╓☢stalker-chat

[low cedar]

they're great but fair warning you need to mod for flatness if you value sanity. If you can compensate for bullet drop you'll be fine but it takes a lot of getting used to.

the unfortunate reality is that not many have the testicular fortitude to master the VSSK

[near estuary]

my character inherently doesn't have balls, so that makes the balls value™ overflow to the other end and give me MASSIVE ones

[low cedar]

I see 🧐

[teal turtle]

I have a feeling the update introduced a few bugs, or I just lack the skill... because it feels like Hardcore Aim is on but it's not.

[low cedar]

I've noticed the AI have the accuracy of a stroking out grandma up close but the second you're more than 10 meters out they turn into aimbots

[near estuary]

opposite experience for me rn tbh

[remote tide]

excellent

[near estuary]

bandit walked up to me and missed every single bullet from the mag

[remote tide]

i loooooooooooooove hard hitting guns with a lot of bullet drop
<- big fan of the VSS in the original trilogy

[near estuary]

the VSS was absolutely NUTTY in SoC

[low cedar]

The VSS or the VSSK? two very different things

[remote tide]

it was CRAZY

the VSSK was not in the original trilogy

[near estuary]

only other game that I know of that has the VSSK is Metro Last Light tbh

[low cedar]

Makes sense, I never played them.

[remote tide]

especially since you could just get one for free from the freedom base lmao

[low cedar]

But yeah no I love all the crazy russian weapons

[remote tide]

i either like guns with really really high bullet speed
or really low bullet speed
those are my favourites

[vast pumice]

morning. stalkers!

heard new release was pretty good, so i came back again.

[remote tide]

ohhhhh i hate the red forest

[vast pumice]

pseudogiants guarding the front gate and sin camping the forester still?

yeah, fuck that place

[remote tide]

no just a trio of pseudodogs

and also a chimera

[vast pumice]

better than giants and sin but still

[gleaming dew]

Gog update when

[vast pumice]

yer thinking vanilla anomaly, bro

[remote tide]

idk
dealing with pseudodogs and a chimera at the same time is uhhh
not great

[vast pumice]

i hear ya

[remote tide]

especially since the chimera seems to have joined the pack of pseudodogs

[hollow prawn]

The one bandit with a Sawed-Off TOZ-106:

[vast pumice]

bro thinks he's the alpha male now or something

[remote tide]

theyre working in concert

[hollow prawn]

How’s the new update? Held off on actually downloading it until the major crash issues were fixed

[vast pumice]

i am still in the settings, trying to remember what does what

friend said the performance is better, at least in rostok by at least 30fps and the emissions are scarier

[remote tide]

and especially since my dumbass is using the chimera hunter
instead of like
a saiga
or smth

[vast pumice]

...but its in the name though! chimera hunter. its suppose to hunt chimeras.

[remote tide]

well surely my .45 pistol will deal with the pseudodogs
ig my aim just sucks

[vast pumice]

are the gun manufacturers stupid?

[hushed pier]

so having 3d ballistics

renders most guns mods

bad right

innaccurate

[vast pumice]

i would assume so

renders as is visual quality or just ruins their performance?

[remote tide]

the dogs are here somewhere
and the chimera isnt far behind

[valid silo]

avg red forest fight

[vast pumice]

sounds like a good time to plant some proxy mines and attract attention

[remote tide]

ok the dogs have been defeated

[vast pumice]

has anyone messed with the stalker and mutant population settings? like, i wanna plaster my zone with random squads and packs but i dont wanna summon an army.

[vast pumice]

proud of you, queen

[remote tide]

no sign of the chimera yet
which is concerning

[rain crow]

Bro what

Haven't even gotten basic tools yet

and this crappy bandit has GEN 3S???

WHAT

Who is this man? Sam Fisher?

[vast pumice]

i understood that reference

[rain crow]

https://tenor.com/view/captain-america-i-understood-that-reference-look-back-gif-14556485

Actually crazy though

The south zone is gonna suffer now

[remote tide]

i found the chimera
and also monolith
and sinners

[rain crow]

Normally have to craft my way up

[vast pumice]

i was about to ask, forest seems pretty damn quiet. only chimera and a few dogs lol

there we go!

[remote tide]

im gonna deal with the chimera before i go after those monolith

.... i swear thats a different chimera

it was
theres another one fighting the monolith

[hexed oriole]

Has anyone installed the game on a Steam deck?

[low cedar]

isn't there an install guide for it? so I'd assume there's been a few atleast

4 basic tools 2 advanced 0 gunsmithing or med tools

[quick tangle]

who and when had the idea to make "new area discovered" sound similar to one of emission sounds?
like when it begins or something similar. Just started on Rostok, already catching ptsd.

[supple pebble]

tbh don't have that as i listen for the crows panicking to know its time to run to shelter

[twin timber]

Spatial audio is borked? How?

[reef hare]

hello signalis enjoyer

[twin timber]

By the way, PAW is somehow borked for me as well

When i set a manual waypoint

The quick save literally crashes my game

Instantly

If it weren't for tempsaves and autosaves I'd have lost my run

[gritty wasp]

https://tenor.com/view/signalis-elster-ariane-hug-love-gif-16626653591372199328

[twin timber]

I feel like 90% of signalis fans never played the damn game

[north flume]

My girlfriend has mine, otherwise I'd try it right fuckin now

[supple pebble]

tbf dont need to play the game to enjoy robot lesbians

[twin timber]

And just have a lesbians fetish

It's such a minor thing in the game that the entirety of tumblr and reddit latched onto

[twin timber]

I remember someone saying they did it

[supple pebble]

well tbf it kind of is the whole plot point

[plain bear]

the REAL take away from signals is the HK SMG 2 is kinda cool looking

[supple pebble]

(kind of)

[reef hare]

i was tweaking tf out when i played so i genuinely didnt notice ariane's picture got swapped out LMAO

[twin timber]

Guns >>>

[reef hare]

this is kinda true, the game is wayyy more subtle than the fandom made it out to be

[vast pumice]

i got to the bdsm sex dungeon part and got distracted by something irl

ill get back and finish it eventually

[twin timber]

Anyway i wonder if grok would ban me if i DM him this

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/823272248882233384/1503156391660228648/ProgrammerHumor-1t8ra1r.jpg?ex=6a0252fb&is=6a01017b&hm=9735aed7fa5df4c246089cc5e3fc9f920dcf0cbd202a09303820885ed20ee30f&

[supple pebble]

bdsm what now

[twin timber]

It's what they call a french hospital or something

[vast pumice]

there lots of cages, i think there was a table with straps and i dont wanna know what that yellow flood on the floor was

[teal turtle]

Okay, what's up with this new armor and ALIFEPLUS update? 9.4, an M4A1 could easily led me shred everyone and anyone in the Clear Sky Hidden Base.

9.5? Pea shooter, takes A LOT of shots to kill them.

NPCs? LASER BEAMS! NO ESCAPE!

[gritty wasp]

br class

[twin timber]

Bro, take cover

[vast pumice]

friend said there is no ultimate armor anymore

[twin timber]

Also br class matters now

[vast pumice]

like, it got rebalanced

[teal turtle]

Gawd damn.

[vast pumice]

now theres armors that serve a specific purpose

[twin timber]

No more pumping some fools full of hollow point and eventually killing them easily

[low cedar]

If this playthrough has taught me anything its that the mp9 slaps ass

[teal turtle]

Even if I do, for some reason, NPC's zerg the fuck out of me.

[twin timber]

Their HUGE ballistic codpieces will bounce the bullets off

[vast pumice]

in any case, aim for the head

armor or not

[twin timber]

Ye

[teal turtle]

I always try but my aim is NOt that great.

[twin timber]

I liked the sfx update too

The bullet sounds now are more hard to discern what they're shooting at me with

[vast pumice]

lmao, just as im adding the relaxing sound sfx mod

[low cedar]

you guys know those little med crates you can break and stuff comes out sometimes?

I just had another med crate come out of the crate

[remote tide]

ok noted
dont loot dahzbog
game crashes

[twin timber]

In 0.9.4 i could tell if they were using an AR, smg or a whole damn 9x39

[twin timber]

Yeah happens with wooden boxes too

If you break like, 200 boxes the chance of loot increases

A lotta useful shit can drop from the lil breakables

[low cedar]

The miracle of birth 🥲

Goddamn why are all of my yellow stashes in truck cemetary

[gritty wasp]

so does doing free sky tasks lower duty like freedom

[hollow prawn]

Not sure tbh

[low cedar]

not a single weapon stash yet then 3 bangers in one wth

[hollow prawn]

No green barrel on any of them though, sadge

[low cedar]

I got spares for days, and can make most of the kits except for D

[hollow prawn]

Shame, that 9A91 slaps

[wicked kernel]

Can we get some re-localization for the new radio chatter? It's very, uh.... Engrishy, and I'm not entirely sure what they mean.

[hollow prawn]

New radio chatter?

I’m good at deciphering Jibberenglish, lemme see

[green ivy]

anyone else start as monolith purely because you get a vss

[wicked kernel]

Yeah there are some new messages (at least as of a few months ago) that they love spamming, and I'm not sure exactly what they're indicating, which makes it slightly annoying.

[vagrant current]

Random radiation hotspots turn every Stalker I make into a chronic smoker in the early game

[hollow prawn]

Screenshot?

I’m curious

[wicked kernel]

I'll screenshot it when I catch it..

[low cedar]

Best part about the 9a91 is it uses the 9as/pp barrel which is super easy to get

[wicked kernel]

@hollow prawn This one makes more sense than some of the others.. But what is this for? Why do I care? Should I care?

[errant oar]

It's part of Alife Plus. You can reduce or remove it by going into the MCM and turning down the chance slider in the news tab.

[reef hare]

that is definitely a sentence containing words

[wicked kernel]

Yeah but see some of it is really obvious.. Such and such stalker finds an artifact.. Maybe if you want that artifact, maybe that stalker has an accident? Or it's really obvious like they're admiring the sunset. Some of the new stuff sounds like you should care, but the sentence construction is a little weird.

[hollow prawn]

yeah that's weird, wonder if it's google-translated

[wicked kernel]

Waiting for them to spam their favorite less-sensical one..

[errant oar]

Nah, it's just kinda poorly written, poorly stitched together dynamic dialogue. "Saw FACTION carrying in bleeders to LOCATION"

[wicked kernel]

There's another one I haven't seen today about some group of stalkers being tracked by someone else, and that they made a campfire before moving on. Nice flavor text. But it's just specific enough like I should care for some reason.. lol

[amber lagoon]

Trust me, it makes even less sense in Russian, because the words need to be conjugated (is that what that's called?) more, and they are indeed dynamic FACTION NAME went to PLACE NAME

I would bet the mod originated as written in English and was google translated to Russian afterwards, because the phrasing is not great

And speaking of not great, I'm so fucking tired of crashes on every level transition and a 50\50 crash on sleep with no sleep save and a bunch of random crashes for no reason whatsoever. Gotta be the worst update in recent memory in terms of stability. I hope it gets fixed soon-ish and I'm not just stuck rolling the go fuck yourself dice every time I want to uhhh breathe I guess

[wicked kernel]

It's like it's trying to bridge that gap between banter and usefulness, and it just sorta got muddy. lol

When did you download it? Cause I tried day one, and it took 3 installations for everything to be fine. Which has turned into my Big Update Ritual. lol

[amber lagoon]

Yeah, probably. I think of all the new additions I like A-life extensions the best. I've definitely seen stalkers and mutants show up more places and do more things outside their normal camps and routes

If it comes with a bit of language jank, so be it, that's far from the worst written thing in the game

[amber lagoon]

I did the Big Update Ritual about a day after launch, and I updated just a couple of hours ago

[errant oar]

The new engine has some quirks that are being looked at, AFAIK.

[amber lagoon]

The new engine? You mean the multithreading thing?

[errant oar]

Yep.

[amber lagoon]

I honestly have no idea what that's supposed to do. I've definitely gotten less random stutter, and no stutter on save, which is nice, but it's not worth it if it's gonna crash this much

[errant oar]

When you crash, throw the logs to the support chats if you haven't already, it'll help them track down the issues.

[pliant spire]

Is there a list of known bugs?

[errant oar]

Not a central resource or anything. Most recent one that sticks out is that sometimes hundreds of crows spawn.

[amber lagoon]

I have a bunch of mods installed, they'll probably tell me to pound sand, but ok

[errant oar]

#🔨modded-gamma-support

[wicked kernel]

This happened within a short sprint of where I was. It's better-written than the others. I get there, no stalkers, no lurkers. Why?

[amber lagoon]

There's a pin in the support chat that says just press continue when the busyhands detector detects a specific error

[amber lagoon]

They be lurking

[pliant spire]

???

[midnight coyote]

If you're about to jump up to an AK-74M Venom in a few minutes anyway, is the Aug-9mm still a valid choice to fix up if you're already running a tac-kitted Vityaz until now?

[reef hare]

my game crashes when i die sometimes. i'm just gonna work around that by calling it an immersive feature

[pliant spire]

I don't understand why ur posting this I never said anything about busyhands

I'm just asking if there is a list of known bugs anywhere

[amber lagoon]

You asked about known bugs

[errant oar]

Aug 9mm supposedly got buffed to MP5SD levels, and gets a thermal scope kit for kinda cheap.

[pliant spire]

So I can review it before submitting a bug report

[amber lagoon]

Ah

[midnight coyote]

Uh thanks interesting info, didn't knew that, thanks; I'll fix it up then 😄

[amber lagoon]

My game crashed when I died in a specific firefight twice in a row, then I snuck around the place and ran away and the game crashed just as I was leaving. Gork calling me a pussy I guess

[midnight coyote]

kind of a collector anyways but early game it's still hard to decide if I should go for the new/changed stuff or stick to the known ol reliables xD

[reef hare]

im gonna try doing the "use the gun that looks the coolest" strategy for this run

[midnight coyote]

in this case I'd be needing roughly 20 sets of hands 😄

[karmic glacier]

Kind of a niche dilemma I am having and would appreciate some advice? So I'm having trouble picking a faction besides my usual duty lol. And its mainly I think because I like a difficult experience, and the less hostile factions a faction has by default the more boring/easy they seem to play imo? Stalker firefights are my favorite part of the game so I've basically never done a freedom or loner playthrough because they are friendly with so many factions so it just seems like it would be boring or almost exclusively mutant tasks. I've only ever played duty, military, and mercenaries. Any suggestions?

[amber lagoon]

Man, the anti-tank revolver has always looked and felt so damn cool, but in practice it was such abysmal dogshit

I hope it got buffed

[midnight coyote]

bruh ... I just iced the mercenary checkpoint in army warehouses for the scatter-loot ... aug9mm with good barrel ... G36k with good barrel ... 2 Deagles, 1 with a good barrel, 1 with both other parts in good condition ... dafuq xD

[amber lagoon]

You would think that loners don't get into firefights as often, but where you need to go enemies are plentiful. On my merc playthrough I became allied with most factions after turning off the brain zapper, plus I got bandits for free. And in the North, bandits and mercs are a common presence, so being allied with them means I got in less fights than when I was a loner.

Also if you want everyone to hate you, just go with a renegade

[midnight coyote]

OSW with a good barrel ...

[amber lagoon]

When you play a loner, you meet bandits and mers allllllll the tiiiiime, so there's plenty of trouble if you're looking for it. Early game is full of quest kill targets

[midnight coyote]

those mercs are even more of a bunch of loot pinjatas then in earlier versions

[karmic glacier]

Sounds like you didn't really want firefights you just wanted friends? haha

yeah but with renegade I dont want to go so hardcore that I cant get tasks or access traders and stuff yk? I think Ive done two full playthroughs as duty based in rostok and almost a full run through with mercs and military.

[gloomy iris]

any idea what mod i have to use to let puddles look like this?

[wicked kernel]

@hollow prawn Here we go, found it.. They LOVE this one..

[amber lagoon]

True. I only ever play as loner because I'm a based centrist. I played once as a merc and a bunch of times as a bandit, but I like loner the best, I think it's the most balanced

[karmic glacier]

Yeah, honestly freedom and duty are two of the biggest points of contention for the loners, If I could somehow make it so freedomers or duty were hostile to loners then I think loners would be perfect for me but without two of the biggest factions hostile then its just slightly off for me.

[karmic glacier]

Fair point I do think they are pretty balanced

[amber lagoon]

Clear Sky is hostile with Duty now, by the way

[karmic glacier]

yeah I noticed that

[amber lagoon]

But up north CS is barely relevant

[karmic glacier]

if only clear sky wasnt soley based at the bottom left of the map then they could be like the loners Im looking for lol

[tropic grove]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1420720303092400230

Possibly this mod?

[amber lagoon]

Yeah, they're a bit of a gimmick faction just there to round out the numbers and populate the swamps, there's no way to finnagle them into a larger presence in the zone

[gloomy iris]

tried but it doesnt look like that... lot less shiny

[amber lagoon]

But hey, you can always pick Freedom quests against Duty and Duty quests against Freedom and see which ones becomes pissed at you first

[spark pecan]

MP153 being c-tier is criminal

[karmic glacier]

thats an interesting idea, I just kinda wish that i could make it so my friendly factions (like loners) would then offer bounties on freedom or duty once im hostile.

[spark pecan]

mediocre stats and no scope options WHO is using this shitr

[amber lagoon]

It's a fucking goated gun actually, very strong and agile, a huge upgrade over any pump-action

It won't take you that long to get a C kit

[karmic glacier]

Yknow @amber lagoon I think something that could really help me finally decide on a faction is if I pick my base FIRST and then pick my faction. Im looking for 3 things and it doesnt have to have all 3.

1. A place near a campfire where stalkers come gather, sometimes play guitar, etc for the vibes OH the VIBES
2. Not in a city, preferably in a place where I can actually get usage out of the new "alarm" furniture item.
3. Preferably on the same map as some traders and a mechanic so I can use the trading computer to trade (I think now with the computer + a disguise you could hypothetically trade with any faction now without risk).

Do you know of any cool base spots that have any of these criteria?

[spark pecan]

My problem is that it exists in the same tier as almost every other semi-auto and from what I remember just about all of them get scope options.

[twin timber]

Now that i've properly tested out the game, it's time for a new invictus

And since clear sky lost rostok, this will be hella fun

[spark pecan]

is the lever action still B tier

[twin timber]

Yes

[spark pecan]

hallelujah.

cannot believe that thing was c tier once upon a time

[twin timber]

SVD types were C tier last patch

So everything can happen it seems

The fucking SVT is a C tier for some GODDAMN reason

It can't even take any scopes

That piece of shit

[reef hare]

any glaring issues you found?

[spark pecan]

the SVD is a green barrel lottery gun

[twin timber]

Oh, several

But i just learned how to circumvent them

Buncha CTD problems i can avoid by just not doing things

[spark pecan]

moving it to D tier was pointless because by the time you're in d tier you have better rifle options

[twin timber]

It's become a green barrel lottery again

[spark pecan]

yeah

[twin timber]

In C tier it was actually useful because it's an option to replace the bolt actions

But they still needed a scope to be useful

Now it's just meh

[spark pecan]

what i'd appreciate for the SVT is an upgrade kit that you can only find rarely or on enemies or something

which would actually make it more useful

[twin timber]

I'll never use a SVD again, because i can just use the SVDS instead of it at d tier

The svds is peak

Love it

Even if grok removed the 5.56 exploit

[reef hare]

i mean, the SVT is a c tier semi auto 7.62x54r no?

[spark pecan]

SVD is d tier now.

[wicked kernel]

I'd hold off on Ironman/Invictus until the zombies are, uh, addressed..

[spark pecan]

For Some Reason.

[hollow prawn]

what's up with the zombies?

[reef hare]

i meant the svt mb

[twin timber]

Yes but it can't take any scopes

It's a glorified SKS

Actually, WORSE than an sks

[spark pecan]

it is C tier but it has no scope options (you cant use the PU which it historically was able to use)

[twin timber]

The sks can equip a PU

[reef hare]

oh right the sks upgrade

[twin timber]

And the ammo is also more expensive

[amber lagoon]

Don't ask me, I go with Rostok mechanic nook every single time because I'm a repair gremlin and I always need my materials, plus I want to be in the middle of all routes so I'm never too far away from anything. When I go North, I move to Yanov basement for the same reason and never look back. I was thinking of creating a base in Strelok's apartment in Pripyat, but it's such a pain in the ass to get to and so far away from civilization that I changed my mind very quick.

With all that in mind, some ideas:

1. I guess you could try one of the apartments in the Bloodsucker village on Military if you wanna be hardcore about it.
2. Basement under the Flea Market in Garbage
3. If you hate yourself, the northern train tunnel in Darkscape
4. Once you shut off the Brain Zapper, try finding vacant apartments in Pripyat for the authentic slavic real estate market experience
5. Agroprom complex where the stalkers hang out, but no traders on that map. Pretty fast route to Yantar and Butcher though

[twin timber]

FUCK the svt

Useless ass gun

[wicked kernel]

I saw someone lose a 6 hour ironman the other day to a random zombie at 200 meters popping them in the leg. It's actually already been tweaked if you look in Development, just gotta wait for the hotfix.

[spark pecan]

what's up wih the AVT

[twin timber]

Hell if i know

Haven't found any

[amber lagoon]

That is true, but it'll take a while for you to find them, and a scope on a shotgun is not that useful, I prefer running with red dots

[spark pecan]

you cant put dots on the MP153.

[wicked kernel]

Also @hollow prawn , found the annoying one I was referencing. lol

[amber lagoon]

You can't? I remember it differently then

[spark pecan]

yeah i remember the one you're taking about, that one had some scopes and every dot

new one has jack

no dots, no scopes

c tier.

literally useless

[amber lagoon]

Oh, there's a new one from this update?

[spark pecan]

aye.

[amber lagoon]

I haven't seen it yet, I remember it being awesome earlier. Well, I'll update my opinion once I find it

[fervent wedge]

What uh.... What's the default key for changing patch for stealth? I don't even know where to set the key now.

[amber lagoon]

No dots is ass

[spark pecan]

either it's a new model for the current one but grok for some reason removed all of it's optic options or it's a filler shotgun with an objectively better version in the same tier

[fervent wedge]

I'm sorry. I mean the patch key for disguise.

[amber lagoon]

I remember it not being in the last update, so maybe gork added it just because people were bitching so much. I sure was unhappy, it's my favorite early game shotty

[amber lagoon]

P now

[fervent wedge]

P brings up my laser settings. Weird.

[spark pecan]

the thing is it's still c-tier, so why ever use a no-optics semi over a semi with optics? (any saiga 12)

[fervent wedge]

Do you know where abouts I can find the keybind definition for patches?

[amber lagoon]

There's an MCM menu you can change the binding. Look for Patches

You can also change the binding for laser menus, but I forget which mod that is

[fervent wedge]

I see. It's just called "Keybind"

The laser settings were overriding it in MCM

[amber lagoon]

Yeah, that makes sense, I think I unbound the laser menu

[amber lagoon]

Saigas take mags, and I need my mag pouches for the 25 shrimp mags I will need

[fervent wedge]

That tears the patch OFF, but doesn't let me put a proper patch on. This shit is so confusing. It used to just "work" before.

[amber lagoon]

I always just use the menu

[fervent wedge]

Which menu?

[karmic glacier]

thank you so much for your well thought out response!
Love the suggestions, I would rather chew broken glass than live in the darkscape omg talk about the worst area ever hahaha

Might do 4 later on, and agroporom complex you mean where the train cars are? Yknow I thought about that. Also what do you mean there are no traders on that map? Theres a huge military base with each kind of trader?

[gray ember]

whats the decrypt key for the mega download link?

[twin timber]

Anyway, not gonna do last dawn so quickly yet

It's extremely risky to do with shitty gear

Specially now that BRC got reworked

Them military boys got nasty gear with them

[amber lagoon]

Right clicking on the suit

[amber lagoon]

.

[crimson island]

seen worse RF packages

[fervent wedge]

Yeah it only has the option to "tear off the patch" if I do that.

[midnight coyote]

damn that Aug9mm is way above the vidyaz

[fervent wedge]

There used to be some deal to tear off / put it back on

Weird, it works now. I dunno wtf is going on. As long as I don't tear the patch off I think I'm good?

[amber lagoon]

Military is hostile if you're a loner or freedom, and clear sky is hostile if you're duty, and there's always a fuckton of clear sky there migrating from the swamp to the south. Agroprom has no traders for you if you're not duty, and I wouldn't recommend going Duty there.

And by which complex, I mean the one where the stalkers hang out and there's a three-story building with the psy anomaly. The map used in Gamma has lots of campfires and leftover junk from Clear Sky when it was a stalker base, so it would feel very homey to live there. Aside from the absolute dogshit logistics of it, but oh well

[amber lagoon]

Ah

You might not have any patches of that faction in your inventory

Tearing off the patch doesn't add one

[karmic glacier]

oh, I know, but remember in my message I said in brackets that the trading computer I think allows you to trade with any faction if you have the right disguise without any risk?

[fervent wedge]

lol ok it's working. Weird.

[amber lagoon]

Oh, maybe. Have you tested it?

[fervent wedge]

Thanks for the help @amber lagoon

[karmic glacier]

thanks for the suggestions brotherman

[low cedar]

Skycells must die

[amber lagoon]

I suggest you test it before committing to building a base there

[karmic glacier]

and no but ive seen people talking about it like it works

[amber lagoon]

If it does work, I think it might be pretty goated

[karmic glacier]

Good idea tho I should test it

[karmic glacier]

hell yeah.

[amber lagoon]

Sure thing, have fun dude

[karmic glacier]

You wouldnt happen to know how I can like, use cheats to basically get the trading computer easily and maybe unlock fast travel points? so I can just test it quick?

[reef hare]

anyone else tried clear sky with the duty changes? so far im finding it a slog to run through swaps, so business as usual i guess

[river flame]

you can use debug mode to get the computer, turn it on in the anomaly launcher then press F7 in game. I think it also allows you to discover all locations, unsure.

[amber lagoon]

Yeah, you can spawn items through the debug menu

Let's try this !debug

[rain crow]

Ah finally getting somewhere

[amber lagoon]

!debug

[dawn marten]

@amber lagoon How to enable debug mode: #╭📖faq message

[amber lagoon]

There you go

[rain crow]

K98 kit is sick btw

[midnight coyote]

uhh nice forester

still using the native one

[amber lagoon]

Tier 3 nogs and Tier 1 everything else? Bro

[rain crow]

The Gen3 I got off that bandit looks so out of place compared to everything else lmao

[low cedar]

Jealous of your suppressor

[midnight coyote]

yeah this made me go 'Wait wut?!' for a second xD

[rain crow]

I have precisely 300 roubles left now

[karmic glacier]

Thanks Apophis you are the goat. Ill be sure to let you know when I test it what I found

[rain crow]

This random bandit in army warehouses had these gen3's on him

NO clue where he got it btw

[amber lagoon]

Sure thing, I'm kinda curious now

[rain crow]

Time to go raid Streloks hideout and then die to a controller

[amber lagoon]

Well that's getting nerfed for sure

[rain crow]

Yeah ain't no way that stays

[fervent wedge]

Ok. While frantically smashing keys to find the patch deal... I lost my minimap. Wtf.

[midnight coyote]

try "-"

or Num-ENTER

[fervent wedge]

That's the hud toggle

It's weird, it's just the minimap that's missing

[midnight coyote]

then give "-" a try 😉

[fervent wedge]

Yeah.. Nothing.

[amber lagoon]

It's /

The ?

[fervent wedge]

Yeah it is

Thanks a lot.

https://tenor.com/view/keyboard-gif-24203721

[amber lagoon]

Imagine playing on the circumcised keyboard so you can't bind squad commands to the numpad lmao

[midnight coyote]

hey Device-Version of "I have no mouth but I must scream"

"I have a 75% Keyboard but can't find the key!"

[elfin socket]

i got him

The big one

[amber lagoon]

Finally, some privacy

[midnight coyote]

bruuuuuuh ... raiding mercs is just an exploit at this point xD

that's the 'tech lvl' that I'm running right now while smashing those merc-pinjatas

[fervent wedge]

Yeah killing mers is nice.

[karmic glacier]

Oh shit anyone know if theres a way to turn up the trading computers distance? Like you can with the taskboard mod in the McM? I cant even find the name of the mod that adds the trading computer sadly.

[river flame]

the mts 255 is so fucking good. Doesn't matter that 70 gauge has no armor pen, its shot grouping is so good you can just headshot a guy and watch him ragdoll

[midnight coyote]

Deer Hunter and another green-barrel G36k, that's just insane

only questio nis, what to fi up ... Twilight Tactical or Merc Seva

[north ibex]

let him in

[midnight coyote]

he#s obviously offering you to take his strong hand

[twin timber]

The fuck, messages from the past?

[midnight coyote]

The time in Lordran is convoluted 😉

[reef hare]

gonna crawl my ass back to base because im too stubborn to use a 1000 ruble bandage

[amber lagoon]

I was drinking with this guy once, and after the second bottle he told me his radio caught the chatter of his old teammates, all long dead. They were trying to get him to come outside, and the emission hit a minute after that. Such is life in the Zone. He was probably telling tall tales, but I usually turn my radio off when my bones start to ache

[twin timber]

Love how the winchester makes quick work of these bandit assholes

[wicked kernel]

[twin timber]

1 bullet ends the jacket wearing idiots

Once i get that side-mount scope the renegades are FINISHED

[amber lagoon]

The repeater with the scope is the best way to hunt mutants, holy shit. I WEPT when the scope was added a couple patches back. Took it to the scorcher once just to prove a point

[twin timber]

I'm not even using it for muties

[amber lagoon]

I play with Artigrok, so I get to enjoy AP .357 too

[twin timber]

I have access to .357 monolithic FMJ

[amber lagoon]

Oh yeah

Ohhh yeahhh

[twin timber]

I got the drum mag thompson from one of the bandits i just wiped out in cordon

I just need to fix it not to waste .357 in filthy beasts

[gritty wasp]

What

[reef hare]

i made it 👍

[vagrant current]

It's generally a lot more cost and resource effective to drag your ass to a medic than to actually use healing items. Y'know, if you can actually survive the trip back.

[rain crow]

lmao, you have to bum rush the military base to get into the underground now

[reef hare]

i spent like 5 minutes in an anomaly field doing the last dawn quest before realizing i didnt even take the quest

[glossy drift]

Proof of dementia in the Zone

[elfin socket]

What?

[reef hare]

i really wanna start using something other than the vityaz/mp5 but every time i shoot a .357 or a .45 hydrashock i feel the bullet cost hitting my SOUL

[gritty wasp]

I ain’t got time to limp

[gritty wasp]

Butcher dude butcher

[rain crow]

The other entrances wouldn't let me enter the underground

[reef hare]

STILL

[elfin socket]

there are like four of em, none?

[glossy drift]

Get a gunsmithing tool, ez ammo

[errant oar]

The game now randomly selects one on game start, and locks off the others. It only being the military base one is a bit BM though.

[vagrant current]

.357 or .45 bullet cost is nothing compared to the bullet cost of missing a .338 Lapua shot

That's more than a thousand rubles gone for nothing

[gritty wasp]

Isn’t it like 18k

Or 6k

I forgot the cost

[glossy drift]

Yea some bullshit like that

It's like 200k for the whole invent

[reef hare]

i ended up installing a mod that adds guide travel between the merc/freedom/bandit bases because the truck cemetery run is boring ahh

[vagrant current]

It's why I'll never actually use a .338 Lapua rifle, even when I can easily afford it. It's just insanely expensive for no reason

[gritty wasp]

500 miles of empty truck cemetery please

[vagrant current]

Though I haven't tried it since the new patch so I don't know if they've made the ammo price for it less stupid

[reef hare]

which is why ill never use that caliber

[gritty wasp]

Man I wish there was a cap to getting negative rep with another faction

[reef hare]

shooting expensive bullets gives me REAL LIFE PSY DAMAGE

[gritty wasp]

Goddamn doing duty got me down from 400 down to -78 with freedom

also what he mean by this…

[glossy drift]

Yea freedom no likey Duty

[vagrant current]

In the endgame after I've done a lot of artifact hunting, I would rather straight up use a gauss rifle than a .338 Lapua rifle

[rain crow]

See, I have to go the complete opposite way lmao

Fight my way out instead

[glossy drift]

Tbh best situation since you're not backed into a corner

[reef hare]

i hope the quest reward buffs to northern areas is worth it, maybe then i'll stop thinking about rubles per item used

[vagrant current]

I like how those bandits are supposed to confront you about the documents or whatever but you can just walk right past them with no issue

[rain crow]

It physically wouldn't let me enter any other way, so I had to fight the controller first

[gritty wasp]

Pristine Gamma ai

[glossy drift]

I mean you shouldn't be doing that even before getting up North

[karmic glacier]

@amber lagoon Sadly no it doesn't work, I tested it very thoroughly with multiple conditions, finally I switched factions to military with debug mode and suddenly the traders started to appear in the computer. It def doesnt work. RIP.

[glossy drift]

Yea 0.9.5 forces a new random entry every run iirc

[reef hare]

years of survival game gameplay have done a number on my psyche

[gritty wasp]

https://tenor.com/view/storch-corrupted-storch-euuu-signalis-gif-1745706220420734867

[twin timber]

I NEED a pb

Why won't these bandit scum drop one

[vagrant current]

Now we need the BS layout to change on every playthrough

[twin timber]

All i'm getting are makarovs

[vagrant current]

So you can really feel the stress of that timer

[glossy drift]

Damn you got the video game equivalent of "poor people mindset"

[twin timber]

More like invictus player mindset

[reef hare]

dont worry i have that irl too

[twin timber]

I understand having to count every rouble

Since i'm literally doing it right now

[glossy drift]

Same difference

[reef hare]

fellow invictus enjoyer (masochist)

[twin timber]

I go a little beyond that

Adding fatal error and other mods to make the game even harder

[reef hare]

do you just have a folder of signalis reaction gifs

[twin timber]

[fervent wedge]

For toolkits you have to get tasks farther north right?

[reef hare]

based

[twin timber]

For expert tools yes

[fervent wedge]

I forget how those changes were made in terms of the drop rate of higher grade tools

[twin timber]

Everything else you can get south

And in 0.9.5 you can even craft medical and gunsmithing tools

[fervent wedge]

Expert / Advanced are north?

[rain crow]

Leaving seems fine

hm

glad to be out of that hellhole

[gritty wasp]

Took me forever to get basic tools but thank god I got advanced first gold stash in army warehouse

[midnight coyote]

depends on which kits:
Basic are most common in

• Swamp
• Cordon
• Garbage
  Advanced is singlemost common in
• Army Warehouses
  Expert is best to try stashes in
• Outskirts

[fervent wedge]

Gamma doesn't make a lot of sense with the amount of Ammo people drop. They drop like... Nothing but they're spraying ammo at me

[gritty wasp]

Balancing

[midnight coyote]

they're not dropping much because they all sprayed it at you

[vagrant current]

It's not about the realism, it's about making you suffer

[gritty wasp]

Also that

[fervent wedge]

The whole "balance" is weird.

[gritty wasp]

Task up

Get yo money up

[worn maple]

HOLY! a useable follower UI!

new update is just full of nice changes and updates

[reef hare]

gamma gamified anomaly a lot tbh. i like the extreme focus on progression, but as a downside, the zone in gamma feels a lot less "lived in"

[fervent wedge]

Yeah it's very opposite of EFT style realism in a lot of ways. And keeps with it in others.

[midnight coyote]

sometimes gamma is just trolling ...

[reef hare]

cant wait for the new escape from pripyat update though (i guess theyre calling it FUSION now?). gonna be playing that alongside gamma

[fervent wedge]

Honestly, I guess I can modify Gamma to meet that different standard via MCM

I can add all the ammo / guns / etc back and rebalance it

[midnight coyote]

'Yo, you member those 3 Bloodsuckers that jumped you right after you took out that chimera with your starting Defender? ... have a random PHANTOM STAR N00B!' xD

[fervent wedge]

Then people are like "It's not Gamma now"

Gamma only really makes you suffer the toolkit shit early... Then it's headshots the whole way out

[twin timber]

Fun fact: you can lose enemies, they will search for where they last saw you

Just disappear on the bushes and stay quiet

[north flume]

you can also just shoot them

[twin timber]

This fool was walking backwards in my direction

[reef hare]

i cant figure out a way to do that for myself without breaking everything so if it works for you then thats great
i tried making my own modpack but figuring out which mods play nice with each other is complete ass
though im probably overcomplicating a lot of things

[twin timber]

Also i ran out of ammo

Like, literally no bullets to shoot them with

[north flume]

got dayum

[elfin socket]

HES DOING THE MEME

[fervent wedge]

You just rebalance the loot tables inside the MCM mods.

[amber lagoon]

Ah well. To the Darkscape you go then

[midnight coyote]

Yeah .. sure ... I'll take that Frasier right after I fixed up that 9mm AUG ...

[fervent wedge]

The drop rates / etc etc are all inside of MCM. They defaults are SUPER low for Gamma. That's the whole point. You can go select Ammo as an "extra" droppable and set the multiplier and chance to drop ammo

Like this

[reef hare]

which mod in mcm?

[fervent wedge]

"Drop Condition"

That will make everyone drop a reasonable amount of ammo. Probably "too much" at 10. Maybe less?

Then the Outfits / Weapons you turn up. Those are the min / max conditions.

[north flume]

artefact melter in the stash wooo

[fervent wedge]

The legendary stalkers have hilariously bad gear if you read those settings. It's like.. I dunno.

[reef hare]

oh that

[fervent wedge]

If you kill a legend, you deserve a better roll than that.

[reef hare]

i was thinking about rebalancing the armor and weapons to make fewer bullet sponges
but as i said, im probably overcomplicating things

[elfin socket]

Yeah, if you dont want to destroy balance keep it under 50 percent

[fervent wedge]

Modifying Drop Condition alone will allow you to have GammaLite

There's another mod you change that drops random items ON bodies.

I can't remember the name.

"Outfit Drops" will change the drop rates for actual armor

"Faction Identification" used to do more. I'm not sure. I don't think Identification Speed even works anymore. It might have gotten overwritten

[rose musk]

guys where is my hornet in the freedom loadout

[spark pecan]

the amount of times the AI has focused me when there's an enemy stalker literally 2 feet from them is starting to really annoy me

why the fuck are you shooting at me when your head is about to explode

[gritty wasp]

Removed

https://tenor.com/view/uma-musume-gold-ship-uma-baby-holding-laugh-annaberuuu-gif-11103023866792164026

[rose musk]

https://tenor.com/view/1984-gif-19260546

what a fucked up day

[rain crow]

Five Seven or FNX45

[vagrant current]

No more funny BRRRRT pistol for you

[rain crow]

Decisions decisions

[gritty wasp]

Five seven

[karmic glacier]

haha helllll naw. I think ill go loners but Ill purposely try to get hostile with duty so I dont have the option of using rostok as a home like I tend to do. Just a little unsure of where to base though. Man I really wish you could turn up the distance the trading computers can work at cuz 150m is really limiting.

[rain crow]

But FNX is just so cool

[reef hare]

it works on base anomaly, idk why not in gamma

[vagrant current]

Do you want a gun against Stalkers or mutants, basically

[gritty wasp]

Then why ask

[vagrant current]

Five SeveN with AP rounds can drop basically anyone that isn't in exo or noso

[rain crow]

I mean with my K98 upgraded now I'm basically a stealth archer

[vagrant current]

Though not as quickly as a P90 can obviously

[rain crow]

Todd has done it again

I just have like 6 pistols now to choose from

[fervent wedge]

I guess maybe my point is that while Gamma can feel unfair a bit... Most of it can be modified pretty easy in the MCM mods.

The default Gamma experience is "Setup" via those mods.

Then just... Adjust upwards to your liking... Enjoy the game

[vagrant current]

That's the thing about single player games. You can mod the shit out of them and no one will know unless you tell them

For example no one will ever know I replaced the Deathclaws in Fallout with Macho Man Randy Savage

[fervent wedge]

Exactly. It's a single player game. People will say "well the only person you can cheat is yourself" and that's kind of true.

[amber lagoon]

You could make a hut near the Freedom base, use one of the unused barracks near where the medic is, or find a house. In fact, one of the houses in the bloodsucker village has a very sizeable basement

[vagrant current]

Dead City Merc base has the best place to make a hideout, inside the crate fort

[fervent wedge]

I can switch to Merc later right? If I sneak in and ask to join?

[midnight coyote]

uh lol, the ledge grab even works on the wired walls around freedom base, what a bloody time save

[amber lagoon]

I made a little nook for myself on the premises of the base, they don't mind

[karmic glacier]

Yeah thats what I was thinking, Id love to do bloodsucker village but this damn trading computer distance would force me to basically run all the way over to the freedomer base anyway to do trading.

[amber lagoon]

If you're hostile with them, they won't talk to you I think

[elfin socket]

Probably yeah

[amber lagoon]

I would say you join freedom and then mercs

[fervent wedge]

Nono. I can wear an outfit of a friendly group and join them

Outfit at 100% with no weapon out, is like zero care.

[midnight coyote]

that's correct, you can use the disguise system to lvl your rep with mercs and then join them

[amber lagoon]

Sounds like dogshit opsec on the part of mercs then

[elfin socket]

You prob want to change the disguise settings. they are questionable

[amber lagoon]

"Hey guys, I'm one of you! Can I join by the way?"
"Suuure... Where did you get the suspiciously bloodstained suit?"
"Don't worry about it kitten"

[fervent wedge]

Yeah, the disguise settings are a bit harsh. The defaults you have to walk everywhere and have no weapon out and be in perfect armor condition.

[elfin socket]

Huuum should i finish my current 9.4 game first or do i update now?

I feel like the early and midgame are more fun than late game

[gritty wasp]

oh i got the hit your shot or die spike artifact

really risky i assume if you max it out and have it stacked

[fervent wedge]

Yeah the companions UI is nice now

[midnight coyote]

Okay, which one to fix up? I'm mostly tendin to the Merc Seva

[fervent wedge]

Another Gamma change you can make is the companion limit. You can run with 10 people like a pack of wolves.

[elfin socket]

Whichever looks cooler

[reef hare]

im tweaking that shit day 1, if i can run around like a dumbass in my own faction's base, i should be able to do that when disguised

[elfin socket]

You can disable everything

[reef hare]

yeah i do

[elfin socket]

and do just that

[reef hare]

except the repair condition, i kinda get that

[elfin socket]

its your game, go ham

I played CS which faction should i do next?

Im thinking Mercs or Freedom, maybe Bandits/renegades

[reef hare]

i'd go bandits if you dont care about the main questline

[elfin socket]

I havent done that in gamma yet only on vanilla anomaly and efp i think

[reef hare]

there you go then

[elfin socket]

Moddb doenst look too slow, good

[livid niche]

is there a new LUT with this update? like does gamma look different color wise or am i crazy?

i tried messing with the basic light settings but it still seems different than before

[elfin socket]

I mean check the changelog? i dont remeber seeing that, but im also more insterested in the guns and rebalances

[reef hare]

im looking at old gameplay and it kind of looks the same, though i did feel that way too when i first played the update

[livid niche]

maybe im just a lil crazy idk, im using the same mods i added from last update yet something still feels different

i havent changed the LUT

[reef hare]

for me, i think it was because i havent played in a while?

and all my saves are starting in really dark weather for 8am

[shadow cave]

Has anyone found a solid resolution for your game crashing when turning in some jobs yet or nah?

[vagrant current]

Honestly Mercs and Freedom are very similar in terms of equipment, allies/enemies, and main base location

I personally prefer Mercs because of my insatiable greed and AMERICA

[fervent wedge]

God. Finally a real gun

[livid niche]

goat gun

bolt actions in this game are so satisfying to use

[livid niche]

this might be the reason as its been like 5 months since ive last played actually

[vagrant current]

Isn't this the one with the borderline unuseable canted sight because the scope takes up half the fucking screen

[elfin socket]

Nah just reload, the game just crashes sometimes, unless its everytime, than its a you problem im pretty sure

[elfin socket]

yes

[fervent wedge]

I don't need a canted sight. This thing has +5 natural pen and good ammo. Everything dies 50m away

The natural 1x zoom is adequate too

I need to find that last part

[elfin socket]

not really, its usually a very low jam chance

if youre gonna save until you find the last part, otherwise disregard

[vagrant current]

Give me a sniper rifle with a laser so I can hold it sideways and no-scope my way through the Zone

[elfin socket]

theres something about the holding it at an angle that just works for me, i do it on RoN i can be fairly accurate

[fervent wedge]

Yeah it's like 3% right now. I was hoping freedom sold the part

[midnight coyote]

really ...

[vagrant current]

I love it how you can do it with the Five-SeveN you can start the game with

Very tacticool

[elfin socket]

it adds to the excitment, lol,

[elfin socket]

the beretta does it also

Also can i say that im mad we dont have a 92fs its my favorite pistol ;-;

[livid niche]

godspeed to this duty soldier whose brains i splattered across the concrete, i didnt want to do it. but lukash called and i picked up the phone

[graceful salmon]

WE'LL BE PAYING YOU A VISIT SOON BUD

[half steeple]

!mags

[dawn marten]

@half steeple
How to enable magazines in GAMMA: #╭📖faq message

Do NOT use 207- Mags Redux or Mags Buyable at Traders!

[livid niche]

TELL THAT TO THE 8K ROUBLES I GOT FROM LUKASH

[reef hare]

hello duty enjoyer, what are your thoughts on clear sky recently?

[midnight coyote]

I can FINALLY slaughter them without remorse for settling down in that monolith-forsaken swamp!

[livid niche]

honestly i love how active the pda chat is now

feels poppin all the time with actual convos

[reef hare]

same but the engrish is killing me, hope they update it soon

[elfin socket]

The engrish is the best part

[livid niche]

nah u just have google translate on your pda

its peak

[spark pecan]

every time i get a "kill this stalker" quest and they teleport 2 zones away by the time i've moved five feet i genuinely want to rage quit

[elfin socket]

Stalker has always been kinda goofy its just the way it is

[spark pecan]

holy shit there's nothing more i enjoy doing than running for 20 minutes just to spend 1 minute killing a guy

[graceful salmon]

i mean the only difference is great swamps and agroprom is a lil bit harder for duty but imo its ez early game nato loot

duty is even more fun imo i play duty bc its easy early game, hard late game

[storm pecan]

first run back in decades which gun is the most fun to use

[reef hare]

ks23

[graceful salmon]

the ks

use superior warsaw technology

[elfin socket]

I feel its a worse change to CS really, now you gotta go around through truck cemetery, but it also makes easier to pick quest from freedom and mercs

[storm pecan]

also that sound effect when you discover a new location keeps scaring tf out of me

[storm pecan]

except the ks because its army now 💔

[graceful salmon]

also duty lose nato trader but honestly u can get ammo from gunsmithing and attachments from killing literally every nato faction in the game

just more grinding but its ok

[elfin socket]

Made CS less like Ecos

[graceful salmon]

CS used to be loners but easy with nato gear, its now actually worth playing imo

its a poor mans merc campaign

except u can kill bandits

[elfin socket]

Its mercs if you like the swamps

[graceful salmon]

and friendly to loners from the start

its just merc but the right way, fuck bandits

[reef hare]

helps that wp traders sell some nato attachments now

[graceful salmon]

yea honestly i think warsaw weapons better especially modern warsaw, its just nato does have better attachments

[reef hare]

but tbh why wouldnt you use an ak in a stalker game

[graceful salmon]

more tacticool weapons

[elfin socket]

Its funny they just have a g36 carry handle

[graceful salmon]

but warsaw hit harder

[zenith nymph]

anyone know why i cant reorganize anything in mo2?

[elfin socket]

I switch all the time, i like carbines a lot the ak74 u tactician is goated

[midnight coyote]

that's the gun for te Solid-Snake-But-Unga-Bunga-Player xD

[livid niche]

god i forgot how beautiful this game was on high ass settings and ultrawide 1440p

stalker goona

[fervent wedge]

Does this shit run multithread now?

I haven't even looked at my processes while it's running to see how many cores its utilizing

[elfin socket]

You can cant the gun, so its awesome

[midnight coyote]

also it's bloody light for it's firepower

[fervent wedge]

Ehh.. The 4090 is only hitting 40% utilization on it

Maybe 37%

[livid niche]

my 4090 is using like 70% lol

temps hittin 68c

but i am using high sss settings and graphic mods

[vagrant current]

AK74 Venom is also pretty tacticool, especially when you convert it to use the proper 5.56 cartridges

[fervent wedge]

Mines literally underclocked 100mhz. I think Crimson Desert was the only thing recently that made it runh ot

[livid niche]

nah crimson desert makes my PC run like a space heater

i aint ever seen my 4090 hit 75c before

[storm pecan]

is it just me or is gamma a bit more unstable than usual

only been playing an hour and a half and two crashes on transition

[gritty wasp]

what did the chimera do to bro

[shadow cave]

Yeah it's every time, I was just curious if anyone else was having the issue

[gritty wasp]

also found these

[reef hare]

finally, a clear sky

[graceful salmon]

green barrel SVD day 1 duty in garbage at hanger LETS GO

[midnight coyote]

Duty has left the Chat

[reef hare]

duty fans when they look up

[elfin socket]

fuck, i have to download the zip file to update now

[valid silo]

manifesting gog version goes live tomorrow

trvst

[fervent wedge]

The zip file has everything

It was fast as fuck for me so.. I dunno

It just worked.

[livid niche]

gog gamma enjoyers when they cant put installer in folder, run it, install and press the play button

[midnight coyote]

Back in my day, this wouldn't even be enough to install a game from Floppy!

Yes, I'm THAT old!

Back then, if we wanted to play a game, we had to walk 50km hrough the snow storm ... barefoot ... on broken glass ... BOTH WAYS!

[fervent wedge]

Damn I just got beamed in the head from like a quarter mile. The fk

[lethal ocean]

Im gonna kick cold's ass he gabe me a job to kill mutants and it was a pack of 20 dogs
I counted them

Wait
OH MY GOD
IT WASNT EVEN THE MUTANTS I WAS HERE TO KILL IT WAS JUST A RANDOM PACK

Its a pack of ten cats
I hate the swamp so much

[fervent wedge]

These monos are aimbotting geezus

[midnight coyote]

HOLY WUT!? ... controller camping the southern garbage entrance xD

[elfin socket]

Yes, military is like that also

They will beam you with a kiparis

its insane

[fervent wedge]

They heavily changed the per-faction aim shit since I last played I guess

[quick tangle]

seriously, why does Military has such an awful starting armor options at all Progression levels. Service outfit, in a frigging Zone?
as underfunded or whatever it can be, if it can afford bringing helis into the action, it can afford better gear for a small contingent of troops inside that place.

[elfin socket]

funny, that this i accurate

The army doesnt care about grunts, but fancy million dollar attack heli?

[gritty wasp]

[midnight coyote]

noice

[gritty wasp]

merc loot stays winning

[hollow prawn]

so why are we locking down #🔨base-gamma-support ?

that answers that ig lol

[midnight coyote]

okay, final stretch of the 'quick money'-run ... agroprom ... haven't even been there yet this playthrough xD

[grave pier]

WEYYYYY F2000

goated rifle, stupid high fire rate and low recoil once upgraded

[rose musk]

Good thing I finished my download last night

[reef hare]

is the rostok to garbage shortcut working for you guys? i cant seem to enter it

[gritty wasp]

more of a reason to rush expert tools

[crimson island]

its working

[midnight coyote]

yes it works but smetimes is a bit finicky

[graceful salmon]

ya

[reef hare]

i see the problem now. i had to discover garbage first lmao

or reload the area idk

[midnight coyote]

Zone-Cthulhu just Fthagn'ed it

[valid silo]

Says the beta tester for gog patricians)))

[reef hare]

ok wow the mts indeed slaps

[livid niche]

we're all beta testers, gog included. gamma aint finished

[valid silo]

In a sense we're gamma testers

[livid niche]

https://tenor.com/view/akuma-truth-nuke-akuma-truth-nuke-trvth-nuke-street-fighter-gif-5192507001619125108

[midnight coyote]

yeah when it's finished itll be renamed into Stalker Anomaly Omega

[gritty wasp]

https://giphy.com/gifs/NzQkhb2iwaMbj7BfKw

[elfin socket]

I waited to update, and when i went to, the beckend goes down, awesome

[valid silo]

Stalker gamma(male)

[reef hare]

idk how feasible this is but i wish the mts had a speedloader upgrade

[quick tangle]

not even a shitty AK that has been 40 years in the warehouse?
I'm not buying it. But yeah, it's normal to expect personnel in the Zone to have access to better equipment, as it's the only hotspot country has in-lore, and even in-game it mentions its a spetsnaz contingent thats stationed in there.

...and it's still D class? or was it removed from being lootable?

[valid silo]

I feel like that's a necessary constraint for its peer 20 gauges

[rain crow]

I found one earlier

I never pick it up though

[inner gate]

dayum I guess people are still going around and downloading new GAMMA version,wew

[rain crow]

D tier is ridiculous lol

[quick tangle]

damn. the ever forgotten RPK. D class gun with 0 attachments, no scopes, no nothing

[valid silo]

The bolt actions shoot slower get mag reload, mts shoots faster has to reload singleton

[rain crow]

16 total hours for me, I'm curious how everyone else is fairing

[valid silo]

Rpd is like that too

[rain crow]

I'm liking this K98, shotgun, and 1911 combo

Need more money and then I can run miracle machine

[inner gate]

I did a fresh install after reinstalling OS and new SSD only to find out that the downloads are down until further notice, I only have 300 ish out of 528 or w/e number

[thick sedge]

[inner gate]

guess I'll wait another week lol

[quick tangle]

RPD has a magsize going for it, at least. But also has no business in D, imho, never had.
but it's arguable, at least. RPK in D, even with it's reduced recoil, looks comical vs RPK-16 in C.

[rain crow]

I'm sorry man

I've been waiting years for an update of this caliber

[inner gate]

it is what it is, I'll just go back to playing EFP

actually I might wait on that also, they're having a huge update of their own too.

[twin timber]

After an extremely bloody battle with the military i finally emerge victorious

The last one left is this shithead and he can't move from this spot

Time for fent

[midnight coyote]

the aftermath of running into the checkpoint/overpass in wild terretory because an emmission struck ... mercs thought the same xD

[fervent wedge]

Talking to Lukash and listening to Reggae. It's ... It's a vibe.

Rocking some Barrington Levy

[twin timber]

Freedom radio has some cool music

[reef hare]

anyone know where the setting is to disable outfits changing your player portrait?

[hollow prawn]

I know it's in the base game settings and not mod settings

Try Settings > The Zone?

[fervent wedge]

Yeah whoever did the music for radio had pretty good taste

Nirvana... Good reggae...

[hollow prawn]

Wish I could hop on an enjoy the music

but yk
ModDB died. Again.

[fervent wedge]

Download the zip my guy

[reef hare]

ah its in gameplay > general

[hollow prawn]

You mean the one that hasn't been updated in a year?

[mint copper]

thats the wrong one

[hollow prawn]

Oh, what's the link to the new one then? Using the guide

[mint copper]

#📢announcements message

[livid niche]

starts sobbing with how beautiful this shi is

[mint copper]

also its not moddb thats dead, the gamma backend server was disabled for time being

so that people cant install and dont bombard moddb

[hollow prawn]

well, time to sit for an hour

wish there was a torrent link I could use

[midnight coyote]

before the money run to fix me up into the next tier

and after the money ru nand fiex up

[mint copper]

you can still use the download links provided

and use them later to save time

[grave pier]

do i lads

[hollow prawn]

yeah ik, it just takes forever to download something through browser

[grave pier]

do I construct the knot

[midnight coyote]

lost quite a bit on carry weigh with the change to the seva but it's not yet upgraded much

[livid niche]

not even a question

[mint copper]

it downloaded very fast so thats sounds like a you problem

[livid niche]

you just do it

[grave pier]

but wont it be like a bother to keep feeding it

[hollow prawn]

idk man, it's always had this issue

tried figuring it out way back and never could

[livid niche]

no u get a lot of artefacts from quest rewards n just scavenging around

it takes a while for it to really get low

just keep a safety save anytime u have it at a decent charge

[mint copper]

who cares tho, you cant do anything else anyway with install right now, so doesnt really matter

[grave pier]

gotcha gotcha

is it still at 100%

...it looks like a weird dorito

[vagrant current]

Lucifer is only really a problem in the early game or if you just straight up ignore anomalies for a long while

I personally wouldn't touch it before having access to the northern areas though, given how many anomalies are in Red Forest, Jupiter, and Zaton alone

[grave pier]

oh yeah no dw i’ve been there

[errant oar]

Just found a pseudogiant guarding one of the Garbage/Dark Valley transitions. Glad I didn't come in from Garbage and spawn 5 meters away from him with an autosave.

[twin timber]

Just a regular day at wild territory

Damn, he dropped FOUR mercs on his own

Only died because he decided to kiss this female merc or something, he stopped shooting when he got super close and the other one rekt him

[valid silo]

rip a hero

[twin timber]

Got a free CQBSS from this fight

He was a real one

[lost nebula]

man I haven't seen this gun drop for an eternity

[blissful ivy]

i feel like it needs more base damage

145 would be ok, would make it more reliable at one shotting exos to the torso

just my opinion

[midnight coyote]

True Gamma-Males knife exos!

[twin timber]

Game crashed trying to disassemble a kar

AGAIN...

Well time to go to sleep

[blissful ivy]

0.9.5 issues probably

surely

[rain crow]

Ah finally a full auto weapon

[lost nebula]

honestly I don't even know how well it performs, last time I saw M98B ever was when Call of Misery was still a thing

[low cedar]

call of whom?

[valid silo]

am I crazy or does the model for aek look crazy scuffed

[blissful ivy]

it works fine on headshots

but i feel like it should do better on body shots

to reward the usage of such expensive ammo

thats all im saying

yeah 18k for 10 shots, thats 2k per kill, if it even kills them, yes headshots are almost always 1 shots, besides sin

but its annoying when an enemy moves just a little bit RIGHT then you fire

or they stand up and you shoot their abdomen

so they just eat it

[lost nebula]

you love to see it

barely ever used .338 guns tbh, knowing that they don't smoke exos to the torso in one shot is even more ass

[sick yoke]

They do within about 60m

[lost nebula]

CQC with an M98B

[midnight coyote]

w00p w00p

[wanton harbor]

rip, I installed/updated and didn't see not to

[sick yoke]

If mono didn’t have extra resistances you probably could fuck around and use a .338 lm in sarcophagus

[wanton harbor]

then checked the "this many mods in mo2" and knew I fucked up

[sick yoke]

Did you remember to update your installer too

[lost nebula]

iirc a hardcore full conversion for Call of Chernobyl, the atmospherics, gameplay and economy were that of Misery, which is also a hardcore full conversion mod for Call of Pripyat, from which Anomaly took inspiration from

[sick yoke]

Also you can update now, the “do not update it does not work” thing is fixed

[fervent wedge]

Get the newest installer. If you hate ModDB ... Get the zip file .. The 20 gb one.

[wanton harbor]

I did update the installer as well

[fervent wedge]

Extract those two properly and game will run.

[wanton harbor]

Oh! Hmm.

I'll try again

[fervent wedge]

The new installer will see you have all the mods sitting in the download folder

So it won't try to download them

[blissful ivy]

hardly useful imo, just because 60m i would just use my 9x39, 5.56, 7.62x51, etc.

[wanton harbor]

still 556 mods, hmm.

Giving same "installed mods can crash"

hopefully it doesn't do the same crash

[blissful ivy]

i just think it should always 1 shot to the torso on radsuits and less

[wanton harbor]

for pda task board

[blissful ivy]

and 1 shot light exos up to 80m

or 100

idk

because it makes no sense to use it within 60

[midnight coyote]

okay, I only got a single big C Kit ... which of those to fix up?
Saida + AK Venom?
or
Saiga + M4 Protector?

[sick yoke]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[blissful ivy]

save one use ofc

but id say fix the venom

better gun

[wanton harbor]

Yep same crash.

rip.

[blissful ivy]

also dont use it on anything but fixing barrels ofc

[wanton harbor]

Guess it's extract and try again time.

[sick yoke]

Hm

Taskboard issue?

[blissful ivy]

no point in fixing the random parts since you can just field strip some off a dead guys gun

[midnight coyote]

nah, I only got just 1 C Kit because I'm low on money, I'll easily get another 2 or 3 in a few hours, it's more of a priority question 🙂

[wanton harbor]

Yea I just followed how I update in the past, follow the how to update, etcs

[sick yoke]

Idk then

[wanton harbor]

I see similar crashes in searches too

frick.

[sick yoke]

I would either keep trying to update, look if there’s any solutions in the discord somewhere, or go the nuclear option and completely uninstall and reinstall gamma

[clever canyon]

Actually WAS fixed

Backend down

[sick yoke]

Huh

[wanton harbor]

Yes, that's what had me believe shit's fucked.

[sick yoke]

Didn’t see any announcement or anything about that

Unless that’s an old thing

[blissful ivy]

oh, i make mine, thats why i said dont waste it

[clever canyon]

Happened a couple hours ago

[blissful ivy]

besides why waste the last use

[wanton harbor]

After crash I instantly looked at both the "# of mods active" tab and the support

Guess I play diablo 4 for a stretch

[midnight coyote]

the urge to get the new gubbinz goin'!

[wanton harbor]

shame, that new kiparis kit was calling me

[clever canyon]

First every download failed, then had a guy from moddb in base support wanting to speak to someone because the way the launcher got stuff was basically like a ddos

[midnight coyote]

New dakka iz alwayz betta den ol' dakka

[sick yoke]

Well that sucks for people trying to download then

[clever canyon]

Blood then killed the backend

[sick yoke]

Bruh lmao

[wanton harbor]

I hear 9x18 is strong so I was looking to see HOW strong

since I often smg start

[sick yoke]

“Hey can you guys stop making your launcher ddos our servers”

It’s 1 damage higher than 9x19 basically

[blissful ivy]

also the mp5sd is fucked

zero recoil

laser

40 rounds

gah damn

[wanton harbor]

Ah, pen is the same?

For the nato factions I love mp5 start

They added a laser and 40 rounder for it? Christ.

That gun was my goto swap for A kit guns

I seen some new automatic with a blue laser in this "9.5 update new guns" thing, and it's A kit

kinda wacky

Wait nvm, trying to remember if they made mp5 C kit

been a bit

to say the least

[clever canyon]

More or less yeah, so base support is locked down again

[valid silo]

always had the 40 round clip

[sick yoke]

Think ap on 9x18 is a bit worse

It’s the tradeoff

[clever canyon]

To be fair, I just know the 1 message that guy sent and not what they discussed in private

[bitter parrot]

I AM BLOCKED BY MODDB NOOOOOOO

just trying to add more mods tbh, game is on 0.9.5 tho.

[sick yoke]

But damn I guess we’ll be seeing another launcher update soon lol

[valid silo]

my ass since release and waiting for the gog version

🧘‍♂️

[clever canyon]

Lets see how long my forced vacation lasts this time

[bitter parrot]

you can update manually with the GOG version.

[fading plinth]

enjoy it lmao

[valid silo]

🧘‍♂️

[bitter parrot]

just grab the launcher, replace it in GoG Gamma directory and run it.

[fading plinth]

well you cant right now

[clever canyon]

You can´t right now @valid silo

Backend down

[fading plinth]

gamma is DEAD

[bitter parrot]

oof.

[bitter parrot]

thank you for informing me.

[valid silo]

I hope for tomorrow but I bet tuesday is more likely for gog

source:my ass

[wild hatch]

hey r there any weapon add/replace mod that got added in 095?

[valid silo]

fuck I thought the bottle neck was gog but apparently it isn't lmao

[wanton harbor]

Odd, coulda sworn it was a 30 rounder

I def don't remember a fuckin laser either

rad

[valid silo]

the laser is new

[wanton harbor]

is it C kit?

[wild hatch]

https://klipy.com/gifs/charlie-sus--k01KRAJJ242YE390G5GKWYH8GSM

[valid silo]

why would it be?

[rain crow]

lmao bro

Who is making loot tables for the south

[wanton harbor]

True, the bizon isn't, and that thing's gnarly

[rain crow]

Low level bandits and white stashes XD

How even

[valid silo]

you want me to install the gog client and show lol

[sleek goblet]

Anyone know which mod add the proximity item icon when getting close to them?? want to turn it off

[rain crow]

I don't even have a need for another gen3

[wanton harbor]

How south was that?

wtf

[valid silo]

yeah it's been showing up a bunch in early areas

[wanton harbor]

I remember being pumped up about looting a gen2 pda from radar, and here's a bandit stash quad nods

Wait no, it was gen3

still

[sinful osprey]

we have any idea when we'll be able to actually update then?

[wanton harbor]

is that truck cemetary? It looks like it

[fringe sinew]

This new update sure crashes alot

[clever canyon]

No

[valid silo]

pretty sure it's swamp

[sinful osprey]

guess I check back tomorrow then?

[clever canyon]

Yeah, I really have no clue when it´ll be back.

Just a waiting game

[wanton harbor]

Even funnier

[warped kestrel]

anyone else get the download link timeout issue when downloading anomaly 1.5.3? all i want is to play..

tried everything

different mirrors so on

[celest zinc]

Can the eots scope be found in stalker loot, things a 300k scope so probably not but im just wondering

[warped kestrel]

been able to download it before just fine

[celest zinc]

Oh theres a database, but im on 0.9.4 still

[warped kestrel]

im talking about the core anomaly game

before any gamma shenanigans, gonna try out 0.9.5

[zealous jasper]

Guys

[zealous jasper]

I have a problem