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

[humble moss]

Cry about it more maybe that helps yeh

😭

[warped monolith]

they're already pushing back fixes to release a paid story DLC
and iirc the season pass/ultimate edition says there'll be two story DLCs

so best case scenario they fix the game after dlc 1

worst case scenario they fix the game after dlc 2 and we have to wait another year

but hey even cyberpunk got good eventually, and that game released in an even worse state than Stalker

only took them 3 years...

[torpid relic]

i dont hate GSC but i have the right to be disapointed and to critic them when they fuck up, like with the Ue5 stuff. I dont know much about it other then that they refused to studie and master this heap of ash of an engine and use its full potential like other games manage and instead went with cutting corners simple solutions that end up in a blurry mess off a game. its fun now, i enjoy it, it was worth the money, but im still disapointed

[golden hazel]

And it'll come with the ps4 release of HoC Tuah HoC Harder

[warped monolith]

they took the lazy route with using pre-baked solutions in the engine like lumen and... whatever the other one was called. nanite? i forgor

the "problem" with UE5 is that it enables laziness

and ofc most people will go the easy route

result = dozens of ue5slop games making people hate the engine

[torpid relic]

such is the nature of man, and mostly eastern europeans

[warped monolith]

I'm trying to remember every ue5 game I played but

only one that I can remember with a good experience right out of the box was ARC Raiders

I didn't play all of them as soon as they released tho

[humble moss]

Arc raiders gets so boring though

[torpid relic]

idk ive heard that you can make good games with UE5 so long as your, as you said, not lazy

[humble moss]

Only thing good is graphics

Extraction shooters will always be boring to me

[humble moss]

Same with br's. We are getting it alot

[warped monolith]

freshly released UE5 that I played iirc were black myth wukong and dune awakening

they both had some choppy performance but not terrible

[humble moss]

Urgh bmw

[golden hazel]

Damn I still need to play the monkey game

[humble moss]

That game i played abit and was like nope

[warped monolith]

I like it but anything that lets me play a soulslike without the retarded "attack once, dodge twice" combat loop is automatically a 10/10 for me

[humble moss]

Can even see where you can go and cant go

Thought you could roam freely no you have the bullshit borders everywhere

That ruined it for me

[golden hazel]

I saw a buddy play it and the skills look fun af

[humble moss]

Fun game, but invisble walls are over an area no thanx

[warped monolith]

the "malenia" equivalent of black myth wukong was interesting

ends in a very fun and hilarious power fantasy megazord fight

interesting way to reward the player for beating malenia

[humble moss]

Theres a boss that looks like her?

[warped monolith]

"looks", no. But it's a super hard optional boss with similar fight mechanics

[golden hazel]

Better have an ost with the sickest guitar solo too goddamn

[humble moss]

Gimmicks you mean

Mechanic is more like bed of chaos has in ds1

[warped monolith]

bed of chaos is a gimmick fight

[humble moss]

You have to do a certain mechanic to beat her

Shoot two orbs

Malenias waterflow is gimmick. A trick you have to do to avoid that move

A boss mechanic is a specific,Often complex, interaction or action required to defeat a boss, moving beyond standard combat. See

[warped monolith]

the way bed of chaos works is... quite the opposite of what you listed as a "mechanic"

it's two weak spots you have to hit while the environment tries to fuck you

wow. such mechanical complexity

dragon god fight in demon souls qualifies as mechanical

it's almost 100% a puzzle fight

a tough boss with a complex moveset isn't a gimmick

[humble moss]

Both are mechanic fights though

[warped monolith]

another example of gimmick fight is ceaseless discharge

[humble moss]

Same goes for stormking

[warped monolith]

stormking has to be fought in one specific way... BoC doesn't change how you have to play the game to beat it. You just gotta find the weakspots around the map and whack them. You're not doing anything different compared to what you've already been doing for the rest of the game

mechanically there's no difference other than the boss being divided into 3 separate pieces

stormking requires you to equip an entirely unique weapon and use its unique special attack to hurt it

(or use throwables like ymfah did)

bed of chaos doesn't need you to do anything other than R1

[edgy garnet]

when i just wanted to download gamma it somehow cannot be due to some stuff

[warped monolith]

you might be able to get help here #╟🔰☢newbies-chat

there's also this

[edgy garnet]

i did read that, thats why i write that

ig imma play call of pripyat then

[slim moth]

... still SW Lumen

[lunar bane]

is the gamma intall/update still down? cuz on the launcher its almost finish but almost everything is error on the cmd window,im curently try to download it now, first time (im following the tutorial)

[frigid eagle]

wait for announcement in #📢announcements

[sweet sequoia]

I think you can still play the gog version but im not 100% sure, i installed it maybe after or maybe few hours before the "do not install" announcment

[sweet sequoia]

The game seem to be in bad state and the fact that the devs decided to work on dlc when the base game still need a lot of work is not good sign either. Gamers being okay with that is one of the reasons why todays gaming is mostly trash. Another thing is the situation that is affecting the studio. It does excuse why the game is in such state, but it doesnt change the fact that the game is unsatisfactory right now

[ocean haven]

I guess they are doing the DLC running with the new engine, which is probably why there are hardly any updates lately. Would be stupid to do the work twice.

[quick raptor]

hdr user here, and well... lol

it gets worse

honestly, i turned off hdr and cranked up the gamma

made it easier to see inside buildings, still getting flashbanged while leaving buildings

it's like skiff lived in his mom's basement for 40 years

anyways i'm here to give updates on being stomped in this game's higher difficulty

stepped into a lab for a sidequest and it’s a complete clusterfuck. getting absolutely destroyed by poltergeists inside

it's like a PTSD simulation

an i'm loving this game so much, definitely recommend it.

[silver orchid]

Why FalcoEngine 3000 reacted to this

S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 development started in 2017, officially announced in 2018 and the release date initially set to 2021

[silver orchid]

Years before of the release GSC already was developing DLCs, were shrimple maps and some lore info in 2021-2022 but in 2023 for example em already had the idea of make Iron Forest and CNPP "non base game locations"

[warped monolith]

it automatically reacts to 'vero' and bro misspelt "everyone"

[summer vapor]

Hate that the sky looks like stretched jpeg picture in s2

[summer vapor]

That's not the point, the sky is in "low quality" in the game

[humble moss]

They need to fix the fucking spawns

Swamps is aids right now

10 bloodsuckers, then 10 rats, then 10 bigger rats, then 10 dogs

Then 10 zombied clustered on eachother

I went in with full durabilty, came out with 70, i keep repairing my shit coes of the horrible fucking spawns

This is like a repairing simulator right now

I think im done with this game untill a update

[odd fjord]

yeah that update for spawns will take a while, there are 2 alife mods active for 1.9 u can try out tho

[magic escarp]

What's the most common ammo in stalker 2?

Right now I'm using that SMG that fires 9x18 Makarov

Still finding I'm having to buy ammo

Buket S-2

[frigid eagle]

don't forget to right click > unload on any guns you find

I have about 1.5K smg ammo in box

I think buket uses the green ammo, I forgot the size

[frigid eagle]

red ammo is this

[magic escarp]

9x18

[zealous pelican]

https://tenor.com/view/son-im-crine-son-im-crine-gif-5176045023480767429

[icy basin]

Right

[eager solstice]

@karmic solar (mikekocode12) has been banned for reason: No messages for months, then 3 filter bypasses in a day

[tacit glacier]

Swamps aren't the issue, the fucked a-life system just keeps stack piling mutants on top of each other creating unrealistic and overpowered swarms that turn whatever encounters them into swiss cheese.
Before they added A-Life swamps were manageable with maybe few mutants in between.

The mutant situation gets more insane the longer the game goes for, you can encounter what you just described anywhere on the map if the a-life allows it

Walking across Agroprom and encountering 10 burers

[torpid relic]

i only had that once with fleshes in the intro area that you normaly couldnt revisit but since i got a mod that increases vaulting hight i could.

theres also a differen issue with snorks and bloodsuckers, they are too strong vs npcs / npcs just suck at dealing with them, its the reason you find so many of them everywhere

[tacit glacier]

That too.
They made bloodsuckers that stun lock NPC's and just mulch them.

AI in STALKER 2 is more hopeless than AI in Anomaly

There they can at least punch the bloodsucker if it runs up too close.

For a second I thought that was modded GAMMA
#╟📸stalker2™-media message

[torpid relic]

i just saw a T-posing bloodsucker fall from the sky. We are so back

[humble moss]

I know, its the new update

This is my second run, the first one was from release of the game, and was all fine

But the stack pilling aint just mutants man

Its also zombies and humans

When i did this second run and the update came i saw what it broke and right away went for the saiga glad i did, its just not doable with any other gun against 10 bloodsuckers

Im sure they gonna fix it, but i aint continueing the main quest, i can that fancy area now where Dalin is

I think ima just do side missions, hunt artifacts and hunt thropies for the meen time

[torpid relic]

do you use any mod that touches the spawn systems etc?

[oak iron]

Guys stalker 2 dlc since whennn

I finished it once and plan to finish it again with dlc.

Thx

[frigid eagle]

this summer

[tribal totem]

so stalker 2 mods have been gotten quite far since launch, now they can add weapons to this game?

[woeful idol]

How is the modding in STALKER 2? Im sick off the STALKER ANOMALY modding, gamma bugging rn asw... 😭

[oak iron]

Which month?

[frigid eagle]

they just said it's summer, maybe 4-5 months from now

[oak iron]

Ohhh

[oak iron]

Too long

Jesus christ

Im sick

[frigid eagle]

same, that's why I decided to just play the game instead of waiting

I still got other games to play after this, by the time I get done the expansion should be out

[oak iron]

I finished this game

The first time

When it first came out

Too bug crash bla bla

But

They maybe fixed

I hope so

I'll play it again.

[frigid eagle]

I played it on release too, reached red forest and dropped the game because the stutters was unbearable at that point

no stutters now, game's way better now too but yeah there's a lot more to be desired. I'm hoping the expansion actually expands the fundamentals

carving monsters wasn't even a thing day one

NVG was added too

[frigid eagle]

haven't had any crash btw

[oak iron]

@frigid eagle soo im wait dlc

Im so excited

I was playing FSR at 40-50 fps, but it would crash when I opened DLSS.

Low settings

;(((

[slim moth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iraVXfX30to

[jolly kite]

good evening, brothers, can you please tell me if I purchased Stalker 2 on ps5, I can't figure out how to set up the display so that it's not very dark, but there's no over-lighting, can someone recommend brightness settings, gamma, hdr and more. According to the orginal settings, everything is very dark in the rooms. (If there are errors in the text, I apologize, I wrote through a translator)

[tepid glacier]

Quick question, im basically just passed the mill quest with the bloodsucker down in the cave, playing modded (Cinematic & Immersice ZONE) collection, bloodsuckers one shot me as well as regular human enemies oneshotting me, not even hitting headshots, is this normal? Im on Veteran Difficulty

[slim moth]

sounds like stalker unlimited or realism unlimited addon

[shadow arrow]

Got high and decided to buy stalker 2

Wish me luck

[dapper vapor]

i cant install gamma mod atm ??

need waiting may 8th ?

😢

[kindred violet]

yeah you have stalker unlimited in the modlist which is a hardcore mod

[proven plover]

Anyone got any ideas on how to make stalker 2 actually playable? Tried to do it a few weeks ago but even on the lowest possible settings its basically a slideshow

[ocean haven]

There are several mods that alter the settings to make it playable on low tier machines, too.

[vapid lichen]

Hello everyone. Can you tell me if I can download an assembly now? Otherwise, I saw in the announcements that the launcher was not working.

[knotty onyx]

Take a look at the channel name lol

[true yew]

What's up gammers

What the strider doing

[ocean haven]

Anyone playing with Lootable/Craftable Zone? Where do I get Steel Wool? It seems to be super rare in every playthrough. And Plastic Film, too. I visit every trader and talk to many NPCs. Do I have to disassemble something I've missed? Or is it sheer RNG?

[warped monolith]

gnarly

[humble moss]

I dont

Im on ps5 pro

[leaden sorrel]

ya'll is stalker 2 playable on steam deck?

[left flax]

the X19 Lab raid.

Is painful.

[celest prairie]

Js play stalker irl

[celest prairie]

You go to hell son

[fleet umbra]

How good game is right now? I think to install it.

[blissful cipher]

with shit-tton of mod ? kind of correct

[frigid eagle]

don't need to bother with mods if you're looking for fun, base game is fine

[humble moss]

I had a game crash and this

Oh you can't share pics😔

[fallen iron]

_ _
@humble moss, 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.

[white shoal]

Boy I sure love Gamma ooooh I love Gamma so much I can't wait to talk about Gamma in the Gamma channel

[warped monolith]

[slim moth]

https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExMXJ3enFmNDZxdXhvZTl6NGJqNW1jeWpkZmVlemg2djNxMmw4czQ4dSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/QBUhSIzyhhjblKrEud/giphy.gif

[fair talon]

https://youtu.be/jXSaWHyG0DM

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/bDPsP.gif

[ocean laurel]

is it an addon similar like pda tasks which has GaMMA but for stalker 2?

daily tasks and gather stuff

[frigid eagle]

base game has it but not in pda

one npc each settlement per 2 days

I do wish you can get missions from other npcs

[tribal totem]

hey which mods that are performance mod optimizes the game the best?

[sharp geyser]

Anybody experience any mouse stuttering after playing the guitar? (No Mods)

[still shuttle]

Hello guys

[fleet umbra]

Mod that doubles damage of all weapons makes gunfights much better.

Also, why the F devs put an armor to mutants? Upgraded double barrel shotgun with ap ammo kills poltergeists in two shots but ak spends about 100 normal bullets (vanilla game)

[kindred violet]

Another one for the "skill issue" pile

[frigid eagle]

shotguns are just really for mutants, I would never use rifles for them

sometimes you can 1 tap a bloodsucker with normal buckshot if it's a headshot

game keeps setting resetting my primary ammo to 1 whenever I fresh launch the game ahaha

[icy rapids]

Hello stalkers

[fleet umbra]

Shotguns deal decent damage to average armored humans too.
I'm curious how they plays in late game.

[vernal bramble]

well the saiga works well on everything with slugs tbh

[fleet umbra]

Cool

[vernal bramble]

thats how it was anyway it may have ben nerfed since my last playthrough

[warped monolith]

why is it so difficult for people to imagine that huge mutated monsters have thick hides in muh sci-fi setting

[frigid eagle]

are you talking about helldivers 2

[fleet umbra]

Welp, new stalker game, new rules.

[warped monolith]

[alpine shard]

Hi boys and girls, quick question. Just finished Gamma, it was honestly such a blast. Was looking into Stalker 2 and was wondering, does the game need any modpacks/mod collections? I really like the variety of guns the Gamma has, and also if there is a minimal HUD for Stalker 2 that would be great

[blissful cipher]

if u like get OS by random bleeder with a fucking ton of HP, go vanilla, otherwise try to find good mod, also he dont have a lot of weapon and attachement for her

[nova lake]

what do you want out of Stalker 2?

[chrome vale]

so does the shturm js get an extra 5% max damage resist? does that even matter lol

[alpine shard]

i just downloaded it, got oxa backpacks and nothing else for now. As for what do i guess modern guns and attachments, but i saw theres already plenty in base game. So im just going through base game for now, maybe will add some QoL if i come across something

[stuck ice]

I remember being extremally annoyed by the equipment durability loss and at some point installed a mod to decrease it by like 20-30%.
i`m not 100% sure but i've heard there was a patch to reduce the repair cost by half (after i played the game), so it shouldn't be a problem anymore.

[sharp umbra]

anyone know any other mods to play that are similar to gamma

[alpine robin]

Stalker 2 good yet?

[lapis peak]

Its so close

But i personally would say not yet

We must let the cauldron boil

[edgy beacon]

So I've got a massive question... im on the mission "Dead Frequency" having to find both alpha and beta groups and I have hit a massive wall where once I got to zaton I saved once, then I could no longer save my game. It would keep crashing every single time. If anyone wants to know I'm am on console, specifically Xbox series x

I have made sure my mod list does not conflict with each other and have even cleared my reserved space twice and still crashes on any type of save, be it auto or manual. I am basically soft locked at this point of the story as if I can no longer save my game then there is no reason to continue playing.

[fleet umbra]

I advice to unstall doubled weapon damage cause enemies are too spongy for their aim. But it works against you too.

It's almost useless to shoot zombies anywhere but head?

[tender wyvern]

EDIT: wrong chat, sorry

[molten osprey]

Can you reload a save before that and continue from there?

i know its annoying but that mostly fixed everything when i played the game on series s

[edgy beacon]

I would have to go all the way back to the garbage. Over 4 hours prior

But I will give it a shot. I read somewhere it could be because of the claw anomaly thay causes crashes when saving for some reason

[frigid eagle]

bloodsucker's only weaknest, a slightly high platform

[sinful barn]

Ya it also works on dogs

[gusty warren]

cheesing the chimera arena fight like that

[sinful barn]

Sounds about right

[gusty warren]

after learning how easy it was to get guns out of the arena it broke me

[glass hound]

hello sup man dude

[gusty warren]

one of my issues with stalker 2 is it feels flat and claustrophobic with all the scrub brush and tall grass

[slim moth]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2209

[warped monolith]

this is so cool holy shit

bit too "high tech" for the setting imo but I love it

[slim moth]

i don't think it's too out of place.

especially with some of the anomaly scanners and gauss rifle and exo suits. it's not too bad

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/INNUDF-qsYU

military gonna have wallhacks son

[nova lake]

https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Tactical_helmet#Upgrades
the game shouldve come with a minimap as opposed to the top screen radar

[frigid eagle]

I think being able to hold the PDA while walking is good enough

[nova lake]

hopefully they dont add 3d pdas

the animation to bring it up is bad enuff

[gusty warren]

in the setting of physical hologram woman ar goggles don't seem crazy

[fading wave]

yeah - augmented reality google / glasses / lens would kinda fit..

[vernal bramble]

still haven't fixed use quick keys to f1-f4 yet but they have made a ton of small fixes since it came out about to do a new run in it

[winter scaffold]

FPS wise its still bad in my opinion. Also I wonder if we can ever expect GAMMA like modpack for Stalker 2

[gusty warren]

the one thing that bugs me to no end is the gamey the same bullet out of a ak-74 does like half the damage of a dnipro with the same ammo

[warped monolith]

me when an arcadey fps has arcadey mechanics and features

[gusty warren]

every mutant being bullet sponge also ain't fun

[granite plinth]

At best some graphical overhauls and rebalancing, grok has apparently said himself his next project will be related to Single Player Tarkov

there's already a Freeplay mod even on console but honestly I don't think it suits stalker 2 at all

[granite plinth]

just join the monolith for some elite cconsciousness comms

[summer vapor]

The game is a downgrade from the trilogy

[kindred violet]

[slim moth]

level to level traversal makes stalker trilogy feel very dated and hard to go back to in comparison to stalker 2's openworld

[gusty warren]

imo the handcrafted nature of the trilogy maps made it better

lots of dead space/traversal time spent just wandering through brush

[warped monolith]

and HoC isn't handcrafted?

[gusty warren]

lots of it feels like filler

[slim moth]

it used to be like... x3 more forested

they toned down the forests

[gusty warren]

like there is no purpose beyond making the map big

[slim moth]

an open world has empty parts.. wow

people are goofy

[warped monolith]

xboxes would probably explode

[warped monolith]

heck the original trilogy did, too

[gusty warren]

when the traversal method is just walking and running drinking energy drinks

[warped monolith]

and let's not forget Anomaly/Gamma with absolutely redundant and pointless maps like Darkscape

[gusty warren]

yeah that sucks

darkscape is from a game that had vehicle transport that can be used in game no?

[slim moth]

if you want to drive in a anomaly ridden zone, go right ahead

im sure that's why we see people do it all the time

[gusty warren]

are there empty parts in og of course but they have much better design in focusing player where to go

[slim moth]

linearity fucking sucks

[gusty warren]

not inherently lmao

just like open design

there are both good and bad executions

[slim moth]

Even playing through metro 1 and 2 is a slog

[gusty warren]

I just felt the traversal time in hoc made me want to put a hole in my head

[slim moth]

i have a-life mods, so there was always something going on somewhere i was at.

if someone is playing with no alife mods, then they are inherently shooting themselves in the head

[gusty warren]

I don't mind long traversal but often long stretches just feel tedious

[kindred violet]

I don't mind the long traversal since the zone is very lovely to walk through with the hud off

[gusty warren]

the one that's burned into my brain is going from the scientist base in malachite down to the bottom thing at duga to start the spark monolith confrontation

[kindred violet]

And the map has a lot of POIs

[gusty warren]

where without warning I got sniped from duga after walking 75% of the way

get to walk an empty expanse again for 10 minutes

[slim moth]

that sounds like a skill issue

[gusty warren]

should say the sniping was scripted lol

[warped monolith]

HoC does the same thing via main story quests, but also gives you an open map to explore and get sidetracked if you want to

[kindred violet]

Bro got too close to the ipsf perimeter ^^

[gusty warren]

it's a kill zone

[gusty warren]

which isn't demarcated at all lmao

[slim moth]

you also have a giant marker where to meet your squad

[warped monolith]

I don't like huge open maps with nothing to do either, because 99% of the time it's badly designed. But I think HoC is part of the 1%.

[kindred violet]

Yeah well, but you were taught that by being killed

[slim moth]

if you have any sort of situational awareness and see a barrier with sniper towers proabably shouldn't go near it lmao

[gusty warren]

I was pretty far from it lol

[slim moth]

they render in at 100m

[warped monolith]

I will 100% shit on Bethesda saying "finding empty planets in Starfield is fun"

and huge-ass maps from games like modern Assassin's Creed

[summer vapor]

Just your opinion, bg3 is outdated?

[kindred violet]

Also, i recommend getting in the habit of quick saving when traveling ^^

[slim moth]

i do not care for that game.

not my type of game

[warped monolith]

It's outdated by design in many aspects. It's a cRPG so it inherently wears the flaws and limitations of the genre as a shirt and rolls with them

[gusty warren]

it was on of the ponds I forget which

[warped monolith]

having "oldschool" design isn't a bad thing btw

[kindred violet]

And frankly, the maps are also a lot larger

[slim moth]

that's the wrong end of where you're supposed to meet the spark squad im pretty sure

[gusty warren]

the bottom is where it is lol

[kindred violet]

Yeah ^^

[gusty warren]

in the apartments

the second part after you try to take over duga and fail

[slim moth]

you start at the northern entrance and work your way down? or do you work your way up? cause genuinely i get disoriented by that part of the map i never have compass

[gusty warren]

yeah you do weird tunnel shit

iirc

you do come back north to south but it starts in the apartments

[slim moth]

word word

i need to do my strelok play through. but i can't bring myself to do it before this engine update man

[gusty warren]

there's enviroments I do enjoy and remember like the zombie/controller bunker in red forest that I liked but a lot fo the epxloration I found bleh

[slim moth]

the red forest i hate going through cause the lumen/nanite bs makes it look so fucking gross

[gusty warren]

I did strelok first run and gonna play again with the dlc

[slim moth]

did ward, then spark

ward was awesome

[gusty warren]

I was with spark until talking with strelok and the whole talking to strider bit really made skif sound insane

[slim moth]

spark is ||you slowly descending into a cult and falling for a big a trap||

i hated it

[gusty warren]

the funny thing is I a duty guy and ward always gave me a bad vibe despite being imo the spiritual successor to duty

[slim moth]

dlc is going to make duty and freedom a lot more interesting cause rn they're just a bunch of nothing burgers without the faction mods

[gusty warren]

I feel like spark/ward are just redos of freedom/duty dynamic but more fleshed out

there are parts to hoc that I like but it firmly is a 7/10 to me

[slim moth]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-2-astoranoble-heart-of-chornobyl-cost-of-hope-gif-6284295786575903239

[slim moth]

in the state that it's in. i think that's generous

[gusty warren]

see I don't see what attributes you adore so much then

[slim moth]

the poltergeist bug alone brought the game down to a unplayable state

[gusty warren]

what's the bug?

[slim moth]

it can throw shit through walls

[gusty warren]

I thought they always could do that

[kindred violet]

Honestly i can understand why that is frustrating, but frankly i haven't had any issue with that myself

[slim moth]

it wasn't always like that

[gusty warren]

to me I wish hoc had more of areas similar to the poppy field

[slim moth]

i used wools polter fix and it still didn't work. i think for some others it didn't work either

[slim moth]

there's def more of those

[kindred violet]

Tbf I'm also someone that doesn't use a-life mods because I dislike what that does to the game

[gusty warren]

I played totally vanilla

[slim moth]

their vanilla combat is actually really good

[slim moth]

i do prefer knowing where the spawns are originating instead of it being more scripted

[gusty warren]

the other thing is combat by late game got incredibly tedious but that is a stalker classic lol

[kindred violet]

To be a little more specific what annoys me is just how many people are suddenly stomping around the zone

[gusty warren]

wdym

[kindred violet]

With most a-life mods I've tried it just makes it much more populated

[slim moth]

really??

[kindred violet]

Yeah

[slim moth]

They're supposed to slow spawns down from vanilla by a bit im pretty sure. atleast that's how letswoolgathers does

[gusty warren]

I feel like vanilla is empty but the problem is it feels a lot of the areas I was going through simply just didn't have pois for there to be anything

[slim moth]

Living Zone has different levels

you can make that shit busy or pretty sparse

[kindred violet]

Tbf I last used these mods in like 1.5

[gusty warren]

one thing that drove me insane is how broken the sultan/beard quest is lmao

[kindred violet]

Has been a while

[slim moth]

maaan you're missing out

[kindred violet]

You had issues with that one?

[kindred violet]

Idk, I'm happy with the vanilla behaviour

[gusty warren]

it broke in like 3-4 ways lol

enemies spawning underground, screwing up quest progression

[kindred violet]

I don't get people's obsession with a-life

[gusty warren]

it's pretty cool to see the same people in odd enviroments

[kindred violet]

So much discourse is just muh a-life bad

[kindred violet]

Yeah but that's exactly the thing, how the fuck would I know it's the same person

[gusty warren]

very cool to see oh this guy I helped in a firefight ended up helping me later

everyone is named they just for some reason don't communicate it to you

[slim moth]

i like to see advancements in NPC's in a openworld game than for it to be like bethesda or some super scripted shit.

sucks for shit to formulaic

[kindred violet]

You expecting me to note down every generic name in hopes of seeing them again

[gusty warren]

I REMEMBER THEM ALL

my faves are the slavas

[slim moth]

seeing a dude i traded some shit with for his meds dead 5 hours later hits different

[gusty warren]

that's also a reason the areas being more non linear is worse imo

the chance of running into people you met before is far lower they're no longer a specific person just another dutyer freedumber loner

[slim moth]

i've def ran into the same peeps before, but they're harder to distinguish

[gusty warren]

I wish they had a similar thing to gamma where you see their names

the other thing that bothers me is no binocs

[kindred violet]

I mean you'll get em eventually

[slim moth]

like the faction id and name?

[gusty warren]

I beat the game and never got binocs lol

[kindred violet]

Also since the online bubble is still rather small you won't make much use of it outside of looking at scenery

[kindred violet]

I meant as in they will be in a future update

[gusty warren]

nah a lot of the time it's hard to tell what the human figures in the distance are

[slim moth]

if 5/12/26 is just a teaser or a trailer im gonna shit my pants

[gusty warren]

well may is not the summer

[kindred violet]

Also, i humbly offer you the 4x or 8x scopes

[gusty warren]

I feel like snipers are dookie in hoc

[slim moth]

it was etched on the binocs in the teaser 🙂

[gusty warren]

almost all the fights happen sub 50m so it feels like you're sacrificing a lot for a very edge case fight

[kindred violet]

If it's not the date they're releasing the binocs and an update it would be silly

Like I see them doing another teaser or trailer but like alongside an update

I can see them splitting up their bugfix patches until DLC release

[slim moth]

what if engine update before dlc

but why

[kindred violet]

Haha

I doubt it

[slim moth]

why binocs

none of it makes sense

[gusty warren]

I mean why not

[kindred violet]

Because people have been asking for them

And it's a funny

[slim moth]

binocs along with 100m render is laughable

[gusty warren]

they get to claim we fixed the game and look here is some new content for you to buy coming :^)

[kindred violet]

Yeah well tell that to the pepple who have been screaming about no binocs

[gusty warren]

IT'S A CORE ASPECT OF GAMEPLAY

[slim moth]

can look long and hard at them nanite dlss blur

[gusty warren]

there is a reason it is default in all the games lol

being able to observe and formulate a plan

know what you're getting into

[slim moth]

my plan at a 100m is go in and fuck shit up

either silent or loud

we'll work on it when it comes around

now at 300 to 500m is more of planning

[gusty warren]

how big do you think soc was?

[slim moth]

brother, the fog in that game alone kills the draw distance

im talking about the year of our lord 2026

UE5 super DLSS AI nanite multi quadframe double reflex

360

[slim moth]

but if you think i planned a single thing in SOC then hahaha

i was 9

[kindred violet]

Also there's little planning to do in SoC

It's an arcade shooter

And any planning goes out the window because of the gameplay

[slim moth]

it's so linear why tf do i need a binoc

everything is infront

right there

the whole game

[kindred violet]

Also the engagement distances aren't even far enough to justify the use outside of very specific circumstances

Especially when you have a gun with a scope

[slim moth]

COP you def could use a binoc

games also a stutter fest tho

[kindred violet]

CoP is also much larger in map-size

And has many more open line of sight areas

[slim moth]

it would've been a better example than soc

and even then, they were going with the more open world approach with bigger zones

more poi based

it was always the direction to go openworld so.. it is it what it is.

like going back and playing the trilogy and seeing all the buildings that you can now enter in Stalker 2 takes away the magic. for me at least

[kindred violet]

Takes away the magic of the originals?

[gusty warren]

the other thing would be the pois feel one and done

[slim moth]

i lose immersion in playing the originals

It's a personal preference

or issue

however you want to put it lol

i really like x-ray tho

I was playing Secret Trails yesterday or the day before. i was really digging that

[kindred violet]

Ah okay, i was just a little confused by your comment

[slim moth]

it's like "why am i playing this when i could play the other game that is this x10?" then i load it up and get hit with input latency from forced shitty fg and i want to self-delete

[kindred violet]

Haha ^^

[slim moth]

just hoping for the best with engine update as far as optimization, but i am prepared to be disappointed

[visual minnow]

Judging from other games that got an updated engine, we can likely see atleast a 30% increase in performance depending on hardware

Thats just judging from other games tho so it could be less, could be more

We do know that NPC models are getting optimised tho, so we’ll likely see performance improvements atleast in rostok and zalissya

[copper knot]

Sorry if this was said here already, i cant find it, when is this engine update happening?

I might just wait to reinstall and play the game again if its close

[kindred violet]

We don't know

[copper knot]

Ah, lovely haha

[spark pulsar]

is stalker 2 any good yet?

[tacit glacier]

It has potential but it's not there yet

If you mod it you can get a pretty fun experience

[grand pecan]

I doubt they'll ever get over the hurdle that is the Ue engine

its just a bloated mess

[slim moth]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2212

[icy basin]

Ah so it wasn't my GPU

Neat

[brittle granite]

It's convincing enough for a stalker game made in the wrong engine, ultimately a lot of it has to be faked on UE5

I enjoyed it while I was playing but don't look at it under a microscope.. the weapon handling and ballistics and resulting balance are really weird compared to the original trilogy, I never got over the mutant HP sponginess in s2

[frigid eagle]

agreed, just enjoy it as it is if you want to play now.
I'm really hoping the expansion gives it a big lift up fundamentally.

[brittle granite]

I think a lot of it's rose-tinted goggles.. spent 30min watching a squad basically path in a circle playing Clear Sky last night. S2 does it well enough within the bubble it renders imo

[slim moth]

people seem to not understand how the offline/online works

[warped monolith]

I still don't get why would anyone just follow npcs around to see what they do

play the damn game ffs

[brittle granite]

tbh so much of a-life was cut from the original trilogy that the community focus on it in s2 has always seemed weird

"a-life is a shell of what was promised" buddy we were saying this in 2007

[compact mist]

am i crazy or there is no shortcut button to sell all ?

[visual minnow]

I feel like EU5 is possibly the worst mainstream game engine currently

And that the Decima engine is hella slept on

[warped monolith]

That depends more on whether "people sleep on it" or "Sony owns it and doesn't license it out"

like any other engine, UE5 has plenty of slop and some good, even great games. It's just that the lazy devs making the slop are much more common

same goes for Unity, previous versions of UE, idtech (back when it was used by more than just id software) and so on

cryengine

UE5 is popular because the learning curve is practically flat

even I could probably make something playable with it

[gusty warren]

also just interia in the industry there will be more people familiar with ue5 or unity vs decima meaning less onboarding costs

engines and their development are expensive for single studios so it figures most use the most commercially available architectures

[silver orchid]

Fun fact:
there a area as reference to Darkscape in HoC

[gusty warren]

which one?

[merry tangle]

Garbage, because darkscape is hot fucking garbage

[gusty warren]

I get the whole realism angle but it is kinda funny how much less verticality there is in hoc

[silver orchid]

There a area at the right side of Cordon.
Initially was planned to have a big storm around it, it never had planned quests or smth, just a reference to Darkscape in form of a area with a cool storm

[gusty warren]

also mfw sircaa is literally just a shiny face literally built on top of a x project facility

https://tenor.com/view/garth-marenghi-garth-marenghi's-darkplace-i-know-writers-who-use-subtext-and-they're-all-cowards-darkplace-gif-10701074649909137514

[gritty ledge]

honestly this 100%

and like I don't even expect stalker 2 to be like GAMMA. Tbh I have played the OG trilogy way more than GAMMA. I just don't want a completely busted ass game lol

[warped monolith]

gammacoded folks expecting gamma in stalker 2 will have to wait for the game to be finished with no more updates so modders can go to town with it

until then, each new big patch will break whatever mods they're making/using and the game itself won't have any of the anomaly/gamma-like mechanics they want because that's not what GSC wants for the game

[gusty warren]

I just wish every mutant wasn't a bullet sponge on the harder difs

[gritty ledge]

last time I played gamma I made it to like rostok and just stopped tbh. But i actually finished anomaly, the og triligoy as well. Idk I think it was the weapon repairing that threw me off or something

[gusty warren]

I'm a dutyer so when I got to rostok in HoC

[warped monolith]

I honestly don't get the Duty hate

[limpid swallow]

Seems like most of people in here are just dogging on stalker 2. Couldn't agree more lol. But hopefully it gets better, and it doesn't become abandonware

Can't say i agree with the use of ue and I sort of knew the quality was gonna be what it is when I heard it's using it. Same with kenshi 2 coming out

[chrome thunder]

Greeting guys, I just back into the game and starting to add mod.
Can you use gunfight mod like better ballistic with mods that add new weapon(give me more gun, SCAR) ?

[edgy beacon]

Alright so my save issue has been fixed but now yet another issue has arose during the quest to save zalissya. Attached is a 1:37 video showing exactly what happend.

[gusty warren]

to me it generally reads as people seeing them as the fun police and less the sole people seeking to stabilize the zone and providing refuge to loners even if brusquely

[white shoal]

Riddle me this: Which faction tells you to stab bloodsuckers at night and allows you to smoke weed, plus hosted bbqs and cookouts
That's right
Freedom ❤️

FACT: Freedom has 90% more joyous friendship than Duty

2nd FACT: Duty sounds like poopy

[gusty warren]

freedom's ideology boils down to hits dab rig "what if the zone lets us lose the barrier between hummanity" and then sells ammo to local murderhobos

[white shoal]

Doody, even

[white shoal]

And we're one of em

God bless the murderhobos

Little known fact about Duty: They are red, red is evil, but Freedom is green and green is good

Clear winner

[gusty warren]

how I felt after getting the duty exoskeleton only to learn you can't upgrade it so you can sprint in it

[kindred violet]

I mean duty is the faction that want's to destroy the zone.
So obviously people who like the zone would have issues

[gusty warren]

course but honestly for all the zone's benefits the risks are far greater

[kindred violet]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[gusty warren]

at least in hoc they make the destroy the zone ending literally have a big negative of oops you made a global surveilance state

duty doesn't have all the baggage of ward

curious to see what the dlc will be and how inevitably the "good" ending is probably gonna be finding a middle ground between the two factions

personally don't understand how faust ending is "good" very much a paragon ending in me3 type ending

for all of strelok's unwillingness to compromise his ending to me is the best of the options

[kindred violet]

I don't think streloks ending is good

[gusty warren]

is it "good"? no but it does limit the harm of the zone to rest of the world

which is literally every other ending

yeah

does it practicaly doom all the stalkers in the zone absolutely

but so does every ending except faust's

[daring ginkgo]

ATTENTION everyone trying to enter or leave zone will be shot on the spot and fed to bloodsuckers

Sounds good to me

Just like they intended in oblivion lost (schizo stalker)

[visual minnow]

Imo the zone should be available to anyone

If you’re brave enough to enter a place which is basically infested with landmines (anomalies), and are willing to risk getting various forms of cancer, or torn apart by mutants, go ahead

Duty can kick rocks for all I care

[granite galleon]

i feel like the zone attracts certain types of people anyway

at least the ones that decide to stay, right?

like in the roadside picnic you always had tourists who were fascinated but never truly understood the value of the zone

and the rest of the youngsters would usually die rather quickly when exploring the zone

[fleet umbra]

What is the most popular cause of death in game? Anomalies?

[knotty onyx]

Probably

People who play shooters will win gunfights, but people who didn't play other stalker games will probably die to anomalies

[icy basin]

Overconfidence

'Tis a slow and insidious killer

[fleet umbra]

Indeed. I know his friend, FAFO
He is a quick killer.

[floral wadi]

Как установить гамму? Везде написано что она не работает

[icy basin]

#🔨поддержка-стандарт-gamma-ru-ua

https://tenor.com/view/cat-shoo-away-gif-13653609800890535042

[wanton falcon]

Burers in stalker 2 master mode are fairly unfair tbh

[fleet umbra]

I'm curious how.

[wanton falcon]

Just the combination of all their abilities they got perfect aimbot when they are shooting guns they got shields when they are already bullet sponges etc

[fleet umbra]

I think controllers are unfair too. Without psy blocade they create hallucinations of combatants who deal actual damage.

So i don't understand something or they designed that way.

[wanton falcon]

They just didnt do a good job on stalker 2

[rocky berry]

https://medal.tv/games/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-heart-of-chornobyl/clips/mF5nH5xZNdLDP5LBJ?invite=cr-MSx0eTgsNDI5NDk1NTIy&v=11 does anybody else get this glitch with the viewmodel

like on the bottom

i have a mod that changes the viewmodel but this happens with the vanilla viewmodel too

[gusty warren]

It won't ever not be funny to me people with guns so far less damage than burer's flying ones

Like I can take quite a few in a diamond suit but a burer will kill you in half a second and never have to reload

[wanton falcon]

You would think it would be harder to aim when your just making a gun magically levitate

[warped monolith]

if you have magic you don't need to aim

[fleet umbra]

Also, burers know how to shoot without jams whatever crap they posessed.

[warped monolith]

they can telekinetically manipulate every part of a gun to prevent jamming

[gusty warren]

Even making infinite bullets

Making double barrels fire 5 shots

This is mutant excellence

[knotty onyx]

They can convert anomalous energy into ammo

They are so agressive because Sidor will find a way to milk them for bullets if he finds out.

[warped monolith]

at least that explains burers... but how come random npcs never run out of ammo

[gusty warren]

REALLY BIG POCKETS

[fleet umbra]

Overpreparation. They just runs of ammo when you kill them.

[gusty warren]

They also always run out before you kill them

the funniest burer imo is the infinite ammo rpg ones

[obtuse path]

actual unloaded question i havent checked in in a while, hows the current modding scene for stalker 2? i remember months ago there was hope about making modding tools more avialable for modders

[subtle blaze]

Poop. Next question

[warped monolith]

modding won't really take off until the game stops getting dlcs and updates

[obtuse path]

gotcha, ty for the straight forwards answer

[odd fjord]

depends what u want from the game i guess

like there are solid mods out/already in the works but you gotta be for those mods

[slim moth]

it's so goofy killing practically kitted up soldiers with 2 rounds of ammo and some spoilt milk

it feels hella artificial when EVERY SINGLE PERSON only has scraps.

but this is more of a modded loot problem

vanilla there is a over abundance

[sage cliff]

is there a co op mod yet?

[icy basin]

Let them add pvp first

[warped monolith]

whenever that's coming

[crisp mountain]

Killed an random stalker, used all my ammunition on a damn cat and when I looked the stalker one bullet for my ptm it's telling me something I just don't know

[wanton falcon]

questing in stalker 2 is so ahh

I love being allowed to do one tiny side job every few hours

[lament venture]

[fleet umbra]

I don't like machineguns but S2 variant is awesome. Sound designers should have a praise.

[limpid raven]

STALKER GAMMA TOMORROW!!

[drowsy umbra]

another dude who cannot read

[icy basin]

Unreal Engine when

[violet bridge]

hopefully never

[grand mural]

I been encountering way too many burers around the 'Waste Processing Station'..
One died and another spawned, Alife seems to "work" very well

[near stratus]

!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&

[visual stump]

Devs should Get a life

[icy basin]

Kinda hard when your home is in the state that it's in

But that's offtopic

[limpid swallow]

devs should get a-life

[warped monolith]

they have a-life, that's why the game hasn't been fixed yet

[finite needle]

Last GAMMA patch made me stop playing the mod, let's see how this one is gonna fuck me over

[icy basin]

Hmm

[finite needle]

Fair

[violet bridge]

my favorite thing about stalker 2 is that bugs can be explained away as anomalous activity

[unreal burrow]

Does stalker 2 modding use an MO2 like mod loader?

If so where can i find this?

[low halo]

why are so many channels hidden?

like mod posting and stalker chat?

[fallen iron]

_ _
@low halo, 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.

[low halo]

ty

[sharp yarrow]

i got a mod collection from mod.oi and it is making my game crash i need help to fix it

i dotn know why it crashes i have uninstalled and installed agien

[slim moth]

Your first mistake was going with mod.io

[sharp yarrow]

even ingame to is fucks it self

[bleak apex]

Damn can't continue Stalker 2

My game is crashing all the time when I need to go on a location for main story quest

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000000

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With this issue

[merry igloo]

it's a raw game, not playable with mods

[bleak apex]

I tried without them and got the same

[remote eagle]

then how i played with mods?

bro is left kekw

[ocean haven]

Yeah, playing with over 70 mods and having the bestest of time in the Zone.

[finite needle]

Ngl this alife plus thing is literally Stalker 2 alife but people is ok with it because it has positive PR

[icy basin]

Hopefully S2's wasn't vibecoded

[odd fjord]

alife extended?

[finite needle]

Yeah that. Maybe it's because I've had limited exposure, but every time I've heard people tak wonders about alife is usually people moving from A to B and ignoring you while doing so. Or Bandits being in the middle of the road because there's an artifact there somewhere and isntead of getting it they just stay there and wait for you

[odd fjord]

its also not updated over 1 year while using configuration files from 1.0 while the same files are now on 1.9

[finite needle]

Anyway, the funniest thing is that the GAMMA alife isn't that much different either. It does make encounters in GAMMA less routine though.

So it is an improvement

[warped monolith]

sounds just lke the OGs

[unreal burrow]

Oh Shay is here, he made some great mods when i was playing on xbox

Ty 🙂

[warped monolith]

uh oh guys we're getting stalker 2 irl

[torpid relic]

https://tenor.com/view/this-peak-is-this-peak-so-peak-peak-it's-just-so-peak-gif-1360442599844596686

[remote eagle]

nah its dlc promotion

[granite maple]

does anyone else enjoy stalker 2 over gamma?

[knotty onyx]

They're fundamentally different and I like both of them.

[icy basin]

But yes, I do

[slim viper]

I enjoy stalker shadow of Chernobyl without any mod

[warped monolith]

now that's a take

[gusty warren]

imo soc is dated but fine

kinda like half life

[warped monolith]

unstable to an extreme

used to bsod my computer

until I reverted gpu drivers and installed stalker complete

[icy basin]

ZRP >:c

[warped monolith]

he said 'without any mod'

so I considered fully vanilla soc

[slim moth]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2217

huge

[sweet sequoia]

Hello, can someone me recommend me any must have mods for stalker 2?

[vast smelt]

shay's living zone, and his other mods

imo

[odd fjord]

https://tenor.com/view/denzel-training-day-gif-16743259178450786472

[sweet sequoia]

yeah i read about complaints about a life in base game, i should def get this one, thank you

[near forge]

Is Shay going to be stalker 2s Grok?? (I don't mean to put that preasure on you sorry)

[odd fjord]

dont think so, i dont intend to either 😄

[near stratus]

dont use mod.io lmao. For S2 you're probably better of creating your own mod pack or running a collection from Nexus that has been updated and has positive comments

have fun "fremboy_cracker4000"

[warped monolith]

retard alert

[cobalt parrot]

AW

'look at the baby

gaga gugu

[eager solstice]

@limpid dome (hail_christ.) has been banned for reason: tards go FLYING

[fading barn]

alguien español?

[remote eagle]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/989402420960452688

[fading barn]

sin acceso me sale

[fallen iron]

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@fading barn, 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.

[warped monolith]

someone translate this for him

[plain quartz]

Anyone know of a mod or a fix for poltergeists thrown objects having no collision?

[slim moth]

there used to be a temporary fix, but it hasn't worked for a while.

[plain quartz]

Ah, damn - rough.

[slim moth]

most people are waiting for engine update/dlc

[plain quartz]

Found this - https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1001?tab=description

Seems to be working for me, at the barge in the intro of the game. .pak file and addition to engine.ini.

Though it almost feels as if I am just now not taking hits from the objects, sometimes seems like they are recoiling off things, other times still seem to phase. Eh. Better then it was at least.

[slim moth]

this is for npc's being wallhackers

not for poltergeist

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1979
you would want something like this, but for world items not the ballistics

[plain quartz]

Not sure, it mentions collision, and there is a specific .pak file that mentions poltergeists included. In any case since I installed I was able to clear barge and not take any hits and it looks like I was able to take cover from thrown items - though I still saw items phase a few times.

Ah okay thanks I will take a look at that for sure!

[slim moth]

This is what i was looking for, ig it was in the one you posted

Yeah the fix is not 100%

[plain quartz]

Ye thats the one.

[slim moth]

i think it worked for 1.8.1 but not for 1.8.2

or from 1.8 to 1.8.1

whichever

[fading barn]

how can i inspect a gun ?

[unreal burrow]

is this the proper crash log to post if i need help with any issues?

ive been getting some crashes here and there but no idea whats causing it.

[frigid eagle]

game doesn't feature it, try the attachments animations though it's neat

remove and attach them by holding "T"

[humble moss]

Yeh i aint continueing before that drops. My encounters with mutants where so rough lately

Like... 10 bloodsuckers in that villange where normaly should spawn 3.... not 10😭

I still got them but damn

Or npcs staked in a doorway

Or 10 dogs on you

[viscid kiln]

guys can someone tell me what are the requirements to run the mod ?

[humble moss]

Can someone tell me the code for the safe in yanifs red forrest

Its the well hidden stash, it has anomolies before you enter the room

[rain terrace]

9

[kindred violet]

You can find clues to the code around the place you're in

And if you just want the code sans trying to figure it out you can find them all on Jorics S2 map

[humble moss]

The place im in is hell😭

[humble moss]

Jorics s2 map?

[kindred violet]

Yeah just google that and you'll find it

It's a github page

[humble moss]

Aii thanx

[humble moss]

Yoo i got it broo, thank you ❤️🙏🏻

[kindred violet]

No prob

[severe spoke]

https://www.twitch.tv/capt_fluffy_bubbles/clip/AltruisticHonestOtterTBTacoRight-AMeEZzG2BaHbw59s

this isnt supposed to happen right?

like its a bug not a feature lol

[mystic saffron]

pretty sure that's not a bug

:^)

wrong channel

[severe spoke]

what channel is for stuff like this? i just saw stalker 2 and was like i gota show them lol. also ive never been thrown that far before. always like 10 feet and half my health

[mystic saffron]

iirc it gives you a % speed boost so if you jump through while sprinting, you get launched. There's a stalker 2 channel

oh i'm stupid

i'm in the wrong channel LOL

[severe spoke]

im confused now lol

[mystic saffron]

dw it's on me

[kindred violet]

Yep that's a bug, hahaha

So the anomaly drags you into it's center when you walk into it but some weird fuckery occurred as you dispelled it just as you were being sucked in so momentum was preserved without you being slowed down by the anomaly

Chornobyl Space Program V2 now for skeefa

[lusty adder]

where to buy scout ammo?

[tidal edge]

what is wrong with a-life? why do i have to kill +-5 pseudogiants every time i enter dead city

[silver orchid]

That Dead City is Chernobyl-2, right?

[kindred violet]

these poor newbies all lost and alone

[crisp hemlock]

Does stalker 2 have actual A-life now? Or a mod that adds it? And not the cheap knockoff imitation that the game had on launch?

Im asking cuz I bought the game day 1 and immediately stopped playing it once I learned it doesnt have real A-life. A stalker game without A-life feels so wrong.

[nova lake]

yhea, but itd be better to wait for the new engine update

[fleet umbra]

It works but poorly. Game spawn 2 squads near you to make some show or just unlooted corpses.

[crisp hemlock]

Yeah that’s not A-life. So I wouldn’t say “it works”. Thats a cheap and generic spawning system. Nothing like A-life.

Sucks to hear after years they’ve done absolutely nothing to improve the biggest most glaring issue with the game

Never should’ve released without a functioning and true A-life

Or they should’ve at least never said in their fucking advertisements that it has a “robust A-life system”. God this shit pisses me off so much.

[slim moth]

it hasn't been that way for a while. the offline/online is actually on par to the trilogy now. The problem is vanilla spawns/lairs are broken hence the overpopulation of mutants

and this goes to show no one pays attention to patch updates or the actual progress that Stalker 2 has come from the beginning. most people talking shit just know none the wiser

[slim moth]

a-life found a way or Shay's Living zone are the best a-life mods that fix/expand the current A-life to a better state

[vast smelt]

has there been an update for performance on stalker 2 since the new questline patch?

[slim moth]

not for performance

wait for DLC

[crisp hemlock]

I tried to keep up on every major update for the first few years but they never ever included anything that finally addressed the A-life.

Personally while it’s cool and good they have put in effort to bettering the game over the year with patches. It should’ve released in a better state period. End of story. Not every game gets to have a no man’s sky comeback story. I spent 80 dollars to play a stalker game then, not 4 years later when it’s patched into an acceptable state. The company lost my respect a long time ago by releasing the game in the state they released it in so I’d go as far as to say the shit talking is 100% justified regardless of any ignorance of any patches. They knew what they were doing when they released the game, and the precedent it sets for the rest of the gaming industry when we are forgiving when devs do this is a very bad one.

[crisp hemlock]

Thanks I’ll look into that

[slim moth]

no offense, but the company doesn't give a shit about anyones respect

the game came out the way it did cause of microsoft deadlines and a shitty version of UE5

It was inevitable that they were going to spend time to improve the game.

I could complain about a thousand games that shouldn't come out the way that they did but it is what it is.

it's just the unfortunate formula for a lot of AAA games to release broken games

[vast smelt]

i redownloaded and trying stalker 2 again right now. just wanna try it again with mods. i havemnt played in a year or so

[crisp hemlock]

Agreed. And I think if enough people didnt mindlessly accept the garbage and actually thought critically and refused to buy the game or not refund it in the state it’s in then this shit would stop happening. Triple A companies would stop being able to get away with releasing broken games.

In a perfect world lol

[crisp hemlock]

I think Grok himself posted a mod list for the game, maybe go check that out?

[severe spoke]

Ahh the good Ole dispell succ

[severe spoke]

I remember the 90s. When almost al games shipping with nearly zero bugs because there was no way to update them

[warped monolith]

patently false

yes they couldn't update games (console games, at least) but they still came out with bugs

[severe spoke]

Oxide prototype plus shay a living mods and it was nearly a new game

[severe spoke]

Nearly zero

[warped monolith]

PC games like Doom got patches via BBS network that you could download directly off of id software's server

[severe spoke]

Almost every game I played growing up could be played start to finish with nearly zero bugs

[warped monolith]

nope. a lot, actually. There's a lot of NES games considered infamous for being hella bugged

[severe spoke]

Maybe we dont understand what nearly means?

[warped monolith]

maybe you're being nostalgic

Long list of bugs from FF games since the first one on the NES
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_bugs_and_glitches#Final_Fantasy

Doom and Doom 2 themselves had plenty bugs, too.

Mario Kart had an infamous skipping bug in the Rainbow Road track

list goes on

[severe spoke]

Not talking about glitches

Im talking about game breaking bugs that we bitch about for today's standards

Shipping slop

Its not even in the same realm of polish and I can name like 40 tittles I could play start to finish without a single game breaking bug.

[warped monolith]

https://tenor.com/bRXAM.gif

[severe spoke]

Lol we were literally comparing to modern aaa titles

[warped monolith]

you said games had 'nearly zero bugs', now you're changing the tune to 'game breaking bugs'

check the list I sent. There's a huge amount of stuff, even if not "game breaking" (although you can consider dozens of spells outright not working at all to be 'game breaking')

[severe spoke]

Nearly zero bugs is when 95% of the consumer base can play the game start to finish and never experience a game breaking defect

[warped monolith]

doom had a game breaking map design bug where you could become softlocked if you weren't fast enough to pass a door once you walked over its one-time activation trigger. if you didn't, the door closed back up and you couldn't open it again

[severe spoke]

Its less I moved the goal and more you just applied a technically correct pedantic meaning to it

[severe spoke]

Yes there was broken games back then. No one said All games were nearly zero bugs.

[warped monolith]

[severe spoke]

When taken in the context of that actually conversation of modern AAA games

[warped monolith]

those were the "AAA games" of the time, and many of them did have bugs regardless your nostalgia, that's all I'm saying

accept it or don't

[severe spoke]

The Nintendo seal of QA literally would end you as a developer if you shiped a broken product

[warped monolith]

not gonna go with this nuh uh with a greyname anymore

[warped monolith]

funny when their own first-party games had bugs but aight

[severe spoke]

Everything has bugs because no one is perfect. This conversation was never about perfect

[warped monolith]

I never said a game had to be perfect, either

[severe spoke]

It was about the state of aaa slop and my take on how much better it used to be when you could pick up 95% of games and play them to completion

[warped monolith]

you still can today, tho

don't remember the last game that outright refused to let me play for any reason

[severe spoke]

pedantic

[warped monolith]

how is this pedantic when you specified "game breaking bugs" just now

[severe spoke]

https://tenor.com/view/nerd-well-actually-as-a-matter-of-fact-gif-27665011

[warped monolith]

you like throwing that word around but I dunno if you know what it means.

[severe spoke]

Because we were literally talking about games shipped broken lol

Crashing every 20 mins

Hard locks

[warped monolith]

and I just said I don't even remember the last time any of that happened to me

why am I being pedantic for talking about the exact thing you asked me to talk about lmao

[severe spoke]

Well the conversation wasnt about you lol

It was about the state of games

[warped monolith]

then give me examples of games that are 'crashing every 20 mins'

[severe spoke]

And how it effects consumers at large

[warped monolith]

let's be actually pedantic now

[severe spoke]

Stalker 2

Diablo 4

[warped monolith]

cuz so far you're just making nothing burger statements

[severe spoke]

Path of exile

Atlas

[warped monolith]

1 or 2?

[severe spoke]

Ark ascended

[warped monolith]

also is path of exile AAA?

[severe spoke]

Both at lunch

[warped monolith]

either way

I played stalker 2 at launch and only had bad performance but no crashing

[severe spoke]

Cyber punk

[severe spoke]

Again its not about you.

[warped monolith]

only undebatable example so far - on consoles at least

[severe spoke]

Just because you didnt crash doesnt mean it was not a issue consumers faced

Cyber punk had to be pulled from console

Lol

[warped monolith]

I mean I can't speak for people whose computers don't even meet the minimum requirements having crashes, can I?

[severe spoke]

Min specs are almost never related to crashes

[warped monolith]

which is why I said it's the only undebatable example, I've seen that happen, it's documented online even

[severe spoke]

TRD crashes

Effect like 30% of unreal dx12 games

[warped monolith]

... ok this can't be serious.
unsupported hardware isn't meant to run the game so problems like crashes will happen lmao

[severe spoke]

Has zero to do with how good your pc is

Unsupported 4090

Lol

7900xtx

[warped monolith]

but I mentioned hardware below min specs not 4090s lmao

ok you're either being cheeky or stupid. I'm done

[severe spoke]

And again 4090s had the trd crashes

[warped monolith]

yap away

[severe spoke]

Because again it has nothing to do with min specs.

Cyberpunk 2077
Overwatch 2
Star Wars Outlaws
Marvel Rivals
Black Myth: Wukong
Alan Wake 2
The First Berserker: Khazan
inZOI
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Apex Legends
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Final Fantasy XVI
Monster Hunter Wilds
Call of Duty (multiple titles, including Modern Warfare III/BO6)
Half-Life 2 RTX
Arc Raiders
Doom: The Dark Ages
Dota 2
No Man's Sky
Ready or Not
Destiny 2
Valorant
Grand Theft Auto V
Battlefield (multiple titles, including 2042/6)
Red Dead Redemption 2
Forza Horizon 5

TDR (Timeout Detection and Recovery) or DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED crashes across multiple hardware types. REGARDLESS OF MIN SPECS

[warped monolith]

I promise I won't say that type of crash can be fixed on an individual level because "this isn't about me"

[slim moth]

imagine releasing a space game like starfield with the same 5 caves on all 200 so planets

[warped monolith]

finding empty planets is fun!

[severe spoke]

Its gotten so lazy compared to back in the day. The amount of crazy hacks devs were doing to get consoles to do things they were never intended to do and still shipping the game in a fully playable state

[warped monolith]

I doubt it's the same Bethesda that used unspeakable black magic to make a game as big as Daggerfall in 1996

[slim moth]

empty planets are worth exploring if there is variety or something that makes them you know.. different. but the same poi's being reused on everysingle planet is fucking nutty in the year of 202X with procedural world developement. it's fucking nuts how lazy it is

[warped monolith]

it was ironic because one of Bethesda support staff or something said that when a player complained about having too many empty planets

they said they 'add to the excitement of exploration' or something along those lines

[severe spoke]

Idk how was physically working for them back then but even if its all the same devs magically its not really relevant being that the problem isnt the devs its the execs and private equity

[warped monolith]

ah yes the dreaded money people

[severe spoke]

Even with procedural generation if the variables it has to pick from are limited and lazy its still going to result in soulless feeling* games

[slim moth]

but at the scale of bethesda, there is no excuse of lack of those resources.

[warped monolith]

SOVL

[severe spoke]

That would be correct. They have decades of good/decent game making exp and 100s of millions in user feed back inputs.

[fading wave]

Beth refuses to kill there outof date engine and move oin

[severe spoke]

Whats their options? Unreal? Lol

[slim moth]

but bethesda moving to Unreal doesn't sound any better

right

[fading wave]

Many UE relases are just fine - also consider this - it is eaiser to get devs / staff that are good with UE engine than creation engine etc

[severe spoke]

For a company like that they need to be making their own. Although they seem less concerned about their engine and more concerned about extracting money from people

[fading wave]

it make more $ sense to go where the talent and access to skills are

making own is a hugh time sink as well - you also need to then train people on how to use tools etc - vs off the shelf like UT / unity etc

[slim moth]

UE can be utilized well, i just don't trust bethesda with something like Fallout or Elder Scrolls to make something less broken then on their shitty engine.

[severe spoke]

To be fair yes. Unreal for the most part is not objectively bad in all ways. But it breeds complacency and laziness.

[fading wave]

Oh come on UT with Bethedsa will be all new kinds of awesome jank - BUT to be fair it would be the same no matter what engine they used 🫑

UE even

[severe spoke]

Well jank is good

And literally half their games personality

[fading wave]

indeed lol - bucket - head = free loot lol

But yeah starfield should..should have been a massive wake up call for em

[slim moth]

ig oblivion remastered is alright, but didn't some other devs publish that?

[fading wave]

no body wants loading screens on transitions anymore - we are past the 2000's

[severe spoke]

I tried to go back to it so many times. 300 mods or 0 mods it still feels souless

[severe spoke]

Yes and they had prior exp

[slim moth]

see other people make bethesda games better than bethesda

[fading wave]

and Once human proved (2nd time only ever attempted) that UE can also do MMO''s now ..after the 1st failed attempt at it

[severe spoke]

The remastered of oblivion is infact how it should be done in all aspects

[slim moth]

if fallout 3/nv was treated the same way, i wouldn't be disappointed

but they hate money and good ideas.. so

[severe spoke]

Something about fps mmos and latency. Pvp in once human and dune just feel gross and left up to chance

[fading wave]

part of issue is Beth is also locked in on consoile compatability - and holds it all back

[fading wave]

never had that in dune - was rock solid - was a great release 120-150fps+ 4k etc

[severe spoke]

Yes fps was great

But hit reg and desync in pvp combat seemed off

Like worse than tarkov lol

[fading wave]

and man - can't say anythign bad about dune as they had Ornithopters )

best lego set too 😛 https://www.lego.com/en-au/product/dune-atreides-royal-ornithopter-10327

[severe spoke]

Correction -Hornythopter

[fading wave]

sucker for the dune thopters and Dennis did them justice as well )

but yeah, UE can work - I thik with stalker 2 - they really just forgot entirly about a life - i think they figured people were drawn to other parts vs what was the best part of stalker

[severe spoke]

Dune its self is really nice. Just shoulda been pve from the start. Massive raid bosses, big community events.

[fading wave]

Agree

[severe spoke]

Stalker 2 also had lots of stability issues too

People shouldn't need to modify their registry to get games to work

[fading wave]

I think stalker 2 - should have been built ground up 1st with alife reqs - and then work the rest around - vs doing it the way they did

never had to with stalker 2

still got 120+ fps 4k etc - and no really issues - just .. it had no soul

[severe spoke]

Yeah it was like 30% of people

[fading wave]

however, 4k oled HDR -= omg the storms and lightening are amazing

[warped monolith]

they used UE as a rendering engine for Oblivion Remastered, if I'm not mistaken

[fading wave]

one thing stalker 2 does is pretty .. also gamma runined stalker 2 😛 was one that would prefer a gamma stalker 2 vs stalker 2 🙂

[warped monolith]

People like shitting on UE but it's 100% the fault of lazy devs like GSC giving it bad rep

[fading wave]

Indeed, and also some not appricating the steop up in hardware also needed - we all want our gear to last - but at times there are limits etc

[severe spoke]

Alot of modern games look great. But pretty face isnt all its about lol

[warped monolith]

gamma is a completely different product. It's a sandbox milsim-esque mod, not a plot-driven driven game

[fading wave]

Agree, but no reason we cant have both )

[fading wave]

I know - and was there back in the OG stlaker days - and even reading in magazines on what GSC had planned and had to ditch

[warped monolith]

whenever someone complains about a game being unoptimized, flip a coin because 50% chance they're using 10 year old hardware

[fading wave]

Makes for great hom lab serve rnow though 😛

[warped monolith]

I'd do the same with my old pc but I'm too lazy to set it up

[severe spoke]

Yes we should be getting both. Specially for the budget of these games. But what devs and project managers see as priority and what execs see as priority are typically not the same

[slim moth]

and using old/obsolete mods and wondering why their game keeps crashing

[fading wave]

but yes, there is blame to spread around - though, missed the mark on not having alife more of a core requirment

[severe spoke]

Infact legally if the game has any shareholders their legal responsibility is to please them and the game its self comes second

[warped monolith]

thing is A-Life from Stalker and A-Life from GAMMA are two very wildly different beasts

and most people expected HoC to have GAMMA's version

[fading wave]

BG 3 did well, GTA 6 will be th enext big complaint am sure, but will look and have deep features as always

[fading wave]

Indeed, A life in OG was... well it was there..sorta - likewise OG was performce hog at relase

xray engine was like crysis at release - melting pcs left and right hehe

[severe spoke]

Thats likely in part because swen owned like 62% of shares and his wife owned another 8

70% and majority voting rights allocated to people who care

[warped monolith]

[fading wave]

and also proved it can be financially viable to do it right

[severe spoke]

Actually this baffles me. Because of course making good games will almost always produce a profit specially in the long term. But our games industry runs on short term quarterly profits

[fading wave]

actually Subnautica 2 will be the next tempreture test I expect

[severe spoke]

Im excite

[slim moth]

cause they're either completely relying on selling each game or microtransactions

[fading wave]

There is a balance needed between execs - thoses that get investment and share/stake holder engagment and letting a design actualy get seen to the end. I mean black flag is a classic example .. omg

and who asked for a gollum game .. I mean ..

[slim moth]

Skull and Bones

[fading wave]

sorry skull bones - yeah balck flag failure 😛

[slim moth]

i figured that's what you were talking about.

[fading wave]

8 years + and 3 different directions

[slim moth]

shit is crazy how much money is wasted in that project

[fading wave]

thanks yeah, brain fart on it )

[severe spoke]

Its crazy when games make actual profits but maybe not as much profit as shareholders wanted and so the push on the company to just kill the studio.....

[slim moth]

and it's crazy that Star Citizen is spending so much money for a game nobody is going to play in the future

[fading wave]

well has to make more than if they just stuck the capital in a term deposit )

[severe spoke]

Im in their partner program and the amount of times they try and get me to play that game lol

Offering money and keys

[fading wave]

Yeah, not even going to mention SC lol JUST the interest alone they get each month from the 600-800mil or whatever is more than ost devs / studios run with

[severe spoke]

Expensive tech demo lol

[fading wave]

800 mil compounding each month ... I mean.. please ?

[severe spoke]

Liquid cooled 4090, 7950x cpu, 6000mhz ram and gen 4 nvme .......26fps in cities

[slim moth]

it's practically just a money disposal

[severe spoke]

Low settings

[slim moth]

you want to waste your money? give it to star citizen

that's what they're there for

I'd rather give a homeless guy a piggy back ride

[severe spoke]

I just hope squad 42 is playable on release

[fading wave]

what no 10k package each few months for a new ship ?

[severe spoke]

I gave them 50 bucks like 6 years agp

Thinking I would have squad 42 in at least 5 years lol

[fading wave]

I wish egosoft had the SC budget 😛

[warped monolith]

fuck yeah.

an X game with multiplayer is my dream

doesn't even have to be mmo. if I could just p2p co-op with a friend or two I'd be happy

[fading wave]

yeah agree - would be awesome

and just x to the next level of funding - I mean be almost like eve singlpayer -coop

[warped monolith]

I'm impressed at how quickly they're releasing the game into Early Access so soon after getting rid of Krafton.
to me they either had the game nearly ready for release and Krafton were just being dicks

or they're rushing the game out the door to take advantage of the PR momentum they gained by ditching the big bad evil corp

[fading wave]

actually have to get back into x4 with new rebalnce -rework

Yeah I thinik 400 mil bonus had somthing to do with Krafton being dicks lol

[warped monolith]

and on a note I forgot to mention earlier about UE5

the current trend of "ue5slop" reminds me of the mid 2010s where almost every game made in Unity was riddled with stuttering and performance issues

which is just another example of a good engine getting bad rep due to lazy devs

[fading wave]

subnauita 1 in vr is still one of the freakiest experiances .. the forest also was freaky at the end ..

[slim moth]

i smacked my ex-gf in the head chasing a deer with an axe

[warped monolith]

I've been told Subnautica in VR is an unforgettable experience