No Alife 2.0 editionhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1643320/STALKER_2_Heart_of_Chornobyl/https://www.gog.com/en/game/stalker_2_heart_of_chornobyl_ultimate_edition>Bugs reporthttps://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us/requests/new>Stalker Optimizerhttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2>Optimized Tweaks S.2 - Reduced Stutter Mouse Fix Improved Performance Lower Latencyhttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7>Disable TAA - Chromatic Aberration - Film Grain - Depth of Field - Vignettinghttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/21>Reasonable Weapon Degradationhttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/33>less tanky bloodsuckers and poltergeistshttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/23previous Bread: >>503123469
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/65mod that replaces lumen ray denoising with NVIDIA ray denoising (idk what those mean but)
>>503167140Why are you calling it s2g you gigantic faggot. There are other stalker games too.
>>503167254I just copied from the previous thread. lol. That wasnt me
analyze this
>>503167247apparently it just looks way betterit should be a criminal offense to upload any of these fuckign mods without a before and after comparisongod i fucking hate nexusmods
>>503167390A-life is enabled but only within the confines of that concrete slab
>>503167430that's nice but does it make the game run better?
>>503167430So I should download it?
>>503167390they are just playing "the floor is lava" anon, what dont you fucking get?
What is A-LifeIve played STALKER before but dont understand it
People who've been playing for a while, what percentage of locations/buildings are from the previous trilogyMost of their trailers showed the same locations from the trilogy with some minor changes
>>5031665073900X, I've set everything to epic too because it doesn't seem to change anything.>>503166654I decided to lock the game to 30fps for now just so it feels smoother instead of jumping between 30-50.
>>503167627It was their AI for the games.
>>503167627It managed the NPCs as actual individual characters, moving them around the map and fighting their opposing factions.You could sometimes help out a guy then meet the same guy hours later in a different area.S2 just has triggered spawns for encounters
>>503167627think bethesda radiant AI but better.sadly not functioning correctly in stalker 2 though. maybe it doesn't even exist.
>>503167847>>503167934That is sad!
>>503167664also interested in this. I've seen Cordon has a few more buildings
>>503167627AI system designed to make the world feel alive.Download and launch CoP, spend some time around the starting ship area. watch stalkers come and go, fight bandits and dogs off in the distance.
i still get the benefit of the artifact right?
>>503167479heh
urine lost shit game
>>503167934or find him dead
mods will unironically fix it
It seems nobody knows what offline a-life is anymore.
https://youtu.be/m0xp_miX9bA>proper reloads of all shotguns including a chamber load and holding the carrier latch on the SPAS>tactical mag flip reload on the 416>Iraqi reload on the AK74At the very least their gun animations guy was working over time>>503167627A-life is the persistent world system. When the game starts the world populates with stalkers that have preset routines including travelling along several spots and doing tasks, sometimes a dice roll happens and they have things happen to them like an encounter or a fight and they win or lose, and that remains persistent for the whole game. None of this happens in the actual game world you see, it's just simulated in code like a text adventure type thing, but when you enter an area the game actually spawns the NPCs and items in place as if it had actually happened. Sometimes if you're close enough it does happen and you can see it.
this game goes from being pretty easy to wildly unforgiving almost immediately once you leave the rookie zone.Every time I venture across the bridge I run into 4 bloodsuckers and two dozen psydogs
so does that a-life mod make things better or not?
>still no mod to remove the goofy names of the guns
>>503168216if modders will actually fix A-Life GSC need to fucking pay themi get modders adding shit or revamping some stuff in the game but fixing AI for the devs is some crazy shit
Does the bear artifact detector not actually work? I get it up to full bars and wander around and nothing appears.
>>503168368If some guy with no clue could change some numbers to fix it, I feel like the devs would have already done it
>>503168298such is life in the zone
>>503168284I hate how some guns with scope takes half of the screen.that ak that you get at the top of a tower is an example of how it should be done
>>503168298well it is supposed to feel brutal and unforgiving at times, it's just doing it in a retarded way in s2
What SEMI AUTOMATIC rifles are in the game STALKER 2?
with as massive as the map sections are and 24 hour cycle only being 1 irl hour, I dont get how NPCs would be "A-Life"ing anything anyway. The in-game 24 hour cycle is just way too short.
>>503168774Minecraft days are 20 minutes
>>503168485the devs left mouse accel and mouse smoothing and uneven X/Y aiming in the game with no option to disable it, anon. universally hated features taht can be disabled with like 3 commands in the ini files.just like how the performance can be majorly imporved by altering graphic variables, which is what all the "mods" are doing (they are just ini tweaks).
>walk to freedom base full of shit>they aren't there anymoreok where the fuck is the base in garbage so I can sell shit and teleport back to vassilya
wagies: File some bugs on the stalker website, make some noise about the alife, stress test the game so that I can play the fixed version in 1 year. Until then I sleep ( and start op 2.2 )
>>503168774just make the cycle longer, iirc it was about an hour irl for day/night, so 2 hours of real time for the full cycle in og trilogy, they can fix it
Wait why don't I want mouse acceleration or smoothing?
>>503168706so far i've found the SVD.you can toggle most gun's fire selector though, i use my AK in semi.
>why would I want 1:1 mouse movement
>>503169043Sure but that's personnel preference, not something bugged.It seems unlikely a guy who admits he has no idea what he changed has fixed a feature the devs were unable to make work.I doubt the game will ever have working a-life.
>>503169124making it longer messes up the other systems like emissions. I read it on reddit and it makes sense
how badly was stalker 2 botched?
So went to wander around, only shot the shotgun a bit, got anomaly'd because that ones of a quest are bullshit and lo and behold the pistol wasn't at 100%, neither was the mp5, like 2k on that gun alone for repairs.Either taking damage, or maybe just anomalies, damages everything equipped or I REALLY HOPE NOT the tooltip in the upgrade menu that says "reduces wear from external sources" is very much literal and I would be extremely mad if that is the case. Still a bit miffed if it is the first thing, like repair costs aren't already kind of shit.
>>503169142it fucks with most people's aim because the mouse moves faster as you move it more, instead of being 1:1.
>>503169117im gonna finish half life 2+episodes, half life 1, black mesa, and start OP 2.2
All I'm hearing is that SoC remains undefeated.
>>503169286well then they should fix emission timers accordingly as well, they should fix this whole thing from the ground up, ground being a-life and performance
>>503169287as someone that has never played any stalker game, its an 8.3/10will be best game of the last decade once mods catch up.it very much has issues though
>>503169287Its far cry 76 with a stalker skin.Maybe mods can fix it.
>>503169287this seems like a pretty average launch for today's standards
>>503169267its not personal preference. noone likes laggy, inaccurate, tampered mouse movement.
>>503169318anomalies damage equipment
>>503169398is it your first time playing half life? I played it when I was younger and it was always an overhyped game. Never replayed it
Well the death cave was something. The new controllers are rough.
>>503168368No. I've had it on for a few hours and the only marked difference is that i've run into 3 comically high body encounters, like 15+ enemies. Still spawned right outside my view as I exited a building, still randomly spotted me and knew where I was. Still shit.
jesus christ it's expensive to fast travel
>>503169864>in the beginning
>>503169408I agree. Although I dont think they will fix the duration. I think the retards tied a lot of systems to the timer and it will break everything. Pic attached and thread on this:https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gwkw5c/gsc_something_tells_me_you_should_reconsider/
>>503169287It's got issues, but at its core it's actually Stalker and plays like Stalker. Anyone saying otherwise is a shitposter or genuinely doesn't know how vanilla Stalker plays. It just needs to some tweaks and fixes to be perfect.
>>503169287>how badly was stalker 2 botched?imagine seeing your favorite cat falling into a woodchipper. its that bad.
>>503169750oh man, i haven't seen controllers yet, how's the sound design, the attacks, do they ambush you from distance or was it like a random one?
>>503168458It works. It's way better than the echo one too. The artifact "spawn in" effect is way less pronounced with bear for some reason though.
>controller eats 4 grenades at its feet, 10 buckshot to the face, and 1 1/2 mags AKM before droppingI think mutant HP might be a bit much.bloodsuckers felt a bit bullet spongy, but this is just fucking ridiculous.
>>503169687ive played all but black mesa before but its been awhile
>>503169902fantastic
>>503167247>>503167527>>503167532fixed the over-blooming and just the generally awful god-ray effects.hasn't changed my performance though. maybe i gained 5 frames? unsure. rtx3080 here.
>>503169648So it is then, fucking hell fire and that shit special anomaly already have enough problems when an artifact is stuck near now what, do I have to unequip shit to min max? Cringe.
Spoonfeed a game of the month bitchShadow of Chernobyl or Call of Pripyat?I did play Shadow of Chernobyl once but got softlocked because apparently there was a bug where reloading a save caused enemies around you to get alerted and I was in the middle of a building in one of the military bases and so got stuck forever dying there because I could never find a way to fight my way out after sneaking in, so I am worried about retrying it
>>503169923
>>503170276SoC with ZRP
>>503170049yeah, i'd say the mutant hp mod is mandatory unless you are playing on rookie maybe?
>>503170276try call of pripyat first. When i was like 16 i played call of pripyat vanilla, liked it and then went back to play SoC with mods
>>503170276SoC 1.4>thank me later
>when you see this icon it means you need sleep, when you are tired it makes you less effective in combat>have never slept in 15 hours of play time>playing on veteran>haven't seen the icon at allwhat's the deal?
>>503170276soc update 1.4
>tell baldy about the unusual pda>get a combatant rifle at 0%anyone further in the game know if this is a bug or should i just not side with him?
>>503170370Groks paks only affect 3 enemies. Burers and Controllers are still complete nonsense. Atleast with controllers if you drink ze psy block their nonsense wears off and you can just feed their face 8 buckshot point blank (this barely just about kills them)
>>503170464certain monsters make you sleepy
>>503170276I prefer call of pripyat but everyone seems to think soc is better
>>503170517holy fuck weird monke
>>503167430I downloaded it but I don't see a difference honestly.
>>503170517He bald! He mad!
i dont mind that there isn't swearing but who the fuck say's "shoot" instead of "shit"this just seems off for a place like the zone
>>503170276If I recall, loading a save makes you draw your weapon, if no weapon your knife, that makes noise and people get angery some said that if you have the bolt equiped when you save then when reloading you don't make noise.Still with the camp I just said fuck that noise and killed everyone, stealth is pretty fucked in the games in general just camp a corridor and let them come single file, single headshot ez, multiple saves are your friend in case of bullshit or bugshit or whatever.Do play SoC, it is a one time experience I tell you. If shit gets rough most everything can be cheesed one way or another, knife secondary attack has some meme potential trust
>>503169287Its exactly what youd expect for Stalker 2 to beanyone expecting a smooth launch or for it to be like Gamma, is pretty disappointed
>>503170276Play Shadow of Chernobyl with ZRP.
>>503170667but there is swearing
>>503170572there is also different mod for chimera, but yeah, maybe he will update it later on
What is the saving system in this btw? can you save even when enemies are around or only after combat ( like cyberpunk )
>>503170464Is köt, there is one locked in a shed with a stash in the starting area.
>>503169983It was inside a cave full of anomalies. At the end of it there was a unique Vintar variant and a stash that had some blueprints and a bunch of other small stuff. When I picked it up he spawned. Unless that was an effect of the cave specifically, he basically makes you trip out and you slowly lose health and ghosts like around the labs attack you. He still has his regular attacks as well. When I got outside my head was still spinning and bandits attacked. I killed them and a few seconds later the bodies disappeared so they were hallucinations even though the controller was already dead. It was intense, and I used all my remaining grenades and a bunch of shotgun shells.>>503170049I just had the same experience but the reward was worth it.>>503170276Play them in order.
>>503170895you can save whenever
need a mod to remove knife slashes costing stamina
>>503170989theres one that reduces the cost on nexus
>>503170920sounds great, anon
>>503170517>motherland is under attack
Should I just turn the difficulty back to normal at this point? Is there an achievement for beating the game on Veteran?
>>503171503Yes theres a damage penalty for the higher difficulties, its retardedNo idea about the heckin cheevos though
>>503171503just b urselfdoubt the achievement is worth playing trough a game and not having fun
lmao the vendor money glitch made my game crash.
Why have i found two new gasmasks so far and they both have 0 radiation resistance?
stalkerhaters are not welcome here
I'm not trying to be negative or anything but I'm just glad i didn't pay for this.
>>503171853Well of course, you didn't pay for Anomaly either did you?
>>503171503I'm not even sure changing it mid game does anything but make the economy a bit easier, the damage I take seems about the same, dogs still take 2 makarov shots (granted it is a small number to change the breakpoint, bloodcykas still easily tank 8 buckshots or more...Also why the fuck can't you stash the starter pistol, why the fuck does it do more damage than 9x19, or .45, why can it one shot rats but the mp5 takes 2.
>>503171853I feel like mods will at least make it decent, but yeah I would be pissed if I payed AAA prices for it
>>503169287pretty happy with it myself just small issuesperformance is kinda rough, but perfectly playablesome keys can't be reboundday/night cycle is too fastlooks niceatmosphere's great, really feels like the zone I've come to knowgameplay is exactly what I expect from a vanilla stalker game, which is to say very simple compared to what I've gotten used to from playing modpacksonly real complaint is mutants are bullet spongesdon't see any issues that can't be fixed pretty easily by patches and/or mods
>>503171927never played it but you're not wrong.
>>503171995>starter pistolSkif's? Or something else?
>>503171853Tarkov player detected.
>>503172154Skif's yeh. Has the v checkmark thingy like quest items.
>>503171995it seriously feels like COD logic and it's retarded>pistol has to do more damage because it shoots slower>AK always does more damage because it's an AK even if it's 5.45but even then COD will have a 45 caliber gun do more damage than 9mm god forbid a makarov
>>503169402You are not, and never will be, wrong on this.We will be forever chasing that dragon.
>>503172182Tarkov players would like the game though?
>>503171365Tried the first one and it has markedly made things better, so yea, probably.
Great game, loving the sequel - awesome world and atmospherepros:gun playgraphicsworldatmospherelootanshootankinocons:- Equipment degrades too fast, 1 gun fight and now you have to spend 3000 to fix your AK, quests pay 3k...- bulletsponge enemies, shooting a mutant 5 times in the head with a shotgun still wont take it down on rookie- optimization, Im running 1080ti on full max graphics and I avg about 35 fps, 25fps in cities ( but it really does look amazing )- Some minor bugs, certain quest objectives bug out for me, had to close game and reopen to get some of the objectives to spawn once or twice- lastly it takes forever to get from one side to another, the map is huge, but there is like 500 meters of nothing between areas so you end up just drinking energy drinks and running and waiting for your stamina bar to catch up, and god help you if you want to carry some loot back, holding 4-5 guns basically lets you sprint in 50 meter increments, not fun if you hoard like me.overall 8/10, very happy with the sequel, its a perfect sequel, basically the Original Stalker with modern graphics and more content, whats not to love!
>>503172352Tarkov players have BPD.
>>503166654can you use the DLSS frame gen mod with a RTX 3000 series card?
>>503172281Like, sure whatever I can just accept that calibers do whatever damage they want because balance or whatever, but it triggers my ocd that I can't switch to an USP because why would you, less damage more expensive ammo I mean wut? I fear like the optimal strat is just going naked with the makarov to not get price gouged and I don't like that.
>>503172275Never tried to stash but that is weird. It is only half a kg at least.
>>503172498Adding to my previous postthe beginner pistol is amazing once you get good with headshots, Its my primary weapon for 80% of encounters because its super cheap to fix and can 1hit kill any human enemy with a headshot if they arent wearing a helmet. I found an extended magazine and silencer for the start pistol and I love using itI think mutants have massive health because otherwise it wouldnt be as dramatic or exciting if all it took was mag dumping a bloodstalker once to kill it, there is a bit of strategy involved in it because of thatstamina is a bit odd because in closed spaces you run really fast and far, but as soon as you have to travel to new areas, it becomes a 5-10 minute jog through the woods. I appreciate that they made a massive world, but it feels like they could have brought everything closer by about 20% instead of leaving large distances between points of interest. Still, I love how large the world feels, but feels a bit larger than it needs to be. ( massive improvement on the original world though for sure )Economy is a bit expensive also, I have never bought anything really because it all feels too expensive, I'm mid game and only now do i feel comfortable enough modding guns and fixing them for thousands every time I come back to base.Also last thing, broken weapons should have been scrappable for parts or something, you cant sell them so you basically just throw away any weapon below 40% durability which I think could have been an interesting scrap mechanic for unlocking rare gun parts or something.Still absolutely enjoying this experience, im 16 hours in - probably explored about 40% of the world so far just focusing on the main story for now, tons of sidequests and locations I just ran by so I'll explore those later.
>>503172498I would like to see where you get 3k from quests, best deal I got was 800 from a generic one and 1750 from a main quest.>>503172684I just tried as a sort of checking if I got another pistol, which I did, so more clutter for the inventory if I decided to take the new one. Already have to deal with a permanent PDA and key.
>>503172813Not him but Sid's all pay pretty well.
found a money glitch with vendorsit takes a lot of repeating to get a decent amount of money, but it is infinite money.
Where do I get a new detector? Echo fucking sucks.
>>5031719959x18 makarov is similar damage and stopping power to .45
>>503172512yes, i'm using it with rtx3080. game used to run at 40fps in the village but now its at 80fps. you do get a little input lag but with nvidia reflex on and my monitor it feels ok. i'm using it with ultra quality DLSS.
>>503172896Fair enough, gotta keep moving.>>503173014Fuck mate, I did the stupid stashes quest and for being nice I ended up with nothing and wandered around too much to go back to a save before, I hate myself. At least I got a compass on a grav field for some reason.
Why does this game run so ass even with good hardware. Does the average ukranian even meet min requirment
>>5031722819x18 makarov is similar damage and stopping power to .45
>>503173150>Fair enough, gotta keep moving.Also the quest I'm on for him is to kill some traders and their leader is a black guy. Honestly I should be paying Sid for this opportunity.
>Cover me boys, I'm hiding!
>>503173059there's absolutely no way that is true, 45 acp has higher energy than 9x19 so no way 9x18 is better.
>>503173059>>503173181Literally incorrect in any way you might mean.
I really do not like the new designs and muted color schemes for stalker suits. I can't tell what the fuck faction they are at a distance.
>>503169287bad console port with really shit performance, AI and technology in general
>>503171995>I'm not even sure changing it mid game does anythingIt does. Tried killing a bloodsucker on all three. Rookie took less shots with the double barrel. Damage you take I hear isn't changed. The difficulty logic is just the lame old "you do less damage and enemies have more HP" bullshit. Really makes me wonder where they found these devs, or if their balls were held in a vice grip by the investors to do the same shit everyone does because "that's what sells. :^)".
>>503171503That's what I did and it feels much better. Fleshes now die to two or three shots from a shotgun, dogs die to one. Bloodsucker and poltergeist fights are now manageable, and I don't have to sell my organs to pay for equipment repairs and upgrades. Honestly, the Veteran difficulty is bullshit, the game is clearly not balanced for it.>Is there an achievement for beating the game on Veteran?I don't think there are difficulty-related achievements.
>Swedish
>>503170687fucking wrong, I expect A-life to exist in some form
>>503173447yup. checks out.
>>503171995>>503173440Fucked this up somehow.
>>503173276>>503173291>>503173276what incapacitates is a lot more complex than just one bullet being higher energy etc.https://www.buckeyefirearms.org/alternate-look-handgun-stopping-power.380 ACP% of hits that were fatal:.380 ACP 29%.45 29%Average number of rounds until incapacitation:.380 ACP 1.76.45 2.08% of people who were not incapacitated:.380 ACP.45 16%One-shot-stop %:.380 ACP 44%.45 39%Accuracy (head and torso hits).380 ACP 76%.45 85%% actually incapacitated by one shot (torso or head hit).380 ACP 62%.45 51%.380 ACP most similar to makarov 9x18, but it's similar numbers for all standard handgun calibersrifles and shotguns of course in a league of their own
I dare say, the game is S.T.A.L.K.E.R. KINO certifiedI look forward to many greetext and stories and many hours of fun STALKAN once multi comes out
I will not allow this.
>>503173427Well I usually trust an /sg/er so I might derp around a bit in stalker to see how it goes, thanks for the heads up. But yeah the whole "you less damage, baddie more health" shit is atrocious, I can only defend that on shit like skyrim where you might snap the game in half so it is a passable way of bringing balance back a bit.
>>503123469>>503167140>/s2g/no.fuck you.its /sg/
>>503172498>>503172692What about the anomaly hunting? Are there some vistas like from CoP where it's an instant kill death field that stretches for a block?
>>503173617your argument falls apart because 1. this is a video game2. we are shooting guys in the head because we are really good and in that case the bigger bullet wins3. even 5.45 does less damage than your makarov for no reason
>>503173708>swedishIt keeps happening wherever I go.
>>503172916this helps with getting full price sales off vendors when you sell looted guns too.
are there any memorable waifus yet?
>>503167247Damn, that actually somewhat fixed the game for me, no more drops to 10 fps so far and looks better.
>>503173814For the most part, more unavoidable damage (depending) but no insta kills to be seen.
>>503173292shoot first, ask questions later
>>503173832It's okay. I let him pay me to give him a heads up about Sid, then I shot him and his boys.
>>503167934Is it really that difficult? I mean the system largely sucked and served to brick your run. People often ended up dead when u weren't around. The world wasn't that big anyways. But still I find it hard to imagine they couldn't do that at all, I imagine everyone just kept dying.
>>503172916might as well just use cheatengine.exe if you want to money glitch lol.Anyone else just run away from mutants? You dont really get anything out of killing them, its a massive waste of bullets and money going after bloodsuckers, I just pop a energy drink and run away if at all possible, same goes for random bandits desu. I know thats not "kino" but im speedrunning the story - im not going to spent 3 minutes cheesing a bloodsucker through a doorway blasting him 8 times with my shotgun and wasting 4 medkits. They are fun from time to time but maybe im just hyper-fixated on beating the main quest this weekend.
I get random huge FPS drops...I assume it's my CPU because my GPU should be more than fine, but I guess there's no fix to this aside upgrading...
>kill all enemies in military base>spend 20 minutes walking around staring at all the vehicle models in awe at all the ork modifications>>503174235Yes if there's nothing I need at the location I just sprint away.
That x18 mission is fucking retarded. If you go find Nestor you loose access to the lab and those spark boys. Should've hard saved.
>>503173831>1. this is a video gameit's a response to a complaint of how .45 should do more damage than 9x18 in a video game>2. we are shooting guys in the head because we are really good and in that case the bigger bullet winsnot necessarily>3. even 5.45 does less damage than your makarov for no reasoni don't disagree that rifle bullets should do a lot more damage
>>503174274Like everyone else. There are mods and ini settings to help for that, but I think the first stalker village is the problem. The farther I go away from there the less drops
>>503174487Is it a side mission or?
>>503174235it really sucks that you don't get loot or any form of reward from mutants
>>503174235Anything human gets a bullet to the noggin or a knife in the eye, but yeah with muties unless I am making a statement or really want to loot something I just fuck off, what's the point? It is the same in the original vanilla games, maybe not SoC I seem to remember getting a flesh eye? But whatever the case you didn't need 400k stalkerbucks to kill a mutant in 12 (haha yeah right) seconds, so I still killed them out of principle.
>>503174487>If you go find Nestor you loose access to the lab and those spark boys.Say what? What's the branch in the story that you lose access to the lab?
On my 4070 ti the game ran perfect for the first half hour or so. Then I got to the first town and after that cutscene my frames went to shit. I wonder if there's a memory leak?
>>503174546Hopefully, I tried a lot of those mods, but it's annoying, because the game plays smoothly but then if I do something randomly like taking out a weapon it just goes to shit.
what is this
>>503174539Not him, but refering to the start of the argument why would I use a new pistol when the old pistol can't be dropped, uses cheaper and more plentiful ammo and does more damage. Stupid no matter how you cut it.
>>503174550>>503174581Main, the sparkers at the detention center give you a quest that involves saving their dudes from ward there. Half into x18 Nestor calls you and tells you to get over to him. And what do you know, after his done doing his ninja shit the door to the lab is shut tight. Fuck this really.
>>503174594my game goes to shit (literally 1 fps) after about an hour of continuous play. saving and reloading seems to trigger it too.
>>503174723He's a smurf apologist, murder him.
>>503172692>Starter pistolCan u kill some1 wearing a helmet if u shoot the eyes or does it just count as them wearing armor on the whole head?
Speaking of FPS, anyone can recommend a good FPS monitor? tried Afterburner but for some reason it's not showing at all, I am even trying FRAPS but its not showing
If I had not spent any koubles and saved every single one of them I might be able to repair my armor. Last I checked the repair bill was 38k for it.
>>503174935Nvidia's newer "App" which combines the shitty GeForce Experience with the Nvidia Control Panel.
>>503174895Cant say for sure, if they wear a helmet, I double tap for the head and 80% of the time, it works everytime. Starter pistol is really comfy, I got the silencer and extended magazine, and frequently clear out bases without anyone seeing or hearing me. Also it costs like next to nothing to fix, real treat. I use my main AK for heated gun battles, and my shotgun for mutants, but 80% of the time in using the start pistol, the sound design in the game is pretty top tier
>>503175114holy reddit spacing batman
>>503174935rivatuner with hwmonitor
what the fuck this controller literally took 50 buckshots to the face
>>503173427Meh. The original had shit difficulty too. People liked the novelty of playing on master but it really should have been difficulty locked like dark souls. Playing on easy still is a literal troll
>>503175184sorry phone posting, I know it looks terribleBTW I just realized since this game was made on Unreal, there is a VR toolkit so we might see a very solid VR port/mod in the near future. Didn't even think about that at first, that might be super fun. I saw someone using the mod on the GTA definitive editions and I played san andreas / vice city on VR, so well have a similar experience for that in the near future
>>503173292objectively 1080ti should handle such graphics at a stable 70-90 fps without upscaling
Can a 3060 GPU and a ryzen 5 2600 handle this
>>503174723A patch saying "Chornobyl - Exclusion Zone". It's been present on Sunrise suits in the old games and originates from a similar patch on special uniforms GSC had to wear on their first visit to the Zone in 2002 during the development of SoC, which was still Oblivion Lost at the time.
is it even possible for the AI to be constantly active in such a big map? theres no way i can scope into a compound far away and find npcs patrolling right?
is there a /sg/? this /s2g/ is full of trans tourists from reddit
You can totally steal shit from the Rostok arena lol.I just stole a SEVA and DVL.
hi stalkers, i know everyone's talking about stalker 2, but i'm gonna wait a few weeks/months for more patches and mods to come out. in the meantime, i'd like to replay Shadow of Chornobyl for my 2nd time as well as play Clear Sky and Call of Pripiat for the first time. i've tried out a bunch of mods but there are still lots more to try and i still don't know which to go withi want the core vanilla experience to be intact in its totality. that means the full main story, as well as the original sounds and music. when i step out of sid's bunker i want to hear the original cordon theme instead of some atmospheric silent hill sounding bullshit. i don't mind extra quests and areas and guns and items, as long as they're layered on top of all the original stuff. as soon as the mod starts swapping out music tracks or changing vanilla guns to other guns, my vagina dries upi also don't want any of those mods that changes all dialogue to russian/ukrainian but doesn't even bother to provide subtitles. i want to know what the fuck people are saying. so either it keeps the original shitty but amusing english dub, or it properly subtitles ambient dialoguefor now i guess i'm either going with starter pack (https://www.moddb.com/mods/starter-pack) or the xpresstunings remaster (https://www.moddb.com/mods/xpresstunings-remaster-edition) because everything else immediately violates my 'original sounds and music' stipulation. but i'd love to hear your recommendations. thank you!
>>503175869*SV98, not DVL.
>>503173708however roadside picnic does have black characters, the zone is a place where people from across the world go to
My brain completely refuses to perceive stalker without original graphics and level placement :(
>>503175296I think the difficulty in the old game was a better concept than what difficulty goes for most the time. It's more fun when it goes both ways, instead of just tying your arms behind your back and then enemies get armor.
Why did they make scar so fucking unlikeable? I actually liked the monolithians and now that they are working with scar i think i'm just going to side with ward and the scientists for what's guaranteed to be the worst ending.
They REALLY need to work on the damage system and the economy of the game. Performance and bugs are a thing but there's more to fix than the game running bad alone.>>503175785It was possible back then on a single threaded CPU scheduling.
>>503175956U have too much. I think u just need zone reclamation project and nothing else. U can check mandalore video for the mod list in the first minute
don't believe his lies>>503176441Is it supposed to be scar from clear sky? he was completely schizo so i assumed they just happened to have the same name
>>503176450There's already mods that tweak repair costs and enemy HP
so definitely keep the ssp99 ecologist over the OZK suit? I imagine you can just upgrade it to get damage protection and I need the money way more than keeping 2 suits
>Softlocked because every single building in the Swamp doesn't protect from emissions>last save anywhere else is like 30m agowhat the fuck were they thinking
Alright I've gotten over the fact this isn't just the old stalker games with a new skin and it's actually a pretty fun game. It's a lot more story focused but that's okay,
>>503176785nvm you literally get the military armor right after which makes the OZK useless, guess i'll keep the ssp in backup
>>503176993>It's a lot more story focused but that's okay,As opposed to what? Freeplay focused? The trilogy was never really freeplay focused if so and was story driven.
is there a karma system? I want to loot these niggas so bad
>swarm of rats but with each rat replaced by a poltergeist
Well...
>>503177158There's no karma, faction, or faction relation system so go for it.
>>503177154You say that but I've always just fucked around. It's very easy to just wander around aimlessly shooting stuff in pripyat. Azazel mode in SoC mods is kino too. I just really like the gunfighting, and this game has satisfying gunplay too so it's a good game to me.
>>503176993>try to understand and appreciate something for what it isbasedI'm just happy its a bigger game and they wil be supporting it.
I haven't seen a single person talking about the story outside of this generalAre normies just retarded?
>>503177253
>>503177312half or more of the reviewers didnt play STALKER and most STALKER "players" have only touched gaymanomaly so have no idea that the game has a story.
I know asking this when everyone is focusing on 2 is dumb, but does anyone have a good modding guide for "vanilla+" SoC? ZRP and OGSR engine (just the engine stuff, not OGSR as a whole obviously) are a given, other than that texture mods and such?
>two dialogue options>one is being a cuck the other one is violence>choose violence>it pulls out of my pistol instead of rifle>manage to point fire headshot all 3 bandits surrounding mepure kino, the suppressor on it sounds so nice too
game's been out for 24 hours and still no patch, seems like they are abandoning it like a cash grab project
>>503175525In an open world looking like this? Not a chance.
Putin, where the hell are my artillery shells—uhhh I mean artifacts that are worth a damnthey’re barely worth fishing out due to how weak the effects are / how low they sell forIs there at least some npc like beard that’d pay 3x the price as in cop?
Wait, where's my bonus weapons and shit for giving them extra coupons?!
>>503177282>You say that but I've always just fucked around.Yes but you fuck around in this one too. I think this one allows for more freedom than the other games too.
Am i retarded or do suit comparisons seem fucking retarded with the bar system, i legit can't tell what is better.
>>503177282I'm almost 20 hours in and I've done one story mission after the prologue.
OH SHIT IT'S THE ZATON'S ZOMBIE INFESTED SAWMILL WITH THE BASIC TOOLS AND THE PLANT WITH THE MERC'S AND THEIR LAPTOP>>503177386kek
Can't wait for the free roam overhaul mod that removes all the gay ass story and dialogue and brings back the text box dialogue interface and adds a-life and populates the world and fixes the AI and makes the guns feel better and have stats that make sense and brings back the old school zone ambiance sounds and fixes the economy and adds interesting items and valuables to loot and adds mutant skinning and harvesting and gives artefacts actual cool properties
>>503167140>>503166798>Re-Replying because i used the dead thread.It used to have some extra usefulness, for example, if you had a really good gun that wasn't your thing, you could donate it to a higher grade friendly or neutral stalker that had a terrible loadout and he ends with a higher grade of survivability, you could tactically use that by giving slightly better gear to people in certain chokepoints or areas so other hostile NPCs or mutants wouldn't easily get near the areas you didn't want them to be at. It wasn't guaranteed to be succesful but it had permanence, it made a difference, you could later meet the same stalker and that meant he survived, your decision MADE some change in the world. It was cool. Is cool. Which is why A-Life is so integral to this entire setting. Even the mutants and hostile NPCs could use the same logic against you by going around, winning fights and looting better stuff.You don't know the level of "What The Fuck?!?!?!" you can reach until you get no-scoped with a gauss rifle by a rookie bandit.Also, how the fuck did he get that thing???, we are at Cordon. Oh right, this savefile has a few days worth of time so NPCs have probably gone up and down already. Some.
>enter cave in farm looking for the guy>he's not there>looks like a bloodsucker den but none there>find him in the windmill>go back to the cave>NOW the bloodsucker is therei'm gonna get racist
>go to the lab>get pounded by one bloodsucker to the ground, get hit by lighting orb while down, the second bloodsucker bitch slap me from behind while I'm getting up1/4 mutants hp mod it is
>>503177976fuck i hope this is a thing in stalker 2, sounds fucking awesome
so which perk did you choose from the sheshul artifact
>>503173447Sweden yes
>>503178067how are the devs even supposed to keep pretending that A-Life 2.0 is a thing
Should i be exploring more? I've been following the main story since i got burned by scripted stuff early on like >>503178067 but have yet to go to the cordon to meet BIG SID
Bros, what do I play, Gamma or Anomaly?I come from CoC in which my ass just cranks all the spawns to the max and has no-brainer shootouts. That's literally my criteria.So, what do I pick?
>retarded french surrender monkey already made mods to make the game easierlmao
>>503178415if you like fiddling with the inventory, grabbing every piece of garbage that you can, like crafting autism, like milsim shit and putting 5 scopes on your gun, harder combat and tarkov-like healing, then gamma, otherwise anomaly and maybe couple of mods that you like
>>503178415Gamma but enable the black market mod in mod organizer so you can just buy weapons and suits if you don't want to deal with the crafting based progression
How the fuck do I get this stash? I can't shoot it down and there's nothing to climb
Lorebros... what did Lebedev mean by this?
OK I did the money glitch once with one of my old suits just because the economy in this game is unfair, should be enough for me to actually repair stuff for a bit
>>503178783
>>503178067That bloodsucker is a cunt to kill so I killed Squint for sending me there.
>>503178787well, he didn't get ghost, that's for sure, i don't even remember how fang ended up desNimble always seemed kind of shifty too, i mean how did he get his hands on exos and expensive guns in cop? fucker might've been a glowie for all we know
cheaper repair costs mod when?
was sprinting always this fast in stalker?for the lack of movement options, my character feels like he's running at mach speed.
>>503178415IWP
>>503178229Its not, there's no a-life system
>>503174235I'd feel bad about abusing that glitch if the economy wasnt completely fucking busted.How in god's name did the game launch with the economy in this state, did they even play the game? Repair costs for you GUN ALONE cost more than the rewards for missions, let alone your suit and helmet repairs on top of that.
>>503179309there are multiple, check the nexus
Wasn't planning on playing S2 until my finals are over, which should give some time for patches. BUT, Do you think A-Life will be in the game in the future? I don't care if the system is or isn't in the game right now--it doesn't matter if it's broken or if GSC is scrambling to add it---do you think it'll be there in the future? Anybody know anything besides what the community managers said on discord?
>>503173447This must be self aware, surely
Does this stash you find in the first town actually store my items persistently? Is it a magic box that will send my items to a similar stash elsewhere?
>>503179495I doubt it, its a huge thing to leave out to patch in later.But the game has barely been out 2 days, none has anything solid.
>>503173447KEK>>503179567definitely, ukrainians are more racist than 4chan
>>503179495i think it will be there or fixed going by the official cope that it is in the gamei just don't know how long it will take, might be months, but they need to unfuck ai and they know it
>>503179441Just leave the lesser zone.
>>503179785Its not any different in Garbage, if anything its worse because suit repairs just get more and more expensive. I have yet to find an artifact that sells for more than like 1.5k either.
>45 AP ammo change on viper increases damage>but 45 caliber pistols do less damage than 9x18lol
How does the fire anomalies work? It seems like you take damage just by being near it no matter if you 'triggered' it or not.
>>503179418Or is heavily neutered, hard to say, we will have to wait a few days to see what's lies and what's true. But overall, it's not looking good for GSC's reputation.
>>503179589yes the stash will be the same stash across multiple safehouses>>503179567I have not seen a single non-european character in my entire 16 hour playthrough so far for what its worth, i dont really even care about that but i guess it is a bit lore breaking given the setting.I have so many cool rare weapons but i refuse to use them because it costs like 300 tokens per shot, what am I shooting hundred dollar bills or something, damn son. Been playing the whole story mode with a janky jamming shotgun and whatever the bandits in town are carrying. Pistol is OP, headshots with it trump everything. I dont even really want to use other weapons but I do just for the variety. Is multiplayer out yet btw? I forgot to check, that could be cool. also VR mod since its built on Unreal should be out pretty soon using that VR Mod tool people use for unreal engine. Oh wait you would get like 20fps though given the current performance specs lmao fugg
>>503178728>>503178758>>503179413I see, will download Anomaly then.
For everyone that's progressed pretty far into the game, how is the rest of the map?I've only been in the lesser zone and garbage for now and they're OKAY, they dont match up to Zaton from CoP though. Garbage is disappointing though because as far as I can tell there's only the one singular garbage pile.
>>503179913I went to Cordon before Garage and I have all my stuff repaired, and I repaired a Spas from like 20% after also buying the pump action gun from Sid, and upgrade my merc suit and other guns. I still have like 7k left over. I don't really get the complaints. If you play the game you won't be unable to fix your shit and buy some stuff.
>>503180067good hunting!
>>503180193The Garbage map being "straight up garbage" is funny as fuck.
Where does a fella have to go to upgrade later tier items and armor? I picked up a monolith suit near Shelter and no technician I've met yet can upgrade it.
>>503179964based thanks
Is it true that nexus banned a russian mod?
finally something to spray all my 9x18 with
>have to fight bloodsuckers in a small cavefuckers drained my entire stock of medkits
>>503180345 based if true
*spawns rat hoard near u*
>>503180197you find a lot of gear so really fixing any gun or armour is pointless, best strategy is just to toss out whatever your using anytime you find a new piece of kit, that was probably the design intention.However im a hoarder and unique gun collector so I basically refuse to throw or even use those weapons :')Fixing armour is straight bullshit though, one encounter and your armor repairs cost thousands, meanwhile your lucky to break even after the quest rewards and looting. At least you find a new suit of armour fairly regularly, so theres no point in repairing them ever
>>503167140gtx 1650 bros, is it possible to play this? had a blast with sh2 but is stalker 2 really out of reach?
Why didn't they just delay the game 6 months?
>>503180345Plausible, nexus are incredibly cringe
>>503177780Green is better, how could you possibly not tell which is betterOf course the bars are shit too
>>503178194just came to the same realization.>wander into new area>ill 3 bloodsuckers after using almost all my shotgun ammo>continue into area>turn around>bloodsuckers have all respawned 2 minutes later
Lol they put the limited edition energy drink in the game. I kinda wish I could've gotten my hands on some of these.
>>503180543the whole thing of>noooo it's not viable for me to go around like a homeless shopping bag lady collecting junk to sell for pennies reeee i can't get my hardcore survivalTM experienceis prime Virgin material, especially vs the chad>don't have time to loot and pick up new gun of someone i killed when i need one
>20 hours later the torrent has finishedLet's go
so how do I sleep or rest by the campfire and have it be daylight again guys?
>>503180345Most likely, Nexus is heavily politically aligned (mostly left but i won't be surprised if they are also mostly western aligned now too due to recent events)
>>503180437*lathers up my bhole with peanut butter*checkmate
>>503180872there's a bed in every hub town it has its own map icon
What's the best performance mod for STALKER 2 right now?
What makes you put SoC above CoP?
does the game really have to freeze for a full second when it loads in enemies?it's too obvious when i'm about to encounter something...
>>503180980thanks
honestly veteran isn't THAT unreasonable, the issue is mutants being too tanky baseline
who balanced the loot system?
>>503181539It was balanced around you having no money to buy basic supplies due to constant and overpriced repairs, most stashes have medkits, bandages, fucking vodka and a loaf of bread wtf
>>503181539you need infinite medkits because you're made out of paper
>>503181675i'm only in the second area of the game and i already have more than 100 medkits. is this game supposed to be cyberpunk where you're just constantly spamming heals during a hard fight? i thought it was going to be a tactical shooter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTzh23hhaioAbsolute BANGER found in the zone. Had to pause the game to find the song.
>>503167664I've found most places that were in the original games, not been to cordon yet.
>>503181794whyd you think that
>>503181539>have 90 gorillion medkits and bandages>only have enough ammo to shoot myself withcomplete retards, thats who
>>503181794>tactical shooter.No, it's just a shitty shooter with respawning enemies you can farm
Are these mutants in the game? They’re supposed to be new, but I haven’t seen footage of them.
At what point did you fully come to terms with the idea that STALKER as you know it is dead and never coming back? Was it the movie trailer audio stings? Was it the Ubisoft UI? Was it the 50th John Wick action cutscene? Was it when you reached the modern art deco SIRCAA institute? Was it when you realized A-Life 2.0 is fake and it's just spawning random shit in your radius? Was it when the English dub was mostly British voice actors? Bad economy, overly spongey monsters, bad performance, glitchy shimmery ray traced lighting, bugs, all of these things can and will be fixed by modders or the developers, but the fact that this game was developed by a studio that is "GSC" in name only as it relates to Shadow of Chernobyl, and that the people making this game seemingly do not know or even care about what made the original so special in the hearts of fans can never be changed.
I'm actually amazed that the first mod uploaded to nexus wasnt a flashlight modI'm even more amazed that there isn't a flashlight mod yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvJ91D-N29gWill SODAZ make more STALKER kino nwo that Stalker 2 is out?
>>503182071In like 2014 lmao
>>503182071weird, its exactly like every other STALKER game on release.
>>503181539>>503181794To be fair, it's always been like that, in the previous games you also were swimming in medkits and bandages after clearing up the very first map, especially in CoP, where all stashes are available from the start.
>>503182184Didn't Read The Post Award
so far every blood sucker has looked the same, did they not create more than 1 model for each type of mutant?
>>503181794Just disable quick casting medkits from the UI so you at least have to open inventory.
>>503182071>and that the people making this game seemingly do not know or even care about what made the original so special in the hearts of fans can never be changed.welcome to literally every sequel ever made
you can really tell from the complaints who actually has played the stalker games unmodded and who's a miseryfag
>>503182297How many types of mutants are in the game anyways? Did they introduce any new mutants at all?
>>503182224With AMK mod in SoC medkits dont really help you, you either kill the other guys flawlessly or you die in 1-2 hits. You arent really tanking to heal that often. Love the gunfights with AMK mod.Too bad veteran mode in this game doesnt make it like the master mode in SoC where it's more damage for everyone in the game, not bullet sponge garbage. Normal actually seems fine though so whatever. Veteran just sucks to play.
>>503182071>all of these things can and will be fixed by modders or the developersThat's a bad thing, cuz devs fully embraced the "mods will fix it" mentality and outsource their jobs to modpigs for free while looting tons of cash. Sometimes i do think modpigs are the lowest form of life
What percentage of game resources consume textures and sounds?
>>503182071If you actually like the series, or video games in general, you wouldn't be crying about all that nonsense. Its a non-issue to 95% of the target audience. Maybe your just a fanatic stalker fan and nothing would please you. I get that its fun to complain though, but really this routine of hating every new release is so played out. Nobody really cares, your welcome to speak your mind though but its not going to change the fact that I'm enjoying playing this sequel.I hope you can let your guard down and enjoy the sequel to a series we've both waited a long time for.
>>503182440Its the opposite, harder modes reduce your damage
>>503182071>chernobyl it's Chornobyl, chud. we know why you hate the game russiaboo..
>>503182771He is talking about the old gameNot Heart of Kyeeef
>SadSvit made it into the gameneat
>>503182013I have about 30 hours into the game so far and I've only seen 2 types of mutants.
>>503182669does easy mode reduce the enemy damage in this game? I like guns feeling lethal on both ends.
I hear this game is doodoo
is this any good
>>503182167He's gotta finish his Fallout project first
>>503182874it's a popular meme song especially after the war
how the fuck do I get to this stash?I walk through these boathouses and they teleport me the fuck away
>>503182938yeah for exploring rad zones pop it in your stash for now until you find some place with rads to explore
>>503182938That's dogshit, I'd sell that if I looted that
Why do things break so quickly
>>503182440>like the master mode in SoC where it's more damage for everyone in the game, not bullet sponge garbageIt never worked like that, the "on Master enemies are actually less bullet spongey" bullshit is a meme. In SoC Master difficulty reduced player's weapon damage to its base value (lower difficulties had a bonus to player's damage) and lowered your damage resistance. In the later games, player's weapon damage is the same on all difficulty levels.
>>503167627Wow, pretty sure this same exact comment was at the start of a thread this morning. Is GSC trying to figure out what people expected from A-life because they didn't understand it in the first place? Or am I just schizo?>HMARPY
How are the new cat mutants? What abilities do they have?
>hackerman: we're inso what are the proper changes here?quest rewards: multiply by 4 or soweapon durability damage: multiply by 0.65 or so for 50% slower lossweapon damage: set to 1unfortunately there's no way to change mutant hp so easily
>>503183117you go there during the main quest, its soft locked until you do the main story quest
>>503182771That's the title of the original game you astroturfing NAFO faggot who doesn't know anything about the game
is the only way to get better detectors to buy them? surely someone drops it or stashed somewhere
Any buildofags playing? Can you recognize any areas that were taken from/inspired by the builds? Asking because I remember people speculating this one pre-release screenshot seemed to be in an area that was just taken straight out of the Build Garbage.
>game still fucks your GPU in the menuChewie, we're home
>>503183421No Im just a newfag and the first few articles on google didnt explain it much besides saying "It was a thing that was there"
>>503182632Serious question, are you like 16 years old? Are you totally stupid?
>>503183441How get in?Want to start fucking with values too.
>>503173014Get a quest from two of the drunk guys in slag heap in the garbage zone, but youre basically just stealing all the stuff guy's stashes(taking anything makes him hostile in the end, leaving one alone will make it unclaimable after killing it so just take everything)Other detector upgrade is just by doing the main quest until you do some stuff at noontide base and help the professor with the zombie at the antena for a bear detector, it's much better than the stealable detector
>>503183594See>>503167934>>503168284
>>503183540Forgot the picture like a dipshit
>>503183458ah, okI got to every other stash with zero issues while completely avoiding the MQ so I thought I would be able to get here somehowguess I have to actually play through some plot
>>503183597Damn you are a whiny dude lmao, Go get some sleep.
>>503183672No I know, I appreciate the replies even if I didnt reply to them, I understand it better now, thank you
Yeah it's fucking over
>>503183602it's really difficult to get the original values and you have to access them with the full UE5 installation, you'll probably want to wait for mods that edit relevant values then edit those until you like the numbersfor editing existing mods: you'll want to grab UnrealPakTool (usage: UnrealPak -Extract NameOfThePakYouEdit.pak ./DirectoryNameGoesHere), edit what you want then repack the mod
How the fuck am I suppose to find the journalist stash near the Zalissya base? Do I have to find some secret underground passage 12km away?
>>503183540i don't remember if truck cemetery was from a build or a map made by CoC guys but here it is
>>503183906It's currently 8 AM here, I haven't slept in a day and I am going to work.
>>503183441Give me graphics configCan you disable lumen and pbr?
is this game like the originals where the stats mean fuck all on guns and only truly matter when comparing guns of similar ammo types?kinda hoping some autist out there has already tested the damage from guns on enemies, not that anything is going to stop me from using the HK416 despite its stats being absolute shit
>>503183441Repair_Cost should be set to 0.4, that shit is too high as it is.Artifact_Cost to 1.2.Weapon_DurabilitDamage to 0.6.
Anyone playing with 16 gb of RAM trying to troubleshoot something.
Big fan of these new storms
what does this say
I really want to understand why the day night cycles are 10 minutes. It makes 0 fucking sense. That's like barely time for a short side quest
>>503184145ISKRA, means SPARK
>>503184145ICHPA
>>503180543I've been keeping my guns for decent periods of time, but selling a lot I pick up. For my suit, I had a light merc suit that I wore down to like 60%, sold, and then I started using a regular merc suit I picked up. It's the smart way to handle your money.
>>503184145ISKRA
>>503184135They remind me of Fallout 4's Radstorms,
Tbh I don't even want "true" A-Life, I want them to just make it more plausible and less annoying. Something like Fallout 4 or Far Cry 5 where you can at least see monsters chilling in some spot from afar.
Yep, it's time to game
>>503184135yeah i thought there was grenades going off but it was just wicked lightning, they're awesome
Jesus even with the flesh nerf mod these fucks take buckshot like its BB guns
It's so over isn't it
>>503184568im having a blast, dunno bout you doomers
>>503182013The only new mutants I've seen are the psycats.
>>503184334gsc needed to ask for the engine from bethesda or ubisoft. there are already have all the necessary game features out of the box that are perfectly optimized
>>503184334increase your draw distance sar
are quest rewards always so pitiful or is it only the case at the start?
>"14000K">sells for 4830K at the vendor
>>503185117is this your first game with merchant selling? that's the price to buy it from a merchant not sell it to them
>>503185204Ive never played a videogame before i just usually watch my sister play
wow, turns out you CAN sell broken guns, just not in the rookie zonetop kek
jesus christ sprint speed is so fast
Is there a hide UI button?
>download stalker 2game is mid>download anomaly gamma>game is midis this entire franchise mid?
Do you guys like the TOZ-34?
>>503185407is this your first stalker game
>>503185534Yeah
>>503185562its not bad, faster reload than the spas 12 or pump shotgun
>>503185581yes
>>503185534if you dislike the older games you have depression no cap frfr
>there are four difficulty levels in game files: novice, stalker, veteran, masterI wonder if master is unlockable or if it was removed
i tried autmn aurora but it stutters like fuck. so i got vanilla and ZRP installed. any graphical mods to add for extra flavour?
>>503185374Is she hot?If so, are you hitting that?
>>503185374this is my first 4chan thread so I believe you
>>503185534It's a niche series, not everyone will enjoy it, entirely possible it's not your sort of game.
>>503168231Nobody at GSC yeah you're right
>go through the events at sircaa>meet with the smoking lady>have no idea what the fuck is going on any more
>all these noobskis ittWhen you're done with 2, go back and play SoC, maybe with the reclamation project.You will have a good time.
Are the deluxe/ultimate editions worth it or should I just buy the base game?
>>503186347tfw they patched out the GETOUTOFHERESTALKER guyit's over
Watch it https://youtu.be/6YS8tjCZGWQRETURN UE4RETURN BAKED LIGHTMAPS
>>503186398mods will do more than any other DLC so season pass isnt worth it, the rest are just skins or something minor so not worthbut it also supports ukraine so maybe worth it
>>503186398fancy versions come with DLC later and some cheesy early game gearbase game should be fine if you're not sure about it
>>503186502looks worse than S2 and im not trolling. Only thing that bothers me is the super fucking bright windows
Has anyone beaten main quest yet? Is there freeplay?
repair 40% of the gun>4000Kreplace entire barrel with one made of out titanium>4000K
>>503185562I loved it, but I moved on. With how tanky the mutants are, having 6-8 shots before reloading makes a massive difference.
>>503186506>but it also supports ukraine so maybe worth itOh yeah that's a hard noThanks
>>503183912See I'd tried that, but was having issues actually extracting them, then tried fmodel and couldn't get all the data to load for me.Perhaps it's just a matter of banging my head against this one until either my skull or the wall gives way.
anyone got a way to fix the stutters? game runs well atleast 30-35 on my 1650 but the constant stutters is unplayable
>>503186741modding out repairs entirely>$0>+XXXXK
How to deal with CIPSO bots?
dialogue mentions 'glock 19' but there's no glock in the game is there
>>503183379Oh, so its still exactly the same in practice and just worded differently. Retard.
>>503186858Use rivatuner or another external program to lock the game to 30fps, download and try one of the multiple optimzer mods on the nexus, pray the first couple patches fix performance
found another controller behind the scientist bunker in Yantarspotted it before it spotted me so I killed it very carefullytook exactly 21 headshots from vssdidn't spot me while I shot at it with vss, just walked back and forth after getting hitbut if I fired non-silenced guns from where I was, it immediately spotted mereloaded and killed it a couple more times to test itnoticed that pull thing they do doesn't actually do any damage at all, just disorients you for a momentbut being near it causes hallucinations and rapid health loss, which persist for a while even after it diesshooting it from afar without being noticed you don't get any hallucinations or damage, after it spots you it needs to get close enough to affect you with hallucinations and damage, but it can do that pull thing from farther away if it has LoSand they can turn stalkers nearby to zombies - a friendly squad rolled up during one attempt, two died, one started mumbling and shooting at me.also spawns hallucinations of stalkers that attack you, they do damage and fight similar to real stalkers, but if you try to loot them they disappeartldr; pull does no damage, hallucinations hurt, controllers are ez at range a bitch up close like previous games, but tankier.
>>503187106guess i will wait
>>503186973When was this?
>>503186980>on Master it's more damage for everyone>in reality on Master enemies take less or the same amount of damage>Oh, so its still exactly the sameI don't think I'm the retard here.
>>503183982>truck cemetery is inFuck yes. I always thought that was a purely modded map.
How to counter the sentient lightning anomalies that chase you down? They're fuckin fast and I usually run out of stamina trying to evade them..don't tell me it's just a HP check and I have to tank them..
>>503183982It was an official map that was cut.
>>503187159also good loot on top of the bunkertwo dead freedom guys with several guns in pretty decent condition, lots of ammo, food, meds
where are you guys finding VALs?
>>503187914buy the DLC to support ukraine and you'll get one
blew my entire life savings on this thing, better be worth it
>>503187914You get a VSS from the swamp stash.
>>503186980english might be your second language anon
who pays most for artifacts?feel like I'm getting ripped off.
>>503188048Where from? Who can upgrade that?
>>503182071Only genuine post itt, rest is shills and newfag zoomers
>>503188048spoilers - Bazar in Rostok, can upgrade it there too
How are my Freedom bros doing in Stalker 2 anyway?
>>503188183whoops, meant >>503188239 for you
>>503183982>a map made by CoC guysThis, I believe. >>503187503I don't think I've ever seen it in any of the builds or mentioned in any desdocs.
I bought into some hype around this despite not playing previous stalker games... kinda disappointed but its not terrible.
Why the fuck are you guys playing before the ALife is patched?
>>503188454because I'm having fun? I can always play the game again later too
>>503188454game is fun
>>503188454Because A life doesnt exist and anything else is just cope. At most GSC will adjust the NPC spawn radius so they appear further away and that's that.
Should I show the PDA to these guys?
>>503188454Desperation and desire to see how broken the game is
>>503188454After more than a decade of waiting you don't even want to, you HAVE to play it. If only just to put that desire to rest.
>get 3 hours in>save corrupts>8 hours in>corrupts againIs the fitgirl repack having this issue?
>>503188454I'll stop playing when I noticed bad spawn issues. I haven't, beyond scripted events like bloodsuckers in story quests. Which won't be fixed.
So the Ward welcome me into their HQ, and then suddenly decide that I'm a hostile and open fire on me. Very neat.
>>503186506I don't support hohols I'm pirating
>>503188454Because, we both know ALife in unreal will just kill the games already shit optimization further. I'd like to direct you to forever winter which at least tries to give the battlefield more life with the faux skirmishes between the factions. Back on launch any time a goon squad spawned in the game hitched severely with each spawn. Didn't matter how far you were, that hitch still would hit ya.
>>503188791How have you NOT noticed it?Every single encounter with enemy stalkers outside of camps is them spawning in 40 feet behind you in an area you just came from.
>>503188924Are you wearing bandit uniform?>>503188942Your rubles arent worth anything anyway
Crashing every 15 min after getting to the monolith island. Fucking. Hell.
>>503188454Because its never going to happen
>>503183912nvm, figured out what I was doing wrong, unreal seems to have built in path length limits, as does fmodel, so relinking the games folder to the "C:\" location in my wine prefix sorted that all out.
>>503188942Its on GOG with no DRM, there's literally no reason to pay for it
>>503188976I'm wearing an explorer's suit if that's somehow a problem. Thing is I was able to walk into their HQ, do some trading, then as soon as I walk outside they decided that they wanted to kill me for some reason.
>>503189176Did you rape them back in Zallisiya or something?
So i'm assuming that Monolith returns no matter what choice you make prior to their reactivation?
>>503189203No siree, I've been a good boy. I guess it's a "teehee funni anomaly"
>>503189292Sad!
>>503183649I did the quest but I was a good boy so I didn't touch a thing. I kinda regret it because I didn't get a single reward.
>>503167140Is /s2g/ a replacement for /sg/ or is it a seperate general?
>tried replacing dead poltergeist model with shrek>game crashes
>90 fps>still feels like mouse is in glueIs this intended?
Maybe we should compile modfix list for newsissies that just started?
>No A-life>Weak as fuck flashlight>No dynamic shadows>No night vision>No PDA chatter/reports>No ranking system
from what i gather, a-life sounds like tarkov’s single player mod. not surprised it doesn’t work here because in tarkov you practically have to limit the game to running 40 npcs at most or your CPU will catch on fire. not to mention that tarkov maps are nowhere near as big as stalker 2’s map, the thing is that the AI does work in single play tarkov though. they will scan around the map looting, doing their own personal quests, and get into fights with different factions.
>>503189445According to this guy who replied to me when I asked a similar question, it's someone he knows being a cunt who might be trying to replace /sg/. Someone else will be fast enough to do a normal OP next time, maybe.
>>503189893It worked fine in 2007
>>503189790Stop complaining game is fun give them some slack
After some light digging, it seems the needed values for ALife are indeed in the game's files.
Why do NPCs make the game chug so hard?Rostok is completely unplayable for me.
aes key to decrypt .pak archives with fmodel etc:0x33A604DF49A07FFD4A4C919962161F5C35A134D37EFA98DB37A34F6450D7D386
>>503190019Yeah but is it actually running or just cut content?
>>503189983Why? I'm having fun too, but these are legitimate complaints.
>>503189790it is what it is, only thing left for us is to hope someone will fix itanomaly or coc wasn't made in a day, anon
>>503190019Is this acually A life though, or something they've just called A life? Can it be compared to the og trilogy files?
>>503189893It's not quite the same thing, SPT is a mod glued onto an already poorly performing game intended to puppeteer player NPCs in an entirely live environment with no offline (NPC doesn't actually show up in the world but keeps simulating things on a more basic level) simulation.It's a hackjob that, admittedly, did a pretty impressive job given how they had to implement it.A-Life in the older games is a key part of the engine on a fundamental level, and effectively simulates several NPCs carrying out their needs, from stalkers working to get money to buy food, to dogs sleeping or hunting other animals, and just lets them all clash together in interesting ways.It relies on things like offline simulation to reduce the performance cost, which is how the older games could simulate the entire zone.
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The Wardens were totally the Military in the first draft of this game and were changed to a nondescript paramilitary group after the war started, right?
>>503190640No.
artifacts are spawned by emissions
>>503190549stalkers can't triforce
>started looking into a-life in older games>all these articles and threads about how good, immersive it isngl guys kind of makes me sad
>>503190685what does that mean
>>503190640Seems likely
>>503190116It's hard to say for 100% certain, but given it's 1607 lines long and seems to include templates for pretty much every creature, it's most likely running, otherwise it'd be a lot of work that was just thrown out for no reason yet left in the files.>>503190263From what I recall from digging through the ltx files for the older games, usually these values were manually set per creature in their respective base file.It seems like there's a bit more abstraction with this.From what I can tell, it's less that the AI has a set of needs that it wants to fill when they get low, and instead a list of timers that go off and push the NPC to do certain things.It's impossible to say for certain however as I can't actually look at the logic for the game, and I could absolutely be interpreting things incorrectly as I'm doing the equivalent of staring into tea leaves and trying to intuit what the weather tomorrow will be.
>>503190935It's objectively not true.
>>503190947thank you for being smarter than us
>>503190841Every emission resets artifact spawns in the different anomaly fields in game.
>>503190661actually yes, artbook says they wanted the Ukranian military in as the 'law and order' opposition group like the original games, and the original design for their outfits is the current uniform they wear IRL but because of the war they decided to make them into a new different faction that fills the same role because the game would let you have to kill Ukrainian soldiers and that was an absolute 'no' to them
>>503191097That would be IPSF
>>503191058how are emissions triggered? ive had three and each was within 150m of a settlement and seemed to be scripted to a story event
>>503190947well, in that case maybe the timers for sleep/eat/piss just get in the way of roaming and stuff, coupled with pop-ins/outs that might reset their route, maybe it's fixable?
>>503190947>it'd be a lot of work that was just thrown out for no reason yet left in the files.That is what happens when something is cut last minute.The fact all mentions of a life were removed from Steam is rather telling.
>>503191149the SECOND i hit post on this reply i got an emission 700m from a base. im fucked
>>503167140Are people seriously refunding because of no Alife? How much of a loser do you have to be to do that?
>>503191135So he's still right, but its the IPSF and not the Wardens?
>>503191170Hope so. Observed a guy pissing 11 times and shitting 5 times earlier today.
>>503183441cheper repair cost, please im beggin you.
>>503191216Tell them xister
i just got to the 2nd zone and did the first few quests- im just bareling starting the zone. what should i look out for? how do i make BIG money??
I'm meant to be going to some place called the sphere but the wall textures around it are all flickery
>>503191269It is the IPSF yes, not the Wardens, so he is not correct. Ward were planned way back in 2011.
killing bloodsuckers has to be the least fun thing in any video game it's like 3 straight minutes of them running around over and overthey dont even seem to be rare enemies, i am already tired of it 6 hours in. What the fuck do I do to make this less tedious
>>503191467mod their health lower and use a shotgun
They can always sell Alife as DLC, I'd buy it desu
>>503191149I'm actually looking at that right now, it may be a matter of some being scripted and some being dynamic, as I've definitely had a few happen at similar points to other people.>>503191170It's possible that the priorities are just a bit fucked and the timers need to be tightened on some of the other actions or even have a priority override system, I saw one dude stop mid piss to have a conversation and a smoke with someone else, while still pissing as they casually stood there chatting and having a smoke.>>503191172You could be right, but it does definitely seem like there's a lot of behavior in game that matches some of the actions mentioned in the list.At this point I think it's more a matter of screwing up the offline to online transition and not taking player view into account for some spawn points.
>>503191348is that a tavor? I gotta get me one of those I love bullpups
>>503190841>>503190685They literally tell you this in game.
>>503191536It just sucks how they made the enemy annoying instead of awesome. I am cool with it being strong. I am not okay with how it dances around you in the same pattern over and over.
>>503191548>It's possible that the priorities are just a bit fucked and the timers need to be tightened on some of the other actions or even have a priority override system, I saw one dude stop mid piss to have a conversation and a smoke with someone else, while still pissing as they casually stood there chatting and having a smoke.I want to shake his hand
>>503191548Looks like a lot of the older values for spawning NPC groups are there, things like max squad size and such.Perhaps disabling "DefaultShouldDespawnNPCs = true" might yield interesting results.
>>503191849Try it out if possible?
Stalkers pissing at completely inappropriate times is the core of 2's appeal.
>COME TO ME!We're so back.
just so you guys know, you CAN sell broken guns. hoarderchads win again
Are there female stalkers? Is there sex?
>>503191920for me it's the hopping rats
so how do you repack modded files?unpacking was simple enough but I can't seem to figure out how to pack it back into .pakdo you need to install the full Unreal Engine 5.1.1 suite or is UnrealPakTool enough?
>>503191849might lead to gradual fps decline as npc's would just keep on spawning, idki blame open world
ayy lmao
now that the ICBM has settled, what are your thoughts?
>>503192118Pripyat was open world too, sorta. They could have done that...
This song fits this game too well. I wish this was in the gamehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCuBalItZA8&ab_channel=Xtrendence
I just stood around for several minutes in an area between Garbage and Rostok just to see if anything would happen. Literally anything, any patrols, any mutants roaming...nothing.
is gamma just overrated bloatware on top of anomaly's schlock?
>>503192412Bake for 2 more years and get mediocre results, mods are still superior to anything gsc can offer
>>503192424the locations were bigger, but the loading screens were still there, and it's not a bad fucking thing if it meant working aii mean i hope i'm wrong and open world doesn't have anything to do with it, but i just can't figure out how could they implement it in the older games but here it is so guttered
>>503192672I bloatwared your moms pussy and schlocked inside her womb
>>503192729gutted*
>>503192756
>>503192412The only thing that made Stalker games relevant is the ALife and they stripped it away by replacing it with The Director from L4D2, it works since the majority of the audience are going to be casuals moviefags playing on their Xbox
>>503191557ya, theres a sneak quest where you can get one
>>503192040There should be a .bat file that you drag and drop on?
>>503192672That's the only accepted opinion. Pls don't play it to form your own opinion. We hate Anomaly here. And adding tons of mods on top makes it even worse. Good use of meme words btw.
>>503192873Metro is relevant and it was a moviefag game. We just gotta cope about the fact gaming isnt for nerds any more it's for average people that prefer cinematic storyfag games not autistic ones...
>>503192949doesn't seem that way
>they removed A-Life from Steam page before release>i-it's to draw in new players, fancy term too complicated for normies, pls understand
>>503191849Looks like a few ALife settings weren't actually in the ALife configs, instead stuffed into CoreVariables.cfg.>>503191916Got a pak for it, will have to see how it effects performance over time.
>>503189543you did it wrong then
>>503192949>UnrealPak <NEW PAK NAME HERE> -create=<FOLDER WITH MODDED FILES HERE> -compress
>>503193117>Killer feature which is supposed to attract players and sell our game is actually a scary new term for newbies
>>503193209Meant for >>503192040
>>503193124godspeed, anon
>>503191849>Perhaps disabling "DefaultShouldDespawnNPCs = true" might yield interesting results.Yes like the game slowing down to a crawl since it will keep spawning new NPCs and not delete ones that left the player bubble i assume, people need to realize that this game is just Fallout 4 but more difficult and less sandboxy, there is probably not a single trace of a supposed "offline" bubble and even if there is its going to be slightly bigger than the online bubble. By the way have you ever wondered why the day/night cycle is so fast? If they actually cared about Alife they would surely make it slower right? Its not like there is absolutely no logic in what the NPCs do right?
>>503189790>>No dynamic shadowswrong>>No night visionwrong>>503191050lol no
>>503167140Far Cry 7 Hort of Chornobol
>>503189790>no jets>can't fly to another planet>no simulated gravity and pressurisation system>can't customise my car
>>503193209sure seems like it demands UE 5.1 installed, as otherwise you won't have proper engine.ini (if I understood it correctly)
Wow... I refunded... Wow...
>>503192672GAYMA is shit and piss stack on top of ANALMEME curated by some frog eating french faglordit is literally peak stalker, can't wait for the update
>>503191338ayo are those motha fukcin ANTS?!?!
Talking out of my ass here, but i wouldn't be surprised if we see Alife get hotfixed within a month for PC and then sometime next year for consoles. Bet it got rushed out in it's current configuration as it's the only configuration they could get stable across platforms and haven't figured out how to make it stable on consoles. They just didn't want people bitching about the console versions being cooked like cyberpunk.
>>503193124Good hunting stalker, let us know how it went
>>503193481That may be the case, I ended up pulling the full 5.1 release and that seems to work as intended after a little fucking about.
>4 monolith standing around a campfire pissing in unison>2 also smoking
>>503193529I don't buy it. How can they unfuck the scripted spawns for all the story missions? It's like guaranteed that they spawn out of vision when you cross a threshold. There's no strategic scoping out of an area to clear it of threats before you move in like the old games. You walk over the spawn zone when you get close to the skyrim quest marker on your compass, then the enemies arrive.
>>503193529Wouldn't it cause console shitters to seethe out of spite? Surely some of them will notice
>>503193124*affects
>>503193663It's probably a mixture of both as the intended experience.
>turned off r.EyeAdaptationQuality in engine.ini>can see normally and brightness adaptation doesn't blind me constantlyIt's perfect.
>>503193715they would simply cut GSC some slack because there is war :)
>>503193529>still calling the GTA spawn system "Alife"
>>503193529m8, the devs are scrambling to come up with a less egregious radius spawn system. "A-life" in its true form is not in Stalker 2, no matter what they call it, and them calling it "2.0" would imply that it's a better system than the earlier iterations when in fact it shares nothing similar.There's a reason why you don't get binoculars, nothing dynamically exists or is rendered beyond the players' ~75ish meter bubble.
>>503193850TRUE, I probably just didnt notice it in the first games cause I was a dumbass
is there anything to fix the compiling shaders every fucking time, holy shit
>>503194058They'll fix The Director 2.0 by extending the radius to 200 meters and make NPCs not spawn directly on top of the player, casuals will then call the devs heroes just like it happened with Cyberpunk. but seriously its a AAA game people, there are no standards here.
r8 me
>>503194174it makes me wonder too because most other games that had it only need to do it ONCE (or if there is a patch) and not every single time
>>503194380yup, that is the unfortunate case of the gullible masses. They may be able to patch the spawning that happens in front of players' faces, but they will not expand upon what A-Life ought to be.They will be celebrated for this, and the devs will tune out the rest of people who actually know of their shortcuts.
>>503193124It doesn't say anything at all. Until they leak the SDK and the script sources, it won't be fully clear what is thus "a-life 2.0".
>article published Sept 20 2024Guys...they revealed that "A-Life 2.0" is nothing but spawn fakery months ago...
>>503194440I hope there's an extended tube for the spas out there somewhere, 8 is still not enough.
>>503194174>make game open world to avoid long load times>shade compilers prevent you from playing the game in a more obnoxious way by 10 foldlol, lmao said the scorpion
>>503194459an update was made to silent hill 2 that added a shader comp progress bar when the game is launched, from what I've seen of stalker 2's shader comp length, sh2's doesn't take nearly as long.
>>503193856can you check and confirm that doesn't affect the invisibility of bloodsuckers and also the distortion effects from certain anomalies? I read somewhere it did, I really want to disable it also cause it's fucking annoying.
>>503194830Yep, noticed that too back then. Most fags cannot read between lines, we are never getting A-Life back, it will be a glorified spawner when it's fixed
>>503194141A-Life was heavily gimped in the 1.0 version of STALKER because they couldn't get it working right. Some of the A-Life stuff still worked for wandering groups of NPCs. It got fixed somewhat with the later patches and modders eventually put most of the systems back in to the game with mods like AMK and so on but even they had to turn off parts of it to keep it from breaking the entire game. Call of Pripyat had an implementation closer to what was originally planned. Clear Sky faked it a lot.It's never worked properly in the custom engine it was built for, I don't know why anyone expected that a UE5 implementation would ever be anything more than marketing buzzwords. It's not going to get fixed because there's nothing to fix.
>>503194830>you see Alife spawning a couple of stalker passing byWe should have known better, i would have probably interpreted this as "some stalkers entered the player online bubble but didn't literally spawn inside it" but no they literally meant spawn as in spawn, they spawn inside the "Alife 2.0" bubble which is just a reality bubble centered on the player.
>>503194830I'm gonna sit on the copium fence and hope it's meant to be a mixture of the "director" experience with the prior Alife. Probably get detailed information soonish.
At this point I hope for them getting hacked for the source code so unironically mods can fix it
>>503194830>as you exit, YOU SEE A-Life spawning a couple of stalkers passing byyeah, fuck...
>>503194440>trade bug abuser/10
>>503195319yup. "The Zone" is literally the radius zone that exists around Skif.It immediately kills any and all sense of immersion. None of this stuff that happens in game is "real".
it's actually over :(current list:-literally NO a-life, just random spawns-enemies spawn on top of you-forced mouse acceleration-PiP scopes removed-flashlight shadows removed-flashlight way too weak, almost unusable-can't reassign flashlight key-highest dificulty just reduces player's gun damage by 0.75-auto lean-very distracting pop-ins-niggers-mediocre graphics for such high hardware requirements-memory leaks-BSODs-dead, empty world (broken a-life)-photorealistic graphics from the leak changed to look like a fucking Ubisoft game-only scripted blowouts (unconfirmed)-shit voice acting-can't join factions-time passes too fast (timescale)-no binoculars-no point in exploring-downgraded to hell and back (and it still has trash performance)-pripyat size cut in half-no Mooze soundtrack-awful UI-bad economy-mutant enemies are bullet sponges-artifact effects underwhealming
>>503195492literally haven't abused a fucking thing. I've just loot goblin'd the entire game, and I was smart and horded all my broken guns only to find out you can sell them later
>>503195160That's definitely not the one, I know because I had that problem when I added that big list of engine.ini tweaks and before I added the value I mention.
>>503194830alife is waht decides what may happen...
>>503195375>inb4 there is a "surprising" leak that only contains data regarding A-Life on some modding forumi hope they aren't that lazy to outsource game fixing to modders, but they just might
>>503195565Rav pls
>>503193124After about 20 minutes playing, it seemed the only real change was corpses were more persistent, and the game crashed after 20 minutes.I was hoping it'd result in more persistent squads on the map but it seems the hardware toll is just too much.Oddly enough, game ran at 140FPS the entire time.
>>503195772i don't know what that means, but I have honestly never abused any game mechanic
>>503195532you are being overly dramatic, it's kind of over, but we might also be back relatively soon
>>503195597oh awesome, I'll give it a go then. Is it just r.EyeAdaptationQuality = 0?Are you using any others you'd recommend?
>>503195649Yep, looks like their intended vision is for it to work as an event directior, like in Rim World, only the single thing it does is decide what to spawn to spice up the situation. Pathetic
Stalker games were better when they were Russian
>>503195893Mostly just that big list, I've just been living with the fact that I can't see bloodsuckers anymore since the performance and visual clarity is a lot better.
>>503195492Its pretty much a feature given how fucked the economy is
>>503195532as a long term thousand hour immersive sim it's overbut for a metro-like stalker game it's pretty good and we are back, some minor fixes and it's easily an 8/10. I would rate it 7/10 right now. Gunfights are so satisfying and feel realistic.
Even calling it a "A-Life Director" is fakery, because you now know that every encounter that happens was a result of either a hardcoded mission script or some almighty RNG logic programmed to activate within Skif's bubble.I can't be understated enough. Fakery is the number 1 detriment to any sort of immersion that can be had. Immersion cannot be faked. The entire game is faked.
>>503195795well, it couldn't have been that easy to fix the entire system, still good on you for trying
>>503195795Update, restarting the game now triggered the "first time launch" prompts on the main menu for some reason.
>>503195893Nta but its DisableDistortion=0 in the pak file
So do artifacts respawn?Are there emissions that do it or is it just time based?Warlock won't give me a mission if I sleep for a bit does that refresh his side missions?Also VETERAN is pretty easy so far aside from tanky mutants honestly nothing seems to be capable of one shotting line STALKER on master usually was.
Is there any unique artifacts you can get in stalker 2? All ive been using is mica for -rads and either wrenched for physical resist or another artifact that gives me more endurance to run
>>503196174>>503195893Shit, sorry, I jumped the gun, thought you are talking about "optimiser" mods that mess up grav anomalies and bloodcykas
>>503167140What are those white dots?
>>503196495Item/body pick-up indicators.
>>503196495Interaction marks
>>503167390Gay parading on the zone.
>>503195532Am I taking crazy pills? The graphics look amazing so far
>>503193523Maybe it's the A-Life 2.0 they've been talking about all along.
>>503195532>can't join factionsYou had best be joking
>>503196650I've heard/seen "graphics are bad!" for decades. Literally never pay attention to such a statement, it's just a buzzphrase at this point.
>>503196849There's factions, it's nearly 40 hours in though.
>>503172498Hopefully it gets good and optimized in 1 year and I can play it in my shit computer. Until then, It's SoC I guess.
>>503196650they don't look bad per se, but there are a bunch of weird design choices, like you can't turn off motion blur without an ini tweak, only turn its quality down. tons of stuff like that.
>end of 2nd zone on normal>cant decide who to pick >so instead start another run on hardest diff>other than finding less ammo its not that different??? did some of you bitches just complain for nothing or what>most humans (other than the army ones) still die to one headshot with a pistol>both the 4 legged things and hogs die in one magdumpive yet to fight a bloodsucker since i just skipped the intro one but they were a pain on normal too currently on the windmill part so i gotta deal with that one but i have 40 medkits so i can just spam them
>>503173447Glad Sweden is getting some representation in games.
>>503195516That would only be true if spawns and fixed NPC didn't react to what the player does in quests. The zone doesn't have literally zero reaction does it?
anyone finished the game already? how long did it take you?
>>503197547The spawning system is probably intended to be just a theme park for the player and not reminding him that the world is effectively empty, so yeah there are gonna be reactions to what the player does but that's about it, its still not a STALKER game since that isn't how the series functioned aside from some scripted events in the games.
>>503193856Yeah this is great, I can see outside without going blind now.Side note, it looks like the last emission bugged out and the world is now permanently in emission mode without any of the negative visual effects.
>>503197873The lightings actually pretty nice without that on.
It's up
Explain to my small brain why modern tech couldn't reproduce online A-Life on a radius at least the size of SoC garbage when it was possible back in 2007 with an Athlon 64 X2.
>>503189445>>503167254>Why are you calling it s2g you gigantic faggot. There are other stalker games too.The old OP might be implying that only the old games are Stalker, and that Stalker 2 doesn't deserve to be discussed in /sg/ as it's not Stalker enough.>>503147301I told you mongoloids months ago: It's not "just" UI if the game is unplayable without it. If the game is designed around using the compass then "bro just turn it off" won't help. You chose to act like cunts. Now suffer the consequences.
>>503198015>reduced in title>description says removedfucking nigger
>>503197784I know that. But it's still not entirely terrible if it's like that and done well. I thought modded FNV had the most living world after a stalker game and that was just a lot of clever conditional spawning plus some wandering persistent NPCs. It's not done well is it?
>forced to put women and niggers in the game no exceptions>all voiced characters are white except 1 trader>only women in the game are the hot corpo chick, sultan's babushka and some tranny tech i literally have not even encountered yet since she's buried in the second half of the gamehuh guess it could have been worse
>>503197873just tried it with the steam version (there was no engine.ini, had to make it) and had no effect which is a bummer. which version are you running? does the bugged out emission go away after sleeping?
>>503182071Metro is the real Stalker 2.0
test
>>503198109Currently running on the latest steam ver.Just keep in mind the engine.ini needs to look like:https://pastebin.com/xueBV0VZand be placed in:>%APPDATA%\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windows\
>>503198092>I thought modded FNV had the most living world after a stalker game Mount and Blade exists, if you talking about FPS games in general then Stalker games were on a different level to everything else
To whoever figured out the stack price bug for vendors, holy shit thank you.I can now afford to repair my armor.
>>503198049competency crisis, neu-devs can only work with prebaked modules/functions, we are degrading
>>503198049different engine plus better graphicshonestly it might just be the engine, they couldn't weave in their slav magic into the unrealbut idk, i'm not even close to being a game dev
Give it to me straight boysare we back or is Stalker 2 Ukie goyslop that'll be forgotten around here in 2 weeks?
>>503198549yes
>>503192828This picture makes me sad.
>>503198049Modern devs only do the bare minimum, why would they try when customers are more than happy to buy early access/unfinished games? Vote with your wallet but at this point there is no good candidate available
I have blocky shadows on dx9 in anomal. I use modded exes. Is any way around this or to fix this?
>complete quest>"ey skif, here's some coupons">+750 coupons>visit shopkeeper>guns cost 15k+>repairing anything costs several thousands>upgrades costs several thousandsDid these drunken retards even playtest their game? How the fuck am I supposed to get anything done when all my shit breaks down in a day or two and I get paid in peanuts?Is this a widespread problem across all difficulties? I'm currently playing on Veteran so I'm not sure if that inflates prices and durability burn.
Which one of you fucking retards was complaining that there isn't a player stash or a vendor in the entire Garbage? I've barely started exploring the place and came across the Slag Heap and lo and behold, a stash and a vendor.
>open stolkor>compiling shaders>open UE to make a mod>compiling shadersmake it stop
>>503198369ah well that certainly did something
>>503198549The average AAA game gets forgotten in about two weeks unless its broken, if its broken and then "fixed" like Cyberpunk or No Man's Sky it might regain relevance in the future even if its still a piece of shit game, it all about creating the illusion that "fixing" the most glaring bugs of a shit game with suddenly make it good
>>503194830In all honestly, that's what S1's A-Life amounted to. The sad thing is, 15 years later, nothing was improved, and if the state of stalker modding is anything to go by, it will never improve much more. A big missed opportunity.
>>503198908
Elder Scrolls do the whole A-life gimmick better
please tell me you get an upgraded scanner later.this shit is fucking retarded
>>503198908You may want to turn your gamma down.And maybe apply that setting while standing outside, not sure if it changes much doing that.I also have a bunch of other stuff in my engine.ini from the list posted earlier so it may be several factors.
>>503199052you have no clue what a life is if you think skyrim matches it
>>503198854veteran lowers rewards by additional 25% but base game should probably give you ~4x as much money in the first place
>>503198049If all things were equal it would. But as showed by the modding community, devs are more interested in graphics than AI, that's where all their cpu/gpu budget goes to.
>>503173447It's extra funny as a swede because you can tell the devs suffer from internet brainrot when this is how they imagine the average swede. Should've made him a muslim instead if they wanted to take a piss out of us.
>>503182071>Was it the movie trailer audio stings? What? Only problem with the soundtrack is the mediocre combat tracks that awkwardly cut in, the rest is gud>Was it the Ubisoft UI?Who cares? Nobody makes gritty uis like the old games these days and you can blame 'minimalist' huds in GAMMA for no more rustshit ui> Was it the 50th John Wick action cutscene? Uh, there's only 1 or 2 and they're usually resolved quickly. It's nice to see our ex military character act ex military though>Was it when you reached the modern art deco SIRCAA institute?I have to disagree with you strongly here, this shit was fucking kino. The themes of the original games, the zone becoming corporatized and man messing with something he doesn't understand - sircaa represents hubris and it made me actually realize the story was going somewhere> Was it when you realized A-Life 2.0 is fake and it's just spawning random shit in your radius? This is the most blatant lie in their marketting and they must be called out on it. They specifically promised alife because they knew it was a big deal and only stripped mentions of it right before release. >Was it when the English dub was mostly British voice actors? Who cares about this? It's hard to find professional slav voice actors that speak good english so they went for british VAs that can enunciate their words. Yes the old cheapo VAs were soulful and more memorable but they want you to take the story seriously this time not be LOL SIDOROVICH FUNNY ACCENT LOL CHEEKI BREEKImost of your gameplay concerns are valid, UE5 TAA is wretched indian slop but I enjoyed the story and ending. Perfect fanservice sequel that will please normies as well. Good platform for modding if they release a devkit, great weapon animations, very good weather.
>>503199219Skyrim was more convincing there's some life simulation going on than any stalker game or mod, a-life is a shitty gimmick that everybody loves to suck off for some reason
>>503199316pig shill detected
the best simulated a-life are still in X games
>>503199512That game literally grinds to a halt if npcs don't do anything
>>503199408A shill wouldn't bother responding to doomposting. I'm saying you should cheer up, this game is a diamond with rough edges. Mods are already allieviating some of them
>enter Sidorovich's bunker>dirge for planet on the radio>he pulls out a 1:1 SoC intro chicken leg and starts eating as part of his idle animationI clapped.
>>503199257Huh? What do you mean by 4x as much? I get barely enything from quests. I think the highest I've ever gotten was 6k.Anyways, does artifacts sell for more at labs than regular traders or should I just sell them to any trader? Been saving a bunch if I ever run into some eggheads.
Guys im not having fun, ill refund the game and if they manage to fix it in a couple years i might come back, goodluck!
>>503199868No please, support it.
>>503199868thats rough buddy
does stalker 2 have a revolver? It always annoyed me the other games didn't
give me the new gamma update NOW
what's your favourite fuck about setups for Gamma?I just has a nice few hours plating a merc in dead city, with warzone on. I hiked to yantar to assassinate an eco guy and sneaked away while they were fighting renegades. Spent time guarding the border and shooting mutants because the areas a shithole. then was chilling at the fire eating a sausage when unfortunately monolith came from North and killed all my mates. I hid behind a locker until 3 of them cornered me like a dog
Let me get this straight: After 20 years of lies, horse armor, and games on release being broken and half-finished, you pigs still play on release day? Why? How do you not understand that you're just getting an early build? And then you're surprised that you're getting mad?The terminal retards among you scoff that "mods will fix it" is a cope. It's not. "Mods will fix it" is literally the gambit that AAA games have been pulling for decades now. And you know what? They do. Modders routinely clean up this mess. I respect them.How haven't you realized at this point that games aren't finished until the final edition comes out and you're getting all dlcs, patches, bug fixes plus all the mods that have been made in the meantime?inb4 >I can't wait!!Do you also eat raw pasta just because you're hungry?I can't believe you are doing this to yourselves.
>>503200358i'm not mad
>>503200358I paid $0 for this and I'm having a blast, keep dooming like an autist tho
Master difficulty:Random emmissions enabledNo stealth indicator, only soundCrosshair and all indicators on compass forced off, headings onlyExtra damage to and from the player, enemies can one shot your headMedkits don't heal if you're bleedingMedkits stop healing if you take anomaly damage so you can't tank itgeneral stuff:Psi health baralife should existfix the cpu stuttersadd companionsadd cigarettesKeep weapon deg the same but make repairing cheaper
I wanna spoil the endings already...
>>503200341sir this is the stalker 2 general
>>503200358Get over yourself you fucking pseud
>>503200358> you pigs still play on release day? Why? How do you not understand that you're just gto experience the story myself without it being coldly spoiled onlineif I had some of the shit in this game spoiled for me I would be pissed
>>503200358here's an extra (You) for using a cringe ass /tv/ reaction image, you cringe-ass millenial piece of shit
>>503200253
>>503200358They hated him because he spoke the truth
>>503198869[comiling shaders]
>>503200476the skyboxes really got worse as the years progressed: buildo has the best ones, trilogy has really good one, stalker 2 has that bland sky. Same applies for the lighting, buildo lightining is peak.
>>503199402The so called a-life featured in stalker 2, sure it's comparable to skyrim's ai
>>503198072>It's not "just" UI if the game is unplayable without itif everything is listed on your PDA map, then yes, it is just ui for convenience of not having to stop and take out your pda every time.even soc had a minimap with an arrow pointing to the main objective you selected in your PDAeveryone who has played the actual games, knows this.>>503200476perfect example
>>503199402Skyrim's radiant AI is a huge downgrade compared to oblivion and all that shit is just handmade NPC schedules anyway.
why the fuck does it need to compile shadows on every startup? i thought it's an one-time thing
ITS UPhttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/76
>walking down the road in zaton>randomly summoned 3 snipers into my inventoryWhat anomaly is this?
>>503201023sweaty, an ssd isn't optional anymore xx
>>503201063HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANON
>>503201023its supposed to be
>>503201042Why would I use this shitty mod? I like the little zoom
In the old games I would scan the area with binoculars and prepare accordingly but now I'm attacked all the time by mutants and stalkers that I haven't seen BECAUSE THEY SPAWN IN MY BACK
>>503201281disgusting
>>503200358>I respect themWhy? They are like jannies, doing disrespectful job of cleaning someone elses feces. And they do it for free.
>>503201231doesnt matter if you have an ssd or not
>>503201063controllers can be mad cool sometimes
>>503201281milsimfags like no ads fov zoom even though every milsim has an ironsights zoom feature because your eyes can focus on distant targetsit's a weird, particular quirk that lets you know you're talking to a worthless larper
this game is really really fucking ..................................fun
>>503201419DOOSHABEZDOOSHNO
>>503201294just use a scope?
>>503201428wrong
>>503201607i literally have it installed on an ssd and it takes 30 minutes to compile
>>503201570>even though every milsimSquad doesn't have this. at least they didnt use to, same with ARMA
>>503198049Easier to sell a game with pretty graphics. Alife is hard to convey believably in an ad.
Is /sg/ dead?
>>503201042basedI assume this is just for ironsights, correct?how does it actually dfeel while playing though? thats the true test.
>>503201793We are waiting for you to make the thread.
>almost all issues I have (except ai spawns) can be easily modded away>but performance is still garbagefix your shit piggers
>>503201647Squad has a zoom when you ads senpai, and arma has a fov zoom on a separate keybind which is the ideal implementation (hold shift while aiming with nonmagnified optics or irons to get a little focus zoom and hold breath)
>>503201419>>503200476I like how the old sky looks, its much nicer
>>503199402There is no "life simulation" in any Bethesda games, everything spawns around player just like in Stalker 2, its all a big illusion.
>>503187358stalkers cracking jokes at the camp in Garbage.the one about 'a stalker driving through the zone'.mentions 'glock 19, colt 45'
>>503201809it feels so much fucking better its unreal. the guns dont appear to be as floaty
>>503201645having an ssd still makes a massive difference
how retarded is enemy human AI on stalker difficulty?
>>503202363They are subhuman on every difficulty
>>503202331man those goalposts must be really heavy
>>503201793this is /sg/some retard had the bright idea to change the thread subject, becaue they're retarded.
>>503202423Idk I've had them try to flank me on veteran before
>find an artefact>look at its stats>weak weak medium medium weak strong strongMy fucking god just give me raw numbers you subhuman piggoid scum, is there specific setting for that?
>>503202451what goalposts?>doesnt matter if you have an ssd or not>wrong>i literally have it installed on an ssd and it takes 30 minutes to compile>having an ssd still makes a massive differenceyou're fucking retarded, stfu
>>503168284>A-life is the persistent world system. When the game starts the world populates with stalkers that have preset routines including travelling along several spots and doing tasks, sometimes a dice roll happens and they have things happen to them like an encounter or a fight and they win or lose, and that remains persistent for the whole game. None of this happens in the actual game world you see, it's just simulated in code like a text adventure type thing, but when you enter an area the game actually spawns the NPCs and items in place as if it had actually happened. Sometimes if you're close enough it does happen and you can see it.yeah, it really was split into a constantly updating offline system that played kinda like dnd and then if you were close enough it'd load it online.i wonder if UE5 is actually incompatible with it.
>>503201645It shouldn't be taking 30 minutes every single time, what the fuck is wrong with your computer
>>503202743AAA gaming is incompatible with it, do you actually think the casuals that play AAA slop would care or even remotely notice such a thing? They just realized during development that its a waste of time that they could spend developing prettier graphics or other stuff that casuals will actually enjoy
>>503202743I think they had an issue adapting the open world to it. Pretty sure in old Stalkers A-Life fudged stuff in zones you weren't in and only closely simulated inside the zone you were in.
>>503200358>at this point that games aren't finished until the final edition comes outI can´t wait this long because I watch videos about games and get hyped.
>>503202947i mean all of that is fixed by simply making the barman immortal
>>503202463Weird that the stalker 2 stuff wasn't just added to the regular /sg/ OP.
>>503200116giwtwm
>turn game time to 1:1>I did this at 6pm in game time>I wont see light for another 12+ real hoursbased
what do i change to make the flashlight stronger
>>503203170really a fun thing in soc could have been rostok being subject to territory warfare and if they lost they'd be driven to the wild territory bandit base and try to take over that.clear sky had some really good concepts and attempts but all of it was really limited due to reasons
>>503202363enemy AI breaks the easiest when you:>just rush them>hide behind a door/entrance in a buildingYou're at your most vulnerable in a wide space with a lot of foliage and trees because the enemy will just ignore them all and shoot you with near pinpoint accuracy.Rush them and suddenly they start missing 90% of their shots and become easy kills. Afk in a doorway and the enemy will try throwing grenades, which won't hit you because they suck and get blocked by the thinnest obstacles, so they try to rush you, which leads to the same lack of accuracy as the first scenarioI think this is the first stalker game where pretty much every variant of monster is more annoying and deadly than humans
>>503203376how do you change it? and does it fuck shit up like in skyrim?
i'm done using this weird jew gun.
Anomalybros few questionswhere's the graphic config stored?Worth to update to 1.5.3?
>>503202912idk
>>503203553its a mod on nexus. the only thing I've heard can happen is emissions might last longer but thats just rumored. no one with the mod has seen that happen
>fucking kitted out military faggots just spawn right up my ass and lit me upgsc tongue my anus
What the fuck is thatI think my GPU is dying, send help
i have a feeling footstep sounds dont exist because they want to hide how they're spawning these npcs
It was over the minute they weren't usijg Xray, I told you as much check the archive
>>503203731New anomaly called goatse
>>503203756What if they just spawned them outside the footstep sound range?
>scar boss fightlol
>check stalker nexus>every mod has a normal name>but grok couldn't help but put Grok's in every single one of his files
where do i get dovetail sights for these AKs?
>>503204152My favorite thing was years ago when Gamma was just getting started, Grok would come into random reddit threads, 4chan threads, and nexus comments to shill his mod pack
>>503204152That's just run of the mill modder egotism
>>503204152he is literally turning Stalker 2 into GAMMA 2, show some respect
>you don't get anything special from clearing out the basement with the 4 bloodsuckers insidekino....
>>503203756>>503203847They already spawn far enough away that you wouldn't feasibly be able to hear the footsteps unless you're at full volume all the time, the sounds are missing for some other reason.And there is also the dynamic music, whenever it starts and you turn 180 degrees, you're sure to see some baddies right up your ass so it couldn't be because they are trying to hide the way they are spawning them in.
>>503204261and it is very telling he is the first to start doing this
>>503204181I found a PSO in one of the Garbage stashes that apparently goes on the AKM-74, Rostok might have some for sale as well, haven't checked yet.
>>503204152>Grok's Schlongs of Chornobyl
>>503204152Grok isn't the only one putting his name in the mod title
>>503194830>If A-life decidesbut that's not how it work should it? the already existing world populated should already exist and operate on its own rules? it shouldn't be "decides to spawn"that's L4D director, not A-life.
early morning patrol with the boys
they fucked something up badly, your eyes are actually somewhere around chest level and your physical head is way up above you. you can tell when you're crouching behind cover and they somehow shoot something on top of you and u take damage. you can tell when you pull out your gun in town and a stalker points their gun at you too, just walk in close and you'll see him pointing his gun way above your eyes
>>503194830ok so this just isn't A-Life any more.
>>503204885>skif confirmed to be a karlik in disguise holy
>>503204181You don't. Guns with PSO scopes have them pre-installed (SVDM, Vintar, the special AK from start, etc). Kobra still goes on a rail which begs the question why the fuck did they bother splitting west and east sights.
>>503205131this vexes me. upgraded the heck out of my AK thinking i'll find a dovetail to picatinny rail for this holosight i picked up.
> "can you describe how A-Life evolved"> "I'd rather not (since it's actually not evolved at all and has nothing even in concept to do with A-Life) and just tell you about the Left 4 Dead AI Director"grim, this is just Bethesda "randomly spawn some bandits around you" tiernever again will you recapture the feels of seeing a green dot on your minimap, going over to check it out and seeing its your pal Vanya Fatty who you saved with one of your last medkits like 8 hours ago, still kicking
I installed all of the placebo performance fix mods and I can tell they're giving my game cancer
>>503205357This isn't Tarkov...
>>503205473I wouldn't mind some of the gun autism.
>>503205376i'm so fucking sad rni held off on playing the old games because i thought this exact thing would be in stalker 2
>>503204885>hey stalker, got any work?
>>503205571>i held off on playing the old gameslmaogo play them right now, they are great
>>503205568for a game with no video-gamey mods it kind of needs real life gun autism for some depth.
>>503194830Glad I decided to wait.I don't think I'll ever play this.
>>503205653It angers me they moved away from F1-F4 to Q/E hold/tap. Fucking console niggers ruining EVERYTHING
>>503205378Yeah, they barely changed the frame rate if at all, and now half of the anomalies in the game are invisible.
what do you do to avoid the ball of energy that floats around? is there a way to defeat it?
>>503181539kek, i got 20 medkits just in the tutorial area.
>>503205131Why are you lying>>503205357You can apparently get a picatinny rail on the Krinkov
>>503205571Now you now what happens when you trust scamorovich
>>503205571Don't be sad, you've got an amazing time ahead with the old games and it's easy to run now
>>503205571what an absolutely retarded zoomer thing to do
anyone else for this feel?
>>503194830Ok so can we move on about the A-Life copium and just try to salvage this new thing by making shit not spawn on top of me but 100+ meters away at the bare minimum?
>>503205783The thing that annoys me about this is the keybord binds have the 4 slots listed but two are just greyed out so F1-F4 is still apparently possible.Also does anyone know why I can't bind flashlight to T and have to use that radial menu to activate it? Detector bind works just fine on G.
>>503205954i only found out about stalker this year>retarded zoomerthat i won't deny
>>503205568the OG games have the old-school "just stick various prototypes and slick European rifles in" style of gun autism, far superior to the "1001 attachments that all do the same shit with 0.02% difference in stats" we have today(but I guess that just reflects the gun industry itself, souless products will produce souless autism, what are gun guys going to be excited about today, "hey we made another AR-15 with a totally original MLOK handguard"?)
>>503206210flashlight is bound to Lif you want to rebind it you have to fuck with your ini files
>>503205376>as you leave, you see A-life spawning a couple of stalkers passing bykek, he just flat out said it
>>503206042me in CoP after completing a couple of quests
>>503206210>>503206303flashlight is on middle mouse too, that's how i'm coping for now. honestly no idea how they managed to miss it in the settings
>>503205825???I mean I get SVDM (not really, but fine) having the PSO welded on but I have a Vintar too, which is explictly listed as compatibile in your screenshoot and the scope isn't coming off either and seems to be welded onto the thing. I am 100% sure it's not unique, I bought it from a trader.I haven't seen a standalone PSO either.
>>503206230we really need to go back to having lesser known but cool looking guns in games
>faust>deer>ratsany other new mutants?
"m-muh slav jank! stalker games are supposed to be broken!"sorry but 2009s call of pripyat wasnt backed by trillions of microsoft cuckbucks, therere werent fifty thousand mods that they could just rip off either. i think its okay to be slightly upset that they lied about features and want 60 euros for a unfinished game
>>503198049severe lack of autism in modern game development
I wonder who forced GSC to release Stalker 2 in its current state? Was it Microsoft? The game clearly needed another year of development
how are they going to handle this 'A-life not working same as previous games' thing now
>>503201419
There is some underground marked stash that leads to a fcuk-huge blob of rats spawning in. I led them to the ladder and dropped a nade down and got this. What the fuck is even going on with this game man.
>>503206748idk with some of the retarded design decisions they made I'm not sure another year would have made much of a difference
>>503206823A-Life forgot to spawn the 'everyone' I guess. I killed one guy and got the achievement.
>>503205825Oh and yeah you can get a rail on the Krinkov but it's only for the Kobra sight. You can't put the Holo on it or anything, even if it's just a fucking strip of Picatinny welded on top of the dust cover.
>>503206748they already delayed it a bunch, plus there was a whole previous project that was scrapped (the one that leaked and I think dez0wave got their grubby hands on)you can't just keep delaying things indefinitely unless you're Valve, gotta push it out eventually even if it's a mess
>>503206748It's just SoC development story being repeated for western audience. Microsoft forced them to release this scam just like they've been forced to release SoC by THQ investors back in 2007
>>503206230F2000 my beloved.heres a very dated photo of mine
>>503206763>will feel better
Next thread better have a proper /sg/ OP or I'm going to be mildly upset!
>>503206517If its a DMR or sniper rifle it seems like you cant remove the scope.
for me this was the most kino thing that has so far come out of stalker 2. based on the discussion i might buy it later to just check it out and etc.the russian language in this trailer sounds so good.what a shame i guess.
>>503206763They'll add an A-Life setting to toggle that expand spawn/despawn radius to 100m (9800X3D recommended).
>>503206972unironically, mods will fix itchanging a holo sight so it can be mounted on any gun with a pic rail is way easier than unfucking the performance or completely rewriting the ai
make a new thread please
Anyone else just endlessly running into Bloodsuckers? Every single mission I've done I've run into at least one of them.
>>503205798pls respond
I feel like the guy that assigned mission rewards had no clue what shit was worth on the market
>>503207352Nope we're riding it out baby
>>503206712CoP was a very polished game on release too. I was and still am very satisfied with vanilla CoP as an experience
need shit like this in my shootan games
Has anyone figured out how to turn off auto leaning yet, why even have the lean keys bindable when there's no situation you can ever use them without auto leaning taking over?
FUCK THE STRELOK
...there's auto lean?didn't notice on pc
the game is actually ruined now.every time i finish a quest in a POI and step outside, i'm just expecting some random bullshit to be spawnedthe whole magic of it is gone nownothing is organic
>>503207392Its because agroprom underground is the most iconic/memed stalker experience from the originals so sergei wanted to maximize the iconicness and memeability of the new game by making every fucking tunnel have a bloodsucker
>he found an interesting location with loot in?>send in the bloodsuckers
>>503207783I am on pc... go close to a wall corner and start aiming, it'll auto lean around the corner
>>503205783>Fucking console niggers ruining EVERYTHINGyepsame with phone shittersnow they're trying to make windows 11 more like a god damn phone UIeverything is an "app"the word program scares millenials and zoomers
>>503207783Yeah, if you ads.I've not actually used the q and e keys to lean. I should rebind them to something useful
>>503206517There are a couple of special variants of the Vintar without the scope, the standalone PSO goes on those ones.I found this particular PSO from a stash in Garbage at the Slag Heap.
>>503207828not so fast niggas
>>503207926>zoomerswe didn't do shit bro it's all millennials
>>503203634>where's the graphic config stored?user.ltx, which is based off whats in the engine and what is in configs\default_controls.ltxand the default settings depending on what you choose in the menurspec_default.ltx <--starts hererspec_extreme.ltxrspec_high.ltxrspec_low.ltxrspec_minimumalso some scripts MAY force setting on game load/reload, but it all depends on the mod>Worth to update to 1.5.3?yes, I dont think a lot has changed that would prevent 1.4.2 mods from working. most people can work out conflicts.
>>503207926kek, the moment windows 11 asked me to input a "pin" instead of a password I fucking facepalmed, it might be time to learn linux
>slightly over encumbered>you move at .000001mph in water no matter the depthbrilliant
>>503207994What's that? 50 buckshot? Tanked btw.
>>503207427pretty sure the repair numbers are off by one digit, theres no way it costs 10 times to repair than the sell price
>>503207424you mean the ball lightning anomaly? it has a static path, just don't walk into it. It will home in on you once you pick up an artifact so you gotta run.if you mean the poltergeist that's throwing trash at you, just shoot the ball. it's a freaky invisible mutant.
>>503207621there were a number of problems even on copI can't even play cop without an engine modification to fix the hud camera glitches. its so jarring
We did it
fell through the map while exploring the back of stag
>>503208161The one in x18 kept locking onto me and chasing me down I had to just spam heal and run through
>>503208240didn'nt know the vast majority of users have an RTX 4090 and a beastly CPU
>>503208045ok, you're not all bad ;)
How do I deal with these fuckers quick? Shooting them seems to have like a 50% chance of making them veer away but there's so many and they can climb through windows
>>503207926Coping. Starfield has keybinds for 20 different menus and alts out the ass on its console version.You are excusing these devs, don't give it them. Console is not to blame and they don't deserve a scapegoat
>scope bugged>reloading save fixes it>reloading save causes memory issues>restarting game = compiling shaders
>>503208161the ball of lightning does not have a static path except the intro one.Every time I get near one it locks on to me and flies straight at me
>>503208069>yes, I dont think a lot has changed that would prevent 1.4.2 mods from working***1.5.2 addonsfuck I can't type today>>503208278easily
>>503208451cut them some slack, there's a war going on
>>503208537your repeated falseflag to get people to start hating Ukraine isn't working, glavset-chan
>>503208069thanks anon
>>503208451oh no, I'm not excusing the devs.
They should've done a year of early access
>>503207175very pretty Tuna anon
>>503208296soul
>>503208636O, нeт!
>bottom bitch viper does 26 dmg>svu does 40 dmg
>>503208537Sure I'll take that excuse over console, I'll add the kojima team have just btfo any devs claiming series s is a problem for optimisation too. A Life not being here as well is a deeper problem not tied to consoles but rather Unreal and them not caring about it enoughAlso I'll add the hold thing they've done here doesn't even work well on console. It's all around bad game design
Kinda prefer the game with the drunk filter on, makes things a little more colorful
devs are getting grilled on discord on the A-Life thing, it's kind of funny rn
>>503208935eastern european societal commentary
>>503208965nice, they deserve it
>>503203436probably have to find which light entity it uses and edit the parameters there
>>503208965They deserve to for the last minute switcharoo. They knew they couldn't just say it ain't in a year or 2 ago because fans would have dropped the game and not supported it. Yeah I feel pretty peeved
>>503209239>>503208965What defines it as A-Life?From the complaints it sounds like they just need to adjust the spawn rules so it happens out of sight of the player and give those spawned in a wild a random set of destinations/actions and then most of the accusations of A-Life not being in will largely vanish
the particles honestly looked better on x-ray. i noticed this from the very first trailer.
>>503208965Nothingburger. They'll lie about fixing it asap in next couple of months and good little cattlegoym will believe this. Game is unplayable, love it tho :^)
>>503209475I think if it wasn't so jarringly implemented people might not be quite up in arms about it.I think beside stock gamer "downgrade" outrage stalker fans see it as harming the game's longevity.
>>503176151Roadside picnic is set in Canada
in fact i'd say the lighting system in x-ray is still way better than fucking unreal engine 5 lmao. yeah, that's right.x-ray had better lighting than UNREAL ENGINE 5
>>503208663no problem man
Stalker 3: Fukushima when?
>>503209475Read the thread
>>503209816Well that isn't a surprise. Back when SHoC released that was the whole draw of Xray, the dynamic lighting. I couldn't even run it back then Had to play on static
>>503193856someone else tried this and it just made the game perma bright? are you using any other tweaks? what settings?>>503195532why is there no reason to explore?that was my biggest worry
I tried that ini tweak that disables autoexposure and it completely fucked up the visuals, would not recommend
>>503210029you are now aware
WHY ARE EMISSION BLOWOUTS SO RARE
lmao they pinned the placebo optimizer mod
>>503210115God is coming
>>503210326>>503210326>>503210326>>503210326>>503210326>>503210326NEW BREAD
>>503194830I enjoy almost every aspect of the game, but this really fucks with me. I hope they are able to acknowledge their failure and start working on a replacement right now so that in one or two years we have working spawns and maybe npcs acting on needs. That's a lot of work for a game this big, but I can't believe they couldn't be bothered to add something as simple as patrols walking up and down the main roads. Goodspeed to everyone already digging through the files btw. You are the GOATs.
>>503210329Kek... it's sad that we need a mod to do that cause devs can't optimize games anymore
>>503210375>not even page 10>faggot bait op
>>503210540what's the bait?
>>503210401you can't just backport a whole new system like this into a game, this is something that has to be baked into the whole architecture at the startthe best they can probably do is tweaking the spawn radius a little bit, actually adding in any sense of persistence to the AI is probably out of the question
>>503210049Entire engine.ini is this:https://pastebin.com/2n2fqbnt
>>503210623kill yourself
>>503210816no, seriously. it looks the same to me. who's baker?
>>503202743There's no fucking way UE5 can't handle it. A bunch of games with far more complicated systems use it, like the AI for fucking Ready or Not is much more complicated regarding status, morale, routines and triggers.
>>503211834yeahunfortunately UE5 is so locked down behind all sorts of other bullshit and the obvious chinese interference
>>503211939You can still write scripts to run in the background which is ultimately what a life is.
>>503212049yeah i'm pretty sure you can just rig a .txt file with what is basically a python script running in the background and simply running the whole a-life system on that and implement it in any way you'd like and simply have a load-in routine for loading them into the actual game itself.
>>503207175You gotta get the sling and the real Ukrainian F2000 camo pattern
>>503212195ofc then in the online ai system in game all of it hinges on UE5 support of real-time AI however that is implemented, like ready or not? never played it myself tho
>>503212195Can't tell if this is sarcasm but processing an array of squads and handing out waypoints to them wouldn't be hard to implement.
>>503212418it's not sarcasm and what you're saying is the most simple and rudimentary way of doing it
>>503212418>>503212459you could even do it so that when you exit the game process itself you can keep the a-life system running in the background.
>>503212459That's literally all a life is, then anything within the online radius spawns in and relies on the UE pathfinding to reach the provided goal. You could easily 'fake' it by just having groups of stalkers be pointed at different campfire spots without having to write a complex task system.
>>503212718yeah i know i was a massive stalker autist when i was 10
>enough food and drinks to feed a whole base>enough ammo to take down an army>can't afford to pay someone to patch up the holes in my clothesCoupons are a scam, give me my rubles back
>>503215324where'd you get that vss?
Someone make a bread i have an important post to make
>>503208636We don´t hate Ukraine. And western npcs don´t like Ukraine. We hate the cabal in washington that controls Ukraine. And western npcs love the cabal in washington.
>>503218935everyone hates the cabal in washington, we just hate the cabal in the kremlin even more, ziggers are incapable of such subtleties
>>503209023lmao
Is this more fun than fallout 4?
>>503221371bend over, I'll show you something more fun than Fallout 4
