╓☢stalker-chat

[near estuary]

specs?

[plucky spade]

core 2 duo e7500
GT 630 4gb
i slammed 16 gb into it for testing

[near estuary]

[plucky spade]

but my usual pc is

[latent elbow]

[plucky spade]

AMD Ryzen 7 8700f
RTX 4060
32 gbs of ram

[opal phoenix]

YO

ryzen 3 2200u with 8gig ram

wanna gimme that gt

[fair silo]

chat, what's the keybind for placement mode? I can see one for "controls_bind_place_mode" on "home" by default but it don't do nothing

[teal wave]

Found it

Its G_FLAT's Msv Above Radiation Icon that counts radiation on status ui

[fair silo]

boii

burers know how to party

[valid crater]

You can recognize which binds are used for what by their naming. Just use some imagination.

[fair silo]

so what you're saying here is that "controls_bind_place_mode" is not the binding to enable placement mode

gone over the mcm bindings and that's the closest to "enable placement mode" that I could see, but the key doesn't do shit, hence my question

I'm just trying to remove a weapon stand I placed, there's no "hold F to remove" option when I put my cursor over it, so I'm assuming I need to enter placement mode, but I can't seem to

[valid crater]

Maybe it bites itself with the DotMarks mod.

[frail needle]

wtf is this? i was talking about it earlier, all the damn stalker down south have d tier snipers now?!

[valid crater]

How many days have passed?

[fair silo]

I got a very early svd off someone in either cordon or garbage

as well as a bunch of Cs and Ds

[frail needle]

4 days, i got my svd day 1, and saw like 30 svds soo far

[valid crater]

Well, looks like had been some fun rolls then.

[stiff wyvern]

anybody else having issues with canted sights since the update?

lasers dont work and neither do combo scopes

[frail needle]

btw this is my third ip gipreon scope this run from just enemy loot

[stiff wyvern]

i tried switching the key (also tried the ubgl key) but nothing is working

[latent elbow]

Got my svd after a few hours too depend on faction/rank and rng I guess

[frail needle]

lol i've got atleast one from each warsaw faction this run alone since the new update, it was never this common, i literally played merc runs all the time

i think down south lot less stalker carry full auto now and more of shotguns and snipers

[fair silo]

in my experience they don't carry that much

I mean I haven't played gamma a lot until recently but usually they'll carry smgs most of the time in my experience

then again I did get a tactician, rpk, buncha aks, on just swamps-garbage-cordon lol

I even got a green barrel saboteur first trip into army warehouses

guess it's part of the chaos inherent to anomaly

[frail needle]

yeah i feel progression is lot easier cuz gun parts are higher quality

[small ermine]

If you added extra mods
That's why

[opaque moss]

it totally doesn't have anything to do with the svd being available to low rank loners

also what kind of mods rework the loadouts for gamma

[near estuary]

always had them

[frail needle]

what mod? i havent added anything, i have this on a fresh install

[small ermine]

That's not normal install behavior

[frail needle]

like i said, i've played merc dozens of times, this doesnt look normal

[small ermine]

Considering snipers shouldn't exist in South maps
There's a mod for that

[rose musk]

me when I walk into 4 renegades with D class snipers in garbage

[frail needle]

i have disabled tutorials, all else is vanilla

[frail needle]

yeah thats whats happening rn with me lol

lol another one right here

just 5 mins ago i cleared military base in DV, one had an SV98 and another had OT's SVU

[celest sparrow]

Wild it has higher weight than the Mosin at just Experienced

and the Shotguns

[sick yoke]

The sniper removal script doesn’t even remove snipers doesn’t it

[celest sparrow]

It's just for rather specific NPC spawns

[sick yoke]

Thought so

[small ermine]

[frail needle]

theres even urbanas in garbage lol, i found 3 soo far

[golden field]

been there done that

[frail needle]

Bruh

[waxen plinth]

King in rags

I love that dynamic blowout cover system. Hobo'ed it in random places few times now

[fallen atlas]

moddb down

[waxen plinth]

like bridge in Dark Valley or bus in northern part of Darkscape

[drifting trench]

is there a way to skip main quest with the help of the debug mode?

[shy flicker]

is mod DB down rn?

cant download updates or a fresh install at all

[celest sparrow]

gee I wonder

Just give it a few minutes

[uncut hawk]

yeap

[scarlet orbit]

Is the Remington 870 good for Mutant killing?

[celest sparrow]

Second best Pump action

[valid crater]

Yes, but it can break your game if you set missions to finished by debug. There's some bot-command for, just search the bot commands channel for more info.

[drifting trench]

ok

thx

[near estuary]

what's the best one anyway?

[celest sparrow]

Mossberg

[frail needle]

Spas 12

[near estuary]

not pump action

[near estuary]

how big is the mag? 9?

[celest sparrow]

Yeah it's 9

[frail needle]

it is right? the bullters are all fed in same anim

as a pump ac

[near estuary]

that's not how you distinguish a pump action from a semi auto

that's just a tube magazine

[frail needle]

mb then, i recalled it being pumped after each shot

[near estuary]

tbf, irl it has both capabilities

cuz of less-lethal police rounds

[frail needle]

yeah thats why i mightve got cnfuised

[north flume]

yes, it can be swapped to pump actiopn for lower pressure and/or breaching rounds

[latent elbow]

What about KSG-23?

[celest sparrow]

Lowk forgot the KSG23 was a thing

[frail needle]

since when is it just 4 basic tools?! bruh i grinded soo much for the fitfh one and now i feel like an idiot

[celest sparrow]

you got the achievement that reduces crafting costs

[near estuary]

fr

[latent elbow]

A better thing than your plastic toys you call shotgun

[near estuary]

still don't register it as a vanilla GAMMA gun

[frail needle]

lol i didnt realize then, its too early for that achievement, i usally get mine around jupiter

is hybrid suit still good? it had a nerf i remember

[celest sparrow]

yeah it's still good

[frail needle]

which ones the best heavy overall rn?

[near estuary]

ACE

[frail needle]

really? it was also nerfed no?

[pure remnant]

is this normal? Objects in the distance are pale white, maybe caused by fog?

[fading plinth]

its the myst 2007

[frail needle]

yeah happens sometimes

[frail needle]

after emission more common asaik

afaik*

[pure remnant]

gotcha

[green shale]

!removefog

[dawn marten]

@pure remnant To reduce the fog effect in certain weather conditions:

Method 1: Reinstall Atmospherics without the heavy fog option.

1. Find the mod 290- Atmospherics Shaders Weathers and Reshade Latest - Hippobot. Right click and choose "Reinstall"
2. Pick the following options:

• 00 - [REQUIRED] Sky Textures
• 01 - [REQUIRED] Atmospherics
• 09 - OPTIONAL Extra Weather Cycle
• 12 - OPTIONAL Improved Skybox fog blending

3. Click "OK", and choose "Replace" when prompted
   Method 2: Use the "Less Dense Fog" addon #1355286570952950032 message

[green shale]

apparently it's an issue w/ that fog weather. or some shit. idk. this apparently works

[errant seal]

Its just me or new version crash even more offten than before? cut patches of armor, crash. kill bandit, crash. open inventory and close inventory as animation of backpack shows crash. and every time restart game takes 10 min to load... makes regret to play again....

[barren forge]

just wondering, any mods that add fully visible lasers when using nvgs? i mean the full light shaft from pointer to ground, not just a dot on the screen?

[fair silo]

I've had multiple of those, super fun when it happens at the tail end of a big fight where you're winning against the odds

it's pretty stable when nothing's going on, but as soon as things heat up yeah it's likely it'll crash

[waxen plinth]

not that I know of. Also lasers do not work like that

[opal phoenix]

kill burer in garbage mission
find burer
shoot burer
reload
mission update
buret poof
wut

[cunning patio]

Yeah happens its because gamma sucks
grok should add more ak variants instead

[barren forge]

nvg based lasers are invisible to the naked eye, but in nvgs, they are COMPLETLY visible

[mild wing]

i crash in jupiter almost consistently

if i stay for too long

[prisma crag]

uhh

Just go to #1035807043933720576 and search for daily tasks

[wispy haven]

I’m convinced there’s no way to time pseudogiant ground slams. Literally the most annoying mob to deal with in the game, I just wanna disable them

[opal phoenix]

le grenades

le distance

fuck timing their jumps

[mild wing]

it's 90% consistent in my experience

sometimes it just desynchronizes for some reason

[opal phoenix]

i never even tried

[wispy haven]

I’m just tired of wasting all my grenades on them though, it’s either save all my grenades for when/if I run into them, or use them on other stalkers and regret it later

I don’t think I’ve ever been successful 🤣🤣

[opal phoenix]

if i could i would usually just avoid them

pain in the ass to kill

[wispy haven]

I usually do avoid them but I’m tryna get this yellow stash but it’s in an area with a giant roaming around

[mild wing]

i never stop avoiding them until i get the hide

way too valuable

[latent elbow]

Just jump as they stomp the ground you don't look for dodging their stomps but the wave to the ground the stomp create
At the beginning I was confused and didn't really get it but it's not that hard for real, you probably jump too soon

[valid crater]

There is, but it's better to keep distance and take them out that way. Especially some "fun" missions like "Big Game Hunting" are "fun".

[sick yoke]

Jump when hand touches ground yeah

It’s consistent until they’re on a fucky slope (just move them away from the slope)

[mild wing]

i feel like they get fucky when you look away from them for too long and turn to look as they're mid-slam

it might have been the slope thing actually

[opal phoenix]

what determines the timing?

[latent elbow]

You can do it with sound only once you're used to it

[north flume]

HUH. learn something new everyday

[latent elbow]

Yeah I was exactly like you when I first saw this video

[north flume]

bruh I always thought you just took a little less damage if you were in the air. WILD

[latent elbow]

The first time I heard about this I was like "wdym you can dodge attacks ? "
The more you know....

[cunning patio]

Lowkey love playing gamma slowly due to ironman
the achievement itself is worthless but the whole lives system puts you on edge
there are people who rush but I find gamma way more enjoyable when its played slowly taking your time and stuff

(now the elitist larpers who do BS andCNPP on day 5 will come and skin me alive)

[latent elbow]

No time, need to hoard

[cunning patio]

hoarding I do enjoy too

[latent elbow]

I need to rush to finish my playthrough so I can start all over again and rush in a new playthrough

[cunning patio]

why yesI do have 15 different armors in my stash that I will never repair

[latent elbow]

And 45 guns I have to expose in my base

[cunning patio]

https://tenor.com/view/sisyphus-rock-mp4-transparent-color-gif-11114772717737196968

me on nearly day 25 still chilling in rostok with only MM disabled

[latent elbow]

I say that half as a joke cause even if I rush a bit I like to take my time and enjoy the atmosphere and immersion

[patent parcel]

After 4 fucking years i can say i finally beat this shit

[proven raptor]

impressive. very nice

now i have an even harder challenge for you

[lost rampart]

is inverno still working with 0.9.4?

[proven raptor]

yes

[latent elbow]

Go touch some grass now

[patent parcel]

thats probably a good idea

[cunning patio]

[lost rampart]

this is from 2023, not sure if its edited every update but should it still work?

[obtuse yoke]

probably Blackjack gains

[proven raptor]

yes yes

[frank oxide]

it do be updated

[cunning patio]

ah could be

[frank oxide]

especially since i manage that for her

[patent parcel]

thats from farming artifacts with patches fetch quest and mutant parts

[lost rampart]

aight thanks man, just had to fresh install since i was having issues trying to patch it for inverno

didnt wanna mess it up again

[cunning patio]

I would like to take a moment of appreciation for the SCAR artefact
so fucking goated

[obtuse yoke]

good on you man, congrats on the chievo!

[last mesa]

370 kgs of artifacts. 1,3 mil Roubles. I feel like I'm doing pretty well

[cunning patio]

aha

[cunning patio]

you still playing gamma 5 updates behind on some 1000 days save?

[patent parcel]

thanks man, got lucky

[obtuse yoke]

thats all you need, next to almost autistic knowledge of the pack 😄 I got there myself, back when the server still had a dedicated channel and roles associated with it

[last mesa]

Maybe

[cunning patio]

oof

[obtuse yoke]

thats epileptic performance

[cunning patio]

doge got a new pc

now we need to sponsor geologist

this cannot be a fun way to play

[obtuse yoke]

new SSS made it much smoother

[cunning patio]

is that custom pda model?

looks smaller compared to default pda

[last mesa]

Ngl would be much appreciated, but don't expect me to do a full "Splinter Cell" like playthrough, despite me being fully capable to sneak through Military base in Agroprom without having to fire a single bullet XD

[obtuse yoke]

used to not really matter what beef you had GAMMA run on

[cunning patio]

maybe back when gamma had 230 mods and looked like anomaly with extra shaders on top
but nowdays with 500+ mods its differenent

[cunning patio]

I knew it

[obtuse yoke]

I meant to say that it was choppy either way. Choppy or pixelated

[last mesa]

I have so many custom mods on. Hell

[cunning patio]

not on 1440p it isn't pixelated

[obtuse yoke]

40 fps in Rostock was not really possible 😄

[last mesa]

lol

[cunning patio]

only ones I have are mags obv
C-con grass and trees and I a custom portrait mod to put vergil on the stalker portrait

[last mesa]

I won't put in C-Con Grass. My VRAM handicapped MX130 would kill itself lol

[cunning patio]

oh and I've disabled doom inspect

can't stand it

[last mesa]

I like it, but I dislike the speaking tbh

[cunning patio]

I had luck and was able to buy a 4070TI S during job so I can spare 16 gigs of vram

[last mesa]

I think I will go full AMD with the build I'll make in the future

[cunning patio]

mm

[last mesa]

Thinking of RX 6750 XT with Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Considering all games I play are CPU intensive having some headroom and X3D cache on the CPU side will be nice

[cunning patio]

make sure to get a custom cooler

and enable PBO

[last mesa]

AIO?

[cunning patio]

sure

aio works too

PBO is precision boost overdrive

[last mesa]

I feel that'd would look the best if it was also black-red themed, but that I can paint myself if I ever would want to

[last mesa]

Oh. Good to know. BIOS setting?

[patent parcel]

respect man, i guess its time to play a different mod

[cunning patio]

yes but can be enabled in ryzen master too

for example if CPU is 4.0ghz base

it unlocks it and allows the cpu to achieve higher clocks

during heavy operations

aka gamma

[last mesa]

Only if there is thermal headroom

[cunning patio]

only if

the cpu basically

[last mesa]

That's why the AIO

[cunning patio]

overclocks itself dynamically

[last mesa]

Not a stock cooler

[obtuse yoke]

I have yet to play one that can match Gamma, so far nothing sticks. I always come back.

[last mesa]

Same

[cunning patio]

personally I think skyrim futa elves match gamma

[small ermine]

[patent parcel]

I never finished misery

[last mesa]

True Stalker wasn't bad, and I loved how much work went into the upgrade system, but I wish it was replicable

Can you imagine adding a laser to any GAMMA rifle as an upgrade, or a mounting rail

[obtuse yoke]

ok, this is a real throwback. Started it all tbh. 2.3 should run pretty well too. The soundtrack alone takes me back, damn...

[cunning patio]

that's one thing I've always wanted

[patent parcel]

I would go with Air cooler honestly, a budget one will be more than enough

[obtuse yoke]

you got to be careful not to corrupt your save after a while tho, it was a bit chronic in that aspect

[obtuse yoke]

I run a twin tower air cooler on my 7800x3d, its perfectly fine

[patent parcel]

same with 5700x3d, put -25 on curve optimizer for all cores and it did help with temp

[last mesa]

Noticeable noise? temps?

[obtuse yoke]

its very quiet. peaks under extreme load around 80C which is nothing

[obtuse yoke]

I found -25 a tad dicey, running a -20 and its fine

[patent parcel]

i tried -30 and it worked fine but couldn't bother to stress test properly

could probably go as low as -50

[obtuse yoke]

I never dropped it below 20 after looking around for some data on it, but I saw people managing stable systems that way too. Any way you take it tho, -20/15 is a no brainer and nets you a few C difference under load. Also makes crazy ass cooling setups that cast way too much literally not necessary

[last mesa]

Considering I have a laptop? 80 is fucking freezing in comparison XD

[obtuse yoke]

too bad upgrading these days is a lottery in places. Stuff got real expensive over the last year

I shilled out around 3K Euro back in April for my rig in components and then built it myself

but my old one was around 10 years at that stage with the almighty 1080ti still chugging fucking koolaid

[last mesa]

80 is nothing since when??

[patent parcel]

its fucking insane that it was outperforming new gpus from nvidia

[obtuse yoke]

ikr

[obtuse yoke]

well, the 7800x3d failsafe kicks in at 90c. so 80 for a few secs here and there is literally fuck all

under load its usually mid 60ties

[last mesa]

Tho if I'm being serious? I feel like I won the silicon lottery with this one. I could undervolt it past the safe limits with no stability issues, and it holds right now for 6'th year strong, with like zero noticeable drops in performance. If anything it increased due to my tweaks with stuff like virtual memory, HDD swapped for SSD, a 5 fan cooling pad, and right now it just acts as a secondary screen while I play on an old TV that I use for a screen with separate Keyboard and mouse, along with headphones. JBL 710 BT at first now 720's

[obtuse yoke]

hold onto it. as long as it doesnt bottleneck you from enjoying yourself, you are good

[last mesa]

1080 will never be forgotten just like EVGA

[obtuse yoke]

AMEN

[last mesa]

I mean. I do enjoy it for light stuff like youtube and discord, but Gamma or Baldurs gate 3 at 5-60 fps is weird, and I'm here for it XD

[obtuse yoke]

I sincerely hope you meant to type 50/60

[last mesa]

Like literally. The only thing that separates those framerates is the Barrier.

[last mesa]

No.

[obtuse yoke]

5 is ROUGH

[last mesa]

If I try Barrier defence my framerate fluctuates from 45 (My highest in AW) to 5 when Monolith fucks Freedom with RPGs

Or having 30 zombies on screen at once.

[obtuse yoke]

Barrier is notorious for melting faces of the mightiest of rigs even today man, no worries

[last mesa]

No shit Sherlock! XD

But afterwards? I take a step to Radar and suddenly my frames hold in 55-60

And people thought I was stupid for making a hideout there as a loner XD

[obtuse yoke]

and your eyes dont tear anymore, right? 🤣

[cunning patio]

🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️

[last mesa]

Never did

Tho my frames do

[obtuse yoke]

can you run Stalker 2 on it?

UE5 there is a dumpster fire tbh

[last mesa]

Probably would run, at like half an FPS, if at all due to 2 GB VRAM XDDDDDDDDD

[obtuse yoke]

only with frame gen I managed to get a stable 60 on maxed out settings and I run a 5070ti atm too

[last mesa]

I mean. It did run Baldurs Gate 3 on DX11 mode

Which is super fucking impressive for this low end laptop

[obtuse yoke]

BG3 on lower end rigs isnt too bad, the loading in takes a while, but once all shit is loaded up its okish

[last mesa]

Have you tried it? XD

[obtuse yoke]

I used to play that on the 1080ti, and a i7 4990, so yes 😄

[last mesa]

Having 15 fps for most of the game with 3/4th screen being weirdly divided into squares that flickered black was weird af

[last mesa]

1080 ti is a beast compared to MX130 XD

[obtuse yoke]

I am starting to suspect you have a slight masochistic tendency 😄

or you are actively attempting to give yourself a stroke

[obtuse yoke]

the CPU was the real bottleneck after a while. the card could only take that much load off it

[last mesa]

That's called being poor and getting by with what I have

[obtuse yoke]

I get it man, its hard in places, been there, done that

but everything is cyclical. Shit will turn at some point, you will see

[last mesa]

I wish it wasn't this way, but I can't really change it much myself

[last mesa]

I'm hoping for that

[obtuse yoke]

positive attitude is half the battle won man, hang in there

talking of 5 fps, reminds me on a even older rig, when I was explaining to a friend that Witcher 2 at 20 fps is perfectly fine

and it was!

[cunning patio]

gn

[obtuse yoke]

gn

[last mesa]

Night!

[cunning patio]

[errant seal]

does save at crash works ? or its outdated mod ?

[last mesa]

Works 95% of the time'

Depends on the kind of crash

[cunning patio]

to combat that ive developed a habbit of quicksaving evey 15 seconds

[errant seal]

yea i had that too . problem some time i quicksave at death xD

[last mesa]

Btw. This is how my setup looks rn

[cunning patio]

bro is in the trenches

[last mesa]

Honestly could be worse

[cunning patio]

could be

[obtuse yoke]

there was a user here a couple years back, dude was running Gamma on a 4:3 monitor still

all his screenshots were proof

[last mesa]

Holy shit

[cunning patio]

shoutout to the gygabite aero gpu that is 1/5th of my pc case inner volume

[errant seal]

honestly he could be using dining chair 😄 so its still good

[last mesa]

I thought me running the game on a literal space heater was bad XD

[cunning patio]

based

so zased

[obtuse yoke]

yeah that FOV was oppressive 😄

[cunning patio]

run gamma on a 4x3 1024 resolution monitor like they did in 2007

[last mesa]

I was for like a year. I just snagged this office chair with mesh back a few months ago on a garage sale

But tbh it's perfect. Solid, steel with a foam padded seat and mesh back on a steel tube frame. Fairly comfy

[errant seal]

i was siting on simple chair for 4 years...

[last mesa]

Never again

[errant seal]

my back hurts sitting on fancy things

[last mesa]

The back pain man 😭

[waxen plinth]

just looted 90% SVDS Retribution from lootbox in Truck Cemetery. GAMMA patch for lootboxes makes it perfectly balanced

[last mesa]

In the past I used to sit on this chair to play. Not the exact chair but the same model. This one is way less used xD

[cunning patio]

i know this chair

had one here too

geolocating you as we speak

[last mesa]

Lol

I'mma help ya. Sweden lol

[cunning patio]

:o

[last mesa]

Good luck searching 450295 km^2 for me tho

[weary vine]

love that desk lamp its a vibe

[cunning patio]

WHA

SLOUCHIEEEEEEE

[last mesa]

Haven't used it since I got the TV. Lack of outlets lol

[cunning patio]

[weary vine]

the performative desk lamp 💔

[weary vine]

HHIIIIIIIIII

[cunning patio]

since when

are you this gey harry potter goat

[last mesa]

I mean I did use it in the past for drawings, and sometime will use it again possibly

[weary vine]

this what

[last mesa]

Gotta get bases for my renders somehow lol

[cunning patio]

your pfp

[weary vine]

like a week

[cunning patio]

woah

big change

looks cute

I approve

[weary vine]

tyty

[cunning patio]

❤️

anytime

[weary vine]

its not a harry potter goat tho

[cunning patio]

slouchie you should join our twitch stream some time

[weary vine]

who is in this "our"

whos twitch stream

[cunning patio]

my*

mine*

[celest sparrow]

hey chat should I kill the twink goat

[last mesa]

No

[cunning patio]

sir please

[celest sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-thinking-monkey-thinking-think-money-gif-9734025314392564509

[weary vine]

this can be interpreted as you saying yes

[celest sparrow]

or should I kiss it

[weary vine]

life or bath

[cunning patio]

[rough maple]

https://tenor.com/view/blyat-russian-cat-gif-25643634

[last mesa]

Is that a good or a bad "Blyat" XD

[dusk vessel]

I have that exact same chair as a gaming chair but more modern design

With a smaller back pillow

[last mesa]

Which one?

The office or the dining one? XD

[dusk vessel]

It has black painted legs so im not sure

Yours isnt but its the same build

[last mesa]

Oh. Okay xD

[dusk vessel]

This

[last mesa]

Yeah. I got it once you mentioned legs xD

[dusk vessel]

I think mine also has a built in sitting pillow, like inside the chair

Not sure if yours does too it looks more flat

Anyway the chair is goated i dont like gaming chairs theyre inspired by racing seats and those suck for your back

[last mesa]

I prefer the office chairs. They were made with long sessions of sitting in mind

Plus my current one is perfect imo. It has a mesh net on the back so it molds to your back when you lean on it, the seat itself is good. Not too hard not too soft. Plus it can spin xD

[random moth]

Ah yes, Ive posted the SIN/Dark Stalker gal, I hope yall enjoy

[willow swift]

Need opinion on which ones to go for (ignore repair lvl im just testing out). Kinda thinking of foregoing 9x39 for the cheaper 7.62 ak, which would let me instead take shak or federal sniper, idk if saiga or raptor, or the long barrel ks23 (didnt get the shortbarrel)

[cunning patio]

get a gun that fires x51

much better

out of these tho the 2 aks are good

[willow swift]

ye bu x51 uses large rifle ammo parts

[willow swift]

x39 uses small rifle parts

[cunning patio]

idk gn

[gusty cosmos]

is there any mod that adds new campaigns? I like the new story/map content anthology adds but it has very little modability

best of both worlds would be the stories/maps from anthology on the gamma modpack

[proven raptor]

no

[gusty cosmos]

damn

[cunning patio]

gamma isnt story oriented

[dusk vessel]

well racing seats were also made with long sitting in mind, but theyre also built to keep in place when g forces happen

and thats just not comfterable when youre gaming

[gusty cosmos]

wonder if i can frankenstein something myself

[cunning patio]

unlikely

[proven raptor]

someone already tried some time ago and dropped it

[gusty cosmos]

i have delusional levels of trust towards chatgpt don't worry

[proven raptor]

abominable intelligence

[gusty cosmos]

i loooove making chat models hallucinate

[last mesa]

Doesn't just talkng to them normally do that? XD

[stark wyvern]

bolt

not bolt-action rifles, the literal bolt

[gusty cosmos]

i speedrun it

[last mesa]

DVL - 1 tap most muties
Deer hunter - 1 tap most stalkers
103 - Not a bad choice overall, just limited scopes and a shitty positioning on DX8
Alpha - I don't use it. Too futuristic looking for my taste
SHAK - No. Just no.
KS - Jam when chimera pack jumps you = bad time.
Raptor - Concussion irl after firing.
SR3M - literally AS Val without a suppressor and less smooth anims.
Saiga - low mag cap, but still valid.
F1 -

You wanna see a real loadout?

[willow swift]

thanks, but why dvl 1 tap mutie, and deer hunter stalkers, cant they do vice versa

[proven raptor]

the world if gamma players channeled their autism into literally anything other than gamma:

[willow swift]

both have +5 pen i think

[gaunt agate]

this save must have been from back when arts still irridiated you

[last mesa]

Late game swap Vityaz with AK for mutant killing, and get an AS Val or SVD for Stalkers

[gaunt agate]

how old is it?

[last mesa]

Nope. I just use containers with another mod to lower their negative effects lol

[gusty cosmos]

is there a list anywhere on weapon packs that is currently compatible with MAS?

[last mesa]

Though this is almost a year old now

Nobody beat my highscore for most money or longest kill ingame for almost a year. I wonder if it'll ever change XD

[humble saffron]

I think you’re ready for tourist safari

[last mesa]

Man I made it into the sarcophagus with that kit XD

[humble saffron]

true i can see that happening

But no scope is brave

Its a luxury to have in mono control center

[last mesa]

Meh

Freezoom carried

Holy fuck I just found my 2022 gameplay screenshots

Back when I unironically usd perkifacts

Man. I miss when Artefacts looked good on Dx8

[last mesa]

Dayum this shed base in Outskirt slaps

[errant dragon]

dayum, where is that at in outskirts?

might make a base there

[last mesa]

Shed behind the Laundromat

This goes hard too

[north flume]

might have to move from my trusty yanov tower base

first time being here, what a vibe

[proven raptor]

come on

say it

say the line

[north flume]

sigh

50,000 people used to live here...

now it's a ghost town

[proven raptor]

https://tenor.com/view/this-peaks-memes-gif-16921095133411355177

[last mesa]

Man. My old hideouts were a completely different thing

[north flume]

found two artifacts here but not the quest one, what gives?

[last mesa]

Go a block south

[north flume]

standby

got it thank you!

chimera gave me a quick colon cleanse but we good

[rugged pebble]

is there an ability to switch magnifier scopes? i kinda cant find a bind

[dusk vessel]

scroll wheel

if it is adjustable

this one is fixed at 4 is it not

[proven raptor]

no

[dusk vessel]

like it would say 1x-10x

[rugged pebble]

like i tried both and they dont switch, sadge

[dusk vessel]

if it was adjustable

[rugged pebble]

ty

[last mesa]

People usually dislike the AKs for low damage or stuff. I personally enjoyed them to the point of doing this before they got absolutely shafted on DX8 on 0.9.3.1

Wish grok would bring back this reload anim and this positioning for the AKs tho. At least for DX8 considering PSO now takes like half the screen

[jolly spruce]

wsp chat

[lethal patrol]

why is it so slow

[last mesa]

Back in the day to alleviate framerate shitting itself I made myself "bullet time" mod

[jolly spruce]

can someone tell me if i should try zona even tho im literally in the middle of a gamma playthrough

it keeps calling me for some reason

[lethal patrol]

[celest sparrow]

you can say it's a call of the zona

[jolly spruce]

but, its there, in the back of my mind, taunting me

[jolly spruce]

https://tenor.com/view/khajit-elder-scrolls-skyrim-gif-13407883883396268014

[lethal patrol]

i would finish current run of gamma then think about it

[jolly spruce]

idky i sent that

[jolly spruce]

but its taking foreverrrrrr, all i got is an sks a peashooter and a sawed off shotty to my name

also a merc suite

u got a point tho

[celest sparrow]

you're not even in the middle of it

[lethal patrol]

you can start clearing MM once you get a better shotty

[celest sparrow]

just change if you really want to

Are people still running through MM ever since we added the Burers

[lethal patrol]

probably not

gotta add 2 more sinners at the top

[celest sparrow]

Probably just get cucked with stamina drain

[lethal patrol]

as val for everyone
axmc for that one particular fucker that i dont like

[waxen plinth]

Loads into AW, sees Monolith kill squad in five meters
Freaks out
Remembers what Shenanigans Prevention do
Grins madly and drops a grenade

[last mesa]

I'd reccomend looting the anomalous fields for a little boost in psy res for MM

Preferably Garbages "Synapse" anomaly

Usually you can find Moonlights there

Tho the spawns nowadays are little scuffed still

[lethal patrol]

i usually just go with ssp helmet, pelt and psyblock

[last mesa]

You do you

Good hunting

[lethal patrol]

im well past that point though

[mellow river]

hi grok pls add this to gamma

[lethal steeple]

holy this looks so unironically metal

[daring karma]

thats because it is unironically mostly metal

[lethal steeple]

very true fellow netizen!!

[fading plinth]

are you on coke or something today momo youve been posting oddly

[covert arch]

Pawg finally access to stalker chat

Hello fellow loners

[wanton iris]

Is there any mod that makes healing be not based on if you have some random drugs to post heal your arm that has been dead for the past hour

[covert arch]

I mean, just get some ibuprofen, not that hard ngl

U can craft it hella easy and for 6k runu get a stack

[dusk vessel]

new playthrough as freedom, first lost signal sqaud, awsm

shame its not green barrel

[proper drum]

i had awsm green barrel 30 min in from freedom lost signal and i've started with a mosin

but what the point at all

[dusk vessel]

same ngl

i started with a kar98 and a glock hornet

since they reduced kar98 points to 800 it fits on hard

[proper drum]

btw freedom lost signal can provide you an RPG xd

[dusk vessel]

with the glock and a gas mask for 50

[dusk vessel]

lmaoo never seen this

but theyre the one facton youd expect to have one

[proper drum]

it often spawns masters

[dusk vessel]

also got a magpul pro

and a G3 from a merc earlier

i feel like D type guns are far too common

havent even found any ak or smg

[proper drum]

monolith lost signal maybe can provide an rpg too but it's super hard to get and spawn chance of rpg on vet rank is low

since mono lost signal can be obtained from Olivar yellow task at outskirts only

[dusk vessel]

im doing the healthy playthrough

only beer for food and drugs to never sleep

[wanton iris]

Still, I don't like the idea of taking random drugs to heal, would rather actually treat wounds, like stitching, bandaging, pulling out a bullet, using saline/blood, etc

[dusk vessel]

there is games for that

dont think that should be in gamma, it will get very tedious after a while

[lethal patrol]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1137162280816099450 as close as it gets

go play far cry 2 if you want to pull out bullets

[wanton iris]

I'm not saying gamma should become that, i just want a mod that does something simular

[dusk vessel]

sure

same box as mags then

[prisma crag]

yo

what the fuckin hell

Etsy

is a wierd place

[celest sparrow]

i love STALKER for being the inventor of cheeki breeki

[gilded hull]

These fucking rock

[gilded hull]

Kinda cool but as I've got older I've kind of thankfully lost all the plastic collectors edition crap I acquired from purchasing physical copies back in the day, I feel like owning an echo detector would be the exact same vibe

[dusk vessel]

have dutiers always dropped mutant hides? just got a bloodsucker skin from one

and its good quality too, better than my knife could currently

[gilded hull]

Must be part of the loot table

It'd be cool if instead of claiming mutants they could skin em

Actually nevermind the skinning of mutants is implied by the claim

[jolly spruce]

https://tenor.com/view/cheekibreeki-cheeki-breeki-intensifies-stalker-bandit-radio-stalker-clear-sky-gif-24295015

[runic geyser]

Do we know how long the main quest in gamma 1.0 will be?

[proven raptor]

i think grok said some time before that it's gonna be shorter than what we have today

or the same lenght

[tranquil wren]

It's gonna be shorter than what we have now, but longer than what we expect

[vague stag]

That's so cryptic Grim

[tranquil wren]

Yes

[proven raptor]

omagad grim haii :3

i lost the gif

with the argonian

[tranquil wren]

The h'wat?

Also, just draw a new one

[dusk vessel]

a good story doesent have to be long

id rather there is a small storyline for every playable faction

[proven raptor]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/958342885005221898/1085694647101300756/for-grimm.gif

[tranquil wren]

You do realise there's a bot command for it, right?

[proven raptor]

i don't care

bot commands are for fools and weaklings

[haughty oxide]

why did i just lose 2 ranks for killing 1 sinner and 1 fucking monolithian 😭

reputation ranks

[tranquil wren]

Because 2 people killed 2 sinners and 2 monolithians each

[haughty oxide]

this is funny as shit

[fallen atlas]

Lmao
The reputation system is broken once more

[cunning patio]

when has it not been?

[radiant star]

i fixed it but grok gamma blocked me so he wont take it

oh well

[fallen atlas]

Bro I remember sending Grok a fixed actor_effects.script file that I put together with xcvb

It's only purpose was fixing the broken geiger counter sounds

Essentially removing the sounds entirely when you don't have a working geiger counter

[cunning patio]

anyone played gamma when it was about 200 or so mods?

[obtuse yoke]

tbf I am not sure what the count was when I started years ago... fair to say its been a while

[near estuary]

that's just an animation tho

[near estuary]

when I first played, it was 300

[fallen atlas]

200 mod era was something to behold ngl

[near estuary]

what was it like?

[fallen atlas]

It was simpler

Though I remember times where we didn't even use mod organizer

Though that was before GAMMA, don't think that counts

[near estuary]

how did you get tools?
or was progression gated by something else?

[fallen atlas]

Dude, it's been years.
I don't remember exact details, but I think that was before tools were rebalanced to only spawn in specific locations.

So you could find calibrated tools in like Swamps I think

[obtuse yoke]

Misery did that too back in the day

and that was not even using Anomaly as a base, only CoP

[near estuary]

MISERY had fixed tool locations tho, didn't it?

[obtuse yoke]

yes

it was the first modpack that introduced that rather complex itemization which Anomaly pretty much took on iirc

base games had way simpler loot

reason Stalker 2 feels blant to me is that it is the exact same simplicity there in that regard

[near estuary]

yeah I played some MISERY 2.2 like 5 years ago

not bad not great

[obtuse yoke]

it was insane in its prime. nothing was comparable then

sure looks different today in contrast though

[cunning patio]

Tools I think could spawn out in the wild

very early on because the loot tables were still from anomaly

the green/special tool stashes came later

and back then it was random it wasn't every 7 or so tasks

and we didn't have the stashes spawn in the same map or the map next to it
you could complete a task in cordon for killing 2 dogs and get a stash in CNPP

[cunning patio]

https://tenor.com/view/elrond-lotr-lord-of-the-tings-lord-elrond-3000years-gif-13229890

[near estuary]

[cunning patio]

yeah

the WPO was different too

files werent bonus material
gun oil and gun spray were also repair kits instead of boosting materials

I think grok didn't even disable stalkers surrendering mechanic yet

[near estuary]

I remember that

[cunning patio]

you would purposefully get them to low hp to get stash coordinates and then kill them it was beautiful

[near estuary]

every single time I tried that in ANY stalker mod, they just got up, smacked me and took my gun

[cunning patio]

yeah in gamma that mechanic was disabled LOOONG ago

it's kinda crazy now that I think about it
I've been here for that long ever since gamma had like 220 or so mods

[fallen atlas]

That oversimplifies it ngl
MISERY started the itemization (I still remember the nazi book as an actual item)
Call of Chernobyl was just a freeplay mod for the entire trilogy
Then Call of Misery happened, which brought MISERY content to CoC
And Anomaly built on top of Call of Misery
There's also Dead Air that built on top of CoM too, but as the name suggests, it's dead, lmao

[cunning patio]

Why do you guys think the misery OST is still in the anomaly files

though unused

even though my profile says joined 2025 thats wrong cuz someone hacked my discord and posted the steam scam links but then I got it back

Gamma with 200 mods was vastly different
we still had LLMCS and shit the graphical mods werent up to date we didn't have MANY of the graphical fidelity shit
tons of guns were still left over from anomaly

so you could have 3 versions of the same AKM

[tranquil wren]

Lies, he just joined

[cunning patio]

stfu

[tranquil wren]

[cunning patio]

go back to eating your hubba bubba

[near estuary]

[cunning patio]

back when aldo was mod and okay_cat HADN"T even become a mod

those were simpler times

now we're crafting artefacts with snork toes

[tranquil wren]

That you didn't experience

[cunning patio]

ok

[tranquil wren]

Ok

[cunning patio]

end it

[tranquil wren]

[frail needle]

tier 2 pda doesnt mark lost signal bodies no more?

[cunning patio]

just look around

[frail needle]

is it patched though?

[frail needle]

i mean i dont mind but just asking if thats the case

also why is there a stash icon created on my location everytime i teleport to another map?

liks this, it happens everytime i travel

[obtuse yoke]

I wish Misery OST was part of GAMMA's soundtrack tbh. Very fond of those 6 map tracks

[last mesa]

I enjoyed gathering each one of them

And if not for artifacts being hidden without detector I'd have more useful ones in there

[plucky spade]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/724943683996352562/1425546927575138415/snaptik_7534125860777954574_v2.mp4?ex=68e7fb88&is=68e6aa08&hm=1d934477cf9b1ee531c0b15b2cb56a01733311708484157d805994debad8cc0f&

[last mesa]

Probably endurance - physical - anomalous res

(Snowflake, Firefly, Flame)
(Compass, Full empty)
(Bubble, Flash, Fireball)

[final wharf]

wow

[cunning patio]

still a peak game though

[final wharf]

First time I am copping an emission out in the zone this is rough

[last mesa]

No shit xD

Just wait until dogs attack you while your screen shakes like hell

[last mesa]

!0days

[dawn marten]

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[obtuse yoke]

just your regular grind in the zone

[last mesa]

Racks an AS Val

Yeeeee. I don't mind some meat to grill

[obtuse yoke]

https://tenor.com/view/predator-arnold-schwarzenegger-hand-shake-arms-gif-3468629

[last mesa]

Tho I'd prefer to make some chimera meals ngl.

[obtuse yoke]

once you discover how useful mutant cooked meals are in GAMMA, it blows a casket on every newbie player. Particularly the + to carry weight

[last mesa]

20 kgs from Goldfish arti, 20 kgs from Chimera meal. Add a good backpack and either load bearing armor or exo and you're well above 150 kgs carry cap (I have mine set to 20 or 30 kgs instead of default 50, and I cap at 200 something with an Exo I think. I know that with a Skat-9 I can carry up to 140kgs)

You can use an epipen instead of chimera meal tho if you have one

[latent elbow]

Epi is goated

[frail needle]

guys if i change factions does my goodwill get reset or smething? also at how much negative will i be shot at sight by allied fac stalkers?

rn i wanna change to freedom for sake of invictus, wanna start strelok quest

[obtuse yoke]

you forgot another, very useful tool a STALKER can make use of for a hefty 12.7 KG carry cap on top

https://tenor.com/view/cocainum-gif-21501772

considerably easier to farm than Chimera's for the meat too, the craft is affordable, all you need is a drug-making kit

[last mesa]

Cocaine is necessary to craft epipens, therefore not worth to use alone imo, plus both epi and chimera meals are consumables, meaning they take up the same slot on a timer. Eat chimera meal in the mornin', pop epi around 13 and you're golden on carry cap for the rest of the ingame day, but do not waste one after another.

Besides. I got companions as my portable stashes for longer journeys and as cavalry if the enemy has overwhelming firepower since you can't just go to Pripyat or CNPP and not get shredded by monolith on the way since ballistic resistance cap was introduced, so you can't entirely rely on being a powerhouse yourself anymore for 100% safety during these raids.

You can just quicksave and quickload, but that doesn't work for me, since I still feel the dissatisfaction of losing a life. I prepare for the heaviest of battles with a plan I know will not let me die.
Plus the bigger scope battles with gunfire in all directions are just cooler than a one man army. With a squad you get the morale boon of knowing there are ingame NPCs that have your back, not just you pushing through

[covert arch]

I mean technically that is what ur doing when u use a medkit or bandage, but im assuming u mean a more Arma style of doing it?

[obtuse yoke]

all valid points man, but have some fun too 😄

[obtuse yoke]

I use companions most of the time, but mostly for meat shields and mules of course. Usually running IM playthroughs, hence the sentiment

[last mesa]

Oh man. There is nothing more satisfying than sniping, popping heads with an AS val in close quarters or being in a full on battle with your companions, ducking in cover while your companions lay down the lead storm

At least for me personally. I can't talk about others

[last mesa]

Yeah. My personal playstyle was heavily influenced by trying not to die when my framerate dips, but when enemies move like 2 cm on your screen frame after frame because of how slow my laptop is then even those risk mitigation techniques go out the window

[obtuse yoke]

gunplay in GAMMA grew more and more sophisticated over the years

I played the EFP pack before GAMMA took me and was already then impressed by how well the modders managed to transition the feel from Tarkov to a mod pack environment for such an old set of games

[near estuary]

gooning to hip

[last mesa]

Brother. Get a real girlfriend

I ain't in the Zone for eye candy.

[near estuary]

that's not gonna happen anytime soon
appreciate the optimism tho

[last mesa]

Or rather. We shouldn't be in the Zone for Women. The eye candy should be glowing rocks, not jiggly fat sacks

XD

(No offence meant to any girl or woman here)

[radiant sage]

Jiggly fat sacks is one hell of a description, jesus

[cunning patio]

when you get to red forest without having disabled the BS
the text that appears giving you a splitting headache
whats the timer before you get murdered or whatever?

[dusk vessel]

like 10 seconds at best

[cunning patio]

right

[dusk vessel]

same happens when you take a guide to jupiter

[midnight prawn]

Hello bodies. I don't play the game but I still need an answer. How easy is to get companions to legend rank, relative to a full playthrough?

[last mesa]

Depends if you use a mod and how long you plan the playthrough to be.

If you don't use any mods to split the rank you gain with the companions then it's gonna be a slog, possibly taking multiple IRL weeks to get them from rookie to legend with constant firefights considering artifact gathering, looting dead bodies and other ways for them to gain rank naturally are gone

On the other hand if you use mods like "Share it", remove the looting and gathering restrictions it may take up to few hours

In the best case scenario

[obtuse yoke]

I dont think I managed to do that in any of my runs before I ended them tbh

[last mesa]

Laughs in being the NPC trainer since 2022

[midnight prawn]

I remember when I played the game I hardly saw any legend, not to mentions companions. I guess it's rare even now. I wanted some feedback. I was thinking to tie a boon or benefit to rank legend of companions but I guess I need to speedup the companions levelling

[obtuse yoke]

dont think I had a single companion last all the way either except, of course, HIP

[obtuse yoke]

would it be tied to their abilities somehow? better aim? they already have esp wallhacks 😄

[last mesa]

The way I see it? That'd be pointless. NPCs can't really rank up on their own much, and possibly within a 90 days playthrough you'd realistically be very lucky to see even a single NPC rank up more than once within that timeframe. Companions may rank up once or twice organically. There needs to be a full rework with mods like "Share it" and allowing stalkers to loot while still optimizing for the item limit, which would require considerable work on even the framework, but I have a few ideas in mind if you can send them where they could be made into real scripts, otherwise it's just not realistic for the "Legend Rank Boon" you mentioned to have any effect

[midnight prawn]

npc can spawn in many ranks though, and definitely I get to see master and professional even in the south or early game. Assuming you recruit them, so then it's only a matter of ranking to legend and I have no metrics on how ranking is. How fast they gain xp etc. So I was asking around if anyone managed to hang around companions with legend rank.

how to make them rank fast enough or "balanced" it's not a problem I can fix that 😄 I was more interested in game metrics, how they level now, but if they only rank twice maybe we can give them a code boost

[last mesa]

Well. Think of it that way. In a 90 days playthrough your own rank rises up to around 100k-140k, but you loot, kill, gather artifacts and craft in a way that NPCs cannot. In that time an NPC will realistically rank up once if they're low rank already and get in enough gunfights. If they started as master you'll never see them rise above it organically (Without player interference).

[dusk vessel]

i guess the easiest way is to recruit masters

but if youre trying to get a rookie to legend it will take a long fucking time

its like baby sitting

[last mesa]

They rank up doing the same stuff as you. Gathering Artifacts, looting corpses, killing mutants and stalkers. All that ties to the stats you see in the PDA makes them rank up

[dusk vessel]

the chances they die in that time are high

[last mesa]

Problem with it is that in GAMMA is that they cannot Loot, Gather artifacts, only kill.

[dusk vessel]

cant they technically loot? they just dont gain any rank xp from it

[midnight prawn]

the mod I am making is focused on npc grooming, I understand there is work to do still

[last mesa]

So they get locked out of progression unless you interfere as a player (Modding the game to share your XP, unlock the locked ways of getting XP at the cost of Item Limit)

[dusk vessel]

a mod that makes any kills shared between the player and companion?

[last mesa]

Would you like me to share the ideas I previously hinted on or would you like it to be fully your idea?

[midnight prawn]

you can always add xp to squad npc whenever your actor does anything, that issue can be fixed easily

[last mesa]

Yes. "Share It" makes you share your gained XP with your companions. It shares all XP tho, not just kills.

Would you like me to link it?

[midnight prawn]

yeah, if you have the moddb link

[last mesa]

And it can share a certain amount specified in MCM

[dusk vessel]

sure, id use that

i dont go out of my way to use companions but for example the farmstead squatters, you get 3 bandit companions for free

[last mesa]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/dltx-share-it-152

[dusk vessel]

i usually kit them out and take them with me to do my bidding early game

and just never do the quest i was given them for lmao

and the "hes with me" prevents them from getting murked

[last mesa]

That is false. I've already tested it extensively in 2 playthroughs. No issues found, I just didn't inform the modder since I didn't playtest it for them specifically. I tried it out on my own volition

[dusk vessel]

i guess its just a fair warning that he himself cant garantue it working

ill try this one out

[last mesa]

Good Hunting, Stalker. 🫡

[midnight prawn]

I won't use the mod, I'll just look at what it does and use anything as example

[oak wyvern]

favorite mutant to goon on?

[last mesa]

In a playthrough without Share it I got Hip as a rookie, and kept her alive for the 157 days. She ended up a veteran by that time. That is how slow the progression of the game is

[dusk vessel]

avarage freedom member

[last mesa]

And that is with 4k kills to my name

With Share it it was cut to negligible passive while I got my own rank up to legend and beyond

[lethal steeple]

to be dead honest for the longest time i've theorized that dynamic rank changes (read: an npc that actually levels up) doesn't get the dispersion modifiers from the next rank because nothing points to it being the case, as that's set up when the mob is spawned in a squad

[midnight prawn]

does anybody knows if npc rank does anything?

[lethal steeple]

it really doesn't seem to be the case

outside of gamma's mechanic where in order to recruit a squad leader you have to get 1.5x his rank points

[last mesa]

I don't think t5hat's the case. I know though that the higher the rank the more effective they are in combat (Since Veteran level unlocks them to run and assault the enemy instead of cowering for cover or running away from the overwhelming threat)

[dusk vessel]

dont they get more accurate?

[lethal steeple]

that's per "spawn group"

[last mesa]

But seriously beyond Veteran it's all Armour and weapon that do the heavy lifting

And the fact they use AP against the player

[midnight prawn]

what about the actor. did you ever reach legend?

[oak wyvern]

Man im so happy they patched out the jam on max durability, it was so bad when you fought the actual high gear factions

[dusk vessel]

its not that difficult to reach no1

just clearing out cnpp and doing snitches top 10 list

[last mesa]

I'm sorry...?

[dusk vessel]

he might be using a translator, by actor he means the player

[last mesa]

Could you repeat the question?

[midnight prawn]

so if I tie the actor rank progression (all xp) to a companion it should be easy for them to get to legend

[lethal steeple]

why is bro bragging on a technical question

[dusk vessel]

provided the companion doesent run at a pseudogiant at first sight

i guess you can keep him in dont shoot mode

[midnight prawn]

you can always reload if you are not doing hardcore

[last mesa]

Pretty much, that is why "Share it" is so effective

[lethal steeple]

you can always reload even on hardcore

[dusk vessel]

i dont feel like loading my save all the time

i just kind of play the game, if he dies he dies

[lethal steeple]

what a chad

mods promote this user on behest of his refusal to hit f9 the frame one of his companions' health bar goes below 100%

[midnight prawn]

ok I just wanted to understand the scenario where levelling companion to max is possible and natural

[last mesa]

It is possible, but without tweaks it's months of babysitting if you really aspire for good effects.

[lethal steeple]

i'd add damage reduction to companion rank

just to make it do something and to idk create attachment to the character since he no longer dies instantly

[last mesa]

That could come in handy. Or quicker regen kicking in so it looks like they popped a medkit?

[dusk vessel]

i noticed that some companions instead of dying went on their knees at low hp and the enemy stopped shooting them

before they would just die, mabye it was changed but i never noticed before

they didnt go prone and cry for help or anything just on knees

[lethal steeple]

npcs do use meds

but in anomaly the animation is broken

code for it to trigger is there

[dusk vessel]

i see

[lethal steeple]

and you can sometimes spot it under really specific circumstances

[last mesa]

I believe it was in the older version of GAMMA, since I don't see it much anymore. They have that state to let you know they're about to die without help. Tho I can't really pinpoint it much because I haven't playtested that enough

[dusk vessel]

they all ran into a pseudogiant and died right after anyway

[lethal steeple]

they talk about it on the pda

[dusk vessel]

but the time they spent distracting it gave me enough time to kill it with a TT-33

[last mesa]

Healing a bleeding out teammate for example

[lethal steeple]

whenever they do "combat talk" in the pda it's med usage

[dusk vessel]

ah yeah

enemies do this too i noticed

"i guess those looted meds werent for nothing"

stuff like that

[last mesa]

"You made me use my last medkit fucker! I'm gonna enjoy stripping your corpse!" kinda messages

[dusk vessel]

i always found those funny

because he is spraying at me while im in cover and when he reloads i pistol snipe him

[last mesa]

They are basically NPCs giving away that they used a medkit

[dusk vessel]

got myself a green barrel G3 this way lmao

[last mesa]

Bingo

[dusk vessel]

im loving that mod hope it gets added

[last mesa]

Which?

[dusk vessel]

G3

[last mesa]

Oh

[dusk vessel]

i dont like changing my modlist far from the vanilla because i dont want to deal with the issues it brings

so it being apart of vanilla gamma and balanced would be cool

[last mesa]

You do you, but while you scrape by for a few bullets and a can of beans, I'll be arming out my loner PMC group like they're about to fight the entirety of the Zone at once four times over, with enough AP PKM ammo to make A-10 Thunderbolt GAU-8 belt blush.

All supplied by artifact money from ecologists lol

[dusk vessel]

and pkm ammo for vodka

i generally play as a 1 man army, only using companions when the opportunity comes

[last mesa]

-# I completely forgot about Spirits trades... fuck

[dusk vessel]

...

its like, the cheapest way to get pkm ammo is it not

[inland spade]

yeah

other than that crafting

with mauser ammo

[dusk vessel]

yeah but mauser ammo is limited

20 per trader right?

[last mesa]

I bought it all from Petrenko, Loris and Sidorovich running forth and back to get it...

[inland spade]

yeah i would like that mauser ammo got sold in bigger quantities

[dusk vessel]

i guess optimall you buy both vodka and 8mm fmj

[last mesa]

Besides. I didn't use PP ammo. I used AP, which is way more expensive.

[inland spade]

and ofcourse recraft all rifle ammo you dont use

then ap 8mm mauser is also fairly cheap comapred to other ap ammo

[dusk vessel]

8mm mauser ap deserves some justice

an ammo of that ballistic does not have that low of an ap

[last mesa]

Too bad you can no longer load the PKM with AP for whatever reason. You can still load the mags with AP ammo belts, tho I don't know if it reads as AP ammo while hitting enemies now. Haven't tried.

[dusk vessel]

the sheer force that round has is more than any other besides .338

[inland spade]

yeah mauser ammo has hidden 80% damage modifier

[dusk vessel]

i do wonder if we will have 30-06 at some point

[last mesa]

Too bad K98 is innacurate af. I shot it from container warehouse in Jupiter at an advancing squad of Monolith. They did not stop. Even after multiple shots aimed right for the dome. It was like as if they didn't even get hit. I finished that fight by jumping off the roof and just dispatching the fuckers with a hollow point pistol because I didn't have anything else loaded at that moment

[dusk vessel]

its not supposed to be this way

the rifle is known for being accurate

[last mesa]

I know. But it is, so I don't bother using 8mm Mauser at all.

I use 7.62x54R AP or 7N14 for sniping

[dusk vessel]

it needs some justice in a rebalance

[last mesa]

Possibly.

[dusk vessel]

that round has extremely good ballistic performance and accuracy even by todays standarts

only drawback is that its fired from bolt actions

[last mesa]

7N14 has lower pen, but also lower dispersion modifier. More accurate, so I use it south of the barrier anyway.
7N37 (AP) is basically twice as effective at armor pen, but carries worse dispersion, though it really doesn't matter with 99% accuracy rifle, unless you fire at distances (like me lol) over 300 ingame meters.

And yes. I do fire beyond render distance, with my top range kill at 359,4m with a neckshot, fired from a fucking PKM sporting an ACOG xD

[dusk vessel]

doesent 7N37 also get a better damage multi

[last mesa]

Further than that and enemies physically derender, making them go offline, basically untouchable by the player

[dusk vessel]

if im reading it right 7n1/7n14 have 85% and 7n37 have 100%

[last mesa]

Can't remember if the damage is the same across 7N37 and 7N14

[dusk vessel]

im looking at a spreadsheet but i dont know if its still the case

[last mesa]

No clue. I can't really track ingame ballistic performance of those since Momos accurate stats mod got outdated and they stopped updating it

[inland spade]

Yugoslavians/serbs made a dmr in 8mm mauser

Zastava m70 iirc?

[dusk vessel]

i mean 8mm mauser was also used for machine guns

the zastava m70 is in 7.62x39 though

unless there is a special variant

[last mesa]

Wasnt't the m70 basically an "SKS at home?"

[inland spade]

My bad m76

Zastava

[dusk vessel]

akm at home

its quite literally an ak

even takes ak mags

[inland spade]

Kilian m76 zastava was the one im talking about

[dusk vessel]

yes im seeing it

[last mesa]

Wait. Which one was the SKS joke then?

[dusk vessel]

looks like an svd

just yugoslavian

they might have stashes of 8mm mauser left from the war and wanted to use the ammo

the 7.92x57 has both a wider diamater and more grains (powder)

how the ap round is worse in gamma makes little sense

unless its a very old one

but even those had a lot of ap

like 15mm through steel

thats 50bmg ball levels

[cunning patio]

screenshot made on a save from 4 years ago and 15 gamma updates behind probably

[last mesa]

No. That was in march this year.

On 0.9.3

You can look it up.

[cunning patio]

geologist like me fr
spends 300 million years on one save

the based way to play

[last mesa]

I'm not here to speedrun the enjoyment. I'm here to make an army, be able to pay for it and wipe all of Monolith, UNISG and Sinners off my path

While enjoying artifact hunts

[cunning patio]

Lowkey I need to start hunting artefacts with the recent changes making money by selling them is a viable option

[last mesa]

I don't think anyone ever tried beating my scores

[cunning patio]

people dont care enough to do it thats why

[last mesa]

Well Atroximal tried, but never succeeded from what I know

[cunning patio]

we're not here to beat scores

its not a race

[dusk vessel]

i dont have nearly enough free time for that stuff

if i do spend time on a game to compete it will be a multiplayer game

[last mesa]

Some people do invictus speedruns, but never the scores that actually take merit and grit.

[last mesa]

Fair.

[cunning patio]

yeah cuz invictus takes a bit more skill compared to tanking anomalies and farming artis

granted a big part of invictus can be cheesed

[last mesa]

Good. It means I can take my time winning it.

[cunning patio]

bro what?

you need to leave out of whatever self imposed bubble you're in
nobody is racing anybody for artefacts or what have you

if youre the only one that enjoys arti hunting this much its not a race

its a hobby for your stalker I suppose

[last mesa]

Oh come on. I find it very enjoyable holding the scores for longest documented playthrough, farthest kill using sniper and machine gun, and the most money and kills on my stat board in the PDA'

[cunning patio]

sure but youre on your own in those leaderboards mate

[last mesa]

Yeah. At this point I'd enjoy some competetion XD

[cunning patio]

it is still cool dont get me wrong

thats what I mean

people ARENT here for competing

this isnn't the damn olympics

people dont care for longest whatever
or biggest fisting competition among stalkers or who boned the most bloodsuckers

people are here to enjoy the modpack

simple as that

[last mesa]

Yeah. Kinda "lonely at the top" way to play XD

[blissful ivy]

That sniper one is debatable

If i just had that patches mod

[cunning patio]

again ,its not a damn competition

[blissful ivy]

Id have undeniable proof

[cunning patio]

people do NOT care

[blissful ivy]

We do

About like 2 things

[last mesa]

355,9m SVDS kill. Got a competing kill?

[cunning patio]

maybe 10 people

as a whole

will care for certain milestones

[blissful ivy]

I mean the distance mine read was 358

So yes

But no patch mod so might be off

I can do it again

[last mesa]

You need the link?

[cunning patio]

355m is that in jupiter?

[blissful ivy]

Yeah actually

Was looking for it

[blissful ivy]

Mine was

I think geo was cnpp

Idk tho

[last mesa]

Yup.
SVDS - 355,9m with x8 1P59 - Jupiter
PKM Zenit - 359,4m with x4 ACOG - CNPP North

[last mesa]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/tagged-patches

[blissful ivy]

Im not gonna bother with that pkp one

Thats just not worth my time

Not doing allat with a fucking giperon

9x isnt enough imo

Need mah 24x

[cunning patio]

what's the entire lenght of cnpp?

[last mesa]

Good question

[cunning patio]

thank you.

[blissful ivy]

Idk i will look later

[last mesa]

About a kilometer wide I think

[blissful ivy]

Actually what i want is to test how accurate PAW is

[last mesa]

Maybe a bit more/less

[last mesa]

You're doing it with PAW?

[blissful ivy]

Because i can get patch mod, shoot a fuckers head off, mark his corpse see if it matches the patch

[last mesa]

I mean, sure, tho it's not really necessary

[blissful ivy]

Yes

I mean its accurate so far

[last mesa]

It will be.

[cunning patio]

category for fastest agroprom speedrun I'd guess would be about 1 minute or so

give or take

[last mesa]

Just watch out for the delay between you moving and it updating the meter so you don't have to run 200 meters just to readjust a few cm

[cunning patio]

agroprom would have a shitton of variables tbh

[last mesa]

Also. Woodskov. I play at below 60 fps since my laptop can't handle DX8 as well as better setups, so I score high where framerate doesn't matter

[cunning patio]

ok?

[last mesa]

That's why I don't pursue Ironman or speedruns

[cunning patio]

ironman isn't a competition

and as I said

it can be EASILY

cheesed

[last mesa]

I don't cheese. I enjoy.

[cunning patio]

maybe back when invictus existed people would try to speedrun it but that channel is long gone

[last mesa]

Yeah.

[cunning patio]

thats exactly my point
very very few people in this server would care for making like competitions or speedruns of shit to see who could do X thing fastest or whatever or achieve X milestone

[last mesa]

I mean Sniping is not really too hard. You just walk back, aim, fire, and make damn sure you have a clear line of sight

Becuase these fucking NPCs will fire back.

[cunning patio]

but we're not here to do sniping competitions though are we

[last mesa]

What I find terrifying is that mono-fucker actually fired back when I tried to hit him with the PKM. Landed a few shots too lol

[cunning patio]

gotta love their lock on aim

[last mesa]

No shit. The fact he even engaged at 360m range is insane

Thank God he had a shitty gun XD

[cunning patio]

[last mesa]

Like I wanna know now how long can NPCs see in clear weather in front of them. Like that is insane that I can sneak up to one at point blank and go "Lights out, Bitch" with a barrel to the back of the head, and another time have a sniper stand off

[cunning patio]

I go do isaac run

they dont see too far

[last mesa]

Have fun! :3

[cunning patio]

but they can engage in far distances

[last mesa]

Yeah. Literally these:
#╓☢stalker-chat message

[cunning patio]

Fucking containters

[last mesa]

YES XD