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

[calm drift]

smert nod

[eternal tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/ds1-dark-souls-dark-souls-1-souls-hollow-gif-14031694593414402819

[midnight walrus]

Watched/helped a guy survive a random firefight, only to see him walk straight into an anomaly and explode.

Did find his gun though, looted the 5.56 from it and moved on. 😂

[weak hound]

speaking of war crime missions, the || Faust || boss

why did they make that

Zelda ass boss fight

I really like the game but there are so many missions I never want to play again in the campaign

[midnight walrus]

I’ve just been wandering and doing various jobs.

Did get spooked when I came across like 6 snorks.

[eternal tiger]

can someone just remake gamma in 2 already

[calm drift]

"I cant see its too loud in here."

[midnight walrus]

I like 2 the way it is. 😔

That might sound like blasphemy

But this is kinda what I meant before by people only wanting Anomaly or Gamma. It’s overshadowed the actual material it comes from.

They’re mods made with care, no doubt about that.

[weak hound]

I’m enjoying it from a lore perspective and world building, main story is alright but I’ve always preferred the lore to the actual storyline in the trilogy

But it’s nice to see canonically what happened after CoP

[warped monolith]

[normal sentinel]

Come to me

[eternal tiger]

for me most of the game mechanics are absolute ahh. game is carried by the fact it's stalker and nostalgia :/

and vanilla is literally a walk fest, moreso than death stranding

[midnight walrus]

I just don’t feel the same way.

[warped monolith]

bro's outcapping himself with every new message

[midnight walrus]

And I loved Death Stranding too. 😂

[stone heron]

I think i prefer vanilla s2 to the modlists I’ve tried so far for s2. Until there is greater modularity and player customization options for them, vanilla is the way to go.

I mean i like some of the individual mods, but there just isn’t enough to make a really complete feeling setup.

[midnight walrus]

On an unrelated note, I’m having trouble deciding if I even like medieval fantasy games anymore. Was a big Souls fan, played some turn-based games and didn’t hate them, never was a Bethesda fan, yap yap yap. Dunno what my problem is.

[marsh rover]

can i ask a question about modding stalker 2 in here? kinda new to modding and just a little confused on something

[warped monolith]

there's no problem in not liking a setting

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-2-monolith-stalker-monolith-stalker-stalker-2-monolith-gif-17684344214593195973

[grim crane]

XD there are ||2 Scoutmasters in Burnt Forest||, and im on a mission to find 3rd one

wtf

[slim moth]

with some of the acting, i'd be surprised if they weren't

[lucid spoke]

are there any modpacks u guys would recommend

kinda tiered of not finding any good ones

[slim moth]

building your own is the most optimal route since most of them aren't really normally updated

[lucid spoke]

ig thats fair

i just want different gun controle kinda like tarkov or eft anomoly

if u would know of any mods to reccomend i would love to here them

[stable cypress]

any tips

[slim moth]

contrary to popular belief the game is not about stalking

[golden hazel]

Don't snort the powder that comes from glass shard anomalies

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

[slim moth]

pathetic

[warped monolith]

a mimir

[elfin pilot]

what is this

SCAR AK thingy

[knotty onyx]

Looks like an ak12 with an acr lookin stock

[stoic lichen]

Man, I’m really enjoying OXA:Prototype. Mainly because of the customization.

[wanton arch]

ahh Oxa proto

and saying scar thing

man

that just a bump for more "comfort" when aiming down the sight

a lot of Stock has that little bump that can be rise or go low

[stoic lichen]

It would be more correct to say that it’s an ACR stock adapter.

[wanton arch]

i doubt that is ACR stock adapter ?

well adapter is not a correct way either ?

[stoic lichen]

It’s the 5KU ACR, look it up.

[wanton arch]

i mean the part he could be mentioning is called

CHEEK RISER

beat me because whatever they call

i rather call it's a bump riser

[slim moth]

||Spark Ending gotchu like then goes real quick||

[wanton arch]

that is why i hate it

and well calling it adaptor is wrong too because you should say 5KU ACR style Adjustable Folding Stock if he is mentioning the entire stock

[knotty onyx]

Chill

[slim moth]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-game-mercenaries-stalker-game-stalker-gif-11586070399648579192

[midnight walrus]

fart

[slim moth]

pickle

[midnight walrus]

lowkey S2 becoming one of my fav vidya

it brings me joy

and gas

[slim moth]

i had the urge to put richter's face on it and call it pickle richter.

[midnight walrus]

skif look at me

I'm a pickle now skif

I found this crazy anomaly

[slim moth]

"in the zone, reality is what you make of it now, skif. you made me a pickle."

[midnight walrus]

earth becomes a giant pickle

pickle ending

[slim moth]

it was the pickles we made along the way

[midnight walrus]

what a great dill

hah

hahahahha

hahahahhahahaha

[slim moth]

https://media.giphy.com/media/qnl9RWpwhybkleaRfm/giphy.gif

[midnight walrus]

lost to the zone

I did experience one bug

infinite spawning bloodsuckers

I thought wiping them out would work, but no.

[golden hazel]

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

[summer vapor]

This is encouraging, they are confident that the engine will receive an update.

[tacit glacier]

I just hope they won't stop at 5.5.4

[icy basin]

UE6

[midnight walrus]

jk guys it's going back to xray

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/mundo-feliz-onetreehsll-world-if-gif-14071235670792471304

[tame lodge]

Better mod support

Id honestly take that

Matter of fact add zone transitions too

Back at peak

[midnight walrus]

transitions for everything

[tame lodge]

https://tenor.com/view/me-atrapaste-es-cine-its-cinema-cinema-esto-es-cine-gif-12869046600151364058

[golden hazel]

Heart of Bethesda

[midnight walrus]

transition to check backpack

transition to swap attachments

[tame lodge]

To use consumables

[midnight walrus]

transition between every dialogue option

[golden hazel]

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

[midnight walrus]

transition between each bullet

[golden hazel]

That's basically how I played the faust fight with my laptop

[midnight walrus]

transition to use public toilet, complete with grunting.

[grim crane]

Immersive and Cinematic zone, seems updated pretty often 😉

[brave yoke]

guys so everytime load into the game you have to wait for the shaders?

[icy basin]

Yeah, but it's only the first shader comp that's slow

You can skip it
I don't

[ornate herald]

The compiling shaders bar at startup is to show gamers that stalker is now a AAA series

[kindred violet]

[icy basin]

GAMMA could never

[warped monolith]

could never... what

[tame lodge]

Doesnt have .45 ap?

Idk

[slim moth]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-shadow-of-chernobyl-chornobyl-chernobyl-gif-3707974255428954678

[weak hound]

nearing the end-ish, just enough time to finish before the other long awaited Eastern European depression simulator sequel releases

I want a word with the lead quest designer for s2 after i finish

I have some things I must say

[maiden glen]

Is there a Stalker 2 mod yet that adds skills that increaes over time (similar to Tarkov and GAMMA)? Not sure why I like that so much but it just makes the game progress more satisfying to me haha.

[warped monolith]

I don't know. If you discover any, please share

such a mod would make for an interesting second run

[indigo sorrel]

Am I the only one mad about Stalker 2 not getting co-op?
(Or any multiplayer at the moment even tho its flippin advertised)
It not only with Stalker 2 but a lot of franchises sleeping on this feature

[warped monolith]

co-op was never a thing
co-op was never going to be a thing

mp is probably coming after they finish unfucking the game (engine update when) and maybe sell a dlc or two

[tepid spade]

Updated just NOW 🫡

[cinder sleet]

So wait…

We hate Duty here?

Rando question

[warped monolith]

I have no idea

Someone's bio had "All Duty are bastards" (I think it was Solarint) but other than that I haven't witnessed much Duty hate

[kindred violet]

We just clown on people who shill duty propaganda

[normal sentinel]

That’s just gamma players seething

[opaque vigil]

is stalker 2 still bad

[warped monolith]

it's got better performance and more content than it had before.
as for "still bad" that's a bit relative

[weak hound]

you already asked this a day ago and got answers

[opaque vigil]

no like

if

i walk into a building

are 14 enemies going to spawn in front of me

[weak hound]

no

[opaque vigil]

or when i have an ally are they still going to walk over to a wall and study it while im being shot at

[weak hound]

I’ve never had an ally so I can’t comment on that

[opaque vigil]

now comes the real question

should i like

actually buy the game

[warped monolith]

[weak hound]

Get it on sale or find it for free

I wouldn’t pay full price sale price was fine

[opaque vigil]

what version is stalker 2 in

[weak hound]

version?

[opaque vigil]

yes

update version

[weak hound]

oh

1.8

[opaque vigil]

thanks

[devout bay]

@swift ocean What’s stylistically different ab 2

[swift ocean]

I honestly couldn't tell you the specifics, but every location just felt extremely same-y

I never felt like I was going to a new place (outside of the red forest and pripyat)

[prime stratus]

Still bad? I hate these posts and comments. I am playing it pretty heavily modded and it's one of the best games I have ever played now. "Is it good yet? Is it fixed yet? Is Alife there?" STFU and play it.

[knotty onyx]

For some reason gamers do not want to play games before having a big opinion about it.

[warped monolith]

I don't think "stfu and play it" is any more or less valid than "is the game still bad" lmao

two sides of the same shit coin

[knotty onyx]

The larger world is a blessing and a curse. I think it feels samey because the density of landmarks is less than the old stalker games. In the maps anomaly has you're always very close to some recognizable structure.

The S2 map has a lot of the old landmarks and many new ones, but there's a ton of space between them.

It doesn't help that real Chernobyl is flat as fuck.

[prime stratus]

Sure. Heard. I've been playing the Stalker games since they came out. Plus all the mods like Misery, COC, Last Day, Anomaly, Gamma, EFP or whatever. I would like to think my opinion is at least somewhat valid that I think S2 is worth playing now. I am having the time of life with this game now.

[warped monolith]

how does "stfu and play" help someone who thinks the game's current state isn't good
and how would anyone else know that the game is "one of the best you ever played" if you "heavily modded" it and they don't know your modlist?

of course your opinion is valid to you, you know what mods you're using no one else does

[prime stratus]

Who cares? Play the damn game. If you don't like it then play something else. Shit, we all on the same discord talking about this so I would imagine we are playing the same stuff. Or close to it. No, I am sick of this "is the game good yet" posts. Well, try it and see.

[knotty onyx]

I don't need to play the game, a YouTuber came to me in a dream and gave me my opinion.

[warped monolith]

[stable sapphire]

so since you've got nothing to say about it except that its good with all your mods, the answer is the games still not worth playing then?

[slim moth]

if you take a rando's word for it, sure.

[stable sapphire]

I mean its pretty simple math. If the game is now good because they've heavily modded it, and they have nothing to say except that they've modded it and to stfu and play it, theres just nothing to write home about in it

[silver orchid]

Some people says that the map must be bigger, and some people like me says that make the map sooo big was a mistake

[slim moth]

I think people should take what people on discord say with a grain of salt.

[stable sapphire]

obviously, but if you ask a stalker discord about a stalker game and all people have to say about it is that its good with mods, thats just a review that its not good

[slim moth]

Which is why i think looking at footage/gameplay is better than checking in randomly into a GAMMA discord asking "is it gud"

like 90% of these people hate GAMMA

im sure a majority hate s2 lol

nobodies opinion on here means shit really. (even mine)

[stable sapphire]

idk, it feels like a fairly simple question.
"Hey is it worth my money now"
"if you add mods"
"aight so no"

[slim moth]

See it depends on the person. I bought stalker 2 with the intention to mod it day 1 so

[stable sapphire]

yeah but that sounds like you were honest with yourself that GSC releases buggy messes since cossacks

[slim moth]

some people want a vanilla experience. I hate the vanilla experience. Most casuals will more than likely be okay with the vanilla game.

[stable sapphire]

again, if you have to mod it for it to be good or fun, its not either of those things and thats an honest review

which is welcome btw. the issue is pretending that your personalized modlist makes spending money on it a good idea for people asking

[slim moth]

I don't think it HAS to be modded. but for me it does

i get what you're saying though

[stable sapphire]

[slim moth]

https://tenor.com/view/explaining-stalker-сталкер-флинт-сигма-gif-15010663227243103228

[golden hazel]

JOIN DUTY WE HAVE A HUGE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT THE WORLD FROM DA ZONE

[brave yoke]

imagine stalker 2 mp

[golden hazel]

Yeah it's called Fortnite

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

[brave yoke]

I cant imagine

[golden hazel]

I will be one of the first to get the Strelok Skin on the battle pass

I'm like 67% sure the mp mode is going to be battle royale

The other part is team deathmatch like the originals

[silver orchid]

already there a project of HoC coop

but i only saw it once on github

[normal sentinel]

oh fuggg :DDD dooty :DDD

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-2-duty-dance-stalker-gif-13414913820165120098

[weak hound]

this is my biggest complaint still. I am very mixed on the open world. the locations aren’t distinct enough and old landmarks feel smaller

Everything blends too much

On the other hand, it’s still cool seeing these landmarks in a larger context. Some places improved, a few got worse

Rostok got better, army warehouses got fucking murdered

Truck cem also feels way too small

This Pripyat is probably the best I’ve seen in a game scale wise tho

I also kinda don’t like the new red forest

[slim moth]

i hate that whole left side of the map lmao but that's bc of lack of hubs. still haven't checked out the new dlc yet

[weak hound]

yeah the western half is kind of a pain to go through

[golden hazel]

Duga/STD Malachite gameplay in a nutshell

https://tenor.com/view/drinking-energy-drink-drinking-non-stop-yaniv-stalker-stalker-2-gif-10074497999482227562

[weak hound]

idk I remember a while back being worried that the open connected world would ruin the loading screen filled anomaly map for me, but honestly it’s just made me appreciate it even more

[golden hazel]

The dlc is goated for having quick travel prompts after finishing missions

[slim moth]

peak

[weak hound]

I’m probably not gonna do the new missions before finishing. Had a good time but looking forward to putting the game down for a while

[slim moth]

sheeeiiit i just did a spark play thru now im doing a freeroam checking places i was too distracted by the story to go.

[weak hound]

to play pathologic 3

[golden hazel]

Time to find all of Scar's heart stashes, there's where he keeps all his catalytic converters

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

[slim moth]

https://tenor.com/view/strelok-stalker-gif-23354558

[molten osprey]

Wait there are new missions?

Like side quest stuff or did some paths got extended with more Main missions

[mossy hamlet]

Hey! What is the state of Stalker 2 these days? Have patches and mods brought it up to snuff yet?*

[slim moth]

whole new side thing

[molten osprey]

Hm

Game not in gamepass anymore so meh

[mossy hamlet]

Those are not positive looking reactions.

Bummer.

[slim moth]

the games fine man. if you got money, get it. if you don't, wait for a deal. there's decent mods/overhauls if vanilla is not your cup of tea.

i think the biggest factor is your specs on whether you'll enjoy it or not tbh.

[weak hound]

no the reaction was from people asking this all the time

[mossy hamlet]

Ah shit yeah I'm sure that's the case isn't it. Sorry for contributing to it.

But like, sooo is the game good?

Kidding! I'll pick the game up thanks.

And come back here with actual discussion.

[icy basin]

Oh hey, Sean in the useless chat

[icy basin]

Besides adding a flashlight mod and Premium Placebo Optimization, I'm enjoying it a lot right now, having done over 20hr in a week, according to Steam

[glass oxide]

Hello

[icy basin]

Huehuehuehuehuehue

[prime stratus]

I have over 500 hours in the game and there are still places I have never been to. I did this on purpose so I would have new places to explore with each playthrough. They did such s great job with the map. It actually feels like urban exploration.

[prime stratus]

I think so. I am loving it. One of my favorite gaming experiences of all time now. Just to clarify, yes I am using mods. SLZ, DWO, Stalker Unlimited and OXA standard as my base. Some other stuff thrown in. It feels like Radiophobia I guess. Something in between Gamma and OG Stalker.

[eternal tiger]

could you hmu with a modlist? I may be willing to give it a go again if they work well enough together

[indigo kayak]

I have a question that may seem stupid (I always ask a lot of them), but how did you manage to transition from GAMMA to S2? What kind of gameplay do you have and how did you bridge the differences in mechanics?

[weak hound]

this may sound obvious but, they’re different games just play the game and meet it on its own terms. same as you’d play any other game that isn’t GAMMA after playing GAMMA

[icy basin]

I keep myself aware that GAMMA is Garry's Mod and that STALKER 2 is a proper game

[summer vapor]

For me, Gamma is one of the dozens of mods I've played

[icy basin]

It doesn't even (yet) have a novel story

It's just Anomaly with bloat

[knotty onyx]

Gamma is autismo nerd shit (positive) and stalker 2 has to sell to as many capital G gamers as possible.

They are fundamentally different design philosophies.

Anyway I approach the official GSC games from the perspective of "yum, post Soviet far cry"

[weak hound]

It does feel far cry at times yea

[kindred violet]

Not the fucking far cry comparison again 💀

[icy basin]

[weak hound]

It’s not wrong

[warped monolith]

we even have to climb radio towers

[warped monolith]

Just consider them different games and... that's it.
It's really not that deep.

At most, remember that stalker 2 is a sequel to stalker, not a sequel to gamma

[eternal tiger]

I knew there was a drastic change in gameplay, but I did not expect that vanilla gameplay. modded it a fair bit to change some (absolute garbage) mechanics, but then fked myself with one of the mods :v

[icy basin]

"Did not expect vanilla STALKER gameplay"

[warped monolith]

[eternal tiger]

ex-military can't run more than 20 meters without chugging 10 energy drinks? yeah, GSC are actually crap at game mechanics

the world and setting are amazing

but the gameplay is literally UE5 yearly slop 😭

[warped monolith]

That's not really a "vanilla stalker" thing, it's just a stalker 2 thing. Strelok, Scar and Degtyarev can all run faster for longer.

[eternal tiger]

also can't carry more than 50 kilos without being overencumbered but here's 20 kilos of ammo and consumables every 30 mins of gameplay

[warped monolith]

now you're just complaining for the sake of complaining

[eternal tiger]

am I supposed to be a prepared stalker in an unforgiving zone that carries the supplies he needs all the time, or one that carries 2 mags on ammo and 2 medkits???

[indigo kayak]

Finaly the 2 "games" are not comparable. We have GAMMA with 500 mods and S2 without a complete SDK. Just i want to play to S2, really, but after GAMMER, S2 is fade for me. I don't know if you understand what i try to say ahah.

[nova lake]

debatable

[eternal tiger]

that's not even comparing, that's just a thoughtless mechanic

I 100% believe noone at GSC played their own game or any game ever >.>

[icy basin]

Strelok couldn't really run for too long, but with the right artifact setup..

[warped monolith]

not really. The OG trilogy protagonists can sprint faster for longer periods compared to Skif in HoC. That's not subjective.

[nova lake]

at how much weight and with buffs?

[warped monolith]

I will not engage in goalpost moving bait

[nova lake]

SOC and CS had weigth depandant stamina

[icy basin]

Either way, I'm playing the game and I'm feeling this is STALKER
When I play GAMMA, I feel like a tourist that can for some reason carry 160 KG of shit and sprint faster than all entities in the game

[warped monolith]

even at minute one of SoC he can sprint better than skif

[eternal tiger]

totally understandable. they are fundamentally 2 different games that just share a world. and I for one prefer to mod the fk out of it to have it feel better, not necessarily to feel like gamma

[indigo kayak]

I see what you say, i love GAMMA for the survivals mechanic, found parts of weapons etc etc

[eternal tiger]

everyone that contributed to modding gamma are doing god's work. only issue stays with the outdated game and lack or CPU usage ;-;

[nova lake]

same as saying that for most of SOC, with your equipment, youll have a comparable stamina bar to S2

except S2 doesnt let you have infinite stamina regen, which is bad

[warped monolith]

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

[eternal tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-clear-sky-clear-sky-monolith-monolith-exo-gif-13594799489985857333

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-2-strelok-сталкер-меченый-стрелок-gif-12778668668075595362

[eternal tiger]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1410296524289609789/1410704161649066014/clip-38635106_4562473412.gif

[knotty onyx]

Cool opinion, which YouTuber gave it to you?

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/joker-the-dark-knight-here-we-go-the-joker-gif-15343519

[icy basin]

Iunno, I played Abiotic Factor and it doesn't play the same

[warped monolith]

Stalker 2 is definitely on the worse side of UE5 games

[knotty onyx]

I bet it's that orb guy that made the S2 should've been like gamma video

[eternal tiger]

I don't need a youtuber to form an opinion lol. I played games for 15 years, I know what is good and what is literal slop

only ones I watched regarding anything stalker related were Venoxium and clikrad for gamma

still nothing on S2

and probably won't watch a video on it since there's nothing noteworthy

[knotty onyx]

For the performance and such 100%. For the gameplay idk how anyone couldve expected much different.

[eternal tiger]

my biggest hate on the game being UE5 is that it runs better than gamma on my rig 😭

[knotty onyx]

Is your CPU an artifact? How do you manage this lmao

[eternal tiger]

ryzen 7 3700x

no clue why, but gamma struggles to pull 60 :/

[warped monolith]

even on gameplay there were issues. A-Life and weird bugs like guns spawning inside your inventory out of nowhere.

Game came out in an extremely sloppy and sorry state.

and until recently, artifacts spawning under the ground. Peak of the peak.

[knotty onyx]

Those aren't really UE5 issues tho

To me UE5 slop means poor performance and an over reliance on UE5 included assets.

[eternal tiger]

no game has ever benefitted for being created in UE5. it may be because it's a bad engine, it may be because the people using it don't know how, but no game that was made in UE5 was worthy of praise. (expedition 33 is an exception because of the story and gameplay, but preformance-wise it has the same issues)

[warped monolith]

I can think of at least 3 other "exceptions"

the engine isn't the issue. It's the lazy, incompetent devs.

Just like when we had Unity slop in the 2010s.

UE5 is a good engine. Problem is Epic licenses it out to any dumbass asking for it

so of course we're gonna get awful games made in it

[eternal tiger]

that's what a lack of passion for gaming gets you I guess

[warped monolith]

that's way too subjective to discuss imo

[eternal tiger]

not necessarily the devs, but the corporate fks that underpay and overwork them

some devs may want to make something good but are still stick at slopbisoft

[knotty onyx]

It's also just the state of the industry. Few companies have cohesive teams who have worked together for years anymore.

[kindred violet]

This hits the nail on the head for the current discussion quite concisely

[eternal tiger]

again, I'm not trying to argue against the people that like vanilla S2, but for me it couldn't be worse :/

also this summarizes my opinion on UE5

and I heard Fallout 3 is getting a remaster/remake in UE5, so....

[warped monolith]

Oblivion got remastered in UE5 and it's fine.

They used UE5 only as a graphics and rendering engine.

[knotty onyx]

Why would I care if a game I like gets a bad remake?

[warped monolith]

technical aspects of the engine can be discussed, but once we get to "passion for gaming" we start getting people saying weird words like "soul" and... yea it just becomes pointless beyond conciliation.

[kindred violet]

Exactly

And you can do a lot of conjecture about the devs and people in charge but in the end, how would you even know if that's the case or not

[eternal tiger]

true that

[warped monolith]

I hate unoptimized games as much as the next guy but I've seen people so blinded by hatred for UE5 that they started saying Hogwarts Legacy and Stellar Blade are UE5 slop.

Both of those games were made in UE4.

[kindred violet]

And on the topic of remasters.
I am happy either way even if it's a "bad" remaster, because it means that a game I like will get more exposure

[warped monolith]

I kinda prefer the "let sleeping dogs lie" philosophy

especially after seeing the announcement for the Deus Ex remaster... ugh

[kindred violet]

Whilst I partially agree, only for games that work perfectly fine even on modern hardware

And deus ex is an example that doesn't need a remaster

[eternal tiger]

but unfortunately that's exactly the kind of mentality that will bring our doom, but that's too political to discuss so imma just shut up

[warped monolith]

the only remaster/remake I truly want for modern hardware is the original Black & White

[knotty onyx]

A lot of video game discourse is poisoned by people who feel a need to have big opinions about games they haven't actually played.

[kindred violet]

That would be pretty baller

[warped monolith]

B&W has been abandonware for over a decade now. I hope GOG can bring it back evenutally.

[knotty onyx]

We should all start spamming Walton Goggins to bring specific games to Gog

[kindred violet]

Fingers crossed

I mean there's a specific gog programme for that

[warped monolith]

mhm. I even sent a submission or two to the gog "dreamlist" for their preservation program

but it's a waiting game, sadly

I just hope it happens in our lifetime lmao

[summer vapor]

Btw, Gamma is very popular on GoG (+800 reviews), more than s2 has

[nova lake]

ok

and?

[knotty onyx]

Free-ish and runs well on more systems and hyped by large YouTubers. Seems about right.

[warped monolith]

also most people on PC either bought stalker 2 on steam or played it via gamepass

[summer vapor]

I'm just sharing my observations

[slim moth]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-gif-20346544

[knotty onyx]

Average fight against 3 bandits in clear sky

[ember ether]

we're slowly having stalker gamma 2

[warped monolith]

inevitable, tbh lol

[eternal tiger]

the parts system is pretty cool, but kinda fks the economy a bit :v

but I do like being able to afford stuff since S2 is made with the hero MC in mind

and everyone is a bum with less than 1k "coupons" in their pockets constantly

[normal sentinel]

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

[ember ether]

mod it to fit the economy system

as i said on brainfart, if someone make the health limb system, the remedies and drugs it would be perfectly enough

[eternal tiger]

is there a mod for tasks?

[knotty onyx]

Just give me 2-3 business years to download the SDK

[ember ether]

hmmm i havent searched yet

[ember ether]

it think it has cigs mod

havent searched yet to find out but almost sure someone already made it

[indigo kayak]

I WANT !!!!

[ember ether]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/939

[indigo kayak]

Yeah i found it RN ahah

Do you already test it ?

[icy basin]

!onethreaded

[fallen iron]

@eternal tiger The game engine used for Anomaly is old, old to the point that you can't use the full 'potential' of your computer resources. Even with a 3090 Ti and a i7 11300 your game might lag.
It's highly suggested to check this channel, even if have a beefy PC: #╰⚡fps-optimisation

[icy basin]

[warped monolith]

#╓☢stalker-chat

[eternal tiger]

yeah ik, still didn't help much

OXA prototype is fine with the parts, but there are still some bugs, and snipers/shotguns/pistols are not implemented with the parts system

I'd say just stick with the standard for now

[ember ether]

Ot has, I'm so happy

I quit smoking for a while

Very good do compensate by cyber smoking

[ember ether]

Pretty solid

[silver orchid]

GSC on this one technically has a lot of passion but the main fail that GSC had on the development was don't have good communication between the team.

[elfin pilot]

is this supposed to be a puzzle of some kind?

it's in the train tunnel west of Truck Cementery

[normal sentinel]

https://tenor.com/view/rigby-rigby-cat-rigby-the-cat-funny-silly-gif-2463265493534872578

[midnight walrus]

Doo doo fart

[stone heron]

Does anyone else play the cinematic and immersive list? I can’t decide if i actually enjoy it or not. Wondered what other people thought.

[near nymph]

#🤖bot-commands

[wanton arch]

i like how Oxoprototype mods barely resemble any function of "Gamma"

Repair on the move is the feature from anomoly itself

and "part to upgrades" does not degrade

[nova lake]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/174364630175449089/1263640134918869052/prayers.gif

Misery features reheated

[drifting veldt]

how does the anomalous study task work i just go there and stay for a few minutes or do i find something ?

[brave yoke]

looks like weapons get a white outline when walking under the rain?

[warped monolith]

must be a generic shader thing when things get "wet"... on the second image I notice the outline on the sleeves

[brave yoke]

still the graphic is pretty good so far

tbh I like this one more than gamma

I replay gamma so many times xD

[slim moth]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1956?tab=description

[mossy hamlet]

Hot damn is Stalker Unlimited a challenge.

I don't even think in a fun way. At the start you're constantly dying to the tiniest amount of rads and have no antirads.

I can't see the NPCs who shoot me either.

[slim moth]

ive heard nothing but complaining about Unlimited lmao

I'm probably never gonna try it

[mossy hamlet]

I am going to remove it.

There are a couple nexus collections I might try that either omit that mod or include an easier submod.

Though OXA Prototype looks really interesting with weapon parts and whatnot.

[slim moth]

OxA prototype is my go to foundation. then I just make tweaks as necessary from there

[mossy hamlet]

Ah I was just going to ask if you had tried that one.

Awesome. Thanks for your insight.

I have to say though the game sure is pretty. Came across uh The Ribs last night.

[slim moth]

Im pretty sure OxA now has an installer so you can customize what you want in the game

[ornate herald]

I like Maklane's Better Zone when it comes to making Stalker 2 feel a little anomaly-lite, or at least more balanced

[slim moth]

im staying far away from nexus collections

[ornate herald]

balanced in a way I like anyhow

[mossy hamlet]

I had a neat encounter with a quest to kill bandits. I managed to sneak up to a group of 8 hanging out around a campfire behind this massive boulder. I chucked two grenades into the group and was happily surprised when the first actually detonated the second along with it.

Then I took a ton of fire from across some body of water while I darted in amongst corpses looting.

[ornate herald]

eh you don't gotta touch Vortex which is all I want to avoid lol

[slim moth]

thats good to know

[mossy hamlet]

I'll check it out! Thanks.

[slim moth]

i might make my own collection so if i have to reinstall, i can just regrab my shit

[normal sentinel]

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

[midnight walrus]

Skeefa I’m very gassy

[round thunder]

Strelok during the ending.

[golden hazel]

THE CUP???

[slim moth]

https://tenor.com/view/shad-shadstroy-nikolai-nikostalker-stalker-gif-10076923168065085399

[icy basin]

Yay more AI slop

[round thunder]

I cannot draw for shit, but I wanted to meme. Without AI, I would have been unable to express myself.

Not all AI use is evil. It can have wholesome use too.

[icy basin]

If you're not willing to dispense the smallest effort into learning what kids in 2010 did without courses, you do not earn any respect
Here, you can find alternative videos yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyR_uYsRdPs

[golden hazel]

Anyway

[normal sentinel]

Actually fire

[late kernel]

Hey thats my meme!

[round thunder]

Yay, I have a job and other hobbies, but I must spend my free time learning photoshop because someone on the internet hates it when I use a tool to make my life easier.

[icy basin]

The only person on the internet to have a job and other hobbies
Must? No.
But that's the response you're more than likely to get when you make slop

[round thunder]

Nah. People who oppose AI content are a very vocal minority. Most people don't give a shit.

[round thunder]

But hate away. Not my problem. I thought of something funny to share, so I did it.

[tame lodge]

Enjoy your AI slop dude

[eternal tiger]

AI can be very useful in many things. unfortunately corporate greed just wants to replace the ones that put them where they are now and that will only end with a noose around their neck

[wheat elm]

How does this mod work? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3502957413

[icy basin]

There's a youtube video linked, no?

[eternal tiger]

we need Grok(from X) for discord atp... 😭

[molten osprey]

AI has no place here

AI is the Bane of our existence and will turn humanity into a brainless, skillless, craftless flock of big amoeba

[icy basin]

Oh don't worry
Helper role means I help blind users maybe see

[eternal tiger]

if he didn't get past reading the mod description how would explaining it help. that would still require reading 😭

[pseudo falcon]

cant decide if oxa standard is better than prototype coz prototype is an overhaul

[warped monolith]

did this in Paint using 2 screenshots in under 10 minutes.
The only thing stopping you from expressing yourself is you.

thank you for coming to my tedx

[round thunder]

10 minutes bro. That's 9 minutes 30 seconds more than is necessary for this. It's a funny thought. I could probably do it in 5 mins, but why walk when you can drive?

Wait, that's a terrible analogy. I'd rather walk 10 minutes than drive one. Well, I can't think of an analogy rn but you get what I mean.

[warped monolith]

if you don't have 10 minutes of free time in your life all I can say is I feel sorry for you

and I did say under 10 minutes, if you wanna be that pedantic about "optimizing time"

we're not speedrunning life

well, at least I'm not

[knotty onyx]

Have you seen ai content?

[knotty onyx]

Even without corporate greed, harassing women and girls would still be the foremost use of AI image generation. It is a scourge upon us all.

[stoic lichen]

Worlds richest man uses his tools to legally and easily allow the creation of CP, 2026 already makes me want to punch my own fucking ticket, yet I refuse to do it out sheer spite of these rich fuckers.

[knotty onyx]

100% we gotta at least outlive them

[warped monolith]

why don't we punch their ticket instead

[stoic lichen]

It doesn’t matter how big their castle of shit is made out of, we’re going to forcefully pull out a brick, one-by-one, and throw it right back fucking at em.

Regardless if our fingers bleed, or we get scars in the process. We’re gonna show that their “latest innovation” might as well be a broken down car with some dogshit in it. But hey, at least they did bare minimum to try and give it a new paintjob…

[knotty onyx]

Yeah I don't disagree man but this is a Wendy's I mean stalker 2 channel

[stoic lichen]

And AI isn’t gonna go anywhere, the only way people are gonna respect AI is when the incentive of money is no longer involved, and that our tax payer money isn’t going to some rich retard, who’s only qualifications is that they the have shitiest of grins and convince even dumber retards with the equivalent of JINGLING FUCKING KEYS AT THEM LIKE A GODDAMN TODDLER.

[stoic lichen]

sorry.

I REALLY needed to vent about this shit.

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/kid-look-stare-awkward-guilty-gif-5289290

[stoic lichen]

Again, I apologize.

This year is already going to shit, and we barely have past the second. Fucking. Week of this month…

[icy basin]

Alright, but maybe next time do it elsewhere because it does get awkward with mentions of Callofduty Points and throwing bricks at things
Yes, we share your feelings, and I recognize that this offtopic is entirely my fault, but keep it on the dl

[stoic lichen]

Got it, Dry. My bad.

As an inspiring artist, is starting to piss me off that people are actually proud at doing the barest of minimums.

It’s just pathetic.

But I’m gonna stop myself here.

[icy basin]

There's reason #🎨arts-and-crafts has genAI banned

[stoic lichen]

Thanks.

[warped monolith]

aspiring artist* ☝️🤓

[stoic lichen]

Fuck.

[icy basin]

What if he's inspiring tho

HUH

Think about that, Mbummers?

https://tenor.com/view/light-skin-stare-gif-27568384

[warped monolith]

I don't think

[knotty onyx]

I'm inspired by his aspiration to be an artist

[icy basin]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-2-korshunov-colonel-korshunov-ward-gif-7609651101951900652

[stoic lichen]

Yo, check out this cool cat.

[icy basin]

Ward playthrough is quite based btw

[ornate herald]

I'm doing a Spark one and it is too so nice to hear the story holds up well on both sides

also, anyone here use oXa standard able to tell me if its safe to install mid-save?

[craggy ledge]

Hot take so correct me if I'm wrong: a thing not many talk about STALKER 2 is the story/plot or even the lore changes and I think for good reason. The story of STALKER 2 is imo...well all over the place. I mean in the previous ones, you had a clear storyline but here it starts off simple and gets nuts mid-way through. Additionally wtf is the point of coupons ? They could've easily have kept rubbles. Hell the reason, the military is absent from the game and instead replaced by the IPSF, is because of the Ukraine war which is fine but also the universe of STALKER is completely fictional. Hell not many even talk about the Ward, SIRCAA or even the characters associated with them. ||I also I hate how they did Strelok dirty, he had no reason of going back to the Zone. He could've just retired and lived a happy life, he's only back for the sake of fan service.||

Now I guess the reason I'm rather disappointed is because prob for so many people, we were stuck to playing the original trilogy and mods for like a decade so we just ended up getting attached to all the classic ideas of STALKER. Plus people playing mods like Anomaly and GAMMA not for the story but for the sake of being a survival horror simulator (I'm guilty of it too), says a lot why noone would bother with STALKER 2's plot.

[brave jungle]

is modding starting to take of for S2 yet?

[icy basin]

It's still actively updating and near each update breaks mods

So not really

[warped monolith]

who's "noone"? I saw a lot of people saying stalker 2's story is good

Most of the whining comes from people mad that Duty and Freedom are sidelined

[cyan yacht]

yo

[warped monolith]

another big batch of complaints are from people who, like you say, only played sandbox survival mods like anomaly or gamma who never cared about any story to begin with, so... why should we care what they think

[cyan yacht]

this gamme is

about what

[warped monolith]

stalking.

It's in the name.

[normal sentinel]

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

[warped monolith]

it's an open-world first person shooter with exploration, light RPG elements and a single-player story for you to follow (with sidequests, factions, npcs that can be either friendly or hostile)

in a sci-fi "post apocalyptic" setting inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where mutated animals roam and weird shit (aka 'anomalies') dot the landscape

sorry, Ch**o**rnobyl.

the "rpg elements" are mostly just an inventory and equipment system, where you have to manage the weight of the items you're carrying, there's different suits of armor with different defensive stats, same for guns. Armors and guns can be upgraded.

what else I'm awful at descibring the games I play lol

[stoic lichen]

I think Stalker 2’s story did its job well. You have questions, and you’ll get answers, and whether or not you trust those answers is up to you. I think it was a good idea for morality in the zone to be all sorts of grey. You can either be a helpful nice guy or a complete jackass and The Zone could give less of a shit about it.

I think certain games with a morality system often mess up in certain areas, mainly where being a good person is good, not just morality, but in gameplay wise, and being bad just gives you barely anything and mostly just cons.

So yeah, that’s what I think.

Also I think comparing this game to Gamma is stupid because they’re going for two different goals.

Imma keep it real, ever since Escape From Tarkov, every stalker mod since them is just another Tactislop modpack #267480951203

No offense to the people who enjoy Gamma, I’m not immune to the tactislop myself.

[golden hazel]

[kindred violet]

truth

[warped monolith]

stalker, fallout new vegas/4 and many other games' modding communities suffered irreversible damage due to tarkov

[kindred violet]

for real

[stoic lichen]

Remember when EFT was veiled as the next innovation of FPS shooters?

Yeah… what a fucking joke that became.

[warped monolith]

for a time, it was quite innovative.
Then I saw a video of a guy reloading his gun while sprinting full-tilt. Then he bunny hopped to dodge enemy fire.
Then he lasered the guy with zero recoil on his gun.

[stoic lichen]

Imagine waiting that long for the 1.0 release, only for it to be same tedious, grinding bullshit, except with a tutorial beginning and four endings.

[warped monolith]

dunno if the zero recoil was actually from the game or some gamer mouse macro he setup

[stoic lichen]

Or cheats.

[golden hazel]

Escape from Cheaters more like

[golden hazel]

The addition of the group that constantly complains that a gun isn't realistic and that the game should be more realistic and the devs are wrong for not making it realistic

[warped monolith]

I would argue that mouse macros to automaticaly move your aim down while shooting is a cheat, but that's just me

[kindred violet]

the tragic thing is that you can essentially achieve fuck all recoil in EFT

[warped monolith]

ah yeah the armchair gun nuts
it's either Tarkov of COD MW 2019 to blame for this

[stoic lichen]

Shame, I kinda liked COD MW 2019. Yet it showcases systems that are actively killing it to this day.

[golden hazel]

Funny how it just became "We have Fortnite at home"

[stoic lichen]

And Battlefield 6 looks nice, but whatever you do, DON’T LOOK AT THE SUBREDDIT.

Unless it’s okaybuddypfto, there’s some funny shit there sometimes.

[golden hazel]

There was an ungodly amount of cheaters in that game on release

[kindred violet]

I enjoyed bf6 a bunch on release but it's quite fucked what they did with it now

all of the cosmetics and battlepass bullshit crammed in

[kindred violet]

guess I was mostly lucky, never had many issues myself ^^

[knotty onyx]

It's fun. It's definitely another battlefield game, if you're into those.

[stoic lichen]

If I learned something from talking about games online, is that if a consensus around something gets popular enough, that’s the only thing you’ll hear…

And I fucking HATE it…

[golden hazel]

"We won't do what cod is doing"
-Right before they proceeded to do it

[kindred violet]

yeah, it's very dissapointing

but was to be expected

[golden hazel]

EA will be EA

[kindred violet]

yeah..

[golden hazel]

At least the launch was fun

There was a game to be had unlike 2043 or whatever it was called

[knotty onyx]

Yeah like Veilguard had issues with the writing. But 90% of complainers didn't play it. They watched a review from someone who didn't finish act 1. (The character they all hate shows up in act 2)

[kindred violet]

I should finish veilguard at some point

[stoic lichen]

Look, I get that battle pass and skins are the new norm. But even a broken clock is right twice a day. I think that’s how the saying goes.

[golden hazel]

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

[warped monolith]

played the beta, thought it was quite mid. Battlefield has been "cod-ified" ages ago and it feels like I'm the only one who noticed.

But then the honeymoon phase ended after launch and the game lost like 80% of its players.

[stoic lichen]

The community could put its energy into more serious issues.

Yet they’re using the bitch about… women… in their masculine game about thick buff men fighting other thick buff men.

[warped monolith]

but EA will never give us a battlefield game with the original formula again

[golden hazel]

Makes sense it was cod-ified the leader of the dev team was literally the guy who made MW2

[warped monolith]

yeah, but I meant BF has been cod-ified since Bad Company

we've been playing iterations of bad company in different settings since then, and it plays just like cod

[kindred violet]

tbf I've only started playing Battlefield at BF1

[golden hazel]

I started at BF3 lmao

It felt different enough for me guess I didn't know shit back then lmao

[warped monolith]

the old design was less user-friendly and more "complex" (convoluted in some people's minds). For example if you died to a headshot, you couldn't be revived. But that was any headshot, not just a Recon using a sniper rifle with the maxed out perk that BF6 has.

Oh and you also couldn't be revived if you died to explosives.

so you know... aiming for the head actually mattered.

(or spamming nades.)

[golden hazel]

[warped monolith]

factions were asymmetrical. You don't get vietcongs using helicopters in BF Vietnam for instance lol

[knotty onyx]

Mfw they think the issue with the badly written trans character is the "trans character" part and not the "badly written" part.

[stoic lichen]

These are all legitimate critiques and opinions… but I’m sorry, I can’t take them seriously. When I see people reddit-whoring themselves for as much karma as possible, it made me realize that the people who enjoy games are the same people who rarely engages with shit that isn’t meant to provoke nuance or conversation…

It’s just…

Say things that people will already agree with…

Free karma lmao

[rotund mantle]

we need more buff shirtless men combat based games fr

[warped monolith]

I don't actually think Taash was badly written. My opinion of them might be insane but I think they were written as an obnoxious, insufferable and self-entitled prick intentionally.

So if they did intentionally make Taash that way, they succeeded. Hence... they were well-written.

kinda like the calypso twins in Borderlands 3.

[rotund mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/gachi-gachimuchi-billy-ready-billy-billy-herrington-gif-22011020

[warped monolith]

They're cringe, insufferable and make you wanna bite a power cable whenever they're on-screen or yapping at you via the ECHO communicator.

but that was the intent.

[cinder sleet]

This fucking thing in the swamp…

[rotund mantle]

ngl S2 based for this

[knotty onyx]

Taash is a good insufferable young person chip on the shoulder character, but the trans aspects were not done very well.

[warped monolith]

agreed. People who enjoy games are too busy playing games to be engaging in reddit "discourse" and wasting time arguing about pointless bullshit online

[rotund mantle]

fr its how you can tell the gamers vs fakers

[stoic lichen]

Guys you don’t understand! We must now all be progressively more racist, misogynist, homophonic, and ESPECIALLY transphobic to defeat…

the wokeslop

[kindred violet]

they post here on discord in unrelated channels instead /hj

[stoic lichen]

(For obvious reasons, this is a joke.)

[warped monolith]

guilty as charged

[cinder sleet]

Bro is taking 20 years to reload this fucking Val and I’m just getting mauled 🙁

[kindred violet]

aren't we all lmao

[rotund mantle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1106657111292792884/1288932044595920916/glup.gif

[knotty onyx]

If the Noosphere was real they'd do female protag for stalker 3 and farm that energy to turn into electricity or something

[rotund mantle]

idk if id trust gsc making stalker 3 after the disaster that was stalker 2

[snow hill]

Stalker 2 is so cool I wish Ukraine was real

But that'd be too scary

[kindred violet]

the dichotomy of man

[rotund mantle]

fr whats ukraine

[stoic lichen]

Oh shit! It’s Hatsune Miku!

[rotund mantle]

sounds made up

[knotty onyx]

They'll be better at UE at least

[snow hill]

WHERE?!

HIDE ME

[rotund mantle]

true good point

[golden hazel]

The place where they invented bootleg cigarettes

[stoic lichen]

why?

[rotund mantle]

[warped monolith]

once the game gets "fixed" and they restore some goodwill, they'll be shaking their cup to Microsoft for a third game eventually

[stoic lichen]

Just turn into a pear

[knotty onyx]

Most studios first UE5 game has a lot of issues.

[snow hill]

place your bets if it'l be more or less broken

[kindred violet]

yeah it's pretty inevitable

[stoic lichen]

https://tenor.com/view/kasane-teto-pearto-pear-gif-8709426259552954643

[cinder sleet]

I currently have 14 rounds left and I just dumped 30 into it before hand as it casually walked into darkness

[stoic lichen]

You mean Microslop

[cinder sleet]

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

[snow hill]

knife knife knife knife

[warped monolith]

isn't it a perfect match for GSlopC?

[golden hazel]

We being forced to Downgrade to AIdows 11 for this one 🔥

[stoic lichen]

Honestly, no clue.

Anything but more tactislop modpacks, please.

I think we have enough.

[snow hill]

GlopSlopClop (pronounced with a soft c)

[warped monolith]

I used to like Microsoft until they raised the price for GamePass and made it more difficult to earn Microsoft Points

Guess they don't want me farming up 100k+ points to get a full year of game pass for free.

I know this is cheeky on my part but... screw them either way lmao

I will only respect them again if they announce Lost Odyssey for modern platforms

[golden hazel]

Calling it now if Stalker 3 even comes out it'll be run solely through the cloud on copilot

[warped monolith]

oof

[summer vapor]

I’m not a big fan of the direction they took the story either; I’d prefer more grounded stories about ordinary people

[golden hazel]

Ordinary? In the zone?

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/we-dont-do-that-here-black-panther-tchalla-bruce-gif-16558003

[royal mural]

i mean ofc ||strelok went back he still didnt get his wish of full hair granted||

[craggy ledge]

https://tenor.com/view/big-oof-size-small-medium-switch-gif-17355313

[warped monolith]

[stoic lichen]

Even the wish granter couldn’t fix his hairline.

[golden hazel]

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

[royal mural]

the shining zone scar saw was just the reflection of the sun on streloks hairless forehead

@wary rune btw herehttps://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1306683555488862319/1454821351939637269/senator-armstrong-1616395676.gif

[normal sentinel]

https://tenor.com/view/soyjak-chuddie-west-fallen-its-so-over-an-agel-has-lost-it's-wings-gif-4074955062868079439

[zealous pelican]

hello.
do i still need optimization mods for s2?

[brave yoke]

hacker

[brave jungle]

oh so everyones waiting until stable

[slim moth]

there is still pretty active modding for s2 on nexus but yeah. it's understandable that the big wave of modding is gonna be when that update drops more than likely.

[hearty pagoda]

The priority of mods how does it work? those who are down all charge first?

[summer vapor]

in alphabetical order

[lusty glade]

What is the state of stalker 2? Is there a-life yet?

[summer vapor]

it is

Wait for the patch, it will probably come out this month

[viscid oxide]

Could anybody tell me the command to spawn npcs next to me

For example bandits

[eternal tiger]

btw do traders keep their the sht I sell them permanently or was that one of my mods messing it up? at some point I had to scroll more than 5 pages worth of garbage to get to their actual stock

[warped monolith]

!noalife

[fallen iron]

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

[kindred violet]

!hasalife

[fallen iron]

⠀

[remote eagle]

its restock with time

[eternal tiger]

no no, I know they change their inventory, but they keep all the stuff I sold to them

they did change their base offers, but kept everything I ever sold to each

[wary rune]

I hope i will live long enough to see the game "fixed"

On the other hand I miss that one dude that played S2 on a really low end PC. Shit looked like a PS1 game

[warped monolith]

I think I know who you're talking about... he's still regularly active in offtopic, but he doesn't show up here since he stopped playing

iirc he did that shit as an experiment but didn't fully commit to playing stalker 2 that way

@icy bough did you actually play stalker 2 after you managed to disable lumen and destroy the graphics?

[icy bough]

[icy bough]

hiii

[icy bough]

i played a bit

my save is like 9-11 hours long

[wary rune]

Btw. was it you that somehow killed Richter and carried his body around?

[icy bough]

but i kept getting memory leaks over and over after at somepoint

so i stopped trying

at rostok

[icy bough]

no

[wary rune]

Nvm found it 😄

[brittle crystal]

i reached the point in the story right after you leave the giant lab and the crazy stuff happens. is it worth starting a new save with modular hard mode 2 and all its recommended mods and finishing the game with that installed vs just finishing the story and then downloading the mod?

[hearty pagoda]

After wild island, i need to go sphere before scar ?

[nocturne smelt]

MHM is no longer supported.

[nocturne smelt]

If you want to get the other Emitter, Yes.

Getting both has no story impact though that I can remember.

[ornate herald]

that springboard anomaly had hands

[kindred violet]

Bro partaking in the chornobyl space program

[dusky remnant]

Hi,
I know this isn’t the official S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Discord, but I’m hoping some people here are also on the official server and can help pass this along.

I was banned because my account was hacked and used to send spam/scam messages. Those messages were not sent by me. I have now secured my account (password changed and 2FA enabled) and I’d like to ask the moderators for a review of the ban.

If any moderator is here, or if someone can forward this to them, I’d really appreciate it. I can provide any proof needed.

[kindred violet]

Not anyone's problem here mate

Sorry to say but you're shit out of luck :)

[dusky remnant]

Thank to the person who help me. Really appreciate.

[tranquil flame]

How is modded stalker 2 in 2026, anything promising/cool? Getting a new GPU finally

[queen elk]

0 rebalans mods 0 story mods 0 real a-life mods 0 new items mods 0 new content mods 0 difficulty mods only infinity stamina parkour and infinity weight mods and something for better graphics still need wait for 5.5.4 no point to back zone at this moment

All mods after new update dead no one want mods this before engine update and 1.0 version

To sum up, all the problems surrounding this game and things that need to be changed/improved have not been touched in any way since the release by any mod or GSC

[summer vapor]

Because the SDK is still not fully functional

[queen elk]

only people say that optimization has been slightly improved and bugs have been fixed since the release, but the most changes are expected in 5.5.4

but on 4080super 7800x3d this game worked fine anyway on ultra 1440p so for me it's no +

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fwjBdHdHb14 I saw something like this a while ago and if NPCs actually behaved like that it would be an absolute banger but I don't even know what it is

it would even work very well without A-life as a simple bubble, 100-150m of combat would be much more satisfying and emotional, now they just stand still or move forward at a minimal pace like in the game from 1990

[kindred violet]

Ah yes, claims that aren't actually quite true

[stoic lichen]

The battlefield 6 tactic of making shit up as long if it appeals to the public consensus.

[warped monolith]

click stalker 2
grayname speaking yapanese

[golden hazel]

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

[alpine shard]

what are your thoughts on Stalker 2 vs Gamma? I really like gamma for "realistic" guns and generally the progression and sheer scale of the map.
Will Stalker 2 punch those points or not yet? (maybe with some mods in the future?)

[kindred violet]

first off, you're going to be laughed at if you're trying to compare stalker 2 to gamma, especially in here.
second off

!gamma2

[fallen iron]

⠀

[nocturne sandal]

He’s making a tarkov mod?

[hearty pagoda]

I like both, with some mods they are identical in some ways, both have their strengths and both feel stalker, but they are two very different experiences, if you ask me my stalker 2 vanilla needs to improve a lot but with mods like SLZ improves a lot

[nocturne sandal]

I might get off arena for once

[verbal goblet]

They're not comparable outside of them both being FPS games in a similar setting. Stalker 2 is much more in line with the original three games in that it's much more straightforward and "gamey" but not in a bad way. Frankly, I've come to prefer the texture of the original games and Stalker 2 when it comes to exploring the setting. Anomaly and the mod packs have absorbed a lot of brainrot from the wider FPS community... I still love G.A.M.M.A for what it is though

[slow cave]

Stalker 2 is bad

Story is pretty good

But everything else can’t even tough the original which it aimed to surpass

[verbal goblet]

Eh, I really like Stalker 2. The environment looks awesome and the artists clearly put a lot of love into it. Mechanically, it's weak, yes, though I think the gunplay is fun. Enemy AI is the worst part of combat. I've been enjoy it over all though

[slow cave]

Real

I shouldn’t have said it’s all bad

I just dislike the dev team now; they just started multiplayer concepts 5 years after announcing it

[queen elk]

if anyone still wants this xD some poor deathmatch with no potential as it always was the only real multiplayer is in Stalcraft X

[slow cave]

It does suck it’s death match but then then

Just starting on a multyplayer concepts now? 5 years after announcing multyplayer

Such a scam

[royal mural]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1306683555488862319/1320489376903598151/SoP0R.gif

[queen elk]

I see bigger problem

Where is my A-life 2.0 what i buy 3years ago maybe after 1year+ still didint see in game

This is scam

[icy basin]

Are you trying to get unbanned on STALKER 2 by appealing on GAMMA???

Go make an alt account and join S2 server to get your main unbanned lmao

S2 discord users have literally no use being here, unless they wanna play GAMMA

[dusky remnant]

Absolutely, and a kind soul passed along my request. Many thanks to her again. I created a new account, but it’s useless — it’s an IP and/or machine-ID ban.

[icy basin]

[pallid bone]

after falling in love with the stalker universe with hundreds of hours in gamma i made it

[warped monolith]

did I just witness someone unironically mentioning stalcraft as a good game

did that really happen

[knotty onyx]

You know it's mid because YouTubers only ever make 1 video on it.

[tame lodge]

I played it when it came out on steam and lets just say I like the idea

but being camped by high level players in lower lvl areas is wild

and then you can just get camped by the whole faction

this is not the mention the stupid grinds to get new gear when you get to the Bar(Rostok copy)

[warped monolith]

exactly same in my case

guess that's more "fun" than deathmatch where you actually have a fighting chance

[tame lodge]

people love pain and struggle

I guess

[tame lodge]

and bad gamedesign

[slim moth]

https://tenor.com/view/stalcraft-снюс-minecraft-gif-19986730

[kindred violet]

The person who was paid to say it's good must be right

[slim moth]

it looks absolutely hideous

going with a blocky minecraft style aint it.

[maiden glen]

Does anyone recommend any Stalker 2 modlists that are currently out (or collections)? Want to give it my first real playthrough...but alas I am spoiled by GAMMA lol. Clikrad's Immersive Stalker looks pretty legit, but wanted to ask here in case I'm missing a great one!

[ornate herald]

I'm using Maklane's Better Zone + some of the recommended mods (Living Zone, oXa Standard, Instant Long Range Aggro fix) to make Stalker 2 a better vanilla+ experience, there's a lil bit of jank every once in a while but I'm really enjoying the game

[remote eagle]

not only that its same running simulator especially if u got killed

[sinful dawn]

anyone know if there's a compatibility patch for oxa with this mod? https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1825?tab=description

[wraith heron]

Can I ask about stalker 2 in this channel ? ( like dlss and performance things)

[warped monolith]

yes

[wraith heron]

Is anyone tried Dlss 4.5 preset M ? I have RTX4060 8gb 75Watt mobile GPU I use dlss 4.5 preset M / in game I usually use FG on and balanced mode but my game is very flickery like using ultra performance anyone got this problem? Is it related to game or my settings or nvidia?

[warped monolith]

we're not experts though

[wraith heron]

I just need a person who tried dlss on stalker 2 rn

windows ruined the record but I think difference is visible

[tame lodge]

idk man could be dlss 4.5

[nocturne smelt]

Use performance or Ultra performance with preset M. It is not designed for balanced or quality.

[wraith heron]

well it gets worse

[nocturne smelt]

I do not have that issue with it. People have reported "Boiling" issues but not sure what about the preset is causing it.

I assume this is a laptop, is it 1080p?

[wraith heron]

yup its laptop and it has 1080p screen

[tame lodge]

but is the game set at 1080p resolution

[tame lodge]

the ingame settings

[nocturne smelt]

Dlss may be downscaling it too much and your getting a fucked image.

You may have better luck on balanced or quality with preset K.

[kindred violet]

what about using native DLAA, how does that act, out of curiosity

[wraith heron]

45 fps unstable

[wraith heron]

I dont know why but in DLAA my fps is around 45 to 80

[nocturne smelt]

Are you choosing a preset or just forcing latest?

DLAA is extremely performance hungry.

[wraith heron]

nope its in K preset right now

[nocturne smelt]

Are you still seeing the boiling effect?

With balanced?

[kindred violet]

unfortunately if you don't want to upscale you'll have to do DLAA because otherwhise you just dont have any AA and it's all crunchy

[nocturne smelt]

They have a 4060 mobile gpu. They are going to have to use some form of upscaling for decent performance.

DLAA will not be a fun experience.

[wraith heron]

In balanced a lot like some areas are getting brighter and darker when I stand still but in quality the effect is showing on further

[nocturne smelt]

Wonder if it's lumen shimmer. Could try raising your global illumination.

[kindred violet]

I was saying that more in general, because I just cant believe there isn't any seperate AA you can have active

it's mind boggling

[nocturne smelt]

Lowering sharpness might help also.

[nocturne smelt]

Yeah, I think they assumed everyone would be using upscaling.

[kindred violet]

yeah, state of modern gaming and so on

man I remembered when DLSS was first starting to become a thing and everyone was excited about how low end cards will in the future be able to play more demanding games as well

and here we are

with the exact opposite having happened

[nocturne smelt]

Well, You give devs a way to lower workflow with a system like dlss and they are going to take advantage of it.

Your seeing the same shit with AI.

[kindred violet]

can we just like do a hard reset

[nocturne smelt]

People will always find a way to exploit new technology to cut corners.

[nocturne smelt]

if only.

[kindred violet]

there aren't many corners to cut anymore, we basically have a sphere

[wraith heron]

I changed to high and the problem is fixed also balanced is not looking bad right now

balanced is 90-100 fps , quality is 80-90 fps

[nocturne smelt]

I'd keep GI on High, Put sharpness to 0. Then try preset M again on performance.

I think you were having a compounding issue because of Lumen.

Unless your fine with that FPS.

[wraith heron]

yeah I tried but it was bad even the dlss quality I think there is a problem for dlss 4.5

in performance and ultra performance has same boiling problem

but thanks a lot

90 fps is fine to me

[nocturne smelt]

Sadly it's a known issue on 1080p screens with dlss. The dlss performance mode is lowering your resolution too much before it upscales the image.

[wraith heron]

I guess if I have 2k-4k screen my gpu doesnt handle it

[nocturne smelt]

Yeah, I mean. It's just a limitation on current DLSS. Hopefully it gets better in the future.

At least we got it looking better while maintaining decent fps.

[wraith heron]

I switch back to 60 fps cap and rigt now its looking good and runs good

thanks for helping me

[nocturne smelt]

Anytime.

[wraith heron]

this is the current screenshot

[tranquil heath]

Opinion on stalker 2?

Is it worth it to buy rn?

[warped monolith]

wait for a discount

[golden hazel]

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

[warped monolith]

Ey man as much as I love shitposting, I gotta give an honest question an honest answer

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

[royal mural]

yes

i agree

[rotund zephyr]

Does anyone know which mod I use to make my store have fewer weapons? I'd like a wider variety of weapons.

[ornate herald]

man turns out the Faust fight is real easy

idk why everyone's complaining

[white comet]

My issue with the faust fight was that his hair kept glowing neon red which was making it hard to shoot at him accurately

Had to turn down hair quality for the disco lights to stop

[ornate herald]

damn he turned into an anime character on you, guess my low graphics settings saved me lmao

[ornate herald]

just skipped an entire emission by running in and out of the Mist arch anomaly

[royal mural]

https://tenor.com/view/super-saiyan-god-goku-gif-26833743 was your faust looking for dragonballs?

[ember ether]

so, we cant be behind trees to get cover anymore huh

bullets go through solid wood

that was not happening in the later versions

[summer vapor]

It’s been bugged since November 17th

[ember ether]

so bullets going through trees is a bug?

not a changed feature?

[nocturne smelt]

The problem is the weapons cover penetration variable is not working properly. It's penetrating cover off of the armor penetration variable. Which is normally a much higher variable. So it kind of defeats most material pen resistance.

[ember ether]

i see

i hope there's a mod fixing this until they fix this shit for real

[nocturne smelt]

There is a mod being worked on for vanilla. Sadly each overhaul will have to tweak it to fit their AP changes.

[white comet]

I think Faust is more of a Naruto character with this shadow clone ninmonolithjutsu

[normal sentinel]

Faust did nothing wrong

[ornate herald]

He's just a sad guy

[sinful dawn]

anyone know of a fix for not being able to save on master mode in the new hub? even post quest it's still not considered a safe spot and I have to go out of my way with the other mod that lets you save at barrels and campfires to the campfire outside of camp

[nocturne smelt]

You’re not getting the saves when exiting the hub either? When you don’t have expedition rework enabled.

Vanilla expedition should be saving when walking out of the doors of the hub.

[sinful dawn]

doesn't save when exiting hubs, can only save within hubs and around campfires is the current behaviour im getting

[nocturne smelt]

That’s because of expedition rework.

I’m talking about the vanilla master mode save system.

It should save when you exit a hub.

Hub exit saves are disabled in expedition rework.

[sinful dawn]

right, I've got expedition rework installed and there's no valid save zone around the area otherwise

just was wondering if there's a flag missing in the area that would allow me to save there, otherwise the only way I've been able to nab a save was via scoutmaster guiding me to another area

and sleeping of course

[nocturne smelt]

The problem is expedition rework has not been updated since stories untold came out I believe.

[sinful dawn]

ah.

[nocturne smelt]

I’d have to open the files to see how he has it set up. But my guess is the hub doesn’t exist in the .cfg.

[sinful dawn]

unfortunate, I do like the mod otherwise

[nocturne smelt]

I’ll hop on the pc in a bit and take a look.

[normal sentinel]

He wants happiness for all

[sinful dawn]

y'know saying that, my dumbass would think that all areas just have a 0/1 variable that lists them as a valid hub or not

[nocturne smelt]

Well the campfire and barrels work off of blueprints.

I’m not sure about the hubs.

Going to take a look now.

[nocturne smelt]

So I don't see anything defining hubs. Which means it's probably running off of blueprints and would need the SDK to look at it. Which I don't have access to atm.

The most that would be possible is reenabling the hub exit saves.

[sinful dawn]

gotcha, probably when I get a chance to hop on my PC I'll just see if there's another mod that I can use to save freely while I just self regulate the ruleset

[nocturne smelt]

You can try this and see if hub exit saves work for the meantime until you find something else.

But again. It could be a blueprint problem that the hub just isn't added yet.

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/what-lebron-james-wtf-huh-wth-gif-10041254

https://tenor.com/view/sadcat-gif-6770984209275368356

[sinful dawn]

LOOOOOL

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/surprised-sorprendido-shaquille-oneal-gif-23222312

[nocturne smelt]

I tried to not bother you with it but I think it's BP related lol.

[odd fjord]

yeah its not added

[sinful dawn]

bless thee mod maker

[odd fjord]

if u give me the coords i can add it in 1min

and send u a test version

XShowDebug

or XShowGSCDebug

or some form of that

or jorics map if its accurate

[nocturne smelt]

Joric's is not updated for new hub features. So it's hard to get a centralized coord.

Let me throw in SML and I'll noclip there and get them for you.

That's as central as I could get it.

[odd fjord]

thank avaunt for it

ill update nexus tomorrow

[nocturne smelt]

@sinful dawn Try the above file. Hopefully it lets you manual save in the hub now.

[sinful dawn]

bet

it works! ty to both of y'all for the help

[silver orchid]

According to Dezodor, GSC Game World it's helping to develop S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2: Old Concept, a cut-content restoration mod of the old S2.

https://www.dezowave.com/stalker-2-old-concept-2/

[nocturne smelt]

Interesting.

Assume they are using X-Ray then.

[silver orchid]

yes, X-Ray 2.0

Dezowawe Team basically has to make from the scratch the engine to complete it and have it on proper conditions because the leaked engine was very incomplete due to that when S2 was cancelled everything that it's in the in-game aspect was in early stages of development.

[nocturne smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/confused-no-nope-gif-5413974953753901704

[slim moth]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-run-meme-gif-12385055482594746031

[trim iron]

https://tenor.com/view/seems-legit-if-you-say-so-gif-18850072

[icy basin]

Oh that's funny

They avoided early timeout/mute by sending separate messages

[eager solstice]

@sullen thunder (kathryn_aurbrey.) has been banned for reason: Better luck next time, scamboi

[nocturne smelt]

The bots are evolving.

[vestal fable]

They are evolving now?

[icy basin]

Dw about it
They still get caught

[vestal fable]

Thankfully, just glad I dont have to deal with it in my server. I can imagine the hassle with a server this huge

[icy basin]

Uhhhh

[eager solstice]

Audit statistics to Ragequit

[icy basin]

Here's our bot that catches casino scam images

[vestal fable]

Holy!
What does it look for?
A pattern of words?

[icy basin]

Blacklisted media, yeah

[eager solstice]

Audit statistics to Dry

[icy basin]

And here's me

[vestal fable]

Fucking peak

https://tenor.com/view/power-up-strong-anime-gif-13569290

[vestal fable]

This you? ^

[icy basin]

Naw
An overwhelming amount of those bans is ATeveryone pings by compromised accounts

https://tenor.com/view/good-morning-wake-up-wakey-wakey-awaken-gif-26734899

More like this

[vestal fable]

XD
"It's 2 in the fuckin mornin, cease"

https://tenor.com/view/dr-manhattan-gif-18899941

[boreal karma]

anyone I could DM about stalker 2 lore? mostly about the endings (any ending works, since its more of a universal thing about the endings)

[nocturne smelt]

Just put || on either side of what you type. Will spoiler tag it and hide it until clicked.

[boreal karma]

stalker 2 ending stuff || so in the endings we insert a cartridge (a digital copy of us?) and also go into a vat/pod to boil, pepsi and probably join c-con, So the question is, why is the pod thing essential if the device already has a digital copy of us? besides, thats what the previous 7 guys did, why us too? and why does it also cause whoever goes into the pod to be the new face of c-con, unlike back then with the previous 7 where it was more or less a shared entity? ||

[nocturne smelt]

||At that point you (or whoever you support) are the only ones in a pod. C-con is just an imprint of consciousness in the form a subtle matter at the time of stalker 2, As their pods were all destroyed by Strelok in SOC. It is stated by C-con that they have no control over the physical world anymore because their physical bodies were destroyed. This implies that in order to truly control the zone one must be in physical form inside a pod. ||

[boreal karma]

hmmm... || so right after SOC, since they "died", they became (or the representative?) a blank slate? a null 0 emotion, 0 self, almost like a robot. And since they dont have a physical body/dead--- you/whoever you support becomes the 1 and only personality of C-con? what about that thing that Col Korshunov says to Dalin? about him seeing the 7 (or atleast Dalin's father) boiling. Hence why he thinks its impossible for any of them to be alive, Im assuming he 'witnessed' this before Strelok killed them.||

[kindred violet]

||it also gets a lot more ambiguous because of the whole subtle matter thing, because depending on if you want to believe it real, c-con is still "alive" as you can experience in sparks ending.
But it's a huge caveat since it most likely is just an illusion to trick you into doing c-cons will||

[nocturne smelt]

|| No, an imprint of their consciousness is in the noosphere in the form of subtle matter. They still act as they would if they were still alive at the time the imprint was made. And Immortalmo is correct, The existence of subtle matter as an actual thing is never directly confirmed and is explained differently depending on what path you follow. ||

[boreal karma]

|| so vaguely answerable for now... and definitely needs some more story expansion? ||

game is supposed to get 2 DLC right? hope that clears things out.

[kindred violet]

I'm unsure if we're going to get a clear answer for it, but we'll see

[nocturne smelt]

|| Potentially, It really depends on how they want to play it. Secrets and mysteries are inherent to the zone. So I wouldn't even be upset if they let it remain unanswered. I tend to believe subtle matter is real as there are too many things that stop making sense if you were to think it's fake. But anything is possible ||

[boreal karma]

|| I worded this wrong, and mostly cause Im focusing on just 1 ending being true but we dont really know what cause none of the endings is canon till a follow up on the story that progresses it fruther.||

[boreal karma]

yeah hopefully....

[kindred violet]

Imagine if they do a "break in the west" kind of deal

(reference to daggerfalls multiple endings)

(where all of them are canon)

[boreal karma]

|| so back to the OG thing, is it safe to say the reason why the representative for example, still exists and interacts with us (Dalin, Us, Monolith, etc) is cause the 7 still has their cartridges inserted? ||

[nocturne smelt]

|| See, This is why I err on the side of subtle matter being real. But is it possible to be cartridge related... maybe. ||

[boreal karma]

|| yeah but doesnt Spark's ending Imply SM to not truely be a thing? cause in the end, we were most likely tripping balls like we were high af.||

[nocturne smelt]

|| That's why I said earlier the endings contradict themselves. || They all can't be true at the same time.

[nocturne smelt]

|| The shining zone was a lie 100%. It was just a part of the control C-Con had over Scar. Most of Scars motives was a combination of suggestive brainwashing by C-Con and the brainwashing he had where they forced Marshal's memories into him in order to stir up the hatred of the Ward. At the point we are a part of the story all of spark is acting under the motivations of C-Con. They are all just oblivious to this fact as they follow Scar.||

[boreal karma]

hmmm

[nocturne smelt]

|| Again this begs the question, If all of these machinations were at the hands of C-Con... How could Subtle matter not exist.||

[knotty onyx]

||SM def exists. But each game makes it clear that it isn't what you expect and you won't get what you want from it||

[nocturne smelt]

I agree.

[boreal karma]

welp, thx guys.

[silver orchid]

Yes, supposedly GSC is going to announce formally the first expansion with DLC and all in february and launch it on april or smth, i don't remember exactly why, just that these comes from that in the "holidays" image and in the code of x thingi there numbers about a date

[nocturne smelt]

Their FYE is prob January 31st. So they want to start their new one with a major announcement. That would be my guess.

[silver orchid]

Also i don't remember if the upgrade of the engine will come out along the first expansion

[boreal karma]

bruh, at this point, I just want a downgrade, or disabled Lumens....

[nocturne smelt]

They prob should have stuck with UE4. But I assume they prob wanted to future proof it more with a new engine and potentially a contract with epic for using the new engine.

But who knows, What's done is done. Now we wait to see what happens.

It also could have been part of the investment contract with M$.

Who knows.

[boreal karma]

I love the game, but its too heavy for its own good, I dont like having 144 fps (with fsr) then randomly dipping to 60s.....

[silver orchid]

I can't wait strelka in fornite

[nocturne smelt]

What a combo.

Controller and burer skins.

[boreal karma]

and thats 144 avg, then a random ai duo throws afew nades and my fps drops to 60s xD

[nocturne smelt]

I have mine locked to 100 though nvidia. I rarely dip outside of hubs. But I use dlss 4.5 preset M on performance and FSR 3.1.

FSR 3.1 drives me nuts though.

[boreal karma]

me: cries in 3070ti

[nocturne smelt]

I'm on a 3080. So not a huge difference.

[boreal karma]

welp, my refusal to update drivers for the sake of my dum dumb monitor set up is going to haunt me for now

[nocturne smelt]

Friend of mine has a similar issue, He has a 50 series and any newer drivers cause his monitor to loose connection. Strangest thing.

[boreal karma]

yeah... got a decent 144hz main monitor but the rest are vga, and using converters on the GPU is fine and all till I go past v56X.XX

[nocturne smelt]

Interesting.

[stoic lichen]

I was going to make a joke about some certain files, given the number of black lines I'm seeing in this chat.

[tame lodge]

Strelok files

Scar is in em for sure

[ornate herald]

just got my 2nd liquid rock, can finally equip my 2nd hypercube

[warped monolith]

[tranquil heath]

What if I wanted to drink bug milk in an artillery crater but the bloodsuckers keep coming

[ornate herald]

give em some milk and tell em to fuck off !!

love when a high paying side quest asks for an artifact sitting in ur stash

[warped monolith]

short answer: no
long answer: ask in #╟🔰☢newbies-chat

[slim moth]

i would go ask on their discord cause everybody here doesn't think it's real lol