Chicken wings edition.__________________________________________________________________________>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.>Quickstart Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/1cnQeURGCjHTRPOGJH8G5ijP1fw5vbVWSE7opABcBpNk>Start Guide, beginner tips, and much morepastebin.com/FUPEbLiv>Mod Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/1JPA0hQZVJ6mSvTsp6Sy3CoAkObJOKeoPHEamDC19Lio>Miscellaneous Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/103nyaAM5PKgBwuZ35jRbv7VM7tEcvi1Scv6boOMe1RM>HUD Guide, modding basics, mod reviews, and AMK mod guidedocs.google.com/document/d/10yi79NUFhJrFO4hmGeKqaWSw35BJQv0Ve0OK94ioMEw>Performance Guides, Steam settingspastebin.com/nzXEevG7>Common misconceptions about Shadow of Chernobyl game mechanicsmetacognix.com/stlkrsoc/WhatYouKnowThatAintSo.html>Running S.T.A.L.K.E.R. on Linuxdocs.google.com/document/d/11HcSFSyb0DX3ymModXZ9tNdpTuktTioC>Xetrill's Modified LuaJIT for CS/CoP - improves performance, especially in script-heavy modsmega.co.nz/#F!BIISmQgK!KHZR01ljznUqJlcHUax-aQ>Game Repacks + Modding Toolsmega.nz/folder/gSBHmYYK#9-5ONxPwwChJhYSPWdKb5Q>Downgrade Patches (drag-and-drop)mega.co.nz/#F!M4BmDRCL!vfze70GSJDyv-HzWn7Dwww>S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Mod Portal Wikisdk.stalker-game.com/en/index.php?title=S.T.A.L.K.E.R._MOD_portal__________________________________________________________________________Perdido en la Zona >>568567163
Modlists>C-Con Modlistdocs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GgBFCRIbc7TQ5DwWHvWaridX1G64PYoWItkLyr3pBPk>Various Story Mod recscheeki.zone__________________________________________________________________________S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy Mods>AMK AE 1.4.1+OWR+ARSENAL+SWO mergemega.nz/#F!4Q5SmIaJ!hu6jptaxeY3wQbIF2GzbWQ>Anon's /sg/ AMK repomega.nz/folder/KvhhSCwD#7pTnDImcvnVOvJfQUgImtw>Oblivion Lost Remake 2.5disk.yandex.ru/d/hmvQK9g8JDY_HA?w=1>Vector of Alienationdrive.google.com/drive/folders/1N2ksZBmO7Qz4cdUWose7X1iJw0nFnG05>OP 2.2 (Joint Pack, Cumulative Pack)rentry.org/cumpack22docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1me0bO3B_ZnwHLOYXqZDNyPfdFAL8nqp1oNkrbyFZ7cM>Shadows Addon + Anon's English translationap-pro.ru/forums/topic/1639-shadows-addon-08/files.catbox.moe/x1d4r5.7z>Goldspheredrive.google.com/drive/folders/1lrrZiFZWaio1_SQsBMziCA8QNVAjqr8X>Lost Alphamoddb.com/mods/lost-alpha/downloads>Spatial Anomalymoddb.com/mods/spatial-anomaly-update-4/downloads/spatial-anomaly-update-4-1-rus>Wind of Timemediafire.com/file/a7ycornwrv96tn5/Wind_of_Time.7z/file>SoC: Updatevk.com/topic-147828435_49497922__________________________________________________________________________Call of Chernobyl Repos & Offshoots>CoC Repomega.nz/folder/QfgQFR7J#_OXdHj2L13rfsX6UpFrVkA>Anon's CoC Definitive Editiondrive.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 optionsAlternatively, use this registry file mega.nz/#!uoYinJ7I!Lqj2DNIAkaVkcFUa1PLZzj80cVhAFK5D-9zbU2Iy5KI>IWPmoddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-packmoddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack/addons/cotz-quests-and-mechanics-for-iwp__________________________________________________________________________S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2>S2 Mod/Performance recommendationspastebin.com/Ma6W4BcM
Fuck S2, fuck nu-GSC
>>570660308based
These beef and cheese farts are greasy
As we were saying, ziggers are bad.
>>570661713
>>570660308>>570660407/sg/ is the only place where you can even find a non S2 enjoyer. It's so sad.They all love it. Even though it performs like shit, years for binoculars, the bubble, plot holes, it really was a disappointment. I got a new pc for this game and I didn't even fucking touch it after two hours.It just makes me sad.Should I try it again?
I am kindly requesting the following: for low grade shitposters to fuck off, and removal of the stalker 2 link from the OP.
>>570661862>They all love it. I wouldn't say I love it, but I think it's alright at best. It feels more like a Metro game than STALKER though and I wouldn't even rank at it as being better than any of the games from the OG trilogy (CS is based and I'm tired of pretending it's not).>Should I try it again?Just wait the next few months imo, it's improved a lot since the initial months of release but the DLC is (supposedly) so close now that you might as well hold off and enjoy the other ones again.
>>570662036I keep seeing mention of these shitposters - who are they, and what is their endgame?
limansk should have never been a thing
>>570662036>removal of s2 linkOkay hohol.
>>570663005>petty revisionismNice try, Mykola!
>>570662036so you want yourself to fuck off?agreed.
something lurks in the shadows....
>>570675006man, fuckin LURKI wonder if they'll ever get back to making their own FPS, or if that's just gone now
I beat SoC, should I jump to CoP or is Clear Sky worth playing? I've read that it was a lot less atmospheric with a lot of stupid gunfight and none of the mystery that made SoC appealing
>>570663005That's not problem, it should've been made more interesting instead of a corridor cowadooty shooter level, like prypiat in Soc.
>>570688739Get the SRP mod and use the alternate ballistics plugin, i've been in your shoes, the game seems fine at first but then you realize how jarring the mechanics are and you'll want to finish ASAP
>>570689602
>>570689602happy birthday, anon
>>570688739I'd say CoP and then Clear Sky if you have any doubts; I saved CS for last so I could have More STALKER if I really needed it.
>>570688739I'd say skip it. Replaying SOC and COP is always more worth it than doing even a fresh playthrough of CS.
>>570688739go straight to CoP. CS offers some cool areas and moments but it also offers the worst the trilogy has to offer.
>shitpost opshan't reply. someone bake some real bread
>>570718087Looks the same as the previous one you schizo
>>570720339no.
>>570718087The OP pic is shitpost-esque but the rest looks fine, looking past the Spanish.The "Various Story Mod recs" is cool but, for fucks sake, how about we not edit the OP on a whim? It's getting cluttered.
>>570693848>how jarring the mechanics areyou mean the weapons and faction war shit?>>570702897>>570709346kill yourselves
>>570688739soc->cs->cop
>>570735692we can remove lost alpha and wind of time instead
>>570739030Keep LA in! It's legendary.
>OP is somehow a shitpost (no real explanation provided)>’no’poster still hasn’t been banned Grim.
I can't send messages in d*scord for some reason so I'm asking here. Playing GAMMA and currently trapped in lab X8. When I try to leave I CTD, get this fuckhueg error messagehttps://filebin.net/4qcat0asvoeumijh
>>570740783try enable debugging mode and teleport out with console commands, otherwise you're fucked and will have to reload an earlier save
>>570741442>reload an earlier saveHaha, yeahgood thing I kept more than 1 hardsave and my handful of quicksaves and they're not all inside X8 heh
is this peak stalker modding?
>>570743160Give me a machine translation and link and I'd be happy to let you know
>>570740149fuck off.
>>570743774https://www.moddb.com/mods/zero-investment/downloads
>>570739976its already in other things like the modlists, along with priboi story
>>570740149no.>gif unrelated
>>570743825>no argument
>>570742068did you fix it, you should always give AIs like grok the error lines they always fix it
>>570746452I'll try to get it working and try it tomorrow
>>570740783wrong log "danie"
>>570749861Which one is the correct one then? Anomaly/appdata/logs seems to be the only relevant one
New Mier Koe slog video just dropped:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN4BVOmHIa4
>>570750868that doesnt look lie a typical log to me
>>570751538who?>god awful rust inventory uithats first thing to get modded out.
>>570753038It's just the end with the error message
Is STALKER 2 good now or not?
>>570659224hello, i'm torn between these sandbox mods call of chernobyl and anomaly, any guidance
>>570763035coc is the predecessor to anomaly. it is closer to vanilla mechanics out of the box and has a number of addons available. not as modular as anomaly.anomaly has a huge amount of addons and configuration options. out of the box it comes with more mechanics than the original games. default settings are meme-tier.
>>570762275Fuck you zigger.You can't ruin this general.
>>570770957Fuck you, nigger
>>570737514>>570738170>I wasted my time with CS so you should too!Genuinely ill intentioned anons
>>570775819>implying thats what actually happened and not just your made up bullshit
>>570775819>>570776737no. fuck off.
>>570762275It's okay, but not great. I'm hoping the DLC in a few months makes it worth playing again.
>>570776795>>570776737yes.
bemp
clear sky existing is non canon past the clear sky game
Should I play ANOMALY vanilla or go directly to GAMMA?
>>570809248anomoly if ur an autistic homo
>>570809248gayma if ur an autistic homo
softlocked alternativa after getting the don't kill anyone in agropom quest ~10 hours after killing everyone in agropom. softlocked last stalker because dushman won't drop the manuscript and none of the other story triggers will work. what story mod should i get mad at next
>>570809248technically by playing gamma u will be playing anomaly at the same time so might as well skip to gamma
>>570809248GAMMA is just anomaly with a fuckload of addons. You should probably just check out the popular modpacks
>>570809248does the "how can i help you" thing actually serves a purpose? never got anything more than that line
>>570775819kek true
Smell your fingers If they smell like money, weed, or pussy…You’re doing good.If they smell like poop…That’s bad
>>570811052That’s a very astute observation, anon.
>>570812765that's how you get the fetch quests from npcs in cs. but it's bugged and if you don't complete some after asking about it in a given location you will not be able to get new ones in a next location.
>>570748698Lost Alpha, for some reason, is actually not included in the C-Con mod spreadsheet.
Played 5 minutes of the anomaly VR modWalked around agropromDomed a scientist
>>570749291No, but atleast I could fast travel out of there. Only problem is now that outskirts is fucked, crashes everytime I try to load that level.Also someone that uses shitcord please tell me why I can't post messages. I did the newbie registration thing on the gamma discord but my messages still disappear 1 millisecond after posting
What happend to this general?Where did everybody go?Did GAMMA cause all the oldfags to kill themselves?
>>570848175the chicken wing/clear sky ee spammer hijacked the op. i guess the oldfags are just waiting for this thread to get archived and a non shitpost thread to get made to resume posting.
>>570849167Are these shitposts with us in the room right now, anon?
>>570749723>>570746452Followed up. I don't think I'm enough of a discord zoomer to understand what's going on but the bandit camp roughly played the same as SoC
>>570849167Poo eyes, semen nachos, feather leather coat
>>570852856Looks like it could be fun
>>570822884there are a few mods that arent.I wonder why?:)
>>570819262doesnt srp fix this?
>>570848175people eventually leave
>>570871775Niggers are hyperstimulated and can't pay attention to muh stalkan.... niggas come and go, but stalkan is here to stay
Still haven't started my stalker 2 playthrough. Did they fix loot or does a mod fix loot? I am spoiled by all the mods that add a lot of random shit to the loot. I dont like getting bandages and bread eveeytime
>bilateral shitpostingAn interesting strategy, but what is their agenda?
>>570659224What happens if you play stalker 2 at 3 a.m?
>>570899303You get mad at yourself for not playing something better.
>>570899303you dont get any sleep
>>570899897
fucking sniper btrs
Playing this series for the first timeAre enemy body armors in this series made out of titanium? How are basic military grunts able to tank two point blank shotgun shots to the torso like it's nothing? What the actual fuck
>>570910027generally, go for headshots, uses shotguns on mutants.rifles, etc on humans and armored targetsstill headshots are king
Any idea why my game goes full fisheye every time I boot it up?I have to load it, go into settings, change FOV by any amout, safe settings, then save and reload that save.
>>570914636your fov settings changed probablyedit them to something else, then back to what you want them
>>570915689Yeah, the thing is they revert to like 200 FOV every time I exit and re-enter the game, you can't even set the FOV this high in the game. I set the FOV to whatever and save it and play just fine but when I end the play session and re-start the game, it just goes back to this weird 200 FOV setting.Like I said, even changing the FOV in the settings does nothing on its own, I have to change FOV setting back to what I want, then save game, and then load that save, for the FOV to go back to normal.
I hate how expensive everything is in OLR 3.0, it's so stupid, the only saving grace is selling artifacts.I do like new additions like the anomaly removers and artifact containers plus bags to hide your stuff.
>>570917859What's the difference between goldfish and stone blood (In stalker 2) I don't get it, they're both 2 weight and 2 radiation.
Sorry anon, didn't meant to quote you, it was a misclick.
>>570916026maybe a permission problem where the game cant write to the config file.try white listing the install directory and possibly running the game as administrator
What areas do we thing DLC 2 might add to the map? I'm guessing Cold Island is guaranteed, but that still leave the Sandy Plateau, Khorogod forest, and the North of Pripyat area
>>570926731What do you mean what areas do we think they might add? We know they're adding the nuclear power plant and iron forest.
>>570927839Are you.... dyslexic anon? I said>>570926731>DLC 2There hasn't been a previous DLC, Cost of Hope is the first DLC, so why do you think I am talking about Cost of Hope when I saw DLC 2?
>>570929092>Are you dyslexic>Proceeds to explain something that has nothing to do with dyslexia.Try not to sound smarter than you are, it never works.
>>570930192>Proceeds to explain something that has nothing to do with dyslexia.>Inability to properly read or understand something stated in basic English>Dyslexia is a neurological disability regarding being unable to accurately recognize words. >HOW ARE THESE TWO RELATED!?If you weren't dyslexic maybe you could've correctly read what I wrote the first time instead of going off about something no one mentioned. Retard.
>>570848175it's been like that for a few months now. the existence of stalker 2 and popularity of gamma caused some anons to resign for sure. there were also some annoying avatarfags and spammers there that made me leave for a while and i imagine it happened to many others as well. shame, /sg/ used to be comfy.
>>570762275ORB (now orbbackfromdead or smth) on YT has a couple good overviews of what feature differences there are between the OT and S2.They're making efforts to approach feature parity, but they're not there yet.
>>570775819For all its faults, CS has a lot of missions to experience that aren't in the other games.That's why I say "if you want more STALKER after ShoC and CoP, go play CS with the overhaul of your choice.">>570916026Find out which file sets FOV, right-click, Properties, set to Read-Only.You'll need to change it back if/when you want to change any other graphical settings, but that'll fix it until then.Source: learned a bunch of shit about Unreal Engine to make Icarus stop force-resetting my graphics.
bump
>>570933128Damn I guess GSC going scorched earth on their biggest fanbase is also not helping.Oh well.
is gamma the best modpack ever made?
>>570962209It certainly is the modpack ever made
>>570962209No, gamma's graphics are shit (too bloomy and bland and dark) the crafting/hobo phase autism is unbearable, and the overall mod feels too bloated and opiniated.make your own modlist that captures a certain congruent theme (like vanilla+ to realism styles) and switch between playthroughs if you want. my modlist is pretty solid look
Party
>>570967640I don't know why mods love to extend the hobo phase to infinity, Vanilla clear sky was challenging even if the hobo phase was a fraction of anomeme's.Hell, just make the end game full of RPG and grenades and you have a challenge even if you're king of the zone.
>page 10
>>570986873true, natural difficulty beats self-inflicted masochism, cuz how does duty and freedom recruit new members and give them assault rifles and armor and it takes you 100 hours of grinding to get a decent gear?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0htFgnSgO8
>>570986873You know, to give it some credit and upon reflection I'll say that I think Clear Sky's hobo phase is the best out of the trilogy assuming you're playing close to vanilla. SoC will always be the best but suit upgrades are easy to find due to no repair or upgrade system and the economy is a joke; you're practically swimming in money after beating Agroprom.I could even argue that Pripyat barely even has a hobo phase if you look around for the caches and how cheap Nimble's prices are on ordering literal end-game gear at the start - 60k for gear that will last you to the end of the game and you don't even have to wait in real time for them.
>>570989618it's prypiat.
>>570962209made?
>>570989618Prypiat is extremely exploitable, just sleep for 10 days at a time and collect artifacts and it's ez money.
>>570988734because they have money and stocks of gear for people who will follow ordersyou're asking "why is an AR15 a thousand dollars and body armor with plates another thousand when the military will give you some just for signing up"they're not yours, they're the faction's, and when you die they'll be washed, patched up and handed over to the next guy
>>570990503>>570991661>prypiatFuck off.
Got all the black bitches mad, cuz my main bitch vanilaShe's tryna get her groove back like Stella
>>570990503no.
>>570996582>krindzh
Is the movie good?
>>571019482It's a great movie, but you will be extremely disappointed if you go in expecting it to be some action filled sci-fi like the games. It's a very VERY slow burn introspective film about the deepest human desires and does indeed involve a wish granter.
>>571019482you'll be very disappointed.>>571022319>>>>It's a great movie
>>571009260which map?
Stuff like that…
>last day of the nightshift
>>571031116cemetery of old mod called doomed city
>>571031116>>571046490
So what's the word on the DLC? What have the community managers said on Reddit/Twitter? It's so fucked they won't commit to a release date.
Finish Path in the mist and holy fuck the level design was good, any good mods sg recommends? or should i go play VoA?
What’s up with the ugly ass screenshots that have been posted from the official stalker xitter page? Shit looks like dead by daylight and that is definitely NOT a good thing (they’re both on unreal, so I guess it shouldn’t be surprising).https://x.com/stalker_thegame/status/2067615863268675673?s=46
I don't remember cold island every being mentioned, cut content or lore I missed?
>>571046490Eng, Ru?How hard is it to get running these days?
>>571069131Its old, had a kinda broken english translation. I got stuck and dropped it towards the end.there may be a new version of it somewhere like ap-proit just ran on 1.0004 patch
>>571071479go be a retard somewhere else
>>571071324>>571071479>>571072293no.
>>571067782it is mentioned sparsely, it had something to do with the first caribbean experiment apparently. it's mentioned in one document from x8 in call of pripyat that the scientists had a group at the caribbean for testing some psi-wave over a long distance kind of shit but it helped them discover the noosphere instead. nugsc came up with the idea that it also caused the cooling pond of the power plant to freeze for some reason creating the cold island.
>>571071479Hey so buddy, if you're gonna talk shit, do you have an alternate source?C'mon, let's see you prove that you're something other than a troll. Prove you actually want to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem.Surely you're actually concerned about people's opinions, right? You're not just threadshitting for giggles, are you?
>>571080937>source!!!>deflecting>he supports RussiansNo verification necessary.
>>571071479Where's your new site then huh, fucking piece of shit.
>>571071324>>571071479Samefag.
>>571071324>loading guns with one hand>coding with the other
>>571071219Thank you for understanding.Sorry I am German so such things are often not clear.
>>571082871Try finger
>>571067220I wouldn't even be able to tell that this screenshot is from STALKER.
>>571086464Right? It looks like fucking shit.
>watch stalker 2 dlc trailer>youtube recommends me gamma videosit's over
>>571093241It's just what's most popular now. It'll be ok, anon. We can always play SoC again.
>watch stalker shoc trailer>youtube recommends me this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLH6WKigFtg
>>571059427Where'd you pick it up? How's the translation?
do you think if you replay the trilogy its better to play CS first because it's a prequel to SOC
I love stalker so much why does it have to suffer>>571059427Voices, Episodes, Im trying to play wind of time but it keeps crashing. OLR 2.5 of course.Also questionWhat is so bad about 3.0? I wanted to play it but I decided to do my fifteenth 2.5 run.
Now that the dust has settled, what the fuck was his problem?
holy shit this part in rttz where you have to lure 12 electro anomalies into towers while zombies spawn. what the fuck were you thinking jekan holy FUCK
>>571051868I don't understand either. If it was ready to be released this Summer, then they should have already given a definitive date. We're more than halfway through June now. I'm starting to think they're going to push it into the Autumn (September - November) and at that point it could even be pushed to 2027. Which is exactly what I was saying would probably happen months ago.
>>571067782Cold Island is where Dalin did the 2nd Carribean Experiment. "Scar" and the Sparkers broke in and interrupted the experiment, which caused the cooling pond to freeze over, and created the anomalies outside the zone that destroyed Skiff's apartment.It was also mentioned on the hand drawn map you could get for preordering STALKER 2, in the top right hand corner there is an are marked "snow??" which is a reference to Cold Island and the frozen cooling ponds.
>>571101624ModDBTranslation is pretty good, not too story heavy so any errors aren't too noticeable, i finished it in about 5 hours or so? but do be warn, zombies and special forces has a fuckton of health. use As-Val or AP rounds to kill these chinese stealth suit from FO3 lmao
>>571117107It was also marked on the leaked developer map from before STALKER 2 came out. Everything in the boxed area in the top right is Cold Island
>>571083859but whole>>571102192>do you think if you replay the trilogy its better to play CS first because it's a prequel to SOCit is not.soc->cs->cop
>>571102583>What is so bad about 3.0?hi_flyer just added a ton of bullshit and it's got some bugs and stability issues, iircSOP has been out for a bit but people in here have been shitting on it for unspecified reasons and defend 2.5 as the superior version, so who knows. Apparently there's also an OGSR version of 2.5 but I'm not sure if it has a translation yet.
[SESH]
>>571130549I do recall seeing the new models and high res bullshit that kinda pissed me off back in the day, is that stuff still in? (I'm a low poly high texture def maxxi)
not this guy again
>>571099075damn i remember that. those were better times for /sg/
>>570659224Guys I found an artifact.
>>571177986https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqxnhCle3pY
literally at the bottom of page 10. i'll bump it, why not.
>>571193036the hero /sg/ needs
>>571193036thanks, my mangood of you.
>>571133212Which guy are you referring to, anon?
>>571197603
>>571193036/sg/ will prevail.
>>571199489Great reply! Keep up the good work!
>>570659224if GSC removed all russian themed content from their new releases why dont they remove the AK and most other weapons since they are russian made?
>>571213583see that shit in parentheses? that was your answer dum dum
*pokes /sg/ with stick*
>>571218390That doesn't even make sense, you stupid fucking nigger.
thats bait
>>571224714How have you not been banned yet?
>>571233906if you think I am breaking 4chan rules, feel free to report me.just note that submitting false reports is against the rules, and may result in you being banned.thank you for flying 4chan your friendly neighborhood memeline. Have a wonderful day.
>>571223825
>>571234428kek, dat megnight /sg/
>>571240419good night, anon
What am i in for?
DLC when?
Not gonna lie fellas I LOVE playing with my dick and I have no idea why. Recently figured out when I look at certain things like women's breasts it gets big and playing with it is even more fun.Only problem is that when you get into the rhythm and do it too much some weird white shit shoots out. Lot thicker than the usual yellow stuff that pours out and it smells like chlorine. Anyone know what's up with that?Thanks everyone. I hope you're all having a good summer weekend.
>>571288776typa shit monolithians would post on the stalkernet ong
>>571081802>Holden mentioned
>>571199489>>571218390>>571224714>>571234276Take your little nigger ass outside
>>571287005vanilla - largely unplayable wading through ankle high irradiated water while you savescum grenade indicators. modded - the same but faction wars might be 25% functional. it is genuinely a miracle clear sky did not nuke the company from orbit
>>571312515What am I looking at here?
>story mod has custom maps with hardcoded grass density so every encounter is unplayablei do not think i will be Returning To The Zone
This is probably the strangest screenshot I've ever taken in all my years of stalking.
>>571305108Alright im gonna download the less grenade mod, who the fuck thought 100% accurate grenades was a good idea?
>>571323325Makes you wonder how much testing Clear Sky went through, if any.
kushay yablatchka suka
>>571304972congrats you can follow a reply chain with 2 posters in the thread.SPESH
>>571315270you can't change grass settings in coc through console?is it a really early build of coc, because otherwise you should be able to r__detail_density
>>571317347really?
>>571317347how'd that happen>>571327053>delet this.png
>>571326363NTA, but it's SESH
>>571327582they're both SPESH
>>571328159Alright, man
Who here waiting for S.T.R.A.N.G.E.R.
>>571330776idk anything about it, redpill us :)
>>571313375A shitty mod.
>>571342775How would you even know? Have you ever played it?
>>571342775what is the name of the mod???
>>571362329wrong thread broalso off topic.
>>571362663no.
>>571362707yes.
zombie franchisezombie general
>>571323573leaked bugtracker confirmed that they were testing it with god mode enabled. which explains a lot.
>>571376035still you think they could see what was happening, even though they couldnt take any damagegranata!! thud thud thud thud, bang bang bang bangis perfekt Sergei
After all these years, visiting Yantar still gives me chills. Such an oppressive, heavy, gloomy atmosphere, it is so fucking well done. Mumbling zombies with scrambled brains, snorks in knee-deep stagnant water, Sakharov himself being a quirky, borderline insane, out of touch nerd who doesn't value human life in the slightest and sends assistants and loner randos alike on suicidal missions. Such an amazing location. I'm always excited to see how any mod I play for the first time interprets it.https://youtu.be/28uiPSyPINU?t=123
Is there any news about an SoC Update 2.0 release window? It's the mod I'm looking forward to most and I only have a few other ones I want to try besides it.
>>571394898>Is there any news about an SoC Update 2.0 release window?nopepicrel is from his latest english yt vid
>>571396102I know it's still in development, but I didn't know if he was targeting a 2027 release or something. It seems to be pretty much everything I could want in a mod, with the exception of maybe not quite enough new quests since I've played so many variations of SoC already so the progression through quests feels so incredibly familiar to me.
Why did they make Duty respawn at the bar, man.. Such an annoyance having to fight them nearly every time you wanna go through it if they're hostile
>>571385193Unless I'm misremembering I think Yantar is the only map that doesn't really turn to night at night, I vaguely remember going from Wild Territory at night to snag the Moonlight/Flash artifacts on the way and being met by the dreary orange skybox. Feels like a dream-like place out of time, very fitting.
>>571327429Location coordinates got fucked up.
>>571396457So, what-all does it add and change?>inb4 google itI want to hear what *you* are interested in, Anon. Also, >2026 Google
>>571406668A lot of visual changes that use modern rendering to actually make it look better instead of blurry and plasticy. The reworks to the indoor fog, shadow softening, stars at night and snowfall all look great to me.https://youtu.be/6p4m-Quo5UQ?t=1226It adds weapon upgrades like CS and CoP to SoC, but also reworks the UI and how it's all balanced. Some level geometry is getting changed and a couple new areas are being added, and there will be some quests added as well. There's a no character controller that makes movement more deliberate, but I don't know how I'll feel about that until I play it. Like I said, I'd like some more quests without going into full soup territory, but what I've seen of it looks really great for a vanilla+ style SoC mod, which tend to be my favorites outside of good freeplay, as in IWP/CotZ and not gaymma.
>>571402057It's not the only one, same goes for Dark Valley, Radar, Prypiat and the CNPP.
>>571376035That explains the fucking machine gun in the Cordon.
>>571333710Griga's new project, says it'll be even bigger than Stalker, the entire world has turned into various anomalous Zone and it has something to do with aliens and the bermuda triangle.
>nuked threadFucking janniesJCPOA 2027Holden
>>571414210well, no point until we actually see the thingon its own, the idea sounds neat, but there are a million games that sounded "neat" in previews and then turned out to be garbage
Has anyone talked about backporting the S2 map/assets/quests into XRAY or one of the customized XRAY ports?Quickest and easiest way to get all the classic STALKER features back in, I'd think, but then idk how hard it would be to make Xray render terrain (chunks?) rather than loading a single map at a time.
>>571393247home
>>571417543what?
>>571414210When I read about it, it kinda sounded like Oblivion Lost.
>>570660308>>570661862Stalker 2 goes pretty hard with modshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSYfe_6P4LoStill a long way off anomaly/gamma in terms of content, but even here people will bitch about those two, like they expect everyone to keep playing SoC at 800x600 on a 15" CRT.
>>571399437is this a joke?
>>571439270>hurrrr gamma brokill yourself now
>>571417543your meds sir
>>571451786calm down, pidor
>>571365183no.>>571451786
>>571399437Oh no, what did you do?
>>571455936try again.
>try getting back to STALKER for once>need to grab some documents or something inside a military base>said military base is occupied by high level niggas that can tank entire magazines of my shitty AK>sit around a corner thinking how I can approach this>feel something pressing against my back>wtf did I get flanked>turn around>it's some random loner that wandered in for some reason>he looks me dead in the eye, cocks his 5 dollar high point and storms in>gets two shots off before getting shredded by bulletsBased retard
>>571459868>cocks his 5 dollar high point and storms incan picture this>mfw
>>571439270Gaymma doesn't suck because of content or whatever, it sucks because it turns Stalker into a shitty Tarkov/milsim game.
>>571459868Kino, I love that shit
>>571459868I still have no idea if there is a correct way to do that mission, I almost always just storm in or run around the back and jump through a window.
>>571466707I've never stealthed it successfully. Your odds are better at night when there is a diminished presence. AMK certainly makes it harder, as there are 2 BTRs and a helicopter to attend with as well. So I don't even attempt the mission until I have an RPG and about 7 or 8 rockets for it.
>>571467828>I've never stealthed it successfully. Same. I've tried a lot of times over the years but never managed it, I always get seen or heard at some random point and then it's all over. The way I pretty much always do it is run around the back, jump in through the window and then run for the stairs. After that, I get on the roof and go down the ladder. It's the only way I've managed to get the shit and get out without taking any hits, but they still notice.
>>571460913What separates STALKER from milsim, in your opinion?The "alive, wounded, dead" health system, as opposed to "individual wounds/total blood" health system of ARMA?
Exactly
>>571460913most of those "shitty milsim games", especially Tarkov are inspired by Stalker. Putting some of their features back into Stalker is recursive. Frankly I love gamma and anomaly, but I've been playing these games for 19 fucking years, it gets hard to keep it fresh, just ask your parents.
S2 is worse than CS. I thought that by now it would be atleast playable but no. What a fucking disgrace.
>>571480513It is very playable if you're willing to spend literal car money on a PC, and spend an afternoon installing 50+ mods.
>>571480513Lack of proper a-life will forever make it literal sloppa.And with every update they pretend they finally "fixed it" by just changing some variables while the game still just spawns and despawns random shit within a tiny radius as if nobody would notice.
Yeah bro put a duty member that can turn hostile inside the bar where you can't attack.. SoC is a masterpiece in game design
>>571488187hahawhat did you do to make him hostile?
>>571488181its the same alife online-offline radius in the trilogy you retard
>>571480513>left hand holding gun to right side of head>immersion ruined
>>571492881Lol no its not, you can see NPCs across the entire map in CoP while they despawn in the UE sloppa making binoculars obsolete, hence why they didn't even bother including them. Also scopes only slighty zoom in your FoV, there is no magnification.
>>571468604>>571479203Stalker is not nor has it ever been a shitty milsim. If someone wants to play a good milsim, they can go play ARMA or HLL. If they want to play Stalker, they play Stalker. If they're a retarded child, they play gamma.
>>571492780I'm doing a Freedom playthrough and killed the duty guys near the freedom base, which turned all duty in the game hostile towards me... including the ones inside the bar area which respawn and the singular one inside the bar itself which you can't attack and have to lure outside
>>571493068>across the mapswitch_distance = 150 in game "meters"noob tube
>>571494243so its all your fault, what did you expect? really
>>571494576It's my fault for expecting the devs not to favor a specific faction and punish you for choosing the other by respawning members of the former in a mandatory hub area you constantly have to go through? alright
>>571493868Stalker is better as a milsim desu. The only good things about Vanilla Stalker is the atmosphere and the setting because the combat fucking sucks ass anyway
>>571495276Yes. And the devs and modern modmakers focused on combat. So now it sucks x2.>bro the zone was just hallucinations and human nature 2deep4u
>>571495276>Stalker is better as a milsim desu.You're a nigger.
Remember True Stalker?I remember.
>>571496838I only speak the truth, brother. The lack of focus on anomalies an mutants in mods suck indeed, but let's not forget that stalker is also a shooter and that it sucks at being a shooter
>>571497108supposedly they are still working on it and trying to implement real a-life. one can hope
>>571497115>it sucks at being a shooterWrong. I still remember a lot of the shootouts I had in vanilla SoC and no other shooter I've played comes close. The level design and GOAP that the enemy AI uses make for fantastic firefights. You've got the idea in your head that being a good shooter means 4 different tactical dildos attached to a gun and 3 different kinds of ibuprofen you need to take when you stub your toe followed by an anti-emetic to stop your head from spinning, and that's fucking retarded.
>>571497850No, my idea of a good shooter is aim being dependent solely on player's ability to aim, not some bullshit RNG mechanic that magically erases bullets because your gun has an accuracy rating for some god awful reason, or enemies that can only be reasonably killed with headshots. Vanilla stalker combat is the most immersion breaking shit ever and makes any mod that fixes it worth playing over vanilla
>>571498446>not some bullshit RNG mechanic that magically erases bullets because your gun has an accuracy rating for some god awful reasonLiterally just aim and shoot. This is the shittiest starting pistol and it works just fine in vanilla SoC. And don't be a retarded monkey who thinks the point of the options screen at the start is anything other than to show that enemies still die normally and your bullets work on master. People get far too excited to talk about the old misconception everyone already knows about that bullets did more damage on master.
>>571498978You're aware that the game increases your accuracy RNG if you take time between hits, right? You think I haven't read on how the stupid gunplay in this game works? And I know how the difficulty works. Basic enemies being able to tank half a mag if you aim at the torso is immersion breaking regardless
>>571466707>>571467828>>571468034Sam "Strelok" Fisher here1. Equip the knife before heading to the surface. It's the only weapon that doesn't make a sound when you quickload or get on the ladder2. Keep your flashlight off (NV is okay)3. Never quicksave in a room with sleeping enemies. They aren't sleeping while the game is loading4. Low crouch makes less noise than regular crouch5. Bushes are loud as fuck, don't tough them6. Right after you exit the tunnels, a patrol will spawn in and walk past you. Wait for them behind the trash can before you go7. Enter the building through the main entrance exactly between 23:00 and 00:00, it's the only time when the third floor is empty. Make sure you let all soldiers exit if you're early8. After collecting the documents, go to the roof and down the fire escape. The ladder is the hardest part, make sure to graze the wall while you fall or the sound will alert the enemies9. Go out through the hole in the fence and dart towards the exit. Checkpoint soldiers always spawn in regardless of whether the alarm was raised or not10. Profitt. sneak through Agroprom, bandit base and Cordon checkpoint at every playthrough
>>571498446>not some bullshit RNG mechanic that magically erases bulletsNo such thing. There is indeed maximum range limit for every bullet type that makes shots vanish after a certain distance, but it's a) not random and b) barely has any effect during vanilla gameplay (Clear Sky bridge section nonwithstanding)>>571499497>You're aware that the game increases your accuracy RNG if you take time between hits, rightIt doesn't. Crosshair size is a 100% accurate indicator of bullet spread. You might be confusing it with "time_to_hit" parameter, which doesn't affect accuracy in any way
>>571498446>>571498978>>571499497>>571501305
>>571499497>You're aware that the game increases your accuracy RNG if you take time between hits, right?WRONG.just because you read some shit doesnt mean its correct.I invite you to point to the specific engine code where that actually supposedly place.>Basic enemies being able to tank half a mag if you aim at the torso is immersion breaking regardlessyes they can tank a ton if the hurt or staggered animation is playing
>>571499497>You're aware that the game increases your accuracy RNG if you take time between hits, right?And? That's good. It differentiates aimed shots from spray and pray/run and gun.>Basic enemies being able to tank half a mag if you aim at the torso is immersion breaking regardlessStop using 19mm ammo to magdump an armored enemy's torse. Use shotgun slugs or an AK. And fuck off if you want hyper realism where one bullet anywhere is lethal. This isn't a fucking milsim, and it's better off for it.
I beat Anomaly as eco and unisg but never played AMK/soups, ama
>>571501305>There is indeed maximum range limit for every bullet type that makes shots vanish after a certain distanceAnd you guys defend this?>yes they can tank a ton if the hurt or staggered animation is playingAgain, you guys defend this?>And? That's good. It differentiates aimed shots from spray and pray/run and gun.LOL>Stop using 19mm ammo to magdump an armored enemy's torse. Use shotgun slugs or an AKPost a clip of you killing a military grunt by only aiming at the torso with an akm so i can see how long it takes you to kill him
>>571492979What if I told you he's not the one pointing the gun
>>571507947sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiittt
>>571488187You can lure him outside the no guns zone and kill him there. The bigger problem of pissing off Duty is random loners around the map turning hostile if you kill any of the dutiers shooting at you. Including Arnie, which locks you out of the arena. But, thankfully, the guys inside the bar itself seem to always stay neutral.
>>571500670
>>571503820>actually supposedly place.*actually supposedly takes place.
Anyone who says the combat in SoC sucks never played, or appreciated, Half-Life 1's combat, nor the games that came from and around it. SoC was inspired deeply by Half-Life 1 and its painfully obvious by the way your move speed works, the way hip firing works, and the way the enemies move around the map.>>571497627>>571497108this was such fucking slop the cutscenes every ten second killed my desire to play it. Shame because I recall the Cordon being one of the most interesting I've interacted with
>>571500670I think this is the first time, ever, in this thread, watching it for over a decade, that I've red not just good information, but a well written unique strategy and its going to get wiped away to the annuls of time without a percent the attention it deserves.
>>571500670This nigga stalks
>>571500670nice, good to knowany recordings?
>>571520716I think part of the problem is that STALKER defined a good half of the modern tactical shooter (the other half is ofc Counter-Strike, CoDMW casualizes both) and so you get people both claiming that STALKER is something completely different and people claiming that STALKER is just "(shooter I like) but worse", so you get a lot of people who like it because it's the next best thing to something else, and the people who like STALKER for what it is (which is at least three different things) are right to resent them for that.The problem with STALKER 2 is that it got too big - not in terms of scope, but in terms of intended audience. The XRAY STALKER games knew what they were, what they wanted to do, and were being made by people who wanted the game they were making, not a product or cultural touchstone.There's a world where we could have gotten a STALKER 2 built on a version of XRAY that was unfucked by really, truly dedicated people, but the Russian invasion torpedoed that - it stopped being about being an artwork, and started being equal parts monument, funding source, and prestige project.XRAY is too hard to work with, switch to Unreal, there's lots of people who know how to work with Unreal. Here, we got these artists from other game studios to sub in. This author's parents will give us a lot of money if we hire them. No, stop trying to reach feature parity, we need it out sooner rather than later. Don't bother with AI covering the whole map, who will notice?The beta testers keep noticing? Okay, remove the binoculars then.Optimization? This is a prestige project, we can patch that in later.And the original GSC staff are left on the sidelines of what was supposed to be their big project, fitting in little bits of the original game here and there, still getting plenty of money, but is it still their game any more?But hey, could be worse - it could be Survivarium.
>>571523508I disagree with the statement that stalker pioneered the tactical shooter. Stalker is a game built from western influence. It was years behind every other game released in its mechanics because of the culture barrier. In a similar vein basing the story off a book from 60 years ago makes the game feel even older.This is a good thing though the non-apocalypse setting of the Zone is extremely unique and I think its what causes so many people to be drawn to it.It distances it from fall-out and fall-out likes.The genesis of tacticsloppers were games like Arma which though not affecting the larger population did affect the wider developer landscape.However I do agree with the sentiment of your statement that it confuses the audience because between the three games so many of the core mechanics change, and modern audiences expect CoP when playing SoC.This confuses people who expect parity along the trilogy.
>>571523508>the Russian invasion torpedoed thatIs this going to be the excuse for everything going forward now?The original Stalker 2 was being worked on and scrapped back in 2011/2012. Is the invasion responsible for that too? UE4 was being used at some point as well. They could've and should've stuck with it.
>>571523508>>571525142I want to add that I also agree with overwhelmingly what you said in the rest of your post, its just that its been said ad nauseum that s2 was a failure by design (not gsc's design)I'd like to see them remake the Oblivion Lost of the early builds, before the stalker influence. With that one big map on a dam
It's starting to get real fucking annoying, having to fix the FOV on every launch.
>>571537912I like high FOV as much as anyone but how in the fuck are you seeing anyone at a distance with that
>>571538302I'm not. I don't know why the game does this, it didn't use to do it then a couple days ago just started doing it all of a sudden. The FOV max is 110, this shit looks like 220. I play the game at 100, I save and quit. Next time I boot up the game, it's up to 220 again (But showing as whatever i have it actually set to in the settings) So I go into settings, change the FOV from 100 to 101 or 99, then save the game, load that save, and the game is on the proper FOV then. Every time I quit out of the game completely, rinse and repeat.
>>571529681Yes.
>>571525142It didn't *pioneer* it, it was *one of* the works that defined it.Which other "games released" had its mechanics?Also, Fallout 3 didn't come out until 2008.
>>571542115Hey buddy, just so you know, using asterisks doesn't italicize your text like it does on the platforms you and your generation are used to like Reddit and Discord. You also don't need to press enter twice to start on a new line.Just figured I'd give you a heads up before you embarrass yourself further.
>>571544189I started posting on 4chan in 2008, newfag.I'm just used to Discord-style Markdown because I only come to 4chan for /sg/ now.
>>571544189>>571542115>it didn't *_____*, it *____*! "GO BACK."
>>571547082Yeah thats real. I hate it, I fucking hate discord, but gaming communities eat that garbage up like nothing else.>>571542115You're right I used a different word. I will not get into the weeds with you on the general gameplay elements of STALKER, but what mechanics do you think were unique to stalker shadow of chernobyl alone, and specifically the "tactical" mechanics do you think were noteworthy?As far as I'm aware, leaning was already in games. Sprint/walk/stand/crouch/prone was already in games (as of 07). Using medkits was already in games, as was bleeding. Maybe ammunition types? But I don't know if we can delineate ap/non ap from the existing "this ammo but stronger" type of gunplay that existed before.Weapon attachments? I'm certain that was already a thing. Sound and visibility calls on the player were already a thing. What else is there?
>>571550709System Shock 2 came out in 1999 and had leaning (as did the first in 1994!), all of those movement options save for prone, medkits/toxic system (though this is more of an Resident Evil thing), and armor-piercing/hollow-point ammo types for different enemies
>>571550709STALKER had mechanics that other games had, sure, but like Half-Life 1, it was the first one to put a lot of its mechanics in the same place.Bioshock had a medkit hotkey and ammo types, I'll give you that, but it didn't have any of the inventory management that defines STALKER, imo. System Shock 2 did a lot of the FPS-with-inventory stuff ShoC did, but it was also extremely clunky, even by the standards of the time - compare HL1 and SS2 and the difference is clear.I THINK Deus Ex also had inventory management, but I'm ashamed to say I bounced off Deus Ex hard.
