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Modlists

>C-Con Modlist
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GgBFCRIbc7TQ5DwWHvWaridX1G64PYoWItkLyr3pBPk

>S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Mod/Performance recommendations
pastebin.com/Ma6W4BcM

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy Mods

>AMK AE 1.4.1+OWR+ARSENAL+SWO merge
mega.nz/#F!4Q5SmIaJ!hu6jptaxeY3wQbIF2GzbWQ

>Anon's /sg/ AMK repo
mega.nz/folder/KvhhSCwD#7pTnDImcvnVOvJfQUgImtw

>Oblivion Lost Remake
disk.yandex.ru/d/hmvQK9g8JDY_HA?w=1

>Vector of Alienation
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N2ksZBmO7Qz4cdUWose7X1iJw0nFnG05

>Joint Pak (Cumulative Pak, OP)
rentry.org/cumpack22
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1me0bO3B_ZnwHLOYXqZDNyPfdFAL8nqp1oNkrbyFZ7cM

>Shadows Addon + Anon's English translation
files.catbox.moe/x1d4r5.7z
ap-pro.ru/forums/topic/1639-shadows-addon-08/

>Goldsphere
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lrrZiFZWaio1_SQsBMziCA8QNVAjqr8X

>Lost Alpha
moddb.com/mods/lost-alpha/downloads

>Spatial Anomaly
moddb.com/mods/spatial-anomaly-update-4/downloads/spatial-anomaly-update-4-1-rus

>Wind of Time
mediafire.com/file/a7ycornwrv96tn5/Wind_of_Time.7z/file

Call of Chernobyl Repos and Offshoots

>Call of Chernobyl Repo
mega.nz/folder/QfgQFR7J#_OXdHj2L13rfsX6UpFrVkA

>Anon's Call of Chernobyl Definitive Edition
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-1AHa4OKy1RpO9K6dVGZ3ds2I13tpEKA

>Don't have Call of Pripyat but want to play Call of Chernobyl?
-skip_reg on the .exe starting path after " or if you're using CoC on Steam game>properties>set launch options
Alternatively, use this registry file mega.nz/#!uoYinJ7I!Lqj2DNIAkaVkcFUa1PLZzj80cVhAFK5D-9zbU2Iy5KI

>IWP
moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack
moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack/addons/cotz-quests-and-mechanics-for-iwp

>that gif
basado

Anybody tried the new Dead Air yet?

Hey guys, rate my new cosplay! Please be nice!

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1shtay4/dont_judge_me_too_harshly_please_the_beginning_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

O Holden, my Holden.... our fearful trip is done!

The Zone has weather'd every rookie, the prize we sought is won, The Bar is near, the megafon I hear, the stalkers all exulting, While follow eyes the steady rifle, the barrel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the Whirligig my Holden lies, Fallen cold and dead.

O Holden! my Holden! rise up and hear the megafon; Rise up-for you the cossacks is out for you the diet sausage, For you Moonlights and Stone Bloods-for you Rostok a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Holden! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.

My Holden does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The Bar is safe and sound, its door closed and done, From fearful trip Duty squad comes in with object won; Exult, O Duty and play! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Holden lies, Fallen cold and dead.

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I like Metro

I wonder how macOSanon is doing... haven't heard from him in a while...

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>>563201351
I thought the ukraine pig was just a quirky meme. You're telling me he real?

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>>563202676
Playing Anomaly or OGSR on Apple silicon sounds comfy

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>>562726479
Can someone give me a qrd on the 'blevotina' lore? A brief google search reveals some esoteric stalker memes uploaded to tiktok, but the videos won't load.

>>563201351
>check comments
>the only one that points out that there is nothing stalker about this cosplay is downvoted to oblivion
god, i hate that website and its users like you wouldn't believe

>>563201947
build of canceled metro 4 was leaked today by the way

>>563207858
Post the links nigga

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Rank the new factions from best to worst
Explain your reasoning

>>563207709
And the rest of the comments are literally all unconstructive circlejerking and clapping. I don't know how much of an NPC subhuman you have to be to enjoy the community of that platform.

>>563208246
t.me/metro_builds

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>>563208375
>Noontide
The only actually sympathetic faction in the entirety of S2 and pretty much in-line with the set canon, potentially only mildly divergent
Strider is an excellent character in S2
>Ward
I Can't Believe It's Not Military! Now With Illuminati!
At least they're decently competent and relatively sympathetic. Korshunov as a character carries them a lot
>Corps
Would be higher if they had AT LEAST SOMETHING, ANYTHING going for them besides Degtyarev
Not really a faction desu, though arguably there are no factions in S2, only categories of Neutral and Hostile
>Spark
No

>>563208375
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>>563201351
>demosfen

>>563210463
>Spark
If Monolith and Freedom had baby together.

>>563222902
holy shit it's just like in my old lore

>>563218724
What did he mean by this?

>>563207858
>metro 4 cancelled
but why

Has anyone tried Road To Vostok yet? Any good? Stalker worthy?

I ain't clicking on that shit nigga

I'm playing CoP for the first time, you guys know of any way I can toggle lean instead oh having to hold it?

>>563208375
>Noontide
Best. Fucking awesome (and lore-friendly) in every way, from their concept to the tragedy of their downfall. I wish there had been more done with them before just becoming Monolith again. Strider and Faust are objectively the best characters in the game.
>Spark
Interesting enough, but frustrating. I like the idea of the remnants of Clear Sky basically being hijacked by radical agents and the 'free the zone' ideas of CS/Freedom which were previously almost universally sympathetic now being twisted into a questionable force, but ultimately their actual goal and organization is weak at best.
>Corps
I love them for what they are. Just the Real Ones holding shit down in the North and keeping things contained. That being said, they have painfully little to go on as far as plot and backstory go, though that does go in line with them just being the ones who keep shit straight and simple.
>Ward
It's just the military. I'm still not entirely sure why this needed to be a new faction. I like the characters, but the sheer existence and lore of this as a new faction is entirely unecessary.

>>563231440
I'm pretty sure that's impossible.

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>>563201351

Forgot how bad schizophrenia inducing controllers were in OLR. My head is spinning!

>>563233354
> I'm still not entirely sure why this needed to be a new faction
Something something we don't feel comfortable depicting our warriors being killed in a video game (paraphrased from nu-GSC's explanation).

Basically, the military doesn't really exist in S2 because of change in overall political climate.

>>563201351
Won't even make it to the railroad embankment in Cordon.

Running base gamma through GoG, haven't messed with any settings, but my gen1 nvgs wont work. They worked for a bit with a long press, but now dont work at all. headlamp part works fine. it's using beefnvg

>>563235946
Should've played ZONA instead.

>>563235946
it's anomaly and especially gamma shit will just fucking break for no reason but normally fixes after restarting game

>>563208375
It is extremely retarded. Sure, a few new factions. Now, twenty new ones as well as every fucking old character resurrected with their own factions? No. What the fuck is the point? What is the difference between a faction and a group at that point dude? Honestly tell me. It is just retarded pandering shit. None of them really are different besides vague goals and are reskins of older ones, which is why freedom and duty DLC is such a big deal. Nobody gives a fuck about faction #193 when we got the OGs. Explain that to me.

>>563247219
>>563236602
Thank you Mykola.

>>563247219
Fuck off Holden!!

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>I just wanted to find da artifats

>>563234976
Also because the original trilogy portrays the military as incompetent corrupt fucks, which they are IRL.

>>563233354
>>Ward
>It's just the military. I'm still not entirely sure why this needed to be a new faction.
Kindly actually play the fucking game before positing your opinions. Thanks.

>>563249408
Yes, it's just about optics mainly. S2 is a very pro-Ukrainian project, so naturally they won't want to depict that.

Guys this is gunna be a problem, another 10 hrs on gamma....

>>563263032
at least it’s not Stalker 2

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STRIDER NOOO
YOURE NOT SUPPOSE TO BE AN ARYAN

Spark are based honestly. The fact that they're the most contrarian option of all makes it even better.

just finished soc for the first time. greatest fps i've ever played. never felt so immersed before. now what?

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>>563288661
Continue on with CS and CoP
And then be prepared to spend the rest of your natural life by selling your sanity and soul to the modding scene
It's worth it, honestly

>>563288661
play clear sky, but def modded because the gun accuracy on base feels bad. Then play CoP until you get back to Cnpp, at which point you switch to gamma and lose your life to the zone. I was where you were like 2 months ago, just started gamma and it is addicting af
>>563289536
this guy gets it

>>563291817
>but def modded because the gun accuracy on base feels bad
just fucking upgrade your gun, that's the whole point, they are shitty on purpose, you are supposed to upgrade them, mods that alter the gunplay eliminate a key element of the game.

>>563294141
>the guns being dogshit are a feature (doesn't apply to NPCs obviously)
lmao

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>>563035170
shit, rebalanced melee enemies would be amazing. I had forgotten about that
They are just so disappointingly easy compared to the player's movement speed, i always wanted them to be stronger

Im curious about the lategame side of rebalances, though. I ended my first playthrough with pic related. It was fun for a while, but where the fuck do you even go from there? At that point the game is a crazy powertrip

NLC Improved translation soon brothers... I hope they translate the Zaton expansion too.

>>563295006
yeah? just like ammo limit, weapon degradation, radiation, anomalies, hunger... none of those apply to npcs.

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>>563295609
I think late game is only ever going to be a factor for balancing out after getting the main questlines at least somewhat sorted out, but if the power armour and combination artifacts in the test map are anything to go by, it's definitely going to be interesting
>picrel my first playthrough after 100 days
Collector is a must-have trait as far as I'm concerned. I started a new playthrough with 2xCollector and 3xSkinflint for maximum greed and by day 30 I'm already nearing the same bonkers power level

>>563298517
i get what they were going for, but they execute it terribly. if i point blank mag dump a bitch, i expect all my bullets to go in the same direction, not an arbitrary cone around the fucker. Gun jamming, dropped mags, dry fire=good. Magic path bullet=bad

>>563299915
>but if the power armour
I didnt even get to find this thing kek
Another ridiculous thing is that one eather gun that lets you make a little black hole/vortex. Paired with that 3x bullet round it straight up lets you fly around the entire level
>collector
normally artifacts are quite tough to find without it, but it honestly feels exciting. In the overworld, therye almost ways there, just often in some really bullshit corner
But then once you get the fancy scanner, you are practically swimming in artifacts even before factoring in that thing. I honestly never managed to find collector, is it a starting trait only thing or can you get it from some item or artifact?
I see a lot of bonuses i dont recognize there. Are you using a custom character? In my playthrough i just had a blank start, either way im really due another playthrough eventually

>>563299915
>whispers x4
Doesnt that let you survive that weird cosmic tesseract trader event when you offer him a black stone & he rages trying to OHKO you?
I really hope some cool shit comes out of the black stone one day, like some lategame secret ending/route type shit

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>>563303282
>power armour
AFAIK it's only in the test map, not implemented in the game proper. There are some other interesting pieces of gear though
>that one eather gun
I haven't really got around using Eather guns during my initial playthrough because they're horribly inneficient without Eather Affinity
But I'm planning to try them out this time
>is it a starting trait only thing or can you get it from some item or artifact?
>Are you using a custom character?
AFAIK you can get Collector only as a starting trait, and yeah, I'm playing custom characters. I love RPing the shit out of these kind of games. First proper playthrough (after few initial tries just fucking around and learning the ropes) was pretty much Strelok, with Collector and Lock Smith balanced out with Guilt, Insomnia and Skinflint
>>563304051
>Doesnt that let you survive that weird cosmic tesseract trader event when you offer him a black stone & he rages trying to OHKO you?
I have no fucking clue what're you talking about, but AFAIK 3x Mindful Whispers are already enough to prevent Psychic damage. Or at least I didn't get annihilated by Skinflint after buying expensive shit for a long, long time
>Black Stone
Is that the fucked up artifact you can get after snorting a lot of Star Dust?

I just want more maps

>>563305691
>I have no fucking clue what're you talking about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZja-yKuYy4
This faggot will get angry at you, screech and try to instakill you with psychic damage if you offer it the black stone
>eather guns
The one genuinely great all-purpose eather gun i found was the basic Plasma Pistol, that thing is an outstanding sidearm and lasts a long while. I heard the pulse rifle is alright too but i never tried it

But then theres the enchanted weapons, i never even touched most of those so i have no idea of what is good in there. All i know is
>the turbo coil is like an instant giga mag dump
>the mjolnir is okay at stunning groups but you might find yourself using it more as a normal sidearm without turning the enchantment on
>the vortex rifle lets you fly around everywhere with tandem
>theres one smg that costs a lot of eather per shot (10) but refunds bullets to your magazine when it hits something. maybe its cool if you have a metric fuckton of eather efficiency in early game

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make them urself. No one will do that for you sadly

>>563306639
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZja-yKuYy4
Holy shit, I wasn't tripping balls (pun intended) when I saw something fly through the sky the other day
I don't think I've ever experienced this during my first run. Is it because I have Weird Luck now?
>enchanted weapons
I assume those are the artifact gats made by the Cultist trader? Again, I completely ignored them during my first playthrough. I couldn't even find more refillable Eather canisters, I only ever found one in one of the labs IIRC
Then in this run, several random NPCs had them for barter. I have 4 now
But they do sound fun as you described them
There's so many fucking guns

>metro autism
not stalker

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>>563259616

>>563307635
>I don't think I've ever experienced this during my first run. Is it because I have Weird Luck now?
i thought this was supposed to make such events more common, not less common
>I assume those are the artifact gats made by the Cultist trader? Again, I completely ignored them during my first playthrough.
yeah, im honestly gonna save most of these until theres a more fleshed out cultist faction so i can do a proper playthrough
>refillable eather canister
theres a guaranteed one in the crash site, right next to the base you strat in. theres a missable tunnel there that leads to it, behind/above the place where the guys have some tents and hang out by the bonfire
Its a shame that the whole place is a dead end, i wish the map continued there

>theres so many fucking guns
yeah, and they actually meaningfuly differ from eachother by a fuckton
I actually found it very admirable how the devs' autism with weapons being restricted to firemodes and certain attachments actually made even the generic rifles pretty different because of personal tastes. Not sure if this still holds up now that you can switch firemodes more freely in the latest update, i havent tried it yet. But the actual cool part is the mechanically different guns
The upgraded coil gun (gauss rifle ripoff) is obscene, you can delete everyone (and the turrets if you shoot in the right spot) from the other side of the Dead Bridge

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>>563281013
Scar is a retard

The way they retconned Scar and changed his entire personality into something absolutely dosgshit cringe is single-handedly and objectively the worst part of STALKER 2.

>>563307835
?
nobody is talking about metro in here

>>563295006
That's literally core game mechanics in CS and COP both, to make the upgrade systems have a purpose. They wouldn't have accuracy upgrades if the guns were all cawadooty lasers like you seem to want them to be.

>thread is flooded with furry tarkov
GO TO YOUR OWN THREAD FAGGOTS

>>563314257
hahahaha oh man i thought they were yapping about gamma

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Its fascinating playing Stalker finally, after only originally playing the original Metro games. Obviously, they share a lot of the same DNA because of the devs(and Metro literally having some of Stalkers engine in 2033) and general setting but its interesting where they differ. Stalker does a much better job creating a wide atmospheric open world where anything can and will kill you and its gameplay and gameplay loop is fantastic but its story is at best okay, and most of the time just dogshit. But that's not Stalkers purpose, the story isnt the games actual story but the story of how you're surviving and interacting with the world. That said Metros approach of an actual narrative though is great and memorable also.
This would never happen but i wonder if the talent behind both Metro and Stalker were combined to make something new it would have all the strengths both games have.

>>563313467
thats Marshal

>>563315541
Didn't read.

Sex with Sydorovych.

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>>563315743

>>563315541
I read.

The atmosphere in STALKER is indeed unmatched.

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>>563315823

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>game fucking CRASHED when I hit escape pulled the smoke grenade
BRAVO GSC

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>>563317752

>ward left me a loaded silenced pistol
are they retarded

>>563318260
that still exists?

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>>563322869
Yeah, was laughing my ass off cause it literally crashed right after Korshunov stopped talking to the point i thought it was intentional for a second

>>563322990
i had that crash on release

>>563190181
Thanks again, grabbed it before it got nuked again
>>563197392
I don't use Discord. That's the entire point of asking for direct download links here. I'm old school. I usually only download stuff off moddb. I don't even use Nexus because of their retarded "you gotta create an account bro" bullshit.

>>563324071
but you're asking questions about why they are doing things, here.
you should ask them if you want answers

>>563324071
based. discord is satanic and gay. nexus is evil in nature.

>>563325018
I guess I just meant it as a more general question. If links get nuked by Google that quickly, then why not use something else? It's not like it's piracy. Ffs pirated stuff stays up for years on MEGA or Pixeldrain unless it gets reported.

>>563327071
alright then, pardon my tism

>>563327868
All good

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So, once I max a stat bar, does adding any other artifact to boost it have zero effect, or is it still a bonus, just invisible on the stat display?

>>563330469
All protection over the stat bars are just extra time of being maxed out once durability starts to go down

>>563331149
Alright cool thank you, Should I be using the Weird Bolt also over my Hypercubes? I just tested the regeneration of a army medkit while using the bolt and it doesnt seem that much slower than normal so im not sure if thats better.

>>563331380
Oh im blind I meant the weird nut

>>563307635
>>563306639
>>563305691
>>563299915
>>563295609
Take it back to >>>/v/ you fucking niggers

Wonder how Holden has been lately... haven't heard from him in a while.

Going be honest fellas I dont really think its wrong to talk about stalker clones in the stalker general opposed to just making a thread for a niche clone of an already niche game

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If I only want to play one of these, which one would you recommend?

>>563335581
>NOOO you cant discuss a shameless stalker clone in a stalker thread
Its arguably about as official as a mod. Id agree with you but this shitty general is so devoid of actual gameplay discussion with real substance, its just retards sperging. At least when someone comes in talking about silverfish, you have posts about actual gameplay mechanics

>>563337840
SoC

I fucking hate Zona cold mod, what do you fucking mean sidorovich bunker could be freezing deep underground, i am close to spawning a campfire in both bar and farmhouse because nothing is more fun freezing to death while trying to maintain and organize my shit while during an emission

>>563337840
SoC is still the best, go vanilla or download the better weapons animation mod and you are in for a very good experience

>>563337840
SoC

>>563337840

Shadow of Chernobyl if you prefer immersion, atmosphere and an intriguing story.

Call of Pripyat if you enjoy doing missions, exploring and artifact hunting. I'd recommend CoP to a newcomer, as it is much more polished and forgiving compared to the other two games. It also features fewer gunfights, while the other games tend to have arduous encounters. especially SoC late game.

Stay away from Clear Sky though. It's really hard to get into, at least it was for me.

>>563337840
Definitely the first, Shadow of Chernobyl

>>563314257
>furry tarkov
i tried it last week, i didnt see anything to do with tarkov.

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What were they doing with this in Pripyat

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>>563340440
dozers, iirc they were lead lined too
True Stalker has one as well

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>>563340615

>>563338626
yeah it's annoying. i have it turned off.

>>563340838
Those guys aren't even wearing proper equipment. Soviet Russia must've been crazy

>>563336894
>>563337942
see >>563335581

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>>563348774
Cope

>>563349045
Rope

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>>563351969
Lobes

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You can add one buildo map to SoC. If its a build verson of an existing map, it will replace its retail version. Which map do you choose?

For me, it's buildo Cordon. Its build version is such a cool map.

>>563356951
That one is pretty good. I'd probably pick it as well.

>>563361796
It's either that one or buildo Yantar. Since SoC still references the buildo Yantar level it would be a nice pick as well.

>>563337840
SoC

>>563324071
welcome to the new world order goyim

>>563337840
SoC>CoP>>>>>CS

>>563337840
cop

>>563356951
Generators
I always wanted Generators, especially if they'd get some final, proper refinement

anyone that plays gamma has this problem where you can't install any of the tactical kits on the ak-105? tried looking up in their shitscord server but found nothing, other weapons' kits work though (used debug mode and tested a bunch, only the ak-105 doesn't work)

Wow the scar fight fucking sucks

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>>563315743
>Marshal
Hes a retard with a shitty boss fight

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Good game, has its flaws but overall good game.

>>563337840
Clear Sky

>>563356951
i'd choose buildo dark valley

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>watches a shooter trailer
>"hey, this game looks like something that can scratch my stalker itch"
>visits steam page
>extraction-shooter; online pvp

>>563399517
The universe is telling you to play tarkov

>>563399517
big tarkov is at it again. cultivate olr2.5,read roadside picnic in three different languages and watch stalker at 0.5x speed to save yourself from gammafag influence.

>>563399517
>stalker isn't enough to scratch his stalker itch
go back

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>>563381412
Generators could've been really cool.

How come stalker memes are so soulful compared to other games

>>563421440
Depression

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>>563422559
It's probably true.

can anyone post the video where the player is sitting at yanov bar and gonta walks in, calls out magpie, the player and gonta chase after magpie then kill him outside? i saw it in a russian meme compilation but never again. how do they create machinima in the xray engine like that?

>>563423735
I've seen a few videos that use G-mod, maybe it's that?

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om nom nom hehe

>>563423735
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHMMNedAfKc

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>>563427415

I love Scar

>>563389471
at least story wise its a hell of a lot more interesting than "oops scar finally died too"

>>563415958
I'm tired of playing the same thing over and over again

>>563399517
>>563443253
What STALKER-likes have you played already?

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>>563443253
What do you mean you don't want to traverse the Cordon for the 700th time? You too good for it or something?

>>563444845
>traverse the Cordon for the 700th time?
Rookie numbers.
I traversed probably close to a hundred times just in my last playthrough.

>>563444782
metro, stalcraft and zero sievert
but honestly, stalker is its own thing. it's really hard to find something that can really scratch the itch.

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>>563444845
>>563450608
you will observe the local zone fauna for days and nights on end and you will like it

>>563444782
project silverfish, its honestly quite outstanding. i thought the EA was a turnoff with the unfinished areas, but by the end of the content i had played for so much more than stalker trilogy games so i didnt really mind

>>563454648
Play AMK and you'll also get chimeras, controllers, pseudogiants as well as 2 BTRs and an attack heli at the military base.

>>563454648
>>563454854
It is pretty chill to camp out somewhere and just observe the A-life.

>>563454854
>>563454648
why didnt he just look at the pathing in the sdk?

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>>563457317

>>563454854
>go to garbage once
>see 3 bandits at that one little spot
>go to garbage again
>see 3 bandits at that one little spot
>3 bandits literally every single time at that spot by the entrance
such amazing deep alife... how did gsg do it...

>>563330469
Thats bullshit.
In the very first fucking game, if you got two? Three? Of a certain chem anomaly and then went and stood in the chem fields, it healed you and repaired all your shit.

Aek971
Aek973
Ak107
Ak108
Are all real and awesome.
BAAAAAAARS.

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Saw this in the previous thread, is it good or nah?

So how does GSC move forward with Stalker post Stalker 2 ending? Like it has to be either the Strelok ending or Skif ending but like for the strelok ending it would be trying to reopen the zone but that would just be retreading ground we've already covered in 2 unless they massively expand the map and sections like Pripyat or make his ending result in major changes to the layout of things.
Meanwhile if you go forward with Skifs ending sure narratively it gives them a lot of room to play with "new zones" but then that departs from the slav charm of the series

goodniight /sg/

>>563493664
From what I've read, with Skif's ending, all those anomalous events in other countries are just that, just activity. Not new artifacts or mutants, There's still only the one zone, where c-con tore into the noosphere. Wouldn't be a retcon, besides ngl, there's no way GSC is going to move Stalker outside of Ukraine/Chernobyl

>>563487478
Von Gyig and his art of Chorbobyl

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>>563356951
Torn between Yantar and Dead City.

Retail Yantar is too small for what it tries to portrait and this is hugely reflected on the helicopter crash side-task.
>Where is the bunker?!??!?!
Nigga, just walk 50 meters. It was clearly planned for this crash site to be pretty far away along with other things but snip snip Mr Sergei.

Dead City is pretty self explainatory. Its a cool location, hosts the Mercs and it had an interesting plot point/gameplay gimmick. Pripyat has a disapointing amount of buildings you can enter and explore so Dead City would be ideal for this too.

>>563457317
Trve stalking > datamining

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>>563513425
I thought about that with Yantar too. It could be explained that Vasiliev was still brainfucked from running into the Controller in X-16 and thus disoriented but it's pretty obvious him not being able to find the bunker is just a buildo leftover.

And, yes, Dead City is cool.

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How many of you guys still play base CoC? With or without addons, doesn't matter. Does anyone?

>>563518783
yes

>>563463987
old good new bad
>>563513425
Pripyat had an absolute ton of buildings you could enter, what do you mean? Buildings that actually had anything in them, that's a small number.

>>563518783
lol
lmao even

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7us89yUmj08
>New Metro Game
Metro chads....
We Won....

is demosfen any good? if not, what is the best SoC mod?

>>563524316
no, its a crashfest which you cant unpack to fix yourself. very hypocritical anti-stalker behavior

amk 1.4.1

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>>563524316
I know he's an alfa mod maker.

>>563532059
He's based.

>>563532059
>posted it again award.gif

>>563523495
Finally. As long as it's not garbage like Exodus was.

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>>563532059
>I'm not a small bitch to ask for all permissions, I ALFA MODMAKER take what I want and when I want!

>>563531731
Game crashes after trying to start new game

>Destroying Direct3D...
>* RM_Dump: textures : 0
>* RM_Dump: rtargets : 0
>* RM_Dump: rtargetsc : 0
>* RM_Dump: vs : 0
>* RM_Dump: ps : 0
>* RM_Dump: dcl : 0
>* RM_Dump: states : 0
>* RM_Dump: tex_list : 0
>* RM_Dump: matrices : 0
>* RM_Dump: lst_constants: 0
>* RM_Dump: v_passes : 0
>* RM_Dump: v_elements: 0
>* RM_Dump: v_shaders : 0
>refCount:pBaseZB 1
>refCount:pBaseRT 1
>DeviceREF: 1

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thoughts on this kino?

>>563539873
Disregard this. The read me specifies using full dynamic lighting, but it never saved the settings until i ran the game as administrator.

why was STALKER 2 never really fixed...?

>>563535740
>filename
You do NOT have 170+ chads.

>>563542259
He does, I've seen it

after a month of having my ip range "temporarily" blocked, I can finally post without having to jump through hoops and verify an email address.
crazy shit

>>563539873
>>563540254
well when you get your first crash and try to unpack the database files, you can't.
unless he changed that from early release versions.
godspeed anon, hope you get some enjoyment out of it at least

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>>563540365
Same reason Clear Sky wasnt. Now in all fairness at least they attempt to fix it, the issue is they still think they're a AAAA studio hence we see stuff like hyuge engine updates on an already released game, celebrating DLC and so on. Instead of saying "You know, maybe we should focus only on A-Life and how the game looks/runs" they go for what usually dazzles the general normie audience which is rather disapointing. You know you're dealing with some nonsense when the Oblivion """"remaster"""" actually runs better than Stalker 2, really aayyyyy's your mlyyyaaaa

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>>563545574
>hyuge engine updates on an already released game
You guys remember when you could buy a game on a CD and it was generally understood and expected that this CD contained a full game in a fully playable state? Man, I miss those days.

>>563540365
because you can't fix Unreal Engine

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>>563546449
I was gonna say "lets not pretend that OG Stalker games released flawlessly" but truthfully, i played a tiny bit of 1.0000 SoC and besides a couple of nitpicks, the game ran and played fine. Sure it still has all the crazy bugs they fixed over time but you can still very much play and complete the game as is. The issues of S2 on the other hand to this day are too much to bear for me personally. I dont like how the game runs horribly, i dont like the fucked HDR-like effect the moment you enter or exist interiors, i dont like how the game tricks you with spawninbg things around you instead of naturally running into them, i dont like the narrative, i dont like how videogamey it all feels with stuff like replacing money with "koupons", NPCs parotting lines until you accept their task and clear distinction between "good and bad" stalkers and i especially dont like how they released an SDK that is One FUCKING TERABYTES large like WHAT?!?!??!?!?

To be brutally honest, you'd need to do some huge refactoring to bring the game into something close to the originals and while this IS the direction they're going with, what with the engine update and all that, i think its gonna take some serious effort to pull it off because its been like what, almost 2 years since the game came out and it still has issues it had since release with updates being "regularly" shipped. Its just sheerly disappointing thats all.

>>563548704
I'm happy as fuck it doesnt look like that.
massive W

>>563545574
Alife is already present and fixed you whiny fucking faggot.

>>563546449
>buy fallout
>comes in cool box with fat manual and concept art
>20 years later
>buy fallout 76
>comes in standard disc case with a digital key on a cardboard disc
those were good times

>>563540365
Don't listen to the other faggots
It's actually fixed right now

>>563548853
Funny how people 15 or so years ago thought this would be peak stalker.

>>563548903
This is the part where you post hard evidence to back up your claim.

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>>563549208
That other guy is a faggot. That DOES look like peak stalker.

>>563548704
where did you get this image? this looks amazing

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>>563549465
For me personally, there are times where i think less is more. There's fun stuff and then there's bloat.

>>563549717
Its obviously an edit, i ran into and saved since forever ago. Im afraid you gonna have to stick to the soup mods you already know of to get something close to such obsurdness.

>>563549208
>post proof
>and no I won't accept actually playing the game or reading the patch notes

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>>563548704
Yeah, times have truly changed. If you think about it, it's pretty messed up that a triple A game can release in a bugged state these days and people don't really say much.

>>563549029
They really were. I wish I'd appreciated them more.

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>>563546449
>posting this in a stalker thread

>>563551013
I don't understand what you're getting at.

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>>563550218
You could simply post the proof i asked you for and shut me up but instead you trying to "put the blame on me" for not trying out the game for the 4th time in a row. I gave it enough second chances at the moment and the only way i see myself giving it another go is AFTER the engine update ships in hope that it actually doesnt run as bad. Until then i have zero obligation to try playing it just to prove a point.

>>563550247
Its a common trend with modern releases. They come out in a shoddy state, a big part of players say "But they will patch it surely!!!" instead of heavily critisizing it so developers think "cool, we can release this thing NOW, get paid NOW and worry about fixing it later." Its sad but its true.

>>563545357
thanks bro. the version i downloaded was bundled with AA2. The new UI design fucks hard. And the graphics look better than anything gammafags can imagine.

>>563550214
I agree that it looks extremely bloated (four outfit/armour slots for fuck's sake) but the general layout and aesthetic of pouches and zips fucks.

>>563548704
>performance issue caused by shitty PC (pretending SOC didn't have huge switch distance pauses, CS didn't rape every computer known to man with how non-performant the godrays were, and COP didn't kick everyone's asses)
>a contrast issue
>lying about alife because you didn't actually play the game
>crying about the story you haven't played through
>complaining that they're using pre-USSR Ukrainian currency instead of roubles because that's somehow "videogamey"
>crying about repeated lines (ignoring all the repeated lines in all the prior games, including the ones that became memes
>crying about an SDK not being puny
Meanwhile S2 is the actual nearest companion to the OT and all you fags can do is cry and shill for freeplay tarkov trash.

>>563551468
Play the game. Actually play it. All the proof is right there and you're refusing it because it would involve playing the game instead of crying because a hammer and sickle icon got removed from something.

>>563551505
Problem... Game randomly crashes. Just randomly. But especially when loading. My PC is very strong so it's definitely not the issue, but the log thinks im using a pentium III.

>>563552180
The general look and feel does look nice but gameplay wise it looks like a nightmare.

>>563553402
>The game is fixed because... i said so, TRUST ME!
Nigga u gay

I came in my fucking dirty diaper again

>>563554828
(you) are invited to Gamma

>>563554828
G-General Voronin..........

>>563548704
>that pic
This is a mess

>>563533005
>As long as it's not garbage like Exodus was.
I did like the scenes with Anna though, she is best wife.

>>563540365
no passion

>>563548704
>played a tiny bit of 1.0000 SoC and besides a couple of nitpicks, the game ran and played fine
you can literally play 1.00 soc right now and maybe do it on an old pc if you want the legitimate experience. it makes it very clear how retarded it is to defend stalker 2

>>563540226
Not interested if its VR only again

>>563540226
It's the Stalker killer

>>563533005
>Exodus
>Garbage
Contrarian faggot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqQt-C6KB_8

>>563540365
Are you retarded? It is fixed

Is SoC Vanilla Ultimate Addon good?

>>563540365 >>563545574
>>563546449
>>563547782

>>563565102 >>563551468
>>563583961
>563549208
>563554234 (fuck you)
this
>>563584259
>>563540365

Hey Grok... Yeah talkin 2 u FAGGOT...! I downloaded Gamma... just 2 DELETE IT! SUCKED IN ... IM PLAYING GOLDSPHERE AHAHAHAHAHA U Ghey FROG CUNT IM TALKING TO THE DOLL BABY HEHEHEHE.....

>>563585279
what a high quality post this is...

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Just finish GoldSphere god CNPP was so fucking buggy, almost lost the fucking run due to the Monolith founder not being neutral and thus preventing me from talking to him fuck
Anyway 8.5/10 mod, any story mods as good as this one?

>>563208375
they all suck. spark would be cool if it wasn't just neo clear sky with a schizo leader.

>>563339668
>>>/v/736968664
i think its just one assblasted autist terminally online on /v/ and this thread. they simply hate PS so they keep calling it an extraction shooter as a lie to try and discredit it
or maybe he just heard "theres a corpse run when you die" out of context and decided that means extraction słoppa? i honestly dont like that part but you can literally just uncheck that option when creating your save, half the players do that

>>563566395
You can "literally" play the alpha builds right now too. That doesn't somehow make stalker 2 shit just because you can't run it.

>>563598094
>it's "terminally online" to call a tarkov clone a tarkov clone
Faggots like you need to stop taking garbage like that game and calling them "Stalker-likes". Survarium, even the asset flip scam that never sold Areal were closer to a "Stalker-like" than furry tarkov, shitting pants in vostok, or into the shittious will ever be.

>>563540365
>promise massive game with shitloads of features old and new
>build it on shaky framework that fundamentally can not support key promised functions like render distance, A-life, lighting, fucking binoculars
>people throw a fit when game ships in extremely gimped state
>proceed to spend 18 months repairing and refining absolutely everything else other than the main missing features in the hopes it will distract the community
>it doesn't

The game is objectively in an insanely better and more playable state than it was in the first month of release, but GSC is trying really hard to ignore the fact that they shot themselves in the foot hard when they went with UE for their engine. The game was fixed in 95 ways, but not in the 5 that are most glaringly fucked and the autistic community cares about the most.

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>>563602360
Pipe down nigga, Silverfish is literally more Stalker than Stalker 2. You should try playing it sometime
People are calling you terminally online based on the fact you show up almost every time its mentioned kek

>>563603923
>furshit with pronouns
kill yourself

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>>563602176
i can run stalker 2 at 80-100 fps maxed, but the fact i cant run it at a steady 165-200~fps maxed is deranged. the fact nobody can run it at consistent 150+fps maxed even with a 7950x and 5090 is deranged. games just run like shit these days
with that said, my concern was moreso the abysmal bugs and glitches that stalker 2 had moreso than performance

>make stalker 2 shit
Oh no, you misunderstood, performance and bugs alone dont make a game shit. Stalker 2 accomplishes that by being a genuinely shitty boring downgrade of the series, but thats besides the point

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>>563583961
Kino
But let's be real here, if THQ hadn't sent Dean Sharpe to reel things in, game probably would've only released 5 years later or maybe not at all. Development hell at it's finest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuTO5r_d-co

>>563585279
Based STALKER‑hater hater.

>>563603923
It's not even close, gammatard.
>>563604919
>it's deranged that my computer can't run a brand new game at a retarded framerate
Do you play 10+ year old games on new hardware and think that's how new games should run too or some shit? Are you one of the retards that only played the OT a decade later with what would be beyond supercomputer-level tech in 2007 and think the games were super performant? Absolute mental illness.

>>563607880
Theres no excuse for a game like S2 to not get 165+fps with a 7950x, its not all that impressive in graphics (specially with the flaws and minuscle visual bugs everywhere, things that are usually costly to prevent)
Like genuinely 120-160 should be the standard these days for anyone with good, let alone high-tier specs, unless your brain has been successfuly set to shit-eating goy consoomer mode. Contemporany games that are actually not-dogshit usually do, in fact, run at these pretty high framerates without issues while probably looking better
>and think the games were super performant?
Despite their problems, they actually succeeded at reaching reasonable framerates compared to how the cpu/gpu tech was doing at the time. In fact back then something like 1080/60fps was a perfectly based standard. It just so happens we have evolved past that standard and some shitter devs (ie: stalker 2 devs) cant keep up


Shitty devs making games that run like shit is inexcusable. Hardware in recent years has gotten 1300% better for my machine learning bullshit, 500-1000% better for all my other computer graphics bullshit, 800~% better for my data science bullshit, 500-1000% better at my GANs for helping me with background art, whatever the hell i do with it. With that in mind, its not too much to ask for games to run like 50% better instead of 50% worse

And just because i have a 7950x that doesnt mean i dont care about the kids or broke niggas with an older midrange I5, because theres genuinely zero real reason why they would struggle running these games. It would be a win/win for everybody, they get to play and the developers get to make more money. But unfortunately the people behind (whatever the performance bottlenecks are in S2) suck at their jobs, but thankfuly they dont suck as much as the people in charge of designing the gameplay or else i wouldnt even be able to cross 60fps

>>563607880
>gammatard
This comment is funny because the PS guy has a bitter disdain for modfags and SPECIFICALLY anomaly/gamma
To be honest he is like the non-shitter version of someone like Grok. He has a ""vision"" except he is actually competent enough to make it through his own game, which is strongly associated with having a less terrible vision for the gameplay

>>563234072
Bugs... easy on the Tourist's Delight...

>>563298375
Can someone give me a qrd? Which version is it for?

>>563613493
>muh amd cpu
That doesn't magically make modern games run at lightspeed just because you feel entitled to it. That's not how anything works. That's not how gaming has ever worked.
>hurr durr I threw core cpus/ryzens at a 2007 game with 2003 assets and it runnedededed fine so
retard