╓☢stalker-chat

[lavish lynx]

Great for the Brain Scorcher

[mighty viper]

it's just extrelemy rare in the north

[warm verge]

like im completely fine with FSR

but DLSS should just die

[hard zealot]

DLSS does like bad, very blurry and frames look like they are playing catch up

[trail vault]

damn, in my both of my main previous saves I managed to find it, but on this current one (the biggest and longest) - still nothing

[hard zealot]

i miss UE4

[open python]

Unreal engine?

[warm verge]

can we just not fucking use UE5 for games

[lavish lynx]

Eh both are fine if its properly implemented.

Sadly some games really implement one or the other poorly

[warm verge]

UE5 just sucks idk what to tell you

[rustic iron]

Stalker 2 issue is fricking ue5

And devs inability to use it properly

[lavish lynx]

Member Crysis 1.

I member.

[wide fable]

Shift and +/-,but that set me on the right track. Thanks,man!

[open python]

Can the pda run crysis

[wide fable]

I now have a decent sight picture.

[iron lake]

Would there be a way to implement Gork's proposed Duty and CS change, without waiting for a mod to do it? Is there some sort of file you can alter to change the standings of each faction?

[lavish lynx]

Lets just go back to 4:3 resolutions.

I played anomaly at a crisp and smooth 1600x1200 @ 85hz max settings and SSS. 😭.

[open python]

gork

[lavish lynx]

O ^ O face

[lavish lynx]

It can run Sdoom

[wide fable]

Would it be overkill to want electronic sights need batteries?

[wide fable]

A fucking pregnancy test can run Doom.

[open python]

no perfectly realistic and balanced

[warm verge]

the soul of an engineer at Lockheed Martin can run doom

[wide fable]

They have souls?

[lavish lynx]

Thats implying they have souls they haven't sold

[open python]

can my brain run doom

[trail vault]

what is "fun allowed" setting in user.ltx lmao 😂
why its not allowed by default

[warm verge]

they do

[flint current]

no fun allowed!

[warm verge]

they just don't know the concept of a moral compass

[lavish lynx]

Need a !fun bot command

Lol

[trail vault]

!fun

eh, I was hoping its already there :P

definitely no fun allowed

[lavish lynx]

Fun is doing the contract with the zone

[open python]

Dooty

[lavish lynx]

Doodie

[open python]

Call of doodie :broken warefare mod

[lavish lynx]

Can the Brain Scorcher work on

Or are they naturally immune to psy effects

[hard zealot]

Scientists when somethings frys their brain after inventing the brain scorching device

[trail vault]

scientists when unforeseen consequences

[lavish lynx]

can totally bypass radar via red forest

[wide fable]

I think,once it hits December in-game,I'm gonna see about making the Zone look wintry.

[trail vault]

im doing it right now, time to get snowy

btw I wonder if it changes sin coat textures to something whitish, cuz they were very sneaky in red forest, but gonna be too visible 🤔

[wide fable]

It's been snowy here in Canada for the better part of a month,but Ukraine's climate is much milder than Canada's,so... I'm deciding December is when I make it wintry in the Zone.

[lavish lynx]

Cold open in the zone.

Letterkenny but its Stalker. Lol

[wide fable]

Is that all you know about Canada? Letterkenny?

[errant dragon]

Canada is nothing but Letterkenny and Tim Hortons

[wide fable]

flings a snowball at Snicks' face

Anyways,I have one complaint about thermal sights: They can't see Suckers while they're cloaked.
You'd think they'd be able to.

[lavish lynx]

Great fishin In Quebec

[lavish lynx]

Normal suckers you can when they get close. But psysuckers no.

[wide fable]

When they're close,they're not cloaked.

[errant dragon]

french canadians

[lilac carbon]

what happens if i turn off outfit loot factor?

[mighty viper]

the issue is that you also need to change the all the dynamic tasks to take this into account

that is optional though I agree

and I'm also not sure how it's gonna affect existing saves

[fresh shale]

Instantly cooked if you're clear sky chilling in rostok

[wide fable]

<Angry Slav noises and automatic gunfire>

[trail vault]

btw did you implement already armor rebalance you wanted? 👀
I just updated gamma since august...

[atomic pebble]

CS level design:

SoC level design:

[analog palm]

#📎to-do

hell yeah

more stuff to shoot as csky

[atomic pebble]

No, in Legend Returns Clear Sky and Duty are enemies and that don't make the gameplay "less fun" for example.
U have loners, ecologists and clear sky, why have 3 factions with general-relations soooo similar between em?

[trail vault]

how to disable tutorial mod popups? just updated gamma, it spams me

[atomic pebble]

Even, ecologists have his base on a swampy area, like Clear Sky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't has much sense that CS remain as allie of much-factions, tho, idk if it's ok that CS be neutral with the mercenaries or freedom according to story/lore-thingis but, are gameplay thingis

[novel junco]

Clear Sky would have wanted to contain the zone, While Duty wanted to destroy it, it they were still alive, i guess that would have made them enemies

[atomic pebble]

The theme of "what happened with Clear Sky" is one of these thingis that are open to several interpretations, i mean, in CoP u have Novikov and Nimble, after, u can make the "speculation" that some people like Suslov, Beanpolev, Cold and Ivan Trodnik are alive because they are "the people of the base"

I like both thingis when are well executed

[green shale]

!npe

[dawn marten]

@trail vault
How to make tutorials play again:
When in the main menu, go to Mod Configuration Menu and find NPE Modules, then disable the checkbox on tutorials you want to view again.

How to disable tutorials entirely:
When in the main menu, go to Mod Configuration Menu and find NPE, then in the General tab untick the Enable checkbox.

[hollow wadi]

Another #📎to-do message where Grok suggested a thing and the masses voted "Yes" because it's Grok, so it must be a good idea

[atomic pebble]

For example, in Legend Returns u have CS remnants and they abandoned his base in the swamps, + u have more remnants group, too, the game it's set before SoC events sooo don't passed many time after CS events

[atomic pebble]

Not only by that, several months ago i "analised" the thingi and that CS be enemy of Duty has all the sense of the world to me, but, still, idk

U can suppose that they are enemies by simply see that they have 0 direct-relation with Duty and have 1000000000000000000000000 thingis with Freedom

[atomic pebble]

Make Swamp guide travels much cheaper from Clear Sky base (so that you can be moved to the north side of the swamp for really cheap)
Imo this doens't sounds good, somehow

[random grail]

#📎to-do message remove guide to rostok

[analog palm]

personally i made csky enemy to duty and freedom, so that's one less thing to adjust now

honestly wish there was some kind of intermediate relation though, "wont shoot on sight, but wont talk to you either" type thing

[hot coyote]

Day 1 find
thank you for your contribution dead Duty guy

[analog palm]

shotgun

hell yeah

[hot coyote]

[wide fable]

drops a Vityaz with a green barrel

[hot coyote]

lost his life helping me kill 5 lurkers in garbag

[rustic iron]

The only thing thqt duty is good for - supplying guns

[hot coyote]

[rustic iron]

Well you.just werw waiting for to die, admit it

[hot coyote]

eventful day 1

[hot coyote]

I was just trying to peacefully go to Butcher
he ran out to help me and perished

[rustic iron]

Duty's got one job and still they fail to it

[hybrid cobalt]

#📢announcements message

The Clear Sky change will be so damn epic

[radiant sage]

What in the fuck kinda idea is that

[rustic iron]

Dutier when a cs guy all of sudden puts on monolith armor and says "za monolit"

[atomic pebble]

"merc path"

[analog palm]

yeah

i made mercs enemy to freedom and bandits
csky enemy to duty

if there was some kind of intermediate relation as i said above, i'd make mercs have that with loners

[rustic iron]

Btw why mercs are friends with freedom, if they literally tried to kill them?

[radiant sage]

Let's just make everyone enemies with everyone

[radiant sage]

Frankly most of the faction relations are quite nonsensical anyway

[rustic iron]

Hey faction wars all over again

[radiant sage]

Especially with mercs considering they're not really a "faction"

[rustic iron]

No but yes

[stuck sierra]

I think I am ready to start living legend

Just gotta repair my exo

[rustic iron]

You mean, you are so afraid to go to the swamp?

[atomic pebble]

Gameplay thingis

the people can do whatever they want do

[rustic iron]

Btw, are mercs still becoming friendly to loners after disabling scorcher?

[novel junco]

I believe they do

[sick yoke]

Only if you’re playing as merc yes

[stuck sierra]

Idk man

Might be a bit underprepared

[analog palm]

pkp is based though

might need a bit more ammo though

i heard doctor is tanky as hell

[pallid crane]

I guess Duty don't have any natural allies that sell Nato kit now?

[light raven]

is Gamma still 200ish GB? Just asking if its been reduced down a bit or if I need to go buy a second SSD

[rustic iron]

Yes

[analog palm]

it's about 140 + 16 from base anomaly

[green shale]

it's never been 200gb? it's 120gb completely installed

if it's larger than that, you have problems in your install

[analog palm]

huh

[light raven]

Guess my install was fucked

[analog palm]

mine's 144gb but everything's working as intended

i dont think i have 20gb of custom mods

[pallid crane]

Kinda sucks. lmao.
Guess you're gonna have to hope to get lucky, or rush to Nimble to get something as simple as an ACOG.

Just lucky that Nimble isn't CS anymore in GAMMA.

[rustic iron]

Acog fan, become pso enjoyer

[analog palm]

just disguise

[light raven]

Yea. I might just get a second SSD in general. My main is only a 500ish

[analog palm]

or grab it off enemy

[pallid crane]

I prefer irons over any, but PSO ain't too bad. WP have horrible short range sights generally, though.

[hazy pollen]

Any opinions on the new relations between CS and Duty?

[analog palm]

the whole nato/wp thing is pretty shit in general

[atomic pebble]

Talking about factions-relations, imo Legend Returns has the best settings, but the thingi is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy more hard in changes (and more dynamic) than just change settings:
Clear Sky, Freedom, Mercenaries, Loners and Bandits have changes and addition of bases, alongside the addition of three new factions and maps.

There some interesting relations like:
Loners are enemy of Mercenaries, friends of Black Slugs
Sin is not friend of anyone
Mercs are mercs
Black slugs are friends of bandits, clear sky and loners (bandits premium)
Freedom are enemies of Ecologists (buildo-related)

But there a great addition to all this system, there key characters with the ones u can talk for join to:
Militaries (being loner)
Monolith (being loner)
Bandit (being loner)
Merc (being loner), these are examples
Is a dynamic system that makes that in theory u would join to several factions on a single playthrought.
And a fresh change; there changes and addition about the bases of the factions:
Mercs are in Army Warehouses
Freedom remains in Dead City
Clear Sky has his base in Agroprom + other one
Black slugs have his base in Darkscape + other one in the swamps

and there several "abandoned places" because SoC isn't canon for LR, also there a new faction called neutral with several bases around the global map that in some cases are a "chill moment" even on the most hostile places

[hazy pollen]

I personally like the idea, Clear Sky relations with military were kinda bad, and that should extend to Duty.

[trail vault]

typical f-1

[green shale]

if you ever wonder why gamma install is as large as it is, get a utility like wiztree, run it on the gamma folder

you will rapidly find out what is taking up space

[mighty viper]

No. I’m currently actively working on it

[analog palm]

i'll check it

[hazy pollen]

Quite a bitch to make armor unique in this old engine.

[analog palm]

does it have lot of CoC jank?

[analog palm]

ditching the idea of every armor being helmetless would be a great first step

[atomic pebble]

Is buildo inspired sooo the jank is part of the experience

To me, Legend Returns 0.9.2 was the best freeplay that i played, even if it's incomplete on some mechanics and quests, probably the "biggest" CoC fork

[hazy pollen]

I dunno I like the idea of different helmets, problem is that most of the time you only care about their bullet+radiation protection. So when you get the best helmet all the rest become irrelevant.

[lethal patrol]

[atomic pebble]

Other freeplay with changes on the factions-thingi or gameplay loop is Road To The North

has thingis like Dead City above Rostok and Zaton besides Cordon

[hollow marlin]

https://tenor.com/view/mug-are-no-brains-gif-24962438

[atomic pebble]

Road To The North map

[wide fable]

Decapitatiooooooooon!

[lavish lynx]

The peak Stalker experience.

Ak74 w/PU scope.

[lethal patrol]

3 headshots for nosorog

[wide fable]

ISG Nosorog. So they're tougher than normal.

[sonic walrus]

is there any mod that makes warfare playable

[wide fable]

...It is playable by default?

It's just known to have jank.

[vital kiln]

if my gpu is kind of better than cpu, run without avx should be better?

[sonic walrus]

"technically"

[lethal patrol]

there's one in #1035807043933720576

[sonic walrus]

"technically" i can go shopping while barefoot. does it work, yes. is it a good idea, no

[wide fable]

No technically about it.

It functions. It just has jank.

[atomic pebble]

Global War

[wide fable]

It's not some duct taped together monstrosity,at least player facing.

[sonic walrus]

if "jank" means crashing every 5 mins and being a buggy mess, then yeah it has jank

[sonic walrus]

can you fetch me a link bro?

[wide fable]

When I played Warfare Mode in the past,there were no crashes.

Further,the only jank I encountered was that Loners couldn't capture points of interest.

[rustic iron]

Is this real?

[atomic pebble]

yes

[rustic iron]

Looks good

[lethal patrol]

okay base gamma ai combat feels worse than before, guess i'll try out redone ai for combat

[atomic pebble]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/zoneexpanded-road-to-the-north

[rustic iron]

Right? I have the same feeling but i thought that i am going mad

[wide fable]

gives Oni a stupendously large SMG

[sonic walrus]

can you send it to me please

like, the link

[atomic pebble]

are 50 GB of pure power, a minute

[lethal patrol]

i kinda miss having far sighted npcs from the forbidden engine, they would spot you from a pretty long range and it made gunfights super fun

[sonic walrus]

oh okay

[gloomy rose]

Damn, that map actually makes a lot of sense

[lethal patrol]

[wide fable]

Good guns.

slaps a .45 ACP suppressor on the Vector

[atomic pebble]

accept my thingi of friend

[lethal patrol]

i could since i have no extra stats for silencer mod on

but i like how it sounds

especially on full auto

[analog palm]

that's the exact thing yeah. helmets are linear, there's a clear best choice that overshadows everything, and then you can combine that best with any other outfit.

imagine if merc ace had integrated helmet, it would have a clear weakness; low head BR, which is pretty huge, so you can easily justify all other stats being amazing.
you could nerf nosorogs by locking them to apoc helmet-like stats; very little anomalous protection, leaving them to combat roles.
and in turn you can make normal exos more relevant by giving them overall good helmet.

and all those medium outfits that are like 10% difference in stats could stand out from each other by having different helmets.

the standalone helmets themselves could also be made more varied, so the helmetless outfits would also stand out more from giving you options to choose your own

[cursive jetty]

yall look at this HQ deluxe burer

[gloomy rose]

Anyone know if this got added yet?

[onyx prism]

no

or else there will be an update

[gloomy rose]

There have been updates since that post

[onyx prism]

efpwp peak during an emission that monitor thingy stopped working

[atomic pebble]

The "layout" that i like the most is the one of Lost World Mod, this is good tho

[scenic trench]

literally why?
oh right
another one of Grok's dumbshit ideas for no actual reason
stares at rotting meat

[random grail]

Can't wait to see new players moving to rostok and getting killed unless it will also be neutral ground like for military

[wide fable]

1) He explains why he's considering the change,and it makes sense.
2) The fridge legit existed long before meat rotting was implemented. It was clearly signposted.

[scenic trench]

1. and where is that?

[wide fable]

#📢announcements message
Right here,boat weevil.

[scenic trench]

oh
so just making them post-bs mercs that hate bandits?
snores

[wide fable]

Short version: Logically,Clear Sky and Duty would be on opposite sides.

As Clear Sky currently exists,they're basically just NATO Loners.

Big fucking whoop.

[scenic trench]

#SwampsAreTrash

[wide fable]

At least by making Clear Sky and Duty enemies spices them up by making Rostok a no-go zone,and makes sense because they're ideologically opposed.

[lavish lynx]

#DownwithDuty
This post made by

[rustic iron]

Duty's good for drinking vodka and doing gachi-muchi stuff with Voronin. Change my mind.

[wide fable]

I'm sorry,but how the fuck do you know?

[lavish lynx]

Sekrit documents

[rustic iron]

C-con connections

[lethal patrol]

ambatubas

[lavish lynx]

When the update drops making duty hate clear sky it needs to be labeled.

"The Rostok incident"

[analog palm]

No-go?

I'm gonna go there as soon as I have enough ammo

[lavish lynx]

Thats the spirit

[fallen stone]

To anyone who actually wins invictus runs: What is your general strat/progression? Faction? Endgame loadout? and also what do you think about companions?

[quasi grove]

is ACE suit still the best heavy armor?

[wide fable]

Dependent on what you slap on your belt.

[mild wing]

1. rat gameplay until i get decent BR
2. merc/freedom
3. no specific loadouts
4. no companions because they're infuriating

[hollow prawn]

What’s funny is that half the time CS and Duty become enemies anyway in my runs because of Dynamic Relations

[latent turret]

Still considered meta i believe

[vital nova]

It’s a nice suit

[latent turret]

I've never got one

Not lucky enough

[vital nova]

I randomly found it on a merc early on and threw it in my stash and proceeded to forget about it

Then saw people in here saying it was good

[rose musk]

ace suit pre BS is better than the neutral hybrid imo

post BS you can literally run the orange science suit and get at least 65% br with artis

god I love science suits

[midnight niche]

am i missing something

[rose musk]

which map is that

can't tell from how zoomed in it is

[midnight niche]

nvm i found it, the arrow isnt in the right spot

[vital nova]

Love the moon suits

[rose musk]

with 7 slots you can't go wrong

[vital nova]

I barely messed with artifacts on my first run

I’ll have to explore them more on this ISG play

Starting as ISG has been sort of a pain

[rose musk]

I think with the rework they are quite interesting, but there is an obvious meta to how to build your belt

[vital nova]

That makes sense

I just threw a pelt on my belt and shut my brain off

[rose musk]

early on tho having a soul is just top tier. idc what anyone says on the first couple days an arti with like +3 health restoration is insane

[vital nova]

Never did get a 99% pseudogiant pelt

[vital nova]

Yeah it’s quite helpful

Some of the perk artifacts are quite useful too

[rose musk]

I tend to end up running chimaera over psuedogiant depending on suit

[vital nova]

Like the black angel

[rose musk]

to offset top tier artis -health

[fallen stone]

what do you consider decent BR? I feeñ like its a huge grind to get heavy armor before BS now

[rose musk]

i'd say somewhere between 25-50% on head and 35-60% on body

but that also depends on if you get lucky with advanced tools

like I have an apocalypse helm pre BS

that shit bangs

[vital nova]

Is apocalypse helm heavy?

[rose musk]

yeah

[analog palm]

yes but weight is mostly irrelevant by the time you repair it

[rose musk]

I think he meant heavy repair kit

but yeah the fucker is heavy

[vital nova]

I got the nicer exo helmet early on but didn’t have expert tools for a while

Forget what it’s called

[rose musk]

quite strong

[lethal steeple]

i just realized the description for the apoc is still the same as when it still was the metro helmet but rusted

the altyn does not look like the czech m10 gas mask

[fallen stone]

how did you manage to get the heavy armor repair kit to repair it before BS? did you painstikingly grind the 10 medium kit uses to craft it with advanced tools?

I mean I had a sphere helmet which is also pretty nice but I had it because of military quest

[random narwhal]

Passive health regen is huge QoL

[rose musk]

it's 2 advanced tools and yeah 10 medium kit CHARGES

not 10 full kits

so like 3

[random narwhal]

Whats the meta?

[fallen stone]

Jesus this game has a LOT of grinding

[random narwhal]

It's not grinding, it's progression

[lethal steeple]

see the pinned posts

[fallen stone]

I've done the agropom-garbage-rostok-military route so many times I'm starting to go insane

[rose musk]

go look at pretty much any late game screenshot and peoples belts are near identical

[rose musk]

how many days in and how many tasks done

[fallen atlas]

@mighty viper I know it's your modpack and your choices but imho

• Scar helped Freedom solve their merc issues in Dark Valley and uncovered a mole in their faction, which is a huge deal that buys him good will with the faction.
• Scar then clearly helped Duty big time by cleaning up the mess in the Agroprom tunnels.
• Scar also canonically helps Freedom take over Military Warehouses, which again, buys him favours with Freedom faction.

It should also be noted that after leaving the Great Swamps Scar is no longer officially associated with Clear Sky faction, nor is their existence or relationship ever mentioned to any of the factions, meaning, Scar's actions in Clear Sky shouldn't result in faction relations decreasing between either Clear Sky or Duty/Freedom because one could argue Scar was just doing mercenary work for those that were willing to help his agenda or fill his pockets with money.

[fallen stone]

7 days idk how many tasks closed the game

[wide fable]

If I spawned a Pseudogiant in the middle of the Dark Valley Bandit base,how many Bandits do you think it'll manage to take with it?

[hollow wadi]

Fucking love this pos

[lethal patrol]

neat

[steep ibex]

can i see total NPCs and monsters spawns somehow? maybe in debug mode?

[rose musk]

gotta get your stash speed farming up

[royal ferry]

How many axe hit does it take to kill a chimera ?

More than 13 it seems

[stark quartz]

where does one get this grid for the inventory? that seems nice for visual clarity

[rose musk]

now that's a pickup

60 mag size makes my heart flutter

[lethal patrol]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1115558016608120863

and enable grid style in mcm

[stark quartz]

thank you

[royal ferry]

The answer is 23

23 Heavy that is

[lethal steeple]

https://tenor.com/view/the-truth-looks-away-looking-gif-25416051

23

[royal ferry]

I don't get that ref sorry ^^"

My new wallpaper XD

[novel junco]

Said no one ever

[lethal steeple]

nah a lot of people have over the years

it's pretty much an universal take that you're fully invisible past like 100m out

even closer to be honest

but it's something that people have complained about since even before gamma

[near estuary]

finally CS won't be just a nothingburger of a middleground between Loners and Ecologists

[sick yoke]

Duty will finally have 0 access to nato bullets (peak)

[lethal steeple]

watch as clear sky's story mode becomes impossible to beat because you still have to go talk to barkeep

also that duty will be completely unable to use nato weaponry

[sick yoke]

Unavoidable collateral damage

Nothing we could have done

[fallen atlas]

I will again say that this makes no sense because

Scar was interacting with the factions, NOT CLEAR SKY

By the time Scar has finished helping Clear Sky with the Renegade situation he was booted from the faction and became an independent merc once more

[sick yoke]

Completely necessary to wipe out duty at rostok once again

[lethal steeple]

clearing out rostok is now actually required to progress with the story mode on a faction that says it's recommended for new players

[sick yoke]

Just another duty L

[near estuary]

oh right, forgot about that

[near estuary]

I think the lore given is completely secondary to the gameplay changes
not saying it makes sense (it doesn't), I just don't think it's an issue

[near estuary]

solution:
make every faction sell both WP and NATO shit
nobody likes this stupid fucking division anyway

[lethal steeple]

it's lore respectful!!!! it says so in the gog page!!!!!

[sick yoke]

Once again we reach the “gameplay changes don’t need lore reasons” realization

[lethal steeple]

fym it has to be immersive dawg it's the most immersive game ever

[near estuary]

THE GAME THAT DOESN'T FAKE SURVIVAL

[fallen atlas]

I can understand a lot of changes coming to GAMMA but from the Lore perspective there is legit ZERO reason for Clear Sky to be hostile with Duty when Duty didn't even know they exited at the time of the game in the first place

[near estuary]

yeah idk why grok included it in the first place

just give the gameplay reason and be done with it

no need to make shit up

[lethal steeple]

from a lore perspective freedom being neutral with mercs and bandits also makes no sense

but nobody cares about that

and it's been the case since like what

coc?

like what a2 says is completely true

[sick yoke]

Duty being kind of xenophobic to stalkers they don’t know? Idk that checks out

[vital nova]

Depends on the game

[lethal steeple]

it's the same as when the un gun ban was introduced and people at the time bitched and moaned to no end that it made no sense but nowadays nobody gives a fuck

[near estuary]

weren't they xenophobic to literally everyone in SoC?

[lethal steeple]

because it's just gameplay

[vital nova]

I think it’s mainly in SoC, in CS they recruit you easy and in Stalker 2 you have stalkers literally joining freedom or duty for the benefits

In CoP I forget how they are

[fiery grove]

I mean it is still kinda goofy the only gun ban just so happens to work in the zone full of criminals lol

Id rewrite

[near estuary]

yeah the US should take notes

[lethal steeple]

and how else would you even explain it

without outright saying it's just gameplay

[vital nova]

The UN doing anything effectively is a joke

[lethal steeple]

because that way there would be an even larger outrage

[sick yoke]

It works in Australia-ohhh wait right

[fiery grove]

People would be fine if it was stated as a gameplay/design decision

[lethal steeple]

lmfao nah

[near estuary]

they would

[lethal steeple]

maybe in another timeline

[fiery grove]

Better then everyone listening to the UN for once

[near estuary]

just like with everything else that's happened in GAMMA's long development

[atomic pebble]

https://tenor.com/view/kitty-kitty-cat-cat-gif-8943478768003977184

[vital nova]

True to fancanon

[near estuary]

that being said
how'd you solve the need for CS players to shoot up Rostok to do storymode?
other than yknow, NOT making Duty hostile to CS

[lethal steeple]

changing talk to barkeep to talk to aslan

like how it goes for mercs and freedom

[near estuary]

that was easy

[lavish lynx]

Ayo

[small ermine]

aah yes balancing decisions

[atomic pebble]

Maybe in the timeline where is Bamba, Britain Anomaly Modpack Bionic Atmosphere

[small ermine]

it would be good if there were more relations states than hostile and friend in anomaly

neutral is just friend with extra steps

https://vxtwitter.com/Merc_Flx/status/1994561303344779492

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[lavish lynx]

Because of your actions, youve been labeled a WildCard type thing.

[sharp schooner]

I dont get it

[marsh bridge]

my gamma turned black

[sharp schooner]

i just brutalised merc base

shot 1 graze round on someones head

7 other peoples head exploded because of the anomalous round

i may or may not had my way with the mercs

[vital nova]

Wut

The perk artifact?

[sharp schooner]

artys ballistics

so

i basically

hit one guy in the head

everyone else EVEN if they;re on the second floor

their heads explode

[rose musk]

gonna have to tweak how faction relations work on task turn in's as well

[sharp schooner]

like in a 7 metre radious?

[rose musk]

cause a ton of turn in mutant parts give rp with loners + clear sky

[sharp schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/budgie-tennis-ball-cute-bird-tricks-gif-17092810

tennis

[fresh shale]

so many stashes and yet i aint going anywhere near red forest

literally despise it even though i need advanced tools 😭

[vital nova]

That’s wild

https://tenor.com/view/there-is-no-hope-there-is-no-hope-gif-13610811744268717441

[shadow cave]

How do I up the reticle contrast?

[sharp schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/there-is-always-bunny-hope-gif-5208531917248618827

[hollow marlin]

Found 2 expert tool kits without stepping a INCH into red forest

I would rather fight 30 monolith in river port to get gold stash then go red forest

[ruby ruin]

If you're really interested, send me a private message. I'm not sure if I can post my YouTube channel link here. I have a full playthrough recording, but I speak Russian, so you'll only be able to understand what I'm discussing during the playthrough with subtitles.

[fresh shale]

lucky mf

im getting desperate for advanced tools though so i might have to take the plunge

[hollow marlin]

Lemme know how it goes bc I often just pay to skip it if I need to go south, in the grand scheme of things I don’t think it’s THAT bad but what do I know

[fresh shale]

I never even go through there i just go around through limansk instead if i need to

[hollow marlin]

Lel can’t do that I’m Loner..Mercs no liek me they shoot

[fresh shale]

this is why i play merc

[hollow marlin]

[signal mortar]

seven controllers... i love you outskirts

[hollow marlin]

I kill em often but a Merc play through would be nice

[paper rock]

Merc play through kinda lets you speed run early game

It’s very profitable to be both a bandit ally and a loner enemy

[royal ferry]

Is because of an achievement or RIP ?

[hollow marlin]

I can larp as an American escaping a life where I’m drowning in debt from gambling and leaving behind an annoying girlfriend/wife that bitches and moans every day

[fresh shale]

yeah i just massacred every loner in garbage and got a ton of shit

including oleg and butcher btw

[paper rock]

And on top of that the loners get friendly once you hit yanov

[lethal patrol]

how tf did i lose my gunsmith tools

[vital nova]

[last gulch]

Yo is it worth switching svds calibers to 5.56?

[marsh bridge]

im installing gamma rn

[lethal patrol]

i checked, i lost my gunsmith tools 3 quicksaves ago

and thats like

1 hour ago

how the fuck did i not notice

[vital nova]

The monolit gives, the monolit takes

[lethal patrol]

man what the hell

good thing i have ton of patches, i'll just aslan lottery it back lmao

[vital nova]

Did you accidentally turn them in for a task

[lethal patrol]

no, i probably shift dropped it by accident without noticing

[vital nova]

[lethal patrol]

got back to base, wanting to craft ammo and wondering why i cant crat

[last gulch]

Spare me a expert toolset gng 🙏🙏

[lethal patrol]

zombie, i sleep

and there it is

[proper drum]

#📎to-do message i can't, duty already face a lot of problems at north having issues moving to Jupiter; WHAT IF duty and freedom call a ceasefire after BS is disabled, but only if you play as Duty? (same logic for mercs and loners)

[shadow cave]

Please

[hazy pollen]

Pretty much the reason I joined.

[hybrid karma]

I feel like turning off scorcher again is a big deal,I wish cease fire would declare for everybody,if you are a freedom now its with duty or vice versa,when you play as a loner its declared with mercs allowing you to go to dead city or whatever. If I remember correctly its only for mercs now

[junior notch]

AWP released and i think its the best weapon pack i've ever seen in stalker

dont miss out

[rustic iron]

I see you are a man of high manners

[sharp schooner]

suffering from scucess rn

[lethal steeple]

what's the gimmick this time tho

[atomic pebble]

it is, atleast until DaddyFWR be released

[lethal steeple]

honest question

[junior notch]

what gimmick

its a weapon pack and looks good

[lethal steeple]

i mean yeah it looks good but like iwp for example was seemingly doing unique things

[atomic pebble]

a great quantity of weapons (+100 weapons), new mechanics (like that the barrels are hot if u shoot too much), new system of recoil, resources from Gunslinger and IWP with the addition of new content, advanced soundscape.

[lethal steeple]

as in engine sided things that were behind a closed source

[junior notch]

i'm gonna be honest i havent seen hot barrels yetmaybe my install is broken

[lethal steeple]

ye i saw that the recoil mechanic looks

awfully familiar to me

but it's cool that it's actually familiar

[hushed pier]

If anyone is using tactical compass i am warning yall it fucks up frametime

[lethal steeple]

barrels getting hot as you shoot is something modded exes has since like 2 years ago now too

but nobody has implemented it into any gun afaik

looking at the trailer it was like staring down a skinwalker when i saw how the recoil worked

it was one hell of a flashbang

it looks cool tho what can i say

i give it a month and a half before the weapons are ported to anomaly as only animation packs and the same drama from iwp ensues

where people choose to blur the line of community respect and open source just because it fits their narrative

[sharp schooner]

og

[vital nova]

He’s happy

[sharp schooner]

log

[atomic pebble]

i don't think that AXR devs would make many issues for that, after all, they use resources from other weapon packs

[hybrid isle]

life is good got me a phone

gonna see if i can find a beer around here

[dull warren]

u got games on ur phone?

[hybrid isle]

spent his whole life's savings on horse girl gacha

[dull warren]

money well spent tbh, i applaud that

[steep elm]

https://tenor.com/view/uma-musume-gold-ship-gif-20842560

[vital nova]

hand in renegade’s pda to Sid
“Porn. It’s filled with porn.”

[dull warren]

https://tenor.com/view/gold-ship-uma-musume-dropkick-gif-1310520311152972568

[vital nova]

[rose musk]

what in the goddamn

[dull warren]

now thats what i call pork and beans

[steep elm]

https://tenor.com/view/hitsugi-no-chaika-anime-surprised-chaika-gif-13379257

[frank oxide]

[dense agate]

Jannied

[gloomy rose]

[vital nova]

Only way to get oflin to post in this chat

[gloomy rose]

I'll do it again

Just wait

[vital nova]

[frank oxide]

Exile candidate then

[gloomy rose]

I cannot be stopped

[frank oxide]

[gloomy rose]

[vital nova]

tipped off by a grey name

[stark quartz]

anyone able to post in JMerc's main thread (M1 Garand thread) for his gun mods in mod posting? it was active only a few days ago and Im getting an error while trying to post a question in there.

[hexed pelican]

marked one what the hell?

[gloomy rose]

Don't worry about it

[hexed pelican]

using my wish to force femme sidorovich

[gloomy rose]

Get out of here stalger

[midnight niche]

how does one cancel a task they accepted, which is bugged and unable to be completed.

[celest sparrow]

!task

[dawn marten]

@midnight niche Having problems with a certain task? #╭📖faq message

[hexed pelican]

!task

[dawn marten]

@hexed pelican Having problems with a certain task? #╭📖faq message

[midnight niche]

is there no way to just cancel it without confusing modding and debug stuff?

[celest sparrow]

Find the NPC that gave you the task

[midnight niche]

its sidrovich

no option to cancel from him tho

[celest sparrow]

Which task is it

[midnight niche]

spring cleaning kill all bandits on a map, by the time i do some, more respawn, its impossible

[celest sparrow]

I'm pretty sure that's from Fanatic

[hexed pelican]

isn't it just patches?

[vital nova]

It takes a while

It’s not bugged though

[midnight niche]

i swear to god ive been running back and forth between the same locations killing bandits

bodies piling ontop of eachother

[vital nova]

Yeah that’s how it goes

[midnight niche]

they spawn in the same spot around the campfire

[vital nova]

You’re going to the location it marks right?

[midnight niche]

yes

[vital nova]

Try leaving the zone and coming back

But you just have to kill a lot of guys too

[celest sparrow]

Could try this if they are willing to give up on it https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/simple-task-manager

[thin orchid]

have to update modded exes

[celest sparrow]

[gloomy lantern]

does anyone have really high temps when playing gamma?

like even when i play tarkov my pc doesnt get nearly as hot as during gamma

[sick yoke]

@celest sparrow the chimera in mirror teleported into the room LMAO jumpscared

[thick sedge]

is your CPU temp hot? I assume you're on a laptop

mine's tolerable if I don't use CPU boost, game's just like that...

[gloomy lantern]

nah im on pc and its mostly my gpu temp im worriedd about

like 90C average

[blissful ivy]

answer? take the side panel off your PC and put a desk fan pointed at GPU

redneck ingenuity

[gloomy lantern]

absolutely genius

[blissful ivy]

its not a pc build without the screwdriver and power tools

[sharp schooner]

what a nice helmet overlay.

sweaty ass

[brisk niche]

Locking clear sky out of duty is no different than locking loner out of freedom. How so many people are voting for this change when most of you don't even play clear sky is beyond comprehension

[celest sparrow]

Who even plays as Clear Sky when they are basically "easy" Loners

The only benefit is the Winchester

[brisk niche]

Some people dont just play gamma to speed run the game

[celest sparrow]

Why are you implying that

[brisk niche]

Because your first response has to do with difficulty and meta. Dont play dumb

[celest sparrow]

All I'm saying Clear Sky doesn't have anything to offer other than Mercenary not longer being a menace in 2 maps

[vital nova]

A lot of people just like Clear Sky as a faction

[rose musk]

this is just gonna cause such a headache to make work, every day we're gonna find some bug in how it's implemented

[celest sparrow]

Only reason to like Clear Sky is the Winchester you get to start with

But to be fair, the change will make it rather similar to Freedom
even more when it was proposed for Freedom to be hostile with Bandits

[vital nova]

I like Clear Sky because of their color scheme and armor

[stark quartz]

dawg some people play certain factions just because the outfits are cool

case in point lol

[brisk niche]

I enjoy the swamp and clear sky, and I enjoy going to Rostok as clear sky, this is another change that's only for people who meta the shit out of the game and have no self control , and need limits set

[rose musk]

at this point just make duty the monolith of the south bro

it's the only solution

war against all

[celest sparrow]

Their armor design is pretty dope ngl

[rose musk]

if grok doesn't want us to base in a relatively safe central location it's the only way

[stark quartz]

wait are people suggesting to have clear sky hostile with duty in the future

[sick yoke]

um ackshually that's supposed to be renegades!!!

[brisk niche]

Yes its in the announcements

[stark quartz]

like planned or being thought about?

[rose musk]

look at announcements it's kinda set in stone already

if he follows the poll

[stark quartz]

bruh

[celest sparrow]

He rarely does

[brisk niche]

And its like 5 to 1 already and its bias towards grok so rip clear sky role playing game.

[celest sparrow]

We don't have enough Factions hating on Freedom

[brisk niche]

Another win for the people who spend more time in the discord than actually playing.

[stark quartz]

in clear sky you can obviously collaborate with duty and they are ideologically opposed but willing to coexist

if people want to get into more gunfights just play merc

why would they want to make that change

[celest sparrow]

[sick yoke]

because despite the name of the game literally being "clear sky" scar is not a clear sky member

[brisk niche]

No one is stopping you from attacking duty as clear sky. But to change the faction relations because of a meta mindset is asinine

[sick yoke]

and thus they don't give a shit lol

[celest sparrow]

Make Clear Sky hate Freedom instead

[stark quartz]

i mean yeah hes a mercenary but doesnt he act as an extension of their interests?

[celest sparrow]

No

[brisk niche]

Rebalance renegade if you want a harder southern start lmfao leave clear sky alone

[sick yoke]

pretty sure they just hired him

unless you count s2 lore in which case uhhhh

?????? i shan't say

[stark quartz]

yeah that gets weird

[celest sparrow]

He was told "yo go kill this Strelok guy"
and everything after that is really to the player's decision

[steep elm]

https://tenor.com/view/scar-stalker-pibb-xtra-clear-sky-gif-14605512341377138525

[sick yoke]

why did bro pull out his gun after looking at a tree

is he stupid?

[stark quartz]

there was a deadly anomaly and/or dangerous mutant hiding within

[steep elm]

no he's just Scar

[celest sparrow]

Kindly open a #1092834455300866068 thread

[steep elm]

Clear Sky Scar > Sdalger 2 Scar

[celest sparrow]

It is funny how people will simply agree with Grok every time there's a poll

[steep elm]

I don't mind the extra challenge from having Duty be hostile with CS and vice versa, but at the same time I don't personally see why they'd need to be enemies.

[sick yoke]

Anyway idk I do think cs being “loner with 1 less enemy” is just kind of there

[celest sparrow]

Opposing ideologies or whatever

Who cares

[steep elm]

Like yeah, CS wants to study/research the zone and understand it better, but I don't believe that's enough to have them at Duty's throats or Duty at their throats.

Sometimes it's better to kill what you're researching (muties) before it or they kill(s) you

regardless, it'll be interesting I guess now that it was voted in

[celest sparrow]

Who knows if it will actually go through

[sick yoke]

Honestly I think it’s funny that the “I fucking hate the zone I want it gone” people are fine with the “yeah let’s study the zone” people

[celest sparrow]

A similar proposition regarding Mercenary and Bandit relations was made before and nothing came out of it

[stark quartz]

i think it would be bad because if it wasnt, i would be wrong, and i cant have that

[sick yoke]

Like I get that eco is supposed to be neutral to practically everyone

Just funny

[steep elm]

This line of thought would then also put Duty at odds with ecologists.

[stark quartz]

yeah the eggheads are researcher supreme of the zone

[sick yoke]

Yeah I know that’s what I was getting at

[steep elm]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-kruglov-kruglov-stalker-ok-gif-391588752309643144

[stark quartz]

so it kind of loops back in on itself

[sick yoke]

But ideologically they would be opposed

[brisk niche]

Done

[celest sparrow]

[stark quartz]

yeah they would, but are not willing to kill each other over it

[sick yoke]

People just don’t shoot ecos cause military would make them eat shit or whatever the lore was for that

[celest sparrow]

Lets see if it gets any attention outside the poll

[brisk niche]

Well my name isnt grok so probably not.

[stark quartz]

dutys only war-worthy ideological dealbreaker is if you want people to be able to take a vacation in the zone

and if you smoke weed while doing it

looking at you green boys

[celest sparrow]

Better there than have it be lost here so

[sick yoke]

lol

[celest sparrow]

Don't get why Grok wants to change up Faction relations when they are fine as of now

Even then, there's a mod for it

[sick yoke]

They’re fine right now but honestly like

Any faction you pick is just neutral to 60-80% of the zone and that’s kind of meh

Any main story faction at least

[celest sparrow]

Clear Sky is pretty out of the way for the Hostility to have any impact though

[sick yoke]

It’d be neat to have some noticeable differences between faction choice beyond starting location

[brisk niche]

You can piss off anyone you want though, ATM you have agency, make duty hate you and now you have no choices . Not a smart move for an open ended sandbox

[sick yoke]

And how far you have to run to finish fucking mortal sin I guess LOL

By that logic every faction should be neutral because if they’re hostile then you have no choice but to fight them and that’s not a smart move for an open ended sandbox

[atomic pebble]

Changes on the map!!!

[sick yoke]

Map changes are apparently really difficult to do

So as neat as that would be I wouldn’t expect it

[stark quartz]

we do a recreation of the cursed change in s2 of freedom getting rostok

and displace the dutyers to essentially be hobos

[sick yoke]

I was assuming they meant physically changing the maps and not faction spawn changes

[stark quartz]

oh yeah for sure, youre right about map mesh changes though, they are a pain in the dick

[lunar fossil]

Main/one reason why Grok wants CS to be hostile to duty, is to break Rostok Meta for them.

But I believe that "buffing other locations" could help reduce the Rostok meta more than the relation change, because you can just go in to disguise and ignore entire war between CS and Duty.

For example putting medic in to the Yantar/Cordon/Garbage would make those areas significantly more appealing

[formal mountain]

watching a bloodsucker get killed by a dog is surely something

[lunar fossil]

Also making CS hostile will mean, that there will be more potentional missions against CS, therefore indirectly boosting Rostok

[celest sparrow]

Not really

[fringe sinew]

is there anything i can do to spice up my gameplay? im tryna get extra modifiers on starting runs or extra weapon choices or something ideally

[rose musk]

black road

isolated and hated

[lunar fossil]

Frosty weapon pack, re:done, blood pools, dismemberment

[celest sparrow]

I doubt anyone would ever like to go against Clear Sky when they are so out of the way and have little to no presence within the Zone

[fringe sinew]

redone i already have

blood pools and dismemberment sounds interesting

[celest sparrow]

You can clear out their base once and that's about it when it comes to meaningful encounters

CS could use another base or some increased presence in the Zone

[lunar fossil]

You would still get that occasional CS in WT, Garbage

[celest sparrow]

Rarely

[lunar fossil]

yeah, I can agree with that

[haughty aspen]

So, this is why I see weird suggestions thread in #1092834455300866068 ?

[sick yoke]

yes

[celest sparrow]

@sick yoke Did you see about the free S2 update tomorrow

[sick yoke]

yeah i saw

wonder what the content could be

[celest sparrow]

It's a follow up to Grok's dogshit poll

People will just agree with whatever Grok says

[haughty aspen]

Somehow

[latent turret]

cs playthroughs are so boring as it is

who cares if they dont like duty

[haughty aspen]

I seriously doubt most of those people are still playing GAMMA

[celest sparrow]

That one guy cares

Which I get it

[latent turret]

wouldnt this change be a new mod?

[celest sparrow]

Depends how it is approached, Oleh is the one who makes some of the changes made into mods

[lunar fossil]

Rare as getting task for them currently.

Maybe it will be even in the end by the total number of tasks.

But my main point is:

If you want to "nerf" rostok meta, then make other locations more appealing.

Rather than just changing relations

[latent turret]

i do think we need a wp faction alternative to rostok

[celest sparrow]

do you mean a NATO alternative

[celest sparrow]

I doubt anything can come close to the Rostok "meta"

[latent turret]

an alternative location for non-duty WP factions

[celest sparrow]

[teal turtle]

Anyone have any ideas how I can get rid of this bloom? yes i'm using reshade sue me

[latent turret]

like replace the bandit base in truck cem with a loner base or smth idfk

[latent turret]

turn off bloom in reshade?

or tone it down

[celest sparrow]

I want to think it's a forbidden engine moment

[latent turret]

its not its a reshade thing

[teal turtle]

I guess it's not bloom...

[latent turret]

i had this issue way back when, using only reshade i didnt even know the engine existed

[latent turret]

its something in reshade

[haughty aspen]

Bandit base at Dark Valley, it's the "rostok meta" for merc, freedom, and regenade, especially with easy to access meadow for the lost squad job

[latent turret]

problem is what if youre not a bandit

[celest sparrow]

But I doubt anything can come close to Rostok when 90% of the level is safe to navigate and provides ample access to several areas

[haughty aspen]

Did you miss the merc, freedom, and regenade part?

[latent turret]

well yeah its good for them but if youre a loner your only option is rostok

[celest sparrow]

also yeah I guess in a way Dark Valley is also the equivalent to Rostok in terms of Task accessibility

[celest sparrow]

Freedom base?

Clear Sky base?

even though they are so far out of the way

[latent turret]

nvm

[celest sparrow]

Cordon could probably use a Guide and a Medic tbh

the Farm is a pretty decent hub that I rarely ever see anyone talk about

[lunar fossil]

For example good Cordon + Garbage run can give you 70k+ rubles with minimal traveling, but the lack of medic makes you sink money or you have to visit Rostok.

So adding medic to Cordon and Guide could boost those locations

[haughty aspen]

I still don't understand what is the point of the second loner trader at the farm if Sid existed

[celest sparrow]

Rostok is simply just too conveniently placed though that it's so easy to set up there

[haughty aspen]

Swap him to medic type instead of general trader

[celest sparrow]

then you have people complain that they have to run half a map to reach the general trader

People just hate walking smh

[haughty aspen]

Move the fatso to farm then

[celest sparrow]

sid bunker new dungeon

[haughty aspen]

Or player's personal home

[celest sparrow]

pimp your crib

[lunar fossil]

Garbage could be buffed by giving bigger task limit for butcher.

Aka more hunt quests

[haughty aspen]

He needs more interesting quests more than "kill that mutant horde for me" or harvest 57428 same mutant parts

[celest sparrow]

iTheon task equivalent of killing 10 boars before facing 1 giant boar

we need more night based tasks

[lunar fossil]

Well, the former is standard quest for every faction, while the latter is horrible.

Maybe giving him tourist safari

[atomic pebble]

"CLOSED SOURCE LEADS TO THE DEATH OF MODDING"
Gamba players:

[haughty aspen]

Or just mutant hunt but requires specific weapons to kill mutants or you fail automatically... Like killing Chimera with Makarov PM as example

[celest sparrow]

the only time people disagreed was when Grok wanted to nerf Hip

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1191157234261033150/1402045900876156948/togif.gif

[lunar fossil]

Kill giant using knife

[atomic pebble]

why don't quit that, even the author of that shit discarded that of his mod

[celest sparrow]

based?

[atomic pebble]

Obviously

[haughty aspen]

Fuck those idiots, the Hip nerf is 100% warranted, she was a demigod for no reason

[atomic pebble]

Yeah, is hard

Because is not only move a map to other part

[lunar fossil]

You know what?
What about butcher having fetch quests for shotguns?

[celest sparrow]

Butcher makes you kill 100 of each mutant

for 10 ru

[lunar fossil]

Based

[celest sparrow]

No step back but with mutants when

just 10 waves of random mutants

[atomic pebble]

For change properly a map u must do:
Change the transitions
Change the location in the global map (isn't simply mod the DDS)

[sick yoke]

10 waves of mutants but only duty can give the quest (they made the mutants mad again)

[haughty aspen]

That they shit talks you anyway even if you hard carried them... fuck you, dooties from SoC

[bitter garnet]

So... I switched over to the GoG version to try it out and all the DoF options are gone, as are the removeable mask mods.
I'd very much like to turn off Weapon DoF

Oh never mind

Weapon DoF is piled into a new spot.

Or old spot. And I'm dumb

[vital nova]

What's up with this stash being red?

[celest sparrow]

UNISG stash

It's pretty much a White stash with some added stuff to it

[latent turret]

Yummy cherry flavor

[blissful ivy]

no its apple

stupid idiot

[celest sparrow]

Real talk

Is watermelon flavor red or green

[thin orchid]

red

[blissful ivy]

both

should be both

any other answer is stupid

red or green do not need more flavors to guess from

[celest sparrow]

Would you do a swirl or half & half

[last mesa]

chat has anyone seen this shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWIRzZBb2-Q

[solid minnow]

Do you guys think I'm ready for Brain Scorcher? cleared MM with only a little bit of trouble

Maybe more ammo? struggling to find 5.45 since I'm a merc and I haven't done any jobs for bandits yet. Have an M4 with like 160 bullets but need to repair 2 parts in it

60rd mag of FMJ in RPK

[vital nova]

Ecologists really don't want me to get the cherry flavored loot

[latent turret]

lore wise shouldnt ecologists not care abt isg? or is it like a secret agency type deal

[vital nova]

Think it's moreso from the ISG end

They're secretive

But they're probably in direct competition with the ecologists tbh

[celest sparrow]

they're supposed to be secretive

as being part of the UN, they're not supposed to be in the zone

[vital nova]

Having a bunch of tattered suits with no way to repair them yet is the worst when it comes to disguising

[stark quartz]

for the love of all that is holy bring an epi pen

you will be carrying a disgusting amount of gear out of there

and like trim the weight of absolutely everything not immediately necessary for the fight and leave it home

[hexed pelican]

just be doing epipens all the time really

[stark quartz]

also true

[blissful ivy]

whichever makes more sense

depends which candy

[stark quartz]

but if you are on regular zcp stalker settings, maybe fill the 3rd 60 rounder and that would probably be fine. a magnified optic will help a LOT above ground. the snipers in the scout towers are assholes.

[solid minnow]

Yeah good call LMAO, I struggle a lot with hoarding items in my backpack

I do have the setting that makes it to where most mags including ones in stalkers weapons actually have ammo in them so that should help

[stark quartz]

i always end up slightly underestimating how much ill need and have to start using guns off of corpses to kill the last few. however much you think need, get more

but scavenging ammo will help yes

[solid minnow]

True true, maybe I might just head over to dark valley and level the traders up so I can get some 5.45

[stark quartz]

if you got an ammo crafting kit i would make some if possible

theres a handful of ammo types that are wholly useless 99% of the time and you can insta deconstruct to recraft into something else

like 5.56 hollowpoint or 5.45 hollowpoint

i tend to decon all 7.62x25 as well

and 20 gauge

[lethal steeple]

yeah it's ancient and it's also closed source

so you can't use it with basically anything

[last mesa]

yeah its not compatabile whatsoever with SSS 23 or beef's nvgs also

[lethal steeple]

gee i wonder why

[last mesa]

its a very cool fucking idea in my opinion though

[last mesa]

also wdym closed source

wouldnt all the code be in the file

did he obfuscate it or?

[vital nova]

YOU DID THIS TO ME ECOLOGISTS

[valid crater]

101 of how to not pay for a Psy Helmet? 🤡

[atomic pebble]

in some cases the sources are files apart of the ones that u install and in other cases the files have special formats

[lethal steeple]

the first release used to have an exe

idk if the newer one relies or not on the modified exe

[atomic pebble]

For example, there a lot of modded levels that don't have the source files in the installation (and having the sources of the level u can have the opportunity of make easier the process of optimise the level or fix it), and in New Project the mod has a special thingi for avoid the extraction of the files that makes u bullying for try to extract the mod and after proceeds to generate random crash, a feature implemented via-engine (also, closed source)

[humble saffron]

insane work

most stalker mods are closed source but punishment for attempted extraction is crazy

[marsh bridge]

its green again and because of my dogshit internet speed its been hanging on thap rework for almost 2 days now

[atomic pebble]

New Project devs aren't gonna makes their high-high-high quality resources open source, probably that wouldn't be worth

[atomic pebble]

Tho, be closed source in the most cases don't means much

[lethal steeple]

lest it reaches the claws of the anomaly player and soon enough you'll have armies of npcs screaming at the top of their lungs "GAMMA WHEN GAMMA WHEN GAMMA WHEN"

[atomic pebble]

Because in the most cases u can extract the entire mod with an extractor, MAYBE u wouldn't have the source files but u practically have the entire mod

Different thingis are the engines

Some cases where the common user wouldn't extract the mod if he don't has the "knowledge" are New Project, True Stalker and any modern Narodnaya Solyanka (OP OGSR, OP 2.2, and more)

[elfin talon]

anyone know if the cc grass and trees mod still works?

[warm surge]

Does stalker anomaly have a discord?

[sick yoke]

yes

[warm surge]

cool.

I am having trouble finding it. If you have the link and the time, would you be willing to dm it to me?

[atomic pebble]

!anomaly

[dawn marten]

https://discord.gg/c4RuJNs

[warm surge]

Thank you kind fellow.

[inland totem]

Gamma having more ppl is fucking hilarious lmao

[flint crag]

just search "Grass" in #1035807043933720576

[atomic pebble]

Nah

Isn't like if Anomaly had all the downloads that it has by "their own"

The thingi is that the people likes the titles of "Survival this, survival x, survival is"

[stoic jackal]

Woah this place has no slow mode?

[celest sparrow]

No

[stoic jackal]

https://tenor.com/view/labubu-so-tuff-questionable-choices-gif-333802206601020042

[lethal steeple]

most of the people active in the anomaly discord are modders

nobody goes there for support because that discord provides support for vanilla anomaly

as they should

and anomaly is stalker's gmod

so there's nobody in god's green earth that is playing vanilla anomaly

[vital nova]

Spotted the American merc

[brave mauve]

😮 i can speak here now 😮

😄

[hollow wadi]

I'd say I'm tempted to do just that, but it is quite ass
Did play gmod fully vanilla though

[last mesa]

https://www.nexusmods.com/readyornot/mods/6911

good alternetive

[last mesa]

gmod is a game?

[quick tangle]

if Clear Sky and Duty were to be made enemies, then what NATO trader duty players have remaining?

Freedom has bandits and loners for WP traders.

[last mesa]

i didnt think there was a possible way to play gmod without mods

[last mesa]

not everyone gets to have nato ig

[quick tangle]

yeah nah

[last mesa]

its not like u cant craft ur own 556 or anything

[quick tangle]

it's about sights and stuff like that. Also about some ammo too when necessary/when you got cash to burn. Also mutant hunting, CS gives a lot of that.
CS was THE Duty's players NATO aligned traders. it's a big deal actualy.

[last mesa]

are ecologists nato or warsaw?

im guesssing warsaw nvm

they are technically ukranian org

[last mesa]

this just means duty players are going to have to be warsaw kits only

[quick tangle]

like, playign Duty, CS is the second faction after your own you want to max out.

if not the first.

[last mesa]

well there goes the allience ig lol

it was a good run

https://tenor.com/view/east-germany-national-people's-army-ddr-germany-gdr-gif-8720372534198545277

[quick tangle]

plus it heavily impacts Duty aligned playthrough having great advantages early game due to plethora of quests in the South, but poor lategame since hostile Yanov/Dead City. (and not sure if technician in Pripyat is still hostile in recent Gamma versions).

[last mesa]

IMO we should get dynamic faction relations in the game and also i think adhearing to faction alliances should be a case-by-case bases whereas not all npcs honour anything anyways

it would make the game also make sense as in IRL there is always poltics, temporary truces, etc

[atomic pebble]

Which type of dynamic relations?

[last mesa]

i havent used the dymanic relations mod, just the idea

i heard there was issues

[atomic pebble]

I think that the thingi it's ported from CoTZ

And CoTZ has certains problems with the balance

[rose musk]

if we just blew up rostok grok wouldn't care so much

[quick tangle]

do people here hate playing duty or smth

[hollow wadi]

Grok did float the idea around of having bases be unconquerable
Any attempts at assault would've been met by mortars bombing your location

Just immediate fire on your exact coordinates, no lore explanation

[normal island]

Unlike all the other deeply lore explained mechanics

[rose musk]

no grok just hates that rostok is the nicest place to base in the zone

[rose musk]

what

that cannot be real

[celest sparrow]

yeah he said that once

[rose musk]

can we take away his keyboard so he can't type abominations like that ever again

[atomic pebble]

No

[normal island]

I mean I think the only reason that didn't get explored was because no one has made a mortar mod LMAO

[rose musk]

so like if I was a loner and I went into dead city and accidentally triggered the base I would get mortared?

that sounds so unbelieveably unfun

[jagged musk]

So when i go into pripyat as a non c-con alligned faction, i'd get mortared?

[blissful ivy]

Gonks logic is flawed

As usual

[jagged musk]

Monolith upping their game

[blissful ivy]

Nothing new under the gamma sun

[hollow wadi]

I'm sure it'd basically be "Spawn 3 IEDs around actor when they fight base guards"

[atomic pebble]

Not only that, why have that when the NPCS would have grenade launchers and just launch the grenade

[normal island]

Yeah that's still not a mod someone has made tho

[blissful ivy]

The custom modlist mfs just tanking it

[hollow wadi]

20 it is

Crash the gamer

[lethal steeple]

it wasn't even that you'd just explode

maybe there would be a "mortar falling down whistle sound" thing before you explode

it wasn't also a "he said it once" shit was being constantly on the table for like a year

before people started making fun of the idea for how idiotic it was

and then it was silently shelved

[quick tangle]

so this is the actual reason to fuck up Duty's NATO trader access/alliance system? kek.
Plus, why would you use Rostok past MM as a Freedom/Merc/Loner/CS, that most people play anyway. when you can settle up North.

[hollow wadi]

People should do that more often
So things like #📎to-do message would get exploded

[lethal steeple]

people are talking but the votes are in already

like look at that it's 6:1 on the votes in favor of the change

[celest sparrow]

People will vote yes to whatever Grok has to say

[lethal steeple]

yeah

[celest sparrow]

unless it involves Hip

[quick tangle]

yeah, my bet most people dont even do Duty that often.
all I hear are mercs/freedom/etc.
it's a big change for Duty.

[atomic pebble]

France must say:
Add new maps to gamba??????

[lethal steeple]

it's the minecraft phantoms for most of gamma's changes

[celest sparrow]

It only takes away Duty's only source for NATO ammo

[lethal steeple]

until it normalizes because of newer people

[hollow wadi]

Hi, bad.

[celest sparrow]

It barely leaves an impact in Gameplay as CS are so out of the way and have little to no presence

[thick sedge]

bad

[quick tangle]

yes, which is big, compared to Freedom's trader access.

[jagged musk]

Hot take... for loners either duty or freedom should become hostile the moment you reach 1k goodwill

[lethal steeple]

it also makes clear sky's story mode borderline impossible to complete

[celest sparrow]

It's only change for the sake of change cause Rostok too meta

[celest sparrow]

Oh yeah you need to interact with Barman

Grok clearly thinks things through

[rose musk]

wow the giant base that has virtually no mutants is a meta place to put down your base if you're friendly with them?

color me surprised

[hollow wadi]

Surely it's not too big a change to redirect people to Aslan instead

[atomic pebble]

Obviously brat, gamba has a bigbrain squad behind of his development

[thick sedge]

people could go to aslan

[hollow wadi]

Squad

[lethal steeple]

it wouldn't if save retrocompatibility wasn't a concern

[celest sparrow]

It won't be save compatible

[hollow wadi]

Hey, maybe he's finally planning to kill off old saves

:)

[celest sparrow]

He won't lol

It's going to be another dogshit optional mod

pre 0.9.5 saves

[hollow wadi]

If I were in charge of GAMBA, I'd be killing old saves every hotfix

"Why'd you update, dumbass"

[rose musk]

new gamma users are gonna have the worst intro experience with weapon jams at 100%, rostok hostile to 90% of factions within a years time and expiring meats

until they learn how to turn them off

[celest sparrow]

I still find expiring meat to be such a nothing change

and it was decided by a poll

[lethal steeple]

minecraft phantoms once again

[quick tangle]

it's not just about CS, it's about Duty too.
They are the only source of NATO ammo/tech for them.
Freedom has loners and bandits for WP tech. Mercs have Bandits. CS will still have Loners for WP.

Military I won't count as it was always special murderhobo faction, same as Mono.

[thick sedge]

200+ in-game hours is a long time for meat to expire

[hollow wadi]

I don't know what you're doing with weapons, but in my near 3 in-game weeks, my guns jammed 4 times

[rose musk]

it wont jam at all, until I start miracle machine and it chooses to jam 8 times in 5 minutes

[lethal steeple]

"wows we should really have this monster in the game yes it makes the game harde--" "I WANT THE PHANTOMS REMOVED THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER"

[hollow wadi]

Every Anomaly day is 4 IRL hours
That's not counting sleep

Your meat spoils in a real life day-ish

[thick sedge]

newbies can grind for a fridge with that long

also is there even a canned food storage furniture?

[celest sparrow]

there is

[thick sedge]

I wonder which icon is that

[hollow wadi]

A crate of cans

[celest sparrow]

I will always find people who defend the expire meat change to be rather stupid

[lethal steeple]

what's unrelated but also insane was the "check the math for the jam display chance as it might be wrong" BEFORE thinking "hmm maybe i should've just increased the wpo threshold to above 1.0 and lock all guns to 1.0 condition instead of locking all of them to the arbitrary 0.83 and let engine sided jams wreak havoc or call oleh to patch EVERY SINGLE GUN IN THE GAME to not have a jam chance at 0.83 condition"

[celest sparrow]

the only valid point is for immersion sake

[lethal steeple]

like what the fuck is bro gonna say the probability of two independent events happening independently isn't calculated like how the books say

[hollow wadi]

Oleh be like:

[rose musk]

jam chance change is just cringe

[lethal steeple]

and if you go and look in testers i did talk about that

briefly before exiting the clique

[rose musk]

just another funny 1% chance to lose your invictus save change

[lethal steeple]

but i did talk about it before it went live

with the same points

but i'm gamma's biggest hater so that must've been a poor attempt at sabotage

[hollow wadi]

Momo you're being distracted from flourishing by GAMMA discourse

[lunar fossil]

I haven't used disguises for long time, but can't be this CS hostile to duty thing countered by just wearing a disguise?

[rose musk]

I would not recommend basing in rostok with only a disguise to save you

[jagged musk]

Tbf if you are cs, in this case just move to dead city or aw

[rose musk]

pretty much yeah

[obtuse storm]

Is adding Arrival a wise decision?

[hollow wadi]

It's fairly easy tho

[rose musk]

I just can't believe the dude hates basing in rostok so much he's starting to make factions hostile to keep people from being there

[lunar fossil]

Depends how many custom mods you have

[rose musk]

I just wouldn't trust it on an invictus save

[obtuse storm]

I think fix basing in Yanov station, then we can hate on basing in Rostok