finite needle]

||I am thankful Stego is not even out in Japan yet because my ass would fucking roll for her||

[golden hazel]

Probably is already a mod in l4d2, maybe will eventually get added to HoC Tuah

[finite needle]

She of all characters would fit, ngl

[golden hazel]

The bandit leader to end all bandit leaders

[split crown]

Maybe one day GSC will figure out how natural lighting works

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/sonfys-shrek-gif-15350610703372212021

[golden hazel]

Dex were you there for that?

[split crown]

Yes lol

[golden hazel]

[split crown]

I had no idea that was real until I saw yall posting about him

goofiest shit

Eldritch horror Sidorovich is real

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

[golden hazel]

The Eldritch God of Stability, S̴̉̍̔͂í̵̾̌̄d̶̽͒̀̕ö̶́̓̌̌r̸̨̛͔͊o̴̿̉̒̿v̸͇͆͑͋ỉ̵͇̖̼c̵̲̑̚h

[iron prawn]

that looks great to me

[vital jungle]

does Shays Living Zone work with 1.6?

anyone tested?

[tranquil lintel]

I’m using complete and it works for me

[vital jungle]

thanks

[tranquil lintel]

Also anyone using enemy attachments it seems to work fine though it’s not updated. New game start too.

[vital jungle]

do you use Impacts as well by any chance?

by Shay

[tranquil lintel]

I did briefly and it worked but just had some performance issues so I had to scale back my mod list.

RDA works too but headshots make them jump straight into the air when they rag doll at times, makes it a little humorous.

[vital jungle]

i think its vanilla issue, it happend to me few times on 1.5

[tranquil lintel]

Ah, lifts the dreary zone spirits it does

[remote eagle]

eldritch god of rusted cans*

[pseudo falcon]

UPDATE
NVG added lol

btw is it possible to make the damage is dependent on the ammo used instead of the weapon?
on fallout 4, it was possible lel

[rotund mantle]

i really hope so i hate how its done rn it should be balanced by caliber and barrel length instead of this rpg system they got going on

[pseudo falcon]

yeah
its kind of boring after a few runs, just getting the same end game weapons like kharod and dnipro

i want to be able to use any gun at end game

[jovial berry]

lots of mods alrewady do this

like Better Ballistics

[pseudo falcon]

i dont like better ballistics tho

[cunning stirrup]

So, we finally got night vision?

[rotund mantle]

Yes

[cunning stirrup]

Download Stalker 2 back againw

150GB once more

[misty niche]

just found a money glitch

its not very effective but its better than nothing as i cant find anything else

[misty niche]

this is unbelievably relatable

[cunning stirrup]

Is that so?

Nvm then, not gonna waste 150GB of my SSD space

[kindred violet]

[jade harbor]

Why is everyone bald

[cunning stirrup]

Study about codes maybe

[tawny vessel]

Cancer

[kindred violet]

Life-accurate zone

[warped monolith]

holy shit this is worse than battlefield games

and those are bad

[jade harbor]

Truth

Instead of chemo they use vodka

[jade harbor]

Stalker 2 lighting is so weird 😭

Unreal engine 5 needs to go

[warped monolith]

lumen needs to go

[tawny vessel]

Ray tracing the super realistic™ immersive™ future™ lighting tech

[jade harbor]

Ray tracing is so amazing
It looks worse then regular lighting and halfs your fps

[tawny vessel]

Truly a Nvidia moment

[cunning stirrup]

Am I the only one using 9070XT here?

[noble talon]

No

[finite needle]

I have a 5070 and my experience is MOSTLY smooth, except sometimes my FPS goes into single digit when I talk to NPCs.

I commend GSC for finding a way to inject the unreal engine with the same quirks I'd expect from xray.

And people claim this game to be soulless smh my head

[cunning stirrup]

ah tk god i'm not alone

I do not like UE5 engine games actually

but stalker 2 is actually the best UE5 game i ever seen so far

since UE5 usually having troubles with optimization

was using RX6600 so basically always using FSR 3.1 frame generation the whole time so my game looks vague

after FSR 4 released I changed to 9070XT at the same time and FSR4 made stalker 2 totally different

FSR4 actually better than DLSS 4 to me

got 4070Ti before 9070xt and DLSS wasn't better than FSR 3.1 idk why

[gleaming valley]

It was pretty bad on release in places like Rostok, GSC has done a lot to fix it since then

[cunning stirrup]

they did a great job i have to admit

since they did some optimization on sht code game engine to improve the performance

[gleaming valley]

lighting and physics are still pretty busted, the downside to being an early engine adopter

[warped monolith]

I've been told performance was improved back at 1.4 but I was still getting the same frames in zalissya

so I decided to just wait some more

[cunning stirrup]

can't blame that, UE5 is sht enough not mentioning using it on open world game

i forgot if this game actually load the whole area on the map at one time or not tho

[warped monolith]

framerate isn't bad, mind... I get 70s at native 2K resolution

but still...

[cunning stirrup]

well i got 150+ if i don't remember it wrong

guess i need to download the game back to test it and enjoy the night vision

[gleaming valley]

Really? I get alright frames in towns now, the horrific stuttering was eventually patched out. I don't feel any significant drops unless there's an emission going on

i dont think i ever had really bad frames in zalissya, rostok/duga/pripyat were straight awful at release

[cunning stirrup]

places have tons of building

[warped monolith]

I haven't played that long so I use zalissya as the "benchmark"

[gleaming valley]

i had some nasty lag in zalissya before they fixed the post-SIRCAA quest bugs, that pretty much killed my first saveslot attempt until I did some console surgery to 'fix' what broke

[cunning stirrup]

well...zalissya might be one of the smoothest settlement

[gleaming valley]

rostok is the real benchmark

a lot of complex buildings, a lot of people

but still pretty compact compared to pripyat

[cunning stirrup]

Pripyat, with apartments full with Monoliths

like 10~20 monolith on the same floor

same room

and there're 3 apartments around

But surely with every single update the frames getting better even just a little bit

[dim phoenix]

There is no settings to make quick access slots on 4 keys?

[misty niche]

i like it, its cozy there in comparison to most bases

[cunning stirrup]

Just chilling

[misty niche]

also nothing big

[misty niche]

yea

no hordes of mutants no monolith

atleast before some events

[cunning stirrup]

At least before you kill that goofy uh scamer merchant eh?

[finite needle]

GSC move the quickuse buttons from q and e to f1 and f2 and my life is yours

Z and C for leaning might be the worst

[dim phoenix]

Ok but keybinds are a thing I need to redo anyway because they don't have a default for AZERTY, what I mean is no press and hold key 1 to access slot 2

I want F2 to be slot 2

Not hold F1

[finite needle]

that might be harder to do, dunno if there is a patch for that on Nexus because I strictly play vanilla

but I fear it might be hardcoded to ease compatibility with joypads or something like that

[dim phoenix]

It's been a year

That's the sort of thing I expect to be smoothed out after a year of release

T.T

[finite needle]

At this point it's either they don't care, don't want or don't know how to do

I suspect the latter

[warped monolith]

probably that, yeah

[finite needle]

or better, they don't know how to do it without altering too much shit for console

If it really was an easy solution I'm sure they would have already implemented it

Also, next time try not be french, ever thought about that huh

[dim phoenix]

I'll think about it in my next reincarnation

I'm seriously considering buying a qwerty keyboard, but I do need to type french for work on that keyboard semi-weekly, and that would be a pain on qwerty... Maybe I need to keep both but...

Clutter

Well if game engined stopped using the key name instead of the key code we wouldn't have that problem but hey, not everything can be made in a smart way

[jade harbor]

Im too

Pretty amazing card

Also anybody elses game look deep fried and shit after the update

And then crashes

Huh

[warped monolith]

"amazing card" and then this just afterwards

is hilarious

[jade harbor]

Lol funny but sadly not the card this is the only game i have any issues with

No fps drops but for some reason it wants to look deepfried

This game is full of anomalys

[gleaming valley]

you know what's funny is people poo-pooing S2 over stuff like this, but the same jank existed in the OG games and it still exists in anomaly/gamma too

just happened to me today in gamma actually, twice

hell of a lot less stable than S2 too

[jade harbor]

I sometimes see in stalker 2 alot of enemies spawn inside eachother and they can't attack or walk

[jade harbor]

Gamma has been more stable for me no lag or crashes at all yet

[gleaming valley]

my hardware is brute forcing the performance, but it definitely crashes often and that's not a unique problem for me either

[dim phoenix]

Gamma is more unstable than S2 for me

[gleaming valley]

I can't go through an emission in rostok without a crash right now, I have to sprint to garbage if I happen to be in rostok when one kicks off

if you wait too long between saves and move maps it crashes pretty often as well

S2 had some bad crashes on release that are mostly fixed now, I know a couple of crash bugs I submitted were fixed in 1.3 and 1.4

[jade harbor]

Why do I get a good gamma and evil stalker 2 and everyone else the other way around

[gleaming valley]

the jank is part of the appeal, doesnt bother me

i played the OG games at release, what we have now is so much better it's hard to complain

[warped monolith]

true. Shadow of Chernobyl used to bluescreen my PC

I had to revert to 6 month old GPU drivers (at the time) to make it work

[gleaming valley]

soc was actually the 'best' release

CS was effectively unplayable

[golden hazel]

The good ol days

[gleaming valley]

looks like the 'our scripts suck and dont have logic handling for retrying failures when NPCs leave/enter a building and pull out/put away their weapon fails' bug

[warped monolith]

they're playing hot potato

[golden hazel]

This is how a pro plays hot potato

[warped monolith]

since when was the grenade that good? I remember it being pretty shit with awful blast radius

[finite needle]

Man I played them pirated and unpatched, shit's was so immersive it would probably turn my PC into another CNPP

[golden hazel]

I got the lemon scented ones

[finite needle]

Clear Sky remains the only game that actively fried some hardware parts of my PC while playing it, namely a dimm

[golden hazel]

Lore accurate

[finite needle]

if it was the actual cause I will never know, all I know my pc fucking blue screened and after reboot it made the ram is fucked sound, removed the dimm and suddenly it booted again.

and it has only happened with Stalker

maybe it's because I'm old but Stalker 2 isn't THAT unstable. Hell, GAMMA is way less stable and buggier at this point, but I suppose it being free really helps a lot to overlook this kinda thing.

[warped monolith]

[golden hazel]

In terms of crashing, HoC tuah wasn't that bad on release, heck I never crashed on 1.0.0,but memory leaks, the ai constantly breaking when you look at it too hard, save files bricking if you saved during one of the missions, etc that shit was bad

Funniest update was when 1.0.2/1.0.3 broke my save and deleted all the npcs

[finite needle]

I had that in Skyrim around 1000 years ago, when I listened to some dude suggesting to do a save game clean to remove clutter and old mods from a save. It also removed all the non essential NPCs from the game

[finite needle]

Man I studied like 1000 ways to try and fix Zalissya while it was unplayable, and the best one was hope that a group of loners spawns in Zalissya and the Monos pick a fight with them.

or reload game 100000 times until the script thinks you're stupid and lets you win

[misty niche]

no way they fixed the g36

[idle quest]

I just started getting my mods running and the update gets dropped.

[misty niche]

from the g36 to the g36c

[warped monolith]

[misty niche]

someone honestly needs to make a night sky mod to make it more realistic, if it were up to me i'd say there isnt very much light pollution in the zone..

[warped monolith]

yea they should make it darker like the OGs were

one of the things I loved the most about old STALKER is how nighttime was truly dark

[gleaming valley]

I installed uetools and was manually running through some of the scripts to get around all the busted missions I ran into on release, I fixed a few (including this one you mention) but some were just broke

fortunately some other people went through that already and there was enough info out there to at least get started

[gleaming valley]

I was playing SoC at night a couple weeks after release, did 0 research into the game beyond knowing the basics and what was in that big pcgamer article with a snork on the front page cover. Quit the game for like a month after getting into agroprom underground and getting my face ripped off by that bloodsucker down there, squealed like a little girl

[remote eagle]

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

[sweet mica]

the music completes this lmfao, this is 100% slavjank type shit

yo wtf why does a performance mod remove achievements WTF GSC I hate when devs disable achivements

[misty niche]

nvg starts bugging out during emissions

hella cool

[white moat]

wonderful days

[sweet mica]

stalker 2 demake

[tranquil lintel]

Achievement Enabler got your back

[split thunder]

Decided i'd reinstall.

[split thunder]

what in the actual fuck did you do 😭
did you try run this on a switch or smth

[white moat]

this was on day 2-3 of release

[split thunder]

Can't wait until they move to the way more optimized version of UE5.

[white moat]

sure

[white moat]

https://tenor.com/view/ready-laughing-hysterically-now-comes-the-part-throw-our-head-back-laugh-gif-16327206

[warped monolith]

[fallen iron]

_ _
@cold schooner, remove your Newcomer role to:

• gain access to the restricted part of the server;
• ask for help/support with custom modlists (enabled/disabled mods in MO2);
• download additional mods for GAMMA;
• talk in the #╓☢stalker-chat (you'll need to be Rookie in order to post in this channel first)

▶️ Go to #⏩start-confirm to remove the role, but ONLY after you have successfully installed AND launched at least once the mod pack.

[split thunder]

(Ignore the gamma part if you're only here for stalker 2.. but idk WHY you'd be here if you weren't here for gamma..)

[warped monolith]

it's a scambot trying to phish with those images

don't click them

@worn ledge help us

[split thunder]

yeah thats why i didn't click em lmfao

@icy basin

pls kill thx

wtf is the season pass..?

[warped monolith]

future, as of yet unnanounced, DLCs

comes included in the ultimate edition that you bought.

[split thunder]

ah.

I only got it yesterday cause i decided why not, heard i got extra gear with it.

[slim moth]

sick ass s2 multiplayer skins

[split thunder]

I'm curious what extra stuff i get though.

[warped monolith]

there's a line of sidequests unlocked with the deluxe and/or ultimate edition

some weapon skins that you'll be able to use in the upcoming multiplayer mode

[split thunder]

Any armor sets or guns?

[warped monolith]

access to all future DLCs... when they eventually arrive

[split thunder]

cause i heard ult adds some armor & guns.

[warped monolith]

I don't remember. check the steam store page of the game

iirc it's just skins or variants of guns that are already in the game

[split thunder]

Alr lemme go check.

[warped monolith]

so no new content, just... guns painted different

[split thunder]

ult

So i guess i can get my hands on the ward exo.

Which is good, because i only played stalker 2 once on release for a few days then uninstalled to do other stuff. But i'm gonna go for the ward ending.

deluxe

[cunning stirrup]

I personally think Ward ending is the ending Skif wants

[split thunder]

From what i've seen the only literal reason he came to the zone is so he could find out wtf is going on, stop it, then get his house back/a new one.

So it makes sense.

[cunning stirrup]

Yes

And sparkle......they got fancy camo and great armours but nuh uh

Scar is nice to Skif tho

[split thunder]

Scar is NOT the scar i experienced in clear sky.

Man went mental.

[cunning stirrup]

His brain is rot

You just hide the dark side of the zone

[split thunder]

Like i'd rather go with WARD.

ngl.

[cunning stirrup]

I like colonel the most

[split thunder]

At-least he's only a tad bit mental, but even then it's understandable as to why.

[cunning stirrup]

He lost most of his man at the end

Quite pity for Noon...

[split thunder]

And not to mention, skif is a prior Ukrainian marine. So there's a sense of duty there as-well to the WARD path for skif.

[slim moth]

wish there was a noontide option

[cunning stirrup]

I wish there's a route for noontide+ ward

But the reason Noontide against Ward is that SIIRCA using the stone as energy

Also screw you Faust

[split thunder]

Yeah SIIRCA is er..

One hand it's like they're trying to make stuff better for life outside the zone, but on the other hand its the way they go about it.

[cunning stirrup]

Also trying to stop the zone expanding

[split thunder]

Yeah.

[cunning stirrup]

Which means control it

[split thunder]

Like who wouldn't want that?
I sure as hell wouldn't.

[cunning stirrup]

Like the doctor says it's full with unknown

SIIRCA rather let it be all good

[split thunder]

I don't want random ass anomaly's just appearing inside my house, & i don't think anyone else would ethier lmfao

[cunning stirrup]

Clear the dark in the zone? Make the world full with unknown and make it more fun? Nuh uh I'm here to make money and buy a new house

[split thunder]

✅ I'd rather help to make sure the zone DOESN'T expand, & is actually controlled ngl.

[cunning stirrup]

Ward, the best and more reasonable ending

Since control it is much stable compare to.....the other 2 endings

[split thunder]

Yeah.

Like sure, they may do some shady shit. But it's overall better then whatever the fuck would end up happening with the other 2.

[golden hazel]

Shit looks like the battle pass

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

[warped monolith]

[gleaming valley]

I expected the ward ending would be the most normie choice so I went spark first, doing some of the other choices now

spark was very stalker appropriate, left me wanting to drink vodka on the porch steps alone for a while

[misty niche]

i think its like a battle pass for multiplayer in the future or something

[warped monolith]

no, season pass is the future DLCs they're going to release for the game. Not necessarily tied to multiplayer (could go either way)

but there will be one DLC for the single-player story, at the very least

[rotund mantle]

i hope we get to limansk again and i really do hope its more explorable this time around instead of a big corridor

[lapis hornet]

update seems decent

[white moat]

this update killed my wife and stole my dog

[gleaming valley]

they clearly cut some content for places like limansk, brain scorcher, etc as it's setup to easily add them later

[cunning stirrup]

I hope there will be a new mode that you can join any faction you want like Gamma tho

[smoky temple]

Has someone tried fsr 4 on rdna 3 gpu in stalker 2?

[finite needle]

Average Stalker 2 reddit reaction when the update isn't about alife

[finite needle]

I wish there were factions. Right now your choice is only story tied and you get to choose between death cult, bootlickers, zone fucker and SCP containment breach.

I wish we got brownshirts and eco terrorists back

[golden hazel]

The modern zone can't handle the return of Lukash the Infidel

https://tenor.com/view/monolith-stalker-worship-wish-granter-gif-4163859184604151540

[rotund mantle]

I wish clear sky could come back but wouldn't make sense narratively ill have to wait until a freeplay mod adds them back

[late kernel]

And what would they look like, reskinned Spark faction?

[kindred violet]

Monolith two electric boogaloo

[rotund mantle]

good question lol

[late kernel]

The GFY stalker 2 models mod for Anomaly takes the Ward models and reskins them with navy camo for Clear Sky

which i thought looked weird

[rotund mantle]

that lowkey sounds cursed

[late kernel]

I may have a screenshot lying here somewhere

[rotund mantle]

oh man im not sure how to feel about this lol

[late kernel]

Looks even weirder with OG stalker graphics, no? xdd

[rotund mantle]

it does haha it almost feels like its from a different franchise all together

[late kernel]

Every other Stalker 2 models in Anomaly i think fits really well

Its my go-to HD Models

[rotund mantle]

im thinking of adding some to my anomaly tbh

[kindred violet]

That does look weird ngl

[rotund mantle]

has anyone played 1.6 yet? whats the consensus? let it cook for a couple more updates or jump in now?

[kindred violet]

Haven't gotten around to it yet, waiting for oxa to update

[late kernel]

A good step in the right direction but still feels undercooked

and NVGs finally

[finite needle]

Won't feel cooked until 1st DLC

[kindred violet]

I feel like they've been semi consistently stepping in the right direction

[finite needle]

slow progress is better than no progress at all imho

[rotund mantle]

true

[finite needle]

I still think that the game should have been like it is today back in 1.0

if it released like it is now, people would have been still mad but mostly OK-ish I think. The lack of content is still the biggest issue, which at this point I suppose they will fix with DLCs

[late kernel]

Its not 1.0 until it doesnt make CNPP, Iron Forest and Limansk accessible

I'm waiting for the engine upgrade, I don't want to submit my PC to another torturous UE5 gameplay performance

[kindred violet]

2.0 going to be the real 1.0

[finite needle]

Cyberpunk moment

[late kernel]

Historically mid developers making historically mid games and taking ages to refine it?

there is now way....

[kindred violet]

😆

What are some things you'd like in the game?
Apart from better performance and more content in general

[rotund mantle]

atleast GSC is consistent about releasing half cooked games ill give them credit for that

[rotund mantle]

id really like all the cut quests back in

knowing alot of the zone is devoid of any content makes it hard to wanna explore side stuff

[late kernel]

Why not hire actually experienced UE5 engine devs instead of juniors with all that money they gained?

[rotund mantle]

ONG

[finite needle]

Man questions the world of labor

[late kernel]

BECAUSE ITS CHEAPER

[finite needle]

You're not WRONG, but it literally is what it is

[rotund mantle]

i honestly wouldnt have minded waiting until sometime in 2026 but microsoft and shareholders needed those profits asap

[late kernel]

And GSC probably would have gone bankrupt from all those delays xdd

[rotund mantle]

this aswell

i doubt they could last another year with no income coming in i cant imagine dev pay being cheap

[finite needle]

well silksong took like 8 years to make, no doubt at least 7 of them spent concocting the most devious ways to punish the player and 1 to actually make the game

[kindred violet]

Tbf the people who made hollowknight got filthy rich off of it so they very much could afford just that 😆

[knotty onyx]

Doesn't GSC notoriously not pay very well? Like below industry average

[late kernel]

Tends to be the case in Slavic countries

[knotty onyx]

I had heard that even for game dev gigs in Ukraine the pay was low

[torpid relic]

each upate shows more and more that the game really needed just another year in the oven. I assume due to contract from microsoft they couldnt delay it further or really wante to after all the delays.

[supple cargo]

That was pretty much the consensus when people got their hands on the release in 2024. It needed bare minimum 1 more year of dev. Considering they have to deal with a released game to public now (which makes every process longer), we can still count one more year. IMO at the end of 2026 we'll have something pretty awesome

[molten osprey]

fuck gsc, numpad still aint fixed, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[kindred violet]

The numpad odyssey continues

[molten osprey]

discrimination of left handed smh

[white moat]

imagine using a numpad

[kindred violet]

Numpads are based

[remote eagle]

im left handed and still playing on wasd

[molten osprey]

Im not even left handed, just play games left handed

[remote eagle]

[molten osprey]

and mostly shooters at that, when i still played lol i played it like everyone else

[gray tulip]

is there like a mod that takes UE5 out of stalker2? tyvm

[nova lake]

bc they work for Epic Games, on the UE and are pay'd more than any game dev is gonna be pay'd

[molten osprey]

why not just not hardcode the fucking numpad

its been a year ARGH

[torpid relic]

Just delete the "engine" folder

[rich urchin]

What kind of mistakes are these? I updated Stalker 2 to patch 1.6 and now I see this after a couple of minutes in the game

[orchid zealot]

is this your first time dealing with sergiy?

Sergiy is known for 3 things, his ferrari(s), his pepsi addiction, and making terrible decisions as far as team management goes.

[warped monolith]

welcome back, forest

[kindred violet]

Lmao

[late kernel]

Sergiy Grygorovych left the scene for personal reasons when GSC Game World dissolved in 2011.
Then his brother became the new CEO when the company re-opened in 2014.

Slavic company leaders being greedy, oligarch scumbags isn't really a new concept to me

[warped monolith]

regardless, only one former user of this channel used to yap constantly and consistently about Sergiy

[late kernel]

rent free

[kindred violet]

fucker ought to at least pay rent huh

[finite needle]

one more ferrari for grig

[golden hazel]

They're still around, making something, likely in limansk since it's the only thing that would make sense why they'd be searching a factory where there's a leash controller at

[reef ore]

Finally feel like it's time to check this out after the new update. Any recos for essential setting adjustments to make it balanced and enjoyable as possible?

[austere walrus]

yo ive been searching web for a proper overhaul, any tips?

[bronze urchin]

iS tHe gaMe GuD Yet?

Alternatively; I can't play it until I'm home next week. Any initial impressions on the NVG they added to the game?

[warped monolith]

I haven't played yet but someone mentioned it glitching out during emissions

[bronze urchin]

Hmmm

Hopefully just a one-time thing.

Was on my second playthrough and made it to pre-Doctor, but then 1.5 wiped out mod support so I opted to wait until things stabilized. But that NVG update seems like a great time to restart the game and try again.

[warped monolith]

I have the same opinion as you, but I got too many games to play right now

[bronze urchin]

Wish I had that problem lol

Does look like the modding community rebounded pretty well from the 1.5 "wipe"

[reef ore]

Damn, getting above 70FPS reliably with medium-high settings on a 5070ti 12600K setup is hard without some huge frame gen concessions.

[slim moth]

i mean towns I feel like are noticeably worse in frames than 1.5.3. In the zone is higher. The AI feels really good this update.

[slim moth]

you should definitely be getting more frames tho.

got any ini stuff?

[late kernel]

ini mods are as useful as snake oil, this game needs real optimization

[reef ore]

I have no ini stuff

[slim moth]

i only use ini for fov and vsync

[sweet mica]

thats cap, I used an ini mod it gave me an extra 20-30

but yes the game needs actual optimization, its one of the worst performing game ive seen in ages and it doesnt even look that good

[sweet mica]

in what sense does the AI feel good?

my main issue is that the AI is unbearably stupid. I could live with lackluster a-life if the AI wasn't so obviously braindead

[slim moth]

they take cover correctly and they don't push stupidly. the way they aggro seems a bit more appropriate. It's been a long time since i've played with vanilla AI tho. so ik it's came a long way. i've been spoiled with NPC combat and FaW.

[peak eagle]

Anyone else finding anything interesting in stashes? Feels basically the same

Also, save your limited edition energy drinks till you get the Weird Pot, using em while the pot is equipped permanently increase your carrying weight by 0.5kg per can

[warped monolith]

nice

[gleaming valley]

Only stashes generated after the update are affected by the balance changes

[peak eagle]

started a new run for it

[queen elk]

next first bigger update not hotfix is engine upgrade?

[warped monolith]

in theory yes

[white moat]

in theory

[queen elk]

after upgrade engine probably its my first comeback to the game

I might wait another week or two for hotfixes because there will definitely be errors at the beginning

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/tywin-lannister-smart-game-of-gif-1621536806439004878

[late kernel]

You're gonna be waiting for a while

engine upgrades take a year at the very least

If the UE5 devs didn't ignore engine optimization suggestions on their forums it would be even better

[queen elk]

I now how big this undertaking is, do you know how long they have been working on it?

[late kernel]

No one knows, probably a few weeks earlier before it was announced

[queen elk]

we'll wait a bit

After this change the game should enter the early 1.0 phase I think XD

[late kernel]

The game gone gold almost a year ago, now it's on its way to go platinum

[silver orchid]

Heart of Chornobyl 2.0 2 is gonna be crazy.

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/just-a-theory-matpat-fnaf-movie-matthew-robert-patrick-gif-8650789653163891524

[white moat]

even easier not to play

[white moat]

HA

it crashes whenever a bloodsucker spawns

[cunning stirrup]

It sucks the blood of your pc and make it crashed

[radiant aspen]

anyone else feel like stalker is equally either too dark or too faded? anything to help mediate this? i just feel like the image is soooo weird sometimes, like one second it’ll look great and the next it’ll be so ugly

[kindred violet]

Five questions:
Are you playing on an existing save?
Do you have any mods installed?
Do you have mods from the workshop installed?
Did you update your gpu drivers?
Have you tried emptying the shader cache in appdata?

[cunning stirrup]

Those caches and shader files are annoying on UE games tbh

High chance after every update you will crash because of them

[jade harbor]

Since the update for me the game crashes whenever i step outside the building i was in last time i saved

[cunning stirrup]

Maybe caches and shader files causing it

Better hope it's not the save

[quick solstice]

anyone found the door code for the new door/stash above the malachite building? couldn't find it anywhere so I tried to look it up and I can't find any info on it

[kindred violet]

You can use jorics S2 map

[quick solstice]

it's not on the map like i said it's new

you basically climb the smokestack on the west side of the building and loop your way around to it https://streamable.com/oljg0s

[kindred violet]

Hmm, nvm then

But it's very intriguing

[jade harbor]

Could be i might try starting a new playthrough

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/shocked-sunglasses-double-sunglasses-look-remove-shades-gif-17848793

[austere walrus]

https://tenor.com/view/sunglasses-on-shades-look-stare-double-sunglasses-gif-17838198

[rotund mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/sunglasses-on-shades-look-stare-double-sunglasses-gif-17838198

[kindred violet]

https://tenor.com/view/shocked-sunglasses-double-sunglasses-look-remove-shades-gif-17848793

[jade harbor]

Might also try using mods

[rotund mantle]

What mods you thinking about?

[white moat]

I have done all of them, even disabling the mods :D

ima have to verify the game files

[white moat]

6006

[kindred violet]

Damn, rough

[jade harbor]

Im just downloading the most popular modpack rn

Love Nexus making me click download on each mod manually

Very lovely

[cunning stirrup]

Mod manager is no longer supported

Was playing Fallout 4 so it took me a while to look for a new mod management tool

500+ mods need to be downloaded manually

[white moat]

the update failed like three times saying that it was corrupted, just the usual

[white moat]

it works for me

[kindred violet]

You using the old nexus mod manager still?

[livid juniper]

how do you guys think of stalker 2 after current patch 1.6?

[jade harbor]

I can tell the game crashed on launch

[white moat]

barely notice a difference

[warped monolith]

goes hard but the guy is definitely not aiming at anything like that
reminds me of naked snake aiming with his blind eye

[jade harbor]

Or I don't think its my launcher its my dumbass ignoring the modpack saying "wrong game version buddy"

[warped monolith]

happens

[jade harbor]

Ill see if i can fix that

[austere walrus]

i think about it all the time

[finite needle]

Average GAMMA player irl

[jade harbor]

I updated all the mods in the modpack and the game launched fingers crossed

Game crashes when i try to start a new playthrough

I wonder if one can root out what doesn't work

[finite needle]

You can uninstall Stalker, that would solve the issue

[white moat]

^

[kindred violet]

You'll probably have to give it a week for all of the mods to work with 1.6 since it brought major changes to the mod stuff so modders have to redo a lot of sruff

[trim fiber]

is gamma better than stalker 2 ive only ever played stalker 2

[subtle compass]

They’re very different games. Gamma is faster paced. Has a quicker mission/reward loop. Dopamine hits hard.

[warped monolith]

Gamma is a very different survivalist/milsim-adjacent experience

[finite needle]

Stalker 2 is a modernized mid 2000s shooter, GAMMA is closer to a survival/crafting game.

[winter forge]

https://tenor.com/view/neuron-activation-neuron-gif-1455356329209493514

[white moat]

different gameplay styles and can not be compared

[peak eagle]

Cuirass exoskeleton still ass lol, no option to install servos

[rotund mantle]

Gamma is its own thing imo its hard to compare it to the trilogy or stalker 2

[peak eagle]

why does this exo exist anyway

[warped monolith]

there was a whole lecture-style video on why games need to have "bad items"

Imma try to find it

but... yea there's a practical reason, trust

[peak eagle]

I'm pretty sure upgrade paths on suits were revamped too, it was an attractive exo you can use early on if you used upgrades right until you get to pripyat for everything else, but no servos made it complete shit

[warped monolith]

is servos the thing that enables sprinting on exos? I forgor

[peak eagle]

yeh

either way, free cash still for me

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/cookie-run-gif-23428606

[tacit glacier]

"We need to figure out if it'll be possible to make"

Modders: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1656

[warped monolith]

wait

offset aiming can only be used with nvgs in the vanilla game?

[tacit glacier]

Yes XD

[warped monolith]

wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut

[jade flax]

heya guys. just wondering how stalker 2 modding is going. i checked like 4 months ago and the mod collections was rather "simple" is there anything groundbreaking out by now? like content mods or overhauls just like for anomaly for example?

[jade harbor]

How would one figure out what mods are causing crashes to delete them

[jade flax]

i think its just trial and error. thats how it works for the most games xd

[golden hazel]

This is a certified hard coded key binds moment

[jade flax]

install mods slowly and start ur game to check if everything works every 2 or 5 mods u install

thats how i do it atleast

[jade harbor]

For some reason the crash report dosent want to tell me the file that is the problem

https://tenor.com/view/saulglvr-wheres-my-daughter-prisoners-gif-silly-billy-gif-12900571812535623850

WHAT FILE

[tacit glacier]

Lootable Zone adds a heckton of new items
Craftable Zone adds crafting
Base Building and Temperature System adds base building, temp, thirst, wetness and other mechanics
OXA had nightvision but that's part of the base game now in a more official way.
What else can I say?

Oh yeah people also added a bunch of guns already.
Mostly pistols and a few shotguns.

[wise zinc]

is S2 saved yet

[quick solstice]

thanks for the reply but i was more curious as to where the code was since i know a few of them can be locked behind story events like the one at the chemical plant

[finite needle]

Aren't we dramatic today

[white moat]

it’s a joke code, it’s not the actual code

[wise zinc]

yes

jk i like the game

i mean as in has it been fixed performance wise

[finite needle]

Not really then

[wise zinc]

1984

[white moat]

no, it killed my dog and kidnapped my gecko

[wise zinc]

did it take the beer?

[quick solstice]

ah ok, i didn't have time to check until now. the room is very curious and i'm wondering if there's a new sidequest for it as you can see into it from the other side and there's a laptop you can interact with

[peak eagle]

I found the Paired Kharod Mag in Truck Cemetery, on the helicopter obstacle

Found this in the keycoded room, in the structure on the waterside near Yantar

||5578|| is the passcode

[cunning stirrup]

ahhhhh ||basically a cheat code||

[cunning stirrup]

._.

i thought the patch note told us it's not recommended to use mods on 1.6?

[warped monolith]

[white moat]

I read the patch note and chose to ignore it

[warped monolith]

[kindred violet]

it recommends to be careful when using mods as it can break the game, especially when it's been updated and you might be using out of date mods :)

[split crown]

listen, small indie dev team, pls undastand

[split crown]

no

[split thunder]

This SSP SIRCAA suit is actually insane stat wise. Got every stat at tier 4 rn.

[sturdy heath]

this final large fight is the worst fucking thing so far.

they literally drop you in a box where there are enemies above you with gauss rifles and you get no cover.

that was a ballbuster.

[quick solstice]

yeah i think they're just scriped to 1tap you beacuse there were a few with shotguns that would just instakill me last i did it lol

[jade harbor]

Me no listen to patch note

Me make game work.

[gleaming valley]

That's CYA so you don't file support tickets with GSC when your game breaks when modding it

do whatever you want

[finite needle]

That's a puzzling choice if I've ever seen one, I thought it was only with lasers but is it really only with NVGs? Luckily, one of the few impressive things they've done is that new patches aren't fucking up saves (yet) so I can load a save where I'm loaded, buy a laser and try

[split crown]

I'm not sure, I haven't played S2 since like July or something. I think I'm just gonna fully wait to jump back into the game until GSC finally cooks

so that might not be until patch 2.0 or further beyond

[finite needle]

My bet is DLC=Finished game

seems to be a pattern with eastern european games

[split crown]

can't wait for the DLC to release only to be extremely buggy & broken

[split crown]

Sad if real

[finite needle]

ngl I would be surprised or even sad if this wasn't the case

[split crown]

lmao

[finite needle]

I'll be serious for an istant, people in here has ridicolously high expectations out of GSC. They have never released a polished game, all their shit was buggy, unfinished and scrapped to the bone. CoP was the game they intended to release since the beginning and it's very different from SoC, and even then the game feels cut short

[split crown]

Yeah, I understand.

I don't expect perfection from gaming companies - no matter if they're AAA or indie

but I at least expect said companies to be aware of their own game issues and problems. The biggest component iirc with GSC releasing Stalker 2 when they did was pressure from both Microsoft and shareholders.

because if GSC had full control of releasing Stalker 2 whenever they felt it was ready, it probably wouldn't have been for another year or two at least.

[finite needle]

Game has to come out eventually, even if it's Daikatana.

[split crown]

Also, I think a lot of people have high expectations of GSC due to the plethora of Stalker mods and modpacks currently available and still being worked on/maintained.

So

various Stalker fans probably expect just as much passion and love for these games from GSC as they experience from whatever mods and modpacks they're playing.

[finite needle]

Bro I love GAMMA but in there NPCs are immune to anomalies because they don't know how to make AI work with dynamic anomalies

[split crown]

I'm well aware

[finite needle]

Like, what are we talking about?

It's always been shit

[split crown]

I'm just making a point that can be a possibility for these high expectations

People don't want their favorite game series to go to shit, eh?

So ofc they'll set the bar high for whatever standards they might have

[finite needle]

No that's for sure, just pointing out that mods are not the reason why people expected polish

[split crown]

well

I never mentioned anything about the games being polished

but it is nice to at least be able to run Stalker games

[finite needle]

Fair, I was talking more general and missed the focus

[split crown]

Personally, I'd just really appreciate if GSC can fix the memory leaks that still plague Stalker 2 left and right.

[finite needle]

Me? I'm just happy to have a mainline Stalker game, even though I drop every run after SIRCAA because after that for me it's just trekking from point A to B

[split crown]

That honestly might draw me back into the game a lot sooner if that's ever accomplished.

[split crown]

Dude... that sounds like such a damn drag. I can't believe the game just falls off that hard after SIRCAA.

[finite needle]

It has some moments, but what it feels like a brand new act (namely, Pripyat) is just two quests and then you get to the point of no return

[sturdy heath]

You know.

Despite the fights really sucking hard at times

[split crown]

Tbf, the "decision" you have to make near the end of SIRCAA is definitely a point of no return in its own right lmao. I hated that part so much.

[sturdy heath]

The ||skif ending|| was absolute cinema (big spoiler here)

[finite needle]

ngl up until SIRCAA is potentially very close to CoP in terms of me enjoying the game, I can overlook the lack of factions and stuff because you don't really need them. After, there should be a big war between Freedom and Duty but we see nothing of it, all the talks about Zulu and hints about the anarchist Freedom cell all drop, and you're pretty much only left witht he main story.

[sturdy heath]

Watched the others on youtube, the aforementioned ending i got is the best

I love you ||doctor/faust||

[finite needle]

Story wise Stalker 2 is very, very superior to all the other Stalker games, not that this is a high bar to clear

[sturdy heath]

As rough as stalker 2 is I do hope we either get another or we get more games inspired by it

Stalker 2's story was so good

[finite needle]

btw new patch apparently fixed the conglomerate of alife getting stuck in the palace of culture by making the blorbos that enter it killable by you or NPCs

I do like the ward path a bit more, seems more fitting for Skif

[split crown]

I also like the Ward path more

[sturdy heath]

I like the skif ending more because it has him grow to be a wiser person.

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA WE MUST STEAL THIS GUY'S COPPER WIRE

[split crown]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-chernobyl-btr-gif-16949858010542814228

so real brother

[golden hazel]

Damn ragequit got that quick

[slate ocean]

how to take it?

[vital jungle]

what location is this?

oh nvm

[slate ocean]

gsm warehouse

[vital jungle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcByAF9YUoE

i usually type in google how to find stash + location and it finds it

[slate ocean]

Thanks a lot

[vital jungle]

yw

[bright basalt]

Hello my friends

[pulsar oak]

Any signs of multiplayer yet?

[silk rain]

yo im playing gamma rn and it dosent let me go in the great swamp

[remote eagle]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1029824156289732649 try asking there

[latent finch]

we need stalker 2 gamma

[silver orchid]

No, even don't there a single "MP" in the gamefiles, yet.

[clever ermine]

Is it true?

That Grok himself fixed Stalker 2's mutants?

[summer vapor]

what do you mean by fixed?

[warped monolith]

if by "fixed" you mean "created a cheat that reduces their health by 85%", then yes.
But it's a terribly outdated mod by now. It was made in 1.0

[warped monolith]

They're likely not gonna do anything about the promised MP mode until they fix the most important issues with the game. And it's probably not gonna happen before the PS5 release

[clever ermine]

MP mode? Multiplayer?Stalker?

[clever ermine]

I played 1.5 and mutant still tank but can't fight for shit

[desert arch]

any alternative for Grok's modification that are more concurrent in version compatibility you know of?

[warped monolith]

they announced they'll add MP to stalker 2 'in the future'

[solid ibex]

https://tenor.com/view/jack-tanamen-gecky-incorporeal-gif-21102682

[warped monolith]

... did y'all forget OG stalker had multiplayer

the gamma brainrot is real

[warped monolith]

nope. I don't follow news on these kinda mods

[clever ermine]

If its like every 00's game that just has a shitty Red vs Blue game modes, idk

but if it's like a minecraft server where everyone's playing a part, it sounds cool

[warped monolith]

look at the game... then take a guess

[silver orchid]

In 1.4 or 1.3 the mutants was nerfed, have an better health.

[silver orchid]

Has an artifact-hunting mode and a mode where the player can activate artifacts for generate Anomalies, and interesting maps.

[dapper canyon]

Never knew that where can i access these modes? Last time i was in stalker i didnt see anything like it

[nova lake]

it has Deathmatch TDM and Capture the Artifact
its a fast paced kind of arena like shooter but with inventories and money earned thru kills
quite the good mode

get your friends together for a gamenight mode

[split thunder]

Why the FUCK do majority of the mutants have so much fucking health.

[midnight bronze]

is there a problem with fresh installs of stalker 2?

mine keeps crashing and the file error is this

Fatal error: [File:Unknown] [Line: 878] Could not load section 0 (of 389) of the global shadermap.

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kernel32
ntdll

no mods installed

files verified

figured it out

old mods needed deleted

[quick solstice]

playing on veteran i just shoot the bigger ones with expansive ammo and they just fall over. burer dies to two expansive slugs to the head. if you try to use early game guns with fmj ammo they probably take a lot more hits to kill than normal.

[stoic bridge]

Average stalker 2 experience

[stoic bridge]

Fun fact... the pistol smg out dps a rifle

Cause apperently the pen for a gun is so broken that it just makes no sense lol

The starter pistol is stronger most of the guns lol

Oh wait. I forgot. They changed the name of pen

Honestly if you want to kill mutants fast just rapid fire the spas

[brazen spear]

Ngl... outsider looking in but... STALKER 2 seems to be quite the disappointment. 👀

[stoic bridge]

It really is

I wasn't expecting gamma or anomaly levels of open worldness but comparing it to COP... it's very lack luster

Like I was day one (I have yet to beat the game cause my files keep corrupting; I lasted till 1.3 then just gave up)

It has no soul, it has no real gameplay since you cannot even look far (cause that will break the spawning mechanic; aka no a life), besides the multiple bugs, the save file corruptions is what ultimately makes it a huge dissapointment

Like imagine sinking in hours looking for everything just to find out cause you saved during a mission or something that you didn't noticed, your whole auto save is broken and the last recent save that isnt broken is like 4 hours back or worse you overwrite it

[brazen spear]

[stoic bridge]

Not to mention it's almost been a year and we finally got updated looting stashes instead of the typical drink, food, and ammo combo

I wouldn't be upset if they labeled it as early access but it's not early access and the one thing that I will never let go is....

They tried selling NFTS

Also besides the save file breaking the other thing that made me so upset was the shotgun snipers

How does a shotgun have a farther range then a sniper and how come it can take a qaurter my health

[golden hazel]

[finite needle]

Bro got his save game corrupted and coped about it by writing an essay in italics

[finite needle]

Not that it matters but I love that clip shows the Saiga instead of the Spas

[stoic bridge]

Wasn't it until like 1.4 update that NPCs can loot bodies...

[finite needle]

NPCs can't loot bodies at all in Anomaly nor GAMMA, game just makes them yell at you indefinitely and blocks the funcion

[stoic bridge]

Ya but modern game took that long

Technically we could have them loot but it crashes

[finite needle]

Yeah but modern game has it and other modern game doesn't

instead we got to collect boar asses to craft artifacts

"it crashes" then fix it

[stoic bridge]

Why would I fix it if I'm just gonna dome them if they tried to take it lol

[summer vapor]

That's true only for Gamma

[finite needle]

Fair, I was actually questioning myself while writing it because I haven't played anomaly in years

[stoic bridge]

Anomaly still kinda crashes but no one plays vanilla anomaly so I can't really say anything about it

[summer vapor]

Idk vanilla anomaly pretty stable

[stoic bridge]

Ya but who plays vanilla lol

If you dont got FDDA then life is sad

[finite needle]

Using stability as a pro gamma argument might not be the best tbh

[stoic bridge]

Wha

[finite needle]

or against Stalker 2, I personally had it crash on me like 3 times il like 240 hours

[stoic bridge]

https://tenor.com/view/works-on-my-machine-ryan-gosling-works-on-my-gif-24523830

[finite needle]

I had GAMMA crash on me twice the last couple hours I played it, both time when moving from area to area

[stoic bridge]

The fact that it took how many updates for npc looting and fixed looting stashes is what's the issue

[finite needle]

Hey you stopped writing in italics

[stoic bridge]

Gamma is gonna crash cause you got everyone running different mods

Its like expecting someone to go into the help channel just to find out they need modhelpchannel lol

Not to mention I got day one bias, where the economy was shit and stun locked bloodsuckers were a norm

Plus my 128gb ram mem leak lol

You got hit once and you loose 1000 coupons

[golden hazel]

Saiga, Spas, DBV 12, whatever same thing it's a shotgun

[cunning stirrup]

Only play Gamma for a few hours

But download and settle it cost me a few days

Mostly fixing mods

[finite needle]

Mutants are tanky so that you can spam the shotguns to obliterate them

[golden hazel]

Best part of the game

[stoic bridge]

Also why does a pistol SMG at a smaller caliber do more damage then a rifle in a higher caliber

Why is the starter pistol better then most of the early game weapons lol

[finite needle]

Bro is using talking points from 1 year ago

[cunning stirrup]

Which game and which gun he talking about?

[finite needle]

Stalker 2's starting Makarov was until a couple of patches ago the best pistol in the game due to busted penetration and the fact that it was very serviceable without needing repairs, or having very limited cost as opposed to the other pistols. UDP was notably worse than the gun you start the game with.

[stoic bridge]

Define of couple of patches cause it was still OP since 1.3

[finite needle]

Pretty sure it was 1.4

[stoic bridge]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-bruh-monke-hospital-tubes-gif-6183237396145701176

[finite needle]

it's when they lowered the penetration of 9x18

[cunning stirrup]

Well I alway using Skif's lovely pistol

Since I can't get rid of it

[finite needle]

The 1911 is the best pistol in the game by distance tbh

[cunning stirrup]

But changed to .45 ACP after the new pistol

Fancy look, good damage

Fancy look is enough to me

[stoic bridge]

Ya I dont know why you cannot get rid of it

Someone said cause it breaks the cutscenes

[cunning stirrup]

It's Skif's lovely pistol

His talisman

[stoic bridge]

Then whats the point of other pistols lol

[cunning stirrup]

Make the game having other pistols

[finite needle]

So that you can play with them? I don't get this complaint.

[cunning stirrup]

Besides

Can't get rid of it doesn't mean you gonna use it

[finite needle]

Besides, the revolver and the kora are better pistols anyway

and nothing is stopping you from using a UDP if you so wish

[stoic bridge]

My complaint is that a quest item shouldn't lock you out of weapon choices cause muh space capcity (I know they fixed it but still)

[finite needle]

or the APS

[cunning stirrup]

I like 1911 more then revolver

[finite needle]

It doesn't?

You can equip any pistol you want and the Makarov has no weight

[stoic bridge]

(I know they fixed it but still)

Almost like you dont read

Before it wasnt

[finite needle]

Then why complain about something that's been fixed

Sorry mate, it just feels like you're on reddit fishing for upvotes or some shit

[stoic bridge]

Because its a quest item you cannot remove?

[golden hazel]

Certified Stalker 2 chat moment

Anyway

[finite needle]

The only downgrade that matters tbh

[cunning stirrup]

Scar, from a fking gigachad to a fking psychopath

[finite needle]

I kinda like Spark, I like how initally they feel like just a Stalker who love the zone faction and then end up being a death cult

[cunning stirrup]

But surely

Sparkle got very good armours against mind control

The others aren't bad tho

[golden hazel]

THE SPRITE SUIT SKEEFA IT HAS THE ALUMINUM FOIL SKEEFA

IT STOPS THE WARD'S MIND CONTROL SKEEFA

[cunning stirrup]

Fucking hell your messages are text only but I could hear the voice

Get out of my head Scar

[golden hazel]

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

[cunning stirrup]

Scar is crazy but he's nice to Skif tbh

Remember that mission Skif get out of the underground lab and some sparks waiting on the surface?

Scar 100% sure Skif will kill them all

He believes what Skif can do

[golden hazel]

Scar is probably the most tragic character in the entire zone ngl

[cunning stirrup]

You mean his brain got fk and betrayed by Skif?

[golden hazel]

Even before that

Ever since his beginning as a c-con granite agent

[finite needle]

Reading someone claiming the OG trilogy has a better story than Stalker 2 is a pretty good way to detect that they're full of shit, works every time

[golden hazel]

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

[quick solstice]

the stalker 2 story is good but I think it suffers from having limited faction interation compared to other open world style games. new vegas clearly is the best when it comes to that kind of stuff but even fallout 4 had at least 3 you could side with. i think they ended up shooting themselves in the foot trying to make these expensive cutscenes for absolutely every story moment and so it got pruned way down to just the two.

[summer vapor]

I wish the story have more quests about hunting for artifacts, more funny moments, interactions

[cunning stirrup]

Faction interaction is limited due to the story tbh

Because Skif went into the zone just because he wants to get his house back and he doesn't like the zone

Duty trying to wipe the zone

Freedom wants to trun the zone into paradise

Ward is with SIIRCA to control the zone

And Skif is just a Stalker to make money like the others

But surely if there's a new mode to be a random stalker then it will be fun

If you really want me to say then Skif is more reasonable to be with Ward

[split thunder]

Uhm..?

[finite needle]

That's fair, but it's heavily implied that originally you could influence the outcome of the Duty - Freedom conflict that erupts after the facts of SIRCAA, the feeling of emptyness and lack of content in the second half of the game is mostly because that faction interactions were cut. We hear a lot about Zulu heading a hardline Duty faction that wants to go back to their roots, and we know as a fact that a nostalgic, true to their anarchist origin Freedom splinter faction (called Flame) was cut from the game, and was supposed to take over Icarus after SIRCAA.

btw the Stalker space program, the friendly burers, the one armed stalkers and the skadovsk doors being closed haven't really been fixed completely and can still happen

[quick solstice]

just a bandit returning to earth after being sent into orbit many hours ago

[empty wren]

guys, how to make a 21:9 pda?

[tacit glacier]

Shooting star. Was added in one of the earlier patches, lol

[split thunder]

Guess i missed that patch note, was tweaking over figuring out if i was seeing shit or what.

[tacit glacier]

https://www.vxreddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1kkw72y/a_star_is_falling_make_a_wish/
A teaser showcasing the feature 5 months back, just fyi

1.4 I believe

[cunning stirrup]

Hey look

UFO

[finite needle]

The average Stalker 2 player hasn't played the game since patch 1.3 tbh

Half the complaints I read are stuff that has been fixed

it even has alife now, what more do you want?

I haven't seen any squirrel in the game tho

[peak eagle]

Corpse with a decent suit for early game, not sure if its a static spawn tho

[cunning stirrup]

Well I only play 1.4 for a few hours to experient mosin and 1911

So basically yeah I haven't play Stalker 2 truly after 1.3

[torpid relic]

they added SQUIRRELS?!

is peak

[finite needle]

You jest, but they do these little sneak peeks of minor stuff they add every now and then, and they made a post showing squirrels possibly at the lowest the game was in terms of reputation, and people lost their mind

I think it was during the teleport behind you era

[jade harbor]

Why does UE5 insist on hiding what file caused a crash

I hate this engine

https://tenor.com/view/praying-crying-downfall-sad-tears-praying-gif-7785197299162436598

[burnt wave]

How come we don't have a lower weapon mod for Stalker 2 already ? Searched the web for a good 30 mins and couldn't find anything bout it 🙁

[warped monolith]

cuz this ain't a milsim

[late kernel]

That's the least of our problems when it comes to Stalker 2's core gameplay loop

and overall performance and stability

[kindred violet]

for real

can't wait for the day the game actually runs well

[late kernel]

or actually engaging

[cunning stirrup]

Started to think what if Stalker 2 is based on Unity engine

[warped monolith]

looks at Tarkov
... probably not much better.

it's not an engine issue

it's a dev issue

[cunning stirrup]

Nah just curious

Dev did well on UE5 optimization

It's good enough

Although UE5 always having issues about

Crashing

[warped monolith]

depends on the game

never crashed playing black myth wukong for example

[kindred violet]

the UE5 slander is unreal

[cunning stirrup]

Never play wukong

[warped monolith]

I don't remember what other ue5 games I played recently

[cunning stirrup]

Stalker 2/ Wukong/ Silent Hill F/ Border land 4?

[warped monolith]

only wukong

from that list

[cunning stirrup]

Not that many games using UE5 for now

[wooden glade]

Cronos: The New Dawn, and Tokyo Xtreme Racer for me

TXR is very performant with Lumen turned off, but with it on...it's just as demanding as S2.

or any UE5 game that insists on using Lumen really.

[finite needle]

inb4 Silksong is on UE5

[kindred violet]

the silent hill 2 remake is on UE5 and runs well (who would have thought with all the fog)

[summer vapor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQSJ7TEH7cQ

[warped monolith]

someone somewhere mentioned this version has "new UI options", is there any actual info on that? is it even true

I'm wondering if it could be possible to hide all UI elements (muh immershun) but without removing the UI icons for hunger/thirst/sleep/bleeding and other detrimental effects

maybe there's a mod for it

[midnight bronze]

Is there a mod to make late game enemies not absolute bullet sponges without making me die in 2 bullets

Been constantly out of ammo fighting ward bacause the guys in exo suits will not die

[finite needle]

Skill issue, equip M701 and click on their heads

[kindred violet]

currently not possible vanilla, the health widget is tied together with the status symbols

[deep robin]

Anyone suffering the same ugly AO-like shadows in the 1.6 update?

Example videos:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/cxtwtyr2brpiddmpvlr4c/Stalker2-Win64-Shipping_iBxyc8mNPt.mp4?rlkey=mac7ap3b3klpueazvcz9tdnp9&dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g1tjvs9ydn2wvrcnoq4z2/Stalker2-Win64-Shipping_30x5itXu2p.mp4?rlkey=gwyjjst8nceo778yrc5jxikza&dl=0

Is there a way to tone the effect down or just disable this effect? It seems to be turned on when the flashlight is activated

[finite needle]

Yes, that shit isn't going away any time soon

[late kernel]

You're playing a UE5 game with forced lumen, you gotta have to deal with it

[deep robin]

I should not be the only one who is bothered with this shadow effect...

[warped monolith]

glorpshit

absolute glorpshit

alright new idea

a keybind to turn the hud on or off at anytime

this way I can "check my vitals" manually?

[kindred violet]

you mean like the immersive UI mod from skyrim?

[warped monolith]

maybe? I don't know that mod

[kindred violet]

that would be neat

I already play minimal hud, so just the health widget, so i'd appreciate that

[warped monolith]

the idea I had ages ago was
a keybind that would temporarily show the UI so you can check vitals/ammo/compass heading
then after a few secs they disappear again

this kinda falls into 'milsim-ish' territory but it'd also be neat if there were animations showing each check
like check your wrist for vitals (showing health part of the hud)
pulling out a compass to check your heading
and then one for checking ammo by pulling out your gun's mag and checking it/check the shotgun's tube and/or barrel(s)

[austere violet]

! unblock

[fallen iron]

@austere violet, use this guide ➡️ - https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1219466248530690128

[silver orchid]

in some patches (specifically in the localisation files) there's signs of that Zulu and thingis related would return in DLC1.

[slim moth]

i have never seen this before

[slim moth]

They just updated the UI HUD's Auto-hide. I'd also like the HUD Toggle that you speak of. It used to be a mod, but homie removed it during 1.5 :c

[deep robin]

Me neither. This is some new 1.6 feature. It is supposed to enhance the look of the flashlight, creating diffuse shadow corners, but the effect seems to be way over the top as of currently

[slim moth]

you don't have any engine.ini stuff left over right?

[deep robin]

I did a clean install of the whole game when 1.6 was released just in case

[slim moth]

i did too.

Man, that's crazy. i've never seen AO look that bad in s2

Cause im def not getting that.

[deep robin]

Well, it's good to hear that not everyone is seeing this

It makes rough interior walls like caves look very ugly too: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sz9riabvy4cgf969837rf/steamwebhelper_mlbdNuUjLb.jpg?rlkey=6orf7gif1im87oddvdm4rhgd0&dl=0

[slim moth]

i feel like something is borked

it should not be looking like that

[deep robin]

Perhaps I should update my GPU drivers for a starter

Empty the shader cache after that and regerenate

[warped monolith]

that's sadge

I imagine since it doesn't fiddle with ingame content, it should be compatible with newer versions?

or would not require as much updating

could be wrong, of course

[slim moth]

There looks like there's another on steam workshop

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3529888615&searchtext=hud

comments say it's a hit or miss.

[warped monolith]

[slim moth]

this is what i used before he hid it on nexus

[warped monolith]

I'm not gonna assume anything but this kinda thing might not be too difficult to do... right?

[slim moth]

the reason why it was perfect is you could also toggle the compass too. I hate using the compass, but whenever you're doing a quest and you're looking for something that isn't obvious, just hit the compass toggle.

[slim moth]

I feel like it shouldn't be too difficult. I might have to look into it.

Kyne's Peace's base building and temp will have it's own compass items to use

which is what im hella looking forward to

[warped monolith]

I'd rather keep the modding to a minimum for the first playthrough

if I can get a useable UI toggle mod I'll be happy enough

back in 1.0 I was playing hudless but constantly bringing up the menu to re-enable it so I could check my hunger/thirst levels lmao

not a fun way to play.

[slim moth]

The new hud UI is way more tolerable and kinda has it's own toggle "hold R".

[warped monolith]

isn't "hold R" the holster weapon key

[slim moth]

i think it's H

i never use H tho. i just hit the equip number 1, 2, 3.

[warped monolith]

don't NPCs get angry if you wave a gun at their face