╟📸screenshots

[upbeat fulcrum]

Thats some battlefiled shit dude xd

Colors looks like bf 3/4, awesome

[wide hinge]

what gun is that

[timber cobalt]

Starting to working on Dark Cloudy weather

[coral sable]

Wich mod adds this animation??

[magic spruce]

probably a eft themed one

[rapid tide]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1137162280816099450 this one

[ashen elk]

wow

[sterile hedge]

ah, another compass fella

[little gust]

hey stop leak stalker 2 its not nice 😠

[sweet solar]

[west ore]

Hk416

[wide hinge]

what mod is it from?

[west ore]

Im using Frosty weapon pack and 3DSS

i also use A.D.E.G.A 1/2, Arrival, Aydins grass and C Con Grass

[mellow pasture]

my cozy room in the Rookie village

gonna be doing sid's missions a lot, but if yall have alternative base suggestions lmk

[wide hinge]

got the game to look incredible and im not even done yet

[gentle locust]

What ui

[rapid tide]

dynahud and tactical compass from moddb

[sweet solar]

[rapid tide]

boobtit lmao

[sterile hedge]

the bloom intensity is kinda high but otherwise it's good

[ashen elk]

emission 🤞 😲 ☮️ 💩 🫡 🌲 2️⃣ 🥹 ❌ 🫖 🇦 😭

[west shoal]

how did you achieve this exact look? please tell me 🙏🏻

[magic spruce]

I NEED A ULTRAWIDE OMG

[devout fjord]

@magic spruce I think you've been saying that since last year. We might have to start a gofundme for ya lol

[magic spruce]

i need a gofundme for a whole setup im on a laptop 😭

[devout fjord]

lol I feel ya, I was there until I bit the bullet and upgraded

[magic spruce]

im still stuck on this 3060 laptop man

i have to upscale to 1440p

[sweet solar]

Oh... oh no...

[devout fjord]

Yep, I remember you and I talking about both being stuck on the 3060s. Just put it on a CC like I did. 😄

[magic spruce]

ooh yeahhh

i do rmember that

[devout fjord]

I couldn't even run 1/4 of the grass. lol

[magic spruce]

i still struggle to pump out even 60 fps with what i got rn 😭

sometiems it gets down to 30

[devout fjord]

Yeah, this game ins't forgiving at all. Here's to you upgrading soon! It's a whole different experience my friend. 🍻

[magic spruce]

you're so cool zameus

[devout fjord]

Good night stalkers, safe hunting!

[runic vector]

quick little timelapse of this sunrise

[pine pewter]

Very photorealistic! Are you developing some additional weather cycles?

[rugged minnow]

Wtf?

My shotgun hitted too hard his head...

[rugged minnow]

What shaders and mods and settings are you using?

[west ore]

A.D.E.G.A 1.5.3 P1/2, Aydin's Grass Tweaks, C Consc. Grass Overhaul, Arrival, Aydins Grass Tweaks SSS, Shaders look better, Screen Space Shaders Ascii, Realistic Blood HQ Redone, Dismemberment. // Frosty Gun Pack, 3DSS i have alot lol but my pc specs are T-Force 64gb ram, i9 13900kf, 4070ti oc, MSI Mag Z790-T DDR5 and i run pretty much everything on max i also run phroZac_BADLAND_v6

MCM Menu for SSS Settings i Have Everything Set to high and SSR on Ultra

[raw arch]

I always thought of this.. Had it downloaded for a long time but never thought of using it.. Did you just enable everything?

[west ore]

everything but motion blur

[raw arch]

And you just popped it under SSS in MO2?

[west ore]

i have a sep just for mods i found and installed i wasnt too sure if i was suppose to put it under SSS

[raw arch]

But is that separator under GAMMA Fixes?

[west ore]

this is what i have, but should they be put under a certain sep? im new to modding this game and also baked asf lol

[raw arch]

If it looks good for you then keep it as is.. I just placed mine under SSS in GAMMA Fixes.. Where most of my graphical mods are

Your game looks vastly different even with phroZac_BADLAND_v6.. Our settings in SSS are identical so not sure what's going on there.. But it looks good so just leave it as is

[fossil lily]

Unless you edited the lods yourself the aydins lod fix overwrites your lods 😭

I guess it was built with vanilla anomaly

[raw arch]

Probably but the lods themselves does not make my game look nothing like his xD

[fossil lily]

Oh no dw I didn’t even see their issue

[raw arch]

I've always had it like this and it works fine ngl

[fossil lily]

I just notified

Noticed

[stone loom]

What UI and Icons mod are those?

[fossil lily]

I only realised the other day I was so mad at myself haha

[raw arch]

https://discordapp.com/channels/912320241713958912/920013807479296042/1287348620781424785
They have the opposite of an issue.. The have something incredible

[fossil lily]

if you put aydins past whatever pack you’re using and then hide the detail folder

You’ll use ATO ground grass + the lods will match

The “lod fix” is quite literally only lods that’s it

And they’re vanilla plus aydins grass

[raw arch]

So, disable Aydin Lods, hide aydin detail, and gg?

[fossil lily]

since you use green foliage it’ll match nicely too and high quality

Yep

[raw arch]

Aight but that won't change it that much.. But I'll do it regardless

[fossil lily]

one thing I don’t know is if hiding the folder itself in mo2 works since it technically just renamed the folder

[stone loom]

Is that a new mod? Looks insane

[fossil lily]

but also I guess if it’s not actually called detail the game wouldn’t pick it up

[raw arch]

New Levels

[stone loom]

Meant for GAMMA?

[raw arch]

Nah just in general.. But it works with GAMMA

[fossil lily]

also I was gonna try out better shaders but didn’t like how dark it made some shadows myself

It looks great in some screenshots for real tho

[stone loom]

Can't wait. Looks insane

[raw arch]

So I hide the bumps AND detail? And disable the LOD fixes mod?

[fossil lily]

That’s one thing I don’t know about with the bumps

[raw arch]

Wait

The bumps are in detail no?

[raw arch]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/promzone-level

[fossil lily]

Aydins doesn’t need to go after packs if the pack doesn’t use its own grass like adega

if they don’t then you put aydins before SSS and you won’t need to do anything

[raw arch]

So with ATO I'll put it before SSS?

[fossil lily]

That’s what I’ve known, but then again hippo had his after ATO in the YT vid he put out yesterday

Yeah since you want SSS bumps afaik

Adega provides bumps but idk how these all work lol

[raw arch]

Well mine is after ATO like Hippo..

[fossil lily]

but you don’t use it anyway

yeah it’s so confusing man 😭

[raw arch]

Been that way all along

I just never hid the details folder

[fossil lily]

idk if he uses adega as a base or whatever

Idk if he’s only using ATO

[stone loom]

What gun/mod is that?

[raw arch]

I'll try it now with details hidden and lod disabled

[fossil lily]

In my mind, it only made sense to put it after ato if he wanted the grass ground texture but he hid the details folder anyway?

so I’m waiting til he feels like talking stalker again to ask him haha

because I don’t know what dictates if a bump is good to use, or if adega has SSS bumps built in or something else :/

[raw arch]

Yeah but this doesn't have anything special.. Nothing hidden or anything like that

But you can clearly see the grass glowing as if it's wet but not in a bad way

[livid haven]

Lewd SAF with an attachment expansion that I’m working on

[plush sundial]

Kit 7 days (in game) into my first playthrough. What rating would you give it? (1-10)

[tall phoenix]

god damn, this game still looks so good on low settings

[frosty nest]

what is this pack???

[raw arch]

That's Anomaly Custom

[timber cobalt]

It's a tweak combination of weathers, shaders and settings, still W.I.P but making some good progression

[rigid axle]

Fk daytime. Any Night Time Chads

[crisp hazel]

big fucking gun

[crisp hazel]

AW really adds some nice variety to the otherwise boring landscape of CoC

[magic spruce]

im gonna try the summer version of https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1279805292472832101

[fossil lily]

drunks miserable masks is actually so neat

[sweet solar]

SOTA's UI + https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1161433800803360808

[sweet solar]

Yeah they're great

[fossil lily]

im loving them paired w the headgear and outfit animations too

kinda bringing the parts of metro that i liked over

[sweet solar]

[sterile hedge]

stalker 2 is fire 🔥

[steep sand]

Welp this is how far I can make my game looks good but still playable, this game is surprisingly still playable in 20-25 fps, or even 30 if I'm lucky

[sterile hedge]

looks good

[steep sand]

can't even get more fps even if I lower some settings and go back to vanilla so yeah this is the best my pc can do

[fossil lily]

not even with lowering render distances or grass density/radius?

[steep sand]

barely noticeable, this is the max settings I can do that doesnt get my fps below 20

[fossil lily]

are you limited more by your cpu or gpu?

i assume ofc an older system and theres only so much you can do which sucks

[steep sand]

both maybe lol, my rig is pretty old, i7 4790 with RX560D

[fossil lily]

ah yeah i mean the cpu is still okay in other things but in anomaly with it being so single core limited you really just want higher clock speeds

[steep sand]

cant wait to upgrade and enjoy the glorious 60fps

wait not even upgrade, I need whole new pc

[fossil lily]

@raw arch just replying to it here so i can go back and forth

but i noticed he uses badlands reshade too

[raw arch]

So did I in that moment

Badlands makes everything blue so I disabled just the LUT and kept the rest

[fossil lily]

yeah it does lol

[fossil lily]

this photo here is way too dark wtf

[fossil lily]

also geez the stuttering is nuts

i assume its just the recording but woah

[raw arch]

That's buffering with Discord

Let it go for a bit and you'll see

I even tried replicating the load order but in GAMMA Fixes.. No shot does it give the same results

[fossil lily]

but yeah that contrast is crazy

i assume the shadow thing is def better shaders then

whatever its called

[raw arch]

Blotches are fixed

[fossil lily]

so it was that mod then

[raw arch]

But yeah there's some other settings in that video

[fossil lily]

well yeah

maxing out SSS settings

also is he on vol lighting or screenspace too

[raw arch]

Mine is also maxed out but it's not just that.. There must be other tweaks not mentioned

[fossil lily]

idk if he posted in game settings

if hes new to the mods here he mightve missed something or forgotten about it

[raw arch]

So missing something makes your game look better?

Last time I missed something my mipbias went to 5000

[fossil lily]

i meant missing something to tell you

within his setup

[raw arch]

There are reshade tweaks and SSS tweaks 100%

His grass tips are shiny and looks wet in general

Default won't do that

Example

[vernal gale]

sometimes, walking around the zone, making me wonder how this old game can be this good

[raw arch]

Not really getting that sharp sunlight anymore

[west ore]

yeah idk what happened with the vid its fine on my end, i just had to update my mo2 so i had to re-do everything lol is their a way to save the settings?

[west ore]

thats really good lookin

i dig the FWP 3DSS setup mod tho, scopes look crispy

[fossil lily]

Yeah I think if you do the !backup command it tells you?

in #🤖bot-commands

It’s literally just clicking the profile at the top and managing them, then clicking copy and select the new one, name it whatever you want and then edit that from then on

Then whenever there is a gamma update it won’t touch that profile

Altho, I’ve heard not to update your mo2 install? Not sure what happens but hopefully it’s still good

[raw arch]

yeah this entire LUT makes your game blue.. So no idea how you got the results in your video ngl

[fossil lily]

It was blueish tones in his vid just not insane

Could’ve been the area

Whatever lut was underneath the reshade at the time yk

[raw arch]

Ye or it was toned down within Reshade.. Because Badlands doesn't have just 6 options ticked.. It has more.. So there must've been tweaks

[west ore]

yeah i tweaked it and turned some of them off

[raw arch]

I knew it xD

[west ore]

yeah i dont have all those ahhaa

just the ones in the SS

[west ore]

i have the black point set to 3 and white point on 220

for levels

[crisp kelp]

Ato needs a fomod option for 4k or 2k textures because some of the 8k textures tank performance quite a bit lmao

[west ore]

and for lut i have .900 for chroma and .630 for luma

[raw arch]

Still looks really blue ngl

[west ore]

are u using a hdr mont?

[topaz pond]

Don't mess with the doc

[raw arch]

Nope.. Using what you said when you replied to someone else above

https://discordapp.com/channels/912320241713958912/920013807479296042/1287364238222032917
Using this and your reshade tweaks

[west ore]

thats weird, ill have to make a video showing what i did cause mine isnt even that blue with those settings, lol

[raw arch]

https://discordapp.com/channels/912320241713958912/920013807479296042/1287348620781424785
I'm basically trying to replicate this but I guess that was a very situational moment in the game.. Because none of the available options allow crisp with AA.. Most AA settings causes everything to look a lot softer

[fossil lily]

Could’ve just been higher resolution too

He does have a 4070ti

[west ore]

i run 1440p on a hdr monitor

i noticed diff weather causes my game to look more blue tho like during thunderstorms

[raw arch]

Yeah HDR monitor won't make a difference when showing it to someone else.. I can try and fake 1440p but I don't think my PPI will allow it

But even then, it won't make such a significant difference

[agile condor]

accidentally killed a chimera thinking it was a lurker, the fastest ive ever killed one

[raw arch]

That is a lurker?

[agile condor]

the one in the back

[raw arch]

Ah

[west ore]

F

[fossil lily]

ended up settling on the compact hud but im enjoying it more now :D

[steep pagoda]

How is it this smooth

[ashen elk]

why do I feel like such a bad person?

(i killed the guy that had this btw) 😢

[true gust]

i am terrified

[raw arch]

Tried faking 4k.. Dropped 30fps..

So I faked 1440p instead

[sweet solar]

gotta love just decorating the flea market in garbage and suddenly getting jumped by 5 snorks

[west ore]

thats my list

[magic spruce]

oh yes

[prime widget]

The new atmospherics atmos summer preset looks soooo good

[floral glacier]

how to download this reshade?

[raw arch]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1162285292070379530
Bare in mind I don't use any of his reshades.. Only the layout

[floral glacier]

yes i just want to know how to download a reshade to get that menu

[raw arch]

The one I linked does it

[floral glacier]

whats the keybind if you dont mind

[west ore]

should be the home button

[floral glacier]

i did all of the steps but home doesnt work

[west ore]

did u untick delete reshade DLL on the gamma launcher

[floral glacier]

no i did not

[west ore]

make sure ur settings are saved and run the update after you untick it

[floral glacier]

untick and then run install/update?

[west ore]

yes

then home should work in game

[floral glacier]

https://tenor.com/view/iceage-possum-peaceout-gif-2272177960667492692

[glad carbon]

a freaking EPIC capture my guy

[west ore]

thanks man

[patent coyote]

LOL I have a desktop with a 2070 Super, feels like I am stuck in the stone age yet this card still holds up relatively well!

[sweet solar]

ain't no way I just found a keyblade bro

[fierce marlin]

can you tell me if you use third-party mod packs for weapons

[west ore]

I use Frosty Weapon Pack

[steep steeple]

:((

[west ore]

This hud be cool tho

[sterile hedge]

oh god the bloom

[fossil lily]

Damn boutta teleport everywhere

[reef sigil]

what rifle is this lol

[sterile hedge]

VSS

as i remember

[reef sigil]

oh

from what mod wtf lol

looks oddly tactical

oh nevermind found it jaj

[bitter smelt]

.

[wooden vessel]

69

[sweet solar]

Just an item referencing Kingdom Hearts. Was added through one of the lockbox mods.

[raw arch]

@fossil lily Not really sure how I feel about Winter.. Just feels like a washed out, desaturated autumn

[strange finch]

You need the trees for it

otherwise you dont have the full package

[fossil lily]

oh yeah those especially with the adega ones now are too much ahaha

[raw arch]

Yeah but winter trees are so hard to get right with the lack of AA

[fossil lily]

turn mip bias

down

[strange finch]

Use TFAA accept the 20 fps hit

[fossil lily]

try 0

real

mipbias was the nail for me since i was already using tfaa+drme at full

[raw arch]

Aight lemme do it.. I had TFAA all along so will see how it goes

[livid haven]

I even did .5 mip bias and got almost zero shimmer, no TFAA. This is on 4k though, but still helped

[raw arch]

Yeah that's why I'm hesitant.. Running 1080p.. And if I DSR it to 4k I lose 40+ fps even with Lossless Scaling

[fossil lily]

yeah even 1440p helps

just try mipbias down a little try 0

im using 1080p and theres still slight shimmer sometimes but its 100% better than only tfaa

[raw arch]

Nah even then it looks bad.. I'll just go back to autumn for now xD

[fossil lily]

haha fair enough im still using autumn anyway

[raw arch]

Was mainly just testing Winter grass to see if it will look nice.. But it doesn't fit with autumn trees and winter trees look bad on 1080p so the answer is clear xD

[livid haven]

imo upscaling is never worth it just because it's not true 4k so the image in my opinion always looks kinda weird. Tbh i think you might hvae best results running your native monitor resolution. This is jut my opinion though i cant see what you see lol

[fossil lily]

yea

[livid haven]

looks fine to me, autumn will always have more color tho

[fossil lily]

nah you get better results upscaling for sure but its not as good as native of that quality of course

but its performance intensive as well

plus with dldsr its possible artifacting

[livid haven]

very true

[raw arch]

The upscaling on my side kinda works because it's a 27".. But the PPI is not 1440p so even then it looks weird.. Not as bad as 24" upscaling to 1440p.. It's a lot better.. But still bad..

The main issue is a "pseudo-vsync".. Every type of vsync is disabled but there's insanely heavy input lag when I upscale..

[rapid comet]

yeah this is why I cant roll with winter, those tree models are vile without leaves on even with anti alliasing

[livid haven]

excited for our hero huh? to potentially fix those in the future

[fossil lily]

hahah yeah that would be sick if he can

because it really is a sick vibe with winter

esp with atmos or even cooler luts

[raw arch]

mip on 0 with some tweaking to AA.. Only works on distant trees.. I'll go back to autumn xD

[raw arch]

There we go xD

[fossil lily]

god damn i got caught in an emission and had to book it to the top of the swamps where the train car is

[stark smelt]

Atmos single handedly carrying the visuals holee sheet

and this is with (.5,.5,.5) color grading lol

[jolly flicker]

Whats your settings and reshade please 🙏

[magic spruce]

my reshade https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1180668474377371648

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1279805292472832101

ATO 3

[jolly flicker]

I love you

[magic spruce]

I used to tell people that when they gave me their reshades

start making your own trust

[jolly flicker]

Oh I've tried trust me but it's just ahhh annoying as it looks good in one weather type but then it looks shit in another one u get the idea

[magic spruce]

been there done that unfortunately

[jolly flicker]

Yup I just liked how your guns look darker my ones look like they don't have any shadows and stuff

Idk just the way your one looks cleam

[magic spruce]

yeah i like it, gives it a cinematic loook

[jolly flicker]

Yea that's what I want a clean looking game

And u have that

And I NEED it

[magic spruce]

i only use custom in some screenshots

the ones i posted here arent

they gamma

[topaz pond]

This game is timeless when changing graphics every now and then

[magic spruce]

this is how all that looks like on custom though

[magic spruce]

what I NEED is a ultrawide likie @shell lance

like

[scenic shell]

be careful what you wish for

[magic spruce]

i dont care about allthe problems that come with itt

[shell lance]

After you get ultrawide, you will never look back at 16:9.

[magic spruce]

goshh man it looks so good

[lament trench]

Now that's words of wisdom right there. I never looked back

[west ore]

Very nicee

[teal patrol]

I can only imagine how beautiful Stalker 2 screenshots will be after seeing these. Hopefully we get it this year with no further delays🤞

[runic vector]

a chimera jumped on my back right when i hit f12

[clever cove]

Looks better than Stalker 2

[topaz pond]

It's probably the best I've managed to get it to look so far

[jolly flicker]

THATS ULTRA WIDE?

fucking hell this shit looks cold

[fair bone]

🕶️

[rotund flame]

fix smooth plz

[unreal forge]

Post emission vibes always slap

[magic spruce]

right?

so good

[tawny locust]

@unborn badge (a.l.y.a.s.k.a) has been banned for reason: RU supremacist or shit spamming shit , fuck outta here

[desert yew]

#╟🎮stalker-videos📹

[fossil lily]

🍂

[warm gorge]

what preset is this ?

[strange finch]

Did you change any settings? Looks great

[willow pulsar]

Thanks Hippo! No, beside changing the whole thing to autumn since im usually a huge summer fan lol this is your last lut update in full force!

[strange finch]

Good to hear!

[warm gorge]

Can someone help me make the game look as good as you? I have atmospherics but I don't know what to activate to make it look as good.

[plush sundial]

NOOOO they killed my boy! He did give me an exo tho.. (First exo yay!)

[magic spruce]

what textures are these

[fossil lily]

ATO with adega trees + alt autumn vegetation trees

c consciousness autumn grass

[magic spruce]

cool thanks

[magic spruce]

so crisp

[steel ingot]

A good night from the Great Swamps.

[magic spruce]

what mask overlay you usin?

[wide hinge]

i need a good reshade

[devout fjord]

When you lay back in the swamps and just take it all in....

[cloud mesa]

what gun is that? looks super cool.

[vernal gale]

Yep
This is really close to tarkov now !

[lament hazel]

Grok's masks 👍

[sweet solar]

🤨

[sterile hedge]

gamma without reshade still looks fire

[sterile hedge]

[fossil lily]

I’ll never be sick of bloomed sunsets

[rigid axle]

what you use for the autumn look?

[thin geode]

That’s Aydin winter grass, with autumn trees, and anomaly custom weather

[rigid axle]

oh interesting winter grass with autumn trees, for custom weather did you just put custom weather before atmopsherics?

[raw arch]

After

Weather Expansion is the new custom weather..

[rigid axle]

oh nice thanks man

[raw arch]

No worries.. It used to be:

• Custom Weathers
• Atmospherics
• Custom Weathers for Atmospherics

But Custom Weathers got combined into Weather Expansion and only requires 1 mod now instead of the two with Atmos inbetween

[jolly flicker]

I see everybody are starting to use anomaly custom is there any difference between gamma and that modpack

[hasty coyote]

yes

[opal pumice]

erm,
Can anyone help me? there is a fog that is causing a visual bug with transparent things... glass... these ceilings...

and is not the reshade

[shut nest]

HOW?! JUST HOW?! Please tell! Its so atmospheric......

[opal pumice]

how to fix?

[inland mango]

theory: whatever enables puddles in non rainy weather + foggy weather + cool reshade + no hud + SSS + good texture pack + whatever grass mod

[stark smelt]

yep
MHP + GoTZ + C Con. + a reshade with CA turned on + ROTTEN LIFE or ATO + SSS + Atmospherics (in cloudy/foggy weather and permanent SSS puddles)

it's the vibes I'm getting from these screenshots at least

[stark smelt]

clear your shaders cache and check for any mods that overwrite the shaders\r3 files
if there's any .h file try hiding it, clearing shaders again etc

I had a similar issue cause of ADEGAZR+

maybe could be on shaders\r2 too, cant remember rn

[shut nest]

I'll try this!

[shut nest]

Specifics, SPECIFICS

[shut nest]

What is CA?

[shut nest]

Do you think theres also some filmic effect on like chromatic abberation? If you look at the edge of the treetops ->

[opal pumice]

thx

[raw arch]

Chromatic Abberation is CA that you asked above

[shut nest]

HAHA Is that right? Thats a coincidence

thanks

[raw arch]

No worries :D Yeah CA is Chromatic Abberation.. Some Reshade Effects say Chromatic Abberation (CA.fx)

[shut nest]

Thanks haha I'll try and see what I get 😛

[shut nest]

It's not hippos atmospherics hes using righttt...? Im not sure but

[raw arch]

I have no idea what exactly he's using in those screenshots.. But it is most likely

The sunset picture he posted looks like Weather Expansion which is an addon to Atmospherics.. My Clear_3 weather looks the same

[shut nest]

Yeah Its impossible to know, maybe @lime gulch him/herself would like to tell XD

[raw arch]

I get the same sunsets

[shut nest]

Very beautiful! Whats that compass you're using? It's gorgeous!

[raw arch]

EGUI

[shut nest]

Thanks

[raw arch]

The Loner preset for EGUI to be exact..

[shut nest]

Oh yeah

DO you play with a scaled resolution?

Your screenshots say "Scaled - 87%" In their names

[raw arch]

Nah.. It messes with my input lag.. I did try it out on 1440p and 4k but it just messes with me

Not sure why it says that

[shut nest]

Ah ok you're playing on natural 1920x1080? I am too. Sometimes I miss my 1440p screen but the extra frames you get on 1080p sure are sweet

[raw arch]

Yeah natural 1080p.. I have a 27" monitor but it's unfortunately a 1080p one.. So even if I fake 1440p with DSR my monitor's PPI won't really allow it.. Stuff looks blurry no matter what percentage of Sharpness I use

[fossil lily]

this is the type of situation i love autumn for

since i know its not just bleeding colour theyre quite colorful normally

[raw arch]

Did you see my video I posted in Arrival yesterday? I was just showcasing a feature of the game but I got lost in the graphics instead

Wait lemme get it

[shut nest]

Mines 27 inches too but its not too bad to my eyes, you dont notice it at all most of the time. However, grass is very hard to look at I feel like, in my game, it looks so pixely

[fossil lily]

ah i dont think so

i think that was when i was sleeping, then had work

but im home now

[raw arch]

It was also inbetween the shitshow

[fossil lily]

im here trying to get 3dss working with sss22 alpha

hippo said his was working

[raw arch]

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

Even the thumbnail is

[fossil lily]

so at least ik it does but i cant figure out what im doing wrong

yeah thats beautiful

[raw arch]

That's just basic lack of good AA causing that.. Mine went away with DRME + TFAA in reshade.. Winter trees are still fucked but the rest is perfectly fine..

[raw arch]

Giving Winter grass with autumn trees a shot

[raw arch]

yeah that's where it gets beyond my expertise

[fossil lily]

youre probably gonna run into the same issue you had last time the further you go north

[raw arch]

Most likely

I'm having a different issue now

Every time I load my game, my weather stays static.. I don't even touch debug.. It just refuses to change..

[rain fern]

hey sorry to but into your convo but does anyone know what affects the gpu mem the most as im pushing my card to the limit atm XD

[raw arch]

In my experience, 8k textures

[fossil lily]

youre better off testing overclocks with proper software first if you havent

think, something like superposition 8k

if you have metro exodus that comes with a decent benchmark too

[rain fern]

Using a gtx 1080 oc in the top 10% on a few benchmarks so not much more I can do there got pretty lucky chipset wise and that could explain it as I think alot of texture packs are now using the upscaled road textures

[rain fern]

what i got atm

[shut nest]

You're right! WHy dooesnt TFAA show up in my reshade though? My reshade version is dated, might be why

Should I even update reshade? I have 5.7.0?

[raw arch]

#╟🎑reshades message
I think I just spoke about this with someone in #╟🎑reshades .. Can have a look there and see if that works for you.. Or you can try what arky suggested a bit further down

[lime gulch]

It's Anthology 1.2 with Anomaly Custom graphics and weather, and my reshade

[stark smelt]

CA = chromatic aberration, so yeah

it's definitely there

what I highly recommend is to mess around with color_grading and such commands before trying heavy reshade presets

I personally run just AA on reshade cause i get annoyed af with the effects being applied to the UI as well

and like, after SSS + Atmospherics, using ReShade is just cope trying to make the game look better than what it already is

[fossil lily]

at this stage it gets used a lot just for aa and bloom which is a personal preference

[still hinge]

Reshade can do some nice stuff, a lot of reshades are definitely just a lot of pointless stuff tho

[raw arch]

Plus with the recent constant updates to Atmos and SSS, most presets are outdated af.. They definitely don't look nearly as good as they used to.. Some are even worse than base game..

[stark smelt]

yeah I mean, increase a bit of sharpness or use some bloom for the UI or just outdoors and what not, use a cold ahh LUT for a winter playthrough, those are great use cases

but then people use with a bazillion effects that either do nothing or change stuff that can be changed with in-game settings

and it's like

[still hinge]

i swear a lot of times I'll open up a reshade and turn off half of the however many hundreds of effects they have and notice pretty much no difference
or they'll have like 7 different effects doing a bunch of things that could all be done by just one or two, for some reason

[raw arch]

LUTs are the way to go now tbh.. They don't touch UI and they look great.. Imagine applying a filter after taking a selfie.. Much better than reshade..

Reshade also requires multiple cancellations to make it look really good.. Meaning you have to use some effects ontop of others so that they don't blow out completely.. AA making everything to soft/blurry? Ok, add some Sharpening.. You need so many layers upon layers..

[warm sierra]

https://tenor.com/view/yapping-yapping-level-today-catastrophic-yapanese-gif-13513208407930173397

[fair bone]

Some screenshots here and there look so bad... I don't understand how people enjoy playing with such a hideous settings of reshade.

[stark smelt]

yapping is love
yapping is life

[raw arch]

Here, have a random screenshot in the screenshots channel

[warm sierra]

me neither

[fair bone]

That or either they make it contrast 300% and it hurts my eyes 😭

[stark smelt]

the Battlefield 3 blue filter combined with 400% contrast and pitch black dark shadows are my favorite

[fair bone]

Real.

[shut nest]

Thanks bro!

[shut nest]

Thank you! I'll see if that fixes it for me

[gray hearth]

cyberpunk edgerunners ost mentioned

[fossil lily]

is that just vanilla asphalt?

[timber cobalt]

The one from GAMMA yeah

[fossil lily]

ah

it works very well

its so hard to pick sometimes, but the fact that it stands against things like ato speaks for itself lol

[vernal gale]

looking good !
but here a little feedback
first, sky transition from 19 to 20 is a bit hard
second, the amount of contrast is really high during day

i can recommend sss lut system
you can change it per level and you will have more control over your weather cycle

[timber cobalt]

I don't use lut and I don't intend to since I had a bad experience trying a lot, the transition from 19 to 20 is from the previous version of this weather cycle, for now just from 09:00 to 18:00 It's already adjusted

And I don't see a lot of contrast in daytime, it could be your monitor colors that are stronger or even the base gamma of your monitor

[jolly lagoon]

on the way to outskirts with rogue

[vernal gale]

Idk mate I always feel the high contrast from your vids or shots
And I calibrated my monitor for editing long ago to be natural and main colours

[fossil lily]

@raw arch im back on the winter vibes again

all i have to do is not look up at the trees and my mind is free

[raw arch]

Can you finish the game first 😭

But nah it looks really good.. I just can't handle the trees on my resolution.. I even ticked every single AA option in Reshade and it just does not do enough even when tweaked

[fossil lily]

LMFAO

we play the same res

and its annoying af

but i prefer the winter grass itself, but i feel it doesnt match other trees enough

[raw arch]

Ye.. I love sniping especially from heights so I can't ignore the trees as much as I want to..

[fossil lily]

and yeah i just settled for the same aa i usually use

well at that point the aa in the scope is non existent anyway lol

is so weird

[raw arch]

Lemme test something

[fossil lily]

during movement the trees look nice

as soon as i stop and the blur goes away and its too much LOL

see thats better than the previous, def not by much but better

[raw arch]

Maybe try and enable a very very tiny amount of motion blur

[fossil lily]

thats what i have on rn

like suuuper minimum, which is probs what helps during movement

along with tfaa things lol

[raw arch]

I love the blur from Shaders Look Better but the rest is ass

Going to test something with winter trees now

[fossil lily]

this is with mipbias 0 btw

there legit only so much we can do at 1080p since there are literally parts of the branches that full on disappear rather than just be aliased because of the resolution

[raw arch]

Yeah I tried tweaking as much as I could.. It just gets incredibly blurry.. It fixes the trees but it fucks with the rest

[fossil lily]

if you look at the branches without aa

the branches literally straight up disappear

cant apply aa to something thats just not there 😭

[plush sundial]

Should I switch?

[raw arch]

Assuming your main rifle uses 5.56, I would say yes it's worth switching.. You jump an entire BR level from that new gun's ammo.. And the flesh rating is also quite high

[plush sundial]

Is the ammo cheap to craft? I can't remember

[raw arch]

I don't remember either lmao.. Haven't had a gun drop with that ammo in some time

[plush sundial]

What should I look out for to replace my Rem 700? It uses the same ammo as the gun I found

[raw arch]

Sniper? For me personally, anything that uses Lapua rounds

[plush sundial]

I got a DVL-10 in my stash

[raw arch]

That'll melt exos

[raw arch]

Static (Basic AA) > Moving (Mblur on 0.1) > Static (Every fucking AA available)

My grass looking ugly though.. Doesn't fit well.. Something in my settings probably but too lazy to figure it out

[fossil lily]

ive got my height at 0.8 currently

this ones in rostok tho so aydins

[raw arch]

Yeah sorry you can have the best grass and ground in the game but I just can't do it with those trees

I'm trying EZ2 now for the first time in weeks

I also kept Rotten 8k.. I love ATO's Asphalt but there's significantly less puddles for me.. And man I do love puddles.. I just don't see them as clearly as with Rotten

[fossil lily]

yeah i know

the puddles themselves arent as big

i prefer it still myself

the new ez stuff hes gonna put out soon looks sick though

also, def an issue with npc footsteps being too loud with retune footsteps

its like theyre much closer than they really are in the world

[raw arch]

Too bright/saturated?

[fossil lily]

yeah i feel it is

oo ascii (sss dev) said he might be able to implement a test version of TAA into the sss alpha soon :o

[raw arch]

Yeah lemme remove it and wait for updates for now

[fossil lily]

which would be much better than whatever other solutions we have now

this mf big as hell

[raw arch]

Yeah that would be nice.. But also to be brutally honest, I think we are looking at this game through a magnifying glass instead of actually enjoying it xD

[fossil lily]

im still enjoying it a lot,

[raw arch]

So am I but the tiny little details are bugging me to a point where I start tweaking shit

[fossil lily]

i wanted to fix my 3d scopes with the newest sss first today but ended up just giving up for now

so im gonna play without them for the time being

idk whats up and i cant figrue out any steps i couldve missed, and i dont want them to feel like they need to help someone with an alpha version of it lol

[raw arch]

Ye I'm just gonna revert back to base atmos and continue this normal playthrough xD It's not an Invictus run this time so I'm relaxing a lot with this autumn vibe

[fossil lily]

• hippos work fine which is confusing, but he said hes on a test branch of gamma

nice nice

this is weirdly hd

[raw arch]

Yeah I think it's best to wait for official releases before reporting anything lol.. If it's not 100% public yet then yeah not much you can do

[fossil lily]

its the little warehouse you need to walk through in rostok lol

[raw arch]

Yeah I see that too.. That ATO ground is real nice

[fossil lily]

yeah i know with rottenlifes asphalt there are puddles here too

not the case with the current ato

so def less overall but its fine w me

time for some grinding in truck cem/army warehouses ig i need advanced tools

[fossil lily]

thats better for sure

[raw arch]

Uhm

[fossil lily]

dont question the methods

[fossil lily]

jus hanging around

[raw arch]

https://tenor.com/view/nothing-gif-17784237642811266057

[fossil lily]

LMFAO YEAH

[last tinsel]

[glad carbon]

https://tenor.com/view/blasted-dog-tongue-out-panting-shockwave-gif-17279800

[finite mural]

going for end game now

[magic spruce]

oh yes

[sterile hedge]

very saturated

[west ore]

i would say the same. ill tweak it more

[shadow bone]

maybe add bbq wings and MAYBE it would be good😕😕

[west ore]

just bbq?

[hasty coyote]

white sky

[west ore]

Too saturated

[west ore]

SR-2M Slaps tho

[pliant grove]

When you need light in room go to Limansk

[west ore]

my sky be looking better

[steep pagoda]

Was being blinded by the sun lol

Changed it abit now though it’s a lot better

[west ore]

hell yeahhhh

[pliant grove]

Morning in Chernobyl Army be like... I see sun.. so i am alive right ?

[south jungle]

Doing some hunting

[craggy basalt]

Why are his legs...

[cunning junco]

Dogs had their way with him... poor bastard...

Jerma?

[steep pagoda]

Beautiful

[shy aspen]

how did u get it to look like that holy shit

[steep pagoda]

Rip Elena 🙏🏼

[opal pumice]

Guys, which mod is the one that makes it so windy? and the trees/grass sway a lot?

[raw arch]

SSS

[opal pumice]

thx

[raw arch]

There are weather mods that make the wind happen but the physical swaying comes from SSS

[opal pumice]

thx man

[opal pumice]

💯

[steep pagoda]

That’s really nice

[round elm]

Thanks

[maiden lance]

BEEP BEEP

[rapid comet]

Those are some nice beeps

[fossil lily]

I love those

[maiden lance]

thank the stalker 2 videos all nice and cleaned up. will release 'em soon along with other things to replace a bunch of pesky tarkov sounds from retune. i have the ones done for the veles and sverog too but im no scripter so have 0 idea how to get them to work

[fossil lily]

I love retunes footsteps but I need to figure out how to tone down the npc footstep sound it’s so loud

It makes it feel like they’re much closer than they really are

[opal pumice]

simple but cool

[opal pumice]

I have a Ryzen 5 5600g without a GPU, running at 30~40 fps, but it's crazy that LossLessScaling can make it "fluid"

[muted crow]

Anomaly launchers shadow map at 4096 (idk how much that matters), The mod shaders look better, reshade with hunter 2.0 but i added immerse antialiasing and fxaa. i think i also bumped SSS from very low to low and grass shadow to medium. im also at 1440.

[gray falcon]

EFP+EXP 2.3

[runic vector]

Reminding myself to send you my modded script for gear rattle when i get off work. Took the gear rustle mod and replaced the sounds with retune and adjusted a bunch of the values to be more subtle

[fossil lily]

oh is the gear rattle thats blasting my ears when they walk close?

tbf i never bothered to test i assumed it was the steps but im keen to try your version for sure!

[runic vector]

no I’m an idiot and thought you said rattle not footsteps 😅

[fossil lily]

fuck 😭

im using retune stuff myself right now anyway haha

[livid haven]

man i want to run summer C con but not a fan of aydins for the other areas

[kind summit]

I hope the author will make all the locations. This mod is a masterpiece.

[loud dragon]

For a second my brain tricked me into thinking that was pyramid head.

[lament hazel]

🥕

[livid haven]

Keep making me want to try carrot cake zone

[lament hazel]

🍏

[vernal gale]

Those Jupiter small tiles are a big pain
Making such a good SS bad

Ah well don't get me wrong the SS and everything is very nice, just the tiles

[lament hazel]

Ah how so? Is it the parallax? I was just thinking that water looks a bit spunky hah

[lament hazel]

I'll tone it down it a bit in future, atm it's kinda compensating for aydin's autumn as well as c-con

[vernal gale]

Nah
From top right, those small tiles became strange, like idk how to explain it

It's cause the tile textures use many white and black as mortar in the middle, so it will be sharp and you have something like this
Can be reduced by lowering the dark between those textures and making the main texture a little bigger

[runic vector]

Do you remember what texture this was? I noticed the same thing with SS tiles last night but gave up digging thru the files. Still love these textures

[thin obsidian]

What's that minimap? 😄

[raw arch]

EGUI

[thin obsidian]

Thank you

[west ore]

hell yeahhh

[west shoal]

so clean , i want this 🥹

[fallow vine]

please send help, my hip is broken

[strong flicker]

i can fix her

[rigid axle]

whats ur grass setting

[lament hazel]

density 0.3
height 0.8
radius 150

[rigid axle]

thanksss

[fossil cedar]

Rotten Life + CCon + Aydin's + Alt Red Autumn

[rigid axle]

whats Aydin's + Alt Red Autumn? Im aussiming a differnt color for the flora ?

[fossil lily]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1287118902031028224 maybe this

It’s a nice mod

But you could also rip out adega trees too

[fossil cedar]

Aydins Grass & Trees + The Alt Autumn Vegetation @fossil lily mentioned

[wicked zealot]

Is this Atmospherics and ATO?

[pliant socket]

🦝

[dull adder]

It's Rotten with 8K textured, highest LOD and Ground textures 5.

[wicked zealot]

Sweet, I'm updating my Rotten Life, thanks

[royal gate]

even with dx9 game still looks beautifull

[rigid axle]

anyone use DEGA with ATO just fine? i always get issues now

ADEGA

[fossil lily]

How come you use adega anyway?

Is it for the trees? Also what sort of issues are you meaning

[west shoal]

that is one big ass car wreck

[fossil cedar]

Rotten Life + CCon + Aydin's + Alt Red Autumn + Unreal Zone 5.3

[clever badger]

freedom spotted

[fossil lily]

winter mmmm

[soft hinge]

I been tweaking reshades for like 2 hours you guys think this looks good?

[west ore]

hell yeah

[strong flicker]

Gentlemen i introduce you to the Fully optimized, Ultimate Stalker Doomer/Boomer/Zoomer any kinds of stalker, Yanov Station 1 Bedroom apartment. Suits all your needs, can even bring Hip over for the night. Starting Bids 69420K Rubbles

other angle

[clever badger]

beutiful

[south arch]

is this the real Major Degtyarev?!

[clever badger]

yes its me. the real major

[thin obsidian]

My first hideout so far what do you guys think?

[soft hinge]

my computer hates me right now but damn these graphics look nice cranked up

[devout fjord]

I hate scientific escorts.....

[clear shale]

look man, imma need your secrets, how the hell you getting 40 fps without a gpu and your game looks this good

[west ore]

da helllll

[rigid axle]

Looks good! was wondering did you ever get issues with green lods with autmun grass?

[fossil lily]

Hey do you still have this by any chance? Would love to test it

[runic vector]

yes let me find a campfire to save at 1s

[fossil lily]

You’re a real one fr

Thank you

[runic vector]

just set my settings as the default the OGs are way too fckin loud

[fossil lily]

Once this hangover dizziness is gone ill be up to game 😭

[rain fern]

fuck this shit is terrifying

[opal pumice]

idk lol, I use SSS + Atmospheric + ESCG + reshade, it gets 28~30 fps, then I use LossLessScaling so.. it looks like 60 fps..

[clear shale]

what are your settings on lossless?

cuz my cpu is close to yours, thats why i ask

also what reshade

[clear shale]

nvm wth (amd Illiterate)

[sterile hedge]

"close to yours"
6 cores with 12 threads against 4 cores and 8 threads
also these cpu's are like
10 years apart

[fossil lily]

Lol

[rigid axle]

could someone post there load order for ATO? Does it go below SSS?

[fossil lily]

Yes

Pretty much anywhere past that point depending on other texture mods