#╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion
fluid monolith
fervent stratus
hans zimmer's time starts playing and getting aggresively louder
fluid monolith
lol I have his orchestral tools open right now
thick widget
I'm more for the music of Pans Labyrinth / The Fountain. But that's just personal preference., because I can feel the story in them.
fluid monolith
Can anyone point me at a refurl refresher tutorial? Stuff seems to have fallen out of my head
I'm looking at stuff I was doing before taking a break, and I was about to start implementing it and now it's just fuzzy nothing
thick widget
Thanks dude
Might also want to check out Oxides Armory for working examples
My flashlight mod might also be helpful it's a bit simpler
fervent stratus
https://tenor.com/view/same-old-same-kareem-johnson-games-people-play-really-same-thing-gif-23815801
fluid monolith
Might also want to check out Oxides Armory for working examples
I'll do that. Thanks brother
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oh no thats not everything hha
22gb is cus it affects 22gb of files
that doesnt mean that there are 22gb worth of changes just that where the changes are these files are in total 22gb
crisp bolt
Steamdb will say size changes
fluid monolith
<@1012068853787922472>
We should start archiving this stuff
fluid monolith
OSH
crisp bolt
Wait you all had a micro patch right???
No shot they put it in and threw a hotfix immediately
Omg they did
fluid monolith
Fuck
crisp bolt
Omg
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i got a second patch
crisp bolt
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i just booted up and zipped gamedata
crisp bolt
They put it in
scarlet vigil
crisp bolt
fervent stratus
i dont have it wtf
fluid monolith
Anyone grab it?
thick widget
someone save the good stuff for use
fervent stratus
can you send it?
fervent stratus
please
save the exe and palcore
please bro and zip it anything, would help HUGE
fluid monolith
^
scarlet vigil
can't you download it back through steam console anyway?
fervent stratus
maybe not
thick widget
Sometimes they can clear out files
fervent stratus
cant you just copy the 2
crisp bolt
It looks like they're routing the patch with the hotfix
fervent stratus
and send it? its not illegal or anything
crisp bolt
So might not be able to
fervent stratus
would help us out big time with the render shit we have now
fluid monolith
Shay will grant you your deepest sexual desire if you send it
crisp bolt
can't you download it back through steam console anyway?
We all own the game so it's safe to send these if you're wondering.
fervent stratus
palcore and test.exe\
crisp bolt
That should be it. Let me check
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@scarlet vigil
fluid monolith
They did something like this once before... and look where it lead
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hype!
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goddamn it aint booting up for me
fluid monolith
Hmmm
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does the exe run for you @scarlet vigil
fluid monolith
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paiiinnnn
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bro this shit 100% in assembly type stuff
fluid monolith
Well, clearly i'm not going to solve it
crisp bolt
I just got home I'll look at it
scarlet vigil
also check S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl\Stalker2\Saved\Logs\Stalker2.log
thick widget
I just got home I'll look at it
I guess I'll hold off on updating to see if you find anything interesting
fervent stratus
Failed to get WinPixEventRuntime.dll
crisp bolt
Ok time to compare what builds did what and see what we need
scarlet vigil
LogPluginManager: Error: Unable to load plugin 'OnlineSubsystemEOS'. Aborting.
crisp bolt
this was the depot that 1.2 originated on if anyone wants to help me dig
this is the hotfix depot
fervent stratus
look up how to junction
if steam is on drive with low space
ie less then 160gb
after junction run download_depot
crisp bolt
Go to steam://nav/console -> Open with Steam -> Put the command download_depot 1643320 1643321 238131538601280995 (This number 1643320 is the folder it will create) (This number is the games depot 1643321 (This number is the manifest ID 238131538601280995)
fervent stratus
flic can i change the number 1643..
download_depot 1643320 1643321 to -> download_depot 1643321 1643321
fervent stratus
gotcha
daring wolf
lol did they accidentally push a build with test tools in it
daring wolf
wonderful
echo stone
crisp bolt
lemme delete mods and check
hey if you're still here, it doesn't launch for you at all?
on the non hotfix build?
scarlet vigil
doesn't launch just spits thing into log
crisp bolt
thick widget
Go to steam://nav/console -> Open with Steam -> Put the command download_depot 1...
Is this going to download the full game again or just the patch data?
daring wolf
by the way, is the .uproject supposed to get cooked inside paks? common sense says no but I haven’t actually checked whether that’s normal before
crisp bolt
Is this going to download the full game again or just the patch data?
the full game
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Depot download failed : error downloading manifest 238131538601280995 from cache8-ams1.steamcontent.com (Invalid Parameter)
crisp bolt
238131538601280995 that's the manifest
fervent stratus
chat are we cooked
crisp bolt
crisp bolt
crisp bolt
they didn't hide it or lock it
I had this happen once before 1 sec I'll setup mine see if it works
fervent stratus
nvm
its due to changing app location name
from 1643320 to 3321
should be 1643320 else it wont work
its 138gb btw
download
thick widget
download_depot 1643320 1643320 238131538601280995 like this?
crisp bolt
you gotta make a junction for the drive you want to set
no so it will go to where steam is downloaded
like the app
thick widget
lol
crisp bolt
its stupid, I made a junction to go to my storage drive lol
fervent stratus
if steam on drive with sub 200gb -> junction
here is code
mklink /J "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\content\app_1643321" "F:\app_1643321"
thick widget
Well then I should be fine
fervent stratus
its mine tho so change c and whatever accordingly
thick widget
Cause the drive I have it installed on is the one with room haha
crisp bolt
yeah as long as the steam app is on that with room drive ur good
not the game, but the app
downloading it now as well.
thick widget
same
Im wondering if we can drop the files from this into the release
Hotfix might resolve the error but the dev files might still function
thick widget
This is before hotfix though?
fervent stratus
hotfix just removes this
thick widget
hmm
fervent stratus
if we get this running its the tools of the most recent one hopefully
fluid monolith
Do you mean run it on the latest build?
thick widget
I wonder if it's got a bad pointer in an ini then
fervent stratus
crashlog is best bet
but im going to run from depot folder first before i dive in logs
thick widget
so the palcore is for sure blocking us <a:Hmmm:918108386288103464>
What about palcore from an older version?
void owl
What's a palcore
crisp bolt
What's a palcore
It's a DRM they use to protect file integrity
void owl
Ahkk
thick widget
Think it has any fallback behavior when offline?
frank isle
Already did
crisp bolt
yeah I was looking for the palcore too apparently we can use the "Russian" one
thick widget
Haha
crisp bolt
from 2023
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noo we cant
thick widget
I was wondering if it was going to be that build
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im going to try right now
crisp bolt
if its the hacked palcore than yes we should be able to
we're being DRM blocked rn thats all.
crisp bolt
https://tenor.com/view/umbrella-academy-meme-five-hargreeves-vanya-hargreeves-gi...
this show was great btw, for a while at least.
had some odd engagement points, but I liked the show overral.
crisp bolt
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thick widget
Probably a new key
hazy ivy
so the first guy in that thread states that he tried the 2023 palcore unsuccessfully, then that other guy gives him some new one, then the original guy says it works
crisp bolt
Probably a new key
oh for sure.
hazy ivy
so if that's correct, there's ANOTHER palcore floating around somehow
crisp bolt
so the first guy in that thread states that he tried the 2023 palcore unsuccessf...
yeah they had to reverse engineer it
fervent stratus
log file aint saying shi
crisp bolt
and then people added to it.
fervent stratus
tbh i should wait for clean depot version
crisp bolt
there's a god tier palcore somewhere
fervent stratus
we can reverse engineer it too
crisp bolt
yeah I know
crisp bolt
time to learn some assembly
hazy ivy
lol brb learning assembly
fervent stratus
dies before he learns 1 line
crisp bolt
we'll see.
hazy ivy
hey now have some faith
crisp bolt
but probably.
fervent stratus
the dude that made rollercoaster tycoon was a proper lunatic
hazy ivy
ok so what does the A stand for
fervent stratus
agony
hazy ivy
good start
fervent stratus
we need the golden palcore
crisp bolt
accumulator
fervent stratus
the juice
crisp bolt
crisp bolt
there's one floating.
crisp bolt
I'm still searching before dropping hours into learning assembly
fervent stratus
its an error from old stalker hint
crisp bolt
fervent stratus
theres a link 5th from top
and it has a magnet
maybe that one has the golden palcore inside
site is a secure it one yaknow
😉
hazy ivy
did anyone snag the one from december
fervent stratus
tried that one too
crisp bolt
someone says its because of AV
yeah I have the december one floating figured that should work
fervent stratus
can you send the one palcore
ive been throwing palcores around
im kinda lost which is which
kek
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ah perf all good
hazy ivy
slide into those dms FASTER
crisp bolt
No but my translator does
frank isle
Sent the other bloke on reddit a message. He might still have it as well. Also if any of you are in Arkansas or are passing through, hit me up and I'll take you for a helicopter ride
crisp bolt
Sent the other bloke on reddit a message. He might still have it as well. Also i...
Whaaaat
That's sick
fervent stratus
Sent the other bloke on reddit a message. He might still have it as well. Also i...
damn bet
fluid monolith
OOOOOOO
fervent stratus
never done one in my life
crisp bolt
Same
fervent stratus
shame i live about thousands of km away
frank isle
Where are you Shay?
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fluid monolith
Would you pick me up?
fluid monolith
You just need to cross over the atlantic
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fluid monolith
No big deal
fervent stratus
You just need to cross over the atlantic
heck ill swim
crisp bolt
Should be easy
frank isle
We'll I'm a dual citizen of UK and US so I'll pick one up when I'm visiting the parents
crisp bolt
Quick dip in the water and ur here
frank isle
@fluid monolith now that would be epic!
fluid monolith
I'm a limey myself
crisp bolt
I can take you shooting, but you probably already do that.
fluid monolith
But I live in the North
crisp bolt
We can thermal hunt
fluid monolith
Passed the wall
crisp bolt
frank isle
@fluid monolith I'm about an hour south of Shrewsbury in the UK
fluid monolith
Edinburgh
frank isle
@crisp bolt where are you Flic?
frank isle
@fluid monolith nice! I did the Edinburgh mile March with the Scots DG after our Afghanistan deployment in 2013
thick widget
I’m only a rough 860 miles away by road haha
fluid monolith
I probably saw it I was living overlooking the royal mile at the time
frank isle
@fluid monolith it's too small of a world
fluid monolith
Getting smaller
crisp bolt
<@263797360667131905> where are you Flic?
California the state trying to steal my rights. 
hazy ivy
<@1108485349161836594> I'm about an hour south of Shrewsbury in the UK
well the helocopter thing had be interested but that's dangerously close to birmingham, dunno if i can manage the accent in such a confined space
fluid monolith
LMAO
crisp bolt
Not that it's much better here
No no we still have Biden as our leader in my state.
Not that Trump is much better either.
fluid monolith
I don't think it matters anymore
crisp bolt
True
frank isle
@thick widget well I fly for work all States from TX to MN north to South and CO to GA West to East so if I'm in the area I'll swing on by
@hazy ivy too close for comfort!
fluid monolith
Well, if you end up north across the pond hit me up
There's an airfield in prestwick
frank isle
@fluid monolith damn straight!
fluid monolith
I've met people off the internet 4 times and only 1 of them was technically bad
1 of the them was the founder of the psychonaut wiki
thick widget
frank isle
Mainly R66s at the moment. Basically the souped up turbine of a R44. Best heli to fly are UH1s, my favorite
fluid monolith
Then it was a paid trip to Amsterdam with a few others to recruit me into some cult
I don't remember much
hazy ivy
I don't remember much
I do
fluid monolith
Oh no
hazy ivy
🙂
frank isle
Also guys, Billy from that reddit thread says it doesn't work. Needs a new AES key
hazy ivy
FUCK BILLY
frank isle
HA
thick widget
lol
fluid monolith
Well shit, who's tight with a dev?
thick widget
I just had an exe at home that spits out the aes key?
crisp bolt
AES key
fluid monolith
Tell them it'll do until we get this SDK they dangle in front of us
crisp bolt
can't we just pull the AES?
fluid monolith
Yeah
thick widget
can't we just pull the AES?
Should be able to, but I'd find that suprising for Palcore to be linked
fluid monolith
Ask an AI
thick widget
lol
crisp bolt
fluid monolith
Use Groq
thick widget
Wouldn't it just be the aes from the test exe?
fluid monolith
Try extracting it
thick widget
I assume the other folks probably already tried that so must be a different key
fluid monolith
I wonder what would happen if I fed it to zonepaq
fluid monolith
unless your assumption is that everyone else is retarded
I'm adopting that as my family motto
crisp bolt
so yeah no key in test.exe
crisp bolt
I'll try another way to dump it, but the one I use uses 5 different dumper attempts.
crisp bolt
hazy ivy
i mean they have the two builds alongside each other til the moment they release them, clearly
thick widget
lol
fluid monolith
Weird. I'm on the latest, and I have the test build
crisp bolt
we gotta find where to put the AES and remove the function to connect to their IP that's all I will disclose.
fluid monolith
I didn't put it there
hazy ivy
i swear to god its back to the amsterdam sex dungeon if you don't get this working
i mean the amsterdam tasteful sight seeing trip
fluid monolith
So that's where I went
They told me some random arab looking dude brought me back to the hotel
I was on MXE
So I don't recall anythin
EXCEPT IN MY NIGHTMARES
crisp bolt
so we can dump the AES
fervent stratus
im 106gb down with depot download
crisp bolt
but likes Groks initial rules, you gotta find it yourself 
hazy ivy
i better find it in my DMs
fervent stratus
oke ez dumper
fluid monolith
So....
fervent stratus
palcore just checks the key no?
crisp bolt
so it checks the key, but it asks for the key from the server
so we need to skip the server
because we'll never access it
and just take the key
since we have the key in the exe
we're half way there.
fluid monolith
Hosts file?
fervent stratus
yeah could be, its linked to exe aes, it asks the key from current test, it compares and does nothing]
crisp bolt
yeah
fluid monolith
hmmm
fervent stratus
now to the hard part
crisp bolt
yeah it needs to think it connected to the server
crisp bolt
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crisp bolt
I've yet to make an attempt on that, but I guess it's time.
fluid monolith
No luck so far
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social engineer the test build some influencers had hands on
hazy ivy
yo shay you're compromised from downloading that whack build, did you learn any hacking skills
hazy ivy
remember, you installed that build from a dodgy site and now you're a russian pretending to be shay
fervent stratus
prompt accepted
fluid monolith
Social Engineering. The oldest trick in the book
fervent stratus
yes brother! very much hacking i learned
no i actually didnt
its ez we can find it
we just need to be able to read assembly
and navigate assembly storage and loads
hazy ivy
does anybody know an adult who can help us
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hazy ivy
i'm gonna take my mums advice and ask a police officer for help because I'm lost
thick widget
Couldn't you just take the december palcore and adjust the key in that?
hazy ivy
i mean, someone keeps leaving test builds in the repo
ok I really wanted to be orange but it does make chat real hard to follow
can you guys like, let me be the modder
fluid monolith
I wrote a whole letter
Well, it was more like a paragraph
Live with it!
You know how weird it was being the first "modder" on here?
hazy ivy
I wrote a whole letter
a letter? for what?
fluid monolith
Ace and I went to Grok
fluid monolith
Because we thought you were all underappreciated
But too stuborn to ask
Well, I won't speak for Ace
But I did 😛
So I wrote a list of all the cool stuff you all did and Grok came down from up high
Anyway, I'm just glad I'm not the only orange man anymore
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fluid monolith
Shay helped too
thick widget
I still need to generate a orange Piglet to go with Pooh
fluid monolith
You want an orange piglet...2 secs
thick widget
Hahah
Just the face and toupee
😄
But you know image generators blocked disney stuff
So I'd have to do it myself
fluid monolith
fluid monolith
thick widget
Thats getting closer haha
crisp bolt
yeah I'm almost done setting it up, already peaking into it with dn
fervent stratus
shame there isnt a master hacker among us that can hack into gsc servers
not that i promote such a thing
fervent stratus
but it would be cool
fluid monolith
I'm killing myself
crisp bolt
bro
crisp bolt
that's a high af looking piglet
fervent stratus
about to be me in a sec when im about to try my chances at cracking the code
thick widget
fluid monolith
I'm done
hazy ivy
hahaha sorry I wandered off to make an "all upgrades for all technicians" command
i missed it
fluid monolith
I worst think I did was type grafted into the generator
Who wants to see where this goes?
quiet axle
hows it looking
the few dedicated souls who dont mind the personal pain caused by trying to get A-life to not be dogwater filler
fervent stratus
it looking oke now
quiet axle
any mods we gotta ditch?
also i've been outta the loop for a while on stalker anything new pop up?
fluid monolith
The devs left a test exe in the latest patch then tried to patch over it
But we got it
Trying to run the damn thing
crisp bolt
frank isle
fluid monolith
frank isle
From Billy
frank isle
crisp bolt
crisp bolt
idk if that last part is true
fervent stratus
yeah its the same as the one i got
tidal yew
frank isle
It's good ol Billy
fluid monolith
What's the word Billy Boy?
fluid monolith
welcome then
crisp bolt
yeah so AES did dump.
tidal yew
its the same as the one u send it dont work indeed
Beeecauuse it needs the AES key and the one I sent has the AES key for 1.0.2
fervent stratus
@crisp bolt
crisp bolt
https://tenor.com/view/zilly-mail-a-letter-mailbox-postal-service-collection-boxes-gif-21166364
@tidal yew
tidal yew
https://tenor.com/view/zilly-mail-a-letter-mailbox-postal-service-collection-box...
So you don't have it?
fervent stratus
yeah im hard stuck i think, we waiting for billy and flic atm i reckon
tidal yew
yeah im hard stuck i think, we waiting for billy and flic atm i reckon
hello hard stuck, I'm Billy
fervent stratus
off topic, ive seen you all over s2 reddit with knowledge, good to know you are also into this
fervent stratus
frick? you mean flic?
so we stuck with the palcore atm right? im trying to navigate it but damn its a lot of chinese here
thick widget
Flic sometimes goes afk
tidal yew
off topic, ive seen you all over s2 reddit with knowledge, good to know you are ...
Me and some other guys are like datamining
Oh yeah guys did you get into audio files yet?
fervent stratus
oke so heres a question
do you believe there is a curtain
that hides render of npc's defined somewhere
@thick widget
can ask it better
crisp bolt
Oh yeah guys did you get into audio files yet?
Ani got into them already yes.
fervent stratus
since i guess you mined before this?
tidal yew
Ani got into them already yes.
Generated all the names and crap?
crisp bolt
Generated all the names and crap?
Idk about that, but he did manage to edit them for what he wanted to do.
tidal yew
There are 38 files that for the life of me I can't open
thick widget
that hides render of npc's defined somewhere
Yes there is a something the defines the curtain range and events
Where I'm not sure
tidal yew
Congratulations you have found the export table
Look PalCore does not have the encryption keys, it takes them from the server, you won't find it inside of the .dll itself
thick widget
So we only get something if the server were to leak the key
fervent stratus
we already know that it contacts a server to authenticate i think flic just stumbled on that, me personally am looking to find where its mentioning the contacting server if anything like that even exists (im rookie at this specific stuff)
tidal yew
Now I have this suspicion that maybe the system was changed, but the dll remains the same idk
fervent stratus
can you perhaps not spoof the dll?
fervent stratus
so what is the conclusion you have atm?
about this situation and the interaction between palcore and test exe
tidal yew
Uhhh it appears the .dll has not changed
fervent stratus
so its within the exe?
fervent stratus
if the previous one worked same way with palcore and the test exe but this dll hasnt changed then the answer might be in the exe
since that is the combo they also removed
dull peak
Man it's been like 6 months since I was on this server, I love that I still get a nickname ping every few months hahaha
tidal yew
if the previous one worked same way with palcore and the test exe but this dll h...
Maybe maybe not
fervent stratus
Maybe maybe not
crisp bolt
the dll def changed.
crisp bolt
I'm close, I think they might of hard coded the AES in the dll
but It's like I'm reading alien at the same time
fervent stratus
well if you remove the palcore and run test no error comes uo
up
if you do the same for the previous one it says palcore missing
void owl
fervent stratus
so idk man might just be exe first
crisp bolt
I love how none of us are looking at the cfgs for the first time
just trying to crack the debug tool first.
void owl
https://old.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1iou8qr/stalker_2_12_patch_has_longer_...
up vote for visibility
people need to stop using old Longer Days that will break their games
fervent stratus
I love how none of us are looking at the cfgs for the first time <:kek:104502180...
oh i did
aint shit changed
crisp bolt
that is pretty huge ngl
fervent stratus
wtf is this reddit
void owl
yeah bruh everytime i see people recommending to install longer days from like nobvember
im like bro no pls
void owl
https://old.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1iou8qr/stalker_2_12_patch_has_longer_...
this is a public service annoucement to everyone on the server to upvote this for the safety and sake of the new people coming to play version 1.2
tidal yew
the dll def changed.
Nope, just the build date and checksum
tidal yew
well if you remove the palcore and run test no error comes uo
Actually they removed something from the pakchunks in the debug tool removal update
According to steamdb
You know what that means right :)
That’s right
Download the entire build again, hooraaay!
Thankfully steam keeps everything easily accessible :)
tidal yew
I already did that
You got Manifest 238131538601280995?
fervent stratus
was billy not on this one?
crisp bolt
holy fuck I'm really reading alien in this editor
fervent stratus
man i just want the test exe to work
crisp bolt
fervent stratus
i neeeed to know their changes from 1.05 to this
crisp bolt
so
fervent stratus
what they doing man
tidal yew
man i just want the test exe to work
We’ll get there don’t worry. The russians are working as well
crisp bolt
the Decrypt and encrypt for AES is an infinite loop
fervent stratus
We’ll get there don’t worry. The russians are working as well
really?
or like meme
hahaha
crisp bolt
so its gotta be a decoy
fervent stratus
the Decrypt and encrypt for AES is an infinite loop
the exe old one has decrypt only
the new one doesnt have decrypt
crisp bolt
fervent stratus
both old and new have aes you talk about
tidal yew
Palcoreapi.dll didn’t change
crisp bolt
void PalCoreDecryptAES(undefined8 param_1,undefined8 param_2)
{
char cVar1;
while( true ) {
cVar1 = FUN_180002ba0(&DAT_1800066d9);
if ((cVar1 != '\0') || (DAT_180006034 == '\0')) break;
Sleep(100);
}
PalCoreDecryptAES(param_1,param_2);
return;
}
fervent stratus
Palcoreapi.dll didn’t change
oke explain why the size has grown twice as big
just curious ofc
monkey brain sees thing go big
tidal yew
oke explain why the size has grown twice as big
They’re both 35kb?
tidal yew
That’s the crack
crisp bolt
yours is the old build
crisp bolt
tidal yew
It works on 1.0.2
fervent stratus
you mean compared to 1.0.5
crisp bolt
it happens to the best of us
crisp bolt
yeah so previous patch dll and this dll did not change, which makes sense cause they don't need to change that, but they did remove it why remove it?
tidal yew
void PalCoreDecryptAES(undefined8 param_1,undefined8 param_2)
{
char cVar1;
...
Why are you disassembling the dll
crisp bolt
it has to have some small change
tidal yew
Oh the exe
fervent stratus
the exe changed sizes
tidal yew
Well uh have fun then
tidal yew
Probably because they added the a-life tab to the tool
fervent stratus
tidal yew
I’m not joking
fervent stratus
damn goes to show our hope for something like that doesnt it
ooft gsc
but yeah who knows
tidal yew
You guys should love the CMs more
Genuinely best people
:)
Mol1t gave me clean patches for the wiki
Accidentally gave a pair of cut patches
tidal yew
old exe has decrypt aes
Yeah because there is no encryption
fervent stratus
Accidentally gave a pair of cut patches
any juice in it?
fervent stratus
Yeah because there is no encryption
WYM NO ENCRYPTION YET IT DONT RUN
tidal yew
Dunno
fervent stratus
slavic magic
fervent stratus
the exe?
tidal yew
Can you screenshot the thingy where it lacks decrypt aes?
tidal yew
any juice in it?
Malachite expedition and project y (though it is in-game somewhere)
tidal yew
since im just exploring hex tool
Ooooh hex
fervent stratus
any other tool thats good for the exe?
crisp bolt
well
fervent stratus
always nice to gain new knowledge
tidal yew
any other tool thats good for the exe?
Imhex
fervent stratus
Imhex
well yeah im using imhex
i searched for AES string
one exe has it other doesnt
tidal yew
Oh no you won’t find it lol
fervent stratus
not the aes
just mention of encrypt and decrypt
see what aes mentions there are
crisp bolt
Oh? What is it?
one sec I am super slow never touched this before
tidal yew
We’re all stupid, remember that
fervent stratus
you know dependency walker?
it shows exe's that have dependencies of other dll's
the test exe doesnt mention palcore
tidal yew
https://tenor.com/view/chicago-med-will-halstead-uncharted-territory-this-is-unc...
This is charted territory and we’re all stupid
fervent stratus
ill check the 1.0.2 now to compare
tidal yew
But this would be so flipping hilarious
fervent stratus
jup
1.0.2 has palcore dependency
new one doesnt
it also explains why new one doesnt throw error if palcore isnt in folder
all 1.0.2 dependencies of test.exe
all 1.2 dependencies of test.exe
notice old one up top has palcore
new one below doesnt
crisp bolt
crisp bolt
I was just gonna suggest that.
fervent stratus
tbb? take that and place it in new one?
crisp bolt
yep
fervent stratus
whats even in there
fervent stratus
indeed
tidal yew
I’m pretty sure since they removed aes key in 1.2 they actually moved the encryption to the file itself 
I’ll investigate tomorrow
void owl
Can someone tldr what's going on
crisp bolt
Can someone tldr what's going on
They put the debug tool in the initial 1.2 patch then did the fastest hotfix ever seen to remove it.
so we're trying to get the tool to work.
but we're locked behind a new AES key.
traditional dumping methods don't work.
void owl
Ah shit
crisp bolt
so I decompiled the palcore DRM dll
and was searching for it.
but then shay looked in the test.exe and it doesn't even look for the Palcore.dll anymore.
now it's time to do some tom foolery
void owl
GSC is next level incompetent
fervent stratus
yeah so old test.exe was dependant of a dll
new one aint
so its either in a new dll
shown above 2nd pic
or in the exe
and i think exe since exe is bigger
but billy before said it might be the alife tab being filled
tidal yew
but we're locked behind a new AES key.
There is no AES key
crisp bolt
I think that was an accident ngl
tidal yew
but billy before said it might be the alife tab being filled
Need to check the hex code, you can see the entire contents of the debug tool options
Anyways because there is no AES key, there is nothing for palcore to grab, therefore it is no longer needed as a dependency
tidal yew
Need to dump the 256mb of memory it uses upon launch before exiting
crisp bolt
welp time to dig into the exe I guess
nocturne swift
Hi, u steel help for ID of bnk? or give guide for i do with myself
rain juniper
Expectation: finally good armor diversity trough all game or npc rank based system
reality:
Т_Т
void owl
Lmaooo
fervent stratus
look at this beauty of a combo
i call it the unintentionall triple whammy
we got my mod spawning npc's like mutants and patrols + gsc fixing npc's looting corpses + ani generating random loot and with mhm and its mods results in
ps dont mind bugged shadows
vivid cedar
Popping in just to ask a quick question: Do you guys now have the ability to increase the 100m range/bubble? Curious if 1.2 changed anything
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Popping in just to ask a quick question: Do you guys now have the ability to inc...
No no change with 1.2
frail root
I'm curious if the extant A-life extension mods still work or not
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I'm curious if the extant A-life extension mods still work or not
Alife extended mod?
frail root
well, any of them really
thick widget
If that’s what you’re asking about alife extended hasn’t done more than adjust some scenario timing since 1.1 released.
Shay’s living zone adjusted scenarios and timing. And one version allows you to customize what you want from spawn scenarios with add on paks. Another version ties scenarios to rank system in the game I believe.
frail root
I just saw that Shays still says it works
so that's something
that's what I was using up til now
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There the Alife Flic and I put together call A-Life Uh.. Found A Way which rewrote how the scenario cfg file ai spawns. They are spread in an 860 m radius. And include some rare chances for exotic mutants in the farther ranges
Both use an engine.ini edit that I stumbled into so npcs in offline keep moving instead of pausing
I do need to apply the small updates they did to a couple files in A-Life Uh.. Found A Way. Just waiting to get the update downloaded
daring wolf
There the Alife Flic and I put together call A-Life Uh.. Found A Way which rewro...
top tier mod name
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top tier mod name
It was something we came up with in the moment. Thought it was a good meme 😄
spare lagoon
It was something we came up with in the moment. Thought it was a good meme 😄
Sounds like something YOU came up with and Flic agreed, tbh 
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spare lagoon
minor cedar
@rain finch sorry for tag, and this might be a bit shameless but can I have the modder role too? I make this https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1311383864379310080
just noticed your message right now 😅
edit: ty!
strong dirge
did they change DifficultyPrototypes.cfg in any way?
void owl
did they change DifficultyPrototypes.cfg in any way?
For 1.2 I didn't see any changes
inland karma
Guys any ideas on how can I make NPCs enter combat faster?
There are two aspects of this:
1, I'd like to make NPCs notice enemy faster - in terms of their 'vision meter' filling up faster
2. And then after that - there is this another weird 'combat start delay' which playes out in which they start running instead of shooting immediatelly
I played with some numbers here and there but was not able to find a properly working solutions for both issues
lean oar
You mean like how they run to cover first / run closer to your location
inland karma
Yep. I'd either like this phase to be way shorter or completely disabled. I noticed that when in the combat proper - they will sometimes still do it and its good then. However this happening at the begging of each encounter makes the whole thing too schematic.
I would assume that modifying these curves would do the trick for the issue#1 😉 Unfortunately we canno edit curves atm
thick widget
Why do you want to edit those curves?
Prertty sure just adjusting these would cause identification to happen faster
MaxVisibilityScore = 1000.f
MinSignificantVisibilityScore : struct.begin
[] = 150.f
[] = 150.f
[] = 150.f
[] = 150.f
struct.end
MinCombatSignificantVisibilityScore : struct.begin
[] = 100.f
[] = 75.f
[] = 50.f
[] = 25.f
struct.end
MinCombatHoldPositionSignificantVisibilityScore : struct.begin
[] = 50.f
[] = 25.f
[] = 20.5f
[] = 15.f
struct.end
minor cedar
anyways, fwiw. seems like there's a new modifier for AmmoPrototypes.cfg - CoverPiercingMod. My guess is that bullets can now be setup to penetrate different levels of materials in game...although I'm not sure if I can say that GSC knows what they're doing with this new variable, seeing as how they just slap the same value for ArmorPiercingMod into this.
this seems to affect the new CoverPiercing variable in WeaponGeneralSetupPrototypes.cfg.
thick widget
Prertty sure just adjusting these would cause identification to happen faster
M...
Another option would be to increase the bone scores in objprototypes
inland karma
Prertty sure just adjusting these would cause identification to happen faster
M...
Tried that, no real difference. Will go with more extreme values and see
thick widget
I believe you’d want to go lower with the minimum visibility scores
They should be the minimum to identify
Increasing bone scores would have a similar effect. Because they would need to see less parts of us to hit score threshold
fervent stratus
Tried that, no real difference. Will go with more extreme values and see
it is those, early days thats how i balanced detection for distance
the incompetence of gsc is bafflin
kinda getting me mad ngl
1.2 update so good they lost 1k peak players on update day compared to day before where they didnt update
naive widget
are you taking into consideration how many players take over a day to download a patch and thus cannot play 🤔
minor cedar
1.2 update so good they lost 1k peak players on update day compared to day befor...
Something wrong with 1.2? So far haven't played it yet myself
also I'd give it until weekends for the player peak to rise, it's still Friday
oh and this is pretty funny. Seems like in 1.2 GSC still intends for the TOZ to have the dispersion model of an assault rifle - they even doubled down on making it OP by increasing NPC's accuracy now, dropping DispersionRadius from 15 to 5
I had thought they would adjust the TOZ's NPC stats in NPCWeaponAttributesPrototypes.cfg to compensate for this, but no it's still the exact same as 1.1.3.
GSC what the fuck
fervent stratus
are you taking into consideration how many players take over a day to download a...
im just annoyed and ranting hha
ive messaged molit about a test group ive heard off
forwarded pretty much the modding community as a better group to ask for testers then freaking john doe, pumping 10minute videos for utube for adsense
Molits response:
"Hello, I think you will be a great candidate for the future Testing) I will keep you in my draft list for sure
"
fingers crossed they reach out to the people that freak on the games cfg and backend instead of the 10min video makers for clicks
median quest
fervent stratus
i have faith, ive been in contact with molit and exchanged messages before all way back before release
and zoneslug said just message molit
its how he got in
i just want working alife man what i gotta do to get there
tidal yew
Don't get your hopes up, and honestly, don't expect any magical working alife
fervent stratus
real
tidal yew
Did you know that internal dev builds have hardware ray tracing and so on
fervent stratus
i did not tbh
tidal yew
The lighting is so much better
fervent stratus
only internal i got hands on euhm migh have hands on is 2023
tidal yew
You can see that in the artist portfolios
tidal yew
only internal i got hands on euhm migh have hands on is 2023
2023 was also running hardware lumen hahaha
fervent stratus
like the foliage and stuff
yeah
i know
its insane
like the ground texture is ass sure
tidal yew
Too bad you can't port dev build stuff, GSC doesn't like that
fervent stratus
but damn the foliage
tidal yew
GSC is probably just holding out because it will get added in future updates
fervent stratus
still mad at gsc tho
aint no gsc soyboy
also mad at myself i fell for the early footage trap kek
saw those pre rendered videos "oh myyy ue5 so goood look at that shiii" gets release version: "vaseline smear deluxe on my screen"
tidal yew
To be honest, the dev build seemed super juicy and we got our hopes up so bad because we expected everything in the dev build to be finished after 1.5 years of development (maybe some stuff prepped for DLC)
Buuuut, yeaaa, that didn't really work out
tidal yew
I am genuinely coping by trying to come up with some big development problem
tidal yew
how you got past the encryption?
What encryption
fervent stratus
I am genuinely coping by trying to come up with some big development problem
they did have one for sure
one of us believes massive hack led to a lot more then they reveal
i personally believe that too tbh
and i also believe that the fire few months after in prague affected more then a floor that was insignificant
between this and 1.5y ago a loooooooooot is gone
minor cedar
You can see that in artist portfolios
I thought they were just bluffing when they said that Stalker 2 will have hardware Lumen, but turns out it's true damnnnn
tidal yew
Also cutscenes are pre-rendered in the engine with like all the crap cranked to max
EVEN THOUGH, get this, only the intro cutscene was supposed to be pre-rendered
Every other pre-rendered cutscene has all used assets + sounds in the files. Only the intro cutscene has everything baked into the bink 2 video
tidal yew
I thought they were just bluffing when they said that Stalker 2 will have hardwa...
It has in internal builds xdddd
That's why so many of us are begging for some dev builds
Not like post-release dev builds, but like pre-release
fervent stratus
i can ss one right now kazz gimme a sec
the forest in development build in 2023
chefs kiss
first time i saw it i was like wait wtf
this look good
i even looked to see if it wasnt ue4
minor cedar
i can ss one right now kazz gimme a sec
you guys sure are crafty fr. are these actually accessible now or are they still locked behind palcore something?
tidal yew
you guys sure are crafty fr. are these actually accessible now or are they still...
Haha palcore got removed in 1.2 debug executable
1.2 no longer has any AES keys
fervent stratus
you guys sure are crafty fr. are these actually accessible now or are they still...
pre release
the one now is uncracked
send it to empress
anyone got a warez group contact?
minor cedar
nope not me, sorry
minor cedar
man, this is promising for sure - trailer material almost
would definitely fry my GPU though 
tidal yew
So apparently the debug executable crashes because:
LogCore: Engine exit requested (reason: EngineExit() was called)
LogExit: Preparing to exit.```
I don't understand
fervent stratus
let me ask my translator
tidal yew
FUCKING HELL
Turns out 1.2 debug tools straight up can't load because there's a missing engine plugin
@fervent stratus @crisp bolt Yea we gonna need to figure out how to add a plugin :)
Or maybe it won't work at all
fervent stratus
Error: At least one required implicit or forwarded dependency was not found.
Error: At least one module has an unresolved import due to a missing export function in an implicitly dependent module.
Warning: At least one delay-load dependency module was not found.
Warning: At least one module has an unresolved import due to a missing export function in a delay-load dependent module.
void owl
anyone here used longer days mod? if you did, I present to you:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/35
make sure to upvote this on reddit please, since this will make the older Longer Days mod not necessary and will make it safe for everyone to use and not have comp issues