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

[normal sentinel]

I’m guessing it happens due to all the chaos

[wanton arch]

i would say Duty are like not a big faction anymore

wait wtf why

[normal sentinel]

Some duty NPCs say freedom opened fire on them and a few other NPCs mention the treaty being broken

It’s easy to miss because it’s passive dialogue

At cement factory some dutiers also say Zulu is hatching a plan to eliminate all the mutants in the zone

It’s obviously setting up towards a rise

IMO

[wanton arch]

prob new propaganda for duty to recuit idk

[normal sentinel]

Duty feels like the brotherhood of steel from fallout

Kind of keeping to themselves but planning

[wanton arch]

instead of technology but eh

i mean no duty willing to have more members in ranking

[normal sentinel]

I haven’t beaten the game yet but it’s obvious Ward and Spark take massive losses during the campaign leaving a power vacuum

Seems pretty intuitive the first expansion will involve that being filled

[wanton arch]

sparks barely take any hit

nor Sparks even do much / have large faction

i mean we prob have to wait for whatever DLC

def not lismanks

[normal sentinel]

I guess playing the ward path makes it feel like they do

[tame lodge]

just like the multiplayer

[normal sentinel]

You wipe out multiple assault squads

[tame lodge]

have to wait for a lot of stuff

[wanton arch]

their faction is small

well not small because they are not really well on patrol like ward

[normal sentinel]

I’ve never seen a spark patrol

[wanton arch]

they do on malachite

[normal sentinel]

Meanwhile Degtyrev (sp) corps are freaking everywhere

The true chads

[wanton arch]

they are suppose to be "limited" in number btw.

[normal sentinel]

Prolly alife changes being wonky

I only started seeing them after SIRCAA

[wanton arch]

already see them after finishing zaton

[nocturne smelt]

It does but there is no meaningful impact on the gameplay.

Part of the story is as it unfolds Ward gets weakened by being directly involved in events. They can no longer maintain the status quo and have to keep pulling back their members to consolidate forces.

[normal sentinel]

Yeah that’s what I figured

Setting up the story for the dlc

[nocturne smelt]

Potentially.

The thing is it has to be a during story DLC. Anything after the main story wouldn't make sense.

So we will have to see how they implement them.

[normal sentinel]

Yeah we’ll see how they implement it

Maybe it’ll be like phantom liberty where you have to be at a certain point in the main story

[nocturne smelt]

That's what I'm thinking

Unless they pull a Metro and your playing a new character.

[normal sentinel]

I really hope it’s not a new character and stuff

Idk how that would work

I suppose you would enter the zone in a different state which could be cool, just feels like a huge scope that would be hard to pull off

[nocturne smelt]

Self contained story DLC, Like "Stories from the Zone!". Maybe you play out a campfire story.

There are ways to do it and they all suck.

I'd rather just play Skif.

[normal sentinel]

Think my main thing is wanting to see the zone overall more fleshed out and expanded

[nocturne smelt]

I want Limansk and the CNPP. Anything else is a bonus. But I want those 2.

[normal sentinel]

I think Limansk will happen

[slim moth]

limansk will be dope

[normal sentinel]

It was a really cool map on Clear Sky

Felt like a cozier Pripyat

Less commieblocks

Kinda mysetrious feeling

[slim moth]

need more urban areas

[nocturne smelt]

If they do include it I hope they make it more open rather then a straight shot gauntlet.

[slim moth]

i want to be able to go into almost every building

[nocturne smelt]

Agreed.

[slim moth]

make every window unsafe

[nocturne smelt]

Working your way up some of those apartment building in Pripyat is so cool. I want more of that.

[slim moth]

probably more roof to roof/ roof/street combat. ways to connect places underground. and if a-life be a-lifin' they should be everywhere

do need wool to find out how to get them to climb tho

[nocturne smelt]

Crazy that they don't know by default.

So many cheese spots they can't counter because of it.

[slim moth]

i was playing SPT and i went to woods (which sucks btw) but there were AI climbing rocks spotted me and tried sniping me from the rock cliff. im like, damn.

What if Limansk is only a PVP map

[normal sentinel]

Do you guys like the Kharod or Dnipro better

[warped monolith]

they pre-spawn on top of unreachable rocks

happens in some spots of shoreline and customs, as well

[slim moth]

damn they aren't that cool then

all the AI in the world and significant leaps in engine graphics and performance and NPC's are still always dumb af

[warped monolith]

on customs some AI scavs spawn on building rooftops with no access

[wanton arch]

you hardly can make them smart

[nocturne smelt]

I like the Kharod personally. The Unique Dnipro is awesome though.

[normal sentinel]

SPT?

[nocturne smelt]

You mean when they spawn properly and don't end up directly behind you.

[nocturne smelt]

Single Player Tarkov.

[normal sentinel]

Ah

[late kernel]

PVE Tarkov but better and moddable and can be played offline

Can also be played with friends

[wanton arch]

it just it's not interacting with other player from the flee

just that part

[late kernel]

Flea Market was a mistake

it cheapens the survival feel of the game

[silver orchid]

https://tenor.com/view/this-this-is-glorp-this-is-glorpshit-gif-5930131520514232711

[nocturne smelt]

Agreed, They made it slightly better restricting certain things but still a major mistake.

[wanton arch]

pretty sure SPT can be modded to the way that make the game easier

but that is your choice

[kindred violet]

yeah, there's quite a few "i came home from work and only got a couple of hours to play" kind of mods

[wanton arch]

did they implement the story yet

for the SPT

[late kernel]

It takes a month or two for SPT to update after every major update

1.0 will especially take longer to update to

[wanton arch]

prob going to be stuck on PVE for few more months

[nocturne smelt]

I think they stated not to expect 1.0 anytime soon. They are sticking with the revision they are currently on.

[wanton arch]

gg

[normal sentinel]

I really hope this artifacts spawning underground bug gets fixed on current saves

So annoying

[outer depot]

I thought it was kind of funny just how good Skifs pistol is at headshots ingame but honestly yeah I just drilled holes in holes with my Makarov at 10 yards today so you know what

Skif really is just that good

[normal sentinel]

Bandits wandering through the red forest with a tracksuit on

These guys are legendary

[slim moth]

i feel like i've only encountered one underground so far

oooo i leveled up

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-2-heart-of-chernobyl-stalker-flames-games-gif-16943607457949264123

[split crown]

truly no other way to do it

[rotund mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/itstommylove-tommylove-tommy-stalker-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-gif-9348303416213118815

[pseudo falcon]

i guess everyone here likes oxa prototype?

[slim moth]

very much

[winter halo]

Never sided as a Spark before so now I'm doing this playthrough. Is Malachite lost after that Ward incident in the main story or can I still sell mutant parts afterwards?

[normal sentinel]

I heard you can still fast travel inside and do whatever

https://youtu.be/tSkcrOIS5KQ?si=5NwXx1AzRPw_oLNi

Best part of the Faust fight tbh

[golden hazel]

HoC Tuah

Damn I didn't even know he had his own boss theme

Both times I fought him the memory leak made my sound bug out

[normal sentinel]

Lmao

Glad I didn't start the second half of the game until now

[golden hazel]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1315174387351031859/1438292811597221988/absoluteagreementx2.gif

[split crown]

Glad I won't start the 2nd half of the game till they finish the game

(I will start a new playthrough regardless by that point)

[shadow stirrup]

I am but Strelok told me if I'm friends with Ward I can't be friends with him :(

[slow cave]

Thank you

Thank you

[slow cave]

2 years til

[normal sentinel]

[split crown]

at the least

[shadow stirrup]

npcs still spawning right behind me and shit

where a life

[slow cave]

No where

Pseudo a life

I can’t believe it’s not a life

Type stuff

They had 5 years, 5 years of sitting on the word a life 2.0

And multyplayer

Bones of a life just got added and multyplayer just got started working on

They were just lying bruh crazy stuff

[golden hazel]

!noalife

[fallen iron]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1306683555488862319/1309254531602972753/Screenshot_2024-11-21-21-13-12-76_572064f74bd5f9fa804b05334aa4f912.jpg?ex=6740e9cd&is=673f984d&hm=4c16bf5a7fe14ff8f1b81027f51be666771f1c2eb28f8a82498b0e0f436dea10&

[slow cave]

Real

[shadow stirrup]

im starting to think a life is more of a marketing strategy than a game mechanic

it's kinda weird the best a life in all stalker games is in anomaly or gamma

don't lynch me for saying that

[kindred violet]

"best"

[shadow stirrup]

the best as in it works unlike S2

[summer vapor]

I wish GSC add large buildings or anomalous fields with multiple anomalies in the DLC, where you need to navigate like a labyrinth to get valuable artifacts

[slow cave]

Real

[kindred violet]

brother why do you keep posting ai slop bs

[summer vapor]

This is just a visualization of my ideas

[slow cave]

We can imagine it twin

[icy basin]

Pick up the pen mf

[icy basin]

Still spawns things in front of you from time to time so it ain't too much better

[sweet ice]

Hi guys, I just got STALKER 2 installed but my PC is not very powerful, its a laptop with GTX 1660Ti and Ryzen 5 4600H.....is there any guide I can follow to make the game perform decently while looking a bit better than the default low preset ?

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/themercslaughing-gif-20727637

[slow cave]

No

Or

Buy lossless scaling on steam

[summer vapor]

maybe this will help https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/899?tab=description

[shadow stirrup]

36 Hours in haven't seen a single dutyer

where are they anyway

[golden hazel]

Cemen Factory

[shadow stirrup]

Semen factory???

[golden hazel]

Deadly Anomalies, Dangerous Mutants, Cheat Days and Carbohydrates, None of them will stop Duty on its triumphant march towards getting shredded

But Bandits definitely will stop them

Monolith too

[outer shard]

Just completed stalker 2 idk what to think about the ending

[vague badge]

which one did you get?

[wanton arch]

Laybrinth

You mean underground labs but it's exposed to explore all the time

💔

Where we really lack in s2

Despite the triology is like

Lab search simulator

[wanton arch]

Shitty specs for extremely demanding title

Best to do is try to play in low res

Like 720p and use upscaling if that is available

Choose low textures and endable any frame gens you could get

[tame lodge]

Bro finna play on 160p resolution upscaled

[wanton arch]

You have to with that specs

[tame lodge]

At that point use geforce now

[wanton arch]

Jk it just some one trying to play s2 with gtx 1650

[tame lodge]

Or something

[wanton arch]

True.

Btw upscaling kinda use vram

I actually recommend not to use upscaling

If you try to play like native 1080p with just 8gb of vram or worse

[shadow stirrup]

I don't think we lack underground labs in S2

but the horror element is done much better in the trilogy

i still don't understand how stalkers couldn't find the X3 lab before skif

the game explains it like it's a suuuper secret impossible to find lab while it's a big ass door in the most obvious spot ever

[kindred violet]

it's less the finding more the opening part

[shadow stirrup]

bro I did a job for sido just to find the entrance

so the game could progress

[wanton arch]

We are actually lacking underground exploration of abandoned labs

Or old reused labs

Well sure we have newer bunkers and stuff

[wanton arch]

[rotund mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/akira-leave-me-alone-leave-me-alone-meme-gif-6420351794930725971

[wanton arch]

Why can't you play master difficulty without expedition mode
Got 1 hit by an electrical anomaly I didn't even touch and have to restart from beginning

[nocturne smelt]

The radius around anomalies seems larger on Master.

[rotund mantle]

this seems like dev oversight and kind of a big flaw i hate this dark souls master stuff give me trilogy master

devs like yeah guys lets give them 1 save on a super buggy and flawed game lets see how that goes

[wanton arch]

Not being able to skip the intro scene is weird too

[rotund mantle]

fr

intro should be skippable after doing it once imo

[wanton arch]

Yes

[shadow stirrup]

THAT GUY DOESNT LOOK LIKE DEGTYAREV AT ALL

HE HAS HAIR

[icy basin]

Let the man take a vacay in Turkiye

[shadow stirrup]

I'd buy him a İskender fr

[untold sail]

Are the deluxe/ultimate editions worth it for stalker 2?

[late kernel]

We didn't even get our first DLC, yet

[nocturne smelt]

No timeframe on one as far as I know either.

Would come down to if you value the in game items it gives you access too.

[untold sail]

So it offers just cosmetics?

[nocturne smelt]

Yeah, unique weapons and suits.

for untimate at least.

Not sure what deluxe does.

[sweet ice]

I miss those days when an older GPU let you play even newer titles (miss those days when RX 580 was the king)

[wanton arch]

it

is because there is setting for it.

or what i would say is the game you got during those day have better optimization (generaly)

and better occulling

aka ranged object are scaled down to like 1-2 poly and we use like

2d image as background

[tame lodge]

can you enter chemical plant for ward vendors when you get the ward badge?

[wanton arch]

yeah but early

nope

for some reason you get aggro even you have the badge

[nocturne smelt]

Combination of better optimization and Games not outpacing hardware by trying to push realism textures.

[wanton arch]

actually no

[tame lodge]

so you cant

[wanton arch]

lemme remember again

[sweet ice]

u mean like back in the day or are you talking about using lower settings now?

[wanton arch]

you should be

[wanton arch]

Lower setting still have too much polygons and high texturing

like 2016

[nocturne smelt]

You cannot, You only have access to the Stalker vendor outside.

[wanton arch]

sumthing

[nocturne smelt]

You get access to the chem plant way later in the story.

[sweet ice]

tru, tru.....nowadays engines have become gluttonous with how much resources they consume

[tame lodge]

ah ok

[wanton arch]

where like in Titain fall 2 some object only has like 2d or few Poly for their models

when you are too far from them

and most map are like

tiny

[wanton arch]

this is after duga i believe

[nocturne smelt]

Something like that yeah.

[wanton arch]

but which part of duga i could be spoiling

so let you experience

[wanton arch]

not really because they want the player to have more shit to do

if you look back to the day

maps for most game are like tiny and nothing

[tame lodge]

software evolves and so does the hardware

[wanton arch]

most preset are just 4 polys with simple low res texture bla bla bla

like wooden crate box is just 8 joints 4 faces

now it's like

Bazillion of it

[tame lodge]

reality is the 1650 super was a low range card even when it came out

[wanton arch]

it's

[tame lodge]

its been 6 years

[wanton arch]

and prob only worthy 1650 at it's time ?

i mean 50 class are ass but there are few card that is considered decent for it's time

[tame lodge]

i guess it was decent yeah

[wanton arch]

5050 is "Good" i will be honest

[tame lodge]

for the money you can get a b580

[wanton arch]

intel card are rare rn i will be honest

even A770 is hard to find

[tame lodge]

fair enough im running one rn and i like it

I think they stopped making A770s

supposedly the bigger B770 should be coming soon

[wanton arch]

hope so

and i hope the driver will not be fucked that much when they release newer card

[tame lodge]

I think they matured fast enough with the B580 that it shouldnt be a problem

same architecture just scaled up

[wanton arch]

not really because it's that long for them to refined B580

longer than the "AMD Driver" meme thingy

[tame lodge]

they were fighting an uphill battle and for what its worth their improvement rate is great

the B580 released last december

[wanton arch]

Sure i guess

[tame lodge]

and i had it running great since then with some issues in certain games

in august or late july

they mitigated the overhead

[wanton arch]

mostly rendering issue right

[tame lodge]

so it runs most stuff great now

it will last me for a few more years and then i will see if I want something else

[nocturne smelt]

I'm still chugging along with a 3080.

Normally I would have upgraded but I didn't find the 50 series overly appealing.

[tame lodge]

price to perf isnt there for sure

[wanton arch]

if you went for 5080 it's around half of performance jump in general

but hey

it's about you rn having any issue with the PC itself

if you do you def need to upgrade it

[hallow canopy]

LOL

[somber ravine]

Hmm i have high fps 80+ in S2 but game seems to be not smooth

[wanton arch]

check your 1% low

and i would suggest that your GPU / CPU should be loading at least ~70% / 40% respectively

more head room - more stability = higher 1% low

[tame lodge]

u using fg?

[rotund mantle]

Aye bandit shrine lol

[somber ravine]

will check that

[shadow stirrup]

cats have TOO MUCH health for no reason

I hate cats in this game

[outer depot]

always go to Malachite early

[normal sentinel]

Jumpscare

[shadow stirrup]

weird anomaly if i do say so myself

[normal sentinel]

[wanton arch]

all mutants that can attack with physic should be a glass cannon fr fr fr fr

[shadow stirrup]

okay what the fuck am I supposed to do in scar fight

I'm pressing buttons and shit

who the fuck in gsc thought these bossfights were fun

[trim iron]

Yeah, that was an annoying one.
||You have to run to the red buttons, wait for him to get close, then press the button to disable his shield. While the shield is down, do as much damage as you can.||

[shadow stirrup]

he isn't getting stunned for some reason even though he is in the buttons zone

maybe some kind of bug idk

but this shit sucks ass

[trim iron]

That sounds like a bug yes

[shadow stirrup]

man I'm done

imma go back playing gamma

[trim iron]

Using any mods?

[shadow stirrup]

I'm not gonna bother, after 20 hours game started to feel stale so I'm not having fun

goodbye stalker2 chat👋🏻

[trim iron]

Agreed, give it another year

[golden hazel]

HoC Tuah Stalk on that zone

[split crown]

feel that

[slim moth]

Scar's fight was one of my favorite in the game lmao

[wicked sail]

stalker 2 with mods worth playing now?

[slim moth]

monday

mods are broke broke

[golden hazel]

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

[wanton arch]

Either it's not broken and he just activated it while the scar is not in the actual proximity

you need him to be near the TV then activate it

Not activating and lead him to it

😭

It's a simple blink

[nocturne smelt]

I found most of those fights to be too gimmicky, But what do I know.

[slim moth]

Like all bosses are kinda supposed to be but meh

[nocturne smelt]

Yeah I mean, I understand why you like them. I just didn't find anything original about them.

[slow cave]

Scar?

Nah

I’m fighting a guy with a cool jacket

He’s not worthy of the title scar

https://tenor.com/view/сталкер-меми-stalker-monolit-gif-9085978520748571329

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA THE COPPER WIRE CALLS AND IT MUST BE STOLEN

[rotund mantle]

Scar died fighting heroically at the cnpp in cs for me imo

[golden hazel]

Clear Sky Scar is very likely being stored in the Noosphere by C-Con or being used by Clear Sky in Limansk

[nocturne smelt]

|| Well, Seeing as he was an Agent of C-con during clear sky also... Possibly. ||

[golden hazel]

Technically speaking even Clear Sky Scar isn't even the real Scar either, by the time that game takes place he'd already been reprogrammed multiple times

[nocturne smelt]

Going to spoiler that one.

[nocturne smelt]

Yeah, That's my point.

[normal sentinel]

Lmfao

Does anything about Lebedev come up in stalker 2 besides the clear sky base pdas?

[golden hazel]

Not really

[normal sentinel]

Wonder if he’ll make a comeback

He sorta just vanishes

[golden hazel]

He most likely was a loose end that MDST wanted to get rid of tbh

[split crown]

well, it was quite heavily implied that his noggin along with all the other CS units' noggins that went with him to the CNPP got fried from the final emission that occurs in Clear Sky

[normal sentinel]

I’m pretty sure he’s part of MDST

[golden hazel]

Correct

[nocturne smelt]

Kind of a complete waste of a resource on C-Cons part. I'm sure when it was written the S2 lore wasn't a thing though.

[slow cave]

Twin

He gone

No other man has had his mind ripped and survived I don’t think

Maybe actually idk

[nocturne smelt]

Whos gone?

[golden hazel]

Yeah maybe if he wasn't a granite level c con agent with level 5 psy resistance

[nocturne smelt]

What they did to Marshal was messed up lol.

[golden hazel]

[tame lodge]

Man the game even with its faults is kinda peak

I understand it now

Just got done with azimuth

[nocturne smelt]

One of my favorite missions.

[slow cave]

Twin

His mind was wiped clean

[golden hazel]

He grew resistance to it by the time Clear Sky happened so no not really

[slow cave]

I mean yeah he gained resistance true

But like if they don’t store his mind or any mind can’t remember jf they do

He’s gone; Marshall overwrote fr

[golden hazel]

And during the last cutscenes in the spark ending you can see him start to break through his programming until Skif girl bosses him into doing it

Which is also odd that in that ending the C-Con proves Subtle Matter exists

[slow cave]

Wait never got that ending

What do you mean by he came back

Because isn’t it like the Marshall is another dude shoved into his empty mind?

[wanton arch]

either Subtle matter are illusion

[slow cave]

Or is it just a training to be like Marshall

[wanton arch]

it's just a training or "coding" their brain into whatever they need to do

[golden hazel]

Yeah that

[wanton arch]

tho Subtle matter for what i consider is just a network that can affect brain

the 5G curse

[slow cave]

Damn they made me believe scar was like fully wiped gone

And Marshall got swapped in

[golden hazel]

Nah he was 100% still in there

[nocturne smelt]

They gave him Marshals memory and personality. They didn't completely wipe him.

[wanton arch]

again either we hit too much fent or it's reall subtle matter is a network that really store memories and people around

[golden hazel]

Spark ending shows us proof of it existing but every other ending shows it's more like a mind prison of a copy of someone's memories

[nocturne smelt]

The whole point was to motivate him to resurrect spark with the sole focus on combating the ward. Who better than a person who lived through the purge at the chemical factory at the hands of the Ward.

Sole survivor at that.

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA THE WARD IS CRINGE THEY PUSHED ME TO THE EDGE ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD SKEEFA

[nocturne smelt]

I mean, Basically. But it's all marshal's memories.

[wanton arch]

tbf if you understand the subtle matter

SIRCAA could be just

yk

taking over the world with it

https://gif.fxtwitter.com/tweet_video/G6ejxTUbIAA8xNK.gif

[golden hazel]

That's what the Ward ending is

[wanton arch]

he got a house at least

[nocturne smelt]

It's heavily implied that the Ward (the group behind them) is into shadey shit.

[golden hazel]

The SKEEFA that sold the world

https://tenor.com/view/invisible-snake-mgs-mgsv-walk-gif-11923251709350287306

[golden hazel]

Ah yes, The Group that isn't The Group but is an entirely different The Group

[nocturne smelt]

Gotta have secret organizations I guess.

[golden hazel]

Secret org within a secret org

Tale as old as time

[nocturne smelt]

Shadow Goverment level shit right there.

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/shadow-wizard-money-gang-shadow-wizard-money-gang-gif-17925654032794413967

[silver orchid]

the real problem

is that simply Scar it's alive

[golden hazel]

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

[slow cave]

Mind me asking you got a clip of this

I’m tryna see it without playing

[nocturne smelt]

You can probably find it on YouTube pretty easily. I think all of the endings are on there.

[golden hazel]

https://youtu.be/fty8zEHb-as?si=OiUXkqwYE9quxTuj&t=256

[nocturne smelt]

There should have been a 3rd option to let him make up his own mind.

[slow cave]

Now don’t get me if I’m wrong

But like isn’t that just Marshall

Being doubt filled

[golden hazel]

Nah

[slow cave]

He’s a snivveling dude fr just curious

How so fr trying to understand

[nocturne smelt]

I don't think marshall had anything to do with the shining zone. He was apart of spark pre all of that nonsense.

[slow cave]

Thought it’d be you’d hear a drastic change fr

[nocturne smelt]

Like the original spark was nothing like Scars.

[golden hazel]

The shining zone programming was done by the C-Con, the memory base to kickstart it was Marshall's memories

[nocturne smelt]

This, Exactly this. This is how I understood it also.

[slow cave]

I wonder if the game says it’s Marshall but it’s just a mix of both due to like his mind being so malleable and unsure

“We see others dreams”

Also yall think the dlc will have scar?

[golden hazel]

If it's a Limansk DLC we will 100% see the old Scar

That'd be another fumble by C-Con/Clear Sky if they didn't back up the old Scar

[nocturne smelt]

Not sure, I have no idea what their DLC plans are going to be. I just hope it's pre-ending and we still play Skif.

[slow cave]

I just want old scar back bruh this new insane one to me was so weak

I mean that’s a good idea fr

I just want to see new story

Like after the ending because then how would we get scar fr

[nocturne smelt]

I'd hate for them to release some self contained "New perspective" DLC

[slow cave]

https://tenor.com/view/please7tv-please-beg-pray-hope-gif-3860103425950934673

“Please strelok strike them down”

[slow cave]

I’d want them to do basically just skif after

Did they’d say the ending chosen fr

[nocturne smelt]

No, Nothing is cannon atm.

[golden hazel]

They could absolutely go for the ultimate nostalgia bait route and make the Strelok ending canon and have you play as a "New" stalker that ends up being the new host body for Scar(CS) in Limansk

[warped monolith]

kinda hard to "see new story" if ppl just want to see the old characters exactly the same as they were in the old games

[nocturne smelt]

I really don't think they will do post ending DLCs.

[golden hazel]

The skies are the limit with what they could do for DLCs

[warped monolith]

besides is it really all that surprising that the characters from the OG trilogy are almost all insane? They've been in the zone for a decade, maybe more

[golden hazel]

They could pull a cyberpunk and make it an alternate ending, they could make it a post ending dlc, they could make it a prequel dlc

[golden hazel]

Not Rizztyarev

https://tenor.com/view/degtyarev-major-call-of-pripyat-stalker-gif-15874450334199817648

[slow cave]

Strelok ending because

Strelok

Also yeah I want degtyarev to come back to a ruined zone or something

[nocturne smelt]

They could, I just don't think they will.

[slow cave]

And it’s just new zone but takes place mainly in new areas

[golden hazel]

Heck they could even make the new dlc be in a completely different region after the Project Y ending

It would give some more payoff to the fact that there are generators all across the world

and the whole Journalist storyline

Since it's paywalled

[slow cave]

I still think about how they walled off past locations just to make people pay for it for dlc

[golden hazel]

With how they tried with NFTs it didn't end up being that big of a surprise

[slow cave]

Wait what

Damn nfts is bad

[warped monolith]

well we already knew the game would have at least 1 story dlc before it came out

[slow cave]

Lame ah hell nft makers

“We have to wall it off to earn back our money”

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/dr-evil-one-billion-dollars-haha-money-gif-16679435

[silver orchid]

If the next DLC has the same or more quantity of nostalgiabaits

[lament geyser]

Has anyone by chance made a mod for classic medkit animation yet instead of those pesky epipens?

[golden hazel]

I'm telling ya, Clear Sky is building a Brain Scorcher in Limansk

[lament geyser]

You mean the baby duga next to the construction site?

[silver orchid]

https://tenor.com/view/bro-just-typing-shit-bro-just-typing-shit-gif-18336060238854257551

[golden hazel]

There's no way they aren't

[silver orchid]

how bout about release S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2: Old Concept and see if that has less nostalgiabaits and more interesting quests

[golden hazel]

lmao

[silver orchid]

I think that Old Concept should be less worse on "years that has been passed --- how it feels", because S2 was set on 2015

[lament geyser]

Damn the lootable/craftable zone mods have gotten insane

[slow cave]

||ain’t it wild the endings that most likely could be canon is skif becomes a tube baby or strelok does that and traps everyone in||

[nocturne smelt]

Pretty much.

They could also do Scars I guess.

[golden hazel]

Even the Scar one would be canon it all depends on where they go with the story

Imagine that's how they introduce Stalknite Battle Royale

Building structures fighting in the noosphere

[nocturne smelt]

The least likely to me is Ward or Project Y. They both have massive impacts that I don't see follow ups with. But anything is possible with the right writing.

[silver orchid]

I want news of this thingi😭
https://www.dezowave.com/stalker-2-old-concept/

[golden hazel]

Oh shit Dezowave

in the year of our lord 2025

[silver orchid]

They are developing their own games, and this

[golden hazel]

I can't believe they predicted the illuminati in Stalker 2 with Lost Alpha lmao

[silver orchid]

Just Dezodor and Loxotron remains

[silver orchid]

Laugh or whatever u want

[slow cave]

Nah man

[silver orchid]

But i read once that possibly GSC maked that canon, being inspired by that

[slow cave]

Can’t have skif basically be prepared to be eaten by dogs

[golden hazel]

[slow cave]

Sucks strelok is like

Best way to do it

Trap everyone in here

Even you skif who came here after your apartment blew up😭

[silver orchid]

https://github.com/bazik210/xray_2
Loxotron is the dev of the engine of OC

[nocturne smelt]

I mean if we are talking Stalker 3 they most definitely could.

[slow cave]

Not having my main boy be eaten

Id rather him be trapped

[golden hazel]

He knows about the global generator network so likely that decision in the end is to stop the illuminati or whatever their super secret faction is called from accessing the generators ever

[slow cave]

Real

Just sucks it’s like cut off means of supply from the outside

So everyone’s either gonna grow stuff or die

[golden hazel]

It is what it is

[slow cave]

Real

Or skif go into the tube and ruin the world😭

My boy just wants to go back to his apartment fr

Always found that part funny

“A meteor hit my apartment”

[lament geyser]

What are your theories about the ward ending?

[golden hazel]

I see that part of the endings with Strelok's being "You lost your home, welcome to prison"
Scar's being "My home is the shining zone"
Project Y being "The zone is my home, time to make the zone everywhere"
Ward's being "Congrats you got a new apartment and guaranteed all of humanity is under the illuminati's control"

[slow cave]

Real

Strelok just kinda like could have closed it off but not forever

[nocturne smelt]

He's either off to live a lame life outside the zone... Or Ward is going to control him like an Agent.

[slow cave]

Be the guardian like he said and open it for those wanting it

And scar is just delusion lol

Love it so much

Wish it was real

[lament geyser]

But what about the camera zooming out of his view.. couldnt it be that its just a controlled memory and he is sitting somewhere with foam on his mouth?

[golden hazel]

Nah, he's just an agent

Remember the Dark One?

[slow cave]

For which ending

[golden hazel]

Pretty sure he's talking about the Ward one

[lament geyser]

Yes

Where his mind is one of the thousand panopticum screens

[nocturne smelt]

To be honest, I think Skif is fucked no matter what lol. We have never had a repeat protagonist and he is not Strelok. So...

[golden hazel]

The only protag that survives in almost every timeline is the inventor of the zone grindset, Rizztyarev

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-сталкер-degtyarev-monolith-merc-gif-22302288

[nocturne smelt]

What a gif lol.

[lament geyser]

I think he was fucked from the start. He didnt venture to the zone because they blew up his shitty concreteblock apartment but because he couldnt find peace after serving . His first diary entry literally is "i served in hell for 3 years, now i smoke and drink all day and sell illegal stuff and watch tv as it was a window" - Bro cant recalibrate to normal life again, so he's taking his first chance to make it everybody elses problem haha. Skif also is not a good person.

[golden hazel]

Stalker 5 will be out and Degtyarev will probably still be alive

[nocturne smelt]

I want more content with the corp.

[golden hazel]

Dude was fist fighting an augmented exo far beyond even high end ones he has the sauce

[slow cave]

That’s because he just isn’t there😭

[lament geyser]

CoP be like

Degtyarev: Why did these choppers crash?

Strelok: Anomalies change places after emissions now and then. (Fucking basic zone knowledge)

Degtyarev: Damn.

[slow cave]

That’s the hardcore Henry director for you

[golden hazel]

Degtyarev is the Chris Redfield of Stalker

https://tenor.com/view/rock-smash-angry-resident-evil-chris-gif-15977463

[slow cave]

Nah

Bro was a normal dude

More like Hunk

He’s my uninformed goat

Also speaking of Chris redfield; re8 coulda been prevented if he chose to say “yeah you’re wife ain’t your wife lol” instead of “nuh uh stay out of this Ethan”

[lament geyser]

Strelok: Brainwashed Lunatic with good Intentions

Scar: Merc with Merc intentions that got brainwashed like 3 times so just a lunatic with lunatic intentions.

Deggy: A soldier that got a bit too invested and then got a bit too invested even more

Skif: Restless ex-soldier with anger issues

[golden hazel]

HUNK would've flattened Korshunov and still made it in time for lunch, Degtyarev is still in his growth arc, next game/dlc he's gonna be fist fighting a pseudogiant

[slow cave]

Brainwashed

Nah he’s just a lunatic

Strelok my king

[slow cave]

I hope

Skif I wish stayed longer fr

He’s my goat because he feels like a shell, but not a shell

More comparable to us entering the zone as a new guy

And he… speaks fr

[lament geyser]

First thing you see of skif:

"Bro you destroyed my flat, now i will flatline you unless i get a new one"

Proceeds to say some badass stuff in deep ukrainian voice crushing hermans hand.

I knew it would be a fun ride at that point

[nocturne smelt]

lol, Foma... They kind of fixed it now I think.

I sniped him from below and when I got up top he was sitting against a wall.

Kind of sad he was in the original Strider group and he betrays him in the end. Oh well.

[golden hazel]

With how all the quest and item interactions were bugged I wonder how many of them are still bugged

I remember for the longest time Spirit couldn't even be revived cause the red lamp item was bugged

[nocturne smelt]

I know the dude at the top of the Mill in Cordon can't be revived because it won't give you the option due to how he is laying up there.

So I normally just shoot him in the face and take his unique AKS-74u.

[wanton arch]

do you have oxa proto

[nocturne smelt]

Yes.

[wanton arch]

yeah that is the issue

[nocturne smelt]

I'm pretty sure I had the same problem with Vanilla. Why do you think it's OXA Proto?

[wanton arch]

nope i never have issue with healing in Vanilla

until i have Oxa Proto where healing

[nocturne smelt]

It's not an issue with healing, Every other one is fine. It's just that one guy.

[wanton arch]

The stim where you use for the NPC is just

never

nah i used oxa proto and every single NPC that has been laying down will too long taking too much meds ( i was hoarding bad stim )

[nocturne smelt]

It's over time, And depending on how hurt they are you may need to use 2.

Yeah, Don't carry the expired ones.

[wanton arch]

12 stims.

nonstop

[nocturne smelt]

Expired? Or the yellow ones?

[wanton arch]

it's the red circular long

i mean it's the expired med stim

[nocturne smelt]

Yeah, That's your issue.

The meds work on the NPCs the same they work on you.

Inorder for them to be revived they need to heal a certain amount.

Those expired ones dont heal for shit.

[wanton arch]

pretty sure it just heal for just

little

[nocturne smelt]

5 health.

50 over 30 seconds.

[wanton arch]

yep

[nocturne smelt]

And you need to wait the 30 seconds for the 50 health to apply to the npc.

[normal sentinel]

So far I’ve only noticed the scientist in the maze at garbage being bugged

He’s just not there

[nocturne smelt]

Scientist in the maze... Not sure who you are referring too.

[golden hazel]

Sounds like a sussy individual, a baka , even

[normal sentinel]

There’s a scientist in the junk maze that gives a SOS when you’re near it

You have to kill a poltergeist and save him

I think it’s meant for early game and I didn’t come across it until late

[nocturne smelt]

Have you done the main quest that sends you there yet?

[normal sentinel]

He wasn’t there when I did the main quest

I assume you’re supposed to revisit it or something got bugged

[nocturne smelt]

He wont be. He shows up after if you go back as a random encounter.

[normal sentinel]

Yeah I went back and got the radio message but he wasn’t anywhere to be found

Loot was great though

[nocturne smelt]

Strange. Maybe he spawned under the ground or something.

[normal sentinel]

Lmao could be

The wonkiest thing I’ve seen so far is zombies getting up have their weapons flailing around in really broken ways

And stealth is overturned for some encounters

[nocturne smelt]

and doesn't work at all for others.

[normal sentinel]

Main thing is you can down a guy and his buddies don’t instant aggro

[nocturne smelt]

Depends on how the group is scripted. Some encounters have the squad linked.

Also depends on how far away you are.

But certain groups operate like a hive mind. I hate it.

[normal sentinel]

Interesting, that would make sense

[quiet scarab]

Hi, sorry if this isn't the right chat to ask this, but can someone please help me install this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmvMq22iUpE

[nocturne smelt]

Looks like Gamma, Try here https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1029824156289732649

[quiet scarab]

tnks

[icy basin]

Atmos is already in gamma AND the feature isn't even out yet

[slow cave]

Does anyone have any mods that like

Make puddles and water like that one soc 2015 mod

Can’t find the mod

For the reference

Fuck

[somber ravine]

duty slander always makes me happy

[tacit glacier]

It not only only grants 5hp only
It also induces the dizziness effect drinking vodka and beer usually induces

So if you end up using multiple in a row in a panic you also get dizzy, lmao

[nocturne smelt]

It seems to be a common thing with people using Prototype. So many people carrying around KGs worth of useless medkits and bandages.

[tacit glacier]

BRUH

https://www.vxreddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1pgwfiz/the_strelok_artifact_has_started_spawning_all/

You can apparently just find the Heart of Chornobyl on the floor

How tf do you break the game so hard, lmao

[icy basin]

Honestly not the worst bug
Just funni

[kindred violet]

Yeah this is funny af and pretty harmless

[icy basin]

"Oh cool, you found one too, Strelok. I have like 30"

[kindred violet]

Stalker 2 Hearts of chornobyl more like

I wonder what their price is

[tacit glacier]

... And this is why I think GSC should remove mutants knocking players over
https://www.vxreddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1pgwg2i/out_of_the_frying_pan_into_the_fire/

Two bloodsuckers, out of which one knocks you down, the other finishes the job

[icy basin]

Teaming in single player game

[tacit glacier]

Humble (CantBeKnockedDown) mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3521435542

[icy basin]

Back in my day we wore Havel's set

[normal sentinel]

Lmao

[sweet ice]

Guys are there any must-have mods/mod packs for the game? I just started playing it.When the game initially launched I heard that trades/techies were unfair and like enemies were bullet spongy. Is this still true? If so any mods to fix this? Also does the game have a crafting system like GAMMA. Like I don't wanna do the story quest rn, kinda just wanna keep exploring freely....kinda like GAMMA (ik GAMMA and what GSC wants to make are different things)

[sweet ice]

Also aiming feels a bit weird...even though I am getting 40-50 fps with low-medium settings.... compared to gamma aiming feels weird....is there any fix for that ? Is it just me, like do I just need to change mouse sensitivity ?

[kindred violet]

There's the freeplay mod (i don't know if it's been updated for 1.7 yet) and stuff like stalker unlimited and oxa that are pretty cool

As for crafting there's craftable and lootable zone

[kindred violet]

Do you have FSR on?

That will cause mouse input lag

[sweet ice]

Yes Xess is on, I am using a GTX 1660Ti.... though it is on quality, should I turn it down to performance or turn off upscaling completely ?

[kindred violet]

Keep upscaling on, you'll need it haha

But turn off frame gen if possible

Also godspeed for trying to get it to run on an 1660 ti

[tame lodge]

Real

[kindred violet]

You might be better off capping it at 30fps to at least get a "smooth" 30

[tacit glacier]

From my experience FSR doesn't work any anything that isn't an AMD GPU it seems

Which is hilarious considering it works fine in Dying Light The Beast

[tame lodge]

Thats weird

[nocturne smelt]

FSR seems to work with my 3080. But there are some major fps dips sometimes where it feels like it disabled itself and then comes back after a little bit. Also had an issue with extremely low fps after loading a save. This seems to have lessened after updating nvidia drivers.

I have been trying to figure out the cause but no luck so far.

[kindred violet]

I've got the same thing with my 3080, don't know what causes it either

Curious to see if it behaves the same with my new gpu

[hushed garden]

RX580 8GB refuses to die 😄

FSR is true carrier, doubling FPS on Native AA

[kindred violet]

If anything your cpu is carrying hard

[hushed garden]

true, but still crap optimisation, have 100+ fps in bf6 on high

[hushed garden]

my modlist

[clever herald]

wait did they remove exo?

[nocturne smelt]

Are you running any overhaul mods that change world spawns?

[clever herald]

only these

maybe 2nd one is broken i dont know

[nocturne smelt]

Nah, nothing there should be affecting it.

[clever herald]

weird

maybe am i too early

[nocturne smelt]

Possibly, They could have moved it also. They have moved some other items around in past patches.

[kindred violet]

Also the last mod is absolutely deprecated, since you can just skip it in vanilla now

As for the second mod I have my doubts that it's updated :D

[clever herald]

yeah me too :D

[hushed garden]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/410

you can always increase carry weight 😄

[wanton arch]

THEY HAVE TO REMOVE STUN

STUN IS NEVER FUN

IT'S WILL NEVER BE FUN

PEOPLE IN PVP GAME EVEN HATE STUN RAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[clever herald]

@nocturne smelt lmao

[nocturne smelt]

Yeah, Figured it was going to be something like that.

People would get up there super early in a playthrough.

[prime shell]

patch release

[warped monolith]

pog

[prime shell]

oh shit

over 2hrs till can try it =( if mods continue to work that is

[icy basin]

@wise schooner You're saved

[warped monolith]

we are all saved

[icy basin]

Anyway about that engine update

[sweet ice]

thanks....will try these once I get vortex installed

PS : I have sorta gotten used to the gamma style of playing i.e. where you get to pick a couple of inital weapons to start with and rn as I am trying to do quests with only skif's pistol and spending whatever creds I get on ammo and meds in Zalyssia, I just end up getting killed by dogs.....is this just skill issue? or is there a mod for having that kind of start to the game ? or any tips on how to get koupons quickly to buy at least a shotgun

[hushed garden]

nah, S2 is like original trilogy, you get pistol and then fend for yourself

you can always get a spawner and give yourself a weapon you want like with GAMMA start ^^

as for the tips, i cant be of much help because i modded game heavily from the start

my experience would differ alot from vanilla one

[tame lodge]

surely they will do it in time for christmas

guns on vanilla are pretty abundant i feel

idk if you skipped the quest right at the beginning to rescue one of richters friends from bandits

it gives you a stash with a gun right away

[summer vapor]

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

[warped monolith]

good joke

[outer depot]

Oh good I’ve been having to fucking sprint into anomaly fields to grab the artifacts in the half second window before they fall through the ground

[hallow canopy]

Soo I have managed to Nail Faust with a Single Direct hit RPG to the face and beat him

In Master Mode

I never wanna do that fight again

And then a Gauss rifle Monolith came out of nowhere that almost one tap me

It seems like a broken Mosin in Stalker 2 is better and more efficient than in Gamma

[nocturne smelt]

That's because their weapon durability system is kind of softcore. It only affects jam chance. No lowered stats or anything.

[outer depot]

Tbh the only way a Mosin can really “break” is if the firing pin breaks, the extractor breaks, or it OOBs and blows up because that’s just a thing Mosins do

Ask me how I know

Otherwise yeah so long as you don’t literally have zero rifling left in your barrel or the stock has broken in half from using it as a mallet, it should be pretty hard for it to be broken in a way bad enough to keep you from using it

[warped monolith]

what's OOB

[hallow canopy]

In Stalker 2 the feeding mechanism of the magazine gets the bullet stuck what actually is realistic, and in Gamma the muzzle break missing, cant fire it cheif
Its not Soft its exactly how durability should be, but in Gamma its overly stupid

[nocturne smelt]

Out of Battery

[outer depot]

The Mosin has this funny thing it can do that since it’s an uncontrolled feed (round isn’t being held by the extractor until the bolt rotates closed to lock) the round can sometimes be out of alignment with the chamber when closing, get jammed at a weird angle, and then rim around the bolt face can put enough pressure on the primer as you’re still pushing the round home to set it off

And it does a funny and hurts you

[warped monolith]

garbage rod indeed

[outer depot]

It’s entirely random if this happens or not, literally the only way to tell is if you see it or you notice the resistance and stop instantly… but Mosin bolts already kinda suck and can be very rough in or out so lol

Happened to a friend right next to me

[outer depot]

Yeah follower mechanism fucking up or a stuck case that won’t extract is normal enough

[normal sentinel]

Hahaha

So that’s why they give you the rpg around Duga

[tame lodge]

emission came in right as I was about to enter camp icarus

and they shot me

so I cant even hide

[nocturne smelt]

Could you hoof it back to the checkpoint? I think the trailer acts as a safe spot.

[tame lodge]

I did just now

thank god theres that

[sweet ice]

so how do I tell if there is an emission outside ? or its just stormy weather? like its green and stormy outside, does that mean its emission rn? I just did the Valik Lummox quest and entered his building near the water tower (apologies, like does the game show you something on HUD or PDA to tell you its an emission and you should hide ?)

[ancient musk]

I just remembered a question I had in my head for quite some time. Why there's no anti radiation dome on top of CNPP in stalker 2? Like, in stalker universe ukraine never bothered to build a dome?

On the other hand - monolith exists

[normal sentinel]

The second sarcophagus never got added in the stalker timeline because the zone became too dangerous

[ancient musk]

Oh yeah, I forgot about them anomalies and blowouts

• dragging all the resources necessary to the CNPP would be borderline impossible

Then there's another question. After C-Con crew bodies were killed by Strelok - why Zone borders didn't started shifting from blowouts occurring more often?

[normal sentinel]

I’m pretty sure it’s debatable if the zone was ever expanding in the first place

[ancient musk]

I guess the breach in noosphere is not large enough to make Zone expand

[normal sentinel]

Another plot point is ||the c-consciousness still existing in the noosphere after they physically died ||

[ancient musk]

They do. But didn't they said they lost control over the zone and generators after their bodies died?

[normal sentinel]

Idk, I’ve not beat the game yet

[tame lodge]

arent all the bloodsuckers in the ||Vent supposed to be sleeping?||

[ancient musk]

I only finished stalker 2 once with Scar ending

[tame lodge]

or am I supposed to fight 4 at once

[ancient musk]

And I believe the C-Con representative said they survived in noosphere but were stuck as observers without any control over blowouts and stuff

Another thing that bugs me is when/how Strelok got heart of Chernobyl artifact

Cause apparently it allows him to control anomalies to some extent

Though he only does it in stalker 2 and he got it even before the trilogy

[nocturne smelt]

There are 3 sleeping, One patrols around, and one is unavoidable.

[nocturne smelt]

You will get a quest to hide, Usually a radio message, and the sky will start to turn red.

[ancient musk]

Quest appears, you get notified via radio and sky turns dark then red

[tame lodge]

That helped thanks

[prime shell]

m870 seems to be next to useless in OXA? can't seem to even oneshot a tushkano

[nocturne smelt]

It's being rebalanced. Oxide is working on it now.

[prime shell]

nice nice, cheers.

[kindred violet]

man, feels good to finally be able to play this game pretty smoothly now with my 5070ti

[hidden knot]

Is 2 worth a shot? Ive heard very mixed things about the game

[tame lodge]

buy it on a sale

[normal sentinel]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/977010195983130634/1447013863232114750/image.png?ex=69380e6d&is=6936bced&hm=1279a03d51a7119bc22b4323bd703ead010c89379f9ba1598ef5661b36d1258f&

[slim moth]

welcome to how stalker is supposed to be played

[rotund mantle]

Only took over a year

[slim moth]

im just talking about GPU wise

[rotund mantle]

Oh fair

[slim moth]

S2 is def still needs cookin

but hell, its fun enough to play and update with so meh

especially with a 5070ti

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/gordon-ramsay-bully-angry-wheres-the-lamb-sauce-gif-15932876

[normal sentinel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-2-stalker-scar-spark-meme-gif-6112129495284371231

[warped monolith]

did you see today's update? they fixed artifacts falling through the floor

or at least they claim they did

[slim moth]

it fixed my mod compatibility so im back innit

[silver orchid]

In their opinions, which would be the active:
Ritcher or Skifa?
According to the actions of the characters in-game and their vibes

[warped monolith]

brainfart exile this man

[wanton arch]

RITCHJAAAA

[silver orchid]

Arguments?

[wanton arch]

RITCHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[silver orchid]

ok

[wanton arch]

THE ZONE WILL LIVE AND THRIVE!!!!!

THE ZONE IS HOW WE LIVE!!!

basically that is what a freedomer would say

[silver orchid]

Soooo ritcher has vibes of someone that want freedom on the zone, ok

[languid turret]

Any idea where the mods go in the steam version of the game?

[wanton arch]

?

[wanton arch]

you better off using nexus

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

[wanton arch]

Ritcher himself is the embodiment of Freedomer imo

[silver orchid]

Perhaps he is just in spark because the options are guatemala and guatepeor

[wanton arch]

hes still a loner that work with spark

but from all of the dialogs skiff spook to him

Ritcher simply want the zone to go with it's own wind

[nocturne smelt]

Are you manually installing?

[languid turret]

Yea, used to do that with Epic

[wanton arch]

aka the zone must be living in the harmony

[silver orchid]

I was wondering that because i saw a meme and i had doubts of how accurate is

[languid turret]

Now I got the game on steam after a year

[golden hazel]

2nd times a charm

[languid turret]

checking out the video swebi shared

[nocturne smelt]

Steam/Steamapps/Common/Stalker2/Content/Paks/~mods_

[wanton arch]

hes a guide for us

[silver orchid]

Another user said Ritcher, i guess that's the right answer

[wanton arch]

i mean if you follow the spark ending or any ending that allow the zone to thrive you would see ritcher anyways

[languid turret]

I guess I'll also get vortex

makes sense if I plan on modding the game, which I do

Trying the zone unchained

hopefully the new update didnt kill it

[wanton arch]

but tbh the spark ending is ass

[nocturne smelt]

There are some caveats to using Vortex. Make sure any time you remove any mod you use the purge function to clear out anything deployed to the game. Otherwise you can end up with lingering files that will cause issues.

[languid turret]

got it. Thanks for the heads up

[silver orchid]

I believe that the idea of the endings is that each one be poopy, smth like the Man Made Hell but way less hardcore

[wanton arch]

nah the ending is simple

[languid turret]

for now its just the one freeplay mod

[wanton arch]

Spark or Scar Ending is just....

Hallucination

[silver orchid]

Like SoC ending

[wanton arch]

Scar "brought" back the people that were dead

well skiff is dead anyways if you follow the spark

tbh either the ward and the strelok ending are much better

i hope i don't spoil much anyways

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA THE WARDENS ARE SPREADING PROPAGANDA THAT THE SHINING ZONE ISNT REAL

https://tenor.com/view/scar-stalker2-scar-stalker-2-gif-9056284766972622477

[silver orchid]

!true

[fallen iron]

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[wanton arch]

he became the shinning zone...

[warped monolith]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaat iiiiiiiiiiiii've doooooooooooooooooone

[normal sentinel]

Does the shining zone mean anime is conceivably real for some weaboo stalker out there

[wanton arch]

real if the person in the pod want it

[hallow canopy]

Well my ass forgot that he had clones and could not see where he was,until you destroyed all his beacons he spawns in, however was nice to use 3 RPG on random Monolith soldiers as "Test"

[normal sentinel]

The second half of the fight is pretty tough on veteran

Getting shot at from all angles and have to hit a tiny lantern

[tame lodge]

the swamps suck so bad its crazy

[outer depot]

Some stalkers Zone is populated entirely by GFL2 models probably

[nocturne smelt]

GFL2?

[normal sentinel]

Girls frontline I think

[outer depot]

[tame lodge]

is there no fast travel besides guides?

[normal sentinel]

No

[tame lodge]

this walking is getting ridiculous from the swamps to ranger station to sircaa

with no break in between

[outer depot]

Just stop by one of the boats first

[normal sentinel]

[tame lodge]

me rn

[outer depot]

I love the swamp

My worst childhood memories are all there

[tame lodge]

its like therapy

faithfully recreated how many balls it sucks

[outer depot]

I just wish there was some more Clear Sky stuff

[hallow canopy]

Try it in Master,its worse

[brave burrow]

Yeah it is no longer there, the marking on the door says smth like “don’t believe anyone, there is no longer any loot here”

Oops you actually figured it out yourself, nevermind then

[stiff mist]

Did they fix burer spam spawn in garbage?

[nocturne smelt]

Nope

[stiff mist]

What a joke... Thanks buddy

[nocturne smelt]

They didn't fix them and poltergeists throwing shit through walls either

[steel maple]

actually playing stalker 2 makes me realize how dogshit that ORB review was lol

[normal sentinel]

Orb?

[nocturne smelt]

ORB review?

[steel maple]

there's this dude on YouTube named ORB who did a really popular S2 review

[normal sentinel]

Is that the rage bait channel that’s solely about how bad S2 is

[steel maple]

in which he makes a bunch of arguments about how it's "too different from the originals" and then proceeds to list a bunch of things that are perfectly in line with the originals (bloodsuckers making loud noises so you know where they are, prypiat having no sidequests, etc etc)

[steel maple]

he's mostly been uploading nothing but that yeah. i mean i still engage with the criticism because a lot of people agree with him so it's worth at least looking at

[nocturne smelt]

Sounds like a group of people with Anomaly brain.

[steel maple]

but his criticisms are pretty dogshit lol

[steel maple]

he literally compares it to gamma multiple times so yeah lmao

[normal sentinel]

It’s the new popular way to get clicks on YouTube

[steel maple]

like he complains about how it's not as hardcore of a survival experience but was OG stalker ever a hardcore survival experience???

like food and meds and ammo are fucking everywhere

[nocturne smelt]

I mean it's a survival horror but in as much as dead space 1 was.

Or at least, I would consider it a survival horror.

[steel maple]

yeah p much. he's more complaining about like food and healing item scarcity because he wants it to be DayZ ig

[normal sentinel]

They weren’t

[steel maple]

yeah

i think hardcore survival fits the setting really well but it's also never been a part of the stalker experience

[nocturne smelt]

I mean, To be fair. They were difficult as shit on high difficulty. Clear Sky was straight oppressive at times.

But way too Arcady to be a straight survival game.

[normal sentinel]

6 heat-seeking grenades simultaneously home in on you

[steel maple]

he also says "a life just doesn't exist" which is blatantly untrue. stalkers go from place to place and there's even a warfare system now lol

he talks about a life like ppl who have never played the games talk about it, because 99% of a life in the originals was just seeing a stalker walking past and maybe getting in a fight with a mutant

[nocturne smelt]

Yeah, People somehow conflated what alife was in the originals. I don't understand how a really smart spawn system turned into "The NPCs live lives."

[normal sentinel]

Mod expectations really

[steel maple]

yeah. a lot of his opinions are obviously kinda dumb but so many people agree with him and cling to his every word that like. i want to engage with the criticism but he just kinda lies about the game lol

[nocturne smelt]

The problem is more people have played a version of anomaly at this point than the original trilogy. So you have an entire group of stalker fans who don't even know what the originals were like.

[warped monolith]

There truly is nothing like getting sniped by a renegade hobo with a 6% condition TOZ from 300m through several layers of swamp foliage

[steel maple]

grenades in CS were on some call of duty movement tec shit

anyways i stumbled across a dead bandit carrying like 2 pristine sunrise suits which i thought was fucking hilarious

like bro what

where did u get those. why aren't u wearing them.

[normal sentinel]

I’ve noticed that in some areas

Certain bodies have 2 suits

[steel maple]

bro was walking around in a hoodie and sweatpants carrying 2 mid game suits like "nah don't need this shit"

[normal sentinel]

Bandit tracksuits are magical

[steel maple]

also he complained about NPCs having no faction specific dialogue which like. idk if it's a mod i have but i've heard "cheeki breeki iv damke" a few times already

[hallow canopy]

Well for those that wonder how I enjoy Stalker 2 Despite all of its flaws

https://youtu.be/9c5F4bLkE-E?si=VLnfwccNvwRo0Vn4

Here is the Video that convinced me

[steel maple]

im still waiting on that vid til i watch the movie

[hallow canopy]

Guess youll never enjoy Stalker as much as me

[steel maple]

vid that convinced me to jump in after being burned at launch was Cheeki Breekis recent vid about 1.7

[normal sentinel]

They do

[nocturne smelt]

And here I am still rocking the merc suit while exploring the Great Swamp...

[steel maple]

yeah i understand why everybody just calls his videos ragebait slop at this point. i thought because a bunch of people agreed it was at least worth considering but since getting back into the game i realized he just blatantly lied and misrepresented the game

[steel maple]

agony

I'm probably gonna head down there because i heard there's a clear sky suit in the game and i want the cool camo

[hallow canopy]

what video again?

[steel maple]

ORB Reborn's Stalker 2 videos

[normal sentinel]

Wait, there’s a clear sky suit?

[steel maple]

SO I'VE HEARD, been avoiding any spoilers like the plague so don't know for sure

[hallow canopy]

I think the Diamond Exo is the one

[normal sentinel]

The Swamp has a lot of goodies

[steel maple]

well then i know where im headed

[normal sentinel]

That’s monolith I’m pretty sure

[steel maple]

also trying to save up for a Vintorez or a Dragunov because those things are sexy as hell

[normal sentinel]

The IPSF tend to have the Vintar towards the border by Rookie village

[steel maple]

hm I see ....

[normal sentinel]

If you attack the old cordon checkpoint you’ll be in for a surprise

[tardy meadow]

thats good criticism tho

stalker 2 has a lot of underdeveloped immersion features like food and sleep

honestly i understand both sides in the hardcore debate

ideally gsc should have two separate difficulties, one that plays like an acarde shooter and the other with hardcore elements

[steel maple]

okay, but the games have basically never had those features be anything more than cool little immersion features that barely affect gameplay

and while you can argue that they always should have, the point hes making is that the original games did and this is somehow a diversion from that when it isnt

[tardy meadow]

yeah and that has always split the fanbase

i mean thats wyh anomaly and gamma exist

[nocturne smelt]

I understand it too but that's why mods exist. But to expect a sequel to the trilogy to have those feature as a default... That was never going to happen.

[tardy meadow]

well the mechanics we got were still lackluster even from a casual point of view tbh

[normal sentinel]

Them trying to appeal to the survival fanbase would just require them building a fundamentally different game then what STALKER has traditionally been

[steel maple]

not to mention i find the need to carry enough food items actually affects my carry weight quite a lot so it does have at least some real effect

[tardy meadow]

yeah s2 was obviously never going to be gamma 2 lmao

[tame lodge]

I think they did enough in terms of adapting the original trilogy for modern audiences but they couldve evolved some systems more for sure

thats just left for modders now

[tardy meadow]

skill issue, ive been selling my food and just eating scraps i find since soc

[steel maple]

im not. complaining about that?

i like that it affects gameplay like that?

[tardy meadow]

oh ok. i thought you were making a complaint

[normal sentinel]

I think aside from stability improvements what’d really improve the game is just populating the map with more missions and stuff going on

[tardy meadow]

this

the biggest issue with s2 right now is lack of content post sircaa

[nocturne smelt]

A rushed launch it was, An early access title it was, Was it buggy? Yes it was. But all in all it felt like a sequel to the trilogy. At least for me.

Now I'm slowly turning it into a survival based semi-realistic shooter with mods. Because I enjoy that also.

[steel maple]

i definitely have criticisms of stalker 2, the gun balancing is wack, there should have been more sidequests, maybe make food and sleep matter as much as in like minecraft where it matters but isnt constantly impeding gameplay, but really the game is an extremely solid package these days and i think fundamental gameplay changes turning it into a hardcore survival experience is literally the point of modding

[tardy meadow]

i think master mode should have developed a bit on these systems

[nocturne smelt]

If it released today. People would have way less shit to complain about. Probably would have scored an 8 across the board.

But it didn't sadly.

[steel maple]

and my number 1 critique of the common problems with stalker 2 is when people either say it should be more like gamma or that its somehow too different from the originals when it isnt

[tardy meadow]

the only thing they should have taken from gramma is how the artifacts works

[steel maple]

how so

like the smelting?

[tardy meadow]

no i mean how the stat distribution works

and their powerlevel

[steel maple]

oh yeah thats fair

i do see the influence from gamma with more focus on customizing your weapons and animations for eating and drinking and stuff

[nocturne smelt]

They tried to find a middle ground for sure.

[steel maple]

but i like that they didnt go too far with it

i dont want to play gamma 2, i want to play stalker 2

[nocturne smelt]

My biggest complaint about vanilla stalker 2 is the tiered weapons. It sucks. I want to use my AKS-74N when I want too.

But... It's in line with the originals.

[steel maple]

yeah thats why i only ever play with Better Ballistics

i think this is the best iteration of faction warfare basically ever though

[nocturne smelt]

I have high hopes for the future. I think we will have one hell of a game over the next 2 years.

The engine overhaul alone should do a lot.

[steel maple]

oh absolutely

oh one more complaint

fuck the little fucking floating shards of glass that dont set off your anomaly detector