Dead City edition.S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy guides, tips, information and much more:rentry.co/STALKERTrilogyGuidesS.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy mods, anon's merges and resources:rentry.co/STALKERTrilogyModsCommon misconceptions about Shadow of Chernobyl game mechanics:www.metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/WhatYouKnowThatAintSo.htmlRunning S.T.A.L.K.E.R. on Linux:docs.google.com/document/d/11HcSFSyb0DX3ymModXZ9tNdpTuktTioC>BugTrap, crash to desktop, freeze/lockup? Find your crash log, stalker.Check your Documents or game install directories for the xray_[your name].log file. If you can't find it, look in the location specified at the top of fsgame.ltx. Copy the last few lines from the log and paste them here if you want any help.S.T.A.L.K.E.R Trilogy new & popular mods:>IWP Standalonewww.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-packRecommended addons: CotZ, Absolute Nature, Structures Redux>SoC Update 1.4vk.com/topic-147828435_49497922>SOCGAwww.nexusmods.com/stalkershadowofchernobyl/mods/1089S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 mods and tools:>nexuswww.nexusmods.com/games/stalker2heartofchornobyl>Mod recommendations + config (less stutter, more fps, NO compiling + full Mouse fix)pastebin.com/Ma6W4BcM>Change viewmodel fov, enable console, remove black bars, skip introgithub.com/Lyall/STALKER2TweakLost to the Zone >>535346667
first for gamma
>>536670918he looks like a serious sam enemyhmm, now that i think about it, i can see the Serious Sam and Quake III influence on early STALKER builds, along with FireStarter as well, I love that game, quite underappreciated, also it comes with great MooZe music
wake up
>>536666835The real question is do people can't mod anymoreI understand that people like to play analmeme, but I don't understand why people glorify prepackaged mods then some of them go and play the story mode like, if you care that much about the story, why not just play the original?
>>536687773cuz oroginal plays like crap
E E D E E K O M N Y E HEDEEKOMYEH
>>536694000erm this is an english board...
>>536694000I'm making a skin for Monolith livery for my BTR in war thunder.
I see the stalker 2 team got their inspirations on bloodsucker encounter rate from OLR.
>>536718506I wouldnt even care if they didnt have such a cancerous stunning roar.
>>536719143I really want to know what the fuck they were thinking with that. It'd be one thing if they were rare, but instead you see them all the time and you get that stun lock. One or the other, guys.
what went wrong
>>536728167they took their pepsi
>>536728167Deciding to go from UE4 to UE5
The biggest problem with GAMMA is that it killed development of Anomaly. 1.5.3 is a janky unfinished mess but we're stuck piling modpack after modpack on top of itAll freeplay mods are hobbled by the same issues (bad map layouts, bad AI, no polish) that never get fixed because kiddies are only interested in gun anims and shaders
>>536737101freeplay mods are "hobbled" because freeplay sucks lmoa
Whats with that godawful snork reskin in IWP? Its fucking hideous, utter trash
>>536737101i remember people sharing their own anomaly modlists before gamma was a thing, talking about their favorite addons etc. shit was fun, like with coc back in the day. but nowadays it's just "play gamma" because normie consumers can't be bothered with modding shit themselves. and i'm convinced that drewski is solely responsible for this because of that one cursed video that blew up and started everything.
what is this square with a blue lens in the middle of the flashlight's model supposed to be? a camera? some hi-tech compact nvg?
>>536747530Probably a red light for night reading if it's based on a real thing.
>>536747530infra lamp, probably
>>536748180This, much less noticeable at night.
>>536653315>I ate shit because it was freeThe STATE of gammafags.
gamma thread
>wake up>remember there's still no actual stalker anime>day ruined
>>536767565and let's hope it will never happen. nugsc was already considering a netflix partnership, an offical tranime would be the final nail in the coffin.
>>536767565It would be shit anyways.
anyone knows which file has the random stash "drop" rate on dead stalkers? specifically for OP2.2
>>536767565It wouldn't be good anyway. Things like this, if they get greenlit for an anime in the first place, tend to get shitty adaptations from shitty studios with potato budgets. Look what happened when they finally did an adaptation of Girls Frontline. they gave a shit studio no budget and had them adapt the worst version (non-canon manga with yuribait femSkikkan) of the worst part of the story instead of any of the actually interesting parts.
>>536767565>tranimedie.>>536769270this.
>>536775645kekkino
>>536772983Half of the issue is that it's all slop now. Go back and watch FotNS, Sailor Moon, or Big O and tell me that it isn't a dozen times more entertaining than shitty romcom adaptationbait.
>>536775645>AI slopTranime watchers have no sense of taste.
dropping in again, does it have a-life yet
>>536780360
SoC Update 2.0 never
>>536783161Me, I'm on update 1.006.
>>536780764no....
>>536783296look, we can have a-life or we can have console ports, and one makes more money than the other
doing openworld for s2 was a mistake, it made it too limiting funnily enough
s2 was a mistake
>>536780360always did
>>536779057>fist of the no-budget >reddit moon>nothing>rest of the thread after this postGuess the /v/atniks got off their last 3-days and are back to spewing lies about a game they can't play.
>>536775645absolutely fucking shit
Is there any modpacks for CoC(or Anomaly with misery shit removed) with good graphics?
stupid question i know but i want to mod weapons for fg42 and mg42 and they work for anomaly supposedly will they work for gamma too?
>>536795098yes.
>>536796551instantly have 0 interest as soon as I read gamma
>>536798160basadohave a pizza stalker
>>536798540I didn't know this image had a background.
>>536792906Sorry João, should I tote AoT or Death Note or some other pretentious edgelord slop as the peak of animated media, or would you prefer I bait replies about gayma or perhaps analmeme?
>>536805198goku
>>536801226It has a mod, toohttps://www.moddb.com/mods/sparklet
>>536805198Hey, man. Death Note is cool.
>>536805671>TBDRELEASE THE PIZZA MOD
>>536806030I agree, it's just what I remember people toting as the refined, patrician "you wouldn't get it" taste back then it's been almost 20 years fml.
>>536737101The other variant is also not ideal since updating base anomaly constantly leads to half of the addons not working anymore every update. So if you want for it to stay a customizable experience and keep as many developers working on it as possible, you will have to stop eventually.It might be still janky, but I think it is still pretty much the most stable and reliable base to build your own modpack on and it is good that way. Maybe we will get yet another proper overhaul like we did with the transition from CoC to Anomaly.Personally I think the biggest issue for those freeplay mods is that they focus too much on the sandbox and the modders do not use the tools they have to bang out mods for unique quests. It is a good platform for it, but people prefer to overemphasize the emergent gameplay while neglecting scripted stuff that really would add to the experience.Even stupid shit like searching for Vasya Ventilators sliced off dick in an anomaly field would give a lot of much needed flavour to the dull dynamic quests.
>>536737101Why would it kill Anomaly development? Gamma is a piece of shit that only secondaries play.
Someone spoonfeed me the status of OLR 3.0. Last I checked (like 6 months ago) someone made Hi_Flyer stop modding(???) and now we have a people's patch made by someone else? Wtf is going on over there?
>>536806198yes
>>536719143The knowdown hit that lets them keep hitting you its what me deinstall
Apparently there's an Oblivion Lost build just floating around? Anyone know if that's true and where to get it. And I mean the original game planned game, not what came to be STALKER or OLR. Anytime I try to look it up I just get Elder Scrolls shit. If I add STALKER I just get OLR.
>>536835260There's a ton of builds, from the time it was supposed to be a futuristic shooter with robots and Aztec temples to the late pre-release versions of SoC. There's a full list with download links for most of them on the russian wiki.https://stalker.fandom.com/ru/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D1%81%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BAIf you're looking specifically for the original Oblivion Lost, before the setting was changed to the Zone and stalkers, Build 1098 is supposed to be the latest known as well as the most complete one before the concept change.https://stalker.fandom.com/ru/wiki/Build_1098
>s2 has disgusting graphic glitches even on top end hardwareI thought it was just my old 2070 shitting itself along with performance configs. Kind of relieved it's not my hardware's fault but sad that an upgrade won't fix this shit and will only have to wait for GSC to clean up their mess.
>>536737101no.
>>536820808no life arm chair "pros" sending death threats to a guy who mods an old game for free. Based off gsc's drunken thoughts design documents.actual faggot scum
>>536805671always cowards behind guest lol
>>536737101My problem with freeplay mods is that it's easy to add stuff, but it's tedious to remove parts you don't like
>>536845898always cowards behind anonymous lol
>>536772141for future reference it's the CTreasure:use(npc) function in treasure.script
>>536849102 #yes, thats what I said.very good
>>536854878:^)
>>536838910Exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks!
>>536818396Forking CoC/Anomaly sucks because then you have projects like IWP that do some things well, but are janky/unfinished in others and are incompatible with the rest of them. I'd rather the Anomaly devs put out the rebalancing patch they said they would, GAMMAshit took the wind out of their sails and they lost interest
>>536798540Is that pizza with onion and pineapple?
>page 10
>>536860986>rebalanceI don't know, changing the progression difficulty sliders is enough to make the game less tedious for me
Is stalker 2 worth pirating yet? I pirated it back on release and Holy shit it was terrible
>Cheeki Breeki did an Anthology 2.0 install guide>the whole guide is 6 minutes>everything is from the russian discordI'm going to wait a year more for the finished version
>>536805198Why is it the only animu you can think of and list are super mainstream shit? Are you going to try to namedrop cowboy bebop next? >>536845615>this disease thing is shit and these other design decisions are retarded>>HELP ME MONOLITH THEY'RE SENDING DEATH THREATS
>>536891595Because I'm not really that much of a weeb so most of what I've seen is pretty mainstream.
>>536888621>play meme mod>get memed oncurious
>>536891595that was the whole point of the mod.buildo shit with design docs stuff.still no reason to send death threats like its normal or warranted. They're just pathetic cowards
>>536900335>2006+19>believing fake death threat narratives
>>536901595oh its fake now? wowso what would faking death threats do for him?
>>536901595this modding scene doesn't fake death threats
>1.6 won't make the pass to UE 5.5well then, no reason to be hyped then.it's probably going to be like>Hey Stalkers! here's your patch notes for the 115GB patch!>vague balance changes>improvements to NPC combat (lies)>improvement to A-life (lies)>performance improvements (lies)>various bugfixes (we won't tell you which tho lol)>other bug-oops "anomalies" ;))) were introduced>See ya next month!
what does ap pro even stand for
>>536905604NTA, but most of the time someone complains about online "death threats", it's just someone telling them "dude kys" and they overexaggerate it as if they got a message with their full address along with a detailed explanation on how that person is going to kill and dismember them and their entire family.I don't know the full situation with hi_flyer, but I really doubt there were such autists, who would genuinely threaten to kill him over adding vasyan garbage to his mod.
its all faake brojust trust me broi know broam expert hahaa
>>536911393wolfnigga's initials + production
its all reeal brojust trust me broi know broam expert haha
>>536905604>>536914005They're always fake, fucking retard. It's the number one way to make criticism of something unpopular and shitty look like it's only done by bad actors to silence said criticism via guilt peddling.
goldsphere outskirtsneed to reload about 7 different times in every quest since they keep FUCKING BREAKING
>>536917905thats retarded and doesn't even make sense.
>>536920559I've heard the mod is quite finnicky.
>>536921924How badly do you want the OLR thread to fuck you in the ass? Why are you trying this hard to pretend he got actual death threats for autisming stupid shit into his mod?
Chilling with the homies
>>536933036Bandit gang.
>How badly do you want the OLR thread to fuck you in the ass? Why are you trying this hard to pretend he got actual death threats for autisming stupid shit into his mod?
Was the level_changer between Agroprom and Cordon never canon? Looking through the vanilla SoC spawn files and I can't help but notice it's not there.
>thats retarded and doesn't even make sense.Anon...
i think i finally get it.remember how True Stalker had no a-life and that was the biggest turn off from the mod?HOwever, stalker2 proved that a-life isnt canonso in fact True Stalker was truly true
>>536932052here is a (You)don't spend it all in once place champ
hahaha I posted the image again guiseI'm so fuckin cool
>>536942107play the games
>>536942107canon as in not in any builds either?or canon as in just what was in actual GSC released games for retail?
>>536888621Nigga just use a translate firefox addon and go tohttps://vk.com/club219667646https://vk.com/topic-219667646_53972544Dev hasnt uploaded to https://ap-pro.ru/ yet, not sure whyIm playing it now and just reached agroprom. Might post screens tomorrow or something. They changed the fuck out of rostok too. And the map names are all fixed and in english
for na7, is there a way to get rid of the belt-ammo requirement? this shits gay
>>536968238disregard that, im a blind retard
>>536968530it happens
Hey Grok... Yeah talkin 2 u FAGGOT...! I downloaded Gamma just 2 DELETE IT! SUCKED IN ... IM PLAYING GOLDSPHERE AHAHAHAHAHA U Ghey FROG CUNT
>>536968238>>536968530Starting to wonder if this is an option in OLR, but I've been at it for so long already. I'd be somewhat fine with it if the loading didn't unequipped said ammo half the time.
>>536975923kek'd and rekt'd
>>536938312Who is this fat fuck?
>>536975923at quarta ta six in tha fuckin morningget THAT up yaya fuckin dog cunt
Is Kino actually popular in Russia?
>>536974976People at the rookie village told me that train is cursed but I didn't believe them.
When I'm bored i like to search on youtube "S T A L K E R shadow of chernobyl X" where x is any random year and then sort by upload date, tons of videos straight from clipping software like shadowplay just straight uploaded to youtube with no context. works with the entire trilogy
Been playing Radiophobia 3 at Medium difficulty and Explorer economy but find it a bit too easy. Should I up it to Tough and Scavenger?
>>536993751sure, can always turn it back down and change a level if you feel the need to, no?
>>536993868>can always turn it back downTrue. I thought it was strange that people say this is a hardcore mod but I didn't realise my difficulty was so low.
>>536994053it gets harder further on I assume.I wont spoiler shit
Say what you will about Grok but at least he has a vision for his game
>>537000852preach sister
>>537000852>gameMods don't count as games.
i haven't played stalker 2 yet, is it fun?
If you see a man dressed like that, don't mess with him - believe me, his survival skills are greater than yours, chump...
>>537005254I genuinely want to see someone wearing this irl just for the sheer curiosity of observing what a specimen who has chosen to wear this out of free will looks like.
>>536991521>and then sort by upload dateLiterally how? Youtube is so fuckawaful now that trying to filter for any videos will maybe give you 5 relevant results, and then the rest will just be maybe 5 "people also watched" random videos, and then a bunch of nonsense. Filtering by "upload date" doesn't seem to do much at all (wouldn't surprise me if their filtering was just completely, or more likely intentionally, broken).
>>537003139>games dont count as games cuz ... well cuz I said so ok!?
>>537006705Weak bait desu
>>537007201I still took it anyways
>>537007649>ESLas expected.
>>537005254Dude dressed like picrel never spent more than 4 hours in the woods. Probably didn’t even join the scouts in elementary school
>>537007750? the fuck
>>537007750too stupid to get it huh? shocker.
>>537005021yes
>>536994053Come to CNP prepared.
>>536951362>h-here's a y-y-0y-y-y0poadsijfowafjwopNot one death thread was ever given to OLRfag for making retard decisions with his mod. Fact.
>>537005757Just with the filtering options, idk it has always worked for me
Any good streamers who actually like stalker, play it and have a community of actual stalker (not tarkov) fans? I mind them playing gamma or whatever as long as it isn't painfully obvious that the only knowledge about stalker they have is "haha tarkov but singleplayer" retardation.
>>537038148streamers idk but TKGP has good vods on YT, also mecheny
>>537038148I don't mind them playing gamma*damn it>>537038289thanks, will check them out
medkit
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>>537038148Operator Drewski
>>536986534Yes
>>537056483>JewskiI dunno anon
>>536991521Another fun thing to do is write "before:X" where X is a year of your choice. Only shows videos uploaded before that year. I found this old trailer for SoC this way. Seems like it shows a buildo version of the bar. One interesting thing is the trailer directly shows an artifact forming when a flesh dies in an anomaly.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOiU3OdM2-Q
>>537058876>"before:X" where X is a year of your choice."nice, never knew that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXKFRcMYvw8Some soulful stuff on that Youtube.
>>537022431and full circle back its fake bro source: I made it the fuck up just trust me bro.stay mad about it I guess
>>537072078Anon...
>>537069774I'm still confused as to why San Andreas specifically and not 3 or Vice City.
>>537079384San Andreas has a weird amount of autistic mods.
>>537078857>no argument>>536951508
>>537072078It was never anything but fake. I know you want to deepthroat his cock but the "death threats" excuse every faggot in the world uses when they get pushback for making shitty decisions doesn't magically become true just because it's a stalker mod that arguably made a worse decision than dezowave did when they bait and switched with the illuminati-era lost alpha release. Don't tell me you actually believe they were going to release their mod as a paid product through GSC before the "leak" too.
>>536672037https://files.catbox.moe/hs96mq.png
>>537081118Oh, that post wasn't directed at me.
>>537079895
What happens if I help Siniggers in OLR?
>>537083237>blah blah blah irrelevant shitblah blah blahshut the fuck up faggot
Just suck each other off already, Jesus Christ.
>buy moskvich from bar keeper in OLR>go look for it where in yantar like he says>can't find any driveable carI think I was scammed.
>>537099838you mean the cars that are right outside the bar?
>>537099979The text says this one is at Yantar. Though I went to the ones around the bar too and I can't drive them either.
>>537101028here is where a moskvich is, as far as I can seeno idea if its the right onethere is another vehicle you can drive there too
>>537104571I did not look in that area at all. I was looking in the area near the science bunker. I hope that's not an area that can instantly kill me. I'll go take a look. Thanks!
>>537104571I can't even go in yantar or the other level to the northI die as soon as I load in from psi shitI'm missing a key element I only got the info from putting g_god on then loading the level
>>537106263Sounds like it needs some game progression. I think I'm close to that point. This game gets kind of funny with selling you a car you can't access right away.Didn't even know this mod had commands like that.
>>537072295you just reminded me of those fuckers
What is the difference between Oblivion Lost 2.5 and 3.0? Like which has more stuff and why do people not recommend 3.0?
>>537117756>metro artwork3.0 has more stuff. but that's the issue. the gameplay in 2.5 is generally similar to vanilla game, while 3.0 includes many tedious and unbalanced survival mechanics, like diseases, body temperature, etc. it's a chore to play and not really enjoyable. that said, it also has the most impressive a-life system ever created, and is the most faithful recreation of what gsc planned in 2002-2003. like, all these retarded mechanics aren't something that the author pulled out of his ass, they all come from design documents that were written during slavic brainstorming over 20 years ago.
>>537118870I see. Was anything removed from 2.5 to 3.0? And does 3.0 include anything big like areas or factions that 2.5 doesn't have?
>>537119474not really removed, but a lot of things were reshaped and changed. 3.0 includes new locations, characters, the whole story was overhauled. keep in mind that 3.0 is in open beta testing and the author has taken a break, for reasons mentioned by other anons in this thread already. there is some unofficial patch that fixes a lot of the issues, but i haven't tried it so can't say much.
>>537119881Alright, I think I'll wait till I play OLR then.
are 3D scoped guns a new completely new thing in mods that have them or an unused base engine feature that should be compatible with other mods?
>>537120564you can also play vector of alienation instead. it's 2.5 with some twists, fixes and extra addons.
>>537120831the former
>>537118870>and is the most faithful recreation of what gsc planned in 2002-2003.nobody gives a shit what ivan and ivans drunken brainstorm ideas for the game 20 years agonobody is sitting there going omg I hope someone remakes the mod to those specifics because they are so epic. not even them.(most of which got cut because they were obviously shit ideas anyways)like it was the fucking holy grail end all be all of video game shitif there is, then all I can say is fucking lol. OLR 3 is it.
>>537126327>nobody is sitting there going omg I hope someone remakes the mod to those specifics because they are so epic.except that's what a whole bunch of people were doing and asking for before olr 3.0
>>537128815refer to my previous post.
>>537118870all those "retarded" mechanics wouldn't be that bad if they wouldn't be implemented in an archaic way in my opinion
>>537120831No, xray did not have a "secret hidden" feature for rendering the game world multiple times.
>>537038148lennic
>>537161179Why are you in a SoC area but with a CS hud?
>>537162725I'm lost to the zone
>>537162725Anything is possible in Stalker Doppelganger
>>537118870>they all come from design documents that were written during slavic brainstorming over 20 years agoThat's exactly the issue with OLR 3.0. Most of the ideas were just that, ideas. There's a very good reason GSC chose not to implement most of them: They play like ass.
>>537167068
>>537169143What's the yellow filter supposed to mean?
>>537170779pseudodogs give you a piss filterblind dogs give you night vision (cumulative)
>>537172362which mod is this?
>>537174498IQ Quest 1.6
>>537174607Why are you giving me some faggot smartass answer?
>>537176310Because you're a phonenigger that can't read filenames.
>>537176440Retard.
>>537177241Bro, just fucking read the post that post is replying to.
you're a special fucking tard huh
i mean, yeah, he isimagine having your answer spelled out to you and still asking like you're a /gif/ troglodyte screaming "source, source, my kingdom for a source"
>>537178020>source, source, my kingdom for a sourceactually kek'd, thank you anonus
>>537178020no. you. but you knew that.
>you're a special fucking tard huh>i mean, yeah, he is>imagine having your answer spelled out to you and still asking like you're a /gif/ troglodyte screaming "source, source, my kingdom for a source"
>>537179267why was this post deleted?
>>537179493Reddit spacing fucked up the greentext would be my guess
>>537179267:^]
>>537179791Reply to this one instead.>>537179413
PAIP DOWN MAYN LET ME FEEL U EEN
ALOOOOOOOOOOO
>>537181290Come closer, stalker... I don't bite....
>>537179413I still don't know who this soilord is supposed to be.
>>537190887No one knows. It's one guy posting him out of the blue, just like the sauce he posts.It's harmless, just let him post his shit and move on.
>>537164715lost to the zone indeed.....
>>537072295mod?
What kino mods have you come across lately?
>>537197349Valley of Whispers. There's also a Gunslinger merge if you're into that sort of thing.
>>537197675The Exception. Super hardcore 1337 professional killer (the player) goes to the zone to kill some German guys. The first half your character acts tough and mean and the second half he softens up a bit. Both make you die of cringe but there are some interesting maps, artifacts, anomalies and guns to enjoy. Exploration is rewarded with nice stashes so it makes roaming around the new maps worth it. For example, I found an integrally supressed western rifle in a stash at the top of a construction building on the first map. Helped a lot in the early game.
>>537118870>retarded mechanicsSuch as what?
>>537201009The Exception was a solid 8/10 for me, mainly due to the fact the new quests were not just fetch quests but actual quests. The 2 main downsides were about the fact you mentioned, our 1337 killer completely dropped his spaghetti the moment he sniffed a WOMAN?! and the fact the ending was too fast and lackluster (and the last location was skipped unless you explored it for the fun of it). But all the secrets and special artifacts and the new locations were amazing, amazing mod for one playthrough. I wish the bigger rewamped maps were utilized in other mods.
>>537225764read the post again
>Global War 0.5 is still 4 months away>The analmeme modded .exe is literally so buggy in warfare mode that I have to manually fix things that cause crashesIt's all so tiresome
>>537232393yeah using the right bins is hard
>>537232162Oh kek, my bad. Shame because I wanted to give it a try but if that's the case I'd rather not try. Maybe the guy should just release the source code for the mod at this point.
>>537232393nah thats just warfare
>>537232676>good job goy... I mean guy>now give us your work
>>537239343Is he getting paid to make this mod?
>>537241671?
to get the psi-helm in na7 is hilarious, it just keeps going, more and more bullshit piled onto more and more bullshit, and it was very fun
>>537244687The first time I played the mod it took me by surprise because I was talking to Shakarov and then you got teleported to an underground monolith labyrinth-bunker.
Fuck me, i wanted to see if the sequel was as bad as it looked and pirated it. Holy fuck, why does it keep happening? Im pretty sure this is a conspiracy of some sort at this point, to take a once beloved game or movie or other story, take recognisable elements from it and make a twisted empty theme park out of it.Is it malice or just incompetence? Why are they doing it? Everything that was once great is now utter shit. I don't even know where to start, everything is fucked. And not in a release version of clear sky level fucked, that was fixed with patches because the game was still fun and mods expanded where devs could not. S2 on the other hand is unsalvageable. Story and character retcons destroy everything, pacing is broken, combat is awful, ai is a downgrade, zone lost all its draw. So many things done wrong, constant walking just to walk, "boss fights", unrewarding artifact and stash hunts, bland guns with very generic feel behind them, wrong user feedback, cutscenes that feel like school theatre plays. Worse music, undescribably bad visuals (both technical and stylistic ways) and so on. Labs are not scary! How could you fuck up labs?I don't even care about coupons or yellow paint, the rest is so bad i don't understand what even made people mad about apparently lost soviet elements in the first place.It is playable, it has some decent moments, especially with ward colonel, but for the most part of is not stalker.Its ded spess3/borderlands2/me3/failout4/dying light 2/etc all over again.And the worst part is now everyone will think this is what stalker should be. Because s2 is new and looks "better", oh and because war so we have to pretend stalker2 is a miracle of game development somehow.I refuse to accept this game, s2 is not canon. Im mad and sad. I expected nothing, cave in due to boredom and still disappointed to the core.Can't wait for vtmb2 to destroy another thing that played big part in my life.
>>537250221A few months ago, an interview with an ex-developer from GSC was published in which he said that the game development process was generally a mess, new people came and went away all the time, ideas and concepts of various things were constantly changing, and the management didn't care, the answer to questions like "why is location X in a completely different place than it was in the trilogy?" was literally "idk, it's a new game." So it was similar to the development of SoC, but without the involvement of people with a real passion for the project. I mean, there were only like two guys who worked on the trilogy who contributed to S2. Even Griga didn't care and entrusted everything, including the CEO title, to his brother. That's why various concepts are so misinterpreted, the average modder understands what stalker is supposed to be more than the people from nu-GSC.
>>537250221>Is it malice or just incompetence?I usually imagine it's some investor type saying "I've heard people talk a lot about this stalker thing in Ukraine, it might make a lot of money if we fund a sequel". They don't care about anything else other than consumer interest in a particular thing and the money it can generate. Similar thing happened with Dark Souls. People saw it was a hit and told a dev team to "make something like it" which led to a ton of soulsclones missing the point. >>537251263I heard he had to turn shit over to his brother because he was in some sort of financial troubles. Either debt or mismanagement on the verge of criminality (not something new if you recall the story about GSC's parking lot having 3 cars and 2 of them including the sportscar belonged to Griga).
>>537251650>I usually imagine it's some investor type saying "I've heard people talk a lot about this stalker thing in Ukraine, it might make a lot of money if we fund a sequel". They don't care about anything else other than consumer interest in a particular thing and the money it can generate.That's exactly it, spot on. That's what's been happening to 99% of good games which have gone mainstream. After the corpocucks state their own rules, the actually passionate devs usually leave too, which makes the development even worse.
>>537251849>That's exactly it, spot onexcept that's literally not what happened because GSC was purchased by a ukrainian real estate, e-sports, and gambling investor, not any other foreign party
>>537251849It used to be limited to some genres like FPS with its "Halo-killer" and "we want the Call of Duty audience" but now they've started trawling for old beloved franchises to revive/mangle.
>>537252695Is Maksim Krippa a gamer or just some dude who invested in an esports team and got lucky? If it's the latter, he fits in the "investor type" category.
>>537252837he's just a businessman but even besides that, S2 was in development for many years, GSC are the only people to blamethey made the very game they wanted, the problem is that it just suckedyet another developer that's victim to too much freedom, they made better games when they had to work creatively around limitations
morning russians
>if you criticize stalker 2/"""enhanced""" trilogy you are a butthurt russianhaven't seen this argument since the previous thread.
who are you quoting, retard?
>>537254453oh so this "morning russians" posted when there's a discussion criticizing stalker 2 isn't supposed to imply anything? how silly of me to assume that.
>>537232507>>537237691Apparently, the tumor came from the walo mod. Also, all my complaints about the warfare mode were caused by the walo mod, which resulted in nothing happening for the first 24 in game hours despite me using rapid presets. I disabled it, and now my game is bug free no more fixing one bug only to get anotherthx for reading my blog
>>537268985
>>537255582>a discussion criticizing stalker 2schizoposting about the game not being specifically made to cater to your tastes is not a discussion
>>537250221Fallout 4 was good, faggot
>>537273605Indeed good sir. The writing, dialogue system, rpg elements, worldbuilding, careful expansion of existing lore, interesting loot and handplaced enemies of specific difficulty is what makes fallout 4 not just good, but best game in series.
>>537277185we're all thinking it, you just it.Thank you for your bravery
>>537277185Seethe harder contrarian
5372747612 way streetno yous either
>>537278549Can't do it harder than you sar
Oblivion Lost concept art is kinda depressing. I wish some of this stuff would've made it in-game.
>>537288202some of them are really interesting. it's a pity that the guy who created them died before soc was released.
>>537289853>the guy who created them died before soc was releasedWhoa, I never knew that. The pic you posted is one of my favorites. What happened to the artist?
>>537294223lost to the zone
>>537294840RIP, he was a good stalker.
>>537294223his name was victor marchevsky, he died of a heart attack in 2005. he was only 31 at that. he had a nickname lukash, the freedom leader was named after him.
>>537295495a heart attack at 31? jesus
>>537295569poor dude apparently had heart issues since childhood.
>>537295495>>537295569What a shame. Life is unfair and time is precious, bros. Don't waste it.
>>537295986ooohhhhwell that explains itstill shitty
so what is the heart of chyornobil?
>>537309327It was inside you all along. :)
>>537309327The vodka that we drank along the way
>>537309952truei was inside him all along. :)
army medkit
Fucking pulleys, how do they work?
Hi stalkers, i wanted to play the game after a while and see i have now an "enhanced" version? is it worth to play it over the original?can i mod it?
>>537336340No. None of the good mods work on them, just stick to the originals.
>>537336340absolutely not
>>537201009>>537228557Is it called the Exception because of mentioned woman?
>>537250221>vtmb2Oh yeah can't wait to see that shitstorm. >constant walking just to walkI tried to point this out when it was first out and newfags just kept screaming "muh atmosphere" but I know they didn't even touch the original games.
>>537336340>>537336434speaking of EEeven after the latest patch they still have not fixed the projection bugmod is OWR3 merged in
>>537341250Yes, it's because your task gets expanded to also kill her and you said no like a good simp
>>537359513kek, might give it a play then.
>>537336340Nah brother, avoid dehanced versions, play originals instead
good day /sg/
>>537370068good day anon
>>536737101>GAMMA killed Anomalykekdon't play it if you don't like it, it's that simple anon>>536744845>but nowadays it's just "play gamma" because normie consumers can't be bothered with modding shit themselveslike i'm gonna bother installing a hundred mods for my ideal setup every single time I feel like playing Anomaly and then find out one of the mods breaks and spend hours troubleshooting. GAMMA is just convenient. and good
>>537371257ok grok
>>537371257>he doesn't store every mod and modpack he ever played, including self curated ones, on a separate 2TB HDD dedicated almost fully to stalkancan you even call yourself a fan?
>>536737101>haha I posted it again
>>537371491are you trying to archive whole moddb anon?meanwhile me after deleting half of my Windows folder just to play some stalker
I have been enjoying Stalker 2 quite a bit, myself.But I have to ask, is it like Cyberpunk 2077 where if I just do the story missions the game isn't gonna actually put any of the side stuff in my way at any decent rate at all? I'm at the beacons in the swamp part right now and so much of the map is blurred out, just wanna know if I'll get to explore it if I do the main missions or if I have to stop doing main missions for a while and just get lost in silly places.
>>537341462I've said it here before and I'll keep saying it: thank god thq made gsc wrap things up for release version of shoc. After playing olr and lostalpha im so glad we don't have that much backtracking in vanilla. At least in shoc it was simple enough to get a few stamina artifacts and forget about walking forever.
>>537375383Unlike cop, there's literally no reason to do sidequests, except maybe journalist stash. Game also punishes you for exploring on your own, so fuck it. Rush through the main quest, try to get some exo near the pripyat, don't hoard stuff, unique guns are not worth it. Get exo, a few protection artifacts, gauss and an assault piece of your choice, then just tear through to the end. Once you reach point of no return game will shower you with spare ammo and medkits so don't try to go packed to the brim with stuff, whatever you do up until the end barely matters.
>>537378329>Game also punishes you for exploring on your own, so fuck it.It didnt feel that wayfor me, what makes you say that?
>>537371491Are you the guy who had a huge hard drive full of STALKER bullshit that crashed?
>>537372465>are you trying to archive whole moddb anon?almost. tbdesu archiving the vast majority of somewhat popular stalker mods would be the goal here, so that I can play those even when the clearnet gets inevitably fucked over by privacy infringements. I could play those for my entire life.>picdamn, sorry anon. 500 gigs was hard enough for me at the beginning, half of that must be cruel. have you ever thought about buying a cheap hdd?>>537383418I don't think so kek, I haven't posted much about my collection on /sg/ and it doesn't crash much either.
>>537383960git outta mah computah
>>537383960i somehow deleted some hidden partition with firmware on my HDD and it bricked kek. i'm stuck with a small SSD now bc poorfag but hey, at least i have Hip to cheer me up. she looks like she needs to piss really bad in this pic
>>537385563why cant you fix it?
>>537385563Kek, genius. Sorry to hear that though.Unrelated, but..>picrel>Clera KozlovaAnyone else gets pissed at mods using average slavic names instead of nicknames, or is it just me? Almost everyone has a nickname in the OG games, and it also makes sense from a lore perspective, no one who enters a super restricted zone illegally would want to use their real name and surname like it's tarkov. Yet certain mods appear to give a lot of NPCs just the average civilian name+surname.
>>537381356Swamps, for example.You get stash marks there very early, but you just can't get some of them due to plot reasons. And whole location is just nothing. Game punishes you by wasting your time. Annoying anomalies and speed modifiers make the whole location one boring slog you have to tear through.Remember clear sky? Swamps were amazing. And now you get there just to see a cutscene after flipping 4 far cry towers and then go back.Same about area above cement factory. And burned forest. And yaniv. At Kate's there's some action there.
>>537387689i tried with many different tools, under linux, windows... windows just breaks and goes into infinite "repairing" loop and won't boot if i connect the drive kek>>537387903i don't mind, some are pretty funny though. i met a freedom guy today, his name was Rabby Nut
>>537388594repair bcdif its special drive furmware, the manufacturer might have a tool to fix it
>>537391912>furmware*firmware
Why do I have a permanent stash icon locked to myself
>>537392667you are the stash
Are there any decent mods that improves character models for CoCk and its derivatives? Sadly it feels every HD model mod out there is just Tarkov ripoffs.
>>537392779>exist just for stalkers to put their (mutant) meat and nut(s) inside younghhh
>>537393267Most HD models are fucking ass. Check out this addon, maybe it works with CoCk.https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/vanilla-models-updated-v2
>>537393267for IWP there ishttps://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack/addons/fixed-vanilla-npc-models-for-improved-weapon-pack-fix (slightly fixed models and better textures)orhttps://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack/addons/all-vanilla-stalkers-variations-plus-lite (true stalker models, which were based on the addon that >>537395652mentioned, iirc)
>>537388594Where you from, friend? Third World?
>>537388374>Remember clear sky?Yes.>Swamps were amazing.No. No, they weren't. But I guess you have to be a contrarian.
>>537388374>Remember clear sky? Swamps were amazing.Clear Sky is my favorite of the trilogy but calling the Swamps amazing is one of the most bold-faced lies I've ever witnessed in my life
>>537405732YOU CYKA! YOU KILLED ME!(What Mod?)
>>537408123idk not my screenshot, I think that's the OP-2 inventory screen but don't quote me
>>537408123nta but i'm pretty sure it's old sfz project episode 0 versionin the remastered version you find a note with pic related in the same spot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QkyptwGplo>You can see clearly all that artifacting and blurriness even on YT This shit is never getting fixed, they should've put all their resources into moving on a non retarded engine.
>>537375383The main story not counting ending sequences takes you everywhere except Cement Factory/Cooling and Yantar
>>537405565>>537405732NTA but I don't get what's so bad about the Swamps. Once the renegate war segment is completed, stalking the marshes is awesome. There are many things to find, lots of stashes, loot, artifact fields. You can fuck around for hours, do odd jobs for Clear Sky members, fights with the few remaining renegades, get jumpscared by boars. The ambient sounds and music are great, and it feels rewarding to return to the Clear Sky base, sell your habar, upgrade your stuff, chill out and listen to campfire conversations with the music from Cold's bar in the background. In my last playthrough I spent so much time there before going to the Cordon that some artifacts had already respawned. You guys are missing out on the essence of CS, it has to be taken slowly. No wonder Vova Vist filters so many people.
>>537414348>the essence of CS is enemies shooting you through plants while you can't see shit around and irradiating yourself to death if you stray away from the intended pathno wonder CS is garbage
>>537414641You have played too many mods. "Enemies shooting you through plants" is not something that happens on a regular basis, 90% of fights take place in POI areas, not random paths between reeds. You would have to put yourself in such a position willingly. And you have a PDA map at your disposal that shows you exactly where your opponents are, so there is no being assaulted by surprise.>irradiating yourself to death if you stray away from the intended pathThere are only a few places where you will be irradiated to death in seconds if you stray away, in the northern part of the Swamps. In most of the map you can easily take shortcuts through the water and spend one vodka to combat the radiation. That's what I'm talking about, obstacles like these are supposed to induce the player to upgrade the armor, but you'd rather say that it's garbage because you can't run around in a radioactive areas in leather jacket without an issue.
>>537375383I've explored most of the map (including Pripyat) before following the main quest into Zaton. The only downside to that playstyle is that you will have to revisit some of the areas for the main quest (although you will have guides unlocked) but you will get a lot of good gear and cash.
>>537415773>90% of fights take place in POI areas, not random paths between reeds.And that's exactly why it sucks: far too big for it's own good and you either spend your time wondering completely indistinct wilderness, or shooting shitty bandits at POIs.
>>537414641Only a real problem for the first 5 minutes you get into a firefight with the bandits, given you can find a Viper in the pumping station pretty early on it's really not that big of a deal.
>>537416327If there was nothing on the map besides these POIs, I would agree. But you have 7 anomaly fields, 60 stashes and some unique hidden loot. It's not just wandering between point A and point B without anything interesting inbetween. The biggest problem with the size of the Swamps is that there are no stamina-boosting artifacts there, so when you run out of energy drinks you have to stand still after running.
Final day of the summerIWP update status?
playing na7 is making me want to give op2.2 another tryconvince me otherwise
>>537422534na7 is about 200 hours shorter
>>537422534wait for op ogsr release
>>537422534play gamma
>>537425065sorry hun but nobody wants to play a mod that fakes mutant hordes and has no contentCAPTCHA: P00PM
>>537405565You guessed wrong nigger.Cs swamps are amazing and you simply lack taste.Its one of the most comfy maps in the trilogy, its like a small self contained zone with almost every activity from the main game.The only thing it does wrong is faction war mechanic making renegades spawn endlessly. Its a perfect start for a prequel, never holds you long enough to get boring unless you want to go out and explore, it has great atmosphere and was clearly made with love by developers. Swamps are the ultimate filter and you are fag.
>>537422534You're going to regret it an hour in
>>537424794>2 years agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcZ7or8sp9U
>>537420863I have a feeling that we'll need to be patient, although I saw the devs having an active playtest stream on their shitcord.I hope anon releases his additions for IWP beforehand
>>537439082last devlog was 4 months ago and the new one should drop soon apparently, you VILL wait 10 years for release chudhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RljyMv30hpg
>>537441480damn that looks good
People would rather rebuild the xray engine than mod stalker 2...
Where did IWP steal its weapon animations from? Gunslinger?
Is there a way to disable the quick travel in IWP?
>>537455778Drop the compass artifact.
>>537457996Don't have it, but I can still fast travel for some reason. Don't have the official "fast travel without artifact" mod on either
>>537460551Do you have the other lvl 4 artifact?
>>537460649I don't have anything, literally just started.
>>537460729Ok, here's an idea: don't click the fast travel button.
>>537454262Primarily Gunslinger, and presumably other games that I mostly don't know. One example that I do know is that the F2000 animations come from one of the Call of Duty games.
>>537405565you got filtered scrubyou dont know what contrarian means>>537414641the game gives you a radiation absorbing artefact in the help tutorial.you filtered yourself dumb dumb
>>537418013read it again
Can you do anything with faction patches other than selling them in radiophobia?
what could created a new hand_radio?i could not launch because of a duplicaded element and had to comment it in misc\devices.ltx
Previously, on The Zone™...
>>537478963some other file has [hand_radio]so you have duplicate section.a quick search with agent ransack or notepad++ will show you where else besides devices.ltx
>>537454262there is a whole weapons list with all the credits provided in IWP
Sometimes the Faust boss fight keeps me up at night
>>536975923Gigabased
Met this guy in the swamps but something seems off.
>>537388374what the fuck jibberish are you babbling about?oh I get it, you don't like stalker, you don't like games.
>>537507457Here, allow me to translate it into Niggerbabble for lukewarm IQ individuals such as yourself;>cs swamp good>explore find cool things>s2 swamp bad>explore find nothing>thing told there not there>come back later, thing there
>>537508193it was nigger babble alreadynot even reading what you posted herego back to /v/, shitter
>>537460551You can always fast travel within the same map, the artifact just lets you travel between several maps.
>>537405732What do you even like about Clear Sky then
>>537520071I think it has a unique atmosphere that gives the Zone an uncharacteristic sereneness that isn't present in the other games, largely due to the lighting.
>>537520497I've always liked this contrast/paradox as well. The Zone is literally a warzone in CS and yet it seems more calm and less oppressing than in SoC.
>>537508193>>explore find cool thingsthis is literally every area in S2, including the swamps
https://www.moddb.com/mods/grand-rendering-mod-188-finalAnyone tried this mod yet? The description sounds interesting, basically SoC with buildo aesthetics.
>>537532565>cool buildo aesthetics>look inside>its cars againgood lord. easily the worst buildo concept gsc has ever had.
>>537532565iirc there's little difference between that and Shadows Addon
>>537532565I played this mod, i liked it This is like base SoC but with many, *many* build features built included, map shapes (pripyat is clean for example iirc), sounds, gunplay, mutant behavior (controllers are a tough nut to fight and pseudodogs will give you psi-damage when you stare at them) and more, i really like this, i haven't played shadows addon but if you want to dive into build STALKER and if you are afraid of drastic changes, you can try this before going deep with mods like OLR
cnpeepee
Is there something wrong with my game? It's been storming for days now, even if I use the "set_weather" command it just goes back to storming again. Or is it just that the swamp always has stormy weather in IWP or something?
>>537558624people reported having the "infinite rainy weather bug" or they had rainy weather for a long ass time, though I personally never encountered it myself. The next update will fix this
>>537562379Is there any way to check if you got a broken weather cycle or weather script or something like that? Or could installing a weather mod on top overwrite the bugged weather and fix it? >The next update will fix thisfug... so never ever
>>537562379>>537562890Ok, I got a psi-storm and it seems to have fixed the weather knock on wood
>>537564324>travels to Cordon FUCK
>>537562890>Is there any way to check if you got a broken weather cycle or weather script or something like that?not really or at least I don't know of anything that could check it
>>537503793Let me guess: He needs to use the bathroooom?
>Due to the recent wave of hate and attacks from I.W.P developers>We do not use any files from I.W.P or functions from the engine that I.W.P has, neither we nor >the developers of the Advanced X-Ray engine have stolen functions from the “leaked source >code of their engine” which never existed.wtf is happening with the IWP guys?
>>537570680it sounds like their engine source code got leaked
>>537571391sounds like it never existedlook look I can be a retard too lol
>>537573429what other answer were you expecting, dumbfuck?the context of that post makes it pretty plainly obvious what happened, not sure how you're struggling to grasp it
>>537573558oh so you're an actual tardread it again tardo
>>537574245I did, it still makes perfect sense to meI suggest getting a better grasp on the English language
>>537573558its called a rhetorical question unless you know more information sweaty
>>537574361still pretending huh?
>>537540460Cool. I thought it seemed like so. I haven't played it but from the description and your post it feels like it dives more into buildo territory than Shadow's Addon, as SA is more SoC with buildo sprinkled on top.
>>537570680fuck em, their shit shouldn't be be closed source anyway. just port this to ix-ray, throw that dogshit version of x-ray in the trash and be done with it
>>537570680>>537576953can i get the drama dumbed down? i dont get what happened
Is this zombie mesh used in SoC? I can't recall seeing it in-game.
>>537569607He also wouldn't tell me his name. Said names are for friends so he doesn't need one.
>>537580697looks like someone was harassing and accusing one group of "stealing functions from their leaked source code"proof is required by the accusermind you this is the same IWP team that said "**AS THE MAIN DEVELOPER OF I.W.P., I NO LONGER WANT TO SEE ANY PORTING OF CONTENT FROM I.W.P. TO ANOMALY IN ANY FORM**"https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-packso who know what kind of fairy tales are floating around their head
>>537591959>as a [person that steals assets] i no longer want to see any of my [already stolen assets] put into another modLol, clowns
>>537593123This. The modding scene should be open and free for everyone. It's the whole reason these games are still relevant.
>>537591959Why does the only good non-analmeme CoC spinoff have to have psycho devs?
>>537591959What is this from?>>537570680Who said this??
>>537576953there will be actually ab IX-Ray version in the future
what is it about stalkermods that make them feel like they do?Why do no other games have this kind of feeling?
teknologia
>olr 2.5>told to go meet stalker back at cordon>do so>transported to some weird dream sequence that reminds me of lsd dream emulator>lots of motionless karlik >eventually get free minigun I'll never use>get out of it>karlik runs away>refuses to elaborateWell that was something.
>>537587461no it's not. there are zombie bandits in soc, but they don't look that fucked up
>>537593123what assets has IWP stolen?
>>537599925https://www.moddb.com/mods/horizonsdawnread summaryused to be dead sky mod
>>537570680>>537631491afaik there's also advanced weapon pack made by the team behind advanced x-ray that basically ports IWP to advanced x-ray and IWP devs didn't seem to give a shit about itwhat is happeningliterally who
>>537633978>that basically ports IWP to advanced x-ray???where? Iwp from what?https://github.com/DanceManiac/Advanced-X-Ray-Public
Anomaly is on GOG.https://www.gog.com/en/game/stalker_anomaly
>>537640272griga you bastard what have you done. it's over. gamma becoming canon is only a matter of time.
>>537640272nigga WHAT? Why? You need a billion of addons to fix the broken models, shaders and configsfor the base mod.They don‘t even have level sources for the sdk. You have to decompile and fix possible smoothing errors caused by this procedure. That mojang fuck Searge should have sticked with minecraft
>>537640272kek
>>537641730it requires a copy of ""enhanced"" call of pripyat. i guess it's bait to make people who are unaware that it's standalone buy the game.
>>537642012Both are listed.
what a colossal embarrassment you are
>>537643543I know. i have a hangover and couldn't write it properly both times and then i realized that it requires cop anyway, so trilogyfags didn't completely lose and the post didn't make sense.
if they'd put call of chernobyl on gog it would make much more sense. why anomeme for christ's sake
>>537643363oh that's good. still it makes me wonder whether they have plans to make anomaly stop being standalone on moddb at some point. wouldn't be surprised if the hypothetical 1.6 update will be gatekept in some way.
>>537644554CoC checked if you had CoP installed so it might be that. It was easily bypassed by writing "skip_reg"
>>537640272>with no fixesI have a massive amount of fixes/improvements for weapons and animations.what the fuck hae these tards been doing all this time.
Helllo stalkers, do like you the grom s15?
>>537642012LMFAO
https://x.com/stalker_thegame/status/1962864617245323483
When the fuck is the update for s2 coming out
>>537629197Just the animations, which are all from other games.
>>537648197
>>537648197I blame how the guns behave in vanilla versions. I swear, it feels more like playing a gacha game than a shooter which, not gonna lie is kind of addictive, but in the wrong way
>>537640272>>537648197
>>537648202this month
What the fuck. This is a snork?Any mod for IWP to make the snorks look normal?
>>537651692wait, seriously?makes me feel better about never trying out that mod, jesus.
>>537648197>I wish stalker2 enrich the food system in the Anomaly mod. In the stalker2, there's still no joy in eating a can of tomatoes or chocolate or drink soda before take coffee or cigarette breaks in real life.Are these cunts for real? This is satire, right? I got baited, surely.
I will forever be thankful to GAMMAtards for giving me a valuable life lesson of never getting attached to or identifying too much with certain communities. I used to be the average normie obsessing with "muh community" and "muh fandomz" and lurked on r/stalker each day (thought that /sg/ was too inactive), and only really reconsidered after they flooded the sub. So I left, and learned to properly enjoy shit by myself. Nowadays I only really post in comfy camps like the c-con discord or /sg/, and I wouldn't have any problems with cutting both off as well and enjoying my favorite game series without any retarded "community" or "fandom" being attached to it.
>>537652758the anomaly revolution and its consequences have been a disaster.
Where is this stupid anomalous plant? I even paid this Ecologist guy to help me look for it and he's just standing around doing fuck all.
>>537648337stolen?they are from Roozban, VOIN, adaptaions from gunslinger (Strifer), some from New World Interactive(NWI) probably insurgency sandstormReadme ENG\Authors.txt>>537651692>>537652082is borya
>>537651692iirc thats the unused 'borya' from anusmaly
>>537654990Either look around or pay some nearby squad to find it. It's not small but it blends into the ground.
>>537621402OLR 2.5 is fucking great lol.
>>537655358That's what I did, I paid this guy to help me find it but he just stands around twirling his gun. Does it spawn inside the Bedrock Claws anomaly or just around the general area?
>>537655748Around the general area on the ground. Within the objective circle that is.I think you gotta let him stand around for a while and twirl his gun until he informs you that he found it.
>>537640272What the fuck? What's the reason for this? Is it too hard to download it off ModDB?
>>537655865Oh, there it is. Goddamn how are you even supposed to spot that kek
>>537656037Very carefully.
>>537656037The anomalous plant looked like this in CoP so I don't know what that is. Looks more like a spring artifact.
>>537655230Borya always was in CoC. It was that it just never had a spawn. The CotZ port for IWP or IWP itself enabled him to spawn somewhere
>>537653707I also remember lurking r/stalker quite often back in the day when CoC was popular. Then Anomaly became popular and the amount of tourists asking whether they have to own or play the original games before playing the mod began to become frustrating. Gatekeeping became the most common buzzword there from that moment on. The last straw was the drewski incident and hundreds of thousands of new tourists convinced that stalker is a milsim survival sandbox game. Only then did I realize that I can't do anything about it anyway and my seething is both pointless and fucking ridiculous, it's just a fucking subreddit, I can count on my fingers the number of users with whom interactions were worthwhile. So I just left and learned to ignore the fanbase of this or any other media, I see what you mean by saying that it's a valuable life lesson, it really was for me as well.>comfy camps like the c-con discord Is it bearable? I avoid pisscord like the plague, but sometimes I'd like to discuss stalker with someone other than anons here.
>>537656895Hey, glad to see someone with a similar experience. Yeah, I recall those posts as well. Every second post would be shit like>Heyy guyz just starting off with this amazing tarkov spinoff! what game should I play first?>On the evil gatekeeping problem in the GAMMA (stalker) community>What was the reason the devs decided to go with xyz mechanic?>>What do you mean it isn't in the game?>>>Ohh right I forgot about those shitty old trashheaps LOL, I only visit this sub for GAMMA.Funnily enough, the sub has gotten much better the last time I took a look at it (about three months ago methinks), but I've learned my lesson and just don't care about it now.>is it bearable?Not just bearable desu, it's amazing. I understand why you avoid shitcord, the average user is certainly quite something. But this specific server is probably unparalelled. It's filled to the brim with hardcore stalker nerds who discuss shit like the history of the game and the buildo documents and such, play like 50 different mods and often even review them or share their modpacks, have actual taste and love stalker for what it is, have pretty funny memes, are anti-gamma etc. You have multiple modmakers there sharing their dev process live, making mods that are so niche you wouldn't have heard of them otherwise. I've learned more about stalker as a game series and its' mods on there than I ever have before. It's cool basically, yeah. I'd recommend you visit it.
>>537656895> Is it bearable? I avoid pisscord like the plague, but sometimes I'd like to discuss stalker with someone other than anons here.nta, but yes and no. I feel like most of the time its just unfunny „(insert random non anomaly /freeplay mod) PEAK/FIRE“ and other kinds of circlejerking in the main channel. Though there is sometimes something interesting about the builds or vanilla games getting uncovered or discussed. The modding channel also got a bit more active about map making in the last month or so when a guy named Pirat, who worked on BTTS and knows his buildoshit and mapstuff well, also joined the server. And the modding channel can be actually quite helpful when modding meshes and stuff
>>537651692>>537652082>>537656804you can thank doctorx for enabling that meme mutant, nothing to do with iwp, it was in original cotz
>>537658325>>537658436I see, sounds pretty good all things considered. It may be pisscord, but at least it's filled with genuine fans and not normies who caught the mod bandwagoon I guess. Buildostuff has always intrigued me, but there was no one to talk to about it, it's not that popular on /sg/ and there were literally only one or two guys on the subreddit who had any knowledge of the subject lol, so it's good to know that there are folks passionate about it there. Damn I wish GSC forums was still around, I only found out about it after they closed it down. I envy slavs who have many dedicated Stalker forums.
>>537660059Oh, it's a cotz thing? Is there a way to change it back without breaking anything in cotz?
>>537656356>Looks more like a spring artifact.Yeah it kinda does yeah. But if you look carefully I guess it's the same model but without the flower petals for some reason, makes it almost impossible to spot.
>first day of autumnAre you doing your duty and replaying Autumn Aurora once again, anon?
>>537681546>everything is brownno.
>OP2.2 warehouse mercenaries>there's 100+ of themfine>they box you into the bus stopokay>they got grenade launchersalright>they 0 condition the previous wave's precious loot with them
>>537683275The visually overhauled NPCs, ambience, and better shooting all make up for it desu. The inventory, dialogue and trading screens are cancer though, literally almost grayscale.
>>537684679>The visually overhauled NPCs, ambience, and better shooting all make up for it desu.are you sure about that?
>>537686746>are you sure about that?yeah
>>537681546Last time I tried the post-processing made the game look WAY too dark and grainy, way more than your picture (which is how I remember AA2). Did ENB or whatever stop working properly on >Windows 10 or is AA2 the one that I'm thinking of and not AA2.1?
>>537640272
>>537681546You're 19 days early for autumn, fool.
>>537681546Is there more mods similar to Autumn Aurora? I really like the autumn style with the Zone, it fits so well
>>537691053AA2.1 is the one I'm running. I honestly can't help you much with post processing, it has always run just fine out of the box, sorry.>>537692486The only one I know of is Absolute Nature (or was it AtmosFear? I forgot desu) for CoP. Other than that, I don't know, but would like to as well. Autumn really delivers upon that amazing feeling of mixed comfiness and melancholy.
>>537692486this is gonna make you cum in your pants
>>537684679you could have all of that without the shit desaturated graphics
>>537681546i hate how trees look in anomaly, they look so pixelated
>>537696948The dude who makes the screen space shaders just made a version with TAA that fixes it. They honestly look really good:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHLl7U3jhRA
>spark has the best bros but the worst endingIt's no fair...
My instincts tell me life shouldn't be this horrible.
>>537697379damn, it does.maybe i'll play anomaly after all...
>>537700938Honestly, I'm surprised STALKER 2 didn't lean more into Anomaly's direction.
>>537700938Saars where is the gamma upload in hindi please ?
>>537697379>gammano clicks for you
>>537172362Mod?
>>537707826op2.2
stalker 2 questionsgood armour I can find in Garbage or Cement Factory? is the Guardian of Freedom suit my best bet?and did the devs ever change the weapon balancing post-launch when penetration value is king and most ARs are bad lategame?
>>537716059skif's pistol is still the best gun in the game lol
>>537716658Nah, the 1911 cleanly dethrones it. It's actually fucking stupidly busted: 1-shot dogs to the body, 3-4 shots to kill flesh and boars, 2-3 mags at most to kill a bloodsucker, with a fire rate equal to how fast you can click and a speedy reload so the small mag doesn't even count as a negative factor. The unique one comes with an extended mag and used 9x19mm anyway. It's actually quite insane and has been astounding me at every turn the more I use it.
>>537716059If you have the dlc then the journalist stash armor is disgustingly good. It weighs nothing and has good protection. You can also get the Duty SEVA in the cement factory, on top of that giant psi tower. >the weapon balancing post-launch Not by much. Penetration is still king and I doubt they're going to rebalance things this late into the game's release so don't hold your breath.
>>537716059penetration depends on the bullet, it's not a gun stat anymore
>>537721032Your hand model reminds me of Fallout
>>537721032why is he tiptoeing with bolt?
Good morning staalks,i've recently finished Goldsphere OGSR and i know there's more adventures with Jekan but i cant seem to find what they're called or where to download them. Instead of sauce,i just need the names of the mods.
>>537681546>npc models ripped from other games>fucked up balance and gear progression system >everything's brown/grey>inconsistent weapon models>some mooze tracks removed (!)i'll pass.
>>537746157there's 'Return to the Zone' and 'Survivor: Escape from the Zone'. i believe you can find them in c-con mod spreadsheet.
>>537746157oh, but >>537750728 mods are not about Jekan the character. they are mods created by Jek@n the modmaker. i misunderstood the question. still, you should check them out.
>>537681546Every mod for OG games try to change everything but the gunplay
>>537752168
>>537752168AA changes the gunplay doe. It does feel much better.
>think I'm about to beat olr>lmao fuck you nigger you're going back to cordon and you have to go all the way through the map with everyone as an enemy to get beat itMan actually fuck this game. This is actually fucking retarded. I'm going to do it, but I'm going to bitch about it all the way through.
>Once there were threads full of posts~
>closed source>russian dev with no previous modding history>no github>joined moddb in Jan 2025it's totally legit guys, just download it like everybody else and see the improved framerate!kek
>>537763753Man, Anomaly must have been really shit if a Vasyan can add a botnet bitcoin miner on top of it and still get better performance.
>>537754521>AA changes the gunplayWell that's great, I hope there are more mods that make the gunplay more casual, like in anomaly or whatever immersive sim mods, while still keeping everything as it is. I think that would make it fun to replay
Where can I find the soundtrack file of the good ending in stalker shoc?
ayo wtf was c-con up to
kill yourself
How easy is it to manually port mods from analmeme to IWP?
The horrors of the Zone...
>>537750283oh noes, a mod that modifies things my tism cannot handle.yeeeeaaaahhhhhbrobably best you dont >>537763753>>russian dev with no previous modding historyyou're an oblivious retard.dudes been around way before you showed up to suckle gammas shitty fetid anus.>>537765765this.
>>537771501pretty easy.some acript shit might not work
>>537779115*script
Which files does one have to edit in SoC to open/close the gate to the Bar in the Garbage?
>>537780593duty guys open it for you... if
>>537778965>dudes been aroundaround your asshole maybe since you defend vatnik so much. post proof or gtfo
>>537781512>Im a lazy retardk
Its morbin time!
>>537781021Yeah, no shit. That wasn't my question. A mod left the gate open and I want to revert the change.
>>537780593\config\scripts\gar_dolg_pass_gates.ltx
>>537786249Thank you very much.
>>537785036you're welcome
>>536672037Where the fuck is the VR mod?
>>537789398probably never, uevr is broken with it and if that's not working then someone would have to make one from the ground up
why the fuck is their a "drag showcase" at twitch con?
>>537800216the brain scorcher does scary things to you anon....
>>537800216
>>537800216so you feel represented, anon
>>537800772eat shit faggot
>>537800772yes, games con discussion on a video game general.dumbass
>twitch>games>a con you're definitely going to attend
>irrelevant shit>you know me
>>537802824>some random streaming website convention>relevant to /sg/ - stalker general because uhhhhhh videogames?!?!?!Did you forget you're not on /v/ where that pitiful excuse passes?
>>537806249That man is a veteran of the Clear Sky - Renegade war in the swamps.
>>537806249>I need "an excuse"report me then faggotits not off topic though.
Thank you to the friends here who recommended I just go ahead and buy STALKER 2 on sale when I was apprehensive. I've enjoyed it; there are problems with it but by far much less than the prior vanilla entries had on their first go. My only major complaint is outside of doing the story and exploring areas to get good equipment early there isn't a lot to do. The entire zone is empty of any life beyond the same wandering squad of bandits/mercenaries randomly standing in a spot, most rewards for sidequests are very lackluster.I really dislike how many women and blacks are in the game now, not just because they didn't exist whatsoever in the prior games but because their addition felt forced and pandering. I also didn't like the whole "WE'RE DOING GOOD HERE IN THE ZONE CMON GUYS" style narrative going on with some groups didn't feel like Stalker at all to me, it felt like Fallout 4 bullshit. I also really wanted those old mutant concepts from the prior STALKER 2 GSC was working on to be in, those log mimics and that weird T pose tree psychic tree zombie things would've been amazing in the burnt forest and added a lot of atmosphere. The new mutants they did add are very lackluster, and 90% of the time I'm just killing fat rats. Despite my bitching, I enjoyed a solid 80% of the game and I look forward to some anomaly-style mod of it down the line and a fix on A-Life. Just making the zone feel more alive would swing this into my favorite STALKER game.
did the water tanks in garbage have interiors in vanilla?
>>537813154wat
>>536675221Anon, GSC straight up ripped the crosshair from Serious Sam in those earliest builds.
>>537813620these
>>537814045I forgot that as wellDon't forget that GSC took a lot of 'inspiration' from Counter Strike 1.6 to develop STALKER gunplay and weapons, I love how base soc rewards you for taking your time for your shots with the supershot mechanic
>>537814328I assumed the ones in the left circle is what you meant.the right one is a water tank?anyways nah, I dont think they have interiors, like you can go in them.
>>537815659I guess the one on the right is more like a control room
>>537814328They didn't have interiors in vanilla. Some mods feature an edited garbage map that has interiors for those two places and a hideout in a hole in the middle of one of garbage piles (there's a crane sticking out of the hole with a ladder). It's usually radioactive. I recall in one mod there was a vodka bottle hidden there >>537817280 and another mod had some documents for a quest.
>>537814045Those were just placeholder assets, just like one of the super early builds having the quake 3 rocket launcher in it.
>>537807836>its not off topic though.But it kind of is. /sg/ is about discussion of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, not just general vidya-related discussion.
>>537808484The only condition for the release of Stalker 2 was to add women to the game.. Negros were added as an addition so that women would not be bored in the Zone.
>>537808484>>537824445You guys realize that the niggers aren't in the slavic version of the game, right? It's only in the Western release.
>>537820165>because I said soget fucked retard.report me and shut the fuck up.nobody wants to debate your retarded ass
>>537829227where do I get the nog free version?is there a patch?also fucking why?
>>537808484I also didn't like how lifeless NPCs were in general, in the prior games you'd have people whipping out from behind walls to fire a few shots then duck back into cover. In this installment they just kind of stand around and strife slowly while shooting at you. I don't think I've seen a single NPC run when there wasn't an emission.
>>537829231Different anon, you bitter fuck.
>>537835378doesnt matter. its still the same dumb shit
>Tried story mode after exclusively playing warfare mode>Sometimes random stalkers literally try to kill me, even when I'm not in their territory.>I see stalkers fighting other stalkers or mutants while I'm just on my way to a missionI don't really get how this analmeme mod works, honestly, but I guess warfare mode is way more passive than story mode despite the description saying it's supposed to make the game more dynamic
what mod
>>537829231we tard, nohb de debate we tard?
Finally done with OLR 2.5. Wasn't bad, pissed me off at the end like all STALKER games have for whatever reason.
>>537864432Why
>>537866431Why did OLR piss me off at the end or why have all the STALKER games done it?
>>537867317Both
>>537868132The regular games just do because of the clown car of enemies they throw at you. OLR did because it thought it was funny to throw back at the beginning of the map as a Monolith faction so everyone hated you.And by pissing me off I just mean the frustration you face sometimes when playing vidya. It's always a fun time looking back at it.
