🔨base-gamma-support

[gusty kiln]

If I unlock my framerate, I get massive stutters/screen tearing when looking at campfires if my FPS is over 70 or so

[pulsar jay]

no, just stutters, in anomaly guy suggested to turn of volumetri smoke, I will try

[gusty kiln]

Limiting it to 60 or 70 FPS removes said issue

[pulsar jay]

thanks I will also try that

[gusty kiln]

Volumetric Smoke should be off by default now, I think

[pulsar jay]

hmmmm, in GAMMA fixes in MO, there is a mod called "Turn this on if you stutter"

have no idea what it does xD

[gusty kiln]

That's related to Alife, so only the stutters when you're moving between zones in a map and you get those "hangs" where the game freezes for a second or two

[pulsar jay]

yeah I got those sometimes but it doesnt bother me much, if I enable it will it drastically change alife or something gameplay-vise?

[median lagoon]

the stutters you are experiencing are nothing to do with graphics but instead might be related to the loading of the ai in the map

[pulsar jay]

no bro, these are specifically happening when I am looking into campfire or fruit punch

[median lagoon]

ok then

[gusty kiln]

How it affects Alife is a bit subjective, hard to explain. Shouldn't change much

[pulsar jay]

alife stutters I am ok with

its part of the engine

[pulsar jay]

well then shouldnt it be turned on by default? I dont want to turn it on and nerf the whole alife you know 😄

[gusty kiln]

That particular addon has the default GAMMA settings. They were changed in order to improve performance, but it depends a lot on your machine

Some machines get less stutters, others get more stutters

[pulsar jay]

on Steam forum I heard that guy enabled V sync in Nvidia control panel and that helped with stutters, I will try everybody's suggestions

thanks

[pulsar jay]

mine are minor, I dont really care, these campfires anomalies stutter is crazy however I must solve it

[gusty kiln]

Limit your FPS to 60 in the in-game settings and they should disappear

Granted I run with Vsync off and a Gsync monitor, but it works for me

[pulsar jay]

same here, will try limit fps

weird tho, coz I never go over 60 anyways 😄 on my potato

[north turret]

Did you do the disable fullscreen optimization?

Could be lack of GPU resources or could be X-Ray magic. Though campfire stutters were quite an issue for some people before.

[graceful iron]

it could be caused by the CVFX but apparently that cant be disabled anymore, it causes a crash when loading/starting a save i think

[inland merlin]

Does anyone runs that game on 3060ti? Wonder about performance with agressor reshades

[scarlet idol]

Are gunsmithing tools used for anything other than crafting? Quests of any kind?

[inland merlin]

U mean Basic tools etc?

[gusty kiln]

Gunsmithing tools are only for making ammo. You can sell any extras at Technicians for a tidy sum

[scarlet idol]

Alright, thanks

[median lagoon]

anyone knows if this stash is bugged or there is some underground area beneath?

[gusty kiln]

Possibly it's inside the train tunnel slightly North of you? Not sure, just spitballing possible locations

[median lagoon]

that is the bulding/tunnel which leads to the oasis, which I is where I just came out. Unless there is another tunnel

ohh ok I see it now

is gonna be a nasty place full of burers haha

[unkempt dagger]

I have an i5 extreme (16 thread, 8 core @ 4ghz) and a stock 1080 and it runs maxed out at 60 fps. It DOES drop in areas with a lot of dynamic lighting, so aside from maxed out, i've dropped the shadows and volumetric lighting a bit to achieve that. You'll be fine with a 3060ti on basically any settings as long as your CPU isnt a stinker

And - re: above, do we have any idea what "turn this if you stutter" actually does? Because the one issue I do have is intermittent stuttering.

[graceful iron]

#🔨base-gamma-support message

[unkempt dagger]

Also if you're ever suffering with graphics, anomaly can be set to run very very minimally. Shy of integrated GPUs, I think most decent setups can run anomaly/gamma one way or another, even if its not going to look fab. 😉

[unkempt dagger]

Thanks! I did a ctrl+f but couldnt see anything in regards to actually what it does, missed that message - i'll try with that option, see if I get better luck. I'm worried it's my hard drive though, couldnt fit anomaly on my fat evo SSD so it's on a slow HDD..

[graceful iron]

having the game on a HDD usually only affects loading times

the game is CPU and somewhat RAM intensive, thats why you can run it on any GPU basically

[unkempt dagger]

I've got 32gb of 3300mhz so, hopefully not that bottlenecking me.

Also - if I wanted to move gamma to my SSD, would it be as simple as cut/paste the entire gamma folder, or would that break MO2 somehow? I will try either way, worst case scenario I just undo.

[graceful iron]

dont

if you want to move the gammaRC3 folder you will need to delete the mods folder

windows will give you a "path too long" error otherwise

if you move the anomaly folder, you just need to set the new path in mo2

[unkempt dagger]

Would moving the anomaly folder (I imagine where most of the content is) have the effect of "moving" the game onto an SSD? tl;dr; worth it, you think?

[dull yarrow]

Is it safe to disable SSS? If so, what exactly will I be missing out on? Will it impact performance?

[graceful iron]

it should, but i have no idea how much of an effect it will have

[unkempt dagger]

Also, where would one re-enable the ability to see enemy squads on map, aside from the debug option in the regular anomaly options.

[graceful iron]

enemy squads on the map ? what

[agile pivot]

A question regarding free loot coords:
If there is already a free loot spawn for armor parts for a spot, can i still suggest it for other things or is it redundant?

[versed tusk]

I chose spots were i never found anything

stuff that's off the beaten path kinda

[graceful iron]

just so you know, this spot has ammo/armor parts/food sometimes#free_loot_coords message

but i dont think its an issue as long as you add something to the list of items

and if you know the spot already has a spawn point, maybe specify that in the post

[agile pivot]

Alrighty thx

[versed tusk]

good to know - i must've been unlucky each time i got into GS with a new save then

as I was in there right now, thought i give it an hour and run to the places i member

I've added that info to the post

[left quarry]

so how do i start anomaly without gamma after installing it?

[graceful iron]

go to anomaly/bin and start one of the exe's there depending on which one you use

[left quarry]

but reshade still is working?

also the fov (how the arms look with the gun, not the camera) is different

[chilly nebula]

Can anyone tell me, why there is no more the Leupold LCO on the ASH12 when equiping it with the EXP33 as it´s shown in the Pic?

[unkempt dagger]

afacr in all nilla stalker games, red dots are visible on the map for highlighted enemies. I have bad eyes so it helps me.

[graceful iron]

you need a different installation of anomaly if you want it to be completely clean

[left quarry]

ah i see. graphic settings, game settings and bindings are stored in the game folder i guess?

[hasty wagon]

whats the difference between hud fov and fov?

[graceful iron]

yes

[graceful iron]

i never knew this was a thing in anomaly

[unkempt dagger]

I don't think it is by default, but i've had it in anomaly before - searching through to find it now.

[pulsar jay]

i tweaked some settings and I have no stutters now, whatever I did it helped

[dull yarrow]

Shouldn't this game be using more than around 4gb of ram? I have 16 gigs

[gusty kiln]

It's a very old engine with some modifications, so it's not optimized to make full use of all our modern computing capacity (it's also single-threaded)

[dull yarrow]

Yeah I figured as much. I just know that the anomaly engine is tweaked to allow it to use more, just curious if there was something wrong on my end. Thank you!

[vapid peak]

Try disabling the shaders in-game first if you're having performance issues

[vapid peak]

Depends on the speed of your ram. It could use more or less

[dull yarrow]

It's not even the performance really, just that visual bug where certain textures seem to become a window into another dimension. But its not too big of a deal. I'll just tell myself its zone fuckery lol

[dull yarrow]

Noted, thank you!

[vapid peak]

AMD GPU?

[dull yarrow]

Nope, Nvidia 1660 Super

[vapid peak]

Is it the water?

[dull yarrow]

Water, certain doors, noticed issues with the trees in the swamp in Yantar, once or twice on npc armor

[vapid peak]

Try deleting your shader cache. In your anomaly folder

Not via the game launcher

Anomaly/appdata/shader_cache

[dull yarrow]

No dice with the shader cache. It's alright though. I appreciate the help!

[carmine wyvern]

Might have something to do with the SSS Mod

But that is a wild guess

[vapid peak]

I think Grok might have had a command to type in to fix lighting. But I don't quite remember if it was for this

[chilly nebula]

@graceful ironSorry for bothering you but can you tell me, why there is no more the Leupold LCO on the ASH12 when equiping it with the EXP33 as it´s shown in the Pic?

[graceful iron]

what? i am not sure i understand the question

[graceful iron]

doors having weird reflections is a known issue of SSS, no fix as far as i know

[chilly nebula]

It´s just the Red Dot as on the AK5C ISG

or at least a similar one ^^

And it´s the XPS3-0 what you have to equip to get the Leupolt!

Before i did the last big update, all was fine and now its gone -.-

[unkempt bronze]

Is there a way to equip my companions with better gear?

[mystic oar]

looks like a vortex AMG to me

[brisk zinc]

For weapons they have their own rating, you just give them to them and they do everything
If you want them to use just the weapon you want, you have to enable a mod that allows you to see into their inventories, so you can remove whatever gun they're using
For armor there is a mod but it is broken at the moment and doesn't work (as far as I know)

[dull yarrow]

Is it only supposed to effect the doors? I'm seeing it on armor, helmets, certain foliage

[willow hawk]

It was a vortex sight but only the Ash12 would have it so I scrapped it

[graceful rover]

ok so i have a crash on map change, namely to rostock. anything i can do?

[versed tusk]

best bet is to post the log in #old-bugs

!crash

[raw raft]

Send your crash log here, it's inside: Anomaly/appdata/logs, send the file called xray_yournamehere.txt
Make sure you're not using any extra mods.

[chilly nebula]

Nooooooooo! 😦
Funny thing: before the update it didn´t show the Vortex on the inventory pic for me, now it shows it but isn´t anymore. Would you please reanable it?

[pulsar jay]

ppl are you all right? GAMMA runs on Anomaly engine, which is ported modified X-Ray that fully supports 64bit systems and multi-core CPUs, none of which you've said in your statement is true

All stalker Anomaly branches can utilize as much RAM, VRAM and CPU cores as you please

[gusty kiln]

It supports, yes. Doesn't necessarily means it'll make use of what it supports. It may or may not make use of 8 GBs of RAM

Start GAMMA/Anomaly and you'll see it uses a single core to 100%, for example

But it does support multi-core CPUs

[pulsar jay]

more likely, the core architecture of the engine itself is just not so well optimized and does utilize hardware as well, but hey, even next-gen games are poorly optimized so I don't really mind, what Anomaly team did is wonders

without their work we could only dream of playing with 30gigs of mods loaded into the engine without crashing every other second

[gusty kiln]

Oh, not saying the Anomaly engine is awful or anything, it's just that it modified the COP engine, which is pretty darn old. And X-Ray is a beast onto itself

[pulsar jay]

I was just touched coz what you said above is plain BS 😄 just don't give people info which is simply not true

[willow hawk]

It's not multithreaded

[gusty kiln]

Again, I never said it doesn't support 16 GB of RAM or multi-core CPUs, or I wouldn't be playing it myself

[willow hawk]

Only texture loading is MT

[willow hawk]

No

[pulsar jay]

I mean, the engine could do it, just that the code is not made to utilize it

it would require way too many things to rewrite

[willow hawk]

The engine currently can't do it

Just like you would say it could do ray tracing and dlss

[twilit iris]

Do I need to update my anomaly version manually with the latest updates or is that done automatically ?

[crisp scaffold]

Is this why anomaly no matter how advanced the rig seems to always have some form of stutter?

[pulsar jay]

that is exactly right

[willow hawk]

Yes

[pulsar jay]

if loading of NPCs was done off the main thread that runs the main game loop, you wouldn't have any stutter, at least this is my assumption as a programmer

[willow hawk]

Monothreaded operations

All the engine works on one core

[willow hawk]

There are multithreading tentatives on XRay

I think Forward Frontier wants to achieve that

But I'm not even sure FF will be a thing one day

[crisp scaffold]

so you would essentially have to just remake the entire engine/game for it to operate as well as modern games right?

[pulsar jay]

this is why OCing one single core and using that core to run stalker is a really good thing to do if you can cool it 🙂 I did that with original engine when I OCed my old 4690K from 3.9 GHz to 4.5 and the performance increased massively

[crisp scaffold]

how do you check what core anomaly runs on to OC?

[pulsar jay]

basically yeah, you need to build the whole architecture with the the parallelism in mind

[pulsar jay]

u dont need to know, you can manually set which core will be used (core affinity setting), but I don't recommend to use only 1 core, the game still uses more cores just not for everything

[crisp scaffold]

ah i see, thank you this has been informational

[pulsar jay]

you can download Process Lasso for free and set affinity for stalker there or manually set it via task manager

but idk if task manager affinity stays permanent even when u close the app

[willow hawk]

Forward Frontier has like 1 engine dev and it's mostly about drawing concepts etc

And honestly their concepts take like 3 days to implement

[pulsar jay]

never heard of Forward Frontier

[willow hawk]

(atleast from what they publicly disclose)

Hardest part is the gun system

Which is basically what Wuut is doing with stalker Desolation

Everyone goes into developing modular systems for guns

While I think having many guns with like few high quality scopes and reflex sights is more than enough

What matters is the gun feeling, animation quality and gun model quality

Not the modularity of the rifles

[pulsar jay]

that is exceptional in Cyberpunk 2077, best gunplay I ever saw

even though no weapon modifications, only few attachments like you said

[willow hawk]

[pulsar jay]

ppl want modularity coz they come from Tarkov and COD franchise xD

[willow hawk]

Cyberpunk gunplay is anecdotal imo

FEAR gunplay was memorable

[pulsar jay]

it is arkade-ish, it's not realistic but the feeling of empowerment for the player and how responsive everything is is made very well

[willow hawk]

Idk, I played shotguns and it was lack luster

[pulsar jay]

animations are amazing, vfx etc

[willow hawk]

Then delved into hacks

And teared the game apart

Because of how unbalanced hacks are

[pulsar jay]

you hacked the engine 😄

[versed tusk]

cp as a whole was a hack - what a shitshow

[pulsar jay]

well stalker is buggy 15 years after release so 😄

wait wait, I mean, it has many great features

[gusty kiln]

CP plays fine now, but it's still a puddle compared to the ocean that was promised. That's its greatest issue. Just remember to take it to #╟❓general-offtopic

[pulsar jay]

btw how can I lower the volume of ambient music? slider for Music in general audio settings does nothing apparently, and the music is way too loud for my taste

[willow hawk]

Imagine building a megalopolis on a shack. That's XRay engine

In 15 years the megalopolis got bigger but the shack at its basis didn't change much

[gusty kiln]

Here's to hoping some madlad will import/update all the old Stalker maps into Stalker 2 and we'll finally get the Anomaly/GAMMA we all deserve

Assuming STALKER 2 already doesn't provide that, that is

[willow hawk]

Very unlikely

Not the same engine

The idea is more like porting gamma Features to Stalker 2

Yep this will take years

[sturdy plaza]

judging by the trailers theyll remake the same maps anyways

[willow hawk]

Indeed

It's in unreal engine anyways

[gusty kiln]

At least the SDK for Stalker 2 will be the Unreal one, so it won't involve so much black magic

[willow hawk]

Everything is remade from scratch

Yes

[pulsar jay]

both are c++, huge advantage for coders

[willow hawk]

I like LUA for scripting

[pulsar jay]

sure, it will be one big open world, whole Zone in one map, all levels combined, however the Zone will be changed a lot, some places may be burried and there may be some new places

I hope it will be as epic as I imagine it, what GSC will not put into the game, modders will

[rustic cloak]

Should you be taking huge amounts of damage in fire anomaly fields? I move over towards one and I lose a huge chunk of my hp when I'm not even touching an anomaly

[remote night]

I want to add a new preset for the gamma's reshade, where is the folder or how can i add it?

[remote night]

Oh yeah me too

i was wearing a Salamander suit though

[rustic cloak]

I wear an ACE with a screen helm

[sturdy plaza]

I just anxious if they can get the same feel of the game again, and that overly ambitious and flawed systems like a life arent going to be missing, I feel like without the background simulation things might feel like they would be mising things?

or maybe thats just stockholm syndrome after 15 years of living with it

oh god its been

15 years

[rustic cloak]

i remember never having a problem with fire anomaly fields until recently, I don't know what addon could possibly have fucked it

[remote night]

You okay Xan?

Well i guess fire should do a fuckton of damage

[signal wolf]

How do i edit files in GAMMA NPC Loadouts. i want to make attachments less common.

[gusty kiln]

Some anomaly fields are stronger than others, and some have a "heat zone" similar to how some toxic anomalies have a "toxic zone" that damages you over time

[rustic cloak]

Yeah but I'm talking 2/4 of my HP

In the whole area

[sturdy plaza]

yeah, I just feel old sometimes

[gusty kiln]

Honestly not sure what's the ACE's fire protection, but some fields might require you to add extra protection via artifacts

[sturdy plaza]

hey anybody remember misery? haha yeah.... basically had to get a fuckin scientific suit to get past that one fire anomaly

and even then the suit basically broke in record time when you went there

[rustic cloak]

I don't remember what it was since I'm not playing rn
but it still shouldn't be that high
I can't finish a quest because the game is pointing to an artefact in the middle of that yanov fire anomaly

[gusty kiln]

Honestly, throw some bolts to trigger any burners, equip your detector and madlad into it holding F and run out

[pulsar jay]

hence called MISERY

btw guys, how can I lower music in this game? slider in settings doesnt work

[pulsar jay]

throw a grenade into it or shoot the artefact so that it moves away 😉

[rustic cloak]

nade broke

[north turret]

can you lost rank?

[rustic cloak]

but i'll fuck around with the console and see if that red eco suit helps
if not i think this may be something unrelated to resistance

[midnight shore]

Anyway to fast travel through another zone ?

[remote night]

Yeah i think is in the options and have to enable it

[brisk zinc]

Stick to 1.5.1

[twilit iris]

Thanks Falco!

[brisk zinc]

And to further answer your question

!installer

[raw raft]

Make sure you have the latest version you can find pinned in #📢announcements, it's 3.7

[brisk zinc]

If you're behind with your updates

[twilit iris]

Oh thanks again

[brisk zinc]

Update GAMMA data > Full GAMMA install

This will automatically download something that Grok added from 1.5.2

But again you need to stick with 1.5.1

Because 1.5.2 isn't supported yet

GAMMA use something from it, not everything (I guess just for now)

[remote night]

Oh i found the reshade folder

is in appdata/local/temp

[steel ice]

What's one of the first things I should be spending money on? I have about 100k and I'm still hanging around Rostok and below

[gusty kiln]

Parts/Repair Kits for whatever weapon/armor you want/can repair, then ammo so you can move further North. Also stock up on drugs that give you Radiation Resist, for those times where your mask isn't cutting it

[steel ice]

I'd have to loot some bodies to find good armor to repair for myself, yes?

[gusty kiln]

Yes, same with guns

If you already have an Advanced Toolkit, I'd be looking to loot stashes on areas north of Army Warehouses, such as Red Forest, Jupiter, Limansk, Yaton, etc

Since Expert Tookits can only spawn in those northern areas in stashes

[steel ice]

Still just have basic

[gusty kiln]

Then stick around the southern areas until you get an Advanced Toolkit and can repair rifles and medium/heavy armor

[steel ice]

Advanced spawns in the south?

even cordon or is that too south?

[sleek delta]

So I am playing a Loner and I just found a Bandit that is not shooting me, and even talks to me, is that normal?

[gusty kiln]

Even in Cordon. Basically Basic/Advanced spawn everywhere, but Expert only spawns in Northern areas (Red Forest and beyond)

[gusty kiln]

Unless you're disguised or have some goodwill with Bandits, that's not normal

[sleek delta]

I am not disguised, and...

[gusty kiln]

Then you have been visited by the magical x-ray fairy. Do they show up as hostile if you put your crosshair on them?

[sleek delta]

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-menacingly-spongebob-standing-there-gif-19452999

[gusty kiln]

Turn on the crosshair display in Settings and see if it turns red when aiming at him

If he's hostile, then it's just an AI issue, although since you can talk to him, that's probably not the case

[remote night]

Ah something similar happened to me but it was on SoC

must be the anomaly cheeki breeki

[sleek delta]

I'm doing the "rescue courier" quest from Sidorovich, and the guy I need to save is right behind the Bandit, the nano second that I tell the courier to stand, the bandit will start blasting the hostage

[gusty kiln]

Then consider it a gift from the Zone and blap that Bandit in the head for free

[sleek delta]

I just find this pretty goofy

The deed is done...

[mild trout]

you lost rep for that?

[sleek delta]

This isn't the first time it has happened, you would think that killing a bandit would make me gain rep

[mild trout]

that's really weird

[brisk zinc]

Are you disguised?

[rapid fractal]

will it cause any issues if i mess with weather length? i miss the rain and gloom

[sleek delta]

nope

[sleek delta]

I was wearing a Loner SEVA bodysuit

[remote night]

So if anyone is having problems with dx8 being too dark, open the tonemap in reshade options and crank it to maximum except for shadows

Results

[graceful roost]

how do you heal limbs fully?

[mystic oar]

!heal

[raw raft]

A quick video about how to basic heal yourself: #╭📖faq message

[graceful roost]

ty

[primal star]

Hello, wondering if enemies also utilize the body health system? And does anyone know the damage multipliers for arms, legs and headshot?

also if I see an enemy wearing higher tier helmets such as sphere series, should I assume they have a BR of around 31?

[real copper]

Been carrying around this low quality jellyfish in a lead container. I don't think anyone wants it and it's effects are mediocre. Should if just be dumped? If the Yantar egg heads don't want it, I doubt anyone will, right?

[primal star]

keep it for crafting

or just sell it

[real copper]

I think it's too low quality to be sold. I've yet to see someone who wants it. Including Sid and Sakharov. How can it be used for crafting? I have a spare container so I could stash it

[primal star]

just leave it in a stash as is at yantar

not even in a container, doesn't irradiate you unless its in your inventory

at yantar you can buy a thing called the artefact melter

use that to combine jellyfish together to improve them, or craft it into better artefacts

[spiral pasture]

Why is my rep getting worse from killing monolith?

[primal star]

rep with who

[spiral pasture]

Oh

Wait no

overall rep

it went from excellent to just "good"

[primal star]

no idea, gonna have to wait for someone with more knowledge

im still waiting on an answer to my question too...

[real copper]

@primal star Will do. Thanks. Haven't even thought of removing it from its container to put in my stash but it makes perfect sense mechanics wise.

[primal star]

yeah, the info about the artefacts can also be found in the manual and FAQ tabs on this discord

lots of useful info there

[real copper]

Is the sleeping tent even worth keeping?

[brisk zinc]

?

[brisk zinc]

Meh, I really don't understand the use for it but I'm ignorant about it

[primal star]

this question here

Hello, wondering if enemies also utilize the body health system? And does anyone know the damage multipliers for arms, legs and headshot?
also if I see an enemy wearing higher tier helmets such as sphere series, should I assume they have a BR of around 31?

[primal star]

I carry at least a sleeping bag for emergencies, but not vital

some locations juts dont have beds but are safe zones

[brisk zinc]

I don't think enemies use BHS but I could be wrong (they probably doesn't)

I'm not very fond of armors and stats but I guess so, since there are enemies more stronger than you anyway

[brisk zinc]

Carry with you a sleeping mat as well

I don't remember the actual name, it's a misc item

Bed spread

Something like that

[primal star]

yeah I have those, what does it do?

I noticed i can sleep fine without it

[brisk zinc]

You sleep better

[primal star]

oooh

i always just sleep 9 hours

[brisk zinc]

Forget about beds in bases

[primal star]

so i dont notice it

ok so assuming enemies dont use BHS, then they follow typical enemy npc damage logic? arms and legs take less damage, torso 1x damage and head is some kinda multiplier?

oh sorry didn't specify, mainly does arms and legs have a lower BR compared to the torso depending on armor?

e.g. a bandit with sunset armor has BR of 25, but arms and legs are like 19

[bronze bear]

if im forced to kill a duty soldier of high ranking and i have 'maximal' goodwill with them, will they let that slide?

[blazing basin]

ehh

can i enable unisg mid playthrough?

also how do i do it?

[brisk zinc]

Enable?

As in?

[blazing basin]

Like have them spawn on the map and stuff

[brisk zinc]

The best way to know it is to try, maybe they won't say anything, maybe they will shoot you

[blazing basin]

I remember there was a command i had to type in console at the loadout selection/difficulty selection screen

[brisk zinc]

They're rare, that's all, they are already in
Also from what I remember you only see them when you do a specific questline, you don't really see them elsewhere

[brisk zinc]

That's for playing as one of them

[blazing basin]

Oohhhhhh

thanks i get it now

[brisk zinc]

You can type greh/renegades/isg/z, when you start a new game, in the starting loadout menu

isg if for UNISG, of course

You literally need to type with your keyboard, before choosing a faction

[blazing basin]

Not in the console?

[brisk zinc]

Nope

Literally with your keyboard

Sound silly but it works

[blazing basin]

Alright

Oh also where do i ask for help in adding other mods to the base modpack

[brisk zinc]

#🔨modded-gamma-support

[blazing basin]

Thank you

[devout leaf]

I'm having trouble since a few days ago, game stutters frequently for 1-2 seconds. Between these it runs smooth, adjust my settings according to Falco's guide in #╭📖faq, did all the stuff in #old-framerate-optimisation and tried ticking the mod in fixes that says tick if you stutter, but no luck. Anybody got ideas? Thanks in advance.

[empty coral]

hmm what should I do about this

[green oyster]

Dude Im in the same boat, sometimes setting the game to realtime and disabling cpu 0 in affinity helps

I've been trying to figure out the stutter for ages...even completely disabling reshades and tanking setting to the lowest they go and I still get the microstutters

[empty coral]

maybe it's just the monolith engine acting up

hoping the new stalker with UE will fare better

[spiral pasture]

do NPC's die in emmissions?

[empty coral]

yes

[mystic oar]

lmaoo wtf was he doing out there

[empty coral]

well I ventured up north to look for an expert tool to fix stuff and happened to venture near the boat before the story quest as a merc. The rest is self explanatory

[devout leaf]

Yeah, that's the first thing i did when we still had RC 2 i think ^^
Except setting it to realtime, didn't improve stuff much as far as i could tell.
Graphics wise i'm not that willing to give myself eye cancer by going all the way to minimum, didn't do much and the game looked like ass ;D

[honest hollow]

anyone have any idea how much data i need to download gamma?

on a limited quota since im not at home but not sure how much of my quota the dl is gonna slurp

[willow aspen]

dw

[wary field]

Pretty sure its around 35gb

[vapid peak]

The game comes compressed so its much smaller than the actual size. 35g is about the size after you unpack

If you have 15-20 gigs you're good to go

That's if you already have anomaly downloaded

[honest hollow]

Nice thanks

Yeah i have base 1.5.1 saved just in case i fuck up something so no issue there

[empty coral]

does the railgun in gamma drop aside from the Rogue quest?

[thick pawn]

why is the fort 500 disabled?

[north turret]

Seems the reload animations are broken

[vapid peak]

Animation issues I believe

[spiral pasture]

how am I supposed to get into the miracle machine area?

the fifty snorks and psy phantoms every half second is a bit busted

[clever tangle]

Hey folks, have 2 questions

1. How can i disable this Badlands/Fallout look, to get the green trees, bushes and gras back? Couldnt find the right mod to disable.
2. Is it possible to hire stalkers as companion, for paying them?

Thx

[carmine wyvern]

#╭📖faq message

you can hire stalkers when your reputation is high enough

[craggy belfry]

is there a way to show the specific location of the tasks in the pda´s map?

[clever tangle]

Oh boi, thank you so much

[craggy belfry]

like in vanilla anomaly

i mean

[clever tangle]

Arent those tasks without any specific locations, because you can finish them everywhere?

[craggy belfry]

the first one lost signal its in darkscape

but it doesnt mark on the map

[clever tangle]

I guess you need to track this location first with the RF

[craggy belfry]

the other two, are deliverys yeah

oh, okey

[carmine wyvern]

none of your quests are trackable

[clever tangle]

Equip the RF and change the frequency to 181

[carmine wyvern]

yep

the stronger the beep the closer you are

[clever tangle]

👌🏼

[carmine wyvern]

the item is on the ground so you have to walk around holding down your use key to see the name

[craggy belfry]

ty

[carmine wyvern]

having a Darkscape RF Receiver Quest is hell

[craggy belfry]

yes haha

[clever tangle]

Can you use the RF in vehicles?

[north turret]

Where do I click debug in mod organizer?

Nvm.

[opaque hedge]

As long as you equip the RF Receiver and adjust the frequency before entering the vehicle.

[clever tangle]

Ok thx

[fleet grail]

Anyone know which file contains Grok's nerf done to Lucifer artefact?

[wintry rivet]

finished reading all the installations and tips etc. but I wonder if someone knows if gamma works well on 21:9 resolution?

[gusty kiln]

21:9 is ultrawide, right? It works, but your FoV might be weird

[wintry rivet]

field of view is fine, I remember I barely played anomaly ( I mean few hundred hours is barely xDD) because had texture misplacement issues etc

[fleet grail]

Not sure if Gamma has any difference to Anomaly vanilla in that kind, other than some weapon scopes.

[wintry rivet]

either in the inventory textures/icons/text was misplaced or some mods had their icon out of the screen even

[gusty kiln]

They're not made with 21:9 in mind, so you'll probably notice a few things here and there out of place

[wintry rivet]

so had to work for hours and hours to fix it all xD

eh, will check if will have same problems as anomaly think will skip it then sadly 😦 just soo annoying for me to see all of those issues

[grizzled raven]

uhhh why are there 2 pseudgiants on day 3

cordon btw

[wintry rivet]

remember sitting and editing all UI pixel by pixel to make it work for 21:9 xD

thats maybe also the main reason why I mostly played lost alpha, UI stretches a little but all text and icons are placed correctly

[gusty kiln]

Random spawns can give you surprises here and there. Buckshot to the face can make relatively quick work of them

[grizzled raven]

yea but i have a toz 106 and no ammo

[graceful iron]

dont fight them

[grizzled raven]

yeah i ran

[graceful iron]

!ultrawide

[raw raft]

If you're playing in 3440x1440: #╭📖faq message

[wintry rivet]

ooh theres smth about it, let me see

thanks

[graceful iron]

i dont think there are any other issues with ultrawide (except a stretched psy health bar)

[stuck sun]

Anybody have a little time to tell me how to make the outfit editor work? I've been trying to find it in gamma support, but I can't find anything. unpacked using the unpack_db and put the outfits folder into the proper place, but its still not updating my gear in game

[wintry rivet]

I def remember in anomaly (and some mods based on it) I had weapon condition bar (that green one) misplaced by few pixels, some icons of weapons were out of place, text like for example name of npc and $$ u got also were out of place etc etc

there were quite a few other stuff too

[pulsar jay]

hi, if I only Update GAMMA data to get latest updates, it won't reset my settings and keybindings right?

anyway, how can I easily make a backup, user.ltx comes to mind, something else to backup as well?

[versed tusk]

!backup

[raw raft]

"Why does every update completely reset my keybinds/my settings/my mods/my stuff in general?"
G.A.M.M.A. has a default mod list to make sure everyone has the same things, everything goes back to default when you update or you do a complete installation, it's normal.
You can backup your keybinds and mod settings following this guide: #╭📖faq message

[pulsar jay]

should I even bother updating rn?

[versed tusk]

and also

[pulsar jay]

I only got the mod like 2 days ago

[versed tusk]

!custom

well

i tried

😄

smaller updates containing nerfs/buffs is on you to decide, the bigger ones for sure

i usually do as it barely ever does any harm - and once you have a backup/setup to not lose the settings you're good

[mental dirge]

wtf i cant drag/drop the installer on new desktop all of a sudden

so potato much wow.

have a great day stalkers

[median bolt]

I'm having a problem where every time i try to go into truck cemetery my game crashes

[mental dirge]

There is an issue for some people. Truck cemetery more like pc cemetery now.

[median bolt]

That sucks man i got a job and two stashes on top of one an other there

it let me in once before though

[wintry rivet]

is this okay ?

[mental dirge]

it is not crash when load for most. just huge fps drop at some point in.

[north turret]

hey, i saw a lot of changes in the updates and announcements section, i have a savegame, if i update gamma it would break my savegame and i would need to start a new one or i could play my savegame safely?

[versed tusk]

it should not break anything - when did you last update?

[carmine wyvern]

SHOULD
personally i would always start a new game after a big update happens

[versed tusk]

yeah big emphasis on should 😄

[mental dirge]

OUGHT TO

[violet condor]

has the deep blue in psy-zones been removed? I keep going into psy-zones without realising it because there is no overlay. Is there a way to switch it back on?

[languid fiber]

Where expert tools can be dropped. I am playing on survialist. I looted many stashes in limansk/zaton and didn't get a single one. Only pripyat?

[north turret]

green stashes or white stashes?
might just be unlucky RNG

[willow hawk]

#📢development

[glad wharf]

where is the garbage package on 223hz i coudlnt find it does anybody know

RF receiver gives beeps in here but i coudltn find it

[vernal hazel]

Good luck it's there somewhere

[willow hawk]

Get a lamp artefact

[empty epoch]

why i cannot move things to my main stash after update?

something changed?

[gusty kiln]

Your stash is possibly over the weight limit

[empty epoch]

yeah it is but before update i could move things

now not

[gusty kiln]

If it's over the weight limit, you can't move anything else INTO it, but you can move stuff from it. Check if you have the "Infinite stash weight limit" addon enabled

You possibly enabled it before the update, but it got disabled again

!backup

[raw raft]

"Why does every update completely reset my keybinds/my settings/my mods/my stuff in general?"
G.A.M.M.A. has a default mod list to make sure everyone has the same things, everything goes back to default when you update or you do a complete installation, it's normal.
You can backup your keybinds and mod settings following this guide: #╭📖faq message

[empty epoch]

looks like that addon is removed from the game or something

i don´t remember activate it before

[gusty kiln]

It's there, as an optional thing, but it gets reset every time you do a full update, unless you save your own MO2 profile

[empty epoch]

i don´t see "Infinite stash weight limit" in mo2

ok nevermind

[gusty kiln]

Sorry, it's "unlimited stashes weight"

[empty epoch]

yeah, so thanks for the help

how can i live without no stash weight limit xD

i have 300kg in my main stash

[daring umbra]

@brisk zinc Still one question: What do I have to choose next? Rename, Merge or Replace?

[brisk zinc]

I don't remember which one does what

I'd go with the one that replace

As in you keep the mod but you replace what it does

[primal star]

I just crafted a volat emerald, which is basically like the sum of every high tier resistance based artifact for minimal downside

but I was wondering what affects efficiency? what cuases it to degrade?

Don't know if I should save this and jsut use more specialized artifacts when needed or wear this everywhere there are anomalies

[gusty kiln]

Artifacts don't degrade, only Perk Artifacts

[primal star]

oh for real, so If i have a efficiency 99 volat emerald

itll stay that forever

[gusty kiln]

The efficiency of normal artifacts is just their condition. Think of it as armor condition. Once you empower them to 99%, they'll stay there

Only Perk Artifacts lose Efficiency per second, assuming you didn't disable that

Everything else stays where they are, be it artifacts, metal plates, etc

[primal star]

Perk artifacts being the lowest tier ones like ball?

[gusty kiln]

Yeah, those funky ones with weird uses

[primal star]

niiice, thanks for the info

[gusty kiln]

That have no radiation

[primal star]

oh..

volat emerald has no radiation, but its also unique...

i guess ill just try it out myself and find out

[gusty kiln]

Claw, Moss, Dragon Eye, etc

Those are Perk Artifacts

[primal star]

thanks for the info though, the hoarder in me wants me to save it for the most dire situations, and end up never using it like elixirs in skyrim

[gusty kiln]

The ones you can safely equip without needing a containing unit

[primal star]

Got it, thanks man

[glad wharf]

Okay thanks I will try that but i couldnt understand the connection between them.

[gusty kiln]

Lamp artifact makes stashes/packages glow in the dark

[willow hawk]

Lamp artefact makes the packages emit light

Also stashes filled with loot yes

Best artefact imo. Always keep one in your inventory

Hunting artefacts and stashes with your car, vodka a lamp artefact and hard bass blazing in your PDA in Darkscape is so fun

[glad wharf]

Oooh

https://tenor.com/view/jetstream-sam-my-beloved-gif-22029076

[mental dirge]

we drive cars? 😮

[willow hawk]

In Darkscape yes

Tractors and shit

[mental dirge]

F yeah

[glad wharf]

T R A C T O R

f yeah

[mental dirge]

so my weapon tilt pack got fixed apparently, but it is kinda funky losing ADS next to a bush or little walls.

that is the weapon tilt right?

the freezoom keybind is static and not toggleable yet?

[willow hawk]

Next to bushes: make sure tilt and NPCs can't see through foliage aren't both active

[mental dirge]

i have the bushes disabled. i like the tilt idea. i will try it a bit more. may i ask what is the EFT Rattle?

[sleek sun]

i dont know why my game is so laggy when near any base with many stalkers

does it eat up vram or cpu

mine is 3090ti, i7-6700

[north turret]

Makes a rattle sound when you ADS with your gun. You can see what each addon does on moddb by right-clicking on the addon in MO2 and selecting visit on moddb

[mental dirge]

oh thnx a lot, i was looking at the wrong place

literally right there in right clck column lol

[north turret]

Very convenient 😁

[twin spear]

shouwld i activate those mod?

I saw them on gamma disabled

[gusty kiln]

No, they are disabled for a reason, usually bugs, instability, etc

[twin spear]

ok

[median lagoon]

Hip Sidorovich quest, collect artifacts. I have all three artifacts, fireball, moonlight and wrenched but the quest won't update. why is that?

[wintry rivet]

hello, theres an resolution option for 3440x1440 but it wont allow me to select it, game jsut crashes

[north turret]

Maybe the artefacts are in a container?

[median lagoon]

yes lol

I guess I did not noticed the quest updating before putting all 3 in the containers

infact now the quest has updated ty

[north turret]

Sometimes I can’t switch resolution as well but I just try this a couple of times until it doesn’t crash. Sometimes even 3-4 times. That’s when I was playing with DLDSR

[sleek delta]

So I'm trying to cook food using Kerosene as fuel for the field cooking kit but it wont work, is there something I'm missing?

[willow hawk]

Field cooking kit doesn't use liquid fuel

Just stand next to a fire camp

Liquid fuel works with the multi fuel stove

[sleek delta]

Thanks, I didn't know that

[graceful iron]

change the resolution through the anomaly launcher ?

[sleek delta]

Is it normal for doors to warp like this?

[mystic oar]

yep

caused by SSS

[median lagoon]

tomahawk. description says functions as multitool but I cannot disassemble with it so what exactly it is used for? Also chooping wood does not produce any wood scrap but it still does the fading out, chopping sound and the time passing

nvm I just noticed it creates firewood not wood scrap

[wintry rivet]

I was able to change it eventually tho hit few things. I did not mark save near firepits, I suppose theres another mod that does it ye? and I noticed even if I unmark animation of equipment it still plays even if item usage animation is on (which I though was like bandage usage etc) can I turn off armour equipment animation but still have food eating etc?

[median lagoon]

but multitool? I tried to dissassemble gear with it with no success

[mystic oar]

right click the item you want to disassemble, click disassemble

[glad wharf]

What is the most calorie & ruble efficent food?

The combat rations are too expensive and i cant afford them everytime

so i am looking price&performance

[graceful iron]

cooking high tier mutant meat

the purified versions have long lasting buffs as well

[glad wharf]

Hmm i never tried that

Thanks for the info i will take a look at that

[mystic oar]

flesh food is pretty good

Abakan beef is good early game

[graceful iron]

for low tier mutant food, just get some meat and stand next to a fire with a cooking kit

[dense dawn]

got this gun which is better than mine, is there a 'best way' to go about getting it repaired? havent found may spare gunparts around and im still pretty early game

[gusty kiln]

Pseudodog Meat is the best (most efficient) but Dog Meat works early game

[graceful iron]

gamma has YACS (yet another campfire save) by default, you can easily disable it in the mcm or disable the addon in mo2
the armor equip animation is disabled by default while food and drug ones are enabled

[mystic oar]

Get the necessary repair kit, get the replacement parts or use the repair kit to replace them

[glad wharf]

thx i try this for now

[mystic oar]

Idk if its called abakan beef but I think it is

[glad wharf]

yes yes

[mystic oar]

it's a red can

[glad wharf]

its abaakn

[mystic oar]

dope

[glad wharf]

Abakan beef tushonka full name

[dense dawn]

ah nice one i'll check around the mechanics see if i can buy one ty

[mystic oar]

Also use a vice or tool kit to make repairs, don't drag and drop parts on and off cause it'll damage the gun's overall condition

[median lagoon]

I know that, you just need to have in your bag either a multitool (works with anything) and a swiss knife or a grooming kit (armour only). However with this tomahawk clicking dissassembly you get the promp that you need a multitool. That is why I was asking

[mystic oar]

o

[wintry rivet]

hmm maybe naming was not too clear will check it. and yeah will disable yacs thanks.

[graceful iron]

make sure the item animations in the game settings are off

the food and drug animations are in mcm, but its not recommended to enable anything other than the base FDDA option

[untold olive]

its just flavour text

[compact glen]

I'm upgrading a bunch of parts in my PC tomorrow, is it fine to just move GAMMA to another drive or will that fuck it?

is there stuff I need to do first?

[graceful iron]

you need to delete the mods folder inside gammaRC3, after you are done moving you can run an installation through the installer

make sure you have the 3.7 installer

[compact glen]

I haven't updated in a while because I like my GAMMA how it is and it's working nice with a couple other QOL mods I have. Won't that download and change everything to the latest version?

[graceful iron]

oh

you can try moving the folder without deleting anything, but usually windows gives a "path too long" because of a specific addon's files in the mods folder

[compact glen]

mmmm

I might just have to update it 😦

[graceful iron]

depending on what addons you have, they might still work with the up to date gamma

[compact glen]

I'm sure I could get them working, I just personally don't like some of the changes I've read in the discord

[graceful iron]

you can enable/disable and edit things yourself and then backup the modlist changes

!custom

[raw raft]

If you want to keep your personal mod list between updates: #╭📖faq message

[graceful iron]

!backup

[raw raft]

"Why does every update completely reset my keybinds/my settings/my mods/my stuff in general?"
G.A.M.M.A. has a default mod list to make sure everyone has the same things, everything goes back to default when you update or you do a complete installation, it's normal.
You can backup your keybinds and mod settings following this guide: #╭📖faq message

[graceful iron]

if you are going to update, make sure you run the new installer as admin > update gamma data > full gamma installation

[compact glen]

I think I'll just wipe this drive with my fresh windows install and just download everything from scratch again. Basically just like building a new PC. I was gonna clone my windows and my steam games over just to save myself the hassle but I think it's just safer performance wise to do everything from scratch.

[fleet grail]

Whats the default keybind to activate lasers and stuff on guns?

[compact glen]

Hold ur flashlight keybind

[graceful iron]

only the laser works, hold L #│💻keybinds-in-gamma

you can switch sights with V

[willow roost]

okay so... why are fractures travelling at the comfortable land speed of 150 km an hour like they are faster then both cats and lurkers

[vernal hazel]

Cocaine

[graceful iron]

they do drop a lot of drugs when they die, you might be more correct than you think

[willow roost]

also they now take 3-4 buckshots so thats even better

[graceful iron]

supposed to be more dangerous now, they were a little too easy to deal with apparently

[willow roost]

i dunno this seems way to overtuned like okay they weren't really a big deal before but fact they are faster then cats makes no sense

[vernal hazel]

I remember last week or so they were as slow as zombies

[glad wharf]

I scare more than i scare chimera or psudo giant when i saw a fracture

[graceful iron]

#old-feedback-suggestions, this is the questions channel

[willow roost]

my first gamma try out was me going out of clear sky base and seeing 3 frolicking around at mach speed 1

[spice finch]

New to stalker, does the multi tool have uses that get consumed upon gun disassembly? If so should I pick and choose which guns to disassemble based on parts condition?

[compact glen]

Just buy a sharpening stone kit and some steel wool to repair it, then disassemble the world

[graceful iron]

the multitool has condition which is used when disassembling any item with it and its easy to repair with a sharpening stone kit but its better to only disassemble the guns that have good parts in them

[compact glen]

Although I personally only disassemble guns when most of the parts are above %60

[graceful iron]

you will also need the tool to disassemble armors and junk items for crafting and repairing, its good to always have one multitool and some sharpening stone sets

[light nebula]

where is it?

have been serching for it for a while now

[mystic oar]

Slightly east of the anomaly field iirc

[brisk zinc]

!scanner

[raw raft]

Can't find the scanner for the Last Dawn quest?: #╭📖faq message

[light nebula]

thanks

[ashen laurel]

what the fuck
the mechanic and Spirit in Yantar... just up and disappeared

and I can't find their squad ID

weird, guess i'll just get their ID from a new game

[north turret]

Hello, can someone explain to me the "offline combat option" I got full, smart terrains only si off. How are these options are translating in-game?

[compact glen]

How does one get in the back room of the Department Store in Outskirts?

I'm guessing there's an underground tunnel or something but where is the entrance?

[spiral pasture]

anyone else find the advanced tools drop rate is really low?

[gusty kiln]

No, it's just RNG. Went to Red Forest, came back with 5 Advanced Toolkits.

And you can craft one using 4 Basic Toolkits too

[north turret]

I found 5 basic toolkits before one advanced
but also found 9 drug-making kits and 6 ammo kits in that same time

[gusty kiln]

And you can get as many Basic Toolkits as you want by exchanging vodka with the cook at Yantar

[north turret]

the recipe needs 5 as ingredients and one as the tool, no?

[gusty kiln]

I honestly forget how many exactly, but yeah, thereabouts

[spiral pasture]

crap

OH WAIT

[spiral pasture]

how

[gusty kiln]

Talk to him, he'll explain he'll trade vodka (the red one) for items. You need 20 uses of vodka (about 7 full bottles) for a basic toolkit

[north turret]

talk to the cook, ask him about things, bring enough booze
he doesn't always sit at his proper spot IME, so look around for the trader/important person icons

What is the defalt value of ai aim max angle? I screwed it up

[gusty kiln]

He sits around outside during the day, and inside the bunker during the night

[north turret]

Wrong channel. Same mistake like i did.

[worn moat]

Disabling Reshade increases my fps from 40 to 60, is this normal?

[mystic oar]

some reshade effects can decrease performance but not by that much, but hey if it works it works I guess

[mental dirge]

disassemble only worth if you need the barrel imo, otherwise you take and field strip the healthy part/s.

[mental dirge]

what reshade is that?

aggressor reshade?

[graceful iron]

gamma doesnt use aggressor reshade

[hearty cave]

I disassemble even if it's other parts. It's just too much work to strip in your own inventory. Wish there's a function where you can strip in the looting window as well. That'd be a huge QoL improvement.

[graceful iron]

if you want to disable the reshade, just open the reshade menu in game by pressing the home button on your keyboard and unticking all options

[mental dirge]

oh damn, i done that already. in search for extra juice tho.

[mental dirge]

yes ik, i would like that too. but if you are not going to pick them all up (which later you might drop anyway) it is an even amount of actions

[sleek delta]

I'm trying to get ahold of this stash at the train hangar but I can't find it, anybody know where its supposed to be at?

[graceful iron]

roof

[worn moat]

Just the normal included reshade

[sleek delta]

how in the hell am I gonna get on the roof?

[graceful iron]

literally look around you, there are multiple ways there is the steel scaffolding that you can climb

[mystic oar]

the south eastern catwalk has a droopy bit that you can climb up

but I don't believe it's on the roof

I was up there not too long ago looking for a different stash and I didn't see one

[graceful iron]

i have gotten that stash multiple times, its on the roof

[mystic oar]

[graceful iron]

its hidden in a broken part of the roof, probably why you missed it

[pulsar jay]

I bet people having issues with finding a stash are non-vanilla newcomers xD being able to find stashes in times where there was shit internet and no easy googling, locating those stashes was whole another story
even though yes, some new stashes are really ridiculously placed 😄

[queen sedge]

is there a way to make these trees less jagedy/pixely

[warm remnant]

So how do i aquire one of those fancy artifact melty things? In the manual it says to buy it at "Sakharov or Herman" but where are those dudes located?

[graceful iron]

they are the ecologists traders, one in yantar and the other is in jupiter

[pulsar jay]

that is problem of tree models rather than graphic settings, you could try FXAA from reshade (FXAA tends to blur out all edges, it would work, but FXAA looks ugly), other option is to try in-game SMAA on high or ultra and turn of base Anti-aliasing since it sucks anyway

[warm remnant]

Ah ok, thamk 👍

[pulsar jay]

but still, in some high contrast weathers where trees just stand out, jags will still be somewhat noticeable

[brittle vessel]

What are some good weapons for high armour pen? Im currently using a VSS "MERC" with sp6 ammo when i can get it, But i feel like its lacking against monolith or high armour targets any tips?

[queen sedge]

is there a way to make the ui bigger?

[pulsar jay]

its in the AMMO type, not weapon

[pulsar jay]

fov in gameplay settings I think, HUD fov

its separate slider

[queen sedge]

Does that affect the settings menu and etc..

[brittle vessel]

yeah okay, but it sais like "armor pen br5" and "flesh damage high"? isent that good?

or do i need more?

[pulsar jay]

no I dont think so, if you need bigger menu you would need to go into lower resolution for the whole game

[brittle vessel]

feels like they cant die at all even with headshots x.x

[queen sedge]

kk ty

[graceful iron]

is the barrel of the gun damaged ?

[pulsar jay]

you are okay, but if them exos are stacked with multiple kevlar or composite plates on top of their exo, of course it will take many bullets to get through, I think GAMMA makes exos and all heavy armors REALLY heavy compared to all mods we had before

[brittle vessel]

yeah

[graceful iron]

!ammo

[raw raft]

Your gun is in perfect condition but you can't kill anything: #╭📖faq message

[warm remnant]

What does it mean when there's a lil' green arrow at the edge of the gun?

[pulsar jay]

those expert fellas in north are supposed to be that difficult to kill, its intent and I actually love it

[graceful iron]

it has upgrades installed

[brittle vessel]

it sais broken barell on the gun might be it?

[warm remnant]

ok thanks!

[brittle vessel]

other than that everything is in green

[pulsar jay]

'em newbies, smh 😄 😄 😄

[graceful iron]

@brittle vessel check this (the barrel condition affects your gun damage and AP power)

[warm remnant]

Sorry, lot of info that i gotta suck into my brain

[pulsar jay]

I can imagine for a newcomer it's a lot

lol I grew up with this game I was 11yo when I installed first Stalker

[unkempt dagger]

Turned off the SSS7 mod, all my textures appear to be black, or something - any ideas? Other than re-enable SSS7, it kills my frames.

[queen sedge]

what mod causes the blur when you fire a weapon through ironsights?

[pulsar jay]

dmg in stats of the weapon also takes the barrel condition into account? or does it only shows max dmg of the weapon in 100% condition?

[sleek delta]

I finally did it, after an entire hour of searching and janky parkour I finally found it... This stash ridiculous

[graceful iron]

the stats dont change on the weapon tooltip

[pulsar jay]

then I suggest to make it work that way or people gonna get confused a lot I guess

like if I compare 2 same weapons but one has rusty barrel and second has functional one, the latter should have greater damage when comparing stats of those

or the dmg stat could be in RED font if barrel is damaged too much

there must be SOME WAY to give player feedback on this

coz I myself didnt know that barrel condition affects the output dmg of the weapon

[graceful iron]

#│📚manual

and there is a manual tab in the pda

[pulsar jay]

if its there, its okay, but there should still be in-game feedback directly on the weapon

you cant put essential info only in the manual

player cant keep in mind everything in once, its UX design bro

there just must be immediate communication to the player that THIS damage does not output the dmg said in stats

[graceful iron]

#old-feedback-suggestions you do realize you are explaining all this to the wrong person, right ?

[pulsar jay]

thanks for letting me know I will put it to feedback coz I think its important

[strong steeple]

hey my game crashes while loading a new game, I have a notification saying there are files in your overwrite mod directory but thats abt it

[graceful iron]

mo2 notifications are not important

!crash

[raw raft]

Send your crash log here, it's inside: Anomaly/appdata/logs, send the file called xray_yournamehere.txt
Make sure you're not using any extra mods.

[graceful iron]

post the log

the log file

[somber coral]

where do you get outfit parts that are above 50%? All outfits worn by npcs are below

[strong steeple]

oh sorry

[graceful iron]

how many addons active? any red X's on the modlist ?

[strong steeple]

324 active and no X, I did install reshade

[graceful iron]

you can buy them from mechanics but the most effective way is to search and disassemble any suit with those parts

[graceful iron]

gamma has reshade by default

how did you install it ?

[strong steeple]

ahh maybe thats why its crashing, I downloaded it from the site and selected the anomaly folder

[graceful iron]

you are using anomaly 1.5.1 ?

[strong steeple]

1.5.2

[graceful iron]

gamma uses 1.5.1

[strong steeple]

ahhhh

ok

[graceful iron]

delete the anomaly folder and replace it with a new one

[strong steeple]

thank you

[graceful iron]

run the installer as admin > update gamma data > full gamma installation

[dense dawn]

sorry again for another question, but where do i get an army rifle repair kit? found the parts i needed to replace now just need that to switch them out

[bronze bear]

so i was just able to hold left shift and hover over items i wanna take from someones inventory, but shift has ceased to work for me now, however, if using it outside of stalker, my left shift works perfectly fine. i cant find the keybind for it if there is one. can someone help me out with this?

[pulsar jay]

it doesn't matter if they are below 50%, if you have just one part that IS above 50%, you can combine it with any other that is lower than 50% to repair the first one even more, there are files and sewing kits to merge more of the same parts to get better ones

you can also disassemble outfits and helmets you find on dead NPCs or stashes and get parts from them, it's actually not that hard to find the right parts and repair them

Don't throw away outfit parts that are below 50%, you can still make use of them, but you need some of 50%+ as well

[bronze bear]

i thought parts had to be above 60%

[pulsar jay]

I think you must craft all kits yourself, that's the game 😄

[pulsar jay]

weapon parts yes, outfit parts 50%+

[bronze bear]

ok

that helps

[pulsar jay]

but weapon parts below 60%+ you can just throw away always, but keep outfit parts that are 5% and above

[bronze bear]

if you find an advanced kit, you can either craft it or give it to a tech so theyll sell it, im sure

[bronze bear]

5 or 50?

[dense dawn]

ah well that stumps my progression lol didnt realise it had to be crafted lol ty

[pulsar jay]

okay, let's do this again 😄

if you want to repair an outfit part, it must be 50% and above, BUT you can then repair it with additional parts of the same type (and THOSE can be below 50%) and it will repair that part even more

[brisk zinc]

!apart

[raw raft]

Text guides about repairing, mantaining and cleaning your gun and your armor:

For weapons: #╭📖faq message
For armors: #╭📖faq message

[pulsar jay]

so if all your parts are below 50%, you cant really do anything, but if you have just even one that is 50% and above, you can try to repair it with those of a lesser condition as well 🙂

[somber coral]

yeah but my problem is I cant find any outfits with parts that are over 50%

[bronze bear]

its definitely very tough. ive spent the last 2 weeks with 0% and i FINALLY got myself a few kits and ive been able to fix stuff left and right. the crafting is genuinely a fun addition, even if it doesnt sound like it at first. remember, this is stalker, youre meant to go through stockholm syndrome to enjoy this game.

granted, im also bad at the game in general

[unkempt dagger]

I've removed the screen space shaders for performance, now my game seems very dark, and the brightness option in "basic light menu" doesnt do anything whether its maxed out or minimum,..
Tried everything in FAQs

[pulsar jay]

you will, just keep going into fights where you know is enemy faction, get plenty of suits, disassemble

its a numbers game

[warm remnant]

So those chests around fires, are those meant for me to store my stuff in or?

[pulsar jay]

in south, most equipment sucks, around Rostok and above it starts to get better

[bronze bear]

i make my own stashes, which is what i recommend.

[pulsar jay]

you can put your stuff into any stash in the world, it will be safe

[warm remnant]

Oh okay, thanks

[dense dawn]

aye ye, ive played alot of anomaly with other modpacks mainly expedition but this whole self-sufficient thing is taken to another level in gamma which is pretty cool

[pulsar jay]

I suggest to carefully read everything in #│📚manual

[pulsar jay]

there are many answers

[dense dawn]

ah didnt clock those ty for that

[sleek delta]

I've noticed something with the stashes I find, sometimes I find these suit upgrade kits, but when I go to grab them and place them in my inventory, nothing happens, its stays in the stash, I grab something else and then all of a sudden that upgrade kit disappears, as if it had never existed

[pulsar jay]

at least you've got 'em binos... I still can't craft those 😄

[bronze bear]

also, kinda buried myself in the channel. could i get an answer for this? id greatly appreciate it, brothers.

[pulsar jay]

hmm AXE in the secondary slot, not bad idea 😄

you can put it into knife slot as well

[unkempt dagger]

Best way to make yourself sleepy ingame?

[bronze bear]

sleeping pills/ eating/ drinkng alcohol

[pulsar jay]

https://tenor.com/view/vodka-gif-21557121

[unkempt dagger]

dont laugh at me im not running around at night 30 seconds after starting as dutyer

[pulsar jay]

think as a true slav, want a dose of energy? VODKA, want to sleep? VODKA, feelin hungry? VODKA, want to get a woman of your dreams? forget about that, there are no wahmen in the Zone

[unkempt dagger]

Something is definitely wrong with my game after disabling that shaders mod..

[clever tangle]

is fast traveling by default enabled? i didnt get the option on visitied locations.

[velvet mantle]

Has Dynamic Anomalies been removed from gamma?

[bronze bear]

shouldnt be.

[bronze bear]

nope

[clever tangle]

how does it work then?

[bronze bear]

you might have a setting changed? i fast travel just fine, even to places ive yet visited

[mystic oar]

Left over items, they usually get replaced by the regular upgrade kits

[clever tangle]

i changed it to fast travel while wounded, because i am, but i didnt get any option, and i changed nothing else

do i need to click in the white cyrcle?

[mystic oar]

click on the areas filter to turn off the white circles

click the green house icon

[bronze bear]

oh wait, i answered the question wrong. it should be enabled. theres a mod that changes something. are you talking about using guides or just clicking and teleporting?

[clever tangle]

clicking and teleporting

[clever tangle]

can i only travel to these houses?

[bronze bear]

ah then id have no clue.

[mystic oar]

yes

unless you have debug on

with debug you can teleport to stashes and important characters iirc

[clever tangle]

oh ok, i only saw on yt some of them clicked on the white cyrcle, or i thought they do, but i will try it, thank you

yeah you right, thx dude

[plucky tiger]

which noises indicate i'm getting closer on the RF receiver? the beeping or snippets of people talking on the radio?

[mystic oar]

beeps

3 beeps means you're really close, hold f to highlight the stash

[warm remnant]

Soo I'm guessing selling artifacts/mutant parts to Ecologists is more profitable? They pay more?

[plucky tiger]

thanks!

[mystic oar]

[scarlet idol]

I'm having alot of trouble finding this stash, anyone else know where it is?

Is there an underground section I might be missing?

[silk hinge]

sewer pipe

[scarlet idol]

A sewer pipe runs all the way over here?

[silk hinge]

should be one down the hill

[scarlet idol]

Yeah, found it, thank you!

[graceful roost]

what does the gamma fdda rework, rework?

[molten perch]

whenever i visit truck cemetery, my fps drops significantly

did anyone encounter this problem

[gusty kiln]

Yes, it's a known problem, possibly having to do with something weird happening in the Bandit camp to the Northeast.

No known solutions atm, however

[molten perch]

😦

[gusty kiln]

Out of curiosity, did you kill any of the Bandits there, specifically the bandit technician and the likes?

[brisk zinc]

!disabled

[raw raft]

Mods under the G.A.M.M.A Disabled category are disabled for a variety of reasons: compatibility, performance, bugs, busy hands, etc. DO NOT ENABLE THEM FOR ANY REASON.
"But why are those mods there if you can't activate them?", you probably will ask after. Because G.A.M.M.A. as a whole is STILL IN BETA, and no, Grok can't simply remove them. Version 1.0 will have a clean mod list.
That red cross in there it's fine, don't worry about it.

DO NOT ENABLE ANIMATIONS THAT ARE DISABLED BY DEFAULT, IN MCM IN GAME OR ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE MOD LIST, they're disabled for the same reasons written above. If you use them, forget about #old-bugs or #🔨base-gamma-support, don't use these two channels. Use #🔨modded-gamma-support instead.

[brisk zinc]

Speaking of that specific mod, it's about animations

[graceful roost]

thank you

[plucky tiger]

in general I prefer the Aggressor ground textures, but I've been noticing an effect where light being cast on the ground makes it look all black and weird: you can see it here, that triangle of weird dark ground is the light being cast by an NPC headlamp. Similar effect is caused by my own headlamp. any idea what's happening here?

actually I just disabled aggressor and it's still happening? so must be some visual setting

it kind of makes it look like headlamps are casting a ray of.... weird shiny darkness? instead of light?

[swift condor]

I've been playing the game fine for a few days and then today am met with this, no idea why or what to do anyone got any ideas?

[plucky tiger]

check this out
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/forum/thread/openal-cant-create-sound-device

[swift condor]

cheers yeah already tried what was suggested to no avail, guess I'll try a clean install

[spring crescent]

Is there a way to reduce camera recoil for guns?

[rose tiger]

It's normal that the ACOG has a different vision on the Vityaz(left) compared to the UMP45(right)?

[warped ginkgo]

left is obviously the 3d model

it's weird, it should change to the 2d texture like the one in the right

[queen sedge]

any tips for starting out? im guessing parts wise i only want to keep guns with 60%+ barrels right

the rest disassemble but do i want to do the same for the other parts and sell the rest

[tidal patrol]

IS THERE A WAY TO THROW GLOWSTICKS?

caps

[brisk zinc]

Yes

Find and keep 60% and up parts for guns and 50% and up for armor parts

Drop the rest below that treshold, you can keep them if you plan to use specific items for specific tresholds
Or you can sell them if you really need to but hey're not really worth the money and the time

[warped ginkgo]

go to MCM, find glowtsick tab

[tidal patrol]

Thanks

[warped ginkgo]

change throw mode to underbarrel launcher, then hold V, while holding glowstick

[tidal patrol]

thanks i just wasnt holding the button long enough :/

lol

[rose tiger]

Ah okay. Could be a bug or a problem on my side?

[indigo cobalt]

I have been using the safe at the farm as my home base and I have about 500kg of stuff, I just updated the modlist after a while and now I cannot put any more stuff in the safe as it is higher than 50kg, what is the mod that makes that happen, and can I disable the limits?

[signal wolf]

For anyone that understands the GAMMA NPC loadouts addon, how do I make it where weapon attachments appear less often on stalker? I would like them to be a bit more rare.

[gusty kiln]

Enable the "Unlimited Stash Weight" addon

[indigo cobalt]

ah sick, didnt know that was a thing, thank you!

[gusty kiln]

Also

!backup

[raw raft]

"Why does every update completely reset my keybinds/my settings/my mods/my stuff in general?"
G.A.M.M.A. has a default mod list to make sure everyone has the same things, everything goes back to default when you update or you do a complete installation, it's normal.
You can backup your keybinds and mod settings following this guide: #╭📖faq message

[gusty kiln]

That way you can store your settings, so they wont reset every time you update

[misty cove]

Can you run gamma without mo2? trying to run it on a apple m1, parallels doesn't work with the virtual file system api:s that mo2 uses. Do i just take the gamedata folders from gamma rc3/mods/* and shove it into anomaly?

[gusty kiln]

Not exactly, as you need to have a way to set the load priority of the mods, otherwise you'll get conflicts and other issues

[misty cove]

Are there any other mod managers that support anomaly that i could try?

[signal wolf]

How do you use debug mode?

[timber briar]

Hi, I did not update since last month and somehow changed so that a normal backpack stash is now limited to the backpack max weight. Is there a way to get back to previous behavior, disable a mod or smth?

[brisk zinc]

!debug

[raw raft]

How to enable debug mode: #╭📖faq message

[brisk zinc]

MO2 is the best organizer out there for Anomaly, it's really a no brainer at this point in time, you either use it or you don't, it's literally the best

There is JSGME if you really want a worse experience with modding in general but I obviously don't recommend that

GAMMA only works with MO2

[brisk zinc]

Literally about 10 messages above yours

They talked about the same thing

[timber briar]

Thanks! Great community btw!

[brisk zinc]

❤️

[misty cove]

Yeah i'm sure its great, but it doesn't work with the arm version of windows inside parallels 😅

[brisk zinc]

https://tenor.com/view/spiderman-missed-part-where-thats-my-problem-gif-18535010

Imagine using a strange Windows version in 2022

You're asking for troubles come on

[misty cove]

Yeah ofcourse, but anomly works great 😂

its gaming on a mac, i know

[brisk zinc]

I'm sure that Anomaly works great, that's because something works, sometime

Like I said you're literally asking for troubles

I don't judge your decisions, but

I've talked with a dude that (IIRC) is still using Windows 7

He can play GAMMA just fine

But, of course, he knows what he's doing

And he knows that, like you said, it's like playing on a Mac

[carmine wyvern]

Theres Boomers out there still using 98

[misty cove]

No i am playing on a mac

im using parallels to vm windows 11 ARM

[brisk zinc]

Ah you're literally playing on a Mac

I'm sorry

[misty cove]

😂

[brisk zinc]

I thought you were using a strange Windows

[misty cove]

nah its just that the vm can't use the vfs stuff mo2 uses

[brisk zinc]

Okay Windows 11, hm

[carmine wyvern]

Windows Bandera

[brisk zinc]

!win11

!windows11

[raw raft]

If you have Windows 11, be sure to disable Bit Defender if you have it and be sure to update MO2 to the latest version, 2.4.4. Follow the passages in this pic: https://i.imgur.com/vG6SqwM.png

[brisk zinc]

I need to change command names

Btw

You could try this

Since it's 11

I mean, VM or not is still 11

[misty cove]

yeah but when i update mo2 i get an error saying it can't run with the arm version of windows

[brisk zinc]

Sucks to be you on a Mac then
jk of course

[tired violet]

Hey Falco, Aldo or whoevs - Do you mind if I can tag you on a post I made a while back? If you have time to look at it - I was just wondering if it can be confirmed a potential Busy Hands issue?

[misty cove]

haha yeah i think i might try vortex, it seems to be able to import from mo2 and it doesnt use vfs

[brisk zinc]

This is a new one for me, honestly
I don't know if GAMMA is "supported" on Mac...

You could try Vortex but in that case we can't help you

Since GAMMA is only on MO2

It's a completely different ball game

[misty cove]

ah okay

well i might as well try and not ask here if it fails 😂

[brisk zinc]

As my man here said^

This is the reason

[brisk zinc]

You could ask in #🔨modded-gamma-support

But don't expect any help because again, only MO2, for those reasons

GAMMA is basically hand tailored with MO2 in mind

I don't think anything else could work

[brisk zinc]

Go ahead

[misty cove]

Ah okay! Thanks for the info

[brisk zinc]

Recap of our conversation:

gaming
Mac
2022

Pick one

[signal wolf]

thanks falco for showing me the debug thing. is there anything you can do to help me with the attachment question ive been asking?

grok said something about editing a file i think but i couldnt figure out where is was

[brisk zinc]

No I can't help you with that, sorry
Don't take them is my best answer
Or sell them, it's good money, like good

Can you show me what file he was talking about?

[gusty kiln]

Visit Limansk, reach the northern end, return, sell all scopes and silencers, 100k

It is indeed good money

[signal wolf]

i found the addon but i couldnt find wpn_attachments:ammo_type

[gusty kiln]

Oh, that's just what you should be looking inside the file

[signal wolf]

ive looked inside all the files and didnt see this line

[gusty kiln]

I think he meant how it's structured Weapon Name : Attachment : Ammo Type, so wpn_akms:0:3 becomes AKMS, no attachments, ammo type 3

[spice finch]

What should I do with mutant parts? sell them keep them in my inv?

[gusty kiln]

Sell them at Butcher in Garbage for sweet money, or use them for random missions stalkers give you

[signal wolf]

OOOOH

[spice finch]

lovely thx

[gusty kiln]

Mind, it's just a guess, I'm not familiar with that file structure

Since I saw wpn_ak104_alfa:4:6:15 and the likes further below

And that has 3 numbers

[signal wolf]

it makes sense though

what does the number represent though?

wpn_ak104:r:0

r?

[gusty kiln]

And now we enter the realm of X-Ray modding, where either someone more experienced guides you along, or you try to reverse engineer the language

[signal wolf]

you are way overestimating my computer skills lol

this would require every single gun to be edited lol i think i can live with how it is haha

[gusty kiln]

Yeah, you'd need to edit all weapon variants that have an attachment and basically remove it

From ALL loadouts

[brisk zinc]

This is why nitpicking is the worst thing to have and to please

Hence my saying "just sell them or don't grab them"

[gusty kiln]

One does not simply mod X-Ray

[paper arrow]

my limbs dont seem to be healing when i sleep

they usually do

[signal wolf]

thanks for the help guys lol

[dense dawn]

Any idea on how to swap armour from one faction to another? currently loner and picked up a 21% condition berill 5M but cant seem to trade it in with any of the options that i choose from sid

[gusty kiln]

Loners don't have a faction Berill 5M, so MIGHT not be able to trade that armor in

[dense dawn]

ah well that would make sense then lol ty

i assumed it would take the armour then spit out one thats similar stat-wise or something

[gusty kiln]

That's a fair assumption, but I think the coding of how it works is "Receive X, Give Y", so might need to be coded on a armor-by-armor basis

[livid quiver]

hey i have a question boys

how can i make the grass green again? lmao

[gusty kiln]

#╭📖faq message

[livid quiver]

thank you so much

[mental dirge]

can a mechanic repair a 0% condition gun?

[brisk zinc]

Condition, yes, it should be possible if you have the money, since they can do that

But they can only "clean" your gun, meaning the condition

[mental dirge]

ok thats something. i have a 0% dvl urbana

with a good barrel

[brisk zinc]

Yeah I think you can do that

You'll still need to replace/maintain the parts of the gun

[mental dirge]

yes ofc

just with advanced kit needing expert tools which i dont have atm, i dont see how i can have a good sniper rifle

unless it has good barell first and foremost. i bet he ll ask for 100k.

[patent quartz]

So is it normal that i used the army rifle tools and replaced my part and it didnt take any uses ? Would be awesome that it only uses the uses...on using it to repair weapons base condition.

[brisk zinc]

It depends on what you did

If you use the kit to replace parts you don't have, it will take "uses"

If you use the kit to replace parts you do have, it won't

[patent quartz]

Damn...been busting my ass to find parts for so long....rip

[brisk zinc]

You basically have more options for everything

!apart

[raw raft]

Text guides about repairing, mantaining and cleaning your gun and your armor:

For weapons: #╭📖faq message
For armors: #╭📖faq message

[brisk zinc]

You can read this to know them better

[patent quartz]

Rip should indeed have read more about that.

[patent quartz]

Thanks man I apreciate the fast answer and you just saved me way more time.

[brisk zinc]

❤️

[brisk zinc]

Since I'm here

That "uses" thing

It works for upgrades as well

As in

You have an upgrade for your gun/armor

You have a toolkit and a repair kit

You can install upgrades for free

You won't "use" your "uses"