Clear Sky 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 >>552153981
Was it worth it?
>>553017564yes
>>553017564no
maybe
>>553017403https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57q7nP1ie4sStill can't believe this didn't appear in Stalker 2 somewhere.Was it composed by a Russian by any chance?
>>553022948This wiki says it was made by Omelchuk, so it's not the nationality that was the problem. https://stalker.fandom.com/ru/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_%D0%A7%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B5_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BE/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA/%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B8
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1948?tab=descriptionGorebros...
TOTALBURERDEATH
I'm fighting the urge to play OLR 3.0 because i know i will regret it.Unless they remove the retarded economy and weight system.
>want to play STALKER SoC>could play it on my couch on Xbox and be comfy>but want ZRP and would have to sit at my desk on PCI suffer. Fucking shame I can't mod the Xbox version with ZRP.
>>553043934
>>553048542lmao I hate these little fuckers so much
>>553043934Absolutely miserable to "fight" in stalker 2 unless you kill them instantly.
>>553047393you can just stream the game to your tv using your phone as a steam link-like device afaik.
>>553052829nta but there are a million ways he could do it; he's too technically incompetent or lazy to do so if he doesn't already have one set up
Either I don't get hurt at all or I get hit once and knocked down and killed on the ground from full health, there is no in in between with the big mutants in this fucking game.If a knockdown attack puts me on the ground long enough that they just keep attacking me until I die it might as well have just did enough damage to kill me instantly and skipped that stupid song and dance in the first place.
>>553052930I'm pretty schizo about networking shit, apps, programs and don't trust any of it. My PC is offline and uses GOG games.
>>553052939Stalker 2 should have given the player a side step move. Fighting melee mutants feels so clunks.
>>553053392You fear what you don't understand. Take a few hours to learn some basics.
>>553054298>You fear what you don't understandFair. I understand some networking to a point, but not so much the local stuff. In my mind, anything on the router, even if local, can be seen online by who knows. I'm kinda retarded with it but I'm a paranoid schizo.
>>553017403the most unrealistic part about the games is the fact nobody develops some form of serious cancer from being in the still largely irradiated hellscape that is the zone
Replying to the stalker in the last thread who asked about LFO and Dead Air.>>552987940Playing LFO now. Can think of it as an "extension" to base CS with extra maps + expanded and redecorated vanilla maps (for example, Cordon is about 50% bigger and has new buildings and points of interest). Tons of settings you can toggle on and off including weather presets which add things like frostbite, ice, aurora borealis, etc. Gun customization is a bit more deep. Shotguns are now viable. New and reworked artifacts. Enemies are insanely accurate and deadly which make some parts very unfun. It does crash a lot and the translations for new dialogue are bad. Freeplay is now available at the end of the story but the a-life is a bit one-dimensional compared to dedicated freeplay mods. Still, they put a lot of effort into this mod and it's some of the most fun I've had playing CS.Dead air is what I would recommend to people who are looking for their first freeplay mod, or for people who want a very polished "unpack and play" freeplay experience. It has a unique flavor - you just have to try it and see for yourself. I found it to be very tasteful compared to things like Anomaly which need a bit of tweaking and addons. Highly immersive right from the start, and good for ironman runs due to the build stability and difficulty level (hard but not unfair).
>>553059646Does LFO solve the issue of CS taking for fucking ever to run around and you run out of stamina in like 10 seconds?
>>553060602you could solve this in 3 minutes with notepad
>>553060602Your stamina bar lasts longer (maybe 2-3x) but it refills about the same rate and you will need to sleep every once in a while or else you will be unable to run at all. So kind of but not really. You can't sprint 100% of the time if that's what you want, but there are artifacts that will get you close to that.
>>553055175Cancer takes years to develop even when exposed to a ton of radiation. Bullets and mutants kill you in seconds. For reference, a dosage of radiation that will give you burns and make you sick as a dog will only increase your lifetime risk of fatal cancer by ~10%. Distribute that among say 40 years and that's only a ~.25% increased chance of terminal cancer a year (all assuming linearity).With ~1000 people in the Zone, that's 2 or 3 people a year dying of cancer they contracted from the Zone. There's probably more that shit themselves to death because they ate raw mutant flesh.
>>553059646>>553061441Looks cool. Shame that it's Clear Sky.
Who did this? Why?
>>553068152sometimes you come across like a boobytrapped railway watch house and think "ah sweet, must be some good loot in there" and its a piece of bread
>>553068152Someone with a lot of hate in their heart. Killing your enemies? Fine. Crippling them in a place like the Zone? Next level sadist shit.
>>553068563>>553068546It's more that this is at the end of the SIRCAA facility.Someone randomly set up like 10 shotgun and grenade tripwires in an actively used science facility warehouse.
>>553069974Isn't that after shit already went wrong and Monolithians started assaulting the facility? Like, you see a firefight between them and some Bapta in the very room you go through to get to that area. Wouldn't be strange to assume either of those parties set them up.
>>553073279Whoever did that had like 10 minutes to climb over shit and hang off ledges to set up all the tripwires and attach shotguns to the underside of walkways 15 feet off the ground, probably less because they would have had to do it before the warehouse flooded and the water became electrified.At most one or two grenade tripwires would have made sense, don't know where they even got sawn off double barrel shotguns in SIRCAA in the first place.
>>553052939I’ve never played any stalker games but why does that dog have so much health?
>>5530778361. It's stalker 2, all the mutants are super tanky.2. That's not a dog, it's a chimera, one of the mutant apex predators of the zone. It's about the size of a bear and arguably the second most dangerous thing you can encounter.
Ended up trying Oblivion Lost remake; not super impressed, feels very much like an early access stalker (which, I guess it is); very sparse and open areas with absolutely nothing going on in them.
>>553088557For me it was an unforgettable experience, the "what could have been" of what we got, but still it's very flawed, being done by a small russian dev group and the balance is all over the place, the reason there's very little things or stalkers is that otherwise would cause a million crashes ( like OLR 3.0).Once you know how to get rich is a true power fantasy, the M-134 and gauss rifle will make you feel unstoppable.
>>553096102How is Lost Alpha in comparison to the emptiness? I'm hungry for more stalker experience but I've played the fuck out of all 3 base games and Anomaly, along with TRUE STALKER
>IWP crashes>wangblows immediately deletes xrCryRayAPI.dll>not even in quarantineGo fuck yourself what the shit
>not whitelisting our shit or turning off your AVbruhI went through the same shit with gunslinger until I turned off win defender while playing.
>>553096693I played a shitload of the previous version and quite a lot already of this new one already. And by no means was this the first crash. Just utterly baffled this pice of garbage decided to pull this shit after hundreds of hours.
>>553052939Seems realistic to me, chud.Do you seriously think a human would win in an open fight with something the size of a bear but 5 times faster?
>>553097184well, good luck finishing
I feel like I should just get a mod that removes these at this point. Does that exist?
Hunting for arch-artifacts is fun. I got some of their effects spoiled, but it's still not obvious what you need to do to actually grab one.Also do I use Weird Water or Thunderberry?
>>553103640both
>survivalNot faked>priceFree>immersionAchieved
>>553106391>childlost
>>553106391>french dickSucked
>>553102204They still haven't done anything with these? There's a place that has 2 overlapping areas of this shit where you have to look for some PDA or some shit, making it impossible to actually explore without taking damage.
I love stalker. Inject stalker into my veins.
>>553096526Never played lost alpha so i can't tell you, i should get it.
>on a quest that takes me to agroprom underground>know to expect at least a bloodsucker and a controller>only just started a bit ago so I only have a sawn-off and .45 revolver>buy slugs with the little money I have and some bandages>go underground>get past the bandits, ready for the bloodsucker>slow approach, hear bloodsucker noises but it hasn't heard me yet>vision starts changing color and getting blurry>then a burer AND a bloodsucker dart by the opening into the hallway>pretty sure I'm gonna die because the burer will just yoink my gun and the bloodsucker will OHK me right after>take a chance and hope I can pop one if they dart by the door again>see a figure dart across the doorway and take my shot>One slug kills both the bloodsucker and the burer because they happened to both cross my sights at the same time and it went through one and killed the otherI got really lucky and am really glad I went with the slugs instead of buckshot. I know the buckshot might have been better for blasting a bloodsucker as it's about to pounce on you, but I just had a feeling I'd need the slugs for some reason.
>>553113140what kind of piss easy baby settings do you have where that's possible
Since I hate myself and the only relief is suffering in video games is misery the go-to hard mode mod for the series still? I'm looking for something hard but at least making attempt at being fair rather than "lol invisible undetectable instant death anomalies hope you quicksave every 30 steps".
>>553022948Why are you so desperate to be a victim? Not bringing back the cheeki breeki meme song is hardly a thing to sperg about.>>553068152>>553073836Considering it's an abandoned, unused section of the facility, Ward probably set up some traps to deal with anyone who somehow gets past the rusty questlocked entrance and tries to sneak in. Remember, SIRCAA is canonically built on top of some abandoned X project facility.
>>553115786It's been a while since I played misery but iirc the only real bullshit mechanic to me was the psy-fields generated by poltergeists, controllers etc. They will sometimes lead to unavoidable deaths because they will kill you very quickly through walls. One time I was underground in a tunnel early game and a poltergeist passed over me and kept killing me every time I reloaded the save. At that point I couldn't afford psy-block or a better suit so it felt like a severe balance issue. Other than that I'd say the difficulty is manageable if you are extremely careful 100% of the time.
These Stories Untold quests are buggy as hell. Was the whole game like this on release?
>at the aspera aspra whatever mission>say screw it and just explore the map>massive radiation wall at JupiterREALLY??
PDA leaderboard and free play will be so good in Stalker 2
>>553129202how will freeplay add to the empty map that has literally nothing>some bloodsuckers here>some glass anomalies there
>>553129427I am such an ESL :(
>>553106391based
>>553053683They should've also gave you a perfect dodge that gives you 2x bullet damage for 10 seconds, a knife parry system like the RE4 remake, double jumps, air dashes, command grabs, FADCs, Roman Cancels, and Astral Finishes.
>>553134627Imagine pseudogiants but with Potemkin Buster.
>>553102204player error, clearly.
>>553106391yeah thank god for anomaly and all the modders
Stalker always gave you everything you need>ran out of ammo? pick up a dead guys gun and use it>an enemy just threw a grenade? start running>a pack of dogs is chasing you? get up on a rock or climb a ladder>keep getting irradiated or anomalies kill you in one shot? get better armor and/or equip better artifacts>enemies are getting harder to kill? git gud
>>553138175>"git gud">look inside>retarded super bullet mechanic
ironman is not fair.
protip: life is not fair.
>>553102204in the swamp area theres a stash at some shed that has these flash bang anomalies going off inside the building leading up to the stash in the attic. i just gave up and the stash probably has some shit i dont even need
>>553147323That stash has a gauss rifle and exoskeleton in it.
AAA could NEVER make this SINGLEPLAYER SURVIVAL game
>>553149924It doesn’t fake survival!
>>553149924>Almost 500k views after a monthI really hate people
>>553149924youtube's retarded algo requires clickbait video titles, in other news water is wet
>>553150357It's a clickbait video so it fits.
>>553149924fuck off shill
>>553149924Is he wrong though? I can't think of any other AAA single player focused games from the last few years.
>>553156089thread spergs will sperg and mouth meme phrases but they will never actually bring up a legitimate argument on this matter because at the end of the day there's a reason gamma is the most popular way to play stalker right now
>unapologetic gamma posters>unapologetic stalker 2 posters>unapologetic clear sky posters>unapologetic youtube postersnuke sg
>sign out of gmail>FLASHBANG.MP4gee thanksmulti-billion dollar company btw
>>553156770*instinctively scrolls mouse wheel*
>>553156770>immediately spergs when called outel mao
>>553156770>nooo you can't like the most recent official release in the series
>>553156770>his toaster can't run S2lol
>>553157129
>>553156089Because there were like 10-20 single player AAA focused games total in the last few years. They are not that common, so lots of genres are not represented.
>>553156770>attention whoring ISW posterlmao
I played stalker 2. Fun was had. I've been advised i'm worse than hitler.Okay that last bit might be because I still shoot freedom on sight but still.
>>553160113its IWP!!you come to our house... you get MY WIFE'S NAME RIGHT!!
>>553160532I'm told it's actually fairly decent now. I might even believe it. But I refuse to give it the time of day on principle, like I did with 2077. It should've been finished on release. No excuses.
>>553161827Your loss dude. The original STALKER games also had issues with being unfinished and I don't see you bitching about that.>unfinished game gets released and left alone:D>unfinished game gets released and has patches later:(
>>553162338old good new bad
>>553162338Shadow of chornobyl was rushed due to time contstraints, not unfinished, and it had patches, but it needed more tho because of how fucky the x-ray engine is.S2 had no excuses, all they had to do was just not switch to UE5 and we would have no problems.
>>553162798>S2 has no excusesLike everything today, investors wanted it out and didn't allow enough time. They're plague on the industry and are why unfinished games are so common now.
>>553162798>just don't use the only engine your new team will know how to use because the old engine is 20 years old and made of dried russian pirogi nobody understands You're right, they should've used Unity.
>>553162798>chornobylAEUUUUGH I'M CHOOOOORNING WAIT WHAT IS THAT OH GOD NO IT'S SOMETHING BUILT BY RUZZZIA I MUST CHOOOOORN AND DEMOLISH IT ERASE FROM MEMORY EUUUUGH I'M CHOOORNING
>>553162798>and it had patchesBug fixes only though, while Heart of Chernobyl has been getting the missing mechanics put in. I guess you wouldn't complain then if they just never finished it and only did bugfixes like the old days huh?
>>553162798>rushed due to time constraintslol; shadow of chernobyl suffered a lot of the same issues that 2 did during development, which was feature creep and not knowing how to say no to something.THQ had to send a guy down to GSC to basically tard wrangle them so that the game would actually release at all.
>>553164045Wasn't the guy from THQ one of the dudes who ended up founding 4A Games?
>>553164082SoC was busted and unfinished in a different way to S2. It felt like authentic small studio jank. S2 feels like corposloppo.That said I don't have any particular love for SoC, CoP is the best of the original trilogy in terms of completeness.
>>553164082I love this review so much.
>>553164239>S2 feels like corposloppoOnly because it's new. The bugs, the issues with writing, the voice acting etc are classic jank but with a new coat of paint.
>>553164220I think so; I went googling to re-read the article out of interesthttps://www.eurogamer.net/dean-sharpe-sent-to-save-stalker
>>553164256The more things change the more they stay the same. Just change the dates and this would almost be pasta of the first one.
>>553164591>complains about shit that is everywhere in the old games that he lovesIt's amazing how little self awareness some people have.
>>553164393No, not because S2 is new. It's actually the other way around, because GSC was new when they made SoC.
>>553164930They're also new now, the original company shutdown and a lot of people there now weren't on the old team or were even old enough to play the original games. Only a few of the OG people came back.
>>553164789no you see stalker 2 is totally different and bad
>>553166102Jokes aside a stalker rpg would be great, there's a lot of untapped potential there.
>>553164082Dear Alex, Welcome to the game, you're playing it. it's not holding your hand.you're going to have to use your brain to figure things out, mkay sweetie?
>>553164591To be fair to Umbrostar, the expectations were rightfully much higher for S2.
>>553168060I think they autism requirement would be too high. I forget which mod it is but you essentially need to find every nail and bolt to do any attachments or repairs.
>>553166102I do agree that the setting of stalker is shit. Post apocalyptic Easter European settings are just so fucking boring. And not in a good way. I get they’re supposed to be “bleak and depressing” in a “good way”, but they’re just BORING.
Do you ever get to go into the Duga base as Spark? I just finished the night attack on the base and now I get instakilled by invincible snipers if I get too close. But there's a suit upgrade I want from inside.
>>553172648You do go there but it is locked behind a story mission. Once the mission happens you can go back.
>>553172863Ah that's not so bad then. I was worried because you seem to get permanently locked out of several other Ward bases if you go Spark.
>>553169794to you.
>>553161827I'd say I'm having a mildly worse time playing stalker 2 than the first time I played clear sky, which was my least favorite of the original three.It still needs a lot more dev time, the modding scene obviously also needs time to catch up to the stuff the older games have.
>>553175628I doubt that, the start of CS is an absolute slog compared to STALKER 2 and I was one of the few that unironically enjoyed CS and the faction war system.
>>553175776NTA but I think I agree with him. CS still has that fun core STALKER gameplay even though it has several parts that are awful to play through. 2 has issues that aren't a problem in any of the x-ray games that will bother you the whole game, and I'm not just talking about engine issues.
>>553175776>unironically enjoyed CS and the faction war systemSo did I. It was my least favorite, I didn't dislike it.
>>553176163Yeah it's my least favorite of the games, but I still like it. It still feels pretty rushed and fast though, so I can see why some people say it's more like a SoC DLC than a full game.
>>553162798>not unfinishedNigger I beat STALKER when it was 1.0 on release and that shit was buggy and unfinished. You had to use console commands to noclip through shit when doors wouldn't open when they were supposed to. I still have my physical CD around here somewhere. These games became popular IN SPITE of the jank. STALKER SOC was considered vaporware, bro. It had been in development for like 9 years or something. I remember tracking it from Filefront in like 2004 and got hyped when THQ finally announced a release date. The game really didn't reach a stable state until 1.004, and even now the game can still be finicky.
>>553178395
>>553178721Call of Pripyat was a steam purchase.
>>553156770>IWPchad is back
>>553178721>tfw only have SoC and CoP on disc but not CSMy desktop also doesn't even have a disc drive anymore so they jut sit on the shelf now. It was nice of GOG to give me the games for free since I had the disc keys though, very based.
>>553156770>>553179068nice samefagging retardinb4 screenshot with one of the (You)s inspect element edited out
>>553179275When CoP came out it wasn't in my town in the US so I had to buy it on steam to play it on release.
>>553182118get off my dick, schizo. I just want to see IWPanons weapon edits get released someday
>>553185797
>>553187405Damn, you fucking got me
>>553182118>>553185797>>553187405le trolled
Wasn't expecting to see one of these.
>>553191261wat is?
>>553193823An ISU-152, a soviet assault gun from the second world war.
>>553194441>S*viet
>>553191261>>553194441intredastinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISU-152
>>553183957I avoided Steam for years and just bought discs kek. I tried to get GTA V on disc too but that was really rare and it wasn't really worth it anyway. It's nice to have a display of boxed games, I remember how hyped I was to get FEAR since it came with a bonus DVD and also a mini comic book.
>>553115786Oh also snorks will one-shot you for most of the game and there's a lot of snorks. Bloodsuckers to a lesser extent. It can get quite frustrating especially on that one mission in Zaton.
Roundhouse kick homeless people into the concrete.
Burers did nothing wrong.
>>553164082>yellow paint enjoyer
>>553201224Were they still releasing big box versions of games when Shadow of Chernobyl came out? Or was that already long over with? I would love to have a nice physical copy some day, but would prefer big box if it exists.
>>553206202Mine is in a standard DVD case, so I think that was around the time they moved away from big box, as I have some other games from the same time period like GTA IV and Crysis that are also in standard DVD cases.FEAR is big box though and is really nice and tat was 2005, so I guess 2006 or 2007 is when big box was mostly gone.
>>553208020Oh ok thanks. Did your copy of SoC come with the Radiation Bonus Disc?
>>553208820No, mine just has the game and the manual, nothing else. Same with CoP. I think the bonus DVD one was a special Euro release or something, Euros got some interesting versions of the games such as a version of CoP that comes with a lighter and other weird shit.
>>553191261pretty cool, True Meme also had one in Garbage I think
Been burning through a bunch of the stalker standalone mods; current one that's piqued me has been Winds of Time. Any thoughts on that one?
>>553217038Kino, although shotguns are unusually shit against mutants for whatever reason
>>553162798>Shadow of chornobyl was rushed due to time contstraints, not unfinished, and it had patches, but it needed more tho because of how fucky the x-ray engine is.Cope harder, retard. Game was in development for years without anything to show.Also>chornobyl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWwpojXr8e8https://pastebin.com/JriWMsm2
I'mma plant some potatoes in the Cordon and then I'll harvest them and sell distilled vodka to the rookies and the grunts at the checkpoint. Yeeup. I'll make myself a nice little life in some shack there, and hunt for the occasional boar to get me some game meat. Just one more raid and then I'll have the funds to start all over.
>>553228594Based farmville gamer.
>>553164082The Modern Audience™
>>553185797>>553187405>>553190595>they don't doctor (You)s with paint.net>>553205204>>553206339>GAMMA
>>553224027Looks really good but it darkens my game too much for some reason.
>>553232943try r.EyeAdaptation.LensAttenuation = 0.1 (or higher)You could comment out ; r.SkylightIntensityMultiplier ; r.Color.Mid = 0.44
>>553228594That would be risky, Sidorovich doesn't like competition on the market, and you would be in his territory.
>>553240275implying Sid wouldn't be the biggest customer, the fat fuck
>>553224027>video is 60FPS>game is 25FPS
>>553244554Oh wait>with frameganO I AM LAFFIN
>>553244554>>553244730
>>553231106>didnt pay attention to the posts
Doing x16 in gamma and it's the most CBT experience I've had in gaming aside from like the pathfinder kingmaker finale
>>553234501That didn't fix it. It's probably something to do with the weather mod I have installed since I think it adjusts curves. Also the dynamic flash light shadows have a lot of noise using these settings>>553244554>>553244730I can get it to run at 140fps (with framegen) with FSR4 quality on my 7900xtx.
>>553169794Bait post but stalker would quite literally just be tacticool fallout were it not for the setting.
>>553164591I can understand any complaint, but saying gunplay in S2 is worse than in the original is a sign of progressing dementia. I dare to find a game with less accurate weapons than in SoC.
the only thing protecting me from falling down the kwamahole of morrowing modding is the fact i feel the need to have the gamma mo2 instance open at all times and can't figure out how to have two mo2 instaces open simultaneously
>>553162798Holy fuck you're stupid. Wrong all around. SOC was absolutely unfinished. Entire sections were cut out, with traces of them still left in the normally accessible in-game content. Even the starting game tutorial is missing despite being 100% complete. What is with zoomers and lying out their asses no matter how obviously, objectively wrong they are?
>>553264627>the starting game tutorial is missing despite being 100% completeThere's another tutorial?
>>553224027Opinion discarded.>2022+4>still no hardware lumen option
>>553265073Yes. Some mods restore it. Most of it was never dubbed, but some elements, the ones that still technically run, did. The anomaly pit north of the rookie village? The rookies are meant to not allow you into the village because they don't trust you, having come off the death truck with a mark and all. So as part of the cut tutorial, you're meant to go into that artifact pit and get a Jellyfish artifact, then bring it back to the village. The part of this that still exists and runs is the scripted flesh running into a whirlygig and Sidorovich calling you on the radio to warn you about anomalies.There's also saving Tolik. Most of his part of the tutorial is still in the game, but the actual effects of it were cut. The bit where he says he'll tell everyone at the camp that you're alright, it was supposed to trigger a part of a script that made the rookies in the village consider you trustworthy and thus able to enter the village and mingle with the others. Instead he just runs back and hangs out, never says anything, and you're free to enter the camp the second you leave Sid's bunker.
Scar: bro please just sprint halfway across the map one more time bro trust me please itll be fun i promise im not making you run to a cool backdrop so i can give you 3 lines of dialogue and another mission to run halfway across the map
>>553265543Got a YT video of this? I'm pretty curious to see it.
>>553262167All the cool new morrowind mods are on openmw and you don't need MO2 for it.
>>553265779ugh fuck i need to learn ANOTHER mod manager? brb kms
>>553265970Openmw isn't a manager. Install the shit manually you pleb.
>looking at iwp addons>see war nymph>thinking its female companion>see commentsstalkers, explain yourselves.
>>553267206Bunch of pipe workers, looks like.
>>553265668https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu7fH9niwiYThis might have it. It at least goes through some of the steps the tutorial would cover. I forget which build actually had it implemented, given how many there are and how different each are.
>>553267206never understood this type of thinkingnot for mmos not for shootersit's hard to imagine there is a cohort of the population with such lackluster mental virtualization that they can't even imagine not automatically self-inserting, no conception of separation between themselves and fictitious characters, just sad
stalker 3 when
>>553276023Probably not for another 10 years or more.
>>553276023In 2009
>>553277083CS and CoP were overpriced DLCs. Anyone who considers them sequels is just as delusional as GSC.
when is 2 getting dlc anyway?
>>553277660https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGCyheenC7U
>>553267756>2004Just what the fuck were they doing for 3 more years?
>>553281108jerking off and fucking around with shit that never ended up being finished enough to get shoved into SoC or either of its sequels
any gamma torrent?
>>553281108Sergey is a terrible boss, he wasted the budget on used sport cars for once, and god knows what else.They had to send a fucking californian to wrangle them ffs.
>>553281832I genuinely believe GSC would have never closed down and would be a major studio today if Sergey crashed in his faggot ass BMW and fucking died in like 2005
>>553281832Dean Sharpe was the reason we got Stalker in 2007. Those idiots would've kept adding more shit to the game without setting a goal and clearing objectives. Typical developer hell. This happens way more than anybody realizes.
>>553281108You know they started making stalker in '99 right? That's why X-ray has dx8 rendering, and 9, and 10. And technically 11 but that was done by modders. It was considered vaporware, like Duke Nukem Forever, people thought it was never going to come out.
>>553281832>>553285404and they had the audacity to not like him.like holy fuck wake up bitch he's there to save your asses.
>>553285809The Protestant work ethic is a foreign concept to slavs.
>>553277793>nothing
To think stalker 2 is is still less finished than the unfinished version of soc that was actually released
>>553287539Did we ever find out why they decided to switch to UE5 after working on it using UE4? I would like to know the reasoning for that decision.
>>553288058I think UE5 probably had a better dev kit which meant less time spent doing shit themselves, and Microsoft probably pushed them to move to a new engine since they were publishing it and wanted it to at least "look" like a AAA game using the latest engine. I'm sad their X-ray 2 engine died in 2012. I think it was also a missed opportunity, granted GSC would never be humble enough to do this, to ask 4A to use their metro engine which totally wasn't based off of x-ray engine by former GSC devs.
>>553291310>Microsoft probably pushed them to move to a new engine since they were publishing it and wanted it to at least "look" like a AAA gameI think this is very likely. Fooking Microslop. I really hate them.
>>553291310Is the metro engine even optimized for open world games? I've only played the original but it wasn't very open at all.
>>553293416Exodus ran really well and it had maps similar to the OG trilogy in size. Whether it could do all that AND have a-life is something else entirely.
stalker but it's medieval
>>553296848Stalker but set in the southern US.
>>553267738would that be pronounced as "mlyaaaaa" or "mlyayayayaya"?
>>553277660If I had to guess, probably 6 months.
They add all these new guns to stalker 2 but they abandoned the IL 86 and obokan?
>>553156770
new to stalker series and have been enjoying 2 so far but i find the lack of mutant variety disappointing. theres def no shortage of things that can kill you with anomalies and people in various states of mental illness but wouldve liked more interesting mutants.did they have more in the trilogy that they didnt bring to 2?
>>553309693There are some cut mutants from the original trilogy. I actually thought they'd maybe include them this time around but that didn't happen for some reason.
>>553309898hope theyll add them in the dlc
>>553310302Always a chance. An out of bounds lab was found in the game files underneath the cooling towers when it first came out, so maybe some things will happen. It's also not some load zone either, it has an entry that is covered by a pool of water and is locked.
>>553156770>smooth zoom scopes Why is this shit still a thing? Why has no one made animations for switching the lenses yet?
>>553310302>cenoblyat
>>553301836https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBLdQ1a4-JI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1g3gKTSnWE&t=1331s the video with English voiceover will be coming a bit later
>>553311543fucking jewtube changes its layout again, fucking up the embeds volume control
>>553310560because even if the engine supported it, I'm not fucking making them. suck my fetid asshole
sdalgers
veterans and hunters
>>553327738I wish
>>553327738Can't the monomemes just pull the switch up? Wouldn't that reactivate the scorcher?
>>553052939My brother, get some 'nades
>>553328017You want to throw grenades at the chimera constantly jumping and running around that spends at least half of the time in your face?
>>553328017He played that encounter perfectly. You always use environmental objects to your advantage. But yeah, lobbing a grenade at it's lair first would have definitely helped.
>>5532939544A also isn't run by an idiot.
>>553327991They're not smart enough to pull a lever
>>553319709Not very ambitious for a modder.
>>553327991Probably a little more complicated that that.
>>553293954All of the open-ended maps had a nesting Demon and most of the map location enemies and mutant encounters varied wildly between night and day cycles. I doubt it would be impossible to implement because 4A is proprietary and isn't basically cobbled together from UE5 pre-fabs and engine architecture. My biggest gripe with Exodus is combining a little too much of the narrative maps to the more open-ended maps. The latter half of the game is egregious in that sense, while the first 1/3rd with Volga and the Caspian really steal the show.
>>553327991The lever is on a control panel next to some kind of core. On the opposite side there's a second core, and if you look down, you'll see something that looks like lava at the bottom. I believe it's supposed to show that the Scorcher's operating system is already damaged because one of the cores melted, and Strelok actually turned off the other core's cooling system, which caused irreversible damage and disabled the Scorcher for good.
Forget everything positive I said about LFO. It has the worst gunplay I've ever seen in a STALKER mod - worse than A.R.E.A. I had to give up at the CNPP because reloading a save causes Strelok to despawn permanently. You couldn't beat that section in one go with an aimbot. If someone could take the reworked maps and put them into an actually decent mod, there would be no reason for anyone to play LFO.
>>553333482That's too bad. Looks awesome.
>>553318737I remember subbing to this channel and even ringing the bell.BUT WHEN I CLICKED ON THE LINK IT SHOWED THAT I WAS NOT SUBSCRIBEDholy fuck. youtube actually unsubs you from shit.
>>553333482>because reloading a save causes Strelok to despawn permanentlylmao, is this how they tried to fix save-load abuse in CNPP?
>>553333482>>553340091The easiest abuse is turning down the difficulty level to novice, you deal way more damage to Strelok's psi protection then, to the point that you don't even have to move from the spawn point because it's possible to deplete it before he gets to the first teleport, and you can avoid all the combat with Monolith. Is it still possible to do in LFO?
>>553139110fucking thismy first experience with early game soc was so dogshit because i wasnt expecting shooting mechanics to be this deranged>okay it seems my SMG's accuracy is pretty decent when holding click>try to spray at the head of this enemy and then keep holding the button into the head of the other enemy-> they seemingly dont fucking die even if my bullets are landing>try to repeatedly tap instead>sucks dick if done too fast>"hm, maybe its innacuracy, let me test out bodyshots">magdump 20 rounds into the chest of an enemy and they dont diethe moment you realise all you have to do is periodically burst at the head, the game becomes real triviallike seriously what the fuck were they thinking>if you go to a lategame enemy with an early game gun, shoot once in the chest, wait, repeat 7 times, the enemy dies>if you magdump it takes 40 bullets instead
>>553346964Definitely don't play AMK mod then. Basic bitch bandits with a Viper will kill you even when you're wearing an exo or military armored suit.
>>553346964>like seriously what the fuck were they thinkingthe minds of slavic game designers work in mysterious ways.
>>553333482The gunplay can't be worse than oblivion lost.>>553346964I suspect they wanted to make stalker a shooter rpg a la fallout 3 or new vegas, but they gave up half way through and instead they made hybrid gunplay that feels really clunky because it can't commit to both.
>noo you cant just sneak into pripyat before we tell you chudhow is this acceptable in stalker 2
>>553351258From the major areas, it's mostly just Wild Island (and successive maps), Cordon and Pripyat that are completely walled off in a nonsense way from normal player progression. The rest of the major areas are pretty much accessible once you ditch the Lesser Zone. I'm more livid that in terms of world population and progression, so much is gated behind SIRCAA, which makes everything up until that point just a complete tourist theme park of unlocking locations in terms of the of the first half of the game.
lmao the sound he made
>>553352239>world population and progressionCould you please elaborate? I remember some guy talking about Monolith being added to the spawn pool, but there must be something more.
>>553352696Mainstay is the Monolith and generally the world state just changing, like there being certain events in specific areas of the map that enables Zombie spawns (Lesser Zone) and most of the lair behaviour for mutants changing across the board. This is most visible through your last hours in the game and generally a save that's pretty much just shy of completing "Let No One Leave Unsatisfied" has most of the map enabled in ways where you're likely to see more conflict on maps or run into more conflict in areas you've visited previously. When you practically trip around the Zone before you've visited the Swamps, there isn't any kind of curve in terms of difficulty and although there are some mods that fix it by introducing higher difficulty spawns in certain areas, generally tripping through something like Red Forest or Duga is similar to strolling around the Lesser Zone for most of the first half of the game.
>>553353671I see, gating story progression by introducing what essentially is level scaling definitely isn't the best solution for everyone. That said, I don't think the problem with sequence breaking the game is really possible to solve perfectly in open world games. It's either level scaling or gating content away. Even Kingdom Come that generally does not have level scaling introduced stronger enemies to the spawn pool.
>>553352259It was the Wilhelm Scream wasn't it?
>>553352259>>553354957https://youtu.be/iJq0iXOwb9Y?si=E4n_ONiBik9y62IJ&t=19
>>553333482if you're basing everything off cnpp being very tough, fucking lol.that area is buggy(not because lfo), when you reload, sometimes strelok spawns under the bridges and just stands on the ground below, where you can snipe him.
>>553333482also it would be much easier to adjust the gunplay or ai accuracy
>>553330627I see your grade school psychology, but fyi, there is nothing ambitious about adding that stupid shit.
>>553357113Fun fact: you can save Tarhiel with levitate. He does not appreciate it.
>>553353671But why would you want difficult random encounters on the map? Travel in this game is absolutely awful as is. Probably 1/3 of my playtime has been spent mindlessly sprinting through areas that I've already squeezed all the fun out of.
>>553330707always hated that stupid haha no stamped steel dust cover shityou mean to tell me nobody can be fucked to bash together a dust cover for their rifle if they're gonna be using it out in the field?bullshit. it just looks stupidI can bang one out in my garage with scraps in 20-30 minutes
>>553371301Or feather
report all known cases of stalking to the authorities
>>553379574Fuck off spetnaz
Some of these higher level artifact transmutations in AMK are driving me nuts. 3x 10 hour waits and 3 failures. Good thing I found a quiet spot to keep trying though.
>>553383982I don't think I ever bothered with any of that stuff because it felt too autistic. Are the buffs even worth the hassle?
>>553385669Some of them definitely are. High radiation absorption and high endurance on Electric Porcupine. I just got Tears of Chimera earlier today with 45% psi resistance, so it'll make controller encounters less risky.
>>553352239nvm I literally jumped the fence to Jupiter region, busted some monolith nest for a FREE diamond exosuit, and I got the m701 for FREE, besides all the other guns, absolutely worth it
>>553383982>>553386264Well after many tries and basically the entire afternoon I got the Fervent Crystal.+600% health regen like the standard Soul, but with -30 radiation and +16 endurance. No downsides at all.
>>553383982>>553386264I haven't played this mod but I assume it's not supposed to actually be just AFK next to it, right? Like you drop it off then come back later.I saw a lot of people complain about a similar mechanic (taming) in ARK: Survival Evolved, but they were quite literally just doing it wrong.
>>553397679I'm not actually certain either way, but since NPCs actively do looting in this, I want to make sure somebody else doesn't grab it once it pops out of the anomaly.
>>553351258How was it acceptable in SoC?
>>5531578349800x3d and 7900xtx here, S2 is gay
>>553403951>AMD
>>553354893>I see, gating story progression by introducing what essentially is level scaling definitely isn't the best solution for everyone. This is an FPS, not a JRPG, it's impossible to gate story progression by stronger enemies you can't defeat. Also, you get a free sniper rifle from Strider, so the game makes sure you get at least some weapon that can kill exos even if you do 0 exploration.
>>553352259>>553354957>>553357113https://streamable.com/9miph0
>>553392372Every possible gap in the fence I found was filled with instant kill radiation.
I want to strangle whoever did the lisovyi bunker.
A gauss rifle was the last thing I was expecting to get out of that quest.
>>553430287The collars quest? It was a nice surprise but the first time I did it was near the end of the game anyway, and I'd already been sneaking into Pripyat like a true STALKER in-spite of the devs efforts to stop us.
>>553413536https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1p67i72/17_skip_from_yaniv_to_prypyat/here, doesn't even have radiation, near the yAVIN BASE
>>553431871Pisses me off that they keep patching it.
>>553432115well this one is not patched
>>553432301For now. Those bitches will remove it in the next patch, they removed the other 3 ways I knew of.
Anyone played Winds of Time and know how to do the early side quests? I have like two to find missing stalkers in the red forest and also a 'choice' to help mercs or duty for information Stuck on the first two and unsure of who to align with in the latter.
>>553231106>blueballing me with that full size SG 550 and with the proper G36 in the pastwill you ever release those edits someday? It would be greatly appreciated, anon
>>553430412Most of the story gated content seems kind of pointlessly restricted once monolith comes back, it doesn't really seem like there's a balance justification for it even in the early game as well.You can immediately rush some of the best weapons once you're out of the lesser zone and even with the best armors most of your damage resistance comes from artifacts, the best of which can be found at any time with luck anyway.
is this what pripyat is all about? luring bloodsuckers into snorks??
>>553354957>>553412304Yep, that's it
>>553442506Spoopy
Is Anomaly Custom any good?
>>553443324yes
>>553444992do you think you could expound on this statement a bit more
>>553442506watch out for rape midgets
>>553445637NOPE, HAVENT PLAYED IT
>do SIRCAA>game crashes at Slag Heap>load save prior to SIRCAA>Slag Heap no longer crashesWhatever happened to Slag Heap after the Ward fucked off is causing shit to crash and now I've lost motivation to finish the story.
>>553448090>try out some troubleshooting>instead of using a guide to Slag Heap I walk there>make a save outside the south entrance>go inside and towards my stash>game crashes once inside>google some shit>someone suggests turning off frame gen in a result>just decide to set graphics to lowest and turn off upscaling and frame gen>walk into Slag Heap>no crash>huh.jpeg>turn graphics back to max>still no crash>turn on upscaling and framegen>still no crash>mfw
>>553450484the zone has given you fortune, best use it well stalker
>>553450484Slag Heap is a piece of shit when it comes to performance. If you're pushing your hardware to complete limit, all it takes is one NPC spawning in the wrong spot and launching a doodad into the geometry. Then the game just guts itself on the spot.
Gunslinger will never be finished will it?
>>553459196no
soc 2.0 this year?
imagine if they added more new mutants in stalker 2 instead of making bloodsuckers bullet sponges because they have to be "difficult" for the entire game
>>553463571git gud
>>553463879the quotes were meant to imply that i don't consider them to actually be difficult. that was clearly gsc's intent though
>>553463571To be fair bloodsuckers were complete pushovers in the original games, even though they're supposed to be among the most dangerous mutants in the zone.
I'm doing it
>>553463879I regularly kill multiple bloodsuckers at once because GSC decided kiting packs of bloodsuckers, that each need six buckshot to the chest and constantly make knockdown attacks with shitty gigantic hitboxes, around an obstacle is engaging gameplay.If I didn't have a saiga that could just immediately dump an entire mag of buckshot into my target, fighting mutants would be the most annoying part of this game, mutants are quite possibly the most botched feature of stalker 2.>>553463571They added some boring whimsical deer that just summons woodland creatures to nibble your ankles, it's also a bullet sponge.
>>553465287they're kind of pushovers in 2 as well, or annoyances rather. my point was that they had to make them bullet sponges because you're going to be shooting them throughout the entire game, with an AK in the tutorial and a Saiga in Pripyat. they could actually make them even more threatening if they didn't have to include a bloodsucker fight in the tutorial.
>>553465438welcome home
>>553466093They should just give them proper invisibility, and only make them visible briefly right before they attack. But you can maybe spot them by watching out of movements in foliage or sound, or by tactically positioning yourself so it can only come at you from one direction
>>553466069for me poltergeists are the worst because you can't instanuke them with the saiga or dodge their projectilesthe only mutant encounters i really enjoy in 2 are the scripted controller fights
>>553466434Well you can dodge their projectiles but doing so within a confined space that doesn't allow you room to sprint laterally relative to the projectile can make it really hard.Is it even a bug that poltergeist and burer telekinesis sends objects through walls? It seems stupid and annoying enough to be intentional.>scripted controller fightsPsi damage almost instantly spawning multiple "hallucinations" that immediately shoot you and do actual physical damage to you and your armor is fucking horrible.
>>553466134I literally look like this wtf
>>553466134Made me realize how much I want to be able to fuck around with computers in the zone. Not even sure what you'd use them for though
>>553467038my last controller encounter was in the bunker in red forest where you have to shoot through hordes of zombies while trying to avoid getting seen by the controller and then at the end you can just magdump it. that was fun, but yeah there are some horrible encounters toothose anomalies that spawn hallucinations are far worse imo because there's no clear indication that you're even hallucinating. the game spawns enemies on top of you all the time normally so it doesn't stand out that the enemies are coming out of nowhere, and like you said they do real damage
>>553467459Shouldn't PDAs be practically unusable due to the extremely radioactive areas stalkers constantly pass through? I feel like they'd need a lead shell as a case to not have their components permanently destroyed by gamma radiation constantly.
>>553467979They're built different
>>553467038The projectile objects going through walls is definitely a bug but obviously one they're not too bothered about because it's been there for months now I think.Bullets go through too, btw, so it effects even combat with humans.
>>553467318post drip i need inspo
How much do I have left of the campaign when I got the suppressor installed on my helmet in Rostok to fight Faust?
the stories of stalker 2 are just so mehsome dudes did some random stuff and some otehr dudes want to kill them for whatever reason, which side do you pick???
>>553471684You're a little more than halfway.
>>553466093There's nothing inherently wrong with the mutants in general. The problem is that some savant genius in GSC thought it would be absolutely amazing to have them work as the flushing toilet for the ammo economy, which is still useless because every ape even in this thread will just equip a Saiga and magically solve the issue with rapid fire buckshot to the face. I think most of the mutant rework mods solve the issue just fine as you'll end up with mutants that have specifically more dangerous damage and tweaked behaviour so you die real quick, but the mutants also have lower health so the only thing that matters isn't which weapon can spit the most pellets per minute. I think the most egregious reason some mutants can take so much punishment is also the split between armored health and normal health which is completely fucked on certain mutants (Burer and Marsh Bloodsuckers in general)
I hate these niggers like you wouldn't believe
>wandering zaton>fucking squint of all people is at the sawmill for some reason>he's a zombified >not one wiki has any info yet to cover why he's thereSo is it just giving the sensors to the ward back in lesser zone that causes it?
>>553472276>soc>some dudes are just sitting in a trash heap>some other dudes want to kill them for some reason>what side do you pick?????>either side abandons the place after a little bit anyway
>>553487082If it's post SIRCAA, it's his proximity to the Sphere
>>553486824They just want to chill in the underground.
>>553486824TBD
>>553487557I might have been bugged then. I haven't gotten to SIRCAA yet which in this run will be following Scar and attacking the place, hell I hadn't even done more in Zaton than find the ward corpses for Star by this point.
>>553487082the wiki is missing a lot of stuff
>>553488203Squint is kind of unique. After the factory (or if you side with Ward) he basically populates groups and roams the whole Zone as an NPC and he can meet his end in many places during firefights until Sawmill. He is one of the zombified stalkers in Scar's cutscene. If you let him be, he'll eventually also wind up back in the Lesser Zone and the area with the Windmill and can be among one of the many groups of zombies there.
>>553486824get out of their swamp
>>553488203>>553490416I have 60 hours in stalker but I don't care to know who scar, squint are or if they are related to previous gamesthe only actual character the franchise has are sidorovici and strelok
>>553494616Based lord of the lore.
>>553494616>sidoroviciyou must have been playing the Italian version of s.t.a.l.k.e.r.
>>553496337wait until you meet his twin brothers sidoroveni and sidorovidi
what a great loot farm
>>553468838I think bullets are meant to penetrate certain surfaces.
>>553487082It doesn't even look anything like the squint you meet previously, I don't know if it's supposed to be the same squint.
>>553435358I have not forgotten about you, anon. The SG550 and G36 will be delivered.
>>553498284he looks so peaceful now...
>>553490307it's weird, the game has been out for over a year, but the wiki is still lacking because not many care about writing shit down. the same goes for the russian wiki, it;s the biggest source of knowledge about the trilogy with articles covering stuff like the development backstory of side npcs, but no one cares about writing s2 articles.
>>553412304>>553352259lol they know what they're doing
>>553502026Similar to the TES wiki and ESO
what upscaler do you lads use for stalker 2
>>553505839DLAA sub-setting of DLSS.Still causes blurriness and AI hallucinations though.
stalker but splinter cell
>>553509830stealth mechanics are impossible please understand
>>553049956I only use the starting PM because of them. If they at least changed their ability to rip away your weapons to you having low stamina then that would go a long way to not being a dogshit enemy better off removed from the game.
>>553510264>I only use the starting PM because of themThat's a common strategy yeah, Skif's PM with upgrades was still kinda decent as a back up too as I recall.>If they at least changed their ability to rip away your weapons to you having low staminaAgreed, that would be an easy fix to make them much less bullshit to fight
Is there a sincere reason you'd want to go with Spark? I got tricked into it because of Noontide and have had to spend half the game sucking Scar's schizo cock as a result. Only just got the ability to tell him no.
>>553511403Beyond disliking ward more, and they're easily comically stupid enough to be disliked, sharing scar's delusion.
>>553511707Seems like a hard RP to do considering the game goes out of its way to tell you he's retarded and wrong at every turn.
>>553512317The game's story is so badly written when it comes to ward and spark's decision making and motivations that it might as well railroad you into the "fuck everyone" path.I'd sooner join bandits, even renegades if they were still around, under the compelling motivation of "steal shit" than follow those two gaggles of clowns.
>>553510476It's honestly a decent gun, and super light, plus the usefullness against Burers make it hard to justify using another pistol unless you know you aren't going to be running into one of them.
>>553513498Unless I'm missing something you can't even replace it. If you use another pistol you still have to carry Skif's gun with you everywhere for cutscenes
>>553513941Yep, I didn't even realize it first, and thought that any pistol was simply the strategy for fighting Burers, until I tried one of the uniques and promptly got it tossed into the bush, gone forever.
>>553513318What's wrong with Ward? They do exactly what a private military company is supposed to do. I don't see any shortcomings in their motivation, goals and actions.
>>553514817>I don't see anything wrong with reactivating the monolith instead of immediately destroying itYou would have to be a lobotomite to think that's not a completely retarded thing to do.
>>553514817>private military companyWard is an armed branch of a government institution.
>>553516660Are you confusing Ward with Duty? Ward are not trying to destroy the zone. Ward is helping SIRCAA to take control over c-con and noosphere.>>553517514It's no longer clear if SIRCAA is run and controlled by the Ukrainian government. Everything in the story implies it's under some shady internation control. In which case, both SIRCAA and Ward are private structures.
>>553518227>Ward is helping SIRCAA to take control over c-con and noosphereYes, which leads them to fucking with the monolith and reactivating it, and that makes them dangerously stupid.Doing something stupid intentionally does not make it less stupid.
>>553518876They built a base in a dangerous zone, studied dangerous anomalies, and tried to research dangerous technologies which were created as results of countless dangerous experiments during Soviet Era. But that one dangerous experiment is suddenly a big no-no.Anon, you're retarded.
>>553519484>But that one dangerous experiment is suddenly a big no-no.You mean the one that resurrected the monolith group which immediately started marauding across the entire zone and destroyed SIRCAA entirely?
>>553520101The experiment had nothing to do with Monolith object. They were not "reactivating Monolith", and I have no idea why you continue repeating it.It was Caribbean experiment, the exactly same experiment that had been conducted twice in the past. Once it was completely successful, the second time it failed, but it didn't have any major negative effects. The in-game experiment failed only because of Faust's interference they couldn't predict.
>>553522064>They were not "reactivating Monolith", and I have no idea why you continue repeating it.Yet that's what their experiment did.
>>553524007>that's what their experiment didIt did not. Monolith (the structure) was always fake.Why do you think all monolithians went to Pripyat/Generators and not to SIRCAA?
>>553524671It did.Their experiment is directly responsible for monolith reestablishing control over noontide, as this wouldn't have happened without the experiment taking place.
>>553525593I tried to politely explain you everything, but you're just too retarded.
>>553525593did the experiment cause it or did whatever faust did cause it? i wasn't clear on this while i was playing.
>>553526817>>553526526The experiment and faust caused it, the former because the experiment was necessary for that to be a possibility, the latter because he manipulated outside circumstances in such a way that the signal could be used by "The Monolith" to start doing monolith things again.SIRCAA effectively opened a door for monolith because they were bad at gathering intel around the zone and because the scientists working in that particular program weren't smart enough to figure the possible consequences of their actions and safeguard against them. SIRCAA enabled faust's plan.
Am I crazy or does IWP have different vertical sensitivity than horizontal?
>>553518876That wasn't caused by SIRCAA. Faust and his men changed the route of the experiment, which reactivated the X-Network rather than the generators. You can see the change at Azimuth and you can note in on the screen during the signal cutscene. It routes to the Duga. Faust also uploaded something to the alpha at Clear Sky. Plus the psi-amplifiers at specific locations helped spread the signal, The Sphere, Wild Island, etc.
>>553528956for weapons? or ?
>>553529682It doesn't occur without SIRCAA carrying out experiment.
>>553533893I mean for camera in general. There doesn't seem to be any option related to that though.
Would the UKR voice acting in stalker 2 sound just as bad if I was a speaker or did the english voice actors just fucking suck?
>>553528956ask on their moddb page, maybe they're look into it for a minute
>>553511403Either choosing to go their route in the second playthrough or choosing to believe their spiel about ward's "good intentions" inviting disaster.
IM GONNA MISER
I literally cried and soifaced until I passed out.
Beat Call of Pripyat for the first time today don't know why people rave over it like the game is a master piece it feels like more of the same stuff I experienced in Shadow of Chernobyl and the ending wasn't as memorable as SOC
>>553543553this but unironically
>>553546292People rave more about how all the mechanics are more polished rather than the plot. SoC with the polish of CoP would be kino.
>>5535462922 of my non-stalkery friends played through CoP, one of them couldn't even be arsed to complete SoC due to its jank and the other never touched SoC, I imagine he wouldn't have had any fun whatsoever. So yeah, CoP has the lowest threshold for normies
>>553445782rape midgets are the least of my concerns
This looks too much like that stupid meme.
>>553543165Misery is amazing if;1) you are on the booze to numb the pain2) are autistic3) can spend 5h of play time avoiding quests and using a guide to loot every stash4) mod all the values to not be punishing but loudly claim online you beat misery
>>553546292The only memorable thing about SoC ending is how dogshit the levels leading up to it are.
CoP is actually a dumbed down game to make the series sell. These days it is normie bait and the source of cancererous modding.
>>553558910woah, is that a game from 2003??
>>553546292>>553560615The thing that bothered me the most about CoP was you hardly fight any human enemies besides the few scripted encounters and the few Monolith in Pripyat. It's almost all mutants and zombies. I want every encounter with bandits to be a hostile one. These rats are not my fucking friends.
>>553558910
>>553509830>stalker but hard focused on stealth>guns blazing is viable with proper artifactsI cum
I think I asked this question about a year ago, but here goes again.Has any mod ever incorporated using mutant parts for upgrading/altering artifacts, weapons or armor?
>>553565459pretty sure you use mutant parts to cook better artifacts in NLC and other soup mods
>>553566503Ok thanks.I was just thinking about how cool it would be to get abilities from mutants like Bloodsucker cloaking, Snork distance jumping, Controller abilities, etc.I'd be surprised if no one else has thought about it.
>play anomaly>get the tutorial jellyfish artifact, put it in the lead case>still get damaged by radiation poisoning(no I did not grab the radiated bread) even if I drop all my itemsIs this a glitch?
>>553565459no but i like this idea and i'm stealing it now thanks
>nearly done with the achievement to collect all gear upgrades>look at pripyat map>over 1/4 of the upgrades are therewhy?
>>553570347If you're a modder then by all means. I want to see this shit happen. I want a sunrise suit with a bloodsucker cloak built into it. Like Crysis, it has to have a cooldown obviously.
>>553565459Gamma definitely does. Mutant parts are used to enhance/craft artifacts and mutant pelts can be equipped in artifact slots to give a variety of bonuses.
>>553572168Ok cool, will have to check it out at some point. Still enjoying base game mods right now.
>>553543553As much as I hate the nostalgiabaiting in S2, the Strelok introduction scene was fucking badass.
>>553565459In SoC mutants can drop pretty much any item on death, it doesn't have to be a mutant part. So, you could create an artifact that uses a mutant part icon/model, have the mutant drop it on death, and thus the player gets an equippable mutant part.
>>553573674That's not in vanilla SoC fren, sounds like you're referring to a mod. Which one?
>Clear Sky>the most unapologetically Ukrainian faction in STALKER>gets completely eviscerated thanks to their own jackassery and shortsightednessWhat did GSC mean by this?
>>553575253>the most unapologetically Ukrainian faction in STALKERWhat did anon mean by this?
>>553573271>disliking acknowledgement of series canon
>>553575253jej
>>553574416I think it does work in vanilla. I tried this in Xiani's Freeplay, which is basically vanilla SoC but with freeplay.
>>553575253>the most unapologetically Ukrainian faction in STALKERThat's the bandits though
How many people must've made it to the wishgranter for there to be enough monolith that you can mow them down by the hundreds for 4 games straight?
>>553580660The Wish Granter isn't what turned stalkers into Monolithians, it was the last ace up C-Con's sleeve if anyone managed to get past the Monolithians. Psi-emitters like the Brain Scorcher were responsible for taking control over people.
>>553558910skif should have raped dalin
>>553575627Throwing in random side characters from the trilogy just for the "do you remember this guy?" effect and without explaining what they're even still doing in the Zone after 10 years is cheap nostalgia baiting and not an acknowledgement of the series canon. There's only a few characters that appear both in SoC and CS, even though even though the events of these games are a year apart. That's because the Zone is fucking dangerous and people die there everyday, so only a few manage to survive for a long time there. And many of those who survive, sooner or later leave. Some of the more important characters have also become caricatures of themselves.>remember Sidorovich, the greedy old bastard? >he's still in the bunker, eating chicken and listening to the same song since 2012! Great character development. Besides, S2 shits on the series canon anyway if we're talking about lore. So yeah, I don't like it.
>>553573271>pushed his hairline back even moreI appreciate the attention to detail
>>553571673>pick up the last one>no cheevo popup>no way to check what i'm missing
>>553560305Red forest and the chNPP battles were annoying especially if you didn't you didn't prepare but it was better than the weak ass escort mission that was the final mission of COP
>>553582229>S2 shits on the series canon anyway if we're talking about loreLore in the original trilogy was practically nonexistent so I don't really understand that complaint.
>>553581597Okay I must've misunderstood that part. Either way shouldn't they be running out of people by Stalker 2's time?
>>553561783You know you can just shoot them, right?
>>553583648>Lore in the original trilogy was practically nonexistent So you are saying that the hundreds of dialogues and descriptions didn't form any kind of lore? There are several inconsistencies and retcons in the trilogy, that's undeniable, but overall the series had an established lore. S2 fucked it up in many ways.
>>553584561Yes, but I want agro mode not assassin mode.
>>553583875The number of Monolithians was always more of a gameplay gimmick rather than something with a logical justification, but yeah, they were already weakened in CoP so there shouldn't be that many of them a decade later.
Where did the monolithians all get matching camo outfits?
>>553585561Same place they got the railguns
>>553585090Most of the dialogue was chitchat which created a cozy atmosphere with the way stalkers talked abut random things, but as far as the Zone's backstory is concerned it's practically never touched upon. It took three games to have a foundation laid down for the Zone's emergence with Lab X8 as before that it was just a hologram run by hippies telling you that they dun goofed.Funnily enough SoC's official website has plenty of background lore, like how the first stalkers appeared, but it's never brought up in the actual game for some reason.
>>553585183They will become hostile once your standing drops enough.
>>553585561When they're not praying or mounting loners' heads on pikes, they're at the sewing machines
>>553585561STALKER 2 BAD
>>553586076I agree that the background behind the Zone itself and the noosphere weren't really fleshed out in the trilogy, but I'm talking about things like the factions, established events, legends, PDA entries, all that jazz. That was lore and it wasn't completely random or unimportant.>SoC's official website has plenty of background lore, like how the first stalkers appeared, but it's never brought up in the actual game for some reason.That's because this background lore was taken from desgin documents written all the way back in 2002/2003, some of it contradicted the in-game lore of SoC itself, and then CS and CoP made it completely non-canon.
>>553582229>every returning character returns for a reason>DURR IT'S JUST NOSTALGIABAITYeah I guess not killing off everyone like what happened to the Yantar lab comes off that way when you're intentionally being a reductionist twat hell bent on finding shit to cry about.
>>553587429It was still largely minimal, Duty's backstory is just hinted at in the first two games before CoP tell you it was born out of a disgruntled soldier who got most of his comrades killed or how Freedom was just some hippies who decided to gather and become one of the Zone's strongest factions just like that.Anyways, I'm not saying S2 was perfectly flawless in its lore developments, but acting like it completely retroactively shat on the originals is dumb. My biggest gripe with it is the new Zone layout.
i was confident for about 3/4 of the game that richter was supposed to be a hallucination or like a physical representative of the spirit of the zone or something like that
Some time ago, some anon here made a census on what nationalities browse /sg/. What was the final result of that?Also, post /sg/ OC
>>553574416>has any mod ever>thats not vanillareading do be da hard bidness baws
It is very very hard to tell the difference between native input latency and FSRFG+injecting anti-lag 2 at 140fps. I am legitimately impressed with AIslop
>>553594624>super spechul spetsnaz gun is the bestNumber of loners shocked at this revelation: 0
>>553560207>mfw I beat Misery during one of the most miserable times of my life
>>553594624You're talking about this?
>>553603186ye
>IDI KA MNESoul>IDI DO MENESoulless
>>553573271less time wasting, more strelok shooting!
>>553609068To ovod oll rossopholoo wo most roploco oll vowols woth oooooooo
>>553582229How many times have you copy pasted this?
Forgot how fun merging into walls for secrets was. This vid reminded me why it's great: https://youtu.be/YinhoIhrcgw
gay twink sex in MY stalker general?honestly i'm surprised there isn't more
>>553610447
No.
>>553610447delete this off topic garbage
quickest way to gain rep for loners in s2? was running around zaton and realised none of the traders are green anymore, will selling a bunch of shit to sido get it up quicker than missions?
>>553611417when did they make dalin into a bayun
>>553594624>post /sg/ OCThis one always makes me laugh.
>>553594624Another one.
>>553594624
>>553573271There's one thing I'm confused about with it though. If someone has had the STALKER programming, being exposed to the programming again kills them (which happened to Dark in that scene) so why didn't it happen to Strelok too? He'd been through the same programming.
>>553619828During my initial playthroughs I always ended up with the fakeout endings or joining C-Consciousness, as I had no idea about seeing Doctor and getting the door decoder to get to Monolith HQ. I knew about the door but could never figure out how to get it open or didn't know what the door even lead to.
>>553627872He definitely broke his programming and made himself immune through main character fuckery. Please do not consider the possibility that he's a C-Con triple agent designed to trick Skifs who think they're too smart to fall for Scar's bullshit.
>>553628573I don't know if that could work if the programming zaps you if you try a second time. But I think Strelok is the one who says it, so maybe it was bullshit and he programmed something for Dark specifically. Though at the same time random exposure caused Scar to freeze and sperg for a few moments, but not die, so I'm not sure what to think.
>>553628928If you think about the programming thing for a bit it stops making any sense. If you get programmed for the first time by watching the TVs then how come Skif never gets programmed? If that isn't sufficient for programming then why does Dark lose his shit?My gut tells me GSC just didn't think any of this through. But it's definitely more fun to think that Strelok was lying and is some kind of special agent without a will of his own.>random exposure caused Scar to freeze and sperg for a few moments, but not die, so I'm not sure what to thinkScar is also a special kind of agent since he isn't even Scar, he's a husk with Marshal's personality
>>553629847>My gut tells me GSC just didn't think any of this throughI get that feeling too. My best guess is the screens were specific to Dark or that to be affected by the screens, you have to be put into a certain sedated state first (as seen by people in the hallways sitting and watching the screens without any restraints). >Scar is also a special kind of agent since he isn't even Scar, he's a husk with Marshal's personalityThat too. Would that have been the usual agent programming or did he have something very different happen? I realize he had the screen treatment but an entire personality being replaced seems like something more.
>>553629847Strelok's messages (to himself) indicate something happened to him in the time since CoP and working at the institute, and fucked him up.
>>553641734Considering Strelok always had a thing for exploring dangerous areas and going where he shouldn't, it's possible he got affected by something in a bad area he found and got brainwashed again or Faust may have done something to him with old Monolith tech. I think the secret ending where not killing Doctor like Strelok asks reveals that Doctor is Faust might allude to something like that. There's some kind of Strelok and Faust connection I think.
>>553629847>>553631109>>553641734>>553642404All the more reason why a completely different storyline would have been better.
>make some homemade booze>dunno how strong it is, likely about 18%>decide yes, stalker and the hangover juice is a good combo>sit down one evening with misery installed (this was my first mistake)>hit the juice (mistake two)>doing okay, hoboing around and generally getting one shot every 30 seconds but whatever, inebriation means I don't care>try to take the pda from the mercs at the waste processing plant>try to sneak in>repeatedly fail>get annoyed>get even more drunk>use google translate and text to voice to make up some insults in russian to shout at my screen>basically incoherent>end up making 20 hard saves sitting in the pipe that lets you drop down inside the facility>when I check my latest save the next day apparently I had saved in the middle of the plant with no ammo, broken gear and am instantly killed upon load inThat is one of the few times i've got genuinely mad at this game even knowing what I signed up for. 8/10 experience though, would do again.
2027 will be big for stalker 2
>>553645585Freeze your stuff and chip the ice off the top and keep doing it and you can bring that shit up to like 30%. My roommate and I did that with cider we made in college, it's called applejacking.
stalker 2 is so far tolerable i only noticed 1 spawn in around 3 hours into it
>>553648515should have been released in 2027, damn draft dodgers
nein
I do not like this.
>>553648515How so?
>>553603186I’m the only Norwegian here
>Head to Zaton early to grab double mag for AK>Decide to do Key to Freedom while on the way.>Approaching the stash behind the electro anomaly restarts my PC every time i load the save and attempt to go grab it.I tweaked around some settings and it replicates each time. It's practically the only time i've managed to make the game crash so hard it forces a system reset.
>>553652253I don't feel like getting methanol poisoning and going blind as I don't have the gear to distil it properly - even if that is the authentic russian experience.
>>553627872Sorry, why do you say Strelok was programmed for the 2nd time?First time is the ending of CS. 2nd is...?
>>553686415NTA but in s2 Strelok says that Dark was killed by the tv screens because the tv screens program you and you can't survive being programmed twice. Strelok himself is standing right nearby when this happens and it's a mystery why the second programming doesn't affect him.
>modeled with functional ironsights>can swap out the scope for a different one>can't remove the scope and just use ironsightsWhy?
>>553688697Ah, now I get it.Well, probably the simplest explanation is that Strelok simply didn't look at TV screens. Alternatively it's because there was an error during his initial programming (it's mentioned in Strelok's c-con agent files).
>>553629847Look at the ending cutscene of CS. The programming doesn't happen just from casually viewing the screen for a few seconds. It's one step removed from full Clockwork Orange. Skif is safe not really, if you get the Ward ending because he just saw bits and pieces on the side. He wasn't strapped in and exposed long-term.>>553644829Fuck OFF your fanfiction is SHIT
>>553685471Your PSU is dying.t. had the same thing happen with Tomb Raider 2013, MGSV (the second quiet tosses the glass jar at the wall and causes an explosion), and a few other titles and only fixed it by tossing out that piece of shit PSU for an actually reputable EVGA one
>>553689815I've only done the Strelok ending so far but I thought it was very suspicious that he makes you sit in the Clockwork Orange chair and press the button so that he can... make an out of character joke about you seeing through Dark's dead eyes?
>>553690031It's not a PSU issue (as it's only just upgraded a few weeks ago and works just fine), neither a graphical one at that. It's likely related to the area in question already being bugged formerly with some weird ass duplication and loot bug on the NPC's and the game just shits up your CPU/GPU pipeline completely and instead of crashing to desktop, it just decides it's safer to boot then risk component damage when the game spawns six million energy drinks into a stash or corpse. It's only ever been fish farm too, honestly. The place is cursed.
I just don't know what they were thinking making the mutants in stalker 2 unflinching tanks with horrible attacks and even worse attack hitboxes.
>>553696985Hope you grabbed the saiga drum mag from the docks after this webm
>>553696985git gud
>>553696985I'd say that went pretty well. But you need to get higher up when that happens to minimize the risk.
>>553696985>500 roundsis such a thing even possible?
>fires 200 rounds>only hits with maybe 50
>>553696985The snorks in STALKER 2 look really cartoony.
>>553700842would you a snork?
>>553699895Anything's possible with a large enough magazine, but that magazine definitely isn't actually physically large enough to fit 500 rounds of 7.62x54.The ammunition alone would also make that magazine at least 12 pounds, then there's the weight of the magazine itself and the belt, and it would be about five times larger by volume than the pictured magazine.
>>553700842
>>553702619Maybe there's a teleportation anomaly in the box that leads to a gigantic abandoned soviet warehouse full of ammo
>>553701070a burer?
>>553696985i've only ever seen human targets flinch from being shot
>>553703335No i'm not into romanian women.
>>553702619We don't need /k/ spergs.
>>553702619belt boxes are not magazines >>553705178
>>553702649Which fallout 4 mod is this?
>>553705178/k/ommandos are the only reason /sg/ has been around for so long and the main part of the western appeal, know your place nofuns faggot.
>>553707469Not in this timeline deerfucker.
>>553705450A pedantic distinction.>>553705178Someone asked for one.>>553707761The single most popular stalker mod notoriously tortures you with in-depth gun maintenance.
>>553690031>>553690790Who do I believe
>>553708142The only way to know for sure is to replace your PSU with a known working PSU.Haven't had that happen on my computer with any game and I've played stalker 2 for 120 hours.I don't know, try lowering your GPU's power cap with overclocking software.
>>553696985In the original trilogy and probably any mod ever meeting 10 snorks will result in a guaranteed death. The monsters in S2 might be tanky, but the player is even tankier.
>>553708142Fish farm and ladders are the only places where the game crashes in any decent measure and ladder UE crash reports are always about the repeating input key bug that happens when holding shift during descents as it still continues to be counted as a series of repeating inputs, but that's about it. If it was a PSU issues and you could replicate in cases of different games or if the S2 crashes were more frequent, that would be the case but it's always been fish farm on every single occasion and only that specific quest and corpses across all versions i've played of the game. Both with the old PSU a year back and the new one. It's the engine and UE, as usual.
>>553708998>The monsters in S2 might be tanky, but the player is even tankier.A snork pounce is 60% of your health with maximum physical resistance on master.
>>553709596>hard mode is hard
>>553711353You are expected to play on master difficulty in a stalker game.
>>553711679
>>553711679For S2, Veteran+ is just fine unless you're deliberately looking to play either hardcore or want the limited Expedition saves. Veteran+ is just triggered from enabling saves on Master and from a gameplay perspective, it's identical to Master with the exception of just losing the Master rank. It feels kind of pointless in S2 in that sense, because it's actually just a honorific on the dificulty level you carry for having Expedition around.
>install cop from gog>install msiery>black screen on game bootoooh, the pain is starting early
>>553712117I didn't know there were people that played the original trilogy below master.
>>553714962I was shock to learn there are people who play doom 1 on anything other than nightmare. That was quite the harrowing day.
>>553696985For one, you have to actually hit the target.
>>553711679>>5537149622 isn't OT and the difficulties are not set up the same.
What the FUCK is causing this? I don't see any mutants near me
>>553716720So I killed the snorks without hitting them?
>>553717256You're standing in a time anomaly.
>>553717256Try shooting or throwing a bolt when things get like that.>>553717324You missed so many shots. Git gud.>using the super shitty 7.62x54 ammo>the type that explicitly says it's compatible with the mosin but the mosin absolutely refuses to useNow that is an actual issue.
>>553717456>>553717827Oh, I thought it was a mutant's aura or some shit. Thanks
Am I a monster for having lean left bound to E and right to Q?
>>553717827So I did hit the target.>You missed so many shots. Git gud.Post a video of you killing as many snorks in the same amount of time with less shots, with the same gun, fighting them in the open and not taking more damage then.>using the super shitty 7.62x54 ammoYou mean the standard 7.62x54 that you actually find in quantities high enough to feed an LMG?Are you expecting me to actually buy ammunition or are you used to playing on low difficulties?
>>553717256Behind you!!!
>>553718971>yap yap yap do retarded shitNo. Your video demonstrably shows you missing tons of shots and whining about mutants being "too hard" to kill.>yadda yadda yadda absolutely misunderstanding the entire statement about the ammunitionIlliterate and bad at aiming. Sad!
>>553690790Zif you swear its not hardware related, then its a bios or os issue.porgrams are not supposed to crash your os, or there is a problem.
>>553719483>a video of someone winning is them complaining about the game being too hardMore like too tedious. Seeing how all the difficulty from the mutants in this game is from knockdown attacks with bad hitboxes and being unstaggerable bullet sponges.>I can't do better so I'll just call you badAccusations of a lack of skill are worthless if you can't prove you're better, which you can't.I am demonstrably better than you because you haven't demonstrated you even play the game in the first place.>my point was swatted aside and I have no response so I'll just pivot to pure insultsThere is no problem with using the only ammunition type that is actually practical to use with the gun.
>>553720691>porgrams are not supposed to crash your osdohohohoho let me just have my sound card driver have no memory protection at all woops just caused a panic sucks to be you
>>553718879why would someone do that
>>553723621Kwas that supposed to be some sort of rebuttal?
>>553718879I didn't know bizarro played stalker.
>>553724165>>553724656Significantly easier for creeping around cover/corners. Try it and see.
>>553724985This changes nothing for me.
Cool stuff.
>>553718879still less cursed than default hoc bindings
>>553726714I doubt they bothered to test them and the default bindings are just what sounded okay on paper. The game was blatantly aimed at controller usage.
>553721184>continued illiteracy>pretending the textual discussion that occurred along with the video don't exist because you just can't admit being wrongI can't stand tourists.>>553724985>not using thumb buttons on the mouse for this
>>553727345The shift towards radial menus in gaming is like seeing abandoned shopping carts in your local grocery store parking lot.
shut the fuck up you fucking retard
>>553727578Need my thumb for healing
>>553718119It's baffling that there are so many anomalies your anomaly detector doesn't detect, especially when your veles detector detects them.
>>553728250>he doesn't have six thumb buttons to choose from
>>553728628I don't play wow - i'm enough of a loser as it is.
>>553728628>he doesn't command skif by whispering targets and angles directly into his brain
>>553729612you're not a "loser" anonthats some grade school tier insults right there
>>553730745damn stealth boy wearing assholes
>>553730745>he incorporated that into his suit from a bloodsuckerThat's what I'm talking about >>553565459
>>553730745You know this nigga saved Meryl and got the Otacon ending
>>553730745lmao clear sky is so buggy
>>553726480>left while strafingwe have an alien among us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV3MkytjNpEVideo essay about how SOVL STALKER is dropped, what did I think about it?
>>553741575kill yourself
>>553741575I saw this. Bretty good.
ain't nobody got time for that
>>553685808No, you're distilling it by freezing it. We did that with hard cider. You can do it with about anything.
