Dumpster Fire Edition>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: >>503433776
>16gb ram insufficientwhat is taking all this memory? foliage that looks worse than in far cry 1 when you're further than 100m away?
>>503472205the game has major memory leak issues, if you leave it running for more than a few hours it will be at 25+ gigs of ram used
Is he supposed to be in his cage like his buddy or
>>503472262I've seen screenshots with +40gb used
>>503472340Also, I am pretty sure Ward has no actual 'patrols' except for story only ones, but I could be totally wrong
>>503472134>would play into how western countries try to do the same to UA natural resourcesthey can't shit on their financiers
>can use your knife three times before stamina runs out
>>503472370merc are also lighting my ass up at this place wtf is their deal
>>503472692AND the range is fucked so you don't hit shit most swings even if the enemy is directly in front of you attacking you either.
>>503472723I think it's implied that they were trafficking Stalkers or some shit
So the Buket S-2 is the best weapon in the game right?
>>503472983just talk to him then walk out
how do you put cotz on top of iwp?
Can you turn off the fucking anomaly beeping?
where did you farm hypercube?
>>503473203Like this if you're using JSGME
>>503472791Can barely run, can barely climb, can barely hold your breath, can only swing the knife three times and barely hit anything. The implication is that these devs were living it up, the fat office-chair fucks...
>>503473084The RAM-2 is the best gun for me so far. Strong vs everything, incredibly accurate hipfire and aim, fast enough fire rate to kill a bloodsucker the first time it runs up to you, and can dump 14 shells before having to reload (2 shells at a time).
Is this a story area or some shit? It's an empty warehouse in which I can't use my gun with a button that does nothing when pressed
Is there a way or a mod to edit the viewmodel fov or position?I don't like how close to the screen these guns are.
>>503473295i was using standalone. i have to download this one?
>>503473638Yeah download that and then do that load order. official english translation and then cotz
>>503473326>The implication is that these devs were living it up, the fat office-chair fucks...they weren't.
>Flashbang anomalyHow annoying.
>Reply to anon a few thread back who wondered where the weird unilateral and dishonest hate against the game came from>>>503405623My personal theory is that the bots or shills that spam /pol/ threads about Ukraine added stalker 2 to the thread they monitor/shitpost due to link with Ukraine, because of the location of the game, not understanding the studio isnt ukrainian anymore. The biggest red flag imo is how they automatically call you a zigger if you say anything even remotely interpretable as negative toward Ukraine, this shitty forced adhom is almost exclusively used by shills to demonize any opposition as Russian supporter, even if you werent favorable toward Russia either in your post.Like the writing style and general wording of their posts is uncannily similar to those of shills from these threads.
what are your favorite guns so far? i love the vector mainly and ive been using the spas till i can get a saiga or dp12
>>503473109I think he's fucked. no matter which way I go he's not moving and I even loaded an earlier save to see if it fixes him. is he part of a side mission or something? he's just marked as a side activity on the pda
>>503473951any gun that doesn't occupy half of the screen
>>503463549>48 fps>not even 99th percentile in gigahudmeasuring a lot of shit above your head fuckboygiven you have 48fps in normal counteryour 99th percentile FPS (real) is way below 40 lmao
>>503473951I found a rifle atop the fire whirl anomaly silo that I kept using and like
The tweaks are coming thick and fast.
>>503474031which ones? I like the AKS7uu and the shotgun but they seem fucking huge
>>503473787Not many things worse than war but I think sitting in Czechia and using the war in Ukraine as an excuse as to why your game is unfinished and poorly designed might just be morally deplorable.
>>503474123>Uooh, Amoo, Roookek'd
>>503474171>ray traced audio>binaural soundsNexus is full of schizos
>>503474189sofmod is nice but I don't like that half of the sight is obstructed
>kills exosuit guy>man I wonder what gun he had, it had to be something nice>shitty mp5what the fuck
>>503474518he spent all his savings on that suit
How many times have you died ?
>>503473776awesome, thanks. 40 hours of stalker 2 and im burnt but im not burnt out of the zone hahah
>>503474518you rike?
>>503473951Either Shah's Mate or Spitter. 9x18 and 9x19 ammo is very cheap, guns are cheap to maintain, and both weapons shred through everything. And they're also lighter.
>>503474648Most of my deaths were from falling off shit I was trying to parkour or drowning
>>503474350they don't do this though, it's a small subsection of retarded fans that say that
>>503474021nope, simple miniquest, worked on my machine
>>503474648only 16 here, because i just run away from shit
>>503474484i like what turning on binaural sound did
am i the only one who feels like assault rifles are pretty trash? i havent tried the tavor, carmel or the dnipro yet but the g36 and 416 are not good at all
>>503474648In the last 3 hours ive died at least 30 times. watch your step when parkouring bros and fuck mercs
>>503474648same as you brother
>>503474924>dniproIs alright, a bitch to upgrade since most Techs I found don't want to, the pieces of shit
>Controller pushes you down once>For the next 40 minutes you're going schizoGuess I'll sit here and eat some fucking bread until I sober up.
>>503474924The G36 is the best
>>503474910same, binaural sound fixed a lot of weird issues i had
>>503475016i havent found one aside from the arena fight. i want to. i have a kharod but idk if its worth using>>503475057ill have to try some more with it. ive been using the vector cause thing shreds enemies.
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/204kek ledge grabbing mod.
>>503475178>i havent found one aside from the arena fightI found mine at the Cooling Towers zone atop the silo with the giant fire ball.
Anyone noticed if the endurance artefacts actually do anything? using a soul and two batteries but it still feels like my stamina depletes at the exact same rate. Also energy drinks feel practically useless when water fills your stamina to the same degree, and also gives you a few free seconds before it starts to go down.
>>503475252could i get there now? im at rostok. cause i know sometimes the game bugs out since it doesnt like you to explore later areas
>>503475314Energy drinks refill 2 bars but also give you a buff that increases your stamina regen for around 20 seconds. It's very obvious if you look at your stamina bar refilling while walking before and after drinking the energy drink.Water is ok as a burst but energy drinks keep you running and for longer.
>>503475182God I wish this game had cyberpunk easy of climbing and vaulting
So apparently the copy I downloaded was version 436 but GOG pulled it and replaced it with version 424. Anyone know what the differences are between the two? I'm wondering if maybe that is why my game CTDs constantly when I'm in Zalissya.
im not sure how to feel about this artifact. it like slows down or stop bleeding i think but at the cost of your heal becoming slow
>16gb ram is insufficientthere are current apple laptops that have 8gb and they work fine
>>503475569optimization is a lost art
>>503475495Imagine having a weird nut... Do you think it would be painful?
>>503475314even "weak" endurance adds like 5 seconds of extra sprint time
>>503475427yea u can im still on diode's mission about finding nestor or someshit. went there from rostok and then crossed the bridge from cement factory
I think half the camp didn't make it to a shelter in time, I'm gonna have a field day loot goblining this
>>503475817oh ok thank you
>>503475178In the middle far right side of the Red Forest there's a small military bunker thing built into the earth wall that has a pristine Dnipro at the end.
>prof's bunker permanently locks after an emission>can't turn in quest>had to noclip to get to himsheesh
>>503475495why does 5.56 do less dmg than a .45
>>503475941unique weapon :)
>>503475909Have fun with the base defense quests that auto fail (if the quest even pops) and future side quests deciding they want to break too. You're now in the early access beta test portion of the game
>>503475446>>503475314Energy drinks are mainly for refilling stamina when extremely overencumbered and to remove drowsiness debuff.
>>503476015Is that after you do the shit the prof wants you to do at the Noontider base?
>the rostov anomaly is a portal
>>503475993but the sofmod is unique as well
i hate the swamp
why is the sofmod so damn heavy?
>>503475941Lol i wouldnt know since ive barely used any 556 shooters. even my kharod i converted it to 545 becuz i got a shitton of ammo also the kharod isnt all that amazing so still looking for something i like. may the zone provide
assault rifles are fucking useless in this game
>>503476015nah i'm gonna replay ghost of sushi on pc in ultra graphics instead
>>503476090The professor pops back up in another quest.There is a pretty big plot event where things change and after that happens the game is clearly unfinished and broken. The professor quest where his bunker is just locked is people's first experience of it.
>>503476507yea its fucking stupid. smgs do way more damage
>>503476549Let me rephrase itIs it the quest you get after you rescue the Prof that fucks the game up? Zilessya defense aside.
>>503476507No they aren't, they're endgame weapons better at penetrating high armor with their default ammo. That said the best weapon in the game is probably the bizon because you can land consistent headshots with it with a giant mag but you can't use a midrange scope so it's choosing between a scope or low recoil
>>503476657 Yes but the quest itself doesn't fuck things up, the map state after you escape SIRCAA is just fucked
>>503475495>weird nut
>>503476771So that means I have to reload from before getting to SIRCAA or my game is irreversibly fucked?
kek salty ziggers
You ARE wearing the only armor that matters, RIGHT?
>>503476927>not wearing BREADcommon bandit L
lodochka's door's stuckWHAT DO I DOI TRIED SLEEPING AND RESTARTING THE GAME BUT HE WON'T OPEN THE DOOR
>>503476851If nothing else, the game is quite good at reloading quest triggers and fixing issues by reloading. The first patch they're releasing includes the softlocks and quest progression so should be fixed soonish hopefully. As long as you haven't gone to Zalissya you should be fine
>>503476997yeah lmao anon, just skip itif you noclip in he will turn hostilefucked quest
>>503476352i have no idea
>>503477064I just did the first part of Zalissya, killing the attackers, then ran away without talking to Gaffer, I got no radio messages from them that said they died or lived so I think it might be fine
>Vulva Amalgam: (dies)>Volga Amalgam: (dies)>Volvo Amalgam: (dies)>Vulgar Amalgam: (dies)Why do I have to babysit this retarded AI bloke...
don't rush the game bros
>>503477106FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
>>503477347>buggy mess that barely works half the time>empty open world that only spawns stuff when you loot a poiwhy the fuck wouldn't I rush it
miracle patches are coming
>>503477514>6 months later when people moved on>Game will probably be 300 GBs and run even worse than before
>>503477347>if you rush the game and get to the zalissye(?) raid before the patch drops things are fucked>if you get to SICCwhatever you straight up cannot progress anymorebased gsc caring about their playerbase health, unlike those filthy fags from factorio and the like
should i just stop playing for now
So what are the factions in this game for the eventual freeplay mod?Loners SparkDutyFreedomNoontideMonolithBandits (bandits have multiple mini factions in this game under different 'kingpins' though)Sin/red forest banditsWardEcologists (SIRCAA?)Mercs (Wolfhound)Pripyat Corps(?)
>can sit at campfire>cannot use pdf while sitting
>>503477598>when people moved onto what? cawadooty 2025?there are slim pickings in atmospheric shooters like stolkor, you're here until s3 releases in 2032>>503477681>freeplaygiven how all the mods in the world didn't manage to make it interesting in base stalker I doubt I will
>>503477646You can just ignore Zalissya and do side content, but there's not much do to unless you continue on with the main quest
is there an unique version of IWI Carmel?
Just another emission, take shelter.. Stalkers.
What would you like to addressed in an upcoming patch? I came up with the following:-Larger stash UI, your inventory looks larger than your entire stash which makes navigation difficult.-Economy rebalance.-More kubles for rewards.-Stashes contain kubles.-Lootable kubles from enemies.-Enemy name/faction on loot.-Hovering on NPCs to get their names/faction/disposition.-Performance patches (Better CPU utilization etc.)-Anomaly field indirect damage to make environmental damage resistance meaningful. In CoP, grabbing an artifact from a fire based anomaly field was impossible without good fire res even if you did not step on the anomaly.-Medkit rework, insta 75% makes dying difficult. Maybe less HP & longer animation.-Item wear slowed down.-Cheaper repairs.-Damage rebalance. 9x19 Makarov stronger than a .45ACP-Real weapon names (Due to licensing so understandable)-Artifacts spawn below surface level, make it impossible to obtain.-Exploring feels unrewarding. Cool you've found a cave with a Burer in, after a challenging fight you loot vodka and some ammo. It costs you more to repair your shit from the fight so you're at a negative for exploring.
>toss a corpse in to a vortex>the corpse screams before it explodes into gibs
>>503477760>to what?Back to Anomaly and GAMMA, lmao
Anomaly and GAMMA are the worst things to happen to the STALKER community. Prove me wrong.
>>503477843Pretty sure there isn't
>>503477760Obviously more radiant quest types will have to be added but I'm talking about a CoC esque experience. The map is huge and ripe for kino emergent storytelling if they add alife and faction freeplay
>>503477681Monolith or Bandit is best in bed.
>>503477924misery mod
>>503474828>they don't do this though>>503473787I don't know, talking about having to load your weapon to defend your life as you're sitting in a country that's not at war is the very definition of them doing it.But I get it, it's a very neat trick. GSC uses war just enough in their marketing for the politically addicted retards to start propping up shit like Volodymyr Yezhov whenever someone criticizes how fucked S2 is that it gives them enough plausible deniability for these retarded gotchas of "ackshually they don't use the war to sell their game, that's your delusions stalker child". This fuels anger, division and muddies the water where any discussion about the state of the game devolves into a political vatnik/hohol slapfight, and everyone forgets about what they were initially talking about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mG9QYqNIOgSTALKER 2 really is "Remember this guy?" the game
so npc flashlights can cast shadows but the player's cant?
>>503478015>people thought clear sky had the worst camo out of the original factions>Spark's camo is EVEN WORSE in stalker 2What the fuck is Scar's problem?
>>503478015roll for monolith chan
>>503477646>>503477812What about deactivating the safe zones and just noclipping in?
>>503477907literally everything u said + a-life
>>503478154>4You are fucking the egghead
STALKER 2 discussion theme songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ToEvz-7trY
>>503478015
>>503478068>NPCs have binoculars and working flashlight shadowswe got cucked by literal NPCsit's over...
>>503478015rawling for Sid
>>503478206glasses are hot and she looks like she has big boobs so I'll take it ig..
why are NPCs in swamp talking about being in duga
how the hell do you get off the cooling tower?
>>503478068There's something completely fucked up with first person actions and lighting. Guns don't even have muzzle flash lighting when you shoot them in dark areas. I don't think it's a coincidence that flashlight lighting sucks, it doesn't cast shadows, and the guns don't cast muzzle flashes on the environment when you shoot them. Even games as absolute dogshit as New Vegas did this.
>>503478176Even if you no clip in the safe zone and kill all the bad guys, the quest still fails.
>>503477907shit suggestions. my only wishes are:>make the listed item price what the traders actually pay for items>ability to drop skif's pistol>buff .45 , .5.45 and 5.56 ammo
>>503477908SOVL
>upgraded cpu for factorio dlc>now need to upgrade ram for stalkerjfc optimize your shit
>>503478015bls 4 or 9
>>503478134Scar is on fucking crazy pills. He survived too many emissions and it made him a crackhead
>>503478207This is literally bad
optimized settings bros, turn clouds settings to epic. it completely changes the sky and has a huge impact on ground ambiance and lighting during a storm with barely any noticeable performance impact
Don't you whistle at me ya cunt.
>>503478134Zesty guy creates a zesty faction
>>503478352O-oh...
>>503478517holy mother of AI slop
>that cutscene where you get to see the battle of the cnpp through strider's eyes I couldn't save him...
>>503478636such is life of a p(otato)c
I've seen people say the end sequence is shit, is this real?
>Strelok is a jaded washout>Scar is utterly insane>Degtyarev is a pissed off wreckBeing a STALKER protagonist sure is hard
>>503473951this game has the cyberpunk iconic weapon problem, which means only the named guns are worth usingi used clusterfuck for a huge part of the game, and it was incredible a long with a saiga, then i switched to whip and the DT12 shotgun for most monolith content, then finished the game off with solnytk and EM-2
>>503478636here's another.
>>503478849It's a log and runs on too long but it has to in order to resolve a bunch of plot threads and set up the multiple endings
>>503478849there are 4 endings i think
>>503477907>enemy name/faction on bodythe fact this isnt a thing is mindboggling>performance patchesthis is all the performance you are gonna get. there is no "better cpu util">anomaly field dmgyeah, makes sense>medkit reworkplay the modpack, has a mod that nerfs them to a reasonable level. its also on nexus as an individual mod>item wear slowed downsame thing>damage rebalancesame thing>real weapon namesis on nexus
>>503479110Varan looks sick, too bad it's not real.
the game on veteran mode literally ends when you get this weaponthe ammo is cheap as fuck, its found everywhere on bodies, can be scoped with a 2x or the unique acog, 1 taps exosuits
>>503478852honestly incredibly basedive really enjoyed the characters for this game so far, surprisingly
>Mac-10 can be slotted in the pistol slot>the USP is still better because muh penetration
>>503479265sadly they would have to add nightvision to the game for it to be real
>>503479376>weapon can be slotted to pistol slot>Still required to carry Skif pistol in your backbag
>>503479265varan is worn by the guide in the pripyat corp base, even with the nvgs
omg bro the game is so hard bro they don't give you enough healing!!!!1Is this really what the stalker veterans consider difficult?
>>503479306oh hey i just found this gun
>POIs really don't seem to be worth exploringShould I just blitz the main story? Checking a building only to have 300 enemies spawn outside is getting rather old
>>503479510I'm surprised no one made a mod to disable the story flag from it. Unless you need it for a story cutscene or something>>503479605There is definitely way too much free shit lying around. I wouldn't be surprised if they made the shit economy for purpose of making you get everything from exploring>impossible to make money and everything costs an arm an a leg>solution? just dump everything in stashes at every single possible interesting location>voila, ship it
>>503479510How much you want to bet modders will be able to figure out 'equipped pistol in cutscenes' and remove the skif pistol
>>503479797>Unless you need it for a story cutscene or somethingSkif always uses it in cutscenes.
>>503405623It's discord raiders who do it for political reasons. Basically any new game that falls into traditional /v/core tastes is hit with inorganic hate raids from bad faith outsiders. I've seen this happen to DD2, Slitterhead and now STALKER.
>>503479605>they don't give you enough healinghas anyone ever said that? I´m in trouble because I´m drowning in healing items and my compulsive looter rat brain don't let me leave any behind.
>>503479605every unmodded stalker game showers you in healing
>>503479910schizo in the last thread was screeching the game was too hard and that they played the previous games on master
>>503476132would have been cool if it takes you to a random location in the zone instead of the same spot
Have you been offended by box of matches, guys?
>>503479845Skif going gangsta in cutscenes with mac-10
>>503479605medkits are also wildly op, just use mods
>Slow walking>Sounds quieter>Enemies still think you're sprinting and will hear you across an entire buildingFucking why
i dont think it would take a genius, or any one with experience in video game development to balance this economy... pick any random gamer who's play enough RPGs he'll do a better job than this shit
>>503480132I just wish the enemies did much more damage but had less accuracy
>>503479993>Paint everything in pedo colorsthis is fine>Dev uses their national colors in misc items that are most likely in universe made in said nation.reeeee nationalist propaganda!!
>>503480220Yeah I hear you. I just got to garbage and I have 200k not-rubles. No mods, no console commands. Idk maybe the beginning of the game is just way too easy.
>>503480220i mean its playable
they give you a sniper at the top of the watch tower as if there's anything to snipe???
>>503476927I'm wearing the Zircon armor.
>check inventory>have an rpm-74 and svdm-2 I never picked upwhat
>>503480536there will be stuff to snipe when A-life gets added
>>503480560I would but can't find a mechanic who can upgrade that shit
>>503480474it's playable but just a bit disappointing, and not very satisfying to become loaded with stuff. but i guess i'm too 'survival game' coded?
>>503480640Two more weeks?
>>503480659Not even at Rostok? Fug, I might have to switch then.
>>503480464I really like this game's icon art for ammo, drinks, and food
>>503480679I'll give it 6 months to 2 years, gotta stay realistic.
>>503480610>walking along the forest, nothing around me>suddenly equipped weapon changes to an rpk or a svd>wtf>2 more svds/rpks in inventory out of nowhereits a super weird bug, the force weapon switch happens at completely random times
Am I wasting my time by just free roaming, side questing, and ignoring the main quest until they fix it? Like does progressing the main quest add more side missions to do and shit?
>>503480610When you get mind raped the game will spawn items in your inventory. I got an RPM and a bolt action sniper in the same way lmao. I also had my cracker from nestors stash randomly replaced by a default cracker (the unique one was in my inventory)
>>503480464Wtf? How. You abusing the npc spawns or something? How the fuck do you make money when all quests give you a measly 1k at most?
>>503480386>>503480386>less accuracyhttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/113>more damagears modpack from the OP has this. I looked on nexus, alterantively you could try these two combined.>https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/128>https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/51
Oh yeah, speaking of, did GSC rewrite the storyline of S2 in any way where it'd be about national conflicts or have they managed to keep it strictly within the grounds of fictional nationless groups like the Group, the Monolith and such?
>>503480424Actually this bong write only two articles for whole time on Eurogamer, one about Stalker and second at 2011.
i've only had the weapon spawn glitch twice and both times it was just the boomstick
>>503480771The only way i can imagine the devs would reimplement something close to Alife is if they make a new DLC that turns the game into a sandbox, having a simulation going on isn't compatible with all those shitty quests all over the map i'm afraid.
>>503472124>Get the Warden Badge>Walk through Icarus like I own it>shoot the guards when I leave>go talk to star>keep flashing the badge at wounded wardens then killing themWe do a little trolling
>>503480859I walked into the military base in garbage and shot it up. They were dropping armor and gas masks left and right. Had to drag my ass back to a trader at near max weight a couple of times and both times had saves during blowouts.
>>503480196it's a early access game Anon, what did you expected?
>>503481026>but to be honest, he likes cats more than video gamesTHEN WHY THE FUCK IS HE A VIDEO GAME JOURNALIST AND NOT IDK A FUCKING VET holy shit the jokes write themselves here how much more pathetic video game """journalism""" can get lmfao
>>503481081On that note, has anyone noticed there's absolutely zero guitar playing anywhere?
>>503480956thanks anon
>>503480956>>503480386it may be "better calibers" instead of "weap0ne rebalance"https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/129the ars modpack uses one of those, with further tweaks
>>503481008strictly in universe, nothing real world at all except for yellow and blue tiny stickers sometimes, and the ukranian army decal on a certain quest gunthe story is actually excellent and really, really long, and the characters are incredible too; for some reason the early game english VA is all dogshit but later on, the english va becomes really, really good
so everyone pirate the game right? you didnt get scammed right?
>>503481397downgrades were expected but how much they downgraded the lighting from campfires is criminalthey dont even seem to have an effect until its pitch black outside
As someone who has only played the based games, is Anomaly the best possible mod for someone who wants to try more? Would you recommend Anomaly Custom?
>>503479993i don't think anyone even cares
>>503480196small independent developer pls understand
>everyone is using coupons as currency I knew Ukraine was poor but holy fuck. What is this, Dumb and Dumber?
Great modpack you got there GAMMAggers.
enjoy frens, i cant buy it nor play it until a couple of paychecks but i know the struggle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FtWKIZHaswWhat are we thinking?
>>503472124my shadows look like this in anomaly, with or without mods, in dx9. I have modded exes, this is when it started i assume. Any way to resolve this?
>>503481662r2_sun_near_border 1 in console
>>503481397If i wanted to play a generic static open world FPS i'd play modern Fallout games>>503481513Depends on what you want, you want more story or more freeplay?
>>503481513GAMMA is the best one right now.
>>503481367>the early game english VA is all dogshit but later on, the english va becomes really, really goodSounds like they had one batch of VA lines for the story, then there was some sort of paradigm shift mid-way, and that's when they've improved English VA. I wonder if they had complete Russian VA up until that point, had plans to actually finish it but couldn't since they did add Russian text localization so they weren't that adamant about keeping Russian away from the game.
>>503481026>rock paper shotgunI forget the history of what happened, but that site used to be good, it was a PC gaming focussed blog by ex-PC Gamer staff or something; but then it got taken over by faggot vegan Brighton inhabitant white knight types.I haven't read any reviews and I am probably not going to. Games journalism is the ultimate failson profession.
You are getting infinite roubles right anons?
how the fuck do i kill this chimera
>>503481647I'm thinking I have no idea what they've updated because I don't speak orc.
>>503481008According to the artbook the ISPF was supposed to be the Ukrainian military like usual, but because of the war, the Devs replaced the Ukrainian military with ISPF
>>503481958cryptokoins*
>>503481513true stalker is the best possible mod you can play that expands on the stalker feel and atmosphere unlike the tactishit dayz clone meme modpacks
>>503480854I'm not getting mind raped most of the time this happens, its usually when I've gone afk in a town for a while
>>503481397They completely fucked up the shadow casting in the game, I understand them doing it on consoles but on PC it's a fucking crime...If they turned on shadow casting for every light source in the game I bet it would look way more identical to the pic above.
>>503481397Jesussss
>>503481770still the same unfortunately
Man, the balance is so fucked in this game.>9x18 is a more powerful round than 9x19, .45, 5.45, 5.56, and 9x39>Repairs can cost upwards of 10k while missions pay out 1-2k on a good day>Every mutant is an absolute resource sink with no reward for fighting them>Game hands you hundreds of free meds and food, you never have to buy any or ration them at all
>>503482047I mean, my only concern is if they didn't turn STALKER into yet another war report like the ones you get daily on TV. If they did that that'd fuck over the game forever. Bugs you can fix, a story that's tied to an event that will be looked at in a completely different way a few years from now you cannot. Case in point: Postal 4 and it's over-reliance on COVID references.
My quests are softlocked but I really just want to keep playing. The game is fun enough that I keep thinking about it and continuing. Really hope the patch the fix the quests post SIRCAA comes out early on next week
emission at the shack but for some reason the shack doesn't protect me from it
>>503480560Faster!
>>503482480prease understand
>>503482480is there a chimera? run.>captcha>kamma
>>503482480works on my shack
>>503481397I didn’t even bother pirating it. How much bandwidth is it going to take over the next 3 weeks just to keep the game updated? 300gb+? No thanks.
>>503482510
>>503473951I'm thinking of switching off a shotgun because they don't really shred mutants, and they lose too much fucking durability per shot.
>they gave the bloodsucker teethWhat am I supposed to fuck now?
>>503482480You mean the quest to get to clear sky right?Guess what? None of the buildings in that entire area protect you from the emmission that it forces, not even the big ass church that has a small underground pocket which 100% should.The game wants you to run away from the chimera specifically towards the shack then to the clear sky bunker and go into the bunker. You aren't supposed to, and aren't allowed to, play any other way.
>can sit near campfires>can't access PDA>can't access inventory>can't eat>can't drink>can only look around at people eating and drink NEAR the campfire like an autistic mute too shy to do anything in front of them>can only play the guitarI can take the unbalanced economy and combat, I can take the lack of Alife and even the piss poor performance. But it's little things like these that truly annoys me.
>>503482425SO I've found a workaround for the bugged storyline quests The Hornets Nest and Just Like The Good Old Daysyou can save Zalissya and not get the bugged town destroyed shit and can still progress through Rostok. As soon as you get out of SIRCAA and come out of the tunnel where the two quests start, immediately run to Quiets shop and kill the monolith.from there run straight to Zalissya to kill the monolith people, talk to the quest guy who tells you to grab his gun, get the gun and go straight back to SHELTER and finish all your shit there. The last part for Lodochka will still be bugged but whatever, its optional. From there run straight to Sphere and do all the shit there. problem solved, you wont lose Zalissya and you will still progress through Rostok
>>503482656FASTER
>>503482760They probably just forgot to code in the value that would make one those buildings emission proof.
Is this an anomaly trick or just bug? I was shooting a guy point blank with shotgun but had no effect, didnt even register
So is there no equivalent of the army warehouses area? This makes me sad, it was my favourite and most comfy area in SHoC. I wanted to revisit bloodsucker village.(captcha: tony hawk's pro skater, diarrhoea vomiting)
>>503482818all these little things are added up kinda ruins the game for me. good thing it's going to have mods.
>>503482760Well that's retarded, Almost as retarded as me running all the way back to the boat in Zaton, But hey that worked, fuck you game! I play as I will!
>>503482714thats why i just got the mods that decreased mutant health cause its actually bs how much ammo they take
>>503482818It actually annoys me so much I can't check my inventory or plan out things on my map while sitting at the campfire
>>503468519Game is not about it, zigger chud
>>503483087based, don't take any of the zone's shit
>>503482840
unironically going to wait for patches before finishing the game. it is pretty fun as-is but world feels too empty and boring with no npcs.
>>503479605It's unbalanced and spamming medkits isn't fun.
I went to Agroprom and later to Yantar, Can you get to Strelok's old hideout because I couldn't find an entry point to Agroprom underground, same with yantar the miracle machine is sealed, and the scientist bunker is also sealed, are they locked behind story progression?
>>503481647im thinking kino
>>503483314yeah, lets go back to GAMMAkino
>>503483314>Why isn't something epic happening at every moment in my desolate, apocalyptic, irradiated, anomalous, wasteland!?!?
doesnt seem to be many sidequests in the game.
i still dont know what edeekomnyae means
>>503481397man, I feel robbed even though I'm torrenting itthinking about canceling the download
>>503483274Spin FASTER so the monolith can hear you.
>>503480735Can the nigga at Rostok upgrade 'end-game' shit? The one at Cement Factory couldn't upgrade my dnipro
>>503482370we know, thats what mods are for.
>>503483504*spawns my sqaud behind you*Immersed in the atmosphere yet, bitch?
>>503482921>I wanted to revisit bloodsucker village.With the HP and damage they have in this game? Fuck that.
I'm completely retardedhow do you create the engine.ini folder for UETools
>>503483702Heard that Rostok technician is the one to go to for upgrades. Don't know if that's true though as I've never checked it out for myself. Not that I can afford repairing or upgrading anything anyway.
how the hell do you deal with this? can't shoot it, can't throw bolt at it to defuse, it chases you instead of following a path to avoidI've been face-tanking it with a lot of medkits but that can't be the solution
>>503484008hide from it, and run.
>>503474171like my cum on your mums face
All they need to do is fix performance, atmosphere,AI, completely rebalance the combat and loot, fix the game ruining bugs and the game will be a decent 8/10
>>503482041just use caption auto translate
there's simply not enough enemies to shoot at wtf?
>>503484123mods already do all that.
>>503483907Open the folder, right click, new, text document. Rename it to engine.If your windows not showing .txt, in the top menu, switch to view tab, tag the "file name extension".Rename the engine.txt to engine.ini
>>503484312Too bad they can't fix the core A-Life mechanic
>>503484008I'd like to know this as well, these little cunts have drained me of medkits and destroyed my suit every time they've shown up. You can shoot them and sometimes it will deflect them, but it only happens like half the time.
>>503481776>you want more story or more freeplay?I am not sure. I am fine with either as long as the base game is solid.
>>503484008It follows a predetermined path until it notices you, then it starts to chase you. Hide somewhere it can't see you, wait for it to pass and run to the next room.
Installing the cheeki breeki deathscreen has improved my gaming experience by 100%
>>503481662>both of those look better than Stalker 2
When you leaned in the old stalkers didn't you automatically lean back ?I find myself getting stuck in lean during fights.
>>503484515Try OGSR, its a mix of both, well maybe more story than freeplay but the A-Life is relatively free.
>grok wants to release the gamma update early because hes so disappointed by stalker 2it's freaking over, we're never escaping from freeroamslop
so I am at the point in the main storyline right after SIRCAA where I have to turn off the source of the signal that is drivign all the monolith batshit fuckin crazy I took the time to run back to the first town to try and find a technician to repair all my horribly damaged shit, but the entire town was deserted/deadI also got lots of radio transmissions from other towns that are ...concerningshould I just try to scrape through this current mission to turn the signal off, or if I keep going to garbage or back to swamp, will tehre be a fucking tecnician available? crazy cool turns of events either way, it's intense as fuck seeing and hearing the entire zone being a literal warzonealmost makes you believe a-life is working, almost
>>503484663what the fuck is up with the death screen anyway, it's not scary
>>503478410kek, same
>>503482061Doesn't true stalker kill a-life though?
>>503484719Do you want me to tell you the truth, Anon? Zalissya is bugged, there are no other defenses. I literally ran to Slagheap only to find the dudes chilling despite what the radio said, no Monolith in sight.
When or where do you get that bullpup SVD rifle that was shown in one of the trailers? I really want to try that thing out.
is there a way to debloat and simplify anomaly? Old world is nice but the graphcis are trash. I dont have the trigology and dont want to pirate so only mods or modpacks if possible.
>>503484872thank fuckmy suit is at like 23% and both of my primary weapons are around 40%I don't know if I would have been able to complete another main storyline quest without any breakage, whih seem substantially more expensive to fix
>>503484741It's not scary, it's goofy and that bloodsucker pic doenst even make sense when I die gangbanged by dogsits a little qol that makes me laugh whenever I dide becuase I keep forgetting I installed it kek
>>503484868Yes but storyfags are demented and think that is acceptable
>>503484690You need to hold lean if you want to automatically lean back later. If you just press the button, you'll be stuck in lean mode, and will need to press it again to un-lean. Similar to crouch, I think. Holding it uncrouches after you let go, pressing switches between crouch/stand modes.
>>503483975I've used the dude at STC Malachite, south of the brain scorcher plant, he's had no issue with the SEVA and elite Bulat suits I've found so far also has a cute science hag trader
>Enter the zone to get money for a new apartment because your old one got blown up by a fucking anomaly manifesting outside the zone>end up getting tangled in bullshit that can decided the fate of the zone itselfbeing Skif is suffering
>>503484692I'll be honest. The reason I'm thinking about getting back to playing STALKER is because I came across a video of Anomaly Custom which looked incredible. Does OGSR improve upon the original graphics and textures? How is it different from Anomaly?
>>503485064>Holding it uncrouches after you let go, pressing switches between crouch/stand modes.You can change that in the settings.
I get a free 50% durability spas out of thin air???? Thanks I guess?
>>503485151couldn't he just get a job?
what the fuck is this
>>503484872When exactly do the defense missions trigger? I want to know where to stop doing the main quest before GSC rolls out a patch. I'm at a point where I need to go to the Sawmil after Richter told me to in Slag Heap.
>>503483557Coom to me
>>503485279flashlight anomaly xD
So, the game doesnt start if I remove the USB I used to update the mobo's BIOSwtf is this slavic programmic bullshit?
>>503485279You stand in front of Escanor, prepare to die.
>>503485317You are fine. The defense missions trigger after a couple of story missions at the main SIRCAA facility.
>>503485234In the Ukrainian economy?
How heavily scripted is the game? Because in Squint's missionbefore finding him in the mill I visited the cave, and there was neither the artifact nor the bloodsuckerafter visiting it, I go back to the cave and there are both. wtf?anyway, after getting sensors I shot Squint in the face, the bastard almost killed me with his traps. The funny thing is that in Zalissya no one asks about his condition, everyone is only interested in the sensors. Kekanyway, I gave them to the Sparks. WARDs can suck my dick
Ward or Spark, bros?
>>503485863Think for yourself.
>>503485751I gave the sensors to Ward after killing Squint because fuck Squint and his friends.
I'm 20 years old. Been waiting for this game since I was 11. I used to come home from school and play CoP with a blanket around me sitting in the dark at night being scared shitless by snorks
>>503485863I am not a Government bootlicker.
>>503485751>before finding him in the mill I visited the cave, and there was neither the artifact nor the bloodsuckerWhen I visited that village way before even accepting the quest, the Bloodsucker was there, but I didn't get through to the artifact since he kicked my ass and I didn't bother again.
>>503485863monolita
>>503475569>16gb ram is insufficientnah
HOW FUCKING HARD WAS IT TO ADDTHUMBNAILS TO THE SAVES THAT SHOWAN ACTUAL SCREENSHOT?
>>503475569>he doesn't pirate game in his workplace's server so he can game comfortably on 512Gigerbytes of RAM
>>503486249I get the impression that making a list of things that WEREN'T removed would be pretty short.
>>503484896you can find one here
>>503485751Ended up giving them to Ward. I dunno, Squint seemed like a fucking useless asshole anyways.
>>503486249small indie company, please understand
>>503485863>Rich Oligarchs attack dogs or a bunch of schizosstrange choice
>>503486074Monolith will forever be my favorite faction.I saved Ninth and would do it again.Religious zealots are always the most based factions in any game.>reasonable arguments?>we don't do it here, faggot, praise the rock
>>503485973Soulful zoomer
>Try perfomance mod>Insta crash (1st crash ever)>Held hostage by the crash report>Take out the mod>Crash again 30min laterThis is going to suck
>story mission npc vs npc fight >gunshots going off for 10 minutes straight>roaming open world>never hear gunshots
>>503486553that's the authentic unpatched Stalker experience, enjoy your stay
>>503486553I also took it out, why the fuck does the crash report keep us prisoner, jeez. After I took it out I never crashed again
I liked the sexual tension in that one SIRCAA cutscene in the conference room after you make a certain choice
>>503485174It runs on his own engine so yes the graphics are much improved compared to what the original engine could do>How is it different from Anomaly?Its basically SoC but expanded in every way, lots of quests and new stuff to check out
Should I continue exploring Burnt Forest, Red Forest ect. or just continue the main story bros?
>>503485279>damn I wish I had a better flashlight>OMG NOT LIKE THIS!!!11
What anomaly is the most scary? I find invisible floating razors more worrisome than being crunched alive in 1 quick snap.
>>503475941FUDDY FYH STRONK
>>503486553use the Engine tweak in the OP pastebin + use FSR frame generation. I get stable 60 FPS on High with my 5 years old GeForce RTX 3060. The pixel ghosting is barely noticable
>>503486536For me it's just the direct simple nature of "we're just gonna kill you" relationship they have with everyone else. After them its bandits for me.
>>503485863>Glowies or an actual CultNone of them sound particularly good but I'll never side with the gubmint willingly so the Cult it is
>>503486847sunk cost post
>>503486538Good times. I love SoC and CoP. I really was hoping for Stalker 2 to be good but I can't enjoy it. I mean I like the bigger map but it's meaningless without A-life or actual depth to the world...
>>503486854My favorite moment was when I found out this anomaly can block bullets and counts as hard cover.
Love the game but I wish there were a few more guides/locations for fast travel. Just about fully explored 5 of the maps, and I'm starting to dread the idea of going through the 10+ more. Even now, just finished the SIRCAA questline, and the objective to walk back 1.2km to quiets base feels like more of a punishment than anything else.
>>503477514why does eveyone keep posting the same shit over and over again?that shit is not normal
>>503487123That's smart! I only knew it eats up bolts. In the second room where it occurs Nestor mission you get a free ecologist suit behind the collapsed cabinets in the room's corner.
>>503487132I am waiting on a free fast travel mod like the one in gamma where you can teleport to any named location. Im a wagie and dont want to waste my time in empty spaces
bruh let me fuckin name my save
>>503483504There’s no atmosphere if nothing happens travelling from point A to B
multiple people play tested this game extensively and thought it was ok...
>go to stash in the middle of nowhere>3 friendly stalkers spawned in behind me and begin resting at the campfire>I go up the ladder 2ft away and activate the stash and grab the armor next to it.>Suddenly, all the chatter from the friendly stalkers stops>I look out the window>4 bandits spawned just below me acting as if they were always there and didn't just spawn in>kill them all>3 stalkers despawned the second I touched the stashThis shit is so fucking ASS. But why am I having fun?
>>503479896this. discord faggots do this a lot.
>>503486854That gravitational sphere near Zalissya made me, let's say, shit in my pants.Initially I observed it for a few minutes, since it's among the new ones and I remembered it from the trailer. However, as you get closer, while maintaining a certain distance, it begins to attract you with a constant and intense force, and the time window to escape is so short that, combined with the initial surprise, it created a nice mini panic attack: it's nice, after 10 years and more of these games, to still be able to feel like a rookie who is about to be crushed by an anomaly.Seeing the sheets of the machines first deformed and crushed, and then returning to their original shape, is spooky and fascinating at the same time.They did an aesthetically impeccable job with the anomalies, even that sort of vault of debris near that funeral monument for the dead stalker, is very beautiful and makes me feel how the Zone has changedBTW how the FUCK do I open the locked door in the basement in the second location???Peak kino
>>503487132>the objective to walk back 1.2km to quiets base feels like more of a punishment than anything elseOnce they """""fix""""" a-life in 7 months you'll have to fight packs of bloodsuckers and dogs the entire time.
>>503483557There is a mod where he says the shit in English. I think its radiophobia 3
it's insane how OP vector is. did devs even bother balancing weapons?
>>503479993>>503480424>>>>>>>>>>>nationalism is a bad thing
>>503487667>That gravitational sphere near Zalissya made me, let's say, shit in my pants.Oh the one that is like a black hole turning on an off? Made my heart race as I took a solid minute to escape its pull. Thought I would die for sure. Didn't even care about the dog collars anymore.
why did they make sidorovich a super money hungry asshole
>>503486862how much ram?
>>503472124How the fuck are you all in endgame already? Are these threads full of NEETs playing games 18 hours a day?
>>503487667>BTW how the FUCK do I open the locked door in the basement in the second location???Rush through the green smoke the suit already is good for high radiation areas.
>>503487997>Intro to SoC>The first thing he does is call saving you an "investment" and that he'll help you for "mutual gain"Yeah I really do wonder where they pulled that from huh
imagine how bad it ran when the graphics looked like this
>>503485751I'm playing on veteran difficulty and im stuck in the cave. Why are there bloodsuckers this early in the game and why are they so fucking tanky? You usually only started encountering them early-mid game in the other titles. Is this for streamers who are only going to pay the first few hours of the game?
I have played through every STALKER mod since 2008. Listen to me now. The best one was Oblivion Lost
>>503488125Ok but that door is locked with a key for meI found a spare key while looking for Squint at the farm, maybe that will help me
>>503487997Uhh Anon
>>503481397A friend bought me the game.
>>503488373The memes are real
>>503488248CoP had Bloodsuckers at the beginning, but the first encounter you have with them is when you walk into that room full of sleeping Bloodsuckers and you have to make your way through them without making any noise and it was FUCKING scary and I wish we had more quests like thatIIRC it was a ..vampire stalker doing all that? and it was a doctor? weird
>>503486424Not him, but you mean the quest with Leechy?
>>503488557yeah leechy has an SVD doesn't he
>>503481958This whole "coupon" thing makes no sense to me, how did they manage to get every faction to agree to use "coupons" over rubles? Who governs this monetary body? Who controls the funds and inflation? It makes no sense, also why do literally no NPCs carry these "coupons" ? How do they pay for things or exchange thngs?
>>503488548i had bloodsuckers spawn on me at skadovsk before i started that quest
>>503488665Yup. I was just wondering if that's what anon was referring to.
>>503488223The game is heavily CPU bound, when you go into an area with 20 or more NPCs the framerate tanks into the 40s even with a 7800X3D, the GPU barely matters. My bet is that they had the graphics pumped up before they implemented the AI system, as soon as they did that, the performance went to shit and they had to start cutting on graphical features that are not only heavy on the GPU but also on the CPU.That or they nerfed the graphics on PC to be on par with Xbox, if that is the case then they can fuck off.
>>503488694they didn't think about that
>Going from point A to B>I wonder how the """""A-Life"""""" will deal with my this time>80th Bloodsucker encounterI am fucking sick of it.
>>503481258Yeah no guitars or harmonicas, it's strange. It's just stalkers sitting around campfires telling the same jokes over and over.Its even worse in the hangar in garbage. The bandits are just standing around doing nothing, saying nothing, while clipping through the floor. Sometimes the proximity spawn system puts random groups of bandits in there that start shooting at you, and if you shoot back it aggros the other ones.I got so mad that when a blowout happened and they all took shelter in their storage room I threw a couple of grenades in and killed them all.I'm loving this game but I'm terrified of slowly becoming jaded and angry at how incredibly rough it is around the edges. I want binoculars and A-life, I want items to not be jumbled around in my inventory after selling something, I want sleeping bags and artifact cooking. I want campfire music.
>>503488757>when you go into an area with 20 or more NPCs the framerate tankswhy are modern games like this?
>>503488305There are several locked doors, you might find something that I didn't discover. But the suit room one has the lock on the inside and you can only access it through the smokeWill take many players to unravel all mysteries of the zone. There is so much stashed!
>>503484896Not related butI just found an vintorez sniper rifleAt the Clement factory duty asked me to help kill bandits. One of the duty guys died and dropped a vss. Maybe you can get a sniper like that.
Zalissya can get fucked I am not going to wait 1 week to save a bunch of retards
is this where i stop if i dont want bugs?
>>503489187i think so
>>503487667first time I came close the bubble didn't spawn, and the pull-in-push-out didn't happen - it was only an unchanging pull-in part. i got to the dog to get the collar, then spent several minutes figuring out how to leave from behind the rock (impossible), then reloaded and spent another 15 minutes trying to figure out how it's supposed to work before leaving it completelyonly when passing by randomly later did it work properly
>>503489187Yes
>>503488958Mhm, ok I'll look into it fellow stalker
>>503484896I found a dragonov in a random building some guy was hiding in with booby traps. I killed him and he had a dragonov not bullpup
>>503484718Too bad no one cares about xray anymoreWe have a new system to work with now
>>503485217yeha seen people get M14's, m700's just randomly.I like to believe its zone controllers fucking with people, but also helping
so let me get this straight:every single anomaly generates an artifact, and i should spend time looking for it with bolt? how can i tell from the sensor when there is an artifact?
>>503489460a new shitty systemwhich makes me think that it's very possible for the original trilogy to outlive S2 in terms of modding
>>503489187Yes. The only issue is that you have a 12kg item permanently strapped in your inventory if you stop there. Ideally you would stop before clear skies.
>>503489235>>503489187Kek I already have a permanent "escape the emission" map marker. Guess I get that fixed any day now with the patch they want to release. At least it doesn't stop me thus far.
>>503489525Anon the tutorial literally tells you this.
>>503489674inb4 the patch doesn't unfuck saves so you have to start a new game
>>50348803216gb
>>503487997jesus christ why do I come here
>>503488818>see ? mark in the map>go check it out>see some loot>either a squad of soldier/bandits spawn nearby, one or two bloodsuckers will prowl around, a pack of dogs will be in site waiting for you or you will find anything and the place will be empty>loot: 20 rounds of 9mm and a medpack
Alright Loners, just got out of the Lesser Zone after 12 hours. Game's absolute cinema. What mods am I installing now that I started the real game?
>>503489037what do you need a sniper for? cant see life past 30m anyway.
>>503489187there's a bug point? How far into the story it is?
>>503489914now you wait until GSC finishes the 2nd half of the game
>>503489318Not sure if random spawn but theres an svd at the dam far east of cement factory past hell anomaly. theres also a couple of bloodsuckers there
Call me when exploring outside the main quest is actually fun Very boring walking into an empty PoI then endless waves spawning that just run single-file into your bullets with no tactics
not one person has made a flashlight mod, why?
>>503484896i think youre talking about the SVU, i remember that in one of the trailers too, but i havent found it in game yet.
>>503489983O-oh... that bad?
>>503487997I actually checked. His buying prices are the same as Hamster in Zalissya. Even after pissing him off.
>>503489729Yes I understand that, what I mean is:Do ALL anomalies generate artifacts? Even the meat grinders, those fire pits on the street, etc? How do you figure out which ones have artifacts and which ones don't?
>>503489983how bad it is? In terms of bugs.
>>503490148there are at least 4 different softlocks after that
>>503489525artifacts spawn in dense anomaly fieldsthe sensor beeps faster the closer you are to the artifactthe bolt is just for triggering anomalies so they go on cooldown for you to run through
>>503488125damn that's a nice findI was there 15min ago so reloaded the save and grabbed the thingynot that I'll ever use it, but still
>>503486000checked
>>503488843>>503481258>zero guitar playing anywhereI've seen plenty of stalkers playing the guitar in Zalissya. Haven't heard any harmonicas, though.
>>503490308cyкa блять
>>503489980yes, people have reported soft-locking after this quest. no idea how far into story this is, but at this point only 1/3 of the map is visited by the story.
does the saiga have foregrip upgrade?
>get to the signal inside the shelter>nothing happens besides me going psi schizoam I missing something?
>>503490260No they don't. Look for anomaly hotspots and points of interest where there are a lot of them then whip out your detector. If it doesn't blink, there's no artifacts.
>>503489914this list revolutionized my gameplay. its honestly perfect. The one I crossed out was for bug testing the main story missions and doesnt work anyway since I have a mod conflict with another mod that overwrites it anyway
>>503489780>inb4 the patch doesn't unfuck saves so you have to start a new gameYeah that might as well happen. I remember when Shitpunk 2077 had self corrupting saves if they were larger than certain MB.
So despite all the downsides of this game, there's a few things I am enjoying. Stealth actually works really well. Feels natural. Enemies look for you and if you give them the slip they don't psychically know where you are. Better than Far Cry or any Bethesda game. Snekan around with a silenced pistol is actually viable and rewarding this time, unlike any previous title and especially compared to Analmeme/Gaymma.I feel like they have the foundations of a really solid game here and despite the shitty state it's currently in, I think this is about as good as we could have hoped for. I mean let's not kid ourselves, we always knew GSC are a bunch of incompetent retards, this could have been a lot worse.
>interface screen doesn't show picture, name, rank and faction anymore
>>503488223The first one was not playable at all just a mock up
>>503490598>Stealth actually works really well. Feels natural.it really doesn't
>>503490492Nevermind, I found what I had to climb, I really am fucking blind.
>>503490443I haven't seen a single one. Are they rare or am I just unlucky?
>>503490206I thought for sure that blasting his exo that he would ban me from the Rookie Village or at least jack my prices up for himNope literally zero consequence to that
Killed the Shah before starting King of the Hill. Am I softlocked from completing this quest chain now?
>>503490356Thanks, sometimes it is worth to create a savegame and jump into some danger to see if there is treasure to be found. I'd be a rookie and die day 1. Inb4 death counter already too high for good ending, jokes.
>>503490260there are various predetermined spots where artifacts spawn. usually it's easy to tell - there's a lot of artifact spawns nearby, like the valley where you're asked to bring a corpse to his brother, or the gravitational bubbles in the "rubble floats upwards" and so onrandom artifacts strewn around the map likely won't have anyeach emission has a ~40% chance to respawn an artifact, but there's a cooldown of a few days for the same anomaly if you take an artifact out of it
>>503488223>graphics got downgraded so bad the character literally agedlmao
>asshole threatens me>leans on the wall smugly instead of grabbing his gun>gets gunned down in a secondStalkers really are fucking stupid huh
>>503490598Stealth is fucked, what are you talking about.I snipe one guy, with a suppressor, and the whole camp knows where I am even if I'm crouched inside a bush, in the dark.
>>503490859are you talking about shelter merc?
>>503490598>Stealth actually works really wellthe absence of NV really hurts itlike the first mission for Diode, you're told that you can go in quietly... except you'll need to pass by at least one dude where it's pitch black, so you turn on the flashlight and he stays oblivious
>>503490915Yeah, what a retard
>>503490680I'm seeing it just as often as in the old games.
>>503490656>>503490873literally skill issue, works fine for me.Same for a lot of complaints here actually, there's places the game is legitimately fucked right now but there's also places you guys are being a bunch of fuckin pussy bitches who forgot that this game IS supposed to have a survival difficulty element, not just be a power fantasy shooter.>>503490508Look at this list full of chea... I mean "mods" as an example.
>they're still trying to change numbers in that fake A-Life director thing to make it work
>>503490508Thanks. Saving these.
>>503491070Are you playing with Ukrainian dialog?
>>503490761noand you get fucked over no matter what
>Cheat to climb atop Ludochka's bunker to see if I can get in that wayLol, lmao. I should also really buy more ammo
>>503489914how did you take 12 hours to get out of there?
>>503490873Works for me.
>>503490506>>503490775Ok, thanks. I've been wondering why I heard the beeping, without the sound: I thought the game was buggedthank you fellow stalkers!
>>503491203Yes, but I doubt that would affect how often stalkers play the guitar.
>>503491402the inconsistency with this game across different people's PCs just show u all the issues it has.
>first time in /sg/ in years don't know there's no A-life>tunnel offices past the bandit camp in cordon>group of friendly stalkers guarding the entrance>loot the offices, dead end, find locked door, leave>as I go outside to the stalkers a group of boars come out of the offices I just exitedThat's the moment. That was when I realized there was no A-life and that it used a rudimentary spawning mechanism.I notice it every time it happens too. You look around you and see nothing, not a soul. Then out of nowhere there's two squads shooting at one another, like almost right on top of you. Or a group of dogs or boars.The illusion is ruined and it sucks. It really does suck. A-life was like one of the first things they should've gotten working during development.
>>503490873AI doesn't see bushes
>>503491406beeping indicates nearby anomaly or radiationthere's also the far less common collar nearbyto see if an artifact is nearby - you need to take out a detector, it's pretty obvious when it activates
>>503491372He's taking it reaaal slow. 2nd cousin of Boo.
Advanced flesh fighting strategy.This pistol is too fucking overpowered.
>>503491319But I can't pick up the next part of the quest from Huron now. I did the first part and thought I'd come back to it later after wandering around.
>>503491454Do they sing while playing guitar? They might not show up with English voices.Will test.
i've just realized somethingsince OG players know the map so welldoesn't it make it even more obvious for them that A-Life doesn't exist?
>>503491161play on Veteran with the mod list I posted and you'll realize its not easy. the consumable rework makes medkits and food work entirely differently than the base game, it heals over 30 seconds instead of instantly letting you tank everything
>>503491765Yep.
nice shadows
>>503491765>since OG players know the map so wellThe map is changed quite a bit. Outside of a few areas, I don't feel like I'm "at home". It's the boringness of travel that makes the lack of a-life hurt, especially with how big the map is.
Playing with ukranian voicelines and it sounds so god damn off. Like listening to scots (ukranian) compared to english (russian)
do artifacts damage your gear? even the ones that cancel each other out?
>>503491406>>503491624*without the lightthank you
>>503491738Haven't heard any singing yet, just the old melodies from the previous games plus some new ones.I have the preorder "enhanced campfire content" bonus, whatever that means, so maybe it's somehow related to that.
I really hope that the new update doesn't brick my shit and I have to start over and lose the hours of progress I made
>>503474484It's just enabling default Unreal Engine features. And yeah, sound occlusion uses raytraces to determine your position relative to a sound event and whether anything is between you and the sound and if there is, what that obstruction is made of and how dense it is to determine how much to muffle/dampen the sound. And sound propagation as well, so sounds travel through a building.Very ~IMMERSIVE~ stuff.
>>503491738no, so far I only heard them playing some dope ass coverslike nothing else matters
>>503491671It's not that the pistol is overpowered, it's just that it has a higher armor piercing stat than most early guns. Fleshes and boars have thick skin that counts as armor. Try shooting them using rifles with AP rounds.
i'm done with the game for now after 40 hours i guess. no point in progressing if i'm seeing this amount of people saying they get stuck with the quest.
>>503492439when the update is coming out?
>>503492586monday
wait, did they fix the trade bug with dragging out a stack of somerthing, trading, then confirming removal?
>>503492586Hopefully tomorrow.
>>503492580I literally posted a workaround for the quest above that I've confirmed works.
Its so fucking over
>>503492578>It's not that the pistol is overpoweredI can magdump with a fucking pistol and kill them while using cheap and abundant ammo with a gun that costs nothing to fix. And it's silenced if I want to stealth kill like here>>503491402It's disgustingly overpowered all things considered.
>>503479979portal anomalies should also be in the pool of anomalies that can spawn out in the world and they take you to a different portal anomaly somewhere elsethat would probably lead to big sequence breaks though
>>503491671NOW THIS IS STALKER
>>503492432That might be it, I have the regular edition.Are you kidding me right now... THAT'S behind a paywall?
>>503492580>no point in progressing if i'm seeing this amount of people saying they get stuck with the quest.You can go past it. But you can't:-Touch Zalessya or it fucks everything-Do the optional objective of speaking with the Prof in the bunker
>>503477908he almost got away with merely pretending to be dead until you yeeted him into the whirligigyou monster
>>503492729their combat designer is genuinely a retard
>>503491671the fuck are your mouse movements so jerky
>>503492729no refunds chud
>>503486854>What anomaly is the most scary?Not scary but that annoying spark explosion anomaly that teleports in front you and with its area of effect, you’ll get flashbanged, concussed, and take damage. I avoid those anomaly because they can kill you so fast.
worry not stalkers! patch coming in 7 business days after it gets through microsoft's xbox approval system!
>>503492926I am so glad the psydog spazzed out and just sat around while I fucking blasted it from atop a crate, genuinely cancer design along with almost every fucking mutant having an attack that knocks you on your ass or removes your gun from your hands
>>503492989I play really high DPI with a vertical mouse (prevents my wrists from ever bothering me) and just kind of do tiny movements. I'm used to it now and can play as well as I could with normal mouse and sensitivity/DPI settings.
>>503492926yes, grok is a retard.we know
>>503492731Well when you put it like that I guess all it's missing is a scope to really hammer it home. Did you find the extended mag yet lmao
How to rebind quick slots to like in CoP? Aka F1/F2/F3/F4? This holding shit is pants on head retarded
>>503493170i ran and jumped on a brick wall the moment i saw this fucking dog clone itself into 15 parts, and of course they start taking cover like human bots the moment they realize they can't touch me, because thats what dogs do... retarded game lol
>>503493192ok so I'm not loosing my fucking mind.hey, so long as it works for ya
>>503493290Yeah I have the 13 round mag.
>>503493396It's normal for me now so I don't really think about it. It's incredibly comfortable on my wrist and arms which is nice because I'm prone to tendonitis and playing with a mouse for a long time used to bother parts of my hand and arm. Plus the mouse I have has a good amount of button bindings which is nice.
Finding stashes make no sense right now>find 500 kubles worth of shit>waste 500+ kubles worth of ammo dealing with the enemy spawning after you loot
>>503493170Same thing happened to me. Bloodsuckers? Burers? nah turns out fucking psy dogs are the scariest thing you can encounter
>>503493664>fight 60 bandits>30 bloodsuckers>a biblical plague of rodents, fleshes and dogs>only to get two vodkas, some ammo and maybe a singular sausageThanks.
>Bloodsuckers just spawn everywhere, no matter how open or lightflooded the areawow, uh, such a mysterious and dangerous creature...almost like a vampire...
>>503493373I think the lore says they're intelligent to some capacity.That's another thing this game is missing. SoC had a bestiary and info screen on the PDA that gave you info on mutants and anomalies and factions and such. Why is that gone?
>>503493757Burers are just annoying because they knock your guy out, it can also glitch through the floor and it's just gone forever
>>503493396>loosing*losing
>>503493327Haven't tried it yet but you can attempt to change it in CustomizeControls.cfg. Try changing the keys to F1-F4 and change each individual one to "tap" instead of "HoldWithActivationDelay".
>>503493878Instead Skif just completely knows and understands the entire zone within a couple hours of entering. We even find out later on that Skif isn't a returning character, he's not a secret operative. He's literally just a random dude with prior military service who's pretty intelligent and good in a fight who came into the zone because an artifact destroyed his apartment.
>>503493804>find 30 rounds of 9mm>spend 50 rounds of 9mm fighting the your government assigned bloodsucker
>>503493964gun*** not guy oopsie
>>503493664the simplest thing i can think they could have done was make it so meds are scarce and don't drop from stalkers. make stalkers drop at least a half a mag full of ammo, and make stashes the best source of meds, that way at least it kind of makes sense to go look for stashes or boxes.
>random spawn military niggas shooting me??I thought theyre chill now
>>503494169same thing happened to me, are the wards and military different groups? whats weird is that i've passed friendly squads of military before.
>>503494169they did it for the lulz
>>503494169There's Ward which don't have camo and the border patrol or whatever the fuck old Military is called now who still kill Stalkers on sight
>>503491909Yeah, I'm polish and to me it sounds like if you were to mix russian with czech lol. Pretty different from previous games
So how does the poppy field work exactly? What triggers the random teleports, what triggers the dropping dead, what's the point of big bunches of petals flying about the area? I pretty much blundered into the root cellar first try because the area looked suspiciously emptyalso is it worth going back to try and find all the bodies to loot? Anything good hidden out there, it feels like there would be since you're apparently on a timer and the tall poppies would be good at hiding shit.
>>503494169Theres different military branches. Ward is usually cool, and they have a couple split offs with different gear. ISPF are outside military powers who don't work with Ward and kill everyone else on sight. They are dressed like military have ranks too.This game kind of sucks in that regard, It's really fucking difficult to tell who's who. Monolith forces post SIRCAA just look like more soldiers with slightly different helmets.
>>503493858>bloodsucker roar every time>all the time>it paralyzes you>they don't huff and pant when running after youThey're not scary anymore and are just cringe and take twenty buckshot to the face to drop. At least they'll never be as tanky as the new Controllers. There's one in a cave next to rookie village and it took so much health, ammo, and grenades to kill that I should've just ran instead.
>>503493878thats a big miss from the devs, i never played OG stalkers but i remember this was a cool thing in the witcher... could have made it so skif updates his mutant notes on his PDA as he encounters them, like putting a "WTF???" next to chimera after that first encounter with it
so is slug actually better against mutants?
>>503494413The swirling petals intakill you. I just ran through it and got the icon then fucked off, cool conceptually actual cancer to get through
>>503494413If you don't pay the bloke in the building for information he tells you to get him guns and ammo from the corpses. You can complete the quest anyway, I never found everything there is apparently because it never triggered completion on that particular part of the quest. Or maybe it is broken.
>>503490324Usually it beeps fast and i somehow still cant find it. Like the game is fucking with me. I go in the right direction and it beeps fast then it will stop send me somewhere else
>>503491909>>503494329did the original game only have russian? or is the ukrainian spoken in this game very different from the ukrainian in the old games?
Can we just fucking all agree now the that the game got niggerfied and by niggerfied i mean consolified>>503493878too much to handle for consoles
>>503492578See this makes absolutely no sense, in the old games you would shoot muties with high flesh damage rounds and use AP for armored humies, now you're telling me it's AP for everyone? Someone really needs to unfuck this.
>>503493170I think mutants being dangerous would be fine if (a) humans werent total wimps in comparison and (b) they werent so tankyAs is I just took to running when fighting random spawns that arent in my way because why even bother
So you can give the broken unusual PDA to either Ward or Iskra. But not showing it to anyone seems like a weird route, you wouldn't even get the information it's from Monolith. I thought the game would give you a Ward and non-ward route, what happens if you never show it to anyone? How do you even get the prompt to go to Wild Islands base?Normally I would just make a second playthrough, but that will take years before I replay it, once GSC fixes some thing and some proper mods show up.
>>503494692you have to be really close to the artifact for it to appear, and sometimes you miss it and it's one of those artifacts that fly away after a few seconds.oh and also there is a bug right now where artifacts can spawn under the ground so you can't actually get them.
>>503493152Leak the patch notes to see if I should start huffing copium or not
>>503494723No it's just fleshes. Anon is wrong, boars don't have armor.
>>503491765The map is werid now. Seems like dark valley and the garbage are mixed together. Doesnt make sense. But i still found the place i need to get to without a marker
>>503494803The pseudo-giant particularly annoys me, because I swear you could actually jump over his slam if you timed it right, now it just knocks you flat on your ass even if you are 40 meters away
even with all the problems i have with the game rn i think it has a really solid foundation, it's just disappointing that i expected this to be an improvement over the old games, not a downgrade from the old games with only graphics being the upgrade...
>>503492729I told people that the psy dog was bullshit here and they told me. The fake ones die with one bullet. Well. Its still bullshit. Because the fake ones hurt you. They didn't hurt you in clear sky.
>>503494417>OG games mark hostile NPCs on the map>even have all nearby NPCs listed in a "contacts" list to see their faction and whether they're friend or foe>S2 has no such thingWe got bamboozled boys
>>503494886If you don't show the PDA to either group someone in the sawmill area will guide you.
>>503494710I think it was russian. The polish version was russian with a polish voiceover. Absolute kino. Sadly they won't be able to do it again because the voice actor that did the voiceover died some time ago
>>503493170I found the real one and chased it. But somehow that turned out to be a fake one.
Compass or no compass?
>No mention of armor repair balance in the preliminary patch notesIt's overWhy do you think they decided armor repair was the #1 expense?
>>503494479yeah they all just feel like witcher monsters now.
>>503494417gee, another CRUCIAL aspect of the originals that absolutey got shafted!
>>503495346The real one changes every time it does it's psychic barking. Short of shooting all of them in that timeframe, you need to wait until it charges up it's bark (glows blue) and then kill it. If you have a Saiga or Cracker you can do it in 2 barks.
>>503495436because you should always keep your shit repaired anon. It's a one time pay thing.
>>503495436i dont know, considering late game I have armor that protects fully from physical damage and I still get absolutely raped
>>503495378i started with no compass at first, but the fucking behind-your-back spawning had me paranoid, plus i could never tell if i was actually spotted by these glitchy ass enemies or not so i turn that shit back on game is already immersion breaking enough as is so i might as well
>>503495265>We got bamboozled boysnah, you are just a bafoon
>>503495132>only graphics being the upgrade...the new anomalies are amazing, like the one in the OP image or the tornado near Yanov
>>503495378Compass is the only way to tell if npcs are hostile as they'll show up with red markers on it if you look at them. It's definitely worth keeping it on unless you want a face full of bullets after walking up to a guy thinking he's friendly when he's actually a bandit.
>>503495132The game is at least not at cyberpunk 2077 levels of disaster but yeah the game needs a lot of work but there is goldmine to be found once all the rubble and dirt are removed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE5T0GkoKG8Real life stalkers recovering artifacts.
>>503495132Map is betterSound design is betterAnomalies look cool as fuck and many of the one offs are wuite creative (fuck poppies tho)Side quests are decent and theres a lot of themWeather is improved although i miss slow moving shockwave of anomalyMain story is… decent? Nothing special but both cs and cop were mehMutant ai is significantly better, issye is tankinessRandom clutter like old half scrapped machines and so on makes the places look way better than comparatively bare old gamesPlenty is missing yea but to say nothing was improved is silly
>>503495684>game bullies you into using the stupid Skyrim compassWhat were they THINKING?
>>503495684Its not the only way. The crosshair turns red and green too.
>>503495846>Mutant AI is significantly betterIn some ways, I miss fleeing wounded mutants
>>503494710Russian and English
Does anyone have a comprehensive list of songs that are played on the radio? There are a couple of postpunk bangers that I need to catch up on
>>503495684So just like IRL? >Walk up to Jamal>Get shot
>>503480662you're clearly not wrong to complain about the economy and general balance, but i do think you're doing this game a disservice by treating it like a survival game, it's really not. it has some minor realism mechanics (and tons of POV animations) to make the simulationist part of the game feel better, that's it. the core of the survival game is the feeling of danger from possibly running out of supplies, which doesn't make any sense in the Zone, which is a whole society with lots of people in it. the purpose of the mutants and anomalies are more like a horror game in stalker 2 - hazards to be avoided or occasionally confronted. the unique part is how it glues together these very dangerous hazards with a more traditional badguy shooting experience.
>>503495684no compass forces you to be more careful and never leave your guard down. Whenever I spot someone I immediately pull out my boomstick.
i got so spooked in the swamp i asked my brother to play for me, told him to just run to the quest marker while i hid behind his back
>>503494710The original games were in russian and the ENG version also had some untranslated russian voicelines, but there was a Ukrainian version as well.
>>503495917Mutants got used to being unkillable and lost their survival instincts
>>503496098cuteif you are a girlgay if you're a guy
>>503472124Is this where you throw the ring?
>>503495897>he plays with crosshairs onJust kill yourself right now lmao
can you stack maximum artifacts with weaker ones?
where's the personal stash in rostokwhat did freedom do to it?
>>503496040yeah i think i just had the wrong impression or expectation for this game, for some reason. i do enjoy it for what it is though.
>>503496425its in the back of the Bazar
>>503496373Can you stack the Weird Ball artifact? Does it even do anything?
this game gives you more supplies than CoP
can someone explain to me what's the appeal of stamina and carry weight? i can understand using them to hide development problems like memory limit and loading speed or something but they're never disabled in any mod that edits the engine not even in soups where you have a gigantic inventory and can carry hundreds of items as a timei just don't get itit feels counter intuitive
>>503495814Dang there exists a video of that? I just read about that Georgian incident on Wikipedia yesterday. These cores that emitted a strange amount of warmth seemingly without reason truly must have been like artifacts for the guys that found them and just soaked that radiation througout the night. Soviets truly left behind a vast amount of undocumented dangerous shit
>>503496098>swamp>scaryI just find the ponds of mud water that slow you down annoying, my fear of the mutants and other zone horrors have been burned out of me after replaying all stalker games countless times.
>>503496425Go past the technician, it's next to the bed
I'm like 16 hours in and I'm still using the AK-74. It just feels too nice to ever get rid of.
i play with the dot cross hair because it lights up green on ppl that i shouldnt shoot
>>503496628download the realistic damage mod and you'll use 5.45 until the end of the game
>>503481397the fuck
>>503472262I started playing the game and indeed it all went to shit as soon as entered the first town and had to restart the game.Bruh how could they not have tested this stuff? They obviously knew.
>>503496641refractions, nice
I have compass on because I am directionally challenged so I'd just end up pointlessly wandering around getting lost
>>503496515mods take care of supply balance
>>503479605>omg bro the game is so hard bro they don't give you enough healing!!!!1That's from the same retards who cry about the economy being bugged because they can't unload 56 broken AKs to the merchants to pay for repairs on their suit. Said suid has been stabbed, shot, mauled, corroded and burned.
>>503496715Might consider it. I usually only ever aim for the head anyways, but I guess some body shots actually doing something worth a damn would be nice too.
>>503496628welcome to the AK club
>>503481397wow that really puts it in perspective and why this game looks so mediocre, nothing is fucking casting any light at all and the shadows are almost nonexistant outside of large geometry
>>503496516It's so you can't just fill your inventory with all the guns and supplies in the entire game to make it too easy.Yes in addition to all the loot I find let me also carry my ten sweet rifles and shotguns a hundred medkits drinks food and enough ammo to fuel a warYou're just a man
ANOTHER FREE GUN OUT OF THIN AIR WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING
Am I the only person who eye sight is getting fucked by the white brightness in the menus and cant read shit?
>>503496667I just fucking shoot everybody anyway because everyone's a fucking asshole who either turns on you or give you a cup of diarrhea as reward
>>503496928where did you find the sight? im 30 hours in and never found it
>>503497132free gun count?mine is 5 atmshotgun x 4some bulpup rifle x 1
>>503496628It's not even worth getting rid of. The ammo is so common you'll never run out of ammo. Shotgun ammo too.Based AK user.
where does diode go after the ward take over? and fuck these assholes because they reduced my framerate to like sub 25 in the scrap heap
>>503497290I've exclusively been getting SVDs so far, from red forest and cooling towers.
>>503496516have you ever gone backpacking
>>503497279that one is a 'unique' ak, comes with the scope. it's on the top of the water tower just north by north west of zalissya.
>>503497431He came backNo clue when or why
>>503497507the best gun
>>503496753microsoft told them to finish the game and they couldn't
>>503497132>>503497290forgot pic
>>503496520Yeah I feel bad for the 2 guys that still got some radiation burn marks on their skin for doing the cleanup. Beats me how active that stuff is when they already manipulated it with distance tools.Anything better than another Goiânia accident though.
>>503496508idk
>>503497431when those ward guys appeared at heap my fps dropped too, had to restart the fuckin game
>save a group that got captured>get a reward>quest marker on their leader but he just keeps saying generic thanks lines>can't tell if it's a bugged quest market or if I'm actually missing a quest that won't startBased.
Is there a list of artifacts for the new game? I heard mama's beads are there, found mold, snail and some fire artifact I pawned off.Damn fast travel guy is charging fortunes and I just want the artifact again that prevents you from losing energy. I kind of glitched them back in the old game:Speed+speed+speed+anti-rad+anti-rad
Just started . How do I pull out the scanner and do I have a radiation locator thingy or something? Xbox
>>503497507>>503497575There's another unique gun in the farm tower in cordon. Strangely there's 2 of it, stacked in the same stash. I thought it was shitty so I started using it to save durability on my other AKs but it's actually pretty fucking good for mid-range fights, it comes with a red-dot sight attached.
The prisoner camp is scary bros
>>503497947bro just finish the tutorial...
I need help StalkanonsI'm in the middle of bumfuck nowhere in the southern bottom part of the swamps, just fought some chimera and a blowout is happening. I neither got a warning nor do I see any kind of shelter nearby on the mapdoes anyone of you know if there's a shelter nearby or do I need to reload an old save file, wait until the blowout happens and then travel south (which would suck flesh balls)
>>503491765Only zigger bots can thinking that A-Life doesn't exist.Have faith, its already in game but temporarily disabled before next patch for better optimization. Developers hold weapon in one hand and develops the game in second while their offices is bombed, don't forget this!
>>5034979471,2,3,4,5 weapons6,7 scan+bolt
>>503496715>cheat and the game is easy
list of things that are so baffling they either entirely weren't tested/were cut for time or speak of major incompetence>a-life obviously>mutant health>entire economy>prevalence of health items>weapon balance (PMM better than most guns in the game)>the flashlight>lack of NVGs (binocs can be explained by no enemies existing past 100m)>the performance>the keyboard bindswhat else?
>>503497768sometimes i find them doing that bethesda thing where they won't talk to you properly until they walk over to their standing spot
>>503498098he said hes on xbox
>>503498062Bro just tell me I already killed the invisible thing and it just automatically took the scanner out
>>5034972902 so far, spas and EMR
Bros this new flashlight ain't it. It's so fucking bad and immersion breaking
>>503498126game devs are notoriously bad at balance, the economy will be fixed somewhere between 1 year from now and the heat heath of the universe>>503498159the radial menu
>>503498147Oh I thought he was just adding a signature to his posttryin to make a change :-/
>>503498071see >>503482760or be like >>503483087
>>503498228yeah and modders currently cant touch it since its locked behind encrypted files.
>>503498108>cheat>meanwhile the retarded gopnik wearing a trench>>503494103 coat
i haven't played any of the old games so i dont know these locations, i've only been where the main quest has told me to go because i'm scared that it's like ubisoft where the enemies are gonna be too strong for me if i go to the wrong areas
>no random encounters apart from sidequests and random enemy spawns in the open worldBiggest miss from the devs.
>>503498228what you mean? here is flashlight hero skif uses, it's realistic
how good is Liquid Stone's bleed resistance?
>>503498071Take a shot every time an anon asks about the swamp blowout
>>503494076Wtf a Russian artifact flew into my Kharkiv apartment!
>>503498228the worst part about it is indoor fights where enemies shoot you from pitch black, forces you to bum rush them with your sonic sprint speed which is just as immersion breaking
>>503498071Cheers!
>>503498243Balance requires many many hours of constant tweaking.
>>503497901>Is there a list of artifacts for the new game?
>>503498661yeah many hours they rarely spend before release
>>503498661and?
>>503498243Ok found it. Thanks
do I have to kill Sultan and the Beard? I thought I'd be able to rat out the fucking woman who started all this conflict
>>503497602>Anything better than another Goiânia accident thoughThat's what uneducation and poverty of the general population mixed with governmental neglect of highly dangerous machines gets you
>>503498753>>503498742It is not about being good or bad, it is about having the time to do it.
>>503498816but sultan has been beard since cop
>>503498126>no binoculars>no contact list>no rankings listCan't wait for mods.>no info screen or bestiary>no sleeping bags>no artifact cooking>no trading guns with npcs>npcs won't loot corpses or pick up weapons from the ground
I can't save Zalissya bratans...
>>503498892Is this bait or retardation?
>>503494076I realized they fucked up right around when you can taunt a guy for being afraid of fleshes, a creature that you have only interacted with twice to this moment and both times it tried to kill you. >>503498126Every feedback forum the devs interact with is just them getting glazed and people getting mad at 'unrealistic expectations'. Nothing will get fixed that isn't a bug IMHO.
is this working as intended or it's my graphical settings being fucked?
>>503498892not having time to do something is bad since they are a business and have the ability to set priorities, manage time, hire people, etc
>>503498134They did and I got a reward but the marker is still there.
>>503498243>>503498126mods are already fixing the economy.
>>503498925Fuck them. Embrace the Merc lifestyle, Loners are only there to eat bullets to the dome and provide loot
>>503498989it's that shitty lumens denoiser, i used this mod to fix it https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/65
>>503498938I'm talking from the bottom of my heart.>>503499010Sure, but it is not lack of skills, just lack of time.
>>503499134is it only for when you have gaytracing on? or is it for all settings?
>>503499158so it's retardation then
I'm near the CNPP through Garbage by I'm too afraid to go in
>>503498675Yo datamine bro, thank you! Looks like all are back and more.
Rate my current loadoutalso>climb on top of the red giant in cooling tower region>get absolutly nothing once im on top >frames cut in half while looking in different directions on the rooflmao
>>503499308with this mod you have to turn on ray reconstruction. "ray tracing" is forced on anyway by the game because of the lumens system
>>503478471what's your full settings recommendation broski? aside from the cloud thingy
>Wipe an entire platoon trying to force the front door>Guys start spawning in behind me>Kill them too>Make it out the door and around a corner>Start taking fire from guard towers>Clear two of the towers>Now its midnight and raining>trapped in a tower while a wounded guy cries somewhere in the darkness>Fleshers running around>A fucking bloodsucker starts screaming and running around below meIs getting out of the sphere supposed to be this insane? I have killed 40 people. It literally will not stop spawning things and these guys eat 7.62 like candy. I am out of everything except broken ak74s and 17 loaves of bread
>>503499538There's a rifle there.
>>503498675>WeirdNut
>>503499570All the comments are saying the mod is snake oil
I've been only to Garbage and Cordon thus far. When can I buy something better than Echo? I have racked up 80000 zone shekel and want a Velen detector to summon artifacts from thin air.
Is Iron Forest accessible?
No mercy for the Ward, long live the Spark
>>503499671That's how it was for me as well.
Got me cube from Bendigo
>>503499538that's basically my load out, i just got a saiga though so i've been using that as my shotgun
>>503499941https://jimmyneutron.fandom.com/wiki/Hypercube
>>503498892I hate that retards have rights, you should consider becoming fertilizer.
>>503492729idc if its grok, thats a shitter comment. the psydog upgrade is very nice. you have to pay attention and spot the one that spawns the fake ones and target him. if youre clearing out the fake ones over and over you deserve the get mauled by them
>>503499680WHERE i looked in every corner
>>503496520There's still a ton of soviet RTGIs rotting in remote places, and we're not even sure of their exact location.
>>503500113You can't imagine how hurtful that comment was.
>>503499134>it's that shitty lumens denoiser, i used this mod to fix it https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/65this does nothing if you use DLA instead of DLSS, right?
>>503499671Just run. It won't stop spawning soldiers. You can come back for loot later.
>>503500117What a retarded statement.
>>503498974 >I realized they fucked up right around when you can taunt a guy for being afraid of fleshes, a creature that you have only interacted with twice to this moment and both times it tried to kill you. I naively thought this was hinting at another CoP situation (but not advised to the player this time), where the player character is an active and competent spec op who had been debriefed before entering the zone and was aware of most of the happenings inside. Another part was how nonchalant Skif is during the opening, he's in the zone, using a device he's never heard of before talking with Hermann, casually collecting artifacts, shooting bloodsuckers and flesh and barely reacts to the bunker full of dead scientists.
new gamma update cant come soon enough man
>>503499716it definitely fixed it for me, i'm on a 3080 and i did every part of the steps including downloading the dlls. if it doesn't work for you then i apologize
>>503500214I am not ig right now so I can't screenshot it, it was leaning against some things next to a ledge with a gravity anomaly below it
>>503499824Go to rostok. Cross the bridge north of Zalissya and continue north past the garbage. They sell a new detector there.
>>503499671sphere is known for infinitely spawning soldiers. i cleared the front door and just ran for it lmao
>>503500439you want mutants to not kill you? you want to one shot every single mutant, sasha? well, youre in luck there are 50 mods already for you babies
I like gammahttps://files.catbox.moe/85whps.mp4
>>503499538Drop the shotgun. They're depressingly worthless in this game.
>>503500492why the fuck are you using dlss on a 3080? you really shouldn't need it unless you're playing on 4k
>>503499824The scientists in Yantar have a really nice detector for you, Anon :)
>>503498270>>503498473>>503498617aah cyyyka, I already thought why this bossfight was so shitty (I did kill the chimera though)so I'm supposed to run away from it, through the house and into some bunker, eh?ok now that's some shitty game design right there, nothing tells you to do that Thanks for the answers, may the breeki be with you
>>503499538Rate mine senpai
Add these to the list of gripes:1. The automatic "lean" when you take aim behind cover is absolute dogshit. The number of times Skif leans into the cover making me shoot concrete instead of heads is infuriating.2. Stalkers don't loot. I've found loners running around with garbage weapons. I drop them an AK and they won't even pick it up. Real shame, but it's probably not coded because the fucker spawned in 10s ago and will be despawned as soon as I turn around and 10 bandits take his place.
Game is broken Roosevelts pda disappeared in my inventory
>>503500731I am genuinely surprised that your mental disability allows you to type on a keyboard, the bullet you caught on the front should've straight up killed you instead of getting lodged in your frontal lobe, a shame.
>>503499824If you go east from Cordon to Zaton and go to the Sultandosk, there's a quest that takes you onto a boat that has a super long range detector that's incredibly useful while running around exploring.
>>503500778i'm on 1440p and without DLSS i'm at 50fps in the open world on high graphics. i use DLSS ultra quality (76% render) so the scaling isn't that bad in my opinion.
>>503500936Stalkers dont loot because ALife doesnt exist. Youre playing a far cry game set in chernobyl
>>503500996The Hilka right? Yeah that's my favorite too.
>>503500774Not the spas-12 lmao it fires as fast as you can click your mouseYou can kill a bloodsucker in one second flat if you lure it down a straight path towards you and unload into it
>>503500936>Stalkers don't lootI found the behavior really inconsistent. Sometimes they don't loot, other times they do: I stored 5 broken guns up a soldier's prison pocket, then thought the same guy somehow resurrected and attacked again but nope, it was another random soldier that looted a corpse and was carrying all the garbagethen there was 6 corpses and two surviving stalkers in shelter during an anomaly and the two dudes just shrugged
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NApziQ8H30
>>503500117Stronger and scarier mutants are a good idea, but the execution is completely botches. They bumrush while eating 20+ shotgun shells and if you jump up on something they instantly run away instead of trying to reach you, so it becomes a very slow and expensive game of red light green light. You're retarded if you're defending the mutant balancing.
>>503500936autolean when keyboard and mouse is plugged in is just criminal, i get that it's nice on controllers but what the fuck man
>>503500936>Stalkers don't lootWhy would they? They're going to phase out of existence the second you trigger a PoI spawn event or run from them never to return
>>503500646Thanks Strelok! Rostok shouldn't be too far from Garbage. Guess if the game lets me go there, i will next.
>>503501169post her tiny cock
>>503501094are you cpu bound by chance? I have stable 60 fps on 3080 at 1440p using DLA on high everything except hair thingy, and I think I have textures at max. I don't think I ever drop frames, even in high population areasI do use engine.ini tweaks tho
>>503501157I'm about to drop the spas because it does barely any more damage than my pistol, and costs 1k to fix for firing 4 times.
>>503501098Right. It's also why we don't get binoculars, why snipers serve no purpose, why engaging with mutants is pointless, why the PDA doesn't show contacts, why there's no factions, why the AI slowly walks towards shelter during emissions, only to fry at the doorstep because they're too cool to hustle.I really do hope A-life 2.0 is in the works.
>>503500807>The scientists in Yantar have a really nice detector for you, Anon :)Might be 10 more hours before I get there, but I will remember. Shame the first ones we meet were to cold to sell me one.>>503500996Really? West in Rostok sounded closer but I guess you mean wild island because of the water. Damn I hate water in this game.
>>503501391That's just about the only drawback, it's fucking expensive. I use it exclusively for bloodsuckers.
>>503501354i have a 5900X so i don't think i'm cpu bound? i'll copy your settings and see where it puts me at.
>>503499671yeah i killed like 50 people probably. for me, the spawns slowed down after a bit, but i also cleared the whole base
After opening the path north to the Garage, can I just disregard that and go East to the Cordon and meet up with my nigga Sidorovich?
>get giga super rep with zassiya, all trader icons turn green>merchant excited to see me and calls me his favorite customer every time>still only gives me like 20% of the value of fucking anything i sell to himniggeri cant tell if its bugged or not
Mootants >:(
>>503501340
If I store the guns I get at the intro in a box before I get caught do I get to keep them?
>>503501484>why snipers serve no purposeSnipers are so fucking cool though, also so many niggers use them it feels like a shame to leave them on the ground
>>503501632Isn't it 10% when they're not green? You're making twice as much [nothing] as before!
is 9x19 better in stalker 2 than .45?
>>503501618He's not your nigga anymore... You can get to cordon through the southeast corner of lesser zone if you haven't opened up the eastern checkpoint yet.
>>503500905>skif pistol enjoyernice
>>503501484everything you listed is going to be in an expansion if that ever even comes out. >>503501736>wow so cool guys!!!eat dirt
>>503478910yeah that's what frame generation looks like without motion vectors
>its taking a hot fire lava shit on me guys !
>>503501896you can't drop that pistol
>>503501908how about i eat your cock faggot
>>503501727Yes
>>503500492I've done the same and I'm still having the issue here: >>503498989.I also have the engine.ini tweak from OP's
>>503501948
AK bros report inShow us your favorite rifleRight now I'm using the Special
whats that? you thought you could get to that dead body by climbing on the roof?fuck you.
>>503472124>Stalker 2 Performance Mod + Mouse Fix + No CompilingWill the new update fuck this up?
>>503502416getting in there was so unreasonably aids
So how many dense anamolies are in the lesser zone, garbage, cement factory, chemical plant, burnt forest area ?
>>503501596>>503501354yeah my game runs at 40fps with those settings and engine.ini and i'm not cpu bound, maybe my 3080 is fucked
well, since we're gonna be waiting a while, let's have some greentexts>Anomaly>two of my jobs are in the Red Forest>sigh and pay the 8k for the route>head along the main route>ohshit Monolith in heavy armor plus an exo>thankfully infighting with the Mercenaries>finish off the exo-wearer with eight shots to the dome>Turns out he was in a Noso>I'm in a (heavily modded) Merc Exo>one of the Monolith next to him had the "running" upgrade, but only the Basic versionAnd then I moved my Merc Exo to a Stash by repeatedly picking it up and dropping it like a one-man bucket brigade, before finally pushing it across the floor until I was close enough to stash it.Now I just need to take my old Berill up to the Red Forest to retrieve my Merc Exo and wait to find the Engineering Manual that lets me make the Advanced Servo Boosters.
i am so sick of getting to a major poi, exploring it only to find it completely, soullessly empty and devoid of life, and then 2 minutes later having 5 guys spawn from thin air in rooms behind me that i already cleared and shoot me in the back
>>503502471no. its just an ini tweak. you can always replace it, change it or remove it, too.
>>503502503what's on the body?
>>503501596shit I don't even know what my issue is, I guess ram lol (ordered 32 today)I have the game clamped to 60 fps by nvidia's control panelmaybe windows task manager/resource monitor is untrustworthy? iunnoscreenshot from the middle of zalissya, 1440p/60, DLA, almost all on high
>>503495917rats flee if they are the last remaining from their group. also i think that's the case for blind dogs?
>>503502857a broken akm and ~20 rounds of ammo iirc, the same thing every other body has that the guy there asks you to loot for him
bros I wanna play anomaly old world addon but with the new guns and fancier graphics (but not gray) how do I do it?? this guy shows this but doesn't explain which mods he added ontop https://youtu.be/eAqWeRzVSAY?t=406
Why are people so averse to running away from mutants in games these days? There are very few mutants you have to actually fight in the main quests and you have plenty of ammo stocked up and given to you for free not to mention endless grenades. Is it casualization? If you heard a bloodsucker irl you would nope out like a bitch but for some reason people think they should be able to kill multiple suckers on the hardest difficulty with only a couple mags. And then they turn around and make the complaint that there is 'too much loot' in the game?? It's a resource scavenging survival game...
i like my loadout so far
>>503481397crowbcat video when?
>>503502918maybe the X3D is the thing making the difference here
>>503503032ah I just saw this, nvm
Anyone grab the Weird Pot yet?
STALKER 2 has an extremely noticeable, inexcusable problem. holes in roofs clearly large enough for a man to fit through that you inexplicably can't fit into
>>503498816climb the crane and find the sniper. kill the sniper and interact with the radio to hear sultan and beard talk. wait a bit and then warn Sultan that mercs are approaching. kill mercs, talk with Sultan. you're winner.
>>503503081shooting guns is funrunning isn'tthe ai is also nowhere near smart enough or tailor made enough for thrilling chasing and hiding sequencesand people want to explore and loot, which you cant do with a bloodsucker hitting you every time you stop to check something
>>503502918>1440 at stable 60 without dlss and on high>35% gpu utilizationwhat the fuck
>>503502513I'm looking at a pretty dense anomaly right nowJust explore faggot
>>503503032I'm starting to sound like a shill, but look into IWP + CoTZ man. I'm sure it is possible to do what you want with OWA but you're gonna really have to know what you're doing. Maybe look into the various gunslinger animations that exist for OWA? the guns will still look the same but they will animate a lot better
>>503503081the problem is very few enemies are actually lethal unless you run out of meds so the only way they can make the game challenging is by making enemies bullet sponges (even with high headshot damage multipliers)i would rather bloodsuckers kill me fast but in return i can kill them fast, right now the only enemy that actually tries to kill you are chimeras and pseudogiants and they're retarded bulletsponges and for some reason the pseudogiant stomp isn't dodgeable by jumping
>>503503081If I wanted to run from everything I'd buy one of those walking sim horror games, you spastic.
>>503503474i just found it >>503503289apparently its thishttps://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/old-world-custom-v10-153maybe I should try cotz + iwp though ig, but does it have less quests than old world anomaly? and still no clutter? I want as many quests as possible wo the anomaly clutter
>>503503291wher u find
>>503502271still using this
So, how do I know whether Pebble or Crown is better? I fucking hate this retarded "weak" shit.
>>503503291it randomly makes you sleepy, drunk, irradiated and fucks up your psy once in a whilekinda annoying
>>503503646No bloat or clutter, all the guns are very nice + their animations are Gunslinger tier. CotZ introduces a bunch of new quests, storylines, a-life shit. It's basically CoC so it feels like old Stalker but way better with really good weapon graphics, sounds, and animations. Also it runs way better because it's on an actual 64 bit engine
>>503501963
>>503495324Mirosław Utta is still alive, but he's like 84 by now so I doubt he'd be willing to take up on the offer.
>>503503590if enemies killed you faster it wouldn't be an issue, increase healing animation by 0.5 seconds, make healing gradual and increase bullet lethality massively and the game would improve instantly
I love this shitposter like you wouldn't believe
>>503503291Wait, there's a thirst meter?
>>503502503videogames
>>503503863sure I'll try it out, how do I do it.... ? https://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/addons/call-of-the-zone-quests-and-mechanics-for-iwpfollow these instructions? will that work?
>>503503590>and for some reason the pseudogiant stomp isn't dodgeable by jumpingwas it before?I always jumped because the animation seemed like jumping could help but I don't think it did anything
>>503503291yeah, that anomaly was kinda spooky
Anyone else a loadout minimalist ? I always take as little supplies as I can before going to a mission because I am a hoarder.
>>503494076>>503498974Not meaning to glaze but it all made sense to me after I thought that he was stationed as a jathead in the zone, rather than the lesser zone/border protection
>>503504158I SPENTHALF A HOURJUMPING LIKE A RETARD ON THE WOODWORK TO GET UP THEREFUCK YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
>>503504258why do you even carry 2 rifles when you have 10 bullets each and only use the pistol?
>>503504258how are you guys just running around with artifacts irradiating your balls?
>>503498974>wanting the game to be better than it's 20 years old predecessors is now unrealistic
>>503504184https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack/addons/cotz-quests-and-mechanics-for-iwpGet this one.Download and install IWP standalone first on moddb. After that download this version of CoTZ and put it into the JSGME folder. Open JSGME and activate the official english translation and then activate and let CotZ overwrite it
Currently stuck at "Find the source of the signal inside the shelter" on MSQ "Just Like the Good Old Days"Just running around the beacon and can't interact with anything.Is this it, does my save end here?
>>503504454use -rad artifacts to equalize it outor get shielding upgrades which removes rads from a slot
>>503504457crazy how asking for A-Life 2.0 to be better or even equal to A-Life 1.0 is unrealistic
>>503504543There's an emitter right by it you have to pick up
>>503504454You can find artifacts that grant rad resistance, they cancel out the rads from other artis
this game badly needs a mod that gives bloodsuckers a huge pair of titsideally they'd flop around when it's running
>>503504184i just did that earlier today. very nice mod combo. follow the other anon's instruction and here is my post >>503473638 witness the power of a-life
i think gsc did this purposely so that people drop the game due to frustration and dont have time to see how broken their ai is
>>503504809>>503504510idk what jsgme is but I assume its a mod manager, I'll try it downloading iwp standalone now
Anyone get artifacts that make you sprint longer ?
>>503504797i mad that there isn't a female bloodsucker variantthe one thing they coulda used unreal 5 for....
there are 12 year old kids that never even heard of stalker before this year killing psydogs on veteran and then there's this fag grok who spent half his life modding the fucking game that can't deal with a single one on medium
>>503504396ur mum was jumping on my woodwork last night lmao
>>503505001yeah i think it's the Endurance ones
>>503504939The psy dog would be fun if its clones didn't damge you so muchClear sky was better
>>503505160kekit do be like dat doe
>>503504996Yeah it is a mod manger, you'll see it in IWP's folder when you download it. If you really despise it, I believe there is a version of Mod Manager that works with IWP (if you're more familiar with that software) but you'll have to go into their discord to learn about that
>>503505021They already added 1 female trader, don't get greedy
this doesn't seem rightapart from that, runs surprisingly well on a GTX1080 and i7 6700k with medium settings
>>503505160People forgot how to have fun and nowadays everyone's a "game developer". Modders that get sucked daily get their egos inflated so high that they can't see past their beliefs anymore.
>one (1) bullet from any gun to kill a dog clone>pseudodog has 300 hp, less than flesh, one of the lowest hp mutants of all>"omg I literally cannot kill it game unplayable pls nerf"
>>503505469Richter but he's that one tanned and blonde anime character
>>503505160what are they putting in the water
>>503505302nah I rly don't care just didn't know what it was since I cba to tack on extra mods beyond thisdoes the npc less grenades thing come with it?
oh great, I seem to have this thing where it does the shader compilation bs every time I start the game
>>503505472That's why they're modders and not developers. They're impossible to work with and don't function well in a team.
>>503505630Fluoride.
>>503505637No but you definitely want it. You can get it here https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack/addons/npcs-do-not-spam-grenades
>>503505160>there are 12 year old kids that never even heard of stalker before this year killing psydogs on veteranproofs?
>>503504939I´m pretty sure the clones have lighter fur than the real one.
>>503504996I recommend MO2, because JSGME can mess up your installation. The problem is, that the plugin is in the iwp shitcord
i kind of feel like i shouldn't turn the shah into .45 because 9mm is sooo common
There's too much mods and they ruin each other, can someone just make a list of mods that "must have" the vanilla experience is totally shit and the fundamentals of the game is awful
>>503505160That arena fight was aids though
Consensus on STALKER2?
we're so back
>>503506194take you pick between these 10 different mods that all do the same thing but adjusts mutant health at slightly different values
>>5035061139mm still kills everything in a couple of shots and is much cheaper to buy in bulk
I have a REALLY cool idea for a pseudodog mod...what if dog clones could summon clones?
>>503506227it's exactly what people expected, hoped or feared.One or all, depends of a person
>>503504939>reddit filename>discord screencapmy man leave this site
>>503506358romance mod when?
>>503505916you mean this one? should i bother with MO2 if I'm not gonna use too many mods thoughill get the grenades one and maybe absolute nature, not sure... i can't find the legs visible official one from the screenshot
NEW THREAD WHEN RETARDS?NEW THREAD WHEN RETARDS?
>>503504939>Caring about what a guy callec Cock says
so what are the must use mods right now
I'm using a trader exploit to get full value on sales and I don't even feel bad about it. Hauling guns to sell for repair money is not fun.
>>503504939true, the only thing to fight it is to cheese itjump onto a box and randomly shoot them until you find the real oneany idea how to find out the real one? I remember in stalker1 the real one always kept some distance
>>503494710Ukrainian language didn't exist in 2007, it's a psyop after the CIA coup. That's why all it is is Russian but with tak + dobre + kurwa + nerozumim + dekuju
>>503506290Which ones you recommend I don't want to cheese the game tho
Is it me or are snorks fucking terrible to fight in Stalker 2? Were they always so resilient to getting fucking shot?
>>503506368Thanks, will wait till they "fix" it.
>>503504225it works, yeahit's wonky and the timing is tricky, but you can absolutely dodge PG stomp shockwaves
>>503506641Yes, but I could also just post the google link here.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xh4TtgliE1cnNf0qvUpCBfj3WV7hQhNV/view?usp=drive_linkIt works only with MO2 2.5.0, no other version, you also have to start MO2 as an admin
Unironicly and non pol shit I need russian voice for this game ukrainian sounds awful and the english-speaking is some british cunts
>>503504939a cool idea would be the real one being in the distance, watching you and walking instead of running since he has to focus on keeping the hallucinations alivemaybe make him look slighty different too, that would help a lot. Maybe some stalkers even warning you and foreshadow the enemy before you meet them
>>503507050I think the problem is that they come in packs of 8
People are bitching like fuck about this game but the only serious problems are:-broken spawning-over tanky mutantsThose only require small adjustments and the game would be fine. Mutants should be tough, just not 20 fucking point blank shotgun shells tough. The "A-Life" shit was always snake oil and you're a retard if you ever believed the hype, but the current system is just way too basic.Oh and they need to fix the lighting and add NVG. Other than that I am pretty happy with it. Lots of the stuff people are bitching about is legit skill issue.
>mod to increase the day length>emissions are now even rarer
After struggling with tanky duties for almost 20 hours I downloaded the ARS modpack from OP.Emptying half a saigas mag to suckers chest and monster actually dying has never felt so satisfying.
>>503507124I'm using this jsgme shit, so whenever htis prompts I should press Aa? And when they're all loaded on the left I just close this and start iwp from the launcher in the folder?
SCANNING FOR NEW THREAD:>NONE FOUND
can you convert the tavor to 556?
>>503506893try this one https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/213?tab=descriptioncombines a lot of separated mods we have right now into one, and seems fairly balanced.
>>503507269I hate that texture pop in is such a common phenomenon across gaming now due to the popularity of UE that it barely ever gets mentioned as a problem. This shit is insufferable, and there’s NOTHING you can do to prevent it
>>503507432how do you convert gun's caliber? is that a thing?
Here's something I've been using recently in older games some of you autists might find a use for:https://github.com/ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-LoaderThe Ultimate ASI Loader now includes a generic modloader. If you put in game files in the "update" folder in the right hierarchy, it'll load new files and overload existing, so you won't have to make a mess of the original game files.
>>503507381Yes. You can also delete the jsgme.lng file to get English back, iirc
>Steward on the Wild Island gives you a Bear Detector for only 3 antiradsBy that time you will have 300 of them in your stash
>>503507381Yes, you can change it to English by deleting a file that ends with a .lng extension.
>>503507643Yeah, some guns have it as an upgrade iirc
>>503507643yeah you've always been able to do thatit's usually toward the bottom of the gun modding window at Technicians
>>503507469Appreciate it anon ,only if if we had russian I would be soo happy
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>>503507748>>503507720thanks, I'll try if it works now
I was trading with the freedom bartender and he started talking like we were still in a dialog. When I tried to exit this popped up and now I'm soft locked. Can't choose an option, can't click an option. None of my keys work.
750 coupons for Wolf to take me to Zalissya is not even chump change. I guess he's doing it out of the kindness of his heart
>>503508152>>503508152>>503508152>>503508152new
>>503508035This happened to me too. Hasn't happened with any other trader, so just don't talk to him, think he's bugged.
>>503508335I think it has something to do with taking the beer and vodka shot. I took it before I opened the trade window.
>>503508335This games bugger than the old games innit
>>503505001Soul artifact. It's part of a optional quest. Medium endurance and medium +radiation
>>503506763What exploit? the right click on context menu doesnt actually give you the $$$
>Ukrainian is just Russian>Ukrainian sounds badMake up your mind.
>cant use the stendo on the 74ui demand an explanation
>>503509710t. monoligual westoid
>>503507269No. The gunplay is not consistent
>>503507269Do shotgun shells do more damage the closer you are ? Is the game that advanced. The tracers look really cool
>>503506641thats my screenshot, im a different anon. its included in iwp. iwp comes with many custom mods labelled (official). the other two are absolute nature and structure redux. makes the game look much nicer. ive yet to try all the iwp optional mods on the left in my pic
