╟📸screenshots

[low sonnet]

Imagine being able to get an like

Stronger receiver for a gun

Or an even better spring

Which would give more recoil

But more speed for the bullet

[cunning bison]

950 rpm

[low sonnet]

Yes

[cunning bison]

no im not joking

[low sonnet]

Ah-

[cunning bison]

29 dmg tho

lol

[low sonnet]

Lol

[cunning bison]

btw

all these pics arent even with the help of other reshades or other mods

theyre only gamma

aaaaaaaactually i did tweak some more things in the reshade

but not THAT big of a difference so it doesnt matter

[low sonnet]

True ye

[cunning bison]

dayum

im loving the look of my game now

[clever badger]

dont mind me in the bush...im just hunting for renegades

[cunning bison]

with a leather jacket

[low sonnet]

Lmqo

[clever badger]

life is hard in the swamps...and the leather jacket is good camouflage tho

[warm kraken]

such is life in the zone

[wanton delta]

Burers.. 🙄

[warm kraken]

they're really something else

[balmy steeple]

Thatsssslotta rats....

[outer grove]

Update and they should stop spawning.

[balmy steeple]

This is the first time I've ever seen them spawn

[sacred stag]

MooZe - Wasteland II intensifies

[dark brook]

Wat

[bright peak]

[wanton delta]

yeah man, burers can do that apparently

[ornate sonnet]

[meager zenith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/889068007412867142/977160584544006184/unknown.png

[bright peak]

Flex tape that cover before it shatters

[cunning bison]

cant bro

spartan helms kinda hard to repair

dont have the parts yet

[bright peak]

[bright peak]

What a vibe

[steady bison]

Well now that fucking sucked

Rat that had a tracking device thing for a quest guarded by 2 burers and a psuedogiant

[versed silo]

wutt i literally didnt know you could even encounter Burers out in the open, thought there were just in labs/underground areas

[wintry hamlet]

you thought you were safe above ground ? think again

[cunning bison]

(dead)

[warm kraken]

such is life in the zone

got the eots day 1

holy shit

[outer grove]

You should see the other guy.
29:10 in Pt. 24 #╟🎮stalker-videos📹

[cunning bison]

bro

what the fuck

is that

im scarred for life from seeing that

[outer grove]

Life in the Zone.

[long grail]

It's pronounced "Gherman". A rare name in the post-Soviet space but still comes up sometimes.

[long grail]

Met a gank squad of a Pseudo, a Chimera and a Burer in the Radar. Met a triple Chimera pod in the Red Forest soon afterwards.

But this the first time I see Burers on the Swamps. I did have a Pseudo roflstomp the Bandits on the pump station once. Didn't even have to fire a bullet to beat that mission. Did have to dump fourty shells into the Pseudo, though.

[rotund terrace]

Did anyone else find dwarf at 100 Rads? Or is this a bug?

[ornate sonnet]

I think he’s just half sunk into the ground

[sacred stag]

What's so scary about it? There was nothing other than gunning fanatics in the Radar.

[outer grove]

You probably didn't watch from the timecode I mentioned.

[sacred stag]

I did bro.

That's why I know it

Wait, I have to watch longer right?

[outer grove]

A few seconds after that.

[sacred stag]

Oh rlly?

I watched til 29:30.

Nothing much happened.

Hmm, am I missing something or my brain is just really scorched now?

[outer grove]

A ragdoll bug.

[sacred stag]

Oh that?

Ah, it's nothing much for me.

[ornate sonnet]

This is starting to get ridiculous

[ornate sonnet]

Must suppress the urge to kill...

[wintry hamlet]

its an extra life for your ironman (invictus?), you need it

[clever badger]

What's your Graphical Mod setup?

[lime gulch]

Anomaly Redux with Project INVERNO and custom snow textures

[agile narwhal]

Trees with leaves in winter well, stranger things have happened in the zone xd

[outer grove]

Easier to just paint existing textures than creating new models.

[wanton delta]

Holy shit.... That snow is amazing. Did you make that? And when you say anomaly redux, is that a modpack or an addon?

[cinder pier]

There was a texture mod released in EFP discord that looks very similar from the picture. I tried it but my fps went to 14

Basically playing a slideshow

[digital terrace]

Nice wallpaper for the screen

[torpid mauve]

it's a texture pack made for inverno by gamma

#616764067670917131 message

tried to load it in GAMMA but something is breaking i think

when i boot up it looks like it's loading SSR on the ground/bushes/tress? and kills my fps really bad

[jovial cedar]

Are you using a specific reshade ? I can't get a similar result for some reasons

[wanton delta]

Was also wondering this, do you think you might want to share it? Been trying for this look for months....

[jovial cedar]

Sharing what though ? xD

[wanton delta]

Not you, him

bad ping lol

[jovial cedar]

[wanton delta]

[jovial cedar]

I released the factions addon btw

So now, if I can have this similar look, I'm going to have a fun playthrough x)

[cunning bison]

bro i swear my game looks good but never as good as yall's do

[cunning bison]

how do your trees look so good

[pseudo quarry]

May I ask what you're using to make your game look like this?

[gleaming siren]

loving winter

[wanton delta]

Seconding the question from Doc.. Why does it looks so good?

[wintry hamlet]

i am not exactly sure but i think those look like gamma defaults

[balmy steeple]

Day 3

[wintry hamlet]

i think #╟🔫loadouts would make more sense for that

[lime gulch]

Yeah, here is my settings, specially for winter mod. (FPS is bad tho )

[coral gull]

Dont know if im blind but it seems you are using 2 ambient occlusion techniques with reshade, then maybe on top of the ingame one? If thats so, then thats part of the culprit for performance

[wanton delta]

You are using Quantum reshade, yeah?

[lime gulch]

it's just a name. All effects were reconfigured

[wanton delta]

? So what reshade do you use...? 🤔

[lime gulch]

i'd say my own, but it's not that simple)

[wanton delta]

Oh... er.... Would you be able to possibly zip and share it..? edit: thanks dude ❤️

[meager zenith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/797255280702259255/977973743412469790/unknown.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/889068007412867142/977974467970084874/unknown.png

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/889068007412867142/977974479697367050/unknown.png

[bright peak]

What's with this new trend of pile of bodies

[ashen sand]

Gamme squad sizes get kinda cwazy

[jovial cedar]

The new Body Health System looks great

[cunning bison]

[hasty widget]

quite the fight after saying no to the c-consciousness

[jovial cedar]

Wut ? x)

Oh I think I understand x)

[hasty widget]

pretty good first day

[balmy steeple]

Ooooppa!

[dark brook]

Let's go 😄

[clever badger]

just cleared the way to cordon from the renegades...fighted them for a good half an hour...and when i start looting these idiots walk in like they are owning the place or something...gotta fight the urge not to kill them all in their sleep

[wintry hamlet]

https://tenor.com/view/palpatine-star-wars-emperor-do-it-go-for-it-gif-17446081

[clever badger]

u teasing me u naughty naughty

[balmy steeple]

What mod adds the different helmet overlays.

[ornate sonnet]

That's Nav's Masks

By Nav

[cunning bison]

the guy you replied to is the maker of the mod too

[ornate sonnet]

Almost like Nav is in his name

[balmy steeple]

Oh fantastic

[cunning bison]

is it?

[spark lance]

beautiful shot

[arctic carbon]

same

everytime I see someone else's screenshots/videos they're much better-looking than my game is

[clever badger]

The iconic watchtower

[clever badger]

try using magic hdr..or blooming hdr,dunno if u got these options in your reshade.

makes the game look better without fcking up the visuals too much

[wanton delta]

That watchtower is akin to the black leather couch against the white wall in a small office. if you know, you know. 🤷‍♂️

[jovial cedar]

The whole clear sky faction's base is actually iconic x)

[wanton delta]

I always find myself semi-stuck there, as if that's the game and nothing else exists.. Then im like "oh wait theres more" and eventually slowly crawl out.

[jovial cedar]

Just for the sake of it, tried with a random image x)

[jovial cedar]

I kind of like it more that way now 💚

[bright peak]

And a good music with the scenerio 🤌

[wanton delta]

It was, too! Like this serene peaceful track. hnng, the feeeeels.

[bright peak]

Until you hear growling

[wanton delta]

The only growling would be my stomach

[bright peak]

[normal otter]

Monolith everywhere, 8 Buckshot remaining

[dark brook]

Using buckshots against mono with only a mp133 ? Smells like too early Red Forest raid

[digital terrace]

Get your trusty Axe out!

[normal otter]

I singled one out and got a broke ass M4, I am now unjamming it like a bolt action to defend myself

Then this.. Why did I pick Duty

[jovial cedar]

Congrats, you met the legend himself x)

[sharp steeple]

kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill

[normal otter]

The deed is done. That guy was a real bastard to kill, 1 Daddy save and 50 reloads later..

[sharp steeple]

Yessir

[granite kite]

Rank legend

1 stalker killed

this guy bought his way to legend status smh

[normal otter]

Typical Freedom

[ornate sonnet]

Oh, okay...

[bright peak]

"I will reward you well"

[hybrid summit]

"I will reward you well."
"Very well."

[bright peak]

[torpid mauve]

😳

[spark lance]

CHILLING WITH THE BOYS

[ocean ocean]

DRINKING WITH THE BOYS

[bright peak]

One is asleep
Other is is looking intimately at you
Right beside you is unknown
You are drinking water???

[ocean ocean]

One felt bored when I was talking about how crushing caffeine tablets and then mixed with water is a good replacement for coffee, so he fell asleep
Other is looking at me MENACINGLY because I yanked his bottle of water
Right beside me is Duty, and you know, Duty doesn't care
I'm drinking water cuz' stay hydrated is a vital part of survival in the Zone

[astral root]

Those eyes

Hes about to destroy your ribs for taking his water

[ocean ocean]

Actually, he shot laser beam through my chest and flew away.

[astral root]

Well deserved
You don't steal the water from an armed man

[ocean ocean]

Yep, lesson learned

[dark brook]

While these boys drink vodka you drink water, stop the cap chief

[plucky hawk]

hahaha

[normal otter]

"Clear out Military from machine yard" Simple task.. They said

[jovial cedar]

So simple the guy is napping already

[low sonnet]

Napoing dead

Indeed

[jovial cedar]

Well, the skeleton was here for a reason x)

[low sonnet]

Lmao

[dark brook]

It's a hard quest indeed

[normal otter]

Yeah I said fuck it and went off to fix this broken ass AK-74 because I got 48 rounds of 5.45 AP, might help alot against all the Exo guys

[meager zenith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/889068007412867142/979052471114666076/unknown.png

[meager zenith]

the loot is insane if you manage to clear it out

[vagrant mango]

I wound up bringing an entire clear sky squad there by agreeing to do an escort mission for their leader? Not sure if that's a bug

[normal otter]

Oh yeah I'll be coming back there with a vengeance. I reloaded like 20 times before I gave up hahaha not enough firepower and too many jams

[meager zenith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/889068007412867142/979081596361646120/unknown.png

[bright peak]

cinematique

[bright peak]

aww she just nappin

[meager zenith]

she got back up after I turned around and shot me dead

[bright peak]

why

[meager zenith]

I am monolith slaughtering rookie village

I turned around to shoot someone else and someone must've handed her a medkit

[outer grove]

I like my Monolith playthrough more.

[cunning bison]

i still love the new look of that health body system

i think you sent it a while ago in this same channel too

@jovial cedar

[sharp steeple]

what the actual fuck lol

[silent cradle]

Heavily modified Expedition reshade + Graphics overhaul with 4k texture addon RESHADE Install + Instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15UASrj4Jdz7jKMJ7pVF3ZIrhaYy-dYkJ/view?usp=sharing

@jovial cedar

[jovial cedar]

Overall, I'd say they're quite dark, uncomfortably dark, was it the same in game ?

[silent cradle]

yep, darkness can be changed with HDR preset, I enjoy a darker atmosphere

[jovial cedar]

The one that is two screens below the GAMMA menu seems to have SSDO issues

It would look good for screenshots but, isn't it too dark for actual gameplay ?

[low sonnet]

Me who can see in the dark but can't see in the darksness of stalker:

[silent cradle]

nah, not too dark in game

[torpid mauve]

lol, playing that on my 720 tn monitor would be like watching a dark screen

[silent cradle]

Maybe it's my IPS pannel, idk, doesnt seem dark in game : p

[hybrid summit]

Wow

[wanton delta]

What is the 4k textures pack?

[hybrid summit]

@silent cradle I want the full program

[silent cradle]

In another discord, am i allowed to link discords?

[hybrid summit]

@wintry hamlet @outer grove I need your assistance on this one

[outer grove]

Which one?

[silent cradle]

lemme find it, it's been a while

[outer grove]

No, just tell me the title.

[silent cradle]

No clue, it was a discord with the 4k world textures addon

[outer grove]

Don't link anything outside of Stalker-content—within reason.
Anomaly server is fine, as an example.

[silent cradle]

Yeah, it might have been provaks server, but idk

[outer grove]

Yeah no, that one can stay away.

[silent cradle]

[jovial cedar]

4K textures for an old engine sounds like bad news though

[silent cradle]

LOL yeah, cut my FPS in half

[jovial cedar]

Especially since, unless you play on a BIG screen, that won't be noticeable from a simple 2K

[silent cradle]

For the Reshade, I can post a google drive link with setup instructions, didn't tanks my fps

[jovial cedar]

For others, maybe a zip file would do, as for me, I'll keep what I have x)

[west karma]

I'd like that google drive link with setup instructions if you get around to doing it. Can't seem to work the graphics and reshade to how I want, but yours looks how I'd want it.

[silent cradle]

^

just decided to zip it

[west karma]

Thanks!

[silent cradle]

❤️ If it's too dark, disable HDR in reshade menu

[jovial cedar]

Which one of these two would be better as a loading screen ?

[west karma]

Wait, there's nothing in the zip

[silent cradle]

wait

[ornate sonnet]

1 gives me a better feel imo, actually seeing the Stalkers being there but that's me

[west karma]

1st one imo

[silent cradle]

I forgot to actually put the files in the zip

[west karma]

[jovial cedar]

Thanks, I'll keep the first one then

[silent cradle]

it's too powerful for discord so gimmi 5 min to upload

[hybrid summit]

First

[west karma]

ag ag

[jovial cedar]

Well, it's seems to be unanimous x)

[ornate sonnet]

You're not the first message here, get outta here Falco

[silent cradle]

first ^

[jovial cedar]

I'm actually done with Swamps, Cordon & Garbage x) All the maps remaining, it's gonna take long x)

[ornate sonnet]

[silent cradle]

Autumn looks really nice in stalker

[hybrid summit]

Gotta give my input as well

[ornate sonnet]

You gotta say first image bro, first rule of english

[hybrid summit]

Gotta give my input with the worst english ever created

[torpid mauve]

bottom

[jovial cedar]

So far, I have 15 loading screens x) 121 remaining

[silent cradle]

@west karma

[hybrid summit]

I can't pinpoint in here, too many messages, I'm sad

[silent cradle]

Try now 🙂

oh wait, pinned in the pinned section

[hybrid summit]

It's not a "you" problem, this channel have already 50 fifty messages

That's why I can't

[silent cradle]

bruh i stg every time i decide to type in this discord i get monolyth IQ

[ornate sonnet]

Holy crap, your UI is practically shining

[jovial cedar]

Bloom be like :

[silent cradle]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-blind-flashbang-light-mode-gif-21281004

[ocean ocean]

Sakharov doesn't let his employees take shelter in his bunker!

[hybrid summit]

God I didn't notice that

[torpid mauve]

gamma rc5 hd 8k texture/reshade pack

[hybrid summit]

"Just fuck my shit up"

[ornate sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/kronk-its-all-coming-together-gif-15058130

[clever badger]

ohh....thats just the radiation

[jovial cedar]

Well, the next one will come with a 12k texture pack it seems

[jovial cedar]

Ultra Realistic Graphics 8K Redux Pack + S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 E3 Reshade 2024 (Links in description)

Introducing Photograph, the only Ecologist with 3000 goodwill with everyone, freely roaming the zone at super speed with 0.05 mutants population and a wooping 1.5 stalker population just to take pictures everywhere for the Greater Plan

[bright peak]

[compact panther]

anomaly without and with piknik

[bright peak]

it really is like Tarkov matching it's description (might be remembering wrong), AO is pretty heavy but GI is nice.

[dim willow]

yeah heavy AO makes grass look good but the rest look not so good

[bright peak]

Can imagine the inventory hah

[silent cradle]

New reshade just dropped 😍

[ornate sonnet]

Oh yeah baby, that’s what I’m talking about

[dim willow]

[warm kraken]

that's actually quite aesthetic for a screenshot

without the weird square in the middle of the screen

[dark brook]

Definitely lol

[dark brook]

[cunning bison]

@rancid vale

d a m n

this is with piknik + bloom turned on

tho i cant imagine using that reshade bloom setting for actual gameplay

only pics

without bloom

[dark brook]

And with gamma Reshade ?

[cunning bison]

i dont necessarily see the biggest difference but i like both

just looks like the gamma one is a bit darker

[dark brook]

I prefer the color grading of gamma one

[cunning bison]

yeah its nice

[rancid vale]

yeah i switched out the MultiLUT texture

the default grading in piknik isn't my favorite either

[cunning bison]

the swamp feels

looks foggy and a bit green with this

[wintry hamlet]

when looking at visuals i always consider playability, this one looks nice and i can still see where i am going and i assume it wont kill my fps

[wintry hamlet]

also i dont want something to burn my eyes like this one

[cunning bison]

thats default gamma (but with aggressor ticked off since piknik)

[cunning bison]

yeah thats with bloom on

[cunning bison]

this is piknik without bloom

[rancid vale]

some more from mine:

[bright peak]

Nice, real HDR like.

Colors are good

Does UWS look more eye candy than these pictures with a proper monitor?

Because these look like just FOV cranked up

[bright peak]

How does your preset look like in clear night?

[rancid vale]

need to check! will take a couple screenshots later

[rancid vale]

i'm playing on an ultrawide, i usually do an fov of 80-85

[bright peak]

yeah I noticed but never used an UWS monitor so it must be feeling better than these screenshots, with the right curve tho.

[rancid vale]

yeah you're really only looking at the central 60-75% of the monitor or so at one time, everything else is periphery

[bright peak]

What's your monitor tho?

Forgot to ask

[rancid vale]

this one! https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-34gp83a-b-gaming-monitor

[meager zenith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/889068007412867142/979440144329371648/unknown.png

Sakharov staying strapped!!!!

he's permanently in an aggro'd state despite me having an ecologist outfit on

[sharp steeple]

Reminds me of that time where loners in starter village were permanently agroed to the scientist in it, but he was apparently invincible

Like he was just patrolling while under constant heavy fire, bullets apparently reflecting off him

Patrick Bateman style

[cyan garnet]

winter is coming jon snow

[meager zenith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/889068007412867142/979477342227406908/unknown.png

[spark lance]

xd

[cunning bison]

9 clear sky boyos on their way to attack machine yard

[inland granite]

Bruh

[ornate sonnet]

And take a thousand years to get there because of mutants and renegade distractions

[inland granite]

What's the armor on the far right guy?

[ornate sonnet]

[cyan garnet]

I cleared it with a kar98 from a tree,they didn't even shoot at me

[cunning bison]

bruh?

what tree

i just died

lost 1 of my lives

[cyan garnet]

Somewhere around here there's a small tree you can climb on I don't really remember the exact location

[ocean ocean]

Gotta ask him to sign on my gun stock!

[wanton delta]

What trees? That feels like a lot more than normal or theyre different...?

[torpid mauve]

vabila

and some wip addon/shader xd

[wintry hamlet]

that looks like an exosuit

[cunning bison]

another great shot during fog

this fog is so eerie

[bright peak]

thicc fog

[rancid vale]

early morning vibe

[cunning bison]

me and samlo on our way to have some of the best looking games while also super playable

i got piknik with some custom things set up by me and also custom enhanced shaders

[silent cradle]

Beautiful morning in garbage

Though, the swamps have seen better days

[rancid vale]

these are all great. clouds in the second one feel a bit hot. love the color grading. are you using a particular reshade preset?

[silent cradle]

@rancid vale

[rancid vale]

oh awesome

ty!

[jovial cedar]

These screenshots are way better than the ones before x)

[silent cradle]

LOL yeah, got lazy

[silent cradle]

Pretty

[crimson verge]

its a cold october day in cordon

[jovial cedar]

Another choice, which one would fit better as a loading screen ?

[ornate sonnet]

I vote for 2, seeing Mr. Pistolero there looks cool to me tbh

[hybrid summit]

I vote for 2 as well

[jovial cedar]

You really like this guy huh x)

[hybrid summit]

It's always full of those Mr. Pistoleros

Having them in the loading screen is

[jovial cedar]

Technically they are in the first one as well x)

Two handed

[hybrid summit]

Yeah but they're far away, you can't even see them

[ornate sonnet]

Nah, you gotta give him that

E X P O S U R E

[jovial cedar]

The first one is closer to vanilla, the second is... my lucky screenshot I suppose x)

[hybrid summit]

Vanilla is boring

At least in the second one something is going on

[jovial cedar]

Here is the star himself then

[ornate sonnet]

Throw him a Ball

[jovial cedar]

Well, it's a conclusion then, I'll go for n°2, Yantar is done now 🙂

Never has an ecologist looked so cool

[ornate sonnet]

[jovial cedar]

We need to sent him to Grok to make a permanent NPC

That's version 3

[ornate sonnet]

I kinda prefer version 2 still, not sure how to put it

[bright peak]

If you don't count the guy on the left, whole scene looks like from a KOTOR game lmao

Especially the bunker behind

[jovial cedar]

Ah, maybe that's luck for me x)

The bandits problem strikes again

To be honest, I have no idea about this one

[ornate sonnet]

I think 1 is beter, but the screenshot feels... dry

Sorry for the two cents, just had to get it out there

[jovial cedar]

Actually, it's exactly what I'm looking for x)

Could you, explain if you can ?

The left guy ?

[ornate sonnet]

Hmm, how do I put it...

I guess it's just that it feels very vanilla? Like it doesn't really have anything to make it more grim or make it more beautiful

Bland, I guess?

[jovial cedar]

Grim like this ?

[ornate sonnet]

That's more grim definitely

There's just something 1 is missing that just makes it seem basic right now

[jovial cedar]

Yeah, I need to carefully select weather & time of day to get an effect

[ornate sonnet]

Oh I have no doubt that it's easy to get a good looking SS, props to you for what you already have

[jovial cedar]

Thanks, It's really hard in the bandits base but I'll manage x)

[jovial cedar]

I tried a different approach

[jovial cedar]

(It was at 1.6 gamma in the settings, a bit too high, I wasn't sure how it'd turn out at night, but gamma can still be corrected afterward)

[bright peak]

just a bit much yeah but still a full moon night, needs to be pretty bright.

[terse nacelle]

Is that the flesh god

[digital terrace]

Damn! Indeed! KOTOR vibes!

[frail orbit]

ascii moment

[silent cradle]

Looking to play Dwarf Fortress but in stalker

[dark brook]

Change weather settings xD

[jovial cedar]

Yup, but it was mostly the angle I had wrong, it wasn't satisfying, I usually try to go with half good weather & half bad screenshots

[jovial cedar]

The dark valley abandoned pig farm (south of the map), a sacrifice has to be made

N°1 or n°2 ?

Or, as an option 3, I'm wondering if I should keep none of the two to make room for the bandits HQ entrance in the moonlight I posted above)

[dark brook]

2

[formal oak]

I really like the moonlight bandit HQ entrance. It's got a Dark Valley feel to it

Great screenshots btw

[cunning bison]

pump station was fun

(except i cant repair any of that shit yet)

[jovial cedar]

Thanks, I'll decide on that with a few more votes still x)

[rancid vale]

still playing around w lumscale/hemi but, getting somewhere

[tidal tree]

could you fucking not

[jovial cedar]

What happened to your Health System ?

[torpid mauve]

he is a chonky stalker

[hybrid summit]

Probably the screen resolution

[jovial cedar]

It reminded of how much I hate Rostok lately

I spend hours there just to get some good screen potential, it's long x)

[rancid vale]

ultrawide makes me a fat boy

[jovial cedar]

So righteous that his entire weapon is on his right

[ornate sonnet]

Well damn isn’t this one geared Merc boi

[jovial cedar]

Wild Territory be like : x)

What's the better angle here ?

[ornate sonnet]

My vote goes to 1

[cunning bison]

hi osmotic

[jovial cedar]

And for the one with the pig farm earlier, can I have your opinion as well ? It matters xD

[ornate sonnet]

hi there

uhh hold on

I gotta get to my computer rq

[jovial cedar]

Sure thing

[spice sierra]

That looks like a high settings Tarkov screenshot, well done! I'm too scared about breaking something to start dealing with shaders lol

[ornate sonnet]

I'll put my vote on two, I would have gone with one if Mr. Egghead didn't look like he has scoliosis

Plus the lone campfire with Loners around in the middle night is cool atmosphere

[jovial cedar]

Thanks, I can settle down Dark Valley for good now x)

[jovial cedar]

I'm gonna need the wise advice of my man @hybrid summit here, your opinion is valuable too 🤗

[hybrid summit]

1

[jovial cedar]

Well, with that, I'm done with all the South part, next are Army Warehouses & Dead City

[jovial cedar]

To all the Mercenaries fellows out there, avoid this beast in Wild Territory at all costs if you value your life, he gunned down 3 of your kind without breaking a sweat

[astral root]

First day playing GAMMA, me and some Clear Sky and Ecologist bois hiding from an Emission at 1 am

That's the Emission

[bright peak]

Activate windows pls

[astral root]

NOOOOOO

[jovial cedar]

The last guy trying to be smart with him ended up here

[ornate sonnet]

Sounds like a pile of good loot

[jovial cedar]

Too bad I'm in god mode only doing my job

[astral root]

Quite high

[bright peak]

This happens because you don't activate

I'm just joking

[wanton delta]

damn that looks awesome the way the light beams through the building

[sacred stag]

True wolf in sheepish clothing.

Reminds me of the CoP Sunrise AS VAL Loner vets.

[astral root]

lol

[buoyant pumice]

Love the lighting on all your screenshots, keep it up !

[clever badger]

don't mind me, just wondering what this looks like when it's not on my own Screen

[cunning bison]

wel it looks cool thats for sure

using any grass or fauna mod?

[clever badger]

Gardener/No Leaves

[cunning bison]

my grass looked really weird with that combo

really really bad

[clever badger]

Depends if you did the settings right

if you leave it as is it will look like pixels on the ground

[cunning bison]

nah it wasnt pixels

just weird af

didnt even fit with the ground

i dont remember what the mod needed

but this is what i always use

[clever badger]

1.0 size

and 95% density

[cunning bison]

was 1.0 when i tried it

[cunning bison]

bruh

is that like 1 tick away from max

?

[clever badger]

3

[cunning bison]

so exactly 3 away from max

got it

idk ill try again today maybe, see if it looks like yours does

[clever badger]

you can also set it in Console

[silent cradle]

shitty day in garbage

[arctic carbon]

you could say it's a... garbage day

[bright peak]

https://tenor.com/view/garbage-day-gif-23997532

[jovial cedar]

Limansk is quite good honestly as a map

[wanton delta]

Yeah, Urban warfare is fucking awesome.

[jovial cedar]

As of now, Limansk & Army Warehouses are my best place for scenery photography, the worst being Wild Territory & Truck Cemetary

[wanton delta]

Red forest Dark Valley ( i think that's the super long forest map) ? and Truck cemetary are my faves. I think i just like the dense jungle/forest too much..

[jovial cedar]

Darkscape is the one with long forest, Dark Valley is the one with Bandits HQ

Well, they are all kind of good, but screenshots variety is hard is highly urbanised small areas

Dead City, Rostok, Wild Territory are too low in variety

While Swamps, Cordon, Dark Valley, Limansk, even Garbage, are much better

[tepid basalt]

GOOD FUCKIN DAY 1 HAUL

[wintry hamlet]

[tepid basalt]

the no armor kar98k scope I. Run is a success

[cunning bison]

a fucking alfa?

[tepid basalt]

mowed down an entire platoon of moonogoons

by taking potshots with my bb gun

[cunning bison]

where did you even do this

limansk?

[tepid basalt]

hell yea

the building lookin down at the plaza

kinda hard to see but those sandbags you see over there

i killed like 8 goons at that spot

ironically that spot is the threshold for the "rad" sphere

so all those bodies where sitting in a toxic zone

i couldnt reach em

so i spend the next hour running back and forth ferrying loot while taking cig and smirnoff breaks

tellin you man kar98k gas mask start is the new op start for hardcore runs

[cunning bison]

did you do that as a merc? i cant see all the pain of having to deliver that stuff in anywhere else other than dead city

[tepid basalt]

yea

home right around the corner baby

14 of em

honestly there where some more further back but i couldnt reach em before chokin on spicy air

im tellin ya this is the fabled I. run, i feel it

[torpid mauve]

[wintry hamlet]

oh...

[hybrid summit]

lauta_ro grabs everything he can see in #old-suggest, seriously

Grulag just posted that one about legs, boom, lauta_ro got it

[torpid mauve]

https://tenor.com/view/chemistry-science-walter-white-breaking-bad-bryan-cranston-gif-5464737

[dark brook]

Classic Limansk merc farming

[dark brook]

How does it look like with the hands pack gamma uses ?

[wooden sparrow]

Feeling pretty good at my progress for someone who hasn't been further than the bunker in Yantar. Getting those advanced tools was great.

[wanton delta]

What's your game time? (PDA stats)

[golden tiger]

I did it

[timber rover]

Ayy Artyom

laughing pipes

[digital terrace]

Sultan is having one of tnose days lol

[low sonnet]

Yeah he's having them t nose days

[digital terrace]

strange that the Job Done has two lines. usuallly if you have several jobs to turn in it just has one line and you do one after the other

[low sonnet]

Hmmmm

Guess one is a storyline

[granite kite]

incase you want to save one job reward for a rainy day

[digital terrace]

i think it was because one of them was a change of faction quest

this guy is just extra

[crimson verge]

enhanced shaders keeps amazing me

[sharp steeple]

what gun is that bottom left

[sharp steeple]

HOLLY SHIT

SKIFF IN THE SCREENSHOT

bro is playing stalker 2 early damn

[granite kite]

ajax ak

[steady flume]

Yo is that the new hud??

[jovial cedar]

It's from here #🖇old-mods-posting message

[steady flume]

looks awsum

[jovial cedar]

Thanks 💙

[cunning bison]

@jovial cedar

i challenge you

[jovial cedar]

@cunning bison https://tenor.com/view/ho-anime-approach-gif-14775857

[cunning bison]

the Brother of Economic Crisis (rip economic crisis, he is my final cs ironman playthrough character, got lead in his head) challenges your Photographer to a photo duel

[crimson verge]

mean'n green

[high shore]

will fix this soon!

[jovial cedar]

Very well, what will it be ?

[crimson verge]

now I have flashbacks of that FOTOGRAF mod for ShoC where you have to recover your camera from a stuffed pseudodogs asshole

[cunning bison]

is that the same character or did you make a new one?

[jovial cedar]

Still the same guy

[cunning bison]

@jovial cedar give me your best shot, ill also find a good spot for a pic

we let the community decide who wins for each photo

this has become official

[jovial cedar]

Oof, I still have to do Zaton xD

Maybe a theme ?

[cunning bison]

hmmm

i can do anything i guess

but im doing an actual hard run so i wont be peaceful to everyone and just try to get pics

im playing hard/surv, merc, master difficulty set with console

[jovial cedar]

Well, that's quite different, I set everyone at peace, speedrunning in god mode x)

Oh about that ? I'm going to finish my task (still Zaton, Generators & the final editing to do) and then I'll be able to focus on this x)

[cunning bison]

do i just win by default?

jk

[jovial cedar]

Saussage legs xD

[clever badger]

disable actor shadow!

[cunning bison]

why

[clever badger]

it looks bad and almost no purpose

and sucks at your fps

[cunning bison]

i turned it on just to see how it looks with the visible legs

[clever badger]

i see

[cunning bison]

look at that tactical dude down there

sheeee

[cunning bison]

alright sure

[jovial cedar]

I'm more of the environmental type than a photographer for stalker models xD

[cunning bison]

btw out of curiosity what are your lightning settings

i never paid too much attention to those but my game still looks good

[jovial cedar]

You mean gamma, brightness & stuff ?

[cunning bison]

no

these

[jovial cedar]

Well, same as you except I use shadow at 1.0 & Sun rays mode : both

[cunning bison]

i also use hdao

idk why i have that on

[jovial cedar]

The one I use the most is gamma, 1.3 or 1.4 depending on the shot

SSDO for me

Well, my screenshots are made to be turned into loading screens later on

[cunning bison]

daaaamn

[cunning bison]

i just wish my pc wouldnt break whenever i used anti aliasing

those far jagged textures look so awkward

[jovial cedar]

Well, the engine is old as well

Oh I've been there yesterday, let me find what I've taken

[cunning bison]

unfortunately ive got my debug mode off

so uhhh

i cant freecam

[jovial cedar]

Yeah, freecam is the absolute best tol

tool

[cunning bison]

cmon man i was trying to get this amazing shot with the sun in dead city then i walked into a fucking electric anomaly

[timber rover]

engine may be old but still better than Gamebryo

[jovial cedar]

God Mode > Dying xD

[jovial cedar]

Definitely so

Debug Mode is also great to take certain shots at certain weather/time

[cunning bison]

anyways time to do some normal gameplay and capture some shots if i get any

tho it will be from my perspective

[jovial cedar]

Well, just like in real life, each photographer has their own style

[cunning bison]

would be cool to get some nice combat ones (if i dont die in 1 bullet from a dude with a decent rifle since im playing on master difficulty)

[jovial cedar]

That sounds like a lot of opportunities getting shot down 😦

[cunning bison]

my snipping tool pauses the game and then tabs out

so im fine

[timber rover]

I take it back Wizards101 was made using Gamebryo

best engine now

opinion completely changed

[jovial cedar]

I have at least up to tomorrow until I can actually finish the shooting x)

@cunning bison A good exercice I can recommend you is trying to find a number of shots per map, I did that for loading screens, for exemple, 6 spots for Swamps, 8 for Jupiter & Red Forest, 7 for Army Warehouses, usually around these numbers, and you have to take differents spots obviously, with a mix of weathers & time

[cunning bison]

thoughts on this one @jovial cedar ?

[jovial cedar]

Before that, were you crouched or anything ?

[cunning bison]

yes

[jovial cedar]

I would have maybe taken this one while standing up, maybe a tid bit above the grass height on the picture

To outline what's on the left as well

[cunning bison]

imma try to get some combat pics while assassinating this dood

mercenary work at its finest

[jovial cedar]

Haha, I should maybe try Merc someday

[cunning bison]

just gotta take off my suppressor so the muzzle flash is seen (for cinematic effect, if i manage to catch the moment and dont miss like like an idiot)

this is for my saiga btw

[jovial cedar]

Try to save before the shot ?

[cunning bison]

i will dw

im playing on master after all

i die instantly

[jovial cedar]

Some people sure like pain x)

[grim sorrel]

shadowplay?

and then screenshot

[cunning bison]

i got amd

• i cant be bothered with ReLive + my obs crashes my gpu

[grim sorrel]

damn sorry to hear that

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/agerelated-macular-degeneration-amd

[cunning bison]

ikr

i want nvidia

@jovial cedar

hard/surv

[jovial cedar]

I'd probably use novice anyway

[cunning bison]

trust me, fights end really quick like this

[clever badger]

did anyone find out what master changes over veteran

[cunning bison]

and 99% of the time its me dying

not the enemy

[jovial cedar]

It ends quick with F7 delete as well

[cunning bison]

shut up debug warrior

[jovial cedar]

[cunning bison]

idk probably just increased enemy damage

and you take more damage

[jovial cedar]

Sounds like Bethesda

[cunning bison]

idk WHAT exactly changed but last time i fought a dutier with an sks i noticed the difficulty tweak instantly

[jovial cedar]

It reduce your resistances to everything

[cunning bison]

fun

ok now lemme actually try and get my dog amd recording stuff to work

aka (Ew)ReLive

[jovial cedar]

[cunning bison]

EwLive

caught the shell at least

but nah i cant do combat pics

too hard

[jovial cedar]

Even for me it's hard, because moving and taking it at the same time in good conditions is quite hard

[cunning bison]

mercs and freedomers vs military

going at it

[torpid mauve]

gopro combat footage

[cunning bison]

i wish my obs worked

[jovial cedar]

Looks fluid

[jovial cedar]

You really get the feeling of in combat with this one, good job

Zaton is over now

[wooden sparrow]

5 days. Is there a more accurate time?

[jovial cedar]

It doesn't look like a place for napping

[outer grove]

Count the hours since the first day 09:00.

[silent cradle]

Average bloom user's game

[whole kraken]

apparently a small ecologist/loner army has decided to walk through wild territory

[bright peak]

What happens next is chilling

[ornate sonnet]

Jesus christ

[golden tiger]

need some?

[granite kite]

that could run a bizon for 2 or 3 days

gimme

[wanton delta]

how did that happen lmao

[golden tiger]

oh thats just how much i have taken apart

[bright peak]

This is how Anomaly would be looking with a TAA, a blurry thing.

[ocean ocean]

Ba Dum Tsss

[ornate sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/moist-critical-gif-18538102

[wanton delta]

Jumped through an electro thinking i could dodge it

[wintry hamlet]

why does that looks so epic and stupid at the same time

[cunning bison]

get into the npc mindset and you just might

npc stalkers are the best at dodging anomalies whilst walking straight into them

[wanton delta]

The slow-death addon makes those screenshots so much easier

[cunning bison]

is that in gamma already? i think i saw it somewhere but forgot where

[wanton delta]

Nah it's not, i doubt it'll get added..

it's on moddb

[cunning bison]

can u send link rq im not home and i wanna access it quick afterwards

if u dont mind

[clever badger]

Another good addon is the First-Person death one, when you die you die in first-person(duh), but it also reloads your last save automaticly.

[agile narwhal]

What texture addon did you use for the poppies?

[dark brook]

Got pumped by a bumper yesterday in limansk top building, I flew all the way to the river

[clever badger]

( vanilla anomaly , sorry )

[dark brook]

Well in gamma there's a quest related to CC

[clever badger]

[naive smelt]

nothing like climbing up the chnpp

[jovial cedar]

Awesome

Why is it so cropped though ?

[sharp steeple]

Damn that looks like a pic

[clever badger]

i had some HUD elements on

[clever badger]

Thank you

[jovial cedar]

You can disable HUD by pressing H & 0 on Numpad I think

[clever badger]

I see
thanks

[jovial cedar]

Much better now

[sharp steeple]

Hot damn

[verbal sundial]

How to get jumpscared:
Step 1: Turn around
Step 2: Headless body? What the heeeeeeell

[ornate sonnet]

Professor Sakharov...

[strong whale]

Own build in WORK IN PROJECT:) pm if you want more detalils

Details*

[wintry hamlet]

you can use #╟🎑reshades or #🖇old-mods-posting instead of PMs

[strong whale]

?

[jovial cedar]

Spoken like a true man of science

[compact panther]

shadow of chernobyl remaster

[ornate sonnet]

[bright peak]

Sassy zone dweller

[rancid vale]

rainy days starting to look alright

[dark brook]

Looks like base gamma to me

[clever badger]

Omg

Huge W

[wanton delta]

Pimp my ride; MO2 edition

[wanton delta]

Yeah, i was not very creative with female names.. There weren't many and i couldn't find anything to distinguish them. :/ I do plan to re-visit that in future though

[cunning bison]

yo i actually want that

[quasi oak]

yeah me too!

[random flame]

I tried a lot of different settings, reshades and weathers in the past weeks. But i always come back to GAMMA Weather. 👍 I deactivated enhanced shaders because of reasons... mainly my 1080 GTX. And i don`t use dynamic tonemap too. I use VOLG Reshade (https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/reshade) and RAWs lumscale parameters. Iam having a blast! GAMMA rocked my whole Stalker experience from the past 15 years!

For VOLG i activated Watchdogs Tonemap.

[jovial cedar]

I'm going to need feedback before posting my new loading screens addon

Would it be fine like this ? Because I have no idea how to add convincing fade to black edges to each screens like it is in vanilla

[hybrid summit]

For me it's

[jovial cedar]

Just a heads up though, the file is about 1.8GB

[hybrid summit]

I guess it's normal, we're talking HD here

[jovial cedar]

Yup, 2K

[timber rover]

uncompressed?

[jovial cedar]

But I'll need more feedback before anything

[jovial cedar]

Yup

[timber rover]

gaw dayum

I mean honestly idk if stalker handles it differently than NV but uncompressed and compressed are minimal to performance it's mostly texture size itself that hinders performance and a loading screen should have no impact

[jovial cedar]

I tested it, since it's loading screen, like you say, it's not impacting anything

[timber rover]

thought so

[jovial cedar]

653mb compressed

[timber rover]

when I was working on my texture pack I did 4k uncompressed normals and diffuse and my god was my game dying

[jovial cedar]

4K is a computer killer x)

Especially for Stalker

[timber rover]

it is

I only use it to work in

so you see full fidelity

[jovial cedar]

@hybrid summit Is there a way I can add visibility to it ? I'm quite curious of feedback

[jovial cedar]

Well, the quality is more that enough compared to vanilla honestly

[hybrid summit]

"Visibility"?

[jovial cedar]

Yeah, because even if I ask for feedback, it's going to be buried in no time

I mean, for anyone right now, it's already above a lot of messages xD Tomorrow it'll be dead and gone xD

[hybrid summit]

Oh in that way "visibility", okay

I guess you can re-propose your screenshots

[jovial cedar]

Maybe I should post them in mod making discussion ? I don't know is a lot of people actually visit that channel much x)

[wintry hamlet]

could you stop posting things other than gamma in here thanks

[hybrid summit]

That would be a good idea since you were asking about that "black" thing you want

[jovial cedar]

Yeah, I'll be doing that then

[strong whale]

You dont know if the screenshot is maybe gamma👁👁👁

[wintry hamlet]

i know for a fact thats not gamma

[strong whale]

Own grass build

[wintry hamlet]

or your own modpack. if its not gamma, dont post it here

[wanton delta]

intense war ceasefire "Hold on a sec, everyone stop stop. Ok stop. ... ..Alright. Now, for one, FUCK YOU GUYS ALRI-" war resumes

The best part was hearing the mounted MG going berserk on the clearsky group outside the military base in argoprom

[jovial cedar]

Imagine you're aiming at someone, then they say you can't shoot him, so you're like, yeah, he has my back now, you turn your back, then you receive the news, then the last thing you here is a shot, what a tragedy

[steady bison]

Aight these bushes were not fun to be shot through from 5 mili

[dark brook]

No one wants 1.8gb of loading screens

Compress in Dxt5 I think

[wanton delta]

Try the bushes addon in #🖇old-mods-posting if the bushes are too hard to see through. or don't.. w/e

[steady bison]

It was just me being in bad placement along that Yantar wall but thought it were amusing

The add-on looks interesting, though

[dark brook]

For the black thing, it's easy to do. Use black aerograph and hold click + right arrow from one side to another

@jovial cedar

[undone knoll]

Michel bayed

[wanton delta]

Nice depth of field. What setup you running?

[jovial cedar]

How is it ? I used BC7 compression (going from 10.6 to 2.7mo), and I also added the vanilla-like overlay (although not really, just a closer one)

[jovial cedar]

And this is the closest I've ever been to vanilla style, the cracks are much closer to the original, & I added the noise effect, it may not be necessary though

[dark brook]

Noise effect not necessary otherwise it's VERY good

[jovial cedar]

Yup, I thought so as well, now I just need to apply the overlay to all other screenshots, and I'll be able to upload, the file is 290mb compressed, or 485mb uncompressed

[undone knoll]

nice death pose

[pallid coyote]

My man didn't really live up to his name 💀

[agile narwhal]

mercs got a new ceiling lamp fixture

[tepid basalt]

should i shove the box in

science dictactes i do so

science you lying piece of shit

[ornate sonnet]

Deserted Hospital coming in clutch again

[ornate sonnet]

[compact panther]

which one doe

[timber rover]

one of the VALs

[ornate sonnet]

All of them

[outer grove]

I'd just keep rolling with the SPAS-12 and ignore the rest. 🤷

[timber rover]

shotties in Stalker are strong af

[ornate sonnet]

I'd normally go SPAS as well, but I'm trying something different this time so the SPAS gets shelved unless I'm mutant hunting

[astral root]

an helicopter patrol has passed by and theres a lot of military presence so shit it's quite dangerous
but i'm sticking with this clear sky squad, i think they are walking to their base in the great swamps

[wanton delta]

You wont be able to follow them into the next map sadly.

[astral root]

Awww :((

[tepid basalt]

spas enjoyers rise above

[tepid basalt]

give it a lil kiss for Good luck

trust

[golden tiger]

sin wants their artifact back

[iron maple]

@valid yarrow

[valid yarrow]

ip78 eh interesting choice

with or without the eyecup

[iron maple]

its the perfect DMR

ammo isnt too crazy and even just FMJ pens armor pretty well

[dark brook]

Can't see shit when aiming with the SPAS 12 honestly

Also, the ROF is awful

[dark brook]

RD47 man, it's just the best gun imo

[ornate sonnet]

Will work on it next, got the ISG VSS repaired for now since I've never tried VSS guns before

[dark brook]

Just craft 7.62x39 FMJ and kill anything with your full auto 32 AP power

VSS are great also 🙂

especially the 20 rounders

[ornate sonnet]

Yeah, I like this ISG VSS but 10 mag is limiting

[dark brook]

yes there's the isg val that is better

[ornate sonnet]

Gotta hope I find it then

[dark brook]

Merc sorry

VSS "Merc"

[ornate sonnet]

Oh

[timber rover]

naw just rock an RPG

[dark brook]

You actually have it

it's the best 9x39 gun

[ornate sonnet]

I do, I don't know why the game graced me with all these 9x39 guns

[dark brook]

I made the 9x39 more common

or atleast tried to

[ornate sonnet]

I figured the ISG version was better but after comparing the 2, just a -1 damage is hardly a loss compared to an extra 10 rounds

[whole kraken]

been using the VSS Merc, very much a fan

only thing it doesn't mow through is nosorogs but I mean

of course it doesn't