```Gammasissies modding the game to be easier before even completing it edition >strawpoll for /vg/s thoughts on STALKER 2https://strawpoll.com/bVg8Bj09NyY>BugTrap, crash to desktop, freeze/lockup? Find your crash log, stalker.Check your Documents or game install directories for the xray_[your name].log file. If you can't find it, look in the location specified at the top of fsgame.ltx. Copy the last few lines from the log and paste them here if you want any help.>Quickstart Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/1cnQeURGCjHTRPOGJH8G5ijP1fw5vbVWSE7opABcBpNk>Mod Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/1JPA0hQZVJ6mSvTsp6Sy3CoAkObJOKeoPHEamDC19Lio>Miscellaneous Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/103nyaAM5PKgBwuZ35jRbv7VM7tEcvi1Scv6boOMe1RM>Start guide, beginner tips, and much much morehttp://pastebin.com/FUPEbLiv>HUD guide, modding basics, mod reviews, and AMK mod guidedocs.google.com/document/d/10yi79NUFhJrFO4hmGeKqaWSw35BJQv0Ve0OK94ioMEw>Performance Guides, Steam settingshttp://pastebin.com/nzXEevG7>Common misconceptions about Shadow of Chernobyl game mechanicshttp://www.metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/WhatYouKnowThatAintSo.html>Running STALKER. on Linuxdocs.google.com/document/d/11HcSFSyb0DX3ymModXZ9tNdpTuktTioCGood hunting, stalker: https://boards.4chan.org/vg/thread/503062024```
no nigger zone
Reminder to use slugs to kill bloodsuckers and dodge them by neutral strafing to one side, they aren't difficult
Anyone find a merch that pays more for artifacts?
WHAT IS FUCKING KILLING ME IN THE POPPY FIELD
we fucking WON stalker bros... even vcuties are playing it...
>arrives at freedom base>it's a wasteland>enters a building>suddenly a lot of mercs outside
>>503090112Who else despises UE5 and its blurshit TAA and thinks it's time to let it go?
>>503090236Right. With DLAA you get good AA without upscaling or horrible TAA. It looks good with DLAA, save the shadow issues.
>>503090542retard
What're the best vanilla-plus mods for Call of Pripyat?
>>503090740kys monkey
Reminder the people posting in capslock for spoonfeeding and whining are russians
posting again for posterity
>>503090542I would assume the poppies are
This game is so bad that russia launched a ICBM at ukraine. Grim.
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/33modders fixing it
>>503090989>>>/pol/
>>503090559behead everyone responsible for ue5, rengine, all nvidia employees and vidya industry immediately becomes 1000x better>verification not required
WHY CANT I PLAY BORDERLESS AND RENDER A DIFFERENT RESOLUTION THAN MY MONITOR???? WHY DO I HAVE TO PLAY FULLSCREEN EXCLUSIVE TO HAVE A LOWER RESOLUTION????fucking retard devs
can I get companions in S2?can I see numerical values for faction relations?
just realized you can flashlight with middle mouse, but no anim plays when you do it that waystrange
>already back to playing SoCits over
>>503090972>not making your enemies pay for your own bulletsukrainians truly are the biggest retards
5 hours in. Still in lesser zone doing some side quests and the occasional the main story line.I forgot how brutal this game series can be. Also I like how everytime Skiff talks to someone we actually see his hands gesture and such, that's a really nice touch.>>503090478Thanks friendo
I think the case against women in the zone is overstated. The zone as we see it has a number of mostly stable settlements and plenty of permanent residents. A woman on her own is going to be in serious danger in a place like that, but if they have valuable skills to contribute to a relatively professional group then I don't see why everybody expects constant gang rape. There's still some civilization in the Zone.
>>503091919Go back
They really should have delayed the game another year. However, I am willing to bet this was another attempt by Pepsiman to milk a big publisher for as much money as he can.
What fucking snakeoil is this engine.ini edit shit? My shader compilation is taking like 30 fucking minutes now
>>503091919Horny bandits that havent seen a woman in years would definitely weigh murdering a group of people to nab her far more heavily than murdering that same group with no woman prize.>civilization>people kill dozens at the drop of a hat for nothing
This stupid-ass UE5 Lumen shit fucking up
>>503091919>tfw no musclefreak dommy mommy gf to roam the red forest withbros...
>>503091006nah the game is just shit, I know to stay away from the petals. once I finally got the icon I went back to Pomor to sell it to him and he was dead on the floor for no reason lmao
>>503092454not escaping the slav simulator accusations with this
>>503090972What mod sites aren't cucked? I know moddb is alright but they don't have anything
>>503092454energetic increases hunger, you probably died because of it
>>503090553Must have been 4:20 they were just hotboxing
>>503092292Meanwhile we have a fat old guy and a man with one leg in the starting village. Why doesn't somebody blow the tech's head off and clear out his inventory? He's not roaming around, he provides a valuable service, and he has connections to permanent residents in the village who band together for defense. It's a crude and primitive civilization, but it is civilization.If people are horny enough that they are willing to risk life and limb to attack a group of armed stalkers with the hope that they will be able to capture one woman alive so they can rape her, it seems like there would be a lot of money to be made by prostitutes and pimps in fortified settlements.
so is the game actually playable without a compass or did they rely on the player using the compass to find everything
>>503092737Basedmods dot eth will probably host it if someone makes a russian dub
Bloodsuckers take 8 slugs to kill to the body and you can dodge them by strafing to the side. Learn the angle you need to flick your mouse to shoot them when they attack or shoot them while they're charging. Reload and heal after they attack. In the basement with the 3 bloodsuckers, use grenades
>heh, you want women in your games? fine.. but i want to be able to RAPE themare all Trump voters like this?
>>503093083I've been getting by just fine without the compass.Only problem is stash icons sometimes only point to the general area but the compass points directly to it.
>>503093083You could just use the PDA for navigation.
>>503093083Its like the minimap from the previous games. The only information on it that your PDA map doesnt have is dead body locations.
I'm tired of the tasteless unwashed masses with 0 standards and the inability to even critically think deciding that "game is good" because of something inconsequential or vague like graphics/atmosphere. Atmosphere is so vague it's not even easily definable, and for me Stalker 2's atmosphere fucking sucks because the lighting is shit, the soundtrack is bland, the cutscenes suck, and the NPC spawn shit kills all immersion. But go off retards, enjoy your slop.
>>503092774doubtful, i just about 10 each of my beer, vodka, and energy drinks while i was outside of the poppy fields and I didn't lose any health, the most that happened was my hunger icon started flashing
>>503092998That's assuming the woman can make it to the safe area in the first place, genius
>>503093424who hurt you
>>503092998If this was realistic pimps would import working girls into the zone where they would be highly protected and as close to the edge of the zone as possible.
>>503093253A bloodsucker should not take 8 slugs to kill. Pseudogiant and chimera? Sure. A mutated skinny human? Fuck thatAlso where the fuck are all the new mutants?
>>503093424>tfw no ambient kino in stalker 2it's over https://youtu.be/LMFYiBwGl7A?si=DygGNbxWjScVLN_U
I'm tired of the tasteless unwashed masses with 0 standards and the inability to even critically think deciding that "game is bad" because of something inconsequential or vague like soundtrack/cutscenes. Atmosphere is so vague it's not even easily definable, and for me Stalker 2's atmosphere is fucking great because the environments look amazing, the lighting is good, the roleplaying opportunities are a great addition, and the struggle economy builds immersion. But go off retards, piss and moan about bugs.
Any mods to fix the AI yet?
>wonder why there are no areas in the game without foliage or with sparse foliage>it's because the game uses a dynamic radius wall of foliage to hide spawns near youermm
>>503094072Give it a couple....years LOOOOL THERE'S NO ALIFE AHAHHAHAHA FUUUUUUUUCK
>>503093754Misery won after all these years
Can someone answer this plz :) >>503090762
>>503094116Game feels claustrophobic with all this shit all over desu.
>>503093585You are overestimating the dangers of traveling in the zone if you are smart and play it safe. There are active loner stalkers who have survived in the zone for over a decade. It is very dangerous and people die all the time, but it's not so unbelievable that a woman could survive, especially as part of a group.
I get over 80 fps but it feels choppy, as if the steam overlay is lying and the game's actually running at 50 fps or so. It's even worse if I cap it at 60.
>>503093424>and for me Stalker 2's atmosphere fucking sucksSkill issue
>>503094539https://www.moddb.com/mods/abr-mod
>>503094539Gunslinger, and only gunslinger
Anyone test this out yet to get any idea of a duration or if you have to keep it on your belt to maintain the effect?
>>503094676>ooh weather!!!Wow its almost like you're a tasteless retard. No different than a baby being excited by jingling keys in their face. Go kick rocks, dumb fuck.
>>503093083It's playable, but it's unfortunate that there isn't an option to enable a minimap instead. You'll just have to check your PDA fairly often without it.Honestly, the compass isn't terrible and really doesn't do anything that the minimap wasn't already doing for you. I've come to accept just using it. It just looks shitty.
No A-life lmaoGonna refund this trash
>>503094676My god those trees look awful
>>503094116Goddamn, that's what has felt so off to meThere are no open fieldsIt's all various levels of woods and overgrowth. There have been multiple times where I've had to simply avoid an area because I keep getting shot every time I approach it and simply can't see whoever is shooting me. It's not even like they're hiding behind a tree, I'm talking 20+ solid feet of shrubbery.
>>503094909Do you think this post did anything other than make you look like a completely fucking retarded monkey shitposter?>>503094950Nah, the tree sway is actually nice.
>>503094887Only way to know for sure what it does is to dig through the code. When you’re out of combat the AI’s awareness is already terrible if they’re human and ESP if they’re a mutant.
>>503094702I'll check this out.>>503094734I heard AtmosFear is good with it?
>game runs fine>can play for 5-15 minutes>always ends with a black screen graphics crash>game keeps running and audio keeps playing>computer stays on and running>have to restart pc to get the screen backAnyone else getting this?I'm seeing a lot about shader crashes and CTDs but not this kind of crashing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHQ3jAeza60
>>503095345skill (driver) issue
Anyone figure out how to get on these silos without getting cooked by the ladder?
>>503095482I literally reinstalled windows just to freshly install every driver trying to fix it.
The snorks sound awful in this game
>>503095490I believe to your right there are some raised structures you can jump on to jump on a broken ladder that’s on one of the silos
>>503095490yeah, you gotta rocket jump up there
>>503095431BRUH
Can you steal in Stalker 2? If you steal something others will start attacking you?
>>503095741KEKThis game is FUCKED
Fellasit's kinda dogshit isn't it?
>>503095923No
>>503095616try disabling any overlays? steam, discord, ecti'm assuming your hardware meets the reqs
>>503095741>cpu limited>at 4k>on a 7800x3dyeah nah this game is garbage
>>503095923I’ve already gone back to playing PVE Tarkov
>>503095923all it made me do is wanting to check out gamma now
>>503095985>pump bloodcyka full of shotgun shells>he keeps toughing it out>dome military dude with pistol 4 times before he dies>no A-lifeit's KIIIINDA dogshit
so has anyone been able to tell if the headlight actually matters for stealth/detection radius? I seriously can't tell so far
>>503095923Performance aside I'm very pleasantly surprised with how much it's an actual sequel to the original Stalker games.
>>503096182I definitely get noticed earlier/easier with headlight on vs off
Anyone know if the gun that Pomor gives you for the poppy field quest is worth it? Are you able to just kill him and take the gun?
>>503095717>forgot about the Direct Hit anomaly right on top of the silonot so fast faggot
>>503095858It depends one what you're yoinking. If you're taking a sausage or a vodka near them no, but if you're trying to steal their current objective or stash, they'll light your ass up occasionally. Often you get a clear vocal warning>Don't steal my dead buddy's shit!>My stash/loot, fuck off stalker!etc >>503095923It's pretty gr8 when I'm not pulling 50fps in town
>>503096000>i'm assuming your hardware meets the reqsshould've have mentioned that, my bad>b650 gaming x av 2>rtx 4070 ti>ryzen 7 9700x >32gb ripjaws ddr5I've disabled every overlay I have and tried running the game with absolute nothing besides it and steam running as well.
JUST
>>503090550>vcutiesYou know the high majority of holos are men?
>>503095923It's unfinishedThis plays/runs like a game still in early alpha. The core of a good game is there, but everything more complex like performance, balance, and finer design elements is completely fucked. It feels like they spent maybe 2 weeks at the very most playtesting it. I have absolutely no idea what they've been 'tweaking' for the past 4 years. It's fun, it's playable, I'd recommend it to anyone who has played the unmodded original trilogy, but I can not in good conscience call this an overall good game. It's just way too rough.
>mouse and keyboard feels like ass>try controller>its even worse
>>503095923It's just an unrealified CoP with terrbile performance and high system requirements which do not correlate with graphical output.
>>503096334>Are you able to just kill him and take the gun?I tried doing that and couldn't find it in the house anywhere. The gun itself is good but it comes nearly broken so you have to get it repaired.
>>503096136>dome military dude with pistol 4 times before he diesI've actually been enjoying my pistol a lot.
>>503096883why are they not reacting to getting shot?
Bunch of jrpg stoners in this general
It's just Far Cry with a gas mask and a Ukrainian accent.
>>503096883(dies)
NPC faces look bad and emotionless. We need a mod that gives everyone a mask.
>>503096879>>503096334If you give him the picture and get the gun then kill him you can get the picture back so you'll have both. It's stats don't look good so I didn't kill him, and I'd already found a regular AR.>>503096962Silencer on the pistol. Stealth actually works well now.
>>503091430you actually can, dipshit
>>503094676it's a small thing, but it triggers me that some of them have no masks or even goggles. All that radioactive debris getting in their eyes and face from the winds of the storm and they don't even react to it.
Man the artifacts in this game fucking suck. There are so many of them that have the same stats but are different artifacts. Also them all being radioactive makes me want mail pipebombs to the misery dev team.
>>503097124>Silencer on the pistol.lol
>>503095923it should have been delayed for another year
>silencer on the pistolno fucking way
>>503095923My cope is playing through the main story on easy modeI'll play vet with all the side content in a year when the game is more stable and has more mods
>>503096975it indeed does feel like tarkovesque-slavjank dark souls of far cries
>get to the first settlement>HEY STALKER I WILL EXPLAIN TO YOU IN A TUTORIAL NPC FASHION HOW THINGS WORK AROUND HEREreally?also why do all these supposed ukrainians have weirdass american or in the case of picrel fucking scottish accents? where's the thick eastern european accents?
>>503097418>in a year when the game is more stable and has more modsthat will surely happen, right?
>>503097170I think everyone in the zone accepts that they'll either use an artifact to sap the radiation out of them, or shorten their lifespan a lot simply by being in the zone. Also, vodka.>>503097257Yes. You get one early game that fits Skif's pistol. Are you even playing the game or just here to shitpost?
>>503097170Yea. At least give them a half mask like in the og games.
>>503097490ue5, despite its flaws, is actually very open to modding through the paks system.
>>503096404my only other suggestions would be to disable any overclocking/turbo mode shit and update your BIOS to this months version.
>>503096883Now that's sillyAlso why are they even bothering with the helmets if a shitty 9mm pistol can go right through it?
>>503094676you should go out and touch some grass if you think this is impressive, faggot
>>503090972they removed the modhttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/30
So are emissions random or do they purely happen based on story conditions?
I was lied to when they said you can't sell guns to vendors.
I find it so baffling that there are so many complaints about the graphics, because that's one of a few things that seems completely unassailable to me. I show screenshots to my wife and she thinks I'm showing her photographs. Sometimes the lighting or textures don't seem quite right and it's not as impressive, but altogether it looks amazing. Maybe I just don't play enough new games? What are we comparing this to?
>>503097774What was the mod?
>>503097703They're wearing rubber gas masks, not steel helmets.
>night>can't see shit outside>step into a doorframe>get nightvision
>>503097834Same. I showed the game off to my wife's bull who's a photographer and he was in awe, although he mostly does models.
>>503096569How is this still a meme when vtubing is this old...
>>503097834I agree, the game looks great in screenshots with everything cranked, but there are lighting bugs and a lack of shadows in some cases that can be jarring to some.
>>503097926new model for chimera with fully modeled pussy
>>503097926changing the menu and loading screen to Russian
>>503098268kek
>>503098001>Step inside>Storm stops>Step outside>Storm startsI can understand why this is a problem for particle effects, but it's weird that the sound completely stops. It seems to me like they could just reduce the sound a bit and cull particle effects within a certain radius and that would get you 90% of the way there, but I'm a nodev.
>>503097741What a pathetic shitpost. Go back to pretending mods that run on your 8 year old PC look better.
>>503097217>all of them radioactiveIsn't this just due to CoP
Got to the chemical plant, was given the all clear to enter, seemed fine, but then after doing the quest for the soldier outside and coming back I appear to have been cockblocked? Is this intended? Are you supposed to be barred from entering?It's also weird that the colonel was absolutely nowhere near the fucking chemical plant.
>>503095923It's a broken mess just like every other stalker game. Wait for a deep discount and some modders to fix it.
>>503097774If you guys were real nigga trolls you would embrace the butthurt. Transcend politics; enjoy the drama.
>>503098268>russian language in game>ban for posting russian language mod in game
>>503091430Because you're fucking stupid. Just set it to native and use DLSS.
>No binoculars in stalker 2So a guarantee that fuck all is happening outside of your immediate vicinity
>>503097774>>503098268why are ukrainians and their western simps like this?
>>503098819>>503098576U mad?
>>503098819omg I forgot about her
m-mods will fix it
>>503098726You have (a) sniper rifle though
>>503098949This but for every game though
>>503098819Beats me bro, I dont know why people even care about ukraine, is the us/euro scared of the iron curtain again? 60billion dollars from the us btw
I'm not Russian, I'm just seething anallydevastated on their behalf because some people I didn't like said they support the other guys.
>>503099434>ukranians are based nazis>they are being supported by the retarded liberal shitstains in the USI don't understand whether to root for them or not. Nazis are better than commies at least.
>>503099615>ukranians are based nazisThey aren't tho
>>503097834The graphics aren't the problem. I would have been happy if it had bloodborne level of graphical fidelity. The problem is that the graphics aren't next gen at all, but for some reason the game requires a 4090 and DLSS and the input laggy hellscape that is Framegen just to barely run at 100+ fps. Why are the requirements so high for graphics that could have easily been seen on a final year PS4 game like Last of Us remastered or Spider-Man?If the requirements weren't so demanding, I would have no complaints, but if you are demanding I use a 1500 dollar graphics card why the fuck is this not the best looking game ever? Why the fuck do we not get dynamic shadows or true ray tracing? A 4090 should be able to handle this game at 4k native with like 200fps.
so how are patches going to work in this game? Are we going to be cucked by microsoft patch certifaction times and wait 6-8weeks cus lol consolefags?
ANOOO CHEEKI BREEKI VI DAMKEi cant run the game but saw someone playing it. at first glance looked like they actually made a PC game in 2024 other than the radial menus. i cant imagine this getting any traction on console
>>503093083not using it is just pure tedium, did people forget how much information the minimap gave in older games? it showed stashes directly to you as you walked and all the enemy locations as well, the compass actually gives you less info, it just looks more new and scares people because of the association with skyrim, otherwise to find stashes you just open the PDA and close it over and over (which takes far too long and I wish they at least took that from STALKER mods where you can view it while still in world)
Patch when?
>>503098819Could be due to the fact that they're being invaded by their neighbor that long kept them under threat of force as part of their Western buffer. But who knows!
>>503098726I really don't know why they did that
>>503097774How is this not literally blatant racism?
>>503091919Loners are composed of sigma males with mental illnesses, outcasts with no real purpose in real life finding some meaning in the zone. The female equivalent would upload nudes to onlyfans.
>>503099434same, but unironically
Any comparision images between OG trilogy locations and HoC's map yet? I already see the Cordon and some other familiar places on the map
>>503091919funny if u think about it... all these hard dudes in the zones are literally getting ZERO pussy... lmfao
>>503100242Soon, I hope. I'd like to experience most of the game more stable.
>>503097124>silencer on pistolThat's not how they work you dumb fuck retard. Silencers are to protect the user's ears and to prevent muzzle flash. Goddamn, all these fucking faggots that have never even seen a gun in real life let alone touched one thinking they are pulling an epic "gotcha!" fuck you. I hate you.
>>503099251>60billionit's well over 200 billion at this point
>>503100351Orcs aren't human sooo it doesn't count
>>503097774>Russian modders literally kept the game alive and running for over 15 years>Stalker 2 comes out>no Russian mods allowed
>>503100586ok but it's a video game and STALKER OG had very unrealistic gun behaviour anyway. also there are plenty of guns that are actually nearly silent with a silencer, especially a 9x18 pistol, but I haven't tested ARs with silencers to see if it's the same
>>503099990Why do you say things when it's clear you don't know what you're talking about? These are not PS4 graphics. PS4, base or pro, could not handle this at all.
>>503100346Because they know there's nothing to look at.
>>503100246>civilians that are just trying to live their lives and play video games they enjoy are LITERALLY PUTINYou sensitive American pigs would be shitting your diapers if any company based in a country that has been under the thumb of American imperialism pulled the same shit on you and you fucking know it.
>>503100246So why is there an official russian translation again
>>503097774nexusmods is a trash site that hopefully people stop using to upload mods. they get anally bothered by 100 different things
>>503098396not as pathetic as retards like you who defend the latest uncompressed, unoptimized, uninspired ue5 vaseline slop. fuck off and die you literal braindead npc
>>503100751Get your eyes checked dumbass, the fidelity of this game is nowhere near the levels of even base PS5 games. Spider-Man2 looks better. Cyberpunk looks better. RDR2 looks better. You are just blinded by foliage spam and think it looks good.
>>503098576I did notice that, that's insane that nexus mods is making the leap for a game with an official Russian text option.
>>503100791calm down ivan butthurtovich
>>503091919I thought the whole 'no women in the Zone' thing was a holdover from Roadside Picnic/Stalker (1979)I don't recall if it's explicitly mentioned in the games at all, but in the source material female biology is supposed to be literally incompatible with the Zone. I forget if it fucks up them or their surroundings or both, but I know at the very least it scrambles their reproductive health.
>>503097832Lot of retards saying stuff without completing the game. People here were saying there were no factions when even the loading screens fucking outright mention Duty and Freedom being around, show faction bases, and factions in Shoc don't appear until mid game anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrGQCJUylGQ
>>503100586how do EM1 rifles work irl?
>>503090478What the fuck is neutral strafing
>>503101134No they said you can't join factions, revisionist.
>>503097832you can't sell guns at "red" durability, which is most of the guns now even on military, so it drastically reduces how much money you can make from them
Is this game even going to be moddable like the old xray engine games? Are we going to see the return of great mods akin to LURK, AMK, OL, etc?
FSR is such crap, but I need it to get a stable 60 FPSthey really gotta do something about this. the input lag from FSR is painful
>>503101331Look at last thread and niggers were saying there were no factions what so over and only free stalkers.
>>503101375Nope, because most of those mods used engine edits and heavily edited alife.
>>503101108Not OP but nope. No mention of that. I'm of the opinion that women in the zone is foolish anyway, warzone profiteering in a highly dangerous environment where the only non-criminals are nerds or military soldiers operating on 'Kill on Sight" orders with no oversight filled with dangerous mutants is just not an environment women would last long in for a thousand different reasons.
>>503101375absolutely noone can say who isn't an expert in UE. the engine potentially has no issues with heavy amounts of modding and the devs say they will put out mod tools, essentially if you have similar access to the game before it was compiled as the devs then you can do whatever, but if not then it's limited
>>503101604the only women that would exist would be hookers, pimped by the bandits or freedom faction. they would not be stalkers but property
Why is the ligthing in soc so good?
>>503101604the zone has plenty of desk jobs and clerical stuff even if it's nearly lawless. and women are obviously physically weaker but they have climbed everest and done ultra marathons IRL so I think a fit and gifted woman could survive, keep in mind the zone is full of slavs who are often genetically weak people who subsist on bread and vodka.
>>503100586>complaining that guns aren't tacticool realisticI've been shooting trap and hunting since I was like 12. Silencers on pistol is a video game stealth mechanic and you're an idiot if it makes you mad. Go play a milsim.
My frametime is all over the place and trying to cap FPS gives me crazy input lag, even worse than when I tried framegen.
>>503101802it was unreal engine slopI wish they used cryengine. Kingdom Come uses it and has some of the best lighting I've seen in ages.
>>503101802But it wouldn't be that dark back there
>>503101409are you using frame gen? the upscaler shouldn't increase input lag at all. if you're using an AMD you can go into the amd app and enable anti lag. I'm using FSR frame gen and the setting is making a noticeable difference to the better when it's on
>>503100586>Silencers are to protect the user's ears and to prevent muzzle flash.No they're not fucking poser, that's a modern development. Silencers were originally developed for assassinations and covert ops, properly designed ones can make the right pistol sound no louder than some one tapping on a wall.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0j6L_R-K-ZM
>>503101890In shit video games yeah. In stalker a silenced pistol would still get you discovered if you were close enough, which anon clearly is.
>>503100931>slop slop slop!Third worlders were a mistake.
>climb the water tower next to the first settlement>scoped AKThat's a little too much for the early game, I hope AK ammo will at least be scarce this early.
>>503102136nta but that still has an alerting crack
>>503100931>uncompressedsource?
>>503102136>video you showed you can literally hear the pistol echoing through the airAre you blatantly retarded? He even says that is "ear safe"
>>503102183>In shit video games yeahIn literally every video game that isn't a milsim for autistic faggots.
>>503102127>AMDGPU? I got a nvidia GPUand yeah, framegen is on. isn't that FSR? makes performance much better but gives input lag. and I haven't been using vsync with it due to the insane input lag when FSR and vsync are turned on, so I've just been dealing with screen tearing
>>503102338speaking of that AK, who the fuck is the faggot who said>no PIP scopesIT LITERALLY IS, THAT FAGGOT DIDNT EVEN PLAY THE FUCKING GAME
>>503102338will this be merc suit/veles/vintar of s2?
>>503101604Again, there is a man with one leg in the new rookie village. You do not have to be remarkably fit to survive in the Zone. You aren't going to be a legend like Strelok, but everyday life in the Zone is not like everyday life for the player character who constantly takes insane risks.
>>503096569That was early vtubing.nowadays its 95% women who are too lazy to prostitute themselves on onlyfans with their real pictures so they just let the avatar bait weebs for easy money.
>>503090112there are too many effects and i've no clue how to turn them offespecially the radiation effect, how do i disable that?
>>503102338>want to strike a deal with bandits because why not>climb a long shitty ladder>get down>where is the artefact>don't have any>reeeeeeee we shoot you now die >:(Why do i even need dialogues if it's another illusion of "choice"
>>503102662>TEAM ROCKET IS BLASTING OFF AGAINNNN
>>503102582it literally isn't
>>503102516even in one of the most autistic games, tarkov, silencers also stop all sound >100m away which is completely unrealistic.>>503102662soul
Wow, what an immersive experience! The zone feels so A-LIFE!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM-S1jXWwEY
>>503100991>get your eyes che-ACK!Cyberpunk 2077 on release on PS4 is how PS4 handles anything newer than 2016. You are talking out your ass and have no clue what you are talking about. >>503102338>get a midgame merc suit in the rookie village within 2 minutes of starting the gamewooooow unbalanced we need a hero like stalker complete 2009 (2024) guy to turn it into a potato
>>503096569saruei's actually just hot though
>>503102662Holy kino
>>503102717They were already aiming guns at you before you climbed the tower. You made a mistake by thinking a group of thugs would bargain with one guy. Even if you came down with what they expected you'd be lucky if they didn't kill you.
>>503102918What till you see her unfiltered face, Asian women all look bogged
alright whaddup my blyatting slavoniggers, polaks, and hohols, what do you thing of the game now it's finally here?
>>503102136>>503102379He says it sounds like a loud thump. If you've actually shot guns you'd know that the sound drops off really quickly. A full power rifle becomes mildly annoying if you get about 75 yards away, in the woods it drops off even faster. A loud thump would be inaudible fairly quickly.
>>503102740ok then what is picture in picture if not the scope seeing a view of the world while you can still see around it at the same time, because that's how it works. non picture in picture is OG unmodded stalker or other games of the time where it blacks out the rest of your screen when you scope in.
>frame genyou are not playing the game. you are playing a made up prank. literally someone googling stalker 2 and imagining what it looks like. fake gamer.
> disable mouse smoothing and acceleration> disable a ton of broken settings with optimiser> start sweating a little bit as I move away from the devs original vision> someone's knocking on the door now> I must press on> ignore sound and put on headset> install grok's mutant hp reducer mod> hands shaking as im moving the .pak files> knocks on the door start to get louder> audible, angry russian can be heard even through my hd560s> amassing a puddle of gamer sweat on my Secret Lab Titan Evo> get up quietly, start crouch walking along the walls to close the blinds> almost done> slink back to nexusmods> one last thing i must do> install disabler for stalker 2's background crypto mining rootkit> GPU and CPU temps start settling back down to three digit temps> window glass shattering sounds behind me immediately after> oh shit> flashbang goes off> a swarm of Pinkertons dressed in Duty cosplay storm my appartment> they pin me down and tie me up> crying, begging for my life> snot everywhere> they ship me off to the gulag and force me to eat tourist delight for the next 50 years> dies and rots away in cell> stalker 2 gamma releases next day
>>503102918bratty french autistic whore...
>grok confirmed veteran difficulty lowers gun damage by x0.75How do they fuck this up so bad? The difficulty in the previous stalker games was pretty much perfect. Enemies got harder, you stayed the same. Everyone dies fast. Now it's "lol you're gimped" these devs are so fucking retarded it's like they've never worked on or even played the originals. Oh wait...
>>503103106Such is life in the zone
>>503098941MOMMY <3
>>503102918>>503103145no pubes??
>>503103050https://youtu.be/UHXolG-0F-M?t=47
>>503103184Every human enemy still dies really fast, and I kind of like the tankier mutants since they were always too easy in the base games.
>>503103025>75 yardsDude, the anon was like 10 feet away + you have the sound of your buddies literally dropping next to you, the sound of crunching leaves as the body thuds against the floor. Stop defending dogshit game design. In the trilogy for a silencer to have an effect you had to be like a block away. Holy shit, you faggots doing gymnastics to defend this game to death are so fucking annoying.
>>503102995I wish she was asian but nope she is a basic white french girl
personally, I'm enjoying the gameit has some rough shit in it, but overall it's a good stalker experience
>>503102995yeah man, she's such a sorry sight
OC DONUT STEEL
>>503103184FuckSo I really do have to lower it to Stalker difficultyI was hoping to do a Veteran playthrough first to basically get as much out of the experience as possible, but the bullet sponge enemies are way past being a genuine challenge and more of a constant immersion-breaking resource drain.
>ask for a repeatable quest from the barkeep in the first rookie village you enter>kill a bunch of oddly bullet resistant pigs for 500 >or kill a bunch of bandits for 600 >a single mag (30 bullets) of 5.45x39 costs 660 >a shitty armor or basic gas mask costs over 10kthis is significantly less rewarding than even misery, what the actual fuck
>>503100791Nigga what are you on about>>503100910Language doesn't equal country/national identity? Or do you think speaking English makes you British?
>>503102705please respon
>>503102524look for nvidia's reflex or something, I think that's the equivalent of anti lag. might be in the in game menus somewhere otherwise try to enable it from the nvidia app
>>503103265good
>>503103019as a fan of the series since before the shoc release i feel disappointed and betrayed
are there people who buy artifacts at higher prices or is it all the same?
>>503103551HOCHHH *spits on you* PTEW freak
>>503103548I've got that Reflex Low Latency thing enabled in the game, but I'm not really sure it does too much. I'll give it a go from the control panel though, see if that changes anythingthanks
>>503103515legit every single quest could have their rewards quadrupled and it would not break the economy at all, in fact it would still be too stingy
>stalker, you is carrying 80kg>if you wanting more carry weight you using gravity artifacts>gravity artifacts is giving you +3kg carry weight and need anti-radiation artifact as well
>>503103476That anomaly is kino.
>get to garbage>it's like the first zone but has some car wrecksyikes
>>503102020Have you tried capping in your gpu control panel instead of the game?
>>503102705>>503103535>turn off radiation effectHahahah, oh you..But for real though, you pray someone who knows what they're doing releases a mod for it soon
>"hey stalker go kill 5 dudes for me">"thanks a lot stalker here's $10 for your trouble"selling a single start-of-the-game rifle nets you like 5x of a quest reward lol
>>503103395I'm not talking about the game, I'm responding to the retard who has never shot guns and thinks they're like some kind of nuclear weapon that can be heard from the next country over even when silenced.
>tab out during sale of artifact and sale price goes up to the full price>doesnt work when I press Fdamnit I thought it'd work
>>503103787Part of the fun of Stalker is autistically optimizing your loadout and trying to skim as much weight as possible so you have more room for loot without going too far and running out of resources.
do you ever get a better flashlight? your starting one is worse than what I can get from an EDC LED flashlight from china for $20
>>503104305silencers don't do shit on most ammo types you disingenous faggoteer, it'll still be clearly audible in a big radius
>>503104478low carry weight is anti-fun.people have psyopped themselves into believing low carry weight is fun.
This was so ass to get, I hope the the effect is good.
updated list why it's trash-enemies spawn on top of you-forced mouse acceleration-PiP scopes removed-flashlight shadows removed-very distracting pop-ins-niggers-mediocre graphics for such high hardware requirements-memory leaks-BSODs-dead, empty world (broken a-life)-photorealistic graphics from the leak changed to look like a fucking Ubisoft game-only scripted blowouts (unconfirmed)-shit voice acting-can't join factions-time passes too fast (timescale)-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 UI-bad economy-mutant enemies are bullet sponges-artifact effects underwhelming
>>503104567lollmao
>can't sell weapons below 40% durability>can't partially repair damaged weapons>full repair costs more than what I can sell the weapon forwhy
>>503103740>>503103548hey, that actually seemed to help a bit>Nvidia control panel, set Reflex low latency to ultra>set it off in the game>no vsync>uncapped framerate>FSR on in the gamenot perfect, but seems better
>>503104662Most of these can be fixed in updates
Do the guns have fake names in Stalker 2 as well or did they get permission to use real ones this time?CAPTCHA: TNTSM
>>503104478>cop>50kg base weight>+20 from armor>+24 from two goldfish>s2>80kg base weight>+0 from upgrades because they're horrifically undertunedI don't like itsimple as
Is Valik's AKM-74S worth upgrading or should I wait to get a normal one?
>>503104745yeah and I am hoping they willI love stalker
>>503104662>mediocre graphics for such high hardware requirementsIs there a single game with good graphics that has performance people don't complain about? This happens with every fucking release. Please bring up RDR2 as your one single example. Please.
This FSR 3 frame generation option is so fucking good. I get stable 60FPS on medium when normally I only get 30-40FPS on low on my shitty rig. The only downside is the slight input lag and wavy mouse, but the Nivdia Reflex option cuts it down.
>>503104873every doom looks decent and even shitty laptops run it at stable 60
>>503104693That's pretty normal for this type of game, otherwise collecting broken shit would be worth it just with tedious steps
>>503104881are you using vsync with it?
>>503104873Ground Zeroes looked really good and run on a potato.
So what's the impetus of the game's story. >Anomalies start appearing outside the Zone (and the Government is aware of this based on the radio broadcast you here in the Truck in the intro)>One of them destroys Skif's Apartment>Finds an Artifact >Decides to go to The Zone (to kick it's ass?)What is his actual motivation, why does he feel the need to go to one of this shittiest places on Earth and also not divulge his reason for going there
>>503104881Doesn't FSR 3 have horrific ghosting?
>>503104693Guns are all over the place in the zone, everyone at least has an MP5 or sawn-off. People don't want to buy guns, they want artifacts. That's why they came to the zone.
>>503105000what's the point of broken shit to begin with thenlike just don't have it in the game
>>503104662>-PiP scopes removednever were in vanilla games>flashlight shadows removedno, but the effect is minimal>memory leaks, BSODcomputer issue>photorealistic graphics from leakthose were always bullshots, the game looks nothing like ubisoft>shit voice actingchange it to ukrainian>no point in exploringtheres loot and artifacts everywhere, did you play the OG games where entire locations were completely empty of anything because you didnt unlock the stash yet?>>503104873battlefield one and nu battlefront. COD MW (2019 only for some reason, they kept getting worse and worse graphically)
>>503103263I LOVE MY MOMMY <3
>Minding my business >Sky turns Red>Emissions soon STALKER>When?>NOW>NPCs start running>Outrun them all>See the subtitles saying (Dies) as I'm getting to the shelterI'm sorry bros...
>>503104980Doom looks like shiny plastic shit and the game limits enemy spawns to like 8 at a time in already constricted levels.
>>503104567Yes you have to wait for mods
>>503105047he's broke because apartments don't have 'anomaly blowing it up' insurancehe's ex military so he feels he can handle it
>>503105108>PiP scopes removedpretty sure it was present in one of the early builds of stalker 2 but the fucks are too incompetent to make it work
>>503105047huh? he got a special snowflake artifact and wants to sell it for loadsa cashmoney
>>503105098In case you REALLY want to use the thing, like it's your raifu
>>503105257He gave the artifact to Hermann at the start of the game as payment for him driving him to the zone and giving him the special tripod detector.
>>503105159>they died like 10 meters away from the shelterJesus
>>503105108>never were in vanilla gamesThey were in all the trailers and advertising for this game though>no, but the effect is minimalNot a counterpoint, we've had this technology for 2 decades>computer issueRetard issue>those were always bullshots, the game looks nothing like ubisoftBullshots aren't edited, but the photos they used for promo clearly were>change it to ukrainianThen you have to deal with subtitles and no lip-sync
>>503105108>never were in vanilla gamesthey were in the leaked build>no, but the effect is minimalthat's a blatant lie, flashlight literally casts no shadows>computer issueokay almost got me there, nice troll post
Some guy walked suspiciously somewhere. Followed him and guy went to some corner and started pissing. Peak game.
imagine how good the game would run if it didnt have to be open world slop.
Did you guys see the devs responded today to the non existent a life accusations? Lol those faggots said the a life system has 2 different processes that are clashing causing major issues and they will "try their best to fix it" What a bunch of faggotry the biggest draw to this game and they didn't even test it before release
This game fucking sucks.
>>503105226That's itThe inciting incident of this story is that the main character doesn't have insurance for rips in spacetime damage That's actually pretty funny, something you would see in an old Sci-fi novel.
>>503105570Go hunt artifacts bro
https://imgsli.com/MzIwMTgwlooks good on low
>>503105520honestly yeah there's no reason it couldnt just have loading zones between large areas, unless someone proves A life works properly and NPCs can walk across the entire map, it being open is pointless
>>503105004No, Vsync off, I have no screen tearing so I don't need it. Getting to the slight wave in your aim takes some time, but it really doesn't sound that bad, it just doesn't feel 100% sharp.>>503105081I don't really notice that at all. The only weird think I noticed with it is how you get a visible dark border/rectangle during stormy weather (when the sky goes brown and cloudy).
>>503105081I had a ton of bad ghosting in Monster Hunter and Dragons Dogma 2 although that was a mod to be fair but I haven't noticed anything weird about frame gen on Stalker, it's been pretty smooth sailing
>>503104693Becuase the economy was being broken in the old games by people selling mpc weapons it was never intended to be a ez money glitch
>>503105712Yeah I only need to find 16 of the fucking things to repair a suit thats only 30% damaged.
>>503093424cool, go back to whatever you were playing
bugfixes when? did devs announce anything?
>>503105763the problem with framegen is it ups your framerate but mouse movement stays pretty much the same so it's really discontinuous and fucks up my aim and feeling of motion
>>503105351his shiny snowflake artifact ran out of juice since it was outside of the zone for too long (not sure if that was the case in previous games). hermann puts it inside the 'scanner' and you go in to try and charge it up so it works again
this game is rigcz-certified ludo
>>503106120Oh, neat!
Miss these little nigras like you wouldn't believe...
HOLY SOVL
The ghosting of the same brown bush gets burned into your screen like a flashbang when you look around, and enemies blend in alot to the foliage, they also shoot you through the overly placed clutter.how hard is it to implement a LOS check
>>503106514>1360x768bro...
>>503106415Horrible tree to climbThankfully they're usually easy to fell instead with their narrow crown structure
>>503106514*gasp*Is that the famous LE ROOKIE VILLAGE? Oh my radiation!!!
>>503105541Also there is a dynamic random spawn encounter that they enabled and cranked to max to compensate for all the A life issues at launch Those ukraine kikes would've done nothing if people didn't notice so early on Oh our selling point of our game doesn't work at launch? Just crank up the static spawns to offset the shitty implementation of a life and hope no one notices kek
>>503106625Such is life in Serbia
need a way to just disable a-life because they just spawn way too close for it to be "fun"
>>503104747>Do the guns have fake names in Stalker 2Yes, same old Vipers, GP-37s, SPSA-14s and Vintars.
>>503106120Idk if it was in the previous games but artifacts running out of power is kind of retarded. That's the whole economy and premise of Stalking from roadside picnic.
>>503106514>those sharpening artifactsawful
>do a quest>either you win the jackpot (good armor/gun) or it's worthless>find a stash>it's mostly worthless>kill some enemies>loot is worthless>find some artifacts>their benefits are worthless>kill some mutants>waste lots of bullets for zero rewardstalker 2 feels as rewarding as call of misery, I'm starting to think I should do nothing but main mission and then quit the game for a few months and wait for overhaul mods
>>503106627I just wanna see them in the game man, all the trees ingame look so bland
>>503106634Faggot
>>503106930yeah I remember artifact descriptions talking about how their unique properties are highly prized by various institutions and wealthy private peopleit would still make sense if they fell apart eventually, but i never really got the sense that they do unless you do some weird stuff with them (like use them for gauss ammo vs just storing them up your prison pocket)
>>503105241they were present in the leaked build and they showed up in demos and b-roll footage from various gaming event footage, so they did existpretty sure flashlight shadows did too but I can't confirm right nowthe fact that PiP scopes existed at some point is good though since it means modders will probably be able to reimplement them
>Player stash in Zalissya>They didn't put one in GarbageNUKE UKRAINE
>>503107248>pretty sure flashlight shadows did tooit did, there are screenshots from earlier builds that show them
>>503106971That's right boy, get your ass back to GAMMA
>>503097497Silencers reduce gunshots from 140+Db down to ~120. It's still going to be loud as shit. I wish game devs would stop going into ubishit style "stealth" gameplay which is really just crouchwalking around with a bullshit gun and headshotting enemies that don't know you're there.
What are the best mods for each respective STALKER entry?
>>503106625what is a soulful gaming experience without a soulful monitor?
>>503106930Maybe it was a post-Strelok breaking everything development
I9-9900k3070ti32gb ram1080pSsd, checking inSeems like the first guy i was shooting that i died to was invincible and idk who that was.https://youtu.be/z9MIa2WN444?si=6RWjc2yEgu1ueTLa
>>503107376>get your ass back to GAMMAwhy? so I can collect boar asses for sakharov?
werent there containers for artifacts in other stalkers? i swear i remember that is there anything like that here or do i have to suffer the constant cancer meter filling up?
>>503107516Well they're not going to collect themselves.
I better not see y'all camping corners with the TOZ when MP drops
>>503105407That's how it do. There's the quick and the dead.
>>503107357even if they didn't exist they'd be pretty easily to implement, just by making the light source shadow-casting (literally a tickbox on every light entity's properties in UnrealEd)
>>503107514Those first 30 seconds were awful, were you having a stroke or something?
>>503107591no.
>>503107376ahhhh oh god oh fuck I'm coming!
>>503107591You have to either upgrade a suit to have a special artifact slot that counters radiation or counter with a raditation reducing artifact (so you would need two artifact slots)Artifact containment units only existed in mods
>>503107591>werent there containers for artifacts in other stalkers?that was modded shityou had to use containers so they don't irradiate you from your inventoryin base games only artifacts you wear give you cancer, hence the weird "wear -6 rad artifact first and see how many +rad artifacts you can wear", which means you only ever used the stamina ones
new 24h peak huh
>>503107591containers was always a modded thingnormally you need to balance your artifact belt so that your radiation from artifacts is cancelled out by ones that absorb it
>>503107514>jelly on screen>those ubishit enemy awareness indicatorsAlso, I am not a gun nut, is the ejection port supposed to be on the left or are the weapons mirrored again?
>>503107393>ubishitEntire post disregarded
>>503107927uh oh, where's chart jeet at now? suicide?
>>503107974You can disable all the hud elements.
the input delay makes me want to kill myself, not dealing with that the whole game, its over
>>503075191>dunno how it is on other difficulties but the most downloaded nexus mod is for mutant health rnFighting more than one bloodsucker is an exercise in monotony.Doubly so if you disabled all the gaynigga visual effects that make it impossible to see shit in game like motion blur, because then instead of being a blob of weird blurry effects the bloodsuckers are just straight up invisible.
>>503107953>normally you need to balance your artifact belt so that your radiation from artifacts is cancelled out by ones that absorb itit's a shitty system desu, given how few you can wear and how weak they generally were>>503108071yes but then what would I complain about?
>>503106971PEOPLE ARE LITERALLY DYING IN UKRAINE IMAGINE WHAT THE DEVS WENT TROUGH CUT THEM SOME SLACK
>bloodsucker takes 3 fucking rockets to kill
>>503107927it was me and i'm hanging myself rn
could you always 'defuse' an anomaly with bolts?i thought it only worked with the electric one, but here several types shut off for ~4s after they pop
OH MY SCIENCE! GROK JUST EXPOSED AND BTFO'D TRANNY GAME WORLD?
>>503107927weekend it will break 200k screencap this
>>503107927Where's the chart shill faggot isn't he gonna ride the wave with us on the way up too?
>>503108395
>>503097774We have shit like ap-pro
>>503108395This piece of shit just keeps getting worse lmao
>could you always x?>was it always x?>is it just me or x?A lot of you are exposing yourselves as Drewski tourists LMFAO
>>503108395I wish there was an option to keep gun damage vs humans and straight up double it against mutants
>>503108395>.75what were they thinking
>>503107927But game bad
>>503108395 *falls onto my knees**falls onto my chest and face**dies*
>Leave lesser zone>Emission happens a couple minutes later>Follow the marker to the closest shelter, turns out there are guys there and they show red on the compass>Kill the couple dudes>Oh there's like four more>kill them>Oh there's like four more>kill them>one upstairs>kill him>he drops armor and a helmetLocation is "Factory"Did I just accidentally attack a faction?
>>503104717glad to hear that, enjoy
>>503108628(dies)
>>503108395based grok the savior of stalker 2
>>503108395lmfaothis is more and more turning out to be yet another skinwalker game wearing only the appearance of something familiar with none of the heart and soul underneath
>>503107927shut up shut up SHUT THE FUCK UPThis WILL be a flop for Asmongold to cover
>>503108029I described the Far Cry series' stealth mechanics for the last 10+ years and you're going to pretend it's not real just because it makes Stalker 2 sound worse? Okay dude.
>>503108395he means you do 25% less damage, not 75%...right?
Im getting there
>>503108917anon...
>always loved how you can mouseover an npc and cursor turns red if it's an enemy>in stalker 2 most enemies are inexplicably friendly, and when they notice you they turn into enemies and start shootingthere's so much utter bullshit in this game
They brought back the old CoP bed anomaly, neat!
>>503109089
>>503107775Just nervous and cant aim well
>>503108917Anon, do you not know how to do math?
>>503108395Also veteran difficulty lowers the amount and quality of loot
>>503109089it's ambiguous, if you multiply something by x0.75, that's a 25% decrease. I'd like to know, if it's not that I will definitely go back to medium
>>503090112>All the whackass visual effects like lumen and dithering>All the incoherent performance drops>The broken AI>The forced mouse sense jank that takes fucking about in 2 configs to fix>The god awful reliance on upscaling because the engine can't actually do all the stuff it claims to without faking frames, making playing without it a horrible experienceI take it all back, the xray engine was a state of the art piece of technology that still dwarfs modern day "top of the line" engines made by trillion dollar studios with infinite fortnite money.It has better lighting than UE5 and runs at 600 FPS on my hardware.Truly we have only regressed since then.
>>503108878>I described the Far Cry series' stealth mechanicsYou described how stealth works in every shooter. Stay low, stay out of sight, stay quiet. You're a fucking retard, like everyone else who tries to call every single game ubislop.
Yeah, gonna wait till based grok releases G.A.M.M.A 2.
>>503107882basedI am enjoying 0.9.1 atm, it's fun.
>>503108029>Huh I wonder if those guys are enemies>Let me take out my handy binoculars to checkHaha. Someone send the nukes I'm done.
>>503109324i was hoping he misspoke and didn't actually mean 75% damage reductioni still hope he's wrong holy fuck
>>503109351>xray engine was a state of the art piece of technologythis man has fallen victim to the brain scorcher
>>503109378>she picked the skorpionoh no no NO NO NO NO NO
>>503109358You're the retard nigger defending shooting a guy from ten feet away and his brain dead friends just standing around for you to do it to them.
>lighting fucked>flashlight near unusable>infinitely respawning enemies>auto lean>can't reassign flashlight hotkey>higher difficulty just makes enemies more tanky>in-game economy fucked, makes no sense>AUTO FUCKING LEANalright that's it refunding. maybe in 2 years when it's $20 I'll come back. It's IWP and Analmeme for me. maybe I'll check out the recent ShoC update mod that was posted by people before the shitstorm
>>503108395really? fucking hell WHY? WHY CHANGE THIS?
>>503109378that's it i'm downloading and doing an ironman run
>>503109579>sheexcuse me, it clearly says "player" instead of some female name
>>503109334that would explain why every fucking guy i've killed only has one or two bullets when i loot them
>>503109703>>AUTO FUCKING LEANjust turn it off chuddie
>>503109703>recent ShoC update modsauce?
Why does .45 do so much less damage than 9x18 and 5.56 so much less than 5.45
>>503109378okay now disable that piece of shit depth of field blur
>>503109703no binoculars memes anytime soon as well...
>>503108276Never get between a westerner and his consooming. 99% of Westerners don't give a good fuck about Ukraine even if they are virtue signaling for them. They just want to consoom new thing and move onto next new thing to consoom or virtue signal over.
>>503109351Game would have been better had it been programmed on Godot.
>>503109610>why doesn't every single thing ever make sounds perceptible to NPCs in video games?!God, you're a fucking retard.
>>503109892You can't? Can you? Am I retarded?>>503109905https://youtu.be/V_VV0Fl-6PA?si=QzmlE-j23ebE2IBO
>>503109859Sorry sister, thought you transitioned based on your gun preferences
>>503109703but le 116k playerinos in steamerino
for the people enjoying this, good for youi tried my best but i can't enjoy it, it's not the same thingrefunding, will buy when it's better
>>503109892You can't turn it off.
>>503109882Look at that lighting, the way the shadow casts against the tree without bluring and sapping the framerate by 40%.The way the light hits the building with a warm, sunset orange glow.The way you can clearly see everything without the trees dithering and the whole scene looking like you accidentally set your resolution to half.THAT'S what shit should look like all these years after release.
>>503109351> the xray engine was a state of the art piece of technologyOh, for fucks sake, the x-ray engine was a piece of shit that was crushing regularly, and performance was awful. The end game was a fucking slideshow. You hate UE5 for some retarded reason, I get it. But stop pretending the original was flawless on release. It was buggy as fuck. I still have the original DVD I bought at lunch. It collects dust somewhere at my parent's house.
>the game looks pretty good up-close>the game looks pretty bad mid-distance>the game looks straight out of 2002 at long distanceI think all issues can be fixed without too much issue (except possibly ai, which they might or might not overhaul) but the performance drags everything down so much I'm not sure I'm enjoying myself -- which is made even worse by the fact that there IS a decent game underneath this dogshit optimization, you just can't play it unless you have a $1.5k desktop
I really can't deal with the first person I'll see saying stalker 2 is better than stalker 1, I just can't
>>5031094751 x 0.75 = 0.75he didn't misspeak, you just don't know how to do math
>>503110343Stalker 1?
Help.
random russian soup MOGS this garbage
>>503110293>>503110057I'm fairly sure I have no auto-lean on pc, and when the first "gameplay leak" happened (some aussie bought a physical xbox copy and streamed earlier than digital unlock) he went into the menus and turned it off iirc
>>503110310Console gamers don't need to see far
>>503110460It's over.
>>503110460what the fuck is K? Kuck coins?
>>503110497true stalker was shit des
>>503110604Koupons.
>>503110460you simply need to do the "kill some pigs" quest 105 timesyou'll even get an extra 100 vodkamoney extra
>>503110570 Koupons, the new currency since the Zone doesn't accept roubles anymore because ?????????????????????????????????????????????????
>>503110604kyiv bucks
>>503107514>potato reaction times>potato skill>potato difficulty as evidenced by surviving so many bullets with a leather jacket>potato ability to comprehend when to heal>trying to full auto blast a guy with armor with standard non-AP 9x19mm ammo>missing shots and getting them tanked because you're shooting at the body armor with flesh ammo
>>503110310>>503110523No one needs to see far when enemies don't spawn until you are 20 feet away
>>503110604Kike coins the jews run ukraine now
>>503110460just use a glitch for unlimited manni bro
Famous russian ex-vagner sergant and terrorist Ilya Jopevich was terminated on twitch
>>503110497salty zigger
>>503110604Koupons.I wish I was kidding.They stopped using Rubles because anything associated with Russia is literally Hitler.
>>503110727meant for >>503110604 lel
>>503110772see >>503110523Why spawn enemies where console gamers can't see?
Amidst all the crap talk and cheekibreekiry of it all, you ARE pouring one out for my stalker Doctor X and his Call of the Zone (COTZ) mod, right stalkers???? Also it looks like while they patch this thing it's time I finally play OLR since I've already done AMK AE
This game’s economy really makes me feel like a bangladeshi rice farmer
>>503110727>UKRANIAN game>doesn't want to use RUSSIAN currency anymoreWhy do you think dumbass?
>>503110460>go out>gently scrape anomaly by accident>instantly realize I just lost 2x the value of all the shit I looted including artifacts in repairsI've basically started burning through AKs at this point, I just find mildly damaged ones and run them red, then dump them for another.Just not worth actually repairing and upgrading shit anymore, even the suits are impossible to maintain.I saved for hours to try and get some new shit, just to hit the repair bench and find my suit alone dropped me back to $120.
>>503111020Don't know what the fuck any of that means
>>503110973God the crispness on those, surely it can't be running over 30FPS, can it?
I did neither
>>503105886>>503105712wow look at that now i need 20 of them
GAMMA will save us... STAY STRONG BROS
>>503111278a ukranian friend begged me on steam dms to not buy atomic heart, I didn't buy it cause of that
>>503111278i pirated both
>>503111157My suit, mask, and 3 guns all broke instantly from an emission. I will never financially recover.
>economy be like: we want the tarkov audience
GAMMA is unironically the better game over stalker 2
>>503111470you get way more rubles in tarkov, you can do 2 scav runs and pay for like 6 raids
Let's split the thread, there are far too many people, which I'm sure are tourists and /v/ermin, talking about their horrible experience with the game, bitching and moaning about how the performance is bad, the economy is Misery tier and a-life doesn't exist./sg/ for the original trilogy and its mods/s2g/ for the goyim struggling with the fact that stalker 2 is not the game they expected
>>503111397His ideas what the fuck is that
not satire btw
>>503111470even tarkov's economy isn't this ball busting, this is just memery tier
>>503111386your friend sounds like a child broski
>>503111605agreed, let em cook
>>503111498Gamma is an excellent base upon which mods with actual content should build, except they never materialized so there is nothing but fetch quests to do
>>503111150>Fake currency>Fake militaryIt's a young adult novel version of Stalker now. Oh I forgot, fake A-life, so not even that.
>Squint tells me to go in a cave>What's the catch?>"there's an anomaly field down there">it's a fucking tank of a bloodsuckerGOD DAMN IT SQUINT
>>503111591Some slav union flag But i dont see poland :c
>>503108129The old system pretty much limited you to 2 artifacts w/ effects and then 2 rad absorbers if you had a suit with 4 slots.
>>503111498name one good gamma quest
>>503111619There is no economy, there's broke people and chinese currency resellers.
>not even 2 hours in and i already have 20 medkits, 30 bandages and can only really die if i get hit fast enough.meh
>>503111470Tarkov is ez money just don't go to mainstream places that twitch kids go to
>>503111605das rite incels, let them fucking cook
>>503111791sounds like every vanilla Stalker game
>>503111605LOL
So is the game bad or is the general just filled with /v/tards having a meltdown?
>>503111927both
>>503111605This but unironically
>>503111927the poor performance is the main hurdle if you have a good enough pc won't have much of a problem and all the other issues are small shit thats prob gonna be fixed w patches, also this general isnt anti 2, 80% of it is playing it, 20% Is salty sour grapers
>>503111696>Some slav union flag>mongol, lithuanian, commie insignia
>>503111927it has a lot of issues that need to get fixed before we can make a fair assessment
>>503111867except clear sky, everything bleeds you in that game and theres no bandages
>>503111573God if anything it's just filled with retards who have NEVER seen a stalker anything in their life who are just mad at it because of politics
>>503112024baltics are slavs, same people
>>503111150Coping. I like having things authentic and not censored/history rewritten to suit a political agenda. That's why they don't get my money and I pirated the game and will await some form of fix from talented modders
>>503111696nah, anonit's a schizophrenic mess of a picture, obviously sarcastic in natureor is it?
>>503111927It has horrible performance and bugs, but everything else is fine. Good game. Pirate it if you are not sure. ziggers are just seething because they got mogged by a "fake" country.
i've only played like an hour of SoC 10 years ago. thoughts on if i should or shouldn't play stalker 2?
how to fix economy>trader who buys artifacts at like 30% or even 50% value>can sell any gun>quest rewards x4 across the board>repair costs down 40% across the board
>>503112017That's what I figured with the game. Talking to some people irl and the game is fine minus the performance and other things that are small.
>>503110973>fps: 100>without DLSS at 50% resolution scaling>without framegeni-impossible...
>>503111927Game is not bad. Its just plagued with with constant technical issues.Whenever i whad a "damn this is fun and exciting" moment i immediately stumbled into some kind of graphical glitch, bug or stutter. So it drags down the overall experience a lot.Im confident the game will be really good in a year when this shits gets ironed out but right now you will have to go in with the mindset of "meh, its not game breaking so i dont care that much"
Why can't i loot mutants
>>503111927Both for now, the bad can be fixed
>>503112231>And everybody le clapped
>economy is a meme>mutants are bulletproof>performance sucks>artifact bonuses are very underwhelming>ai itself is decent but spawns are retardedtheres a good game underneath all the issues but it really shouldve been delayed by a month or three
>>503112420skif is too much of a pussy to skin mutants, deepest lore
>>503111573>the economy is misery tierits not, its complete tier.
>>503111927Bad, but not unfixable levels of bad. It's just going to take a lot of time and the question is will they do it?
I feel like there's points of no return for meeting certain characters or doing certain things. I found Elbow dead in what seemed to be the aftermath of a shootout. But I had passed by that area before and there were live bandits on the rooftops and shit. I'm guessing advancing the MQ will also "advance" the in game events/time.
>>503111927It isn't bad but it will be "forgotten" and in the background very quickly, and for very long.There is not enough here & with broken to potentially non existent A Life I fear there is no longevity. Its a play once and wait maybe 4-5 years for mods deal....So IMO within a month or 2 we will be back go a gamma general, with Snippets of progress on stalker 2 every now and then. Gsc have to spend 2 years bug fixing and MAYBE working an a Life system out. There isn't much modders can do of worth until then I just don't think we'll see many stalker stories or dynamic happenings that made the original stalker generals of old so good. That's the problem
played for 12 hours and this entire time i only had 2 blowoutswtf is this
>>503112539>15 years of development>here is your artifact that gives +2 bleeding -2 rad, bro!t-thanks... j-just like i had h-hoped... just like the original b-bros...
>>503112702>back go a gamma general
>>503111769Shut off brain scorchervery unique>>503111927Game itself seems good but it needs a balance pass (easy), some work on ai (more difficult) and a lot of optimization (probably difficult)
>>503112809can't confuse console retards with complicated things
>>503112702good post
>>503111605kek no
>>503112841yeah,back to>my soupslop is better than your tactinig slop!!ftfy
My biggest gripe with the game so far is the mouse/camera movement feels so awful. Like I'm trying to move the camera through molasses or something. Turning off frame gen and mouse acceleration helped a little bit, but it still feels bad. Realistically, is this something that will ever be truly fixed?
>>503113150Realistically it works fine on my machine
>>503110018I am this but without the virtue signalling and with lots of pirating.
>>503112809>here is your artifact that gives +2 bleeding -2 rad, bro!I really wish they would implement interactions between artefacts of different nature, their influence on each other
Just started the game and it feels choppy. I've read it gets better after the prologue, is it true?
>>503113105It is because that's the actual game not some milsim fags botched version
another game sacrificed at the altar of Series S parity
>>503113537gets better but not performance wise
>simple artifacts BAD>every mod with convoluted artifacts always ends up in endurance + kevlar plates for firefights
Ziggers won
>>503112787Let me guess, once in the lesser zone and once in garbage while going to the facility with ward?If that's the case, then they are scripted.
>>503111927The game itself is good, it just has some pretty big flaws right nowGood shit:>Shooting's solid, visually and audibly great, enemies are a little tanky>Story's interesting and branches based on player action like a real RPG>World is interesting to explore, includes a lot of key locations from older games that have been expanded upon>Gunfights still feel like they should in a stalker gameBad shit:>Artifacts only seem to spawn in specific places>Artifact abilities aside from rad resist are kinda shit, no SoC "inf stam moonlight" tier shit>Jeetware tier engine chugs constantly even on good hardware, turning down settings generally makes the game look like ass>Repair costs are completely fucked and need a patch>There are bugs, many bugs>AI is pretty retarded and wont notice you walking by them directly in front of their face>All gear breaks down way to fast>Items are a little too abundant>Mutants are way too tankyOverall, not great, not terrible, some things could be fixed by the end of the month, others may be more systemic issues that we're gonna be stuck with, such is life in the zone.
fucking tarkov-sloppers
and they think theyll be able to add multiplayer to this shit? kekaroo
>>503112420Is rude.
Fitgirl repack relased today, but i already have the gog version. What a shame
Why are there so many fucking bloodsuckers in Stalker 2
>>503113980https://youtu.be/fAF7KQN8m-I
>>503114434>he wants the slopped up malwared up raped and recoded by a retard version instead of the clean gog one??????????????????????????????
Sooo, no new rifles?
>>503114458Every faction agreed that the sheer quantity of ammo need to keep them controlled simply wasn't worth it.There's fucking two on what was the duty checkpoint to Rostok.
>hole in the ground>go in>4 fucking burers all crammed in together>half the time when they wrench the gun out of your hand the gun just fucking disappearsI've beaten these retards 3 times now but restart because they disappeared one of my very expensive guns
>download GoG version>launch game>see pic relatedthe fuck?
>>503114895
>>503113973The A-Life absence specifically and AI problems in general is the thing. That's make it or break it territory.
>>503114895You got SCAMMED
>>503114895>he fell for the gog meme
>>503114895I've been trying to fix the exception_access_violation shit all night without any luck. Hopefully you get it to work.
>>503114895>hours downloading a zip file>hours extracting it>hours installing>game crashes
>>503115404>hours downloading>hours extractingpoorfag
>>503114895oh UE5, you so funny
>>503115404
>>503115404scam, simple as
>try to install a mod>any mod>game crashes
>>503116158but rajeesh told me ue5 was moddable
somebody please tell me how to get rid of these unsellable PDS from my inventory.
The infinite spawing enemies, the lack of NPC persistence and the random spawn patrols have really made me lose my interest to play, which is really sad.
>>503113626>but putin>but russia>but series sstop
I thought we were past this kind of shit with modern engines.
>>503114458I bred with all the fem 'suckers in CoP, sorry
>>503114895>>503115297you need to block internet access for the game via firewall apparently.
>>503116312You must've been living under a rock for the past ~15 years because Unreal Engine has always had terrible fucking pop-ins in every single game unless cleverly hidden by the developers using walls and corridors.
>>503116158>Try to modify a technical mess of a game that's barely working as is>It crashesNo shit?
>>503116381gotcha, unplug internet cable when launching stalker 2
>>503113973It's the longevity though. Most will play it once and go back to older games with mods for replayability and the dynamic A-Life system. You have to hope modders are interested enough to want to work on it, but some might honestly wanna keep working on X-Ray and the CoC bases, and new talent... well I don't really like new waves of modders. Grok is down though so that's huge. Based Grok
>>503097774That's why moddb is the best.THERE'S NO FUCKING DRAMA
Is it safe to sell PDAs?
>>503116312>I thought we were past this kind of shit with modern engines.BahahahahaYea, no, this kind of shit is back in a big way.Welcome to modern gaming
going for photo realism was a big mistake
should have made the game on source 2..
>>503114895>thanks for your help
>>503116765Couldn't they just have asked valve for source 2? I want stalker 2 on source 2 instead of unreal garbage.
>>503116765Can Source 2 even do open world stuff?
>>503116765this but godot
>>503099251>>503100625its not real money, its all monetary equivalent of weapons/guns that the US had in storage not doing anything, they're literally replenishing their stocks with fresh n new shit and get to see ziggers n ukrops explode for that, pretty good deal for the westoids
>>503111695I'm actually trapped in a death loop now with this bloodsucker, I've mag dumped two AKM mags, 8 shotgun shells and a pistol mag into it and it's still killing meis this supposed to be unkillable?
so what's with the giant modern mansion / base in the middle of the zone suddenly?
>>503116963valve good epic bad
>>503116765Isn't valve keeping Source 2 behind closed doors for the most part until half life 3 releases?
>>503116963there's no fucking reason for it to be open world
>>503117040No one knows, such is life in the zone.
>>503116963no-one knows, I thinks source 2 SDK still isn't open yet? source was not ideal for open world because the cell size was quite limited.
>>503117040Scientist HQ
>>503116963yes, trust in valve tech, theres literally semi open world shit on source 1, such as vladik brutal this zigger devd stalker like janktrash shooter let alone source 2 >>503117062that i dont know... they're using it on their own games tho ofc
Is there any reason in keeping all these PDA's and notes?
>>503116665searching with moddb is a horrendous experience though
>>503117040zelenskyy's house
>>503117250no, but how do I get rid of THESE ones? I already did there quests.
>>503117250No - sell them off. Dump red broke guns. Sell yellow broke guns.
>>503090550thats not kana tho
>>503116268Same. What the hell is stalker without its AI. Just another generic shooter.
>>503117250they're autism seasoning. sell
>>503115297>Hopefully you get it to work.i think it has to do with the game being unpatched. Is there a website that has the newest one?
>found the stash of energy drinks by the poppy field>picked up the note that said to take and leave what you need and don't need to help others>decide to leave a few in>go back to zalissya and overhear a stalker talking about how someone used his secret stash and actually left some drinks too and even commented on his note missingthat was neat, you're okay buckwheat
If artifact spawns are static can someone tell me where the fuck we can find one that gives minus radiation so I can actually equip a different one? I just got over the bridge to the garbage.
>>503116665>>503117258wrong
>>503117695>go back to zalissya and overhear a stalker talking about how someone used his secret stash and actually left some drinks too and even commented on his note missingI am going to have to check that out, didn't expect these guys to add that nice little bit of reactivity. Thanks for the heads up mate.
>>503097774lol based nexusmodscope and seethe rashens
>>503094676While i agree with you i'm going to call you a fag for not turning off the hud for the recording.
welp, major crashing issues now around that dude who died near the poppy field with the dogs.
Is the fact the "Offline A-Life" is missing not just because its all 1 big open world? So there aren't offline areas to load.
>>503117040Epstein island
>>503094676I like this level of tree sway, the amount added in some mods (slopomaly/gayma) is absolutely ridiculous where they dance around from a small breeze
Did previous gamed meme me into playing the highest difficulty? Boars take 3-4 solid shots at a boar's ass to down it, and a single bloodsucker can take up to 10 shots
>>503118264In all open world games everything in it outside of your immediate area is "offline" or it would be 1 fps trying to simulate everything.
>>503118351who would be on the list? sid is 100%
>>503111927It has a lot of issues but it actually plays and feels like a sequel to Stalker which is great.
>Radar is west to the Army Warehouses>Zaton is next to the CordonThis new layout fucks with my brain
>>503118501>old game: you die easy but to more damage than on low quality>new game: anti-tank bloodsuckers
>>503118508Just because its not being rendered doesn't mean something isn't happening. Kenshi is a prime example of this.
>>503118501see>>503108395
Has anyone tried one of those longer days mods? How are they if you have
>>503107927STOP THE COUNT>>503118264That's not an excuse the world is still loaded in chunks and it's all just memory in the end. They can just free that memory or write it to a file if persistency is a must (it isn't) when a player leaves one area and enters another.
it's already happening...
>>503119090Fixing the game? Yup. All we need now is to fix A-Life.
>>503119090>No yellow paint removalDamn
>>503119090>grokisn't that the twitter AI
>>503119090Call me when they pop the map in gamma
>When lightning strikes nearbyHoly shit.
>>503108276Go virtual signal somewhere else, you stuttering retard
The 30 minute day/night cycles are way too short for A-Life NPCs to do anything.That is, if A-Life was even a thing.
>>503119242yeah, Grok can do coding now.
>>503119238That's a default setting option
I just noticed that there is no PDA chatter from nearby NPCs either, not even an illusion of it. Seriously, PDA chatter were in all three original games, why cut it out now?
>Player chart posts suddenly disappearhmm...i wonder why
>>503119291I saw lighting strikes hit dangerously close to me, I would imagine you can get hit by it
>>503119090>fix broken shit for freeSome times i hate modscum like you wouldn't believe
>>503119090Why are those fucking idiots using nexus? STALKER mod base was always modb
>>503119427Yeah but I want a mod for it.
>>503119242It's also the name of the french guy who made the GAMMA Modpack for Anomaly
Why did Ukrainian devs make a game with an engine that no one in Eastern Europe can run?
>>503119570Oh yeah it's fully random. I sat and watched a storm.
>>503119539its 2 AM in india
My gog instalation finished. Im compiling shaders. Finally i can get disappointed too. Gonna play on easy cause balancing sounds like shit
>>503119603GSC is prohibiting moddb from hosting STALKER 2 mods because GSC is policing the mods being uploaded on Nexus.
>>503118553Trump
>>503119527Yeah it's shit. Where's Max Faggot commenting on Senya Twig dying?
>>503119659its not 2008 and the avg gamer above the age of 23 ik has a pretty good PC even in my balkan shithole
>>503117931I can't be fucked to deal with the HUD every time I see something cool and decide to press the capture button.
>>503119527Blame putin
>>503119090>fsr modisn’t fsr in game by default?
>>503119829peace talks might get them 2/3rds of Donbas lmao
>>503119603moddb is clunky old shit that hasn't changed in 15 years
>>503120134Nexus is run by trannies.
>>503119808Source?
>>503120197based
Just found my first gasmask nice. That's 16k in the bank.
>>503119090>grok must feature his nickname in the title of every mod, no matter how small it is
>>503120134Ya but it's not run by turbofaggots, just regular faggots.
>>503120197i just want to find the mods to download, sis
>>503120321Ugh just stop shilling, no one is having fun
>>503117040sircaa hq
>>503120197idc just make better site than them then
>selling a medkit gets you the equivalent in not-rubles of a single bullet of 7.62>not a single mag>literally a single bulletCan't make this shit up
>>503119829Sure anon may whoever you like more win, but stop virtue signal it's embarrassing for everybody
>>503120134Yeah I'm not using a website that will delete and ban mods removing women and blacks but promote ones that add more & trans flags
>>503095249>Goddamn, that's what has felt so off to me>There are no open fields It's all various levels of woods and overgrowthThat's actually a symptom of "open-world game design" syndrome. Make a giant, computer-generated blank map, and fill it with boring shit. Instead of designing the world around gameplay, they design gameplay around the stupid open map. Someone said "wouldn't it be cool (if instead of Stalker 1 map), you're actually exploring the dense zone forest with a bolt" sure.. but you forgot to make the actual game.The first game had iconic locations, paths, the garbage, the bandit railyard, the first railway crossing, caves and tunnels, etc. everything handmadeAlso, modders took the whole "survival horror" genre and ran with it. In this it's extremely overdone with darkness and spooky music.The first game also had colors, and you could see. This game is greyscale for no reason. Drink vodka and suddenly it looks super beautiful because they crank up the saturation.>>503096640>The core of a good game is there, but everything more complex like performance, balance, and finer design elements is completely fucked.I do not care if it has bugs at all. That has nothing to do with the actual game itself.The real problem is the game itself. It is just a generic reskinned UE5, and none of the 'gameplay' aspects work properly together. All environments and objects (shacks, windmills) look the same. No open areas.Moving, shooting, reloading and healing feels weird.The knife misses dogs at point blank.Bloodsuckers having 8000hp makes no sense at all.As a fan of the first game, I am surprised to say, it is NOT a complete disappointment. Yes it is still STALKER, and yes it is worth wandering around a bit. Some of the feel of the originals is actually there. I was afraid it was going to be COD/Metro but it is passable.
>can't save mid combat
>>503120040Stalker2 uses FSR 3, but there's FSR 3.1
>>503117006>still parroting thisdo you think ukraine's economy is being propped up by tanks and arty alone?
>>503120393You better hope people who're constantly seeking be offended and tell people what to do don't dislike the mod or the modder. >>503120309ywnbaw
>>503120426I'm having fun.I'd be having more fun if it wasn't a technical mess, but I'm still having fun.
>mfw trying to keep enough shit together to keep everything repairedThe prices are fucking ridiculous, and then the game goes fucking ages without giving access to a trader at times unless you want to back track.
>>503120848>You better hope people who're constantly seeking be offendedLike you right now?
>>503120623Yeah the economy is completely and utterly fucked. Even worse than Starfield's somehow. I understand the busted ass guns you get at the start shouldn't be worth much. But even Artifacts are worth nearly nothing, vendors are paying like 10% of the price and buying, repairing or upgrading is insane. I tried buying like 50 shotgun shells at the very start and it was more money than I had selling all my gear. ALL my gear.
>>503120704>first game also had colors, and you could see. This game is greyscale for no reason. Drink vodka and suddenly it looks super beautiful because they crank up the saturation.I'm playing on my oled TV with hdr on and it looks great and colourful. Monitor and setting issues
>>503120848cope faggot
>>503121018>I'm playing on my oled TV with hdr on and it looks great and colourful. Monitor and setting issuesYou are completely stupid.
>>503120134>that hasn't changed in 15 yearsThat's a good thing though.
>>503120704>That's actually a symptom of "open-world game design" syndrome. Make a giant, computer-generated blank mapThis is a symptom of retardation and not actually knowing anything about how games are made or what engines do.
>>503121018>colourfulSpeak American
Don't play on veteran, it's cranked to unreasonable levels of dickpunch.
>>503120919I'm not seeking it. Nexus is run by trannies who are certain to remove and ban mods that offend their insane sensibilities. That's a REAL problem that will affect my life directly when I try to find cool mods. The trannies will be freaking out because some modder said something pro-hitler on a GSC Gameworld forum post in 2009. One is fake. One is real. One is troonshit, one is real life.
>>503120197unfortunately so is moddb
>>503121103You have a shitty laptop monitor with bland settings rather
>>503120321I'm more critical of the game than you faggot and most importanty I'm actually playing the game. Crawl back to /v/.
>>503121207You know, I have entire weeks where I don't think about trannies at allDo you have those?
>>503121196I'm playing on veteran and it feels right/familiar outside of bloodsuckers and fleshes being tankier.
>>503120634It was a joke you faggot I'm sure your room temp iq can't detect the sarcasm
>stalker go kill 5 bandits>ill pay you 600 >a single ak in good condition sells for 2.4kQuests are completely worthless
>>503121359Nah, I see disgusting non-passing troons weekly. It always fills me with sadness and revulsion.
>>503120324At least Grok is a known name, unlike Jake, who the fuck is that?
>>503120426>>503121341
>>503119897is 6600xt a poorfag card in the balkans or am i ok??
>run around exploring finding nothing usefulopen world was a terrible idea. now I just beeline from mark to mark
>>503120243go look for stalker 2 mods on moddb right now
>>503121442Throw away the mirror?
>>503121359what do you think
>Everyone is saying stealthing around is piss easy>I keep getting detected from 50 meters away, through wallsDo I need to walk for it to be actually silent? I'm also using a silencer on my Makarov and they still hear me from the other side of the place I'm trying to sneak in. I haven't been able to get a single stealth knife kill because they always detect me.
so what exactly are we looking at in terms of vidya, big open world adventurefest you can spend plenty of time in like an rpg or somewhat more open metro? I'm no stranger to stalker but having a hard time cutting through the seething vatniks and shitposting to actually see what sort of vidya this is shaping up to be, though I heard the ai spawning is a bit of a letdown
>>503121564Have they not actually made routes and blocks etc. In the open world map? Please don't tell me its 360 degree open and you can just go straight line anywhere...
>>503118501The actual reason for playing on the hardest difficulties in the other games was that there was a chance in the "easier" difficulties for bullets to despawn and not actually do any damage, including your own bullets. The hardest difficulty did not, which is why everyone recommends you play on that. Stalker 2 just adds a damage modifier so that you need to shoot things for longer.
>>503121442I actually have never seen one irl so that might be why I don't really give a fuck about them
>>503121737of course there are blocked parts and elevationit's like zaton, you're generally unobstructed going from place to place
>>503121624I have literally walked into a bandit from behind trying to talk to him thinking he was a friendly since the range for talking is so close, and he didn't realize I was there until I bumped into him.
*sigh* I simply wish this game was never made.
>>503121737there are blocks dividing "zones" but so far exploring those zones haven't been rewarding at all.
>>503121552its pretty shit, idk if it'll run stalker or not but thats a lower midrange ish card from 2021, not the best
>>503121915stalker 1 would never have npcs standing around
>>503121904What difficulty, for reference? I'm playing on Veteran
>>503121564so we are just forgetting how the original games were right? SOC and even COP were completely empty of loot outside of stashes and major areas. this actually has loot in the world that you can find naturally at least.
>>503121684It's like CoC in terms of design except instead of chokepoint loading screens, the map is broken up with things like radioactive rivers.
>artifact doesn't appear anywhere in the area even when the meter is full
>>503116765CS2 was pretty shit, so no
>cursor over a bandit is green>walk up to them>they see me and start shootingvery cool thanks
>>503122143could be above or below you like happened in previous games
>>503122032Veteran. This webm was also veteran.>>503096883
>you NEED to be holding the detector to see the artifact!!!!!!!!!!!I hate this nigger gameplay decision we HAVE to go back to SoC
>>503122229cs 2 technically is great n runs great same as dota 2 or alyx so your argument is nonsensical to do w the engine brainletbro
>>503122034bro, it's 2024. I'm not comparing with the previous games but how bland the world feels - it was supposed to be an upgrade.open world in fantasy games makes sense but here it is terribly executed. if emissions were random (and also artifacts spawns) then that would already make things better. now it is just: "oh hey. here's another stash with consumables that you already have in stock but can't bring more because of weight capacity"
WHAT THE FUCK I CAN'T SAVESCUM
Do emissions not replenish artifacts?
>>503096883I kekd hard at (dies)
>>503122356Write it again but in english this time
>750 koupons for this guy's religious icon that is in an extremely dangerous anomaly field that he treasures more than anythingFUCK OFF!>>503122521emissions are random though. idk about artifacts
>Artifacts are just pretty rocks that I look at and then sellI wish they made them actually do cool shit
Is this one just bugged? Nothing pops up no matter where i go, if there's a cave or some shit i can't find it.
>>503122345this is just wilful grognard shit
Not like this bros... not like this
>>503122536Well if you reloaded anon the enemy might not even be there let alone in the same state. Welcome to unrealslop
>>503122558No lmao. I fucking hate this shit. The "find an artifact" quests also do not take into account at all what artifacts are around. I was asked to find a Root artifact by the trader in Garbage but I sold the one I had like 4 hours ago elsewhere.
>>503122685didn't like it in CSdidn't like it in CoPdon't like it heresuck a fart outta my ass
>>503103487>make-up out the ass>not a sorry sightWithout it she very well might be, you have no idea.
>>503122620
>>503122693There's too much hate. The game is a solid 8/10. With a few bug fixes and QoL changes it'll be worth playing a year down the road.
>>503105159>>503105407>>503107659Don't let their stuff go to waste.
>>503122656>emissions are random thoughare they? I've been playing for hours but have gone through just one. pretty sure it is scripted
>>503122897HAHAHAHAHAHAH (dies)
Holy fuck why are all the mutants so fucking tanky. What is this shit.
>>503122845Humans are fucking done, AI wins
>all these tools ITT not waiting a year+ to play the game with all updates and shiet outngmi
>>503102662Now this is the STALKER experience i know and love.
>>503122897>8/10 isn't worth playing
So I played earlier this morning and the shader compilation was like a minute. Didn't change anything at all so I opened the game jut now and it's been 10 minutes with the fucker not even being at 50%.
>>503121378Of course, I was complaining that you were virtue signaling for the russians using sarcasm as if that makes it less pathetic and repetitive.
>>503122964Turn off veteran brother
>>503123003Playing it nowAnd I'll play it again then
>>503122845>my friendLMAO, no.>>503119829Ew, a /pol/troon outside of its containment board.
>>503122897So should i play now or stick with modded anomaly?
>>503123003Yeah that was the plan with Warhammer and it's the plan with Stalker 2, too
>>503123229ngmi
>>503123348Space Marines 2 was pretty good though
>>503120243ModDB staff in trooncord
>>503116312worst LODs I have ever seen, they don't even resemble the high-poly models
>>503123524I mean the Total War one
new >>503123469>>503123469>>503123469>>503123469
>>503119808What the fuck lmao
>>503123713screencap of post stating this?
>>503119527so some anomalies DO have light? thats good to know
>>503123839>>503123962>>503120243See>>503124290
>>503098819More puzzling: Why are turd worlders simping for Snow Nigeria? Do they see themselves reflected in those vodka niggers? Spiteful untermenschen living on the periphery and hellbent on making others as miserable as they themselves are (rather than improving their own lot)?
>>503110806>he doesn't know
>>503123256Ew a tranny who hasn't roped yet
>>503124479Moddb staff really said that? Or this is just a rumor
>sends me into a cave with a bloodsucker that I have almost nowhere to take cover from while I fightFuck him. This little faggot single-handedly convinced me to side with the Ward's.
>>503126680Your fault for not asking if the cave contained bloodsuckers or not. Don't ask/Don't tell policy.
>>503097459Anon, you may be retarded, because one of the first option when you start a game is selecting the spoken language. You basically voluntary choose to take english voice actors to do the voices, then complain that they arent speaking Ukrainian or with an Ukrainian accent...Like honestly, even if you're baiting, it still a retarded complaint
>>503090112Took a break from it for now. I REALLY want to play it anything that is not mutant related is fun but goddamn - this bullest sponge bullshit is a joke and i legit never had an enemy make me go take a break from a game. The mod is cool and all but if the devs arent fixing this shit till next week this will just be put on ice on my part
>>503127029He literally says "An anomaly is why I don't want to go in. That's it. Really."
>>503127689you only asked about anomalies silly goose
>>5031226936.5-7 is how i would rate it too
>arrive at a location>nobody's home>pick up an item/walk over an invisible ledge>BANG BANG, BANG BANG>AWOOOOOOOOBonus points for when they spawn inside a house you already cleared. I don't think I visited a single POI where this hasn't happend. They really think this shit is clever.
>>503127846No, I asked why he didn't want to go in the cave. Also it's his fault for not asking if I'd shoot him in the face and keep the artifact and take the sensor.
>>503093083Depends on how often you want to open your PDA. I really wish they'd kept the minimap.
>>503124479fake, who said that? Randomtrannies?
>>503098345They probably tied the sound effect to the rain animation, so the game engine no longer play it if it think you no longer are in the rain.
>>503093083There should be a real compass (item) to know the direction you follow when you want to check it
>>503128104and thats why its dont ask dont tell stalker
there is literally no reason to play stalger 2 in the state that it is right now over any mod of your choice
>>503120704>Drink vodka and suddenly it looks super beautifullol
What kind of fertilizer do they use in the Zone. Asking for a fellow botanist.
>>503119527That was never in the original games, unless you count scripted events where someone calls you on the PDA phone.
>>503119829Good morning saar
>>503117267KEK
>>503135184PDA chatter was in all games vanilla. NPCs commenting on their surroundings seeing wild dogs and whatnot.
