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

[icy basin]

Hey, is Skyrim worse than XYZ modpack for Skyrim

[eternal hound]

hey didnt play gamma for 3 years ,what did change ?

[wanton osprey]

nah the original conversation was "I returned to Stalker 2 a month ago and still can't be fucked to finish it, modpack better" and then I was told that stalker 2 convo is only allowed here

praise for the subject modpack isn't allowed if stalker 2 is in the same breath

[icy basin]

It's not not allowed, but also an extremely dumb comparison

[wanton osprey]

yeah well that's just, like, your opinion man

the whole point is that the modpack is so good even the official sequel to the trilogy is ruined now

[icy basin]

Sure

[wanton osprey]

okay let's rephrase it to make you happy, Stalker SoC is far better than Stalker 2 in its current state

[trim iron]

I swear this chat is 70% of the time "let me ask a subjective question because I can't think for myself, and then start a pointless argument about it"

[wanton osprey]

which question did anybody ask

[kindred violet]

oh boy, another one drawing comparisons between gamma and S2

[wanton osprey]

you will never be max payne

[kindred violet]

damn, you absolutely owned him

[wanton osprey]

he isn't giving me much to work with

hey man you guys ain't talking about shit in here anyway

[kindred violet]

at least remove your newcomer role before starting shit

[wanton osprey]

I come from the real world where things like that don't matter big dawg

[kindred violet]

good for you?

[wanton osprey]

damn, you absolutely owned me

anyway I was only posting that originally in here as a joke, didn't expect you nerds to reply and foam at the mouth. have a good one bois

[kindred violet]

ah yes, it was all a joke

[wanton osprey]

not everybody takes discord servers that seriously man

[undone vessel]

https://youtu.be/a5xBX_ENClY?si=8yTqy39F1umcL6r8

[silver orchid]

I know that is in-depth but make a video of 40 minutes taking as theme a trailer of 2 minutes and half is, ya know

[warped monolith]

you can say it.

or... actually, let me:

Extreme supreme autism

[undone vessel]

https://youtu.be/tHVD6TYZ3JY?si=FYTzOza6o7oWa0Qo

[warped monolith]

https://klipy.com/gifs/anthor-english-mistake

[mossy jasper]

Thank you ukraine for giving us dutiers more content

[devout seal]

has stalker 2 done a cyberpunk yet?

[icy basin]

Wait for engine update

[drowsy loom]

https://youtu.be/a5xBX_ENClY?si=eWrzpRo3rNGyKtZZ

[icy basin]

p!repost

[plucky ibex]

⠀

[minor adder]

are mutants still tanky as hell and my guns break in 2 mags?

[kindred violet]

No

[icy basin]

They never broke even remotely that quickly?

I got and played the game on release
They worked fine

[minor adder]

They broke extremely fast on release. You either dont remember or didnt pay much attention

[icy basin]

I played just fine until somewhere past Faust

(Even if the Faust fight ran at about 6fps)

[true yew]

Played since release, dont remember guns breaking that fast. Although, I didnt shoot a lot lot

[warped monolith]

nope, they'll do a cyberpunk once the DLC releases

[warped monolith]

guns breaking in 2 mags? from 100% condition? Not in 1.0 they didn't

either you had some mod that fucked up gun durability or you're the one misremembering

if that were true the starting AK would've broken in the fight against the scripted bloodsucker in the tutorial.

[gleaming moth]

It's weird that we are getting the CNPP as a DLC

[warped monolith]

agreed

[arctic marsh]

I am just glad they are still updating and adding to the game, been playing it stock again recently and its really not a bad game

I've got 128 hours in the game and haven't even ever made it to sirca

[arctic marsh]

yeah but it looks sick and their art team is phenomenal, getting to kill shit while dancing on top of the reactors and fuel rods looks sick

[gleaming moth]

Yeah but being able to explore the CNPP was the endgame of stalker, and they are selling it

[arctic marsh]

modern gaming for you

I am just grateful we got a sequel at all honestly

[gleaming moth]

Should be free honestly, it's what the game is known for

[arctic marsh]

what can you do

dont buy it

[warped monolith]

modern consumerism for you

"at least we got something"

[arctic marsh]

All things considered we are lucky to even have the sequel though

I've enjoyed my time with it and have gotten like 15% threw the story lol

One mans trash is another mans treasure

[gleaming moth]

I mean, that's why the game didn't do as well as people hoped it would, on one side it launches prematurely full of bugs to give the studio enough resources to work on it, and on the other side people will just say "don't buy it" when you call out the absurdity of selling the endgame as a DLC

[arctic marsh]

The game is complete as is

People love to ignore the circumstances around the games development

[warped monolith]

they don't - it's just that it doesn't excuse the sloppy release

[arctic marsh]

They absolutely do but alright.

[warped monolith]

they could've scaled down the project
they could've delayed the release to finish it

but they decided to release it as it was, for full price

[arctic marsh]

They could of not made the game

they could of this and that, it is what it is

[warped monolith]

that's more their problem than ours, you know.

[gleaming moth]

It is either one or another issue, judging by the graphics, new engine, new maps, they had all the time they need to hopefully fix most of the bugs that were present on release lol

[warped monolith]

society wasn't gonna collapse if Stalker 2 never existed

[arctic marsh]

I don't think it's anyone's problem it's a video game

[warped monolith]

properly releasing a game is someone's problem - the dev's

[arctic marsh]

If you think a piece of art is dog shit don't buy it

[warped monolith]

looping back to this

[arctic marsh]

Yet here they are almost 2 years later releasing DLC for it and still fixing it, and upgrading the engine which never happens

[gleaming moth]

You know you can criticize things while also liking/supporting them, right

[arctic marsh]

I don't disagree with that

[warped monolith]

I'll believe this engine upgrade when I see it. As of right now it's just a promise that has been made 6 months ago

with nothing to show for it

[arctic marsh]

the entire trailer was on the upgraded engine

[warped monolith]

btw "we promise we'll fix the game, pls give us money"

[gleaming moth]

If you paid attention to the launch you'd know that they fkdup immensely by launching the game with so many polishing issues, it was hyped to the max before release and one day after release i was already seeing memes about the terrible launch lol

[warped monolith]

again I'll believe it when I see it.
We've all witnessed enough suspicious "game trailers" that end up being downgraded at release

[silver orchid]

In the build of 2023 the CNPP even had interiors but hey, is not easy do stuff for DLCs

Initially i was thinking that finally that perhaps the CNPP would be a place without much importance, just a place to explore and see part of the past

[gleaming moth]

I know, it's just absurd to say they didn't launch it with a proper endgame because of monetary issues when it was clearly already 70% finished or so on release xD

[warped monolith]

on one hand I'd argue the NPP is the "main character" of the game

on the other hand I don't particularly dislike the fact that the story doesn't focus on it like the other games did

moving on to different things is sometimes a good idea

[silver orchid]

Yeah, itself is a big thingi but i like more that not much thingis be focused around it, have new locations or other old locations having +- the same importance than the CNPP in this x game or this other game is better imo

[gleaming moth]

Yeah but how do you do that when the CNPP is the center of the Zone and HQ of C conciousness

[warped monolith]

I would argue for different things if GSC didn't immediately revert to the miracle machine/brainscorcher/wishgranter trifecta

because that would make me look silly

[silver orchid]

"Somehow the big brain returned"

[warped monolith]

but yeah if GSC had actually made new plot points for a different story, they could make something that works

SIRCAA was their attempt but apparently people didn't like it much

[gleaming moth]

But honestly isn't this what people wanted? modern stalker true to the roots? GAMMA is more or less like this and people love it, it just has more steps.

[warped monolith]

I would personally prefer playing something that isn't just Shadow of Chernobyl 2.0 in terms of plot

but it is what it is

[gleaming moth]

Yeah they could have made it different, i agree

[silver orchid]

this game without many nostalgiabaits would be much better than already is, shrimply there thingis that must stay in their game, like, the X-16, CNPP, x characters and other locations, em could remains (and even some would be deleted) but these thingis should have been evolved in other ways, the game it's set 9 years after of the trilogy (in 2021) and is not like if the difference of years be very noticeable

[gleaming moth]

It fails at even that since it doesn't have the same atmosphere of the CNPP in SoC

[gleaming moth]

Exactly

[warped monolith]

unfortunately players disliked most of the new content that wasn't nostalgiabait
no one liked IPSF
no one liked the new factions that took center stage while Duty/Freedom was left as smaller background groups
only faction I remember seeing a lot of positive feedback was Noontide, but... we know how that one turns out

so now they're going back to the old stuff because that's what most players want, apparently

also it seems the entire story of Cost of Hope is a side questline that was cut from the base game

although there's no source to this info, so it could be false

[silver orchid]

eee

A considerable quantity of the ideas of the DLC initially were planned for the base game

[warped monolith]

so it seems HoC was originally planned to be a much bigger game with Duty and Freedom being more important

(also I still don't understand the point of the D4 Treaty forcing Duty to give Rostok to Freedom)

[silver orchid]

Id say more thingis beyond the freedom vs duty theme but hey, is a paid DLC and the people want read the content of the DLC playing the game and not reading a guy in internet

[silver orchid]

DLC01 initially wasn't supposed to be that big, actually, they started to make areas of DLC02 before of start the work in DLC01

[mossy jasper]

Isn't the whole gimmick of Stalker 2 that the CNPP is no longer the centre of the Zone

But instead the electric field

[gleaming moth]

Then why is it a DLC

[mossy jasper]

"Oh look the nostalgia location is acting up again"

[golden hazel]

DEADLY ANOMALIES DANGEROUS MUTANTS ANARCHISTS AND BANDITS

[mossy jasper]

Abit dumb but this is how games have been

[warped monolith]

same reason duty and freedom are DLC

[golden hazel]

Can't wait for the clear sky and monolith dlc

[warped monolith]

the sad fact is - people just want Shadow of Chernobyl 2.0

and that's what GSC is doing now

[warped monolith]

clear sky and cop dlc

[golden hazel]

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

By the end of the dlc it'll reveal that Skeefa has actually been the real shadow of chernobyl the entire time and his hairline becomes Strelok's

[warped monolith]

[gleaming moth]

Mutants DLC dropping when

[remote eagle]

[summer vapor]

Korogorod dlc when

[silver orchid]

Not sooo fun-fact:
HoC development initially started like a remake of SoC and not like a sequel, and imo u can feel that in the plot

[silver orchid]

Never

that region it's dead

In retail Korogod it's changed, "destroyed" to be a shrimple background more

Also, several ideas of Korogod were moved to other regions

Korogod concept arts

[kindred violet]

Idk guys but I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with the DLC, whatever it is, it'll be more stalker and that fucks hard

[potent zinc]

Dlc when

[kindred violet]

Summer

[long laurel]

Are NPC able to loot/pick up guns on the ground now ?

[kindred violet]

I know that NPCs will crouch down near corpses but I've never checked if they actually take stuff as I'm usually faster than them

[summer vapor]

No

[long laurel]

Wow A-life 2.0 much

[warped monolith]

!noalife

[fallen iron]

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

[long laurel]

Tomorrow is A-life 2.0 releasing

Trust

[knotty onyx]

So many talk about A Life, but can any of them get a life?

[nova lake]

!alife

damn, wheres the other command

[knotty onyx]

!hasalife

[fallen iron]

⠀

[nova lake]

thx

[brave monolith]

Should buy stalker 2 now before steammincrease prices?

[icy basin]

Really waited until the Spring Sale ended huh

Oh actually it's still on sale

I'd say go for it

You got time to decide

[warped monolith]

30% discount is not bad at all

[slim moth]

i just went ahead and got the ultimate

standard to ultimate

now i get cool call of duty skinsss

i hope it's nicki minaj

or ryan gosling

[brave monolith]

Found a 37% off in a digital store.

Now im tempted to.look at ultimate instead of standart. But i dont know if its worthed

[warped monolith]

it includes the future story DLCs so in my opinion it's worth

even though I don't know if the DLCs are actually gonna be good

[granite plinth]

https://tenor.com/view/eating-eat-eating-food-monster-h-reginald-gif-2362901127389079325

[wide herald]

what is the state of stalker 2 guys? honest opinions

[left adder]

I’m having a great time except for when enemies walk through a doorway and blast me with 1 bullet through the door as if they have x ray vision

[wide herald]

loool

as long as gamma lives, i will not play stalker 2

[kindred violet]

Good for you?

[wide herald]

lol

[trim iron]

https://giphy.com/gifs/tired-yawn-nap-time-35NW2RXmekif8uQfxw

[steep pivot]

Stalker 2, 2.0 is gonna be bigggg for sure

[remote eagle]

[digital plume]

its too expensive ... for what i know about it ...

[undone vessel]

https://youtu.be/KWl1itEoJNM?si=rLHQwL3IfaAeuAy9

[vestal cargo]

not a crucial issue for me but just curious .
Is there a way to reduce the blur ? at 1080p and using DLAA aswell

[nova lake]

try to run it natively

[undone vessel]

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-steve-carell-michael-scott-omg-oh-my-god-gif-5058625

[unborn kelp]

ha
ha ha
SOOOOOOOOOOO FUNNY GUIS!!!11!!

[warped monolith]

then why are you even asking about stalker 2

[kindred violet]

Banger song actually

[slim moth]

✨Attention ✨

[warped monolith]

[arctic marsh]

Could try supersampling, I run it at 1440 on my 1080 monitor, makes it much clearer.

[vestal cargo]

completely forgot about that...I'll try

[tacit glacier]

What do you mean 12/05

Why do the binoculars have to cook for a whole month and a half still yo 😭

[warped monolith]

pls give the smol indie dev a break they're doing their best

[tacit glacier]

I think the funniest part about this is the fact that I own those binoculars

[warped monolith]

peak

you can compare the videogame version and make a reddit thread nitpicking about inaccuracies

[tacit glacier]

lmao

But yeah I got a similar looking binocular model passed down to me from my granddad after he passed away.

Used them a few times to look at the moon

Great now I realized 2019 was 7 years ago

[warped monolith]

[loud fossil]

[icy basin]

Do you need help to go get your retirement payouts, old man

[torn rampart]

hi guys i was thinking of getting stalker 2

how is the game doing now after the updates?

[granite plinth]

I'm scared to open this

[tacit glacier]

It's just 5 minutes of spinning binoculars

But there is a date on them that suggests they'll be added next month

[kindred violet]

Are we assuming that's going to be the 1.8.1 patch?

[silver orchid]

The binoculars have DLCS in development, soon the binoculars will be a standalone game

[kindred violet]

A whole game that's just turning the binoculars

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/banana-soldier-tf2-soldier-tf2-microwave-gif-27459888

[trim iron]

I hope it means more than just "we are adding binoculars" because that's a pretty lame attempt at generating hype.
It better come with increased bubble range to make binoculars and scopes more useful

[vestal cargo]

perform well ..didnt saw any vram leaks so far 🤌

[main dune]

AK74S

[warped monolith]

skeefa we must go to the shining zone to find the binoculars

[sage jolt]

I can run it on max settings with a frame rate of 60 and the photoreal mods.

this is after not touching it since release and i only got 35-40 back then.

[warped monolith]

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

[torn rampart]

damn

maybe it is time to give it a try

gonna end my gamma run them wait a little and start a run in stalker 2

[vivid path]

Wait until the engine update™ imho... it's gotten much better but the AA/Lighting implementation in the current engine makes me sad

[torn rampart]

i see

hope they can fix that before my run on gamma end

[slim moth]

if that isn't the entire point of making it, then i don't see the point in putting binocs in at all.

[warped monolith]

I think he means whatever update brings the (rather highly requested) binoculars into the game also has more new features

than just "hey we added binocs" but didn't improve anything else

it's about as useful as rifle scopes with the current dynamic spawn system creating enemies out of thin air within less than 100m distance, I'd imagine

[slim moth]

x8 rifle scope is really just x4 in any other game

if they add PiP scopes, that'd be peak

[warped monolith]

https://gifconvert.vxtwitter.com/convert.avif?url=https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/HBfXeDcXcAASGSr.mp4

here, an even better gif

[slim moth]

i've been playing crimson desert and the LOD for characters is like 65m before they completely derender

Atleast Stalker 2's isn't that bad

[kindred violet]

Lmao

[warped monolith]

not only characters

the plants and fruit you can collect pop in and out of render as well

many environment objects, too

and the game has a visual glitch where in some areas (mostly indoors), things you already looted are visually there again, but once you move close enough they vanish

Kliff is a schizo

[slim moth]

yeah for plants and fruit it's even closer. most of those things are fine, and for the most part with how traversing works i don't notice the npc's popping in and out cause they did a good job making it seamless

but ig it's kinda easier to forgive those things cause it's hella fantasy

[solid heron]

Guys do you recommand me stalker 2, I’m obsessed with gamma and I watched some playthrough of stalker 2 and I like it
I’m just scared that my PC doesn’t run it well

[warped monolith]

Stalker 2 is extremely different when compared to gamma

it's meant to be a sequel to the original trilogy, so it doesn't have almost any of the extra things anomaly/gamma have

if you're concerned about performance, the only suggestion here would be to buy it, test it out and refund if it runs bad

[solid heron]

And about the Zone, story and atmosphere, can it be compared to Gamma ?

And yet, even if it doesn’t have gamma’s features, does the gameplay feel good ?

[visual minnow]

Is it known when we’re getting the engine update yet or is it still unknown?

Im honestly just waiting for the Engine update to get back into the game

[silver orchid]

it's not going to be released with the 1.9 supposedly

Possibly the engine update will be released with the DLC and the 2.0

[visual minnow]

FUCK

I dont want to wait until august for ts

[kindred violet]

You will wait and you will be happy about it

[warped monolith]

not yet, probably once the DLC comes out

[warped monolith]

story is arguably "better" since gamma story is either a copypaste of the og games (like the loner story is basically shadow of chernobyl) or dumb fanfic (Sin)
atmosphere and the zone? will heavily depend on your opinion, it won't have as much variety in anomalies and mutants, and the atmosphere might be worse if you prefer the game to look gritty and grimdark - stalker 2 is more colorful

[golden hazel]

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

[mental fractal]

how is stalker 2 experience, been debating buying it but not sure yet, mostly worried about performance

[left adder]

4090/r9 7900x here. I use a bunch of mods but nothing that heavily changes textures nor any reshades

all settings on high and DLSS set to quality
with frame gen on: 170-200
frame gen off: 100-120

I've only crashed because of random mod incompatibility issues, game itself has been fine.

[mental fractal]

hmm I have a 9800X3D (recent upgrade) but havent been able to upgrad from my 3070TI xd

[left adder]

No harm in seeing how you go

Buy it on steam, play for 1.5h. If it doesnt feel good enough just submit a refund

[icy basin]

5600X and Intel B580
I do fine with 60-80FPS
All upscaling and framegen turned off

[mental fractal]

What the hell is an Intel b850

[icy basin]

A GPU in the Intel Battlemage line

Supposedly slightly better than RTX4060

[nova lake]

Fast Paced Gunplay with uncomplicated systems

[torpid relic]

the new Intel gpus, there probably the most cost efficent ones out there, not anymore due to the ramageddon but it seems intel tries to take over the low end market sector, there pretty good from what i have heard.

[knotty onyx]

Intel also making a solid CPU at $200 now

Right on time for ram to be super expensive 😭

[digital mist]

intel GPU's are pretty good for the cost, the issue is more so how new they are that they dont have all the drivers for older stuff

[granite plinth]

this fucking game is actively, fervently, passionately working against being a enjoyable fucking experience

[warped monolith]

is that the prologue poltergeist lol

I had more trouble with the bandits at the start because they were actually intelligent

[granite plinth]

y

eah he

k

[warped monolith]

one chucked grenades while the other flank rushed me with a boomstick

[granite plinth]

my keyboard is broken or something

yeah he got me through a wall and one-shot me

like 20 years of development for this horseshit lmao

[granite plinth]

I just shot them in the head and hid behind a rock but their bullet tracers were quite literally just phasing through the rock so I had to use all my medkits and then I uninstalled the game

the grass looks like a rotten celery smoothie on xbox and the shadows are just non-stop flickering, it's even worse than when I played it on cloud two years ago

[warped monolith]

that is the poltergeist's gimmick... throwing shit at you while hiding in another room

[granite plinth]

he threw it through the wall so I didn't even have the opportunity to see it floating

[warped monolith]

watched it frame by frame and only now noticed it

thought it was the same barrel that was tipped over at the corner

but it was a copy of it

clipping through everything in its path

peak zone fuckery

remember it's not a bug, it's an anomaly

[granite plinth]

bigass rusty barrel just materializing and liquidizing my organs 😭

I would pass it off if the gameplay wasn't so boring tbh all you do is strafe back and forth holding the shoot button and occasionally press f1

[warped monolith]

this is also weird, because normally when I get hit by man-sized objects at mach fuck-you speeds I only lose like 10% health

I thought this was the norm since SoC

[granite plinth]

and the reward is watching the corpses stand up and fall back down after killing them

[granite plinth]

I'm on veteran

[warped monolith]

I was on veteran too

[granite plinth]

I suppose on the hardest difficulty it kills you twice

[warped monolith]

and played the originals on master

[granite plinth]

they're so easy in my opinion but they're fun still

[warped monolith]

physics-based damage was always buggy in my personal experience

you see a huge metal barrel flying at you at the speed of sound and it barely scratches you

[granite plinth]

or the opposite, the plastic cap of a water bottle decapitates you

god if they fixed the smearing it would be nice

I managed to fix the horrible input lag by sacrificing achievments for an Xbox frametime stabilizer mod

[slim moth]

very common bug for vanilla stalker 2 that came about with either patch 1.7 or 1.8. even with mods/supposed fixes, they're still pretty broken. hopefully 1.9 fixes this

[sweet mica]

I saw the new trailer, I gotta say this may be the game I finally pick a side and it will be Duty probably. I want Zulu

[silver orchid]

Stalker Mobile is canon!!!

[mental fractal]

ok performance looking good, BUT those keybinds are horrendous XDDD

also the fuck is this

[loud fossil]

running as intended

[mental fractal]

is this actually a current build bug or what XD

[loud fossil]

I have no idea 😭

[warped monolith]

isn't that related to upscaling shenanigans

[mental fractal]

turning on my motion blur to 10% stops it but xd

[warped monolith]

UE5 moment

[mental fractal]

yea dunno I tried DLAA but didnt help, turning on motion blur stopped it XD

[remote eagle]

bruh imagine getting full repaired svd in prologue on master

[mental fractal]

are these bandits I cannot tell

[remote eagle]

that money i spent on mosin is wasted

i did all that parkour and mine defusing to get 1 slice of bread

[mental fractal]

bruh nvm, why does my game randomly consume all like 99% of my GPU and lockout

[silent salmon]

Somebody can say to me if the gamma has multiplayer?

or its only solo?

[kindred violet]

Wrong chat, also rule 11

And no, it doesn't

[exotic sedge]

Hi, can anyone help me? I'm having a problem with Stalker Anomaly.

[inner basin]

any ideas if i can get this portable on my legion tab

[dapper talon]

mo2 wont open

it sais there no mod organiser

[silver orchid]

Maybe some comments generate attraction to unknown systems

[jolly pelican]

will it be safe if i download another copy of stalker anomaly separately from gamma?

[trim iron]

#╟🔰☢newbies-chat

[timber nova]

This amused me greatly while playing Gray Zone Warfare

[warped monolith]

what exactly is wrong with you

"meanie" says the guy spamming a random-ass twitch channel

[eager solstice]

@ionic needle (catfarts.) has been banned for reason: Diarrhea'd twitch links all over STALKER 2 channel and said "add me for cultural experience". Mate, your ass is a suspicious account.

[remote eagle]

i missed kino again

[silent socket]

My game bugs In sircaa missions

I'm gonna cry

And going to install gamma until GSC make a new patch

[idle oasis]

Finally finished STALKER 2
Went for ||the Project Y ending|| on my first playthrough
It was alright. Loved the environment. Wish the guide/Fast-travel system was better as back-tracking to previous area can feel like a slog.

Boy does the game start to get noticeably buggy half-way By the aftermath of the SIRCAA mission, there was a side-mission of protecting Zalissya. That was bugged as hell
Think you were supposed to encounter Monolithians sieging the large building, but everyone kept spawning in the cellar that was in front of the Large building. I could hear them fighting inside the cellar. Had to peak through the door cracks, since it was locked, just to kill them which took a while. Luckily the mission continued on when I was able to do that.

[cloud scroll]

can't even really play stalker 2 atm as the game crashes at certain locations if you are using a newer amd gpu (I have 9070 XT). I have a slight hope that this might be fixed in the upcoming patch

[hexed vine]

I havent played this game but have heard its so disappointing

I guess yall just gotta wait for full mod support, stalker 2 GAMMA LOL

[cloud scroll]

will be a pretty good game for what it is if it actually gets finished some day. still work to do with the bugs and missing features

kinda like cyberpunk 2077

[warped monolith]

who's "yall"

you're gonna be waiting for a while if you want gamma 2

[hexed vine]

funny you think my pc can run stalker 2, let alone gamma at a good fps

[cloud scroll]

I have a feeling both games have a tendency to run like sh1t even with a good computer

[gloomy mason]

whens the multi-threading update? I might hold off on starting my playthrough over until then

[hexed vine]

soon?? I think gamma is getting it with 0.9.5

im p sure grok made another banger mod for it

[gloomy mason]

oh Ithought you meant for S2

[hexed vine]

nah nah nah, S2 has multithreading it just runs like shit because UE5

[gloomy mason]

Yeah thats what I was thinking

thats why I was peaked when you said "Multithreading update" like oh shit tehy're making it BETTER

cos ngl right now the game runs like 200% better than it did at launch on my shit system

and I 100%'d the game at launch

[hexed vine]

I heard they are moving too UE 5.5 soon, stay up to date with that since it'll make the game run so much better

right now its on UE 5.3 I think

[gloomy mason]

Thank god, I can't wait for stalker 2 to finally be a good game

like its a great game but its held back by the version of the engine they're running and the lack of time to optimize the product before launch

[hexed vine]

yeah they have kinda gone with a "release now, fix later" approach which sucks

[gloomy mason]

I understand from a business standpoint with their situation

like disregarding the war

[hexed vine]

me too, im just glad we got another stalker game. more people need to know about this peak series

[gloomy mason]

they'd already delayed it so many times and people were convinced it wasn't coming out. If they delayed it again they would have went belly up in refunds and lack of investor funds

[hexed vine]

right right

[gloomy mason]

so from a business standpoint, they fucking had to

unfortunately

but yeah atleast we got the game

[hexed vine]

yeahhh, it sucks. but the devs have been putting in some elbow grease to make it somewhat better

[gloomy mason]

and in its 1.0 release state it was still REALLY solid. I didn't run into any game breaking bugs until I went searching for them. I think the Duga crashed a couple times and uhhhhhhhhhhh fuck what was his name

blind dude didn't drop his quest item so I ahd to install the console commands mod to spawn it in

but after that I had ZERO issues with the game other than frame rate and my room being a constant 105 degrees

[silver orchid]

If u believe or know that ur PC can't run this game, then why u are in this channel apart of that seems u don't have interest on talk smth about the content of it

[gloomy mason]

you can still discuss the game without being able to play it ._.

[silver orchid]

The engine right now is UE 5.1 GSC (that's the name of the fork), the engine update is to UE 5.5.4 and that update most probably will be released alongside the DLC

[silver orchid]

Im not saying that one can't do it, just is smth like "mmm, what i can dooo, i got it, shitting on this game without nothing more🔥"

[hexed vine]

because im still interested in the game and want to discuss it, I know i cant play it but stalker is still an intrest of mine and I have the right to talk about it

[hexed vine]

peaaaak

im excited for yall

my poor rx580 would habe a stroke

[gloomy mason]

Yeah I got sidetracked but I was about to say it seems like bread is still genuinely interested in the game, they're just stating that they heard the game was disappointing for some

which honestly yeah thats a fair criticism.

[silver orchid]

I think that in theory u would play the game with that one, i've reading that the game needs more CPU-resources than anything

[gloomy mason]

Esp if you only came from Anomaly or Gamma- yeah. You're not gonna have as good of a time because the sandbox isn't nearly as fleshed out. But for those that came from the OG trilogy, it was fantastic

[hexed vine]

im looking from a biased standpoint so yeah its fair to say I shouldn't be shitting on the game when I havent even played it. but yeah I did hear the launch was disappointing to some people and ig I just echoed that into here LOL

[gloomy mason]

they also recently had a bios update for the rx series of cards

like the 480-580 that improved FPS alot, and I think stalker has FSR Support

[hexed vine]

I am so cooked, I have a xeon..

LOLL

200 dollar PC build, type of shit you would find in the zone

[gloomy mason]

have you tried running an actual system benchmark?

you could quite literally just buy the game on steam, try it, and if it doesnt work refund it

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[hexed vine]

thus is true

[gloomy mason]

you'll find out pretty quick in the first 30 minutes if you can run it or not

like right after the scene with hermann in the truck you're immediately rendering the entire world

[hexed vine]

ill gove it a look, qnd if it doesnt work then ill just refund

[gloomy mason]

Thats always worst case scenario, refund and grab it at a later point when you can run it

but tbh if you can afford to do it soon- Try to source a AM4 PC

Ryzen processors are plentiful and cheap, DDR4 ram is still fairly cheap. And platter drives are good for media storage, don't let anyone tell you different.

[nova lake]

this is a year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTtH-jAtHrg

[hexed vine]

oh hell ah

[warped monolith]

[supple orbit]

Gamma runs on a 2007 engine so running it is nothing like 2024 Stalker 2. Which is honestly expected.

[boreal frost]

THE ROOM, is so shit. If you don’t know what I’m talking about don’t worry about it

[left adder]

https://tenor.com/view/the-room-tommy-wiseau-youre-gif-6737361917892721466

[ocean laurel]

When this game is worth it to play at this patch state, played since launch and stopped at patch 1.2

[ancient zephyr]

Yoo

[onyx crane]

Здраствуйте ребят подскажите где найти флэшку в сталкере 2 журналиста или кто выдаёт

[icy basin]

You get it in your stash :)

[frank whale]

can somebody help me with the miracle machine mission ?

[tacit glacier]

Ayo

Nobody talking about the fact the coming update is apparently adding X-18

[kindred violet]

well, this is news to me lmao

[warped monolith]

I love how their "announcement" for it is a 30 word message on the steam news page and nothing else

[tacit glacier]

"Fans like cryptic update messages right?"

[tacit glacier]

Some mf made a very cool looking interface series

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2137

[warped monolith]

very cool throwback to the OG loading screens

[tacit glacier]

stelth

I find it funny, that it is entirely possible to stealth through the Solder mission in Zalissya in Ward path up until the cutscene.

[golden hazel]

This does put a HoC to my Tuah

[silver orchid]

sovvvl

[vestal cargo]

Any recommended places to find a compass artifact ? Tried chemical plant and cordon gravity anomaly but no luck....😔

[kindred violet]

I found mine in zaton in the claw anomaly

[tacit glacier]

Currently any artefact can spawn pretty much anywhere so its purely luck based I guess.
It still respects anomaly type but you don't have to go super far north for example.

[tacit glacier]

DLSS 5 was not kind on Strelok

[kindred violet]

Skeefa I need to protect my zona waifu tips fedora

[iron prawn]

is playing stalker 2 with a controller feasible?

specifically the steam deck controllers

[knotty onyx]

Yeah. It's made for PC and console

[remote eagle]

open the door update

https://tenor.com/view/absolute-cinema-raccoon-absolute-cinema-gif-17862327649353748812

[warped monolith]

DOOR STUCK update

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/let-me-in-annoyed-stuck-outside-open-the-door-open-up-gif-16568613

[silk dove]

https://tenor.com/view/counterstrike-csgo-door-stuck-knife-lit-gif-13501025

[pliant trail]

absolute UNIT

[torpid relic]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-clear-sky-clear-sky-monolith-monolith-exo-gif-11176946834995647092

[peak eagle]

And here I thought X18 would be a DLC location

[tacit glacier]

"If you were a strategist then how come you're dead?"

Also shooting blind dogs with a shotgun when using the gore mod has some phenomenal results

mf blown off its leg and head, you can see them actually detached short distance away

D a m n

[zenith plover]

On my first playthrough of this since i upgraded my pc enough to play it and i just gotta say.||Just met Strelok, This is such a good god damn game.||

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/futurama-farnsworth-shreds-to-shreds-you-say-gif-19143723

[summer vapor]

There was a Fallout 4 mod that let you dismember enemies while they were still alive

[tired olive]

Indeed it is, I bought a very beefy computer before launch but had to wait a year just to get decent frames with fsr enabled, was worth the wait thought.

[trim iron]

"very beefy" and had to wait a year, yet I got "decent* frames with an i5 and 3080 at launch

What's your opinion of "decent"? 60+?

[tired olive]

150+

I have an 9800 x3d with rx 7800 xt and I get around 160-170 fps with FSR 3.1 on, which makes it playable.

[icy basin]

Decent is 150?
Damn

I cannot imagine your pain if you had to play sub-20

[warped monolith]

"playable"

I knew peak comedy was about to happen and this chat never disappoints

[trim iron]

"OldSchool" shit talking

[warped monolith]

he could be oldschool while enjoying new tech

not every 'old school' guy is a luddite

[trim iron]

https://giphy.com/gifs/bbhst-mGDYL0YjfuVOaLOWr4

[near forge]

My 2070 super running this game at 1440p graphics all on high dlls quality no fsr and always 60+ fps. More than that feels like a waste lol.

[zenith plover]

I wish the dlss had better quality but that's literally it. I'm running like 50 - 70 frames consistently on max blast 1440 with dlaa. Like I want to replay the game immediately after beating it in a ng+ mode but I know that doesn't exist.

[zenith plover]

i wish the rpm had the 5.45 conversion mod like the Kharod has. With how rare 7.62 is, its better shot out of either the svd or the dnipro upgraded.

[tired olive]

I think the performance will get better after the upcoming unreal 5.5 UE update, let's see
they have many things to fix for this masterpiece but they are hard at work as it seems

[warped monolith]

hard at work selling DLC...

[vital harbor]

i keep getting i am launch error what does this mean?

[zenith plover]

yeah, i saw stuff about that. For all they have had to work through i am truly amazed by every aspect of this game. What's more impressive is how fucking close GAMMA got to the vision of stalker held by GSC

[silver orchid]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-cat-kitty-depressed-guangdang-sad-meow-gif-2548323962849249220

[warped monolith]

bro same

[tired olive]

These are huge facts, I have started playing GAMMA less than a week ago and got addicted, the game design visuals and gameplay feel on the same level as stalker 2 which I recently finished, doesn't feel like a ~20 year game

I can't wait (probably a decade lmao) to see what stalker 2 gamma will look like

[zenith plover]

the moment stalker 2 gets its last update the engine will be ripped out by the community faster than a spine is in mortal kombat

[raven flint]

The community will make Stalker 2 better than GSC did.

[brave monolith]

Just bought stalker 2. Got a nice deal . Standart edition though.

[pseudo falcon]

i know im late but

[warped monolith]

hydrogen baby

[chrome vale]

where even is x-18

i forgot

[tacit glacier]

Oh shit I got an answer

[tacit glacier]

Dark Valley. The first lab you are sent to by Barman

[onyx harbor]

Does anyone else dislikes the way some mutants like dogs for instance behave in fight? As soon as they're in the crosshair, they start zigzaging weirdly. Also why do they act as humans taking cover behind trees when you have the height advantage?

[remote eagle]

u also could get there in S2 if u going with spark for early missions

[tacit glacier]

To be fair you only explore the first two floors and never go deeper into the lab

I wonder if this update will basically be x18 that was in the build GSC accidentally leaked on torrents before release

[remote eagle]

we'll see

[golden hazel]

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

[tacit glacier]

I am wheezing

I am catching up on Gopher playing STALKER 2

And his reaction to burers is golden

Man never ended up playing Call of Pripyat after getting burned on Clear Sky (which I don't think he officially managed to finish)
So he never seen those before.

"mutant dwarf wizard"

And "evil Gimli"

[pseudo falcon]

so they have a plan for a story for it
might be a sidequest but its better than none lol

also need more guns and attachments

like AK platform having rails as upgrades
so you can use pso scopes or rail mounted scopes

sadly
only the ak74u has it and its only red dots

[tacit glacier]

We know there are 4 guns coming in the DLC at the very least

[pseudo falcon]

yeah
dunno what names tho

iirc one of them is HK

[tacit glacier]

HK-51, HK-433, SVU Bullpup, SKS-45

[pseudo falcon]

dafuq
dont we have SVU already?

but i guess.........that svu will be just the svu we got and it has more attachments or you can mount a rail with upgrades

[tacit glacier]

As you typed that and I scrolled down someone said "don't we have SVU already" there too

[pseudo falcon]

[tacit glacier]

I think the new is foregrip and red dot

[pseudo falcon]

or its an upgrade where you can mount that dove tail rail and foregrip

oh well
we will see on when update drops

[tacit glacier]

I can't remember what upgrades does it have rn

[pseudo falcon]

angle grip and laser iirc

honestly
they need to add foregrip attachments

[remote eagle]

svu got foregrip upgrade too

kek

[tacit glacier]

AK Dong

[pseudo falcon]

so its just an additional upgrade on the upgrade tree

[remote eagle]

yeah probably

[tacit glacier]

What we also need, is the ability to toggle upgrades on and off

[pseudo falcon]

honestly i like the attachment system of OXA
so we can customize it to our liking

[remote eagle]

[tacit glacier]

If you want to remove the laser sight you have to go to the technician

Just let us do it from the PDA upgrades tab

[pseudo falcon]

huh? i think i can do it tho

[pseudo falcon]

oh thats what you mean

[tacit glacier]

PDA has the attach keybind show but it does NOTHING

[pseudo falcon]

true

[tacit glacier]

Also youtube rotted my brain, nothing makes me think of that meme

"Nothin?"

[pseudo falcon]

[nova lake]

attaching the laser is the same as attaching the scope if I need to go to the pda to attach the laser, thatll be dumb

[tacit glacier]

It's not the same in stalker

To attach a laser you have to go to the tech first

Then the only way to remove it is going to the tech again

Ideally they should just add a way to toggle the laser on and off

[pseudo falcon]

fcking hell
i try to play stalker 2
but i keep coming back to gamma

[slim moth]

nothing burger answers per usual

[slim moth]

it's a curse. but I'm digging Zona rn.

[warped monolith]

if they can't reach you, they hide

[slim moth]

it used to be worse at launch. they would dodge and weave any time you put your crosshair on them, now i feel like it's not as excessive. i could just be used to it though

[iron prawn]

I'm going to try stalker 2 on the steam deck tomorrow

When I get it

[warped monolith]

that should be a good hands/lap warmer for winter

[iron prawn]

That demanding?

It is supposed to work fine

[torpid relic]

they do that in the other stalker games too just FAAAAR less and with worse animations to the point where you ask yourself if that was intentional or not

[zenith plover]

Its something to do with the zone and how mutants function. Remember mutants arent just mindless creatures, they evolve with the zone, with stalkers presence, and function around that. HOWEVER some of the movements are just, not realistic. With dogs i dont really get the constatn left right like... whenever? But then they will do a small dash and then run at me and that feels right. My problem comes from the fucking cats. I have seen birds move less in a fight with another bird midair. And at least with the dogs you can like, flick to them before they zigzag, but the cats just fucking somersault everywhere.

and then, on top of that, the stupid fucking XY sens being uneven. So unless you are running a program that allows you to change that ratio the aiming will always feel off. at least for me

[jagged idol]

Maybe someone has encountered this? I've installed several mods (mostly Shay's mods like the Living Area, death animations, etc.) and when I search for mutants, I get a set of ammo, food, and medicine along with the mutant parts. What kind of mod can do this?

[tacit glacier]

So I grabbed a mod that makes mutants die in anomalies and uh
The controller that spawns in death cave is dead on arrival

[onyx harbor]

i dont know. But are you sure about using NPC combat overhaul along with Maklane Better Gun Fights? The latter hasn't been updated for quite long iirc. Look for the oldest mod. Try remove it and test in-game. You will isolate the guilty mod this way. Cheers

[onyx harbor]

Tbh the whole AI needs a rework at this point. Hopefully along with ue upgrade & dlc... otherwise, cya in a decade lol

[warped monolith]

died humping a corpse

[tacit glacier]

Bro old atmosphere mod is wicked

I enter wild island and suddenly this starts playing
https://youtu.be/gltT5Kcw2a8?si=VQKvoIFtql-LUlqR

I don't even know if Old Atmosphere touches the ost but I don't think that plays in vanilla s2

[zenith plover]

Just beat the game for the first time, ||Got the strelok ending, Interesting to say the least|| and now im wanting to do a challenge run or something while waiting on gammas next update. First run was STALKER difficulty so any suggestions?

[random flame]

@tacit glacier I like ur pfp

One of the best doctors honestly

[tacit glacier]

True

Emissions Reborn is a must have

Now if only we had someone mod in a bit of screen shake (and fix the sound cutting out near the end)

[warped monolith]

as long as the screen shake is a mod I can opt out of

[tacit glacier]

bruh I think my recording app is using my mic instead of game audio

[slim moth]

click. clickity clack

[tacit glacier]

I just wanted to record the waves

[slim moth]

the eerie sounds of the emission rages on

click clickity

[tacit glacier]

Funnily enough the screen shake is there if you stay outdoors

But uh
That kills you

According to what I just read switching to 16bit audio might fix it

[spark surge]

how hard is stalker 2 to run on pc?

i heard the optimization is terrible but how bad is it?

[zenith plover]

im running 32gb of ram, 5060ti, ryzen 7 5800XT, good cooling, and a 900w platinum PSU. On max blast settings with DLAA i sit around 28 - 53 fps. With frame gen 41 - 66 with dithering, ghosting, and light effect bugs. And lowering stuff from there can get me to a max of around 140 with medium/low setttings on dlss auto/quality

[spark surge]

im not worried about FPS im worried about killing the graphics card or overheating

badly optimized games do that sometimes if the pc is too hot

[zenith plover]

ohhh, my pc sits pretty warm but not as hot as R6S or Elden RIng, but the overall optimization to those games is worse. So less performance, less heat.

[spark surge]

also if u have issues with ur monitor in games or the game taking more CPU than it needs try launching without frame gen it fucked up my monitor added screen tearing and made it take 5x the amount of cpu

[spark surge]

oh fr? not as hot as elden ring?

[zenith plover]

no not even close

[spark surge]

damn i can run it then easy

thats good news

[zenith plover]

may the zone be with you, its a fucking mystery what will or wont run this game.

[spark surge]

true

have u tried playing without frame gen? it fucked up a lot of stuff for me until i figured out it is what was causing screen tearing lag and insane overheating

[tacit glacier]

My 4080 Super in comparison runs this game at pretty high settings, fg and tweaked TSR at smooth framerates. Didn't bother checking for actual numbers xd

[spark surge]

if it works it works i cant tell if fps is 60 or 120

[tacit glacier]

I can =D

Trust me it sucks to be able to tell

[spark surge]

😭😭😭

[tacit glacier]

144hz ruined 60fps for me lmao

[spark surge]

i cant even understand how u would be able to tell

[tacit glacier]

And now I have 240hz and anything below 100fps feels choppy now

[slim moth]

the hooman eyes can only comprehend 15 frames per second

[tacit glacier]

Scientists disproven that statement but I get the joke

[slim moth]

even with a 5070ti i still feel forced to use frame gen and even then the moments when the input latency hits sucks ass.

[tacit glacier]

I think the game runs better on linux in terms of latency and framerate stability

Might be placebo

Might be that I stopped looking at frametimes and latency numbers and my mind adjusted to account for input lag

[slim moth]

i've cranked it to x2, x3, x4 limiting to 90 fps to try and get stability and there are still always moments where if you try and 180 or do something randomly that causes frame drops (cause there are a billion factors). It's been tolerable, but going back and forth between other UE5 or just other games where i don't have to use FG, it just sucks ass

[tacit glacier]

I don't think I'm hitting 150

[slim moth]

Like if you are sprinting or walking in game and quickly do a 180 back and forth. Shit bugs the fuck out of the visuals

depending on how your vert sync is rigged it can' hitch

[tacit glacier]

I got vsync off tbf

Visual glitches when turning around quickly are just lumen being a bitch

At higher fps its not as noticeable but at lower end the lighting doesn't update as fast making the world update its lighting in weird ways

Hopefully 5.5.4 will remedy that in some capacity

All of the issues wouldn't have been a thing tbf if Stalker 2 used a light system similar to xray
Rasterized lighting is just superior in image quality
Not so much in light accuracy

Then again, accurate light tends to be dull

Sometimes you have fantastic light bounces that look phenomenal.
Then there are times when the game looks like you turned off shadows and ambient occlusion

[warped monolith]

you tend to be dull

runs away

lumen is a disgrace and should be taken out back and shot

[tacit glacier]

https://tenor.com/view/leon-kennedy-resident-evil-4-remake-suplex-combat-gif-12729346389787936139

[tacit glacier]

True

[slim moth]

it's just so disappointing sometimes going back to stalker 2 bc it has gameplay i like more than the older games/mods but bc of it's perf i just end up going back to zona or gamma or whatever

rasterized gameplay is just so much better

I was testing it out earlier without frame gen doing the intro. Decent frames like 75-85fps up until you wake up with richter and the a-life kicks in

then it went sub 60 in the wild, but went back up to 90 in doors.

so goofy

im sure with vanilla settings it'd be a different story. but vanilla looks like doo doo

[silver orchid]

F

[slim moth]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2149

[warped monolith]

I've got a 180hz screen and while it's a very noticeable difference, I don't mind 60fps at all

Sure it'd be better if all my games could hit 180 but as long as they're above 60 it's fine

I think I'm a bit numbed to this kind of thing because I've played videogames under 30fps most my life due to shitty PC

[tacit glacier]

Being able to handle 30fps is a blessing
You don't realize how good it is until its gone.

[warped monolith]

either shitty PC or console gaming, since back then consoles barely put out 30fps. sometimes it was even less

shadow of the colossus on the ps2 was a marvel of sub-20fps bullshit

and it was considered one of the best games ever made

and OG doom ran between 24-30fps, too.

we got forged in the fires of jank from an early age.

[slim moth]

[dense dock]

When gamma 2.0

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/riddler-paul-dano-new-rockstars-thumbnail-does-he-know-he-doesnt-know-gif-27552850

[spark surge]

30fps is bad 60fps is good

with 30fps you're gonna get very upset when you tilt around the corner and count the frames as you get your head blown off by a shotgun

60fps will be too smooth and you will be able to retaliate without choppy frames

[silver orchid]

Supposedly the update 1.9 isn't going to be sooo good like the 1.8, there people saying that the X-18 ||is going to be the one of SoC without any new locations, just the same map of 20 years ago but with high-resolution assets||

[golden hazel]

and lumen

[icy basin]

I didn't get upset, I called it a skill issue

[steep pivot]

E

[warped monolith]

https://klipy.com/gifs/marikiplier-e-meme-lord-farquaad-1

[tropic nymph]

does anyone know of an engine.ini line that can reduce/remove raindrop effect? the splashes

[zenith plover]

does anyone here have any advice on which mod combo i should use? Currently the decision is between OXA Prototype and Living zone, or OXA Standard with Stalker UNLIMITED and living zone. I can't really tell which combo would be more enjoyable/balanced

[onyx harbor]

dunno about those combos really but I'd advise trying out OXA Proto alone first. Cause it causes some crashes when opening certain stashes so it's up to you to use it or not

Cool thing is you can skip intro now so you don't have to go through the intro when trying out new things
Edit : use skippable intro mod

[onyx harbor]

imo it's just a quick free content update so I'd be ok with that. GSC just tryin to keep people interested and somewhat satisfied with the game until the true big updates come

[dry scarab]

Can’t wait for a really good stalker 2 modpack and stuff to be made, I tried one out that was pretty popular and everything about it was pretty good besides one of the big combat overhauls making npcs shoot and kill you faster than a tarkov rogue pushing and insta dropping you

[dry scarab]

See I don’t know if it was OXA proto alone, but you would actually get insta killed by starter bandits the moment you peaked them on the mod pack I had. On stalker difficulty.

Also bullet ranges were like video game shotgun range. I had picked up a pretty solid AK early on, and it would only be seemingly effective at max 30 meters.

[violet seal]

Help pls

[warped monolith]

wrong chat

I think.

#╟🔰☢newbies-chat

[violet seal]

Thnx

[verbal prairie]

just wanted to say thanks for all youve done in the stalker community Grok and i look forward to anything you might do with stalker 2

[icy basin]

!gamma2

[fallen iron]

⠀

[verbal prairie]

sweet sounds like he just doesnt wanna do the same thing twice

[verbal prairie]

thankyou btw

[tacit glacier]

That has got to be the most chill response I saw to being told there won't be GAMMA 2

But I don't think there won't be a GAMMA 2.
If anything there will just be a spiritual successor to GAMMA for STALKER 2 done by someone else.
Hell, I'd say we already have a mod pack that manages that well enough already.

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1561

It's a good start at least, lol

[nova lake]

everybody asks for Gamma 2
but waht about NS2?

[warped monolith]

NS2 already exists

[tacit glacier]

What if: Shadow of Chernobyl remake that utilizes the S2 landscape

I'd love to see them explain how the brainscorcher blocked the north in practice

According to yt videos I watched the scorcher was likely connected to an array of antennas that blocked that direction

[tacit glacier]

So I just realized you can go to Great Swamps area and turn off all of the psi emitters before getting the quest

Best part is, the controller doesn't spawn without the quest

Another best part is, I had to run away from a fucking pseudogiant

WHY ARE THERE TWO PSEUDOGIANTS

THREE

[tacit glacier]

Apparently the church one is not accessible

The wall you have to jump through is not broken yet

[torpid relic]

oh! so i wasnt the only one who got too fight a pseudogiant at the pump station . . . well fight . . . . he couldnt reach me and fought a few boars while i shot at him.

that "old atmosphere" mod is amazing, basically just adds the old OSTs to the game. Jupiter night ost is a banger, no matter if its day or night

[tacit glacier]

I thought it was just ambient sounds

I think translation barrier effed up here

[tacit glacier]

I think I understand why there is such a small chance to get mutant parts now

I got a single mod that boosted the chance and made 100k in a single outing

[tacit glacier]

I like how you can find the 2011 expedition that went to the swamps with Scar in Clear Sky.
Seems like they weren't so lucky when it came to surviving that emission

[golden hazel]

amongus

[flat wadi]

GSC might be cooking with the dlc what do yall think

[summer vapor]

3d pda in the old trailer

[warped monolith]

bro thinks the old trailer was actual gameplay

[golden hazel]

[summer vapor]

Lol no, it’s just the only thing you can find on 3d pda in s2

[random light]

hey guys idk if any of y'all could answer this, but I installed something called engine.ini to avoid the compiling shaders shit but it still shows me the compiling shaders progress bar screen. Do any of y'all know what is happening?

[random light]

Lmao ok

[tacit glacier]

My game decided to bug out and stop playing sprint animations

wait

Bruh my adhd brain

Fixed

... Okay I dub this bug

Busy Trigger Finger

Exit menu
You fire a single shot
Exit backpack
You fire a single shot
You also don't get sprint animations
You have to press fire for it to unbug

[tacit glacier]

Okay one thing that angers me to no end is the mf flashbang anomaly

"Oh yeah let's add an anomaly that's only gimmick is trying to time it's appearance while avoiding being turned into human jerky"

l m a o
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1072

3 versions
1st makes it less annoying
2nd removes damage
3rd removes it completely

[tacit glacier]

wh

[acoustic harness]

Fak u

Me no like you

Your a communist

[warped monolith]

[warped monolith]

bro found the jackpot

even physical protection is better, and it's just a scientist suit

[cobalt parrot]

lol

[haughty sierra]

lol

[cobalt parrot]

fails at embeds

[haughty sierra]

a racist and a retard

https://tenor.com/view/no-duh-why-didnt-i-think-of-that-donald-kimball-gif-14910705

[eager solstice]

@acoustic harness (qyzoffical) has been banned for reason: toxic kid failing at life

[remote eagle]

its from paid "dlc"

[wild finch]

Hey, im new

I have an issue in game, I use DVL-1O and my scope looks really blurry

is it a glitch?

[remote eagle]

stalker 2 doesnt have dvl-10

[wild finch]

OH sorry wrong chat man

[warped monolith]

pay2win

[remote eagle]

most weapons and armor from that dlc better then normal

[tacit glacier]

Yeah locking weapons and armor behind journalist stashes (that require DLC or even preorder) is insane ngl

[granite plinth]

||Just finished cleaning the monolith out of the sphere||

I treated stalker 2 way too harshly this game is heat

although the weapon damage makes no sense, equipment degrades too quickly and some mutants are way to tanky smh

[tacit glacier]

Ooo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJoBcx3Ao5g

Nothing major breaking, most mods are still working fine

There could be some issues when it comes to mods that affect Alife behaviour and spawning

[tacit glacier]

... This has got to be the most unhinged STALKER 2 weapon mod I seen
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxpfPEvK08Fp9Lkj66KQOmq7nwGyPKE-vG?si=OZ98JAqMWKxJkjH9

[icy basin]

Oh it's a weapon modpack

[tacit glacier]

Look at that p90

[icy basin]

I'm good

[tacit glacier]

No

[icy basin]

Actually

Supremely based

[tacit glacier]

[icy basin]

God descended from the heavens to give us this P90

This is not joking btw

I love when guns get cursed

That's their only purpose - to be made silly

[tacit glacier]

mf added an additional RIS to mount the scope and didn't even give it enough space to fit the screw

That scope is hanging on a prayer

[golden pawn]

Any sad boy stalker here?

[kindred violet]

The damn mag sticking out of the bottom is peak

[golden hazel]

More p90 per p90

[warped monolith]

now all it needs is an underbarrel grenade launcher or a masterkey

[tacit glacier]

I only now noticed that the ris is stretched lmao

I think the screw might be on point but it would rattle back and forth constantly lmao

RIS is supposed to be thin lmao

I need to stop using "lmao"

[icy basin]

https://stupidpenisx.com/i/status/2043333908939362608

TwinkBodSociety (@cartalic)

This is what it's like listening to any stalker "fan" who has only actually played gamma and anomaly

QRT: Designatedkitty
Every time I see how other people got their gmod setup I think of this.

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 12, 2026, 2:22 PM

[torpid relic]

i used to play the orignials, started with CoP cause it was on sale, finished that, tried Clear sky, found Call of chernobyl mod and then it was just that with Boom sticks and sharp sticks mod or what ever it was called. i had no idea mod organizers where a thing so i just manually modded my game.

[slim moth]

metro 2039 stalker 2 cross over

[torpid relic]

OMG IS THAT! Strealok stalker from Fortnite season 67?!

[slim moth]

artyom: get on the train skiff!!
skiff: i don't need a train... whistles
scar leaps on all fours and skiff jumps on him like a mount to keep up with the train from a impending blow out

if only if only

[warped monolith]

I thought the canon lore was that skif wants to ride richter

[slim moth]

they wants ta fugg

https://tenor.com/view/richter-stalker-stalker-2-good-morning-stalker-good-morning-gif-5230125744516947003

[warped monolith]

Richter: "Hey Skif, is that an artifact in your pocket or are you just happy to see me"

[slim moth]

Scar: "SKIFF. YOU'RE STIFF"

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

[torpid relic]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1260084537648611409/1437215582326886410/bleedIMG4xqM7x8El2rPJ.gif

[warped monolith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/603537012825391105/1456695952608985214/attachment1-ezgif.com-crop.gif

[golden hazel]

SKEEFA WE NEED TO RESEARCH THE 67 ANOMALY FIELD

[slim moth]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalcraft-dance-gif-13257141

i can't wait to play 1.9 in 20 min intervals till engine update

[remote eagle]

the horrors of x-67 lab

[torpid relic]

the existance of lab X-19 implies the existance of lab X-4206967

[warped monolith]

C-Con hides their ultimate weapon there, the Chimewa

[torpid relic]

how much brain rot and vape juice untill a controllers brain explodes

[remote eagle]

[torpid relic]

also why tf does the doc in Zalyssia have a controller corpse in his closet?

[slim moth]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2155?tab=description

[silver orchid]

GSC:

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm we have.... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, how many labs????????????????????????........ ahhh, 5, we have 5, and we could make 18 labs, but that's boring, add one more for never show the other 1000000 labs and we are done

[warped monolith]

basically copying the Vaults from Fallout

OG Fallout = 15 vaults max
Bethesa Fallout = haha 100 vaults because 69 funny

or was it 1000 vaults. I forget.

[pliant trail]

Chris avelone wrote about there being 1000 of vaults in the fallout Bible.

Tim cain is on record on his YouTube channel saying the fact that there were 1000 vaults (numbered 0-999) was one of the first things decided about them.

This is not a bethesda thing.

[warped monolith]

they weren't in the games so

the whole vault thing was retconned more than once, but in the games there's only a handful and the highest number known was 15

vault zero itself was only a thing in Tactics, for instance

[pliant trail]

That still doesnt make it a bethesda thing.

[dense dock]

dam why so shity on epic

trees pop in and out

burry too

dam stalker gamma looks better

[golden hazel]

It's where Dr Skib Idi created the Mog Frog mutant

[supple orbit]

literally me for the past 2 weeks

[tacit glacier]

How dare you not enjoy this blurry unreal slop etcetera etcetera..

It takes a bit of tweaking to get it to look good

[peak eagle]

Do I wanna reinstall S2 just to play X18 I wonder

[tacit glacier]

I've been playing through s2 regardless rn, lol

[peak eagle]

Ain't spending another 60 buckaroos just to get the season pass to play DLCs tho

[tacit glacier]

I got the ultimate upgrade when they released the upgrades

Was on I think 15% sale

[peak eagle]

I'll do what every great player does, wait 5 years for massive discounts lol

or like every rimworld player, buying a DLC at 10% off

[undone vessel]

https://youtu.be/xfehwC-UgmY?si=YVbsrLtgnGo_Irfr

[undone vessel]

Google. There is a solution on reddit. U need to edit engine.ini

[tacit glacier]

Or download Ultra+

[tacit glacier]

Actually I checked and the ultimate edition is like $30 where I live

[tacit glacier]

I'm not surprised why Dave said this felt like stagnation while adding new content.
Patch notes don't even mention fixing poltergeists throwing shit through walls

[icy basin]

Ayyy 27 bucks

[slim moth]

they fixed the anomaly radius thank god

[nova lake]

ho yhea did you guys see the ARG

If you dont wanna get spoiled dont open
||Inside the Update theres a QR code that leads to this website,https://www.stalker2.com/archive_entry-14934823 the website contains a donwload link to these ||

[peak eagle]

Apparently people are saying you can only do the X18 mission before the story mission "A Minor Incident"

[humble moss]

Sealed truth only accible on a new run? Not there for me

[humble moss]

No way😭

https://tenor.com/view/rage-gif-24341837

[peak eagle]

yeah newcomers don't get gif support

[tacit glacier]

The patch broke achievements enabler

[warped monolith]

excellent game design

pls buy our dlc

boss-man wants another lamborghini

[humble moss]

Bro i cant even acces the new update on one save im done with the game and the other just started on hard

💀

Is the bunker even worth ?

[peak eagle]

waking up in a new bugatti

[humble moss]

Bugatti is so ugly

Lambo better looking

[peak eagle]

Idk man, the patch desc suggest there's a reward at the end of it

but is it good enough to justify a do-over tho

[humble moss]

Lmao, some beers and bandages😭

[peak eagle]

anomalous smoked sasuage lol

[humble moss]

Im at the end of first area on hard mode🤔

Hmm fine i will continue

But sad i cant acces on my normal diff run

[warped monolith]

knees shaking
eyes heavy
something something
mom's bugatti

I'm gonna just fucking wait until all updates/dlcs are released so I only have to play this game once lmao

[cloud scroll]

probably a good call

was kinda trying to do that and managed to wait until 1.8 but I should have waited longer. it will surely take quite some time until the game is complete and fully patched

[nova lake]

no it isnt

its a very small quest that only has you walk thru the lower levels of X18, basically, the places you couldnt see that were in SOC

its a nostalgia hit that doesnt justify a new game, it serves more as a lead up to the DLC

because ||The quest is given by Diode, he tells you to go to the cave to look for a Psy Device that can calm down Zombies in its vincinity, while searching for the device you find a freedomer trapped in the bunker, he tells you that Freedom is also looking for the device and you can talk to him about the internal strife with Freedom||

[torpid relic]

ah fuck that patch is out already?! man i wanted to finish the game with my mod setup befor updating

i wonder how much is bricked.

[nova lake]

probably not a lot

all the update did was add a quest and fix 2 bugs

[torpid relic]

god i love steam. Update 95% done.

looks inside
5.6gb / 10.2 donwloaded

[silver orchid]

F

I wonder why GSC didn't expanded the X-18

The one of the build of 2023 is atleast two times bigger

Maybe doens't fits with the narrative that they want

[silver orchid]

Is not soooo horrendous if it has a specific purpose for the narrative, tho, is horrendous for the ones that expected have the quest and don't have it on eir playthrought

[storm path]

fellas, i live under a rock
whats the thing with UE update? may i ask for tldr pretty please ❤️

[warped monolith]

tl;dr they promised an engine update for the game and it still hasnt' happened

[finite needle]

Me about to start my nth fucking run because new content that has been released is only useable well before my latest save

At least I will be free from the Umamusume mines

[warped monolith]

hashire hashire hashire umamusume

[dapper parrot]

Yeah right

[burnt monolith]

i noticed weather after emission gets normal almost instantly. is there a mod that makes transition more gradual? i use Dynamic weather but it doesn't help

[golden hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/mejiro-mcqueen-mcqueen-uma-umamusume-uma-musume-gif-267679083148498953

[tacit glacier]

You can now GAMMA in STALKER 2.

[kindred violet]

Gotta love the ai slop thumbnails

[warped monolith]

the irresistible male urge to make a game objectively worse

[tacit glacier]

I don't think those specific ones are AI
They look too consistent

[finite needle]

But why

[silver orchid]

Maybe eir edit skills aren't exactly good but anything is better than these thumbnails for example, in 5 minutes u would have a better image in everything

[warped monolith]

even a stickman drawing on paint would be better

[silver orchid]

No doubt

[median fossil]

https://tenor.com/view/wtf-disbelief-what-huh-gif-15892515

[copper saffron]

loot goblit is ai, back then i was still experimenting with the style. other two are manual i believe. maybe 3rd icons are from some other image so may look off a bit. I stopped using ai for logos a while ago once ppl complained

[tacit glacier]

I see
Might be a good idea to update the old pics so they don't use ai content then, but you do you.

[pseudo falcon]

well shit
stalker 2 updated
most mods are fcked

[nova lake]

not really no

the update was small, only 2 things were updated and they are related to AI, and a new quest was added
most if not all mods are compatible

[odd fjord]

im also switching to paint

used AI when i didnt have that much time to make it as presentable, now that people know what it is, its all in game pics and in future paint

until i perhaps hire someone to do some pics

[pseudo falcon]

even oxa?

[nova lake]

should be, nothing about loot tables or weapons was changed

[pseudo falcon]

neat

[unborn kelp]

still no addressing of wallhacks?

[copper saffron]

no

[tacit glacier]

99% of mods work fine

[tacit glacier]

Hey @icy basin
Can we get sdwvit a modder role? 67 entries on STALKER 2 Steam Workshop

[icy basin]

Tf

[tacit glacier]

Man made a lot of quality mods

[icy basin]

Also, it's Grok that gives out Modder/Alpha Modder now

[tacit glacier]

heck

Might as well ask for Stalker 2 Modder so its distinguishible

This sounds good ye
Modders > X-Ray Modders
And add Unreal Modders for stalker 2 side of things

[icy basin]

Eh, bring it up to green mans

[tacit glacier]

Mans is not on but fair.

I mean look at this https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3680328975

Man made a mod that makes ranking up an actual activity instead of getting ranks for progressing the story, lol

[kindred violet]

That's pretty neat

[pseudo falcon]

is that mod actually good?

[tacit glacier]

It's pretty nice for Freeplay playthroughs

Without any storyline you are stuck on rookie rank

Someone did make a custom story line for free play that ranks you up but the more reasonable way to do it is the way this mod does it
You gain XP to drive progression

Instead of quest nodes force-setting rank (Newbie/Experienced/Veteran/Master), this mod is intended to drive rank from an XP-like progression score.
Design goals:

• Keep rank progression consistent across different story paths.
• Make rank feel earned through play activity, not only mission scripting.
• Preserve existing rank-based systems (loot, trade, spawn scaling, dialogs) while changing only how rank is awarded.
  Current implementation:
• Removes quest-driven rank setters.
• Introduces score thresholds that map to rank tiers.
• Apply rank updates through collecting XP.
• Get XP by picking up faction patches from dead bodies and mutant parts from killed mutants.
  With 2500 xp you advance from newbie to experienced, and that happens around Slug Heap.

[kindred violet]

This might be interesting when used in junction with unlimited, ofc you'd need to tweak it a bit but yeah

[copper saffron]

ya i can't imagine playing without this mod now

makes way more sense

[tacit glacier]

Assuming they didn't tie something like what quests are available to rank progression
I wouldn't know

[kindred violet]

I would assume that's tied to specific quest stages?

But it could well be as those ocassions overlap to my knowledge

[narrow parcel]

guys what is the full gmae size

[kindred violet]

Something over 100GB iirc

[unborn kelp]

...
how do you even notice/track rank progression in S2?
or is it just tied to story quests

[kindred violet]

It's currently tied to story quests

Sircaa and duga assault are two examples for it iirc

[undone vessel]

https://youtu.be/kDgo2DDqxsg?si=hjLImoXtbl_FfzdH

[tacit glacier]

Yeah it's basically just a story progression tied mechanic that makes stronger stalkers spawn at later parts of the game.
On release it was the reason why everyone suddenly had an exoskeleton

[slim moth]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1394

updated

[copper saffron]

npc outfit changes

[slim moth]

it'd be cool if there was a tab in the PDA to see your rank progression

[warped monolith]

vibecoding

[warped monolith]

the only correct reaction

[warped monolith]

also did you just say

6 7

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/603537012825391105/1456695952608985214/attachment1-ezgif.com-crop.gif

[slim moth]

https://tenor.com/view/walking-out-strelok-walking-out-strelok-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-gif-16918848099683022138

[jagged idol]

oh.... My God, I found out which mod gave me ammo, food, and 1 artifact during the mutant search - less tanky mutant.

Does anyone know a good mod for mutants not to be sponges for bullets?

[silver orchid]

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

[finite needle]

spam left button on Saiga is my mod

[jagged idol]

meh

20 round on 1 bloodsuckers

[copper saffron]

😠 emm no. I built the framework before agents were released. check my github

[frigid eagle]

guys, is my game broken? my guns have no rain drops

[copper saffron]

you just multiplied this sheet by 0:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Zone Kit Time Played: 1063 hours 08 minutes

try vibecode this

like brother i had to learn freaking zone kit, how animations work, how 3d stuff works, sockets, meshes, attaches, cameras. and you just call my mods vibe coding

try to replicate it with vibe coding you clueless discord user 😄

I had to reverse quest node prototype graph trees, make sense of stuff, apply for tester role just to ask questions how it all works. all of this to deliver you 60+ mods. vibe-code my 1000hours spent on this back so I can go read a book or something instead of doing mods for ungrateful nonames like you. rant over, tyvm

[warped monolith]

2 page crashout over a single word
calls it a rant

also calling people ungrateful you didn't do me any favors blud

I don't owe you anything, least of all thanks

[copper saffron]

i am just sorry for you

[warped monolith]

I'm also sorry that you crashed out this hard over a joke and is now trying to act sanctimonious about it

[warped monolith]

btw this message was serious. I didn't ask you to make any of these mods, how can you come along and call me ungrateful if I never asked for you to do anything

[silver orchid]

What modding does to a man

[gusty plaza]

Are there any modpacks expanding on the content of the current game version? I'm not looking for total overhauls, only things like vanilla+

[finite needle]

Try hitting your shots

[warped monolith]

[jagged idol]

ye ye, or use AP round

[burnt monolith]

i noticed dead npcs sometimes clip through ground or a floor. is that new Dev bugs or something to do with mods?

[slim moth]

Vanilly

[burnt monolith]

thx

[frigid eagle]

will someone check their game if this is normal? appreciate it

[warped monolith]

I'd suggest you try asking about this in the official Stalker 2 discord

[rigid shard]

does anybody know how to fix this, the weird names on the items, the mod is OXA expanded armory, i hope this is the correct channel to ask

[copper saffron]

you need to look for Localization files, probably attached to the mod in files section on nexus

[tacit glacier]

Mods need localization files right now and if you use multiple, you need a dedicated compilation of the localization files

[slim moth]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1394

[rigid shard]

thx yall

[trim iron]

+-

[warped monolith]

I'm pretty sure he called me a slur before he edited that, too

[trim iron]

When some people hurt, they want the whole world to hurt with them