"Come home, stalker" editionS.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy guides, tips, information and much more:https://rentry.co/STALKERTrilogyGuidesS.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy mods, anon's merges and resources:https://rentry.co/STALKERTrilogyModsCommon misconceptions about Shadow of Chernobyl game mechanics:https://www.metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/WhatYouKnowThatAintSo.htmlRunning S.T.A.L.K.E.R. on Linux:docs.google.com/document/d/11HcSFSyb0DX3ymModXZ9tNdpTuktTioCS.T.A.L.K.E.R Trilogy new & popular mods:>IWP Standalonehttps://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-packCOTZ addon for IWP https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack/addons/cotz-quests-and-mechanics-for-iwp>SoC Update 1.4https://vk.com/topic-147828435_49497922>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.S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 mods and tools:>Mod recommendations + config (less stutter, more fps, NO compiling + full Mouse fix)https://pastebin.com/Ma6W4BcM (embed) (embed)>Change viewmodel fov, enable console, remove black bars, skip introhttps://github.com/Lyall/STALKER2TweakLost to the Zone: >>506888981
>>506973119The Faust fight really wasn't that bad...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bmMzKmPbbYI didnt know there was a guitar playing system
Are we likely to get 1.2 before new year?
>>506973221Nah. Maybe but.... probably not
>>506973221nah they're definitely going on break for holidays after the last onemaybe a hotfix for the game progression breaking bugs
For me it is AA2.
anyone got a torrent of 1.1 paypiggy edition?
i have a feeling it just spawns shit and those spawns become a life only
>progress main story>suddenly 80% of people have an exo pulled out of their ass
>threads and posts start flowing in saying a-life was never anything unique/real/specialdamage control this quickly after the patch, eh?
>>506974742you mean one singular thread on /v/ that I'm assuming you're the one who linked in the last thread?fuck off back there, retard
>>506974343no
>>506974742it literally wasnt until modders spent a decade+ on the leaked source codemany of the memorable moments were scripted in the original vanilla games, other than that maybe you saw some squads shooting some dogs once in a while or bumping into each other
>>506974854Meds now, zigger.
Left is sRGB, right is Rec709.On my monitor the sRGB one looks washed out like it's using a compressed TV colorspace, but shouldn't it be the other way around?Is it actually the intended look of the game and the right one is too dark/too much contrast?
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>>506975427>is this slav misery simulator supposed to be a little greyyes
Original Alife system worked in two states. There was the Online state (on the same map as the player) and Offline (everywhere else in the game world).Any specific non-quest-related NPC that exists on the same map as the player has a set of objectives they need to achieve. Go to a bar, stand at the stall, tell a joke and drink some vodka. Then, they'll go to a nearby anomaly, to a nearby camp to play guitar etc.If NPC dies while on the same map as the player, their body and their loot (not every item, only select few) will remain there until the built-in corpse-cleaner script decides they laid there long enough and need to be deleted to save on memory use.If an NPC travels to a different map, they go waaay past the point where player travel-point is located and they go into the Offline state.While in an Offline state (outside the player's map) the system rolls a dice upon each action taken by all Offline NPCs to decide the outcome. For example, the Above-mentioned Stalker goes from Rostok Bar south to Garbage. He finds a pack of Snorks at the Duty Checkpoint and the system rolls the dice if the combat encounter should happen. If it happens, it checks for all nearby participants and rolls a dice for their individual outcomes. Let's say Duty loses 4 out of 5 checkpoint members and our Stalker NPC survives.He then travels somewhere else, rolling the dice upon every possible interaction he may encounter. Lets say he steps into an Anomaly field to loot some artefacts. The game rolls a dice if he finds anything, and then if he survives. He may find a Meatloaf and then die. If that happens, his body with the artifacts he found would remain where he died and if a player comes there before the corpse-cleaner script deletes the body, the player can loot the artefacts that poor Stalker NPC, who traveled from Bar, faced some Snorks have looted.This system was further expanded in consequent games, and even further modified in mods Anomaly, Misery, Gamma, Gunslinger.
>>506975665In Stalker 2 the system isn't there. There's only a list of quest and static NPCs and there's no permanence for any other NPC in the world. If, for example, you leave Zalissya, every NPC except traders and story characters simply despawn and new ones spawn in if you come back.In general, there are multiple encounters like Stalker Squads skirmishing, mutants roaming and stalkers looting anomalies that can spawn (proven and modified by modders already), but they only happen around the player's Online radius, which by default is ~80 meters.That's why mutants and stalkers spawn behind you in vanilla. The game wants to spawn them, can only do it in 80 meters around you, but needs to find a spot where you can't see them. So it selects a spot behind you.
>>506975427While I do like stretching sdr content out to the wider gamuts (muh saturation) really unless you are using HDR you should be clamping your display to srgb if you want to be accurate.
>>506975815that's not true they've stated there's offline and online systems it's just really bad and unfinished
>>506975992It's a seething retard, don't even reply.
>>506973940that looks fucking awful
>>506975992>believing slavsshiggy diggy do
>>506975815permanence is working though? its just the way the squads do things is so jank, they don't artifact hunt or loot bodies, they just go to X and die by Y then its done
>>506976260I haven't added the loli catgirls in yet - gimme a chance.
>>506976264how can you know they didn't lie about A-life 1.0 too?
I like how the menu theme has echoes of original SoC menu theme but doesn't ape it to the point of being obnoxious.
>>506976403probably a decade+ of modders examining game files and making changes to core systemsyou wouldn't be trying to claim a-life doesn't exist to make slopper 2 look better, would you?
>>506976264better than believing schizos
Is this door in Duga "Block D" for a later mission?
>>506976627just applying healthy scrutiny, because people can and are looking at Stalker 2's files
Also, the game has this gamma calibration image in the settings, but it doesn't actually say what the image is supposed to look like (you know, usually it says something like "adjust until the darkest symbol is barely visible") so how am I supposed to know?>>506975578I don't think that matches the look on official screenshots/videos though.
>it's the "sl*pper" niggerLMAOMAOJust filter his little forced meme and move on fellas.
stalker 2 heart of chorslopyl
>>506976925Typically gamma is calibrated so the most black segment is invisible and the others still distinct but it gets more complicated if your screen is wildly off from the defacto standard of gamma 2.2. Ideally you'd tune your monitor first and then use the in game slider to correct and deficiencies the monitor can't account for (which can exist for a whole host of reasons)>http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/gamma_calibration.php(for anyone being anal yes I know using reference images to eyeball calibration is technically not accurate but this is for vidya and not srs bsns)
are half the mods just reshade bullshit
>>506975084Chances of Holomembers getting perms for STALKER 2?
>>506977445>reshade settings>modsWhen was this ok?
>>506977685When people stopped using enb i guess
>>506977389I did calibrate my settings on lagom and the gamma is as close to perfect as possible.But in order to then make the left most image in settings barely visible I would need to reduce it to like 30%, and then you can't see shit at night.
Man I fucking loved the helicopter stash "puzzle" in the vehicle graveyard.Also I gotta say I was skeptical of this new patch but the game has been running much better in areas which were previously problematic for me and the A-Life improvements have made traversing the zone feel a lot better. Still not the real deal, but much better than the bullshit spawns we had initially. Hope this evolves into something better
>>506978390everything bullshit spawns on me like always
>get in a gunfight>all cover is irradiated>have to stand out in the open like a dickhead or just eat rads>chasing a stash>it's on top of pipes>only way up is a single ladder >anomalies the whole way up so you can't even climb itthis game is actually just shit
Looks great on my oled hdr
>>506976363>loli catgirls
bros i don't think i picked the right choices, strelok locks down the zone and controls the monolith? wtf
>>506978996Yeah, I don't like how they handled Strelok
By the way here's a comparison at night.I think all the people who complain you can't see anything at night are using Rec709.
>>506978996ward is the best ending, strelok is kinda hinted at becoming insane
>>506978996>all the women in the zone when they hear his edict
>>506979212>>506975854>>506975427Right looks better.
>>506979287Globohomo typed this post
Bro why
>>506979287does the zone get destroyed in ward ending?
>>506979638you will consume ze energy drinks
>>506978996Between Doc and uncovering Ward's FIBER shit he went partial doomer. At least he's not Scar lmao
>>506978530Not for me. Yeah the spawns are still happening in a bubble around the player from what I can see but the range is a lot bigger. For the most part I can now see the squads that spawn before they see me, and I'm no longer getting any spawns 10 meters behind me. Before this patch I don't remember a single instance where I actually noticed a group of stalkers before they were already shooting me. Now I keep seeing the squads in the distance, and they're groups from 2 to 6 guys, whereas before every single squad was 3 guys.
>>506979764No they contain and control it. They can watch every person in the zone via some magic
>>506979917okay so maybe all endings are fit for expansions
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobylstalker 2 modding is ALREADY destroyed xray modding. just look at how many mods the community has made during this time, holy shit
>>506979406Problem is unless you have the contrast to go with it you just crush a lot of the darker shades as most panels can't do shades close to black well.
>>506980158>a brand new game has less mods than 3 games that are all over a decade and change olderwowI'm so shocked rn
>>506980076>maybe all endings are fit for expansions
>>506980158yeah but like 90% of it is just people changing numbers like mutant health and item weight or somethingwait until gsc drops the modkit
>>506979825i was roaming around cooling towers and squads were nonstop spawning, some literally out the water, maybe its cuz there's not enough area for them to spawn away
>>506980392does scar destroy the zone or something
>>506980158BRO I HEARD YOU LIKE RESHADE SETTINGS
GSC really baited everyone into siding with strelok
>>506980667no, but be careful what you wish for
>>506980158I so want GSC not to release any modkit so stalker 2 becomes the zone in the strelok's ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYLdVTvOyy0stalker veterans, is this a-life?
Just finished the mission where you get thrown into the chamber by scar and you have to sneak out of the lab. How close am I to the end of the game and should I worry about any late bugs on Xbox?
>>506981120The true A-Life was the friends we made along the way.
>>506980705I hate reshade. Fuck reshade.
i failed the "talk to richter" part during the attack on cooling towers with strelok's ending, does he die or something?
>in the name of science mission still brokencollar in the garbage south of brood base won’t register as collected, i didn’t find the mutant it was supposed to be on but it was in some random backpack on the ground instead, quest never updated though and scherba still thinks i don’t have them allwhatever fuck this gay little nigga and his collars, just annoying they have to clog my inventory forever now
kek wtf
>>506921895>How different is Ukrainian from Russian really?
>>506981691it werked for me on 1.03 but there was a collar I couldn't collect somewhere
where are the cell phone towers in the zone?
>>506981691Where is this collar mission even supposed to be given to you? I have several collars in my inventory but I never got the mission. Is this the same collar mission that starts with the dogs near Zalissya? I didn't get that one either but I know about it. The guy who's supposed to give it never spawned for me.
>>506982954You didn't notice the one you climbed right in the middle of Zalissya?
>>506983053Collar is from the mutant cat I believe
>>506983872I found some on bloodsuckers I think? Really not sure. I currently have 3 and have no idea what to do with them. I had to install a mod that makes all quest items have 0 weight because I now have around a dozen quest items stuck in my inventory that I have no idea what to do with, or they're from quests I've already finished. I even have duplicates of some items, like fucking Bubbs' PDA
Someone mentioned the hard cap system on resistances, can someone explain in more detail? Like, a single compass would provide you max resistance so your armor/second resistance articaft woudnt add anything? And same for max endurance artifact?
It's over for trilogy defender incels
>>506984540Also, how does the body armor phys res interacts with helmet's phys res?
>>506984603qrd?
nafo won.
>>506984540>>506985342I might be wrong but here's what I assume about how armor relation with physical resistance works after seeing several posts from other people :Body armors stats count only for body damage resistanceHeadgears stats count only for head damage resistanceFull suits stats count as both so they're just all around betterPhysical resistance has a hard cap of 8.5 barYour body armors / headgears / suits has a max physical resistance of 5 barCompass, the strongest physical resistance artifact, grants you 3 bar of physical resistanceIf you wear a body armor / headgear / suit with fully upgraded physical resistance and then equip one Compass you will receive 5 bar + 3 bar of physical resistance : 8 bar of physical resistance in totalIf you equip a second Compass, you will not receive 8 bar + 3 bar = 11 bar because there's a 8.5 bar hard cap
Do you know why LotZ remastering on PC is needed? GSC will massively strike all videos and sites with mods that are not approved on the Nexus. Reverse engineering and changing levels/scripts will be strictly prohibited :)
>>506973196Jesus Christ
>>506986934Damn, and i have read that helmet and body actually stackI am now even more confusedGuess ill keep researching thenThx for the reply anyways, fren
>>506987479I'll just play anomaly and gamma for free
>>506934879i don't do that it's not christian
>>506921895russian zoomers understand english text much better when reading than ukrainian. they completely can't write and speak on ukrainian, while they can do it in english although at a rather low level, worse than indians. because in english they understand most of the words, while in ukrainian they will have to look up the translation of the unknown word in every sentence.
>doing the Monolith hospital quest with sneaking>I reload a quicksave inside>get stunned by bloodsucker scream immediately upon loading inOkay dude.
>>506986171hello.kill yourself.thank you.
>>506988695skill issue
So is the new update good or whatI stopped playing shortly after release because of the broken AI and shitty balance despite liking the rest of the game. Is it worth coming back now or should I go back into stasis for awhile longer?
>>506987479they wouldn't be retarded enough to do thatstriking repacks is one thing because it IS redistributing game files, but going after all mods would backfire immensely
>>506988989you need to put this game aside for at least three years, when the latest patch for the latest dlc comes out and gsc completely switches to the developing new game or close again
>>506988989the balance is still dogshit but mutants are a little less tankyskif's pistol is still the best gun in the game
Anyone got this bug where your inventory is constantly making loud ass reloading sounds? It's making the game unplayable.
bros!!!
HOW THE FUCK DO I UPGRADE THESE FUCKING SIRCAA SCIENCE SUITS?
running fantastic after the latest patch and a-life so far has been decent. now I just want them not to push an update for a while cause it fucking works just right. sad to see so many people either getting stuck at shader comp, or weird mission bugs, looping sounds etc. this will be a monster of a project get right for everyone.
>>506992061>The technician cannot install this upgrade>The technician cannot install this upgrade>The technician cannot install this upgrade
okay yeah the 4th ending is the best one
>>506988989Stalker 2 won't be good until the Russian fans implement a reverse engineered forward rendering engine so potato enjoyers can play, have retooled a-life to function better than it does in Gamma, and have modded 176 new guns with extreme autistic prejudice into the game, all with insane upkeep mechanics and arcane gameplay loops that demand the player spend 12 hours to build a functional pistol out of scraps and stalker spit.
>>506992061wasn't that in the 1.1.0 patch notes?
>>506993523Was it?
>>506977685When standards for modding collapsed with shader injectors and changing the text of a texture mod to be another language. Nexus is full of mods in various games that are just some other guy's mod with sometimes as little as just the nexus post's text to german/chinese/russian/korean.
>>506993803>Fixed that SSP-100 Discovery armor cannot be upgraded by any technician.apparently
>>506994008Yet to find them, then.
>>506993808Changing the text on texture is still modding since it's a modification even if it is small. Reshade is a post processing effect that has NOTHING to do with altering game files so I'm not sure who thought that was OK.
>>506994106Read it again. Some of those mods I mentioned change nothing but the text on the nexus page, and the thumbnail including a country flag. The mod content is untouched.
>>506994248Ah I'm retarded. I'm not sure how that even gets a pass since it's a repost. I guess people aren't reporting
Does anyone know what the logic or lore is behind the old broken-down cars in the zone being hot spots for radiation?
>>506994008>>506994084So they still don't say who can repair it then? So what's the fucking point? Goddamnit I'm gonna have to travel to every repairman. Malachite still can't upgrade them, FYI. Going to fast travel to all the others, so hold tight.
After the latest update shaders are compiling in an instantIs this a bug or smth? I feel worriedOr i am just being needlessly paranoid
>>506994467Something something radiation doesn't go away any time soon. There was a time where non-irradiated steel was worth a fortune. Not sure if it's still the case now.
>>506994579It's always yaniv for endgame shit
>>506994658mods?
>>506994467old metal absorbed a lotta dem rays
>>506994658(The game runs normally, in case youre wondering)
>>506994723Nope, not Yanov, not Duty, not Freedom, nor Skadovsk. The search continues.
>>506994740Hold up, i have the console mode enabled (used it to fix the unfinishable radiant quest bug a few times), forgot to depete it after dealing with the bugDeleted it, and now the shaders are compiling again, not sure if i should have done it lolWhat are these compiling shaders even do? (Im a dummy in such questions)
>>506995093Afaik, it's to remove slowdowns during gameplay due to having to do some work with dx12 renderer. Unfortunately, unreal is a PoS so it still happens but for different reasons afaik
>Slopkor 2 10% off alreadylollmao even
>>506994979>he thoughted that the technician could install zee upgrades
>>506995443Wish more enemies died with broken ragdolling like this kek. Most of the time, they just A pose which is boring
>>506994979Not Rookie Village, Zalissiya, and no luck at Slag Heap. The only place left is the Chemical Plant and they're hostile to me. If that's the actual place I'm going to be fucking pissed.>>506995443Do what now?
>>506973346>>506973353Is it worth playing now then? Or is a-life and stuff still only half-fixed?
>>506995830NPCs are definitely persistent now. They still physically spawn in too close to the player which breaks immersion some, and their behaviors while spawned are stilted and not quite there yet. They don't aggro right, don't loot bodies, etc.BUT. The skeleton is in place and is operational. If you watch a bandit kill a mutant, leave and come back, the correct bandit will spawn back in. Offline mode is working.They just need to make the AI fun now and we're actually golden.
I fought my way into the Chemical Plant only to be met with a locked door, so I noclipped through and this asshat won't even talk to me after I waded through his buddies to get here. What a dick.
>start trying STALKERSOUP again>this is what I'm met withLovely.
The bloat is coming...
>>506996421
>>506996564>AND THERE WILL BE WHEEEEELLLCHAAAAAIIRRR
>>506996134does he move offline? fight other npc offline? can you turn on map markers like in cs/anomaly to track this? no? then fuck off. it still not there until gsc give us all modkit and source code of game.
>>506996462holy kino
Mutant parts are one thing since you could harvest mutants in the originals, but why all the other crap?
>>506997069I assume it's just vendor trash. Several dozen flavors of vendor trash
>>506996134Watching the AI more since the update really has made me realize how stupid they are in so many situations. Like watching a squad of veteran Ward guys get into a gunfight in a field, and respond by slowly walking around randomly in the open, spraying at any enemy on full-auto.It would be cool if they could actually use more believable tactics, like forming a firing line as a group or more clearly covering each other’s movements.
So after searching where every technician is, I still have no fucking clue who is supposed to upgrade the SIRCAA armor. Fucking.
I have tons of tools at home for repairing my bike. Why are you so annoyed by some things like multitool, lubricants and electrical tapes in Anomaly? So it turns out that hate towards crafting and repairing mechanics in Anomaly allows to identify the clumsy retarded NEETs, deal with it.
I'm here to play STALKER. Not fallout 4.
>>506997437Pripyat one maybe?
>>506997532Stalkers are spineless vegetables who can't even maintain their equipment? Don't project your being.
>>506997864I've done plenty of that in ITR 1 and that game doesn't suffer need a dozen items needed to maintain gear
>>506997618Haven't gotten there yet. That's my last hope.
is the whole population of ukraine in the zone what the shut
>>506997407That would require the rest of your CPU's processing power
>>506997437>>506997618>>506998062Save you some time : No, noone can upgrade that armor
>>506996421>worst soupyou asked for this>>506996462wow great
>>506996462>cut more items than they implemented to save them for dlcI don't feel so good bros
>>506999557The patch said they fixed that.
unholy shit the game becomes absolute fuckery after SIRCAAalso does the chimera exist to bar you from going into certain places? why is this niggermutant just staying there waiting to rape you north zaton?
>>507000538Cut? This is all modders.
>>506975992>that's not true, they've stated>>506997407>It would be cool if they could actually use more believable tactics, like forming a firing line as a group or more clearly covering each other’s movements.It would be cool if they had any basic functions at all, yeah.>>506999383>That would require the rest of your CPU's processing powerThat's right, 1992-tier AI now requires AMD EPYC CPU with 192 cores.
lmao their "fix" for the zallisiya bug is to kill every monolithian that was stuck in the ward building with the lonerswent there and there are like 15 bodies of monolithians neatly stacked on top of each otherwell at least it works and i can progress the quest!
KILL MONOLIGGERSBEHEAD MONOLIGGERSFEED MONOLIGGERS TO BLOODSUCKERSLAUNCH MONOLIGGERS INTO WHIRLIGIGS
>>506996134>NPCs are definitely persistent now.>Offline mode is working.You guys are repeating this without understanding what it means. They increased spawn range, and granted those newly-spawned NPCs a few extra minutes of life until they glitch out and disappear. That's not the same as "offline mode is working".
>>506996847>no? then fuck off. it still not there until gsc give us all modkit and source code of game.Agreed, or until I see some real in-game proof and not just smoke and mirrors.
>fire one mag from ak>lose 7% durability Is it really that aggressive?
>>506996462is this some mod or hidden in the game files?
I couldn't do it bros, I couldn't lie to Strider.
The game feels like it runs much smoother after the patchAnd the a-life changes are good too
>>507002997Modders I thought I wouldn't need a new pc for 3 years bros... did you lie?
>>507003142Same, best cutscene in the game and absolute grim kino I know you guys like to shit on the overproduced cutscenes but everything with Strider and the monolith was honestly great
>>507001042Mutant loot guy says the icons came from cut content, I assumed the rest was as well.
>game runs okay at 60 fps with DLSS on and framegen off, few drops here and there>turn on framegen and get a very nice and smooth 120+>framegen sometimes breaks and causes the game to shit itself and run at like 20 fps>this issue doesn't happen when framegen is offplaying on a 4080, all drivers updated etc. framegen does this to me in other games sometimes like dragons dogma 2is this a stalker thing, a nvidia thing or an unreal engine 5 thing?
>>507003882Dunno, didnt have any frame drop rates at all >>507003153Played for like 4-ish hours, have 4070
>>507003882That's how framegen works. Also your input lag with it on is not worth having 120fps. I'd take the constant 60 without it
I’m gifting my brother the trilogy for Xmas. He’s never played any of them. What would you recommend for mod/unofficial patches for his first run? Vanilla might be a bit too buggy/ugly for his taste. I’m looking for something that updates the graphics, primarily. Would Autumn Aurora fit the bill? I haven’t played it myself
>>507001629Wonders of technology, at some point you've gotta wonder how the fuck is it running heavier than Path Tracing Cyberpunk.
>>507004637None. you could have got him gamma for free
>>507004696Yeah but gamma is a massive overhaul, no? I want him to experience vanilla, and would like to recommend a mod if he is interested
>>507004637Complete 2024
>>507004862Back when I played the trilogy Complete was seen as a sort of “easier” version of the game. Is that still the case?
>>507004818I was just shitposting Should be fine with just zrp on soc. But autumn Aurora could be a good choice to spruce it up, I enjoyed that modCoP is probably most polished out the box so could even suggest starting with that
Anyone notice that sometimes your character starts moving forward on its own after finishing a dialogue with quest NPCs post patch 1.1?
>>507005287Thanks bro.I added that to the little text lines you can on the gifts over steam. He better fuckin enjoy this shit.
Someone in the previous thread mentioned the game in this clip was moddedExplain
>>507005959why does it look so much better in old stalkers, despite the graphics and animations. when i look at this kind of thing in stalker 2 it just seems jank.
Wait, 1.1.2 still doesn't fix the difference in X/Y mouse movement?
>>507004637Read the OP. That said tell him to use the ZRP.
>>507005959Its not . They do that and even to you
>>507006246>when i look at this kind of thing in stalker 2 it just seems jank.Slopper 2 NPCs are programmed with Blueprints which is an Unreal Engine thing where you can create scripts without writing code, by dragging and dropping arrows onto shit.
anyone else want a spider mutant? it seems like it would fit perfectly. if they want bloodsuckers to be more of an every-day enemy then we need another terrifying stealth enemy that lurks beneath
>>507006246It's the cherry-picked clips. The OG games are still unbelievably janky.
>>507007097holy based
>>507007012
>>507007097A classic
>>507007097Shouldn't have tried to take on bandit Neo.
>game now crashes on startupGuess it's time to do chores
>>507007097Implying that wasn't intentional
>>507003751The story and cutscenes are actually the only thing I really like about S2. I was disappointed with the Ward route because they cut out like half of the cutscenes, but Spark was great especially if you get the Skif ending.
>>507007097The legendary shotgun over shoulder leap technique.
So what mission is the point where you have to start making sides? I want to make a save there so I can just load back into that point and choose another route. I'm assuming it's a mid point and takes another few hours of play time if you know what you're doing.
why the fuck they allow aggressive mercs in rostok and why do they only attack mei honestly cant keep up with who is against who in this game
>game now can't even compile shaders without crashingI FUCKING LOVE UNREAL ENGINE 5I FUCKING LOVE GAMES GETTING WORSE EACH PATCH
>>506994687>>506994760That doesn't explain anything. NEXT!
>piss and shit everywhere instead of simply deleting the shader cachethe pc mustard race of 2024 everyone
>create piss and shit engine that breaks at the drop of a hat>somehow it's the end user's problemKill yourself you street shitter
>that instant mask slip
>>506994467>>507008510Its a mix of post-soviet surplus being abandoned after the breakup and civilian vehicles that were contaminated and no one wanted to clean up. There is no reason they are still radioactive other than it makes interesting gameplay.
>>506994687still true, but it's only for really specialized medical tools I think so it's not really that expensive since the amounts needed are small
>>507008432>blaming unreal when the fault lies at the feet of retarded slavsremember anon these are the people who are too stupid to boil water
>>507004657Well, at least we know it's not going to eye movements.
>>507008763This is not the only unreal 5 game I've had problems with. Inbred hohols and gopniks just make it worse.
>>507004637Tell him to play vanilla first. The mods come later.Oblivion Lost for SoC is honestly the best one in my opinion though.
is the saiga like alien technology or something? no tech ive met yet can upgrade it
>>507009116Go to the train station in yaniv, north of red forest. They can upgrade saiga, kharod, and exosuits.
>>506994467Radiation "sticking to metal" was something I'd heard from random STALKER documentaries. I don't know if it's true, or why.
>>507008925bruh nobody played vanilla even in 2010 you have to at least add AMK
>>507009251I did and so have many others. I don't think playing modded stalker is a good idea for the first time, at least for the first couple of hours.
>>507009116Only the fine touch a beautiful, but firm, woman can upgrade such a weapon.
https://files.catbox.moe/d64gzb.mp4Holy shit an A-Life just flew over my house!!!!
>>507009828i like how you chased it down
just got scar's ending for stalker 2. can somebody tell me what the fuck i just watched and wha tjust happened
>>506980947Is that fucking calypso?
>>507010115
Was the "press shift to swap which weapon you want to compare to this other you're looking at" always there or is it new?
I played through SoC and CS this week. Started CoP tonight. Is the whole game a snooze fest?
>>507010115You fucked up is what you did.
>>507010115dude weed lmao
>>507010180Always was
>>507010191CoP was more exploration focused and proto open-world so 100% it is an absolute snoresville
>>507010180It was always there.
>>507010170that is strelok not skif
>>507010270>>507010281Ah all right. I thought as much because I know how much I don't pay attention to things sometimes.
>>506997069vendor trash. its clear mutant loot was meant to be implemented but was cut for some reason (i assume DLC)
>>507010245why>>507010251i hate freedom i am a dutybro.
>>506973196>>506987775Listen, this is what you do. Click that little menu to the side and click "do not recommend this channel". This actually deranks their channel globally in addition to preventing you from seeing it ever again.Every time I see some faggot basedface or clickbait I always click this. If they want to be faggots I'm going to intentionally derank their faggotry and you should too.
>>507010401Mutant loot is the only mod I use. Makes it worth fighting mutants. https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/389
>>507010408>in warzone>puts target on their uniforms
Complete 2024 or OL lads?
>shutdown the miracle machine>about to exit the sewers>uh oh emission>stay and wait, play subway surfers in the meantime>a squad of mercs drops down from the exit ladder and assaults me>one punches my trusty saiga out of my hands>run a bit back into the tunnel>die from the emission>it ends a second laterIt shouldn't even be possible because outside there's a fence and a oneway exit, what the hell
>>507010515I thought they were compatible with one another
Do you think Skif is handsome? Length, girth, taste, cut/uncut?
Oh so those clutter icons are all from the files ?
>>507010601iwp?
>>507010604Do they alter different things?>>507010487It's odd they cut it, doesn't seem like it'd be difficult to have implemented
>>507010601They can climb the fence the same as you can, I learned thisWhat's funny is they have no animation for climbing however
>>507010691anomaly
>>507010656Only mutant loot, the rest are modcrap
>>507010115it’s all in your mind
With the most recent updates I figured it's time I start actually playing the game now, what mods are must haves?
if expansions take place after the story, which ending do we think is canon?
This game needs "art subtitles" like Metro and Atomic Heart. I wanna read the Uke graff
>>507011025https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/870This. I'm so sick and fucking tired of bloodsuckers.
>>507011054The "let's make this a global franchise" ending obviously.
>>507011019kino
>>>/v/697938702
>>507011019
I feel bad for being around the Duty base when an emission happens.
>>507011252makes sense, there are multiple Zones in Roadside Picnic
Look at him go!
>>507011397a shitton of freedomers died for me at rostok now
>>507011534>HELLO MY BABY HELLO MY HONEY HELLO MY RAGTIME GAL
>>507011019I'm glad this is so far out of the way hiding in the cooling towers
>>507011534>when you get to the car and realise you left the keys in the house
>>507010408>i hate freedom i am a dutybro.Shouldn't you have sided with Ward you bootlicking retard?
>>507011534chat is this real?
>>507004637Just the bugfix ones, dont remember how they are calledThat being said i played the originals bough on Steam with no problems/bugs, so they arent really needed that much
>>507011397It's how I got a free Grom. Sure it was broken, but free is free.
>>507011970it is way too early to be using any rando's janky .ini tweaks
>>507007743Clear the shader cache >>506921427
>>507012215Thanks anon.I just finished reinstalling the game. Fuck.
>>507011252>The "let's make this a global franchise" ending obviously.S.L.O.P.P.E.R. 3: A Far Cry from Chornobyl (set in Hawaiian Islands)S.L.O.P.P.E.R. 4: Stalker Unknown BattlegroundsS.L.O.P.P.E.R. 5: Grand Theft Stalker OnlineS.L.O.P.P.E.R. 6: Modern Zone (with vehicle combat, play as mutants)
my game got updated and my mods broke?? no...
/sg/ not devolving into a /pol/fag shitfest challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
>>507012894bluesky is more your speed
>>507012572Muh Fukushuma installment...
>>507013064>>>/pol/(You) have to go back, pronto.
>>507013201quit projecting retard
Does the hilka have more range than the bear or am I just going crazy?
>>507012542>>507012215Welp, that didn't work. Neither clearing cache nor reinstalling worked.
>>507013453hilka is 100m and bear is 40m
>>507013453Yes, the description straight up says it's long range.
>>507013592>>507013601Okay thought so. I feel like the bear is a downgrade just due to that. What's the range on the veles?Also one of the loading screen tips call it the Gilka, and it took me longer than it should have to realize that was a typo and not just a different detector.
>>507013562Dunno, didnt have any problems with crashes at all (started to play after waiting for 1.02 patch), it crashed like only 2-3 times total in my ~150 hours i played so farI heard it could be caused by intel processors
>>507013562>>507013737Never mind. Nvidia problem.
>>507013724>that was a typoIts a H/G transliteration issue, same thing with HUR/GUR
>>507013724>I feel like the bear is a downgradejust carry both like everyone else
>>507013791So you got it fixed? What was the issue? Maybe others have it too
>>507013857Not too familiar with Ukrainian, but sounds like the L/R issue with Japanese.>>507013930But I might need that 0.6kg of weight!
>[laughs in veles]
>>507014085Basically, the Cyrillic letter "Г" is pronounced as "G" in Russian, but in Ukrainian it's pronounced as "H" despite being used about as frequently and in similar cases as in Russian. So for example, "Гpигopoвич" transliterated from Russian is "Grigorovich", but from Ukrainian it's "Hryhorovych". That's another transliteration quirk, "И" in Russian is "I", but in Ukrainian it's "Y", Ukrainian has "I" and "Ї" for the "I" respectively, with the double dotted one being exclusive to Ukrainian Cyrillic, making that "yi" sound.
chocolate bar? would you eat this?
>>507014531English only has H and G (2 letters), we ukies have Х, Г and Ґ (3 letters), so according to the Pigeon-Hole Principle the adeguate transliteration is impossible
>>507014732English can make those sounds with two letters when it requires three for you, doesn't that make English more efficient?
>>507014531Very intriguing, it's a wonder how anyone ever figured this out.>>507014732How exactly does one even decide which letters get translated into what?
>>507013937I literally just restarted my computer
>>507014853>doesn't that make English more efficient?Dunno, not my personal/native language so not my business>>507014861>How exactly does one even decide which letters get translated into what?I suppose there are some specially designated nerds who do that but generally speaking H = Х and G = Г/Ґ
>>507014853Polish is even better in that regard. G is a G, H is an H, no weird exception rules to the pronunciation like in English or Russian, you look at made up nonsense like Brzędziszewskośćiównowo and you know exactly how to read it.
Did they nerf Faust? Fight felt much-much easier than my first run.
>game runs like a dream with the new patch>still can't make enough money to upgrade weapons to max because everything is expensive>still questioning cooling towers and concrete plant because there are two random event side quests and the barman's quests but no other reason to go there>there's a plausible and easy path to get to CNPP without any physical blockage and you can even get the region marked on your map>instadeath radiation walls cover it up
>>507015025You mean that actually works?
>>507015531More often than most would like to admit.
>>507015521cnpp dlc
the damn artifact spawned on top of this thing
>>507015615I remember seeing bits and pieces of that show growing up. I should give it another go.
what if they mod fpv drones into the game
Testing the defend Malachite from Wards soon. I see people say this quest is broken as fuck like the defend Zalissya quest but I sided with the Wards in my first run, so I didn't experience anything except the Malachite reputation mysteriously tanking after several missions later.Let's see how this turns out.
>>507015521>still can't make enough money to upgrade weapons to max because everything is expensiveJust farm some artifacts, broThats why people come in the Zone in the first place, lore-wise
With all this talk about Unreal Engine 5 and normies starting to wake up to modern devs not optimizing for shit I wanted to throw some light into some of the problems I've noticed in STALKER 2.- For starters a lot of the walls don't have backface culling. If I had to guess it's because they're "modular" so they built them with some bricks so they can fracture them depending on what they need for a scene, however the result is that you're rendering stuff inside the wall that the player can't see, at all times. Pic related.- Second, some if not all of the buildings you can't enter are fully modeled inside, there's a few I've noticed where they just cut everything that you can't see through windows (good), but some are actually complete (bad); again, you're rendering stuff that the player can't see or access.- Lumen and light usage, while Lumen is not the devil people picture it out to be, it and the lights the game uses, seem to be using baseline Unreal Documentation presets, which are overblown for negligible visual gain at the cost of insane performance cost (it destroys frame times, also). These need to be tweaked (by the developers, any .ini "fix" is not going to really cut it since it's a per light source thing). - Human models also suffer from great modularity, normally games would just model the head down to the neck and then the armor in parts or pieces. In STALKER 2 say you see a guy with a gas mask, well there's a fully modeled and textured face underneath, that you can't see. Again taking resources for no visual gain to the player. Maybe mods can fix some of these issues once the SDK comes out but I doubt it.tl; dr there's a lot of optimization that can be done but I don't see GSC doing it soon or ever.
What's new around the Zone?
>>507016729>some if not all of the buildings you can't enter are fully modeled insideThat is pretty bad, seriously wtf.
>>507016729>"but I don't see GSC doing it">latest big patch had 1800 fixesGive em chance, anonThe performance and optimisation improved greatly with the patches in my subjective experience, and it has only been a month since release
So how do you open this door anyway? It's at the concrete forest, with a stash inside.I've been here before, thinking there's a quest to open it, but I'm now nearing end-game.I've been throwing grenades into the window on the other side of the structure but it doesn't work. There's no hole on the roof to jump through.Is there something I'm missing? Do I have to go in from underground?
>>507016729Those things seem relatively minor. I bet you they have perfectly flat surfaces with billions of polygons.I think SoC's binoculars had a 16x zoom. You can't do that in this game because of nanite/LOD, and you can't see anything anyway.
>>507016919Yiu want better performance on low systems just wait for a mod that guts 80% of the clutter
He's big
>>507017128Your answer lies here.
>>507011534How about this duo?
>>507017191I guess soSo Unreal Engine 5 isn't built for games then fr.It's for pre-rendered production stuff.
>>507016729Stop shilling the fired QA dev. There are no optimization issues. Kids need to stop mislabeling "old budget hardware can't handle it" as "unoptimized". This wasn't even a concept until 7th gen gave poorfags 8 years of being able to use garbage hardware and still nearly max out every game on the market.inb4 some retard brings up crysis, the exception, as if it disproves the rule
>>507017315How did I never notice thatEven with the yellow fucking paint
>>507017512>There are no optimization issues.Retard.
>>507016729> In STALKER 2 say you see a guy with a gas mask, well there's a fully modeled and textured face underneath, that you can't see. Again taking resources for no visual gain to the player. I think it's very coolAlso, closed off buildings have a couple of shelves inside at best, they're not nearly as decorated as accessible ones.
Don't give it any (You)s.
507017512>There are no optimization issues.>the post literally lays out all the optimization issuesI hate fucking tards so fucking much.
>>507017792I'll give you a (You) tho bb :*
>>507016032:(
>There are no optimization issues
>>506992812All of this but unironically
>>507017906thx qt ;*
>>507018109vasyancore, sovl...
Do Duty members really climb a ladder just to enjoy their food and drink?
>>507017315Am I supposed to find a key in here? There's nothing here besides a few skeletons and a cushion anomaly
>>507018429key should be on a body. The poltergeist probably threw it out
>>507017648>>507017905>no argumentNone of those are optimization issues. Catering to retards trying to use 10 year old computers for a new game is retarded.
>>507018597This guy? It's the only corpse here, but he's a static object and non-interactable. But strangely still shows up on the compass.
>>507018992think so
>>506992812Don't forget all the new mutants they'll add all of them are just imports from Fallout and Metro games
>>507016919>>507017148>>507017714I'm not saying this is the biggest issue, I'm just pointing out things that I've noticed that will affect performance, specially on large scenes with lots of shit going on, or with lots of human NPCs all with high polycount. It is "minor", but it is still some things that could be addressed to squeeze performance.>>507017512I'm not running old budget hardware.>>507017148Minor things add up if there's too many up on the screen. Again, I'm not saying this is the biggest issue, I'm just pointing them out as examples of what better, further, optimization could be done. >>507016986Oh I am giving them a chance. I love this game, it's my personal GOTY and I have 238 hours on it already. If anything I'm hopeful that they might improve on what we have, and again, once the SDK/modtools come out I see great things in the future. I just want this game to be better, I know it can, but the discussion needs to stop being about disinformation and shitposting and to address real technical things.
>>506973119
>>507018109I know I laid the smarm on a little thick at the end there, but I am serious. I can not wait for freeplay Stalker 2 some day. I crave the task board.I don't really know WHY either. I play EFP and Gamma enough.
Is 2 worth playing yet, or wait for a patch?
>>507018847If your game is incapable of maintaining high FPS on current gen midrange GPU's without resorting to tricks like DLSS and frame gen, it is unoptimized.Current day games don't look that much better from the games released 5-8 years ago for the "visual fidelity demands good hardware" excuse to stick.Games nowadays are unoptimized, and all the potential of modern hardware is wasted because competent game devs are long gone. It's all spaghetti code and "visual programming" bullshit.You do not benefit in any way by running this defense calling anyone calling out these issues as poor brownoid thirdies or whichever /v/tard word salad you prefer to use. You're getting robbed of the performance of your 40 series GPU's and you keep telling yourself it's a good thing. By doing so you're telling the industry they can test the waters further since you'll defend every retarded decision of theirs like a good obedient dog.
>>507019803Series S seems to be running fine. Maybe it's time for half this general to admit they need to upgrade, and stop holding the rest of us back?
>>507019801>Is 2 worth playing yet, or wait for a patch?I'm not sure it's worth playing, regardless of patches. Maybe wait for the Far Cry DLC.
>>507017648Do not feed the troll
>>507018847>None of those are optimization issues.Yes they are, they are by definition optimization issues, unless the word has some alternate meaning for you.>>507019915>stop holding the rest of us backDo you by any chance work for Nvidia or Intel, you cunt?
>>507020296>Do you by any chance work for Nvidia or Intel, you cunt?He's not going to post his specs, either. Probably just a random /v/tard. Notice how he didn't respond to the post with a screenshot of current hardware? Has no point and is just throwing out low effort baits.
>>507019803>>507020296He's just a grade A shitposter, or severely retarded. Why would anyone think that a game being able to run on older hardware is a bad thing? If it runs on older hardware well, it will run on newer hardware even better. Which means you're able to make it look better, and possibly at its peak. Just look at Doom Eternal.
>>507019915Xbox Series is not a conventional x86 ATX PC architecture. A conventional PC has separate RAM and VRAM, Xbox Series has shared memory. Any comparisons of PC's and consoles are apples to oranges.But if we were to humor your console excuse, assuming it's all the same in a vacuum, your average gaming PC has much more TFLOPS than even the Series X or the PS5.The base PS5 has 10TFLOPS.The PS5 Pro has 18TFLOPS.The Series S has 4TFLOPS.The Series X has 12TFLOPS.A 4060 has 15TFLOPS.A 4070 has 29TFLOPS.A 1060 has 4TFLOPS.A 1060 is on par with a Series S in terms of raw performance. Meaning that modern games should be able to run on a 8 year old GPU as it has the same amount of computational power. Games have to target the Series S that is essentially 8 years behind the curve in terms of performance.This means:-Games that run well on the Series S should be able to run fine on the 1060-The Series S is holding back games by 8 years due to it's underpowered hardwareOf course I wrote all of this unnecessarily and you'll just reply with your average /v/tard word salad bait reply because that's all you wanted to achieve.
The Shitbox Series Slop is the reason why this game is so poorly optimized in the first place ironically enough, not older PC hardware.No offense to my STALKERs who are playing via Series S.
i got the achievement for saving zalisya but the quest wont complete, anyone know how to fix this?
>>507021229Repeat the quest until you somehow get the depressed Gaffer outcome
>>506982769Ukrainians have just institutionalised a bunch of slang. Imagine people from Manchester institutionalising all their slang and now no one from London understands them, that's Ukrainian.
Skeef liek fire :3
in SOC there was a major shipment of AK74s that got hit by an inverted anomaly that mirrored all the guns right? can we find any of them in stalker 2 or none of the AKs from 2012 survived to 2021?
s2 feels like a bethesda game
>>507014632nice mini plinko board
>arena>no adoring fanwtf
>>507021076I don't really understand this - doesn't that mean it should be really WELL optimized, if they're targetting it for basically a 6500XT ~8GB (xbox SS has 20 CUs)?
>>507021229go out of lesser zone, quest goes away and zalissia goes back to normal
>>507022591>zalissia goes back to normalThey never rebuild though, only the big house is populated by NPCs now
>>507021962In the original games the guns are mirrored to avoid any potential copyright issues
>>507022469Kek, an adoring fan would have been a nice easter egg there, true
>>507022813>to avoid any potential copyright issuesWeird, I thought it was due to the cool factor.
>>507022731i mean theyre not waiting in gaffer's room like theyre about to announce something theyre back to their normal placesand yea its gay that they dont rebuild they should have added a quest that upgrades zalissia or had it go back to normala fter a few ingame days>>507022813yea bro the russian government will sue em for the look of a gun from 1991 that appears in 90% of modern shooters
>>507022937Now that i think about it, it would be cool if there was some sort of gun-artifact that got mirrored as a result of an anomaly, it would also be a nice nod to the original gamesLike the gun got rotated in 4th dimension, which leads to object being mirrored
>>507010191I wish the world was more reactive to my actions; like that one time after I got into skirmish with some group, killed their teammate while escaping and compromised their operation -- I fully expected to being hunted down but actually managed to do something even worse without slightest hint of retribution on their part. Although not without well-justified reason, the locations you get also feel emptier than they initially appear to be, as spacious and full of things to discover. Far from a bad game, but I'll leave any conclusive impressions up to you.
>>507023050>yea bro the russian government will sue em for the look of a gun from 1991 that appears in 90% of modern shooters..yes? Russians are indeed crybabies like that. I bet they would even task UN representative Nebenzya to talk about how ukrainian nazis literally steal russian guns in their games
>install iwpcotz>mfw grenades
>>507023186>Like the gun got rotated in 4th dimensionWe are incapable of comprehending the 4th dimension as three-dimensional beings. The guns being mirrored would be a shift within the 3rd dimension, like an inversion of the Y axis.>>507023316If that were the case, you'd have an entire stack of Izhmash lawsuits for misrepresenting the AK in countless of games where they were 100% on-model and used the AK name. If you're gonna shit on Russians, don't go out of your way to sound as schizophrenic as them.
got a dnipro from the arena, sweet
>>507020829Doesn't the normal PS5 just display 4k 30fps from around 50% resolution (1080p) anyway?
>>507023572>We are incapable of comprehending the 4th dimension as three-dimensional beingsBut we are capable of visualising a projection in 3d space of a horse being rotated in 4th dimension THOUGHhttps://youtu.be/MDvlO9q6qWk?si=lMk02UCWcsCVKGDr>>507023572>If that were the case, you'd have an entire stack of Izhmash lawsuits for misrepresenting the AK in countless of games where they were 100% on-model and used the AK name.Perhaps those games got the loicence, i dunno how those things work. Maybe the mirrored guns of the originals itself were an overshoot in terms of being careful about not getting a lawsuit
>>507023603NoiceGet the 4x scope though, its even vetter with it
>>507020829Games can run fine on the 1060. Yiu just need to lower your expectations - and settings
>>507023819Still, a mirrored AK wouldn't look like that. It'd still be a three-dimensional object shifted in one of them. An artifact capable of manipulating 3D objects would still be plausible. Maybe you could get funky, make it an easter egg, and make it break the fourth wall in some way, directly referencing game design. Would be fun.
>>506973119since the new update my game is frozen at compiling shaders doesnt do anything
So this artifact is insanely good. And it didn't give me the "drunk" effect until just now, a day after first finding it. And it only goes away when I unequip it.What gives? Do I have to recharge this thing like the weird bolt?
LMAOO THEY UNPATCHED THE DUTY SOLDIERS, NOW THEY DIE TO EMISSIONS AGAIN YEEAAAHH
>>507024057Yeh...
>>507023917i think ill stick with the fora atleast until i can upgrade it, the rostok mechanic cant do it.also i just finally got a silencer for it>>507024231what does it actually do? it it the same are regular 'remove radiation' artifacts?
>>507024273dutysissies don't look
>>507023338>open config(s)>lower damage>???????>profit
>>507024349>+40 weight capacity>high radiation resistance (not maximum)It's insanely good
If I'm playing CoP for the first time, should I avoid Gunslinger? The realism elements seem cool, but I don't know if it being considered an alpha will cause a lot of issues
>>507025383yes avoid it, it changes more than just the guns
arena rewards are pretty disappointing unless you pick up the enemy stuffalso the revolver from it takes 9x39? these a giant rounds for a handgun
>>507025383Avoid it. While the weapon models and animations are really good, it makes combat against mutants (controllers and burers in particular) harder and even adds mutants to places where there weren't before such as a controller at the testing workshop's entrance after you grab the Item 62 documents in Zaton.
my aiming feels very jerky after the udpate. things dont feel smooth anymore when im looking around. what is the problem does anyone know?
>>507025908Dunno, if anything my aim improved because in general the fps is better/smoother
>>507025695>>507025884Alright then I'll probably just stick to using open xray and vanilla+ personal mini repack, unless there's any issues I should know about it. Took a bit of tweaking to make it run properly, but I got it sorted. I was considering using original weapons renewal but vanilla+ gets rid of the items in the bottom right taking up screen space. Though I do like how weapons renewal looks and sounds, would be nice to use it as well.
>>507010146yes
>>507026763Why use mods on the first playthrough at all?
freeman is in the same place he was in soci wonder of barney is somewhere in the zone
>>507027563There is Freeman in Zalissya though, constantly compaining that he wished he had the same cool gun as Zotov
rat swams can turn into zombies
>>507027223Honestly a good question, I guess I'm just a bit spoiled by AMK when I was using it for SoC. I'll probably just not worry too hard about it, not like I need mods to enjoy it, especially with CoP feeling so much nicer right away.
>>507025704The real reward of the Arena is dropping all the gear you get at the door, talking to the guy to "return" it and instantly picking it back up to sell for fat stacks of cash.
>>507028087yes and also you get the kharod, rhino and dnipro early. atleast for me the arena is the first place i saw them
>>507028008CoP is unique to the trilogy in the sense that it plays well out of the box, you don't even need bugfixes for it unlikes SoC and CS. Honestly I just wouldn't bother with mods for the simple fact that you won't have anything to compare changes to if you don't know what vanilla's like.
>>507028273Well if you're a giga Chad like me and went straight to the Burnt Forest you can find every mid-tier weapon in stashes and fixed places. It's a hellhole with no vendors, so you gotta be careful.
>>507024231I get the drunk effect when I carry over 50 kilos of stuff
>>507028665is rostok really the only place with personal stash access for the entire western part of the map?i have the quest scar gives you at rostok now to go there and i feel like i have to take a metric fuckton of ammo with me just in case
>>507029446Oh shit you're right. I just tested it. Oh well, it's not much of a downside. The camera wobble doesn't affect your aim too much.
>>507029529Nope, there's Malachite which is a very convenient since it has no bridges or shit to cross so you can just sprint there in a straight line from pretty much anywhere.
Wait a minute that hairline
this made me more sad than it should have. i dont get how the radio transmission was faked though.
damn i love revisiting the SoC locations
>depot updated last nightPlease fix the fucking hardcrashing.
>finished the game 1.0>no more FOMO feeling>waiting for GSC to fix issues + add content
>>507031131You haven't updated?
>>507030916what errors are you guys getting?
>>507031183I have but I haven't really ran the game since December 4th which is when I finished it. It was 1.0.3 at the time.
>>507031131>tfw haven't played yeti don't think i will be able to hold out for much longer
>>507030081It's Megaman!!
>>507031435For pete's sake, most game-breaking bugs have been ironed out by now. If you already own the game, just do it. You've already been spoiled on so much shit just by waiting and lurking.
When is Griga going to sell me this lamp?
>>507031223It's a hard crash. I can't find out.
Why does Pomor want the icon so bad? He is too illusive. You can hear Mityay's mother calling out for him in the poppy fields which was very strange. But what was it for Pomor? And some rumor exists that the icon is tainted and that Mityay becomes zombified due to it. Cannot confirm if that is true or not.
>>507031797That was very sus of him, to exchange a unique rifle for some icon, dude is shady as fuck, which is why i decided to shoot him (after getting both the icon and the rifle)
>>507032075he most certainly lures people to their death, collects their stuff, and moves on. but the icon was a mystery to me. the rumor is that is it is embedded with some kind of psi field and that is why mityay's mother can be heard within the fields itself when you're there. and this is why supposedly mityay becomes zombified but i am unable to verify that. if the 2nd part is true that raises some interesting questions.
>>507032193>this is why supposedly mityay becomes zombifiedWait what the fuck, when does this happen? I've noticed some unmarked events like this but didn't notice this one. The Ninth dies even if you spare him, pointing at the guy he saved backstabbing him. There's also the guy in Red Forest that's Tolik's disciple (the guy you save in SoC near the bridge), if you come back later he gets turned into a Zombie by a Controller.
>>507031435Technical and some design choices aside, things that broke the quest progression are mostly fixed out so now's a good time to get into it.As one wise man have said;>Let the people who buy it for full price playtest it for you and suffer, then come back later and get the improved product for a fraction of its priceOr just pirate it, it's DRM-free anyway.
>>507032564Supposedly Mityay is among the zombies that appear along with Scar when he meets you. I cannot confirm that.
i'm not the only one that wants to stick a hilka detector up my ass right?
since the patch i cannot compile shaders. it freezes and/or ctds. what the hell
>>507033056happens to me too but only like once every 3 launches or so
>>507033054there are no artefacts there
>>507032845You can kill them right after, they're in the house next to the warehouse. I'll check it out when I get there during this playthrough.
wierd hole in the groundshould i go in
>>507017128
>>507032845>>507033589So what the deal with those zombies in peculiar? Woulda been nice if it was an actual mechanic in game.
>Get ambushed by cats>Glass shard anonalies nearbyThat was satisfying. Kinda wonky baiting them into a lunge because there is some invisible border to the anomaly so they love just running away, but when it does work its very satisfying. Outright kill them instantly, and you're protected from enemy fire so even if wnemies spawn you're very safe in there.
>>507022813the names were fake to avoid copyright issues, the mirrored thing was purely for the "cool moving parts" factor, so >>507022937 is right. and i'm not making this shit up, prokhorov confirmed this.
>>506980076Not really, except the Skif ending
>>507033589i have a strong belief it's a bullshit rumor, but would be interesting if it turned out to be true.
>Faust calling Skif an envoy of the MonolithI feel like I'm retarded or overlooked something because I don't get what he means by that, Skif didn't get brainblasted like Dark did when exposed to the C-Con screens by Strelok. I thought they were going reveal he was one of the mainland brainwashed agents of the C-Con that were mentioned to exist but if they clarified I 100% missed it. Also whatever is up with Faust in the Skif ending.
>>507010115you've become the ultimate schizo, good job
>>507036207The anomaly and the alpha artifact appeared in Skif's apartment. So in the mind of Faust the Monolith/Zone chose Skif to be its envoy.
Oh mamma
Wouldn't realism dictate that you have to carry around a bag full of mags, instead of only the boxes of bullets?
>>507032564>>507032845>>507033589>>507035205
>>507037995Yes. Welcome to early STALKER mods where you have to load the mags manually bullet by bullet and then are limited by that
>>507038026That is crazy
>>507038026The same model is reused a lot, that's not really proof. Go and kill the zombie and then check its name. Either way, if its true, then damn, this game is grim as it should be
>>507038026I wouldn't go as far as to say they're the same person. There's so many of these facial traits that are reused over and over and over.
Stole this suit from Arena. Dropped it on the floor, pushed through the door with pistol shots, picked up my gear then picked up the suit. Seems decent. Rifle is nice too, but I already have a couple from gunomaly.
a-life
OH NO NO NO..!!
>>507038750I think it's the easiest way to have a SEVA suit now, especially since they have nerfed pseudodog in round 2.
>>507038846>Retarded G*mma niggers>mattering at allYou stupid shitstains ruined any positive sentiment I might've ever been able to feel for G*mma players and the mod or it's creator. In fact I think I might start shilling how A-Life 2.0 is revolutionary just to piss in their autistic cornflakes.
>>507038957Just as we suspected. Doomers right again as usual, Sloppers BTFO'd.
Does the Mac-10 not have selective fire modes IRL? It's only full auto in game.
>>507039250>the sl*pper nigger is a G*mmoidLOL
>>507038026It's just a reused model.
>>507038957it's joever
>Discord raid with ~2 minutes difference between postsYou niggers really need to fuck off and hang yourselves already
the arena in rostok is ultra bugged, im having constant freezes where i have to exit through the task manager
>>507039194>>507039194>seething this hard over stalker 2
>>507039194who are you quoting
so psi-resistance is the only thing you cant get from artifacts right? wouldnt it make this the best suit? (before you get to exos and such) since i have max physical, max rad .. from artifacts >>507039012you get a seva right before zalyssia defense, im wearing that one rn
>>507039609I'm not the one coming here to smear diarrhea on the walls anon. You are. Instead of playing g*mma and just fucking off, you're just unable to handle the idea that people are enjoying S2 and come here to engage in your coprophilic rants.
>>507039750why do you self censor gamma and nigger?, maybe bluesky is more your level sweetie
>>507039902I don't censor nigger I censor g*mma and sl*pper because both are disgusting nonsense that only subhuman niggers would say or play.
>>507040038you're sounding pretty subhuman right now
>>507039750That* anon didn't mention gamma whatsoever
>if you criticize stalker 2 or point out that GSC may be lying you are a discord troon or a gammafaginteresting. very, very interesting.
>>507039716>so psi-resistance is the only thing you cant get from artifacts right?Well, psy is rather rare and you can always use some psi blockade pills.>>507039716>you get a seva right before zalyssia defenseI don't know what Zalyssia defense is, right now I need to go to SIRCAA with the scanner (and I got SEVA-D before I had "the unusual PDA", it made a Wild Island sequence piece of cake).
>>507040129No he just suspiciously popped up the instant some disgusting g*mmoid posted a screengrab where some retarded nigger talks about the Gamma discord because he isn't even committed to being subtle, hr just wants to use /sg/ like a wad of single ply toilet paper.
>>507040429You are deranged and schizo lmao
iwp won
>>507040429Okay, so prove them wrong. Are you testing A-life right now? show us all how great GSC made it with the most recent patch
"""""A-Life""""" is working a little better after the latest patch, but this shit has now broken the scripted mutant spawns. I'm in this industrial area just north of X-17 and this area has a scripted spawn for >a grav poltergeist>a fire poltergeist>an electric poltergeist>an acid poltergeistI killed them all which was annoying enough but after running around for about 2 minutes looting, all of them have respawned. I haven't even left the area, they just respawned less than 50 meters from me. Fuck this game
>>507040497Nah, I just refuse to tolerate your niggotry. Keep it up though, eventually /sg/ will just label shitposters and retards as G*mma trannies the same way we tell people to fuck off to reddit or back to their discord server when they shit the place up.Eventually G*mma will be directly associated with faggotry and discord raiding niggers and you won't ever be able to recover the reputational loss.
>>507040871Touch grass brother This is a stalker general. All mods of stalker are welcome
>>507039380I've never played the modded versions of the game. I tried them for a few minutes, realized they changed way too much, and uninstalled. I'm a fan of the original series, especially SoC.>>507040429>No he just suspiciously popped upIt's A-Life 2.0!!!!
>>507041089No, this is /v/ and we have to keep fighting and arguing over meaningless shit by taking up camps and shitting on everyone who isn't in ours, and we should never, EVER, under ANY circumstances, play or enjoy vidya!
>>507041089Ah but you see, g*mmoids are trying to pick fights with Heart of Chornobyl. Nobody would care if they just posted about their game and shared screens and talked amongst themselves. The issue is the -literally- come here and do nothing jut attack S2 and S2 enjoyed while trying to shill their disgusting discord server and it's mod.
>>507041205I think you took the wrong turn somewhere, retard
>>507041280He was clearly being sarcastic dumdum
>>507040516>iwp wonas always, brother
>>507041264So far, I've been the only person criticizing STALKER 2 in any way.
Finally It's fixed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpQKwKsMlYUwhere the fuck did he get this data? where can i see it?
>>507042152Dude, there's not a single person in this thread that didn't criticized STALKER 2 in some way. But yeah, only you have been so obnoxious and anal about it.
>>507042152Anon, I've been in every thread actively since S2 released and have been in /sg/ since before /vg/. G*mma niggers are the worst thing to happen to these threads EVER and they have been actively attacking S2 for about a month now. Go check the archive, threads are just fucking infested with >WELP I GUESS GAMMA WON GUYS!!>WHY PLAY S2 WHEN YOU COULD GAMMA?!>AT LEAST GAMMA HAS NVGS!!This morning they saw fit to post a reddit post talking about discord posts talking about G*mmoid opinions. They're a plague.
For me... It's armstalker reforger
>>507042427>more crying about modsshhhhh let people enjoy things
>>507042427fuck, people talking aboust stalker mods in /sg/ when they could be complaining about people not liking what you like? What a fucking travesty.
I see way more whining about Gammafags ITT than I see actual Gammafags.
>>507042427>his morning they saw fit to post a reddit post talking about discord posts talking about G*mmoid opinions. They're a plague.Oh that was me. Never played Gamma in my life nor do I use discord regularly. You're a retard
>>507042427>WHY PLAY S2 WHEN YOU COULD GAMMA?!Because GAMMA is fucking boring.
ruined the game again award
>>507039323the military used ones are fullauto onlycivs have a semiauto only model
>>507042598The issue isn't G*mma discussion you dishonest nigger. The issue is attacking other sub-communities in the STALKER space. G*mma niggers don't play well with others and shouldn't be tolerated or respected. Their entire community and mod should be deeply associated with obnoxious tranny behavior, you should have to fucking justify playing G*mma or have people think you're nothing but a discord raiding troon. >>507042674Yup. I'm not going to be quiet anymore. >>507042675>AKSHULLY I'M NOT A G*MMOIDSure. Your Dad works ast GSC too and you have a pet pseudodog.
>>507042351It's fascinating how dodgy businessman like him have became an iconic figure for modern Russian imperialism and militarism. I also wonder, is that because he was projecting strong paternalistic ("batya") vibes in a society with one of the largest divorce rates and number of single-parent families in the world?
>>507042978>The issue is attacking other sub-communities in the STALKER space.like you're doing right now?
>>507042381>a flesh has more HP than a boarlol what? i thought i was crazy since that was my experience, but doesnt really make sense logically
>>507042978>The issue is attacking other sub-communities in the STALKER space
>>507043038Ehh you completely misunderstand it, it's okay though with the amount of misleading stuff you can learn about Russia on the internetIt's actually because he had good aesthetics
>>507043097They started it. All I've been doing is trying to enjoy S2 and discuss it on /sg/ and every thread I have to wade past tons of disgusting bad faith shit smeared all over the walls by g*mma niggers. I actually used to Defend Gamma/Anomaly players because they're MISERY derived and I think MISERY haters are huge retards. Unfortunately, it turns out that was misguided and G*mma's discord server has created a circumstance where people who enjoy the mod are often also obnoxious discord using shitsmears. This has made most persistent G*mmoids who post in /sg/ into troons who're indistinguishable from the lowest of the low discord raiding niggers.
I'm really glad I'm not someone who sees criticism and immediately goes into a schizo meltdown about their intentions.
>>507024717>high radiation resistance (not maximum)Holy fuck I was wrong. The radiation negation on the weird water artifact is fucking insane, it's like putting together twenty liquid rock artifacts (max rad resistance), it makes radiation disappear in mere seconds.To any stalkers just starting out, get the weird water artifact, it has no downsides besides being drunk at 50+ weight
>>507044074G*mmoid shitsmearing isn't criticism. You don't need to mention that nigger's mod to complain about S2.
>>507044178Are these lies? If so, which and show me they're wrong.
>>507038846Hey gammanigger go collect another dired cumsock to glue up your rifle because the barrel melted after 2 shots fucking retard
does "recoil decrease" actually reduce recoil or is it simply an accuracy boost?
>>507044178Anon it's not gamma players posting shit like "Slopper 2" it's /v/ underages shitting on the newest AAA game/Microsoft.
>>507043434>it's okay though with the amount of misleading stuff you can learn about Russia on the internetDude, I don't need to learn about Russia from the Internet because I lived there.>It's actually because he had good aestheticsNah, I don't think so. To quote Jaroslav Hašek, a rather popular Czech writer in ex-USSR countries, "All aesthetes are homosexuals; this follows from the very essence of aestheticism"; this is precisely how typical person from rural Russia feels about aesthetics. I think it's because he was sort of a father figure in a country where a lot of young males didn't have a father, and those who had wished they haven't. I also think it was one of the reasons why Putin was so genuinely popular in 2000s.
>>507044320Anon, it's the same group. The sl*pper nigger is a G*mmoid.
>>507044178you are truly a special boy, are you this special irl too?
>>507042427u mad?It's the internet. If someone makes a joke, says something ignorant, etc. you're not supposed to let that affect you.>>This morning they saw fit to post a reddit postMy GOD!!!!!!! HOW COULD THEY DO THIS?!!!!!
>>507044304It's a video of a barrel rolling down a hill you schizo.
>>507042351russians are seriously mentally deranged.
>>507042381Looks like TOTAL BURER DEATH requires the usage of AP ammo.
>>507044442It doesn't affect me. I'm just not going to tolerate it anymore. Fuck G*mma, fuck g*mma enjoyed and fuck you for defending them>HOW COULD THEY DO THIS?!!!!!Reddit screengrabs are one step above Twitter caps
>>507044320But why would anyone shit on the newest AAA game?
>>507044578Not reallyt. Retard that rushes them with a saiga after their barrier drops
>>507044667Underages on /v/ believe that is What You Do there.
>last mention of gamma ITT is 507019707>first mention of g*mma ITT is 507039194>it's a meltdown response to a S2 jab with no signs of the anon being a gamma player>from that point onwards there's only one faggot sperging about g*mma on and onYes yes yes, very subtle and totally natural. Guess the thread was going too slow for someone's liking, but he doesn't want to risk a ban stirring shit up about Russia vs Ukraine, so he decided to try and gayop a GAMMA war.So far it's pretty obvious it's a single retard derailing the thread.
>>507044667>whyIt's /v/. They shit on games even if they never played it.
>>507044692I love this nigga like you wouldn't believe
>>507043173i didnt notice much difference but i killed almost all of them with 2 buckshot hits also damn i always assumed same caliber = same damage but this game has insane differences. i though vintar and lavina with a schope would be more or less interchangeable but vintar is like 175% the damage.dnipro seems to have great dps, very high pen while using common 5.45 ammo >>507044578i think skif's pistol + ap ammo to the head is a great burer counter where the burer cant take your gun. but they nerfed burers hard in 1.1 i think i killed one with 1 magdump from a saiga at the promin facility. the wild island burer i took out in 1.0 was much harder IIRC
>>507044846>reposting a reddit post about what the Gamma discord thinks>no proof LMAO
>>507044921>as Val>on mutantsHow many shots to down them? They tend to have bloated hp so seems like a good way to waste resources.
>dude just kill this pseudogiant real quick>10 minutes of hopping across rooftops trying to abuse the shitty ai that runs away>10 grenades and 40 rounds of expansive shotguns shells later it's dead >go to loot the stash>come back>another pseudogiant spawned A-life 2.0 everyone.
>>507044972Is there an actual complete chart somewhere? That one is missing a bunch of unique weapons.
>>507044997Yeah, no proof actually. So far the only "proof" are your schizo ramblings, you're yet to show this apparent screencap you're so hung up about, basing your entire schizo ramble around, because no one has seen it, because no one here fucking cares.Turn off your computer, take your meds, and touch some fucking grass.
>>507044972>>507045250https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L6jBHJtw8AZrJZmOiFekiS2YVudHS3rQVGQN-oOaNMk/edit?usp=sharingspreadsheet from plebbit, apparently updated for 1.1
What happened to stalker threadsThey used to be chill
>>507045309That's obvious proof. As is the retarded "sl*pper" nigger turning up to respond to it right away. It's all g*mma troons.
>>507044638>Fuck G*mma, fuck g*mma enjoyed and fuck you for defending themDefending them? lol you are genuinely unhinged and think your internet roleplaying is real life, but again it's not a big deal. I ignore all this stuff. This is a lot of damage control/derailment just for some guy's post analyzing A-Life behavior. The post seems correct to me, based on what I've seen in-game. I'd really like to know HOW EXACTLY are all the scripts running? Then I'd be able to know the degree of persistence/who it applies to, how many total guys are kept offline, how they are spawned, etc. because right now it seems like they just spawn at campfires and get "kept alive" for a short while.
>>507045481STALKER 2 happened. Then the /v/ threads happened. Now /sg/ is infested with /v/ermins that have to derail it into an autistic slapfight since doing that everyday on /v/ is no longer enough for them, they have to raid and infest other boards now. Just compare the archives from before November 20th to the archives after it, that was the paradigm shift.
>>507045481russians non stop crying.
>>507045481I decided to stop tolerating g*mmoid discord troon dialators being strewn all across the thread every day. You stupid discord niggers think because the thread is anonymous that nobody can tell who you are or why you do things. You think this is just one big toilet for you to leave big blood covered turds in after getting your ass blown out by a troon you met in the g*mma discord.
>>507045364Holy balls a modded rhino is a godkiller.
So, either we get the Strelok ending and the Zone is contained, or we get the Skif ending, new Zones spawn all over the world around Caribbean test sites, paving the way to possible STALKER games in other parts of the world.
Jackpot...
>>507045939It really has no right to be that strong. Shits all over the majority of guns while being light and fitting the sidearm slot.
>>507046202Mine's better
>>507045364suitsit seems the discovery suit i bought indeed has the best psi >>507045939also vintar,dnipro,clusterfuck seem amazing. i thought clusterfuck was just a stock 416 with a x8 scope but apparently not.i do think this is not a complete list which is wierd considering hes saying he pulled it from the game files. there's another 416 vatiant (SOPMOD, from railway maintenance facility in zaton) that i dont see here
>>507045086shit, didn't mean to reply to you anon, my bad
>>507046589But can you eat it in a pinch? I don't think so.
>>507045939What's the mod? to make it use shotgun shells?
>>507046747yup
>Lost Alpha>Lost Alpha Director's Cut>Lost Alpha Revisited>Lost Alpha Director's Cut (Extended)>Lost Alpha Director's Cut (Extended (Enhanced))
>Slowdown anomaly actually slows down bulletsDope.
>>507045364Damage doesn't mean much when penetration is what matters
>>507047012Soon it will have more cuts than Blade Runner.
>>507047012>Lost AlphaYou've gone a step too far by this point.
>>507047629I mean, GSC clearly took inspiration from them. Large maps with fuck-all to do besides tediously walking from point A to point B, schizophrenic ludokino storyline, LA was basically proto-S2.
>>507047163But all the endgame guns have 3 pen
>go to army warehouse>it's empty>suddenly a group of mercs spawns, including snipers on all towers 3/4 of which are fucking INACCESSIBLE due to broken ladders.I don't think I like this patch.
>>507048303I think that's scripted because I had that in the launch version. Also you can live without looting a couple of dudes.
at what point can i do arena round 4?
fitgirl 1.1.2 repack when
finally found them
>>507048480It's scripted for sure>>507048303Feels gamey, doesn't it?
>>507048592looks like a toilet block
>>507047163dnipro seems to be the best then>60% pen on (im assuming) base ps ammo
Is there nothing that can be done about the shimmering shadows in CS? Just playing with SRP right now
>>507048773
>>507047012reminded me to play it with the definitive car packhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJGP7mZ-DKE
>>507048480The point is not the loot, it's how those snipers got there.It's immersion breaking.
>>507048917JOIN US AND BECOME A HEROhonestly sad to see them in this state while freedom is basically thriving...
>>507047913>I mean, GSC clearly took inspiration from them. Large maps with fuck-all to do besides tediously walkingYes, YES!!!! That's the kind of S2 hate I want to see. Only it isn't GSC anymore, it's Zombie GSC, owned by an investor, and controlled by Evgeniy Grygorovych and his wife.
>>507049251its grim boys
>>507049156How do the mercs get up the tower with the broken ladder in Wild Territory in SoC? Nobody knows, it's just something mercs do.
>>507049251They did duty dirty. On the other hand, I can see why it's happening since the zone is not particularly a good environment for such people. The zone attracts people that are just different shades of bandits.
so it's not reputation dependant?
>>507049935UHHH NO IT'S OKAY WHEN THE TRILOGY DOES IT
HOLY SHIT LOOK AT ALL THESE RESHADE MODS HOLY FUCK AM I IN MOD HEAVEN?? WE ALL LOVE RESHADE ITS THE BEST THING EVER MADE IT'S BETTER THEN FUCKING SLICED BREAD, BETTER THEN JESUS, BETTER THEN STALKER 2 BETTER THEN YOUR MOM HOLY SHIT
>>507050224its because ward stole their niche
>>507050951The reshade mods have added nightvision albeit
>>507050762IT'S OKAY WHEN THE TRILOGY NPCS WALK UPWARDS SWEETIE, IT'S CALLED BEING REALISTIC, SORRY TO BURST YOUR BUBBLE
What makes Duty act like this?
>>507045481>chill>everyday was just>HURR DURR GAMMMA SLOIP>even when literally nobody brought gamma up
>>507048917>be a dutyfag>get btfo by dogs and bunch of meth addictsbravo voroninravo
>>507047913gsc unironically mentioned that they take some inspiration from mods like lost alpha in an interview with one russian dude before the war.
>>507051609too much shit on the gunkeep is simple
>>507048592how the fuck did they paint this logo there
>>507021731Ukrainians were under Lithuanian and subsequent Polish rule more centuries than they were under Russian one. Despite the Cyrillic alphabet and attempts of russification in late 19th century and large part of the 20th, its vocabulary is still actually more closer to Polish than to Russian. You know, your typical ethnogenesis shenanigans.
Does the story send you to the burnt forest or is it an optional zone?
Is there a reshade that keeps everything saturated like when you drink some vodka? Everything looks so much nicer that way.
>>507052573Get the weird water artifact. It makes you permanently drunk when you're over 50 weight.
>>507011396On the concept art you can see the generators down below, right? Kinda weird they put it there.>>507016046>Just farm some artifacts, bro>Thats why people come in the Zone in the first place, lore-wiseExcept that makes no sense now because:artifacts lose their power outside of the zoneSIRCAA can just 3D print every artifactSo who is paying for them?
>v1.1 changed the icons for the mouse if you use them as hotkeysI don't know why I am caring about this, but I am.
>>507051961ladders
>>507052419The story does not send you to the burnt forest, cement factory or cooling towers.
>>507052573>Is there a reshade that keeps everything saturated like when you drink some vodka?Yep there sure is, it's called the saturation slider on your display s m h
>>507052573You mean when the game looks normal?I want to figure out how to make it look like that all the time, without reshade.
this reminds me of half lifeor deus ex 1
How's Stalker 2?On a scale of 1 to Ubisoft, how soulless did they make it?
>mini wishgranteraw anyway wheres the satanic stuff that someone said was present at sircaa? Didn't notice anything >>507054396its about as close to the originals as you can get for a 2024 release so other than it being an early access game with performance and alife issues its a 9/10, easy goty
>>506996462If I had a dick it'd be full mast right now. My loot goblinism will be sated.
>>507003861Some of those are clearly AI genned or possibly upscaled icons from older gamesAI honestly is really good for little shit like this, just needs cleanup and post editing for any hallucinated text
>>507054557>its about as close to the originals as you can get for a 2024 releaseThat's an interesting way to put it. So it's pretty close to the originals, but all the stuff they changed and ruined, that's just because "it's a 2024 release".
Alright I take it back, NLC is garbage
>>507052268Ziggerian language is Old Russian pozzed by mongolo-turkic influence.Coproinian language is Old Russian improved by Polish influence.
>>507054396If you're looking for problems to get mad about you'll find them.
>>507054878there's modern map markers and a more modern HUD and a few scripted sequences and more cutscenes here n there, other than that I rly can't think of anything that's a far departure from the originals, especially since the original plan for stalker SoC was to make it even more linear than vanilla SoC ended up being + have cutscenes but they couldn't budget it, its a perfectly worthy sequel, imo the best games are now soc > 2 > cop > cs (cs apologists are delusional) >>507052268>its vocabulary is still actually more closer to Polish than to Russianyou're talking out of your ass lmao, it has some polish influence, 80% of the lang is still fully mutually intelligible with russian
>>507054847Standard ML upscaling also "hallucinates" text, and everything else really. It only knows what clusters of pixels should look like, not what they contain, but the upside is that it becomes very effective at removing image compression.You can train an ESRGAN model on original images and images passed through compression of your choice, be it JPEG, DXT1, whatever. Then it'll know what the compression does to pixels and what the pixels should look like assuming they are compressed, and boom, you got effective compression removal.It's something that we had available locally back in like 2018, so before anything related to "AI" became the devil due to Stable Diffusion becoming a thing. It was a fun time, running ESRGAN on a 1060 and seeing magic happen in front of your eyes.
>>507053847>>507054557Why are there new buildings and installations in the zone
>>507042351ziggers lost. nafo won. where my fellas at.
>>507055969play the game
>>507032821>Or just pirate itThats a nigger thing to do though
stalker complete is the true stalker experience
>>507055969because that area is supposed to show science & the outside world encroaching on the zone and serve as a contrast to the rest of it, its great imo and the logical next step in the plot development, stalker isn't a post apocalyptic game like le fallout, it makes sense, anyway I have 'yet to see someone that actually enjoyed the originals and can play stalker 2 trashing on it, its always sour grapes people, for me its easy goty
>>507033056I had such issue once, fixed when reloaded the pcSomeone else had the exact problem and reloading also helped>>507034063>wierd hole in the ground>should i go inAnon, thats why quicksaves were invented in videogames
>>507054557>block blocks everywhere [saturnian cubes]>Chaos magic symbol in the floor tiles If you know, you know
Any IWP bros here? Just got IWP and the CoTZ addon, do you guys play on Master Difficulty?
>>507038026Thing is, he doesnt have a unique face model, some other npcs have the same (with different hair, etc)
do russies roleplay as the only russian in the zone killing ukranians?
>>507056452I play on stalker in IWP because freeplay mods are grindy enough imo already, the difficulty in iwp i believe affects stuff like buying selling prices etc, so yeah remember you can turn off helis in settings and a bunch of other stuff (like gas mask effects), past the first heli I got so fucking sick of those bullet sink niggers popping up everywhere >>507056439>chaos symbolshmm didn't notice
>>507045481It has been like that ever since devs announced the game wont have a r*ssian voiceover
>>507056552Is everyone in the zone canonically ukrainian?There's people speaking in all sorts of english accents, you've got scots, irishmen, brits, a fucking frenchman, and I could've sworn I heard a scandinavian accent at some point
>>507056881>believe affects stuff like buying selling prices etcI hovered over the difficulty and it says it affects player/NPC accuracy
>>507056881It's in a major lobby. I wouldn't have agreed about the occultism based solely on the garden but the floor is a very clear sign. Occultists love spreading their symbols around casually.
>>507055339>80% of the lang is still fully mutually intelligible with russianSee >>506982769
>>507057429Just ignore the coping Russoid. They keep shitting the thread up because the game is in Ukraine and they can't understand Ukraine so they're coping with this "80%" metodichka bullshit.
>>507056946>Is everyone in the zone canonically ukrainian?Yes, except for Swedish, who is from Sweden, obviously
>>507057429and what, you think poles can understand any ukranian? that guy's clearly a retard, ukranians have 0 issue understand russian, even ones from western ukraine lviv region that grew up with, thats how it goes with 2 similar languages, usually the ones from the smaller group are adapted to understand the one from the larger one, because they're exposed to their media way more, but never the other way around, even if a language is 80% mutually intelligible if you have 0 exposure and you're some ignorant retard you'll have issues, such is the case in many other similar lang langs >>507057558not russian retard, just a diff slav thats studied p much every slav lang
>>507056317>>507055969>>507053847it makes no sense its a san francisco tech company campus in the middle of a place full of mutants,blowouts,bandit gangs,anomalies popping in and out....if they have the resources to build something like this they could have 'pacified' the entire zone dividing it all with walls, gunning down all mutants and basically making it an artifact farm/research area that is 100% safe.all post-2006 construction in the zone should have been prefabs and easy to deploy shit>anyway I have 'yet to see someone that actually enjoyed the originals and can play stalker 2 trashing on it,it gets some things wrong but if anything in my opinion its too much like the old games and should have moved even further away. just keep things more logically consistent.half the main story missions and decisions skif makes have absolutely no logical reason behind them and if you were only informed about the stuff before the decision you would have never predicted it.
>>507054396>How's Stalker 2?>On a scale of 1 to Ubisoft, how soulless did they make it?It depends on you, and what you notice/what you are willing to tolerate. Everything's different: the player movement, aiming, recoil, gun balance. There's now a vignette effect darkening the edge of the screen when you crouch (to let you know you are crouching). There's combat music that plays when an enemy is shooting at you. NPCs seem to whistle at you as you pass by. The map is different when walking around looking for stuff to do - areas are more empty, less dense and less interesting, objects and neutral NPCs are placed at random, instead of creating iconic locations. Nothing to find - a stash is usually the same bread/vodka/ammo. There's no minimap. Everything looks gay.Enemy spawns are different, seemingly based solely on spawn points, or badly faked. NPCs move in strange, unnatural ways. Speaking with NPCs feels like Fallout, watching cutscenes feels like Far Cry 5. The game's length and plot have been artificially padded.This is putting the graphical style, lighting issues, poor performance, and bugs aside, and focusing only on the gameplay.Don't play with English voice acting, and remember disable combat music.
>>507056452Play it the way you want, anon. I personally always played on master and I actually enjoy IWPs economy. Hope you have any of the existing vegetation packs installed, since the vanilla trees are somehow broken
>>507057152>>507056881This. Satanists love squeezying this symbol into places.
>>507057808>not russian retard, just a diff slav thats studied p much every slav langNo, you didn't. Just stop making this bullshit up because nobody believes you.
>>507057627Serves him right>>507057808>ukranians have 0 issue understand russianAs a result of centuries of forced russification, dumb pidor
>>507057152The gardens have some other symbols..>>507057926How can you possibly say pacifying the entire zone is easier than just moving in 50 construction and transport trucks, clearing a small island and building up a compound there? Even with blowouts mutants anomalies and bandits (lmao) it sounds like a super easy endeavor for a well funded PMC, the Zone until then was basically kiddie shit, ward represent one of the first real players going in not counting the tragic Soviet conscript Ukranian military of the early 00s which failed hard, the hate for the sircaa compound is really retarded imo
Just got into sircaa, the place has a cyberpunk corpo feeling to it, interesting contrast with the rest of the zone
>>507057797But that doesn't make any sense, why would native ukrainians be speaking with other european accents?>SAW ME PAL PAKKIN SOMM SEERIUS HEET>LUKK LAIK WART GAHNS
>>507058340
>>507058105>forced russificationas a result of being exposed to russian media in the last 20-30 years on a mass scale at least pre 2014, I'm talking about the russian generation not the "centuries" before you're babbling about, anyone over 21 in ukraine would have little difficulty understanding russian>>507058049believe what you want but you're just some westoid retard with 0 knowledge about slav languages making shit up based off some /pol/ posts talking to someone that can understand most of russian & ukranian, the fact that you think ukranian is closer to polish than russian tells me how clueless you are, completely fuckin' retarded
>>507058105>forcedidk they had all the freedom to thoroughly derussify themselves the moment Gorby did his thing, yet they've only decided to do so only after Putin decided to get Khrushchev's "gift" back. Kinda weird their sense of patriotism only gets awakened when their sovereignty is endangered.
>>507058513In ukie voiceover people speak like normal ukiesWhat happens in english voicover - im kinda indifferent, honestly, not my problem, though i heard its good quality, esp compared to the english vo the original trilogy
>>507058683>"last 20-30 years">covneniently ignores ussr/russian empire timesHey pidor, how did you like that drone in Kazan today? We should launch a few into your Glavset office so you would finally stop shitting up Stalker threads
>>507058683>westoidYep, you're a seething Russoid loser that is terminally online and crying about the fact you can't understand Ukrainian and you're chimping out because the game is in Ukrainian. Nobody else fucking cares loser.
>>507059275>finally stop shitting up Stalker threads>acting like politisperging but "from the good side" isn't shitting it upEvery single one of you niggers should fuck back to >>>/pol/ and continue your slapfight there jfc
>>507059305>>507059275I'm pro Ukraine in the war you troglodytes, but that doesn't change linguistics, stop making shit up about Ukranian when you don't know shit about it, its just cringe
>>507056946i think in the original trilogy theire mostly local ukranian/belorussian where's in stalker 2 the zone has become more international since there's an international organization guarding it's border.ive only met one guy with a french accent tho maybe they just skimped on hiring voice actors with different accents. so far we've only seen the southern zone + pripyat, maybe they could show a belorussian part of the zone in the north in a future game >>507058340sirca is FAR more than 50 trucks its a huge construction project that would not be trivial even near a regular modern city much less in the middle of a place that has near daily lethal emissions and mutants.>>507058448yea its retarded, atleast the game mostly goes back to normal after you leave it
These threads suck. I wish they were comfy. Stop being un-comfy please, kthnx
>>507059275Fuck off to /pol/ retard.You can both keep killing and shitting on each other over there.
>download patch yesterday>play 1 hour>start the game up today>crash on shader compThe most faithful thing about this game is actually the utterly disastrous technical state at release.
>I'm pro Ukraine>butEvery time
>>507059450You're completely fucking retarded. Ukrainian is a separate language. You can't understand it. Stop crying NOBODY cares.
>>507059461>yea its retardedNah i kinda like it to be honest
>>507056946>Is everyone in the zone canonically ukrainian?most of them are i think. the various accents are there because the english voiceover doesn't reflect the characters' origins, i mean, skiff sounds like an american. there are some blacks who i assume are westerners, since there aren't that many of them in ukraine, there's this one frenchman (who's literally caleld "foreigner bob") and maybe some other characterss, but it's not like every 5th stalker is a brit just because he was voiced by a brit.
>>507018316their new base is so jank
ayy mlyaa
>>507059889>wheeeeeeeee :DDDDDDD
>>507059583not russian or ukranian but I can understand both cause am slav + brushed up on all slavic languages since they're my favorite group languages in the world, not enough to speak or write them properly but understand & read basic stuff (like any inscription in stalker) yeah, anyway I don't care about your politics, just pointing out you don't know shit about the ukranian lang and poles would laugh at you for saying its somehow close to polish beyond a few of the common words they adopted like хлoп/тaк
Ready to go turn off this fucking brain machine. How well armed do I look bros?Also how do I repair weapons or am I kinda fucked?
>>507060000I'm losing my fucking mind with you. It's a language, part of a broader language family, it has similiarities to other languages in its language family. It is a unique language. Russians cannot understand it. There is nothing more to say.
>only reason you can't put a collimator on a VAL is because there's a unique version that has it.>but the unique version can't use x2 and x4 scopes.gay
>>507060000Sprawdzone poczwórne cyferki prawdy
>>507060153czech & slovak are also separate languages yet slovaks can understand like 80% or more of czech, this is nothing new among slav languages you westoid retard, each one is way closer to each other than the romance languages are to each other or the germanic ones, mostly because they were all standardized far more recently and all have huge influence of old church slavonic from the medieval era & their churches
Holy fuck sircaa has a LOT of condensed milk all over the place, yummy
>>507060265polish is not a real language it's just a monkey slamming a keyboard
>>507060006Drop 300 rounds of 5.56Drop the 9x39Drop the hand grenadesDrop the FortDrop the DeagleCan you repair the gun? are you using ZRP?
>>507060006take more medkits and bandages and less weapons. >Also how do I repair weapons or am I kinda fucked?you can't in vanilla, but since you are playing with zrp, i believe there is a mechanic in duty base.
>>507050609What are the different buy/sell columns?
>>507060006vanilla shoc? if so then you can't repair, I'd also bring more meds just in case, road to the lab is a long one
>>507060265dokładnie
>>507060390>he, a monkey, said>by typing on a keyboard
>>507060265
>>507060390it's actually a snake rolling over it
>>507060680>mfw i see p*lish trash
>>507060653Is that the "bread" i have been hearing so much about?
>>507060939mad cuz bald lmoa
>Wishful thinking main quest>Zotov does not spawn after the sequence>Korshunov just stands there, and I get trapped in a dialog if I talk with himWhat do?
>>507060939poles are based, they also rly like stalker and have their own community of slavjank mods + sovl games from the 00s and now big budget huge games like cdpr or frostpunk they also made chernobylite
>>507061307go to sleep
I FOUND THE ALIFE GUYS
>>507052419The story sends you to the Burnt Forest after Duga (Orbita Station)
>>507060425>>507060431>>507060542I'm on ZRP, but I don't think I can find the mechanic or arms guy in the duty base.Hopefully he wasn't in the freedom base I just wiped out lmao.But my guns should be okay, I cleared out all the way into the spooky lab and I was told to GTFO and repair since I only had like 60 rounds left in my G36CThe only thing I'm worried about is armor, should I try to switch to a spare stalker suit I have?
>>507061337They also really like self-deprecating humor and their jokes about themselves make American Polish jokes look like, well, a joke.
>>507061598You could use better artifact layout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJu_DgCHfx4It's over for this industry. Fuck you GSC for not making X-Ray 2.0
What the actual fuck is this cordon military base bullshit as soon as I step 5 feet outside of the entrance tunnel I get gunned down by an unseeable turret
>>507062678I'm telling you, switching to unreal was a demand from microsoft. I'd be willing to bet real money on it if there was a way to verify it.I would've killed for XR2
>>507062951They have little to no original talent there anon, they couldn't make a new engine if they wanted to.
>>507062951And XR2 would've been the same shitshow XR1 was on release.
>>507063096And they lost it before SoC was even released. Griga was a greedy cunt, wouldn't raise salaries despite the Dean Sharpe induced crunch, X-Ray devs were done with him, left, founded 4A Games, and later on got Dean on board as well, and unlike GSC, they had the brains to fuck off from Ukraine back in 2014. They always had more brains than GSC, and whoever was left to work on X-Ray didn't, hence the shitshow that was the trilogy and the failed XR2.
>>507063183>>507062951Yeah making an engine costs INSANE money, often results in jank like XR1 and makes hiring and onboarding devs really hard because you have to train them on your custom shit. You faggots are just a bunch of whiny babies who think XR2 wouldn't have targeteed machine learning upscaling like UE5 does because you're a seething shitskin who doesn't even have a 2070 Super.
>>507063357This. Any new engine now would use the same tech.The problem is not the engines, it's the developer's mentality.
>>507063357>XR2 wouldn't have targeteed machine learning upscaling like UE5 doesYeah, because it wouldn't be such an unoptimized heap of shit that it'd need it for a cope. It'd look great and run great natively, unlike Unreal, that not only runs like shit, but looks like shit as well, thanks to Lumen being a heap of shit and TAA vaseline smearing being abused so hard not even DLSS can salvage it.
*slaps bolt*Ahhhh that was a good fight.Can't beat the MP5.
>>507063548I don't remember you complaining when games used UE2, 3 or even 4, faggot.
>>507062561it works for me so I'll give it a shot.Found an RPG and a better suit than my ghost stalker one. Time to do this.Wish me luck, bros.
>>507063761Yeah, because UE2 and UE3 were actually good engines that didn't suffer from these issues. Funny how you have to shift the discussion point from UE5 to UE as a whole since you have no other argument but you have to keep up the ragebait.>>>/v/Go back faggot
I'm replaying CoP for the first time in years, currently in X8. Are the three burers in that room just unkillable? I almost dumped my entire rifle ammo into one of them and it still isn't dead. I've even turned the difficulty down and still couldn't kill a single one. Can only the gauss kill them? I don't have it with me. I had no problem killing the two in jupiter with early game gear so what's going on?
>>507064185if you're not using the fanmade patch they have insane health regen until you actually enter their room
>>507064101And what exactly happened with UE5? Development standards have changed.Which means XR2 would've used the same reliance on frame gen and upscaling, because everyone fucking does it. Retard. You're delusional if you think XR1 ran "great" on release. Grass shadows raped fps so hard they literally patched them out later.
>>507064185There was something stashed on the most upper level which might help you, although I didn't personally use it and was lucky to bring gauss.
>>507064563>Development standards have changedYou mean, development standards have gone down the shitter and now everyone fights tooth and nail to make them go even lower instead of back to what they were 10 years ago, which was the peak height of them? Yeah I guess that is a change of some sorts.
>>507064830I never said they changed for the better, retard.
>>507059745put the vibe of rookie village,zalissia,rostok vs the vibe of SIRCAA. it just doesnt fit the zone and doesnt make sense that building something like that would even be feasible sircaa base should have been something like a restored x-lab (it probably was) and it should have looked like STC Malachite just much bigger.>>507060526i cut it off by mistakeit depends on the game difficulty
>NO BUT SAAAR THINGS WERE USED TO BEING BETTER BACK IN THE OLDER DAY SAAARRRR >WHY SHOULD I BE ASKED TO REDEEM MY RUPEES FOR A GAME THAT IS CLEARLY INFERIOR TO THE PAST ONES?!Third worlders. Not even once.
>guess I'll check out that new stalker patchFive Hundred Gigabytes.
>>507064014WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ONWHO WAS TALKING TO MEWHY ARE THERE SO MANY CONTACTS NOWI THOUGHT I CLEARED EVERYTHING HELP
>>507065153>haha you're a coping street shitter jeet cuz i disagree with you haha epic own haha saar redeem bastard bitch bloody this is you look this is you hahaha prrrrrt/v/ermin. Not even once.
>>507065523IDI
>>507065523buckle up anon
>>507065523>he thought he could just trespass upon holy ground
>>507065523immune system just kicked in
>>507064830>>507064973>2014 was the peak of development>standards are low because faggots who don't play videogames on /v/ say soMental illness.>>507062678How much are you being paid to advertise this nigger?
>>507066168>t.
>>507066168None, but it's an informative video that accurately explains everything that is wrong with the industry. Which is far more than you're doing or will ever do. Nigger.
>>507066302>accuratelyMaybe if you're retarded and know even less about programming than the ubisoft QA faggot you're slurping the cock of because his videos make you feel emboldened in your choice to still be using a 3g 1060 and 2500k.
>>507065523https://files.catbox.moe/0blihf.webm
>>507066658>UHHHH WELL HE'S WRONG BECAUSE UHHHHHHHHHHH FAGGOT AND NIGGERfucking retard
>>507065563Don't act like one and nobody will call you one you ill-raised streetdog.
>RTX 4070 used by SIRCAA>released: Apr 13, 2023this invalidates the whole 'stalkers 2 is in 2021' thing also 4070 barely runs stalker 2
>>507066678>when you call radar on a monday morning
>>507066947>also 4070 barely runs stalker 2The game has no performance issues, it's optimized, modern engines are simply much more advanced than 2000's slavjank which is why they require high end hardware, you're just a coping brownoid poorfag cuz you still use a 9800GT, keep seething faggot, also a 4070 is enough to play it, you're just too poor to even buy that lmfao cope and seethe
>>507067462lolbut yea 4070 barely runs itwas fine on high until sircaa and then i had to switch to medium but its still unstable
>>507067462There's no way you truly believe what you just said.
>>507068258And you'd be right.
>>507065813>>507065841>>507065864>>507066032>>507066678>more gunfire>almost used up half of my ammoplease... I just want to go home...
so with the latest update is everything playable? is there a list or youtube video someone can send me to make stalker 2 like playing SoC on Master?
>>507069180What's in those anti rad drugs?
Hold the fuck up, can you no longer unlock the (current) dlc in the v1.1 cracked version by enabling it in the steam emu file?
>>507065523https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atm0GwWs6lw
>>507068195>but yea 4070 barely runs itMy laptop has 4070 and runs perfectly
>>507068752Zona IS home bratanalso, pripyat is point of no return iirc, head back to bar for supplies
>>507069516I think you can go back from Pripyat, but not from the CNPP itself
>>507047143never tried it i assumed they just disappeared or something like tha glass shard anomalythe slowdown anomaly always freaks me out a bit when i walk in unexpected.>>507042381dude who made this video says pic is the tier list
>>507068195Did the developers comment on the performance even once?
>>507069464today it's been stable on mid for me but in sircaa/zaton and later in zalyssia ive had multiple instances where it dropped me to sub 30
>>507038026I thought this was Squint??? He shows up really strangely at Detention Center once you complete the first Garbage mission for Spark.I assumed this was just evidence that Spark/Scar are fucking mental
I'm completely lost as to whta the hell is going on. I haven't taken a side at all in this game so far. Worked a bit with Ward to get the badge and because they could offer me some answers, and during the shitstorm of SIRCAA I backed my frens from Monolith. But after all that stuff, I just got a quest to work with Scar andhe's telling me that I'm "one of them" now?? And I'm going to attack Ward? What the hell? when did I join Spark and why am I being forced to join their faction?
>>507068752kek, you still have more ammo left than me in my first playthrough. I was really underprepared for the final stretch of the gameyou should definitely stock up after radar
>>507003751starting with SIRCAA the story was fucking fantastic
>>507034486Also worth mentioning that CS has mirrored guns (original dev was lefthanded and so were the viewmodels) and it's not unlikely that they just copied that trend since builds use CS1.6 sounds for the guns and slavs love CS.
>>507070032Your choices matter >:^)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkz8sIu1rMYskiffy....
>>507069737what is the rifle in S?
>>507070495Kharod
>>507070631weird i have yet to encounter it.
>>507070419chippy...
This changes everything.As luck would have it I just invested in an insulated artifact slot, not sure if it was even worth the money
>>507070054>>507069516Yea was planning on heading back to bar to sell some artifacts and restock on my G36C ammo, had to help Duty tho as Freedom was blocking my path back so I had to pull out old reliable. The bulldog came in handy too, I'm glad I found it at the Freedom base
>>507069737Why kharod over dnipro?also>tfw VAL is garbage
>>507070676you can get kharod,dnipro and rhino from the rostok arena if you drop them on the floor after the arena match
>>507070986Nta but there's really no one over the other. They both use different ammo, the gun of choice should be whatever caliber the enemies are using in that particular area.
>>507069180answer faggots is a-life fixed and what other things need to be fixed to play it like SoC
>>507070986no idea, maybe under barrel grenade launcher/shotgun which the dnipro cant take? ill watch the whole video later i dont have time nowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mclNrGbNOVMpure stats wise the dnipro seems the best from the assault rifles
>>507071338its pretty decent now. still lacking persistence but much better than before.
>>507071338>is a-life fixedStill completely different from what a-life was in the previous games. All is shares is a name.
>>507072085Just buy a 4090 you fucking coping poorfag jeet lmfao its only your fault youre still using an ati gpu
>>507066882>this thing is worse than the same thing a decade ago>noticing this makes you a street shitterGo back to /v/ nigger
>>507073062NTA, as a 4090 owner I'm not playing the game until they actually USE my card.Proper Hardware RT isn't even implemented yet. They use the shitty console software version with the ghosting and smearing.
>>507048917>>507049251>>507049710doody bros......
>>507072085>Static Advantage GI (Dynamic Light Support)What the fuck is this?There's static light, and dynamic light. You can't use static global illumination in Stalker because of day-night cycle.Lumen is shit, but saying "just replace it with static lights" is absolutely retarded.
>>507069180How could it be like playing SoC
>>507049251Because Duty actually fucking fights and does shit while Freedom sits on their ass and injects heroin into their veins. Actual useless bums and losers.
>>507073062>Just buy a 4090Do people really pay that much money for a fucking gpu?Even the cheaper one is twice what it cost me for a custom supercharger setup on my sports car.
>>507074176>You can't use static global illumination in Stalker because of day-night cycle.Didn't a lot of old games have a day-night cycle?
>>507074368>sports car/o/ get out
>>507074447Yes, and they use dynamic lighting. X-Ray used dynamic lighting for day-night as well.
>>507074368*for a shitty low tier superchargerfixed
russian is best slav languagefrench is best latin languageenglish is best germanic languagesoft speech >>> tough speech, simple as
>look mom I'm baiting on the 4chins!
>>507074720*stock supercharger out of a mercedesIt's okay, I'd be upset if I paid out the ass for a gpu too anon
>>507074664Dynamic lighting have used lightmaps from r1 for everythingFull dynamic lighting have used ightmaps for AO, it's basically GI in cloudy/foggy weather
>>507056153>paying for something you can get very easily for freesucker
>>507073483Smearing shit on the walls about it does yes. If you become a shit-man who just exists to stink and smear shit, you're a spiritual jeet.
>>507066743>NOOOOO HE'S RIGHT BECAUSE HIS INACCURATE STATEMENTS MAKE ME FEEL HAPPYBRAINED ABOUT HAVING GARBAGE HARDWARE AND JUSTIFIED IN NOT GETTING A JOB TO UPGRADE FROM 15 YEAR OLD TEEEEEEECH
>>507077769>AIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I STILL CAN'T REFUTE ANYTHING HE SAID AND IM STILL SHITTING UP THE THREAD
Apparently acute radiation sickness causes liquid diarrhea so in the autoposy pics many of them are covered in poop
Is Chernobyl tv series good?
>>507074447>>507072085So is this faggot being advertised here suggesting downgrading to static lighting? We're supposed to go back to fucking borderlands 1 where the only change in day/night cycle is the tint of the world lighting? >>507077839Kill yourself.
>>507078262Surprised gamma doesn't have a shitting yourself mechanic when your rads are too high Could even add 5 different types of toilet paper
>>507078458>Could even add 5 different types of toilet paper
>>507078339Not great, not terrible.
>>507078645So, 3.6/5?
>>507074341seething doody pants
>>507078339yes its pretty accurate. there are some liberitites/fictions of course but generally its a good starting point. https://www.youtube.com/@thatchernobylguy2915this guys voice is incredibly fucking gay but his content is very informative.
Speaking of acute radiation syndrome, I recommend giving this old Soviet informational video a watch. It has English subtitles and uncut, uncensored shots of the effects of acute radiation syndrome on people who had the misfortune to be present on that fateful day. Needless to say it's not pretty, but it's the kind of brutal reality Soviet informational videos were famous for, since sometimes you do need to be smacked in the face with a shovel to get the full picture.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um1-Ub5BGac
these things are bullshit
is that creepy military shit in Red forest supposed to be an easter egg for the fire that engulfed the Russian trenches in 2022 outside of the reactor? i still dont know why they dug there.
>>507078709this anon is delusional
>>507079179>casually jog straight forward>see flash>do a 180>avoid damage>keep walkingIt's a non issue unless you have to stop, as long as you're mobile it's piss easy to avoid
How come the Army uses helicopters so much in the original games? Why doesn't the UN or whatever they're called just clear the zone out with tanks.
>>507079765tanks are slow and loud and there are RPGs so they could get tracked. Helicopters are better for fast response times
theres still a body inside the reactor, Valery Khodemchuk, never recovered or found.
>>507079765Can tanks do anything about anomaliesI was wondering too why don't anomalies just pop up inside of faction bases and fuck everything up, what the hell are you supposed to do about an anomaly
>>507079998I wonder if the radiation has managed to mummify it in some way, or has it just decayed to a skeleton by this point. After all, he was essentially killed by the rubble the moment the reactor's lid blew off so he was the first victim and his body has taken the largest dose possible.
>>507080119Anomalies are leaked elements of the noosphere that manifest into the real world. They are often associated with real-life counterparts (e.g., electrical anomalies appear near electrical equipment, chemical anonmalies near stuff that had, well, chemicals and so on). whats interesting is that artifacts in the original games were suppose to be able to CREATE anomalies, which raises many questions as to what they are as well. i still dont fully understand the Zone and why it has a limited reach and what determines exactly how anomalies manifest into the world, but you can usually see them connected to something related to their type. some say that anomalies rae human thoughts.
>>507079765Anomalies would have the side effect of being repositioning difficult terrain/traps>pic related
>>507080119just throw all your bolts into it to make it leave
>>507078458hemmrhoid maintenance kits
let's settle thishttps://poal.me/6pavlr
>no factional quests>can't usurp General Cuckinin and retake the Bar from the Freedom filth and restore safety and order for the Stalkers
What's the current recommendation for A-Life mods? A-Life Extended or Shay's Living Zone
>>507082115they are all trash
>>507041089>All mods of stalker are welcomeyou're welcome to post about them but people will shit on them for various reasons, some of them justified, some of them not at all.welcome to the internet.
>>507082415I don't see how they could be worse than vanilla considering the shit I've seen on the GAMMA discord. Shay retrofitted the debugger from the 2022 leak and was able to fine tune it area by area.
>>507082115A lot of guys are saying that the A-Life Extended mod causes sweeping CTDs at every stage of your game, including spawning Bloodsuckers inside the SIRCAA lab and wiping out the science team prior to you meeting with Strider to deteronate the bomb. But the problem is that in my experiments about 15 burers spawned in to a room the size of a bgroom closet causing my game to go haywire, dropping down to 15 fps and glitching out the main questline so I CTDd.so Shay's is a bit more stable.
we need to gatekeep this generalGAMMA only
>finally wiped out the monolith uber-elite master group in CNPP>game crashedиди кo мнe
>>507082563>shit I've seen on the GAMMA discordwhat groks cock that you worship you gay faggot piece of shit?>>507082660the only thing Gamma is going to get is fucking forgotten because you fucking loser faggot scum bags that udnermine the fucking genreal and get assblasted guys are playing S2 shitting up fucking everything. fucking scum. you fucking prick asshole mutated ufcking disgusting filth vermin.
>>507082768out of the 3 og games, the countless mods for them and all the soups, gamma will be the last one thats forgotten.its the only one thats getting regularly streamed and updated, anon.
>>507082768I think you should consider killing yourself.
>>507082563>>I don't see how they could be worse than vanilla considering the shit I've seen on the GAMMA discord. Shay retrofitted the debugger from the 2022 leak and was able to fine tune it area by area.They're a bunch of coping faggots who're trying to get clout on that server by dickriding Gr*kGod you and that discord are all such NIGGERS
Oblivion lost (not remake) or radiophobia 3pls respond. I kind of like the idea of better quests and more story but radiophobia is more recent and has sound upgrades
>>507082660 You're only allowed to post in this general if you got the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. achievement in OP 2.2
>>507082943ogsr + gunslinger
>>507082939He posted screenshots of the editor you seething sperglord.
>>507082881>gamma will be the last one thats forgotten.People will keep on remembering how bad it was, for generations into the future
>>507082768Let it go anon.
>>507045481
Is there a better Anomaly modpack than GAMMA? What am I missing? Storyfags seething over the fact that freeplay kept STALKER relevant?
>>507082943Radiophobia is dickpunching anti-fun for soulsfags
>>507083321There's also Anomaly Custom but I've yet to try it. I'm currently raiding CNPP with Strelok on GAMMA.
>>507083321no, just setup your own
>>507083450Wouldn't it just be easier to install GAMMA and disable the gay shit I don't like?
>>507054557I'm more interested int eh pictures on the wall
>>507083321nobody fucking cares about your minecraft faggotry. fuck off to another thread
>>507083445Well I'm about to run out of ammo. So much for bringing 300+ACP and 400 5.45 here.
>>507083587only partly, there are a lot of vital mods you'd have to disable and check if it even still runs
>Leave for half a day>Come back to the thread>Some retard is sperging about why SIRCAA makes no sense>Said retard doesn't understand that the building you're on is just a symbolic structure about the hubris of mankind>Said retard probably didn't play the game and doesn't know that SIRCAA is built on top of the old labs>The game explicitly tells you they can manufacture Artifacts, ergo sell them en masse to the Mainland ergo they're filthy fucking richThe devs literally did all this worldbuilding and spelled it out for subhuman mongoloids and you cunts STILL miss the point. It's impressive at this point.
>>507083840Media literacy and critical thinking skills are dead, why do you think so many people here got the ward ending.
Is the Sarcophagus in Chernobyl fucked? The russians completely fucked the area up and ruined the chance for a normal rebuild that was suppose to happen before 2023, as it was predicted this structure would collapse then. as far as I know, russia has blocked all work meaning that its only a matter of time before we have Chernobyl 2.0 all over again. unless someone has any other info, i think we could be about to play Stalker in real life.
>>507084126I liked the ward ending
is it better to just start a new game than to play a 70h save since 1.0?
>>507084269It's nice for skif and wraps things up with a bow, but you've handed power beyond human understanding to shadowy corpos and oligarchs to get that house.
>>507084269Its pretty much the end of humanity at the hand of a global cabal of satanists and occultists.
>>507084243CNPP is fine, some dumbass soldiers dug trenches in the Red Forest of all places and now the radioactive particles on the forest floor are all over the place.
>>507078413come over here and do it yourself, nigger
>>507084658yes... but the sarcophagus had a deadline of 2023 which is when they predicted it would be pretty much the end of its lifespan and potential for collapse raises exponetiality every single week after that. as far as i know, no work has been done to extend the life of the sarcophagus or build a new one. meaning that chernobyl 2.0 will happen again its only a matter of time.
>>507083048do I need to join some discord to get the files for that? I can only find ogsr. It does look good
>>507061598>but I don't think I can find the mechanicthere is none :)
>>507080119>Can tanks do anything about anomaliesWould anything happen if a tank rolled into a whirligig?If yes, how much mass would it take before there would be no effect?Exactly how powerful are anomalies?
>>507084371I felt agatha and the colonel were the most competent and sane out of all other options so they're our best bet.>>507084589Yeah but humanity wasn't doing so well anyway, maybe they do end up getting us to post-scarcity with the tech and things get better.
>>507061598>SoC>mechanicWe call it stacking Pellicles
>>507085083>Yeah but humanity wasn't doing so well anyway, maybe they do end up getting us to post-scarcity with the tech and things get better.yeah like project x did? lol
>>507085083Big "wtf why are you defunding child cancer research this isn't what I voted for" energy
>>507082768>mention stalker mod in stalker general>UHHHH COCK! GAY FAGGOTS AND COCK!nigga has dicks on the brain
>>507084816Uhh, the New Safe Confinement has been in operation for like 5-6 years.
>>507085083SIRCAA are child sacrificing cabalists.
>>507083321anomaly looks that good?
>>507085841>50 triangle tree
>>507086030That's Anomaly, not STALKER 2.
>>507084371>but you've handed power beyond human understanding to shadowy corpos and oligarchs to get that house.Not my problem as long as I live comfy
>>507084327respond negrs, this is much more important than the trash you are replying to
>>507085778>>507084589where is it revealed they are satanists, occultists and child sacrificers?
>>507086267I'm pretty sure that's actually farcry and he's trolling
>>507086357just finish the story then play the trilogy until mods and more patches come
>>507086403Occultic statues, artwork, archtiecture, the entire SIRCAA is filled with this shit.
Why is my crosshair asymmetrical now? And what happened to my dot?!
>>507086403The mind of a /pol/tard works in mysterious ways, bratya.
>>507086730>using croshhairs???
>>507083716Consider suicide.>>507085841It can look even better.https://youtu.be/4656wSoq0Ms
>>507087303Screen space anything is shit because it's screen space. It looks phenomenal in a vacuum, but when your viewmodel is also a part of the screenspace, and you start moving it around in front of the scenery, fucky shit starts to happen. Unless SSS/Monolith got better and the viewmodel is no longer taken into the account.
>>507087545>>507087545>>507087545>>507087545new "bread"
>>507086267Retard.
>>507079184More info?
