say bye to A-Life and hello to hers truly, AI Director>Stalker 2 ARS ModPack v 1.8 (balance + QoL)https://pastebin.com/YV1ZVmne>Stalker 2 Performance Mod + Mouse Fix + No Compilinghttps://pastebin.com/qZXvzmxL>Stalker 2 A-LIFE OVERHAUL Roadside Panic https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/210>Maklane's Better Zone Modpack (alternative to ARS)https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/241>Modular Hard modehttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/88>Readable Ammohttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/147>Original Gun nameshttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/110Old>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/11HcSFSyb0DX3ymModXZ9tNdpTuktTioCDied to 5 bloodsuckers spawning behind them: >>503508152
Imagine the zone sex
G37 reload is you taking out the mag looking at it and putting it back lol
Why do the camos look so weird and artificial in S2
Game is pure comfy when you're not being chased by naruto running bloodsuckers
My theory for the removal of NVGs and why the flashlight is so fucking shit is that they fully intended to incorporate some kind of upgrade system for it, making the default flashlight a weak "starter" one and you'd get better flashlights as you progress, either finding them as devices like artifact detectors or as upgrades by technicians to guns, and your flashlight would be complimented by the flashlight on your gun. NVGs would factor into this because they'd be a stage in the upgrade progression.
>>503544109One freedom slut getting railed by literally everyone?
We're so cooked stalkerbros >adress in future updates Kek they weren't even planning on integrating it
Does the anti-bleed medicine actually do anything to mask you or empower you against bloodsuckers?>have to kill 5 bloodsuckers at onceI started just dropping grenades at my feet. Seemed like the most viable strategy for dealing with a pack of the fuckers.
>>503544324you lost
pirated version here, should i just not collect journalist stashes? it seems the preorder bonus shit is just easymode
>>503544382Pre-order is just armor that's already in the game but with skins
>>503544324How do you fix something that doesn't exist?
>>503544291She's pretty ugly tooits slim pickings out there
>>503544376Already refunded and playing anomaly with 60 mods. Having 10x more fun desu a life is really the soul of the game
>>503544204They tried to copy the original games aesthetic, rather than the real camo the originals were based on.
i fell for the gamma meme, this feels like a bad tarkov knockoffis there really no simple freeroam mod with fancy weapon animations? or at least an easy way to port those to base anomaly
>>503544516based
>>503544435i read that further into the deluxe/preorder quest you get unique guns and shit, and i dont really want to be spoonfed that
>>503544516>anomaly
>>503544458>>503544291you rookies still stuck in garbage havent seen the other two girls in the zone (aside from sultan ugly gypsy slampig) the other two mog Birch
>>503544516I am too deep into the cost sunk fallacy to uninstall before actually completing this game.
>>503544439You pretend to, like they did when the game launched and say that its in and the newfags cope and defend the draft dodging hohol devs
>>503544572gamma has like 200 addons, just mod it to your content.
>>503544643It was either analmeme or gamma
>>503544886>it was either piss or shit
>>503544572just hop on our IWP + cotz bandwagon bwo, its exactly that
>warn dude i was hired to kill him and he needs to fuck off>oh thanks for the warning stalker, but we are not going any where
everyone is an ancient stalkerfan now
>>503544676You won't beat it you'll be softlocked into some basic game ending bug that is easily fixable if they bothered to exist their own game. Hope you torrented it as eveyone who paid spent 80$ for an early access game to be beta testers
>>503544946Anomaly and GAMMA are shit but at least they have A-Life kek
>>503544946nooooo dont play one of the most well liked, best looking and well curated mods of stalgur nooooo you HAVE to play some obscure slavjank soupmod with vanilla gunplay and fortnite emojies made by ivan in 2014 and never updated
>Crawling through the bushes>Some shithole military base in the distance>Aw yeah time to fucking lo->Bloodsucker out of nowhere>AH SHIT FUCK YOU NIGGER DIE AHH FUCK NIGGER>Damn that was a close one fucking nigger bloodsucker>Go into building, find a stash>ANOTHER FUCKING BLOODSUCKER>DIE NIGGER AH SHIT FUCKING NARUTO RUNNING BITCH FUCK>On to the next building>Jesus H. Christ with the fucking bloods->THREE FUCKING BLOODSUCKERS>BACKED INTO A CORNER GETTING SPUN AROUND LIKE A RETARD AT A DANCE RECITAL>GUNS GUNS GUNS>EMPTYING THAT SHIT ON THOSE NIGGERS WITH A VENGEANCE>They die>Ok sweet I hope nothing fucking bad ha->Group of bandits spawn in and start doming meThis not-A-Life spawning shit might need to be fixed. It's either nothing forever or 10 groups of NIGGERS trying to tongue my anus.
>>503545153That bug is gonna be fixed next patch chill out
>>503544946Easier to clean up piss over shit. What would you recommend other than those and why
>>503545278Just 2 more weeks
>>503544652proofs?
>>503544946Then that makes S2 Indian sewage. A life is really the backbone of the games and it's not a stalker game without it
Whats up with Beard and the Sultan not showing up at their spots?
>>503544572Just play Metro Exodus.
Bros the weather sucks...
>>503545153Just like a life will be added soon? Kek with their track record these bugs fixds will only create more bugs you really think there gonna test it?
>only 290 views on pastebinthis thread/site is THAT niche?
>>503545695Meant for>>503545278
>>503545367Anything that has real missions, freeplay is boring. >>503545554I agree Stalker 2 is worse. I need actual missions + A-life, that's STALKER
the thread isn't comfy bros.
>>503544946you made the gamma turd eaters mad with this one
When exactly does the soft-lock progression bug happen?
I have played for over 30 hours now and I still haven't seen any of the following weapons>The APS>The SVU>The PKM>The Malyuk/Dnipro>The Carmel>The Bizon>The Saiga>The DP12>The Ukrainian Tavor (outside of one unique one that I turned in for a side mission)Does anyone know some stashes I can go find these at or something?
>>503546236blame all the tourists and trolls
>>503546248>the soupcel is STILL seething at gamma and anomaly chads
>>503546372The deeper into the zone you go the more you'll see. Not much different from SoC in that regard.
>>503544652Nice try, wish granter.
>Run into a pair of bloodsuckers>Reload a previous save because I literally do not have enough ammunition to kill themI miss the more careful combat of the previous games. Here I'm just circle strafing while magdumping into bulletproof mutants and spamming instant healing stimpaks
i couldn't find the reward stash of the monolith after you kill the controller at the waste processing stationanyone else?
>>503545504I am no longer mad about women in stalker 2
>>503546372follow the road north of rostok then when it splits in red forest go west and you'll find forester's old place occupied by a vendor who sells some
that one retard who says "soupcel" is back xDD
>>503545682the weather got better fellow Loners
>>503546962>bulletproof mutants>instant healing stimpacksIf I read this shit one more time... why the fuck are you still playing vanilla? install one of the modpacks or make your own.
>>503547127Kill yourself
>>503546372i have 35 hours i only have the cracker and ak74i have a vss in storage but im too poor to repair itim at the noontide part right now
Is there any way to fix Sultansk doors not opening
https://github.com/Mord3rca/gamma-launcheranyone used this to install >gamma on >linux? apparently that retard grok wrote the original gamma installer in powershell
>>503546287There's multiple instances of soft locks, first one is the scientist closing the lab door
>>503547250NTA but you're a fucking retard. previous games sucked ass without mods and this one is no different. quit bitching on this website and either install the mods that fix the very issues youre complaining about or maybe just go kill yourself so we dont have to hear your incessant whining
>>503547250yeah, you should kill yourself, retarded faggot nigger. just coming here to complain about something you can literally change within 2 seconds. worthless bitch
>>503547250>ah yes that series that is notoriously good vanilla on launch month... StalkerYou're complaining to complain.
>Stalker 2 ARS ModPack v 1.8 (balance + QoL)it even does anything? I've installed it and the basic feature of increasing carrying weight from 80 to 90 isn't working for me.
>>503546994I hope she's in a kitchen
>>503547480>>503547505>>503547569Seethe
why does every enemies gun have to be broken garbage ?
>>503547647The number only updates if you equip or unequip an item that gives you carry weight bonus
>>503547757She's a tech which is the autist waifu job in the zone. Barwomen are babushkas
>>503547773we aren't the ones being filtered by a video game and coming here to cry about it ;^)
>>503547647did you install it correctly? uninstalled other mods?its possible that they still didnt update the UI part, but you can still get 90kg.fastest way to find out of it worked is seeing if medkits still heal you super fast or not (they are much slower in the mod)
>>503547105What mod?
>>503547250come over here and do it yourself, nigger
>>503536734Spoilers, but yes, at least once
>>503547916What mod for what anon, care to be more specific?
reminder that your zone ""waifu"" likely hasn't bathed in weeks or even months
>>503547773>comes here to seethe>seethes some more>responds "seethe"holy fortnite nigger
>>503547987thats the best part
>>503547250kys tourist kike. Let me guess s2 is the first stalker game you've played
>>503548010fortnite>stalkerdeal with it newfag
>>503547865only mod I use is this, and the roadside panic from that schizo.
>>503547987You mean I finally have something in common with a woman?
>Periodically find 7.62x39 ammo>Hell yeah maybe we get an AKM finally, or an SKS>Only the PK of all things uses itWhat in the fuck?
>>503547840So the zone equivalent of a kitchen? I ain't trusting her with any of my guns
EUCLxfBeDewpurYPA39HR6hWaeDER1WVftWYN1qXpumpGood hunting, stalkers.
HOW DO I GET RID OF THESE FUCKING THINGS GOD DAMN IT THAT'S 0.8KG AND A LOT OF SPACE WASTED
>>503547987
>>503543906How the fuck to I leave lesser zone and get to either cordon or rostok? :(
In one hand I hate not being able to see shit, on another hand I love not being able to see shit.
>>503547981Anomaly mod? For the weather is it shader or atmospheric or a combination of a bunch of them ?
Neat
>>503547012Thanks, I should've guessed that there would be a trader there, but I also havent really explored the red forest at all outside of going there for Barman's side quest and immediately coming back because I got over-encumbered.>>503547305>CrackerI can help out with that one at leastIf you go to the Cordon (it's the region southeast of the Lesser Zone, if this is your first stalker) and look in the attic of one of the buildings in the car park (which is between the rookie village and the big rail bridge on the east side of the road), you'll find a SPAS-12. Don't remember what condition it starts out in, but I don't think it was too expensive to repair if it needed repairs at all.
>>503548290You can't its permanent if you've completed the quest beforehand The dei dev faggots were in charge of this
>>503548307Walk either east or north respectively
>>503548021>>503548294Disgusting motherfuckers. Everyone knows a women smells best after you shower with her.
>>503546994shes midwheres the blonde bitches
I think i'm owed a giant apology and a dick suck from the guy who kept doomposting about how Stalker 2 would not have a modding scene because UE5.
the amount of people who still believe you can't sell red/broken guns is absolutely hilarious.
>>503548570Women don't smell like anything after a shower. Boring.I like to eat my wife out after a whole day of work. Got some of the stank on it.
>>503546465>gamma turd eater still pathetically posting bait
>>503548387Yes it's vanilla Anomaly with
>>503548519They fucked up with this one, you can avoid all the anomalies and just drop down to the basement entrance from on top of the hill
>want to wait for major fixes>also want to keep playing even though it runs like shit and is broken in multiple ways>>503548590the only reason people ever said this is because noone has modded other UE5 games much because noone gives a shit about most modern slop, STALKER 2 still has far more going on than other EU5 games (or the good ones are very linear experiences not worth modding), and also the game is broken so it needs the mods. but either way idk if UE5 has tools set up to allow people to edit your code without giving the entire source code but they said they are making mod tools
>first random mission I'm given after starting the game is fighting off a horde of 20+ monolith cultists attacking the starter townis there no difficulty scaling on the random missions? this doesn't feel like something you should be given at the start of the game desu
>>503548686I would rather kill myself than sell every broken fucking gun I come across, I can carry 92kg total.
>>503548721thats exactly what I did, I just figured it was a clever way to bypass it, it doesnt ruin it, there are plenty of blind retards who will run right into it
lodochka asked me to meet him in his bunker after grabbing the emitter but the door is not opening.wtf bugged?
>>503548687>Women don't smell like anything after a shower.that's the neat part. You don't feel disgusted being with her.>I like to eat my wife out after a whole day of workwhat an awful thing to say in a stalker general
>>503548701>this greatly upsets the soup chud
>>503548831dont pick up every gun, just pick up the expensive ones like 416, g37, spas-12, Buket, etc etc.broken guns sell for only a little less than yellow guns
>>503545504the anon beat me to it. i was only gonna post her booba not to spoil. ill keep the other one a secret for you to find. >>503546779kek
>>503548686ok then, how do you do it faggot
>>503548829>difficulty scaling in a scuffed freeplay modpackLMAOif u want difficulty scaling play the proper game with its story chain
>>503548953go to the god damn Bazaar in Rostok and talk to one of the two gun vendors. The guy outside the main store area will buy any red weapon as long as its not at 0%
>>503548590A lot of the people who claimed that will probably try to claim that it doesn't count because we don't have anything beyond balance/tweak mods yet>>503548803This is kind of true but there are some UE5 games with active modding communities, check out the Ready or Not Nexus page at some point, or the Pavlov Mod.io page. Though maybe it's different with those because they started as UE4 games and just got ported over to 5.
>>503547865I'm retarded, I've forgot that I had a sell broken stuff mod from earlier in my playthrough. Starting a new safe applied the mod changes. 15 hours down the drain...
>>503548832Put hours and hours into developing a cool anomaly just to run past it and say oh cool then go to the basement lol imagine they put that time into an actual working a life
>>503547757I hope she is loved
>>503548551hmm, I'll try east. I tried north but the main bridge is blocked off, maybe I went to the wrong area but I'll give it a go. Thanks
Can't get over the fact I have to grenade swarms of rats that get stuck under everything
>>503543906E D E E K O M N Y E HDEEKOMNYEH
>>503548863this is your final (You), gamma turd eater
really epic how it's pretty much impossible to fight properly at night because you have a flashlight eternally running on chinese batteries, no NVG and enemies produce almost zero muzzle flash.
>>503549832based>>503549864thanks soup slurper, have one back
>>503549312hows the performance in ready or not? I have this theory that every single UE5 game is doomed to pathetic performance except fortnite, because epic know what they're doing on their own damn engine
I just realized the energy drinks are technically an in game ad
>Stalker 2 ARS ModPack v 1.8 (balance + QoL)anyone played with this yet? bout to get home and gonna try it out
DOOR STUCK
i have absolutely zero faith that even if there is a patch tomorrow, that it will fix the main story issues
just realized moving my camera too fast on DLSS balanced produces this awful grid on my screen like a super low res LCD display
>>503547480>previous games sucked assfuck you lol
>>503543906Is the game patched now or should I wait until Thanksgiving?
>>503547480kys, vanilla is the only real stalker experience, rest you're not playing stalker you're playing lurker
>>503550762its playable if you dont care about lack of a-life or that the questline is apparently frozen (why the fuck are people saying that? some anons already finished the game)
>>503550762I would wait a month or two, you will only benefit from waiting, the game isnt going anywhere
>>503548590>config edits>modding scene
>>503550820>why the fuck are people saying that?because the two quests after SIRCAA are completely bugged and soft lock progression in two areas of the game. the only way to actually beat the game right now is to use UETools and unfuck the story modes
bratans it's time
>>503550125link it
>unironically playing gamma/analmeme LMAOOOOOO
certified slop
>>503550989i dont think poeple who beat the game used any tools they just fucking playedone of the anons was literally a wagecuck
>>503548712Ty anon. I can't seem to get beef, sss, and especially to work my shader compiler keeps crashing at launch unless I disable them. In same load order as urs
>>503551068>wagecucks didnt beat the game with modsthere aren't enough words in the english language that describe how retarded you are
>>503550762You should wit until Thanksgiving. Next year.
>>503549954I remember some complaints about performance for it but I think it still runs better than S2, obviously.I also forgot to mention that the Silent Hill 2 remake also has a fair amount of mods now, but it's mostly limited to model replacements and shit like that as far as I can tell.
>>503550340It will fix the main few that are well known, but it will introduce new bugs because they never test anything and most people payed 80$ to be beta testers for them
How am i supposed to ever finish an UE5 game when my autistic brain keeps noticing shit like this and i get compelled to complain about it online?
>>503551319Silent hill remake 2 has awful fps drops in certain segments, like down to 20fps for me, reason I'm scared of how s2 will run, and sh2 remake never got fixed
>>503551340When's the main softlock in the story?
>>503551616try having sex, it's what worked for me back in the day
>>503551626 you can run s2 on really bad graphics if u want
>everyone ditching their engines to use ue5 the future looks grim
>>503551616That's fucking annoying though so it's understandable.
>>503551791and until dev costs go down it will continue
>>503551663if you get a quest telling you to go to the fancy art deco building on the map, dont. its that easy
>>503551791>in an alternative reality, Valve pays the major developers to use the Source 2 for their gameswe live in the worst time line, denied of soulful Source kinos.
>>503551919>lugging around a 12kg quest itemno you have to stop before the mission at the clear sky base in the swamps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ-kDBxE0U0
>>503551919what's the name of that place? I think I've passed that by now.
>>503548307Go to the south eastern corner of lesser zone, there should be a gap in the wall
>>503552162SIRCAA institute
>>503551616Skif is beginning to believe.
protip: standing still replenishes energy fast like old stalkers but walking also replenishes at the same speed. so the way to move quick is run to deplete the bar and then walk (x button on pc) to refill fast
are the building in the game from real places ?i mean the new buildings in stalker 2
>>503552235Good, haven't received that mission yet. Is there a walk around the softblock?
I'm stuck on the main quest Extreme Simplicity because Strider won't spawn. Scar is just hanging out at the Ranger Station by himself and has no dialogue options except for "what's new in the zone?" so now I can't progress the main quest. Even worse, the previous main quest had me pick up a scanner. So now I've got a 12KG quest item in my inventory that I can't get rid of. Why the fuck do undroppable quest items have weight?Anyway. Does anyone know how to solve this?
>>503552392no, I've tried three seperate methods of getting around it and none have worked. all end in total softlock of the campaignI think it also depends on the choices made during those quests but I've heard from several people that chose the different options that it still happened to them. You can UETools the quest to completion but you still have all the negative shit happen
I got filtered by the Anomaly tutorial mission, didn't know what that retard Fanatic wanted to show me
>>503551185I had a bunch of trouble to configure it properly with the risk of spamming let me send you what i installed of what.
I had an AKM jam at 99% condition.
>>503552512I think you got softblocked.>>503552558shiet negro, I hope the patches fixes this, how many hours into the game you can go, following just the story missions.
>>503552558then how did people finish the game without it
>>503552569install gamma
>>503552716The zone wanted to humble you
>>503552634
>>503544374>accidentally walked into bloodsucker town>get myself in a tiny woodshed with a wheel barrow separating me and the bloodsuckers>realised it was more than 3 of these fuckers>cheesed them out using all of my shotgun shells and 9mm>there were six of these guysLook im all for a hardcore experience but this is ridiculous. All i had at the time aside from my pistol was a toz double barrel and a viper 5. I threw a ton of nades too but i didnt nail them with it since they dont stand still. Either way i couldnt run because there were six of these fuckers. Really my biggest issue is how low tier shotguns might as well serve as a tickle stick on muties.
who has already beaten stalker 2 ?
>>503552569he wanted to show you the force of a boar's tusk piercing your ass and ruining your suit. You can skip that and learn it on your own as you make your way around the cordon.
>>503552857
Unreal engine 5 is garbage
>>503551626I feel like S2 is probably more likely to get fixed up than an outsourced remake, even it's just a little patched up at most. What are your specs, anyways?
>>503553008twice today, came alot.
>>503553075>playing on a projectordo retards really?
>>503553053
>>503553162bwo I'm on a 3070ti and 12700k, sh2 is usually 80fps on high (high and medium run the exact same), with dlss, but just after pyramid head shows up the segment goes to 30fps, and before that tons of random frame hickups, idk if it's trash devs or the engine, hoping s2 performs better, I'll buy it in a week or so, very broke right now
>35 hours in>still poor and cant get the gear i wanti want a refund on this cocka dookie bullshit
how long till we get the mods that restore cut content and fix every aspect of the game such as alife, balancing, artifact distribution, ambience and soundtrack, makes the emission not look like shit etc.
>>503553540>alifeits probably not possible with unreal enginei have a feeling the game developers were forced into something they didnt want to do
>>503553220It’s a steam deck, retard
>accidentally walked upstairs in the buildinf before you meet scar in the basement during an emission>IDI NAHUI almost karked it>open my inventory>wtf all my gears are suddenly in shamblesFirst of all that building was roofed, second of all im not a fan of emissions ruining my gear. I dont recall that being a thing - didnt emission incur psi damage and just kill you?
>>503553470install the mod that lets you sell broken weapons and suits.
>>503553659What? of course it is
>>503551616I have the same exact ghosting, can notice it in the clouds or moving from interior/exterior, annoying as hell it reminds me of 76
is there a list of known softlocks?I can speak to Scar in the Wild Territory so far. I know the the scientist on Wild Island can be solved with UE Tools and Zalissya is just fucked
>>503551616all we need is the option to turn off raytracing.
>>503553684it just rapidly drains your hp, also no longer zombifies stalkers lawl
>>503553659alife is just basic scripting, modder can easily do it, just like they did in the OG games. Modders were the ones who made a life that we remember, its was completely broken in soc and cs, and broke often in cop
im having a hard time finding the special anomaly zones where artifacts spawnany tips ?
>>503553540the moment we get the mod tools
>>503554032Bethesda and GSC can join hands into down the path to hell, holy fuck what a bunch of cunts.
I'm curious what the patch will do to fix the softlock for people that have no saves prior to that quest line. you just lose the city forever?
>>503554198I dont know why people expected competence out of GSC, they have had buggy as fuck releases every single time, there was a zero chance stalker 2 was going to be any different
>>503554284they'll probably nuke the saves.
>>503554032Stfu spoiled mod slurp baby, vanilla stalker AI works great
I hate the interlaced graphics so much.
>>503553341I'm on a 6600XT with a 7700x and I'm usually getting around 60-70 frames on high-medium settings at 1440p using FSR upscaling (but no framegen) it goes down into the 50s in dense areas like towns but it's usually alright out in the open world and during most of the missions and combat encounters I've done.Sometimes my frame rate will just randomly get cut in half, but I've found that either backing out to the main menu and reloading my save, or restarting the game tends to fix it for a while.If that sounds acceptable to you, I think you'll be fine, you might end up getting better performance than me but I don't really know, I'm not particularly tech literate.
>>503554380I wouldnt be surprised. I already took a tally of all my gear, weapons, medical and finances and what those total items amounted to money wise so if the saves get nuked I can just spawn all that shit back into my inventory
>>503554453a life is not ai..
9900k and 2080ti 11GB Vram, 32gb ramMy GPU is near 100% utilization but the CPU hovers from 40-60% even in high density areas, so the GPU is bottlenecking the CPU despite Stalker 2 being CPU intensive? They're both about 6 years old now, I'm looking to upgrade components in the near future but I didn't think the 2080ti was this much lagging behind the 9900k.
PATCH IS UP
>>503554514Npc behavior and systems in video games was known as AI way before the current generative craze
>>503551021read OP
>>503554483Sounds good, dipping into 50 sounds awful but ig 60+ is fine, I'll try the high preset then take down stuff own by one if it runs poor, can you change settings mjdgame?
>>503554604A life was things the AI did but it wasnt governing what they did gameplay wise, yes vanilla ai was smart in fighting but thats not what im talking about here. CS a life for example would constantly break its faction war simulation and they would stand there doing nothing, COP the a life would break when the ai tried transititon zones. SOC was barely existent and had to be patched in.
>mfw when I finally understand Grok's visionyour parts, stalker
>>503554593Why do you lie stalker
>>503554780Some of them you can, others require a restart (and I think you have to recompile your shaders every time you start the game with new settings)
>grenade a swarm of rats in a tunnel in the Wild Territory>cheevo unlocked
Anyone have an idea where I might find the aramid lining blueprint?Do these things spawn in set locations or do I just have to wait to get lucky?
>>503555379Same exact way.
>>503554593Its 3am in Prague, not even plausibleTry again in a week
so I don't get the camo ak if I don't give the pda to the feds?
>>503555478I think I got one from being teleported by the big rostov anomaly.
If you faggots wanna mod everything already then please make a compass mod to make it like the original
thoughts on Roadside Panic mod?I tried a little bit today, and I finally saw some Loners patrols around Garbage and they started a shooting with some bandits.it doesnt seem to fix enemies spawning behind you, but Im glad to finally hear the gunshots in the distance.
>>503555751>anon woul sold his soul to federal niggers for an ak with shit smeared over itAnon, I don't want to sound mean, but you should consider jumping head first into a springboard.
>want to try playing GAMMA>the install instructions filtered me
>try to get artifact in flaming anomaly filled jail cells area under detention center >could not for the life of me figure out how to get it to pop out>get burned a ton but had stacks of medkits so whatever>finally get it jesus christ>all my weapons and armor have lost 70+ durabilitywell shit time to reload.do we think they'll retune repair costs? it feels prohibitively expensive.was it like this in the old games? my memory of playing cop 14 years ago is very hazy.
>>503552973knowing this fuckin spawn system it was probably one bloodsucker that kept respawning over and over again 30 meters away from you even while the original was still alive lmao. This shitty "a-life" is ruining the game for me. There's no reason to have long-range weapons. Every single encounter goes like this:I see a building. There is not a single living soul anywhere near this building. I am the only living thing within half a kilometer. I enter the building. Suddenly there are 3 mutants and 3 stalkers directly outside the door fighting each other.Everything is finally dead. I look around. Once again I am the only living thing in a kilometer radius. I spend 23 seconds looting. There's now a zombie 20 feet behind me shooting in the back while I loot. Fuck off. Fuck you GSC. Fix your shitty game.
>>503556151just watch the instruction video then
>>503556151Don't feel bad, the faggots that made gamma can't mount a simple install.
>>503556176Repairs were pretty forgiving in CoP and SoC had massive durability pools.
>>503555974Modders are still learning the systems, but its an improvement
>>503553075Take the film off your screen, retard
>>503556246This is why im just waiting a couple months to play, everybody is just ruining a possible good experience by playing now
>>503556247I have legit ADHD (not the hip new cool kind that every faggot nigger says they have) and I can't follow instructions to save my life.
>>503555871you cannot make anything besides very basic mods right now.the files are locked down
>>503549481Being a stalker means being cunning, observing the surroundings, finding an unusual solution.If you complain because a fellow stalker has found an alternative route, you have not understood the basis of how to survive in the Zone.From a gameplay perspective, it instills a precedent of critical thinking in the player: from that point on, he will try to find solutions to complex problems.You sound like a DutyKEK
>>503556404how did you get here? were you born knowing how to navigate to 4chan?
THE MAN HAS SPOKEN! THE ONLY GRAPHICS OPTIMIZATION GUIDE YOU NEED!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=814y2OPLsX0
>>503556404wouldnt the video make that easier
>>503556492bitch you dont need settings when you can just install a config and gain more than you ever could from ingame settings
Does the hypercube just randomly spawn or is there fixed points?
>>503556473I've been posting on 4chan since 2005, when I was 15. if we apply the same logic, it should only take 19 years to learn to install GAMMA.>>503556540no, because switching between a physical task of me doing it and some point in the video is too many things to keep track of and my mind wanders
>>503553858I got softlocked after visiting the clear sky base, next main quest I'm supposed to meet with Scar and Strider at Ranger Station, but only Scar shows up. Now I'm stuck with a fucking 12KG undroppable scanner in my inventory. So don't grab the scanner at the clear sky base until this shit gets patched.
>>503556375I'm still going to have a good experience in a few months...
Im at azimuth station which is supposedly controlled by the warden but there's nobody here, and I dont have the keycard. What do?
will modders be able to make skif swim ?and drivable vehicles ?
>entrance blockedmotherfucker
>>503548721Or you can just walk around the edge where there's like one anomaly.
are there any good stalker related youtube channels?
>>503556770Depends on what the mod tools let us do, i would say a drivable vehicle would probably be simple
>>503556771is there still a lab in the dark valley ?
>>503556770Ark has a few mods and its UE5 so, anything is possible
>Stalker 2>massive open world>no vehicles
>>503556769Never mind I figured it out, it's an anomaly
>>503556838i used to have a ton of stalker footage i madebut i deleted that channel because someone said i was not a real gamer
>>503556404That's not ADHD you're just retarded and can't read
>>503557117based, i too enjoy destroying my own work
>>503557084i dont mind runningits the recharge on the stamina that i hatepopping energy drinks and water every 30 seconds or less
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>>503557084>driving your Lada>hit a wind anomaly>get launched into the air>land in a bubble anomaly that strips your insides>hit an electrical anomaly that sets your car on fire>as your car is on fire and you are bleeding out you hit a teleport anomaly that sucks you to another area 100ft in the air
I think everyone here would benefit from seeing one of the master scenes from Tarkovsky's masterpiece, especially the newcomers.Good hunting, Stalkers.https://youtu.be/Q3hBLv-HLEc?t=2937
>>503556671I found 2 in two seemingly random artifact spawns. One at a big gravity anomaly in northern garbage. I can't remember where I found the second one
>>503556905what about flying a helicopterlike grand theft auto they should have a helicopter as a guide to different locations (one you cant fly yourself, like WoW)
wait, did I miss the hilka detector in this playthrough if I didn't loot the stash and talked to that dude on the last stash? or is there another place you can get it later?
i tolerate anomalyfags but gammatroons need to be gassed and lapidated
>>503557119I read at a college graduate level in the 4th grade. I can not focus on shit that is not interesting to me. video games are interesting to me, spending an hour downloading 37 files and following 48 steps to install a game is not interesting to me.My mind will explode in 6 different directions the second I try to suck in different information for things that I dont care about
>>503557309this movie is so fucking amazing, but I do think it hanged on some moments a bit too long even for a movie by tarkovsky and it being artsy. also all those people got cancer
>>503557432helicopter would be way more complicated, and the game is not at all designed around such movement.
>>503557309i loved this movie but its very draining to watch. keep meaning to watch solaris too but ive been putting it off for the same reason
>>503557489bartenders sell it frequently and you can find at least 4 of them just in random places.
>>503551791UE5 is legit dogshit and I’m so fucking tired of having to deal with it. >texture pop in on everything 20m from the PC in plain view >unoptimized>everything looks wet 24/7>terrible lighting>floaty physicsDid I forget anything else?
>>503556969I can't remember where the lab entrance was in SoC... I was at the factory where the bandits hang out but I didn't find it. I could have missed it though.
>>503557307what about a quad ?
I'm really enjoying S2 vanilla and look forward to replaying it someday with whatever mod rises to the top
>>503556990UE5 is moddable to begin with, that was the entire point of 5.
>>503557683its damn near the same size as a Lada and probably just as fast. same issue.the only vehicle that would make sense in this game is a bicycle and even that would be dumb. theres too many anomalies that would kill you by trying to drive on any sort of path
Literally unplayable.
>>503554454why does it look like that other new games do too
>>503557806This is realistic, it's what happens when we try to let slavs do architecture
>>503557573>>503557608this movie is boring as shit.it's just 2 hours of guys walking around in the woods throwing bolts at anomalies until they find the wish granter.
>>503557628I love how unreals reputation has gone to dirt in recent years. A few more fucked games and the unreal engine will become radioactive
>>503557650in the middle of the map with the big tower and crane. in the building.
>>503556404>>503557528I have adhd too, just play a movie or youtube video on half your screen and then read the instructions on the other half
>>503557854This is what upscaling does. All the devs who know how to optimize have left the industry so now every game runs at 20fps unless you upscale from 360p because all the leftover devs are too retarded to optimize properly
So realistically How long do you guys think it will be until we get>DLC/expansions>Mod Tools>Multiplayer I bet this one is going to end up like Cyberpunk
>>503557801bloodsucker on bike.gif
>>503557981Ah, I remember now, thanks. Yes, you can actually access that lab, but it's not the entire thing, just part of it IIRC.
>>503557972https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm3kyHBMAr0this is what it was made for
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>>503558201it was made for a completely dead game?
>>503558216big caucasian cock
>>503557806>no flashlight shadows>in a 2024 UE5 gameGRIGGA ARE YOU OK?!
>>503558216I understood that reference
>>503557972it doesn't matter if the engine is radioactive as long as suits continue to pick ue5 because it lets them pick from the enormous labor pool of cheap, global, easily replaceable ue5 devs
>>503558348yes. stalker 2 was supposed to be on its own engine
>>503558362>Meanwhile in ray-engineAnd my stupid friend kept telling me that moving to Unreal wasn't a bad move and that they shouldn't have instead invested in doing a better version of Ray-Engine that caters to what they want to do with their game.
>>503547412it works, yes
>>503558068it's so sad that now we have all this insane technology that devs 25 years ago would think is arcane, all the devs today are retarded and can't even use it or take advantage of its capabilities
I don’t understand. How can monolith keep its numbers? It’s been three games and they ways have overwhelming force to cause chaos
>>503547412powershell is based
>>503558849they just mind control new niggas
>>503558508It will be when people stop buying unreal engine games. Look whats happening to ubisoft. Even if you got a massive pool of money if you keep fucking up eventually the pool will run dry.
>>503545153I bought and haven't even installed it because I want more stalker. Devs or modders will fix the issues, and I'll play it then
there will be a stalker 3mark my words
>>503558803Cause the game industry fucking sucks to be in. If companies actually valued devs this wouldnt be a problem and those veterans would still be there today. You make twice as much being a regular programmer.
I feel like they really stepped up the exploration aspect in S2
Welp pretty sure blueprints are bugged. I checked the location for the blueprint I needed, turns out I already looted it, I do remember picking up the drive, but the tech says I still need the blueprint.So I spent the last 4-5 hours upgrading this suit and now I can't even get the upgrade I wanted. Great.
>>503558989valhalla was the best selling AC game, ubisoft is not going out of business anytime soon
I has a Hypercube and a Liquid rock after... 33 something hours poking about the entire zoneHow many top tier artifacts have you found?
>stalker 2 >expansion >stalker 3
>>503559201>he doesn't know
>>503559067sadly true, once execs realized how much money is in vidya it was doomed
>>503559057>>503559239I hope
>>503559057who cares
>>503559239Will they remember putting the a-life in next time?
saving Zalyssa was bugged. I had to XKillThemAll. Did I get a bad end for that area? Gaffer says that they lost but thanks Skiff anyways
>reload a save losing 14 hours of progress to get to a point where I dont softlock my story mode>keep playing after my fucked up softlock and hope that a patch fixes itwhat would you do
glad we all agree that ue5 is fucking shit
>>503559373for the expansion yes for 3 no
>>503559239>stalker 2>expansion>paid mods>multiplayer addon with microtransactions
>>503559218>I haskill yourself, r*dditnigger
>>503559384If it bothers you this much i would go back, was that 14hours of progress really that big of a deal? how much was it wasting time running around? That said you would remember what you did last and it would take much less time to get back to where you were.
>>503559373No, everyone bought this game anyway.Why would they bother
>>503559057my unborn grandkids are looking forwards to its buggy release
Did the clear sky base get swallowed by the zone?
>>503559567bro it was 14 hours of hard progress.I made like 300,000 koubles, found end game armor, found a bunch of artifacts, progressed through three extremely long and boring quests.it was a fucking lot.
>>503559373your not going to need an expansion for a life, just wait for the modders to do it instead
>>503559631>posting on 4 channel dot com's video game generals board>procreating
my dad works at gsc and he says in stalker 3 you play as strelok's daughter
I just realized they're also planning on releasing a multiplayer update. That's pretty much fucked now isn't it? I guess this really is Cyberpunk 2.0
>>503559123I unironically enjoy exploring the most, it makes the tension much higher Until a pack of dogs spawns right behind me
3 badass duty guys in SEVA suits just took out a psydog and started throwing bolts up in the air. freedom will never
>>503559582At least 90 million russians pirated this game that means GSC lost 6 gorillions czech eurobux
>>503558150>they included multiplayer only guns in the paypig editions>steam just updating their terms for season passif they don't release multiplayer they will have to refund :^)
>>503559704In the mist to the far southeast.
>>503559705time to crank some tunes and grind, hell you already beat that content, slap some cheats on to just redo it if its too time consuming
>>503559754is she a furry loli like red's daughter from roadside picnic?
is it worth fixing a vintar from red or just wait to get one that isn't broken?
>>503559940I guess you're right. I've just been walking around playing the guitar in fields for the last 3 hours trying to figure out what to do
>>503560026no but shes half mutant
>>503560065if you bought the deluxe verion of the game, you get a pretty good Vintar thats better than the Lavina, and can get a bigger mag for it too.
>>503560026She was cute
>>503560104alright what mutant did strelok fuck
>>503559754Do any STALKER characters canonically have kids?
>>503559887alright I'll check it out soon as it's morning"upgraded" to DLSS ray reconstruction in place of Lumen btw
>>503559754how can strelok impregnate the zone?
>playing Zombie by the Cranberries at the campfirepeak kino
>>503560208obviously a snork, he's a man of taste after all
installed gamma.. why are most of the mods just bloat or eft textures/sounds? do I need to disable 99% of these for a decent experience???
>>503560462entirely up to you, if it doesnt bother you, why mess with it.
>>503559741my hypothetical unborn grandkids*
>>503552325>x button on pcso they finally made sprinting on lshift the default?
>jewdorovich got worse lmao
>>503556246I ran into this issue twice. Once was near the detention center. Moment i walked into the compound a pack of dogs spawned. Tbf it was pretty cool, like these fuckers were waiting in ambush, but what doesnt make sense is that its not like the building wasnt occupied. Second time was near slag heap in the garbage where ALL THE SUDDEN a pack of boar ambushed me when i was in that place with a bunch of container cargos. I died then.In a way i can appreciate the spontaneous moments though - i remember several times when random stalkers showed up (theyre on patrol, though, seeing how patrolling stalkers typically dont despawn on load) and either distracted my enemies or took them down.There was this one time i heard fire exchange, so i wanted to take cover in a nearby shack, only to see 2 bandits walked out. I walked in a saw a metric fuck ton of stalkers, all dead, in their bed. The fuckers didnt even loot the bodies. Grim.
>zombie needs 4 FMJ headshots to die>zombie needs 4 AP headshots to die>zombie needs 4 HP headshots to diewhat's the fucking point in ammo variety if it doesn't change anything?
I hope this was worth the effort
>>503560742use mods, retardanon
>>503560770I have a poopsuit and a wolfhound, what's the point of dutosuit?
>>503560791how am I the retard for expecting the devs to not be retards?
Do I stop playing after the faust questline begins?>>503560895because every single stalker game has required mods to be playable
>>503560886https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0oP7N0X8X0
Qualms I have with IWP:>weapon damage slightly too high (especially with the lack of adequate protection available)>weapon distribution is skewed (every soldier and their mother has an AS-VAL. I have seen an AK-12 and an AUG precisely once)>armoured suits too weak with few possessing higher than 20% armour>mutants are unbalanced (dogs can tank two shotgun blasts to the face, snorks die to the same)>mutants and enemies can spawn when loading a save (and in any level, too. I've fought Chimeras a number of times because of this)>managing sleep is retarded (especially with level transition time passage enabled)>eating animations are too long, I don't need to hear my character deepthroating a kielbasa>tasks are fucky (go to the village outside the Clear Sky Base and kill people for the 6.000.000th time)>diegetic status effects are quite annoying (<50% health coughing,<25% greyscale and dying, intrusive bleeding effect, etc)>army helicopters ruining everything within a 5 mile radius (Gauss rifles do fuck all damage to them, RPGs are your only bet, AI call them in any time they're shot at)Anyways, I've been tinkering with a few parameters to make it more enjoyable.
>>503561148Forgot pic
>>503561148>weapon damage slightly too highstopped reading thereobjectively wrong
>>503561317disregardI thought you were talking about HoC
>>503556838Anomalous dugout, doesn't everyone suck his dick? Broken CircleStalker worldFeedwaterStalker InfoKramerKleanKelshiLastKnownMealSamoshSweetnsoursossAlanzokaGosunoob
whoever made the mutant balancing in 2 needs to be dragged out into the street, tarred and feathered
>taking cover from blowout with some loner fuckboys>"OK, it's over" says one>hmmm this doesn't look right, says another>starts shooting me>all of them start shooting me>it's like I farted or somethingThanks Griga>>503561027Mine's more stylish
I love how they were able to nail the "atmosphere".
>>503560980>because every single stalker game has required mods to be playableCoP doesn't akshually
>rostov icons are greendoes this game have a reputation system?all the other places icons are white
finished soc/cop/cs al vanilla and they were good cope
>>503561736You get better prices if they're green, at least the Wolf charged me a lot less money to guide me around,1000 instead of 2500. Can't tell if it also effects the vendor prices.
I'm glad I installed the mod that nerfed bloodsucker health. Man they are wack to fight in this one.
Someone said the Faust fight sucked. I want to extend a whole hearted fuck you to that person. The Faust boss fight was kino.
whats your fav gun(s) so far stalkers. i think ive reached the point in game where i probably should swap to better guns
>>503561940why swap?the HK416 is my raifu and I can slap a grenade launcher on it
>>503561504>listing like a dozen jewtuberscool it with the onions consumption, chud>>503556838nikolai, only correct answeror random yters with 2k subs
>>503553227Might turn gay just to suck ur dick anon this worked thanks for taking the time to share the screenshots
>mutties are too hard >the game is easy lol
>>503561530install the modpack chud
>>503562289artificial difficulty
>>503561940The Buket has been my go to, absolutely rapes and ammo is everywhere early game. late game I've been using the Tavor clone and the Saiga 12 with the Deadeye handgun
is there any way you can access the bandit trader in garbage?
>>503559468cryengine is worse
>>503562074im still rocking the water tower ak so i just want try something new thats maybe better than what ive got
>>503562454install the ballistic rework pack. its fucking amazing. calibers actually act like they would in real life
>>503561940Headshots are all that matters later so bizon for drilling heads, slug saiga for mutiesI wish they gave you the shitty 9mm smgs before the later guns and made the later guns more powerful. I didn't see the russian 9mm smg until midgame but a comparatively rare mp5 was everywhereAlso the double barrel pump action is cool and should be dropped before the saiga but I didn't see it untilne later dropped by monolith
i never tried gamma before and im going to try itdo i need anomaly first and then add gamma ?
should I pirate the game now that mods have fixed it?or is the spawning still not fixed by mods
>stalker 2looks pretty, but fuck ue5 runs like horseshit no matter what game, its a damn shame>stalker socthrew this on after and damn this is still so kino. might hop into anomaly soon
>>503561940Vss that i didnt get to use yetit needs repairs
how do resists workif i have armor with max phys resist, is there any point in also using artifacts with phys resist?
>>503556771go to the middle of those 4 silos in agroprom, thats the new underground entrance, no you cant access streloks hideout.>>503558194literally just the first floor
>>503562732no, gamma has it
>>503561597They nailed the decaying industrial wasteland so wellVanilla is great fun, if the modding scene takes off (and I see no reason that it won't) this cool map they built will see some cool shit
it sucks knowing that hanging out at points of interest like tall buildings, or any random enclosure of buildings, that nothing else will happen to roam into the vicinity. If you're staying in relatively the same area like an overlook, literally nothing will ever happen.
So much for hoping to see some old friendly faces
>>503563154Grok is already hard at work, so yeah the modding community is already taking off
zoomer here redpill me on duty
>>503563415somehow more homosexual than freedom
>>50356341540 is not a zoomer chud
>>503563360who is this Grok i keep reading about, and why is he so regarded? I haven't done anything mod related since Call of Chernobyl was a thing like 10 years ago.
>>503563415lazy ass army LARPers
i wanted more food items than just the 4, couldnt they have just went to the supermarket and added some random ass ukraini brand stuff to the game
>>503561940The 6 capacity pump shotgun is my favorite gun it's just so satisfying and makes it easy to kill bloodsuckers. The starting pistol is surprisngly good even late game because headshots are awesome and the suppressor lessens aggro. Other than that use a 556x45 or 545x39 or 762x39 imo. The higher calibers (308, 7.62x54) are for special encounters only.
>>503563258Same, That controller was my first death in game
>>503562961i just went to their discord to see the installation steps and its horrible. im not going to be able to do all that shit
>>503563549G.R.O.K. orGinormous Retarded Obnoxious Kringefaggot
>>503563549lead modder of gamma
why isn't the death screen at least an image of the area you died in or somethingi didnt even die to a bloodsucker bro i fell
Why aren't there any dentists in the zone I feel like they could make some good money there
we need to gatekeep this general soc/cop/cs/s2 only
>>503563251a-life bros............
>>503560593they finally made it for normies))
we need to gatekeep this generalgamma onlyno amk and olsr and lost alpha chuds
>>503563776What other games have you seen posted here?
>>503563702Its incredibly simple, just watch the video on moddb
>>503563415Ex-military found new purpose in The Zone, which is Total Zone Death.
>>503559887I can't find a path to it, can you draw a line on the map?>>503556838EptableDr4cussionChaoticismRostok Kand of course Nikolai king of stalker shitpostingOnly quality shit at my store son
we need to gatekeep this generalclear sky only
we need to gatekeep this generalanomaly only
mamma miaStill can't kill a Controller at point blank range by unloading
>>503563891g*mma/analmeme aka secondary trannies
Apparently you go to Clear Sky base during the main quest, guess I'll save it for later then
Finished the first area, about to head northGonna miss this townStill waiting for the performance to get bad btw, some dipshit chastised me last night for daring to have a PC that can actually run the game
>>503564141Where the fuck did you find that
Are there actually ghosts or is that a glitch?
>>503564013>>503564104>>503563891we need to gatekeep this generalNLC7 chads only
holy shit, weight carry is ASSalso, the mod making it bearable fucks the other mod for weapon repairs costs so fuck me I guess
>>503564312I can confirm there are ghosts in the long tunnel hallway going out of the old bandit base
we need to gatekeep this generalbuildo only
>>503564241From the area marked in green. I came across those white chimney kind of things, one of them is broken and allowing you to enter. You find a locked door that need to be powered on etc.You can also enter from the tunnel entrance, which is what you're supposed to I assume.
How're the hubs in Stalker 2? I miss the bar
>>503561940Really loving the G36 and the Spas, G36 comes with a nice scope and has pretty good stats compared to the 416, and the SPAS just looks cool while being a semi-auto that I can fire as quickly as I can pull the trigger.I really want to like the Mac-10, it was one of the guns I was really looking forward to, but it just feels wasteful to try and use it when it does so little damage for all of the bullets it sprays out, especially when it weighs so much compared to the mandatory quest pistol.
how the fuck do I get the artifact in the radioactive pit near rookie village?
Threadly reminder Survarium had better grafix than Stalker 2
we need to gatekeep this general chads only
>>503562217Don't worry I spent a lot of time working on fixing it myself yesterday so if it can help the better, also if you ever find an error where the army kettle can't cook you will need a patch that is for 1.5.2 called item cooking script fix.They didn't fix that shit for anomaly 1.5.3 either.
we need to gatekeep this generalchuds only
>>503564913Survarium was also more fun than whatever GSC is going to shit out for their multiplayer
>>503563891stalkersoupcel
>>503565260cool it with the nostalgia glasses mtv
>>503565209Zigger Chuds or NAFOtroon Chuds?
>>503565137Ty for heads up, and one more thing, it looks great but i find the shadows and interiors are extremely dark like pitch black and can't figure out which setting in mcm can adjust it, adjusting the gamma and brightness don't fix it
>>503564910You walk slowly towards it.
I AM DRUNK I AM SO HAPPY TO PLAY STALKER 2I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD HAPPEN DESPITE THE BUGS ITS SO GOODWHERE IS THE GUY WHO TELLS ME TO GET OUT OF HERE STALKER THOUGH HE WAS ALWAYS THERE FOR ME
>>503564537damn i really need to explore garbage more and take a break exploring the north
were is HE
Is there an exo-suit in S2?
>>503565209stop
I've been through this village 3 different times and every time it's different dudesGame can't even keep static spawns persistentA-life is gonna be impossible even with mods
>>503565653yea and you cant sprint with it
>>503565804Don't think about itDon't ruin itJust pretend
>>503565536Based stalker enjoyer . We made it
>>503565392I honestly don't know about that issue myself because I didn't bother to fix it, but yeah something about the shadows needs some extra config or something because they're too dark independent of daylight, might go and try to find something on it.
>>503565536>WHERE IS THE GUY WHO TELLS ME TO GET OUT OF HERE STALKERThere's a reference to his Russian voice line in Pigspeak, graffitied on the wall
What is the glass shards anomaly called? First time i saw it i thought something was fishy, so i decided to throw some bolts into it. Didnt know it bleeds until i accidentally walked into later down the line. Glad my times playing stalker mods taught me to not just sprint everywhere
I have no idea what this is
>>503565870whatever man i cant sprint with all this loot im carrying anyway
>>503565927Yeah I'm looking into it rn I'll post again if I find anything
>>503565804Yes cause the spawner is broken, once its fixed, a life would be completely simple to do.
>bandit goes to throw a grenade>it bounces off the tree and blows up his entire group
>>503566013Found something, its related to enhanced shaders, you need one of the color grading defaults and "Open console and try "cfg_load grading_default" with no quotes."
I ran into a few artifact areas in the world, sensor beeps, but it doesn’t light up and the artifact doesn’t appear. I even returned to one after someone told me to go there, and it all worked as usual. Bug or am I retarded?
>>503564461wtf are you talking about i just saw a bunch of glass shard anomalies and a guy with an SVD at the end
>>503566151you have to get it so it beeps really fastand then the artifact will appearyou arent close enough
>>503566427I hung out at the sniper nest for maybe 30 seconds then got attacked by someone who I thought spawned in, but when I killed him he dissolved with some blue effect, and I heard laughing and stuff. Hung around some more and another ghost stalker spawned.
behead gammatrons
>>503566151Some need you to get a quest to go there before the artefact to spawn.
How many deaths are you guys at? Im at 65
we need to gatekeep this generalgamma and cop only
>>503566013Found new info anon also related to enhanced shaders"For anyone having issues with extremely dark shadows or just dark lighting in general, set your Shadow Map in the Anomaly launcher to 3072
>>503567312110 or so
>>50356731246but I'm cheating with reduced stamina for running/jumping
>>50356731216I just got to garbage
>>5035673121i just reached SIRCAA
>>503566660That happens if you're taking psychic damage. Maybe there was a controller nearby or something?Also does anyone know if there are mods or cheat tables or something I can use to skip a quest? I think I'm softlocked on my main quest.
>>503567312~30 on Veteranless than 10 since I dropped the difficulty down to Stalker because Eco is fucked
What's the difference between the Spitter and a basic Buket?Mind that the basic buket in the screenshot is upgraded, hence why it looks better in stats.The spitter comes with an already upgraded muzzle brake, but you can't install a suppressor on it, unlike the basic buket.And it weighs more than a basic with the suppressor installed.So what's the uptick with this thing? It's a named buket but I can't see any advantage to using it, after spending fifteen minutes trying to figure out what's better about it.
are you meant to be able to save zalissya?
>>503566695which soup do you play
>force enabled flashlight casted shadows>mutants literally turn into glow in the dark cia niggersi see.
what mods are you guys using for s2 so far? i'm using the modpack that was posted yesterday and some ini tweaks. Anything else good pop up yet?
>>503563757Or the thing that killed you, also lazy they just reused a screenshot from one of the trailers where the bloodsucker appeared.
>>503565992This is a good thing.
>>503567312Just died to a Chimera because it's an Obscene bullet sponge even on normal difficultyFuck this gay game
>>503567985nothing.
>>503568291install the fucking modpack you braindead retard
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPSEUDOPSY?GIANT
>>503568178>>force enabled flashlight casted shadowsHow?>>503568204>>503568338I'm only installing mods that improve the mediocre graphics, like DLSS ray reconstructionI can't turn around to a friend and tell him why this game is shit if I've modded it
>>503568178prove it, psot screens
>>503567985Oh...DONT SELL THE SPITTER.
Seems as though things have escalated
>>503568628You can lure that guy another way.
>>503557084>just make the map flat to accommodate vehicles broNo
>console retards ruin another franchiseyou all KNOW this is why things beyond 50m are not in the game right? they can't render shit
>>503568706>just be a nigger bro just make up strawman arguments bro just pretend u need a "flat map" to use an atv or dirt bike or bicycle bro just pretend there arent dirt ways in the game right now that would allow for such vehicles bro just be retarded bro
This is some WWE tier combat
>>503566695total gamma death
>>503568702What!?!, I've tried all sorts of shit. Had this damn PDA in my inventory for what seems like an eternity...help me anon
>>503568793yep, console niggers ruin everything, consoles should have stopped being a thing after 7th gen
>run near chemical plant while its hostile>inventory somehow gets three shotguns, a sniper and a vipereh
>>503568338I'll bet you $1000 it can tank an RPG shot unmoddedI have an RPG in my stash, I can test it
>>503568926Just talk to the barman in that place.
>>503568813dirt bike would be kino until you fly through a glass shard anomaly and get turned into lasagna
>>503567946every other anon in this thread has been doomposting about the soft locks on main quest for the last three days and yet still some people have this happen. wild
>>503567985spitter is exactly the same except it comes with a suppressor attached to it, and the suppressor has a different aesthetic than the Buket's
>>503569172For me it was Pol depot. The phantom weapons are real.
>(inhales)>(exhales)
>>503557084Better idea, why not horses?>low speed, can maneuver around anomalies and even jump over some>keen sense of danger to alert you if mutants are around>fits the low tech aesthetic of stalker>can be fed with kielbasa and condensed milk not a new gasoline item>can store and lug your lootI've always wondered why post apocalyptic games don't have more horses but have mutant animals and shit roaming around. They would see widespread use in a real zone with all the hiking that stalkers do and traders would make more sense. It especially boggled me in fonv that people use fucking cows to move cargo on foot instead of horses attached to carts
>having a problem with dark souls 1? use this mod sweetie the absolute state of this general
Is Yanov still a hub? I need to unload some stuff and repair my shit but Rostok is a bit far and I'm close to what seems like the Yanov Station on the minimap.
Here's how you fight a Chimera in Stolkor 2 Hort of Choronobol:1) Unload SVD mag directly into its face2) turn around and start walking forward3) reload while walking forward5) turn around and unload SVD mag directly into its face6) repeat 5 or 6 times until your gun breaks7) switch to Skuf's pistol8) win
>>503568813You can play motorstorm any time bro
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/204does this work with the modpack?
>>503569547Sorry to say this but the vanilla stalker games, even with patches, are not fun. They beg to be modded and stalker has one of the biggest modding scenes on the pc. Nobody here suggests you play the games vanilla for the first time. So the 'state of this general' is unchanged, artificial difficulty sister>fromtrannyThat 'splains it
>>503569579I'd rather save my SVD.
>>503569738bait
miss these
>>503569738Trash post. Ignore this
Seriously: Chimeras don't jump if you don't look at themJust walk away bro, lol
>>503569738Based post. Read this.
>>503568472https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/221?tab=description
>>503569837>>503569912>please acknowledge me I'm playing the unfinished unplaytested rushed build unmodded so I can complain about the difficulty'fraid I shan't be doing that sisters
AAAAAAAAAA LET ME IN
>>503569342>until you fly through a glass shard anomaly and get turned into lasagnaare you implying that shit wouldn't be dope
People shit on UE5 but goddamn this is amazing to look at
How many of these shitlords that complain about mutant bullet sponges have played past the first 2-4 hours? That shit has become such a non by the time you hit SIIRCA it's laughable.
>>503522145What a load of horse shit. I'm always going to miss the old system, because the old system made the world feel like a real living world set in a real place. I don't care if the "AI Director" gets patched to hide spawns better, none of the AI fucking matter and you will never see them again. I don't care about "le cinematic setpiece" garbage. I want the zone to feel real and immersive and that requires A-life.
There is no war between vanilla/modbros you can be both, they are not mutually exclusive you turbo tribal baboons
>>503570172I feel like this exact scene could be replicated in the original games' lighting and it'd look identical.
>>503570008Does it actually give you dynamic shadows?
>>503570265>vanilla/modbrosIt's vanilla/modbros vs. Anomaly/GAMMA fags, learn the difference.
>>503570265>buy game>immediately make changes to it before playing it as the devs intended>"Skyrim is good if you just install 500 mods."nah
>>503570172Game has generally looked amazing the whole time for me, some people just go into things wanting to hate them
I'm sorry strider. I didn't know go against that tree hugging faggot would also fuck you over. Fuck scar man, strider got fucked by association because this fucking guy is so fucking retarded.
>go to cooling towers>get shot at by a group of asshats so killed em all>check their patches >its pic relĐ·a Đ¼oĐ½oĐ»Đ¸Ñ‚
>>503570172>no hardware ray tracing>no flashlight shadows>draw distance for shadows is pitiful on ultra settings>2D trees face the wrong way so they pop in extra hard when you get closeIt's Slop
>>503570316Have you not played Call of Pripyat?
>>503570404>guy who is clearly brainwashed by the c consciousness ends up fucking things upnooo waaayyybut don't worry because strider gets fucked either wayhe had a hard life
>>503569523This. We need the Tark back.
Why the fuck are there so many goddamn Bloodsuckers in the zone now. I feel like 70% of the mutant spawns I get are Bloodsuckers.
>>503570515I have but there's so much to see in these games I don't remember what you could be referring to.
> sell stalker franchise to company in neutral country then hire all programmers from openxray oxygen ixray xrmpe ray of hope anomaly etc for upgrade xray to modern standards> or hire zoomer nonames and indian outsource to make far cry in chernobyl on unreal engine?
>>503570601The bloodsucker lair mission with sleeping bloodsuckers.
>>503570320yes but it's bugged as fuck. bloodsuckers will glow green too.
>>503570585that happened to me a lot after I left the lesser zone and now I've seen like two bloodsuckers in 15 hours of play
Hello?
>>503570172this legit looks like a game from 10 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka1EGbGbe7Iyoooo! this gameplay is fire!
>>503570265Stolkor 2 can be massively improved when there's AMK 2 for itStalker 1 is just kind of shit without decades of mods, like AMKI don't see a point installing mods when the game didn't have a single patch yet, you just know it's all gonna break next week lel
>>503570172The soft shadow lighting is so disgusting.
I love it when the AI can spot me miles away and hit me with perfect accuracy and see me through walls.
>>503570682nobody is stopping those modders from making their own stalker 2they even have a story to copy from now
how are you guys even getting bloodsuckers to spawn? i'm walking around everywhere and there's not a single living thing other than the trees
>>503570713I'll wait for the fixed version then, keep us posted broThis is must have in my opinion and was in fact present in the leaked build
has anyone figured out what the fuck you need to do to get the god damn technicians to not say "The technician cannot install this upgrade"?literally not one mother fucker can upgrade my Saiga.is it tied to rep? what the fuck is it?
>>503570889>its gonna breakyou have no clue what you talkin about niggerthe patch will literally have 0 effect on 99% of mods
>>503570585I feel that the game is just more aggressive than I rememberThat being said, I am surviving most encounters on the first try and making solid progress and I am a turbo shitter
>>503570984>Skif/sircaa/strelok story recreated in the original xrayI would play this in a heartbeat. Since most of the zone is reused it wouldn't be that hard, you just have to make sircaa really
>>503570963https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/113https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/100
>>503569316Not that anon but thank you
>>503570687Oh right. I actually forgot about that part entirely. I feel like I remember more of the beginning and end of CoP rather than the middle of it.
>>503570265>There is no war between vanilla/modbrosthere is and the faster we behead these gammatroons/analmemefags the better for us
>>503571170based modposter. when will these kiddies learn their problems go away with just a couple clicks
>>503570963ur a fucking retarded nigger.install the modpack from the OP.
>>503570889Base amk came out not long after shoc and is itself a blast to play through. CoP was very polished vanilla
>>503571028I have had naruto running bloodsuckers chasing me all over the fucking lesser zone
>>503571146Only if using some quests and cutscenes to expand the SoC story. HoC story itself has no value.
How much easier is the rookie mode? I swear my 2nd playthrough I just wanna enjoy the zone
only rookie village has an NPC playing the guitar?
>>503571028They just kinda pop in because A-life 2.0 lmaoGo to picrel if you want a good time :^)>>503571093The patch is gonna break every single mod because it's Unreal Engine. It's just how it is, trust me.>>503571302CoP was also absolute boringcore vanilla. And without patches you couldn't beat the game, it always crashed when you exited the underground tunnel.
>>503571170Maybe I should send these links to the devs so they can fix their fucking AI to not be bullshit. Is the AI just being bullshit an Unreal Engine thing too?>>503571260>>503571237I thought you were calling me a what you are because you were going to tell me to git gud. Which would have been preferable because going "HURR DURR JUST INSTALL MODS LMAO" is the most braindead nigger IQ take.Go play Skyrim with your 500 mods that also including getting fucked in the ass by every man, woman, child, and dog within a 5 mile radius.
>>503571237I am sorry. I am playing it how Sergiy has intended.
Two more weeks stalkersisters
gatekeep STALKER /sg/
>>503571507>Go play Skyrim with your 500 mods that also including getting fucked in the ass by every man, woman, child, and dog within a 5 mile radius.Ok, I'll do that if you stop complaining about everything you don't like about the game in the thread?
>>503571491>CoP was also absolute boringcore vanillabore off you Misery business
>>503571578Patch ain't gonna do shit besides fix the most egregious bugs6 more months I'd say before ap-pro mods fix it
>>503571661I wonder what occurred throughout Stalker's history and overall existence that someone would feel compelled to ONLY play a mod remake of the game instead of simply playing the vanilla game as-is.
>>503571668>make one post>every other poster is meAnd go fuck off back to your subreddit if you can't handle seeing some criticism for a game you have to install mods for to play.
Here's a tip free of charge: 2D trees are facing the wrong wayOnce you see it, there's no unseeing itEnjoy
Fucking strider was the only fucking leader that made any god damn sense, every one else is fucking insane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBtOFo5Y934
>>503571879it's unironically 80% because of youtube niggers introducing retarded brown children to the game via ashitaly and gayma the other 20% is because of /k/ autists thinking the game needs to be realistic and unfun
>>503571879anomaly anthology 2.0 will have soc story dev basically copy past it from shadow of coop because its based on xrmpe which is based cop
>>503571879zoomers like me who played tarkov and found out about stalker through analmeme youtubers
thats so funny i forgot to laugh
>>503571879well for one thing its free, and also its all people talk about, weve already done and played all the og games so we go on to the mods and thats are last experience and what we talk about the most.
>>503571918>projectingnah, I'll sit here and have fun playing this game with mods that make it objectively better, rather than be a salty retarded nigger like yourself who just comes in here to cry and whine about how shit the game is
Anyone else hate that bloodsuckers perfectly avoid anomalies?You VIL waste ammo on bullet spongesYou VIL repair your gun twice a dayAnd you VIL be happy
do 1.5.2 anomaly mods work on 1.5.3?
>>503571879because its free thats it
>>503572304Then enjoy seeing my posts some more, cause I'm going to do it until the devs fix the game instead of mods having to do it you retarded Skyrimfag nigger. :)
>>503571879its standalone, less like a mod, its more like a fork of the engine
>>503572480>im going to seethe endlessly we get it bro, you have autism
>wilhelm scream
>>503572654I'd rather have autism than accept eating shit and going "hmm well the shit will be okay once I sprinkle some salt and pepper on it.".Every other sane person in this thread accepts the game is shit and needs fixing, so not sure why you think you are. Because it's sure not reddit.
>>503571879The famous ecelebs only talk about the mod
>>503571507>all that yapping when you could just install a modpack from the OP and don t have those problems
>>503572952>i'd rather not enjoy thingswrong!
Why is the basic unupgraded AKM-74S better than a fully upgraded Valik's rifle? Is there something I'm missing?
Ok so I figured out how to skip a busted quest with console commands, so I'm past the softblock. did anyone figure out how to remove quest items from your inventory? This 12KG scanner is really busting my balls
Why has /tesg/ invaded this general?
>>503573138>The famous ecelebs only talk about the modthere is quite literally a MOD for that exact fucking thing
Getting good temps at 2k 120 fps
>>503573098I have no fucking idea but I went with the normal AK-74 since there's plenty of other weapons with scopes on them.
there is a chance stalker 2 kills my laptop...I'm afraid /sg/
>>503573098>why is a worn out gun thats fired thousands of rounds worse than a normal one?>hmmm
>>503573098the Drowned is better than both
>shallow unbalanced shooter with jerkoff gun animations and glitchy post processed graphics I don't get it, Stalker 2 is exactly what GAMMAfags are into. Why don't they like it?
>>503573398FUCKI GAVE IT BACKWhats better about it
Stalker 2 at launch is a million times more playable than SoC was
>>503573463lol its just personal preference, the Drowned comes with a few mods already installed and a grenade launcher. plus the rust aesthetic on it looks like a weapon that you'd find in the Zone
>>503573521this is terrifying if true
>>503573396It's "worn out" because you find it at 75% durability. Otherwise it's fine.
>Do the quest with Varan all the way through getting to Icarus tonight with some side missions thrown in here and there>Think I've done a good chunk or the main quest>look up how many there are in the chain>I only did #5-9 out of 36 main questsdamn and I'm already at 24 hours playtime. Might hit 100 hours if I don't rush the end. I will say I was not expecting them to do such a large map and bring back old locations but it's been awesome
>calibre change to rifleddo i still use slugs?
Fuck yeah bros I found a PDA 2.0 inside a briefcase.
>>503573054>just install a mod bro!>something that can break an already buggy game even more>an update can come right around the corner and the whole mod breaks>you're at the misery of waiting for the modder to update the mod>using more cpu and ram resourcesI'm just hoping you guys will also tell the devs to fix their shit so this isn't something we have to do. There's no reason we should have to do this to have an actual enjoyable experience. Mods should elevate an already good experience, or add something new once you've already gone through the game plenty of times. Not try to make a diamond from a turd.Games like SoC are plenty fun without mods, but once you've gone through it a few times modding the game helps give the game a fresh experience.>>503573521One of the benefits of the UE engine, if it it chugs along sometimes.
>>503573427GAMMA plays and looks amazing. Why do 4fags hate so hard?>cries because of craft mechanics>to retarded to figure it out.
>>503573682what does it do? also mod?
>>503573227I have no fucking clue what you're talking about I just came here to ask this question
>i love stalker bro my only complain is that the mutants are not needed and the anomalies destroy the gameplay , the more realism the better bro>what is your favorite stalker game?>anomaly and the mods specially gamma, why the question? there is only one stalker game and its anomaly
>>503573691>something that can break an already buggy game even morenigga none of the mods are breaking the game. >an update can come right around the corner and the whole mod breaksaint no patch breaking a bunch of config tweaks.>you're at the misery of waiting for the modder to update the modyou dont have to wait for shit. just keep playing your safe without them in the rare instance that they actually stop working (0.001% chance of that happening based on patch notes)>using more resourcesnope, less, because there is a fucking performance config right there too you fucking idiot
>wandering in the middle of nowhere>find a merchant that sells every available gun in the gamehah, neat
sort of vindicated seeing people spend 60$ "to support the developers" (they don't know they're probably getting paid maybe 400$ a month) then seeing them 5 hours later saying the game is unplayable and the enemies can't be taken seriously unless it's a bloodsucker
if they had the spawning and alife ion release it would be a 9.5/10 game lets be honest. They fucked up though
>>503573653read the description
Does anyone know the code?I killed a controller and got his collar, but that ain't it
>>503574083I've found an unmarked merchant out in the ass end of nowhere as well, he didn't have every gun in the game available thoughmalachite region yeah?
Where is it, I already searched the whole camp and couldn't find shit
>>503573994>nigga none of the mods are breaking the game. Just another "works on my machine :)" response.>aint no patch breaking a bunch of config tweaks.Literally hasn't been a patch yet so you're talking out your ass. Also doubt a lot of these mods are just "config tweaks".>you dont have to wait for shit. just keep playing your safe without them in the rare instance that they actually stop working (0.001% chance of that happening based on patch notes)All the games I've seen that have a mod community say otherwise.>nope, less, because there is a fucking performance config right there too you fucking idiotWithout you would be using more.Also forgot to add that these mods enable the devs to be lazy and not actually fix the problem. They'll see there's mods for it, and/or the players will never actually bring the issue up because "hehe there's le mods xD". Please think for once why mods and their consequences are a disaster for video games.
>>503574221anon...#48.... 24.... put them together
it’s fucking scary that they just spawn shit on you man
I hate Ukrainians so much it's unreal
>>503574310nah, Red Forest
>pack of rats spawn on meI run away>pack of bloodsuckers spawn on meI run away>psuedodog spawns on meI run away>human enemiesI one shot them in the head, don't bother looting them because they'll have 4 bullets, a broken gun and a sausage on them regardless if they are a shit tier bandit or top tier monolith fuck
>>503574456how is the gauss rifle?
now what
>>503544572Should have played IWP its just freeplayslop, but with really good guns[\spoiler]t. IWP shill
>>503574579gameplay designer died after taking a fab069 to the forehead, please understand
Wait, how the fuck are they going have time to fix shit if they still need to work on the multiplayer?
>>503574409thanks 4824 workedno idea how you got there but thanks
>>503574659I mean the game had tons of red flags from their marketing and shit I didn't pay for the game. Problem is they still made a hundred million dollars for this scam.
X-Ray > UE5
>tfw no gf
>>503574601oh fuck you know what thats the one gun he doesnt sell.he has pretty much everything else though
What's Strider's name in Ukrainian? Trying to find his NPC ID...
https://youtu.be/mdrEbjAwf6M?si=T5eEWX8Pr4lq9WeyDominated
>>503574972Stridor
>>503573748Im using Milspec so the jump from the 1.0 PDA to the 2.0 is huge, the 1.0 didn't show anything on the PDA other than the blue and objective markers, now I have access to friendly Stalkers and dead body markers.
>>503574372ur retarded, neck yourself freak.meanwhile everyone else with common sense will be enjoying those modpacks and mods that will 10000% be functional after taht shitty ass patch that fixes controller deadzone and some quest bugs that noone cares about.
>>503574790kek
>>503544953>>503574617is there a specific version I should download?
>>503575228ahhh cool, I like when there's meaningful upgrades like that is that a feature in base anomaly?
>>503575250>literally eats shit and just accepts he's been fed shit>calls anyone else a retard or a freakLmao, take your own advice reddit-kun. Everyone else with actual common sense will release going the Skyrim route is for low IQ niggers such as yourself and the devs need to be told to fix the game.
>>503573521Absolutely, yeah. It took GSC six fucking months to make the game click iirc
