AMK 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>Change viewmodel fov, enable console, remove black bars, skip introhttps://github.com/Lyall/STALKER2TweakLost to the Zone: >>507087545
please stop shitting up the thread with whining about how youre upset that the game is in another language etc
stalker 2? bro wake up its 2009 CoP just came out
Why can't I finish SoC bros I can never get past the second lab that's the furthest I've gotten before dropping it. I've tried like 15 different mod packs
>he doesnt have a flower budngmi
>>507227638No one shat up the thread yet, but it's nice that you've taken it upon yourself to kick the hornet's nest from the get-go.
I enjoy playing stalker 2. It is fun.
>>507227693Just use ZRP. the only annoying part about vanilla SOC (and ZRP is just Vanilla but fixed) is the beginning because weapons do no damage. When you get to Army Warehouse some Freedom guys usually get stack wiped and you can get a nice rifle from them and just use that. ZRP also has mods to add in a repair guy to so just use the quality of life shit ZRP adds and you'll enjoy the game more and finish it.
>>507227693That's because you're a retard who isn't just playing Vanilla. You keep thinking you can "get a better experience" but you don't even know what the baseline is so you're chasing your own tail.
they should've just made the game in spanish and ukranian only
Stalker 2 is better than any other vanilla Stalker game
i gave your mom some vanilla if you get what i mean
>>507227981I haven't played vanilla in ages so it might actually ring true.
>>507227942I still can't tell if these retards were astroturfed by NATO or the Kremlin given how successful they are in making people despite NATO and Ukraine.
>>507228227*despise, midnight brain = muscle memory failure
Did the Malachite reputation inverse bug get fixed?
вceм пpивeтики в этoм тpeдикe!!!!! ^^
GAMMA bros... my game looks like it has some fucking reshade on by default... is this normal?
>>507228227>>507228423>>507229005drink cyanide nobody cares
>>507229162stop being mean to me...
>>507229145never seen that glow on the ui
>>507229145that's probably because it does, press home?
1) can someone tell me what's the difference between anomaly custom and gamma?2) are there any anomaly modpacks without insaneinventory bloat
any cute russian girls itt
>>507229340That's just the weird gimp png to jpg conversion, in game it's fine.>>507229371Nothing happens.
>>507229145Mod configuration, sss settings, turn down the bloom
>>507229582then you have no reshade. it just looks like it has reshade because the addon called SSS (Screen Space Shaders) practically does what reshade does.
>>507229582if you meant the shadow on the grass that's from the SSS mod
>>507229530hiiiii
>>507229706>>507229720Yeah, I guess it's either SSS or EE. First time playing GAMMA and it's kinda jarring.
thoughts on https://www.moddb.com/mods/ogsr-rearmed/?
>>507229145does grass really have shadows irl?
>>507230128If it didn't, it'd look like you had fullbright on IRL. It's that it's too fine of a detail to neatly replicate in vidya graphics without it being a resource hog as well.
>>507227358Had to kill them as soon as I got to Yantar with UGLs from affar because they always would end up somehow killing Shakarov and Kruglov inside the bunker with the electric AoE from their attacks while I was on the top of the bunker
what if we play as richter in the expansions
>brick pirated copy bc i patched it wrong>decide to just get the game for cheap to skip the hassle of patching>pic relatedi'll have to start over don't i
>>507230128It's not about the shadows really. It's hard to demonstrate it with an image but everything looks a bit smudged and color corrected.
>>507230851get rid of depth of field and motion blur, and adjust contrast/gamma to your liking
>>507230949>get rid of depth of field and motion blurYeah, I've already did this. Guess I just have to adapt to that look.
does project inverno work on gamma yet?
if they would have added mouse and keyboard support to the console trilogy it would have been worth something
My Skifs larping as a Monolithian this save using the zircon suit and the rifle from Strider
>>507231468They have a mods channel on the gamma discord that is full of stuff like that
what quest branches out so i can save before to see all endings?
>found a gauss rifle in IWP in limask>sold it for 90k rublesI'm fucking rich bros
>>507232065Subtle Matter.
>>507230804Unless you find some way to merge the pirated DLC with the legit base game then yea you probably do have to start over. If you do figure out how to merge them let me know. There's always console commands to get your shit back if you can't be assed to do it all again.
can enemies go unconscious and ragdoll for a sec from taking shots in Anomaly?
>>507231593My nigga. I still rock the zircon suit even after getting the diamond exo, I just really don't like how exosuits look in first person and urban camo is kino. I also like to imagine the nervousness when Skif rolls up in full monolit gear
>>507232903they can go down and pretend to be too hurt then punch you in the face
>>507231593Most memorable part of CoP was the nighttime ambush, when all of the squad involved ended up being wiped out in the midst of operation, and I had to get out solo with task-related spoils. Creeping realisation that there is no longer supportive fire, but only Monolithian chatter closing in on me. Breaking through their chokepoints in SoC was quite memorable too, but it was long ago since I played that.
So are there any 1.1 Approved Scaling Rebalances around? I really find this "everybody is Exo" shit cringe.
>>507227954I've played vanilla and it was ass. But maybe I should just go back to AMK I think that's the furthest I've gotten
>>507227981yeah that's why i think if UE5 is moddable it can become the best of all time
>>507233423thats usually how stalker games end with all exos
>>507234227>I've played vanilla and it was ass.Then you're a fake fucking fan and should fuck off. That's how we used to treat faggots like you back in STALKAN general. We'd tell you to play Vanilla first or fuck off. You can't be a fucking fan of STALKER without enjoy Vanilla. You're just a fucking retard.
Just play complete if you can't handle vanilla
>>507234431No. Absolutely not. 4 Loner Exos getting into a fight with 4 Merc Exos? Ridiculous. Exo should be common, not universal at endgame. I refuse to tolerate it.
>>507135476Wtf I want that shit
Get IN here stalker~
>>507234483not any more cause I like stalker 2, chuddie
>>507234483>vanillacel having a fit againVanilla is shit. Every game should be played with basic qol mods at minimum. Seethe.
>>507235472>Chuddha meme out of context>Calling ME the chud when you're the one posting Chuddha>Also defending trying to enjoy mods when you don't even enjoy Vanilla>>507235598You're a retard.
>>507235672>WAAH-WAAHCry more bitch. Vanilla is shit.
>ME NO LIKEY VANILLA>ME NEED MODS TO ENJOY GAME>ME EQUAL FAN AND NOT HUGE GAY LOSER!!He can't even enjoy it WITH mods. He's not a fan. He should give up and fuck off.
>>507227651
Uh-oh vanillacel meltie
Why aren't there any girls in the zone?
>Trying other weapons out instead of my favorites.>Try the bukit, looks like a piece of shit.>It's actually a low recoil, low repair cost head surgery monster that takes cheap 9x18 pistol armor piercing ammo and out-damages AR rounds.huh
>>507235672we're all chuds, that meme represents my inner peace that you are still on the journey toward
>>507230804If you have it on GOG I think you can just pirate the DLC.
>>507236316>can't enjoy vanilla>can't enjoy modded>insists on continuing to attempt in vain to enjoy the games anywaysAnd you want to pretend like you have inner peace? You're a retarded teenager who doesn't know what he wants and has no self-awareness or wisdom to speak of.
>>507236860>If you have it on GOG I think you can just pirate the DLC.DON'T COPY!Don't copy that Slopper!
>>507235958Got flashbacks when I saw this in S2 with the Noontide guy
>>507230804cream API might work
>>507227884>I enjoy playing stalker 2. It is fun.You're going straight to HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All right, STALKER bros, tell me what you like and dislike about HoC. Hard mode: you have to have least one like and dislike, ie you can't just say it's 0/10 or 10/10.Impossible mode: you can't use any buzzwords or slang. I don't care if you think it's "slop" use more descriptive wording.
I played the original three on or close to release and I prefer 2 over the vanilla originals. Hope 2 picks up Anomaly's level of addons.
>>507227358Is it me or artifacts are spawning underneath the map/inside structures? I'm running a hilka and had this happen at the boiler in zaton and again at the chemical tanks, i running around like a retard trying to find it.
>>507238195I like the new additions to the zone, the non-lethal anomalies and new anomalies in general, i like the little touches that give it more character, i think something lost in the older games were things like the oasis in CoP, things which are more psychological and not outright material threats, the puzzles although somewhat easy at least add to the exploration element which is one of the most important aspects of stalkerI hate pretty much everything else, the gunplay and controls in general feel floaty and imprecise, the ai is completely retarded both stalkers and mutants, humans dont take cover they dont flank, mutants just beeline towards you no matter what unless your feet are an inch off the floor, most anomalies are bypassed by a bolt, ailife gone, story is a series of fetch queststheres probably more to say here but thats just off the top
>>507238690Yeah, they can get stuck but sometimes you can dislodge them with a grenade or by crouching then trying different leaning angles to pull them out of objects. If you go far away and come back later they will move.
Why am I "enemies" with Freedom as a Merc in IWP yet they let me trade with them and do jobs for them?
>>507236210only femboys sorry
https://www.moddb.com/downloads/2-billion-rubles-modbased mod
>>507235831>>507235598>>507234227Not sure if it's the same guy or not. Just curious. What DIDN'T people like about SoC? I don't really get it. The only thing I can really think of is the inaccurate guns, but I've gotten used to it. The bullet goes straight into the dot a decent percentage of the time. Vanilla AK and Viper work just fine.
>>507238796i'll add, no reputation or none that is discernible anyways, no faction relations, you see messages on loading screens about paying off factions for truce relations but its one of just many cut elements they dangle in your face, no log/bestiary for mutants/anomlies/artifacts, general consolisation issues like only 2 quickslots, no low crouch, auto leani'll be honest i was expecting worse but i was at least expecting the basic functions of the old games like proper faction relations and rep
>>507238195>>507238195I like that it is proper sequell to 3 games we already have and when they fix it there is bright future forwardI dislike that is uses UEslopEngine that cant even do native render and everything need to be upscaled smear
>>507238195Likes:New zone is the definitive zone for me, hands down.Great animations such as the backpack, item use, seeing your own legs.I like the anomalies, weather and environments.Mutants look cool.Story characters are interesting.Weather is truly truly amazing.I've played 230 hours cuz addicted to the atmosphere.Dislikes:Too dark, too overexposed, lighting direction need a pass.Spark/Ward seems pointless. It would've been better to use Freedom/Duty but I'm guessing post treaty factions are going to be a DLC thing.Repeatable quests keep breaking and I have to bug fix my own quests using the console mod.Loot is repetitive, need more variation and interesting items to find and sell, world needs a little more fluff.Lack of interesting side content.Some of the later guns drop in model and texture quality, such as the dnipro/kharod and seem rushed.Controllers/psi effects aren't very fun or scary and tend to be annoying instead of weird like the first 3 games.The final gauntlet mission is far too long and each gauntlet section and boss fight could've been a faction stronghold instead. Granite squad is tedious. I've finished the game deathless so its not skill issue nooo im not coping noooDLC guns/skins is cancer8/10 my definitive stalker experience and with mods ill be playing it for years
What is "extended repair" in IWP?
>>507238195I don't know what it's called but the effect that makes outside fucking blinding is awful, I really REALLY hate it. Even indoors it's fucking retarded, I can look into a dark enough corner and the screen gets so dark I can't see the weapon in my hands anymore even if there's light somewhere else in the room. I don't like that so many artifacts all do the same shit when there isn't a single one that restores hunger, has psi protection, or restores health.I like the overall atmosphere of just wandering around. It's hard to articulate, it's just kinda kino. I'd say the gunplay is serviceable, not remarkable in any particular way but not bad either.
>>507239539It just kind of gets boring like you are always walking on some stupid road it gets old
>>507240051Techs take time to repair items iirc.
>>507229476PLEASE HELP
>>507238940Afrofuturism
>>507229476Just play Anomaly Old World/IWP since it removes a lot of retardation
Lol fucking nerd got wrecked
>rodents, bloodsuckers, fleshes, boars >battle royaleyeah nah, I'm staying right the fuck where I am, up on the roof of this shed, thank you
I miss the PDA ranking feature. I wish it was in S2. I liked seeing like Senko Dickslurper with 179,999 points in his exosuit anime pfp at the top of the list at the start of a run, or whichever npc the AI had chosen to be the luckiest that save.
>>507238195Like: Zone is very pretty and artifact hunting is funStory missions are pretty coolThe guns also feel pretty goodCons:You get showered in consumables but are always broke because repairs cost an arm and an leg Fighting mutants is very unfun No binos/night vision makes indoor and night fighting a painMost loot is useless but also near worthless to sellNo real factions interplay or reputation besides Spark/Ward
>>507238195Easier to write what I like about it:>the game can look really pretty and soulful but only during sunny weather>surprisingly enjoyable to hunt artefacts and the new leaded container mechanic is a good idea>new anomalies are nice>impressive set dressing with various clutter strewn aroundThe rest is either meh or bad. Still wish the map was actually smaller, you can feel they sorta gave up on handcrafting it especially around Zaton and Red Forest. Points of interest are really samey, just another factory of some kind, but I guess it's par for the course with the setting.Oh and I specifically want to shit on the music. It's either some dark ambient or rather drone even which technically fits but also super forgettable and disposable. And then there's your average far cryish action sequence brap music.
>>507238652that exact same shit happened in rookie village but the fucker didnt even die
Does anyone like the sircaa space suits? They look rather goofy when dudes are sitting at the bar in them
>>5072381950/10 ubislop
>>507239932>Too dark, too overexposed, lighting direction need a pass.Don't forget the fucking HDR effect, Far Cry 2 wasn't this bad. Coupled with the pansy flashlight, half the time you're fucking blind while shooting.
Did the lack of new scary mutants in S2 disappoint you? Metro Exodus had so many new cool-looking critters. Why didn't GSC think of Bloodsuckers who camouflage on falls and the floor?
Diamond exoskeleton is probably up there for being the top-tier exoskeleton, but which one is the most affordable to upgrade/repair? It's not cuirass, is it? Next most affordable with sprint?Just finished Malachite, so exoskeletons are everywhere now.
People complaining about repair economy don't read armor/upgrade descriptions t bh. Your daily driver/anomaly armor shouldn't be the same as your big dick diamond exosuit for missions, unless it's the mercenary exosuit which wears down 70% slower than any other exosuit. Use the duty seva with both durability upgrades (it says the materials are cheaper in the description pretty much) or freedom seva, don't use the spark seva unless you only use it for anomaly running.It's the same for weaponry where expensive modern or complex weapons cost money to run as your daily. You can use a revolver as a cheap mutant killer if you don't want to empty your bank repairing a ram.
>>507242887Yes and no. While I wish there were more new mutants I also don't want them to be in the same vein as that dumbass skyrim deer.
>>507242982To add to this the phys protection caps at 85%, which is artifact + armor. Most mid armors easily hit this with one compass slotted, negating the reason most people take exosuits because I doubt you're walking your ass through fire and chemical anomalies at a rate where you need like 1 bar more res than a duty seva. Stop overgearing bros and embrace the old ways
>>507242887There's only one real new mutant and I only saw 3 of them in the entire game so yeah it fucking sucksThe spawn pool for the mutants they do have is also messed up, too many bloodsuckers while other ones get shafted. I don't think I saw a single chimera that wasn't scripted either which felt weird
>>507243465If you can't beat the game with a bandit jacket you are a shitter, simple as.
Anyone using that magazine redux addon in GAMMA? Does it give you an option to use high cap mags on different guns? Like can I find an rpk mag and use it on a standard ak?
>>507238195I only have ~30hrs into the game and i'm not very far into the storyLikes:GraphicsAtmospheregunplay/animation are pretty coolshotguns are a lot more fun then i remember in the others gamesthe zone being one continuous map is coolDislikes:spawn system is a fucking joke, why is there half a dozen soldiers/bandits in the middle of nowhere and why can they laser me thru walls/ heavy foliage? why can they see me half a mile away and are instantly aggro?Why the fuck did they go with British voice actors? why not Russians with broken english?why are there bloodsuckers/controllers/snorkels near the starting area?
>>507243646You say that but even that + 1 compass + weird water makes you take 40% damage instead of 100%
>>507243646Would be an interesting challenge on paper to beat the game while intoxicated with a sawn-off and half-broken aku, that's for sure
>>507240634>you are always walking on some stupid road it gets oldFast forward to Clear Sky.>there are guides now anon>it's the fast travel system>I would like to go back to Cordon plz>that'll be 4000 credits plz>I just start walkingI recently lootmaxxed in SoC and I was happy to make the several dozen trips between traders and blue boxes. Guides in CS are a damned rip off.
Can someone explain to me why The Finals, which runs on the exact same engine to this shit, runs butter smooth while this is complete shit? I can't believe I spent money on this half-baked, GPU-hogging, buggy, blurry mess(GSC defense force you have 10 minutes to reply to this post to receive your 10 rupee bonus saars)
Are there any mods which replace bandits with anime girls?
Vintaur or Lavina?
>>507244450the finals is ugly and cartoon styled so it's less intensive
>>507244290There's a lot of player expression to be had with self-imposed handicaps. Even if s2 isn't that open for an 'open-world'.
>>507244931both are shit and perform more or less like the AK at range with expensive ammo and repair costs
>>507244908wait for the modkit and then search chinese forums
>>507244931get the named custom skin lavina from the stash near the skadovsk where you have to activate a chain explosion with a grenade
>>507238796>the gunplay and controls in general feel floaty and imprecisePretty much just everything you mentioned. And the empty open-world map sucks, and it's casualized with too much Far Cry cutscene shit. If it just fixed those 5-6 things, it would be more like the old games.
>>507238195I love Korshunov, I love Strider, I love everyone in Spark, I even love the protagonist which is rare for me.It looks truly beautiful at times.I like the "puzzles".Due to poor AI implementation, the spawning problem, the consolitis and a billion poor design choices that would take a 20-post wall of text to count, combat is a clusterfuck that is just not fun at all. I don't remember a single firefight that I enjoyed (or one that I died in).Some of the story hooks don't seem to make sense to me.It's an above average one-time experience but I don't see it becoming a cult hit spawning years' worth of mods.
>>507238195Oh and big pet peeve for me is faction identification. Most of the time I can't figure out who I'm looking at even when relatively close. Fucking smearing and darkness doesn't help either.
>>507245695>I love everyone in SparkEven Scar?>It's an above average one-time experience but I don't see it becoming a cult hit spawning years' worth of mods.Yeah, pretty much this. It's not a total disaster but not a diamond in the rough either.
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/955remove cloaks!!
>>507246063That would be solved with binocs. Need binocs and NVGs.
>>507242887Honestly, no.The new implementation of old mutants is pretty good overall and there's so much else wrong with the game that I never even considered the low number of new mutants a problem.On that note, did the Psy-dog and the Poltergeist ever work in the OG vanilla games as they do here?I don't remember Psy-dogs conjuring up illusions in vanilla and Poltergeists being invisible legless mutants is something I only remember having seen in True Stalker.
>>507227358Is The Zone like Silent Hill or something? A manifestasion of your own thoughts and feelings?
>>507246406In OGs I didn't even need to use them to figure out who's who. The retarded level scaling giving everyone exos also plays part in this.
>>507244908Would've been cool as I'd be more inclined to willingly pay passage fees and give out loot donations, they would become the most revered and peace-spreading faction in a flash
>>507246479In a way yeah but the depressing post-soviet russian novel version.
>>507246359Yeah I love Scar fyte me. It's weird that the silent merc turned into a schizo prophet but he's a fun character.I loved Star and the weirdo tech guy better, though.
>>507246693there's a reason for that, he got cooked by c whatever
>>507244987In reality: GSC devs = incompetent, Ex-Dice devs = competent, actually good at optimisation
>>507246479That's the gay take that operator drewski youtube flick went with and it's cringe.
>>507246479It's supposed to be the average of everyone's collective thoughts like some kind of transcendent ChatGPT.Only due to the extreme poor circumstances under which it came into being, it turned out all kinds of fucked.
>>507234483based actuallyI know you're the retard that's constantly shitting the thread up but I actually agree with this singular post
>>507246817i still haven't finished the main mission so i don't know what his or Richter's deal isreally curious about Richters tbx
how does 1.1 patch A-Life feel for you guys?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD9GH0kB5Vcaccording to this modder offline doesn't exist at all
All I ever get from STALKER is "fuck scientists".
>>507246464>I don't remember Psy-dogs conjuring up illusions in vanillaThere were two types of enemies: pseudodogs and psy-dogs, they shared the same model but the former had darker fur, while the latter had white. A pseudodog was basically just a tougher blind dog, who rushed straight at you instead of circling around like the blind dogs, the psy-dog worked the same as in S2, it summoned phantoms who attacked you while the real dog hides behind staying away from the fight.>Poltergeists being invisible legless mutants That's what they were in SoC, on their death you could see their legless body fall out of their lightning ball. That was removed in CS and CoP, where the lightning ball would simply disappear without dropping anything.
>>507247714russian cultural thing about intellectuals vs soldiers/peasant class and the fatal flaws of both
>>507247713oops wrong videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA7raFVTRv0
>stalker iwp>be merc>go to rostok because I wanna visit the bar>loners and duty shoot me>kill 10+ of them>they want a cease fireDo I just kill the rest of them off bros?
>>507246693Scar was never a silent merc. He cracks jokes and makes goofy comments all the time in CS dialogues. He never had an established consistent personality before S2.
>>507247415>based actuallyThanks bud. >I know you're the retard that's constantly shitting the thread up but I actually agree with this singular postName two things I do.
>>507247713Still running around 60fps on 1080p epic with dips™ unless I'm using copegenning or copescaling. Therefore I'm trying to move into the acceptance phase of the game feeling like complete shit to play and moving on to something better to do with my time
>>507242887A little bit. I'm kind of bored, and annoyed, of the constant bloodsucker encounters.>pick up new shiny item next to stash>reeeeeeeeeeee>just pick up any stash>Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee>barely brushing up against the POI radius>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEJust give me something else for once. Most the time I just make a run for it because I don't feel like wasting ammo.>Metro ExodusI still need to play this.
>>507248838Its okay to put a game down till circumstances change and it can be more fun.
>>507249294Every time it happens Im reminder of the BT encounters from Death Stranding At least you could stealth past them
>>507247984My bratan, scorched earth mercilessness is the path to monolita. Do not tread that path stalker
>>507246479It's the Warp from 40k but with alcohol fetal syndrome
>>507249294After they blow their load with the bloodsucker in the first 5 mins of the game I think they were just made that way as streamer bait hoping for le scary game views.
>>507249529Honestly though I'm just getting the feeling that GSC are going to double down on Lumen and the only way to get better performance is waiting until 60XX's/9XXX's cards are out to have a decent experience with it
Arent gsc going to tack some shitty multiplayer onto this?
>that fucking gauntlet with gauss rifle monolithiansHoly fuck they doubled down on SoC CNPP, that was fucking terrible.At least the Scar fight was kinda cool and he was a goofball to the end.
>>507245084>he can't consistently land head shots and needs huge magazines to survive
>>507230804>pirate game>follow patching instructions>works finepirate chads win again
>>507251398>spoiler the image but not the other spoilersnice
>>507251398>in a tiny room fighting the granite squads with gauss snipers up on the catwalks>keep getting shredded>finally decide to cheese them by tossing a grenade into the room before jumping down >they aggro and I cheese them one by one with my sniper from the safety of the hallway>kill them all>get the objective checked off and my nav-bar turns blue>mfw I immediately get head-shotted by a gauss gun after jumping down into the room
>>507249294>REEEEEEEEEEEEEAre you sure you don't just have this thread open while playing?
So, what's the deal with protections caps?If I've got an armor with 5 bars of physical [or any other] protection, do I need a physical protection artifact at all?Right now I've got the 9I Falcon and a Magic Cube. Is that overkill?
>>507250707yeah but probably just some arena modeI wouldnt mind some artifact hunt though where you CAN PvE to win or go rob someone else doing it
>>507242612>just another factory of some kind,Yes and sporadically placed around. They remind me of the warehouses in that BF3 map. That's when they switched from BF2 carefully designed levels, to BF3 random stuff around to look realistic.>then there's your average far cryish action sequence brap music.You're supposed to turn that off.
Great, all my saves got deleted. Right when i was starting to enjoy the game. Xbox cloud save does jack shit on PC
>>507254843try manually backing up the appdata save folder this time
>>507255042this time? fuck that, i'm bailing on this shit pile for now. That's 30 hours of gameplay down the drain.I'll just go back to the trilogy
I see they still haven't fixed the artifact for this location (pol depot). Literally spawns inside the tank I'm standing on.
>>507255602Had to noclip into it just to get it
>>507255602Works on my machineAfterwards I saw Ward fight some bandits
>>507255602I had one spawn inside the ground at the electro field southeast of slag heap last night. Radiant quests are still getting stuck as well, very buggy overall.
Is there anybody that sells the Seva D? Sold my free one a while back
>>507253574I'm fairly sure the armor resists go from 0 to 50%.>>507255218>only 30 hoursSo that's what, getting to Slag Heap?
>>507256372Who knows what's going on there. I just know what happened and what I had to do to get the artifact. >>507256373True. At least the game seems to run a lot better now compared to before. Haven't noticed any slowdowns yet.
when do you stop playing in anomaly/gamma
>>507227358The fuck does my gun look like this no matter what I do when changing settings
>>507258427Is that the Combatant or another named weapon? Some named ones have skins
>>507258427Battle damaged
>>507258427skif.. please fix your 0% dura gun...
>just cooked an amazing ribeye steak with a side of baked potato, caesar salad and cremini mushrooms stuffed with smoked oyster and artichokes for my wife for her birthdayWhat did /sg/ eat tonight?
>>507259028c'mon I just want to know why my gun models don't change no matter what I do when changing graphics settings
>>507259094>oystersHope it wasn't those ones they just issued a recall for. Otherwise sounds like a pretty good meal.
>>507259137made you have to rebuild shaders idk
>when I see someone bring up their relationships online in unrelated contexts and unprompted
so I'm currently on GoG version 1.0.523 (78128)do these new patches require me to start a new game or what?I assume no, but I'm just asking here to be sure
>>507259094your wife, for her birthday
>>507232749i have everything but the pre-order bonus. i'd be fine if i could just edit the savefile to disable it somehow but not sure if that's possible.>>507237757might try that if nothing else.>>507252649i thought i did everything correctly but it just crashed on startup. which i guess is my fault, but updating a pirated game as patches come out is a huge pain in the ass between diff versions and cracks.
do duty and freedom fight at all in stalker 2
whats this face trying to convey?
>>507230804so you need gog dlc's for a specific patch?>like these
>>507261191lol I walked into that.>>507259934Sorry anon, I felt context was necessary for such a nice meal. I don't usually eat ribeye or stuffed mushrooms outside of juice occasions. Be cool.
>>507262180no, i got a steam key for cheap. i don't think there's any way to get the pre-order bonus for that.i found you can use UETools to bypass the dlc check and load your last save via a console command though. i'll report back if that works for the anons that might wanna know.
>>507262158"hey stalker!">>507262873godspeed anon
>>507262158A deep seated craving for human flesh but also a longing craving for chocolate. Burers are my favorite mutant. Angry psychic dwarf neets.
>>507227358I just started playing SOC Vanilla for the first time and I have to admit the first few hours of the game I was not loving it but I was intrigued enough to keep playing. Now that the game has finally clicked, right before I got to lab X16, I am starting to really love it. I finally realized that I could put gear in stashes and got a feel for what I really needed to have in my inventory so I wasnt overencumbered all the time. Im skipping alot of the side missions for now but I will no doubt replay it and try to do everything. The story is decent, it has MUH IMMURSHUN, the only thing that immediately strikes me as irredeemable trash is the weapon spread. Putting your scope on someones forehead and having to fire 26 shots before it actually hits his forehead is dogshit. Thank god for save scumming sometimes. I cant wait to play this shit fucking game more over the hilolidays.
>>507230804>>507262873>>507263163it worked.>install UETools (it's on the the stalker nexus)>press F10 in the main menu to open the dev console>XLoadLastSave>save onto a new file so you don't need to do the console command again>????>profit
>how to avoid having random npcs die to anomalies>just put an invisible wall there lolI saw random NPCs die to anomalies before in a previous patch. Kind of weird to see this
>>507264024They have both systems. They dont just blunder but are capable of walking into them.
>>507264021interesting, so thats it ust load up the game and load the save via UEtools command? then make a new save. kinda crazystill happy you dont have to start over from the start, I had to do that shit like 3 weeks ago.
>>507264885yeah. only thing is i think it might disable the dlcs you don't own so you potentially lose those items if you had them before. i'm not near my stash to check, but it doesn't matter much. i'm halfway through the game so i'm just glad i don't have to start over.
>>507264875>>507264024That's a good idea actually anomaly should steal thatAlthough frankly why the protection? These npcs don't have any greater purpose. Pretty sure the trilogy handled it fine, and it's a sight to see a guy get vortexed in a firefight because he backed up into one
>>507265251still even then, its probably better then havin gto start over from the start.I can't personally use it, but thanks for sharing the info here
>>507267278ne good reason is that NPCs are loot pinatas and if you can consistently farm dead retards around anomalies scarcity becomes non-existent
>>507255602Never had such an issue and i farmed this spot a LOT
i just realized impact has nothing to do with bullets. its fall damage resistance. after all these years
>>507262158>whats this face trying to convey?Pain
>>507269552Just make it so anomaly deaths trash the loot Explainable by it exploding, being ripped to unusable, melted by fire or chemical etc.they do something similar with other NPC kills in anomaly mods. You get a message telling you to back off, but can tweak it so you can try it but make them hostile
so which ending is the "best"? i've gotten up to the part where you talk to strider in the pod. scar obviously seems mislead, but i heard lots of people say strelok's side isn't good either.
>>507264024Is it really that hard to blacklist areas from the navigation mesh?
>>507270454I hate to be a bootlicker but practically speaking probably the Ward's. Like, if the Zone were real I would want the Ward's to happen where it's contained and controlled, even if it is by a governmental body. Realistically I'd want it to be gone completely but you can't really do it. I went with Strelok because fuck everyone else, though. The Zone shouldn't belong to anybody and Scar is a fucking nutter and the shining zone is a terrifying concept to me. There's just a seed of doubt that Strelok is still operating for the C-Con unconsciously despite thinking he's still working against it. There seems to be no real right answer.
>>507270769Strelok is just as nuts as Scar if you ask me.
>>507269857what the fuck
>>507270769i understand strelok's and doctor's angles both but i don't really wanna look up the endings just yet. even scar makes sense in a way, although i guess his idea of the shining zone is a bastardization of the spiritual realm/afterlife. clearly unnatural, if not straight up hell.
>>507270454i would say ward. skif gets his home, zone is gone.in scar ending skif lives in an illusion.in strelok ending the zone gets locked down and we're unsure if he is still an agent but he just doesn't know it. skif doesn't get want he wants and everyone is trapped inside the zone. who knows what strelok will do.the problem is that the ward ending is that it is also an illusion of sorts for skif. the fact that he gets a new house and everything he wanted is an illusion of sorts, as he seems to become an agent for sircaa. it's not as bad as scar's ending where he is literally in an illusion, so i vote this one to be the best for skif.the 4th ending is too confusing for me though. obviously it's bad that the zone consumes the entire world, but this ending makes me feel like it invalidates the other endings somehow.
>>507271276>>507271435They'll probably make Skif's ending canon since it's the most open ended. I would also love to see more STALKER games set elsewhere. I've always wanted one set in the Southern United States since there were already lots of abandoned and run down towns here and lots of cool geographic stuff they can mess around with. Swamps and mountains and beaches and whatnot.
>>507255602Didn't that happen in Clear Sky too?lol
Did I fuck up installing OXR Gunslinger? The gun looks fine in the hand and on the ground, but the actual inventory screen shows it with these error red marks, and I noticed a bandit selling a shotgun with no visible inventory image. I assume its because its still an alpha and some stuff isn't finished yet. I thought I followed the install instructions pretty well, but never hurts to check.
Putting nightvision on the binocs was a really stupid idea. Unrelated, the FAL reload sounds so good
>>507271919JAPAN STALKER WITH KATANAS AND ELECTRONIC NINJA STARS
Which CoP mod should I try? I've given up on ever finishing SoC I want a bigger map to fuck around in not narrow corridorsI already tried misery. I prefer realistic gun fighting but not so much into weapon autism. Extra story missions are a plus
deggy is my favorite character
>>507275137SGM + Gunslinger or just gunslinger on its own
I have a quest from Harpy to get a Meat Lighter artifact. Read that it could be found in that abandoned mine, there was an artifact there but not Meat Lighter. So I figure since it's a thermal artifact I could just farm thermal anomalies, no such luck with that yet either, I've gotten Hypercube to drop multiple times, which seems to be a better artifact, but not Metal Lighter.
>>507275805It's all random chance. Sucks man.
>>507271919just play hunt slopdown
>>507275137>I've given up on ever finishing SoCWhat was the issue? One of the X-labs?
>>507275935I've been farming at Bog Poppers, to the east of Yaniv, yeah it fucking sucks. Might try a different fire anomaly.
>>507275967Fuck you it isn't the same.
another patch?
>>507273527its in alpha, its gonna have issuesinventory textures is not a huge deal imho
>>507276000No I've just played the early game so many times I can't keep interest in it. If I could get past the first bit I'd probably be able to do it but I always just drop it eventually before I get to the new parts haha. Eventually the loading screens get grating too, it takes me out of immersion
I still can't figure out where you're supposed to upgrade the SIRCAA SSP-100 armor. This is fucking ridiculous.
110gb confirmed
>>507277126Please be joking.
>>5072773467gb
>>507277525Thank goodness. Still not gonna quit the game to update though.>Added temporary solution to avoid crash on shader compilation by skipping shaders warm up.lel, bet they just added that mod in. What's the whole point of this shader warm up if it can just be skipped?
Is there much of a difference between who you keep alive after this argument? Cowboy says he'll owe you one if you already did something prior to this.
>>507276640pripyat/train station probably, you try those yet?
>>5072775257gb but it has to redownload the entire game so it's actually 126gb
>>507278961
>>507276331YesNoice
>>507262158>trusted a fart>shouldn't have
i had no idea they put my wife in the gameyou guys better not do her quest while im not there
does rain create puddles in the world?
>>507278431Train station is a no-go. The only place I haven't tried is the tech in Pripyat itself, but I haven't found him yet. If he isn't the one I'm going to be fucking livid.
Holy crap Pripyat is fucking huge. It feels like an actual to-scale city.
I want a mod that adds a watch to Skif's wrist with a compass around it so I can tell the time and orient myself without using the PDA while I have the stupid skyrim compass turned off.
>>507278313Cowboy sent me some coupons. Nice.
>>507280016Would download this actually. Send it as a suggestion to GSC, maybe they'll add it in.
>>507280016Honeslty the only reason i have that compass is because without it its hard to find all the corpses to loot
someone tell me how big this patch actually is, im in game and im not gonna quit if its like 100 gigs again
>>507278961>>507277525what the shitI just downloaded like 70GB's of patchs to go from 78128 to 78148 to 78227 to whatever fuckign convoluted bullshit number they decide to make this
>>507271803>ward endingI still utterly believe that Skif actually left the Zone and get a new place to call home, but Agatha's last words really makes everything muddy."People want their happiness HERE and NOW" what does she even mean by that?! That sentence is so open for interpretations. Does it mean it's just another psi-induced illusion? Or is it just sheer confidence that they can grant anything now that they have regained control over the entire Zone?
>>507279979Too bad the weather will turn into an eternal rain after you enter it for the first time, really want to see Pripyat under the morning ray.
>>507276401Oh I dont mind it I was just making sure I didnt fuck it up.
>>507280858>>507260624for the interestedhttps://www.gogdb.org/product/1529799785#changelog
Oh for FUCK'S SAKE. NOBODY IN THE ENTIRE FUCKING ZONE CAN UPGRADE THIS BULLSHIT. THE TECH IN PRIPYAT CAN'T DO A FUCKING THING EITHER.
>>507281773you would assume since its a SIRCAA suit, they would know how to upgrade it, right?
>>507281773Dude just wear the orange rubber condom suit with 2 compasses and youll max out your protection anyways, it has 5 slots 2 of which are leadYoull even have a spot for hypercube for bleeding protection
>>507281920IT'S THE PRINCIPLE OF THE THING. I WANT TO WEAR IT BECAUSE IT LOOKS COOL.
>>507281948>I WANT TO WEAR IT BECAUSE IT LOOKS COOL.That... is an argument, thoughbeit
>>507282025Don't start that ESL bullshit here.
>there are frogs and catfish in Stalker 2>you never take frog with you while artifact huntingit's over
>>507281773Have you tried the one in Pripyat?
>>507283026Look at the location at the top corner of the screen. I've checked literally every tech in the game, unless there was a hidden one in SIRCAA itself that I missed.
>>507283143For some reason I read Pripyat and thought Yaniv. My bad. Game8 has a list of all the technicians though. Might take a look at that if you haven't already. Otherwise I've seen other people mention not being able to upgrade it either so it's probably a bug.
>we broke shader compilation lol>so as a solution, just don't compile them lol>consider it a feature lol
>>507279668literal chud factory
is skif ending the best ending?
>>507201514t. gopnik named mykola
>>507238652(dies)
>>507282754>you never take frog with you while artifact huntingYou CAN do this in Project Zomboid, thoughUnless devs decided to ruin the fun once again and made frogs perishable
>>507282754There are also smol lizards, ants and beesOne partucular tree trunk bee hive even chemically damages you if you touch it, kek. Dont remember its location, though
>>507283763yes
Anyone ever tested what's gonna happen when the death count goes past 999?
>>507284628after that it goes to 1000
>>507284628Im not 100% sure but i think it the death counter will state "1000"
>>507284873and after that?
>>5072849491001, 1002, 1003, etc.
>>507284996and what happens after that?
>>507285040it simply continues, adding 1 for each death
>>507285087ok but what happens after that?
>>507285040>and what happens after that?1004
>>507285196strelok appears at your house with the wish granter and grants your wish
>>507283925>(muffled dies)fixed
>>507285259Wish Strelok to become busty female loner.
true stalker doesn't have a-life, either
>wake up, have breekie, play with cats>sit down in front of PC>Open Steam>picrelAnother 30 minutes and the death of my SSD I guess
what the fuck does vinca do
>>507285820Substitute for an anti-bleeding artifact
>>507281078>It's always sunny in Pripy-ACK
>>507285820Stops bleeding Crafting better drugs
>talk to Crest>he's deadWell, guess that makes this mission easy.
>>507285762There's yet another 100gb pyad2yatch??
>>507285942>Crafting
>>507286123It's a gamma player, don't talk to him.
>>507286110Even better. There's a new 10 GB patch that patches the whole 126 GB, AKA grind your SSD to dust instead of just replacing the affect files!
>>507283763let's be real, if there is a ZONE in your countrywould you leave everything behind and go there despite knowing you might die there?pros - never pay taxes and live how uncle ted wanted you to live(but with guns)con - you will probably die, horribly
>>507286246The worst part is that it's making it seem like they've done so much debugging it's making the patch massive, but it's just sheer unfamiliar it with the engine and incompetence
>>507286440Maybe four years ago I would've gone, but life has been looking up lately and I actually got shit to lose now.
>>507286246Your SSD will be fine unless it's considerably old or you bought a cheap one.
did i waste money upgrading the monolith suit? holy fuckshit this thing is like a woman, super expensive to maintain
>>507286440I'd like to say I would but I have 0 survival training, nigh 0 weapons training (shot some guns but never owned one and don't really know how to clean and maintain one), and don't really have a need to escape my reality or risk limb and life for quick riches (which is said in game that no one ever really gets rich by becoming a Stalker); the reality would be that rationally I wouldn't consider it at all.
>>507286440>Zone in USA >will have more guns and people than Ukraine Zone>No radiation or mutants (yet)>though psi anomalies will exist>don't know if emissions will exist since there are no generators
>>507286737everything is too expensive to maintain imo
>>507286925oh fuck, i assume all other later game armors are turbo expensive to maintain?
>>507286808You just know a zone in America would be on complete watertight lockdown. Typical American hysteria on the mainland would make sure of that.
>>507286808We'd hunt the mutant fucks to extinction if it happened in my neck of the woods.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQa4VFzbgZMI would love, if someone made new maps and quests with this car mod
>>507287116i just mean in general. maybe i'm retarded, but most jobs don't pay a lot of money. feels like i'm playing GAMMA having to spend the money i earn on a job just repairing the damage i incurred on said job
>>507287116Yes, get ready to pay small loan of million kupons.
>>507287116They are. Which works really good as a progression lock. You can find a diamond exosuit from the very start of the game, but it's worthless if you don't have the money to maintain it.Actually it wouldn't be worthless since the stat reduction on broken armor is very minimal, you could still wear it and be better off
>>507286808So if it were in the US there would really only be anomalies, artifacts, and the only mutants would be zombified people affected by psi-anomalies?
>>507287208Do the artifact jobs, save the artifacts you find and only turn them in on jobs for max payout.
>>507287405>would really only be anomalies, artifacts, and the only mutants would be zombified people affected by psi-anomaliesMutants would be wildlife and Zombies, so not really safe unless you consider mutant 12ft black bear to be harmless.
>>507287323I wish there was a gameplay mode you could enable that disables repairing and upgrades.SoC was wonderful in that you had to actually use the shit you found in the field when your old stuff broke.
>>507287586I didn't like when I couldn't use my unique weapons anymore. Everything else was fine though.
>>507287558>>507287405You guys forget that some mutants are manifestations of the noosphere and not genetic freaks. A baby-zones would have those.
>>507287503yea but even with those you have to get lucky or save scum and reroll the artifacts in an anomaly until you get what you need
>>507287586That was an objectively annoying feature about SoC because there was zero point in hunting for special weapons and armor because degradation was irreversible. And degradation in these games is just stupid. Guns breakdown way too quickly and cost way too much to maintain. In most cases, a simple barrel cleaning is the only thing any of these need and that wouldn't cost a fortune to do so. There are military outposts everywhere, including an international military police mission and you're telling me none of those guys brought weapon maintenance equipment? This is the problem with letting europoors design any game that features firearms.
>>507287586>>507287781to be fair, guns in SoC took thousands of shots to break, so it had no meaningful consequences in the long term
>>507287781>This is the problem with letting europoors design any game that features firearms.I think it's more of just the annoying "open world survival" standards where you have to maintain your weapons and they degrade way too quickly. And finding weapons but broken most the time is just a gay design choice under the guise of "balance".I feel it's all just to pad the game, but even the devs don't realize it because they just accept "that's how it's done".
>>507280016yeah it's fucking aggravating i cant turn off my spidey sense without making it impossible to find my directions and questsyou'd think I'd be able to disable the red arrows individually from the compass but no
>>507287781You're right. But still, from a gameplay perspective, I want the scavenger life. The OG games are not nearly as long as S2.I do want a different weapon maintenance system though. You can easily take guns apart in real life and clean out soot from the trigger mechanism, gas block, receiver, and barrel with just some oil, bore brush, and a few pieces of cloth.Wear and tear, and malfunctions only really happen if that's left neglected for long enough. I'm surprised there isn't a critical malfunction mechanic in the games where the gun just explode.
>>507287905They just jammed every five or six shots, no biggie.
>>507288087>>507288137It makes absolutely zero sense in these games. I'm playing Stalker 2 and the main character is supposedly a former military member. Anyone that receives even the most basic of military training is taught how to dissemble and reassemble a weapon for the purpose of cleaning and maintenance. In fact, Skif DOES THIS in a cut scene with Ward. And yet magically there are 0 gun cleaning kits and Skif suddenly has no clue how to do even basic level field repairs or basic forms of cleaning on a firearm? I'm fine with scavenging but the entire concept is stupid especially given that there are professionals involved (Duty, Mercs, Military...)
>>507286808take san andreas map from gta. divide into 20-30 levels. add trash, vegetation, make everything broken. make variations of npc appearance with faces from gta sa. rockie village place in groove streetborov bandit base place in east los santos (rollin heights ballas)freedom base place in chinatownduty bases in every police departmentc-con and brainwasher place in zone 69.
>>507288381I've wanted a stalker game that has a weapon cleaning and maintenance system for years. Anomaly had me ecstatic, until I actually played it and discovered how nightmarish the maintenance system really was.They had the right idea, but it's too complex, obtuse, and annoying. Just let me clean the gun every now and then, have a soot/oil meter that goes down and once it's depleted the condition starts depleting, and to clean it you need to find a quiet spot cus it takes time.That's all we need.
>>507288087I'm currently replaying SoC and looting is very tedious in this part. It would have been much better suited to metro-style loot - aim your sight at a corpse, click and ammo/money/medkits will immediately be picked up without any UI. It's the same with weapons - either unload the weapon on the floor or replace yours with it - without inventory.
>>507288697There could be simple and non-intrusive ways to handle it. At the very basic level just offer a gun cleaning kit with "x" amount of uses that can restore "y" amount of durability. I understand that they want to encourage you to use a variety of weapons and armors (and even rely on cheaper alternatives and save the powerful stuff for late game encounters) but it just gets annoying for most people.
I checked the game files and it's comprised of multiple very large file packages. The last update has very few lines but I assume the game's just replacing the entire package with the new one even though its contents are pretty much the same. Isn't it possible to do it in a more efficient way via updates happening in within the package?
>>507287586>>507287781half repair cost mod is essentialy and perfectly balances the repair system
>>507288482Set it in the Outer Banks. That would be fun. Guides with little motor boats taking you places, trawlers and fishermen are the new trader hubs just offshore. Abandoned little towns full of mutated crabs and alligators. Would be fun. Americans would call themselves poachers or hunters instead of stalkers.
>>507288697then stalkers should have clean and new weapons. because rust cleaner + primer + paint + sandblaster cost pennies. this will not reflect well on the style.
>>507288381Call of Pripyat was the same. Your PC is not just former military, he's active military. Yet he has to go ask someone to fix his guns. It's one thing that's always irked me, and why I feel like sometimes devs just do what seems standard to the gameplay even if it doesn't make sense. Or it's laziness because they don't want to rebalance the gameplay.If a cowboy can clean his gun, surely Skif can.>>507288742Oh definitely. And half the time just trying to unload a gun wouldn't always work from what I remember. At least it works better in HoC, but still tedious.
>>507288897You destroy military outposts in all 4 of the games. And yet none of these guys know how to clean an AK pattern rifle? The easiest shit in the world to clean?>>507288950>Call of Pripyat was the same.That drove me insane. He was like a special forces commando that didn't know how to clean a gun barrel after firing it.
>>507281078Does it ever get sunny in Pripyat, does the game even have the assets for it? If you can change the weather console commands I'm willing to install it.
>>507289146>Does it ever get sunny in PripyatThis could be a great song title
>>507263478the western weapons are more accurate and easier to kill people with.
>>507289146>Does it ever get sunny in PripyatThis makes me think that, if S.T.A.L.K.E.R. had been more popular during Machinima's peak, we could have gotten our very own Red vs. Blue. Could have called it 'It's Always Sunny in Pripyat' and done the whole thing using the demo record function or something.
>>507288897Shiny custom guns would just put a big target on your head. Though I do want to see some clever fuck put on paint that just looks like rust to make others think it's a shitty gun.
>>507290021Rat rods of the gun world eh?
>>507288824Well the update system they're using seems to download some files, then go around opening all those paks, changing some lines, and then repacking them, that's why it takes so long. The assumption is that if they only made changes to one or two you could just redownload those and call it a day, but it's either probably not so clear cut (have to recompile beyond that, for example) or it has to verify every file anyway for conflicts or whatnot. Either way it takes way longer than it should for such 'smaller' patches.
>>507270769I'd say Strelok's ending is better then the wardStrelok probably only screws over people in the zone and he contains the zone aswell (though I guess there is weird stuff about Strelok wanting to use the c-con pods to find the truth of the zone), whereas the with the Ward you might sign of all of humanities privacy or freedom, not sure what korshunov is doing in the pod though, maybe hes ok with all the X-project mind control stuff and was only pissed with the zone being created or personally hated the C-con scientists
>>507290741Strleok is in S2? Yep, thats a vacation I think. Asshole. Fuck you.
>>507290860desu the spoiler isnt that bad, but I always spoil it anyways. You dont get surprised he exists the game basically tells you in advance you'll be meeting him it's not some epic surprise
Chernobylite is about three fiddy on Steam, would you recommend it?>>507290643I checked the files after the update and they all have different sizes with very minor differences, but nothing 7gb like in the previous one. So like you've said it doesn't replace the entire files like I thought it did. I understand rechecking everything but I don't understand the download sizes, with 1.1 essentially redownloading the entire game at a whopping 110gb download.
>>507290860Strelok is shown in one of the trailers for the game, its not a spoiler to say he is in the game
>>507291245how about i beat your fuckin ass shitt head?
>>507291245a ton of movie trailers spoil major plot points that's not really a good argument
>>507290860You're in a stalker thread and you expected no spoilers? This isn't a discord group chat where spoilers will get you banned
what is the point of having gun jamming if you will never use a broken gun.
>>507288950I know how to fix my car but sometimes I'm lazy and prefer to leave it to someone elsethat being said the game should have definitely included repair kits and/or other means to allow you to fix your guns on the spot a la Fallout 3/New Vegas
I wish for a Gunslinger Christmas update that finally adds all the currently absent guns from the mod.
>>507287503the artifact jobs give you less money than if you sell them normally, since they increased the sell price of artifacts but not the radiant quest rewards lol
>>507292637I thought people say not to use gunslinger in this gen
>>507292785I've already completed CoP a few times already and the cryptomining DLL meme fortunately remains a meme for now. Might as well, yeah?
from the malachite base up to yantar to get lefty's psi thing and back and all i get is 2550 coupons
>>507291110>Chernobylite is about three fiddy on Steam, would you recommend it?It's very different, more of a mission based, go out and gather random shit to create/upgrade your base game, and it's more RPG-y with companions and stuff. I didn't really like it but it had some good stuff to it, they're making a second one which seems to lean a lot more into the RPG shit and sci-fi stuff, it looks more like Remnant. Also their YT channel is funny because they talk about Chernobyl a lot and have some interesting deep dives into the HBO show.tl;dr not really recommended but worth a check to see if you like it, it has a lot of base building and crafting, buy it and play it for two hours and refund if it doesn't click.
>repairs too expensivejust copy from anomaly and introduce weapon/armor repair kits, the game doesnt have enough loot anyway, such a simple thing that fixes both issues, boggles my mind why they dont do it
god i'm so SICK and TIRED of fucking BLOODSUCKERS
>>507293057You playing on veteran? Don't.
>>507292973You absolutely should I was hoping someone else would chime in with the whyMaybe because other modpacks take its animations and the 3d pda anywayIt might just be some seethe over controllers being slightly OP
>>507269857>playing coc iwp+cotz>merc, just got a new radsuit from dushman, life is good>go to sleep>wake up>go downstairs to stock up on ammo before leaving>duty assassin in the lobby completely ignored by everyone in the room>kill him>hear barking outside>game spawns about a hundred dogs who rush straight to the merc basewhat THE FUCK just happenedis this one of those you can't change the current reality so the zone KICK you out moments?
>>507293360once you get a SPAS12 or better, they become incredible jobbers
>>507293517>kept a reply in by mistakei'm retarded
How did people raid Diode's Workshop in the first place when he has a homebrew magical homing minefield protecting it? And before you say that wasn't there because the Scanner made it appear, it's still there once you turn it off while the Fire anomalies disappear, also the Scanner's range isn't that big from what you can see in other parts of the game.
>>507293360Thanks for the update Freedom.
>>507293623Yeah just wait for it to get close then buckshot its headBloodsuckers are pure reaction time and if you get hit just pop a medkit and try again
>>507293943bloodsuckers dont have a headshot modifier (per game files) and you should shoot them while theyre still invis to interrupt their attack
>>507294075>bloodsuckers dont have a headshot modifierDid they used go have a weak spot to thr back of the cranium in the old games? That's a bit shit
GSC is giving out constant updates just to fuck with modders, aren't they?
>>507294590the xbox game pass version is updating at the same rate, my new 7gb update is downloading I will tell you this. GSC have just revealed a ton of xbox devs are lying out their aaa about long verification times for patches, betheada being one of them
>>507293623it's just annoying that they're so common and there's always 2 of them now
The real reason that NVGs aren't in the game is because it would brick your GPU as lumen already tanks FPS with a simple flashlight.
>>507294590They are doing it to dunk on poorfags who cant affort good internet (based)
>>5072949612 bloodsuckers are nothing, i recently met 2 pseudodogs and i just bolted out of there
I am unable to download anymore updates. I've run out of space just downloading the game and updates. It's almost 250 gigs at this point.
>>507295221a flashlight is a dynamic light object casting shadows, NVGs are just image amplification, in game it can be as simple as a screen filter
>>507290741I think it might've gone over better if he gave everyone one or two days to either stay forever or leave. Those soldier dudes really fucked themselves by running further into the zone instead of trying to get out.>>507270454None honestly, all of them are pretty dire. Maybe the post-content expansion or whatever they mentioned will be about unfucking things
>>507246479>Is The Zone like Silent Hill or something?It's Unreal, isn't it.
Can't believe Stalker 2 flopped and GAMMA ended up being the trve sequel...
>>507246479Kind of... as Hermit says the way you approach the Zone is kind of how the Zone will approach you. However, the Zone is just a massive defensive mechanism to protect C-Consciousness in one sense, and on the other hand, it's the manifestation of the noosphere (collective thoughts and unconscious of humanity) that cracked and C-Consciousnesses/Project X lost complete control over everything.
>>507296063yeah sure if youre a fuckin retarded shit head get the fuck out of here you fucking gammoid trash go crawl back to your discord fag bitch. fuck you fuckin pussy
Anyone playing the latest Gunslinger update? Is it me or is the performance much better? I still get the occasional stutter but overall it feels much better to play. 3D scopes in particular feel much smoother
>>507296250don't fall for obvious bait anon, please. Just ignore that shit and post interesting stuff
what are these collars i keep finding on some mutants?
>>507296610It's useful for a later quest in the main questline.
>>507262873>>no, i got a steam key for cheap.where are people getting steam keys for cheap? i need to stop pirating with all these fucking nigger patches every 3 hours
>>507234483this is the way. the requirement to post here should be to complete the trilogy in vanilla at least once. people who say that it's unplayable simply don't like stalker and should fuck off to /v/.
>>507296610you collect them and put them on the necks of birch, harpy and viktoria
>NFT flops>GSC starts flirting with Netflixmany they're really looking to grift the fuck out of this game arent they
had a bottle of wine and a few bers thats sort of h how you paly stalker lol i guess lets make it happen just got to pripyat in CoP fucking around gettin tools for that boozer over in skadovsk lol what a hardcase lmao reminds me of me sans the mechanical skill0hpg4
>>507298568>Strelok and Duegtyarev in a homoesexual relationship>main character is strong independent White American woman>Duty are all nazi bad nazis>Freedom are diverse and the "good guys fighting evil nazis">Loners are mostly africans "its a new slavery..."its going to be really gay
>>507290860>literally the main character of the series, crucial to the events of each of the previous games, appears in the new entry which is known to be full of fanservice>le spoilerkek
How did a negro become the main supplier for Noontide? is there a mod to remove the blacks because i dont like to see them
>>507298568relax it will just be a episode on the secret level10 minutes of Swedish backstory
>>507299307>literal equivalent oftumblr/twitter "OH GOD TRIGGER WARNING PLEASEIronic
>>507299307show me one Black Ukrainian VA
>>507299425i dont care. i dont want to see them in my game because i dont seem them in real life. i would like a mod removing them thank you
>>507298568If they would hire him to play Strelok I wouldn't even mind if there were blacks and lesbians everywhere. His mere presence in this role would be the ultimate form of kino.
https://coub.com/view/2scq3c
>>507299829Virus guys
>>507270454Skif's ending is canon. It's the only one with a vocal track playing during the ending cutscene. It also leaves the best possibility for S3, devs will be not limited by anything for its sequel setting and story.Is it the "best" ending though? No, there are no "good" endings in S2.
>>507299896>coub>virusNice joke. I'll writre it down, so I won't forget to tell it to my friends.
>>507238940SWEDEN NO!
>>507238940i remember taking that quest and was intrigued and then the moment he came out i didnt even wait for dialogue i just shot him in the head
>>507299829kek
>>507298568Netflix and their homosexual kikery aside, I think STALKER could work because they already have the diversity brownie point checklist done:- Oppressed Ukrainians- Added random nigs here and there- Women as a traders or maybe a singular female STALKERThe problem is if they 100% make it American, with producters, actors and directors. It would be even more shit than usual.
>>507301270GSC does not make any angle about "oppressed Ukrainians". please stop fucking seething for the millionth time because you're upset the game is in the Ukrainian language.
>>507301270i don't want it to worki don't want the Fallout fanbase
>>507301359I never once mentioned GSC you mindbroken, terminally online, mongoloid. I'm talking about NETFLIX and what they could do.>>507301581Yeah I don't want it either, this series would suffer tremendously from success, sad as it is to put it that way.
>>507301673You're autistic and asshurt because the game is in the Ukrainian language so you tried to backdoor it with this asshurt yet again.
>Wanting Russia to win because of politics/daddy Putin/whateverCringe>Wanting Russia to win because their victory will smother the Netflix show in the cradleBasedSay "NO" to expanded universes TODAY!
>>507301893Go have another drink
>>507301727I love the game and it's my personal GOTY, I haven't even finished it due to how autistic I am about checking every little dot on the map. You really need to get off the internet and get your life together.
>>507301581Anon... They're already here
>>507242887Kinda, however, I think they did a great job with the current mutants. I shat myself many times in various areas. Especially for an open world game. There are two things that were very disappointing:1. The new mutants they advertised but never made it to the game2. Bloodsuckers, there's just there's too many of themHere's a list of the ones that were cut: https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/mhs4i3/lost_to_the_zone_day_3_cut_mutants_of_stalker/And apparently will be DLC? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO1EZS18bdE
>Legend Returns 0.9.3 (classic) and 1.0 never fucking everI'm losing hope that they'll release anything. No new updates since August 2023
>>507302061>Here's a list of the ones that were cutthey weren't cut from heart of chernobyl, they were planned for a sequel that was canceled 12 years ago. the new game has nothing to do with it, apart from reusing some ideas from its design documents. >And apparently will be DLC?this video is a meme, these mutants aren't confirmed to appear in any dlcs, they are scrapped ideas that were found in leaked materials from last year.
>people say the Strelok ending is the worst compared to what?>Faust unleashing the zone on the entire world>living in brainfucked matrix with scar>becoming an agent of the new C-Con with KorshunovHe just wanted zone without fags and nigs fucking with it
>>507303153Are these "people" in the room with us right now, anon?
>>507303274heard bunch of people say that the Faust/Skif ending is the best one
>>507303153hey man thanks for posting all the endings
Okay so what does the Foundation do again?What do the Generators do?What do they do, if the anomalous energy pouring into the zone is from the crack in the noosphere?I love the lore of the zone but it's all so very confusing when there's so many elements that play into what is supposed to be a simple concept.
>>507303153retarded nigger
>>507299307I'm pretty sure Quiet was one of the ex-monolithians from Strider's squad in CoP (at least in the Russian and Ukrainian versions he has the same name as in S2 - Tихий, in the English one he's called Meeker). So he was someone Strider could trust and likely also one of the first to join the newly established Noontide.Not sure why GSC decided to make him the only recurring character from the original squad, and make him a nigger no less, but it is what it is.
>>507303153Have a nice Christmas see you next year.
>>507304482I completely forgot Strider was a character in CoP. I haven't played that game in forever.
>>507304046the gennies were meant to be the center of the zone but this was cut in favour for them being a source of power to generate the noosphere into the real world. howevre c-consciousness failed in their mission and the zone went out of control as the noosphere surged into reality. the generators were basically useless in the end, but anyway, were used to power c-consciousness.
>>507304482>mfw gsc is unironically trying to push a narrative that negros have always been in the zone and we even unknowingly met them
>>507301581>i don't want the Fallout fanbaseFunny enough, the reason i starting playing Clear sky back in ~2009 was from an article saying it was similar to fallout 3 lol
>>507304482well he has a mask on how do u know he wasn't always a nigger???
Literally everyone wearing an exoskeleton in the trilogy was black as Satan the whole time.
>>507294710That or GSC gets their shit expedited because "muh sympathy" and "muh special military operation"
>>507303491The game is over a month old get over it.
>>507303491take out the trash. lets give him a nice winter break
>>507303153Strelok being in charge of the Monolithians is pretty kino at the end when they make way for SkifThey should treat this as the canon and make whatever sequel about life in the policed zone under new management years later
>>507304482>>507306315>>507306558>>507306694schrodinger's nigger. it's impossible to determine if a stalker is black or not until he takes off his mask.
>>507306742well i needed to build a new pc before i could play it so i only just got it last week
>>507304482as soon as the remove blacks mod comes out everyone will download it. cant wait.
Does Mod Organizer 2 work with Stalker 2?
How risky is it to my sanity to enter THE SLAV ZONE of mods?
>>507308746prepare your anoos
I'm surprised they haven't fixed the horrific pop-in yet, at least on the trees and bushes.
>>507307765typical mod organizer>I'm oorrgaaniziingg
>final patch of 2024It better have fixed the fucking hard crashes.
>>507311083works on my machine
>>507301270>Oppressed UkrainiansStalker games literally have zero mentions of anything political in it, anon
>>507311765dr dalin is a face scan of zelenskyy tho
>>507301985>about checking every little dot on the mapCuriously there are interesting spots on the map that are not marked in any way, not even "a few pixels" kind of markedLike that spot with leaves just floating in air, forming "claws", its on the line straight from rostok to withc circle in red forest, the spot itself is on the edge between red and green area, on the green sideAnd stuff like rabdom floating trees, in a few spots here and thereAlso that wtf floating orb next to the cgeckpoint that in SoC was the point where you traverse from Cordon to Garbage, a bit to north east in unreachable plateau (only appears duting night, i think)The wild bee hive that damages you i mentioned aboveAnd countless such things
>>507287781>t. retarded autistic modder who thinks that all guns should be perfectly accurate at 400 meters win a game where 99% of engagements take place under 50 meters
>>507306694Imagine if they added picrel as a trader instead of Birch or any otherId have conflicting feelings about it, desu
>>507312695Lumen couldn't handle rendering a charcoal nigress
>>507311083>Compiling shader still crashes the game if you alt-tab while it's compiling. Now it comes with a new error (picrel, also maybe not new and I'm just encountering it now)>Springboard anomaly crash, now causes cloud save sync error, wasn't the case before>Yaniv guide still disappears after Monolith attack>Zalissya quest is still bugged, getting the depressed Gaffer outcome is still necessary.
>>507311930Nah, they look and act different, esp the zelenskyy of the last 3 years of the war (beard, no formal clothes, fucked up by stress face, etc)
>Cheaply made American AKS74u Krink>able to fire 5k rounds and still be within specifications and functionalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ4LGQQS-rYSomebody tell GSC they're insane with the weapon degradation stats.
>>507301270>Women as a traders or maybe a singular female STALKERNice cope. You will have a stronk independent girlboss MC and you will like it.
>>507312785>Lumen couldn't handle rendering a charcoal nigressIt would handle, she just would be blue
>>507293623Are weapon spawns random? I found a SPAS in the attic of the lokomotyv station in cordon, thing fucking slaps. Mag dumping in a bloodsucker feels satisfying.
>>507301985>I love the game and it's my personal GOTY250 hours? You're gay. What the hell did you do for 250 hours? It's just Skyrim with bloodsuckers. If I'm seeing several random glitched spawns after playing for 20 minutes, you've seen... thousands? Millions?
I just can't decide what to use between Strider's Lynx or the Saiga you can pickup from Nimble or the scoped AK you can grab at the startSkif can't carry all this shit!
>>507227717+dlcthere's already dlc? its barely out
>>507313640They just mean the preorder stuff
>>507312997>Somebody tell GSC they're insane with the weapon degradation stats.It's not about realism, it's about gameplay. They wanted to make it artificially harder and more tedious. This improves the gameplay.
>>507313701It's too much. I genuinely think the economy and balance at launch was fully designed to just slow down players so they wouldn't get to the really broken parts of the game as quickly.
>>507313363regular ak + saigaDONT use the lummox ak or whatever it has shit damage if you really want a sniper go do the quest line of the two ships with beard/sultan
>>507313809The economy at launch was based, selling artefacts for full price by just throwing in some bandaids
>>507313701>>507313809Never had much problems with economy, i just do artifact hunting runs every now and then, which is the main way to earn money in the Zone in the first placeJust get yourself two thunderberries to run longer (third one is apparently useless due to hard cap on endurance buff, which is a shame, i really miss the infinite sprinting of the SoC)
>>507312695i love black women so i'd be okay with this
>>507314151SameI hate niggers though (the males)
>>507313809not really its just to add difficulty/balance inventory managementlogically every stalker you kill should have a set of gear on that is in the same ballpark as your own and not a broken gun + 1/4 a mag. but if they did that you'd be rich af early af and would never do anything for money
Far Cry 2 was the only game to do it right
>>507314585Sorry but taxing me 5k for "you fired 90 rounds from your AR" is fucked up and I fucking hate it.
>>507313809>designed to just slow down players so they wouldn't get to the really broken parts of the game as quickly.Yeah, so they wouldn't refund it within 2 hours.>>507314145>i just do artifact hunting runsIsn't that just another way of cheesing the game? Why not have fewer artifacts, and working guns?
>>507227358>new patchCan anyone help my understand why its over 7GB in size if its just scripting issues? Unless they're sneaking in some asset optimizations (which I'm all for)
>>507314581based
>>507314645supply and demandgood ammo is probably scarce.IMO they should have done like metro and added shitty recycled zone ammo that jams more,does less damage and degrades your gun more but is dirt cheap and stops from every npc (broke bandits,stalkers...) and the gucci new ammo in-box that you get from 'rich' npcs like exoskeleton bros, mercs...
>>507315041>good ammo is probably scarce.Irrelevent. My gun shouldn't be so broken after shooting 90 rounds. If IRL: a shitty $900 Krink from a low tier gun maker like PSA can shoot 5k rounds and not need anything but some cleaning, I shouldn't have to pay out my ass for a gun that barely shot 100 rounds. I should be able to magdump atleast 500 rounds before my gun hits 75% or lower.
it just wouldnt be stalker if i didnt magdump a bandit all for his stale bread and irradiated fleshlight
>>507314825>Isn't that just another way of cheesing the game?No in my opinion, feels like a very much intended gameplay that generally makes sence within the lore of the game - there is no manufacturing in the zone, so the weapons/ammo/supplies go in, artifacts go out, the only problem for me in it is that you cant put 3 thunderberies and get infinite SoC-style sprintingWe can argue about what you daid in terms of making them rarer but more expensive but it woukdnt change muchOh, and also i wish A-life haf this element of competitorshit for tge artufacts. Imagine if you came to an anomaly field, your artifact detector beeps, but there are already stalkers on the spot, and theyre like "fuck off, we got here first, artifact is ours, if you dont fuck off we open fire" and stuff like that
>>507313080
>>507314969Apparently an unreal engine issue
>>507314969I can only assume GSC can't into incremental updates and they update the entire script file instead of binary patching it. Or I'm talking out of my ass, Steam does it automatically and it's something else that leads to these update sizes.
>>507315357>yfw cant go back to the more simpler times
>>507315353That wouldn't be a bad idea, if these devs had any hope of pulling it off. It might get old fast though, seeing guys camping the anomaly dispenser.
>>507315826I think bandits camping the anomaly site would make actual sence too, you know, "chiki briki, go get that arti for us, faggot, or else"
>>507316237I've had bandits spawn in and attack me near anomalies several times.
>>507314643I like far cry 2 but the malaria system + checkpoint system + extremely fast weapons degradation system was garbage. The weapons degradation was cool, but was garbage and made the game a slog to play.
Stalkersis how is 1.3 going?
>>507315220mod it if you dont like itthe idea is to compress things. just like the IRL duga is 10km from pripyat but much closer in game because the zone is smaller than the real one and the day is like x24 shorter so is gun degradation much faster so you can experience more of it in a shorter span of time.
when will they make it so NPCs are affected by emissions?
>sparkniggers send a hit squad after me because i gave the monolith PDA to korshunov, even though im hostile to ward after siirca and i helped them assault duganice bro
>>507316404About a month ago.
>>507316404Dunno what you mean, they always ran for the nearest cover in my playthroughAnd those that dont make it die
>>507316547>>507316614that guy is standing there pissing on a wall during an emission and was fine
>>507298568>>NFT flops>>GSC starts flirting with Netflix>many they're really looking to grift the fuck out of this game arent theyhttps://kyivindependent.com/iconic-hotel-ukraina-in-central-kyiv-sold-for/Kyiv’s iconic “Hotel Ukraina,” located on the city’s central Independence Square, also known as Maidan Nezalezhnosti, was sold in an auction for Hr 2.5 billion ($60 million) after being state-owned since 1961, Ukraine's State Property Fund said.The sale marks one of the country's largest privatizations of state-owned property in recent years.The auction’s winner was Ukrainian businessman Maksym Krippa — who bid over double the starting price of Hr 1.05 billion ($25.3 million), according to results on Prozorro.Sale, an online auction system in Ukraine.While Krippa has maintained a relatively low profile throughout his career — built largely on gambling, entertainment, and IT — this is his second high-ticket purchase over the last year. In 2023, he purchased the Parus skyscraper in downtown Kyiv.The auction was part of Ukraine’s “Great Privatization” drive to sell off large state-owned assets, which was suspended after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.https://getyoursportsnews.com some kind of fake ChatJeetPT site but I'm on my phone. Maksym Krippa takes command of Kyiv's real estate scene with Parus acquisitionHe needs more MONEY
>>507316526they did the right thing
>>507316656Wtf pissing neutralises emmision effects? Is this how Scar survived? By soiling himself??The plot just thickened
To the anon asking about ghosting it looks like it's a lumen issue and there's nothing you can do about it lol>xray engine was made because its dynamic lighting was actual peak tech at the time how far we've fallen...
>>507316526>sparkniggers send a hit squad after me because i gave the monolith PDA to korshunov,No, it's because they want your badge so they can infiltrate Chem Plant to do a terrorist attack. >>507316656Yeah so a bug happened. You fags are so fucking annoying>ONE TIME I SAW A FEATURE OR MECHANIC BUG SO THAT MEANS THE FEATURE IS NOT IN THE GAMEYou faggots also claim Stealth isn't in the game when it absolutely is, and is just janky and buggy so sometimes weird shit happens.
>>507316835also when the wardens were trying to kill me at their base it was during an emission and none of them died despite being outside. i haven't seen a single NPC die from an emission.
>>507316819the deepest lore
>>507316389This is fucking retarded.
>>507317263it is which is why i modded some of it out like the sun setting and then rising again after 25 mins is really nuking the immersion of the game this shit moves too fast. i modded it out so an ingame day is like 8 hours
Which tech can upgrade Skifs glass ankles and knees for me, thanks
>>507316920>haven't seen a single NPC die from an emission.Clearly you've never been at Duty's Cement Factory base during an emission. Fucking free loots.
>>507316819Explains how Kruglov survived an emission.
>>507303153Strelok ending will probably be canon
>>507318939Skif ending provides the most opportunities for future projects.
>>507232065you're made to choose between Spark and Ward numerous times but as >>507232578 says Subtle Matter is the the moment of truth where you either pick Spark for good or denounce themthe quest after Subtle Matter lets you ally yourself with Ward regardless of your previous choices or denounce them for goodi've read somewhere that the Strelok ending is only available if you didn't show Korshunov the Monolith PDA at Garbage but i'm not sure if that's true
>>507249294>barely brushing up against the POI radiusthe POI spawns that you learn to expect after the 3rd time but have to put up with after the 100th time are probably the worst thing about the game in the long run
>>507255602same with the gravitational anomaly on WIld Island, the underground chemical anomaly in Zalyssia and another one i forgot abouteither you noclip into them or you're not getting any artifacts from that field for the rest of the game
the zakhaev hit was only 1y after the first carribbean experiment.maybe zakhaev was dealing with the group running the x labs
>>507300139what's Skif's ending?
>>507320683Don't.
>>507320758One veeeerry long HMMMMMMMMMMHMMM
>>507316819The game is called P.I.S.S.E.R. 2 for a reason.
>>507321042Surely someone made a funny collage of these but I don't want to google Stalkers pissing themselves.
>>507320763Stop.
>>507321042Too much work taking all that gear off at base, cut a piss hole in it instead
>Zalyssia has no guide>Malachite turns against you for killing Ward (still can't tell if this is a bug or intended)>Chemical plant never available to begin withDid they think this through?
>>507321732Siding with Scar is hard mode))))))
>>507321042>he doesnt casually soil himself while powerwalking Low testosterone, ngmi
>>507321732>Zalyssia has no guideNo real reason to ever go back after the attack>Malachite turns against you for killing Ward (still can't tell if this is a bug or intended)It's a bug, some anon figured out how to do it some threads ago, you have to personally go around and hunt down every single Ward soldier yourself, not a single one can be left alive, and some of them bug in funny places.>Chemical plant never available to begin withWrong. But as >>507321896 said Spak is literally hard mode since you lose traders and bases in pretty much any non shithole area of the map.
>>507321513>cut a piss hole in it insteadThat would provide an entry point for psy-emission waves, unnaceptable
>>507322023lol
>>507321732lyonya is the guide in zalyssia
>>507322424
>>507322023from ledit threads i've gathered that killing Ward soldiers outside of the 3m radius objective zone of your current objective reduces your standing with themi managed to finish that quest without making them hostile through extreme savescumming but killing Ward in the Troposphere Comm Station turned them hostile after that
>>507322424Yeah...
They could have fixed it a bit by giving Spark literally any presence on the map, like any of the bunkers littered around
I like that some of the notes you can pick up or are given have little drawings and photos, but you dont' really know which ones so you have to manually check them.>>507322424He indeed is...
Is there an adjustable mod for repair repair costs, carry weight and stamina consumption?Are those 3 still mutually exclusive?
>>507321042So this is the power of the monolith.
anyone have that bug where the PDA can't play audio recordings anymore?is there a fix to that?
>side with Spark>i have two dudes in ponchos and one in a shitty vest to help me against a trillion Ward in exos and full body armor>side with Ward>Spark suddenly get an American tier lend-lease deal in military equipment and Ward's budget mysteriously evaporates so I only have two Pvt. Ivans to help meHalp me understand
So I just got here and I'm a little confused. Does Scar ever tell you what the "shining zone" is meant to be and I missed it, or are you expected to just go along with his schizo rambling? Because to me it seems like Strelok refutes the idea of anyone being able to control the zone without brainwashing them with what he shows you at X-3
>People are now complaining about A-Life in S2, despite it literally not even existingI'm genuinely shocked to find out how stupid the community. I expected more than a single-digit IQ from my fellow PC gaming boomers.
>>507324245>shining zoneIt's basically just Instrumentality from EVA/Convergence from Childhood's End.
>>507324274a-life has always been a meme, i dont understand why everyone is salivating so much about it
>>507324245Scar's Shining Zone is Instrumentality from NGE from what I'm getting.What I don't get is that when Skif rejects Scar, how does he figure that Subtle Matter is fake and gay and the "souls" stuck in the Noosphere are just non-sapient imprints of their memories?I've seen no evidence of that being true. Strider at the very least seems like he's able to think and feel.
>>507324472>>507324842EVAmind.Mind you that Scar initially seems to tell you that the Shining Zone is a physical reality and only after talking to the C-Consciousness does he tell you that his secret hope all along was that it'd be something aking to Instrumentality.
>>507324245JUST....HAVE.......FAAAAAITH*snickers*
>>507324274Because people only "knew" what A-Life was supposed to be from Clear Sky and onwards (which was broken, mind you, and got 'fixed' years later), which is groups of enemies "fighting" for territory (the software autoresolves shit in the background with a series of dice rolls, just like it does in S2 by the way) and you getting funny messages on your PDA.Most people have been gaslit into thinking it's this amazing one of a kind magical slav piece of code that doesn't exist in any other game, when it's just some scripts doing shit in the background spawning and despawning stuff to fill the world. >>507324245It's what the C-Con wanted to do in the first place, the Zone brainwashes everyone in it (they wanted it to be global but hey) so there's complete and utter 'peace'.
>>507325114>Because people only "knew" what A-Life was supposed to be from Clear Sky and onwardsWhy do you come here with your utter bullshit? Disregard this whole post. fuck me
all my favourite characters are c-con feds!!!
>>507324472>>507324842does he ever outright tell you this? i decided early on to side with spark since the ward seemed like an authoritarian front to continue all the bad shit that caused the zone in the first place, but I didn't realize I'd be going all in on the meth head.Also I love how in the reveal there's another stalker in the house that talks about finding more artifacts than he can carry, implying the illusion is influenced by what you desire. So all Skif truly desires is a slav shack
>>507322897>Хepмaн corrected to Гepмaн
>Added temporary solution to avoid crash on shader compilation by skipping shaders warm up.How did the Slav saying about temporary solutions go again :^)
Holy shit I just read the rest. of course this faggot uses the word gaslighting, it's always those fags who know that lingo who are the real ones
>>507324543it's a blanket term for summing up what 2's AI _isn't_like if you're going to tell me that you have no problem with the enemy spawning in 2 i won't believe you
>>507325095I mean Arthur C Clarke and Phillip K Dick were very popular internationally and the STALKER movie did have a 'psychic' child at the end of it. Metro also talks about transhumanism and psychic voodoo stuff. I guess all the silly stuff like Rose of the World is mainly to contrast the base reality of drunken hoboism.
>>507325360I thought it was a saying about the government. Nothing more permanent than a temporary government solution.
if russian modders were here right now we would be reeling to hear we didn't know what a-life was until clear sky
>>507325502its fine now, used to be pretty shit before 1.1
>>507325327Skif's apartment must have been really 10/10 if he was that butthurt over it
>>507325327>does he ever outright tell you this?yes, he literally tells you that the Shining Zone will eliminate all the bad feelings that separate individualshe says it twice iircthat line may as well have been taken straight from NGE>implying the illusion is influenced by what you desirealso reinforced by the idea that you later use the cartridge in a different function, so it can't only contain babushkas_dacha.pak
upgraded from fora to kharod, the difference is insane. penetration is # best gun stat
Someone explain Degtyarev's ending to me
>>507325776Meanwhile in American media:>kills five people over 20 USD
>Regenerator (1) lostThe guy who I was supposed to use it on has been dead for 20 in-game hours, but thanks, I guess.
>>507326057He stays in Yaniv pounding Harpy's puss
it's not always raining in prip you retards. literally at the laundromat right now and it's sunny.
>>507326150Fair enough, parts of Appalachia feel like the zone
>>507325869I guess i didnt realize he literally wanted to forcefully TANG everyone, i'm surprised spark and the scientists at malachite are willing to just go along with that due to being butthurt at the ward
Poppy field was comfy
>>507326150Somehow still less extreme than the American reality. Last time something happened involving 20 bucks, half of the country was burning.
I just left the lesser zone, I left the sphere full of dead soldiers and ran. Was I supposed to stealth my way out?
>>507325360I'M SORRY BUT WHY DO MY SHADERS STILL COMPILE ON START-UP AND THEN OBVIOUSLY CRASH. I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR ONE FUCKING WEEK BECAUSE FIRST IT CRASHES THEN YOU SAID YOU FIXED IT BUT IT STILL CRASHED AND NOW YOU SAID YOU ELIMINATED THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM BUT THE PROBLEM IS STILL THERE AND IT STILL CRASHES. FUUUICK
never had a problem with the shader compilation failing until today, bros
>>507321042>>507323175
>>507326671Not even a real 20. The end joke for that AD episode was revealing that he killed 6 people over 19 USD the previous week
>>507326875
>>507299307>he doesn't know about the fabled Black Hohol
>>507325776>instead of moving Skif sets off into the zone in a trash bag parka armed only with a rusty PM to exact vengeance on whoever blew up his apartment
>>507326875>not crouching down between themPathetic.
>>507326875>he doesnt enjoy a communal piss with his brothersyour loss
>>507326681You either fight your way in and escape through the tunnel or sneak in through the tunnel and fight out through the front
>>507326868same here but only failed once. alt+tab out of the game, close it via steam and reboot. worked fine after that.
After several days of drinking this stuff despite being lactose intolerant, I can say that I actually like it better than drinking the vodka straight. So I made a recipe.I hope at least one of you is willing to try it. I know one anon earlier this week tried it and wasn't amused, though he didn't put cinnamon in it.Happy drinking, stalkers.
>>507325776They don't have property insurance in Ukraine/Russia? I mean if he owns the apartment, doesn't he have to fix it? Does it work like a condo?
So was Skif a smuggler before he went into the Zone proper?
For me, it's pilk
Please help. A disgusting Monolith soldier attacked us. He killed one of us and kidnapped my friend. Please save my friend
>>507327430I think given his trusty pistol and knife that he was army
>>507327315you have insurance against certain things, like theft, floods, etc. and i doubt an anomaly insurance was among them
>>507327518Well yeah, but when he was running odd jobs after his service
>>507325360is that really a Slav saying?ever since i started wagecucking i consider that an inescapable truth about reality
>>507327315>Imagine the Zone-life insurance racket
found blizzard, now ima save leftythis ram2 is nice. not as fast shooting as saiga but i dont have the upgrades for the saiga yet
Dead City..Home.
Man, Gunslinger has a lot of cool shit going for it, I hope to see it when its completed or at least considered a non-alpha some day. >Can actually see your body in first person>little animations for eating/drinking/using medications/turning on your lights>Can keep an actual flashlight on you to swap out for the detector slot if you feel like it>Guns and their sounds are very niceI was going to play it mostly vanilla, but this has super spoiled me. Even just being able to see your body when you look down is such a massive improvement, even if you hand model doesnt match the one you see when you holster, because it uses the older fingerless gloves look from vanilla (I think)
>>507327606i think its implied he did some skechy cheeki-breeki shit before winding up with the scanner. I cant imagine how he'd get in contact with that dude if he was working at the local grocery store or something
>>507327868But there are living people in dead city
Time to kill Shah with his own gun
>>507327430>>507327518>Served in Ukie military in a nasty warzone>His service eventually ended>Bums around his commieblock shithole and deals in depleted artifacts on the black marketSkif's backstory is simple but also gay because they decided to make him 25 for zoomer appeal. The whole story appeals way more if he's just a tired older veteran who had the only thing in his world taken from him. The fact that he's 25 and after his apartment blows up he thinks the move is to go fuck around in the zone just kind of makes him seem stupid and autistic. I much prefered him when I saw him as a many with nothing to live for, seeking resititution or meaning in the zone. Now it's just some brocolli haired Ukrainian brat who's somehow super wise and worldly and incredibly super duper good at fighting from spending a few years in a warzone. The last bit of his lore is nice because it kinda of helps sell the idea that he has zone adjacent contacts so him seeking out the Exclusion Zone and successfully getting the connections needed to meet Hermann and shit is realistic.
>>507327315insurances pay for specific types of damage and most contracts have a clause that says war, terror attacks, acts of God and cataclysmic disasters don't count
richter literally just crashed my pc i had to restart it completely
>be merc>happen to be in cordon>want to visit sidorovich >entire rookie village for some reason opens fire on me on sight>had to kill them all out of self defense>sidorovich doesn't sell any wares or anything to meWtf?
>>507328089Artyom was young wasn't he?
>>507328498>Be asshole that murders anyone for money>At odds with basically all factions at best, hated at worst>Go to the one place where all the newbies heara about your assholery>Get shot>Kill them all, burning whatever little reputation you might have had>Surprised their de facto leader won't give you the time of the dayDunno man, truly a mystery
>>507328512Artyom's story is entirely different. He was a displaced young man who got caught up in trouble. Yevhen just decided that since his shithole empty apartment was ruined, he should go catch cancer in the Zone rather than just getting a new apartment or something.
Birch couldn't believe her eyes. Sure, she had joined Freedom because the "men" were usually more into each other than girls, and because they were relatively small framed, effeminate, and mostly high on drugs. She had felt empowered. Was it boring? A little, but she had enjoyed ruling over these flektarn wearing sissies as their queen. And yet now she stood in the ruins. The few Freedom forces that didn't abandon and run screaming back into the garbage had been shot dead within seconds. Smoke curled from the entrance of Rostock as the first of the tall, muscular, and masculine bodies of the form-fitting, black suit wearing Duty squads emerged. One Freedom was on his knees, offering to become a sissy in return for his life. A Duty soldier, with a large, firm jaw placed his AS Lavina between his eyes and blew the back of his brains out.She wanted to run but felt frozen in place. The first of the Duty troopers walked towards her."On your knees." His voice was so rough, so deep, and so much more masculine than any of the "men" that she had met in Freedom. She immediately obeyed. "Open your mouth." He said, as he unzipped his form fitting suit to reveal a massive male organ. She couldn't help herself. Before she knew it, she was in the throes of passion as Duty soldiers gathered round and passed her like a doll. Each one was huge, hulking, and brutish."Do you know what you've just done?" One of the Dutyers said as he finished deep inside her.Birch moaned, "M-My... My... My Duty...."
>>507328498My question is why mercs are at odds with loners to begin with
>>507328717>>507329060But I'm neutral. They shot me first.
>>507329230Lmao
>>507329060https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgpCxBQ5QIUThey're actually gigantic scumbags when you understand the shit they talk about to themselves.
>>507328089>just some brocolli haired Ukrainian brat he doesn't seem like that type
>>507328498>had to kill them all out of self defense
>>507328089a 25 year old slavic guy is about 45 in western european years
>>507329342He's 25 canonically. He's a zoomoid retard. >>507329448Yeah you guys say that but /sg/ is full of 20 something Slavs and they're all fucking retarded.
>>507328841Did you HAVE to write that
>>507328089gathering contacts and wising up about the world comes to you faster when you're in the army>deployed in one of the more brutal theaters>fights with distinction but has seen some shit>CO works out an honorable discharge and a big paycheck to buy a flat with for him>still can't leave the country as a military age male>stuck in a shithole with no prospects at lifeworks for me
>>507329539>Yeah you guys say that but /sg/ is full of 20 something Slavs and they're all fucking retarded.well there are some retards in the game too of course
>>507328841that ending is golden
>>507329060they are a hodgepodge of trigger-happy psychos who enjoy killing for a living, with rare exceptions like hatchet or hog. a random loner can be a target of robbery for them at best, and at worst an opportunity to let off steam by killing/torturing him.
>>507329305>kiss my ass, handsome~
>>507329060Not sure what the actual lore is but the way I interpreted their faction since SoC is the only old one I played much is that they were a PMC group or such hired by the government on the downlow to extrajudicially purge the Zone of looters and everyone else that wasn't supposed to be thereWhen that failed and the stalkers fought them back the government dropped the contract and abandoned them there
>>507330079the mercs are a faction but they arent meant to be unified as one solid force. they work for a bunch of different people all unknown sponsors. I think they're also meant to represent foreign people too hence why they use a lot of "western" weapons. but i'm not sure.
>>507330079>PMC group or such hired by the governmentNot even a formal PMC. Ward is a PMC. Mercenaries is just a loose association of guys who used to work as mercs who've decided to come to the zone for work. Think rejects from Wagner and Blackwater. The often work with the Government but they're true mercs and will do whatever if you pay them.
>>507330398>Think rejects from Wagner and Blackwateroh that makes a lot more sense actually
>>507329305https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZQZUpOpRCoThe Bandit dialogue is really interesting. Some of the guys sound so hungry they just got desperate, while other guys seem like full on criminals that went into hiding in the Zone.
Imagine if this was the caliber of psychopathy the mercs in STALKER
By the way, some anons mentioned expensive repairs - apparently some weapons are DIRT cheap to repair and are still quite powerful - like the Rhino revolver
>>507330935Bandits are kill on sight.
>>507238195>Like:The Game>Dislike:Sprinting is no longer compatible with reloading or item usage, and one cancels out the other.
>>507331030in soc they kinda are if you listen to their translated voicelinesnot sure if the other two games are the same
>>507331654>The GameYou are now breathing manually.
>>507329060if its anomaly/gamma it really just based of SoC faction relations, mercs in SoC act like well-equiped bandits any nuance only comes in the latter games, in a 'accurate simulation' bandits,mercs and loners would not have concrete ailliances and depend soley on each clique.
Trying to save up for an exosuit, do I bother wasting this much money repairing or should I just save up?
>nearing endgame>decide to take a break and visit concrete factory and cooling towers locales>they really do have nothing to do with any quest beyond what the duty barman gives, and two random encountersSpeaking of, I have a random encounter frozen at the Garbage because I killed the fleshes in the "cages" before the rookie could run up.>fun exploration despite the radiation kill walls in areas where you could conceivably make it to CNPP>strange lack of PDAs to pick up or other loot>eastern side has a guard house that's impossible to reach due to deep water and closed gates and I can't even tell if the land on the other side is supposed to be the mainland or not as regards why I can't go there>some farm has a bloodsucker just chilling there next to some mercs>shooting it aggros the mercs, die>reload>kill bloodcyka>mercs are friendly now>walk around a bit>another merc walks out of a building and starts shooting>everyone hates me now>fucking sweet half hour firefight burns out my resources and medkits, using scavenged weapons as my main rifle is broken and my shotgun only has hollow-point darts>I swear there were like 30 mercs total, all in exosuits, many with snipers>finish that off>no PDAs or scraps of paper or anything that would give any story to the location>zombies start storming the house by the gate while I'm looting it
>>507278313>happen upon this>they just start shooting each other, interrupting the dialog>lonerbro dies because he has a TOZ>tell off freedomfag and off him>freedombros still love me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS3hFgXt8oYWhere is this guy from? His accent is so fucking funny and he talks so slow
eye of the zone, what is your wisdom
>>507244450>Can someone explain to me why The Finals, which runs on the exact same engine to this shit, runs butter smooth while this is complete shit?Because The Finals uses a custom UE5 version that uses a different lighting system than Lumen.https://youtu.be/lJu_DgCHfx4?si=r0BG_cOzfW5345xz&t=1177
>>507333514his bio says france
>>507333986doesnt sound like a french accent, but maybe I watch too many movies.
>>507276640Do you have the game patched? It couldn't be upgraded before 1.1 (lol).
So they just retconned Limyansk? lol
>>507294710Times change. It was absolutely true at one point that patches had to be verified and cost money to go through the process. That's part of why New Vegas has so many unpatched bugs to this day, and such fucked programming they "had" to disable various minor NPCs to not "run out of memory" for the later DLCs.>>507299425Good luck getting /pol/troons to realize they are carbon copies of the people they got their start in "politics" pointing at and laughing (without putting any effort in to disprove their claims or discredit them because they aren't smart enough to realize anyone outside of an echo chamber needs a bit more than "this person is silly")>>507304482>>507306315/pol/babbies when a zone that has canonically had international attention from the beginning might have a few people other than Slavistan Slavov Slavosky skulking around. Do you even STALKER? NASA was involved in Zone research.
Why the fuck are there still military patrols attacking the Rookie Village in Stalker 2?
>>507334493>/pol/babbies when a zone that has canonically had international attention from the beginning might have a few people other than Slavistan Slavov Slavosky skulking around. Do you even STALKER? NASA was involved in Zone research.>blacks in NASAlol. no, there would be no blacks in the game and 100% not in monolith, as monolith was formed from combination of private security troops hired by The Group and Clear Sky brainwashed (plus additional brainwashed Stalkers over the years to keep ranks supplemented). the blacks dont make any sense here and they just all magically speak Ukrainian fluently? lmaowe need a mod to remove them its just retarded and clearly a DEI force
>>507334740Because fuck you, that's why.
>Enter Cordon>Decide to explore the electric tunnel for shits and giggles>Get ambushed by IPSF on exit>No cover in sight>Shit bricks, spam medkits and run to the abandoned factory>Get there with 2 medkits remaining>The factory is overtaken by boars>Whip out a shotgun in panic and kill them all>Kill IPSF from coverYeah, Stalker 2 is pretty good. Still waiting for more A-Life fixes.
>>507334886I got fucking ganked by 3 Bloodsuckers. Was horrifying
>>507334795>they've been doing this for 10 years
>>507334886I saw a group of 6+ loners just running everywhere killing everyone. They were all armed with svds which was pretty weird. Followed them around for a bit and they just kept running and running and anything they aggro pretty much doed
>>507333514france, he confirmed it before
What does weapon condition in stalker 2 affect besides the chance to jam? Does it affect damage/bullet spread/etc?
apparently russia's government is funding a huge anti-GSC campaign with the goal to try and deplatform the game.
>>507327226Even in context this is some madness.
>slavshack dacha dlc>fishing dlc>pseudodog companion (with petting dlc)>stratocaster guitar dlc>Granite exoskeleton dlc
>>507334493>/pol/babbies when a zone that has canonically had international attention from the beginning might have a few people other than Slavistan Slavov Slavosky skulking around. Do you even STALKER? NASA was involved in Zone research.i don't care about politics, i care more about the lore, and while it's true that the zone had international attention in the form of un researchers, there never were many foreigners among stalkers. there are some armenians and georgians in the trilogy, not black monolithians.>NASA was involved in Zone research.and where did you get that from? that one pda entry where some "n***" is mentioned? what makes you think it's nasa? why would it be censored? why would nasa know about what's going on in x16?
>>507328089>insecure 30+es seething that a fictional character is younger than themCouldn't be me.
>>507335929Apparently your mom still haven't recovered after I destroyed her cunt last night.
>>507334746>more than one race existing is le jewish trick!!!!Subhuman mindset.>>507336089>he doesn't knowBuildo documentation.
Item bloat mods are coming...
>>507336089there is a PDA in SoC which says 'international scientists' set up camp in the 'black forest' and then get wiped out, considering the zone has been around for 18 years and is a one of kind place it is'nt that suprising more foriegners come to the zone especially with the international organisations like SIIRCA and IPSF getting involved, but the random black soldiers in the wards with autogenerated slavic names is funny
>>507328089>he's just a tired older veteran who had the only thing in his world taken from himIsn't that what happened?Except it's a dingy flat to drink and watch TV instead of a typical hollywood cute kids and sexy wife?I like how boring it is. I'm glad I'm not playing as another super stalker, miracle merc or specops soldier>>507329060Their idle lines imply they're a bunch of money obsessed psychos, they talk about laying low so I assume they can't get work elsewhere
>>507331587This but freedom.
It honestly makes no sense that anyone would stay in the Zone for 10 fucking years.
>>507336871god forbid there are more things to loot than bread, sausage, 1 med kit, some bandages, and 3 bulletsmaybe 1 yellow condition gun if you're REALLY lucky
>>507329060I'm guessing it's because they're friendly to anyone except weakfags (loners), moralfags (duty), and the military
>>507336437>Buildo documentation.you mean the 2003 idea about various research institutes present in the zone? i know about it, the whole concept was scrapped literally a week after it was made up. >>507336930*rotten forest, black forest is mentioned in a different entry. and there are more mentions of foreign scientists in the trilogy, in cs an expedition of foreign un researchers is described and some un observers are mentioned in cop. it makes perfect sense that scientists from different countries would study the zone, but i'm talking strictly about stalkers, among whom there were never many foreigners. a black warden/ipsf soldier, merc or scientist is understandable.
>>507337462Yeah, agrred the blokes minding their own business whilst protecting the rest of the blokes from Monolith trying to breach the barrier are kill on sight. You dimwits never fail to amaze.
>>507337974Mercs are friendly with Dooty?
>>507337891Nobody goes to the Zone intending to stay there, but for some it becomes home.
>>507338039I said except silly. They're not friendly with them outside of a few story quests iirc
>>507299829>>>/wsg/5765664
>>507338031>freedumber gets mad and makes up liesLike pottery. Duty is keep the monolithians back. Duty is keeping the gopniks from sticking their dicks where it is dangerous. Duty is protecting "adventurous" loners from doing something as equally stupid.Duty DutyDutyNo sight or sign of freedom doing anything of note or value.
>save their asses from bloodsucers,anomalies,ward>they still hate me and appear red
>>507338039duty on sight with mercsi do love that in gamma, sometimes you get a merc pda message leaked on the private channel and its in German. Makes the idea of the mercs being anyone, and not just Russian or Ukrainian peoples, really add to the lore of the world
>>507338019theoretically quiet could have been a merc or un guy before being monolithed, yeah stalkers should be mostly slavic but it would not be suprising if you have fantasists, idealougues or adventurers from foriegn countries who travel to this magical unique place on earth, afterall there example of all sorts of weird nationalities voluteers from around the world ending up in the russo-ukraine war, but they should be rare
>>507328739Look at this from a hohol perspective.I you're a hohol, your apartment will either get shelled flat by ziggers, or a jew will drag you off to the trenches, and another jew will claim your apartment on fake inheritance papers once you're dead.The apartment is a lie.
>>507338960yeah yeah so delcious and moistfuck off
The fact that controllers, who were created as a result of experiments before the creation of the Zone, are still wearing these bandages 15+ years later is dumb. They should be wearing all kinds of found clothes and rags at this point.
>>507324274>People are now complaining about A-Life in S2, despite it literally not even existingThere were several phases that led up to this. The previous phase was, before the newest megapatch was:>there was never anything special about a-life it was just a spawner same as every other game it's just a meme bro
>>507325951best part about kharod is being able to use 545
>>507324472>>507325095>magical hivemind merge trust the planSounds real fuckin' gay desu
What nature/vegetation addon to use with IWP?
>>507335929>apparently russia's government is funding a huge anti-GSC campaignYeah no shit>with the goal to try and deplatform the game.Nah, their goal is the usual "le hohols bad"Unless there are some new developments i dont know
>>507339690I feel the same way about burers. It's like pokemon, like what, were they born with those clothes?Just once I'd love to come across a controller with its back turned to me but wearing bandit attire and catching me completely off guard.
i didn't even fucking realize
what is the A-Life like in stalker 2?
who will tell him?
>>507327283Ayyyy
>>507341369Vova approves.
>>507341369>worthless russian cuck cant even relax without staring at Dear Leaderjoke country
>>507337929Yes it's not a complete experience without Soaked Underwears
>>507327283>barman's breastmilkI'll take my vodka straight, thanks
>>507323203restarting the game fixes it for me not sure what causes it
>>507341586>mfw /sg/ thinks any person with a picture of pootin is russian
>>507334493>they are carbon copies of the people they got their start in "politics" pointing at and laughingoh god, the centrist>see these two completely opposite things? they are actually identical!
>>507340160Which is funny because Scar literally just sees a single hologram from c-con saying "Uh yeah shining zone, trust me bro" and completely eats that shit up
>>507341987oh, you're just retarded
what the fuck man. both IWP and anomaly just randomly starts ignoring my keyboard inputs. i think it has something to do with my keyboard language settings?
>>507342286I am but you're worse
>>507342335Busy hands?
>>507335929>world superpower has nothing better to do than harass videogamesounds fake and gay like those obviously shooped telegram channels
>>507342231I mean he had his brain fried by themIf the hologram said to drink out of the toilet he would have done it
>>507299826he has a kind face :)
>Platinum new release on Steam within a month of saleswhat went so right?
>>507341669I would like to be able to loot money or at least repair kits
>>507338765>this level of mental gymnastics and theory craftinglmfao
>>507342501>If the hologram said to drink out of the toilet he would have done it
>>507342231Enjoy your winter vacation asshole.
>>507341084There isn't any, they made a generic spawn bubble and are calling it a-life 2.0
>>507342821You sound like a homosexual
>>507343082fuckin spoiler dropping scum asshole fuck you. you fucking tried to ruin the fucking story
>>507343187Snape kills Dumbledore
>>507342821Did I insult you in some way?
>>507343187>abloo-bloo-bloo
STALKER 2's radio could use some Polish raphttps://youtu.be/L1vA_rRPtGE
>>507342754
>>507342462ah yeah that might be it
Fuck Freedom. Duty isn't like this.
>>507336871unironically good, looting enemies becomes boring af when they all have the same shit the problem is if they add new foods and such how well will the animations be compared to stock>>507340045im keeping it 5.56 so far cause i have more than a full stack of those back in my stash but yea you should always keep a 5.45 gun on you with just how common it is>>507344271lol he got you >t..t..thanksfucking BETA
>>507344271pwned
>>507344516>lol he got youNot really, I capped him after.
lightning randomly struck me in zalissya but i didnt die or even take damage, what the fuck lmao it's not even thundering either, just a singular bolt from zeus that failed to kill me
>>507344271>thanksGet owned
>>507344271>Thanks
>>507344271Dude I'm playing IWP with COTZ add-on myself and just found out the locked case recovery quests can either be completed by returning it or talking to a guy nearby and he'll open it and share the loot with you, kino
>>507344643after this its just sad incel rage, he has the upper hand regardless. this hits harder than bullets
>>507344271>Hope he enjoys the sloppy seconds.
Cardan is a pretty cool guy. eh mods guns and doesn't afraid of anything
>>507345302Here's to a steady hand!
>>507345348Zzz... Zzz...
>>507340382anyone? Trees and bushes look like trash
>>507345302he's the best
>>507345678>What? 62? That's impossible...>*dies*
>>507345870
The Kaymanov thing is pretty dumb
>>507346085the good ending
>have a nearly maxed out SEVA but it's at 44% from a story mission>Find a SEVA-I Should I just sell it off and work on upgrading this SEVA-I? It's pretty tempting.
>>507334493>niggers are political weaponsnice of you to admit it moshe
some of these stashes are way too hard to figure out.
>>507347118 I just spent awhile doing the Agcricult complex and Yanatar Production and it was so fuckin' rewarding when I cleared both areas out.
in the faust ending we find out that we didn't actually kill faust in duga, and that it was just a decoy, and that the doctor was faust all along. how do we know that we actually shot faust in strelok's and scar's ending? if faust is still alive in those two endings then surely he will do something in the future post ending. with the ward ending, we never get the chance to shoot the doctor, so sure, ward destroys the zone but seems to control the noosphere, but that means faust is still around right?
>>507344936just like cop :D
>>507347118Don't worry, you are probably missing out on 4 9x19 rounds, some bread and one bandage.
>>507325951Penetration pretty much works as a secondary damage stat considering every enemy has armor
>>507347553>>507347210Hell yeah
>>507338573and more lies doody fags tell themselves
>>507338573doesnt duty just hide in rostok doing nothing at all
>>507347982Yes when they aren't shooting Freedom in the back as they hold back Monolith
>>507347807You get a diamond exosuit in yanev on top of a bunker, don't waste money on the falcon suit, it's good only until you get the diamond which you can get any time you want.
>>507348119Technically he can only get the dexo by following the main quest. 99% of people are not autistic enough to figure out how to get up on the bunker before that.
>>507347005Yes, sure.The next real upgrade is Falcon, and it's not guaranteed you will find it.After that it will be Exo during mission, but you are far away from it.
>>507348119>you can get any time you want.It's an exploit, though.Getting any other exo by going to Pripyat before it's unlocked via main missions is an exploit too.Falcon is the best armor if you play fairly.
>>507346405damnis that a stalker 2 or prerendered
>>507348665It doesn't require autism. There's a wooden box a hundred meters away to the north-northeast that you can push towards the bunker to get on top.Takes less than five minutes to do and it's very very worth it to do as early as you possibly can because even when fully broken it provides better stats than most late game suits.
>>507348119>>507348665>>507348784>>507349241Thanks for the tip guys but I'm gonna keep the Falcon. Took me like 20 minutes to figure the puzzle out and I wanna savor it.
>>507349318Only twenty minutes? I can't even remember how the fuck I got up there.
>>507349241Don't forget the insane increased carry capacity.When combined with the weird water artifact you can bump it up to 140kg, which is the maximum capacity you can increase it to.
>>507343439nohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjjgZUKlcwQ
>>507349642
does anyone have a list of the music playing on the radio in S2?some of these songs legit set my ears on fire and make me dance around in my room
I probably won't be able to replay S2 again because of all the insane shit you can get right from the start>leave the starting zone>get Dnipro, Saiga, and SVU from late-game stashes>get extended mag and 4x scope>get Diamond Exo using a box>get Weird Bottle>loot few other high value stashes for coupons and early upgrades>early game is now a jokeThere's nothing stopping you from running to Cooling Towers or Yantar. You can outrun any monsters and hostile NPCs. You can get instantly overpowered making the game boring and lame.
>>507341742fucking avatarfag
whats the lore on streloks hairline?
>>507350476I mean, just like all the other games, right?
I sold the Seva D a while back, but now I'm looking for a solid beater armor.I've got the Seva V and Seva I. Which is a cheaper beater, or is there another cheaper beater I can buy up?
>>507350609You may not like it, but that is what peak performance looks like.
>>507350476>just go around collecting an optimised build>wtf why is the game broken!?
>>507350645Well, no.Other games often lock end-game gear behind have experience and levels. For example Elden Ring. Even if you find some end-game weapon which is not protected by a deadly boss, you won't be able to use it because you're still level 1 and don't have enough stats for it.
>>507351310I meant the other stalker games
>>507351446OLD GOOD NEW BAD OKAY!?
>>507351309Some people just don't have the self control to not powergame.
>>507350609That's just the hairline most middle-aged slavs have.Even the women sometimes.
>>507351601hmm why do slavic and french men seem to always bald
>>507350574You're just mad I'm straight like my booze, mama-kisser.If you knew how to get absolutely irradiated babes like me you wouldn't be seething on an anonymous imageboard.Snork.
>>507336437who are you quoting?
>>507350462this might be helpful:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6F75Ks18W4
diegetic PDA mod when
>>507352537Dude you rock
>>507351309Civ IV designers were right>given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game
also does UE5 maybe have a problem rendering PiP?i was a little shocked to find that scopes aren't PiP eitherhard to belive that was a deliberate design choice AD 2024
>>507352872already exists, the game just zooms in until the PDA covers the whole screen because of console babbies, you can see the rest of the PDA and Skif's hands holding it if you play on ultrawide>>507353047no, just cut because of Series S
>rip a dab>put on my expensive haptic feedback headphones>end up super paranoid from the weed and the game>only able to feel comfortable with my huge camp machete on my desk in front of me
>>507353128>you can see the rest of the PDA and Skif's hands holding it if you play on ultrawideproofs? can you see the ground as well?i have a really hard time believing that
>>507353183weed suxmore news at 11
Is my save fucked?
>>507353047What do you mean?Do you want only the part within scoped part to be zoomed, while the rest to be normal?That might be "realistic", but I don't like it because it makes aiming harder. It's probably indeed a deliberate design choice.
>>507353047sorry bro the game has to run on a fucking 4 teraflop console
new bread >>507353583
>>507353417https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/316?tab=postsyou can see it in this mod's images since the author plays on widescreen
>>507353582Minor incident indeed.Yes, reload.
>>507353578>he doesn't know the true Freedom experienceIt's so fucking scary and immersive to play STALKER stoned. Or any game really. It's a gamer's drug.
>>507353582No, he deserved it
