low effort baking>BugTrap, crash to desktop, freeze/lockup? Find your crash log, stalker.Check your Documents or game install directories for the xray_[your name].log file. If you can't find it, look in the location specified at the top of fsgame.ltx. Copy the last few lines from the log and paste them here if you want any help.>Quickstart Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/1cnQeURGCjHTRPOGJH8G5ijP1fw5vbVWSE7opABcBpNk>Mod Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/1JPA0hQZVJ6mSvTsp6Sy3CoAkObJOKeoPHEamDC19Lio>Miscellaneous Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/103nyaAM5PKgBwuZ35jRbv7VM7tEcvi1Scv6boOMe1RM>Start guide, beginner tips, and much much morehttp://pastebin.com/FUPEbLiv>HUD guide, modding basics, mod reviews, and AMK mod guidedocs.google.com/document/d/10yi79NUFhJrFO4hmGeKqaWSw35BJQv0Ve0OK94ioMEw>Performance Guides, Steam settingshttp://pastebin.com/nzXEevG7>Common misconceptions about Shadow of Chernobyl game mechanicshttp://www.metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/WhatYouKnowThatAintSo.html>Running STALKER. on Linuxdocs.google.com/document/d/11HcSFSyb0DX3ymModXZ9tNdpTuktTioC>S2 mods (you have to make a nexustranny account to download mods)https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/Previously on /sg/: >>503295569/s2g/
First for Duty
What's the easiest way to get a magazine fed shotgun? I accidentally sold the one you get up on the crane in the storyline mission and the reload on the regular Crackers is painful.
>The Spas-12 actually shoots as fast as you clickNice
A-life 2 when?
>>503339972You can upgrade any cracker with the magazine, it's pretty cheap.
I think I'll wait 1 or 2 years to play this unoptimized slop
>>503340030Where do you get them? I've barely seen any weapon mods at all aside from a couple of holo sights.
Why does my game fuck up these building textures?Its like there are two textures on every wall that struggle to be on top
>>503340078Having the same issue, only in Icarus though and nowhere else
>>503340010there is an actual original Alife dev talking to some modders on nexus at this very moment. He says he is confident it will come and is possible in the games state but hes waiting for the SDK
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chuds are getting too powerful...
>>503339974the spas12 is so fucking good its unreal, wait until you get the Saiga though, it fires just as fast and has no reload time and you get +1 round
post modlists
The game's huge but I feel like there's really no point in exploring anything. Stashes simply give you supplies which you already have plenty of, and supplies aren't worth a dime when selling. I wish you could loot Kubles from enemies and stashes that would make repairs and upgrades more accessible.
>>503340296I am actually fucking stunned at how good this game is with the mod list I have. It transformed this game into an actually hardcore scary game. Stalker 2 is 10/10 with these mods and I never say that about anything
>>503340170>new devs so incompetent an original Stalker trilogy dev has to step in and add the most important core featureunfuckingbelievablebut I am glad that we'll probably get it
the fullest crate
>>503340405yeah dude I am fucking pumped. he said just with what hes seen that its 100% possible. got my hopes up
>>503340385yeah mods definitely improved the game for me but I wish there was a easier way to find out what mods conflict with each other.
>>503340514just load shit in batches until it breaks. a lot of the most just need to be in alphabetical order
me and some covid doctors chilling
Anomaly-1.5.3-Full.7zHow is it? Any major big changes or some minor bug fixes
>>503340661Nah it was just small shit
https://x.com/P3ARL99/status/1859999395858776367
>>503340787>bug montageThis is how you know you've hit the big leagues
>>503340476>food EVERYWHERE>ammo everywherebut somehow the economy is still expensive as fuck when it comes to gear and guns
>>503339856Has anyone managed to actually collect any fucking artifacts? Like 90% of the ones I come across when looking for them end up spawning inside a fucking wall or under the ground and I physically can't collect them. This is so fucking gay
>>503340281Where do you find the Saiga?
I felt the shitty enemy spawn the most in Cordon. Like I was exploring the military checkpoint and suddenly had 10 guys spawn next to me. I went in guns blazing and took 3 guys at the entrance, and they were not there at first.
>>503341052I don't know if you can find it somewhere else, but just follow the main story quests and you get one
downloading OLR 3 rn
monsters not giving you anything is a good thingthey are fucking monsters, not loot pinatas
>>503341028honestly balance seems ok to me on mid difficulty, besides the pumped up enemy hp
I might just finally bite the bullet and play Gamma. I can't enjoy Stalker 2 in it's current state.
>>503341263>no point in ever engaging with themno, it's bad game design-t. expert on game design
>>503341042I've had no problems at all.Remember artifacts move around so if you're close to a wall let it move away.>>503341263I always found the mutant part thing odd. Like specific requests from scientists sure but people in general trading them or worse, eating them? That's insane.
>>503341341i counter with that fact that i've been an amateur gamedev for 8 years now
>>503341263consider the tender flesh asses though
>>503341084it really annoys me that they didn't add a simple "area cleared" check so enemies don't spawn where you KNOW there's nobody there (unless scripted)it would remove most of the bitching about ai outside of morrowboomers crying about full alife
when the fuck are we going to get fucking HUD update that actually tells you what hunger and PSI-radiation levels are at?
>Skif almost gets his ass beat some fat asthmatic who was too busy eating breadBro's, I think we're playing as a loser
>>503340153Happens for me inside every one of the buildings with those green walls and only on the green walls.
>monsters not giving you anything is a good thinghas to be bait
>30 hours in>im the anon who got blue screen last thread>wake up to play today>this is the menuAHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhError: Our system thinks your post is spam. Please reformat and try again.Error: Our system thinks your post is spam. Please reformat and try again.FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK GSC RECOVER MY FILES NOWWWWWWW
>>503341418The hud already tells you when you need to eat?
>>503341491Did you install any mods, out of curiosity?
>>503341360>Remember artifacts move around so if you're close to a wall let it move away.I'm trying to grab one right now in Cordon just north of the Rookie Village in a spot that has those glass anomalies and the gravity (?) ones that suck you in and fuck up your FOV. The artifact is located in a spot in front of a gravity one and it only shows if I bolt the anomaly and stand there meaning I only have like 3 seconds or so to wait for it to move. I'll keep trying. I'm getting this bastard fucking thing
>>503341490it makes sense in most settings but not stalker
>>503341490do you want them to perform handjobs?
>>503341563why?
>>503341396see, that's why you are an amateur gamedev and I am an expert (in online arguments about games)
>>503341641kek
This depot is iconic. The dejavu starts to hit.
>>503341523Yeah, downloaded some GAMMA 2 after getting tad bored with vanilla, y u ask?
>>503341563selling bloodsucker trophies or flesh meat does not fit stalker because?
>>503341523zero mods. i have stuff in appdata. i think its recoverable. man this is bullshit
>>503341640loot in stalker is guns, armor, ammo, food, medicine, tech (human made) or artifacts (anomaly made). nobody wants to buy your horse asses.
>>503341396>amateur gamedev for 8 yearsWell I have over 20 years of professional game industry experience and I will tell you right now that you're stupid and I'm smart. In fact, I have worked for over 20 years at GSC so I know more about STALKER than anyone else in this thread.
>>503341814I wouldn't care about mutant parts if they weren't so tanky. Makes no sense to have every bloodsucker feel like a miniboss and then give you nothing for killing it.
>>503341736fleshes are heavily irradiated walking tumors it makes no sense for people to eat them
>>503341713they can bring back the depot but they'll never bring back that one bandit who always gets stuck inside the wagon
>>503341884They probably rub them on their dicks for luck or some other such nonsense.
>>503341884you see people cooking rats on campfires in this game, what the fuck are you talking about
>>503341341>monster drops epic ass meat>no reason to ever slip by them, always a waste if you aren't engaging them Not kino, not an oppressive environment
how many of these fucking bullet sponges are there in this town?
>42 hours into my game>receive my first crashnot bad
>>5033419292 bandits got stuck on ground floor while I was sniping them from the 2nd floor, so it was ok
>>503340296>>503340385you didn't beat the game
>>503342079why would you want to in its current vanilla state?
>>503342079Sorry chuddie but this isn't fromslop
>>503342017I think it would be ideal to have you avoid them if possible but if you are forced into an encounter with them at least have it not be a total waste of your time and give you some small reward that covers some of the cost of ammunition and repairs.
>>503342024it's a mutant lair. 2 appear when you return there. there is a gravity anomaly near the windmill so you can just bait them into it.
>>503340192You dropped this.
are you permanently short on nato caliber bullets? or are there semi-common source of loot that provides those later on?
>not getting anything from killing fleshes while getting slapped in the face with insane repair costs is......LE GOOD GAME DESIGN!
>>503342404Yes.Skyrim is that way >
>you can break open crates
How is your guys' performance like?My game is shitting itself at 1440p. Barely over 60fps, with drops to 40 a times.12700k, 3080, 1440p.Also how the fuck do I fix the shit lighting?
the amount the sell bug gives it how it shouldve been vanillai can actually afford to buy and upgrade my shit for oncemakes more sense to be able to sell a medkit to the vendor for like 80% of his prices instead of only getting like 15-20% for it
>>503342346this thread was made by the /s2g/ retard
Waiting for no-commentary YouTube channels to upload "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - ALL SUITS SHOWCASE (4K)" already...
>>503342470so grainy lolgay tracing was a mistake
>stalker 2 made me rather play default anomaly
>>503342404nah the repair costs are gay
>>503342465seens like you haven't played the original games
>decide to walk to the NPP since its close to the sawmill mission >go inside building >free exosuit ok
>>503340296Anons reported the increased daytime fucks shit up with how the game handles things
>>503341263I agree and I never got this complaint. would it be cool if they dropped a flesh eye now and then? Yeah sure. Maybe the really rare mutants could have a small chance to drop a part that scientists might want. But this whole idea of "why would I even waste my bullets what do I get in return?" motherfucker, your life? They are rabid mutants trying to eat you, you get to live in return by shooting them in the face. I swear these faggots just want every mob to be a fallout enemy that drops 5 ingredients so they can go crafting with them.
>>503343003nah thats a rumor. theres a bunch of people testing it right now and have been for 20+ hours with no issues. emissions are fine etc etc
kinda crazy how these dudes can full auto beam you from 100 meters away through a forest with a 10% durability mp5 while moving at full speed
>>503343209I really hope that's true then, I think I'll give it a shot. Have you tried multiple settings? Which one did you find the best?
>>503343290I'm not that anon, I've only tried Jakes I think its called and I was the retard playing on 1:1 timescale. I got 9 real hours into night and I removed the mod. I had no issues at all, didn't effect anything negatively. I will probably reinstall the 2x mod, so days and nights are just twice as long as currently.
>>503341523>>503341491i managed to recover my save files i followed this guy https://steamcommunity.com/app/1643320/discussions/0/4626980894528273686/and also had to find a save file that wasnt corrupt, my latest one was. I did it by following this guy with the hexed stuff https://steamcommunity.com/app/1643320/discussions/0/4626980689722612607/#c4626980894528307762
>>503343276theres a mod for that
>>503343276smoll indie company, please of understand ((
>>503340357stashes need way more guns in them.
Reporting in: I got a Ryzen 5 7600 and an RTX 4070 and I'm playing in 1440p.I normally get 60-80 fps with some drops in Zalissya with all settings on maximum, hair graphics on minimum (since it's bugged), DLSS with framegen on highest quality setting.Problem is, the game fucks up after you die or load a save and you're screwed unless you restart and wait 15 minutes again to compile the fucking shaders... Any solution for this particular shit? No, I don't want to turn off the framegen since it all looks so fucking good when it works and I'm so happy when I got 60+ fps...
>>503341263The game spawns moster as an encounter around you, so you are forced into dealing with them. And they give no rewards and are a waste of ammo to ever shoot at, while you can't even avoid them if you want,
>>503343581Maybe I got lucky but shader compilation for me takes about a minute, it was only long the first time I launched the game.
>>503342996Why do exosuits make you unable to run its annoying having to take it off anytime I want to go long distances
>>503343684Strange, I have to wait a century everytime I boot it
Bye guys, i'm outta here
>>503342470>How is your guys' performance like?it sucked gorilla balls without engine tweakswith engine tweaks + dlss quality it runs... well it's still the worst performance per visuals for my hardware I've seen yet (except possibly starfield) but the game is fairly playable
>>503343581there's a good chance this will give your game turbocancer at some point down the line but here's a mod that disables shader cachinghttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/97
>>503343747How much RAM do you have? Could be that. I've seen the game use well over 16GB at times.
>>503343747Got 32, and the PC is newly built. hmmmm...
Save Zalissya from the Monolith, walk away a few meters: "ZALISSYA IS FUCKING DEAD"cool
>>503343581It's reports like this that make me glad I somehow lucked out... Ryzen 5 5600 and Radeon 6700 XT here, with framegen and xess I can get upwards of 80 fps everywhere but zalissya sometimes drops to 45-50, but no issues like memory leaks or sudden fps drops that require a game restart, and shader compiling takes 60 seconds max.
>>503343889I meant to reply here>>503343939
>>503343581There's a mod to fix shader comp, the game only ever needs to do it ONCE, the first time you run the game. Shader comp was taking over thirty minutes on my machine, sending my RAM usage up to 25GB, but with the mod the game loads instantly and RAM usage is about 15GB.
>fuck around with engine.ini stuff>click-exe-to-main-menu went down from over 3min to ~60sdayum this is good shitis there an in-game framerate display? I'm curious what it runs at now
>>503343780and stay out, mainland sissy
>>503344000Also, can someone confirm if this fucks up the story?
>>503340385>having to put z's in the name to arrange the load orderkek
the radio music is genuinely terrible.
>>503344254I didn't put any of those, thats how every single one of those mods come. I haven't edited anything
So I suspect there is a collision bug happening with the guns or items which cause those massive stutter some peoples seem to have, because the same happened to me after I dropped 4 junk gun on the ground and the game started to stutter like crazy, only stopping after I stayed in the pause menu for 10 sec or so.
>>503344264no it's not
>game spawns random bandits>while in a pit>in the middle of a missioneh
>people rebuild shader cache every single time>minutes long startupsnibbas be doing something wrongit takes me like 30sec to launch the game and load the save and I'm running this on a shitbox (5700x3d, 3060 12gb, 16gb ram)
Imagine how much worse the game would've been without the delay
runs *flawless* on steamdeck!
gonna give 3x day/night times a shot.if shit breaks im gonna be upset
the only radio song I've recognized so far was Кaceтa
>>503344426Except that's not a shitbox, dimwit.
This is what the edge of the map look like
How do you fire an underbarrel grenade launcher on PC? All these fucking keybindings but nothing for this.
>runs into the 40000th BloodsuckerHoly shit, please cease
>>503344540>the cheapest x3d in existence>budget gpu from 4 years ago>16gb ddr4 which is like $5the only good thing about this desktop is a fast ssd
>>503344590Tab and C
i'm up to 25 mods now this is hilarious
>>503344590You hold the fire selector key.Pressing it switches the fire type, holding selects the underbarrel attachment.
>>503344657the pajeets from /v/ are here due to the new game releasing
>>503344657I don't understand what point you're tying to drive home and for what reason. Is this some obtuse self denigrating shit? The 3060 is the previous generations good mid-range card and the 5700x3D is the go to gaming CPU if you're not on AM5. You have no idea what a shitbox is.
>>503344685>>503344774Thanks stalkersisters.
>>503344774>hold key mechanics When will this FUCKING garbage end every damn game>controller brobut literally no we had 30 years of gaming that never did this shit, it started with RDR2 and there are stilp buttons unused on the padof course more frustrating for a trad pc franchise not even giving bindings
the first time I launched the game the shader compilation was pretty fast and my cpu was at 100% during the entire process, but now my cpu sits at 20% load and takes ~8 minutes each startup. 7800x3d and 32gb ram btw
>>5033424703080 here tooray recon fixed that lighting shit for mehttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/65in terms of frames i had to do a bunch of shit to enable dlss framegen for 30series
>>503344657I was able to play Snowrunner and Yakuza: Like a Dragon on a 1060 at 1080p without dipping under 30FPS. A 3060 is way better than that and there is no reason for a modern game to not be able to run smoothly on it on the lowest settings.Fuck you and fuck everyone who uses the "you're just poor upgrade" excuse, you're part of the problem why the industry is so shit because you keep excusing the laziness of the devs, both of the engine and the game. You shouldn't need to buy a high end GPU just to be able to have a decent experience, a 5700X3D, a 3060 12GB and 16GB of RAM should be the midrange baseline for modern vidya, not "too weak to even run it".I swear you mouthbreathing niggers will say a 5090 is a "weak poorfag gpu" once shit gets so bad a AAA title will struggle to keep stable 60FPS on it at 1440p.
PDA doesn't tell me who i'm friends with? i expected the whole stalker social media thing to be on the PDA too.
>>503345024Does this fix need DLSS?
are the checkpoint military dudes in Cordon just always hostile? or did I piss them off somehow?
>>503344717what do you need 25 mods for? im only using the longer days, performance/mouse input fix and mutant lower armor mod. haven't had issues with economy related stuff yet but I don't have upgraded gear and i heard that increases repair prices
>>503344000NTA, but can anyone tell me if all of the protect base missions are fucked and I shouldn't bother until GSC fixes them?
>>503342017I liked it how it was done in Anomaly, mutants drop parts but only the scientist give you a worthwhile price for em so either you sell em at a lower price to some rando or bother treking back to some scientists who'd buy it from you, giving you an incentive to return to them or make the detour if its nearby.
Wish I didn't have to use FSR 3 but I get shit FPS with any other Framegen and unplayable without. Mouse issues are annoying af and the ini fix isn't working, frame cap in game is fucking broken and I'm playing >Gamepass so no touchy the exe goyim!
>zero reason to use the SVD or any of the snipers because enemies are always 20m or less
>>503343832turbocancer? What's the risk?
>>503343632just run away nigga
>>503345190Current reports are yes, broken with it softlocking the games story and depopulating bases. Go back a few saves and don't progress.
>>503345187it's not really 25 its more like 18
>>503345057No dev working on UE5 is going to be caring about 8 year old hardware and those games targeting PS4 aren't even comparable on a technical level. Seething pajeet retard.
>>503345352>Current reports are yesFuck
>>503345262The reason to use them is that they still delete mutants in 2-3 shots on medium, which is excellent for all the sissies complaining about bloodsuckers.
>>503345401Hell of a fucking bug, we got shitloads of this sort of stuff that really makes it seem like they didn't test shit before launch.
>>503345362>super alifedoes it actually work?
>>503345402>still delete in 2-3 shots Good luck hitting a bloodsucker in the head
>>503345262>Mfw I killed bandits from like a 100m away who were hiding in a checkpointMan this thread is so full of twats just straight up lying, remind me of that post a few days ago where some anon claimed rain effect would stop if you went indoor, and no suprise that was a total lie since it continued and was even modified to sound like there were rain falling unto the metal roofing.
idiot walked into the out of bounds area of the map where radiation just insta kills u
>>503340170>there is an actual original Alife dev talking to some modders on nexus at this very moment.You fail to point it there is an ANOMALY alife dev talking to modders. Not old GSC dev
This is impossible since enemies will never be farther than 20m...
>>503344902>nvidia 3000 series from shit to good30503050 Ti (laptop only)3060 <--------------------- this is not a mid-range card from 3000 series3060 Ti30703070 Ti30803080 Ti30903090 Tinow, should s2 run as poorly as it does? obviously not, but to say my desktop is midrange is silly
>>503343457The mod doesn't work. Someone checked the files the modder was using and they are identical to base game kek
>>503345567>killed bandits 100m away Why would you lie
>>503345465Guess I'll just save after saving Zalissya and wait for a patch. Fucking hell.
>>503345671I guess 9.2% is just a lie then
>>503344542where did you find the out of bounds spot
So, did you save the monolithian or side with Dew?
>>503345759I thought I'd be able to get the guys outside to fuck off without a fight but niggas started shooting so I guess I'm team monolith now
>>503345567There's plenty of bullshit spawns and dead empty areas in the game but there's still good moments here and there. Snipers are fun but they're the least valuable of the weapons right now since most fighting happens indoors or against bloodsuckers/8 rape dogs in the middle of the woods.
>>503345671I guarantee a majority of these 75m+ kills are from that one bandit on the tower after you get betrayed by that guy just before the ward shows up
>>503345695it literally does work, I'm using it right now. I am not getting laserbeamed from 100m away anymore.
>>503345759i sided with Dew and killed the Ninth but that fucking prick Lens for some reason thinks that I sided with the m*nolithian.
>Takes 80% of your health with a thrown teddy bear>Goes invincible after being shot>Hides in the pitch black darkness in all encounters (flashlight only illuminates 5ft infront of you)Is there a more annoying enemy?
>>503339856Anons does the longer days mod break anything? The current cycle is absurdly fast, you talk to three people and the day is half over.
>>503345705I aint lying, but ill admit the AI was janky as fuck reacting to me properly, like id shoot at them, they'd react, then drop the search before even reaching me, returning to the checkpoint where I could take potshot at them until they were all dead.
can someone explain why the artifact isn't dropping? I'm all green on the detector. this is in wild island
>>503345883I lost my upgraded gun to him (thought it went into inventory only to realize it wasn't there after leaving)
>>503345759I wanted to resolve it peacefully, but alas, who lives by the sword dies by the sword.
>>503345759If dew wasnt a retard, he could have just came in, took the guy back and called it a day, but he decided to shoot me to a grenade is all he got from me.
>music keeps cutting off after opening the PDA or hitting ESC>no music at all in SIRCAA>distant gunfire looping over and over>subtitles not showing during main story event at SIRCAA>repairing an armor costs 47k coupons when quests gives you breadcrumbs such as 750 or 1250 coupons>durability loss is insane>game keeps dumping new equipment on you in chunks so you'll always be overencumbered unless you want to miss out on good shit>artifacts aren't worth shit>optional quest objectives sometimes don't trigger>performance is all over the place, works fine for the most part but then you enter a bar and it drops down to a 10 - 15 fps slideshow until you exitDid they even bother playtesting this game? I'm having fun for the most part but some bugs and choices kind of leave a sour taste in my mouth. How can they atleast not make sure the main storyline is polished before release? All the trader prices seem random as fuck too, it's as if there was two different people working on the economy for traders and quest rewards and they never ever communicated with eachother and made that shit balanced.
>>503345376ight brb gonna go ahead and sue GSC for false advertising since they bring up my 8 year old pajeet seethe poorcuck shitware GPU as a minumum recommendation when apparently it's unsupported by U5 devs. Or did I miss some /v/ buzzwords there so I didn't win the argument.
>>503345759I wanted to resolve it peacefully, but he told his dudes to shoot me so I lit him up
>>503345964Oh man I even forgot to mention that because the correct way to fight them is to use a rifle, peek around a corner, fire until he goes blue then sprint away around the corner until you hear the invincibility go off.Yeah I lost my fully upgraded cracker to the cave with 4 of them in it and had to reload. Sometimes when you drop the gun it can fly into the ground
>less than 30s to start>no caching shader at all>practically all stutter eliminateddayum I thought you fags peddle placebo but it's actually a significant upgrade
>>503346057>Did they even bother playtesting this game?Ever played Clear Sky? Especially the final segment?
Where do you get a better detector
>longer days>slower weapon degrading>less tanky mutantscan't think of any other mods i could want
>>503345912Embarrassing retard
>>503345759i was talking to them but then the monolithian just poped up out of the house and started shooting. i watched the fight. he died.
>>503346162I randomly found the one with antennas in a house.
>>503346137>Everything as a makeshift desktop censorRight click desktop, View, uncheck Show Desktop Icons. yw. Unless you have porn as your wallpaper or w/e
>>503346057Honestly feel like the dude who decided the quest rewards thought the coupons were 1 to 1 dollar equivalent or whatnot, and the guy who decided the price of things thought coupons were 1/10 of a dollar.
>>503345883Always feel sorry for humanoid mutants. Wish we were friends.
>>503346156Not really, I heard it was shit, but decided to try it out anyways. It was indeed shit and I dropped it after a few hours. Clear Sky felt like a completely different game compared to SoC and CoP. What was wrong with the final segment?
>>503346137The fuck did you do, I avoided these threads due to spoilers, but I eventually cracked. Also does the day lwnght extending mod work without problems?
>>503345934I posted about that before. It's bugged underground and you can't get it. If you can, I'd recommend carrying a Hilka detector too since it measures vertical and horizontal distance while Bear only tells you horizontal. I tend to use Hilka to know when im exactly next to an artifact, then Bear if i'm struggling to find the exact spot.Hilka saved me from madness in this spot because no matter what I did the detector never went below 5 (artifact pops at 1-2) meaning it had to be stuck in the earth
>>503343836kek
>>503346190you did not beat the game
>>503346330engine.ini tweaks, I frankensteined several different ones into oneI can post it in 30ish min, gotta do a quick grocery trip
>>503346273Gay you should be able to buy detectors from vendors especially since pretty much everyone has one
>>503346203...eh? Im not understanding what you're trying to imply. Aint no secret the AI seem to be very eager to drop the search for your ass, I've had some start shouting about how they lost track of me despite being in the same general area where I started shooting at them.
>>503346329It's essentially the SoC true ending shooting gallery but worse. Enemies literally spawn behind you multiple times all the while you have to use an EMP gun with shit damage and fire rate to disable certain someone's psy helmet, while your screen shakes every 30 seconds.
Save the monolithian, you get less money but instead he gives you an upgrade blueprint
why does this general refuse to use the word coupons?
>>503346481Critiquing STALKER 2 by comparing it to GSC's previous titles from an objective game-to-game only standpoint. On Reddit as well. That is double plus ungood, initiate defense protocol W.A.R.
>>503346535What's the upgrade blueprint for
>>503345720There's people that already have all 100% achievements 2 days after release... What could it mean...? Maybe they used... Steam Achievement Unlocker...>>503345819Yeah there's some fixed spawns where you could do it, there's one at the Brood that's always there on the second floor catwalk, just need to carry a sniper I guess.
>>503346514You can't even buy nice armor or weapons from vendors, you can only find it in the wild, unless I am retarded and missing something>>503346587Because it's stupid, weren't they genuinely called rubles before?
>>503346496Please do, I'd be grateful.>>503346535Anon don't do that, let people discover things themselves.
>>503346587It's gay and bad writing. Might as well as made them bitcoins.
>>503346635>Because it's stupid, weren't they genuinely called rubles before?they are now using coupons in the zone, not rubles.
game just shits the bed after sircaa, can't talk to professor or help defend zalissya
>>503346635>You can't even buy nice armor or weapons from vendorsRostok has a decent selection. The tac helmet is the absolute best i've found since it provides good resistance to everything, very high physical resistance and you can upgrade it to provide some chunky psi armor.
>>503345024Thanks. Seems to have worked. Has a lot of downsides, though: You need to use either SMAA or DLSS, which both suck balls IMHO.I souldn't need to use upscaling or fake frames to get a playable experience on a GPU that's barely a generation old and stronger that any console APU out at the moment.
>>503346614>Steam Achievement UnlockerUsed it to unlock Good Guy Nick on the recent Freekend. Fuck trying getting it the legit way, no one would be able to tell anyways, the date matches up.
So has anyone heard Bandit Radio? Do the Bandits even say Cheeki Breeki anymore? This is an important question.
>>503346635Armor isn't even really an issue since you can find random exosuits laying around near the NPP but yeah weapons are fucking annoying to get at least the duty vendor sells a G36C with a sight near the Bridge to the NPP
>>503346758I haven't gone to Rostok yet, because the game bugged with the save base missions and I don't wanna progress until it's fixed
>>503343814>gorilla balls without engine tweakswhich engine tweaks? The one that make the game look like one of those fanmade UE5 "remasters"`?>worst performance per visuals for my hardwarekek, post a screenshot, please.
What's the point of the AKM-74U when the viper-5 has the same stats with better accuracy?
>>503346806I've heard bandits say cheeki breeki, but no bandit radio
>>503345759i shot him before talking with anyone because lens told me monolith dudes are crazy
spaghetti
>>503346892Don't forget you can pick up a holo sight for the MP10 at the starting vendor while you cant get a 4x for the AK till half way through the game
>>503346983Some keys are hardcoded and can't be changed too, like ladder climbing. What were they thinking?
How is this game in terms of RAM usage? I've seen a video of a guy with the same CPU/GPU as me having good framerates on medium, but his RAM use has intermittent spikes over 16GB, which worries me since he had 32GB and I don't.
>>503346983And here I thought only my localization had broken strings
>>503346806Lots of Davai davai, some wah wah we wah and a bit of cheeki breeki. I've heard some slavic rap and bass but nothing on the level found in Chernoblyite for example
>>503343581>hair graphics on minimum (since it's bugged),got more info on this?>DLSS with framegen on highest quality settingmiss me with that fake & gay frames shit>and I'm so happy when I got 60+ fps...you aren't getting 60fps. You're getting 30 and your input lag stays at 30. Whatever FPS "boost" you are seeing is because of upscaling and fake frames. Two fake things that can never be further from native res.
>>503346635Wouldnt be surprised GSC decided to retroactively remove any mention of anything Russia so they wouldnt get vanned by the Ukie gestapo, hell they even replaced the ukie soldiers with some nondescript regiment because they dont want peoples to shoot at ukie soldier, which sound like complete horseshit.
weight limit or endurance?ive got 2 medium weight artifacts and one strong endurance artifact, getting the 2 weights on lets me carry 10kg and im not overweight, but seems like my regen is absolute trashthe weight + endurance combo does keep me overweight, but the stamina regen is real good
>>503346587Because KKKoupons sound much much better.
>Pistol ammo is more penetrating than rifle roundswhat in the noguns is this shit
>>503347351frame gen is pretty terrible but dlss upscaling is okI can't tell a difference between dlss quality and native, so that's just free fps desu
what the actual fuck is the purpose of using any guns bigger than 5.45/5.56 in this game? headshots still kill ezpz and the ammo is god damn everywhere. I can't even fathom how retarded this game would be if you had to constantly buy 9x39 or .308 every other engagement.
>>503347678AP works best in mutantsThey have high armor mainly You need to do opposite of what you're used to. Use regular on humans and armor piercing on mutants
>>503345714No no, don't save any. Once you do, they will bug, go back before the mission start.
>>503347804where the fuck are you finding 5.56?
>>503347885Jesus Christ.
>>503347886all over. enemies commonly use 5.56 later in the game but I have yet to see 9x39 or .308 really in any decent number
>UE5 lumen>zero bounce lightingwhat in the fuck
Are emissions random or do they only trigger after certain missions?Do all artifacts get renewed after an emission?
>>503340385>nohs sound good except that one
has anyone taken the time to just sit on the main menu? it OOZES sovl.
>>503348064the headshot sound is fucking awful though
>>503340385also you are missing the nvidia denoiser thing
>>503346464correct, i only just got to cordon
>>503348170whats that one do?
>>503347485I don't exactly buy this excuse. GSC has fully reformed as a Czech company in Prague, so they shouldn't be liable for breaking Ukrainian law. It should be public record and it should be possible to verify if GSC as a company is in any way still legally connected to Ukraine where they'd have to self-censor like that. Obviously I'm too lazy to do that myself and it'd involve digging through Czech and Ukrainian government websites, where I don't know either of the languages so.However my bet is that they're just petty like that, they went full derussification the moment the war started, so before laws like that could be passed. If there were ones in place before, then clearly they weren't forcing them to self-censor like that since they were fine with all of it right up until the war broke out.
is this the power plant?
>>503348060>Are emissions random or do they only trigger after certain missions?Random and trigger during certain quests. Doesn't seem to happen until you've done a few quests though, like how Skyrim didn't spawn dragons if you didn't do the first few main quests.
>>503348272no thats the Wendy's
>finish institute stuff>monolit is back>maybe ill check on the noontide fellas, I'm pretty sure this involves them>go to their base>totally abandoned>but there's a hostile on the roof>*bang* *bang* dead>proceed a bit, get a quest>"kill the zombie on the roof">didn't I just kill that guy?>go to roof>quest refuses to progressGreat job GSC. just exceptional.In all honesty though I'm this close to having seen enough. the originals are so much better in so many ways
Are there waifus in this game?
>>503348267make the game look slightly better
>>503347735>frame gen is pretty terribleyes, because it doesn't decrease input lag>can't tell a difference between dlss quality and nativeI can and it's awful. DLSS is TAA and upsacling combined. And DLSS is awful in motion with rapid camera movement: FPS games specifically.>>503348037>LUHANSK AMMOKEK
I'm surprised more people aren't seething about autolean. I hate when games try to play for me, but I guess most people don't mind
>>503348060Seem consistent after a few days, but some are tied to event triggers. The two most noticable ones being: When you trigger the Chimera to spawn at the swamp shack and when you first arrive at SIRCAA
>>503348409best you'll get is the fat barkeep at the Sultansk
>>503348357quicksave then load the game if the quest triggers aren't happening properly, I had to do this a few times at SIRCAA
>active emission>pic related comes to shelter>says he doesn't like idle chatter>starts doing pushupsholy BASED
>>503348357Wait 'till you find out that all the base defense missions are bugged and fail anyways after being perfectly completed .
Should I bother or will I need a new CPU and mobo :-(
>>503348272No, this is Patrick.
>>503348680overclocked 8700K's can still fuckGet the free version of the game and see how it runs. Something tells me that optimization for S2 will only get worse.
>>503348680wat gpu
>>503348659zaliyssa was retarded, I stopped in there and there's monolith in the safe area, so the stalkers and monolith are constantly trying to engage in combat but they keep drawing their weapons and putting them away>>503348609tried it, but didn't work. I think the game didn't like that I shot him from so far away, before I completed the "get to the roof" objective
>>503348497It's terrible but this game is essentially "do what we want, don't do what you want". It's mostly alibi-immersion; personally, the most annoying shit is the amount of stuff you can't jump on and the fact that they have a mantle system but it's only ineffect when the dev says it is, not when I want.
>>503348270Uh, didnt knew they had relocated, guess it make sense. I thought they were still based in Ukraine with how one of the dev got btfo in the war.
>>5033487783070
>>503348497yeah, that is awful. they should add an option to disable it. please send them a feature request like i did so they know that there is demand for it.https://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
when the fuck do you get artifacts that aren't completely dogshit?
tips on getting a high psi-block suit?
>>503348650>Pulling a Bharv during an emissionFuck Skif, I want this guy as the protagonist!
>>503348650He's the main character
>>503346651make an engine.ini file in the given path, paste the content then set the fire to read onlyI'm reasonably sure there's little to no tweaks that have visual downgrades herehttps://ctxt.io/2/AAB4IUxwEA
>>503348409Am I the only one who hated that Metro game? Early game it was fine, but later on it devolve into a shitty railroad fps.
>>503349007it's the less railroaded of the three (both figuratively and literally)
>>503349000How stable does the game run at natiive res with those fixes? My engine.ini already has some and I don't wanna override them.
>>503349083I personally felt like it was a chore to finish past the horrendous bear boss fight, like honestly who the fuck thought it was a good idea to add freaking antiquated boss fights in a game mostly about stealth and gun fighting.
Game is incredibly easy on Veteran difficulty, wtf are people crying about. The game floods you with medkits and ammo
>>503349243I haven't had a single crash yet, either before or after tweaks
>"permission to raise spirits?" >"permission to raise spirits?" >"permission to raise spirits?" >"permission to raise spirits?"
>>503349272Most shitposters are scrubs or havent actually played the game, just posting whatever bait slop they think will give them (you)'s.
>>503348994>>>/v/
>>503349272That's not the issue, the issue is being able to repair shit or upgrade because you're short on cash all the time.
first crash. wtf.
Is the game any good?
>>503349434did you go down the stairs after grabbing the emitter?
grasshoppers in cordon
>>503348894Volodymyr Yezhov stayed behind out of his own volition and paid the highest price for it, however I was strictly speaking about the law aspect. Devs staying back in Ukraine to fight on the front are no longer devs, they're soldiers, and the ones that left, left to Prague, where GSC had to incorporate as a Czech business entity, meaning they're subjected to Czech law, not Ukrainian.However I didn't do any due diligence to look at the entire corporate structure, nor do I have any legal education or knowledge to find any link within their corporate hierarchy that's still incorporated in Ukraine, which could force GSC's hand to self-censor like that as what the Czech branch does could bring the company, or even the employees liable in Ukraine, so make of it what you will, I'm just theorizing. It's very possible they're still subject to Ukrainian law in some extent, but this brings up the argument of when such laws were passed after February 2022, when GSC started self-censoring, and whether or not it'd make sense for them to censor like that before any laws were passed, if the timeline of those events would align like that.tl;dr I don't know shit about the law aspect, but I can tell that if it was the reason, it can be proven with overwhelming evidence to show law forced GSC's hand, rather than GSC acting on their own volition. Unless someone bothers to do that, it's pointless to discuss this angle.
ive noticed these symbols next to vendors on the map, no clue what it means though.
>>503349537no, i was grabbing this stash at the slag heap and i started to get really bad stutters and then it crashed. this is my first crash in 16 hours of gameplay
>>503349616thats sick
>>503349616need tejas to track grasshopper behavior in cordon
>>503349649same shit happened to me after about 16 hours. it happens if I go more than 6 hours without relaunching the game.
>>503349616grasshopper life
where the heck are all the flashlight mods? >>503349710its weird cause i just launched the game cause i just woke up a bit ago.
>>503349642I believe it's rep. I noticed the zalissya technician offered me much cheaper prices to repair my shit and hes green. But I cant be sure
There really aren't any fucking NVGs at all? What the hell?
>>503349487I think its quite good especially if youre willing to mod a lot of the existing problems out
>>503349845They'll add them in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Unclear Sky.
>>503349642>>503349797those symbols are faction designations. green means friendly. not sure how to raise rep though
I like how they placed so many brekable crates and only 5% are filled with anything, unless it is a specific ammo or item crate.
>>503349616I wonder how horrifically bad little details like that get implemented in Unreal. I mean, it's nice and all, but I have this bad feeling it's wasting more resources than it should. Like the polygon count of the grasshopper, how much it's model mesh takes up on the drive, how the game deals with LOD's and such.idk I'm really fucking cynical about games at this point, that grasshopper looks so good my mind jolts to thinking about resource waste.
>>503349985how do i know what the factions are?
In Gamma is it possible to repair the barrel without dismantling the gun?
Why don’t zombies starve to death?As I understand it, the brain scorcher was destroyed years ago and most zombies, except the ones who were only recently turned due to massive psi radiation exposure, should be dead now
>>503347084greedy, I've got 64gb and it'll hog every last byte it can get. I often see ram usage at 98-99% while playing
>>503349308Alright, I'll give it a go.Not the anon that asked you for it but I used your fix and a few of mine. How's your hardware and performance, by the way?
>>503350117How do stalkers shit?Do they shower?Does everyone in the Zone just reeks because there's no way to take a shower?If so, why is no one ever bringing up that fact?Answer to all those questions: doesn't matter, artistic liberties taken to focus on the gameplay aspect instead of making every detail of the world realistic. Suspension of disbelief doesn't require accounting for every real life scenario in a fictional setting.
>>503350105It's been so long that I don't remember exactly but I recall barrel repair and anything related to it being really tiresome so it's possible. I ended up taking with me every single somewhat intact barrel.
>>503350047I imagine they dont look that detailed unless zoomed in on
only because of stalker 2 do I now realize the anti rad drugs is an injection, they just looked like a red and blue colored pill to me all this time.
>>503348409aside from the babushka in the skadovsk, there's a cute freedom girl in the new bazar in rostok.
>>503350240Ignoring the Indian meme for a second, are you honest to God unable to imagine people taking a dump outside? And, while a bit more out there, have you never spend some time in nature; a fucking nigger-rigged garden hose is enough for a quick shower in summer. Not to mention that electricity is present in the zone and so is fire, warming up a bath isn't exactly rocket science.
>>503350264I know you're able to repair individual parts through field stripping but you can't remove the barrel from a gun without destroying it first.
>>503349308I used your fix but it makes my game eat up 14gb's of RAM. I think I'll do without it.
>>503350098intuitively
>>503350379they are pills in the originals, they just have the icon of a syringe for some reason
>>503350496I remember there is a sort of in-game guide you can access through the PDA and there you have a specific section on repair that mentions this very issue.
Really wish I could see who the fuck just shot at me after I kill them in their looting screen.
>>503350605Yeah, one of the biggest issue in the game. Identifying in general is fucked.
>>503350282It's not about how they look, but how the engine renders them and manages it's resources. I really don't fucking trust Timmy's lies that UE5 does magic LOD's on the fly, that engine runs like utter shit either way. Also, devs shoving in excessively detailed models into their game not only unnecessarily bloats the game size, but also might lead to worse performance when the engine has to load the full res model, and in a worst case scenario fails to adjust the LOD's of it properly.>>503350396>babushkaThat is a bona-fide gypsy hag, ready to throw a gypsy curse at you at any moment.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmUI_moslVY>>503350481If everyone shits everywhere, you'd have prop_govno everywhere, at random. Safe zones like Yanov and Skadovsk would have dedicated, marked and maintained toilet areas, since it would only make sense for them to set up more civilized forms of relief, but the only toilet you see is the one in Yanov that looks like something taken straight out of Green Elephant.It's the Zone. Water is irradiated everywhere, and there's no running clean tap water. You'd have to set up lore of how people like Sidor smuggling liters of clean water from outside the Zone just for use in personal hygiene. Good luck making it not sound retarded, only to have a lore friendly explanation of how stalkers wash themselves.
uhhh game is glitched the fuck out? i went to save my game and now my controls are locked. can't do anything but scroll up and down my saves.
>>503350240there is literally no clean water in the zone, it’s all irradiated. Clean water has to be transported in everyday or go through a massive filter system which is unavailable to the average settlement.Getting all these supplies through the military blockade in sufficient quantities is probably impossible so yeah, I guess you’re right
>>503350396proof
>>503350776like I was just attacked by a bunch of dudes in normal gopnik clothes and had 3 other dudes in similar gopnik clothing helping me out
>>503349616-15 fps
i love shooting into the abyss
>>503350776I am just going to start shooting everyone desu
>>503350605Their names are usually a giveaway.The military have their ranks and last names.Bandits have their first name and some “hardcore” or brutal alias as last name.
>>503343710there was a modification in the call of Pripyat that allowed running in an exoskeleton
>>503351036It's not like there are faction relations or relations or anything resembling A-life so, at least so far, I haven't found any reason not to just gun down everyone.
>feel lonely, bored, nothing cool is happening around >get an idea>stop and do a couple of 360s>3 bandit frens appear out of nowhere behind me>do a couple more 360s >3 stalker frens also show up and they start shooting each other>no longer feeling lonely
>>503351141>The military have their ranks and last names.Ward do as well, but Ward are cunts anyways so might as well shoot them down
>>503350098It tells you, also, look at their patches and camo.
i'm actually going to cryi dont want any more bread or sausages please
>>503351229*shoves a whole can of tourists breakfast down you’re throat*Back the fuck off?!?!???!!!!
>>503351229nutrition in this game is seriously garbage
how's the projectile sim? Drop, ricochet, etc?
is there any mod that fixes the bandits spawning 50m from you every time you leave a point of interest yet? at least makes them spawn like 200m away or just way less frequently?
>>503351229Would you prefer the Anomaly food item bloat instead?
So you can't really progress past getting the emitter without royally fucking up your save? I don't really want to play until it gets fixed if that's the case.
>>503351416we NEED broken syringes and porn mags in stalker 2
If I get attacked by one more fucking random Bloodsucker while running around I am going to turn the gun and shoot myself
>>503350047I'm glad people like you didn't exist in the 2000s so that we could get technically impressive games like the original STALKER and Crysis.
>>503349619Vladimir Yezhov was a low-level guy who could be replaced in one day by another guy off the street and nothing would changed. All he did was some quests on Escape and Yantar, in the worst part of stalker - Clear Sky. He didn't program anything shit, he didn't model anything, he didn't write top dark ambient like MoozE.Proof https://stalker.fandom.com/ru/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87Only valuable developers of stalker isAndry Prokhorof (prof) - made main idea of make game about tarkovsky stalker, game design. Leave from GSC in 2005-2006 and form 4A Games and Metro seriesAleksei Shishkovtsov - made graphics engine in SoC, move to 4A Dmitry Yasenev - made AI and alife engine in trilogy, even made stalker 2 in 2010-2012, then move to vostok games making survariumAleksei Sityanov (koan) - made main game design and adaptation ideas from books like forgotten experiment and tower of steven kingVladimir Frei (MoozE) - made ambient in SoCSergey Karmalsky - made maps escape, agroprom and buildogarbage. Leave GSC in 2004 to make maps in You Are Empty (also great game) in 2004-2006 and then to 4A Games making maps in Metro Last LightAnything else excess ru-ua voice acting artists is easy replacable nonames including grigaI just fucking find it unbearably ridicolous to see this hypocritical condolences to the death of Yezhov, who did nothing remarkable in CS and left two children without a father, as well as arguments that GSC is supposedly an experienced company when no one in the development team of the new S2 had anything to do with the old trilogy and they are essentially Indian outsource equivalent hired in 2017-2022
how is the vector in this game?
>>503351229He need some milk
I hate that faggot Klean.
Fuck this shit. game just completely breaks after you leave SIRCAA>game wants me to speak to professor, but the bunker door is locked and can't get it>get transmissions that bases need assistance>communicating on radio>sprint over to Zalissya>They are still requesting assistance on radio when im 80m away>get there, no enemies, but ambient gunfire all around town>go to townhall>all the npcs are stuffed in there, quest breaks completely when I try to talk to gaffer and it autofails itI've also had to save then reload multiple times before this with broken quest triggers.This is reminding me of Rogue Trader at release once you get into act 3/4 with all the broken shit.
1. Divide the map into squares, say 100 meters by 100 meters2. Take a list of NPCs and monsters, say 500 of different factions3. Take a list of small camps in the squares: Sheds, huts, fires, checkpoints4. Set these 500 NPCs to initial spawns at these camps5. Give each NPC random tasks: go there, capture something, patrols, scour for food/artifacts, robbery, rest6. Update the information every few game hours, who went where, who killed whom7. As soon as the player comes to the square, spawn real stalkers and monsters there, not virtual ones, who behave in accordance with the usual combat AI8. As soon as the player leaves the square, transfer them back to offlineWhy is it so hard to do, I really wonder? This is not a calculation of reflections or particles of some kind, it should happen in a matter of seconds in the background
i am running into so many bugs all of a sudden.
>>503351758There must be some fundamental issue with Unreal because I don't think I've ever seen a game attempting even basic simulations like this using it.
>>503339856Yeah I take back everything good I've said about S2, no matter what I fucking do, every single save defaults to Wild Island with Strider. I have lost a total of 11 hours of progress because of this shit. You would think after like 20 fucking years these hohol pigs could make a save system that works.
>>503351753>game wants me to speak to professor, but the bunker door is locked and can't get itHe was at Quiet's camp for me, but yeah Zalissya is still bugged, even though I can get to the last part of the defense, slaughter the Monolith, if I leave I get the message that the town survived, then 1 minute later it changes to it being fully dead. I am just gonna wait for a patch
>>503350982my potato waifu
>>503351912Real shame because overall i've not encountered many issues at all. The exploration is ultimately not amazing because the radiant trader quests suck ass but the story and quests were atleast really fun. But i'm just not going to force myself to deal with completely broken quests.
>click save labeled "Great Swamps" >I'm back before I even got to wild islandQuality GSC))))))
compiling shaders is starting to take forever now. how does this game break more everyday? and where the hell are all the patches.
Does each Arch anomaly has an artifact in it?
>>503351615>STALKERBuggy mess that went through development hell, where the features that were actually fresh when first implemented ended up being stale on release.>CrysisTech demo so excessive in resource waste it couldn't run well on hardware released years after the game released. It's remaster has quality settings called "can it run Crysis?" that disable every single optimization to ruin the performance with no visual improvement, which perfectly encapsulates modern game dev approach to "innovation".I will always point to this fat fuck's company as proof that innovation comes from being a competent dev, and that you can have a technically impressive game without requiring a top range computer to run. Half-Life: Alyx has proven that even in the current day you don't need Unreal level of performance waste to make a good looking and unique game.There is no reason to waste resources on an ambient grasshopper. If adding that causes a noticeable, measurable performance impact, either your game dev team or your engine is hot garbage. No excuses.>>503351932>woman>Freedomshe's getting raped 100%
Which freeroam mod will satiate my need to explore abandoned slavblocks?
>>503351141>hardcoreIdk, "Inker" "Muddy" and "Lucky" dont really sound like hardcore bandit names
can i explore without getting attacked constantly? like can i go to where freedom is before the main story takes me there?
What does this guy want me to do?>finish those dogs offHe isn't telling me to kill the Ward guys, is he?I got to him stealthily and opened the door. He can fuck off without inflicting any casualties.
>>503351753how did this pass play testing
>game can't get stable 60 with graphics looking like this
>>503352219She's getting gangbanged by a pack of junkies and there's nothing doody can do about it.
>>503352360I FEEL THE MONOLITH'S CALL
>>503351652Only used it for a bit, but pretty shit. Need a bigger mag for it, 20 rounds a mag aren't enough.
>astroturfers trying to claim no NVGs are in the gameSurely this isn't true
>>503352298I have the exact opposite problem
>>503352360post ur gpu
>>503352298I went to Rostok the second I was allowed to cross the bridge. Didn't even do it to meta game but simply because I had no clue where the other traders were and my pack was full. So I placed a marker at what was clearly a town and found it.The quests bug out though, theres 3 side missions that you can't do (well one of them you can do the first half of) because the game is stomping it's feet that you're there too early But I went there, sold my shit, bought some good armor then continued on my way. Was surprised 15 hours later when it was telling me to go there and suddenly all the quests work.
I HATE JUMP SCARES AHHHH
>>503352332There was no play testing, they rushed it out because Microsoft forced their hand. You know, like with Cyberpunk 2077, where they threw out 2/3rds of the finished game because of Keanu Reeves, forced the devs to redo it all around Johnny Silverhand near the end of the dev cycle, and the legal obligations from partners forced their hand to release it unfinished.Assuming GSC won't go under and will keep working on fixing S2 non-stop, they'll iron it out roughly to the point it should be at release in 2 years.
Pseudodogs are so fucking annoying, I'd rather get gangbanged by Controllers than deal with this shit
>>503352525thats fucking gay.
>>503352360https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkR7zClEkAo
>>503352670Are there scripted jumpscares in S2 now? lol the whole magic of jumpscares in STALKER was that they happened naturally. Even the Bloodsucker in Agroprom Underground was nothing more but a setup for the game to do the rest, and it liked to fuck up as well since it was so unforced.
>>503343780NOOO BRO DONT LEAVE
>>503352502No binoculars, no NVG. Honestly, there is zero reason for either to be in the game because enemies do not spawn more than 30m away from you.The only reason you feel the need for NVG is because the default flashlight is embarassingly shit but the enemies have broken detection so they spot you through a dense forest or a pitch black basement with no issue while you can't see shit.
Rostok might be the worst laid-out city I have ever seen. This puts Morrowind to shame
>>503352916What? You don't like 90% of the paths leading to odd dead ends?
stalker 2 in image form
>>503352881Indonesia care about binos. NVGs though? That's horseshit. Flashlight fucks me over in stealth
>>503346481yeah, Putin won...we lost..
>>503352821>they happened naturallythe slamming door in X18 which everyone jerks off over is scripted, so is the bloodsucker growl in Agroprom
is this good?
>>503353109>Flashlight fucks me over in stealthFlashlight doesn't increase your detection at all though. Seriously. The first time I realised this was in Sphere. I managed to sneak (after 15+ reloads) into the base. Found an obstacle, turned on flashlight to realise it was 2 enemies, who both didn't care I had my flashlight on or that I bumped into one of them.After that I realised that yeah, flashlight means nothing. The enemies will just bullshit detect you regardless.
why is it always night time
why is skif such a fucking manlet REEEE
>>503353368so you cant see the shit graphics
>>503352360FINALLY someone posts lego graphicsmind sharing ur engine ini? its forward shading isnt it
>>503353368Why is it always rainy or a storm? I've had a clear sky show once or twice in over 35 hours. I get that it's The Zone, but I don't remember the weather always being shit in the previous games.
>>503353521feels like how cyberpunk always had this shitty acid rain weather
>>503353247For me it's this. But I found another one that has two lead lined artifact slots so i'm saving up to upgrade that instead
>>503353258Nah that's just a bug. I have had the flashlight matter repeatedly.
wish i could have skif play me a song on the guitar, it's cool that i can control it but idk how to play
This is so weird to me. Staker 2 is to the previous Stalker Games like Dragons Dogma 2 is to the first.Like I am not memeing. A more realistic clunky, therefore less arcadey movement system that feels weighty but makes precise movement or cool dodge maneauvers almost impossible. The map is way bigger but for some reason the loot in it is a lot less interesting. Like I have cleaned so many stashes and it is always the same low quality items with only a few exceptions. The performance is atrocious, completely relying on Frame Generation or DLSS to run to any acceptable degree.Like I am really enjoying my time with the game as I did with Dragons Dogma 2. But those parallels are so surreal to me. Like why. These are japanese and ukrainian developers. Not really alike.
>>503353745>I have had the flashlight matter repeatedly.No you haven't. There are two enemy states. One has them become completely retarded, these are usually scripted missions, and in that state as long as your gun is silenced it is very difficult to be spotted.The other is the enemies being alert. They just spawned 30m from you, they know you are there, and will spot you through terrain and walls regardless of what you do.Very, VERY, rarely do you have ambient enemies who spawned in near you and don't instantly spot you, but the second you move from cover it won't matter.
>>503353932The map is genuinely empty, I can run 2 kms from point A to B with nothing actually happening at all except having to dodge random road anomalies.
i hate that these stashes dont really tell you a storyit's always just bread, vodka and ammo
>>503353973Nah. You're wrong.
>>503339856Honestly with all these faggots running their mouths I thought this game would be a fucking nightmare to run, but I have a mid spec pc running it at ultra settings and even though it has a good amount of visual bugs it's not that bad, upgrade your pc you bastards.
how do i betray the gipsy when she wants you to kill beard and sultan?
it doesn't feel like the >bleedingartifacts do fucking anything at all to stop bleeding fasterI have two of them with medium-green-bleeding and I still find myself having to bandage to stop bleeding or it will run for what feels like the whole durationalso where are the GODDAMNED maximum-green-stamina artifacts!?
ETA on people porting over the cool stuff from Stalker 2 into other Stalker games?
>>503354237>I have a mid spec pc running it at ultra settingsdo you use fake frames?
>>503354237the game as a whole is surprisingly well optimizedfor poorfag PCs and consoleniggersmost of the folks bitching about it running like shit have $3500 PCs and (rightfully) believe they should be able to run it buttery smooth without fucking upscaling and framegen, which is definitely not possible
>>503354181>One has them become completely retarded, these are usually scripted missions, and in that state as long as your gun is silenced it is very difficult to be spotted.Thank you for proving this? Enemies literally do not react at all to a silenced pistol from 5ft away, no reaction to bodies slumping, and you are only spotted because you somehow missed (because you're shit) with the most accurate gun in the game
scamming sido with the bug
>>503341396>diddling with mincraft for 8 years means you know anything
>>503353429there is a mod for that pretty sure
>>503354454they dont make you bleed slower, they lower the chance of a wound causing a bleed
>>503354861wow, it's fucking useless unlss "maximum" I guessthanks, that will save me two slots
>no 7.62 ak>no wood stock ak
>>503354454>>503354861>they lower the chance of a wound causing a bleedThey don't do that. I have pic related. What the bleed resistance actually does is increase the chance of you recovering from bleed naturally and recovering much faster. With this on I will very often lose the bleed status within 3-4 seconds even if I don't bandage it.
>>503354670Why isn't it possible you stupid bastard
So going past the SIRCAA institute fucks up the whole game?
>>503345680UE5 runs like stinky unwashed anus when you push itthats how
does durability affect weapon stats or is it just its either broken or it isnt
>>503354704>Enemies literally do not react at all to a silenced pistol from 5ft awayloud storm. You're dumb.
>"show pda">*doesnt show it at all*why
>no patches
>>503353247>>503353731>doodyew
>>503355298>loud storm covering the sound of a pistol from 5ft away just because it's suppressedLMAO.
>>503355086because modern devs are fucking lazy as fuckand modern engines are pure cancerblame marketing niggers and consoles for this, as always"muh 30/60fps 4k" etc like that's an actual achievement>>503355424if trees/branches are cracking and falling or there's lightning, absofuckinglutely
>>503355424Anon, this is even in the loading screen tips. This is Stealth in shooters 101. Bad weather makes stealth easier.
>>503355471>if trees/branches are cracking and falling or there's lightning, absofuckinglutelyyou have never held a gun in your entire life, let alone fired one
>>503346481the fuck is he talking about less?
is the ar416 monolith useful at all? seems worse than valik's akm
>>503355478Except even without the storm it would play out exactly the same, which I already fucking said. If you use a suppressed weapon the enemies turn into fucking retards as long as they aren't in the state where they find you instantly.Your argument to me saying that stealth was shit and either braindead easy or impossible, was proving me right.
>>503354237>ultra settingsYou have maximum upscaling on or something?
>>503355597wont be until much later when you can even find 5.56 ammo and by that time you'll realize the only guns you should be using are the 9mm guns
>>503346587every fucking time I hear or read that shit I think of Ron White saying 'Coupins'
updates on the A-Life mod?anyway, it's bee a few years since a played an immersive kino like this one. reminds me of the good old days of SoC/CoP 10 or more years ago.I kinda miss random emissions and the usually fights between soldiers/bandits: basically what a-life was back then.I also dont forget it took me a good week to properly mod the game back in the days and it was pure eurojank.I don't mind bugs they give games a certain charme, when they're not game breaking.so far I've been playing 20 hours and never had a single break. however, if a specific HDD is plugged in my PC, the game wont start.huh
>>503355471>>503355478>if trees/branches are cracking and falling or there's lightningnogunz actually fucking believe this?
>>503355528ahahaha he thinks a suppressed Mak is loud https://youtu.be/4JqSD3ZswIA?si=I-Yfi03f0Wvjb6YA&t=212Sure, this is a .22 but the point remains>Except even without the storm it would play out exactly the sameNope. They usually notice when I ice their bros when they can hear properly.
whole group of guys just appeared out of nowhere and saved me from two bloodsuckers
>>503355528I'm a burger living in a rural areaI was shooting guns before I learned how to drivebut cool story bro
>>503355890The system works!
>>503351652very low recoil as it should be
>>503351668milk is for selling, silly
>>503354237>>503355673Where's that place?that's the CoP art thing!
>>503355975>>503355823post pics of your suppressors. if you think suppressors are quiet you have never in your life been near one.
>>503355890Woah, now THAT'S A-life™!You lose Chuds!
>>503356154It's just on the rise next to the starter village
"This mod changes the damage of explosions/grenades to give more damage to the player, trying to be more like GAMMA."thats never a selling point bruvv
>>503356161suppressors with subsonic ammo are very quietsuppresors without are not "quiet", but they're not "loud enough to hear clearly as a shot over thunder in a raging storm" either
>>503356161Anon, I just posted video proof. It's very possible to have suppressors that are retard quiet. https://youtu.be/xbAJLcFVv5I?si=kyO6sWX-I6ITK81A&t=280Look, here's a PB. Fucking SUPER quiet.
>>503341263I agree because I like the idea that they're scary things to avoid. An occasional quest to hunt them works well. My only problem is how tanky they are because it's genuinely just stupid. I did the dog fight leading into the quest where you get the soul artifact for the ward and I had to reload like 6 times because in about 12 seconds there were a million dogs on me and even grenading and shooting the real one with 6 shotgun blasts wasn't enough. If you can't find high ground to jump away from mutants, you're completely fucked.
>>503356384>>503356380Doesn't the makncheese use naturally subsonic ammo
seriously what the fuck are the conditions for having a nigger upgrade my guns? Rostok is the only place that will touch my later in the game guns but I can't find anyone that will touch my Spas12 or Saiga12, or any other bigger rifle for that matter
>>503356293wtfthanks
where the hell are -rad artifacts?
>>503344657You're talking to people who get mad at modern games because they're using 7 year old CPUs and 6 year old budget GPUs.
GAMMA 2 and Grok will save Stalker
>>503356801Maybe in chem type anomalies?
what's the difference between anomaly and gammawhich one is more fun
>>503353173>the slamming door in X18Not a jumpscare, it fucks with you because it sets up the expectation something horrifying will jump out from behind it given the atmosphere of the lab, but you can stand in front of it for hours and nothing happens, then once you open it, there's nothing there, but you still think there's something there. It's called "building good atmosphere", most of the fear is made up by your mind.>bloodsucker growl in AgropromYeah okay sure.Thing is, most jumpscares in STALKER are shit like a chimera jumping at you from nowhere, the famous heart attack simulator. That's completely unscripted and happens through the nature of the game world. Same with a bloodsucker jumping you at night and you freaking out because you can't see it. Those are the types of jumpscares STALKER is known for. If GSC started doing them through scripted cutscenes like in that one bloodsucker trailer, that's bad game design and GSC has regressed.
What do you do with PDAs and notes? Should they just be sold or is there someone who they can be turned in to for more?
>>503356832Grok is already pushing mods for STALKER 2 on nexus, namely rebalance mods for mutant HP and difficulty settings
>>503356801
>>503356969I just sell them.
>>503356507Yeah 9x18 is vaguely beneath supersonic9x18 21st century Russian specs>325 m/s (1,066 ft/s)Supersonic speed>343.2 m/s (1,126 ft/s)
>>503354290warn sultan on the radio that mercs are on the way and kill the mercs.
>notMonolith base on wild island doesn't have a fucking tradergoddammit you shitcunt faggots, I am dying of overweightness LET ME SELL SOME SHIT SO I CAN REPAIR MY GEAR
>>503357271thank you.
Does anybody know what those "crypto_test" branches are about?https://steamdb.info/app/1643320/depots/
>>503354290why? sultan needs to go.
>>503357394What the fuck
>>503357386people already asked, devs on the official discord said it has nothing to do with NFTs
>>503357386Crypto just means secret or coded.
>>503352676>Because of KeanuI didn’t know Keanu was part of the csuite that wanted the game out to make line go up
>>503357294Zalissya isn't that far you can walk to it and back.
>>503353932>This is so weird to me. Staker 2 is to the previous Stalker Games like Dragons Dogma 2 is to the first.No it is not. Stalker 2 still feels like the Stalker world.
>>503357623>emptier than my will to liveAt least in DD2 you encountered goblins every 3 steps
>finally found a groza>uses ammo i dont have fuck
>90k coupons by the time i arrive at the slag heaphow do i stop hoarding for coupons that i never need?
>>503353932Stashes were like that in the older games too, if you want a power fantasy just pirate the DLC that has stashes with game breaking gear.
>>503354531You're not going to see stuff like the bulba anomaly ported onto x-ray.
>>503354531>>503357823>porting into x-ray lmao, all they're gonna do is work on upgrading the game and porting stuff UP from x-ray not backwards. Jesus christ the poorfag thirdie cope is wild here.
>>503357791Do you not upgrade or repair your stuff?
I talked to richter and grabbed the stash on top of the crane, but how do I get down? The way I came is blocked by a one-way fall, and i get instanuked by rads every other way.
>>503357904What part of my post made you think that I was a third worlder who couldn't run S2 and wanted its features ported into x-ray? I specifically said the shit S2 does won't work in x-ray.
>>503357904I have a 7900xtx and a 5800x3d. Stalker 2 is ass right now so I got a refund. I'll come back in about 2 years when the game is fixed as much as it can be and there's actual hardware in the real world that can run it well.
>>503357939i think i repaired my armor and valik AK only once. the game gives you so many weapons and it's very easy to one tap most human NPCs with the 4x scope.
>>503348415where is this available?
>>503358012Stop taking offense because you were included in a reply. >>503358074>actually my dick is 9 inches long and uncutOk.
>have to reload from before I slept in SIRCAA because the bugsi hate the antichrist
>>503357953There's a slope down marked with a sign
>>503358139Stop taking offense that you were called out for being stupid.
>>503357953there's like these road signs that show u where to go
>>503357213Nogun sperg, but technically you could load supersonic ammo and have it fire at subsonic speed with enough suppression, making them silent, like the MP5SD does. But that delegates the game design to "subsonic = stealth" and "supersonic = not stealth", and you can design it as a binary. Two types of ammo: supersonic and subsonic. Gun suppresses enough to fire supersonic ammo as subsonic, it's stealth with both. Gun doesn't suppress enough or doesn't suppress at all, it's stealth only with subsonic.>>503357386>>503357557Crypto can mean a lot of things. The game files are encoded, they're testing secure online connections, generally speaking it will refer to cryptography. You're using "teh ebil crypto" right now to connect to 4chan, it's called HTTPS. The "S" stands for secure as it uses cryptography so that everything that travels online is encrypted, ISP's and middle men only see garbled packets and source/destination IP's.>>503357585Let me spell it out for you: Badowski managed to cut a marketing deal with Keanu during CP2077's development. Johnny Silverhand was never a character in the initial form of Cyberpunk. Now CDPR had to redo the entire game to incorporate him. The team went into crunch mode, had to do delays, they couldn't delay any longer and were forced to release an unfinished product to the market. The final game supports the Keanu theory as your initial character design influences the game's events right up until the point where Johnny is introduced to the plot, by which point you get a cutscene of V doing all the shit you'd do in the original game, then it's all the same story wise, your choices don't matter, your character doesn't matter, shit that CDPR advertised, all because of gross mismanagement at the top of the company.
> Unreal Engine has more than 2 million lines of code alone, and custom code on top of that will be at least 100,000-500,000 by the time it ships. Some could easily double that figure, especially if you include associated tools for the games.> A modern game is probably 1.5-5 million lines of code, if written in a C-like language. Contrast with a game from the mid-90's at around 3-500,000 of mixed assembly language and higher-level code. Quake shipped with about 310,000 lines of code.> [1] http://blog.klocwork.com/static-analysis/analysis-of-unreal-engine-4/> [2] https://www.gamedev.net/forums/topic/530022-how-many-lines-of-code-are-in-the-quake-engine/2 million lines of code purely on the Unreal Engine and that's without any game mechanics...
>5 minute long parkour >here's your loot bro
Is there any consensus about which tweak/optimization mod is best overall on Nexusmods?
>>503358372Those 2 million lines aren't going to be running every frame.
>>503358503>40 rounds of 2 WORLD WARS FUDDY FIVEyou're welcome
>>503358503please get filtered already and fuck off to /v/
>>503358139Why do you immediately start talking about dicks? Are you a faggot?You're the one that brought up "BUT.......... LE POORFAG"
>>503358503Hardcore fags approved
>>503358539yeha there are like 6 of them and one says the other one is a copy of his>>503358372and?
>>503358352But they always wanted Keanu. They also wanted Lady Gaga and another musician for Morgan Blackhand so they’d have one for all origins. But yes, it was all mismanaged top down. That I can agree with.
I can't see shit at night, I might just rise gamma instead of using the world's shittiest flashlight
retard died to the emission
>>503357394t.gipsy bitch
>>503358372With everything built from the ground up in a compiled language.Your small console app in Java or C#, with dependencies and the runtime can reach the same amount. For example the .NET runtime is about 2 to 3 million lines of code too. The code you write yourself however is only a fraction of the code that is being run.A game engine can be seen a bit like the JRE/CLR, it's something you build your program around. The engine can be millions of lines of code (from 3D rendering, to asset and sound streaming, scripting engine, networking, system calls, etc.), but in the end, the game itself has far fewer lines of code.
>>503339856How the fuck do I merge the decreased stamina loss and longer days mods? They conflict and can't be extracted using 7zip, and the little I can find online is all esoteric techbro shit to me. Help me anons.
>>503358264>>503358310wow I'm retarded, thanks
>>503358742>poorAMD shitzen (2 years old ancient poorfag shitware)>poorAMD shiteon (2 years old ancient poorfag shitware also not nvidia so poorfag cope shit drivers garbage)>ddr4 (ancient poorfag shitware)lmfao cope poorfag pajeet favela vatnigger monkey your pc is shit lol
>>503358372I think the reason why UE games look the same is because Epic simply didn't give enough control over shading at a simple high-level editor. The weather and lighting editor only allows you to very roughly and primitively configure only the most basic things. To change the shading details (get rid of the "UE-slop effect"), you need to seriously edit the graphic code at a low level, which no one does. Epic needed to bring every variables into the editor as much as possible or create different shading options. The fact that UE games have terrible performance is more likely a problem exclusively for developers, because many UE games are developed for Android and iOS and have good performance and graphics/FPS for its hardware, which means that UE has a good level of scalability
i feel like i'm 'wasting' this game by playing it at this state
>>503358503Idk, this looks like decent loot.
>>503359136good god slither back to /v/
>>503359136oh you big mady u jelly bruvvv
pseudodogs are the niggerest shit in this game
>instantly blast sultan's men in the beard missionuh... should I have spoken to them first?
>>503359259Thanks for the compliment, I went out of my way to sound as braindead as possible.In all seriousness, anyone who says you need better hardware than that to run STALKER 2 should suck start a shotgun for being such a mindless ballwasher. Not only is the standard for a good game on release is so low, retards will fight tooth and nail for it to be even fucking lower with this type of rhetoric.
the weather is always dark as shit because they dont want you to see how bad the LODs look in the distance
piratechud here. did a-life get fixed on steam? i got all this ammo and medkits but i very rarely get into any fights with bandits or military or multants.
>>503359584>did a-life get fixed on steam?lol, lmao
is there a config to speed up eye adjustment? i get that it's realistic but it's just annoying for a game that doesn't have other realistic things
>>503359584>did a-life get fixed on steam?that's some optimism
>>503359837How are the jews behind shader compilationn anon.
>>503359584in a best case scenario A-Life wont even be in the game for a year
>>503359837You can disabled shader compilation that by putting [SystemSettings]r.PSOWarmup.WarmupMaterials=0in AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windows\engine.ini (create it if it doesn't exist)Doesn't change anything to performance, it's probably something they forgot to disable.
>>503359498yes
apparently compiling shaders on each launch is a dev setting, they need it during development or somethingcan't they just push a hotfix to get rid of it at least? it's been 3 days
>>503360107Oh, that's what Beard meant by the Ringmaster's game. I just slipped into the Merc mindset and sniped them then rushed in
>>503359136Why are you even in this thread
1st stash>didnt steal because its meh2nd stash>stole everything because new scanner and artifacts3rd stash>"hey you stole my stuff">*shotgun to the face*
>>503360113>can't they just push a hotfix to get rid of it at least? 2 more weeks, but seriously I want them to fix the bugged quests that softlock you first
>>503360353just /v/ things
a lot of you guys never played the originals and it showsit barely ran and it was THE peak eurojank game for 5 years solidyall not ready for this, M$ only gave them money for publishing and shipping it, but the SOUL fucked up coding philosophy is still there
>>503360052It will never be in the game, they'll give more illusion to the existing system.STALKER was built around A-life. From mutants and artifact hunting to the ranking system were fully dependent on A-life to function. In CS faction war was built around A-life. In CoP, anomalies changing places and emissions (also STALKER patrols looking for a hideout) were also dependent on A-life.They can't put A-life in the game after its release, they'll at best adjust the random spawns and make them persistant across saves (at least for local events around the player).
>>503340078>>503340153>>503341487GSC fucked up stitching their modular assets together so the different parts aare z-fighting. I thought it was something Unreal was supposed to do automatically but I guess not.
>>503359136>>503358742>THIS is a poorfag pc nowyou are really reaching here fucking nigger
Where the fuck does Huron disappear after you get Brood's shipment back? The game is telling me he's inside a wall.
Remember when they were boasting about their modular teeth system? Yeah, me too. What's up with it?
>>503360052> yearRetard copium3 years passed between first CP77 and Phantom Liberty. Include that CD Project is many times more richer than GSC, so you can safely multiply by 2. So alife will be delivered only in 2030, and the community will completely tolerate this and will do its utmost to protect and ennoble the developers. They will argue this by that the creation of ALife in SoC also took 6 years from the start of development in 2001 and the release of the game in 2007.
LE MASSIVE FPS B00SThttps://imgsli.com/MzIwOTA2
>>503360647Man Unreal only looks good in the editor. I fucking hate this engine.
>>503360113this is a microsoft funded game that is exclusive to xbox. you guys need to realize that we won't be getting any hotfixes because they need to release the patches simultaneously on all platforms and the patching verification process on consoles takes a while so sit tight
>>503360113Yeah, when you work on shaders you gotta recompile them to see the changes, so recompiling them on every launch is handy in that scenario. Not when you've pushed out a finished product as a v1.0 where the shaders are only gonna change with updates, and by that point you can recompile only the ones that changed or just do a massive recompile like that once after update.A development function enabled by default on the retail release, if you still claim they didn't released a rushed and unfinished product after that you're in deep denial.
>>503360841Consoles were genuinely the worst thing to happen to gaming.
>>503360847>>503360113Hogwarts Legacy still compiles shaders. It's just a thing modern games do sometimes.
>>503360723Jesus christ it really is rural russians on cobbled together shitpiles behind all this fps boosting config shit isn't it
>stalker 2 doesnt have staged reloading animationsTRASH TRASH TRASH
>>503345640Lmao for real?
>>503360841>mfw I need to wait 2 weeks for them to finally fix the Zilassya questShould I just fuck the Loners and carry on with the Main Quest bros?
>>503360847Most unreal games have that. Safe to say the average dev working on unreal is retarded.
it's joever
>>503360440Yeah this is the most likely outcome. A-Life does not exist in the current release build. The only settings coders have been able to find are a couple that dictate how the random generation functions, how far away it can occur, when it despawns, the numbers it can bring in etc.The actual system from the old games just does not exist and the game is DESIGNED around it not being there.No Binoculars or NVG because wide open engagements from over 50m away do not happen. Trader quests create shitty generic PoIs that no one else on the map can ever complete unless you walk near it and happen to spawn in some friendliesArtifact hunting feels so utterly meaningless in this game, the random gen'd stalkers will never have interesting gear or artifacts they picked up on their hunts because they never did them.You will never stumble upon the remains of a fight that you can loot the abandoned remains of, it will always be a fight in progress that started as you approached.I fucking hate that you can just sprint from one objective to another in completely untouched and unexplored land and NOTHING is going on.
>>503339856trying to play misery + gunslinger and i keep getting given this error, Its not in the zip file and I cant find anything anywhere else. Anyone whos been successful with this know whats up?
>>503360084>Doesn't change anything to performance, it's probably something they forgot to disable.so you are telling me they are letting people wait 15 minutes or longer before they can start the game because they forgot to disable something?
>>503360984nothing to do with russians, unreal engine ini tweaks are as ancient as time
>>503361158We already know there's no A-life anon.
>>503360440Its absence is hopeless, and I can't go an hour in game without noticing. Nothing will happen and then everything will happen at once and it's all centered around you.
>>503360647i feel like the devs got scammed by unreal themselves lmao. they thought they could do all this cool stuff with the engine, but in the end they had to game the game work on xbox and on the average PC. now we are left with mods that make the game literally look worse than vanilla SoC but still running at 40fps somehow.
>>503361245uninstall misery
>>503361158This is why they removed it from the Steam page. Literal scam
>>503361450i wont listen to you.
>>503361158>trust me i am mighty game dev, i know thingszigger detected
>>503361245I remember misery+gunslinger being really unstable. Honestly stay away from misery it's bloated shit that has dogged stalker modding to the point where even GAMMA is starting to undo its bullshit added to Anomaly.
>>503360958i've noticed CoD does this too, but only after an update.
Is the kriss vector good enough to replace the pump shotgun? Looking for new guns in rostok but havent seen any newer ones other than the spas and the kriss
>>503361638>gamma trumping miserynever thought itd happen. I always thought they were both just as shitty and bloated. guess its truly over.
>>503360958I know that with DXVK you'll be getting stutters whenever it has to compile a shader it didn't cached, but after enough game time it'll rely on the cache for a long time before it encounters another shader to compile. If the game is recompiling every single shader at launch, that either means it for some reason doesn't cache shaders at all, or somehow they vary between game launches, which would imply a fuckton of issues in the design of the engine. Otherwise there's no reason for them to recompile at every launch.>>503361734>but only after an updateYeah, once the shader code got changed in the update, they'll have to be recompiled for the updates to be present in the game. Makes perfect sense for a recompile to happen on the first launch after an update, not after every launch of the same version.
>>503361763Grok has a very specific shitty vision and his execution of it is at the least impressive.
>there is a universe out there where microsoft didn't fund GSC and force them to do an xbox release day 1 they could just work on stalker at their own pace for a perfect PC only release
>turned off framegen for the first time ever out of desperation>"hmm this isn't so bad">then I put sights and laser pointer on viper-5
so,can i go back to visit all the places from the previous games?100 rads still exists? Skadovsk? Home...
A-Life was lost in the Great Fire of Prague (2023).
>>503347084The game is an unplayable stutter fest with 16gb of RAM and a 8gb GPU
At this point, you just know any M$ game will be built for Xbox exclusively. The seal of a bad game. It's a miracle it didn't turn out as bad as shartfield.
>>503362081you can go HOME
>>503362064you mean turned on? silly frogposter
>>503362018outside of performance (will get better over time as usual) and ai (...who knows, really) and the usual bugfixes n shit: what else is left to do?I don't think microdick is at fault here
i saw a reddit post (yes i know) with an image showing the OG stalker developer who 'invented' A-Life is still currently working at GSC. i wonder what's going on.
has anyone found a stash that isnt completely garbage? like one that isnt dlc or one that doesnt just have items in it. or the guns are already half destroyed?
>>503362247I believe them when they say their intended effect with Alife isn't working as opposed to just not existing. It's such a bold lie to make it would be very strange for them to do
game stutters like shit when your in town with loads of NPCS.the moment you step outside it's a lot better, but thats when you realize the world is completely empty because if it was filled with NPCs doing things then it would just be stuttering non-stop
>nerfed bloodsucker hp by 50%>nerfed poltergeist hp by 50%>they're still tanky>on medium difficulty so no bullshit -25% dmgI don't get it
>>503362247Reddit is huffing cope right now. A-life is being fixed is the party line because that's what GSC said but it's clear that the game was designed around what is understood to be A-life not fucking existing. Prepare for an update that increases the spawn radius so it's a little less noticeable and then them to migrate to "It's just as good" or "You're a russian shill if you don't like it" or some other opinion from a person that has been spared the light of God's creation and exists as a worthless husk person.
>>503362436skill issue? I can level both of those faggots in 2 shotgun shells
>>503362518>"You're a russian shill if you don't like it"They are already doing this
>>503362392a very few specific stashes have unique weapons or nice armor on them. very rare though.
>>503362392Theres a good number of stashes with armor and weapons next them as "part" of the stash. Some of the best armors in the game can be found like this. Early on you can find a good number of stashes with gasmasks and lower tier armor on them.Outside of that I just sell the more expensive bullets, getting stacks of those from stashes easily results in 15-20k koupons if you hunt a few down before going back
>>503362420according to modders, as of now they can only find scripts related to spawning fixed events, and that they will need the mod kit SDK to look at actual A-Life code...
>>503356801i found mine in the chemical anomaly in garbage zone which is a weak onethough randomly the bartender in any of the towns might sell an artifact so keep checking them
>>503362093How the fuck do they not have off-site backups? Like, Sims 2 was meant to have driveable cars in the base game but they lost most of the source code in an office fire in 2003. But that was 2003, so you couldn't exactly do off-site backups through the Internet. You have no excuse in 2023 with fiber Internet and Wireguard, you can do it cheaply, safely and securely.>>503362420I assume it's a half-truth. They were working on it, the development was a rushed mess, so they say "the intended A-Life is not working" as a means to say "we couldn't get A-Life done on release but we're still working on it". So, there is no A-Life as we know it but it's in the works.>>503362583Anons are doing this in this thread already. If only those retards knew this line of "defense" will do more damage than good in the long run.
>>50336216820 hours in I only had a few microstutters when crossing some invisible borders between areas and my ram usage never exceeded 14.5gb. my textures are on epic and using a 6650xt btw
>>503359114Anons please
>more than 1 bloodsucker at a timei didnt want to play the game anywayliterally stuck on that part until i decided to say fuck it and just run through to the objective
>artifact one>endurance bonus weak>artifact two>endurance bonus weakCool, so how should I know whhich one is weaker...Even console babbies can read numbers, GSC, no need to fuck PC players.
>>503362592>>503362650which is dumb, plenty of stashes ive gotten to have been to get to and i open it up and its just items that i plenty of or guns that are in the red already.
where is my merc suit
FUCKfinished the zalyssia defense quest and did every single objective and defended it twice from the monoliththe town still gets destroyed even if you complete the quest, any fix for this?
Is there faction reputation in this game? Can I check it?I have no idea how to tell if people are hostile to me unless I get close enough for the retarded detection meter to show up. Every POI just seems to spawn enemies and I have no idea if I've pissed off a faction somehow and that's why everyone hates me.
game feels more difficult because after the hobo phase you'd oneshot every humanoid enemy from 150m away so you never actually foughthere you never even see anybody 150m away so your tricked out rifle is used to shoot dogs that spawned 20m behind you
>>503360107>>503360229I did the apple shooting and then killed them after and Beard gave me extra money.
the worse part about it is when you think about playtesting, how did A-life even get through to being marketing at this stage. they were playing this game in their offices with the game like this and said yup A-Life is gonna be great.
>>503363246>any fix for this?Nope, it's fucked.
>>503363382you see i doubt that is what happened, but they simply couldnt afford another delay
saw alot of people complaining about the "economy" and repairsim only 8 hours in and one foot into the garbageand i have all this shitprobably enough money to repair the 2 broke guns too.i can probably even buy more bullets.
About 25 hours in and haven't found a reason to unslot Skif's makarov. Is this gonna change at some point or is this the god gun for the rest of the game?
>>503362954join gamma discordgo to modding channelfind picrel unrealpakextract both, find differences, merge them into onerepackif you want to open game files directly to export all files you want fmodel and aes decryptor
>>503360440>They can't put A-life in the game after its release,Why not? There's no reason that they can't implement it like they planned via updates. And no, someone doomposting doesn't make things so.
>>503363382They actually did an interview on A-Life a while back, and it literally just describes random generation. I'm pretty sure what is in the game right now is what A-Life 2.0 is, it's just shit.
>>503363574cool, now play the game on something other than easy mode where rewards are worse and you have to use twice as much ammo at least
Kvaskha has rabies
>>503363574>sold all artifacts>running with half-broken rifles>barely any ammo stockpile>no armor upgrades at allyeah you can get 12k selling bandit rifles alone, but it's not exactly a way to get rich quick
Is it just me, or does Stalker 2 hog up the CPU like a fucking pig just to do stuff? Even Alt+Tab'ing is a pain in the ass to do.
>>503362081We all go home.
>>503363574>probably enough money to repair the 2 broke guns too.Nope, maybe one of them
a word of advice, fellow stalkers: I played the old games butwhat the FUCK am I supposed to do with the broken (red) guns? I can't sell them, I can't even sell them to the technicians: I should fix them, sell them, and profit?
>>503363773its garbage performance wise. like idk how it does it but it can go from like 100+ to randomly drop to like 30ish. cause of some stupid ass memory leak
>>503363820>barbed wire fences replaced by the Trump WallDisgusting
>>503355036why did they go by this maxium shit instead of a + and - system
>>503363773Depends on the CPU but it's a very CPU intensive game, yes. Even a 9700X3D runs into a CPU bottleneck in hearths
>>503363413well shit do I lose something from having the place deleted outside of a base and base accessories?
>>503363873You leave them on the ground.The broken guns shit and every enemy and stash having a single bullet as loot is taking straight out of the cancer that is Misery mod.
>>503363382My guess would be that they had a properly working a-life system and then they realized that without top tier hardware and framegen it would tank the framerate down to the single digits and the game simply wasn't playable with it.
>>503363632Has a game ever added a system as complex as A-life post release nigger-kun? Because what you call doomposting is just not being retarded.
>>503363610Not touching that septic tank, but I found the software elsewhere, thank you.
>>503363749>sold all artifactsbecause they radiate me
>>503363873Unload their ammo and dump them. If you find a really good rare gun, you can keep it to repair and use later but it's a costly endeavour.
>>503363709their current description of A-Life 2.0 is very different from the one in that interview...
>>503363975Dunno, I took a break and reloaded an old save after that happened to me. Probably affects the ending with going>There are no new Loners because Newbie Village TM got super fucked by fanatics and whenever a new Stalker gets in the Zone he gets super std rads and instadies
Spasiba microsoft for....
>>503364095Then wait till you find the artifact that negates radiation, genius?
the game is peak IMMERSIVE kinoall I need is a sleeping bag mod/tent/campfire mod to stake out in the middle of the red forest and have some comfy stalker kino
>>503363873i dont even bother repairing them so i just unload them if they ammo and drop them. everything is way to expensive to bother repairing just to only get maybe 3k back and thats if you get that much
i just found out today that if you touch a barb-wire fence you bleed and have to waste a bandagethis is werid because in the loading screen tips it says you bleed from only serious injuries
>>503364109He's very clearly lying. Nothing anyone has been able to find in the game files indicates what he's saying is true at all and not just nonsense lies.
in my friends minecraft server i found this village that was really nice and i built defenses all around it like walls and everything and one day i found out it got raided by bandits and all the villagers died and i was so fucking sadwill A-life give me a similar experience in stalker 2?
>>503364040>Has a game ever added a system as complex as A-life post release nigger-kun?That's not a real answer, 池沼くん. Plenty of games have had massive game changing expansions. You're problem is that you're a demented shitposting third worlder who's got it in his head that you can only compare the "scope" (which you don't understand) of a patch like that to other small bugfixes and patches. Now give a real answer or kill yourself.
>playing with a fuck load of mods that make the game harder>chimeras are absolutely facefuck me not like this
what's in these cans anyway?
>>503364040people vastly overestimate the "complexity" and resource drain of alife itselfgame chugs when there's a lot of characters active, and if you increased the radius of "here stuff happens" around player performance would be even worse, and given that it has to work for xbox it just wasn't in the cardsassuming the game sells well I'd be surprised if some alife-esque system didn't appear in a few months
>>503364316A dog grounded up including the doghouse
>Take mission>Doing mission costs ~5k in ammo/repair costs>Reward is 1kvideo games
>>503364169honestly yeah, i'm loving the graphics and atmosphere. but the one thing that would have put it all together was a working A-Life system.right now the game is a 5-course meal without the main entree
>>503363873its really annoying that all these guys drop red or yellow gunsand they are kicking your ass and they only drop a couple bullets.
>>503364109The description he gives of A-life is retarded>set up fun things that fill cool when you encounter themA-life fully simulated the life in the zone in the background, giving you a sense of the game world being alive even if you don't see it with your own eyes.With A-life you could sit alone near a campfire and still know that a pack of mutants was dealt with by a group of identifiable stalkers in another map. This is never coming back.
>>503364407nah its just stalker 2. they fucked up the economy
>>503364301chimeras have 2.5k hpin comparison a bloodsucker has 500
>>503364248have you ever walked into a barbed wire fence before?
>>503364248have you ever seen war pictures of people mangled up in barbed wire? that shit is no jokeimagine running in a dark field at night, you've being chased by a pack of stupid mutant dogs and then you get caught in one of theseyou start bleeding, you feel cold and now you cant move while dogs start chewing your legs
>>503363008the mutant balance is absolute ass and i would wait for the patch 1 balance>group of 8 of w/e the crawling guys on crack are called>shotgun with slugs dont 1 shot themabsolutely cancer, if im lucky its 2 shots instead of 3 and my gun only has 10 per mag they also deal ~30-40% per hit, apply bleed and some slight stagger all on fucking normal diff with armor+mask for physical protection
>>503364482feel cool*Also all he's been saying about A-life 2.0 shows that their vision is the one of a random encounter generator, nothing more.
>>503364291The real answer is you are a coping faggot who is going to be left waiting for something that will never come. >third worlderYa man, for sure, dickriding consumer.
>>503364254This is a reach and a half, but it could just not be available in the public builds of the game. They could've realized A-life won't be ready for release and hid it in the dark until it's ready. But then again this wouldn't be the first time that nigger fed us pure bullshit.
>>503364506it hits me once, knocks me down and the basically three shots me before I can even reload my gun
>>503364316the good stuff
>>503355235effects how often it will jam
new performance comfek droppedits UPhttps://pastebin.com/ndstjat7
>>503364696chimera and pseudogiants are the only real "bosses" in stalker, gitgud or explosives or gauss
>>503364301>protecta>slugsthere, I solved chimeras for younonono no need to take your panties off, that's called being a gentleman ;)
>>503364794What is this 2000s game called?
>>503339856bros how the fuck do i fight the boar horde at the start of anomaly theirs like 12 and all i have is this shitty 4 round TOZ
So how long does it take for the fourth arena quest to unlock? I want to steal more shit.
ive been using the "Super A-Life" mod for around 10 hours now, and i think all it's done is basically increase the number of spawns. the game has basically 4 different spawn events, "bandits", "mutants", "friendlies vs bandits", "friendlies vs mutants". the mod makes it so that instead of spawning 3 friendlies vs 1 bloodsucker it would be like 9 friends vs 3 bloodsuckers. incredible.
>>503364337A dynamic zone that has things happening without your involvement will not be added if the bones to build on it do not exist. It is not amazingly complex, or amazingly resource intensive, I just think given everything we have now it is not safe to assume they will add it.
>>503361638I like misery.... I unfuck a few things and yeah it's autistic but it breathed life into CoP after vanilla for me What's not still misery about gamma anyway? I'd say its worse if you don't like it's repair system actually
>>503364691The real answer is that you're a mentally ill tech illiterate shitposter who asked a question about complexity of a technical system that you have no way of understanding the context of to begin with.
>>503364693That would be fine if they said that, and didn't stealthily kill A-life on the steam store page and also say "oh it's in but it's not working oh no!! :(((" when people instantly noticed the spawns
>>503364794Does it alter visuals? Also I've had one of these give me a OOM crash every half an hour.
the Psy dog is impossible to beatits way too over poweredthe fake ones shouldnt be allowed to hurt you this badits impossible to find which one is the real one
>Add this line on the top:>[SystemSettings]>r.EyeAdaptationQuality=1>In Engine.ini found in ...\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windows folder>If you don't have Engine.ini file just create it from a text editor saving and naming "'Engine.ini"'Actually does reduce the eye adaption time.
>>503364916You don't. Lure them into Rookie Village and let them handle it.
>>503365052>need one (1) bullet of any kind to delete a ghost>"omg too hard to find real one"...shoot things?
>>503364482btw this is basically what happened when those discord mods on the official server were challenged on this
>>503364968>the bones to build on it do not existWhat do you think those are that aren't there or that can't be added?
>>503364945It's linked to the main quest progression
>>503364169you are not a stalkerhater
>>503365003Next patch is changing a bunch of shit like removing artifact rads and containers and simplifying the repair system
>>503365125the dude with me will run at the boars whenever i try that and get killed
>>503365052having to fight that stupid dog in the arena was cancer, managed to find the real one from his glow after killing a couple illusions and got lucky he just stood still from his AI bugging out
>>503365012So you couldn't think of a game? That's fine man not everyone can be a deluded dickriding faggot like you.
>>503363749https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G0QUHSfidEi died alot at the sphereits werid because before i was recording i beat it in like 1 or 2 tries
>>503365227Tell him to stay put.
>>503365052>the Psy dog is impossible to beatSkill issue>its way too over poweredTalent issue >the fake ones shouldnt be allowed to hurt you this badApproach issue>its impossible to find which one is the real oneTechnique issue
>>503365050>does it alter visualsnigga do you have eyes
>>503358503Literally in the 1%. Eat the rich stalkers>>503358074>I'll come back in about 2 yearsIn 2 years they will be reaching mid production of STALKER 3. kek
>>503365047A week ago they also tried hiding the fact the benchmark was made using framegen. If you're not a tourist you know GSC doesn't have the best track record.
wtf
>>503354643You fags are caring to much about definition and all this bullshit, if you put down dinamic resolution just a little bit, games start working acordingly. Just tweak alittle bit with the settings.>>503355673Upscaling is the thing that destroys performance.>>503354670That might be the case, and I mean, I would be incredibly pissed if that happened to me, but my gear is not that good, neither that bad and I'm running the game more or less optimal.>>503356154Just outside of the first village of the game.I understand that there's a lot of problems regarding performance, but honestly I'm reading you all salty ass honestly just enjoy the game, critic it after actually playing it and stop comparing it with ESCAPE FROM PRIPYAT +300 reshaders +Bitchmode + ultrarealism
>>503365164i didnt know it only takes 1 bullet for thosei was just really scared cause they all hurt megood thing a squad of ward just appeared at the chemical plant to help me
>>503365223I'm just a chill loner who wants to look for artifacts with his bros in multiplayer and tell camp stories
>>503365125I have literally never done this.You faggots are all talk about what great stalkers you are.
>>503365389fishe
>>503364121well fuck, I can't revert back to a save, guess I'll just accept their fate.
bros they just need to fix the fucking enemy spawning behind you at every POI.. that's literally it i could really enjoy this game if they fixed that stupid shit
>>503365407>just enjoy the gamenigga I wouldn't be trawling the internet for tips about performance if it ran well enough to enjoy it
>>503365262>So you couldn't think of a game?Sorry anon, but I'm not a retarded cumslurping faggot like you so I'm not stupid enough to pretend your fake argument framework or loaded questions matter. You've already got the idea in your head that a-life is an impossibly complex system that nothing else can compete with. It doesn't matter what expansion or DLC I mention, because you'll just handwave it, and if you can't handwave it then you'll say it doesn't count because it needs to only be a small patch. How about you give some examples of systems in other games that you think are as complex as persistent NPCs using GOAP to navigate the world?
>>503365285it doesnt give me the option, is there some other way to issue commands?
>>503365438Discretion is the better part of valor.
i love how the guns look man, if A-Life ever miraculously gets 'fixed' and i get my weapon autism mods...
>>503365438how do you do it then???
>>503365445I just used an autosave from after I saved the Doc, I think it's fine to do the first step of the mission, i.e Killing the attackers then not proceeding further with the hunting down the Guide and etc
What do I do about homing electro in the first lab?
I played anomaly and that other free roam mod which I forgot the name solely to make my way to pripyat only to realise spawns were fucked (fucking snorks spawning inside zaton) and zaton/jupiter were abandoned wastelands.Has this been fixed? Where can I adjust spawn rates for these areas myself?
>>503365604numpad 2? i might be wrong though
did i just get one shot getting too close to the wall south of rookie village??
>>503365659Are those "real guns" or were they made for the game?
>>503365493I gotcha, I would be pissed if I buy a game and it works like shit, but nowadays even triple A games work like shit even in the best pcs.
>>503365604There's a keybind to open the companion menu, I don't remember what the default is. You should be able to give him commands there.
>>503365389Gravity anomalies.
>>503365743you change your movement patch erratically. the anomaly just tries to predict where you are going
>>503354670>$3500 PCs and (rightfully) believe they should be able to run it buttery smooth without fucking upscaling and framegenimagine having such a shit take
>out of video memory when compiling shaders errorHow do I fix this? It was working normally a few hours ago
>>503345640Can you link the discussion?
>>503365676ohhhh you're right
>>503365743x18?doesn't it just go straight past you?
>be in swamp>broad daylight, just after sunrise>clear skies, no rain, no storms>wandering around>chimera attacks me>have no AP ammo at all on me>it chases me to a wood shack>I kill it through the window>IMMEDIATELY an emission happens with zero warning and kills meebin
game is fun when you dont think too much about the broken or nonexistant systems
>>503365675dodge them by stepping to the side and shoot them with shotgun
>>503366005Don't press okay on the error message. Let it finish compiling, then press ok and it'll shut it down, but then the next time you open and compile it should work. That's what happened to me. Also I found having my GPU undervolted with afterburner caused that to happen.
>>503365845They're real, that's an AK-74m (I think). They change the names for copyright reasons.
>>503365979Then you obviously have the golden take. Please tell us, what PC should be able to run buttery smooth without upscaling and framegen. What specs, what price range?
I paid money for this
>>503366141Oh right. That makes sense. kek
Picking up the military suit in checkpoint south of Rookie Village spawns a squad of military immediately. what the FUCK gsc?
>>503366189Mods will fix it. Have faith.
>>503363229Minor puzzle in a different part of Cordon>>503364254I'm sorry but it's unrealistic to think random shitheads have fully reverse engineered S2 and understand everything about it at this stage. All the wannabe gamedevs in this community reading cfg files acting like they're looking at source code make me laugh. >>503364693Anon, the dev's claim makes perfect sense. The spawner is meant to be happening in the background and in ways you can't detect and currently isn't achieving that goal.
>>503365845it's a real gun.AKS-74 with a PSO scope.
>>503365919wish i could teach my dog to do that
>>503365659trust the planwe're eating good for the next 10+ years
why cant i talk to arnie about the arena fight
is there a suppressor for the vector?
>>503366170>what PC should be able to run buttery smooth without upscaling and framegenassuming a 1000-1500$ is the average amount PCfats spend on their hardware, such a PC should be easily capable of delivering a smooth gameplay experience.Consoles are priced at 600$ (give or take) and can deliver a 60fps experience. A PC that costs double that and has more modern hardware (6-8core CPU, RTX XX70-tier GPU) should easily deliver twice the performance at a NATIVE level (no upscaling/fake frame shit). YYet you have people with 500$ Ryzens and 2000$ RTX 4090's struggling to reach 60FPS. The devs fucked up big time.
>>503366726Progress the main quest.
>>503366104did this, it worked.
>>503366189thought this was a pripyat screenshot LMFAO
>>503365767Play iwp instead, anon
>gun fights with stalkers >constant lag stutter >fights with mutants >constant lag stutter >bloodsuckers may crash your game>NPCs spawn right next to you in anomaly field >lag and memory leaksI think the game in its current state is almost unplayable, it NEEDs mandatory performance patch.
>>503366776>AMD lmaoIntel+nVidia chads rise up
>>503366727tactical pistol silencer works on vector.
>>503366992oh nice
Is there any reason to use a pistol other than the one you start with?
Just want to confirm but when you're out and about and get brain fucked, there's no actual way to stop it from happening aside from popping psi-block or just sprinting right? Theres no Pseudodog or such?
"A life won't be added because I am a blackpilling retard" vs. "A life isn't difficult to add on a technical level, I am a hopepilled retard" is a real meeting of the minds.
i turned Hair to lowest quality and it helps the stuttering caused by npcs i think
>>503366960works on my machine 120 fps
>>503364968The old games' A-life was centered around the area of gulags, or areas of spawn/control/interest. NPCs would spawn in a gulag, to which they them belonged and didn't stray too far. They could move from one gulag to another, for whatever reason (an anomaly field would be a special gulag for stalkers to loot artifacts, for example).So the implementation of A-life was rather simple:1. Dot the maps with gulags where they make sense.2. Write routines for spawning enemies or friendlies in gulags, it was on a timer in vanilla. Can be on timer, emissions (artifacts and mutants), other events (faction wars in CS did that). 3. Write routines for NPCs moving between gulags and doing things on the way or arrival (this is the hard part, and where a lot of A-life expanding mods lie).
>>503355763kek
>>503367060Nope. The starter pistol is just the best. No repair cost, you get it's attachments very early on, very light. Extremely accurate too and will 1-2 shot humans with headshots depending on headgear.
my retarded ass thought the "bear detector" detects literal bears
Is it possible to have Ukrainian language but English UI in stalker 2?
>>503366189Why does your game look like that?
>>503367257So we're playing with oblivion lost 2.0 ballistics?
>>503367390yea
People have assigned a magical aura to A-Life when it was just a super fuckin' simple thing that made sure the world felt like it exists beyond your influence. S2 just needs the spawner behavior tweaked and to make sure that NPCs and mutants have reasonable persistence and spawn far enough away to feel organic.
mod list: increasing hope: decreasing
>>503366983>shintelAlder Lake was the last time Intel was actually good. Right now, they're a fucking joke and you're a retard if you buy Intel.>13/14th gen oxidation/voltage slow burn>LGA 1700 ILM bending the CPU>newest CPU's worse than previous generations>no AVX-512 (if you're into emulation you'll want it)Meanwhile AMD released the Ryzen 7 9800X3D that absolutely annihilates Intel in gaming. A CPU so good AMD is completely out of stock. There is zero reason to go with Intel for your gaming rig in current year. The only two spots where Intel still has a chance is SBC market with the N100, absolutely phenomenal little chip, and servers where they're actually catching up to AMD for once.
>>503367390There are seperate options for spoken language and text language. The english dub is embarassingly bad and even the MC (V from CP2077) feels like he's really phoning it in. While he actually comes across as pretty intimidating in ukie.
>>503352360SOVL
>20k just to repair the tourist suit from half durabilitythese technicians are all in cahoots scamming honest stalkers
>can't tell which puddle I can walk through and which one fucking kills me in the swampc-cool
>>503367528Congratulations on your impeccable management of your autism,,not at all triggered I see
just got out of noob island, when am i gonna get something meaningfully better
>>503367457>People have assigned a magical aura to A-Life when it was just a super fuckin' simple thing that made sure the world felt like it exists beyond your influenceYeah that was the magic anon. The idea that the world went on without you. You're right that it doesn't have to be super complicated. If GSC weren't stupid they could have increased the bubble by 5-6x and no one would have realised what was happening. It's only blatantly obvious because they spawn right next to you. However I think the reason they just let the game go as is, is because of series X.
i've been wondering what's weighing me down turns out its the fucking 56 cans of energy drink i have on me for some reason
Still playing gamma for now and holding off until the alife fix is in. Surprised by how big the map is. Is there natural progression between the areas. I imagine it is overwhelming to run from one place to another given fast travel is limited by guideshttps://mapgenie.io/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/maps/the-zone
>>503367665Wait until you see the repair costs on a SEVA. It's like 1.5k per point.
>>503367640Intimidating? Nah, but he's capable and brings the bants.>You were scared of flesh? LOL
>>503367824>asset streaming beyond your visual rangeAyyy lmao. UE would explode.
>>503367118You mean >I'll pay when I see itvs>I'll pay to see itIt's pretty clear to me which is the retard.
>>503367457Now you've gone too far in the other direction back it up there bud. It definitely contributed to the overall feel of the Zone being alive and while it seems most people are fondly remembering modded parameters of it, what we have right now is a random encounter table that does not make a good replacement and won't even if improved. A-Life isn't that difficult to implement, they should just do it.
>>503367807just use skifs pistol, its BIS
>>503367457Well no because the stalkers still existed and were always doing calculations offline to see if they survive. You can do what you said here but once those stalkers despawn they are fully and completely gone. That's why there's no score system or stalker pda or pda messages either. I am confident they can add it in though they are the devs after all. Surely they have more funding now and will do so with weapon skins to port the full system in >>503367824The game is already pushing spec limits you can blame it on Xbox but let's be real blame it on devs picking where their priorities lied
>>503367824>Yeah that was the magic anon. The idea that the world went on without youYeah but it was insanely simple and rarely actually created interesting emergent scenarios without modders beefing it the fuck up.> If GSC weren't stupid they could have increased the bubble by 5-6x and no one would have realised what was happening. It's only blatantly obvious because they spawn right next to you.Thank the Series S. I bet the PC build will start to diverge from Xbox for reasons like this.>However I think the reason they just let the game go as is, is because of series X.IT's the S not the X but yeah.
>>503367795Nah I just don't fanboy a single brand like a drooling retard and know when to switch depending on what the brand actually sells.
>>503367807You can go get a Vintar from the swamps as soon as you can leave the lesser zone.
how do you access swamp south for the journalist stash? I can't get thereis it locked behind story?
>>503367665Repair cost scales with the default price of the item. This is why, unless you are going to mod the repairs, you should just stick with the cheaper strong suits. There's a military suit you can pick up early from Rostok (and in a few PoIs in the zone) that has very good phys protection and is very cheap to repair.I do recommend just getting a mod to reduce weapon degradation, and a mod to reduce repairs, 50% weapon degradation and 40% repair cost feels very fair. I think suits degrading the fastest makes sense so I didn't edit that. High tier suit costs 20k to repair from 30% to 100% rather than 5k from 90-100
>>503367795>>503368092it will be a long time until intel releases anything close to the 9800x3d for gaming.
>Tourist's Suit no longer increases your carry weight, only your stamina regen>but they copied the old description saying it does increase your carry weightHilarious
>>503368082>You can do what you said here but once those stalkers despawn they are fully and completely gone.Yeah which is why I said they need to make there be less despawning for persistence. >That's why there's no score system or stalker pda or pda messages either.I always felt those were cozy but utterly unrealistic in the extreme.
anyone know where nightingale could be? i cant find him at all.
>>503368353He died to a bloodsucker.
>>503368353He moves after giving you the collar quest. You'll find him later.
>>503368231If the war has taught me anything it's that Eastern European men would attempt to build a leaderboard in the zone.
do we have a list of mandatory mods at the moment?like repairs cost reduction, optimization, etc
>>503368864i never accepted it though. i have just found some collars for him
>>503366189Should have paid money for a better rig.
>>503368878Oh no, I'm not uppity about rankings, I'm saying it was unrealistic that STALKERs liveblog their exploits like the messages made them do.
>>503367235>picatinny dust cover AKwhy not just do the handguard memewhy not just make it an actual thing that makes sense
>>503368228jesus
>>503368149oh, cool
>Framegen causes everything to flicker in and out and huge 1-3 second freezesGuess I'll play at 50fps...
>>503368939Mutant health reduction, npc aimbot removal, bullets, meds and food weight reduction, reasonable degradation on atleast the weapons and repair costs. Super A life doesn't seem to do anything.
>can't remove pso scope from a weapon unless the base weapon did not come with it attached>none of the traders sell one>sold the only weapon i had with one extra awhile ago and can't remember who the fuck it was, or the traders dead now>can't swap attachments off "unique" weapons even though they are just weapons with attachments
>>503369272Good lessons learned from B4B. Glue all your attachments or someone might steal them.
i'm fucking scared because everything looks so realistici think i'm just gonna go play something else
>>503369058I did always assume it was some quaint holdover from internet culture of the era and region. Now they would all be in telegram chats.
> you can remove this noggs head 3 seconds into the meeting himand you said these devs werent based
>>503369079fashion police but for guns
>>503352219>/v/erminyou have to go back
baking...
>>503369752/v/ despises GabeN, Valve and Half-Life.
>>503367640Thank God. I can't stand English VO in foreign games, they almost always make me crease.
>>503369434yeah, the baseline is very good. I am thinking of dropping it now and coming back after a year when they fixed the spawning somewhat and it has more mods. Potential to be an all time Kino here
>>503369848novyi hleb...
>>503368939nigger there's like 50 mods what do you want there's no gook's soup vs. Bubba's phat pack mods to research and debate over just basic shit if you prefer it
how tf can you sneak into the sphere without a fight
>>503351753I can't even get out of the fuckign tutorial becuase the fucking bloodsucker killed me, and now the artefact WILL NOT SPAWN ANYMORE.anyone know a fix?
>>503369168which version are you using? amd version seems pretty good compared to other ue5 games
>>503369434just made me realize how there's barely any blood or gore when you kill anyone in this gamehow is this even scary for you?
>>503366983>Intel+nVidia chads rise upI've got a 12700k but you'd need to be aspecial kind of retard to reccomend a 13/14th gen Intel, especially considering what >>503367528said is spot-on.
>Stets LeechShould I just shoot him bros?
>>503370141very carefully
>>503370141you don't. i went inside through the sewers and it was still impossible to avoid a fight. at least they don't respawn infinitely down there though.
>>503369589Yeah group chats would make sense for factions but the whole thing where it gets shared live to the whole zone? A little weird.
post your death screens anon.https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/108/?tab=posts
>>503367640>While he actually comes across as pretty intimidating in ukie.Nah, he just sounds like a gopnik in ukie.>english dub is embarassingly bad and even the MC (V from CP2077)is it really the same guy? Hated his ass in Cyberpunk, he sounded dry as fuck sometimes.
>>503370227if the first artifact doesnt spawn try changing graphic settings while you are next to it. As in change the full setting from medium to high or epic to high etc
>>503370253blood and gore isn't scare for me, but going somewhere dark and getting jump scared by a bloodsucker sends me off my seat. i feel like i'm 10 years old again playing skyrim.
Did anyone find a stash in the little cabin with the exploding balls that has the bloodsucker lair note? The note talks about a stash but I can't see it on my map so I was wondering if it was in the cabin and I missed it, but I can't explore because of those fucking exploding balls.
>>503359837oy vey shut it down
>>503370141Doesn't matter, they still act like you killed everyone there and after you talk to the guy they insta aggro and bum rush you anyways
>>503368182>getting a mod to reduce weapon degradation, and a mod to reduce repairswhich ones specifically? I don't wanna make a nexus mods account since that website blocks the best shit
>>503370408I need that pic now LMAO
>>503362247dmitryi iassenev worked on a-life for the trilogy and he indeed worked on stalker 2, though at one point he was drafted.
>>503370238FSR 3 the one included with the gameI fixed it though, apparently the fucking game freaks out with frame gen if you don't put global illumination to the epic quality. I really have no idea why that would fix my issues but I won't complain
>>503370371>yfw it's actually all from the same thread in 8ch
did you guys find the green furninture ak-74s in the tutorial?looks sweeet
>>503362168>wish.com pc parts>>503362219>HOMEbut thats not the swamps
>>503363873unload their ammp, leasve them on bodiesalso this is an optionhttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/87?tab=description
I have a question to the people who say the game is too dark, what the fuck are your brightness settings? Because this is on default.You're literally better off not using the flashlight which just causes the dogshit adaptation to darken everything around the light ring.
>>503371645>who say the game is too darkdefault settings, by the way
>>503371645yes, nights are not really likedarkbut vanilla stalker games used to be like that
>>503371645now with the flashlight onnow stop running your fucking moth and agree that the Lumen lighting system is busted
>>503369593are they at least rare, or is every 10th npc a nigger?
>>503371645the problem isn't the nights are too dark, the problem is the flashlight is completely useless
>>503371823erm, where would the light be coming from? this is realistic lighting.
>>503372127>where would the light be coming from?from the fucking hole. It would BOUNCE, just like light IRL does.>this is realistic lighting.LMAO
>NPC speaks on the radio, on the first half it does sound like he's speaking through a walkie-talkie or whatever.>After that first half it sounds like it teleported next to meAm I going fucking schizo? Am I about to turn into a Monolith?
>>503372053This is not NIGHT you dumb motherfucker
>>503372127we know its realistic, but its just fucking annoying for a video game. loads of things in the game isn't realistic like infinite magazines that you some how call of duty your bullets back into your bag.
>>503368092we totes believe you too brajjjj
>>503372089I have seen multiple posts both here and in other places saying that the nights are too dark.>>503372203>retard thinks he will have multiple light bounces simulated in software to reach that deep in
>>503370430I'll trythanks
>requires a rail to attach a scope>attaches the scope via dovetailYOU LIVE IN A COUNTRY THATS AT FUCKING WAR. HOW DO YOU FUCK THIS UP.
>>503369593>Considering talking with them to reach a compromise>See that he's black>Instantly shoot himMaybe I am a racist after all
>>503372325Enjoy your core oxidation, Papa Pat will treat you right for being such a good obedient little fanboy. Something that won't be an issue with my 12400, but I upgraded before Lisa Su gave us AM5. If I were to upgrade now, I wouldn't hesitate and go Team Red on the CPU front.
>>503372471>I have seen multiple posts both here and in other places saying that the nights are too dark.I don't doubt it, but the issue is the flashlight. The nights in Anomaly are literally pitch black at night but it's okay because the flashlight actually enables you to see with it on. Stalker 2's flashlight is a piece of shit
>>503372071the dude is called sweedish kek and dont think so hes a quest character, 1st one i was but i only been to cordon and starting zone, going to garbage now
>>503372586that's some real cawadooty shit right there
>>503372586dust cover rail sucks ass at keeping zero anyway, i'll take the dovetail mount over that any day (but yeah game is retarded)
>>503372593>some made up scenario for copium>you're replying to the same person each time
>>503372282so just turn on your flashlight
>>503372586You expect draft-dodgers to know a single thing about guns?>
>>503372850ok it's on
>>503372797>some made up scenario for copiumI see denial runs deep within Intel fanboys.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdmK1UGzGs>inb4 eceleb = not true & not watchingPapa Pat had to confirm it's a thing with his stockholders. Keep gobbling his knob though, I'm sure he'll give you a free CPU someday.
>UI sometimes randomly disappearsIs this a feature?
Is it normal that I don't have a default engine.ini in the Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windows folder? How can I mess with the settings if I don't know what they are?
How does he eat?
while I've been playing this for 14 hours these last two days and am completely consumed by the game I've got to say that the performance doesn't bug me, the poor range of view and no binos doesn't bother me and the occasional crashes(2 in 14 hours) and odd bugs doesn't bother me.... the human vs. human combat really does. its complete shite. >enemies have radars that always know exactly where you are once combat starts>IMMEDIATELY hits you once they start shooting, equipped with literal aimbots>shoots through all sorts of bushes, shrubbery and other obstacles no ordinary human could hope to see through>insane precise grenade spam>still completely retarded AI that will sort of just shuffle after you until they spot you>uses no cover whatsoever unless by accident>any encounter with several heavily armed human opponents sort of forces you to find a chokepoint they will eventually just walk into and get moved down lemmings-style
>second half of the game is a buggy fucking mess, encounters have zero thought behind them and you literally have to chug med kits and facetank everything, mutants can take over 150+ rounds to killThey didn't even playtest the 2nd half of the game, lmao.
>>503373128you need to create one. by default there's nothing set.
>>503373317I knew the healing situation would be shit the moment I saw how quickly the medkits heal you in some gameplay footage months ago.
those bullshots sure looked pretty
>>503373690>next weekGuess On The Edge is going to remain unfinished
>>503373690>no mention of being able to reassign your flashlight hotkeyLMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>503373690ALIFE FIXES NOT IN FIRST PATCH FUCK ME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ITS GONNA BE ANOTHER FUCKING MONTH OF NIGGER MILITARY SPAWNING 10 METERS AWAY FROM ME AFTER LEAVING EVERY POINT OF INTEREST
>>503373690>alife bug fixes in a future updateIt's fucking over.
>get to garbage>want to find the local hub>"ok I'll go to the hangar, that's probably it">nope, there's dudes who won't speak to anybody>"ok the weird destroyed trading hub to the northeast">there's some dude talking bullshit but no traders>"ok the big place to the east that looks like dark valley">it is indeed dark valley and is completely emptybro I just want to find a new trader
>>503373984that's gonna take at least a year before that's all worked out and that's assuming they actually do anything and don't use MUH WAR as an excuse to stop supporting it 6 months from now
>>503373690>deadzone fixesconsole players getting cucked
>>503373690>takes a week for what should be a day 1 patch>nothing about A-Life
>>503373690>bugfixescool>everything elsewho cares fix performance
>>503374096The devs are in Prague, retard. Been there for a while now.
>>503373984>>503373998Calm yourself, woman. It's obviously a fix being worked on right now, and more complicated to fix than what's in this first patch.
>>503374235And yet...... everyone says to cut them slack because Ukraine is the middle of a war.
>>503374108ACTUALLY you're all getting cucked because due to Microsoft's slow time to verify dev patches it means we're looking at enough 6-8 weeks for the next patch
>>503374096bro all they need to do before actually fixing the entire a life system is make the current spawns happen lessfrequent and way further away REEEEEE
>>503374161it's overthey will just keep telling us "to be addressed in future updates"
>>503374161Learn to read
>>503363873You can take them back to your stash and sell them to one trader in Rostok who buys any condition gun. Look at the weight to value ratio and if it's good (ak, hk416, vss etc) keep red guns to sell. Don't bother picking up shit tier guns like toz or makarov even if they're yellow dura they have ass value to weight ratio.
>>503374235Cool, didn't stop them from shitting out this fluff piece.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28CITqxwNz0Remember: it doesn't matter if they're in Kyiv or in Prague. All that matters is that they're Ukrainian. STALKER is synonymous with Russo-Ukrainian war now. You say anything negative about GSC or STALKER, you're saying something negative about Ukraine and it's people. And if you do, you are a Russian orc.Doesn't make any sense? Doesn't have to, isn't meant to. The important thing is that it works.
>>503374296Who said that, except you just now in your strawman?
>>503374537>it d-doesn't matterOf course it doesn't to you, shitposting nigger.
*fills your statsh with broken guns*
>>503374537go back to /v/ retard
>>503373006>draft-dodgersbut they were LITERALLY loading the guns with one hand while making the game with the othereducate yourself, anon!
>>503374803I've made a quarter million coupons selling broken guns
>>503373290>expecting good AI and combat behavior when A-life is kill3+ years of wartime development in peaceful prague, please understand
>>503375260a-life has fuck all to do with combat aiyou're going full retard in your need to dunk on the game
where am I supposed to go with this fucking emission in the swamp after killing the chimera?I cant run to the church fast enough to hide
>>503373317>They didn't even playtest the 2nd half of the gamejudging by the bugs and design issues, they barely playtested the first as well
>'allies' spam grenades and fuck me up instead of the enemiesI am genuinely going to turn around and murder everyone
>>503345759sided with the monolith because i assumed he would give me something crazy
>>503375496the grenadespam in general is so fucking retarded.
>>503375561https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/123Grok has your back
>>503373690>bugfixesCool, but those aren't really bothering me.>no rebalance>no a-life fix early onGay.Also I just found Blizzard and got excited thinking it was a random encounter, but it's pretty clear it was a scripted thing.
>>503374746Because it doesn't. GSC isn't in Kyiv. They're not under threat of imminent death. They fucked off from the war zone to Czech Republic where they've been sitting in safety for years now. Yet they constantly show themselves as working on the game while under constant artillery fire, being constantly interrupted as they have to run to the metro for safety. And everyone believes that and excuses every fuckup of GSC with it.That's what I meant by "it doesn't matter". GSC is full of shit and people believe it.>>503374746Let me guess>STALKER is synonymous with Russo-Ukrainian warThat's what set you off, right? Sorry but that's the truth, they've abused the war in their marketing so much you cannot discuss STALKER without it devolving into a shitfest where any critique of GSC will be dismissed as being a rusnigger vatnik or whatever. This thread has proven that already. And GSC is entirely to blame for it. Them being Ukrainian had nothing to do with it, their reaction and subsequent actions to the war made it that way.
>>503375670nta, but I downloaded this, and still every single fight is a fucking frag war
>>503375260the fuck does that have to do with it you retard?
>>503374296and those people are fucking retarded.
>>503375451>the chimera?There's a fucking chimera? I just ran
>>503374537All I know is that I find satisfaction in knowing that some of the money I spent on this game will go directly towards killing more r*ssians
>>503374537i am a russian orcstalker 2 sucksgsc is gayglass the ukraine
>>503375803>meanhwile he's the only one who constantly brings up war to shitpostHow about you fuck off, retard?
>>503376013
>>503373036no retard, the copium is you think I'm saying that becuase i'm some intel fanboy, you think i'm the same fuckign poster as the other guy, and somehow even if I did have that cpu, it woudl soemhow be a win for you.you're just a hopeless shill, and that is why you are shite
well that sucks. the clear sky base is basically a waste of time to explore the only thing worth it is the pda and the rpg.
>>503376036So, you don't find any enjoyment in the game itself? Only the political aspect relating to it? Why are you here then?
>>5033758763 years is enough time to finish developing a game. I'm saying they didn't.
in the past few years i have learned one thing about this eastern european country and it's that they are very good at marketing but very poor at delivering
just sitting up in my tower, watching a band of stalkers fighting for their life against a bloodsucker
>>503376196It was also a very funny joke by the devs to make quest items weight actually impact you. So you go through the entire swamp area that includes multiple PoIs you need to clear out with their own stashes and loot, then get to the end of it, and give you a 12kg quest item and the only non red durability RPG in the game then tell you "now walk all the way back through the swamp again faggot"
>havent slept in 40 hours>eating nilla wafers>wife is making me a breakfast sandwichsuch is life in the zone
>>503376196I thought I'd get some cool armor, but no such thing
it finally fucking respawnedI can progress!so far I've been enjoying S2looks pretty good even on potato shit settings
this shotgun fucking rocksi had the toz for 12 hours and it was healing mutants
>>503376224of course not you dumb cretin, I get to both enjoy the game as well as knowing funds from its sale will go to exterminating more zubhumans
>>503350240When you have to shit and have nothing, you make do with what at hand.T. Fag who got the shit when deep innawood during fishing trip and had to wipe using leaves and grasses
>>503369848>>503369848>>503369848New bread's over here retards, get out of here stalker
>>503376796how do you cope with the retarded enemys spawning?im enjoying it a lot so far except for this aspect is a bit annoying sometimes
>>503373006we shipped back thousands at the beginning of the invasion, Russians that is
>>503339856>S2 discord annouces fix coming next week>good fixes>no mutant balancing mentionedare they FUCKING RETARDED?
>>503376962desu I'm barely out of the tutorial, but I assume it will get better.I swear I saw an addon to make alife more active, but I didnt bookmark it.was it last thread or the thread before?I have hopes for the future.what really concerns me is the memory leaks.
>>503367853> natural progressionyes but i believe its tied to faction and higher tier factions are more to the north. So its not so much the area progression but who you encounter. I havent been past jupiter tho>overwhelming to runsurprisingly not. once you start walking, the map feels smaller than what it is. im often surprised i get to a poi so quick
