Christmas drink 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: >>507227358
Duty won.
>>507353848>btfo by freedom twinksthat doesn't sound like winning
>>507353128anon this is blatant horseshitthe PDA screen is not on until after it covers your entire screenit is very obviously not diegetic
Need a freedom femboy bouncing on my cock by the campfire
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/129?tab=filesThoughts on this mod? Is it necessary?
im so happy that we are all friends i have nobody else to talk to about this game anywhere
>>507353848where are Zulu and Voronin in the game?can't find them
I have most non-meme physical copies of hit slavic game, do you have some too? On the fence on splurging on the new one.
>>507353583So mercs are just organized bandits, huh
>>507353848lmeow
>>507354276>soldier of fortuneYeah kind of.
>>507354075h-hey..
>https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/51?tab=posts&BH=3is it worth playing this mod for my first playthrough? I heard veteran makes enemies bullet sponges and I wanted the classic master difficulty. otherwise Ill just play stalker difficulty
>>507354768Just play stalker difficulty.Difficulties change more than just damage, it upsets the economy too
>>507354595R O S T O KOSTOK
>>507354276so governments are just legitimized mafia?
Someone comes up to your girl, slaps her booty and says>monolithia!What is your response?
>>507354221Haven't found Zulu but they talk alot about him so he must be around. Voronin is in the new Duty Base bordering the Cooling Towers.
>>507354239>didn't wipe the EXIFI'm fucking stealing something from your house nigga!
>Re-downloading the entire game for the 4th time in a row in a single weekMERRY FUCKING CHRISTMAS
>>507355198LOVI LIMONCHIK
>>507355646Why do you keep deleting it?
>>507355646Isn't UE5 great?
>>507355646Five hundred gigabytes.
>>507355198гoвop изгoлoвьeм
>>507355528>location turned offYou are not getting my stash stalker.
>>507354768>Sprinting uses much less stamina, but speed has been reduced. Jumping and melee attack cost half as much stamina.There are several stashes in the game that require long sprinting jumps to get. If the mod reduces sprinting speed I wonder if those jumps are still possible.>Selling will generate more coupons, so you will generally have more money to spend.>Durability of weapons and armors increased. (Weapons especially won't be a nightmare to maintain)How is this master difficulty if it makes game easier>Ammo and consumables are 75% more expensive. They should represent a bigger drain of your hard earned coupons.You never buy consumables in S2 even on veteran. You always have 20+ medkits and bandages, and you constantly need to drop them to not get overweight. And you don't buy ammo, you sell it. Are you low on 5.45? Switch to 5.56 weapon. Low on 5.56? The next mission is for 7.62. The only ammo I ever bought was AP shotgun ammo to get some additional power against monsters. This mod will fuck up economy.
>>507354239weird collection.
>>507356213I have more but it is too weird to post by 4chin standards so I won't bother.
The update download simulator has a pretty cute Stalker 2 mini game but feels it got pretty stale couple zones in (Zaton) since all the fights feel same-sy and exploration doesn't feel as rewarding as it did back in the day. Am I just blinded by nostalgia or missing something? Tried to hunt for artifacts once I got a non ghetto detector somehow but they seem sucky anyway nor worth the time for the price. Generally, the economy seems rather harsh - though I guess it is kinda realistic that people dumb enough to become stalkers would get fucked over at every corner.
>>507354276yepwhy the merc circle jerk by anomaly/ gamma fags annoys me
>>507355750Is it even the fault of UE5 that you have to redownload textures and models are the time and not how devs packages the final thing?
>>507356135>medkitsShould've nerfed healing speedChange it from whatever it is now to 1% HP/second for x seconds so people can't just pop one and go straight into the fray again 3 seconds later.
>>507356664Both. UE5 defaults to this shitty way from what I've seen and the devs are lazy bums that don't seek to change it
>>507356921threat interactive please go and stay go
>>507356395Economy is hard to fix. One Russian mod called NLC-7 is the only one that fixed via barter, favours and cost of running high end equipment and artifacts but it doesn't have a good translation and a ridiculous difficulty curve so I can't bounce it off for the sake of discussion. Misery and Anomaly went the le expensive route but they all fall in to the trap of being giga rich by the mid-end game due to there not being limitations and money sinks to balance it off, Stalker 2 decided to be like that but with a shitty money sink of pumping all your money in to repairs because a bandit scratched your gas mask with his makarov.
>>507357091No idea who they are. Were they the ones saying ue5 has to do it this way?
>>507357134At least the equipment sorta makes sense but good lord, the gun durability is just frustrating because it goes hard vs realism and best head-lore I can come up to justify it is that all the guns in the zone are old and used as fuck anyway, so the "repairs" are just making total shit slightly more reliable for a bit.
>>507354239System shock 2 is slavic?
>>507356395>economy is harshIdk how people are playing but I have never had money issues unless you're one of the retards running and grabbing endgame gear while the game difficulty scale is still at newbie levels. Repairs will fuck you over until you get later into the game where enemies start dropping mid/endgame guns that sell for big money. It's how it was for me when I found a seva suit before getting to slag for the story and saw that repair bill.
>>507358019I don't have where to stuff it at the moment.
>>507358119Up your ass where it belongsOverrated shitty game
>>507358232The many sings to us.
explain this /sg/
>>507358653The title explains it methinks
>>507358653zelenskyy hasn't look that lean or clean cut in years
>>507358653Turns out the warden ending is canon
>>507358881Zelensky patch 2.0 has fixed the problems.
>>507359023>slava allah
Have you ever seen such a thing
>>507359397Yes actually.
>>507359392>teams have been scrambled
>>507359397Hm, it should be cheaper to just weld the cover instead of filling the whole with concrete.
Just killed 5 bloodsuckers literally within a minute.This is getting ridiculous.They're not even a challenge, or scary. They're just annoying.
>>507358054For me it's less a money issue but it just feeling pretty empty when so much of the money goes into repairs. Would prefer if there was some optional money sink like gambling or weapon skins instead.
>>507360172What is the trick? They feel a lot less predictable than in the old games, so I still haven't found a consistent strategy. Sometimes they feel easy and sometimes a single one is too much.
>>507355204thankscouldn't find voronin in the cement factory
Is there some sort of performance guide and the impact + visuals each setting has? It seems to run mostly fine with 4060 on High with some things like AA on Epic but feels like there is way more room up.
>>507360883have mag fed 870 / SPAS / Saigathat's the trick, it trivializes themthey have more health than in the previous games and due to how guns are balanced they're your only source of high burst damage>a lot less predictablenigger is you serious
>>507361503The only performance guide I can offer you is calling Nvidia to solder 16gb of VRAM to your card.
>>507360883>What is the trick?They run on all fours, like at dog, at roughly their waist level. So you have to aim low and you'll be headshotting them most of the time, a well place shotgun shot at close range absolutely devastates them, if you're in an open space they'll run in a straight line at you and you can full auto their heads.
>>507360883Use spas or ram-2, or rhino with hollow point.All bloodsuckers go down in 2 direct hits from an HP rhino.Lure them down a straight path towards and wait for them to come into view for you to get a clean hit, like the entrance of a bunker or just run away for five seconds then turn around.
What stops me from crafting insane amounts of the coco and having unlimited stamina and 6kg extraIn anomaly
>>507363006ya aint got no bakin soda
>>507361953If devs need more than 8gb for 1080p, it's on them. My only complaint is them jewing out on the bus, 128 is a fucking joke for 300 bucks card.Though generally it's at 70-80% usage with Frame Gen anyway, so surely there is some shit I can push up. Just wish there was a non-trial and error method for it.
>>507360723That sounds like a waste of dev time tbf. Rather gsc work on the bugs and balance
>>507354276>neets with gunspretty much
>>507363006why cant you just be normal
Yeah I'm gonna say it: This is the best Vanilla STALKER experience so far.
>>507363794Free stalkers forever
Well, my game is bricked. I need to talk to Richter to proceed but he's dead. Even Birch didn't know what to do with him
>>507364103LMAO
>>507364053It's pretty good though 1.1 should've been the 1.0.
>>507364103>when she keep slurpin
>>507364103You dont have any earlier savefiles?
i don't know if i like 1.1 a-life bros, can't walk anywhere without random shit happening around me
>>507348784Went ahead and did it. Pretty satisfied with the call. Still sticking to Sunrise for my backup suit though. >>507364198Absolutely. It's not coincidence that it came about a month after release. They needed another delay.
>>507364103Does UEtools have a way to revive dead characters? I remember doing it in fallout where an npc had a limb missing. Was an amusing sight.
>>507361736>nigger is you seriousMaybe it's my boomerish reflexes and the last FPS I played being Crysis 3 or something but back in the day, Bloodsuckers were never much of a challenge anyway and it felt trivial to time headshots when they appear. Now the way and direction they appear at feels a lot more random. Some optional fucker in lesser zone made me RQ and skip the place - the one one has to take care in the lab felt easy with the AKM when I was just running around like a retard. Later there were some in open places that were a huge pain again. I take the one in the intro had reduced HP anyway, since that was piss easy too.>>507362667>They run on all fours, like at dog, at roughly their waist level.Mhmm, that could be it.
Do you remember?
>>507364103GIWTWM
>>507356135>>Sprinting uses much less stamina, but speed has been reducedWOOOOOOOW what a great fucking change, I can't wait to waste 15 minutes instead of 10 when running back to a base from Duga.I fucking hate these retards so much it's unreal.
>>507364526>OG THQMan...
>>507364646>sprinting without weapon out is normal speed >sprinting with weapon is slower but uses less stamina>stamina usage is reduced for both casesBoom. Ez fix. Everyone hates that long af trek back while overloaded anyways
>newer version is worseIs this some Apple tier bullshit going on?
>>507364053>>507364198Wait is 1.1 actually that much of an improvement?
>>507365540They're both modified. The PA7 has better modifications.
>>507365715Quite
>>507364772I 'memberI 'member THQThe animation of their logo during the splash screen>shwoosh>shwooooosh>BAM BAM BAM>THQ>It's in the poo
>>507365715Yes. I frequently hear things happening outside my range of influence. People aren't just spawning up my ass all the time. Sometimes I see lone dudes wandering, othertimes I've been climbing up and doing parkour shit and 8 mercs in heavy armor rolled up on my at started attacking meHere's a couple more anecdotes:>walking back to Rostok with 87 kilos of loot>running low on actually useful shit like medkits >hear dogs barking>shit myself, figure I'm in for a trip back to my recent quicksave>turns out it's a pack of dogs running through the countryside 50 meters ahead of me>stay still and let them pass and they never notice meNever saw cool shit like that before in older games. The environments weren't even open enough to facilitate such thingsOr>Wandering through Yantar>Squad of Loners sprint past meI've never ever even with mods seen a squad that's in a hurry to be somewhere.
So uhhh I'm looking at some mods and they're all in .pak form talking about how various config options can conflict. How the fuck am I supposed to see the config options if they're in .pak form?Bring back .ltx files GSC you dumb fucks
>>507363794I don't really get how bandits took over Zaton. I swore I wiped them out in CoP including Sultan.
>>507365540Can you read? The newer model specifically says it's more "cost effective".
How do we feel about the newest patches? Are they any better? How's A-Life?I haven't touched it for a few weeks...
>>507367272This has to be a fucking troll at this point.
Anyone else notice the lack of gammoids today?
IDI KO MNE
>>507367589Don't spoil it.
>>507367272Then just update and play it for yourself instead of needing opinions from others? You some kind of sheep or something?
on my second playthrough its so nice to know how far i can push things, i did a ton of reloading to save ammo, durability, heals first time round
>>507368304He's probably a pirate who doesn't wanna redownload it to have 1.1.3
>Going to the Comissary to assassinate Roosevelt>An Emission starts>See group of Loners rushing in>Go with them>Firefight breaks out, we push into the big building>All the guards are inside>Me and a single Loner make it out>Start looting bodies>One of the Loners was a dude I sold some stuff before, he still had Nestor's Flash Drive on himRIP King
>>507368507Good news, anon. Even if you bought it you have to redownload the whole fucking thing every time they patch.
>>507367589I'm playing gamma. Just got expert tools and can fix this vector.
>>507368640Pic of the outcome
>>507368679No, it downloads 7 or 12 gb and then it has to do a laborious "patching" process to the whole thing. 1.1 was 110 gb but the later ones were more like 7-14 gb but still required a hugely intensive 100+ gb "patching" process where they integrate the new things or whatever.
>>507368912Some of the 1.0._ patches were like 80 gigs.
>>507369013Yes 1.0.1 was 80 gb. All the people saying it has to redownload the game or whatever else are wrong. Steam even has meters for this. The green line is just hard disk activity and little blue bars are network activity. Eventually files are downloaded but they're not integrated properly yet. That's what takes so long.
>>507368679It does not do that you fucking gammoid troll piece of shit cock sucker
>>507368640That Loner had some forbidden knowledge on him. It was only a matter of time.
>>507368640>>507369467makes me want to just go to cordon and dump this stack of classified files on some dumbass rookie
>>507369293>>507369316>The patch was only 80 gigs and not 150 you sick fuck!I'm still going to have to leave that shit on all day or night.
>>507363794I wonder why they removed the Army Warehouse region (although it seems pretty obvious it's going to be in the game at some point). Did I miss some dialogue as to why Freedom migrated to Rostock? Just cause Duty left? Did they stop guarding the barrier?
>>507368912Might be different on Steam/GOG but MS store literally downloads <50gb for 1.1.3 for me. If I didn't get practically free due MS rewards, I'd be pretty pissed.
IWPbros, will getting these tools in Pripyat let me upgrade the exoskeleton?
>>507370171listen you stupid lying gamma faggot cock suckin shit head you fucking chop cocked piece of shit bubble butt faggot ass femboy cuck you are just making shit up probably because your bored as fuck grinding out escort quests so you can afford enough to craft a fucking roll of toilet paper because your gay faggot is dying of diarrhea
>>507370257Army Warehouse is there still. You must have not.played the game lol, they hammer it in pretty hard early on how the state of affairs changed.
I feel warm and fuzzy inside imagining how good this game will be in a year or two. Stalker bros.... it took a while, but we're home.
>>507370454I honestly forgot. I've just defeated the Chimera at Malachite. The beginning of the game confused the fuck out of me I found it a little hard to follow.
>G*mmoids still buckbrokenLOLMAO
>>507370437Why does it make you so butthurt that the game completely redownloads every patch?
>>507370625Because it doesn't and you're a misinformation agent
Am I reaedy for Pripyat, IWP bros?
>>507370738You'll be smoked in that armor from the Monolith gauss exo death squads
>>507370604Ward clapped everybody, Duty collapsed because Ward took a lot of members and potential recruits. Freedom was given Rostok in a treaty the factions signed because Korunshov made them sign it at gunpoint. Also ifnyou look at Warehouses, the old Freedom base has tunnels that opened up nearby with snorks coming from them, so I guess it wasn't secure anymore.
>>507370738>2 long range rifles???
>>507370707Its a funny, get a grip.
>>507370810What armor do I need? I can get an exo but my faction technician can't upgrade past 1st tier for weapons/armor and he wants me to get tools from the outskirts of Pripyat.>>507370938What should I use for my secondary? Which of those long range rifles do you think I should use as my primary medium-long range?
>>507370856Wow I think I haven't discovered that region yet. The fuck how did I miss it
>>507371201It's not a disgnated region of the map, but the old base is still there.
>>507371279I'll have to check it out i missed it completely somehow. Is the bloodsucker village around as well?
900 second cooldown tongue my anus
>>507371384Still there. It's even mapped. Funny enough, I went there and it was empty except for some loners. Had other anons say they fought waves of blood suckers.
>>507371279>>507371384Wait a second... is the Brain Scorcher I found near Malachite THE Brain Scorcher...?
>>507371545>>507371384Yes. There's even a really hard sidequest there you can find. >>507371574Yessir.
>>507358653I swear the people saying he looks like Zelensky are faceblind, he has a rounder face beadier eyes and a beardDalin's face is wider and looks more like if you put every Slav CS player into an AI
>>507371657Holy shit okay. I thought it was another Brain Scorcher because I recall c consciousness talking about using multiple ones in SoC. They moved its location on the map which threw me off. Hah I completely missed the Army Warehouses and waltzed right into the Scorcher. Craziness.
>>507371785Za Monolit...
>>507370625kep fuckin typing I'll whoop your ass you fuckin prick
>>507370257you can find this in army warehouses btwbut there's no one there, i only found a psydog
>>507372396>no one thereYou didn't get the scripted merc encounter?
>>507372396Thanks stalker
Be honest, how many of you died on the first anomaly challenge with Richter right at the start of the game
>>507372731me
>check time>24th >Christmas eve and I can't recall the last time I touched a woman
>>507368507This.
>>507372569uh, no mercs, just a psydog lol
>>507372731A few times embarrassingly, I was overthinking how long the new bolt mechanic would disable the gravi anomalies
>>507372935Huh. I got mercs. Probably a dozen of them or suddenly in defensive positions including the watch towers with no path up there.
>>507372907die eurotrash
>>507373082i havent seen anyone on watch towers since the sphere, and most compounds that look like 'bases' have just been empty for me. only mutants
>>507373248There's a fucking company sized force of Monolith at my Duga and everytime I go near it seems to be growing and they've got ranks to watch tower snipers that don't die
Bretty gud
>Zombie by the side of the railroad has a Dnipro>Even on Veteran it's only 16k to fix it upNICEinb4 some fag tells me I shoudl've cheesed the arena to steal shit.
>>507374015Grats. Now you haz endgame general purpose weapon
>>507373798kek you guys are funny. I'll have to run to the shop early tomorrow and see if I can make it as well. Needed to buy some more tourist delights to larp while I play
>>507373798belvedere is way too fancy for this bro
>>507373798I dont understand slav obsession with vodka. isnt it tasteless? I like beer, sake, wine, whiskey basically everything but vodka it just tastes like burning water
>>507374502Vodka is usually drank with something like pickles, herring, smoked meats, and a few other stuff depending on the Slavic group. It was cheap to manufacture and became kind of popular during USSR. But it's not true that Slavs only drink vodka and it's kind of a stereotype at this point.
Is IWPfren F9ing in Pripyat?
Artifacts in Anomaly are really lame, are they the same in gamma and iwp?
>>507374502People generally don't drink vodka for pleasure it's a party drink.
>>507375252I used to regularly get shithoused on 50% Vodka mixed into Rockstar energy drinks and play Titanfall 2 with /tfg/. It was the best.
how the fuck im supposed to run away from duga after failed attack when faust clones and psi attacks are fucking me up from every direction
>>507375605That's a hard section. Pop psi and take out some fodder and just fucking spam energy drinks and sprint.
>>507375605bro your
>>507375591>/tfg/My nigger.
>>507375605throw grenades to stun enemies and just sprint out
>>507358653easyyou're a shill>>507359392thats Moscow for you
>>507362950the rhino is the best gun in the game and its not even close
>>507375839>tfw it's happy hour pubstomp time with the bros and your group gets TWO titans in under 60 seconds
>at first kind of treat scar like a joke, blue redditors SHINING ZONE etc.>get to the part with his boss fight and him realizing the shining zone isn’t real and he’s just an agent and you have to kill him while he copesi just feel sad for him now bros… it wasn’t supposed to be like this
>>507354239>World in ConflictMy nigga. Probably my favorite RTS of all time. I have the physical copy too, a long with the piece of the Berlin wall it comes with lol
>>507376739but faust shows you the shining zone, it is real
>>507376739His ending is spoopy
i think faust is the best ending in the game
>>507377683Ward ending is because they hook you up with a house
>>507377807but doesn't skif turn into a sircaa agent?
what the fuck is wrong with GSC? I think I've downloaded at least 200 gigabytes of patches since buying this game
is s2 worth getting at the moment or should i continue to be cozy playing owa until s2 has a couple big patches
Ward route is the best because it's the only one where you have clear understanding what you're trying to achieve. Somewhere in the middle of the game they say they want to establish X network, and extract energy from Noosphere. You get to the ending, and that's exactly what happens. Plus you get a house as a bonus.Scar route? What the fuck is he talking about? What the fuck Shining Zone is? You have no idea what he even tries to achieve. Actually, even his NPC allies have no idea what Scar is trying to do. You all blindly follow him and trust him just because.Same with Strelok. He never tells you what he is going to do. "I am the MC of the first game, so just trust me, bro". Just no.And finally Skif route. It's literally (You) route, yet you have no idea what you want. You just get into the pod, and not until the final cutscene you know what will happen.
>>507377995Some people just like the taste of boot.
>>507365992
>There's an anomalous swarm of bees in Dugasovl
>>507378526If you've held off this long you may as well keep holding off.
>>507378526It's had a couple big patches but waiting more won't hurt you much.
>>507370360probably
>>507379721You mean a tree trunk wild bee hive that chemically damages you if you touch it/stand too close? So there is more than one of these, huh
>>507379793>>507379914I figured. Hard drive space doesn't seem worth it right now.
g-guys.. what is a-life?
>>507380775No there's a huge cloud now bees that flies through the streets.
>>507381918AI routines that npcs follow throughout the entire zone that leads to dynamic encounters and battles
"I want the Zone to be left alone..."
It's happening in anomaly now...
>>507381278based froggy suiters how are you liking old world?
>>507384570i love it. makes anomaly actually playable and fun.
Did they remove Condensed Milks from the game? I seem to have found 0 after the recent patches.
Complete 2024 + Oblivion Lost = good? Don’t want to play Anomaly/Gamma
>>507384867Still there. I just chug them down after downing all bottles of beer + vodka when carrying too much
>>507384905It's your game you play whatever you want.
mutants scare me too much, i wish i could remove them
>>507385235The anomalies trigger my photosensitivity too, removing both of them would be the best thing for stalker please advise modders
>>507385235>>507385323advice: don't play stalker. fuck off.
>>507385234Just wanna know what’s good and what’s not
how many X labs are there
>>507385829Well those mods aren't good no
>>507387437What is good and why aren’t they good
>>507386795As many as the plot requires
man richter is fucking pissed at you if you side with the ward
>>507388551he is a gay commie that is obsessed with you
>Sin storyline>we got the important bad guy surrounded in the Generators area>"I have to reach le wish granter!!!1!!">We just let him go and now I have to chase him across the cnpp
>>507388072They're old and poorly made for one.OGSR or NLC are popular mods that get new versions made for them. I haven't checked what's good or well translated lately though.
>>507363794Is duty completely cucked in S2 ?
Can anybody tell me what this says?
>>507390118its your moma joke.
>>507390118isnt bapta the ward?
Does spark ever get better as a faction? I feel like they are the worst faction and none of it makes sense. Crazy scars okay but every other spark member I've found is a dick. I don't even get why stalkers join spark. Aite sure some are butthurt about the ward but those survivors couldn't have been that many. Everyone who joins scar on a mission dies on it. Nobody knows wtf is going on. Why are these morons signing up for this?
>>507390279Yeah, but that's about all I could ascertain. Also, this explains the suicide note.
>>507390417Spark may have been cool science dudes once but now they're pretty much the "fuck the ward" faction.
>>507390780You can actually run across one of the original Spark founders and he thinks they're all a bunch of fucking nutters now.
>>507390069>oldComplete literally updated like a week ago
>>507384840it looks really nice and has been on my to play list, glad you're enjoying it
Why did Ukraine still have ovens from the Holocaust?
>Reloads empty weapon>Magazine slotted in, only needs to cock the gun>Sprints before cocking the gun>Reload doesn't count, need to take out the whole magazine againWhat kind of retardation is this?!
>>507392494Yes that's right anon the holocaust is the only place that used industrial ovens.
How did a brand new helo manage to land in Pripyat?
I can't fucking find the wishgranter
so does Punished Zelinsky in the stalker control center die or something after fighting korshunov? i don't think he shows up after that but it seems unclear what happened to him, i almost started kind of feeling for him with the representative being fake, plus he helped me and deggy out you know
>>507392871IDI KO MNE
>>507392786Why not they figured up what stopped flying in cop. A bigger question is how the hell did they build sircaa? That's waymore complicated
>>507385235>>507385323>>/codg/
>>507390118The Spark no longer glimmers,and the Ward is worth nothing anymore….Bloodsuckers feastVenopi rejoices
>>507390118"Spark no longer sparkles and Ward is worthless now(wordplay: Bapтa(Ward) - вapтyвaти(be worth)). Bloodsuckers are sated much to BeпOпa's joy. The "BeпOпi" thing is obviously an abbreviation of something, but I have no idea what that might mean, maybe because I haven't progressed far enough in the story yet.
>>507392739>they also had sentry guns to shoot up the jews before dumping them in the ovens
>>507392871why would you want to
>>507393606>>507393917Ominous.
>>507393606>>507393917maybe venopi is a new faction from the DLCs?i wonder why they renamed Ward for the english version? iirc Bapтa translates as Guard
>>507396051English has a lot more nuanced words available so translators can add more meaning for firsties
NLC 7 or OGSR?
>>507396051The word guard is a bit literal for a security pmc and kinda demeaning.
>>507353583In SOC vanilla do you guys just scavenge what you need or do you buy certain things from vendors. Just completed lab X18 and now barkeep is stocking spicy guns and armor. I can only afford 1 new toy though. Wearing Ghosts armor and using Tunder 5.45 i got off a dead duty guy for close range and tr301 for range.
>>507390118>>507395571>>507396051>>507393917I did some research and apparently it's a reference to the ARG conducted by GCS back in 2020 or so, when they made up some encrypted messages for the fans to decrypt to get some bits and pieces of lore or something, I wasn't really following that back then. And Ben Oni was the name of a twitter account involved in that ARG that gave out cryptic hints to those trying to decrypt those messages. And it turned out this account was supposed to be the Journalist himself.
>>507396918I would try to avoid buying any guns or armor as the game provides, you just have to look for stuff.The only thing I ever seem to buy is extra ammo on occasion, but even then if you played smartly and dropped lots of stuff in caches around then you should be fine.
So... Uh... WHERES THE ROADMAP
Why the fuck are there giant mutated rats AND just a swarm of normal rats?
>chilling in skadovsk with cardan getting my stuff fixed up>hear explosions downstairs>3 guys are just dead on the floor and everyone else is just drinkingNo one's gonna snitch and tell me what happened i guess...
>>507399450I don't think tushkanos are mutated rats, the SoC encyclopaedia says it's impossible to determine the exact species they originate from. Most likely they're just another result of X-lab experiments, like most other monsters. While rat swarms are just regular mutated rats.
>>507399502if its tehe mod I'm thinking, they probably fought the dead dudes outside and were bleeding out, when they got back into skadovsk, they died.eithe that or radiation/chem poisoning
>>507400263Rat, rodent, same thing if you stop thinking about it. :^)>regular mutated ratsI don't even think they're mutated(unless the game said so and I missed it). Just regular old rats because those things never stop fucking.
Do mercs start shooting at you if you try to blackmail Moth?
Mercenaries caught a Stalker, brought him to the well, dipped him to the waist head down, held for a minute, pulled him out and ask: - Got artifacts or money? - Nope. Again they dip him, pull him out. - Artifacts? Money? - Nope. Again they dip him… - Artifacts? Money? Stalkers patience’s running out… - Look guys, either dip further or hold longer. The water’s murky, how the heck am I supposed to find anything?
xrmpe is fucking kino
gauss rifle is so fucking strong now
>>507365540>both upgraded>the old one is more expensivewho are you trying to jew, anon?
>can't use pda during a psi stormkino
>>507374015i think they fixed the arena cheese, i tried doing it and the guns disappeared from my inventory AFTER i picked them up from the other side
>>507381959Oh, i see (havent neen to that oocation yet)
>>507384867They spawn normally for meThey arent that common to spawn, so maybe you just an unlucky streak
>>507402012Classic
>>507402012jajajaja
fucking hell, the texan two taps these mutants
>>507403893
>>507374015I have one at 100% durability that I swear I found in a stash somewhere. I just don't remember where.I had to have found it somewhere as I got a broken one that I'm pretty sure I got from a zombie drop or the likes.
Permission to raise spirits?
(dies)
>(whistles)>(laughs)
>>507374502You can get some pretty smooth vodkas, but then it just feels like water. More expensive ones have subtle taste differences, but it definitely won't be like a whiskey. But sometimes you do want something tasteless or easier to drink.It's basically just the cheapest to produce, and when you subliminally messaged to be constantly drinking and become an alcohol, you don't really care what it is. But all in all, it's just a stereotype.
>>507404524I saw text pop up on my screen for that.whislte, some long joke that doesnt get said, then laughing. I think its another bug
I like to picture /sg/ tomorrow on Christmas day sitting around campfires with little Santa hats on just shooting the shit
i don't get it, og games let you keybind underbarrel grenade launcher, why the hell do i have to use this quick access disability wheel in stalker 2
>>507404793hexbox
>>507404695it's supposed to be like a prank, they whistle to get your attention, and if you turn your view to look at him, he will laugh at you. but it's bugged because it triggers even if you were already looking at the npc. sometimes you can just keep looking away and they will whistle repeatedly
So they finally fixed Stalker 2
>>507404962>sometimes you can just keep looking away and they will whistle repeatedlyI like this image
>>507404385>>507404417>>507404524Ahah, damn you got talent *drinks vodka*
>>507374502>>507404667Im a ukie and i dont drink at all, i mostly drink green tea (more than i drink regular water, lol)Literally chugging one right now, from a 0.5 liter mug
>>507404695The same bug happened in the original trilogy, im 100% convinced devs kept the bug as a legacy feature
lol the shotgun attachment for assault rifles don't cost durability to shootslap it on a kharod, put slugs in it, and you don't need a shotgun at allrhino still breaks the game tho
>>507404793Speaking of grenade launchers, i wish we had a separate one that is not an undervarrel thing, actual military always use those instead of the underbarrel thing because its just better
>>507405696>rhino still breaks the gameHow? Causes a bug or smth? Asking bexause i just got one and am about to upgrade it and use it gor tge foreseeable future now that i have stockpiled hundreds of ammo for it
>>507405867it's too fucking good, headshots exos, doesn't have durability problems
>>507405707You mean they didn't include one in S2? Can anyone else confirm this?
>>507405936>it's too fucking goodIts still just a 6 round revolver, anon, and later in the game you consistently meet 5+ groups of enemies at onceAnd dont tell me about attachments making rhino op because those make it ugly and everyone knows that style>logicAlso the ammo is not that abundant, very little enemies drop it
>>507406139No
>>507405515Have you ever had alcohol?
>>507406478You mean if i ever got drunk? Yes, of course
>>507405936yeah rhino being better than the svd is super retarded>>507406253 it 1 shots to the head and ammo availability/mag size doesnt matter because of that
>>507406721>it 1 shots to the headGood, one of the best things i like about stalker 2 is that they kept the importance of headshots, making your own skill much more important than your weapons/armor/artifacts/etcUnlike some OTHER games...
>>507406407That's fucked
>>507406875problem is the other guns like SVD don't and they have better ammo >>507406139S2 doesnt even have binoculars nigga
>>507406991I knew about the binos and nvg, but no grenade launcher is crazy. Did they leave out the rpg as well?
>>507407070RPG is still there
was the rpg ever that useful anyway in the old games? i just sell them whenever i pick one/the ammo up
>>507406991>problem is the other guns like SVD don'tHmm, dunno, used it a little (during one of the missions in Zaton, im sure you know which) and it one shot enemies just fineJust checked in the game, rhino simply has better damage/armor breaking stats than both svd/svu, and both vintar/as valAlso just noticed that for some reason the RPG has damage/armor breaking stats than that of a starter pisotl, lolololI also gewrd that the caliber modification for rhino makes it in a true beast, anyone had such experience?
>>507404793>why the hell do i have to use this quick access disability wheel in stalker 2You don't have to. Underbarrel GL is bound to the same key as "next fire mode". Pressing it cycles between fire modes, holding switches to the launcher.
>>507407530Nah you didnt really *need* them, besides maybe for the helicopters at the end of SoC, so i just hoarded them, and i do it again in stalker 2 (it just feels good to hoard, dunno)
>>507407617seems like it only works with keyboard binds, i binded fire selector to a thumb button on my mouse, doesn't work there, good to know though
>>507406567Ah okay. I was gonna write something about the dangers of being an alcoholic, but I don't feel like it anymore.t. alcoholic
>>507407556>gewrdheard*>>507407617Man, if only you could have an underbarrel for Dnipro, sigh
>>507407742It should work with mouse buttons as well. I had it on mouse_5 when I made that webm.
>>507407765I hope you break free of your vice, anon
>>507407765i'll drink to that
>>507390649Oh this message changes depending on who are you siding with, for me it was Scar who wrote in the last message with Journalist
>>507408173Damn. Poor guy is fucked no matter what.
>>507406253>Also the ammo is not that abundantActually i take that back, just met a group of 4 zombies, 3 of which had a vintar, lololol
i just realized this gauss rifle holds 99 shots in the mag lmao
>>507408778Yeah and takes 99 years to shoot them all.
Also i just found out that being drunk apparently doesnt actually affect your aim at all, the white dot of where you aim stays in the exact same place, kek
>>507407765Becoming poor was the best cure for alcoholism. When you can barely afford groceries, rent and utilities, there's no money for booze.
>>507408884And in the original unpatched SoC if you drink all those vodkas from the dark valley bandit base basement, your camera spins uncontrollably as if youre entering a 4th dimension or smth, lol
HOLY SHUT THERE ARE THOSE INSECT THINGIES THAT "SWIM" ON TOP OF WATER IN THE GAME, WHAT THE FUUUUUCK
they really don't care do they
>>507407931Thanks, anon. I've been sober for a couple weeks now, but not the first time I've been and then relapsed. I meant to say "the danger of finding out you're an alcoholic", because I never expected this to happen to me. That's just how addictions and life goes though.Sometimes making Skif chug a whole fifth to get rid of some radiation poisoning makes me wanna grab something, but then I remember I'd get drunk too quickly and couldn't play anymore. My eyes don't saturate the world like his does when their drunk either so it's not as fun.>>507408006Cheers!(But go easy.)>>507408946If that's what happened to you then I'm impressed. Knew some people that would rather just not eat than not have something to drink. Of course everyone's different though.>>507408884Wait for real?
did the last patch break the game for anyone else? shader compilation error, and even if i get past the main menu, it freezes while trying to load the last save.
So A-Life in patch 1.1 was a liehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA7raFVTRv0
>>507410067a-life will always just be a-lie in stalker 2
>>507410067more like a cobbled together hotfixI have faith it will be added
>>507410067i honestly don’t understand how they couldn’t get it to work, it doesn’t seem like an overly complicated system
>Playing NLC7 for the first time>Take a safe spot on top of the car from a few dogs chasing me>Screen turns psychedelic as if I am under the psi attack>Die shortly after from what I presume being nervous breakdownTruest hardcorest survival experience. Anyways, I died on the way out of the electro tunnel to the combo greeting party of rodents and fleshes, as there is really no known escape to the Rookie Village when you're unable to outrun anything.
>>507410773I'm guessing they just were told to focus on finishing the story, which still had game breaking bugs. So nothing really ever got finished.
>>507410491A-Life worked well in the original trilogy because it only had to worry about NPCs in the map you were currently loaded into (no bigger than a Battlefield multiplayer map), and NPCs in the other maps were tracked by spreadsheets that update every so often, very simple. Stalker 2's map is seamless so the player inherently has to be the "center" of the world unless you expect every player to have 128gb of memory. You cannot do true A-Life with a world this big, that's why Bethesda gutted Radiant AI for every NPC except those in towns.
brosthat quest where you have to put vodka in panash’s stashtry putting anti rads insteadhe gives u secret dialogue and blueprints
>>507411087>and blueprintsWhich?
>>507411040I mean just have the offline be based on a bubble radius not loading screen. Doesnt seem too crazy to me. I do think consoles made it much more challenging though
>>507410773Lol if it wasn't complicated every large AAA open-world game would do something like this. It's not complicated to have the game track every NPC, it's complicated to do it without running out of memory
>>507411087>>507411250Also pretty cool there is a hidden thing like that
>>507410802My favorite part was the game forcefully ailing you with the radiation amidst the conversation, and then killing you unless you skip reading the whole texts and bash through the prompts. It was considerate enough to gift me free anti-rad drug afterwards.
Just did a test, apparently thunderberries do not affect stamina regeneration whike youre sprintingBoth with and without those your character can sprint for ~130 meters
>>507411087Does he give blueprints if you tell him it was your idea? I told him it was his buddies and he went back to Slag Heap and became a drunk again
>>507411303But that's exactly what that video is showing and why that's a problem. You can't have distant NPC activities like in CoP when the player is the center of the universe because they're only "online" for like 10% of the time when they're close to the player.
>>507411040i don't see why they can't have it load NPCs in the region you are currently in and do the spreadsheets for the rest of the world. the map is already segmented and i can only assume it was for that reason.
>>507411687tell him it’s your idea, and later on in slag heap he will tell you about a new stash location
>>507411087Man it sound so obvious but easily missed. Of course I did that quest a while ago and no save to go back on to it to check it out. This is why I wish I could infinite saves.
iwp/anomaly/gamma bros what is your favorite faction to play as
>>507411857I'm guessing if you moved from one region into another it would have to warrant a loading screen to put all the NPCs in the region you're leaving offline and those in the region you're entering online. This is why massive seamless open-worlds are a meme, I remember Into the Radius pushed an update that split it's world into multiple maps with loading screens in-between and literally nobody cared.
>>507411362asshole from the last thread here, I was asking about patches for stalker and if patching would make me have to start a new game.this my blog for the interested, thanks for reading.it seems after patching1.0.523_(78128)_to_1.0.542_(78148)then1.0.542_(78148)_to_1.0.3_(78227)I can no longer patch any further..attempting 1.1_(78596)_to_1.0.728_(78637)because they went from 1.0.3 to 1.1, see 2024-12-19https://www.gogdb.org/product/1529799785#changelogresults in the offline installer saying"This patch does not support your version of the game, please download a new installer">>>>so I am stuck on the 1.0.3 patch and so far have not had a crash or any issues compiling shadees
>just finished with Ward endingSo what is the point of Cooling Towers and Cement Factory? If they were used by Spark or Strelok paths, someone would have mentioned them here by now. Cut content? Story paths that don't exist anymore? DLC base? >never once found a single M203 or GP-25 other than at one shop a piece for so much money I refused to purchase them
>>507412180BUT BRO MY IMMERSION IF ONE LITTLE THING IS OFF AND I'M REMINDED I'M PLAYING A VIDEO GAME I'M GOING TO BE PULLED BACK INTO THE REAL WORLD AND I WON'T BE IMMERSED INTO THE VIDEO GAME ANYMORE AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH PLEASE NO NOT MY IMMERSION!
>>507412180you'd think with how computers have improved that it should be possible. they should be able to load or at least prioritize bordering regions a bit more to make transitions smooth. otherwise yeah they could've just done loading screens.i'm still not convinced it's impossible, but realistically it'll probably take a while.
>>507412313You briefly go to the Cooling Towers area in Strelok and Doctor route, but only the Red Fortress area.As for Cement Factory, IDK. Maybe that bandit quest in Slag Heap where you have to help a Duty member will take you there? I just paid the bandit and then asshole ganked on me so I reloaded the save and just killed him immediately.
2 needs a fucking motorbike or something to get around on. there is too much walking. plus it could add a moneysink and a management aspect with upgrading your bike
>>507413360Nah, transport is just not fitting for a stalker gameId rather devs brought back SoC-style infinite sprint
>>507413595why not? ward use vehicles. a junky motorbike makes sense for a stalker
>>507413642>>507413360Take your ritalin.
>>507413360They should just reduce the size of the map.
>>507413642>ward use vehiclesYes, and that is fitting specifically because they are ward and are affiliated with sircaaBesides, how the fuck would you smuggle fuel into the zone? You can only smuggle in small stuff youd be able to carry on yourself - guns, ammo, food, artifacts, etcEven a small buke would eat a relatively big amount of fuel, and it wouldbt have fancy magic sircaa technoligies the ward vehicles (presumably) have, so the smallest anomaly would fuck it up, and youd have to repair it eith parts that are. - again - wouldnt be much bigger in size than repair parts for a gun
>>507414019>They should just reduce the size of the map.You take that back NOW
>>507411718I dont really understand the problem, can't they just roll it offline what's the difference.
>>507375102haven‘t played gamma but they‘re different in IWP
do you guys want to do a little bit of slap and tickle get up to no good haha
>>507413642>ward use vehiclesThey're also noted as becoming trash compactors that turn passengers into paste.
>>507414196Nah. There's plenty of empty space that can be cut out. Then we don't need to worry about having vehicles for transportation.Unless they put in a skateboard. That way you can do some sick tricks while roaming the zone.
>>507414476>There's plenty of empty space that can be cutIn my opinion the map is already kinda full of stuff, and the occasional picturesque grass field only adds to the atmosphere. I only wish you could extend the day lenght so you could enjoy the view of the sunset of above mentioned field just a little while longer
>>507414070just power your bike with an artifact bro
>>507414670Might as well use the power artifact to power yourself and sprint infinitely, but, again, this isnt SoC :(
>>507412571It would be possible if devs stopped chasing ultra-realistic graphics, they should have accepted 2015 was the peak of graphical fidelity, nvidia oversold real-time raytracing's performance to the detriment of everyone but their shareholders
>>507414651You can probably take small chunks out of everything without necessarily pushing everything too close together and still have some of those grass fields and such. At least a good 10-15%. I wouldn't really want everything so close you can just step into another POI like that. That would be a bandit and bloodsucker nightmare. Nor very pretty to look at. Some good scenery in this game.
>>507414651just mod in a longer day length, I dont think it break things anymore>>507415000the only area where there is too much space is probably the SW part of the map, but otherwise the empty space and travel time adds to the overall atmosphere of the game
>>507415000Yeah putting everythong right next to each other like in Baldurs Gate 3 (great game, just in case) creates this sort of "its all just decorations" impression, sometines you just have to have places that are just empty places with nothing special in it
>>507415423>but otherwise the empty space and travel time adds to the overall atmosphere of the gameExactlyBesides, those empty places are usually the spots where you usually have those extra funi encounters
>>507414476>>507414651Empty space adds decision making for what path to take to your destination.
>>507415423There's definitely more areas that have a bit much. It's not like I'm saying get rid of it entirely, just trim it down. Some areas do have a good POI/empty space ratio, like Cordon. Though of course it's more or less 1:1 of the original. SoC in general had a pretty balanced map while still keeping the atmosphere there.>>507416393I stick to the roads like a good citizen.
>>507417095>I stick to the roadsHeh, rookie, thats how THEY get you
Endgame routesScar route : Death Valley becomes a walk in the park until you have to fight Monolithians later on, skips one boss fight (Scar)Strelok route : Skips Death Valley, skips one boss fight (Strelok)Doctor route : Skips Death Valley, gets 3 boss fightsWard route : Death Valley becomes a literal hell doing psi damage, still have to fight Monolithians, skips one boss fight (Korshunov) but gets another boss fight instead at the very same room (Richter + Spark)
>>507373798Whats it like with powdered cinnamon? I only have sticks
>>507417805use a grater and grate some of the sticks up
>>507417563is there gameplay of death valley? i went with strelok ending and then uninstalled.
you guys are crazy you actually drink that shit?
>>507414824division 1 my beloveddiv 2 doesnt have the same charm also the story in it went to shit
>>507418187Oh anon, you don't even want to know what liquids I've put in my body. Pilk.
>>507418150just run from bunker to bunker before you get clapped by the emission
>>507418187It's good, I tried it last week, it's like a bootleg piña colada
>>507418383did you read my post at all? i uninstalled.
>>507414824>>507418282the only thing I knew about this game was watching people stand in a virtual queueing line for hours to play the game on launchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0TUI_4y-ts
>>507418383>>507418150>>507417563I did ward ending but never saw death valley at all. What even is that???
>>507409974pls help anons, i feel like i'm legitimately going insane. nobody seems to have this specific issue.loading ANY save or even starting a new game just makes the game freeze on the loading screen, game worked fine last patch.
>>507419295yes people have the issue they supposedly fixed it but it's just a cosmetic fix and you cant play lmao
>>507419295The newest patch is suppose to address that issue by just skipping the shader warm up. Are you on 1.1.3 or on 1.1.2?
>>507402012Based
>>507406721Yeah okay eurofaggot let's see how it feels to get shot in the head by 45 magnum lmaaaaaao
>>5074194431.1.2. worked fine, i played it just yesterday.1.1.3. broke it. it does skip shader warmup and i can go through the menu just fine, but as soon as i load a file the exe stops responding and i gotta kill it in the task manager. (not sure why this time it didn't even load the loading screen image.)
A FUCKING LIGHTNING JUST FINISHED ME OFF AFTER I FINISHED A FIGHT AND HAD LOW HP, WHAT THE HEEEELL
Is STALKER 2 a good game? I haven't played and I am waiting until they fix the game, I heard it's quite buggy.
>>507418282Yeah snowy Xmas NYC was pure kino and comfy, like the atmosphere got me hooked and thought they couldn't fumble that but since it was a ubisoft title they took it as a challenge to make the series go to shit.
>>507418187As soon as I finish work I am running to buy materials to drink it
>>507419846They fixed most if not all the issues, if you really wanna go - go for it, the next patch will only come after the Christmas holidays
>>507419809Tried the other usual stuff as well? File integrity check, reinstalling video drivers, restarting the PC, etc?It's times like these I wish they'd let you dial back with ease.
>>507419846>>507420052And you can also try out the original trilogy in the meantime, if you havent played it
>>507419878I had like four of these things last night, it really is like a broken pina colada
>>507420182I played SoC and CoP, I heard Sky is pretty shit. I didn't like SoC at all, but CoP among my all time favorite games.How's STALKER 2? Is it any good?
>>507420285Can't wait to try! I'm not able to go home for Wigilia this year so it will be something sweet to offset the sadness.
>>507420065yup. cleaned windows cache, deleted some folders and configs, fucked with nvidia settings, the works. most of these suggestions popped up with 1.1.1. though.>>507420348SoC is worth playing for the story and atmosphere, CS is not as bad as people say. should get community bugfixes for both though.
>>507420597CS is pretty awful and has the least enjoyable ending sequence.
>>507419828Holy shit, it can actually hit you?
Why does the Zubar look like it has a grenade launcher but it doesn't?
>>507420626it's the weakest in the series but it has its moments. limansk is really cool.
>>507420653that's the magazine, silly.
>>507420597Damn. No mods either, right? Have you tried deleting the exe file and having Steam redownload it?>>507420640Yes. I've been hit twice as far as I can remember. First time I was standing still so I assumed it would only do it then. Second time I was moving so I guess it can hit you either way.
>>507420348Clear sky has lots of combat, so thats a plus if youre into it
>>507420889...Huh. This is why I'm not allowed near guns.
>>507420982no mods. i verified files earlier but didn't try deleting the exe, i don't think that'd do anything and verifying took fucking ages so i don't really wanna bother.
>>507421094to be fair it's a pretty weird design and isn't really in service anymore.
>>507420285>barmans breastmilk
my willys' all stiff lolis that an anomaly lol
>>507421628It's the poгoвaя жaбa anomaly.
Do those altered items like the Weird Bolt respawn? I have a couple of them now but don't really use them, was thinking of just selling them.
>>507419182You teleport to Death Valley right after you defeat Richter, talk to Agatha, and take the X7 Suit.It's the area where the emission is happening nonstop and you have to go from one Spark bunker to another until you reach the Generator, fight Monolithians, open teleport portal, and then failed it because Strelok sabotaged it.
>>507422645Oh right I forgot about that part. Kind of reminded me of the half-life planet side mission haha
merry christmas from the zone everyone
>>507411087isnt it enough if you give him anti rad at the end? i dont remember it well but i think he gave me a blueprint too
>>507422972Baza
>>507419828lmfaogod saw you cheese and said yeah nah, try again
>>507419809>594 fpswat
A-Life REQUIRE some total tracking methods like spots on map in CS and war mods for CoC/Anomaly, otherwise it's not different from simple spawning from A-Life 2.0.I always preferred clear sky over other parts. I always set the maximum alife spawn distance in CoP and alife mods to maximum happenings around me. I always play anomaly with these map spots, because as you can track all squads movement even in other levels, it increases the interest in the game many times. Without them it is not clear what to do, you need to wander somewhere to stumble upon an shootout. Such alife is a natural and procedurally generated evolution of outposts and POI from far cry and fallout.
>>507422972Would PDAposting be easier or harder than phoneposting?
Okay you crazy bastards, I will try this with a proper Stalker feast. Merry Christmas and good hunting stalkerbros.
>>507424009Cheers ladDon't use too much cinnamon, add a little bit at a time until you feel it's just enough
>>507424009Merry christmas anon enjoy your breastmilk>>507424694I've found using a single stick is more reliable, you can just let it soak for however long you want and keeps infusing after several refills
>>507424009>drinking>mistake my cage seva-d for some other suit and sell it>few days later>spend a bunch of time checking that that was what I indeed did sell and then spend a bunch of time treking to Duga for I when I need it
What are you guys running for weapons in the end game? The Kharod and Saiga combo seems hard to beat.
>>507425519I like the Dnipro. Got my Rhino and Spas. I just like the Spas even if the Saiga is probably more efficient.
>>507425519After Pripyat I was using Gauss, Kharod, and Rhino.Honestly I could drop the assault rifle entirely, Gauss and Rhino is all you really need, one-shotting and two-shotting exosuits and mutants. It's so good.I would never have tried the rhino if some anon hadn't convinced me to, the skif pistol is only good up until after the institute goes to shit.
>>507425519Ran Kharod and Saiga into the city. There is a definite weapon hierarchy that seems based on who can upgrade what.
>>507421570I think its a pretty great name honestly, the kind of shitposting the boys would make especially being in the Zone during Christmas. A lonely time
>>507423716the warzone mods in anomaly make the game retarded with too many people spawning for anything to make sense.
I CAN'T FUCKING STAND THE ANGLO VOICESFUCK THIS IM GOING FULL HOHOL VOICES OR WHATEVER THESE PEOPLE ARE CALLED ARE THEY ACTUALLY BETTER
Will they ever learn
>>507426573WARZONE IS MOST BASED AND BEST INVENTION OF STALKER MODDING BECAUSE ITS A-LIFE MAXXINGMORE EVENTS PER MINUTE, LESS COOLDOWN BETWEEN EVENTS - BETTER GAMEPLAY
>>507427890I honestly hope you just kill yourself.
>>507427890>WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH ITS IN THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE russians are so fucking retarded we should have nuked you faggots in 1945.
>>507428234do you know what 'ANGLO' means?
>>507428370Seriously just suck start a shotgun and livestream it so I can laugh at the lack of brain matter that will be blown out the back of your retarded russian monkey skull. Stop fucking crying about language every single day holy shit you're so annoying.
>>507428001If you remove the faction ID and make the image quality crunchy as hell, you could pass this off as a real photo.
>>507425519After trying all the 4 endingsMain Weapon : Dnipro when siding with Ward and Spark, Sotnyk when siding with Strelok or Doctor Side Weapon : Gauss Rifle and or Saiga D-12Sidearms : Rhino and Skiff's Pistol all loaded with AP ammo
can't we just get along for Christmas lads?
https://youtu.be/kpP5b2_bt9U?si=go02_rzkYJTv6HhkAre you guys still slopping on that Slopper? Or has the reality set in that you're essentially playing a fake game?
>>507428534How many times this past week have you used the term "suck start a shotgun"
>>507429454nobody asked your opinion you fucking gammoid faggot cock chopped piece of shit scum bag.
>>507427890Zoomers really are mentally disabled.
>>507419846Yeah it's good, if you like PIECES OF SHIT. It's very good.
>>507427890...Do you just not play games? Dubs are almost always worse than the original language voice recordings. Sometimes they can be charming, like in SoC, but overall the language the game was intended to be in is the superior choice. I don't speak Polish but I always play Witcher 3 in Polish because it's far better and more natural sounding and aligns with the actual intentions of the writers.
>>507429424I wish they went with the same ridiculous yet soft-hearted dialogue present in the older games, Stalker 2's tone is too serious.I SAID COME IN DON'T STAND THEREHELLO BUDDY
>>507429540WAHHHHHHH! I'm sad now!
>>507428023>Brainrotted zoomer retard can't handle going more than 10 seconds without a dopamine hitLOL
>>507429754Play the game as it was recorded and you'll see the English dub in SoC is charming but pretty retarded. Same in S2. Although I don't get why studios always hire Br*tish actors, they all sound retarded. This especially triggered me in the Elder Scrolls where the Dark Elves went from grizzled racists to retarded cockney drunks.
>>507427890someone needs to euthanize you
>>507429754https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaccaiSEA-o
>>507429517I'll repeat it until you follow through and leave us in peace and stop bitching and moaning about the use of the Ukrainian language every hour. Stop bitching holy shit.
>>507429979Retards think "North American" is an accent like any other. It's not. Canadians and Americans by and large speak the most accurate and untainted version of English. The mistake is trying to sound Ukrainian AND British at once. Two accents overlapping? Giga-cringe.
>>507430118HA HA HA!!! HECKIN DOGGO!!! WAAOW!!!!!
>>507430420eh?
>>507427890Hohol is an attempt to mock the hairstyle worn by Cossacks. A "hohol" is essentially a collection of wheat/grain in a bundle. Because the Cossacks would shave their heads except for a topknot/strand of hair. This is an ironic thing that Russians say because they also claim some Cossack heritage.
>>507430245>Canadians and Americans by and large speak the most accurate and untainted version of English
>>507430694I Don't Care
>>507430785This is a simple fact that dialect coach's and linguists all accept. British English is completely adulterated.
>>507430807You clearly do, or you wouldn't have used the term.
>faust fight>after numerous tries finally defeat him>choose to grab his hand>diesAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH IM GONNA KILL MYSELF AHHHHHHHHHHHH
>CossacksGSC should honestly update the third game and add the missing units from Back to War, since its practically a remake>Noooo, companys should not/cannot release updates for OLD gamesPetroglyph Games still releases updates for Star Wars Empire at War (its now 18 years old) and there are still over 2000 people playing and modding it. GSC should also consider doing that shit for their legacy titles
>>507431327EoW is pretty fun. Cossacks 3 was also decent and I liked the quality of life stuff without changing much of the core game. Ya would be nice to see them do that. What a fun game I need to redownload it.
>>507431246HE'S LITERALLY YOUR ENEMY WHY WOULD YOU TRUST HIM
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/978its up
>>507431494i thought we would have a faust redemption arc
So.. we're not getting a road map before the end of the year then?
where is it
>>507431639they said early next year
>>507431410Check out the Cossacks Revamp mod/refactor of Back to War, if you want to play the old gameshttps://github.com/ereb-thanatos/cossacks-revamp-2017?tab=readme-ov-fileits still kind of buggy/crashy, but not as bad as the vanilla version. I still sadly experienced crashes in game, when I play through LAN multiplayer with my friends
>>507431659Check under your foreskin.
>>507432010i am circumcised...
>>507353583Got my first death after 10 hours in Stalker 2. Made it to Garbage, did the Factory, went back to Lesser Zone to get Warlock's quest for an artifact since I had a Whirlwind.Went to finish Leshy, disarmed trap by the stairs leading up to him. Son of a bitch shoots the gas tank which blows the grenade in front of me. It hurts, but we will carry on
what in the fuck is going on am i fucked? i'm so fucking lost
>>507431659Either above you or belowOnce i had an arti above in air in an anomaly, had to jump from a nearby pole to reach it (the gravitational anomaly field right next to terricon, to the north, where the train is fucked up all over)
>>507432745>Got my first death after 10 hours in Stalker 2Not bad
>>507432748Okay that was the coolest random shit I've ever walked into. Fucking awesome and what a find!
>>507431639What the fuck is a road map you fucking zoomer piece of shit? Jesus Christ Almighty
anyone know what the fuck im supposed to do here? the location is monolithian gathering in duga, it shows a million artifacts on my scanner and if i pick any up it starts spawning illusions that attack me? i havent found anything online about it
>>507433782wow how did you get that amazing scanner
>>507433976 i sucked off a SIIRCA memberyou get one for free if you do a side objective during a main mission in the midgame
Does anyone else freak the fuck out when you see those tree stumps in the foliage? I always drop and prepare to fire kek
How do i make a spoler text? Want to share something but dont want to ruin the fun for others
>>507434153[reddit]is that way[/reddit]
>>507434153
>>507434153highlight the text you want to spoiler and press ctrl+S newfriend, alternatively just google it and dont reveal your newfaggotry
>>507434280>[reddit]is that way[/reddit]Ok thxHoly fuck i actually managed to grab a real artifact at the stone village after taking like 30 fake ones (had to spend 2 psy blockades)
I just saw 2 Controllers walk into the Polissya Hotel
>>507435024How about you stop being a homophobe creep and let people do whatever they want to do in their private lives
>>507434153Press ctrl + s in the text field
>>507435171Did you just assume the controllers genders?
>>507433782There's a real artifact hidden among the fakesHope you brought psi-boost pills lmao
>>507435024You'd think one of them would've seen it
>>507435345What part of "there are no women in the Zone" is so hard to understand>inb4 "but whataboot Birch and-"No, I hate to break it to you, anon :(
>>507435637For the first month of her being in the Zone all she ate was freedom cumGriga told me this is canon
Attacked by a Ward patrol and found this dude. Looks like Duty armor? They mention some Duty guys going over to Ward (I actually don't get why to be honest they have different objectives but whatever) - but anyway thats a nice touch to see.
>>507435579>>507435637One of the Controllers turned several Duty soldiers into fighting each other, also several fleshes spawned.
>>507435812From what I understand, Duty and Ward do have the same objective; to get rid of the zone. It wouldn't surprise me if they worked together from time to time.
>>507436508That part is true but if you listen to the Duty chat in the older games, as well as dialogues, you discover that many of them were just really pissed off soldiers that got abandoned in the Zone and basically blackpilled themselves into wanting the whole rotten thing done away with. I have a hard time seeing them aligning with some mysterious megacorpo, but I guess its been years and times look bleak for everyone.
>>507431736Gotcha. Didn't realize it was pushed back.>>507432963Hello, dumb nigger! Looks like you're unable to read or Google or haven't seen literally any communication published by GSC since release. They've touted a "road map" that was slated to release this month and would detail future in game content. Road map is a pretty common term these days, largely in business but recently in gaming thanks to live service cancer. Hope this clears it up. If I were you, I would try to be less angry on Christmas Eve and focus on lashing out out of ignorance less in the new year. Then, maybe next year, you won't be a miserable scrooge who is alone for the holidays
>>507436508Ward stands for controlling the Zone, dude, its literally sircaa's goal, hence why ward acts as sircaa bodyguards in the first place
sircaa are fucking occultist scum that need to be purged from the world.
Sorry IWP bros I'd have replied sooner but I've been on Santa's list for posting pasted gopniks>>507412058Clear Sky, Mercs and Duty>>507371174SKATOr be a chad and continue to merc it up in your shit merc suit, I like to CS it up in my shirty CS suits because SEVA and exos are for women and flaming homosexualsMy personal weapon loadout is>M4A1>MP9>Benelli M3 (I think)>FN 5.7But then I am am an alpha male
4 fucking Burers in X-8
Is the consensus that a-life is finally serviceable?
>>507436508Ward is the replacement for ecologists
>>507418187You can try bilk, which is beer and milk
>>507437551not even close
>>507439124How so? I heard that offline finally works, even if it's a little funky, and that you now run into roaming shitters and mutants?
WINTER CAME TO THE ZONE, WHAT THE FUUUUCKhttps://youtu.be/nkamIEsBS8w?si=9HykCd1S8Nc9McwC
>>507437551>a-life is finally serviceableI mean, it exists. That's a massive improvement over having literally nothing. I'd say it is serviceable in the sense that we got through the game just fine with no a-life, and now that we have it up and running it's a very nice plus.The thing is thought that no matter what we won't get to see how 'serviceable' it actually is until modders start fucking with it.
FREEZING ANOMALIES AND ICE-PROTECTION ARTIFACTS DLC HINTED??
how the fuck do i fight ward in malachite without making the malachite faction hostile?
>>507439826You don'tIt fucking sucks, but that's how they designed the game
>>507439721I'll probably just start my vanilla run now then and play again next year when modding tools drop and constant patching doesn't break mods
Here's to a steady hand
>>507440104Follow-up.... it's actually really fucking good. Cheers to the anon who came up with the idea.
>take a contract to kill a soldier in dark valley because i'm broke>at the end of the day arrive in cordon, east of northern farm>ecologists tell me i have a bounty for killing army basedboys>whatever, go to sleep>wake up>hear gunshots>it's the assassin being shot to deathiwp/cotz is so comfy bros
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/221?tab=descriptionanyone know why the dynamic shadows from this mod won't work?
>>507440104i ate a russian MRE years ago and it was really fuckin good
>>507442142Did you catch AIDS
>>507442142Not really into MRE food because you can usually buy nice canned stuff that is better quality. I've tried Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, American, German, and Serbian rations in my life. Of all, I thought the Serbian and American were the most good which is kind of ironic I guess.
just finished CoP
>>507442704For the first time? Either way, great! It's easily the best of the trilogy. Just all around great game.
>>507440104>>507440280It's pretty good isn't itCheers and merry christmas to each and every one of you boys
>>507442765Yeah, was playing through the trilogy while i waited for S2 to get patches and whatnot. was good to finally get Clear Sky and Pripyat finished, i never got to finish them on my last playthroughsOn to the soup mods now...
>>507442964>>507440104the cinnamon is what really does the trick, without it it's just sweet vodka
>>507440104now that is cheeki breeki. Is that Polish?
God damn it this game is so fucking broken even with the patches. After Richter died on me I had to jump-start the next quest with console commands, but then no subsequent quest triggers either.Looks like I'll have to keep using the console for every quest to the end of the game, and who knows if that will even be able to carry me to the end or if I'll just completely soft lock the game. What a fucking way to ruin the entire experience after god knows how many hours
>>507439902so im gonna have to run to fucking rostok everytime i want to loot in duga?
>>507443781you can loot my tight little duga
>>507443781I'm so glad I accidentally sided with the ward, they stay friendly in the chemical plant and malachite.
>>507443781Not sure how there is that issue? I'm at war with the bootlickers but Malachite is completley safe for me.
>>507443971CORDONORDON
>>507353583How do i fix the lighting in this, its fucking dreadful. Shooting at someone in a dark room is unplayable
>>507444223after you finished the quest where you talk with the C-con?
>>507444469Not that far so I'm asumming my game won't be fucked for awhile. Thanks for the heads up though.
>>507443139It does give it a bit of a christmas flavor
>>507442964>>507444660Im getting fucking rocked drinking this stuff brother stalkers.
>>507444881I hope you're not lactose intolerant lmao I woke up with a stinky bedroom today
>>507444409yeah crazy what happens when you are in a dark room and its hard to see.
>>507445109naw I am not, but I have to slow down because we will be eating soon. However once that ends and after presents, I will be getting drunk in the style of the Zone. whoever made the recipe is the Barman of /sg/ and i look forward to any future creations
>>507444409delete UE5, install x-ray.exe and overwrite when it asks
2024, there are a bunch of AI tools like Stable Diffusion that qualitatively upscale textures, and not such retarded like Topaz. There is no justification for any mods to continue using foreign textures from CoC/Absolute Nature/Absolute Structures/2K/Atmosfear 3/Weapon mods. The more textures that were not in OG STALKER - the less the feeling that it is STALKER, and more the feeling that it could be low quality 00s mod or mod for some other game like fallout/dayz.Now there exists AI that even make complete pbr texture (albedo/metalness/etc) from a default single photography, and all this is qualitatively at the level of professional work in Quixel/Substance Painter, which would require a lot of days
>>507445327YES I HAVE RECIPE FOR ZONE DRINKHERE IS:TAKE CUPFILL CUP HALF WITH VODKAFILL OTHER HALF WITH MORE VODKAEAT SAUSAGEIS GOOD
>>507445708
>>507445327Careful buddy it's a lot of fucking sugar lol. I have one and I feel like it was already too much.
>>507446454NTA but man I feel like I'm catching up on twenty years of not eating candy by drinking this lmaoIt's christmas though, I can allow myself to a treat right now
>>507445815yo is that strelok
>>507445617I grew up on stalker mods. My first stalkers were some packs based on solyanka and sgm. And they had those same different sounds of gunshots, nature and pda notifications borrowed from first 2010 version of AtmosFear and first graphics mod for SoC. That is, imagine, I'm an oldfag with almost 15 years of experience, and the original textures, weather and sounds don't touch me. I meet with them only two years later, having found a disk with the original versions. But solyanka and sgm entered deep into my memory. I am spoiled by mods, and many players have the same background. Imagine what will happen to the people for whom the first stalker was G.A.M.M.A
>Attack on the Duga>get killed by the invisible sniper death trigger whenever I get close to the quest markerGuess that's it for my progression. Fucking hell.
>>507449449There are 2 psi emmiters nearby you have to destroy to progress
Has the dust settled enough for someone to tell me if s2 is worth it or if it just a big ol disappointment?
>Strelok and Sid had too much to drink again this year
>>507429979TES voice is and has been done in large part by personal friends of toddi shit you not
>>507450558It's worth it. You might spaz if you're a retard who doesn't play Vanilla ever and thinks of "STALKER" and "Modded STALKER" as the same thing. S2 is the best Vanilla STALKER game but in many ways it doesn't surpass some of the more autistic overhaul mods for the original trilogy. It will when it gets it's own overhauls but for now it is what it is.
>>507436936Hoooly shit what a bunch of niggerbabble. Do not say "road map"
>>507452143GSC has consistently used the term "road map." Additionally, not an argument/stay mad
>>507451771S2 doesn't have alife, its not stalker game yet, only far cry/fallout in chernobylwill become stalker game as soon as they make a full offline simulation at the level of call of pripyat, better - alife overhaul, cotz, OLR 3.0
>>507451771Nice. Ive enjoyed some anomaly, but only ever really mess with it after running through the trilogy again and still wanting more.
>>507452143sadly whining does not make language reverse its course
>>507450558It's a great game as it is. Are there problems? Yes. But as of now I'd say most of the really bad issues have been fixed.
>>507451771>S2 is the best Vanilla STALKER gameNormie brains just couldn't handle the constant onslaught of videos, media headlines and big-budget "AAA releases" for the past 10 years. They've gone insane and their brains have melted. Slopper 2 isn't even a Stalker experience at all, it's just a generic Far Cry clone with a STALKER theme. Every single aspect of the originals has been removed or ruined, I can't think of anything that has been improved.
>>507452616So int other words... that stalker needs to get a life
>>507452616>S2 doesn't have alifeFuck off retard. >>507450558Doin't forget there's a bunch of seething g*mma niggers ITT who're anti-shilling it because they can't afford it or run it. Ignore any posts containing words like "slopper" or "slopker"
>>507451771many things created by modmakers are self-evident. gsc made animations for taking medicine and food, flashlight, box, picking up artifacts, parkour, climbing ladders, wedge weapons and much more. ue5 has all the effects that were created in the screen space shaders addon, ogsr and etc. So playing vanilla stalker is wrong. Playing zrp/srp/ogsm/final updare is also wrong. Only if you launch old parts as museum, not game. Right = playing mod that specifically adds all the visual improvements from s2.
>>507453062are you seriously calling shit in 1.1 as "alife"? they don't move in offline. npcs still spawn behind your back.
>>507453379you know what shouldnt have spawned? your fucking shit head fucking existence you cock choppece piece of gamma shit fuck you and fuck yourself and fuck your diarrhea pill mod you fucking retard
>>507452578Nobody gives a fuck? Of course they said it, it's a fake word? Only a true consoomer sits around playing a broken version of a clone game, saying "ROADmAP WHeN??? Guyz they said it would be ROADMAP soon!!!!" Who fucking gives a fuck, they're going to add gay Stalkers and allow you to purchase guns online. That's the "roadmap". >>507452726>sadly whining does not make language reverse its courseNow try applying that logic to any other faggoty-ass reddit-speak. Oh no, can't make language reverse its course.. guess I'm gay now...
>>507450558It's a great game with a great map and a great story. But it's still kinda broken gameplay and economy wise. If you don't mind bugs and questionable balance decisions, you will 100% enjoy it. Just be sure to not play on Veteran, there's no achievement for it and the game is more enjoyable on Stalker.
>>507453528youre drunk bro go to sleep
>>507453541Ok, but what aboot Master?
>>507453541i had more fun on veteran after i got better at understanding the gamethe boss fights suck ass on veteran though
>>507453462>>507453249>>507453062why do hohols defend huge mistakes in s2 this way?
>>507451771I find it amusing this is the current line when Stalker 2 wears its influences on its sleeves.>slower movement and PC control than SoC>item use animations for healing and food items>the major economic sink is item repairs>a plot that revolves around all the old characters >bunch of radiant filler content side questsIt's halfway to being a freeplay mod already.
>>507453786... And of course it's a fucking assblasted Russian retard who is STILL having a melt down because the game is in Ukrainian. Holy shit you people are saddest fucks in the entire world. Losers.
>>507453654>what aboot Master?
>>507453829oh yeah man the side quests in SoC like>go to point A, collect object B, and return to point AWere so deep and compelling. fuck ff you fucking concern trolling retard. This isnt fucking Fallout go shove it up your ass gamma trash or better yet go grind for some fucking mats so you can fucking shove a fucking hand crafted dildo up your faggot ass fucking cry baby gamma russian faggot.
>>507453062>>S2 doesn't have alife>Fuck off retard.You are literally a stupid, mentally disabled person. It not only doesn't have A life, it doesn't even have basic AI of any kind.How degraded do you have to be to put up with this shit? You go on playing, pretending stuff constantly spawning right beside you doesn't break the immersion
>>507453829It was developed with the reality that mod exist in mind but that doesn't mean it's like modded stalker. Modded stalker takes a whole Vanilla game and then lavishes YEARS of autism and effort on it. S2 was never going to match modded OT put of the box. This doesn't stop g*mmoids from smear shit on the walls over it though
>>507454059They fixed it retard
https://steamdb.info/app/1643320/charts/Holy shit, the game is dying. In a month there will be 10-15 thousand players.
>>507454320I didn't realise stalker 2 was an online multiplayer live service game. Should I buy the battlepass and grind it to pump those numbers?
>>507454287He's a poorfag g*mma nigger who can't run it and would rather smear shit on the walls.
>>507454320It's a single player game dude
>>507453528Again, bro, it's Christmas Eve. Relax. Enjoy your evening either with family, friends or a comfy game that you enjoy. There's no reason to be popping off about literally nothing today and tomorrow
>day 30 of Russians suffering from a cognitive dissonance meltdown after claiming "Ukrainian is the same language as Russian" and then not being able to understand a word and lashing out on /sg/ about itSerious question: Why don't you just fuck off back to cyrillicchans? Why come here and write blogs? Nobody cares or reads it and everyone just mocks you and laughs at you.
>>507454486To play gamma on max settings you need very expensive PC
>>507454659>on max settingsOf course he doesn't max it out. He tunes it so he can squeeze by on his gtx1060 mobile.
>>507454601Russians don't celebrate Christmas today, hence why they are all crying and complaining because they can't afford the game and wouldn't understand the language anyway.
>>507454605Ukrainian government block all russian resources
I really love these stone ovens you can find in village housing. One thing I like about Stalker 2 is they highlight the fact that there was a lot more in the area than just Pripyat. The region was very popular with these smaller settlements and farmholdings, and there are a lot of rumors from Stalkers of people who refused the call to evacuate and just stayed.
>>507454037You have a distinct posting style I remember, you bring a great unhinged faggot energy to the thread. I'm not concern trolling I like Stalker 2 I just think we should acknowledge that it's clear these mods have had their influence and the game is closer to a modded CoP in essence than SoC. >>507454080I think there are devs that like GAMMA iirc, or maybe Anomaly, but ya I don't blame them and it isn't bad it's just retarded to try to say that the only people who wouldn't like it are gamma negros who hate Vanilla when there are 'purist' reasons to dislike S2. I've always been a firm enjoyer of all of this nonsense
>>507453829>I find it amusing this is the current line when Stalker 2 wears its influences on its sleeves.>>slower movement and PC control than SoC>>item use animations for healing and food itemsMan you nailed it, I'm not sure if you read my shitty posts or you're just a based noticer but yes:Slow movement = gaySuper slow animations (1-1.5 seconds to pull inv or switch guns or crouch/uncrouch), and animations that are too easy to accidentally cancel, this is better than being able to move, shoot and use items because it looks better and "adds realism" Excessive blood effects covering the screen when you get hit = also from mods. No one sits around saying "Man I wish the fucking screen turned red when I got shot!” it's a very simple mod to make so retards love it, but doesn't make any sense re. realism or anything else The people who made this game, were literally modders who played modded versions, and not fans of the originals. I bet you fucking Evgeniy plays modded if he even plays at all.
>>507454601>family, friends
>>507454786Any russian that wants to play stalker 2 pirated it on release dayPlease shut the fuck up about russia
>>507454287The duality of retards in this thread is that we have niggers claiming A-life is totally non-existent like him and niggers like you saying 'they fixed it' when even the game studio in question describes A-life as an ongoing WIP. Dickriders and doomposters.
>>507455308Don't sweat it anon we're your bros.
>>507455012>the only people who wouldn't like it are gamma negros who hate Vanilla when there are 'purist' reasons to dislike S2.Not my claim. My claim is /sg/ is constantly raided by g*mma shitslurpers from gr*k's discord so they're the majority of the negativity. It sucks because it's not even enjoyable or worthwhile to really discuss the flaws ITT in a rational manner because there's so much bad faith shitposting going around that I'd rather not add to the hate given how much I like S2.
>>507455308It's ok bro
>>507455464Anon, it went from being utterly broken to working well. They're going to improve it further which is great but you're being dishonest. Launch A-life was a lifeless skeleton. Now we have a fleshy zombie in 1.1.3. Maybe by the time they're done improving it, we'll have a scary L4D Hunter.
>>507455895Assuming everyone who posts about gamma is some grok discord fanboy raiding is in itself an act of bad faith anon.This is ridiculous, let people post about what stalker mod they're playing in stalker general even if it's Complete, Misery or GAMMA.
>>507456270But that's not what I'm doing. I just think it's painfully clear the most egregious posts are g*mma discordniggers.
I wonder how Christmas is celebrated in the Zone. Probably in January but besides that. Just chillin at camp with the bros, feasting on whatever quality food the boys managed to scrape together
>>507456138It's like halfway to where it needs to be, but I'm confident it will get there. My only real issue is Lumen ghosting, makes me nauseous
>>507454287>They fixed it retardUnironically, this is how most people think - Evgeniy and Max Krippa's Game World puts out a crappy patch that does next to nothing, immediately YouTubers make at least 6800 videos titled "Stalker 2 A-LIFE!!!", saying "what's up guys uhhhh uhhhh muhhhjh uhhhhh ahhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhhhhhhhhh yeah it's fixed now uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh".Then 2 million utter brainrot retards see the video: "Wow... wow. They finally did it. They fixed A-Life once and for all... Thank you for making this video of your thoughts, I'm glad you're here to keep us all informed! :) Great job, GSC Game World! By the way, when is the ROAD MAP coming out? :)"
>>507454934>I really love these stone ovens you can find in village housing.Yeah what a great game holy shit Normies now have a Scientology-like level of collective delusion
So this is a blatant tease that one of the DLC is a snow area right?
>>507457298It's probably just Christmastime stuff. I would love if the last DLC added in a season system.
>>507454486You are seriously just a very stupid person. I've said many many times that I'm a fan of the originals, not those crappy mods that change everything about Stalker.
>>507457298white christmas in pripyat...
Ignoring bug and A-life fixes, what is your content wishlist?>Binoculars>the cut guns being added in>a couple extra pistols>nvg/thermal goggles>a sleeping bag or something
>>507456835Well, that's good. They'll raise a lot of money on the DLCs, and with that money they'll make a cool S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 3, which actions will be located in Canada/USA to observe Roadside Picnic canon.
>>507457897>Zone Alone: Lost in Pripyat
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/989This slav modpack claims to have added nvgs?
what a loyal goon
Guys beware a lot of people are getting banned the gamma guys are trying to Bair you and then reporting you for trolling/off topicDo not take their bait
is the game better now with alife?
>>507458053Im pray for replace game actions in civilized place. They should finally give up terrible soviet influence in form of PRIPYAT and CHORNOBYL, because later soviet architecture is literally an inhuman experiment on the human mentality.
>>507458927If you didn't think it was good before, having random shit spawn around will not change that.
>Monolith and Zombies are not neutral in IWPMy brothers are jobbers
>>507458053Southern Comfort was awful but the concept of a new Zone in Afghanistan was a great idea. They should stay in an area and culture they're familiar with, or one that at least remains distinct in their cultural consciousness (like afghanistan). Odessa or Kiev would be neat.
>>507458053That's what I'm personally the most excited about. I live in Canada, and I'd actually love to see a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game set in downtown Toronto or Vancouver.
is it normal for sircaa to still run absolutely horrid like 3x worse than any other place in the game
>>507458954it's really funny to see russian comments under videos about censored content in lotz: "ahah, maybe they'll cut out cnpp too, it's soviet after all))) ohoho what a kindergarten)))", as if commiblocks aren't inhuman shit aimed at brutalizing and atomizing people. also still need to find out whether the explosion at the cnpp was really an accident and how well it was projected.
>>507457971>what is your content wishlist?>A real game
>There are two campfires close in rostok>One guy alone and a pair in the other, both groups playing the harmonica>Sit down with the lonely one, enjoy the moment>The other group starts playing Oh you dear agustinhttps://youtu.be/gruhMvTS7NM?t=164>Leave his ass alone againsorry man
>>507459520Turning hair and reflections down to low might help.
>>507458927This is a spam post. Russians are trying to bait guys and report them as well
>>507459681I know you're an unhinged retard who lets Russians live rent free in his head but legends of the zone removing Soviet imagery from the game that takes place in a frozen in time example of the errors of the soviet union is so stupid that it deserves an award.
is this bugged...
How do you get to the rendezvous point in happiness for everyone? I keep getting insta killed by snipers. Even when I killed my way through the gate I still got sniped. I'm assuming there a hole in a wall or something but following the fence gets me sniped. It just feels like bullshit.
>>507454320it's a singleplayer game
>>507460405No, it's Locked.
>>507460115I mean stalkers in real life did this.
>>507403129From what i remember, on 1.03, it didnt work when i tried doing it at chimera. Worked on the final round but I had to dump my stuff into the dead npc then grab it out. Figure the game was flagging the item so I needed to "clean" it.
>>507460590you have to circle around from the back, wayyyy around
>>507460115>waaaaah there's not enough hammer and sickles Christ are all russians like post menopause old women or something?
>>507460405Reminds me of that one time I met up with spark the first time around. Had the infamous >fps drops to 5 momentso it was pretty shit trying to play. During the shitty moment, the ambush scripted event happened and the door I came from ended up closing and locking itself when I brushed up against it, locking me inside.
>>507461250Don't really care about Russia shit What I miss the most is bandits screaming at me in moon language.
>>507458735Oh shit, how does it work?
>>507461756Then play in Ukrainian?
>>507460848Urban explorers destroying the shit they explore is also stupid and petulant, but it's a good point, if they wanted to go that route they could have done it with torn off or defaced sign textures but they really half assed it. The CNPP and Exclusion zone is about as cut and dry as it gets, and tearing down a poster extolling the glories of communism in a irradiated ruins of a town abandoned because a communist regime caused a massive ecological incident due to institutional distrust seems like they missed the point but tensions run high in a war.>>507461250I'm in your walls posting in moonrunes on VK.
>>507461756There are two audio options anon.
is 1.1 a big update or an incremental one like 1.0.1 and the likeI'd have to do a bit of housekeeping on my ssd to download the fucking thing and I'm really lazy
>>507459451Ugh it'll be fucking horrible. I live in Vancouver. What value do you see in this place or these people that would lend itself to STALKER?
>>507462208You'll get to shoot French people living in the zone, Canada edition?
>>507462005Damn.
>>507462208>What value do you see in this place or these people that would lend itself to STALKER?
Any polished modifications that you consider on par with the original trilogy? Answers from the true trilogy fans only, who wouldn't mind replaying vanilla SoC yet once again.
>>507444394C A R D *hic* A NARDAN
>>507462327You mean to tell us you never swapped audio before you even started playing for the authentic stalker experience?
>>507461975I'm pretty sure they're saving the CNPP for a later expansion. I also noticed nothing "anti Soviet" at all. The Soviet statue in the Army Warehouses was knocked down in the original trilogy as well.
>>507459756As one of those who has bought but not yet played, I'm one of the spammers asking, essentially, if it's good yet. I really hope them having such a botched launch didn't fuck up our hopes for continued stalker due to lost sales
>>507462317I don't give a fuck about the French. I speak it, I descend from them on one hand but "lol you can shoot Quebecois" thing is fucking pointless and about as cringe as the retards who get hype about "shooting Nazis" in WW2 games. >>507462405This is exactly my point. STALKER in Canada will just be globalist clownworld Canada, so it's gonna be a completely jeet-infested identityless joke. Canada is the worst country is the developed world, bar none. There's ZERO chance they do stuff about the white settler culture with some native shit mixed in lightly. They'll just set it in one of our digusting shithole cities, slather maple syrup and ice on everything and I'll be expected to clap. I have so little faith in taking STALKER outside of post-Soviet europe it's wild and Canada is basically the worst place you could set it other than America.
>>507462208I don't know. I hope Canada gets blown to bits. They should put in more black Stalkers and allow you to catch mutants and train them, that would be cool.
>>507441669Its very comfy, watching my first assassin come towards from a tower in the swamps back on base CotZ was sick. Really enjoying IWP despite punishing damage early on, feels good to be able to square up with monolith wielding my Taurus 44 and DEAGLE silver hawk. Not at exo levels yet, so I can't square up with RPGs grenades or Gauss Rifles probably, but let me tell you getting vengeance on the helicopters is glorious. Also merry Christmas stalkers may Sid give you all stockings full of sausage and vodka
>>507461931https://youtu.be/nSOD2QDbOkc
>>507462412Sorry anon, you're not cool enough or enough of a true fan if you don't already know what the hottest mods are also original SoC is pleb shit you should be playing nothing but buildo if you want that modding cred.
>>507462835Considering that GSC already work in close collaboration with abroad developers, it's natural for the game setting to divert outside the estabilished exclusion zone, only need to devise a good believeable reasoning for it.>>507462412Of the several-plus modifications that I've tried thus far, none has yet fully clicked with me. They all seemed to lack grounded and solid direction, with tons of revisions or ending up abandoned in a rough state after glacial development.
>>507462412>Any polished modifications that you consider on par with the original trilogy?goldsphere>polisheduhhh nvm
>>507462412There's something called MotZ memories of the zone which changes only graphics iirc but it might be broken.I've never seen a good mod. Modders are retarded and insane. I don't want 900 changes to the game mechanics, just expanded content only. It would be really cool to play SoC vanilla, but with extra PDA, AI, and maps/NPCs added in. You never get the right mix; they either change too much, or they don't have the features you want.
Mercbros, do I keep using this fully attached AK-103 or do I use the AS 'Val'? Do guns using subsonic ammo in IWP make the bullet travel time slower?
>>507464645as an amateur gamedev for many years now you NEED someone to bounce ideas off of, to tell you your ideas are fuckin stupid and to knock it off, most of these modders are solo acts which is a bad time
>>507462835Just put it in the Arctic territories. No jeets, environment is already harsh and remote, and Cold War-era military installations like the DEW line already exist up there (with more included to make the setting more interesting).Don't know why the other anon suggested the two most boring cities in a country which has the shittiest city "culture" in the world instead of innawoods which Canada used to be known for.
>>507464287Yes but you need to choose a place with a very distinct and interesting culure and history. Canada ain't that. Canada is a rootless economic zone for globalists to rape and pillage and setting a game there would offer virtually nothing of value at all. We're just whimpy chickenshit brits crossed with the worst weakest, ugliest leftoid retards from the united states and our culture and history pales in comparison to either.
Where did the 'Meadow' map in Anomaly/Gamma originally come from. I know they didn't make it and it's very bizarre, the scale is all off in the houses in the village but everything else is really good. Not like that dogshit does anything with it mind you.
>>507464979>Just put it in the Arctic territories. No jeets, environment is already harsh and remote, and Cold War-era military installations like the DEW line already exist up there (with more included to make the setting more interesting).I guess... It would still be missing the secret sauce. The Zone is great because you have the whole layer of Soviet culture spread across the whole thing. STALKER: Call of Yellowknife would just be.... snow and boring buildings from a boring culture with some tundra and shit... It's missing a note. As cringe as it is from all the memes and years of posts about it, STALKER: Call of Kyoto would be better because then you get Japanese culture smeared all over the rusted out irradiated buildings full of anomalies. If you set it in North America, you're basically just removing any interesting culture from it or adding one of the bog standard ones that're played out as fuck like "Cowboy" or whatever. I will accept STALKER in NA if they timeskip us 50 years and let the current empire "fall" so we can have something akin to the post-soviet vibe. If STALKER: Call of New Jersey manages to have a "Post-NATO" vibe somehow, I guess it could work.
>>507464979us tri-state area would be kinda dank but it wont happen
How does one even compare gear when the game doesn't show the stats of the gear after upgrade and specially helmet + armor vs combined ones seem like such a klusterfuck?
/sg/ stalker discussion not devolving into stock /int/ and /pol/ rants about how the west has fallen challenge
>>507464924>doom modders can make top tier wads on their own>minecraft modders can make top tier mods on their own>skyrim autists can make.... uhhhh very popular mods on their own>drunken slavs can't make stalker mods that aren't ass on their ownhmmm
>>507463943Sufficiently elaborate answer, I should be humble with my expectations>>507464479Zhekan has settled in my memory for a while now, maybe that's a good sign to finally learn more about him>>507464645Thanks for a pointer anon, I could've only scrapped the surfaces and there might exist something to pull me in
>>507465810This isn't about the west having fallen. It's about how North America lacks the secret cultural spice that pulls STALKER's elements together. It's also a fact that the west has fallen and I truly despise my country which biases me a bit but I'm not exactly hiding that.
>>507465491https://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/addons/mlr-92-eng> Glade> A completely new location for the authorship of Yobakun and partly done by mesettlement. It is small and has a village (stalkers) on its territory,power station, garages (bandits) and of course the factory complex.Yobakun is developer of dollchan mod. Anomaly consist MLR add-on since borning.
Uhhh, why is one of my mercbros holding an unloaded RPG?
>>507462412Path in the Mist just for the custom remade maps and a decent story with 2 branching paths
>>507353583How can you tell if a building's locked door is due to a later quest or if you need to find a key? I've missed tons of buildings due to this after spending 2 hours running around looking for a door code in the lesser zone that you get from doing a side quest later on.
>>507465953>This isn't about the west having fallen>It's also a fact that the west has fallen
>>507465578Except the secret sauce to STALKER isn't the Russia shit. It's the half-retarded, half-genius execution, and the feelings of freedom and immersion.
Merry Christmas, bros
>>507466312Yeah well I'm not gonna miss a chance to say it. Our leaders are all blackmailed kleptocratic demons. But that's not why STALKER in NA would struggle to be as interesting an engaging as STALKER in Eastern Europe.
>>507466382IT's not russia specifically but if you just have a boring setting with no interesting cultural flavor or vibes, it's not really STALKER. You need to be crawling through the wreckage of an interesting and unique society. North America isn't that AND we have a ZILLION games set in a ruined NA so it's not brining any unique market appeal really either.
>>507465491Absolutely pointless map, as well as these three new ones in the new addon. Modmakers initially since 2007 should have added only real territories from the CEZ that were not in the trilogy, such as Chernobyl city, Duga, all of Pripyat, Dityatki, Bucha or northern part of Kiev in the role of Predbannik or Big Earth, then they would have been used absolutely everywhere in absolutely each mod, and not only in the solyanka-like niche.
>>507466427Merry Christmas, Stalker
>monolith, clear sky, duty AND loners deciding to invade and attack my home base of dead city>all out war between everyone and my merbrosFUCK OFF NIGGERS
>>507465578>STALKER: Call of New Dehli would be better because then you get Shit smeared all over the shitted out irradiated buildingsmmmmmmm
>>507465887it is a mystery
>>507455308It's all good brother, we're here>>507458735Looks like it messes with a lot of game files, gonna beat game first the mod the shit out of it. Is there a mod like "random state of weapons and armor" for S2? Makes 0 sense when you get a weapon drop and its ALWAYS in the worst possible condition when you touch it. https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/random-state-of-weapons-and-armor-from-corpses
>>507466310code = retarded minigame and/or main missionlocked door (yellow) = pussellocked (grey) = mission
>>507466665> Modmakers initially since 2007 should have added only real territories from the CEZ that were not in the trilogyPointless either. The Anomalous Zone can move and remove territories by it noosphere superpower. We already have too many empty space on original maps, so modmakers should add new places to the current maps in place of the empty fields, as it was done in Path in the Mist and True Stalker. I really don't understand at all why the CoC and the Anomaly didn't use the maps from the Path in the Mist initally, they are much more detailed.
>>507466310>>507467738>locked door (yellow) = pusselTo addLocked door (yellow padlock icon) = door is locked by a shootable padlock, boarded, blocked by boxes, or simply locked from the other side. You need to check if there are any windows/cracks to shoot the padlock/boards. Alternatively you need to find a completely different way to get in, and you will unlock this door from the other side to get out.Locked door (yellow key icon) = you need to find a key which can be fucking anywhere, and it's so fucking small there's zero chance you will notice it.
>>507465953>self hating moron vents on /sg/Lmfao
>>507468901ah yeah there is an icon
>>507466665It's just mildly fascinating to me. It's so utterly pointless of an addition that each time I go there I get thrown off. Playing Gamma has been an eye opening experience in terms of weird mod oddities.
>>507469207>we want more content!!!>no not like thatDIY
>>507469309The game does almost nothing with the map beyond sending me there to find dead bodies and It's got terrible A-life implementation, and it's super small.
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO MY GAME. RELOADING FIXES NOTHING, DIFFERENT SAVES FIXES NOTHING
>>507469743you found the bright zone, stalkergo tell scar
>>507469743it's the console mod. hit a square bracket button to toggle between modes
okay, but is s2 good or not?
>>507469743>(laughs)
>>507469743I think you disabled global illumination. Did you install any performance mods?
>>507469873yeah
>>507469896>(dies)
>>507469743>Serge Double-Eyed: (laughs)
>>507469873It's been patched enough for me to recommend itYou'll complain about lack of NVGs and binoculars every step of the way though
>>507469010I don't hate myself, I hate my country. Canada is a garbage heap. I -literally- don't even have human rights.
why are closed captions so hysterical to /sg/
>>507470134The auto lean and lack of binoculars really piss me off enough to wait until they're fixed or fully modded. No low crouch or prone and not bring able to adapt to the 'press and hold' hotbar items is annoying as shit too but survivable.
>>507470382That's cringe. If you hate where you were born you must be a pretty miserable person. I don't like people that hate where they're from you can't trust them. If they won't care for their own home you can't expect them to care for others
>>507469743THE SHINING ZONAAAAAA OOOOH
>>507470549>If you hate where you were born you must be a pretty miserable person. I don't like people that hate where they're from you can't trust them.everyone is like that in eastern europe bwo
>>507469834This fixed it, thanks stalker
>>507470549>That's cringeNope. What's cringe is not having representative government or human rights. My country destroyed itself on purpose. Why would I like that?
>>507470382You have to go back, Ranjeesh
>>507470668nta i didnt realize how bad it was in canada until recentlylol, lmao indeed
>>507470426>The auto leanis there still no way to turn it off?incredibleprobably my #1 issue outside of major stuff like a-life and performance, and trivial to solve
>>507470549>I don't like people that hate where they're fromHere in Europa it's normal to hate your own country and countrymen. But you also shit talk everyone around you, national banter is funny.
>>507470769If I had representative government, your pathetic attempt at smearing me wouldn't even exist because there wouldn't be so many jeets. Don't forget when they declared wartime powers to quell a peaceful human rights protest. This shithole deserves nothing but to burn.
(coughs)
Did s2 add gurls to the zone?
what would femboy stalker look like anyway
>>507471028a handful in towns
>>507471028There is a bandit hag, if youre into that kind of stuff
>>507471109>femboy stalkerno such thing
any iwp+cotz players in here?can anyone tell me where the documents are supposed to be? the objective marker points close to the crashed helicopter, but I can't find anything
bros i figured it outwinter comes after autumn
>>507471109
why the fuck is the loot window still so fucking small, i have never seen such a waste of screen space in my life
>>507471292Isn't it on a table nearby
>>507471631idk ask larian
>>507471578i need a jacket like on the left
is it cringe if i attach a loner badge to my backpackpeople at my college will make fun of me
>>507472332Nobody will care and if they do say it's because you belive in the conservation and research efforts in the chernobyl exclusion zone.
>>507470549>That's cringe. If you hate where you were born you must be a pretty miserable person. I don't like people that hate where they're from you can't trust them. If they won't care for their own home you can't expect them to care for othersHooooooooly shit you're a fuuuuuucking retard. WowwwwwwwwwwwwCanada is 100% fucked now, It was like a better version of USA but now it's like a rogue transsexual state with majority Indian population. It's now illegal to call someone a transsexual, they can put you in jail for life if you do something racist, China-style ban on media, China-style ban on gunsHomeless tents in every major city and we only have a few, the government is giving people free heroin and free cocaine through vending machines They brought in 5 million Indians in the last 4 years, and are now trying to pretend like it was an accidentIndians are now criminals shooting each other and cutting each other in half with swords We have blacks now (Somalian immigrants) and they just run around shooting peoplePolice chief told us to leave our keys by the door so the criminals can steal our carsRent is $1800 now, it's literally a national emergency and people talk about it like it's no big deal, literally no one can afford to rent anywhere for yearsLandlords illegally renting to 4-12 Indians per room is normalIllegal Indian labor is normalYou can drive around all day and never see a white person, in my city ALL fast food, grocery and gas are IndiansCan't buy foodCheapest homes are $600k-800kThe government just never bothered building trains or proper subways for decades Gas has been $6/gal for ages Subway sandwich is $18 Canada needs to be nuked. There's no solution here. Once you let it get this bad, it's all over. Even if you fixed it, you would never solve the problems that led to this in the first place.
>>507471790wait, really?
>>507471292the location is kind of random in this room search around. Don't know if you can ask and pay stalker to help you searching that stuff in this quest
>>507471790no, apparently they spawned on the ground near the wall to the right of the helicopter
>>507472592>>507470549get a room you niggers
>>507472592Forgot to mention, Prime Minister stole 300 million and gave it to his friends
>>507472592>this is your brain on russia-backed "alternative facts" doomer brainrotgo outside sometime faggot
>>507472768>Prime Minister stole 300 million and gave it to his friendsbased I'd do the same if I could
>>507472332Bro I studied 3D games art in uniI've seen people wear worse shit, don't worry about itI saw a guy wearing a tux with the batman logo printed all over it, including the tieI've seen sonic bookbags, overwatch hoodies, backpacks completely covered in undertale, Mario, and pokemon badgesA fucking loner patch is the least embarrassing nerd thing anyone could wear, trust me, I've seen some cringe and gay shit and that ain't one of them
>>507472592>the government is giving people free heroin and free cocaine through vending machines4real?
>>507472840What the hell is wrong with you? There's not a single part of my post that isn't true.I do go outside every day. All I see is Indians, Indians everywhere.
great job guys, we’re /pol/ again
>>507472992>sonic bookbags, overwatch hoodies, backpacks completely covered in undertale, Mario, and pokemon badgesall of it is basedokay maybe except the undertale shit
>>507473060Yes. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/17/opioid-vending-machine-opens-vancouver-mysafe-canadaThere was one company legally producing cocaine to "commercialize" for "harm reduction"
>>507473165Blame the schizo that can't override his brainwashing for a single post.
>>507473060ye
>>507473165Probably shouldn't have told a Canadian not to hate his country with every single ounce of his soul lol
weird how gamma has 500 mods but none u can have sex with hip in, gay game?
>>507473727sex mods for openworld games are cringe
>>507473727gammafags want realism so having sex with a woman is a no-no
>>507353848https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO9eUUK3SrkDuty For Life.
>>507473468Let me guess you're in your early 20s or 19You're part of the problem
>>507474331Right, I'm gonna ask, as a stalker 2 fag, what is anomaly? Are the others really worth playing? If so, I'd like to go vanilla, but is there any MUST HAVE mods that retain that vanilla feeling?
skyrim was one of my favorite games back in my time, now i am an aging man, nearing 30 soon, and its disappointing to see that gaming has gone backwards over the last decade, i really enjoyed being able to join different factions, but now you do not get any freedom of choice in modern games, very sad
>>507474857Play the originals in order, then try whatever mods you want.
>>507474857ZRPFov switcherWeapon textures which works for 3 gamesReshade if your gay Absolute nature if you want to change nature
I am sorry, but I am lost with the plot of S2The game starts with Hermann who provided you with a scanner. He works for SIRCAA. They want to get an alpha artifact for their anomaly energy and human spying projects. So far, so good.Hermann was cooperating with Nestor who was a c-con agent. As far as I understand, c-con also wanted to get the alpha artifact into SIRCAA in order to send the signal and get monolithians back.So why the fuck were you attacked by Faust's guys in the prologue? Why did they take the scanner and artifact if Faust was working for c-con, and he wanted it to be delivered to SIRCAA? He didn't need to intervene.And then there's Scar who is also a c-con agent, who also has the same goal. Why was he fighting with Faust?And then there's Project Y document https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Project_Y in Kaymanov's lab. Does that mean Kayamanov was working for c-con as well?
>>507473468>all of it is basedWhat
>>507474857I'd say play vanilla SoC for a few hours to see what it's like. Play all the way through if you want, but honestly it's just so old and busted.There's mods that overhaul the visuals which I recommend, and Oblivion Lost which adds features like regular emissions, a sleeping bag, vehicles, and fusing artifacts which is do4knhppe.
First time I saw this kind of puzzle.East of the army warehouse.There's a grenade nearby and you gotta toss it down there to cause a chain reaction explosion to reveal a stash to get a unique AS val.
>>507475274faust mindcontrolled everybody to try to do...uh...something
>>507474867S2 is basically a worse Skyrim.
>>507475580yeah there are a few of these. really enjoy this kind of half-life 1 shooter stuff
>>507475580>eastfuck, meant west
>>507475580Let me guess, that ukrainian sign is a hint, but the game has no subtitles for signs so 99% of players are fucked.
>>507414824>they should have accepted [my childhood and/or the last time I spent money on hardware] as the peak of graphicsGet a job so you can finally stop making such pathetic cope posts.
>>507353583New bread, stalkers >>507476156
>>507475967Are you having a schizo moment?
>>507445617>bro just use ai bro it's so great br-ACK!Take a shower, Rajeesh.
>>507475526>honestly it's just so old and busted.Haven't heard anything actually bad about SoC yet. Not much wrong with it, except it's quite short. "It's just so old" is extremely fucking cringe. Go play Deus Ex, Half-Life or Doom.
>>507472592Have you considered discussing this literally anywhere more relevant that a videogame discussion thread?
>>507477484Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you're continuing the discussion right now uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
>ak is dogshit in stalker 2>but the ak 103 is kino in iwp/anomaly/gammaWhy?
>>507472332Yeah, but you can make it based and get mad pussy if you brand "STALKER" on your right wrist and show it to chicks. They'll think you're Strelok.
>>507430785>>507430834By jolly good wingos and clip clops fish and chips guvna blimey bruv time for tea innit.I love you English fuckers
>>507477729Doesn't iwp/anomaly/gamma follow non-gamified gun rules?
>>507451771I'm enjoying 2 ever since 1.1 but let's not get ahead of ourselves now, calling 2 the best vanilla is a big stretch lol. It has the potential to be but the game is clearly unfinished. It was such a huge disappointment meeting Voronin and Mikhula and finding out they didn't even have any quests to give out. SoC is still easily the best in terms of vanilla for me, and I can see how some would argue CoP. 2 really needed another year in the oven before release.
>>507441965did you go in the console and turn it on? Save fl profile, load fl profile?>>507440104heres to a good days work
>>507450558It was a huge disappointment on release but it's greatly improved since then. Prior to 1.1 it was basically walking simulator Chernobyl but I have encountered a lot more random squads and firefights out in the open since that patch. The world is a lot more lively. There is offline functionality for NPC squads in the game now but I haven't been able to confirm persistence. I haven't seen any squads leave and return to base like they would in CoP but it does seem that they are genuinely trying to implement A life as best they can into the game, which was sorely needed. Hopefully they remove the stupid spawn enemies 50m in front of you feature soon. If you're not sure about buying just pirate it and buy if you enjoyed it.
>>507443261nta but yes
>>507478004Idk but I love one tapping exosuits with a headshot from the AK103
>>507445617ai makes almost everything look like smeared blurry shit
>>507478076>bigger world with the best design yet>more organic quests with fun choices>best exploration in the series by farI dunno bud
>>507452143you deserve a vacation.also.... roadmap.
>>507479054>bigger worldIt's specifically designed for people who say "bud" unironically
stalker 2 gets mogged by iwp/gamma/anomaly and they are FREE
>>507453379>alife isnt exactly how I wanted it to be so its not alifelolLmao even
>>507479054>bigger world with the best design yetYeah I'm going to disagree. Having a big world with large pieces of nothing isn't a positive. Sure it's pretty but prior to 1.1 I was bored out of my mind playing walking simulator Chernobyl.>more organic quests with fun choicesHave you actually played this game? The leaders of arguably the two most iconic factions literally have jack shit in terms of quests. Outside of the main story quests this game is very barebones. Mods to add more quests + the cut OG trilogy weapons are badly needed.>best exploration in the series by farDebatable. It's good but nothing special compared to the other vanilla games imo.
>>507456396yeah I bet at least a few things are painfully clear when you dont take your meds.
>>507453379NTA but I literally watched a Ward squad when I entered the radius, despawn when I moved backwards, and then respawn moving back into the radius. I haven't seen persistence so far but there is a limited offline functionality present. It's not at CoP level yet but it's better than what was present at release, which was nothing.
>>507478004Probably does. S2 vanilla has very weird stats and is done for game balance reasons. There's no reason the ak74 can't perform similarly to the other 5.45x39 guns.
>45-50fps in the first stalker villagebrehs.... it might be over
>>507458838are you admitting to ban evasion?
>>507458838It's strange that mods do not seem to make any attempt in cleaning the usual flamewar shitposting, I was singled out too.
>>507472840kill yourself
>>507472592>>507473621best harm reduction: deport the trashdont import more trash just because your country stupidly agreed UN's agenda 2030 was a good thing for anyone.
>>507480943Well, crank down the settings back from Epic and use Quality for DLSS.
