strawpoll for /vg/s thoughts on STALKER 2https://strawpoll.com/bVg8Bj09NyY>BugTrap, crash to desktop, freeze/lockup? Find your crash log, stalker.Check your Documents or game install directories for the xray_[your name].log file. If you can't find it, look in the location specified at the top of fsgame.ltx. Copy the last few lines from the log and paste them here if you want any help.>Quickstart Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/1cnQeURGCjHTRPOGJH8G5ijP1fw5vbVWSE7opABcBpNk>Mod Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/1JPA0hQZVJ6mSvTsp6Sy3CoAkObJOKeoPHEamDC19Lio>Miscellaneous Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/103nyaAM5PKgBwuZ35jRbv7VM7tEcvi1Scv6boOMe1RM>Start guide, beginner tips, and much much morehttp://pastebin.com/FUPEbLiv>HUD guide, modding basics, mod reviews, and AMK mod guidedocs.google.com/document/d/10yi79NUFhJrFO4hmGeKqaWSw35BJQv0Ve0OK94ioMEw>Performance Guides, Steam settingshttp://pastebin.com/nzXEevG7>Common misconceptions about Shadow of Chernobyl game mechanicshttp://www.metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/WhatYouKnowThatAintSo.html>Running STALKER. on Linuxdocs.google.com/document/d/11HcSFSyb0DX3ymModXZ9tNdpTuktTioCLost to the Zone >>502957112
>UE5IT'S OVER.
Why are there so many bloodsuckers in the first 10 mins of the game
How do you use the right side items on the quick access wheel? pressing E just eats i cant select bandage
>start game>choose most challenging difficulty>I have an inventory of 8 AKs and 2 ARs and 2 Makarovs and a fucking Mac-10 within 15 minutes of getting control of player>die a billion times from jank or unexplained mechanic (plant survey thing, insta-killed because it does a shit ton of damage to you ASAP)>performance is shitI've played 33 minutes so far and I'm thinking it's gonna be a refund
>>502995279Hold the button down.
I started up the game. Its saying compiling shaders and its taking forever to load
I'm a miserable faggot who finds everything wrong with video games and will bitch and whinge in the thread to bring myself and others down.Videogame bad.
>>502995030To railroad you towards the new rookie village. I went to a warehouse and found a Pseudogiant and 3 Bloodsuckers, managed to kill the Giant and 1 of the suckers before dying. Went there after for a sidequest and it was just dogs.
>>502995709sars... please understand.. the wars...
>>502995030To dissaude you from exploring before side quests take you to locations.
Performance is a bit ass on my 4070, running at 1080p. probably can tweak it a bit but it doesn't look good enough to run this badly. Stuff rendering in the distance looks weird too. The story and presentation feels kinda bad, don't feel like it needed it. I'm in the first town going on runs to make money and it's feeling more like stalker now. Hopefully it gets some patches soon to help perf but I'm not hating it yet. Can you turn off the compass? not tried yet
>>502995968Lol this is terrible. 10 minutes to load and not even to the main menu.Does it only do this the first time ?
>>502995854To further expand, they said you could outright ignore all quests and just go do your thing, but they never said it would be easy :^)
WHO SHOULD I SIDE WITHGUARDIAN ZOGS OR THE SCUMS WHO ARE EVENTUALLY GONNA TRY TO PUT A KNIFE IN MY BACK AHHHHHHHHHH
So....>lots of things retconned>no diegetic PDA in game, just an opening animation>no mooze ambient>NO A-LIFE, just scripted scenes and spawns>blowouts only trigger during scripted main story events>UI is somehow worse than original trilogy>Auto-lean and Auto-reload on empty mag>low crouch is cut>DEI>NPCs walk in a 1 TO 1 raised weapon animation in weird patterns like it was copypasted from Starfield>injured stalkers just lay on the floor with a stiff pain anim making ZERO SOUNDS>Skif's shadow is pure clownish jank that needs to be turned off asap if you wanna be immersed>Scopes are still not PiP in 2025 (lol)>NO 3rd PERSON CAM AFTER DEATH, IT'S JUST A FUCKING SCREENSHOT OF A BLOODSUCKER EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU DIE>0 (nada) SOVLThis is just my first impressions, it keeps getting worse and worse. At least the zone is nice and big, but the whole game feels like a Metro: Exodus/Starfield mix.How is this stalker?
>>502996129yes shader warming only happens once this is a thing in almost all new games
>>502995392Sounds like OG stalker experience if you ask me
>>502996220>>502996129no it does it everytime you boot up the game
Hunger needs to be turned way done. Skif can't even make it out of the prologue without eating 4 loafs of bread and fridge worth of sausages.
>>502995392the game takes away all your guns and forces you back to the hobbo phase when the story introduction ends
>>502996163>no a-lifewhy are you lying
>>502996129No it does it each time you launch the game
>dei discordtrannies really here on /sg/ uh?how much until we can talk about the game? a week?
>>502996163GAMMA won
Will I like Stalker 2 if I didn't like any other stalker game but I like playing tetris
>get 70-80 frames while in the prologue>drops to sub 20 the moment I wake up in the anomaly field>have to use ultra performance FSR just to get it back up to 30>die from the first few bandits I run into>FPS goes into the teens when I reload the save
>>502996475stalker 2 is kind of like tetrics desu
post torrent link
>>502996423>how much until we can talk about the game? a week?>how muchgood morning and fuck off shitskin
MUH FPS3070ti, 5600x, DLSS Quality, 1440p, Medium Settings
>>502996397NPCs don't have schedules outside scripted scenes in quests.Sometimes the game spawns an AI squad near you after you make a choice in a task and it's so obvious.I've already seen them spawn out of thin air once. That's your new A-life.
>>502996607send more discord troops troon
>>502996687why are you lying
>>502996687yes theres scripted sequences on top of the a-life...
rtx3080 here, 1440p, game holds 60 on high without dlss. populated areas about 45. game hogs 15gbs+ of ram when there are loads of active npcs. everything looks amazing when you are stationary, unreal engine fuckery starts kicking in if you move.
>>502996673>76%
>>502996397>>502996769Holy GSC shill.
https://x.com/stalker_thegame/status/1859349966449410088
>>502996921I just don't like blatant lies for (you)s have some dignity
>>502996161Well, Richter did help me and the Ward seems to be some type of less-asshole-Military so I guess I'm going with the Stalkers on my first playthrough.
>Performance issues?>https://pastebin.com/e8fy4mh4
>>502996687i remember playing SoC and within 20 seconds of walking on a road the game spawned somebody behind me sneaking with a shotgun. i think this is just GSC's idea of a video game.
>>502996397he's not. they took it out of the store page for a reason. there's scripted patrols that show up in certain areas but things despawn outside of like 30m around the player.
>>502996524Wow!
>>502996673>50 fpsbruh, 2010 was 14 years ago
>>502996489uhmm are you some kind of heckin /vee/ tourist??
>>502996423TND
>>502996687I'm equally open to A-life being culled due to being broken, but I wonder if the problem lies in the opposite direction - when faced with operating A-life in a large open-world map the devs fucked up when things should be in off-screen A-life versus live A-life? I guess time will tell - if that is the problem the fix should be relatively simple.>unless the biggest performance problem is actually managing NPC navigation over the giant mapWhich would make sense, considering it appears that CPU performance is one of the biggest bottlenecks. I'm still days away from having it downloaded, so we'll see. I'll cry if there's more 140GB patches.
>>502997151AYO STA-ACK
>>502996117>Performance is a bit ass on my 4070, running at 1080pJust bought the game thinking I was safe with my 4070S kek. Bugs I can understand, but why do modern games struggle so much with performance when they actually look uglier and tend to have less complex mechanics than older games? What's the point of having assets with such big resolutions if every game depends on DLSS to be playable? Why can't devs just make games for systems with current hardware?
>>502996673This game looks horrible
>>502996760all of your 150 genders can stay mad >>502996776shouldnt ukrainians interested in this game be out fighting the russians?
>>502995824So is it true that UE5 is dogshit for real modding?
anyone else getting their fps cut in half when they load saves requiring a relaunch to fix? It's brutal
so they really dont have any factions? who was the fag who decided that?
>>502997151MOONMAN MOONMAN CAN'T YOU SEE
>rebind movement keys>W and S move you up and down laddersliterally how the fuck
>Ancient 16gb/1080 built>Expecting potato 15fps stalkan>Game defaults to high and runs okBased slav magic.
>>502994281>ucktards and piggers still going at itcant wait till this shit clears up in 2 to 3 weeks
>>502997643Did you make it past the main menu yet
>>502997643what? proofs?
>>502997525im also getting that. there are mods on nexus that optimize the game somewhat.
>>502997675yeah everyone will have got refunds by then and general can go back to talking about real stalker games again
>>502997525You can only load autosaves.Quicksaves ruin performance for whatever reason. Enjoy your slavjank.Guess it's time to get gud and play in ironman mode ;-^)
How long do you guys think until we get sandbox faction choice mods like doom's mod merge so I don't have to listen to these retards anymore?
>>502997871it's UE5 so never
>>502997819since you dont seem to be about the political bullshithow is it? im still downloading
>>502997558Small indie company bro.>>502997643Update us when you get past the loading screen.
>>502997515nopeand theyre building full mod support toosodouble nope
>>502997967is UE5 shit for modders or something
Bro is COMMITTED to the grind
I forgot to buy it before I went to work and set it to download for when I get homeRoping
Free GOG version when?
>>502997995i'm waiting for a clean gog torrent. i dont trust games4u
>>502998049ue5 is fine for moddingthese retards don't know what theyre talking about
>>502998180godspeed anon
>>502998180just check cs.rin. It is safe
>>502998051
>turning everything from maximum to low increases my framerate from 30 to 45something is deeply fucking wrong with this game lmao
>>502998180I was going to download the games4u torrent and just replace the different files when the clean version comes out but it's downloading at 50kb/s lmao
>>502998049Go to any UE5 game on nexus and lurk for a bit. You'll get it real quick.
>>502998049ue5 is terrible for moddingthese retards know what they're talking about
>>502998318yes maam id like some "Le Stalger Radiation cake" plz :)
so is it good
Hungry?
Nightingalebros...
>>502998318
>>502998383silent hill 2 remake has all these issues, like the exact sameit must be an ue5 thing idk shit bout game dev but yeah
>>502997317Because current hardware is obsolete hardware. Gotta buy next hardware goy. Jokes aside I blame the abundance of resources and the ability to patch things later: nobody's have to be clever anymore and cram as much game as possible in a cartridge when your game can be in the hundreds of GB, nobody has to optimize when your average nerd has enough processing power to run complex Sandia-tier CFD.
>trees barely move during a stormits over
>coupons instead of roubles>british people everywhere>yaniv
>The "girl" tech character from the trailers is trans.Holy. Fuck. What a disaster of a game.
>>502998456
im gonna guess everyone bitching in here is just sour grapes
why
>>502998703well at least there isnt a woman in the zone
>>502998813Yes, game is perfect, buy it
I'll buy the game on steam in a week instead of torrenting because I cba to deal with downloading separate updates from shady sources for the 10 different hotfixes that will follow in the next 2 weeks
Jesus, did they playtest the veteran difficulty at all?Bloodsuckers are so stupidly op on this difficulty that it's not even funny, how the fuck is someone supposed to deal with them in an enclosed space.To add insult to injury they decided spawning bullet sponge mutants every 100 meters or so is a good idea since that's apparently what they thought A-life was.I am somewhat enjoying the game but there are just so many stupid design decisions.
nearly done installingwill my 3dfx VooDoo2 run it? i dont need it to look good, just playable.
dismemberment mod when?
>>502998813I'm enjoying myself.
>>502998852Acosador 2: La Sombra de Chernobyl
>poppy field>get grabbed and teleported to the house>wake up in the attic>no matter where I move, the poppy petals fly around and insta-kill me>can't run out of the attic, can't stay put, literally cannot do shitok
>>502998852Because you have to espera while the sombreados get compilanded
>>502999148*Chornobyl
>>502998703No real women allowed in the zone.
>>502998703would
>24mins leftsoon
>>502998901There are a few women scientists in CIRCA institute
>>502996991where the fuck is engine.iniits straight up not in my game folder or even in the appdata folder
>>502999023holy shit it's like listening to first time players of shocget a fucking shotgun and stand on something same as you would in previous games
>>502998703Okay I'm refunding. It's IWP for me
>>502998852El eterno Espera...
>>502999023The Gunslinger experience
>>502999045>not playing Unreal Tournament insteadgrim, and 3dfx? imagine not having a 256 by now
>>502998553
redpill meis stalker 2 good or shit
>>502998813/vg/ is one of the shittiest boards and a significant amount of people here are actually completely brainrotten. Finding actual criticism is insanely hard because like half the fucking people ITT don't even own the goddamn game. This one's gonna be especially retarded because there are faggots with political agendas over their retard slav war shitflinging.>>502999023I didn't find them particularly hard so far and I'm on veteran. Seems to be the same as every other STALKER game. My biggest criticism so far is that I don't like the UI.
>>502999298it's in %APPDATA%\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windows\if not, create one
>>502999568>redpill meIt's ukrainian propaganda
>>502999568https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOwENdiQI8Mit is
So I'm guessing the "play on max difficulty" of the original trilogy doesn't apply to this one?
For some reason my game crashes every time I'm starting the new game. I guess no one else have this problem and there's no fix?
>>502999645ty m8, i'll create one
>>502997151>mp4what the?
>>502999536
>>502999568Performance is the worst part really. If you can get past that then it's stalker 2.>>502999698I'm playing on veteran and it feels pretty much business as usual. dogs die in one good shotgun hit and bandit go down to one in the head but can take a few anywhere else.
>>502999301There's a cave with nothing to stand on and 2 or 3 bloodsuckers that each take at least 6 buckshots from close range, the only feasible way to get through would probably be to run straight through it but one of the bloodsuckers closes you off in a dead-end tunnel that you used to enter before you can do anything.
>>502999606>/vg/ is one of the shittiest boardsas a former /v/-tard, this board is like platos symposium in comparison
>>502999792>>502997151AY YO WHATNO NEED TO WEBMIFY MP4'S NOW?
For us Ultimate Edition Chads, where do I find the suit and guns they promised me?
>>502999301Its been like half a decade since I last played STALKER I'm just a tourist curious how STALKER 2 has been (I more or less wrote anything from GSC after cossacks 3) but I still remember managing to kill three bloosuckers in the middle of a road with only my knife after I ran out of ammo during a one-life playthrough.You could definitely take those things on if you dropped all your shit and went maximum tryhard.Of course that was the game running at 120fps with zero input lag etc due to being a fairly old game by that point and that makes running around pretty easy.
>>502999792chinkmoot gave us mp4s today
THD
>>502999792
>>503000108maybe by 2050 we'll get mp4s with soundmaybe ai will research such advanced technoligy
My mouse moves outside of the game to my second monitor. How the fuck do I stop that from happening?
>>502996129>>502996350It does it every time but it seems it takes forever only the first time. On first boot compiling shaders took nearly 15 minutes for me, but every next launch it barely took a minute.
>>503000190BaZed
>>503000190literally the second holodomor
is there a way to separate the quick buttons?
>>503000190KEEEK
>>502997151AYO MAN GIMME YO FUGGIN' ARTI-
i just had the glitch happen to me that someone else mentionedi was playing the game everything was fine50-60 fpsand then i died and reloaded and now im stuck at 20fps
>>503000249>mp4 with soundhow that turned out for gifs with sound again
>>503000190castration mod when
>>502997525i quit playing for the time being because of it
>>502998467no it is... LE BAD because... it just is, OK?!and because le UE5 is.... LE BAD.. because it also just is, ok? and so that makes stalker 2... LE BAD
>>503000445Dunno, I don't usually visit this board. Today is a good reason
>>503000357left side is press right side is hold, it works fine when you get used to it.
UE5 is LE BADStalker 2 is LE GOOD Performance is LE BAD
no one mentioned that it doesn't have double crouch ?
>>503000608did you try feeding it cheese?
>>503000665Of course it doesn't, there's only so many buttons on a controller
Did anyone else not get money from Nightingale after his quest when you kill more dogs?
>>503000665.>>502996163
>>503000665no double crouch, also parkour is more "realistic", you cant just continously jump up a highly angled surface
>bought deluxe edition because it has an extra quest>not going to play the game until they drop a patch and people stop complaining about performance
>>503000190https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20-HGkT_OJIDrone strike mod when?
Gog when?
>>503000608i know but im so used to the og trilogy that i keep pressing f2 and using the items i have set there
>>503000742it would just be press for one crouch and hold down for even loweri only played for 10 minutes i died at the first electric ball thingit doesnt seem like you can sprint and jump around like the old game. like sprint and hold crouch and jump.
>>503000287Are you running it through proton or on windows? If its proton use protontricks to run winecfg then in the graphics settings there's some checkboxes for mouse trappingIf you're on windows then install gentoo and then do the above
Anyone know how to fix the mouse sens being consolized trash where vertical and horizontal speed don't match? It's driving me crazy.
>>502996163>Scopes are still not PiP in 2025 (lol)This is a good thing
>>503000865ukraine lostseethe, piggy boi
>>503000190KekZ
>>502999606The game seems to be part of a culture war as well for some reason so there is that
good news guys, the devs acknowledge the issues at launch and are gonna be working around the clock to polish the experience
>>502996163>>503000993Are there "fast" ways to do PIP these days?I guess its only the frag shader you have to do two passes on. Maybe that funky new adaptive resolution thing helps where you can just render that portion of the screen at a high resolution instead of having to do a second pass.
>putin lost >russia lost >ukraine won BIGLY dare i say we won /sg/
>>503001013Ukraine won the losing competition zigger.
>>502999272giwtwm
>>503001013>GLUK GLUK GLUK GLUK BOOM lol
>>502998030I'll trqst the plan then.
>>503001174SLAVA
>>503001325>walk through gate>die to fall damagethey got me
>>503001174is it too much to ask for ANY game to release in a fully playable state these days?????my computer just crashed while playing.
>>503001274Post related>>503001282We did it xisters
>>503001397AYO STALKA
>>503001397>avg novorossiyanin after punya 3rd world block alliancewhy are ziggers weirded out by this?
>>503000956THIS, Q/E healing, and auto leaning making me rage quit after dying. Holy fuck I hate consoles.
>fighting group of bandits>get a grenade thrown at me from every single one of themClear Sky ptsd coming back strong boys
>>503001397How nice of them to add russian soldier representation.
>>503001397>Stolkor 2 is woke slopKek knew it
>>503001397WE WUZ STALKAS N SHEEET TWIN DIS ZONE HOOD FINNA COP ME A HELLCAT
>>502997558there's free stalkers, "Varta", duty, freedom, mercenaries, bandits, and military.
>>503001397bandera is this you
>>503001648That's a russian soldier. Show some respect.
>>503001509Cope moar kek
is the gun from polmer worth getting?
>>503000190Z
>>503001397>BAPTA
Auto lean has to fucking go. NOW. It's fucking terrible, I don't even want to play again until it's gone
>>502994281got a new monitor for this game, time to inaugurate it with S2
>>503001626>>503001816Mindbroke. Ukie game is wokeslop and flopped. Go woke go broke
>>503001579>Bandits ambush me.>Get behind a narrow tree as cover.>ADS, automatically peeks me out of cover.>Bandit kills me.I need to take a break.
>>503001912yeah theres so many things that i just wanna disable.Did you also notice that you can only lean if you have a gun out? Cant lean with knife or bare hands
>>503002030See >>503000865
>>503000190bazed zoro
>>503000190
>>503002030except its not flopping :(( now show some respect for your new brics allies >>503001397disrespectful to punya faggot
>>503001579Q/E healing is fine because the first thing i did was rebind it to f1f2 and lean to Q/E
>>503001912>>503002093I lean if I press Z or C. Does that happen for anyone else?
Is it worth buyng right now? On some key site for reduced priceI want it to be like soc, is it like soc?
>>503001912i used GALAXY SIZED 200iq brain and figured out the game can't auto-lean if you're already manually leaning with Z and C.i'm the smartest ever
>>502997343it definitely looks worse than stalker gamma, with a fraction of the performance. weird
>>503002302its like proper classic stalker instead of anomaly slop, yes
>opens trainer>ticks infinite weapon durabilitywe stalking now
>keybinds are fucked>no way to disable HUD dynamic fadingso fucking dumb
>>503002302Some hours ago there were many complains, but need this looks mostly quiet, so I suppose people are actually enjoying the game, bugs and all. You won't get real reviews until tomorrow though.
>>502994281>find first bloodsuckers nest>about 3 of them>bullet sponge as hell >kill them> Fire drawn in bandits>kill them>a rat horde?>kill them >spent like 15 minutes total, hear Bloodsucker roardoes this game have infinite spawning enemies??? What's the deal?
tell me bros, is this gonna be another Bannerlord where it's in eternal development/patch cycle and everyone just goes back to the old games? I've never not been betrayed by a company bringing back a franchise I once loved.
>>503002272Fair point. All these other issues I'm having, is making it hard to continue without waiting for mods.
>Sprinting cancels reloadingUninstalled
>>503001908BRATHA DEEZ ARTEFAKTZ BE COOKIN SHIEEET
>>503002471This game seems "complete" unlike Bannerlord. STALKER was never like mount and blade in terms of development.
>>503002498this is infuriating yes, i hope its gonna be one of the first things to get modded
>>503002498just like real life chud
Can modders even do anything right now without the tools?
>>503002439You're softlocked from progressing without doing quests first, the game does this to railroad you through main story.They won't spawn after you "unlock" that area.
>>503001139Every big game release is part of the culture war now.
ill be honest bros after 2 hours.. im having fun :)playing on high 080 and i9 for what its worth
>>503002665>They won't spawn after you "unlock" that area.reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
>>503002117>>503002187>15 years of waiting>Hype it up for 2 years>Release dozens of trailers and ads>Only peak at 113k on releaseFloppa. That's what you get for having a broken bloatware crypto mining game kek
>press disregard fix on stalker 2 on gamepass>the game uninstalls itselfNATIONAL PRODUCT OF UKRAINE
>>503002816>100k concurrent for a stalker game is floppakekaroo!!
>>503002846Small indie company
Anybody got this issue at the first house after the tutorial where the camera locks onto the house entrance and stays locked forever? I can't fucking use my mouse anymore it just swings me around to this house entrance no matter how far away I go.
>turn off dlss because i dont actually need it>jaggies as far as the eye can see>AA options are shit and don't fix it at allwow
>>502997016Faggot shill. They've responded to the change and said they changed the description to be more marketable it's still implemented
the framerate is actually trash after reloading a save
>>503002816at first it was >noooo what hype? slav ru jank noone cares its gonna have noone watching and buyingnow its 300k watching and 100k+ playing at the same time and its not enoughcope and seethe chud
MODDING TOOLS STATUS?
>>503002883>Competing with a game from 15 years agoPeremoga!
>>503002816>Niche eurojank game>Released in the middle of a weekday, during working hours in the civilized world>Has performance issues up the ass deterring plebians and poorjeets from buying it>Day one on Xbox Pass>Still beat VeilguardYou trannies really can't keep losing, can you? Just end it, your parents are going to be happier.
>>503003127from a niche slavjank franchise, 100k on steam is pretty fucking good
>compiling shadersis this what gamers nowadays have to deal with?
>>503002980the AA only works on static models like buildings, fence, and poles, not grass and other moving nature things.it's bugged
>>503003120Two more weeks
are items supposed to be this expensive at the trader? like just the base mask is 16k
SKIF NO
Gog torrent??
>>503003341Welcome to STALKER, newbro.
>>503000742there's double crouch in the console versions they ported earlier this year
>>503001850I tried both options. Gun is in bad condition, but seems good. Giving it to the original guy is only 750$. I took the gun.
>>503003092>Strawman>Literal monkeys game had 2 million concurrent players>Stolker only gets 113kIt's oyvir.I accept your concession>>503003180Strawman >>503003209Cope
>>503002816its free on xbox so i guess most of people play therealso not everyone downloaded it yet - we'll see what online will be on weekend
>>503003427im not new but in the og games they werent ever that expensive. at least the masks. i know everything else was. and even repairing guns my ak needs like 6k to fix which actually bs.
>>503002970yeah, load an earlier save. what exactly did you do? did u kill those bandits from close range? long range?
isn't this good?
>>503002665I WANT TO EXPLORE!REEEEi still think blood suckers are spongey, 6 shotgun meatshots should put it down.
>>503003360Skif also known in loner circle as "Sickle Cell"
I managed to grab one of those electronic collars after I got done with the dog hunting quest, can I get rid of this thing somehow? I'd rather not have it taking up space in my inventory for no reason
>minor inconvenienceUNINSTALLING, REFUNDING faggots
>>502999568I've only been in the first map so far, a few hours in. I'm liking it. It does feel like STALKER. I think people are getting filtered because even on normal, you do get punished quite easily for mistakes. Stealth system so far seems reliable. Maybe there's some areas where it bugs out? Not sure. People were saying you get seen through walls, but I'm not seeing that. There's a noise aspect of stealth and you can see how much noise you're making at the top. And people will investigate when they hear a noise. AI seems normal for a FPS game I guess. NPCs try to flank, throw grenades, etc. There's some ways to cheese it in certain scenarios for sure. I got a stash hint at this place, went over there. Turns out its a military base. So I go into stealth with my pistol. Front entry way too many guards. Sneak along the fence looking for an opening. See one. Take out a couple of guards at that entry. Alerts the area enemies. Guard up in a tower starts shooting me. As I'm engaging him, a few enemies had flanked me from the front entry and get me down to like 5 hp. I retreat into the swamp and hide, use a medkit. Lose their agro. Come back and engage them again. Kill one. While I'm fighting the remaining 2, a random group of friendly NPC stalkers engage the military from behind (part of the whole NPCs have their own lives mechanic). While we're fighting a back of mutant boards just come out of no where and almost kill me. So its me/friendly stalker vs military vs mutant boards. Fun times. Those friendly NPCs also looted all the enemies I killed already and took their loot lol. Love that part of it. Playing on medium graphics. ryzen 7 5800x 8 core. 4060 ti. Getting around 90-125 fps depending on the situation. There's texture issues where things like glitch out. But that's the only technical issue I've seen. no resources getting maxed out.
>>503003721>NOOOO DONT HECKING REFUNDERINOIt's afraid
>>503003460>strawmanits not a strawman, its what you niggers said the past few threads. I accept your concession.
>>503003675find the other 2collars and go to the trader in zalisia he should let u sell them to him.
>>503003587There was a roaming group of stalkers that killed most of the bandits for me. They're all dead on my earlier save already. Am I fucked? I legitimately can't go anywhere near this house or my game breaks. Is there anything important in there? Otherwise I'll just ignore it.
this isnt pop-in, they're scripted to spawn when you reach this point in the houseinexcusable.many other cases of just enemy stalkers and mutants spawning in seemingly randomly, this is dogshit.still gonna continue to play, still enjoying the stalger
>>503003856Holy fuck this reads so much like an unironic GSC shill on a payroll.
>>502996862It's UE5, of course it's very CPU heavy
>>503003873>Projecting that the opposition have one narrativeRetard I just logged on kek, cope
>>503004026so just like normal stalker then
>>503003876I already gave him 2 collars before, am I stuck with it or are there more than 3 in total?
>>503004131except its while freeroaming, not while doing story or even a sidemission
>>503003902it's optional. its just a dude telling you that his friend is in trouble but u can go on ur own to the warehouse up the road to save him (gloomy i think).
>>503004057>>503003869seething sour grapes tard
What's with the retarded mouse sensitivity?
>>503003869go ahead and refund it then lol
>>502994281It downloaded. See you fuckers in 8 hours
>>502996163>>no diegetic PDA in game, just an opening animation>blowouts only trigger during scripted main story events>Scopes are still not PiP in 2025 (lol)All of these "issues" are good things.
>>503004427Why?
>>502996489Makes sense to optimize performance during the one section that will be inside the refund window.
Get me the fuck out of Serbia bro
they need to fix the performance issues, and disable auto lean as well as let us separate the quick keys
>>503004057I mean the game has issues. 100%. The graphic tears/things are a bummer. Facial animations on medium aren't anything to write home about. Voice acting is a hit or miss. But I was a big fan of the original games, including when they released. So i don't know, maybe its just me...but I'm used to this kind of stuff. Its not a deal breaker for me as long as the gameplay is fun. If you're getting constant crashes where you can't go more than 30 minutes without crashing and its unplayable, yeah they should fix that. But my experience so far hasn't been that bad. If the facial animations and occasional graphical issues are a deal breaker for you, then that's your opinion. I feel like people are a bit spoiled these days if those two things are enough to warrant hating the game and dwarfing everything else that's fun.
>point glass mirror at screen>zoom in with gun>only look at mirror>scope zoom is now PiP
desu I really dont care about pip scopes (holy fuck just give me classic scopes with black screen), but the A-life is a fucking mood killer. there really isnt anything happening in the game that seems organic.also>everyone is a friendly>everyone is happy>fucking hand holding and traders yelling out for youJUST
>>503004248>S-sour grapesThere isn't even grapes, it's just shit
>>503004229I took a look around inside as well as I could and there's nobody in there. Guess I'll reload and just ignore it then.
>>503004193i think there are 4 collars total in the mission? a collar is on a dead dog that's next to that weird pulsating anomaly. another collar is on one of the dogs in that town that's close. and i think the bloodsucker has a collar that u can pick up and then make sure to pick up the collar from dead nightingale in the house
>>503004785>pickek based, milsim faggots seething, black ops 6 is tons of fun
>artefacts now turn into dust outside the zoneSo what the fuck is the point of artefact hunting and special orders/artefact trade in the OG trilogy then?What else is retconned.
Does the technology to use four separate keys for quick access items just not exist anymore?
the delay in opening your backpack to get to the inventory screen is annoying
reject ballistic protection, return to chest fannypack
>>503005129do you know how many buttons are on a controller though? The devs were thinking about how to accommodate players on controller
>>503004939I'm guessing you're stuck with them unless you return all of them at the same time since there is no option to give them to the trader after turning in the mission, damn. Well, I did hop in expecting some jankiness
Just arrived at this general, what do I do with broken weapons I don't want? Don't see any dissemble featue.
>everyone just tanks one gazillion bullets on max difficultynot like this
Will they update the game?Any news of fixs and tweaks?Or is this it?
TO THE CORE
>>503005306meant for >>503005086
>>503001397WE WUZ STALKAS AND SHIET
>>503005045>What else is retconned.The Zone of Alienation is not real, it's dream created by schizo who huffed too much glue and paint.
>>503003460>>Literal monkeys game had 2 million concurrent playersYeah, 1,9 million of them Chinese
So there's sneak indicators and you can stealth stab a bitch which is pretty cool if a bit far cry-ty but I always love knifing stuff. The days of knife fighting chimeras to death seem to be over though, either I'm not hitting or the damage is shit but that said fleshes do easily tank 5 or 6 face full of buckshot so...there.
>>503005473>>503001174
>>503005550Cope kek, does that mean hrukrainians don't even support their game? Zolonskoy should draft those who don't buy stolkor 2
so can you actually freeplay and just run straight to sarcophagus?
war must be going poorly for /chug/ to be spending all their time in here
>>503005498Fucking consolefags ruining it for us all
>>502994281>>Quickstart Guide>Console settingsDo I need to do these every time I start the game or just once?
>>503005787That's insane cope lmao, chug is alive and well troon
So is it still better to put the difficulty on max because the bullet damage goes both ways? Or did they change how difficulty works this time?
>oh look another bloodsuckerHow naive was I to think running around during the day would lead to fewer bloodsuckers. I thought these fuckers were supposed to be a rare sight in the zone but no, they are apparently fucking like rabbits and are all over the place. I don't have the ammo for this shit.
>>503005659thanks almost 69 stalker.Ill wait for update. What i played is fun and scratches that itch that i want
torrenting as we speak
>>503006123for me I don't get paid till 1st and I overspent on bs, its either stalker 2 or not eating meat for the next 10 days, I chose the meat, will buy it on the 1st no I don't wanna pirate, especially since this game will be getting constant patches
>>503005003actual nigger hands
>>503006294Stay strong brother. We will explore the zone soon.Who do you like the human or the elf?
>>503006294fern sexo
>>503005436Red weapons are worthless
I WENT DOWN DOWN DOWNAND THE FLAMES WENT HIGHER
>>503006468I love frieren, shes my fav char in animanga in a long time, personally the purple haired bitch is my least fav char in the anime, but shes still excellent since frieren is just that good it has no rly unlikable charsthanks bwo i'll be finishing true stalker and playing other games till I can buy 2 myself
>>503006634ok?
Is eneba good key site? They have stalker 2 a bit cheaper than steam
>>503006697>Buck status? Broken
>>503006816yeah ive bought countless shit from there
So what is the consensus of the game? Should i just stick with anomaly instead?
do they not have binoculars?
>Slavjank!>This is just like the original heccin experience!What is this phenomenon called? It is just like the die-hard Bethesda fans regurgitating the same mediocre slop and absolutely no improvement in their games since 2011. Why would you not want a 60 buckaroo game to work properly and be optimized at launch? Why can some developers pull this off, while others completely shit the bed and have their fans defend them?>reddit spacing
>>503006972No you have to buy the deluxe pack for it
seriously… why UE5?
What the REAL diffrence between editions?
>>503007078because unity sucks for open world and it's cheaper than making another xray engine
>>503007190the friends we made along the way
>keys to climb the ladder up and down aren't modifiableHere we go
>>503007054what the gay shit is that
>>503006634>only 110KStalkansissies? Care to explain?
>>503007418Core audience is console faggots, obviously since the entire gameplay, aim sensitivity and interface was thought with xbox in mind.
>>503007276isn’t genshin impact on unity? afaik their world is pretty massive
>>503007418Gog games will save us
>>503006263Where?
>>503005086There are limited amount of buttons on controller chud.
If you play the game on PC with a Playstation controller can you get Playstation buttons?
>>503007594magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e44ef31ae4264171ec5bed1d3fb85245e01fe4d6&dn=%5BDL%5D%20S.T.A.L.K.E.R.%202%3A%20Heart%20of%20Chornobyl%20%5BP%5D%20%5BRUS%20%2B%20ENG%20%2B%2016%20%2F%20ENG%20%2B%201%5D%20%282024%2C%20FPS%29%20%281.0%20%2B%201%20DLC%29%20%5BPortable%5D&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt3.t-ru.org%2Fann%3Fmagnetrutracker
why are /v/ tourists here? If you don’t like the game, why are you shitting up this thread?
>>503005086Hotkeys are the antithesis of game design
>>503007651>Partial controller supportNot without mods
>Dodi repacks have ultimate edition repack alreadyIs that a virus or legit
>>503007704A: it happens whenever a new things come outB: tbf some of this is absolutely fair, people can criticize a game in a general about the game
why are the mutants so fucking bullet spongey?
>>503007704Don't attempt to try to understand the /v/ tribals.
>>503007704This, our game should remain shit and bug ridden forever so stop complaining so that they won't fix anything, okay?
>>503007764SighhhhhhhhhSighhhhhhhhhhhSighhhhhhhhI wish games would just include that by default, the Xbox controller hurts my hands with how weirdly huge it is and it's awful texture
The game is too heavily script/cutscene centric to be modded like OG STALKER, it's unironically over.Besides, we have open xray
>>503007332Binoculars is one more input to bind on controller.This game was not made for you.Once you understand that the truth shall set you free.
>>503007704>WAAH WAAH MUH SAFESPACEstfu bitch
>>503007570right, because it has the graphical fidelity of minecraft
>>503007852please download and run, I need more zombies for my botnet
>>503007704
>>503007704>thread for a game series with new release>reee why are people talking about it reeeThis is the stalker general, stalker discussion belongs here whether you like it or not. Stop bitching.
>>503007953i dont like how on your pda it just says go here
>>503007852Just download from reputable site, it should be fine
>>503006646Very good choice.For me, my waifu is alien rock and the Zona herself.I cant find the Zone Stalker map picture. It must be on my old laptop, so here is a pinup. I may find it later.
Uhhhh /v/ros... I want to FUCK Gilticus!
>>503007973is photo realistic graphics even necessary? shit is always a pain in the ass if the company doesn't have the budge to back it up
>>503007931complaints are fine crying like a bitch n seething about it like /v/ermin do is tiresome
Sorry for shit newfag level question. But how hard is updating torrented games? I usuallly pirate stuff that is old, and considering this just came out and will get alot of patches. I want to know
>>503007704Do i HAVE to suck GSC dick?Oh no i feel so sorry for them i will now buy 5 ultimates SLAVA
>>503006646>no unlikeable charactershow about the entire fucking cast
>>503000608>>503000903In the keybinds they have all four quickslots listed, but slots 2 and 4 are greyed out and I don't know how to change it.
>>503008414Watch the fucking trigger you dumb bitch
>>503008382not hard at all. just download the same torrent once it is updated
>>503008382Depends on the game, sometime you have to redownload whole thing even.
>>503008163zone-tan is kinda classic I haven't heard about her in a long ass time >>503008382one of the crack groups will probably upload different updates, you have to install in sequential order for them to work, its gonna be a hassle because I expect tons of patches that you won't wanna miss, 1337x usually has them for new games >>503008453for you ig...
>>503008163>zone-tanMan is this guy still around? Where's the mods to have a patch of the logo on your armor?
>>503008163based boomer zonetan enjoyerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KTHW8KkTkY
GOG IS UP BROS
>>503008382you WILL fork over your money to uncle phil
>>503008502>>503008546>>503008578Oh this sure seems like shit ton of work or wasted internet transfer. I will either patiently wait for it to settle down or buyfag. Depending if i find some money on the street
>>503008754link
>>503008453fuck you serie is loveable
>>503007276Tarkov says otherwise
Ziggers stop pirating and buy the deluxe edition NOW
>>503008813https://gog-games.to/game/stalker_2_heart_of_chornobylit's being scanned for viruses rn so any minute now
>>503008790you don't wanna re-download the whole thing, usually they upload them like this but yeah if theres tons of small patches its gonna be annoying, i'd just buy it from key sites for the 40 euros
>Check out RTX 3060 benchmark>100+ FPS with all the DLSS bullshitteryBros, there's hope for me, I'm tempted to buy it now
THE DEATH SCREEN LOOK SO SHIT AND TAKES SO LONG, GIVE ME BACK THE QUICK RAGDOLL AND MESSAGE SO I CAN SAVESCUM EASIER
>>503005746>Cope kek,The peak users were at China's prime time, when it was EU primetime the numbers were down to less than 100K.DUMB FUCK
>>503008459thats what im trying to figure out
>>503008927>1fichierI sure fucking hope that doesn't has a cap
>>503008851tarkov isn't true open world, anon. even large, detailed maps like streets run like ass.
>>503008915
What's the verdict so far?
>save a game after killing a squad of military>game decides to spawn in another squad>die>reload>the squad is now a pack of boars>reload>the boars are now a bloodsucker>reload>the bloodsucker is now a group of banditsNice a-life
>walk into a firefight between 2 groups of Stalkers>one group I helped fight off some dogs earlier and was friendly with>start helping them>get shot a lot because I'm encumbered and on my way back from a long outing>grenades start getting thrown>hide inside of a toilet>after the explosions I'm the only one left aliveKino
I just ran into a Psy-dog.Holy shit, man.
Being on ue5 means zero chance for actual modding isn't it?
>>503009125great but poor performance and a bit broken, pathces should fix it
So can you romance sidorovich.
>>503009125Mid
>>503009208"Modders will fix it (tm)"
>>503009125Good but the experience is ruined by Xbox and UE5 as expected. Only mods and patches can make it better now.This is not a starfield disaster, thankfully.
>>503008987WAKE THE UKRAINIANS UP NOW. THEY PLAY OR GET DRAFTED
>>502997151fuck this game
>>503009281one can only hope
>>503009196They promised modtools but I'm not holding my breath. So yes, all you're getting is minor tweaking and model replacers.
>>503009125compiling shaders/10
>can play fine for 10 minutes before getting a black screen with audio playing >have to restart my pclowering all graphics settings let me play a little longer but it's still happeningwhat the fuck man
>>503009142There is no a-life bro.They removed it from the steam page, UE5 couldn't handle the slavjank.
im getting 17 fpsim going to unistall and re-installit wasnt like this before
Anyone see a controller yet?
>>502997151Why would you name a faction after a batteries manufacturer?
>>503009196They said they'll release mod tools
this isn't the kind of nostalgia trip i want gsc you fucks
>>502997151Does this blood effect look good or bad? It looks kinda cartoony, this would look better in RDR2
>>503009591>we want the op2.2 audience
>>503009323i dont give a shit about modders, and its rly naive to think that people that worked on xray for 20 years will suddenly start pumping out the same style of mods for UE5, I believe in nu-GSC though, they seem dependable
>>503008816>seriei didnt make it that far but shes cute at least
>>503009571i highly doubt it
>>503009571I duuno, i have yet to see any ue5 game with extensive modding that isn't just model swapping or localization
Lost alpha dick suckers been real quiet since Stalker 2 dropped....
>>503009571Modtools can mean anything from a model viewer to a full on SDK, and I'm pretty certain we will never have as much freedom as on xray. Especially on an engine that isn't their own.
>>502996673Gamma looks better than this
We are getting the same levels of modding that the console trilogy players got
The worst case scenario happened bros. I didn't want it to be a fake world where things are spawning out of thin air behind you like cyberpunk 2077 police when it launched.What is your experience with it so far. I am thinking of holding off for a year or so.
>>503009571Modding? on an engine that isn't theirs? lmfao.Epic Games will bite their fucking heads off if they release halfway decent moding tools for UE5
modding turned this community into spoiled babies
>>503009960gunplay feels weirdcompiling shaders..enemies bullet spongey compared to IWP on veteran diff
>>503009862It doesn't but it plays magnitudes better than this console unrealslop.
>>503009985Why? UE5's source code is freely accessible on github lmao.
>>503009487see this post before doing all that>>502997525
>>503010090your headshots?
Most disappointing thing to me so far is the flashlight. Nothing casts shadows from the flashlight. This is not Stalker...
>>502996776The one-two punch of Russian cruise missiles on the power grid and STALKER 2's release will DESTROY Ukraine once and for all
>>503009814Pretty sure Ark:survival ascent have full blown sdk but that game performance is dogshit
>>503010372I have yet to see a ark mod that changes something in any drastic way
>>503008578I wont forget, it was one of you from /sg/ who helped me get pic related, long ago.>>503008592Zone still streams, Zone-tan/caxx hasn't in a long time. I hope she alright.If anyone can mod, please make. I thought i made a zone military patch, long time ago, maybe its on my old computer.>>503008697Based music
>>503010286It's over, they didn't do justice to the flashlight, STALKER is fucking dead
how the fuck did these retards not test the game firstthey had to know about this dying and loading with shit fps
>>503010492What do you mean by drastic? There's a mod that add new machines,dinos and even some new mechanic like some ripoff pokeball mod
>>503010616Microsoft told them to release the game or else.This obviously need two more years of polish.
>>503010286dont forget its not just the flashlight.>headlamps>campfires>fires or burning structures>bright anomalies>lampsNOTHING casts light/shadows. there is only the prebaked lighting.
Is there a way to turn off autoexposure and bloom entirely. It's raping my eyes and I hate it, plus I want a few more frames in exchange. Also why does the mouse control feel a bit floaty? Is rawinput off and no way to turn it on? Idk how ue5 is.
>>503010616Just buy the latest PC parts goy
just started being windy + raining outsideperfect weather for sleeping, gn bwos don't forget to keep the doomposters in check
I'm legit probably never buying a new game again. Cyberpunk, Starfield, Dragon's Dogma 2, and Stalker 2 have all been absolute shitshow disasters. You literally have sit around and wait for 1-3 years or LE ENGOODENING. fuck it, might as well just wait for a couple years grab the game when it's 70% off and enjoy an actual somewhat completed game. this industry fucking sucks
HAS ANYONE ELSE RUN INTO A PSY-DOG? THIS SHIT IS EVIL, HOW DO I KILL THIS THING?
>>503010616They couldn't delay it any longer but they couldn't or Phil Spencer would personally send them to the frontlines
>>503010616that's the best part.they didn't because their 4090 and Samsung 990 4TB ssds didn't have any problems
>guys, why is everyone refunding our game???>compiling shaders>crash on start up>runs like shitI see it now, id rather wipe my ass with the money instead
>>503011021Unironically I have both oof these things and I haven't encountered this save fps bug.
If you go far enough into the zone without progressing the story the game just infinitely spawns bloodsuckers and pseudogiants on you.I killed like 3 pseudogiants until i completely ran out of ammo and nades kiting them on a rock and the respawn is right on the nose.Why GSC?
>>503010920Pretty much. I played Cyberpunk 2 years after launch and enjoyed it like it should have been on launch.Surprised how low quality most developers are even though they are on supposed industry standard tech with unreal engine.
>>503011301im noticing that with military checkpoints toothey just keep respawning when you're not looking
what an emission does to a rookie
>>503011301they are retarded and fucked everyone over
>>503011362nothing worse than respawning bullshitthis is not how a real life simulation should work
>>503010935sissyboo? your grenades?
So does anyone know how to enable Master difficulty?
>>503011909The blast radius is so small and there's like 20 of these things.
Cyberpunk had 1 million players on release btwFlop
>>503011301>>503011362My friend was complaining about this a lot. I want to just keep playing the damn game but my brain is saying wait a few months.
Does The Zone feel desolate like in SoC or did they make it more crowded? I really liked having only few friendly hubs
How's everyone's performance?4080 Super and 14600k here, everything on Epic, DLSS quality, getting between 75-95 fps but in the first stalker village was getting drops down to 55.
>>503012414The atmosphere is gone man.
>>503012414Yeah something i hated about CoP is that i never felt alone, there always was some npc or zombie near enough that i didint feel lonely
>>503012489why dlss
Shadow of Flopbyl, now for Crowbcat to give it coup de grace.
>>503012489your resolution?
>>5030124893070ti / i7-11700k Decent on Medium, spotty on High. Epic is a no-go. I have DLSS off, though.
As an stealthlord I'm annoyed I can't lean knife in hand
>>503012651Holy fuck i forgot about Crowbcat.The vid is gonna be peak KINO
Best game track?For me it always will be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHxJqOzFUj4
Shadow of FlopbylClear FlopFlop of PripyatHeartof Flopbyl
>>503010817Some of the lamps do (at least one) but yeah it's fucking sad. A game from 17 years ago could do it and yet here we are.
>>503008163>>503010496Can't find the zone patch. oh well, it had a cringe motto anyways.
Russians, what dubbing do you play in the end? In my opinion, the English voiceover is too lame, so I chose Ukrainian, despite the fact that I start laughing fiercely after every sentence.
>>5030126721440p>>503012630For the frames
>>503012876https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgjIvKlrMAThis one for sure
Is it worth it to play on hardest difficulty?Just saw a streamer get fucked for 30 minutes by a Bloodsucker on a cave.It tanked 10 shotgun hits until it died.I mean i want the game to be hard but i don't want it to be so fucking damage spongy.
can you make the 2nd and 4th quickslots separate keybinds? they're grayed out in the menu
>>503012950It looks like she has one teeth, lol
>>503013145lol cant unseeStill would enter her Army warehouses
>>503012876>Best game track?Are you serious?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcnDTQKU9m0
>>503012950Reminds me I gotta draw more porn of her soon
2 hours in, gonna drop this for 2 weeks to see if we get decent patchesif not i refundbinds are broken and A-life is broken
>tfw Dirge for the Planet starts playing
>>503013003Ukr with Rus dub.I would play Eng with no subs, but the delivery of most lines is so fucking monotone and the typical ubishit voice cast completely ruins it for me.Ukranian sounds so fucking funny but at least the cast is good and the voices fit the faces.
>>503013318praise the monolith, cuz I am Zicron hard. Best of luck, you post it here or on a social that i can follow/sub?
Say thanks
>>503007953Who the fuck wants to mod this garbage UE5 slop when we have openxray?People will rip the models and port them back to their mods instead.
>>503013605The colored hair is trying, but the slav middle-aged man genes are still powering through.
>>503007660>magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e44ef31ae4264171ec5bed1d3fb85245e01fe4d6>crack folderyeah nigger not falling for your malware shit>gog clear release when?
>>503013605S
>>503013605did you really post this because one has colored hair
>>503013764No, i just posted it becuse they all look retardedTho the suit concepts look really fucking good for cosplays
>>503013652Those are anomalies throw bolts at them until they disappear stalker
>>503013360a life will not be fixed in 2 weeks if EVER
>>503009960God i wish asian women existed irl
>>503013605I know you think the green haired is probably a troon, but this is just normal slav culture.
>>503013652Dis zone is lit mayne finna hit a lick n cop me a hellcat nigga
do the lower difficulties lower the fucking mutants hp? they're so tanky wtf
Is there a way to make the 4 hotkeys all different keys? I like to use F1-F4 for those. Having to hold down the key for half of them is retarded
>>503013861then gsc won't get my money
>>503013590Mostly post things here and get anon to commission me, I got a twitter but I dont really post it much. Still if you wanted to see my previous Zoneshttps://files.catbox.moe/ixwn9t.pnghttps://files.catbox.moe/rk0aqz.png
Now that flopper 2 is finished, what's our thoughts on it so far?
>>503013072>>503013941always play open world games on normal unless you have a good reason
>>503013652pidoukraina must do things the western way if the aid is to continue
>>503013652Ayoo we be Ukrainyinz n sheit now bruh
Yeah this is my favourite, really rad shit >>503013905Dunno im not sureUkraine only at best>.t slav
>>503014113the good reason is I'm not a fucking baby
>>503014087I haven't downloaded it yet. The xbox app cut my speed by four times for some reason.
I'm enjoying it.I'm also not getting many technical issues and no crashes for some reason, but I have an X3D and 4090 so maybe just having raw performance to throw at the game helps mitigate things.
>>503014220stop comlpain then
>>503014087I got it on gog so the real number is actually 80,573.
>>503014279>i wasted 4 grand on my pc and it runs goodwoah
>>503014279I'm on a 3070ti and once I fixed the resolution it runs fine on epic settings despite the fps crashes from time to time
What do you say, will it run well?
>>503014410what do you mean fixed the resolution. are you on 1440p
>>503014279>maybe just having raw performance to throw at the game helps mitigate things.i dunno anon
>all stashes are just blue chests out in the open marked with yellow paintWow. Exactly like the stalker i remember.
Fucking hell the bloodsuckers on veteran...might have to do some tests on normal or something.Anyway PSA stalkers, veteran also jacks up the prices of things, killing a bunch of dogs, a cyka and getting 750 stalkerbucks when 10 rounds of buckshot which a sucker easily tanks costing 650 is kinda cringe. Perhaps the money is elsewhere like selling artifacts to scientists kind of shit, might have to actually do main quest.
>>503014565Throw on dlss and you'll be fine on med-high
>>503014667you can disable the paint in the optionsmost stashes i found have been backpacks, probly all of em actuallyi dont believe you
Tortanic and its consequences were a disaster for video game discussion on this site.
>>503014565It will run.
I was hoping I'd get decent performance on par with Metro Exodus or something but... this ain't that.My poor little I7 2600K and Radeon RX 6750 XT is hacking and coughing like a chain-smoking old whore.
>>503014781I did find one blue box but it was hidden out of sight on the roof of a grain elevator like the one in SoC.
Im hesitating. Im 100% not buyng it on steam, but im considering buyng a key. What do you say, im kinda trying to get some cash to buy myself a vr headset, but stalker...
Red pill me on A-Life 2. Not just opinion of ziggers, but of those who passed the first location or saw something interesting along the way. Or does this thing not exist at all? Im not asking about random npc pop up mind you
>>503014781True but the paint is on by default.Progress to Cordon and you'll start seeing lots of blue chests.
does the game have working alife? yes or no
>>503014813Just ignore the /v/ retards and post about stalker.
>>503015009drewski got access for 1 week prior to release, played like 40 hours and mentioned the exact same thing everyone else does.
how much jewslop is in this game? Is this a good entry to the series or did the war fuck it up. I dont wanna hear no opinion from baiting trannies who say “muh bugs”. Is this a core stalker experience or did the goys in the field trash the slav simulator
>>503015019perhaps you're right, i've spent 4hours in lesserzone so far
>>503014639When I started the game it defaulted to full-screen borderless with some weird resolution, but when I changed it to full-screen exclusive with my normal resolution (2560x1600) it started running really well
Will 1050ti run it at 30fps in 720p?
>>503015027No. It has Bethesda-style random encounters.
>>503015009It's awesome, makes the world feel alive
>>503015217YeahOn youtube
>>503015019>True but the paint is on by defaultSo is the crosshair but you don't leave that on do you?
>>503015009>>503015027It doesn't exist. Outside of scripted moments the game spawns a squad or some mutants on you from time to time like a L4D director.
>>503015267>slavjank confirmedkino, all I couldve asked for
>>503014565Almost the same setup but 16gb ram, working pretty well for me on full resolution, medium settings to get rid of some stutters, on a laptop no lessGood to go.
>>503015312kek
>>503015143if this game doesn't even have fucking A-life anymore i'm going to quit videogames for a decade
i've disabled the compass but i wish there was at least a North/South arrow or something, or the compass but without the poi's/tags on it
>>503014956don't get a vr headset they're fucking useless you're gonna play through alyx once and jack off to vr porn twice and then the fucking thing will be collecting dust for months on endhow do I know? I got 2 of them and I never use themalso don't get stalker it's a broken mess right nowhow do I know? I just reloaded after a game breaking bug and now I have to wait for the framerate to unfuck itself again
>>503015335+2 ruppees thank you sar
>>503015426Just look at stars or moss, have you not been to scouts?
>>503015473you wouldnt get it
>>503015470STALKER?
Why are the bloodsuckers so tanky and why are they fucking everywhere wtf
is it just me or does the combat in stalker 2 feel kinda bad?has it just been too long since i played stalker or is it particularly shit
>>503015576They made the ai intentionally incompetent to make it easy for normies
>>503015547Go back to doing main quest.
>>503015681STALKER?
>>503015547I believe they are there to railroad players. You'll fuck 'em up later
>>503014956I have a VR headset and it's fun but if you have a choice to get a guaranteed thing you'll like vs a vr headset, get the guaranteed thing, I get super motionsick that makes me unable to play it
>>503015576its the input lag/mouseaccel, i dont undestand why games just dont do 1:1 raw mouse input
>>503015367>>503015009yes, it doesnt have proper fucking a-life.everything spawns in a radius of max 50m around you. nothing independent happens outside of that.today on stream you could witness many times how a streamer enters a territoriy and the enemies just plop right in. absolutely nothing like the original. complete crowbcat tier.
>>503014080Thank you so much anon fukken saved. I still like to follow just in case if i miss it. I rarely lurk these days.if can i love to see zone-tan with a beretta CX4.Sexy and sleek just like her.
>>503015746>>503015715It's literally a sidequest from the first village.Also A-life getting scrapped is the biggest disappointment.
>>503015576It feels weird and sluggish to me.
>>503015547>>503015715>>503015746>Intentionally punishing exploration in an open world gameSoulless, especially with the spawn enemies 20 meters from you system
>>503015446>>503015765Well i had a vr headset like 2 years ago but it was the standalone quest, i sold it to get a better pc. And now i want one to play pc games
Judging from the fact frames tank in settlements I bet they keep the "alife" spawns close to the player for performance reasons.
>>503015940>spawn enemies 20 meters from you systemThey backported that from Tarkov.
>>503015976STALKER?
>>503015804No promises since I am busy with work but santystuffs on x
>>503015976Fakest shit ever
Is there a mod where you play as ecologists? I like the nerds
>>503013003As a Ukrainian I can say that the voiceover in my language is as lame as the English one. The voice actors just read out sentences from a piece of paper, and some of the words are garbled.
>>503016139https://x.com/Kyiv/status/1833867863146246210
>>503016051euphemism for>we cant have fucking proper a life because the engine literally dieshonestly this is why modern gaming SUCKS.I would gladly lose ANY visual fidelity that unreal 5 added (whatever that may be, its not even that impressive) and instead have revolutionary a-life and more intricate gameplay.
>>503016281This.Fuck UE5 honestly.Also new bloodsuckers are utter bullshit.
>>503015976GOOOOOOOOOD MORNING KIEV
>>503016098>Draws brown women and monster girlsFUCKING ZASED
Not sure what is up but the movement and aiming felt really floaty. That and the performance issues I'll refund and wait for a sale.Could be cool, though.
>>503016402>Kiev not KyivTransphobe.
>>503016236no he meant 9/11
i binded o for the detectorbut when i press o it opens my pdaanyone else have this
>>503016419Lel thanks, I do gotta upload more but haven't felt the drive, and most of my comms are private nowadays
>>503016654trudat
>>503016717Happens to me, too. Changing keybinds is buggy as fuck
Man this torrent is slow as fuck
Just finished my shift and was excited to play today but holy fuck i'm refunding this piece of ubislop zoomer garbage.>A-Life will never be fixed>Console game design will never be fixed>Mods will peak at some texture changes and balance tweaks at best cause UE5You know it. Deep inside you know they fucked up.
>>503017067You are just a zigger
>>503016717>>503016837Yeah I saw quickload was bound to F8 so I rebound it to F9. After closing and reopening the game it was back to F8 again. Shit's all kinds of fucked right now.
>>503016717I think it's one of the many keybinds assigned "behind the scenes" that can't be changed, at least not through the menu
>>503016610>game just released>already dying is this the power of the U.S.S.R?
>>503016717I had to change the q and e to lean left/rigth twice
>>503017297Kinda like the CNPP if you think about it.
>go to shop>put bunch of stuff in sell>drag ammo from the shop into the buy section>window with amount sliders shows up>notice the amount of money i was going to get from the sale doubled for some reason>surely I can't just click confirm now with this amount slider open and dupe my money>mfw it actually worked
What kind of performance are you guys seeing?I'm at around 60fps, give or take. 1440p Medium. 12700k + RTX 3080
How much self-insert CURRENTTHINGNAME here?
>no gog downloadwhy even live
Stalker 2 is a pretty comfy game, all things considered.
how do you get a scope on the ak?
>>503017647>hey guys its comfy!>posts static imagenot falling for jewish tricks zelenski
>>503016419>>503016098based love the good shit.i spent monies on stalker, maybe one day can comm. thx
>>503017427something about the performance feels offi get 70-180 fps depending on the area (usually 130-180 more often than not) with all settings maxed at 1440p using dlss quality and frame genin wukong same settings i'd get 80-120 fps but the game would feel smoother and better to playsomething doesn't quite feel right and i can't tell what 5800x3d+4090
>>503017502Women and niggers are in stolkor 2. It's wokeslop.
>>503017647God I hate this new trend of "DLSS+frame generation" fake imagery shit. It all looks so smeared.
>>503017829What about the evil ruzzians?
Methinks the world would be a better place if we lynched everyone who has the compass and crosshair enabled.
>>503017391reproduceable?
Anyone else having some quests randomly not give you credits when you're supposed to get paid?
>>503017886I'm sure they're there somewhere, game just came out kek
>>503017829ПOЯBИЛCЯ B ЗOHE КAК-TO ЧEPHЫЙ CTAЛКEP
>>503017773np np, holler whenever there! enjoy the zone
>>503017996so far seems to work with ammo only. put random shit in sell, drag ammo from shop into buy window and see the green +number go up
>>503017756>>posts static imageI'm not that far into it but it's similar enough to the older games that I'm starting to like it.>>503017802>using dlss quality and frame gendon't tell me you use fakescaling and cuck frames. Imagine wasting 2000$ on a GPU and not even playing games at native res.>>503017831>new trend of "DLSS+frame generation"The pic has DLSS and TAA turned off. No frame gen to speak of.
>>503017647Turn your conpass and cross hair off
>half the complaints about STALKER 2 are from gamma fags complaining about features that were only ever in gammalmao. the performance does suck though, but the gunplay is great.
>>503017318>>503016717I had to go back to the main menu and reload the save until some of my keybinds would save.
>>503018431>features that were only ever in gammaSuch as?
>>503018274why? soc had them on by default. I don't care about your anomalyfagging muh immersion
>>503018431Yeah I wish i didnt have to use xess and fsr3.0 but the game looks good for now and runs pretty well.
Am I going crazy or are enemies literally being spawned next to me Cyberpunk 2077 style
>>503018431I don't think asking for custom keybinds that work, reassigning flashlight to a different key, a flashlight that actually works, muzzleflash lighting, dynamic flashlight shadows, removing autolean, four different hotkeys for quick access items and extended a-life ranges has anything to do with gamma.
>Shoot MP5>Can't see what I'm shooting because of the muzzle smokeIt's not a fucking black powder gun, this is stupid.
>>503018431That's the thing tho, GAMMA is better than Flopper 2 in everything sans a big seamless map.
>>503018561They are.A-life either doesn't exist or they nerfed its active range into complete oblivion.
epic how the fps halved about 2 hours in at zalissya
So this general is now ruined by /v/oomers and their new cow of dooty? When are they going back?
>>503018629>sans a big seamless mapI think the map is a big part of the problem.>>503018561That is exactly what is happening.
>>503018750that zone is just really bad, rest of the map (so far) I am getting 60-90 but there it always goes below 60 to almost 30 at times.
I really thought it was going to suck
not enough loose loot desu
>>503018806this general is ruined by angry ziggerstheyll be gone in a week or two
>>503018561read the fucking thread nigger.>>503016281>>503016051>>503015940>>503015792
It's oyvir
>>503018887>this general is ruined by angry ziggers
>>503017890OG game honestly gave your more information with the minimap tbqh. it showed you the location of every enemy.
how do you interact with fallen enemies?I shot Mug and he was on the floor begging for help but I couldn't speak to him
>>503017297>be normie>buy game because muh ukraine/just like fallout/the next hot AAA slop>play for fifteen minutes>get filtered/can't run it>never touch ever again
>>503018956So basically 500k copies sold. That's a flop
When's that big GAMMA update coming out btw?
>>503018887>>503018956Just like the playerbase ukiexister?
>>503018956the people with cards under the power of a 3070 dropped it until it gets patched most likely.
>>503018806yea i hope it doesnt last longer than a week or two.
wtf is this shitty mouse movement
>>503019225mouse movement is fine, the game just runs like shit and has framepacing issues so it will be laggy. especially if you have frame generation on
>>503019074it's a 150 gb download so all the europoors probably havn't even downloaded the game yetand us freedomlords have been working all day
>stop military bases from respawning constantlygame is kino now
>mouse accel>mouse smoothing>uneven X Y movement>no dynamic lighting>"alife" range 20mdamn, they really did this PC port justice!
>>503018060if not this year next.hope see zone in zone. ty
>>503019346there is 100% forced mouse accel or something like it
>>503019225There's a mod that fixes it and also an ini tweakMod is on nexus, found the ini tweak on the steam forums
>>503019403Check the last gen, an anon found how to edit the ini files to eliminate it
>>503019442I will check it out. thanks
>it's oвep
goldsphere confirm
>503002816>503005487>503006634>503007583>503008915>503009330>503012061>503014087>503016610>503018038>503018956Chartfagging is mental sickness.
>>503011054project elsewhere, zigger
>>502997558The loading screens literally talk about the factions, anyone who said there's no factions are trannies
The base of the game feels pretty good but they really dropped the ball on the most important features, what a fucking shame. The map itself is really good too, it feels like such a waste.>no a-life>no dynamic emissions>no dynamic lighting>no dynamic anythingThe lack of A-Life hits the hardest. Im guessing that they were planning to include it but they scrapped it last minute because they couldn't get it working right or it was too cpu-intensive. I have some hope that we'll get it in a post launch update since they did say they would be supporting the game with more than just bug patches. If we don't get that, at least mods will be able to save the game in the long run.At least this means that I have a reason to continue my gamma playthrough.
Are the labs spooky as fuck at least lads? Tell me they're kino at the least
>>503019442is it[/script/engine.inputsettings]bEnableMouseSmoothing=FalsebViewAccelerationEnabled=False?
>>503019751>Mass reply of seetheCry is free troon kek
>STALKER's image is now permanently affected by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and will undoubtedly be used as a propaganda tool for crazies on both sides from here on outI am genuinely tired.
apparently it is an x-ray port
>>503020097what??
>>503019913something like that, but also removes a deadzone and equalises the X/Y sensitivityI would post it but I removed it in favour of the mod, as I couldn't get the ini tweak to work without having absurdly high sensitivity, the mod also makes the fps a bit better
fellas is it ethical to handwave performance issues in a game review because of outside circumstances the devs faced?
>>503019913>failing at a [/spoiler] this badHoly shit
does the difficulty work like the older games?are enemies less tanky at higher difficulties or no?
>>503020261Блять бpaтaн хвaтит cpaть caмoмy ceбe в штaны
>>503020230hmm i'll try both then>>503020261i didnt event try to spoiler anything anon
>>503020273No game worked like that
>>503020261
>>503020261lolthis is my favorite post
>>503020238Handwave no, being more understanding of the context of why it is lackluster in spots and that it will likely be worked on with time yes.
>>503020325>in ukrainianbeat banana something something>in russianfucking bpaeither way i have no clue what the fuck you are trying to say
>>503020097>>503020261The post that saved /sg/
>>503002816Holy retard
whats worse than the performance is the russian doomposter and pro ukraine faggot shitflinging for 10 hours straight now. GET OFF MY BOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD
emissions are random like cop
>compiling shadersholy fuck.. I know that my CPU is bad but jesus christ. fuck UE5
>>503020531Try DeepL
>>503020230>I would post it but I removed it in favour of the modwhich mod?
>>503018507i uninstalled the game and reinstalled itand my key bindings were still there
>game is at 80% positive on steamWow i thought it'd be like low 70s. Maybe people are used to crap releases that take 4-6 months to be finished now tho
>>503020710Damn dude, stop cramming everything in your pantsok?
Why don't devs make their own game engins anymore?
>>503020707not a UE thing
so what settings can i lower to gain fps without too much loss in visual quality?
SEEEEEEEEEEEEED (dies)
>>503020707after that the loading times are short
>>503020786
>>503020845because it's a massive undertaking that requires strong institutional knowledge and making a game look like a modern one while including technology like RT with your own engine is very difficult.
>>503020552>>503020261jejfunny man
>>503020707>every time you start up the game aids
Can I buy the base game and creamapi or drag and drop files to unlock the nickel and dime extra weapons? I am not paying for that shit.
>>503020941All raytracing does is make dirt shine like it's made out of goddamn porcelainGarbage waste of resources
>>503020727this oneI'm not exactly sure what it does but the mouse feels much less sluggishhttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2?tab=description
>run game for first time>select new game>loading seems to be taking forever>crashes>relaunch game>loads real quick this time on new game>tab back in during cutscene>freezesyep cock
the frame drops after reloading a save is pissing me off
>>503008459>>503009019Still need to hold the button for a while though so still shit.Further research warranted.
>>503021145>tabbing out playing the first stalker to be relased for 15 yearsDeserved. Reddit is that way.
>>503021068If you care so much about saving a couple bucks and then fucking with cream api, why not just pirate the game?
>There's a guy in here who has been screenshotting the steamdb numbers and posting them roughly every 15 minutes for the past two and a half hoursWhat causes this mental illness
>tfw 3060tiit could be running better
>>503021145>>503021173I'm glad so far my only issue is having to use fsr and none of this shit
>>503009083Just get the torrent, dumdum.
>>503021267how did you do that?
>>503021116no, it makes lighting more naturalistic, lumen is really good but this game just runs like shit, anyone who says this looks worse than OG stalker is retarded. though metro exodus did it a bit better
>>503020710>gib credit card # ploxfuck off
>>503021173uninstalling fixed this issue for me
>>503021312Your game flopped!Seethe!
>>503021312The fact that it's such an easy number to show and be interpreted in any number of disingenuous ways no matter how high or low it is. Free real estate for shitposting.
>>503021536its literally free, retard
>>503021536retard
>>503021587>>503021598but stalker fans are pretty used to it being a niche franchise, why would the new one flopping bother anyone?were the old ones "flops"?
>>503021316Well I'm fucked I guess.
>>503021598I don't mean the act of doing it I mean who has the amount of free power and will to do something so inane for now (see above) three hours
true stalker fans never waste money on games
>>503021914>where do you think you are.jpg
>>503021378\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\CustomizeControls.cfgChange key for QuickSlot2 and QuickSlot4 there.F keys are simply called "F1" "F2" etc.
>just want to discuss stalker>everyone is discussing fallout '24 ukranian edition insteadpain
>>503021804It's literally advertised to shit and it still flopped, YouTubers were paid to play the game beforehand and upload a video to shill about it before launch for advertising and still it flopped kek. Go woke go broke
>>503022112just play the game and come back in a week, they'll be bored by then
>>503021286It's not about saving money, it's a matter of principles. I still want the game in my library for convenience and easy patching.
>>503021587good morning sir
See you tomorrow
now that it's over for stalker where do we go from here
>>503022112discuss away.
>>503021980so true, I've only played GAMMA btw
>>503022227use the fuckingfast link on gog
So is it good? I'm buying it full price, just want to know if I should keep it on my wishlist or not.
>>503022227>using the browser to pirate gamesPoles are so stupid.
>>503008927GOG DOWNLOAD IS HERE, LEARN TO SEARCH YOU LAZY NIGGERS
>>503022173+2 ruppees thank you sar
>poll is quite positive>thread is super negativewho do I believe?
>>503022245GAMMA new patch
>>503020845brain drain. modern devs are simply too dumb.
>>503021312You being assmad about it while trying to keep poker face it is what causes it. It's funny to dunk on thinskinned shill with stone cold evidence of their precious game flopping hard.
>>503022227bro. really??
>>503022227>downloading on browser>using winrar>polishjesus christ
>>503022324not buying it full price*
>>503022425Winrar is better than 7zip
>>503022253>fed up with OLR3 bugs>downloaded CoC 1.4.22>someone mentioned SoC 1.4 >found and downloaded itwhich one is better?
>>503022510I bought a lifetime WinRAR key.Feelagoodman
>>503022301Darn thanks, see you tomorrow still>>503022330>>503022402>>503022425Yup, i prefer gog and they dont have torrents yet, why bother with making it harder lol, and winrar is good
is there some setting I turned down that caused this? pretty much only the guns look like pure shit.
>>503022510lol
>>503022510lmfao
how the FUCK do i disable the auto lean?
>>503022637>>503022668I like the color of the icon better on Winrar, I don't like how 7zip is just like black and white and too angular, it's not like eye catching enough for me imo to use
>>503008851>Tarkov says otherwise>me playing lighthouse noticing my FPS is at 1/3rd of what it normally is>see a rogue running into one of the metal covers on the roof of building 2 in water treatment>kill him>performance returns to normal>realize they have 0 fault detection for AI pathfinding/whatnot and it'll just keep recalculating indefinitely sending a billion calls instead of just culling itselfamong the myriad other issues the game has with code and perf, but yes, I also agree UE5 is dogshit.
>>503022107thank you
>>503022812huh? there's autolean?
>>503022425I also use opera gx, and windows 11
>>503022510the sovlful rar vs the chud zippers...
>>503022812Wait for patches.
>>503022819>this posthumanity is beyond redemption
>>503022227>pozostalo
>>503022819Based superficiality judger
>>503022523one is an overhaul for ShoC the otehr one is the precursor of the biggest freeplay mod of all of stalker.go with SoC 1.4 update I think if you havent replayed ShoC in a while
>>503022872ads while peaking a cornerit's pretty shitty and inconsistent or it might be an interesting featurecod does something similar and it's implemented way better but i'd rather just manual lean
>game about murdering Ukrainians>Russians are irritatedI don't get it
HOW DO I DEAL WITH THE ELECTRIC NIGGER IN THE LAB AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I've played for 5 hours, my major technical issue is the game deciding to drop to 3-5 fps when approaching certain specific NPCs, after a while.My nitpicks are I hate some of the controls and the spawning of enemies doesn't feel like "A-life 2.0" at all. But I'm ready for my trip into the zone. All the animated actions and cutscenes make it seem like a Metro game with a different skin sometimes, very uncanny valley.
>>503022812the only working method>>503002329
I see the bed glitch from CoP is in this game too. So nostalgic
i dont know if i should bring this warden body back to the one guy or throw it in the anomaly. i tried both and i get more rubles(coupons) from throwing it in the anomaly
>>503022371>brain drain. modern devs are simply too dumb.CORRECTover 90% are just random CS grads and women. genuinely talented people are impossible to find, and also the workload for making games went way upreskinning UE5 is a fulltime job, imagine if they had to create UE5 as well
>>503022975so coc isn't just soc on with the updated cop engine? damn...
guess I'll play stalcraft :DDD
Alright, where is the optimization rundown?>already did the mouse thing>got a mod on nexus for optimized UE (but to be fair there are like 4 of them, so idk which one is best)Where is the optimized FPS settings youtube guide that shows all the most impactful settings?
>>503023175holy sovl
>>503023032Would be better with russian dub.
Is it me or did they fuck up shotguns somehow. The early game bandits in the Lesser Zone can tank like 3 blasts from a TOZ-34 from 30 yards, even if most of the grouping hits the head and torso.
>>503023304Real, they could've at least had slav accents with the English dub
>>503023304Nothing personal Mikola
>>503022379>It's funny to dunk on thinskinned shill with stone cold evidence of their precious game flopping hard.I couldn't care less if it flopped, the original STALKER was not a title for everyone. It's known as a cult classic. I've recommended it to people and they don't give a fuck.Games are not a popularity contest. Stop acting like a disgusting dirty casual.
>>503023304russoids before stalker 2 comes out:>ukrainian is a made up language!russoids after stalker 2 comes out:>HOW DARE YOU NOT INCLUDE A RUSSIAN DUB I CANT UNDERSTAND MY FAVORITE SERIES OF ALL TIME
there's something wrong with this gameI'm getting 70-80 fps but it feels like 40
>>503023449He's ukranian though and speaks ukranian in game in an ukranian faction.
>>503023527thats the classic unreal engine specialty
>>503023527look up in the thread for the mouse accel fix. also frame gen causes further input lag
>>503023527disable FSR/framegen and restart often
>>503023205its on the mod page bro.coc is a freeplay mod based on cop but as I understand it, its basically just an earlier version of anomaly/gaymmasoc update is a very good looking shoc overhaul
The lack of a-life shows when you clear a camp, step 2 feet out and sometimes get attacked by bandits who have just respawned in the camp that you cleared out. Happens a lot
>>503023474Yes, Ukrainian is a meme language, it irritates the ears
>>503023474Don't worry it'll be okay.The ElevenLabs russian dub and ukr patches mod will make the game extra kino.
>>503023460Thanks for telling me how much you don't care lmao
>>503023829it shows ALL THE TIME.
>>503023829Just like my good old AMK
>>503023235>Alright, where is the optimization rundown?>Where is the optimized FPS settings youtube guide that shows all the most impactful settings?What GPU are you on? I'm on 5700G/3060 running epic settings, 1440p, DLSS balanced (so like 720p), i reduced AA, sharpness on 20%, I also tried reducing shadows to medium. Runs at about 35fps
>>503023460Acceptance
>>503009402Your GPU is overheating
>>503023829>>503024014I just saw a group of loners clear out a bandit bus stop, and then they went to a garage to hide from rain and then afrer that they looked for artifacts. Looks like A-Life to me.
>>503023938>the chart poster responds with thisyup, confirmed zigger or pajeet
Anyone kill the poltergeist in the beginning? Nothing seems to damage it.
For an UE5 game the graphics are pretty underwhelming
>>503024205cope
>>503024213>pajeetwhat's their purpose?
>>503023987>Thanks for telling me how much you don't care lmaoYou're welcome. You sound stupid. Nobody cares. I pirated the game, I didn't think it was going to be great or anything. But even if it was, I wouldn't expect normie scum to play it.>>503024021Looks pretty good at times, but I doubt 12GB VRAM is enough.
>>503024274How is it cope when I witnessed it? >>503024264Yes, mutants are just bullet sponges though
>>503024205I'm playing GAMMA btw. Not sure if that matters :)
>>503024021Nothing you said or will have to say has any merit if you are running less than 60
>>503024314pajeets support any country they deem as epic/based like russia or israel. they are a weak and easily fooled people.
>>503024213>Thinks it's getting btfo by a pajeetKEKARO
>>503024264Mutants are insanely spongey and shotguns are pretty much the only thing that can go through them. I got through the poltergeist by running at him and constantly knifing him, was a waste of ammo otherwise.
>>503024480That's the dumbest thing I've read today.
>>503024353>keeps goingWow, you're hellbent on convincing me you don't care. Go you!
>>503024205Fundamentally the A-Life is not there and you can easily test it by saving and quickloading to respawn the randon event right on top of you like in Fallout 4.The A-Life is persistent and works in the background even when the entities are unloaded.
>>503024430Shut up, nigger. What are you?
>>503024541I was chased by rats and boars for like 10 minutes, it took so many bullets and like 3 grenades to take down them all.
>>503024021>1440p>epic settings>35fpsjust turn the graphics down bro
>>502995650the true stalker experience
Trust the planTwo more weeks
>>503024365idk. just saying random shit.honestly tho, you were close to those loners at all times, werent you? it couldnt have happened if they were 100m away from the camp. which is the definition of what a-life is.
im getting random fps drops that last 5 minutes then goes back to normal.i have a video of it. loading it to youtube now.
>>503024205Dunno bout that but every time I pass by the Pol station, the whole place respawns bandits, dogs, or both. Dogs and fleshes are a fucking menace, they're not hard to deal with but I waste so many shotgun shells on them cause AK rounds feel like you're just shouting BANG at them. Mutant AI seems to completely break the moment you step on something above knee height though, the flesh pounding in the area close to the poppy field is easy enough to avoid if you just jump on the car and then jump back up and down to reset their AI. Still mad that a flesh can literally eat 2 point blank range grenades and still walk it off
>>503024632can you still kill rats just by interacting with them?
I did the mouse accel fix but now I'm at 0% sens and the sensitivity is still absurdly highis there any way to lower it in the ini?
Does resetting the settings on the graphics tab reset your graphics settings or all your settings?
>>503024480Jeets love the jews and hate Russia because jews do nice try rabbi
>>503024827nah you either waste a ton of bullets or get them with a grenade
>>503024021Are you able to get 60fps with DLSS and resolution scaling stuff disabled? I'm looking at getting a 3060 or 6700xt
>>502995392You lose all your shit after the prologue
>>503024752>looking into itAka wait until someone mods it in to fix it for them
Mutants are overtuned way too much, especially bloodsuckers.Performance could be better.Biggest sin is lack of A-life, I don't think they're really capable of fixing that.It's a damn shame because everything else is really good.
>>502996220UE5 is conformed deisel engine with glow plugs
>>503025025You can save ur stuff if you put it in the safe in the house beside the last scanner point
>>503023702>coc is a freeplay mod based on cop but as I understand it, its basically just an earlier version of anomaly/gaymmawell fuck. i already finished analmeme and gamma can go fuck a goat. someone recommended coc to me only a thread or 2 before the s2 autism exploded in the general
a-life definitely broken
>>503024602Now that you mention it, I did have to fight a bloodsucker once after helping a hunter. Died quite a few times and during those reload times, sometimes a few stalkers would come around as they were looking around the villages, one time an army patroll spawned instead, and a couple of times there were no npcs. >>503024758Yeah true, I followed them for a bit to see what they would do, but if they would despawn a 100m away and not appear again, then that is a shame. Didn't test for that. >>503024794I also hate fleshes, mutants in general. They take too much ammo to kill.
>>503024835the mouse accel fix on steam forums tells you to change 2 files, the 2nd one makes the sensitivity normal.
Game looks five times as worse than gamma and runs three times as shitty. It’s time to apologize to grok everyone. When I say grok you say sorry! grok!
ingame radio fucking sucks... where is my Tsoy??https://youtu.be/iOvYGQtFBNM
>>503025214No issues here it's helped me more than not
>>503025038i agree with that. mutants are way to hard to kill. like flesh can take 2 mags with an akm. a-life i think is in there its just really broken.
>>503025190I hear they fix it from early build.
>grok!is a faggot!
>>503025306Sorry.I will complete all 3 storylines on Invictus Ironman in a real stalker game instead of unrealslop ubishit consoleware grift.
>>503024271>For an UE5 game the graphics are pretty underwhelmingIt looks terrible. Like all UE5 games, everything looks noisy and made of rubber. Things in the distance don't look right, they sometimes look the same up close as they do far away. The art style, photogrammetry, rendering, etc. do not work together properly. The colors are absolutely unbelievably bad. The original game was about 50x more colorful than this. There is a red filter making everything look orange/brown. Edit your pics and you'll see the game with normal colors. The game cranks up the saturation when you drink a vodka (it kicks in before your char even drinks it) then it quickly fades... you can watch it turn to greyscale in real time>>503024468>Nothing you said or will have to say has any merit if you are running less than 60I'd rather not buy a $700 graphics card to run this shit game at 700.>>503024959>Are you able to get 60fps with DLSS and resolution scaling stuff disabled? I'm looking at getting a 3060 or 6700xtNo way. DLSS is basically a requirement for UE5 games. I was getting 50 with medium and DLSS enabled. Medium looks like garbage. The graphical increase is huge going from medium to epic. I could not even tell the difference between any of my DLSS screenshots. Native 1440p looked insanely grainy, even with 0 sharpness, so I didn't even bother.>>503024570>Wow, you're hellbent on convincing me you don't care. Go you!I'm not trying to convince you of anything. You are one very, very stupid person.
Is leaning really only contextual? I'm watching this Japanese guy's VOD and, unless I'm hallucinating, he figured out how to manually lean in the tutorial.
>very positiveRussia lost
>a-life i think is in there its just really broken.Maybe, the way they spawn on top of you just feels scripted though.Which is a damn shame, I wouldn't give a fuck about the graphics being turned down or the open world not being entirely seamless if they just put in functioning a-life and good AI in.
>>503025669You can manually lean but if you aim by an obstacle your mc autoleans like a fucking retard.
>>503025669Not only, they included both. For some reason.
>>503025678>not even 500k copies sold>botted reviewslol
Remember when GSC removed a-life 2.0 from the steam page and tried to downplay it by saying they just reworded it to be something more fancy?
>>503025796Disable it you retarded
BLYATTTT((((
>>503025669it's there, but it's bound to Z and C for whatever insane reason
>>503025678all Russians have long ago pirated this game and are sitting playing it at the moment (including me)
Have you guys had any interesting gun fights so far? No enemy has crept up on me so far.
>>503004026Defend this.
How do I take off the PSO scope?
>>503025306from what i heard here next gamma update will tone down the autism so maybe it's time to give it a go, we'll seei will probably just end up replaying analmeme again and then once the stalker itch is gone i'll forget about it for a year or so, hell, maybe the modders will actually unfuck s2 by that point
>>503025661A lot of it depends on the weather/time of day I think.Can't get over the enemies just spawning right on top of you though.
>>503025827At least we know where our tax money went
>>503025950>all Russians have long agoгoвopи зa ceбя :(
>>503025796>>503025803>>503025917This game is fucked...
>update windows>game stops crashing on new game>reload save right before the tunnel anomaly>it doesn't spawnhrm
>>503026026This is actually nice and pleasant to look out>>503025661compared to this which makes my eyes feel uncomfortable and unfocused.
>>503026013wait really?
>Both GOG download links are capped at 1MB/sits over
>>503026041>At least we know where our tax money wentlol
I'm generally satisfiedt. played for 6.5h today
>>503026234It's called post-purchase justification.
DOES THIS SHITTY GREEN STORM EVER END I WANT TO SEE LITERALLY ANY OTHER WEATHER BUT ALL I GET IS SHITTY GREEN THUNDER STORM
>>503025975nope, well i guess i was exiting that one monolith dudes house and the first time i was ambushed by some random people and then i died and reloaded and they weren there.
>>503026234I won't be satisfied until there's a-life.
>>503026349how about you get a life lmao
>>503025886Oh yeah i'll do that as soon as i'll disable the auto-reload cancer.
>>503025306SORRY
>>503023304true
>>503026380destroyed
I DIDNT BUY THE GAME YET IS IT GOOD OR NOT
>>503026380LOST TO THE ZONE
It's still dropping. I thought burgers were supposed to carry the player numbers after they finish a day of work?
>>503025212try soc update. it looks amazing. im probably gonna play it soon, ditching my r3 playthrough for it.
>>502998383>>502998559just ue5 shitwhy is this accepted and used in AAA game dev?
>>503026507its pretty good but needs some work imo. the biggest problems being the performance, the semi lack of A-life and the mutants being way overtuned even on veteran.
>>503023175i was just at that area too and mastiff was doing the same thing, maybe its intentional
>>503026349how do they even fix such a core part of the game?
>>503025975that nigger hitman with the sniper rifle who's holed up in the booby-trapped factoryhad to jump off the roof and shoot him through a window
>>503026507get it from gog https://gog-games.to/game/stalker_2_heart_of_chornobyl
It's playing fine on my 5800x3d and RTX 4070 super TI. First things i had to do was to remove motion blur, turnoff the hand holding shit and put the game in Russian
>>503025661>DLSS is a requirement even at 1080p on low/medium? with a 5700G and 3060
I turn manual lean to hold rather than toggle but it still toggles if I press it quickly instead of holding.Lame.
>>503026298Idk, felt like STALKER to met. been playing the series since 2007
the rewards you get from quests are also very underwhelming like barely enough rubles to get any ammo or healing items.
>>503026687>1MB/s downloadsno thanks
>>503026592hmm okay kinda what i expected>a lifewait why is it fucked. what did they do lmao>>503026687thanks
>>503026820Restart your game.
>>503026829wow just like SOC
I'm getting major Clear Sky vibes from these bloodsuckers where you can't do shit damage if they're invisible. A bloodsucker should not be able to take 10 (TEN) buckshot rounds and still run around being a pain to fight
>stash surrounded by bandits>storm rolls in as the fighting starts>clear out bandits and start picking through loot>storm still raging, hear a howl really close by>run up some pipes where the stash is hidden>bloodsucker trying to get to me>cowardly shoot it with a million bullets until dead from my safe high perch>jump down to continue looting>a second bloodsucker comes from behind, stuns and kills meI aint even mad, that was kino. I am wondering why bloodsuckers are being spammed so often in the starter zone however. They really are everywhere.
>>503026852>wait why is it fucked. what did they do lmaoIt doesn't exist.
>>503026907Fleshes taking 4 buckshot shells is also way too much, and we can't even loot mutants. They're a total waste of ammo and not even that fun to fight.
>gog torrent when?
>>503027034>[citation needed]
>>503026901bro i had enough money than i knew what to do with on soc on my recent playthrough. i barely get enough on here.
>>503026907The bloodsuckers are honestly complete bullshit in this.>way too fast>invisible seemingly 90% of the time>can tnak several mags>bullshit smashing attack that puts you on the ground and takes most of your health barThis combined with the fact you can't reload/heal while sprinting anymore makes them complete annoying bullshit.
>>503026924the spawns have to be broken, you should not encounter bloodsuckers this early. even one the sidequests in the beginning zone has a bloodsucker. i had to kill it with a knife cause i was low on ammo.
Guys, I have a theory. There are no binoculars in the game, do you think this because of the AI spawn and despawn rate radius and the devs knew?
How are the locations, anons?Any cool stuff in general or atmospheric setpieces/gauntlets like Agroprom underground/labs?
How has no one mentioned stalkers being able to piss yet? One of them started pissing, walked over to the camp fire, started playing his guitar, all while still pissing straight up.Also, "bread" is here.
>>503025281I can't find what you're talking about, all of the steam threads have people complaining about the same problem with no solution given
>tourists complaining the game is too hard
I feel so fucking sluggish.
if you're spending money on anything other than repairing your weapon, you're playing this wrong. There are a gorillion stashes everywhere, go into every house and loot it and you'll have more food, healing items and ammo than you'll know what to do with. ALSO BE CAREFUL APPARENTLY THE ZALISSYA STASH CAN EAT ITEMS
>enemies that are ammo sinkNot a good design
>>503027253Gotta be the case.They literally spawn squads/mutants right on top of you, any NPCs you can see at a distance are scripted/manually placed there.
>>503027107Don't you know the Stalker cycle? Hobo phase at the start of the game is not easy. It get pretty easy once you start getting better gear
>>503027219sprinting cancelling shit i hope gets changed or at least a mod that allows you to do it.
>>503027280>atmosphericnothing in this game is anywhere near as atmospheric as the originals because the lighting is flat as fuck and there are basically no dynamic shadows at all
Is it just me or are human enemies also bullet sponges? Sure a headshot can take them down, but through all the stalker games one or two shotgun shells have usually downed all bandits easy, in Stalker 2 the bandits have to take several rounds to even die.
>>502999654>ukrainian made game>based in ukraine>is pro ukraine>so Im going to call it propagandakill yourself
>>503027280Aesthetically it's fucking amazing.A-life (lack of) and dumb scripted spawns are letting it down.
>>503027253Yup. You know it.
>>503027505>terrorist mode game>based in terrorist camp>is pro terroristYes I'm going to call it propaganda.
>>503027375It is a great shame >>503027467For some reason NPC flashlights cast dynamic shadows. Not ours though.
>>503027467trailers looked kind of nice, haven't watched any walktroughs or reviews thought you guys would make bunch of webms alreadyman
>>503027320it's not difficult in the slightest, firefights are the same braindead shit only the enemies miss every grenade they throw. The mutants are annoying to fight because they're bullet sponges. Average bloodsucker is an annoying fight where you slowly backpedal unloading shotgun shells and jumping out of his way for 10 minutes.
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>>503026850>>503026852use the fuckingfast link it's 50MB/s
>>503027774>>503027774>>503027774
anyone else get stuck inside of a wall ?i just did chatting with the bartender warped me into a wall
>>503026735>even at 1080p on low/medium? with a 5700G and 3060Medium looked so bad and still barely reached consistent 50fps with DLSS quality. I didn't even bother with low but I'll try it now. Changing settings requires you to restart game AND recompile shaders>>502998383>>turning everything from maximum to low increases my framerate from 30 to 45>something is deeply fucking wrong with this game lmaoyeah, that's all games lately. I'd rather play on 35fps epic than 50fps medium because the difference is not worth it at all. It really doesn't stutter or go under 30 at all, it's often 45. Medium settings makes it look you're playing in 360p.need to find out VRAM usage
>>503027561yeah i mean screenshots do look nice, i just wanted to see some cool enclosed locations, idk, i just always liked those bit morealso what the hell is that thing in the top right in the sky?
>>503027241I just reloaded this time and found a THIRD bloodsucker.Ok, now I will complain. This is absurd. Unless this is a hidden bloodsucker lair or something, who the fuck knows. I honestly don't know how to deal with this situation legitimately, without coward tactics.
>>503027317thats literally the thread you retard, follow every instruction in the OP and it makes sure your sens isn't too high
>>503027713besides the bullet sponge, how would you have improved it? if anything its better than npcs in other games and even the mutants of past stalker titles. youre complaining about nothing. i do agree the bloodsucker is very spongy. others are ok
>>503027960I've been around that place four times and never fought a single bloodsucker. Did fight a group of bandits once though.
>>503027954It's on the top left and it's a baloon.
>>502998703no fucking way
>>503027943every texture setting uses 6GB of my 8GB VRAM and CPU usage never goes above 35%
>>503028026yeah, haha that was embarrasinginteresting
>>503027346food and healing items yes, but I want to do upgrades and you just have no money for it. maybe later on you get a lot more money.
>>503027960>>503028024Is this an example of A-life existing?
>>503024670>just turn the graphics down brothe FPS doesn't increase when you turn the graphics down, and it makes it look like complete dogshit
>>503027960dont play on max difficutly, its bullshit and turns everyone into bullet sponges.
Once I figured out the resolution needed to be fixed, it played beautifully on high (epic is ever so slightly janky).
>>502996163>>503004491Go play gamma and stay in your discord server, troon faggot
>>503027829>not waiting for 1000 posts againfuck off faggot
>>503028310Considering I went from 40 to 60 by turning my game down from high to medium I don't think you are correct.
>>503028310>>503028310thats because you are on a fucking potato cpu
>>503026826Some thoughts:The bloodsuckers are much more dangerous compared to other games.Don't remember the flesh being quite so jumpy. Not being able to sprint and reload/use items is quite annoying.Had to rebind keys for leaning and toggle the button-press settings.Not a fan of the enemy/mutant spawn system, they need to at least increase the spawn distance.Like the new anomaly designs.Like new weapon designs.Not really a fan of the new HUD (I miss the mini-map dearly)The "yellow paint" setting seems partially broken at the moment, subtitles setting too. Perhaps I need to restart the game.Very anemic flashlight.Love the new foliage (poppy field, my beloved).Quite challenging firefights and mutant encounters in general.Some graphical bugs (ofc)Considering all the doomposting - not bad
>>503028513open task managerthis game puts very little load on CPU
>>503026562just watched the first 10m of playthrough on jewtube. sold me. just about to install it now. fuck shitwalker 2
>>503027505>russia does thing>propaganda>ukraine does thing>uh that's just like, normal dude
>>503028603thats because your shit ass cpu is either good enough or too slow to keep up with the pipeline
>>503028865retard
>>503028962ok, put your 4090 into a 7700k setup and see how far you can get you absolute utter fucking retard
>>503028531Nice. I almost FOMO'd into it today but I'll wait until some of the bugs and kinks are ironed out over, hopefully, the next month
>>503004026thats how spawns work....
>>503028513>thats because you are on a fucking potato cpuThis game is GPU limited, the 3060 is maxed at 100% the whole time no matter what. I was planning on upgrading to 9700x/5070 but the 9700x sucks really bad, the 5070 will likely have 12GB, and in total the PC will cost about $2000 CAD. No thanks.>>503028437>Considering I went from 40 to 60 by turning my game down from high to medium I don't think you are correct.I mean that's still not that huge of an increase. I rather play with PS5-level graphics and I might even play with a fucking controller on my 75" screen. Can always drop the settings if it becomes necessary. I'm hoping there will be a performance patch anyway.
>>503028531Lines up pretty well with how I feel, after some fucking with settings I was able to get a steady and pretty game which then opened up the atmosphere and gunplay, which are both very solid after a few hours of settling in. The AI is also better than I've seen people say, while bandits do feel pretty dumb overall it seems like other factions might have better AI on purpose. IPSF guys actually appeared to try and pincer flank to cover then flush me out with a grenade which isn't something that bandits appear to bother trying. I'll have to test it more, maybe I'm just imagining things
>>503029497Personally - I'm ok with the state of the game, as it's entirely playable as is. I just wish that that it was a PC exclusive, so that they would have to downgrade the experience for the benefit of the Xbox.
>>503029709>I'm hoping there will be a performance patch anywayI'd assume there will be.>t. had 60 FPS and 70% utilization on my GPU at Epic settings...and also on Low settings. Which can't be right.
>>503006023>I thought these fuckers were supposed to be a rare sight in the zone??
>>503030294"wouldn't have
>>503029432you don't understand how this works retard
>>503008240faggot
60 of your finest euros please
>>503030409nigger first time you would encounter a bloodcyka in SoC is in Agroprom underground, that's 3rd location from the start, get a grip
>>503030670okay, pair your 4090 with a 7700k then and see how far you go then you absolute fucking retard.
>>503030980>when Beard's finest moonshine kicks in
>>503030221I'm still figuring our the best tactics to use in the firefights, but I sure as hell feel that AI is really dangerous.
>>503031078not the point retard
>>503031264Also, a separate shout-out to competent grenade use by AI. They don't just spam them like in the Clear Sky, but sure do know how to use them.
Just finished 5 hours of play, it's Stalker, get through the scripted prologue then it's nostalgic. Good game. Will get better.
>>503030409Yes?CoP was the only game that I recall where you could see bloodsuckers super early (talking vanilla here). But even then, you're meant to sneak past them while they sleep. Stalker 2 on the other hand, I've already had tons of different encounters with them, and I'm only 2 hours in and still running around the starting hub. They just spawn in all over the place, above ground, during the day. That is not how they used to be. They were relatively uncommon to come across, and were mostly underground. Hell, a bloodsucker was literally the second mutant I encountered in 2. Welcome to the zone I guess, enjoy your bullet sponge bloodsuckers.
>>503014087>muh steam metrics
fuck this game, im going back to helldivers 2 at least it has less bugs than this shit
>>503028673you can pretend to make an argument by being incredibly vague and inspecificyoull still look like a retard to anyone reading your post, though
>>503032345just saying you're not immune to propaganda, sweaty
haha
I'm guessing with a 3770k and a 1070ti I shouldn't even bother with this game :(
>>503018837>that imagekek, thanks for that m8
Imagine having access to all of the mods in existence and ignoring every single one to make a mediocre game instead.
>>503023228disgusting
>>503025365>rifles on mutants>not a rookie mistake
idk i have like 90 medkits and 500 bullets for my weapons of choiceeven on veteran it's way too easy to stockpile shit so i don't think i care if bloodsuckers are resource drains
>>503025827>destroys atomic hearts 1st month sales on the first daylmao
>>502998852Unreal Engine type beat
>>5030310654th ackshually. And by that time you already have the stalker suit and an Ak.
>>503031065this isnt soc...retard
>>503033398Please understand, Rajesh could only play the SoC for 10 minutes before Microsoft sent him to work on this one.
>>503028606nice man. enjoy it. report back with some screenshots. ill be joining you soon.
>>503028673you were the one saying propaganda.just pointing out your stupidity.>reeeesheh
>>503034501not an unreal engine thing.see: any other recent UE game not doing this.you literal retards have no idea what youre talking about.
>>503035250It's been a problem since Unreal 1999 you fucking Jamaican patty seller.
>>503035421Nope.
>>503035017i wasn't the anon you were originally replying to.
>>503027625Russians are the terrorists.>>503035932Its still stupid.
dead thread already.. gg
1k
>>503022141>YouTubers were paid to play the game beforehand and upload a video to shill about it before launchThe review embargo was 2 hours until launch you dumb fuck
