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

[warped monolith]

not even the mandatory one in agroprom underground?

[wanton arch]

not even in the underground ?

odd

[steel maple]

no i just run away

there's a couple of ways out

[wanton arch]

i mean you can

but then again as i mention

[warped monolith]

the game kinda railroads you into fighting it

but if you managed to avoid it, based

[wanton arch]

Modder has 15 years to refind the mod themself and make anomoly better

the seer amount of modders you have to count

and while GSC

he claimed has 15 years to make stalker 2

but that is wrong

he did not mention it

[steel maple]

yeah exactly, he doesn't seem to understand that gamma is a modpack and not a mod

[wanton arch]

he don't understand S2 itself even

[steel maple]

it's accumulating the work of dozens, hundreds of developers over decades

[wanton arch]

sure source code of the game is not PUBLIC

because they need to protect their privacy

but modder def know how to use UE5

for stalker 2

and Anomoly Modder do have source code of Anomoly

and he call people who defend stalker 2 are just yapping despite he is the one yap nonsense

he keep repeating one point

modder in anomoly make it better

WHAT BETTER

[slim moth]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1896

[wanton arch]

HOLY SHIT

LET"S FUCKING GOOOOOO

[steel maple]

in his Lego comparison it's like comparing the work of everyone who builds Legos ever to a construction crew and saying the construction crew doesn't work hard enough

[steel maple]

oh sick does it just make the current faction war system more in depth?

[wanton arch]

do i agree the modder make a lot of shit with low budget ?

yes i do

but do him realize that there are plentiful of modders

adding tiny shit and tiny shit to become

a bigger thing

[steel maple]

not to mention those modders are all working simultaneously on completely different things

[wanton arch]

it's more like they do whatever they want nowaday

[steel maple]

meanwhile game development is more directed because it's a work project not a passion project

[wanton arch]

i mean im not denying modder hard work

[steel maple]

yeah ofc

[wanton arch]

but like he making modder is one entity

oh no i suppose to say

the modder who made the mod for gamma and anomoly modpack are one person

not an entity

[steel maple]

I haven't gotten to the part where he actually defends the position of "gamma isn't stalker but stalker should copy it anyway" so let's see

[wanton arch]

i don't think he did

unless you talking about the vision of 2 game are dif

[steel maple]

oh also he unironically says "the cut content is the best content in the game" bro are you stupid

[wanton arch]

oh that stupid point...

[steel maple]

yeah i love exploring dead city and dark lands they aren't the most boring fucking places in anomaly

definitely not

[warped monolith]

AI image

[wanton arch]

i mean most modder nowaday use AI to potray whatever

[steel maple]

yeah i hate how every mod uses them these days

[wanton arch]

they ain't artist and at least they don't post stock image

[slim moth]

FOKIN sLoP

[wanton arch]

Chill if the mod work it work

[steel maple]

why can't we go back to poorly edited mod thumbnails

[wanton arch]

https://tenor.com/view/lux-lyxocx-seal-mischievous-smirk-gif-8266549212389467758

[steel maple]

the good old days

[slim moth]

I don't give 2 shits that AI images are used for mods lmao

[wanton arch]

poorly editied stock image

or ingame showcase as PNG

i love that old triology gun mod

[steel maple]

it annoys me because i usually use my AI brain to detect slop but now since everyone uses it i can't easily distinguish between shitty slop mods and good mods

[wanton arch]

i mean i don't have issue to detect thing if they make clear it's AI

i only hate the usages of AI but claim they did it by their own

UNLESS THEY OWN THE MACHINE

UNLESS THEY OWN THEIR MATERIAL

and feed it to an AI

their own AI

[steel maple]

yeah but they never do lol

[wanton arch]

some does apparently

[steel maple]

i've seen like one or two artists who do that

[wanton arch]

but take it as a doubt anyways

[steel maple]

i feel like most of the worst issues with AI would be solved if they made it clientside

[wanton arch]

free model suck in general

they have to pay it

[steel maple]

if ur gonna use AI make it your computers problem instead of mass constructing data centers to pollute neighborhoods

[wanton arch]

nah the AI model does not take that much

[slim moth]

chatgpt 5.2 premium is pretty lit

[wanton arch]

trust me it's just the fucker want fastest AI to develop shit

the new center is considered not for consumer use even

at least part of it

[steel maple]

nah im talking about how like, a bunch of AI companies build these huge data centers to compute it all, and they build them close to residential areas and fill the place with noise and light pollution

[wanton arch]

those are fucked one yeah

oh god i think underload make my S2 more stable

[steel maple]

and it also actually increases the locals' electric bills

[wanton arch]

but i think i need to say good bye to this free save

[steel maple]

rip

[wanton arch]

nah dw im fine with putting out files and files

[steel maple]

fair nuff

ok so he keeps saying "worse than gamma" but I'm gonna be so real what does that even mean in this context

like they're such different games

[wanton arch]

that is the thing

[steel maple]

that's like saying DayZ is worse than Call of Duty

like what

[wanton arch]

it's more like chicken is worse than water

no context type shit

[steel maple]

yeah

ok so he says "gamma is different so there's no comparing but we should still compare them" what

[wanton arch]

then he pulling out controller point

and the remarkable thing would be

it's scarier because modder did it

despite GSC in triology and S2 "didn't" in what he meaning

this fucker is

yapanese

mastered

[steel maple]

i reached the controller

let's see

[wanton arch]

time for you to see the peak of shit comparision

you will hear "modder make it scarier"

or mod make it scary

[silver orchid]

Ehem, HoC just it's in +6 years in development

[wanton arch]

i mean it's long

but again

Engine swap

= "professional" has to relearn UE5

[steel maple]

"controllers in gamma make you dizzy and spin your camera, in stalker 2 it doesn't do that"
shows footage of it doing that in stalker 2

[silver orchid]

Tho, the part of the development before 2021-2022 was like a nothing burger

[wanton arch]

or they hired new shitter to do their development

[steel maple]

what did he mean by this

[wanton arch]

LITERALLY

[silver orchid]

Before of the port to UE5 the game was practically on a alpha

[edgy yarrow]

whats the newest/best/largest weapon pack that is compatible with mags redux?

[wanton arch]

not there ?

this is S2 ?

wait do we have mag "redux" type in S2 yet

[steel maple]

"enhanced editions are objectively worse" is a take im annoyed by because it's the same price with a very light graphical overhaul and a similar level of bugginess

[wanton arch]

tbf im still on tarkov doing story

pretty much

[kindred violet]

but muh CeNSoRShIp

[steel maple]

the thing i don't like about enhanced is that the trailers were super misleading

[silver orchid]

mfs would do anything but compare HoC with possible sources of inspiration

[kindred violet]

like far cry

(this is bait)

[warped monolith]

just means he's an idiot

[steel maple]

anybody who says specifically Soviet imagery is fundamental to the experience hasn't played the game, and the parts that i would actually agree are important like the giant wall murals and the sign into Pripyat were added back

*sign into the CNPP

mb

[silver orchid]

The biggest mistake of the EE was being developed by 3th company's instead of GSC himself

[steel maple]

yeah

[silver orchid]

Legends of The Zone was on development since 2021 or 2022 by x company, then u have a release in 2024 and a re-release on 2025, but none of em has a great part of the port done by GSC.

[steel maple]

"political edition" dude they're being fucking invaded and bombed and murdered let them have their slightly petty "censorship"

[wanton arch]

dam tarkov really making me to rethink upgrading CPU again

maybe i can get extra frame on rostok on next run

tbf GSC are readding good stuf back to the game

but mostly lore

[steel maple]

yeah

they're adding back the important stuff

[wanton arch]

at least i don't have to wait them to add free play and faction war because modder did it

it's so peak.

[steel maple]

they actually did add faction wars and there's a bunch of radiant quests from bartenders

so i mean it's kinda there

[wanton arch]

it just

Relation of faction war is not there

[steel maple]

oh true

[wanton arch]

like better barter stuff or kos

[steel maple]

also he just has no idea what A-Life is

[wanton arch]

he did not talk about anything related to A life in a sense

[steel maple]

like im sorry but if you think NPCs taking cover and dogs running away from you is A-Life you're off your rocker

A-Life is a fucking spawn system

[wanton arch]

A life is tracking system and spawning system

which yeah heavy but that mean you can see exact same NPC in the next 8h

not generic spawned in

[steel maple]

here's the thing, if it were just ragebait slop i wouldn't care, but for some reason he gets so many positive comments and people agreeing with him

[wanton arch]

but im pretty sure it's not well implemented in a way in S2

but consider our tasks usually just shitty thing

i can't say much

fucking 2 days ingame for one task

[steel maple]

well yeah but they still despawn outside of you and stuff. he's acting like A-Life gives the NPCs life and makes them go complete jobs and come home, like rdr2 except they never despawn

and that's not what it does or has ever done

the closest to it is Call of Pripyat where they'll maybe go out to complete a small objective

and yeah that's pretty cool

[wanton arch]

ye

btw some AI behavior are not found in triology

[steel maple]

but NPCs in stalker 2 basically have ShoC A-L

[silver orchid]

U are talking well or bad about CoP A-Life

[wanton arch]

i know he want to make the point that GSC can add those to make the game better

but like

[steel maple]

good about it

[silver orchid]

Nah, HoC one is better

[wanton arch]

...

[silver orchid]

The only A-Life that HoC needs "to beat" is CS A-Life (yes, the buggy and incomplete one)

[steel maple]

eh i think it'd be cool if NPCs went artifact hunting and stuff

but like that's it

other than that it's just fully there

[wanton arch]

AI able to pick up artefact

what do you know

it's a mod

[steel maple]

time to read comments because i hate myself

[wanton arch]

nah no need

it's just gamma chud repeating what he said

aka gamma good s2 shit

that is all

[steel maple]

"they butchered the lore" what does that mean bro

r u mad that it's not just all the same factions again

[wanton arch]

they have to tweak it but at the same time it's a new game

and it's their own lore

like the minor change is just Ukrainian Militarants become IPSF

and the fucker keep saying anomoly is the sequel

despite it's a modpack and a parody of the series

all build on what if

[steel maple]

i actually prefer the ISPF visually

[wanton arch]

but lacking real life preferences is not my taste tho

[steel maple]

their gear is Wesome

[wanton arch]

but hey they do they have the ID

i mean

they own the ID and saying "They butchered their own lore" is just an opinion

Borderlands...

https://tenor.com/view/東方抽菸-gif-27406514

sure it's funky but it's set in stone lore type shit

[steel maple]

"the most underrated modpack is EFP" ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR MODPACKS?

[wanton arch]

btw the fucker said EFP is underrated because he cannot play Tarkov

[steel maple]

i simply don't play tarkov because i don't like multiplayer games

[wanton arch]

it does have player

versus Computer only

but you have to pay

but you can download SPT which supported by mod

even grok are working on it

[steel maple]

huh neat

[wanton arch]

im playing on PVE because i want to explore 1.0 story

it's ass

[steel maple]

can we just kill this guy is that allowed

[wanton arch]

oh wait off topic

[warped monolith]

ppl nowadays have no fucking clue what "underrated" means

everytime I look at a youtube short of some movie or tv show

someone says

[steel maple]

underrated is when i like it

the more i like it the more underrated it is

[warped monolith]

"[thing] is underrated"

meanwhile thing = movie or actor/actress who won a fucking oscar

[kindred violet]

You know what's underrated

Forming your own opinions

[warped monolith]

you're underrated

[kindred violet]

[late kernel]

All this chud ever does is cope about Stalker 2 not being "as good as Gamma" and anybody who legit agrees with him is equally as ignorant

Not worth anybody's time and energy

[grim crane]

please tell me i dont have to go back to the swamps ever again....

[wanton arch]

once

tbf

[near sleet]

@sinful widget redrock

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/shrek-somebody-toilet-hi-gif-17332899

[echo haven]

I need help for gamma Scopes!

Mauser 98K when i use my ZF all Grass glitches away and i have no point it is just a f.ing Monokle WTF?!

[warped monolith]

#╟🔰☢newbies-chat

best place to ask

[echo haven]

That thing to Aim i have but all the Grass gitching away is still here

[silver orchid]

Expedition 33 it's underrated

[warped monolith]

why you laugh react, that's where you should ask your question
this channel is for a different game

unless you're trying to use gamma scopes in stalker 2

[warped monolith]

on the contrary

[echo haven]

the thing is that all the weed or grass not hat for smoking is gone when i look trough my Zielfernror

or ZF in German

or Scope in English

I have MSAA from the AMD Software and a bunch of cool Reshade Stuff. Really worked long to get the coolest Graphics and Settings and now that Shit sucks Balls

[royal jolt]

im going crazy

weird water is literally not spawning

in any of the three spots

[golden hazel]

It's probably stuck under the map

[royal jolt]

ive been reloading a save tehre's no way its spawning under the map EVERY time

[golden hazel]

[royal jolt]

is there a way to cheat it in

im not doing this anymore 😭

[royal jolt]

so i reloaded an olddd save and it works

and im also installing a mod that removes the drunk effect bc i got it to get a higher weight cap why would they fuck over the main part of it 😭

[undone lodge]

Havent played Stalker 2 since launch was thinking about giving it another try. I want it to make it a tough play through, any must have mod packs?

[royal jolt]

just play on the hardest difficulty

[undone lodge]

Does the difficulty increase just mean more HP for AI and less damage?>

[royal jolt]

less resources

weapon and ammo degrades faster

hud elements are removed

and enemies are more accurate

[undone lodge]

Ok, that doesnt sound bad at all

[royal jolt]

and enemies have more health

like bloodsuckers will be the worst thing on earth

[undone lodge]

When it launched it was way too easy

[royal jolt]

its a bit different

also there's master difficulty which is new

which is what i described

[undone lodge]

Gun pack and that sounds fun then

[royal jolt]

yeah

also do you have the dlc

[undone lodge]

I bought the most expensive versioj so I assume so

[royal jolt]

bc the journalist caches are insanely good

and you find them as you progress or you can pick them up at any time

[undone lodge]

Interesting. Ok. Off this week and been waiting for the game to get better. AI improved any? Like the A life stuff, have ignored all nerws about the game until very recently

[royal jolt]

not really no

a-life is better from what i know

optimization is miles better as well

[undone lodge]

Yea that is unfortunate

[royal jolt]

im running a solid 60 with a gtx 1080

id say the game is in a decent state

like ive been pretty hooked like i was with radiophobia

[undone lodge]

I put lots of time into gamma, so I have high expectations I guess lol

[royal jolt]

they're different experiences

[undone lodge]

For sure

[royal jolt]

stalker 2 is much more simple

which i honestly prefer

also there's real progression where in gamma it felt like i was running in place after a while

i still love gamma but of 2 100gb games ill keep stalker 2 instead

[undone lodge]

Yea I am gonna give it a go

[royal jolt]

that being said

artifact grinding sucks

[split surge]

I have this weird bug that is locking doors on me and I keep getting stuck in like trader rooms or the hall in zalissya

[wanton arch]

stalker 2 should definetely get an overhaul where weapons with the same caiber deal very similar amounts of damage

also, apparently 9x18 is more powerful than .45 ACP (in stalker 2) so I'm assuming the whole heirarchy of weapon damage is completely off-balance

[royal jolt]

liquid rock third try holy shit

[wanton arch]

?

Just try better ballistic

And yes 45 acp should do more damage ?

As in stopping power

Like the 45acp (11.43x23mm)
(Assuming winchester 230gr FMJ) would have a velocity of 835 ft/s and energy of 483 joules (assumed firing from m1911 )

While 9x18mm makarov (assuming FMJ again)
Firing from 97mm barrel
Would have 1,047 ft/s and energy of 305 joules

Unless you talking about effective range

and effective range is defined as maximum range that the round is considered lethal

Well yes there is better Round for 9x18mm which is RBCD TFSP which can reach 1,850 ft/s

But still has

477 joules

[fresh totem]

^^^ this... but way less acurate lol

[wanton arch]

There are many factors too

Barrel lenght and how sealed the chamber is

All of this just to deny the idea of 9x18mm being powerful as 45acp

[wanton arch]

I mean would agree on this part partially because i did mention about 2 factors

Barrel lenght and how well sealed the barrel

Like 20 inches m16 vs 14.5 inches m4

M16 would retain more damage in general

[wanton arch]

That’s what I was trying to say, but I was fucking somewhere else in my head

.45 is the weakest pistol caliber in the game

that’s a crime

And a bolt action 308 20 inches m700 would retain much better damage than SR25 even with 21'5inches barrel ?

I forgot

Well yeah hit that better ballistic

Oxa prototype does change ballistic damage and make base gun a bit more enjoyable to upgrade

gork will make gamma 2 on stalker 2 and it will be marvelous

My bad SR25 is freaking 24 inches

and bullets will do authentic damage

Or MK11 ( adopted by US army )

I mean grok could make ballistic mod but there are other mods already did what possibly in his mind

Idk better ballistic hit it

And i would not say gamma ballistic is better when certain round has so much damage compared to all thing

45 hydrashock winning over 7.62R

By like x2 damage

Insanity

[golden hazel]

!gamma2

[fallen iron]

⠀

[golden hazel]

[pseudo falcon]

even tho im using oxa prototype and it has ammo and med scarcity
with the spawn lair being broken
i can still get amount of ammo early game for my mp5, ak74 and makarov

i just need to aim properly and head shots

as for SPT, EFT is already hardcore to me (well i guess im still a newbie to it, but its really a definition of a HARDCORE game)

anway that ends my offtopic

[wanton arch]

I like the hardcore it's just s2 have so much random shit that not having spare could mean end of a master run

Aka thats why i kinda hate oxa prototype loots

No food near of the end story

🥀

[pseudo falcon]

even tho my ballistic resistance is max
on oxa prototype the damage they deal still fcking hurts
i think we have a hidden cap on each resistance

im using a mod where it adds lead container and a mod that sells everything, but i only want to buy the artifacts coz its RNG if u try to farm them

in combination of shays talk and trade to anyone

and roaming traders

u can see the icon that i can trade with them

[kindred violet]

Why are you using multiples compasses?

Do you not get to 5 bars of phys prot with just the one?

Also yes, even with max phys prot damage is still considerably higher with oxa than vanilla

It's what makes late game story fights such a pain

[knotty onyx]

The cap isn't hidden. When you fill the bar that's it.

[pseudo falcon]

bruh

altho i guess im on veteran
maybe thats why they hurt

i finished 2 endings on stalker difficulty

[wanton arch]

Tried stalker 2 on Xbox, stable FPS, ~okay lighting, lil buggy

The gunplay made me gag, this is irreparably bad and also significantly harder than gamma honestly through sheer jankiness

[jaunty garden]

Tavor with acog and drum mag looks ugly

[pseudo falcon]

i dont mind it since im going for performance than beauty

i found a dnipro on the ward guys so i might use it instead of this

currently juggling gamma and S2 depending on my mood

[jaunty garden]

so why not svu?

[pseudo falcon]

havent goten it yet
im still on lesser zone

altho i did get an EBR

[jaunty garden]

Try playing with stalker unlimited

[pseudo falcon]

the mod im using lets me buy everything, even the unique guns and dlc guns
even the guns you can only get at point of no return (but i dont wanna do that early game)

altho expensive AF

[pseudo falcon]

didnt like it

i cant make my carryweight on max 9999

i dont like being burdened by carryweight

[jaunty garden]

Oh so you are making skif a god of zone

[pseudo falcon]

only carryweight
everything else, i grind

[jaunty garden]

Man you are THE hoarder

[pseudo falcon]

they dont call me a lootgoblin for nothing

[elfin pilot]

about to get scammed by Sido, wish me luck, gangs

[pseudo falcon]

your hotkeys kek
meanwhile im using this mod to make my hotkeys F1 to F4
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1377?tab=files

so i just need to tap the corresponding quickslot i need

still works

its a must have mod imo

[elfin pilot]

tbh

i got used to my Mouse 4 and 5

[pseudo falcon]

well
its what you are comfortable with

i was just suggesting it

[summer vapor]

Please recommend mods to reduce the health of poltergeists.

[deep mica]

just get weird water and you should be set for the rest of the game

plus the occasional nightstar and flytrap as well

[pseudo falcon]

i mean
on vanilla
weird pot and drinking the orange non stop energy drink gives you a small permanent boost to carryweight
it doesnt using unlimited?

[deep mica]

ah youre playing modded i didnt catch that

weird pot is meh anyways theres line 9 of those drinks on the game and it caps at 4.5 max

[pseudo falcon]

wanted to try unlimited mod coz it makes the stashes like in gamma
you got to get a pda, unlock it and get a stash coords

and all stash are empty by default

you can get the pda unlocker on traders

[deep mica]

9.999 max carryweight sounds broken

[deep mica]

yeah i only usually go for those after i unlocked them and when i am grinding artefacts

unless its anomaly puzzle stashes those i do for fun

[pseudo falcon]

unlimited mod is too hardcore for me
ill stick with prototype

[orchid wave]

Is there a reason intercom tower is a constant deathmatch between duty, loners, bandits and mutants

[late kernel]

Because the AI spawn system is still pretty randomized

[unborn kelp]

you rang?

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1ptpo0d/the_important_thing_is_i_didnt_panic/

[warped monolith]

70usd, everyone

[late kernel]

What did i say lol

[lofty badger]

that one rats anomaly but with bloodsuckers 😨

[unborn kelp]

"hmm
maybe wait another 6-12 months before poking S2 again"

[lofty badger]

felt the same after playing on release and lowk believe in it's success now

[warped monolith]

yeah it's coming along nicely. Just need a bit more time in the oven

[lofty badger]

also is The Rat King still good? been watching some S2 weapon recommendation videos and a lot of them are ~a year old and say it's one of/the best because the penetration is fucked up - unsure if that's still the case post 1.7

Rat Killer* King is an artifact

[ancient musk]

I'm still wondering if there's any in-lore explanation to why Zone layout is so different in stalker 2

I know they made it look like actual Chernobyl, but still

[wanton arch]

That is the reason

They want the zone to be authentic

Or "true" to landmark location

I mean people accepting that the legend of the zone or the layout of the triology is considered as folk tale

Which is mouth to mouth literature

[ancient musk]

I mean, strelok went to CNPP through brain scorcher and Pripyat, but in s2 CNPP territory entrance is literally at the Garbage level

Scar's route also doesn't make sense on s2 layout

[prime stratus]

Question. I am at the point in the story where you go to the Saw Mill meet Scar. I am near the western area on the Zone grinding loot and artifacts with the Unlimited mod. Is it possible to go to Malichite now to use their trader. I have a key card for Malichite I got from a dead Spark member.

[sweet mica]

Yes it is possible, if you can make it there.

I tried that recently. I'm at the quest right after that meet scar quest, and I have been to malachite and presented the keycard.

[prime stratus]

Great news. thanks for the help.

[sweet mica]

Spoilers for the latest 1.8 quest || You can sell out the NK5 group for like 40k coupons, on my selfish asshole ward playthrough I took the money and ran lmao, love that this is possible ||

[sweet mica]

after they check the card btw, you can sell that card and any other copy. not worth much but dont hold onto em

[silver orchid]

nah

is far from being accurate to the real zone or smth, is better than the "layout" of CS-CoP but still, isn't realistic or smth

[silver orchid]

No there's a explanation because isn't required, the thingi is different mostly by gameplay thingis

[silver orchid]

This is a +- accurate layout (except Red Forest besides DUGA) from x mod, for give a example (Cordon is the thingi below swamps, dark valley it's below Chernobyl, Yantar it's besides CCNP)

[sweet mica]

i can see my house from here

[silver orchid]

Zaton in CoP it's above Pripyat but

Really the thingis from where Zaton it's based is a river above Chernobyl

[outer depot]

I mean leaving aside the fact Limansk just doesn’t exist at all IRL and that there aren’t enormous subterranean railroad passages that go through half of the Zone

I think they mostly just did it to somewhat flavor the level progression and make it kinda-sorta believable

[silver orchid]

yes, that's it, gameplay thingis

[silver orchid]

Tho, Limansk it's based on x part of the city of kiev

[outer depot]

Yeah I mean it’s inspired by real architecture and such

There’s just not a place like it in the zone

[silver orchid]

Yeah, imo GSC should have been more accurate to the real zone

[outer depot]

There’d be even more wide open areas of almost nothing than there are already

lol

[silver orchid]

and more remodelations to locations like Rostok

[silver orchid]

Izi, add the place of better locations than the ones present on the OGs and it's fixed

[outer depot]

They clearly wanted to keep things in specific locations as aesthetically similar to the originals as possible even while moving them around which I think was the correct decision imo

Not like the Red Forest has been red since the 80s either when it got bulldozed

[silver orchid]

Once i read that GSC used the renders/levels of the OGs for being faithful but, thingis like Rostok deserve a good "retcon" in level design

[tough stream]

hey people, I've recently been playing alot of GAMMA and recently started playing STALKER 2

Im planning to do a full vanilla playthrough before modding

Any tips for modding later? Is the Clickrad mod collection a good fit if I like GAMMA alot?

[sweet perch]

should i buy stalker 2 now? is the NPC ai good?

[tough stream]

some improvements have been made, Cheeki Breeki (STALKER yt'er) thinks the gam is ready to buy. This is what should have been released as 1.0

I'm not very far into the game, but I'm having fun and the game really feels like stalker.

[ancient musk]

My modlist rn:

[tough stream]

Definitely more casual than GAMMA 🙂

[tough stream]

I'm first going to play vanilla a bit, but good too see examples to mod the game

[ancient musk]

I'd still suggest to install Ace's flashlight mod

Cause vanilla flashlight is unusable garbage

[tough stream]

some smaller stuff like some HUD tweaks could also be fun

more of these QoL tips?

that don't really rebalance the game?

[ancient musk]

same with stamina usage reduction (you gonna run across the map A LOT, and gonna get frustrated from being forced to hoard tons of energy drinks cause Skif can only run for few seconds)

[tough stream]

stamina drain says 1/2, what is 2/2?

[ancient musk]

I'd also really recommend DWO mod, but it's up to you if you want to experience vanilla weather or jump to modded weather presets

[ancient musk]

1/2 means 50% from default stamina usage

[tough stream]

first I want to experience the game vanilla, then ramp up the difficultyy and such

[ancient musk]

I wanted to replay on Master difficulty, but it removes the compass completely

And unfortunately you can't walk when you open the map

[tough stream]

that can be fun though, if the map helps along

[ancient musk]

I got enough of this shit back in borderlands 1

[tough stream]

master difficulty is that a good way to go instead of using mods?

[ancient musk]

So I'd hope that devs gonna give us something in return in future updates

[tough stream]

GAMMA has this nice minimap thing, that would be awesome

[ancient musk]

I didn't really noticed any difference from Veteran (aside from you and NPCs dying much faster)

I believe it also makes loot more scarce

[tough stream]

playing on stalker now, do you recommend veteran for first playthrough?

gun fights are very easy on stalker 🙂

hs with the mp4 🙂

[ancient musk]

Play on whatever you want. I'm comfortable on Veteran

[tough stream]

medium difficulty is fun to just learn the game

[ancient musk]

Especially when compared to 1.5

cause back then everything was a bullet sponge + bullshit npc/mutant spawn behind your back + everyone and their mother used exosuit in lategame

[tough stream]

for me fun is the most important

[ancient musk]

If you were comfortable with gamma difficulty - I guess you'll breeze through Veteran

[tough stream]

but the zone right now does not seem that hostile, not as in GAMMA (also on med/med difficulty)\

[ancient musk]

I wonder if someone would implement body health system in stalker 2 at some point

[tough stream]

my gamma skills work well in Stalker2 (just sneak a bit, make some headshots)

[ancient musk]

or modular repair system

[tough stream]

must come at some time right

[ancient musk]

AI in stalker 2 usually just blind rushing you

[tough stream]

haha

[ancient musk]

while in gamma it usually keeps a distance

[tough stream]

and move like crazy, corner peaking

[ancient musk]

until you hide to reload/heal/open inventory

[tough stream]

I see you can change to veteran mid game?

[ancient musk]

yes

if you want a slice of gamma mechanics - turn on expedition mode

it removes saving outside of bases

[silver orchid]

eee

Really isn't the thingi that should have been released "day-one" but, ok, is popular cut content for DLCs.

[tough stream]

that is quite fun tbh

used a few daddy saves for the bullshit dungeon type levels 🙂

[ancient musk]

https://youtu.be/QhKYNmECxCs

https://youtu.be/qa42S3PZsuQ

[deep mica]

this guy was constantly homing in on my position hmmm

[unborn kelp]

did they manage to fix the wallhacking geists or still a thing

[grim crane]

hmm, im playing a litttle bit modded version of the game, and mutants suddenly started to drop ammo, weapons and artifacts XD anyone else encountered this problem ? 😄

[elfin pilot]

man

the zone is surely wild

[golden hazel]

Fake ahh jordans

Real ones wouldnt phase through the ground

[elfin pilot]

what do you do with the lightning ball

or once it lock on to you what can you do

[sturdy grove]

unequip artifacts so that it stops following you

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/run-bitch-run-gif-14941022

[silver dragon]

Is there any HD model mod?

[sacred jungle]

Yo where is lymanks in stalker 2?

Like the town in clear sky mid-end game

[golden hazel]

It's not in the game

yet

[normal sentinel]

https://youtube.com/shorts/MUVhWq5ZyOQ?si=SGbzepdnpnqPkWUe

Goes hard

[lofty badger]

anyone know if the Rat Killer is still good? been watching some S2 weapon recommendation videos and a lot of them are ~a year old and say it's one of/the best because the penetration is fucked up - unsure if that's still the case post 1.8

[abstract furnace]

came back to stalker 2 a year after update

was the game always this blurry?

feels like i'm playing an oil painting

[lofty badger]

I always turn antialiasing off in modern games so idk but they might've changed the default AA to something dumb 🧌

[wanton arch]

check your graphic setting

on god

like asking why a game is so blurry

check your setting

it's some shit in Graphic Setting do that

Bloom
AA
Frame gen
Upscale

And yes check your resolution cuz

Some how some game sit at shitty res for no reason

[kindred violet]

Your game must look hella crunchy

Also yes most upscaling will cause blurryness

If you can "afford" it just run native dlaa

So you have the anti aliasing without the blurryness

[torpid relic]

stuck in a massive spacial annomaly, probably will come as a DLC or other update later

[lofty badger]

Just the way I like it 😎

[wary rune]

Glad to see game is still shit

[late kernel]

upscaler issue

[warped monolith]

[remote eagle]

[golden hazel]

[wary rune]

There's only so much man can do when he has 15 FPS on low settings Shit worked fine half a year ago

"It's evolving. Just backwards"

[tacit glacier]

I'd argue it's working better than last year

I actually had 75FPS at native res in Zalissya instead of 40

Sure it still stutters and could be way better
But we're getting there

[wary rune]

One year after "release" guess we're in open beta now

[tacit glacier]

The only hope is in the engine upgrade at this point lmao

[finite needle]

Stalker 2 is the quintessential "works on my machine" game because sometimes I read horror stories and then I just push the autodetect button and just play without too many issues

and I tried it on 3 different machines, so I guess I am just that lucky

[wary rune]

True. There was also that one guy who played S2 on a potato PC. Shit looked like PS1 but it worked somehow

[finite needle]

idk, I am the first and possibly most vocal critic of Lumen in game (that shit looks so ass), I usually find the lighting still a bit flat and I can't say I like how the models look in game, but aside from that I've never had very jarring technical issues with S2 on a low end machine, a laptop and a "mid end" (if a 5070 with 32 ram and Intel Ultra 7 265K is mid end) machine, so I really don't knwo.

[deep mica]

all doors in kazkovji seem to be locked

did i miss something?

[wary rune]

Lumen is hilarious. I love getting blinded by the sun in Agroprom Underground

[wary rune]

... or at least i loved to ...

[finite needle]

Back entrance or bug, or there are some rats romaing about

[leaden nova]

should i upgrade from a 4070 laptop to a 5080 ti?

or a 5070 ti

[wary rune]

Is it even worth upgrading 4070 laptop?

Im sitting at 3060 and it works fine. Played some modern games like Expedition 33 on it. The only game that's giving me issues is S2

[leaden nova]

i mean it only has 8gb of vram

[silver orchid]

besides red forest

[wraith heron]

I have i5-12500H , Rtx4060 8gb 75W (mobile) , 16 gigs of ddr4 3200mhz ram when I change my settings to recommended settings the game instantly make the settings worst as possible. My question is what is the optimum settings for it? (Is there anyone has same specs as me? ) and Is there any mods for it?

[orchid wave]

if you want to burn the money, sure. I think rn pc gamers are in the similar stage as after 10xx, just hunker down with whatever you have for hardware winter

[leaden nova]

mmm

i see

[ancient musk]

Upscaling in stalker 2 is garbage

And injecting it via optiscaler won't help you

I mean, you can inject fsr 4, it's still gonna look either blurry or oversharpened as fuck

[ancient musk]

The only 2 games I know that use full ray tracing instead of rasterized lighting and look/run good are "metro exodus enhanced edition" and "indiana jones and the great circle"

And lumen looks like a fucking diarrhea

Maybe newer builds of UE 5 fixed it, but idk

[hallow canopy]

I am considering the AEK-971 for Stalker 2
Vast in numbers
overshadowed by many AK variants
Almost 0 Recoil

[tame lodge]

Merry christmas stalkers

[wanton arch]

hope you have a good day stalkers

don't mind to share whatever thing you could bring to the table

just do not bring how hot the Snork is

[steady nymph]

Merry christmas fellow stalkers

[midnight walrus]

Merry Christmas

[steady nymph]

Its an anomaly

[warped monolith]

wtf those are rats?

[finite needle]

Ah yes, it's always the rats. Somehow, GSC thought it was a good idea to have THOSE as a generic overwolrd mutant spawn.

[tough stream]

during the day the lighting is a bit flat indeed, at night it is really pretty

but I'm having a blast in Stalker 2 on Veteran

not really the Gamma feel exactly, but a real Stalker experience. But then better graphics and modern looking assests, animations etc. And a much more modern story.

[normal sentinel]

I started a new run to try the Spark path on veteran and have Shay’s LZ mod installed, it’s been a blast

[tough stream]

Spark path?

I've had some interesting encouters in the zone already with the LZ mod, GSC has been stepping up A-life in the vanilla game it seems

and how fast you get decent loot feels quite quick in S2 compared to GAMMA. I've been playing 5 hours and have a scoped AK, basic sniper, 6-shot pump shotty and an Mp5

[normal sentinel]

The progression is way different yeah

[normal sentinel]

There’s different factions / interests you can align with in the story

[tough stream]

Aah. I had a choice indeed at the beginning to go with ward or loner

Immersion mode is also really good. Have it on my mouse now so I can switch quickly if I need a bit of HUD

[kindred violet]

There's plenty of those in the game :3

[hallow canopy]

That house and Bridge was not there before

Lymansk as DLC??

with Bridge I mean that one

[golden hazel]

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

[hallow canopy]

What do you guys think?
Journalist Exo or the Diamond Exo?

[silver orchid]

Yes

[normal sentinel]

Diamond is basically the best but the journalist one looks cool

[hallow canopy]

The Journalist one has its Stamina Regen
While the Diamond is seperate Stamina Regen from the Physical Protection that gets it on part with the Journalist one

I took the Diamond Exo last Run
Will take the Journalists Exo over it because why not

[normal sentinel]

I could never tell how much the 5% stamina regen actually helps

[hallow canopy]

Better than nothing

[normal sentinel]

I just throw a thunderberry on and call it a day

[hallow canopy]

Got the Usual Physical Protection mix with Durability and hint of Chem Protection thanks to the Liquid Rock I found

The Durability one are really handy in Master Difficulty

[normal sentinel]

I had 2 liquid rocks and was still paying a ton for repairs on veteran at end game 😂

[hallow canopy]

They dont stack I believe

[normal sentinel]

The durability bonus?

[tough stream]

Do you guys know if the grok rebalwnce mod this works for the latest version of stalker 2?

[hallow canopy]

It stacks
But not with 2 Liquid Rocks at the same time

[tough stream]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/46

[hallow canopy]

I got the other Durabilioty one

[normal sentinel]

Huh, that’s interesting then

[hallow canopy]

Also it depends on the weapons that you use to break
The cool AF AS Lavina from the Ultimate Edition you find in stash went so quickly down to 20% durability than whatever else I used that I abandoned it

Kharod one of the most powerful Guns in game breaks really quickly

The Ultimate Edition Stash Saiga paired with the Mosin is what I would say is the best and more efficient Money savers

[warped monolith]

I don't think that mod works anymore, chief

grok just quickly whipped up this cheat because people were whining about bullet sponge mutants at release

and no I will never stop calling it a cheat

[late kernel]

bulletspongy enemies are boring in any game

[silver orchid]

Super hot and new mod

[warped monolith]

I agree. And the solution to that is lowering the difficulty

[hallow canopy]

Well bit frustrated that the Monolith Exo's tank a Back in the Head shot from a 7.62x54R
Unless they Exo has armour in the back of the Skull??

[warped monolith]

boot up stalker 2
veteran difficulty
oh no the enemies are too tough

play on stalker or tourist ❎
mod the game to reduce enemy health ✅

[silver orchid]

Without these bulletsponge at release the mutants would have been super easy

[warped monolith]

everyone wanted to play on veteran difficulty because of the dumbass "I'm a stalker veteran, I'm a pro gamer" mentality

got filtered by the fact that the first bloodsucker tanks 3 full mags of 5.45x39

[hallow canopy]

Well How many of you know how many Shots it takes to kill a Burer with a Saiga??

ANd it is a consistent number btw

[warped monolith]

idk I use the skiftol on burers

can't yank that from my hands

[hallow canopy]

3 Saiga shots

and there are 3 Burer in the Observatory

Took me 9 whole Shots with my Saiga to kill all 3
And got the Drum mag too

[normal sentinel]

Veteran difficulty feels just about right

[tough stream]

I just played this, took a few shotgun blasts but not too bad

[hallow canopy]

I am on Master btw

They should be Harder to kill

[tough stream]

I wiped this first military base in the lesser zone with the base sniper and the mp5

On veteran, not something you could do quickly in gamma

[hallow canopy]

The Only time I will now complain about A-Life is thanks to everyone for Bitching about A-Life being shit
The AI is literally locking on Skif rather than whatever deadly AF mutant is attacking them
And its frustrating me slowly

[warped monolith]

they know that by killing Skif, the game ends so they win

[hallow canopy]

Whats also annoying is that you start shooting from a Bush
The Fucking AI Locks on to you instantly knowing where a Mosin shot is coming from

Kind of can Justify changing the AI to be Dumb AF and or rather not there at all instead of them walking everywhere

[remote eagle]

just point blank mag dump it and it die fast

[hallow canopy]

Well yee,they waddle towards you slowly,you just wait in a doorway for em to appear lol

[normal sentinel]

The worst part about burers is when you fight one with guns littering the ground

[hallow canopy]

They only pick them up when you are in the open area, and are facing it long distance, you can retreat and wait for him to come to you

[golden hazel]

filtered by the economy too lmao don't forget that

[molten osprey]

You didnt play s2 if you didnt kill the last 12 exos with a knife because no ammo/gun broke

[golden hazel]

HoC Tuah

[warped monolith]

[late kernel]

Overinflated gamma like economy

[trim iron]

Yes, because being a veteran means save scumming, cheesing and exploiting as a false sense of social validation

[slim moth]

have YOU even played it? did they fix your key problem

[molten osprey]

they did like it seems, some guy in s2 discord tried it for me and he didnt have the issues anymore

i finished the game on release tho

with normal controls, was just a hassle

[slim moth]

ik i was being a dick lol

glad that you got the fix tho fr

[molten osprey]

doesnt really help me, isnt in gamepass anymore and i aint got spare money for far cry chornobyl

[slim moth]

deeeenng. ole gamepasser. i swear gamepass versions of games literally perform worse than something like epic or steam. it's weird.

in my experience

[molten osprey]

i have 2gb vram, game wouldnt perform anyway. played on xbox

it was alright except that frame gen turned enemies into shadow entities

[slim moth]

https://tenor.com/view/shadow-gif-18126411

[warped monolith]

there is merit to outsmarting the game without cheating

same way souls players discover enemy patterns and find ways to bait bosses into doing one specific action that is easier to avoid and punish for example

[trim iron]

Yeah, my comment wasn't targeted towards the means to reach the goal, but more towards the easy way some developers choose to make their games "hard".
Simply raising or lowering numeric values is just taking away from the experience in my opinion.

[warped monolith]

no one does it like id software did it in 1993

actually, someone did

some obscure dev for an arpg called No Rest for the Wicked

in multiplayer, there's more enemies

and bosses gain new (mostly aoe) attacks

[molten osprey]

project wingman doesnt add damage/more health to enemy planes on higher diff, there are just more

i liked that

[warped monolith]

this is the way

it's funny how some devs figured out the 'difficulty' thing way back in the 90s and we still get inflated stat numbers nowadays

oh killing floor 2 also didn't just turn zeds into damage sponges... only the scrake/fp and bosses had increased health pools per difficulty (and per player in the match)

meanwhile games like bethesda go "enemies have +100% hp and players deal 50% damage"

[trim iron]

Left 4 dead is the earliest example I can think of where I felt like a game challenged me without making enemies bullet sponges and my character squishy.
That game in multiplayer deleted hours from the lives of me and my friends

[warped monolith]

it definitely made me feel squishy

l4d on expert was great.

[slim moth]

all they'd have to do is port it to source 2 and i'd drop so many hours into campaign and versus again

back 4 blood was such a god damn disappointment

https://tenor.com/view/my-honest-reaction-monolith-stalker-stalker-game-cop-gif-5328015560665532230

[trim iron]

True, which is probably why I never played it solo.
Being squishy was important, because if you had a good team in multiplayer, it made you feel like a fucking god while you were kicking ass in the chaos, especially because you know how squishy you are and it takes team play.

The fact that I used to have a blast with Serious Sam probably supported my love of l4d, even though Serious Sam was predictable, and l4d was not.

[warped monolith]

I absolutely love serious sam as well

[trim iron]

The early days of S2 with Shay's living zone that increased spawn counts felt a little like Serious Sam in the zone

[warped monolith]

still haven't played ss4 yet but one day...

[warped monolith]

it's a feeling I never got to replicate in any other horde co-op shooter

[trim iron]

Neither have I. I don't think I played any of the releases after the original. Not that I can remember.
That "feeling" is exactly why sequals often spoil a game for me. It's hard to get it right in subsequent attempts unless you stick to exactly the same formula and end up with Bethesda games that literally feel like a different skin was simply pulled over the same skeleton.

[warped monolith]

the good side of games like serious sam with simple mechanics is that there's very little for them to screw up to begin with

[trim iron]

Ah, no I did play the original and Serious Sam 2. I didn't play 3 and 4.

[warped monolith]

BFE was a bit of a missed shot because they tried a bit too hard to parody call of duty imo

but it's still very much a SS game in its core

ss4 was considered a bit disappointing because it was first announced as SS "Planet Badass" where they promised absurdly huge enemy hordes for Sam to mow down

but they couldn't do it and ended up making a regular SS game like all the others

guess they quickly realized no one would be able to play the game if it actually had "thousands of enemies on-screen"

[trim iron]

Sounds like I quit at the right time

[warped monolith]

if they had actually pulled it off it would've been very impressive

such is life (in the zone) though

[trim iron]

Well, that last statement brought Days Gone to mind.
Mad Max and Serious Sam combined (when fighting the hordes).

Anyway... I'll say no more before mods shut us down for off topic

[frank pendant]

Hey, has anyone had a bug with none of the tabs in the PDA not working? I can't switch to any other tabs I'm stuck on the Taskboard

oh, wrong chat sorry

[trim iron]

Thanks for the mention. That game looks amazing

[warped monolith]

I didn't pay much mind to that at first but a friend of mine bought it and said there's co-op coming soon (it's on an experimental test build rn), so I bought it and hopped in

happy I did. It's an isometric ARPG with a combat system that feels a bit close to soulslikes

and the co-op is janky but a lot of fun. Even reminds me of Magicka with the amount of friendly fire incidents lmao

[trim iron]

Oh god, friendly fire can really test friendships

[neon acorn]

Can chimera spawn naturally or is it only on scripted events?

[normal sentinel]

#╟📸stalker2™-media message @slim moth sick video

What mods / settings are you running for this?

[elfin pilot]

suddenly I dont wanna eat bread no more

[remote eagle]

its just made out from different flour its save to eat

[elfin pilot]

holy tonks

[wanton arch]

average oxa

[wanton arch]

average T-64

i still like how GSC does care about few historical fact or thing

[elfin pilot]

I would love Oxa more but it can be janky

[wanton arch]

not really janky for me but yeah oxa is

finicky

[golden hazel]

Scrap it SKEEFA, it must still have some copper wire left in it

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

[lofty badger]

anyone know if the Rat Killer is still good? been watching some S2 weapon recommendation videos and a lot of them are ~a year old and say it's one of/the best because the penetration is fucked up - unsure if that's still the case post 1.8

[normal sentinel]

Pretty sure there was a weapon rebalance

I don’t think it’s as op anymore

[lofty badger]

ah OK sweet - do you know what patch that was?

[remote eagle]

use skeefa pistol most op gun in game

[lofty badger]

but can't 1tap head exos like I'm looking for

[remote eagle]

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/tanino-gimlet-hiruno-d'amour-horse-horse-of-wisdom-gif-8087630190955450711

[remote eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/horse-smile-hungry-feed-me-gif-16778650907752847951

[wary rune]

"Decent" weapons quickly become decen't :V
For some reason GSC went with weapon tier system built around Armor Penetration stat

[icy basin]

So like in the OGs

[knotty onyx]

Mfw gamma is designed to deliver much slower progression than most stalker experiences.

[inland stirrup]

Hi guys, can someone please explain how to play co-op

[icy basin]

!mp // I bet you don't mean Stalker 2

[fallen iron]

@inland stirrup
For information related to multiplayer, read this: #╭📖faq message

[torpid relic]

man i love eye adaptation

[sacred jungle]

What is the best armor rn

[tame lodge]

The one with the highest protections

[valid sequoia]

could yall pwease check out my stalker 2 mod collection on steam :3
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3630944020

[icy basin]

Look inside
Mods use AI slop thumbnails

Trash

[wanton arch]

tbf if the Modit self ain't AI i still use it

but on god i want that funny

stupid edit

[digital kraken]

yoo lookin for winter mod, what should I grab ?

merry xmas

[knotty onyx]

For some reason like half of all S2 mods have AI thumbnails

Back in my day if you didn't have a thumbnail for your mod you'd just use any random image.

[warped monolith]

make anything in paint

[icy basin]

Literally just write out the title of the mod with the pencil tool

[knotty onyx]

NVSE plugin thumbnails are peak

[icy basin]

Why does that modlist have like 4 of the same "AI cat in front of the CNPP" thumbnails

[sacred jungle]

So which armor is the best

[icy basin]

But slightly different because didn't bother to save one

[sacred jungle]

And is the dnipro good as a end game weapon

[knotty onyx]

Yeah

||Deggy even gives you a special one before last mission ||

[tired flicker]

Escaping sphere with no meds, no health with oxa is rough

[hallow canopy]

Ever tried Master Difficulty?

[tired flicker]

it would be even more rough

[wary rune]

Diamond Exo

And before that any armor with good bullet protection so you don't bleed every ten seconds

[tired flicker]

okay, expired medkits dont count as medkits for quest reviving people, need to find ID to spawn in meds to revive quest npc now

[kindred violet]

you can revive, just needs a lot of them ^^

[odd fjord]

how about master and BB: Redux and NPC Combat Overhaul?

[hallow canopy]

It dont seem to work
They die almost 1:1 like the NPC Combat Overhaul

[tired flicker]

Nope was just bugged, even before spawning in. The reload fixed it

[hallow canopy]

ummm how do you get there??

Yea the aread around is literally not possible to traverse

[kindred violet]

story related

[tame lodge]

Bro wants meta for a singleplayer game

Stuff like this is so toxic to me

Play the game and find out

[late kernel]

Skif's pistol is best endgame weapon, even nerfed

[hallow canopy]

What part of Story? The main?

[kindred violet]

yes main story

[golden hazel]

Those and the ones with pics completely unrelated were always the best mods back in the day

[hallow canopy]

As in the Added bit more to the Main Story??

[kindred violet]

No

It's always been there

You just don't go there for every ending

[hallow canopy]

Oh so its part of a certain Ending

So me going for the Strelok Ending aint gonna get me there and I assume its Wards ending?

[kindred violet]

If I do recall correctly it's the ward and spark ending in which you go there

[steady nymph]

Just started to install stalker2

[wanton arch]

They need optimization

[wanton arch]

Me when i look at newbie chat

Bro got this
She got that
What is the meta gun in stalker anomoly modpack this

God heaven use whatever you can afford to use it. Or larp as whatever shit you can

[warped monolith]

or ya know

let people play the way they want

if they wanna chase meta, let them

for a good long time, half the interactions in this channel were "go to X spot to find endgame tier armor early"

it's just up to ppl to decide whether they wanna follow that advice or not

[wanton arch]

💔

The bad part is who is pushing the meta idea onto people

But then again use whatever you can afford and i still give the idea about what happen you use whatever weapon

[warped monolith]

no one's pushing anything

bro asked if the dnipro is a good gun

it's a simple yes/no

it's not that deep

[wanton arch]

😭

Nah it's the response for the other dude

At least yall said what he could expect from the dnipro

[icy basin]

There are always going to be people looking for the best armour and the best gun in the game, without even anybody pushing em for it

[wanton arch]

Def

Dont ask why i used spawntool and give me that strelok armor at the start of the game on my 8th playthrough

🥀

Yeah im at the phase where i look for drip to be dripping

Im done with the story

[golden hazel]

Some boring ahh zone armor
Bandit Jacket

[wanton arch]

Becoming the legend of the bandit gang

[golden hazel]

Drip so hard it registers as an anomaly

[wanton arch]

The swamp bandit who has taken the man lifes of ward

Tbf you could cosplay as scar in clearsky

🔥

Bandit outfit with a vss

Or as val because i forgot we dont have vss on vanila

[golden hazel]

Pretty sure I remember getting a vss from one of the stashes in Rostok

[wanton arch]

I could be wrong because most of my playthrough are using oxa proto

[golden hazel]

I play vanilla

[wanton arch]

Then there is vss

🔥

Hitting that hardcore scar drip at the start of clearsky

[normal sentinel]

Marauder suit goes hard

[torpid relic]

why are bandits so dam thic

[remote eagle]

near army warehouses there is unic as val

the one on the left

[tired flicker]

hdr screenshots be like

[strange moon]

Hey guys, is S2 worth picking up at the winter sale price? I've heard really bad things but I kind of want to try it out just for the potential of future mod projects.

[leaden nova]

its fairly decent now

definitely wayyy better than it was at launch

i would buy it now

think of it as an investment opportunity

[merry wraith]

It is WAY better than at launch!

Besides all the bug fixing and all the really important stuff they also added a lot of stuff an brought in new things. Its debatable if these things shoud already have been in the game at the start but for me personally its a thing of "better late than never"

Gsc coud have easily taken the money from S2, ditch the community, and just fuck off, but they didnt. They still work on the game and 1 year after release we get new content for free added to it.

Just dont expect something like G.A.M.M.A or so. Some mechanics are not as fleshed out as i woud like them and some mechanics are outright missing, but you will definitely have a good time with the game!

[warped monolith]

Gsc coud have easily taken the money from S2, ditch the community, and just fuck off, but they didnt. They still work on the game and 1 year after release we get new content for free added to it.

they're not exactly doing the community a favor with this lmao
they're slowly fixing that glorpshit broken release for 2 big reasons
1 they still got DLCs to sell
2 Microsoft

if they had cut and run with the release sales money they'd never make another game ever again

they already lost enough faith from delaying release 3 times as well as trying to pull off a NFT stunt in the game (any of y'all remember that or did you already forget)

that being said
at the current 40% discount I think it's worth picking up

[silver orchid]

i remember the thingi of the NFTs

was certainly lame but wasn't shrimply "buy this and nothing happens", supposedly the ones that adquired a NFT would have his face integrated in-game on some NPC

[elfin pilot]

Why every mod thats about hardcore or realistic combat absolutely diminish your movement speed

Like its not like traversing the zone in stalker 2 is already not painful enough

[golden hazel]

Battle pass for the multiplayer mode too don't forget

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

[wanton arch]

Say that to most anomoly modpack

Lovely

Ok yk what its to make the game tedious thats all

Yuh we love tedious game

[elfin pilot]

anomaly modpacks you can still fast trav around

[wanton arch]

The cost is immense

[elfin pilot]

at one point it doesn't matter anymore

[wanton arch]

They kinda want to have fast travel so you dont have to walk by yourself from the north to cordon

But then again that is the point of most modpacks including s2

[elfin pilot]

but atleast they gave me the option to fast travel

[wanton arch]

All want your ass to bleed

You kinda have it

[elfin pilot]

S2 to FT I need to run like across the US to be able to

the stamina system does not make it any merciful

[wanton arch]

I would say s2 vanilian does

Well

[elfin pilot]

never say it doesn't, it's just hard to access

[wanton arch]

Make fast travel allow you to go back to a certain place for task or look for whatever

[elfin pilot]

Call of Pripyat did this perfectly, but S2 does not

[wanton arch]

The game itself still wants you to travel around and see what shit changed

Except

Malachite

You run around so much it make no sense for no TP spot or guide

🥀

[elfin pilot]

I don't give a shit the game let me see the zone itself, I don't want to fucking pass by it for the 10000th time to get somewhere

[wanton arch]

That is the thing

They want you to see what happens and fast travel is for you to return and re see or do what you could not

Which is what anomoly modpack does

You only unlock telespot through discovering it

[elfin pilot]

uh huh

[wanton arch]

Unless yk change the setting to unlock node

[elfin pilot]

where is this in STALKER 2?

[wanton arch]

Then you can teleport freely

Guide

[elfin pilot]

my brother

you only teleport to settlements

[wanton arch]

You do have guides in triology

[elfin pilot]

Anomaly teleport any location you discovered

[elfin pilot]

You also have stalker fast travel in the last game

[wanton arch]

Tbf there is no mod to change the teleport function

You could.

Increase walk speed

💔

This traveling is so ass because there is nothing

Baren ah

[elfin pilot]

I wish the game changed the type of pistol you have in cutscene based on whatever pistol you carries

and not just skif PM

[wanton arch]

But yeah i think modder could fix the issue by idk able to make teleport nodes

Where are our talented modders.

[wanton arch]

That means they need to change dialog for certain place

Remember that cutscene where the fat fuck under ipsf sphere

Yeah makarov does not have good safety feature

[elfin pilot]

nah just let them say "Makarov tend to misfire" and your character just holds a Mac 10

l0ok at this dude

[wanton arch]

Fat ass

Deserved to be dead by mauler

[elfin pilot]

I play w a mod that makes combat feels more impactful

and everytime I see this fucko I always get shot by like 20 AK

like that's insta death

[wanton arch]

😭

Lore accurate burer

Knock down all gun and mow down all stalker

[tired flicker]

delaying release 3 times I mean they did get bankrupt essentially and thats why we got anomaly, I'm surprised we even received stalker 2 with everything going on atm

[slim moth]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-monolith-ryan-gosling-gif-14712048368746678954

[rotund mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-meme-sad-cat-true-morgan-freeman-gif-2550818640546449257

Thank god for peak story mods in the meantime

[pseudo falcon]

my only gripe with this game is it doesnt have anabiotics so i can survive a damn emission
coz i roam alot

i need to be always near some shelter while roaming if it happens which is annoying

[tired flicker]

I just wish we had actual AA and grass shadows were a separate setting

[sacred jungle]

Hey i've never seen 7.62×39 ammo or weapons in stalker 2. Did they get removed?

[trim iron]

Sounds like you haven't really played the game much

[sacred jungle]

I got like 55 hours. Mid game

But like i didn't see that ammo anywhere, not even traders

[elfin pilot]

wait what faction is this

[elfin pilot]

used to be for PKM, they made PKM uses 7.62x54mm now

[sacred jungle]

I believe that's freedom

[elfin pilot]

I saw freedom w wolf head

I didnt see freedom w that

that looks more duty?

[trim iron]

It's not an early game weapon.
Just keep playing or Google where you can find it in the map. I haven't played for a long time, so I cannot remember, but once you reach a certain rank, lots of exo dudes will carry it.

[elfin pilot]

lmao I love cheesing items given to u from the arena

[normal sentinel]

Freedom

Prolly a bug

[elfin pilot]

or ya knoi

a spy

[elfin pilot]

damnn

[summer vapor]

They added new skins

[elfin pilot]

yeh the controller sure is the most annoying piece of shit to fight in tight space

[elfin pilot]

AK scope

[knotty onyx]

It got removed. Upgraded dnipro was the only weapon that used it.

[wanton arch]

you have to hit after like

ye

wait hwa

[hallow canopy]

https://youtube.com/shorts/7LA7MyE7wEw?si=jwjO5jpTyj-7OcDs

Dude went the effort of getting that one early

[lofty badger]

Is the Rat King still good? been watching some S2 weapon recommendation videos and a lot of them are ~a year old and say it's one of/the best because the penetration is fucked up - unsure if that's still the case post 1.7

someone said one of the previous patches was a weapon rebalance but google isn't helpful (just shows mods that do it)

[kindred violet]

Just use a gun you like man, there's not much point in "meta" for a singleplayer game.

[hallow canopy]

Yea I agree, you use what is to your liking

With the new Master Difficulty I found myself using and trying out all the weapons I have collected till the last mission

It is mixed what all I am trying, as well as using guns as cheap gaps to more/less be effective

Never used the Rhino because stuff was dying in other difficulties way to quick, apart from the bigger Mutants
Now I am using it as my side arm to pair with my Sniper Rifle and Saiga

In Master Difficulty I cant recommend any fully automatic weapons
They cost way too much to repair per shot
The AS Val literally went from 100% down to 40% in a few mags

Well in Master you do need to plan ahead and strike with Precision and lethality to maximise the outcome.
And not do a CoD style run and gun like someone did

[tame lodge]

Youve been asking the same question for a week bruh

Are you a bot

[icy basin]

Coulda tested the gun yourself by now

[hallow canopy]

Not sure anymore if in lower difficulties the damage scales depending on the story
But in Master once you meet your first Exo's they become really hard to fight

[lofty badger]

been getting no answers for like a week :/

[lofty badger]

you need a side quest for it and I cba unless it's worth it

[lofty badger]

I'm on Expert so the point of the "meta" is to get strong as fast as possible so I get stomped the least amount