Blow out in my fucking pants edition.I shit myself, this was incredibly close. >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: >>503027774
not super familiar with base game STALKER weapons, will there be night vision / thermal optics or head mounted devices?
>>503062171Seen some pics of a merchant that had a rifle on the wall with a thermal or nvg scope.
Stalker trilogy modding won. Stalker 2 sucks balls dude. Like the atmosphere is great, the guns are okay too, the visuals aren't stellar but are passable, and the story is okay as well, but everything else is just shit. Mutants are sponges, stalker AI is just bad, the constantly respawning "alife 2.0" is horrendous compared to CoP alife (and 10x worse compared to modded alife), the cutscenes take me out of every moment there are too many of them, and the quests are all very lackluster.I'm about 10 hours in and just feel like going back and playing radiophobia or gunslinger again.
i'm having fun with the game but what the fuck is this LMAO
>>503062335what a disaster lmao
This is a great time to be a retard who can't really see the difference between 30 and 60 fps.
>>503062443I wouldn't know, steady getting 140+fps
>have to become a loot goblin just to repair your fucking geargrim
>>503062335Feels like I'm watching an old call of duty video where the enemy team is getting spawntrapped and camped
I've been playing Stolkor 2 all day and the game's painfully Mid.I have a beastly PC and it runs well, but has nothing to show for it. This is a direct Xbone port, where's the real ultra settings?There's not even flashlight shadows for fuck's sake! And the draw distance is Terribad!MoozE is gone and half the atmosphere went with him.English dub is pretty shit, and I'm not listening to fake russians pretending their language is a real language.Gameplay mostly just sucks, mutants are way too tanky and human NPCs are non-threatening on Veteran difficulty.Economy is almost Misery tier in how fucked it is, at least early game.CoP/CS artifacts are back, instead of trying something new it's back to get rad absorbing arts before you can do anything, fucking soulless.Detectors are soulless, too. Bring back my SoC artifacts.Really GSC should have struck while the iron was hot, where's the cancelled Stalker 2 we were promised? Old team is RIP in piss and the new team clearly doesn't have the skill and the passion to match.Best case scenario for this middest of mid games is an AMK tier mod comes out in the next couple years, then it'll be a fun experience.Alright thanks for reading my Blog, I rate 5.5/10 waste of SSD space.
I have my gripes.I also have my praise that this is one of the most beautiful and atmospheric games i have ever played. We will see if i keep that opinion after the honey moon phase wears off, but man am i enjoying my self. Biggest complaint right now is exploration feels like it's pointless unless someone sends you there.
>>503062335A-life 2.0
>>503062335we're reaching jank levels that shouldn't be possible, reminds me of those old crap games made by city interactive
>>503062718Uncles with high end pcs and just wanted something vanilla style are having a great time it seems.
>>503062582Not even sure why you're giving it a 5.5/10 when you haven't said one good thing about it. Just call it a 1/10 like you want to, pussy.
>>503062718>exploration uselessJust like CoP
>>503062335Slavic Whack-a-mole 2.0, this time the moles shoot back.
>>503062902I hope stalker 2 mods use nexus instead of that archaic-ass moddb>>503062962Honestly it feels most like call of pripyat in a lot of respects. They definitely want you to be questing and "coloring within the lines" so to speak
>>503062902Go updoot me on ap-pro
Is Stalker 2 better than the vanilla old games?>>503062718Is it as bugged as they say?
>>503063110ayyy mlyaa
>>503063131>Is Stalker 2 better than the vanilla old games?hell no
>>503062718>exploration feels like it's pointless unless someone sends you thereLike in the originals?
Are poltergeists just fully invisible now? Something threw a butcket at me. I didn't see shit.
>>503062961Please check internet dictionary for what "Mid" means. I'm currently amazed it hasn't crashed yet.
How big is the area and are there any driveable vehicles?
>>503062962>>503063205That's not the case with the originals and even if it was true, it's been 15-17 fucking years.
>>503063260I dont know about driveable vehicles but I've been playing 6 hours and I havent gotten more than 500m from the first city without having to make a return trip at 1mph due to HAVING to loot everything just to fix gear
>>503063215No, they're the same as before he's probably above or below you.Don't let them touch you this time round, they hurt.
>>50306233515 years for this pigshit
is it like far cry 2 in terms of difficulty, at least?
Flopper 2 being bad finally pushed me into trying GAMMA.
>>503063080i'd prefer steam workshop support over nexus desu
https://files.catbox.moe/rjnajh.mp4Goofy ass rodent
>>503062582I'm in the same boat. It feels like the game has been Ubisofted. Not sure how else to explain it.I think there's a good game to be found in Stalker2, but it will take a lot of modding to bring it out.
I was hoping some artefacts would be a little more interesting than generic defense bonuses and shit this time around. Looks like thats probably not the case.At least theyre better than before I guess.
>>503063237I'm not accepting retarded zoomer speak. From all you've told me, it shouldn't even have anything above a 2 because you haven't told me ONE good thing about the game or why I should consider it. You even said it was a waste of drive space. If I was just some random guy who barely knew about STALKER, and this is what you told me, I wouldn't think it's "mid". I would think it's complete fucking garbage.So again, stop being a pussy and just call it garbage. This isn't reddit. You won't get negative karma or whatever for saying it's garbage.
>>503063576rodents of unusual size?
>>503063736I got nothing else to play, so I'll keep sampling this "garbage". Subscribe to my Blog for updates.
>>503063660>but it will take a lot of modding to bring it out.That's the problem..i wont have mods like we have in COP
The compass should not be a HUD element like every other fucking game. It should be a physical compass you pull out and look at.Also the flashlight should cast shadows.
bump >>503060439
I knew it wold be trash as soon as they announced that they are using UE5
>>503063945i can't play with it on, it feels too braindead, much like skyrim where i just track a quest put my camera towards the direction and hold w.
>>503063736NTA but it's garbage. Simply.Story? Ass.Graphics? Generic.Gameplay? Lobotomized for consolefags
>>503064031Your GPU is dying lol
>>503064143only happens with this kusoge
>>503063913Just replay the old games and/or one of the mods if you need the stalker itch scratched. Otherwise just find literally anything else instead of torturing yourself.>>503064128And I respect that.
>quest removes tech from region>okay i'll just return to the lesser zone it's right outside my next objective>inaccessible area that "looks" passable on the map>it's the same for EVERY passage back >wasted 2 hours
HEY /SG/ I GOT YOUR ALIFE RIGHHTTTTT HERE*GRABS CROTCH*
How are people ITT liking stawker 2 so far? living up to expectations?
You fuckers were doomposting about having no pip scopes yesterday. What the fuck is this then?
>>503064128It's slightly above garbage, it's Mid. Painfully so.>>503064201>Just replay the old games and/or one of the mods if you need the stalker itch scratched. Otherwise just find literally anything else instead of torturing yourself.I am stuck waiting for OLR 3.0 updates forever. It's currently more than acceptable levels of unstable.>>503064179Might be this Kusoge is the only one fully loading your GPU? Anyway Works on my machine™
>>503064289I want to die.
>>503064256can i get a taste good sir
>>503064306?
>>503064306it's not a pip scope because it zooms in your whole view.
>>503064289Expectations were low and I'm still disappointed.
>>503064306not a PiP scopeare you blind?do you even know what that means?
>>503064306>>503064404>>503064419Yeah I noticed that too, lmao. Can you even do picture in picture without massive frame drops in unreal? I might have seen that in Mechwarrior 5 mods but that's a different unreal.
>No helmet overlayWhy not add that simple detail?Could be the same shared by all suit, just fucking add it.
anyone else bothered by how fast the time passes in game?
The game's art direction is very good, the weather effects in particular are amazing. Gunplay feels good and is a big upgrade over the Xray games. The new map is my favorite part of the game, a completely seamless zone with no loading sceens just feels great. Honestly almost everything is an upgrade over the original trilogy so far. Except for the fucking A-Life. Of course they would fuck up the one thing that they absolutely couldn't afford to fuck up. The lack of A-Life makes all the positives about the game completely worthless. The game just feels completely soulless without it, I feel like im playing a Stalker expansion for a Far Cry game. There are plenty of other issues but almost all of them are ultimately fixable, most of them are extremely easy fixes even. A-Life is not fixable, unless its actually just incredibly bugged or someone forgot to change "A-Life = 0" to 1. This game is fucked.Now I just want to start a new GAMMA playthrough and wait with my fingers crossed that this trainwreck gets fixed.
SAAR PLEASE DO NOT REDEEM THE STALKERREDEEM THE ATOMIC HEART SAAARAPPLY FOR RUSSIAN CITIZENSHIP SAAAAR
>>503064289RTX 3070 Ti here. I'm having a blast so far. (After an hour of tweaking graphic settings, some settings like global illumination/shading/shadows can all be performance draining.And if you've got low VRAM I recommend lowering textures, object detail and environment distance.8GB are not enough.The textures don't look that bad on low, the engine loads them based on distance. So even in low you can see good textures when closer. Higher texture settings just increase the distance. Someone correct me if I'm wrong here.>>503060439LOD model probably. Does rebooting the game fixes it?
>>503064568you'd get more people reading your entire bait post if you stopped capitalizing gamma you know
>Now i just want to start a new GAM-ACK!Way to eliminate any credibility in your post right at the end.
Damn, Stalker 2 graphics are INSANE!
Is it just me or does Skif have the same VA as Male V from CP2077
lol
>>503064662>Does rebooting the game fixes it?Tried a few times, nothing. It's a steam pirated copy so I'll try one from gog, see if it changes anything.
>>503064667Its only bait if you're a retard who's loves to eat shit, in which case you never mattered to begin with.
>>503064679>>503064667seething lmoooa
>>503064795I don't play stalker in english so idk
jesus christ this is roughi'm at the compound where the sphere isi clear out everyone, climb a ladder and jump on a rooffor some reason this triggers 4 npcs to spawn in the middle of the compound and they immediately start attacking me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BitxBikwCARETVRN
Fleshes have way too much fucking HP, especially considering their new lunge attack.
Man, I saw the map and it immediately downed into me that it will take a while to 100%.(imagine the QA testers who had to MTBF 100% the game before release, heroes)
>>503064879>adar in thumbnailim gonna puke
>>503064818So the Ward is just the new Military faction? Is the original military still in the zone?
what's with this faggotry of going on about mods for the first stalker games?we fucking know.i've played them.no.i'm not interested in playing something i already played through years ago.go shill on reddit or something
>>503064917yea its a bit stupid. i watched one walk into a burner anomaly 10 timesbefore finally dying, and i even had to put buckshot into it
>>503063576He's just doing a cossack dance, the dance of his people
>>503064289as a newfaggot to the series, I'm entertained. as a 4chan poster and /k/-main of 18 years I see how it was so attractive and created the board culture that it did and it's fun so far. I can totally understand how oldfags who've played all the games would be disappointed. As soon as I saw it was coming to consoles I knew it was going to be kneecapped from the go.
>forced to use one of the upscaling methods because else the game looks overly sharp especially with all this foliageis this some retarded UE5 side effect?
>>503065138Listen buddy, Mr Huang didn't spend all that money in R&D to make overpriced yet underpowered cards, and gaslight the whole gaming and AI industries that they NEED to use them for you to come here and be a bitch, now turn on DLSS or FSR and enjoy your slop. Also better start getting used to eating bugs.
>>503065092op here, but yeah i kinda dislike some of the aspects specifically the yellow paint and some of the ui elements that feel like im being treated like a toddler´, i might buy it again after patches and some mods come out
go here to witness A-Life 2.0 at it's very best
Maybe im just spoiled by mods but the weapon variety seems really bad. Its half of what it should be
>>503065334It's still better than the originals, if you can believe it.
i've barely fired 4 mags on this ak and it's already at 70% dura?
>>503064567the day/night cycle is too quick yes
>>503065334I'm sure people will mod more guns in, but yeah as the other anon said the originals had horrid gun variety
>>503065420That'll be 10,000 coupons plus tip for the repair you stupid goyim
>>503065247The yellow paint can be turned off at least.
>>503065638Oh i must have missed it in the settings
>>503065638I have it turned on and haven't noticed it at all aside from ladders
>>503065420>Rifles break in seconds>Most mutants take multiple mag dumps to kill>Repairs cost thousands
>>503062024is it true that the game doesn't have A-life? if it is how much did that impact the feel of the game?any glitches that fuck up quests?
I fell for the compiling shaders meme. multiple people saying it's bad because it happens every launch. this made me think it would take 15 minutes EVERY time like the first launch but it doesn't
>can pick up every weapon>weapons have durability>can't scrap them for parts>can't use them to repair other guns>vendors won't buy them eitherit is such an obviously bad design decision.
>>503065810Vendors buy yelllow dura weapons
when do they ever stop respawning? you clear out one part of the base and they respawn on another end while you're not looking. this is just ridiculous.
Has anyone been able to find something outside of the settings menus to squeeze out some more frames? My 2060 doesn't feel very good on my largeass monitor!
>>503065915yes we get it you found a bug
>>503065915If youre at the dome base they dont stop respawning. A-Life 6.9
it just keeps getting worse
>>503065685I think it's under Game or whatever the first tab is.>>503065707I only thought about it after I knifed the lock in the tunnel funny enough. I had to reload to make sure I wasn't seeing things. Went ahead and turned it off.
>>503066016game's been pretty playable for me so far up until this point. im stopping here and waiting for a fix.
My biggest bugbear is the headlamp not staying on after reloads. It's also kinda flaky turning off and on sometimes.
>>503064879>2:!3>that fov>those trees swaying like blades of grass>2:10NOBODY RELOADS THEIR AK LIKE THATfuck I hate retarded modders
so the game wasn't ready for launch?
>>503065774Also>get nothing whatsoever from killing mutant
>>503064818Shame too, I really wanted to kill some Piggers
>Try out the USP>Kill three guys and a couple of dogs>64% condition
>>503066262No fucking shitThey couldn't risk the backlash if they delayed the release again
>>503066308You could always enlist
>>503062335>>503062581this lmao
>>503065801i got a 4090 and 32gigs 6400 and compiling shaders takes forever. i just closed down the game to do something else, came back, boot it up again and so far it's been a good 5 minutes halfway through the progress bar. this is ridiculous.
>>503066346>>503066262kek
>>503066416>>503066416>>503065804
>>503066416I'm not here to invalidate/doubt your experience.Shader compilation on Unreal Engine is a CPU process.
>>503066262*ahem*
I downloaded the trainer and explored the Zone at 8x run speed, God Mode, and 8x jump height. Most of the map is loaded, but it's extremely empty.
>>503066262yep
>>503066416something is wrong with your computer.I have a 4090 with 64gb of ram and it installed the shaders in like 30 seconds
when people said slavjank I wasn’t expecting actual jank
>>503066565That's pretty common eula stuff anon.
ok I like that you can play guitar at campfires and actually play chords. I was just playing Down In A Hole by Alice In Chains (before rudely being interrupted by a pack of dogs)
>>503066564>>50306665413700k
>>503066684You think this is jank? You have no fucking idea what real jank is, the jank I could show you would give sleepless nights for a month.
>>503066616it has to run on consoles and the shareholders demand feature parity, pls understand
>>503066684
>>503066616If I sprinted around zaton from the start of the game I'd say the same thing
Look who its kiddie winks! It's Cordon Superstar Sodorovoch!>verification not required
I tried shooting a bandit in the head and he dodged it while running towards me.IDC, it's GOTY. A-Life makes no sense unless it's free play mode with factions imo.
you know the devs are incompetent when they force mouse acceleration on.
genuinely feel bad about killing these things as they look exactly like my good boy
>>503067037does he buy broken guns?
>>503066262>remove any a-life mention from the website one day before release>say that a-life is bugged and not that the feature has been mutilated to run on unreal turd 5 and xboxSpawning a squad of ennemies when you enter a "point of interest" is NOT a-life
>>503067290stop fucking picking up broken guns anon
>>503067213Just imagine their his evil siblings that bullied him and now they're coming back with a vegenance.
>>503067208my biggest gripe desu
>>503067345thats all anyone fucking drops. can't loot their armor.can't loot their helmets.
>>503067425Yep that's stalkerfind anomaly fieldsget artifactssell those for cash
it's almost 1PM in Czechia and they still haven't pushed a patch.
>>503067085You can't dodge bullets
>>503067520They had to delay the game multiple times just to get it in the barely contained nuclear reactor explosion state it's in now. Don't hold your breath.
>rivatuner and msi telling me im getting 60fps >motion blur is completely off>every time i quickly turn the game looks like its dropping fps even though my fps counter is staying at 60What in the hell is going on?
honestly? Kingdom Come: Deliverance had better "A-Life" than this.
>>503067706turn off V-Sync
>>503067706inconsistent frame times?
Are there fewer artifacts in anomaly fields this time around? I watched a gameplay of a guy walking into some freaky multi-type anomaly area and all he found was one medium rarity piece.
>>503067208I really dont understand this. I turned it off with the tweaks to the ini that were posted here, but even turning my mouse to the lowest dpi setting I could it was still way too fucking fast. Who in their right mind actually wants or needs to whip their view around at mach 5 speed in stalker or any fps for that matter? Low sens is best for fps, so you can get accurate headshots.
>>503067912mostly boomers use high sensi, so boomer settings for boomer game i guess?
>>503067734It is off>>503067814How would I fix that?
A good mod to play as monolithians? With some real main task and stuff, not anomally "sandbox"
>>503068006port the game to a better engine lul
>>503067716KCD was also total ass until 2 years of patches
>>503067559No Neo, what I'm telling you is, when you're ready, you won't have to.
thoughts?
>game runs 120fps for 10 hours>all the sudden I'm getting 1-4 fps any time I'm near any enemy
>>503068186i have to relaunch my game every hour because of this
>>503068186so it's cyberpunk release then
Someone redpill me on Freedom. Are they cool or are they just annoying stinky hippies?
>>503068334realistic hippies (sellouts)
>>503068334all talk
>>503068101The fact that you can't equip the sawn off into the pistol slot is fucking criminal.
>>503068186The zone is telling you to take a break
>>503068006check VRAM, texture setting doesn't work like in other games. It's a texture quality x distance slider. The higher the setting the farthest it renders high quality textures. Even at low it loads ok resolution textures in close range.Can anyone confirm this?
>>503062335So this the true power of A-Life 2.0.......No wonder GSC removed it from their Steam page.
>>503068332as someone that played cyberpunk2077 on day one, this game is leaps and bounds better than that was.
>>503068186lower object details. Stalker models are high poly af.
>>503068582i also played it day 1 on ps4, now i have a top end pc so i dont think my perspective will be quite the same
>>503068186>>503068245it even has memory leaks, they really delivered the whole package-enemies spawn on top of you-forced mouse acceleration-PiP scopes removed-flashlight shadows removed-niggers-trannies-mediocre graphics for such high hardware requirements-BSOD-dead, empty world (broken a-life)-only scripted blowouts-shit voice acting-can't join factions-no binoculars-no point in exploring-downgraded to hell and back (and it still has trash performance)-pripyat size cut in half-no Mooze soundtrack-awful UIThis is just from the top of my head, did I miss anything?
>>503068458You've been spoiled by mods
has anyone got s2 running on linux? how does it run?
>>503068759If theres any mod that should have been made into a base game feature, its that one.
>>503068819supposedly works well but don't ask me about details
what the fuck are these artifacts Skull Emoji
>>503068034unfortunately i don't think it exists, closest thing to this is the final chapter of return to the zone where you help them.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>autoleanEven Grok wouldn't do something this stupid
>old stalker alife>load a map and all alife spawnsall >alife becomes active and moves around within a certain distance of the player (usually far enough that you will never see an inactive npc, even while sniping)>offline alife in other areas will still be running scripts so that they can react to information accordingly when they become active, even AI from other maps will be "moving" around like a group of stalkers that walk to the bar from cordon, will "move" through garbage while unloaded so if you say enter garbage at 1pm they might be at the hangar, but if you enter at 4pm they will instead be at the rostok checkpoint>nu alife2.0>"yeah idk dude, player is in the area spawn spawn spawn spawn spawn lol time to fight we were totally always here!"Mol1t is a lying faggot and GSC scammed people again lmao
how do you make money for weapon upgrades or even repairs for that matter
really?
I think i found whats fucking the game up. I ran perfectly until I dropped a gun on the ground somewhere, after that I got constant stuttering. I went back and picked the guns up that I dropped and my FPS recovered.
a-life 2 doing its thing
>>503069023this shit is literally worse than what bethesda has
>>503069083How did you even have enough ammo to kill all this? It takes two mags to bring down one of these cocksuckers
>>503069071>especially with a gamepadhuh?
>>503069192do old people really
>>503069080interesting.for me, game starting fucking up when it tried to spawn too many patrolling guards in town. normally there are 2 walking around, but the game spawned 4. and then started this sequence of continuously despawning the 2 and respawning them. tanks my fps to 1-5 everytime this happens in town.
>>503069295old anon (35+) here, I don'tI will never accept using a controller for playing first person games
>>503069080File a bug or let them know on the discord. I dont plan on playing it until you sheep or the nexus moddders get all the major issues fixed https://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us
>hoard absolutely everything>bring it all back to the store>sell absolutely everything from 7 hours of gameplay>it's enough to fix three of my guns and repair my armor and mask with not enough left over to purchase an upgradelol
>>503069318I have the feeling this game is absolutely buttdestroyed people's VRAM. I lowered all to low and even then it's eating almost 6GB+ for me.Playing on low or medium textures because only 8GB VRAM, still looks ok. But I'm so getting a 5080/90 later.
>>503064289I like it and i think everything that kinda shit rn can be fixed but what the fuck were they smoking with some of the design decisions. And playtesting? Who the fuck needs that
>>503069652I have 24gb of VRAM and it does not help. The game runs the same as the rest of you
You can get 7 coupons selling random bits of shit you looted off a corpse or 2500 coupons selling a single low-tier artefact.It's stalker, not fallout. Go hunt artefacts.
>>503069515>STALKER 2 wont be like GAMM-AACK
Why is it kupons and not hryvna/rubles
i hate how it's called coupons it makes me feel like i'm larping
is there an aim assist setting in the options?I'm just digging around in files trying to fix my game because it won't run so I haven't checked
I won't lie, coupons is literally basedtier shit
>>503068756At this point Im not even sure if they botted the reviews and shit, like pretty much every answer to a bad performance discusion in steam gets flooded with "get a better pc poorfag"
>>503070032Why? What makes them based?
>>503069727what is the refresh point for artifacts in the same location? is it a blowout
>>503070128It changed the word I used. I said s o y
based boomer
Will S2 work on GeForce RTX2060 + Ryzen 5 2600 with 48 Gigs of ram?
>>503067474>that'll be 2000 for an artifact worth 17k minus tipAlso gotta love how "reputation" only affects voice lines, traders will still have the same inventory and prices despite becoming friendly with them.
>>503070156Nigger, you don't make any sense. I actually like coupons because the temporary currency in Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union was called that.
>tfw want to try playing more Stalker 2 but I'm too close to the 2 hour mark on SteamI really want to play and enjoy this game, but I also think I should just refund for now and come back in a couple years.
will stalkan 2 run on my 486?
>>503067474But you barely get anything for artifacts in this game
>>503070251Yes, you need to turn on FPS generation though. One Anon suggested getting the one mod from nexus that allows 20 and 30 cards to use DLSS generation. Nvidia are such kikes, AMDs generation helped me a lot on my 3080 before i knew about this
anyone figure out what causes microfreezes every few seconds? I think it happens a lot when turning in a 90 degree angle. Like shit loads in too slowly and freezes my game for a split second.
>>503070407as opposed to guns and consumables?It's literally the same shit as call of pripyat
>>503070194I'm still waiting for Chud/Basedjak edit of this image from Kaskoyob.
>>503069080Great, I've been dropping guns left and right, then there are also the guns dropped by the AI.My save is fucked, there is no way I'll be able to hunt down every single one of those weapons.
>>503070514Its funny to methat /sg/ is way more critical of S2 then fucking /v/ lol
>>503070469>what causes microfreezesthe game.
>>503069295I use a controller for FPS games because it adds much needed challenge, mouse is literally too easy unless the game was made specifically for mouse controls
>>503070469nvm I was fucking with some AMD settings to reduce input lag and turning them off fixed it.
Ru tracker has the gog version nowrutracker.org forum viewtopic.php?t=6602470getting peaks of 5MiB/s DL
>>503070572I swear nobody seems to remember how vanilla CoP plays, because S2 is very similar.
>>503070514You got alot for artifacts in cop though. I could get at least 16k for 2 artifacts. In this game.you get maybe 2000
>>503070154I haven't seen a single anomaly field spawn in another artifact after grabbing the first one during my 8 hours of gameplay, then again I haven't progressed far enough into the story to get a blowout either, so those MIGHT refresh them, but I am doubtful.
Anyone playing on 16 gigs of RAM? I don't feel like swapping RAM around between my PCs but if I need 32 gigs then I'll do it I guess
Even reddit has noticed. It is over
>>503070748>it's happening
>reach the base>sneak inside>shoot exactly ONE (1) enemy in the head with a suppressed handgun>unlock this achievement
I don't care for A-Life, I don't know if it ever did anything for me in the old games, it'd be good enough if they created a convincing illusion that there's some sort of life simulation going but looks like they failed even at that
>>503070521Hope this helps till your wish gets fulfilled anon
>>503070917all they need to do is make the random spawns spawning near you get their distance changed by like 500 meters and fix the respawning in bases bug
>>503070886you killed everyone before A-Life 2.0 could spawn the rest.
>>503070430>One Anon suggested getting the one mod from nexus that allows 20 and 30 cards to use DLSS generationThat mod just makes games with only DLSS FG option use FSR FG instead, there is no need for it in stalker 2 since FSR FG is a default option.I think there have been some people who managed to make actual DLSS FG run on the 30 series cards but it was very, very janky, to the point where you couldn't really say that it worked.
Sneed
>>503070640vanilla cop was like 15 years ago. it was my first stalker game as well and then I liked it so much i went back and played the other twoThey need to do a lot of balancing for this one. I stopped playing and will back it back again after a few major patches
>Stalker Optimizer modi was gonna check it out but reading the comments put me off
>>503070640Vanilla CoP is probably my favourite way to play Stalker and apparently no one played Vanilla CoP here. I was always asked myself why you could find 10000 reviews to SoC and Clear Sky but not CoP
>>503071123https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7This one did it for me. It's either placebo and I get slightly better frame pacing or it actually works, and shaders compile in like 30 seconds instead of 5 minutes.
>>503071123I got that mod and suddenly I could no longer compile shaders without the game crashing. Removing the mod immediately fixed it.
>>503071123Have any of these kind of mods ever done anything useful, seems like they're always placebo or just basic .ini tweaks
where the are the antirad artifacts i got a soul from this quest and it gives medium endurance so i can stop chugging 10l of energy drink per hour but it gives me super rads so i just fucking DIE
>>503066770>intel>cuckcore architectureYa blew it.It being too much money on the wrong CPU.
>>503071250Radeon card?There is now an updated version of the mod for radeon cards, they kept crashing on shader compilation
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/31how do we feel about this
>>503062024do i have to fucking compile shaders each time? sh2 didnt have this shit. i cant even launch the game in dx11 mode
>>503071218>>503071250>>503071263what put me off mostly is people saying it crashes and if it works, you stop being able to see certain anomalies
>>503071516miseryslop
That one bloodsucker in the cave I had to kill with a knife cause I was way to low on ammo. Luckily I had enough medkits and bandages for it
>>503071263Trying it now. With my settings I was struggling between 50-60 fps. I got the one with the demake "boost"
>>503071516>BF3 style blue pissfilterNah, that ain't it.
>>503070948Beautiful.
>>503071218>>503071250>>503071630anything that helps with stuttering?
>>503071546yes but after the 1st time its noticeably faster. my first time was 15 minutes and now it's like a minute
>>503064818I would like this if they were genuine nationalists.
none of these optimizer mods do shit for me because the stuttering is caused by NPCs aka A-LIFE 2.0
>>503071263>>503071630Didnt do shit for me. FPS is exactly the same and turning my camera inside of buildings still has that weird ass visual lag even though my fps counter isnt dropping.I'm sure the game would run smoother on better hardware for me, but that wont fix all the other glaring issues the game has. Alife being an absolute joke that looks like a nuketown spawntrap lobby from CoD kind of kills the game for me
>>503071603I haven't had any issues with anomalies and stuff, the game looks fine and runs as good as it can I guess.>>503071706The one I linked to that other anon helped me with frame pacing and stutters a little (they're still there but are microseconds at best) I do have a beefy rig 4080/7700X combo so take that as you will.
>>503066108But they do, I saw this exact thing when clearing out the IPSF base at night.
>stalger 2 needs to cookso uuuuuh about that new gamma patch, hope it drops soon
>>503068925Damn, how about something for ecologists? They dont get love outside call of chernobyl
>>503068645wouldnt that be lod?
>>503072024I think grok said Dec 3rd
unironically get 30-35fps on a gtx 1650 but the stutters are super annoying. never played any of the stalker mods, which has the best atmosphere?
>>503068756>-trannieswhere is proofs? I thought it was just a meme>>503069401this. based.
>farmed infinite spawning NPCs at the dome base>go home>sell loot>repair gear>net loss of 3000 kouponsnice.
surprised theres not a mod to replace that stupid death screen already
>>503072107noice
I miss roubles. I know why they changed it but still
>get shot twice in merk suit>go to mechanic>4k to fixAre these things made of ballistic fucking gold?
>>503072194so this is what the game's economy was balanced around
>>503070384these kids dont know what a 486 is
>>503071921lemme try although mine are minimum reqs
>>503072258>here look you died to the same 2 bloodsucker tanks for the 30th time!Honestly wtf were they thinking?
>>503072258Same. I miss the live death screen from the ogs
genuinely surprised there isnt gore in this game
>>503072385grim
why do so many stalkers have this kind of look.
the game was nice when everything seemed to work, until i witnessed with my own eyes the power of ALife2hope it doesn't take these guys 2 years to fix this shit
>>503072494anon pls theyre called ukranians
>>503072387guess its a bit faster but how do i know if its actually working?
>>503072494Look like an average senior web dev faggot that interviews you during the job search. They all look like this here.
>>503072737i thought these were went to be hardened men of survival instincts, not 3d laser scans of dweebs from the development studio.
>>503068756wait is there really only scripted blowouts? thats insane if true
>>503072627yeah a solid game but missing its core feature unfortunately. I almost was not going to play anything else for months until i realized it needs fixing. They might never fix it though becausw alife never existed here in the first place
>>503072387is it supposed to be "mods" or "~mods" ?
>make 12k>spend 11k on repairs
something is seriously wrong with directional sounds and sounds through walls
>>503072847there definitely is an alife system. it just needs fixing, which they said they will do. hopefully its before the end of November and not the end of 2025.
>broken economyanother one for the list
>>503070610das a lot of terrorists
>>503072059For objects, weapons and characters AFAIK. Low looks good enough to me so I keep it there.Coming from SOC/CS/CoP geometry even low is better.
>>503070748>enemy spawning diswualifies it from being a stalker gameis that a fucking joke?
there's just something off about it
>game runs kinda shit>visuals on anything other than max look like shit>lighting is completely broken (intended feature in UE5)The game itself is fun but holy shit, next release needs to go back to xray, even if it's a ground up rebuild, UE5 cannot handle anything other than cutscenes.I'd rather have gotten a new content release on CoP's engine than this mess.A game like STALKER can't be done properly on a slop-purpose engine like UE5, and I'd rather see the basic dynamic lighting from old xray with stencil shadows instead of shit like lumen and the fucked HDR system the game uses now.
>>503070748>disqualifiesreddit fags really thing they have any power over anything
>>503073398it's like on of those cryengine fan games but in a really shitty engine
>>503069515what are you talking about? Why would your shitty guns and gear have any value? Do you understand the premise of this game? No one wants your fucking guns lol. They want artifacts.Did you confuse it being described as 'survival' gameplay with it therefore being some sort of Survival setting? lol this isn't a survival themed game. No one wants to buy a fucking gun. All the guns in the world have been brought to the zone, no one is buying guns or any stupid gear, and no one is going to give them to you cheap.It's like you're playing a game where there is only crack cocaine in a tiny area of the world, and all the crackheads turned up scouring this area for tiny crack pebbles, and you're going around collecting crackpipes and going>GET YER CRACKPIPES HERE! >omg why won't anyone pay good money for these crackpipes i collected!?all the crackheads already have crackpipes.no one wants your fucking guns. if anything it's stupid in the games how much you can sell gear for and how little artifacts are worth.
>>503073398da fuck is wrong with this guy's beardalso why is there a guy t-posing behind you
>>503073562the t-posing shadow is actually me lmao
>>503073529I never understood people that thought of this game as a survival game. Maybe if you change the accepted definition for "survival game" to literally just mean "try to stay alive lol". The only thing stalker ever had similar to survival games was having to eat food.
>>503073624why does your shadow look like you're standing while you're sitting by a campfire lol
>>503073410>UE5 cannot handle anything other than cutscenes.Wrong, UE5 can't handle anything other than tech demos. Even movie games chug out the ass, this engine and every Jeet that worked on it needs to be deleted.>>503073647People call the Resident Evil games survival horror since forever. 'Survival' is just the concept of managing limited resources.
>>503073647A fuckton of Anomaly/Gamma/Misery/Whatever who never played the vanilla games wtihout a single mod make up 90% of the Stalker fanbase at this point
>>503073647> "try to stay alive lol"not even that lol. for the player, not the setting. Roadside Picnic, and STALKER which it's inspired by, is more like suicidal people and people who have nothing left to live for and crazies etc going to the zone.
WHY ARE THERE NIGGERS IN THE ZONE
tree pop-ins are way too noticeable manwhy do the LODs not at least have the same shape
>emission>nobody goes inside>lightning strikes literally 2 feet from a guy>no reaction at all>people sleeping inside>guy walks in and starts playing guitar right next to them>tells jokes to a room full of sleeping stalkers>"my knees are aching, guess an emission is coming">while there's been one going on for 10 minutesholy slavjank
>>503073950deadly anomalies
>>503074025>UE5 shills nanite as the next coming of Christ to make LOD management and popins a thing of the past>Still get popins in every single UE game>Even Visions of Mana which is just a cartoony shitfest runs like shit, chugs and stutters and has insane pop-insThis engine is the worst thing to happen to video games since Oblivion's Horse Armor.
>>503073950dangerous mutants
>>503074264so there are random emissions? also the lightning is a bit silly yea. ive had it hit within 10m of me like five times now
>>503073950anarchists and bandits
>>503074421Buggy DLC when Greedygorovych
any neat moments so far despite a-life 0.0?>fight bloodsucker>run out of ammo>no medkits>have to eat kalbasa>cant run away>pull out knife and fight>just manage to kill him>low hp and heart pounding
>dialog option is "Get to the point.">MC says "What kind of job did you have in mind?"WHY DO THEY KEEP FUCKING DOING THIS FUCKING JUST WRITE WHAT THE CHARACTER IS GONNA SAY IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY FUCKING SENSE
>>503074421UE5 is the endstate of terminal sloppification of gaming, evey single shitter devs uses UE5 because it has the most support/documentation/learned devs, the death of soul I personally wish total absolute destruction on epic
>>503062024Did the previous games have that obnoxious skull cracking sound? It's kind of jarring to pop some guy in the head from a fair distance away and hear a skull explode right in my ear
>>503074770nope
>>503063131Yes
I watched one video about 2 (as if my piece of shit can run the damn thing lmao) and now I'm jittering like a fucking crackhead, I want to talk about what little story spoilers I learned so badly.
another minor gripe - i wish they separated subtitles for cutscenes from random stalker dialogue. seeing every bandit saying (dies) every time they groan is a bit stupid. same with all the campfire talk
>>503072056nevermind, i was looking for something to play on the c-con list and apparently there's a mod where you play as a monolith sniper called "winter sniper". It's based on a winter version of pripyat, didn't play it but seems a cool premise. For the ecologist i never saw anything, they will always be pussies in their bunkers i guess. except kruglov
what's the name of the song they used in the launch trailer?
does it work the same as before, in that high difficulty: high damage taken but also high damage dealt?
anyone else think time passes a bit too fast? is it like that in the originals?
Are there any relatively dense forests in the game? At least something approaching Clear Sky Red Forest - all I've seen from screenshots and videos are sloppy sparse UE5 """forests""".
>>503074982on veteran, from my experience even bandits dont die very fast unless you headshot them. mutants are fucking retarded bullet sponges except for dogs.
>>503074982No. The mutants are basically walking tanks on Veteran (dunno how it is on other difficulties but the most downloaded nexus mod is for mutant health rn). Fighting other stalkers is a blast though, the AI is actually somewhat smart and headshots kill like before
Sucks about stalker 2.What's the concensus here on anomaly vs gamma? Or is there a new one you all play now. Anomaly was okay I just modded or customised what I didn't like last time
>>503075062red forest area is still here
>>503075026I think time scale in the originals is alright, never felt too fast for me.
i feel like i'm doing ok
I really don't feel like playing the game anymore after 8 hours, I absolutely fucking loathe the encounter system which is definitely not A-Life and the economy discourages you from doing absolutely anything since you'll always end up in a plus minus null situation.And before anyone tells me to go hunt for artifacts, I already cleared the starting area and they don't seem to respawn.
>>503075309I have almost the same loadout except suppressed makarov and i found the OZK suit
>>503075219I liked Gamma better. It is built on top of anomaly anyway
>>503075219gamma is just very heavily modded anomaly so not really comparable
hours later and I still TIME FOR A SIPPIE instead of opening a fucking door
>>503075372do some of the missions. After doing the first couple I'm making bank now. Got 30,000 coupons and 300+rounds for all my guns. the economy definitely gets better, you just have to do a couple missions first
>>503074709>get to x-18>pickup PDA on table>bloodsucker storms in and slaps my ass>some faggot starts gibbering on the radio about that PDA while I try to kite the bloodsucker around some pipes>low health, have to reload>faggot on radio asks me a question that I have to respond with Q or E>instead of healing Skif starts jabbering back>die>faggot bloodsucker basedface on the death screen
>>503075406I blew through every medpac I had 20 minutes into the game trying to lean corners
>>503075309>tfw murdered some guys guarding some big facility and got a sick ass military armor with 2-slotsOther than that, yeah this is me
>>503075372I've gotten multiple artifacts from the same anomaly area. Hard to tell if it was time or blowouts that caused it.
>>503072304post another kotthis kot doesn't mean nice
>>503075401>>503075392Does gamma have the customisation menu like anomaly? I'll probably give a go this time
yo what the fuck is there no way to rebind keys natively?i want to change flashlight from L to B but I can't seem to find how
>>503075026the cycle is 1 hour in this game, in previous games it was like 3 or 4 hours
>>503075219Gamma is just a """stable""" anomaly mod pack that you have to download through discord. Their excuse is it's a large file and moddb doesn't let you post google download links but it's still gay.
>open pda>close pda>suddenly 5 fps>save and reload doesn't help because reloading = 5 fpsthey didn't playtest this shit at all did they
I feel like the game's giving you too many supplies, making cache hunting useless in a way. Supplies give you almost no money as well so I don't know if I should be chasing any.
Brotherman currently playing Stalker 2 and he absolutely loves it
A-life files are in the game according to grok
>>503075728flashlight and quick melee are a few of the missing keybinds.
>>503075728nvm got it
>>503075810Do you at least get paid?
>>503073398too bright, maybe just not enough contrastshadows too light
>>503075724It comes with MCM which lets you change most things from there
excessive floating leaves piss me off
>>503075713
how do you get all the preorder items? I feel like im pretty far in and I havent seen them yet
>>503075724yeah, I tweaked a lot of things like money received from drops, gun drop conditions, armour drop conditions, anomaly reset rate etc when I last played it a year ago.
>>503075470Oh, the payouts actually increase?I felt pretty discouraged from doing them since the payouts seemed so low, why run all the way to the other end of the area to kill 8 bandits and whatever other encounter the game decides to spawn in the same area for 600 coupons when you have to drop 10x the amount on repairs alone afterwards.>>503075662Pretty sure it can't be time related, otherwise I would've been able to nab fresh ones by now unless it takes longer than 6 irl hours for them to respawn.
So, does 2 have a waifu in it?
>>503076074yes but she has a little surprise ;)
lot of vtubers streaming stalker 2 bros
>>503073529people played too many mods where you selling broken guns as the zones janitor brainrotted their concept of stalker.
>>503076053the payouts don't increase from what I've seen, but I've found significantly better gear in copious amounts,also, try using Skif's pistol, the repair cost is basically non-existent and you get quite a lot of ammo for it. thats helped me avoid so many repairs
you can tell A-Life is jank as fuck if you just sit at the campfire and watch how they struggle to path find to where they can sit.
Is this the pre-order bonus? IS IT PAYEARLY2WIN?
>>503075826Just because it's called alife doesn't mean it's the same thing that we know. The system we have now is just pure shit and not real alife.
So do you not see stalkers and creatures roaming and fighting each other?
>doomposters saying a-life is cut>copium posts are saying a-life is broken>even thought I've already bought the game, decide to wait until they release a couple of patched before playingBut now that I think about it, is it even posisble to fix a-life? Since they went for the open world slop, wouldn't a system like a-life completely destroy even high end cpu's if it were working properly?
>>503076039>>503076003Sweet ill give it a go. Take it its just install anomaly then gamma on topI was gonna play stalker 2 but my 150gb preload got erased because they repatched the game just before launch. mess. but hearing no a life it sounds like a 1 playthrough deal anyways...
can't you rebind it so each slot has its own key? i'd like to put them on f1-f4
>>503075826if alife worked like how it did in CoP or in any modded games (remember, modders worked with GSC on this game) then why have there not been any webms of showing firefights and looting and artifact hunting between NPCs? why have there not been any webms of the mutants acting like animals and wandering around and getting into fights with each other?It simply does not exist.>>503075810He loved veilturd. His opinion isn't relevant. buy an ad
does anyone have any tweaks for performance? getting a little tired of messing with settings. it's like:>can't get a solid 60 FPS>turn on FSR>easily hit 60 FPS, but introduce some significant input lag>turn off vsync>less input lag but terrible screen tearingI've just been dealing with the screen tearing but this is certainly not optimal. just want the thing to run OK
>Firelake - Live To Forget (S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Зoв Пpипяти OST)yep it's jamming time
>>503076462i've seen that constantly>alsojust found the rat cave almost shit myself
>>503076462they don't roam around. they just spawn out of thin-air like a badly scripted event and then start fighting each other.
>find the scoped rifle>tfw can't take the scope off and put it on the same model of gunLiterally why have an attachment system
>>503076462they don't roam, they spawn
>>503076476The map areas all have "hidden loading" zones that essentially act like loading screens from the previous games, so no not really. They could just have the switch distance set to the values it was in the vanilla games and it would work perfectly fine.
>>503076616this fucks me up so bad i hate it i just want to rip the scope off when i have to use it in close range.
>>503076558New Radio music in 2 is somewhat good btw
>>503076752I hope the first scoped rifle is just an anomaly, since the shop guy has a few optics that presumably work like the suppressor in the attachment system
>>503074724You know what tilts me slightly? Every single retard out there saying Bethesda should move from Gamebryo to UE, when it's been proven time and time again that UE couldn't even handle half of the shit Bethesda's engine does.It's one of those things that really remind you and gives you perspective that most people have no fucking idea what they're parroting and are just incapable of critical thought.
Is it just me, or is the starter pistol in 2 actually decent? I'm used to starting STALKER games with literal garbage that can't even shoot straight.
tried it out and it stutters too hard, should i replay metro exodus or what stalker game/mod is the best experience?
>>503075406>>503075537>Not rebinding lean to Q and E 30 seconds after starting the game>Not rebinding quick item slots to F1 through F4 the moment you saw they were Q and ESkill issue, you're not true Stalkers, back to the Rookie Village with you.
>>503077336Tbf the quickslot system is fucking abysmal and they should adjust it for pc anyway
Bugs, shit optimization - whatever.They couldn't balance the fucking game before releasing it? It's painfully obvious no playtesting took place.The game has what, 32 weapons, maybe 200 items and like less than 20 mutants?It's not fucking EVE Online ffs
>>503077216its pretty accurate, you can headshot some guys with it
>Talk to an NPC thats about to start smoking>The game locks my UI to pic rel>Reloading doesn't remove it>Closing the game and reopening doesn't remove itAmazing
>>503076476The distance NPCs spawn in around you is really small, but that doesn't mean a-life is gone because a-life has always made heavy use of offline mode. In case you haven't noticed, people are shitposting really hard about things they don't understand.
>>503077437They are living in a warzone. Learn to have some compassion
threw 20 bolts into this furnace and my FPS went from 100 to 5had to reboot the game
>>503077501press esc?
>>503073398>npcs dont look rough>npcs have detailed faces but are devoid of emotion>npcs arent dirty enough>the fire doesnt cast light>noone has a shadow except you
>>503077421>is fucking abysmalwhat does abysmal mean anon?
>>503074931Oh it looks cool, entire premise reminds me of the well known image
>>503070640yeah, i have no fucking what THESE complaints are about desu. it's like people expected a sequel to a mod instead of a vanilla game.
lets face it.. a-life could never be in the game and work in a satisfying manner like the originals in a vast open world. the open world is the problem.also>world not worth exploringits over, isnt it? this is the biggest fear I had.
>>503077695Im saying its shit. They should just bring back the OG quickslot, not this "hold the quickslot button for the other healing option!!1!" amidst a firefight
>>503077695NTA, but it's a synonym for terrible, horrible, awful, and other such adjectives.
>>503075801Might want to see if your RAM is full. Similar thing happened to me and my 32GBs were full. Had to close firefox.One time the game alone was taking up 23GB. Big memory leaks.
>>503077809People expected some development and got a stuttering SoC reboot with dogshit ui and cut a-life
>>503072841i've only seen one blowout so far and it happened when i was selling shit in the first town, like 2hrs in after the prologue, it didn't feel scripted
>>503077980fucking console controls ruined everything
>>503077695Holy ESL
>>503077980ahhh there you go, an actual description of what you mean
>>503078106If you arent ESL here you are free to go to /v/
>>503078150>>503078184Wtf is that cope lmao
So what do i do with the piles of broken weapons? Is there any use for them?
Anyone found a merchant that pays more for artifacts?
>>503078106irony. the post.I know what abysmal means, but they just said its abysmal, with no further elaboration.so I asked
>>503077695In the depths of shit.Like lucifer gaped your asshole.
>>503077773lmao, that's true. would kneel and rotate my waist with her
>Not being an ESL in an ESL generalHow embarrassing
>>503078225>>/v/seethe
>you can make friends with a mutant
somehow the esl argument is the most retarded argument in this general. who cares
I'm 15 minutes in and I already want to stop playing this garbage, it's just casualized cawadooty movie game slop. Does it get better?
>>503078303Yeah...
>>503076532nope :)
>>503078150What the fuck are you on about?
bruh I died 3 times in a row to the first bloodsucker, is this guy made out of steel
Where do I get a new detector? I remember artifacts moving around but this thing does not make them appear no matter how rapid it clicks
>finally wrapping up the seven seals>leave the sphere>try to leave by stealth >dead of night >no flashlight>walking and crouched>lol no get lanced to hot shit >try shooting my way out make it further but still eat hotshitI don't know if I'm just out of touch but I don't remember early game military fags being this much of a ball buster even on normal.
>>503078513It looks like your still in the prologue which is the tutorial level
>>503078785you need to get closer than you think
Does Anamoly have a storyline? or should i play CoC? which has the best atmosphere and decent story to follow?
>>503078513>Does it get better?
>>503078513Lol, lmao. Atleast orginally everything looked ruined
>>503078785Your detector is not broken.
>>503074705>Go kill some bandits for the bartender>It's in the middle of a swamp, they're behind this huge rock>Kill them>While I'm trying to loot their bodies, a military squad walks in from the south and starts shooting at me from a distance>Get behind the rock, start trying to take potshots at them despite only having an MP5 and a TOZ>After about a minute of this hear a familiar noise>It's a bloodsucker trying to rape me from behind>Get into this big fight with him where I'm trying not to step out from behind the rock at any point so I don't get shot >Die>reload>everything happens the exact same way again except instead of a bloodsucker it's another squad of bandits
>>503078835>>503078879I walked over the entire area, it just does not spawn.
>>503078779sprint and jump he’ll miss youbut yesmutants are fucking tanks
>>503078785You have to quite literally hug the poison cloud. The artifacts only pop when you're less than a meter from them.
>>503078849Is that even a real question lmao
>>503078849anamoly is a sandbox
current game is a big pile of poopthere I said it
>>503078980It's a 3d game
Is the viper just not worth using and upgrading? It seems to perform pretty bad even with armor piercing upgrade, skif's gun upgraded is more reliable at killing dogs and headshotting humans accurately for a gun with similar low range.
>>503064289Im having fun, but I can imagine people without top end PCs are having trouble. This game is too much of a resource hog, but people are finding tweaks and shit, and even GSC has admitted that A-Life is having issues spawning too closely. Maybe wait a month or something.
chances of the game actually getting good mods or is it going to all be coomer shit like cyberpunk.i have a feeling all the good modders will just stick to OG stalker.
>>503078698see>>503078281essentially>XXXX BAD>WHAT U MEAN BAD>CUZ THIS
>"is that a fucking zeppelin in the sky?">*press 5 to bring out binoculars*>*press again*i'm not angry. just disappointed
>>503070748you know it is bad when even the cum guzzling redditards are on the charade
>>503079421I have a feeling they had it in at some point but realized that when you stop looking thru the binoculars and see everything you just looked at pop out of existence is a bit jarring. sad honestly
>>503078513Why do you care so much about the war in Ukraine? Why are all of you niggers so assmad about the retarded war? None of you fucks live in either country. Go the fuck back to your containment threads on pol
>Reload an earlier save to get rid of the UI bug I had>Re-explore some locations I had visited due to now knowing what to expect from them>Find an Aurora Mask and a Debut SuitGuess I'm saving myself 20k
Guys, i turned on v-sync and the other Nvidia option. Now my games fps is running fine. Before i was getting 10 fps.
>>503079357Been a while since i have seen this specific type of tism
>>503070748Supposedly the devs are trying to fix the issue with a life
>3070>Using DLSS>Game let me set fake frames on(FSR)>instacrash when it finish loadingebin :DDD
how likely are we to get a patch that fixes the enemy spawning behavior? this is literally my only gripe right now
>>503079640nice one anonand remember, you are valid :)
game feels like im playing some shitty unoptimized fallout 4 mod
These anomalies ain't shi-
>>503079714they acknowledged it and are working on it apparently. not sure how much of it is a lie though https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gwd3st/comment/ly8pr8p/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Grok is already saving the botched max difficulty. Deal with it, soupcelshttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/23?tab=posts
So it wasnt just me who thought the mutants were stupidly spongy, like 2 full magazines into a bloodsucker is acceptable since iirc it was similar in the old games, but fleshies requiring the same amount of ammo is just dumb.Also jesus christ, that thread is a cesspit of false flagging shills, exact same posting structure and wording as the pol ukraine shills.
>>503079714how likely are we to get it in 1 week time* is what i meant. waiting longer than that would really fucking suck
this game is a breath of fresh air in the sea of shit that video games have been the last decade. It isnt amazing, but its fun and if you aren't poor the game runs well
>>503079930>Far Cry clone with a stalker coat of paint is a breath of fresh airHuh?
>>503079930no one needed your semen slurping comment
>>503079930And all it costs is 160gb of bandwidth
>>503079013is it bad?
Did the Poltergeists always look like Mass Effect aliens?
>>503080006>Far Cry cloneNothing about the game is like Far Cry. You are a mentally ill shitposter.
>>503079880that fagboy should continue working on gamma instead of this trainwreck
>>503079930i have a 4090 and you are coping
>>503080115yes
>>503080115Yeah. You only got to see their bodies in SoC, but yeah.
i thought eastern european women were supposed to be beautiful
>>503080201I have a 4090 too and I'm getting 120 fps on ultra. you either built your PC like a fucking retard or bought a premade like a fucking dunce
had my share of fun but this random spawning shit is so fucking annoyingchecking out a new area just to walk back a little and suddenly theres a bandit group right there that i somehow "missed" is killing mei have a 3090 so performance isn't terrible but also not good with the game dipping below 60 constantly, specially in town holy fuckI don't want to taint my game experience with this shit so i will put down the game for now and wait for it to be cooked some more
Anyone gotten controller to work? Tried just about everything and nothing works.
>>503079880Lfg
>>503080409why would you want to?
>>503080143Yeah it's not really a clone of Far Cry but it's very similar in its gameplay structure, also there's nothing revolutionary or fresh about this game, to say this is a "breath of fresh air" is a bit much lol
>>503080497Black Ops is right down that way
>>503080497>but it's very similar in its gameplay structureHow so? Be specific.
Anyone gotten game to work? Tried just about everything and nothing works.
>>503080352Hip mogs unfortunately
>>503078785You have to get closerNo idea where to get a new detector though, I'd love one myself
>>503080620They're both open world fps with quests
>>503080352that's a man
>>503077501talk to any npc again
>>503080482Because this game's obviously designed for controller and I've recently taken a liking to playing FPS on controller (mostly because I lack a desk to comfortably play shit with M+KB like I used to)
>>503080774fair enough.
>>503080630sucks to suck
>>503080364kek, on 1080p?
>>503080748still would.
>>503080774kys
>>503077336Literally this
>>503080774gsc built a game for controller gamers sad
>>503079880Stalker 2 won't enjoy anywhere near the level of modding love the old games got, and many of you will have to accept that. "Mods will fix it" is a tired rhetoric and there is far less younger talent about to take up reigns of old modders to boot. You'll have exactly the amount of mods you get for unreal games, expect Far Cry level and nothing else.Oh and you can't fix what isn't there to begin with. A Life isn't just broken. It doesn't exist.It's over for this game but smart ones of us knew that years ago
>>503080352they really added a femboy stalker?
yeah i’m saving this game for when it’s fixed. no point forcing my way through and ruining the experience.
>>503062582>There's not even flashlight shadowsfor real? that's insane
>>503081139As if Freedom fucks would be based enough to accept a femboy stalker
>armor at 72%>8k repair costthis is fucking ridiculous, ive run my old one until it was 40% and luckily found a new one but this is the only 2 slot i have and id like to actually use artifacts without going broke
You know, for being disfigured freaks of nature, the mutants are surprisingly uniform.
>>503081192small indie studio using a shitty engine, pls understand
>>503081192The lighting is so fucking bad there's barely any dynamic shadows at all. It legitimately looks worse than the first game from 17 years ago.
>>503081090Grok actually confirmed A-life is there in the files, the numbers are just bad.The actual problem is much more complex - in such a large game world with so many bases and camps, how can you make a-life work well and feel interesting?the oriignal had close off areas, you enter an area, its immediately alive. by the time you get somewhere in that area, fights may have already taken place etc. You dont get the feel that this happens in Stalker 2 much, because it is so much bigger and more open.That is not even taking into account the massive performance hit a more complex a-life would bring about, in an already terribly performing game.
everything except performance and mutant tankiness feels goodai is... okayish? it's not alife, clearly, but i'm not a morrowboomer so i don't actually care too much
>>503081289don’t tell me they havent made varying models
>>503081414so the open world meme killed another game, nice
>>5030809234K you broke nigger
so people finally accepted that the emperor has no clothes nowcompare it to the reddit-like delusion from yesterday
>>503079569>Why are all of you niggers so assmad about the retarded war?There is some weirdness surrounding this game because the devs and everything reguarding Ukraine is always full of propaganda of the "Russia bad" type. It ruines the escapism because in life we are constantly bombarded with "russia evil" "russia loses" "putin´s war" "ukraine good(until war ends)" The gaming media especially pissed me off with how they treat the devs they don´t respect the consumer just like politicians who shill this war don´t respect their voters. Of course this makes people mad.
>>503080620>Open world FPS>Explore random locations you find and kill the bad guys>Press E for epic healing animation>Earn money buy new guns>Janky NPC behaviour>Getting quests from immortal NPCs who won't shut the fuck up>Get quest follow the marker>Shitty story that only gets in the way of the gameplay>Weird supernatural shit>Games take place in an isolated regionIs that enough or should I keep going
>>503080364he didnt say shit about your performance, retard. you are still coping that the game is a breath of fresh air. it's literal ubislop shit wearing a stalker skinsuit
>>503080409I think Steam will auto set it up through big picture mode.
>Feel no pressure to go through the game as it is right now with all the bullshit performance, bugs, glitches and shitty design decisions.>Can just enjoy other games until GAMMA update in 2 weeks>Then i can enjoy GAMMA for my STALKER fix until around 6-12 months have passed and Stalker2 gets into a more playable state.WaitGODS are going to win this one so fucking hard
>>503081497>4K>DLSS onanon...
>>503080620>kill 20 military soldiers inside an underground military base>open door to the NPC I want to find>cutscene Skif doesn't check his corners and gets disarmed by a fat retard eating bread
>>503078251>>503078251>>503078251>>503078251>>503078251>>503078251anyone?
>>503081497>"4k 120fps trust me bro, game runs well!">dlss>framegenLol
>>503081497>broke nigger>dlss
>>503081657brother
>>503081591Could be describing Skyrim or any other Microsoft fpsrpg
>>503079684yeah I dont like hand holding either but he seemed really confused about somethimfg so obvious.
>>503080064Its boring, grindy, tarkov like. Enjoy playng fetch quests and collecting garbage so you can get a ak after 20 hours
>>503081864Yes and Stalker 2 fits right in
this game bad ;(
>>503081090>"Mods will fix it"It doesn't need fixing. It just needs a performance patch from GSC.
>>503081561I mean, Ukraine was invaded by Russia, so I could see how those who live there or are from there would be mad. And yes, reviewers are mentioning it, but it certainly didn't do them any favors in the score department.I don't understand how this first part would make you mad
>>503081657Out of interest, what are you waiting for?6-12 months won't see any drastic changes at all. From devs or modders.By the way, you should know the XBOX update process. I played starfield. Updates are SLOW. and that's Bethesda. You will be lucky to see 1 medium update for game every 6 months from the devs. And it will.be bug fixes not content
>>503081090Mods could fix it if UE5 goes open source like Xray did but that would never happen
For anyone playing the new game, how is the mutated creature designs? Are there a lot of enemies or is the variety low?
>ps4 graphics>requires a 4090 with DLSS and Framegen on to get above 100fps>still stutters and has horrible frame pacing and the FPS dips whenever inside buildings>people think this is "running well"Lmfao coping retards never cease to amaze me. I swear some of these dumb ass niggers wouldn't even know how to breathe if they weren't constantly being handheld by society.
>>503078805>It looks like your still in the prologue which is the tutorial levelI'm past the tutorial and it's only getting worse. I go to the first stash location, some house that's broken in half, as soon as I pick up the stash and leave a group of guys spawns right on top of me. I die and reload the game, ok so no more exploring or pickups since it just spawns guys, I head to the stalker base and 10 feet in front of me a squad of guys just fucking pops in. They're friendly, but holy shit this game is broken.Thankfully I only paid $1 for game pass, I don't think I'm going to play through this. This is worse than the SH2 remake levels of giving the middle finger to people who liked the original.
anyone found a horn artifact? which anomaly makes them?
>>503081591>Weird supernatural shitOh I get it, you're describing Stalker on purpose as a joke.
>>503081772throw them away, you lose money if you repair them to sell and they break down and jam all the time in fights
>>503080630post specs
What do you hope to see in an upcoming patch? For me it's;-Economy overall. You make next to no money and the repairs cost a lot-Mutant HP is too bloated, especially blood seekers take forever to kill.-Binoculars-Sleep timer
>>503082057I should add here. All your updates are throttled by Xbox. You won't get a quick hotfix, you have to wait 6-8 weeks for Microsoft to verify it. It's a joke. Welcome stalker fans
>>503082113so far i found 2 new mutants in ~8 hrs
>>503081497What do your 1% lows look like?
>>503082020Consumers don't give a flying fuck how the product is made and I'm sick of people pretending like they do.The fact that practically every review has to mention "muh Russia war" for sympathy points is asinine.The devs left Ukraine the moment that shit started and went to Prague. I'm aware that at least one retard on the team thought he was a hero and went off to get himself killed.
>>503081591You just described Stalker except open world, which is what the original games wanted to be anyways.
>shoot a poltergeist>random rocks appearuhhh
>>503082164>you're describing Stalker on purpose as a jokeNONE of the original games had any supernatural shit or stuff just floating in the air. Those things came from metro, analmeme, into the radius and other media.
Let.Them.Cook.
how the fuck am I supposed to deal with bloodsuckers, I'm trying to kill the faggot in the cave but i can't even stun this piece of shit with point blank shotgun shots without having to pop heals everytime because he just claws me down. he's just way too tanky
Sorry for that question but. Did you find any antisoviet and antirussian statements, pictures and jokes in s2?
>>503081657>do nothing>hurrrrr I win!!!sure thing anon kun
>>503082437use the mod, mutants are way too tanky
>>503082057there are already a bunch of day 1 mods for minute things like bloodsucker health etc etc.
>hmmm the game is pretty smooth so far lemme try turning dlss off>pixel soup appearsthe fuck? there's no way it's supposed to look like thatit's high settings
>>503082454none. this Russia is a big consumer of games so I'd be super surprised if there was
>>503082164>weird shitThere, is that better? Is supernatural a no-no word?
>>503082383its like a moba! ive killed some in 1 9x19 mag and others .. i couldnt kill with 200 5.45, 50 buckshot, and 20 slugs. there must be some mechanic (or its just a bug)
>>503082437run past, don't bother wasting your ammo
>>503082516>Doing nothing is the winning moveSometimes it do be like that
>>503082089did it now....
>>503080352Oksana
>>503082437I ran away from him. Much cheaper.
>>503082576>pixel soupits called having no AA and extremely detaield environment, anon.
>>503082408>>503082598It's all a joke, right? There aren't actually people here that are as stupid as the shitposters on /v/ who think everything is Ubisoft, including supernatural shit in Stalker, right?
vanillabros, what the fuck is this?
>>503082576>pixel soupNot a problem, just another mistery of the Zone
>>503082576>>503082716It's so fucking retarded, the game even has an AA setting which seems to do fuck all. You MUST use DLSS/TSR/FSR/XESS or else it looks like that pic.
>>503082408>NONE of the original games had any supernatural shitlmfao
>>503082676Yeah
>>503082716>having no AA
>can't do 1920x1080 borderless windowed on my 1440 displayAre these devs straight up fucking retarded? You can't just change the in game render resolution on borderless? Literally every other game lets you do this.
>>503082746The joke is that Stalker 2 is very similar to Far Cry, which isn't a bad thing, Far Cry 3 was a very popular game that basically set the direction for every open world FPS moving forwardSad truth but it's best to accept it
>>503082408you dumb motherfucker, you have to be trolling
>>503082706>>503082606>>503082557Thanks, I ran through and killed him when he followed me in here since he seems to take time to run around anomalies. Seriously considering the mod though, I don't want ot trivialize mutants but everything I've run into so far has taken way too much ammo to deal with.
>>503082746>>503082928Name one thing in the original trilogy that was supernatural. Everything was attributed to mutants or some pseudo science noostream or whatver the fuck oinkrainins call it. There were no ghosts or frozen in time floating in the air ruins.
>>503082454It's comletely stale. Nothing fun or infuriating about this game, just a mid reboot of CoP with half of the features gone. Not even ukie military uniforms, no russian gopniks aaaййй мляяяяя, no roissya vperde NIICHAZ like in metro. Gay and lame.
>>503082716>detaieldgood morning sir. have you redeemed?
>>503068756>mediocre graphics for such high hardware requirementsIt looks like a 10yo game but requires modern day hardware, even some last gen games look a lot better, so sad.
>>503067329This, haven‘t played the game myself, but looking at all the reports it seems like the game has only a spawn system. It‘s sad that the npcs don‘t really travel around the map at all like in the original trilogy or mods
>>503082153No clue but I need Whirlwind
>>503083020>The joke is that Stalker 2 is very similar to Far CryPlease just tell me you're joking. Please.
>>503082768Just set it to 0??
>intro during the nightdamn this is a good looking game>finish intro, it's now dayuhhhhfar-off trees look worse than unmodded skyrim and they pop in and out of existence even when you don't moveI'll give it a month to cook, I think
>>503082325Those sympathy points have only translated into middling reviews though. And I think it's brought up because there are few if any big games coming out of Ukraine and the fact that they're at war for essentially their sovereignty against a larger opponent is a factor that looms over this export.As for the devs leaving, that doesn't mean they don't still have family in their home country.Idk bro. I see what you're saying but try to tune it out. The noise on this website from trolls and mentally ill faggots around this game, on both sides, has been annoying
>>503083274What are the gameplay differences
>>503082768Set it to 55% idk why set the default to 44%
is hacr fun? i didn't like gamma
>>503082952no.
>>503083098it's true, mutants are far too tanky on veteran. stalkers feel fine. good, even. but mutants have way too much HP
>>503082408daily reminder: pretending to be retarded is not trolling.
>over 20 bullets for a fucking flesh>like 2 mags for a succ>like 3 mags for a poltergeistthis is silly
>>503082020It is ok for Ukrainians and Russians to be aggressive about the topic. But I can´t stand anyone from the west telling me I should support Ukraine or Russia is bad just because right now the cabal in Washington decided that way. All Ukraine supporters from the west are full of shit they are the most anti-white anti christian leftist/liberals and they want nationalism in their own countries banned. We know it and they know it. It´s all so tiresome.
>all base STALKER games are bad>all STALKER games are notorious for needing mods to be even decent to play>retards seethe because new STALKER game isn't as good as 15 year old game with 15 years of mods behind itlol, lmao even
the game looks really good from up close but anything at medium and long range is... questionable
this game good :D
>>503083832>all base STALKER games are badsays who bitch
>>503083964nyet :(
Where the hell do I disable the godawful mouse acceleration?
Let me guess: Modders need to fix everything again?
Realistically, how long will it take them to fix the A life shit? I think I'm just going to pick it up now and play it, because it could be months before devs and modders smooth everything over. Sounds like the stalker experience is great right now but needs a lot more polish
>>503083832get the fuck out of here, nigger
Stolkor 2
What does game difficulty change? Considering dropping it down from Veteran just because the game economy is so utterly fucked. I'm drowning in medical supplies but bullets are worth their weight in gold and repairing my AK will put me into bankruptcy. This isn't entirely unplayable, but it's feeling pretty close.
>A-ck! Life
>>503084006You don't
>>503071123in 2 months the game might be playable, thanks to modders of course
>>503084250It's overisky
>>503070572All the shitposters and doomtrannies are here farming outrage.>>503070886I got that from the second time I went into that tunnel by the one village and blew up all the mice with grenades and finished off the last three with a suppressed mak
>>503084014no, modders were suppose to improve this gamegsc needs to fix it, trilogy was patched several times by them, so yeahfucking grim that they didn't improve as devs in 10 years though
>>503084014It's a Stalker game, isn't that a given?I'm not making excuses for GSC, but anyone who truly expected this to be a polished balanced AAA game is a damn fool.
>game literally unplayable without an upscaler>not because the performance is so bad (even though it's bad) but because it looks hilariously bad without and is using upscaling + sharpening to deliver the intended visualsmodern devs all need to be sent to contemplate life in the trenches somewhere in bakhmut
>>503084102cyberpunk took 2 years to fix the police and that was a much smaller problem
I don't remember mutants being this tanky. The mutant pigs shrug off shotgun shells like it's nothing
>>503084014nobody is touching this shit with a ten foot pole until gsc updates it
so is anyone using the mutant nerf mod for veteran difficulty? is it actually good or too easy with it
Grok will fix it.
>>503084571ur a fucking retard bro
lmao
>>503084645grok can nibble my balls
>>503084645grok is just going to work on the gay ass gamma shit forever
>trusting the GAMMA guy to "fix" this trainwreck
>>503084517It takes exactly 1 full mag of viper straight to the dome to kill a flesh on veteranThat's nuts
>>503084571it's obviously much easier when you don't need 9001 bullets to kill a single bloodsucker but stalker was never about meatwalls (outside of pseudogiants) so i don't mind the "lower difficulty"
I mean is it really all UE5's fault? FF7 Rebirth was UE5 and no one really complained about the game's performance and its the best looking game on console. The game just doesn't have what made Stalker good. Just sitting in a campfire feels so lifeless, the NPCs are just boring and devoid of life. The game is just off. No bugfixing will fix it.
>>503084729holy fuck nexus mods is so shit
>>503084517How else are they going to make mutants threatening? Just give them massive damage and health pool, nobody got the time to make them be dangerous with clever AI, we got a game to release people
>veteran>fleshes take 7 shotgun hits to die>switch to stalker>everything is too piss easy
>>503084645He'll change a few ini files and call it a day
>game files include temporary cutscene moviesWe've already got cut content requisitions, boys.
>/sg/ - Shitposting General
Im gonna play on easy and have fun
>>503085056thisI am having a BLAST!
game itself is bretty gud but ai, graphics and performance need some more cookin. oh, and mutants need like 50-75% less hp, it's silly right nowI think I'll finish factorio first and come back to stolkor around christmas
>>503085146>game itself is bretty gud>ai, graphics and performance need some more cookinEvery time
>>503085056this + increased weight limit.why force myself to do 10 trips for a bunch of rouble when it can be done in 1?
This game needs to be good NOW. Not later. I have no patience.
>>503085210I also play scrabble with my family despite it looking like shit
clarify this for me anons, what happens to bodies of mutants and dead stalkers when you leave an area? say, you go back to camp 100m. do the bodies even remain there?
>>503085146How does one finish Factorio?
>>503074264>>503074521>anons mistake thunder storms for emissions
>>503085452That's the neat part. You can't.
no, seriously, how do you disable the mouse acceleration? this is unplayable
>>503085452one gets to the victory screen, or at least finishes all non-infinite researchI've yet to even get to aquilo, building a pre-megabase on vulcanus now>>503085210by game I meant the setting, gunplay, sound design, characters and the like - things that won't be meaningfully changed anytime soon. both performance and to a lesser degree how visuals work (like pop-in and lod) will be improved before long, as it usually happens post-releaseas for ai, we'll see
>>503085719try>>503071218
>>503085719>set mouse speed to X%>set mouse aim speed to X%boom, no more retards thinking there is mouse acceleration
>everyone is complaining about mutant health>have never had to use more than 2 rounds of buckshot to kill any thing in this entire gameskill issue?
>>503085934not playing on veteran clearly
>>503085934Try a harder difficulty than easy
>5 different "optimization tweaks" mods on nexushow do i know which one's best
Are mutants still immune to bleeding?
>>503086015>>503085991
bros the day/night cycle is RETARDEDLY fast
>>503086021None, all of them are placebo meme tweaks
>the old friend is here>main theme has traces of wasteland II>permacorpses of all varieties, npc and decayed brush alike, are back>intro sequence reminiscent of the death truck>manual lean works (only the retarded don't know how to rebind keys)>raiding near-start military base for early game gear>enemies still flank you like crazy and will rout you out>bloodsuckers are terrifying again>the old campfire songs are here>radio plays LIIIIIIIIIIVE TO FORGEEEEEEEEEETWe are so back.
>>503085934Even on veteran fleshes take two buckshots and die. Don’t waste ammo by peppering them from afar. Strafe to avoid their lunge attack and then shoot them. Also this goes for bloodsuckers too. If you are overwhelmed find something elevated to stand on and they will retreat.
>>503086142ok, so you are lying then because fleshes don't die in 2 buckshots
>>503086142Bloodsuckers don't die with 2 of the early shotgun rounds on vet.
>>503086308You have to headshot them.
>>503086142>change difficulty setting to veteran on main menu>take screenshot of it>pick new game>lets you pick difficulty that is not the one set in main menu>main menu still says veteranLol, can't trick me faglord
>>503086220performance fucking blows though, especially since the game doesn't even look that great
>>503086257>>503086282>>503086282Filtered
>>503082576every game nowadays expects you to upscale it
Tim Sweeney deserves the rope for the creation of unreal shit
>>503086021>>503086168this>>503071218 works for me. im forced to use fsr for playable frames (which rapes mouse input)but this mod fixed it. i can finally fucking play stalker
>plays game on max difficulty>can't kill anything>its toooooo haaaaaaaaaaaard>let me make it easier with mods that decrease healthwhy even play on Veteran then you fucking sperglords?
>>503086669Based retard.Mutants are still wearing adamantium armor even on Stalker difficulty.
>>503086669It's not too hard, it's retarded. I'm raping every single human encounter with headshots and bloodsucker with dodging and strafing. Fleshes still shouldn't take 5000 bullets to die
>>503086669all previous games made high difficulty into "everything deals high damage, you included"I don't want to spend a minute killing a fucking pig
>>503086746literal skill issue. I AM playing on STALKER and have had fucking zero difficulty killing anything.
>>503085841I don't think you know what any of the words you said mean
>>503086423I can't say for sure since I haven't gotten two headshots when they were standing still, but I don't think that would be enough. I've gotten two semi-accurate headshots and it wasn't close to enough
>>503086814thanks for confirming you are fucking retarded
>>503086814Look, you can keep lying all you want, but many of us here have actually played it and witnessed the problem for ourselves, so basically go jump into an anomaly.
fellas is it normal for the game to run at a constant 10 fps on the lowest setting. rtx 3050ti btw
Where is he, bros?
I need binoculars ASAP. this shit is probably the most important thing besides a gun in the zone.
>>503087059No, that's weird. Anomalous even.
Worth playing stalker 2 with the minimum requirement? Anyone doin it?
>>503087097In a better game, and I don't even like CoP.
>>503087097in a better game chlling with the boys in a laundromat
>>503083391i was just playing pc ghost of sushi and i cant stop thinking about how much better that game looks and how it has 2 second loading times
>>503087059Try turning the settings up to mediumFor some reason I also had terrible performance outside of the tutorial until I turned all my settings up from lowest to high-medium
>>5030870593060 12gb + 5700x3d has it run okay-ish (but by no means good) on 1080p, using dlss quality (the 66% one)
>>503087195ive been waiting for so long to play......in next life maybe
>>503087097in turkey, getting new hair
>>503087097The fuck do you mean where is he
>>503087059>>503087202according to the steam page, I should get the recommended 60fps at 1440p on high with frame gen. I get 30-40fps.I also get 30-40 fps on epic, medium and low settings, and all with or without upscaling techI've done the first few main missions but I'll be waiting for (hopefully) performance patches and/or mods to fix it because when upscaling is turned off it turns into this shit >>503082576
>>503084102The only thing that needs fixing is the spawn in distance, and that'll get fixed when they put out a performance patch.
Last time I played stalker was CoC like 6 years ago or so. I wanna give it another playthrough, what should I play? Anomameme? What's the MOST FUN overhaul that's out?
>>503087059 >3050lol
>>503087482Check if you're maxed out on RAM
>>503081414But does it have offline A-Life?
>people bitching about how they can't make money and the cost of repairing equipment is way too high>make more than enough to patch up my shit simply by selling excess supplies like meds, food and grenadesIs there something I'm missing? I'm only a couple hours in, does it get way worse later or something?
>>503087762the only overhaul worth a damn is goldsphere, the ogsr(?) versionevery freeroam is the same, be it original call of chernobyl or gamma. the only difference is how much tedious bullshit there is to do before you finish the hobo phase.
>>503087570Where is that from?
I went exploring the map after arriving in garbage. didn't get attacked oncemeanwhile when I was in the lesser zone I kept being attacked by bandits, military and dogs. I didn't see a single living beingwtf is going on
>>503087885>goldsphereWhat's it got over freeroam mods?>ogsr versionWhat's that? Dev team split and made different versions of the same thing?
>>503087834You seem to be forgetting that /v/ and to a lesser degree /gf/ doesn’t actually play games or are good at them
>>503087963also, the DLC vector is fucking OP and the scientific suit is pretty easy to get
>new game on UNREAL comes out>day 1 fixes to disable mouse smoothing and mouse accelevery - single - fucking - time.when will fucking developers learn?>>503085146use performance engini ini and install groks mutant hp mod.UPDATED stutter fix, fps boost and mouse fix pastebin:>https://pastebin.com/FpzBwhBuGroks mutant HP fix>https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/23
>>503062024I'm about 2ish hours in and just finished a side quest for Lens. Few questions.1. How do I make more credits/coupons? Going in with the mentality mindset of looting everything and selling to the trader, I still only have about 5k creds. That's almost how much a repair costs for 1 gun.2. What do I do with broken guns? I can't seem to sell em. Should I just repair em and flip em or ditch?3. Any worthwhile places to go to and find some high end loot? Thanks boys
>>503087963It’s a bug
>>503072841They're not scripted, everyone is reporting blowouts at random times. One guy said he had one when he was meeting the monolith guy for the starting village's tech's quest, and I got one while I was walk back to the village after clearing out The Dome.
>>503068756>-no binocularsBut why?
Can you acquire a sleeping bag in this one or no?
>>503088045it's probably the only mod with a bunch of new quests that aren't written by illiterate highschoolers with godawful tastedunno about why the split / migration happened but ogsr is much more stable and has a much better english translation afaiknow, is it actually good? not really, but it's def better than just walking around aimlessly and fetching bloodsucker asses for sakharov for the X-th time
>>5030881831. Main story quests give the most coupons, especially as you progress.2. Red weapons are worthless unless you really want to repair it to use it. Too heavy to carry many weapons. 3 there’s a military base near the big wall south of Lesser zone. You can’t really get end game loot in the lesser zone
>>503087915The artbook
>>503088121fuck me I forgot to change enablemousesmoothing=true to false.
>>503087571>>503087202>>503087059Recommended specs have always been bullshit especially of late when they throw in upscalers and frame gen. That being said, your 3050 is simply shit tier. Even the 3060 is lower tier. It's an open world UE5 game, it's ultra demanding. I'm getting 60ish FPS native 1440p ultra on my 7900XT. Get about 75fps if I switch to end. 100+ if I use an upscaler or frame gen but I don't believe in those so there's that. Wait for a Nexus tweak if you wanna play the game this badly. Or go back to the previous STALKER / METRO games. They actually look good without needing a tryhard GPU to run.
>>503062024So how's 2 so far?I'm planning on buying later, and I know RUNE already has a torrent out, but I wanted to ask Anons first either way.
>>503088468no use caseand what if somebody looked at those mangled trees in the distance?
and so it begins
>>503088807>no use caseI scout all the time in stalker wtf are you talking about
>>503088860based nexus
>>503077604Based bolt chucker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n94Z4yYgKHg
>>503088786Depends how good your pc is and how sensitive you are to bugs and shit.It feels a lot like call of pripyat, like they went out of their way to make it feel like that. Whether that's a positive or not is down to you.
>>503088786more slop than jank
>>503081497>fullscreen [borderless]I wonder how many fags whining about shitty performance haven't thought to turn this to fullscreen [exclusive] because they're adhd zoom zoomz and NEED to constantly tab out to discord and twitch and family guy 24/7 and subway surfers and tiktok and pornhub every 30 seconds.
>>503088550Does it have an ending?
>>503083183The problem with a lot of woke game isn't the woke content itself but the woke tards who made it. They are pure incompetence even at the higher up companies. Even at the legendary companies like Rockstar and Ubisoft. I still can't get over at Red Dead ONE PORT requires beefier specs than Red Dead TWO despite looking way shittier. This is the times we are living in frens. Also I'd very much take UE4 over UE5. I'm so disappointed in buying a sweaty tryhard GPU (7900XT) only to get rewarded with blurring, smearing, ghost and input latency.
I can't take it anymore, I'm posting the ending.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Zj2TxQvfI
>>503088550>now, is it actually good? not really, but it's def better than just walking around aimlessly and fetching bloodsucker asses for sakharov for the X-th timeThis is my issue whenever I play CoC and mods. I get giddy about starting out in any area, but my reality tends to be a big load of nothing with fetch quests that send me to one end and back again. I just don't "get" how I'm supposed to play.
>>503080409
>>503083669>Not using shotgunsWhat is wrong with all of you retards in this thread?
>>503089095that hasn't been a thing since w10 buddy
>>503088860The first real shitstorm will be the inevitable "no women or minorities in the zone" mod getting banned.
>infinite medkits from loot>infinite grenades from loot>infinite weapons from loot (although mostly shitty ones)>zero cashwell ok
>>5030887868hours in. I'm not feeling the gunplay, the performance is pretty bad and the alife bug is pretty annoying. honestly, I will just wait for bug fixes
>>503082576You idiot, you turned DLSS OFF. The same setting for DLSS has options for DLAA (basically supersampling AA) and TAA. You have no antialiasing on at all now, and are seeing the results of that.
>>503089095I wonder if you've tested how much fullscreen improves the performance or if you're just speaking out of your ass. I haven't noticed a difference when going borderless in a while
>>503089323I use shotguns for wildlifeI use rifles for peopleThe way the good lord intended.
>>503084843Consoleniggers will literally eat shit off the floor if Sony told them to. If you think them not complaining about performance is something positive I have very bad news for you.
>>503089470Lives up to the original KEKAt least we don't need to mod the guns to be able to hit the broadside of a barn from 2 feet away
>>503088637>nativeI refuse to believe anybody plays this without any upscalergame looks fucking horrible without it, as in "this is worse than half life 2" horrible
What're the best vanilla-plus mods for Pripyat?
>>503088860they'll probably say it's fine. it's a community effort anyway. any other response from them would be catastrophic
>>503089608I play at native with DLAA and all epic settings.I have a 4090 though
>>503088121>taking ages to get past the shader partdon't tell me the game was compiling shaders on the go
Game runs like shit, tons of bugs + no fucking optimization whatsoeverI'll wait for the thousands of patches so I can play this fuckfestWorst part is I fucking paid Microsoft a few dimes so I could experience this absolute shit. I Just never fucking learn
>>503089457it's crypto bro
>>503084645>GrokS.T.A.L.K.E.R. is set in the Warhamemr 40K universe now? Or did I miss something?
I'm feeling pretty smug about how good this game turned out. I never fell for the hype, but I knew the doomposters were overstating their case. There are clearly some big flaws to point at, but the bottom line experience of the game is pretty great.
>doing poppy fields>make sure you chug energy drinks so that you do not die>drink an energy drink>die for no fucking reason 5 seconds laterGOTY contender for sure
why game look mediocre but still run bad
>>503088121How do you play with such insanely high sensitivity though? Even on 800 dpi it's vomit inducing and you seriously must be missing most of your shots.
>>503089818cuz its unreal and open world
>>503089608You need an antialiasing solution but how would native look worse than upscaling the same picture from a lower resolution?
>>503088786It's more like stalker 1.5, id wait for more patches before playing thisthe world just feels really empty while traveling on the road, i've never seen any stalker on the road or campfires outside of townmost of the npc spawns are concentrated on the named circled areas which is also buggy as they can spawn instantly after clearing them out
>>503088045>What's it got over freeroam mods?First, it's not freeroam>completely new story>new mechanics>new atmosphere in general; made to feel much more like Roadside Picnic. Much more based around navigating around the perils of the Zone than shooting your way through them.Basically the mod that strikes the best balance of originality and polished balance. It really is like playing a whole new game.OGSR is basically just an updated engine. Slightly better graphics, physics, stuff like that.
>>503089867you have to lower your sens a lot in AppliedSettings.cfg, obviously.
>>503088121nice
>>503084468Just use DLAA.
why do i keep dying to nothing in the poppy field
>>503089437I'm fine with blacks in the zone but women is an actual real stretch if you're not gonna go full gritty and show how that would turn out. Having bagass female commander stalkers is an absolute no from me
>>503090112New bread
>>503090113that's not an upscaler
>>503086445>performance bl-ACK!Stop using a shitty computer. The original trilogy ran like shit on most systems, and has its own huge block of performance issues to this day thanks to nearly everything being on a single core. >>503089534>change from zoomer mode to fullscreen exclusive>game runs smootherwooow
>>503088786It actually feels like a sequel to the vanilla games and I mean that in a good way.
>>503089735I know that the 4090 is a great card but are you seriously happy or impressed with that fucking blur? All the trees in the background as well as the roof of the house towards the back looks like a picture that's out of focus, then there's the 2D fire and more fucking blur all throughout the picture. How is anyone happy with UE5? It's like I'm losing my far vision. Star Wars Battlefront looked more impressive then this and that game is almost 10 years old and can run on fucking toasters.
>>503090051Well I'm trying 0.0001 then
>>503090174I could not figure out how you are supposed to know when the sleep effect is getting worse or better. Unfortunately it's pretty much just trial, error, and spamming energy drinks. It's not clear to me if they actually do much, though.
It makes way more sense there would be women over blacks. There exist 6ft+ women that look like nordic warriors IRL, they are the exception, but it makes sense that they would seek out danger due to inferiority complex. They wouldn't just walk around amongst men though, probably form a female only camp that would be hostile to outsiders.
>>503088786Performance is questionable at bestA-life is terribly implemented at best, non-existent at worstGunplay is alrightBalance is absolutely fucked. Economy and enemy HP are some of the worst I've ever seen in any videogame everVoice acting ranges from OK to comedically badTranslation problems aboundCrazy amount of glitches, though nothing game-breaking that I've come across yetThe one thing I will say though is that they fucking nailed the atmosphere. The overall look and feel of the Zone is absolutely 100% the best it's ever been. Plus, the story is fairly engaging and original (at least from the few hours I've played so far)Overall I'm having fun playing it, but I feel really bad for any new players jumping in who haven't already had their expectations of GSC lowered by trying to struggle through vanilla SoC and CS. Anyone expecting a polished AAA game is going to hate this.
slugs seem pretty effective against bloodsuckers. also someone post the damage of the sawed off. is this p2w gun more powerful?
>>503090808>economy badone of my worst fears. I just KNEW that progression would suck in this garbage unreal cutscene slop. holy fuck
>>503089806you have to avoid the petals, those are instant death.not the games fault youre retarded
>install an engine tweak>shader compilation is twice as long as without itcool, cool
>>503090808What are you talking about? The atmosphere is completely fucked, it feels like a bethesda theme park. There is so much shit going on constantly, the zone is supposed to be a desolate abandoned place where only the most desperate people and the shittiest of criminal scum venture into, instead this feels like a fucking tourist spot.
>>503090592the poppy area is buggy as hell, not sure if one of the anomalies there teleport you randomly but i was exploring inside the house and it teleported me out safely after the sleepy effect showedi was also chugging energy drinks all the time but it feels like placebo
>>503081638I was about to tell you none of that shit worked but then now it just magically does because my Windows was mega out of date and that somehow magically fixed it after updating
>STALKER 2 is shit>Anomaly is shit>GAMMA is shit>freeroam as a concept is unfixably shit>no matter what there will never be a better stalkan experience than the SoC with AMK I played in 2013How do you guys cope with this?
by not being a faggot and playing gamma, soc update 1.4 and waiting for stalker 2 mods in 2 years.
>get out of the starter zone>immediately start making tens of thousands of couponsthis game filtered a lot of people
what is Birch's accent?
>Wait 15 Years for the game>Download all Day>Install takes HoursFinally i can play the videogame!>Compiling shaders, please wait...Im about to get violent
>install the less tanky succ/poltergeist mod>game crashes when I try to start it upwow, thanks grok
>>503090936P2W guns are just skins, they have the same stats as the regular variants. The suits on the other hand...
where do you find a petal artifact
what the actual fuck are you supposed to do against the dogs that poof into smoke when you shoot them?I just got gangbanged by 15 of them
do emissions not refresh anomaly fields?
X D
Im ready to be disapointed. But for free!
>>503091997Probably the poppie field?>>503092167Do you not know what a psydog is? Is this your first stalger game? Shoot the glowing one that keeps shooting out the poofing ones.>>503092174They do, but it's not a 100% chance.
>>503092254Kek'd.
>>503092310How are PC hardware prices in Poland anyway?
>>503092748Its kinda average, i got this for 4000 zł, thats about 1k dollars or less
>>503093773not a bad setup if u had a 4070S instead
>cheeki breeki doesn't playshit game
>>503093913Had to cut corners somewhere
>repair gun for 10k>or just pick up another one until that breaks and repeatsure is a hard choice, maybe i wouldnt be so stingy if i sold the 150+ stashed usable items i keep getting more off or the thousands of bullets
>>503094096why is it so green?
>>503088786>>503088943>>503089470>>503090808Hearing lots about performance issues, and I just have an i7 with a RTX2060 with 32GB. And it's a laptop, so I ussually run into throttling issue due to heat.Would have to play with DLSS or even lower settings.Guess I'm gonna have to stop myself for a while to try it out. Ukies gonna have to wait a little more to take my money.
Oh god they even changed Pripyat into Prypyiat something
>>503094756>>503094096i always have the green thunderstorm weather too, and the day/night looping fast as fuck makes it even more stupid
is the game supposed to be this punishing? I am running around with no money, and I'm getting jumped by like 12 monkey niggers hopping around on all fours and it takes 5 shots of buckshot to kill one of them
>>503062024I can't see absolute shit in this game, dunno way lol
>>503094285yeah definitely needs an economy rebalanceif nu-GSC was smart they'd externalized most parameters into script files like the old games that you can edit just with notepad++
>make it through the sphere shitshow by abusing quit and load method to reset the alert>aw yup more random army or bandits I "missed">find aurora mask>been using ozk's suit for now>now just clearing out stash's>game goes into memory leak modeI think I'm done for now, it's got the potential but christ
This game needed another 12-18 months of development.
>get jumped by 15 monkeyniggers that take 5 shells each to kill>finally kill all of them>literally shoot the last one and 10 bandits spawn 15 feet from me and start unloading on mewhat even the fuck is this game
>>503094989i feel like normal ammo does jackshit to most mutants, bloodsuckers need like 3 mags/90 bullets to go down
>>503087834Its newfags who dont know shit was the exact same in the old games. Ready to bet they dont even go artifact hunting either.
>>503094775>i7 with a RTX2060>laptopI think this is borderline "don't even bother" territory
>>503095453It feels like forever winters shitty spawn system but somehow about as bad
>>503095340STALKER 0.2!
>me, 30 minutes into the game: man why am I finding so many medkits all the time>me, 3 hours into the game: damn I sure wish I got more medkitsit might just be the hobo phase and no armor but holy fuck I'm getting my ass blown out by everybodyjump into a hole from like 3m -> take 90% damage -> medkit -> get bitten by a swarm of rats for 60% of my health in 1 second -> another medkit, come on
>>503096064just play slower
>>503095340>TF2 meet the sniper OST begins playing
>>503096064the rats were cancer, with savescumming i just jumped down again and instantly threw a grenade that killed 80% of the swarmcant even cook fucking grenades in this game or its another input but just pulling the pin you can hold them forever
>>503096695I managed to kill them all and they respawn after like 30 seconds, I just medkit tanked them while I grabbed the dead guy's stuff
>80k base weight>weak carry weight artifact increases it by... 3kgare you fucking seriousthat's not even 5% of base value>>503096695throwing the 'nade under your feet while moving away from them reliably killed the swarm, which for some reason respawns very quickly (had to go back in since I forgot to grab the stash)
I genuinely was not having a hard time on Stalker difficulty until I left the Lesser Zone. Every engagement there is a dozen things I have to expend all of my ammunition on
>>503097396and they keep respawning indefinitely too!
>man I'm getting my ass torn by the mutated wildlife, I'll switch to Stalker difficulty>wildlife still covered in plate armor head to toeit beggars belief I can kill humans with ease with one headshot on hard but a mutated pig takes 3 shotgun blasts to the face on medium difficulty
bad game balance added to the list :)
Please tell me that the artifact that lets you near infinitely sprint is in, I remember that being nearly required in CoP and I sure as fuck don't want to be chugging energy drinks -> eating every 5 minutes here.Also I don't know what the fuck this slavic beef slop is but it made me hungry.
>>503098121I like how wobbly it is, it's like some semi-organic sludge in the shape of meatin a similar vein: are the artifact effects any good? I only found the basic bitch ones in the first two zones but they seem rather underwhelming
>>503098284The unique ball one from the anal vore succ anomaly is the only good one I've found because it gives you pretty big bullet resistance.The weight ones are absolute ass and only give you like five pounds extra while also requiring a radiation-absorbing artifact to use.
Are there no interesting artifact effects? Is it all just slight boost to endurance and rad resistance for example.
>have to chose between super rough pixelated graphics or smudged to shit blurry graphicsI miss when games used to look super clean, like HL2.
>>503091365Waiting for Legends Returns 1.0, so I can get my build flavoured freroam gameplay.
OH NO NO
>>503098448>The weight ones are absolute ass and only give you like five pounds extra while also requiring a radiation-absorbing artifact to use.That was always the case for unmodded SoC. I think the biggest one was +10 (but you could get more than one so it stacked I guess)
>>503099674
>artifacts are weak as fuck>mutants are bulletproof, poltergeists are made out of depleted uranium>the money you get is misery tierso how's modding going to be? can I just change what I want in lua or is it some pain in the ass ordeal for every slight tweak?
>trust the plaaAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNnnnnn
>>503101220You hit an inflatable dummy!
>>503072137>30 fps on a 1650THERE IS HOPE FOR MEjust hope my cpu endures
>Guy asks me to find his friends>Says his friend got taken away by some dude>Some dude was healing him>Protect Some dude from angry Stalkers>Find the first guy at town and he tells me he had a nice talk with Some sude>Go check up on him>See thisI'm going to slaughter every Loner
>>503100168In unmodded SoC there were no weight artefacts, their first appearance was in CS, where they were actually really useful with the best one, Goldfish, giving +30 kgs to your carry weight. They were then severely nerfed in CoP, where the same Goldfish had +12 kgs instead.
>>503101824I must've been thinking of CoP then, yeah.
What are the chances I'm going to go check that and get attacked by Bloodsuckers?Also who is going to make the new thread? We're bleeding into page 10 already.
>>503102109I actually ran into a squad of loners fighting a psydog there, then a group of bandits came in. Random spawns at least keep things interesting.
>>503091703same but i tried again and it worked
>>503101509nope it got worse, maybe if they add dx11 and generally optimize the game. also 720p on low. it looks bad desu
>>503102109Brother, the new thread was made hours ago.>>>503090112
>>503102297> Random spawns at least keep things interesting.hahahha or so you thought. i had the exact same event happen but after killing the bandits (loners died to psydog) i had another set of bandits spawn and gun me down. i believe this one is scripted
>>503090178>I'm fine with blacks in the zonenah
>>503066616Never understand why brainlets play a survival game with god mode then complain about a lack of a challenge. It's the journey not the destination. Game is pretty solid. Brought back plentyof Morrowind / Fallout feels when you are first starting out without any decent gear and the entire world wants to kill you.
