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

[plush sun]

they really work very well

[junior thicket]

optiscaler you can go fsr 4 int8

i use a 7800xt in it

the game runs decent

you CANT go full epic on graphics, some stuff is nearly unoticeable

my average is 80 fps to 100 sometimes 110

[arctic marsh]

the amd control panel thing says im averaging 260 fps which sounds like bs lol

games just got the weirdest like input lag i've ever seen

[junior thicket]

lol

you have frame gen on

[fluid lake]

I have the same specs except just the XT.

I play at 1440p 21:9 and get roughly 120-140fps with 70% TSR and FG

To me? Game runs great! If you want I can send you an engine ini with some TSR tailoring.

Epic everything except medium foliage

[jade locust]

anyone know how to fix the latency

this shit is horrible

[kindred violet]

You mean mouse input lag?

[jade locust]

just any input in general feels super delayed

[kindred violet]

That's framegen for you

[jade locust]

dont have framegen on

makes it even worse

nevermind i alt tabbed back into it and it feels more responsive???

[unborn kelp]

do poltergeists still have wallhacks?

[arctic marsh]

I do not

[arctic marsh]

yes

its annoying as hell

[arctic marsh]

Yeah I think this is the problem my frame rates fine its the input lag that drives me nuts

You go back and play gamma and the input lag is basically 0 and then play stalker 2 and it feels like your in mud

[junior thicket]

there is no gpu in stalker 2 that can get 260 fps

[arctic marsh]

I literally said I didn't believe it

I dont fuck with frame gen ever

[jade locust]

exactly, such a shame
i switched to dlss performance and the input latency kinda went away but the smeariness of the visuals is brutal

[junior thicket]

you probably have unlocked fps in the main menu and thats what it was captured

[arctic marsh]

I was assuming that

considering it takes 20 minutes to cache shaders

and if you skip it the game runs like shit

[junior thicket]

yeah that doesnt go up to 260

infact fps in shaders cache is live super stutter

[junior thicket]

anyway the game runs way better than launch

[arctic marsh]

I didnt spend 3 hours in the main menu

[junior thicket]

its very playable

[arctic marsh]

its playable, its just laggy

[junior thicket]

i recommend you trying optiscaler with fsr4

[slender halo]

More testing. A new game starts and runs at about 60FPS for a while. GPU load 90% and all good. Then All of the sudden game FPS goes down to about 20FPS. then just keeps going down and stays around 14FPS. Idea why. and it never recovers back to 60FPS... regardless if I'm in the open or in a poulated hub...

[warped monolith]

isn't that just the dreaded memory leak

afaik there's no solution to it

at least until we hopefully maybe sometime get the engine update they've been promising (inb4 it doesn't fix the leak)

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/bander79-gif-21694472

[heady bobcat]

Anyone mind posting the reccomended stalker2 mod list by Grok? I can't remember where it is for the life of me

[slim moth]

it is severely outdated

[fluid lake]

Are you running exclusive full screen (where it lets you toggle HDR) do you have full screen optimizations enabled in Windows? Stalker 2 is a directX 12 game but a lot of old windows optimization guides have you turning stuff like game mode, FSO, MPO, off. Which sabotages modern games.

To me it sounds like the game is losing context. It thinks you're alt tabbed out of it

That would align with the utilization you posted earlier

And the dialogue thing was a red herring

That kind of behavior is also associated with thermal throttling

[summer coral]

hello

[slender halo]

Yes I do. I’ll test those things out . Thanks for the tip. Thermal throttling I kind of ruled out.

[eternal pine]

The stalking had been taken to a new level

[granite hatch]

!dot

[fallen iron]

@granite hatch To turn on interactive dot UI like in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.® 2: Heart© of Chornobyl™, find and turn on 452- Interaction Dot Marks - Catspaw in MO2

[golden pawn]

any of yall live in ukraine?

[warped monolith]

[oak sentinel]

Hello. Today was the first time when I played STALKER2. Is it possible to defeat poltergeist like in older stalkers? I used few magazines but no luck

[warped monolith]

yes but they're very tough if you're using regular 5.45mm ammo that you find at the start of the game

you fought the one inside the rusted ship at the start, right?

[oak sentinel]

No. I run away from him. The second one in main quest line. Bunker next to anomaly. I need to check soldiers bodies but he is attacking me badly and its frustrating to fight him

[fluid lake]

In the early game I treat it like spotting a psuedogiant (alife FaW mod)

Run or don't fk with them

[arctic marsh]

Gotta just keep shooting it man, just side step

as of right now it will throw shit at you through walls cause the shits broken

[slim moth]

hold a or d and shoot

[gleaming vector]

they making gamma for stalker 2?

[warped monolith]

no

[arctic marsh]

been having a good time playing this

I put 100 hours into it on launch and never even got the swamps

started playing again recently it's been pretty fuck

fun

lol

[warped monolith]

ask here #╟🔰☢newbies-chat

[hollow wharf]

oh ok! thank you

[eternal pine]

Use shotguns my stalker friend

Pop 20 shells straight into that bastard and the job is done

[serene vessel]

I'm trying to find a mod that pretty much replicates the old "Sell for full price and sell anything" glitch when the game first launched but just a little less broken (Like 70-80% base value, and lower value the lower the item quality).

Most of the mods I've found either dont do what I want or havent been updated for a year or two

[iron prawn]

is stalker 2 working properly yet?

by properly I mean worth playing

I'm still running a gtx 3070 8gb

in a laptop

it's all I have and I'm not buying more computer shit

[hollow wharf]

Dear merciful god, lord have mercy. I spent... so many hours to get Anomaly to run on my linux. But I did it, it works, I am ready to start with GAMMA. I follow the tutorial... and I see the line "--anomaly ./Anomaly".
You mean to tell me the GAMMA-launcher brings anomaly in it? I spent 6 HOURS FOR NOTHING.

[trim iron]

Perhaps if you pay attention to what you read, you won't waste your own time.
As is evident from you posting a GAMMA rant in a Stalker 2 chat.

[bitter pike]

and also its down

[hollow wharf]

Sorry... down? But yeah I mistook the chat my bad. I haven't been on discord for a while I have forgotten how to navigate it. I only came back cuz the how-to install was inside the discord server

[restive steeple]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1427?tab=files
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/221
So any know if i can get to patch these 2 & how?

[dapper bough]

literally the only reason I never play s2 and only play gamma is because s2 has like no good weapon mods. gamma has hundreds 🙁

[uneven mirage]

i just coppied the anomaly compressed file to cache the launcher automaticly detects it and extracts it to .Anomaly

i happen to be installing stalker anomaly/gamma for the first time

also first time on the server sorry for brining gamma here

[odd fjord]

why would u? vcr doesnt modify the files flashlight does afaik

[restive steeple]

then why the incompatibility note you posted?

[odd fjord]

That's for:
"NPC Flashlight Visibility Enhanced"

NOT

[restive steeple]

i saw the name tho wouldn't they do similar things ?

[odd fjord]

No, one is for the NPC the other is for the Player

[restive steeple]

Fair

[lone owl]

Guys, please tell me which command is responsible for free camera

[lone owl]

i just wanna see my weapon from side

[split oyster]

HELLO ALL

[arctic marsh]

GOOOOOD MORRRNINGGGGG VEITNEEEEEM

[restive steeple]

Having 2 issues with the 32 + mods:

1st. Is the creates that has food, med, ammo they are always empty witch i suspect is patch issued with OXA, Crafting & looting zone, did have this working on 1.6 that i played last before November of last year.

Spawn rates are low so this issue are gone too.

2nd. Flash light turns it self off the moment i have turned it on. tried changing keybind without success. tried removing mods that was suspected to case the issue tho here i have no idea why this happens.

Answer on 2nd;
this is intended behaviour when using crafting zone as it to simulate broken flash light.
didn't see it in the patch notes

Help is much apricated.

[fluid lake]

This is what happens when you batch install mods without reading descriptions.

1: Oxa prototype is a "heavy" game overhaul. Items in crates are under prototypes economy changes.

I would go oxa standard and betterballistics if you dont want the economy changes because the itemgenerators files are....a pain to work with

But you could parse them if you really wanted to.

You do get spawns from the crates later in the game

[shrewd jasper]

How are the faction mods looking for S2?

[silk garnet]

There’s like 2

[shrewd jasper]

Oh yeah? Both unlock all the factions?

[shrewd jasper]

I don't know about the Stalker 2 modding scene so

[restive steeple]

if i didn't read the description? Then how else would i know to install the prototype version so i would hav the feature like: Night Vision, Equipment Expansion, Upgrade Systems, Ballistics Overhaul?

[warm basin]

I got stalker 2 recently as a gift from a steam friend and after about a dozen hours im curious if anyone else shares some of my thoughts, or if I just have unrealistic/outdated ideas. I think the game is absolutely beautiful and there are some parts that have been really cool but theres one piece of gameplay thats really taking me out of it:

What is up with anomaly placement? I feel like in the original trilogy going through anomaly fields was like solving a maze with a time limit; you used the bolts to map put a path and tried to get through before AoE ticking damage got you. The better gear you had, the more time you have. Here, all the ones I've seen feel like timing puzzles; use the bolts to "pop" an anomaly, then run through before it resets, usually having to pop a couple in a row to find a truly safe space. Or its just a string of unavoidable anomalies and you have to tank the damage.

Artifact hunting was one of my favorite parts of the older games, and I love areas like the fire tunnel in the wild territory or the oakpine in zaton. But so far it just seems a lot more frustrating in stalker 2.

Am I just missing something?

[icy basin]

!bc

[fallen iron]

@deep cape

Use bot commands for yourself only in #🤖bot-commands. Do not clutter main channels.

⠀

[wary ledge]

Hello guys, seems like mods for desolate ambient music and radio songs were removed from Nexus. Does anyone have it here ?

[stark crescent]

Hello, quick question for new walktrough. want to install few mods, are these all compatible?
shays living zone complete (oxa version) + oxa prototype + stalker unlimited + NPC combat overhaul (this one neccesary or included in the other mods already?`)

[cedar pond]

If you play on Master, anomalies do hit you not only harder but the hit box is larger. Area damage from anomalies it’s not a thing here.

It is a puzzle to solve them though. And my recommendation don’t hunt for artifacts at night.

Besides the area dmg, S2 has more advanced anomalies and much better gameplay when artifact hunting. In OG games you can’t temporarily disable anomaly besides electric one, that was frustrating.

[tepid spade]

C A R E F U L
A N O T H E R
A I S L O P

Mod description is worth your attention to get some D Vitamin today

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2112?tab=posts

[cinder sleet]

Random question. How many frames are y’all getting with your mods?

[tepid spade]

depends of setup:

Vanilla 165
PRZ + AVPs = 105
PRZ+AVPs+custom cVARS = 90

2k all in game EPIC + Quality mode

[slim tulip]

Guys, help! I have FSR enabled and no mods installed except for one optimization mod and one achievement fix. I usually get 60 FPS without any drops, but after I go into my inventory and grab something, my frame rate drops to 20-30, even though it was a stable 60 before, and it's not constant. This happens after every inventory entry. My resolution is set to 1440x1080, and after trying to change the resolution and frame rate in every way possible, the frame rate seems to return at some point. It feels like FSR is disabled, but after trying alt + tab and changing the resolution, it comes back (it's enabled, I tried toggling it on and off).

Sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place, maybe someone has encountered something similar???

[silent meadow]

how are the freeplay mods? is the game actually fun like that

[odd zealot]

Stalker 2 GAMMA

[icy basin]

!gamma2

[fallen iron]

⠀

[odd zealot]

Oh okay good to know, imma definitely find mods to try and get a similar experience to GAMMA but in STALKER 2. I've found a few that seemingly work pretty good but I haven't tested them yet.

[eternal pine]

Stalker two no gamma therefore not Canon

[soft talon]

gamma 2 no stalker therefore canon!

[unborn kelp]

wasn't there an update this month?

[cinder sleet]

Damn..

Hmmm 🤔 I’m doing something wrong maybe… I’m not running PRZ and I’m certain that eats more resources than most and I’m getting like 55. And that’s in low stress areas if I’m being honest…

This is going to bug me… well.. atleast it’s Friday… after work maybe I can figure it out

I have 4070 and i9…

[tepid spade]

Hard to say - your system specs ?

[cinder sleet]

Def should be getting better performance

[tepid spade]

16gb or 12gb ?

[cinder sleet]

I’ll give you all the details later

16 I’m sure

[tepid spade]

You can run PRZ easily, I recommend at least 12gb bare min for it so You should not cut on visuals but enhance them.

[cinder sleet]

Or maybe it’s that every other is shit and PRZ is king of mod performance… with that being said I take back anything I’ve ever said about it and will redownloading… as of now if I can get your frames, I’m not getting off stalker 2…

[tepid spade]

Well I would not recommend to use any .ini tweaks that are floating around Nexus. If You want stable performance then use Ultra+ or PRZ not both.

[cinder sleet]

If not too much trouble, could you DM your mod list?

[cinder sleet]

Roger

[tepid spade]

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

I will release an update for my AVPs latter this evening as I am away now, specifically for latest PRZ as we have few new integrations there.

[cinder sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/tradfi-real-users-meet-crypto-gif-24004753

Thanks much

[tepid spade]

DM

[cinder sleet]

This is a hell of a mod collection and the details on installation and performance optimization is god sent… legendary shit here

[cinder sleet]

Sweet freedom… time to remod and start ANOTHER new game. worth 🤝

[knotty herald]

Could you update here later once you've tried the modpack? I'm kinda interested in it as well

[cinder sleet]

100% Working on it now as we speak. 🤝

[knotty herald]

All good performance wise?

[knotty herald]

Oh nevermind

I misread it

[cinder sleet]

Sorry. I meant I’m installing and going through the guide. Trying to be meticulous with the install. Want to do it right

[cinder sleet]

No worries

[knotty herald]

Sounds great!! I wish you the best of luck!

[cinder sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/bow-like-honor-respect-gif-14588358108868813407

[tough bane]

https://klipy.com/gifs/fuck-fuck-you-1

[cinder sleet]

@knotty herald I hope you can read

I will be of zero help to you

https://tenor.com/view/feysnd-gif-1855267592430878035

But all seriousness… I understand the process and will be of help… simply put it’s amazing… and the optimization is fucking solid… buttery smooth… this will without a doubt be heavily influenced by your setup. If you have a decent setup, this is without a doubt the way to go…

[knotty herald]

Daaaaamn

Appreciate the update, and don't worry, I will manage to get it up and running on my own.

we're so back

[cinder sleet]

Beautiful

Have fun bro!

[tepid spade]

https://tenor.com/view/commitment-loyalty-dedication-commit-relationship-gif-17350871

[cinder sleet]

@knotty herald if you could! Post some of your screens! I’m compiling now

[cinder sleet]

@knotty herald HIGHLY recommend “RE:LOOK”

as well. Very much the “Cherry on top”

[heady marsh]

JUST started playing S2 and am getting into it. Still VERY early tho. Is there a way to make the Torch/Headlight more powerful? It's almost no use- or is that intentional?

I'm to get into this as I'm so used to GAMMA. I've got to give it a fair shake.

[icy basin]

Just get a mod for a better flashlight

Note that anything that uses the ~mods folder disables achievements

Except you can change that

[heady marsh]

Cheers man- are the ANY other essentials mods you'd recommend? Im already playing with minimal hud. Immersive mode is great but Im stil too new

[icy basin]

Nothing else, really

That's literally all I got, a flashlight and achievements enabler mods

[heady marsh]

Cheers man- I MIGHT look at that blood mod and maybe the combat overhaukl to make it look "better"?

[heady marsh]

Was there a specifc flashlight mod or is there just one?

[icy basin]

Uhhh

Ace's Real Flashlight

[heady marsh]

Stupide question- is it best to install mods via Steam Workshop of manually from Nexus mods?

Does it matter?

[slim moth]

manually

[solid grail]

I modded my game with Vortex when the game came out (with dozens of mods) and never had an issue. I started a new game few weeks ago and tried the new modding system with the Steam Workshop and my save became corrupted after a while. Don't recommend it.

[heady marsh]

Ah ok- so defo do it manual yeah?

[solid grail]

Yes, and there is collections on nexus which install dozens of mods for you, I don't think there is an equivalent on Steam Workshop

[valid gull]

Anyone noticed that Grok's Economy and Difficulty Fix Attempt prevents you from saving?

[warped monolith]

isn't that mod severely outdated

[valid gull]

Yeah

Just wanted to see if there was a fix

Tragic

[solemn sorrel]

Hey guys

[olive summit]

i cant tell if this game is better now or if my brain has just accepted it

[silver orchid]

both

[tacit glacier]

You can expect people going "STALKER 2 is underrated" in a few years

[remote eagle]

[warped monolith]

I bet there's already someone out there saying this right now

[tacit glacier]

"Stalker 2 is underrated, trust"

[warped monolith]

actually I gotta check a certain youtuber who always says "this game is an underrated gem" as soon as the next game in the franchise is released

LMAO. Ok not the channel I was actually expecting to see this kinda shit

[remote eagle]

[frozen pasture]

how cam i join the eng vc

[cinder sleet]

This kind of shit is why I stopped arguing with people

[kindred violet]

Lmao what on earth

[knotty onyx]

DA5 had people so assmad that they were saying DA2 was peak

[wicked depot]

Is Stalker 2 worth getting now? I've had it on my wish list for a couple years now because of all the issues it had on launch. Particularly the AI issues.

[summer vapor]

I wouldn't buy the game now; the bugs haven't been fixed for almost six months. And they're deliberately keeping quiet about future content

[warped monolith]

Wait for sale and/or some of the promised fixes (aka the so-called "engine update")

[silver orchid]

Plot twist:
DLC01 isn't going to be released before of september

[wicked depot]

Gotcha. Time to reinstall Gamma then lol

[tepid spade]

CAREFUL AI-SLOP IS BACK - AGAIN ⚠️

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2119?tab=description

For those who are using 4060 and my collection - please avoid it for your own sake !

This should be enough for You to understand what AI-Slop Engine.ini looks like for game where we don't even have HW Ray-Tracing support yet.

[urban niche]

hello!
opinion on stalker 2?

[undone vessel]

Check steam reviews or reddit

[warped monolith]

the two worst possible places to get spoonfed your opinion

[hardy pelican]

its a good game

but not the best stalker game

[tepid spade]

I will add this here for You guys so You are a bit aware in the future and know how to outsource AI-SLOP engine files which is becoming a trend now even in Stalker 2.

This is also added at the very top of my collection in Pinned section.

Keep Your visuals safe and don't fall for these shenanigans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcYl70vq_Ns&list=LL&index=4

[dapper parrot]

hmm Which is the Best Stalker game then ? And why ?

[hardy pelican]

stalker shadow of chernobyl vanilla steam port

and the reason why i say that is because i love the down time and action and the actual feeling of being in the zone

one time i can be fighting the worst horrors of the zone and one other im in a camp at night in rostok and i hear 100rads tunes in the back or the guitar

the combat is fine for me

the pacing is very good in my opinion and i can feel the progression

its subjective so you dont have to base my opinions based on an objective standard

[slim moth]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2120

[summer vapor]

It’s interesting, but I wish the rewards were a bit more varied

[slim moth]

im just happy there's a option for replaying the arena. im sure more stuff will drop for it

[vapid slate]

how is the game nowadays? did it get better?

[primal vine]

I just got Stalker 2 on sale, was wonderning the same thing

And if there are any mods worth getting to make game even better than it is

[slim moth]

games cool. will be way better when engine update releases

[slim moth]

there's quite a bit of mods. just make sure they're 1.8+ compatible.

[primal vine]

Alr, I'll be sure to keep that in mind

Don't want to break anything haha

[slim moth]

you more than likely will

and that is the stalker way

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-monolith-maytech-head-nod-yes-gif-2408363176849133420

[prime dune]

Good, but it lacks the soul of the original games

[warped monolith]

SOVL

[warped monolith]

It's geting better, but still not "quite there" yet. been a while since the last update, GSC is kinda silent... we'll have to wait and see

[warped monolith]

holy shit this is good
does it just repeat the pre-existing arena fights or does it add new ones?

[slim moth]

definitely gonna be a core mod

[lucid kernel]

Hello, is there really nothing at the moment that helps improve the spawn distance of npcs?

Because I want to be able to scout out an POI from distance before going in, but right now they are always empty and as soon as I get close, all the npcs spawn, which completely ruins the experience for me. Already using oxas prototype and living zone which makes the game more enjoyable

[ocean laurel]

is it there a mod that put smoke when firing a gun?

[slim moth]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1879

[slim moth]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2059

[prime stratus]

I was at the old military checkpoint in northern part of the Cordon. There is a Bandit body that is always up there in the upper part of the gaurd house you can loot when you first get there. I was just chilling and organizing my loot and the body starts moaning and gets up! Freaked me the hell out! There was a controller outside. I did not know they could reanimate dead bodies.

[true bronze]

@gusty ravine

Hi

[peak pelican]

Help me, hear my poor soul out... I can't pass behind these floating glass debris at mission where you need to find flashdrive SIRCAA. You pass the electric anomaly and then you supposedly must fight mutants to breakthrough, but I can't get into main hall, because I hit invisbile wall

[gentle wyvern]

guys why do the game crushes on me when i choose monolith? im 4060 rtx and 16gm and i5 gen 12

[trim iron]

Maybe because you can't "choose monolith" in Stalker 2.

[kindred violet]

Bro is just in the wrong channel, as usual

[gentle wyvern]

I DIDNT READ THE-

mb

i didnt found "gamma-chat"

[warped monolith]

go to #╟🔰☢newbies-chat

gamma questions go there if you're new to the server

once you get rookie rank/role, you get access to #╓☢stalker-chat

[slim moth]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/456765862775488513/1440593379288420503/Where_Artefacts.gif

[gentle wyvern]

i already fixed the issues be thx gng

[static musk]

how can i pick my faction in stalker 2?

spawn in ont let me.

[icy basin]

The children already yearn for STALKER Anomaly 2

[warped monolith]

[tribal spire]

when grok anomaly stalekr 2 part 3

https://tenor.com/view/hot-dog-ketchup-mustard-mayonnaise-chocolate-gif-4566800033157904826

[golden hazel]

[remote eagle]

[tacit glacier]

https://klipy.com/gifs/picard-facepalm-10

People on reddit still think psi-storms are a vanilla thing.

[remote eagle]

[spice current]

does anyone have a 3060? and can tell me if the game is enjoyable?

[slim moth]

at maybe 1080p

[shadow stirrup]

can we talk about how cool noontide is as a concept

I mean it's really sad if u think abt it but as a fiction its really cool and melancholic

[boreal frost]

does this game enable ||terraria hard mode after SIRCAA||

[boreal frost]

one of my favorite things as I've been renavigating the zone and seen what's changed

[ionic needle]

someone add me for cultural experience

[solar schooner]

Thinking of buying stalker 2 and modding it is it as immersive as stalker gamma?

[icy basin]

It's as immersive as OG stalkers (which is good) imo

[solar schooner]

Nice

[dapper parrot]

Gamma = Mod pack

[zenith hamlet]

https://tenor.com/view/nub-nub-cat-silly-cat-cute-kawaii-gif-3004296607518463660

https://tenor.com/view/horny-sex-sexuality-sexiest-man-alive-sexiest-person-alive-gif-24735719

[warped monolith]

[silver orchid]

https://tenor.com/view/gulp-cat-gif-27257259

[fluid sandal]

Is stalker 2 worth replaying again if i haven't played since it launched?

[slim moth]

you will have a better experience playing it now than at launch

if you got the willpower, you can wait for engine update/dlc drop (when, not too sure))

[fluid sandal]

May aswell just wait. Any idea if it may be this year? Do they have a window for release at all?

[slim moth]

im on the optimistic side that it could be around the summer time. but that's just pure speculation

GSC doesn't give any good answers on their progress whatsoever so can't rely on them for anything

[silver orchid]

@stuck zenith

[stuck zenith]

yooo

Titties

[eager solstice]

lookforw4rdd (lookforw4rdd) has been banned for reason: compromised account

[stuck zenith]

ah i see, bot didn’t clear that one message

[granite plinth]

can't wait for update 1.9 when they change the color gradient of the wood furniture on AKs 0.00001 percent darker

(total engine upgrade was expected) 🥹

[median kite]

Is the game any good yet

[icy basin]

!bc

[fallen iron]

@ocean hearth

Use bot commands for yourself only in #🤖bot-commands. Do not clutter main channels.

⠀

[warped monolith]

define "good"

[median kite]

Fun

[icy basin]

Define "fun" :)

[warped monolith]

[prime stratus]

Anyone know how to get in the locked door of this building?

it's in east Yaniv,

[eternal pine]

Yes it is

[visual nest]

not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but is it possible to use MO2 to install mods forstalker 2?

[sage jolt]

aint no way no mods got to ts yet LMAO

[warped monolith]

I'm surprised the bot didn't auto-delete that

I suppose it's because it's not a full URL

[sour grotto]

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

we should use a different service lol

watched 4 minuites of this then decided i was dealtign discord give it a watch

[warped monolith]

unfortunately none of the alternatives are worth much right now

I was hoping TeamSpeak would pick up the ball but they failed

[tribal spire]

why would you eat that

[icy basin]

"Looks like a mushroom, smells like a mushroom, people have ingested Fly Agarics before, what's the worst that could happen"

Happening enough times to get a mortality rate statistic, with a side bonus of the Zone being full of drunk idiots daring each other to do stupid shit to pass the time

[trim iron]

Because "Caution: Highly Radioactive" is just Stalker speak for "Spicy"

[valid gyro]

Why do people eat pufferfish. 60% mortality rate too iirc.

[undone vessel]

https://youtu.be/_vv9Y0XVt0w?si=A7QSDuT9fbg8DNz_

[remote eagle]

4 seconds really

[silver orchid]

Because if they make a video of 20 seconds GSC will spoil the entire DLC with easter eggs included

[remote eagle]

[undone vessel]

https://youtu.be/O66nedM_obc?si=N7Nnnu72qP7kE1y2

[undone vessel]

https://youtu.be/GnxKbc5GxsA?si=yqJNVOt1xrBIa0h7

[spare harness]

I've heard good things since the latest update, I'm curious what are the areas that are still rough or elements that need work to be a better experience.

While graphics aren't the end-all-be-all for atmosphere and immersion, I find the geometry/terrain/assets to be the biggest improvement in that regard versus Gamma/Anomaly from what I could see from the videos.

Gameplay wise, I'm sure it's much more casual and streamlined than Gamma or the originals, but I'm curious how close you can get it to a survival experience, or if it ends up more like a shooter with some survival elements, especially if elements like A-life, equipment degradation, food, etc. aren't implemented.

And finally, the game from what i could read online still has tons of bugs which seems unfortunate.

I'm still curious to hear some of your experiences with Stalker 2 if some people would like to share

[undone vessel]

All i want to say that s2 is amazing game like originals.

[spare harness]

yeah I would assume most people here liked it, but im curious about the remaining issues people have with it

[heady marsh]

I finally took the plunge and started Stalker 2 after holding off until now. The atmosphere and immersion are amazing.
The gunplay is cool but it feels SLIGHTLY cumbersome at time- say you’re inside a little house trying to duck/lean/zoom etc- it can get a bit clunky, but generally open firefights are great.
Sometimes the duck/popup to shoot feels a bit slow too- is that because of Weight or something does anyone know? Mentioning this as I’ve been used to Gamma for so long and its really fluid fast movements etc.

The SINGLE biggest insane issue for me if there’s NO WAY to see what Faction anyone is..!? Most times you just have to wait to see if someone is going to open fire on you- it’s absolutely crazy.
You can use a scope but most times you just can’t tell…

[warped monolith]

ironically enough, most people here kinda hated it because it's not "GAMMA 2"

[undone vessel]

Yep. You will struggle first 80hrs. Then you will learn to identify them

[spare harness]

Yeah i would assume as much, but realistically i couldnt see GSC making Gamma 2 because its not beginner friendly, its niche and its the product of years of modmaking

[heady marsh]

It really is an insane omission from the game tho. Say it’s night and there’s a storm and you spot about 6 npc’s up ahead. It’s basically impossible to ID them. In a weird way it adds to realism/tension, but not in a GOOD way if that makes sense.

Saying all that, I’m glad it’s clicked with me and I can see myself playing for 100’s of hours. The atmos is phenomenal.

[undone vessel]

Yeah, it’s realistic. In STALKER lore, loners are always getting ambushed by bandits. In the original game, bandits wear black jackets and loners wear grey ones, so it felt kinda gamey. In S2 they wear almost identical clothes, and the only way to tell a bandit apart is by his ugly gopnik face

[heady marsh]

Aye, I’ll just have to suck it up and get used to it.

[spare harness]

how's the shooting in S2? Sound seems good.

[tender jay]

so is anyone else fucking softlocked at the 'in search of good old days' mission? Cus I've been stuck here for like the entire day and I'm bouta uninstall and just move on.

[stray seal]

when is release

[boreal frost]

most if not all feel good but there are a few that have felt great. some fights have felt like bs but many of them feel very good.

[boreal frost]

it was definitely more far-cry than i expected but i've been really enjoying it, the stamina+carry weight is pretty brutal though

[heady marsh]

Yeah, the gunfights are generally really good and fraught. It can be slightly clunky depending in the situation- having to press lean/crouch/hold shift at the same time, then remember what key your medkit is on- press and HOLD F1 or just press F1 type thing.
It also feels aa little “slow” in some respects- say ducking behind and popping your head up from cover. That part could do with being a bit more fluid maybe?

[kindred violet]

Why do people keep comparing it to fucking far cry when that makes 0 sense

[honest temple]

hey guys after redawnload the gamma i cannot launch the game, after pressing the play button, game crashes without giving any error message, could any buddy help about that?

[kindred violet]

Wrong chat man

[honest temple]

wich chat should i ask?

[undone vessel]

Full Trailer 26th march

[kindred violet]

One of the tech support channels for gamma itself

#🔨base-gamma-support for example

[visual minnow]

Im assuming its likely we’re getting the engine upgrade alongside the DLC?

[undone vessel]

https://tenor.com/view/boba-fett-star-wars-prequel-gif-24306389

[white hinge]

.

[stray seal]

ohh could be for summer

[warped monolith]

yea looks like they're holding off on it

I just hope the engine update comes with a patch to the base game

[golden hazel]

Imagine, engine update season pass, only 39.99

[icy basin]

https://stupidpenisx.com/i/status/2036452221089391036

Evanosaurus “Unrawrl Engine 5.7” Rex (@evankinney)

guess who got laid off today! 🫠

i am genuinely so confused and bewildered
like, i spent the past week debugging the rivalry system while recovering from pneumonia

and just in the past few days i’ve had multiple directors tell me how much they appreciate everything i do

QRT: EpicNewsroom
Information on today's layoffs
https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/todays-layoffs

vxTwitter / fixvx · Mar 24, 2026, 2:36 PM

Lads, I'm pretty sure Unreal Engine is some danger of just imploding at some point

[kindred violet]

What on earth lmao

[visual minnow]

Unreal Engine is just dogshit

I actually believe there are chunks of code made by AI, judging by how unoptimised that shit is

[icy basin]

Basically kicked off one of the main engine guys I think

[kindred violet]

Truly a sign of a healthy product

[fickle oriole]

something wild just happened
at the stalker 2 discord server, they made a new announcement as usual
i was used to press every sticker under the post
but i accidentally pressed on a russian flag sticker someone just put
not even 4 seconds and i found myself out of the server. not even a warning.
apparently i was perma-banned despite having no prior warnings

just wanted to say that since it caught me off guard
i'm not even European
at least i'm not getting banned here for talking about john gamma

[icy basin]

Caught in a crossfire lmao

Or, rather, a grenade blast

[forest turret]

hi i did the instalation thing when i got to first intial instal it wont do it for the file then it wont give me an option it just says an intance of the game is running something like that then i just started the update well work ?

[icy basin]

Reboot Steam?

[warped monolith]

epic laid off 1000 people recently

[warped monolith]

I don't think joining official discord servers for games is a good idea to begin with

and the whole geopolitical situation aside, having a bot that automatically permabans people for that is uh... yea maybe you're better off not being in that server.

[fickle oriole]

Well, i didn’t know better. I was just using it to see new updates

[warped monolith]

guess you could use an alt to just lurk there for news then

or get news from the steam page/forum

[fickle oriole]

Nah, i got addicted to gamma

[warped monolith]

a fate worse than death

[fickle oriole]

Or is it?

[warped monolith]

you'll realize eventually

[fickle oriole]

I realized a long time ago (1 yr ago)

[tepid spade]

Poor Tim

[rustic fox]

Was lazy to remove HUD to make a good screenshot in Stalker 2, pressed Prt Sc and game crashed

[odd zealot]

Oxide's Standard/Prototype mod has a feature where you can see someone's faction by aiming at them and pressing T

[limpid grove]

Tried to use the Clikside mod collection and couldn't save my game at all

Can't tell if it's apart of the pack or not

[kindred violet]

What difficulty are you playing?

(also no clue if his collection has the campfire save mod)

[limpid grove]

Veteran!

[kindred violet]

Maybe a mod that adds campfire saving then

[limpid grove]

oh it was "Clikrad" this is it https://www.nexusmods.com/games/stalker2heartofchornobyl/collections/fqn2e8 I looked through the mods and nothing made me think it was a campfire save and even when I tried to save near a campfire or sleep nothing happened

Spent like 2 hours dealing with the unskipable opening cutscene and then having to restart my entire thing from the start everytime I died pft

decided eh I should just join gamma and wait for the new update and play that

[rustic fox]

Hello lads! Can anyone suggest me a mode that makes stalker look photorealistic?

Saw some videos but couldn't find any materials

[icy basin]

Have you asked in the video comments?

[kindred violet]

You could have just played it without a wonky ass modlist

[warped monolith]

or installed a mod to skip the opening

surely there is one

people usually hate unskippable intros so a mod to skip them is almost always a thing

[kindred violet]

Yep, that does exist

[limpid grove]

Well it's not like I hadn't played it when it originally came out I was trying to add some SPICE

It's probably gonna be another year or two until S2 gets full modding capabilties and the another 1-2 year for the mods that come out that truly start changing things up!

[undone vessel]

https://youtu.be/V2H5TBVr2hQ

[warped monolith]

youtube being shit as usual refusing to display subtitles

[undone vessel]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/s/Ectf8y3PdJ

[little plume]

Can anyone ID this gun? Looks like an HK433 or some other kind of ACR clone but I can't be sure

Actually I do think it's an HK433. Man GSC really loves HK

[torpid relic]

zulu such a chonker

[haughty sierra]

taking me back to SIIRCAA again

[haughty sierra]

prob easier to use current assets / models from them

[torpid relic]

i do wonder how Siircaa looks after the incident

[cinder ocean]

battle rifle?

[torpid relic]

Galil? no cant be. . . . . hmm i think ive seen it befor but i cant remeber the name.

[cinder ocean]

another HK probably???

kinda looks like a g3 here

[torpid relic]

hmmm, it might only be cause of the angle of the camera but the entire barrels seems a bit too short fro a Battle rifle

fuck

[cinder ocean]

yeah but it also has a 7.62x51 marking on it

[warped monolith]

reminds me of the G3 in Battlefield 3

[torpid relic]

whats the name of this again

[cinder ocean]

fal?

[warped monolith]

that looks like a FAL

but the FAL ain't german, it's belgian

[cinder ocean]

yeah its a g3 i think

[torpid relic]

yea

could be

[little plume]

It's 100% an HK51, or the short-barrel version of the G3

[torpid relic]

it got a . . . . . ahhh, whats the attachment rail called again? picantini or something italian

"picatinny rail"

is that correct?

[little plume]

But the marking says GP3A so I guess that's what it'll be called

[torpid relic]

cant use RL names no more

[cinder ocean]

the select fire flashbang dispenser?

[warped monolith]

yea

[warped monolith]

you mean this thing, yes?

[torpid relic]

yes

[cinder ocean]

i love g51/g3 so this owns.
dunno what the other gun they added is though. I was hoping for f2000 to return

[kindred violet]

love how it says manufactured in germany on the side

[dense pagoda]

yeah

damn how an i still under newcomer ive been here since 2024

[torpid relic]

i want a mg3 or a m240 already, so little games have them

[torpid relic]

you gotta yap more i think?

[warped monolith]

!newcomer

guh

[fallen iron]

_ _
@dense pagoda, remove your Newcomer role to:

• gain access to the restricted part of the server;
• ask for help/support with custom modlists (enabled/disabled mods in MO2);
• download additional mods for GAMMA;
• talk in the #╓☢stalker-chat (you'll need to be Rookie in order to post in this channel first)

▶️ Go to #⏩start-confirm to remove the role, but ONLY after you have successfully installed AND launched at least once the mod pack.

[haughty sierra]

FAL

[dense pagoda]

thanks

goat

[little plume]

Not excited for all my mods to break though, I gotta finish my current playthrough before that update drops lol

[tacit glacier]

sheeeeeeeeet

I didn't expect them to announce DLC before engine upgrade

Though I suppose engine upgrade could drop before DLC during spring

[warped monolith]

or at the same time, like cyberpunk 2077 with their huge game update on top of Phantom Liberty

[tacit glacier]

Would make sense

Though to ensure stability I'd assume they would drop engine before DLC to address any issues

[warped monolith]

... my guess is they'll go "fuck it, we ball"

like they did with 1.0

[tacit glacier]

Also I apparently can no longer install STALKER 2 on linux

[warped monolith]

I think I'll wait for that DLC to hit (and hopefully the engine/game update as well) before playing

plenty to keep me busy meantime

been playing a lot of friendslop these days lmao, I even forgot what singleplayer game I was playing

[tacit glacier]

I've been poking GAMMA on and off

[warped monolith]

I vaguely remember casually failing my way to success in Outward

[hollow tartan]

wNO WAYYY

STALKER DLC AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

recieved heart attack

[warped monolith]

don't do that, you won't be able to play

[hollow tartan]

AAAAAAAAAAA

[tacit glacier]

nvm it works
It for some reason tried looking for a linux build of stalker 2

Ayo

Ayo

According to word on stalker 2 chat the trailer for the DLC

Uses the newer Engine version

[nova lake]

it appears to yes, it would be weird if the DLC was using the old version

[tacit glacier]

Also, looking at the trailer it appears that future update will introduce

canted aiming without nvg

[nova lake]

as for the new guns, the G3 appears to be a wood cold war model unpgraded if you squint hard enuff at the promotional cover on the DLC

[warped monolith]

or it's doctored/pre-rendered footage like the old trailers

[tacit glacier]

Nah, we are past that.
The fps animations look ingame

[undone vessel]

There was a lot of bugs in old trailers. They wasn’t pre-rendered. Only announcement was cgi

[warped monolith]

are we, though

[tacit glacier]

Plus if this was pre-rendered they have to disclose it

[warped monolith]

big game companies never stopped showing fake trailers and then the game looks "downgraded" in comparison

[warped monolith]

which law is that, cause there's a couple game studios that didn't get the memo

[tacit glacier]

kek

[nova lake]

you can, quite easely, tell apart CGI and Ingame takes thru the the movement of the camera

this works for every game that has been announced as well

[tacit glacier]

I don't think there is a law for that, but the animations look ingame.
The doctored gameplay they made before was more floaty

[warped monolith]

camera movement is the easiest thing to fake

[nova lake]

and yet so many CGI trailers get floaty and "cinematic" with very linear speed ups and slow downs

interesting

[tacit glacier]

Okay but why include bugs?
I didn't see any myself but Blackburn claims there were

[warped monolith]

kinda like when people use analog sticks on a controller, huh.

interesting.

[nova lake]

interesting notion
I wouldnt know, Im a superior PC player

[tacit glacier]

Yeah it's easy to mimic the slowdown speed up with controllers

[warped monolith]

good for you, now you know game trailers mostly use controller inputs because it's smoother

for the camera, at least

[nova lake]

me take on that is that even with a controller you cannot get that smooth and linear control

[tacit glacier]

Mouse movement can be jittery

[warped monolith]

well, maybe if you were an "inferior console player" you would know that you can, in fact, get very smooth and linear camera control with an analog stick

[tacit glacier]

You should see me play Breath on the Wild on Switch.
I can make that shit look fuckin

CINEMATIC

Straight up trailer material at times, lol

[nova lake]

you can tell that the canted sight Saiga 12 part of the trailer is ingame due to the bullet impact effect

and due to the ragdolls

[warped monolith]

also going back to this... every game where they slap "in-engine footage" at the bottom of the screen is essentially fake gameplay

but unfortunately not all devs/publishers do that

[tacit glacier]

I doubt they would include canted sights just to look fancy on a pre-render anyway.
It was a requested feature, they said it would be looked into.

[nova lake]

unfortunatly yhea it was

[warped monolith]

I mean... there's a mod that enables it already, it's not like they have to do any work themselves

[tacit glacier]

This

[warped monolith]

iirc they even said some bullshit about technical limitations not allowing them to enable canted aiming outside of NVGs

but then a mod comes out on day 1 after the update hits

[tacit glacier]

Yeah then they said they'll consider it

[peak eagle]

So we going back to X16 then, man that brain lasts forever in that place

[warped monolith]

this is partly why I don't trust anything they say (or show) at face value

I'll believe it when I see it

[slim moth]

bc GSC is full of shit most of the time. The modding community proves them wrong ALL the time

Distant Horizons render bubble

[nova lake]

I wouldve said the same thing just to not call people who wanted it dumb

but then again

I wouldnt add it in the first place

[warped monolith]

either way, I own the game and it's not going anywhere. Hopefully. So when these promised updates come, I'll be here to play them.

Hopefully.

they also already mentioned a second story DLC, which is good

but so far no word on the promised multiplayer mode huh

[nova lake]

funny thing, in the snork scene the mask straight up disappears when shot

[slim moth]

they need to fix base game optimizations before even considering that

[nova lake]

also if I had to guess they're prob adding custom models for rare guns

[slim moth]

brain scorcher lab

right?

[warped monolith]

[nova lake]

yhea

so far, it seems to me like they count Iron Forest in with the CNPP, because otherwise I have no idea why they'd put a clip of Skif walking into Lymansks service tunnel

[slim moth]

i played through SoC (radiophobia 3) not too long ago. im so ready to retackle these areas

[nova lake]

huh huh

[slim moth]

limansk better be a super packed cqc urban playground or im gonna rage

[nova lake]

what could it be other than that? tbf, all we saw of Lymansk is this

so Im even questioning myself

[slim moth]

I think it's also cool it's having you double back to areas changed by the story like SIRCAA

im excited to see what shit is going on there

also

[nova lake]

thats the kadaver most likely

[warped monolith]

Strogg

[slim moth]

now kiss

this is their butt baby

[warped monolith]

yea it definitely looks like it was pooped out of someone's ass

[slim moth]

am i gonna shoot this thing or carry it around me like in death stranding

hmmmm

[warped monolith]

or escort quest it around the map like Uma in Witcher 3

[slim moth]

for some reason i thought of the escort mission from dragons dogma with the carriage carrying the hydra head, but instead it's just that thing in it's stupid giant flask thing

the harpies skeef

[undone vessel]

Poping trees, bad animation and ragdolls

[undone vessel]

I was talking about old trailers. Not the new one with dlc

[tribal spire]

2 men kissing

[jaunty garden]

Finally we are getting some alphabet community content in this game❤️

[warped monolith]

I gotta replay DD before trying out DD2.

and hopefully I won't revert to a cheese abusing build again

[slim moth]

They're both really good

[warped monolith]

(why did they have to create a status effect that makes the victim move and attack in slow motion, and then give the player easy access to weapons that apply this status?)

I hope DD2 doesn't have this

or I might end up abusing it there too

[slim moth]

it potentially does, but i never used it so i wouldn't know

the torpor?

[warped monolith]

yea, torpor

[slim moth]

i don't think it's in DD2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x7U0NLehr0&list=RD0x7U0NLehr0&start_radio=1

[remote eagle]

nope its miracle machine AKA x-16

[slim moth]

i keep getting them mixed up cause of the giant BRAIN

[granite plinth]

mmm the new s2 dlc looks sick

I'm pretty sure it actually is dropping right alongside the engine upgrade

[normal vigil]

Still no persistent A-Life

[true yew]

New dlc, part of investment returned :D

[warped monolith]

it's coming with DLC #2, trust

[true yew]

The Cost of Hoping for A-Life

[summer vapor]

Sell weapon DLCs, fund A-life 2.0

[true yew]

Imagine you get the weapon DLCs and they're just reskins again

Man, I hope there's a new armor that's comparable or equal to diamond exo

[undone vessel]

Dude, it is persistent since last summer

[kindred violet]

!hasalife

[fallen iron]

⠀

[kindred violet]

A-life discussion is honestly so brain-dead 90% of the time

[knotty onyx]

Mfw my face when stalker 2 A life isn't exactly the same as anomaly A life and whatever I imagine CoP a life to have been.

[remote eagle]

[icy basin]

TFW STALKER 2 ALife isn't the same as some vibecoded Warfare-like CPU hog of an Anomaly mod

[tacit glacier]

Ragebait used to be believeable

A-Life is pretty much in a state similar to vanilla Call of Pripyat I'd say. Maybe a little better.
The most aggravating part is the 100m online bubble but we have mods now that can extend the bubble to even 250m (makes you wish binoculars were a thing, lol)

[pseudo falcon]

how to make the ballistics of stalker 2 same as gamma

is it only using better ballistics?

the only thing i dont want is even with the best armor and artifacts, i feel like when in hobo phase where i am wearing a leather jacket

if i use the better ballistics

feels like im capped on 80%

or lower

[trim iron]

Play GAMMA

[knotty onyx]

There's another ballistics mod that makes damage based on caliber, but keeps the damage amount somewhere between vanilla and better ballistics.

I don't remember the name but it's pretty popular on steam workshop

[normal vigil]

Yep, and the bubble is exactly why it's not persistent. Lack of binocs is a symptom of it

[tacit glacier]

You don't understand what persistent means in a-life then

[normal vigil]

But hey, at least we've got forest combat simulator with 300k polygon foliage

[tacit glacier]

Persistent means the NPC's exist even outside the bubble.
That's how it works in GAMMA as well.
The NPC's persist

[normal vigil]

Ye, I know

The bubble is what online A-Life is, only that there's no offline A-Life in S2

[tacit glacier]

Again, wrong

Offline A-Life was a thing for like, over half a year now

why tf do you think we added the has alife tag

[knotty onyx]

Mfw my face when stalker 2 A life isn't exactly the same as anomaly A life and whatever I imagine CoP a life to have been.

[normal vigil]

Bro it's not, watch any video looking into it, it behaves nothing like actual A-Life

[tacit glacier]

There was an entire mod that literally showcased offline a-life moving around the zone, stop gaslighting.

People done entire breakdowns proving it actually works now

[normal vigil]

Just because the game tries to pretend by storing some data on camps you've cleared doesn't mean that any of the NPCs are persistent

[tacit glacier]

It's not camps, its actual NPC's walking around.

[normal vigil]

They've done the opposite bro, link that shit homie

[trim iron]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ChatbotBuilder-chatbot-builder-wendy-molinares-0zICCaj4NFLHgUQ02I

Here we go again boys and girls

[tacit glacier]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5nuVECxsCA

[kindred violet]

Inb4 "i ain't watching all that"

[icy basin]

Something something study about convincing people with set views

[normal vigil]

https://youtu.be/wrGOi-W5Oqo?is=wQ_lZ_fHkfXyfEj8

Here's mine, let's watch

[tacit glacier]

It's the same fucking dude

[normal vigil]

Yea exactly

[tacit glacier]

Point is there is A-Life
It's not perfect, but its there

[normal vigil]

I never said there's no A-Life bro, I said there's no persistent A-Life.

[tacit glacier]

Then explain how people can encounter the same NPC they seen in one location being in a different location?

Like we're talking dude moved from Cordon to Rostok

[normal vigil]

Because the game recycles names to make you believe that, just like it remembers what "faction" controls a point. It doesn't actually remember what NPCs are there, it doesn't simulate their activities and migration. It just spawns that shit.

In SoC you could follow your lil bro from rookie village all the way to garbage, see him eat, talk, explore. It's just not the case here.

Not to mention squad locations are still inconsistent. Because, again, it's not real persistence, just pretended persistence.

But hey bro, if you enjoy playing the game that way then keep going, just don't tell me it's persistent A-Life

[tacit glacier]

Didn't that video just explain that points can change what faction controls it based on ai's movements?

[knotty onyx]

Mfw my face when stalker 2 A life isn't exactly the same as anomaly A life and whatever I imagine CoP a life to have been.

[normal vigil]

Alright bro, just dismiss my whole point on some weird point that proves nothing

[pseudo falcon]

so barebones ALife?

[tacit glacier]

There was also a video where someone followed a random loner all the way from Skadovsk to Rostok

Which I mentioned before

[normal vigil]

The game stores a flag on what is captured, persistent A-Life i suppose

[trim iron]

"GAMMA ballistics" has joined the chat

[normal vigil]

Why are some people so determined on coping with some pretend slop GSC gives them, especially on here of all places

[normal vigil]

How's the popcorn

[knotty onyx]

Why are people expecting a game that's made very differently to be exactly the same?

[tacit glacier]

There

This is the image of the debug mod someone made before 1.7 I believe

Every trader dot is an NPC

They change locations every x seconds from what I remember

[trim iron]

Needs more "saltiness"

[pseudo falcon]

when im using shays mod that makes npc a trader (normally i cant talk to them) the icon for trader moves so i notice they "roam"

[tacit glacier]

Was done by them I think

[normal vigil]

Shit I wonder why people are expecting an improvement on the most recognizable system of the sequel they're waiting for, especially when it was promised by said company as a 2.0

[knotty onyx]

I just don't have it in me to be mad about games, and I laugh at people who are.

[pseudo falcon]

i dont think S2 will be like gamma coz different people worked on it
also the engine they used

[icy basin]

Accusing S2 of pretend slop having played the rest of the stalker games

[knotty onyx]

Finally someone realizes this

[pseudo falcon]

it has potential to be a good game if they didnt use UE5

[tacit glacier]

I'm not expecting stalker 2 to play like anomaly or gamma either.

The point really is that people proved that NPC's persist outside the bubble. The image above proves it

[pseudo falcon]

what if they used unity instead

[tacit glacier]

What if they used godot instead

[pseudo falcon]

[normal vigil]

I dint think it will ever be like X-Ray, that's why I was so fucking disappointed when they announced it to he Unreal

[knotty onyx]

UE5 still has potential to be used well.

Would be better if most game devs weren't getting laid off every other year.

[pseudo falcon]

i guess deadlines and such eh?

since its a company

needing to make money kek

[tacit glacier]

UE5 has potential but only if it's properly optimized and isn't running on some ancient version

[normal vigil]

Real. But some pretend better

[knotty onyx]

Not even.

They still laid off hundreds of BF6 devs after record sales.

It's pure maxing out the quarterly returns nonsense

[pseudo falcon]

is UE4 better than UE5?

[tacit glacier]

I mean it runs great and can look amazing.

But UE5 has bigger potential

[pseudo falcon]

bruh........why
why layoff the people who made the game good..............i cant understand

[tacit glacier]

My point is, when STALKER 2 came out UE 5.5 was being released.
Meanwhile STALKER 2 was running on.. 5.1

[pseudo falcon]

oh
can they upgrade the engine to the latest tho?

[icy basin]

Lay off senior staff, hire new staff at lower wage
0 labor protections

[knotty onyx]

Cuz you can drop the game, and then drop some nice ass balance sheets if you lay off half the team after the hard work is done.

[normal vigil]

I think most of us realize this. I don't even expect it to ever have real persistence like X-Ray, just don't claim it has something it doesn't.

[pseudo falcon]

and this is why we have recent games to be so damn bad

[knotty onyx]

If you were a game dev getting a job after your 3rd layoff would you give a shit anymore?

[icy basin]

Also a lot of devs behind Unreal Engine itself have been laid off with only just enough warning to find out that morning

[pseudo falcon]

I rather play old games that are much more fun than fcking stupid games with monetization and not fun like most recent games nowadays

[icy basin]

(Tim Sweeney is too busy suing Apple and Google with billions of dollars)

[pseudo falcon]

bruh

they dont cherish their employees

[kindred violet]

We've almost hit the S2 discussion bingo it seems

[icy basin]

What's the last square

[normal vigil]

Nobody optimizes their games properly when using UE5. That's the problem. But tbh, I don't think GSC will ever make it properly simulated like OG stalker was.

Which is a fucking shame because if anyone has the capability it's them.

[icy basin]

Nobody and "Abiotic Factor" exists

OG stalker and Shadow of Chornobyl is among those (ALife? There? Hue)

[remote eagle]

!noalife

[fallen iron]

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

[icy basin]

[knotty onyx]

Perhaps S2 is woke or something

[icy basin]

(I will still play through it again with 0 mods)

[remote eagle]

[normal vigil]

Also imo, they would never implement proper A-Life because of consoles

[icy basin]

Uhhh STALKER 2 has women
Woke

Call of Pripyat, the best case scenario of ALife, is on consoles now

[knotty onyx]

They don't need to. It's a saturated field with basically no significant unions.

[tacit glacier]

Math are you really going to ignore the fact Shay made a mod that forced all active npc's on the worldmap to be traders that indirectly lets you see their movements?

[normal vigil]

It's also an ancient ass game lol

[remote eagle]

so?

[tacit glacier]

And when combat happens, some dots will disappear

[remote eagle]

does it make it shit?

[normal vigil]

So? X-Ray barely fucking ran right when it came out

[tacit glacier]

True

That engine is fickle

[remote eagle]

and u think its run good now?

[normal vigil]

Even with CoP they couldn't get it behave nice on rigs at the time

[trim iron]

x-ray was segmented, though

[tacit glacier]

I recently had a crash because it couldn't read ammo_9x18_ap section
Despite me shooting bandits with that ammo a second ago

[trim iron]

There's a difference between loading and maintaining a section of the map and doing the whole fucking thing at once

[tacit glacier]

Even in those segmented sections the game wont load everything

They are small enough to fool you

But stand on one end of zaton and use camera to view the other end
No npc's

[normal vigil]

I'm just saying if they made S2 simulated like old X-Ray somehow, it would probably take a lot of tweaking and still would run like ass on consoles.

If remember correctly there were some remnants of offline A-Life code at launch that got scrapped, maybe they originally wanted to do a proper sequel to X-Ray's A-Life but it just ran like shit on consoles so they had to scrap it.

But that's just my guess, who the fuck knows with GSC

[remote eagle]

[tacit glacier]

@trim iron example
When walking across the bridge the mercenaries in waste station don't appear until you are within online range.

There are some even funnier scenarios

[trim iron]

Bubble != segmented

[tacit glacier]

My point is that even with segmented world map in xray engine the game utilized the online bubble

Which in original was just 150m

If you pushed the online limit things started breaking
Example is the bloodsucker quest where Grouse would spawn underground for some reason, lol

[trim iron]

My point is system resource management and the available resources to run and track "static" game state

[tacit glacier]

Shadow of Chernobyl I think only simulated what was going on on the same map
Clear Sky expanded it where AI would do things even when you weren't on that map.
Call of Pripyat didn't have any way to track so I don't think there is a way to really confirm if a-life is persistent there, not like it needs to be.

Anomaly simulates what is happening on all maps at all time, but prioritizes the map the player is on in its calculations, I think

STALKER 2 technically simulates what is happening outside the online bubble if we believe the trader map from shay's mod.

points of interest can change hands

[pseudo falcon]

and since stalker 2 map is a whole unlike old games where its segmented
much harder?

[tacit glacier]

We know its a fact cause there were issues cased by that, lol

Bloodsuckers could take over a camp and then bodies would just litter the place because stalkers struggle against bloodsuckers, and those keep multiplying unless you kill all of them.

[pseudo falcon]

also hopefully we will get the underground labs too like the brain scorcher and miracle machine

[tacit glacier]

But yeah, simulating an entire map would be hard

Miracle Machine this summer

[pseudo falcon]

but...............why is the brain scorcher so fcking far to the left

[tacit glacier]

The DLC trailer showed the main chamber of x16

I think the most fun part will be exploring the CNPP again. We'll get to walk over some of the reactor blocks

[pseudo falcon]

so more accessible parts

neat

i tried playing s2 again
why dafuq do their guns disappear when i loot them

bruh

[tacit glacier]

kek

[tacit glacier]

I have a headcanon that during original trilogy the c-consciousness somehow managed to affect the zones layout with spatial anomalies. This way they could lock CNPP behind the brainscorcher.

[pseudo falcon]

i am using mods......is that an issue for the missing guns

[tacit glacier]

Because if you look at the s2 map then you can hardly explain stalker call of pripyat layout

mf janov station and pripyat outskirts are in the top left corner of the map

Then you have Zaton at the bottom right corner, to the right of Cordon, with fucking GREAT SWAMPS RIGHT BELOW IT

[knotty onyx]

They made it fit actual Chernobyl geography better.

The old school maps didn't really consider that as much.

[tacit glacier]

Great swamps just fucking migrated to the other side of the map, lmao

Yeah geography makes a lot more sense

There is a yt video detailing what path each hero took in previous games based on stalker 2 map

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s0zNK9JnNQ

[pseudo falcon]

time to watch it to see why s2 map is different

[remote eagle]

the most funny there is CoP one

[pseudo falcon]

hopefully we get more access to some map location
like limansk

[remote eagle]

its gonna be in 1st expansion

x-16 too

[kindred violet]

I'm looking forward to the DLC

Gonna be great being able to explore new old places

[pseudo falcon]

iirc duty vs freedom right?

i heard voronin was it?

i dont remember all stalker names lol

also some parts of the map are covered in fog
maybe GSC has some plans that might be added in the future updates

[kindred violet]

Yeah it's voronin

[kindred violet]

Well the CNPP and iron forest will be in this DLC

And they are currently covered by fog

There's also the ice island thing somewhere that is established in lore and we might see

[tacit glacier]

They brought back our chonky boy Zulu.

[peak eagle]

Hmm, to get the DLC or not I wonder

[slim moth]

i really need to watch this

been sitting in my watchlist for like a year

[tacit glacier]

same tbh

[tacit glacier]

I don't have to wonder, I upgraded to ultimate when the option appeared

[slim moth]

like i was trying to replay through the trilogy before the update. but god damn some of this shit is so jank even with mods

and im not touching EE

but Clear Skies ballistics are fucking awful borderline unplayable

but SoC and CoP are fine. CoP is a stutter fest.

[pseudo falcon]

also noticed, the barrier isnt in S2 kek

since AW then barrier then radar/brain scorcher

[tacit glacier]

Clear Sky + Sky Reclamation Project's Ballistics + SRAP is goated

[pseudo falcon]

it looks like this now

its weird..........wild territory and agroprom are near truck cemetery

[tacit glacier]

Yeah we're used to it being on the opposite side
But that's just how modders interpreted it

If we went with oblivion lost layout

We'd have Great Swamps to the left of Yantar

[pseudo falcon]

the only logical explanation is that on S2, the zone was hit with spacial anomaly on why the zone looks like now in S2

or used spatial anomaly to rearrange the zone

[slim moth]

isn't S2 more geographically accurate

[pseudo falcon]

and nobody noticed

[tacit glacier]

S2 is more geographically accurate

[pseudo falcon]

what source?

[slim moth]

maps

[pseudo falcon]

based on OG games?

or books

[slim moth]

real life ones

[pseudo falcon]

wait wut

[slim moth]

kek

[tacit glacier]

Chernobyl is a real location

lmao

[pseudo falcon]

how about the rest of the zone

[tacit glacier]

As I mentioned before, my headcanon is that CCon used spatial anomalies to re-arrange the zone before s2 and after a while of them being dead the zone went back to how it is meant to be

[slim moth]

Pre-s2 map was non-linear acid trip

[pseudo falcon]

so when the CCon was active? now that its dead it came back to what it used to be? something like that?

[tacit glacier]

yeah

[pseudo falcon]

hmmm that sounds logical

[tacit glacier]

It was said that paths to locations would open and close based on anomaly fields
Who's to say the map we have isn't just a jumbled mess because of that?

[slim moth]

i retcon, he retcon, he she we retcon

[pseudo falcon]

so i guess when the brain scorcher was active
it made a barrier like arc on why we cant go past yantar and red forest?

and was never meant to be beside red forest

[slim moth]

there is a diagram in-game that explains it

[pseudo falcon]

where

[slim moth]

it's like a chain of radars

[pseudo falcon]

btw is there a mod where i can reload while sprinting coz the staged reload is not enuf

[kindred violet]

And the main duga also has an area of effect which is the "rainbow emitter"

[pseudo falcon]

i see

[slim moth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB3OLnDZEIY

[pseudo falcon]

i want to reload like in gamma
coz having to sprint to avoid the mutants and my reload cancels is PAIN

even with staged reload

[tacit glacier]

sprint reloading would be a godsend

[slim moth]

i know it's game. but it is actually difficult to reload while sprinting in any circumstance

[kindred violet]

I recently watched the AD video about what happened in the experiment at sircaa

It's fascinating how much detail there is in the cutscenes and stuff

Like I totally didn't catch that during the experiment when everything goes wrong that it instead of connecting to the generators connects to the duga to transmit the signal

[nova lake]

heres the video
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1308034374473617459/1440009778452627506/S-T-A-L-K-E-R-_2-_Heart_of_Chornobyl_-_2025-11-08_22-55-08.mp4?ex=69c7535d&is=69c601dd&hm=0bf1b5972c9d6ea20fefd72d58cbc52983ace4620f1315b98dfaeb475351dd45&

[tacit glacier]

https://klipy.com/gifs/thats-it-yes-thats-it-1

There, the trader dots are moving

And those mf have names

[nova lake]

this is from 1.7

[tacit glacier]

The hilarious bit is, the screenshot was from a leak

Everything was pretty hush around the 1.7 alfie

Then Dave drops "Alife is real" video basically

[slim moth]

I think there is a lot of misconceptions and misunderstandings behind the current a-life that hasn't ever been addressed officially so it's hard for people to really know if it's actually "working" or not

[nova lake]

yhea it was pandemonium in the chat when that happened

but its in the past

[summer vapor]

Yes, but dynamic spawning is still in the game

[slim moth]

yeah, cause it has cutscenes, triggers, campaign etc it'd be dumb to not have some dynamic spawning

[tacit glacier]

Clear Sky also had dynamic spawning

In Swamps when crossing certain points you'd hear rustling in bushes and boars would randomaly appear out of a bush.

Funnily enough that mechanic seems to have only been used in swamps

The other case of spawning was in Call of Pripyat when getting to the minefield heli the wave of boars would run over towards Diegtyarov

Unlike Anomaly, STALKER 2 has some set pieces that the devs wanted players to see, so there are some restrictions in place.
Like when you exit the underground area in Zalisya bandits spawn outside.

[nova lake]

quest related spawning has always been a thing and I dont think that anyone contests that

[idle minnow]

If i were to get the deluxe edition right now, will i be included to get the new DLC when it comes out

or should i just wait for the DLC altogether?

[loud fossil]

honestly up to you if you want to spend more than you have to

Im in the skeptical wait to see camp

[idle minnow]

fair argument, im just more or less excited and ready to pay the big bucks even if the product might be disappointing

im here for the ride as long as the story is good

[summer vapor]

No, I mean the pre-1.7 spawning system is still there, as I understood from red moderator on the official server

[slim moth]

Oh no doubt it's still there in vanilla s2 a-life.

but i either play with FaW or Shay so those dynamic spawns are minimal

[warped monolith]

I don't think they'd ever remove the current spawn system

they're probably gonna use it as a basis for improvement and whatever form of a-life they manage to put in the game will be an additional system running alongside it

completely removing that system means they'd have to develop a new system ("a-life") from scratch, which would potentially take a long time and a lot of money to do

[pseudo falcon]

i only want reloading while sprinting or healing whiles sprinting
and bring back ANABIOTICS coz EMISSION IS A BITCH

i always need to be near a shelter when exploring coz you dont know when an emission occurs

being caught pants down with emission hapenning is a bad experience

[slim moth]

do you think the kadaver is gonna be a roaming mutant or just a scripted

[warped monolith]

my guess is it'll be a one-time boss fight

[slim moth]

yeaahhh

im leaning towards that too

[summer vapor]

Imo. Regarding 'A-Life' and why the game feels different from the trilogy: it’s actually because of the open world. The landscape is flat with fewer obstacles like fences,walls. Take this map, for example - when a player moves between locations, they imagine a long journey in their head. NPCs appearing doesn't raise any questions because they could have come from those unreachable areas. And so on.

[molten orchid]

Well, I've run into an interesting issue? I think I've soft-locked the "Once Upon A time at Kazkovyi" quest.

Ive ventured into this area before and did some looting and killed the Bayun cat inside the theatre. Now as part of the quest I need to go in there AGAIN and kill/loot whatever is in there. I cant proceed with the quest as the mission still shows I need to do something in that area...

Is it possible to spawn another Bayun in the mission area to kill it and continue the quest?

[warped monolith]

forgot the reputation system

[icy basin]

3D PDA
Who's asking for that

[warped monolith]

Anomaly/GAMMA players

muh immershun

[icy basin]

Kill all GAMMA players

[warped monolith]

on it boss

[loud fossil]

nooooooooooo NOT JOHN GAMMA

[molten orchid]

pls

Its stuck and I cant kill it

[warped monolith]

walking under a ladder gives you bad luck

[molten orchid]

Missions bugged. rip

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1ppfa2h/i_believe_im_encountering_a_bug_in_the_mission/

[true cobalt]

Hello there. Guys, does anyone know what might be causing this glitch when ADS? It only happens when aiming through optics, everything works fine with iron sights and collimators

[remote eagle]

agreed

[silver orchid]

CoPe is the best case scenario of A-Life
Even SoC A-Life is better because the NPCs can go through levels and not just being active in a single map.
CoPe A-Life is literally the worst of the saga, the NPCs can't go through levels, offline combat it's disabled (and it's broken), and if there transition between maps the performance will be destroyed to bits because that part of the A-Life it's broken and that's why CoPe don't has transitions.
HoC A-Life right now is the second or best A-Life of the saga, is pretty much +- almost the same A-Life of Clear Sky, and almost doens't mean being worse

[silver orchid]

Yes, the buggy and incomplete A-Life of Clear Sky is the best or the second best A-Life of the saga

Tho, with Cost of Hope HoC A-Life should be much better by that of faction wars

[tacit glacier]

For real
Clear Sky was amazing due to its background offline faction war

I remember doing side quests in swamps and Clear Sky just randomly decides to go sicko mode and cleared Renegades all on their own lmao

I didn't even get to help them in taking out the renegade base

[warped monolith]

wish that happened with me

clear sky kept getting their asses kicked

[tacit glacier]

Later same happens with Loners.
I'm in Dark Valley and they randomly took over Train Station and kicked the bandits out permanently from the game.

[warped monolith]

also as good as that system was, it's pretty sad that it was so under-utilized and barely had any importance with the game as a whole

[tacit glacier]

True
The system really only gained relevance in the first Warfare mod

Also known as..

The Faction War

It was buggy
It crashed a lot
But you could join a faction and take over the zone.

[hardy oracle]

is stalker 2 good?

[slim moth]

will stalker 2 master completion look good on my resume

[warped monolith]

it's also silly how CoP is the only game where you can choose to remain in the zone after completing the story, but it has no sandbox elements at all.
if it had the faction warfare feature, it'd make sense.

either that, or Clear Sky should've had had a sandbox post-game. though that wouldn't make sense with how the game ends, I suppose.

[tacit glacier]

If Clear Sky had repeatable quests then the ending could've put us in a new stalker with an option to choose a faction

[solar schooner]

how do i keep playing on the same save after i beat the game?

[slim moth]

you don't

[nova lake]

the modern gamer fears the ultimate challenge
resolution

[tender jay]

Is there a fix for the fucking softlock during 'in search of good old days'?? The door won't open at all and I'm at my wits end fr.

[slim moth]

do you have access to console

[torpid relic]

Warfare was amazing, untill it bugged out and kept spawning infnite ammount of Monolth flooding into Army warehouses causing massive fps drops.

[tender jay]

No

[slim moth]

then the best thing you can do is reload to an earlier save

[tender jay]

Thats what some people are saying online too. Reload an earlier save and literally b-line it to the door.

After like 4 attempts I just couldn't run fast enough

blows my mind that this hasn't been fixed yet by the devs like wtf

[slim moth]

yeah, i've heard of people people getting that bug for a while.

[warped monolith]

buy our DLC

[slim moth]

i don't think i've ever encountered it or if i did, i just reloaded in front of the door and it opens

maybe that was the skadovsk

[tender jay]

This is my first time fully playing through Stalker 2 and I'm just fucking apalled that a bug THIS bad still exists

[slim moth]

idk one of em

i mean, you could just noclip

[tender jay]

idk how

[slim moth]

and you're gucci

[tender jay]

I looked at UE4 tools and people are saying it doesn't work with latest update

[slim moth]

simple mod loader

[tender jay]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/304 This one?

[slim moth]

yessir

[tender jay]

I'll give it a try

[slim moth]

set yours to like 500

10000 is like.. me trying to be the flash. fast skeef

[midnight idol]

what is the state of stalker 2? how much is it better than it was at launch and how good is it modding scene?

[slim moth]

it will likely re-bloom with DLC drop

[warped monolith]

[warped monolith]

This is the current state of STALKER 2

[slim moth]

IF DLC drop includes more zone kit shit that'd be cool to but that's wishful thinking

[tender jay]

I don't like that it just resets you from before you did the last mission

I really don't like when games do that

[warped monolith]

would be impossible to accomodate DLCs with the multiple endings

[icy basin]

INB4 "You need to do this ending to get the DLC"

[delicate roost]

Who is this character?

[brave monolith]

Initially strelok's clone?

[icy basin]

Lyonya S. Kennskiy

[knotty onyx]

Strelok if the anomalous zone was in Turkey

[agile cave]

Final Strelok XVII

[golden hazel]

He knows where bingo is being held, that's for sure

[rough pike]

Nagiev

[fast scroll]

х

[warped monolith]

that'd just piss people off

[icy basin]

Good

[warped monolith]

we only want to piss gamma players off

[delicate roost]

Anarchists will pay.

[hallow plume]

Guys, I finished Stalker 2 few months ago (with plenty of mods, Oxid's as core one). Now Expedition came out.
I want get back to Stalker, but what would you recommend: Stalker 2 Expedition (+ mods, which?) or Stalker Gamma. I haven't play Gamma for a long time too (but I played 300+ hours before)

[nova lake]

these 2 arent comparable

[slender jungle]

what the hell is going on in this screenshot

[wispy stone]

Thoughts about Stalker 2?

[warped monolith]

Leon S Kennedy playing STALKER 2

[warped monolith]

it is one of the games ever

[delicate roost]

From a resident evil meme. I cropped the relevant.

[wanton osprey]

I've been directed here to say that stalker 2 is still in fact worse than this modpack

I'll be leaving now

[warped monolith]

I've been directed here to say that it is not smart to compare STALKER 2 to GAMMA

[azure spindle]

anyone know if grok has access to the super cool guy modding tools for stalker 2?