You fags take too long to make a new edition edition. >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: >>502994281
First for where's my fucking A-life
>E D E E K O M N Y E H
is there any way to check the # of bullets in your gun after disabling the HUD for that? Seems stupid, it's not even showing in the inventory screen.
the only thing unreal is how shit my fps is!
>do quest>guy says i'll reward you if you give item to me instead of other guy>okay>receive reward>shoot in face>receive other reward
>>503027978press rif reload goodif no reload either full or no bulletssimple
>>503028018You are a bandit in all but name.
>>503028097still would be nice to see how many rounds i had left in a close fight
I CANNOT PLAY THE FUCKING GAME i am so jealous of you /sg/bros
>>503027942O O H O D E EO T S Y U D AM O O Z H I K
for the weird mouse feel try:AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\WindowsInput.ini[Script/Engine.InputSettings]bEnableMouseSmoothing=FalsebViewAccelerationEnabled=Falseset .ini to read-only
>>503027978i tried playing with it off too but thats not the real issue. just reload since theres no mag system to punish. the real issue is you cant know which type of ammo youre using. i switched it back on the hud for that reason. anyway mods will fix it
>>503028308If you are truly in the trenches but have decent internet consider goyim pass cloud streaming.
пoгнaли
Don't forget to fix the resolution. The game came set at a weird ass resolution and then when I switched it to 2560x1600 it ran perfectly.
>five different buttons to open up the pda but on a different tabReally? I could get at least opening the map right away, but damn.
>>503028008Compiling shaders
>>503027960Pol depot has really fucked respawns. Enemies can and will respawn as you're leaving the area, sometimes as you're just walking around the area or going down into the stash. I've only seen dogs and bandits so three bloodsuckers is just really bad luck, anon. I'd avoid that area honestly, there's nothing interesting there.>>503027713I mentioned earlier in the thread that they remind me of Clear Sky bloodsuckers, who were also unfun to fight, but at least took damage when they weren't invisible and you could drop them with headshots fairly quickly. Right now it seems the game has absolutely no headshots for mutants, because I can blast a flesh with buckshot at point blank and it won't even flinch. The knockdown attack is annoying, but a nuisance at worst since nearly no enemy (yet) attacks often enough where you can't just heal through their attacks.
Road to 60k starts
The game has a lot of issues, primary one being the basically non existant a-life, but if the devs deliver on the modding tools then this will be a 10/10 experience in a few years.
>>503028804>UE5>moddingJej
Even Reddit believes A-life is fake now.
I don't know if I love or hate the cringe death counter with the bloodsucker zoom in at the end.
>>503028940It's gay as fuck, but they realize people will be streaming it so they included a death counter.
>hit a guy in the face with a bolt>he sinks into the floorHeh.
>>503028804when did groundbreaking mods even start popping up for the original games? after the engine went open source?
Why the fuck does my piece of shit Makarov using 9x18mm rounds do more damage than an AK using rifle rounds>>503028875Why do retards keep saying this? UE5 is highly moddable even without extensive mod tools.
Anyone reached Cordon already?
>>503029102Nah, I just played for 5 hours and I'm probably gonna spend a few more in lesser just looking around.
>>503028527:[
>>503029102my game is fucked. it will be smooth or good fps for 10 minutes then it stays in 10fps for 10 minutes then it goes back up
>>503029079stop talking about my secret portable hand cannon before you ruin the fun
>3080>i9 12900k >stuttering on medium
so is the game good or are russians just angry
>>503028804how do you even fix this so called """"a-life""""it's such a fundamental part of the game, no way they can just unfuck it in a monthi hope i'll eat my words, but this shit right there is worrying
>>503029317>shintel performancemy 5700x3d has no stutter issues at all, 50-90 fps
>>503029413Cyberpunk devs managed to unfuck their police spawn system, but I doubt the same will happen here.
>>503028575This fixed all my problems, I didn't even realize it. Thanks anon.
>>503029413They cut it for performance reasons and performance is dogshit as is.They're not fixing A-Life. UE5 ruined it unfortunately.
>>503029391russians LITERALLY just barged into my house and ATE the frames, ALL of them
Posting for the return of "bread".
>>503029586I would rather have more shit frames and functioning A life over what we have now.
>>503029496i hope we'll get nms treatment and it's all gonna be great at some point
>>503029661:)love me Stalker
>>503029661look too good, too freshnot my zone bread
>>503028786go back to /v/ please
>>503029413I have a feeling theres leftover code for a proper a-life system from before they scrapped it, could even be as simple as changing a single value to turn it on.If thats not the case then the most we could probably do would be to increase the range that npcs spawn and give them routes. Otherwise we just have to pray the devs aren't absolute cocksuckers and deliver an actual A-Life system in an update.I remember one dev interview giving a slight tease about the possibility of a sandbox type mode post-launch, there might still be hope.
>Freedom sold out>Duty are naive idiots and have lost their power>Sidorovich is insane>No A-lifeI am questioning what went wrong
what's wrong with the "a-life"not like stalker SOC had good AI either. Pripyat maybe
>>503028940the death counter and the bloodsucker on every death are both retarded, absolute shit retarded ideas and i want to see the persons face that decided it was a good idea
ziggers exploding with rage
>>503029906No I don't think I will
>>503029923I let this faggot live for some reason. I just ran like a bitch from the bloodsucker.
>>503030039lol
>>503030054at least use a trip or something so i can filter you
>>503030039Yes ziggers are seething your game flopped kek>>503030054
>>503030024A-Life doesn't exist at all in Stalker 2. In the original games, stalkers would spawn in their bases, and go out into the world from there, walking to their destinations and fighting enemies on the way there.Stalker 2 doesn't have that. It has fixed spawns that are reset every time you leave an area and come back. For example, The Dome area in the first map, there's a group of five military guys at each gate. You can clear a gate, walk 200 meters away, come back, and the same five guys will be there again, standing on top of the corpses of the last five guys.
>>503030214Okay Vlad
>>503030230>You can clear a gate, walk 200 meters away, come back, and the same five guys will be there again, standing on top of the corpses of the last five guys.Damn
>>503030230shit dude that's disappointing, i loved keeping my stalker bros alive
>>503030024i never seem to see any mutants but as soon as i get near a stash or perhaps a house or poi there happens to be 5 dogs or 4 boars or 2 bloodsuckers trying to eat my assthey spawn them in relatively close which makes it feel awfully more artificial than life
>>503030230That's like the military checkpoint in SoC or the Faction Wars in CS. Do you have a better example.
>>503030187No>>503030301You sound despondent, not my fault it flopped sorry
>>503030349the military checkpoint in SoC would respawn it self over time, not instantly, its doing it instantly in stalker2, or within 5 minutes when you're still in the area, its jarring and i have no idea how it got overlooked
what difficult then should I play with if I hate spongy shit? the easiest?
i dont think you shows who you killed and what faction they are in when you loot a body
>>503030340Yeah I always gave my lads AKs in rookie village by just dropping them next to them.>>503030349I was actually just thinking about that, and forgot to mention that the military base I'm talking about has no way into it from the outside of the zone, like the one in cordon where the military goons respawn by walking down the road back to the checkpoint.In 2, it's just in the middle of the map with no way for the goons to actually physically get there outside of a chopper dropping them off.
>>503030560I play on Stalker and use a lot of knife
>>503030648That is in fact super gay
>>503030349>military checkpoint in SoCwhy would you lie? you had to enter a different location and then come back, then they would respawn, not perfect but logical and with the limitations soc had, pretty forgivable>faction warsit was literally not intended to be that way, clear sky just bit more than it could chew, too ambitious of a system for the gameand with later patches it sometimes worked properlyu r a fag
>finishing prologue>hop through window before final scanner and stash all my loot>go back after the Richter cutscene>loot itoutskilledYou still lose the 2 better guns you get for whatever reason but everything else is yours to keep.
so did you give the scanners to zotov or richter?
not sure if the game is shit or something is damaged in my pc or my cpu sucksi9-9900k and 3070ti 32gd ram1080phttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCK9Ko3HR-0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvuYLLlEtBMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOwqoDmHzuE
>jump into random hole in the middle of nowhere to try to get to a stash>get gangraped by a slow moving horde of hopping rats not gonna lie i cackled
(dies)
God they really love throwing fucking poltergeists and bloodsuckers at you over and over and over again. How early can you get a Chaser 13?
>>503031085stop eating tacos you find around anomalies
what is a zigger? their real name its discordtrannies
Are there jeets in the credits?
>>503029961That is some massive industrial-grade copium you're huffing.This game was never going to have proper a-life with Unreal engine.As it is, it feels like playing a Far Cry game with friendlies and mutants spawning near you so you can random-so-cool spur of the moment shootouts to witness and/or engage in.
>>50302777415 years kek
>>503027774Congratz on it being released I hope it runs on my shitputer
>>503031404its farcry and fallout put together
>>503031487damn thats beautiful
>>503031487>This will never happen in Stalker dva
Where're my 60+ FPS ryzen chads at? Intcels getting shit on.
>1111 koupons for a main questnot even enough to repair a damaged gun what the fuck is this economy.
>>503031487kino>won't get these types of webms from sc2:(
>>503031645The money rewards are really garbage
it'll be really funny if someone somehow ports S2's assets and open world into one of the XRay games
>>503030349The bandits in the garbage would do that in SoC as well, and everyone in CS would do that but that's like the only real place I can remember it in the original games
>>503031085I've heard from a paramedic that severe alcoholics have this happen to them, eventually their liver or something just gives out and then youre spraying blood from your ass until your body gives up and dies.
>>503031731a group of 3 russian schizos are already on it and will have it done in 5-10 years i guarantee
>>503031731It can't handle that.
>>503031813yes they would respawn but i dont remember them doing it while you were still in the garbage
>>503031574it barely uses any CPU, this is one of the few games where ryzen literally doesn't mattert. 5800X3D chad
CAREFUL WHEN ENTERING THE SPHERE COMPOUNDyou can run in and there won't be anyone around. Go further into the compound and a squad of 4-5 soldiers is 100% guaranteed to spawn right behind you patroling at the gate.Such a fucking waste of my time clearing it before going there for the main mission too.
>>503031731imagine grigas face lol
Without a-life and persistent NPCs that do their own shit this is just another metro game
https://youtu.be/Jne-8uX-ErU?si=BQr6_J4JoJ4vE8dWWhat we lost.
>>503031985Don't insult metro like that
>>503031985metro at least had tits/ass for (You)
This is how broken the spawn system is.
I dunno what you homos are complaining about. I get over 60 frames consistently on high settings on a 3070ti.
>>503031936That is total ass. They really need to make NPCs persistent and not spawning when you go somewhere or do something>>503032085ew
>>503032085You know, I had a suspicion that we could do something like that, since every time I killed an enemy at The Dome and came back, the bodies would still be there, but never actually tried it. Fucks sakes.
>>503031985all of GSC's talent went to make Metro anyway
>>503032085>A-Life is gone>PROOFS?
Are GSC and CDPR the same company? It seems a lot of bugs from CP2077 are also in S2
>>503032085how long to grind for a Legendary 10MM Carbine Nukea-pistol Raygun drops?
>>503032123How'd you know I'm gay?>>503032232I never liked those games though, so wtf happened
>Do a side thing where a stalker asks me to get his brother's dead body to him>Take a drink in his honor>The cup is still stuck to me after the animationWrist-mounted for easy access.
A-Life was all smoke and mirror in the original games, isn't this just like that as well? But not yet properly tuned with all this Cyberpunk-esque spawning
>>503032035>that rare echoing muffled speaker speechman
>>503032085
>>503032452All Sunrise suits come with a tin cuppa attached at this wrist; this is a major selling point
>>503032456No, Tejas Stalker saw to that, A-Life was very real in the OG trilogy.
>>503032452>YOU SEE STALKER, WHEN YOU GLUE SHOTGLAS TO DETECTOR, YOU ALWAYS FIND VODKA!>>503032456See >>503030230. Original A-Life at least put effort into hiding spawns and making it seem like enemies actually came from places, because they did.
>>503032572OwO
>>503027774I could write a lengthy review, may do it tommorow at work but its the best Stalker (atleast for now for me) besides the absolute ass bullet sponge mutatns and that god awful performance. The english voice acting kinda ass too. Otherwise 9/10 after 5 hours playing
>>503032630Same with all makarovs!>>503032123I'm actually getting perfectly fine performance on my pretty old GPU. No frame drops outside of the very first time I entered the starting town, and my computer fans aren't spinning at the speed of sound like every other Unreal game.
>>503032642oh right I forgot I needed to put 300 hours into the Cordon before I truly see A-Life come alive>>503032643Brutal. How's the rest of the game?
Is it "it's as good as we're gonna get", "it's actually the same game if we just mod it a little bit", or "it is not the same game at all"?Orcs need not respond.>>503032085The original unmodded games had this as well.
>>503032840>5 hoursopinion discarded
>>503032914it plays like COP with what seems like broken a-life, the devs have already put out multiple patches since release so I expect the issues to be fixed, performance and bugs.
>>503032914We can probably get close with updates and mods, but the biggest worry is the impossibility of true ALIFE on this engine because how would you realistically simulate the ENTIRE map unless you make fake shit happen to make it SEEM like the ALIFE is doing stuff? Right now the """ALIFE""" is just spawning shit 50 meters from you at predetermined locations
>>503032891I'm actually having fun. Like most anons have said, the bullet sponge mutants suck to fight, but exploring the world and finding new shit is cool. I like the unique anomaly fields, like the anal vore suck one in the swamp, and the poppie field.
>>503033000Trying to rack up more, shitting rn while posting here
>>503033074Alright you have made me cautiously optimistic; I'll probably pic it up tomorrow
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7?tab=filesFixed stutters and mouse lag for me.I think alife is there and it works similar to CS, where it ran those dots on the map in the background and started random fights. We just need a mod for those dots to silence retards.Scripted encounters just confuse people, like those dogs near monolith shack. Bloodsucker on agroprom was scripted too so shut up.
>>503033073I thought the point of A life was that it also simulated offline through scripts?
>>503033307Wont this mod break tomorrow when there is a new update?
Are there seriously no dynamic emissions? They're only scripted to happen?That cant possible be the fucking case, that would be too big of a fuckup.
>>503033307I walked down the open road leading north from the starting village, turned around, and turned back, and a group of bandits appeared behind me in the middle of the road. It was literally five seconds, there was no way they just walked out of the woods and onto the road in that time. The game absolutely just spawns things around you.Unrelated, stealth is piss-easy now. A silencer makes you 100% undetectable, even if you shoot an enemy that's less than a foot away from another enemy. This dude has no idea where I am even though I'm standing right in front of him.
>>503033682one happened to me when I was meeting the monolith guy for tech, was that scripted?
>>503033073Can other zones not be offline simulated? Can your current zone be simulated upon entering? Like as soon as you enter, everything spawns, and then the simulation starts? How do you even know if we can't?
>>503033770That didn't happen for me, my only emission was when I was walking back to the starting village. Sounds like they're not scripted.
>>503033607the "mod" is just a WindowsEngine.ini file in pak form that forces a bunch of settings.
>>5030336822/3 of the OG games had story only emissions so...
Not gonna touch it until the game is stable from the bugs (which may take until the god dang war is over) but how's the story and anomaly/artifact hunting so far? If the experience is dogshit then I might as well wait for total overhauls.
>>503033916maybe games should improve over time?
>>503034070there was a WAR!!! OK!!!! CUT THEM SOME SL-ACK
>>503033682I was walking around garbage out of any missions and one happened to me.
>Approach ladder with yellow cum on it>Get a PDA call from Hermann>"Skiff, if think you can climb that ladder! Try using it to reach higher places!">"Alright, thanks Hermann, I'll try that out".>On the wall next to the ladder is a written note>"CLIMB. THE. LADDER.">Get close to the ladder and a tutorial popup appears>"You can climb ladders like this one by walking into it and holding forward!"Was all this really needed, GSC?
>>503032572
Is Leshy at Northern Checkpoint just a schizo or is he used in any mission?
>>503034414I blame Nuland
>>503034760I was also wondering that. There's a mission marker above his head before you kill him, but I haven't found any way to talk to him or even just knock him out using the stealth system.
well i like it so far. who else is the same
>>503034593that's not yellow paint it's cheeto dust
>Set FOV to max 110.>Weapon view model is exactly the same.I HATE CONSOLES.I HATE CONSOLES.I HATE CONSOLES.
>>503034593its gotta be there for the retardsturn off the yellow paint, turn off the tutorials
>>503034593>*Stalker scan vision activates*>Mhhm... Giant slash marks all other the victim... A chimera™ Gotta be...
Perfectly fine performance here. I wonder why so many are having problems.
>>503034593>(dies)
>>503035149cracks me up every time.
>>503035149I've seen (pain) from a random stalker in the first bar wearing a gas mask when I just went up to talk to him, and (upset) while just walking down the road in the village.
>>503035149>Bandit: (dying noises)
>>503034851I like it too but I am starting to struggle liking it, the Sphere/Dome area in Lesser Zone is where most of the game's flaws start to really show (lack of a-life with enemies spawning as you walk from 1 part of the complex to the other, horrendous pop in, frame drops and general graphical issues, also the PDA bug that forces you to reload is most likely to appear here)
what retarded nigga greenlit these bloodsuckers?
>no binos
>>503035503It actually astounds me how they could overlook something this basic and fundamental to stalker.
>>503035503I can handle all the bugs and anomalies, but no binoculars makes me seethe harder than anything.
>>503035503>>503035560>>503035571They don't exist because they had to make everything not render more than 100 feet away, and to (try to) hide randomly spawning groups of NPCs.
It's janky as fuck and i kinda love it. Such a good base for modders to go fucking crazy with. The shit respawning is gay as fuck but it's not game ruining.
>>503035503brutal
>>503035483I think they programmed them to run away after slapping your ass even if you aren't looking at them/shooting them because console peasants kept dying to them.
I honestly hate these scripted events. I am artifact hunting and suddenly military spawns behind me with some loners in front of me so there can be an «epic» fight. Takes me right out of it.
>>503033682I have gotten two just wandering around the zone
>>503035714What do you see over there?
>.45 acp pistol does less damage than 9x18 PMM>5.45 caliber rifle does less damage than a 9mm mp5What the fuck were they thinking when they were designing this shit, they literally made the smaller caliber guns do MORE damage.
>instead of hiring ukrainians that speak english for the english voice lines we will just hire a bunch of bongs and turn the zone into one big tea party
>>503035917
>>503035503It's because the render distance is 1 whole feet, NPCs disappear at like 100m. So much was sacrificed at the altar of incredibly high poly floating debris.
>>503035982I see.
>>503035947My headcanon is that the game is set in Birmingham
>>503036089
>>503035936Uhhh 9mm is bigger than 5mm chud
>>503036169Every fucking day...
SOVL
>>503035664>and to (try to) hide randomly spawning groups of NPCs.grim
>fight bloodsucker to help a dude>spend almost all my ammo>he rewards me with 200 cashGarbage.
>>503037387
>turn off flashlight>slow walk towards a tunnel>guy with no vision on me radios me telling me it's his shit and to fuck off>walk a few more steps, completely out of his cone of vision>aggros on me
Damn does skif have a fuckin intenstinal parasite or what? Homie's got permanent munchies.
>>503037551hey i ran into that as well, fuck that guy
meta starter weapons for powerenjoyers?
>>503037665Viper is op.
>Immediately set everything to low when I first launch the game>Game runs at around 60-70 in the intro, not bad>Get out of intro>20 FPS>Turn on both FSR and Framegen out of desperation for that "smooth" fake 60>Walk around for a bit before saying "fuck it", turn all of my settings up to High or Medium>Frames immediately double>Turn off framegen>Now getting 70+ just walking around the open world without it, over 120 if I felt like using it (I don't)I will never understand computers
>>503037665Toz 34
>>503035503i didnt even notice. fuck, yeah they should be in the game
>>503037792Sounds like you have a CPU bottleneck
>can't sell red durability weaponswelp I guess that limits my strat to make money from older STALKER games
>trade with random loner>leave trade>FPS is now 15-20 from 90>save, reload>still 20>restore previous save>fine but now a pack of bandits spawned right behind me>reload that again>pack of dogs
So this is where the budget went?
>>503036027the altar of Xbox Series S parity
>strips everything from the originals that made stalker unique but keeps the name>game becomes a metro game made by bethesdauhh, yea. I think ill just stick to the originals.
>>503037643It seems to be a common thing lately for hunger in games. You can eat what seems like a decent amount of food, and be hungry five minutes later. Though he seems to take a bite of everything and then throw the rest away too.
>>503038121What's more annoying is every gun in the zone seems to be broken.
>>503038096holy shit shut the fuck up you don't know a single thing about fuck
>>503038309>AHHHHHHH! AFTER TEN THOUSAND YEARS I'M FREE!
>>503038337Misery haters:Apologize
>>503038367Maybe just install more ram that might be it
>>503037752This, Not!MP5 slaps.
>lure bloodsucker to first town>watch AI shoot him hundreds of times>literally incapable of killing it
>>503037752>Viper is OPNaw, this ain't SoC/CS.>Get a new Viper early.>Hard to find ammo, since everyone uses 5.45 AKs.The hard part is getting the initial 5-10k rubles to repair an AK, then build it.After running out of 9x19, I have like 200-300 rounds of 5.45.
>>503038743It does more damage than any other gun and has insane fire rate.There is enough 9x19 on bandits using vipers themselves.
>>503038238The biggest crimes are the enormous health pool of mutants, fucking L KEY THAT I CANT REBIND (fuck you gsc), no binoculars and the manchester dub, anyone who isnt important sounds ass, But i like the direction they took and honestly if the story is any good it will be my favourite stalker (and if they change the fucking mutant tanks)
What is with this input delay, ~90 fps DLSS, NO FRAMEGEN + ini file tweak, and its feels underwater and sluggish almost like tarkov sluggishness, but worse.Up and down is different sense than left and right, and even ADS has a noticeable delay. I dont expect this to feel like counter strike, is there any more ini bullshittery i can do? or is it over?
anyone else left handed and use something like OKL;?the ability to remap controls in this game is FUBAR just completely unplayable.I rebind flashlight to anything but L, strafe left, is always hardbound to flashlight.I rebind anything to I,[,],Return,Backspace etc, it doesn't matter they all do one thing when you press them: Open PDAthis is so FUBAR
>>503039097autohotkey will fix it
>>503039040mouse3 for flashlight
>>503039189how?
random shit be glowing blue and purple.
>>503039298I'm not the best person to ask but you can rebind your s key to make it an l press and so on with an ahk script
>>503039097i'm not left handed but i am an ESDFchadyou can ONLY move on ladders with W and Sthe game is hilariously fucked and i'm thinking of refunding and maaaaybe rebuying for christmas at a discount if they somehow get around to fixing this and a-life and many other things
Umm stalker bros I was waiting for years for this day and now I dont even plan on pirating it. It will take years to get fixed
You should learn this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcZxQh8RfUc&t=36s
bro fuck this Bloodsucker, its so fucking tanky
>>503038913>There is enough 9x19 on bandits using vipers themselves.I'm still stuck in the first stalker town. Asides having 4 artifacts and 10k rubles, I struggle to find any 9x19 to justify using my 100% Viper. I'm stuck with a shitty AK with plenty of 5.45Then again, I'm stingy. I have 20+ bottles of vodka that sell for less than 100 rubles each, fuck these traders.
>>503039292the middle key? for real?
>all graphical settings set to medium>1440p with dlss set to quality, no framegen>pc is 4080s, 7800x3d, 32gb ddr5 ram>only getting 50 fps in the first safe zonethis shit is fucking unreal
>>503039040the only positive i have seen from this game is the fact that stalker gets brought to modern visuals, if you can call UE5 and improvement to xray
Shouldn't this room technically lit up from the eletrco anomaly and not be pitch dark? I'm not insane, right?
so its unplayable with 12gb ram?
>>503039040>Mutant healthUnironically probably one of the easier things to fix with modsEven if they don't actually release the SDK for a while I wouldn't be surprised if some based autist figured out how to do it anyways
>>503039585ye, i think i read it here in the first thread post-launch
>>503039442so what you mean is spend an hour writing a long ass script that changes stuff like I press P key and instead it's W key.Why would I go through that when I can just refund and play another game?
>>503039619did you actually play it
>>503039689I got 16gb ram and this is probably the first time I hit 14.5gb ram use since putting this PC together in late 2020.
>>503039758Who do I look like? GSC support? I don't care what you do.
>>503039686no its underground so its dark r-tard
Holy shit its so fucking OVER for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2C2A_JOi2Q
>>503039597>this shit is fucking unrealIt sure is
do mutants not have loot anymore? are they relaly so stingy we can't get a little boost of money from killing stuff
>>503039858so don't say dumb little things like>autohotkey will fix itthat someone could spend hours fucking around with a autohotkey script is not described by >oh this thing will just fix it if u just use that
>store guns in locker before the intro ends>the better ones all get deleted magicallyDamn, they really won't let you even have a better gun, even though they deteriorate, early huh?
Road to 50k
>GSCFOR THE STAR CHILDREN AND THE PATRIARCH
>>503039686>>503039875Oh, it only lights up when hit. That is strange.
ooo look what i found
>>503039937It's a shitpost what were you expecting with this release
What difficulty bros?
>1 shot with PM kills hopping rats>1 shot with AKM doesn'tok this is actually retarded, are they using fucking 2000s shooter logic where the gun that shoots slower has to have more damage? we need a mod for this shit
>>503040136i've played hundreds of games and very few have as broken key bindings as this.
Are any of you on their discord?Did they say what they will be fixing first. I will wait until they fix the spawning atleast. I hated that shit in Cyberpunk 2077
>>503040138I'm playing on Veteran and the mutants are bullet sponges. I might actually switch to normal.>>503040213post more of this KoMinshi
>>503040128on top of the watertower
>>503040205And if you asked GSC directly for support they'd probably tell you to play the game as a righty
>>503040281sadnormal it is
>>503040281never expected a minsi enjoyer in a stalker general
>>503040138Veteran.Wish they kept the soul foul game over from the 3d perspective. Also he death screen is retarded, i dont need to know i died the 10th time to bloodsucker tanks. How did they nail the fighting with other stalkers but fucked up this part so bad?
God the english voice acting is so shitty. Its all non native speakers which is fine but for some fucking reason theyre all trying to do American or British accents instead of embracing their slav accents, what a shitty direction to go.
>>503040440>no minimap>no 3d deathsgod the more I read the more I'm mad
This game does kinda feel sloppy bros I hate to admit it. Just some average shitty storyfag shooter slop
>>503039776unfortunately past the refund point
>wake up>launch game to continue>compiling shaders, please waitFAGGOTT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YEARS ALREADY AND YOU ALREADY COMPILED THAT SHIT 4 TIMES BY NOW>>503040360I don't know who that is but she's cute.
Just a matter of time before more people catch on that "A-Life 2.0" is nothing like A-Life.I wonder if the devs will ever acknowledge. The only thing I see them doing -if anything, is making so NPC/mutant spawns are further away from the player. Probably the most disappointing thing about the game, performance issues aside.
>9x18 pistol does more damage than .45
>>503040440I know, I hate it. The original slav accents were so good, man.I hate Ukrainian as well. It's like a botched version of Russian, but it's the only decent option.
>>5030405799x18=162162>45
>>503040542The game would unironically improve if they removed every cutscene. All of them could end with Skif saying, "Erm so well THAT happened"
Does anyone know how to reach this body in the poppy field?
>>503040138Novice and turn off all the crutches and disability shit.Unironically.
>>503040624agree with ukrainian being a botched version of russian, its kinda like what polish is to czechbut its still the best option for voices
>>503040542that's literally what SOC was too, the entire last few hours of the game is linear shooting against waves of monolith
>>503040310It's part of a quest you get from the barkeep in the starter town
>>5030405799mm is bigger than 0.45mm retard
>>503040784I never finished any of the stalker games I just kinda walked around shooting shit and creeping around then trying new mods. Dont really feel like doing that in this one.
You try developing a game under artillery fire, okay? Ungrateful fucks.
>>503041040.45 flies faster though
Enabled vsyncEnabled reflex low latencyNow my fps is stable
I'm heavily CPU bound in this area, still not as bad as Dragon Dogma 2's not-Gran Soren. I can't even hit 100% GPU usage in most areas.Time to order that 5700X3D some time soon. In retrospect spending $300 on a 5600x on the release day was a bit too much.
>>503040686Anyone?
you can get hit by lightning, becareful
>>503041169same, this game kinda sucks if they don't fix alife
>>503041432>fix alifeI don't think scripted "enemies spawn on top of you" behaviours can be fix
>>503041410>>503040686Nevermind. I reached him and it was basically nothing.
>stand in a field afk>suddenly military spawn behind me>run into cave>they despawn Excellent game, this is so great.
What the fuck is up with the game economy
1. Is it better than Gamma?2. Is it better than Joint Pak 2?
>btw we switched to coupons from rubleBravo Zolonsko
>>503041432Fix? You mean develop an entire new system and solve all the optimization issues since A-Life will tank performance on UE5 that's already barely chugging along?Let's pray anon, cause on paper that sounds like gigacope.
>>503041725It's a faithful reimagination of the Ukrainian economy.
>>503041725misery fingerprints are everywhere
>>503041725how bad is it?
>>503041725It's painfully obvious this was a rushed release with no playtesting.
>most negative steam reviews start with "I am a series vet with over 1000 hours in Anomaly/GAMMA/MISERY/SHIT LOT PROGRESSION MOD LOL
To add a-life they would need to completely rip out and redo the foliage system which is an atrocious hog only meant to look good in screenshots because that's all UE is ever good for. In motion it's a blurry ghosted mess
>>503041945You can't sell a weapon under I think 25% condition. An AKS-74u with 40% condition will net you maybe 200 koubles. That is more than it costs to repair your gun after killing the prior owner.
>>503042035YESi think there is far too much foliage/grass/treesimpossible to see anything past 20meters
Whats the verdict?Play now or wait to see if it gets better? attach a screenshot of your gameplay with your posts or I'll consider you a shitposter
>buy gun>find same gun 5 minutes later
>>503041945you are lucky to afford a single upgrade for any gun or suit, you get new suits faster than you can upgrade them by far. guns cant be sold if they are under something like 40 durability. quests will pay like 300 koupons, the only way to make money is selling artifacts and old armor
>first mission after tutorial>shoot bandits attacking guy then accept his mission>help my friend with more bandits and use this stash for supplies>get to the place>a bunch of guys in expensive military gear walk up out of nowhere, even had G36s>fight with the bandits is trivialDid I get meme'd by the fake a-life spawns or was it meant to go this way?
>>503042035>In motion it's a blurry ghosted messAre you sure it's not because of the DLSS + frame generation?
>>503041840the game uses almost no CPU, and a-life is a perfect use case for multithreading since AI doesn't need to be deeply coupled with rendering and physics if you implement it righti know they won't and can't, i'm just saying
>>503041945You get drowned in so many medical supplies I cant imagine ever needing to buy them, havent had to buy ammo yet either. Upgrades and repairs are expensive as shit though and you make barely any money from quests, its completely fucked.
>>503042082play now, complain in thread, then play some moreits buggy, lotta things i dont like, performance is pretty shit for most, some completely fucking retarded decisions on the devs part, but its still stalkergonna continue playing now
>>503042117>buy gunso you've never played a STALKER game huh?
>>503042082play it now only if you have good hardware
If you don't have good hardware in year 2000 + 24 you should have worked harder
>>503042286It's been fifteen years, calm down bud.
complaints so far>most enemies seem to be bullet sponges, or guns seem to be underpowered. Bloodsuckers taking a dozen point blank buckshot, military taking a dozen body shots from an AK>AI drop like 2-5 bullets, I swear the old games it was like 15-30>A-life??? I hope what's going on is its abstracted until near the player and the spawn in radius is just way too low, rather than it just being random spawns>been getting 90-120 FPS on ultra dlss 1440p, but after 2.5 hours of play it seems to tank to 25 fps and I have to restart to fix ithaving fun otherwise, A-life is my biggest concern though. The economy and bullet sponge stuff I assume will be easy to mod
>>5030423065700x3d with a rx5700 and it runs fine enough, actually surprised how pretty it is on this older card. Also i just realized my gpu and cpu have basically the same name, lel.
i think the day/night cycle is too fast, perhaps twice as fast as it should be
>>503042520A-life does not exist, reddit has tested this and they have concluded so, and they are the biggest GSC cocksuckers around.
You guys will like this bug: playing the game shuts off my internetI am pretty sure this is because my old mobo, a b450 gaming plus, is having its PCIE lanes maxxed out by my new 4070, my pcie wifi card, my nvme, and my 2 ssds. As soon as i shut off STALKER, internet comes back.
Do I smell... GIRL?!? AwooOOOOGA! Hubba hubba HUBBA! *stamps feet on floor* honk honk honk CHOO CHOO! *steam blows out of ears* AIEEEEEEEEE *head glows bright red and inflates like a big balloon*
>>503030024CoP has less A-life than ShoC and CS. Scripted fucking static game where nothing ever happens, everything is dead.
>>503039597ahuh, i have a 4080 super and 7600 and im getting 70/80 at 1440p at epic quality, dlss quality, no framegen, in the outside area. you are screwing up somehow
>>503042810>Freedom got a white woman>Duty got a black woman>Loners got whatever
>write up post about glitch with dogs attacking Squint in his hideout>motherfucking 15 minute post timerGod bless this shitty website for being designed worse than this game
>>503042149>Kill Military and dirty freedom hippies any chance i get>Loot goblin fucking everything>Always hit up stashes when running around>Always have supplies>Sell excess and spare gunsFeels good to be geared.
jesus christ is there really no way to close the fucking inventory looting witout pressing I or escape?
Apparently this thing is legendary and worth 60k "coupons", it's called compass. I found it at a gas station. Max physical protection but generates maximum radiation.
>>503042837and Stalker 2 has even less! There is nothing here!
>>503027774Anyone got that bread armor?
>>503042786thats hilarious
>>503042883I rebound to tab, as GOD intended
>>503042939>60k couponsThat's barely more than the basic bitch starting armor for 31k coupons
>>503040310>>503040128i feel its a little too early for a scoped rifle>>503042117dont buy SHIT in the early game friend
>>503042810>he doesn't know
WAITWAITTHERE IS NO WAY TO REBIND THE FLASHLIGHT KEY?!?!?!IS IT REALLY JUST NOT IN THE KEYBINDING MENU????AM I GOING FUCKING INSANE?
>cant even start the game because out of memory error when compiling shaderscome on dude, Im on a 4060 and 32 gb of ram
>>503042871>hes already this farget a job
>>503043176they 100% didnt playtest some things>>503039292
>breakable boxes on shelves that only break on the top so you have to jump up and down to get the itemretarded
well done GSC
This death screen fucking sucks. Takes forever to load and why's it a blyadcyka every single time.
>>503043325It's really starting to piss me off. Is this what the game is going to be, really?
>>503042842>you are screwing up somehowhow?
>>503043501look at your pc and close shit in the background?
>>503034982not gotten very far but here's the load screen for cordon
>>503038180Rabies soon, fellow stalker!
>>503033682Has anyone actually had an interesting experience involving dynamic emissions? In my playthroughs, it was nothing but waiting
>>5030436472/4
>>503043717Without A-life it might as well be a glorified timer
Losing my mind or is vertical movement different than horizontal with no settings for mouse movement?
>>503043814It is. Go to nexus for the ini fixes.
>>503043794Beautiful
>>503043814I blame wide Putin
>>5030437943/4
why does pressing the take all button not automatically close the inventory window?in what situation would I want to continue staring at an empty container?
>>503043495the ONLY thing I see GSC doing (and probably unmentioned in a future patch) is increasing the spawn distance.We are never getting true A-life.
>>503043794lol modded stalker always look the same. theres no point
>>5030439494/4
>>503043794Why the fuck didn't they just update Xray to 2.0 and use that...look how fucking good that looks.>duhhh all the original devs and engine programmers left!If modders can make it look this good then a fucking microsoft backed team could too
>old stalker mods lol there is no reason to cope anymore the true sequel is herethere are new copes like how unoptimized s2 is
>>503043959game was not played test because of bomb do not shit up the pants you have to be compassened for war developer making game in hard time when bomb explode
HOW DO I NOT DIE TO THE FIRST BLOODSUCKER IN THE VERY FIRST MISSION. WHY IS THERE ALREADY ONE HERE? WHY ARE THEY NOT ENCOUNTERED IN A BUNKER? SLOOOOOOOOOP GAME
>>503044348Get on top of the fence, it will just cycle below you front and back, so you just aim at one spot and hit it whenver it goes there, it can't hit you
>>503044348yeah its a real fallout 4 moment
Didn’t some anon take a look in the leaked alpha files and saw that the devs used OPENXRAY A-life? What happened to that?
you guys dont get itits not a failure of a-life, theres a lore reason for the spawning enemiesremember how monolith had teleport technology?Don't you think that since the first games there would have been some technical advancements?They're just deploying covert teleportation technology, its so advanced that it can be done silently now
The devs literally advertised this game has having "A-Life 2.0"This shit aint even A-Life 0.5, the fuck were they thinking?
>>5030418161. No.2. No.
>>503044517Probably an xray leftover used for reference.
for a buggy as fuck game, i'm having fun. it's my first stalker game though so that might be why.
IS THERE SCOPED REVOLVER?or shotgun revolver?
The biggest thing I hate is that unlike Call of Pripyat I cant just walk around wher I want it's some narrow corridor level design and more sufficating than SoC. And advanced enemies immediately. I want to shoot PEOPLE not gay animals.
>>503044691> The biggest thing I hate is that unlike Call of Pripyat I cant just walk around wher I want it's some narrow corridor level designConsider finishing the tutorial
>>503044567Not anymore.
>>503044770I cant the fucking bloodsucker is invisible and raping me
>>503027774can i run stalker 2 in dx 11?
>A-Life doesnt exist>lighting sucks ass>economy is laughably bad>mutants are just waste of time bullet sponges, why the fuck did they not bring back mutant loot>hunger system is completely unnoticeable and drains too >timescale is WAY too fastEverything else is okay. Devs took way too many queues from Ubislop garbage but at least its better than those.
>>503044792the website still mentions it
poltergeist undodgeable hitscan zero sound effect or visual queue attack for 90% hp is awesome when I got hit with that stuff I instantly knew kino + goty
>>503044792huh...
>>503044348dodge it faggotyou idiots need to get goodjust hold a strafe key and blast it when it sails past you
>>503042149>you are lucky to afford a single upgrade for any gun or suit,I haven't left the rookie village yet and I upgraded my nice scoped rifle about 5 times and all my other gear is repaired to max right now. I also haven't sold any artifacts yet.
>>503044792Not according to this dev.Also, they literally advertised offline A-Life simulations in interviews only a month ago, what the fuck happened?
artifact detector detects if theres an artifact on a corpse, or perhaps only for this one scripted artifact on a corpse
>>503045097I just ran away. Zero reason to fight mutants since there's no loot. Very bad decision by devs for that
>>503045182I haven't gotten any missions to kill mutants yet either
>>503045132wtf is A life?
40 minutes in and IM STUCK IN A FUCKING BAR BY TWO NPCS WHO WONT MOVE IN A SAFE ZONE
>leave first tunnel>charged to death by cow>grab first artifact>ass eaten by bloodsucker>plant scanner>radio tower crushes mewtf why is this game trying to kill me every 10 seconds
>>503045132Saving face for not mass outrage
>>503044615what age are you zoomies anyway. I assumed everyone here was 30+ like me and played the orig trilogy on release.
>>503031045>ran away from the hopping rats>did the nearby optional mission>exit the mission, the swarm of hopping rats found me and killed meAlso what the fuck is up with the respawn rate of soldiers? Did these retards not test their own game or what
now that stalker 2 is out, what is the definitive stalker experience? i have only played a bit of SoC and the Metro games
>>503045235Mobs have goals, patrol route, respond dynamically to threat, and they don't spawn right in front of you.
>>503045341>what is the definitive stalker experience?Playing AMK 1.4 in like 2013 on a laptop
>>503045341wait for anomaly 2 to come out in a decade
>>503045341Stalker SoC with automn aurora and then Stalker Gamma
>>503044231esl retard
>>503044348Same way you beat the first bloodcyka in SoC.You did beat the first bloodcyka in SoC, didn't you?YOUR KNIFE YOU FUCKING RETARD
>>503045341waiting for mods to fix it
>>503045341STALCRAFT
>>503045295>it's all scripted story shit
>>503044639yeah
>>503045373so that webm wasnt bugged? i thought it was unpatched gameplay>>503045406>>503045419>>503045450is the vanilla SoC experience that bad?
It's safe to say this game made the right choice to please the old fans.I am glad they did not lean to the "new comer" side and deviate the game to a product that is disliked by both parties.A mistake that were made too many times by too many companies on too many famous genres.We old fans will keep playing and stick with this game. The reputation of the game will not fall as long as we are still playing. The molders have much more enthusiasm to mod this game than others.Any DLC they release will be an instant buy from me now.
>>503045132>new marketing texts>literally just the one line about A-Life 2.0 removedOh no dev say is ok wtf i love Griga now)))
>>503045568stopped reading after ur second sentence
PleaseSomeone link or post the .ini changes for mouse sens parity between horizontal and vertical.Someone link or post the .ini changes to make compiling shaders not take 5 minutes on my 7700X each time I boot the game.Thanks.
What do we think about the protagonist, Skif?
>>503045665and how to swtich from dx12 to dx11
>>503045703english va sucks
>>503045703He runs funny.
>>503045341>metro*loud disgusting loogey spit on the ground*
>>503045132Important to note he's not a dev, just a community manager
>>503045748Try adding -dx11 to the path in your shortcut or to your steam launch parameters?
>>503044917>Devs took way too many queues from Ubislop garbagePeople who use the word slop and call everything Ubisoft are subhuman retards.
dlss frame gen getting me 100fps+ on 1440p high with an rtx3080https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/20?tab=description
>>503045568Retarded shill review (likely copy-pasted from plebbit)
>>503045887dlss framegen getting me 100fps+ on 1440p epic too but it's giving me .4 second input delay and blur everywhere I am so tired of this shitty technology being memed everywhere
>>503045341Radiophobia 3
>>503045885>already coping about your shitty consolized, bastardized slop console game
>>503045897Yup, I did.
>>503045568Listen, people, this game—this absolutely fantastic game—made the RIGHT CHOICE. They didn’t try to be something they’re not. They didn’t pander to the so-called “newcomers” who want everything easy, watered-down, BORING! Nope, they stayed true to the fans, the real fans, the ones who’ve been here since the start. It’s called LOYALTY, folks. Not many companies understand that anymore. Sad!Too many games these days? Total disasters. They try to be all things to all people, and guess what? THEY FAIL. It’s happened before, it’ll happen again. But this game? NOT THIS GAME. They played it smart, and now we, the fans, the legends, are still here, still playing, keeping the reputation of this game at the HIGHEST LEVEL EVER SEEN. Tremendous reputation, folks. No one can touch it.And let’s talk about modders, okay? These people are the backbone of gaming. The enthusiasm, the creativity—it’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen. The mods coming for this game? They’ll be YUGE. Incredible mods, folks, the kind that’ll make even the most “disconnected” gamer wake up and say, “Wow, this is the best game ever!” Trust me, it’s going to happen.And the DLC? Instant buy. NO QUESTIONS ASKED. The devs have earned our trust, big league, and when you earn it, you KEEP it. We’re talking loyalty, we’re talking support, and we’re talking about a game that will go down in history as one of the GREATEST OF ALL TIME. Mark my words: BEST. GAME. EVER.We love the devs. We love the mods. And most importantly, we love a game that knows how to RESPECT the players. Keep winning, folks. Keep playing. It’s a beautiful thing!
>>503045971same
>>503041220>artillery fire in Kiev and Pragueuhh, yeah, gotta need a source for that
>>503046058>>503045568chatGPT
>>503046010Explain exactly how it's like a Ubisoft game by giving specific examples of things that weren't in any of the original games but are in Ubisoft games. I sure hope you can talk about actual mechanics and design choices and aren't a complete fucking retard who hasn't actually played the game.
>>503045971with reflex on, the input delay is within reason for me. but yeah i agree. hate that games can't just render natively these days
>>503045885Open world ubisoft games have a distinct style that that hasn't been improved upon in any significant ways for nearly a decade at this point. A lot of other devs have copied the formula too and now its extremely overdone and boring.I'm sorry to say that you are the actual subhuman retard here, anon.
>>503046149NTA but enemy awareness markers are not in the original, often in ubislopNTA but radial menu is console shit straight out of ubislop
>>503046149>>503046283Also, "Rookie gets almost killed then forced into a shitty situation and then becomes master killer protag" story plot is straight from Far Cry 4
>>503046218>Open world ubisoft games have a distinct styleCorrect. They involved climbing a tower or hitting some landmark in each major area, and then getting the map unlocked and getting a checklist of certain numbers of a few types of objectives to clear that area. Stalker 2 has absolutely nothing like that. You're a fucking retard. A subhuman shit eating faggot who doesn't play video games and just shitposts endlessly about them.>>503046283Both of those things are far older than modern Ubisoft games, and you can disable the markers and not use the wheel.
I'm getting a bit miffed with the shaders having to be compiled every time and the game crashing in less time it took to compile said shaders.
>>503045665go to user\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windowscreate a text file called input.inipaste this into it[/script/engine.inputsettings]AxisConfig=(AxisKeyName="MouseX",AxisProperties=(DeadZone=0.000000,Sensitivity=0.07,Exponent=1.000000,bInvert=False))AxisConfig=(AxisKeyName="MouseY",AxisProperties=(DeadZone=0.000000,Sensitivity=0.07,Exponent=1.000000,bInvert=False))bEnableMouseSmoothing=FalsebViewAccelerationEnabled=Falsethen go to user\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\GameSettingsopen AppliedSettings.cfglower these values by a fuckloadMouseSensitivityCoef =AimMouseSensitivityCoef =then make sure to set the cfg file to read only or the values will get reset when you launch the game
>>503046427It also features guns and there are trees. Right out of Farcry.
You can just kill all respawning stalkers/bandits/ward ad infinitum and farm money and gear since there is no reputation mechanic at all outside of quest choices and they don't really exist in the zone as enteties. They just spawn and despawn so there's zero incentive to not kill everyone on site.
It is overhttps://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gw484t/the_enemy_spawn_system_is_destroying_my_immersion/
>you use guns >just like far cry AAAAAAAAAAA someone save me from ubislop!!
Is it true that they retconned artifacts, and now they turn to dust if taken outside the zone?
AYY KARAMBA
>>503046636And here I thought DD2 would be my most disappointing release this year, but Stalker 2 has one upped that by a mile.
>>503046693It's in the intro cutscene dude.First 3 minutes of the game.
>>503046441I dont know what else to tell you anon, the game just feels like ubislop. The way the game is presented, the quest system, the POIs, everything. The tower shit isnt the only aspect of the your standard ubislop experience.
>>503045871using the gog release
>>503046693They lose their juice and gradually disintegrate hence why rhere is always demand
>>503042939>Max physical protection but generates maximum radiationThat's not even what the compass is supposed to do lmao. It's supposed to be an exploring-booster artifact not a combat one.
Guys should I watch a few weeks for patches?
>>503045557Vanilla soc isnt bad but I would never get into stalker if i played it vanilla unfortunately. Maybe it was because I was younger, dont know. CoP is good vanilla though
>>503046693not so much dust but kind of into rocks, they become inert, think op 2.2 lol
>bloodsucker village 2.0
>>503046838>I dont know what else to tell you anon, the game just feels like ubislop.You're a fucking retard. You even brought up the Ubisoft open world formula. Here it is. It's a very specific thing that other games like Horizon or Spiderman have copied. Nothing like it is in Stalker 2. You're a demented shitpost faggot. You are mentally ill. You spend so much time calling everything Ubisoft slop that you don't even know what Ubisoft games are anymore and say dumb shit like>The way the game is presented, the quest system, the POIs, everything.When all of those things are just like the original Stalker games. The quests could not possibly be any closer to the original vanilla games, and the notion that POIs are like Ubisoft games and not straight out of SoC and especially CoP is absurd.>The tower shit isnt the only aspect of the your standard ubislop experience.That's a nice way to try to say "Okay you caught me and I can't give a single specific but I'm still right because I say so." Go shitpost on /v/, you dumb faggot.
>There is literally not a single mod for old games with a-life that would work normally and match my vision, even Anomaly works through hacks and magic spawn from thin air>Stalker 2 does not have it at all
>>503045341>what is the definitive stalker experience?CoP with the most updated misery mod, the misery mod addon, and a couple QOL mods for Misery to smooth out the ragged edges.
>>503046849ok so do this(butdx11 instead of dx12) if through the launcheror in the parameters on the .exe you're using to launch
>>503045703He's literally just Vee from CyberpunkAlso anyone younger than 30 being the protagonist feels wrong
>>503046881>>503047095Nope German flat out says that they crumble into dust and finds it peculiar that Skif's artefact is still intact and looks like a piece of coal.
When I first started playing, I was wondering why the fuck there were no magic threat detecting binoculars or similar way of identifying which enemies are hostile at a distance.Now I understand its because they would be completely unnecessary, since A-Life doesnt exist and npcs spawn right on top of you anways.
It is fucking overhttps://youtu.be/5UaXX04d0Ns?si=mYrkT7lSuCY7Oh4h
Is he going to be ok?
>>503046837I still have two more days on the DL. Probably another day or two for the patches that will inevitably be lined up. Maybe Monday I can play.>>503046881Goofy. I guess I can see it, but jeeze, how many dozens were getting exported per month in the first place? That market wouldn't have been close to satiated for decades... Seems unnecessary.
>>503047303Congrats on having critical thinking.
>>503047372same spot too lol>>503043325
I want to play STALKER 2 but it's just impossible to find a fix for how broken the keybindings are. I'm using IJKL as I'm left handed, and I do mirror mappings of the default controls and it's so fucked up.Nevermind that strafe right is hardbound to flashlight, but half of my keys, including interact, open the fucking PDA. How can any dev fuck up key bindings this much? I've never seen anything like it in a game.
>the game has a death trackerWell fuck you, too.
>>503046582I'll try that, thanks compadre
>>503047263Oh jeeze, so it's just total retcon then
>>503047481Not really a retcon since it was never outright stated what happened to the artifacts outside of the Zone. Only that people paid a lot for them and smuggling them was both thriving and highly illegal.
>>503047461 PREPARE TO DIE EDITION
Is there some kind of bug that stops the first anomaly from spawning? I have gotten it to spawn once and got killed by the mutant that spawns while I was answering a text and now it refuses to appear
>>503047373Maybe a scientific medkit would help
>>503046638>the enemy spawn system is destroying my immersionWell Russians are destroying Ukrainian lives. Learn to have some compassion
>>503047481Yeah, idk what the fuck is the point of artefact trade/doing special orders for scientists outside the zone in the original trilogy after this retcon
Very comfyEnjoying the game very much personally, it's everything I had hoped for. Sure performance could be better, I'm getting 30fps on EPIC graphic settings for 1080ti, but having too much fun to care, consoles are 30fps too and I'm just used to it desuMutants have too much health tho, take like 3 magazines to the head to take down. That feels off to meWorld is amazing, graphics look great, atmosphere is spot on, very satisfied with the experience so far, highly recommended.I'm 8 hours in, loving it
>>503042698It's so fucking over for a-lifebros.
>>503047431Holy shit. I didnt even realize it. It is so fucking over. Fuck these idiots. I remember Cyberpunk police like it was yesterday and I hated that shit.
what online features does this have for it to prompt account authentication every fucking launch?
>>503047685No timeframe was given. If it lasts a month then nothing changes except increased demand.
So A-Life has to be bugged right? There are two config files for ALife director and population manager.Default minimum spawn distance is 6000 (of something), and there's syntax relating to simulation starts and faction "lairs"Anyone have the OG trilogy ALife configs to compare?
I really don't like how bullet spongy these fuckers are. Hit it like with a shotgun 6-7 times, then switched to AK etc. to kill it.
>>503047785This is VERY interesting
>>503047704I'm playing around 50-60 FPS depending on what's happening on 1440p with my 3080.>>503047807I noticed headshots do an incredible amount of damage. Also shotguns against mutants absolutely wreck them on veteran. I'd use those, and then rifles for humans.
>stuck in a tunnel with a bloodsucker>he's nearly invulnerable to grenades, shotguns, AK fire>knocks me down in one hit, kills me in two>can't sprint and heal>can't spring and reload
>>503047807Bro I had one of them stuck on a tree and landed a grenade at its feet and then had to shell him twice with my shotgun for it to die. While they can kill me in 1-2 hits. I remember 'Suckers going down to a well placed shotgun blast to the face or explosions, at least in CoP when you go down to the school basement.
>>503047785Set DefaultShouldDespawnNPC = False and test it
>>503047886>Also shotguns against mutants absolutely wreck them on veteranThey really don't at all
>>503047785Change it to 150000
>>503047991It feels that way as opposed to magdumping a 74U just to take down a single flesh.
>>503041945>>503041725Guns always sold for shit in old stalker, how do artefacts sell?
>>503047989>>503047993I don't even have the game installed I got this from the gamma discordBesides you would need to repack the UE5 .pak for it to work, they aren't loose files afaik
>>503047989This will break your game.
>>503048089Everything sells for 15% of listed valueThe lowest level artifacts have a value of 7500
>>503042860>Duty got a hot negressreally?Most excellent, they truly are the best faction
>daytime Cool I hope it stays like this for atleast 20 minutes>5 minutes later eternal darkness descends and last 3x as long as day and my flashlight has sickle cell I ain't tripping right
>>503047785Hope gained>>503048127Hope lost
>>503047785Are the units centimeters? Because that tracks with what people have posted. lolAlso, if I understand that right, A-life is now curating NPC encounter #'s by ingame rank. How many tushkanos do you encounter when you're no1? 100? 6 chimeras? 20 bloodsuckers? 50 dogs? 'ALifeScenarioNPCArchetypesLimitsPerPlayerRank' honestly seems like the smoking gun here. A-Life :Scenario: means A-Life is just set up to create scenarios around you, with the scenarios scaling off player rank and enacting a sort of 'faction interaction' dance after a certain point. Rather grim.>AAATMV
>>503045557Not those guys are all retards vanilla SoC is perfectly playable and the definitive experience
>>503048343Is there a ranking system in STALKER 2? I didn't notice one in the PDA for my player and such.
>>503047886are you on epic or high? and frame gen?
>>503048280The weather changes are also super fast, possibly because they're tied to the ingame clock.
>>503047993>>503047989>>503048127I can test it out, but which way Stalker man, False or 15000?
>>503048398>are you on epic or highMix of both, using DLSS performance.
>>503048397Fuck if I know, still DLing. If it's from the gamma discord it could be from the leaked Alpha, in which case this is just a goat rope.
>>503031852I have no doubt in less than a week we will be seeing "backport mods" for a lot of new stuff, especially the anomalies and artifacts.People are going to ignore the Duty and Freedom thing tho. Like it didn't happen. They somehow made the CS cop-out for the CoC mod seem well writen.
>>503048429Flip a coin. The file path is: Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\ALifePrototypes
>no money for repairsHow do I get not-Rubles in this piece of shit game? Supplies from stashes worth absolutely nothing when selling.
>>503048483What duty and freedom thing?
>>503048648The same way you got them from the original games, sell artifacts
>>503033775Because there are no more segmented levels, it's all one contiguous map.
>>503048743Artifacts aren't worth shit, man. Honestly I've been gun running. Been getting about 1600 for vipers in fair condition. Going to hunt bandits for money.
>>503044092>>503043949how much busted ass vanilla shit did they fix?
>>503048803>Because there are no more segmented levelsYes and no, they're probably working like Bethesda games with cells that load in around the player and unload when the player moves away.
lieing assholes. fuck them. I am tired of this shitty industry. should have picked up another hobby
>>503048545I do not have that file
>>503046838You feel like an ubiretard.Get some real arguments or fuck off.
>>503048904What if they just fucked up the code
>>503048832>vipersThe very first mod we need is to give guns their real fucking name, none of this lame ass CoD made up bullshit
>>503047147funny your pic is unitythe last true ac game
sup, i'm new to this general but not to the franchise and currently S2how's it looking so far
>>503048994That's their name in the OG titles, dummy. Surprise, all the names of items and weapons carried over from the original games. Just be glad they're not flipped like they were in the originals.
>>503048973Why would they remove the mention on Steam product page though? It's all very fishy
>>503048973>>503048904yeah they actually inversed the numbers due to ukrainian language and made it a-life 0.2 instead of 2.0honest mistake
>>503048803The map is still made up of districts, literally why not just simulate AI in the district you're in and put the rest to sleep? Games like RDR2, Division 2, even fucking Fallout 4 was able to do this to different extents
>>503049029I like it. I wish it wasn't on the unreal engine, but I've enjoyed what I've seen so far.
>>503048994It's somehow more annoying when the names are almost correct but still wrong, like "AKM-74U" instead of AKS-74U.
>>503041816Not even better than unmodified CoC. It's over...
>>503048923Are you looking inside the .paks or your installation folder? Pretty sure you have to find them in the .paks using an UE asset extraction tool like FModel
anyone got the screencap of the steam page mentioning A-Life?
what is up with that bloodsucker death screenwho thought that was a good idea
Flopper 2
>>503049327>>503044792 ?
>>503049058>>503049052:\ well hopefully its just them fucking up the code cuz they're slavs. hopefully game is patched to be better. i'm waiting instead of buying or torrenting rn
>>503049301Yeah but which pak, I'm not opening them all, that takes forever.
>>503047807>I really don't like how bullet spongy these fuckers are.Dear GSC, ignore these retards.Do not cater to retards.Hide retard posts.Do not reply to retard posts.Do not cater to retards.
>turn everything low>my fucking detector doesn't blink anymoreHOLYSHIT
>>503049379thanks, didn't see it
>Skif's Pistol can't be dropped or put in stashesWhat the fuck, why? I dont want this shity gun in my inventory
>>503049374Hey dipshit Americans are going to bed and everyone else is asleep.
>>503046883Correct me if wrong but I can remember GSC changing what every single fucking artifact did in every single game. I'm still biased and believe the way artifacts work in the first game should have stayed as the way it should (I mean gameplay application wise, you could for real make sprinter builds and some other funky stuff, something you couldn't really do anymore by the time we reached CoP).
I even started a new game and the first artifact will still not spawn. What the fuck?
>>503049459GSC changed what artifacts did throughout the games but the actual intention for each 'class' of artifacts was already in the lore/description of them.Compass for example is a super rare artifact that boosts exploring abilities, almost like it's a...Compass!
>>503049517pull out detector
>>503049436It's your cutscene gun.
>>503049118Get this man a true
>>503045132Community Manager, if the Dev team didn't tell him A-Life 2.0 got removed, he has no fucking clue he's lying.Also, in a few weeks to days I suspect some Russian autist is going to fucking find how exactly it works after extensive hacking and thinkering and it's going to expose that it's just non-functional. A-Life is gone.
>>503049739It's out and I have been staring at the area it is supposed to spawn at for over 10 minutes. It's not fucking spawning
>>503049415?
>>503049905Why did you take a picture of your monitor? Are you retarded?
>>503049964Yes I am, and I'm pissed my full priced game isn't working. I've been staring at a pool of piss for over 20 minutes and the artifact still isn't spawning so I am angry
>voiceover language English or Ukranian?
>>503047249i have a pirated copy, what can i do?
>>503050094Why do you think staring there waiting will make it spawn?
>>503041725>suit 10% damaged, $7000 repair>AK 35% damaged, $5000 repair>MP5 25% damaged, $1200 repairThis is fucking insane. Thank god I dont have to buy ammo because I would have no money.
Did they remove leaning? Keep hitting q e and just waste my medkit and I can't figure out how to bandage since it also q. The only time I've used bandages is when I wasted all the kits. I'm mad about the UI so far. Probably going to rebind every thing later.
>>503027774This game is so fucking boring 6 hours and I’m done. This is my first and last stalker game
>>503050235There is leaning. Just rebind it
>>503050235It's x and c for some fucking reason
>>503050174Because I'm in the tutorial where it is a set spawn and my detector is saying it is there, I got it to spawn once before and got killed and now it will not spawn at all
>>503046638wasnt "A-live" always like this? in SoC the game would spawn sneaking bandits behind you.
>>503042871>can get pic rail upgrade for shah mp5>still cant put scopes on itNIGGERS
>>503050303The fuck?
>>503045557Vanilla SoC just gets boring after a while because you realize that because this is the first game of the series, a lot of stuff isn't in it. But the A-Life system definitely shines, fixed spawns are noticeable (fucking train station battle royale every fucking day), but the game DOES SOMETHING by using the A-Life system to "reward" whatever survives the first few hours of spawning be rewarded with having objectives and permanence and so it can roam and do and "live", even if just off-line, until you meet it and shoot it in the face because lolz. That shit in-action makes the Nemesis System look like a rushed game-dev class college project. And mind you, it's unpolished as fuck and it blows out of the water like 99% other attempts at simulating a world in an "open shooter". Buggysoft could never.
>>503050325Move around
>>503050349All of the original trilogy had scripted spawns for quests and a few random encounters. But everything else was 100% random as creatures and stalkers moved around the map organically.In Stalker 2, the latter has been removed and replaced with a Skyrim-esque spawn system.
>>503045231I got $500 for killing 8 dogs. I used more supplies killing them than I made back in cash.
i picked up two PDAs that i cannot get rid of from my inventory. They have the flag icon on the corners but I've already completed those. What am I missing here?
>>503050485Doing side quests in this game is completely pointless. Better off just looting stashes
>/v/trannies keep doomposting and pretending they can count>/pol/trannies keep bringing up the war because their lack of a father made it easy for grifters to sell them pro-russia propaganda>people that actually play the game are busy having funMust suck being so miserable and low IQ.
Stalksissies! Grok... won.
>>503045341OGSR.
>>503045341CoC with mods that enhance A-Life even further is definitely the most "Old GSC before the downtime" experience you can get.However, if you want fully exploited potential then either Misery with a ton of QoL mods or Anomaly with a gorillion mods.
>>503050567WRONGI'm stuck at work and can't play
A-life is what's causing most of my performance issues, which is a shame because it isn't even good
>>503050567There is nothing fun about this garbage
>>503050457I've circled the piss pools over a dozen times and it still will not spawn. I am getting frustrated
>>503050593whats that>>503050601damn its either CoC or CoP with mods, no clue what to try out
I'm legitimately disappointed with what I saw from A-Life so far. Man, it's the single fucking thing that made me play SoC back in the day due to anons posting their greentexts here. I have fond memories of shootouts where I escaped by a struck of luck when all hell was breaking loose between factions or humans and mutants. I still remain hopeful that maybe, just maybe some mods can fix it, somehow. Fucking hell
>>503050567I just want our general to back to the way it was. It went through three fucking threads since yesterday. These things would usually last for a week or two.
>A Ubisoft looter shooter officially has better A-Life than Stalker 2I'm tired bros...
A bespoke built AI system doesn't work well on unreal engine, wow. shocker.
Is the stuff about the game just spawning infinite bullshit if you stray from the main quest and explore instead true?
>>503050705is it worth trying out?
>>503050705No. Unreal engine is what’s stopping (((A-LIFE))) it’s officially over
>>503050829I'll eventually, of course, but they will have to release a few patches. I'm not touching that thing in the current state.
>>503050697Don't listen to that retard, play GAMMA instead.
Is the vintorez available without pre-ordering?
>>503050824Yeah have fun having wild boars spawn in front of you 20 times
>>503050829>pirating buggy game at launchI wouldn't even bother. There are better ways to spend your time.
it's so frustrating because for once framegen actually doesn't look like shit and puts my game at 120fps, but A-Live just had to be fucking broken didn't it
>>503050814I'm pretty sure even fucking InFamous Second Son had more object and A.I. permanence than whatever S2 is attempting to convince us it is doing.
>>503050697>whats thatSoC+Just the right amount of slavic jank and really cool new features, new quests lines, new dialog options, new ending, freeplay after beating the story. Tons of shit. Its still my favorite mod. Theres a gunslinger version but I dont recommend it.
>>503050945Damn. Bugs and performance garbage I could deal with but that's just shit.
Smarter people than the clapping seals here are pulling the files apart looking for shit to tweak already.
So are low condition weapons only good for pulling ammo out of?
>>503050992Framegen doesn't look like shit because you are generating from +50 FPS (I think the bare minimum is 60FPS iirc). The single most common mistake people make is trying to use framegen below that.
>>503050909fair>>503050916GAMMA or ANAMOLY?>>503050965also true
>>503051078no. they also make great paper weights and bludgeons.
What's the only score that matters gonna be /sg/?My money's on a 6, IGN has been harsh on bugs lately
>>503043501>>503043562I restarted my pc and lowered the settings as far down as they can go, and the performance is practically unchangedi would say it's a cpu bottleneck but the cpu is only at 40% load
>>503050652>noooo you're not having fun fun is a buzzword it's fake fun shut uuupGo back to looking at playercharts and pretending people going to bed is the game flopping.
>comfy emission downtime
>throw bolt>bandit goes looking for it>blast the back of his head with my over-under
>The double mags are actually functionalNeat
>>503050829Definitely not this year, neither next one.Also, nu-GSC so I'm a little worried that they are going to pull a fast one and sell DLC map expansions but never really fix the A-Life.
Are the blowouts fun, at least? Anyone here managed to party in one?
>>503051341They're scripted and only happen at certain points in the story
STALKER SISTERS ARE WE OK???
>>503051162If the one reviewing it knows about A-Life, they are going to tear the game apart. Starfield had better spawning rules than this.
>>503051389I hope you found that out only by playing the story and not exploring because that would suck
>>503051397Burgers aren't interested in the game as it seems.
>>503050829The map itself is big and quite interesting to explore (nicely furnished as well), game can look very pretty and soulful under certain conditions but everything else about it is shit. Just shit.
does anyone buy low durability guns?
>>503051341>Are the blowouts funyeah when it's me blowing out your mom
What the fuck is up with the literally 2000s-era pop-ins? Like for journal tutorial and other shit.How is this not a troll lol
>>503051397It's climbing, maybe today it'll beat Vermintide 2 (a 6yo game) recent peak even.
>>503051650not that i've foundsucks that we can't dismantle since there's no crafting systemi've just been dropping them on the ground
>>503051650No. This isn't skyrim, don't hoard loot.
Buy the game before it's delisted
>>503047785>Anyone have the OG trilogy ALife configs to compare?
how have we regressed from tarkov? i've found at most 3 food items so far. you can't strip weapons for parts. you can't take apart weapons. you have a seemingly infinite supply of magazines. swapping ammo type on a shotgun just leads to shells magically returning to your backpack. what the fuck is this?
any fix for the after quick save stuttering?
>>503051748>sucks that we can't dismantle since there's no crafting systemfucking zoomers, you don't need crafting in game
Theres a loading screen tip that says to make sure you stay fully rested by sleeping but there is no actual rest need.Also what the fuck does hunger even do? You get hungry way too fucking fast so it feels like a chore but I cant even tell what the drawbacks are to begin with.
>>503051893>regressed from tarkovWhat do you mean? They copied "enemy spawning on top of you" from Tarkov just fine.
>>503042860>slav>white
The devs have some answering to do about A-Life. Or will they just tune people out?Players need to be relentless in getting answers from them. A-Life is a BIG thing, and if "A-Life 2.0" is nothing but a facade, people need to spread word about it.
are you just supposed to throw away equipment that's too damaged to sell?why can't I scrap it or something?
>>503051896I am stuttering like crazy out of nowhere, game runs fine and suddenly it stutters because idk
>>503052038Don’t even bother hoarding loot. Just artifact and stash farm. The economy is garbage. Fuck this game
>cant carve mutants for parts to sell>every artifact is radioactive, making them useless>$5000 to buy 40 shotgun slugs>artifacts spawn one at a time in fixed anomaly zones>gear repair is outrageously insanely stupidly fucking expensive for the most minor repairs>no binoculars >no night vision>enemies spawn out of thin air 20 feet away from you>why the FUCK DOES IT TAKE 5 MAGS OF 5.45 TO KILL A FUCKING BLOODSUCKERThere is more I could complain about but I dont want to type any more. I am, unironically, going back to gamma.
>>503051908The crafting system in anomaly/gamma is fun. Gives you more options and things to do while also helping you feel more like a part of the world. It would have been a purely positive mechanic as long as its designed well.
>>503051560all i want is a neat side quests and good exploration and the comfy guitar camps in my travels. what stalker game or mod gives me that experience?
why do vendors have infinite cash????
>og stalker normal mode was the hard mode because of sponges>stalker 2 normal mode is easy mode because of spongesebin sergiy!
>>503050325how the FUCK did you die in a tutorial?
>>503052186With how bad the game economy is, making vendors have finite cash would be even worse.
>>503052125It's *literally* no different from the other three games in that regard
really disappointed that this game doesn't have in depth weapon modding, i thought this was what inspired tarkov
>hoppy kangaroo rat fucks take multiple 5.45>go down in a single makarov bulletWHATIS THISGAME
>>503052278The economy is fine on easyEasy is better in every way except you don't take enough damage, that's itEconomy and progression are balanced, upgrades don't cost 5000 each, etc
>>503052157Call of Chernobyl
>>503052142>as long as its designed wellToo bad most crafting systems aren't designed well
>>503052330>i thought this was what inspired tarkovin a very general sense, it was.
are repair prices just extremely expensive or i'm just not deep enough into the game yet? those repeatable from warlock gives u like $900 at most. repairing like 30% of my armor costs $3000???
>(dies)
>>503052267Because the invisible asshole took every round I shot in stride without dying while beating me to death
the fact they add bloodsucker in the first 20 minutes makes me think this game is just not gonna be good. they probably didnt even add any unique enemies, so they just add their super epic streamer moment ambush at the start to make kids think it's an awesome gameidk it's just pathetic and I dislike it, new generation won't be shocked by the dying guy moment in SoC. Or some high tension tunnel ambush when youre on your way out. Their first encounter will be right at the start in a spawn out of the ether tutorial moment Sad.
>>503028179I bet it isnt too difficult to make a script for that. Not to say analmeme is the same but i had a custom version of the check ammo script where my character would lower the gun for half a second and a message would display for approximately how much ammo is left in a magazine
>>503052378>what is over pen
>I-it's just an issue with the spawns, they should be farther away, then ALife will work perfectly!This implicitly confirms radius-life was an intentional design decision, what were they thinking
>>503052438Games trash what can you expect
>>503052453the new mutants are terrifying
>>503051072wow so smert>>503047785
is there any secret setting or something I can change to stop this crazy stuttering, I got a 3070 I shouldnt be stuttering this badly
to me, stuttering is like scratching an itch and making it worse.just stand still and don't move your mouse. problem solved.
>>503052382>economy and progression are tied to difficultyI am absolutely livid right now.>>503052509No that is an Unreal Engine feature.
>>503052438It definitely wasnt cheap. Durability and ammo were tough parts of the originals. That sounds high though
>>503052474That bloodsucker mission in CoP was pretty early on from what I remember, and that was a whole nest.
>>503052486"Overpen" doesn't exist in this game. You're giving too much credit to the developers.
>>503052489Radius life is how the normal game works, unless you mean offline simulation. There is no offline simulation. "alife 2.0" is literally just spawning things near you based on conditionals.
>Fall down a shaft>Well fuck reload>Walk back again, but this time a group of bandits ambush me and i die>Fuck dude, lets go fuck them>Reload and go look for them>Nowhere to be found nowYeah, shit is spawning randomly around you. I have no issues with performance, i haven't had any gamebreaking bugs or anything too annoying but this kind of shit puts me off so bad.Is it the same on Stalker GAMMA? i heard you can see bandits from miles away
>>503052508Can't be that smert if he's asking to compare the x-ray configs
>>503052592Yeah I'm probably just nostalgia goggling hard over the bloodsucker using that dying guy as bait in SoC
>>503051397>Burgers don't care because the game is broken and they think it's Russian. So it must be Russian propaganda (they can't read)>Russians can't legally buy it, and why even bother anyways?, modded stalker RAPES S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 raw any day and it does run at all in their dinosaur computers. Also no Russian dub either. But it's Russia so I'm expecting one mod for it in like less than half a year if not next month because A.I. voice services.>Soviet and Russian aesthetic enjoyers have no reason to play it because it all got removed because "Fuck Russia".>Anyone curious about it gets word first of any of the 3 reasons above + all the bugs, errors and half-baked simulation and they decided to just go play the old games or even fucking STALCRAFT or some Roblox copy of the gameplay.>GSC going to deny the obvious and blame it on themselves releasing a buggy game, nothing else. They can't officially say it's because they ripped vital pieces of it for the sake of not showing a hint of anything that could be seen a Pro-Russian even by accident.GSC is done. Even if they aren't, this game ain't getting fixed.See you all in S.T.A.L.K.E.R 3 with slightly better A-Life but smaller world (Kiev will fall before it is even announced).>>503051838It already got "uploaded somewhere else safe" so it's not like much could be lost anyways. Simulation is fucked beyond repair, currently thinkering with it but nothing substantial seems to change besides worse performance by trying to make things somehow "work as marketed".
>>503051906>hahaaa I posted le pig streamer webm again
it's not like this game requires hiring some MMO economist to balance the economy. there are barely even 100 items in this whole game. just what the fuck did they do?
>>503052489It's 2024 and somehow open world games have less believable AI than early GTAs
>>503052621Yeah that's what I mean, "A-Life 2.0" is literally just GTA traffic spawning logic and nothing is persistent
>>503052656To be fair you're not wrong, even in CoP it was like "Seriously? We're doing this straight off the bat?"
>>503052657>this game ain't getting fixed.chat is this true?
>>503052673Made a garbage game
>>503052710Yeah it's probably cause I never even bothered doing the missions half my playthroughs that it seemed much longer. In this one you have no choice. You are railroaded into seeing it...
>>503052453
>Those aren't bugs, those are Anomalies!
grok will save us
>>503052629>Is it the same on Stalker GAMMA?CoC/Anomaly/Gamma restored a lot of the ALife behaviors that were cut or otherwise absent from CoP. Stalkers and mutants spawn on map edges and walk to whatever smart terrain they are assigned to. Along the way if they encounter a hostile faction the game will simulate the battle, or if youre close enough they will actually fight. Its not a perfect system because sometimes you will spawn in on top of an enemy patrol and just die but its significantly better that whatever the fuck S2 is doing.
>>503052642yeah>>503051861>>503052618do you have proof?
>>503052873>whatever the fuck S2 is doing.>whatever the fuck S2 is attempting to make people believe it is doing*Fixed
Kinda off topic but what's the deal with having to compile shaders? I remember having to do it with certain emulators but now its a thing in PC games?What gives?
>>503052684>>503052693i wouldnt even have been mad if they handled NPCs like in RDR2. towns have loads of unique looking npcs that don't shit on your performance. sure they spawn out of thin air in the out open world but at least it's out of sight. and scripted encounters were created in such a way that it felt dynamic. would take that over what we have in stalker 2 right now.
am i supposed to sell these notes and pdas or what
>>503052982Unreal engine. It has to play all VFX at least once and save it in a corner of your pc memory for quick access when needed otherwise you will stutter whenever the game tries to load that effect in the middle of gameplay.
>>503052982Most games compile shaders when you first launch the game then caches them so you never need to do it again as long as you dont change graphics drivers. IDK why S2 is compiling them EVERY time the game launches, it doesn't need to. IDK if its an Unreal Engine thing or shit code.
>>503053081no clue, i can't read the notes for some reason but the PDA gives me notes. some of the NPCs that the notes belong to dont have a trading option so i can't even give it to them.
>I can't make a million save files if I wantThis game fucking sucks. Why even limit the saves the player can make?
>>503052621Yet they specifically advertised their A-Life as having offline simulation multiple different times, why the fuck would they lie like that
>>503052330Heavily modded STALKER is where the series earns its reputation. The vanilla games, or even vanilla+ fixes so shit actually works is fairly simple. I'm not saying they shouldn't have taken anything from all the modding community work over the years and the game has other huge problems but a lot of this thread sounds like people expected this to be analmeme 2 and not STALKER 2
>>503052982it's preparing visual instructions specifically per your GPU and settings. in games where it works correctly you only ever compile it once and it's saved on your PC. no clue why stalker 2 keeps doing it every time we launch.
Might buy the game at a later point. Can you transfer saves over from a torrented version?
>>503053215They didn't lie. It's broken. Now whether they will fix the fundamental problem or just patch the basics of what's wrong is the real question.
>>503053089Being a big dumb ass who doesn't know shit from fuck would it not be easier to just do that and ship it with the game rather than making the user do it?>>503053119I only ever saw it as a thing when emulating Switch and PS3 stuff and at least then you could download all the shaders separately so you didn't have to do it.
>>503027774Holy shit walking this much is so boring. Boring everything about this game
>>503053236i think i just had the wrong expectations because i never played the OGs. this feels like a very old school game with modern graphics and i think it makes sense to me now.
>Now the official story is A-Life is only fucked in the lesser zoneCan anyone in the late game confirm if A-Life is more noticable or is this manager full of shit like that last one
>>503053289If you disconnect from steam, transfer the saves to the whatever legit folder and then resync I don't see why not
>>503053236>sounds like people expected this to be analmeme 2 and not STALKER 2I expected Stalker 2 but instead I got Farcry, Slavic Unreal Engine Assetflip Edition.
Is it just me or is the carry weight actually TOO punishing? I dont remember it being this bad in the originals, not even anomaly/gamma feel this restrictive.
Started playing it today. I am still at the begining and the thing that bothers me the most is how you are thrown in to the story. I have no clue what is going on.
>>503053384LMAO this has to be a stalling tactic or something. are they going to fix A-Live just in time before people leave the lesser zone? hilarious.
>>503053435I've seen people say that is actually fine.
>>503052829nobody cares about your shitty discord echo chamber Grok.
>>503053384No, im definitely still getting bandits magically spawning in behind me in garbage.
Any torrenters here? I closed the game and I am opening again....don't tell me it's going to compile shaders every single time
It's ChErnobyl
>>503053384Seems like damage control but it makes no sense why would the spawn radius be so fucking small to the point that walking a few metres and back triggers it
why is the radial menu all fucked up and retarded?it feels like they didn't even test this thing when using a mouse, it's super fucking jittery
one thing i actually like about this game is the intro quest. when i played SoC a few months back, the game just throws you into the open world with no pointers. took me a few hours before i realized i had to talk to this specific npc standing next to a wall for the main quest. not a fan of all the ubisoft objective markers in S2 though, i turned all that shit off.
>>503053450>I have no clue what is going on.Yeah, STALKER is like that. Just immerse yourself. It will start making sense. Make sure you pay attention to the dialogue too. Don't just roll over everthing.
>>503053591Don't use it. It's part of the console port.
>>503053591>it feels like they didn't even test this thing
>find one high capacity mag>magically have an infinite supply of them nowGOD i hate what tarkov did to me
>swarmed by dogs>jump on top of car >they all run away and hide>the second i step off the car they swarm me againI am going to scream.
>>503052657Stalker was 100% Ukrainian aesthetics from the start, the entire military faction is the Ukrainian Army and special forces while Duty are ex-special forces that gone native.Speaking of which, there is no way that the Military faction won't be the glorious pure morally good guys in Stalker 2 considering they are in a war with a draft notice taped to their door right?
>>503053736same thing happened to me at the warehouse with the bandits>step close to the gate>dogs swarm you>step away from the gate>dogs go back inside the compoundfucksake i just want to bait these fuckers into the wind anomaly thing.
>>503053736Very high IQ. So this is the power of A-LIFE
God the inventory sucks ASS, what a shitty designYou can do inventory tetris but then you realize thats completely pointless because the inventory expands infinitely anyway. You can auto sort things but that just makes everything extremely sloppy and disorganized looking.
it feels like the low lighting and the shitty flashlight was made just to hide unreal engine defects
>>503052137Play orginal CoP on normal754 KB >cant carve mutants for parts to sell >every artifact is radioactive, making them useless >$5000 to buy 40 shotgun slugs >artifacts spawn one at a time in fixed anomaly zones >gear repair is outrageously insanely stupidly fucking expensive for the most minor repairs >no binoculars >no night vision >enemies spawn out of thin air 20 feet away from you >why the FUCK DOES IT TAKE 5 MAGS OF 5.45 TO KILL A FUCKING BLOODSUCKER>Woah I love this muh Stalkerinos for 10 years>Ukrain Invasion> get this > Nooo I hate this go backfuck off zigger
>>503053691>Reloading has your character popping the mag and throwing it awayI fucking hate it, tarkov mag autism is so good
>>503053872its annoying because the stash doesn't expand infinitely, and you can't fucking ROTATE your items to play tetrics
>>503054024Tetris is Russian so they removed it
>>503053920Most likely it's because of Lumen aka perma-RTX. Introducing a new light source that the player controls and can shine anywhere would kill performance due to the many extra rays that need to be cast and computed.
>repairing 20% of your gun cost $2000>the 'upgrade' where you replace the ENTIRE milled receiver with a stamped receiver costs $200what the FUCK
>>503054024>>503054095>"Tetris is Russian so they removed it"K E K
Guys I found an artefact that fixes coupons being grindy!
>>503054119this lumen shit just feels like a bad idea. lighting reacts in such a delayed and unrealistic way. >open door to where v-sauce michael is>light shines through and illuminates the room>walk in>door shuts behind you>light slowly dissipates even though the door had been shut for an entire 2 seconds
why does the detection meter show up every time I leave my pdais there some dude creeping on me in the shadows?
>Sunset makes all the shadows go fucking haywireI hate it
old shit from old times
>>503054284Welcome to unreal engine.
>>503054364
>>503054119>would kill performanceI mean, you know...
I like things being expensive because it rewards you for being a real stalker and hunting for anomalies to sell.
>>503054450>it's da engine!>not the retarded sjw developers who are women and amateurs!
slopper 2?
>silencer on>quietly shoot the bandit doing push ups downstairs>walk upstairs like nothing happened>5 seconds later>all bandits aggro on me
Is there a stalker mod where you play as ecologist?
>>503054284That's slow-ass eye adaption simulation. Real eyes don't work that slowly which is why it feels weird
>>503050478>Skyrim-esqueOh, so that's WHY I have been feeling like I had dealt with this shit before. But I couldn't pinpoint exactly from where.Yup, it's fucking TES V spawning down to reloading a save and the entire encounter sometimes just vanishes because you saved a second before the game decided on what to spawn in the next 10 seconds.
>>503054450couldnt the devs just have opted to not use lumen?
>>503054572Call of Chernobyl lets you play as one
waited over a decade for a far cry spinoff award
this game ACTUALLY compiles shaders more often than call of duty, what the
>>503054450Blaming everyone except the incompetent devs, I see
Is there laser sights in this
>>503054743Now imagine what modders will have been put through.
>>503054535>>503054750Yes, you dumb nigger, lumen is the lighting engine in Unreal. It is shit and slow because it bakes GI at runtime so any time lights change it has to rebake the whole scene. There is no way around it, its how unreal works.>>503054652Yes, by using a different engine.
>blast blyadcyka with two sawed off shots at blank point>walks away
>>503054758yes
>>503054793>let's use lumen for dynamic light in closed spaceslmao
>>503054491based
>>503054574this is what i mean by the way, when i step forward and the door shuts behind me, the light that was coming through the door slowly dissipates as if photons were liquid. not sure if this is eye-adaptation like when you step out into bright light.
>>503055040That has nothing to do with lumen; it's just shitty ass brightness normalization
>>503047390The whole retcon is just to justify why the world outside the zone hasn't gone full sci-fi setting.If artifacts turn to dust outside the zone, they can't properly be neither studied nor replicate or used in anything commercial or long-lasting. Which means that the Earth there is going almost 1:1 with ours save for occasional news about the Zone, I guess for them it's like an actual faithful Bermuda Triangle but on land.
>>503054574they do when you get older laddeh
>>503048398>are you on epic or high?bruh like you wouldnt believe
>>503055108whatever it is it's fucking shit, feels like light is sticking to objects and needs time to dissolve, like this door was a sponge for light and soaked it all up until it ran out of power.
>>503055243you're the nibba who posted his bong pic earlier
has anyone tried slugs against suckers
>>503039503good vid. thanks for sharing.
>>503052657>>503051397discortrannies crying you love to see it
>>503055301It feels like they fucked up HDR and eye adjustment to be reverse. What you'd expect is, when the door is open, the dark edges around become darker due to eyes adjusting to the bright light outside. And vise versa, closing the door should brighten the wall around it because your eyes are adjusting to the dimmer light. But they fucking REVERTED the eye adjustment.
So did they ditch projectile based weapons for hitscan or is that just /v/ bullshit?
>>503055542people were literally complaining about snowball projectiles
why the fuck are fleshes so tanky
>>503055660i had a flesh tank four point blank toz blasts and then go on to fight a bloodsucker for 5 minutes and only then it died
Damage control continues, actual community manager will hop on soon to answer ALife questions. Also,>A-Life 2.0 can do a lot more than A-Life 1.0, such as hunting artifactsIs there any documented instance of this happening?
>>503055660Mutants are gunslinger levels of tanky in 2It's a bit of a drag
>>503055765Asleep at 9am on a weekday? Damn, I wish I were unemployed too.
>>503040564This is no man’s sky levels of fuckery.
>>503055853could be working western hours
There will 100% of the time be a bloodsucker spawn on the road to rostok, and then a mercenary squad. Fucking guaranteed spawns, literally hard coded spawns DOG shit game.
>gaming "comment" faggots already doing the whole "YOOOOOO LOOK AT THIS CLIP OF A CORPSE PHYSICS GLITCHING THIS GAME IS SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT" thing like they do with all new games that aren't gooner cheesecake japshitit's all so tiresome
>>503056092>There's a guarenteed boar spawn under the bridge in Cordon!>There's a guarenteed blind dog spawn near the entrance of Rostok!>There's a guarenteed merc spawn on the second floor entrance to Wild Territory!There's a lot of problems with A-Life but come on this shit has existed since SoC
somebody else come across these undroppable/unsellable PDAs in Lesser Zone as part of a mission? I've come across two so far that were part of side missions and they have the flag icons in the corner so it's not letting me move them out of my inventory. I've already completed the mission, and I have no clue why I cannot get rid of them.
i'm genuinely considering switching the game to easy because of how stupidly tanky mutants are
>>503056363Can you not dump them in the shared stash?
Why the FUCK are repairs so expensiveIm like 8 hours in at the garbage outpost, taking my time, and it cost ALL of my money to fully repair my suit. I haven't spent my money on anything other than a few cheap upgrades and have been actively selling looted guns and artefacts.This is worse than I expected, how the fuck do they fuck up the economy this bad? Is it affected by difficulty?
>Mods removing the blood sucker faggots tanky hpBased. This shit may be playable in a month.
Would ray tracing fix the awful lighting? I assume it doesn't as I didn't see an explicit option for it.
>>503056458I tried already, it won't let me move either out of my inventory
>>503056428The good news is, there are already mods that decrease the HP of tanky mutantsThe bad news is, it's from Grok
>>503056520what is grok? this is my first stalker game.
>>503056490Lumen is raytracing. Its just deferred over multiple seconds to not tank performance.
>>503056363Classic stalker. No dropping pda's
>>503056569GAMMA lead modder
>>503056569Creator of the GAMMA modpack, aka the worst thing to happen to the Stalker fandom
Which optimizer from nexus should I get
>>503056812https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7?tab=descriptionThis one seems to work.
give it to me straight - how ogre is it
>>503056639Doesn't seem like real raytracing then. Why the fuck is entering a building so dark? It acts like every second is night time or some s hit.
>freedom is just some weird fags living in a lumbermillThey did absolutely nothing to push you towards cooperating with them.
>>503056980It's raytracing that's deferred over multiple seconds to save on performance
>>503056998>GSC finally cutting the shit and telling you Freedom are a bunch of creedless selloutsBased actually
i dont get it, how is it that developers had years to work on the game, yet some numbers tweaked in a settings file by some random guy on day 1 fixes performance issues?
OK lads let's get together and figure out how we can blame putin for the lack of A-life system
>>503057182It will broke something else. Or maybe whoever came by with the fix has 5000hours in UE tweaking.
>>503056980>Why the fuck is entering a building so dark?Thats HDR. Theres probably an auto exposure setting in the ini to make it faster. Pretty much every game uses HDR but its particularly bad in S2 because the exposure speed is so slow and the contrast between brights and darks is pretty extreme.
>>503057182First time playing a pc game with mods anon?
