Stalker 2 mods are here>Stalker 2 ARS ModPack v 1.6 (balance + QoL)https://pastebin.com/uG432cmv>Stalker 2 Performance Mod + Mouse Fix + No Compilinghttps://pastebin.com/qZXvzmxLOld>Quickstart Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/1cnQeURGCjHTRPOGJH8G5ijP1fw5vbVWSE7opABcBpNk>Mod Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/1JPA0hQZVJ6mSvTsp6Sy3CoAkObJOKeoPHEamDC19Lio>Miscellaneous Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/103nyaAM5PKgBwuZ35jRbv7VM7tEcvi1Scv6boOMe1RM>Start guide, beginner tips, and much much morehttp://pastebin.com/FUPEbLiv (embed)>HUD guide, modding basics, mod reviews, and AMK mod guidedocs.google.com/document/d/10yi79NUFhJrFO4hmGeKqaWSw35BJQv0Ve0OK94ioMEw>Performance Guides, Steam settingshttp://pastebin.com/nzXEevG7 (embed)>Common misconceptions about Shadow of Chernobyl game mechanicshttp://www.metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/WhatYouKnowThatAintSo.html>Running STALKER. on Linuxdocs.google.com/document/d/11HcSFSyb0DX3ymModXZ9tNdpTuktTioCLost to the zone: >>503403459#p503403459
what weapon has hp bullets besides the ak, fuck shotguns
>>503433776Mods and Repositories | Often outdated; use only as a last resort!>Shadow of Chernobylmega.nz/#F!Z7RjwaBS!PYNDw9ugMSojbpUDgIACHQ>Clear Skymega.nz/#F!oqgWWK4K!PStfjPLon_3UpVU-atgQeQ>Call of Pripyatmega.nz/#F!1zAilAoZ!xw3kb1awC1csjv2dMlb7Mw>Game Repacks + Modding Toolsmega.nz/folder/gSBHmYYK#9-5ONxPwwChJhYSPWdKb5Qdrive.google.com/drive/folders/1mhwMy4wSQQ4PC9-YxEAZMX0Pf1ZbS2b0?usp=sharing>Downgrade Patches (drag-and-drop)mega.co.nz/#F!M4BmDRCL!vfze70GSJDyv-HzWn7Dwww>Unpacked Gamedata + GSC Backup HDD assetsmega.nz/folder/xPpTWACS#pzt5IeUp8g6_-wqkI0WchQ>AMK AE 1.4.1+OWR+ARSENAL+SWO mergemega.nz/#F!4Q5SmIaJ!hu6jptaxeY3wQbIF2GzbWQ>Anon's /sg/ AMK repohttps://mega.nz/folder/KvhhSCwD#7pTnDImcvnVOvJfQUgImtw>Oblivion Lost Remakedisk.yandex.ru/d/hmvQK9g8JDY_HA?w=1>Joint Pak (Cumulative Pak, OP)rentry.org/cumpack22docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1me0bO3B_ZnwHLOYXqZDNyPfdFAL8nqp1oNkrbyFZ7cM>Call of Chernobyl Repomega.nz/folder/QfgQFR7J#_OXdHj2L13rfsX6UpFrVkA>Don't have Call of Pripyat but want to play Call of Chernobyl?-skip_reg on the .exe starting path after " or if you're using CoC on Steam game>properties>set launch optionsAlternatively, use this registry file mega.nz/#!uoYinJ7I!Lqj2DNIAkaVkcFUa1PLZzj80cVhAFK5D-9zbU2Iy5KI>Xetrill's Modified LuaJIT for CS/CoP - improves performance, especially in script-heavy mods.mega.co.nz/#F!BIISmQgK!KHZR01ljznUqJlcHUax-aQ>Anons Call of Chernobyl Definitive Edition Repo:mega.nz/folder/jMggwZiC#BeOpCQEaOSZ6N63HlI6uVwdrive.google.com/drive/folders/1-1AHa4OKy1RpO9K6dVGZ3ds2I13tpEKA?usp=sharing>Shadows Addon + Anon's English translationfiles.catbox.moe/x1d4r5.7zap-pro.ru/forums/topic/1639-shadows-addon-08/>C-Con Modlistdocs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GgBFCRIbc7TQ5DwWHvWaridX1G64PYoWItkLyr3pBPk/edit#gid=0
>go to SIRCAAUh-oh... sisters? Should I?
>>503433896you actually want AP because mutants have high armor, so you want armor pen, retarded i know
what the fuck am I meant to be doing with these things?
>>503433776i feel like it's gonna take 5+ years of modding for this game to become a proper replacement for the old titles
How is the writing? main story in particular
>>503434092>5+ yearsthats wildly optimistic
>>503434026Nothing, till you get Liquid Rock.
>>503433776>(embed) (embed)>503403459 (You) (Cross-thread)#p503403459HALLO SAAAAR I BAAAAKEEE GOOD THREEED 4 U
>>503434026sell
Build garbage SOUL
>>503434013watBuckshot was supposed to be the mutant killer
Damn the Shah is literally donald trump hahaha based ukraine
PSA: Once you get to the point when Monolith comes back, STOP PLAYING UNTIL A PATCH IS OUT. The game after this point is bugged and quests are completely broken, especially Zalissya
>>503433637I'd heavily recommend taking a break from the game now, or avoiding every hub except Rostok and the boat. The game completely fucking breaks after SIRCAA and the lab being locked is just the tip of the iceberg
>>503434296Can’t trust fellows who have nice, new jackets in the zone
>>503434296But Ukraine is being propped up to spite literally hitler pootin
is there a freedom seva suit in s2?
Can you help Beard take Skadovsk back and how?
Give it to me straight what should i do1. Endure Stalker 2 as it is, buggy, unpatched, unoptimized and all2. Drop the game and try again in 6-12 months2. Install Stalker Anomaly3. Install Stalker GAMMA
>>503434638take the assassination mission from katya then kill the sniper turn on his radio and kill her mercs
>>503434680you should play IWP and forget about those meme mods
>>503433776What’s the A-LIFE situation? I heard the gammagods data mined or something
>>503434512Damn... le both sides...
>>503434690Sheeeit, thanks!
>>503434638just do some quests for both him and sultan. and then leave for awhile. and then go back and the ugly whore gipsy gives you a quest. in the sniper tower where they meet up, first kill the sniper and then turn the radio on and just wait till they get attacked by mercs and help them
>>5034346801
>>503434724With CotZ port.
>>503434246 plz reply stalkersAlso is clear sky in this game in any way? Is my boy Lebedev vindicated and did scar survive? Did anybody survive lol? Any mention of Ghost and Fang?
>>503434727gamma dev found some A-Life code in the code so it's definitely there. But it's all disabled and not working.Really I think this is the worst situation, because the devs explicitly said it was in the game and just "bugged", but in actuality they intentionally turned it off since thats how it is in the files.The other good news is that a dev who worked on A-Life for stalker mods has advised its more than doable to add A-Life in if the devs dont.
It's UP!>Stalker 2 ARS ModPack v 1.6 (balance + QoL)https://pastebin.com/uG432cmv>Stalker 2 Performance Mod + Mouse Fix + No Compilinghttps://pastebin.com/qZXvzmxL>>503434680try again with the modpack and performance mod
>>503434727a-life isn't in the game at all, it's a far cry style spawn system they're just calling a-life 2.0 to trick people/not get sued.
>>503434286buckshot is still great at killing mutants
How come most of the good unique early loot like the SVD, bandit armor, etc don't spawn for me? I've seen others get them from the same locations, but its always empty crates and bodies where there should be a specific piece of gear. I'm a fair amount passed that point, but I am more curious than anything. Is it tied to difficulty or was it patched out (or in, and maybe I'm on an old patch of the game)? I probably wouldn't use it anyway due to ammo availability and repair costs.
>>503434727code is there but its not working so at least the foundation exist
how the fuck do you noclip in stalker 2? the stupin main quest objective to talk to the scientist in the bunker in wild island is bugged and the doors wont open
>>503434897redpill me on cotz
>>503434795I'm on it, boss!
>>503435507the foundation for a-life style does not exist, there is only the far cry style spawn system with features disabled
>>503435472you sure isnt the pre-order guns?
>answers come at a price mission>go to where i need to go>warehouse with like 20+ enemies >legit feels impossiblewhat the fuck am i missing here? sneaking doesnt work in this broken ass game and theres no way it expects me to go full COD mode right?
>>503435632>the foundation for a-life style does not existwrong. The config files are not the source code you retard.
getting this error after installing AA2.1 [error]Expression : fatal error[error]Function : CScriptEngine::lua_error[error]File : E:\stalker\sources\trunk\xr_3da\xrGame\script_engine.cpp[error]Line : 73[error]Description : <no expression>[error]Arguments : LUA error: ...ow of chernobyl\gamedata\scripts\bind_stalker.script:93: attempt to index global 'ogsm_funcs' (a nil value)
>>503435771>"there is a lot of code of what AI should do">but they dont do any of this ingame>"it was probably disabled">weve never even seen a demonstration of a-lifeokay.. so a-life doesnt exist
Does anyone know where the swamp street car is for the Lex quest? Is that actually in the swamps all the way in the south east?
>Prypiatwhat the fuck is this spelling?
>>503435771>disabled or replacedso it's not in the game, yes. but none of it matters if there's no offline state and npcs dematerialize
>>503435970It's literally in the fucking code. So:>the foundation for a-life style does not existIs a blatantly false statement. It's in there.Why isn't it active? Who knows, a couple likely reasons. But it's ok to say you said something that wasn't right. Saying it doesn't exist is WRONG.
>>503430546I ended up turning the FSR3 off because it does a weird thing with the red lasers and optics where they lag/split into triples
>>503435659I'm pretty sure it isn't. Even the suit that you should find in the Sphere after the cutscene wasn't there. It seems like any scripted piece of gear that is supposed to "physically" spawn in the environment as an object is missing. I don't care if I missed the early stuff but I am hoping its not a persistent issue that causes me problems later.
>>503436135>we believe this one retard who claims it's all there in the files>but not the multiple other guys, one of which says he is an experienced UE dev, who claim it's not there at all / doesn't resemble the original system whatsoeverokay.
>>503436085Its people desperately pretending not to be russian
>>503436135>literally not in the game or partial features we cannot say are not part of the far cry style spawn system it's not in the game
This stash is apparently underground, I am blind where is some kind of entrance? I don't want to hang around this area anymore since it seems to spawn something every couple minutes.
>>503436267>>503436274these are russians, the game is going to be good, unlike your vodka chud life
>>503436053Anyone?
>>503436520>going to be goodso you admit it's not good? lol
>>503436520can confirm i dont speak a single rune except what vladimir taught me during csgo matchmaking
>>503436468should be a stair down outside
>>503436468did you try here?Shit was spawning on my ass there also
>>503435681sneak worked for me but i did it at night
anyone know what causes this flickering?I can't tell if it was caused by a faulty mod or it's just because I put the graphical settings to low
I'm about 10 hours in and just found out that Faust is a cunt and betrayed his brothers. How much longer does the game go on for?
>>503435845any help sdalgers?
>>503436901thats the dlss fucking up the ambient occlusion
>>503436901i believe its a low graphics setting, not sure which oneim all low except for epic on textures and i have that same thing tootry fsr on quality?
>>503436901Low DLSS scaling
>>503436591>>503436053ANYONE?!
Enhanced audio mod if you have some fps to spare>https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/170?tab=description
Alright, listen up, Prypyatsky gremlins and Chornobyl-tier FUDlords, because your takes on STALKER 2: Serdtse Chornobyl are as irradiated as the Polovynna Stantsia’s reactor core. Let me spell it out for you slowly since some of you seem stuck in the sharyk of old mud-hut gaming expectations: this game is the most dushnyk-adjacent, prisutnya Zona experience we’ve ever seen, and no amount of cope will change that.From the Kyivska shlyakha development team comes a simulyatsiia Zona so immersive, you’ll be lost in the Lehenda Lesova for hours. The Tserkva Prypiatska, the Kolysanka Skhidna, the Chorny Ostriv—every bit of it oozes authenticity. And while you’re here complaining about “glitches” or “optimization,” real stalkers are out there, thriving in the Nevidoma Mistsevidka like the Zona-koryfaiky they are.A-Life is here, chuds. It’s working. It’s real. Just because you don’t understand the radiatsiinyi dynamika doesn’t mean it’s not there. But no, you’d rather sit in the Podillya Kanava, crying into your cheap Pivnichka Medovyk vodka about how the game doesn’t hold your hand. Sad!Meanwhile, true Serdtsevtsi are prepping for the Velykyi Skyt Prypyatu, mastering their Zonyansky resursy, and leaving you behind in the dust of the Polova Okolytsia. Face it, chuds—you’ve been outclassed, outgamed, and outstalked. Go back to your soulless corporate drivel while we bask in the glow of Chornobylska pravda.Slava to the devs, slava to the stalkers, and slava to the Serdtse Chornobylya itself. Cope harder, FUDniks!
Blimpy boi flying through the zone so fancy free...
Well shit, this was worth the trip out here.
>>503437651DAMN THATS DOPEI DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT IS SO ITS NOT SPOILING IT FOR ME
Is the game supposed to look like this?
so should I kill varan?
>lets check out that mod pack that other guy suggested>it makes red encumbrance nearly half the barepic
>>503437808Yes, welcome to UE5
have you guys found any more KINO mods?
>>503437651I did a little sight-seeing there before going to the Sawmill and it didn't disappoint. Even got an exo out of it.
>>503438025which modpack?
ZAMN, the zone can be so soulful. The lighting is great when it's sunlight and not those goddamn storms or rain that turn evrything into blown out mush. So comfy to explore and hunt for arties, but everything else around it is either meh or annoying poorly designed trash.
>>503437651The anomalies genuinely impress me in this game. Too bad everything else is subpar.
>>503438079https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/63?tab=images
>>503438079I normally don't care for those reshades but I thought this one might be cool. Are you actually playing with it?
why do the shills sound like black teenagers?"damn dog this screenshot is straight fire, this shit is boppin' for real!" ????
where the fuck is the artifact on top of the 4 electrified silos
the exaggerated swagger of a black teenager?
>>503437457I was on dlss quality in the first clip, I turned dlss off and now it looks worse
>>503438606Based
>>503438515Blacks are one of the only virile races left. Many cultures and people are emulating them as you see here ITT even if they pretend to be ironic
>>503438515who are you talking to ziggersissy?
why are discord trannies seething at people having fun with stalker 2?
>enemies respawn when you save and quickload after killing them
>>503438006I shot him point blank with a pistol, eliminating the entire base was easier than killing a single bloodsucker
This mod should be added to the OP.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWkYUbdUIzg>https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/65?tab=description
>>503438754If you walk like 30m away they will respawn, it might not have even been the saving and loading
>>503435113>increase max carry weight to 90its still 80 for me but everything else seems to work (?)
>>503438926Try taking your armour off and on again
>>503438926it will work till 90, the UI is just not updated.
they cannot get away with this....
>>503436635>>503436664Thanks, I completely missed that those were stairs.Also guess what happened in the time it took me to go down there and back up? Yet another bunch of bandits appeared at the campfire. This place is cursed.
>>503438703It's global illumination being dogshit as usual
>>503438774looks a bit better
man the performance is somehow getting worse for me, 3080 and 5700x3d and i'm getting drops to 25 fps in the scrap heap
>>503438163Oooo i almost wanna ask where... almost. Tell me I'm not even on missions over here, i was just checking out the the border and then realized the fucking duty base had a bridge across and was shocked when i was just able to walk over.
they should add an Elite difficulty that makes everything hyper lethalyou die in 1-3 shotsenemies die in 1-3 shotsheadshots 1 hit every time assuming you are using the correct ammo (AP on armored guys) and 2 hit at most everI hate bullet sponges
>>503433776Why the fuck did they not add any new mutants
>>503439575the modpack does that (for humans at least).gunplay was specifically designed to be like that
>>503435580Not that stalker, but Call of the Zone is the magnum opus of the late modding legend Dr. X. As I understand it, it combines a bunch of his mods like dr x factions, Dr x questlines etc all into one whole version of the Freeplay mod call of Chernobyl which were what his mods were for. But there's more to it than that I think, you'd have to read the notes etc. the moddb community has released some add-ons for it in the wake of Doc's death back in 2021. Two popular add on packs for it are Rhons and I forget the other but some googling should reveal it. Most importantly as I said to begin with it's a man's last project that he poured his heart into. Rip Dr.X.
>>503438926need to either take off armor or equip anything with +/-carryweight to make the displayed value update
>>503439616This entire game except for the anomalies so far has been the story of stalker except now it's science is STILL BAD M'KAY NATURE AND SHIT
>>503439735thanks for the rundown stalker, I'll deff give it a try now, I never knew Dr X made it, RIP
>>503439575so you want a master difficulty
When patch?
>get into the Agroprom underground by jumping onto a pipe that's just close enough to take away most of my health, but not instantly kill me>Nothing special inside, just some normal stashes and loot scattered around>Just a normal "big" stash inside Streloks hideout>Impossible to leave, the only way out was blocked by a hatch that I could clip my head through but not go throughAm I here too early? Is there a quest later on that brings me here or something?
stole the freedom seva suit from the arena kek
>every bullet you take and every time an anomaly scratches your ankles it costs you 1000 bucks in repair costswhat the fuck were they thinking
>>503439616there is 1
>>503437714I know where it is and i still don't know what the fuck it is.
>>503439575thats literally what I'm playing right now with mods
what the fuck do I do with these?I killed mutants and they dropped these collars now they are stuck in my inventoryI hate when quest items have weight
???????????What the fuck ammo is 0.12? Why does it remove all my accuracy and range?
>>503440674I'm assuming they probably meant 12 gauge as some weird way to mimic the Judge
>>503440674Is it supposed to be 12 gauge?
>see everyone crying about performance >get the game>runs like butterI hate that there are so many brown people in the PC community now
>>503440589Where have you found those? There's a hydrodynamics lab north east zaton that has a keypad locked door and allegedly the code is on one of those.
>>503441053get out of the starting area and walk into a hub or the garbage you disingenuous faggot
>>503434201no. you never changed the OP even with all these new mods and fixes available for stalker 2.
>>503441169not him but I'm getting 120fps on Ultra with frame gen and I haven't had a single performance issue in three days of playing this game. I dont give a fuck if frame gen is a joke, its stable, and the game runs fine
>different traders give different buying prices for different types of items>gun merchant gives more money for food than the barkeepAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>503441262>frame gennice input lag
theres a freedumber calling for help at yanov on the bandit mission but i cant find him. i cant be that blind
>>503441053>>503441262>DLSS >frame gen>massive input delayAh yes, "butter"
>>503441053>anon after loading his save and the game goes full power point
This game is straight BUSSIN frfr
>>503441053It's you, you are the brown people.
I got a holo sight that says it fits the Viper 5 but there's no option to put it on in the attachment menu or in my inventory. what am i missing?
>>503441169In a hub right now, not sure where I need to go for it to get bad, minor stutters here and there but overall the game looks great and runs niceIm sorry about your geographical situation
>>503433776is it possible to ONLY use the increased weight limit mod?
>>503441317>>503441335I have no idea what you're talking about with input lag. never experienced that one bit. I've competed in Las Vegas in 6 different competitive FPS tournaments and this game feels no different. I'm starting to think this game just attracts mostly complete shitters with turbojank computers
the portal anomaly fucking up along with the little hazard course is a half-life reference right?
>>503441510yes browse nexusmods if you want to create ur own modpack
>>503441547Cool story bro
>>503441315>tech doesn't buy guns>his specific job is to repair and modify gunsyep cool makes sense
I haven't had any major missions with duty, just a few run ins to help them, but so far they seem kinda based.
Installing Gamma instead of playing 2 to be honest(until it's fixed)
>>503441451>t.
>>503441606>YOU CAN'T JUST HAVE FUN WITH THIS GAME THAT i CANT RUN PROPERLY!!!!
>>503441682no one asked nigga
>>503441682>fixed economy>fixed tanky mutants>fixed gunplay, balance etc on veteran difficulty (headshots etc)>improved AI behaviourthe mod pack fixes it desu
>>503441682I asked
>>503441118I don't know how you're supposed to get a code off of theseit's not like you can examine them or anythingthat said one was on a cat at this boathouse north of the Noontide baseI don't remember where the first one was at but I got it off a Snork
>>503441682I genuinely don't understand what people like about Gamma
>>503441501The tutorial
is the kharod good?
it has decent stats
>>503440161I started just doing the shop trick to get more money just to offset this dumb shit. I think it's wise to repair often and every time you revisit a place with a technician rather than waiting on it. Or just mod the repair costs to be cheaper. There's a lot of workarounds at the moment, but I do agree that it's fucking nonsense.
>>503441682>gamma >moeshit holy troon
How hard is to mod strelok face model from CoP to SoC? If it's possible, how can I do it?
>>503441852The ultimate survival sandbox. Imo you need to like games like Dayz or doing Ironman to really enjoy it. If you don't do Ironman I think it'd be pretty pooring since death really has no consequence other than you have to reload
What were they thinking with the mutant health?The alife shit they clearly couldnt figure out and that was an obvious lie.However the mutant health is one hardcoded value per mutant. Why did they give them so much health
>>503440589Don’t you turn them into Hamster for a reward?
kamala IS brat
Even though my PC is perfectly capable of pulling 60fps at epic, for some reason every so often when playing on it, my FPS plummets until I change to medium. High will do the same thing. I would assume it's VRAM but changing textures specifically down to medium doesn't fix it. If I just play on medium preset it never does this
Maybe they should have been dying in a trench instead of releasing this slop
>>503434973>a dev who worked on A-Life for stalker mods has advised its more than doable to add A-Life in if the devs dontwho is this? Is there a discord to follow? I donr want to play this game until that is fixed
>>503442858Its just poorly optimised
>>503442694It definitely feels really strange, as if nobody on the development team tested the release build. It's incredibly hard to accept that none of them noticed how ridiculous the mutants feel to fight. Not a single dev team member or QA tester asked, "Hey, should the mutants be taking 6 mags to kill?"It's extremely weird.
>>503442858try playing on epic but putting Hair on low. this helped for me.
>unreal enginelolelmaorofl
This story makes not one single bit of fucking sense, and not one single character acts like an actual human being. Who wrote this absolute schlock holy.
>found a monolith soldier named ian filbert that will one tap me from full healthUhh... what.
>playercount keeps droppingthis is why you optimize your game before it releases
>>503443275So like the original game?
>>503443198Weird, but I'll try it
are monolith the bad guys again? Dont spoil too much
What do I play now, /sg/? Anomaly, or Gamma?
>>503442694i guess the idea was to make a bloodsucker really "le experience".install the modpack, fixes the problem.
>>503443349Eh I can turn down the graphics, I have stopped playing because the world is empty
>>503443447holy shit did you rush through the game?
I had no spawn issues until I got to the swamp and now everything is spawning on top of me. Is it a swamp specific thing or has something broken with my game?
>>503443447gamma because it makes /sg/ seethe
>>503443570Make sure you're not getting affected by the nearby psi emitter things. I only found two of them.
i think i can still make it through the story, but i'm going to hold off on exploring until A-Life gets fixed. at least it will feel like a 'new' game if that ever happens...
>>503443447>no freeplayyup its over
>>503443536About halfway through the game I stopped going for caches and just focused on the main missions, and a couple side ones. Been playing nonstop from morning to night.
I dont like the sandbox mods because i need quests to keep me motivated however bad. played gamma, stalkersoup, true stalker, automn aurora. What are some other mods with actual quests. op 2.2 is the only one i can think of
>>503443592this, make sure to anime post as well when talking about GAMMA
>>503443718how would you rate the main missions compared to the trilogy?
>>503443718ah understandable
i wanna see a mod that changes loot too, make meds and food scarce unless you find stashes, but make it so that human enemies actually carry ammo on them. it's weird how u can stealth kill a whole group and all of them just had 3 bullets in their guns and 1 bullet in their bag.
>>503443282>ian filbert survives 30 svd shots to the domeUhhhh... i guess i'm not supposed to go over there.
>>503443718are you a neet? no job? How many hours for the main story only btw? Heard 30 hours which is quite big
>>503441852retards that think a trash collecting simulator is fun
>>503443478>make bloodsucker an experience>ok heres five now fight them at the same time
>>503443745Gamma does have a actual main quest chain though
>>503443718Was Pripyat really cut in half? Is there really no Jupiter anymore?
>>503444042i meant i am bored repeating the same questline in the same locations and i dont like the radiant quests. Need something fresh
>>503442694i watched a 30 minute long video called something like 'stalker 2 is intense', the guy literally spends 20 minutes of it fighting the one bloodsucker in squint's cave. edited footage too. the craziest part was that he was having fun dying over and over again despite unloading 5 mags on the thing every time. personally, mutant fights are boring as hell because you have such a fast sprint you can just cheese them and they just become dumb bullet sponges, but it seems like the average person actually likes this shit.
>>503443760Haven't completed the entire trilogy, so I can't compare. Only beaten CoP, so I guess folks would recommend going back and playing SoC and CS. Maybe one day. All in all, I'd rate the main missions 7/10. Lore wise it throws a lot at you, and some interesting mechanics come from it in certain fights. But the progression from mission to mission is draining.>>5034438709-5 wagie who works from home. Also yeah it's about 30 hours.>>503444068Pripyat was cut in half. Jupiter is gone save for Yanov station.
>>503443447grigabors....
>>503443745incubator, wind of time
>>503444528btw you didnt run into the bug after sirca missions that everyone is reporting
>>503442694I think that it was partly trying to make the mutants feel as frightening as the lore describes them to be, and partly a reflection on what it was like for players way back when the original game was released, and how it felt to experience that game for the first time. I don't mean mechanically, I mean in a psychological sense - the uncertainty of how a mutant is going to behave, and the fear of not really knowing if the gun that you're pointing at something is actually going to kill it and save your life.Obviously they leaned in to it way too hard.
>>503444639What bug? What happens?
Before S2 release I was really into pbr metallic reflected shine and ray tracing, fapping to SSS for anomaly. Now I've started to love and appreciate the aesthetics of the old 00s phong rendering. Who same? Modern graphics is such uncanny valley, while 00s is comfy cartoon.
Bros why are all the ingame radios not producing music anymore? Anyone had this? I'm not on streamer mode.
i expected a lot more from the game, but it's still kinda fun.
>people who played the trilogy have valid concerns, namely if they will ever actually make real alife or if they will just increase the spawn distance of this shitty fake alife to hide the jank>bad performance also sucks>streamers and normies who only play ubislop and have never touched the series before coming out of the woodwork to play it like critikal, asmon, and aris and they all shill hard for itIt's so sad watching people who have no idea what was taken from them be the majority and acting like S2 is the best survival fps ever. It's also retarded watching them pretend like performance isnt an issue when it takes a 4090+dlss+framegen for the game to run smoothly.
>choice paralysisshit sucks
Is there a big game pistol?I’d like a scoped rifle that zooms in, a rifle without a scope for mid-to-short range and buckshot for skill issue spray and pray mutant killing but I can’t get it - so I have to either replace rifle with mid-range shotgun (would high capacity with buckshot work?) or keep 2 rifles and replace shotgun with a high damage pistol
>>503434680Drop stalker 2, play something else until december third, get new gamma update since it will actually be good, get poe2 early access on the 6th and just play these two games until 2026
>>503444687should have created new mutants that behave differently. How is anyone ok with no new mutants. The devs are so lazy. lmao
>>503444201use the fucking mutant health mod.or the modpack
How do I get rid of this shit holy fuck please send help
>>503445107What's gonna change with the new gamma update?
>>503444994just pick whoever u think is cooler. the intuitive choice. dont think about it at all.
>>503444952wait Aris actually liked it? I figured he'd hate this game, especially since he's gonna play it unmoddedt. semi-normie who played previous games but never modded or got as deep into them as I wanted
>>503445091There is a large-bore revolver.I’ve been playing for a while and haven’t found a single one yet though, no idea when you might actually be able to get one or what ammo it even takes.
>>503445218Reload a save from before you tried talking to the friendly bandits, then make sure to not talk to them.
Crashed like 4 times in the last hour, also why the fuck does this game need to compile shaders every time you launch it, what the fuck?
>>503445501that's a fucking million years ago bro no way I can do that
am I missing any good mods?
>Freedom in RostokBlasphemy! What's next, friendly Monolithians?Get out of here stalker
>>503445576Well that's what I did to fix it after trying for ages. Crazy that a UI bug like that can persist across saves and loading screens.
>go inside house in swamp to hide from chimera and emission>emission still hits you and you cant tank it with medkitsholy fuck did they playtest this piece of shit? i have to find out how to use godmode now because i cant find any other closed shelter in the swamps while the chimera chews my ass at mach 5 speed
>>503444528>Pripyat was cut in half. Jupiter is gone save for Yanov station.FUUUUUUUU
>>503445664oh well, going to the tab wheel fixes it. guess I'm dealing with this forever
>never had an issue shooting niggas from range>struggle to hit anything reliably in s2Is this the power of amd’s scuffed framegen or did I suddenly become a boomer?
>>503445602reasonable degradationmouse aim X-Y axis fixaxxii stealth moddeath screen wallpaper
>settings other than using/not using DLSS make LITERALLY no difference to CPU/GPU utilisation, FPS??????Literally the SAME from lowest to highest and the only difference DLSS seems to make is reducing GPU utilisation slightly when on (~87% - ~95%)10700kf + 3080 (10GB)
>>503445728if its the cheeky chimera/emission combo on the way to the clear sky base make a run for where the bar was and go underground
>>503445821The game's extremely limited on the CPU, even a 9800X3D bottlenecks a 4090 in densely populated areas. So just bump the graphics until you're comfortably at 100% GPU use.
>>503444862These games have always been the groundwork for mods
>>503445792The bloodsucker onions face death screen is so funny to me
>>503445925But I'm not, ever, at any setting
Did they really not have anything about the repair prices being looked at in their "wait for the patch next week" community post? How are you meant to upgrade anything when the repair cost sucks all your money up? The game expects you to loot whore every single yellow condition weapon and even then it's still not enough.
>wearing an eco suit>walk up to some random truck to loot a safe>INSTANT radiation deathwtf?
Is there a in game lore reason rubles turned into coupons or is it simply fuck Russia?Just seems weird that these dudes who were killing each other for years suddenly don't use the same currency
which technician can upgrade every item?
>>503446061It's an all-digital currencyaka, it's crypto
No Obokan, no buy
>>503446061Just like irl rubles became so worthless that even stalkers are unwilling to accept them
>>503445602What gaming site do you write for?
>>503445973That means 10700k is not enough CPU wise at all scenarios. I'm in a similar boat with my 5600x and a 3070ti. I don't hit 100% GPU use as well, gonna replace it with a 5700X3D to get some more stability.I also hope they address the CPU use in one way or another. I heard that CDPR is working on UE5 for their Witcher Demake because they realised the engine can't deal with all these NPCs on its own proper unless finely tuned in. GSC should make similar adjustments as well.
>3 burers underground at the dig siteAre you fucking kidding me?
>>503445985seems like game balance is low on the list because performance issues and buggs are the biggest problems right now it's baffling to think that this kind of economy was planned by humans and play tested by humans.
>>503445894thanks, i thought you have to beat the chimera but it was scripted for you to just run away
>>503446253
>>503446209kotaku
>>503441852The kind of "people" that think grinding away at an MMO is fun.
>>503446061there's definitely a little bit of 'fuck russia' in there, and a little bit of 'wow ukraine is going to be the most advanced and digitized western society in 2030'.real life lore of Kupons is that it was the stop-gap currency they used in Ukraine on 3 seperate occasions, the most recent one being just after their break up from the ussr. it kind of makes sense for a place like the zone to be fair.
>>503446386ah yes for all those dozen players using a controller
>>503446268You get insta 75% heal from a 1s animation medkit, it’s difficult to actually die unless you get oneshot so every difficulty spike needs multiple enemies
>>503446386
>>503446483>You get insta 75% heal from a 1s animation medkit,That doesn't mean much when one of them picks up a gun and the animation takes longer than it takes him to fire a dozen bullets into my asshole.
Somebody tell me why buckshot is doing shit all to bloodsuckers / poltergeistsDo I need to use the other shotgun ammo? Or get the TOZ upgrade that adds penetration? I didn’t think a fleshy bloodsucker had any armorOr am I simply missing shots by hip firing despite it being close range?
>>503446253>I heard that CDPR is working on UE5 for their Witcher Demake because they realised the engine can't deal with all these NPCs on its own proper unless finely tuned inI wish them luck, but god damn, if EPIC can't fix their own shit after all these years, I don't have much hope CDPR can do it either. They should've stuck with Red Engine, it worked just fine in the end, and CP2077 looks amazing.
>go somewhere>backtrack>suddenly enemies are there (blatantly spawned in)fuck the alife shit THIS is straight pajeet tier coding holy shit
>>503446551Watch it not fix shitSeriously you shouldn't even be playing it for 6 months to a year after release.
>>503446000If it's that truck that had the bloodsuckers outside the room with all the other trucks, yeah, seems like a bug.
>>503446623apparently AP and slugs do better against mutants because they have 'armor' even on their heads.
>>503446551
>>503446464steam is full of padfags crying about deadzonesWhy people play shooters with pad is beyond me
>>503446641>go somewhere>loot it>turn around>enemies suddenly around the campfire
>>503446665it was
need a mod to remove instant radiation death for those pseudo out of bounds areas. i get that we're not supposed to go there but its just fucking dumb for an open world game.
The classic g36 scope is kino.
>>503446625wtf why would they ditch red engine for fucking shitty UE5
>all climbable ladders have yellow pain smeared on themI hate this.
>>503446805i love it, shame there isn't a way to look through the red dot sight too though.
I didn't really feel compelled to mod the first three Stalker games, but I've been slowly adding different mods with this game just because specific things that were driving me fucking nuts.>Skip splash intro>Skip shaders>Real gun names>Reasonable Degradation>FUCK mutant health mod
>>503446607Get more stamina from armor/artifacts/chugging energeticsUse grenade launcher on your gun (not manually thrown ones, takes too long)Knife the niggasGitgud
Comfy suit.
How the fuck does some fat fag wearing a sweater even able to keep up with Skif? One punch and he should have been out of breath. I hate this generation of games where the protag can't just dominate someone instantly.
>>503446839Their excuse is that it's easier to find devs for UE5 than train new hires for their own in-house engine. In other words, they think they're cutting corners and saving money.
>>503446483not if you use the modpack.
>>503446906Literally not a single thing you said is an answer to being shredded by machine gun fire in a cave with 3 burers, with the exception of under barrel grenades which you likely don't have by that point in the game. Did you read my post or are you just the kind of brain dead retard that likes to type out the Fromdrone meme?
>>503446625>EPIC can't fix their own shit after all these yearsI think Epic just provides the engine as is with documentation, it's up to the devs to handle it. I suppose using it as is cheaper.No idea why they ditched their in-home engine. Not gonna play it anyway because fuck remasters and remakes.
>>503446931Fun fact: the average fat fag will win in a fight against a normal weight dude 90% of the time unless the fat fag is really high bmi (as in gets winded from just walking around)Height and weight are by far the biggest predictors of victory in a fight without weapons
Randomly stumbled upon the brain scorcher, and i didn't even realize it as i was looting pre-dead corpses
>>503446950fucking greedy pieces of shit
>>503446926
>The doctor is a legendary Stalker who shows up out of nowhere to heal any and all wounds of Stalkers and Mutants alike! Nobody knows where he lives.Man, this shit fucking sucks. Why can't he just be legendary because he was part of Strelok's group? Why is everything in this game so fucking gay?
>>503447137>t. fatassftfy
>>503447067Why should every dev fix same shit over and over instead of Epic just doing it once themselves? Honestly, it would be so much better if they optimized it instead of adding new barely functional shit like nanite or lumen.
>>503447030You won’t get shot with your own gun if you don’t use a gunI thought stamina influence vs burers was obvious but apparently not when arguing with a smug know nothing faggot
>>503447137fatties really believe this btw
>>503447137not even remotely true
>>503447314>Epic just doing it once themselvesWell there are infinite possibilities to the way a dev would make a game with it so in Epic's defense, it doesn't make sense for them to cover every ground that is possible.But still certain aspects like Lumen could be much better.
should I take spread decrease or recoil decrease?
>>503447408>You won’t get shot with your own gun if you don’t use a gunThe problem isn't my gun, it's the half dozen guns lying around the cave. Again, you keep talking about things that aren't the actual problem I brought up. Do you even know which encounter I'm talking about or are you just shitposting because you're the king of smug cocksuckers? And before you make your next worthless post, I beat the encounter in between this post and my last.
>>503447301I deal a lot with cops and paramedics who deal with random violence in the city. It’s pretty easy to google and check this, I think.
>>503447189HOLY SOVL
Is the goypass version really an older build than the Steam one? Bunch of people saying the Steam one runs better, but I've seen no real comparison.
>>503447189cool
What the hell are these things
>>503447137We're talking about a trained soldier with combat training vs some out of shape civvy who is definitely out of shape. Not just some random normal weight guy with no combat training.
>>503447137training is the biggest predictor
>>503447667Bubbles.
>swap to FSR from DLSS>frametime evens out and less visual artifacting/ghostinghuh
I can run shartfield and twin peaks 2: finnish kojima edition perfectly no problems, but this game hard crashes as soon as the shaders start compiling, and all people have to say is update your bios and it's not the devs fault. Really makes you ponder.
>>503447594sure thing tubby
>>503444952>arisHe actually put it best. Video games have gotten so bad that there is a new phenomena called the Suck Cock Fallacy. Every game is so fucking bad that even the most mid games, like space marines, baldurs gate, stalker 2, and wukong are games of the year. These would all be considered 6-7/10 games a decade ago, but are seen as god's gift to gamers in this current shitty AAA landscape
>>503447764works on my machine
>>503447679Are you talking about solder?He’s not as fit as (you), but he’s still active military in the most dangerous place on earth, he’s hardly a civvie
>>503447314Unreal 5.5 fixed a lot of their lighting issues, but Stalker 2 is built on a fork of 5.1.
>>503445348I dont think anon watched any of them, because all 3 said the game has problems and Aris calls it Stinker 2 and painfully mid. So it's nice seeing people who havent played the originals also point out the faults with 2. Only a few select normie faggots are gobbling gsc cock
ahem.. based
>>503441384kek
I don't understand the point of these elemental resistance artifacts. In CoP for example, even if you don't trigger an anomaly you'd still take environmental damage say you're in a fire anomaly zone or chemical zone . Now unless it hits you directly, you don't take any damage which I think makes collecting these things unnecessary.
Fought my first controller and it was basically just spamming medkits to beat to constant psy dot while dumping shells into itAnyone know if psyblock works against the dot?
>>503446386What a lying assholes lmaoto bring the alife system at least to the soc level will take 1-2 years, and to the cop anomaly level it will take 3-4
so far I've been enjoying the game and I've spent probably 3 out of my 9 hours just wandering around checking things out, haven't had any crazy game breaking glitches or bugs that couldn't be fixed by just quicksaving and reloading. I'm sorta bummed they didn't include Jupiter but I imagine it'll make a return in one of the DLCs or something.also the game looks like hot grainy dogshit without upscaling but using FSR with nativeAA doesn't hurt my fps at all. Running with a 7900 XTX and I get solid 60 fps with everything maxed out at 4k except when you walk into a town and you see all the npcs spawn out of thin air and my frames tank.
>>503447735it’s not exactly a secret tha amd’s upscaling/framegen is shittier than nvidia’s>>503447805bg3 is great and only vpol subhumans seethe about it because bear sex and lesbians or something
>>503435113>It's UP!Haahaa sick meme brokill yourself>>503443592dislike something because its shit>hurrr they seething>>503436969thanks for the spoiler faggot
>sircaa is just black mesahuh
>>503447910I CLAPPED MY FEET TOGETHER LIKE A BABY
>>503447973I think so. I've used them for other psi damage or hallucination effects and they work.
>>503443745OGSE
fsr doesnt do shit for the 2hr mark frame drops
Does anyone know if there is a unique Siaga in Stalker 2?
The lack of a-life might make me go back and play some more SoC mods. What's the best vanilla+ or remake with better a-life mod? I played Radiophobia 3 recently but it just felt like SoC with enemies that could see and shoot you from too far away, and OLR3 added too much gay "hardcore" stuff.
the default state of the soupcel is to seethe. to cope and seethe.
>>503447639>>503447656so it has no direct connection to pripyat anymore, its just walled, not even north of rostok anymore. so many areas changed, some good, some bad.>>503447735amd won
>takes like 5 buckshots to kill a flesh>takes like 7 shots to kill with the starter pistol using armor piercingshotguns are just dogshit vs mutants
>>503448115nothing does anything for the 2hr mark framedrops other than a restart, smells like memory leak to me but i'm definitely not an expert.
>>503447842He's definitely a non combatant, and they're basically just civvies with a touch of military training and getting military protection. He's also hold up in a bunker, not actively out there in the Zone.
>>503447979bg3 is great, in act1. in act2 and 3 they were clearly starting to run bankrupt on ideas and the performance got worse. I think the squid baldurian reveal kind of blew and everything surrounding him was kind of lame. I think a lot of your choices in the third act also dont really matter at all. If all 3 acts were like act 1 it would be 10/10 best crpg ever created
i found an 8x scope for the VSS vintorez but theres no way to remove the scope off of the fucking thing. i dont think techs can either. has anybody been to remove that shit?
>>503448252Bad shotgun = bad game.
>>503448186Wait for soc update 2
>>503447067i still can't belive this game was made in the Neverwinter Nights engine
>>503445560install the fixes
>>503448523What's SoC update do and when's update 2 come out?
how old are you guys? somehow i suspect there are like 0 zoomers playing stalker 2. am an old man now.
>>503448842I'm 36
>>503448842only millennials are playing this game
>>503448842not playing it, waiting until it's in a good state but 29
>>50344884229. i said fuck this after 2 hours of S2 and now im playing vector of alienation and its way better
>start Gamma after beating the OGs on master, so think I'll have a relatively easy time>as soon as I leave Cordan I get mauled to death by a pack of dogs
>>50344884233
>>503448842noone here is under 27
post your collections
>>503448974get a good condition gun, jump on something big, dogs can jumpor save scum
>>50344884230Gonna try tactics ogre instead and wait for the game to be playable in a few years.
>>50344884233I don't think stalker attracts many young people
>nobody can mod the monokek armor, not even monokeks themselvesIs that a bug or I'm missing something?
it kind of doesnt fit
>>503449060I love the fact that the mac-10 has its rl rate of fire and not some gamey nerfed one. Put the extended mag on that sucker and it rocks.
>>503447910honestly I can't see pepsiman not taking the money and running unless something like this is done
>>50344884241
>>503449060it upsets me how your inventory screen is larger than your stash. Stash needs to be HUEG and it's in my list of things to be address at.
>>503448842nice try fbi
>>503448016based scientist faction
Urban decay kino.
>>503449228Actually it's a mac-11
>>503433776halfway through SoC and i dont think i enjoy it really, my favourite sections were the underground tunnels. is CS or CoP better than SoC? also what mods should i get for CoP?
>>503447975hurrrrrrrrr
>>503449185duke nukem was a stalker game all this time....
>>503449369finish the game bitch
>>503449369dont play vanilla dummy
>>503449413damn...
>>503435113will it work on gtx 1650 now?
>Start grabbing quests in first hub while exploring, looting, and talking to NPCs>Fucking shitstorm outside in the middle of the night, tornados and lightning bolts>Find a cot and sleep it off>Wake up to picrelThis game is almost too comfy
Is STALKER 2 playable on a good PC? Should I wait for patches?
>>503449425back tracking through zones with barely anything happening fucking sucks anon, i had more fun with metro but will try to stick through it>>503449459i am playing the MotZ mod thing someone recommended here
This audio tweak is really good. Makes anomalies sound dangerous and the weather is enhanced. https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/170
>>503449491just try. if not, you can go extreme measures.performance cfg>https://pastebin.com/ndstjat7
>>503449596I'm having a blast on my 5600x/3070ti. Could be better though, I run cutscenes that involve NPCs at 5fps throughout the entire scene.
>>503449675is pic rel to the pastebin? it dosent look that bad desu
>>503446868turn it off then
>>503449596>4070ti>32gb ram>i7 10700>2k 120 fpsI havent had many issues. I think there might be a memory leak, it started lagging after a while, I just saved, closed, and reopened and its running great again
>>503449675which one to try and whats the pastebin and how do i install it?
>>503449759yeah it is
>>50344884224. im thoroughly enjoying it but man the weight limit is really bad and weapon durability is horrendous
>>503448449no clue, but i've seen VSS with out the scope from a shop. seems like there are guns that have scopes hard glued to them from loot.
>>503449860try the basic performance mod in this post first.>>503435113instructions are in the paste.if thats not good enough, try installing >>503449675the same way
>>50344884241My wife is also getting interested watching over my shoulder and shit
>>503448842i'm 26 (its my first stalker game)
>>503450079t. zoomer
>>50344884232 years old. First played SoC in 2014 when I put together a new PC with a 4690k/GTX760.
>>503449664Oh does this fix being able to hear radios that are underground?
>muh bloodsuckers take 5 mags>muh combat feels unresponsive>muh economy sucks>too many medkitsINSTALL - THE - FUCKING - MODPACK
>>503450271why do you want me to install the modpack so muchnow i dont trust it or youno i dont think i will install the modpack
>>503450169>>503448884>>503448972>>503448980>>503449105>>503449115ok boomer>>503449247>>503450036ew wtf
>>503447764use the no shader warmup addon, it might help?whitelist install directory in your AVhave required VS redists?if steam, verify filesif gog, reinstall verifying archives firstddu and clean gpu driver install otherwise
>Have a beefy PC>Want to see if I can squeeze better frame pacing>Manually check most of the .ini and "ultimate tweak" mods on the Nexus>they're all for potato Pajeet PCs>Try some of them >Actually lose frame rate or visual fidelity gets a massive hitThis is it, isn't it. It'll never get better.
>>503450023god i hope this works, i saw the performance on youtube for gtx 1650 and it shat the bed
>>503449367it's chambered in .45 acp, it's a mac-10
>>503450336ur old and bald, kys
>>503447910what a clownlmao
>>503450436you can make the game like utter dogshit for 30-60 fps probably.
>>503450220dunno never had this problem
>>503450365>being young in 2024I can't even comprehend the state of (you) right now
imagine the multiplayer on a map like this
>>503449892whats the fps? all i want is 720p and 30
>>503450765i think that may be possible on a 1650.
>>503450476you're older than me grandpa
Any stalker legends wanna illuminate a rookie on why in Psy areas you get constant illusory enemy spawns and lose health? I faced a few Controllers so killing them made it stop but I can't find any in the Stone Village or the Scar Anomaly fields.
can you upload a webm with the extreme cfg file? wanna see if it looks decent in motion
>>503450895ur literally like 36 and type like a gigaonions chud
>>503450926shit was spooky, I think its a psi-storm you have to avoid
>>503451063SNEEDMAN
>>503434445How far is it in the game? I just got to the point where I picked up Nestor's stash up on a crane
>>503450436everything on low, xess, cap the fps via your control panel, or in game.
>>503451050nope, keep coping gramps
hey guys so umm how do i fix this glitch where the lighting looks really bad for a couple of seconds whenever i enter a room? haha... it's not meant to do that right? RIGHT?
>>503450476N>>503450521UH UH
>>503448842>>503449036I'm 25 and I've played Stalker since I was ~9 years old
>Skif's Makarov oneshots Tushkanos>.45 pistol doesn't
pda radio mod when?
Do bandits even say cheeki breeki? I'm 30hrs in and have yet to hear it.
>>503451476Try this setting and put all lighting related options to medium. https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/137
>>503451796They gave mutants higher armor values than exosuits. The only thing that matters is armor penetration.
>>503447910KWAB. You just know he didn't read the EULA at all.
>>503451957just pop this on and tab back in to the zonehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku3IJDgfh6U
>>503452103EULAs don't matter in court if you can find a way to get em good.
Boys...I'm heading to meet Star with the suppressor. The last few hours of gameplay have seen things breaking down more and more. Is this some Meta meme shit with the monolith reactivating literal game anomalies...
>>503450163how did you know?
So what happens if I go out into this emission exactly huh
>>503452103Here's your EULA
>>503452529Why don't you go out there and find out
>>503452630I'm scared
>>503452206Yeah I'm sure some random fuckface from the Steam discussion boards will have enough knowhow and proof that "A-Life isn't in" when they can just point at the files and, validly, say that he had unrealistic expectations and that they delivered on what was promised.
>>503448842turned 26 today, waiting for stalker 2 kept me from offing myself
>first side quest I've done since leaving rookie zone>some fag wanted to shake me down, instead got stash location from him>stash is on an irradiated truck>only thing in it is some bread, a broken pistol, and a note telling me to get fucked
>>503452775happy birthday stalker
>>503452529it saps your hp one happened for me but i noticed a massive cloud with a bolt of lightning tethered to the ground in the distance, spent like 30 minutes trying to haul my ass over to it to see what was there but the hp drain gets more and more intense as time goes on and eventually you cant outheal it even if you spam the fuck out of medikits
>>503452694Dunno but I like his enthusiasm and it will be funny if he brings them to court.
>>50344884229
>>503448449u cant remove it from the Vintar. U can put the 8x on the Lavina.
Wtf, S2 tourists are one thing. They were expected. But the general is also full of oblivious anomaly and gammaniggers. What went wrong?
What am I in for?
>cant save Zalissya no matter what i do240 shekelsfor this......
>>503449973do you remember who was selling it?
>>503443447Neither, play IWP. Or better yet, play story mods like Fotograf, Wind of Time or The Exception
>>503453146I know a "hardcore STALKER fan" that only played them around 3 years ago and went straight for Analmeme and other total overhauls.
>side with noontide>they all get brainwashed a minute later>only allies are a bunch of zone hobos now>tfw using nato gunsFuck this shit.Should have sided with the good guys.the zone is a shithole and should be deleted.
i keep getting fooled by these fake ammo boxes
>>503452863WELCOME TO THE ZONE FAGGOT
>>503449185>F.O.T.O.G.R.A.F. and IWPI kneel
>heh yeah do all this shit for me>i did it>show me proof and do all this shit for meyeah nah FUCK YOU i killed the whole bandit camp
do you guys think they will redo the eng voicelines?or like, some group of modders will?i miss ze slav acksent in my stolkerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3MUGOWOHVE&ab_channel=WhatThe%27Rnard%3F
>have to wait for GSC to fix their fucking game just to progress the main storyI love modern video games, I love modern video games, I love modern video gamesThank you Microsoft, thank you GSC
>>503453717Speaking of, are you guys playing slav language or eng in 2? I picked slav but it honestly draws me out of it a little not understanding some random chatter. Is eng that bad? the couple minutes I heard of it in the intro wasn't terrible
>>503453854i like the english dub ngl
How are people still claiming Alife is not what the config files are? It's literally just instructions for npcs that spawn in your sphere of influence. For some reason we were fed all this shit about what Alife was meant to be, then in september they give an interview and detail it in pic related. It's like they just gave up on alife and then decided to call the director system alife.
>psydog in the arena>almost ran out of bulletst-thanks!
The ui isn’t bad for consoleitis but why not make stash bigger on pc? You put like 3 guns and two bottles of vodka inside and that’s all that fits in view at once
>>50344884235, but it has picked up some steam among the younger kids. Many people, but especially zoomers, are swayed easily by social media (influences, streamers, etc). Really the only people who have had overly negative reactions are those who played/were fans of the original trilogy and are not happy about a-life. Or people just grasping straws (performance isn't great in a few areas and there are some crashes, but its not unplayable). I've seen a lot of streamers/influencers who never played a stalker series absolutely loving 2. They love how the graphics look, the immersion, the unique environment/setting/story, mechanics around anomalies, insane animation quality in the game, the lore, gear system, etc. Its been fun watching all these normies play it for the first time and fight a blood sucker (and honestly every mutant) for the first time. They always have a fun "what the fuck is that" reactions. A lot have no idea what a-life is and to them, the whole "random encounter" experience is the same that they experienced in the fallout/TES series. So it doesn't seem to bother them that much. Hell, I've seen a few who said they played the original ones and didn't know what a-life was in those either/didn't notice it. That being said I do hope they fix alife. I did notice it in the first ones and loved it. I've been keeping a list of NPC names I see in the open world to see if I encounter them again for the past ~4-5 hours of playtime. Sadly no hits so far, but I'm just focusing on the story at the moment. But yeah. I've seen quite an uptick in younger/new folks playing this game. Its obviously not as popular as a mainstream game since its kind of a niche appeal (and it seems like zoomers/average gamer prefer games with more upbeat happy go lucky atmospheres).
>navigate to completed quests in pda>game locks up>totally unresponsive>go to kill it in task manager>Stalker 2 is using 24GB of RAMWindows would not let me screenshot it because I only have 32GB of RAM and my whole system was dying. Really REALLY impressive shit, GSC.
>>503453854yeah, it sucksespecially if you played og trilogy, you can't help but compare them and it kinda blowsbut playing with slav language is great, you don't really need to understand the lines in combat, and the subs provide context outside of ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0oP7N0X8X0&ab_channel=feedwater
>>503453386I want to side with Spark and see what happens
NO FUCKING WONDER I COULDNT FIND THIS FUCKING FAGGOT CHRIST ALL MIGHTY
its uphttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/185
>>503454260fps status?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCuBalItZA8&ab_channel=Xtrendence
>>503453279duty base, near the cpp
>>503453939The devs have admitted the current system is retarded, I don't know why people are still coping about it.
>hey buddy thanks for getting my gun now can i have it back pretty please
>not even 200k on steam on the weekendlast stolkor released this decade
>>503454790>it's totally bugged u guys, it's not an empty husk of code TRUST
what's a good buildo mod? what exactly does that mean?
>>503453146>>503453317total shitnomaly and gamma turd death
>>503455089Well he didn't say they didn't disable it themselves, but its confirmation that its not the full system, which some people are still denying.
>>503455081Its a miracle 2 even happened. I want the story behind how Pepsiman changed his mind and reopened GSC and then somehow convinced Microsoft to finance his new mansion and 3 new Ferraris.
IS the map truly that big or they took a few shortcuts and made gigantic places with loads of nothing?
>>503454260>increases AI despawn distance by 20xthere's no way this doesn't gigafuck your performance
>>503454790wow they admitted it after release, surely they arent lying about anything else
bros... I am out of copium and hopium...
>go to objective>loot corpses there>suddenly gunfire all around me>group of friendlies and raiders spawned>after finishing looting and going 5 steps another group of raiders spawn>already full barely 100m away from townbeing a hoarder is painfull with this spawn systemalso>all of this for not even 5k>repairing costs me 1k by being graced from a nadeat least its 24k with the vendor bug so i can upgrade my current gear and not wanting to die buying a 5k silencer for my rifle
>>503455879>vendorbugbased, I don't even feel about it anymore.
>>503455879>>503455953>vendorbugspoonfeed, i don't know what i'm seeing
>>503455953pretty sure thats how the prices shouldve beendont know exact numbers out of my head but its something like>medkit>buys for like 300>sells for 50>bug sells it for 270
>can't sprint wearing exosuitsSo what the fuck, you just throw it on for big fights and that's it?
Love how they're calling an iPad a PDA.
remember:they will fix it in a weekgame is not about thatmods will finish itdevelopers fought in trenches for their countrytheir office was bombedvolodymir yezhovsmuta and atomic heart is worsegoty 2024ukrainian doomer gamesecond cyberpunk
>>503455623Time to join the Gamma squad
>>503456478this but unironically
>>503456358sprinting was an upgrade for them in CoP but I guess they got rid of that in S2.
>go to a bandit base cuz work>find out that bandits kept a pet psuedogiant>released it of course and it proceeds to kill everyone>mission complete>now theres a pseudogiant running around the zonesooo uhhh are there any ethical obligations that mention anything about not letting very dangerous mutants run around the zone
>>50344884226 and it's alright, I feel like it's super dumbed down for console but it's just okay I guess
>>503456723its ok he would have despawned when you left
>IWP launcher doesn't openwhat now?
>>503455623Running around doing side stuff is kind of fun, too bad everything pertaining to the main stuff is a fuckfest after SIRCAA
>>503456789imagine if a-life was real wouldnt that be so funny having a pseudogiant run amok and killing everyone haha if only
>>503456897What operating system?
>>503457059windows 10
>>503455879jesus just increase your carry capacity if youre going to cheap by abusing a bug anyways
>lab door wont opengreat....hard locked main story
What do the flat/expansive ammo types do? I understand AP and standard.
>>503456478you forgot that it's actually a good game just not a simulator autism 3000 hour game
>>503457313Gotta wait one week for what should've been a day 1 patch
>>503457317flat go more far but less boomexpansive go less far but more boom
>>503457313looks like you made the wrong choices chud, deserved.>>503457432wait one week in trench chud,
>>503456478>we load our weapons with one hand and make the game with the other
>>503457432Thanks, guess I'll use expansive on the revolver since its got insane ap + range anyways.
>>503448974Always start with a shotgun or 45acp gun. Ammo type plays a huge role in gamma and a hydroshok round takes out a dog in 1 shot most areas on its body even with a pistol.
>>503454260I wonder if this will fuckup my save. I also wonder if this will make the game even emptier since you can just ignore all encounters, do they even stay consistently on the map?
>>503456478I just dont see them fixing alife, because this is quite literally how they wanted alife. They wanted npcs to just spawn on top of you. Now obviously I think they wanted to make it more hidden from your vision and a decreased frequency of spawning, but they didnt want or couldnt do real alife.And I dont know if mods can even fix that if its already so screwed up to start with. I guess it depends on how easy it is to work with UE npcs.
>>503456273lmao retard>>503456332Bug makes you sell for the price the vendor would charge you if you you buying it.
>>503457132Do you have Visual C++ Redist 2013 x86? Launch it as an admin.
>>503457652>do they even stay consistently on the map?no, that seems to be the part that's missing/brokenonce something is outside the spawn radius it's gone
>doing arena>4th mission won't trigger>it's buggedT-thanks Zelensky
>>503457791So that mod is kinda pointless.
>>503457864>So that mod is kinda pointless.no? it's not meant to recreate the alife system from the older games, it's just a bandaid fix that prevents ai from spawning on top of you
>buffed carry weight bonus of artifacts by 4x>still not even remotely close to being able to hoard, it’s just comfy when I collect a few kolbasa and vodka+3kg baseline is such a joke it’s unreal
>>503457864I just want the AI to actually walk up to me instead of spawning behind a corner and get gunned down before even having a chance to lift their guns
>>503457959Doesnt address the 100m spawn distance for AI though. It tries to but doesnt. Yes, I tried it.
>>503457687>Bug makes you sell for the price the vendor would charge you if you you buying it.thats def not the case checked it real quick>sells me medkit for 327>if i sell it id get 46>bug makes it 270its about ~82,5% of the buying price if you sell with the "bug"the "normal" prices right now are a scam
>>503457737yes, I have it already installed and also restarted my computer
>>503454260A-Life Director isn't the actual A-Life we know right? this is the Director where the game spawns in fixed scenarios where you get 'mutants vs bandits' or something.
>reddit lying about faction relations being in the gameI slaughtered every bandit I've seen and the Brood is only slightly annoyed at me and won't sell me shit instead of marking me as KoS
>>503457864It does what it says it does.
>multiplying sell prices by 5x>not cheatingjesus fuck tweak it so that quest rewards are multiplied by 5x instead so at least you have to do things instead of killing 20 bandits to fully upgrade your gear
>>503453854I don't like dubs for anything so I picked ukranian or russian or whatever the fuck it is. Sounds way better and fits the game way better. Nothing breaks atmosphere more than hearing some british dude larp as a stalker in the chernobyl exclusion zone. Not only that but the british VAs don't seem to put any effort into it at all, there's no emotion and no pauses so it just comes off as them reading the script and phoning it in.
>>503458112The difference might come from the difficulty level, if I remember correct things are more expensive to buy or viceversa. Need to check the tables but I can't be arsed really, I'll just "abuse" it for being able to repair my gear.
>>503458147Weird, sorry anon, but I don‘t know how to help you out. My last idea is to check if your antivirus/defender has deleted smth
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1643320/discussions/0/4626980894528321814is it over?
>>503458285prove it.
>S2 "modders" using NexusWhy the fuck do people use Nexus? Fuck that shitty account requirement to download stuff. Upload shit to Moddb or Google drive
>>503456723What do you mean? It'll despawn as soon as you walk about 200 feet away and stop looking at it. It's fine
>>503457018Happens in good stalker mods all the time. I've accidentally lead chimeras and bloodsuckers into rookie village for everyone to die but me and sid
I found a good solution for archives created in different code pages: In WinRar you can hit Control + E to bring up this list. Just switch to the right one and you no longer garbled text. Also works for doujin games, you know what I'm talking about ;)
>>503458638I hate it too but its become ubiquitous
>>503458514is modding ue5 games hard? it cant be harder than working with the xray engine right? so maybe in the next five years we can get actual alife in the game? or is it a lost cause?
>>503458770some guy who's actively devving on unreal says that he can get 'real alife' coded in a month or two if it was up to him.
>>503457820its tied to a main story quest
>>503458770it's harder but not impossible
>The technician can't install these upgradesThen who the fuck can
>>503458514Yes, everyone that has any level of modding knowledge already knew how fucked it was on day 1. Even stalkers who just do minor ltx edits like the majority of /sg/ could have told you it was all bullshit. I love how I had been calling out gsc for weeks for not showing alife videos or talking about alife and everyone calling me a schizo shazam /v/pol zigger, only for me to be proven right. Fuck you faggots
>>503458638It's so much easier to browse mods on nexus compared to moddb, fuck that archaic shit
>Right now as it stands, if there is a secondary system that handles simulation in a offline world so to say, that we cannot peak into, because yes, we can't look into everything since we do not have access to the blueprintsgod i hope this is true, that they actually have a-life buried in here somewhere but it's just not working...
>>503458949I got banned from the gamma server on launch day bc I asked the shill staff to prove alife exists beyond some obsecure references.
>>503448842I'm 21
weird because I see people shitting on gamma itself in the gamma server without them getting banned
>>503458949only played stalker last year (SoC). i still dont get what Alife is ? i havent noticed any dynamic stuff and felt most of it was scripted. like defending the bar, the bandits taking a hostage etc. is Alife about how the dead bodies remain in the world for the entire game? is that not in stalker 2?
>>503459047There is definitely some code for it in place, it's just unclear if it's bugged, or was disabled by the devs because they couldn't make it work.
>>503448842based there are so many 30+ year olds in here. did you think you would be posting here at the age you are now? I turn 35 soon.
>>50344884239, already one foot in the graveWaiting to play S2 until I have a better PC, hoping they have ironed out all the issues and added A-Life by then.
>>503458638Nexus is a good website for mod discovery. The issue is that it’s been taken over by trannies and other dangerhairs, but 99% of people don’t give a shit that some bait mod which replaced tranny flag with a nazi flag got deleted so it’s good enough
which is the main quest that hard locks game progress? I want to try and reproduce it and see if I can find a fix
>>503458949>everyone that has any level of modding knowledge already knew how fucked it was on day 1.everyone who played the game after the first few hours knew it was fucked
>>503459026You can use the Categorie system, if people tag their shit properly, or the search function, if you know the name of the mod. Moddb is overhated for its browsing experience, but I see your point anon, Nexus feels a bit more intuitive
>>503459129It got better in each sequel, SoC was pretty bare bones.>is Alife about how the dead bodies remain in the world for the entire game?Partially yes, it kept track of all the NPCs, and would send them out to do stuff in the Zone.You could load up a rookie with good gear then meet him hours later in a different zone.currently S2 doesn't track anything more than 50-100m away from you
>>503459287Then one after you pass the SIRCAA segment I think, I haven't progressed it at all cause I am scared I'll brick my save
>>503459383is it caused by picking a certain side?
>game runs like shit even on lowa-life might be a little too complicated UE5
>>503459287First bugged is the raid where you cant save the place The one which can brick is dealing with the SI-whatshername, the oh my (magic) science schizos
>>503458906>Then who the fuck canthe technician's older brother
>>503459461Dunno, I sided with Strider, maybe siding with Ward progresses differently?
>>503459492S2 is GPU bound so there's plenty of processing time for doing A-Life.
>>503459580>S2 is GPU boundwrong
>>503453217You're in for a heavily-modified STALKER experience.
>>503459580Is it really? I can run 1080p in dlaa on a 3060 and the diff between low and high is minor
Stalker 2 on lowest settings sure looks rough.>>503459646That's what I heard at least, not touching S2 until it's in a better state.Someone here with a good PC might be able to tell us how much it utilizes the CPU.
who is able to upgrade the corundum suit?
I didn’t hit my gf a single time since stalker2 came out
Was there supposed to be no music inside of SIRCAA or is it just bugged? The cutscenes felt very awkward compared to the rest of the game.
>>503459713I have a 7800x3d and it's actually my bottleneck. My GPU is a 3080.
>join THAT Stalker discord server>they are talking about TouhouI found my people.
Damn whoever posted yesterday that every single main quest after sircaa is fucking fucked I didn't think was being literal. Sadly I was mistaken. Nobody playtested the second half of this dogshit.
Does anyone else occasionally have their mouse inputs dropped, like weapons not firing?
>>503459796Once you reach the bugged main quest you can go back to hitting your gfs pussy
>>503449185Try looking into the S2 installation folder and see if the game's EXE icon is more faithful to the rest. GOG always uses their own special icon for game shortcuts instead of the EXE icon, and more often than not they slam game art onto it instead of something relating the the icon devs designed.
why are so many areas just 'fenced' off by radiation? can't even go to this wrecked train because the game just kills me
>>503437157blueprints are set locations i believe
>>503459849oh fuck this made me remember that sometimes in modded Stalker I had a frame drop exactly when I was firing and it made the trigger stick until I pressed left mouse again
>>503459713Digital foundry testing showed it's super cpu limited.
>>503434296i killed this guy because i didn't want to walk any more
I'm enjoying radiophobia 3
>>503459980it's over orz
>fitgirl repack releasedi will now download and try to play this abomination on my potato
>>503453217Shit, play Wind of Time or Valley of Whispers
>literally 100 psy illusion dogs keep spawning over and over in the building i go to hide for an emissionwtf? it seemed like it's scripted cause people talk about them being a sneaky bitch and 4 guys helping me shoot them but idk man, that was autistic as fuck
>>503459201I'm 41, been here since 2006Nothing better ever came along
>>503459834>talking about touhou>on a stalker discordIs it the games or who they want to fun
>>503460046How big is it?I just download the GOG version
Retard here, if I pirate it and GSC release an update that fixes shit, do I have do download the updated cracked version again, as in the full game but new version? or do they release small update files or whatever for the pirated version? I don't want to download 160gb every time it gets an update.
stalker 2 reference???https://youtu.be/xTq4ibgVof8?t=549
>>503434296This guys was fucking retarded>double crosses you after you allegedly slaughtered all of his enemies single handedly>while yelling at you from a hole in the ceiling>in full shotgun blast distance
Sometime I wished they use bethesda style console command so i can fucking resurrect richter in the boundary quest cause it keep fucking softlocked from that. Fucking hell this game even more buggy than bethesda games, holy shit!
>>503460230you have to politely suck the engorged, unwashed phallus of the genderfluid person who packaged the release, and then they'll make a special update patcher just for you and your adorable little mouth
>>503460232No, in stalker 2 they wouldn't be there when he came back
>>503460230Should be small update files, it's not often you have to redownload games these days. Crackers (lel) will grab the patch packages and do their thing with it.In GOG's case, it's usually just an exe they release.
>>503460150
LMAO there so much ruzzian bots in reddit and steamtheir butthurt about supposedly ""nonexistence"" of alife 2.0 is sooo much pathetic its unreal, we all know that it is in the game, it was just temporarily disabled to fix some minor crashes on release and will be enabled in the next patch in a weekthey are so jealous of how many mods have come out for the game in just a few daysthere's more to come, grok and the anomaly team are already making gamma 2 on stalker 2 which will be the greatest modification ever created with a multi-million audience :)
>Arnie gives me a sniper for the arena fightI am going to fucking kill him afterwards
>>503460316>>503460329thx bros, I think I'll give it a go
>>503440161i paid 20k+ for a bunch of wear upgrades on a good piece of armor and it's at 60% after about 10 hours of playing with it equipped. seeing as it's worth 55k now the repairs are exorbitant, i'm going to ride that until it breaks. wear upgrades make a MASSIVE difference
>>503460368>Everyone with a negative opinion is an angry Russian!Just like everyone you don't like is literally Hitler, right?
>>503460368you're not fooling anybody, vanya
>>503460038It's all right but I think they try too hard to be a "hardcore experience"
>>503460230>stealing money from hard working ukrainian devsyou better be from africa or turkey or something
>>503460445>>503460469Bots
>>503459826>the best cpu that exists is bottleneckingOh no no no. Why do these retarded developers use UE5 again?
>>503435113started a game from scratch with this and I'm really enjoying it. Thanks man.
>>503460479I have already given ukrain all my taxesplz fix the fucking game
>>503459848goddamn i just beated SIRCAA segment and saved the professor, guess ill have to wait to see if next week's patch fixes it
bros...........I'm feeling the urge............to try gamma.........*cough cough*
>>503458736Could someone send me an example archive with a mismatched codepage? I have never ever encountered something like that and I don't know if it's because I never had an archive like that or if it's because Total Commander handles those mismatches transparently.
>>503460592it's good and you can disable things that annoy you in MO2 or in the in-game mod configuration menu
>>503460479NO ONE should be paying for this shit. Not until it is fixed and with a lot of mod support.>but muh war delaysThey're in another country and have had a lot of time to get shit right. Complacency equals contempt equals carelessness, and that's what this release is.
>>50346014228 here, but I learned about /b/ back in 2007 from some aussies in my WoW guild. It desensitized the shit out of my 11 year old brain and ive been here ever since. Every other place on the internet is just shit. I wish I knew another language so i could post on other chans desu.I felt like such a good boy following the lurk moar rules. I didnt post until I was like 14. I'd just be scrolling through threads giggling to myself.
>>503460368>t. griga junior
>>503460129>>503460129>>503460129HELP
>>503460560UE is becoming a the standard pick because that's what devs know how to use. CDProjekt Red have learned this lesson and ditched their inhouse engine for UE in future because training new own hires to work their arcane shit hurt making and fixinng Cyberpunk.
IT'S TIME FOR OUR STALKER FRIEND TO WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE
>>503460368>there's more to come, grok and the anomaly team are already making gamma 2 on stalker 2 which will be the greatest modification ever created with a multi-million audience :)the game can't maintain a stable FPS even unmodded and lowest settingshow would it handle big modpacks?
if that zalissiya quest is bugged, how did that one anon beat the game?
>>503460368>grokDude he himself posted that he isnt having any fun with stalker 2 lmao
>>503460669this archive has Russian in it that don't display properly unless you did what I describedhttps://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack/downloads/patch-for-standalone
i wish i could hire a follower like fallout, i'm scared as fuck lol
>>503460368holy esl
>>503460218111.3GB with update 1 already applied.
>>503460592Seems you're not the only one.
how do i go to pripyat. the faggots at yanov wont let me cuz they suck the major's cock
where the fuck is it
Grok and Klean are faggots.
>>503461113Sekret ;)
>>503459980It runs quite bad on 5700x3d - which to be fair is hardly bleeding edge, but even cheapest x3d should be good enough for 60fps on goddamn 1080p and medium settings, especially when visuals are mediocre and game world ceases to exist 150m away from your character
>>503460974>half a million stalkersI didn't realize it was that big, no wonder /sg/ hates it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxjjPUOAEjwI want to go back...
>>503461113sent ;)
What a bunch of salt in here, lmao.
>>503461113pranked XD
>>503461247The 3d cache thing on helps in certain cases, what's your graphics card?
>stalker 2 so shit grok is thinking about releasing gamma 0.93 earlyLMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>503461247Yeah I have a 5800X3D and a 4090 and while I'm over 60 with everything cranked to max while out and about I still get drops down to 40 or so in stalker hubs.
Niceit's fucking nothing
>>503460129Theres one real dog with 300hp which spawns infinite 5hp illusionsfind real one and kill it or jump somewhere dogs can’t get to and ignore them
>>503461424This brings back memories to the first game where you escort the ecologist and he dies so much in the tunnel. Took me forever to ace that mission.
>>503460269>Sometime I wished they use bethesda style console commandTheres a mod for that
Holy shit why the viewmodels for the nato guns so huge?
>>503461474I mentioned in the thread earlier, not taking damage from anomalies unless you get on top of them makes the environmental resistance pointless. You can safely navigate in heat/toxin environments with 0 gear provided you don't touch the anomalies themselves.>>503461702It's a big alliance
>>503461453yeah i felt like i was trying to find it the first time, i got it the reload. I'm using a 50% hp mutant mod for the tanky shitters to make the game playable. It's so much more fun when they dont use up 70% of my ammo. What's weird is that some have loot and others don't. Bloodsuckers should 100% give something.When you fight the ones in that submerged warehouse it's so fucking cool using the water ripples to track them
>>503461702nafo never learned to make functioning guns, so of course the slavmagic guns are leaner
>side quest npc runs in to hide from the emission>now he's bugged and won't give me the questCool game
I died to a trap and a couple seconds before the death screen I got a "a faction is mad at you" notification. so a faction system is present in the game but it's barely working and is not trackable I guess?
Okay so are mutants being tanky skill/knowledge issue (ie you’re meant to use armor penetrating bullets) or are the numbers simply retarded?Medium difficulty
>>503433776>Ask friend if he has gotten a better detector>he said that noontider prof. in his bunker gave one as quest reward>Go to the bunker but I can't open the doorI´m already further in the story than he is, is this a bug?
this really would all make more sense if they released it as an early access game
>>503461925yes, you rike?
>>503461880Yes it seems that wayLoners also became green on the map for me after a while, but it doesn't seem to do anything
Dont we know who this guy is? Why is he a zombie
>>503461925the lab only locked on me after i finished the zombie antenna quest(which gives the detector) and did more quests for strider, did you not get that quest from him?
>>503448356if you save people in act 1 you can hilariously betray them in act 3
>>503461925skill issue
>>503461554Can I use for resurrect Richter, yes?
So right now I should do main story until just before the attack on the city in lesser zone, then do side content until the patch drops?
>>503462101LMAO THIS TWINK IS TRYING TO FIND BEARS
Do emissions not turn dead stalkers into zombies? Emissions also feel less impactfull when there's normal storms happening constantly.
>>503462358That's what I've been doing. Sort of boring without a proper working A-life though, I might just shelve it and play Anomaly again
I've yet to see a single screenshot of a Veles or even a Svarog. I'm beginning to think that it only goes up to Bear.
>>503452775Happy birthday man. Don't do it.
>>503462361There are no dead stalkers unless they are right next to you
>Kill the Bloodsucker that kills Moth before it can do so>Moth still fucking dies despite being 300 kms awayLmao.
I dont understand how people saved Zalissya. the entire quest is bugged but people in here have said they did it and that no one died after
>>503460857Huh, yeah interesting, Total Commander fails to handle it as well. At least now I'll have a fun issue to troubleshoot in case I encounter it myself at some point.
>Game keeps fucking crashing after leaving Wild TerritoryOkay, I am done.
>>503462219
>>503450427yeah this is it
>>503462704imagine the state of the game in 2022
>>503462870Still in the early stages of development most likely, with the actual development starting around 2021, the initially planned release date when GSC dropped three collector edition preorders for a vaporware game.
was this guy supposed to give me some kind of epic call of duty sniper battle? because he didnt do shit but glitch out and get shot in the head
>>503447298>Man, this shit fucking sucks. Why can't he just be legendary because he was part of Strelok's group? Why is everything in this game so fucking gay?Because these motherfuckers that created this game didn't play the originals.
>>503462704>Chernobyl spelled correctlyMan they really are just seething at Russia
>>503462952>sniper battleI just ran in the tower and shotgun blasted him
>>503462980Pripyat turned to Prpyiat something rubs me off as well
>change the spelling of your game's title>makes ziggers seethe incessantly for the next decade
>>503452863>the obvious charlatan gives you a fake stashno way
>>503462980more like desperate to pretend ukrainians aren't russian
>>503462961I get hating on the game because it's a technical mess but grandiose contrarian statements over lore minutiae is getting into silly territory
So a-life does exist? there is hope?
>>503463168I assumed it was always planned to be that way though, not just a butthurt reaction
>>503463265lol, lmao even
>>503463265why would they disable it?
>>503463265Well its like he says, its disabled or broken.Who know if/when they might make it work.
>>503463350If I had to guess either they didn't (somehow) have enough time to finish and polish the system OR the system tanked the performance too much on consoles.
Imagine how bad the game would run with ALife enabled if it already runs this bad with Left 4 Dead spawns.
>>503463350same reason a lot of these "optimisation" tweaks people keep posting aren't in the game; they break shit and didn't have time to fix it before launch
>>503463350Too hard to make it work properly, so just comment out some code and ship it
>>503463265>devs remove the blurb about a-life before release>the """"""alife"""""" we have is just a proximity spawner without any offline simulation of permanency of entities>GUYS THERE IS LIKE HOPE AND STUFFit isn't there, just let go, either they couldnt get it to run considering how poorly the game runs in general or they never intended to do more than the current system
>>503433776>>Stalker 2 Performance Mod + Mouse Fix + No Compilingis the engine.ini supposed to be lowercase? everything else starts with an Uppercase
>>503462980I mean, they got invaded by them so I can't blame them. At the same time all of GSC's petty spite towards their entire Russian fanbase as if they were personally responsible for it was a gross overreaction. I still can't tell if it was genuine or if they just saw it as a great way for short term gain once their country became the number one thing talked about worldwide.>>503463265>>503463350>ALife was probably disabled and replaced with a random encounter spawner before shippingThat just further supports the theory that they were working on A-Life 2.0, Microsoft forced their hand on the release date, they went full crunch mode to polish up as much as possible as they needed at least another year to properly finish it, realized A-Life 2.0 is nowhere near ready for release, yoinked it from the game and Steam page right before the release and their current reassurances boil down to "we'll keep finishing our game now that SHTF and you got the unfinished build".
>>503463435Alife could run on a pentium 4, nudevs are just retards
Whose fucking idea was the arena fight against a pseudodog with a fucking sawn off. In OG stalker that wasn't too bad but in this one it's fucking impossible. The sawn off sucks absolute dick, and you can't even reload before the fucker has run away and spawned a billion more ghosts, you can't reload or use healing items at the same time as sprinting, the animations take fucking forever, WHY DOES BACKPEDALLING SLOW YOU DOWN TO HALF THE FUCKING SPEED I DON'T CARE IF IT'S REALISTIC IT'S FUCKING GAYU FUCKJSADDFASFLosing my shit brothers, I was enjoying this game but the small annoyances are adding up. It's not just messy and buggy it's outright retarded design decisions.Also here's performance on a 5800X3D with 6800XT and 16gb RAM. 1080p high settings, no upscaling (FSR enabled for AA.) There's definitely performance being left on the table, neither the CPU or GPU seem to max out.
any performance tweaks or mods actual work?
is there really much point in different sidearms/pistols?i barely use them for maybe dogs since the basic ammo is piss cheapskif pistol does more dmg than w/e the black one is called and the tac probably just eats ammo while both have weight compared to skifs 0
>>503463549My pseudodog spazzed out so I just sat on a crate and blew it's head off a couple of times
>>503452903>>503462448thanks bratans
>retards in duty base stood next to open windows during emission>8 death
>>503460142this but i'm 37, c'est la vie
>>503463627its that voronin dead on the right? lol
>>503463627I stood in an open shipping container and was fine lmao
>>503462361everything despawns when it's 200m away from you so no
>>503463501Remember that this game originally had a release date of April 2022. How the FUCK isn't the game STILL finished with 2 and a half years more development time over the original release date?
>starting PM is the most powerful gun in the gameIs Skif some kind of Makarov wizard?
>poorfag and niggers renting free because they run at 5 fps on low>i record at 4K 60 FPSlmfao
Are we buyin or waitin?
>>503463812>2022Not even.
>>503463627they probably thought they could stop the emission by shooting it with a shotgun, typical duty retards
>>503463908Waiting.Torrent it if you must play it, or just watch the no commentary walkthroughs on YouTube.
>>503463908Pirating
>>503463485it's Engine.ini not sure if it matters though.
>>503463501>I still can't tell if it was genuineMore like they had to do it to appease government/media stasi so they didn't end up with the entire dev team drafted and sent to the trenches.
>>503463581the game's gear balance design is just kinda dogshit
>>503464042also i have the steam version so should i make it put it in GameUserSettings.ini or make a Engine.ini?
>>503463910oh wow lmao
stalker 2 was full vaporware until 2021, when they announced the scam NFTs they haven't even picked an engine
>>503464147That's stalker.
fuck the shader compiling every time
>>503464193Make Engine.ini for your Engine.ini tweaks.
so, how's the game?
why the fuck are the walls flickering so harddid it not flicker on their test benches or what
>>503464342what exactly does "Dynamic day-night cycle" mean anyway
>>503464342The quests have choices, quite a few too. The game looks fantastic maxed outThere's a day/night cycle and weather just like the old game yeahNo official mod support yet, but people are already making tweak mods.If you can put it off I wouldn't get it yet though, it's a technical bomb site at the moment.
>>503464605It switches night and day every 10 minutes
>>50344884221. I got the trilogy on sale when I was 13-ish after I kept getting shilled it and played through the entirety of CoP and CoC. Never finished CS because a Red Forest crash corrupted all of my saves and I just never started over.
>>503464630>The game looks fantastic maxed outToo bad you are forced to play at lower settings if you don't have the best CPU and GPU, and at lower settings it looks like the original trilogy
>>503463867it isn't 2005 anymore, 60 fps is not an acceptable framerate
Can you not open the locked door in X-18 that leads to the locker room with the mono suit in SoC?
>>503464342Overall it's fun. However the main draw is the quests for sure, there are a few fun moments when you hunt for stashes but in reality the game really struggles to put forward a great experience outside of the main story/sidequests.Which sucks when the game is a very clearly unfinished buggy motherfucker that breaks half the quests after a certain event (I'm currently waiting for a fix before continuing)
>>503464841If a door specifically states its locked, there's a way in, though it might be through an alternate entrance and the door is an exit.
>>503464820Obviously it is, why would the feeling of the frame rate change? The problem in this game is that even at 60 FPS the input delay is massive and mouse movement feels extremely sluggish. It only feels somewhat acceptable beginning with 75ish FPS for me.
>>503464630>game looks fantastic maxed outIf you're tasteless since you need to use some level of smeary blurry upscaling and dont notice shadows are completely fucked.
i love that the game has a built in timer feature, every 2 hours it lets you know you've been playing too long by tanking your frames.
>>503464945That was my logical conclusion too so I just abandoned my attempts. Guess you'll have to go back to X-18 later on in the story and that door opens?
>>503464983The lack of dynamic shadows on some light sources sucks but the game is crisp for me.
>>503463820nothing you said was remotely correct though...?
am I retarded or is the magazine fed cracker from nestor's stash bugged? I can't put buckshot in it after upgrading it
>>503465060Yeah, some places are just progression locked in some way. >>503465127If you fully upgraded it you rifled the barrel which means slugs only. Read the tooltips next time.
>>503464980>why would the feeling of the frame rate change?people's standards change. niggas thought 15-20 fps was perfectly acceptable in the late 90's
can anyone soothe my retarded mind?:since Defend Zalissya is bugged and the town get s destroyed regardless, if the bug fix happens on monday like they claim, will it fix the issue that already occurred or do we have to load a save before Zalissya is lost?
it's day 4 and i have 31 files in my ~mods folder
>>503465190I am retarded then since I only see the pretty green numbers. thanks for explaining anon, might need to get some more coffee
>>503465197I'd revert back to a save before you approached the town. It's impossible to tell what will happen if you try to load a save where you're already in the town.
>man this game really has performance issues>maybe my rig is starting to age a bit>boot up Fallout 4 with my shitton of graphical mods while running stalker 2 in background>GPU gets hotter but runs Fallout 4 perfectly fine with no framerate loss while stalker 2 is active in backgroundnope, just slav-jank optimization
>>503465071
>>503465197There's no way a fix for that is retroactive.
>>503463908I bought the base edition but will be pirating any dlc (assuming they happen) due to the sheer annoyance of having to mod the game for balance and performance reasons
>>503464342My expectations weren't high, i knew it will be meh(unbalanced, bug filled, and for some reason randomly crashing-for me) at the release, like any game lately honestly, but i have high hopes after few months and patches it will be good, and when modders finally get their hands on it(fully) game will be great.basically game feels like the end of early access, right before full release
/sg/ webm gets reposted to reddit and then reposted to the gamma discord and then reposted back to /sg/
>>503465316>slavjankisn't shit performance an issue with every UE5 game?
>>503465325>chill in a bunker right next to a lake>nobody really wants to fuck with scientists, you're just left to your own devices>fuck the occasional bloodsucker>fish whenever you get bored of science thingscomfy
>>503465454ah yes, truly the look of a creature that's nigh immune to non-armor piercing bullets
my brain thinks that Stalker anomally (gamma especially) as default stalker experience and stalker 2 despite great graphics is shallow when it comes to gameplay, though it follows formula from original stalkers. Still, skinning mutants should be in, there's no reason to fight them, unless you have to tbf
>Agricultural WorkshopFuck this building in particular
anyone know how to fix the bug where you cant talk to Dvupalov at the end of 'In Search of Past Glory'
>>503465539Epic reward
>>503465528I thought they would copy GAMMA's mechanics for STALKER 2 as it was that popular
>>503465528What exactly does gamma add that is missing in stolkor when it comes to gameplay?It has a lot of stuff that is cool (like zone pda network being a scuffed discord channel) but most of the gameplay tweaks are just nonsensical bullshit like needing special containers for artifacts and the like.Mutants having loot is one of the only gameplay changes I can remember.
Modders are already adding mutant loot to sell.
>>503465672this game is truly a blank slate for modders
>>503465672Based. I really need to get into modding. It's time.
>>503465528Having mutants be tough bastards who don't give rewards is a fine gameplay decision. Typically they are defending stashes/loot, otherwise if you're prepared you can just sprint away and ignore them.But mutant hunting quests should be in the game and give good rewards to compensate. It's so strange coming from Anomaly where mutant hunts reward 5000-8000+ rubles depending on prog difficulty to a quest to take out mutant dogs giving you 600 koupons while the shop prices are still balanced around 8000 being reasonable.It's just absurd.
somebody explain to me as if I am a 5 year old child how the fuck do you kill a bloodsucker in 2 shotgun blastsis it a fully upgraded endgame shotgun using some special snowflake ammo or what? I unload with toz again and again and they just shrug off everythingdo they take less damage when they're invisible or what?
why is it always a thunderstorm
>>503465419admittedly the only other UE5 games I have is Black Myth Wukong and Lords of the Fallen but they both run perfectly
>>503465826I think they increased the chance of that happening because it looks cool
>>503465643>What exactly does gamma addevery enemy's gun explodes into a thousand pieces when you kill them (or alternatively their guns were already preexploded and they were capable of forcing them to function via their ork powers)
where the fuck is my an94?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wXNfOki12M
lol there's no sound for shattering glass
>>503465672>>503465736>>503465756In about 3 years this game will be incredible
Yeah, this is Cyberpunk-tierI'm gonna wait 2 years, then pick it up on sale, with mods and patches
>>503465071what settings? i literally cannot get it to not look blurry and i have a 4090
Always knew Bandits were below me.
are those reasonable changes for medium difficulty?I also made a mod that changes some monster hp values, nerfing them by 25% on average
>>503465672honestly baffles me that this isn't in the game probably takes only like a week to implement too
>>503466074At least Cyberpunk Quests were functional.
>download a mod for soc>it crashes on boot>can't find a fix anywhere >repeat literally every single fucking timewhy
>>503464927a friend mentioned this. what event is this without spoilers? maybe what area?
so is there some trick to killing controllers or?
>>503466119I'd say these are the pertinent ones
>>503466301that's what i'm using
>>503466206you should try making mods that aren't already on nexus.
>>503461065Did you try walking around them? Like leave the station and walk down the train until you can enter Jupiter. I didn't go any further than that but they're literally just gatekeeping the front door to filter retards. I think you can walk around
>>503466210The world outside of quests is not really thought out at all. They didn't want you spending time killing mutants for cash, it's also why the quests give you a shit ton of meds, ammo and give you straight up free guns and suits as you progress.If you ignored every single optional PoI I don't think you'd struggle at all in any aspect. None of this side shit is a priority at all.
is there a mod like super alife that works yet?
>>503466268Just go to Rostok and talk to the bartender. Fair warning though, the game really does not like you being at Rostok early. The quest i'm talking about locks off until you do a significant plot event, and the other side quests are tagged on the map but can't be accessed.I went there very early because I couldn't enter the chemical plant to sell things and I needed a vendor.
>>503466404such a shame because they had so much time to make it into a well thought-out game, especially with the giant map they've made
>>503466404>it's also why the quests give you a shit ton of meds, ammo and give you straight up free guns and suits as you progress.so did the old games, especially call of pripyat which feels like the model for 2. You do the side quests in that game and you are drowning in free loot.
>>503466220No they weren't. It was super easy to softlock yourself in the first month.
>>503466473alright. thanks for the heads up!
>>503466272
>tfw you realize faust killed strider even though they were both monobros again
>>503466349wow that's some really useful feedback have you tried killing yourself
>>503466626
is the gauss rifle in the game?
>>503433776>>Stalker 2 Performance Mod + Mouse Fix + No Compilingliar cock
>>503465672I must admit I feel like a retard believing all this time Unreal is gonna be completely unmoddable. Interesting to see they're already getting this far with it. I'm still yet to see what will be the ceiling of Unreal modding here though.
>>503466462No. Right now the only thing in game that functions as A-Life is the radius triggered random spawner. There is code deeper in the game files which ties into actual A-Life but none of it is functional.The A-Life as the Stalker Devs call it is the radius system. That's likely all it will ever be, probably tweaked to be much less obvious and provide some deeper interaction but that's it.Modders are quite optimistic on A-Life being modded in though, since its on UE. But if the devs don't magically have a working build with A-Life as we know it that just wasn't released for whatever reason then it'll be a year+ easily before we see it.
>>503466819Yep it's unceremoniously dropped by monolith snipers later on so just keep playingEm1 is too but it's after the endgame lockout
STALKER 2.... Home....
which sight goes on the mac-10?
>>503466831Gonna need the devs to release an SDK tailored to the game and preferably official ingame mod support to get the really interesting stuff but it is a surprise people can already do mods like this.
>>503465672I guess people really do want their flesh asses.
>place clearly meant to have people>but apparently I'm too early in main story so there's nobody home
i can walk a kilometer and run into no-onenone of these A-Life mods work
>>503466404I rushted through the story and only spent money on meds and water to spam as I sprinted across the wasteland It's how they intended for you to play
>>503466478They had a lot of time to do anything. In the end, when I went to X-18, it clicked for me after I saw those brain dead AI blokes from Ward all shuffling towards me and a random Merc squad spawning right in the middle of them, that this whole game basically feels like modders with a bit more budget ported SoC assets over to UE and build a world in which they then played a few enemy NPCs to fire at you. That's it. Everything feels out of place, like that last chapter bit of True Stalker except in standalone game form.The original trilogy works because the game simulates a curtain that acts as if you're mostly irrelevant to the existence of the population. You mostly don't feel like everything you come across was placed there for you. STALKER 2 is the exact opposite as everything feels like it exists for you. One is immersive, the other is not.
>>503466965stop posting this, its clearly unfinished and isn't in the game proper
>>503466364nah, degtyarev shat out a big one and irradiated any possible entry
>>503467038thanks for repeating what the image says
>>503466898>gammatrannies we play vanilla here
>>503466513But Call of Pripyat had engaging things happen in the world as you play. You eventually could just sprint through the map but in 2 you just end up going from point A to B as fast as possible.
>>503466621yeah thats what i ended up doing lmao
>>503461065There's a tunnel under the giant tornado anomaly that you have to do a jump to get to, that's how you get in during the story but you have to use a device to get through the tunnel filled with electricity anomalies
i swear this looked different
I think I am just going to rush the main story then uninstall it desu
>>503466993Ye this is annoying, exploring early on empty buildings just so you see them fill up when you progress enough in the main story reveals that the design of the game is whacked.
so dolg is basically azov right lol
>>503466994I noticed that a-life only works at the points of interest/locations on map, in between there's nothing, once in the blue moon i see wandering stalkers or bandits( going back and forth glitched)
>get shaken down by bandits>they want 1000 kopes>pay them then kill them afterwards when they're no longer aiming at me>no money on their bodiesthis fucking game
>>503467186The balding motherfucker did it again
>>503465454>Хyй бyдeщ )))
>>503467189That's what I did just like cyberpunk lolIt will be good in a year or two
>>503467318Koupons are bitcoins now and you didn't get their wallet key.
>>503467186it's clearly an anomaly>>503467318there's no physical money in game, dead can't send you paypal transfer
>>503467318>>they want 1000 kopesthat is actually nothing, they really fucked the economy
>>503466246Most mods working on 1.0004 for some reason
>>503467275The PoI events aren't even A-Life by the way, not even in the shitty way the devs are saying it. if you enter a PoI, then after you do something (either climbing a ladder, looting a stash, picking up a piece of armor, it's different per PoI) then the same event gets triggered every time when you do it.Enter a barracks with a gas mask display, then pick up the military armor? A group of bandits spawns outside. Go into the crashed helicopter to loot a stash? A pack of dogs spawns, Go through a cave near the start of the game with the flame anomalies? Two flesh and a stalker spawn. Go down into the cellar of an entrance marked by a home sign and loot the stash? Bandits spawn outsideThis is the same across the entire game.That isn't A-Life, those are predetermined scripted events.A-Life as the devs put it is when you run across 1km and randomly 4 stalkers pop up behind you and start shooting a bloodstalker that wasn't there before, or a pack of dogs spawns around the corner of a building you just cleared.
>>503467075You can't get past the train border at all? I just walked around it without any radiation to stop me. Unless Jupiter gets unlocked with the campaign and radiation disappears I don't recall any radiation at all besides humping along the train engine and cars. I wasn't ready to go much further but I unlocked Jupiter on my map just to unlock it. I did this around mission 20-23 or something I think?
>>503467392I think the story is okay, it's just missing the 'Be a merc and sit in the overpass at Wild Territory to dome passing Loner patrols' vibe
so... wheres that mutant hunting ground I supposedly got the location of but doesn't have any marker or record?
how long until stalker 2's weapon models get ported to fallout 4?
>>503466210There's literally stalls set up for it in some towns. They pretty clearly decided to cut it for dev time.
So what exactly are the reports of the game suddenly breaking after a certain story mission? It's putting me off from progressing
>>503467615yeah, more like this, a-life not enabled/finished, technically false advertisement
i guess there isnt much reason to have more food items than just the 3.it's not like we have cooking/crafting and its not like tarkov where different food does slightly different things to your hunger+hydration bar...
>dlss quality>everything looks like shit because 720p doesn't have enough details to upscale from>dlaa>looks good but below 60fps in crowded locationsmake it stop
What's the best way to fight these fucks? And don't tell me knife them, they shred me in 2 seconds with their magic attacks.
You /v/irgins are whining hourly about this game but I just saw you can play guitar in it? Are you freaking kidding me??
such is life in the zone
>>503467802The one for the collars? It's north of Wild Island and South-East of the sawmill. Tiny place with a shack and the mutant is inside. This is where Richter brought me when I convinced him if we're talking about the same mission.
>>503467935throw grenade and run repeat
>>503467615>Clear POI of 300 snorks>Nice, I can now loot in peace>Open a up a stash>Another 300 snorks spawn outsideI am tired boss
emission when, stalker?
>>503468135I threw like 4 at one of these and he was still going, had to finish with ak to the face.
is it true that the stalkers who come to hide with u during emissions are spawned in...?
>>503468331Yes. I was in an empty zone, then like 8 Loners ran in and sat down with me, the second I went out after the Emission, I never saw them again
>>503460368>devs continually dodging the question on what alife is actually meant to be like post release, stating shits wrong with it but not giving detailed issues>september interview where one of their developers described Alife word for word as what we have, the director system, just with less events>all of the cfg commands are literally just instructions for npc's that are spawned into your bubble of influence for eventsBut lets keep huffing that copium super hard because Alife is mentioned in the cfg files! Even though they are ALREADY OPERATING AND CAN BE LITERALLY VIEWED ACTIVATING DURING SPAWN EVENTS
is there a way to remove this environmental clue yellow jizz?
what happened to the stalker scoreboard on the PDA?
>>503468115thank you anona
>>503468617Another piece of technology lost to time.....
I really love the movement in 2. It's a great blend of simulation and arcade.
When multiplayer rolls out, one of you better take the name 'Gosha Ack-ack'.
>>503459287It's just a main quest optional that has literally no impact. It's the door opening for the bunker on the noontiders compound or whatever after you do some shit post sirca.You can just noclip through the door if you activate console commands by downloading a mod and talk to him, which i think is just an ini tweak. The rest are still doable just buggy fucking messes of absolutely shit encounters and maximum retard event spawns. Hope you are ready to chug them med kits.
i like roleplaying a little bit, sleeping until it's day time and trying not to go out in bad weather. but man its always bad weather.
there's a stash near where you meet spark that you need a key for, where do you find it?
>>503468628Fogot to upload the picture if this helps.
>>503468519
>>503468298Bring more grenades chud. I literally save my grenades just for these fucks.
>>503468780everything that I've read about it says it completely fucks up Rostok quests afterward
>>503433776New bread?
>>503468981Good, more honesty. Maybe they'll learn that being honest about their shortcomings from the get-go instead of making up excuses beforehand builds more trust.
>>503468981This is literally describing the director system with more events. Nothing described or implied it happens outside your zone of influence. It just means you get to see more random stalkers walking past you instead of also shooting at you.
>>503468607it's in the settings dumbass
Is there any scientists I can sell my artifacts to for profit? I don't want to sell my 60k coupon artifact for a measly 1.5k to some random trader.
>>503468924You don't need a key to loot that stash
>>503469198Idk, my first thought was to visit Yantar for the Ecologists, They are fucking dead
>>503468924go on the roof thorough that hole on screenshot and from there you can shot doors to the roof
>>503468981
>>503469198The highest sell price i've found for artifacts is 2500 something for tier 1. There are artifact hunt quests which give you 3500 for tier 1 but the artifact is random and you don't know which until after accepting.I haven't even bothered selling any of mine. Two midgame guns sell for the same and there's no shortage of randomly spawned humans.
>>503468981>>503453939
>>503469316*deletes a-life 2.0 from the steam page days before release*what did they mean by this
>>503469382>roadmap in decemberel oh el
>>503469439they knew it was 100% broken and wouldn't work on release.
>>503469076The no clipping through the door or not talking to him at all?
>>503469325I did the same, all I found was a controller. I turned on all the generators to open the lab, there was fucking nothing there. Then 15+ zombies spawned and entered the lab as I was about to leave.Where the fuck are all the egghead nerds, I just want to sell my artifacts for non scam prices.
how in the world did they release the game knowing that A-Life is 'bugged'this whole thing is just susno marketing trailer showing off A-Life 2.0 too
>>503469382basically early accesswell now we know
>>503469382>developer roadmap for a already released game
>>503469579microsoft with a gun to their head telling them to release right now. they couldn't jew their way into yet another delay
>some nigger really booby trapped an empty train carman what a dick
>>503469578In the West and North of Duga there are a scientists but they might not let you in if you're too early in the story. It's called Malachite.
>>503469579Its marketing and community manager speak. They aren't going to say "we scrapped A-Life as you know it and instead it's just a random gen system" but what they will do is downplay and manage expectations while deleting A-Life off the steam page.
>>503469708It's honestly better this way because the community have lit a fire under their asses and will hopefully focus their efforts.
Anyway to have fov affect gun model? This bothers me immensely
>>503469739game will be good in a year or two, at least you don't have to pay 60$ up front
>>503469382those retards should have made it an early access title because it is
>>503469747You can find a Malachite pass that should let you in theoretically right?
>>503469238>>503469346it's not the one on the broken wall, it's one floor below
>>503469624There needs to be a rule to put your game up on steam without an early access tag that your game is feature complete. I'm fucking tired of this shit. Of course we all ignored the massive red flag of review embargos, and we knew it was going to be a buggy fucking mess, but this is beyond usual stalker jank, this is a unfinished game sold with features guaranteed on release that are not in the fucking game. ALL they fucking had to do was admit that and release with early access, some fucking transparency would have gone over so much better than this fucking asspull bullshit.
these official discord mods have been telling people that stalkers migrate between zones, what the fuck, i have not even seen stalkers occupy a zone at alone migrating
>>503469930Throw a nade through the window>>503469076>>503469076I think Rostok gets fucked if Zilessya falls so try to avoid starting the defense quest.
Pirating rn, fuck them for lying to us like that
Best way to play call of pripyat?
>>503469930key is on the desk/drawers at one of the ground entrances -reception desk like room(i think)
And I thought my 5800X3D would last me 5 years. Why is the game so CPU heavy? There's no proper A-Life to simulate, little to no interactivity with the environment or physics,...
>>503470029PChope this helps :)
>>503470029Vanilla is best for a first time, it doesn't need messing around with really.
>>503470015It's bugged as fuck right now, it STILL fails even if you succeed. They put out a radio message that they successfully held after you assist and that zilessya is a safe place from monolith then put out a message 2 minutes later that everyone is fucking dead.
lmao it's just the same locations again? was like 15 years not enough time to explore them?
>>503470161>>503470183any graphical mods worth it?
>>503470186I know, I reloaded a save before starting it and I am just running around exploring before starting the main quest again
>>503470160it's called bad developers being shit at optimizationusing UE5 also doesn't help, that's for sure>>503470204bro, what do you want?it's Stalker
>>503469874Now that you mention it I randomly got attacked by Spark dudes (bug? I was on their side and storyline and it never happened again) and when I looted them they all had the passes on them. But I had a different storyline plot item to let me in. Oh also I think you can try to bribe your way in.
>>503470257I mean you can do the absolute nature/structures + atmosfear 3 package if you can find it
>>503470160Nigga, what GPU do you have? I'm running the game on a 12600k and 3060 with 50-60 fps (without fsr and with DLSS quality) and with 100-120fps (with fsr) with all on high.
>>503469973All the hints were there. Review embargo, no AI videos, "we are at war please understand" apologies, and every other review stating how everything was bugged. The people who bought this brought it to themselves.
>Skif can't jump over a fucking fenceStarting to piss me off, desu>>503470297I found some on the zombies in Drainage, but haven't tried heading to Duga yet
>>503470029MISERY
>>503470392The damage Misery has done to Stalker modding is unprecedented.
where can I upgrade Sotnyk?
>>503452974one anon claimed that artifacts spawn there. ive been trying to get my ass in that area after an emission but havnt found anything yet.
>>503470279bro wants a 3rd nuclear disaster in ukraine
>>503470160cause devs cant optimize games anymore
>>503470508sotnyk does not need to be upgraded at all, its insaneconsidering you get it inside the corps base, it is literally the last time you ever visit a base
>>503469653Yes, it's called DLCs, content patches, etc. Have you been under a rock for the past ~20 years? Every game releases in some form of Early Access and gets fixed and expanded upon release.
>>503470547zased, so fucking zased
Is OP2 the only active Soup mod?Stalkersoup is long dead.
where's the stash box at the slag heap?
>>503470015>Throw a nade through the windowhuh, didn't think it would workit didn't, in that you need the key anyway, but you can throw a nade>>503470126that one's for the basementI'll just use the console to ghost through the door, fuck this scavenger hunt
>A-Life DLC>$24.99
I fucking hate Rodents bros>jump around like they inhaled irradiated coke>deal basically fuck all damage to you>game likes spawning a pack of 30 of them for some god forsaken reason
>>503470664At the vendor
>>503470385>Skif can't jump over a fucking fenceHe can't do anything the dev doesn't want you to do. You have to use this weird and complicated way instead of just jumping on the excavator outside.
transphobic reference in my videogame! Ukrainians are truly Nazis
im thinking its kino
>>503470562the zone is expanding so why not have it take place somewhere else
>>503470627I've been playing the same three games for the last 15 years, mostly ETS2, Stellaris and Civ, sometimes stalker or different FPS.
>>503470683There are sometimes generators that you turn on that open the door, but idk about that one in particular since I haven't bothered
>>503470760that excavator has a fucking ladder that you can't climb too
>>503470894I'm not reading all that shit to be told something I already know by playing the game.
>>503470894the most depressing part is that the scenario director isn't even any good.
>>5034703394070 Super. The game runs fine when I'm in the wilderness but as soon as I get close to a settlement my FPS are divided by 2 whether I play on low or epic, upscaler or not (1440p monitor).
>>503470701they already promised DLCs, 100% we will get a freeroam DLC without story that adds """""alife"""""
soc got a new alltime peak on steam
>>503470983Doomposters haven't played the game thoughever. This is all new to them.
>>503470547The war is canon to stalker now right? Skif was in the army and there is shit like this in the game.I wonder if it ever comes up in the lore. I'm over halfway through the story and it's never been mentioned outside of Skifs service. You'd think the war would be a big deal in the universe since it takes place in the East of Ukraine, irl Russia invaded through Chernobyl and in-universe the zone is valuable you'd think Russia would've tried to take over it over, at minimum secure the perimeter for later exploition. You'd think that if the war was so existential that SIRCCA or whatever would be trying to leverage their discoveries for their own preservation, making the situation more desperate than 'scentists want science to happen'
>>503469874Also some guy with a side quest gives you one as a reward by a Silo in Chemical Plant
>>503471264not necessarily, my guess its literally just an easter egg. nothing more
I got a Weird Bolt artifact from a tornado and it was making me almost unkillable, but after a zap from an electro anomaly it lost the red glow and is making me super encumbered, like unable to jump and sprinting drains all my stamina super fast, and it seems to have lost the protective effect. It says the bolt needs anomalous energy to recharge, anyone know how to refuel it?
>NPC fucks me over in a quest>Want to fucking murder him but kind of scared it'll create jank down the lineCan I blow his head off without any repercussions?
i truly feel like a loner in this game
>>503471205ah, that might me it. I'm stuck at 1080p. Try enabling fsr or frame gen to see if helps, villages and settlements bogs my pc a bit too.
>>503471353But Skif and others referring to him specifically mention him serving in "the war" don't they? I guess it could be a different fictional war but I just assume.
>>503471264If you start applying real world logic the zone would have sparked off world war 3. The shit anomalies and artifacts do is shit nations destroy each other over to control.
I think GSC just wanted to put this out so people would mod this instead of Anomaly
>>503471458I already have that IRL, don't need a game for that
for reference, what is skif's hp so i can understand what the mutants' sponginess is
>>503471264The game initial release date was April 2022. The game is supposed to take place in 2022.
>>503471518hmm i must've missed that, i cant think of anything other than 2014 in that case
>>503470983
>>503470852so yes
>>503471747Where's the glow from the fire?..
>>503471747>953 KBbut why?
I have no idea where to hide during emissions sometimes. Even when the map shows a yellow icon for potential shelter, all the entrances were closed off. I'm getting hit with emissions super often in this game and it's always in a place with nowhere to hide. Have you guys been having similar issues? It feels like the game's always making them happen at the most inopportune times.I'm getting filtered by emissions, fuck.
>>503471657i thought the main appeal of modding the original games was that they ran on anything and the engine was easily modified
>>503471696The problem with mutants is their armor value more than their HP.
>>503471785I stole it :)
>>503471747>no reaction from the otherssuch is life in the zone
>>503471747kek, now that's peak Stalker
Are these faggots army or warden? I have killed so many of them I don't even know who's who anymore.
>>503471857no it isnt
make a new fucking thread or ill do it myself and use /s2g/
>sleep deprivation is in the game>if you just ignore it it'll go away on its ownEpic.
>>503471903ipsf or something
>>503471954just like in real life
>>503471951okay
>>503471903yeah i have the same problem, can;t distinct factions, aside bandits, i just mow everything that moves and tries to kill me
>>503471642There are references and implications of outside powers trying to get in on the zone. In CoP there is a crashed Global Hawk and the Mercenaries have usually been implied to be heavily funded by the West, Freedom too.The fact that the zone rejects the shit out of any interference and Ukraine can barely keep it under control I could see outside nations just watching and sending secret squirrels in to poke around and report back. Probably bidding on artifacts as they can.I was thinking that narratively not having more foreign powers trying to exploit the zone is a missed opportunity and would play into how western countries try to do the same to UA natural resources. >>503470823I barely remember but I think there are STALKER novels that take place in the Middle East. In Afghanistan I think. I don't remember anything more than that.
>>503472124>>503472124>>503472124
>>503471747
>>503471903Military, they have more camo, Ward is puke green only
>>503470279>bro, what do you want?>it's StalkerThere's nothing sacred about these exact buildings that they need to be reused, you could just be exploring other areas of the zone considering stalker 1 map was a ton of skipped land around loading boundaries
>>503472473okay they could change things up for sure since Stalker 1 didn't copy the zone 1:1would be neat if we got bigger Pripyat or if they used buildo as a basis for S2 but they went the safe rout and turned it into a pseudo remake of sorts
how can I get this guy to move? I'm clearing the anomalies around but he won't follow me
>>503466272I just rush them with shotgun and pump shell after shell in their faces. Hit and run tactics basically since they walk slowly,
>>503467318I told them to eat my ammo, kill all bandits since they're enemies of all free stalkers.
>>503471747(dies)
>>503463549>48 fps>not even 99th percentile in gigahudmeasuring a lot of shit above your head fuckboygiven you have 48fps in normal counteryour 99th eprcentile FPS (real) is way below 40 lmao
>>503452863you must kill him nowthere is no other reasonable outcome.
hell yeahbtw if you go lookign through the files, you can see there definietly are binoculars in the game
>>503474047I saw npcs use them atleast twice. Can't be much longer until we have binos for the player now that modders have started adding new items to the game.
>>503460368This is such low quality bait I can’t believe so many retards replied
>>503474552this is roughly what they might look like
>>503460368>grok and the anomaly team are already making gamma 2 on stalker 2dumbest shti ever.
>>503474675you just did.
>>503466830user error i supposecan someone else confirm that that engine ini disables compiling for them ?
>>503474047"Hell yeah" what? That sight is already in the game on the Clusterfuck HK416.
>>503478772I can take it and use it elsewhere
>>503477926Kill yourself
>>503481430kekowned
>>503441549100%I had a sensible chuckle at that point
