чepнoжoпый Edition>OUT NOWhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1643320/STALKER_2_Heart_of_Chornobyl/https://www.gog.com/en/game/stalker_2_heart_of_chornobyl_ultimate_edition>Bugs reporthttps://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us/requests/new>Stalker Optimizerhttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2>Optimized Tweaks S.2 - Reduced Stutter Mouse Fix Improved Performance Lower Latencyhttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7>Disable TAA - Chromatic Aberration - Film Grain - Depth of Field - Vignettinghttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/21>Reasonable Weapon Degradationhttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/33>less tanky bloodsuckers and poltergeistshttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/23previous Bread: >>503090112
>>503123469metro won (years ago)
>>503123926literally not comparable in the slightest, fallout is more comparable, but i get it its bait.....
PSA: Veteran does not work like it did in the older games, it just reduces your weapon damage down x0.6 while bloating the health of the mutants (which is already high in every difficulty).
so do bandits not say cheeki breeki?
>>503123926>metro won (years ago)metro was straight up fucking garbagethat's the problem with casual gamers and every pleb being on the internet now
>>503123926>Metro>Not even in metro anymoreAt least stalker is still about stalker
>>503124049chookyy brookyy
>>503123926>>503124045I'm nooticing...
>>503124049I've heard one
>>503124049Haven't heard them say it yet and I haven't heard THE song yet, either.
oc do not steal
GSC and Nexus shenanigans
>>503123469Realistically when will they unfuck performance? By christmas?I don’t want dlss performance framegen upscaling download more fps mode
Fucking memory leaks, AAAAAAAAA!
Luring them into anomalies works, most of the time.
anyone here playing the gog download?
>>503124296>By christmas?yeschristmas 2025 lul
>>503124045>reduces damage AND increases HPare they retarded?
>>503124290grim
(Dies)
>>503124143Less than a minute and two images posted. Mere coincidence, goy.
"I have seen multiple questions about A-life issues. There are several known issues with A-life 2.0 system that we are aware of and are working on fixes/improvements. We know that this system is very important to the Zone having an immersive atmosphere, and we will do our best to fix the known issues." goty soon
>>503124290as if I needed any more reasons to not buy this kusoge
>>503124371Yeah, what about it?
>>503124462Main issue being it isn't in the game
>>503124230Falseweapon durability hits 0 after 8 seconds of fire>>503124290>official moddingwho tf cares about official? tf are they going to do when i upload my shit to moddb?
>>503124462How can they fix it if it's not in the game
>>503124553just wondering if it works fine for u
>>503123469>>Stalker Optimizeryeah, i'm not using dozens of shitty mods that conflict with eachother and crash the game. the guys making these mods are like "YOU MIGHT GET ERRORS, LOL!""disable TAA" the guy literally says "oops turns out its already in the game lol!"they dont even say what it does or how it achieves it'modders' are braindead and have never made anything good in like 20+ yearsonly mod I used for stalker was ZRP (zone reclamation project) because it fixed bugs
>go to sneak attack guy>knife swings once>hit the button again>nothing happens>spam all my buttons>nothing happens>diegoty
>>503124450kekk
>>503124290ModDB already has a section up for STALKER 2 though?
>>503124721Runs ok, with FSR3 I'm getting 80fps on medium settings with a 1070ti, but it does crash randomly. Not great but I've seen much worse games.
I hated this place back then and I sure as fuck hate it now.
>>503124924Is that a thing I know?!*gasp*Oh my science!!!!!!!!!!
>>503124462How can they fix something that LITERALLY does not exist, in any formThere are no bugs, it's literally NOT THERE, AT ALL
>>503124045wait really? thats fucking gay
So you guys have been going through the same few maps for years, then you're going through them again in a sequel? Damn that's crazy
So bloodsuckers just have fuckton of hp now? I'm playing on stalker and these lads just take 3+ mags. Do they take damage while invisible?
>>503125114the zone is the zone
>>503125114I fucking wish
>>503125130>So bloodsuckers just have fuckton of hp now? I'm playing on stalker and these lads just take 3+ mags. Do they take damage while invisible?way too fast, too much hp, too invisible and deals too much damage
>>503125036chatgpt, copy this post to /v/ in all appropriate threads and record all responses
>enjoying stalker 2>check steam reviews>very positive>let's go see what /sg/ think>everywhere I look; pissing and shittingare you just being contrarians or doing the "new big game suck" TORtanic thing again?
>>503124462ChatGPT, write me a vague message placating my costumers so more people will buy my game before the facade is uncovered
>>503124921>I'm getting 80fps on medium settings with a 1070tiNot even close paco, I dip below 60 on 3070ti in populated areas on medium
Does difficulty change the economy at all?
they went so overboard with the darkness in this game the flashlight also is powered by 1 triple a battery about to die
>>503125356How many of those positive reviews are retarded meme reviews with 0.1 hours played I wonder
>>503125262Honestly I'm ok with them being 'too' invisible but being bullet sponges is a tad silly. They are stealth killers not some behemoths.
>>503125356See >>503122693What now retarded shill?
>>503125262so they're an actual threat now instead of goons you take out with 1 shotgun shot?
>>503125469who the fuck is paying at least sixty dollars to write a positive meme review
>>503125356Game objectively has a ton of issues right now. It’s not a trainwreck and there’s a clear path to unfucking it but it’s retarded to pretend everything’s fine
>>503125381Honestly hombre, it's 80 in open forests, and around 60 in towns. It's all fake frames anyway.
>>503125373>costumersMy nooticing is increasing...
so veteran isnt even worth playing on then?
>>503125356A lot of people on here want it to be unplayable so they can say "HAH I told you so" but also a lot of it is legitimate complaints about the blatant issues in the game that start to become painfully difficult to ignore once you get past the first hour of 'shiny new thing' gameplay. Steam reviews are just glorified twitter posts trying to say something new for attention, anyway.
>>503125514>Bloodsuckers in StalkerAmbush youKill you in one shotDie in one well placed shot>Bloodsuckers in Far Cry Gasmask EditionJust fucking run up to you and tank your entire ammo poolDon't even deal that much damage
>>503125495Yeah, this is for you.
>>503125514>relatively common humanoid enemy with zero armor is supposed to be as tanky as a pseudogiant!
>>50312535690% of the posts here are /v/ tourists who never even played the games, take a guess
>>503125570There were positive reviews literally the minute it dropped, just lonely redditors saying things for attention.
>>503125856I don't have to play a game to know it's dogshit, that's what Asmon is for
>>503125834they have legendary status in the zone
I upgraded my computer for this gamevros....
>>503124049Someone should make a mod where everything bandit gets ported from the first game.Bandit chatter was one of the best things about it.
>>503125834uh so, how much punishment do the giants take?
>>503125356The game is not as bad as /v/tards pretend it is, but to denies that the game is not having major issues right now is retarded
Is it just me or does Garbage have WAY less encounters than the Lesser Zone?I think I've had maybe 3 squads spawn close to me while running around and not a single mutant.
>>503125356>steam reviews>"devs are from ukraine! I will cut them some slack"if this was any other game it would have been destroyed by them. like the anon said, the more you play, the more glaring the issues become.they should have delayed it more
>I don't have to play a game to know it's dogshit, that's what Asmon is for
anybody seen new mutatants yet? i've only seen the rat swarm and it was pretty cool
>>503125570Neat thing is that steam shows how many hours the user had at the time of writing the review, so there were thousands of these stupid meme reviews as soon as the game was up for point farming
>>503126102how much ammo do you have on you?how many rockets do you have on you?
>>503126120I had something like 8 separate bloodsucker encounters in the lesser zone. I've only seen 1 in the garbage so far. If anything, I call that an improvement.
>>503126085all the NPCs have this "fake game made in unreal engine' vibe going for them, stiff animations, bad looking generic faces etc.
>4 deaths to tutorial bloodsucker>they now have an aoe attack for aome reason where they howl 10m away and for some reason it causes you to sheathe your weapon for several seconds>takes like 2, maybe 3 clips to killIs it some meme “x ammo is meant for y enemy” bullshit or are they made out of titanium?
i keep getting fucking crashes after 10 seconds of loading in with this errorUnhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000000000000980x00007ff7dd5fb5a5 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7dd5f158c Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7dd60ce2f Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7dd58d53e Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7dd681630 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7dd5586ba Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7dd54b8fa Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7dd5b82b2 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7dd4ca44e Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7e021ce77 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7dde945fe Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7dde97626 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7e0221152 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7e0221f17 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7dfe0b84d Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7dfc8e7dc Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7dbff8050 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7dc0019bc Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7dc001a4a Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7dc0027bc Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7dc00b7b4 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ff7e0f02e92 Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []0x00007ffbb519259d KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction []0x00007ffbb6a6af38 ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction []
>>503126417Don't play on Veteran but yeah bloodsuckers now have an aoe stun and are bulletproof.
>>503123469>160gbthis torrent is taking forever bros
i hope they fix the economy. like holy shit you barely get any money
>>503126037Because they were the only ”women” you could find in the zone, not because they were invincible
>>503125514>bloodsucker cave encounter>had seen spoilers, knew it was coming>went in with 2 mags of AK, 4 mags of Viper, 3 mags of PM, 4 shells of buckshot, and a couple grenades>spent literally all my ammo and was only able to finish it off with a knifeIt's beyond a threat. It's a bank-breaking slog.
>>503126570try allocating more connections per torrent.
>>503126634bwo I think the avg freedom sissy will do a better job at a bj than this
>>503126206rats and stags but its still earlysome of the new anomalous areas look really cool, like that gravity thing
>>503126539I also get similar errors,32 Gigs of RAM as well, and I monitor that shit so it's not running out of it, some other jank is going on, I don't crash so often though
>>503126539GOG version? There's apparently no way to fix it.
>>503126673I liked the tanky bloodsuckers until that encounter. That faggot Squint just convinced me to side with the Wards.
>>503124290chat is this true
>>503126818i don't think I can do that now that utorrent is a shitty web app.
>>503126673Aim issuethey’re way too tanky but not -that- tanky
>>503127057>utorrentlil bro....
>>503127057use qBittorrent
check out this artifact with max statsi can wear other artifacts without getting rads now
>>503127245where did you find it?
>>503127245fucking lucky
>>503127245how many hours in, amigo?
>ukranian flagwoke gameee
>>503127245GIVE METHE FUCKING ROCK
>>503127548You'll have to take it from my cold dead hands, stalker.
>>503126871Wacky slush
>>503126085>Bandit chatter was one of the best things about it.Well that was too Russian, so.... it got cut
>>503127101It really doesn't help that when they attack they lunge /through/ you so that by the time they're uncloaked and standing still they're standing directly behind you. You have to pull a 180 and hope they're not only still standing there but also not still swinging at you.
>>503123926i want to punch that cat
stalker 2 good?
I'm honestly surprised they answered this
>>503124290>selling gun skins and armorPathetic So they are gonna try fucking free modders over for encroaching on their cashcow... I know how this goes.Never trust a slav
>>503127707It's fucking weird, since the bandits are 90% bad, so having them speek rus shouldn't be an ideological problem for the game. Especially with a rus language option.I can't understand...
>>503127859yes but very flawed and runs badwait a month
>A-Life 2.0 be like
>>503127745
>>503127890Most likely want to sell as much shit as they can, perhaps promotions too.Maybe will stop being pissy faggots after a few years and a "complete" edition.
>>503126368It is definitely an improvement and feels way closer to the pace of the originals, but now I'm drowning in ammo.What a strange design choice to make the first area so much harder than the area after it.
>>503127745He will always be more smug than you
>>503127859Better than Halo
>>503124045So the lowest difficulty is the more authentic stalker experience. Cool, cool, cool.
>enters a room>three bandits talking>they don't attack me>throws a grenade>closes the door>boom>they diethey were probably for some quest but I could not resist
>>503128171this means nothing
when patch
>>503127859Frustrating, sloppy, baffling, but nonetheless it is a proper Stalker sequelFun? Yes, for the most part. A good game, all things considered? No, not yet at least.
how long will it take to run one end to the other of the map
>>503127245Nice, if you sell that you can almost repair your gun
LEAVE MY FUCKING INVENTORY NOW!
>>503124290No fucking way...What the FUCK
is there no way to get in here?
>>503128093Uhhh..... Lads? That cat is, well...
>>503125356>a bunch of ubislop enjoyers who have never played stalker before love it!Fuck you faggotno alife no buy
>>503128397Let's be real here, he could repair TWO guns and even buy a tier 1 gasmask!
>>503128171>>503128250Kek
>>503128537You're a shitposter who hasn't played it and likely hasn't even played the original vanilla games.
>>503128537Yeah that's a yikes from me
>>503127878A life doesn't workThey also said that they knew this so they added in a static respawn system and turned it up to 100 to compensate for A life being so shittyThe absolute state of jewkraine
>>503128537>boot up black ops 6 multiplayer>see this
>reflection of moon>that's not in the sky
>>503128537hey don't post leaked multiplayer videos, it's not ready yet
>>503128772It's over.
>>503128772zone fuckerythe moon in the water isn't real
>>503128772The water says it's Stalker clear skies.
>>503127949Agreed and with that same logic they shouldn't have put blacks and jews in either
>>503127878A-life is not in the fucking game, they don't want to be sued
>>503128659>They also saidNo they didn't
>>503128537one time the game kept spawning enemies. feels like some areas have the spawning chance cranked up to max.
Could you disarm whirlgigs with a bolt in previous games?
>>5031282642 more weeks
>>503128964Are they swarming in some places? Cause if there's a few i don't see a problem really. I could expect random faggot adventure seekers could want ot go into the zone for shits and riches.
>>503128537>>503129053all of this shit is super easy to tune/fix
>>503128630You're a paid shill
>>503127859It's Fallout 4 + Far Cry 5 in Unreal Engine 5
>>503128264here's the first community patch https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7
>>503129151I can't recall specifically for CS and CoP, but if I remember correctly in SoC bolts didn't disarm anything, just triggered them. If you set off a whirligig it would still get you if you stepped in half a second later.
SMGs are quite OP in this game
Veteran is a meme difficulty
>>503125391It seems difficulty affects item and upgrade prices. Might be why the economy is so shit, no one play tested the Veteran difficulty.
>>503123926Are they working in a new metro?
>>503129298>it's so easy, that's why after 7 years and 4 delays it hasn't been fixed or even properly tested!
>>503126997yup pirated it from gog, i started a new game and it's fine now but i'll see if it keeps doing it when i get to the gunsmith on this one, thats where it started crashing
My save is bricked.
>>503129017Yes they did faggot check the dev answer posts in the discord
>>503128093i want to smooch that cat
>>503128093why's this cat hitting me with the "fuck me" eyes
economy in this game is fuckedi feel like some chink 3rd contractor on slave wagesanyone else?
Are NVGs in?
>>503129426Yeah I think that’s how it worked, bolts were for detection only. I think some mods allowed to temporarily shut off an anonaly but only for the electric ones?I really like this change
>>503129667no
>>503129645what is wrong with that? just use a weight limit mod to not waste more time than necessary
So stalkers on the field attack you from time to time for no reason. It's best to shoot first anyone we see now?
>>503127859>is it an ok stalker game?Very much so>is it worth full pricenot a fucking chance
>>503129753You're kidding me. There's no nightvision????????????????
>>503129334Nope. But what I said is true.
>>503127310>>503127548northeast of slag heap in garbagefound it while doing the Budmo! side quest>>50312736412hrs but i'm just wandering around and still in the 2nd zone
>>503130220Plz wait 10+ years for beefs nvg thank you remember we all died during games development
>>503128649>>503128537>the lowest rank is translated as "soldier" instead of "private"This annoys me for absolutely no reason.
>>503129551>using discord
>Newfag shitposters grasping at straws alreadyImagine playing Stalker and not figuring out inventory management is an integral part of the game...
>kill bloodsucker for quest>repair armor for 2200>reward for quest is 750im kinda mad
>No NVG's>No binocularsWhat the fuck, man
>>503129987>>503127859>is it an ok stalker game?Very much so>is it worth full price?Only if you're still planning on playing it for years to come regardless of the current state>is it fun?Like 40% fun, 60% frustrating>is it well made?God no>is it funny?Very much so
>>503129927HAHA BENIS :DDD
>>503130361Damn, that's really fucking lucky, I only found a thorn there.Yet to find a single rad protect artifact
Just started playing, is movement supposed to be this sluggish? I even tried with nvidia low latency but it doesn't seem to change much
>>503130569quest rewards are a pittanceI've just been looting non-broken guns and selling them to traders. much more lucrativealso veteran difficulty seems to make everything cost 20% more
>grok already fixed the combatkneel
>meet beard >doesn't sell tea It's been great going back to old areas and meeting old characters, but occasionally it feels as though some of the personality is missing. Map looks fucking huge though, will be amazed if the janky spawns, and lack of loot variety doesn't get stale after 30-40 more hours.
>>503130770Were we too hard on grok?
>>503130708https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/42
>>503130824No, he should kys
RU localization when?
>>503130361>poisonous holelol didn't know they put my wife in the game
>>503129426bolts in SoC do set off gravitational anomaliesin CS and CoP they only set off electros
>>503129151Whirlwig are the ones that lift you into the ait and gibs you, right?Nope, in fact they're one of the deadliest anomaly unless you know how to rubber band yourself out of it before it trigger.
>>503130770>>503130824isnt that the twitter AI
>>503127859we all love staker 2 here it's insane how we all share the exact same love for stalker 2 here
Which of the optimizer mods should I use if my PC is shit
>>503130862>this is a modand no, mouse smoothing will not fix input lag.
>>5031308852 more months
>>503128423Finish the associated sidequests and they will.
>>503130885nevernext patch will add a check for russian locale or geoIP on PC and hardcrash the game every time since they're still getting their hands on it even though they've been told they aren't allowed to play it
>>503130708mess around with FSR and vsync settings. FSR has introduced some pretty bad input lag for me
This game has the feeling of Fallout 4 is a very bad way
>>503130992and anyone who says otherwise is a stalkerhater
>>503130885in 2 patches
>>503131172gammababy*
>>503131171oh fuck off now we're just getting ridiculous
>>503131171Literally has the same spawn system, its just that its not as well balanced
>>503125356All complaints are one of two things:>bitching about bugs >bitching about not having features from their faggy modpacksBitching about the game being hard to run is valid though.
only true (real) actual stalkerheads like stalker 2, secondaries out!!
>>503130569use a shittier armor unironically. This game uses Zero Sievert logic where different priced armor needs more to repair. I've been using PSV-7 military with a wear and tear upgrade even though I could afford much better because it's way cheaper to patch up
Made it to the second area. I'm permanently at yellow carry weight with 1 gun, 1 pistol and like 300 rounds between the two of them. I'm having fun but holy shit I just don't want to pick anything up due to having to drag it to the Slag to sell for pennies. Someone unfuck the economy, please.
>>503131286I'm not trying to be a dick it's just something with the movement and gunplay
>>503130996How much do you mean by shit? If it is too much you should buy a new one before tariff hits bro.
>>503131072I already finished both of them, you can find the items after finishing the quests and they just become dead weight in your inventory.
>>503130885>told they aren't allowed to playdamn, i didn't know ukrainians were so childish.
>>503131439Such is life in the zone.
How did they managed to make the same buggy shitfest of 2007 game design 4 times in a row with 0 innovation while having fucking Microsoft to back them up.
>>503131612And with less features
>>503131456I'm getting 20fps on low and 20fps on epic and 20 fps with FSR on ultra quality and 20fps with FSR on performance
>>503131827What is your cpu and gpu?
Here's your A-Life 2.0 bro
first game to crash with my current gpu undervolt curve
>>503130937>NopeI believe, if you triggered one, then escaped and waited until it "fired", you could safely run through it for a few seconds, same as electras, except unlike those, whirligigs couldn't be triggered by bolts, only detected, so you had to carefully touch the edge of the anomaly yourself to be able to do this.
anyone tried a performance engine.ini yet
Bloodsuckers go down in half a magazine from the AK, I have no idea what fucking game you're all playing.
>>503124290>not allowed By whom, the mod police?
>>503132040Criminal
what are those glowing balls that explode basically?
>>503132284Yes, literally
>>503130581Those are coming in the DLCs, you did buy them right?
>>503132040this stuff will be fixed with a patch or two
Big stoiker fan. Waiting for the download to finish (from torrent of course, I am not paying shit). Gonna wait a year until the dev and and modders fix everything, GSC went far from Venom Codename Outbreak but looking at the current team I don't see much familiar faces and names I am afraid it lost sovl over the years.
>>503132040
>>503132525>big fan>won't support the devs to improve the game retard
>>503131118>FSR I'm not using upscaling, framerate hasn't dipped much so farAlso pardon the spaghetti language but i hate the death screen, i loved how you could watch the world move on after you died and maybe see some kind of interaction like mutants eating your corpse They could at least change the image instead of this piece of shit bloodsucker staring at me every time
>>503132040stop noticing things
>>503131439> I'm permanently at yellow carry weight with 1 gun, 1 pistol and like 300 rounds between the two of them.So it's just like SoC
>pick veteran expecting the old high difficulty experience>cant kill enemies with a reasonable amount of bullets unless i headshot them>everybody knows bloodsuckers are way too tanky, but i have to dump like 4-6 shells of buckshot into a flesh's face to kill it>my 9x18 PTM does more damage than a .45 USP>a unique scoped AK74 does less damage than a normal one>get a unique gun from a quest>its at 10% condition and it costs 15 thousand funny money to fix itbleak. still having a very good time with the game though, its nice for stalker to finally have good atmosphere without 190 visual mods
>>503132525One thing I will say, the new game does retain a surprising amount of the sovl from the originals. Turn off all the extra shit on the HUD and it does feel like a proper Stalker game.It is incredibly flawed as a game experience, though.
>>503132723>upscalingnah not upscaling, framegen. it's called FSR in the graphics settingsand I totally agree watching my corpse fly around was always hilarious
>follow nightingale>have to stop every few seconds because you're faster then himgod fucking dammit please when will devs stop with this shit
>>503132697>supporting scamorovichLmao
Do any of you big strong boys know how to split a stack of items in stalger 2?
>>503125356Disengage the cock from your throat. Every problem is fixable but those dumb niggers can't be trusted until the moment they actually do. A-Life is literally just not be in the game and it's up in the air if it's because they gutted it or they broke it.
>>503132697i don't support draft-dodgers
>>503132942sorry I should be specific. it's called "FSR 3 Frame Generation"
>>503131016this fixed all the remaining sluggishness for me, but not the crashes https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7?tab=description
>>503132697I bought the original SoC from a market on a burned CD lmao. We older but not so oldfags from eastern yuropoo have pirating basically as a tradition even with stuff as steam and gog. These days paying for unfinished stuff is a stealing, once it is finished then I will drop a buck or two. Original had a lot of jank but it was "workable" jank so to speak, haven't played it yet I have no comments yet.
>>503132040Needs the dragonball teleport SFX
>>503132525>Хoлoбaзa, нy я тoжe нaдeюcь чтo пoфикcят, нo дyмaю пapy мecяцeв пoдoждaть пpидeтcя дaжe кaких-тo элeмeнтapных фикcoв
>>503132973>NPCs moving slower than a sprint but faster than default move speedThis is one of the most criminal things plaguing gaming and the fact that almost every single game with follow missions has it is fucking insane
>>503133058check your controls, it's towards the bottom
where can i get a scope for the akm?
>>503133103>bro just go get drone striked in a trench for these uninhabited 3rd world villages in donbass that haven't had a person under 30 living there since 2001 while putin & ilk farm mansions in italy and the rich whores from downtown kiev suck western dick abroad yeahh no I would dodge the shit out of that if i was born in either one of those shitholes, shame for niggers that actually fight it
>20 nexusmods entires of which most are just fucking engine.ini tweaks placated as "mods" with fucking donation links at the bottom for their "hard work" copy pasting unreal tweaks known for a decadehope every single faggot pajeet, easten europe nigger etc uploading these gets cancer
It's insane how this game looks like a Fallout 4 mod.I hate nu shooters.
Where did the technology go bros...?
>>503123469Wait, do we have now seperate generals for the og stalker trilogy and the new one? I was wondering why the spreadsheet stuff was missing…
>>503132867I started on veteran and it truly is just fucking annoying after a few hours, going down to stalker feels like the intended way to play like master feels in the original games. Also noticed that for some reason there was just a disproportionate amount of bloodsuckers in the starting area. After going to garbage, rostok and beyond, I've seen one in maybe 3 hours, what a strange fucking choice to spam them at you right at the start of the game lmao
>>503132697If you know anything about Stalker is that Grigorovich is a giant asshole and will probably disband/fire the whole team a year from now and run with the money to buy another Lamborghini
>>503133280Ahhh naruhodo naruhodo you have to click and drag on the stack then use a or d to split
>>503132040what if a-life is tied to areas instead of the player?
>>503133505Lost to the Zone...
I wonder how many pajeets are in the credits, that'd explain A LOT
>>503133613Idk, but is yung Griga also this jewish?
>>503133613did he rly buy a lambo
>>503132867>>503133603You guys are such babies lmao
>>503133196Глaвный кocяк oптимизaция. Peмeйк Silent Hill 2 имeeт тe жe пpoблeмы, нo их мeдлeннo ycтpaняют. A-Life хpeн знaeт. Mнoгим paзpaбoтчикaм cлoжнo paбoтaть c Unreal Engine 5.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26I-Pw-yPJ4
>>503133613He is a genuine rodent to such a degree that it loops back around to be endearing.
>>503132518Two more patches?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9FJJVO0ZLA
I saved while some stalkers were fighting mutants and loaded and they were all still there fighting. I thought a-life didn't exist and it was all random and loading was supposed to get rid of them.
>>503133846My bad faggot I didn't realize you were playing my game and it affected you, go eat some bloodsucker cock or something
>>503125356Nha there are tons of actual political shills for some reason, I browse /pol/ and the post structure of the shitposters are almost a 1 to 1 to the shills shitposts, especially whenever you try to actually discuss the russia/ukraine conflict with no blatant bias toward a side or the other. Wouldnt be surprised in the least its bots, which I heavily suspect with how many copy paste there are. I mean I've seen the exact same bait, word for word, posted in the same thread, any actual anon would have gotten his post blocked due to spam.
Apparently this was an impossible question for /v/, so I'll ask here:Outside of performance issues, what does HoC do worse/better than SoC/CS/CoP from a gameplay perspective?
>>503133787It was a half a million dollar car, I can't remember which exactly>>503134010I don't know if its something in the genes of every slav or what, but he's basicaly Ukrainian Nikita (the creator of Tarkov), a well known scammer that has fucked everyone he has worked with for years.He probably passed the company to his brother just to dodge questions about him being attached to potential investors due to how bad it is.
>Kill a guy>He goes down and start snoring on the floorGuys, is this the final rest?
>>503132697If they give a toggle to turn off DEI shit I'll buy it otherwise it firmly stays a pirate. thems the rules,
>>503130421>>503128649the military is called pvt. sold is only for the wardens
>>503134384Broken game. Wait for a month for patchesand no mods
>>503133398The Ukraine is literally fighting for the democratic free world right now while GSC grifters are sitting comfortably in Prague, raking in your cash. Dumb zigger.
>>503133505Unreal Engine. X-Ray's big thing back then was the good dynamic lightingI can't really call this slavjank when it feels disturbingly like far cry under the hood
>>503132906I am quite interested in the map regardless. It looks more like the real deal with some artistic shuffling of the surroundings. I have had a fascination with these things a long time ago I also work in a field involving radiation. Had a illegal hiking trip planned to the real deal place for autumn 2022 but I don't have to spell out what events transpired since then.
>>503134606they're not doing shit, both sides are retarded fighting for a landgrab in some useless dead villages
>>503134384Better:>graphics>game world>sound>gunplay>weather effectsWorse:>AI>balance
>>503134384There is no A-Life, the Left 4 Dead 2 tier spawn system that they call A-life 2.0 works badly right now, anything else related to gameplay is probably up to Anomaly's standards.
>>503134821Visually and in some aspects from what I saw on youtube it bears striking resemblance to the True Stalker mod or I am the only one? Down to the color palette and HUD.
they really should have used unity instead of unreal puke 5
>>503134821>anything else related to gameplay is probably up to Anomaly's standarddevs themselves said that they played a lot of anomaly and gamma
>>503133896UE5 этo кoнeчнo дa, eщe и c мoдaми нeпoнятнo чтo и кaк бyдeт, тaкoe кoнeчнo, A-Life этo вooбщe мpaк, я пpocтo нaдeюcь чтo этo вooбщe мoжнo зaфикcить, нy в любoм cлyчae paнo eщe гoвopить чтo вce пpoeбaнo, paзpaбы тaм пooбeщaли вce фикcить пocтeпeннo, дa и пpeдыдyщиe чacти нe были идeaльнo нa peлизeхз, я и coлянки oт вacянoв нeкoтopыe хopoшиe eщe нe пpoхoдил, тaк чтo мнe ecть чeм жaждy пo cтaлкepy yтoлитьyдaчи c пpoхoждeниeм кcтaти, вoт!
>>503134716>sound>no mooze
>>503134384a-life is fucked up and needs patching desperately, lighting varies from "damn that's pretty" to "this looks genuinely worse than SoC", usually leaning toward the latter. the balance is completely retarded across the board. i have some weird latency issues that seems hit or miss for others even without FSR on. everything else is better and it's not really debatable, if they patch the lighting, balance, and make a-life actually function properly, this will be a perfect base for modding. oh and there's some fun guns that aren't usually represented in games
>>503134597Yeah, I figured it would be, the others had more than their share of problems on release.>>503134716>Worse:>AI>balanceThat kind of sucks, I imagine that will be somewhat harder to fix through patching, especially the AI part.
>>503133505
>>503135190You won't get any lighting changes that's how it goes in unreal. Silent Hill 2 remake had the same problem. Its a bland engine for lighting
>>503135190>lighting varies from "damn that's pretty" to "this looks genuinely worse than SoC" Interiors in particular look awful.
>>503135026that looks like shit THOUGH
>>503135354fuckin kek
https://youtu.be/cHQ3jAeza60?t=448>flashlights and campfires dont cast shadows>zero light emitted to surroundings from muzzle flashes
>>503134821>>503135190Yeah that's kind of what I was worried about, probably one of the biggest things I was hoping for in the new game. I do really want to play it, might wait for a bit though til some of the stuff gets fixed. Can't remember in SoC or CoP, but I liked in CS how there was always groups running around doing their own small scale battles and just freely roaming around.
>>503135354Which country are you from?
>>503135026bad bait
>>503135080Я тaкoй ayтиcт, чтo пpoшeл NLC-7 oт нaчaлa дo кoнцa. Кpoмe вceгo пpoчeгo, этo eдинcтвeнный мoд, кoтopый дeйcтвитeльнo иcпpaвляeт экoнoмикy. Пpeдмeты мoжнo либo oбмeнять, либo пoлyчить пo блaтy, дeньги cлyжaт для дpyгoй фyнкции. К кoнцy игpы нeвoзмoжнo paзбoгaтeть, пoтoмy чтo выcoкoypoвнeвoe opyжиe и cнapяжeниe тpeбyют зaтpaт нa coдepжaниe.
>>503135642because I intentionally wrote werking instead of working? shut the fuck up, nigger.
>>503135670>>503135520I'm just saying games like genshin or yknow, closer to stalker a tiny bit tarkov slop have almost no popin and excellent distant LoDs, every UE5 game either tanks to 20 fps when having to render beyond 10m or there's massive pop-in
>>503124045nooooo that's terribleClearly they should have copied gammatards and every slavshit hardkkkore mod (so brutal it needs three ks) where every enemy attack either misses, kills you, or only drops 99% of your health with red bleeding.
i like the sequel's direction of a bigger map that more accurately represents the huge area around cnpp instead of just retreading the original games, but unreal engine is just so bad at this kind of thing
>>503131114It would be incredibly based if they do something like that. Not that it will stop them
>>503134606Jesus I hope you're baiting, I mean seriously, Ukraine, a bastion of democracy? Its like you arent aware ukraine had a bad rep long before the war started, its basically the mexico of europe, and literally no one would even entertain the thought of calling Mexico a paragon of democracy and social justice.
>>503135698No, not because of that. Which country are you from?
>>503136034
>>503135867but its far too late and I highly doubt they'll re-code the game in a new engine, just hoping they ask epic for advice on how to work with this shit
>>503136034Democratic Peoples National Socialist Republic of Bumfuckistan.
>>503135624I swear all these details have been cut to make the game somewhat playable on xbox. Our only hope is a hypothetical Stalker 2 enhanced edition.
Does anyone know how you force motion blur through UE5's ini changes? I actually need it on because I'm just going to cap at 60fps for more consistent frame times. Frame-gen feels so fucking shit and not worth anything and 60fps without motion blur looks horrendous
Graphics suck, gameplay sucks, story sucksGlad Putin launched those nukes at your sorry asses bc you fuckers deserve it for this hot plate of irradiated jackal shit.
>>503133846imagine waiting like 14 years the next game in a series to come out and when it fundamentally changes thing for the worse for literally no reason you slurp it up and say thank you. your limp dick is locked in a sissy cage with the GSC logo on it
>>503136034Texas
>>503134384I'm going to respond in good faith even though this could very well be a nicely crafted bait:Better:>Gunplay is a lot better, has punch to it>Graphics are amazing if you can play on High/Epic>The world and atmosphere are top notch>Piggybacking on the previous point, the sound design is incredible which adds a lot to the game, you can hear trees creaking in the wind, you can shoot bushes and see and hear the leaves getting shred by the bullets>The new anomalies are absolutely kino>Exploration is on par with CoP, you can find stashes and gear on your own hidden in nooks and crannies and, unless it's a quest area, you can pretty much go anywhere and enter everythingWorse:>The AI is good in combat but the whole spawning around you shit takes away from the immersion since you only rarely will hear gunshots in the distance like before>The performance is atrocious which might make the gunplay feel bad>The economy is all kinds of fucked>Monsters have too much health and need a mod to be brought in line (you should be able to 1 tap a Flesh with a shotgun to the face, not 3-4)>Quest rewards are, again, absolutely worthless for the most partIf they really release the mod tools they promised I see this game being a good haven for autists to go to town, until then we can do with tweaks and play "vanilla" since the game is a really solid 8/10.
>>503136365rude
over status?
>>503136657it's
>>503136657it never began
>>503136657over and out
>>503136289Nope, and that's cope for bad devs. Don't give them that. The kojima team just dropped death stranding on Xbox and it's silk smooth 60fps quality mode on Series S. Don't excuse bad devs like this and Gotham knights who can only get 640p 30fps working. At least jank was expected here
>>503126539sorry i only know how to write php
>>503123469Do scientists give you more money for artifacts?Where is the most easily accessible science trader? Warlock barely pays you anything for them
Do the puddles actually dry out, or are they all permanent and this is yet another graphic feature that modded XRay has over UE5?
should i upgrade early game weapons like the over under shotty and lummox's AKM or would that be a waste of money?
>do a mission to find a missing shipment>make my way through the quest, kill some guys and loot some landmarks>grab all the sellable guns and meds I can>finish the quest for 1600 kyoupons, make another 4k from selling guns>nice! time to repair my items, suit is only at 87%, shouldn't be too much>TEN THOUSAND zonebucksnigger WHAT the fuck
>>503137414yeah, idk why its so much. the og games were not like this. and you got much more from quests. like i was gonna sell 2 artifacts and i was only gonna get like 1k coupons
>>503133505There is a mod for Fallout 4 that replaces the shitty pipboy light with a flashlight, and also has an option to make it cast shadows.Its cost is like 20% of your framerate.The graphic technology in games has regressed since 2010, and I've been saying this for years.
>>503136520Nope, not bait. I'm genuinely wondering because I really do like the originals and was hoping that this one would be an improvement. The problem is though, as you confirmed too, that the AI and balancing are all off. I just hope that's something that can be fixed, but seems like it would be some of the harder things to fix. Really though improving on the world itself atmosphere is huge because that was probably my favourite thing from the originals, better gunplay doesn't hurt at all either.
>>503137414you playing on veteran? everything seems to cost 20% more on veteran
>>503137414you can always use THAT
>>503137608>>503137414I'm still only in the Lesser Zone doing the Sphere story stuff, but I saw a lot of upgrades cost like 10k or more each so I assume money really starts rolling in later. I haven't had an issue repairing my suit yet, but I just got the merc suit and it's down to 90% so I'll see how much that costs next time I'm back in town.
Why make a separate thread for this?
>>503124290Who said that
>>503137653>Its cost is like 20% of your framerate.what? that mod barely costs any framerate. Hell I use a similar mod for VR (headlamp though, because the VR player skeleton doesn't like that pipboy flashlight mod for some arcane reason)
>>503137653I saw there were no PIP scopes in Stalker 2? Hell OG Stalker and Fallout New Vegas has them now programmed by divine intellect with no significant framerate loss on modern cards. Although knowing how UE5 taxes games and the stutter crap, implementing it would just break the game until 5 years down the line we will have Nvidia giga nigga RTX 12950X 32GB cards.
ALRIGHT BOYS LETS SEE EM
>>503138271They existed in pre-release footage/the leaked build, but yeah, blame consoles for them being removedhopefully they are easy to reimplement
>>503136007Get conscripted zigger
>>503138271> with no significant framerate loss The framerate loss is 50% regardless of your card, retard.
Is there a solution to the stutters, i was feeling pretty hype but after 37 minutes it became unplayable
>>503137726The balancing I can see them addressing if enough people bitch and moan about it (which pretty much everyone is doing), or once modders figure out every string and adjust the multipliers and/or prices accordingly and the damage numbers/hp. That one's not on my list of worries.The AI, specifically the "A-Life" stuff is what really drags the experience down. It's not a deal breaker for me but it definitely removes immersion from the game greatly and in some scenarios its really jarring that you get attacked out of the blue by a patrol that just spawned 20 meters behind you (the compass has a threat meter so you can see it go from white to red instantly, meaning there was no detection phase).
>/s2g/
>>5031385091/3 for me if the framerate is uncapped. I just have it fixed at 60 and aside from a dip in frametime I don't see a difference. It isn't 50% but it depends on the settings and resolution you choose.
>>503137414Just don't repair and keep using? You'll probably find stuff to replace with. Maybe the approach they've gone for is this here, as well as using equipment tier for the task, no need to take a SEVA killing petty bandits
>>503138653the newfags have infested OUR general
how come its coupons instead of gryvna?
Does the mouse aiming fix from previous threads work properly?Also are there any config file edits that can improve the performance?
>>503138586>its really jarring that you get attacked out of the blue by a patrol that just spawned 20 meters behind youYeah stuff like that just pisses me off as well. It did happen in Clear Sky as well, I remember if you moved a certain distance away from a base, it would instantaneously respawn sometimes within visibility and firing range, but that they didn't fix that, and arguably made it worse is worrisome.
>>503138934surprisingly the game is not overtly political. hats off to the devs
>>503139070yeah but whats the logic of using coupons in the zone instead of gryvna seeing as how its in ukraine
>>503138934Original SoC had rubles, I don't know how they were named in the Ukrainian translation because the Russian one was more widespread. I mentioned NLC-7 mod earlier so in it they had a lore reason for the currency because some loner found a huge stash of soviet rubles and carrying around dollars would have been risky so everyone decided to use it as a form of monopoly money.
What year is it in Stalker 2 anyway?
>walking to the poppy field to do that mission>stop by the pol depot to do some scrounging>pull out my TOZ in my 2nd slot in case of mutants>out comes a sniper instead...what?I have literally never seen this gun. I never picked up this gun. What the fuck is this?
>>503138771Well yeah in GS you can set it to lower fraction, I should've said "at least". My point was that modern cards do not offer anything to make rendering 2 separate frames instead of 1 cheaper (even though the ability to render parts of the screen at different resolutions is a feature that should've been a thing 10+ years ago).
shouuld have just fucking pirated, might have "recouped" some of the cost of my tax dollar being funneled into ukraine
>>503139189About the same as for using soviet rubles as a currency in the old games. It didn't make sense then, it still doesn't now.
>>503139189Apparently it's something the jannies of the Zone did.
>>503139189aren't coupons supposed to be entirely digital? I assume its a way to make it so you aren't looting money off every body and accumulating it too fast
>>503139617It does make sense >>503139334 but of course this explanation isn't in the official cannon.
>>503139485slavjank is what it isI had a helmet one second, the next time I checked my inventory I didn't. so I just bought another one
>>503139485are you sure you didn't accidentally pick it up from the guy in the booby-trapped factory nearby?
>>503139485you just stepped into the schizo-bubble anomaly earlier in the game, it'll morph back to toz after a good night sleep
>>503138771>cappedSo you think poop scopes in gamebryo and xray aren't costing significant frames because you capped your framerate, so you simply aren't seeing the frames you're supposed to be getting without the poop scope to make the comparison.>terry davis gif accompanied with the type of text that tells me you're part of the group that is the reason he's dead
>>503139732kind of retarded, looting the guy's coin off his body or finding a huge stash of money is a part of good, enjoyable looting.
>>503139010Honestly this is what most modern games do, they just hide it better. I unironically think they fucked up something and A-Life is either not working as intended or just not working. Because even other UE games won't respawn enemies like that, it'll take them time to show up again in, say, their base. This is just random events that should be happening, for sure, around the player, but not on top of you without warning or sense. Someone posted the config files for "A-Life" on another thread and it seems to be there, but the settings might be buggy, we'll have to wait and see.
>>503133505this can easily be achieved in a very realistic way with RT but they didn't do that for the flashlight, likely because they couldn't optimize it properly.
I have followed the NPC Andryukha Double-dyed for two days and two nights now. From the Old Mill to Zalissiya.He arrived at Zalissiya early morning on the first day after I started following him, since then he:>Took a piss 11 times>Took a dump 5 times>Checked his PDA 4 times>Checked his Veles detector (which switched to a Vinka at some point) three times>Played guitar at campfire 1 time>Went to sleep 1 time>and generally hanged aroundHe never left Zalissiya after I followed him from the Old Mill, it seems this is his schedule now, as he has done so for two days and two nights now. So much for NPCs going out hunting and and stuff.
>>503139485You have two of them lmao, there's another one in your inventory.
>>503140040>two days and two nights>took 5 dumpsdoes irradiated food give you the shits?
>>503127148>>503127147we're gamin soon bros
>>503140040there were 'base stalkers' that never left a base in the anomaly's alife, try following one spawned in the open
>>503140258He did, I found him at the Old Mill with a group and I followed them from there.
>>503139987Isn't Lumen already RT/pathtracing?
>>503140040>head back to town after a raid>just want to relax somewhere safe for a few days>some asshole keeps following me around and muttering something under his breath about hunting and stuff
WOAH MAMMA
>climb up an old grain silo type building south of Zalissya>loot some basic supplies>come back down>dogs and warthogs are engaged in a royal rumble>bandits show up>all out showdown between all three parties as I sit and watch from the top of the silo>climb down and shotgun the last warthog remaining>loot all the corpses and return to baseThe Zone has blessed me this day
>>503140420tell me where or I'll kill myself
>>503140076wait what the FUCKWHAT>>503139768certain, haven't been in any booby trapped factory, came straight from town after selling all my scavenged guns and doing repairs
post some girls of the zone you faggots
>>503140394yeah but you have to program it to do dynamic shadows/lighting and it's performance intensive. that's why most dynamic RT is in fucking minecraft or quake 2
>>503139987>this can easily be achieved>they couldn't optimize it properlyso it can't easily be achieved
>>503140040Damn, that is disappointing but two days and two nights? Really?
>>503140479Weird, I had a similar thing where a debut suit and two helmets appeared in my inventory but I assumed I just wasn't paying attention when I looted them
4090 r 7800x3d here4k dlss quality and framegen on all max settngsim getting 110 to 90 fps in town BUT the game feels like its 40 to 60it lacks smootheneslike it micro micro micro stuttersi never played unreal 5 engineis the engine just shit?i get 100 fps in cyberpunk with all fg and dlss rtx bells and it runs amazing but this?badbaaaadlike something is wrong with the engine
>>503140498I thought the entire point of RT was more realistic lighting that 'just works' because it's accurately emulating light sources. so really shadow casting should already be an intrinsic property of the lighting, and a flashlight is a super bright light source
upgrade max lummox AK?
>>503140420Yeah but now you look like a fr*edumber.
>>503140645Try disabling FSR, heard it apparently fixes the stutters
>>503140645frame gen causes clunkiness, try wo
>>503140808TRY WARTHUNDER
>>503140040>26 fps
>>503125356I'm treating it like I treat Fallout games: I will play the base game once, then not touch it for six years until there's a developed mod scene with lots of good mods.
>>503140463In the second area. Picrel.
So killed a patrol of bandits and it had a pristine bandit armored jacket on him, that's some money, shame it had all to go to repair my armor because thermal anomalies are shit and have way too much range for what they do and the artifacts don't move anymore it seems so it will chill in the fire cone, which is fine you easily tank them but then uh oh gazillion coupons plust tip goyim. But hey! armor selling business may be a go, hopefully?Also about emissions question met the spark guys then had an emission like 2 mins after, anyone else or dare I say random emissions might be a thing after all?
>>503139857Gaybryo PIP is way less costly unlike Xray. Concerning the frame thing, yes I would like my 2k 165hz monitor to push it to the limit but it isn't possible from the engine standpoint because even without using that feature it still swings betwen 75 and 130. Second yes it works with a capped framerate because there is headroom for it to function, not without a downside there is some slight chug once you engage it, in certain areas it might bring it down from 60 to 45. Thirdly concerning Davis I just made a joke shitpost, I mean no disrespect for the man and his circumstances.
>>503140040Actually regressed from CoPlmao
I hate this Shader Compiling bs, my CPU is not that good
>>503141053I've had consistent random emissions, so the tied to story claim i'm saying is false, though it days seem to have a two day ingame cycle to it
>>503131559you should see that one vatnigger general when a single funny drone video is posted
>>503141549Rent free kekSeethe!
>>503140795Dutyggers wouldn't get it
>>503140040>SoC had roaming stalkers that moved from place to place>CS had stalkers that would wander and take faction territories>CoP had active npcs that escaped from emissions, hunted artifacts and mutants>HoC has this
>>503141689slava puccia
>>503141779CS stalker "wandering and taking territories" was/is the most awful broken mess of a display in any stalker game
>>503136520whats wrong with the econ then
>>503141836BaZed!Slava Rossiya!
Is the name Skif a reference to anything? I remember an old story mod (Chernobyl Chronicles) also used it for the protagonist
>>503141869True, but when it functioned it was fun.
is this all that's needed or is there more? the steam guide with editing input.ini fucked my sens up and didnt work.
>>503141779>>503141869Yeah I agree the whole faction warfare thing was beyond fucked. Biggest offender was the Bandit warehouse in the garbage. You would take it over, your other guys would just be standing around in their posts jerking off and after 3 mass graves of bandits near the entrance they would FINALLY move in and secure it.
The devs really ought to showcase a technical demonstration of what this supposed "A-Life 2.0" actually is, they really need to do some dev deepdive. Everyone has caught on already, and damage control can only go so far.
>>503138995try https://pastebin.com/FpzBwhBubut need to lower ur sens a lot apparently
>>503141990It's a reference to Skid Row, a place equivalent to the games quality
>>503141990It's an ATGM
>>503141336That's good then. Also let me remove this fucking random dead rescued guy pda off of me I hate it.
yep. We're back
>>503142156Then explain this>>503140040
>>503141887Most of the items you can get sell for like 15-20% of their price while repairs and technician services cost much more than that. Example, the gun you get from the Poppy Field quest costs ~7000 to repair and each MP-5 you sell nets you about 350-400, if we factor in the already limited weight the game has and the fact that you'd have to go out, kill and find sellable (remember you can't sell them all, only >40% durability ones) ones you'd need around 17 just to repair the gun. Then you have to get ammo for it, which costs an astronomical sum.Mind you, most people are in the early Rat phase so things aren't all colorful, but it feels like a step back from the older games, which is what that anon was asking us to compare to.
>>503141549/chug/? they post dead hohols all the time, the only difference is they don't spam it to keep their general alive. anyways ukraine lost to the zone
>>503142306HAHA BENIS :DDD
>>503142545/chug/ gore filter
>women in my zoneI will not buy your game.
>>503130885Two more weeks.
>>503141990Nautical term
how much don't we know about this game because reviewers dont contribute to wikis and noone has played more than like 20~ hours? are there more flashlights late game? is there nightvision?
>>503142921Are there binoculars?
>>503142921>>503143028no to all 3
>>503128537i love the moment where auto lean kicks in for no reason
>>503143074I don't believe that in the slightest, at least for NV, considering it was in all the games before.
>>503142429Trust me, I'm not defending the devs at all. I don't believe there's anything "a-life" in Stalker 2. They've got some serious explaining to do, and their damage control of "oh, it's just bugged, spawn radius is off" etc is not convincing in the slightest.They need to put their money where their mouth is and showcase a technical deepdive as to what this system is supposed to be...but i know they wont.
Are there NVGs in the game?
>>503133505Metro doesn't have this problem
lmfao idiots
>>503143345Rip Ukrainian heros
>>503143345cute boars
so what exactly did the devs do all day today in the czech republic?
>still no pics of zone womenfaggots
>>503143345>Ukraine armed forces storming Kursk Oblast, aftermath.
>>503143602Have a nigger(plural)
>>503143345mmmm, makin bacon
>>503143602zone is like internetno women
>>503142921>gaming wiki>2024LmaoI'll all be on discord and you'll be forced to join and ask every time
>>503143345damn, they're fluffy now
>>503143680the starving nork super soldiers would eat them immediately
What mods would you consider mandatory right now?
>>503143148and a-life was in the previous games, but how's that working out
Okay, i pirated it off gog, instaled it. And played for a whileFootnotes:>Unoptimalized as fuck>not as janky as you guys said>dont feel the difficulty stuff as im playng on stalker to not suffer the mighty 75% debuff>im a bit confused about the map, i will consider turning the compass back on>keybinds are shit i had to rebind half the stuff and i cant have the detector on O anywayWell, i got the rifle from chudjak, any stashes or equipment hidden around the starting village i can take to waste less money?
>>503143905The one that adds A-life back
>>503143345The vision adaptation is so fucked in this game. Why the fuck is the interior of a building behind an open door so dark that standing there makes the exterior look like a nuclear explosion went off?
>>503143714>a fucking NIGGER gets binoculars>not me
>>503143905grok balance. not a mod but editing ini to remove mouse accel. all the performance mods are probably placebo like every UE "performance" mod.
>>503143252Hear hear.
the sound is real fucking good
>>503143345Time to feed the entire zone.
what's a nigga supposed to do here? I opened all the safes already
>>503144086not as as good as tarkov
>>503144025No the performance mod is good, but probably won't be noticed by people with good machines.
>>503133505>>503134643>>503139987>>503140498>>503140767This is why an actual flashlight can't be achieved with Lumen. Lumen is raytracing deferred over several seconds, meaning it can't update light sources in real time, else it would just be standard raytracing and be more performance-intensive. Fine for environmental lighting, terrible for flashlights, muzzle flashes, other dynamic light sources
One of you said you found a rookie suit where is it?
>>503144160probably change their aspect ratio.
>>503144009Das dem repensations, cracka wytboi. Now gimme dem coupons.
>>503144349I resized the pic because of the 9mb limit anon
>>503144317though I assume in UE you can just throw in a "fake" stencil lighting flashlight or RT flashlight alongside lumen right?
>>503144317Ah okay that makes sense
>>503130361I got a common artifact from this spot. can I come back later and farm this area for a legendary drop? or is it a one time rng thing?
>>503144009Obviously stolen by him off (You)
>>503140420>wearing blyatcyka-fucka gearshig dig
>>503137414Shimeji san
>>503144317>>503144496besides the deferred delay, if you catch glimpses of the NPCs flashlight casting shadows, you can see that the shadows created don't look very good, they look grainy. Given how much players use the flashlight, the devs probably didn't want people to be seeing grainy black outlines around everything, especially if they can't replicate even how xray engine did it.
IT'S OVA GUVhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQefOwjyDao
>>503143738we got hos in the zone now, haven't seen many screenshots of em tho
The chudjak with scoped ak is such a nice person, too bad something happened
>>503140479Same happened to me with a spas 12, just appeared in my equipment while walking around doing nothing of note.
>>503145024Whatever happend, he deserved it for dropping his stupid PDA all the time and destroying the relaxed bar atmosphere.
>>503144901well theirs is probably that way for optimization purposes
>>503144317So basically this can't and won't be fixed by modders?
>>503140210
>>503144317HAHAHAHAHAHADeferred shading wins again baby.
>This mod aims to try and fix the headshot feedback present in the game. Vanilla gameplay plays you a feedback everytime you headshot someone, and it has a cooldown of 5 seconds.why the fuck does headshot sound have a 5 secound cool down
>>503145567Thats right. Its pretty well baked in.
>>503138072>what? that mod barely costs any framerate.Maybe disable vsync.
>>503145024I saved him from the gang of bandits, talked to him, then he immediately walked into the Electro behind the building and died.
>>503140179kek
>I just got fucking hit by lightning >It only took half my health
>>503146320
The only natural feeling moment i've had so far is running into two absolutely massive groups of opposing bandits having a shootout that I could hear shooting from a bit away. Then having to panic hide in the building due to the Emission storm, only for both groups of bandits to panic and try to monopolise the only building in the area which let me spray them all down as they rushed in.
>>503144317>>503144496>>503144628>>503144901>>503145567>>503145623hes lying, the flashlight just has the castshadows flag turned off for some reason
>>503146478Can someone turn this on and check then?
>>503146478Wait is there a mod to reactivate it yet?
Steam pages are shitty at explaining the difference between editions, can someone explain to me like Im retarded (because I am) the difference between the editions and which I should buy? I miss when the games were just "Do you buy it or not"
>>503143602
>>503144915>it's early accessI will have to agree with that
>>503142167thanks but I'm stuck with the shit version of this game (gamepass) for it, and the game stores the config files somewhere else.
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/57?tab=descriptionjesus christ this game has asymmetrical sensitives for Y and X axies
i have infinite stamina now lol
>>503146608Ultimate Edition comes with the season pass so you will have all the future DLC that comes outThat's basically the only reason to get the super paypiggy edition
>>503146726she looks polish
no patch? not even a hotfix for the mem leak? it's past midnight in czechia.
>>503142156The A Life director is for the squads spawned in the local vicinity of you. This code is for them to execute. There are no more sim squads or offline squads.
>>503143964>i pirated it off gog, instaled it. And played for a whilehow? I still get the error in pic related.
>>503146991But you're also glowing to fuck now
>>503146991>radiation: maximum
this game just pisses me off I tried playing without the stupid skyrim compass but the objectives are so poorly designed in the tutorial you cant find them without it. like im wandering around the barge for 10 minutes dodging the retarded objects. That shit is not fun in the tutorial it should be occurring while you explore it's literally just there for epic streamer moments to sell their game
The enemy AI is definitely stupider. Had all these dogs crawl out of that metal shed over there. None of them made a retreat and I had to kill them all one by one.
>>503146997she looks tatar
>>503146994Ty I am a consoomer retard
>This is in the starting tutorial So they really just took previous games landmarks and scattered them at random
>>503147082block internet access maybe that works
>>503147082All you have to do is unplug your internet when you launch it
>>503147082get a job
do i actually need to give tim sweeny 6 gorillion dollars for his gay engine and install ebin games just to poke around the game's files?
>>503147727I was under the impression people could make unreal engine games for free until it started making actual money
>Mission from two guys in slag heap bar to bring vodka to three stashes for their friend>One has two artifacts and a better detector than I have>They said not to take the contents>Get to last one, there's a guy there who was meant to take the vodka and he asks for anti-rad instead, pays you when you give it to him>Go back to the stash with the detector and artitfacts>gone
Based grok casually fixing stalker 2 in between gamma updates while you make /v/-tier dunks and shitpost /pol/ crap.
>>503147508>block internet accessAdded a firewall rule that disables all traffic to the Stalker 2 .exes. still doesn't work.>>503147670>unplug your internetdid this, doesn't work
>>503147727>>503147813isn't it running xray with unreal only doing rendering?
>>503147305I threw a grenade in there and the bloodthirsty bastards that survived still attacked me. I then fled, but they wouldn't let off me. We are definitly missing many the more complex beheivor found in the old games.
>>503147490yeah the layout of the Zone in HOC so far doesn't match the og trilogy. Like returning areas like the Cordon do mostly, but they've had changes and more points of interest added to them and the way they link up with other areas is different.>>503147813yeah, you don't pay anything until you hit $1M USD in sales>>503148091No, it's all Unreal
>>503148091How did you even think of something that silly?
how did the UE meme became a reality? I don't remember games built on it ever being good
>>503147406nah its definitely polish potatofacet. lost my virginity to a polish bitch I met on league
>>503147082 whats ur specs
>artifacts give radiation protection nowDoes that mean they won't reduce current radiation?
Also the game was absolutely not tested without upscaling, it looks completely borked without it>Have to chose between either clear imagery that's broken or a more function blurry messThanks GSC (Gays Sucking Cocks)
>>503148314I would assume it either reduces or slows intake of both world RADs and RADs from artifacts.
>>503148042>nexus modsNope, not making a account to download some queer mods
>>503148292>>503146726shes kinda cute for a military girl desu
>>503148498maybe i like my visuals crispy
>>503148498huh? I play on native without upscaling and it looks fine. Did you crank the sharpening to 100% like a retard?
>>503148785i think he's playing without TAA or any kind of AA.
>>503146726wasn't this character modeled after an IRL tranny?
>>503148968No, why?
I am unfamiliar with how a lot of modding works, I have done some in the past.I do know that mods can be outdated but can mods that just change simple variables become outdated? I want to download the longer days mod but don't want it to somehow corrupt something later
>>503148968>sees a young woman>immediately thinks of trannies
>>503149221Didn't that woman get her tits cut off
being too tired to swing a knife is the most retarded gameplay choice
>>503148785>>503148925no i'm on high settings with max antialiasing, not sure why it looks the way it does
why is his suit so clean and where do I get it
>>503149316Anon please you can't obsess like this it's not healthy.
>>503149316Yea, got the ole zipper tits.
>>503123469Is the thread rebrand to /s2g/ going to be permanent or is this an isolated incident of someone being a shit?
>>503149221haven't seen ellen page in any movies or games lately
>>503147490It's not the same dredge. The OG one is still in Zaton.
Is there a fast travel method in these games or will I actually have to run for 30 fucking minutes just to get from one place to the next
>>503149661Time to get your cardio in, STALKER
>>503148314That one artefact you find in the prologue seems to be reducing accumulated radiation, so I assume all of them work like they did in the old games.
>>503149661there are guides but I have not seen another one yet so I assume only between each large zone, which can be quite big, I wish they added more guides or a bike or something
>>503149426Someone is being a cunt and I know who.
HUH
we are so back
>>503149368You still need to pick an antialiasing solution, either TAA or FSR, DLAA or XESS at native res. If you're capable of using it I suggest DLAA.
imagine the smell
>>503149661>these gamesYes there is in the main 3 games, but you mostly won't even need to. They work in a way that you'll spend time in a zone and naturally progress forwards to the next. You won't feel much needGAMMA expands on it and as you'll be fetching flesh rectums across all 3 game's maps and deleted content maps yeah you'll probably like fast travel
>>503149067please respond
>>503149893butched the last screen somehow fuck paint
>>503149661Both towns I've been to had a guide. Charged 1500 koubles to go from slag heap to the village.
>>503149879It was caused by this fucking thing and went away the moment it died. Is this those legendary cats that never made the cut in the OG or something new? It was annoying as all fuck to kill and took like 100 rounds (probably with a 50% miss rate)
>>503148042>>503150101
>>503149893Brother you are like 12 hours late to the party
Anything I can do with the compiling shaders bs
>>503150141yep, that's a pseudodog
>>503150101could they wait 5 fucking minutes before slopping up stalker 2 with their autistic shitty fucking tweaks
>playing on veteran>barely scraping rubl-- coupons together, have to flee from most fights due to lack of ammo>switch to stalker difficulty>suddenly swimming in so much fucking ammo and rubles that I don't know what to do with themHow do you fuck up your game this bad
>AK jams once per mag at 88% durabilitymy dudes
my friend said a-life actually simulating enemies moving across the map was smoke and mirrors in the old games and was proven with console commands, is this true? was I misled?
GTX1650 4GBi5 9300H 2.4GHz16G RAM>inb4 poorfaggetting somewhat stable 30FPS, but there's this bizarre delay where it takes like 3-4 seconds for any kind of menu to open. captcha: GS24y
>storyline created on how to find Solder>stumble upon him while exploring
I'm loving these new anomalies so much
>>503150493It wasn't simulating stalkers taking a dump when you weren't looking or anything, more like there squads or mutants were and were going every 10 seconds.
>>503149379
>>503150680What the fuck are you trying to say lad
>>503150592the effect with the gravity anomalies on the vans is really cool.
>equip detector>automatically equips bolts with it>put away detector>bolts stay equipped>put away bolts>detector unequipsWHY
>>503150769A-life work yesbut only in big picturenot small things
It just doesn't feel like STALKER, more like Far Cry 5 with a STALKER reskin.It's still good and I'm enjoying it, but it feels absolutely soulless. I won't give up so easy, I'll keep playing, but yeah.Anyone else have this feeling?
>>503150493Your friend is a retard.You might be a retard too.
The AI will go crazy stupid if you just stay behind a door
>>503149426We have to support GSC by playing STALKER 2.
>rockstar games>semi persistent NPCs and scripted encounters >bethesda / kingdom come>persistent NPCs with daily routines but scripted encounters>a-life>???
>>503151048kek the dots
>15 years >not ONE new mechanic added>no new use for artifacts>no revolutionary AI (instead its just gone completely)>no new means of progression like layering the zone with increasing radiation, tankier enemies etc>instead of building on the grim atmosphere of the originals they tried making it like Metro and Ubisoft gamesits just the same old game but on unreal and without a-life.peak soulless
i want dynamic shadows right now
>>503150401kino
>>503151004Well let's see:It's unreal so it will no doubt feel like that.However, in terms of what else I think you think makes it feel like Far Cry, that's just vanilla stalker. You are supposed to be having an easy time after a very very short hobo phase. In SHoC you get 1000 fmj rounds in the garbage. Little further and you've got streloks rifle. They were only really hard your very first experience but vanilla they are very "gamey" which after 2 decades of overhaul mods not many remember "Stalker" now means misery business. But you can become powerful so easily.
>>503146478It's probably for this reason >>503144901The shadow resolution is low as fuck so it would look awful.
I wish I could skin, harvest, cook, and eat yummy mutants
>>503149379>>503150691
A full fifth of all players have let a gun break?
game is very basic, monsters only have 1 attack each, really easy to abuse the AI by standing on top of a car or getting them stuck in a door, super easy to abuse aggro distances, fights with humans are just headshots to kill and they dont behave like they value their lives, vendors barely sell you anything, no crafting system, kill monsters and they drop nothing, no meat for cooking, no monster fluids for making potions or whatever
This might be one of the worst flashlights in gaming
>>503151773Honestly only thing the game has going for it is the atmosphere, and I'd say sound design but it breaks sometimes
>>503144317>>503144901man I hate Unreal Engine so fucking much it's not even funny anymore...
>>503151773>no crafting system,And thank fuck for that.
Just want to know before I jump in. Is it true that everything is going to randomly respawn?
>>503151773>no craftingmisery/gamma fags are a plague on mankind
>>503151717I went out of my way to break a double barrel shotgun by shooting at a wall over and over
>>503147490Yes. There was only one boat like that in all of Ukraine.
>>503151943yes, i've had multiple squads of dudes spawn 10 feet behind me out of thin airat least they have the courtesy of having to spend 10 minutes drawing their weapons and shouting before firing at you
is this too much shit to be carting around? after I pick up two things i start running slow as fuck but this doesn't seem like a lot
you know i just remembered stalker 2 doesnt have an icon for your character anymore like in your inventory it doesnt show your characters face.
>>503151943poor people really be pirating and asking to be spoonfed
>poltergeists have their SoC bodies when they die>but they're tankier>they also gave them a random instant hit attack that just takes 90% of your health awaywhy though
>>503151004>Anyone else have this feeling?No, because I'm not a retarded shitposter.>>503151773>game is very basic, monsters only have 1 attack eachPlay the fucking game.>and they dont behave like they value their livesThey take cover and duck and weave all the time in combat.>no crafting system, kill monsters and they drop nothing, no meat for cooking, no monster fluids for making potions or whateverPeople who enjoy analmeme and gaymaa should be banned from real Stalker threads.
>>503151617kek
>>503152109>200 9x18how often are you really whipping out the mak and cheese
>>503152109carry the amount of ammo/meds you might need for 3 mutantsor just carry ammo enough for x amount of reloads
>>503152195I don't buy unfinished games? lol
>>503124290How the fuck are Nexus going to enforce their faggotry on ModDB? They have no say on other websites!
>>503152287against humans all the time. its a headshot monster but I admittedly use the AK and shotgun for everything else
>>503152287Not him, but with the silencer I've been using it nonstop.
>>503151938>>503151997>>503152237dude is a retard but honestly, I wish this game took a bit from gamma and made it less autistic, yes the current gameplay is authentic to SoC/CoP but do you really not want more? like more detailed gun modding? a few more ammo types? more unique ways of using artifacts? interesting things to slot into your armor? it's a really barebones experience for what seems like is going to be a really long game.
Holy shit I need a mod disabling flying leaves/papers right fucking now.
>>503152463Lots of people were expecting this to be single player Tarkov, or for mods to make it into that eventually.
>>503152563I didnt want that, but I did want it to be an inbetween of old STALKER and that so theres more to care about minute to minute (look, SOC was peak atmosphere but the gameplay was really fucking simple, are there even any more types of grenades in this game besides frag?)
where are the females? I'm 10 hours in and I don't remember seeing one
>>503150691GOOLD??
>Hey bro just put a bottle in each of these three stashes but dont loot them hahathis is the first stash and yeah i'm thinking it's time to be a naughty boy
>>503152463>yes the current gameplay is authentic to SoC/CoPGood.>but do you really not want more?Yes, but not the gaymma milsim shit you or that other retard want. I'd want more physics objects, and artifacts that have actual mechanical effects instead of just tweaking your stats. I already love the gunplay and human enemy AI. Bogging the game down with anything even resembling gaymma item bloat and crafting would be terrible.
>>503152237>t. diehard nafo troon from discord
>>503152463No keep stalker as stalker and leave the gun autism and crafting survival slop to takov thanks, if you rly want that I'm sure grok n the other autists will mod the "experience" in eventually, for me I wanted it to be as close to the OGs as possible
It's funny how the game gets more colourful after drinking vodka
where the fuck are all the preorder items? I haven't seen them anywhere
>>503152237>>503152463>Anyone with a slightly different opinion of the game is a retardThe game is selling well, nafotrannies, no need to defend it on 4chan.
>>503152561You don't like the bag anomaly?
>>503152956I just hate Anomaly/gamma for shitting up this community n bringing the worst kinds of people into it
>>503152921My question exactly.Don't tell me we "have to wait" for multiplayer for our shit.This'll be Doom Eternal all over again.
Wow. Even with>cam_inert .1this bobblehead shit is REALLY annoying. Is there any way to turn this off compleatly? A mod or something?
>>503153032NTA, I don't blame you for thinking that, but you guys gotta ease up a bit with the defense.
>Game is actually basically ShoC 2>autists fuming its not like Gamma or Miseryinsanity
>>503152742where'd you get the shotgun blueprint?
I know theres a good game here but its buried under so much bullshit that its impossible to enjoy,Im giving up on this game for now and playing Metro Exodus for the first time while I wait for updates. Hopefully by the time im finished with it the Alife system will be magically fixed and the economy wont be absolutely unplayable.
>>503152463>do you really not want more? like more detailed gun modding? a few more ammo types?oh god fuck no I want to interact with the weapons/ammo as little as possible beyond equip/unequip and shoot
>>503153143I'm ecstatic it's SoC 2.0. I can't wait for an AMK equivalent for this.
>>503152814>>503152956Gaymma is dogshit for retarded faggots.
so uhwhats with my character no making footstep soundsin fact it seems like nobody makes footstep soundsand stealth is broken as fuck btw
>>503153143No one is doing this you subhuman retard.People are mad that the A-Life system isnt even up to SoC's standards, let alone being ALife 2.0, LET ALONE even existing to begin with.
>>503152237cope and seethe, soupcel.
>>503147490yeah i've noticed with buildings, a lot of them are just HD and out of place. Like the Varan bandit camp is the clear sky freedom base.
How do I get inside the chemical plant? The nigger over the lab told me to go speak to the boss but I trekked all the fucking way out there and it's on lockdown
Is there anything inside the big pulsating bubble anomaly in the Lesser Zone? My shitty Echo can't pick up anything
>>503153143>Conveniently ignores the universal praise for the damage sponge reduction mods, weapon durability lasting longer mod, and ease of access tweak modsKeep inventing a boogeyman nigger
>>503153335>A-Life system isnt even up to SoC's standardsI love when people who haven't played vanilla Stalker talk about vanilla Stalker.
i get literally 3 fps on i7 4790k and gtx980. they are not looking out for us slavs
>>503153610he's right tho?
>>503153180part of the main quest from the technician in slag heap
>>503153606>casuals and gaymmababies want mutants to die in 2 hitsPraise for casualization mods doesn't mean much. It's like people getting excited for infinite save mods in KCD.
>>503153546Yes, use your eyes.
>>503152109My personal rule is: >20 bandages>10-15 medkits depending on where I'm going>5-10 anti rad depending on where I'm going>100 rounds of the Mak (pistols are really good in this game)>120-150 rounds for my rifle (I exclusively use semi-auto)>5 grenadesIf I'm carryng a shotgun 50 shells is more than enough since you'll just find more from the goons you kill and you should basically just be using it for mutants anyway (unless it's a CQB fight and then you can just rip and tear the humies).^ That will put you into the middle of the greenzone with enough ammo to do some stalkan without having to return too often to camp.
>>503153335>No one is doing this you subhuman retard.theres literally a guy in this thread doing so
>>503153610I've played the entire trilogy, most shortly after launch. I know more than you and am correct about the ALifeRetard
>>503151004i gotta agree man, and this is from someone who still owns my original boxed copy from 2007
SIX FUCKING MAGS FOR A POLTERGEIST?!
>>503152742Want my advice? Grab everything from all the stashes except the one near the radio tower, be sure to bring at least one (1) anti-rad med for the quest :^)
>>503153654time to save up a big and get a new PC, that shit is ancient
>>503151127But I want to play 1.
>>503153049>>503152921After you deal with Squint and return the scanner, you'll get a quest called "Seek and you shall find", which will tell you to look inside a box at the shop in Zalissya. There you'll find a "Journalist's flash drive" (sick buildo reference), that will tell you to search for stashes throughout the Zone, where you'll supposedly find all the pre-order items.
do the ultimate edition guns actually offer any advantages or just camo
>>503153914>most shortly after launch.That would explain why you don't actually remember how they worked. You haven't played them in almost 2 decades. Retard.
>>503153130nvm found the fix
god damn these shotguns take ages to reloadis there any reason to take anything other than the sawed off?
Is the newest version of STALKER Complete good? Released a week ago.
>>503153795Someone said there's an artifact near the middle that requires no detector but I straight up cannot see it and I've circled around the crumpling vans like 4 times, am I being memed
>>503154201All the ones I've found so far are the same as normal versions, stats wise.
>>503152463>Like more detailed gun modding? A few more ammo types?We literally got both of these though. I think we're at just the right amount of gun autism for vanilla stalker, and I'm saying that as someone who is a gun autist who loves all of those huge gun mods for the og trilogy. If I want more, I'm sure I'll get more in the future, whether that's from modders or GSC themselves.
>>503154338wtf? is bro talking about some crusty old game from forever ago? lmaoooo
>The makarov isnt dogshit this timebased
>>503154396No, it's a red ball. Like literal child's toy.
Is it better to play on Stalker difficulty or just get the mod that reduces bloodsucker health? Trying to find a good balance of difficulty, but these bloodsuckers using up all my ammo doesn't feel fun at all. And I guess other people are also experiencing the same thing. They feel incredibly common at the start of the game AND they just tank shots for days, it feels a bit ridiculous compared to the original trilogy.Human enemies feel completely fine, but mutants taking all of my ammo is kind of fucking gay and lame. So yeah, mod or turn down the difficulty to Stalker?
CUBE
How's the lore and story in STALKER 2? I heard they butchered all the old faction and it's somehow monolith based? Random image in my folder.
>>503154624too bad it's so good that for some reason guns with larger calibers are worse? it seems like every gun you pick up in this game does less damage than your viper/PM
>>503154338yeeah its a bit of a tragedy. like it looks quite good artistically but its missing all the new shaders and shit that mods have to offer these days. hate to say it but pavel missed the mark.to be relevant again the mod needed a bigger update.play SoC 1.4 Update if you want a fresh, and quite insane looking shoc overhaul
>>503154696The only one that really bothered me was the one in the cave for Squint. I killed Squint for sending me in there.
>>5031541261? There's no Stalker 1.
>>503154696Difficulty fucks over things like prices as well. Just stick to the regular one.
youre schizo if these arent the first buttons you changed
>just finished raiding a military base >over encumbered with actual sellable loot>need to go back to town>find an anomaly field>fuck it>grab the artifact>step out of the anomaly field>emission alert over the radio >oh fuck i'm so far away from town
>>503090112The FOV Editor only supports 1.0006 but the steam version is 1.0007. Is there a more up-to-date FOV fix?
moments like this show how good and naturalistic the lighting can be but then others looks really mediocre and the flashlight does nothing
i have so much food and meds and grenades it's a jokewhat happened to the hardcore survival aspect that was shilled to me?
stalkerino 2
>>503151773This describes every single vanilla stalker game so I don't really understand your point?
>>503154805Thanks
>>503154952>can't hotkey each item like you could in CoP and have to settle for that gay hold button to do shiti fucking hate consoles so much
>>503155243if this is how stalker is supposed to be then i have no idea why it was shilled so hard.
>>503123469I decided to replay SoC (and maybe the other games) till S2 gets fixed. The games have aged more then i imagined and people saying X-Ray looks better then S2 are on some weird ass fuck copium, the shooting in S2 feels better too, such as the enemy ai. Still its nice to just lay out the pain. Reached Streloks stash and now off to the bar. The game def felt longer then i remembered haha
gammafags seething
>>>/v/695216567>>>/v/695249231>>>/v/695249404HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA FUCKING TRUE THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FROM ALLYING WITH MICROSOFT YOU KEKS
>>503155321The worst part about it is that they're able to change it for PC, but they rather keep it that way for people on PC who play with a controller
even if gamma didn't exist this is just a bland game in comparison to fallout/farcry/cyberpunk/kingdomcome
i'm getting pretty good performance and having fun and there is nothing /v/ can do about it
>>503155570>/v/
>>503155243True+based! Having your game design stagnate for 20+ years and not introducing a single new mechanic + regressing to worse versions of old design is awesome, actually.
>>503155570go back
who do i sell artifacts to for big money?
>>503155570Once they fix all the annoying (and a-life too a degree) S2 will unironically be the best base game stalker
I haven't played SoC in years. If I want a more or less vanilla experience with just ZRP for game changing stuff what visual mods are worth grabbing? I got shaders max and am considering some version of PRZ.
>>503154225Ive also played them since then, those statements are not mutually exclusive. Stop acting like a faggot and admit that you dont know what youre talking about anon
>>503155570Based non down console chad warrior
>>503156030I looked it up too anon but i recommend just Vanilla, most Overhauls are game changing in some ways + always increased difficulty from master (which imo, is just the right difficulty). Im this anon>>503155424
>>503154626Thanks anon. I couldn't find it so I reloaded like 10 minutes earlier and this time round it was there. I have no idea if I kicked it around by accident the first time, or if it just disappeared somewhere. Is there a quest around this thing or do I just equip it for dawdling in firefights?
Why is the AKS so fucking trash the PMM and MP-10 are a billion times better
>>503156176Yeah I don't like the overhauls thats why I asked for just visual mods.
I think the most baffling thing for me is how tanky I am. I rushed to Rostok since I was desperate for a trader and just marked what looked like a big town on the map. Picked up the military police uniform (pretty cheap for what it is too) and since then the only enemy that has given me any trouble at all is the Burer which are absurdly tanky, have massive periods of invincibility and seem to do 90% of my health with any projectile.Outside of that, all other mutants and human bullets can barely do anything if I just heal up.
>>503156039>Stop acting like a faggot and admit that you dont know what youre talking about anonBut you're the one who's full of shit and clearly has no fucking idea how a-life was in SoC.
IT'S UPIT'S UPIT'S UPIT'S UP
>>503155570Go woke go broke, flopper 2 memory holed in a week(or 2)
>>503156491the best mods are the ones where the modder has no idea what they're doing
Why use toilet when you can just PISS where you are
>>503156404Maybe VSO? Not my cup of tea but maybe its up to your liking anon https://www.moddb.com/mods/project-vanilla-stalker-overhaul-pvso
tiny asu-57 spotted
Get out of here Stalker.>>503155153I feel like a proper "Enhanced Edition" like Metro Exodus did is due with the lightning implementation
>>503156682https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE0FYjRLu8g
>>503156682>GET OUT STALKER IM PISS
>>503156491Someone download it and report here if it works
>>503155570There really wasn't much negative shit from the contrarians/snoys/tards from /v/ this time around.So maybe Stalker 2 is a good game
>>503157328>MaybeHuff moar copium
>>503157417stalkerhater
>>503156682Pavlo Quartz just keeps on hosing
>>503157328I managed to endure base cyberpunk, S2 is the first time i gave up on a game in a while. There is a great game right now but half its organs are hanging out or are missing. Its the best mess i ever touched and wont touch until its fixed
>>503157257I downloaded it and now my armor is bread
It took some wine to get this far in. I wonder what microsoft execs are thinking right now.
>>503157556"It's just a regular old hater.Imagine going from new game to new game shouting at them to sink.Life's too short to waste on hating anon, go enjoy things instead.
>>503157598P.I.S.S.E.R. 2
Got a quest to find Whirlwind artifact, is there even one like that?
>>503157598>Even the ai are pissing on the gameKek slava urini
Are there even multiple endings or do none of the choices matter
>>503157827No they made it up to get rid of you.
>>503157874how's the war going vanya I heard we hit the 1000 day mark
>>503157827Gotta find gravitational anomaly fields, they're random spawns I think.
>>503157671
>>503157598
>>503157895devs said you have to replay the game multiple times in order to experience everything because of choices. so yes i think the choices matter and there are multiple endings
>>503157927>Day 1000 of special pigkrainian ethnic cleansing operationGoing good, heard that released a flop yesterday
>>503158052>devs saidthey also said that there's alife in the game
stop enjouing shit game
>>503158073>Screenshot_2024-11-22-10
>>503158185>Implying enjoyment
jesus FUCKING christ what did they do to pseudodogs? how are you even supposed to kill them?
ok
I feel bad for anyone who isn't experiencing this kino because of various bullshitThe story is fucking awesome and there's a bunch I haven't seen because of the choices you can make
>>503158073>>503158231either a russian or a flavour of chink kek
>>503158231That's it? That's your cope? Aight lel
>cant remove Skifs gun from my inventory at allwhat the fuck
>>503158396Da comrade. Ni hao dong feng missile
>>503158412ching chong bing bong
if I want to use PRZ with OWR do I need to somehow merge the two textures.ltx files
Alright, who's making the next stalker 2 general, goyim?
>>503158591Google translate is free sister
>save up to buy an expensive and strong suit>Upgrade price is tied directly to it's market value so it's way harder to upgrade>repair costs are so high it becomes a jokeFeels like you are 100% better off just using a cheaper suit and fully upgrading it so then atleast it's cheap to maintain.
>>503158416Needed for cutscenes. Plus it's actually pretty good, AP rounds instagibs everything on a headshot and low maintenance.
i'm enjoying life in the zone
>>503158791we can hang out here for 200 more posts calm down gachabrain
>>503158802I'm just saying you should change your filenames if you want to pretend to be white
>>503158889it is good, its perhaps my favorite gun so far, but I just got the Buket which is semi auto also and can take the suppressor with double the mag capacity. no need for the gun anymore when I can carry the .45 as a handgun now
>>503158868Just loot them from wannabe zone jannies lmao
Home.It was weird approaching from the north and not being in Garbage, but the lack of a loading screen felt pretty cool.
>>503158956What??? Scraping the barrel for cope there xister
>>503158416It's the best pistol though. Early silencer and extended mag from missions and free to repair. It's also actually very accurate and will one shot enemies if hit in the head.
>>503159059
>>503158956>>>/pol/
>>503159152I agree, but I want to try other guns.
>>503159140>>503159252What are we doing here guy?
>>503159059>>503159247
>>503159379Meds.
>see a familiar locationI CLAP
>>503159423lol do they drop that?
>>503159485is there a moving fireball and bunch of boxes?
I'm really enjoying Gamma
Did they say what MP will be like? Like co-op campaign or just pvp arenas like Tarkov
>>503140808Not the guy you replied, but I was having similar issues, 4090, big ass x3d cpu and it feel like ass. Disabled frame gen and now its so much better, thanks
>>503159518Just wiped out their entire outpost at the factory where lab X18 is and two of them had it, one had the mask as well lolVeteran difficulty as well
>wardenfag by chemical tanks asks me to get specific artifact quickly>says he'll "pay more than anyone else in the zone for it">is supposedly his buddies crystalised soul in artifact form>worth 14,000 but can't sell it to traders since it's a quest item>bring it to him>900 stalkerbucksI'm glad I threw his friend into a whirlygig
>>503159659why pley gammer?
>>503159659i'm waiting for the update before i jump back in, will probably do a duty/freedom playtrough since i never actually tried them
WHERE THE FUCK DO I FIND A WHIRLWIND ARTIFACT
I've never played any of the mods, what's the difference between Anomaly and Gamma and why do they hate each other?
>>503159572You get a fireball alright
S2 is rotten corpse upon arrival, so final goal for stalker modding is implementing seamless world and pbr+path tracing+multithreading from ixray to XRMPE
>>503159958gravity anomalies I'd imagine
>>503159423>running around with max carrying capacity
>>503160241That's my loot from the fight, gonna tan a hercules and either run back to Zalysssiya or try to find a settlement in the garbage
>>503160241>leaving loot behindcouldn't be me
>>503159958Gamma is Anomaly with more shit tacked onto it
>>503124769Look at your stamina bar
>>503159958just check their description on moddb and uhh, git i guess for gammai don't think people who enjoy either of them hate another, it's usually people who like og trilogy and soups/linear story driven mods and simpler addons who hate them, and mostly gammaidk i like em all, although i myself tweak gamma heavily
when I try to launch the game from Steam it doesn't even start at all, I tried with the -d3d11 setting but that makes the game crashwtf is going on?
>everyone talking about what a jew Sid is>check his prices>they actually are pretty goodWhat's going on here?
>>503160653In SoC and CS he was kinda basically robbing loners and i guess that didnt help his reputation over the years
>>503160495>knife swing takes 2/3 of your stamina poolwew
fFUCK
>>503160605post your crash report
Where do I get a better detector? I've been trying to look for the artifact in the Detention Center's basement for over 20 deaths but I just can't find it. That poltergeist in the basement isn't helping either, but since I'm playing on veteran, killing it is more effort than it's worth.
Imagine the kind of game we could have gotten had they not spent all their US dollars brushing up foliage, bloating up bloodsucker HP, saying ZELENSKYIV 400 times an hour and dying to chechens
>>503161062why carry all those weapons? it's so goofy that they allow an IP of a setting flooded with weapons to cater to collecting junk.
>>503161326if i don't loot these weapons to sell, i'll be making a net loss on repair costs from the combat...
>>503160836It two shots an alert human from the front and one shots an unalert one from behindPretty goodPretty sure the 2/3 is for a heavy attack
>>503160823I don't ever remember him being that bad.
Waiting for grand merchant mod
>>503161296They were adding NFTs to the game at one pointIt was always going to be cashgrab slopHopefully mods can do something with it
>>503161408the game should be that you are looking for artifacts and primary source of income is from artifacts. are artifacts very rare? how many of those guns to get the same that you sell 1 artifact for?
>>503160086That full scale Pripyat from that one mod but with anomalies/mutants/stalkers, free play and story quests is my ultimate dream mod.
>>503161248Do you want a very specific spoiler for a sidequest? Go to slag heap, there will be a duo that offer you a drink. They will offer you a job if you accept. They tell you to take vodka to three stashes and leave it there without taking from the stashes. Go to the one in the east on a power pylon. It, at least for me, had two artifacts and a better detector than the starter. Take them.
>compass: on>difficulty: rookie>right click money glitch: abused>grok's bloodsucker mod: installedYup, it's kino time
>>503161628i'm following the main mission and so far have only run into 3 artifacts. had to give away one because of a quest choice i made, and only sold two. selling one to this general trade vendor in the starting village only gets me around 3000. guns on the other hand are everywhere because of the amount of people you end up killing during these quests. a pistol sells for around 500 so i only need 6 of them off dead NPCs to make the same amount of money as selling an artifact...
>>503161838>>right click money glitch: abusedHuh?
>>503161818I'll look for that, thanks.Turns out, the artifact was outside, on top of the basement and it was shit.
>>503161245its the same shit as this guy>>503126539
>>503161934that's fucking retarded. the source material is that artifacts are priceless and worth lifechanging amounts of money.
>tetris inventory>can't rotate
>>503151717do you have any idea how many people don't even look at the UI and notice items have a statusmost of them can't even imagine a game would do something like breaking the gear you use
>>503162092this error to be preciseLoginId:97619c4b4c291182691b0e9c1c68b6c9EpicAccountId:Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000000Stalker2_Win64_ShippingStalker2_Win64_ShippingStalker2_Win64_Shippingkernel32ntdll
>>503161948if you right click things in the trader window it will double the presented sale value of your itemsIt was only cosmetic for me though, it still gave me what the transaction was originally worth
>>503156491Did anyone try it?
>>503123469>Go download anomaly because my puter defo has in no way the specs to run S2.>Check comments to see if there's anything particularly noteworthy about 1.5.3 update>Everyone's blaming the mod authors and YTs and whatnot>Zero fucking clue why>They saying now every single mod is fuckedDid I miss something?, did GSC went TOTAL REPACK DEATH or something worse?, why are these retards saying "it's fucking over"???Are they going to take down everything standalone that was practically all games in one?, hello???????
>>503162440I wonder if that's the remnants of some kind of price haggling system. Maybe you could highball traders for your junk if you pull some moves.
MUH FREEDUMS
>>503162218probably has to do with how useless these artifacts are>increase burn resistance>decrease radiation resistancew o w
We're hitting AnalmemeGamma levels of maintenance requirements on Veteran difficulty
>>503162749i think the update just broke addons from the previous version and now they have to wait on them to be updated or something, at least from glancing at the comments anyway
>>503163369You mean Miseryslop Anomeme and Gaymma just stole from Miseryslop
>>503163119They wouldn't have deleted mentions of alife from the steam page if it was just bugged
>>503162749idk really, maybe it broke gamma's configs or something?if you are trying to play clean anomaly you are good i think
>>503163447That too. If only there was a sewing kit that let me repair over 85% and used a swiss army knife for an additional %3 repair on it.
>>503163119>"Jus don't say a thing, he will come around"
>>503163447it's not that expensive to repair shit in gamma if you engage in the 'tism, really
>>503163369i turned weapon and clothing repair off lolI want to play the game not spend 65 hours hunting people to get enough guns to sell to repair my shit
>says A-Life is not in>gets bannedOfficial GSC Discord btw
sold my guns
>cleared Vile Thicket>go back 30 minutes later>now 2 bloodsuckers therehow about you fuck off
>>503163923>anime profile
>>503163923Called him a retard, that's probably why
Is stalker 2 kinda like tarkov?
>>503163923>A-LIFE IS IN THE GAME, THERE ARE JUST SOME BUGS WITH A-LIFE
>>503163692Is that a thing? I mean I like the point of taking care of your equipment and investing in it but this is just ridiculous. They either need to increase the money you get, or reduce these stupid costs down to reach to a balance.Game seriously needs some balance adjustments. Mutant's have way too much HP, I had to reload my save 5 times because fucking Fleshes of all things killed this guy so I just had to tank the damage for him to stay alive. Which in turn fucked up my armor, and I need to spend 12k on repairs alone.
>>503163923>delete all mentions of a-life from the Steam page>its totally present in the game though Damage control
>>503164198(laughs)
>>503164049nothing like tarkov.it's more like a watered down fallout.
>>503163923Yeah, A-Life definitely is non-functional or was fully euthanized a while back, no way to bring it back either.
>>503164049more like tarkov is kinda like stalker, but yeah the animation for eating canned meat is almost identical, albeit slightly better in s2
certified Day 2 of release moment
Is it really like Far Cry? Is it at least like Far Cry 2 (the good one)?
Does anyone know if saving Leech has any good rewards later on? His gun looks like it sells for quite a bit of money.
>>503163341in the source material the artifacts are priceless because they're magical objects which defy the laws of physics that all the corporations, militaries, research institutes, and billionaires in the world want.guns and gear is worthless, all the guns and gear in the world has been brought to the zone. it is not supposed to be some sort of survival setting where guns would have any value.
>walk some where>game stutters>let me guess, game just spawned in a bunch of npcs>walk a little more>gunfire popping off in a nearby POInice
>>503164679it's like dark souls actually, bit tarkovesque with a hint of ubislopness maybe?
>>503164239its a mod, but yes. there is two, one that halves it by 50%, one that removes it entirely.even at 50% reduction it was still absolutely ridiculous so I just turned it off. super easy mod install.
has ANYONE here sided with boneless duty aka zone jannies? they honestly feel like someone's donut steel OC faction that was hate implemented by someone else
>rebind key>new key functions fine>but the old key still retains the functionhow did they fuck this up
>>503164892artifacts do have rarity grade on them and i've only come across "uncommon" grade artifacts. i'm assuming they don't want the player to instantly earn 20,000 in cash and buy out all the shops in the starting village, so they made the lower grade ones close to worthless.they could have handled it differently though, instead of giving the player 3 artifacts within the first 2 hours of the game, they should have gave the player one very valuable artifact just for it to be stolen away in a cutscene or something. give the player a taste of it.
>>503164679Well it has Far Cry 2's spawns and weapon stats
>there is a mod to ENABLE motion blurwhat a sick fuck
>>503164679It has that cool Far Cry 2 mechanic where you clear an outpost and when you turn your back they respawn right behind you
>>503165106designed for consoles first and foremost. ported to PC as an afterthought
>>503165236i wish they implemented the kind of 'separated' motion blur that CoD has. i like it when only my weapon blurs as i'm handling it, but i hate it when the entire world blurs around.
>>503164679It has guns and enemies and trees and water I think. It's literally Far Cry.
>>503165236Makes 30fps tolerable
>>503164954the funniest part is that ubislop games have better npc spawns and POI's than this trash.
How to get your items to sell at maximum value:>Put the item you want to sell item into sell window>Drag another item on top of it>The price will increase substantially>You keep the other item you dragged on top of itTry it with weapons and armour!
>>503165462>30fps>motion bluranon, just play something else and come back when they fix performance, why torture yourself like that?
my PC is struggling with this shit. I'm gonna go play tarkov instead
>>503165623>when they fix performanceWho is gonna tell him?
>>503165540Armour will go from 3k to 15k-45k btwWeapons also quadruple
why couldn't they have just hired people who speak english with a ukraini accent.so distracting that u meet one guy sounding like a cowboy and then the next is some scotsmen.
>>503165914no way, they will do it before christmas holidays, maybe not completely fix it, but it'll be something atleast, i'm pretty sure
>>503165497just came into this general after months to read this please god no tell me youre being hyperbolic
>>503166081If they could do it that fast why would they release it broken in the first place?
>>503166154Phil held them at gunpoint and forced them to paint ladders yellow instead of fixing performancehey idk really
>game has same performance at all settings>with all upscaling options>no mods work>engine.ini file does nothingmy install is cursed
>>5031661405 dudes will spawn basically on top of you in the middle of nowhere.Its like the Cyberpunk police used to be
>>503166308Maybe the game will be good in another 10 years
>>503151004>more like Far Cry 5 with a STALKER reskin.Thank god, STALKER sucks, Im glad they improved
>>503166308it's not as bad as cp come on
>>503166293What's your CPU? I'm on a 5600x and I barely hit 100% GPU use so bumping the visuals allow me to get better image at the same framerate.
>>503166293only thing that's saving my FPS right now is DLSS frame gen, and i had to use a mod to enable it since i'm not on 40series card.
>nerds with glasses that look like that one chud template>some dude without a leg>WOMENReally went DEI here, huh?
>>503166654what mod?
was trading with random stalkers always this pointless in the OG games?these guys literally just have like a piece of bread and one bullet to sell.
>>503163923what is their discord?
>>503166751>he hasn't met niggers yetOh no
>>503166798pretty much
>finally get a shotgun that isn't a 2 round loader>find a pack of boars and fleshes>actually beat them without much troubleThis feels nice.
sprint speed needs to be nerfed lmao
>>503166798yeah the only use of that option is to check if they looted anything before you that you wanted (not happening in this game so)or if you just need a bandage or whatever
do factions get mad at you for killing their guys? like what happens if I just fucking dust the guys at the water bridge crossing that look like military dudes?
>>503166751Can you play as women
New bread:>>503167140>>503167140
"Advanced artificial intelligence systems that will keep engaged even the most hard-boiled players"so... what is it?does it just dump stronger npcs near you?
>>503166830I've met plenty of Ukrainians already.
Maybe gamma spoiled me but I'm a few hours in taking it slow and the lack of gun variety sucks. Everyone either has a viper or the double barrel.
>>503167423its just the first few hours dude.why does every retard in the starter zone think everything should be right there right off the bat? do a handful of missions and you will start seeing G36's dragunovs, bukets, Mac10s etc
>>503167423You're in the rookie area, anon
>>503165540Just tried it and it works, but I'm not going to do it because I want a pure vanilla playthrough.
>>503132525>weebfaggot shit on the right
>>503167673>>503167685The gun variety doesnt get any better. Its barely improved of SoC.
>>503168757well, you were never going to be happy with it anyways so I guess its a moot point.
>>503169815There are three pistols in the gameThree
>>503170090There are at least 4Rhino (Revolver), Makarov, HK45, APB
>>503170090you only need one pistol , a 1911, two world wars, 3 games.
are any of these mods actually good for improving performance?
>>503171365Not a single one of them
>>503166308>>503166140It is not as bad as Cyberpunk 2077 when it comes to sudden spawning, but it's arguably worse gameplay wise because at least in that game, having police drop on you was a conscious decision, meanwhile, here you will just turn around near a spawning zone and you will get executed instantly in some cases by 7 dudes with rifles popping into existence.
>>503166798It used to have some extra usefulness, for example, if you had a really good gun that wasn't your thing, you could donate it to a higher grade friendly or neutral stalker that had a terrible loadout and he ends with a higher grade of survivability, you could tactically use that by giving slightly better gear to people in certain chokepoints or areas so other hostile NPCs or mutants wouldn't easily get near the areas you didn't want them to be at. It wasn't guaranteed to be succesful but it had permanence, it made a difference, you could later meet the same stalker and that meant he survived, your decision MADE some change in the world. It was cool. Is cool. Which is why A-Life is so integral to this entire setting. Even the mutants and hostile NPCs could use the same logic against you by going around, winning fights and looting better stuff.You don't know the level of "What The Fuck?!?!?!" you can reach until you get no-scoped with a gauss rifle by a rookie bandit.Also, how the fuck did he get that thing, we are at Cordon???
>>503166056why would they speak english? play with ukrainian audio
