No baker 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:>>503167140
SOUPGODS WON
AIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE I'M MILDLY UPSET
they launched the game like this lmao
>>503210594I have no experience with previous stalker games or A life, but whtever is happening, it always spawns the shit right behind me
They better fix the economy soon
I'm having fun and you can't stop me.
>/s2g/fuck you bratan
watching streamer play S2 on Veteranbesides the bugs, its been great
>>503210594Has anyone shown them this quote, pic related, from one of their Q&A's?
>>503210695Yeah that''s the part that annoys me.I don't need a full zone simulation for my first playthrough but spawning shit literally on my head is not helping my enjoyment.
>>503210803Try it and see if they ban you for hatespeech
watch her stream
Pripyat is way too small and also pretty cramped, very disappointing.
>>503210787ok thanks. must be some other related commands that help because on its own, disabling eye adaption looks like THIS:>>503210115
GOG torrent where? I don't wanna download a repack of a non DRM game and I'm too poor to justify paying full price.
We'll have a real /sg/ OP again someday...
>>503211059It is on gamepass if you think you can get your fill in a month.
>>503210951>vtumorKys!
>>503210803
>>503210951Kys
Now that some time has passed since launch I think I can say this I was a tester on STALKER 2 for Microsoft, we've been complaining about stuff like enemies spawning on top of you for months now, but due to Microsofts super strict requirements on the game being crash free and game breaking bug free as possible, virtually 0 time was dedicated to handling this. It ended up making the game pretty great as far as crashes go, but lots of important gameplay things got left in the dust to meet Microsofts standards for console players
>>503211049"modders" are currently throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticksI wouldn't trust any "fix" or "optimization" mods at the moment. Crashing at worst, placebo at best.
>pajeet keeps making the wrong thread>people reply anyway/sg/bros...
Early impressions before the title drop are not good, Bloodsucker fight was bad, Poltergeist fight was fucking awful. Keybindings missing, graphics options missing, mouse options missing. Quick slots are irritatingly limited, enemies able to shoot through cover (concrete). Bandit enemies soaked insane amounts of AK, 4 hit me with an MP5 (I'm on Normal, how fucking bad is Veteran)? They really had to bank on new players man, I'd wager most series vets are pissed right off.
>>503210951name?
game was fun for me until like the 3rd time where it spawned an encounter and i finally realized what was happening.
>>503210594This still isn't a proper answer, to me it sounds that they want the area the player is in to be feel more populated and that's it, which would mean just change the radius size and tweaks like that.
list of mob hp so you realize you can't aim for shit when you waste 4 clips on a poltergeist"spoilers" (such as they are) hidden
>>503211193>Anime profile pic>RetardedThe REAL Dynamic Duo.
>>503210951would breed
>/s2g/Can you dumb niggers fuck off?
>>503211264Just make a proper /sg/ thread then? what's stopping you or anyone else from doing so? I want a proper /sg/ thread too but no one has made one and I don't have the OP setup for it.
>>503211330Saruei
mods on discord are basically trying to psyop everyone into thinking new A-Life is supposed to be the same as old A-Life
>>503210951*his
>>503210594so...it just flat-out doesn't work?this game needed another year in the oven
>>503211163But I was asking for a torrent.I hate not being on a private tracker.
>>503210326(Formerly /sg/)
>>503211265I'm not pissed off about "balance" I think people have forgotten how tanky stuff in the vanilla originals could be. People die if you shoot them in the head, even with the makncheese and there's plenty of shotgun ammo.It's mainly the technical shit that pisses me off.
>>503211582>this game needed another year in the oventhat's what a lot of reviews also said
>>503211265This describes all four Stalker games.
this game is pretty jank but im having a great deal of fun. in the absolute sea of shit that video games has been the last few years this game is a masterpiece in comparison
>>503211523I'm phoneposting at work I don't want to mess it up :^)
>>503211049That looks like something to do with fog but I'm not sure.
>using hearsay anecdotes to try prove that a-life is working>gives up in the end
>>503211193It exists, good news. They just need to increase the distance and it's the same as the old ones.
Why does it compile shaders every time?
>>503211059magnet:?xt=urn:btih:04e41118c9a3f60ddc601199877d5d8f75919868&tr=udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce&tr=udp://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce&tr=udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce&tr=udp://tracker-udp.gbitt.info:80/announce
Played the game with zero issues for around 16 hours. Now when I select to continue/load the game loads for a couple seconds then crashes with an unreal unhandled exception crashTried Bios update, deleting some files and re-verifying, restarting, checking drivers. Nope game just will not work now suddenly. Sucks because I was having a lot of fun
>>503212085it's so the shaders are compiled when you're playing
Okay so I just found out that emissions are not in-fact scripted but they are extremely rare and they do not respawn artifacts in anomaly fields.Does anyone know what actually does respawn them?I haven't been able to find a single rad protection artifact in 17 hours because the game just keeps giving me chemical protection artifacts at the chemical anomaly locations.
>>503212161But why every time instead of just once, like all other games?
SHUT IT DOWN
>>503212169i've had 4 emissions in 15 hours playtime, is this considered rare?
>>503212126does that happen on every save, or only the most recent one?also try just reinstalling the game.
>>503211797If performance was more consistent and the lighting wasn't slow-ass software deferred rendering I'd be more willing to tolerate the janky spawns and shit.
>>503212253I've had one non-scripted emission happen during my 17 hours.
so what's our response about the new game, fellas:is it cheeky or i it breeky?
>>503212337i've done a lot of idling in camps because i'm semi-working while playing3/4 of them have happened while i was idling in camp.
Do any of you guys remember how original games were on launch?
>>503210326Now this is immersive:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGlUUuorT2M
>>503212337What counts as a "scripted emission?"As far as I know all the like 5 I've gotten so far haven't been tied to anything specific.
>>503212421it is both cheeki and breeki
I don't really give a shit about Dima Threecocks' squad's adventures when he's going from Lesser Zone to Pripyat because muh alife, I just don't want enemies spawning in a location I cleared a minute before or despawning 20m behind me when I turn around
NEW GAMME UPDATEWHEN
>>503212294>also try just reinstalling the gameI'll do that overnight if nothing else works. I really do not want to redownload 160gb. What's aggravating me is that i've done nothing. Not fucked around with mods, not fucked around with tweaks because my game was running fine. Just playing it normally and suddenly 16 hours in it decides it doesn't like my system
>>503212454I remember a lot of crashing which I am grateful 2 doesn't do for me.
>>503212454SoC was $19.99
>>503212480any people try to say this game is soulless
>>503212492A scripted emission is something tied to a mission, like the first one in the lesser zone right before you can enter garbage.Not sure if there are more scripted emissions but I'd wager there are.
I love having to sit through 5+ minutes of shader compilation every time I start the game just to see if my ini tweaks are actually doing anything
>>503212594also you should try checking if the issue is with your saves being corrupted, or the game being dumb.find the save folder, take the saves out, start new game and then see if you can save and reload normally.
>>503211376you do realize that they also have armor, right?grok said he cannot modify their armor/damage reduction at the moment, which is why he modified their HP instead
Whats up with the firing delay that happens occasionally? I havent left the tutorial area but i ran into this issue during the first bloodsucker and bandit encounter.
just finished exploring this <<POI>>bets on whats going to spawn in and gank me when i step outside?
>>503212789Bloodsucker
>>503212592
>>503210594So instead of allowing for things to play out organically which is the whole appeal of ALife they instead added an additional CoDslop mechanic that spams nonstop action around the player and that new system is fucking with ALife?
>>503212706I've gone a far bit into garbage by this point and the only emission I can recall that was remotely close to a mission I finished was the one after going through the rib underground. But even then that could have been chalked up to coincidence from when I did it cause 1 or 2 had happened already by that point.
>>503212789
>>503211193
>>503212724compiling shaders pre launch is killing the western gamign industry, same shit with veilguard so it's not because of unoptimized developmentit just sucks
>>503212686
>>503211376the health isn't the issue retard. They have insane armor values which are clearly broken.
>>5032127893 bandits
>>503212842fuck yeah
>>503212908I had one when I was fighting my way into x18
>>503212975the fuck? I'm getting the anti armor and thready barrel upgrades on my shotgun then
Are you using frame generation?
why do i need a nuclear power plant of a pc to run late 2010s graphics on medium?
>>503212758Currently recompiling shaders, the last "weird" trick someone online mentioned was starting the game with power saver on, then switching back to balanced after you're in.I've tried around 8 saves at this point with no luck. Might just give up on the game for a bit and come back in a few months if this or the re-install doesnt do anything
>>503213132Yes
>>503213151way more foliage, shading and its open worldit wasnt worth the pay off desu, id rather have the game look like pubg or something and have functional a-life
>>503213132No, it adds noticeable input lag for me.
>>503213292It's unusable unless you can stay above 60fps all the time.
>>503213274on top of that the main audience for stalker pre covid and stalker 2 announcement were europeans from shitty countries, they wont even be able to run in for another 5 years(
>>503212592>>503212842>>503213023fuck off Grok
>>503212003>>503211193>>503210594>>503210326its over.
gamma is not related to stalker 2 and as you can see this is /s2g/ gtfo boomers
>>503213529but grok loves the new stalker 2 though? already made mods
>>503213132yes, i'd rather have 10ms input lag than having fps dip under 60.
>>503213595they took out the biggest thing that defined Stalker and lied about it still being in, awesome
>>503213621>some Miseryfag that doesn't even care about Alife to the point you have to play Gamma with pop factor at minimum loves Stalker 2No shit uh
modders will fix it and add their own a-life
>>503210923looks pretty good but it kinda lacks the characteristic x-ray crisp
>loot damaged weapon>go to vendor>put weapon in the sell slot>drag any stackable item in the sell slot>while the split stack window is still open click on confirm sale>cancel split stack>weapon sold at full pricewas this intended?
>>503212975>They have insane armor valuescope
>>503213621grok hasnt even played stalker 2.he is just making mods for us. and bless him for that.
>>503210326vector is OP as fuck.no recoillasereasy to headshot
>go into the bunker thing during the radstorm or whatever>(Inhales)>(Inhales)>(Exhales)>(Inhales)>(Exhales)>(Inhales)Why does every npc here have their breathing subtitled
i'm feeling soupy, is there any soup that is decently polished (as in, quests don't break easily) and enemies don't snipe you in 1 hit from across the map? even soup-lite mods like OGSR are ok.
>>503213908what is soup?
>>503213908just play SoC Update 1.4 anon!it contains so much stuff it might as well be a soup.
modders are fixing it
>>503212763someone literally just put out a mod that reduces their innate damage reductionalso weapons have a penetration rating which is also possibly contributing to tankiness
>>503213595>https://imgur.com/a/aFCb9el>it's gone?
>>503213890>(dies)
>>503214027how is that a thing? the geiger scramble and the detector beep were iconic in the og games.
>>503213595holy fucking shit what a massive disappointment
>>503213890>(upset)
>>503214026i thought it was just a graphical update with vanilla quests so i shrugged it off because i played radiophobia 3 and vanilla with random stashes not too much time ago. So does it have new content and quests? how schizo?
>>503214176it is noise visual, you dumbass. not the geiger sound
>>503214081i included it in the screenshot just in case.
>>503212229i'm actually upset
>>503214176>literally says visual effect>wtf they ruiiined my gaaame outrage post
>>503214176
>mutant enemies have no armor against bullets (literally 0)>all the 'bones' multipliers are >=1, which means they can take MORE damage when hit, not less (like headshots)>the only modifier is -25% player dmg when playing on veteral>"omg my eboyfriend told me that it's the game's fault I need 420 bullets to kill a single pig"gammashitters sure seem to have a bit of a skill issue
So the shooting is okay and the game plays exactly like the old gamesWhy does this sequel exist?
>>503214494kys dev shill
>>503214494They can't hit anything unless they use their high tech x100 scopes from a safe distance
>>503214630>oh my fauci why is this game not subverting my heckin expectations!!!!???
>>503214630daddy M$ wanted more IPs and postCOVID nu2020 gamign is all about subtle remakes and putting ne graphics on old shit
>>503214494Post a webm of you killing a bloodsucker on veteran
>>503210594>yes we know it's supposed to do this>yes we know it doesn't work at all>yes we released the gamewell at least they aren't liars...?
Do I sell PDAs to Hamster? Or is there a guy like Owl in this game?
you simply can't defend A-life being a scam
>>503214630>get a new stalker game that actually feels like stalker when it has zero right to>complain
Can I ask some question about STALKER 1?I am trying to wrap my head around mods and I am totally lost. I remember playing STALKER SoC VERY long time ago back in 2011, but it was so jank I couldn't play it for long.Now I am trying to install some decent overhaul mods and I am utterly confused where to even start.There is Oblivion Lost, Oblivion Lost Remake, Anomaly, Anomaly with GAMMA...I just want a decent overhaul mod that fixes the jank but leaves the story mostly intact - where do I start?Thank you for reading my blog.
life's hard out there in the zone for an amputee
>>503214630New environments and shit to explore.
>>503214951Zone Reclamation Project
>>503213595Its grigarover
>>503214970Are anomalies wheelchair accessible?
>>503214941It feels like a UE5 reskin of ShoC
>>503214630shooting is OK after this modhttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/57
>>503214336i saw that it said album so i thought there was more.this is fucking sad though.
>>503213595>alife 2.0 is a collection of spawn points lmao
>>503214970I see an Eastern European man missing an arm and immediately think of Imran Zakhaev from CoD 4.
>>503214465another example of why women do not belong in the zone
>>503214891and i never will.that doesn't stop this from being a FUN game
DESU, STALKER is more than the sum of its parts, even if the AI isn't as we expected, they still managed to craft a breathtaking world that is a joy to explore.With the success of this game, I hope they have more resources to expand the base system even more.
So if you place a item, like a anomaly, Mica the trader will give you 1293, if you right click the item to open the context menu and then you click outside the context menu the trader will give you 7500 bucks instead.And you can buy items from the vendor, and sell him back to the trader for a nice bonus, basically you can flip items from the trader to the trader.
>>503213595never mind, they lied
>>503215331Yea that shit sucks, but the rest of the game is still fantastic. It would be better if it had it but its not bad without it.
>1337x has a torrent by a guy who packed in a miner in a past uploadWhy can't Torrentleech open up?It's been fucking awful ever since RARBG died
>>503215331>DESU, STALKER is more than the sum of its parts, even if the AI isn't as we expected, they still managed to craft a breathtaking world that is a joy to explore.it isnt, it is a soulless themepark akin to cybershit and far piss, utterly unimmersive and devoid of the feeling of really going to the zone and just being a part of whats already happening, even without you, in short, it is the perfect game for this cunt generation of braindead retards
I'm pretty bad with scary games and the beginning with the invisible dudes pretty much jumpscare and killing me with one or two hits isn't helping. Is the entire game like this anons? I don't mind the difficulty
>>503215405look at your cash value when that happens. it doesnt actually give you that much money
are good soulful skyboxes just a lost art at this point?
>>503215595Majority of the fights aren’t against spooky enemies but you will have more spooky fights
After reading the reviews on Steam, seeing /2sg/ anons experiences with the game and watching youtube reviews on it. I just bought the game but its taking over 3 hours to download the game.CPU: R5 3600GPU: RX 6600XT
>>503215595don't worry, i played this game in a public space and physically recoiled on 3 separate jump scares during the intro. if you want you can sit on my lap and play the game that way.
>>503215510use rutracker
How the fuck am I supposed to afford repairs when quests give nothing and you can't sell 90% of the guns you find?
>>503215580Even if this is Far Cry, it'd be Far Cry 2 (aka the second best game of all time)
>>503215768>i played this game in a public spacewhere?
>>503215859Can I really trust a russian tracker to not add miners into shit? lol
>>503216006at a demo event before release
>>503213595>I dont know what I'm doing>the post
>>503215726If it doesn't get worse than this I'll keep going then. Thanks!>>503215768I'm just a scared anon not a gay anon, but thanks I guess.
>>503214494>which means they can take MORE damage when hitthats..... how its supposed to work
I would have like it more if we got the UAR-15 instead of the not HK416
richter fucking T-posed for a second right before that cutscene at the top of the crane
Can you not trade to the merchant guy in noontide base? Done most of the mainquest that the engineer guy started fixing my shit but steward prick wont trade at all. I also got a call from the guy called Quiet after saving his two friends from WPS but I couldnt find him at all at the base
From what I've seen the game is broken and missing core features, looks like the best course of action is to wait for Stalker 2 to get engoodened like Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man's Sky.
>>503210326okay i reached the bar in SoC does it get better? or should i play CoP?
I flipped this in the Mastiff quest and nothing happened and there's no way to jump up back to the surface, did I just get eurojanked?
>>503216804SoC only get really fucking bad in the last mission (you'll know which one). What are you not enjoying?
>>503216697However, the launch of STALKER 2 is nothing like CP77 in terms of unplayability and bugs. On Day 1, CP was unplayable: you couldn't pick up items, the car wouldn't turn, and the first cutscene was a bunch of characters in T pose with missing textures.S2 has its issues, for example I couldn't boot it from Steam: only a BIOS update (which for my motherboard was released in 2021, not exactly the most recent update) fixed this. Which is fucking absurd, and pure euro jank, but not that bad.
where's that pidor senkevich
>>503216804It opens up a lot more at this point, the main quest technically tells you go to to the Dark Valley but you can check out the other area the Bar is connected to if you wantWhat issues did you have until now?
>>503217121just like Skyrim...
>>503216496yes, but if there were negative modifiers you could argue it's armorbut when you hit at worst you deal 100% damage
how enter code?
>>503217121Is this why they didn't give you binoculars
>>503216804I liked soc more than cop overall. the bar is the exact point where it starts to get better for me
>>503217121occlusion culling is in every game
>>503217345Sad
garbage is such a step-up from the lesser zone, I sure enjoy exploring a lot more when not getting constantly assraped by bloodsuckers that spawn behind me every couple of minutes.what were they thinking with the lesser zone, jesus
>>503217345they dont give you binoculars because it's not like you'll spot A-Life 2.0 at work off in the distance anyway
>to go the abandoned village in rostok>5 bloodsuckershmm yes i understand why it was abandoned
>>503216804just install SoC update 1.4 and start over.no need to play vanilla in 2024
>>503216983you're supposed to plug in a fuse a bit further back that you probably looted
Weapons keep randomly spawning in my inventory, in the time span of five minutes: 2 EMR'S and a VS Vintar (all with full magazines but the durability is fucked) just showed up.I'm at the beginning of the game, is this a common bug? Anyone have any ideas why this is happening?
>>503217335Bind use/loot key to F
>>503217067>>503217210feels linear and the exploration is not what i thought it would be, loved the gunfights in the underground place. also i am not really a graphics fag but it has been raining since i started the game and it hasnt stopped even once which now i think is an acutal bug lol. i am playing shadow of memories mod but radiophobia 3 looks really neat is it worth restarting over for?>>503217360is exploration better?>>503217468whats that? also keep hearing about autmn aurora but radiophobia 3 is the most praised one but do they change the story?
what the fuck is going on here? does the game think i'm stepping outside or something?
>>503217345you'd also probably be able to see that nothing outside of a little bubble around the player actually has NPCs in it
>>503217627have you tried not being blackout drunk?seems like zoning issue like you guessed
>>503217627>trilogy_level_transition.webm
>>503213595so where exactly is this "complicated system that is trying to manage life in the Zone"?
>>503217608it is linear, it's essentially structured like Deus Ex, where you go from one hub to another in between main missions, only hubs are not so distinctly classified and main missions are usually underground dungeonsalso don't try mods, aside from ZRP, for your first playthrough, man
>>503217608soc update 1.4 is a new overhaul like radiophobia 3. complete graphic overhaul, gunslinger, balance, small additions. its better than radiophobia and autumn aurora in every way.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_VV0Fl-6PA
did bloodsuckers truly needed a 30m range aoe that for whatever reason causes you to sheathe your weapon for several seconds?
>>503217608can try this onehttps://mega.nz/folder/KvhhSCwD#7pTnDImcvnVOvJfQUgImtw
>>503217791Complicated as in nobody is quite sure how it works at the code level
>>503217627UE5 bro, truly the future of gaming we deserve
Hmmm, so I guess they'll release STALKER 2: Dark Underground that is essentially a linear CoD clone with surprisingly solid MP. Then comes STALKER 2: Soul of Prypiat that'll redefine sandbox survival game and get modded till the end of time.
How long is it going to take them to develop A-life and put it in the game
>>503218082Why they went with this instead of hardware raytracing is baffling.
>>503217608> shadow of memories do you mean this one https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-memories-of-the-zone?> feels linear and the exploration is not what i thought it would beYou're right at the portion where things open up a bit, but they will become linear again towards the end. As for exploration, SoC has a somewhat annoying implementation of stashes, where they only get filled in after you their coordinates from looting people, which can somewhat discourage exploration.There are mods that fill in all the stashes from the start (this can make the game highly unbalanced, but if it's your 1st playthrough and you don't know ahead of time where all the loot is it'll probably be fine), but even without that there's still a decent amount of pre-placed loot. What troubles with exploration are you experiencing.CoP has more open maps right from the start, and all the stashes already filled in (and thus suffers from the exact problem I mentioned, where there's way too much loot, but again, on your 1st playthrough when you don't know the locations yet it's fine)> also keep hearing about autmn aurora but radiophobia 3 is the most praised one Radiophobia has a lot more changes (not to the main story, but extra quests here and there, new mechanics, generally a lot harder), AA2 is closer to vanilla (but still somewhat more hardcore). There's also some old classics like AMK, but probably not the best for a 1st playthrough
>>503217627*muffled “You can’t go there* in the distance*
I remember times when amk dev team tried to port soc maps on UE3.
>encountered chimera>spent 3 mags of VSS ammo, 90 556, all 300 rounds of 9x18, and 6 perfectly timed grenades>still not deadwho the FUCK balanced this?
>>503218181If they didn't by now they're not going to. Anything more complex would make a series s explode.
>>503217627Skif is just sleepybut yeah, truly these are the wonders of modern rendering technology
>>503215659right, i fiddled a bit and made it workplace item in selling slotright click the itemclick outside of context menuadd stackable item (like bandages) in and dont interact with the context menu in the middlepress the sell buttonprofit
neat, its like a radstorm in fallout but orange :3
>>503218305jesus christ
90 hours of the 100 hours game time promised is actually just skiff unloading 100 million rounds into tanky as fuck mutants
>>503217345kek
what happened to cutting up mutants and selling parts to scientists? i remember that much at least. rn mutants just seem like a waste of bullets unless they're physically blocking your path.
this game blueballed me so hard that I'm considering to reinstall GAMMA just to scratch my itch
>>503218602you just described call of pripyat and its many mods
>>503217806i tried but i couldnt really get into it>>503217845looks neat, will try this>>503217870whats this one? also do i need the english voices? i can follow the story in a decent manner so far
>at the sphere place for the main mission early in the game>I've just been sitting in a guard tower listening to random stalkers and army dudes kill bloodsuckers for over ten minutes>they've killed three so far and I hear two moreThis game is so fucking stupid that it's genuinely hilarious at times.
>>503218770this one>>503217870is amk with some changes/updates. The other anon said it might not be good for a first playthrough but it really isn't changed in anyway beyond what autumn aurora might do. And if you can't stand the weapon spread like I do whenever I replay vanilla then this a good alternative since this is my go to when replaying soc.
liars scammers
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/82?tab=descriptionit's up
>>503219084is it a standalone?
>>503219126>"looking into it"is he going to self-investigate how they scammed everyone so he can come up with some new excuses?
you know shit is getting real when the collages with highlighted text come out
>>503218187yup sorry that one, i thought it had graphical stuff but its just raining the whole time and has a weird bobbing thing while strafing
>>503219324it requires soc downgraded to 1.0004, if this was the /sg/ thread with the proper OP then all you would need to downgrade would be there but anons have to be dumb.
I bought the radiation container upgrade for my armor but I still get radiation damage even when I wear the weak artifacts. Is it bugged or something?
what happened to putting artifacts in a lead box
>>503214494>>503216496>>503217309fucking ESL's
>>503219550there should be a artifact slot that's highlighted greenthat one will protect against rads
so the first story choice already changes which zone you go to next, do you later on get to go to the others you "skipped"? bc named loot i guess is static and wouldnt be that great getting later
>>503219324you need to install it over the regular game (, and there's also some patch fuckery you have to do (downgrading to 1.0004... in the old /sg/ generals we had a links to a repo with the downgrade patches but the retards making these new ones have seen fit to not include them: https://mega.nz/folder/M4BmDRCL#vfze70GSJDyv-HzWn7Dwww)
>>503219638L M A O lil nigga
>>503219537You might be better off checking out that soc update 1.4 one at this very moment, I'd check it out too but I'm currently downloading stalker 2 on my slow internet.
>remove old stuff that made sense>keep old stuff that made no sensegood job gsc
>>503219172>tarkovslop modthe boomer faggot tarkov general is that way
>>503218770I recommend you do. it just released. that slop the other anon is trying to sell you is outdated af.
>>503169687>half life 1 bad>this is your average stalker tourist
>>503218141a true stalker successormaybe someone with make an automated downloader for all the mods and continue huff his own farts, just like gayma
>>503220102the STALKER community will never heal until tourists realize these games have way more in common with the Half-Lifes than tacticool bullshit like Tarkov or Steam early-access survival crafting slop
>>503219126>>503219348doomposters just don't stop trying.imagine if you faggots actually put half that effort into something that is actually tangible.imagine.
>>503218141yeah, that will be another 60 dollars please.
>>503220073is it even complete? atleast the other shit is fully completed
>>503220073No such thing as an outdated stalker mod, especially when everyone complains about the oversaturation of modern freeplay mods
>>503220308trying more than gsc was trying to hide the fact a-life doesnt exist at least
why can't I put an rpk-74 mag on an aks-74u
>>503219172>- Reduced Run Speed by 5%>- Reduced Sprint Speed by 20%>- Reduced Sprint Stamina Usage by 20%>- Increased Running Stamina Regen by 25%actually retarded
>>503210326Either bring back /sg/ or split it. The new OP is shit
>go to the power transmission tower where you have to place vodka in stash>scan whole area>nothing is here>climb up the first branch>game stutters>immediately hear dogs barking behind me>6 of them spawns out of nowhere yup i'm fucking done
>>503214970He's killed every man who's made the 'one armed bandit' joke in earshot of him
>>503220485here ya go.don't spend it all at one store
I can't deny I'm excited for the modding potential of this game
>>503220308Imagine if mister pepsi man put half the effort into his game
>>503215705when skyboxes have to be dynamic and layered, they lose all the handcrafted soul
>>503217121Retard.
>>503220352yes, of course. its a 11gb download so.https://vk.com/topic-147828435_49497922dl at the bottom including english patch.
>>503220316What's wrong? Afraid to pay for a new game, poorcuck?
>>503220794so that's how you grind kekpons for upgrades and repairs
>>503220794holy shit this is so blatant, they didn't even fucking bother
>>503220102stalker 2 is my first stalker gamehl1 is greathl2 is overhyped and about 3 times as long as it should be
>>503218417Some weather mod added a radstorm-flavored version of blowouts but only in the Glowing Sea really pants shitting in VRCan't wait to play this game with the VR injector on a future playthrough
so whats this then? are they using my pentium 5 for mining or not?
>>503215705I hope so.>>503220798KYS
Any chance for "true A-Life" getting implemented post-launch?
>>503217121It's a video game, not a VRSIM for fucks sake.
>>503221214stalker 2 definitive edition in 2026
>>503215994The respawns definitely are like Far Cry 2.
>>503220794anotha oneand anotha oneand anotha one
>>503221214Not sure if an xbox series s can handle it
>>503221214About as high as the chances of Bethesda ever making a good videogame
>>503221214Unlikely, you'd probably need to rework the whole game's architecture for that. Increasing the spawn radiuses could be done, but true A-Life requires some degree of persistence (that is, actually tracking AI agents outside of your immediate vicinity, and simulating what they get up to when you're not around), and implementing that after launch seems iffy, especially with the caliber of developers GSC seem to have given this mess
How to simulate light: Voxels. No. Really. Voxels. No other way to simulate light since light is a particle.Except we need zetabytes worth of SSD space to even simulate such shit so it's not gonna happen for 50 years or some shit.
>>503220794you would still be you
I really like Skif as a protagonis. I'd say he's more interesting than Strelok, Scar, Degtyarev, and (maybe) Artyom.
DAMN I will now buy your game
>>503220826looks neat, cant play stalker 2, will give this a go
>>503221547Games already use them for GI
>>503221547I got a better idea: Just do it the same way the first game did it 17 fucking years ago. Looks better than what we have now.
>>503220794wow I've never seen stalkers just spawn in before.nope, never seen that in any of the originals.thats crazy
what's with this cope where 'it was in the game back in 2005, so its normal'
>>503220798>I dont know what skyboxes arek
>>503221772you disingenuous cunt
>>503221921ironic post is ironic.good jobright out of the handbook as usual
>>503221772You're right you haven't seen stalkers endlessly spawning onto the same point in past games
>>503221664oh my GYATT
>>503222041>ironic post is ironic.nigger
>>503222051was that the talking point?no.
>>503210326>80k playing stalkerdoomposters?discortrannies? roadto50kposters?
pro tip: dont spam knife on boxes because sometimes grenades are in them and they explode when you knife them
>>503222183don't like being called on your dumb bullshit bait huh?yeah, like I said...
why are the devs dead silent?
russiantrannies status?
>>503213132yes and with a mod that completely removes the input lag
>>503222421they are hopefully finally working on A-Life 2.0 (tm).
Has anyone here ever read the book?
>>503213595>I'm supposed to believe the entire a life system is in a single .cfg because a redditor told me so
lmaohttps://files.catbox.moe/sbw57q.mp4
>>503222361Who are you talking to retard
how do I use this? it didn't give me any popups about acquiring a weapon upgrade blueprint when I looted it
>>503222589read some pdf of it a long time ago. never finished it lol
What scope can i put on "spitter"?
>>503222197So you haven't seen stalkers spawning into the same point when the character turns his back in past stalker games alright
>>503222589Years ago and the only thing I really remember is Red's kid turning into a monke
did they put a performance patch yet or nah
It's a shame (but deserved) all the technical stuff is overshadowing the game.There are some neat things in there. If shit like the poppy field were in some russian story mod /sg/ would be slobbering all over it as slav kvno.
>>503222589I genuinely read it once or twice a year.
these mission rewards kinda fucking suck desu
>>503222703it did, you already have it. it flashes a unique white letter on the right side of the screen for like half a second
>>503222589Yes, it's really good but too short
>>503222782colimator
>>503210594>>503213595welp, back to CHADmma everyone
>>503222685some fucking retard.
>>503223089Are these random? I didn't see any generic missions in the lesser zone so I assumed they were removed.
>>503222861>>503223028>>503223129>>503222772Based fellers.its a goated book and perfectly incapsulates the fucked up world of stalkerthe game is a little different, while the movie is a completely different thing
>>503222940open collimator sight? or is there some other collimator?
>>503222857I've seen repeated spawns that stop after afew times yes.and this means what to you?
>>503222645A-Life or scripted?
>>503223415they don't know.they just say its not alife so they have some silly doomposter talking point or something
You see Ivan...
>>503223358>open collimator sight just tried this, doesnt work
>>503223668you have to upgrade the gun first, you dildo
>>503223565history really does repeat itself
>>503223737i did
>>503220794what is this supposed to be showing us?
>>503223810how are you trying to attach it? equipping the gun and pressing T?
>>503223565a worthy successor...
>>503223936Tried that and equipping and dragging in inventory, neither works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCGD9dT12C0
>>503217069I beat CP2077 on launch and never saw the stuff everyone complained about, but I'm waiting on S2 because buying games on launch in 2024 is asking to be scammed
>>503223819Alife 2.0
>>503224018and you do have this upgrade, correct?
>>503224265
I am waiting on a few patches to start playing. Do we know when it will come out
>>503224360idk dude, works on my pc
>>503220826do i need the base game?
>>503224568BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH i fucking hate
Wtf? You lied to me the game is funhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BraWultmeXo
>>503222589Yes, my favorite scifi novelSuper interestingVERY different from the games, closer to the movieAnomalies and the Zone in general are wayyyy more spooky and surrealGreat world buildingFrustratingly shortI highly recommend it. Really goes way more into the whole black market and government control aspects, and actually touches upon just how much being in proximity to the Zone fucks people up both mentally and physically.
bartenders might be the most useless vendors so farwho even needs to buy food
>>503212454I got the polish relase of SOC on a cd and it was fine enough. Not much dirtier than todays steam version
>trying to make a mod>it removes the folder structure so it's not loaded in-gamewhat do I dopls helpresponse file seems to fail as well
is gamma the way to go if I want to try anenomeme, or is there a better option? i've been reading about other modpacks like custom but i simply don't have the autism level to figure out what the difference is
i looted the stashes i wasn't supposed to
>>503221214well, it's not impossible...
>>503225232Based kleptomaniac
>>503224749No you just think you're having fun.
Won't be able to play game for a few days due to testicular hernia, can anyone give me a quick rundown on what happened to the previous games factions as time passed? I already watched the whole storymode questline on youtube but no one is giving you the 411 on what happened to duty, freedom and such.
>>503225232Any stashes with free good stuff you can recommend?
idk what it was but a patch for the game just went live on steam
>>503225162You could just play Anomaly as is and then add whatever addons you think you might like
>>503225162There's an update for gamma in a couple of weeks that will cut out some of the fiddly bullshit. Might be better to wait for that.
>>503215510who so I can avoid
The town in Garbage isn't very comfy but this area in general is way better than Lesser Zone.
>>503224593nope, standalone download.
>>503225314Isint that the point
>>503225548You're not really having fun.
>>503225162Anomaly misses the point but Gamma at least tries to make its own gameplay loop around gear. I don't like either but Gamma is objectively more interesting of the two. There used to be a guy that made an anomaly modpack that posted here but it's pretty dated by now. I liked that direction.
>>503225162>if I want to try anenomemeI recommend OWA. Cuts out a lot of the autism of Analmeme. The only downside is that it's also easier and you can accomplish in 2 days game time what would take a few days IRL of grinding to get in GAMMA, so the hobo phase can be nearly non-existent, which can lead to getting bored much more quickly.
faggma is just homeless man simulator
>>503225109ask on gamma cord, there are several people there active
>>503225443i don't really want to sink that much time into setting up something i'm not sure i'll even like. not having a real story has kept me from trying it for years now, only willing to give it a chance now because s2 is looking like an even worse option
>>503221746Except voxels could be simulated as literal particles of visible light, but in order to do that, they would have to be as small as light particles in real-life, right now voxels are just giant blocks, for now at least.
>>503225734Gamma runs so bad that its recommended to keep pop factors low, it also doesn't support warfare mode, yes Gamma has better balance but all it does is make tweaks here and there, the rest is just a collection of addons that are also available on Anomaly.
why is the PDA fullscreen :( i liked seeing my thumb move around
>>503225734both gamma and anomaly have an absurd amount of additional addons.like I'm just overwhelmed>pic related, wtf is that
>>503226052Skif has bad eyes and has to hold it to his nose
>>503226052Can't see small pda on tv 15 feet away
>get to rostok>get in 100 rads after game freezes twice while i was running in the base ( a mistake forcing me to alt f4)>100 rads is just empty with no chatter>no comfy radio tune from soc>barman looks like a moronthis 100 rads bar makes me feel nothing
>>503226043>except [literally impossible to compute in real time with any hardware, current or foreseeable future]what's the point you're trying to make?
>>503226470>barman looks like a moronhooooooooos ut gooooooouuung
>>503226358Gamma adds alot of shit but you can reconfigure everything in the MCM or turn off almost everything and run it in DX9 if you wanted.
>>503225847what's even left after you cut out the hobomode grind though?
>>503226047I have a retard PC so I just muscled through but I've only ever played around a little bit in either. I really don't care for them.
>>503226470there is no music in radbar? wtf were gsc thinking
>>503226781Me feeding dark chocolate to the neighbor's pitties
>>503225482i think this is what i'll do for now. m-maybe by then they'll have fixed stalker 2 and i can just play that instead
Guys so how exactly does trading work in Stalker 2? Should i just drop weapons that have red durability? and do different traders give different prices for items or can i just trade with any dude walking around in the wilderness?
>>503226676Well, therein lies the main problem with all freeplay modsYou can basically max faction relations, hunt collectors and pseudogiants, raid Monolith bases, or make up your own adventures.
>>503227479i want skif's knife irl
>>503227286Yeah, just drop broken stuff, this was the same for old STALKERs too
can you rush endurance and carry weight artifacts early?
lmao lightning strikes can kill stalkers poor guy standing next to me dropped dead
>>503210803Its actually over. One can only hope that GSC might actually add REAL A-Life in later patches
I have a quest to kill shah but I noticed there's a trader in the same spot but I can't get inside without being shot at. Is there a way to befriend the Brood?
O monolith girl poster, are you still here? Will you be modding stalker 2? Its been years since ive last seen you...
>>503227286Unload and drop them
>>503228136i think artifacts are random
>>503210957cant blame them.been wondering the entire time just what the hell they are gonna put it in all those 5 story buildings to make them worth entering.
Idk what the fuck happened but Skif's pistol just vanished from my inventory.gun is completely gone and no where to be found.
>>503228217>One can only hope that GSC might actually add REAL A-Life in later patches
>>503225162Forget abobaly. Play IWP with the CotZ port
grok won
>>503226650>what's the point you're trying to make?Only possible in VRSIMs, never in video games.
anyone else in Garbage? there's nothing out here, no roaming stalkers, no roaming mutants... just my PC?
For anyone who wants some of their frames backhttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7
>>503229369fuck you nigga with all these engini.ini "mods"
Looks like there were four difficulty options considered
>>503229536What do you think day 1 mods are besides ini editing tard
>>503229369I put this in and it started crashing during shader compilation
I'm having so much fun lmaoI get it, its not a perfect release ( when was the last time anything perfect was shipped? ) but man there are some kino moments. Very cozy bros, feeling blessed, moisturized, in my own lane, thriving. Stay safe out there stalkers.
>>503229651>twink>cuck>bear>buck
>>503229651Probably Master, and it's probably going to come as one of the "free" DLCs they mentioned. Anyone expecting anything other than the bare minimum shit from now on until we get actual expansions is huffing some real weapons grade copium.
>>503229651Master got removed.
>>503229651Master enjoyers we got robbed (of x0.5 weapon damage)
>>503229701all these performance booster "mods" are snake oilif it was that easy they would have done itclearly the reason they didn't is it''s unstable
>>503229734>when was the last time anything perfect was shippedThe Turok 2 remaster
>>503223565never shoot of the inaccurate
>>503229734I did too but do a 2nd playthrough, it's mostly scripted events. Metro style
>>503230029The quests are full of scripted shit in the originals too
>>503229734>when was the last time anything perfect was shipped?It barely fucking works you nigger shill
there you goafter my nuts again
I fully expect a freeplay DLC with proper Alife
>>503223089Sometimes it really feels like they missed a 0 there. Or divided all quest rewards by 4. You get 500 shooting fleshes, that you can't skin for part to sell, and the ammo you shot to kill them will be worth twice as much, making the quest worthless.
>decide to explore>walk over to Yantar>walk over to the mobile lab bunker in hopes of being able to sell artifacts at a premium to the nerds>no one is there but a controller and zombiesFucking hell, where do I need to go to sell my artifacts for more than 500 coupons?
is the game seriously just going to spawn mutants outside every time i exit a cave?
>>503229734hello based Department?
Why can't you rebind the flashlight from L. Or am I just blind?
>>503230564you can't. it's on middle mouse click too though.
>>503230491
>>503230491As you move things will spawn, same as a basic open world
>>503230643Oh, i set something else on middle mouse
>>503230287Metro acutally did something similar with it's second game so it's not impossible, but lol, lmao even>>503230491'fraid so
>>503222589Yeah because I liked the game so muchI like how sudden the ending is when the kid steps in the whirlygig
did you niggas kill the Shah and Roosevelt?
>>503230491If you get a bloodsucker just reload
>>503230725the problem is nothing is spawning while i'm moving around in the open worldthey only spawn when it's scripted like this
>>503222589does it have A-Life?
>>503231129nah it's all scripted bullshit like metro
>>503230287Two more years?
since they havent added any new meaningful features or improved the game, this is more like a weird remake of SoC
how do remove memeshade from S2?
>>503230784no, I killed the faggot who told me to
>>503231490Its a demake of SoC
>upside: the game is moddable>downside: may god have mercy on your soul if you intend to mod it yourself rather than download what mod autists release
Any new weapons that didn't exist in the previous games?
>>503231490>this is more like a weird remake of SoCthat's what I was thinking toonothing really new here, besides it being open worldbut with that comes a ton of downgraded or outright removed features, not a worthwhile compromise
>>503231490it's shadow of chernobyl for a modern audience. You don't need good ai or A Life but you do need it DEI friendly and cinematic
>>503231653two jewish riflesone ukrainian rifle
>>503227861It's an M9 bayonetprotip:: They're universally known as garbage. Blade really thick and heavy but the tang inside the grip is half-length and screw-on making it fairly weak, the blade profile makes it bad at cutting and the saw end is shit, and the plastic on the grip is weak and toy-like. They make modern repros that are probably better but the original ones suck ASS.
>>503225319I saw two guys by the chemical plant saying duty has diminished in numbers and spends it's time "shooting at mutants" while freedom have become sellouts and are the reason there are zone coupons instead of rubles or actual currency
>gfn added sc2>pichuang plz
do anomalies affect npcs in s2?
>they posted my whack-a-slav webm on reddit
>>503232052Yes.
>>503231735>>503227861pro-pro-tip: if you're going to buy an M9, the ONLY one you should buy is this onehttps://ontarioknife.com/collections/bayonets/products/m9-bayonet-black-handle?variant=31397361975382They unfucked everything about the M9 and made it sort of decent
This game is all of my worst fears realized.>COD movie game trash>runs like shit when you transition to INDOOR locations>memory leak so game craws to single digit FPS every 20 minutes>the only gun that doesn't pull your aim to the side when you shoot is the pistol so it's actually the most accurate gun in the game>enemies have zero hit reactions, shoot a guy in the knee a thousand times and he shrugs it off>having to listen to rat faced oinkranians speak their pig language in a 10 minute long cut scene>literally every guy looks like a rat
>>503232104>I posted my whack-a-slav webm on redditftfy
>>503232104in case you couldnt tell redditors are here and already subverting shit like changing the general name and OP
>>503232276They won't be here for long. 2 weeks I reckon.
>>503232276I am the baker, I literally copied it from the last one just to make a new thread since none of you retarded niggers did it. I have never been on r*ddit in my entire life and I hope you die
>>503232236>literally every guy looks like a ratSuch is life in the zone. The twink is somewhat cute though.
>>503231735>They're universally known as garbage.*the originals
>>503232236Also>infinite scripted enemy spawns>the lighting is so fucked with the pitch black and bright as shit transitions every 30 seconds>keep having to turn flashlight on and off IN THE DAYTIME>weather changes every 5 minutes>people just pop in and out of existence>characters look aimlessly into space while talking to you>the dialogue somehow got even more cartoony than the OG trilogy
>AS Lavina>VS Vintar>AS Lavina is better for some reason
>>503232491What I hate about Birch's shop is that there's 4 million worth of notroubles just sitting there unguarded.
>>503232104haha UPBOAT
>>503232104I ran into a similar situation at one of the first military checkpointskilled everyone, went inside and looted then they started spawning literally on top of me rapidly - I didn't even have time to loot anything before having to kill the next group of dudeseventually the game crashed because there were literally hundreds of bodies89/101 rubles, would STALKAN again
>we don't have our own hideout that we can upgrademissed opportunity
Hypothetically, theoretically, and entirely as a thought exercise, if GSC could unfuck itself and was determined to fix absolutely everything wrong with Stalker 2 and add any content to it that you feel is missing, what would be your wishlist?So far i think everyone can agree on>A-life back to its full extent aka offline simulation of squads traveling and persisting through time in the whole game map>Long distance spawns you can observe from afar with binocs(that you can have now) not to mention fucking SNIPE>better flashlight with dynamic light>actual NVGs>mutant parts return and mutant hunting actually profitable instead of an ammo and bandage sink>at least 3 more pistols to pick from>Economy not Miseryslop levels of jewishBut, i imagine everyone here has different ideas and sees potential in different areas and have their own nipticks. There's no better time to gripe, moan and demand shit from devs than now(the perfect time would be months before this shit was released, had we ever known when this thread was ded), so lets hear it.
>>503232934>Hypothetically, theoretically, and entirely as a thought exerciseNo
>>503232934Make it an extraction shooter
>>503232934>Thought exerciseWarlockracy?
> NPCs' vision distance being greater than the spawn distance
>>503232789I don't think these infinite spawns are bugs, the people who made this game are amateurs and don't know how to do level design to funnel the player towards objectives or keep them away from places that they're not supposed to go so instead they opted to use infinite spawning guys to keep you out of these areas. They do not understand that a strong point is a challenge for people who play stalker like games and that overwhelming odds is only going to attract the player.
>>503232934The same list but I want crawling back and I want them to let me toggle auto-lean way more than I want "more pistols"
>>503231734>two jewish riflesYou can turn ovens into firearms now?
>>503232445>i am the bakerno one says this outside of /pol/ immigrants from r/the_donald
>>503232934Its an Xbox game, nuff said
>>503233286why do you know so much about r**ddit?
>>503232934what you listed is enough, the rest can be up to the modders.
what stalker game/mod has the best a-life?
>>503210326Why did you change the name you faggot? I've gone all day thinking /sg/ just died under all the /vpol/ invasion trash.
>>503233216yeah the very first thing I ever did on ever new playthrough of the first game was beelining to the checkpoint/gate in the cordon, killing and looting everyone, then GTFO for a comfy ruble-and-ammo-heavy start infinite spawns aren't a problem as such, it's the rapidity in S2 that's an issuethe game should get you to "get out of here stalker" by stopping spawns after a certain number so there's nothing for you to do and you move on out of boredom
>>503232934Your list seems pretty thorough. There also need to be way, WAY more generic anomaly spawns with low value artifacts. The random bartender quests asking for specific artifacts that do not respawn and could be fucking anywhere is total nonsense. Emmissions should spawn small zones of specific anomalies alongside one of their list of artifacts, then the bartender can say he "heard of one like this nearby" and gives you a general area to search.The biggest thing for me is that the map is so fucking empty. I should not be able to sprint for 1km straight in a completely unknown and unexplored area and be absolutely fine. But that's what happens.
>samefaggingwill literally never not be funny
>>503233236man i had forgotten about the autolean shit, wasn't lean hardcoded to be bound to Z and C for some reason? I would trade low-crouch for a prone position though.
>>503232934Perfect list reallyA-Life and Fixed Spawns > Fixed Economy > Binoculars = Dynamic Flashlight > Less context sensitivity (lean, quick slots etc)
>>503233406analmeme just because if there's not enough or too much happening you can easily tune it
So do artifacts actually respawn and if they do does someone know what affects it?I've been checking poisonous hole for the past 4 hours or so, even had an emission happen and I still can't find any new ones there
>>503233732You can rebind lean, thankfully. I have mine set to Q&E with the hotbar items being set to F1&F2
>>503225109file needs to end with <FILE NAME>_P.pak, that _P makes it actually alter existing files.
>>503233953>So do artifacts actually respawnno. I wouldn't sell your artifacts ever in this game btw. Just save them for when you have a 5 slot suit and mix and match for neutral radiation and whatever perks you want.
>>503232104>>they posted my whack-a-slav webm on reddit>myIt's on the Internet. It doesn't belong to you anymore. It's like those shitty pictures that were supposed to earn a profit by simply existing on the Internet, but all you can do is Prnt Scrn it, Ctrl+V it into MSPaint, then save it as a J-Peg, then upload it into the internet, and it literally loses it's value as a non-fungible token.Whoever thought of NFTs was ana bsolute fucking retard of an idiotic piece of shit of a gang-banging cuckolded cocksucker, like, holy fucking shit even I'm not a genius or anything, but even I'm not THAT fucking retarded.
>>503233406https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/warfare-alife-overhaul
>>503233953yesemissionsthis person >>503234062 is retardedI personally have collected the same artifact from the same location multiple times
autolean AND unreal engine collision fuckery where your character randomly adjusts his height when you're rotating is annoying as fuck
>>503222589You can't call yourself a true Stalker fan if you haven't.
>>503234065If you bothered to read his filename you teenage pseud you'd know anon wasn't the original maker in the first place
>Last thread a guy posted about getting a hyper artifact from the Poison Pools in the Garbage>Been there 3 times and all I get is fucking Rat tails
>>503232104>you guys posted it on redditthere, fixed. fucking redditors gtfoor you yourself did and need triple the attention because no father
>>503234062Damn, I still haven't found a single artifact that shields from radioactivity so I haven't had any use for the other artifacts either, have been selling most of the cheaper ones.>>503234135Huh, guess you can't be too close to the anomaly field during the emission then because I was at the poisonous hole when the emission hit, went looking for the artifact immediately after and found nothing.I guess I'll just have to wait for the next emission and check again.
>>503233634Artifacts ought to be more interesting in general, the problem imo is the list of effects is pretty short and the low value ones are verymediocre while the top value ones are only just starting to be useful, no game breaking magic rocks you'd kill and die for.
>>503234421it's randomized each emission as to which ones respawn and/or the locations for which ones are active change.
>1mi copies soldpretty good but could have been a lot better without the issues. it would be trending nonstop
>>503234631thats just the copies sold. they aren't counting the several million consolefaggots and GoG nigger copies
>>503233793Analmeme is almost as bad as this game, every time you reload it randomizes the game world and a completely different bunch of shit happens. Also the mobs have 0 intelligence and just beeline straight for you as soon as they see you just like this shitty game.
>>503233406I think IWP has the best combat A-Life AI. There are some parts of it that a little too good like grenade spamming/grenade accuracy and them having superhuman hearing but otherwise it is very good. They are smart as fuck with how they approach you and actively flank like a motherfucker
>>503234732That is a lie
>>503234961Nope, it's been fact checked.
They should've made slugs a different color than buckshot..
Ok so i played for 20 hours total and i can't bear it anymore.There is some cool stuff in there, the zone with no loading screens is cool to explore but not at the cost of A-Life being a clown circus L4D director throwing random shit behind your back.The atmosphere is gone, it doesn't feel like a horrorish post-soviet hellhole filled with mystique and alien shit, it feels like a gleamy theme park for tourists. Sunny, art-deco, DEI (there HAS TO BE BLACK UKRANIANS CHUD) and MoozE-less.MAYBE there will be a director's cut definitive edition in like 3 years polished up and restored by modders to at least resemble the OG feel, but right now it just feels like an insult to fans (very fitting of Griga)
>run down into a small bunker>no enemies outside of it>grab loot>run back up>3 guys standing there idle>kill 2>duck back down into bunker to reload and heal>come back up>6 guys standing there aggro'ed>kill half>run back down to reload, heal, wait out grenade spam>pop back up>8 guys aggro>kill half>duck, reload, heal>8 guys>kill half>duck, reload, heal>8 guysAHHHHHHI HATE THE ANTICHRIST I HATE THE ANTICHRIST I HATE THE ANTICHRIST
>>503235098The fact checking has been deboonked
>>503235217you're braindead and not a stalker fan, kys
*wins*
>>503235249this happened to me when I entered freedom base. it was a wasteland but mercs kept spawning when I left the building that needs a key
>>503235217>DEIinto the trash your opinion goes
>>503235632>S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fan excited to play a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game for the first time
>>503233792Forgot to add improved npc behavior alhough you could count this as part of a-life, but every mutant and bandit fighting to the death is really annoying me. They should rout when moral is low and animals and animal-like mutants like the flesh should flee or threaten the player with territorial display when their hunger is above a certain threshold instead of mindlessly attacking. Speaking of hunger, I think this should be rebalanced too. It's both to frequent but also inconsequential because food is everwhere. I would also like longer days and nights but there's already mods for that so whatever.
>>503235217>DEI!!this is you by the way tranny
>>503235632>>503235789
GSC has secret anons itt
>>503235789>>503235965Why wasn't there basketball americans and f*males in the zone in every single GSC release before microsoft published them?Hmmmmmm i wonder why...
>>503235849my first stalker was cop actually
>>503211365"Migrating groups" is the core of A-life so it miiiiiiiiight actually be fine once it's fixed
>>503222645Why did they give you such fast sprint if it literally breaks the game?
When does his video come out?
Alright guys I've 100%ed the game now it's time for me reviews:Pros:>my ass cancer has been diagnosed in remission Cons:>i am non binary by the wayoverall its good but needs another bun in the oven .
>>503236365>>503235965seems to me that you lost disccordtranny better luck next time i guess
>>503235217Lol. You cant mod this game. It has too many cutscenes and how it zooms in on people to talk to them
Help, Duty kidnapped me and put me in a cage Do nor try to jump on top of the cage looking thing in the Cement Factory, you'll vault in and get stuck
>>503236578even if i walked there the dogs would be like this. dogs were scripted to trigger an attack as soon as you climb the tower.
>>503236823loner monkey ooh ooh ahh ahh
>>503236823Don't worry i execute every duty cuck on site
>>503236823>freedom suit gloveslmao
>>503234250>you'd know anon wasn't the original maker in the first placeSo it's like Banksy, but even more irrelevant?
>finally find a Spring>RADIATION MEDIUMREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>503232934>>A-life back to its full extent aka offline simulation of squads traveling and persisting through time in the whole game map>>Long distance spawns you can observe from afar with binocs(that you can have now) not to mention fucking SNIPE>>better flashlight with dynamic light>>actual NVGs>>mutant parts return and mutant hunting actually profitable instead of an ammo and bandage sink>>at least 3 more pistols to pick from>>Economy not Miseryslop levels of jewishSo, tl;dr, modders fix everything, again.
https://www.pcgamer.com/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-announced-irradiated-mutants-prepare-to-be-shoti cannot believe its finally hereWho i need to thanks for? Cossack sales?
>>503210594How a lot of people understood it: it's buggedWhat's really happening: we never implemented it
>>503236759?
I really like how every location has a puzzle or secret area in it. They really should have delayed the game for like another year to fix shit and maybe actually implement alife.
>>503237458>>RADIATION MEDIUMDoes it randomize the amount of radiation artifacts bleed/emit or something? Only found a plasma so far and it just protects from thermal damage.
>>503235249A-life 2.0 chud
>>503237651Oh you want another year?Well Ukraine doesn't get another year.
You guys realize, as a foundation, this game is fucking amazing, right?
>>503235965>>503235789READ MOTHER FUCKER READDDDDDDD!!!!!!!
sergiy did it ... he saved GSC...
>>503238017yes just give it some time before the doomposters leave
>>503238017Unreal Engine 5 u mean?
>>503238017when it works for about 5 mins
Too all the people suffering under the intense assault of Stalker haters, trolls, and poorshitters that cannot appreciate this new masterpiece, remember that- your taste is impeccable- the Zone rewards those who persevere- you're not just playing a game; you're living art- you are validAnd to the haters: remember, just like anomalies in the Zone, your bad takes are inevitable but avoidable. Stalker fans endure. We adapt. We conquer.
>>503237951I dont give a fuck about Ukraine. They should have moved to Cyprus or UK like 4A and Battlestate did.
>>503213595>some faggot on reddit did 'CTRL+F: alife'>posts a cropped version of the file they found>LOOK GUYS, NO A-LIFE!There's mountains of evidence that the system's in game.No wonder redditards/discord trannies couldn't find it.>where are the scripts then?You can't view scripts in fmodel, the only thing anyone can see right now is the configs and assets, and the configs only contain variable data.
>discordtranny silent about sales>doomtrannies obliteratedyou love to see it
>>503238017This. DLCs will flesh everything out.
>>503212454>SOCTotal disaster, but we also didn't have soi guzzling, fembrained outrage addicts treating every bump in the proverbial road as if it were simultaneously the beginning of a nuclear war and a report that some famous person got caught diddling kids to make SOC's bugs out to be something that will KILL GSC. Same scenarios mentioned above didn't exist to create all the larping children posting steam player charts and shit.>CSDidn't catch it, but I can't imagine it being too different from the final version with how buggy that's been.>COPRelatively smooth
>>503238017I was about to ask this. Assuming the bugs get fixed and A-life gets fixed or whatever and everything works as intended, is it actually good?It kind of just looks like open world Tarkov (Yes I've played the previous games/mods)
>No nvgI hope its just bait and not the actual case, because it feel like its always night and its really annoying being dependent on the compas for direction, or having to open up the map every hundred meters to make sure you arent going off course. I'll probably just up the luminosity later, but still.
>>503238017It is
>>503238389>someone posts about the game positively>instantly starts bad faith falseflagging you're a faggot
>>503213595This is literally a folder named "prototypes". The movies folder includes placeholders for cutscenes too. There is alpha/buildo content in this game's release files we could be diving into and cataloging, but all you faggots want to do is look at small sections of alife prototypes to shitpost.
>>503238410as of now, it feels non existent. they have a couple months to redeem themselves. otherwise it does not exist.
>>503238773Yeah, it's still completely fucked and feels like no one's actually around half the time.I'm wondering if it's something to do with this.
>>503221078Hl2 and Soc has the same radioactive water texture
>>503238017I don't think this game is going to have a modding scene nearly as big as the originals
>>503239198>HideWeaponWarningBarkthey don't even do this
My game keeps crashing after I load in and walk for 5 seconds, how the fuck do I fix it?
>long awaited sequel of cult classic game>doing worse on twitch than a rererelease of a 2004 mmo>asmon isn't even streaming and more NA streamers are going to wake up and log in soonLmao
>>503239397You entered the first large village didn't you? It's fucking over.
>>503210326How much content and quests is in this game, is it on par with Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk?
>>503239598doesn't matter, Destiny is in
>>503239598>road..to..50k...ACK!
>>503238759If this is programming terminology this could be class "prototypes" for OOP objects to be spawned in by the AI manager
>>503239623It crashed at the technician on my first save and kept crashing, made a new save and was on my way back to the village and it started again as I was walking in. Are my saves just bricked?
>>503238759Anon, the gamedata folder is 90% prototypes, it's technical jargon, not literal "just a test version".
Interesting, I've had zero crashes in 15 hours.There's a good chance this game is causing overheating or setting off unstable overclocks you thought were ok and shit like that. Sometimes the problem can be fixed by taking care of your hardware as well as software.
>>503238017yes. which is why I'm annoyed. I know what it can be but I don't want to wait months for it to be fixedit is pretty much early access
>/s2g/ fuck off with this faggotry
>>503240503The other day I had someone ask about info on the original games and modding and I had to use the archive because this shit removed everything related to anything that isn't stalker 2 from the OP.
Surely someone has fixed the flashlight by now?
>>503239351They didn't for me either until i got to Garbage
>>503240193Yeah I haven't had a single crash in 15 hours either.
Anyone have a stalker edit of this?
>>503240603You can be that someone, anon. I believe in you.
>>503238017Until I get my a life I won't be happy
>>503240851I don't even believe in myself.
>>503240597because some retarded faggot decided to make the thread about S2 and scrubbed all OG related shit from the OP, like if we're going to nonstop necrobump a separate thread for the 3 people that don't care about the new game and only the originals
what is a flat round?
>>503239939GOG release seems fucked atm, I got my first save completely wiped, somehow. I started over but the first village just crashes for me.
So what caused this A life issue? Was it the XBOX S? Was it the Microsoft mandate on minimum crashes?
>>503240603>>503240851May be something to do with these, think "value" is the FOV for the inner/outer light sphere.Can't modify because it's a binary file when extracted.Grasping at straws, maybe someone brighter can figure it out.
>>503241072It has a remarkably flat trajectory
>>503241080Is there a pirated version that isn't fucked?
>>503241286unreal cant handle le open map and graphics + good AI
>>503241072a specialized variant of the nato cartridge designed for use by special operations forces, featuring a remarkably flat trajectory,
>>503241416Dunno, haven't tried the steam version.
>>503241362I'm retarded forgot pic
>random bad guy interaction coming up>get frozen in position>zooms in on his face>disagree with him>"Heh, prepare to die!">dumps on you from point blankam i playing a Bethesda game?
>>503241286>Was it the XBOX S?Probably, it looks like a matter of NPCs despawning and popping in too close to the player.Probably done to save RAM since shitbox S only has 8GB.
>>503241437>>503241403thanks im retarded kek
>>503241072It means it has no bullet drop, or whatever.
you do know that Alife will make the performance even worse, right?!
>>503241072It's not as alluring as the more busty warsaw pact rounds.
>>503241685Not a problem since we're never getting ALIFE the way it was in the OG games
>>503241685Game already runs at 90-140FPS average for me.
>>503241478>>503241362>>503240603you would need to find whatever lightsource the flashlight uses and set it to cast shadows
soul
>>503238681Nah but really why the fuck did they change the timecycle from 4 to 1 hour/ingame day.Who thought it was a good idea.
>>503238389>validBack to tumblr. This is BASED territory.
>>503238681>having a compassit's way too intrusivei miss the small minimap
any AMDbros in? what AA setting for native res are you using? I'm finding FSR pretty good so far surprisingly and I'm trying XeSS now but I can't really tell a difference. I'm just looking for a good AA method that doesn't make the game a blurry mess full of trails and shit
Krappa
>>503241685Yeah? Give A life to me regardless. It's the backbone of Stalker, without it I might as well be playing any other shooter.
>>503242339...and this is a good thing.
>>503242317Anything at NativeAA works well
>>503242339SoC SOUL
>road to 50k any hour now guys!!
are there any niggers or women among stalkers apart from unique characters? i know that they are in the military and the ward for sure
>>503238410>>503239198called it.retards.
>mods releasing>they will all conflict with each other despite modifying different thingskek
>>503242684No women random stalkers but plenty of basketball ukranians.
>>503215951Like CoP you're expected to sell artifacts since they respawn like every 2 days.Or use the stack exploit mentioned in thread until they fix the economyOr go full SoC and constantly switch gear
people told me ue5 was bad but dam 21gb of ram usage its fucking insane
>>503242875I haven't come across a single one yet
>>503242858Grok will combine them into tarkovslop and every single poster in this thread will play his version don't worry.
>>503242858Worst doomtranny cope yet
>>503243004And?Did you complain when games went from using 2 GB to 8 GB as well?
might be the first game I played where 16gb isn't even close to enough
>>503212480>do quest>NPCs comment on it's effect occasionallyI mean, it's cool, but is that really not something modern games do now?Has shit gotten so bad?
>>503212706Yeah I bumped into a few, one before going to the garbage, one part way through the garbage that seemed somewhat random as I'd just made it to rostok and done no quests, now heading back to do the story mission, then another on wild island when faust does his ted talk on how cool worshiping rocks was and they should do that again, then another when I got to the institute and went up to the room.Fun fact, the 3rd one can bug out and put the game in a state of permanent blowout without causing damage to the player, making some NPCs not talk to you and prohibiting bed rest, only goes away after another emission.Used it as an excuse to not do trapper's job and instead dome him with my SVD from 3 feet away as he wouldn't talk to me.
There's not gonna be a patch till next week huh...
soooooooooo, am i fucked? is there no workaround?
Stole this from the arena, lol lmao even
>>503212842>gun rebalanceOH GOD NOT AGAIN, PLEASE I CAN'T AFFORD TO SPEND 5 MAGS ON A SINGLE DOG.
>>503243119what are you talking? "fixes" on nexus are already conflicting with each other
>>503243734Yeah now it's weekend so we are not getting anything before Monday at the earliest. You bet your ass it won't contain A life fixes.
>>503213890Paranoia, Skif has entered the building and realized that you are now manually breathing.
>>503215231>women>that avatarI got some bad news for you, pal.
>>503243743Workaround for what?
>>503243916Like that doesn't happen with other games. This only happens because they are all editing the same file and downloaders mindlessly replace it overwriting the changes because they don't know about diff.
>>503244118Assholeyou lost the game
is it not possible going through the sphere without killing anyone?specifically the warden path, this guy is not moving and staring at the door so its easy to stealth kill him but i was wondering if theres anything for not murdering anyone
>>503223383it means that you are playing shitty mods and lying about it to try and convince people that stalker 2 isnt a lazy busted piece of shit, typical shill faggot behavior kys
>>503244349you won't be able to escape it because of pak bullshit. people using different mods will have to edit it themselves, similar to elden ring.
>>503244323bugged quest, you cant progress but seeing how no one know, im assuming im fucked.
>>503216583Would have been nicer to have both, give the UAR to lower level guys and only give the 416 to higher end NPCs like ward troops or high ranking stalker.In fact, I feel like there needs to be a weapon distribution balance patch, ward keeps handing their guys shot out krinkovs and over/unders.
>>503244560Just load an earlier save?
>>503244638tried that, doesnt work, ill try to go even earlier as someone said changing decision helped them on steam forums but it doesnt seems like a fix since it didnt help anyone else
>>503244560How is it bugged?Just go to the sawmill
>>503244780what exactly is bugged? if you fuck the pda up and dont get access to the island from both npcs theres a failsafe
>>503244816You can't, there is a storm outside and sawmill is locked. I will get teleported in 20 second later if i hang around it but you can't really interact with any of the NPCs inside
>>503220307This, the most fun I had was in the later hours of SoC with a bunch of +stam +carry weight artifacts strapped to me, sprinting through shit and force feeding buckshot to anyone dumb enough to shoot at me.
>>503244780could you explain how you are soft locked?what exactly are you stuck on?I have not been softlocked at all, i had to pick up an inducer in a factory once and it did not spawn, closing the game and reloading spawned it afterwards.Also there was an optional quest step to speak to Prof lodochenko or whatever his name was, and the door would not open, thankfully that was an optional quest target. So far ive been fairly lucky with the quest system, no major hardlocks on the main story.
https://youtu.be/fzArGyCLkF0?si=R9PUoNjmz6SSFE-S what kind of paid shilling shit cope is this?
>couponsWhat the fuck is this?
>>503245163It is literally paid shilling, that's why
>>503245163>content creators>aka shills/grifters/etcdon't know, don't care. best not to even give them views
>>503245431Monoploy hryvnia
>>503245431Freedom introduced the currency to make the Zone a freer place. Not backed by any state currency.
>>503245629Sounds goofy, and an excuse to not use rubles.
>>503245163>6:40>the A -life is amped up just realized wtf ASFASHFAHS
>>503244521nvm i didnt know you could throw bolts to lure them away, so fully stealth without killing anyone is possible
>>503245629How is a cryptocurrency better than loose cash for criminal enterprises? It's a change that hasn't been thought out, much like making artifacts run out outside of the zone. They could have made it the euro, or whatever monopoly money they use in Ukraine if they didn't want to use the rouble.
>>503246051Just because it can be transferred digitally does not mean it's a cryptocurrency.
keep or sell?
>>503245431https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_karbovanets
>>503244969When varta takes over Slag Heap and you have a talk with Colonel or whatever, if you gave PDA to Colonel, Richter will want to have a talk with you and give you coordinates to Sawmill "to see the other side of zone" or smth like that. As you approach sawmill scripted storm starts, sawmill is locked, you can't get inside of it, every NPC behaves like random stalker and doesnt progress story, 20 seconds later of hanging around sawmill, you get teleported inside, once again NPC are behaving like random stalkers without progressing story
where the fuck do i buy better detectors? echo suck balls
POORFAGS, FOUND AN INFINITE COUPONS BUG>Get a decent size stack of RGD-5 grenades>Can be done with other stackable items, game crashes with anti rads>Add all of them to sell window>Right click them, click off of them>Click and drag the nades back to your inventory to bring up the stack menu>Hit sell while the window is still open>Then hit return all>Get the sell value and all your nades back>Rinse and repeat
>>503246051>It's a change that hasn't been thought out, much like making artifacts run out outside of the zoneWhat's wrong with this? It keeps the outside world in a constant need for artifacts. You forget that the Zone was created by a tear in the Noosphere, it is a manifestation of human conciousness and this is reflected in the artifacts. Outside the tear the artifacts naturally start to power down.
>>503246486everyone knows about that already slow retard
gee thanks colonel, a 0% durability gun
>>503246205Unless it's literal hryvnia and everyone is running around using cashapp then it's definitionally a cryptocurrency.
>>503246486Not interested in abusing the system honestly. I will get better shit later.
>>503246650you are at the part where im stuck, what choice did you make?
>>503246486Nigga just download CE and give yourself a million Coupons. If you're going to cheat just cheat, don't pretend exploiting a bug is any better.
>>503246650just use the money glitch to obtain the amount that you need to repair it
emissions are both random (with 'good luck prevention' lol) and scripted
>>503238017>foundationIt is? For what?
wtf, there is more of this mutant spam bullshit at wild island? I thought this shit would be over after seeing how much more relaxed garbage was and now I keep getting 3-4 bloodsucker spawns in a row, time to shelve this game until they do some balancing on this dumbass spawning system
>>503244549no retard, what does spawning like in that other retards vid mena to you.fucking esl's sweet made up scenario though
>>503247092>getting filtered by suckershave you considered playing on medium difficulty?
>no weapon inspect animationthe biggest sin of this game
So how customizable are weapons? How many attachments max?
I have honestly lost the interest in playing without A-Life. Knowing everything around me is artifical feels so demotivating.
>>503242317I'm using XESS. No particular reason
>>503247092mod it you fucking pansy.
Are those journalist stashes DLC?
>the brood and the commisary blah blah blah holy shit i wanna blow this faggot's fucking head
has anyone tried the more quest pay mod? idk which would be closest to the og games. you can select from 10 to 100% more.
>>503246759I gave colonel the PDA>>503246863Nah, I can manage without it, not like I was gonna use that gun anyway. I grew attached to Shah's Mate, got plenty of ammo for it
>>503248054just turn repairs down to 50% and repair cost reduced. you'll be flush with coupons in no time
>>503247913yes, preorder, not DLC
>>503248319I feel like I'm cheating using them
>>503222468wut mod?
>>503248127forgot pic
>>503248467https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7
>>503243194That was due to the switch from 32 to 64 bit operating systems you retard.No such extenuating circumstances exist for this game.
>>503248382ehh, I guess. I found the spitter around the same time I got the Rieman or whatever its called, they are both about the same so I don't feel too guilty about it. The Monolith shit seemed whack so I just vendor'd it
>>503246486This shit right here is completely broken.Takes a 23k sell of a few dinged up rifles and ammo to 70k.I can now afford to maintain my guns and armor, I hope they don't patch this.
So...as someone who ever only played the original and its secondary versions, as well as MEtro and none of the other SLavcore shooters...How is it?
im surprised there hasnt been a brighter flashlight mod
>>503238017Which is why it's so open to criticism. Yes, at it's core the game is genuinely amazing and I'm having a fucking blast exploring the zone. Atmosphere, set pieces, anomalies, gunfights, story, dialogue, everything fits and it fun to experience. But there are a lot of issues. Broken spawns, broken economy, performance should be better, Unreal is a bad engine, days are too fast, artifact effects are lackluster and not unique etc. But these things can be fixed with time or mods, while the game will stay good and improve.
This game hurts my eyes I can’t even fucking play it. Playing this game is like driving at night with people’s fucking headlights in my eyes when I read the game text. I can’t do it.
>>503248781I've been saying this for two days. I would have bet money that that would have been the first mod uploaded to nexus
Does FSR or XeSS Native AA setting looks better than TAA?
>>503247201NEVERIt's not so much that I'm getting filtered by the suckers, it's the economy that's filtering me, having to burn a whole bunch of durability and resources in fights with absolutely no return is just not manageable unless you grind a whole bunch of money with artifacts or god forbid cheat
>>503248889I don't know, retard. Do they?
>>503248127>I gave colonel the PDAsame decision, tell me if game progresses properly after that
>>503249008I don't know, retard. I'm asking you.
Why do I have a feeling there's a hidden karma system like in Goldensphere? Some of these stash descriptions make me not want to touch and loot them, like the Guide stashes, since I want to be a not-so-bad loner and not a plain robber.
>>503249101use your eyes fuckface. does it look better to you or not
>>503248786You know anon, i dunno about you, one of my favorite games is VTM:Bloodlines, love it to death but with time I learned that I can't just justify a bad game just because mods fix it to work as it was intended, imo if you need so much exterior help to make the game work maybe it's actually a bad game.Now im not saying you can't like bad games just that its better to admit to it than being like a defender of bad gaming practices. Because this game doesn't feel like it's people with 0 support doing jank in europe, it feels just like another AAA failure desu.Also the decision to pick UE over them working on their own engine was a mistake IMO
>>503249213I don't know, I'm asking you.
has anyone used one of those longer daytime/timecycle mods? are they messing stuff up?
There was a fuckup with the game version on GOG, probably why stuff like saving doesn't work properly.
>>503249776I had to load a save from an hour or so ago because it messed so much stuff up, the game has too much shit tied to the timescale.
>>503210594>trust us bro it just doesn't work, it's not like we didn't script a-life at all h-hahaKWAB
>>503248748Did you like clear sky's constant fighting with very little peace and quiet?You'll like STALKER 2
>>503247016good to kno
>>503249967Strange this was advertised earlier in the press release then
>>503248860yea same. its just weird that isnt
>>503248748here's my unfiltered opinionatmosphere is great. they did a great job on itgunplay, also great. meaty and satisfyingexploration, very nice. but could be better due to...A-life which feels like shit in this game. where are the distant gunfights? what about simulated squads? I don't feel that the zone is really "simulated" like it is in the old stalkers. A-life is easily the biggest draw and it just doesn't feel like the zone is a living thing due to the not-so-great implementationperformance is total dogshit. just completely and utterly. crappy hacks like framegen and upscaling should not be required to have a decent experience, but they areeconomy is all kinds of fucked up, as well as HP/damage scaling in terms of which difficulty you choose. I've been playing on stalker diff due to thatit is very true to the originals in terms of "it's not a hardcore survival game." it's very arcade-yoverall. but it feels very much like farcry with a stalker skin. if they fix A-life, fix performance, and unfuck the scaling, it could be really great. for now, it's OK
>>503250330if i see that bloodsucker pic one more time i'm going to scream
>>503250178It's a tradition to overpromise and underdeliver with these fucks. It was worse for SoC because they hyped this shit for fucking years and what we got in 1.0 was a watered down version which had to be fixed by modders years later.
>>503250415It's strange to me that the death screen they chose was a bloodsucker from the earliest cinematic trailer.
>>503250330
>>503249372There's absolutely zero realisic chance GSC would use X-ray again. Ever. It's outdated as shit and would need years of work to be on-par with modern engines. By the time they would be done with upgrading it, it would be out-dated again. And making another CoP wouldn't bring the attention of a big crowd, only the old guard, so profits wouldn't be worthwhile for the publisher to even bother with the game. There's a reason "Thief" 4 wasn't made on the old engine to look like Thief 2 in 2014. And VTM is also a good game, far away from being bad like Stalker. Just because the game has flaws, doesn't mean it's bad. And if an actually bad game like Thief: Deadly Shadows can me made into a good game with the use of mods, that means the core game itself and the concept was good, but the process was mismanaged.
>>503250415I see a basedjak every time I look at it
>>503249956Like what? I've been playing with the 3x one and I haven't been noticing anything that seemed particularly wrong.
>>503250474Cuz it's a placeholder, nobody gave a fuck about this game + "oh it's that bloodsucker from that trailer!"
>>503250094Some things like a-life being a shitshow and bad fps was expected. However, simple things like not being able to rebind your flashlight, the flashlight in general being next to unusable, and not being able to disable console autolean faggotry or assign 4 individual hotkeys to quick access items is just ridiculous
So has anyone found any of the first NFT metahumans yet?
>go to turn in the poppy field quest>crash>game keeps crashing and i cant even play
>haven't slept in 40 hours>have only slept 6 hours in 3 days>start seeing shit out of the corner of my eye constantly while playing>get to the part with the psinigger SPOOKED
>>503250178
>>503250760They did a great job on him that fight spooked me out big time. My favorite enemy so far.
>>503250509The problem i have with UE is simply that i feel it's just not an engine for a niche game like Stalker.Like Kenshi or Rimworld, I feel their best strengths come from being tailored by the author of the games (singular because Kenshi and Rimworld probably has much less developers and funding than GSC).Also rose tinted glasses Bloodlines is saved solely by atmosphere va and soundtrack.But the writing if you sit to pay attention to it, it's pretty bad and there is less freedom that most people tout about the game, on a personal note i think Nightroad was the best Vampire game to be released and it's just a simple text adventure.
>>503250897>I see a lot of mutants there!
>>503250178cyberpunk had a multiplayer shilled before release, look what happened to that
>>503250760George Psioid
>>503250178Did you read that? None of that mentions an offline persistence and simulation system.
>>503250245>>503248748That's some solid info...Do you think the mods will fix it or the devs will fix it?I have little experience with the devs' behaviour, i never tune into that stuff with any game
Even braindead reddit soys are starting to catch onoy vey
>>503248592thanks but how do i install it on a non-steam version?
>>503250632Yeah all the tech/trader oc insert trannies
>>503251023>it's just not an engine for a niche game like Stalker.it's a shooter like many others, there aren't technical aspects of the game that make it only suitable for a custom pos like X-Ray instead of a modular platformstop being stupid
why are most gus already half destroyed? i know in the og games not all were perfect but some of the weapons were like 70-90 condition
>>503251186What about "consider taking time off" implying that if you just chill around somewhere the AI will do its thing, loot bodies and artifacts etc, like AMK.
>>503227286Just like COP, anything too busted will make the traders tell you to fuck off. Some say the cutoff is 40%. Red = unload and drop, yellow and up = sell.
>>503251221I mean technically nothing happened outside of 150 meters in the old games too.
>>503251409>Stalker is just a shooterOk newfag you can leave now.
>>503251370read the description of the mod you fucking illiterate buffoon
How will I spend this Friday night?I have a questionable salami, almost expired canned meat and a very good quality vodka (it's Moldovan), all with a nice onion soup and sour creamand you friends?
I'll tell you something cool if you make a new thread
>>503251370should be the same way as steam
>>503251462weren't there faction migrations or is that only a GAMMA thing?
>>503251201>Do you think the mods will fix it or the devs will fix it?devs will have to fix a lot. performance I think falls pretty squarely on them, as does A-lifeit's easy to fix scaling with some sliders. there are some mods that do that already on nexus I thinkthankfully the devs have been very consumer-facing, so that's a good signoverall, I think with time and love it'll be great. also autistic russians, that helps a lot
>>503251691That was in CS.
>>503251462You can see stalkers and bandits duking it out like 400m in the swamps when standing on the bridge in Zaton in vanilla cop.
>>503251491it literally is, there's nothing about it from a technical pov that would make it impossible to replicate the OG trilogy experience on another enginethis reddit tier cult around the series is fucking cringe, X-Ray was an horrible pos whose only redeeming quality was the modding factor
>>503235217>zone has been canonically opened up to internationals since SOC>mooze literally hasn't been involved with the series at all since partway through CS's development, which is why its soundtrack is half SOC reruns and half new stuff from Alexey Omelchuk>the series has never been all misery brown in vanillaAmazing, every one of your complaints is invalid.
>>503251691Groups were simulated moving around the map, killing each other and stuff and if you went there you'd see them but there wasn't anything truly sophisticated in the vanilla games besides clear sky's faction war that was unfinished.
i hate how my fps can be like 80+ and then randomly drop down to 40 for no reason at all. so i have to restart my game for it to fix itself
>>503251525I have a coke and a cube steak (dirt cheap garbage) and some candy.
>>503251426Misery inspired
>>503246051>loose cashDid the OG trilogy even mention paper currency of any kind? I know it was shown as soviet era roubles but every exchange was wired directly to your PDA. IIRC the garbage bandits that steal all your money in cs even tell you to "wire over your cash"
>first Burer fight>20k coupon shotgun gets pulled from my hands and falls from the worldWe're so back.
>>503251916for me its like 80+ to 5 fps.
>>503251916The game memory leaks
The developers know what we want, and they haven't changed ideology or themes: it's not a Veilguard from Bioware release style, so to speakthese are just technical problems for now, solvable with time and patience. also seeing how fast the modder community is movingwe will eat well fellow stalkers
>>503252087Yeah they were always PDA transactions there too I believe.
>can play guitar>can't play individual notes, just a dozen chords you have to use your mouse to switch betweenRust has a more intricate instrument system than this
>>503251812Your mom has never been brown but she sures swallows plenty of BBC cum for her age.
>>503252229They should have made it so you play an mp3 file or something of your chosing
>>503251445You're reading way too much into it. If the "a-life" director spawns two opposing squads next to you take some time off and wait for them to finish fighting and loot the dead. That's literally how it works in game right now.
>6 reshade 'mods'>0 flashlight mod
>>503252160While I hope you're right, I do not think they will ever fix the A life. AI doesn't even loot bodies currenly.
I made a thinghttps://www.mediafire.com/file/vse98ziampfwrzl/weakerMutants_P.pak/filefirst version so no dolphin porn included as of yet
What are the implications of this?
A-Life not working is genuinely a bigger issue than cops not working in Cyberpunk
>>503252448>boar got more tankyHuh
where can you get a guitar?
>he won
>>503252553Ack! Ack!
>>503222589Yes. Great book.Way back in 2014 some random nigger recommended the Southern Reach trilogy here in this same fucking general, now 10 years later there's a sequel for it and it's awesome. To any fag here that actually likes Roadside Picnic go ahead and do yourself a favor
>>503252581boars are fucking invincible irl so I made them slightly tankiereverything else is the same or less resilient
>>503252448Also look at physical resistances I on the nexus thats the actual reason blyatcykas and polterguys are tanks is they have like 90% physical damage resist which I am guessing is negated by a high pen weapon
>>503252398>>503252564It's not so much a matter of belief, it's a necessity for them to fix it: they are a development company under constant nuclear threat from Russia, it's not like they have much else to do or can afford to lose money like CDPR did.
Bloodsucker? More like Dicksuckma lmao.
>>503252564I agree. I think everyone agrees.
>Val in that Cordon cave is damaged>repairing costs as much as buying a new oneTHANKS!
>>503252779maybe, but I wanna play the fakkin game instead of diving in too deepthis + 50% slower weapon degradation + 20% slower armor degradation + artifacts selling for double + quests giving 3-4x as much cashmoney solves most of my current issues with the game, aside from shit performance and underwhelming aimight also buff artifact effects by ~50% later on, iunno
Finally. Now we just need a no mutants mod and a no anomalies mod...
>>503228565There's plenty of unenterable fake buildings all across the Zone and you think Pripyat is going to be all open? Lole
Anyone else get terrible texture flickering inside ward bases, almost like z-fighting? I'm too lazy to make a webm showing it. Its mainly walls and buildings, but I've only seen it inside ward bases specifically.
>15 hours played>0 crashes>0 memory leaksam I just lucky?
>>503253109I dont get it. The only thing I would love is for Mutants to actually drop loot.
>>503251409>there aren't technical aspects of the game that make it only suitable for a custom pos like X-Ray instead of a modular platformYou mean like a-life?A massive, world spanning simluation constantly running in the background that simulates large amounts of data interacting with itself in an environment that has to jump between offline and online simulation on the fly?Something that a cutscene engine like UE5 isn't built to handle out of the box because it's not just mindless "go here shoot dood" or "swing axe at pretty badguy model for 12 hours"?The difference is that STALKER isn't just a shooter, it's an ecosystem simulator that you get to interact with from the first person perspective.
>>503253109why not only anomalies?there's a 240s grace period after one triggers, it should be enough>>503253190performance sucks ass for me but I haven't had a single crash or a gamebreaking bug so far
>>503253190I started getting crashes more frequently after wild island
>>503247280i wish there was a way to look at our character.
>>503252553zone's finest chud
>>503252617the sleeping area has one on the bunk beds
>Bloodsucker blur comes to you>You have no ammo>Bloodsucker appears out of invisibility stops and looks at you>In a gurgly voice says "Pidor" and goes invisible again>skulks awayHow do you respond?
>>503252121Literally the exact same thing happened to me. Freshly upgraded shotgun, yoinked from my hands and clipped through the ground. Reloaded the game and it was above ground though, so it was all good.
Am I supposed to be able to sneak into the sphere without murdering everyone?The front door just has a 4 man guard and there's nothing you can do
>>503253406I pray to my stalkerbro's icon
>>503253406i cook a grenade an kill myself
>>503253448Kill them all. The IPSF are shitheads.
>>503253406So the Bloodsuckers can't drink AIDS infected blood?
>>503253448>The front door just has a 4 man guard and there's nothing you can dohave you met our lord and savior bolt?
>>503253109Oh my buyanov just like in my tarkov kinoCan we make tons of junk items to loot mod asap!!? Also LPVO mod and real camos mod i dont understand those PMCs camos lol
honestly the game doesn't look half bad minus the a-life controversy and other unreal engine 5 related problemsi'll buy it later though
>>503252373>sit down at campfire with fellow stalgers>whip out guitar>"anyways here's wondyrwol">compressed_10khz_nightcore_DEEPFRIED.mp3
how do I kill poltergeists without looking mad?I hate those fuckers
>>503253720the particles still look like shit though
>>503253776grenade oneshots them if you're brave enough
>>503253776have you tried applying buckshot to them?
he was a good stalker
>>503254006the evidence suggests otherwise
blasting wizards in the face with my shotgun
>>503253676It lets me sneak half way then they all turn around and light me up.Guess they are just dying.
>>503250897>>503251128it took years for no man's sky to become good. please don't tell me that stalker 2 will take this long
ummm this guy looks a bit familiar
>>503253153Guess I can stop being lazy.
can you even do anything with this anomaly?
>>503254241>transparent visorWhy did they do this to us
>>503254241of course: he's literally me
>>503254429try finger but hole
>>503254429theres artefact near it
>>503254376yeah this happens to me too
>>503252746The only interesting concept in this book was the seal team 6 that was sent in first and got absolutely annihilated.
>no artifact to make you run quieter so you can larp as a ninja
>>503217069>On Day 1, CP was unplayable: you couldn't pick up items, the car wouldn't turn, and the first cutscene was a bunch of characters in T pose with missing textures.Lies and propaganda. I beat the game on release and the worst I've seen was some z-fighting, rare slow world loading and maybe one side-quest not spawning properly but it fixed itself so I'm not even sure if it was a bug or something stopped it from spawning for a while.
>>503253406>draw knife>engage in chaseThe bloodsucker fears the aidsrapist.
>>503254376Inside this same building, its especially annoying here.>>503254515Good to know it isn't just on my end.
>>503254376I thought It was raining.
>>503250679anybody?
>>503254193>no man's sky>goodthey added a bunch of superficial surface-level updates to just give you things to do, but in the grand scheme of things they really didn't bring that much to the table. the biggest problem was their foundation. there was very little meaningful progression in NMS so all the stuff they added didn't really give the player any incentive to interact with itstalker has a great foundation with decent progression already and that's half the battle. if they make it feel more like a real simulation like the OG stalkers they could really have something great. just gotta fix A-life and some performance and they're in the clear, I think
>>503250679You need to wake up.
>>503254758Sorry anon, haven't crashed once.
>>503217069the thing with CP77 was that it actually worked on decent enough hardwarestalker 2 doesn't work on any hardware because a-life is literally missing
>>503254376>>503254614>>503254594>Z Fighters you said?
>>503254894It should be illegal to literally advertise it for so long and then moditfy the statement at last minute.
>>503254193NMS is still dog shit, and boring
>>503254902FUARRKOUR HEROES
Uhh
>see 4 stalkers sitting around a campfire>sit down with them>they all stand up and leave
>>503255315A-Loser
>>503255292>ah blyat step-bro im stuck
>>503255315I also had this experience and it made me feel extremely unwanted.
Let's go>t. I know it is jank, don't care I am drunk.
>>503255452On one beer?
>>503255452have fun
>>503255452no matter how comfy these look to me, I immediately have to think how uncomfy it would be to play with this setup.
>>503255452>laptopngmi
>>503255452can that thing even run the game?
>>503255713An airplane toilet?
i miss the lr300.
>>503255452This is living
>>503255713uncomfy at 10fps
>>503255452Report FPS
>>503255452>laptopI'm sorry bro
>>503255881Some modder will figure out how to swap out the 416 model with it by next month, I'm sure.
>>503254429Hide behind the cars or rocks while the bubble is sucking things in, then quickly move between covers when it isn't.
>>503255452Fellow gaming laptop man be sure to use ini edits to help stuttersAnd if you suddenly unexplainably have 1 fps and 99% GPU utilization even though everything was fine (usually in town) just pause and wait 10 seconds or so and it'll unfuck itself and be fine again.Happy stalkan!
I just realized the reddish thunderstorms in the lesser zone are blowouts, but they are weaker since you're so far away from the center, woooow
b-bratan
Should I make a general for the original trilogy? Or better wait until the hype dies?
>>503255452There is no way that's running. Specs?
>>503256727mmmmm crispy salo
>>503256843Make a general for the entire franchise Stalker General should encompass all games.
>>503234065this general used to be so good before retarded pedophiles like you popped up
Pipe down fellow N-words I will do some optimization, intro here at high settings, DLSS quality and frame gen on, doesn't say anything because this is just the start so not taxing anything. Btw 2k screen.
>>503256843what's the point? just make /sg/ and merge both the OG trilogy info and the new game
>>503255452PEAK SOVL has returned to /vg/
bloodsuckers are actual bs. i can barely see them while invisible. in the og games i can at least see them a bit while they are running at me.
>>503257208Just tell me where are the really bad places, like when that anomaly zapped the guy the frametime was all over the place then went back to normal. I am not gonna do intense testing today, I need to top off on my drinking I still have a bottle of brandy and 4 beers.
>>503256843Some shitposter made it /s2g/
>>503250760go fap and go to bed, ya fuckin muppet
>>503257481Cutscenes and the town, especially the bar
>>503235217i thought the zone didnt feel eerie and mysterious like it used to, too many effects and side graphics diluting the atmosphere, im betting on mods making it feel proper down the line. redditard pig cum guzzling faggots and cant hide their gamma only tainted stench so their word doesnt matter
Question for analmeme players, when one of the animation mods gives me there is a duplicate section not marked as override, which section requires the ! prefix? the one that I want to override or the one that overrides.
Is this game good with HDR? I might give it a shot but my monitor's HDR is on the shittier side.
>>503256868The game is well optimized most of the crying on /v/ is from mud but dwelling shitskins using decade old hardware.
>>503256727>forbidden brisket
>>503257973not sure i'll check though i have a good hdr monitor (normally i dont use hdr because it fucks with other apps and screenshots look dumb)
>>503253204its fucked up how theres less rpg stuff in it, 12+ years for what exactly?
>>503254376I think literally whats happening is they have several areas duplicated on top of eachother, seeing this everywhere
>>503254576Sure, buddy
>>503258227kill yourself
This does not indicate anything. Alt-tabbing is not immersive so I am gonna stop now, If I see utter shit I will report it later.
IM SORRY? DID I JUST FIND "BREAD"?
>>503255452good thinking you can use all those meds on yourself after you see how fucked the game is
>>503258425but its been happing only with wall textures, not like the doors etcbut yes that might explain this shit, reminds me of my first skyrim mods
>>503256843/sg/ for old stalker so we can go back to peacefully discussing the good games while these retards trudge through this shit and eventually stop talking about it atleast until good mods start coming out
>>503258621
does Anomaly vanilla supports ultrawide monitors (21/9 and 3440x1440p) by default or do i need a mod to make everything work (including the scopes) ?
>>503258179Looks ok for now, but I'm stuck in the middle of an Emission so I'll wait until I can go inside to see the pitch dark blacks. I think Lumen is turbo shit either way though.
>>503258435Yes. The rest of the book is roadside picnic for women.
I was doomposting before but i'm actually having fun playing through after installing some balance fixes, even with A-Life as is.I apologize.
Is light supposed to work this way?
>>503258460troon so mindrotted they think 4chan is a mirror
>>503254456I don't mind it
>>503256868i7-14650HX, RTX 4070 8GB. I am severely limited by VRAM and might eventually reach overflow, didn't happen with Silent Hill 2 Remake though with raytracing at 2k resolution
>>503256727Glad the dude from HL2 is still finding new roles.
>>503259118>they
>>503259118kill yourself tourist retard
why are upgrades so expensive?
>>503260241>>503260241>>503260241
>>503259309I think it's how inconspicuous your laptop looks. Impressive.
>>503260172Lower the difficulty.On Stalker prices are not much different from the old games.
is there a way to reduce input delay on framegen? i can make the game look good this way but the delay wants me to kill myself
>>503260264>copypasted /s2g/ instead of making the /sg/ with information for both games.Can someone make the real thread already?
>>503260363By increasing your original fps.If your frames before framegen are anything below say 40-45, there will be very noticeable input delay
>>503259079based
>>503260264Stop copy pasting the S2G shit!!!!
>>503249049I went to the sawmill and talked with Scar and the guys from spark squad, nothing unusual happened
>>503234276wait artifacts in anomalies reset?is that on a timer, or on zone unload/reload?
>>503260319That's why I decided to buy a lelnovo legion. They are solid built, good specs and doesn't look like a toy RGB christmas tree so I am not ashamed to lug it to work. The construction is plastic with an aluminum lid but it is very solid no creaking or flexing, good cooling too, I remember like a decade back I had this HP pavilion that had a radeon graphics card under the palm wrest... It would heat up so much your left hand started to smell like cooked chicken.
>best weapon early to mid game>game gives it to you for free>basically infinite 5.45 ammo everywhereThanks Chud.
>>503261140I just got a HP pavilion gaming for dirt cheap, it's capable but I'm out the specs unfortunately. Runs gamma really well tho and is sleek. I'll keep legions in mind
>>503258636da
>>503260264fucking retard
>>503261403It was an old pavilion, radeon 5650 if I am not mistaken, I played CoP on it. Very solid all aluminum laptop but the cooling was extremely shitty so the CPU would throttle all the time or run at 97c
>>503261345>best weapon early to mid gameHaha, no, fora with the 2x is way better
>>503256287can you link these edits? someone made some before, but it then made shader compilation take over 45 minutes and it still wasnt even halfway done, so i closed the game, got rid of the engine.ini file, and then when i started the game a bunch of my textures were broken (guns were literally missing pieces) so I had to reinstall the whole damn game
https://streamable.com/iwgatostole his mp5 lol
>>503250330>Calling the game a fruitless, grim and hellish slog that never endsThank you Rolling Stone, very cool
>>503263735>getting up to try and shoot>take gun away
>>503250330Politics in vidya. Ah what a touchy subject. We had that gay gate thing back in the day if I am not mistaken? It's a breath taking polarizing experience sarcastically of course. There is a thin line between real life events and fictional worlds because they bounce back between each other. I myself am a staunch supporter of keeping that shit out but I can't deny the influence it has. Back in the 2000's Ukrainian army was just a corrupt useless institution with no clear goals or vision like the military in the OG games. In current year it is a corrupt but useful institution with clear goals and it can't be portrayed like it was back in the day because of some seething trannies because they don't see the borders between fiction and real life. It is all so tiresome.
