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

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warped monolith
knotty onyx
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They also changed that fairly quickly for fo76

finite needle
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The idea was that it was meant to be 100% player driven community, like Ultima or that old stuff. It didn't work because 1) the concept is stupid and 2)They made the blunder of releasing the game incredibly buggy, and we all know that this is what online videogame critiques will focus on

warped monolith
silver orchid
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would be weird or smth but i feel that a implementation of "MP" that would fit is see notes made by other players and other minimal actions via-online while the player it's alone in his playthrought, connected while he don't play with other players

warped monolith
silver orchid
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yeah

ivory trail
warped monolith
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I would kinda enjoy that

finite needle
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My main issue with FO76 is that people started pushing The Outer Worlds as an example of a good "Fallout" game because it was made by obisidan. The Outer Worlds is possibly the most boring game ever made.

warped monolith
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in fact

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I'd enjoy some kind of invasion mode where you take up a bounty and invade another player's game to take them out

warped monolith
knotty onyx
warped monolith
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I will admit Pillars of Eternity and Grounded are very good, though.

ivory trail
warped monolith
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uh oh

finite needle
warped monolith
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the SOVL argument

finite needle
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I'm pretty sure the Todd hates Obsidian story came out in that period

ivory trail
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Todd hates obsidian period.

silver orchid
knotty onyx
warped monolith
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if todd hated obsidian they wouldn't have been allowed to make FNV

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use yer brains pls

knotty onyx
finite needle
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Bro season 2 of Fallout is in fucking Mojave with NCR, Legion and fucking House around.

warped monolith
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it's the ideal win-win scenario. Making money off a game he didn't have to work on.

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likely this is just hatemongering from people trying to keep the "us vs. them" status quo in the fandom

finite needle
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Can't wait for Todd to just release like F03 and FNV like tomorrow like he did with Oblivion

warped monolith
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"todd hates obsidian because they made a REAL fallout game for REAL fallout fans" PeepoDrool

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peak chud behavior.

golden hazel
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HoC Tuah

finite needle
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Yeah true

warped monolith
finite needle
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I quite enjoy HoC in its current state

stoic lichen
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F:NV being the best thing since estrogen :3

knotty onyx
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She cheeki on my breeki until an emission occurred in the zone

golden hazel
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I'm not a big fan of Lumen (30 on 30) not a big fan of Lumen (30 30 30)

warped monolith
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I still haven't jumped into HoC since 1.2, and even then I only played 5 mins to check if performance was improved. It wasn't, for me at least

finite needle
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The fact that Run On My Machine (tm) without any drama is a big plus

finite needle
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It STILL looks like shit

warped monolith
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still so many games to play before I consider HoC, so I'll just wait for more updates and fixes

finite needle
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Engine upgrade is my only hope

golden hazel
warped monolith
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nioh 3 in two weeks...

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can't wait to get oneshot by Honda Tadakatsu again

golden hazel
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Bro is getting one shot by a motorcycle smh

finite needle
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My backlog is so massive I still have to play the Elden Ring DLC omegakekw

tame lodge
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got like 260 games I gotta play 😭

ivory trail
warped monolith
warped monolith
knotty onyx
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I still need to finish Pathfinder WOTR and I've already put like 200 hours into it

ivory trail
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Is it not the colorado? Eh, doesnt matter, i mean there were plans for a lot more legion content. But bethesda didnt gave them the time to do that.

tame lodge
warped monolith
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oh right, this idiot blocked me. But at least everyone else now knows Obsidian can't release a full game

warped monolith
knotty onyx
tame lodge
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i think pillars of eternity games are pretty complete

ivory trail
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They tried to make a good game. And if bethesda -especially todd- werent such dicks, they would gave them some more time to do that.

finite needle
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They accepted the 18 months because most of the assets already existed, to they thought they coudl do it. Also, the only limit Bethesda imposed them was that it didn't have to use the Skyrim engine and had to come out before Skyrim, thus the 18 months.

warped monolith
finite needle
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Younguns don't remember that the game literally didn't fucking work on release

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time is a circle

warped monolith
finite needle
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It took like until what, Old World Blues for the game to be actually playable?

warped monolith
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fucking russian roulette on every loading screen.

ivory trail
finite needle
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It was kinda bad

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like, a lot

ivory trail
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Well that sucks, personally i didnt encounter any of that, but maybe i was lucky.

finite needle
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See, it works on his machine too

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anywayt, this is what I remember from the era

knotty onyx
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Wasn't it the PS3 version that was notoriously terrible?

finite needle
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PS3 version was the Cyberpunk of the era

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PC you could make it work, but PS3 you were screwed KekSkew

warped monolith
ivory trail
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No idea, i was always a PC gamer since the SNES era.

warped monolith
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it was a shitshow on PC as well

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very frequent crashing

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until some "dlc patches" and unofficial fixes came along, that is

knotty onyx
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I played it on Xbox but not until like 2013.

I was like 10 when it released any my parents wouldn't let me play M rates games yet.

ivory trail
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But i mean, there is a reason i waited until recently to play stalker 2. 😅

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And i still did encounter quite some weird shit that clearly wasnt intented.

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Like, glowing hair on NPC in cutscenes, a door in the cinema in pripyat that when closed again did totally freak out and soft locked the game. Weapons that fall trough the floor when a burer took them from me. Bloodsuckers that basically kept me down at the ground until i was dead.

knotty onyx
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Worst bug I had was flickering horizon on the garbage cutscenes with Richter

finite needle
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I also had the characters becoming ravers during cutscenes

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big fans of IDM

knotty onyx
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"look at that view skifa" yeah it looks like shit Richter

warped monolith
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bloodsuckers stunlocking you isn't "unintended", you're just getting wombo combo'd.

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wonder how bro would react if he had to fight 2 enemies simultaneously in any soulslike

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"broken game pls fix"

knotty onyx
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The weirdest bug I was was the game not switching back to ultra wide after a cutscene

finite needle
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Guns falling down the ground is a common bug. Doesn't really matter with most of the guns dropped by goons since they suck, but it becomes a bit rage inducing when the burer snags your fully upgraded Saiga and sends it in the shadow realm

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Other problem, enemies are a bit too easy to sneak by sometimes, especally Monos during Duga mission. Most of these issues however are very minor if you think about how the game was when it released

warped monolith
finite needle
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as I was saying, time is a circle.

warped monolith
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and chaos is a ladder

ivory trail
finite needle
ivory trail
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That was... absolutely unplayable.

finite needle
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My brightest memories were : 1 - No iron sights with pistols because who the fuck knows, 2 - A life bricking my save forever and 3 - Granada

warped monolith
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when I played CS, I had more trouble getting sniped by renegades using 8% TOZes at 300m through 5 layers of foliage than dealing with grenades

ivory trail
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But i was almost shocked how "little" bugs there were in CoP.

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I mean compared to what i was already used to at this point.

knotty onyx
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When I last played CS I got soft locked by never ending bandit squads in garbage

finite needle
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GSC in the day said that CoP was actually the vision they had to begin with realized.

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It's also the one with the staged a life KekSkew

ivory trail
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It was a lot of fun. Especially with really weird anomaly stuff like the claw.

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That is how i did imagine the zone to be.

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Not just abandoned stuff taken back by nature, but some landscape that looks like reality and the laws of physics have left the building.

warped monolith
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well you'd think by the third game they would know what they were doing

finite needle
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I'll be honest, my opinion of GSC isn't that good KekSkew

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I was surprised the game ran without any drama and didn't need third party stuff to be playable

ivory trail
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Yeah, same, but i feel like that is not a popular opinion here.

warped monolith
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so we cope with the games being barely functional messes

finite needle
ivory trail
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I mean i was surprised when i told people here about my disappointment in the lack of creativity, and i basically got told by this one guy my opinion isnt valid.

silver orchid
ivory trail
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And i still stand by that critique.

warped monolith
ivory trail
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Where are all the new creative anomaly fields? Where are all the new mutants?

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Where are all the new scifi guns?

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Detectors? Whatever.

silver orchid
ivory trail
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The game has none of that.

silver orchid
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because the entire game was done in concept by just two guys

warped monolith
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bro truly is biased from the onset to look for nothing but negativity

silver orchid
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ruslan didenko and andrey verpakhovsky

finite needle
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There is a very modern tendency of helding game dev companies in very high regard, maybe in the past I've only seen it with Blizzard. I still remember when CD Project made a coop project with Forza Horizon 4 and release dthe Quadra there, most of the comments were slandering the guys behind Forza Horizon stating that CDPR would make a better car game than them. It was insanity.

ivory trail
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I mean technically they even removed pseudo dogs and just replaced them by the psy dogs.

warped monolith
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I played Stalker 2 for 3 hours and I've seen "new creative anomaly fields" while he claims the game has none

finite needle
# silver orchid "true vision" with CoP is smth weird

Let me explain, the "true vision" means this is what they wanted to make when they settled for what was about to become SoC. CoP realized the potential both the game and they had and that they thought was obtainable.

ivory trail
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Yeah, yeah, i see your "blocked messages" not gonna read them tho.

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Just to let you know.

warped monolith
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lmao rent free indeed.

finite needle
ivory trail
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I mean we have the gauss since SoC.

finite needle
warped monolith
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"where are the new creative anomaly fields"
flashbang
glass
poppy field
tornado with the jumping puzzle
mist/fog with another puzzle

finite needle
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I hate the flashbang anomaly

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I want to go back in time and beat the idea out of them

warped monolith
ivory trail
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And i really mean more stuff like the claw.

warped monolith
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there's a new detector too but apparently he missed it

ivory trail
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They didnt any of that stuff.

warped monolith
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and it's even a sidegrade detector, which is objectively more creative than just adding a "better than svarog" detector

silver orchid
# finite needle Let me explain, the "true vision" means this is what they wanted to make when th...

apart of that i don't understand much that thingi, CoP is the "true vision" in the sense of that CoP is exactly what they have planned in paper, not a great achievement.
I could understand the part of "true vision" if it's in refference to the quality of the quests and levels, i mean, "proper quality" (and yes, Zaton-Jupiter aren't exactly masterpieces in level design or very good but u understand)

finite needle
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And considering it took them what, 2 more years to reach that, I definitely undestand why they felt like this was the best they could do at the time. Then Stalker 2 was planned and cancelled so we might never know what their actual ceiling would have been, and we have this Stalker 2.

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which I reckon is going to take 2 more years before we reach a level that can be considered acceptable by everyone

warped monolith
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e.g. the guy up there claiming the game doesn't have new stuff when it very clearly does

silver orchid
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CoP it's ok in being 1:1 a copypaste in-game of the design documents, and in comparison to CS they did the entire game in the half of the time (+-18 months for CS and 8 months for CoP, for in-game content, like 6 months of the development of CoP was just bugfixes and testing).
Lacks of ambition, could be ok?, ok, at the end that's why CoP is the thingi that is, by lack of ambition and proper organisation to keep a recreation 1:1 from the paper to the game.

finite needle
warped monolith
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I want to be mad at your message but I can't because it's too funny

silver orchid
ivory trail
warped monolith
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electron magnet

ivory trail
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I mean at least i had most fun playing stalker just explore stuff. Find better equipment, find artfefacts, and so on.

silver orchid
ivory trail
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Hm. Well that might explain some things.

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But if that is actually true, that doesnt shine a good light on them tbh.

silver orchid
ivory trail
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I mean maybe that is naive of me, but i have the expectation, if you continue a story, you should know what you continue in the first place!

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And by that i mean, you have to read more then just a wiki. Reading just the wiki might be fine if you make fanfaction, or a mod.

silver orchid
ivory trail
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Hm.

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This feels so familiar with other franchises currently.

silver orchid
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Also, the development of the new S2 supposedly initially started as a remake of SoC

ivory trail
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Feels great. 😅

warped monolith
ivory trail
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I mean lets be honest, this whole short segment with sircaa already turns the whole zone into a joke. Artefacts can be farmed now, anomaly they have total control over, emission proof glass.

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If that would already happening in a reboot right from the start?

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That would be just the worst.

silver orchid
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And according to my understanding, SoC plot is the only one of the trilogy that would be recreated almost 1:1 in HoC map

ivory trail
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Not with sircaa around tho. Like especially with that artefact farm, i cant help but wonder, what is the point of those stalker in the zone now when sircaa can produce all the artefacts they want on command?

keen kayak
silver orchid
normal sentinel
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Because it's a small controlled environment that probably takes a lot of resources to generate artifacts

ivory trail
normal sentinel
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You have the entire world as a customer base for artifacts presumably

warped monolith
ivory trail
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Are the numbers they can produce small? We dont know!

finite needle
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Does it really matter? What are you, their accountat?

normal sentinel
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Auditing the SIRCAA artifact stash like it's Fort Knox

warped monolith
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he's just nitpicking to continue his negativity spew

keen kayak
warped monolith
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how dare this game leave things vague and up to interpretation

finite needle
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What we know is 1) SIRCAA can produce low tier artefacts and is trying to sell it to the world 2) Most of the zone economy is still based on smuggling, since there is a lot of Stalker around still sustaining themselves as such

ivory trail
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I am grumpy that the sheer existance of sircaa turns the zone into a joke and stalker into some idiots who dive into shark invested waters, to get some pearls and maybe die, when pearl farmers made the diving for pearly completely pointless.

silver orchid
normal sentinel
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Is it ever implied SIRCAA is selling artifacts, I assumed artifact-generation is just a byproduct of their experiments to better understand the Zone

warped monolith
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I'm going to eat some snacks, wash the dishes and vacuum the house

I hope this nuclear generator of negativity is still around when I get back.

ivory trail
finite needle
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There are some little commercial things going on, as presentation, which also publicize the usefulness fo artifacts. If they sell as item or as concept for study isn't really clarified, but it's sure they're looking to exploit the zone for their advantage and have the resources to do it

ivory trail
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Oh yeah right, the thing "we dont have clearance" to listen to it.

warped monolith
keen kayak
warped monolith
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"they don't even know them self"
guys the writers don't know what they're doing

ivory trail
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I mean there is even the implication "even tho it isnt clearly stated and we never see them drive around" that they have anomaly proof vehicles.

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But they at the very least move them around.

warped monolith
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stalkers themselves do what they do because they want to get rich, mostly.

silver orchid
ivory trail
keen kayak
warped monolith
ivory trail
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No one cares if they loose their live. Better them as soldiers you might have to explain to their families why they had to die in the zone.

warped monolith
finite needle
silver orchid
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My message was a joke in refference to the author of NLC 7 that supposedly has a great writting

finite needle
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Smuggling etc

warped monolith
ivory trail
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But smuggling still has to be worth it.

nocturne smelt
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Sircaa artifacts are most likely regulated. Stalkers could still sell them on the black market to get around regulations.

finite needle
ivory trail
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Especially if you risk your life against anomalies, mutants and other stalker/bandits.

warped monolith
ivory trail
warped monolith
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yea I give up. I'll spend my time more productively.

ivory trail
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Tbh i think they should have just left the farm completely out of the story.

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It is not like it is an important plot point anyway.

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If you would remove it and any and all references to it -not that it even gets mentioned that often, or even shown- nothing would change.

nocturne smelt
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I think it's there to just show how technologically superior Sircaa is to any other entity in the zone.

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And it does that very well.

warped monolith
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30 minutes ago he was saying that the existence of sircaa made the entire thing a joke
now it's not important
huh

nocturne smelt
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I mean Sircaa is run by people who were involved in the X labs. So... They know a thing or 2.

warped monolith
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"it makes stalkers pointless and redundant because they can just produce artifacts so no one needs to risk their lives and hunt for them anymore"
"it's not like it's an important plot point anyway"

This is some monolith level brain fuckery

nocturne smelt
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Hey now, Don't you soil the name of the Monolith.

ivory trail
# nocturne smelt And it does that very well.

Sure, it does THAT very well. And at the same time turns the mysterious zone where reality and the laws of physics no longer matter that much into a joke. Where they are able to have this huge complex with giant windows completely anomaly free unless those they have 100% control over.

I think the cost was too great.

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Especially because the zone was created after the X labs have gone rouge.

slim moth
ivory trail
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And it wasnt even an intentional creation.

kindred violet
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my guy, sircaa didn't have total control

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you literally witness it in the story

ivory trail
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Yeah, because the plot demanded it.

kindred violet
ivory trail
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For fecks sake look at this art deko office building they did build right in the middle of the zone that has been completely save for who knows how long.

slim moth
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just go play a different game or something lol

nocturne smelt
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Contains some spoilers:

Idk, I feel portraying them as a vastly superior force and then watching as they get dismantled piece by piece by the end of the story... I enjoyed it. It really shows that regardless of how superior they are they are no match for the zone. Even in the Ward path the ending is a last ditch effort.

ivory trail
slim moth
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You obviously don't understand the game

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but i am enjoying watching this unfold

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so keep going

ivory trail
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Yeah, yeah, keep going, i am very impressed by your non argumentation.

slim moth
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There's nothing to argue. you just have really bad opinions

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lmao

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like i don't have to argue with an opinion that's wrong. that'd be crazy

finite needle
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I mean one of the arguments is that it's impossible for people to build a building in a dangerous area

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he hates SIRCAA because it exists, but doesn't understand that its failing is literally GSC slapping in his face the fact that the zone really is too dangerous for that, and even in the face of all the founding and power in the world, you can't really control it. It's presented as such so that the fall can be easily understood.

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It's not complex guys.

ivory trail
slim moth
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omg

nocturne smelt
ivory trail
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Okay, riddle me this, do we see anomalies inside buildings in the zone?

slim moth
nocturne smelt
finite needle
ivory trail
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Yeah, you mean the one they basically use as art deko?

slim moth
finite needle
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Wait no it does.

nocturne smelt
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Sircaa not having rampant anomalies is literally part of the story when you get sent to deal with the spacial anomaly.

ivory trail
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Should anomalies be dangerous, or should they be a joke?

finite needle
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Also as the other guys said, you get to stalker because there is an anomaly issue ongoing

finite needle
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And it ends up fucking them up, so yeah, idk why you think it's a joke. It's literally the downfall of SIRCAA, the fact that in their hubris they think they can control anomalies, the zone and even the monolith

ivory trail
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Oh... i didnt realise their art deko office building was a dangerous place all that time.

slim moth
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imma noclip to SIRCAA

stoic lichen
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Oh boy, what a shit show. Imma get the popcorn.

ivory trail
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Guess i must have missed that because the fecking glass dome they build for their indoor park made from emission proof glass did distract me.

nocturne smelt
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They have a device that suppresses anomalies within the Sircaa compound.

ivory trail
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The device that magically stops working after the plot demanded it.

finite needle
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How hard can it be if I can survive an emission by taking funny drugs in CoP, or by sitting in a metal container

ivory trail
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You mean the funny drugs that no longer exist in S2?

nocturne smelt
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The device that stops working when the alpha articfact gets ripped out of an Xlab device and causes the destruction of the security features.

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I mean, Did we play the same game?

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Cause all of this is covered in the Sircaa mission.

finite needle
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He watched someone review the game and took some notes on the points he made

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this is my guess

ivory trail
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Cool, so the device was hooked up to a xlab device that didnt even work at all without the alpha artefact?

stoic lichen
finite needle
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that or his ADHD is worse than mine

ivory trail
ivory trail
ivory trail
slim moth
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god damn homie getting ratio'd

ivory trail
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So is even a single person here who can argue without simply devaluing my opinion because they dont like it?

slim moth
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it's not we don't like it, we just paid attention to the story

nocturne smelt
ivory trail
finite needle
stoic lichen
slim moth
nocturne smelt
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Sircaa is literally built on top of a giant Xlab. I would think most of them got released from there.

ivory trail
nocturne smelt
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The one the alpha artifact gets put in to access the generators.

finite needle
ivory trail
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And also yeah, that with moon tide monolith is another problem with sircaa, where did those all suddenly come from? Did they beam in? Before it did felt more like this was a small team of noon tide that sneak in, which made sense. But suddenly there are monolith everywhere in sircaa.

stoic lichen
nocturne smelt
nocturne smelt
slim moth
kindred violet
finite needle
slim moth
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im at a loss for words

finite needle
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You actively work to make it happen

nocturne smelt
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These are former Monolithians we are talking about, Arguably the most Militarized faction in the zone.

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They know how to attack a fortified base.

stoic lichen
finite needle
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Yeah, Noontide is very clearly shown as militarized and ready to do anything, albeit split.

silver orchid
nocturne smelt
finite needle
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Also, the fact that anabiotics aren't in game isn't really a plot hole omegakekw

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There wasn't any water in the old stalkers, thus the meme that they only drank vodka

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Considering there is no herding or rudimentary agriculture, is clear that the communities are not settled and those who are, import the stuff in exchange of zone goods - we get to see a lot of canned and processed food, which is possible with a smuggle and black market ring, if you really want to know how the stalkers live. SIRCAA clearly gets state and private funding.

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Noontide in contrast is shown to be scavengers that don't know how to live, and that's one of the reasons why Faust and Strider are at odds.

nocturne smelt
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Not to mention, They got the knowledge of Strelok post CoP.

stoic lichen
stoic lichen
finite needle
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Ngl I would have loved to see SIRCAA have some custom, one of a kind goods like the fresh bread Freedom has (the most pointless event in game tbh) to show how they belong even less

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Yes, Strelok was a consultat for SIRCAA, it was already mentioned in CoP iirc

nocturne smelt
stoic lichen
nocturne smelt
stoic lichen
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Just wanted to know is all.

nocturne smelt
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Idk, There are a lot of problems with Stalker 2 that are luckily being fixed albeit slowly. But the writing was never a problem for me. I think it's the highlight of the game.

finite needle
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Most of the problems are lack of content compared to map size, polish and gameplay issues. Even with the new side mission they released, story was one of the best things of the game, surprisingly.

nocturne smelt
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Agreed.

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Personally I like that they chose to leave a lot of things unanswered. It helps curate the mystique of the Zone. No matter how much time is spent in it, There are always more mysteries to discover...And not all of them have answers.

slim moth
stoic lichen
slim moth
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"if i don't understand the plot it doesn't make sense"

stoic lichen
nocturne smelt
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It seems to happen a lot in this chat lol.

slim moth
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It took me multiple playthroughs to finally link some stuff together, but that's the point

stoic lichen
nocturne smelt
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There is so much info hidden behind the ending paths.

stoic lichen
nocturne smelt
slim moth
stoic lichen
finite needle
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Ah yes, the zonefucker ending

nocturne smelt
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I still find the spark ending to be the most morally reprehensible.

slim moth
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||I liked the Ward ending. Spark ending fucking sucked, but we could all see that coming from miles away||

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||continuing down the spark path made me feel like i knew i was doing something wrong||

stoic lichen
finite needle
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"oh wait, they're actually just Monolith again"

nocturne smelt
stoic lichen
stoic lichen
finite needle
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Well for me it was quite literally Richter telling you Scar is an asshole after SIRCAA omegakekw

nocturne smelt
stoic lichen
finite needle
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Also when they send you to activate the dick smashing machine

nocturne smelt
finite needle
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Spark seems like the obvious good guys up until Promin, then it becomes clear something is very strange, they are also friends with Scientists and that's never a good sign

slim moth
nocturne smelt
golden hazel
slim moth
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I wasn't expecting it

finite needle
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||I'm actually undecided if Spark is closer as a loose definition to Monolith 2.0 or Sin||

nocturne smelt
golden hazel
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Their goals are C-Cons goals, so Monolith 2.0

slim moth
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||overall i think spark ending really doesn't match skiff so it feels more like him succumbing to being a c-con agent or something. reminds me of Fallout 4 "you are a synth" type shi||

warped monolith
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phew I'm back and the guy seems to be gone for now kekl

stoic lichen
silver orchid
nocturne smelt
golden hazel
warped monolith
#

Did he seriously ask about anomalies inside buildings? I hope that was sarcasm otherwise we'd have to tell him to replay the entire OG trilogy

nocturne smelt
finite needle
slim moth
stoic lichen
golden hazel
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Yes

silver orchid
#

hot take

warped monolith
#

I'm half-tempted to click those spoilers

#

must resist

stoic lichen
#

Do it >:3

warped monolith
#

I haven't finished the game yet... and while I do already know some spoilers I'd rather not know them all omegakekw

nocturne smelt
silver orchid
warped monolith
golden hazel
slim moth
stoic lichen
#

Y’know how certain cult leaders tell you can gain immortality by killing yourself in a ritual? Yeah, Faust makes me think of THOSE cultists

finite needle
nocturne smelt
golden hazel
stoic lichen
golden hazel
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Strider's story makes it hard to replay the game

finite needle
nocturne smelt
#

I have a battle of conscience every time the strider decision happens.

stoic lichen
slim moth
#

DLC for Alternative Noontide route/ending

golden hazel
#

We can only hope so

nocturne smelt
#

I do think Noon is one of the weaker moments in the story.

#

They don't built them up enough pre major events imo

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If your not already invested from CoP it can kind of feel really rushed.

slim moth
finite needle
#

They are the most interesting factrion, but you interact with them very little. It's mostly Strider carrying them.

stoic lichen
tired schooner
finite needle
tired schooner
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Sin Camo in gamma is so cool

stoic lichen
nocturne smelt
golden hazel
#

The most we get to see them fight back against it is Strider trying to Kobain himself

nocturne smelt
#

Well, I mean. ||If they were in psi resistant bunkers like the one dude later in the story.||

golden hazel
#

Yeah Spirit makes it out cause of that

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But any monolith outside of that just gets turned instantly

tired schooner
stoic lichen
golden hazel
#

And what do you get when you mix a canister of sprite with a Seva

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THE SPRITE SUIT

stoic lichen
#

Fucking explodes from cring

slim moth
stoic lichen
golden hazel
#

Wardeners cannot comprehend the complexity of the sprite suit

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SKEEFA THEY ARE CRINGE

tame lodge
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Since hes a vendor

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Would be cool if you got to keep him if you do the sidequest

stoic lichen
#

Thank fuck they don’t have an exoskeleton. I can only imagine how hideous they would make it.

golden hazel
#

Powered by sprite batteries

finite needle
#

I like the Sprite camo tho. Doesn't look very useful, but at least it's distinct

stoic lichen
#

I know what exo I’m getting.

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THE DRIP GOES TUFF.

golden hazel
nocturne smelt
wanton arch
#

this game still looks awful on console

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lumen can burn in hell

nocturne smelt
#

I don't think it looks that bad, Maybe a bit too much contrast.

wanton arch
#

It’s the grass for me the most

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it always looks messy and unshaded

nocturne smelt
#

I can understand that, I'd assume they probably pulled back on the foliage as that usually has a pretty big performance impact.

tired schooner
wanton arch
#

If the engine fixes it and modders can go hog wild I’m sure stalker 2 will be fine but waiting for all these fixes is tragic

nocturne smelt
#

Yeah, And sadly your wait is even longer since mods need approval before they are posted to the xbox mod menu.

wanton arch
#

I think stalker 2 could greatly benefit from more gas masks

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everybody should be wearing some type of respirator or mask

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otherwise you have to look at the same plain ass face

nocturne smelt
kindred violet
#

i don't necessarily have a problem with them not wearing gas masks but I do hope they will eventually add more face variety

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I'm having the same issue with KCD2 rn, I keep thinking I'm running into people I've met before but it's just random person Nr. 23 with the same face

wanton arch
#

I mean it fits the zone perfectly and it looks less lazy, but for KCD2 I can understand that

nocturne smelt
#

Hounskull bascinets for everybody.

kindred violet
#

yeah, more variety in general wouldn't be amiss

tired schooner
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There are like 2-3 mask lol

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4*

wanton arch
#

Would be less effort to program in most of the already included mask models than add 50 more faces

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At least I’d assume

stoic lichen
true yew
warped monolith
#

I'm very curious about this

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the entire UI looks a bit... too clean and modern-ish though? I can't find the right words for it but I miss the 'scavenger'-ish theme

knotty onyx
summer vapor
#

Looks like pda 90s with a military ergonomic case

stoic lichen
#

Wow, I don’t know if this is a placebo effect, but I feel like a goddamn tank with an exoskeleton on in OXA:P

stoic lichen
#

But I can forgive that seeing how much effort they’re putting into the mod overall.

wanton arch
#

Looks like the entire model except the screen is ai

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something about the lighting I guess

true yew
#

SID HATES HIM
See how this stalker made 100K coupons with this simple trick!

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icy basin
#

The funni anomaly

true yew
#

I thought this was only in the pripyat school, guess there are more

craggy ledge
#

My guesses for STALKER 2's DLC location/s:

-Limansk
-Deserted Hospital
-Dead City
-Darkscape

summer vapor
icy basin
#

Why would they ever add Darkscape KekSkew

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Wild Island is already there, between Garbage and Cordon

tame lodge
#

no need for another shithole

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id rather they add more underground labs and areas

icy basin
#

Dig out the Brain Scorcher clueless

tame lodge
#

yes

silver orchid
graceful rock
#

is the servers down?

icy basin
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Servers?

icy basin
graceful rock
#

sorry im new here. idk if this is the right channel to ask

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im just not sure if its down or if im doing something wrong

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oh, i was doing something wrong indeed. my bad xd

icy basin
icy basin
graceful rock
#

my bad guys

warped monolith
warped monolith
normal sentinel
#

Well, watched a friend get the Project Y ending

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Honestly probably the coolest one

#

Btw wtf ||Faust|| jumpscare?

finite needle
fading osprey
#

Hello, I have a question about installing GAMMA. I followed the instructions. When I opened GAMMA Launcher and performed the first installation, no error message appeared. Is this normal?

eternal tiger
trim iron
slim moth
golden hazel
stoic lichen
true yew
tame lodge
#

they could just add more quests to existing locations

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like they did with stories untold

summer vapor
#

They will most likely add the western part of Pripyat

slim moth
#

also a official mechanic of Point of No Return ^

mental beacon
#

Guys, how do I turn on DLSS in the G.A.M.M.A.?? They said that there is DLSS here, but on my RTX 4060 it is not in the settings.

slim moth
#

this is stalker 2

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ooo and this one

remote eagle
slim moth
#

Point of No Return, im pretty sure, is going to try to be its own spinoff with its own story, quests, mechanics.

remote eagle
#

modpack then

slim moth
#

sure lol

remote eagle
slim moth
#

one can hope

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warped monolith
#

how "advanced" are they I wonder

#

capable of wielding weapons? or just snorks 2.0

slim moth
#

they're just dudes that pull sick sambo shit

warped monolith
#

sambo?

slim moth
#

just russian martial arts

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skif has to learn kung fu and scar teaches him wax on wax off

tired schooner
warped monolith
golden hazel
#

Creepers? Aw Man

#

So we back in the zone got our AK strafing from side to side side side to side

icy rampart
#

Can anyone confirm how much of the "GAMMA 2" list work?

dapper parrot
icy rampart
#

I think im mainly hoping the ridiculous tanky mutant health mod works to be honest.

kindred violet
#

just use up to date mods man

icy rampart
#

Im not great at all this modding stuff dude, Im one of the laymen who installed GAMMA using GOG, No judgement zone...

kindred violet
#

not judging ya, just have a look through nexusmods and make sure that the mods you use have been updated at least within the last mods.

#

and as for installing the mods, do it manually, it's simple enough

icy rampart
#

Appreciate you!

icy rampart
cosmic schooner
#

@low slate@slender hull можно мне русского модера помочь очень надо

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хотябы подсказать

fallen ironBOT
slender hull
#

пиши в ЛС модераторам если тебе модератор нужен

tame lodge
warped monolith
ionic night
royal mural
slim moth
royal mural
abstract furnace
#

still waiting on that optimization update for stalker 2

icy basin
#

No only that, you spammed it

eager solsticeBOT
#

kekpoint @pseudo bay (metraxi_62878) has been banned for reason: New account, seemingly joined only to advertise a game they're supposedly working on.

true yew
#

"Hmmm, I wonder where this ddoctor guy is"

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WHY IS HIS ASS ON THE GROUND

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icy basin
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Why's there MGS3 piss filter on him

true yew
icy basin
true yew
#

Okay, I forgot that he's supposed to be there on purpose. I just happen to go there before the mission wanted me to, thus the MGS3 piss filter

finite needle
#

||Bro no way you can actually sneak into the hospital now (still janky as hell but at least is doable)||

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Last time I did I had to just bolt it and spend the extra money repairing my shit, so apart from the moral conundrum and philosophical undertone that shit wasn't even worth doing stealth.

hardy crest
#

that part is pretty easy to stealth now, i just did it a few days ago

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though you will definitely need to come back later for the rat killer if you do it that way

#

no way to grab that without either breaking stealth or failing the optional afaik

finite needle
#

Nah I got it stealth, a life found a way

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by that I meant a life somehow manged to aggro the dude keeping watch so I just waltzed it and took the gun

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which will stay in my stash until the heat death of the universe

hardy crest
#

indeed

kindred violet
#

Throwing bolts to lure them is also a way you can get people out of your path

finite needle
#

It's a bit janky anyway

#

Stalker 2 is unironically the closest the game has ever gotten to a funcioning stealth system

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Average eastern european summer day

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I honestly can't fucking tell if it's just horrible weather or an emission is coming

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||huh apparently if you spare Roosvelt he appears in Garbage during the main quest, didn't know that||

stoic lichen
#

POV: Poltergeist

granite pelican
#

Hey guys! I have a quick question and I don't want to post on reddit so I thought of asking here :))

In S2 i started a new playthrough and while I was doing the mission for the barkeep in Rostok, i randomly got Banzai's radio. Is it okay that I ignore the mission and come back later? I've googled and it seems players encoutered bugs where he wouldn't be in the old mine or he would be lifeless laying in the cage.

slim moth
#

You're fine to ignore and continue the game and go there whenever you feel like

hardy crest
granite pelican
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Thanks! I did post on reddit as well some time later. Also, went to Banzai after the barkeep job and he was just fine. Good to know that I can ignore him tho. Might ignore the next quest until I get better equipment :)))

haughty shell
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I ended up picking off a duty guy at the checkpoint towards Rostok in Garbage for a Freedom mission, do they eventually forget about it/stop shooting at me? If they don't, is there a console command/npc payoff or something to do that?

hardy crest
#

is it just that one particular squad or is it all of duty that's hostile?

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if you didnt get a side quest popup telling you to lay low for a few days and then make amends with duty's leader, its likely just that one squad you pissed off

#

you can either finish them off or stay away for awhile until they move on

haughty shell
#

i'm pretty sure its the guards that regularly stay there however

#

do they eventually forget or?

hardy crest
#

i'd imagine the hostility will stop if you stay away long enough yes

#

but i only know for sure that's how it works when its the faction as a whole

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ive never left survivors in a single squad ive pissed off even by accident 😛

haughty shell
#

i did only because it was not likely i'd win against all of them so I chose an angle to pick off my target then ran lol

hardy crest
#

just to make sure, this is happening in stalker 2 right? not gamma?

haughty shell
#

no, this is gamma

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oh this is a gamma chat lol

#

err 2*

hardy crest
#

i see, may want to check your channels then

haughty shell
#

oh its the section above. huh, didn't think there'd be a stalker 2 section in here

hardy crest
#

in any case, in my experience in gamma, if you aggro a group that stays put forever, they will stay hostile forever

haughty shell
#

fun. i'll have to deal with them then

hardy crest
#

you'd have to use debug and manually disable their hostility to you

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or just finish them off later

haughty shell
#

hopefully that won't anger duty as a whole if i do enough

#

i've done a fair amount of quests for them at least

hardy crest
#

even if it does, its nothing you couldn't regain later with more tasks

haughty shell
#

fair enough

hardy crest
#

but a few kills wont tarnish your goodwill too hard

haughty shell
#

fair enough, well time to see what happens

sinful ferry
#

Hey guys, so I'm tryna mod Stalker 2 after my first vanilla playthrough, and I'm seeing this in the guides a lot
"Stalker2/Content/Paks/~mods"
Obviously I know where to go to find the /Paks folder, that's no issue, but I'm just wondering in terms of the /~mods. Does this mean that the "mods" folder is optional, that I will need to manually create the folder myself, or that I need to create the folder and include the tilde (~) in the name?

finite needle
#

||The more I play the Ward path, the more I feel like this is the devs intended path. There is no way Korshunov would forgive you or Dalin would help you if you go Spark, and the interaction with Scar works better as a Ward, since he comes off very standoffish and aggressive even if you're with Spark.||

slim moth
olive verge
#

is there a mp mod? for stalker 2

slim moth
#

Try again when multiplayer releases officially

olive verge
#

alr so the website i found is fake and prob a virus download thx i needed some confirmation

olive verge
slim moth
#

yes. if it's anything like the OG's some team deathmatch/capture the flag stuff, unfortunately

tough prairie
#

Does stalker 2 have modpack or something?

hollow zephyr
hollow zephyr
golden hazel
#

Just like the Ward

wary rune
#

Ward path is superior due to not losing the only base in the southwestern part of the map, unless it was "fixed" already

#

But in the end it doesn't matter. Whole story boils down to three choices near the end KekSkew

hollow zephyr
#

me3 moment

wary rune
#

Epstein Files-level spoilers omegakekw

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silver orchid
finite needle
icy basin
finite needle
#

Pripyat in Veteran+ got hands goddamn

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||I got my cheeks clapped by the Controller spawning behind you + Chimera near the helicopter combo.||

finite needle
#

This dude just solo'd around 20 snorks some 6 zombies and a Chimera, sat there and started playing guitar, he's the real John Chornobyl

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finite needle
#

I hadn't been in Pripyat since what, patch 1.4? Still empty of actual content but at least something is trying to kill me while I explore

worthy hollow
#

hi folks, silly stuff i suppose.
however i played S2 early 2025 and was able to do everything just fine, game was decent though now a year later i am trying a new playthrough since there's been several big updates.
i am however very much annoyed and wondering if they changed anything about the visual part of anomalies in the past year because i get killed constantly by crap i cannot see. for example many hidden electro or grav anomalies. i used to be able to spot the shimmering and borders of bubbles fairly well and navigate around these, same for the electro effects which were not too hard to navigate around, but now it's just pure luck it seems as most of the anomaly is invisible.
throwing bolts also does activate the anomaly as usual, but there's little to no indication as to where the bolt hit said anomaly.
didn´t bolts spark or cause a visual que the moment they enter any anomaly beyond just activate it?

#

nice skill issue emoji, but i finished the game after it came out... the bloodsuckers and fleshes were the real nightmare back then being bullet sponges... they're just silly now

cedar pond
#

I couldn’t resist really ….

worthy hollow
#

i mean, usually it is a skill issue, but this time i can sometimes see the border and it still gets me while iḿ outside of it so.... hence the question if they changed anything.

if it's a difficulty thing then damn...

cedar pond
#

I am annoyed of electro anomalies when you throw a bolt , it do not trigger but I assume Skif workout is so good that he touches them with his vast shoulders and you end up dying

worthy hollow
#

yeah, stuff like that

cedar pond
#

I am also praying for rework of bulat armors

worthy hollow
#

i am playing on veteran difficulty, may bump it back to stalker and see if that changes my experience with anomalies if it is a range thing that changes with that.

cedar pond
cedar pond
worthy hollow
#

problem is... most anomalies like electro kill me in one go... at least while i'm still in the lesser zone haha

cedar pond
worthy hollow
#

currently trying to drag bubbles body out of that anomaly field... that used to be a easy mission, but i can´t see the damn anomalies properly so... yeah

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one of the early missions

slim moth
#

There might be something wrong with your game if you can't see them

cedar pond
worthy hollow
#

i know

worthy hollow
cedar pond
cedar pond
worthy hollow
#

im 34, and my vision is better then my peers so... and like i said i finished the game a year ago...

worthy hollow
cedar pond
cedar pond
#

It’s too dark to do that

slim moth
#

early game, most anomalies 1 shot you, so that's intended. but if you're having problems seeing or anomalies are giving you a problem just try and find/buy the Veles detector

cedar pond
#

DONT LET YOUR EGO CONSUME YOU

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Yeah that’s EGO Issue

worthy hollow
#

i've been in that field all day, light doesn´t really matter since they don´t get any clearer in daylight... not noticeably so at least.

as for the one shotting, i am aware of that... thatś not my problem...

without bubbles body on my back i can activate and run through not too much issue... same for most other anomalies, howver when artifact hunting or in this case a mission dancing on the edge of anomalies is a must and... i can no longer do that to my annoyance since the border is invisible/gone.

#

bolts activate a anomaly, but there's no visual que of where it activates

#

beyond the center of the anomaly doing its thing that is

slim moth
#

i am jumping in to verify bolt effects in anomalies

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cause im like 99% sure they are there

worthy hollow
#

would be nice because bolt effects i may be confused with gamma 😒

cedar pond
worthy hollow
cedar pond
worthy hollow
#

loaded a save

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might reload an even earlier one and just shoot the guy and move on.

cedar pond
#

Also I remember that you need to diactivate 2 anomalies when going through to complete the quest

cedar pond
cedar pond
slim moth
#

There is also a beeping that lets you know that you are close to a anomaly before you run into any anomalies..

worthy hollow
cedar pond
worthy hollow
slim moth
#

they're uploading

worthy hollow
#

you made a video?

slim moth
#

yup

worthy hollow
#

neat, easy to compare material

slim moth
worthy hollow
#

same behaviour here by the looks of it, so that tracks

slim moth
#

3 more vids

worthy hollow
#

while we wait, maybe interesting to compare settings if that matters?

slim moth
slim moth
worthy hollow
#

i got some things on high or medium(like hair) most things on epic. only post processing is on low since i don´t like the vignette and bloom it adds

slim moth
#

my vignette is off and bloom is at like 0.2

#

so near non-existent

worthy hollow
#

as for the vids, looks like the behaviour is the same.
if anything the edge of the grav anomaly looks clearer/more obviously like a bubble.

#

the bolt effects i must have confused from gamma then

#

thanks for the comparison

worthy hollow
slim moth
#

no prob. I was surprised to not see the bolt for elec to atleast spark or something. and or catch it on fire.

slim moth
worthy hollow
#

ah, its a "mod" so to say then.

slim moth
worthy hollow
#

since i'm on linux i doubt i can use that.

#

looks pretty neat, essentially engine.ini tweaks via a interface instead of by hand

slim moth
#

They do have a manual variant that i believe is similar to engine.ini

#

It utilizes UE4SS to change the settings so if linux

worthy hollow
#

it's fine.
once i get the anomalies back under control and i don´t die to stuff i can´t see i'll be A-OK.

maybe i'll turn down FoV a bit which may help with clarity on edges due to smaller perspective. itś on 100 atm (on a 3440x1440 screen)

slim moth
#

you can use legacyfov

worthy hollow
#

i mean, i can just set it to 85 or something and that should pull things closer to the character visually

#

default is 90 i believe

#

always a funky effect pressing = and see the screen zoom out... very "immersivemode" lol (which by default is at 105)

slim moth
#

r.UseLegacyMaintainYFOVViewMatrix=TRUE and i have my fov at 92

worthy hollow
#

yup, on 85 i am able to clear the field even in the dark...
i guess FoV settings mess enough with the visibility of the anomaly border deu to resolution or something...

worthy hollow
slim moth
#

i don't doubt that. I get some texture glitches bc it's rendering a further tesselation model. it's pretty minimal but it makes sense it effects the anomalies too

slim moth
#

i just keep it in my engine.ini so i never have to touch it

worthy hollow
#

i can add that to engine.ini no issues, console commands are harder due to linux and UETools... haven´t tried to get that to work yet so no console for me.

slim moth
#

but say, if i kept 110 fov vanilla, i'd get even worse tesselation/texture stuff.

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so if you zoomed in with right click you'd see textures kinda warping up and down/in and out sometimes

worthy hollow
#

oh, i have turned that off in the settings, i hate that zoom effect on ads and such haha

slim moth
#

looks like that command does not work in console, so engine.ini

worthy hollow
#

hmm, i may not have a engine.ini since i use steam + linux... damn... time to find GameUserSettings.ini instead

slim moth
#

steamapps/compatdata/1643320/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Stalker2/Saved/Config/Windows ?

worthy hollow
#

yup

slim moth
#

so you have that folder?

worthy hollow
#

yup

slim moth
#

if there isn't a engine.ini in there you can make one

worthy hollow
slim moth
#

I'm sure there might be useful commands in there to help, but beware some stuff is AI slop code

worthy hollow
#

it's been downloaded 128k times (unique dls) with almost 3k endorsements, i think it's ok hahaha

#

not reading anything about serious issues at least.

#

now ctrl+F to see if your command is already in there

#

nope

slim moth
worthy hollow
#

searching for system and there is no such header...

slim moth
#

lmao

#

this is my engine.ini. there's barely anything

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worthy hollow
#

[core.system] and... "LogWindowsTextInputMethodSystem=all off" (pos: 613 & 820)
that's everything with system in it haha

#

hmm, i read that first line of yours "will probably crash on AMD"
i got a AMD RX9070... lol

slim moth
#

i got a 5070ti so

#

you can just ignore it.

worthy hollow
#

yeah, but that's nvidia

slim moth
#

yes

worthy hollow
#

there's some AMD warnings in general so before i commit i might want to check those at least

slim moth
#

Im just showing you mine as an example

#

pick whatever you need for AMD lol

#

im sure the AMD cards benefit from engine.ini mods more than nvidia

worthy hollow
#

probably

#

since nvidia is better at raytracing which UE5 uses

#

or lumen, whatever they call it these days

slim moth
#

the engine update cannot come soon enough

worthy hollow
#

i wish everyone just trashed UE5... it sucks

#

would force epic/unreal to remake that pile of junk

#

probably can´t hurt to just put it there and see what happens 😋

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well, looks like the game runs a lot better now at least, so unless it's the placebo effect it's doing something.

#

thanks for the chat, i'll be off for today.
cheers!

polar sigil
#

hello , i haven't played stalker 2 since it launched back in 2024 , are there any mods that increase the performance or does the game run fine now?

knotty onyx
#

Engine tweaks mod on Nexus works pretty well

dapper parrot
boreal frost
#

game good yet?

hardy crest
#

I did a full playthrough a week ago and didn't encounter any progression stoppers, quest glitches, or things that needed console commands to fix

#

Corpses do stripper poses sometimes though

#

So yes, game gud

cedar pond
#

Could anyone advise if Shay’s living zone is not compatible with other mods in your experience? Thank you

tame lodge
#

Check the nexus pages of the mods, probably faster

steady falcon
#

Hear me out guys

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Vehicles in Stalker 2

icy basin
summer vapor
glass wedge
cedar pond
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I combined guardian suit with Mask 1 helmet , with no artifacts my physical protection is maxed out …. In S2 does it distinguish hits on head and torso ?

tacit glacier
warped monolith
cedar pond
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I have encountered strange bug , that upon dealing with snorks for Honta , he won’t speak to me after short dialogue with his friend and moreover there is no audio to his speech ….just subtitles

Didn’t find anything in the internet and tried to sleep/reload didn’t work, let me know if you know the fix

Playing on XBOX with mods for Shay zone , weather , flash light , emission and more quest with no wait time for new and no enemies shown and bar always white

brave yoke
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power consumption is suprisingly gud pepeclown

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solemn leaf
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Is this game very cpu heavy?

fluid lake
tacit glacier
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Wonder when the next update will drop

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They might be gearing towards the engine one now

kindred violet
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yeah it's been a while

warped monolith
tacit glacier
sweet mica
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Ward is the best faction in the zone, who else could have a kitchen setup like this

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im glad I sided with them this playthrough, i do not regret it at all

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Does anyone know what that says on the pot in the top right by any chance?

summer vapor
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Sauce/side dish

warped monolith
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bro fell for the psy-op

sweet mica
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coolest squad I have come across in the zone, all members of Degytarev's corps. Named Trojan, Aquaman, and Czech. they just saved my ass from some snorks

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silver orchid
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ward never looked soooo good

sweet mica
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Im doing the first assault on the duga in the ward playthrough, i dont understand how im supposed to beat this shit on master

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you have to go into the checkpoint, some monoloth dudes magically spawn where you came from, trapping you inside. if you stay outside you die before you can even use a medkit, if you go inside, youre even more trapped and they can shoot through a portion of the wall. i have shot || about 8 Fausts, when does this trigger into the end of the quest? its so frustrating||

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||WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WHEN 6 FAUSTS SPAWN AND SURROUND ME||

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|| IM ACTUALLY RAGING RN, combat situations in some campaign missions are so unfair, such bullshit, you have to cheese everything ||

summer vapor
knotty onyx
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Plays on the bullshit difficulty

Omg it's bullshit

warped monolith
tacit tinsel
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Hello, I'm considering getting the game. I kinda really the experience Gamma gave and I was hoping to get something similar from this. I heard vanilla is quite different in terms of progression and difficulty etc.
I was looking at some mods to see what was possible as the game is over a year old now. I saw Oxides eXpanded Armory had a kind of full overhaul version? That changes alot of aspects of the game, more than just Weapons and attachments... Is this a step into the direction I am looking for?
Are there other mods / overhauls that you can recommend? Or should I just stick to GAMMA? 😂

dusty dove
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I would stick to GAMMA tbh or go with OXA Prototype imo

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S2 is doing alot less than what GAMMA is adding and modifying big picture wise

kindred violet
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well, S2 is more of the OG stalker games which is very much not what gamma is trying to be like

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your best bet is probably trying one of the OGs see if you enjoy that kinda game and if you do, get S2
atm modding tools are still rather limited, but there's some real wizardry being done with a lot of the mods

tacit tinsel
# kindred violet your best bet is probably trying one of the OGs see if you enjoy that kinda game...

Well I did try the original games. I really liked the more sandboxy feel of GAMMA and Stalker 2, atleast from what I have seen looks more sandbox than the older games.
GAMMA can be clunky and frustrating. I love it, but I was hoping I could get a lite version of Gamma in a next gen shell...
I liked the lethality, the sparcity of loot, the struggle of building up and even after having some gear, still sometimes getting screwed by the zone.

Vanilla Stalker 2 seems too... Easy? Simplistic? Not sure what the right word is. And I can only speak from what I have seen in videos and streams....
So I was hoping to give it a little more spice with mods...
But maybe I'd have to wait another year or so to really get that out of the game.

kindred violet
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I think you'll enjoy mods like Unlimited

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As it overhauls the progression

tacit tinsel
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I'll have a look at it! Thanks!

fluid lake
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https://files.catbox.moe/bmhgrn.mp4

Have any of you guys seen this variant of the Colonel's introduction before? Ive put 600 hours into this game and this is the** first time** Ive seen this.

The only factors that I did unique to this run were
-Master difficulty.
-Killed only 2 ward soldiers/stealthed at the factory where you're introduced to scar and diddnt rescue the Spark soldier.
-Did not do a hit for Varan.

hardy crest
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I want to say thats the intro I got for him on my very first playthrough, where I sided against, or did not help the ward at every opportunity

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But, that was when the game first launched. I only did my second playthrough just recently, where I helped and sided with them at every opportunity, and this meeting was a lot more pleasant

fluid lake
# hardy crest But, that was when the game first launched. I only did my second playthrough ju...

Ive done this section of game at least 15 times.

There were 2 variants.

1: Siding with Zotov in Zalyssia to find Squint leads the Colonel being glad to see you again and you miss the Combatant (unique skinned AK)

2: Siding with Richter in Zalyssia to find Squint leads to Skif forcefully thrown onto the chair and demonstrating to the Colonel you were a soldier by reassembling and inspecting the Combatant. Getting to keep it if you side with the Ward for the Wild Island arc.

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or am I just having a bizarre Mandela Effect moment

hardy crest
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the dissassembly and reassembly of the gun does sound familiar

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but it's just been too long at this point for me to say for certain if thats what I personally experienced on my first run or if I've just seen it in a video somewhere

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the scene in your video is also familiar, so I just can't say for sure

fluid lake
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I think I may have just come across a rare conditional cut-scene variant. And I have a feeling its how you handled the first encounter with the Ward at the factory.

hardy crest
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right now, i'm leaning towards the scene in your video being the one I personally experienced on my first playthrough

fluid lake
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Did you sneak into the factory basement and not wipe out the entire factory of Ward (where you are introduced to Scar)

hardy crest
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I have foggy memories of being surprised at the gun reassembly variant, like thinking it was cool that that scene could be different

hardy crest
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All i can tell you for sure is that i sided against, or actively hindered the Ward wherever I possibly could

fluid lake
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then Ill wait for another opinion

hardy crest
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it doesnt help that my recent playthrough was ward-sided, so I never actually went to that factory/lab lol

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relevant?

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slim moth
hardy crest
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i can at least confirm that on my recent playthrough, I did give Zotov the sensors and showed Korshunov the PDA, and I did not get any guns

fluid lake
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that 3 choice dialogue where zotov asks

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if its the stalker way?

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Holy cow that was at first glance the most inconsequential dialogue choice

slim moth
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I think it's killing the ward

hardy crest
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it sounds like there's possibly 4 different ways that scene can play then

slim moth
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cause i've chosen all 3 of those choices and didn't get that cut scene

hardy crest
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that reddit post is saying he got a cordial korshunov meeting but still had the gun reassembly

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I got a cordial meeting with no gun

fluid lake
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Theres a 4th variant too with the AK present and no punching holy shit stalker 2

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you know they say stalker 2 is frontloaded in terms of quality

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but I diddnt think this is what they meant

hardy crest
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this would probably be pretty easy to nail down for sure with the zone kit

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at least, thats my assumption

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i'm in the process of learning it right now, ill make a note of this and see if i can learn more about it when i get better with it

fluid lake
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nah the reddit post @slim moth shared confirms my suspicions that at least the factory segment is a condition to these variants

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theres a 4th variation man

hardy crest
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yeah, seems like the scene can either be violent or cordial, and have the gun or not

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any combination

slim moth
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I can't think of many other scenes with variants other than just straight up different paths/locations

fluid lake
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if only the rest of the game had this much....roleplay

wispy forge
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I cant find the launcher for gamma when I open the gamma launcher in the .groks folder it opens a command prompt

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been trying to download this for 3 hours now

warped monolith
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this channel is for Stalker 2

tropic echo
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For those of you that have played a lot of GAMMA, any recommendations on mods for Stalker 2? I’m finally giving it a go, and I feel like I’m equally parts pleasantly surprised and disappointed. It certainly could have been worse, but it’s also missing some things.

i know theres mods out there but seems no particualrly difinitive direction to take

cedar pond
# tropic echo For those of you that have played a lot of GAMMA, any recommendations on mods fo...

Shay’s Living Zone , no markers for enemies and the danger red line removal , more side quests and no wait (meaning you don’t have to wait for a week to get another job, same author) , flashlight by ace , and you can throw some weather mods and more forest like mods

But GAMMA and Stalker in general it’s 2 different games bro … ppl confuse STALKER and Escape from Tarkov in Stalker Universe (gamma)

Don’t expect Stalker be a GAMMA

tropic echo
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blood suckers not having glowing white eyes and soundlign like nightmare fuel

cedar pond
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Lot of “outcomes” and victors just looting corpses …

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Oh and Distant Horizons by Shay …. I personally didn’t do it yet as it breaks some quests and Agro zone but I am sure that soon the bubble increase mods would be a thing

cedar pond
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I personally play on Xbox , I got keyboard and mouse and having blast but you can also get mods for more weapons

tropic echo
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good recommendations, ill have to give that a shot, i think im about 1/2 way through the game, and, i am pleasantly suprised. just hoping to add a little somthign for the second half

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now if only we could go back to Xray lighting that would be a dream for me

cedar pond
tropic echo
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yea feel like the stalker 2 devs 'got it' which is nice. like while it might not be my ideal stalker experience, a dozen playthrough of CoP and thousands of hours in Anom and Gamma have ruined me.

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but i knew i was never going to get the perfect stalker game

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if i have one legitimate gripe, i really wish thay had stuck to Xray instead of UE5

tepid spade
slim moth
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they ditched x-ray for a reason

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instead of having to work on their own engine and take 20 more years, they just went with UE5 bc of "easy" and they can have help from ANYONE else that's worked with UE5

tepid spade
# tropic echo For those of you that have played a lot of GAMMA, any recommendations on mods fo...

If You are starting New Playthrough then perhaps You can go with my collection but I would advise to go at least Veteran mode as Unlimited is greatly balanced for Veteran & Master difficulties.

There are few additional mods as addons for Unlimited that can make your playthrough more hardcore or ease out a bit also on Master if You find it too difficult.

NEW GAME IS MANDATORY !

https://www.nexusmods.com/games/stalker2heartofchornobyl/collections/k2befk

Nexus Mods
Cinematic & Immersive ZONE ☢️ - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chor...

Explore Cinematic & Immersive ZONE ☢️, a curated collection of 110 mods for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. The main purpose of this collection is to provide STALKER with best bits & pieces t...

tepid spade
paper anchor
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I honestly wish I found out about gamma after S2, the gunplay in S2 is just so infuriating at times

slim moth
cedar pond
tepid spade
tepid spade
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extra quests ?

cedar pond
slim moth
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not achievable rn

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with lack of zone kit

cedar pond
tepid spade
slim moth
cedar pond
slim moth
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oh

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that's just a cfg cool down

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change that to whatever you want

cedar pond
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Knowing English all life , but then when my autistic ass gets excited I just throw my language skills in a trash

slim moth
cedar pond
slim moth
cedar pond
tepid spade
# cedar pond Does your mod allow to get more side quests in the same time ? Or does it make t...

finally. No I have not added that feature for 0 cooldown n side quests.

But I can throw it in for upcoming Revision update as Optional stuff.

I really do not want to make collection a bloat with cigarettes that doesn't even light up, some base building stuff and crafting that is not related to Stalker roots in general and many other mods that are just useless. There is already a lot of stuff included but mostly from great mod devs and no bloat inmho.

cedar pond
slim moth
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i cannot wait for base building.

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absolute hype

tepid spade
tepid spade
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not my stuff tho

cedar pond
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So I destroyed my own in response ahaha

slim moth
tepid spade
cedar pond
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I mean base building I would also oppose but the hideout maybe

cedar pond
slim moth
tepid spade
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WIP

slim moth
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im so mad clickrad got to test it

silver orchid
tepid spade
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I am more interested about Engine update

warped monolith
tepid spade
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but i guess that would come along with DLC

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hopefully 😄

tepid spade
silver orchid
# tepid spade I am more interested about Engine update

Sometimes i read that the engine update is going released alongside the DLC, and that video posted a few weeks ago in the CNPP it's recorded on the engine update sooo probably release that engine update and the DLC1 at the same time will concentrate:
"Holy moly, these guys are awesome", "This is so COOL and SIGMA", "This UNKNOWN Ukraini Company Did The Best Update Ever", "SDALGER 2 Receive the Biggest update since his release", "SDALGER 2 now is the thingi that should have been at release", "These devs have the biggest balls of ukraini and u didn't knew"

slim moth
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oh engine update is going to happen, without a shadow of a doubt. they teased images/scenes of it

tepid spade
# silver orchid Sometimes i read that the engine update is going released alongside the DLC, and...

I saw that video and I also saw back in a day trailer which supposed to be from the game... but we all know that has been post-process video like the same as for CP77 ultra realistic PhotoPunk and so on videos. I will believe it only when I will see it. that small teaser doesn't prove anything nor its pointing to UE5.5+ yet.
But I hope that in upcoming months we will be able to melt our GPUs and enjoy the Zone with more accurate lighting tech + functional A-Life (2.0 bandit_smile )

tropic echo
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im hesitant in my expectations for Alife 2.0

jolly haven
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someone ping support channel rq?

tropic echo
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checking out the Shay's suit of mods for Stalker 2 they are pretty nice

ancient osprey
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im looking for save on 1.8.1 after leaving swamps. on OXA Proto

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or unlimited 😛

white dock
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yo guys how often have you come across a crystal thorn in anomalies? In endgame (right before going in the Foundation) I can’t find a single one, even in psi anomalies

summer vapor
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I haven't seen some artifacts even once. Pure rng luck

odd fjord
tropic echo
odd fjord
tropic echo
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i assume rats are a new weather effect?

sacred jungle
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Yo how much content does gamma have

slim moth
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idk ask in a gamma channel not stalker 2

tropic echo
wicked garden
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hej so arent npc supposed to react when you got your gun drawn out and pointing at them, or is that not a thing in stalker 2?

sturdy mural
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Any Brazilians here?

cinder tendon
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Stalker 2 worth getting now?

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Ive got 400+ hours in the original trilogy

fathom mountain
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can anyone point me to a stalker 2 mod that allows you to lower (holster) your weapon and have it stay on screen like how tha gamma holster looks

fathom mountain
woeful moss
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First 20 minutes of SDALGER 2. Impressions are: charging handle on AK is on the correct side. Very good. Graphics and shading on medium is also pretty decent. Game runs about as good as GAMMA does, although I am not playing at 100% upscaling yet. Default controls are weird and I’m changing those immediately. Ukie voice acting sounds better than the American action movie voice acting they used(I want Steven Blum and other voice actors doing silly ruskie/balkan accents so I’m immediately sad). It’s… very much westernized and I hate the new UI.

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I also don’t quite enjoy how the game pauses for inventory/PDA stuff.

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My eurojank-fried brain is going to need to adjust to it all

knotty onyx
icy basin
ancient osprey
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New day, new questions! 😄

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Sill looking for 1.8.1 save after swamps(started new game and im not really happy to play same part from the beginning) on STALKER Unlimited

tacit glacier
solemn leaf
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How is the game now is it playable? I tried the game when it released and it was buggy unfinished mess

eternal pine
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Alife and lumen are inexistent at the moment but I haven't encountered any critical errors

warped monolith
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lumen does exist, and is the main reason why the game runs and looks like ass

kindred violet
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Wish they'd actually properly implement it

warped monolith
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surely with the engine update clueless

kindred violet
woeful moss
quartz whale
# eternal pine It is

i heard that alife was fixed, at least somewhat, and they were mostly just working on improving it to the level of the og games now. is this not the case? decided to start a new playthrough the other day, but ill probably hold off if alife is still busted.

dapper palm
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Hi guys, who knows where to get the winter map mod in the pda? I have Winter Tale installed, and the pda still has the same map, is there a mod to change it for winter? Help please

warped monolith
dapper palm
warped monolith
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oh? I didn't know stalker 2 had a winter map mod. My bad.

dapper palm
slim moth
tropic echo
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so the Duga Sniper 🙁

plain compass
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Is stalker 2 worth it? I'm a newbie to stalker series. I tried GAMMA and I liked a lot however it's too hardcore and there are lots of things you need to know. how is stalker 2 in terms of graphics, atmosphere and gun mechanics?

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also is there mod packs?

fluid lake