Should I buy STALKER 2 or just play GAMMA instead?
That's a woman... right?
>>738290017I know a lot of people on /v/ hate GAMMA, but why?
>>738290025But she may have a monolith.
>>738290235discordfag mod that introduced discordfags to stalker
>>738290235Progression is kinda gay and a cat hitting you is near instant death. Also gear bloat and it's very popular.I see why people might hate it but I enjoyed my time with it and will prob do another run through and then maybe play some other mods.
>>738289952play soup mod fgt
>>738290235Because of endless filtering
>>738290235I used to like all of these dumb modpacks but it's annoying how it's built up this secondary fanbase of people who think Stalker is supposed to be some kind of super hardcore tedious survivalist RP thing where you endlessly do menial tasks to climb a gear treadmill for no reason. That's the kind of attitude that has utterly poisoned the well. If you actually enjoyed dynamic systems-driven FPS games with a story and an ending, you're now crowded out by a fanbase consisting of people that don't enjoy the actual games, they want autistic misery simulators where they get tetanus from accidentally walking into rusty rebar and suck dicks for breadcrumbs.
>>738290235Because GAMMA players are not Stalker fans and yet they clog up discussion despite never having played the original games.
>>738289952Wait for the first paid DLC to drop, there will probably be a good bundle deal at the time and Stalker 2 is also a really long game and it'll be a fucking pain to replay everything if they integrate the DLC into one of the mid-game story beats like the last free one
I like it but Grok broke my install somehow. Waiting on 0.9.4
>>738289952I've played all the games but not gammaDunno bro
stalker 2 as in clear sky? yes if you already played SoF
>>738289952>Should i buy Oblivion Remastered or just play Skyrim LoreRim?????how about you play the three Stalker games first, Anomaly and then make a modpack of your own for it?
Never played Gamma but I can't even imagine how bad it is considering Analmeme already was fucking dogshit
>>738291962I've already beat the first 3 games.
>>738289952I never played Gamma. But S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2's boss fights are the worst. Like they feel straight out of Quake then they do S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Both suck, play project silverfish
>>738289952stalker 2 runs like shit, so gamma. just download it off gog
>>738289952You should play vanilla Call of Pripyat to completion the way God intended.
realistically, how do you fix this? is finasteride enough?
>>738293018nah. the game is an obvious scam with a bunch of half baked bullshit and pronoun faggotry for the low low price of 30 dollars.
>>738292865its actually a little better, if only for getting rid of so much of the useless bloat analmeme adds.
>>738293407>scammy first playthrough of it was like 45 hours. It took me 10-12 hours for each of the games in the Stalker Trilogy. sounds like a good deal to me specially considering how ludicrously unfinished it is (aka it will get even retardedly bigger)>half baked bullshit...such as?I wouldnt be confident on updates normally but the developer has a track record of finished 1.0 games
>>738291283>Bec-AAAAAACKKKKKK
I played the original series and Gamma so I have the right to speak and say,FUCK Duty.
>>738293638if its still "ludicrously unfinished" after 2 years i seriously doubt it's going to be anything fleshed out before the next decade.
>>738293018>project silverfishShill me on it.
Anyone Stalkerfags playing Into the Radius 2?
>>738294938ye, it's ok. kind of buggy in some places still. guns feel good
>>738294081theres no reason to be pessimistic over this after the dev finished Adaca just finePlus it already has so much more content and good shit to do than the stalker games anyway. So it doesnt really affect me negatively if it goes unfinished, instead i can be pleasantly surprised by good updates. If anything i would be more afraid of updates worsening the feel of the game, taking the questlines or gameplay in a worse direction, etc. The possibility of it being unfinished is about as unlikely as it is completely inconsequential.
>>738295010I'm annoyed that the game seems to stutter even more than when it was in early access. But I like a lot of the changes they made. The recreation base was a lot cooler than the old compound, and the pool was really creepy. Seems like they leaned harder into the surreal imagery.
>>738294492the dev gets it>walking the stone maze dodging NFTA, Cultists, and anomalous entities>sunset glistening through the trees and illuminating the rock formations>all while that one otherworldly exploration track blaresabsolute fucking kino that makes you forget the furry shit constantly with how good it feels to play
are there any modern games with something like a-life?
>>738295469How modern is modern? Only games I can think of with anything similar are Rain World and The Forest.
>>738295382I really wish instead of the tranny reptiles they used cat/wolf girls and other cute things. The disgusting lizard people seems on par with the dev being a mentally ill tranny.
>>738294492Very competent stalker clone in most ways except visually. It is a shameless stalker clone with no pretense of being otherwise.>came in expecting a 30% finished early access game>got a 30% finished early access game but with way more underground dungeons, unique quests, sick lategame weapons and ammo types, unmarked secrets not tied to any quest, more neat mechanics than any of the stalker trilogy games, etcIt has genuinely way more interesting artifacts. It has way more fleshed out cool gear progression, but not in a grindfest way like analmeme/gamma, while still letting you just stumble upon lategame gear if youre lucky. Weapons actually shoot straight in the early game and instead the qualities are stuff like armor penetration. The game starts free-roamy in the sense that it doesnt instantly give you a main quest or make you a particular special character, youre just set off in the zone and eventually you stumble across the good stuff, though it might make the early game feel a little barren before you find the good shit. Its take on hunger is actually great, it doesnt kill you but its definitely worthwhile, and you stay fed for a good while so its not obnoxiousIts easier for me to list the negatives than the positives.>The proper persistent a-life style stuff isnt anywhere near finished and in this current build, because the developer thinks it only makes sense to make them after he is 100% set on the core gameplay mechanics and features the AI needs to care about. So theres a lack of persistence in a lot of areas when leaving and re-entering, you can trust large groups and bases to stay dead for a while but thats about it>It has like 3x as many underground labs and tunnels as an OG stalker game. About half of them are immensurably better, and about half of them are shallower/blander.>You might get annoyed at the lack of hands1/2
>>7382956602/2>Like i said, the early game risks feeling aimless before you stumble upon the good shit>The main quest is currently unfinished at the 30-40% mark because the dev wants to focus on the core gameplay first>By the end of current progression you get REALLY overpowered. I have no idea how the game is supposed to hold up after that point. Whether this is bad or not is subjective>Also subjective: It is extremely likely that you wont find a whole bunch of secrets and entities after playing for dozens of hours. Some events are so rare you might never get them out of sheer RNGForgot to mention how it actually rewards observation and being careful, which is cool. Some people will say shit like "its sometimes hard to tell what faction enemies are at a glance" "its hard to spot these things in the dark" and i raise them "im glad the game actually has an incentive to carry binoculars"
>>738290235I tried playing a few hours and even thougb OG STALKER is clunky in just pure terms of controls, GAMMA slaps on 10 different layers of god awful controls, menus, interactions, and pipelines you have to go through just to do the simplest shit.Add onto that how stupid progression is, and how its an intentional grind, I might as well play Tarkov. Fuck, Road to Vostok is the same fucking bullshit, aimbot AI n all, except it doesn't play like it was designed by a drunk vibe coding vodka nigger.Its all the worst parts of STALKER with none of the charm or fun.
>>738295595this decade. how fucking hard is>shooter>narrative>a-lifereally?
>>738290235Because it's popular, and /v/tards are insufferable contrarian faggots. That's the only reason and it will always be so. Every """"criticism"""" you see stems from it.
Waifus don't belong in STALKER because it's cringe but sometimes I do imagine what it would be like to be a mercenary and escort a cute ecologist girl to safety through the zone after their base gets overrun and we are the sole survivors...
>>738296583
>>738296583>freedom, banditsyou get passed around like a meat dildo, fights over you happen and whoever wins owns and rides you for the day>mercenary, militarysomeone owns you and whores you for money, ammo and food>duty, monolithyou're used as incentive in a good-girl credit system where the ones with most points (raids participation, kills, loot) owns you for a period of time>loner, ecologistgenuinely loving relationship, just the two of you going on artifact hunting until she gets killed and you get claimed by any of the other factions
>>738290235i strongly suspect it's because people don't understand how the (weird) combat system works and they're not doing any damage. i played SPTarkov and they're NOTHING alike, there's even a modpack called Escape from Pripyat that was as popular as GAMMA early on and the communities would dunk on each other
>>738293018You got me excited for a second. I know anons from /v/ value gameplay above all else but those character models don't make any sense to me, on top of the cartoon style. I can't take it seriously and immerse myself.
>>738296583>>738296852oh my goodness! sex!!!
>>738290235its not terrible but I can see where it wouldn't appeal to people who don't like the tarkov-esque loot hoarding gameplay loop. if you like finding a bunch of random guns and picking through them at base and lovingly building them up with bits and scraps you find its pretty fun, but if you hate that shit you will despise not being able to just buy guns or really anything worthwhile from traders besides basic necessities.
>>738289952STALKER really just fucking killed itself by rejecting the Russians. No mods, no discussion, no fucks given. People keep playing older modded games instead and ignore the shiny new one completely. It feels like a Starfield-tier flop.>b-but the moral principlesI'm sure they were worth the entire company tanking. This is what people actually mean when they say politics has no place in commerce.
>>738289952stalker 2 hopefully will be playable in 5 years, with a proper a-life, all dlcs, mods, etc. you can try gamma in a couple days, the new update is releasing soon.
>>738293101There's nothing to fix
>>738290393gamma predates discord
>>738293786This is just sergays long term plan to force the monolith x-ray engine to be bound to game ownership
Is there any point in using pistols in CoP?
Gonna play CoP again with some self imposed rules>no crosshair>never used scopes except for sniper rifles>always carry the honorary Makarov in the second slot>only use Soviet weaponsAnything else I should add?
>>738299489Not really. The only benefit I can really think of is that they don't weigh much, but even that's a stretch. I mostly kept a pistol in my second slot since that's just what I was used to in the other two games.
>>738298065There's nothing "tarkov-esque" about gamma. You're parroting shit you heard from other retards like yourself.
>>738290235Because its pretty bad and every retard whos never really played it worships it as the best thing ever because their favorite youtuber made a top 10 mods YOU MUST PLAY video featuring it.The reason its bad is that its not really curated or cohesive at all. Imagine you're about to boot up Skyrim then go to nexus and just go download all of the mods ever made and try to glue them together into an install that's barely stable. Thats GAMMA. Its too big woth way too much going on. If you use it as a base chances are you wont understand 70% of what's being changed or what's different. Yes you can disable things but at that point just do your own curated and custom install of anomaly. Thats all GAMMA is at the end of the day anyways - anomaly with basically every mod for it preinstalled. Except the dev also goes out of his way to make things as absolutely tedious and menial as possible for the sake of tedium. No you can't use this oil on your rifle because its pistol ammo. No you can't use thos bandage for your wound because its the wrong type of bandage. No it doesn't matter that irl youd use a dirty cloth to stop the bleeding if that's all you had, that would make the game too easy/casual.
>>738301170>No you can't use this oil on your rifle because its pistol ammo. No you can't use thos bandage for your wound because its the wrong type of bandageNone of these things happen in gamma. You haven't played it yourself, and yet accuse others of not having done so lmfao
>>738301287I have played gamma and have given it a handful of chances. I wanna say lyrics last install of it was 2022 or 2023. Things may have changed since then, but there are all things that were absolutely in the mod pack. It goes way past realism into autistic tedium that's not realistic at all. Cleaning kits and cleaning kit components were 100% locked to weapon types and med supplies being locked to specific injuries that weren't realistic or even correct wwere some of the more minor sins a absolutely a core part of the mod pack for 2-3yrs.If gamma has changed since then to be less autistic id be genuinely surprised because grok or whatever the faggot devs name was always went out of his way to make shit less fun when people figured shit out. You saying making that post makes me believe I probably have more time in gamma than you, but just oolder versions maybe.
>>738289952Neither, play SoC then CoP. That's it
The main issue I have with Gamma and Anomaly in general is just that it's too sandboxy and openI think this is why extraction shooters became so popular because they just give you a simple straightforward goal
>>738301606The healing and weapon maintenance systems haven't changed since 2022. Pipe down, LARPer, you've embarrassed yourself enough.
>>738290235Cause it's free and doesn't fake survival.
Did they fix the alife or whatever thing for stalker 2 yet?
Which way, Hunter?
>>738296583>>738296852gayest shit ITT
>I HECKIN LOVE ENEMIES BEING IMMUNE TO BULLETS UNLESS ITS A HEADSHOT
>>738302328No. The Zone should be open to all.
>>738302034Alife is overrated.The original releases of STALKER were almost entirely story driven and what little side content there was was abysmal and heavily scripted anyway. Having respawning enemies that move about the map a bit maybe or maybe just stay exactly where they spawn didn't really have much of an impact. It's more important in modded STALKER where you are just going back and forth over the same maps over and over and over again and how weak the system is becomes very apparent.
>>738289952Neither. You should play Shadow Of Chernobyl.
>>738289952Neither, play anomaly. The rest are shit.
>>738296948Imagine the pathetic faggot behind this post
>>738293101You gotta find the follicle artifact
>>738290235>a lot of people on /v/ hate GAMMABecause they are too retarded to disable/enable few mods in MO and move few sliders in-game mod menager to turn down the most autistic settings.
>>738293092This. CoP was my favourite out of the OG trilogy because A-life was the most updated/turned on by that point. You could have comfy artifact runs that netted you some friendly Stalkers to help explore and maybe tag along to anomalies with.
>>738289952STALKER 2 is woke Ukrainian trash
>>738296583>>738296852>Clearsky-chan didn't make It.
>>738291283>GAMMA players are not StalkerIm stalkerfag since april 2004 and i love gamma
>>738289952I played a lot of stalker in the past and am having a blast with stalker2 atm, its not perfect but they fixed a lot of stuff since release. Its nice.Huh, I always thought that /v/ loves gamma, I tried it last year and uninstalled pretty fast because it feels more like a big mod editor than an actual game. Or maybe I've just played enough stalker 1 mods that I'm done with it overall.
>>738296314>Install GAMMA bypassing the discord server>turn on game>Looks really bad>Quit before even making it out of rookie villageNah, there's genuine things to hate. Niggers will just trot out the contrarian excuse because they can't accept some people better taste.
>>738303096>Noooooo>A-life bad>Just have enemies spawn if you turn around too muchYou didn't play the game LMAO. A-life shines in CoP compared to SoC/CS but it was absolutely there and part of the vibe.
>>738306498You're literally a textbook contrarian faggot lol.You couldn't even resist writing "bypassing the discord server" even though it makes functionally zero difference, you just said that because you thought you're heckin' cool as heck by doing something differently (you aren't, you're just obnoxious).
>>738306707>irrelevant bullshit>le contrarién>no argumentYou're literally being a contrarian right now providing no actual information beyond how butthurt you are.
>>738290235>savescumming for Vintorez gas block or something>reload like 50 times before finally getting it>only saw usable gun parts maybe 10% of those tries at mostI could have killed 40 dudes carrying VSS/VALs and still not get the part I needed, I think that's pretty retarded
>still not finished>still missing like half the gunsIs there any mods similar to it that's not total overhaul?
Im waiting for the updated installer to replay gamma. I might try a no trader and no task run when it gets updated.
>>738303096CoP alife was great. Stalker 2 with clunky respawns was too awful for me on release, if it ain't there I ain't playing
>>738306781Nta but that looks like shitposting so perfected as to be a bot. Well done(?)
>>738293018Not true, but yes, play Project Silverfish. Though it's more like Half-Life meets STALKER
>>738289952Stalker 2 genuinely still isn't ready. At the earliest wait until they reach their 2.0 update.
>>738289952I haven't played SoC in 19 years. What's the best way to play it again? Is there like a bugfix mod?
>>738289952Play the original 3(not the remaster dogshit they dropped recently) and then GAMMAcompletely ignore 2 existence
New GAMMA update on Friday with an armor rework and some other new mods added to it.
>>738307802Silverfish doesn't capture the stalker feeling properly imo, you zoom so fast through maps it could be some arena shooter
>>738290235Because it keeps fucking crashing. I revert to an older save and it works for a bit, then it crashes again because some task is bugged.It also gets extremely boring once you turn off the brain scorcher and the miracle machine and head north. Uninstalled it after getting to Jupiter and crashes just kept happening.
>>738303096this is true but people have deluded themselves into thinking the old games are something it absolutely isnt
>>738290393But what does that have to do with the mod itself? Did they put tranny shit in the game or are you just seething because trannies like the mod?
>>738310676It's a different vibe and the "singeplayer Tarkov" crowd took over and that's where the most development is. They have some engine improvements in Anomaly that are above what most other versions run. Then nature took its course and whatever wasn't clustered around Anomaly/GAMMA started dying because of the mod authors literally dying like with the CotZ author.It's also not tranny shit but a contentious point in the community that I've seen>women in the zone
>>738290235Because gamma sacrifices everything for gameplay, it's not stalker-like or even tarkov-like, it's like path of exile. You go around killing stuff collecting tiny pieces of trash to craft high-end tech and it dosen't make any sense.You kill some guy who just seconds ago was shooting you and his gun is completely broken and he had 3 bullets, if any, left.Mutants are suicidal, in the original games you get close to a pack of dogs and they slowly approach you, warning you, kill enough of them the rest run away. In gamma the second any mutant detects you it's a battle to the death, it's immersion breaking.In the original games the best way to make money is selling artifacts and mutant parts, that's the entire point as to why people are going into the zone and risking their lives, to get things that don't exist anywhere else and have useful unique properties. In gamma the best way to make money is to complete the absolute most mind-numbing mundane boring fetch quests for people that have no reason to give these quests to you.In the original games after you progress enough in the story (get reputation with different factions) better gear becomes available for purchase. In gamma you sit down on a rubble pile in the corner of an abandoned building with no lights on and craft yourself a top tier artifact detector, of which not even a dozen exist in the entire world, made from pieces of old radios from the 80's and other garbage you collected.
>>738290235midwits just hate sandboxes. they can’t go walk around and do their own thing unless they have>Aaahhhhh marked one!!! Agoobadabadoo! >Dimitri… I am your father. Search your voodkya… you know it to be true>Somehow… monolith returnedIn their ears 24/7 about some dogshit “story” written by drunk programmers who have read 1 book. I guarantee all these fags have some dogshit story mode to shill
>anon threw away his Makarov at the first opportunity The real Degtyarev(how do you even pronounce this?) kept it on him throughout the entire game.
>>738311898>I guarantee all these fags have some dogshit story mode to shillYeah it's called the original trilogy. Your post is literally>anyone who goes faster than me is a maniac>anyone who goes slower than me is a faggot
>>738289952>Should I buy STALKER 2it's free on gog
>>738290235i just don't like grok personally
>>738310135Yeah, but I'd argue it's not really striving to capture the exact same feel, especially in the sense of oppressiveness, loneliness and melancholy, but rather utilise its design and systems for something different. It's really just taking STALKER as inspiration in the broadest design sense
>>738312296>you can't have a modpack>I have a modpack!>fuck you niggerBased. Niggers will literally distribute the engine they don't have the rights to but then shit on people making modpacks. Also which modpack?
>>738312140>how do you even pronounce this?Dyeg-tar-yev for EnglandskiDeh/Dyeg-tyar-yov/yev for Ukie/Ruskie
>>738312296>Even when he's whining about a fucking free mod over intellectual property he still finds a chance to shill gammaKek what a fucking faggot
>>738311738>Because gamma sacrifices everything for gameplayLike what? Strelok’s bald head teleporting around Chernobyl with portals while battling helicopters?>his gun is completely broken and he had 3 bulletsThen make them all spawn with 95% guns and 9999 bullets so you be a legendary badass 10 minutes in. Install god mode while you’re at it>you cant pet the heckin doggoWould probably be a cool feature and mutants definitely flee in some instances but how often should mutants not be attacking me in reality?>selling artifacts and mutant partsThis is still the case, Butcher and Sakharov are the most lucrative traders in the game. A vast majority of the quests are just “go to this place and kill these people”, you’re not actually supposed to do the “I need 3 condoms” quests. Hint, what do you think the “nearby stashes” counter is for?>after you progress enough in the story (get reputation with different factions) better gear becomes available for purchaseGAMMA literally has this system, it’s implemented in base Anomaly. The only difference is that you’re buying “high tier armor repair kit” instead of “high tier armor” and you get rep by doing quests instead of Comrade we must be Going to the vodka facility with Dimitri and listening to Exposition
Anomaly with Warfare map is a bit fun
>>738289952there are no anime girls in STALKER you clown
>>738290235A lot of people play GAMMA without having played the original games and they think STALKER is essentially singleplayer DayZ, they don't know about the plot or lore of the original games and they refuse to even acknowledge it. There's also the fact a significant portion of them are zoomers who say shit like "oh yeah i don't like unmodded stalker it's so cluuunky and jaaanky" when you start talking about the original games, and these people are normally in the same communities as the original STALKER fans, so I guess you can see how the conflict starts...
>>738312856>Like what?Immersion and cohesiveness, I understand a lot of people don't care about that tho.>Then make them all spawn with 95% guns and 9999 bulletsIf I'm going to change or turn off all sorts of mods I might as well just make my owm modpack.>Would probably be a cool feature and mutants definitely flee in some instances but how often should mutants not be attacking me in reality?High-tier mutants should be 100% hostile but low-tier ones like dogs, fleshes and cats shouldn't, also the aggro is ridiculous, a cat or pseudog hears you on the other side of the map and goes straight up your ass like a fucking cruise missile.>This is still the case, Butcher and Sakharov are the most lucrative traders in the gameYou need mutant parts and artifacts for crafting, once you have enough gear and have progressed enough where you can get artifacts with better durability, it finally becomes viable to sell parts and artifacts, but at that point the game is basically over.>GAMMA literally has this system, it’s implemented in base Anomaly.Read the rest of the paragraph, its about how immersion breaking the crafting system is. And you can't buy detectors or nightvision you have to craft them from garbage you collect.
>>738289952If you have old pc , play gamma if you have a decent pc go for both , but sdalker 2 is kinda strange. Really liked the older x-ray engine.Have fun.
>>738314258Don't bother. GAMMA might be worth playing if you're into that, but you're just arguing with autogynephiliac zoomoids who scream at you if you want to avoid some cult of personality discord just install a modpack.
>>738314258>Immersion and cohesivenessEverybody cares about that, it’s all anomalyfags talk about. That’s why they removed helicopter portal gun battle countdown timer sequences from the game and replaced it with repairing guns and armor with 12 gun oil items.>change or turn off all sorts of modsThen just use the console to spawn in all your cheat items and perfect gear.>dogs, fleshes and cats shouldn't, also the aggro is ridiculous, a cat or pseudog hears you on the other side of the mapSkill issue, I have no problem sneaking up on dogs and I literally have to chase fleshes.>finally becomes viable to sell parts and artifacts90% of the artifacts you come across are perk artifacts and you’re supposed to either sell them to Sack for a bunch of money or craft them upward. His requests have insanely high pay and only require you to find the artifacts>And you can't buy detectors or nightvision you have to craft them from garbage you collect. Again, you don’t buy the detector, you buy the detector schematic. In Pripyat you were supposed to go find high tier detectors in piles of rubble next to a poop nugget, who cares. Yeah, nothing more immersive than talking to John Russia about some stupid shit and getting it that way
>>738289952Never played GAMMA nor really know what it is. I tried Stalker 2 a bit and was pretty disappointed. Game's a lot, LOT easier than I expected, even at the highest difficulties. I found myself with inventories full of supplies constantly and finding yet more of them. Food, vodka, healing shit, everything everywhere. It also doesn't help that most of the loot one finds are either heavily damaged or broken guns, ammo for said guns, or the aforementioned billion of consumables that you end up drowning in. Once I had a good gun and good amount of ammo I really had nothing to look forwards to, nor any real reason to even bother killing stuff and engaging with the game
>>738294492If you'll ignore the furry/scalie aspect, it's an incredibly ambitious, well-made and content-rich game, and we're talking early-accessIt takes a bit of a of all three STALKER games, with the greatest influence being like a mix of ShoC and Clear Sky when it comes to design and feel
>>738295745>Some people will say shit like "its sometimes hard to tell what faction enemies are at a glance" "its hard to spot these things in the dark" and i raise them "im glad the game actually has an incentive to carry binoculars"Underrated aspect of having good recon, area knowledge and tools for the jobFun note; unless your're completely hostile in negative, most factions and small groups won't start shooting at you, preferring to intimidate and tell you to fuck off instead of shooting right away the moment they see a single pixel of you. I wish more games had this sort of nuance in rep and especially self-preservation mechanics like running away, surrendering and begging for their lives to survive
>>738296583>Waifus don't belong in STALKER because it's cringeactually it's because they'd get raped by all the men in the Zone, which is hot in its own way, but not what i want in my STALKER
>>738290235>Go to tech who gets paid to work on guns and armour.>"What do you mean you want to pay me, how fucking dare you, can't you see i'm busy sitting!?"It's also really not as hard as faggot fanboys claim it is, just tedious.And the faggot fanboys are in fact, faggots.
>>738315701That's a shame. I can tolerate furry, but scalie is too much for me.
>>738293018Where are the fucking updates!?This is fucking WEG tier jewery.
>>738316215Understandable, if regretableIf nothing else, there is a lore explanation for the fact ingame
>>738296583>>738296852gib monolith gf
>>738301791>weapon maintenance systems haven't changed since 2022they removed overall weapon condition in 0.9.3 thoughever
>>738315559>Everybody cares about that, it’s all anomalyfags talk about>Again, you don’t buy the detector, you buy the detector schematicSomewhat realistic gun cleaning but you can craft military grade multiscoped modern nightvision from trash you collected without proper tools or education, would you be able to craft it to perfection from trash irl if you had the schematics? They should just give high end gear to traders.>Then just use the console to spawn in all your cheat items and perfect gearIt's not hard to get gear, just tedious, immersion breaking and stupid.>Skill issueAnnoyance issue>90% of the artifacts you come across are perk artifacts and you’re supposed to either sell them to Sack for a bunch of money or craft them upwardExactly, you use them for crafting, also I forgot about the immersion breaking perk artifacts thanks for reminding me, they suck.
>>738317690>would you be able to craft it to perfection from trash irl if you had the schematics?Uh yeah probably dude it’s basically my job in real life. The main problem is that you’re actually pretending like it’s being built out of cardboard and duct tape but in reality it’s more like upgrading Detector 2 to Detector 3 using components that you got by dismantling 20 detector 2s and 20 “broken detectors” and yes sometimes you can find parts in “broken radio” just like real electronics companies were doing during covid. You vastly underestimate what a Chinese retard can do with an instruction manual and a soldering iron and the required parts, half the first world runs on retard slave labor like that. Cobbling these things make them seem way more scared and earned than if I could just buy them at rostok Walmart after getting to the “suck Barmans dick” story beat>It's not hard to get gear, just tedious, immersion breaking and stupid.You’re simultaneously complaining about a lack of scarcity but you want your first mercenary kill to drop his bank account so you can immediately go get your first monolith kill>thanks for reminding meTry actually playing the mod so I dont have to “remind” you
>>738317690I appreciate the sincere responses, but you're wasting your time responding to a dishonest sperg defending gamma with his life.
>>738318857I appreciate you gayly licking his wounds after every reply. Do you really think this behavior signals intellectual honesty while you lie about a mod you haven’t played
>>738289952She should be a beautiful anthro woman instead.
>>738296583>we are the sole survivorsSo you're saying there's no one else around to stop you from using her as your personal onahole the whole time?
I fucking hate Ivan and his botted "analmeme" bait responsesi wish he would just fucking play the game and read item descriptions
>>738289952STALKER 2 is honestly so fucking bad it's just depressing.
>>738320854Yes and she would call me a baka hentai and say something like mo ii you’re always like this… and I would be like gomenesorry ecologistchan i cant help it you are so beautiful and im obsessed with you and i love you… and then I would make her cum violently against her will
>>738293018I enjoy it but the devs self-insert 'objectively the good guys' commie faction does irk me a bit.
>>738321478It's awfully mediocre, especially compared to the trilogy, with next-to-no innovationAbsolutely squandered potential
>>738321478>>738323461The ai looks underwhelming compared to the old games.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1zM3ePkYPo
>>738290235It's divesting funds that should be allocated to the The Ukryine war
>>738321478back to the trenches dying for your oligarchs zigger
>>738324610>You can't hate shitty game or you're a ziggerLet me just remind people that the first CEO presiding over the original trilogy drove away with his ferarri after not paying workers so they released source to spite him. Then the first CEO's brother became CEO and released jeetslop Stalker 2 just so he can get his ferari too.The original devs (of the OG trilogy) then went to Russia and made Metro.
>>738324721>call him a zigger and see him recoil
>>738324828I'm not even the same anon, retard. Go back to /k/ and spam your shit there. Stalker 2 is bad and the devs, along with you, should feel bad.
>>738321673I bet there will be some cool way to kill roach through her artifact in the future
>>738290235The progression system is kind of dumb and every single enemy has a billion bullets and guns that are all magically gone or broken the second you kill them.
>>738324828>>738324610kill yourself man. holy shit, shut the fuck up. The game deserves criticism. It's prime example of enshittication caused by UE5. Im pretty sure Tim Sweeney himself hinted at Stalker 2 as the perfect example of what NOT to do when developing and optimizing using his shitty engine. And no, im not that anon you were responding to either.
>>738324721>original devs then went to russia and made metroeh? they literally just released a trailer for the new metro showing their studio which literally looked like it was in a war bunker and the trailer had clear anti russian messages. Im confused.
>>738325558Not like I wanna defend GAMMA but the options are there to cut that bullshit. Black Market and upping condition on equipment is the Les Miserables submod of this mod.Grok is a faggot for thinking this weird progression system is good
>>738325558...just like in OG stalker at master
>>738325869writer is not zigger trash, he is Israeli and a friend of the Ukraine
>>738325558What I didn't understand is what's the point of traders, mechanics, and by extension money, if they don't actually sell anything anymore
>>738325558>the ancestor in the slot about confidencekek
>>738306221clearsky-chan is now Spark, anon. She even wears the same hair clip.
>>738302304The long barreled version of the bottom and the sawn off version of the topYes I'm a contrarian
>>738327563>the sawn off version of the topAh, I see you're a man of culture as well.
GAMMA has some broken ass stealth and its inherent from the old game engine itself.you can literally just hide behind bushes and enemies wont shoot you lol. pretty much killed this game for me when i realized this. I play single player tarkov instead now. SAIN ai is just too good to pass up on.
QRD on Gamma? I only ever played 3 first games. I didn't even touch STALKER 2 yet because of the>live servicevibe I get from how the development is going.
>>738327964Mmm yeah that's the stuff
>>738329620And here the other one.
>>738311737I really don't give a shit about what normalfags do or like and I've never understood how people can stop liking something because retards also started liking it. That is effeminate gay woman behavior.
>>738329414Stalker Anomaly is a standalone sandbox mod, includes all maps, factions, items from the three games and has a long main quest you can follow similar to Shadow of Chernobyldespite what Ivan says, Stalker Anomaly has items to deal with weapon degradation, but you also can just pay an npc to fix the gun to 100% and not having to deal with any of that stuff if you're not interestedGamma is a 140gb modpack for Stalker Anomaly that halves your fps, removes weapons and armors from merchants, adds grindinglots of mods installed with Gamma aren't even turned on, it's just bloated as fuckyou're supposed to play it in Ironman modejust mod Anomaly yourself, it's easy as fuck and you can get better graphics than Gamma, same mechanics as Gamma and it runs at 120+ fps without shit that doesn't belong in STALKER like all the bloated tacticool weapon mods in GAMMA or the random americ*n mercenary voices
STALKER 2 is an unfinished, buggy, jank fucking mess even 2 years after release. Never buy it it genuinely sucks.
>>738324216It is, it’s utterly pathetic the state the AI is in
>>738296583AGP art
>>738289952>or just play GAMMA insteadwait 2 days(or maybe more), gamma is set to get a big update on the 8th
>vaguely remember playing the old stalker games>but never for more than an hour, shit was turbo jank>try stalker 2 on goy pass>jank has been replaced with bloat>no fast travel>only one vendor i quit and uninstalled after 5 hoursadd fast travel and optimize the game down to 30 gig and i'll try again
Stalker 2 is a dogshit game and I don't consider it canon.>t. autistic giga stalker fan who was rather hyped up about it
>>738329414>QRD on Gamma?When Anomaly first came into play there was a major culture of dunking on modpacks because it implied the user was too retarded to install their own mods and worse yet they would constantly bother the discord about their shitty broken mod packs that sucked. Our favorite Frenchman Grok was one of the most extremely vocally anti-modpack users. Anyways, Grok decided to make a modpack. His modpack though, is different, because it uses a very unintuitive program to build the modpack for you by downloading everything off moddb and organizing it into MO2 instead of just being a ZIP with everyone else’s code packed into it. This is the first major filter, because people do not know how to follow instructions or use computers.GAMMA itself is just anomaly with a modified progression system that does not permit you to buy guns and ammo. Instead of trade 20 pig testicles for your gunfu that you use every single play though, you will have to use what you can find until you can finish your “project gun” which may require you to do a trillion quests until you can find expert tools in some extremely dangerous place in Pripyat. This is the second major filter.
>>738331715You don't have to greentext if it's you who are saying it.
>>738331894I usually stay on other boards, I just gave you guys a visit.
>>738332029Good for you.
>>738332478I love Stalker memes.
Rostok/Army Warehouses is rightful Duty/Freedom clay and no amount of nudev revisionism to benefit their OC DONUT STEEL PMCs/SOGs or whatever the fuck a ward is will change that.Also why the fuck would you bring back Scar when it was perfectly fine to have him die in CS. I knew too much time had passed between games but I still let myself believe.
>>738293018B. A. S. E. D
>>738316215>tolerate furry, but scalie is too much for me.idgi
>>738325558This is pretty outdated, you need to shut off the miracle machine to do braid scorcher now and have for the past 2-3 patches I think.
>>738296948Imagine glorious chad behind this post
Zone Survival Tips:Vodka, a cheap alternative to antirad meds, is the easiest way to reduce the effects of radiation on the body.
You only needhttps://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/alifeplus-v1-0-01>>738324216Its Unreal Engine slop, what did you expect
I want the closest thing possible to Metro, but with food, drink, and sleep systemsIs there a game for that?
>>738291283Lmao, I played originals and good amount of mods (have somewhere in house bunch of burned cd and dvd disks with them since middle school) and, personally, gamma is my favorite since I can edit it in any way I see fit.
>UE5>should I buy
