╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[lusty sail]

With dragon bridges and magic n potions

[merry mountain]

trust me, im from the internet

i can assure you 200% it was not made using paint.net

[clear mountain]

maybe....

maybe this is it???

[last spire]

whatcya tryna do

[honest mountain]

ok thanks, trying with new settings now

[steel musk]

Gentlestalkers, anyone know what variable should be tweaked to increase the distance at which Artifacts become visible with the detector?

[vital coyote]

i think there is a mod that dose something simalar, if no one has the answer for you here you can pick apart what files they are messing with

[steel musk]

Thanks, I'll look around to see if there's anything similar

[clear mountain]

Adding new upgrades

(1) Define new effect for EffectPrototypeSIDs in Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/EffectPrototypes.cfg
(2) Define new upgrade for UpgradePrototypeSIDs in Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/UpgradePrototypes.cfg
(3) Adding Upgrade SID in Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/WeaponData/WeaponGeneralSetupPrototypes.cfg

[tawny spade]

who is using my thumbnails for their mods!?

that's not even MHM mod

[teal wing]

We did it Reddit

We beat yerts

[vital coyote]

anyone know where the fsr files located?

[neat thistle]

Can someone share working .cmd lines for UnrealReZen, please?
ReZen keep packing air somehow...

[clear mountain]

so... what's the next?

[serene gust]

Hey Guys Mutant loot combined with Grok Mutant Health isnt working any ideas?

[vital coyote]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/439

havent used it myself but it exists

[clear mountain]

god hell

who in the wrong mind do this

[serene gust]

I tried this Mod combined with lower Mutant Health. Gehen Mutant Look worked for me but the Mutant Health was on default

Then mutant loot *

[vital coyote]

ahh could make a merge yourself and make sure the values were correct

by the looks of it dosnt look that hard. been playing pretty much vanella with a few things like a slight nerf to the muties so i havent needed to mearge anything yet

[serene gust]

Okay thanks 🙂 I will try tomorrow again. God Night

[mystic igloo]

hey guys what do you guys use to make uasset files into png or jpeg?

ive been trying to convert uasset files to png or jpeg to make a ui mod for stalker 2

help would be appreciated!!

[real marsh]

dude if only it worked

[deep ridge]

looking for a cfg file that effects door peek speed. I found one to change the time that it takes to pick up bodies and i would like to edit the door speed to be much faster as well. we dont need to take an hour to peek a door lol

[pulsar gate]

Will the patch bork all the mods?

[clear mountain]

Weird, I just changed what technician can upgrade in npcprototype.cfg but it doesn't seem to work

[viral cipher]

Maybe but I doubt it, most of them are cfg file edits

But I’m also a dumbass so

[pseudo harness]

do longer days mods affect the elevator in SIRCAA or is that just naturally super slow?

[molten cargo]

Its just slow

[vital coyote]

would be hella funny tho

[magic torrent]

they need them 30h of game time yk

[vital coyote]

how dose one go about backing up your saves? i only see stuff from the flashlight mod in here

[pseudo harness]

thought it was bugged cause it was so slow

[placid viper]

sorry if its the wrong topic. does anyone know a good working modpack atm or should i just merge my own?

[hushed glade]

would it be easy to make a mod where radiation does not go away on its own?

[pseudo harness]

probably just a line to adjust, how much radiation goes away per second and you put it so low it's effectively non existent. Just gotta find that line 😄

just a guess tho

[hushed glade]

yeah where should i look? cfg files seem to be empty. do i need to unpack something?

[pseudo harness]

beats me, haven't done much modding myself

I would imagine it's in the cfg files

maybe CoreVariables?

[hushed glade]

ok np, thanks. it does seem like that would be the way

is that in the %APPDATA% files

[clear mountain]

aaaa

[pseudo harness]

Nah it's in the Pak folder

[clear mountain]

why dont techs accept my new upgrades

[hushed glade]

oh ok, i guess i need to learn to unpack those

[pseudo harness]

you need a program to edit those, Repak i believe

[hushed glade]

thank you!

i will begin my hunt

[pseudo harness]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1309520964782133328

check that

[rare ruin]

Are you creating new upgrades?

If so, it won't work

[last spire]

use unreal unpack to unpack cfgs

[rare ruin]

technicians seem to be hard-coded and can't be made to have new upgrades. All you can do is remove requirements

[arctic monolith]

hey gang - i did a search but nothing concrete came up. have we been able to repack .jsons as .uassets successfully?

just can't crack getting my .json open in UE

[candid silo]

hey has anyone been able to unpack ReferenceHolder.umap in Stalker2\Content?

[teal wing]

why not repak

[teal wing]

What error ?

[placid viper]

how do i merge mutant loot and real weapon names so that mutant loot's item info doesnt get scrambled and broken?

[candid silo]

Error:
trying version V11 failed: found magic of 0x20000 instead of 0x5a6f12e1
trying version V10 failed: found magic of 0x20000 instead of 0x5a6f12e1
trying version V9 failed: got 28, which is not a boolean
trying version V8B failed: found magic of 0x20000 instead of 0x5a6f12e1
trying version V8A failed: got 6, which is not a boolean
trying version V7 failed: found magic of 0x0 instead of 0x5a6f12e1
trying version V6 failed: found magic of 0x0 instead of 0x5a6f12e1
trying version V5 failed: found magic of 0x0 instead of 0x5a6f12e1
trying version V4 failed: found magic of 0x0 instead of 0x5a6f12e1
trying version V3 failed: found magic of 0x0 instead of 0x5a6f12e1
trying version V2 failed: found magic of 0x0 instead of 0x5a6f12e1
trying version V1 failed: found magic of 0x0 instead of 0x5a6f12e1
trying version V0 failed: found magic of 0x0 instead of 0x5a6f12e1
version unsupported or is encrypted (possibly missing --aes-key?)

the command is correct with proper aes key, repak doesnt recognize it

[shrewd rampart]

It works in some cases, doesn't work in others as it's dependant on location and which interior you're within the post process volume of. Glad it's some kind of progress. It'll do until GSC fix the post process volumes or we get the mod tools I guess... Play around with those values as you wish. @wraith saddle too.

You can also try messing around with bloom stuff... I am attempting to turn it off for now for exteriors, and limit the post process volume ones for interiors, but ehh... bout to stop messing around with Engine.ini altogether, got it to a point where I am happier with quality and that's it. p.s yes you might have to recompile shaders after making all of those changes.

;; Bloom Stuff
r.BloomQuality=0 ;Sets bloom quality (3 is medium, 4 is high?).
r.Bloom.Intensity=0.4 ;Adjusts the bloom brightness (lower value = less bloom).
r.Bloom.Threshold=1.5 ;Sets the brightness threshold for bloom application.
r.Bloom.Cross=0 ;Disables the cross-shaped bloom effect for high-intensity light sources.

[last spire]

this needs to be in the upcoming patch btw

hate having to kiss npcs to talk to them

[shrewd rampart]

@rare ruin's mod?

Social Distancing? 😄

[last spire]

nah, tweaked it myself

[shrewd rampart]

Ah, fair enough.
There's a mod for it too

[rare ruin]

lol i used the exact wording in my mod description

[last spire]

no shot

[rare ruin]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/231

[last spire]

gr8 minds think alike n all that

LOL

[candid silo]

does anyone know if you can bypass the need for modifying the localization file by using a field like Name = ? in the item definition? <- that doesn't work obviously just wondering if anyone knows

[rare ruin]

personally i got with 6 on RealTimeToGameCoef

that and the dynamic weather mod work great

[last spire]

how long is that then? 2.5 hours? 3 hours?

[rare ruin]

about like. 3-4 i'd say?

[last spire]

can you go into negative?

[rare ruin]

can't imagine that working out

[shrewd rampart]

Might steal your table later and plug in my values in there 😉

Nice one.

[last spire]

go right ahead, still not quite finished tho

[last spire]

so how do people get real 24h, putting it to 1?

[shrewd rampart]

And steal some of your values aswell for other things I haven't even bothered taking a look at like vaulting/landing etc.

[rare ruin]

i think so, yeah @last spire

[last spire]

i urge u to steal the pitch values

u can actually turn ur head when climbing ladders

[shrewd rampart]

Awesome

[last spire]

yeah okay, thats logical, i thought it went into the negatives too

[rare ruin]

it may, I've not tried that though

[last spire]

maybe ill crack open one of those 24h paks

[rare ruin]

working on trying to vary the NPC loot

[last spire]

on a faction basis?

[rare ruin]

i like the idea of some drug addict having a 5% chance to get 5 hercules

this is for the Main generator, but I will be doing on a faction basis and their "rank"

though that is a vanilla feature, I'm gonna try and spice it up a bit

its weird to me how you can kill military and they have like

2 bullets on them

or maybe like, if you're lucky, one sausage

[last spire]

balance reasons i suppose but yeah i feel you

[rare ruin]

its weird

yeah that's what I think

[last spire]

this game was suppose to have a magazine system i believe

[rare ruin]

i'm still going to balance it

[last spire]

but they cut that and went with the basic rounds

ammo pool

[rare ruin]

like in the game right now, most AP rounds, can only drop in 5-15

i'm attempting to make it around a quarter of each mag, if that, could be even less

but its hard to balance because you have to also account for increased mag size

[last spire]

increased mag size as in different weapons? mag mods?

im guessing the game just drops x ammo for every weapon instead of individual pools for specific weapons

[rare ruin]

vanilla mags and their upgrades

currently what it is

this is default

i'm thinking of doing this, though.

or maybe lower

like i'm just testing things out

not even sure if it works yet, i'm just getting the values in and then I can test if it actually works or not

[shrewd rampart]

Does anyone know if when an enemy is spawned do they have a range of HP that they spawn with?
I don't get why during my testing at the moment I spawn a dog, and sometimes it dies in one shot, sometimes it dies in 2-3 shots. 🤔

[rare ruin]

seems that there are different ranks

[shrewd rampart]

But I am spawning it with the same rank 😄

[rare ruin]

oh

[shrewd rampart]

Unless it's defaulting because my input is incorrect

XSpawnObjBySID Blinddog 1 False
1 = Rank, correct?

[rare ruin]

I would assume so, but from what I can tell, the NPCs at least have rank, idk about Mutants

[shrewd rampart]

Goes 1-5 for dogs apparently, 6th rank doesn't spawn. But I don't see any difference either.

Yeah, I know NPCs do, not sure if Mutants are affected by it

[rare ruin]

interesting, i would assume so if 5 is the max

[last spire]

did you run into any issues btw

i know for a fact that stalker sense quest is bugged with timescale changes, but thats where my knowledge ends

[deep ridge]

has anyone found anything related to map markers and UI

I want to removed the "undiscovered" question marks from the map if possible

[rare ruin]

i haven't ran into any issues yet noo

[last spire]

ill probably make mine 6 to 8 hours then, 2 hours seems too short still

[shrewd rampart]

Does anyone know how to get this difficulty to show up in the menu? 🙂

Stalker : struct.begin {refkey=Empty}
SID = Stalker
TitleSID = sid_misc_newGame_difficultyMaster_STI
DescriptionSID = sid_misc_newGame_difficultyMaster_SDE

[rare ruin]

stalker difficulty is the normal one, no?

why does it say Stalker there

hmm

[shrewd rampart]

Looks like they were in the middle of making a Master difficulty, or maybe saved for the future when you complete the campaign or something. But they named SID Stalker, but this isn't the normal difficulty one.

[rare ruin]

maybe complete it on hardest mod? I have no idea

mode*

[last spire]

most likely a free post launch update

[rare ruin]

adding the AKU to bandit spawn

[rare ruin]

10% chance

[shrewd rampart]

That's the medium one ^

Wait, are the difficulties different on Xbox? Do they get a master difficulty and we don't or something?

[rare ruin]

It looks like it

[last spire]

they can run the game properly

earlier access for them

[shrewd rampart]

🙂
Might be worth looking into, maybe it's possible to turn it on to show up in the menu 🤔 Where is the difficulty menu even?

I assume localization too, for title/description, wonder if it's any different

[last spire]

try replacing it for veteran for both title and description SID and see what happens?

[shrewd rampart]

good call

[prime saddle]

so has anyone found a way to replace the backpack texture without it turning out invisible in-game? I tried getting Exicide help on this but we kind of stopped with nowhere to go.

[shrewd rampart]

Well I know what I am calling my difficulty rebalance now. 🙂

[leaden dagger]

Did you make an alpha channel on your backpack?

[prime saddle]

Exicide went further on editing my texture, I think he can respond to it @rare ruin

when he was talking with you that day about backpack texture it was actually him helping me out

like, it just went invisible, the whole mesh which I didn't knew could happen because it was a texture edit.

[last spire]

nice

BUT

theyre buffing npc hp

well, probably not since the outcry but wouldnt surprise me if they kept it

this artificial difficulty is dogshit, fuck BGS for making that the norm

[leaden dagger]

Depends on if the shader is alpha masked and looking to lets say the alpha channel to define what is opaque and what is cutout. If your channel encodes with a black alpha (0), the game would make your backpack invisible basically

[shrewd rampart]

Oh don't worry about it, I am trying to force it right now so that only Master difficulty is available in the menu. Trying it.
Which means only my modifications, no cheating around it. True difficulty. I don't even want to have the option to turn down the difficulty at any point.

[last spire]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/967837041100468307/1311484375505829918/image0.gif

[shrewd rampart]

Ehhh... didn't quite work out 100%, but it's progress.

[prime saddle]

I don't know how to edit images at this level tbh, I don't use any good editing software other than paint.net and idk if it can make alpha channels

[shrewd rampart]

Try Affinity free trial 6 months. 🙂

[prime saddle]

@rare ruin Hey exicide, sorry for another ping, but, have you done this?

[chrome cliff]

is there a mod to turn the auto exposure down?

[last spire]

https://tenor.com/view/riddler-paul-dano-new-rockstars-does-he-know-gif-26833694

[shrewd rampart]

You can try this, some report that it works for them. Other's don't. For me it works a bit.
Just remember to recompile the shaders afterwards at least once.

#╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message

You shall not escape. 😈

[rapid flame]

does anyone know of a mod where when you fire your weapon it lights up dark areas aroudn you? i was having an intense fight in a cave and wanted to try fighting without the flashlight LOL to make it look more horror cinematic but it just lights up areas of the gun. If anyone watched the most recent Batman movie where he fights down the dark hall, that's kinda what i'm looking for.

[last spire]

muzzle flashes emitting light were cut, take a guess why

might be reintroduced later down the line, or someone here can enable them if they find the bit for it

[rare ruin]

What other guns would you guys expect Bandits to have?

maybe some shitty durability mossbergs?

[last spire]

boomsticks seem quite appropriate

in mass

[rare ruin]

I haven't worked on that since we put it down because I was stumped, I'd need to re-look at it and see what I can find out

[last spire]

maybe some veteran bandits being smart enough to not saw off their full length dbs

[rare ruin]

though I am lowkey becoming stumped

[last spire]

even tho its not the same weapon

[rare ruin]

what the fuck is RC_Bandit1 and 2

and why do they have a red forest variation

and then on top of that, there's also a ranked generator for "Bandits" not "RC_Bandits"

so maybe I just, fuck with the ranked generators

[clear mountain]

I can still modify effects of upgrades and change price, no?

[rare ruin]

you might be able to change the price, and you could attempt to change their effects

[clear mountain]

I want to make(or modify) upgrades to have AP values of low tiered gun

[leaden dagger]

Yeah paint.net handles alpha channels

[ocean cedar]

Pretty easily. I think you can link the upgrade to the effect from the effects.cfg

[clear mountain]

think that'd be a fine idea which considers both low tier gun some love and progression

[ocean cedar]

I did that to see if i can make a single artifact slot upgrade do it 5 times and you can.

[prime saddle]

Never tried, will look for a tutorial.

it didn't auto-generated to me atleast

[prime saddle]

Yeah, sorry to put you on much pressure with this crap lmao, thinking the replacement would be a walk in the park

[rare ruin]

you're all good

[rare ruin]

I use paint.net for everything, what exactly needs to be done with the texture??

[rare ruin]

I'm just working on a mod trying overhaul some NPC loot and the things available to be them, right now it feels a bit stale

[last spire]

has anyone found out if the auto leaning can be disabled?

[prime saddle]

Good luck with that, but hopefully when you finish we can come back to the backpack, I'm really hooked on to this fr

[pliant stream]

So the latest optimized tweaks s2 and the anti stutter mod don't conflict? I don't seem to notice the performance increase of anti stutter when using both.

[sand parrot]

May have to merge them, seems like they conflict

[smoky stirrup]

anyone know the console command to make a big storm?

[sand parrot]

XStartEmission ?

[smoky stirrup]

need more loud regular storm i can walk in

i had a save but lost it

[raw crest]

In my dream i saw that update dropped

Do we have it yet

[tight herald]

Finaly able to extract with new Zentools update !! No need key.json anymore, -AES= and -ZenPackageVersion=Initial works fine 😍

https://github.com/LongerWarrior/ZenTools

[fast shore]

+1 been looking for that one

[vital coyote]

been using this but it says something about the aes key when trying to unpack, i have one but idk where to put it

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/398?tab=description

[last spire]

notepad users stay winning

[atomic jacinth]

not sure where I should post this: https://github.com/Sleaker/Stalker2CfgParser - vscode syntax highlighter for s2cfg format and template ANTLR4 for parsing the cfg data structures into code.

Should I just put it into mods?

[inland estuary]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/471?tab=files

Monster loot author and readable ammo author, plus a few others should probably take a look at this mod. Dudes just taking your files and reuploading them as a "pack".

[vital coyote]

looks dope, ill plug it into my vs code when are ya uploading the release?

yeah seen a bunch of these packs, but all those credit

[radiant valve]

someone need to create a mod, that evertime we slap the charging handle of mp5 it sound yamete kudasai!

[shrewd rampart]

That'll be @eternal sapphire and @pearl lichen's mods then.

[mighty compass]

anyone ever got that ? certain npc body/armor part start glowing blue/purple from far? sometime there guns too but not all of them(hard to tell from pic but armored vest is blue)

[atomic jacinth]

Should be up in v1.0.0 under releases in the sidebar

I'm writing up instructions and posting in mods one second.

[vital coyote]

ohh word refreshed the page and it was there. opend the tab a while ago

[atomic jacinth]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1311958737027862648 - for any questions 😄

[shrewd rampart]

Do you have any images of it in action?
Damn, is this going to make me swap back from Notepad++ back to VS2022? 🙂
I am only using notepad++ cause the compare tool is less clunky to use.

I can move my questions there.

brb though forgot about pizza in the oven, edit: saved! 😆

[atomic jacinth]

it's for VSCode. but I think notepad++ supports textmate grammars. one sec lemme load it up and double check

[vital coyote]

ohh will this work for ++ aswell?

that would be dope, i swap betwwen them depending

[atomic jacinth]

ahh no, looks like NPP uses a custom thing called a UDL.

[vital coyote]

ahh ohh well

[atomic jacinth]

I could probably write one, I think it only supports operators and folding.

[sand badger]

can someone make a head bobbing mod

[vital coyote]

i tried finding the files for headbobing b4 could not find em. but lots of pple want it so i bet someon is gunna make it

[fast shore]

Did you guys find a way to change viewpoint of a gun (guns fov), been browsing cfgs but no luck so far. Maybe through console enabler

[summer silo]

https://github.com/Lyall/STALKER2Tweak/releases

Use version 0.0.5 (0.0.6 is bugged)

[raw crest]

How hard would it be to change scar's current model to old model from trilogy

[summer silo]

Very

STALKER 2 uses Meta Humans.

[raw crest]

Why you have two different pfp what the hell

[summer silo]

Nitro

[last spire]

mods rob him

[raw crest]

They are so deep into UE5s features

They cant pull out without making another game at this point

All performance heavy stuff have been used what was wrong with traditional methods man

[summer silo]

tbf I'm robbing Discord blind

My Nitro costs $4.90

[raw crest]

Can we create metahuman version of old Scar and import it

[summer silo]

Yes.

At least once proper mod tools come out

[raw crest]

so at least 2 year

I noticed they havent decoupled UI elements from rendering so FSR3FG messes up UI

[summer silo]

Speaking of heavy, apparently 5.1 Meta Humans are more expensive than newer versions

Someone said they reduced their size from 1GB to 60mb after 5.1

[teal wing]

Yes this is fact

But DaimeneX there is a quality loss

so there is a downside

But it wasn’t after 5.1

[summer silo]

Overall a some features would be mroe efficient and performance friendly if STALKER 2 kept up to date with UE5.
Issue:

• UE5 after 5.1 started getting increasingly shittier on dev side
  Meaning:
• 5.3 already is more crash prone on developer side and the viewport has worse performance

[teal wing]

5.3 is bad and nobody should use it

5.5 is latest

And introduces megalights

Have you seen megalights

Daim

[summer silo]

I know
But 5.4 was worse than 5.3
Then 5.5 is apparently worse than 5.4

[teal wing]

have you seen them

tho

[summer silo]

I saw them

[teal wing]

they hawt

[summer silo]

I also read about people constantly crashing

[teal wing]

Ok but

[summer silo]

When developing shit

[teal wing]

That shouldn’t stop technological advancement

imo

[summer silo]

STALKER 2 would come out in 2026 if they had to deal with it

Also the fact gsc developed their own shit specifically for 5.1

[teal wing]

they could update that too

shouldn’t be too hard

it’s still UE

[raw crest]

At some point i hope they update engine version

[summer silo]

No like, 5.1 is apparently heavily modified

I mean they did those infamous modifications to meta humans to allow heavy diversity

[junior saffron]

was looking into seperating ammo by color, came across this, well, atleast i know what they should've been on reload sheesh.

[raw crest]

Speaking of diversity, seeing black guys with fully slavic names throws me off so much bruh

[summer silo]

I mean.
Nothing stops someone from being black and being a native slav

[tidal yew]

Mod tools please

I hunger.

[torn grail]

noob questions about mod additions buuuuut...... when I make the ~mods folder in paks, does it matter the name or file type?

[summer silo]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-obi-wan-kenobi-maybe-some-day-someday-one-day-gif-26036494

[raw crest]

This doesn't sound right lol

[summer silo]

You just put em there

[tidal yew]

Just put it in, just like that, all of it.

[summer silo]

Technically speaking nothing should stop you from ignoring the ~mods folder entirely and dropping mods directly into pak dir

[cloud lark]

thats what she said

[tidal yew]

Any mod to add in the Lyoudi guy??

[shrewd rampart]

I do that with mods that use pakchunk-additions.
The dev/spectator console enabler for one.

[torn grail]

does it matter if you put it in paks or a subfolder in paks? or is it just easier to manage if you have a mods folder

[shrewd rampart]

Vortex puts them inside of folders inside the ~mods folder if you'd wish to organize them more.

Folders then need the order priority alphabate instead of the individual paks.

[raw crest]

Where blue

[shrewd rampart]

~ is used for "mods" folder to get priority

[junior saffron]

no blue, im not even quite sure which should be which, just that buckshot was supposed to be red

[shrewd rampart]

Without it, the .pakchunks will overwrite your mod. In theory.

[junior saffron]

i havent played much of the game so someone else would know more (like at all, 2 hours) 40 hours doing other shit

[fast shore]

@scarlet holly whats the difference between Base and Main files of your mod on nexus?

[junior saffron]

tbh. because i imagine they are the same in the ui icons maybe?

[hardy bloom]

anyone know any good radio mods?

[neat thistle]

Can somebody give me a working paths example in UnrealReZen?

[fast shore]

Very cool thanks, it doesnt break viewmodel pov when dying or reloading a save? Did u try it

[placid viper]

what mod merger is everyone using atm?

[vital coyote]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/398?tab=description

super easy

[placid viper]

i will take a look, thankyou

[vital coyote]

o7 may be better out there but i like this one

[summer silo]

Played with it plenty. It mostly works, 0.0.6 tried fixing one pda issue but that caused a whole can of different issues.

There is a vanilla bug where after a cutscene the game will force a higher viewmodel_fov but reloading a save fixes it

[fast shore]

Muzzle flash still bugged if you move the viewmodel forward?

[placid viper]

thats only a unpacker no? i was asking for a merger

[summer silo]

Didn't notice any issue with that on my end. I used like 1.15 value and it looked good

[fast shore]

I see, thx a lot

[vital coyote]

you can unpack and repack

for auto mearges there are tools for that too

havent messed with any of those yet i manually merge

[atomic jacinth]

Merge tool is here: https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1310813942989459517

[dire edge]

Is it possible to give other Armors the Lead Containers upgrade? as well as increasing slots if needed, but mostly Lead Containers

[compact furnace]

With how much the Devs have relied on existing UE5 systems to make the game, is that a concerning thing from dev a experience side or is it just as difficult as coming up with your own stuff?

[raven bobcat]

does anyone know of any console mods that do work with gamepass?

[placid viper]

as in?, UE5 itself can be used pretty nicely if you take care. but thats something that i have not seen in this project

[placid viper]

is it hard to do it manually? i just dipped in and its all new to me

[compact furnace]

For example just using meta humans and everything that kinda comes with the engine and apparently not caring much about its performance impact. To me it seems they just took the "easiest" route for most stuff. If all of those things really come with UE5 out of the box like that.

[placid viper]

i feel like xbox studios pushed them to the release because of the gamepass release.
but seeing how "finished" stalker 2 is. i would imagine the whole project started like 3 years ago or maybe 4. but i have played jankier bethesda releases that were more polished

[vital coyote]

nahh just have to compare what your puting over and for config files put the changes from one to the other i use a plug in for note pad++ that automaticly tells me whats diffrent

these are 2 totaly diff files lol

but if your looking for a click and ship option out there its deff there

[compact furnace]

How much can they realistically fix in terms of performance without majorly changing how the game looks at this point? Since Nanite and Lumen are mandatory as far as I've seen, which seems to be the biggest offender in that area

[shrewd rampart]

Most of the time it's more efficient to use things that others (well-versed in the topic) have made, when it comes to tools. Espescially engine-wide tools.
It's much harder to make it yourself, than it it to use something that's already made and documented for you- that way you and your team can focus on the actual design, rather than the long engineering process of making your tools from scratch. No point reinventing the wheel, unless you're 1000% sure you've got the innovative reason to do so, such as a custom engine feature that requires you to rewrite how fundementals work.
People nowadays really underestimate how hard it is imho.

[vital coyote]

i turned luman all the way off game looks like hot trash xD

[placid viper]

nanite and lumen is ass is all im gonna say

[vital coyote]

^^^^^^

[placid viper]

i work with UE5 and i help some devs here and there, so i dont wanna hate on stalker devs and i respect their work.

but they seriously fucked up alot

[vital coyote]

i noticed that games that upgraded to ue5 from ue4 run good, why? because they didnt have all these algorithmic one click tools

[placid viper]

i never seen a game ship with interiors flickering because of misplaced UV layers

[compact furnace]

Oh, I'm sure it's hard, that's why I'm asking if this is the industry standard or not. I wasn't trying to crap on the Devs, just getting more insight from people more knowledgeable than me

[placid viper]

they certainly used easy ways, but thats not wrong. what is wrong is that they fucked up the easy ways

[last spire]

wdym

theyre gonna fix it in the next patch /s

[placid viper]

i've never seen a UE game thats been backed by Xbox for instance where this amount of jank and missing content gets released
also gold status

[last spire]

missing content?

[placid viper]

yea?

[last spire]

elaborate

and dont just say alife

[dire edge]

But you've seen the Harry Potter easter egg in the game

[last spire]

the rtx card was worth the jank

[placid viper]

NVG? Binoculars, Loot of enemy's, lack of faces for Ai,
looting monsters?

[dire edge]

Indeed, for the Slav Jank

[compact furnace]

I feel much more strongly about the state of the game because they made us believe that it was in a good state and only allowed reviews 2 hours before the game launched for everyone tbh.

[last spire]

yeah okay, thats valid

[dire edge]

Rn im trying to figure out on how to add in Lead Container upgrades for the armors

[vital coyote]

brother the amount of hopium that its gunna be fixed in the next patch is next level. it will be some minor changes

[placid viper]

im just bothered on why they shipped it like that.
i believe its because xbox gave them pressure because of the xbox gamepass release thing
but its utter bullshit

[dire edge]

rather not just use one type of Armor through most of the gameplay and perhaps choose more preferred armors

[last spire]

/s

it means sarcasm

[vital coyote]

ohh

lol never saw that b4

[shrewd rampart]

They're under understandable amount of pressure, and it clearly shows some things are rushed. And I truly hope they don't just take the bank and run with it. However there is a lack of technical attention to detail from their side, that is more concerning than anything else.
To be fair, UE has a large learning curve, and is not well documented in many cases, so it's easy to get lost in there.
Huge respect to them for achieving the atmosphere of the game eitherway. They've built a good base imho.

What they in my opinion did wrong, is develop the game for upscaling graphics, rather than focus on the native picture.
If you upscale a shit native picture, it'll still look shit. Focus on the foundation and fundementals, don't skip straight to the polishing/refinement tech.

[vital coyote]

makes sense xD

my b

[dire edge]

well to be fair to GSC, they are making a game during an invasion and lost a few devs

[placid viper]

UE is pretty well documented wdym

[vital coyote]

and covid

[last spire]

nah ur good, i can tell youre a healthy man since you dont use reddit often enough to see and know

[dire edge]

And that

[vital coyote]

i listen to redit storys on youtube and look up technical stuff when i need to thats about it haha

[compact furnace]

Doesn't give me much hope for the future of them patching the game in a good time frame to be honest. I really don't know why they made all these super performance heavy things the default.

[last spire]

its all well and good until only you have a very specific issue that nobody in existence has encountered before

[vital coyote]

ive learned a tone with whats out there

alot easier finding something then xray ill tell you that

even creation engine

[last spire]

bgs never once released any documentation for their sdk

its crazy

[placid viper]

absolutely. i work with UE since UE 3 and its super documented in comparison to other engines.
also the thing abt devs and warzone. they relocated to prague 2 years ago
i just feel like xbox messed up and gave them big pressure

[fast shore]

Not all of them dude.

If you are a man of a conscription age you are not going anywhere

[last spire]

yo @shrewd rampart, can you look over my mutant values and give me some feedback please, base vanilla weapon damage at 1x difficulty multiplier in and out

thinking that pseudo mobs have a higher armor rating

[azure mortar]

does anyone know how to setup this plugin for stalker 2? i tried to do it but my configuration is probably wrong https://github.com/JsonAsAsset/JsonAsAsset?tab=readme-ov-file

i need it for reading through materials of the game

[last spire]

trave, have you played the game a bit to form an opinion on mutant health?

[shrewd rampart]

In my experience and working with some great heads in the industry too, nah. It's there, but it doesn't tell you what a thing does most of the time.
Majority of the documentation for the more custom things are a single line of code or method/function -> and you have to go and physically go to source build of the engine and check in the C++ to find out what it really does debugging it yourself etc. Does it have documentation? Yes. Is there much more to be desired, yes.
Unity has proven much better documentation than Unreal does for instance, there's less things to need to go and investigate yourself how it works.
However, it could also be that the documentation is sector dependant and in some cases UEs documentation is sufficient, while in others it simply isn't.

[placid viper]

i agree fully, i just didnt want to write a big-ass text like you did but you are right.
i personally work with 3D so i'd say its pretty well documented. but if we head over to the other sections i do agree that UE could really use some better explanation.

all in all, i just hope gsc can fix the mess. its a cool game and im only mad because i see the beauty in the game

[shrewd rampart]

PM me

[shrewd rampart]

I am mainly in the industry on the Designer side of things too, but as a Technical Designer acting as a bridge between programmers and designers- I have an insight into both sides of the picture. You're 100% right, the 3D section is certainly a lot more documented than the other darker side of the engine. 😉

[placid viper]

im just a simple weightpainter and rigger 😄

i have respect for the pain of the UE code that devs need to put on.
thats why i initially said i dont wanna hate too much on them bc i know how good and ass UE is

[kindred lotus]

man, wtf were were the devs thinking when they made the radiation zones

[placid viper]

^

its either haha funni air or its DIE

[kindred lotus]

Like, if you jump on a barrel literally 20 cm off the main quest course you get irradiated to death within 0.5 seconds

[vital coyote]

artificial game bariers, but still places like the slag are bs

one step your dead

should warm up

[kindred lotus]

its so stupid

also the geiger counter is binary, you cant get a notion of how much you're being irradiated

[vital coyote]

like how the fuck are people living so close to this shit without bleeding gums

[kindred lotus]

yea its dumb

but then again a lot of the gameplay choices are

are we allowed to post mini spoilers here?

[fast shore]

they are all drunk 24/7. Slav immune system

[vital coyote]

• runs away

[shrewd rampart]

if you do please use ||these||

[vital coyote]

you right fuckers at the bar wouldnt shut up while i was doing main quest stuff

[kindred lotus]

Ok so side quest spoiler: || when you encounter noontide, and you have to kill the controller, you get no dialogue from not having killed a single zombie. also none of the zombies recover ||

this shit is so dumb, it was super hard to do it this way

[desert valve]

||you should get special dialog when you talk to the dude that requested not killing them (the tech in the base i think?)||

[kindred lotus]

not that quest

thats just one guy

[desert valve]

right gotcha

[desert valve]

i honestly dont remember doing that

[kindred lotus]

bro, || the quest where you have to go underground of the waste facility and kill the controller ||

[desert valve]

ohhh in the ||waste facility|| my brain was region locked to ||Wild Island||

yeah im pretty sure its very much intented that you ||kill them, its hard enough if you do||

so im not surprised that there is no extra dialogue

[shrewd rampart]

Respect for using spoiler tags. Cheers.

Though is it just me or should these be in #╓☢stalker2™-chat-not-gamma-keep-waiting instead of a modding chat 🙂

[dire edge]

What Tech installs lead container upgrades? wanna try testing out some modded lead containers for a suit to see if they even work or not

as in adding additional lead container upgrades to a suit that normally doesn't have them
Im currently trying it with Bandit Jacket, to see if they work before I go make some changes that'd make me waste time

[lean oar]

I think the one in yaniv does them

[vital coyote]

ooo thats sick good addition

i miss the artifact containers

wierd how they arent in here

[scarlet holly]

it's just the older version that had a lot more changes than base

more or less graphical downgrades

few fps more

[fast shore]

Does quality preset optimize the game or it just cranks up lod and shadows for fidelity?

Wanna try installing it after I come from work

[scarlet holly]

it includes the optimization and for the time being, just higher lods

i haven't really gotten to editing any of the other stuff such as reflections and shadows

honestly, the only optimization is r.Nanite.Streaming.MaxPageInstallsPerFrame=16

[fast shore]

Ok got it, whats your opinion on enabling RR. I tried it on my RTX4070 and surprisingly the game was working worse

[scarlet holly]

i already told the s2 tweaks and the ultimate engine tweaks guys that and so now all 3 mods should perform the same

[scarlet holly]

haven't used it

[fast shore]

Gotcha

[vital coyote]

i like rr just have to add one line i think

no prefomance hit and clears everything up alot

for me atleast

may have been that engine ini setting that may have fucked it for ya

[wooden birch]

ill try it what do i add

[vital coyote]

not too sure but he said it dosnt like any thing over 2 so it set to 1.99

[fast shore]

Hmm what settings did you add? Can you put it here

[vital coyote]

hold up

[fast shore]

I have a very strong system but the game works better without RR which is very strange

[last spire]

what is RR

i keep seeing it pop up

[topaz cape]

ray reconstruction

also

soon™️

[last spire]

foken hell

[vital coyote]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/43

[SystemSettings]
r.Lumen.Reflections.DownsampleFactor=1.99

i use the consol comand r.NGX.DLSS.DenoiserMode 1

instead of fucking with the menu because you will need to reinable it all the time

when dying reloading

[fast shore]

Oh so maybe thats why it didnt work me, didnt know it resets on death

Then its not really worth it tbh

At least for now

[vital coyote]

simpe as presing ` then up arrow and endter after running the cammand for the first time

[frank summit]

Still on the hunt - has anyone been able to find the game's map texture, or have an idea of where it might be? I've been digging through files and found these images, but none that match the one used in game. The ones I found are cool but don't quite match

[fast shore]

Patch soon?

[vital coyote]

bottem right one deff looks like an icon map

[dire edge]

They're there as upgrades, but some of the armor Lead container upgrades seem broken

I just wanna wear whatever instead of just wearing one suit throughout as it offers better protection and slots

[idle sun]

what does this mean?

[vital coyote]

yeah thats cool but "put rock in box" its a classic

[dire edge]

I see, guess Im heading to Yaniv

[vital coyote]

put box in whatever pocket

[frank summit]

It's a bit weird when you zoom in 😵‍💫 i'm looking for the one the game uses specifically so I can make an interactive map

[topaz cape]

patch going through the final stages, release soon™️

[idle sun]

ah okay been waiting on this all week hopefully its worth the wait

[vital coyote]

ohh yeah that acutaly looks like something the devs may use for something else

[formal kraken]

Can you post these in max resolution please? Looks interesting

[fast shore]

People being saying that but that page tells me nothing tbh

Its coming next week most likely

[frank summit]

I'm not sure they'd fit into discord but I can try

[frank summit]

The map with orange lines is here https://www.gamerguides.com/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/maps/the-zone-map

[vital coyote]

10 mb limits are the fucking bane of my existance

[last spire]

try having 1mb download speed

[topaz cape]

they've been pushing patches every single day pre-release, they said it'd be this week and it already went through QA and certification. i doubt they're gonna push it to next week

we'll see

[last spire]

yall expecting any immediate perf improv?

[frank summit]

there ya go @formal kraken

[fast shore]

Thats ok let them cook, I really doubt that things will release on a weekend tho

[formal kraken]

Thanks!

[topaz cape]

i'm expecting a million new things breaking

[frank summit]

no worries. if you do find the one used in-game, pls do let me know 😛 putting pins on the orange lines one has been a real pain in the ass 😂

[dire edge]

Mmmm there seems to be a max limit on how many upgrade slots can be in a given section

[vital coyote]

bro..... how are you playing this game are you still downloading?

[dire edge]

Might need to change some upgrade data to fit in more artifact slots and containers

[vital coyote]

my heart goes out to you lol

[last spire]

oh nah, i started downloading as it got released that second

[vital coyote]

yeah are you still downloading it xD

[last spire]

took 2 days, but 10.9Mbps

[vital coyote]

oml that sucks man

[last spire]

my isp is bitchy like that and seems my cable is damaged

so i lost half of my speed

[topaz cape]

i'm so glad i upgraded recently, download took me like an hour D:

[last spire]

ill give you 2 breads and 1 ar416 for some download speed

https://tenor.com/view/trade-offer-gif-21546586

it has 3% durability

[vital coyote]

that sucks, mine was busted for a year and no matter how many times i restarted my modem the wires out side didnt get fixed.

bitched em out one day and they finlay sent a tech

[last spire]

thats what you gotta do these days

never stop lodging complaints

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/967837041100468307/1311484375505829918/image0.gif

[vital coyote]

yeah spectrum sucks ass

i talk to them more then my grandmother

[topaz cape]

that's a sign to call your grandma more often

[sand parrot]

This is dope, are there lists of more lines to add?

[vital coyote]

prob but i still would like to call spectrum less x)

[last spire]

i dont follow

are you asking if i can add more columns?

wait, you mean configurable lines?

[sand parrot]

No no, like a list of every value in the game for tweaking

Not too sure how to word it

[last spire]

that sheet is just the stuff that ive edited in my own pak so that i can keep track and start fresh if need be, but if you wanna edit something, track it down and open the cfg and get to it

difficulty cfg ^

u can edit all that

[sand parrot]

Exactly, stuff like this

[vital coyote]

yeah this doc is dope

[last spire]

theres no resource like that out atm, so its all maunal

[serene gust]

Hey Guys still lower mutant health combined with mutant loot aint working. Can someone help. Here is my used an updated Mod List.

[vital coyote]

run the conflict finder thing

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/290

super simple and will tell you whats busted

[topaz cape]

or just merge https://github.com/Zweite93/Stalker2PakCfgMergeTool

[vital coyote]

havent tried that yet, like how is the auto tool gunna tell what configs i want to keep from which mod

[topaz cape]

goes by load order

[vital coyote]

well yeah, but for example one mod i installed changed the same config file

with diff settings

[topaz cape]

z_mod
zz_mod
zzz_mod

z_ and zz_ would get merged into zzz, never the other way around

as in, the values of zzz overwrite the first two

[vital coyote]

so in that case, in my use case the zone alife mod would have broken my repair cost mod without me knowing.

[topaz cape]

well it tells you what exactly it did after

[vital coyote]

ohh word thats cool

like each line of the config file?

[sinful cypress]

Try the tool ....

[last spire]

seems like the general stalker modding comm might rival that of bgs' games

[vital coyote]

ooo nice

can you edit it from that screen

[topaz cape]

no

[vital coyote]

ahh lame

still cool tho

but i can still see someone fucking something up after clicking through if they dont know what your doing. ik it would be imposible but would be dope if it can compare to the base game file aswell

[topaz cape]

fucking up if you don't know what you're doing is just life

[fast shore]

Anyone tried this? https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17?tab=description

[last spire]

such is life in the zone

[fast shore]

Is it any good

[last spire]

grok has spoken

use this instead https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/133

odds are this is how we make skif put some pep in his ladder climbing step

[raw crest]

Red for buckshot, blue for slug, yellow for explosive/expanding

Voila!

[vital coyote]

can confirm have tried a bunch of em

[formal shuttle]

how moddable is Stalker 2 compared to Anomaly? theres already a ton of mods which is really promising looking

[vital coyote]

not as moddable yet

[radiant ravine]

just basic shit

[vital coyote]

cool thing, if you know ue5 there are tones of tools, shit thing we still would need the modding tools to do stuff atm

[formal shuttle]

sad

[summer silo]

We literally started figuring it out Owl

[summer silo]

You calling this shit basic?
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/389?tab=description

[radiant ravine]

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-falling-fast-gif-18043850

[summer silo]

I ruined his entire view

[unreal glacier]

So are there any definitive opinions on which performance mods yield the best results?

[summer silo]

Some do better some do worse, but there is definitely an uplift if you configure the engine.ini correctly

[radiant ravine]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/133

this one is the one that works best for most people

[summer silo]

Most important thing I can tell you is that you should probably get the more popular one and then adjust it to your own preference.

[radiant ravine]

and gives best result

others are fucking placebo lol

[unreal glacier]

ty

[junior saffron]

some are already adopting stuff from that into their own at this point though lmao

but we never forget, bless him

[unreal glacier]

LOL the comparisons are like Stalker ShoC vs Stalker 2

[formal shuttle]

[radiant ravine]

also whats the best mod that patches out the alife being shit thing

there are already a few

[summer silo]

Apparently Roadside Panic is most comprehensive

[junior saffron]

the alife extended i think maybe safest still? right?

[summer silo]

On a random note Engine.ini Amalgamation from the mods posting forum had some good results, giving better performance while reducing pop in.
Aaand then it started experimenting too much and it now runs like regular game :T

[unreal glacier]

Does disabling shader precaching hurt anything

[summer silo]

Some say its placebo, I keep it on personally.

[unreal glacier]

Logically I think it would make the game run smoother, but it also takes forever

[nimble tiger]

It's only needed when game gets updates, every shader is generally loaded one time until then

[last spire]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/483

there it is

the first one

no more cheeki breeki

[unreal glacier]

Is there a way to force the shaders to do a long recompile?

[last spire]

why on earth would u want that

[unreal glacier]

IDK, maybe they got messed up or something

[last spire]

so reset ur cache and recompile them?

[unreal glacier]

that's what I'm asking how to do

[last spire]

mein brother

go to your gpu control pannel

and reset the cache

[formal shuttle]

it exists for a reason. can prevent stutters that are basically native to ue5 at this point, but if you dont have any issues then who cares right lol

[nimble tiger]

Dunno, that's like saying install something again because it would works better

If the cache is stored in the folder , why would it be needed to replace again with the same cache

[radiant ledge]

Hey guys, I'm going to shoot myself at this point if I don't find the reason it is happening. And I'm not even sure where to ask about my issue, since it seemingly happens in the vanilla without any modifications to anything, including .inis as well. Do I take it to regular stalker 2 chat? Just tell me to eff off from here if so XD

[radiant ledge]

I looked at it, and tbh, felt kinda meh about the concept. Esp. when I read about "8x quest rewards", that just sounds obscene

[nimble tiger]

What is it

[last spire]

yep

[vital coyote]

i turn off shader compiling every now and then when i havent messed with anything for a while then turn it on from time time

[vital coyote]

what ew

why everyone trying to pussify stalker game is easy enugh as it is

[nimble tiger]

Cause it's their playthrough i guess

[vital coyote]

i get it play your way lol

[nimble tiger]

I mean I know what you're saying, but if they want to change stuff, whatever

Pink elephants as bloodsuckers

[radiant ledge]

It's a weird thing I'm facing that has a mandatory background story behind. Yesterday everything was working tip-top, until I got a notification from Windows Update that I can hop on 24H2 finally. So I did. Then had a bunch of issues with the update, had to reinstall NVIDIA drivers clean, by nuking everything through DDU in safe mode. And I launch the game, and it's locked at 45 fps. I use no locks for Stalker 2 anywhere that I am aware of with that value. It also is Stalker 2 exclusive, other games work fine. The interesting tid bit is also that the limiter seems CPU-based, since it gives me near 100% CPU util in the main menu while sitting at 45 fps...in game it's the same story, very high CPU util, while GPU is power throttling HARD. I checked where I could, but now I'm just lost and have no idea wtf is going on. Sorry if it reads "ranty", I'm just kinda tired of this bs at this point XD

[vital coyote]

but if you are trying to make eft making it give you all the stuff is not the way

make it so you have to eat a jar o mayonase in a tree for 5 hours for a snickers bar 20 9mm fmj and a few roubles and there tarky

[radiant ledge]

by end-game you already operate at rather high coupon values, so by introducing 8x quest rewards, even if the rest of the economy is "up sized" to accomodate, it just turns the game into some "zone inflation millionaire" simulator, and that's just not up my alley lol

[nimble tiger]

So let me understand, your Windows 11 update hardcapped your game(stalker2) to 45 fps?

[last spire]

LTSC peak win

[vital coyote]

i think i heard the new update had cpu shit

[radiant ledge]

something...something did. It started with the 24H2 update. And I can't find what exactly did it

[vital coyote]

fuck yes brother, runs like a dream just switched a week ago

[radiant ledge]

I have a recovery point to just before 24H2, I just really REALLY don't want to use it

[vital coyote]

no features no bloat

[nimble tiger]

That's weird, guess I can't really help with that one since I'm still on w10 until end of support

[last spire]

u on 10 or 11 ltsc?

[vital coyote]

i think chris titus winutill has a thing to roll back updates

[vital coyote]

10

[radiant ledge]

cool, I'm not in the mood to reinstall Windows again for the third time this year. One is too much for me, hate the process of setting things back up from scratch XD

[radiant ledge]

BTW, I use the debloater, well used. Didn't launch it after this feature update...might be a good idea.

[vital coyote]

i feel that but when the time comes hmu brother i will show you all the things, the good good

lol

that is true

windows resets all your stuff

check your gamebar pressence writer too

if you did that fix

[last spire]

based

[nimble tiger]

I really need to get to that route where I fresh install, set everything important up, and then save that as a iso for further reinstalls

[vital coyote]

made my games stutter like hell

[summer silo]

One mod idea I have atm is deconsolification of the user interface.
Make the inventory look and function like in Anomaly

[last spire]

ltsc iot or na?

[last spire]

LTSC is super lite, its like 15m to get to homescreen

another 15 to fix up settings and reinstall programs

compared to win10 home, its like 2 hours for that shit

[vital coyote]

the only thing is its so light you dont even get the windows store but there is a work arround if you want gamepass

[last spire]

u can reinstall it with a command

[vital coyote]

^

took me a while to figure out tho

[last spire]

u on ltsc iot or na?

[robust yew]

🥺

[vital coyote]

nahh base ltsc

was thinking about it tho

[last spire]

should swap to it, its till 2032

non iot is like 27?

[radiant ledge]

Brother, I use my PC for "all kinds of ill shit"©, often times I don't even remember a plugin I need for a task and then my Maya install gets all funky and I'm like "oooooooooooooooooooooh"...I hate myself, but I hating reinstalling WIndows more XD

[last spire]

if u got it from where i think you did, you can also just swap it

[vital coyote]

ohh shit that sucks, still better tho

[radiant ledge]

YOU ARE A GODDAMN LEGEND! Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise!

[last spire]

yeah, 2027

[vital coyote]

[last spire]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/967837041100468307/1311484375505829918/image0.gif

[radiant ledge]

Also, are there LTSC builds for Win 11? I only heard about 10

[last spire]

yeah

not officially out yet, but an official version leaked from china a few months back

[shrewd rampart]

Can someone fill me in on what LTSC is? 😄

[last spire]

think of windows 10

[vital coyote]

both if you want windows to look like it has an extra cromie in the domie you can go 11

[last spire]

without all the garbage bloat shit

[vital coyote]

and its the only way i would go 11

[last spire]

lightweight as lightweight can be in an official capacity

[shrewd rampart]

Does it affect any development environments n stuff?

[vital coyote]

nahh i use ue5 godot the whole adobe suit

they all run better

[shrewd rampart]

Awesome in that case

[last spire]

https://tenor.com/view/riddler-paul-dano-new-rockstars-does-he-know-gif-26833694

[shrewd rampart]

I was planning on swapping to Windows 11 soon, but I need to stay on this windows ver. I've got- because I can't log back into certain things if I log out now xD

[last spire]

u can do an inplace upgrade

althought thats kinda.. stupid with LTSC

[vital coyote]

its windows just without constant "features" that break everything, no telemitry coloceting your shit, no sofware just living rent free in your cpu

[last spire]

no microsoft store

we fucking HATE ms store

[polar osprey]

so, anyone with UE5 experience here and some spare time to look into the nonexistent CPU core balancing and util with me? 😄

did some stress tests last night, this games runs most of my cores on less than 35% util while bottlenecking my gpu (4070 + 5700x3d). Wonder if anyone in GSC ever gave this some treatment.

[vital coyote]

still fucking comes with edge tho xD

[shrewd rampart]

I've not been bothered by microsoft store yet, but I do want the minimalistic latency for all apps, including games.

[last spire]

honestly thats a win in my book

i use edge anyway, so built in

i dislike it shoving bing down my throat tho

[vital coyote]

i used to for a bit but they store every thing you do, brave is my daily driver

[last spire]

if u do get ltsc, and i really suggest u do, you wanna do a whole wipe

going for an upgrade is pointless since u lose all that ltsc stands for

[shrewd rampart]

Can someone pm me the whole LTSC info shennanigans, don't think it belongs in this chat.

[last spire]

i did a wipe a week before s2 runs just to max my perf gains

[shrewd rampart]

Dedication.

[vital coyote]

yea agree store all your inportant shit on a separate drive and just run a mass installer like winutil, you can scan your system for all installed apps, save the profile install windows and then load it in and it will install most things like 7zip crome bit torrent

whatever

[radiant ledge]

I'd switch back to 10, but with the goddamn official sunsetting in a year I'm shaky on it. Like I guess I can get security updates through unofficial channels...fuck Microsoft, dude...

[vital coyote]

bought a whole new m.2 and put lstc on it for stalker x)

[last spire]

mein brother

[vital coyote]

lstc

[last spire]

ltsc runs till 2027, ltsc iot till 2032

i recently got a 2024 security update for this 21h2 build

[vital coyote]

yeah you still get the inportant security stuff but no "features"

[merry mountain]

i would not use a leaked windows from china 🙃

[fast shore]

Win 11 is literally better, you guys are coping
You can turn off features that you dont need like telemetry

[radiant ledge]

Okay, just a question to kinda seal the deal for me: is there a build with integrated fixes for Ryzen CPUs from Win 10 22H2 and/or Win 11 24H2?

[vital coyote]

nahh you dont need one from china

lol

[merry mountain]

Just use Linux, stalker 2 runs great on it
https://www.protondb.com/app/1643320

[vital coyote]

windows 11 one was sitting right next to where i got the 10 one

[radiant ledge]

my last run in with Bazzite was catastrophic XD I hate Nvidia drivers on linux, the most barebones shit I've ever seen

[vital coyote]

i want to try linux but alot of shit i use cant run on it

[merry mountain]

never head of Bazzite, just use a regular distro 😅

[radiant ledge]

yeah, I also had to dual boot Windows for Adobe and Autodesk stuff =\ which is sorta "fine" but also not really

[vital coyote]

^

[fast shore]

Linux is a king for servers but dont try to play games on it

Lol

[merry mountain]

ever heard of steam deck? it runs linux

[vital coyote]

ive heard gaming is sooo much better now

[clear mountain]

Who plays a game on Linux lol

[fast shore]

Driver support is a big issue

[vital coyote]

like only ass parts are devs that use anticheat

and dont alow linux

[merry mountain]

no its not, it was 10 years ago

[fast shore]

Never used it so idk

[radiant ledge]

Bazzite is an attempt at a steam OS for desktops. But the problem wasn't with the kernel or particular distro, I just hate the fact I can't set up a bunch of params in linux Nvidia drivers, drove me nuts.

[fast shore]

Linux is good cause its modular and an open system but 99% of users dont need it to play games

[merry mountain]

did you use the proprietary drivers or the opensource ones

[radiant ledge]

?? there are open source Nvidia drivers? Last I heard there were none so I just used what Jensen gave me through his shit website XD

[merry mountain]

Sure you dont need it to play games, you also dont need windows to play games, you can just buy a console if you just want to play games 🙃

[fast shore]

I think you can get official nvidia drivers now

Before it used to be a problem

[radiant ledge]

the official ones are SHIT, that's my point lol XD They are massively cut down compared to Windows. Also, just remembered issues with HDR and Gsync as well

[fast shore]

Ok nerd. I run linux on my server and most pc users prefer windows for a reason

[last spire]

i dont think anyone would

its china

[merry mountain]

they prefer windows because they never touched linux and most normal endusers dont even know what it is

[merry mountain]

nouveau drivers

[fast shore]

You know why? Because its not user friendly and is mostly used to power servers

[last spire]

hi, life time windows user here, yeah i dont care about linux

[vital coyote]

alot of distros look super easy to set up

[radiant ledge]

nah, don't you want to become a spoof for CCP hacker's ddos attacks!? C'mon, it'll be F U N!

[merry mountain]

if you are braindead, sure.
Installing and using linux can be as easy as windows.

[fast shore]

If you are a network admin linux is good bro. Not if you wanna play S2

[vital coyote]

even arch dosnt look that bad anymore

[last spire]

bing that chilling elsewhere big brother

[fast shore]

This dude thinks he is so superior

[last spire]

how are 2 eggheads arguing about win and linux in a stalker 2 modding chat

[vital coyote]

its related! somehow lmao

[last spire]

tbh we started it

well, not the linux bit

[vital coyote]

[merry mountain]

i mean, i would not use straiight arch, but manjaro is based on it and pretty nice

[radiant ledge]

I run linux Mint on my laptop because I don't game on it and don't do creative work on it. It's amazing. The only reason linux is a worse solution at the moment, is software compatibility, and it's getting better by the day. Don't throw shade on linux.

[radiant ledge]

"...more likely than you think"

[vital coyote]

ohh yeah i dont think i would go that rout im just using it as an example cause its natoriously the hardest one

[unreal glacier]

What would these commands do

AudioDeviceModuleName=XAudio2
AudioMixerModuleName=AudioMixerXAudio2
PlatformFormat=OGG
PlatformStreamingFormat=OGG

PlatformHeadroomDB=-3
UseAudioMixer=true```

[last spire]

probably.. something

[hallow sand]

Hey guys, I'm currently trying to merge 2 mods and am having trouble getting the mod merge to read right. Keeps saying "The game executable file not found in the provided path.
Please provide the path to the game folder as the first argument."

I thought I did this, but I guess whatever it was I did was not correct.

I'm currently in voip if anyone can join to help, or texting here is fine.

[merry mountain]

with which tool? there are multiple

[hallow sand]

I've been having the issue on all of em. I was trying to use the python one, but kept saying pyhton wasn't installed.

[fast shore]

I use my old laptop as a server running no gui linux. I agree that its good and fast but for a desktop I dont see much point in using it

[hallow sand]

If you have one you recommend is easiest I'd love to have help.

[merry mountain]

if you dont have python installed, which by default it is not, then it wont work.

[desert valve]

i know the feel 😢

[hallow sand]

I installed it, but kept saying it's not.

So I'm assuming i put it or the path wrong

[merry mountain]

probably not added it to PATH

[radiant ledge]

upper two set up audio environment, xaudio2 is the default windows enviro preferred for multimedia playback, then the lower two in Audio set up file format, not sure if it affects anything, really...try invoking these commands without "=" while in game using dev console, it should tell you what the values are for them currently set to

[merry mountain]

but i would not install python just to run the merge tool, just use another one instead

[hallow sand]

The method i googled i thought would work, but I think that's the part I messed up on.

[radiant ledge]

or it will tell you that the values are not recognized, then you know they are bogus 🙂

[hallow sand]

I have the stalker2pakcfgmerge tool too

[vital coyote]

plug em in gpt if you dont understand it

usualy pretty good with that stuff 🙂

[merry mountain]

there is an example for the game path in the run.bat, you need to change the path and save the file

[radiant ledge]

just don't expect 100% accuracy since GPT knows nothing about the particular customized flavor of UE 5.1.1 GSC is using

[vital coyote]

" can you give me a full discription of this consol comand for ue5.1 and what values are valad to put in, cite your sorces if available"

[summer silo]

One issue with that. After Pascal non propertiary drivers dont let NVIDIA GPU's run at their full potential due to locked reclocking and voltage settings

[radiant ledge]

but overall, a nice starting point for testing

[vital coyote]

ohh for sure

[hallow sand]

That's what i did, but it's still giving me the same error.

Hence why I came here XD

I'm just very lost XD

[merry mountain]

yeah just wanted to mentiion that they exiist, and they gotten way better.
If one is not totally opposed to running the prop drivers i would just go that route for gaming

[hallow sand]

Oh wait.

[frank summit]

hate to keep spamming but y'never know, someone who can find the map could be looking at chat right now

[hallow sand]

Could you hop in voip to try an help at all? I know it's early/late so if not no worries.

[vital coyote]

spam away ❤️ i want you to find what your looking for

[frank summit]

thank u 🥺 it's for a good cause at least, mapgenie's interactive map is good but they've got a shitload of duplicate pins and weird inclusions

i think they might've made it by stitching screenshots together but i doubt every site did that

[vital coyote]

ohh fuck yeah

[hallow sand]

Wait i got it to run, and it merged them, going to test now. I was hoping for one to just merge a couple, but ill just move the other mods out an try that.

Thank you @merry mountain

[robust yew]

fuck 'em, what are they gonna do, shoot pencils at me

[vital coyote]

yo? a journal bestiary

[unreal glacier]

I seeeeee, tyvm

[last spire]

yall think 6 shots to kill a flesh with an ak74u is fine?

[topaz basin]

What plugin are you using?

[vital coyote]

seams low

[unreal glacier]

It'd be low by stalker standards

half a mag is more like it

[vital coyote]

but im a sadast, grocks is to low

[unreal glacier]

12-14 shots

[last spire]

the alternative is 19

[unreal glacier]

LOL

How about shotgun blasts, what's the concensus on that one?

[vital coyote]

compare pluss

[last spire]

probably dead in a single blast

[vital coyote]

you can install it right from notepad

[unreal glacier]

A SINGLE BLAST

[last spire]

probably

[unreal glacier]

Mine take like 6!

[last spire]

i havent gotten past the tutorial

[unreal glacier]

I remember the prologue one took like 3 mags

that thing had me running in circles around the burnt out foundation

[last spire]

the flesh that spawns as u leave the sewer took like 26 shots

[frank summit]

I can show ya the images in there if you want

[last spire]

with my own mod its 19, with a weapon overhaul and my mod its 6

[frank summit]

got all the game's icons afaik

[unreal glacier]

I think it's ok for mutants to be kinda tanky

[last spire]

is it tho

[vital coyote]

hehe decided to help you look a bit i see the blood sucker one would love for that to be in the game lol

[unreal glacier]

Well, what else do they have going for them?

They're kinda just nuisances otherwise

[last spire]

for a game thats mostly grounded, the gunplay being in lalaland is a bit weird no?

[last spire]

depends on the mutant

flesh hunt in packs

[unreal glacier]

I guess I'm used to the original 3 games having janky balancing

magdumping was a little par for the course

[last spire]

bloodsucker is a sucker for blood and has speed and invis

blind dogs are pack animals too

boars too..

[unreal glacier]

Yeah I remember suckers being way less trouble

I think 2 blasts for a flesh is ok up close

[last spire]

with my mod and no weapon stat overhaul it takes half a mag to kill ther bloodsucker

maybe a bit more

20ish rounds

[unreal glacier]

I think bloodsucker balancing is jank bc of their increased speed and lethality

they're way deadlier in S2

but also tanky af

[vital coyote]

you get this one yet?

fucking massive

[summer silo]

Ooooooh, the unclouded map

[vital coyote]

skitsed my whole fmoddle out

[frank summit]

Yeeeah, it's handy for place names but not super accurate

[frank summit]

I dunno if the game even uses a regular image for the map, it's well hidden if so

[vital coyote]

im thinking the icons are all on a seprate layer

then imposed ontop

[frank summit]

Most likely. I'm alright with adding those manually but it doesn't work so well on the orange lines map

https://www.gamerguides.com/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/maps/the-zone-map

[vital coyote]

like this thing i think is what you showed erlier

[frank summit]

yee, pretty cool

[vital coyote]

this looks like the closest thing i can find but it would be realy nice to know what the pda uses

[frank summit]

definitely. appreciate you digging with me tho

[vital coyote]

bro

cheep asholes i want it now

[low yoke]

Is there somehow a way to apply/remove a filter when I put on a helmet?

[last spire]

reshade

[radiant ledge]

hey umm...guys, massgrave lists win 11 ltsc iot as an option...so is it available or is it the chinese thing? it's massgrave so it should be official...

GUYS, goddamn it why did I press H instead of G there initially!?

[pearl lichen]

I think that's covered under the "permission to modify and upload as new file", since he ran the tool to merge configs. He also gave credit

[quick heart]

There was a leaked HQ map on VK but they removed it

[low yoke]

Sorry I should clarify, I mean apply/remove the reshade effect as and when I put on/remove my helmet

[quick heart]

With DLC areas etc

[last spire]

probably not

its either on or its not

[vital coyote]

ohh i have a super hq map

[radiant ledge]

@last spire what does that skull mean from you? 😄

[last spire]

it means ☠️

[frank summit]

think there's a couple like that, weird lil files

[vital coyote]

shit going to all the files linked in the pda

there are a tone in here

[last spire]

datamine the expansions

NOW

[radiant ledge]

ah ffs, pleaaaaaaaaase I beg you, I just recently found out about the whole massgrave thing, so I may be missing obvious shit 😦

[frank summit]

yup

[vital coyote]

didnt know you can open textures from the calls to it in the code

can just click these and it takes you there

[last spire]

handy

[frank summit]

interesting...

[vital coyote]

in new tabs too

[last spire]

google it

win11 ltsc should be out

where better to learn than from the source

[frank summit]

found the upgrade icons

[desert valve]

ltsc has been a very bad idea for gaming in the past, has this changed?

[last spire]

im running ltssc rn

[vital coyote]

they look so cleen

[last spire]

it was bad when it came out and literally nobody supported it and it was like eons behind in basic everything

[frank summit]

thought this was a grappling hook for a sec 😂 just a busted gun

[vital coyote]

nahh man its very good

[last spire]

inb4 dlc gives us movement tech

[vital coyote]

shh b4 the linux bros start screaming again

[frank summit]

dropkicking a pseudogiant like 🦵

[desert valve]

you get stuck on directx versions, everything involving the windows store is a pain and so on

i would strongly advice against it unless you know what you are doing

[last spire]

ms store isnt a thing here

we're safe

[radiant ledge]

yeah, Microsoft lists it on their main, and as far as I can tell from massgrave the builds are like minty fresh, build ver. 26100.1742 , which is 24H2

[last spire]

i mean you can advise all you want, im running ltsc for the last half year with 0 issue

[frank summit]

dunno where this came from / where it's used but it's pretty cool

[vital coyote]

nah i have the store ran the comand and its back

[last spire]

F

[desert valve]

its more a long term issue

[vital coyote]

ik

lol

[last spire]

yeah, longterm aka in 7 years

[desert valve]

a soon as there is new direct x version and new games use it you are ******

[peak panther]

good morning stalkers

[vital coyote]

yes in the long term windows wont install a feature that breaks everything like it dose for me every few months

lol

[last spire]

devs cant use 12 effectively

[radiant ledge]

LOL, so I just reinstall the system if and when?

[last spire]

so im not too worried

[peak panther]

I see more and more mods like the itmization is epic!

[vital coyote]

o/

[frank summit]

found some guns

[desert valve]

that falls strongly in the "if you know what you are doing" category

[frank summit]

basically got everything except the map tbh 😂

[last spire]

ayo thats a gun gun

[peak panther]

I was talking about it yesterday I just found out they already made it XD Im so happy cant wait t to try it out tonight

[desert valve]

most people cant install a mod let alone windows and/or are just way to lazy to set everything up again

[last spire]

this is beyond true

[frank summit]

it's not a knife... this is a knife

[radiant ledge]

I didn't learn to reinstall windows at 7 and built my first desktop at 8 for nothing my weaponized autism is strong enough to carry me through running LTSC

[last spire]

https://tenor.com/view/andrew-hussie-insane-crazy-knife-bartys-brew-ha-ha-gif-24652525

[vital coyote]

i have had no issues its been easy af

[last spire]

babuška wont miss you

[last spire]

LTSC users stay winning

[radiant ledge]

umm...what are you guys looking at? I mean what files you're mining for? Kinda went over my head, didn't pay attention to your convo about files unpacking, sorry 😄

[last spire]

maps?

[frank summit]

The map you see on the PDA 😄

[desert valve]

i installed LTSC 2021 on the PC of my buddy after building it

and he couldnt run anything with DX12 until i fixed it for him installed win 11 for him

[last spire]

im literally force running games into dx12

[frank summit]

we've got a few already, but not the one the game uses
#╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message
#╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message
#╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message

[last spire]

probably a drive issue

[frank summit]

https://tenor.com/view/bread-senshi-give-senshi-his-bread-dunmeshi-dungeon-meshi-gif-13784749192472379832

[last spire]

also sorry gang i lied

that flesh died in 7 shots not 6

[vital coyote]

lol could make that into an emoji

[frank summit]

the psi protection icon has meme energy with that empty ass brain

[last spire]

do pseudogiants have an extra bicep for a brain?

we'll never know

guy lost it

such is life in the modded zone

[radiant ledge]

yeah don't install anything non-standard for normies, in fact I'd say don't build normie friends PCs and such. I built a 7950X and 3090 (both were bought at a heavy discount and X3D chips didn't exist for Zen 4 at the time, I envied this deal tbh, still envy it) desktop for a friend in '22, set it up for him, but mofo nagged me for help on specific settings with VRR, HDR, and game settings for months later. Felt terrible to turn into his personal tech support because I built him a PC once...now I only help people who are just as screwed in the head as I am 😄

[frank summit]

i've found, like, the edges of the PDA screen

but still no map 💢

[robust yew]

:)

[last spire]

hes a mad man

[nimble tiger]

Just in general don't tell that you're a tech guy, otherwise you'll be your family , friends, neighbors, cats dogs etc tech support

[radiant ledge]

ah, the sight of another modder losing it due to stupidity and toxicity of a general user. XD

[last spire]

new MAS announcement just dropped

[frank summit]

stalker 2 USB, what does it store ⁉️

[scarlet holly]

i told the creator of s2 how to make his mod perform as well as mine, so there's really no difference anymore. same with the ultimate tweaks guy. all 3 mods should perform the same, but since mine barely changes anything, it should be the least likely to encounter crashes/bugs

[robust yew]

that could be a bluetooth dongle, I mean skif copies files to a wifi dongle

[frank summit]

think these are quest item icons, there's like 12 USBs

[radiant ledge]

It is true, but I like helping people with tech, genuinely enjoy it. I just want people to respect my boundaries and don't use me as their personal lackey. Unfortunately, telling them to do so and having them respect those is the most difficult part of it all.