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

[royal mural]

i didnt

i have enough bread at home

[sweet mica]

nah actually same, i lived off cheese sandwiches that week

[royal mural]

hahaha

i literally have bread and doctors sausage in my fridge

im not lying

and i think a little bit leftover cheese

i had to buy it yesterday

i was hungry

[junior drift]

I found a way...
I set all graphic to "hight" instead of "ultra"
I lock FPS to 120 instead of "no limit"
in adrenaline panel (AMD GPU) I dislabe some settings
For now it's working...
I hope it will last huhu

[royal mural]

im not sure but i still think you will get future problems

i hope it lasts tho

it is your OS shutting down your graphics driver

cause the card takes too long to provide the data

atleast that what i got from the log file

not 100% sure tho

but hey atleast it works

[sweet mica]

all you need is vodka and energy drinks and you have the diet of a stalker

its not that bad of a diet tbh, sausage and bread are all you really need

just dont ask my doctor what his opinion is on the matter

[golden hazel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFSD202Dj78 It's not

Them stoners got stoners and aren't afraid to use em

[tame lodge]

They have sex with bloodsuckers

[golden hazel]

That one isn't canon

[rotund mantle]

fr thats freeplay slop

canonically bandits fuck mutants

its a great way to tell the difference between people who played the trilogy vs anomaly/gamma players

[warped monolith]

true

[finite ruin]

Techbros, is there a way to darken the sky only, its just too bright. I'd like to set it as gamma darker nights. Its just too bright at night and i dont feel threatened? (darkness in gamma works perfectly so its not my monitor or gamma settings)?

[tame lodge]

Idk why you decided to label me something off of that but ig

I did play SoC and CoP before anomaly or gamma

[rotund mantle]

i was speaking generally not specifically at you

[rotund mantle]

its just a common trope

[silver orchid]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/953307230273409076/1135248382819045468/garbaged.gif

[junior drift]

friendly fire is BS...
i die more to that than enemy...

[silver orchid]

wouldn't have much sense if Clear Sky "remained" in good state tho, and take the swamps for the sequel for a "possible return of CS" wasn't a option, GSC before the release of Clear Sky already had the idea of set the sequel on the north of the zone.

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/hand-on-shoulder-akakichi-no-eleven-everything-will-be-ok-my-brother-in-christ-we're-gonna-beat-you-gif-16692013677699419935

[silver orchid]

Why scar has a big 👃

[junior drift]

is there a way to dislabe friendly fire in ST2 ?

[royal mural]

to smell the zone ofc

[silver orchid]

Don't forget that certain faction on SoC folklore was killed on the same entry where they are mentioned

Anyways, GSC did worse thingis than kill factions on the same title where em appear.

hermit

hermit is so clean as an human can be

[normal sentinel]

Hahaha

[normal sentinel]

There was a stalker 2 version of this

I have to dig to find it

It was Skiff Dalin & the Colonel

[shadow osprey]

Okay, seems like it was FSR frame generation. I turned it off and now my skybox doesn't flicker. only getting 80 frames, but I'm still playing at max settings so can't complain

[royal mural]

i told you

fsr3

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-soc-kruglov-ecologist-scientist-gif-24489592

[normal sentinel]

@hallow canopy did you beat the game on master yet?

[hallow canopy]

I am at the last mission

just not playing Stalker 2 atm

[golden hazel]

Master mode for me has just been "I haven't been in a hub for multiple hours surely if I greed for a few extra things before I go back to save things won't go bad" Simulator

[normal sentinel]

things went bad

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/looking-at-distance-strelok-stalker-stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl-gif-9607769205614768453

At least some of my recent deaths were funny, a poltergeist launched an object at me through the wall, it clipped wrong at some point and ricocheted infinitely and insta killed me another one is when I was rescuing the sussy science baka from the bloodsucker, the bloodcyka knocked me down and was attacking me while I was down and the science guy shot me and killed me

[normal sentinel]

Lmao

I don’t remember what mission you rescue a scientist from a bloodsucker

[golden hazel]

It's the one you get from STD Malachite

The one where you have to save Lefty's and Blizzard's squad

[slim moth]

really bad.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/837355769946046546/960685663504695317/1649115570183.gif

[slim moth]

its a side mission to get a malachite pass.

[rotund mantle]

ngl this trickshot goes so hard

[slim moth]

fr fr

[elfin pilot]

the SIRCAA Wish granter fight is so trash

there's like no cover

[slim moth]

go to the very top of left side and just wait on the stairs. boom

at the door way looking at the stairs

or maybe right side.

whichever is taller

https://tenor.com/view/i'm-drunk-denzel-washington-pilot-gif-15976236028005117516

[elfin pilot]

why her face looks like that\

[normal sentinel]

She is kind of spooky

[warped monolith]

local discorder learns ugly women exist

[elfin pilot]

I think Strider is a bit uh

Anomalous

[normal sentinel]

He just got back from his trip to the Caribbean

[elfin pilot]

botched 2nd trip

[golden hazel]

Strider looking like he belongs in a hl2 music video

https://tenor.com/view/half-life-virtual-end-linkin-park-meme-gif-26296541

[elfin pilot]

god damn

he got some bush

[rotund mantle]

GSC make everyone caked up challenge: impossible

[elfin pilot]

I like how in vanilla game the shotgun trap deals barely any damage

in the mod I am playing holy shit

Skif must bne hella strong to shove a dude's head through the mirror

ig adrenaline is a thing

[woeful bison]

(moded) game very simply will not save

[hollow zephyr]

i mean... are you in combat?

because vanilla game won't let you save in certain story parts/in combat/during an animation

[woeful bison]

Nope. I even started a new game and it wouldn't let me save just after hoping the wall

Ive tried sleeping and nothing in game seems to effect it but I couldn't work out what mod was causing the conflict

[wanton arch]

https://vxtwitter.com/i/status/2005519841160245629

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 News (@Stalker2News)

Playtrough is going well...!

QRT: Stalker2News
Wasn't happy with my FPS, so I decided to take matters into my own hands.

vxTwitter / fixvx · Dec 29, 2025, 6:02 AM

Most optimized gameplay

💔

[warped monolith]

that sunset pic actually goes hard

[remote eagle]

[wanton arch]

[royal mural]

rate mine honest

some one actually managed to beat the mission ||radio silence|| of untold stories on master?

the sam site to be specific

[warped monolith]

1/10 no sun

[royal mural]

fair enough

[royal mural]

better?

[warped monolith]

better

[alpine shard]

Can someone help me either answering or pointing me in the right direction. Building a new pc today, but transfering old SSD that i will format. Where does GAMMA save the game, and can i just save the save files and transfer it to the new pc after installing GAMMA?

[warped monolith]

Try asking in #╟🔰☢newbies-chat, this channel is for stalker 2 instead

[alpine shard]

Oh my bad, thanks!

[grim crane]

is there any way to check, what stats item would have if it was 100% durablility? it is hard when comparing armors while looting

[wanton arch]

if there is a mod that show numerical stats

[haughty pawn]

The downside of having such a strong modding community for stalker is that when stalker 2 releases without QOL stuff mods have done it feels bad.

[warped monolith]

iirc even most mods for stalker 1 still don't show actual numerical stats for guns and armor

no idea what drives this need to hide information from players

[haughty pawn]

I remember Oblivion Lost had % readouts on the cards.
-# At least, one version of it did. There were so many versions of that mod lmao.

But yes I do recall the base OG trilogy only showing the armor values when you put it on so you had to do an outfit shuffle back and forth to figure it out.

Generally if something had a higher value it had better stats.

[ancient musk]

When you literally have to choose between playing with lumen off and playing with dogshit looking upscaling

[weak hound]

it’s wild how awful the upscaling looks. some games it’s fine but it’s gross here

I finally managed to tweak a 1080p setup that lets me run smooth with native dlaa (unfortunately still needs FSR frame gen)

there’s a bit of delay even with reflex low latency on but it’s tolerable

It’s most noticeable if I jump back and forth between s2 and gamma tho

[grim crane]

i even talka bout those "bars" - if i am looting armour os 10% condition it stats are low as fuck, because of the condition, and i have no way to compare it with what i am wearing, not unltill i put a lot of credits to repair the damn thing.

[wanton arch]

IT'S FR

[wanton arch]

you have to consider the resource demanding shit from the game anyways

[weak hound]

yeah

[wanton arch]

im pretty sure you can just add extra mods to gamma to make it optimized and resource hauling as S2 anyways

(i did it and i regret it)

look so dam great but on god

[haughty pawn]

Game runs mostly fine out of the box for me with a 3060, can see the DLSS funniness but it's not as bad as it is on say Monster Hunter Wilds where everything gets smeared with a coat of Vaseline. Controls feel decent without much need for tweaking (save for changing lean to Q and E) and the guns are responsive and actually shoot where I point. Only real complaint so far is that they're gating me playing on Master by having YACS but worse built in.

Thank Monolith for mods, I guess.

Why in the world they thought 'let's make it so you literally aren't allowed to save the game for 89.7% of the runtime while also making everything kill you by farting too close to you' is beyond me. Also, the difficulty says that EVERYTHING dies faster, but I dunno man, that bloodsucker sure took like 2.5 mags of 5.45.

And the polter took way more.

-# While also just constantly knowing where I was and throwing things at me regardless of if I was moving or not? And it kinda felt like the things it was throwing at me were hitting me through walls too but...

[slim moth]

why am i getting zootopia vibes

[warped monolith]

Master difficulty with the limited saving is huge, huge turn-off for me. I hate this kind of crap.

I understand that save-scumming and F5 spam is an issue and they want to curb that crap, but... ugh

[warped monolith]

2.5 mags of 5.45?
huh. That's kinda the same amount I spent on the bloodsucker at the prologue in v1.0. I thought they nerfed mutants' sponginess?

[royal mural]

the thing i hate about it is it really becomes a do a mission
run back to hub or risk losing over 2h cause you get hit by lightning

[warped monolith]

FUCK
I FORGOT THAT LMAO

I forgot Skif can get zapped by lightning

[royal mural]

it happened to me

[warped monolith]

MAN WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT THAT'S A GOOD IDEA

[royal mural]

right before slag heap

after the fucking lab mission

[haughty pawn]

I am playing whatever the newest version is, I definitely didn't miss any of my shots. Even the flesh you run into just past the tutorial radiation took almost a whole mag from the 74su I had.

[royal mural]

one fucking bolt of lightning per express delivery from zeus

[haughty pawn]

At least the blind dog in the area only took like 3 PM shots.

And humans aren't super spongy, from what I feel. Headshots are lethal even with the regular pistol and it only takes like 5-6 to put them down in the chest.

[royal mural]

the tutorial flesh out of the pipe?
20 shots to the head for me with the aksu

i redid the tutorial like 3 times

[haughty pawn]

That's the one. And yeah, that's basically what it took for me, too. I might actually grab one of Grok's mods from nexusmods that let you reduce mutant health.

[royal mural]

cause the bloodsucker killed me

pushed me down

killed me with the second hit

[warped monolith]

dunno if those still work in current version... they were made back in november 2024 for 1.0

[haughty pawn]

I was going into it like 'eh, I should be fine, I played the other OG games on master without much issue', then this lmao.

[royal mural]

tbh

the mutants feel good now atleast

[warped monolith]

"high difficulty" = inflating enemies' HP
lazy

[royal mural]

like they are to be scared of

[haughty pawn]

Ironically the bloodsucker hasn't killed me at all. The polter got me though because that thin gjust apparently is fucking invincible.

[royal mural]

ohh yea the polter in the ship killed me too

[haughty pawn]

Especially when Master is toted as 'everything dies very fast, be on your toes!' and then the mutants still have 40 billion health.

[royal mural]

cause he yeeted barrels at me with mach jesus through 10 walls

[royal mural]

for me mutants not having much health makes no sense

atleast some

dogs are just dogs

[warped monolith]

They definitely should be tanky.
but not this tanky.

[royal mural]

but bloodsuckers dying to one mag hell nah

[warped monolith]

they're supposed to have thick skin due to their mutations, to adapt to the zone's harsh conditions.

[royal mural]

i think a bloodsucker shouldnt even die to 9x18

[haughty pawn]

They're made of thick skin and bone, not fucking kevlar.

If I bean one in the dome point blank with buckshot it should ragdoll like it's in gmod.

[royal mural]

when i think how you hear guys talking about squads getting wiped out by one bloodsucker in the og games

[haughty pawn]

Which bodies already really like to do when I turn around too fast lmao.

[warped monolith]

complete with the thud sound effect

[royal mural]

i turned critical hit sound off

i hate that effect so much

[haughty pawn]

Legit had the two soldiers that are scripted to die just outisde of the bunker do a backflip when I turned to look at them after looking around the attic before dropping down.

Like, from the ground.

[royal mural]

i had bodies in the wild slide on the ground towards me out of nowhere like a b class horror movie

and its always ward somehow

[haughty pawn]

Oh man, reminds me of a somwhat rare glitch from Hitman Blood Money.

Where corpses ccould continue their 'aggressive' ai and slide around, take cover, etc, while sprawled on the floor.

Was creepy as fuck.

[royal mural]

hahaha

[normal sentinel]

Lmao

[royal mural]

bloodmoney i loved that game so much

[haughty grove]

I dont have space for zonekit but has anyone tried making scripted fights easier for Master difficulty?

Idea is dumb down boss fights and the stupid exospam corridor fights (which are the low point of every stalker game)

[haughty pawn]

i.e BS in GAMMA?

[haughty grove]

BS?

oh brain scorcher

[haughty pawn]

27 monos in a conga line with rpks and exos with a 10 minute time limit.

Wheeeee

[haughty grove]

I guess adding save points is the simpler way to go.

But i think now that theres an official "Ironman" implementation by GSC they can consider removing the brainrot F5-based game design sections that rely on player beign expected to f5 f5 f5. Since the former is way better difficulty than latter.

[normal sentinel]

Just finished BS for the ISG playthrough, yeah it was something

[haughty grove]

The loyalty to Anomaly 2/Gamma 2 never ceases to fascinate me.

Anomaly is an engine fork with years of tech debt + system debt, which GAMMA spent years trying to fix by stacking 500 mods on top of it

Perhaps modders should choose their own destiny

[normal sentinel]

Stalker 2 just needs a good freeplay mod

If the dlc has anything to actually do with a new faction war, might be a good base to start from

[late kernel]

That shit will never happen

[royal mural]

what i like about the new dlc is that after the missions you can actually choose || to accompany/get picked up back to the hub instead of having to run the distance back
||

[warped monolith]

designing encounters based on savescumming sucks, but keeping a player's hours-long progress hostage to literal RNG is worse

[late kernel]

What DLC

[royal mural]

untold stories

[warped monolith]

I think he means the stories untold story update

[royal mural]

the free one

[warped monolith]

not technically a dlc, but yea

[royal mural]

i dont know what to call anything at this point anymore haha

[warped monolith]

dlc usually implies one of two things... 1 it's paid, and 2 it's optional

[royal mural]

ohh

[warped monolith]

usually

[royal mural]

i took it to literal than

i thought
i downloaded it and its content

= dlc

so i thought

did one mission repaired and im broke again haha

[normal sentinel]

Yeah it’s a nice change

[royal mural]

and its not done too sloppy either

the one after malachite he radios you
||hey do you need help getting back i could send a guide your way to pick you up i already payed||
and you can choose if you want to

i know im in burnt forest rn
BUT WHY DID I HAVE TO GET KILLED BY LIGHTNING

AGAIN

https://tenor.com/view/kratos-zeus-kratos-zeus-gif-27202380

[kindred violet]

[royal mural]

only save when walking in and out of hubs makes me cry at one point

[finite needle]

While you are right about it being bullshit, I can't help but smile at the notion of the hardened GAMMA veterans getting their ball smashed by the ball smashing mode and being surprised when the hammer comes down and smashes their balls

[royal mural]

do you mean me?

i dont think its bs

i just dont like getting hit by lightning twice

haha

[warped monolith]

so many ppl sucking grok's dick for making the mutant health mod

"gamma veterans"

[royal mural]

wait maybe i shouldnt run around with the hilka all the time

thats why i get hit by lightning so much

[warped monolith]

is this actually real

[royal mural]

idk

but thats what i do most of the time

since the hilka has the biggest range

[late kernel]

It was made by Daddy Grok so it has to be good, right?

[royal mural]

mod to increase mutant health?

[warped monolith]

decrease it

people were whining about mutants being too tanky in Veteran difficulty back then, and instead of lowering the difficulty they modded enemies' health pools

[royal mural]

see i was smart i only whined that i came close to about 200 deaths cause of my skill issue

im at the mission ||find fausts agent|| rn im already at about 70 deaths haha

oh whelp 67

i just died

[woeful bison]

anyone got any advice?

[royal mural]

youre not playing on master difficulty are you?

[odd jacinth]

any esenciall mods / settings yall reccomend?

[normal sentinel]

Not really, game is more or less fine out of the box

Brighter flashlight mod is nice though

[odd jacinth]

for me the game doesnt load completely

even tho its on an ssd

i takes a few minutes to load all the assets after the loading screen

[normal sentinel]

That's odd

[woeful bison]

Nope just normal stalker mode.

[ancient musk]

I really hate that this game removes compass on master difficulty and forces you to open PDA every minute (while you can't move with PDA opened)

[woeful bison]

I've got all the mods downloaded from the guide. Removed mutant loot as it caused issues. And I think 1 or 2 other qol mods. Higher mantle etc

[haughty grove]

yeah compass removal is ugly because pda has anim time

[ancient musk]

Not just anim time. It's basically the same old 2D PDA map, just masked with fancy animation

[royal mural]

i mean the compass thing i agree tho i must say i got used to it and just learned to remember directions more

[ancient musk]

Also my modlist

IMO stamina drain mod is mandatory, cause without it you are forced to drag 999 cans of energy drink while walking across the map

[odd jacinth]

what does the artifact and item overhaul do?

[odd jacinth]

my keyvoard is currentky dissasemb;ed so i cant goog;e shit

[ancient musk]

Changes stats of artifacts, removes instant healing, healing with food and healing with bandages

[haughty grove]

Ok i think i found a fair compromise for master?

You can try this if you want. {Bpatch for difficulty cfg}

-> Removed exitsaves to prevent cheese.
-> Enabled Quest Saves (game will autosave within quest steps).

Everything else remains same for master/expedition

[slim moth]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1777

[haughty grove]

what im doing is diff; manual and quick and autosaves are still disabled.

[slim moth]

ik. it's just for people that want to save normally in master mode

cause vanilla master save system is ass. Shay's campfire saves would be a good way to do it too

[ancient musk]

So far I don't feel any difference from veteran difficulty

Aside from bloodsucker nuking 75% of hp bar in prologue instead of 30-50%

And bleeding deals more damage per tick

Idk, maybe it's just a placebo, but it feels like this tweak in Engine.ini makes TSR upscaling look somewhat less shitty

Though it still nukes your eyes when you walk outside of buildings with extremely fuzzy image turning into normal quality in real time

[slim moth]

most engine.ini's are placebo

[late kernel]

Which one comes first? GTA 6 or Stalker 2 engine upgrade to 5.7?

[slim moth]

WWIII

[warped monolith]

my bet is GTA

[slim moth]

if they stick with the 11/19/2026 then it is quite possible

[forest hawk]

is there any mod or fix for the 'one arm'/arm clipping inside body thing?

[graceful wolf]

What winter mod is currently compatible with gamma on gog?

[ancient musk]

Inverno

[silver orchid]

What winter mod is currently compatible with stalker2 on gog?

[silver topaz]

So I haven’t played stalker 2 since I finished the story a good 7 or 8 months ago. I redownloaded it to play with some mods and for some reason my game won’t save at all, even before using mods. And I tried starting a new game a few times, any ideas what it could be?

[tacit violet]

STALKER 2 IN LUNA LETS GOOO

[neon acorn]

Is there a way to fix this effect plants have over water? It distorts shadows and stuff underneith branches. Hurts my eyes :(

[wanton arch]

Idk what I'm seeing here in general

[golden hazel]

The strongest entity in the game

[wanton arch]

When the burer got the chair

You do not want to know why i lost 1h of scavenging around the garbage just to be ended dead

🥀

[neon acorn]

Hopefully this video shows it better, theres like a box around plants that distorts the way things look around it, in this case the plant in the water gets distorted, and even some of the water shaders

[wanton arch]

Off actually we have to deal with that unless some one drop that most optimization mod where it just rip everything apart

[neon acorn]

Yeah I figured it was just the plant's geometry box that is just snapped in, i notice it a lot around water and when running through certain trees

[quartz karma]

hi , how can i disable de gamma economy ? i mark the mod in the organizer but nottihng happend in the game still same , help pls

[icy basin]

1. Not GAMMA chat
2. No, we made the game crash if you disable GAMMA Economy

[quartz karma]

sorry 🙁 i dont see this is a stalker 2 chat

[icy basin]

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

[tulip cloak]

Does anyone know if stalker 2 with dx11 or vulkan is possible?

[golden hazel]

Something's wrong I can feel it

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/i-see-no-problem-here-crazy-eyes-gif-12788383

[royal mural]

you can try "-norhithread" in the launch arguments for stalker 2

[tulip cloak]

Ah ok. What does this do?

[royal mural]

should unforce dx12 for ue5

[tulip cloak]

Ah ok, so would I input both -dx11 , and -norhithread?

[royal mural]

just try the -norhithread by itself first

im not sure if -dx11 does anything

[tulip cloak]

Ah, but would -norhithread automatically put it in vulkan or dx11?

since the game natively uses dx12 what would actually switch the api

[royal mural]

what is the main reason you want to do it btw

[tulip cloak]

dx12 refuses to run good on my PC. I try games in dx11, after switching from dx12 and they suddenly work better

dx11, or vulkan

[royal mural]

then try and add -norhithread

and look if its better

how much vram you got?

8gb+?

[viscid oxide]

Guys, how to make UETools_Fly work ? do i need to press anything

[royal mural]

if you got less than 8gb vram try in addition
-xgeshadercompile -nothreadtimeout

if you got 8gb+
-xgeshadercompile -nothreadtimeout -NoVerifyGC

just try around a bit

to find your ground

but if its about performance i would recommend you engine.ini adjustments they help way more

just google around that topic

[royal mural]

Lt. Shterev: dont underestimate my cocky overconfidence

[wanton arch]

OH HELL NAH

https://vxtwitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/2005766535353147469?s=20

OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical)

Ukrainian troops from the 1st Nuclear Power Plant Defense Battalion guarding the city of Pripyat, just south of Chernobyl.

vxTwitter / fixvx · Dec 29, 2025, 10:23 PM

nah that is insane dawg

[royal mural]

stalker 3 faster than expected

[wanton arch]

[sterile epoch]

guys should i play stalker 2 or gamma, i want a real survival game, ive never played those before

[wanton arch]

hard core suvival then hit anomoly with any modpack

which is gamma

[royal mural]

depends i can always recommend gamma

[wanton arch]

your choice

[sterile epoch]

;vok

[sterile epoch]

is this gamma

[royal mural]

no

stalker 2

[sterile epoch]

oh ok

[royal mural]

this is stalker 2 chat

[sterile epoch]

oh

[royal mural]

most of the stuff here is s2

[wanton arch]

suppose to be S2 only

[sterile epoch]

i though this was gamma chat

[wanton arch]

it's in

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/shhh-shush-silence-nose-gif-17895433

[wanton arch]

#╓☢stalker-chat

and

#╟🔰☢newbies-chat

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/hand-on-shoulder-akakichi-no-eleven-everything-will-be-ok-my-brother-in-christ-we're-gonna-beat-you-gif-16692013677699419935

[wanton arch]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1127053428821073971/1167382653293568062/caption-50.gif

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/nero-dmc-devil-may-cry-devil-may-cry5-dmc5-gif-25955449

@warped monolith the count is 3 now
i got hit by lightning again

[wanton arch]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/779196945448304640/1364708570355990538/togif.gif

[remote eagle]

[royal mural]

[icy basin]

Well you won't get it here either tbf

Getchu some Green Hell or smth
Raft even

[royal mural]

the forest is nice

[icy basin]

Fuck it
Get Don't Starve (Together)

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/webber-webber-dst-webber-dont-starve-together-dont-starve-together-gif-17007069437016444465

[shadow osprey]

DayZ is also a good choice IMO

but S2 is definitely not a survival game

[icy basin]

Point is, GAMMA provides barely an illusion of "survival"
While S2 is just STALKER, survival elements were always secondary or maybe even just there to provide the player with ways to destroy 10 cans of beef to heal

[ancient musk]

Barely killed a poltergeist in Ribs anomaly. Wtf

[royal mural]

what i really started to love is abiotic factor

my fav survival game by far
if youre not turned down by the asthetic

[remote eagle]

get quasimorph

[wanton arch]

peak

[icy basin]

I have it, but I'm busy with GAMMA and TF2, shut up

[icy basin]

Oh ye, that too
Great solo, dunno about mp

[wanton arch]

I accidentally deleted gamma 😭

[royal mural]

only played solo

i can say with 99% certainty best interlaced map design ever made

[remote eagle]

its peam in mp too

[icy basin]

My stupid ass running around with my keychain friend Kylie

[royal mural]

getting to her was awesome

and so hidden

who needs mp when you got her

[icy basin]

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/dark-gif-22147668

[wanton arch]

Is ur name curiosity perchance?

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/cow-wig-gif-17915576443032798845

[wanton arch]

https://tenor.com/view/how-hungry-horse-hungry-how-how-hungry-horse-gif-5343274334933649908

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/shad-shadstroy-nikolai-niko-stalker-stalker-gif-12045943941512022740

i hope theres no lightning in swamps

[wanton arch]

Or mutants

I got jumped by a chimera and bandits once

[royal mural]

cant wait to get one shot by the chimera

FUCK i drank vodka instead of water

again

@icy basin where did you make your HQ in abiotic

[icy basin]

Security office, the one with the shutter that the AI hates

[royal mural]

haha thats the best spot

i love that one too

[icy basin]

The meta spot

Meanwhile, actual psychos basing in the zombie portal world mall 3rd floor

[royal mural]

in my first run i used the office next to the cafeteria
my next fav spot

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/byuntear-incrives-meme-meme-react-gif-25029710

[icy basin]

But we're far off the topic of S2 now so
Uh
SKEEFA I SNEEFA THE SHINING ZONE

[royal mural]

vero

we should make bets by what i get killed in the swamp

now that i think of it
a shrek mod for the chimera

get out of ma swamp

[icy basin]

Dies to the emission damage

[royal mural]

enough s2 for today

lmao

controller said back to skadovsk for you

[tacit glacier]

I didn't even think Zombified was a possible game over screen lmao

[royal mural]

i think that screen also comes when you are outside during emission im not sure tho

[deep mica]

nah it just says burned by an emission

you straight up die from those

ive played master diff for the last 2 days and idk why people told me i should manage my resources well, my aethereal chest is filled with throwaway weapons, armor and ammo

[royal mural]

same for me

i just started selling everything outta my chest

cause why should i keep 2000 rounds of 9x18 if i dont use em

[deep mica]

i like to go a bit off track and got a seva D as soon as i left zalyssia

exploring well enough mitogates your "lack of resources"

[deep mica]

i usually start selling as soon as i have a full batch of 900 rounds for everything

[royal mural]

i just sold all the artifacts

i had in there

really nice seeing sid give me 5k for a 40k artifact

https://tenor.com/view/sidorovich-laughing-sidorovich-stalker-gsc-game-world-gsc-gif-10511308776135339550

[deep mica]

or you can just wait for the barkeepers to give you artefact tasks

theyre rare but still occur

[royal mural]

true

but i needed money for meds

10 normal medkits 10k

[dawn shoal]

so do i need another game to add stalker anomly onto?

or is it stand alone as in its its own game

[deep mica]

anomaly is a standalone exe

[dawn shoal]

ok cause im plaing stalker2 rn and its lokey boring as hell

[orchid wave]

This made me fuckin lose it

[icy basin]

https://tenor.com/view/markiplier-keys-jingle-gif-522398006157271314

[hearty ocean]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGCyheenC7U

[warped monolith]

can't wait for that to be DLC

[silk dove]

https://tenor.com/view/its-peak-its-umazing-uma-musume-umamusume-umazing-gif-8772266154972725339

[dawn shoal]

BRO THAT LIKE ONE OF THOSE CAR DEALERSHIP THINGS

[ancient musk]

https://tenor.com/view/flaily-arms-guy-gif-10082686

[tame lodge]

The cnpo fr gonna be dlc?

[late kernel]

Major L

[rotund mantle]

It should be free honestly

This is modern gaming at its peak chop the core aspect of your franchise out and sell it back to your customers

[warped monolith]

main character of the stalker franchise

gets held hostage for 2 years

and then released as dlc

[late kernel]

It would work as a DLC, if we could get a glimpse into the so called "Operation Zenith"

[ancient musk]

Does it have something to do with CNPP generators grid being destroyed?

[late kernel]

That is what they tried to do back in late 2013 after the D4 Treaty

[ancient musk]

Went to the wiki to read about operation Zenith. I guess Ward is just that stupid. Like, wow, such a great idea to meddle with things you have no understanding of

What can possibly go wrong if they nuke the generators

[hollow ruin]

lmao just browsing the chat and realized that they didnt even include CNPP in the base game of stalker 2? What a complete embarrassment.

[warped monolith]

[ancient musk]

It is in the game though, just unfinished, hidden behind radiation death wall and the only time you visit it the intended way is during cutscene with Strelok

You can also use cheats to visit it on-foot

[hollow ruin]

That just feels like a lazy attempt to hide the fact they released an unfinished game

[ancient musk]

But you need lots of antirads and medkits to survive radiation

[hollow ruin]

It should be a major feature of the game not something you have to cheat your way into

[ancient musk]

Cause meatriders on reddit and other platforms will praise them anyway and defend them from any criticism

[hollow ruin]

They could literally have just made it an ultra hard area where you get hit with infinite monolith spawns and that would have been better

[warped monolith]

it's not a normal playable area you can visit - it's just an external shell meant to be part of the background

[ancient musk]

We literally have invisible insta kill snipers as a way to prevent players from going out of bounds/going to DUGA before related story quest

[hollow ruin]

It was actually crazy to see the amount of defense people ran for the game. Even on steam people where basically giving them a pass because of the war.

[ancient musk]

On top of insta death radiation spots

That literally screams "lazy game design"

[warped monolith]

if they add cnpp as part of a major free update it'll be peak, but I don't trust them

[ancient musk]

Given how royally they're fucked up with S2 release - IMO they have no right to release new content as paid DLC

They should take notes from Hello Games

[hollow ruin]

I mean infinite spawns of regular npc's so you could sort have an endless real battle; not just get sniped buy an invincible npc. Like they could have just made it a generic wave survival mission. "defend 5 waves of monolith" or something like that just to give the player a reason to go there and do something but they couldnt even do something like that

[hollow ruin]

I totally agree.

[ancient musk]

That's what you get when a videogame is made by people who have CaseOh sized skill issue

But like I said before, the GSC meatriders will defend this game with their lives, no matter how unfinished it is

[hollow ruin]

There basically was nothing added in S2 release though? I was hopefull they would fix everything and add some cool stuff by now but the game is still basically the same as it was when it released

Actually, even the teaser they released is kind of a joke. It doesnt even show anything lmao it's just a still shot of CNPP

[ancient musk]

They somewhat improved optimization on UE 5.1, added NVGs and some minor side quests

[hollow ruin]

Truly, everone is just waiting on Stalker2: GAMMA

[ancient musk]

That would nuke your pc even with upscaling and frame generation

[warped monolith]

not gonna happen

[ancient musk]

Cause too many mods

[hollow ruin]

By the time something like stalker2: gamma comes out my brain will have been uploaded to the cloud and I will have left my physical body behind me😎

Maybe in 60 years i can have AI generate me S2G

[ancient musk]

IMO stalker 2 in it's current state is much better than on release, but still miles away from being worthy to be called anything but beta test

[hollow ruin]

What would even be their incentive to improve it at this point though? It's not like once it's perfected tons of people are gunna start to buy the game again

[ancient musk]

Unironically I've spent more time tinkering with engine.ini, trying to make the game look at least slightly less like a vomit and to fix the dogshit latency

[hollow ruin]

Is a stalker 3 even possible. If it is, maybe they shoul djust focus on making that using funds from stalker 2 but, actaully release it fully finished.

[hollow ruin]

when i close my eyes, it's already finished

[ancient musk]

Stalker 3: upscaled from 144p and locked to 24 fps

[hollow ruin]

hey bud, this my fantasy. And in my fantasy, stalker 3 runs 1444p at 120 fps

[ancient musk]

I hope that switching from UE 5.1 to newer engine version would improve visual clarity

Cause games made on UE 5.1 look like a vomit by default

Unless devs spend a lot of time with fixing it

[outer depot]

Dawg tripping over himself to prove he hates Stalker 2 the most

[hollow ruin]

it's not about hating stalker 2. It's more about mourning what it could have been. I don't think anyone "hates" the game. Theres just a ton of disappointment over the end product

[rotund mantle]

the amount of times ive been called a russian shill for giving valid criticisms is insane like im a paying customer im allowed to voice my issues with what i bought lol

GSC meatriders are a special kind of delusional

[ancient musk]

I believe one of their favorite responses is "go play Smuta"

[rotund mantle]

its a for profit company lol they dont care about any of us they just want our money to continue existing

[rotund mantle]

[hollow ruin]

I'm sure the devs do care; the decision of when to release the game was probably not totally within their hands.

[rotund mantle]

yeah the devs do im sure but the higher ups dont

2077 had the same issue devs begged to not release higher ups said get fucked

[outer depot]

People say the game needed another year to cook which is quite obvious given that currently it’s in a condition most people would consider to be “release ready” in terms of functionality, stability, and performance — the thing is I don’t think they had the option to wait another year

[rotund mantle]

naw they had no choice time ran out

[outer depot]

It was release as is or shutter

And it felt like it lol

[ancient musk]

Speaking of russian, fucking Atomic Heart looks and performs significantly better than stalker 2 despite being development hell for many years and despite being made on UE4. And it's made by people who never developed actual videogames before

[hollow ruin]

Thats the saddest part. It's really no one's fault. Just fate played them a bad hand

[rotund mantle]

i think S2 was orginally a UE4 game aswell

[hollow ruin]

Not that they couldn't have been a little more inventive/creative with how they cut corners

[outer depot]

However as of now it’s in a pretty good state going forward. Could be better and it sounds like they intend to keep improving but it’s here finally in a non-embarrassing and pretty fun state.

The current state of the engine is the main roadblock I think

Performance is way better but still “eh”

[ancient musk]

It was, before OG GSC crew put the project into the dungeon

[ancient musk]

Still looks like a vomit though, cause UE 5.1 looks like vomit in general and cause they did a lazy job implementing upscalers

[outer depot]

Sure though at this point it’s fairly stable performance wise at or near native AA (and I don’t have a particularly powerful system) which helps with the visual clarity a lot.

It could absolutely be better

It needs to be better

But it’s nowhere near where it was lol

[warped monolith]

they've been prioritizing incorrectly since release

promised an engine update that was gonna "fix performance" for months now. And that's still nowhere in sight

meanwhile there's been a ps5 release, the untold stories update that no one asked for, and... what else lol

[ancient musk]

I'm playing with TSR at 60-65% resolution and with medium-high settings

And I still have to use engine.ini to mitigate visual artifacts and shit

[outer depot]

Untold stories was absolutely something people were asking for (a hub somewhere in the southwest of the map)

That entire area was a barren wasteland at launch with like a 2km run to the nearest trader

[warped monolith]

not nearly as much as performance improvements

not even close

[ancient musk]

You know what people also were asking for? For means to avoid spending majority of time running across the map on-foot

[outer depot]

Yeah which is why having a hub helps a lot since it also has a guide unless you meant backpack fast travel

Can actually wander around burnt forest without wanting to brain myself now when running back

[warped monolith]

I'm not in the main stalker 2 discord (thank god lmfao) so my only contact with this game is through here

my most generous guesstimate is 2 people here asking for a hub in that area
meanwhile the engine update has been promised months ago and ALL of us are waiting for it

[outer depot]

Engine update is absolutely going to be the thing I want them not to fucking rush, especially now when they can afford to wait a bit longer

If they release a broken engine update it’s going to be like launch all over again

[warped monolith]

and the funny part is whatever new content they make must be ported to the new engine version as well

so all of the work they're doing now to add new content to the game will have to be worked on a second time

[outer depot]

In the meantime they’ve still made some major performance improvements to band-aid over for the wait

[ancient musk]

They have an open world map and don't have vehicles

[outer depot]

Brother wants his e-bike

[warped monolith]

last time I was told the game had performance improvements, I gained 2 fps in zalissya

[ancient musk]

Given that vehicles were supposed to be in Oblivion Lost back in the day

[warped monolith]

isn't oblivion lost a mod

[ancient musk]

True. Now I can walk in Zalissya without my fps plummeting to 30

[outer depot]

I’ve picked up about 15-20 depending on where I am. Enough I’m at native AA on high and holding 75-80 everywhere but Red Forest which dips to 65 because fuck you trees

[ancient musk]

They actually improved performance in 1.7 patch though

[outer depot]

On launch I was lucky to hold 40-55 and hubs would crater

It’s actually kind of funny because now I can go into Rostok and get literally no performance drop anymore

Not even ye olde memory leak crash

[ancient musk]

Pre-1.7 I had 70-80 fps in Zalissya with frame gen enabled (35-40 real fps). Now it's 100-120+ with frame gen enabled

[gilded oyster]

is there a admin here thats also connected to Stalker official discord?

I need help

[warped monolith]

did you get banned

[gilded oyster]

I did get banned but I want to contact them and tell them it was not my fault

[kindred violet]

[warped monolith]

I don't think any mods here are affiliated with gsc

[kindred violet]

You'll just have to live with it

[gilded oyster]

they dont need to be affiliated with gsc but have a connection with the mods of stalker server

and how they can IP ban me

[outer depot]

Brother

Not our problem lmao

[kindred violet]

To be somewhat fair I would imagine these are separate teams working on these projects

[gilded oyster]

thats why I ask for a mod and not for you

[outer depot]

[kindred violet]

Mate, it's also not any mods problem

[outer depot]

Why do you think it’s the Mods problems for a different server

[warped monolith]

second mistake

[gilded oyster]

have I said anything abt that?

[warped monolith]

but as long as the job gets done eventually, I guess

[outer depot]

The people doing basic mission coding are not engine people 99/100

I know how to make maps in Hammer but I don’t know how the fuck source engine works

Despite the fact learning Hammer by itself feels like I should get an award or something

[kindred violet]

Lmao

[warped monolith]

the only one stopping you is you

[outer depot]

Most esoteric level design software I’ve ever used on god

None of it makes sense

Whoever made it was a mad man

[ancient musk]

The most dogshit think I've used is linux

I hate it for a reason now

[kindred violet]

Big question, what distro

[ancient musk]

CachyOS

[warped monolith]

I only ever dabbled with the quake 3 map editor

[kindred violet]

Oh it's arch based

[warped monolith]

made one and a half map for jedi academy

fiddled around with textures

in jedi academy and kotor 2

and thats it

[kindred violet]

I've opened hammer before and was immediately incredibly confused

I don't envy people who make maps for source games

[ancient musk]

Aka "oops, your internet has randomly died, your steam client randomly stopped working, your entire system got randomly corrupted cause fuck you"

[kindred violet]

Well, you chose that stupid ass distro

[ancient musk]

"Oh, you downloaded something from Aur? Too bad, now you have to reinstall the entire distro from scratch"

"You want to play games on steam? Too bad, cause steam will give you disk write error and/or download corrupted files every single time"

[ancient musk]

Gaming distro btw

In my defense, I've used Kubuntu 5-6 years ago. And it's barely any better in terms of stability

[tribal mesa]

Speak for yourself, I like playing russian roulette with pacman -Syu 🙂 That being said I always keep a snapshot handy, before doing that.

[ancient musk]

Like, I could actually play games on steam without losing my sanity, but random shit still ended up breaking cause fuck you

The funny part is that I've used Kubuntu when I had crappy ass MSI laptop with nvidia optimus

And linux hates nvidia optimus

No big problem, you can still use it. But arch distros straight up refuse to even install on nvidia optimus laptops

After cachyos shenanigans I've considered switching to bazzite or nobara, but decided that I'd rather save my remaining brain cells and go back to windows

And after debloating windows 11 with few scripts from github it runs just as fast as linux on my pc

(Minus random shit breaking up cause fuck you)

[ancient musk]

I can't say for other distros (cause I refuse to go back to Linux now), but from now on I believe that arch linux and arch based distros are cancer incarnate

Like, even using something simple like Ubuntu feels like being handicapped, but using arch feels like you're trying not to shoot your knee caps with a shotgun

And our government actively banning random websites and VPN services makes the experience infinitely worse

[late kernel]

Gamma is boring as shit, get out!
Not gonna happen for the next 10 years especially without the game's source code

[ancient musk]

The only thing that keeps me entertained in gamma is random shit happening in it

Cause story is barebones, gunplay is only interesting while you're learning how to play and there's almost nothing to do aside from fetch quests and randomly visiting locations

[silver orchid]

are atleast two teams working on two different thingis

[hallow canopy]

You guys seen the Teaser??
CNPP here we come

[normal sentinel]

Post

[hallow canopy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGCyheenC7U

If this wasnt obvious

[normal sentinel]

Oh dang

CNPP confirmed

[silver orchid]

would be funny if the title of 2000 bazillion grivnas set on Chornobyl with +7 years of development don't had the CNPP

[normal sentinel]

Hope we can visit x-16

Miracle machine was my favorite part of the original

Wouldn’t be surprised if someone sets up shop in the old ecologist bunker

[deep mica]

you mean the one overrun with zombies?

and that controller who got his hands on sakharovs hentai collection

[normal sentinel]

Yeah

There’s a whole puzzle just to get it unlocked

[deep mica]

you mean turning on a few generators

[normal sentinel]

Yeah

Still feels like an area that’ll get used later

[deep mica]

yeah its completely optimal

i bet they are gonna do smth with cement factory and cooling towers too

maybe we get freedom duty warfare again

[normal sentinel]

After SIRCAA the duty freedom dynamic ramps up so yeah

At least in the background

[deep mica]

siege of rostok has a nice ring to it

[grim crane]

hmm, im at Malahite, and everyone seems hostile to me (red markers) - i cant talk to anyone, but they re not attacking me. It was all good few mins ago, before i talked to Representative.

[deep mica]

did ward take over malachite?

[grim crane]

i dunno, they seem to still be the same guys, although that faction was attacking me in the open for a loooong time now

[deep mica]

did you kill any of them?

being hostile with malachite sucks

you cant turn mutant parts in for big mola

[grim crane]

can i make this right someway?

[deep mica]

usually you have to pay off their bosses

[grim crane]

it was all good until that mission now, i may have killed one or 2 in a fitefight tho 😄

[deep mica]

or wait a few days until hostility resets

[grim crane]

who is it ? 😄

[deep mica]

the chick at the counter s the questgiver so it should be her

i could be wrong though

never was hostile with malachite

[grim crane]

she dont want to talk to me :C

[deep mica]

wait a few days and try again

[grim crane]

yeah, but im stuck inside after that mission XD and i cant go out, cause everyone is shooting me onsite

[royal mural]

jep i found out

[deep mica]

then reload an older save

[deep mica]

scientific research 🤓

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/very-based-kruglov-approves-stalker-gif-24761835

[grim crane]

you think it may be that during that mission i accidentally shot someone i was not suppose to shoot?

[remote eagle]

nice death screen

[sweet mica]

how do yall feel about that new teaser???

i havent beaten the latest update's story content so pls doint spoil.

I thought the first DLC would be about Limansk and the radiowave institute,

[warped monolith]

it shows the CNPP in the background

so either the first dlc will be CNPP or it's an unrelated thing

hopium moment: free content update expanding the game map to include it

[sweet mica]

that would be sick

I just cant wait for more regions, I want to see Jupiter again

What should I absolutely do before I go to Sirca for the first time in the ward playthrough?

[golden hazel]

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

[sweet mica]

I wanna wrap up a few side quests, but is there anything that would be easier to handle before theres a bunch of lunatics shooting up half the zone for a shiny rock?

I hear I should grab a dnipro early in the cooling towers or something.

[golden hazel]

Shoot up Icarus

[sweet mica]

but I'm doing a ward playthrough

[golden hazel]

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

[sweet mica]

I just met with Scar and Strider before heading over, and I chose to shoot at the sparkies, are they like an actual threat? I feel like theres rarely sparkies out in the zone

[golden hazel]

All part of the plan SKEEFA

[sweet mica]

haha youre crazy, i would not shoot you if i didnt have to shoot you, but I have to shoot you

besides what were you thinking with that camo choice? bunch of nutcases

[golden hazel]

Sprite

It's the preferred soft drink of choice in the shining zone

[sweet mica]

i think the shining zone would have root beer

I feel like Duty would be a root beer faction, Freedom is Mtn Dew.

Loners is Coca cola

what would ecologists be?

[golden hazel]

Loners would be drinking Kirin Mets or Shasta tbh

Ecos would 100% be dr pepper

[finite needle]

||there is a mint condition Dnipro in Red Forest, ripe for the taking. You just have to kill 1000000000 zombies and a Controller for it||

||The real prize is the 9x39 bullets they drop, as the zombies seem to all carry Grozas or VSS for whatever reason||

I really can't pick to shoot the Noontiders in SIRCAA tho. Like, I don't feel like it's a choice I'd make, not after SIRCAA and Ward showed me they really can't control that shit.

[sweet mica]

this mutant is FUCKED

[sweet mica]

i still feel so bad for the noontide fellas

[limber thistle]

any common consensus on what weapon rebalance mod (to counteract sponginess) is good?

[deep mica]

skeeefa have you seen the shining zone yet skeefa?

[sweet mica]

i just survived the craziest fucking encounter. Im omw to sirca and I pass a tunnel. I get curious, and take a peak, and what do I see? a napping chimera that I just woke up. I ran as fast as I could into a train car and I shot a couple mags into it. Eventually it figured out how to climb INSIDE the train car. I barely made it out, at the last second, I use my grenade launcher and killed it but took 99% of my health

[warped monolith]

[golden hazel]

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

[sweet mica]

schizo scar is awesome

[silver orchid]

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

[deep mica]

scar would be a great actor

he has the dramatology with a slight hint of sociopath

honestly most goated zone inhabitant

[vale dome]

hey all, sorry to bother im looking for a fov mod but i am stuggling to find any, are there any good ones that allow you to go beyond the default 115?

[slim moth]

i gotchu hold up

r.UseLegacyMaintainYFOVViewMatrix=TRUE

Slap that baby into your engine.ini and your 90 will turn into a proper fov instead of the zoomed in stupid shit they went with

[slim moth]

you can always do the flawless widescreen hack, but there are some oddities with that one

It can also be tested in using the console

[vale dome]

You are a life save good sir

That has made my day

[stoic lichen]

Anyone got advice or tips to improve in Stalker 2’s gunfight combat overall?

[orchid wave]

I feel like the only reason they went with that is because of consoles

[tired flicker]

Playing with oxa prototype - no meds spawn at medic other than tourniquets. Saw meds actually spawn once in slag heap so knew it could spawn. Now finally after story reached rostok, it finally started spawning in rostok. Guess it's time for easy mode as now I finally have meds

[brave burrow]

His VA and model is from a theater Ukrainian actor Oleksandr Laptii

He even started streaming stalker games on twitch in his free time after s2 release

[hallow canopy]

Scar is just a Joke man

Once a known guide, now a man of his own intrests

[shadow stirrup]

his own interests. hmm...

[normal sentinel]

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

I grew to appreciate his character by the end

||But we’ll never know what he was really like ||

[hallow canopy]

I liked him at first, but the more I played
The more you got info on him
The more you could connect the dots, and the more you realised how he really is

Especially after insulting Strider

not even, he playfully mocked him

The first ever ending with Strelok made me knew that the choices I made were all right from my Human moral, but to side with all others wasnt what I would do if I was in skifs shoes

And as skif said to Scar

||Bringing the dead alive would give them more suffering and not eternal peace,no pain and no regrets||

There is never a easy way, and if there is one, its could just be very much a inviting landmine you step on

[normal sentinel]

That’s basically the entire theme with Stalker tbh

Blame c-con for creating an untenable situation

[outer depot]

The thing is ironically everyone has a shred of the truth, just some are more deluded than others with how it’s interpreted and believing what they’re told/seeing because it’s what they want to believe

Nobody really has a full picture except for you if you’ve run all the endings lol

[hallow canopy]

Well I for sure have seen all of them

[outer depot]

Closest one is Strelok who has just decided “quit fucking with it”

[tired flicker]

Strelok was a failed agent, hes a legend of the zone for a reason. Completed impossible feats and got back to tell it twice, even before we get into stalker 2, if anyone who has a right to decide it's him, saved the zone twice only to have to do it a 3rd time

[normal sentinel]

Which ending was the best?

[hallow canopy]

||I will say Strelok as his idea of the Zone is to perserve it and never let anyone abuse the zone, nobody leaves nobody enters, he basically puts it in Neutral status, while others abuse it for they gains instead of thing of life inside the zone itself, he very much convinced me with every perspective while the others had just visions I didnt like, too much into a dream that eventually turns to the worst outcome, one turning eveything into agents, one where you get fooled into opening up the zone to the world and causing more suffering then it already was.||

[hallow canopy]

Happy New Year Stalkers

[golden hazel]

In terms of end result? it's between Project Y and Strelok's cause both screw with the illuminati's and c-con's plans although Streloks could possibly be toppled from the inside by Clear Sky in Limansk

So yeah Project Y is probably the "best"

[silver orchid]

These just are copies

THIS is the REAL Scar:

Everything else is just a bad dream.

[young fern]

Happy New york, does stalker 2 rn playbale maybe with some mods or still keep waiting?

[slim moth]

i'd say it's more playable. but engine update will be when most people jump back in

but if you got a good system, go for it

[red dagger]

ah yes guys the clock hits 12:59 on december 31st 2025, one minute later were in....... oh god! December 32nd?! 2025

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-maytech-monolith-prayer-gif-16869366242639767810

[native socket]

Hey does anyone have any tips on how to make more money early in the beginning of my playthrough?

[slim moth]

side quests, stashes, artifacts.

[young fern]

i see thank you, thats just for vanilla game? no big mods or anything like that for now is popping out?

[slim moth]

i use a lot of mods. but i feel like its in a okay state in vanilla for a playthru should be fine.

[neon acorn]

My current setup on master difficulty

deathcount D:

[slim moth]

do i look fried or nah

[royal mural]

how much playtime you got on that save?

[normal sentinel]

You got games on your phone?

[warped monolith]

don't you guys have phones

[neon acorn]

I've died less in gamma playthroughs. There is so much 'jank' going on in early game that most of those deaths are before i went to rostok

[royal mural]

where are you at story wise?

[calm drift]

Is Stalker 2 worth it atm with Mods? Seems like from what I've seen is there are a lot of bullet sponge enemies.

[neon acorn]

the first story quest that sends me to the red forest! So i believe right after duga. It is my first playthrough so i'm trying to make sure i check every nook and cranny in the world.

[neon acorn]

Unsure if its different in the difficulty master playing but I don't feel like there is any excessive bullet sponginess. I'm having a good time, i did not like the launch at all but its been good with latest update.

[royal mural]

same im at 70 deaths rn and im still at the mission going to clear sky in the swamp

i nearly made it but got caught in crossfire between spark and warden

so back at skadovsk i was

[neon acorn]

I've done my best not to save scum by quitting to menu, but sometimes it doesnt save after a long mission or when entering/leaving settlements so I save scum then. Lots of walks of shame back to where i died just to die again sometimes

[royal mural]

ohh yea that was my problem

sometimes it doesnt save

so most of the time i take sleeping pills sleep and then leave

[neon acorn]

i've lost 3 hours of playtime before. its wack :(

[royal mural]

i feel you

[neon acorn]

there are no sleeping pills in this O_O

[royal mural]

i lost nearly 4h of playtime to a random lightning bolt

[royal mural]

i play with stalker unlimited mod

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1453

[neon acorn]

ah, i'm trying to get as many achievements as i can first playthrough so no mods here :/. Would be even better with mods

[late kernel]

expedition mode sounds like an absolute time waster if you fuck up

[royal mural]

ohh it is

[neon acorn]

I love getting punished

sorry

I love challenges i overcome and learn from failures

[royal mural]

but i played through the game on 1.0.3 so master is not really that hard compared to that lmao

the time i waste to death i wasted to some crashes

[neon acorn]

I struggle the most with anomalies reaching slightly outside their visual representation

[royal mural]

so it is what it is

[royal mural]

i havent survived a single anomaly so far

[neon acorn]

80% of my deaths are because i see a shock anomaly and think i can avoid it because it has no visual effect in this spot but nope, i shoulda just thrown the bolt.

[royal mural]

except some electro at the border and burner

[royal mural]

i run around with hilka and bolt

then a bandit ground 2 taps me

lmao

[rigid hollow]

Is Ratoman Legion the strongests faction in the game ? They even attack in testuedo formation

[late kernel]

lol

[royal mural]

THOSE FUCKERS

on master

im scared of those

[neon acorn]

I've seen them completely decimate enemy bases full of exosuits

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/macedonian-phalanx-formation-alexander-2004-film-battle-of-gaugamela-gif-5863988133538740058

[rigid hollow]

https://tenor.com/view/2b2t-imperials2b2t-imperial-empire-brickzebra-imperials-group-gif-27573202

[royal mural]

remember that little underground section south of sphere?
where they spawn behind you

i died to those

but tbf i really suck at games

[neon acorn]

i'm really good at games, i'm just impatient. I died to the helicopter jump puzzle like 20 times because I refused to do it the 'correct' way because it was too long. I wanted to find a quicker way. In the end I had to do it the normal way

[rigid hollow]

well we need people like you in the zone

its like the 1st guy on the glass bridge at squid game

[neon acorn]

it aint easy bein dead

[rigid hollow]

in stalker 2 are freedom enemy to ecologs ?

[analog idol]

is there any mod that allows 'Cuirass Exoskeleton' to have a Sprint upgrade?

[trim iron]

No fucking around. Literally the whole fucking thing

[eager solstice]

@young fern (ninemonkey9) has been muted for reason: You have 12 hours to change your Discord profile to comply with the server #📄rules or be banned

[abstract furnace]

why does stalker unlimited not spawn you with a detector

you can't even do some of the early quests without one

[slim moth]

did you not do the story

the story literally hands you one

[icy basin]

[royal mural]

ngl i like that song

thats why i put the whole thing in

i cant get rickrolled
when i do it myselfhttps://tenor.com/view/tkt-smart-gif-20642718

[royal mural]

gotta get 15k rubels

and buy one

thats what i did

[sinful dawn]

any working mods for sleeping until a certain time?

[normal sentinel]

Happy New Year, STALKERs

[royal mural]

you too fellow stalker

[orchid wave]

Happy new year stalkers!

So far I have figured out burer/poltergeist, bloodsuckers, and snorks(kinda)
but how does one dodge dogs, boars and rats?
Not sure if it's even possible to dance with chimera in HoC.

[torn bane]

HoC is rough

I am just stuck in a basement because a loner will not move

[summer vapor]

kill him or use console command

[torn bane]

I will have to use console commands, it's in zalissya

[orchid wave]

hmm.. I am enabled to phase through npcs in "some" cases.

have you already tried wiggling around and reloading the game?

[torn bane]

had to reload way earlier

[cinder sleet]

Please help. Should I not use any Reshades with OXA?

[true yew]

New Year starting off great with my save files corrupting

[cinder sleet]

I feel I'm getting crashes because of PRZ and if I run PRZ with OXA my mouse doesn't work while in game... Feel like its broken 🙁

[late kernel]

What's so good about PRZ? It looks so GREY

[dapper parrot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEb_Jr9xabA&t=36s

Perhaps You need to adjust your vision with optometrist

[warped monolith]

maybe the guy who made this mod thinking everything should look washed out needs to visit the optometrist instead

bro's going colorblind

[dapper parrot]

Play vanilla then and don't bother

[warped monolith]

cinematic look
it's all greys and browns

[outer depot]

would be nice if we could adjust the color grading ingame a bit more easily, sometimes it does look a bit odd

[late kernel]

https://tenor.com/view/jerry-meme-tom-and-jerry-meme-jerry-points-get-a-load-of-this-guy-this-guy-gif-11384860625931393733

[dapper parrot]

Vanilla is way oversaturated, too much reds & greens - doesn't reflect anywhere near to real life in that part of the world.
Now GSC added saturation option after one year

[ancient musk]

So I wasn't tweaking and this game actually looks oversaturated

[dapper parrot]

Its nothing new, it looked like that since day one - there are just individuals who never been in that part of the world and have no actual clue how it looks in real life there and thats very obvious.

Thats why there are people who work with visuals, have cinematography background and have a thing for color grading.

There is very good example in gallery from @tepid spade who created Advanced Visual Presets and picture shows very well balanced color grading during cloudy day with fog and If You put vanilla next to that its just meh...

Other thing is that not everyone can achieve that sitting on their sub 10gb old GPUs

[tepid spade]

Coping is strong with this topic

[warped monolith]

imagine having a HDR screen with +2 billion colors just to make everything monochrome

[dapper parrot]

Some have those screens but some only wish to have.

There is a difference..

[analog idol]

is the cutscene/dialogue from this trailer in game? or did it got cut (rescued in emission)
https://youtu.be/bcDHClWRHd8?t=84

[warped monolith]

do you even know or are you just still being a gatekeeping retard

First it's "get your eyes checked"
then it's "you've never been to chernobyl irl so you don't know how it actually looks"
then it's "ppl don't like these visual overhaul mods because their gpu sucks"

pick a lane

[tame lodge]

Too many peasants around here 💅💅💅💅

[dapper parrot]

Quality

[tame lodge]

You wouldnt understand my refined taste

[hallow canopy]

I have wonder one thing always
Why TF dont mutants stagger when being shot?

Blood Sucker pretty much is light on his feet and could really stagger when shot by powerful guns

[warped monolith]

wouldn't it be too easy to kill them if you could stagger them easily

[hallow canopy]

Would you survive if a RPK was shooting at you consistently at your armour?

[warped monolith]

I'm not a mutant, am I

stop trying to use real world logic in a sci fi game lmao

[ancient musk]

It is, in fact, too late to buy a new GPU, thanks to the clankers inflating RAM and GPU prices rn

[dapper parrot]

they are going to go even higher soon unfortunately

[hallow canopy]

so if the Blood Sucker can knock you down and stun lock you, why cant skif do the same then hmm??

using logic with logic here

[warped monolith]

[tame lodge]

Is skif a mutant?

[ancient musk]

We'll, you can use ddr4 instead or an adapter to install so-dimm into desktop motherboard, but both options are meh

[warped monolith]

let's compare a bullet to 7ft tall monster lunging at you with its entire body

[tame lodge]

The guy picks every shitty hill to die on

[warped monolith]

surely the kinetic energy being dispensed is exactly the same

[tame lodge]

Regardless what it is

[ancient musk]

We also have unrealistic magic traps called anomalies. No realism allowed

[warped monolith]

chernobyl irl, by the way.

[drowsy umbra]

how is refined taste= take a blue filter, put it on everything and suck out all color of the game

[late kernel]

Who said it has to look "oversaturated"

Are we just saying shit now for the sake of saying shit?

[warped monolith]

I think he was being jokingly sarcastic

[drowsy umbra]

I am german, I dont speak that language

[warped monolith]

understandable

[drowsy umbra]

have a good day 🙂

[warped monolith]

[tame lodge]

You too fella

Yes it was sarcasm

[dapper parrot]

Fits well

[warped monolith]

half the pics you sent have more color than that mod

[warped monolith]

mf has to click other ppl's profiles to find something to yap about
you're a sad little piece of shit. Happy New Year.

even that winter photo has more color than that PRZ video

[dapper parrot]

I dont think that any mod creator should ask your permission or accept for anything related to their work.

You are the one who is calling someone a rtrd not me but thats fine. Suits you very well so far

[warped monolith]

You're gatekeeping people who don't like that mod. I'm not even criticizing the mod author. I don't even know who they are or if they're even in this server.

I'm calling you out on your shitty behavior. Nothing more, nothing less

Telling people to go to the doctor because they don't like the way the mod washes out all color from the game, and only getting worse from there

[late kernel]

This has more color than the PRZ mod itself even in cloudy weather LMAO

[warped monolith]

right? blud's insane

[tepid spade]

U can still get 16gb GPU for less than 600Eur even now but yeah it doesn't look very promising during upcoming months price wise

[sinful dawn]

hey, any of y'all know of mods that change how the sleep system works to something like call of pripyat's?

[tepid spade]

Did You add that HDR picture on purpose ?
Nice shots btw

[dapper parrot]

thanks, 8y old captures with some old EOS 400D and 24-70mm mid range lens I believe it was back then. HDR was on purpose, yes

[tepid spade]

makes sense 🙂

I can send You DM with AVPs if You are willing to test out latter on ?

[rotund mantle]

soc lighting would be peak if we could get something like that in S2

[tame lodge]

Lumen

[tepid spade]

HW Ray-Tracing UE5.5

🤮

lumen

[rotund mantle]

If only we had 2077 HW raytracing now that is peak

[ancient musk]

It would make performance even worse thought

[eternal tiger]

yo qq, if I want to install stalker 2 mods, does the folder need to be named "mods" or "~mods"?

[tame lodge]

~mods

[eternal tiger]

thanks ^^

[tame lodge]

No

Np

Fuck my phone

[rotund mantle]

Its better then we got now though as 2077 maxed all out runs better than stalker 2

[ancient musk]

On my gpu ray tracing in 2077 is literally unplayable though

[eternal tiger]

I still can't believe "installing" a mod is as easy as copy-pasting in respective folder

[tame lodge]

Quiet some people say its not

[golden hazel]

Truly another day in the HoC Tuah chat

[outer depot]

I don't know if the game gets dark enough guys

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/man-laughing-in-darkness-gif-19976402

[eternal tiger]

so I installed some mods and I get this error after getting past the "loading game data". anyone encountered ts before?
LoginId:15a7874a43ea7d5da430d4a2924d6982
EpicAccountId:8f2b72358e0a423abe57eb1d0b38869e

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000026413df5528

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[wanton arch]

i swear warface kinda did CNPP a bit better

[royal mural]

no thats fine

rather that than that

https://tenor.com/view/eyes-burning-my-eyes-spongebob-gif-5183364

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-maytech-monolith-prayer-gif-16869366242639767810

[royal mural]

what mods

[eternal tiger]

I removed stalker unlimited and it did load after, but that was the main one I wanted :v

[royal mural]

i use stalker unlimited and dont have that problem

what is pir?

[tame lodge]

Project itemization

There should be a comp patch

[tame lodge]

Its better to not do folders like this and drop all the files in there

Atleast i think so

[royal mural]

doesnt vortex make folders?

[tame lodge]

This could mess up load order

Theyre doing raw

[royal mural]

yea

no folders

just the paks

i think unlimited and itemization needs a patch not sure tho

[tame lodge]

Yeah i think so

[royal mural]

yea

[eternal tiger]

So I'm a dumass. Thx :D. I'll try it out. And also they are unpacked in the mods folder, that was just my downloads so you can see the names easier ^^

[tame lodge]

Ah ok

[dapper parrot]

Pixels of the year for sure

[tulip cloak]

I own stalker 2 on steam. How can I get the one click gamma install without having to rebuy on gog?

[silver orchid]

f

[ancient musk]

By buying it or CoP on GOG

No other way

[silver orchid]

HoC with New Project colours

[eternal tiger]

just do it manually, its quite easy

[grim crane]

will it reset after some time? i did mission with talking to Representative for the first time, and now whole enviorment seems hostile

[eternal tiger]

still crashes
LoginId:15a7874a43ea7d5da430d4a2924d6982
EpicAccountId:8f2b72358e0a423abe57eb1d0b38869e

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x000001bf362c4208

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does game version matter? this is a cracked one on 1.7

[hearty ocean]

You're 1.7? That's why the mods are crashing

[eternal tiger]

[hearty ocean]

Why not update?

[eternal tiger]

what's the latest one?

[royal mural]

1.7.1

[eternal tiger]

last one available to me is 1.7.86580

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/serial-experiments-lain-stressed-headache-anime-gif-14368381