Stalker BAR EditionStalker 2: Mobile Labs EditionS.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/STALKER2TweakPrevious Bread: >>538430998
>>539886995>Stalker 2: Mobile Labs Editioncopy paste fail lmao
previous thread died...it's over......
>>539887606we hit the bump limit, it's fine.
is there a way to unlock the preorder bonuses of stalker 2 on steam without being there to preorder the game?asking for a friend.
>>539887606>rpkthats a belt fed pkm
I'm replaying Shadow of Chernobyl and am genuinely surprised how well-done faction dynamics and identity are, compared to Stalker 2. What the fuck happened? I vividly remember the concept art & design docs S2 having distinct visual designs for the factions, where there was a "scale" of haw lawless or law-abiding certain factions were. It's like none of this made its way into retail.
>>539888529>pkmit's obviously an RP-46 and a walther P5
>>539888771yeah, the concepts have changed. desu i think that there are too many factions in stalker 2. the corps are redundant, spark doesn't feel natural, duty could as well not exist anymore... and nu-gsc wanted to introduce even more, and perhaps will in the dlcs. this whole factionsauce seem artificial, soc really did it the best, where duty and freedom were just groups consisting of like, 50 people each, and the only proper faction that had actual power was the monolith. all the rest were unaffiliated loners, gangs of bandits, isolated squads of mercs, and the government forces and scientists.
>>539888771>>539892486I have no idea why they put Duty and Freedom on the side when they encapsulated the entire point of the Zone, like some people see it as an abomination and want to see it destroyed while others think it's a gift to humanity It's a simple premise you don't need anything more.
>>539886995So, did the Bar end up looking like that?
>>539887606kill yourself weeb fag
>>539887606nyooo
>>539906773no.
>>539867120I thought Meadow was a fan made map. Is it not?
>>539898813It could be politicized, same with the military being pulled out and replaced by the "UN". There was already a political subtext attached to this. One of Ukraine's top selling, top noticed games. Russians were paying people to review bomb the game on release. It's as much another part of their war as anything else. That's why GSC removed the Soviet icons, (lion, CNPP, propaganda posters, etc) despite wanting to show a Zone "untouched by time". But think about it: Duty being the heavy militaristic faction, and Freedom being the cool, freedom fighter guys. Too black and white.In bringing back 99% of characters and making like 10 of them have their own factions, they really ruined S2 with their nostalgiabait.What about the ideals of said factions? What the fuck are Degytarev's forces for? Just to block off the city? Why need a separate faction? Loners aren't a faction, just separate stalker groups. Have them be loners.
>>539919780There's a reason people constantly ask, a year after release, if S2 is "good now". Which one do you think it is?
>>539919537It is, I think it was first made either for Dollchan or MLR mods, from where it got into various modpacks, including Anomaly and its derivatives.
>>539888529>>539887606*pkp
IWP has randomly stopped working. Didn't install any new addons or changed settings, any ideas?(Info) [21:17:06:950] Executing config-script "user.ltx"... (Info) [21:17:06:950] FATAL ERROR (Info) [21:17:06:950] [error]Expression : sz < (tgt_sz - 1) (Info) [21:17:06:950] [error]Function : IReader::r_string (Info) [21:17:06:950] [error]File : E:\EngineCryRayx64New\src\xrCore\FS.cpp (Info) [21:17:06:950] [error]Line : 389 (Info) [21:17:06:950] [error]Description : Dest string less than needed. (Info) [21:17:06:950] stack trace:
>>539927491since your user.ltx appears to be at fault, delete it and see if the game boots
>>539928912Still crashes on startup with the same error message, just takes a few seconds longer.Fuck I don't want to reinstall everything again :(
>>539929559You will have to I think, it is not user.ltx that is fucked but FS.cpp. Part of the engine it seems
>>539886995Man why is modern concept art always so soulless.
Radiophobia 3 is pretty dopeOther than some graphical glitches
>>539939938
I knew Stalker 2 was doomed the second i found out it was coming to consoles. There has never been a better indicator that a game would be enshittified, doubly so when previous titles had only been on PC. Forget the abysmal hardware requirements, optimization, bugs and whatnot else, at a fundamental level the game is just shit. It's as if 2 was made by someone who had played SOC once it first came out and then tried to make a game like it from memory + adjustment for the modern audience.
>>539931969lol
>>539941149It's more like it was made by people that had only heard about Stalker.
>>539940137that image is hilarious lol>>539939938what graphical glitches?
>>539927491delete user.ltx, run game or launcher as an administratordon't play from your downloads folder.whitelist install directory>>539935670its concept art, its not all going to be oozing with "soul"also thats subjective
>>539945697>its concept art, its not all going to be oozing with "soul"But it should
>>539945697Too late, already went nuclear
>>539939938I've put a few hours into R3 but got annoyed at the annoying microstutter. It seems to happen almost every time you run far enough to spawn/despawn things. Does vanilla SoC have this issue? I might revert back to AA2, I haven't played that in a decade but I don't remember it having such frequent stuttering.
>>539945697>its concept art, its not all going to be oozing with "soul"It doesn't fit stalker at all. It looks like something straight out of human revolution or some shit like that.
>>539940137I really, really, really like this image
>>539955205I would love it if it didn't have that cringe Human Revolution amber tint. A mix of HL2 beta, buildo, and release SoC would be my dream.
>>539941746There are a number of references to characters or events that happened in the original trilogy, more obscure stuff, so I find this hard to believe entirely
>>539957164>A mix of HL2 beta, buildo, and release SoC would be my dream.Yeah, that's because these things are soul.
>>539887606Staller dva killed us……
>>539898813Yeah they dropped the ball hard.
Man going through Jupiter Underground again after you've first opened it up is hell. It's just filled to the brim with blood cykas, controllers, pseudogiants and chimeras down here now.
>>539892486I actually wanted more faction variety but more like in a "these are rivaling bandit groups, these are different PMCs and these are different stalker groups(Streloks gang for example)" kind of way
>OP-2 nightmare>get new suit>die from one bandit shot>get better new suit>still die from one shot>equip a bunch of stone flowers>one shotexosuits must do something at least, right?
>>539965369Why is your scope darker than the surrounding environments
>>539955205theres that subjective part.its concept art, it doesnt have to fit your head canon
>bandits refuse to shoot ivanhoe because haha intentionally unfixed SoC bugs>begin resorting to doing the deed myself>dies 9/10 times>succeed once>BANDIT walks by him, heals him up again, walks away>ivanhoe goes fullretard and attacks the bandits only to get shot deadoh my fucking god
How was your morning?
All my homies playing radiophobia 3
Page 10 bump……come on Stalkers…..
>>539970828Yeah.
What mods are you playing? You can't say anything Anomaly related unless it's obscure.
>>540000850IWP.
>>540000850Finished Spatial Anomaly recently, breddy good all around, even if it is more like a stalker-themed quest than a full stalker game. Now I am trying to play through CS because I never did, but put arsenal overhaul on it because it would be insufferable for me otherwise. They really fucked up the guns in that one despite shooting being 90% of the game.
>>540001862IWP is always a good one.>>540002147Yet to try Spatial Anomaly. One day.I went through Clear Sky only once. It's my shortest playthrough of a STALKER game by a large margin. I spedrun it without really getting how you would get better weapons through the faction system. It was hell, but I managed it. I probably did the game some injustice.
>>540002801SA is easy to set up and very short, you will manage in a day or two most likely, so nothing standing in your way really.
>>540002801>IWP is always a good one.Yeah it's pretty good. It really is just like playing CoC back in the day, but with nice weapons. Still getting a bit bored now after 30 or so hours on it. Hoping the new patch comes out sometime soon.Have they said anything what they are working on/adding?
Clear Sky is my favorite stalker game. Shoot me I guess. Guess it makes me contrarian king.
>>540006858could be worse, it could be Clear Sky Complete
>>540007012I heard Complete recently got a re-release.
Why isn’t the SGI 5K in Stalker 2?
>>540000850Replaying OLR. It’s the comfiest and best stalker mod I’ve ever played.
What’s the latest on OLR 3.0 by the way?
>>540010387A community patch was released some time ago. As for hi_flyer, I think he's still laying low.
>>540012498Did it fix the overtuned disease system? Hope hi_flyer returns soon.
>>540013226I haven't played the patch myself but I heard it removes diseases entirely.
>>540013879Oh, well that sounds perfect then, do you know where the community patch was made available? Ap-Pro maybe?
>>540014106Somewhere on Ap-pro, yes.
ngl zona is tight afgamma is cooked no cap
>>540014554fr, Zone's got gyatt, copping a feel rn.
give qrd on zona
Currently looking at the ap-pro website and found it, but I have one stupid question, is there an english machine translation in the mod or is it all in Russain unstranslated? For the newest patch, for example. 2.5 worked completely fine with English.
A friend asked me about the stalker seriesI showed him these videos. this is what stalker is all about.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY6MSCYcomshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd71dZrfU80https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbcDV39LvFchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiOA_xDOT5Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlUyNe3sZUAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfkOrK84lP0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH1yLvZTnac
I'm looking forward to the stalker 2 dlc. Solely because it expands the Zone more.
>>540017813What does the DLC add?
>>540018047No idea. Expands the CNPP I guess, Limansk, probably, Jupiter.
>>540017813If DLCs don't add classic weapons back like F2000, L85, Striker etc. i'm going to invent time travel, go back in time and cancel my pre-order
>>540018830Same, honestly. I expect an increased weapon loadout.
I notice the board is moving a lot faster. Did some new gacha release which kills sg faster than before again.
>>540024625one probably got an update
>>539881048>>539884047It's like the good old days of Arsenal Pack. So many weapons, so many copypasted animations for all of them. >>539892486>>539898813Duty definitely had a bunch of cut content, but otherwise it's just the passage of time. Freedom took over the bar, the barrier doesn't exist anymore so there's nothing to defend there, and they're just the bar guys. Duty got cucked hard, first by the details of the founding being discovered in COP and then by Ward stealing their jobs, so they're just fucking about in the concrete factory that used to be near Jupiter before Jupiter moved away.Time passed, even the zone moves on. It makes sense when you consider what's happened elsewhere. Like how the ecologists split up and now you've got SIRCAA, Malachite, and ostensibly Spark before "Scar" turned them into ecoterrorists. Nothing stays the same forever.
>>539935670Because you're mentally ill and looking for things to whine about for fear of being called a "shill" or "cringe" for having a positive opinion on anything. >VGH this bar is SOVLLESS because... they rigged up a bunch of fluorescent light tubes to light it up!!!
>>540025950>the barrier doesn't exist anymorecould the barrier even be a thing in s2 lore? where would it be located, the scorcher is in the south now and away from the military warehouses. i agree that the status of duty can be explained by the passage of time, but it would make more sense if s2 took place around 2015-2016, not a decade after cop. freedom took over the bar after the d4 pact or whatever it was called that took place in 2013, so duty was just fucking around at the concrete factory for all these years doing nothing? it would make more sense if they just disbanded. this somewhat large time jump between the trilogy and s2 was a dumb choice considering the amount of nostalgiabait that gsc decided to include.
>>540028238The only way I can see it existing is if you take the "the zone is always changing" so strongly to heart you believe the zone as depicted in SOC through COP genuinely changed into the S2 version of it. Nobody in-universe mentions anything beyond "the zone is always changing" so it's hard to say canonically.
https://x.com/stalker_thegame/status/1970156331312067053
>>540031042Couldn't they used a better clip?
>>540031324You just HAVE to fabricate something to whine about, don't you?
>>540018047>>540018095Wasn't there supposed to be some frozen island?
>>540017470Kino! I love sucking my boyfriend's dick while he plays Anomaly
>>540032030I remember "snow?" written on the map, but if its actual snow or a frozen island, no clue.
so they finally made red dot + magnifier work in anomaly
>>540036643Modders still work on anomaly?
I understand that Ap-pro is a Russian stalker modding site, but is there some rule against english or something? I would expect a bit more of an international community for one of the biggest modding respositories.
>>540006117>Have they said anything what they are working on/adding?the update will be quite sizeable according to one guy on their shitcord, though they haven't revealed anything at all really about the update. Things that are confirmed are:>three new guns: RSh-12, RPK variant, last one is unknown>weather fixthere was also a reworked Cordon and Bar shown in the screenshot channel, but I don't know if it'll be a seperate addon in the future or if it was just a test since I recall the map maker making those levels (also) for another mod.I hope that A.S.G.E.I.W.F.I.W.P.E.P. will see the light of day>>540043684>I understand that Ap-pro is a Russian stalker modding site, but is there some rule against english or something?not that I know. The language barrier is just filtering non russki speakers and the site was made by Wolf, who only makes his videos in russian
>>540044606Aren't they also adding new ammo types or is that part of the rebalance addon?
>>540045916not that I know
>>540046729Ah, its part of the addon then. Also whats going on with your artefacts?
>>540046882not my screenshot. It's the screenshot that shows the new wooden RPK. I dunno if the guy used an addon, but it looks like the artifacts might get new icons.I also noticed a new (blue) bandage type
>>540047376Yeah, you're right. Guess its just a more efficient bandage.Didn't like how the army medkit doesn't cure bleeding like in the base games desu
>>540047909yeh, I'm also not that big of a fan of that balance decision, but its not like anyone could just make a simple config edit...
>>540025950>Nothing stays the same forever.Fair point but the least they could ahve done is stay somewhat canon and not shit on the established lore of the original trilogy. For every neat idea and location they implemented, there's 10 retarded ones that makes zero narrative sense.
>>540000850Anomaly
How far along is the Gunslinger implementation for Clear Sky?
>>539886995
>>540061234Great way to slice your hand open
>>539970828>they still havent back ported call of pripyats 2 hit deathlmao
I'm infiltrating the army checkpoint south of the Cordon in HoC for old time's sake, and the entire base is on high alert because a Boar somehow glitched it's way to the top of the Zone Wall and is running back and forth on the ramparts.
>>540062832
>>540059616Clear Sky is getting a gunslinger implementation?! My dreams are answered.
>>540062832>>540063693The game is so blurry....I hope the engine update will fix that somewhat. A-life working as intended.
>>539950110The fuck is that thing?
>>540064507a flesh with a very long neck
>>539976897Kinda hard but now I'm back home all comfy to play more STALKER.
>>540017470Didn't you post this already in the last thread?Is this some youtbe channel shilling thing?
>>539955482save it, it's all yours my friend
someone post the egghead puking pic for >>540063693 I can't find ithere's the payment https://zopporillo.artstation.com/projects/dO63Q1
>>540031042>thegameFUCK
>>540065272y tho
>>540061234Someone oughta port the LASS mods to IWP
>>540070341Because Stalker 2 baaaad
>>540031042Saw that. I'm really excited for tomorrow's update!
>>540064507https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Tark
>>540071410NUH UH
>>540072065>https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/TarkYoooooooooo that is so fucking cool actually. Man, now I want this thing in my game.
>>540071562Is it going to bring more than night vision?
>>540076075It brings stash rebalance and with the nightvision comes a stealth rebalance at night.
>>540075306It's just me, or is stalker the shooter with the most cut content in history? and top 10 among all games for me, the cut content and features is insane.
>>540077671Thanks doctor
I dropped this shit hard on day 1 because it disgusted me. Thinking of going back, anything of note in the updoots since?
>>540081793The trilogy? Stalker 2?
>>540081793Save corruption was fixed in Pripyat
>>540081920stalker 2 of course
>>540081393You're welcome stalker.>>540081793See here for the contents so far announced for update 1.6: >>540077671Also So far there have been 2 weapons added, performance is better, the AI is better but not full on A-Life, mutant HP got nerfed so they are not as spongy, some weapons and armors got buffed and repair prices ogt nerfed a it and artifacts got rebalanced as well. Engine update is coming at the end of this year or at the most early 2026 apparently.Honestly the game has been getting constant updates that better the game. Yeah they basically launched a game on early access but they have been working on it and getting it there.
>>540081793I would honestly just wait for the end of the year at this point. You've already waited this long anyway. They've fixed A-life and are barely going to add night vision goggles in the next update. Supposedly they're going to do an engine update for the entire game this year which is what you should really be waiting for.
can't wait to play stalker 2 in a year more or so, when hopefully all the dlc is released and the game has received the updates it needed. Last time I played it was launch week and I played it for maybe 20-30 hours, stayed in the starter village the entire time just vibing. A detail which still annoys the HELL out of me is that everyone in game has brown eyes, though. What the fuck happened there. Give back eye colors.
>>540083510>all the dlcthey're obligated to make 1 and that is all you will get lol
>>540084128At least two story expansions are confirmed. They sold it as such and are obligated to deliver legally.
>>540064507Oh Monolith save me
Is he gabbing hard truths, /sg/?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy9cVLxVrew
wahts the most skibidi toilet modpak xd
>>540088019Well. Looking at his channel he genuinely seems to loathe stalker 2 in comparison to the trilogyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uAV8gLKLsQ
>>540088019>>540094135>Here is a video of him comparing Stalker 2 to Gammahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUszBIolAvAHe is a gammatard. Opinion discarded.
>>540094846EEEWWWWWW. His opinion is automatically trash then.
stalker 2 did ruin flesh. No longer cowardly with unexpected turns of fight or flight aggression, they just come at you like DOOM enemies and have that stupid jump attack animation. idk if they improved dog or flesh ai since release. Dogs lost their unpredictability too
>>540097275>No longer cowardly with unexpected turns of fight or flight aggression, they just come at you like DOOM enemies and have that stupid jump attack animation.Oh no now I don't have to run around looking for that one fucking flesh that run to the middle of bumfuck nowhere before I was 100 meters near it. >Dogs lost their unpredictability too>Dogs>Unpredictablelollmaofunnyhilarous even
>>540097963It’s all about the Zone’s ecosystem, bro
>>540097275Maybe I'm just getting old but the way dogs juke in STALKER 2 is infuriating. They are definitely more unpredictable and harder to hit than the older games.Also I can't prove this but I know those fuckers teleport when you're not looking at them.
>>540098275There’s definitively some rubber banding going on.
>>540083510woah woah woah you can't have blue eyes. blue eyes are a racist anti-semitic trait. remember the 6 gorillion goyim
Can someone please make an eye color mod? Make Scar’s eye’s greyish at least.
Talking about mods. There is a mod that adds all the USSR symbols and statues that were in the leaked betas of Stalker 2 back into the released game.https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-rightly-bygone-days
>>540099270I could, but I'm fucking busy.you do it.
>>540082781>repair prices ogt nerfedShitters ruin everything once again with their whining.
>>540102018I have the technical skills of an ape.
>>540101361YESSS, this makes me so damn happy.Stupid question but is it a simple file change or does the mod break every update which makes it tedious to manage?
OP 2 dark valley is starting to filter me. I want to rescue all duty members without going hostile with the bandits and every step of the quest bugs out in some way. The wiki mentions paying 40k for ransom, option isn't given. Ivanhoe never gets shot like intended. Do I just gun the whole place down and be done with it?
Ivanhoe claims another.
>>540106089I can't believe I got filtered by bugs and not the difficulty. I want to keep going out of spite and the game doesn't let me.
>>540025950>Nothing stays the same forever.Wrong, the more time passes the more things stay the same
>>539957414>random page on stalker wikiaside, it's obvious on how they ruined Strelok (simping for the Zone? really?) as well as the cut quest with Noah where pseudodogs breeding is set up as a great revelation, don't mind the ending slides of CoP where Noah leads tamed pseudodog puppies(!) in a battle against snorks attacking the barge.
>>540108785People can change their mind after 10+ years you know.
>>540028238separating the red forest and radar was such a profoundly retarded area, they could be literally next to each other, just like how it was in the trilogy
>>540109246Isn't it based more on how it is in real life now?
>>540109069to the complete opposite of what they were a decade ago? no, that doesn't happen.
>>540109308is rEaLiSm even worth anything in a sci-fi setting if it ruins continuity?
>>540105942You need to save the bleeding bandit which makes you neutral with bandits. Then you can walk up to the bandit boss and pay the ransom. You need to push the button near his cell and he'll walk out and talk to you. https://op-2.fandom.com/wiki/Rescue_%22Duty%22_member
>>540105448AFAIK it is simply a model and texture change and it doesn't touch the configs. But I honest;y don't know.
>>540102286Don't sweat it that much. It's still costs an arm and a leg to repair stuff. You just don't have to give your other arm as well.
>>540109604People would complain either way so GSC chose the right thing by making the area more realistic.
Finally getting a Svarog detector is so nice. Artefact hunting actually becomes fun.
>>540028238>could the barrier even be a thing in s2 lore? The way I have seen it explained away is that in the og games the C-con or the Zone itself fucked up the roads so that going from rostok north you would go to Army warehouses instead of Red Forest in a attempt to prottect the center of the zone or sumthing.>Is it stupid?Probably. But it would be on brand with the level of fucker the Zone can be and how the Zone in Roadside Picnic was also in on itself an ever changing anomaly.It's still very gay though and mostly cope I guess.
>>540112373>the right thingthat's where we disagree
>>540112820Still, people complained for almost two decades about CNPP being north of Pripyat, so there's that.
>>540109468Mmm, yes, it does happen.
>>540112949Oh God yes. people where always complaining about how the map of the older games were not accurate. People will never be happy with Stalker 2. Specially with how the game became a political issue between ukraininans and russians. Meanwhile the rest of the world is looking at this vidya and saying it's buggy as shit but fine.
>>540112949>Still, people complained for almost two decades about CNPP being north of Pripyat, so there's that.Wait... it isn't?
>>540109468It's true. A decade ago I thought futanari was straight. Now I know it's gay. Shit happens.
>>540105942the wiki article in >>540111438 gives a detailed breakdown on how to approach that shitheapthe only important points it's missing are>ivanhoe will slowly heal on his own, preventing you from rescuing him if you take too long>bullet will try to shoot mongol the second he's done with his speech so have a smoke grenade ready
>>540112949The issue is not really realism but more like how the new Zone layout fucks with the original trilogy's lore, like how Zaton being close to the Zone's border makes CoP's events kind of nonsensical.
>>540114045>Wait... it isn't?anon...
>>540116404idk I've never been to the zone irl
>>540116468https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4061568,30.1985053,10.69z?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDkxNy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3Dthe CNPP is actually between Pripyat city and Chernobyl city, far closer to the former. Speaking of, why isn't Chernobyl city in stalker 2?p.s. no, I don't care enough to change decades of muscle memory for political brownie points
New trailer for the 1.6 update of Stalker 2 just dropped: https://x.com/Stalker2News/status/1970427922956853278
Already downloading the update /sg/. Will report on the new content ASAP. Fuck sleeping who needs it anyway?
>>540117379>Fuck sleeping who needs it anyway?Everyone. Also why is your banner for the game like that? Some kind of mod?Is Cultic any fun?
>>540116891Huh....
>>540118624>Also why is your banner for the game like that? Some kind of mod?Yeah. If you right click on the banner of a game you have the option of swapping it for a custom one. Same for Title.>Is Cultic any fun?I really liked it.
>>540112629Only bad thing is that they don't work with the blue nightvision
>>540117379IT’S BEEN OVER AN HOUR
>>540116468I highly recommend you go. It’s an experience.
>>540112949Pripyat should be north of the CNPPMaybe someday all the freeplay meme mods will be updated to have the CoP levels up north where they belongNo comment on S2 putting Zaton down south tho, that seems pretty wack
Pripyat’s location was accurate in CoP
Why the fuck is my stalker 2 .pak extractor extracting all the config files as cfg.bin? Did GSC do something to prevent people from being able to mod files now?
>>540114225Moving CNPP south-east of Pripyat would also fuck up the lore of the OGs.
>>540063693
>>540126209Anomalous Dugout said as much in one of his videos.
Ultimately it does not matter and it is not interesting to dwell upon.
The SoC zone was never meant to be 100% accurate and that makes it cool.
>>540118726grok won.
>>540128154No.
>>540128154this but unironically
>>540128154It's what makes games magical and realism is for gays and faggots.
>>540128747Yes. While many locations take clear inspiration from the IRL Zone, pretty much only the CNPP and CoP's Pripyat are direct recreations.
>>540128154this. the stalker zone was only inspired by the real exclusion zone, it's not supposed to be accurate even in 50%. the real zone isn't filled with abandoned towns, factories and other industrial complexes, there aren't any huge garbage piles, hills, swamps filled with wrecks, there are no grand military facilities, warehouses, towers, bunkers. it's mostly forests, plains, marshes, several villages and the few famous places like the duga, pripyat and the chaes. the zone in stalker 2 is not realistic anyway, it's still full of fictional places and objects, and it simultaneously ruins the storylines of the previous parts for no reason whatsoever. it's retarded, the characters acting, and sometimes even looking, in a completely different way than before is retarded, the retcons are retarded, the pretentious story is retarded, and i guess i'm retarded as well for caring about this shit. this game should be a reboot.
>>540129317the bear statue really has a "netflix adaptation" vibe to it
i love how most of /sg/ doesn't give a shit about stalker 2 at this point or openly criticizes it at every opportunity. anyway gonta, i mean honta, is back, and harpy looks different now. i still prefer sonya.
>>540117379Still no Vintar 8x pso9x39 bros..
GSC is such a fucking trash company. It turns out you HAVE to download this dogshit 700gb SDK abomination just to adjust a few cfg file numbers. Anyone thinking they're pro modding is fucking retarded. I can't fucking stand nu-developers, fucking trannycunts
>>540128154The Zone was inspired by a real place, often attempting to autistically recreate each location in detail and it's layout should match the original place as well. Fight me.
>>540134259Refer to my previous post: >>540129317
>>540133826>t. has a 500gb GAMMA installation on his hard drive
>>540094135>stalker 2>lifeless, empty and boringwell he's not wrong but I'm not gonna watch the video
>>540133826>modding SoC with just the notepadSoC wins again.
>>540134571>remove head bobbing with notepadyep, the trilogy wins.
>>540134390Never played it, but I guarantee I can edit everything I want with all the various .ltx files without having a single sdk. Remember when they said that .ltx files were too complicated and they wanted to make modding easier? Great job GSC. Great fucking job
>>540129317This is just a byproduct of time / budget constrains, not a conscious design choice. They recreated all the "interesting" areas and then designed the story in such a way where most iconic ones appear near the climax.
>>540134858Can you edit weapon models and animations with .ltx files?
>>540135183I can adjust my experience like weapon damage and durability which is what I want to do. You cannot do this without the sdk in stalker 2 now. That's just straight up retarded and very anti-modding. There's no reason I should not be able to adjust the shitty designed parts of Stalker 2. It's a fucking single player game, the core economy design fucking sucks and your mutants are way too fucking tanky. It needs to be universally changed. It's bad enough that I have to manually adjust everything every patch myself by extracting .paks, scanning through all the changes, making sure everything is compatible, and then repacking the new .pak. Now they expect me to download the SDK? Go fuck yourself.
>>540088019>>540094135>>540094846Russian, or propaganda eater? Or maybe just a gammatroon seething that the canon games aren't dollar store tarkov.
>>540109468>>540108785Just because you're autistic doesn't mean other people are static cartoon characters who never change. You forget, Strelok is still a C-Con agent. He's still brainwashed. He has a note in the old agroprom underground hideout struggling to keep his memory straight.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1643320/view/511843796724483378Doomtroons btfo yet again.>>540133826>noooo you have to download the modding sdk (nobody but two hoarding groups ever had this for IT) to mod waaaah why can't my mod just be someone else's models with me editing config files to make everything gay
>>540137962fuck off mol1t
>>540137962the fuck are you yapping about, retard? kill yourself
>>540137650>spoilerI know that, but they at least bothered to explain away Scar's personality changing to the opposite, but not Strelok's. Pretty big plot hole.
>>540137962>New face and hair options for female charactersholy grim, foids in the Zone.
>>540138269>>540138102>waaaaaah I have to download an sdk to mod waaaaahHow much of this babyrage is just because the sdk can't be hoarded by shitters and used for fame this time around?
>>540139313Man I just don't want to have 700gbs of something I don't need or want taking up hard drive space so I can edit a text file. It's no more complicated than that.
>>540137650nta, but i don't think that he's an agent. i don't think that he ever was an agent, the brainwashing didn't work properly in his case, and the result was that he became amnesiac. in the cutscene where you first encounter him, dark goes insane when the tvs are turned on, and strelok explains that it happened because he's an agent and they cannot withstand re-exposure to neuroprogramming. at the same time, strelok is looking at the tvs and they don't affect him in the slightest.. even in soc he doesn't seem to be hellbent on completing the task of killing strelok, in his journal he writes that he doesn't know who he is, he doesn't know who strelok is, and that he has to find him not in order to kill him, but because he's the only one who connects him to his past. if he would be brainwashed and behave like an actual agent, then he would probably shoot himself in the head after learning about his identity.
where do werewolf-chimeras and deathclaws spawn in OP2.2?>>540139462there is no point in arguing with a shill
nice localization there faggots
>>540142075
>one year to implement NPCs looting corpses
So is it just NVGs or are binocs also in? If so how bad is the pop in?
>>540143993be patient, the game is still in beta.
>>540145381there are no binocs yet, implementing them is very complicated and time-consuming, give gsc another six months.
>they are releasing trailers for patches as if they were fucking DLCsSince when did this become normal?
>>540145381>are binocs also inlol
>>540140949>sh-shillGrow up.>>540150323People who aren't invested in being miserable have been taking kindly to being shown their feedback is being listened to and implemented.
>>540151803>their feedback is being listened to and implemented.lol, what feedback? the new features included in the recent patches are not the result of community feedback, they are restoration of content that gsc had to cut for the release. things like nvgs aren't something that they decided to add becasue fans asked for it, it's something that fans had the right to expect in the game a year ago.>sh-shill>>Grow up.it was a different anon who accused you of being a shill, but i have to agree with him.
>>540145381you are asking for too much. indie company, please understand
>>540150323It's hilarious cause it's a trailer about literally nothing but it tries its best to hype those things up>BRAND NEW: Stalker do a basic animation to loot corpses Loool ok, lemme see if we have to wait another year for Stalker using umbrellas when it's raining
let me guess, still no option to tweak head swaying, something the X-Ray engine always had
So what's everyone thinking about STALKER 2's 1.6 patch? I kind of want to wait for the upgrade to UE5.5.4 but 1.6 is probably the biggest gameplay change so far.
>>540112750>midgame strelok going towards rookie villagehe about to fuck up a merc squad ain't he
>>539972197Scopes don't receive all possible light through the aperture of the area to be magnified. They do tend to be darker but I really wish that was never brought into games. I hate having the screen so dark I can't even play, or struggle to see.
Are we showing up for the STALKER 2 ARG?
>>540160937I'll let the autists figure it out for me. Unreal 5.5.4 when?
>>540154110>is probably the biggest gameplay change so far.how and why?
>>540160937probably something to do with limansk dlc.
>>540160937>STALKER 2 ARG?if it's as bad as the first one I wouldn't even bother
>>540161212Rebalanced loot, combat AI overhaul, mutant looting and NVG is a pretty big fucking change.https://youtu.be/LGFKEgin3ss
>>540161601nigger I'm not watching half an hour of GSC shills. They took almost a year to put something in the game that ShoC had on release. Literally nothing worth even updating the game for.Wake me up when they double performance, fix the AI and combat, and change the story and quest design to stop it from being Ukraine Marathon Simulator.Chernobyl Edition.
>>540162702Chornobyl*Never gonna happen.
>>540162702Skip around to the relevant section you're interested in retard. Fuck yourself GAMMA tranny.
>>540162702someone should take the CoC map and "backport" HoC to the X-Ray Enginejust imagine the seethe
>>540162702they coded with one hand and loaded ammo with the other!!!
>>540121689I fell asleep on my desk. Turns out I do need sleep lmao.
>>540152603>schizo thinks his headcanon is reality
>>540134259>The Zone was inspired by a real place, often attempting to autistically recreate each location in detail and it's layout should match the original place as well.well yes and no. Stalker not replicating real life is good. The zone in stalker always had levels inspired by Kyiv and other places outside of the real life zone. If you really look at SoC, then you'll actually see that it was very loose but quite soulful. It also had the Alcântara Space Center, which is in fucking Brazil of all places, edited into the map (north west of the CNPP), iirc. CoP only really set the trend with trying to be closer to the real life thing
>>540163141Kek I'm sure there was lots of ammo to be loaded in prague
How's the moddiing community coming along for stocker 2?
>>540164753what headcanon? have you played the alpha build, do you have any idea how much stuff was cut from the game because they wouldn't be able to implement them in time for release? even small details like the fucking squirrels that were added a few months ago were cut content brough back. patches do not contain any implementation of players' feedback other than small qol improvements like stash sorting.
>>540163141>>540164938You do realise that in this quote he's talking about the nation as a whole, as in "fighting in a war, while still making cultural product at the same time", not that the GSC in particular bravely hold the frontlines over in Prague, right?
>>540168403>in this quote he's talking about the nation as a wholeyeah I'm sure a young guy never held a rifle in his hand knows a lot about how "strong" his country is. I checked his linkedign and he has zero military experience whatsoever, and became a day one refugee like the majority of people at GSC. I sympathize with what he's trying to say but the way he comes off is absolute cringe.
GSC is dead.
>>540162702>SHILLSThen die. Just lay down and wait for death. Not only were the patch notes posted earlier, you're clearly not interested in anything but someone saying "it's fucking SHIT".
>>540170635It is shit. If it was on UE4, this game could've been saved.
>snotty porcupine>stone porcupinewhat's the fucking point of these?
>>540169261I mean yeah, this coming from a faggy-looking zoomer may sound strange, I think the idea would be better conveyed if one of their guys, who is currently serving, were to say this. Still that doesn't mean he can't express pride for his nation, both for those who are fighting, and those who are making games despite the war. I'm not sure what his obvious lack of military experience has got to do with it.I just feel that whenever that quote gets posted here it gets intentionally misrepresented as "uhm acktually we at GSC are literally fighting a war right now, so don't you DARE criticise us", so I wanted to clarify.
Say what you will about Grok but at least he has a vision for his game
I hate burers so much it's unreal
>>540175001>intentionally misrepresentedI think the way GSC chose to showcase stalker 2 as THE ukrainian game and a sybol for the country in general, then intentionally misrepresent any and all criticism as pro-russian propaganda or an ideological attack on ukraine is genuinely cringe.It's a cowardly stance - them comparing game development with fighting a literal war is dishonest and disrespectful to people dying on the frontline.At the end of the day, they made a product inferior to what we had 15 years ago and should at least own up to fixing their mistakes instead of burying their heads up in the sand and use the brand for literal propaganda, while simultaneously working at a snails pace on superficial issues. This, for me, is proof enough that Stalker 2 cannot reach the same cult classic status as ShoC.
>>540177335Modders will save stalker 2 but it will take many many years
>>540177335>intentionally misrepresent any and all criticism as pro-russian propaganda or an ideological attack on ukraine>them comparing game development with fighting a literal warHave they actually ever done any of this, though? The GSC themselves, not the fanboys on reddit.
>>539886995Thank dear Lord that they've added NVGs, now the normies can finally shut the fuck up about them
>>540162702you're retarded and delusional.don't be embarrassed, I see more and more cases every day. worldwide epidemic>>540167530>have you played the alpha build, do you have any idea how much stuff was cut from the game because they wouldn't be able to implement them in time for release??and?
>>540177712>Have they actually ever done any of this, though?watch the documentary, there's multiple instances of them doing it. you don't even have to look too hard to connect the dots.some things are stretched way too far, like them blaming russian "hackers" for the 2023 leak, then pinning the blame on them for any criticism. It's dishonest.>>540177616>Modders will save stalker 2nah, they won't. You can't expect people that work for free to>rewrite story quests>reprogram scripts>redesign AI combat encounters>optimize performanceetc.>it will take many many yearsIt has taken GSC a year to add in things from the previous game while doing fuck-alll to tackle fundamental game design issues. You think modders can do it better?
>>540178176there are so many "people" that have a phone and access to the internet, so they get to spout their retarded bullshit with ease.it was a lot better when it wasn't flooded with fucking retards. its even more obvious in the last few years.
>>540178445>rewrite story questsmodders were able to do this in the original trilogy>reprogram scriptsmodders were able to do this in the original trilogy>redesign AI combat encountersmodders were able to do this in the original trilogy>optimize performancemodders were able to do this in the original trilogyI think the modders will be fine.
>>540178445My brother, modders totally rewrote xray and have done impossible things with it. They will absolutely save stalker 2 with the devs releasing the full kit. Come back in 10 years or so however
>>540179247>>540179294That's an optimistic way to look at it but I'm a realist, and I don't expect such drastic changes. The OG games have had almost 20 years of modding done to them, AND the source code was readily available. UE5 is a commercial product and stalker 2 may have engine-level issues that cannot be fixed.
>>540179294>modders totally rewrote xrayno. even the most fucked with x-ray forks are not 100% rewritten.
>>540178639It was a pain to read or discuss anything about S2 without going through a flood of people complaining about muh nvgs le nvgs when are they gonna add nvgs bbbut muh nvgs Now they have the fucking NVGs and we can finally talk about the story and hopefully get the devs to expand on it. I'll go first. We need the local folklore tab in pda like we had in SoC and a ton of stories
>>540178445There were multiple instances. In the content creators hidden channel on GSC's Discord, McCulkin told them something about negative reviews mostly being Russian disinformation. There was a stink about it. Go check the logs if you don't believe me.But the real aftermath was "so, If we think the game is bad or was released in early access, we are Russian agents?"
>>540178445>>540180868Hi everyone,Just a small but important ask for those planning to cover the release of the Enhanced Edition. As expected, right after launch, we've seen a wave of review bombing from russian users due to the removal of russian localization and Soviet symbols. This is already starting to noticeably impact the overall rating.It would mean a lot if, in your content, you could mention that, if players enjoyed the game, we'd be very grateful for a positive review on Steam. That kind of support really matters right now, as dipping into the red zone makes it much harder to recover. Huge thanks in advance - really appreciate it lads
>>540178445>watch the documentaryI have, that's why I'm asking. >like them blaming russian "hackers" for the 2023 leakAre they wrong? Weren't the "Vestnik TSS" guys behind the leak, being butthurt over the removal of the russian voiceover? Wasn't one of them later even handing out DMCA strikes to Stalker-related Youtube channels, using a stolen ID of one of the devs to frame it as GSC being faggots, to which he pretty much confessed when he got caught by one of russian youtubers?>then pinning the blame on them for any criticism.Didn't notice anything like that in the documentary. The talk about "russian hackers" ends on the point that they leaked lots of game data as well as the devs' personal data. After that they move on to a different topic. Where are they pinning all criticism on the russians? What criticism was there exactly, as the game wasn't even out yet?>>540180868>>540181020Oh, I remember this one. In that case yes, fuck him for assuming everyone not okay with the crappy censorship in EE is russian, but to his defence, at that time the review page of the Enhanced Editions was actually covered in numerous "slava rossii))))))" "fUck hohols" "no russian no buy" type of negative reviews, essentially burying any actually valid criticism, so good job on that I guess.
>>540180271>We need the local folklore tab in pda like we had in SoCwhatadmittedly its been a while since I played vanilla soc, but I dont recall such shityou mean the dictionary?
I saw the Enhanced Editions have gotten a bunch of patches. How are they now if I just wanna play vanilla+?
>>540184431No there was a separate section you could read with a couple of really cool stories supposedly told by stalkers at campfires. Like the one about egghead globalists and the illusionist mutant etc, it was a hidden lore dump that was m sadly not expanded on even though it takes zeri resources
>>540184431The Encyclopaedia tab had a "folklore" section with a bunch of local stories. They were initially supposed to be told by NPCs at campfires, you can even find recorded audio for them in the game files. Unfortunately, that feature never made it into the release version, but you can still read them in your PDA. I think, you get them when looting bodies, similarly to stash info.
>>540186262Yeah I figured it was supposed to be told at campfires at some point but was cut. But think about it, how awesome it would be if we still had this, and more of this sublore, it would literally cost nothing for them to add it in the game.
>>540188071It would cost them the manhours to write and add those texts to the PDA multiplied by the wages of workers doing so.
>>540188235nah they could copy and poste most of it and cost them only a few hours.considering how much the community has been saving them with known fixes for the trilogy, its fine.
>>540189951I'd imagine making this shit up could be a fun pastime, if players were able to create fanfiction for all kinds of games just out of love for the series, the devs can do it too. It's a shame they're not in contact with the original devs, no matter how much they polish S2 it just feels hollow
>>540189951>copy and poste*paste
>>540134259Real life locations make for pretty shit (and often really boring) video game levels.
>>540160937I'm more interested on Road to Vostok finally coming to early access than whatever GSC is planning to do with stalker 2.
>>540114181>>540111438I did follow the wiki somewhat, tried to do parts of the game blind and left dark valley at least once mid quest which may have bugged something in the first place. They never gave me the 40k payment option, bandits never shot Ivanhoe (I did, repeatedly) and now the pacifist bridge has been burnt and every bandit has been shot dead. From here on out I'll stop trying to go for some pretty completionist playthrough, if something breaks I'll just shoot it and move on.
If I want to play stalker 2 no-hud, how tf do I know if I'm hungry?Everything has a visual cue but hunger has nothing.
>>540198234Your stomach growls but it only becomes noticeable when you're in starvation mode.
What improvements were made to combat AI this patch?
I wonder why they went with Unreal instead of developing X-ray. The 4A Engine, which the Metro series uses, was based off of X-ray, and it looks and runs great.
>>540205353>I wonder why they went with Unreal instead of developing X-ray.How many people at GSC today even worked on Xray?
>>540130726Wtf did they do to Harpy?!
>>540205353>I wonder why they went with Unreal instead of developing X-ray. The 4A Engine, which the Metro series uses, was based off of X-ray, and it looks and runs great.Unreal is easier to use since new developers are familiar with it. If GSC used XRay, they'd have to train every newbie (95%) on how to use the engine first. Not to mention, XRay 2.0 was never fully finished. On top of teaching how to use it, it had to be finished too, since S2 2011 never came out...
Did the update also introduce variant eye colors to NPCs. I'm tired of the sea of brown eyes!
>>540212117Stop looking at their butt holes, anon! That's rude!
>>540205353>The 4A Engine, which the Metro series uses, was based off of X-ray, and it looks and runs great.Can it into giant seamless worlds, though? Even Exodus had fairly big, but still pretty limited CoP-style maps that you moved between using the train. The game world being a single huge map with no level transitions was a big marketing point for Stalker 2 and an idea they initially tried to implement in SoC, but had to ditch at some point. And X-Ray is known to perform very poorly on such big maps.
>>540215629>Even Exodus had fairly big, but still pretty limited CoP-style maps that you moved between using the train.This is what Stalker 2 should have had, minus the train. It already feels segmented, the open world adds nothing. It just detracts from the experience.
>>540205353micro$oft and the rest of the shitty video game industry
>>540177335>I think the way GSC chose to showcase stalker 2 as THE ukrainian game and a sybol for the country in general, then intentionally misrepresent any and all criticism as pro-russian propaganda or an ideological attack on ukraine is genuinely cringe.stop noticing
t>>540177335>>540178445lmfao
>>540216428>the open world adds nothingIt adds immersion. You actually travel the Zone instead of just teleporting to the next POI. I swear, asking for LESS content in a game is the weirdest form of criticism.
>muh immersionThe original trilogy had plenty of immersion as well without this gay ass "muh seamless open world!" meme and without having to walk 30 mintues to the next point and then 30 minutes back. The reason most open world games have a teleport is because they realize that no body wants to have to waste time traveling the same route they've already seen 100 times. No you're not going to magically find something you missed the 101th time. This wasn't a matter in the trilogy because it'd take less than 5 minutes to get across a map because the original GSC respected your time.
>>540227591Take your ADHD meds anon
Playing SoC on switch....imagine my pain.
>>540228307Oh yes everyone has ADHD now like everyone in the 2010s had autism because you can't actually form an argument at all and are mad when proven wrong.
Do we still have /v/ trolls who pretend they played the original games and then get mad when pointed out that they didn't make you run for 20 minutes straight just to get the next point with nothing in between and then get defensive by claiming ADHD even though they're likely a zoomer with brainrot?
>>540229184Which game? Shadow of Chernobyl is pretty much a straight shooting gallery after Cordon.
>>540228307argue the point or fuck off
>>540227591The reason traveling didn't suck in SoC is because you ran really really fast and the maps weren't gigantic The reason it sucks in S2 is because you're slower and in the huge maps you rarely have anything to do
Since we're talking about maps, does it bother anyone else that in S2 you can only see 1/4 of the X18 and can't even see X16 or X19/10 in the radar at all? These places were a big thing in the original games, if anything they're the most atmospheric and spooky of all yet we just fly past them at best. The only cool thing about S2 I think was that they added an entire new section of agro underground, explained it with Duty blowing shit up and discovering it accidentally. The should have added a controller at the exit of agroprom tunnels too, for old time's sake
open world wouldnt be a problem if there were some sort of system to handle dynamic movement of npc and mutant populations
>>540230373Never got that far in S2 because I’m waiting for more updates. Are there any good lab dungeons?
>>540230881This. It really kills the open world for me that this is not the case. Feels like I’m running through a silly haunted house where items spawn in front of me for my amusement.
>>540230050The travel time between POIs is roughly the same in COP and S2 though.
>>540230918There's a few of them but I wouldn't call them great, mostly new ones in weird places you wouldn't expect
>>540231476You can use any random squad you come across to fast travel in CoPThere's also almost zero enemies in that game, God CoP sucked I can't believe everyone praised it so much
>>540232460>There's also almost zero enemies in that gameGood. Shooting hordes of shitty bandits is the worst part of any Stalker game.
>>540233686>shooting is the worst part of this shooter game!
>>540233686So what the fuck are you supposed to do exactly? Walk around mindlessly searching for stashes and accumulating tons of ammo you won't have anything to use on? Cop is boring as fuck and the worst game of the series, no story, no good exploration (just open maps), no combat, no challenge or anything. Complete shit and the only reason it saw any praise is because that's the closest thing to S2 we had for almost 2 decades CS is unironically good, I don't care what reddit says
>>540234716Finally a patrician opinion.
>>540232460>>540234716Yeah, CoP is really just mostly going between these one time theme park attractions, like the bloodsucker nest, the controller tunnel, Oasis, etc.
>>540234716>So what the fuck are you supposed to do exactly?Uh get immersivefied duh! Stalker is all about immersion! Immersion is all about Stalker! IMMERSION IMMERSION IMMERSION!
>>540234324Stalker is a frontier game first and a shooter second. Honestly don't give a fuck if there was nothing to shoot at all, just exploration and cool vistas.>>540236172>immersing yourself into an interesting and unique setting is bad, actually
>>540236449Go play a walking simulator, retard.
>>540236693>>540228307
>>540234324The game is called Stalker anon, not Shooter.
>game is called stalker >you don’t stalk women >main character is called Strelok>he doesn’t shootI want my money back
>>540237008>no argumentI accept your concession.
were arguments this severely retarded common here before S2?
>>540236449>>immersing yourself into an interesting and unique setting is bad, actuallyIt's bad when the gameplay I was promised isn't met. If I'm promised a First Person Shooter with an interesting setting but all I get is a First Person Walker instead, then it's a bad game and bad game design.This is why ShoC remains supreme. CS as a second.
>>540238064Hear hear!
>>540225937>Running through kilometers of empty forest is "content" Starfield must've been a 10/10 for you
>>540234716>CS is unironically goodI wouldn't go that far, but it's a lot better than CoP, that's for sure.Let's just say there's a reason I played SoC 5 times as many times as the other two combined.
>>540238064I guess it's cool to be a contrarian on /sg/ but there's a reason why CS is the least popular of the OGs and why everyone hates the final stretch of SOC.
>>540238458Many people had CoP as their first stalker experience.
https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1np77i2/16_nvgs_proved_that_criticism_like_mods_added_x/
>>540238643Very debatable. If SOC wasn't a success COP would never be made.
>>540238458the fuck are you talking about? the monolith control center map is a ton of fun if you know what you're doing. exoskeleton and groza/as val are your best friends
>>540238980CoP is the Skyrim of stalker. Well, was until stalker 2.
>>540238991The fact that SoC, a very atmospheric game, devolves into a shooting gallery towards the end is undeniably anticlimactic.
>>540239935The fuck does this even mean? By this logic CS is Call of Duty of Stalker.
>>540240315if you want sightseeing in Chernobyl just fucking go there IRL lmao
Impressive how CoP and S2 filter all the SoC babbies who think mindlessly sprinting from quest marker n to quest marker n+1 while getting raped by a million loading screens is the epitome of FPS gameplay
CoP is 10/10 just because it's the only game that features Zaton.That's the actual TRVTHNUKE.Tremble, redditor tourists.
>>540241963S2 filters me because I'm a poorfag lmao
>>540242104Why the hell do you like Zaton?!
I finished Stalker 2 during release, is version 1.6 worth a replay?
>>540243502If you have to ask….
>>540137962>controller tweaksdid they fix the dogshit PC controls?
Hey /sg/, I'm kinda bored so I decided to try and code a lightweight simulation system (offline A-life if you will). Who knows, maybe one day the tools are there and I'll be able to squeeze it into S2.Think of the system as a grid - the one in the picture is 40x24, but that's just for reference. The real system would require a roughly 800x500 grid to split the Zone into 10 meter squares. Squads spawn on the grid and can move, idle, fight other squads and loot bodies. They also gain exp as they survive and rank up. Higher ranks = higher chances of survival in combat.What else do you think should exist in such a system? When you think about a hypothetical A-Life 2.0 - what do you expect it to do?
>>540248120Cool. Does their rank affect what loot they drop?
>>540248120Something more to NPC schedule routes compared to having one set route. Have them live a life hehAt launch I tested a spawned patrol to see what was going on with the A-life and the result was this: Andryukha spawned by the windmill and then traveled to Zaliziya. He never left despite me following him for three days. In that time he->took four pisses, >three dumps, >two rests, >one general patrol in the village, and then played guitar by the fire one timeI then left the vicinity and he despawned forever.
>>540242767Nigga just pirate it and play on low settings, all games look the same on every setting anyway, requirements are a meme
>>540249347blind bro...
>>540238286SoC is the best, CS comes second and I still stand by that. S2 is cool and alright but needs to be filled up with content since we got an unfinished version but cop is shit and will remain so. >>540240315It still doesn't break immersion, if you follow the story it will make a lot of sense for the action and intensity to ramp up. You got people trying to figure out a way past the brain scorcher, monolith resurgence at the army warehouses, military planning to reinvade the power plant and all of that happening right after CS ended which was a shitshow at the NPP Once you turn the schorcher off it makes perfect sense for shit to go down and you'll use the chaos as cover to infiltrate the sarcophagus. The only thing I kinda disliked is that you turn out to be the unique hero character that solves everything and becomes a legend. They should have made strelok die at the power plant and not uncover the entire zone secret
>>540249738Call of duty 4 came out in 2007, the exact same year as stalker, it objectively looked better even though I'm a stalker fanboy. They literally could have made S2 look like cod4, maaybe slightly better details and it would look fine. Mgs5 is a 10 year old game and it looks beautiful. Muh graphics are a meme
>>540248378Nah, not yet because there's no actual inventory being transferred, although I'd say this would be pretty easy to add.>>540248665This is doable already. The route between A and B would mostly be the same (shortest), but A and B can be different, creating varying paths while obstacles can be created dynamically as well (think roaming anomalies), changing the path entirely.
>>540250313You're comparing games with good art direction that were graphically impeccable at the time to generic looking UE5 slop which decidely looks better on high settings compared to low unless you love flickering and pixelated shrubbery wherever you go.
>>540250440Exciting!
>>540249347anon... I'd have to buy a PC that can actually run the thing first
>>540250529That's why I said it, ue5 is slop and it's a shame all games have to run on it. I was and am one of the people who shits on analmeme but the devs could have easily cloned that or hired the modders to make an entire game from it and it would be better. Also I don't like the new art style, looks like fallout
>>540250313CoD 4 was more consistent but SoC had some stunning visuals at parts while CoD 4 was just nice overall. Though I feel like it aged better too.
AAAAH HELP
>>540252130I feel that it's relatively easy for FPS games which exclusively focus on the 'shooter' part to age well. Even CoD2 plays very well in 2025. Once you've got the shooting mechanics and the campaign for them done well, the only potential cutoff point becomes the graphics.This reminds me, I need to go play CoD2 again...
>>540203706oh okay thank you.
>>540078463There are others with massive amounts of cut content. Borderlands springs to mind. What was planned was not what we got. What sets Stalker apart here is that we have public documentation and leaked alpha builds documenting the cut content to such an extent people can make mods recreating them.
>>540205353No sane person is going to dig up the dusty corpse of an engine last touched ca. 2010 whenever S2 2011's development ceased to try and make it modern. No sane dev who isn't some little indie who can coast off patreon donations forever is building a brand new engine from the ground up either. Unreal likely just had the features needed to make the game. Creation could also do it, but that doesn't get licensed out to other devs. Imagine, not needing to fuss over alife because full unrestricted oblivion style radiant ai handles it.
It's funny to me how S2 2011 went from having bandits with comically sized hammer and sickle leather jackets emblazoned on their back to outright banning Soviet imagery by the course of the game's reboot. Show's how much can change in little time.
>>540253965>little timeHeh, yeah. I mean, it's only been what, ........14 years...
>>540253965Maybe they were supposed to be more sympathetic for the later version but that got abandoned too.
Did 1.6 made it so that foliage stops rendering completely after a certain distance?It looks like FO3 now.
>>540256194Looks like a surrealist abstract painting
How are the patches so far anyway? Stopped playing in January or so, so guess that was 1.1?Mainly interested in armor/artifact balancing, AI and if there is some more gradual difficulty sliders now.
>>540250440Awesome. Hopefully you can add this to STALKER 2 if GSC doesn't fix their shit soon.
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>>540250313Lmao CoD was the epitome of ugly grey, washed out 7th gen slop Nothing can compare to the beauty of Xray
SHIT YOUR PANTS NOW! said the pants shitting Controller.
>>540259153How come the c-con equipped them with jeans when jeans were a high western luxury fashion item in the iron curtain states.
>>540259153What were those scientists thinking when they made pants shitting controllers? What was their endgame?
>>540259637>Five years ago, I lost 30,000 toilets in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of shit. No shortage of pants shat. I know you understand.
Shit your own pants, dear pants shitter.
>>540259153>Voronin was going to inspect our assholes tonight so we were instructed to not eat anything todayDuty is always triumphant, baby.
>>540252130There were something like 75 cods released after that one plus the remake so it didn't stick that long to get the legendary status, while there's really only 2 stalkers, cs and cop are expansion packs, those whose birth year starts with number 1 will remember that term
is there a mod for OP2.2 that coverts the seven hundred separate red dot gun variants to the base gun actually using the fucking addons?
>>540242980I'll devil's advocate and say I do think the sidequests were best done there (Morgan dealing with bandits, the mercenary base). It looks like rolling hills of poop even on max settings though
Why does x-ray multiplayer extension some Russian VPN service for a server?
>>540259153Not wearing any, checkmate fucker!
>>540293795*Makes you cum instead*
>>540297441Nice try, but you're the pants shitting controller, not the cumtroller, not falling for that again
>>540297676Then why is your mom freshly banged?
>>540297804Already said I was pantless
Does Stalker 2 FAKE realism?
>>540297676>again
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1653God bless modders and fuck GSC
>>540301282based
Are all the mods for IWP actually locked behind their pisscord? The moddb is still looking really sparse.
>>540301282Glad someone took one for the team.
It's up.https://youtu.be/39QkK231-Lo
>>540293795
>>540308154Gamma? Hell no.
>>540308154fuck off shill.
>>540308154>didn't start with a Ukrainian land acknowledgementZigslop
>>540308154>didn't begin the video denouncing p*ssia Dropped.
>>540308972>>540314615Charlie Kirk just died. Show some respect to Russia.
>>540308418You know I always kind of disliked how controllers and bloodsuckers only have 4 fingers/toes, makes them look unnecessarily cartoony. Could hve shown that they were fused or something if they really wanted 4, would have fit with the whole experimentation angle too.
>>540232460>God CoP sucked I can't believe everyone praised it so muchFucking faggot kill yourself
>>540320225He’s right though.
>>540325581Samefagging won't make you right
not arguing either way, I just found it funny
>>540332125Nice
>>540333680was it a gay love letter to his bf?I didnt catch it
I wish the Zone was real
>>540342917same bro, same
>>540237136But who do you play as?
Favorite gun in the Stalker series, anons? Mine is probably SGI 5K.
>>540359161SVU. Ever since SoC, love how you can just get one for free in that game in Army Warehouses.
>>540359161AS Val
>>540359161spas-12 or a proper an-94inb4 pulleys
