╓☢stalker-chat

[mild wing]

my concern is that some items might get unnaturally rare

and fuck up the progression

[celest sparrow]

Not really

[mild wing]

i've only looked at the loadouts for 30 minutes total so i'm not saying it'll 100% happen

[celest sparrow]

I think the point is to not care about progression

Although Master / Legend loadouts aren't entirely consisting of "Rare" weapons since they still have a chance of spawning with dogshit

[humble saffron]

this is going to happen if i make every stalker veteran or above tho lmao

however in fairness its mostly weapons, you still get most armors at higher ranks minus the jackets

we even got expert trenchcoats

[mild wing]

[humble saffron]

do you want me to still make it so that rookie village is a village of rookies and not expert village

or do you just want an across the board rank increase

im doing this via the XMLs and not smarts for control over individual stalker spawns and not what squads smarts will spawn

[mild wing]

i dunno it's your mod

i'd replace everyone

[humble saffron]

okay

rookies will now have a minimum rank of like

35000

[mental furnace]

[molten sparrow]

Wait does being below 40% water kill you?!

[sonic walrus]

why the fuck does my screen turn black for like 10 seconds whenever my companion dies

i got killed numerous times bc of this bullshit

[humble saffron]

no

when the water indicator is red, thats when it starts killing

which is at like 0 percent

[molten sparrow]

Woke up having my health drained by it at yellow…

[humble saffron]

something else might be killing you

[humble saffron]

ah yeah it might be yellow then

[molten sparrow]

Checked rads, and everything

40% seemed crazy. I wake up thirsty most mornings but not to a level that half my life force is gone in an hour

Man what a crazy day, not joking there’s 20 people dead at the flea market in garbage

2 big squads of duty and Mercs duked it out

[distant elk]

how do i fix this? install reshade ig?

[humble saffron]

uh oh broke my game

no traders are spawning

lmao

[distant elk]

whats the button for this?

[brazen herald]

I need to be sure if its normal, its gamma, oooor its one of my mods that i added. So... question: do artefacts just lay around? Sometimes? Not even in an anomalous area, just... somewhere in the grass, casually? More than that - they are totaly visible and glowing, so even easier to spot.

there's more. what I found like this was Knot. Ive heard one of the best artefacts in the game.

[swift pilot]

Yeah artifacts can be found laying around sometimes, and yes they also can glow and be visible from a distance. Also....imo knot isn't that great

[brazen herald]

thx

thats actually a relief 🙂

[swift pilot]

When you use knot it turns into something called 'lucifer'

It gives you a bunch of stat increases but you have to feed it artifacts. If its condition hits 0% it kills you

[mental furnace]

so u feed it with other artefacts

[swift pilot]

And every time you go through a zone transition I think it takes...5% off every time? I don't recall

[swift pilot]

Feed it death lamp

Surely nothing will happen

[mental furnace]

on invictus run

[brazen herald]

heard that, yes. heard its mostly beneficial, meaning easy to feed. but it tell even me (and i am not very experienced) that its alot. to do. to remember and keep doing.

[mental furnace]

ALSO DONT SLEEP

[brazen herald]

at all?

[mental furnace]

yeap

use coffee or energy drinks

[brazen herald]

well it drains the durability of it, right? but u have to sleep, no way NOT to sleep, so I recon you gotta sleep just a little.. then feed it... sleep again - and so on

[humble saffron]

@mental furnace @mild wing try this, changes squad compositions of all factions to be only rank 4 stalkers

[frozen wing]

how to fix it? why is my weapon not hitting the enemy?

[mental furnace]

bruh its easy to finish game and not sleep(ingame)

[mental furnace]

thanks now i only need to install gamba

[humble saffron]

works on vanilla bro

[frozen wing]

Why do bullets fly into the ground?

[humble saffron]

[mental furnace]

[blissful ivy]

are you playing base gamma?

if yes, #🔨base-gamma-support, if no, #🔨modded-gamma-support

[frozen wing]

Do you mean did I install third-party mods on the game. or changed the settings with MCM?

I didn't install any third-party mods, but I did change the settings in MCM

I have 3D ballistics enabled

[celest sparrow]

[brazen herald]

hah. thats... wrong 😄 but good to know. it needs fixing

[blissful ivy]

can you help him? i cant do much i dont have gamma installed

and im too lazy to figure out the new method, even if its just as easy

[mental furnace]

me when infinite supply of coffee

[celest sparrow]

I dont have GAMMA installed as well

But the culprit is definitely 3D Ballistics

[next phoenix]

I remember the best strat in misery mod being to chainsmoke cigarettes and snort cocaine lmao, it basically eliminated the need for sleep or food

[blissful ivy]

tell them disable it, flaunt those tester and legend roles

[heavy thunder]

is there anyway to remove 3DSS scope on a specific weapon?

[blissful ivy]

why would you?

also you probably can

[brazen herald]

there is one huge thing need fixing in gamma. if duty in garbage is standing in an radioactive area (the duty outpost, u know; near the market) that kills u in seconds.... when theres NOTHING THERE, just empty space, asphalt piece of a road, right in front of this barrack u can sleep in... then the radiation in gamma is "broken" and I mean nonsensical. back in misery days it was done best - concrete, metal, cars, trucks, buildings sometimes. these are the things where radiation tend to stick easily. yes, it can be in ground, but damn, dont make it as random as this (and as irrational - cause duty fellas just stand there...)

[celest sparrow]

It's dynamic Radiation

If you don't like it, disable it

[brazen herald]

how, where? mo2 or in the game?

[celest sparrow]

should be MO2

[vapid cobalt]

gamma is besieged by the evils of capitalism and copyright

encirclement at smolensk

[proven raptor]

so true

modders should unionize

[humble saffron]

@atomic pebble holy shit prosectors project with iwp is so good

stalkers have generated bios, the nimble fight was awesome, npcs can heal

[atomic pebble]

Prosectors Project is peak SoC reinvention

[humble saffron]

its very hard though

medkits are impossible to come by

[atomic pebble]

On early-early game yes, but after u would make a considerable quantity of money.

[humble saffron]

have you played it? what should i do?

should i get some cash in the swamps first

[idle valve]

guys, what actually happens when your sleep energy goes to 0?

[celest sparrow]

nothing

[atomic pebble]

Just make quests and explore

[idle valve]

I head a vision blur and nausea but nothing else, although I went to sleep quickly after

[atomic pebble]

U can do early game quests on Darkscape, Garbage and Bar

[formal wing]

this just in gamma inflicts real life nausea at low sleep %

[humble saffron]

do you remember what happens if i miss the due date for tasks

[idle valve]

ok so I cant fall unconscious right?

[humble saffron]

i accepted sidorovich purge mutants task but i found no mutants at the zone, so i just skipped it

[formal wing]

you won't pass out, no

[idle valve]

thats what I was most afraid of

[idle valve]

so I can run indefinitely basically you say?

I mean if I jab an ephi 😄

[formal wing]

sleep is drained at a passive rate and by consumables you use. whether or not you sprint, as far as i'm aware, makes no difference

[formal wing]

yes! you can completely mitigate the need for sleep with substance abuse

this is actually recommended for some styles of playing the game

[idle valve]

thats not what I implied 😄 it was more of a question whether I can still run endlessly when bed icon is red 😄

[idle valve]

deep raids and loot goblins like me hehe

[formal wing]

i don't know what you mean by run endlessly

sleep % effects stamina recovery from what i understand

so you can take that into account i guess

[idle valve]

if epi effect is stronger tho..

thats what I am asking 😄

[formal wing]

does it not literally say that epinephrine gives you +20 or whatever the hell to sleep

[idle valve]

basically can I do deep raid without sleeping for 3 days and still be able to run on epi or other drugs, or is the stamina drain too strong

[atomic pebble]

Nothing, u just lost the quest

[formal wing]

as long as you keep your stat topped up, you can stay awake for as long as you want. it's up to you to decide whether or not the reduced stamina recovery + move-speed(from what i understand) is something you can 'run on'. white fatigue effects is negligable, yellow and red fatigue considerably more severe. whether you achieve this through actually sleeping or by using a bunch of drugs is irrelevant

[idle valve]

lol, soldat dropped a Veresk with integrated laser sight, never seen this one

I got a regular veresk in my last run but never knew about this alt version

[blissful ivy]

is this base gammer?

[humble saffron]

yes

[blissful ivy]

hm

[formal wing]

looks right to me

[proven raptor]

veresk with the kit pre-installed actually drops more often than the basic veresk without it

i think

[humble saffron]

yeah its a lil wack

i do wonder if one can buy manguns sr2 with bm

[solar lily]

Not sure what the issue is but the portable workshop where I have all my stuff stashed isnt being recognized by Utjans QOL Mod (in my own list) where it says "You have x amount in nearby stashes". Other stashes I have placed are working tho from Hideout Furniture. Only the portable workshop stash contents isnt being recognized. Any fix? Want it to be like GAMMA where it is indeed recognized. Does anyone know if that was a personal edit by Grok? If not I may have a conflict but the fact the only the portable workshop isn't recognized and every other stash is is super weird

[formal wing]

probably has to do with the way the portable workshop stash works

from what i understand it doesn't exist as a stash placed in the gameworld, rather exists as a stash only accessible through the portable workshop menu

[solar lily]

Yea im 99% sure my LO is right. I'm thinking it was a Grok edit

[formal wing]

which would explain why it's not detected by a mod that is probably looking for containers

[celest sparrow]

why would it be something Grok edited

[formal wing]

yeah i don't see why it would be

[solar lily]

Becuase it works in GAMMA and not out of the box. Its 100% something Grok would edit for qol for us

[solar lily]

Thanks for the reassurance

[idle valve]

guys I need advice - Mossberg or Ks 23? what would you choose and why

KS is only like 25% stronger but Mossberg can load up to 9 shots while Ks can only hold 4 so I think Mossberg wins

I am mostly gonna use it against mutants and low armored targets, do you think its also worth it picking high armoured targets with BARIKADA shells?

[formal wing]

mossberg

shrapnel-25 is really only useful for mutants and specific mutants at that

[proven raptor]

the stats don't mean anyhthing

ks23 does much much more damage

[idle valve]

yeah but its also about practicality

[proven raptor]

ks also sends enemies flying

which is really funny

which gives it +10 extra points

[idle valve]

damage is not everything right, imagine I am ambushed by large pack of dogs / wolves - I will be empty after 4 shots with KS

[formal wing]

well if you're ambushed by a large pack of dogs and you pull out your shotgun you're using the wrong tool for the job

what gun you use in gamma matters far less than use-case

[idle valve]

I mean sure but I kinda have to improvise 😄

[formal wing]

with obvious exceptions

[proven raptor]

shrimply reload

small magazine haters hate this one simple trick

[iron notch]

Shaman of the Red Forrest

[west wyvern]

I wonder if I'll finally be able to make gamma mobile since now everything is packaged as it is

Downloading gamma now to my phone 😎

[humble saffron]

your phone will turn into fire anomaly

[west wyvern]

I have faith in it

[formal wing]

liquid gold...

[prisma crag]

You know what beats both

KSG-23

11 round(I think) 4 guage

[royal fossil]

а давно на агропроме рядом с электрой летающей спавняться в одном месте 2 химеры 2 кикиморы и пси собака с ними в кучке?) или мне повезло несказанно

[prisma crag]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/969924176842473482

[polar sage]

Has anyone got some good looking results with just SSS and LUTs? and are you willing to help a fellow stalker out with setting them up? 👉 👈

[blissful ivy]

imma just install gamma the funky way lmao

whats really funny is that this new install method might actually be easier than the original method

literally install 1.5.3, get this big file, put big file in gamma folder

then move patches to anomaly

then just launch mo2 (basically)

[celest sparrow]

Yeah it's simple, but would someone think of the modders not increasing their moddb downloads

[blissful ivy]

[blissful ivy]

i mean i personally couldnt care less, since it does nothing

just padding numbers at that point

worst part of this whole thing is the 2 hour download for the 48gb file

thats about it

otherwise its not that bad i guess

still probably faster than the installer

[normal island]

Imagine if it was a torrent

With like 20k seeders

[hollow wadi]

And please the russians?

[blissful ivy]

ok i have a question how do i remove the suppressor jam thing

because thats like, the one thing i dont know how to do, the other things i can do myself

[hollow wadi]

Probably dig through #📢development and see what Oleh did

[blissful ivy]

yeah probably

i forgot how much they even increased jamming

if its less than 3% i will leave it possibly

and just see how much i do/dont like it

actually i should just play the game and see what i do and dont like

although i gotta get all the mods i had, or at least some of them, revise my modlist

i took pictures of my old modlist lmao

im halfway through the install for the big file

[formal wing]

i wish there was a way for jamming to exist without it feeling awful when it is genuinely responsible for avoidable damage or death

maybe if the reliability stat actually did something

[blissful ivy]

well it wouldnt be as bad if the jamming started at like 90% condition with a 0.1 - 0.4% chance

then gets worse every 5% from there

until 60% where it goes to like 40% chance

i mean most people used to keep their guns above 90% most of the time, back when overall condition was a thing

but that would mean reverting to the old repair system, which would mean readding overall condition to make it work

and even then people would bitch

[latent elbow]

Why don't just check the "no jam chance at 100% condition" and just play the game ?

[outer marlin]

Favorite base yet

Kopachy village house in Jupiter

[west wyvern]

Chat

How do I make this shit stop trying to open github

[celest sparrow]

what the fuck are you doing

I thought you were using the repack from #📢announcements

[west wyvern]

I am 😄

I'll record a video where this leaves off to help

Explaining what's fucking me rn

[near estuary]

bro is playing GAMMA on a phone

[west wyvern]

I GOT INTO MO2

[west wyvern]

This is worse than what I'm doing

How would I go about getting potato mode again?

[hollow wadi]

!dx

[dawn marten]

@west wyvern
If you want to play with DX8 or DX9, follow this guide: #╭📖faq message

[outer marlin]

If there was another wall hanging that size I’d use it

[west wyvern]

It wants to run I can feel it but I just can't get a home screen to boot 😔

I've failed you all

This is all I have to show for progress

[undone osprey]

[near estuary]

[harsh kraken]

wtf did they change how miracle machine works

i cant go to red forest

even though ive beaten mm

[near estuary]

so you can't get expert tools before BS

[harsh kraken]

how the fuck am i supposed to do bs without expert tools bro i am not good at this game

[near estuary]

BS is completely doable without expert tools

[harsh kraken]

it took me like 6 tries to beat that stupid monolith spawning event when you talk to the gatekeeper guy

the second i step foot in radar i have my dick and balls torn off

[near estuary]

just get a decent armor with some attachments/artefacts and literally any C kit AR with some AP ammo

[near estuary]

lol how
there's pretty much nobody in Radar until you get to the complex itself

[harsh kraken]

chimeras

like 4 of them right past the gate

[near estuary]

literally the easiest mutant to fight

[near estuary]

4

[harsh kraken]

🧌

[near estuary]

at most, I saw one

so I guess you're just unlucky

[harsh kraken]

probably

[near estuary]

but expert tools wouldn't save you anyway in that situation

[harsh kraken]

guess ill just save up for one of the ak 105 kits cause i remember them being good

but i already have a merc seva which is the best medium armor afaik

[near estuary]

best medium armor is whatever has the most slots

[stiff wyvern]

get a heavy armor with 5 slots, or the good exosuits with 4 (duty and merc), empty, wretched, chunk + 2 of your choice

[harsh kraken]

? but you dont even have access to good artefacts until the north

[near estuary]

you can craft artefacts yknow

[stiff wyvern]

ah, and giant hide

giant hide is farmable in radar

[harsh kraken]

cant lie every time i look at the artefact crafting recipes i

[proven raptor]

why do this to yourself

[west wyvern]

For science (to help people with android based handhelds)

[near estuary]

now that I've completed Witcher 3 I no longer have any problem with GAMMA crafting
crafting grandmaster armor sets took away something from me that I'll never get back

[harsh kraken]

well back to doing tasks for a month i guess

[fiery coral]

how can I enable fast travel when enemies are nearby ? I'm softlocked and I would like to get out lol

or noclip I guess

[celest sparrow]

!noclip

[dawn marten]

@celest sparrow You'll need to enable debug mode first: #╭📖faq message

1. Press Numpad 0, this will put you in noclip mode.
If you don't have a numpad, open the console with ~, type demo_record 1 into the console and hit Enter
2. Move around with WASD and go forward and backward with left click and right click
3. Press Enter to "land"

[fiery coral]

thank you so much lmao

[scenic trench]

settings>gameplay>fast travel> tick "combat?"

[fiery coral]

Ah I was looking for it in the Fair Fast Travel settings

[late osprey]

What ya'll fellas think... They lifting that DMCA today?

[latent elbow]

[undone osprey]

thanks to you, they're about to send another one

[sonic walrus]

is stash loot randomized or fixed

for example "this one in army warehouse has a groza with 80% barrel condition, but only when its marked as yellow stash"

[late osprey]

I just wonna play Stalky😔😔

And I am way too stupid to use the alternative method provided by Grok sadly

[undone osprey]

aight.

[latent elbow]

No since you can abuse save reload to get better gear (don't do that)

[undone osprey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIq4UTgqDAc

[sonic walrus]

i had a stash with basic tools, a duty exo and freedom protoexo. i accidentally pressed f12 and it reloaded the save

i was so close to killing everyone in my neighbourhood

[latent elbow]

Lmao relatable

[sonic walrus]

this shit made me the most mad ive ever been in a videogame

prime BO2 lobbies didnt make me this mad

[latent elbow]

Only fps make me madder lol

[late osprey]

Why thank you for this immeasurable amount of motivation good sir. Why I feel much more confident now to go ahead and try that alternative method. Hat off to you sir!

[undone osprey]

[scenic trench]

duty exo?
bull, actual exos dont spawn in stashes afaik

[sonic walrus]

well thats why i pressed f12. bc normally thats my screenshot button

maybe the duty one was the proto

[valid crater]

For some reason my stashes are the same even after reload ... well, mostly, part conditions and weapon attachments may differ, but the stuff is basically the same.

[last mesa]

Exosuits and proto exos do

Actual exos indeed don't

[sonic walrus]

exosuit or exoskeleton whateva happened here

[quick lava]

Nice

[mild wing]

Stashes persist through reloads

[quick lava]

You can get it even in Dark Valley, btw

[mild wing]

Unless it was generated after your last save

[quick lava]

I got mine in 20m I started Bandit playthrough one day 😄

[analog palm]

shit yourself

i hate videos like this

ugh

[latent elbow]

This is stupid they are 2 different games but at least it bring new players to Gamma

[near estuary]

doesn't mean one can't be better than the other
also, we're comparing stalker 2 and gamma, not Assetto Corsa and Mortal Kombat

[analog palm]

i'd say gamba and s2 arent very comparable at all

[celest sparrow]

I guess you can say that it is better in certain aspects but Stalker GAMMA strays away from what makes Stalker "Stalker" while Stalker 2 is a continuation of the series

[analog palm]

same universe yeah, but like, the gamma is very different from what stalker is

[quick lava]

Nah. Stalker 2 isn't even a Stalker for me

[analog palm]

yeah what anon said

stalker 2 is as stalker as it gets

dont say something retarded like "wahh no a-life"

[latent elbow]

Yeah you're right here but what I wanna say here is maybe some people that like Stalker 2 won't like Gamma because the gameplay is quite different (a bit like some people that like Anomaly don't like Gamma because of no buyable weapons/armor etc)

[near estuary]

let's see
both are FPS set in chernobyl, both have a focus on immersion/atmosphere
just these aspects warrant comparison
people compared Chernobylite to stalker, they're sure as hell going to compare S2 to GAMMA

[analog palm]

gamma is in stalker universe but feels more like a looter-shooter imo

[dusk vessel]

Which it is

[near estuary]

looting was always a core aspect of stalker

[dusk vessel]

Yeah

[analog palm]

not to this extent, it was more of supportive side to storylines and quests

[near estuary]

you pick up what you can and go sell it off to Sid or whoever

[dusk vessel]

Even in S2 they encourage this by having a personal chest at every major trading hub

Youre supposed to collect stuff its part of it

[analog palm]

think it's important to make distinction on how much looting is involved

[near estuary]

you always loot everything you can in any stalker game/mod

[latent elbow]

Yeah but the grind and repair your own weapon/armor aspect seems to deter more than one

[analog palm]

the amount of loot

[dusk vessel]

I enjoyed playing stalker 2 and i enjoyed playing gamma, same with all 3 originals

Theyre different but same universe

[proven raptor]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/864320092182413312/1424891856826925157/togif.gif

[near estuary]

crafting and repairing obviously doesn't exist in S2 but the core is the same
shoot people
walk up to corpse
take everything
sell

it's just that in GAMMA, you don't sell, you craft

[dusk vessel]

Since clear sky upgrading also has been a core part of it

[analog palm]

Oversimplification imo, you can reduce very different games to exactly same core concepts

[dusk vessel]

And also being able to repair stuff because you werent able to in soc unless you did the battery stack

[analog palm]

the question is not the ability to loot stuff. it's how much stuff you have to loot. gamma leans overwhelmingly into looter shooter aspects, you're expected to go kill people even if you dont have tasks asking you to do so. vs other stalkers that are far more quest-driven

[celest sparrow]

Stalker GAMMA has an entirely different focus that it plays differently from S2 and the OGs
You can argue GAMMA is fundamentally the better game but it isn't a better Stalker

[analog palm]

that puts it well yeah

i play gamma when i wanna run around and do stuff. other mods when i want stalker

[dusk vessel]

Because, the other ones are full fledged games while gamma is a modpack

[analog palm]

this goddamn modpack is like 30times the size of most stalker mods

how many gigs was stalkersoup again?

i think around 30 or 40?

[near estuary]

honestly and this is just my opinion
stalker for me was always about the feel/atmosphere/immersion of wandering the zone
the original trilogy offers very little aside from this, the gunplay is mediocre, as are the graphics and story
GAMMA does atmosphere really well with how long the hobo-phase is and how vulnerable you are even in high-end gear, so for me, GAMMA is the superior stalker

[analog palm]

interesting

stalker's always been more about the wacky stories for me

[near estuary]

more of an interesting backdrop to me

like yeah, it's cool that there's some story about this strelok guy

but in the end, I just like walking around the Zone and taking potshots and mutants and bandits

[quick lava]

Stalker was always gameplay oriented

[celest sparrow]

Atmosphere / Immersion are the icing of the cake of the Stalker series

[quick lava]

This is why Stalker 2 sucks

Gameplay is just garbage

[dusk vessel]

Its not garbage, ive seen much worse

[analog palm]

the last time atmosphere/immersion has any major effect for me was when i was 8 years old

[near estuary]

and I'm the mf that eats the icing before the cake is even baked

[celest sparrow]

It's an improvement of the Trilogy which isn't a high bar to clear

Even then the Gameplay isn't that bad

Coming from you especially when you keep having dogshit takes

[quick lava]

I've seen 0 improvements beside the gunplay in gameplay, idk

[dusk vessel]

The temptation to say skill issue is strong

[near estuary]

I have almost nothing against S2 and everything against GSC.

[quick lava]

AI is even worse. Looting is the same or worse

[proven raptor]

what else is there to improve though? it's lot like the og trilogy had a lot of mechanics

or that the mechanics had any depth

[quick lava]

Stalker 1 was released in 2007, btw

[celest sparrow]

And?

[analog palm]

and it was an absolute mess of cut features

[celest sparrow]

It was a dogshit game for the time it was released LOL

[near estuary]

so basically the two major areas that still needed work after CoP

[dusk vessel]

My favourite game is from 2003, it runs better than soc

I still had fun playing soc tbf

[near estuary]

yeah 99% of people in this convo had

doesn't mean it was good

[celest sparrow]

Also "AI being worse" as if Stalker ever had good AI when the AI was made for a designed space / level unlike S2 where the AI has to work everywhere

[dusk vessel]

Yeah

Shit games can be a lot of fun

[quick lava]

Oh... did I even say that Stalker had good AI, man?

[dusk vessel]

If you approach a game with certain expectations, then youre setting yourself up for having a not fun expierience

[quick lava]

It's mediocre at best. But Stalker 2 has even worse AI. In 2025

That's what I'm saying

[near estuary]

I mean
depends on the expectations

[celest sparrow]

It's not bad

You are clearly just a hater

[quick lava]

Yes. I'm hater of Stalker 2.
Stalker 2 is the embodiment of LOST POTENTIAL

[analog palm]

i dunno but the clip of bandit weaving through your shots is what sold me

that's good enough ai

[near estuary]

and with games like SoC that are almost exclusively played by nostalgia folks, they're gonna tell you all about how the game is perfect when it's actually kinda shit

[quick lava]

Idk what taste in videogames you should have to actually LOVE Stalker 2 as it is

[dusk vessel]

Have you played it?

[celest sparrow]

When you are competing against Halo 3, BioShock and even Half Life, you expect it to play somewhat well

[near estuary]

who said anything about LOVING S2

[quick lava]

Ofc. Struggling through awful optimization and other tech issues

[near estuary]

we're talking about the fact that it's an improvement

not that it's perfect

[celest sparrow]

It's not terrible and you can definetly has some fun with it, but man you can really see how much they wanted to do with it

[dusk vessel]

Im just mad that on the 1.0.0 i had 270 fps in s2 without frame gen

And the next day it was 130

[urban inlet]

who uses Western goods?

[proven raptor]

first world problems holy shit

[dusk vessel]

Mabye

[near estuary]

true

then again

kinda sucks

[novel junco]

You guys getting triple digits on Stalker 2?

[quick lava]

NASA PC, idk

[dusk vessel]

7800X3D and 4070

[urban inlet]

Are you not confused by the food and drinks in this mod?

[dusk vessel]

I couldnt even get it to 144 my monitors hz after

[last mesa]

I wasn't even at 1080p lol
Although just played for a short time so only was in the very beginning areas

[last mesa]

Low graphics settings?

[novel junco]

Go to Rostok

[dusk vessel]

Ill dig up the clip of me having 200 fps in s2 on 1.0.0 version on release

[novel junco]

Its the FurMark of Stalker 2

[near estuary]

performance was okayish for my mid-range build from 2020, it just looked like shit and the game had a stupid amount of bugs

[celest sparrow]

I played through it with heavily inconsistent 60 FPS and I ate it up

[last mesa]

I was not happy with <100 FPS at 1080p max settings on a fucking 4080S

[celest sparrow]

I had my complaints but I really liked it

[dusk vessel]

I will say, the game is a lot more fun when it runs smooth

[near estuary]

obviously

[dusk vessel]

A lot of the gameplay issues can be traced back to shit performance

So they shouldve optimized but yeah

[novel junco]

and bulletsponges

[near estuary]

maybe I wouldn't refund the piece of shit if it worked somewhat

[novel junco]

and silly mutant abilites

[celest sparrow]

I liked the idea of S2 mutants

[near estuary]

bloodsucker in the first 20 minutes

[celest sparrow]

they are a heavy improvement over the OGs although they could use some tweaking

[last mesa]

And apparently can't turn on NVIDIA Reflex without also turning on FG so I played with FG for improved latency

[dusk vessel]

I also had flickering foliage that went away with DLAA

S2 was weird but fun

[last mesa]

Me too, seems unplayable without it lol

[celest sparrow]

if they haven't already since I did play the game in launch

[novel junco]

Bloodsucker screaming and stunning you instead of being a stealthy mutant sucking your blood

[dusk vessel]

I didnt use frame gen though 🚮

[novel junco]

like wtf

[last mesa]

I hate how bloodsuckers are in S2

Like it seems so stupid

[dusk vessel]

The stunning was annoying, especially when faced with mutliple

Restricting the mouse movement is just not a good gameplay mechanic

[celest sparrow]

Conceptually neat but terrible in practice

[last mesa]

Just make them stealth killers

[near estuary]

GSC moment
they're still stuck in 2005 with this sort of shit

[dusk vessel]

Just play the sound and have the screen effects but let me control my character ffs

[novel junco]

No, they should only play it when they spotted you

[dusk vessel]

Ah and that too

[novel junco]

no other reason for them to fucking yell

[last mesa]

So they are invisible but announce their presence to you at first opportunity?

[dusk vessel]

I did like the mutant models though

[celest sparrow]

I just liked the idea of Mutants in S2 actually feeling like a threat unlike their Trilogy counterparts admittedly some are rather not fun to fight against but they have weight and I can appreciate the effort

[near estuary]

no you don't get it
the mutant that only has the upper hand over stalkers because of its stealth abilities should always broadcast its location

[dusk vessel]

I got and older clip of me shooting a chimera in s2 with a pkm

Took like 300 rounds

Every single one hitting btw

[celest sparrow]

I mean the Chimera is straight up a Boss

[dusk vessel]

That was back in 1.0.0

[celest sparrow]

Same with the Giant Even tho the Psy Giant was pretty awful

[last mesa]

We're all going to get muted for spoilers

[novel junco]

Let me introduce to you a 1 meter high obstacle, the biggest weakness of these two mutants

[dusk vessel]

Its been out for a year

im not spoilering anyway

[last mesa]

You also just beat them using A D in S2?

[celest sparrow]

Not really

[dusk vessel]

nah made it much easier for myself

the clip is self explanatory

[celest sparrow]

There's a lot of unavoidable Damage with S2 which is counteracted with the amount of Resources you find around the world

[novel junco]

Chimeras are not programmed to jump up on top of stuff like boxes or containers

[last mesa]

Oh

[dusk vessel]

clip of me having 270 fps in 1.0.0

idk why it went that high because it never went above 150 again

[celest sparrow]

"Bloodsuckers are so cringe!!!!"
Me as fuck in 1.0.0

[dusk vessel]

loved the mini14 with full auto

[celest sparrow]

Despite all the bad stuff, I still loved S2

[celest sparrow]

It's not perfect, but I had fun with it

enough for 90 Hours of gameplay with 2 playthroughs before my Xbox Gamepass ran out

[dusk vessel]

honestly the most fun part was doing bugs in 1.0.0

[celest sparrow]

I didn't encounter many

[dusk vessel]

i dont mean gamebreaking ones

just funny stuff

[celest sparrow]

outside of the obligatory Save Zalissya mission being bugged

[dusk vessel]

it didnt bug for me weirdly

[proven raptor]

still bugged btw

[celest sparrow]

which was used as a "Hey guys! This proves A-Life is dogshit in this game!"

[celest sparrow]

Amazing

[proven raptor]

i was replaying in last month and at a certain point i just had a realization that i'm simply not having any fun

[dusk vessel]

oh yeah, one thing i really loved

you could fire the svd pretty damn fast

as you should be able to

its a semi auto idk why it shoots as fast as a bolt action in the older games

[near estuary]

[dusk vessel]

my sens is too low to do a proper 360

[mild wing]

Does the game still fake the healing animations?

Because it was driving me crazy on the 1st playthrough

[dusk vessel]

game was fun but i wouldnt replay it atm

[scenic trench]

great
now repeat that with at least 5 trying to give you hugs at the same time

[stiff wyvern]

S2 was very disappointing to me as well, but it made me try anomaly/gamma (finally) and i have never looked back. All the work of these modders is truly amazing and probably my favorite gaming experience of all time.

maybe next to XCom LWR and Gothic 1/2

[fallen atlas]

Fyi stalker 2 media belongs in #╓☢stalker2™-chat-not-gamma-keep-waiting chat

[dusk vessel]

ah there is a whole section for it

my bad, if its about s2 ill chat there next time

[unborn wadi]

hey y'all i noticed the installation channel is named "you cannot install gamma rn", is that still true lol

want to get back into the game cuz the update looks fire

[small ermine]

Game is dead

[celest sparrow]

yeah I killed it

[unborn wadi]

wait fr

pls be trolling

[small ermine]

We got DMCAd

[unborn wadi]

WHAT

[small ermine]

#📢announcements

[celest sparrow]

yeah I told gsc

I was like GAMMA bad, and GSC was like "yes we agree"

so they took it down

[small ermine]

[unborn wadi]

thank the stars for grok posting the no dmca links

mannnnn

[small ermine]

Tldr

We got dmcad over reshade

Not gscs

But it's the first person ppl point thr finger too

[late osprey]

The DMCA ist still here???? faaaaaaaakkk

[small ermine]

14 days

[unborn wadi]

yeah i read the reddit post about it

that's so ass bro lmao

[small ermine]

[unborn wadi]

anything big happen in the update? i haven't played since january i think

[late osprey]

WHAT 14 DAYS???

[green shale]

you missed GAMMA 0.9.4 which came out 4 months ago, but obviously rn you cannot update #📢announcements message

[sonic walrus]

why tf cant i exchange heavy armor for heavy armor for freedom

it needs to be a exosuit specifically, braindead asf

[green shale]

not all armors are exchangable

[sonic walrus]

"normal" heavy armor is fairly common tho

is the hybrid armoured suit good

[unborn wadi]

ya i uninstalled everything before i read the update downloading a fresh copy rn with the non-dmca method grok posted

[small ermine]

Non dmca method
Looks inside
The typical way a sdalger modpack is installed

Also faster

[ashen stag]

yes

very good

[keen bronze]

I mean

It's not like we forgot to update the channel

2+2 you know

[jaunty sigil]

Sad

[green shale]

I mean it's true in that you shouldn't follow that channel's guide atm

[humble saffron]

9

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/950436636221648926/1336996534515925064/ezgif.com-optimize.gif?ex=691c408e&is=691aef0e&hm=42ab032767305698943af12ca107b3cca40ac0611a823aff67a07824fe8ca2d5&

[unborn wadi]

y'all know what's the key for the quick access wheel?

also, is the "dot on screen to highlight items" mod disabled by default or

[humble saffron]

yes it dropped fps

[humble saffron]

check mcm for quick action wheel

or QAW

[fiery coral]

😭 these guys just want me to go and die

[hollow wadi]

Yes

[fiery coral]

should I just wing it ?

[west wyvern]

Hrm

Should I start a new gamma playthrough 🤔

Yeah Imma gamma my shi again

[fiery coral]

yeah why not

[west wyvern]

Shits easier to install now too haha

[fiery coral]

fr

guess it depends on your connection speed

[west wyvern]

Fair point it took like an hour to download to my phone so my ROG ally shouldn't take too long

I want the new steam controller for gamma tbg

[fiery coral]

yeah would be dope

[west wyvern]

Just watching gamma sti at a full download but not be done

[white field]

is there a way to tell if the run still counts towards the Invictus achivement? (asking for my braindead brother who is too lazy to talk to y'all)

[near estuary]

there's a mod for that

[celest sparrow]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/invictus-protect-rc1819

[white field]

forwarding to my room plant brother

[west wyvern]

What's Invictus again

[dusk vessel]

1 life ironman on hard iirc

[ashen stag]

its a code word for easy mode

[west wyvern]

Dx 10 is the not working one right?

[green shale]

correct, and DX9/8 require a specific modlist (there's many mods that need to be disabled)

[west wyvern]

Noted

Also

Huge development for gamma mobile ™ I think I fucked my install a bit so Imma try again tonight

[mild wing]

i should go out of my way to park this truck in a meticulous way that gives me cover in case there's an enemy ahead

[west wyvern]

There's cars in gamma?

[mild wing]

yes

[west wyvern]

Preem choom

[formal wing]

there's a few

[inner heron]

Peak Gamma is driving the darkscape tractor, try it sometime

People who hate darkscape just don't know about the tractor

[formal wing]

people who hate darkscape are just wrong

and don't know how to catch a vibe

[west wyvern]

I'm redownloading gamma to not my phone to try mow

[lethal steeple]

#📎mods-added-for-next-build message but what if instead of fearing all that you just make scopes harder to acquire (i.e. high tier stash only, locked to specific vendors across the zone) and/or making them not zoom as far as they do and make them more distinct from one another instead of having like 6 different scopes that are functionally the exact same but have a slightly different crosshair, a feature that only genuine retards have ever put praise on because "muh realismo i have the same scope on my irl rifle!!!!"

that would be my 2 million cents

[sonic walrus]

PSO scopes be like

10 of them, only difference being the colour

[lethal steeple]

nato too really lmao given 90% of them are 8x

[atomic pebble]

I wish that more mods had the physics of LADC Car Addonpack, PROPER physics for vehicles

[sonic walrus]

also pso being the most shit scopes, but also the only ones for warsaw weapons that have more than 1.0x zoom

even as warsaw pact faction i HAVE to get nato weapons bc the scopes suck so bad. russian scopes are either fixed zoom, block half the screen or the reticle is extremely thin/barely visible, or a shit colour

[west wyvern]

Pso scopes are peak scope design

Anyway I fucked my gamma mobile install so.... Trying again

[mild wing]

Android or iOS?

[west wyvern]

Android

I got slightly further but I think it's just mad at my phone for not having enough power

[unborn wadi]

what's the best light armor in the game rn? also, does radiation no longer go away on its own?

[hybrid karma]

I dont know all the light armor but I'd bet everything on the merc light armor,I bet its the best one out there,followed by something like predator sunrise maybe

[unborn wadi]

gotchu gotchu. i heard armor system got overhauled with the update so all the old meta ones are changed

[thin orchid]

radiation still goes down on its own

[echo kettle]

can we update gamma or we cooked?

[patent parcel]

cant for now

[echo kettle]

I see my fellas thank you

[prisma crag]

I want to drive an F-450 in Gamma

On super singles

Just one of these absolute monsters

[normal island]

Because this would be shitting in ATHI's shoes and basically making him go adjust a couple hundred scope entries to adjust the zoom levels

Since he's the one that manages pretty much all guns in GAMMA rn

Except pistols I suppose

[unborn wadi]

day 3 broke boi gear

[lethal steeple]

divine retribution for catering to the realismo preschool district first instead of looking for game design

[humble saffron]

tbh what is the purpose of scopes like the tac50 or march shorty

[normal island]

I mean doesn't that apply to most aspects of GAMMA lol

Giving priority to "realism" and "immersion" and then dealing with the trillion game design problems that you have to circumvent when trying to make it actually fun and engaging

[opaque wyvern]

gonna try my luck by asking any hardcore stalker reader? is there any great books written before 2007 on the subject except "Roadside Picnic"

[lethal steeple]

very true fellow internetizen!!!!!!!

[green shale]

roadside picnic invented the concept so i think you are actually just asking "what is dystopian fiction"

and/or "soviet sci fi"

[opaque wyvern]

was hoping there is very alike books on the topic

[green shale]

see my comments above. search for soviet sci-fi or dystopian fiction, of which there is a century of history

at least

[opaque wyvern]

well, searching myself is a different thing.. I was hoping to get something specific

my guess someone already did this work

[proven raptor]

what subject

[opaque wyvern]

the one very alike to Roadside Picnic one 😄

[normal island]

I mean roadside picnic is still just a loose inspiration for STALKER

[proven raptor]

so.. sci-fi?

[opaque wyvern]

saying just sci-fi is so broad

and counterproductive

after me mentioning specifically what i do look for

[proven raptor]

"weird soviet sci-fi in which aliens come to earth and leave their garbage creating an anomalous zone of exclusion" kind of genre then?

[normal island]

I mean you're not gonna get specific recs as "sci-fi books that center around aliens visiting the earth and living trickets around while a deep human conflict happens around those" isn't a genre

[proven raptor]

that's very specific

[opaque wyvern]

not sure I ever mentioned genre

[proven raptor]

what do you want then oomfie

[opaque wyvern]

and it is quite funny see you jumping around it @normal island

[opaque wyvern]

yes

this

damn somehow authors did only do a single book..

on that topic

[green shale]

i mean "soviet sci fi" IS a specific subgenre

i specified that because it is a specific subgenre

also frankly roadside picnic uses the whole alien intervention shit as a side mention to really dig into what it actually cares about viz. human nature

if you wanted 'wow cool alien artifacts' that is the wrong book entirely

[opaque wyvern]

i like the existentialistic touch in the book and the nature side

[normal island]

Not a book but the movie Annihilation is kinda similar

And a great movie

[opaque wyvern]

along with cinic style

[opaque wyvern]

i have tried it and.. quite dissapointed - were expecting more..

[normal island]

If you were expecting something like STALKER, yeah

[green shale]

so like. if what you like is the existentialist pessimistic interrogation of human nature: yeah go look at dystopian sci fi, especially the lineage of sci fi that came out of the collapsing USSR, start by looking up those authors

[normal island]

Or even roadside picnic

[green shale]

if the problem is "i want something exactly like stalker" then... reread stalker? i guess? you have to take things like Annihilation on their terms

if you expect them to be "stalker with a new coat of paint" you will only ever set yourself up to be disappointed by literally everything recommended to you

[normal island]

Yeah it's just a very specific concept

[opaque wyvern]

i feel like looking for something that can't be found.. lol

[opaque wyvern]

this

[green shale]

if you narrow your acceptable criteria to "stalker with the serial numbers filed off", yeah of course

[normal island]

There's nothing quite like it and that's why people love it so much despite the many flaws it has

[green shale]

but otherwise? read more shit

i mean what HAVE you read/watched in your search?

because if the answer is only annihilation: consider that maybe you just don't like that particular movie/book?

expand your horizons etc.

[normal island]

Have you seen Annihilation Veer

[green shale]

i did and i wasn't super in love with it either, but i absolutely understand the straight line between roadside picnic and it

scifi psychological horror films isn't usually my thing, i prefer horror as written fiction

[normal island]

the alien, the anomalies, the exclusion zone, the scientists, the existentialism

[opaque wyvern]

I have read quite a bit of stalker books in the past.. more than few..

[normal island]

I watched it before I played anything STALKER actually lmao

[opaque wyvern]

I have read quite a lot of horrors

by SK

anyway

i think i narrowed it down quite a lot

[green shale]

yeah you want to branch out beyond horror, it sounds like

[normal island]

Is STALKER even horror

[green shale]

the film? i wouldn't call it horror

that's why

i mean you could make an argument for or against. but you'd have to argue it

[opaque wyvern]

Solaris — Stanisław Lem (1961)
The Trial — Franz Kafka (1925)
The Book of the New Sun — Gene Wolfe (1980–1983)
Blood Meridian — Cormac McCarthy (1985)

[green shale]

and what did you think of them?

[opaque wyvern]

idk.. im just looking at it

I have heard good about last one

but the first one

Solaris

caught my eye

[normal island]

Nah the Tarkovsky film has nothing horror about it

Unless you consider existentialism to be horror lol

I meant the games

[green shale]

kafka is more of an absurdist. Lem is a titan of og sci fi

ok yes i guess it's absurdist in the layperson sense not in the technical sense. but in the "injection of random ass fantastical elements in everyday scenarios, like you wake up one day and you and everyone else is a cockroach"

i mean try them. they're classics for a reason

[small ermine]

aah yes all the slop non cannon books

[proven raptor]

wdym slop? this is peak

[green shale]

"psychological horror" has such a broad definition it can be just about anything if you argue hard enough. me, i equate the genre with a really specific kind of emotional arc through the plot, and i don't think "it's existential/explores existentialism" is enough of a qualifier alone

[opaque wyvern]

last non slop reading was.. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

[small ermine]

you know in slavland
being a writter
and going to write a stalker book is the definition of scrapping the barrel

[green shale]

unless the person arguing means to say "thinking about the fundamental precariousness of the human condition makes me scared" which

[normal island]

Also horror, much like comedy, is horribly subjective

[opaque wyvern]

slavland haha

[normal island]

I don't find any "killer/scary clown" movies scary but Fidning Nemo can give me a panic attack

Same with "psychological horror" because what if I'm just at peace with whatever concept the horror is tied to

[blissful ivy]

truly peak

[green shale]

yeah see "causes watcher to get scared" also ain't horror, that's just "effective use of tension"

[normal island]

I can watch all the insidious movies without moving a muscle but watching Incendies made me feel physically ill

[celest sparrow]

Stalker is afraid of being this peam so they had to write books no one was going to read

[normal island]

Didn't Hip come from one of those books

[celest sparrow]

yeah

[normal island]

Curse them, then

[solar chasm]

The closest i get to watching horror movies is watching some dude play jumpscare myers in DBD

[blissful ivy]

real tho

[solar chasm]

Shit's hilarious

[blissful ivy]

i always hated hips existence

[opaque wyvern]

folks you are actually on a server where that slop is revered

quite funny to see people say stalker is slop lol

[celest sparrow]

we love eating slop

[celest sparrow]

it is though

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/961687761151221773/1371436905668939836/attachment78789798.gif

[small ermine]

to say it again for the 300 time
for being a 2007 game series
stalker is quite mid

[opaque wyvern]

mods

[celest sparrow]

"quite" is too kind

[opaque wyvern]

ban this guy

[celest sparrow]

it's fucking dogshit

[glacial vale]

The competition was pretty crazy in that era

[small ermine]

look
soc is ok
prob the best one of the og 3
which isnt saying much 6/10

[normal island]

I wouldn't say mid, but it's definitely omega edgy, full of cliches and generally not a ground breaking or particularly well told story

[opaque wyvern]

saying stalker is mid for 2007.. idk if there is words to describe modern games

[solar chasm]

🍿

[celest sparrow]

SoC
Best one of the OG 3
Someone clearly never played CS

[normal island]

"Dull, plain man chosen one with amnesia"

So, most mid 00s protags of any media

[small ermine]

wouldn't matter anyone stalker 2 is the best of the series

[celest sparrow]

Not like the bar was high

but still

[normal island]

Like, Strelok and Shadow the Hedgehog have like 15 qualities that they share as characters

[small ermine]

hey hey hey
shadow is cool

do not compare him to iron deficiency protag

[celest sparrow]

You know what is cooler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StZFjIN1cPY

[green shale]

i'd say that's more scar lmao

[celest sparrow]

Zero Investment

play it now

[small ermine]

[normal island]

No, i'm not making a joke

I mean it literally

I'm making a video about a game that has another protag that's literally the same

[green shale]

scar's edgier

[celest sparrow]

Actually peak Stalker

[solar chasm]

The one part of the writing i'll say is definitely good is the faction motivations (barring cs)

[small ermine]

you may not believe it
But this is perhaps the most original stalker modpack

[normal island]

We know nothing about them except their quest to find out who they are/revenge, they have amnesia and are the chosen one

Except Strelok gets saved from the physical design tropes like hoods or black and red color schemes

But he's still the most cliche mid 00s action hero you can find in a game

[celest sparrow]

It's easily mod of the year

[small ermine]

whats the equivalency to shadows maria moment ? seeing wolf dead on the floor for 3 minutes ?

[normal island]

https://youtu.be/MiPkPyic3d8?si=sjUofx8IRaRWK95l Let's not forget that GSC was INSANELY edgy in the mid 00s

[small ermine]

this reeks of trying to be matrix

[normal island]

I mean duh

[celest sparrow]

I should try for 100% once I'm done with my semester

[small ermine]

[normal island]

No, go play a better game

[green shale]

let's not forget that [everyone] was INSANELY edgy in the mid 00s

[celest sparrow]

I am playing the better game

[small ermine]

holy shit PROGRESSION ???? IN STALKER ?

[normal island]

https://tenor.com/view/disaster-day-of-crisis-a-search-and-rescue-game-yuorki-building-tornado-firestorm-gif-4350254806710784845

But my point still stands

[small ermine]

i just noticed what game is this from

lmao

[normal island]

STALKER has some genuinely great themes and ideas going on but most things about it are "slop" if you considering anything to be tropey/generic from the time period to be "slop"

[normal island]

I will simp for Firestarter any chance I get

Actual fun game

[small ermine]

the amount of times i see stalker labs getting called peak of atmosphere
meanwhile me
knowing the all the generic background sounds are looped on a 30s interval

[celest sparrow]

It has great themes and ideas and the community defaults to tactical immersive slop

[normal island]

Sadly, yeah

Of all the things you could make an interesting STALKER short movie and wendigoon and drewski decided to do cagslop for 30 minutes

[celest sparrow]

It would have been fine if it wasn't for Mercenaries being involved

[normal island]

But mercenaries are half of it

If not more

[celest sparrow]

like a lab exploration and a shootout against the Monolith?
yeah that's some Stalker shit

[small ermine]

There's this other cagslop film made by Russians
And it's 40 minutes of uniterupted
Dudes shooting in a forest montages

[celest sparrow]

people will see that and shit themselves before calling it peak stalker

[normal island]

I mean, it WAS made by fucking wendigoon and drewski

Two dudes that are kinda known in this community for not having any real interest in the ACTUAL stalker games

[celest sparrow]

I don't know what people expected after the short SCP film they made

[normal island]

That is also dudes in airsoft gear checking corners for 20 minutes?

[celest sparrow]

but with supernatural stuff

not like it was any different from the stalker film since they made the c-con a fucking eldritch being

it would have been conceptually cool if they didn't show that, because the point of the project was to influence the human psyche by removing any negative emotion

[normal island]

Do you think their brains have enough wrinkles in them to understand that

[grave summit]

what we talking about exactly

[celest sparrow]

no because they had to make a scp monster out of it

like it wasn't needed at all

and it just so happens to be in a random lab in the middle of fuck all nowhere with light protection

[normal island]

Which is hilarious since the C-Con are just some dudes in pods

[green shale]

oh all this shit is made worse by trying to explain it and give it a "scientific" rationale

my read of why everyone fucking loves dark souls lore is simply that it refuses to point blank tell you any of this shit, because it realizes it's deeply incidental and unnecessary for the actual plot

[hasty imp]

sidorvich be scamming me bro

[green shale]

you could dark-souls a stalker setting REALLY easily. hell i argue it's better to have deliberately contradictory "lore". give the wiki writers an aneurysm. do it.

[normal island]

Yeah sometimes the unknown is more interesting

[celest sparrow]

like the protagonist having illusions of a loved one still being alive in an attempt to influence him was interesting

[hasty imp]

one thing ive always wanted fromsoft to do is to do a nuclear post apocalypse souls game

[celest sparrow]

because I've always felt Stalker was about illusion and deception

[hasty imp]

kinda like stalker but more wide scale

[hasty imp]

i mean stalker 2 everyone is deceiving u and thats one of my favorite parts of the story

is just how untrustworthy everybody is

[normal island]

Like Hip saying she's a "woman"

[green shale]

like if a main theme of roadside picnic/STALKER is "humanity's worse instincts intensified through interaction with an utterly unknowable, capital-A Alien, forces beyond man's knowing or explanation"... do not make the plot point of your capstone setpiece experience "man explaining how they know how the zone works"

[hasty imp]

true !

[normal island]

It's actually why I love Evangelion so much

[hasty imp]

ecologist the best faction

they are just dudes doing science shit

[grave summit]

wait she isnt ?

[celest sparrow]

It's such a common theme throughout the series

[normal island]

Other authors would've dedicated 10 episodes into explaining how the Evas actually working and the scientific process of capturing a soul or whatever

[hasty imp]

as much as i dont really vibe with eva i will say the psychological aspect of it is one of my favorites in media

[green shale]

ngl i think nuclear post apocalypse is passe but i would give fromsoft one free pass on the subject matter

[celest sparrow]

the stalker film could have been better in many ways that's all

just like the series, it's lost potential

[green shale]

the stalker film is just a very different thing

[normal island]

I think the game's lost potential is more related to the gameplay than the story

[green shale]

to the games i mean

[normal island]

But yeah, you could def tell a better story with it's themes

My favorite moment from SoC was by far the Merc introduction in Wild Territory

Because it is genuinely so well told and made

And nothing like it was in the game ever again

[celest sparrow]

my favorite moment will always be the Pripyat raid

but yeah the WT section of SoC was also great

[normal island]

Another cool moment, yeah

[celest sparrow]

Damn almost as if the coolest things about Stalker have always been scripted

[normal island]

I just wish it wasn't totally obscured by the DOGSHIT AI that Kruglov had that made him run at the mercs instead of away from them

[normal island]

N-n-n-n-nani?????????????????? That wasn't an EPIC A-Life momento???????????????????????????????????????

But A-Life is LITERALLY why anyone plays stalker, it is otherwise completely void and worthless!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[celest sparrow]

it's honestly what I always miss when playing GAMMA, there really isn't a lot of moments that I look forward too cause they're just not as exciting or complex

[normal island]

I mean Anomaly has it's cool moments but those are more by sheer coincidence than design

Like "A-Life it's so insane because [weird, ultra specific one of a kind scenario] happened!" Yeah but that was more of a fluke than something that you can expect and look up to in game

[celest sparrow]

like I think the last thing I saw in GAMMA that was actually surprising was this small scripted event during the night

which was my first time of seeing it after like possibly over 1.5k hours of gameplay

also I love shit like this

[atomic pebble]

Of the year it is.
This year had a couple of originals mods in ideas this year too, like SFZ Project 0 Deluxe Remake, Awakening 2055, Payback, and New Times remake remastered remade redid the deluxe definitive Edition with Mass Effect (yes, Mass Effect) plot.

[celest zinc]

Finally found adv tools

Truck cem

[hard lava]

!bs

[dawn marten]

@hard lava How to skip Brain Scorcher and Miracle Machine (Access to #1035807043933720576 required, take off your Newcomer role in #⏩start-confirm if necessary)

1. Download the archive https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1153718676592275536
2. Open Mod Organizer 2 and press Ctrl+M
3. Choose the downloaded archive
4. Put the mod at the end of modlist, sorted by priority, and enable it
5. Your run is saved

[unborn wadi]

which map in the south has the highest adv tools spawn chance again?

i’m guessing truck cem or army

[proven raptor]

!tools

[dawn marten]

To get a yellow stash, finish 7 tasks, then keep doing things that will get you stash coordinates (e.g. more tasks, opening PDAs, looting bodies). You get a 50% chance of receiving a yellow stash each time. This resets upon finding a yellow stash - then you need to do 7 more tasks, and look for more stash coordinates afterwards. _ _||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​||||​|| _ _ _ _ _ https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1098945649929617478/1313545970549526649/image.png?ex=67508683&is=674f3503&hm=acbe9b90a681d4c21c9e8f847bd919eb0dd8bd9b7e44b1af7a1d35527456e780&

[unborn wadi]

holy poppynuggets i guessed right

watch i get my 136th drug kit on this truck cem yellow stash

[celest zinc]

Imagine hitting the garbage 5% lol

I was losing hope i had like 3 basics 3 gunsmiths and 2 drug kits thank god the search is over

[remote socket]

imagine getting advanced and basic at outskirt in a row

[spark spoke]

Lost my dang iron man to those burers in the miracle machine 🙁 suffering

What happened to the SIN? I haven’t played in a bit

[celest zinc]

Burers? Theres more than one now?

[spark spoke]

Two on my last run

[celest zinc]

Damn

[spark spoke]

He zapped my merc ass

[celest sparrow]

Removed

[jade acorn]

what did they remove sin for

[jade acorn]

I think theres 4 in total now

[celest sparrow]

Mutants kept killing Sin

so

[jade acorn]

Cause of the base being in red forest?

[celest sparrow]

No

Grok added a Mutant / Sin truce to make Sin a lot more unique in gameplay

but the scripted Mutant spawns in MM didn't follow this truce as they aren't assigned to a Squad, which lead to the Sin spawns in MM dying before you reached the Brain room

[jade acorn]

oh I didnt realize we were talking about miracle machine specifically, i thought all sin were removed from the game

makes sense, thanks

[unborn wadi]

oh thank fuck sin is not in MM anymore

i remember doing MM a few patches ago and realizing sin was there, shit my whole pants

anyone know the name of the mod that makes it so that npcs can’t see through foliage? ts getting annoying

[west wyvern]

Is there more than one type of SKS in the game?

Like can I get a tapco?

[celest sparrow]

SKS molot

[west wyvern]

How obtain

[celest sparrow]

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

there's this illegal thing called murder

but I don't know if you are chill with that

[west wyvern]

Easy

[unborn wadi]

molot is goated

still doesn’t hit as hard as finding a green barrel ppsh off the second bandit u kill tho

[west wyvern]

I just like sks

Favorite rifle ever

You can change the caliber to 762x54

We have svt at home

Why's the SKS considered a shotgun to the scavs hearing me

[blissful ivy]

yay i got my custom .ltx edits done for my new gamma install

now to add all the mods i had

[west wyvern]

Lmao

[blissful ivy]

i had like 80

good news

i can take like 10 off

since they were added since 0.9.3.1

so that makes it 70

[west wyvern]

Tommy gun or kiparis

[unborn wadi]

kiparis

tommy gun sight is ass

[west wyvern]

Disassembly time!

[blissful ivy]

use top sight

[celest sparrow]

hipfire

[west wyvern]

Why p90 go in knife slot but kiparis cant

[blissful ivy]

press v with thompson and its ok

or hipfire ye

[unborn wadi]

did not even know

[celest sparrow]

grok felt like it

[blissful ivy]

because its not part of the Vision™

[blissful ivy]

your name is very ironic now

[unborn wadi]

i know fr lmfao

[west wyvern]

Kiparas is machine pistol

P90 is compact smg

[unborn wadi]

y’all know how to skip loot/mutant cut animations?

[proven raptor]

🤓

[proven raptor]

you can't but you can just disable it

[unborn wadi]

in mcm i’m guessing?

[blissful ivy]

https://tenor.com/view/nerd-emoji-cube-drop-gif-10022994352352256491

indeed

[proven raptor]

i'm pretty sure kiparis is also an smg anyways

the logic is that you can't have an autmoatic anti-mutant weapon in your melee slot

[normal island]

Only 5.7x28 or 9x21 SMGs can go in the knife slot

The other ones cant

[west wyvern]

Why bruh

[normal island]

Balance reasons

Those ammo types don't have HP variants

[west wyvern]

Yeah but it's a pdw smg (p90) vs a machine pistol smg (funny tiny folder)

[normal island]

It's so you can have an anti STALKER smg in that slo but not anti mutant

[west wyvern]

Oh makes sense now

[glad plaza]

why is this hill tweaking bruh

[west wyvern]

What's the default key bind for scope zoom

[normal island]

mouse wheel

[west wyvern]

Alr got my new wheel binded up
Can't wait to find something else I'll need later

[next phoenix]

Glock hornet with HP rounds

[proven raptor]

an exception to prove the rule

[harsh kraken]

what about the one handed p90

[celest sparrow]

it's fmj / ap only

[hasty imp]

i really wanna repair this steyr i found

but i dont think im really gonna be able to get the parts for it

[dusk vessel]

also that one pm with 33 rounds and automatic

but 9x18

glock19 hornet for poor people

[west wyvern]

The stechkin

Also Is the svd good? I just got one and have a green barrel for it should I swap to it from my glorious sks

[proven raptor]

it looks good which is the most important factor

[west wyvern]

SKS looks better tho

[proven raptor]

then simply use both

you do have two slots after all

[west wyvern]

Yes a dmr and a dmr what could go wrong

[proven raptor]

nothing

[west wyvern]

The mutant craving cqc

[rancid bone]

Ill put it here too: So, tried out Escape from Tarkov in hopes of fixing the gamma itch.... UTTER DOGSHIT

[valid crater]

That's like trying to compensate skiing with writing an essay.

[rancid bone]

an essay is equally dogshit

[normal island]

Tarkov is very different to GAMMA, despite Grok's best efforts

[small ermine]

Tarkov is not even stalker influenced

[hollow wadi]

Ain't it? Despite it being very... not noticeable

[viscid warren]

see, gamma at least tries to be a decent experience and tarkov doesn't

[small ermine]

Look tarkov can be a ok experience
Unfortunately Jager missions exist

[solar moon]

Starve your self in a forest for 20 mins while shooting scavs and surviving 10 pmcs

oh and also leave me some snacks because im hungry your not

[small ermine]

Kill 5 pmcs with a grenade
Before it explodes type shit

[normal island]

Shooter born in heaven

[solar moon]

timmys worst enemy

actualy stir up is timmys worst enemy

[tulip siren]

skill issue maybe

[viscid warren]

https://tenor.com/view/сбэу-сбэу-удав-сбэу-комар-тарков-тарков-сбэу-gif-1800793246281585389

[near estuary]

you don't get it man
eating a jar of mayonase and then sitting in a bush for 20 minutes is peak PvP FPS gameplay

[viscid warren]

steam tags don't lie

[hollow tendon]

guys how can i print mods on my modlist ?