https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSLTU34ZTX8Stalker 2 fans eatin gud
I'm good, bohdan. I won't even pirate stolhor 2
>>745341580All 2 of them?
>>745341580I have ukraine fatigue.
Have they added that multiplayer mode they sold skins for yet?
Let me predict how it will go >Download stalker 2 patch>Open stash>bandaid, bottle of vodka, and a loaf of bread
>>745341580>le endoodening shillingS2 is shit and always will be shit
How is the Stalker modding scene looking anyway? Is it still all GAMMA nonsense instead of trying to make a more well-rounded and immersive version of the original?
>>745341580I completely missed staker 2. Someone gives me a quick rundown
>>745343009Don’t feel like it.
>>745343001There is a huge SoC overhaul mod in the making by an absolute madladhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p4m-Quo5UQ
>>745341580I mean I will mod it to oblivion as soon as those bastard vatniks get off their asses on patch day.
>>745343001retarded faggot cunt, radiophobia 3 has existed for yearskys>>745343134oh wow more graphix slop for the original trilogydaring today are we
>>745343106yeah you do
>our grass is prettier and we added fogI'm gonna stop watching and assume the game is still dogshit. Fucking scam artists; everyone that studio should have gotten conscripted.And since this is a stalker thread: I wish a very unpleasant death to any and all muscovites.
I wish there was a $100 DLC but it didn't add anything to the game but it funded a drone for Ukraine to blow a FUCKING ZIGGER'S HEAD OFF AND FILM IT IN 4K UHD WHILE HE DESPERATELY RUNS AWAY BUT CAN'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!That'd be really cool.
>>745341580I'm looking forward to not getting my retinas burnt out of my skull when I look outside a window but this doesn't look like an improvement desu
>>745343009niggers and women are canonically in The Zone of CHORNOBYLStrelok is now the Ghost of Kyiv, formerly Kiev may he rest in RIP
I enjoyed the main game and I'll enjoy this as well.
>>745341580>they are still calling that mimicry A-LifeFucking shameless.
>>745342549>want to talk about stalker on /v/>someone always throws a tantrum about Ukraine out of nowhereYou're the problem
>>745341580>stalker 2this came out? why haven't i heard anyone talk about this?
>>745343703Because it's pajeet engine 5 sloppa
>>745343814I don't understand why you care about some war between mongoloids so much
>>745343692It's gotta be bots at this point, at least half.
>>745343009They got the look right but no alife. The enemies spawn in when you get close to trigger points. The world feels dead and empty. Enemy ai is dumb compared to the old game. Weapons are tiered, early game guns like the al are almost unusable late game due to nonsense powercreep.game goes on for way too long.It wasnt a complete failure of a game but not endlessly replayable like the old games.
>>745343974Why is that your target for "trolling"? How many people on 4chan are even from Ukraine?It just appears to me that you're shitting up the board
>>745342639>>bandaid, bottle of vodka, and a loaf of breadThe fabled treasure of Monte Slav!
Why is every fucking Stalker thread filled with slavniggers slapfighting and spouting retarded slavnigger insults that no one whose skull isn't dented even knows the meaning of? Nobody gives a shit about your stupid slavnigger war, I hope you all kill each other
Not until I can buy a good enough gpu for less than 300 $
>>745345315See you in 2035
>>745343009It's fun, but OG autists absolutely despise it for some reason. I've got like 2000 hours in it now, it's great as a dungeon crawler and the shootan is fun
>>745345261>slavniggerI'm literally the only slav itt.
>>745341580That's cook, but I'm not replaying the game. I'll stick to story mods of the original trilogy and waiting for SoC update 2.0.
>>745341580>Tfw the season pass is on the most expensive editionLol lmao.
>>745344330I see
So many reasons to never buy or pirate this game. Be me American Raised in the country where LE RUSSIA LE BAD LE EVIL BAD COMMUNIST OMG SO BAD! be ukrainian. Live next to country for hundreds of years. Have 1 war for first time in hundreds of years with neighbor. NO RUSSIAN ALLOWED REEEE STOP SPEAKING RUSSIAN RUSSIAN BANDITS IN LORE REEEE NO THEY ARE UKRAINIAN REEEE NO RUSSIAN LANGUAGE!! no thanks nigger. u and the other chimps go play. BTW you dug your grave and now you lie in it.
>>745348356are there any reason outside of genderpolitics?
>>745345610>I've got 2k hours on S2Genuinely mentally ill, coprofiliac. If that's true then impressive, never have I seen a migger shit-eater in my life
>>745341580>all this off-topic bullshitFuck off retards.Some actuall good changes. Binoculars should've been in on launch, but good that they're back. Custom difficulty scaling and statistics is also nice. Looking forward to whenever all DLC is out and some slavs start working on a Anomaly/Call of Chernobyl for Stalker 2.
>>745349854Not buying at launch continues being the smallest move.
>>745348356i have zigger fatigue
I have "shitty game devs weaponizing geopolitics against criticism " fatigue
>>745350976holy seethe
>>745343540needs more FERNS
>>745351117>seethed>HOLY SEETHEAccurate self-description
>>745343540>muh crushed blacks are bad because THEY JUST ARE OK?>everything being bright is SUPER REALISTIC because IT JUST IS OK?
>>745343009retconed the previous games out of existence beyond meme references made for consoles and dumbed down everything even though the originals were already very casual to begin withmissing everything that mattered from the old gameswalking sim with purely random encounters, no actual design to be found
>>745345610>>745349539Nta but I was so bored in 2015 I played base Fallout 4 on the difficulty that disables saving outside of beds I think or fast travel for like 400 hours.
>>745349854>Anomaly/Call of Chernobyl for Stalker 2.Will never happen. What you might get is the map of shitter 2 ported to analmeme
>>745343009Fun but flawed just like the original three games. Anyone who says its worse than the originals either hasn't played them or played them heavily modded. I enjoyed my time with 2 and will probably get the DLC when its over 50% off. Oh and anyone who says there's no a-life is either a person who only tried it at launch which was a true shitshow or someone who cares too much about a war in some shithole country.
>>745341580>back of the zoneIs that where the vagina is?
>>745343009its the same story of every old IP brought back for the express purpose of catering to the "modern audience" which doesn't care about it while scorning the original fans that gave the IP its place>runs like shit>no A-life (no the half-assed system they added after backlash is not a-life)>nonsense tiering of weapons>ukraine devs changing a bunch of things to stick it to the russians (like forcing their alternative spelling of chernobyl)the only people slurping it up are engoodening fags like (>>745349854) standing and clapping for adding basic shit like binoculars two years after launch
>>745352192>it's just like the originalsDisingenious lying and dumb faggot>Anyone who says X is lyingExactly, anyone who emplys this cheap rhetoric is a liar and that's youS-2's is innumerably more low effort that the prequel trilogy, that has been proven beyons reasonable doubt by fans with dozen of comparison footageS2 is microslop that could double as a mediocre far cry game in the same setting
>>745352152>AnalmemeIt's anomaly. And that's because it's made by genuine fans , and actual Fans of Stalker won't bother doing shit with Stalker 2. There will never be anything remotely similar to Anomaly Anyone who shills for S2 is either a shill or genuine shit eating tard. And tard don't have the IQ to mod a game.
>>745352441That's a lotta words, shame they don't mean anything :)
>>745352192I've played every vanilla game and I hate war shitposters. Stalker 2 is markedly worse, and that includes A-life even after the 1.4 patch. You're an idiot.
>spawn random non sense around you all the time>devs call it A-LIFE>the amazing weather and atmosphere from the originals is just some shitty random rain here and there with scripted events for the story, there's no real danger out there.>gunplay is borderline mobile tierthese niggers never played the original games
>>745341580>CHORNOBYLEl.m.a.ojewkrainoids can't stop dilating and seething about anything tying them to the old bloc.
>>745343009It's more like a STALKER flavored open-world Ghost Recon game. Disappointing to some but I had a lot of fun with it.
>>745352703>LALALALALAsorry, S2 is still shit. That an undisputed fact
>>745352839A-life in 2 works better than the originals ever did and your years of playing the OG modded have clouded your memory of just how little the games even used it. You are a smart individual.>>745353313No facts have been posted, just you barking a whole bunch. Please post a video from 2s release that compares its basic bitch spawning enemies behind you to the original, that will help your cause.
>A life is a scam, AI logic is dumber than ubisoft's.>Can't code NPC interactions amongst themelves >prequels set the standard for shadow dynamism>can't code a fucking Fleshlight shadow anymore >can't code mutant injury animations>can't compose moody quasi-horror ambience anymore>can't code moving clouds (that also cast shadows)>Can't design interesting locationsShitalker 2=Unreal Suite-Slider Slop
>>745353313>LALALALALALAdollar store stalker : ghost of chornobyle got the witcher 3 OST in it?
>>745353583>I will continue to just state outrageous lies that are opposite of observed realityGenuinely, some NU-GSC wagie or mental midget?. Call it.
>still no engine update
>>745353583I don't think it's bait/trolling. This nigger's really getting paid to defend stalker 2.
>>745353768neither. upset nafotroon more like
>>745353583You try this in every single thread you lying bitch. Shove a Kolobok up your ass
THEY FIXED EVERYTHING>again
>>745345261Is a mystery
>>745343009Can't be done as /vpol/ only shitposts and has never played the game.
It's still UE5 slop why fucking bother
>>745343540>lumen>but now 3x more expensive!Thanks GSC.
everything else aside, SIKE-er 2 is literally that meme of the paint meme of the pig with the sword satirizing modern graphicsBlurry, dogshit contrast, dogshit shadows, anti-soul gas and runs like dogshit
>>745343692>want to talk about stalker on /v/>someone always throws a tantrum about Ukraine out of nowhereYou forgot the other side which is "herp a derp play gamma"
>>745354050grok is this real?
>>745354240so this is true, the black stalker from the campfire tales is real...
>custom difficultyfukken finally. Now I can have my slav scum experience without being tied to autosaves and bugs ruining things getting into a deathmatch.
>>745354240>blood cloudOff every UnrealSlop-Dev at this point.
i'd rather just play GAMMA honestly
>>745353583>A-life in 2 works better than the originals ever didWrong. Only the original SoC had gimped A-life, and that was fixed. S2 A-life is non-functional even after patch 1.4. Spawn distance is fucked and you don't end up with the behaviors you had in even CS and CoP. You can watch 2 spawned in factions fighting, not fire a single bullet, and they'll still stop what they're doing to all go after you. It's terrible and the game is still clearly built around spawning things in close to the player to attack them as opposed to simulating NPCs with their own goals.>You are a smart individual.You're a cocksucking faggot redditor who doesn't understand that being passive aggressive doesn't make you sound clever, it just makes you sound like a cunty woman who's mad that she's objectively wrong while trying to argue about facts she doesn't understand.
>>745354406What's wrong with that bitches arms
>>745354615Too many handjobs have stretched them out.
>>745343009People who tell you it's good also tell you to lower your standards. Just a disappointment overall.
>>745354406>the traders are all what look like picture perfect women with piercings and perfect complexion>instead of fat ugly half mutant bastards with a funny accent like sidvorodichworst fucking change>MARKED ONE?? WHAT DE HELL????
Birch? moar liek bitch amirite!?
>>745354406>>745354674God I hate women, why put them in the game?
How do anomaly and gamma compare to 2 objectively? Im new to the series and dont know what the best game mod/version is.
>>745355046cuz FREEDUMB SUCKS
>>745354897I'd almost consider playing STALKER 2 if they added a Sidorovich babushkaThe opening cutscene could have her peeling potatoes or feeding the chickens instead of eating one, and it could be implied she's been keeping shotguns under the table even before it became the zone.
>>745355124Do not play gamma or anomaly for a first playthrough. Also avoid Complete.
>>745355124they're very different than the actual stalker games. they're more inventory, bloat based and veers into more milsim territory. I think stalker 2 is better than them and I think IWP is probably the best freeplay game since it feels more like the original stalker games
>>745354674>Professor Ozersky says we have to begin the girth expansion measuring immediately, do you feel like you're up to the task Skif?
>>745343009Don't listen to nostalgia fags. I am really enjoying S2, and Iam playing stalker games since 2007. It's better than the first 3 games. They fixed basically everything and ze graphics are amazing.
>>745355124There's really no 'best' version, vanilla STALKER is a very different experience to freeroam mods like GAMMA and Anomaly.Shadow of Chernobyl is quite linear and straightforward while rewarding exploration and taking risks, Clear Sky and especially Call Of Pripyat put a higher emphasis on optional quests and objectives with artifact hunting and moddable equipment playing a big role.Anomaly is a freeroam mod that connects all of the maps from the 3 games whilst adding a few cut ones from older alpha builds of STALKER, your guns cost an arm and a leg to maintain and you're expected to take things very slowly. Just getting a good, functional AK is an achievement in and of itself while in vanilla STALKER you'll be swimming in AKs after 45 minutes of gameplay.
>>745355716this man is being mind raped by a controller, do not listen to him
>Modded ANYTHING for a first playthroughThe mark of a pleb
>>745343009Open world game, that is more linear than Shadow of Chernobyl, except it takes 20 minutes to jog between objectives.
>>745355716This, so much this.I'm having a blast too. The comeback needs to be studied.
>>745341580Wow, they raped the atmosphere, the one thing the game had going for it. Why?
I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone unless at least they release all the DLCs, and you get non existent Zen 6+ CPU
>>745355786Whats the differnce between gamma and anomaly?
>>745341580>chornobylstill one of the most retarded and pointless changes in all of gaming
>>745344330The tiered weapons think makes me especially mad because even if there were soft tiers in the old games, the high tier guns were cool. In 2 its all fucking gay modern IWI shit. How the fuck they thought someone would pick up this dumpy, oversized piece of shit and think it was cool is beyond me
>>745356249gamma is customizable anomaly
>>745341580Can you properly join a faction yet? No? Not playing it then.
>>745341580not even all of stalker/anomaly modding community working together could fix this game.
>>745356414subtle display of their allegiance. hollywood chose the desert eagle for a reason
reminder that they have yet to release online multiplayer mode, for which they already sold the content, years before release
>>745355506y-y-y-you too
>>745356543Why so? Name 3 flaws. Why do people hate Stalker 2? Genuine question
>>745349539No one cares, you spastic fucking borschtslopper. Go back to playing HoMM3 on your 1993 HP laptop while you get drunk on rubbing alcohol
>>745353786For real where is the Unreal Engine update?? Wtf is this gay shit
>>745343692Welcome to election tourist central, I hope you enjoy your stay because they certainly do
>>745341580YO, STOLKOR THROOD???
>>745356760>runs like shit>a-life worse than previous game iterations even after years of post release wanking that its good now>pozzed women and minorities all over the zone>forcibly changing the localization and spelling of multiple areas>bunch of dogshit cashgrab DLCits a dogshit unfinished game that doesn't hold a candle to the old titles
>>745343009Good but flawed and will get better with every update, just like the old stalker gamesBossfights and all the running is ass, but atmosphere and nightvision googles are great, alive got better than at release but theres still room for more improvementIts enjoyable, dont listen too much to nostalgiafags
>>745355716>>745356002A-life status?
>>745356760>Name 3 flaws.Balance is fucked up because devs are retards who wanted to make mutants SCARY AND STRONG.A-life literally does not work. No, I don't care that some retarded nigger is going to bring up that it didn't work in the original SoC release almost 20 years ago. They and countless modders have made it work since then so that's not a fucking excuse.The game world is bloated and tedious and most of the time is spent chugging energy drinks so you can jog through larges swaths of land to sell guns to repair your shit in between finding stashes with 2 pieces of bread a some ammo you don't need.
>>745356826Holy shit-eater melty
>>745349854>Looking forward to whenever all DLC is out and some slavs start working on a Anomaly/Call of Chernobyl for Stalker 2.>bro just deobfuscate an entire game's source code or rebuild the entire thing like with xray64 (or whatever the fuck they did to do that)"No!"
>>745356760Admittedly, a lot of it is I was probably way overhyped for S2 for too long, that it could realistically never live up to expectations. That being said, the new game almost entirely misses out on the soul of the original games. A-Life in the original games is not as good as people remember it, but it created very unique situations in the game, which forced you to play relatively safely/methodically, regardless of where you are, or what you're doing, the lack of this completely destroys the atmosphere of the game, and makes traversing through the zone more of a walking simulator. For more specifics:1. Optimization is garbage, I have a 4090 and it still runs like shit2. Story is garbage, "hurr I'm special chosen one on revenge quest because soviet bloc blew up"3. gun autism is barely on par with the first games, that level of customization was acceptable in the trilogy era, but I would expect it to be closer to something like tarkov these days4. The whole foundation subplot or whatever was retarded5. Factions are all motivated by basically similar things, rather than being ideologically opposed as they were previously.
>>745357678>bro, just mod Shit-ler 2Nobody cares. Willingness to mod is a higher mode of consciousness that presupposes personal sacrifice through time and effort. Which in turn demand that the object of sacrifice be imbued with SOVL. Which Sloppker2 isn't. Ain't nobody got time for that Unrealshit
Anyone who ACTUALLY played the original games please tell me if theres anything in Stalker 2 that comes close to storming the brain scorcher for the first time
>>745357638>The game world is bloated and tedious and most of the time is spent chugging energy drinks so you can jog through larges swaths of landThey should unirnically canonically add bicycle DLC along with UE5.5 update
>>745358301forgot pic
>>745358375>>745358301
>>745355179>The opening cutscene could have her peeling potatoes or feeding the chickensludokino
>>745358140Why would you want to impose that upon any one?
>>745357638>>745357718Good points. I personally think they should have used Cryengine instead of ueslop. Look how beautiful Kdc2 looks compared to S2.
>>745357638>that it didn't work in the original SoC release almost 20 years agoWell it did work, but it was limited because it such advanced tech that is extremely demanding on the one CPU core that the engine runs on. Anomaly as a mod is otherwise unremarkable if it weren't for the fact that Modders working on it unshackled the A-Life AI. Even today modern CPU's can barely handle it. A-Life was the most revolutionary technology pertaining to AI-behaviour and Nu-GSC brainlets weren't up to it
>change one (1) letter>every Zigger on the planet starts seething and shitting its pants uncontrollablyI didn't know it was this easy.
>>745341580... have you played that shit?
>>745355124Gamma is anomaly, retard
>>745357678I meant the amount of content and sandbox experience, not port it to xray engine you retard.
>>745357574You show up at a Poi and find a bunch of dead mutants/dudes A-life was here but you just missed him :)))
The authentic monolith experience.
>>745356548based noticer
>>745358140There's a tense section in the swamp where a blowout happens while a Chimera chases you. There's pretty much zero cover around so you have to book it to the nearest crap shack. No idea if that was scripted or just bad luck.
>>745358931I'm American actually and white and taking a shit Its a gay virtue signal
>>745356249anomaly is the "base" gamegamma is an autistic modpack that is supposed to be hard(ish) (but its really not, just a bit grindy)
>>745341580Performance status?
No thanks, I'll stick with Analmeme.
>>745353583>A-life in 2 works better than the originalsIt costs you no energy to say this, despite it being a lie, but takes lots of energy to argue against. I don't really know what makes a person become the way you are, it's confusing.
>>745359494If you don't have an X3D then towns will run like dogshit. More than six npcs at a time make CPU's shit themselves.
>>745359102glitching doors since 2007
>>745359292>off-white and fat>I'm American actuallyno shit sherlock
>>745360023Tough shit then. My Ryzen 5800 is not a spring chicken.
>>745360453>offwhiteSo you're some pasty ukranian with an axe to grind is what you're saying
ANY performance updates?
also uh i want my english with russian accent back>butyeah yeah make it english with ukrainian accent then god damniti hate the super american va shit
>>745361015English accent in S2 is for some reason British. Wtf
>>745361212nah its american and british unfitting at least forthe whole scenerey
>>745353795They definitely paid people to defend it, I remember when it came out anons that posted negative reviews on webbit were getting mass downboted or even banned because being critical of it means you love Putin
>>745343009Farcry but in Kiev
>>745360968Loads over the various patches but it is a heavy game no matter what because lmao lumen.
>>745361372*kyiv
>>745361395fucking.... at launch my 7800x3d and 5080 were struggling even with dlss performance lmao
>>745361015British accent on foreign coded games is awful.At.least American is neutral enough so it's not as aggravating. I'm just tired of nu-dev publishers not localizing the game in every single major language like in the good olden time.Penny pinching pieces of shite
>>745361446I will keep deadnaming and you wont and cant do shit KIEV KIEV KIEV
>>745361486Which is weird because gsc are making a statement with stalker 2Why not use ukrainians as voice actors for english too
NO MORE BROTHER WARS
The game's kind of mediocre, but it gets bonus points from me for making vatniggers mad. Fuck pootin.
>>745361560>Why not use ukrainians as voice actors for english tooThey all died in ze ditch. I am not even joking. Look it up.
>>745361395My biggest gripe with Lumen is despite its heavy performance demand, it still looks like shit. Back then the games that looked good could justify the power that they need, now you need top of line stuff for things to run decent only.
>>745343009Just play Call of Chernobyl or a dumbed down anomaly modpack that plays more like Shadow of Chernobyl. This one is more like Far Cry 5 but without vehicles and also a lot of RPG stuff that makes Shadow of Chernobyl's weapons and armor stats look revolutionary in-comparison.
>>745349854One of the worst things to come out of the mid-10s and later Stalker community disregarding /pol/ proxying their proxy of the war is that nobody even considers real mods anymore. It's all "UOOOOOOH I CAN'T WAIT FOR ANOTEHR FREEPLAYSLOP MOD MADE BY PEOPLE WHO HATE STALKER AND HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE". Fuck analmeme, fuck gaymma, fuck cock of cher nobyl, fuck all this freeplay trash built around tacticool larperating and watching everyone post retarded bullshit on the zone pda network while anomalies, mutants, and even artifacts are relegated to background scenery. They even make all the artifacts complete shit outmoded by generic larperator gear, and drugs like Hercules only let you carry a single can of soda extra.No, modders need to make REAL mods. S2 needs an Oblivion Lost, AMK, LURK equivalent. Even soup mods would be better.
>>745360023So exactly like the original trilogy.>b-but the original trilogy and analmeme run great on hardware over a decade removed from release
>>745348356Nobody cares stupid zigger
>>745362620>AIIIIIEEEEEEEEE STOP LIKING THINGS I DONT LIKEOk, poser.
>>745341580>Stalker 2 >fans
>>745341580Khokhol simulator 9000
>>745362620Freeplay modding is the apex of evolution of gameplay, perfected gameplay loop, tranny. Anomaly is only a platform, you can customize it to your littlest whim to YOUR perfect Stalker Iteration, which you're too dumb to do.Seethe and piss. Also nobody will mod S2, it's shit. Mod it yourself moron
>>745345628I'm still the only slav itt
>>745362620>waaa why do mods focus on the best part of the gameNice blogpost retard
>>745363204do you like salo?
>>745343009There is no Stalker 2.
>>745363162I can't customize Analmeme like how I want because it has practically no story mods.
>>745363340I'm indifferent when it comes to it.
The game is allright, but cant have a sincere conversation about it because butthurt ziggers gonna start spewing politics
Anomaly is the PEAK of GAMING as a whole>mod graphics/texture pack+lighting mod i like>Mod difficulty I like>mod the perfect TTK I like>mod the perfect weather I like>Mod the perfect gun animations, delete guns I dislike (2tacticool for me)>mod perfect AI behaviour that feels realistic>Mod custom Mutant pack sizes to be lore accurate and difficult>mod trader prizes, remove Hobo simulation>mod every single menial gripe out Takes forever but man is it worth it. 12/10 experience to game this
>>745363596They're all from the brown /pol/ general btw
>>745348356How can you even tell Ukrainian from Russian kek they are literally the same.
>>745363240>i go on the internet where people post text but i don't actually want to engage in any of ityou zoomers really are more mentally ill than autists
>>745363845Cry more about how you can't into modding, bitch. Not everyone else's problem you're too retarded to find mods with story modes.
>>745362620lmao retard
based
>>745364341luv me slop'ate soulsimple as
>>745363240>the best part of the game is wandering the map doing radiant quests while stopping to eat 50000 calories of food and energy drinks every five steps and every two medkit/bandage uses while tacticool larperators shoot you from 9001 kilometers away and your only hope is to make it close enough for your 19% condition makarov to hit the target in the head so you can loot his 0.24 bullets and 5% condition gearPrecisely zero (0) freeplay enthusaists have played stalker nor like any aspect of it.
>>745364749>get a combo of quests going within a base where they end up autocompleting because you already have the stuff or it's a "kill x" that automatically gets killed by other stalkers/mutants netting you 100k roubles and a bunch of other shit to keep the quest combo goingif this isn't stalker i don't care it gives me a gamer boner
>>745364749>Precisely zero (0) freeplay enthusaists have played stalker nor like any aspect of it.
Dude playing modded Anomaly is SO comfy. I love tweaking the 387 different mods reddit told me were good until they all specifically cater to my exact form of autism and remove any identity Stalker once had. I tried the old games but they were so outdated ugh. Nothing beats picking up cigarette butts and used toilet paper for hundreds of hours while larping as a badass operator.
>>745365341
real niggas only play OP2.2
>>745341580>STOLKOR TOO HORT OF CHORNOBOLPut it on XRay and I'll buy it, ukies. No UE5 sloppa for me.
>>745365341>strawmanI don't browse reddit and have Anomaly modded solely by browsing mods on the moddbb page for anomaly (over 600 entries)Literally pick and choose and tweak some txt files and find the right folders and CTRL+VYou mad, brainlet?
>>745365341I didn't have to tweak anything.Just installed the GOG version of gamma and started playing.Peak SOVL, peak ludo.
>>745362620Nigga you are 100% free to make a storysloppa modpack for Anomaly and you can probably do it just by vibe coding it with claude these days. Nobody is stopping you. Shit, I'd play that if you made it (before I get around to it), but it seems like nobody wants to do it.
Need opinion, which one would you use?
>>745365886top, vog nade launcher is always good to have
>>745365830>What's for to today?>storming the bandit base in Dead Territory for the 26th time>Daring, aren't weAnd it's still kino Everytime.
>>745355124stalker 2 is an honest sequel to original vanilla stalker. anomaly and gamma (modded anomaly) are the end result of years of stalker modding. put 2 and 2 together
>>745361372farcry 2 ? if so, then it has to be the best game in the decade
Do you still need to use the pastebin or whatever to even download Gamma because they're being total discord club shitheels who might as well be paywalling like gog is by forcing you to have bought Stalker specifically from their site?
>>745366431Far Cry 3-5, more like.
>>745365983There's a stand-alone grenade launcher in the mod so no UBGL is not really a deal breaker.Honestly I like both and can't decide.
>>745365830>gammatroons will play this and think it's the hottest shit ever>it has nothing to do with stalker beyond reusing the maps with assets dating back to 2003 and the world's shittiest reshade packs>full blown sprint is slower than an obese man's jog>>745365842>make [anything] for analmemeFuck off tourist. The GAMES themselves can be modded with story and things that actually take brainpower and effort.
It's extremely frustrating that they made an open world game that plays more linear than Shadow of Chernobyl, except the loading times were replaced with extremely long and empty travels through the world you can't skip.Every other STALKER game was better "open world" game than the actual only open world game in the series.
>>745366908kek you tourist larpers are funny to me, probably never even beaten OLR 3.0 without cheats
>>745366908>bitch about anomaly not having a thing you could easily make>get angry when someone tells you that you can make itPoser.Btw I own physical copies of the games and I played them while you were in kindergarten.
>>745366930how's the atmosphere ? I loved exploring in stalker and other games because of the great atmosphere, the guitar music, trying to find cool places.
>>745367019The freeplay garbage mods are poisoned wells from their very core. The very basis is genuine cancer, worse than you'd get taking a nap against the elephant's foot in the power plant. Why are freeplay trannies incapable of comprehending the idea of modding the actual games instead of hacking more garbage on top of garbage?
>>745367228Yeah you're a poser, dude. Everyone in this thread can tell. You don't even play these games, you just made them part of your personality because you liked the aesthetic.
>>745341580This game got FSR4?
So can you buy this separately or do you need to buy the overpriced Ultimate upgrade?
>>745343009>Supposedly High tech institute in the Zone>All the food is literally the same gutter food you find elsewhere like condensed milk and mystery meat in a canEasily the most retarded immersion breaking thing in the game.
When's the XM8 mod? I need an XM8 for STALKER 2, and an OICW
>>745367147Finding references to previous games, including remade locations from pieces of concept art for original games and even menus was probably the most fun part of the game.There's nothing as cozy in the game as campfire from original. NPCs just feel soulless.You can find loot but it's pretty useless, because you'll be always overweight and you need to run a lot in this game to travel. In the 2nd half of the game, you unironically get objectives that placed 2 km from each other and there are just few guides for fast travel.But apparently after I finished the game, they updated the loot, so it's more randomized now, I think.Also mutants got downgraded in terms of immersion. Instead of being creatures living in the zone, they turned into bullet sponges not worth dealing with.
>>745367495Well with the latest adrenalin any 7000 or 9000 can upgrade to FSR4.
>>745341580But how is the performance?
>>745368035optiscaler/optiscaler client? nice ill pick this game up then
>>745368184You can just use a switch in drivers. But OptiScaler also works.
>>745345610Shooting absolutely suck snork dick. For some reason slop engine 5 can't handle shooting.
>>745362620CoC is fun, but based post for making analmemefags and gaymmababies angry.
>>745367147>how's the atmosphereGood in a few specific places like anomaly fields, but shit everywhere else.
>>745341580Is A-Life actually properly implemented now or not? Because the last two or three times it was said "IT'S FIXED!", they'd just given NPC's and mobs more prescripted generic animations to do when they spawned in by you and then would be wiped from existence as soon as you were a 100 feet away, and returning to areas you just were would have completely new sets of scripted encounters making the game world feel extremely fucking fake.
>>745343001>How is the Stalker modding scene looking anyway?The same as its been for the last 10 years.You can read Russian, can't you?>Is it still all GAMMA nonsense instead of trying to make a more well-rounded and immersive version of the original?I guess you can't because ap-pro gets yearly bangers.
>>745369587No it's not.And asking that shows the lack of understanding of what A-Life is.The fact of the matter is that A-Life was developed for the proprietary engine cannot be easily transplanted to UEshit, impossible with NU-GSC morons that cannot even do shadows on the level of 2007
>>745369587>Is A-Life actually properly implemented now or not?Not as of 1.4, no.
>>745369587>would be wiped from existence as soon as you were a 100 feet awayBinoculars will be added in 2.0, so maybe, that was fixed.
>>745341580>more grass>finally binocs>pseudo a-life tweaks>new mutantsalright it might finally be worth checking outi'm sorry i sided with putin
>>745343009https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc1OTaj4V8kqrd is it didn't have shit upon launch and was legitimately terrible. Then it became better than vanilla originals over half a year ago, but tourists who don't play video games still spout lies as if the game released yesterday.
>>745372491>Then it became better than vanilla originals over half a year agoHaha, good joke, tell another one.
>>745367996>they turned into bullet sponges not worth dealing with.Not the case anymore. I too hated the bullet sponge bloodsuckers, chimeras and pseudogiants.I think they're still retarded though and if you hop up on some crate they'll run away and hide behind some wall.
>>745341580Did they fix the performance yet? Last time I was completely unable to play during to having just 16gb of ram
