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Bulletsponge edition

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1643320/STALKER_2_Heart_of_Chornobyl/
https://www.gog.com/en/game/stalker_2_heart_of_chornobyl_ultimate_edition

>Bugs report
https://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

>Stalker Optimizer
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2

>Optimized Tweaks S.2 - Reduced Stutter Mouse Fix Improved Performance Lower Latency
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7

>Disable TAA - Chromatic Aberration - Film Grain - Depth of Field - Vignetting
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/21

>Reasonable Weapon Degradation
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/33

>less tanky bloodsuckers and poltergeists
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/23

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>>503210326
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>fweee-oooh-weeeet!
>ha ha ha
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>>503260241
>/s2g/
where is the normal one
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>/s2g/
Fucking cringe. Delete this thread and do it again properly.
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>>503260241
posting my question again, does Anomaly has Ultrawide monitor support by default without needing a mod for scopes ?
in 3440x1440p and 21/9.
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THE RAT CATACOMBS
THE RAT CATACOMBS ARE REAAAAAAL
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I haven't bought Stalker 2 yet, waiting for the A-Life and performance to get fixed. Anyone else here in the same camp? What are the estimates of when will this get patched up. Will it be done by spring next year?
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everything is way to expensive in this game. fucking gamma niggers ruined stalker
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What shall my next gamma playthrough be
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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.
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>>503260756
>tfw I had the hubris to think throwing a grenade would save me from their wrath
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>>503260346
>>503260469
Why didn't you do it? You had like, an hour
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>>503260345
(attracts attention)
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>>503260778
Yes, but I'm just waiting for A-Life 2.0. to get properly implemented, gonna play over GeforceNOW, so performance won't be a prob.
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>>503260756
>>503260878
the trick is to stand still and spam an aks at them.
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Pretty sure this is bugged underground but has anyone been able to snag the artifact found where i'm at on the map? I can get right on top of it, showing full green circle/005 on my detectors but it won't appear. The only other time this happened it was also underground and I can just grab it by using the prompt rather than actually seeing it.
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for those who went the warden paths, does it feel like youve picked the wrong side too?

i just finished the 2nd zone going for w/e the other faction is, i feel like im joining some insane cult
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>>503260878
the grenades do work, it's the best way to kill them by far. You just need to position it properly.
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>mission to get to the island
>4 fucking bloodsuckers come out of the swamp
It's not been so bad killing the mutants with the trappers old unique shotgun, but sheesh, four of these cunts stunlocking me with their screams is a lot
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>>503261363
>>503261178

I just ran past them and speedily looted everything then climbed the ladder desu

enjoy your kingdom, rat boys
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>>503260756
molotov would work nice here but we don't have them for some reason
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I had to refund.....
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anyone found a bolt action sniper yet? I don't like the svd and the m14 I found doesn't have a scope
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>>503261282
Honestly regretting not going with the wardens at this point. Scar and some of the others sound/act deranged, and I'm not down for their plans anymore.
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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..
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>>503261550
molotovs would be a great way to use the 300 bottles of vodka I find in the wild every time I trudge through a new area. I have positive radiation bleed but it feels like such a waste just leaving them
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>>503261648
There's only one methinks, the M701
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1300 just for an artifact that could cost 7500... i know in the og games they werent exact but you got alot for them. in this you get jack shit.
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bruh
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>>503261282
does the game tell you when you're about to join a faction? I'm at the part where I just showed the unknown PDA to the dude in the suit and the general but I'm not sure if that made me part of their faction or something
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>>503260241
more like "OP is a retarded and mouthbreathing negroid Edition"
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So are you limited to just choosing one attachment per gun? I got a cool USP with an optic but it won't let me attach a suppressor.
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Why is shit so expensive to repair?
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>>503261630
You refunded gamepass?
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>>503261918
Prease understand sirs....
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>>503261762
Lower your settings
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>>503261648
I've found one so far, red broken though and can't be bothered repairing it yet
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Guys, you can stop creating /s2g/s now, the first one was made as a joke (an semi-elaborate shitpost.)
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>>503260856
no
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>>503261918
>Please understand
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>>503262190
Upgrade it at a Tech, some guns won't take attachments until you do (like the G36)
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>you start far away from the center of the zone
>therefore you don't need to hide from emissions
pretty cool
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>analmeme
>walk close to a body
>he says something
>tink
motherfucker almost got me
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>>503262492
You are a nigger if you started this shit. This is how shit gets lost.
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>>503261762
optimized tweaks s2 on nexus
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Do you need a key for Wisp's stash on the farm?
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>>503262492
I'm 100% sure the people who keep making /s2g/ just copy all the previous text because no one else is making a thread.
I made a previous one because despite it being past bump limit no one had made a new one for hours. Suddenly in the first few seconds I had 3 retards screaming and crying about the thread name.
What was stopping:
>>503262492
>>503262015
>>503260346
>>503260469
from making a new thread in the 2+ hours before this one?
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>>503262294
Dont repair, reuse
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About to start Call of Pripyat, what am I in for?
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>>503262758
well I just search "stalker" so I don't care
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>>503262761
wtf does that mean?
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>>503262782
You should start with SoC.
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>>503262782
fun
it's great
:)
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>>503261545
ran back up the ladder and dropped a nade into the swarm, takes out the whole pack
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>>503262782
>emission when ?
>NOW
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>>503262349
No I bought the game like a good lad but it's in shit of a state. Maybe next year I'll be back
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>>503262492
You put up the tent, now enjoy your circus.
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>>503262294
Don't repair unless you really want to use a specific weapon like the SVD you get from the guy in the warehouse with boobie traps
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Question about anomaly, im using the FDDA mods and there is something i don't understand, when there is a conflict it tells me to mark something for override using the prefix ! on the item, what i don't understand is if should add the prefix to the file i want to override or the file i want to be overriden.
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>abandoned and destroyed buildings from the >middle of the last century
>wind shaking dry leaves
>sounds of geiger detector
>traveler's sausage

we are so back boys
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>>503261630
No need for refunds because I torrented. Standard practice in easter yuropoo, you westoids might not approve. If it's fixed and finished I will drop my hard earned shekels to the devs, I am a medfag so I have money but tradition is tradition.
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>>503262782
Play all 3, don't mod CoP. Bring a shotgun for the starter areas to blast mutants with. The mercenaries at the water treatment plant are a good source of decent weapons early game but they can blast you from 100+ meters away so you're gonna have to be sneaky.
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Use this mod instead.
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/60?tab=files

it has 5 options from
>Quality - Minor visual downgrades, moderate performance gains & reduced stuttering
to
>Ultra Performance - VERY high visual downgrades, extremely high performance gains & greatly reduced stuttering. Note: Only use Ultra Performance if you really need the most FPS, its very aggressive in its scaling
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why does the game look so awful without upscaling>?
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>>503262748
no. isn't his stash just next to his body?
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>>503262878
I did but got a bug where the scientist in yatnar that you have to do the radiation test with keeps getting bugged. Either he gets stuck on the door leaving the bunker. Or after doing the quest we walk back to it and the doors perma locked and won't open. As far as I know I can't just cheat to spawn the psy blocker thing in, but I do know you can actually just walk past the brain scorcher area but using anti rads and continue that way. But I already know the ending and stuff for SoC so I figured might as well just move to CoP which I heard isn't as buggy, and it'll be blind for me(then I'll play gamma)
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How long until a cheeky modder copies the Stalker 2 hud and starts making better screenshots of the zone in xray?
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>>503263206
to force you to use upscaling. they didn't bother to add anisotropic filtering to foliage
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>>503263061
maybe someone can help me understand it with this screenshot.
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yeah those are emissions lite
I think people don't even realize they happen before the first scripted one pops
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>>503263109
Being a veteran I just picked up the SVD under a tree and that SPAS. Popped the heavy armored ones from the right flank looking frontally, then got rid of the rest with slugs from the SPAS to the head. Sometimes due to how the their AI works (in a good way) two guys flank me and shoot me in the ass or the other merc buddies decide to BRRRRT my position after I shoot their exo chunky boy.
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is there an achievement for beating the game on veteran? or is it ok to change to stalker?
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>>503261958
its probably not set in stone yet, all i know is

>first zone
whoever gets the thing changes which zone you go to next, wardens go west, others north

>2nd zone
showing the warden the pda makes you "official" working for them, which pisses off the other guy but they wont attack you for it while not showing to the wardens and then showing to them lets you go their path
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>>503263206
>without upscaling
if your rig is stronk you're meant to use DLAA, not DLSS
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>>503263429
>they didn't bother to add anisotropic filtering to foliage
fuck you're right, couldn't quite put my finger on it
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Had an emission and now my whole game looks like this. 10/10
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>>503263573
No difficulty chivs as far as I'm aware, Veteran is just gay as it is right now without mods, and all mods change too much shit that nobody complained about anyway, so you might as well go down to Stalker if you're not having fun.
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>>503263465
Are you using MO2?
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which torrent version - protable or GoG?
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>>503263902
Yes anon
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>>503263761
There is absolutely no reason to use inbuilt anisotropic filtering in any game these days. It is best to keep it off and force it through the graphics card control panel because any Nvidia or AMD implementation is much better.
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>faff around north of Deaf Meadow to see if theres any artifacts around
>down by the water a military patrol appears
>figure I'd tag along with them because they were marching towards that huge anomaly field so maybe free loot
>find random dead stalker along the path
>check him, he's got some good stuff(for me) a good condition AK-74S
>its a fookin' Bloodsucker ambush
>the fucker comes at me out of nowhere
>rund around in panic keeping the 3 soldiers between me and it
>as theyre unloading mag after mag I try to hit it with my shitty Viper-5
>one after one the soldiers get cut down until only the sergeant and me remains
>creature finally dies
>loot everything, salute the remaining soldier and drink an energy drink as I hightail back to Zalissya

I would've 100% been dead if that squad of soldiers weren't with me, but disaster ended in prosperity instead. Such is life in the zone.
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Are the common PDAs important or can I sell them?
Stalker 2 of course
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>fix performance
>either add alife or simply unfuck spawns
>a few balance tweaks, like quests giving fuck all money
>ez 8/10
performance being so ass drags everything else down so much
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>>503264132
sell them
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>>503261918
I'll stay. True stalkers don't give up.

We'll reach the center togerher
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>>503263871
i just wanna change cause the prices on veteran are actual bs
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Is there no 9mm pistol?
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>>503264048
it annoys me that when some people from a squad die you can just loot the others with no repercussions
oh don't mind me just helping myself to your friend's gear
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>>503264132
they give you stash locations, you can sell them.
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>>503263902
It's this combo basically and it's loaded in the order it should go, so the problem is clearly that i need to mark either the second file with override tags, or the last file with override tags.
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>get given an unbreakable gun for free
Genuinely stupid how easy this game is
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>>503264376
The makarov
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>>503262486
do you remember where anon?
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How can this game run so poorly while looking like shit. This game is so damn blurry it makes me think I need corrective lenses. Yet I somehow only get 30-40fps in most areas.
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is the sig p220 in stalker 2 or did they get rid of it?
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>>503264330
same for me, actually fkin brutal but maybe I just need to take it slow
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>>503264330
lrn2mod
takes like 5 minutes to tweak .cfg files
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Anyone got the AES key for the unpacker? Someone posted it some threads ago.
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>>503264376
You get handed a free 9x19mm handgun as part of a main mission later on. You can't miss it
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>>503264376
a scientist at sircaa gives you a UDP that uses 9x19mm
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>>503261918
my feelings for ukraine hinges on this game.
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>>503264553
only PM, USP, Stechkin, Revolver, Mac-10 (it fits the pistol slot) and some variants of these guns.
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>>503263907
GoG always without any doubt. I downloaded RUNE because it was the only one I found. I have downloaded a lot of their installers, we might not be frens with Poland but I thank them, half of my archived collection is GoG installers. Others are DODI, Fitgirl, emulation and some obscure whatever the fuck for some very rare games like Soldiers of Anarchy which I highly recommend to fellow stalkers here but I am afraid most downloads are down. Feel free to browse my collection. It isn't complete by any means, I've played much more but I need to upgrade my storage.
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>>503264889
gay
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>>503261918
So why did they remove a-life from the steam page and it just so happens that a-life doesn't seem to be in the game?
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>>503264889
>Mac-10 (it fits the pistol slot)
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>>503262748
Nah, his stash is on the elevator; I meant this one, it's a safe behind a locked door.
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>>503263871
>>503264330
wut? you can literally just change difficulty to rookie before trading to get better prices. probably also works with quest rewards
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>>503262748
>>503263226
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>>503264951
Mod will fix this.
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>>503264889
No Fort and no Sig is gay but APS is very not gay.
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They're literally walking right into an anomaly field without changing course
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it's definitely stalker. optimization is half-assed and bugs are embarrassing, but it's stalker
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>lightning storm for the xth time
>think nothing ever happens its just fucking up the view
>in the car scrapyard just jumping on car roofs
>get hit by the lightning for 60% of my hp

huh that was unexpected, didnt think it could actually do that
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Anyone still getting that bug where dying and reloading a save cuts your fps in half and you need to restart the game?
I've noticed that if you just go back to the main menu and reload from there, that will fix it sometimes (occasionally takes 2 or 3 attempts). I wonder what's up with that?
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>>503260241
kill yourself
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>>503265002
A-Life 2.0 broke because of their shitass coding so they just cranked up spawns so the game wouldn't be empty and they decided to not delay the game to fix it basically.
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Is the weird flower actually useful?
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>>503264242
>>503264468
That's what I thought

Also I just obtained flashdrive from Journalist
They know how to play on my inner buildosoldat feelings, I give them that
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>/s2g/
Niggerfaggot
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>>503260346
I'm restarting /sg/ when this one hits bump limit. A return to form.
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>no monolith
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More of an AK man myself but I shan't pass upon this bad boy.
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>>503264481
what about the stalker who is expecting you to give it?
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>wardens invade Trash Heap
>silky smooth 4fps in the entire area and during this whole cutscene
T-thanks!
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Where is the old guide
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>>503263832
Skif got his eyeballs fried clearly
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>>503266109
Shouldn't of dropped his gun
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I am Commander Pidor and this is the most unoptimized game on 4chin
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>NPCs get dynamic shadows on their flashlights
Fuckers....Some anons said those shadows looked pixelated, but these look pretty good to me! Doesn't exuse it being gone on our flashlights.
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>>503266109
Not my problem
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I am home bros, feels so good.
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>>503266636
Why does your game looks so good
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>>503264497
I'm certain I just looted it from a bandit.
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I usually have heroic gamer syndrome but I have no problem doming people in the zone. Anyone else have flexible ethics?
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this game is fucking dogshit, theres no way people are actually enjoying this
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>>503265515
I got killed by a lightning bolt in the first village when talking to the guy outside the bar goving rookies advice about surviving the zone
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>>503249049
I went to the sawmill and talked with Scar and the guys from spark squad, nothing unusual happened
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>>503266704
This game looks fucking amazing on static screenshots but loses a lot of charm in movement.
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>>503266123
>You'd be wise to join my gang, stalker
>Join my gang...or ELSE!
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>>503266704
set to high at 1440, thats all
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>>503266829
Everyone is miserable in the zone so it doesn't really feel like a moral, ethical or legal cirme to kill any of them. Better me than a group of flesh
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>>503266842
You can't trust anyone right now to be honest, wait until the honey moon period goes away for real opinions or play the game yourself if you dare
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>>503266123
SHOIGU WHERE IS MY PDA
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>Play stalker 2
>head to first village
>stutter
>take a step forward
>stutter
>turn around
>stutter

Yup. Bought too early.
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>>503266636
home....
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>>503266636
Game has shortcomings for sure, but can't say I'm not having fun. It's STALKER through and through.
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>>503263206
Upscaling is a form of Temporal Anti-aliasing. Shading and other transparent textures are actually noisy and shitty looking by themselves, and via TAA you overlap these two images (or your current frame + N number of your previous frames) to get a "full" image. It's a form of interpolation in a way. It has its problems mainly in the softness and ghosting.
DLSS is TAA but uses lower resolution image then with le power of AI it bumps it up to your current resolution. DLAA is the same process but uses your native resolution to reconstruct your final frame with AI.
The reason why games look like shit without TAA/DLSS is the assets themselves are low-res, noisy, and transparent and only work with a temporal fix TAA/DLSS/DLAA provide. That's the reason why it's better than native in some cases because the game is designed that way. It "fixes" an issue maybe not should be there in the first place but I don't know shit about the technicalities.
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>>503264474
sorry anon my internet shat itself
Are you sure you're not installing two different version of the same mod? because i only have FDDA
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>bandits with mac-10s nailing me with every bullet from 100m away through dense undergrowth
did the fucking radiophobia devs balance these
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>>503267104
How's that A-Life 2.0?
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>>503266842
Game is unexpectedly good for microdick-game-made-for-consoles but jesus fucking christ the performance and ai issues turn it from 9 to 7 at beat
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>>503265327
Mods aren't enough i want GSC to fucking add more guns, i am certain there were more guns in the leaked build. I want to see an update casually go

>New weapons: Martha, SIP-t M200, HPSS-1m and Walker P9M added

No DLC or any big announcement, just fucking throw new content into the game like it was always there. It's UE5, there's NO EXCUSE that it'd break your saves or the game balance some shit like that. And mods will always break when things update and knowing these types of games they will be either everywhere or nowhere because getting the right spawn rate is gonna suck to figure out.
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>>503267083
based
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>>503267218
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/food-drug-drink-missing-animations-patch

nope it's an addon for an addon for FDDA.
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Where is it, bros...?
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>>503267206
Forgot image.
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>>503266842
I'm liking it overall. When there is something happening the game feels great. It's biggest issues are the complete lack of anything inbetween objectives or stashes. The world is so completely dead aside from scripted encounters at specific locations and random encounters.
But ultimately the game going "you climbed this ladder" or "you exited this building that had loot in it" then triggering friendly/enemies to spawn 25m away from you knowing where you can only work a couple times before it gets aggravating.
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>>503267334
Yeah they're not adding anything for free, if you missed preorder bonuses no worries, you'll be able to buy them later :)
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>talk to warlock, first barkeep in the game
>go kill some bandits I’ll pay you 600 kocks
>(no idea how little it is so I accept) >expected like 2-3 dudes
>there’s fucking 8 of them in an open field with no cover anywhere
ahahahaha fuck this game
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Why are mutants so tanky?
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ayo where da binoculars at?
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>>503267104
Some things feel straight-up like in the old games, it's uncanny.
That being said I don't like the open world and compass. I find myself barreling through random sparse forest and bushes from POI to POI too often instead of walking on roads. Doesn't help the filler areas have fuck-all anomalies but the closer you get to roads the more there are. I always thought the canon explanation as to why we're so limited in old games was because it's impossible to cross outside of specific points because wilderness is full of anomalies.
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>>503267761
forget the binoculars, where are the nvgs?
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>>503267761
The devs didn't add them because there is nothing to see over 50m away.
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>>503267761
they will come with the a life update kjek
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>>503267704
u rike it?
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>>503267761
lost to the zone
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>>503267598
Fuck you i want her back
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When will A-Ilife 2 get fixed?
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>>503267206
>It has its problems mainly in the softness and ghosting.
Yea it looks like ass no matter what on 1080p
which would be okay if upscaling was extra performance but sloppy devs just stopped optimizing whatsoever so games run like trash and don’t even look good nowadays
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>>503267810
Just disable the compass.
I've disabled all ui except for ammo counter
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>>503268130
isnt the same with muh minimap..
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>>503267704
we want the dark souls audience
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>>503267761
Stolen by the black stalkers, every single one of them
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Duty was right. Freedom are a bunch of pussies.
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Man fuck this anomaly hunting, the piece of shit does not spawn at all. I wish it moved around and revealed itself briefly like in the previous games to at least give you hint of where it's at.
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>>503266636
wow, yeah.. lives up to the originals and then some!
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>press o for detector
>oops try again
>press tab for minimap
>haha fuck you
I should probably just remove those buttons
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>>503267059
yeah this is the first game my geforce4070S has actually had noticeable performance dips. it runs CP2077, Space Marine2, BG3 at balls to the wall settings with not a single hiccup whatsoever

such is the nature of slav games though, give it a year and its gonna be mostly ironed out
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Ukranian + subtitles or English voice?
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>>503267810
turn off compass. it is way more immersive
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>>503267380
the 2nd patch is overriding the main one so load order is correct, if you also followed the extra instruction i guess something broke during updates
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>>503268275
ISAAC WTF IS THIS PLACE THATS NOT ISHIMURA
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>>503268275
AYO STALKAR, GOTCH SU SOME RUMORS MY NIG
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>>503268374
Some artifact spots are bugged currently and spawn the artifact underground or in a wall and you can't get them :)
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>>503268474
I'm doing English for the first run. It feels bad at first but it's quite charming after a while
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>>503268474
ukrainian VO for some characters is better but worse for others. Skif sounds better in English while Solder better in Ukrainian. Personally i just play with english VO and no subtitles for the immersion.
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>>503268474
I picked ukrop voices + subs and I’m happy with the atmosphere but I wish you could increase the range of subtitles. When you follow some dude during a quest you need to be fairly close or subs fade, closer than his audible range
other than that (doesnt happen often) it’s certainly more sovl than englisg
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do roaming patrols exist? i feel like the answer is no but i want want confirmation
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>>503268275
What are semi-sentient cotton picking, melanin enriched farm equipment doing in my zone? I can understand if they are mercs but not his.
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>>503268683
It happened here as well, it just reaches maximum clicks but then does not appear.
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>>503268275
It would make more sense if they added more asians instead of blacks, since Russia and Ukraine have asiatic minorities
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>>503268275
I typically don't cry DEI unless it's very obvious and I didn't mind the idea of a black hohol in pre-release because I figured it's just going to be a lone unique character or maybe two at worst and the game will acknowledge they're somewhat out of place, which might be interesting and even give us an interesting point of view but as far as I can tell like 50% of generic Ward guys are black. It's honestly off-putting how many black guys there are.
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>>503268906
Where is this?
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I play Ukrainian with no subtitles, I don't understand a fucking thing
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>>503267272
Bummer, but not a dealbreaker. Random encounters are still an improvement over what we had in ogs which were mostly static and scripted spawns. I still hope the idea will be realized in the future but so far I would settle for bigger distance and fixing issues with current spawns.
>>503267810
Yeah, compass is a shit feature. Wonder if we gonna see minimap making a comeback in a mod or future update, I would switch to that in a heartbeat
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stay the hell away from this fucker
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>>503269014
use cover you dumbo
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I made the mistake of downloading the installer onto an external HD and now it's taking fucking forever to actually install onto the SSD because the external drive reads so slow.
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>>503267983
no, I don't like spending 70% of my total ammo to kill one bloodsucker and it's very annoying pumping 6 slugs into a boar, only for it to still be alive with 4 more of his buddies coming to rape me.
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I have 20 hours in the game and I haven't met a single black stalker.
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>>503269014
There's an unique artifact there. Run in when it's off and brace against the left Bukhanka. After that use rocks as cover to escape.
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>>503264481
>unbreakable
what
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>>503269010
I like minimap better but it takes up a bunch more space I’m not sure which one’s better
Thankfully you can turn off most indicators without turning off the compass altogether
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there's no binoculars because zoomers are short sighted and culturally don't scout
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>>503269132
you have bad aim. boars die in 2 slugs and fleshes in 3.
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>>503269189
But detectors shows nothing.
Do you need a better one or just run through?
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>>503268474
half the english voices are fucking bri'ish, and that's objectively worse than listening to hohol lingo
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>>503269132
>https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/23
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>>503269360
>flesh is 50% tougher than a boar
This fucking game I swear to god
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>>503269369
I grabbed it without a detector, it's one of the special mutated object ones that are always spawned. You can see it from some distance away, it's a red ball on the floor between the two cars in the middle.
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>>503267083
>campfire casts warm light and shadows
soul

>>503266636
>campire looks like an orange blott on a flat space, no light, no shadows
soulless
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>>503269383
>Grok's Modular Mutant Health
GMMHsisters.... WE WON
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>>503269132
stop using the slop difficulty
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>>503269132
Some fag posted a reasonably nerfed mutants .pak near the end of last thread, use it if you’re too much of a woman to shotgun niggas point blank
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>>503269383
I'm not modding on my first run, I'm not insane.
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What's the file structure I need to have when I'm repacking a mod that I'm modifying using UnrealPak? The tutorial on the GAMMA Discord says "MyModName_P/Stalker2/GameLite/GameData..." but that's not the full path and I'm both tired and retarded so I need some spoonfeeding on the full path I need.
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>>503267761
nothing to see past 50m so they didnt add them

>>503268328
would.
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How's the revolver?
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What is the best difficulty to play Stalker 2 in?
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>Still having mutant problems (November 22nd 2024 timeline 2)
we told you turn off Veteran
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>>503269623
stop using the journalist difficulty
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>>503269697
>I insist on being retarded
then suffer and shut the fuck up, nibba
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>>503268989
Northwest of Garbage location.
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>>503269907
>I insist on cheating on my first run
you didn't beat the game
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>>503267761
do you think you can just pretend to spam this question every thread?

what a slimy weasel you must be
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>blowout coming
>stutter my way into bar
>2 guys sit in the middle table
>watch this guy drop his ipad 10 times
>turn around to see there is no one sitting at the middle table
>maybe they were never there all along

>take mission to find missing stalker near poppy field
>20 dogs spawn on his body
>reach for my shotgun... a bolt action sniper rifle comes up
>I never picked up such a gun
>die and reload game
>come to the 20 dogs again, pull out shotgun and blast them in the face
>dogs do not even flinch
>die and reload game
>throw grenade this time at pack of dogs
>instead of 20 there are 5
>group of bandits spawn behind me
>walk away from bandits and kill dogs
>walk back to look for the bandits
>there are no bandits to be found anywhere
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FSR upscale from 640x360
Minimal settings
Performance mod
25FPS lock

ITS TIME TO PLAY
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>>503269880
Okay well that's literally what high difficulty is. You feal 0.60x damage and take 1.5x more damage. So what do you want
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>>503269706
Grab the one from the tutorial on github (the one with .bat scripts) in the pins in gamma discord / modding channel, unrealpak in ue5.1 straight up isnt working for keeping folder structure you want barring bizarre workarounds that feel like bugs
t. wasted over 3hrs on this
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>>503270175
>no u
Are you dumb?
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>>503270157
use the ultra performance preset from
>>503263168
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>>503268980
Aren't they UN? If so my only complaint is that there aren't pajeets as well
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>>503267083
Based iwp enjoyer
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>>503270258
you absolute fucking fishbrain
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Should i Sharpsticks and Boomsticks on 1.5.3?
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>>503270120
Yup its extremely annoying and immersion breaking
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Wait, there are people actually complaining that Veteran is too hard?
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>install some bullshit placebo tweaks
>game runs maybe a tiny bit better but shaders now compile for 3min instead of 1min
>whatever
>also makes bloodsuckers 100% invisible
FIX THE FUCKING PERFORMANCE YOU RETARDED PIGGERS I AM SO SICK OF IT
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is there an in-game FPS counter?
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so, they know A-life is fucked up an they're working to fix it
so, its a good thing, right?
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>>503270679
SLAVA UKRAINI
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>>503270751
I don't think much will change. At most we will get an increased spawn radius.
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>>503270634
Shit’s tedious yo
Some mutants like bloodsuckers are too tanky even on stalker much less on veteran
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>>503270751
>A-life
never had it
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The emissions are so anticlimactic
needs a little screenshake and to rain heavily afterwards or something
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>>503270175
Humans are fine.
Mutants suck ass on any difficulty.
Also dunno where you came up with those numbers.
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where is diode after the ward invades
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>>503270869
You say this 5 or 6 times per thread
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>>503270968
souf
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>>503270973
Preaching the truth I am
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WHAT THE FUCK IS IT NOW YOU SLAVJANK PIECE OF SHIT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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I kinda regret paying full price for it, the game itself is better than expected but the performance is so bad it makes me want to drop it for a few weeks
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Forgive me Zelensky for I have used the money glitch
Also Zaton, home
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>>503269190
The gun has unlimited durability essentially
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>>503270897
I think it's the opposite really. Mutants are fine and tanky the way it's supposed to be but humans literally take 20 5x56 to the leg, run off and fire at you through foliage with amazing accuracy.
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>bethesda spawns
>oblivion zoom in dialogue
>chornobyl

s.t.o.l.k.o.r.s. i don't feel so good....
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>>503271284
runs fine on my 9800x3d and 7900 xtx machine
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>>503271164
SAAAAAAAAAR. Unreal man train engine is hard job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26I-Pw-yPJ4
>tfw shader compiling since 1998
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>>503270751
A-Life as they described it is not in the game at all. It never was. The only files that mention A-Life at all have nothing to do with it either, it's just the random spawn generation.
They 100% knew what they were shipping didn't include A-Life and they just hoped their band aid would be convincing enough.
They deleted A-Life from the steam store page just before release, said "oh no it's definitely still in!!!", and now it's out there is zero evidence of anything related to it being in the game.
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hold on i just realized, where's the psy health meter?

Does the game just not tell you when you're being brain raped?
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>>503271528
>They deleted A-Life from the steam store page just before release
snakes
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>>503270357
Ward is the armed portion of SIRCAA which was founded by Ukrainian Government.
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>>503271164
I had this earlier today. For me what fixed it was: Go back into the game and start a new run. If it allows you to do so and doesn't crash, your saves are fucked and you need to go back an hour or so.
Other people have cited out of date drivers, Bios or needing to verify integrity to fix it.
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How do i not get ass raped with these repair prices?
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found a couple of these around but can't seem to interact with them. are they part of a mission or do I need an item or something?
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>phantom enemies and spooky sounds and disappearing artifacts
HOHOLMAN HELP I'M GOING INSANE
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>>503271582
You will know when you are being brain raped, trust me. It's very obvious.
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>>503271582
You lose health instead. The psi effect includes the original stuff as well as monolith spawns that shoot at you, if you kill them they disappear.
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>>503271594
Not only that, their excuse was "oh we freshened the wording up for marketing" and yet literally nothing else changed on the steam page lmao, zero wording changes. The line it used to be on was still there too, they just deleted it out leaving a strange double gap between two points.
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>>503271756
early mission, keep going
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>>503264779
Same lol, I'm polish living abroad and avaryone back home tells me about the constant plotting, backstabbing and lying of hohols ever since they came as refugees. I didn't want to believe it but this surely lines up with we're going through now
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I honestly welcome our new mutant overlords, makes the encounters actually last long for them to finally be a threat and force to reckon with. That one bloodcyka you meet when collecting the collars actually made me grab the shit needed for quest and lure it to Zalisya so others could kill it for me. Kinda oldschool and fukken rad if you ask me.
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bring back /sg/ ;-;
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>>503271748
You cheat the game. Put a high priced item on your sell-box at a vendor, then put 20 breads next to it. You'll get the first item x 21 of the price on your sell tab. Now click on the bottom confirm and voila, you're rich.
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>>503272042
We're taking back this general next thread, trust the plan
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>Bubbs's PDA was an anomalous artifact all along that you can never part with once picked up
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>>503270751
There is no a-life. You can't fix what isn't there. The entire game is built around triggered spawns and then de-spawns when you get too far away. They would have to basically remake the game or figure out a way to combine the a-life with the existing scripted movie game bullshit. I also have a suspicion they're using unreal metahumans based on how performance becomes absolutely dogshit if you get within 30 feet of an NPC.

There is so much wrong here that fixing it would take years of development time.
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>>503271748
play the game and try to make money. sometimes you cant repair because you dont have money. theyre high but i dont know why people are complaining so much. i mainly quest and sell some loot to the traders and still able to get by while repairing my tourist suit and the scoped ak, which are more expensive
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https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/60?tab=description
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7?tab=description
which?
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back to the slag heap is broken holy shit
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>actually there is no a-life at all bro, it isn't just broken! reddit dataminers told me so!!!
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>>503269821
Wait what there's a revolver?
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>>503271748
I got some decent armor that I could never once afford to repair. I just kept it in shit condition until I replaced it with another copy of the prior armor I had
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>>503272215
both placebo
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>>503272142
This was fucking annoying, guy sends me into anomaly field to retrieve his 'brothers body'. Obviously it's a scam so I loot his brothers corpse and read the PDA note confirming it's a scam so I shoot the fucker in the head with my scoped AK and now I can't get rid of the PDA because it's still marked as a quest item.
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>>503272142
Does that bloke dude ever show up again? He said to buy him the lick but that's it really.
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>>503272268
Soooooooo why did they remove it from the steam page?
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>>503272268
>Zero indication of it ever being in the game
>deleted off store page for absolutely no reason at all if it's still in
>System isn't just bugged or "broken", it currently is doing NOTHING
This was "somehow" a surprise to the devs even though they pumped the random generation to compensate somehow? Reeks of bullshit.
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ALRIGHT GAMERS, CRACK OPEN YOUR MONSTER ENERGY DRINKS AND LETS GAME
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>game sucks because stuff doesn't constantly happen somewhere totally unrelated to my actual location (which i can't even actually see or know it happened)
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mad because you don't have a-life
or are y'all mad because you don't have a life
??
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>>503268474
>>503268747
>>503268767
>>503268824
>>503269374
Oi! Ye go' a loicense fo' dat stalkin' mate?
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>>503272497
anon he wasn't scamming. the PDA confirms he owed money to some bad people that caused him to get desperate and search the anomaly field for artifacts...

also it doesn't matter, once the PDA is picked up it stays no matter what you do
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>>503266636
how is noone bothered by this? THE CAMPFIRE DOESNT EMIT LIGHT
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>>503250245
this is my feeling too pretty much 1 to 1
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>>503272570
A-life is in the game because otherwise NPCs would be completely static or not appear at all in the wilderness.
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>>503272614
That's not A-life and you just exposed the fact that you didn't play the original trilogy, fuck off.
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>>503272268
Guess why there's no pda messages
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>>503266636
weird seeing them look like that instead of
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>>503272614
>game good because all encounters spawn 30ft from you, instantly know where you are, and often appear from areas you just cleared
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Where are all the cats in the zone
You'd think at minimum every bar would have a cat for patrons to pet
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How do I fight the psi anomaly in the new Zaton, in the Stone village? It turns nearby NPCs into zombies to fight me, spawns multiple artifacts but can't kill them, I just wander around to find a hidden enemy to kill but nothing so far.
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>>503269907
>I want to be like all those retards who never actually played the vanilla original games and pretend that guns in SoC felt good to use and didn't have dogshit accuracy until you get the last tier of weapons
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>>503272614
>AI spawning right behind your back is.......LE GOOD!
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>>503260241
My fucking save was deleted. The fuck???
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>>503272981
You don't want a pet cat in the zone anon.
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>>503272882
Embarassingly wrong.
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>>503272578
Can you turn off the shit hud and just use your pda as a map?
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>>503273135
If you're a barkeep who never leaves town, yeah you would.
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>>503273221
yea
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>looking for a stash
>climb up to a roof and find this
>completely non-interactable floating ball artifact

I've already got one of these in my storage but still sucks. Thanks game.
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i literaly cant get into the sawmill to talk to scar
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>>503273418
Just move to the main gate and a cutscene will play and you'll get inside.
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Haven’t been here in a while. Did this thing make it in?
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Meh,

I'll wait for the dunkey verdict.
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>>503272497
actions have consequences :)
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>>503273596
it was in the artbook, so im guessing yes?
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>>503273596
Yeah hes in
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>>503273596
yes
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>>503273586
i do but then i get teleported inside and i cant do anything else
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>>503273704
>>503273687
>>503273682
Cool
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>>503273682
yo where is the artbook?
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You guys done dooming yet or can we finally talk about the story
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>>503265610
thats bullshit but im choosing to believe it as hopium
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Guys whats the ini line to turn off eye adaptive bloom shit? I'm trying to unfuck my game. Interiors look normal but outside looks like the surface of the sun.
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>>503273298
Maybe it's a second one. The first one is in the starting area.
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>>503272497
The PDA is part of a quest later on.
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>>503274086
I am 18 hours in and still in the Lesser Zone, so no.
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>>503260241
how do I actually get past the gatekeeper /s2g/?
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>poppy field guy is clearly shady as fuck
>get the idol for the quest
>give it to poppy field guy
>get beefed up 416
>shoot poppy field guy in the face
>pick up the idol and loot his place
>come across some bandits
>they don't attack me
>kill them just to be safe
am i a bandit now?
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Giving myself one more day to grieve and seethe, tomorrow I'll be ready.
It's over, with a heavy heart I'm refunding this scam. Fucking incompetent hohols ruined my favourite game
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>>503274298
>now
in your heart of hearts you know you always were
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>>503261918
>we're going to fix this ok
>bruh
What the fuck is this zoomer shit? Just saying "bruh" as if the concept of literally anything is just unheard of.
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>>503274393
??? it's literally just like the old games what
>hohols
oh ok ivan. still mad that you can't play the game eh?
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>>503274298
>""beefed up"" 416
dude it's totally busted and he just looted it off the dead guy in the house next door
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>boot game
>autoset to EPIC(4K-dlss quality)
>on a 3070
i doubt i'm gonna hit 60 frames
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>>503274186
use this
https://pastebin.com/2n2fqbnt
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>>503274560
im pretty sure its a unique named 416 with better stats
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>>503274560
it comes with a foregrip and doesn't have this ugly ass camo paint as the monolith
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>>503274298
>game rewards you with a useless broken 416 if you betray the zalissya doofus
sovl.
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Is diode gone for good after the ward takes over?
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you have to be a fucking monkey to think that mutant parts not being a thing in cs and cop is a good enough excuse for them not returning in s2
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I found a cave here but I can't seem to get further in either because theres a kill trigger or my gear is to weak to handle the anomalies
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>torrent was downloading the game at 40mb/s speed
>go take a shower
>it's down to 10mb/s
fuck
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>>503274452
Scavengers
Trespassers
Adventurers
Loners
Killers
Explorers
Robbers
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>>503261762
nvidia reflex
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>>503274624
bless you
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>all these garbage mods
Is there one released that turns back on the flashlight shadows everyone is complaining about yet? Also
>get stash in some lesser zone junkyard, the place with a few buildings and a few silos, can't be more specific because I'm still wagiemode and can't boot it up right now
>go to the spot
>there's a static brush barrel laying horizontally on the ground right there, but no stash
>no interaction with the barrel
>says 6m down but no way to go further down
>not even the car maintenance pits in the nearby garages have a tunnel going there
Did I get a fake stash here?
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>>503274914
modslop isn't canon
modslop isn't stalker
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>its keev
>and a-life is a feature (lmao)
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>>503275171
back away from it a bit and there's a flood tunnel that leads under that spot, it's got some chemical anomalies that you can just skirt round and the stash is next to a skeleton through a rusty grate at the end of it
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>>503275237
>SoC
>modslop
you are the blackest gorilla monkey ape chimp knuckle draggin watermelon suckin liquor store robbin negro there eva was and eva will be
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>>503273596
>>503273687
>>503273704
Any other new mutants? No spoilers, just yes or no pls
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I thought the A-Life creator died in battle or some shit
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>>503272031
New Psy Dogs are fucking terrifying. I encountered them twice and both times had to have my ass saved by AI spawning nearby.
Every time I think I finally got the main dog it blows up into blue sparks.
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>>503274045
you can grab it from gog-games + ost
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is degtyarev in this
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>>503275623
yeah the bayun is new
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Guys this DLC gun is a little too good.
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>>503275730
the DLC stashes are pure p2w
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If stalker 2 is GPU intensive but CPU light then can we expect the requirements to increase for the CPU if they add any kind of A-life calculation?
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>>503275623
They added the sugma
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I've been taking my armor off to fight and hunt artifacts because meds are cheaper than repairs
This made me think, when is armor useful?
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>>503272157
my cope is that they had a barely working a-life and need a few months+ to fix it, so they threw in a placeholder last minute for release
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>>503275987
When you install one of the mods that fixes the retarded economy
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>>503275730
>you see stalker I put an RF transmitter into the stock which tells the bullets how far they have to travel
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>>503275730
what makes this better than a normal vss
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this shit still happens??
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>>503275778
good, thats what i paid for
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>>503275563
retarded gop. by CoP they no longer need petty stalkers bringing them dog shit and pig eyes. It's in the lore. Deal with it
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>>503276221
SOVL
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>>503276221
(dies)
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>>503275874
Anything A-life related would be almost exclusively on the cpu, yeah
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>>503275730
can you even grab this after leaving the initial zone?
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I am going to fly to Kiev and fucking rape pepsiman I swear to god
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>>503275874
a-life isnt coming
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>>503275730
>I'll buy a house... at the edge of the blyat forest, cyka...
>next to the pidor river... cyka...
>sorry sir we don't except these "coupons" or chuckee cheese tokens or whatever you got there
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>>503275729
The Bayun isn't new the fucker was in every Stalker game just going MEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW MEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW in the background occasionally.
Shame the original vision of a cat that can speak in human voice was never realized.
>>503276221
Wolf all over again.
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>>503276468
>accept*
hee hee oops too many beers blyad
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>>503269589
>>503272764
please play the game first
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>>503274485
zoomers are retarded, yes
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>>503276484
This is going to hurt your armor more than it’s going to hurt me
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>>503275730
>10rounds
nah it’s bad
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>>503276565
>Shame the original vision of a cat that can speak in human voice was never realized.
Please play the game.
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> minimal settings using lumen and dense grass
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>>503276207
It's marked on your map for you to get.

>>503276407
Yes. I went from lesser zone to Cordon to Zaton. Haven't been to Garbage yet.
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>>503276881
What?
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>>503276687
so what? is >>503266636 just using low settings?
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anyone has a list of the artifact stat values?
i have no fucking idea what maximum physical protection means
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>>503274531
Who gives a shit how the old games were? It's been 15 years man, times changed, the team is different, theres M$ and Epic involved, budget is a bit higher, what the fuck are you talking about?
SoC had a lot of jank upon release and was trimmed down from what was promised, I was seething back then too, but it at least have functional systems and soul.
Hate this retarded argument
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>>503276745
Actually it's pretty unfun to fight this faggot because lol you take damage whenever you're close and if you have a line of sight and even 10 grenades won't kill it because lol Mutant HP pools in veteran.
>>503277092
WEAK
MEDIUM
STRONG
IS ALL YOU'LL EVER GET
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>Dog AI broke
>he's just following me now
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was there a backpack preorder/ultimate edition bonus? where the fuck?
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>>503276484
Yes?
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>psi dog

Jesus fucking christ, spawn in an entire army of dogs why don't you? How the hell do you tell the real one apart from all the fakes?
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>>503277323
Preorder gets you a patch on your backpack and unique OP VSS and Sunrise suit.
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>>503277376
kek'd hard
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>Do you want to run fast or not take rads?
Wear armor with endurance/anti rad artifacts
>Is literally anything else happening?
Don't wear armor
Amazing balance
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>>503277393
the real one stops sometimes and howls to summon more
I wasted 10 grenades and 50 pkm bullets just to kill one
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i downloaded the gog download and then i spent the last 2 days just shitposting here and on discord.
didnt even install
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>Get ambushed
>thankfully have enough time to take off my armor
Wew I was almost in danger
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My water is as bright as the fucking sun for some reason
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>>503278047
>dies in 2 hits
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>>503260241
Couldn't recommend this mod enough. Formal FOV while in dialogs
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/71
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>>503278320
To a bloodsucker you die in two hits regardless
I still took 10+ hits from an AK74 to die naked
On veteran of course, no mods
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>>503272015
sure thing "pole"
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Anyone else in Garbage notice that there is literally nothing that happens when you're just wandering about?
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>>503278579
No, I semi regularly have groups of bandits appear behind me when fatwalking back to sell my dragons hoard of yellow guns for 70% of the cost it took to acquire them
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>>503278182
Same thing happened to me earlier
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Got my first super artifact.
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>>503278789
Do you still take damage from fire?
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seems like every mod (.pak) i add increases the shader compiling time
this launch literally took 20 minutes
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it's UP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGlUUuorT2M
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>cat
>6 buckshots to its face before it finally went down

It feels like every single mutant in the zone has turned super saiyan since the last game.
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>>503260812
>gamma economy
>no gamma features
literally worse of both worlds
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>>503279509
second time you've posted this faggot
buy an ad
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Wait a minute that bus
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>>503279509
Sorry the only Heart of Chornobyl review I'm watching will be Nikolai's
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make sure you have less than 1.8 hours if you want to get a refund, steam wont issue me one with 115 minutes on record lol
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>>503279696
don't see it posted anywhere else. settle down CHUD.
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>>503279509
>only in stalker
lol
lmao
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>>503278789
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>female Sultan
What kind of woke shit is this?
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>>503278943
Very slight damage, and I can't be set on fire now.
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>>503279791
why? it's a pretty good launch all things considered and it'll only get better
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>>503279889
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>>503279807
posted it in the last thread
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>>503279509
maybe the NPC says this regardless
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>>503279696
it wasn't him, I posted it in the previous thread
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>>503280304
no... nooo... i believe
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>>503280124
kek
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>>503275445
what happened bro?
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Well. Damn it's accualy fun
1 im playing on stalker. Don't want any of that reduced damage bullshit
2 i pirated it on gog
3 its fun
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I assumed the game would be awful because of the doomposting but it's actually pretty good.
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>>503280570
oh no no no pidors HAHAHAHAHA
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>>503280014
If they patch A-life in the next ten seconds then I'll agree with you
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>>503280570
Atomic Heart and Stalker 2 are good games and I don't regret buying either.
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>>503280725
Theres a lot of justified doomposting(A-Life situation is either totally busted or a total lie) and a lot of Zfag doomposting because they seethe at anything ukrainian

Game is pretty good, but the A-Life situation fucking sucks
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>>503280746
Well its a normal player curve. Any game has that. And it doesn't account console bitches and pirate chads (like me)
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>>503280725
Amazing what a couple of contrarian grognards and /v/ hate addicts can do to a thread.
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>>503280923
I got attacked by mutants while exploring and have randomly run into firefights so whatever is there is selling the illusion just fine. Not having 'real' A-Life could be shit for freeplay mods though.
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A-Spawn 0.2
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If it makes you happy, i bought stalker trilogy. After playing it pirated. So im not that bad of a pirate. I just think that the current price is too high. Maybe on a discount i will buy it. Currently. i Play free
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>put Zaton theme on loop
>it's actually Call of Pripyat
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>>503280923
entire thread of seething hohols and nafofags copeing that this is a shit game and pretending its good own own le Russian nazi I pirated this and stopped after one hour its that bad one of thr worst games i ever played
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>>503280923
Not having functioning a-life or at the very least a ai director that doesn't suck ass and spawns shit in at a reasonable distance just gets worse and worse as you play the game more. The map opens up and feels so expansive but there's fucking nothing going on in it unless you just go from quest to quest and having a bandit patrol spawn right behind me in ass eating distance for the 30th time got old 30 times ago.
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>>503280947
Or gamepass. Playing the game legit for only a dollar is quite nice. By the time patches fix the game or big mods start rolling out, the game will hopefully be on sale. I'll only buy it if they actually fix the performance however, regardless of any modding scene. The godawful performance is the main thing making me not want to play as much.
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Just compared the regular Vintar to the DLC version and the regular is better. It's lighter and has one more possible upgrade.
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Any tips on fighting these controllers? I think they're controllers because random enemies keep spawning out of nowhere and their bodies disappear when I try to interact. I just can't seem to find the thing to put a stop to it.
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>>503281176
You don't need to justify being poor or a cheapskate to us anon.
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i can't shake knowing that fact that everything that happens while youre just roaming around is the result of a radius spawn system. Really hinders any sort of immersion. We waited too long for it to be like this, bros...
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>>503281176
baby just 1 more game... don't you wanna have sex with me? ;(
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Poltergeist are a bit too tanky
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>>503281334
yeah sure but when do you leave for the front?
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>>503280725
I'm lazy so just gonna link this anon's reply >>503280923 as my general feeling
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>crashed again
>was able to play for 20 min this time
>compiling shaders
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>>503281705
>haven't crashed once
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>>503281890
I had zero stability issues up until I got to wild island, now I crash constantly. Not sure wtf is going on.
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>>503281705
I've seen a shocking amount of glitches, but somehow not crashed once
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>>503260517
Yeah, some of the reticles stretch though. You learn what works. There was one of the nato scopes that I couldn't use at all, but you can simply put a different one on there.
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>>503282171
I've had multiple crashes but seen zero glitches
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seeing the classic location buildings/layouts but in different geographical regions evokes an odd feeling, uncanny almost
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I am nowhere near pro-hohol (Fuck Zookraine) but I am actually enjoying this. I hate the lack of A-Life though
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>>503282580
are cordon and garbage built up?
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>>503282634
Nobody asked
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>>503282651
garbage and dark valley have been mashed together
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>>503282651
What do you mean built up?
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I wonder what acid the acid anomalies are composed of. Looks sickly green, so maybe HCl?
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>framerate suddently takes a nosedive
>gpu usage gets stuck to 100%
>vram isn't maxed out
what's the fix for this?
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>>503282743
Cry more, it's good but could've been great
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>>503282827
restart
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so collector stashes?
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>>503278789
>protection: some
>a bit
>lots
>maximum
Where are the values for fuck's sake
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>>503283069
25
50
75
100
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Oh they moved the tunnel to not-Zaton from Yanov. There'd better not a Burer inside
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For Bydmo did you loot the stashes or leave them
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>>503283176
Yaniv, chud.
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>>503283264
I wish I'd looted them but I'm too soft.
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>>503281505
this is literally how it was in every stalker game
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Have you guys found your waifus yet?
Here's mine
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>>503283264
i looted them and am pretty sure the last you go for gets ovewritten by him trying to kill you, the electicty pylon has a dectector and two artifacts so do that first and decide if your gonna yoink em all
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>>503283319
ZOTON
YONOV
PROPYOT
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>>503282634
rent free
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>>503283264
left them and gave the guy an antirad :)
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I keep finding suits over and over again. Do i take the enviorment foccused one (right) or combat one (left)
middle one is the one im selling for sure
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>>503281890
same but god damn the memory leaks causing the fps to drop gets annoying
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>>503283176
wewlad
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>>503283607
idk
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>>503283607
combat protection > environment shit
literally just walk around anomalies unless you're a drooling retard
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>>503283607
just b urself
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FUCK THE WARD
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>>503283607
thus far, I have seen more options for adding more phys resist than element/environment resist

so I would go for the suit with better inate environment resist then upgrade it to deal with phys
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>>503283847
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>>503283847
MYSTERY OF THE ZONE
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>>503283847
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>>503284023
>look guys I made it unfunny!
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>>503283847
motherfucker turned on that device before I could pick up the auto shotty, when can you get one next?
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>>503284018
kek
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** they're still around **
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i miss the minimap instead of the crappy compass
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>>503284075
This cutscene has to be the worst in the game. I understand it's supposed to introduce new players to zombification but it was the definition of a "well that happened" moment.
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they're not gonna fix A-life are they...
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one thing i dont like is how fast guns break, it just forced me to use a monolith ar cause my ak from chudjak kept jamming
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>>503261918
I'm refunding it and will buyt it back when a-life is actually in the game
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>>503284505
I doubt they can recreate the old one.
The best you'll probably get is a bigger radius around you for the spawns and maybe more variety in what spawns and how they interact.
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>>503284505
If they couldn't make it work after several years development, expecting it any time soon in a patch it pretty serious copium
Just enjoy Far Cry 76: Russia edition
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>>503284660
if they can make spawns big enough to cover each sub area, then it'll work, that's all it needs ot do, it only covered each submap in the OG games anyway.
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>>503281494
I dont look like this but i say this
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>>503284262
kek well done
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>>503281705
Okay something got corrupted and it was crashing every time it tried to save. Rolled back to a previous save and it seems to be okay now? No idea what caused that.
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>cant rotate inventory items
It irks me

let me play hoarder tetris
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how do I get on the fucking digger to get in the building of the "brood bandits"
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>>503281494
I look like this and I don't say this
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Has someone made a mod to rename the guns to their proper names yet?
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>use that anons engine.ini
>the entire world is the sun

dont use it
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>>503281494
i would have pirated this shitslop even if it wasn't made by hohol draft dodgers
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>>503281494
I'm not even going to bother wasting 160gb of bandwidth on this game. Maybe in a couple of months.
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>>503284262
kek saved
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>>503285158
don't you have north koreans dying in kursk now?
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>>503285158
don't pretend like your GTX 570 can run the game ivan
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Is there any way of removing this from my inventory? I already blasted the Shah
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>>503285408
reload and don't take it
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I think stashes having not-Rubles would solve a lot of the economy problems.
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>>503285408
nope, you're stuck with it
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>>503284692
>the only thing separating Stalker from Ubisoft and Bethesda is a-life
What kind of retardation causes this? Are you even playing 2 or just shitposting?
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>>503285506
Well if its any consolation, I've been testing a repair mod over and over and at 0.65 repair cost I can actually make a tiny profit by repairing every yellow gun I can haul and then selling it. Which is a net positive compared to before.
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>>503285281
why is ukraine losing to best korea?
>>503285362
3080ti, cool cope tho
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>>503285151
user error
the anon taht posted it says its working for him.
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>>503285408
Nope, it is perma'd into your inventory due to poor game quest logic. I have Bubb's and "Bandit's PDA" both of which happen to be sidequests in which the NPCs are dead or killable.
I'm hoping for a patch that clears it up, otherwise it is in my inventory forever despite the quests behind already completed.
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OK this shit is fucking stupid, mostly been unaffected by bad spawns but Im in my PDA for a bit, leave and immediately there is a firefight between two factions 10 feet away from me in a previously dead area.
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>>503285678
you can just sell yellow guns to traders dude
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>>503285976
thats the a-life working chud
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Anyone know how to get this stash in Garbage?
I tried crossing over the pipe from the other side but you just slide down. The trench wall on this side is too tall to climb.
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What's the difference between showing and not showing the unusual PDA
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I installed the Reasonable Bloodsucker Health mod :)
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>>503286220
Who cares there's probably a bandage and x12 5.45x39 ammo in there anyways
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>>503286054
>>503285678
Better yet, put all the guns up for sale but before you finalize it, right click one of them then close the menu that pops up. Magically, all the items being sold will go for full price. No repair shenanigans required.

Its obviously an exploit, but with how busted the economy and ammo/repairs are right now I honestly don't care. At this point, the only thing I care about with this game is finishing the story. Its too unpolished for me to care about anything else.
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>>503286626
It triggers my OCD. Not that it matters anyway, I have a bugged quest marker (the one you can see on the map).
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I dont feel bad in the slightest for selling my OZK suit with the glitch, I wouldnt be able to get a single upgrade after repairing without doing so.
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do all the optimizer mods still have bloodsuckers and half of the anomalies completely invisible? which setting is that tied to anyway
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has anyone confirmed if there really is no NVG? that's a major oversight if so. the masks have a slot for upgrades on the eye part thats greyed out so maybe you need to find the blueprints?
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I notice noone posted any cool sight seeing screens at all.
Are there just not many beautiful locations or moments?
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>>503286753
I assume you have to run all the way around the cliffside and jump onto it. I haven't gotten that stash tho.
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>>503286949
pidoukraina cant into night vision
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>>503286220
go along the wall on the left until you find a way to go up, then go back to where the stash is and jump down, theres an okay freedom armor, worth the walk in my opinion
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>>503285151
Turning off eye adaption is what fucks things up - it prevents the game from lowering exposure but doesn't prevent the logic triggers that increase it, so you can end up with all the outdoor areas looking like they're frozen in the flash of an atomic bomb.
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>>503286921
r.disabledistortion=1
has to be 0 as disabling it does what you said
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>>503286971
there absolutely are, just most people are complaining about alife or busy playing. emissions look really cool too.
>>503287040
I asked for an answer not russoid seethe
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>>503286971
I can't bring myself to disable the compass and it spoils all shots
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Are these new mutants in the game?
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>>503287049
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xelIhakEzA4
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I found an artifact on the corpse of a random stalker in the middle of the garbage, was A-Life allegedly having stalkers hunt artifacts responsible or is that body with the artifact on it always there?
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>Max out my gamma
>Flashlight becomes good

epic
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>>503287194
disabling compass just means finding stashes is a constant shuffle between opening and closing the PDA. I know people are like LE GAYNOMALY IS CANCER!!!!! but they should have taken a 3D in game PDA from those mods
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>>503287037
>>503287105
That's too much effort right now, I'll probably have to revisit this place in order to get to the next area. I'm just wrapping up Garbage before leaving.
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>>503287286
Rat king next to a guy in a truck frame?
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>>503260241
Rate my starting setup.
Will I be ok bros?
I wanted to take the SVT-40 but then I remembered this is Stalker. Meme or not, I can just yank weapons, ammo and an artifact detector from dead people in an hour or less from any new savefile.
>Story
>Got Anomaly after playing s2 which is buggy but they got their money so leave me alone GSC.
>Even bough and played the trilogy a bit last night but it is dated AF, same with CoC, wanted something better
>ANOMALY
>Boot up game
>Unlock 3 factions with typing trick seen in a short video.
>Still, this screen is haunting me a bit.
Thoughts?
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>>503287362
or just had the minimap to make analmeme tourists seethe even harder
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this game has that stupid fucking lighting feature of so many modern games where it lags a second to change
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>>503287194
BOOBA
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Why do shaders compile every time the game launches?
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>>503287454
Yeah it's the Lumen software raytracing shit in UE5. It fucking sucks,
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>>503280570
>>503280746
Hey guys I think you got the wrong board
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>>503287384
Is that the guy in the electric field? If so, no. I rescued him and he gave me a rat king. I think the artifact I found on the random stalker corpse was a Gravi.
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>>503287396
what game is this? definitely not /s2g/ material.
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>>503287717
So the loot must be random in that case
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>>503286971
Quite the contrary, the locations ooze with soul, I'm just too busy playing but my screenshot folder grows
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Confess.

Stalker SoC/CoP are one of my favorite games ever but mutants spook me way too much.
I always mod the games so the spookiest mutants (like bloodsuckers or controllers) have 1hp and almost no movement speed


I bought Stalker 2 but only after personally checking if I can do the same as in the old games
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>>503287619
I hate it so much people are memeing about a life but to me lighting is key
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>>503287591
because modern engines especially ue5 have thousands of shaders and if they didn't compile on start the game would stutter like crazy, simpler shaders of older games were able to be loaded when a level loads, but if they didnt have them on game start it'd just make your initial save load that long.
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Are weapons I get from quests such as the Combatant supposed to be at 0% or is my shit just bugged?
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Sisters?
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>>503287979
>mod that enables shader stutter
cool
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>>503287979
A lot of these early mods are going to cause more problems than they fix. I wouldn't mess with them.
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Reputation system- Cut. Kill anyone anywhere. Never get better prices or stalkers comming to your aid.
Animal parts system- Cut. Killing mutants is a comeplete waste of bullets.
A- Life system- Downgraded into oblivion. Calling it A- Life 2.0 is a lie, this is a random encounter table.
Dialogue system- Downgraded into oblivion. No more big, detailed texts, no more asking stalkers specific questions or reading stories, 3 dialogue options tops.
Fast Travel- Downgraded into oblivion. No longer can you ask a group of stalkers to escort you.
Anomalies- Dumbed Down, with how you can put almost all of them into recharge mode.
Faction war- Does not exist.
Economy is in shambles.
AI is idiotic.
Bugs are everywhere.
Atmosphere is wrong.
And then, there is Freedom. Losing the Ukrainian Flag on their badge.
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>>503287841
Protip xbox has maybe a few seconds of warmup on launch so if you're moaning about the time then it is time to upgrade
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>>503287979
Game probably stutters like fuck for half an hour every time you open it if you try to play with that. I'd honestly prefer if the game took longer to load if it just ran better desu.
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They didn’t introduce any new mutants at all?
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>>503287810
what is wrong with you
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>upgrade armor pen on UDP
>insta headshots bandits from all ranges
ok I guess they are considered to have head armor even with a bandana, so this fucks now
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>>503288076
The reputation system does exist there's straight up a tutorial hint if you make a faction hostile. Not reading the rest of this as you clearly haven't played the game.
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>>503288152
It doesn't. After you've booted the game once and it does a shader compile, it doesn't need to do it again. Each time it complies shaders at boot it's doing the exact same thing, every time. It only needs to be done once. I've been playing with this mod since it was uploaded and if anything my RAM usage has gone down by like 7GB.
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So are there no random emissions?
I've only had two one thats obviously scripted and the second right after dealing with stars mission
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>>503285690
why is russia losing to ukraine?
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They really need to get rid of Luma entirely and make fucking hand placed lights like in the olden days. First the bloom is out of this world, the eye adaptation is unrealistic and dogshit, the sampling is low so you get artifacting and grain AND for some fucking reason Epic has decided to not even add the options to run it through hardware so it's going to chug no matter your PC.
If we could outright disable it we'd all gain like 40 fps out of the blue, but the game is probably going to look like complete ass.
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>Get to poppy field
>Some dude beget me to speak to him
>Go see him
>Its some two bit twat who try to scam me into buying useless info
>Tell him to fuck off
>Find the root cellar after like 5 min top
>When im coming back, go see him to see if I can tell him to suck my dick
>For some unknowable reason, he want it and is ready to exchange a modified gun in exchange
>I agree because I dont expect much in monetary gain from the old fart who want the damn thing
>The gun he gives me is barely holding together, an useless piece of junk worth scrapping for a few coupons, to repair it would cost more than a new gun
>Dome the bastard on the spot and take back the picture, and loot the place up for good measure

I may be a bastard, but I guess it take one to know one
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>>503288512
Yes there are random emissions.
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>>503287690
yeah I think you forgot to reply to >>503275445
and a bunch of other posts, guy
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>>503288512
I've had two scripted, and two that seemed to be random. They may have still been scripted for when I got to a certain area I suppose, but I was just wandering around exploring, not doing any main quests.
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>>503286971
Most parts of the game look really fucking good.
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>>503287810
I'm a giant pussy when it comes to horror in games but I learned to be brave by playing the stalker trilogy
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Anyone playing on a 2080ti? I'm playing with DLSS Balanced, mostly Medium settings, and it's ranging from 30-50fps. 30s when in the safe towns.
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>>503287619
>>503287454
UE5.5 actually had a huge improvement to lighting, but Stalker 2 is built on a custom fork of UE5.1.
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>everyone appears friendly with a green cursor at a distance
Wtf
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>>503287810
I'm not a massive pussy like you but Snorks unsettle me for some reason to the point where I actively try to find ways to cheese them even though you can just dodge them by sidestepping. The rest of the mutants I don't care too much about, funnily enough.
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>Virtually every ladder I've seen has been climbable

What was the point of the yellow paint if theres no exceptions?
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The monolith chad (9) gave me some kind of rubber thing recipe? what is that? is there crafting? or do i give that to the technician
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>>503288512
You start getting random ones after a certain point in the main story very early on.
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>>503288593
they're not
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PSA: The mod that stops shader compilation at startup works and I haven't seen a single stutter (more than the usual hiccups that is, but not the nasty shader related ones) when running across the Garbage north to south during a storm.
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>>503289168
Certain upgrades at technicians require you to have a blueprint first.
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https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/108/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23ut7yhvkiw
okay, thats pretty fucking cool. I wonder how many little details like this are in the game
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honestly for some mutants I dont mind them having high HP because it makes me want to avoid them, which seems realistic, no-one wants to fight 5 fleshes but in the old games they died in 1-2 toz shots so you might as well. they should have loot though
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>>503283379
No, there's literally nothing alive beyond 100 or so meters of the player. Think you're gonna climb up that tower and snipe mutants 800m out you can forget about it. The game is surprisingly polished until you go off the reservation, outside of the scripted story quests and spawns you just end up having enemies randomly spawn around you. There's no 'stalking'. Getting a vantage point and scoping out an area is legitimately a waste of time.
Until they fix this the game is broken.
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Im being honest here, doomposters were wrong, its fun, its stalker. If its not goty im mad
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>>503289382
keep us posted, this might be a mustdownload if you have no problems
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>>503287810
for me, it's spiders
fuck massive video game spiders
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I just abused the money glitch and got 80k, then spent almost half of it on repairs.
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>>503289604
>its STALKER
yeah, without working A-life, night vision, binoculars etc. and the rest is honestly too authentic to the SOC experience, i don't want gamma but I would like a 3D PDA, PIP scopes, more interesting upgrades and some way to repair shit besides paying 15000 koupons to a trader.
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>>503289485
Wait until you spend 400 rounds, 12 grenades and 15 medkits to try and take down a fucking controller. Or have a cat do 15 grand worth of damage to your armor.
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>take in the amazing ambiance of the Zone
>loot a stash
>a bunch of bandits spawn outside right after i'm done
>immersion obliterated
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Why do quests pay so poorly? I got 500 rubles from a quest that i got 3k from loot alone
>>503289773
What money glitch?
>>503289824
Repairing stuff by yourself will always be cheesy for me, you either get something new like in soc or you pay someone to fix it for you
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>>503287810
noones that much of a faggot sissy except you, anon
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>>503289379
they're no-ACK
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>>503289824
Binoculars would be redundant, there's nothing alive past 100m.
It's a console game.
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>>503289969
how is it cheesy? the current system is so shit people will just money glitch (to answer your question, you drop an item stack ontop of the item you want to sell and manually click the confirm sell button and you get the full item value) or disable it entirely by reducing repair costs to 0 with a mod. a system where you can use a consumable item to repair your equipment (maybe locked behind quests or rep etc.) is a lot more interesting
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>>503289604
Its fun and playable
But it won't have so much repeatability with the scripted spawns
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>>503290107
They aren't, that's why western countries are attempting to escalate. But this isn't the place for this argument.
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Who

>overburdened

here? I probably have 50lbs of ammo in my bag.
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>>503278789
>>503280124
>born in 1991
>will probably be 60 years old before we, as Humanity, establish some manner of colony on the Moon, or even on Mars
>will probably be 70 years old when sexbots become indistinguishable from real-life humans
>might get a chance to become a cyborg at the age of 80

Damn. I might just end up as some manner of Princeps or Administratum servitor instead.
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>>503290325
kek
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Why is everyone so nice to you?
"my favourite client"
"my favourite patient"
"i will get the best shit for you"
Nobody knows you here and they treat you like ur strelok
Remember when sidor insulted you cause you sold him cheap shit?
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>>503290267
>attempting
they already are bombing moscow silly
meanwhile putin the bitch monke is still threatening to NOOK lmao
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How do i save team ALPHA? I gave psy medicine to two of them and looked everywhere in the tunnels for anyone else but couldnt find anyone. If i stay up around gas station i eventually die because of psy waves of whatever. Is there a psyker somewhere or what am i supposed to do
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>>503289604
>If its not goty im mad
aż tak to nie anonku, ale dwójeczka rzeczywiście jest w pyte
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>>503290521
A co innego
Tragedie same w tym roku
https://litter.catbox.moe/x6s5mo.mov
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>>503289969
Basically just sell any high value item, drag something else and the money value goes nuts. Gotta click on the bottom Confirm like I do.
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>Run into my first Burer doing the quest for Quiet in the Cordon
>Rips my SPAS out of my hands
>"eh I'll just pick it up after I'm done magdumping him with my other guns"
>He picks it up and starts shooting me with it
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can anyone give me a rundown on what I need to do to MAKE a mod for this game? like what do I need to edit or open?
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So I tested both GOG and Steam releases and I can confirm 100% that the GOG is fucked and always crashes in the first village, steam runs fine with no crashes and I explored the entire place.
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>>503290432
because you got good reputation in that town
oh nonono, you believed the doomtards?
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weapon mods when? I want my scar
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>set everything to epic
>meh framerate
>set everything to low
>same framerate
>30% cpu usage
>64gb ram
gsc pls fix and no I will NOT use framegen slop
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>there is an emission in approx 30 seconds
>only shelter is a locked building
What didn't they mean by this
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>>503290669
I had this exact thing happen twice. the first time he swatted skifs gun out of my hand and I didnt realize for two hours so I had to reload a very old save because you never get that pistol back.
The second time this happened he apparated two RPGS and started firing those at me
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>>503290623
Space Marine 2 jest dość silnym kandydatem
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>>503263832
faust playthrough
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>>503290791
Epic Games Launcer, install Unreal Engine 5 SDK, then whatever the next steps are after that. I don't know.
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>>503290668
Thanks. It does work but crashes my game 50% of the time
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>>503289619
https://streamable.com/4hj1qq

It's processing but I'm telling you man, it works and it's saving me that compile bullshit. Then again once I move to new NEW zones that are using, say, a different type of grass, it's when I'll really see.
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>>503290325
i hate that death screen so much
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>>503290668
What it does is it lets you sell stuff for buying price
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>>503291675
kek
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Bros I'm replaying call of pripyat for the first time in years while I wait for stalker 2 fixes/mods/etc and... Jesus christ I forgot how much I fucking missed The Zone
Is there at least the CHANCE that Stalker 2 can be made great? It sounds like a lot of the heart is there and that it feels like stalker but it's just plagued by shitty AI and bugs and maybe some design choices that can get ironed out?
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>>503290882
whites only
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>>503290450
I say attempting because Putin isn't taking the bait and chimping out like the want him to.
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>>503291848
If they add the alife back in it will be fine.
But idk if they will be able to.
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My tummy has been hurting since the game came out and I just sharted in my shorts.
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>>503291936
>le monke is actually playing le 5D chess
kek
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>>503291848
it's literally just COP on a bigger map with simpler a-life
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>>503292029
imagine how badly everyone and everything in the zone smells
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>>503292067
Are you guys all running on a script or something? All he has to do is not NOOK until Trump's inauguration and he can get Ukraine and avoid WW3. It's 2d snakes and ladders at best.
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All I want is for the a-life to be good so we can one day have a gamma mod for stalker 2 and just have the ultimate survival zone experience. Is that too much to ask?
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I guess I should turn back
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>>503291848
The fundamentals are already decent, only time will tell.
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>>503292302
Apparently yes
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>poppy field
>blah blah energy drink
>you can just sprint out before you go sleepy
?
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>>503288605
This
https://youtu.be/DxP_McCSrwU
https://youtu.be/q7pgVoG0f74
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sprinting cancels eating and drinking animations but the effects still take
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During the prologue right now, feels like stalker game. However I turned the difficulty to medium, because flesh pig needs full mag of rifle ammo to kill it is too much for me. Taking a break after having to fondle around with my keyboard controls and graphic settings.
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>>503292496
>ribs anomaly
>you can just walk around the side and go straight to the bunker entrance
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>>503290848
I was in a very similar boat
I ended up setting everything to high and turning on framegen

its shitty and i hate it but that's the price we pay for modern aaa engines
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>>503291968
>>503292075
What's the deal with the current a-life? Sounds like it's just proximity spawns? Is it really bad?
From what I've read they still stand by it being in the game, albeit bugged, and that it was removed from the steam page for marketing reasons
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>>503292627
>any anomaly
>just throw a bolt into it so it goes on cooldown for 5seconds
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For anyone that's gone through the events at sircaa (the new science institute)
Does monolith get re-activated no matter what choices you make leading up to it?
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>>503292218
>le trump is gonna save heckin puccia
kek
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>raining outside
>raining in-game
aww yeah comfy gaming time
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>>503292792
retarded child
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>>503292703
It would already be miles better if the proximity spawns were like 500 meters instead of 50
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did they play test a-life at any point?
it’s broken for everyone across all hardware.
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Why do I not get everything an npc had when I kill them?
It feel like I'm playing some shitty mmo where their loot drop rates are .5% and I'm expected to farm these niggas for hours straight just to get a helmet
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>>503292856
>no more coping
kek
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>>503292716
I mean in the old games you just walk around them lol
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>>503292302
S2 has no framework or foundation for this. XRay had it back in SoC and all subsequent addons and mods expanded it.
If gamma 2.0 will be on anything, it will only be on ixray
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>find a SVD
>it's broken
massive cocktease
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>>503293006
>find long range gun
>all enemies exist only 20m behind you
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Is there a way to disable the retarded eye adaption effect?
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>>503293132
you can, but then the game looks like this in some areas
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How's the enemy variety in the game? Are there a lot of mutants?
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honestly the object pop-ins and culling is far too noticeable in this game
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>>503293241
dont care, im still having fun
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>>503293220
maybe disable fog too
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>>503287362
they should have learned from their brothers over at metro and made the UI part of the game. like put a little compass on the suit arms or something. I want to be able to quickly see my cardinal direction without having a skyrim compass on the top of my game
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>>503293120
Not true I went up a tall tower and saw a dog (singular) about 50 meters in front of me. Zone is kinda lonely so I left it alive.
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>>503289889
I used 7 grenades and maybe 10 shotgun rounds on the controller in death cave, and that's with a bunch of grenades missing.

>>503289969
Quests outside of the starting area pay much more. I get 2-3k per quest in Zaton.
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>>503292856
Dumb smug cunt

Putin has been chimping out for 3 years and is threatening to nuke the entire world every day while everyone is laughing at russia
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>>503293290
not an argument
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>>503292858
Ok that seems fixable then
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is the poppy gun worth it? it's gonna cost twice as much as i have to repair this shit
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>>503265892
>>503272114
Be quick about it this time.
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>>503293318
It's an attritional war that can't be won without direct involvement from NATO and that happening means we all die of radiation poisoning.
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>>503293347
it is though. you just don't like the answer.
its ok though, I'm having fun and you're not, such is life
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>>503293470
get poppy gun
kill guy
get back ikona
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>>503293503
>he still thinks escalating to nukes means MOABs dropping on capital cities
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>>503293470
I think it's just got a built in foregrip so you don't have to find and equip that mod, assuming there is one for that type of gun

just use the sell-full-price exploit to get around the fucktarded economy until they patch it
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We'll probably know more in December, but what do you guys think is next for the franchise and stalker 2? Obviously multiplayer (whatever the fuck that might be) but do you think sales are looking good enough that we might keep getting stalker kino?
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stopping power fags btfo
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>>503293503
russia doesn't even have nukes that work kek
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>>503290472
holy fucking i fucking hate this piece of garbage, the surviving member of team alpha run away god know how into a random cave to i assume hide from emission. Gas station is where the quest was, player location is random ass cave where i found him
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>>503293552
good idea

>>503293749
i'm not a fucking cheater
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>>503293765
UDP gets good with upgrades, higher mag size too
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>>503293765
skifs pistol is quest item, unless you want to carry two in your inventory dont bother with any other pistol
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>>503293503
Honestly Nato should have stopped being little pussies and put boots on the ground and told russia to withdraw as soon as it started instead of going through the same fucking mistakes made with hitler in ww2. Appeasement is what brought us to war.

Stop allowing dictators to dictate how the world will be.
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i wish i could put skifs pistol in my stash. idk why they wont let you
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>>503293618
>he thinks it doesn't

>>503293831
>implying a real STALKER wouldn't spitshine a gun with trashed internals or repackage handloads into factory ammo boxes to trick traders into paying more than the trash is worth

>>503293983
>can't do anything with quest items other than waste inventory space and weight
jesus christ mod when
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>>503294004
They should have done that in 2014 but Obama was a retarded faggot. Unironically his biggest mistake as president and it's barely discussed.
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any mod to reduce degradation?
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>>503294143
There's a bunch, yes
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>>503291848
The enemy AI is great in combat. It's really just the a-life system and the performance. Everything else is more or less exactly what I wanted.
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the real mod I want is to show an npcs name, faction, and a portrait when you loot them
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>>503294184
which one are you using?
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S2 have such disgusting appearances, face of every NPC is literally subhuman orc...
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where are the mods that decrease the amount you have to eat.
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>>503294332
already exists
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>>503294246
i very much miss the old corpse looting GUI
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>>503293782
I got it to Zotov because fuck that bloodsucker cave. Everything is the same except how you get into Sphere.
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>Dogs take cover when you hop on top of shit

what is this insanity
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>>503293775
But what if they do work?
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did anyone ever encounter a bug where game just gives you mark 1 emr? Happened to me twice now, just randomly in one of the stutters
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>>503294513
A-Life is very smart, you see?
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>reward from quest is a "very well taken care of weapon"
>red durability
UMMMM STALKTARDS EXPLAIN!?
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>>503294751
it has to be really buggy or something cause almost every weapon you get is either half broken or in the red. with a few being 100%
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>>503294513
All mutants do.
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>>503294751
Every quest weapon I've gotten has been 100% dura
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>wait out an emission in a shack in the chemical plant next to some stalkers
>playing guitar
>it ends
>take out my shotgun
>erm this aint my shotgun
>suddenly have a fora and mark in my backpack
>reload save from 3 mins ago
>they werent in my inventory

erm what the fuck
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>>503294592
then it will be funny
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>>503295003
just like my favorite videogaymes stalker and fallout amirite fellow nafobros
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>>503295181
you crying isn't a good look for puccia
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>>503294924
I've had a gasmask and suit appear in my inventory out of thin air
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>>503294253
ANSWER ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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>>503294253
Do you like beta testing?
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>>503295293
I'm not pro-russia
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>found eco suit
Yay i can larp as the nerds now
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>>503295569
>>503295569
>>503295569
>>503295569
new thread
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>>503295553
no not really
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>>503294253
Pirate it. The gog version. Im having a blast
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>>503292896
The theory is its not in the game and is replaced by the dynamic spawning system. They removed it from the store page last second because it won't be in. Maybe because the Xbox just couldn't handle it and they sold their ass out to microsoft
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>>503268328
damn
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>>503295771
I'm gonna try it then, thanks
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>>503294332
I dont get the food complaints, I've played for like 20 hours now and food is literally fucking everywhere and you have to eat it like once every 15 minutes of play.
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>>503293313
I was spitballing but the mutants are WAY too powerful, and the humans are way too dumb.
>>503295956
This is exactly what happened imo. I was loving the game until I got an SVD and thought I could climb a tower and do some sniping. Nothing renders out past 100 meters or so. Climb down the tower and suddenly get mobbed by random spawns. Game breaking, I can't even Stalk. Initially I gave the game a positive review but after 30 hours I had to rescind it. This is a console game through and through.
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>>503299545
they're chugging energy drinks instead of water
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>>503294253
IWP, gunplay is better
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Do you have to play the prequel?
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>>503272015
Same lol, I'm Russian living abroad and everyone back home tells me about the constant plotting, backstabbing and lying of muslims ever since they came as refugees. I didn't want to believe it but this surely lines up with we're going through now.
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>>503292985
lmfao



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