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

[finite needle]

stil get their funding from the same source

[split crown]

Totally normal

[hallow canopy]

Not sure whats causing such leaks

Not optimised game,gpu drivers,Windows 10

Or old GPU in general
But none of those should be a issue

[tacit glacier]

Steam

[slim moth]

idk why configuring steam recording is a dick and a half

[finite needle]

||Seeing the same weird ghosting I see in Stalker 2 in Expedition 33 as well makes me feel like maybe Unreal Engine was a mistake||

[wanton arch]

such insane memory leak

[hallow canopy]

UE5 has a lot of potential,it just needs proper optimisation.
Not sure if S2 devs and other games get UE5 Optimisation for the engine itself or how they fix such optimisation.

I do know its getting more complex with game engines.
And that mods for games like S2 with the UE5 are getting plentiful
More then the trilogy

[pseudo falcon]

WELL
he died
i thought he can kill lots of duty

[hallow canopy]

I struggled to find a mod for the old trilogy,and in the new remaster I don't like as they took some aspects away.
Soo S2 was the best option to play consistently

[pseudo falcon]

mama mia
juicy loot

[tame lodge]

Looks like he wasnt IMPORTANT enough

[hallow canopy]

Why are you posting this in a Stalker 2 channel??

[pseudo falcon]

ye

oh shit

sorry

[hallow canopy]

[finite needle]

Happens to the best of us

[hallow canopy]

Yee

[finite needle]

Speaking of which, we're uon version 8.3 of the launcher, I havent ran GAMMA in a while, time to just try again

[hallow canopy]

I really liked the Gamma gun mechanic.
But it was bit too much with the broken guns.
When I found a AK I though "Sweet,an AK,they should be functional" Turns out the guy had a broken barrel,an AK that just was shooting at me with deadly accuracy managed to break somehow?
This RNG is bit too much.

Thus S2 became bit more favorable to me.

[tame lodge]

Its cuz of progression

I honestly came to prefer that

Makes it that much satisfying when you manage to repair your gun

Also more focus on crafting than just abusing mechanics repair

[hallow canopy]

On the long run its fun to maintain your weapons as they degrade by use.
But to have them broken at start is terrible first experience.
Bet I csn still find a irl mosin logged in the gravel and just clean it with WD-40 and shoot with it.

Thats why in S2 you can still use them but with a chance of jamming

[tame lodge]

I love running around lesser zone with a modded hk416 /s

it takes me out when the starter zone has everyone running hks and aks

shitty smgs and shotguns should be the early game as it is

progressing to repairing your first good gun is where the fun is

it also makes you try guns you otherwise woudlnt

cuz there arent other options

but everyone can play how they want thats the beauty of life

thats why I like the Stalker Unlimited mod for S2

because 99% of people in lesser zone are running shitty guns

you dont see an AK until Solder quest

[summer vapor]

I need quests where I can exchange food/medicine for ammo

[hallow canopy]

You could sell your stuff for the currency

[hallow canopy]

yea wait till a few more years and I am sure we will get more complex mods and modes for S2

I am fairly confident that Stalker 2 will pretty much surpass Gamma

[tame lodge]

Oh yeah I hope so

im excited

[next sun]

really been enjoying oxa

love how it unfucks the shitty arbitrary gun tier system

[soft egret]

almost like they are.....blind

[tribal acorn]

That would be awesome

[warped monolith]

it all depends on how moddable it will be, and that depends on how much Epic will allow Stalker 2's build of UE to be malleable

[soft egret]

i dont even think they should be compared

GAMMA is basically a stalker spin off

its gameplay has nothing to do with the original trilogy

people have this weird nostalgia about stalker being some hardcore shooter whent it really wasnt

it was always a sci fi shooter with horror elements, it was never a survival game

[next sun]

yeah they're nothing alike other than the same oppressive atmosphere

[warped monolith]

[next sun]

honestly, i like the presentation in stalker 2 better than the trilogy

[soft egret]

Skif and the guns was what made me check on the game every update

i really like skif for some reason

im actually playing the game now and its honestly pretty damn good

[next sun]

i mean

you're not alone tbh, i like skif much more than strelok

[soft egret]

Just finished Honta's quest and got the scopeless mosin that i was looking for everywhere

i really liked the end of the quest

the damn thing with all the modules looks so good

i always had a gripe with gamma's mosin

it looks like a fucking stick lmao

s2's mosin is beautiful

[hallow canopy]

Epic who?
You do know making the game unmoddable would pretty much kill its popularity

[stoic lichen]

Yeah, looks like it’s been through a lot, let it’ll still get the job done.

[warped monolith]

Epic... you know... the owners of Unreal Engine...

[hallow canopy]

Think GSC has a Saying of who can mod they game and not

[warped monolith]

and I don't think they care about Stalker 2's popularity. They got their money from the engine licensing deal

[hallow canopy]

Yea they will happily provide optimisation updates for UE5
And shut they Mouth

[stoic lichen]

Epic already got that Fortnite money. I think they’re financially stable.

[warped monolith]

sure they will

been hearing about that engine optimization update for at least half a year and it hasn't happened yet. I'll believe it when I see it

everything else is copium

[hallow canopy]

Tell that the Thousand of mods on Nexus

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/moving-goalposts-goalposts-changing-requirements-gif-25214446

[hallow canopy]

Somebody already made a Mod for the Master Difficulty to be saved normally

[hallow canopy]

Really wish GSC would make the damn thing have its scope removed instead of installing that sight mount

Looks Ugly ngl with it

[warped monolith]

can they just... not play Master difficulty instead lmao

it's the same difficulty as Veteran, but with the save limitation

[hallow canopy]

Exactly xD

[warped monolith]

"I want to play the highest difficulty"
"oh shit it's hard, let me mod it to make it easier"

[hallow canopy]

I died so many times to something that I would have survived in Stalker difficulty

Like the Gravity Annomaly

[rancid fox]

can someone explain to me what the hell happenend here #╟📸stalker2™-media message

[hallow canopy]

And let me tell ya,annomalies with instant death capability like the Vortex will get you often when in a tight situation

[hallow canopy]

dont have access there

yet..

[warped monolith]

Summary:
Shots 1-5: Clearly missed.
Shots 6-9: Missed due to recoil (bad spray control).
Shots 10-11: Very close, but recoil and inaccuracy make these reasonable misses.
Shot 12: Likely didn't actually fire because Hiko was already dead.

[rancid fox]

this dude ate 15 ap m701 shots to the dome

[rancid fox]

real

[warped monolith]

sorry, I had to do it

[hallow canopy]

Yea I think that part there is scripted and you could have knifed him

[rancid fox]

thats very rockstar games of them

"no youre supposed to play this part like this"

[hallow canopy]

There is however one thing on my mind,when you want to go to Prypiat and go around the Yaniv station,there is a Monolith sniper in one tower,dude took like 5-10 headshots to kill with a Fully Kit AK-74 (was even on Stalker difficulty)
And perhaps these Scripted Guards you shoot have either a set HP or they werent suppose to die easily

[golden hazel]

Anything but lowering the difficulty

[warped monolith]

been happening since 1.0 with people using mutant hp mods

mutant hp cheats, more like

[summer vapor]

Imagine if the SDK was fully functional and fans made it better than the developers themselves

[golden hazel]

Funniest part is how they said the game was gonna have full mod support at launch

https://tenor.com/view/lie-lies-liar-bullshit-so-that-was-gif-15334130

[kindred violet]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[covert eagle]

the sdk getting broken was such a sour note fr

[tame lodge]

Would you say 2 lost those horror elements

[tame lodge]

Is it still not complete? How many phases do they want

[summer vapor]

I have a suspicion that they made the hitbox wider so that mutants wouldn't pass right through Skif, but they forgot that it's now problematic to find safe paths in anomalous zones

[tame lodge]

I read in #╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion that weapons mods are very few and they are bad

And everyone is basically waiting until they release the full kit

[rotund mantle]

i can t wait for AN94

Decided to reinstall and do a first playthrough today

[tame lodge]

Would love more western weapons too

[rotund mantle]

fr id like Scar H

[covert eagle]

yesh its not worth trying to update for this patch when its already planned for replacement

[finite needle]

I honestly just want a SKS and a couple more variants for each tier. A SCAR and a BREN would be nice for example

[rotund mantle]

bren would be peak

[warped monolith]

ww2 bren?

[rotund mantle]

Mauser Selbstlader 1916 from BF5 would be awesome aswell this is a super slept on rifle

[viscid oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/kolibri-gun-battlefield-battlefield-1-ign-gif-11700708562977098218

This or nothing

[rotund mantle]

storming the cnpp with that in the dlc

[finite needle]

People has been modding the FG 42 in Stalker since the beginning of time so why not

[viscid oxide]

I wonder how would the dlcs fit the storyline. Probably happen before the end ?

[finite needle]

Depends on the DLC and what it's gonna be about. If it's just an expansion of the zone (I hope not) then it can also happen after SIRCAA

by expansion I mean no new areas, just populate old areas. Not that I am against the concept, is that I don't want such a thing to be DLC, I am still scarred by the Mass Effect 3 dlcs (Javik being literally cut from the game to be made DLC is a crime, same as the Leviathans)

[outer depot]

I think they've hinted at Lymansk coming back at least

[viscid oxide]

Idk if you have seen videos from summer, but there are at least 4 areas rumored to come later

[outer depot]

plus you have CNPP and Iron Forest already ingame but just not populated

[silver orchid]

I want story mods on HoC

[finite needle]

I don't think we're ever going to the CNPP?

like at the beginning of the game it's been stated it's completely empty, as it has been stripped of everything of value

[outer depot]

well by ingame explanation it's been picked dry by SIRCAA but it's still a big area to explore if they do

[viscid oxide]

Stalker 2 can only surpass gamma if modders get full access to the game, to create whatever they want

[outer depot]

surpass GAMMA
please don't lmao

[hallow canopy]

It can,and will with time

Tell me how much more can Gamma be modded as its its own mod?

[golden hazel]

The mischevious sub basement that gets retconned into existence:

[warped monolith]

and they never will
the reason gamma exists is because people have access to XRay's source code.

Epic will never give out Unreal Engine's source code to anyone

[outer depot]

that entire underground lab in Cooling Towers

[warped monolith]

oh no
is this game suddenly being made by Blizzard Entertainment

[silver orchid]

X-12

Originally designed by Andrey Koklove

[hallow canopy]

Psydo Giant taking 20 RPG-7 to the face and still standing
RPG-7 a HEAT Head that when hit make molten copper jet that cuts thro anything

[viscid oxide]

As long as modders can create quests, monsters, areas, some basic mechanics through the sdk, we will be good

[finite needle]

You know what, if GSC suddenly found a super secret basement that should not exist people would be happy because they could go into CNPP

[golden hazel]

[warped monolith]

"this entire region of the world was hidden by magic and now the spell has dissipated and we can access it" ahhhh excuse in World of Warcraft

[finite needle]

They keep getting away with it somehow

[warped monolith]

stockholm syndrome

[silver orchid]

||CNPP is for the next DLC||

[viscid oxide]

Regarding cnpp being empty, it was a very popular rumor, but it could be retconned as richter and others being wrong about this rumor

[golden hazel]

Scar's crackpipe hitting too hard

[outer depot]

I don't care if it's cleaned out of plot relevant items I just love the area

[viscid oxide]

Where is this picture from ? 😮

[silver orchid]

Tho, according to in-game thingis, x character went to the CNPP

[hallow canopy]

We will eventually get CNPP in S2

its just a matter of time

[viscid oxide]

I agree, it is a very important place story wise

[summer vapor]

Iron forest?

[finite needle]

Yeah, we HAVE to, even if it's not relevant anymore and we haven't really been there since SOC

[silver orchid]

the "angle" is from there, yes.

[warped monolith]

the 'shining zone' will be like Symphony of the Night's inverted castle.

Watch this space.

[hallow canopy]

The Iron Forest gonna be mental
Just bunch of wires

[viscid oxide]

Wires were stolen in 1.7

Coincidence ? I think not 😮

[warped monolith]

skeefa finally listened to scar and stole all the copper wires

[golden hazel]

FOR THE SHINING ZONE SKEEFA

[finite needle]

The wires being gone AND performance dramatically improving can't be a coincidence

[silver orchid]

Initially i expected that CNPP was gonna be a empty place "forget by the time" on HoC where u can reach since the start of the game, but months after of the released of HoC my expectations changed.

[viscid oxide]

Perhaps having photorealistic wires wasnt a good idea

[hallow canopy]

I believe that CNPP will be the most Eradiated part of S2
Apart from the Graveyar of steel in Yantar

[finite needle]

"Somehow, the Monolith was sent back into the CNPP"

[golden hazel]

IDI KA MMNYE

[viscid oxide]

Gravitational anomaly took it from sircaa to cnpp 🙂

[hallow canopy]

I thought Monolith had they Sacred place

but at the CNPP there is nothing

or at least should be nothing in S2

[silver orchid]

Part of my "thingi" was by this:
#1272487713614073886 message
Too, on the build of 2023 the CNPP has modelled interiors but

[outer depot]

remember you also had the massive failed SIRCAA operation to get to the Generators as well as the remains of Operation Monolith from SOC

the area should still have a lot of shit in it, just not the monolith itself or (known) X-labs

not to mention again just the terrain of the gigantifuck turbine and reactor halls

CNPP itself is an entire maze you could make into an incredible interior area

[viscid oxide]

Really curious to see the roadmap for start of 2026

[next sun]

2026 looks like its going to be a good one for them if they can stick the landings

engine upgrade plus big dlc is already better than everything we got this year imo

[finite needle]

2026 is gonna be the "dae Stalker 2 was always good?" reddit post year.

[next sun]

true lmao

[viscid oxide]

This year stalker 2 basicly went from beta test to public release version

[next sun]

legit. 1.7 is the minimum bar for what release should have been

[warped monolith]

yeah lmao

[golden hazel]

Still funny how there are still hard coded keybinds

[finite needle]

Speaking of which, I miss that guy who had a feud with GSC because they fucked up implementation of the numpad

[kindred violet]

Rip numpad guy

[finite needle]

I don't think they're gonna fuck it up, they evidently didn't give up on the game and worked hard to get it in shape, but you never know

[kindred violet]

I'm cautiously excited to see their progress on the game :)

[hallow canopy]

Gonna love if GSC added the PPSH and CqC with in CNPP

[silver orchid]

STALKING TIME 2 YEARS AFTER | STALKING NEVER WAS SOOOOOO GOOD

[finite needle]

SKS and PPSH are soviet era weapons I'd like to see back, maybe some more modern weapons? We all know they added the P90 and the FN2000 because they looked cool, now what's a modern weapon that looks futuristic but is real?

P90, FN2000 and SPAS were like the triumvirate of the cool weapon back in the days

[viscid oxide]

WE have a gauss rifle, we dont need to have realistic weapons only

[finite needle]

I kinda disagree, even the Gauss rifle was still looking grounded even back in the day. Stalker has always had the same intuition as Half Life, arcade-ish game with realisti aestethic

so real weapons that give a sense of believability, but also quirky enough to look exotic.

[summer vapor]

"Convince me immediately that Stalker 2 is good, otherwise I'll go back to Gamma."

[finite needle]

For starters, NPCs can die in anomalies

Mostly because they're not immune to them in Stalker 2

Also, you might encounter people in groups bigger than 3

[viscid oxide]

Even with 600 mods, gamma still plays like an old game for me. Cant put a finger on it, but i can immediately tell that i am playing a very old game

Even with graphic mods

[finite needle]

GAMMA does its niche very, very well

but it isn't the same game as Stalker 2

[silver orchid]

Another reason to play gamba

[hallow canopy]

I will agree,GAMMA is its own thing,but cant be compared to Stalker 2

[finite needle]

one aims to be a punishing survival experience set in the zone, the other is a cinematic heavy, fast paced shooter

[hallow canopy]

Its not a Stalker game

[finite needle]

I don't know why people has to pick one of them, you can play both

[hallow canopy]

while it still is a stalker game

[finite needle]

I gotta give GAMMA another chance, I have stopped playing ever since they changed the healing method and gun repair system

also because I can't really stand the zone system anymore, Stalker 2 open world spoiled me

I also know EXACTLY where every NPC or mutant is gonna spawn in every map, and let's be honest, gambling with golden stashes is not as fun as it was to gamble with ALL the stashes

[nova lake]

just play more than one mod maybe?

[finite needle]

I might also not like some of the other mods

[nova lake]

https://tenor.com/view/its-grim-its-peak-its-mid-old-man-it's-sunday-gif-8453053925671532900

[slim moth]

cause going through doorways, up ladders, and movement in general feels so damn dated

[finite needle]

NPC models also don't really help

They definitely improved lighting, game looks much better during night time

[warped monolith]

I think it looked fine in 1.0. Not nearly as dark as the original trilogy was, but... it was fine imo

[viscid oxide]

I think you are right

[finite needle]

Looks more lively now, before it was ok but a bit dead

[viscid oxide]

Imo a good mechanic for master mode would have been darker nights - pitch black without nvg

[nova lake]

should be darker

[hallow canopy]

Thats what I said too

[hallow canopy]

You can adjust the brightness and contrast

[slim moth]

people dont realize how significant the in-game brightness, contrast, and gamma changes the atmosphere in S2.

[tame lodge]

XM8

ARX 160 Berreta

FMG 9

HK G11

M230 MG maybe MCX Spear too

[remote eagle]

finally internet is back time to download stalker again

[warped monolith]

[remote eagle]

[warped monolith]

[remote eagle]

wanna try beating it on master

anybody played on it?

[warped monolith]

I haven't yet

the whole "limited saves" thing is unappealing imo

I don't think it adds any extra challenge, just makes it more of a chore

[finite needle]

I tend to die by flaming anomaly to the leg quite often in GAMMA, and it's the same in Stalker 2. I am not the kinda guy to like the YACS system

difficulty per se it's not bad tho, just the system is obviously made to appeal to GAMMA players in a way

But, considering how people bitched about the Last Judge runback in Silksong...

[remote eagle]

[tepid spade]

I installed mod for regular saves instantly for MASTER - it just doesn't make any sense.
Just waste of time

[warped monolith]

corpse runs in soulslikes are designed to not take longer than 5 minutes

in this kind of difficulty with limited saving, you can lose hours of progress if you're not being paranoid about going back to a save spot

[finite needle]

Same for the survival difficulty in Fallout 4, which is the ONLY way to play the game

[warped monolith]

why not play on Veteran then lmao

[tepid spade]

coz I am testing M mode

[tepid spade]

Doesn't seem Master at all in comparison with MHM2

[remote eagle]

[finite needle]

Bro I'm afraid of heights, trust me the FUCKING Seath runback was hell for me

[remote eagle]

cant wait for running half of zone cause i stepped in shit

[warped monolith]

just don't die to seath, bro
he's easy, bro
git gud

[finite needle]

https://tenor.com/view/matikanefukukitaru-umamusume-uma-musume-pretty-derby-umamumusme-pretty-derby-gif-5541095777981104907

[warped monolith]

I guess I should've added the exception of dark souls 1

because fromsoft didn't figure out their shit yet back then

[remote eagle]

[tame lodge]

idk man ds2 had bullshit runbacks too

especially in dlcs

[finite needle]

Oh yes, they didn't displace the Grom

[late kernel]

Holy Lumen the lighting is still this broken? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1306685071201140819/1442184182649323610/Untitled_video_-_Made_with_Clipchamp.mp4?ex=6924822f&is=692330af&hm=465ddf61458646538a5bd84273525af90d9cffa3ab32b81276243e853aff3943&

[kindred violet]

Well ds2 didn't intend you to run past enemies

[tame lodge]

yeah instead they put a gangbang pack behind every corner

[finite needle]

On the positive, you were very likely to oneshot any boss the game gave you

[kindred violet]

Sotfs did that

Sotfs sucks ass

[remote eagle]

its peak

[kindred violet]

I much prefer vanilla ds2 myself

[finite needle]

...Was it always red condition?

[remote eagle]

uuuuh idk im not groza enjoyer

[slim moth]

i need to check this location to see if it still does this with the newest U+

[finite needle]

Vanilla is kinda easier, but I still can't forgive From for giving me a Dark elemental NPC for the Velstadt fight.

This after they trained me to believe I had to burden me with NPC in every fight to continue their quests

[finite needle]

Shit's like this in Clair Obscure too, in some places. It's just hopeless.

[kindred violet]

Yeah vanilla is easier, it's got less BS in it

[late kernel]

Normalize using the nvRTX branch of UE5 and train devs to do proper LOD/Lighting

[viscid oxide]

Vortex anomalies are the #1 killer for me

[late kernel]

But no, the men in black want that free money from Epic Games to promote their shitty flagship graphical features

[viscid oxide]

I think having a cooldown of like 30 minutes on a manual save would be fine, because what if you crash 2 hours after last save

[remote eagle]

[viscid oxide]

Dying due to mistake is fine, dying due to bug/crash would be sad

[finite needle]

It's a Stalker game, it's gonna crash eventually

[slim moth]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-buhalker-monolit-gif-5681815038740798106

i keep waiting for him to get shot, but he never does.

[remote eagle]

[finite needle]

Duty killed the poltergeist in Concrete Factory before I could get there

Alife completing players objective is real

[remote eagle]

[remote eagle]

what condition this spas now it was green if im not mistaken

[finite needle]

100%

[remote eagle]

[finite needle]

so I went there, found a couple Duty leaving, found another like 4 dead on the ground, and no poltergeist

just grabbed the key and the spas

[remote eagle]

damn i feel like arena fight with chimera and last guy gonna be total ass on master

[soft egret]

it was actually pretty easy

[remote eagle]

really?

kek

[finite needle]

I feel like nothing is gonna change, I'm more afraid of the dogs if anything

[remote eagle]

free shotgun then

[remote eagle]

that fight is ass on any difficulty

[soft egret]

the chimera took like, 3 mags to go down

[remote eagle]

[soft egret]

and the merc a few headshots with the revolver

[finite needle]

Better than release then, when if you didn't hit ALL headshots you didn't have enough bullets to kill the critter

[soft egret]

lmao

yeah

[finite needle]

Good enough. I could get MUCH better gear, but it's only standard difficulty so no Kharod, no Spark suit and no SAIGA

This is more a "cool stuff a new guy could realistically stumble upon during a blind run"

[golden hazel]

HoC Tuah

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

[finite needle]

SPAS my beloved

[remote eagle]

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

[hallow canopy]

Cant post pics buuuuuut
Got a Fora at Garbage story

Conviniently had to save some of stars men and Ward was annoying the crap out of me,so I did a opposite Geneva convention on them,and some had Fora

Got now a Mid-Late game AR in a Early stage

Still on Master difficulty tho

[soft egret]

Anyone knows if physical protection actually stacks or if this is just showing wrong on the ui? For some reason the gas mask gives me humongous ammounts of phys resistance

(if armor condition was better it would be a lot higher than the seva for example)

but the gas mask is whats giving most of the protection anyway lol

[remote eagle]

probably stacks

[unborn kelp]

we can actually see protection values now? 🤯
(not poked at S2 for a while)

[soft egret]

yeah 1.7 is an absolute banger

[remote eagle]

yeah in 1.7

[hallow canopy]

Some of the Sniper Guards on top of Garbage have Mosins,thats awesome

[remote eagle]

[hallow canopy]

Having the Fora-221 this early in game is criminal

well not my fault Ward has them

[remote eagle]

u can get all the good gear right after zalissya

[warped monolith]

y'all just killing npcs and taking their guns?

[remote eagle]

u can get exo after zalissya without fighting anyone

and Dnipro in the same location

[hallow canopy]

Sure I can run up to get the Diamond Exo too,but that would not be fun

[remote eagle]

u cant get it anymore

its in bunker now

[hallow canopy]

They patched it?

ah

[remote eagle]

i was talking about duty exo

in cooling towers

[hallow canopy]

ah that one

[remote eagle]

[hallow canopy]

I am still curious if they kept the movement penalty for exos
Would rather stay with normal armour sets for time being

better light then slow

Especially since I play in Master
The Fora came in clutch

I also believe that the enemy's are also dying quicker
More or less in Master Difficulty

[remote eagle]

yeah probably still there

[outer depot]

fukkin Garbage is now the burer playground

[ancient osprey]

i cant play with stalker unlimited and oxa. game crash at loading screen

[jaunty ruin]

I'm trying to make some new/custom magazines for the Gambit and Sharpshooter for a realism mod I'm working on. Where I'm stuck is I can't get the magazine to appear on the 3d model. It shows in inventory though. When this happens the gun gets super bugged out and can't reload, fire, or ADS.

My best guess is I need to extract and make "new" assets that are the same as the originals, but with SID, etc that match the new magazine.

Literally exactly the same as the original 30 round mag. But only 20 rounds for the Sharpshooter because 30 rounds of .308 ain't fitting in the original magazine, lol.

[tame lodge]

1.7 in a nutshell

[golden hazel]

The Gachi Base

[warped monolith]

D O L G

[golden hazel]

Deadly Anomalies, Dangerous Mutants, Monolith AND BANDITS! All of them will stop Deuty on its triumphant workout routine!

[golden hazel]

🗣️

[rotund mantle]

🗣️

[winter halo]

Guys, can someone explain how S2 armor works now? I know armor and helmet used to count separately but now all of a sudden the built-in phys prot meter just adds both armor and helmet stats, making some combinations looks nuts - is it a bug?

[tranquil lintel]

Digital Foundry says 1.7.1 bringing us performance upgrades finally

[winter halo]

It's already massively improved for me with 1.7 on rtx3080, way smoother in crowded areas.

[obsidian summit]

i saw that mentioned on youtube, but i was not sure if they meant 1.7 or literally the hot patch 1.7.1 also?

[tranquil lintel]

looks like it aludes to 1.7 but that we're also getting more tweaks and changes to refine it this hotfix

[golden hazel]

I can only pray the hotfix fixes the hard coded keybinds

Cmon GSC it's been a year already

[rotund mantle]

I wish could change the keybinds I want to lean with Q and E not Z and C that feels weird as hell

[tranquil lintel]

I just want them to add the option for the offset aiming reminder to be turned off or at the bottom of the screen at least without it being a mod, I shouldn't have to disable the hud to not be annoyed by bright white text in my face.

[wicked coyote]

Hello guys. How is S2 compared to a year ago

[silver orchid]

much better

[peak dove]

What are the difficulty settings like compared to the original trilogy?

[rotund mantle]

wasnt there supposed to be options to change things in the zone like loot, mutants etc ?

[wanton arch]

It was teased out but prob did not get in

[winter halo]

Harder.

[river lintel]

Do you guys use full suits ir armor and helmets?

[wanton arch]

I had the mod that separate suit and their helmet

[river lintel]

Fair enough

[wanton arch]

But then again

The game is designed to be simple as triology

At the near end of the game you would just use exo skeleton

Near the end not the end

[river lintel]

In my newest play through i keep going back and forth on if I want to see thd tried and true seva or use a psz suit for rp

[wanton arch]

I would say physical protection matters the most

Because it can help you deal with shitty anomoly like glass shards anomoly

Impact anomoly and bullet/bite/scratch

[river lintel]

I have a compass already

[wanton arch]

Stack more

Other anomoly like burn gas and toxic are rare

[river lintel]

It makes out with the suit and nearly max with the armor and helmet

[wanton arch]

It work

[hallow canopy]

I havent seen any mass Burer since I just played yesterday all day in and around Garbage

Could probably be because of Master Difficulty

[fluid lake]

The real meta artifacts be the flower, bolt, ball, liquid rock and thunderberry don't @ me

||(I didn't spend nearly 200 hours in this game not knowing there was a cap)||

[wanton arch]

I doubt tho

Again it's prob just burer stats being too high rn

[visual dawn]

anyone having their game glitch out? my v isuals are all fucky randomly dpeending where i look

ot sure if its 1.7 or a mod issue

[remote eagle]

game just updated to 1.7
yeah i gonna install mods before they got updated what can go wrong

[keen thunder]

Anyone have tips or a link to a guide on how to optimize performance for S2? My 2070 Super is melting when I try to play it

[pseudo falcon]

me trying to figure out what mod is causing the i cant save

[remote eagle]

mushrooms

[remote eagle]

thats what i did

sorry i was hungry

well atleast enemies dont one shot u on master difficulty that a good sigh

[warped monolith]

would be incredibly awful if they did, considering the limited saving lmao

[remote eagle]

i got shooted a lot by 3 bandits and still was ok

armor didnt broke much too

2% good enough

radiation hits stronger tho

[remote eagle]

[remote eagle]

i got a lot of those in woods where i living its peak

[icy basin]

[hallow canopy]

Did you update the Nividia Drivers?
And adjusted some setting fron High to medium?
Pretty sure the 2070 Super is better slightly then my 5700XT and mine runs fine with 70fps on mixed high and medium

[remote eagle]

is that me or game looking better in new patch

[hallow canopy]

Yes it does,they chaged a bunch of visual stuff

I returned specifically because of those visuals
Finally I can look at a distance at enemy's without having a Thredripper processing of my brain to decipher if there is a enemy in the bushes

[remote eagle]

scarce resources my ass

[warped monolith]

random stashes still having enough to feed a small family for a week?

[remote eagle]

Alife is real someone shooting there

[warped monolith]

!hasalife

[fallen iron]

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[icy basin]

[remote eagle]

uuuh dont know first stash i found was fine

i also only now noticed that i dont have compass

@warped monolith yeah that stash good enough to feed a family with lead

next one is poor 🥀

BRO I GOT FRIENDLY FIRED AND INSTA DIED WTF

[hallow canopy]

Welcome to Master Difficulty

You would be happy to find a bunch of stuff,but realise quickly how a situation can f-you up quickly

[remote eagle]

mf shoot me cause there were 2 fleshes

now i need to start over from bolt tutorial

[hallow canopy]

Small tip,dont try to fight a Bloodsucker in CQC as they WILL pin you down with the stun lock and kill you quickly

[remote eagle]

no shit

[hallow canopy]

Especially going in a doorway

You dont get how quick until you die to one

Until you die to one and learn it the hard way

[warped monolith]

oof.

the reason why I don't play this kinda game mode

[hallow canopy]

Well everyone what they like

[remote eagle]

bro i literally died to friendly fire

[hallow canopy]

Cant handle it? Well,always can go lower

The risk factor of your progress being lost is exciting

As you would eventually adapt a different Play style instead of going in Rambo

[remote eagle]

and now there 3 bandits spawned right after gates

[hallow canopy]

The Master Difficulty is what I would call Peak Stalker experience

[remote eagle]

right just i came out

alife is real

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/where-is-it-look-close-honey-i-shrunk-thekids-looking-gif-12615961

[warped monolith]

dying to bullshit is just extra salt

[remote eagle]

i need to get to zalissya and then loot that shit

[warped monolith]

quoth the gamma player

[hallow canopy]

Gamma is pain,not fun for me

Its also non comparable to S2

As its it own thing

[next sun]

bro the garbage is fucking wild wtf

i got jumped by a blood sucker duo and had to run and get on top of a bus.
freedom came in and saved my ass but they lost 2 guys

then, a burer tag team came in to clean freedom and only 2 dudes walked away

insane behavior

[remote eagle]

i came later to that place there is already dead flash in there

[ancient osprey]

FUNNY GAME

died, reload game, works fine

died, reload game, works fine

died, reload game, 5-10fps

ffs

one year later optimization in this game is still fckin garbage

i dunno

40$ by the way

[hexed thunder]

that’s UE5 for you, I hear from my dev friends that it’s notoriously shit to work in

I imagine even worse in a huge open map game with tons of hq assets

then again, remember the recent power line issue (super high poly cables, temp removal of which boosted the game by 10-20fps)

3d guys went overboard with some stuff, which I personally appreciate, but I feel bad for anyone below v. high spec

[hexed thunder]

the twinsucker combo is one of the random scripted encounters I think

happened to me on the hill behind Zalissya, I promptly shat myself and bolted

[remote eagle]

it mine now

[soft egret]

btw you can save in master by going to the menu

i think it would be fine if expedition let you save on stalker campfires, but without it you can legit spend a whole ass hour without a save, i enjoy challenge, i dont enjoy wasting an hour of playtime because i died to a random barrel sending me to the stratosphere, there's even some safehouses where it wont let you save, which is complete bs.

which is a shame because master is perfect in balancing imo

ayo new patch

[remote eagle]

im not abuser

[soft egret]

open reddit to look for patch notes
worst opinion of all time
close

[outer depot]

Give Skif an ebike to careen into an anomaly with

[humble nimbus]

no patch notes

but i hope they fix the telepathic mutants....

[soft egret]

Skeefa needs a honda civic to run over wardens while overdosing on energy drinks

[soft egret]

i just need artefacts to stop falling underground

[humble nimbus]

thats annoying too

though thankfully its only been like one or two

and bro........................ neuter the mutants

they are breeding... uncontrollably

[soft egret]

damn where, im looking for dog noses and cant seem to find a single dog in this damn swamp

[outer depot]

It’s been the Burer and dog apocalypse in Garbage for me

[finite needle]

Bro I want me a Lancia 037, AND it has to be ripped from Assetto Corsa Rally, AND work with my steering wheel.

Dogs are fine, it's the 10 burers spawning in Garbanzo as soon as you get there that are a tad annoying

[solemn vine]

another big stalker2 patch rn?

[summer vapor]

it's not big just hotfix

[humble nimbus]

the 10 burer matryoshka doll

[solemn vine]

7 gig

pretty big for hotfixes

[humble nimbus]

you know i can at least appreciate that the big boys have a higher chance of actually dropping a skinnable part

[solemn vine]

any patch nores?

[humble nimbus]

looking

[solemn vine]

its not showing any for me

[humble nimbus]

nothing on the official site

nothing on steam

nothing on reddit

i think this shit like actually Just Dropped

[warped monolith]

welcome to UE5

[solemn vine]

yeah to fresh

[rotund mantle]

i wonder what it is im updating now

[outer depot]

At least with most of the burers I’ve heard them from 75 yards and I can just walk around them

They’re so fucking slow that in the open you can just meander around and avoid dealing with it

[solemn vine]

is this also going to break all mods again?

[humble nimbus]

yeah.. i dont even bother

[rotund mantle]

prob lol

[humble nimbus]

they are too much of a pain to fight im afraid

its an issue of time spent

[outer depot]

The short king is just out on a walk

Leave him be

[humble nimbus]

doesn't matter what difficulty they're that annoying on stalker diff too

don't even bother with them unless you need their parts

although we'll see if their HACKS got fixed

i've gotten way too good at blind dodging shit thrown through walls

[outer depot]

I’ve been having NPCs chilling near quest/story locked doors immediately charge in and initiate CQC ahead of me the moment I unlock it this patch

It’s been funny as hell

[humble nimbus]

SOMEBODY GIVE ME SOME COVER

I NEED TO MOVE

[finite needle]

Truly the Dark Souls of FPS games

it even has the wallhacks

now also the bonfires

[outer depot]

Right at the start of this new run when going to the ribs to get the door code for the sphere there was a warden by the door smoking and the instant I unlocked it he ran in and shotgunned the poltergeist and then went back to smoking

[humble nimbus]

expedition mode be punching you in the dick

for no particular reason

i had to punch soder so many times it turned into shooting him

[finite needle]

Bro complaining the dick punching mode is punching him in the dick

[humble nimbus]

still playin it arent i

for the love of the game

[finite needle]

I haven't called you a coward now have I

[humble nimbus]

even the game

don't have patch notes

im about to go find a burer

[outer depot]

Me when I play the dedicated dick punching mode and get punched in the dick (I am happy)

[finite needle]

Patch 1.7.1 Myklukha's great endeavor (it's a bitcoin miner)

[outer depot]

Stalker I need ten thunderberries to power my mining rack

[soft egret]

Half Life easter egg still here, where is my 9x39 deagle gsc come on

[warped monolith]

you get a crowbar and a headcrab and you'll be happy

[dim mountain]

[solemn vine]

well seems that some mods are not competible with the latest hotfix patch again

[finite needle]

The cables are back

btw the bug was amazing because the cables were still there, just they had the reverse vampire thing (visble in mirrors/water, invisible to the naked eye)

only GSC could find a way to make that happen

[remote eagle]

[solemn vine]

idk what they did but not a single mod is competible anymore

not even the simplest minor changes

[finite needle]

New patch usually means mods are fucked

It's been a pattern for a year now, and usually true for most other games ever since mods were invented

[late kernel]

Major updates cause major incompatibilities?

[finite needle]

I don't get the marvel, I'm sorry

[late kernel]

https://tenor.com/view/shock-shocker-shocked-black-guy-gif-27526370

[solemn vine]

still testing seems like oxa standart is working fine

[finite needle]

Never trust old mods

there was an epidemic of people complaining about invisible weapons, which turns out was due to an outdated mod

[humble nimbus]

so i just found a random ass

[finite needle]

but GSC being GSC people just blamed them

[humble nimbus]

artifact floating around outside. no detector needed

it wasn't even in an anomaly field

just a random steak

[nova lake]

give skif a bycicle that will permanently sap your stamina away and has 10x the hitbox of the player

[olive summit]

did the new update add any Ukranian lip sync for cutscenes?

[finite needle]

I think it's been a thing since 1.5

[olive summit]

whaaaaaat

[warped monolith]

heroes & generals moment

[hallow canopy]

Did the enroll the hot fix for 1.7?

[finite needle]

I mean the cables are back

so, I guess?

if they fixed the artefact sunking into the pits of hell too I'll be glad

[hallow canopy]

Did they fix the Poltergeist phasing its attacks thro walls?

[finite needle]

idk, there are like 3 poltergeists in game

[hallow canopy]

All of them

[finite needle]

and alife killed one of them in my run, thanks duty

[warped monolith]

DEADLY ANOMALIES, DANGEROUS MUTANTS, ANARCHISTS AND BANDITS

rare moment of duty actually doing its job?

incredible

[finite needle]

It was a squad of 6 and 4 died

but yeh

[warped monolith]

more loot for you

[hallow canopy]

Until they take it

[finite needle]

Now, I'm sure 3 of the died because they somehow spawned or moved into the glass anomaly, but still they killed the polter in cement factory and moved away

Anyway I've seen Ward clear areas of bandits and mutants, sometimes also Freedom. And, in this case, Duty.

The whole hub conquest thing isn't as cool as it sounds, as all it does is NPCs moving from point A to point B to engage with occupied territory, take it, chill on it and leave after a while or until engaged by 10 burers

[summer vapor]

Does ue4ss work?

[finite needle]

What I'm liking the most is 1 - they definitely added some old school sounds like the howling and shit 2 - fights with NPCs in the open are enjoyabe, they're still dumb but at lest they don't feel like bots anymore 3 - lights are pretty

[summer vapor]

did they fix artifacts sinking?

[finite needle]

Gotta try as soon as I get there

I'm working, I've just logged in to check out of curiosity, I can't really test it

but seems like not yet:

Yes, we fixed an issue where an A-Life NPC could appear in the prologue.
Fixed an issue where player could observe flickering Ward NPC at the checkpoint near Duga.
Fixed an issue where Strelok could repeat death animation after being searched.
Fixed an issue where few NPCs could stuck in a doorway of Malachite after the Emission.
Fixed an issue where dead bodies could appear in A-pose for a moment after appearing in the player's field of view.
Fixed an issue where some NPCs could get stuck on the staircase of 110 Rads Bar.
Fixed an issue where some NPCs could continue peeing during the movement.
Fixed an issue where NPCs could walk in place if they navigate to the dead body inside an anomaly.
Crash fix

Seems like a quick hotfix

[rotund mantle]

idk if i should just wait until 2.0 honestly

[humble nimbus]

telepathic mutants still throwing shit through walls

[finite needle]

Nope cables are not back

But you can see them in the water reflection

I guess it was just a quick a life fix patch

[rotund mantle]

i mean ill take alife stuff over power lines if anything

but thoughts on the game so far? im torn between finishing my anomaly run and starting first proper run of S2

[finite needle]

Honest opinion? If you already own it, it's a good time to go back. If you need to buy? Wait for next patch/dlc and possibly sale.

It is good but if you're into milsim stuff it might not be the game for you

[rotund mantle]

thank you for the thoughts yeah i own it been waiting since i preordered and naw not super into milsim atleast for stalker been a big fan of the trilogy and how it did things

[golden hazel]

THE CABLES ARE NOT REAL SKEEFA THE WARD WANTS TO SPREAD 5G THAT TURNS YOU INTO A WARDEN

[finite needle]

Truly the shinest of zones that

[torpid relic]

maybe the real powerlines where the S.T.A.L.K.E.Rs we made along the way

https://tenor.com/view/fcc-finch-chicken-channel-stalker-chernobyl-strelok-gif-25426279

[analog idol]

how to see the crash logs?

where are they stored

[torpid relic]

%appdata% > local > Stalker2 > Saved > Crashes > most recent folder.

I think that sould be it

i wish i could skip the whole prolog.

[finite needle]

You mean, the cutscene, the intro, Lesser Zone?

[tame lodge]

yes

[torpid relic]

everything till the point you get woken up by the dog

[finite needle]

Fair

[outer depot]

Crash logs are stored in the balls

[trim iron]

https://tenor.com/view/scrolling-ball-gif-27376828

[warped monolith]

keep a separate save at that point for every new game you start or something

[tame lodge]

some mod require completely fresh game no?

[warped monolith]

I dunno
but... surely there's a "skip prologue" mod

[tepid spade]

UNLIMITED

[crude estuary]

Would co op be fun do yall think?

[late kernel]

They should fully fix their game, first

[slow cave]

Would love it

But it’s sad because their multyplayer ideas as stated is

Not coop, they said pvp

Tragic because to me, the shooting would be terrible in pvp it’s awkward idk

[warped monolith]

extremely unlikely

[remote eagle]

i love doing cardio with my bro

[keen thunder]

I did update the drivers and have been playing on mostly Medium settings. Perhaps I’ll have to try it again, which settings do you keep at Medium?

[hallow canopy]

Almost all of them,apart from some minor details like shadows and lighting
And the FSR at Balanced

[keen thunder]

Ok sweet! The other issue I have is my CPU, it’s an Ryzen 3800X and it’s gotten as hot as 195F playing S2

I’ll download it again and try those settings and see how it goes though

[hallow canopy]

Yea thats over the top Hot dude
You might want to change your Thermal Paste and probably the cooling method

Also set your FPS count to 70 and that will limit how much the GPU and CPU will push performance

If you set it to auto or unlimited it will do its utmost best to work as hard as possible
Frying itself in the process

But first see that you make your PC not over heat by changing the thermal paste or different cooling block

[keen thunder]

Yea I thought my brother had applied a rather small amount of Thermal Paste last time we worked on my PC, I swear it was like a grain of rice…. So, we will hopefully be fixing that very soon and reapplying the TP.

I usually lock all my games at 60FPS to match my monitors refresh rate as well.

I’m going to try all of this out though! I took a screenshot of your messages so I don’t forget. Thank you immensely for taking the time to help me out and give me all this information!

Also now wondering if I should buy a couple more fans

[hallow canopy]

No Probleme
I also suggest a AiO Cooler instead
A 240mm one could work out

[slow cave]

Oh yeah same problem

I had to undervolt majorly

But overclock the max

66c now max for stalker 2 I don’t know how maybe it’s a cold house

But idk

[outer depot]

flashlight mod broke

nyoooooooooooo

[warped monolith]

noooooooooooooooooooo

we'll have to go back to the shitty vanilla flashlight

it's worse than Amnesia: The Bunker's wind-up flashlight from ww1

[tacit glacier]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1hdMPDqMxQ

[warped monolith]

good, right?
would be pretty funny if it got worse with all these updates over the year

people still say 7dtd is much worse now that it left early access, for example

[stoic lichen]

I mean with how… interesting those graphics look, I’m impressed they managed to fuck it up even more.

[warped monolith]

graphics

[stoic lichen]

Y’know what I meant.

[warped monolith]

No, I don't

[stoic lichen]

The graphics in seven days to die look outdated and I’ll be impressed if they made it run worse regardless of it.

[olive summit]

anyone know where tf the artifact is in the basement of the detention center with all the fire jets

detector going full beep but its just nowhere, been running around for an hour

[shadow stirrup]

I wish stalker spoke with russian/ukrainian accent instead of british

anyone using Lossless scaling with stalker 2 btw? I'd appreciate if you could share your settings

[tepid spade]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1425257528954191872/1440477303628107796/SPOILER_Ineedmoreframes.gif

[rotund mantle]

i hate the fun pimps so much

[shadow stirrup]

indeed

[slow cave]

Anyone have any clues

I opened the game for the first time in 8 months it runs way better

But my eyes hurt it looks terrible native rn

[trim totem]

use dlss dlaa

[slow cave]

Did they do anything?

[trim totem]

the game looks

[slow cave]

Nah I tried that myb

[trim totem]

game on native is kinda poopy bc of ue5 shading

[slow cave]

It looks worse than I remember but idk could be a sped fr

Yup; dlss on now

this looks worse still

[trim totem]

yeah

[slow cave]

Now am I crazy

[trim totem]

ue5 💔

[slow cave]

Or has it gotten worse?

Since updates of

Ig*

Maybe placebo

[wanton arch]

Make the render distance better it could help with you

Dlss balanced or quality

Sharpness to max

[slow cave]

Yeah I messed with all the dials in total

I’m just curious my question is

Did they change the graphics at all yet?

[warped monolith]

not about performance either, it was the game design. they changed it from a survival game to an open world exploration with way too many rpg elements

[stoic lichen]

I’m not that knowledgeable on the game, but wasn’t that game stuck in early access since like… 2016 or something?

[daring apex]

[broken mica]

guys i cant hear in the game like theres no sound at all

[slow cave]

Pretty much

They shit the game to death

Literally shit it

All over it

[stoic lichen]

Have you checked your audio output and settings?

[warped monolith]

2013 iirc

[tepid spade]

Its beyond comical how can someone give advice on any visual settings not knowing his actual system

[broken mica]

in game or main?

[stoic lichen]

In game.

[broken mica]

let me check

[stoic lichen]

Sometimes you gotta make sure the audio device and output are the same.

[wanton arch]

Tbf i do need to know his system so i can give the best graphic change advice

It's just that I'm assuming this dude could be rocking x050 card

💔

But eh

[tepid spade]

That was not about you btw just in general.

But I got your point considering that he doesn't see any visual improvements and thinks that game doesn't look good at all, then I would also consider that range of GPU

[tepid spade]

Game looks bad - I agree

[wanton arch]

God now i want to upgrade my card again because i want to spend

💔

But finding a reasonable jump from 9060XT to something better is just hard rn

[tepid spade]

Its never too late to buy better GPU 😅
Dig into those Black Friday deals 🔥

[wanton arch]

Waiting for the sale from my local store

But god gpu on a few more month prob going to get a hit by the ram supply

[warped monolith]

consoom

then mod your game to make it look worse

[outer depot]

game looks great I don't know what the problem is

[wanton arch]

The IC memory chip

That is what the ai shit buying

[tepid spade]

Visual overhauls and enabling real UE variables are not making any game look worse in any shape or form

[wanton arch]

It's good to buy a gpu now i will be honest

But later

Watch out

💔

5050 500$ soon

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/final-fantasy-vii-remake-cloud-strife-tifa-lockhart-aerith-gainsborough-cloti-gif-27060423

[tepid spade]

Garbage 😅

[wanton arch]

It's

But you could find one at like 150$ rn

[tepid spade]

Nothing bellow 16gb these days, otherwise you will eventually struggle and have to compromise with something. Just my opinion

[wanton arch]

If you buy 5050 you prob have like 1080p

8gb should work fine

[silver orchid]

Intended by the devs:

With laser miseryficator:

[wanton arch]

And better for whatever korean internet bang

[warped monolith]

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

[wanton arch]

Dis is peak stalker grim style

💔

[warped monolith]

wtf is this, color in my depressing vidya?

[burnt bolt]

was A life fixed

[silver orchid]

!hasalife

[fallen iron]

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[warped monolith]

dang

beat me to it

[burnt bolt]

sucks they took it off gamepass

only way i was playing it

[tepid spade]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-old-people-computer-technology-biff-gif-12085559

[warped monolith]

each new update improves a-life, now as for it being "fixed" depends on what you were expecting from it

[burnt bolt]

more like autonomy with the npcs like the original games, as in they dont spawn in a bubble or just are scripted in general

[silver orchid]

The A-Life now it's ok, not great, but is good

Is superior to the SoC and CoP A-Life systems

[burnt bolt]

ig im too used to anomaly

and am spoiled for A life

[tepid spade]

Those aimbot NPCs with wall hacks are the best delivery from GSC so far

[burnt bolt]

yes i forgot i was still in the gamma server

[silver orchid]

I can spoil u a detail of the promised A-Life 2.0

[burnt bolt]

enlighten me

please

[wide spindle]

Hey guys, does anyone know how I can fix this?

[burnt bolt]

i wanna justify buying it since its not on gamepass anymore

[wide spindle]

I updated and shieet, buildings are gone and so are textures

[burnt bolt]

any mods still installed?

[wide spindle]

I had some loaded in 1.5 before I deleted them and updated to 1.7 which is vanilla

[burnt bolt]

maybe they were messing with your texture files

[tepid spade]

Stop using those Aliexpress engine.ini files

[wide spindle]

wdym

[burnt bolt]

aliexpress is wild

[silver orchid]

Evgeniy Grigorovich (Director of Heart of Chornobyl) once said on a interview a few years ago (2023 or early 2024) that one of the features of the A-Life was have "dynamic faction leaders", the faction leaders would die on offline range.
And apart of that i don't remember more about the A-Life 2.0 thingis, and probably that feature never will be implemented but, idk.

[burnt bolt]

but like there never is any offline range

[warped monolith]

faction leaders dying would lead to massive breakage in quests and even storyline missions

[burnt bolt]

unless you mean that like 100m bubble

[silver orchid]

there offline range

[silver orchid]

that is online range

[burnt bolt]

but if thats their "offline" range then im not really excited

[silver orchid]

online range is when u can see the thingis, offline range are the thingis that are out of ur "range of vision"

[burnt bolt]

also ik this is stalker 2 chat but i cant find the gamma chat but fresh install and getting a fatal error for switching to 4k is wild

[warped monolith]

"offline" range is what actors (npcs and such) are doing outside the player's bubble, outside of render distance and so on

it's just background simulation

[wanton arch]

And burer in offline range is fucking broken

[burnt bolt]

so should i invest

[wanton arch]

Entire garbage

[burnt bolt]

or reinvest

but on steam this time

[wanton arch]

I only see burer and no stalkers / other mutants

[warped monolith]

try asking this in #╟🔰☢newbies-chat

[warped monolith]

I mean it's only natural that the mutant with telekinesis and a damage immunity bubble shield would sit at the top of the food chain

[wanton arch]

Fucking throw a fridge at me in the last play

What on earth with these burer dawg

[silver orchid]

Well, the 1.7.1 still is not a ideal experience but, if u want... Tho, personally i recommend wait more, but if u loved the game and that, buy it while u had the proper hardware for enjoy it.

[warped monolith]

sorry that was just too funny

[wanton arch]

[slow cave]

We using mods

[warped monolith]

reminded me of the good old days of Half-Life 2 Deathmatch

[slow cave]

Uh uh

[warped monolith]

throwing toilets at other people was fun.

[slow cave]

Yes

Nah mods are goated

[tepid spade]

No, we using tools instead

[slow cave]

Nah nah we using rocks

And stones

And sticks

Mud hut making in stalker 2 when?

[shadow stirrup]

Does the akm74 suck or am I trippin

[burnt bolt]

if i remember correctly i never really beat the game

i got stuck in pripyat after a squad i was supposed to kil for some key got murked before i got there and the key was missing

[warped monolith]

vanilla game has tiered weapons, so an AK you find at the start of the game isn't gonna do as much damage as something like a dnipro that you find later on

... or something along those lines

[shadow stirrup]

I'm new to the game, I have a VSS on a stash but couldn't find ammo for it

[burnt bolt]

games on sale for 42 bucks i might as well invest again

[shadow stirrup]

and this ak74m shit needs constant repairs

[burnt bolt]

first time?

[tepid spade]

But who cares how devs have intended the ENV tones, in this part of the world those so called intended tones are very far from reality what they intended to look like in the game. We do not have oversaturated ENV and especially in Ukrainian region where the roots of the game are.
2nd comparison is completley washed out garbage to say the least

[warped monolith]

r/whoosh

[golden hazel]

Me seeing that the A Life is functioning almost as good as the Clear Sky level of A Life

https://tenor.com/view/yep-gif-14695751784991438845

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-strelok-gif-6846341429631022830

[cyan solstice]

how's stalker 2 now?

[golden hazel]

Maybe 2nd anniversary we'll be at CoP of Pripyat levels

It'll be peak

And maybe just maybe THEYLL GET RID OF THE HARD CODED KEYBINDS COME ON GSC WHAT THE FUCK

[silver orchid]

eee

[wanton arch]

Now bring back faction war

I wanna see a small shoot out in malachite

🔥

[silver orchid]

now is a thingi

but at mini scale

miniminimini scale

[wanton arch]

Not yet as in base cannot be captured

[silver orchid]

Yeah, that's SUCKS

[trim totem]

dude that like dead zone mod on steam workshop is ASS

it takes out all of the vibes stalker 2 has witrh its colors

[wanton arch]

Idk how yall able to see vibrant color in triology

[silver orchid]

THIS HOW THE ZONE MUST LOOK!!!!!!!

[wanton arch]

[trim totem]

the zone needs to look DEAD AND GREY NOT LIKE ITS A LIVING THING 🗣️

[wanton arch]

Nah triology has it vibe

[trim totem]

i really like how modders are like the zone is grey n depressing when its depressing but not grey like all the time

the zone is very much meant to be full of life n color

😭

[wanton arch]

The colours

[trim totem]

even if the trilogy is grey sometimes its still full of life

[wanton arch]

I mean certain regions must have better colours like lesser zone

[silver orchid]

A SCORCHED AND INMERSIVE ZONE

[wanton arch]

Pripyat must be grim as possible

[trim totem]

yeah

[wanton arch]

Look at garbage dawg.

[silver orchid]

Skyboxes have a proper quantity of color on SoC and CS, that helps.

[wanton arch]

Bit a grim not washed out colours

😭

[silver orchid]

Im sure that the skybox is a photo irl on DDS

[wanton arch]

Yup

Low res tho

But it work

[wanton arch]

It just peak at this point

🔥

[golden hazel]

7.8/10 "Too much grass"

[tepid spade]

No saturation and vibrance

I thought GSC had correct colors

[burnt bolt]

ok

new pc still cant handle epic

had to swap to low graphics so i can get by the opening cutscene

[tepid spade]

How about little autumn vibe in the zone with a bit of cloud coverage and a sip of rain.

Few tweaks here and there and almost real life

I believe playable, no ?

[tepid spade]

So what are you trying to tell here with this ?
I am just curious coz I see art here from artist ngl.

[silver orchid]

red, im saying red

[tepid spade]

When was the last time you have been in the woods or forest ?

Except in game

[silver orchid]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/656399242683744266.gif?quality=lossless&name=aKianaSmug&size=48

[tepid spade]

Like in real life woods and forest - there is no red

[warped monolith]

real life has autumn

also it's silly to compare images and photos from overcast and cloudy skies with little direct sunlight

of course it's not gonna be as colorful as stalker 2 ingame when it's a sunny day lmao

[keen thunder]

I don’t know anything about under volting or over clocking my CPU and in scared to even try. But I would be so overjoyed to be able to rock S2 with 66c as a max temp

[tepid spade]

Thats why we are working to get most cinematic and photorealistic Zone.
We have all 11 weather states that are built in the engine and we can utilize them to adjust everything but that takes time.

I am gathering feedback, at least trying as much as I can to understand what you guys would like to see.

We are not trying to focus on overcast and no sunlight, we have it all and at this point with v1.7 I can tell that GSC Nanite & Lumen department have done some good job not perfect but way better for sure and that allows us to adjust things even more with right tools to get more natural feel.

[tepid spade]

Agree, but red color in autumn you know how long it lasts irl, not long therefore autumn mod is a great stuff along with Dead Zone but perhaps in near future it could be even possible to add dynamic weather cycle changes along with ENV change, like irl.

Capabilities are here to say the least

[wanton arch]

I swear lumen just need to be quicker

Like seeing the light slowly fading is just

It hurt my eyes and visibility on what im trying to do

[tepid spade]

I know its garbage, we need them to bacport 5.1 > 5.5 and give more advanced stuff to dealwith

Preferably hardware Ray Tracing

[tepid spade]

You cant do any harm to your CPU with Uv, you are just decresing the voltage.

[keen thunder]

How does one go about doing such?

[slow cave]

I gotchu

Just look up your gpu and how to undervolt; it will do it with you in vid

[shadow stirrup]

man this game feels like if I'm not hitting the enemies on the head I'm not dealing any damage

[visual dawn]

who are the dudes with a b logo

[icy basin]

Ward, or Варта (pronounced Varta) which is where the B comes from

[shadow stirrup]

nah b comes from bad guys cuz they r bad guys

[hallow canopy]

Fighting the Controller in Master Difficulty might be bit tough

Not because of the constant zoom attack and the Scream that almost 1 hit kills you
But the Random Spawning of a soldier behind your Back shooting at you almost instant is what gets me at least

I would much prefer the running at you ghost from the previous trilogy rather then a fictional soldier shoot at you
The damage isnt scaled by the Controller,but the bullets

[prime shell]

how is oxa overhaul with the new master difficulty? saw in the description about the combat being difficult on veteran

[hallow canopy]

The New overhaul is interesting
Apart from not having any compas and detection count,you are on your own with the tablet as your map to see where you are going

The Combat in Veteran is hard to compare with Master
Almost like its the same

but somehow I feel like Mutants take more,while humans take less
(more or less that depend on if its scripted or not)

[prime shell]

cool cool, will give it a poke on master then

[prime shell]

i instantly turned off every hud element in the base game apart from the life bar when i first played it, so been like that from the beginning for me

[hallow canopy]

I didnt bother to remove stuff,however you could in theory use the immersion mode to play and to change the FoV from 100 down to wished one I believe

[prime shell]

yeah the new immersion mode is nice, but it de-renders stuff quite close, least for me

[hallow canopy]

The LoD (loading of distance) I think its called like that
Is also bit buggy
Stuff in the distance randomly rendering

despite me having in the setting set to far

[pseudo falcon]

hmm weird
all mods work now

[hallow canopy]

Question
PPSh 41 in S2?
Yes / No ?

[summer vapor]

No

[hallow canopy]

How so?
We got it in Gamma

[trim totem]

bro looks so scared

[rotund mantle]

Gamma is a mod

[tame plinth]

Gamma is stalker 1

[rotund mantle]

Stalker 2 better fr

[slow cave]

myb cpu*

[slow cave]

Story yes

Gameplay to me nah

RPG ified stalker kinda

[nova lake]

Stalker is RPG fied by its core

it is, one of the core pillars of Stalker

[rotund mantle]

You played the trilogy right ?

Stalker never was milsim only western modders made it that way

Eastern modders kept the spirit of stalker true

[nova lake]

you know eastern modders also equalised all damage based on caliber right

[rotund mantle]

Oh fr?

I was more so meaning they didn't go full tacticool etc

[nova lake]

look Fate of the Zone up

[rotund mantle]

Oh yeah that one

Its much less common in the east then the west though

[slow cave]

Yes

It wasn’t mil sim

It was survival with less rpg elements

Stalker 2 took the opposite kinda

Less survival mode rpg

[nova lake]

it was an action fps with more rpg elements than survival ones tho

the entire game is based around progression of equipment based on RPG stats

S2 keeps it to SOC most of the time

[tepid spade]

Depends on your CPU, BIOS

[kindred violet]

Survival elements in stalker

[burnt bolt]

anyone know why my fps just drops for no reason every now and then

[white wadi]

Optimization no worky

[icy basin]

Texture loads in in the distance

[burnt bolt]

yeah my game is tweaking