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>50K CCU
already lost 50% of its player base in less than 24 hours
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>>695194064
Imagine playing full price MSRP +tip for slax shit.
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>>695194064
nigga you really this retarded
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50K from one particular country arrested
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>>695194405
>good
what exactly is good? the bugs, the ragdolls or the retarded AI? FAK OFF.
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>>695194064
>no a-life in the game
Literally how is it not in those game when it was a core feature in the old ones?
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>>695194486
My favorite part are the npcs who spawn instantly inside enemies you just killed.
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>>695194064
Bruh, this game is ASS.
I can remember Shadow of Chernobyl, CS and even fucking nerfed ass CoP having NPC and object permanence, whatever the fuck didn't die on first encounter with something stronger would instead stay until you or someone else took it out, either offline or in-actual combat if you are in-range of the action.
In this shit you reload a save and whatever was there, isn't anymore. Didn't even save to memory.
This game is ASS.

>>695194675
Some retards on the /vg/ thread are toying with the files and they found out that it is pulling a Ubisoft and spawning things based on the player's rank and distance from a possible spawn point.
That's not the spawning the system.
That's A-Life.
A-Life 2.0 is just a broken spawning system.
Offline simulation, the thing that made A-Life cool, is gone.
There seems to be no smarts either, just spawning zones.
Non-vital NPCs apparently don't register either to savefiles. This means that if you find some random bandits, just hide and reload save and they will dissapear from your game. Combat avoided. Repeat.
NPCs don't really have destinations. They will wander off until they hit despawn conditions and they are as good as dead. Never existed.
The max distance before despawn is apparently 300 meters but that's it.
Game's more similar to Skyrim in-terms of how NPCs spawn and work than to fucking Call of Prypiat which after a while turned into a dead zone.
Don't get tricked and buy this thing bros, it's not worth it. You can blame me saying mods fried my brain or something but this is definitely an undercooked mess that cannot be fixed, some hardcoded really foundational stuff has been set as it is, and I don't think it's getting changed anytime soon because this game has to run in previous gen consoles too.

Look at this shit. It's made for quick encounters, not to simulate itself out of player range at-fucking-all.
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>>695194064
>things are only worth doing if thousands of other people did it
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>>695195249
How does this show that a-life 2 isn't active except for parroting something you saw in another thread? Because the distance for spawning is far?

>In this shit you reload a save and whatever was there, isn't anymore. Didn't even save to memory.
This was a problem in the original STALKER games too why is this a revelation
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>>695195249
Grim as fuck, might as well just play some gamma instead
>>695195271
They removed a-life from the steam store page lol
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>>695195396
>This was a problem in the original STALKER games too why is this a revelation
So....why wasn't it fixed in the sequel after they've been working on it all this time?
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>>695195405
And? So they've overhauled their entire engine because they edited their store page?
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>playercount is dropping during nighttime in the US
it's going to pick up later again and /v/eddit troons will 41% as they should
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>>695194064
Shit, how am I gonna find people for matchmaking at my rank now?!
Cope and seethe the game is good
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Not bad for a game that appears to be unplayable on gamepads.
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>>695194115
Slav shit is always worth it on discount
Im talking 5-10$ here tho. You get gemmies like this bad boy.
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>>695195405
>isreal
KEK

>>695195472
Anons believe it was nerfed because the game has to run in XBOX Series S and they were contractually obliged because of the whole XBOX Gamepass thing they signed up to get extra funding.
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It's an eceleb Twitchcore game, these don't last, there's already a new FOTD in the queue.
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>>695195542
they're in prague though, like all patriotic ukrainians
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nobody but twitch zoomies ever liked stalker
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>>695195542
>war
lol
LAMO even Christ you dumb fucks really don't have any window to the real world beyond reddit/twitter/tiktok
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>>695195584
>Anons believe it was nerfed because the game has to run in XBOX Series S and they were contractually obliged because of the whole XBOX Gamepass thing they signed up to get extra funding.
Words can not describe the rage I feel knowing this is actually likely
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>>695194064
The "other site" posts are already complaining about the spawning. The gig is up, the illusion has been shattered.
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>>695195606
you are correct I totally forgot seeing anything about that - I know at least one of the STALKER devs died fighting in Ukraine
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>>695195756
Why bother feeding the obvious russian bot? He gets paid by post count.
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>>695195584
>What A-life? We never said anything about A-life, you are stupid zigger who make things up!
Based Ukrainians strike again.
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>>695195249
>A-Life 2.0 is just a broken spawning system.
The devs removed any mentions of a-life. Stalker 2 is random spawn open world slop. The soul of Stalker? Gone.

>>695195249
>Don't get tricked and buy this thing bros, it's not worth it.
It looks like Stalker, but it isn't.
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>>695195584
Why mod support is still there despite game doesn't have mod support?
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>>695194064
we waited 15 years for this and it couldn't surpass a HL2 update
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>>695195756
Gobble up more government propaganda, im sure they have your best interest in mind and totally dont view you as a fiscal statistic.
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>>695195951
ok smoothbrain give us the red pill please we are deprived without your all-knowing telegram lore lmfao
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>>695195916
what speculation? mentions of a-life have been removed. a-life isn't in the game, it was in stalker 1. what more do you need.

enjoy your random spawn crap.
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was the remove of A-life as a feature on the store page done after or before release?
is that even allowed to advertise features in a game then immediately removed the promised features on the store page after release
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>>695196187
you've never played stalker if you think npc's spawning 50m from you is 'a-life'
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What's the point of plaing stalker 2 if there's literally zero progression?
>b-but there is progression
it's scripted, you get new weapons when you move on to new locations where you get by finishing story missions
>story
it's a clusterfuck for anyone who didn't play the original game, you get instakilled in the beginning because you get attacked by an invisible moster AT NIGHT and you have no fucking clue what are you doing who are those varta guys, nobody explains anything, you just run errands for people to return some metal dildo of unknown purpose that got stolen from you.
>a-life
it was removed from the game, NPC's spawn randomly and attack you, it gets old very fast.
>questing
you just run errands for people
>shooting/combat/stealth/gameplay loop
so it's basically far cry 5 outposts but worse, why would i play that?
>atmosphere
this is a video games board not /tv/


At least fallout 4 had skills and real progression, this is like far cry with cut features. And i hate far cry. Not to mention it runs like ass.
>inb4 this is EXACTLY LIKE STALKER SHADOWS OF CHERNOBYL!!!!!! YOU DON"T UNDERSTAND!!!
so it's a shit game i got it.
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>>695194064
is there a better way to close the loot window instead of esc or i ?
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What does stalker 2 do better than the old games besides shitty voice acting and facial animation?
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Will people finally realize Unreal Engine is trash ?
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>>695194064
>midweek launch
>nighttime in US
>office hours in EU
>still 50K players
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>>695196106
Shortly before. When asked, someone from the company said it was still an in game feature, they just reworded the description. That seems to be a lie
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>>695194064
Turn out that 90% gamers are poor hahahahahahahahha
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>>695196320
the only thing they added is open world, animated food/drink from tarkov, and better gunplay. that's it.
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>>695194064
its all the trannies who only bought the game to own da chuds
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>>695196187
>Respectfully I still don't see how mention of it being removed from Steam means the game does not have it because of a large spawn value.
Because it's similar to Ubisoft games like >>695195249 said.
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>>695196187
>Respectfully I still don't see how mention of it being removed from Steam means the game does not have it because of a large spawn value.
it doesn't have a-life. some players even tested it already. it's completely random. even reloading removes all enemies you saw when saving.

doesn't matter what you say. this game does not have a persistent world.
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If you don't buy this game you are unpatriotic and rusnyan
Salo ukranda or something

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The user score is going up. Its over 80% now. Gamers are winning.
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>>695196515
>this game does not have a persistent world.
so it's a themepark?
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>>695196251
>>695196470
>default spawn distance min 6000
>"things spawn at 50m away"

what did you mean by this?

>>695196515
could you link this test? I've still seen no evidence a-life isn't present except for an edit to the Steam page and contrarian screaming because /v/ hates anything that isn't their headcanon of how something should be exactly. Ty
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>>695196657
A theme park in the context of game design is like Breath of the Wild, insofar as it utilizes theme park design like tall objects to guide the player to the next attraction. That's what that buzzword actually means.
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>>695196582
metacritic is a 76 (with a huge ukraine bonus). player ratings aren't out yet. they will have a lot of brigading.

>>695196657
it's basically like live service open world slop. idk why stalker fans defend this. it's not stalker anymore, just something painted in stalker colors.
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>every review is screeching about bugs and performance
>my midrange clunker runs it fine on a mix of medium and high
>all the bugs are the stalker classic like people walking on air and being stuck in scenery, haven't found anything that would cause me to reload due to a quest breaking etc
it's like I'm playing a different game than journos
or maybe that day one patch fixed a ton of shit
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Everyone who complain or shit on this game are vatnik, zigger, and putin cocksuckers
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>>695195681
Shouldn't you be preparing for your next meat wave, Ivan?
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>>695196757
>>all the bugs are the stalker classic like people walking on air and being stuck in scenery
what i don't understand is why people think it's normal. Either way there are glaring game design issues that are far worse than the bugs.
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>>695196757
>my midrange clunker runs it fine on a mix of medium and high
the performance basically has a minimum value. if your rig is good enough,you can play it with 50-60 fps. it's just that having an awesome computer doesn't let you run the game at awesome fps. you still only get ~60.
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>>695196735
>player ratings aren't out yet. they will have a lot of brigading.
huh?
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>>695196735
Stalker "fans" are unironically defending the state of the game with shit like
>They're not bugs they're ANOMALIES
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>what if far cry had anomalies and was set in the average post-soviet rural area

zamn, this make OP 2.2 and analmeme look like masterpieces
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>>695196757
>the bugs arent bugs but a classic wholesome stalker feature
grim
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>>695196716
>>695195271
>>695196515
saw this on /vg/ I will admit I'm wrong if so for sure and if this is real it's embarrassing. I haven't experience something so jarring 3hrs in
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>>695196939
>/sg/ is browsing reddit instead of playing stalker
not surprising
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>>695196861
There are people who still defend cyberpunk unironically.
I've played cyberpunk this year, after all the patches and i still hated the game because it's so mid it's nauseating.
Maybe the DLC is good but after finishing what appears to be a 6 hour tutorial i had no patience to keep going and deleted it from my computer. I read somewhere online that chapter 1 which is the tutorial is actually the best part of the game lmao.
Thank god i pirated it,
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>>695196858
metacritic, opencritic. not steam.

>>695196939
the ukrainians scammed you. this is not stalker. it's a stalker map with a very bad mod.
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>>695196991
kek they lurk the thing they sought to hate
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>>695194486
> Sadly, I must inform you that the game was simply unplayable due to the fact of ragdolls being quite too silly.
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>>695196861
>They're not bugs they're ANOMALIES
i'd be mad, but then again i did not pay for this game.
the copium is strong with those people. wonder how they really feel about this game. the soul has been completely ripped out.
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>>695196939
>head shotting a enemy makes them all do the same dying animation
They couldn't have made multiple or just have them ragdoll like in the OGs? After a fight all of them just lying in the same pose like they is immersion breaking
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>>695197027
ok cool it's a scam not stalker at all and has no redeeming values. fresh take. hating things that arent perfect if you would have made it is cool and redpilled
>IF I MADE
>IF I MADE
>IF I MADE
big if if true
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>>695197027
>metacritic, opencritic. not steam.
No one said anything about metacritic until you brought it up. Any whiny third worlder can downvote something on those, as many times as they want no less, you have to at least temporarily liquidate $60 to do that on steam.
>>695197042
They were never fans of stalker, it was always vatniks obsessed with modding the game into GTA and fallout that had weird personal grifts for shilling particular modpacks.
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>>695195572
Got stalker 2 for 40usd and no tax. Even with a medium to high range pc it still chugs like ass. Talking like a 4080 with an i9 and 32gb of ram
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>>695194064
>>695195584
>>695195681
>>695196858
>>695196939
Incelker 2 lost.
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>>695196879
Don't be a disingenuous retard, obviously it'd be better if there were no bugs but a bloodsucker stuck in a tree is far less of an issue than a missing quest npc that needs you to redo the last 30 minutes
it seems way better than actually buggy shit like fallout 3, in any case
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>>695197193
turn on hardware acceleration and frame gen, im sitting at 90fps outside of cutscenes and I have a worse card than you
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>>695197146
i don't care what you think. i'm not the stalker fanboy having to deal with this huge disappointment. i don't need to buy more copium. enjoy stalker without a soul.
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>>695197027
>trust not your lying eyes
>trust game journos instead
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>>695196716
>>default spawn distance min 6000
Bold of you to think that 6000 is metres and not some in-unit measurement. A good way to be sure would find some reference to the height of the player's POV camera. If it's like 1.8 units then it would be metres but I'm imagining the camera height will be like 800 or something and you'll have a better understanding of what's being calculated here.
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>>695196435
Not even open-world. Devs mentioned that the current state of the game doesn't count as free-play. It's all linear with open bits as the old games were, but even more clunky and unfeasible for long playthroughs.
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>>695197229
The all time peak of SoC is 2,000 players. 113,000 is a substantial success.
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>>695197180
>They were never fans of stalker
Because unmodded stalker is a shit game lol. There is no "fanbase" outside of modding community, and if there is i'm scared to think what sort of actual subhumans they are.
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>>695197146
Can I ask for refund on steam claiming that the A-life feature is not present in the game and has been replaced by a generic spawn system? I am seriously pissed at the fact I have fallen for the Ukrainian scammers.
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>>695197301
in-engine* unit of measurement
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>>695197193
>Talking like a 4080 with an i9 and 32gb of ram
it works without an issue on my 4070 + 5800x3d and 16gb ram tho
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>>695197180
nice headcanon

>>695197229
great troll and/or weird comparison to show why it's doing better than BG3 for its release

>>695197265
ok cool

>>695197301
bold of you to not tell the class what exactly 6000 units is - find the reference plz that would be very interesting
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>>695197373
>Because unmodded stalker is a shit game lol
4chan sure didn't think so when soc came out
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>>695197390
Maybe, they advertised it but then silently removed it before release. I think you could genuinely claim it was a scummy move
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>>695197229
Gamepass release tho for Stalker 2 not for BG3
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>>695197373
ziggers thinking people only care about their jankass freeroam mod is hilarious
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>>695197390
>Can I ask for refund on steam claiming that the A-life feature is not present in the game
yes. it was in the game description at some point.

>>695197373
>There is no "fanbase" outside of modding community
the game has a very loud and annoying minority.
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>>695197390
probably
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>>695197417
>find the reference plz
I'm not finding shit because I don't care about this game. No A-life no buy, shrimple as that
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>>695194064
>shit on your target audience because they are ziggers and you don't need their dirty money
>it flops
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>>695197504
alright good talk thanks for your input I guess just leave a big speculation dump on floor. actually curious to what you could find because it's an interesting point you made
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>>695195937
there are already first mods out, are you by a chance retarded?
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>>695194064
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>>695197318
Yeah because most people who played the OG SoC did so before it was sold on Steam
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>>695197531
You wouldn't want to buy Stalker 2 as a Russian anyway. Putin will send you to the slammer for supporting terrorism.
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>>695197448
The mods are the only thing that's being discussed in all the /vg/ or /v/ threads, forums, steam forums, and subreddits.
Youtube is chuck full of "let's play stalker anomaly/gamma" videos.
The
>muh OG community
does not fucking exist. Nobody plays stalker games without mods unless he's a newfag of some sort.
Most people agree that the original games are a good platform but not a good game. You could say the same thing about Stalker 2 except, it's not even a good platform.

So when the devs try to appeal to that "fanbase" they appeal to the group of people that doesn't exist or it's like 10 or so people in total. One them is you.
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oh, there's a mod to make sponge enemies less spongy.
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>>695197602
link
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>>695197680
>people today are mostly discussing recent mods built on top of original games, not the original game from 17 years ago
no shit?
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>>695196304
Learn AHK. Takes 5 minutes. Here's one for 1080p SDR.

; Shift + Right click to close inventory. Only triggers if specific pixel color visible on screen (Coupon).
#IfWinActive, ahk_exe Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe

+RButton::
CoordMode, Pixel, Window
PixelSearch, FoundX, FoundY, 1344, 845, 1488, 889, 0xBE831A, 0, Fast RGB
If ErrorLevel
Return
If (ErrorLevel = 0)
{
Sendinput {esc down}
Sleep, 50
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>caring about PC player numbers in current year

they probably busy playing Wallpaper Simulator

this is beautiful and controls wonderfully on console, you can tell it was designed with Series S/X as its priority, the only numbers that matter are Gamepass copies sold
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>>695194064
I'm sorry that I'm at work. Would be playing if I could
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Does this game have blowouts?
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I'm calling 200k peak at the weekend
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>>695197680
I agree. Even just using CoC alone can be enough to entertain you for YEARS non-stop.
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>>695197647
If they didn't cut out russian language and fought with ziggers in shitter from Czech, nobody cared about it in Russia.
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>>695197749
Ignoring the fact that both Anomaly mod and Escape From Tarkov exist in 2024 is a grave mistake.
The devs being retarded leftists, decided specifically to fuck with their own community and fuck with the current state of things in the survival open world fps genre.
>hurr let's just ignore the 15 years of progress and make something we would've made in 2010

Back when CoP came out i didn't even finish it, i only cleared Zaton location, because you know what else came out in 2009?

Modern Warfare 2 that had actual functioning guns and fun gameplay.
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>>695194064
IT'S OVYIR
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>>695194405
bump
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>>695198118
-erino!!!
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>>695198004
>got filtered by stalker
>went to play cawadooty instead
why the fuck are you even here? go pick mutated bear asses for sidorovich in gamma lmao
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>>695198004
>The devs being retarded leftists
100% this. just surrender you fucking hohols.
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>>695195396
this is just literally factually wrong you dipshit cock slurping nigger, why do you even have the need to write contrarian bullshit without knowing a god damn thing?
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>>695198029
цe кiнeц
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I'm surprised no one is talking about the mod policing that is going on with STALKER 2 moving forward. ModDB will not be hosting STALKER 2 mods and mods are to be hosted on Nexus where GSC will police the mods being uploaded and will remove anything that infringes on their IP.
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>>695198416
>seething at gamma out of no where
Gamma is unironically better than Stalker 2
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>>695195249
In Clear Sky devs were strongly recommending do not save cause it breaks the game.
You can't expect saving to work, and manual saying is basically playing in god mode anyway.
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>>695194064
People are asleep dumb fuck
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>>695197554
what is interesting in the point he made? You are a fucking retarded nigger, there is not much to it other than that.
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>>695198462
It appears, the A-life system is present in the game, but scripted events make it bugged, and the direct spawning system is trying to overcompensate that, which effect is that A-life can't initiate because of the existence of too many entities around the player, and being blocked by scripted events.
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>>695197318
Stupid underage newnigger
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>>695194064
Don't worry, there will be 15kk players on GamePass.
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>>695198798
Did MS even sell 15kk of Xboxes?
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>>695198416
>go pick mutated bear asses for sidorovich in gamma lmao
funnily enough you've just described 100% of side quests and main quests in stalker 2 lol.

Again my whole point is that the devs or whoever is in charge at GSC deliberately ignored the existence of the stalker modding community, which is the core community of these games. It had nothing to do with the nationality because everyone plays anomaly and gamma.

Instead of being like Valve or i dunno, Todd, and embracing all the mods and progress made by these people. They went like
>naaah why would we allow GAMERS to dictate us how to make vidya games?? we know better.
And they made a game that nobody actually wanted because they simply wanted to prove a point that they still own rights to the IP even though IP belongs to the community at this point. Not them.
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>>695194064
Bought the first game as teen in 2007 and modded all games to hell and back.

Bought the ultimate edition now.
Ryzen 5800x
RX 6800xt
32gb ddr4 3200mhz
m.2 SSD
Windows 10

Important settings like textures, shadows, model detail, Draw distance and lighting are set to epic with useless shit to set to medium.
100 FPS at 1440p with TSR Quality + Frame Gen and 120fps with FSR quality + Frame Gen.
70 FPS native.

I'm curious how the performance is in settlements.

Just finished the prologue.
No bugs, no glitches.
Nice cutscenes and gameplay true to the old vanilla games.
The AI is indeed worse but not braindead, two bandits engaged me while the third one ran around the house trying to flank me.
I was scared shitless based on the stuff I read here but I went for it because it's my favorite franchise.

My guess is that a large part of the negative sentiment here is due to the war but is undeniable that performance is hit or miss depending on hardware combinations.
What could it be? Windows 11? Too little RAM? Too little VRAM?

You can safely buy the game anons it's good, unless you're a newfags who thinks stalker is Anomaly or Gamma.
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>>695198989
Based. /thread
seriously though Anomaly is better than this. I just finished SoC and CoP, both, vanilla (only FoV mod) in the past week in the leadup to Stalker 2.

To say I am disappointed is an understatement. I might as well just play SoC Vanilla... again... because STALKER 2 is shit made by retards with learning disabilities.
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>>695198989
>Again my whole point is that the devs or whoever is in charge at GSC deliberately ignored the existence of the stalker modding community, which is the core community of these games
I remember the exact same screeching from brutal doom's "core doom community" when doom 2016 came out. Turns out nobody outside the brutal doom community really cared about them and the game did well, much to the surprised of said "core community".
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>>695199293
>popularity = quality
maybe you're just retarded and have no standards. I liked Doom 2016 and I play brutal doom. That's fine. But STALKER 2 is fucking terrible and the Original Trilogy Vanilla and/or Anomaly and/or GAMMA are all far better games and experiences.

Why the fuck would i play STALKER 2 when I can just play Shadow of Chernobyl Vanilla... again? Because I tell you that I just did htat. I just finished SoC vanilla with only FoV mod in the days leading up to STALKER 2 launch.

STALKER 2 IS SHIT BY COMPARISON.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU PLAYED THE OG TRILOGY, FRAUD? I played them on launch and again recently with no mods! They're better than STALKER 2 lol
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>>695198924
It's on pc
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>>695198989
>they still own rights to the IP
There is no IP, Stalker is Stalker (movie) + Roadside picnic (book)
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>>695197731
there's already 14 mods on nexus
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>>695195807
>I know at least one of the STALKER devs died fighting in Ukraine
One of the devs from the original games, he was never involved in STALKER 2.
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>>695197776
>looks beautiful
This could easily be confused for fallout 4.
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>>695199515
Those are tweaks you can do without modding tools but to make something like Anomaly/Gamma you NEED modding tools and there is none so far.
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>>695199239
You should give CS a try, it's worth playing with the restoration project.
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>>695199651
that's unironically my first thought when I saw videos of the game. Why should I play this when I have already played Fallout 4 and all of the other FPS slop on the market? It literally looks like an Eastern European modpack for FO4.
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likely a lot of refunds from people experiencing bugginess/shit performance
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>>695195572
this game is soul and kino
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>>695199718
Do game devs seriously skip on QA? Why the fuck customers have to be served sloppines for every big game release.
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>>695195807
a guy that worked on clear sky got killed
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>>695199669
Technically those are mods too, because they modify the original game. But I agree with you, though they stated there will be mod support post launch, but then again look what they gave us as a finished product.
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>>695194064
Euro bros are at work, stupid
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>>695199828
Grygorovych, my son
You can spend Microsoft shekels by hiring high quality developers and ensure good QA done
or
You can pocket Microsoft shekels, buy yourself few yachts, enjoy your life while bunch of interns working on game for "experience"
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>>695199828
>Why the fuck customers have to be served sloppines for every big game release.
Customers deserve what they tolerate.
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Is there any actual survival games with in depth mechanics like Anomaly or Gamma.

I love how everything requires a battery to run , even your PDA.
Take your gun to get fixed? Yeah leave it here come back in 24h Stalker, we don't fix equipment at a click of your mouse button.

These mods BTF out of the entire genre!
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>>695199718
If only such things happened IRL, it would actually be worth living.
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>>695200089
it's what happen when you punch an ethiopan
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>>695199718
>died and fell into a yeet anomaly
nothing out of the ordinary here
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>>695194064
Nigger you know people sleep right?
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>>695194064
Why does it matter how many people are playing it? If a game is good, it's still good even if you're the only person on the entire planet playing, you fucking retarded Amerimuttoid zooomer faggot.
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>>695199515
>ini hacks and texture replacements are mods, you guys!!
If they don't release any modding SDK, that's the only thing you'll ever see on there
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>>695199217
Your PC is on the mid upper range and it can only get 70fps at 1440p. People are upset because most can only run it barely at 60fps regardless of resolution and without framegen towns and traversal is aids going from 60 to 40fps.

It has nothing to so with specs either its just terrible optimization. Even a 4090 with 7800X3D at 1080p drops to 40 fps on high preset
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So less than Space Marine 2?
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>>695199718
>the zone claims another
Sovl
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>>695200024
Sounds utterly horrible artificial busywork.
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>>695203090
Yeah it would if you constantly needed to change it, every once in a while it doesnt hurt, and the light quality degrades as the power juice does. Or like filling up your magazine before inserting it into gun. I love this kind of realism. Makes it stand out from arcadey casual shooters. Something games lack these days.
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why the fuck did MUH CCU shitflinging start happening for single player games? this wasn't a thing until 2024 because no one matter
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>>695195249
sounds like glorified tech demo
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>>695194064
It peaks on american/canada time zone.
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Grygorovych where is the A-Life?
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>>695195249
The thing is general audience doesn't care. They would like any ubislop as long as it works fast on their potato computer.
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>>695196757
It is random to the point where its not fucking funny. I have 3060m, 5800hs. The game barely runs,1080p lowest settings, performance dlss doesn't even hit 20fps most of the time, crashes every ten minutes. My friend has 3060ti(desktop). Has higher fps(around 50-60 with dlss) and medium graphics but crashes every few minutes. Then there is another friend with 3060(desktop) but with no SSD, who had 0 crashes since he started the game and it runs in perfect 70fps native. Then there is xbox which is supposed to be worse than every single pc mentioned, but has stable 60fps and 0 crashes as well.
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>>695194064
Bro, not everyone is a NEET. Some of us have societal obligations to uphold. This is not the own you think it is
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>>695207363
a lot of overlay apps can fuck up with games, make sure you don't run cancer in background, even steam overlay cause FPS drop in games - make sure to disable it
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>>695207363
microsoft paid so they made it console focused, just like witcher2. slavs are so easily bribed its not funny
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>>695205374

Daily reminder, that Grygorovich is a coward and a hypocrite, lolike most Ukrainians. He (and his team) loves his shithole so much he left it long before the war and never plans to return, because the brave sir khokhol is afraid of the draft so brave sir khokhol bravely stays away. TKD.
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>>695205374
>looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!
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Your response?
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>>695194064
Playing on a 2060, My fps will randomly dip down to 8 and stay there until I close it.
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>>695195709
That piece of shit never fails to fuck over everything with how fucking garbage it is.
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>>695208442
Have you tried restarting the game instead of playing it on first install?
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>>695196435
>Analmeme/Gamma for $180
Lol
Lmao
Not to mention
>UE5
Good luck trying to mod that.
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>>695208479
Yeah, plays fine for about 10 minutes and the FPS just plummets. playing on a 10700k
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>>695208784
Hmm, may I suggest updating your drivers, and decorrupting your system32 files?
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>>695208381
>pirate nation
>defends sales numbers
the absolute state of twitter
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>>695208654
qrd on UE5?
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just wait until the weekend.

Game is great btw, it’s not perfect but those claiming it to be a massive dumpster fire are russian shills with bad rigs
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>>695208885
encrypted assets
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>>695208784
Either game has memory leaks or your cooling is shit.
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>>695207363
>It is random to the point where its not fucking funny
it sounds at least a little funny desu
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>>695194064
This review from steam sums up everything that is fundamentally wrong with this game and modern gaming in general. We have regressed in terms of gameplay and AI and that's sad.

>One of the defining features of the series was it's living world. NPC's would wander around, fight over territory, and have their own radio chatter about local events. That system is gone now, and replaced with a generic spawning system.

>As an example, I cleared a camp of enemies, looted it, walked a few feet outside of it, and enemies immediately spawned back in, shooting at me. Another example, a friendly group spawned in, helped me fight a mutant, I turned away to open a stash, turned back around, and they were gone.
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>>695195249
This makes me wonder how much time they actually spent on this game, I remember seeing some people saying that the first trailer had default UE4 blood effects and that it was a red flag.
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>>695209008
the game is just a mediocre console shooter. it's like FEAR and FEAR 2 situation. gonna be forgotten faster than atomic heart
t. russian
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>>695208190
The only meat ukranians know is a meat wave they're forced to participate daily, lol.
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>>695196106
you mean this?
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>>695209953
that's not even a game breaking bug and is easily fixed
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>>695209953
Looks Slav to me!
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>>695198434
the objective isnt to win the war anon, it's to genocide the Ukrainians so the land can be gifted to isreal.
*taps sign*
Leftism is a death cult.
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>>695210076
yes
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>>695209953
Did the people who could actually code get drafted or something?
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>>695210212
expectations a bit high much?
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>>695209953
they used leaked code from cyberpunk 2077?
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I bought the Ultimate Edition day 1 because I felt bad for Ukraine.

I'll get around to playing it but I have like, 30 other games on my backlog to finish first.
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>>695208147
I thought they moved to Prague during the war
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>>695210353
probably, there's a shitload of wartime IT infrastructure that needs to be maintained
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>>695209221
Game has a memory leak. Everything else plays fine
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>>695195249
Fucking grim.
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>>695198440
>not even the attempt at an argument
Concession accepted!
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77.8
Not Great
Not Terrible
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>>695195807
Almost every fighting age Ukrainian man is dead.
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>Broken buggy mess
>pretty niche series
>Day 1 on gamepass
>82K players atm
>113K peak

Not to beat a dead horse but this kinda puts into perspective how poorly Dragon age sold.
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>>695211626
if this were true, then russia would be advancing like the opening days of the war. manpower issues exist, but ignoring reason for the sake of preserving your worldview is foolish.
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No matter how many ini I edit I can't get rid of mouse lag
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>>695212381
What mouse lag.
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>>695208381
this is why you need to spam loli or racist stuff so these faggots don't dare to come here
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>>695209953
>NPCs review Stalker 2 copy
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>>695194240
13 years in prisen for anti war gaming. Imagen the smell in the cell.
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>>695209708
FEAR gets talked about to this day.
Are you retarded?
And AH is a great game, launch was rough though.
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>>695195756
What the fuck does the war have to do with me paying full price for a buggy unoptimized game that came out with missing features that the devs originally advertised as something extraordinary?

Fuck you you mongoloid nigger. Stupid fuck.
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>>695194064
uncle phil paid for all our copies, who cares about steam
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>grab the first artifact
>bloosucker instantly jumps and kills me
>in the tutorial zone
oh, it's one of those huh
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>Space Marine 2 peak
>225k
>Stalker 2 peak
>113k
Hryukraine sisters how could this happen to us....
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>>695195916
Trump won. Pigs lose. Forever.
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>>695214032
Learn to have your wits about you punk
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>>695214074
Peak will be on the weekend.
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Another day another WOKE FLOP. /v/ was right again
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>>695194064
>CCU
?
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>113k players when every single reviewer said to "wait for patches"
I see this as a win
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>>695197776
>only things that look good are 250m+ away
yep it's a console game alright
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>>695214986
Aieee stop the count, don't go up.
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>>695196289
"you get instakilled in the beginning because you get attacked by an invisible moster AT NIGHT and you have no fucking clue what are you doing"
You are probably sped if you got killed by that bloodsucker when the game gives it away completely by putting a red line under your compass kek
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>>695214224
>Peak will be
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>>695195249
>Ubislop
>but with libshit shills
Hell yeah! It's gaming time.
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>>695216043
>pic
Holy shit, he must've lost trillions
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>>695216043
That image is hilarious,
>reddit, 4chan and the KKK have teamed up to do a economic terrorism
kek
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I'll buy the game in a few months when it gets better. I need a new processor and motherboard anyways.
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>>695195572
try playing this shit on modern specs (i tried)
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>>695216408
You could play it now on low perfectly fine btw
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>>695216482
Yeah but I want to play it on high and this gives me an excuse to get better parts.
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>>695196578
So you're saying if I don't buy the game I support Putler raizing Zelenskyyy off a highrise and killing the Ukrainian Nazis? Shit, Harry. You didn't have to sell me on it, I already didn't buy it.
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>>695216532
Fine be an autist I wont stop you
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>>695196757
>>all the bugs are the stalker classic like people walking on air and being stuck in scenery, haven't found anything that would cause me to reload due to a quest breaking etc
And this is why the industry sucks: People like you willingly eat shit and ask for seconds.
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>>695194064
>posts 6am in yurop numbers
lmao. TZD
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>>695195249
fake news russian troll bot ignote
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>>695199828
They do get QA, but they can't check everything. Which is the problem. The two-three year cycles for AAA games (doesn't factor in on this one which is... 8? or so years? With a war on) just doesn't work for a team of 5-10 QA testers.
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>its plateau-ing
OH NO NO NO
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>>695211917
>What is foreigners/NATO support?
The only reason they haven't rolled over is because the MIC of the US won't let them, same for supporting Genocide of a jailed nation: the MIC gets money while misery is inflicted on the proles of a foreign nation.

America deserved 9/11, BTW.
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>>695217004
>team of 5-10 QA testers
Why are there so few though?
Bungie's Halo games had more QA testers than devs, on top of the devs QAing as well.
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>>695194064
>/v/ only likes things if they are popular
Oh how far we've fallen
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>>695217004
> just doesn't work for a team of 5-10 QA testers.
I seriously doubt there were only that many QA testers
Show me the fucking credits
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>CHORNOBYL
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>>695218382
stolkor 2 hort of chornobol
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>>695209953
Such an immersive experience
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>>695218382
lmao these retards have a typo in their title
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>>695217128
Tbf, we'll have to wait until the weekend to see the real peak numbers. Even slopguard peaked during the weakend.
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>>695210076
>>695210358
This is bait
Or maybe it isn't. Can't tell with all the jews and jeets. 50/50
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>>695218801
It's bait and you bit it because you're a psyop obsessed culture warrior.
Spend some time off of your computer. You are unwell.
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>>695197264
If you are not getting stable 60 without frame gen, frame gen is just worse. And by that point you might as well not use it, because of the latency.
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>>695219308
Is this also bait?
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>>695219371
Yes. Everything that disagrees with your worldview is bait. No one is genuine unless they are in lockstep with what you believe.
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>>695219612
Come again?
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>>695219673
I already came twice today
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I think my game is broken. I picked up a big piece of bread and its letting me equip it as armor
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>>695220071
Did you torrent it?
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>>695220108
Nope i'm playing on game pass
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>>695220071
Slavic bread is hard enough to stop bullets
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>>695220071
You agreed to the terms and conditions. Deal with it. No refunds, btw.
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>>695220305
Until I get a full refund of purchase price for saying No these will never be legal.
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>>695220305
im playing on xbox on gamepass so im not too concerned.
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>>695220071
That's what they give recruits when armor runs out.
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>>695194064
Zelenski cumsuckers already ITT defending this shit ass game
Though if buying 1 copy of stalker 2 equals to 1 dead zigger, I will buy 10 copies now and 100 more in 2 more weeks just to make putler monkeys seethe
Death to all slavs
God bless america
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>>695220071
What's the stats on that loaf?
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>>695220071
>anon's body turned into bread
Such is the life in the Zone
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>>695220543
You think they have bread to spare?
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>>695220545
>t. zigger
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>>695194064
it was all thanks to me
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>>695220589
here
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>>695220545
Slavs fucked the superior aryan race in their thight bussies tho
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>>695220545
>lets hatred fill his heart
>expects jesus to allow him into the kingdom of heaven
ngmi
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>>695220897
To be fair everyone else did too, we need to remove eternal anglo the actual final boss.
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>>695221070
I think we could achieve world piece if we nuked Great Britistan and made mexicans enslave the US.
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People are waiting for patches. A-life is currently disabled, enemies see you through walls and randomly spawn near you.
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I will wait to play it next year or even 2026 after this shit is actually cooked if they don't drop it like its hot since they already collected their paycheck.
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>>695198989
> they simply wanted to prove a point that they still own rights to the IP even though IP belongs to the community at this point.
just play Zero Sievert its a shameless 2d stalker clone and better than S2
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>>695221293
gets boring too fast. 2d is too limiting when i know what i'm missing
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Back at 99k
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I love this sequel, the video game industry just likes to yell and cry all the fucking time about nothing lmao

If you've been here longer than a year you know how this works by now.

I highly recommend this game, it captured the essence of the originals for me personally, the world is amazing btw, massive world with great atmosphere
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>>695221672
Would you say you are "having a blast"?
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>>695221672
>it captured the essence of the originals
would you say its a return to form?
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>>695194064
>Chornobyl
Chernobyl
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>>695221672
Live out of Chxrnobyl: Blast posting under the lights of Geran drones
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>>695221842
Tšernobyl
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>>695221772
>>695221789
>>695221870
very organic
very grassroots
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Am I the only one not getting janky spawns? Haven't really seen anything out of the ordinary, NPCs are already at random locations when I get there. Maybe I'm not far enough yet.
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>>695221672
Nice reddit post nigger.
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Back at 100000, and we are 4 hours or so away from the last peak.
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>>695221565
>>695222648
lol this nigger is watching the playernumbers like he bet his house on it.
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>>695194064
I would be interested in this game but not at that price and not based on the performance issues and bugs I heard about.
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>>695208654
GAMMA is still better and it's free.
GSC fucked up huge and are extremely retarded.
I knew this before release.
The game was in dev hell, all games die there without fail.
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>>695222790
Seriously. If you're at a place in your life where you're relentlessly f5ing to monitor the <1% shift in player counts of a video game you're fucked.

No matter how you try to spin this, no matter what side you're on; this is behavior from a person who has failed at life completely. Every other person on this board can celebrate today.
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>>695195572
Do people really love this shit? It's pretentious as fuck, monster designs are retarded, and the ending is absolute cringe.

Well, I guess soviet gun does cling clang.
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>>695220071
see stalker, in zone bread is bulletproof cheeky breeky iv damke
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>>695222927
>I knew this before release.
And there it is
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>open game the first time
>compiling shaders
>change some settings and quit
>open it again
>compiling shaders
this is a bug on my end right? surely you're not compiling shaders every launch?
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>>695194064
Europe here, i am still at work(i also bought the game on GOG).
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>>695223083
if you change any settings or the game updates or the moon is in the wrong phase you have to recompile
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>>695216532
>Developers are retarded and don't know how to optimize a game
>This means I need new parts!
You're a fucking idiot
A fool and his money are soon parted.
That's you.
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>No A-Life in the game
Fukken DROPPED
I gave it a chance and they have my money now. But they're not getting any more of my time until the game improves.
So, what game/mod should I play instead? I've played the original trilogy and a handful of mods extensively, but it's been awhile and there's plenty I've not tried (pic related).
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>>695222953
Welcome to /v/, we don't discuss video game. We house mentally ill people.
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>>695223083
>he boughted nvidia
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does anyone have an estimate of how much was spent on this turd of game?
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>>695223281
jesus christ
can't wait for the threat interactive vid
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>europeans coming home from work
>100k again
game has mostly positive reviews on Steam as well

i bet it's gonna break the peak record tomorrow
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>>695223350
wouldn't be the same without them (I'm one of them)
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>>695223427
>friday
nah my guess is saturday.
not everyone has a lax friday night
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>>695223427
>farming simulator numbers
this is it? this is what insane hype could produce?
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>>695223012
I'm afraid its going to fuck up my save
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>>695223663
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so whos winning?
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>>695224051
just go sell it to the vendor
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>>695223427
it's probably at least 2x counting piracy
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>>695223663
Ukrainian devs work for peanuts, the game most likely already broke even.
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>>695223427
Will happen on saturday, it always does.
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>>695223663
IS LIKE I'M REALLY A UKRAINIAN FARMER
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>>695223663
Stalker is a niche franchise, no amount of GAMMAfagging and nostalgiawanking will ever change that. It's decent numbers for a game the average person is barely cognizant of. What will really determine its legacy is the amount of community enthusiasm it sustains over the next 10 years, the mod support, the dev support, etc. I'm surprised it even broke 100k, I was anticipating a smaller launch especially after the reports of how buggy it was dropped. It has yet to be seen if it has earned a reputation like the original. People will have to check back in 10 years to see that.
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>>695223364
at least $7
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>>695224689
300k on twitch yesterday disagree with you, this is top IP numbers, rare single-player game can pull such numbers
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>>695194064
Oh no no no vatnikbros, it's back to 100k already, how do we cope?
Quicky, call game unplayable and post wojak, that will show em, GSC shillpigs can't refute that there is no A-Life in the sequel
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>>695221842
It's ummm acshually the correct pronunciation, just like how Ki-Ev is actually Keev.
Also it you say it wrong you're going on a list for being a conspirator.

Ignore the part where we don't indulge the Jeets when they want their shit to be called Bharat or Kolkuta when we already have well-known names for it, or how it's fine for non-english languages to just call places different things (like how the finns call the USA, "Amerikan Yhdysvallat"). That's different. It's ok in those scenarios. Not this one. (they're at war you know..... some place you can't even pronounce just got bombed in the 72 day siege of grzegorz brzęczyszczykiewicz where 32,763 conscripted civillians from indeterminate sides were auto-killed by $450,000,000,000's worth of drones over a strategically vital asparagus field, but check out this sweet gore video where an indeterminate WAR CRIMINAL / 43yr old father of 7 picked up off the street crying in a shelled out building and got what he fvvvvvvcking deserved as his leg flew to the crimean sea).
You WILL acquiesce your language. You WILL fly the Ukranian flag over the land-of-immigrants flag (USA) but NOT under the LGBT pride flag. You WILL do as you're told. You WILL support a side, our (my) side, the side you're told.
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>>695225763
>but NOT under the LGBT pride fag
kek
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Can someone explain to me why modern game studios can't just released an actually finished product? I do not get it.

Imagine you went to see a film where it randomly cuts from 4k to 280p, and the audio randomly cuts out... you would leave the cinema, why do gamers put up with this lol do you fags never learn?

I'm just sad, rarely do I get hyped about a franchise but probably just gonna go check out Anomaly instead.
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>>695220997
faux christians need their comeuppance
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Realistically, how do you fix the performance issues, which settings Will make it better? Or do you just refund and wait for a performance patch?
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>>695225034
I'm not not praising it's success, but this is STALKER. To be worthy of its title I think it's a long game, the devs have pledged mod support so they understand this as well. It's true reputation will be known only in the future. Release is the least important component of whether it is a true STALKER title worthy of its prestige.
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>>695194064
It doesn't look like stalker. It feels like stalker when playing, but without a life, It won't have the emergent scenarios and resultingly will not have longevity. And it's kind of just not that fun, but idk why. Too easy, I think
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>>695194064
I wonder why
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>>695220545
My religion isn't your aesthetic zoomy.
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>>695195271
>I've seen no evidence that it's removed
It may exist in some form but the game populates nearby events/encounters in the same way far cry does (which it didn't used to, so a life doesn't seem to track every NPC) and further the game spawns in NPCs in predetermined spawn points which it used to do sometimes during certain missions but not always. So if it is there, it works very differently and for different reasons.
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>>695209953
as silly as this is
>White dots on corpses
fuck yea more shit needs to do that
look at our $40m grass
oh did you want to find the deer/cougar/retard you shot?
fuck you
have grass
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>>695227636
>"why aren't they okay with selling their games to their invaders?"
I really have to wonder what kind of mental gymnastics russians use to justify being victimized. It's as if you break into your neighbour's house and trash it, and then wonder why neighbour doesn't want borrow you money anymore.
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>>695196106
2 days before and then when pressed they said it was still in the game, nothing changed, and they just changed the store language so more people could understand
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>>695228084
Did all the Russian STALKER fans personally take part in the 2 day* special military operation**? No? Then why are they being punished for something they have no part in?
Collective punishment to try and foment unrest and overthrow does nothing but drive people towards the very thing you're punishing them for
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>>695228047
wouldn't be a problem if they'd kept the minimap (or if they show up on the PDA map)
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>>695228084
>I side with trannies
weird flex
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>>695228084
Space Marine 2 and Atomic Heart are still sold on Ukraine.
These GSC guys are just egoistic and petty, if the Russians still sell games to their enemies, Ukrainians should too.
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>>695228642
Do the vast majority of Russians support the war? Yes.
If some don't and get caught in the crossfires, that's unfortunate, but you try not to hold a grudge against an entire nation if it were to invade you.
>>695228776
>question dodging.
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>>695228084
shouldn't they want russians to spend money on their team?
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It's been 24 hours, did they fix the game yet?
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>>695226827
Publishers demand release
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>>695227636
Update: mod is now 'under moderation review' (effectively already banned/deleted)
all because someone wanted to change the logo on the main menu to match the already existing russian language option in the game
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>>695228806
>Space Marine 2 and Atomic Heart are still sold on Ukraine.
And they aren't bought because they were made in Russia.
Now why did the Ukranian government not ban them? Simple: they aren't totalitarian nazis. This fact is going to rustle some feathers here, I just know.
>>695228901
Why would they?
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>>695228817
It's nexus what is in question, the same nexus who ALWAYS delete mods that try to un-DEI various games and now they BEG developers about language mod?
Also, Russians doesn't use nexus for RU translations so it's pointless but it's good virtual signaling on nexus part, precisely what trannies usually do.
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>>695229127
>Russians doesn't use nexus for RU translations so it's pointless
ah, so russians put it on nexus for virtue signalling as well. Thanks for admitting to it.
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>muh player counts
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>got to 50% installed last night, turned pc on today and its at 0%
why?
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>>695229241
I don't follow you. I told you how it is because you are not Russian, you clearly had no idea but instead of accepting information you proceed to seethe, you are so weird.
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>>695228084
it doesnt matter at all, its about posturing for good guy points
how would selling stalker in russia impact the war?
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>>695195249
you are retarded
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>>695194064
NFT game lmao.
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>>695229018
Are they retarded? Surely it hurts their profits long term when games get released like this and everyone says it sucks?
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maybe i'll just get Zero Sievert and wait a few months for patches and mods
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>>695229581
>someone dumb enough to invest in 90% of this shit
>having the intelligence to think long term
lmao
LINE GO UP
MONEY MONEY MONEY
DOSH HERE
>oops it was ubisoft stock
?!?!?!?!?! I wuz tricked WE SUE
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>>695229017
runs fine on my PC
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>>695225763
absolutely mad
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>>695229090
because us more money good you more money bad
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Slava Rasija
nuke ukrainpigs
death to amerikkka and butthurt belt
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>>695230000
checked
and because /pol/ is so contrarian that even defending your country is evil to them
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>>695228806
russians don't own space marine 2 you retard
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>>695228084
>I really have to wonder what kind of mental gymnastics russians use to justify being victimized
8 years of Ukranians ethnically cleansing Eastern Ukraine of Russians after couping a democratically elected government that was friendly to Russia will do that

But retarded western euros and Americans just eat that propaganda up like it's nothing
>Noooo Ukraine dindu nuffin :(
It's the same kind of post Soviet mafia state as the Russians with all of the rabid ethno nationalism to boot
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>>695230000
>why is a board compromised of 90% russians and mexicans mad that the games not being sold in russia
gee i dunno retard lol
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>>695230086
No one is more butthurt than vatniks. We should probably rename Russia to Butthurt Blob.
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i just bought the original trilogy. never played this shit before. do i play modded or vanilla?
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>>695230239
>noone is more-
China has issued a final warning to you over this oversight and belittlement of their accomplishments.
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>>695230184
speaking of ethnic cleansing
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>>695230304
play shadow of chernobyl and call of pripyat vanilla
install sky reclamation project for clear sky
would recommend including optional addons such as pistol ironsights and better stealth AI but it's up to you
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>>695230304
Hope you didn't buy GSC's "remastered" trilogy I.e. the cope censored versions
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>>695228661
Yeah so much shit with the UI could've been improved had they just shoved more of it onto the PDA (like prior games/anomaly). Like the compass markers shouldn't even exist, or at the very least they should only appear in safe settlements and/or within a couple of feet of the person or item you need.
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>>695223427
uh oh tortanicsisters we were wrong again!
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>>695231978
But can it beat Farming Simulator 25 tonight? Or is it going to be Saturday's final boss?
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>>695194064
Stalker was always a niche Eurojank series that required a mod pack to be playable. why are people surprised Stalkers 2 is niche Eurojank that requires a mod pack to be playable? lol
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>>695194064
I love STALKER SoC and CoP and this game just feels bad to play.
And not in the euro janky way that the original games are like.
It just feels like your standard modern clunky console slop. I hate the fucking UI and the movement and the UE5 engine looks like fucking trash.
I knew when they announced this game for consoles that it would be shit.
You really just have to play PC indie games nowadays if you want something that doesn't feel like a console port. It sucks but the big budget PC scene is dead.
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>>695195572
Can't believe they went on to make mobile games and then nothing after this.
>>695216426
install the patch that lets you disable PhyX and disable it, worked for me....well, on a GTX 560 years ago.
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>>695231384
>>695231978
Based
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https://youtu.be/4o8KmKkb17c
>same font
they really did try to copy far cry games, didn't they
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>>695194405
>good
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vatnik bros we cant stop winning
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>>695232490
It's a AAA Cinematic Experience, not eurojank from a tiny studio. It's not like the developers had to deal with war or something since they're in Czechia and funded by Microsoft. f*cking r*zzian bots in this thread need to go back to /pol/
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>>695230413
ZRP is needed for SoC tho
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>>695232629
yes, game definitely feels and plays like a far cry
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>>695232982
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention it.
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>>695232490
I hope you're not referring to shit like GAMMA or Anomaly.
And SoC and CoP play just great vanilla.
You might wanna install a community patch fixing some bugs at the most, but you don't need any retarded mod packs.
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>>695209953
This is how Putin spawns the 4 billion russian losses counted by the kyiv independent
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Is master difficulty still easier gunfights?
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>>695223427
It keeps going higher...guess the people that play it, like it
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>>695194212
yes, everyone here is fucking retarded. /v/ is a hell in which we're a bunch of retards grabbing eachothers ass and screaming "gotchu! haha!" in turn forever. you'd do well to leave to preserve what mind you have left.
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>>695195572
>it's another slav/scandinavian game about surviving the cold and dark winter
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>>695233620
All they have is cold and dark, anon.
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>>695233101
shill-kun, narrative that it's Russian who is seething was debunked
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>>695233620
>anon have no idea what polar night is
You are missing.
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>>695233762
>russian reviews have the highest number of negative reviews contrasted to positive reviews
You just proved him right, lmao
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>>695233762
Why are chinks like this?
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>>695233762
So it's actually hohols and nafoids shitting the board up, who would've thought.
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>>695233762
>language
>inplying vodkaniggers can't use google translate
+15 rubley, motherland defended.
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>>695233276
it takes a lot of people a long time to download 160gb
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>>695195249
Pirated it and stopped playing when I realized that you can't rebind the buttons properly and everything is set up for controllers.
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>>695233762
>Simplified Chinese 48%
>Traditional Chinese 71%
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>>695231978
>>695223427
Double top.
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>>695233762
Anon, that chart literally goes against your argument.
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>>695213271
>smell in the cell
Worst wrestling event ever
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>>695234297
are you retarded or something?
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>>695234435
kek
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>>695194064

It's me, I bought 10000 copies so I could run them simultaneously then turn them off to sabotage the player count.
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>>695234742
Vatnikbros... hold me...
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>>695234742
I have no stake in any of this but it's sad to see devs getting rewarded for delivering a broken buggy mess.
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>>695234742
Putkin xsisters what is our response? Are we going to threaten with nuclear weapons again?
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>>695234742
Based, the game is comfy slavjank.
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>>695234742
nafoids are proud that buggy releases get rewarded
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>>695194064
Absolute state of pc
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>>695199718
kino
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>>695234742
Total zigger death.
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>>695234742
SAVE ME PUTIN AIEEEEEEEE
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>>695232490
>that required a mod pack to be playable
Wrong.
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/v/ only hates this because it's not on nintendo or playstation
day 1 patch fixed performance issues. The games beautiful and huge, go back to your gacha garbage and children's games lel
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>>695194064
50% of its playerbase is working right now, anon.
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>unreal engine 5
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>>695232881
yeah, just like Atomic Heart was a "aaa cinematic experience". LOL

>>695233119
>>695235929
Stalker and Vampire Bloodlines are two old series i never see recommended by anyone without the caveat that you need mods.
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>>695227636
They didn't do a very good job, half of of the people I see streaming this are ruskies
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>>695237765
Most ruskies were probably like 'k' and downloaded the GOG version, or imported the console version
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OP is a retard

Slava Ukraini
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>>695236334
when chinks do it u slurp it up
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>>695194064
n-nafo sisters!!!!
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>>695237524
atomic heart at least worked properly when it released, with only a few tiny bugs

I bought the most expensive edition of it btw because the developers are Russian
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>>695240940
>shitty corridor shooter vs open world rpg
Wow anon, next you'll compate spider man comic vs silmarillion
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>>695196515
Did they fucking pulled a CyberPunk 2077 fiasco all over again?!
I still remember how they cleaned their fucking page and started pushing the GTAinspired CP77 game
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>>695241371
both are "open world" but one was made by u*ranians so it sucks and the other was made by Russians so it's good, I guess the urine can't optimize games just like they can't optimize their k/d ratio lel
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>>695199217
Play more and you'll find out all the complaints are valid. I've had it crash 3 times but the tutorial was fine. It's what comes after.
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>>695241564
>ukraine bad
>r*ssia good
Hello zigger, Kyiv in 3 days status?
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>>695194064
how the fuck were there already reviews on something that just launched on the day of?
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>>695242279
ask this guy about your shitty forced meme instead
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>>695237765
Those are probably russo ukrops, remember one third of the country doesn't speak ukrainian at all
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>>695194064
Look at those retards the spelled Chernobyl wrong.

Yes Chernobyl is the correct way to say it in English because Ukrainians don't get to control how their words are said in other languages. Just like how we don't call Germany Deutschland.
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>>695242598
Sorry for thinking you were competent I guess, everyone expected better from "second army in the world" lmao
Now you're literally begging fucking North Korea for help
You're a laughing stock, mate.
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>>695243001
I'm not even russian I'm just sick of you faggots shitting up 4chan for 2 years with your marvel movie funko pop fanatacism for a country you have no connection to, go back to twittereddit with your snarky condescension and sardonic tone
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>>695199718
>be in the zone
>get shot at
>see buddies head explode
>turn around and run directly at the shooter without returning fire or seeking cover
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>>695243194
>I am John and I live in New York
I believe you, anon. You are not russian, fellow westerner.
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>>695243194
As opposed to you faggots shitting 4chan even harder? Yeah sure whatever.
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>>695199718
Honestly my biggest complaint with this clip is the recoil, why does every game nowadays have recoil like SQUAD?
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>>695243194
Hey, don't bring my funko pops into this you asshole.
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>>695243993
You're paranoid nobody is shilling on 4chan. Nobody cares about this shithole enough to spend time doing that
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>>695243779
>>695243993
>>695244408
>>695244410
obvious samefag
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>>695244410
scroll through the /pol/ catalog and you'll find almost exclusively shill threads
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>>695234742
How could Putin let this happen....?
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>>695244496
retard
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>>695244552
yeah well /pol/ is just a containment board where supposedely all /pol/ posts should go if gookmoot bothered to hire half decent jannies
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>>695244496
Really dude?
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>>695244731
Not much of one seeing as how 95% of the discussion in this thread is occupied by geopolitically obsessed pissbabies screeching ZIGGER or HOHOL instead of talking about the fucking game.
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>>695245102
>Silenced Makarov
does the game have a PB or is that the only one?
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>>695245345
Just the PM so far. Supposedly they're going to add more later on down the line. Hopefully they aren't DLC locked.
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>>695245102
Maybe if the fucking ziggers could stop shitting on this game for the crime of being made in Ukraine we would finally be able to have a civil discussion
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>>695245102
>talking about the fucking game.
If you cut all the politics from these discussions, people will just complain that it's a horrendous UE5 asset flip and laugh at how bad it is. In fact the threads will quickly die.
I know this because i'm a mod on an another forum.
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>>695245575
There is free DLC upcoming.
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>>695195249
I knew this game would be shit. God damn it.
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this game is fucking trash the most egregious thing that made me uninstall it is the npc and monster spawning, you pieces of shit, whats the point of snipers if there is nothing to shoot at beyond 20 meters???
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>>695246038
you only hate it because you're one of those f*cking chuds who like r*ssia on xitter that I reply with doge memes to, the game is great and I'm having a blast
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I am 99% sure that i am the only one playing the game from all the shitflingers in this thread. Nobody and i mean nobody has mentioned how kino the soundtrack is in this thread. You are all posers.
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>>695246691
>Nobody and i mean nobody has mentioned how kino the soundtrack is in this thread
Post it.
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>>695246162
You joke, but this garbage will be defended to the death using arguments like this.
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>>695247654
I have seen it already since the game launched. Twitter was a mistake.
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>>695220071
"Bread"
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>>695246774
not him, but I like both these songs on the radio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9XC5bkVtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZfhxd5aj6g
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>>695246774
I'm going crazy but I thought I heard Live to Forget
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>>695248013
>bananiv nema
I like it
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>>695248181
Sid's bunker still plays Dirge for the planet. I'll have to see if I can hear live to forget. I still havent visited the skavdosk or 100 rads bar yet.
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>>695194064
I'm gonna play it on gamepass.
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>>695195709
People actually had the gall to claim that being made with consoles in mind wouldn't result in it being dumbed down.
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>>695234742
SHOIGU GERASIMOV, WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE REFUNDS?
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>>695194064
India getting internet access is the worst tragedy in the history of human civilisation.
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>>695194064
numberfags/stockfags/salesfags should be banned on sight, it's not vidya discussion it's just people arguing over arbitrary numbers they dont understand, it's ruining this board.
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>>695195249
>bruh
stopped reading there
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>>695232582
>enjoyed Cryostasis back in the day
>look up the dev to check what else they made
>Carnivores
Holy shit, I had no idea. I played Carnivores 2 so much as a kid. It wasn't great though.
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>>695248714
shazam lost, the meme is dead, find a new one
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Poppy field is filtering me
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>>695194064
No shit retard. It happens with every game.
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>>695249367
Just sprint through it, avoid the clouds of petals and chug as many energy drinks as you can
Also don't trust that nigger who's next to it and gives you the quest to show you the cellar, but take his quest for a shitload of free AK ammo
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>>695248714
>wouldn't result in it being dumbed down.
It was a joke, you don't need to take everything seriously
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>>695200143
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>>695248013
LEL
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>>695249367
the rookie memes are real
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>>695246691
No I have played the game and I hate it.

I wanted to really enjoy it but it runs like shit. As for the actual gameplay I think its fine I like the looting and inventory system.

I cant even play the game though it dips below 30 and I refuse to use input lag FSR3 framegen shit.

I just cant believe this shit cant run at native resolution without framegen shit at 1440p60fps at high settings considering my PC is near $1800.
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>>695248181
it does, I'm listening to it right next to a mechanic
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>>695250180
>oh no the game can't run in 4k REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
kill yourself unironically
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>>695203010
what in the actual fuck.
Just when i thought post-industrial society is too bizarre
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I can't tell if it makes a difference if I run it at high/quality DLSS or medium/balanced DLSS
In appearance OR performance
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>>695196757
what even is a day one patch? do they preload an older build just for a placeholder and then update it on lauch day?
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>>695250517
>1440p
>4k
retarded or just hohol?
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>>695250517
I said 1440p and yes it can't hit 60fps without frame gen despite my PC being over a thousand dollars and being built for 1440p.

Even elden ring at high plays at over 120fps lmao
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I'm just going to wait a few months before playing it.
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How's the atmosphere? STALKER was fucking great for it.
>starts raining
>hear some dogs fucking up a flesh
>see a campfire in the distance
>beeps as people get in range
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>>695252606
No object permanence. Everything just spawns within 60 feet of you. If you move out of the spawn range, it despawns.
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>>695252606
I probably don't represent most people but so far the majority of the game has been extremely similar to vanilla original STALKER in most ways, for better or worse.
I don't think a lot of people now commenting on STALKER 2 were around for that. It was a disaster of horrible performance and bugs with bizarre system interactions back in the day too.
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>>695252915
Lots of crashes, weird as fuck balance, weapons broke constantly. Gunplay still wasn't modern sloppa though
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>>695199718
>fly birdy fly!
>new achievement unlocked
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how can i make it not look like blurry ass
or pixelated aliased ass
are it fucked?



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