╓☢stalker-chat

[normal island]

Be the change you want

There's a guy already pretty much taking care of all the view models of every single gun in the game

[opaque moss]

or import an npc model before exporting

[dusk vessel]

its not as simple as just scaling it right?

[normal island]

It is

[dusk vessel]

ah

why hasnt it been done then yet

[normal island]

Open blender, scale it, export, then go into the game and position it corrrectly

People have lives

[hushed pier]

This is so fkn annoying like moveeeeeeeee

[dusk vessel]

i thought it would be something like barrel length being off

[normal island]

And are not receiving money for it

[dusk vessel]

valid

[sleek kettle]

But you say it's up to the weapon mod creator, no?

[dusk vessel]

its never bothered me personally

[normal island]

(the actual modders, Grok is ig)

[normal island]

There's these things called patches

[sleek kettle]

You don't have to say that like I'm a child 😂

[hushed pier]

controversial statement

[sleek kettle]

But I get what you mean, I'll look into it tomorrow

[normal island]

ikr

[sleek kettle]

Step 1: "how do I open blender?"

[normal island]

All and all it would take like 5 mins per gun

[dusk vessel]

blender gives me ptsd

knowing what some people use it for

[normal island]

IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING

For a complete rookie, probably a couple of hours till they figure it out lol

[sleek kettle]

And there's like 200 guns that have odd sized world models

Eh I've done equally tedious bullshit with mods in other games

[novel junco]

world models that use the viewmodel models is a great one

wasted polygons

[lavish delta]

Is there a faster way to regenerate psy health faster? Not resistance

[novel junco]

Psy drug

[sleek kettle]

As in too detailed for 3rd person hands? I can see that

Also aren't most gamma weapons like that? save for anomaly weapons and some others

[novel junco]

depends on the weapon mod

[sleek kettle]

For sure, iirc BaS doesn't have specific 3rd person models

[lavish delta]

Button for weapon inspection?

[atomic pebble]

There x singer that has themes GSC added to the radio of the bar in some builds but i don't remember much about that, just that the themes are from 1970

[novel junco]

BaS is unoptimized, thats a known fact

[sleek kettle]

BaS is very much guilty of having oddly small guns in 3rd person too

Always goofy seeing some tricked out AK thats this size

[novel junco]

Yes, lets add super detailed guns and stalker models in an environment where everything else is low poly and low detailed

[sleek kettle]

With enough mods everything is high poly detailed... Except character models for some reason

[novel junco]

And building models where windows and such are only a flat texture

[sleek kettle]

Idk I always find it funny we have crazy graphics, shaders and reflections, only for our guys to look like

[ember sonnet]

What's the mod that removes guns and armor from shops btw?

[sleek kettle]

Enable black market mod to get it back

[ember sonnet]

I'm planning to do a GAMMA run over the holiday days, not over the next half a year, so I kinda want to bring them back

[ember sonnet]

I see

[sleek kettle]

Your armor and guns will be back but at a slightly inflated price

I say slightly, get ready to pay 100k for a stock ak74m

[ember sonnet]

Damn

Is there anything that could be done about that?

[sleek kettle]

It's the roughly same grind, but at least you don't have to pray for RNGesus to give you the right weapon parts to fix it 😂

[novel junco]

tweak economy difficulty

there is SO much settings you can customize in this game

[ember sonnet]

Ingame settings or with the mods?

[sleek kettle]

So true 💯

[novel junco]

ingame

[ember sonnet]

And in which tab is that?

[ember sonnet]

Its great

[sleek kettle]

In the mod organizer

[ember sonnet]

I haven't played it for a year

[ember sonnet]

I meant which tab in mod organizer

[sleek kettle]

Just search "black market" and enable the one that has a number next to it

[ember sonnet]

I wanna play it differently this time

[sleek kettle]

Uhhhhhh should be under "additional"

[ember sonnet]

Got it, thanks

[sleek kettle]

Make sure its not the one under "disabled"

[ember sonnet]

Any other mods that are good to disable for a somewhat faster run or is that roughly it?

Oh goodie, Useful idiots has been added already

[sleek kettle]

hmm

[ember sonnet]

I'm looking for ones that are mostly inconvenient rather than difficult

[dusk vessel]

i always put the shop refresh to the lowest

cannot be bothered with 48h restock time

[sleek kettle]

It takes that long by default?? Christ

[atomic pebble]

the last chad was scar

[dusk vessel]

no it does in gamma on hardest iirc

or was it 24? i forgot

[ember sonnet]

Good reminder

[sleek kettle]

It might be 24

But when I wait 24 I get only like 52 9x39 rounds from my trader lmao

[scenic trench]

should be 24 in general
except butcher has 48h for; some reason

[sleek kettle]

I can't think of any mods specifically, but I recommend you to look into mod key binds

Stuff like quick selection wheel

[dusk vessel]

i dont sleep when playing gamma

always on drugs

so having to wait ages for traders isnt fun

[sleek kettle]

I like sleeping, it usually skips emissions

[sleek kettle]

Also that one mod that adds interaction dots

It's very nice qol

[ember sonnet]

Any mods that'd tank fps for not that much return?

[sleek kettle]

No clue, only performance mod i can truly recommend is the "turn this on if you stutter" mod

[ember sonnet]

Admittedly the main reason I am running GAMMA again instead of plain Anomaly like I planned for the holidays was because I really missed the hardhitting pistols

[sleek kettle]

I mean if you don't give a shit about visuals you can look into turning off SSS and SSR

[ember sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/big-iron-big-gun-marty-robbins-gif-23220438

[ember sonnet]

Got it

[dusk vessel]

also playing on dx9

[sleek kettle]

But imo it's a singleplayer game, I'd rather have beautiful visuals instead of fps lol

[ember sonnet]

I am playing this one on a laptop rather than a PC

PC g o n e

Dunno how its going to react

But I don't think it'll be that bad

[sleek kettle]

This too, keep in mind it requires a little bit of setup (there's a channel guide dedicated to it @ember sonnet)

[ember sonnet]

If it is, guess SSS and SSR will have to go bye bye

[ember sonnet]

May I know where?

[sleek kettle]

I game on a 1060, but with full graphics

[dusk vessel]

damn

[sleek kettle]

30 fps

[dusk vessel]

i get close to 170 on a 4070

[dense agate]

Nowhere do I mention anything about milsim

[sleek kettle]

worth it, it's so beautiful

[dusk vessel]

the windows xd

it does though

[sleek kettle]

@ember sonnet

[dusk vessel]

its like playing minecraft with some heavy shaders

i wouldnt recomand dx8

9 is better if you want performance

i meant the window textures

[sleek kettle]

I realized lol

[dusk vessel]

its still the old low res ones

which is fine

[sleek kettle]

Yeaaaaa not much you can do about that

There is a mod for it that I have, but its not compatible with inverno

[dusk vessel]

the ground looks really nice

in combination with the shader

[sleek kettle]

That's inverno, it looks really good with glossy puddles

[normal island]

Your whole argument to not add a cool gun is "that wouldn't make sense irl"

[dense agate]

The gauss is cool, I even mentioned already that my issue with specifically the MG42 is that it feels, feels, feels out of place. It feels like call of duty. It doesn’t match the overall atmosphere of the post-Soviet Zone. You people are attacking an argument I didn’t make

[dense agate]

No

[normal island]

Good thing it isn't real life but rather a videogame

[dense agate]

Go read slugger

[dusk vessel]

MG3 would be something UNISG would bring

[dense agate]

.

[dusk vessel]

still its a video game

mg42 is more fun than an mg3

simple as that

[normal island]

Yeah the whole argument of that guy is "this gun in game would be cool"

[dense agate]

It’s a video game isn’t an excuse to have zero focus on maintaining any atmosphere

[ember sonnet]

Got it, what does it do specifically?

[dense agate]

A BMW M3 with heated seats and a wide body kit would be cool too

[ember sonnet]

I'll run GAMMA normally first, then run it, and compare

[sleek kettle]

The puddles look so good 🤌

[dusk vessel]

its not trying to be hyper realistic in the first place

[dense agate]

But it wouldn’t really fit in the atmosphere

[normal island]

STALKER had always had crazy and impossible guns

So that's clearly just a you issue

[sleek kettle]

It's just a guide to switching to dx9 without breaking the game

Dx9 is an older method of graphics, so it runs much better on slower hardware

[dusk vessel]

the deagle in 9x39

lmao

[dense agate]

I don’t know how many more times I’ll repeat that I’m not making a realism argument

[dusk vessel]

that was in soc right

[dense agate]

https://tenor.com/view/dono-wall-gif-24048347

[atomic pebble]

This gun would be cool in-game

[normal island]

Desert eagle, DP-12, Kriss Vector, AN-94, L85, LR300

None of those make any sense to be in the games, yet here we are

[dusk vessel]

there is a lot more

[normal island]

Sure is

Even vanilla Anomaly adds shit like that WA2000

[dusk vessel]

yeah

[dense agate]

They fit the early 2000s post Soviet shooter vibe. A ww2 machine gun doesn’t

[dusk vessel]

or even in the soc it had an L85

[sleek kettle]

I wish we had more SG rifles

[dusk vessel]

and an FN2000

[dense agate]

You guys are murdering an argument I’m literally not making

[normal island]

A vector fits post Soviet vibes?

[dusk vessel]

one thing stalker has been known for is having whacky guns

[dense agate]

Vector isn’t in the OT

[normal island]

It's in S2 tho

[dusk vessel]

hillbilly american submachine gun thats expensive asf

[dense agate]

Okay

[shell orchid]

Is there anywhere specific where we can ask for help with the mod download? I got a new PC and have already installed and played before but for some reason the sames steps aren't working, specifically for the base anomaly download

[normal island]

[dusk vessel]

also tommy gun with drum mag

museum piece

[sleek kettle]

There's a whole channel

called install support i think

[shell orchid]

thonk you

[normal island]

There's also the Mosin

[dusk vessel]

kar98 mod2

[atomic pebble]

[sleek kettle]

No problem

[dusk vessel]

well a lot of people still have those as hunting rifles at least i guess

[dense agate]

I don’t care for the Tommy gun either lol, but it was given to the soviets in large quantities via lend lease

[sleek kettle]

This is not gamma right?

[dusk vessel]

not the drum mag ones

they got the shitty mass produced variant

[normal island]

So you are literally doing the "but it makes sense because irl"

[dense agate]

Mosin makes total sense, they made millions of them and they didn’t just dissolve

[sleek kettle]

I'd love to have old school hud in gamma

[normal island]

You are LITERALLY doing that

[dusk vessel]

G3 is something that would for sure be used in the zone

[dense agate]

I don’t care for the Tommy primarily because it makes the UMP kinda obsolete in game an I don’t like the ww2 shooter vibe

[dusk vessel]

but its not in gamma or any stalker game for that matter

its not about realism never was

[sleek kettle]

To play devil's advocate, didn't soldiers in Ukraine find a stockpile of Thompsons

[normal island]

The "grampas old Mosin" thing is a myth, soldiers couldn't keep any issued weapons after the war, they're not as common in civilian hands as people like to think lol

[dense agate]

It does “make sense”, I guess, but I still don’t like it

[dusk vessel]

i know

[dense agate]

Sure but they’re in Soviet stockpiles still

[dusk vessel]

its why i said hunting rifles specifically

[normal island]

Which is not in Ukraine

[dusk vessel]

they were still made for civilian use

[normal island]

And hasn't been for 40 years or so

So no, it doesn't make sense

[dense agate]

ukraine
not a soviet territory

I didn’t realize you were just trolling

Goodbye

[normal island]

Hasn't been for 40 or so years

[dusk vessel]

friend of mine whos from ukraine still has a mosin from like 100 years ago

[normal island]

Ok you fucking retard lmao

Milsim kids are the cancer of this community go play tarkov

[dense agate]

You lost, you got mad first

[dusk vessel]

youre brain damaged

[dense agate]

Mosin is in tarkov, keep screaming at clouds tho lol

[sleek kettle]

Someone get that one video of the mosin wikipedia page where the star wars intro plays over the "conflicts involving mosin" section

[dusk vessel]

i swear tarkov players are always like this

[normal island]

They sure are

[dusk vessel]

and i dont even play that game, only know it through this server

[normal island]

And they're GAMMA's main audience

[normal island]

And that's why it will always be remembered for what it is in the STALKER community, tactislop for people who don't actually like the games and are too poor to run tarkov

[atomic pebble]

old school hud be like:

[sleek kettle]

It's beautiful 🥹

[dusk vessel]

thats sad

i enjoyed the ot and s2 and also gamma

im a cs player at heart thougfh

[sleek kettle]

Tf I just like a modded anomaly where I don't have to select and install mods by myself

[ember sonnet]

I tried selecting and installing mods myself

Went back to GAMMA anyway

because I kept going

"Huh... I kinda want that thing from GAMMA"

Couldn't find it

Finds it

Repeat 40 more times

Gets tired and just reinstalls GAMMA

[sleek kettle]

I did this before gamma came out, worked but also a pain in the ass

[ember sonnet]

GAMMA, for how much harder it is, has so much of the quality of life features I want as well

[sleek kettle]

For real, I am so grateful for gamma as a whole

So customizable I love it

[timber flicker]

Ive done duty and loner what yall think i should do for my next faction ? I wanna do the story ofc

[normal island]

Couldn't pay me to play it again I'm negl

[sleek kettle]

Can literally just turn mods on and off without worrying about load order, because someone already set that up beforehand

[ember sonnet]

Will adding a single mod to GAMMA break it

I kinda just

[atomic pebble]

u are neglo?

[dusk vessel]

depends on the mod

[sleek kettle]

Nooo it's made with that in mind

[dusk vessel]

and what load order you put it on

[normal island]

It can

[ashen plover]

Faction changes don't do much
Do something like souls like, dynamic relationships

[ember sonnet]

Unkillable companions

Mostly because

I don't want to reload saves

So many times

[sleek kettle]

I think it's already in there, just turned off iirc

[ember sonnet]

Because my companions have gotten themselves somewhere dumb

[dusk vessel]

look for it in mo2 and tick it on

[sleek kettle]

Try searching "companion" in mo2

[dusk vessel]

should work

[ember sonnet]

Got it

Thanks guys

[dusk vessel]

also enable no jam chance at full condition

[sleek kettle]

Most mods you can think of are already there, that's the best part

[dusk vessel]

or whatever its called

[ember sonnet]

God yes

[timber flicker]

Im not asking for a new game just a faction

[sleek kettle]

No install required, just tick it on

[ember sonnet]

Whats it actually called

[dusk vessel]

just look for jam

itl be there

[sleek kettle]

Thanks for reminding me about this, will forward this to myself lol

[ember sonnet]

Jamming at full condition just feels like God going "Fuck you"

God hates me IRL already, I don't need God to hate me ingame too

[sleek kettle]

For real

[sleek kettle]

Gun jams 3 times in a row and I wonder wtf is wrong with the "100% condition" gun

[timber flicker]

Lets be real 90% of gamers are too poor to run eft at a stable fps

[sleek kettle]

Most just play eft at unstable fps, willing or not

[ember sonnet]

Its not thereeeeee

Can't wait to break the entirety of GAMMA

[dusk vessel]

huh?

[ember sonnet]

as I add

this singular mod

[sleek kettle]

Make a backup

[dusk vessel]

might be because my installation is older

just updated

[ember sonnet]

How

[timber flicker]

Yeah i played this wipe after a long break, got to 40 did most of the story and quit, theres nothing 1.0 about that trash game lmao

After 8 years the car exfill bug is still there

[sleek kettle]

Check #🤖bot-commands I wrote how to backup in there

But iirc you can just make a fresh copy of your gamma modlist

There's a button on the top of mo2 that opens jt

[sleek kettle]

I quit a couple years ago

[sleek kettle]

Of course nothing changed

[ember sonnet]

...which one?

[sleek kettle]

Hover your mouse over them until you find the right one lol

iirc it's to the right of all those

nvm it's right there, Profile

Click that one and make a copy

Once you've made a copy, make sure you add mods to the copy and not the original gamma

[ember sonnet]

Copy, not the original GAMMA, got it

[sleek kettle]

You shouldn't worry too much about this if you load your mods at the bottom of the load order (make sure to check install instructions of a mod, it might be different)

I have like 15 mods on top of my gamma and it works well

If shit does break, go to #🔨modded-gamma-support

I have to go now, good luck with the modding

[dusk vessel]

the turned off mods are mostly already in the correct load order

so enabling ones should be fine

most of them also say if you need to disable another mod for it to work

like mags

[ember sonnet]

wait what

Me who just organized the mod to the correct folder (ie; 15th of the load order) due to OCD and have just opened the game

"Guess I'll die"

[sleek kettle]

Folder? Folders/categories don't do anything they're just to make it easier to look at the modlist lol

Load order number is most important

[dusk vessel]

modular is in the name of the modpack

some people run 700 mods or more

just got to do it right and it will work

[sleek kettle]

Just make sure the mods you add have the biggest load order number (e.g. 554+)

I.e. at the very bottom of the load order

[atomic pebble]

The famous 1%

[sleek kettle]

To make it easier to see, sort your mod list by load order and not name/category @ember sonnet

Should be an option in the top right of your mod list, "sort"

Again, I gotta go, cya later alligator

[sonic verge]

do you guys know how to complete the quest "kill the bloodsuckers in the village" in SOC without it bugging out and being incompletable?

[ember sonnet]

Fixed it

Nvm

[raw verge]

Bro, theres a yellow stash in the Agro military base but i can't fucking find it

I've looked absolutely everywhere

[scenic trench]

got an image?

[atomic pebble]

just took a bit complete it, the bloodsuckers always are around the village

[sonic verge]

I have walked every single inch of the village, theyre not here

I killed 4/5 and the last one is nowhere to be found

[atomic pebble]

run around the entire village and through each house 5 times

[sonic verge]

brother, im not joking or exxagerating, I have literally done this 12~ times.

[atomic pebble]

do that 60 times and u will found the bloodsucker

[sonic verge]

I am uninstalling

[atomic pebble]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=yBbcSPyVaiqkVh4i&v=UCvq9Dw40Vk&feature=youtu.be

[sonic verge]

installed a mod that fixed it and it worked

now if only i can get one of these invisible FUCKS to drop their jaw when i kill them

[lavish delta]

holy shissss.... i wish i had 99%

[lavish delta]

why the heck was this guy so hard to kill

[graceful quiver]

Oh Chimera?

[lethal steeple]

daym that mp5 viewmodel is bad

[sonic verge]

playing soc makes me want to slam my head with a car door, it has some of the coolest and dumbest design decisions of all time

its the only fucking game where I can pump 6 fucking shots with a chaser into the face of a zombie and it will be fine, but it shoots me once with their shitty sawed off toz and I instantly die. gun accuracy is so atrocious and yet zombies NEVER fucking miss when they burst fire.

this shit is borderline unplayable vanilla

after this playthrough this will be the last vanilla playthrough I ever do of SOC

[lavish delta]

yeh, but .... its black with a red head ... it was harder to kill than the other chimeras

[graceful quiver]

They are like mini bosses it seems

[pliant kestrel]

what sight is dis?

[graceful quiver]

Took 10 12ga shells and 6 .357 rounds to kill a quest one for me

[graceful quiver]

Yeah I couldn't even finish SoC back then until the vanilla plus overhaul mod came out

[tacit sorrel]

black chimera, basically just a beefier one

[brazen dove]

so 388 federal has 8 pen, but 633 dmg, is it good enough to kill high tier stalkers with?

[tacit sorrel]

federal is more of a anti mutant weapon, its pen is pretty garbage

[normal island]

But the slavjank is so charm tho!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[brazen dove]

bruh i wanted to use the dvl sabatouer 🙁 can it kill tho?

[normal island]

the fact that it's dogshit is what makes it peak!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tacit sorrel]

bandits sure, anything stronger than military probably not lmao

[atomic pebble]

which are the coolest design decisions

i wonder

[scenic trench]

if they have no/shitty helmets and/or armors...?

[latent elbow]

Black Chimera yes

[thick wharf]

how to make the ammo check key and the ammo inspect animation/unjam key the same?

cuz when i ammo check only the text appears

but i noticed some guns have the ammo inspect animation thing when unjamming

so is there a way to make them happen at the same time?

[dusk frost]

Enforce embargo npc died before i could kill them myself. the npc was supposed to have an artifact on them but its saying they dont have any inventory

NVM it auto failed once i left the area

[sonic verge]

Clear Sky is a pretty nice graphical upgrade to SOC

[sonic walrus]

what are the best mods to add new maps/levels?

[brazen dove]

what do nimble's gun upgrades do?

[crisp turret]

its called new levels. Theres also one other mod pack that adds tons of stuff Anthology 2.0

also cheeki site has all the story mods but for gamma its just new levels

[trail vault]

is it some weird shit with azazel or what? why the hell disguise doesnt work at all there? just lost my best run to a merc whom I met the first time (so no previous aggro) and shot me on sight despite allied faction disguise, fucking shit

[sonic walrus]

hell nah anthology isnt for me

where do i get "new levels"

[ember sonnet]

Has anyone ever got the Companions Don't Die mod to work?

For GAMMA, I mean

[quasi python]

merc gang

[crisp turret]

i think its in mod posting

[crisp turret]

if you run with a gun or have bad suit they find you out

[trail vault]

bruh, i know the basics, I've been using disguise forever

no gun, suspicion meter is 1 green bar

they attack on sight anyway

it just literally doesnt work

[crisp turret]

where did u die

[trail vault]

suit is also 98%

dead city

[crisp turret]

are you with the new engine

[trail vault]

new engine?

[novel sierra]

Hey man. I know I'm viewing this 12 hours away. but you are wrong, because you are playing the game wrong.
SOC is a great game. I think it's #2 of 3 originali games.
YOu have to play on Master Difficulty.
Everything dies easy, even you and enemies.

Old stalker gamess?
never play on recruit difficulty
Stalker or Master

[crisp turret]

X-Ray Monolith Engine: Next Gen

[atomic pebble]

yes

Is much better than CoP too

[quasi python]

herroooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[atomic pebble]

After of receive certain feedback related to the performance planned with anticipation make a big rush of optimisation, then they cut some graphical technologies present on CS, for CoP

[hushed pier]

Nothi8ng makes gamma more immersive than a random crash

[sonic walrus]

i dont see anything when i search for new levels

[atomic pebble]

"moddb new levels" https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/promzone-level

[celest sparrow]

This is the truth people refuse to believe

[sonic walrus]

wtf this installation process is horrible

like wdym demonized binaries, replaces files that dont even show up for me

[hushed pier]

gamma players only accept teamviewer install process

[sonic walrus]

some gamma players are actually employed

my bad

[hushed pier]

https://tenor.com/view/cap-ellen-bigcap-cool-gif-17520210489427202757

[crisp turret]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-cringe-dies-of-cringe-gif-stalker-game-meme-gif-24274079

[hushed pier]

Guys like my latest suggestion for the greater good

[hazy pollen]

HAPPY XMAS EVERYONE!

[sonic verge]

I dont celebrate christmas you asshole

[hazy pollen]

Well, COP introduced bigger maps that are not linear and you only have 4 load screens (including Pripyat Underground).

[sonic verge]

and seven trillion loading screens when hitting F4 and F9

[hazy pollen]

Sorry, is a religious thing or just personal preference?

[atomic pebble]

Tho, Zaton and Jupiter aren't examples of a proper size anyways.
Great Swamps and Garbage have an "perfect size"

[sonic verge]

im just joking

[hushed pier]

u got me

[hazy pollen]

but the save scum also exist in SoC and CS, why you mentioned that like it was a CoP thing?

[sonic verge]

merry christmas to all, happiness for everybody, free, and no one will get away unsatisfied

[sonic verge]

i didnt, its a stalker thing

[hazy pollen]

Truck cementery was also quite impresive for its time.

[sonic verge]

Truck cemetary is a good map that I hate to go through

[atomic pebble]

Big maps and more improved questlines are the two goals of CoP, for CoP GSC did another "journey" to the zone and they recreated the three main levels based on that.

[atomic pebble]

Truck Cemetery is amazing on being faithful but is mid, a great level in being faithful but is mid, simply don't there much to do there.

[hazy pollen]

yeah, I wish they used the Pripyat Underground level to make a bigger CQC combat level with more freedom for layout design.

[atomic pebble]

And keep talking about big maps, Jupiter and Zaton are "needless" wayyy more big than a proper size

[hazy pollen]

Yeah, would be cool if the mod community could add something there, like a better place for a Renegade base, for example.

[atomic pebble]

Proportionally Jupiter is wayyy more boring than Zaton because Jupiter has several locations that are a big nothingburger and there a big quantity of empty space than the swamps

[hazy pollen]

I think they are fine, but like you pointed out, you don't really have much reason to explore every "border" of the map, and we endup just going circles in the center part of these maps where stalkers and mutant and their loot is.

Jupiter power plant could really use more spawns.

[atomic pebble]

And even if Zaton don't has a proper quantity of locations on it, atleast the player would found smth if he explore every border, a thingi that don't happens with Jupiter.

[hushed pier]

scud are u from canada

[atomic pebble]

Would have been much better if GSC finished this Jupiter:

Compared to retail, has almost every important location present on retail (except Yanov) and is wayyyyy more "playable", and has +- the size of Great Swamps.

[topaz fossil]

Marry Christmas to all of you good stalkers! I hope you all get some full empties in your socks!

[atomic pebble]

A mod has some weird type of merge of Jupiter Underground and Pripyat Underground

[hushed pier]

evil

empty socks

[formal mountain]

Thank you green goblin

[atomic pebble]

Return To The Zone give's a good deal to TC

[hushed pier]

anyone try take heli with gl

[woven hollow]

they had to downscale because CS was extremely unstable for its time

although also very technologically advanced

with absolutely amazing global illumination that holds up to this day

[atomic pebble]

yes but

the GI it's fucked on vanilla

[woven hollow]

yes and you have to apply fixes to get it working

but when you do

holy

tbf i love that anomaly and gamma expand on it

instead of opting for a different lighting engine

[atomic pebble]

32 photons and the problems will be fixed

except the little problem of performance

[woven hollow]

fuck it we gotta steal a nasa supercomputer to run OG CS GI with Stalkash's fixes

[atomic pebble]

Wouldn't be necessary make that big downgrade if GSC had more time to CoP and had as goal: "fix the performance, bugs and finish the incomplete mechanics"

[woven hollow]

they downgraded graphics but gave us amazing story and sidequests instead

Shilo and Petrukha

[atomic pebble]

They did thingis like:
Downgrade the A-Life and don't fix offline-combat (broken since CoP, but fixed like 6 years after of the release in CoCk)
Discarded proper transitions
Put lower the setting of FOV
Cut a couple technologies

[woven hollow]

they've cut a decent chunk of shadow maps

just for it to not melt 2009 PC's

[atomic pebble]

The sidequests are mostly good, but, would have been much better if CoP had more choices to do in these quests

The most ambitious quest literally is the questline of Morgan

[woven hollow]

IMO most of the great ones are in Zaton

shakedown choices, etc.

[atomic pebble]

Zaton has the burger

[woven hollow]

ye

[atomic pebble]

The best content it's on Zaton

[woven hollow]

tbf it's fine since it was developed in a year

[atomic pebble]

eee

CoP content was finished like in 8 months

yes, 8 months

+-

[woven hollow]

i played those games back in my childhood

and revisited them years after with better hardware and global illumination fixes

[atomic pebble]

And like 6 months of the development just was bugfixes and testing

[woven hollow]

and IMO i still love them

[woven hollow]

i know

speedrun

[atomic pebble]

Injustified speedrun🥀

[woven hollow]

it's old GSC we're talking about. Fuckers were speedrunning everything past spending multiple years and silly floppy disk leaks on SoC

[atomic pebble]

They had like 1000000 bazillion grigodollars and aren't under the pressure of THQ anymore but "Let's make this game in one year and waste many possiblities to enhance it"

[woven hollow]

probably didn't want to get caught up in dev hell again

so they went to the other extreme

[atomic pebble]

The development hell was a thingi in SoC because GSC didn't had enough devs for make thingis like K_ levels at time

The development hell of CS was by don't have enough time

[woven hollow]

they were also bouncing from one idea to another

sometimes builds were going back and forth

and even leaked design docs

[atomic pebble]

In late 2008 GSC changed the entire concept of ""CoP"" because the director of SoC and CS rennounced

[woven hollow]

i mean SoC development, but ye

[atomic pebble]

"""CoP""" originally was planned to keep and enhance the bases and "style of game" of SoC and CS

[woven hollow]

SoC went from one extreme to another from build to build

[atomic pebble]

I lobe that in only one year (from 2004 to 2005) they changed totally almost every level

[bold token]

So I got a question for you all about the Stalker movie from 1979. I genuinely thought it was based on the Chornobyl Powerplant incident and they built the story up from that but I realized it came out before the explosion. I had no idea that the stalker genre started way before that.

[woven hollow]

the transition from 1842/1850 tech demo to 1935

[bold token]

Like did they use both the movie and the Chornobyl disaster as inspiration then I assume?

[woven hollow]

and later to release candidates

[atomic pebble]

GSC used many sources as inspiration for stalker

but the main ones are:
Roadside Picnic, Stalker and obviously, Chernobyl

[woven hollow]

^

[bold token]

That makes a lot more sense now.Idk why but for the longest time I thought the movie Stalker was the main source and that it was made like right after the explosion until I saw its release date.

[woven hollow]

read the Roadside Picnic

unironically

[bold token]

Ahh Roadside Picnic is a book? Not a movie?

[woven hollow]

yes

by Strugatsky brothers

[bold token]

I might someday, sadly I am not a book person at all, I've tried numerous times but I just dont have the energy for it or the interest in reading as much as I want to. I lose interest super fast

[woven hollow]

power through

i'm serious

[bold token]

I might be able to do it, if I get like an audio book of it

[hushed pier]

books for boomers or nerd

[woven hollow]

[atomic pebble]

tho

[bold token]

Nothing against books I just dont feel like sitting down and reading a book and doing nothing else

[atomic pebble]

Stalker (movie) don't has much refferences or direct influence in/to the trilogy

there 3 refferences to the movie between CS-CoP

[bold token]

Ahhh ok

[woven hollow]

if you have huge attention spam problems, you can try reading in short bursts

chapter or like, 20-30 pages at a time

[atomic pebble]

Scar it's inspired on Alexander Kaidanovsky (stalker)

[bold token]

Nah it wont work, knowing myself I'll get bored and stop pretty fast

[woven hollow]

never say it won't work

until you try

i would recommend Valley of the Moon by Jack London actually

[bold token]

I have already tried before, which is why I say knowing myself it wont work 😄

[woven hollow]

on the offshoot

of this whole talk

[copper anvil]

readers together strong...

i would suggest infinite jest by David Foster Wallace btw

[hushed pier]

I just discovered this character reefer and u can give him military docs

[sonic walrus]

is there any way to fix the freezoom issues

cuz sometimes when i let go off the button, it stays zoomed

[hushed pier]

press it again

[sonic walrus]

you think i didnt try that

either doesnt work or zooms in more

[hushed pier]

Settings change slider

settings>basic>visual

FOV

[sonic walrus]

so change my fov back to normal every 5 minutes

[gaunt shuttle]

RPD!

[hushed pier]

is freezoom multiplier at 1?

WIPED the military base at agropom and not one had altyn

[marsh bridge]

oh yea christmas day i got a fuckton of candy and 200 bucks

[hollow marlin]

What will you do with the 200 dolla

[marsh bridge]

buy your mom for 10 minutes

nah im saving up money to get a camera drone

[hollow marlin]

https://tenor.com/view/nub-cat-nub-silly-cat-depression-depressed-gif-5883714320658611738

[marsh bridge]

and then im gonna do some freelance photography to make money

[hollow marlin]

genius idea that

secretly record someone’s back yard and DEMAND a fee from them

Inf money

[marsh bridge]

theres like 6 different property business in my town im sure at least one of them would like to pay some money for a couple photos of their propertys

[hollow marlin]

You’ll be fine you’ll find work

[fair remnant]

So ive installed the 'arrival' mod

But I cant do anything with it

Apparently I 'lack permission'

[wide fable]

Hmm. Where would this quest lead? The fishing hamlet just outside of the CS base?

[idle kelp]

Yes

[wide fable]

...Huh.

[mellow finch]

What you on about

[hasty sun]

Was there a way to show where the gun is shooting so i can make sure my ironsight is aligned properly?
I think i remember something like that from last time i played

[normal island]

Turn on reticle

[hasty sun]

Where is that?

[normal island]

Gameplay settings very probably

[bold token]

Ew reticle

[hasty sun]

Crosshair setting worked good enough thx

[brazen dove]

what guns use the boss xe sight? I wanna use it but I have yet to find a gun compatible

[quasi python]

i believe some of the rarer D tier weps use it like the mutant and the isg ak... dont quote me but i remember trying it on one of them

one of the sad things is lots of the nicer scopes work on like 1 or 2 guns

[hasty goblet]

Scar H

[urban shore]

is there any mods i can use that will let me get rewards from quests without having to go back to the quest giver ?

[random grail]

! autocomplete

[dawn marten]

@urban shore Get the Autocomplete mod: https://www.moddb.com/addons/start/247448

WARNING: This mod can interfere with the way stash rewards are granted, screwing up GAMMA's "South to North" progression.

• Stash reward location is based on where you are standing at the moment that you receive the stash coordinates
• If the stash comes from a task, this means that where you are at the moment that you complete the task, is how the game determines where the stash should be
• Stashes are generated in the map you're in, or a "neighboring" map
  This means that by using Autocomplete, you COULD screw yourself by grinding out a bunch of tasks in the North but only get southern stashes because you're standing in Cordon when you turn them in. Or you could really quickly cheese northern stashes by completing a bunch of tasks while standing in CNPP

[urban shore]

big thanks !

[hasty goblet]

Interactive PDA also autocompletes tasks that don't require bringing an item to the quest giver.

[unreal river]

holy shit is that juan

[dusk vessel]

juan deag

https://streamable.com/cyecai

[normal island]

https://tenor.com/view/who-dat-snoop-gif-15116696

[wide fable]

So... dumping multiple mags of .45 Hydra into the enemy spawned by House of Horrors ain't killin' it...

120 shots of .45 Hydra. Christ.

Correction: 150 rounds.

[formal mountain]

Weird

[severe cipher]

Ladies, gentlemen. I've had a few drinks, i'll admit, so excuse me for being so upfront.

Recently, i've been talking a lot with friends about our experiences with the video games we love. STALKER, has, since its release, always stuck with me as 'my' game. I remember asking my dad to buy it for me since i was too young to buy it at the shop those days. SoC was a shitfest, but it somehow managed to grip me like no game has ever done, even till this day.

I've been a long time follower of the modding scene. After GSC disbanded and released the SDK. I'm in my early 30's right now so, whilst i was real young back then, i definitley ain't anymore.

What i find interesting is that STALKER's found such a huge interest amongst a young audience. Maybe it's the 'tacticool', maybe it's the fact the game is free with no strings attached. At first, i kinda hate it, with fucking zoomers entering my hobby in droves. But, frankly, that perspective's changed a lot on my end. No one ever made me my game less through modding. Gaming's getting worse, and yet, STALKER's mod scene became famous amongst the younger audience.

So honestly, i just wanna ask all of you younger people out of interest - what is it that brought you here? And how do you feel about gaming as a whole these days? What is it that brings you to STALKER?

[wide fable]

I like Anomaly/GAMMA because it's mechanically involved. Crunchy.

[severe cipher]

What is 'crunchy' exactly?

[wide fable]

Borrowed TTRPG term.

[severe cipher]

huh, as one who likes tabletop rpgs i shouldve known i think. Not that big into it though. 😅

[wide fable]

If something's crunchy in a TTRPG,then that means it's all about the stats and throwing the dice. If it's fluffy,it's about the roleplay. Translated to video games,something's crunchy if it's mechanically involved or mechanically dense.

[severe cipher]

but i get the mechanically involved thing though

[severe cipher]

sick

i thought it was more like a postitive term of something being janky

[wide fable]

The moment-to-moment gameplay of Anomaly,and especially GAMMA,is crunchy as fuck. You have a whole damn keyboard dedicated to manipulating your gun.

[severe cipher]

as SHoC and CS were janky as fuck

[severe cipher]

Like enjoying tactial shooters too? Like, Tarkov, i've been playing that off and on since 2019.

It's great and shit at the same time

[wide fable]

Actually,no. Not Tarkov,at least.

But that's because I'm an asocial ass.

[severe cipher]

How come no? It sounds like a lot of the things you stated earlier about a game being crunchy right?

i mean fuck, explain this shit to me like im your grandfather or something 😅

[wide fable]

My gaming background is singleplayer stuff. Major influences being Yuri's Revenge,Dungeon Keeper,Total Annihilation and Supereme Commander,and Morrowind.

I only recently got into shooters. I tried Cock of Shit,but it's just way too bleh.

[severe cipher]

well the game's built for psychopaths, not for people that are asocial. 😛

[severe cipher]

damn dawg, that means you're older than me.

or no

but

that's what i grew up with

[wide fable]

Strategic launch detected.

[severe cipher]

hence why i asked - why such an oldskool game like STALKER is so popular amongst young people

like i was excited for SHoC when i was 14

that was

fucking

15 years ago

[wide fable]

Oh,almost forgot: OG Unreal.

Played the shit outta that.

And completely missed UT.

[severe cipher]

dude

[severe cipher]

dude

oh fuck man

you're a man of my heart

but way too offtopic

hit me up in dm's

[wide fable]

However,the trend you're noticing is,I think,modern gamers realising that 99% of modern games are ten kilometers of irradiated ass,so they look at the past.
And they find native platinum.

[celest sparrow]

Because GAMMA is the tourist way to experience STALKER

[atomic pebble]

I think is in part by:
"top 20 videogames for low resources 100% free" type of videos

[celest sparrow]

Also that too

[wide fable]

Yeah,the modern lobotomites love their listicals to do the thinking for them.

[celest sparrow]

It's a rather easy way to find out about things

Not everyone is going to know about Stalker, even more so before Stalker 2 was a thing

I only found out about GAMMA due to a friend even though I previously experienced CoP

[wide fable]

I heard about STALKER via discussions about Deus Ex and Unreal.

[atomic pebble]

Tho, i wonder how many of us played S.T.A.L.K.E.R for first time with a proper license

[wide fable]

I found out about GAMMA after talking about Anomaly with some guys on a porn game server.

[vital nova]

I saw STALKER SoC in a friends gaming magazine and bought the physical copy for pc

I’ll take my played on release award

[atomic pebble]

First time that i played S.T.A.L.K.E.R was SoC like 10 years ago and that wasn't a copy from steam or GOG

[celest sparrow]

The "modern" audience isn't really going to enjoy Stalker for what it is

[vital nova]

SoC came out what, 20 years ago?

[celest sparrow]

17 Years

[atomic pebble]

"No bro, u must add this mod, and this other mod, this other mods and merge this by this way for enjoy the game, i swear bro, is impossible that these games be enjoyable with just a single mod"

[celest sparrow]

Yeah exactly lol

Recommendations to play the Trilogy are often plagued with mods that "fix" or adjust the experience

or simply dismiss the Trilogy to play standalone mods

[lethal steeple]

to be honest i can't fault them for that like i wouldn't recommend actual vanilla soc not even to my worst enemy

just get zrp with only the bugfix options dawg

[celest sparrow]

It's hard to recommend the vanilla experience

[lethal steeple]

it's not worth it

[vital nova]

Any stalker trilogy game on modern hardware alone is gonna be jank

[atomic pebble]

"Bro, Radiophobia 3 is the best SoC mod for enjoy it"

Looks inside
Actually is a reinvention with 4 quests from OGSE

[vital nova]

Had weird issues trying to replay CoP recently

[celest sparrow]

Seeker's quest is peak

and I gave Strelok super aids

ZNOY-13 i still remember the name

[lethal steeple]

friends have asked me about wether to start with soc or not and i just tell them get ogsr

[atomic pebble]

For these type of thingis there engines like Open X-Ray or IX-Ray but, u know that these aren't exactly popular compared to other thingis

[atomic pebble]

The engine, right?

[celest sparrow]

watch shevi bring up prosectors project

[lethal steeple]

nah ogsr the game

[atomic pebble]

Prosectors Project is ideal if i want SoC but ultimate deluxe remaster golden exclusive sigma chad based edition

[celest sparrow]

I should play that sometime

just got done with Stalker 2 last night

[vital nova]

Who’d you side with

[celest sparrow]

Ward

[lethal steeple]

i recommend ogsrga because it's soc but better, has gunslinger, works as a director's cut because of the handful hours of added content that to be dead honest doesn't feel out of place at all

[atomic pebble]

I recommend u check if it's worth wait the release of this mod soon:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/pripyat-renewal-mod
Is a remaster with a new engine

[lethal steeple]

MAYBE the first ever mission because you get to do it pacifist

[celest sparrow]

I love Korshunov

[lethal steeple]

which isn't brought up EVER again in the entire game

[celest sparrow]

Time to wait another year before I touch Stalker 2 again, hope we get some DLC news in 2026

[grave pivot]

i want to ask. i seem to have forgotten. wheres the link where i can download the Gamma file?

[lethal steeple]

the gamma files

[celest sparrow]

#🖥️how-to-install

[lethal steeple]

they forgot to redact the gamma files

[atomic pebble]

I saw that there certain rumors about that the release is going to be the 10 of february

[celest sparrow]

Wouldn't that be the engine update

[atomic pebble]

The engine update should be released a bit before of the DLC

[lethal steeple]

stalker 2 finally reaching 1.0 🥹

[vital nova]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-2-korshunov-colonel-korshunov-ward-gif-7609651101951900652

The correct choice

[lethal steeple]

i've been waiting since last year when i preordered the game

[grave pivot]

ah, i must have skipped over it. thanks

[lethal steeple]

🥹

[atomic pebble]

The 1.0 is sooo good that u had to pay 20$ for get it

[celest sparrow]

Ah cool, won't be a long wait then

[atomic pebble]

Also, if u don't want wait Pripyat Renewal Mod u can check the page of IX-Ray, has several addons:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/ix-ray-platform/downloads

[grave pivot]

has anything changed after nearly a year?

my last message was back at the end of february

[tough quail]

how do i turn on weapon's laser pointer again

[grave pivot]

holy lord, a lot did change.i boutta eat good, again.

i love having forgotten nearly everything in this mod 🔥

[quasi python]

why are russian scopes so bad

[wide fable]

Because they're Russian.

[quasi python]

they are so large and useless.

i like the okp but the rest are meh

[hasty sun]

I have many 9x19 classic guns but i want to try the thompson drum mag meme so bad i need to stop myself

[quasi python]

AK ironsights are nice though

[dusk vessel]

you dont even get the benefit of the irons ingame compared to irl

irl you look with both eyes so you see both the iron and below your gun

because of the way the image merges

ingame you cant see below the irons and it gets annoying but irl you can

gamers are cyclops fr

id use irons on all my guns if it wasnt like this, but id like to see below my crosshair

[signal gulch]

bandits and all clumping in the middle of an anomaly so you cant loot them when you kill them, name a better combo

[raw compass]

Beginning a brand new playthrough and getting ambushed by a chimera.

[signal gulch]

most of my playthroughs dont start anywhere a chimera can spawn like that lol

[raw compass]

Mhm, "most".

When they do though?

I am sure they are quite memorable.

[steep elm]

So it seems if I scrap ammo on a body (maybe in containers too?) I get the cap amount of materials back no matter how much ammo I scrap; is this meant to be or a bug?

So like x30 of each material that makes up whatever ammo type I scrap

[signal gulch]

ooooo

literally like my 10th stash received on map

brand new run

[hard crown]

Guys any tactic (no cheese) to do the skyfall quest (the one agaisnt military heli)?

I m on ironman and i got 3 lifes left

I am a bit scared to get absolutely pulverized

[graceful quiver]

How's OSGR experience vs ZRP?

[lethal steeple]

zrp is patched soc

ogsr is a fangame

[hard crown]

What are u guys talking about

Osgr?

Zrp?

[scenic maple]

hey how do i replaced the loved one photo with a custom image?

[lethal steeple]

not comparable at all other than ogsr being a soc director's cut thing

[hard crown]

Soc?

[hard crown]

I would like to know too

[scenic maple]

i think

[graceful quiver]

Oh so they put in a lot more of their creative directions in

[scenic maple]

ok so i think

go into the mod

of animated photo of loved on

one

replace the default image with another image but in the same format

[graceful quiver]

We were talking about the first game in the original trilogy Shadow of Chernobyl, and two overhaul projects for it

[mellow finch]

yep you got it

[signal gulch]

hooly shit 2 monolith kills in army warehouses

[novel sierra]

hey guys. Where are all the songs in GAMMA?
I'm trying to find one, and I don't know what it's called.

[wide fable]

I know Librarian in the Clear Sky canteen is (currently) jamming to Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz.

Hmm... I have an Ecologist disguise... should I bother with,as a Loner,getting into the Military's good books? Does the Military even have a presence North of Agroprom?

[graceful quiver]

I noticed one of the ambient tracks is the Safe Room theme of Signalis

[signal gulch]

are we fr?

are rare stashes more common now???

[hollow wadi]

!stashes

[dawn marten]

Stashes are empty by default. Getting stashes is the main way of progressing in GAMMA. White stashes can contain helpful gear, while yellow stashes are guaranteed to have a toolkit in addition to regular stash contents. Stash locations are determined based on where you are when you receive the coordinate, they always generate in or near the area you are currently located.

How to get stash coordinates:

1. Complete tasks (this is the main source of stash coordinates)
2. Loot dead bodies
3. Read looted PDAs (right click -> View them in inventory). If it's locked, go to a mechanic to unlock it
4. Buy coordinates from Sid or Cold (only available in the south)

How to get yellow stashes:

1. Complete 7 tasks
2. Get a stash coordinate afterwards - this can be from any source, e.g. the 8th task, a PDA, looting a body
3. That stash coordinate has a 50% chance to be a yellow stash. If you didn't get it, keep doing step 2 until you get a yellow stash

Exact stash location generation spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uQxe5sVL5UHHkGYdRqtgsh5OrLX1MfwdZrMJG1IuRAs/edit?usp=sharing
Tool chance spreadsheet: !tools

[signal gulch]

i know but i didnt even do that many tasks yet

[hollow wadi]

How many have you done then

[signal gulch]

enough for one definitely

[hollow wadi]

Then you rolled good for it I guess

[signal gulch]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[hollow wadi]

Huh, weird
Welp, roll with the punches

[graceful quiver]

lol that is some mandate of heaven roll right there

[signal gulch]

yeah...

meanwhile in other runs i loot 10+ yellow and dont find any advanced tools

this feels like cheating fr

[graceful quiver]

At least I just need 2 more basic to craft one

[hollow wadi]

You could always find 60-80 uses of nemiroff and pawn it off to Spirit

[signal gulch]

genuinely might throw it out

or sell it yeah

sell it is good idea

[hollow wadi]

Gets KS-12 with green barrel, sells it because it feels like cheating

[signal gulch]

correction

im going to craft a pda2 THEN sell it

killtrak my beloved

[graceful quiver]

Yeah I might just pawn with Spirit soon since I have saved up a decent amount already

Though gonna see if I have any more luck within another yellow stash or two

[ember sonnet]

Hey has anyone got the Companions Don't Die mod to work on GAMMA btw?

[graceful quiver]

#╓☢stalker-chat message
Does this feel like cheating too?

[steep elm]

Hmmmmmmmmm. Why is my fridge invisible, and why is my gun case almost invisible?

Just tried picking up my fridge, placing it down again, yet it's still invisible

[graceful quiver]

Oh that reminds me, the "hold to pick up the whole stash" action doesn't seem to work for me for some reason

Have been manually picking them up instead

[graceful quiver]

Can't have shit in the Zone fr

[wide fable]

I got it kitted out with all the glitzy flash...
Before I found Expert Tools to make a D Class Kit with and do a barrel swap.
I feel like I've missed a step here.

[graceful quiver]

I mean it's an orange barrel so still technically balanced

[wide fable]

I wonder if there are any larger mags (With the GAMMA Mags mod) for the SCAR-H than the native twenty rounders.

[hollow wadi]

whut

[analog palm]

30s exist but not sure if that's in game

[graceful quiver]

Got a KS-23 off one of them

[hollow wadi]

Oh ok

[marsh bridge]

gun

[signal gulch]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this run is so blessed

from the training day boars LMAOO

[steep elm]

Huh. Closing and re-launching my game made my fridge and gun case visible again. Strange.

[graceful quiver]

Maybe it was on its way to being busyhanded

[marsh bridge]

i think that fridge might be the tardis

[ember sonnet]

What's the button for quick loot?

[hollow wadi]

Alt

[ember sonnet]

Thanks

Where's the setting for uh, quest amount limits per NPC?

I can't seem to find it anymore

Did GAMMA remove that setting?

[steep elm]

Should be in MCM somewhere iirc

[hollow wadi]

Likely in regular settings actually

[lavish delta]

why the heck in army warehouse, a mercenary hit squad of 5 members wearing full exo-suits suddenly attacked me. at the house with the full hazmat suite npc

[rose musk]

AW is the wild west

oh if you're at that house you might have shot an aggroed the dead city entrance crowd

[lavish delta]

they just randomly walked in. probably. but full exo suits?!

[rose musk]

this is groks world and you're just living in it

[steep elm]

Probably a mugging squad if you have that mod enabled.

[wide fable]

When you say exosuit,do you mean exo**skeletons,**or the ballistic suit worn underneath?

The game draws a distinction.

[analog palm]

everything

fucking

[tough quail]

what are the chance of finding my first monolith squad in the red forest and one of them carrying an ak 12 monolith?

thats right, zero!

this fight wasnt worth it

[mental furnace]

oh no our mossberg its broken

[celest sparrow]

[celest sparrow]

yeah the ak12 Monolith is unobtainable

[tough quail]

i looted an aksu tactician off another guy in the same area and got too hopeful

oh well this is fine too

[clever canyon]

Can use debug to spawn it in... just for it to crash your game

So yeh, AK Monolith is unusable

[celest sparrow]

Every unobtainable weapon should crash your game then delete your saves

[clever canyon]

Lets be a bit nicer and just let them kill your char

[mental furnace]

obtainable if u install some mods in mod posting

[celest sparrow]

Modded GAMBA

[mental furnace]

[hollow wadi]

Perish

[mental furnace]

[celest sparrow]

[mental furnace]

[graceful quiver]

https://tenor.com/view/haram-heisenberg-gif-20680378

[tough quail]

gamma is already a mod pack what another mod gonna do

breaking everything else

[mental furnace]

[lavish delta]

they were making mechanical sounds when they were moving, i loaded last save but they did not spawn again. the other mercs at the dead city entrance were just normal loking ones

[wide fable]

Exoskeleton,then.

[jovial timber]

@topaz topaz whats your modlist about if you dont mind me asking

[topaz topaz]

Will show you in a moment

[jovial timber]

ok cool

[wide fable]

Hmm. I've been told a soldier in Agroprom is looking for the assorted lab documents. Would it be Colonel Kuznetsov?

[mental furnace]

[wide fable]

One egghead disguise trip later... I've handed in every document set up to the Brain Scorcher's.

[mental furnace]

[wide fable]

He hands you some gear for each set of docs,too.

[mental furnace]

[wide fable]

Pretty nifty. Basic tools,a Sphere 08 helm,and a mint condition Versek with sight and ammo.

No idea how good the Versek is,but hey. Sorta-free SMG.

[clever canyon]

Veresk good

[graceful quiver]

Versek is quite versatile

[wide fable]

Currently,I have an AKMS and a Vector,so... lost on my current state.

[clever canyon]

Good panic weapon against stalkers in close combat

[wide fable]

Gonna hawk it off to Forester on my way to the Loner Boat.

[analog palm]

can anyone else just not stand bnvgs?

tier 3 is bearable but the other two? even at midnight in storm i prefer to just use eyes

[wide fable]

I can manage with T2 and T3 NODs. But T1 is just impossible.

Though,these days,I don't bother with NODs,because I have thermal sights on everything.

[hollow wadi]

Skill issue, personally

[lavish delta]

Chimeras are getting more and more common in army warehouse

[analog palm]

free food

[rose musk]

depends on the brightness i'm playing at tbh

too high and it's pretty bad

[analog palm]

funny thing with black road

you can talk to butcher (and i assume traders in general) if you sneak up on them

they dont aggro as long as they cant see you

[mental furnace]

yeah

[dusk vessel]

what about a regular AKM

we only have the S ingame

[celest sparrow]

Unobtainable

[dusk vessel]

i know

i sometimes use that one

doesent even fit any attachments but its fine by me

[hollow wadi]

Deleting your System32 as we speak

[fringe sinew]

how do i properly change difficulty mid run again? it is very unfortunate but my reaction time is not what it used to be

[dusk vessel]

https://tenor.com/view/drifting-initial-d-police-car-chase-parking-gif-25470797

cant stop me

[hollow wadi]

!difficulty // Unfortunately

[dawn marten]

@fringe sinew GAMMA has hidden damage modifiers based on your chosen presets when you start a game. These can only be changed by starting a new game and can't be changed mid-playthrough. For more details on what the gameplay and progression difficulty settings are, see this link https://github.com/veerserif/GAMMA-manual/wiki/Difficulty-presets

[fringe sinew]

i will just have to thug it out then

[dusk vessel]

get stronger guns be aware of your surroundings and use cover in gunfights

youll be fine

[hollow wadi]

Reaction time shouldn't be an issue in this game

Unless yours is in seconds

[foggy geyser]

how do i get the quest to go kill eidolon?
i gave the pripyat lab documents to Strelok, said i'd come back when im ready
then i come back to him ready and he has no more dialogue options
rogue gives me a fetch quest to go kill a pseudogiant
did that, no more new dialogue with either of them

[mental furnace]

talk with stitch

[hollow wadi]

Yeah, Stitch also has a fetch quest

[mental furnace]

[hollow wadi]

Ideally we cut out the Drug Making Kit objective

[foggy geyser]

stitch: "i can patch you up"

isn't a medic

https://tenor.com/view/tyler-lie-lol-not-telling-the-truth-that-was-a-lie-gif-13885912

[fringe sinew]

ahah my guns are fine its just my skill thats the problem

ill bbe fine though

[dusk vessel]

gunfights become trivial if you use cover properly

[fringe sinew]

its not that i dont use cover its just that i sometimes dont see stuff

and my aim isnt what it used to be either

it might just be my medication slowing me down

[foggy geyser]

play on easy

the setting is there for a reason

[analog palm]

vinca needs a recipe

major chokepoint for getting medkits on black road

[fringe sinew]

was just asking if i could change difficulty midgame, not complaining no need to get sassy!!

thanks for the help though

appreciated

[foggy geyser]

im not getting sassy lmao im saying the easy difficulty setting is there

[fringe sinew]

well duh

[foggy geyser]

alright now who's sassy

[mental furnace]

[fringe sinew]

thats kind of what you did though isnt it :D

i jest

[mental furnace]

[celest sparrow]

[mental furnace]

[foggy geyser]

[lavish delta]

increasing freedom relation is really hard without killing duty soldiers

[thick sedge]

10k votes on the clear sky duty poll

[blissful ivy]

wut

[novel junco]

the gamma hivemind wins again

[dusk vessel]

did duty lose their only nato trader then?

[random grail]

Not counting nimble yes

[dusk vessel]

guess disguises will be mandatory for them then

if they want nato stuff

[hollow wadi]

Grok suggested it, and it wasn't about Hip, so must be a good idea!!!!

[dusk vessel]

i understand the idea behind it tbf

could solve it by adding a second trader to rostok that sells nato

since its already the biggest hub in the zone

[hollow wadi]

Nah

That would involve putting in an enemy of Duty in Rostok

[novel junco]

Could solve it by just outright removing Clear Sky and all the non-canon shit from Anomaly
(its a pipe dream that never come true)

[hollow wadi]

What's he doing there? Idk NATO trader

[dusk vessel]

i didnt mean that

a duty guy that sells nato parts

idk its just an idea

i didnt mean an enemy faction at least thatd be dumb

[hollow wadi]

Move to S2 canon instead, add Ward to Anomaly

https://tenor.com/view/light-skin-stare-gif-27568384

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-2-korshunov-colonel-korshunov-ward-gif-7609651101951900652

[small ermine]

Lore accurate yanov would piss off ppl

[idle kelp]

Duty being locked to WP traders seems fine. God forbid factions have unique challenges!

[dusk vessel]

there is already several wp locked factions

military bandit renegade

those are fine to be locked aswell

but duty? idk man

[idle kelp]

I don't think anyone has ever cared about renegade

[dusk vessel]

its my favourite faction

[idle kelp]

I'd expect that for most players, the factions that matter the most are the ones that can do the storylines

[mental furnace]

bandit

[dusk vessel]

right

[mental furnace]

freedom and mercs are neutral to them

[dusk vessel]

2 nato traders nvm

[mental furnace]

[novel junco]

Bandits have NATO shit, too (they steal them)

[dusk vessel]

1L of wine and a couple beers will do that lmao

[celest sparrow]

I think you mean Yaniv

[mental furnace]

[copper anvil]

is there anyway to disable G.A.M.M.A Hands Legs Model Swap and still use nosorogs? I really dislike how many many suits are reduced to this weird camo BDU when its enabled

[ember sonnet]

Did they make some of the military at the checkpoint immortal?

[idle kelp]

No, some of them are just very tough

Clearing out the checkpoint is very possible

[crisp turret]

You can disable it. I run without it.

[copper anvil]

i know you can, but once you do, attempting to wear a nosorog crashes the game

[crisp turret]

does it

let me check

which one the ISG ?

[copper anvil]

all of em for me

[crisp turret]

i tried all of them nothing crashes

i do use M.H.P tho

[copper anvil]

can you give me whatever this is? i would like my game to not crash

[crisp turret]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/thap-re-rework

with what error do you crash

[copper anvil]

i hate to be the guy asking you this, but what should be disabled for this to work? thap and the hands/leg swap?

should it be in load order over 21 or 330 somethingish?

and i already know this is the solution, I just didn't think it was still able to be used (i thought it was depricated)

[crisp turret]

yeah i disabled thap and leg swap

[copper anvil]

very cool. thank you! what is your load order with this?

[crisp turret]

its like in the end of the modlist in the disabled section

[copper anvil]

thank u very much... i am in ur debt...

[ember sonnet]

So

With the house of horrors quest, what time does it start?

[crisp turret]

i think at like night 2-3am or somethin

[hollow wadi]

22:00 - 4:00

That's the time it's active for completion

[ember sonnet]

What should I uh

Expect

In terms of what I'd need to kill whatever is there

[hollow wadi]

A reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally tough zombie (not zombied)

And a pushover blind dog

[ember sonnet]

Does it have a gun