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

[ebon pivot]

That's just the base game experience
Lol idk

[slow cave]

Me love door monster

Replace all psyloches with doors new mod

[stuck seal]

new patch looks massive

[slim moth]

gyad damn i love Ace's weathers

[obsidian summit]

1.7 doesnt break 1.6 saves does it?

[trim iron]

Earlier we had bro admitting he's playing a pirated version: #╓☢stalker2™-chat-not-gamma-keep-waiting message

[true yew]

Is the update fr?

[icy basin]

I mean it updated fr fr

Still gonna wait for UE update

[daring ermine]

at what point in the tutorial will the game auto save? ive been replaying the tutorial for the last 3 hrs, master difficulty

[icy basin]

After the shootout

Probably

Actually no, somewhere around anomaly navigation it autosaved

[daring ermine]

Such a terrible design choice. So the furthest I got was the shootout after you hit the first anomaly site. How much after that?

[unreal ridge]

Meaning is not to pay for unfinished product

[icy basin]

Yeah uh, piracy being mentioned is bannable, no matter how you feel about the product

[unreal ridge]

It’s funny tho
That I just used emoji and 2 of you guys already overreacting

And trying to make a drama out of it

Go to police station

Claim your medal champion

@icy basin

Ты еще и русский

Боже

[icy basin]

Aaand?

[unreal ridge]

Та нахуй иди, шо тут добавлять

Нахуй ты вообще играешь в Сталкер 2, он же Украинцами сделан

Вася

[icy basin]

Gets told not to talk about or mention piracy
Goes racist

[unreal ridge]

Твоя интерпретация, это твоя интерпретация

Клоун

[eager solstice]

@unreal ridge (whooshyaheard) has been banned for reason: Bugger off

[trim iron]

Thank god
We don't need 6 year olds with nappy rash

[trim iron]

Says the guy that was so desperate, he pirated it

[tacit glacier]

Stop. He's already dead

I find it hilarious that he is in the main GSC server tho

[daring ermine]

just to clarify, you can only enable immersion mode from the start? or can i toggle it in the pause menu?

[icy basin]

Surely he doesn't pester Russian speakers there

[fluid lake]

Yooo they enabled framegen in the cutscenes

[drowsy umbra]

ok guys question: I stopped playing after 1.4, is it feasable to start playing in 1.7 again?

[split crown]

Seems like a neat update; however, I'm still probably waiting for them to finally update the whole ass Unreal Engine to 5.7 or whatever lol

[finite needle]

From what I've understood no one hates Stalker more than people on the Stalker discord

My only gripe is that Master has YACS incorporated, and I'm tired of the meme Dark Souls save system. It's Stalker, you're supposed to F5 mash smh my head.

Same with Fallout 4 survival mode (the correct difficutly to pick) that lets you only save on beds, which is a stupid idea in a map the size of a small western african country

[daring ermine]

3 1/2 hrs to get past the damn tutorial. This is up there with God of war for most upsetting start to a game.

[fleet umbra]

Literally Black Mesa

1.7 update is good?

[finite needle]

Seems like, I'm trying it for the first time, I haven't played since 1.5. For now all I've seen is that the pigs are much more timid.

Master is apparently there to appease the hardcore GAMMA loving people, seems fine but I'm just not buying the YACS save method.

My biggest gripe with the game (lack of late game content, lack of faction side quests) is still there

[visual minnow]

Game is literally unplayable

[finite needle]

lmao

The good news is that the door can be opened!

Little men doing their little things (the zone now sounds like irl Ukraine)

idk if I like it, every corner there is a fight

[summer vapor]

What is happening there?

[finite needle]

Bandits shooting loners for control of the worst land in existence

alife has now reached Clear Sky level

[warped monolith]

!hasalife

[fallen iron]

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[finite needle]

Big improvement: The mission UI is not taking half your screen anymore

[warped monolith]

[finite needle]

Generally UI is much cleaner and less messy, plus it finally tells you how much helmets are contributing to total protection. After seeing the new UI I seriously don't know how they shipped the previous one and were like "yeah this is ok"

Actual early access game

[warped monolith]

all we need now is exact stat numbers on gear and artifacts

[remote eagle]

1.7 is out?

[lone saffron]

1.7 gud

[remote eagle]

gear has it no? only artefacts dont have it

[nova lake]

DSH is OP2 with NLC7 mechanics

[icy basin]

Ah

[warped monolith]

... what

[nova lake]

basically OP2 but slower and you get less cash

[late kernel]

IT'S STILL NOT CENTERED

[true yew]

This is so nice, I could work with this

I still don't know if they actually rebalanced stash loot in 1.6 cuz they still suck for me

[tacit glacier]

There is a mod for that

[late kernel]

Why do i always need a mod for basic shit like that?

[tacit glacier]

I'd send you a link but cloudflare is fucking up and blocking me from accessing Nexus

[late kernel]

I know about the mod

should be vanilla

[tacit glacier]

True

[brazen nest]

guys is there's some good mod collections now for stalker 2?

[late kernel]

The game just got updated

wait for them to get updated for the new major patch

[brazen nest]

[finite needle]

They fixed it in master mode by deleting like all the stashes, it really is the answer to the question "what if GAMMA but without weapon crafting and with market"

[soft egret]

nah s2 master is nowhere close to gamma

resources are still plentiful, stalker health is the same as veteran, mutants arent bullet sponges anymore too

its pretty fun

about the mutants, idk if they only balanced them for master or if they did for every difficulty

but master is really fun

bloodsuckers impressed the fuck out of me compared to their previous states

[finite needle]

I noticed suckers don't yell anymore, they sometimes just attack

[soft egret]

i had one stalk me after i passed its camp and attack me when i stopped to eat, almost had a heart attack

[soft egret]

they do yeel but it isnt the spam it used to be

[finite needle]

yeah hence sometimes, it's not 100%

[soft egret]

and if you shoot them when they are rushing you they will retreat like they used to do in the ogs

[finite needle]

anyway seems mutant health was nerfed for all difficulties, I have to find a chimera and a giant to chekc tho

[soft egret]

well you did say "anymore"

[finite needle]

fair enough

[soft egret]

yeah me too

but to be fair i never encountered chimeras and pseudogiants in general

i couldnt get pass wild island in previous patches

id get bored as fuck by that point

[finite needle]

Oh to me it happens after SIRCAA

[soft egret]

now its the first time im actually enjoying the game

not to mention the performance is a lot better

i had been testing it for every patch, this one gave me 10 fps and is MUCH more stable

the only gripe i still have is the lighting in the game

idk if its my settings or what

but their lumen is insanely noisy

reflections too

the game just doesnt look good

i know it doesnt happen for everyone so if anyone knows how to fix it id like to know

[finite needle]

Pretty sure the only solution for lumen is the fabled engine upgrade

or just to delete lumen

which is similar in process, I suppose

it has gotten incredibly better compared to older versions, where at low settings it was a pixelated mess

[soft egret]

"bro you could eat sausages it was totally a survival game"

game is a sci-fi arcade shooter with horror elements

[finite needle]

I mean, you infiltrate a military base and kill everyone as part of natural progression, idk how this is survival

[nova lake]

normal day in Romania

wake up, have breakfast sausage, shoot up the military bloc, go to work

[soft egret]

ending of soc making you fight an entire army and jump through portals

its basically resident evil 1

the similarities are astounding

[tame lodge]

How is 1.7 guys thinking about buying

[soft egret]

a lot better

imo its the state the game should've been on launch

[finite needle]

yeah you could say that

[tame lodge]

Sad it took a year and they took it off gamepass too fuckers

[finite needle]

if things go as I expect them to go, maybe 1.8 will be the real 1.0

I don't think the gamepass part is up to GSC

[soft egret]

yeah the game is basically cyberpunk all over again

it took a year for it to be playable

and two years to be good

[tame lodge]

Im one of the few that managed to have a decent experience with cyberpunk on launch

[finite needle]

Oh me as well, but it's undeniable that the game we have now is much better than the launch version

[tame lodge]

Oh for sure

[soft egret]

one thing i always liked about s2 was the guns and skif

[tame lodge]

Eh guess ill buy it

[finite needle]

Wait until it's on sale

[tame lodge]

It is on steam

For 42e

[soft egret]

wait for a sale

yeah go ahead then i guess

its pretty good

dont expect gamma though the main stalker games just dont have the same gameplay

[tame lodge]

Last month i spent so much on games, BF6 and Arc Raiders gonna be nothing left for Christmas

[soft egret]

idk if you played the ogs but stalker 2 plays like them

[tame lodge]

Yeah i did never finished them tho

But replayed them a lot

Tried again with radiophobia 3 but i just hate agroprom and garbage in soc and i gave up

[soft egret]

yeah soc up to the agroprom documents is a slog

i like agroprom underground but thats about it

it really does get better after though

[tame lodge]

Yeah i gotta man up someday

[finite needle]

the most appaling gameplay choice was to limit canted aim to NVGs, I still don't get it, becasue it's also apparenlty very easy to implement in game with very light modding

[jagged cradle]

Good morning, yesterday I installed the Prz mod to get a more realistic view. After playing it for a while, I received an update from Steam. I think it's 1.7, and now the game won't start. What can I do?!

[tame lodge]

Wait till it gets updated to 1.7

[jagged cradle]

I can not play till update ? Beacuse i removed the mod and still not run....

[tame lodge]

Reinstall then idk

The mods wont work until they are updated to 1.7

Which the game is at

[soft egret]

i think i found out, changing eye adaptation levels on engine.ini file completely fucks up lighting in the game, removing it and deleting shader cache seems to do the trick

[warped monolith]

damn
gsc added a booby trap to the .ini in case people wanted to make eye adaptation not shit?

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

[slow cave]

Personally

I’d say play gamma until a life; or dlc

But this update was peak

Performance is fixed for Xbox mainly, and pc is better

And factions plus jog

[tame lodge]

aint a life supposed to be fixed this update

[warped monolith]

not entirely "fixed", but improved.

[slow cave]

No, they added factions take zones

[finite needle]

a life per se has been "fixed" since 1.5

[slow cave]

That’s it they are better but it’s still not a lofe

I need my boys living their lives like soc

(Remove the respawn radius)

Despawn*

[finite needle]

Your bros ain't even alive in soc until you get into level

[soft egret]

does anyone actually believe this stuff happened in soc 🥀

[slow cave]

Tech it didn’t outside the level

But damn the level was full of it

[soft egret]

best alife was clear sky imo

[slow cave]

They should just do it for real

[soft egret]

that shit was insane

[slow cave]

Real

I just loved how alive it felt, even with illusions

It made it alive kinda idk

Weird to describe

[finite needle]

nah bro that shit bricked my save and I haven't touched CS ever since

literally stopped working at some point and blocked progression

[soft egret]

thats half the fun

clear sky is a race against time

[finite needle]

act of faith more like

[slow cave]

[soft egret]

not because you have to stop strelok

[slow cave]

Time

You are the time man

That’s the riddle

[soft egret]

but because you have to prevent 47536145134217 alife npcs from bricking your save

[slow cave]

We need more chaos mods like something where it bricks your game or randomizes people with objects

For 2

[finite needle]

I also loved that time when I picked Duty and Freedom conquered everything just to spite me

but anyway, in all seriousness, alife as it is now it's pretty much on par with old trilogy from what I can see

just, the spawn bubble needs to be larger, but that won't come before the engine update I think

[slow cave]

Nah

It’s good now but like we got a lot to go

Even da dragging I think should make a return

I wonder if they will add it fr

[molten orchid]

1.7 has caused my game to just CTD on boot-up from Steam 🙂

[warped monolith]

could be worse
SoC used to BSoD my computer back then

[molten orchid]

Something to do with my PDA from the error code

Then again, do have mods installed still that havent been updated since 1.7 dropped

[warped monolith]

[knotty onyx]

What were you expecting then lmfao

[molten orchid]

Bruh, literally a perfect game that doesnt break anything at all and just runs buttery smooth, obviously

Is that REALLY so hard?

🤣

[knotty onyx]

No matter how well a game is made it's to be expected for mods made for old versions to cause issues.

[molten orchid]

Pls understand I'm being entirely sarcastic hahahaha

[finite needle]

had this here for a while

[tepid spade]

The only clown here is You and stop being rude to the random people on internet.

Get your emotions in line - the love still exists

[finite needle]

Now, on serious discussion, anyone noticed loss of frames when opening the PDA?

[summer vapor]

It's a known issue

[finite needle]

Suspected as much

Strange no one talked about it. It's not a big issue, I get it, but it's an issue.

[nova lake]

alife is in the game

proper

[finite needle]

I still have that problem where sometimes, out of the blue, when looking at NPCS during dialogues and in settlements my FPS turn so single digits. Maybe downgrading Hair quality from Ultra to High did the trick

[silver orchid]

It was

Clear Sky has offline combat
SoC and CoP doesn't offline combat

[next sun]

apparently they removed power lines asset from some areas lol

guess those were performance eaters

[finite needle]

Yeah I was noticing as well, could be

Considering that shit was moving with the wind

[next sun]

probably some other things got removed on top of that that are yet to be noticed

gonna lmao if it was just the power lines and those things were eating 30% of the fps in every area that had them

[finite needle]

the return of the infamous pot of flower from FFXIV

In short, FFXIV 1.0 had some assets that were too resource intensive for their scope (in this case the flowerpot) and obviously caused strain on most systems. By removing it, the game doesn't lose anything of value AND it can be played by less powerful systems

Pretty sure the power lines had this kind of issue, or it's just anothe rbug

[warped monolith]

he's long gone. destroyed. atomized.

[warped monolith]

now show the ps1 grapes that FFXIV had until recently.

[next sun]

wtf

fucking wild, lmao

[finite needle]

Remember, remember us. Remember, that we once lived.

"recently" it's like 2021, this was patched very quickly during Endwalker, I remember because I was still active back then

[warped monolith]

endwalker is still recent for me

[tepid spade]

Great as he is BANNED in our server as well.

[tepid spade]

What is that ? 😂

[finite needle]

Let's just say that, at the beginning of Endwalker, there was a cutscene where they were showing you all the facilities in the new area - but mostly as a lore building moment. And at some point, they just point on the PS1 grapes, like in your face. Considering how polished the presentation usually is for FFXIV, this immediately caught attention.

[warped monolith]

this also happens whenever they zoom into character's hands. They're EXTREMELY blocky

all the details go into characters' faces but then they constantly have zoom-ins on their hands an shit

[tepid spade]

this is just wild

[river lintel]

What the hell? I wake up to see something I cant read super well and a ban. What did I miss?

[shy widget]

so... how is 1.7? ( i haven't played since 1.0 ))

[icy basin]

Weirdo got mad for no reason

[red grail]

Guys

is it worth the game now?

or i wait till jul of 2026?

[visual minnow]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1271?tab=posts

Just a quick mod suggestion for anyone interested

Cuz i like the mod 👍

[pale island]

Is stalker 2 good yet?

[tepid spade]

I was also his victim 🫡 for no reason

[next sun]

I'd say 1.7 is a good jump in point

This is the minimum the game should have been released at

[visual minnow]

We arent getting a lootable/craftable zone update for a while

[foggy skiff]

So is 1.7 good with a life finally?

Considering restarting whole game. Never finished it due to it not being fun after a while, I heard nvg was added so that wouldnhelp a lot

[pale island]

A life is better now too?

[next sun]

A lot better

[pale island]

Oh same question my b

[foggy skiff]

Its alright I didnt look that 3 people asked the same thing above. Lol

[pale island]

Ill wait a little longer and game it, gonna get back to gamma and if not stay on system shock remaster

[nova lake]

Yes it has alife

NPCs simulate and walk thru the whole map

[foggy skiff]

Finally good god

I still haven't played through originals entirely. I have the OG versions on steam and the new ones, mostly thinking about playing the OG's now, after 2 because of the controller support

With my handheld pc

But ill play through 2 first probably. Already put a huge dent in it but maybe restarting will be worth it. Last question, is optimization better? It was very half and half for me @nova lake

[nova lake]

around 10% better FPS

[foggy skiff]

Good enough for me. Just the frame gen added so much delay it was hard coming from GAMMA due to it

[pale island]

May just download it and keep it ready on lock. Gonna do a fresh save even though I got decently far into it (I think)

[full mason]

I swear to god modders sometimes need to take a de-escalation class. Saying "dont care yous are waiting, ill work at my own pace and work on features i want" is probs the most inflamatory way he could have said that. Its his mod, i get that, dont have to be a dick about it though. Rude.

[trim iron]

You have no clue the entitlement they have to deal with

[full mason]

I work in retail i do, very much i do

[hushed gull]

theres a gazilion entitled ppl acting like theyre owed mods or updates, i guess eventually modders just stop caring about being overly nice

im in an ac modding server and the ammount of ppl that get mad cuz the owner doesnt update his tools to support CRACKED versions is ridiculous

[warped monolith]

this is the best way to do it
the more you apologize and try to pander, the more people will abuse you

[full mason]

de-escalation is not about apologizing. 🤣

[warped monolith]

that's what the other half of my message is for

[full mason]

i can see i am dealing with alot of people who have never had to deal with public

[trim iron]

He's not selling anything. No need to "de-escalate"

[warped monolith]

I work with public. Assuming shit is rude.

especially about people you don't know

[pale island]

I have worked with the public. Modders are internet people that dont really owe anything to anyone, esp if they work for free as a passion

These aren't customers

[full mason]

We can agree to disagree, though that was rude as shit

[warped monolith]

nah, it really wasn't

[pale island]

I mean it is factually rude, but does that matter? No not really

He can be rude if he wants

[warped monolith]

bro's doing something for free, setting his own boundaries isn't "rude"

[full mason]

you can do all that and still be rude 🤣

[pale island]

Actually I reread what he wrote

[warped monolith]

I'm not gonna repeat myself

[pale island]

It wasnt rude

But he is fully in his rights to be rude

[pliant sigil]

So I started playing S2 again because of the new update and new weapons, and my first thought on using Night Stalker is "finally, a pistol to surpass Skif's pistol."

[full mason]

hence why i will repeat myself, we can agree to disagree

[trim iron]

https://tenor.com/view/dont-feed-the-troll-troll-wander-over-yonder-wander-dont-feed-gif-22194047

[warped monolith]

[pale island]

A 9x18 pistol being so broken was bonkers to me in my first playthrough

[next sun]

nothing will surpass skifs pistol

in my heart

[pliant sigil]

I mean Skif's pistol is still useful for bullying burers since they can't yoink it

What's stupid about Night Stalker is how early you can get it and the fact that it beats the fuck out of every other handgun including the ones you get way later in the story

[fading monolith]

How's the game now with the latest patch ?

[pine osprey]

Did anyone else not notice any performance improvements in any of the patches, nor 1.7?

I've been getting the exact same performance as day 1:

2K, Combination of Medium-High settings, FSR 3.1 Native AA, no frame gen -> 50-53FPS. Going to 80-ish with frame gen.

I'm running a Ryzen 7 9800x3D and RX 7900 GRE.

[visual minnow]

I mean, Zuna just kinda seems like an asshole.
He completely disabled comments on most of his mods because he's "tired of answering questions".

As if hes the ONLY person who is able to help troubleshoot.

[visual minnow]

I'm on an RTX 3060 and R5 5600, I've noticed way better performance over the last few updates, I've gained like 30 fps.

[tranquil lintel]

Looks like a lot of good stuff coming tho at least

[visual minnow]

If another update doesn't release that breaks most mods again

[tranquil lintel]

true, hopefully we get some time before 1.8

[visual minnow]

I'm scared of the engine upgrade for 2 reasons:

1. A performance hit to my already bad FPS
2. Mods break again

[tranquil lintel]

i know mhm and some modders are holding off until it's entered its cyberpunk 2077 2.0 status

[silver orchid]

yes

don't has a lot of activity but certainly is great, and well done by GSC.

Still is not A-Life 2.0 tho, but was a surprise by GSC.

[visual minnow]

one of the few times game devs have listened to the community

[warped monolith]

do you think grok is an asshole?
Because he does the exact same thing

[tranquil lintel]

guessing we'll see 2.0 when the expac launches so they see better sales

[visual minnow]

No, because he doesn't lock down the entire server just because he doesn't want to answer questions.
He allows the community to help one another, unlike Zuna has done by locking his comments.

[silver orchid]

In this case if GSC don't hear the community or make shit they are over, they know well it.
Until now they are making good thingis.

[tranquil lintel]

as soon as ppl knew something was fishy with a-life they knew they had to get it together

[silver orchid]

Nah

before of that

[warped monolith]

there's literally a sticker and a bot command to tell people to read pinned messages for stuff that's been answered

[silver orchid]

GSC knew without problems that HoC was unfinished at released and need a lot of work more in form of updates, now they are doing his best attempt alongside they have one or two teams for the DLCS.

[tranquil lintel]

it feels like a very similar experience to 2077, just minus the whole war thing. But I'm glad they're doing their best to push out updates instead of just leaving it as was. Which seems to be the case for a lot of games lately.

[silver orchid]

Imo HoC is better case than 2077 thingi

[full mason]

AA games. AAA is in the gutter, if it doesn't get 5 million active concurrent players its a flop and goes into the bin 🤣.

[tranquil lintel]

that's true, 2077 definitely had some big issues. i think maybe just everyone looking at the state of a-life made it seem like it got as much drama at launch but it wasn't having the same level of issues

[tepid spade]

Get OptiScaler dialed in that way you will have Frame Generation and FSR4 upscaling

[visual minnow]

Nah, I'm getting like 80 FPS average with framegen, I'm good

[tranquil lintel]

lucky, i dont think ill see that much until after the engine update lol, but my hardware is mid

[tepid spade]

How are you getting FG through were if your GPU doesn't support it natively ?
Just curious

[visual minnow]

https://www.nexusmods.com/site/mods/738

[tepid spade]

Thats outdated stuff you can get way better performance.

[full mason]

Honestly stalker 2 was a much better lunch than cyberpunk, issue why stalker 2 gets so much hate is because the stuff missing was that the modern stalker community deemed as the most important about stalker. Remember the game was dormant for like 10 years +. So what a whole generation started with anomaly/gamma etc etc. So when a-life was missing it was an outrage. Meanwhile stalker SOC was basically a linear shooter 🤣

[slim moth]

Based

[visual minnow]

Dont need it

[slim moth]

Zuna is a fucking G

[tranquil lintel]

Yeah def a lot of peeps confused anomaly sandbox with og series lmao. I saws those comments all the time at launch.

[visual minnow]

https://tenor.com/view/it's-called-aura-bruh-smell-stench-unfettered-ass-gif-12449823681038660625

[tranquil lintel]

lore accurate stalker exclusion range

[visual minnow]

https://tenor.com/view/mets-lt-dadan-lt-dan-dan-tampa-gif-4782461553039490262

[visual minnow]

lore accurate bandits renegades

[daring ermine]

master mode only gives you one save slot?

[slim moth]

When your downloaders consistently demand shit that you do for free that they have no clue how to do, you tend to stop giving a shit about what they think and do shit for yourself.

that gamer privilege

[visual minnow]

yeah but atleast give the opportunity for your downloaders to sort issues out amongs themselves, instead of locking the whole thing down

[slim moth]

He has a modding thread on here and the official server that's still open.

[visual minnow]

Also btw I rebought Stalker 2, so now I have steam workshop

[slim moth]

As long as you're constructive, modders will be receptive. but if you act entitled they're not going to give you the time of day.

which is why he locked down his comment section. Too many assholes ruin it for everyone else

[dusty nymph]

Worst thing about stalker 2 is the map changes

[full mason]

?

[tranquil lintel]

yeah, gamewithdave mentioned he had an issue where it became corrupted in some of his testing so hopefully they're working on a fix or adding more slots for now.

theres a mod out that adds back normal saves tho

[silver orchid]

Not exactly

[dusty nymph]

Like did they really need to move radar and army warehouses so far?

[visual minnow]

also, theres is legit no quest that sends you to the Duty area

[tranquil lintel]

honestly it nice to see something other than the same map anomaly and the ogs gave us, and seeing old locations again.

[visual minnow]

you gotta find that shit urself

[silver orchid]

Level designer wanted to do smth and for these two put Army Warehouses more at the north than Rostok sucks

[slim moth]

i noticed that. and it's weird cause that's one of the coolest parts of the map imo

[visual minnow]

also sucks that we cant explore the brain scorcher and miracle machine labs

[silver orchid]

Imo GSC should changed locations like Rostok

[silver orchid]

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

[tranquil lintel]

also you have to remember since it's open world they had to accomodate for some of the travel that would've been just loading screens in ogs

[visual minnow]

they're both blocked off

you can only explore the outside

[silver orchid]

u know what is worse

the Monolith camp on Radar was totally deleted

[pale island]

Did they change locations? Some spots felt off as fuck during my first playthrough

[visual minnow]

which one?

[silver orchid]

A lab, a underground, simply a new location that the level designer would add

[pale island]

It was really fucky trying to intuitively travel

[molten orchid]

We cant get to the lab underneath Brain Scorcher 🙁

[silver orchid]

I think that yes but Rostok should be changed because the level design wasn't good

[molten orchid]

I am pretty stoked for Limansk, whenever they get around to it

[pale island]

Yeah OG games was kinda confusing

[pale island]

Oh theyre adding maps?

[tranquil lintel]

maybe they stuck with the nostalgia factor since it's just as iconic as rookie village

[molten orchid]

Wasn't it hinted that Limansk would come down the road?

[silver orchid]

that at the right side of the map

[silver orchid]

DLC

[silver orchid]

Originally that camp (non rendered) was the OG enter to the X-19 but was moved to the other location, the level designer of Malachite could added smth there

[visual minnow]

also why do my journalist stashes keep duping?

[full mason]

pretty sure the whole dlc thing is suppose to be an expansion on alot of the more dead areas

[visual minnow]

they keep popping back up

[silver orchid]

yes, that's it.

[molten orchid]

PLS

[visual minnow]

will it be a paid DLC, or a free addon like fallout 4's enhanced textures?

[full mason]

the expansion will be well, an expansion

[molten orchid]

I hope its free but who am I kidding

[full mason]

if they add new stuff fair game to charge for it ;D

[dusty nymph]

Will they do a long dark, or will they do a long dark?

[silver orchid]

paid DLC

[molten orchid]

Can they add a fucking SKS pls

[full mason]

I kinda wish they did a winter DLC. Not enough winter survival games.

[molten orchid]

Winter would be veryyyyy cool

[visual minnow]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1719

[slim moth]

currently using this. It's dope. Can't wait for actual snow fall weather

[visual minnow]

any performance change?

[tranquil lintel]

gives me wet & cold skyrim vibes

[slim moth]

I was able to use it on my 4070s just fine. i don't think it made too much a difference.

[full mason]

Seen it, its cool, but you'd need alot of changes, it would be pretty much dlc sized, snow retexture on everthing, alot of gear would need a "warming up" jackets and such.

[visual minnow]

did it decrease or increase performance compared to vanilla?

[slim moth]

oh lord. i have no idea. I haven't played vanilla since launch.

[tranquil lintel]

better, they overhauled the lighting and some shadow systems

[visual minnow]

is there any word on when we can expect the engine upgrade?

[pale island]

You guys ever think there will be an in between for tarkov esq gameplay and stalker like environments/lore

[slim moth]

maybe 1.8

[silver orchid]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1196055973635313754/1264988081342382152/ezgif-6-410a7a9eb3.gif

[tranquil lintel]

gamewithdave says its going to be its own seperate update

so maybe not even 1.8

but likely binos will come with or shortly after

[dusty nymph]

1.8.17.3.11

[full mason]

isnt that just gamma? 🤣 bassicly

just with no people, so a win

[pale island]

Not really, tarkov is such at a unique level, its hard ti copy

[slow cave]

Nah, 100m radius despawn

[pale island]

But that also makes it more Jank. I just love the gunplay which is why I played SPT alot

[tranquil lintel]

watching the rating for this game is like watching a rollercoaster every update lol

[nova lake]

100m radius doesnt despawn enemies from memory, they remain and are simulated, offline alife was added yes

[tranquil lintel]

yes, offline simulation is fully confirmed now

[nova lake]

for the third time

[tranquil lintel]

there's modders that have said as much

[nova lake]

despite the large discourse of Alife, people still dont know what it is 🧎‍♂️

[tranquil lintel]

even before during 1.6 with his living zone mod i could notice it working somewhat, like trader stalkers had pda icons you could see roaming the map in locations farther than 100m

[nova lake]

Shays Living zone didnt add offline alife it extended the chunk loader distance to allow NPCs to walk further

[pale island]

Oh ahit wait

Best question

For stalker 2 eng audio

Is it good or cringe

[nova lake]

are you american

[tranquil lintel]

offline a life had existed prior since 1.5 they just reworked it iirc

[pale island]

Yes

[nova lake]

no, 1.5 didnt have offline alife

1.5 had online alife

its diff

[pale island]

But I am aware most eng dubs in a foreign setting SUCK

[nova lake]

then its good

[pale island]

Or feels weird

[nova lake]

it was made for you

[full mason]

pretty sure there was a-life like initially or something, and they disabled it cuz it didnt work, wasnt that it

i remember something about that

[pale island]

Ah okay. Not all British voices like I saw in the trailers back then? On my first run I went with ukrainian

[full mason]

now they're acctually adding it back in ;D or re-activating it. What ever you want to call it

[nova lake]

Offline Alife pertains to the state of AI where they are acting and interecting in a a place that is unloaded, Online Alife pertains when they are acting and interecting in a place thats loaded, 1.5 made AI better within the Loaded Chunks and got better at spawning them away from you

[visual minnow]

Anyone else noticing that the compass has really low fps for some reason?

[nova lake]

1.7 makes them spawn only at hubs when the ammount of NPCs isnt hit (when a squad dies for example) and has them walk thru the map wether or not the Chunks are loaded

[full mason]

Yes i am aware, but i remember at release they talking about disableing it, cuz there was like npc's spawning on your head and stuff. Or am i mis-remembering and they were talking about pre-release removing it because of that

[nova lake]

that was the excuse, but wether or not is true is up to you

[full mason]

never assume malice where incompetence can be the answer

[visual minnow]

OXA STANDARD GOT UPDATED

[pale island]

Whats that mean

[full mason]

and considering how polished all the previous games and a-life renditions were very much belive that it just did not work

[visual minnow]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/939?tab=description

[pale island]

Ooooo

[tranquil lintel]

i just saw the 1.5 patch notes and they did indeed state that "A-Life changes

Life in the Zone is now simulated for all characters, not just those in the player's view.

Characters continue to live their lives and pursue their goals in the Zone until they meet their end.

The player can meet the same stalkers after some time.

Players may encounter more A-Life characters resting or interacting in various locations, adding to the world’s immersion.

Characters will no longer respawn directly in front of the player. When the player clears the mutants' lair, for example, those mutants won't simply reappear moments later.

A-Life Director will no longer respawn characters at the edge of visualization. Instead, respawn moved further away from the player, while maintaining the Zone's population.

Visualization range is slightly increased. Characters now appear in visualization range with relevant animations and equipped weapons. This reduces the "pop-in" effect and contributes to a more seamless character visualization."

[full mason]

i thought someone posted it already, been playing for 2 hours now 🤣

sorry

[visual minnow]

I'm talking about standard, not prototype

[full mason]

why not the full one?

[tranquil lintel]

a lot more stuff to update

he probably started with the standard stuff first then moved that to prototype to finish

[visual minnow]

cuz buggy, incompatibilities, and i dont like the med changes

[uncut aurora]

how is the new mode in stalker 2

[visual minnow]

buggy, saves get corrupted sometimes, and only one save slot

[uncut aurora]

so nothing good ? i was thinking if i should download it again

[full mason]

I mean there is a mod that lets you save like normal

[visual minnow]

A-life is 10x better now

[full mason]

while you still get all of the other changes

[visual minnow]

thats a plus

[tranquil lintel]

closer to clear sky levels now is the claim ive been hearing

[full mason]

I just want a mod that stops ai from having aimbot, this is redicolous i cant see them with my ak scope and they snipe me with iron sights

[uncut aurora]

but i shouldnt expect like gamma ?

[tranquil lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/terminator-gif-7646648

[visual minnow]

nah

[visual minnow]

https://tenor.com/view/epic-embed-fail-ryan-gosling-cereal-embed-failure-laugh-at-this-user-gif-20627924

[tranquil lintel]

give gamma about a year or so

[uncut aurora]

gamma 2

[tranquil lintel]

anomaly boogaloo

[full mason]

did they release the full dev kit ?

i remember reading that it was very basic at the start

[slim moth]

npc combat overhaul

[tranquil lintel]

its public now

[visual minnow]

think so, but its not hosted for you, so good luck downloading 700 gb

[tranquil lintel]

also modular

think they heard the complaints about the space

i just want them to fix the nvgs so they stop burning the poor npcs eyes during daytime

[full mason]

its dead right now. First thing i tried

[slim moth]

Yeah he’s workin on it

[full mason]

Its fine, aware, new update just dropped. Modders are working way faster than i expected anyway 🤣

[tranquil lintel]

ue5 also means more modders, as much as ppl shit on it

[visual minnow]

For some reason after switching from GOG to Steam, the lighting seems less buggy for some reason?

GPU is def feeling the burn tho 🥵

[kindred violet]

Nice temp

[finite needle]

Somehow, Bubble's quest is still bugged - now it doesn't autofail, but it won't let you pick up the body unless you loot his PDA from his body - there are now 2

[full mason]

these are the biggest issue in stalker 2 why use the same model for scenery boxes. So annoying

[visual minnow]

If stalker 2 gets anything right, its the NPC models

you can see the individual fuzzies and loose threads

[drowsy umbra]

ok so

playing stalker 2 on 1.7 and

is it just me or did the game just got a visual upgrade

the lighting looks much better

[full mason]

horror movie shit

[river lintel]

I think they mentioned fixing some lumen stuff

[river lintel]

Id be so miserable if my mask was pilling that bad. That shit irritates me

[visual minnow]

You're in the zone. You're already miserable.

https://tenor.com/view/huh-cat-cat-huh-small-cat-huh-what-gif-2593177363967991691

[tranquil lintel]

idk its kinda peaceful out here in all the misery tho

but im also a filthy freedom lover

[visual minnow]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-nose-butterfly-dog-puppy-peaceful-gif-14700589898488542320

[tranquil lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/bad-acting-fighting-punching-gif-25489194

Fighting bandits in garbage on my way to rostok

[slim moth]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-dance-ethosaur-nonagon-demolisher-gif-27678955

[tranquil lintel]

when the 4th energy drink hits

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/scar-stalker-pibb-xtra-clear-sky-gif-14605512341377138525

[warped monolith]

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

[stoic lichen]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-cringe-dies-of-cringe-stalker-cringe-stalker-dies-of-cringe-gif-12567984544418047021

[chrome vale]

is it js me or did the new update rly fuck with a lot of shit im getting a ton of visual bugs and like npc bugs n shit now

[trim iron]

Your NPCs shit now?
Do they do it while walking around, like the piss bug?

[tranquil lintel]

you guys cursed me, literally just saw a dude pissing himself waterfountain style laying in a bed

[chrome vale]

do harder difficulties make the fucking anomaly hitboxes bigger

[chrome vale]

poltergiest attacks r js straight up going through walls cool

yeah this is stupid i literally cant beat the damn poltergiest cause it js slings boxes through walls at me

i cant duck behind cover it js goes through

[summer vapor]

Is that the first one?

[chrome vale]

yep

i want to kill one of these things in real life js to get myanger out

i wish chopping off limbs and heads was a feature cause id def drag this things corpse across the zone out of spite

huh and i cant even get an artifact from the nearby anomalies cause the thing glitches into the ground and i cant pick it up

[summer vapor]

Yeah my Rib's artifact was under the ground

[chrome vale]

its rly rly rly hard to enjoy this without the ability to save like i die in all sorts of fucked ways that rly are the fault of shitty game glitches and oh no i have to redo the last twenty mins

[silver orchid]

really passed a lot of time before made that

and i really have the wonder of where is the aggresive russiaphobic content

[summer vapor]

Before there were only discussions, now they have approved it

[icy basin]

Probably the whole bit about removing RU voice over and the in-game radios
But I dunno Ukrainian so I dunno what the songs are about

But also, gonna keep the political bit at this much and cull the topic here

[slow cave]

Tried out a life pretty good

Finally; a life, no matter if it’s a skeleton

Peak

And the performance just went up 22 fps for me whabbada

And ue5.55 should bring even more fps goated

Now where is the skif and strelok sex scene

[icy basin]

That's for Ultimate Edition pre-orders

[slow cave]

Fuck

Can I still buy in or am I… too late?

[icy basin]

Pre-orders

[slow cave]

Or is it now I only get the scar sex scene

Damn it

[silver orchid]

buy a PS5 and but the ultimate edition pre-order

u have time until tomorrow

[slow cave]

Oh wait I have time

Strelok here I cum

[silver orchid]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/632244044910821395/845010495111299122/kazakh.gif

[slow cave]

https://tenor.com/view/resident-evil-4-leon-s-kennedy-robot-giant-robot-salazar-gif-26327695

HOLY SHIT STRELOK IS RUNNING BEHIND ME

THEY AINT LYING

[heavy ivy]

@whole schooner

[river lintel]

Other than clear skies and weapon reposition, what are some really light vanilla + mods that you guys would recommnd for doing a new playthrough in 1.7?

Like, are thetr any good new game start mods/sandbox mods?

[summer vapor]

I'd wait a little bit there are some bugs

[river lintel]

Are there? For what specifically?

[wanton arch]

is a life real

[wanton arch]

wait for more days

usually new update usually come with new change in codes which mean can fuck up mods

for heavy mod gg

Oxa standard is not working fine rn

[river lintel]

Alright. I saw a few that were updated that have been fine. Clear skies and weapon reposition are fine so far

[gloomy sparrow]

any flashlight mods that make it like in GAMMA? I feel like that’s the only mandatory one since the default is actually shit

[whole schooner]

Ti ho scritto in privato

[coarse pulsar]

Hey guys, I have a question: I'm running S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 on MEDIUM graphics settings at 40-50 FPS (with some drops and freezes). Why is that? I also noticed that the GPU load in the game is on average less than 50%. Is that how it should be?

RTX 5070, Ryzen 5 7500F, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM - PC configuration

[summer vapor]

I'm glad there are still non squad stalkers

Interesting situation. It looks like a bandit wanted to loot the corpse, but this stalker on the bridge is standing there to shoot at those who want to take the artifact; no one went there before the Alife update.

[trim totem]

were those dust and embereffects there before

[stark crescent]

What resolution are you playing on?

[tame lodge]

1080p FSR 3 Ultra Performance Lowest Settings

https://tenor.com/view/no-pixels-cant-see-ben-chang-community-ken-jeong-gif-17361588

[late kernel]

All these updates won't fix the retconned nostalgia bait that is Stalker 2's story and lore

[warped monolith]

maybe the dlcs will

[tame lodge]

Stalker Unlimited or OXA Prototype guys

[icy basin]

They did perfectly despite the fact they can't write worth shit

[pseudo falcon]

dafuq is this shit
i started a new run since mods broke
updated the mods that work and remove the ones that causes crash
now im using oxa standard
tried the prototype and i can save as usual
but on standard i cant fcking manual save

[tame lodge]

still in testing I guess

[pseudo falcon]

bruh

[pseudo falcon]

welp
i was gonna play but guess ill just play gamma for now

[coarse pulsar]

full HD

[tame lodge]

so 1080p

your cpu is working more than your cpu

turn up everything on max

[warped monolith]

that framerate on a 5070 at 1080p? Something's gotta be wrong holy shit

[languid turret]

I've heard a new freeplay mod came out in the last week? Anyone played it?

[full mason]

ye its even updated for 1,7 but i dont think there is enough content to justify it

we need like alot more generated quests

[silver orchid]

The next DLC start with a retcon, a good retcon tho.
But I don't think that i will say the same about the rest

[white moat]

insane they are coming out with 23gb of patches still

[warped monolith]

welcome to unreal engine

they're not the only ones

dune awakening had a 1 GB "hotfix" today

[slim moth]

yeah. it's ight.

[languid turret]

Tried it?

[languid turret]

Interesting

If its stable it could be a good base

I reckon it's still good for exploring and shit

[slim moth]

i used it on 1.6 briefly. it's pretty straight forward. just kinda spawns you near the beginning of the game with some gear and you're free to go do some quests.

It's easier to set up than New Game Start, but I like how new game start allowed for different factions/custom iventory

[visual minnow]

How long til we get Body Health System: HoC edition?

UE5 is an unoptimised POS.
DCS, which is a fucking flight sim is 170gb, while Stalker 2 is coming really fucking close to that

[full mason]

that tbh, is not even a UE5 issues, its just that because of the Broadband speeds devs can be lazy now. So you know, file compression is not a thing anymore. All resource files are bassicly uncompressed nowdays. hence crazy size

[languid turret]

You mean you can join factions in the older one?

[silver orchid]

Too, the SDK of HoC has the entire game uncompressed

[visual minnow]

hell, battlefield 6 is 49gb

*without campaign

[full mason]

2 map games, look at the size difference ;D

or kcd2 on crytek

[visual minnow]

but KCD2 is really well optimised graphically

not to mention KCD2 has 2 maps

[full mason]

compression got nothing to do with graphics optimization

[visual minnow]

theres a correlation between game size and graphics

i mean look at the recent resident evil remasters

horrifically optimised graphics, horrific file sizes

[full mason]

correlation/causation. Sizes get bigger cuz bandwith is getting bigger and disks are gone. Its just that at the same time graphics are getting bigger

look at the size of idk skyrim 8k textures.

bigger than base game skyrim on its onw

[visual minnow]

bethesda games are just built different

[full mason]

Litterly just bridge texture in skyrim

the base one is probs like 5mb

[stark crescent]

If GPU load is on 50% average your GPU is bored. If youre on FullHD and cant play on higher resolution atleast turn from medium to high settings and also try epic settings maybe and check your frames and GPU load. you got the newest drivers installed? I guess youre playing with DLAA?

[crisp belfry]

gotta love the new update absolutely messing up all of my mod list

i updated all of my mods and only use ones up to date and my game still crashes

i wanna post my mod list but i cant

lmao

[golden hazel]

one kajillion gigabytes

[golden hazel]

Just wait till the 1st dlc has you play as THE REAL SCAR and he looks more like his CS counterpart and serves Beanpolev's Clear Sky in Limansk and the Strelok ending is the canon one and you get sent to take out Strelok

[visual minnow]

I wana see UNISG become canon

like maybe a special Ward unit

would kinda make sense ngl

[nova lake]

🤮 🤮

[warped monolith]

as long as it's not Sin

[nova lake]

its prob gonna be about Duty and Freedom

since those were the most cut

[silver orchid]

U have:
Ecologists, SIRCAA and Ward

and u want more faction bloat?

[nova lake]

ecologists arent a stalker faction
neither is SIIRCA

shevvi my brother ....

[silver orchid]

Tho, UNISG is a bit similar as for have another scientific group in-game that it's focused on being a scientific group

[nova lake]

hes asking for the anomaly rendition of UNISG not the clear sky Scientific Team

[foggy skiff]

So, stalker gamma vs stalker 2? Lol

I have no finished any stalkers, got far in 2 but due to it being bad i stopped. I probably will keep waiting and try to finish originals before I touch it again.

Im playing the first game on my win mini, pretty cool with controls, even though their aim assist is pretty bad.

[late kernel]

One is made by a bunch of modders throughout 15 years of modding

The other is made by the original developers based on the older games, and not a freeplay stalker mod

Its like comparing a Toyota Corolla to a Tesla

[warped monolith]

JOIN DEWTY

[nova lake]

Gamma is Survival Sandbox Crafting
Stalker is Action Story FPS

if you expect one for the other, youll leave unsatisfied

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-heart-of-chernobyl-сталкер-сталкер-2-stalker-stalker-2-gif-4942242057245832811

[slow cave]

Real question

Why can’t I say anomaly

Like the game; it timed me out last time

Let me try again, stalker anomaly

Wow

And it works now never mind dw gang

Stalker anomaly gamma

[silk moss]

helo guys

[slow cave]

That worked too? Wild what did I get time timed for if that was it

Hello boss

[silk moss]

installing gamma after playing anomaly for thousands of years

should i expect a lot

new things

or no

[slow cave]

Yes and no

Gamma is goated and very diff

But personally add more mods with it like weather and game changers

[silk moss]

i like difficult

[slow cave]

But yes it’s very diff myb

[silk moss]

diff mean different or difficult

[slow cave]

See if there are hard mode mods

Oh

[silk moss]

my english is not good

[slow cave]

Don’t even worry gang

Aren’t we all bad English speakers lol

[silk moss]

probably yes

i guess im gonna download it in russian

easier than english for sure

[silver orchid]

should there a anomaly in-game

called don't have a cinematic of faust and strider having inmersive passion between em

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker2-explaining-gif-25555840

[silver orchid]

My headcanon is that Faust is the man of the relation and Strider is passive

[slow cave]

https://tenor.com/view/blinking-eyes-white-guy-blinking-meme-what-huh-gif-26334322

What?

Myb

[silver orchid]

faust and strider relation is very toxic imo

they love themselves but is a toxic relation

[golden hazel]

[slow cave]

Real

We got two dudes who realize at the end of the day they both live in the zone

[finite needle]

Strider as a bottom is not what I figured out to read while getting here but here we are

Stalker doomed yaoi

[silver orchid]

imagine the potential

• 1 million copies

inmersive cinematics

new mechanics

[finite needle]

Silksong had both doomed yaoi and toxic yuri and it's the goty imho, so there must be some pattern

[slow cave]

Easy

[warped monolith]

or yaoi doomed stalker

[slow cave]

They see a 3 dev team and just disregard the entire work because 3 people

“It’s 3 people guys make it win” it’s amazing don’t get me wrong

But it’s a dlc for a game fr

[warped monolith]

used to be

[silver orchid]

Faust needed Strider on his life, then he activated the Stalking time

[warped monolith]

and hey, shadow of the erdtree got nominated last year

[slow cave]

Used to be for real

Nightreign ain’t good enough to be nominated in my opinion

“But it’s Elden ring” ye been nominated a gajillion times and this is just the metal gear survive mode

[warped monolith]

it's nominated for best multiplayer iirc

it's not like there's a bunch of games to be nominated in its place

and it's fun

and fun is all you need

[finite needle]

Videogames? Fun?

Bro I play Europa Universalis V

[warped monolith]

FFXIV being nominated for best ongoing
after not one but two extremely mid expansion packs

[finite needle]

Hey I liked Endwalker

[warped monolith]

wait a fucking second
clair obscur isn't indie

[finite needle]

It technically is (produced by SQUARE ENIX)

[warped monolith]

it isn't

it's developed by one company
and published by another

not indie

indie = dev and publisher are the same

like supergiant games

[finite needle]

fair point, but it goes against my narrative because I want the bug game to win

[silk moss]

this mediafire shi taking forever

or gofile or anything

torrent for the sake of god

[silver orchid]

Wild Island it's filled of tension

Too, if Foma it's here, what happened to the other of the strider group?

[finite needle]

I love how most of the known bugs for 1.7 can be all witnessed in Zalissya, like the tree of bubbles body or cables

All jokes aside, 1.7 is pretty much the first patch I could consider release worthy, and it came 1 whole ass year after the release

[tame lodge]

things can only get better from here

[tall shore]

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this, so let me know if it isn't. I finally decided to boot up Stalker 2 and give it a try last night. It's basically unplayable for me. I have a 7800x3d with a 4070 super. the audio is choppy. I'm having frame stuttering and FPS issues, severe input lag...Do you guys have any good resources for optimization or maybe mods that will help? I'm blown away this game still runs so poorly a year after release.

[shrewd summit]

Does anybody have FPS drop problem only with the PDA map tab open? I can run the game in EPIC with NVIDIA DLAA (100% scaling) in UW res. with solid 85-95 FPS but only on that PDA tab it drops to 20. :/ v1.7

[brave burrow]

This is a known issue

[shrewd summit]

hm, new to me, i did not have this problem in prev. versions, but thanks for the info

I really hope it will be fixed in the upcoming version

[brave burrow]

#1272487713614073886 message

[shrewd summit]

Nice, good news, thanks again!

[tall shore]

I'll go ask over there. thanks

[finite needle]

Yeah feels like we're finally in the homestretch

1.5 was similarly big as a patch, but this one is the one that makes me feel they are finally getting in control of the game

[steep plank]

is there a "best" collection of mods for stalker 2 yet? i really want to play it but I don't know if i should just mod right away or experience vanilla first

[finite needle]

I just sniped a bunch of bandits while hidden in the grass and it felt good

Like they were not hitting me, only problem is that they were not really hiding, but there was nowhere to hide, so...

idk might be placebo but fiths feel a bit better now that enemies actually MISS you if you're reasonably hidden

[golden hazel]

HoC Tuah finally coming out of early access

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

[finite needle]

ngl Zalissya being much more lively fits better with the theme of the starting area, which is an overpopulated warzone

They definitely improved lightning

[warped monolith]

y'all making me wanna play

[finite needle]

I'd wait next patch or DLC if I were you, the core game is still the same

[warped monolith]

I didn't mind the core game back in 1.0 tbh

bugs and the excessive jank were what turned me off

[full mason]

I mean, there is a reason the term euro jank exists 😂. Stalker has always been janky. Found it weird how people were surprised by that.

[finite needle]

Stalker is possibly the reason the term slav jank exists

nah Stalker 2 has been playable since 1.5 at least. Now, it has a bit more spice in it.

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/dune-spice-dune-spice-tim-curry-gif-6757719141242238197

[finite needle]

Gifs you can hear

idk if it was in previous versions, but they've added some old sounds like the weird howling and stuff, plus bandits say cheeki breeki more often

[river lintel]

I beat 1.0 amg enjoyed it (mostly) Everything they add after is gravy

[finite needle]

They STILL need to add more faction content, but considering they kinda have the Clear Sky alife working, I think the next step is surely that

[river lintel]

I did the mission to save gloomy on a new save, when I went back past the building he was in probably 5 minutes later there was a ward guy just chilling out front. I thought "oh thats nice" then went to Zalissiya and had a stroke of how many patrols were just vibing around the town

[river lintel]

Better faction stuff and more ambient missions from randoms would be peak

[finite needle]

Nah ngl Lesser Zone feels more like it as it is now, souther zone should be more populated. It's nothern that should be better barren

[warped monolith]

I mostly got turned off by people complaining about quest scripts breaking, such as the ||defend zalissya from monolith|| ending in a ||monolith victory|| even if you helped take down all enemies

[finite needle]

I mostly wish for Flame to be introduced, which is the eco terrorist Freedom branch that refuses they new cryptobros ways

[river lintel]

I mean I was blown away my the amount of people

[river lintel]

It's been a good two hours bashing, my head against the wall to make sure that that quest wasn't borked

[finite needle]

Defend Zalissya has been fixed for a while, but it's kinda hard to get the total victory anyway.

I remember spending like 1 actual hour to make the quest work without success in my first run (including one reload fixing it and me shooting a loner, fucking it up)

[river lintel]

Rip

[finite needle]

Then it "fixed" itself when it spawned a couple loners in the area and the Monos just picked a fight with them

[river lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/lego-batman-no-problem-first-try-gif-12803885

[finite needle]

Give it one year and people is going to pretend it was always good, just like they did with Cyberpunk and New Vegas

[warped monolith]

yea lol

[finite needle]

The cyberpunk glazing after the release of Edgerunners was amazing

[summer vapor]

Master mode is pretty tough, and I finally got to my favorite armor

[warped monolith]

ah yes the NCR Ranger armor

[golden hazel]

The perfect duo

[full mason]

I do not think you would be able to make a living as a photographer i am going to be brutally honest here

[finite needle]

Master is fun but I don't trust the game that much to use the bonfire saves

Lemme play master but let me save when I want

[warped monolith]

big iron on his hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip~

[finite needle]

Oh light rain in the poppy field, I'm sure it's a coincidence and not scripted

[full mason]

BTW if you want master mode but good, just play unlimited stalker, playing it rn and its really good.

[summer vapor]

Well, for challenge lovers, master mode is just what you need

[tardy meadow]

stalker unlimited is for bdsm lovers

[full mason]

ohh ffs

[finite needle]

And that's the reason why I think bonfires are a bad idea

[warped monolith]

npc got you stuck there?

game should have some basic "push/shove" mechanic

walk into an npc and he repositions

then again this could enable exploiting lmao

[remote eagle]

its skat armor which were before ncr ranger armor 🤓

[finite needle]

Interesting bug with alife, sometimes, after you clear a "hideout", it will spawn some more corpses for a split second and then leave some of them around

as if the game is still simulating offline gameplay

[warped monolith]

damn

[finite needle]

inb4 the fabled alife is just the game spawning random corpses

[warped monolith]

me being destroyed by facts and logic

https://tenor.com/view/tom-holland-spiderman-spiderman-thanos-snap-swtsoob-gif-22157816

[visual minnow]

hecate for stalker 2 when

and m107/m82

[finite needle]

btw I know my affirmation is false because I've seen NPC engage in battles that weren't just possible and in places where NPC never went before

[lone saffron]

This just in: the Saiga fucking sucks butt

[warped monolith]

wasn't it the best shotgun in the game?

[lone saffron]

i dunno probably

But it just will not damage anything more than 2 meters away and I dunno what the hell is going on but I'll see blood spurts and it's like they got 0 damage from it. I'll have to dump full mags into even something like a flesh just to kill it.

It's so limited by the range that I'd rather just use an SMG. Might be going back to the Reimann. That thing rocks.

[pliant sigil]

Dude reading his PDA while wearing NVG's in broad daylight, straight up aura farming

[warped monolith]

he just simply does not care

[worldly tide]

How is update 1.7 in terms of alife?

[silver orchid]

good

[worldly tide]

Would you recommend waiting awhile for more updates? Or play now?

[silver orchid]

I recommend wait until the release of the first DLC

[worldly tide]

Thanks for the answer. Have they announced what the first dlc will be?

I hadn't seen anything.

[silver orchid]

there a lot of thingis that describe that the first location on the DLC is gonna be Limansk

and i think that according to the new ARG the X-16 it's included on that DLC

[golden hazel]

With just that I can say certainly that the first dlc is going to be a retelling of clear sky

[silver orchid]

Nah

perhaps a secondary part or smth of the DLC will be related directly to Clear Sky

but the main plot is other thingi

[golden hazel]

X16 is the lab in Yantar, that Scar went to go shut off in Clear Sky for the old man in the lab

That same old man isn't there if you go to Yantar in HoC Tuah

You find instead a controller with a bunch of military men

Clear Sky was searching for equipment in a factory where a leash controller was at

[silver orchid]

That of the X-16 can be restoration of cut-content, the OG mission planned for the X-16 was smth like "OMG, THE BRAIN RETURNED, OMG" if i remember correctly

[worldly tide]

I just want 4 bloodsuckers to not spawn on top of each other.

[golden hazel]

You're asking for too much

[worldly tide]

Call me needy then, a man can dream

[golden hazel]

The thing is that the Brain was an alternative Brain Scorcher made when MDST/C-Con was seeing if a bio or mechanical brain scorcher would be better and limansk was the X16 equivalent before the main brain scorcher was made

It all really does point to Clear Sky being involved

No meme

[silver orchid]

and if sakharov is the brother of lebedev and it's trapped inside the brain

I don't remember if sakharov was planned to appear on HoC but

[golden hazel]

The only time he's mentioned is in a past tense in the time period of I forgot if it was 1962 or 1963

[silver orchid]

sakharov would have 90 years

[golden hazel]

There's a possibility he just retired but there's no evidence he did, but there's also no mention of him dying, his fate is currently unknown

Ngl I wouldn't be surprised if he had connections to Clear Sky/MDST and his area of research was actually how smaller doses of psy radiation affected humans over a longer period of time

Could also be possible that Clear Sky just straight up abducted him to aid their research in Limansk

[golden hazel]

I looked it up and the date was 1966

Either way the guy is old af

[visual minnow]

I think we’ll see Dead City become canon in the DLC, where we get to meet Jackal.

I think the DLC will become available right after we get to SIRCAA, where you get the choice to either spare or kill Hermann.

Jackal relates to this as in SoC, Jackal appointed a few mercenaries as Hermann’s security detail, which you can read about in pdas and such.

I think if we spare Hermann, he flees to the Dead city, which sets off the DLC in warding off monolith as they try to take over Limansk

Of course this is just me talking out of my ass, I have no fucking clue what’s already known in regards to what’s going to happen in the DLC, this is just an uneducated guess on my part.

[silver orchid]

Nah, already there a part of Chornobyl-2 inspired on Dead City

[golden hazel]

Dead City also wouldn't fit on the map either since it's supposed to be between Yantar and Limansk and the bridge area looks to only be Limansk

Might see the hospital return though since there's a large area above Limansk assuming of course they don't expand Limansk even more to cover up that area

[silver orchid]

id say that Limansk is going to be +- the same thingi

[golden hazel]

Either way it's going to be peak, probably

Maybe extremely buggy for a year but it will be peak

[silver orchid]

Peak limansk, probably

[golden hazel]

Can't wait to see the "Protect the makeshift bridge to Limansk" quest being broken in someway

[nocturne reef]

so i got back into Stalker 2 just before 1.7 dropped. Did anyone else notice some of the anomalies have a bigger AoE in 1.7 than 1.6? The bubble ones seem to just suck me into a crazy distance. Im playing on master and Im not sure if I am goign crazy or not.

[wanton arch]

the DLC is all about new location then map modding is not possible

https://tenor.com/view/let's-not-bird-hooded-crow-shut-up-gif-13507623047974708682

[warped monolith]

[silver orchid]

is possible

but not on add new areas

[wanton arch]

New arena that is what i mean

i mean modder def can do mapping and add new location and shit

tedious and long yes

[silver orchid]

imagine this ported to HoC

[warped monolith]

we're probably gonna get it in future dlc

[wanton arch]

idk where this can be placed even

[silver orchid]

Confimed for DLC

[pliant sigil]

The loudest Stalker in the Zone, cut down before his prime!

[golden hazel]

John XRay will make sure he is remembered

[warped monolith]

does Max Booba still exist

[golden hazel]

Due to economic issues in the zone following the return of the monolith best we gota is Les Booba

[lone saffron]

I'm glad you killed that man

[golden hazel]

He was already dead when I found him

[lone saffron]

oooh thats the poppy fields innit

[golden hazel]

Ja

[warped monolith]

better than no booba, I suppose

[slow cave]

Someone make a stalker mod where it just names someone “John stalker”

Heat ideas

[silver orchid]

there a mod called John Story

John, Stalker

[slow cave]

For which game I can’t find it for 2

I love the silly mods just wish I could find them fr

[obsidian summit]

ohh, whats this?

[silver orchid]

A modded level from a cancelled mod

[obsidian summit]

I dont recognize this area either, this is confirmed dlc area?

[nova lake]

its a joke

thats a modded map from old mods that comes from a SOC Multiplayer map

[slow cave]

My favorite death match map

Joined in first time and got yelled at in Russian by my team

[gloomy sparrow]

are there any flashlight mods that work for 1.7? that make it more like gamma

[slim moth]

flashlight customizer

you can try ace's flashlight too

[visual dawn]

do i need to buy a fancy edition or is the base game enough?

[icy basin]

Base is enough

[visual dawn]

big game jesus

160gb

[tacit glacier]

Super fancy version will just give you

• Extra stashes with unique weapons (just custom variants of already existing guns)
• Future access to three game expansion DLC's once they drop

[finite needle]

Yeah, it's kind of a scam. The early armor is nice tho, and the Duty Saiga scratches my tacticool itch in a way no other gun in the game can.

[summer vapor]

Unique weapons and armor can be useful if you playing master mode

[remote eagle]

i remember that location

[surreal sleet]

please tell me the current version of the launcher

[icy basin]

Steam :)

[surreal sleet]

...

[icy basin]

Most everyone uses Steam to launch STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl

[remote eagle]

[ancient osprey]

is it worth to play again s2 on 1.7

[wanton arch]

ye

but if you expecting

yk insane progression

i need to try master mode

[summer vapor]

The ps5 release got not much hype

[timid fox]

isn't there supposed to be something multiplayer coming

[nova lake]

yes

there is

[ancient osprey]

when?

[silver orchid]

yes

but even a year after, no there a single thingi in the code in refference to the multiplayer

[dusty nymph]

Dw It'll only be a 5 year wait

[nova lake]

they release MP and its just SoC MP with UE5 graphics

peak

[finite needle]

If you already own the game, yes.

[finite needle]

Same time as CP2077 Multiplayer

[warped monolith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I21vISaN7Pw

[opal spindle]

Guys i don't understand if this is a feature or...

[silver orchid]

the one of marketing

really, really likes put spoilers everywhere

[warped monolith]

AMOGUS

[warped monolith]

yea

hideo kojima has caused irreversible damage to videogame trailer design

[silver orchid]

is that

the mf

he doens't care if the scene is from the 5 last minutes of x ending, he likes put the scenes anyways

IMO, GSC should dismiss him long time ago

[opal spindle]

FOUND ANOTHER ONE

[stoic lichen]

Gonna do master difficulty, wish me luck :3

[nova lake]

the only people who havent played the game yet and are watching it are ps players
which justifies it really

[silver orchid]

movigames or smth?

well, between 3 hours of cinematics i think that theres thingis to select instead of ending-scenes

[cobalt snow]

Worth to buy game in the current state or wait?

[silver orchid]

wait, it's good but is better wait for get a better experience

[cobalt snow]

Ok, thanks

[tacit glacier]

Okay okay
This is running good

75 in Zalissya

85 outside

Switched to Proton Hotfix and got an ice performance increase

[finite needle]

They are NEVER fixing the one armed bandit bug

[tacit glacier]

lmao

[near stratus]

Thats a huge bump, i got a 4070 and on release i think the town gave me maybe 45-50 fps

so go for 1.7 or wait for 2.0 and all the mods with it

I stopped playing after getting soft locked a few days after release

[tacit glacier]

I need to take a pause cause I can't pick up Bubbs body

[summer vapor]

it's a known bug

put something in his body and take it back

[hushed garden]

A-life?