Anomalous weaponry 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/Ma6W4BcMLost to the Zone >>546740081
>>547550374bonk
Is no one going to post the pastebin again?
>>547550374I miss the ragdolls from the trilogy.
>>547555206How do you make this shit? SFM?
>>547555206kek
good day /sg/>>547555206kino
>>547555206I enjoy this
just started STALKER 2. i can't see shit at night. is that by design or is it something on my side? i'm too worried to walk around with my flashlight since there goes my cover
>>547568763increase your gamma or buy nightvision goggleswhen you sleep at a base it should also wake you up in the morning. I used mods to make days longer and a bed mod to let me wake up at certain times so I don't gotta deal with dark nights unless I want to now
>>547568763If you go into the display tab at your pause menu and scroll down, you have contrast, brightness, saturation and gamma sliders.Your gamma is probably too low. Nights are supposed to be dark, but not a solid black screen with only your light barely lighting half a foot in front of you.
>>547568763PROTIP: not just for stalker, but calibrate your screen first so everything looks as it should, then tweak stalker's settings to taste. If your screen is wide gamut either set it to srgb mode or turn on ACM in windows to clamp to srgb.>http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
>blowout over>backpack immediately rips
>>547559478Pretty sure it's SFM yeah
I really like autumn aurora 2.
>>547568763find some nightvision goggles
>>547568763Dunno I can see well enough.
What else is there to expect for STALKER 2 before the DLC comes out? All I recall that GSC has mentioned is binoculars, and an engine upgrade, but have they suggested any more base game revamps? I can't think of a whole lot they haven't really touched already.
>>547579490New quests, especially in the Western part of the Zone. They're also in the roadmap and supposedly "talking about them is basically spoilering."
>>547579490they revamped stashes and a-life already, would be nice if they expanded PDA functionality since a-life is actually a thing now
>>547580047Not just stashes and A-life, but, IIRC, they've done things like adjust repair/upgrade prices, lowered mutant HP and added mutant parts + mutant part quests, and they did a small rebalance of artifact prices. As well as lots of enemy AI changes so they don't just spam grenades, and can't see you through environmental stuff as much.>>547579957Yeah, the western part of the zone is massively lacking. the recent NVG/monster hunting quests did a lot to flesh out upper Zaton a bit. Would be nice to see a few quests in the west that do the same.
>>547580279the game should have released like thisno binoculars and not being able to see stuff beyond 100m still sucks though
>>547580378I would not be surprised if the 100m limit is to stop it hitching like a motherfucker (well, more) and raping cpus.
>>547555206Bandit engineering...
>>547580875I fucking love Clear Sky. Fuck the haters.
whats going on with the light in there
>>547583481On my first playthrough right now, but it really does seem like a pretty well-made game, it has that stalker soul. Grinding radial quests is much more satisfying than in any other stalkan game I've played, due to the respect mechanic. Allies in locations asking you to come and help can get a bit annoying, but it usually happens like once per hour or so for me, so it isn't awful. I somewhat regret putting the game off for so long (like 8-9 years already, not kidding) simply due to hearing a lot of negative comments. Maybe some of them are right, but the game overall seems to be very good.
>>547584284Glad you finally got around to it at least
Will gunslinger ever get finished?
>>547584172Welcome to UE5 Lumen. It's not fixable :)
>>547584172THE MOULD
>>547580875>>547583481I actually enjoyed CS, despite the bugs. It had some more military-oriented missions later on.It makes me wish that the Stalker games had more variety in missions.
my aim is so bad in stalker 2 because of the 15ms(?) input delay from frame gen
>>547584284>>547583481Clear Sky was my first stalker game. I had the first release of it on disc so I think it was the unpatched version. And boy was it buggy.The fun part was that I had no idea what was part of the game, or buggy AI behavior so it added to the "cursed" atmosphere. I havent played it since, but I assume that the steam version is up to date and most of the biggest issues are patched.
>>547584172Raytrace dithering. The cost of having global illumination in indoor environments as your rig usually has to compute lighting from all visible surfaces, which in turn means that the amount global illumination sources indoors (especially walled and multiple sourced areas) would completely tank the performance. A usual way to counteract this is offloading the lighting out of the GPU pipeline into a mesh of dithered surfaces which are out of player view (which you see in the picture as the grainy, monochromatic walls). The problem with this approach is that it's usually automated in UE5 and Lumen architecture, which leads to areas with plenty of lighting source meeting being visually a mess, especially in dark areas where illumination can come from flashlights as well.
>>547586680>from frame genturn it off?There's very little perceivable difference between epic, high and medium, just dial some shit down.
>>547587419Same for me, I bought the disc after a friend told me about it, and I got obsessed with Chernobyl history. Found SoC soon after and played that to death too. Most humorously when CoP released in stores I bought that too, but I was not informed on release order, so when I first booted the game up I was totally underwhelmed by the graphics. How ugly it was compared to CS! And how casualised too! Starting with a machine gun and a sunrise suit, what the hell. So I promptly shut the game down and didn't touch it for a couple of years. CoP is still the worst stalker game
>>547588705Why do you write like a flaming faggot
>>547589292Because I've been inured by occidental academia.
Look at all the shit we won't get as GSC is busy "upgrading" to 5.4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyLQyob8W-w
>>547590994How's the cold spaghetti, Vlad?
>>547588705Extremely gay post
>>547590994>UAAH LOOK AT THESE LEEEIGHTS>WOAAA LOOK AT THESE NANITE TREEEEES I AM FLOAAARED>WOAAH BUY UE5 SO EPIC GAMES KEEP SENDING ME CHECKSchrist, what a glazing faggot
The most dangerous artifact...
>>547596654>that cursorHow does ZONA manage to be a very good freeplay modpack in terms of gameplay, but the absolute dogshit unparalleled worst in terms of UI? Between the new cursor, the orange PDA design, and the retarded new inventory screen with those weird gray stylized lines at the bottom, it's absolute bilge.
>>547588705Straight as fuck post. Don't listen to the other fags.
>>547588705>and I got obsessed with Chernobyl history.I had this obsession with nuclear test history and watched a shitton of documentaries on the matter, then I stumbled into the chernobyl accident after watching surviving disaster (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvc7s98Gdxw), which the HBO show seems to borrow alot from. Then I found Clear Sky among my brothers games, installed it on my dinky acer aspire7720G laptop.And I was hooked pretty fast.
>>547597040It's likely because i'm not using the 2k version of the UI (which looks less dogshit on high resolutions) and i think the cursor is largely a downgrade from version 1.31 which is kind of silly. Hopefully there's some tweaks to the overall GUI elements, there was some buzz about Drako likely making the UI much more customizable as the Zona GUI version is updated in 1.34
Dead Cities pt2 is so damn good. I could literally fuck to that music.
lost alpha must be really cool for people born before 2000
Bear detector or Veles detector? for a 3D printed toy
>>547605085>lost alpha must be really cool for people born before 2000How so? Last I checked it was some passion project trying to connect all three games into one. I think I played the first release and I remember it bugging the fuck out when I got to rostok and the mainquest just stopped working.
>>547607420Bear looks cooler.
>>547607420Bear.Veles just looks like a texas instrument calculator
>>547607420I think Bear is more iconic.
>>547605085it ist. '99 gramps
>>547605085its shitt. 89
>>547605085It has its pros and cons, but I much prefer OLR and VoAt. 95
>>547608751I hate boars with an intense passion.
>>547609667would you eat boar meat
>>547609667Literally one of the easiest mutants to kill, are you retarded?
i would play CoP next but i think i’ve had enough jump scares for the whole month
HOW THE FUCK ARE THERE SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE ZONE??? YOU CAN MASSACRE AN ENTIRE FACTION FOR 10 DAYS STRAIGHT AND THEY KEEP COMING BACK LIKE COCKROACHES
>>547613917clear sky was like that for me
>>547613917Clones, that's why Valerian is in sdalker 2.
>>547613917Play Dark UkraineNOW!
>>547612839I've got nothing against any of the trilogy vanilla boars. It's the Anomaly versions that have a ton of HP, hit like a truck and usually come in either pairs or a small pack (between 4-6) so they're notoriously tough. Grenades work the best, but usually the worst part about boars is that unless you spot them first, you're getting charged down mercilessly and you've got to find higher ground they can't access or hope you invested in quick release and outrun them. I've taken to trying to get as much Rupture Res. on most outfits whenever i can. Solely because i'd rather not have my leg artery nicked each time i'm caught in a bad position. Fuck boars.
>>547609667Not as much as I hate burers. TBD
>>547614332I wish they kept the "doubles" idea. The Zone creating almost exact copies of people was an interesting concept.
>>547614908From what I remember they don't even take the extra damage to their huge head like the original games. Them and the hyperaggressive snorks raped my newly repaired armor so many times.
>>547607573>Last I checked it was some passion project trying to connect all three games into onethat's call of chernobyl
>>547615557>>547614908>mutants have broken damage values, do more damage than expected and take more damage than they should>it's not even consistent>everything short of the top 2 armor tiers breaks at lightspeed, mutants break it even faster than bullets>no point in upgrading or repairing anything weaker than a SEVA/battlesuit because it costs too much whether you use the repair items or a technician>your character gets hungry and has to eat so much it feels like a fetish game>snorks slide across the ground instead of their movement matching their animations, don't take headshot damage, and are just annoying>the "enhanced executables" add an HDR10 mode that causes most particle effects to render as black boxesWhat's most amazing is these mods get praised to high heaven despite being so broken, incompetently made, and shitty.
>>547616582sounds like stalker 2
>>547616861>instant bot reply
>>547614908you need to broadside boars in anomaly, then they’ll die in like 2 shots
>>547616924is it wrong?>mutants do too much damage and are too tanky>armor breaks at lightspeed>armor costs too much to repair>character gets hungry too fast
bros is there a mod for stalker 2 that lets me put a pso-1 on the aks-74u?
>>547617625OXA maybe
>>547617156You mistake hunger penalties for starvation. You can be hungry, but at worst you'll get a tiny penalty to your stamina. Dehydration settles in much quicker and will kill in a very short time. Usually if you fiddle around with the settings you'll find a sweet spot where you're usually fine eating some Heinz Beans once or twice a day to stave off penalties, even if you chug anti-rads and meds like a madman. It's the lack of sleep or water that'll turn fatal very quickly.
>>547617625>74uIt amazes me to this day how Call of Duty 4 is the only game that bothers to remember the 74u has a grenade launcher. You'd think someone would reintroduce that in a mod by now.
>>547618098And it's a good gun in cod, unlike the trilogy, i don't know how good it is in S2.
>fully upgraded rifle, 5 artifact slots, 100k koupons and hundreds of food + meds in storage before even going into the swampthe only significant difference master difficulty makes is that electric anomalies are still killing me in one hit and grav anomalies have for most of the game until I filled the physical resistance bar, and mutants that knock you down will probably kill you before you get up again (especially bloodsuckers, very cool)And I don't see any significant "a life" change. Most spawns are still focussed on points of interest and noticeably limited range. Beyond seeing some ward guys hang out in the boiler house in the lesser zone, I haven't seen anything different. Maybe it's more significant after SIRCAA events
>Bringing packages to Rookie Village from Yantar.>Decide to stop at the Farm for some quick repairs.>Both buildings getting robbed by heavily armed bandits.What the fuck?
>>547608751https://youtu.be/CrbaPi5J0Eg
>>547624730Bandits gonna bandit.
>compass kills the feel of the zone>decide to enable immersive mode, I'll just use the pda to move around>stashes descriptions just say random stuff like "It's too much loot, I'll come back later" instead of telling you where to find themI've been looking on nexus for a mod to change the compass for the old minimap, but I can't find anything
>>547623923Play with the Unlimited Mod, it removes 99% of the boxes everywhere and randomizes all loot so you can't jump to the Cooling Towers for an exo, but can still find great random loot like a full durability suit on some dead guy. You will genuinely cum when you find a single medkit lying somewhere in the wild. And it makes stashes worthwhile to chase, you find encrypted PDA's with categorized loot and varying rarity. It also does a good job of balancing the economy, as I do think about buying a medkit with my limited funds when you don't have an infinite stash of them. The only bad thing the mod does is nerf detectors to make artifact hunting a pain, but I edited the .cfg to bring them back to vanilla and it's fine. I've been enjoying my 2nd playthrough with a lot and most early game, with most of garbage, I had to tough it out with an armored bandit suit since I couldn't find anything else, until finding a Marauder at decent condition on some corpse, while still having only basic SMGs and shotguns while going into Wild Island, you really need to work for your loot.And I disagree on the no-alife, it is much, much better than it was before and squads do travel. I once got jumped by 2 bloodsuckers in the Detention Center and died, when reloading (since Expedition so had to load from base), I ignored it and went straight to Wild Island, and learned they actually traveled from there so they spawned somewhere else. And very often I can see someone patrolling somewhere and spot then beforehand instead of them spawning 10 meters behind me like it was in 1.0 and 1.1. They are definitely still some static spawns like Bandits occupying the boilers north-west of Zalisya ad infinitum, but there is an actual simulation on top of it with squads traveling across the zone.
Never skip squat day.
>>547580875>>547583481same
>>547577820I like it better without all the shitty shader choicesmaking it a grey washed wasteland looking modyou can try it yourself, rename your shaders folder ---shaders and restart the game.you might want to play with these settings too, but overall I just like it better.r2_sun_lumscaler2_sun_lumscale_ambr2_sun_lumscale_hemi
>>547639492I'll give it a go and see.
At least one anon is spamming telling people to play radiophbia 3 and it has at least piqued my curiosity. Is it a reasonable vanilla+ experience or does it go in other directions for its stalkan?
how do i get my S2 to look like this guy's?https://youtube.com/shorts/Bbdd5Oma7lY?si=rhigvy_NDsXZmSsO
>>547648397>At least one anon is spamming telling people to play radiophbia 3>ctrl+F>radiophobia>1?spamming where?people ideas about what is vanilla+ varies a lot.I'm fine with a lot of changes unless they are drastic changes.
>>547650724did ready or not benefit from UE5?does it still look like that? or is it using lumen?
>>547650724bro this is not stalker, look again, are you half asleep on your phone
>>547654046sovl
L85 is my zone rifle
>>547663279For me it's the SIG SG 550
>>547664075good choice comrade, reliable swiss weaponry
>>547666260Thanks. I am devastated its not in stalker 2
>>547669991don’t worry, mods
>>547672159Personally I’m hoping for dlc
>Griga is a Samurai fan
>>547663279I wish it could be obtained much earlier in the games, so it would justify using it and not have such a terrible reputation.
>>547683095Wait, he cut his hair?
New patch?
>>547691810released like three days ago
>>547692341No, Steam is literally updating the game now.
>>547692385A mini patch, like fixing a bug or two or some crash problem
stalker 2 new patchno patch noteswhy
>>547652913thats not ready or not fren thats a game called bodycam
>>547692471>mini patch>11gbthis is a big patch that got release just a few minutes ago
>>547694198>>547694340ADDED BRAZILIAN LOCALIZATION LETS GOOOOOO
>>547694634source
>>547694650just fucking with you
>>547694740the zone shall fuck you in the ass
>>547615065Stop bullying burers. BLM
>>547694825Not if I fuck it first
Hows the performance in 1.7?t. 5080 7800x3dI got like 70ish fps on 4k high-ish settings WITH framegen
>>547663279based
I wish the Zone was real so I could waste my PhD education by dying in some irradiated ditch that houses some fucked up anomaly
>>547694923Better than it was, I'm getting sable 60 FPS on medium with framegen, RTX 3060. Before that I was struggling to go over 50 on low with framegen
>>547694841TOTALBURERDEATH
>>547695594Huh it might run better now then lets see
>playing borderlands 4>s2 update drops>planned to do a second run anyway>now unsure if I should wait for the engine update (woo from old version to less old version, not even the latest version) before then or if it will come before I finish borderlandsingWhat benefits would 5.5 have over whatever old version they're using anyway?
>>547698090hopefully some better performance. Hopefully some lumen fixes. Hopefully a draw distance update.
>>547694841TBD (Total Burer Death)
>>547699158He's literally me
>>547699221You stay right there anon, i'm coming for you.
>27 min of updating ALL files after a patchGOOD LORD
>>547700293and it's just for a hotfix too
>>547700469 11gig for a hotfix?!
>>547700545Not him but STALKER 2 doesn't have delta patching, meaning that if they patch like 11mb of a 10 gig file its gotta redownload the entire 10 gig file.
>>547700743ugh......
/sg/ is moving pretty fast again.
Just playing Anomaly for the first time. What the hell, this mod is better than any of the vanilla Stalker trilogy games. Even the aesthetics are great.
Why are there women in the Zone. I don't want to see them or hear them
Why didn't they make it so you could only save inside hubs and not also at the various campsites you can sit at around the zone? GSC gib soulslike stalger pls
>>547702771>freedumber detector
So with all those performance patches and such, is it worth buying Stalker 2 if I have a 3050Ti? What if I install some performance mods too? I'm not a grafixfag and can handle low graphics, I'd just like minimal stutters and at least ~40FPS.
>>547609667>>547612839Boars can be insanely unfair in S2. >Knocked down>Knocked down again when trying to stand up>Third one just does a little drive byThey can pretty much just hold you down and fuck you to death. I once saw a pack of boars literally kill a Pseudogiant. I had dumped a couple mags of Saiga shots into it before they arrived but a huge pack of like 8 Boars was able to drop it and have 3 survivors.
>>547707904That's a big ask bro. 3050 Ti.... is pretty weak. I'd say wait until the engine upgrade. The next major update will likely be sometimes next year and they're gonna move to a newer better version of UE5 and the hope is it will really improve optimization.
>>547698090How is 4? My friends and I couldn't stand to finish 3 due to the cringe story, but we played 1 and 2 back when they released.
>>547712206In soviet russia boars hunt you.
>>547707904you shouldn't have bought that e-waste in the first place but, low graphics and UE5 low graphics are not the same, you'll bleed outta your eyesjust pirate games when you're not sure if you can run them or not
>>547683095Griga lookin a little Asiatic there
7 GB S2 patch dropped. Just some bug fixes.
>Fixed an issue where an A-Life NPC could appear in the prologue.>Fixed an issue where player could observe flickering Ward NPC at the checkpoint near Duga.>Fixed an issue where Strelok could repeat death animation after being searched.>Fixed an issue where few NPCs could stuck in a doorway of Malachite after the Emission.>Fixed an issue where dead bodies could appear in A-pose for a moment after appearing in the player's field of view.>Fixed an issue where some NPCs could get stuck on the staircase of 110 Rads Bar.>Fixed an issue where some NPCs could continue peeing during the movement.>Fixed an issue where NPCs could walk in place if they navigate to the dead body inside an anomaly.
In S2 can you still stash all your shit before you get robed at the end of the prologue and then get it back?
>>547718864Yup
>>547686365If you look up some of the recent interviews with him (of course gotta look up his name in the hyhy language) then he seems to be keen on shaving his head from time to time, but still keeping a beard on. Much like CDPR's model on that photo.https://youtu.be/hHOX4lDkt3s
>>547713320It's fun. 3's story was already a huge improvement over Anthony Burchlands not a high bar to beat, even with all the turd farmer jokes. It's still got cringey/stupid jokes and writing, but manages to act a lot more serious. It also helps that at least by the point I've gotten to, the only returning characters are craptrap, Marcus (intro voiceover only), and the duo of Zane (weapon vending machines) and Zed (meds), so it's a breath of fresh air with new idiots. The mercenary day event kind of sort of "ruined" it in the way 3's TVHM did, where the legendaries you can buy with levelup points kind of make it pointless to bother trying to use anything but a legendary. Granted, hard mode is practically TVHM already, with nearly every enemy scaling to your level and only early game skag-replacements seeming to cap at level 17.Also, they got rid of the QOL feature 3 had where you could make it automatically trash items of the designated rarity or lower for instant money, so you're stuck either setting minimum values in your head like the old days or dropping a bunch of shit every time you get a loot drop.It lost a few other nice things from 3. 3's more linear nature apparently made it easier for them to do things like Carnivora (which was literally a recreation of what Baron Flynt's crawler in BL1 was SUPPOSED to do before they gutted the entire game to change the art style), and we're back to AR sucking dick unless they're single-fire. Most of the manufacturers don't exist anymore or have been downgraded to "licensed parts" cameos. I think Dahl is Daedelus now, and Tediore is apparently even more dystopian than the other manufacturers because they threaten Rafa with remote termination if he tries to run off. The cool viking guy is apparently a fag.
>>547615065>>547699158
>>547724570
>>547724570Burers look kinda retarded in STALKER 2.
>>547726117They have looked retarded in every game.
>>547613917the IWP experience.Can kill an unlimited amount of bandits by going back and forth from rookie village to rail bridge
>>547717969how are these bugs still a thing? theres gotta be something seriously wrong with the base of the game
>>547587578Nuts. How does anomaly/gamma handle it with comparatively no overhead? Seems like a regression or simply laziness.
>>547742301thought this was a suicide pic for a moment lol
>decide to try out Integral-A in S2>Take one and invest about 50k Coupons in it>It's a fucking laser beam with virtually no recoil and great DPSOh. So this now gonna be one of my main every day weapons then? That's how it's gonna be? I might have to convert it to .45 ACP for the dmg.
Guys the SEVA-D is the best armor by far>can have 5 artifact slots>can get 50% durability>Has blueprints for a +10% carry weight upgrade that also reduces it's weight by 1kilogramThing's fucking invincible if you have a Liquid Rock and maybe a Tourist Brekfast or Ciliate. Sure, some of the exos are better, but this thing is a workhorse for 90% of the game and can be grabbed EZ after you leave Lesser Zone
>>547694238ARR ROOK SAEM
>>547742935I'd shoot myself too, if an invisible Snork was about to get me.>>547736376Open Xray doesn't have a googolplex of reflective surfaces that all need to calculated for reflections each and every time something is in the player's view. Instead it achieves mostly the same results with a Raytracing adjacent SSPTGI framework and smart use of specular materials and global illumination. On the flipside, the usage of volumetric lighting and an engine that practically runs on hopium, it's still very computing intensive when it comes to multiple lighting sources (Rostok night time flashlights), but considering the scope of the other textures and environments being practically a mash of very budget sized pre-2010 textures Open Xray has an advantage in being able to run a very impressive array of DX11 features without requiring a jet engine and a GPU the size of a brick.
Have I just played too much stalker in general or is radiophobia 3 klnda easy? I'm playing on the 2nd highest difficulty just to get a feel for it and annihilating the military dudes south of cordon is not proving to be that hard.This stands out to me as some research i've done on the mod has a lot of people saying it is quite hard.
I haven’t played stalker 2 since release. Is it worth replaying now that 1.7 is out or should I wait for dlc?
>>547759548the solution is always to wait.
>>547663279luv me G36
>>547760837Why?
>New Quests coming "soon"How much you wanna bet GSC is gonna give the paypiggy journo quests + a couple new ones just to sort of kneecap the modding scene and avoid having to nuke people for cheat/modding in that retarded paid content. >>5477595481.7 is "best Vanilla Stalker" but waiting will always pay off as he said>>547760837Obviously by the time DLC drops the game will be EVEN BETTER. That said, if you really like Stalker, grab it now, do a playthrough and then try for a different ending, maybe on Master Mode or something when DLC hits.
>>547764552Any idea when the first dlc is out?
>>547765959They promised 2026. Pretty firmly and recently iirc.
>>547766175Do we know which area the dlc will take place in? Will it have new mutants?
>>547766175>>547765959>>547764552>>547759548And to elaborate on the "different ending" thing a little: The game has two pretty distinct paths through the main quest that fracture off into a half dozen endings. So you'll always probably want to do 2 playthroughs minimum just to see the Ward or Spark routes and see all the different stuff.
>>547766272No news about muties but it's almost 100% Limansk and then a CNPP+"Iron Forest" one or something like that. I'd bet Limansk has a mutant or something though because the game teases it a bit and basically there's radio transmissions coming from there that sound like Hell on EarthIron Forest is right by CNPP and the lore says it's full of weird trees that generate electricity.
>>547766464It's going to be this thing they teased back in 2020https://youtu.be/_NuPJmiQh-A?t=77Mutant embryo or whatever
>>547766272From what I've heard from some videos going over details from data miners, it will be Limansk, Iron Forest, and a new X-Lab maybe under the CNPP. It will involve the psi-embryo from >>547767752They say it will involve a faction conflict between Freedom and Duty. They also mentioned learning something about the psi-embryo being the thing that caused the original Duty general to get stuck in the anomaly where he and his squad died.
>>547770415hope it's not under the CNPP. It would be too typical
Anuuuu
>>547770591Agreed. The CNPP in a way should stay sacred mythical ground
>>547782923this nigga drank the monolith cool-aid
>>547783293 Oh Monolith hear me
>raid on the Loners for the point at Darkscape farm>5 vs 5>killed 2 with a nap and the other 3 got picked off >but they took 1 bandit with them (the stalker closest)>he saved me back in Darkvalley
Hi friends. 1.7 tempted my to take the plunge on Stalker 2. Never played a stalker game before. Can't wait.
>renderer: static lighting>quality: minimum>resolution: 1024x768>sprint: x>low crouch: shift>crouch: ctrl
>>547788717As a poor kid that had to play Stalker on an nvidia 5500 on release I can say you're full of shit if you think static lighting is better or nostalgic in any way. DX9 with full lighting was always better.
>>547790879As a poor kid that had to play Stalker on the Atari 2600 on release I can say you're full of shit if you think DX9 is more nostalgic in any way. static lighting was always better.
>>547766464The Iron Forest is just the Iron Forest anomaly area from Call of Pripyat but expanded. The old leaked dev map even had the crashed stingray helicopter and workshops from CoP there.
>>547793827>not playing stalker on the speccyI can say you're full of shit if you think static is more nostalgic in any way. Full lighting was always better.
>>547797398NUH UHHHH
>>547795601Feels strange it’s so close to CNPP now
