>stalker 2 is on sale>i know it's bloated, unoptimized and not fun>but still want to buy itplease stop me
>>735969809go ahead if you enjoy wasting your time
>>735969809there's no a life and there's yellow paint everywhere, just play GAMMA
I was gonna play it but i saw dlcs are still not out and the ukranian devs and voice actors got drafted today so chances are the dlcs will never come out.
>>735969932like you're doing right now?
>>735969809>he don't have an Xbox X where this game was FREElmao pc-fag
>>735970369Gamepass is on pc too, btw you could just download this sloppa for free on pc lol seethe cuckmade
>>735969809Just play mods for the first game
>>735969809No, I want you to suffer.
>>735969809I had a lot of fun but it has more walking than Death Stranding. I wish it had vehicles.
>>735969809Get Crimson Desert instead.
>>735971019>it has more walking than Death StrandingYou also have to drink more energy drinks.
>>735971070why not both?also OP its alright but I would say check out nexus for overhaul mods. I wouldnt recccc touching vanilllla
>>735969809The originals (except clear sky) were a lightning in a bottle type releases that really weren't that amazing without mods but had a lot of charm.This pointless UE5 slop has no charm nor is there ever going to be a modding scene for it. Just play Anomaly/Gamma
>>735969809Buy it if you like the taste of cock in your mouth
>>735971264Clear sky has its charm too, even if it is the worst of them. But I like the swamp so maybe I'm just weird.
>>735969809Most of the game is just walking around. For every minute of story or combat you have three minutes where you’re just walking and nothing happens. An open world really isn’t suited to Stalker.
>>735969809You can play it but it's just nowhere near complete. The game is basically live service pushing updates with major systems and mechanics, even world spaces.
You can just pirate it, there's not a single upside to buying this.
>>735969809>please stop mehey...cut it out
>>735972750Like dude....it's on gog....You don't even have to trust a russian to play this pirated.....You can just download it drm free legit.......
the irish really took me out of this
>>735969809wait and buy it full price so you can provide maximum funding for more conscript vans
just play anomaly or gamma until stalkek 2 is less of a buggy mess
>>735969809it's on gog, if you don't want to risk 42 euros then you know what to do.
>>735969809Stop you from enjoying a great game?>not funWrong>unoptimizedRuns great on my machine. Is your rig modern?
>>735972768Based Cosgrove enjoyer. >tfw he never got married because he likes meat too much.
>>735970282shitting on garbage slop on /v/ is funplaying the garbage slop that is stalker 2 is notcheckmate slop eaters
>>735973046>ESL turd worlder doesn't understand what piracy is
>>735979728Shut the fuck up and pirate the game or don't play it.
>>735969809I'm not your tard wrangler.
>>735969809It's a modern stalker game in the best of ways and worst of ways. Looks modern and graphics can look nice at times but you have to deal with the garbage dlss effects. The game was not made to play without it in my opinion as it has heavy framerate issues. Generally gameplay is the same but if anything it is more streamlined and forgiving than the originals. Artifacts are kinda lame and feel weaker compared to the original. Gun play is an improvement but nothing amazing. Exploration is honestly the best part. The environments are lifted from the old games and stitched together into one big map with almost no loading zones. Tons of stashes that actually require you to think to figure out, similar to korok seeds from BotW. There is a lot of exposition about the old games too so unless you have played them, you will be confused about certain things.5/10 suffers from modern game issues but it still has its janky but soulful feels at times.
>>735969809Buy it on GOG you dumb nigger.
>>735969809>bloated, unoptimized, and not funBut enough about Crimson Desert
>>735979765suck my dick, you brown subhuman
>>735971725how do we fix this? why haven't implemented new fast travel points? is it hubris?
>>735981442I'm white, you're retarded however because you're too stupid to just pirate a game like a sane and normal person and have to justify playing something or not based upon whether you can afford it. You're a cancer is what you are.
>>735981587>i'm white(x) doubt
>>735981964Thank god nobody asked you Muhammad.. I'm not extending this retarded reply chain any further. You are a retard to justify paying money for this pile of shit end of story.
>>735981456Then the game will just turn into endless fast travel. Stalker 2 is really poorly designed.They take these shitty fetch quests from freeplay mods for the original games without realising that they work because of A-Life, and they don’t even understand what A-Life is. This is a general problem with Stalker 2, the developers simply don’t understand what made the original games so iconic, so they just copy everything in a very superficial way and end up with this amalgam of Anomaly, Tarkov and a whole host of other things, completely missing the essence of Stalker.
>>735971264>that really weren't that amazing without modsWRONG.i played SoC and CoP completely vanilla, save for some bugfixes for SoC and they were amazing, CoP especially.CS was so buggy i literally couldn't progress so i dropped it
>>735969809It's only 30% you retard. Wait until it's 75 or better yet, pirate it
>>735969809>Buying No Fucking Thanks sloppa>Ever>Renamed Chernobyl, evenLMAO @ UR LYFE.
>>735969809It's shit. Just play a modded version of one of the older 3.Everything about it is inferior.
>>735980598Microslop jeets can't stop seething about crimson desert geg
>>735969809>i know it's bloated, unoptimized and not funSounds exactly the same as the previous Stalker games
>>735971264>that really weren't that amazing without modsWrong.>slopYup, you're a retarded child with nothing of worth to say about anything.>Just play Anomaly/GammaLead with this next time so people don't waste time reading your entire posts.
>>735969809>requires six 9090 Ti's to run smoothly at 4kOne truly has to wonder how they managed to record their smooth trailers at 4k
>>735969809I know other anons already said it but you really spend most of the time sprinting around and chugging energy drinks. I dropped it in the last third when it became unbearable
>>735983262also someone please explain to me why in a game about mutants are mutants the most unfun enemies. there isnt a single mutant that is fun to fight and all are extreme pain in the ass
>still pretending stalker 2 is a bad gameGame has sold well over 3 million copies
Pretending this game is bad in 2026 is quite a feat
>>735984527Paid and unpaid shills are most of the hate
>>735982056it's much more difficult to develop A-Life on UE5
>>735969809
2 year old webms incoming
>>735978948>a great game?He's talking about Stalker 2.
not buying it unless they change the English game name back to Chernobyl. I support Ukraine over Russia, but I will not be bullied into changing my language. I will never call Kiev Kyiv, I will never call Turkey Türkiye, suck my dick
>>735985446Yeah. A great game with tons of content and great gameplay.
>>735985643It's the worst of the Stalker games by far. Vanilla CS is significantly better.
Just bought it. Having fun, no glitches, gameplay is fun. A-life is a meme, if you see anyone saying it was the most amazing fantastical thing in the original trilogy you know they got their opinion from a youtuber.
>>735969809I bought it and played it for five hours, it's not bad and I'll probably go back to it at some point but it wasn't thrilling or anythingIn other words I feel the same about it as I felt about every Stalker game besides the first one
>>735969809Just buy a month of gamepass and play like 10 other AAA slops afterwards.
>>735969809don't wanna play a stalker game where the devs think a one of a kind artifact that can help protect you from bullets is only worth 1200 rubles
>>735970282did you buy it yet?
>I don't need no alife to have a blast!
>>735985768Nah. It's my favorite. >best zone>best guns>best graphics>best side quests >best exploration>best main quest>best boss fightsS2 easily clears all Vanilla Stalkers.
>>735986494you need to be subtle to bait people
>>735969809>Size: 170 GBDear god
>>735986494I audibly chortled reading this.>>735986525I think he was pretty funny.
>S.T.A.L.K.E.R. gets a modern sequel>1+ year later haven't even read reviews or watched gameplay>dont even read /v/ threads about it2012 me would have been so hyped, what happened?
my brother preordered it for me and i can't run it.
>>735969809i personally enjoyed it a lot, even though it definitely has its flaws>>735971019lmao yep, it feels like most of my time was spent running and spamming energy drinks
>>735986682The war happened and so thousands of STALKER biggest fans are motivated to hate it. It also doesn't run well if your PC is a shitbucket so that hurt a lot of third worlder feefees too. >>735986559>>735986525Pic related. >>735986745>he doesn't turn his journeys between quest objectives into loot foraging opportunitiesI always swing by all the anomalies I can manage to fit into my route. I also will explore PoIs nearby to the quest objectives to try and find more stashes etc. The new balance is way better though, the running overhaul is huge, you can now job infinitely and jogging is much faster than walking.
>>735969809just play Anomaly
>>735986682They sorta ruined all their hype with the NFT announcement and pre-order weapon skins.They backed out of both but the damage was done.Then they released a "remastered" version of classic STALKER with everything Russian removed, which includes most of the memes like cheeky breeky.It turns out that the original team is gone, half of them moved to Russia to make Metro a decade ago.What else is there to say? We should be happy we got 3 games, but no more.
>>735969809Stalker 2 is alright ok but ain't there with the AI which is important for stalker in general. I plan on getting it to wind down after playing Gamma like a psycho.
>>7359866824chan told you you don't like it.
Epic need to cancel Unreal Engine before it can do any more damage to potential slav kinos.
>>735969809Its actually pretty fun. The world is great. I enjoyed exploring a lot of places before the story sent me there. I didnt finish it though because I was enjoying it too much to see it end so I stopped playing waiting for some bugfix and performance patch to restart it from the beginning. But unfortunately seems like the devs consider the game is in a good enough state to focus on a dlc instead. Sad. I may never finish it just because of some stupid bugs and bad performance (and terrible artifact balance).
>>735987061The devs have been releasing massive updates for over a year since release, it's basically at the point it should have been at on release now.Though I'm personally not really interested in the expansion, at least it will come with more updates for the base game.
>>735986939>with everything Russian removedthat says everything necessary about the dev team. unrelated but there was a similarly janky-soul RTS about the Syrian civil war (called literally Syrian Warfare) by Russian devs. They were going to make the next Terminator RTS but once the Ukraine-Russia war started they were kicked away. Eastern European devs are a precious thing, its a shame when politics gets in the way.
Please tell me it's been improved since October last year. I was so disappointed in it that I wasn't even upset, I just uninstalled and forgot it existed.If not just play the older games, OP. You'll have a much better time with a shitload more content/mods at a fraction of the price.
>>735987439To be fair they were probably forced because the Ukrainian government banned the Russian language in public and cultural products.However, that is also a literal crime against humanity so I'm not particularly sympathetic either.
>>735987439>They were going to make the next Terminator RTS but once the Ukraine-Russia war started they were kicked awayDo you mean Terminator: Dark Fate Defiance or was another one planned? Because those developers did actually finish that game and its DLCs, their company just wasn’t credited in the credits.
>>735983198I have a theory that devs will record footage played by an automated bot in slow motion using some dev tools at a lower frame rate then speed it up in post.
>>735983198You can record at a lower framerate and speed it up on the final render.I learned this trick from Freeman's Mind.
>>735986939>half of them moved to Russia to make Metro a decade ago.Metro's dev team was ukranian too you retard
>>735969809I had fun with it at launch even in its horrible state but at this point you may as well wait for the engine update and DLC release. I might try that survival mode difficulty when the first one comes out though I have a feeling that could get old quick if the bloodsucker rapeometer is still stuck at 120%
>>735990845>bloodsuckers are now tanks that can animation lock you by taking turns sucking you offthese people don't play their own games
I bought it when it was cheap on a cdkey site.I've not completed the game, but I got to Duga.It's a pretty OK game. Lots of bugs which is pretty usual for stalker games, so I shrugged it off.Runs like shit. Typical for UE5 though.Story is alright from what I've experienced so far.I wish there were different types of weather, or atmosphere. I think, as much as it gets meme'd on, Analmeme does a good job at have varying atmospheric areas in different parts of the zone that make it separate from other areas.If they ever fix the spawns of mutants, fix AI being retarded, quests not bugging out, the performance being shit, it'll be alright.Game needed another 2ish years in the cooker DESU.I enjoyed Metro Exodus more.
>>735991141Good news: It's had about 2 years and it's way better now.
>World is way bigger than the previous games put together>Game has maybe 10 fast travel sites altogether>Massive chunks of the world have 0 traders or shared stash boxesThey purposefully designed this shit to waste your time
The level of ambition the devs had for the original game was insane, they really poured their hearts and souls into it, it's such a shame they weren't given enough time to make it reality, they were planning on simulating the entire zone and have NPC's compete with the player for the main game objective which would dynamically take you all over the zone as the NPC's moved around with the key items, but they had to scale everything back due to deadlines and concerns for consumer hardware.
I'll pretend it doesn't exist because they changed lore related things and removed everything russian even though it's based on a book written by a Russian author, so it's self defeating It's a sad self hating abomination with the stalker brand slapped on it
>>735969809There are plenty of better things you can do than play Stalker 2...
>>735971264>that really weren't that amazing without modskysSoC was kino on its own. Literally all that it needs is the bug fix patch.
>>735991765Ogsr with gunslinger is how I'd replay SoCI first played stalker like 20 years ago now
It’s a pretty good game now and clearly STALKER. Once the Duty and Freedom DLC comes out it will be close to a pretty “complete” state.
>>735992279Blastening statusings?
>>735969809This game won't run without constantly stuttering without at least 32gb of ram btw
>>735969809I'd buy it, but I don't want to support holol pigs.Die quickly so my tax dollars can stop supporting jewish Zelensky. We gotta send all those tax dollars to israel now.
>>735992404Havinga.
>>735969809Just buy it, I just got Code Vein 2 despite multiple people and my instincts warning me not to do it
>>735987725intredasting, ty
>>735991632That concept does sound pretty cool. I wonder if a modder could add that back in. Ah well.
>>735969809It's pretty forgettable overall and I didn't see any mods at the time that were worth checking out
>>735969809That's not even the biggest problem.
>>735997921slavs aren't white to begin with it's like getting ink on a black shirt
>>735992828And youre proud of yourself?
>>735997964Show foreskin.
>>735986494indeed, the gunplay is excellent in STALKER 2
>>735969809Did they add a-life yet
>>735999526https://x.com/daddy_hot9/status/2032055469028618349
>>735969809Just pirate it.
>>735969809Its pretty fun when they aint a bitch in yo ear tellin you its nasty
>>735999631Impressive foreskin recognition skills
They hired CPT Bernard's VA from KCD to play Hunter in the english and it just fucks with me. Theres actually several KCD VAs on th S2 cast and I hate it because they use the exact same voice.
>>735969809>paying more than $20 for a video game
>>735987725The Syrian Warfare devs are making a zigger apologist Hostomel game where the veh deh veh are ultra heroes and are shooting nothing but evil banderite nazies and they safely and voluntarily withdraw from the airport with no losses
>>735999631>jannies deleted the first link but not this?????
>>735969809I bought this on Xbox on release and I actually like it a lot despite it being kind of janky. The devs being sent to the battlefront makes no difference to me.
>>735969809Pirate Stalker 2Buy Serious Sam Siberian Mayhem
>>735971070Different sorts of games.
>>735984870Seems like good old classic Stalker jank to me.
>UE5lollmao
>>735969809Play Call of Pripyat instead.
>>735997964>slavs aren't white to begin with>Look at slavs>Seemingly white
>>736007124Play shadow of chernobyl instead
>Mod completely MOGGs multi million dollar sequel
>>736007424Nuh, it sucks and all the dialogues with NPCs are filled with graphomania. Franchise peaked at Call of Pripyat
>>735971264played soc recentlydidnt finish it thostopped right after the monolith attack on duty i think which is nearly at the end of the gameits really solid game, gameplay wise. i love that shit constantly respawns and you are bombarded with random quests and such. Peformance was top notch and controller support was the reason i bought it in the first place. Game just ws missing some care like different arm textures when changing outfits, a bit less static weapons, a repair system with cheap repairs since armor breaks in like 10 shots and overall cheaper items. I mean i was at the end of the game and had like 100k rubles to my name so the rewards system was off too. I could play this game forever if it had some qol but most mods like anomaly and gamma go completely overboard and lose every bit of charm og soc has so i just play fnv which has everything and more
>>736007623controlle rsupport for the mods mentioned would maybe convince me tho
>>735971264CoP is actually very good vanilla. It's the best game overall as well.
>>736007465It runs like ass though.
If you really want to play this shit, just PIRATE it, like every other STALKER player does.
>>736008847That's a skill issue.It has mostly the same settings as stock STALKER, meaning DX8 mode will run on anything these days.Also, still runs better than STALKER 2.>>735971070Kys
>>735969809wtf is a chornobyl?
>>735969809If it doesn't have even a portion of original's NPC and event systems, why bother?
I just finished the trilogy for the first time and installed GAMMA, any recommendations for my first playthrough? Never played anomaly before. I'm thinking about playing as a stalker, and starting in rookie village with both difficulty settings on medium.
>>736011516You should avoid that trash and play some standalone mods for the original trilogy instead.
>>736000595Uh basedFuck Ukraine
Looks like one of the STOLKOR 2 devs got forcibly drafted\kidnapped in Ukraine recently lel
>>73596980930 percent off on a 70 dollar game isn't a "sale", its still more than it should be
>>736011738Unhelpful reddit tier reply. I just played the original trilogy specifically because I wanted to play GAMMA.
>>735971362No, Clear Sky is my fav too. Game was even more buggy than SoC at release and you were railroaded pretty hard in the latter half, but game has a lot of charm.
>>736011842>buying video games
>>736011837No way. They all moved to the Czech ages ago and that’s where their studio is based.
>>735984770> it's much more difficult to develop A-Life on UE5There is no blueprint for an A-life like system on UE5 (+ you would need to rebuild NPCs and encounters management systems). It’s not that it would be difficult to build one for Stalker; but for that they would need to code it themselves - like the devs for the original Stalker trilogy did.
>>736010683
>"all this things looks kinda suspicious">pirated it>1st location is somewhat fine content-wise>everything after that is just a running simulator with fucked up respawns, stupid story and destroyed characters
>>735969809>saleAnon just pirate itPirate anything you can if it's on steam or epicBoth stores are designed to rape consumers
>>735982056I think the first time i heard about a-life is in 4chan threads bitching about it. And only instance of me seeing it in action in OG games was seeing some guy walk into an anomaly maybe trying to get an artifact. He got hit by lightning and died. Needless to say seeing that didn't make me cum in my pants. It just made me confused a bit and then i moved on. I still don't get what people see in this system except a springboard to bitch about new game.
>>736012843Install SaneX A-life mod for SoC and enjoy your controllers in Bar and pseudogiant in rookie villiage.
>>736012843I think it's mostly about people wanting to see it implemented fully, properly in 2. Since most of intended behaviors in og games got cut for release and stored by fans.Honestly the concept isn't as novel anymore. Many openworld games now have similar tech of NPCs and factions interacting in the open world while player travels around, it's not as novel as it was during Oblivion and Stalker 1 time.
>>735995781It would be a monumental undertaking and would require lots of expertise in C++, X-ray engine SDK, 20 year old archaic software and file formats, you'd have to reverse engineer and overhaul the entire game and engine basically, at that point it's easier to make new game from scratch, likely why GSC moved to Unreal with Stalker 2, the guys who knew how to wrench the X-ray engine likely weren't around anymore.Stalker 2 fell short because it wasn't a hands-free creative and experimental passion project like the original trilogy, Stalker 2 followed contemporary game development protocol, a product to be marketed and sold following established guardrails and red-tape.
>stalker game is broken but new:(>stalker game is broken but old:)
>>736013492>Many openworld games now have similar techsuch as?
>when you compare 20 years of modded games to a sequel true to the unmodded early games and get madThis also further proves that S2 should have coped Gamma as that is stalker perfected.
>>735969809>Ukrainian gamePaying for Stalker 2 make /k/ win.Pirating Stalker 2 make /pol/ win.Not bothering with this shit game and replaying the originals instead make /v/ win.Pick your poison.
>>736013936Skyrim, Far Cry, GTA, Fallout 4, Just Cause, Mount & Blade, Dragon's Dogma, Space Rangers 2, Halo Infinite, that upcoming giga-everything-clone gacha
>>735969809I was really apprehensive but I enjoyed it a lot, I got it on winter sale. To their credit despite all the DLC bullshit they are working at adding a good deal of content into the game and do listen to what people are asking for, and modders are already starting to work on it to an acceptable degree.
>>736012843Alife was a major sales point for Stalker games back in the day. Even in that cut-down form we got it’s still pretty impressive.>And only instance of me seeing it in action in OG games was seeing some guy walk into an anomaly maybe trying to get an artifact.You come across Alife all the time, you just don’t notice it. Technically absolutely every NPC is part of Alife. They go about their business, trying to avoid anomalies, fighting their enemies, and, most importantly, they keep on existing and doing all this without your presence.The main gimmick of Alife is that it tracks the actions of NPCs across the entire map at all times, regardless of what you’re doing. That corpse you found wasn’t just randomly generated recently, it was an NPC with a name who was going about their business and died in one way or another while you were on the other side of the map. You can load an old save file and find him alive
>>736014202You haven’t the faintest idea what Alife is if you think even one of these games has anything like it
>>736013758>red tapeyellow paint
>>736014031you tarkovjeets habe never played the originalsanalmeme is a meme for a reason with its 10 quests and 5 bazillion trash items, noone wants to play that sim shit
>>735969809>only 30%Nigga pls
performance fixes done or hwat
>>735969809Wait until they release all the DLCs at least. You have to trust me on that.They're not openly saying that yet, but they want to make Cyberpunk 2077 level redemption arc.I don't expect it to be great, or even good. But on current gen CPUs it's not worth playing due to performance issues.>>736014031The problem is that STALKER 2 tried to be open world, except they made very linear campaign, as if they wanted to make Shadow of Chernobyl 2. The open world is pointless. Instead of loading screens between the areas, now you have to sprint for kilometers between objectives.STALKER 2 feels like it was built around being a potential platform for mods first and foremost.
>>735969809>please stop meDiscipline, that is what you folk lack!
i dislike that it still runs like shiti dislike the super american voices
>>736012629Certified hood classic. Saved.
STOLKOR 2 HORT OF CHORNOBYL
>>736014685wish it would run as good as cyberpunk. Even on my 10 yo setup cyberpunk looks and runs amazing, even 60 fps. Game itself is kinda meh but thats because im not a sucker for story and open world, gameplay is alright tho
>>735969975F.U.C.K G.A.M.M.AGamma or anomaly is not a stalker game. It is a game that rips off the assets and kills the soul.
My gripe with this game is not that it is unoptimized but that it falls into the ass creed open world trap of being repetitive. I dropped it in the mid campaign because I couldn't be bothered.
>>736014202lmao
>>736014862thisjust install 400 gb of goyslop to turn soul into tarkov lite no thanks, misery was fun for around 50 hours but it should have never been the blueprint for this garbage that is anomaly and gamma
>>736014862more of a stalker game than whatever the fuck stalker 2 is
>>736006763That shit never happened even in the unpatched soc
>>735969809my country has given billions of taxpayer money to ukraine by now with no end in sight, i should be getting this game for free.
>>736007465Fuck off with this zoomer tarkov trash
>>736014969Maybe, but other sorts of bugs did.
>>736012843The one thing the old A-life system added to the original trilogy was unpredictability, it's not something you will notice unless you sink a considerable amount of time into the games, I won't pretend the original A-life was perfect in anyway, far from it, it's janky and suffers frequent hiccups but it allows for dynamic unscripted encounters that the sequel is just incapable of and in a sense gives the zone life. 300 hours into CoP on a new run I was at the ruined theatre in Zaton and the ground started shaking out of nowhere and a pseudo-giant showed up, wrecked the group of stalkers sitting by the campfire nearby and then proceeded to kill me, I have no idea how it got there, I had no idea it could even happen at all, I assume it must've spawned at the edge of the map and chased some creature towards Skadovsk where it must've lost track and spotted the group of stalkers sitting by in the theatre and decided to agro, it's random encounters like this that made me fall in love with the old A-life system.
>>736014621>Nobody wants to play a mod so good GOG bundles it for free
>>736015101mostly unstable and prone to crashes plus scripts not working making side quests not being completable properlydon't know why zoomers keep making shit up about the old games, they were never as unplayable as you make it out to becertainly much less gamebreaking bugs than stalker 2 has
>>736015138Okay, so why isnt enhanced edition from the actual devs bundled with it? Since you get the og for free. Thats right, its not the maingame (true stalker) experience and gogiggers are just riding the hypetrain to cash out on clueless bottomfeeders who only know the games because of this nonsense
>>735969809After a year of updates it's actually pretty fun. I started a modded playhtorugh in Dec of last year and just recently finished after 68 hours
>>736015123isnt the theater one of the places it spawns in? it's been super long time since I played, but I remember this being the case
>>736014969I can clearly remember a youtube video of nikolay ganking guy spawning in the same spot
Still the best Stalker game, RIP DoctorX
>>735969809Bro hold off from buying it till they at least do the engine update it will be cheaper and way more enjoyable
just torrent it you dumb fuck
>>736015123It is functionally the same if you just spawn dead bodies or mutants in a certain radius away from you. Conversely if you need that mutant to have walked 2km before it found you then you should also require each stalker you meet to have a name voice and unique backstory on how he even made it into the zone. And he should have his own hopes and dreams and personality.
>>735969809They added women to a stalker game for some reason
>>736016174And lots of niggers. But maybe that is just some anomaly you never find on the map that turns people into women and niggers.
>>736016174The zone is strictly homo sex only
LMAO
>>735986939>cheeky breekyI've never played a Stalker game, but I sure did love that cheeky breeky meme. ;_;
>>735986939you can restore russian language, the first thing i did after finding out but the damage is done. For whatever reason game is also difficult to mod because apparently the devs locked modders out of making actual meaningful mods so the newest version is cucked and the reason i wont buy the other two games. A real shame too because it runs like a dream and controller support is great
>>735969809Patriotic (like all Ukies on the internet) actor playing this faggot got kidnapped from streets by draft officers in a car Stalker devs donated to the khokhol army. Now he and his wife are bitching at army draft officers (like all patriotic Ukies of course). I'm not joking.
>>735969809I would normally suggest pirating it, but the game is SO BAD it's not even worth the disk write wear and tear on your SSD.Game runs like shit and looks soulless. You can instantly feel the same bland feeling all Unreal Engine 5 games have. The guns feel "plastic" and their sound is shit because of Unreal Engine 5 gun sound quality limitations. The characters use a British accent and it just breaks the immersion. The game is full of QTEs and other animations like for getting on a ladder, feels like Far Cry. The game is full of badly written dialogue that thinks it's clever but is not because it was written by some literal fucking peasants (not surprising considering Ukraine is an agricultural/industrial country). A-Life is also shit and whatever cope updates they made were just that... cope.I always keep an open mind with video games and tell people to "just try it" when in doubt. But this game just sucks on all points. As a Stalker fan, this game has more in common with Ubishit's Far Cry than Stalker. As a video game fan, this game doesn't feel like a video game. It feels like what it is, a cash-grab made by ill-intended people to steal funds from Epic+Microsoft and blame it on "muh war".Shit game made by shit people. Not surprising, considering the OG Stalker devs went on to make the Metro series, which would be a WAY better use of your time.
>>736016339I'm pretty sure the translator has messed up here, and by bracelets they actually mean busses
>>736016709
>>735969809Don't give these incompetent hacks any money. The game is missing core features and they push out a DLC. Respect yourself and don't get scammed
>>736016134well the mutant in question wasn't dead, I encountered unpredictable behavior at a point where I thought I had the game figured out, your brain is a pattern-recognition machine, once patterns repeat enough times your brain grows bored, if you just spawn corpses in that works until the player figures out the game is just spawning corpses in at which point the illusion breaks and you grow bored of it, I think the A-life system hits the sweet-spot, it simulates just enough to keep things interesting while not being too taxing
>>736013758>https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker-call-of-pripyat/downloads/x-ray-16-engine-sdk-v07>hey claude opus 4.6
>>736015595frankly I don't know how the system works, I assume each spawn location has list of possible mutant spawns with differing chances, I never had a giant spawn smackdab in the theatre, only flesh, boars and dogs but I don't doubt there's a chance they could spawn there, I swear I've encountered chimera in Zaton as well on a fresh run long ago before even progressing any quests but I have no proof of it
>>736017119not him and im not sure if its scripted or not but i heared bloodsuckers on different occasions near the army outpost at the train brdige near the rookie camp, I never seen them and i didnt care to find out but at least on 2-3 different occasions ive heard them roaming really close to the street. Kinda spooky even talking about this because i was undergeared at least 2 times
>>735969809I picked it up during the christmas sale and played it without mods. I put in about 130 hours and stopped just before the end because I want to wait for the upcoming updates. my biggest criticism are the lighting system, especially the exaggerated eye adaption, enemies that spwan near you - not right in front of you, but hidden yet close enough to feel off sometimes, and the missing binoculars. as far as I know all these issues are supposed to be improved in the next few months. and fyi I also enjoy playing gamma, I don't think anyone has to choose a side. gamma is obviously the better survival game, but I enjoy exploring the map in S2 much more and it still has the chaotic moments you know from the vanilla games
It's insane to me that the game launched without NVGS, mutant loot and even master difficulty and they had to slowly patch them back into the game over almost 2 years
>>735969809The game has none of the originals' atmosphere of lurking and STALKING through abandoned Soviet ruins, looking for artifacts and dodging bandits and mutants.It completely lacks the soul of the originals. Why would you want to play it?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Y4nc-4HVUDo you, at any point in STALKER 2, feel like you'd want to be there yourself, walking through ruined apartment buildings with your rifle at the ready and your ears perked, looking for a quiet little nook to spend the night while some God-forsaken thing howls in the night?No, you don't.
>>736017556is it really that bad? looks like a decent shooter at first glance..
>>736011782you will never be white
>>736017817It is decent. But nostalgia fags wanted it to be more. They want it to have all the mods they have in the old game they have been playing every day for years.
>>736017556I agree with this, it misses alot of the originals atmosphere. old stalkers feel more cold, desolate and sharp but in a comfy way. while I had fun with my playthrough (of pirated copy) of stalker 2 it just doesnt hold the candle to the older titles
>>736018512guess ill give it a spin after all if i ever get better pc
>>736018579>sitting in the skadovsk at night, managing inventory, listening to some guy playing guitar in the adjacent room while some guys are cracking jokes downstairs and a absolutely hellish blowout is taking place outsideabsolute peak, I don't think any game will ever beat this
>>735986494It is quite pretty.
>>735969809They're still fixing it and adding DLCs, some areas in the game are inaccessible. So maybe wait until there's a complete edition and buy that. In the meantime play the original trilogy if you haven't and then give anomaly/misery a shot if you like them.
Stalker 2? More like, SLOPKER POO!
>>736019757
>>735969809Too expensive, the game is a shell of what STALKER 2 was supposed to be. Not even A-Life is featured. It's not worth 42 cuckbucks.
>>736019757kek
>>736016709>>736016790Source? No way this guy got busified, you're a shitty troll.
i'm having a blastmy gpu is exploding
>>736019757lmao, /thread
>>735969809>chornobyl
>>736022207You don't get to decide how it's spelled, FOREIGNER. Cyka blyat
