Rookie 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__________________________________________________________________________Lost to the Zone >>576502818
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>>577529224First for STOLKOR 2 is actually fun and the update will be based and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.pilled
soda soda sosoda
>>577525919It's obvious these Alife improvements are meant to tie and feel incomplete without the DLC so you're incentivised to buy
>>577530780nadesh artefaktu..
>>577529120>over 30 hoursWhere does it say DLC have over 30 hours?
new steam achievements for the DLC!
>>577534517I don't care about that. All I want is a bigger spawn radius.
>missing stalker 2 shit from OP againmake up your minds cunts
>>577535084STALKER 2 is a Russian hate signal. Do not bring the politics into this server.
>>577537860Fucking cry about it some more, you goddamn sissy
>giving him attention
>>577538483I could not help it, the politics posters are a nuisance, I will refrain from responding to him, again.577538239Get ignored, retard idiot.
enter : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6C76P1W-wU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nDmKuW2RqM/sg/ stalker multiplayer gaming session when
>>577542572what a time capsulehttps://youtu.be/N-n3WSdo2tk
I’m really worried that the only new mutant in the DLC is going to be the kadaver.
>>577544320There's at least one more, the mutant embryo central to the plot.
>the retarded attention whore continues attentionwhoring
SOVLhttps://youtu.be/pEbZOgGAwI4
>>577544320and from what theyve shown so far it looks lame asf. basically a zombie who can side step and grab you by your neck and unga bunga you, no cool psychic abilities?
i wonder if the reason why theyre telling everyone to start a new s2 playthrough is because someones 100hr save wont be reflected on the new statistics page and it will just be blank
>>577544426But that’s not going to be an enemy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiNqhsCQXec
You can't call yourself a real Stalker if you did not play through Stalker Mobilehttps://youtu.be/TZEMEkd3HUc
>>577546593Still a new mutant
>>577542572reminded me of when folks were making fan films back in the dayTransformationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tubsv41LK7gTransformation 2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEN4Mwz4uf0Dark Soul 1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2dNpLeIasYDark Soul 2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qby2wm_5g8ADark Soul 3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKx4G6cavK8Red Threadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ONa92EmLbkSample 32https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uM__7yh7hMObject Zerohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUe-ZYozelMOther Desirehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5ajf3zok-YF.O.T.O.G.R.A.F.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA4oowN4kII
>>577544991Posting soulful STALKER vids?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXKFRcMYvw8
>>577529224S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2>S2 Mod/Performance recommendationspastebin.com/Ma6W4BcMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjbNiV-bbbsvery nice
>>577554221you fool, you forgot the best Stalker fan filmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gwNrYJ5VKM
>STALKER 2 now has binocsI will now play this mediocre fucking shit
>>577559784from what i see the a-life is still working the same, spawning bubble around the player, only some new scripted events added to the new areas/poisi dont know if they can ever actually have alife in ue5but the binocs and other updates are a step in the right direction, im still gonna wait to complete my playthrough i put down a few days after launch
>>577559939Alife goes online on a cone in front of the player when he uses scopes and binocs iirc, for performance reasons. The trailer shows some levels no longer having the very noticeable dirt cliffs blocking long range view in the visual upgrade part.
>>577560526I fucking hate cucksoles and consolecuckoldsI'm sure in 5 years, maybe, after they discontinue the Xbox Series and PS5 version, we might then see fucking A-Life proper
>STALKER 2.0>visual upgradesi thought the engine upgrade was supposed to improve performance? upgrading visuals doesn't seem like it's very conductive to that
>>577529625this compilation will have to be updated after 2.0
>>577560526>Alife goes online on a cone in front of the player?? So absolutely no npcs stalking/moving around in other maps/areas? Let alone npcs looking for artifacts/hunting/doing tasks
>>577567282They do that.
>>577559939esl shitter
>>577567516wut
i see people still dont know how alife works or what game engines are
>>577567282online means actually rendered in the world dummy, do you even know how a-life works?
>>577570240Me during gym in my youth
>>577570240
>>577554221>>577558989>>577554620soul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un5OckofEOA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q231auzl8d0&
>$30 for a fucking DLC that will be <10 hours of gameplayLOL>>577563981"Upgrading" to less unoptimized assets.
KINO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvtY1QQ76uk
>>577567327they dont, only if youre near, sonetimes corpses will spawn in just to give you an illusion that a firefight just happened, thats it
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2820699
dolphin virus link do no
>>577578000what a waste of trips. i felt ovaries growing in my body as i watched this
what are some sovlful mods
I wish I were better at curating mods and doing lower level modlist optimizations because it's absolutely fucking ridiculous that if you want a freeplay-oriented looter shooter faction warfare variant of Anomaly you have to use Old World Addon and nostalgiafag it up.I just want modern graphics, weather, folliage, gunslinger, COTZ and expanded A-Life without all the survival crafting shit.
>>577590526uninstall wizard
>>577588614A Japanese in /sg/?>>577591567Agreed. I wish someone would make an expanded IWP with more cool Eastern-Bloc ridle and scope combinations but no one wants to do the work so I am stuck having to deal with these miserable westslops. Maybe one day someone do the work that I am not willing to do myself for me if I complain on /sg/ about the westslop enough.
>>577593650Honestly I'm just going to rice the fuck out of stalker 2 and call it a day next week. Shay's Living Zone 2.0 is looking crazy.
>>577577327the main game is damn near 40 hours just for the main quest line, what makes you think the dlc is going to be lacking in content?
>>577594908I'm polish so I've met some GSC devs that worked on S2 and they were really unhappy with the way the base game turned out. They spent a lot of time on this, I think they're gonna over-deliver on this one but I understand why people are apprehensive to spend another 25 euro
>>577591567>posted it againits not funny or clever. its stupid.
>>577595519Yes, I agree it's stupid. >muh realismevery weapon you find in the game is <15% conditionmake it make sense, faggot
>>577593994Same. I am deleting all of my mods in preparation for the STALKER 2 DLC coming in 20 August 2026. Literally everything is fix., GSC really cooked with this one.
>>577591567Not that I disagree with shitting on GAMMAfaggots for thinking tediousness makes for good game design but again>posting AI slop of a stick figure drawing which you can easily make in paintHumanity is corrupt, mankind needs to be controlled, the west has fallen etc. etc.
>>577595915you think I give a shit about gamma?that pile of shit could be snapped out of existence tomorrow and everyone would be better off because of it.
So with DLC 1 adding the Iron Forest, CNPP, Lymansk, and expanding places like Yaniv to include the Oasis, there's not too many places DLC 2 can possibly go.Cold Island is almost certainly guaranteed, but there's only a couple areas outside of that that aren't in Stalker 2 already. I could see them readding the cut Khorogod forest area behind the Duga, but that's about it in terms of new areas.
>>577596154There's a lot of the zone up north by the Belarus border that couldn't be done before without adding them as a faction but now has the IPSF as a plot explanation
>>577596046hello again captain autismo
>>577595915>make it make senseits cuz gamma is retarded
>>577596527then why is it taking over the identity of the stalker modding scene for the better part of a decade?
>>577596268The entire "northern part of the zone near belarus" is basically retconed at this point.And looking at all the maps of Stalker 2, from the leaked dev map, to pre-order map, a map from the in-gamefiles, and the PDA map, GSC seems pretty set on the idea that the Prypiat river forms the northern and eastern borders of the zone, with the Swamps -> Khorogod the southern edge of the zone, and the western border of the zone passing by Malachite, Lymansk, and going back up to the Pripyat river
>>577596653lolsure it has.sure thing grok, you fucking retard.
if the original games are so good then why do they fake survival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNQBSjBfsi8early review and performance testing
>>577601227i thought this guy wasnt allowed to test the game anymore because he criticised the game too much? pretty sure ive heard him say he wasnt a tester anymore several times
I haven't played anything stalkan for a year. But I feel the call again. I do not care about Stalker 2. I do not care about the DLC. I will install Shadow of Chernobyl. That's right, Chernobyl, not the Chornobyl remaster. And I won't install ZRP, because it works fine in vanilla. Have a good day /sg/.
>>577608425>I won't install ZRP, because it works fine in vanillaSure. Don't forget, if Sakharov asks you to bring him the tail of a blind dog, you actually have to bring him either a pseudodog tail or a boar's hoof
>>577608425>vanilla SoC enjoyerbased, have fun anon
>>577610001>playing stalkan in englishGood thing I play using the original localization where this issue does not occur, it's only a thing in translations.
Пeчaль в твoих глaзaх и нeт yдaчи,Хoчy тeбe cкaзaть, чтo вce инaчe.Гocпoдь мнe дaл пoнять чyжyю дyшy,Кaк бoль твoю yнять ты пocлyшaй!Пoдними глaзa, видишь в нeбecaх яpкaя звeздa.Звeздa любви!Этo Бoжий Лик и в тяжeлый миг,Ee зoви!Mиллиoны лeт, этoт чиcтый cвeт,Иcкaл тeбя!Этoт миг пpишeл, oн тeбя нaшeл!Дecятки тыcяч глaз, ceйчac и пpeждe,Ждyт oткpoвeнья чac, звeздy нaдeжды.Кoгдa мoй чac пpишeл, я cмoг yвидeть,И вижy c этих пop ee в зeнитe!
>>577590526most mods made in the early years of stalker, oblivion lost 3.1, Arsenal mod, Kill zone, SRP for SoC, AMK 1.4.1, also VoA and build mods are cool, if you are going to try OLR 3.0, try OLR SOP instead
bros is the game #saved?
>>577617667Not before NPCs actually go artifact hunting, the spawn radius bubble is increased, leaderboards are back and some form of PDA chatter is implemented.
>>577617832>Not before NPCs actually go artifact huntingWhy do people ask for things there were never present in the originals?
>>577618594are these two npcs in CoP a joke to you??https://youtu.be/EDzTv65qm7k
>>577619519I guess you're not familiar with the concept of smart terrains.Smart terran is a specific area of a map defined by the developers. That smart terrain can be assigned to be a gathering of stalkers. It can also have a set of jobs assigned to it, for example patroling, idling, sleeping. The logic is very simple, if a stalker enters the area the game just randomly picks one of the available jobs. If it's patrolling, he will be walking on a predefined path. If it's sleeping, he will play sleeping animation, etc.The stalkers never know what job they will get upon arrival. Stalkers walk to the smart terrain without any purpose.In CoP they added one extra job to some smart terrains, "the artifact hunting". It just makes the stalker take our his detector. There's nothing else to it. He doesn't actually search for artifacts, and he will never pick up the artifact even if he walks over it.
>>577621226do NPCs in STALKER 2 even take out detectors
>>577621468I googled, and yes, they do. Reddit link because that's the only relevant search result I found https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1hz093x/npc_throwing_bolts_and_using_a_detector/And it's obviously fake like in CoP.
>>577595915Not any of the other anons but for everyone of (You) there is another guy raging at getting end game gear right off the bat so the only thing to do is just tinker it to your own liking but that takes more effort than just whinging.
medkit
>>577529224this might be a longshot but Ill try it. does anyone have a save game from around the red forest in stalker 2? my previous pc died with the save on it (pirated version, so no cloud) and I would like to finish the game plus maybe play the dlc but really dont want to go through some of the slog parts again. thanks in advance vros
>>577617667no
Oh yeah
Not that big into 2 but It'll be nice to see this place againhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGCyheenC7U
>>577650915>in SoC you just rush through the lcoation into the underground, and then later hop trhough a bunch of teleports>in CS it's just a very short sequence of teleports>missing in CoP>in Anomaly/GAMMA you never visit this area except once for the main quest>in all other mods you drop the game before ever reaching CNPPCNPP must be the least familiar map for me.
>>577652883Same, it's amazing the amount of detail and precision old GSC went making the original CNPP, shame it's underused in general, it's a great setting overall, the ending in SoC with S.A.D on the background is truly a cool experience
the sausage in stalker is pork, therefore there are no jews or muslims in the zone
do you respect me?
uhh actually stalker stands for Scavenger, Trespasser, Adventurer, Loner, Killer, Explorer, Robber
>>577662524it does not.
in SoC theres time_factor in the consoledoes CoP have something similiar? it doesnt have the time_factor command in the consoel
Will we eventually see Stalker 2 maps in gamma/anomaly?
>>577672123Bro, anomalyfags can't even edit their existing maps. Why do you think people are still stuck with the same maps from 10 years ago? Why no one bothered to merge Rostok and Wild Territory?The source code for the maps is completely lost. The map editor (for Anomaly) is lost as well.People managed to create maps for Anomaly using default xray SDK, but importing them into Anomaly is massive amount of pain, and it still has issues with global AI graphs.It's easier to recreate Anomaly/GAMMA in Stalker 2 then port the maps back.
>>577674042Oh that all sounds fucked.I swear I had a map editor for sometime but never had time to look at it (or understanding to do anything).>Why no one bothered to merge Rostok and Wild Territory?I'd fucking love a few map merges.Maybe in 15 years STALKER 2 will be it
Finally finished OLR SOP. The lines between schizo C-Con nonsense, incomplete content and outright bugs got really blurry toward the end. Pretty cool mod all around though. Would be really great with things cleaned up a bit.Word of caution for anyone playing that's headed to Pripyat:Make sure you bring a protective suit (there's acid rain which Toad tells you about while you watch your life deplete during a cutscene) and leave a sizeable stash back at the Bar with another (better) protective suit, weapons, ammo and supplies. If you can spare the weight, a Gauss Rifle might be worth bringing to the Generators since you need one for the final boss. One is provided but you have to wait out a timer to get it and the boss himself can pick it up which effectively softlocks the game XD
>>577574709Tommy Wright I Creep At Night
>>577529224Has anyone in here tried Anomaly Anthology 2.1 OBT yet?
>>577682279Never heard of it, watching a video on it now
>>577616180>oblivion lost 3.13.1 wasn't an early year version at all, it came out like 2015/16 iirc. 2.0/2.2 were the pure kino versions of that mod that came out in the early years.
>>577529625>First for STOLKOR 2 is actually funFor the first half, it drops off after SIRCAA. I love the series but S2 has really paled in comparison to the others, in some ways it feels like just a slightly upgraded CoP.>the update will be based and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.pilledI sincerely hope so, the lack of Chernobyl NPP on release was extremely disappointing.>>577545835They have? I'd only seen people saying not to be up to a certain point in the game.
>>577618594Because it's been 20 years almost and S2 is barely at the level of the OG trilogy in some aspects. We will see how much improvement 2.0 brings but it's wild to go back to CoP and see stalkers leaving camp in the morning and come back at night, or CS where factions actually fight over and gain/lose territory and then come back to S2 where literally none of that happens. Sure it's prettier but it absolutely has been a downgrade in some areas. Hoping 2.0 improves them.
>>577561135A life is literally just a bunch of math recording NPC coordinates and sending them to different spots on the map(s) at certain intervals. Theres really nothing performance demanding about it at all. UE5 is just garbage and pre 2.0 S2 was barely optimized so it would just shit the bed if any significant amount of NPCs were rendered at a given time, which is why frames would tank hard going into Rostok and other dense NPC hubs. They are claiming 2.0 will be more optimized so let's wait and see.
>>577618594>Ew you want something new? Cringe!
>>577689320Oh, that's the one, usually people confuse OLR with the original oblivion lost mod that came out on the early yearshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkJLRTCozJY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnggiJrAmWg
>>577660396it's canonically chicken and sõy
>>577674042>People managed to create maps for Anomaly using default xray SDK, but importing them into Anomaly is massive amount of pain, and it still has issues with global AI graphs.I'm hoping that with mods like alifeplus being new and amazing there's a chance.Give me Radar+Warehouses + Red Forest
>>577697486damn...
are you guys ready to aura farm in stalker 2's 2.0 update like gamma/anomaly?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJzVGoiXqJw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BitxBikwCA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc0I_Xzwfyk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGk37uhPXD4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNgscdv9_UA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aePRDmNSBKk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkHcYPhVOK4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY6MSCYcoms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd71dZrfU80 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbcDV39LvFc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiOA_xDOT5A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlUyNe3sZUA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfkOrK84lP0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH1yLvZTnac
which one is your channel?
all of them
stalker works better without the c-conthe zone works best as an unknown
futy or dreedom?
>>577702052Yeah, there really is no mystery in the zone when everything is traced back to some bullshit scientists did in the early 2000s. They should have left it as a story about aliens and the paranormal.
>>577702052Yeah I wasn't big on over explaining it all. Scientists accidenally punching a hole into some weird shit and trying to contain it is cool, but things like the mutants being made in labs instead of just being actual natural mutants was shitty.
>>577701764Balding like the average adult Slav but his skin looks too smooth and his face is old in the wrong ways. Yes I know this is probably a generic asset since you can't see his face ingame but this guy is a fake compared to the OG BGC member cтpeлoк
Trying to do a pure CS run after what seems like a million years and have been troubleshooting all damn day yesterday how to remove this bloody lens flare. Disabled them from the flares.ltx, made transparent dds files as replacements, and eventually got SRP on hoping it would do something, but alas this damn thing is still here. What am I missing lads?
The engoodening of STALKER 2.
>>577712027posted in 2032
>>577712027Never going to happen.
>>577563981>improve performancekekThey raised the system reqs last time I checked. I knew the engine update would lead to that. Sorry to say, but anyone who was waiting for things to get optimized got scammed.
>>577713674>They raised the system reqs last time I checkedWell shit that's my computer out then, my GPU was the previous minimum.
>>577713924If it didn't run well before, expect to to run even worse now.
>>577714015At this rate I'll just play it on Xbox on my couch. It's not quite the same and the mods on Xbox suck, but at least it'll run at 60fps.
>>577705920There are two types of mutant though, some like blind dogs, cats and boars actually are just wild life getting mutated, while the humanoid ones like controllers and poltergeists with actual superpowers are experiments. And some like the bloodsuckers and snorks are still completely unexplained.The main problem is that canonically the humanoids don't reproduce and they should be finite, especially the more fucked up ones like Pseudogiants. The only way they might keep coming out is if there's a cloning machine anomaly and a snork jumps into it and two come out somehow, or the zone just shits out creatures from stalkers' nightmares because the noosphere contains peoples,' minds.
I kinda hope that, by the time Stalker 2 is done, the game has all of the X labs in it.
>>577711129go into configs\environment\suns.ltxchange every instance of flares to offmaybe you can keep moon on if you want idkif you have to get it from the db files, unpack them and then put it in that same directory in your gamedata, and edit that file.
>>577722679Thanks man, that did it. Had the db files already unpacked, but only recalled to modify the flares.ltx. This'll do wonders for muh immersion, thanks a bunch.
>>577723289yeeehave fun with your CS playtrough
>>577724350me in the back behind the bars
>be me>Free Stalker>earn a living through finding luminous organic and inorganic artifacts>sell them to Sidorovich>recently Sid started to pay more for them, says they're now more sought after>k whatever, this earns me my zone bread>ramp up artifact hunting efforts>after emissions, be the first to rush out into the rain to find clumps>crawl into disgusting sewers, meticulously comb through anomaly clusters throwing bolts and using my old detector to collect them>start bringing Sid so much he calls me his "golden boy">pays good especially for Droplets, Mama's Beads, Shells and various others>others like Slimes, Thorns or Urchins don't pay that well>but overall earn so much that I can soon upgrade my gear: new detector, nicer suit with better protection, fancier weapons>now able to reach more dangerous areas, collect more artifacts and earn even more dosh>get a reputation as the guy who isn't afraid to get his hands dirty and can dig up any artifact >well off, buy rounds of vodka for all Stalkers in the bar each evening>if it continues like this, I'll be able to retire in 5 years>life is good>one day, after another heavy haul to Sid's bunker, get curious>ask him what these artifacts actually get used for outside>Scientific progress? Medical advances? Improvements of quality of life for countless people?>Sid leans back, grins as he bares his gold teeth>"There are new opportunities on the Internet for people without many skills..">Ok?>"..and there are people who pay good money to see these glowing, bizarrely shaped artifacts that you dig up used in... creative ways">What?>"Well.. it's the oldest profession there is.. just with some modern twists hehe. When can I expect your next delivery?">realize I'm a crucial part of a soul-crushing industry in which whores livestream how they shove lubed up, slightly radioactive deformities up their various holes so they can more efficiently empty the wallets of desperate paypigs who jerk off to this>mfw
>>577734931TL;DR? I ain't reading all that
WILL STALKER 2 BE FINALLY GOOD IN 4 DAYS?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb4u8JxaB0I
>>577753349nice review video, anon
>>577713674>They raised the system reqs last time I checkedTo? Source? It played OK at launch on my 3070 and I don't really want to spend the price of a used car to upgrade for one game.
>>577753349>01:59>the graphics engine in the game is rather dated at this pointb-but the best engine ever...
>>577753917System requirements are still the same everywhere I checked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLYSbSFu_-s
>>577765327>IX-RayWhy can't they all work on a single engine? Why is there 10 different forks being developed in parallel?
>>577767796what good of advanced(??) that isnt already in ixray should get blobbed into ixray. its silly.
Why are the dark valley and pool maps for SoC multiplayer not available?
>>577772608fuck zillow.FUCK ZILLOW.
>>577772608Part of the DLC.
howdy ho
>>577751957y-yes
>>577773371>zillow?
>>577747413he gets money from camwhores
>>577779996filename breh
>>577793883haha that's actually a good joke
>>577779032hello. hello
[SESH]
wassap negr
good night, /sg/
>>577813881RIP in peace anon
>>577682279>Anomaly Anthology 2.1 OBTGuy talking about maps previously, it seems like AA2.1 OBT has at least a modified Cordon
a loss of words
>>577801087pipe down man, let me fill you in
stalker 2. exists.gamma. shilled by gsc themselves.olr 3.0. btts. gunslinger. left on hiatus.what a vile timeline.
gnight /sg/
>>577827345good night
>the new IWP patch removes the wish granter's voice from the sarcophaguswhy do slav modders love unnecessary changes so much?
what is the chance of cost of hope curing my depression and making me stop wanting to kill myself?
>>577831294Not a chance.
>>577831620damn that sucks
>>577718036>while the humanoid ones like controllers and poltergeists with actual superpowers are experiments. And some like the bloodsuckers and snorks are still completely unexplained.I don't know why or where I read it but I recall that bloodsuckers are made from the labs, and the snorks are mutated soldiers that were guarding the zone just before the second big emission happened.
>>577805267
>>577840125Just Splendid
Anomaly Anthology 2.1 is absolutely wild so far
>>577820010gomoseksualistov
blowout soon
>>577853635blowjob soon
>>577855241that's pretty gay
>>577840125>>577847212why you put a white peanut butter cup on a shitty screenshot of what is obviously stalker?
How is stalker 2 modding in the year of the Lord 2026?
i installed gamma through gog and its running a lot better now. i actually like it so far. everything feel so dang expensive though
>>577857945deadish? I might be wrong but there are still not full tools for modding
>>577859262they are finally getting release on thursday tho. surely stalker 2 is going to be saved by gamma 2 soon......
I came in my fucking dirty diaper again
remain calm and stalk.
are there other mods like the jekan mods? goldsphere/rttz
>>577856575retard
>>577882935OP 2.2
Are you guys excited for cost of hope
>>577892901a littlei just want stalker 2 in a state in which it can be modded down to the very bones, i want it feature complete and i want it stable and optimized
>>577895075but there is another year or two of updates coming in the lead up to the other dlc, seems the best time for mods is when all that is done and there are no more updates
>>577690219>it's been 20 yearsTook a lot of psi damage from this one.
>>577892901i’m so starved for gaming its one of the few things im even sort of looking forward to right now
gsc game world? more like gsPEE game world----lol------
yikes
>>577848815>Anomaly Anthology 2.1 is absolutely wild so farDetails? How stable is it?the modb is all in russian and seems lacking reviews
>>577911063cool map design, what is it from?
>>577911448return to the zone
just let the thread die. nothing ever happens in here anyway.
Who's ready for the thread to hit bump limit within a couple hours with all the shitposting that's going to happen?
i love this fucking game
2 more days until Cost of Cope
Is Stalker better than sex?
>"damn my character is really hungry and I can't find any mutants, how the heck am I supposed to hunt for food">there is an entire set of missions for hunting mutantsam tarded
real stalkers survive of soviet era canned meat
MA...MAMMA...
Which magazine looks better?
>>577933359left
>>577853635
Sexomat
>>577934190Stalker 1 now have Crysis modding weapon system?
>>577934141Uhh, guys? Can someone explain this whole ‘blevotina’ thing to me? It’s really starting to make me uneasy…
>>577913203From s2 dlc release? I am ready for it.
>>577913143Retard
>>577935017Something like that, it's a modular system that allows for stripping down and customizing nearly all parts of any gun.
>>577535084Something something I can't run it on my shit box so it's le bad.
I am actually curious, is there anyone here that did more than one run of S2? And why? Put about 300 hours in mine, exploring every nook and cranny, and have not touched it since. Nor do I plan to again.
is it worth it yet
>>577946059>this same retarded argument again
Why Do Black People Be Naming Their Daughters Shit Like ‘Lucretia’
>>577946059>defending unreal engineindian detected
>>577956331That's comparatively benign and doesn't sound too badTry Shaneequa or Da'quan
>Finally trying Gunslinger out>Master disables the hud entirely so I can't even tell if my guy is out of breath>Every little action like even changing your firing mode stops your sprintWhy do modders think this kind of shit is immersive or realistic?
Can Anomaly be played on Linux?
>>577913143just kill yourself, you dont do anything anyways. :^]
>>577956331>Lucretiaclassic roman name
>>577925459>of
>>577958990da
>>577959824That’s a good point, they’ve probably amerimutt negrified it into something abhorrent like ‘Lu’Kreshia’ or some shit
>>577953819Just wait 2 days for the update, I will test it, and will give an answer.
I feel like we've had vasyankas that looked just about as good as STALKER 2 does with it's newest Unreal fuckery hamfisted in
>>577962161Rich! Millionaire! Bomboclaaat
>>577956331>LucretiaMy reflectionDance the ghost with mehttps://youtu.be/aC-enyY6W8IYou know, it's funny how much vidya can shape one's music taste.>first hear SoM on GTA IV's LRR>play Cyberpunk years later>figure out that each mission title is a song title>see that "Lucretia My Reflection" is a SoM song>take a listen to it>holy fuck what a bop>grab the whole discography to listen toGTA IV is also how I discovered Kino, so
>>577963896I'll be back in 48 hours then.
>>577953819Not if you give a shit about all the lore so far. But eh, you live in Canadia so this is probably your first Sdalger ey?
>>577970823No
>>577964624>You know, it's funny how much vidya can shape one's music taste.I got into Brian Eno and ambient music because I was wondering what that angelic sound was when playing some bullshit DM map for HLDM2 (dm_forgottensanctuary)
>>577970823Rural Canadian wilderness can feel pretty stalker adjacent, it's not all jeets and police state shit (yet) if you don't live in the boring big cities we have up here.
>>577971631I dunno, the jeets of Brampton seem pretty similar to the freaks and mutants of the zone.
>>577978841Damn... If only someone could help me!
come here, i always got something interesting for people like you
>>577978841dat finger thoALSO, is this a fucking joke?https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker-clear-sky/addons/cenblas-stalker-cs
>>577987973thats good, this guy has been doing this for a while, good for him
>>577988643
>>577987915w-what?
>>577996973I have information that might be well of use to you, stalker
>>577925459Bread.
>>577987973Actually based
>>578009514Fuck, what happened, buddy?>>577987973What does this mod actually do? Just removes certain voice lines?
>>578009514Another lost to the zone
>>578011250"Cleans up some Verbal Blasphemy (the use of divine designations as swear words), g-dammit, JC, etc..">Fuck, what happened, buddy?I fell off the bridge, knees relocated to my chest cavity, heart no likey, heart go boom. I ded.
Still alive? That's great
>>578025741What's in these anywayAlso why do so many people want to eat disgusting mutant meat
So, realistically, how much new content do you think will be in the DLC? I'm expecting maybe 10-15 hours.
>>57803498110 hours of dialogue and cutscences and 10 minutes of gameplay.
I wonder how much of the areas from the leaked dev map from last year will be in the DLC? We've already seen what is seemingly the Oasis in some images, and the heavy focus on the underground suggests to me they are adding the Jupiter plant. The CNPP and Iron Forest being opened up would also make the heating district to the east of the CNPP, and north of the Cooling Towers, being added make sense. Not sure about the Pripyat areas, unless they implement the cut, original, plan for Pripyat where each of the major factions had a base in the city and were in a cold war standoff.
as val/as lavina is the best looking weapon in all of stalker 2. its a crime its only a midgame weapon
I think I'm going to try playing NLC 7 again after a year and a half.
Does STALKER 2 fall apart once the hobo phase is over like SoC and CoP do?
>>578044747NVM I'm not playing htis shit I forgot how awful it is.
Well, a brief image of the new map showing the Iron Forest and CNPP appeared in a video from someone who got to play it earlyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNoPKbuTwnY
i have a really hard time telling who is an enemy who isnt in gamma. any tips or is it just experience?
>>577529224COST OF COPE LMAO NO A LIFE BUBBLE INCREASE WITH THE BINOCULARSWHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH GSC
>>578050459Well this map does confirm that the heating district to the east of the CNPP is in, combined with the Oasis also being in the DLC it looks like everything in >>578041627Is probably in also. So expect more of Pripyat being playable.
>>578050459>"The core issues are still here"that's unfortunate
Vatislavovych's Cost of Hope vid is uphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLLFsSSfeEc
damn the graffix updates are nice
Haven't played Stalker2 since my first playthrough at launch, tempted to do second playthrough with DLC. Just one question, Are the mutants still piss ass to fight?
Two more videos about the update/DLChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sLL5MAPv9shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dahckbcQqFg
Is it 200GB now?
SOUL
Can STALKER 2 even be saved through mods?Seems UE is a huge limiting factor for pretty much any OG STALKER gameplay mechanics.
>>578063370ew they really didnt fix how your character holds weapons? he really needs to hold it further out so you can see more of it.
>>578050958>a-life bubbleWhy do people come up with some bullshit that doesn't exist neither in S2 or originals?This general is the last place on this site where I would expected to see someone who doesn't know what NPC rendering distance is.
>>578063370Is this Zaton?Unironically too much vegetation.
>>577529224The Zone beckons once more.What do I do, /sg/?Another run of OP22, try the latest gammaslop from grok, or wait for the new Stalker 2 dlc?
>100 fps in RostokGUYS, GUYS, WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON???
>>578074780They dumbed down the lighting system
>>578074780An emission is approaching.
>>578075551they did? the shadows are just softer, which is the same thing as Metro Exodus Enhanced with RT, it's an improvement for them because it's more realistic or something
>only 1 new mutant in the dlcJesus fucking Christ what a blunder lmao.
do we know how much they're gonna charge for cost of cope?
>>578076020uhm but the bloodsuckers are green in the swamp now so thats friggin huge
>>578076020from what they have shown the Kadaver looks a really boring mutant to fight, just another humanoid that lunges at you They really couldn't think of anything else?
>>578075861The lighting was trash from the start. Just test it out, look at the ceiling without any light sources coming into your view. If the image darkens it's just as shit as before.
Polack video about the DLC n shiethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUP9o_2rFX4
s-shut up its gonna be good okay?
>>578076676you should've installed UltraPlusManager
>>578077119OHNONONO AHAHAHAHAHAHHAH
>>578076020>>578076464I just want izloms man. But make them interesting and able to interact with as originally planned.
>>578077119I love how openly he shits on S2 and nuGSC and yet they are still giving him early access for reviews.
>>578080232It's crazy the leaks were intended to harm GSC but it only got people more excited and positive for the potential, and they just decided to not follow on that and release the game unfinished anywayLITERALLY in 2 YEARS, if you really think about it, the only shit they added is the BARE FUCKING MINIMUM that was already present in the base games of the trilogy (NVGs, Binocs, Mutant loot etc.) that should've been present day one.All the cool interesting shit remains cut and forgotten, what a bunch of frauds.
>>578080927>All the cool interesting shit remains cut and forgotten, So exactly like Stalker 1?
hey atleast stalker 2 is a really good beginner experience. too bad its nothing but that.
>>578081657you're talking with people who've never touched any buildo, they will never know
>>578077119>PolskaSpeak Merrikan, it's the only language I understand!
>a triple A release backed by Microsoft has the same issues as a game from 20 years ago developed on a tight budget, betcha you feel dumb
like stalker 2gonna go stalkan againsimple as
riddle me this stalkerswhat really is, truly, the cost of cope?
>>578081657that was the entire point of Stalker 2 though , it should've been its job to give us what they couldn't fulfill at the time.GSC showed immediately at launch what their priorities were, and EVEN NOW they fail to deliver >Alife bubble still 100m (inferior to the OG games) >Maps are still too big for the content they offer, the game is still mostly running around empty fields chugging on bepsi drinks>UE5 is still a fucking piece of dogshit even with the update (still plenty of ghosting, shimmering and other various problems).>Paid DLC is just glorified Duty/Freedom fanfiction with locations that should've been featured in the base game and 1 cut enemy that behaves like a reskinned bloodsucker.How long, how many disappointments does it take, for you retards to finally realise GSC DOES-NOT-GIVE-A-FLYING-FUCK. They are frauds.
the biggest issue is that gsc(and devs in general) need to accept that its fine to tune down graphics in order to up performance. and just to be clear performance also includes being able to see NPCS from far away.but no i gotta have my super le ebic graphics!!!!!
>>578085050>Alife bubble still 100m (inferior to the OG games) The older games did not have an active bubble more than 100m. The only difference is that its more noticeable in Stalker 2 since its one giant map instead of smaller maps.>Maps are still too big for the content they offer, the game is still mostly running around empty fields chugging on bepsi drinksLets not act like the OG Stalkers weren't full of large empty areas of fucking nothing, especially as you got further into the game.>UE5 is still a fucking piece of dogshit even with the update (still plenty of ghosting, shimmering and other various problems).Every engine has issues.>Paid DLC is just glorified Duty/Freedom fanfiction with locations that should've been featured in the base game and 1 cut enemy that behaves like a reskinned bloodsucker.The "it should've been in the base game!" shit is something people say for literally every DLC ever made. Its not an argument. There is no reason why the Iron Forest, or Limansk, HAD to be in the base game.
>>578085050they are literally in a warzone you zigger
>>578080232
>>578085613They are literally not, you retard.
>>578085860He's larping as an annoying ukraine supporter. Ignore him
>>578085860>>578086125ziggers. gsc devs are coding with one hand and reloading with the other.
>>578085515>The older games did not have an active bubble more than 100m.First lie, it was 150m and it worked because of the smaller maps.Again it shows their priority, they did not care that it wouldn't work with a larger world and needed to tune it, because they did not care about the things that made Stalker unique and exploring its full potential we've always dreamed of.All they wanted was to shit out another soulless UE5 open world game with a Stalker skin to bank on nostalgia. It hurts but it's the truth.Not even gonna bother with the rest since you're a lying cunt and clearly BIASd to white knight for these retards at all cost.
>>578080927>Mutant lootIt was removed in CS and CoP, I dunno why people suddenly wanted it back. As always, I blame GAMMA.
Stop calling it alife bubble, faggots. It was always called online radius.
>>578087628How about we just call you a nigger for complaining about pedantic terminology no one cares about?
>>578088005Get A-Life.
>>578088005fr fr, fuck old terminology, the new words are bussin
>>578053776>>578062658sounds like a life is still shit
Modders have fixed the issue ages ago.I will just wait few days until they update it for version 2.0.
>Can't add or modify assets in S2Thanks GSC
>>577956331I have never heard of a negress called Lucretia.Matter of fact that's a very white name.
>>578067304"fix">>578079373?whats the probelm?
>>578085860GSC had a few months of delay between the start of the war and them moving to Prague, with a handful of foolish devs going to the front, where they obviously can't do anything in terms of game dev, but to this day they're milking the everloving fuck out of the LARP, down to their self-fellating "documentary" where the infamous quote about "loading their rifles" was said, in a studio in Prague, Czechia, by a zoomie faggot, with full seriousness.So yeah, they don't give a shit, they're frauds, because they're grinding the sympathy points of them being poor Ukrainians living in a hecking war zone cause by the evil Putler o algo. That's been their game plan for years now. They're lazy, incompetent, and are grifting the endless war they fleed from.
>>578110234so if you hate stalker why are you here?
>>578110897i think hes here because he loves stalker
>>578110897>if you hate nu-GSC you hate STALKERNot how it works, not how it'll ever work no matter how hard (You) try. The STALKER I love was made by the GSC that no longer exists.
>>578087360Economy. If you were already getting ganked by bloodsuckers behind every tree why not get something out of it instead of it being a tedious drain.
>>578112595no
>>578111506>The STALKER I love was made by the GSC that no longer exists.Sad but true, fren.
>>577529224>Decide to give STALKER 2 a try.>Update tomorrow STALKER!>Pirate it, and it's pretty fun, so I figure I'll buy it.>Install it on steam and everything.>SAVEFILE CANNOT BE LOADED BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE PRE-ORDER DLC ON THIS SAVE.>Get around it by renaming the save file.>STALKER!! GO TO YOUR STASH FOR YOUR BONUS ITEMS>Go to stash.>Seek and you shall receive bugs and doesn't work.Incredible.
>>578123328>be a retard>game bugs out because you're a retard>UHHHHHHH WTF????????
>Play the OG Stalker trilogy>Love it>Play Stalker 2>Love it alsoI honestly feel like a lot of the "complaints" about Stalker 2 are from people who played a heavily modded version of the OGs for so long they've forgotten how they actually played.
>>578126801>Play the OG Stalker trilogyNo, I don't think you have, mate.
>>578129702And this is just a quick run through I did on the Steam versions shortly before Stalker 2 came out to refresh myself. I can't even count how many hours I had in the older games before that on pirated versions and such in the years before it.
It's not really STALKER if you're not playing in Russian with subtitles off, with a translation book on your desk and punching yourself in the balls every 5 minutes.
How the fuck does anyone play any kind of save restricted challenge like Ironman or 2's Master mode when the game is this fucking buggy? Nothing kills my desire to play a game like crashing, and it's even worse when an hour of progress disappears because I had the audacity to walk through a doorway while the engine was in a bitchy mood.
>>578135463nobody except youtubers do it because it's not actually fun
7 hours until Cost of Cope.
A-life status ?
>>578138793Nah, it's fun.
still not getting stalker 2
>add binoculars after much complaining>can just watch NPCs render in taking a step inside 100mlmao
What is the best weapon rebalance mod you guys would recommend for stalker 2 second play through?After the first play through I kinda hate how tiered the weapons were. There is really nothing preventing me from sprinting across the zone and picking up the best unique weapons now that I know where they are and using said same weapons for the whole play through. I want to use the early game shitshooters while feeling like I'm not gimping myself
>>578146172How many times in a play through can you actually see past 100m? I bet it’s far far less than you think.
I started a new file for the dlc and progressed up to finishing sircaa since I saw in the trailers you go back there. But now I read the dlc stuff is split between stuff you do after leaving the lesser zone and stuff you do after the duga shit. I really hope they balanced the dlc around doing it all at once, because I don't want to just steamroll the first half with all the gear I have now for shit the game wants you to do after lesser zone.
>>578143305>>578145907>>578146596go to /v/ or kill yourself.pick one.
>>577529224So, Trilogy Enhanced edition or individual normal version?
>>578149376Normal versions. i tried to go through SoC-EE for the achievements but its infuriating how many things are bugged/dont look right that are not fixed to this day. Its just nuts how they managed to introduce more bugs into a such a simple port but heeeyyy we got FRAME GENERATION because good lord do these 19 year old games sorely need it!
this shit is actually laughable, i cannot believe the fuckers at gsc and how lazy they are, they boasted about the game making a profit, they took money upfront from MS, and they cant even improve the game to the point increasing the spawn bubble at all, worked on just tidying the visuals up, honestly the draft dodging allegations make a whole lot of sense now and i believe it
>>577962161forbidden snacks
>>578130474>SoC>53 hoursit's fucking impossible to spend 50 hours in the first game
>>577529224Cost of cope is coming out today let's gooo I hope they really did something to stay true to the real stalkan series and made an actual expansion not just a lame dlc
>>578126801> Play the trilogy You know how we know you're lying? Because anyone who played it either shits on CS (majority) or on CoP (me and a few other weirdos) And anyone who "loved" the trilogy knows S2 is just a HD imitation of the real game
>>578151830People shit on CS due to the dumb faction war, but that doesn't mean they don't still enjoy the game overall.
>>578152838You can choose not to deal with the faction wars they're completely optional except the first part in the swamps. Main reason people hate CS is grenade spam, gun inaccuracy and Scar being a hemophiliac
>>578105650yes fix.
>increase the online radius to 150m>densely populated areas like Pripyat instantly become a clusterfuck where everything either swarms the player or turns into an endless firefightThis challenge didn't exist in OG and certainly goes beyond "just move the slider lmao"
>>578155007OG made pripyat great without any of these tricks somehow, it was perfectly chaotic and high T in SoC
>>578155068>SoC Pripyat>greatok buddy
>>578157882is this vanilla
>>578158574OG means original.
>>578154486no.
So what I am understanding is I should wait for Stalker 2 4.0 and I should stick to GAMMA
>>578126801plenty of faggots on here just complain. if you wanna play GAMMA go play GAMMA. it's not for me. I prefer Stalker 2. also my expectation when it first came out were not high. I didn't expect it to be much chop
I'm playing S2 cause it's not free and fakes survival
>>578160341> Guys I think I'm not gonna play call of duty but I'm gonna go play far cry instead This is you >>578160425Jannies should prune them for off topic conversation, this is a stalker thread
>looks at objevtively better stalker game>hmm no ill keep eating shit instead
>>578161675Stalker 2 is Far Cry though?Linear storyUseless open world with boring PoIsDumb as fuck AI (Far Cry had better AI)
>>578161762yeah, grognards clutching at the dying corpse of their old shit covered games are sad
>>578161805sorry this message was sent from ever 100m away so i cant see it
GAMMA is dogshit though.Play good mods instead of this tarkovslop
Goldsphere is waiting... Come back to the little doll...
>>578161895>Tarkov>Literally nothing in common except scavenging for your own gear
1 hour until cost of cope
>>578161774>Linear storyBecause the originals are well known for their non-linear story, right? I am always impresesd by the mental gymnastics in this general.
>>578162353>Comparing 20 year old games to a 2024 gameWow, almost like they could've innovated Anyway, the problem isn't the linear story, it's putting in an open world, where all you do is run from Point A to Point B.
>>578162508sounds like they innovated from the previous system of "segregated levels, where all you do is run from Point A to Point B"
>>578162508Not him butA. Why would making the story non-liner be an innovation? Why does the story need to be non linear when the game was never about that?B. Stalker 2 is only about "running from A to B" if you chose to play it that way. There's plenty of locations to explore and loot that aren't part of the main story path. The OGs were far more about "running from point A to B" then the new one.
>>578162686>There's plenty of locations to explore and loot that aren't part of the main story pathLmao
>>578149868I didn't play S2 at all yet but if they managed to swindle MS and dodge the draft for that jewish war, they're excellent human beings in my bookI just hope that that money isn't finding its way back to the ukrainian government somehow
>>578162630Why is the AI still dumber than the older games if they innovated? Cover and flanking are not rocket science.
>>578162508This is an extremely retarded argument. Might as well ask for RPG system with levels, stats, skill trees and perks. It doesn't matter that this was never present in the original, they should have innovated.And when you say non-linear story, what fucking game do you think about as an example? I am confident you don't even have a single example, and you just throw random buzzwords around.
these goal posts getting a lot of exercise moving all the time.hilarious how the S2 weak ass troll faggots show up any time anything new with s2 is about to drop.what a very jewish coincidence.see>>578148465
>>578163864The thing that made stalkers great for me is that they didn't rely on retarded mechanics of leveling up or skill points but all you had is finding better equipment and getting experience on how to deal with danger > inb4 but magic artifacts Artifacts are equipment too, and most of them don't do a lot except stamina and radiation artifacts
>They should innovate on old systems>Might as well ask for RPG system with levels, stats, skill trees and perks>SO YOU WANT SKYRIM THEN
>>578163864>they should have innovated.Christ, I had a /v/ screenshot from 2009 of a guy wondering why games aren't improving and being called an ignorant fag
>>578164343
30 mins till COPE
>>578164592A cope a day keeps the rope away I've been feeling like shit and real close to ascending these days so thanks to ukies it's getting postponed today kek
>>578164343I asked for a simple example of a game.Just one game.
Actually, they shouldn't have "innovated" instead they should have added what they promised at some point (a lot)
>>578165087New Vegas.
>>57816459210 mins till COPE
did no one realize 2.0 dropped hours ago
THE COPE IS HERE see you later my dearest pidors and remember to have fun
>>578165212Fucking kek.Yes, the game should have turned into Bethesdaslop. Turn Stalker into Oblivion With Guns With Guns where you walk around the Zone, talk to random NPCs, and help them eliminate mutant rats in their cellar. Truly the innovation this series needs.
Update is here bros, restart steam if you don't see it
>>578167125>Turn Stalker into Oblivion With Guns With Guns where you walk around the Zone, talk to random NPCs, and help them eliminate mutant rats in their cellar. Truly the innovation this series needs.So, this?
>165 GbWhat the fuck?I bet at least half of it is 4k textures I won't be able to use since I play on medium settings. They should have put 4k textures in a separate free DLC, like Space Marines 2 did.
Some one needs to come up with a new gameplay loop, hoovering up shit to sell to traders to save money for better gear is getting pretty old by this point.
>>578167554Just use a mod that increases artifact value and go hunting
>>578167125Why are Stalker 2 glazers this fucking retarded.
>>578167125No, you fucking retard. I want a functional AI in a FPS game, you drooling corporate cocksucker.>where you walk around the Zone, talk to random NPCsLike you already do in Stalker 2? Yes, retard, I want interesting side stories in my video games and other activities aside from the main quest.
>>578168120>I want non-linear story!>** arguments bout onn-linear story **>no, I don't want non-linear story, I want AI!Holy fucking retarded imbecile, do you even know how conversation works? I understand that you're not the anon who asked for non-linear story, but why the fuck do you reply with that AI shit? You must be fucking illiterate.>Like you already do in Stalker 2?Have you never played Bethesdaslop? The difference is that you walk there AIMLESSLY. It's a sandbox where you LARP and try to create your own adventure. It has nothing to do with Stalker.
>>578168734>The difference is that you walk there AIMLESSLY???You do the same in Stalker 2, anything else aside from the Main Missions is slop, you just run from X to Y through empty fields, at least in a Betsheda game I'll run into a slightly interesting side quest or PoI that's actually worth doing.
https://www.stalker2.com/patch-notes?id=Update+2.0>New places to visit in Prypiat.Lets go?
>>578167673That's still the same loop>get money >buy gear to get more moneywhich might be fulfilling for 80IQ people, but it's kind of stale after 20 years.
>>578168970The main mission is the major portion of the game, same as in the original.>but if you ignore the main mission, then you will have no goal!Duh. But the main mission exists, and you do have a constant goal. I genuinely do not understand your arguments.
>>578168734>I want non-linear story!I never said this, I said it has a linear story like Far Cry does, idiot. Maybe learn to read. And I brought up the AI because a linear story needs good AI for it to be worth doing, the enemy AI is dumber than a Betsheda AI or on par with it.
>>578169269>The main mission is the major portion of the game, same as in the original.The originals didn't have an empty open world for padding though
>>578169532???
>>578169335Wow, Stalker 2 is like Final Fantasy 7 because it has linear story as well!>And I brought up the AI because a linear story needs good AI for it to be worth doingThe fucking mental gymnastics, holy kek.
>>578169850I think you're genuinely retarded
>>578169850>Previous Anon compares Stalker to Call of Duty and Far Cry>I reply that Stalker 2 is like Far Cry except without towers or shit to do in the open world>WOW SKYRIM, WOW BETSHEDA, WOW FF7What are you going to jump to next? Dark Souls?
>>578169910>>578169910And I just say that the criteria for comparison is so fucking broad it can be used to compare Stalker to almost any other fucking game. Is it really that hard to understand my point?>Final Fantasy 7>Linear story>Useless open world with boring>Dumb as fuck AIIs it really that hard to understand such a simple point? How do you even breathe with IQ that low?
>C-comparing a linear story FPS with another linear story FPS is le wrongFor someone who keeps calling others stupid, you're pretty fucking retarded
>>578170775And did I say it's wrong? I said that the comparison criterias are very broad.Yeap, you're illiterate.
>>578167325
>>578171264>Compare an FPS game to an FPS game>LE BROAD CATEGORYYou are the one who brought up RPG mechanics for 0 reason
>>578171720Ok, it matches all the games like Metro Exodus, Rage 2, Crysis, Dying Light, Atomic Heart. All FPS, all have linear story, all have some kind of open-world or at least non-corridor-like levels.But they all feel and play completely differently.
What did they mean by this? Did I just get robbed?
i like gamma
>>578172924>Did I just get robbed?Yes. Thanks for the hryvnas, dumbass.
>no romancable characters>no sex scenesstalker 2 is SHIT
>>578172696They play differently because they gave a shit about their AI. Stalker 2 AI and story are just dogshit UE5 nostalgia bait. Even Breakpoint is better
>>578151583huh?
>>578151583maybe he played it 10 times?
I wanted to check the update and post few screenshots for the thread, but I have been stuck on shader compilation for like 10 minutes.
I want to fuck the new redhead girl
>>578175715no way
>>578175747yes way
>>578175715what do you mean
>>578175985I want to put my big artifact in her
>>578175985Loners cannot comprehend, sorry.
>>577529224Ok why the FUCK is faggerator fagsky on the official steam profile and why is he endorsed? Holy fucking shit its completely over
>>578176721>you vill listen to your favorite streamer and BUY ZE PRODUCT!
does stalker 2 run on linux
watching random streamer and saw this geg
>>578173818kek
>>578176721Well that explains why they made the main character use homosexual way of reloading guns, looks like this series is officia pozzed
>>578177587At least he doesn't c clamp the 416, that would be too obvious and he'd canonically die of aids
Now that the cost of cope is released I'm gonna delete the original save and start over to see what the update brought us, praying to dear God that the plebbitors will finally stlhut the fuck up about the lack of binoculars snd whatnot
binoculars are lacking honestly.
I have never used binoculars even once across all stalker games and all mods I have played.
>>578178758Me neither lol, and I didn't even touch exoskeletons, they just suck and feel out of place
>Look at torrent 201 gbsjesus
>>577734931
>>578166694130GB takes a while to download for some of us.
>>578176721THE (NOT) FREE GAME THAT FAKES SURVIVAL (AND ACTUAL FIXES)
>DLC is 30 ameribucksholy shit literally dead on arrival LMAO
now if they can just get the SDK to be smaller than a terabyte we might get some fun mods
They give you binoculars in the prologue, nice. Also they're the Soviet type so you still get the best equipment in the beginning
This is my post from 1.5 hours ago: >>578174401. I just finally managed to start the game.The game was crashing as soon as I tried to load my old save or start a new game. Then I remembered I had few graphical mods installed, I removed them. That wasn't enough because I probably edited some engine configs. I had to wipe everything and redownload the whole game. Then wait for shader compilation again. And finally it works.Here's the very first screenshot of S2 2.0 update posted in this general. Way more grass and leaves on trees. The annoying light shimmering on grass is gone, but sometimes you can see some shadow shimmer from very distant objects. The grass finally has shadows. The reflections still look like ass, thanfully there's a mod to enbale raytraced reflections. Light ghosting is still present but it's massively reduced, you barely notice it.
>>578182028This looks like modded OG with Absolute Nature 4, except you're probably getting half the frames amirite?
Oh for fuck's sake.
>>578182028I saw they supposedly fixed the lighting getting completely blown out/completely dark when you're transitioning from indoor -> outdoor or vice versa. Can you speak to that being the case or improved at all in your experience so far?
>>578182408Just a quick test in rookie village with lots of NPCs.>RTX 5080>1440p, epic settings, DLAA, no framegen>80 fps average
>>578182028How's the AI though
Omg bros, the campfires finally cast shadows. They just needed 2 years for that.
too lazy to redownload 200 gigs someone tell me if the dlc ever explains why the wishgranter was a physical object in 2 after strelok destroyed the projectors in SHOC
>>578184608You have it backwards. The Wish Granter was a physical crystal in the OG trilogy that the C-Con created through the combined strength of their immense psychic power to be a trap.In 2 they retcon it into being this faggoty hologram being projected on shitass 1980's Soviet equipment that could be snatched up and loaded onto a truck like crates of bananas.
I noticed that light still leaks through thin walls. Did you guys know that Unreal Engine officially recommends all walls to be at least 10 cm thick to prevent light leaks? This metal gate is clearly not 10 cm thick. >>578183809There's still some effect, but it's not that overblown.
>>578184608>>578185329And no they never explain it.
>>578185329but you destroy the projectors/generators underneath it and it immediately stops working. i was under the impression the monolith was just random visualization of the ccons power. in 2 they actually the rock hooked up to machines
>>578176721hahahaha i fucking can't, first they make gamma canon and put it on gog and now this, gammafags you fucking won and i'm not even mad cause it's hilarious at this point, for 15 years russians were the ones who kept this series alive and created a cult around it, but nugsc is obliged to distance themselves from them and must turn towards the westoids, this is comedy.
>>578185329it was always a hologram.
>>578185610Nah in 2 it's very visibly a hologram of a rock.In the original you can't destroy it or interact with it in any way except to make a fatal wish.I think you're confusing destroying the Monolith with Strelok destroying the C-Con pods.>>578185887That's a hologram generator that the C-Con uses to talk to people. It's not the Wish Granter. That's the C-Con showing Strelok a picture of the Wish Granter.Pic related is the actual Wish Granter - a giant glowing rock in Reactor 4.
>>578185461It's because they are still using software lumen instead of hardware lumen or full raytracing.
>>578177587>Well that explains why they made the main character use homosexual way of reloading gunsWhat?
>>578185329They don't retcon it, it was a man made device , a psi emitter the whole time, in SoC they just hid it in a pretty glowing rock so it's more authentic to monolols who were supposed to protect it
>>578185686Time to kill the series, it was an honor serving with you bratans (not you gammafags) We failed at gatekeeping, this is the only reasonable solution
>>578186804Yes, that's my point. It was a man-made device...a giant glowing crystal that was a psi-emitter.And then in 2 it just became a couple ugly computer boxes and a cylindrical stand covered in what look like ugly stadium lights on posts.Biggest downgrade of all time.They should have left it in Reactor 4 and just had a cutscene mission where some shitass SIRCAA employee on an insertion team turns it on again, and then jump back to Skif watching Strider get re-brainwashed.
>>578186091doctor tells strelok that the wish granter is "an illusion manufactured in a lab". these glowing things are the generators that power it. they have no connection to the c-con hologram because it appears after you destroy them. and when you are destroying it, there's a voice in the background that warns about the "installation's power level falling". what other installation than the wish granter? there's also an unimplemented final entry in marked one's journal where he calls it a "hologram in the shape of a huge crystal". so even the original devs intended it to be a hologram. moreover during the final section where you teleport across the power plant at one point you will end up on the roof of the sarcophagus and you can look inside - the wish granter will not be there, because you have just destroyed the generators. at some point it was also planned that the player could go back to the sarcophagus after destroying the generators and talking with the c-con and see that the wish granter is gone, but i would have to dig through the design documents for more details.so despite all the stupid retcons in stalker 2, this isn't one.
>>578187025hey man the best is still ahead of us, reminder that they want to make a netflix series. just imagine hahahah
STALKER 2 IS SHIT
>>578187824>doctor tells strelok that the wish granter is "an illusion manufactured in a lab"Yes, an illusion of riches and glory and dreams come true.>there's also an unimplemented final entry in marked one's journal where he calls it a "hologram in the shape of a huge crystal". so even the original devs intended it to be a hologram.And then they changed their minds.So that means the Wish Granter is indeed a giant crystal that was powered by generators in the sub-level of the power plant.>moreover during the final section where you teleport across the power plant at one point you will end up on the roof of the sarcophagus and you can look inside - the wish granter will not be thereYeah, that's if you go off the beaten path and cheese your way over to a part of the roof you're not supposed to go to. It's not there because you're not supposed to go that way.
>>578176721Americans are subhumans.More at 12.
>using rivatuner for OSD stats
>>578188739man i'm sorry but it sounds like you have made a headcanon, or simply believed in something that's not true for so long that you will not be willing to accept the truth no matter what. no, it's not an "an illusion of riches and glory", it's something manufactured in a lab. they didn't change their minds, because there are no references to it *not* being a hologram. >Everything that you said about Monolith is right - it's just an illusion created by a laboratory near the Sarcophagushere's the doc quote. i mean come on, it's pretty obvious what it's supposed to mean. then you literally see a floating small hologram of it beneath the sarcophagus, and you destroy it's generators and hear that the "installation's power is falling". it cannot be more obvious.>Yeah, that's if you go off the beaten path and cheese your way over to a part of the roof you're not supposed to go tothat's not true. you walk on a catwalk next to the roof and there are holes in it. one almost directly above the spot where the monolith used to be, you can look inside of it and see that it's gone.also strelok in cop also says that "it's all fake" when asked about the monolith, calls it a lie and a device.look man the concept of it being this magic unexplained glowing rock capable of granting wishes is way cooler, i agree, but it wasn't what the old devs had in mind.
Loaded my old saveI feel like something might be wrong here
>>578187145I think that in S2 you see the same device but it's sorta hidden in the techy looking skeleton and hooked up to computers to be less unstable or something. Believe I'd still want it to be some supernatural artifact humans couldn't explain but games tend to give us blueballs sometimes > They should have left it in Reactor 4 and just had a cutscene mission where some shitass SIRCAA employee on an insertion team turns it on again, and then jump back to Skif watching Strider get re-brainwashed. Unironically better than any of the bs they gave us. Matter of fact they should have made it so monolithians appear in the zone again and start shooting everyone amd nobody including you knows what the fuck is going on, would have been much better >>578188125Yeah I gave up on this a while ago so I'm desensitized, though it would be painful to see guntubers dressing up in merc suits and tacticooling around a junkyard > This Netflix special is FREE and doesn't FAKE survival
WOKE GAY GAME
>>578187025Impossible to gatekeep when its being overrun by a army of noobs
>>578191438>wasting screenshot on that comment instead of DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY
>>578191985Real ones should make clickbait jewtube videos where zoomies will think it's analmeme they're talking about but when they start watching it explains the lore of the OG games and how they're unrelated to sny of the crap they've heard recently
Runs alright, dunnit?
>>578191985It's not being overrun by anything.STALKER, as always, is a niche franchise that barely a thousand people have heard about. It's not "mainstream" it's not "woke" it's not "pozzed."It's still the same clunky piece of garbage coded by the same group of alcoholic Ukaranians, except the devs are all much older now and have lost their touch and it's in Unreal Engine 5.
>>578193081What's with the tranime?
noontide is straight fucking kino. 'cept for faust he reminds om jared leto or someshit shit character.
>>578193387Nothing about that image has anything to do with trannies. Stop using buzzwords and speak like a fucking human being.
Is Stalker 2 good yet?
>>577913203
>>578193387>being this much of a newfag in 2026
>>578187025mate, play/talk/create shit you like. If you don't like nuGSC lore than thats fine (the same goes for Anomaly and Gammashit)
>>578188125>>578191202Didn't that Drewski fag participate in the godawful youtube-shilled Stalker "fanfilm" that was just an unrelated tacticool larp session with merc patches? I expect any live action stalker series to be poisoned the same way.Also anyone who plays merc is MASSIVELY gay. Mercs are the pet faction of all these faggots who are extraneous to the franchise, lore, games, fanbase and general philosophy and just want to butt in and play le epic operators shooting at nondescript slavs(not mutants though, thats unrealistic)
>>578196431Wow, you're hella butthurt over something that had absolutely zero effect on your life.
>>578196283>ghoul_with_sig.pngWhat's that from?
>>578189574Name a better OSD. PresentMon's OSD is all sorts of fucked up.
>Discover STALKER in 2012>Oh shit>Play the fuck out of the trilogy>Eventually play trilogy with mods like the 2009 Exrtended mod or whatever it was called>Eventually hear about Lost Alpha>Cool!>Play the fuck out of Lost Alpha until they break it with that one update that made it unusable on 90% of devices>Aw>Discover True STALKER>Oooh>Play that. Aww, kinda short.>Discover Anomaly>Awesome! More STALKER to play!>Play OG trilogy some more while also popping into Anomaly>After Anomaly, hear about GAMMA>Okay, it's a mod I haven't tried yet, let's give it a try.>STALKER 2 finally drops>Finally!>Play trilogy, SHoC, Anomaly and GAMMA concurrently>/sg/ informs me that for playing all of those things, I am now a tranny, a Russian bot, a homosexual, and a clandestine bad actor that infiltrated both GSC and the modding community to ruin STALKER foreverI'm sorry I ruined STALKER forever, guys. If I had known that playing everything and enjoying myself would do this I would have killed myself in 2012 instead.
>>578197243Trader for my (potential) mod. Haven't really worked on it besides writing down ideas, but I'd like to make it happen. Especially, if the IX-Ray SDK gets map sculpting, which was getting talked about in the past. I saw also a github commit about it today
>still 86gbme playing the update close to Christmas
For stalker 2, have they changed the gun balancing with the latest patch, or at least fixed the UI to show the correct stats for damage, penetration etc?
>>577963896what's your verdict, anon?
>>578197349>GAMMAYeah, GAMMA is a trannycore mod and actively ruins the community.
>>578199307...what does any of that mean? I don't understand what those buzzwords mean.
>>578197349/v/iggers and 4chaners in general are miserable faggots who i truly believe dont enjoy anything on this earthYou found one of the greatest FPV series in the world, dont let any retards make you feel bad for it.
>>578199498FPV?
>>578196431Yes him and wendifag but thankfully it got intercepted by our guys and made fun of and it got shadowed by S2 anyway so we got off easy then They larp as mercs because it's the only group they can associate with lol it's funny because in game mercs were just bandits but placed there so you don't have to shoot bandits for 20 hours straight
>>578199360I mean GAMMA is dogshit and flooded the community with faggot tarkov larpers
>>578199498We obviously enjoy the OG gamed, we don't enjoy sharing air with gammafags though
>>578198517>Trader for my (potential) mod. Haven't really worked on it besides writing down ideas, but I'd like to make it happenNice. Strike the "potential" please, I sure as shit am hungry for community built soulful mods to drop
stalker 2 is everything i hate. commercialized, streamlined, watered-down style-over-substance soulless cashgrab bullshit. if you paid for this shit, fuck you for being the mindless enabler that allows for poopoo like this to be produced
>>578200856can you post your current playthrough of the OG stalker games?
>>578200856Still can't afford it, huh?
>>578201216You will never be White, Akshit Poojeet
>>578198517>the mentioned github commit
>>578201443Awwww poor kiddo. It must be so hard being forced to live with dissenting opinions on the Internet.
i dont understand the hate for gamma its pretty fun imo.
>>578201589It's more like STALKER-shaped Tarkov.
>>578201589It's literally just that every gun you pick up from an NPC is always at like 12% durability and only has about 4 bullets.If they patched that out everyone would stop bitching.
>>578201890i dont get why thats bad. its not like the atmosphere is gone.
>>578201216why would this even be a point of contention when you can just pirate it? anyone can do that, even if they couldn't afford the game. stalker 2 enjoyers are simpleminded
>>578202358Even if poorfags pirate it, they can't pirate a computer that can run it.
>>578176721I hate operatordrewski and his breed of retards so much.
>>578202869His brother is demolition ranch, and the guy that shot Trump wore a demolition ranch T-shirt whilst doing it.So, that's a weird connection.
>>578201987That's the thing - it's a STALKER game for people who don't like anything about STALKER besides the setting
>>578201589it's mediocre, actually, still an improvement on anomaly but not by muchthe real cancer is the "community" of tactitroons and tourists from youtube that it brought>>578201987but it is different, grok wants stalker to be early access zombie survival crafting unity sloptrilogy still has the best atmosphere, and arguably misery also beats gamma in atmosphere
>>578202797game's trash bro
>>578203267>misery
>>578203303>32GB
>>578198912They didn't really touch ballistics, which means that until the Ballistics Redux is upgraded to 2.0, just about everything except the expensive guns will shoot nerf darts.
>want to upgrade to ultimate edition to get dlcs>$34.99>a little pricy but ok>no, you can't upgrade from standard to ultimate>you need to upgrade to deluxe first>$54.99 to upgrade to ultimate from standardWHAT THE FUCK
>>578204140That's the goyim tax
>>578200924he's right tho
maybe a longshot but has anyone ever seen STLs of the miniatures from that Stalker boardgame? i've seen plenty of proxies of course but it'd be cool to have the same sculpts
Waiting for the sex mods
>>578205658Now that's an OP image.
What the fuck is this?
>>578206002A screenshot from steam
>>578204140ultimate upgrade is still at 30% discount on Steam
>>578199149Thanks. And fuck then (and them).I saw the OXA prototype mod and got interested, since it also seems to rebalance ballistics. Any opinions on that mod anyone would care to share?
>>578205658sex makes me horny
>>578206520Was meant for>>578203631
>>578206002the power of UE5
>>578206778Next year will be 20 years of me playing STALKER. 20 years of absolute virginity in the Zone.On March 23, 2027, I will go crazy and become a full time Monolith master wizard if I don't have sex with this girl, she's my ticket out of the Zone.Thanks for your attention to this matter. :)
>Wondering about>Big open field>Check East before heading West>Few seconds later, hear something>180 and see a pack of dogs 'blossoming' out as they all spawn on top of each other at "fake_alife_node 420">Sniping some Bandits>A lot more Bandits than I thought>Fire fight goes on for a bit>A random Boar rushes through their camp, ignoring all the Bandits>Runs across the field between my position and the Bandits>Attacks me
>30 bucksAin't no way.
>>578206510There's no discount right now for either upgrade from standard. It's $55 to upgrade to deluxe and then ultimateThat said, there is an ultimate edition bundle that gives you the standard game plus both upgrades. HOWEVER, the dumb fucking chimps also included the DLC in that package, so the price is $77 (which excludes the cost of owning the base game but INCLUDES the cost of the DLC that is FREE with ultimate edition)
>>578207880Yeah, sure bud. Whatever you say.
>>578203267>but it is different, grok wants stalker to be early access zombie survival crafting unity slopWhat the fuck are you even talking aboutI miss when 4chan wasn't this fucking schizo over literally everything
is the dlc out already?bros where is the gog installer, i aint giving 100$ to hoholscs rin aint got shit yet wtf
>>578207880>Wondering
>players are reporting crashes and major instabilities since the new 2.0 update across all platforms
>update runs 5-10% worse than before
>>578210524>retards forget to remove 9001 mods they have installed and then complain about crashes
>>578208930you're actually retardedstop talking
>>578211519Stop being a bitter schizo, maybe kill yourself.
The 2.0 update for Stalker 2 absolutely ruined the lighting. I am not saying this out of spite, just look at these comparison images. The top is from launch, the bottom is from just now after 2.0 was applied. Same location. The lighning flicker is fixed, as it doesn't illuminate its surroundings while it's off in its flicker mode, but now the entire tunnel is almost daylight bright, when it shouldn't be. What the hell happened.
>>578202869You forgot the worst of them all > Ready or not Bootlicker pigger lover game where le heroic coperinoos save the day
>>578212349For reference this is inside the ruins of the Ribs arch anomaly or whatever its called.
>>578212349Turn your brightness down?HDR lighting in the new patch looks god. So, I wouldn't be surprised if they're assuming everyone is playing in HDR now.
Hey guys, I found a Spinner.
>>578212594This is the exact same brightness levels as on launch, the exact same settings. I haven't touched the game since last year. I left in this exact spot. Why would I suddenly need to fuck with settings.
>>578212708When I launched the game, it told me it'd reset all my brightness settings and I needed to set them again, so iunno man.
>>578212708>Why would I suddenly need to fuck with settings.Because it's a different engine version?
>>578212376It's in the image
>>578212349>>578212532I don't know man, in my case it looks the same as it did when it came out. The thing they never fixed is that any kind of laser or aiming reticle jerks too much when you're aiming and moving it. But I'm attracted to women so I don't really need that irl or in games so it's not too bad, iron sights are better
>>578212980My bad, I swear it wasn't there first time kek Still fuck pigs and bootlickers
>Shader compilation
>>578211292its happening even without mods, some ultimate editions for people arent even working either. wtf is going on with gsc
>>578212349Looking out from inside The Ribs bunker looks like this for me.
>>578212915>>578213148Still the same, even after HDR, and fiddling with light settings and whatnot. This is the fault of the engine. 2.0 literally ruined the lighting system, I can't believe it. It wasn't really good at launch but this is even worse. It's a fucking tunnel for Christ's sake, there's no light in here>>578214403Go inside proper, where the room with the flicker light is. Take a picture.
>>578214083dunno anon, like half of recent Steam topics are achievement enabler dll crashes
>>578214481I can't, door locked. :(
>>578214728Ah damn it, you have to progress the main quest then. Well thanks for trying at least.
>>578214481When I launched it, it said that because of the update some settings were changed back to defaults, go and see what you can change and maybe its gonna fix it for you. Gaymma correction usually makes shit too dark
>>578215130I'll try some more but I really hope some other anon goes here and takes a picture here too to check if there's any difference because this is bugging the hell out of me.
> new update > they didn't remove the cringe slapping of HK style guns Fuck this shit cod4 did it correctly
>>578215130For reference this is what the interior room to the left looks like. It's approprately dark, but this is how the whole tunnel should be. It makes no sense for this bright non existent light source to be there. This is awful. I think this is actually deliberate game design. All main quest interiors have been artifically brightened or some such. That has to be it, surely. BECAUSE IT DOESN'T MAKE FUCKING SENSE OTHERWISE.
>>578214481>>578215318This is current patch. Drop the gamma if it's too bright for you.
>>578215997WHAT! Mine is down to like fucking 30 now. This is insane.
>>578215997>Drop the gammaAbsolutely rent free...
>>578215896This issue exists because there's a large difference in light intensity inside vs outside, same reason why every time you exit a building it's like you're staring at a nuke detonation for a second, shit engine made in the spirit of brave new world slop, S2 would unironically look 100 times better if they just recycled the original xray engine and slapped some better textures in, which is what modders have been doing for free for almost 20 years >>578215482They also didn't remove the kike gun and didn't replace it with f2000 like God intended
Ok... I decided to start from scratch, apparently they give you the binocs right away.Something is not right with the aiming though, it feels super sluggish, i raise the sensitivity up to 100 and it still feels as slow as molasses
Wasn't the flashlight supposed to be improved??? Why does it look like SoC durring on Dx8?
>>578215482why would they?>>578217434no. and no.
breh, look at the floor, this shit cannot be right. Maybe i messed up the installation
>>578218738I think this is just an engine fault. Like mine earlier. Not your fault.
>>578217209Probably to avoid seeing NPCs spawning in en-masse or leaving or entering the spawn radius.
>>578200856>>578207880>im retardedk
real intellectuals actually enjoy triple A low effort UE5 flips of beloved franchises
>>578217434Foliage shadowcasting is very expensive.
>>578197349>>listening to retards>thinking their retarded opinions are worth a more than a crusty dongleberrry>giving a shit what the retards shit out of their retard mouthsanon pls
Ok there's something clearly wrong here, this looks like dogshit. Look at the fucking trees!I'm on Epic settings btw, DLAA too, so... wtf
>>578221706eeeewwww.
>>578221706turn down upscaling sharpness, I think it defaults to 100% for some reason
>>578185686>for 15 years russians were the ones who kept this series alive and created a cult around itlollmfao
Hello Stal/k/ers. I recently picked up STALKER 2 and I'm having a blast. I played the original trilogy and the new one feels like a reskin in a good way. The graphics are on point, they look like I'm in the Andrei Tarkovsky movie when it goes all Wizard of Oz upon entering the Zone. Something is a bit missing though. What is the best mod for overhauling gun mechanics? The gun upgrades are a bit silly and I want something that will make the guns feel real. I assume I'll have to wait for the mods to catch up to the recent patch ofc.
>>578222287already tried, it was just 10% anyways, there's just something wrong with how things are rendered past a certain point.
>>578167325cells interlinkedcells interlinked
>>578220384>real intellectuals make the broadest vague generalizatipns to try to troll>or they are indeed just retardedcall it
WHY THE FUCK IS THERE NO DEAL FOR STANDARD FAGGOTS LIKE ME
>>578221706Try Nvidia App, and change DLSS preset to K.
What did they do to the lighting? Why does it all look flat now?
>>578225086Glad I'm not the only one who noticed. I thought I was going crazy.
I like how gamma successfully emulates how limansk and the hospital suck mad dick
Normal or veteran difficulty, bros?
>>578226000Veteran (or custom)
they fixed the game guys ;-)>>578224991already did using DLSS Swapper
>>578169120i actually somewhat agree anon and if i ever make a mod i will try to make it so you can get gear in other ways than just buying it from a trader
>>578226596tragic
>>578226596You'll have to wait for the update of Ultra Plus mod. You can crank up the lighting update speed. It will cost FPS, but will get rid of the ghosting effect.
The fuck is this?
>>578230818I want Stalker 2 with KCD tier forests and instead we get this wispy shit.
>>578119576>warned for posting OP 2.2 "pornography"I'm going to find you... then I'm going to rape you... repeatedly.... then I'm going to kill you... painfully......
>>578189574>not using rivatuner for OSD stats
Okay well the game basically runs the exact same as it did before for me. nice meme gsc
>>578205658I want to fuck her sweaty asshole
>>578233159>losing performance on purpose because you're using software that hasn't received an update since 2017It's fascinating how tech illiterate you faggots are sometimes.
>>578232863you left your front door unlocked...
>>578233551Me on the left
>>578234756>
So is the update good?
How's this difficulty tuning? I don't want bullet sponge mutants but I do want dangerous human AI and a somewhat dangerous zone.
>>578233402>since 2017More like since 2025. Also>tech illiterateThen explain why RTSS is degrading performance. Surely you can benchmark for that and explain your point? And yes, (You) are the one that's meant to do that, the burden of proof is on you here. If you'll default to ad hominems then I don't see a reason why RTSS is causing performance degradation.
What artefact causes this?
>>578235640RTSS hasn't received a compatibility update since 2017.The hook used by the software tanks your framerate by at least 10%.There are much better alternatives.
>>578235885>There are much better alternatives.That you won't share and only vaguepost about because you're smarter than everybody here and you gotta let everyone know about it. Classic.
>>578235778Dr. Congo
>>578236135Google is your friend, faggot.Not spoonfeeding you a tech illiterate cunt.
>>578236597>Google is your friend>Not spoonfeeding youThe burden of proof is on (You). You've made the claim that RTSS degrades performance so it's up to you to prove it. That's not how this works faggot.>you a tech illiterate cuntOh look, you can't even use English properly, mr. "tech literate genius smarty pants". How shocking, how shocking indeed. A guy with a huge ego also happens to have a tiny brain. Wew.
>>578236964Masterful.
>>578236964nta, but you're a fucking retard.
>>578235778the special military operation
>>578236964you're a retarded niggereveryone knows rivatuner kills performance, it's why most modders ask you to not use itmo2 straight up doesnt work well with itkys
>>578238757>no rebuttalProving anon's point once again.
>>578238858>mo2 doesn't work well with itI've seen the warnings in the console, but what is it about using RTSS with MO2 that causes issues?
>>578239145RTSS tries to hook into the graphics pipeline of every executable it detectsthat includes mo2, which causes the program to malfunction, freeze, and hang due to its (obvious) lack of rendering hooksRTSS eats some frames as well when enabled because the Windows CBT hooks it uses have elevated priority over the graphics APIs, this is needed since the OSD is an overlay that must be enabled before any pipelineso it's not just RTSS, but any overlay RTSS is the worst of them all however, use your graphics card's official software (radeon overlay for AMD, geforce experience for nvidia)those have completely different hooks that dont bruteforce themselves into rendering pipelines
>>578239019stop shitting the general upfuck off forever and kill yourself
>>578240856Very ironic reply
where the fuck is the new G3 with the modern furniture?they showed off a cool modern looking G3 in the trailers but when I finally get in game all I see are old cold war variants
>>578176721lol
>>578239019wow nothing gets by you huh?arguing with retards is not a good idea.I would like you to kill yourself for wasting everyone's time.thanks
>>578242126Its probably some unique variant or something, I'm just wondering if they completely removed the 7.62x39 ammo from the game because it was in it in early versions Shame they didn't give us the AKM or SKS
>High hazard zone difficulty setting in Iron Forest.Never seen such high anomaly density after an Emission in any of the games. Hopefully the artifacts in there spawn correctly, instead of being buried in the ground or bolting off into the sky.
>>578254741What was the old meme of someone pressing their face against a wall and complaining about the wall textures?Still can't believe ye olde X-Ray engine had better parallax or normal mapping or whatever that made the flat wall model look like it had actual mortar lines and rough brick texture.
Heavy Trenchcoat is and always will be the GOAT.
>>578257259
>>577529224I noticed the anomaly together people released SoC NS 2016 coop. Has anyone tried this? Does it actually work enough for me to make my friend download it and play?
>>578235778
What the fuck man?
>>578235778Ward is the only faction where it makes sense.If you look at the names of many NPCs, there's American, French, German, Italian and other nationalities mixed in with the Russian and Ukrainian. They're an international PMC corporation, so there's going to be foreigners in their ranks.
>>578235778>>578276847Don't get me wrong though, ever hiring one of those under any circumstances is still a vile act.
>>5782608987 goriillion hours in paint
>>578260898Quixel Megascans could never
>>578257259>>578260898is this why all interior areas look like dogshit in S2?
>>578278072>Happy, but poverty stricken childhood on the Ivory Coast.>Due to said poverty, become a mercenary that travels the worst war zones of Africa.>See some shit.>Get the opportunity of a life-time to depart the cursed continent and eke out a military life in a slavic region.>"It's just a peacekeeping Op in a research region, huh? Child's play.">Mpepe gets off the plane and first notices the chill air of late August weather blast against his black skin, almost wishing he was wearing more than military fatigues in 20C weather.>The people are rude, call him a nigger and even though his Russian teacher drilled him for a good year or two, nothing prepares him for the esoteric pidgin language that the locals speak on occasion with no knowledge of which of the whites will speak one of the two.>Orientation about Stalkers. Some form of illegal contraband smugglers or thieves or something? Hard to know when the guy who spoke Russian left to smoke his fifth cigarette and his second in command speaks the strange dialect instead.>Arrive to what might as well be a derelict warzone consisting of radioactive ruins and a variety of researchers harnessing some form of unknown energy source. It sure is weird, but it sure beats going to war.>Get posted in a swamp that smells like raw muddy sewage, with some form of alien wildlife roaming the wilderness, while two fat men are in beached rusting ships are told to be in real charge of the region.>All while masked, fatigue and tracksuit wearing slavs try to shoot you dead and steal your shoes.>Your Ward teammates still call you a nigger and the only thing warming your sub-tropical constitution are copious shots of vodka and cigarettes.>mfw
>>578280249>nothing prepares him for the esoteric pidgin language that the locals speak on occasion>Russian left to smoke his fifth cigarette and his second in command speaks the strange dialect instead.Honestly the best description of Ukrainian I've ever heard. 10/10
>>578280249>Pic related>Mpepe's face when he discovers the only two women in the whole Zone to rape are both protected by a heavily-armed flecktarn-wearing gang
>>578271620Someone's wife is in there
so is the patch good?
Is cost of hope worth the 30 bucks?
>>578282335It's great, which is exactly why /sg/ is seething about it so hard.They have a MASSIVE victim complex and cannot handle anything positive happening to them.
>>578283719is it $30 dlc good though
>>578284108I dunno I have the Ultimate Edition. I never have to pay for anything ever again.
>>578284450sunk cost anon...
>>578283719avg ubisoft game defender
>>578286270The fuck is Ubisoft?
>>578286881they made far cry heart of chernobyl or something
>>578287101I don't play obscure foreign studios aside from GSC so I have no idea what that is.
>>578287101chornobyl*
>>578287368In English we spell it Chernobyl.
>>578287767you're a brownoid, your opinion on english is irrelevant.
>>578284450>i paid everything upfront 3 years ago!!! i dont have to pay anything else!!baffling state of affairs itt
Ghost of Chernobyl
So when are we getting the "Secrets of Limansk", the "Sand Plateau", and the "Cold Island" DLCs?
God freedumb sound like absolute massive faggots and redditors in this dlc, I can't believe devs made them the poster child
>>578288638And just what, pray tell, makes me brown?
>>578289159Your skin colour.
>>578289278All because I don't use the fucking Ukrainian spelling that no one gives a flying fuck about?
>>578289337Yes, Indians are the biggest supporters of Russia after all.
Feels good to be Polish and not have to give a solitary fuck about the Russo-Ukrainian dick measuring contest about whose transliterations should be used in English cuz you can just use your own.Czarnobyl.Prypeć.Kijów.Lwów.
>>578289415I don't give a fuck about Russia, faggot. Those two slavic shitholes can wipe each other out for all I fucking care.
Is this all you guys do? just seethe all day about the game you don't even play?
>>578289595Touched a nerve, eh?
>>578289581Serious question. Do your Z and W keys wear out faster on keyboards than the others do?
>>578289060The moment he said people this is stalker I knew they all had to go, every single one of them
>>578289692Dunno, my previous shitty keys mainly wore out on WASD, and I think XCV had extra wear as well, but don't remember exactly, then I replaced them with double-shot ones, then swapped that old POS keeb with a Model F repro with deep dye sub legends so they won't wear out as fast. Plus, I touch type so w/e
>>578289641Yeah, cause some mentally ill faggot just got in my face and started this screeching rant about how I'm an Indian that loves Russia because I use an E instead of an O in my spelling.When I first learned about Chernobyl in school, it had an E in it. When I discovered STALKER, it had an E in it.I'm not changing the way I spell things because some retard foreigner in some shithole country gets his panties in a twist over it.
>/sg/ was /vpol/ all along
>>578290575Not caring about Eastern European politics and wanting to focus on game discussion is the opposite of /pol/
>>578290678>ctrl +f "indian" and "jeet">6 resultsidk mang.i was lucky to be here way before cock even came out, so i remember what it wasbut man you guys are faggots.
>>578290678>wanting to focus on game discussionNo one has talked about the game in like 12 hours
Only a thirdie would seethe like that when a White spells it differently from the globohomo approved spelling.
>>578288970Secrets of Limansk was just the WiP name for Cost of hope
Do any autists want to be recruited to my projects and playtests?
>>578294662Why should we? Sell it.
>>578289581Černobil.Pripjat.Kijev.Lavov.BONUS: Zaporožje.
I love how the lighting spazzing out during emissions is supposed to make the game more atmospheric but thanks to shitty ass Lumen it just looks like my graphics card is dying
Should I buy STALKER 2 or just wait 2 days for Poison Song to release instead
>>578294643...And where is Limansk in Stalker 2then?
There is something really, really wrong with FSR4 upscaling in Stalker 2. What the ever loving fuck did GSC do?
>two retarded nations are killing each other because they want to spell words differently (they speak the same language)>White people are supposed to be equally retarded and invested in how these slavs spell their wordsno
>>578299432Unreal engine is a blight on gaming industry.>>578299825The two languages are different enough. Unfortunately half of Ukraine cannot speak it, and even if they could, the language is barely complete.
>>578295207This one's coop and pvp like an extraction shooter. Has tile based weather, destructible buildings, fire, picrel loadouts, vehicles, anomalies, WIP underground and buildings, and soon gamemodes like outpost defense and artifact huntsBasically trying to mix darkwood, zomboid, ss13, etc, focusing on simulating cool environments/biomes
Anyone know if you still start with the binocs if you don't start from scratch (as in, picked the option to jump to where you get access to the DLC)? I played a little bit last night and couldn't figure it out or see them in my inventory but might have glossed past it in the keybind section.
>>578299825>GUYS STOP PAYING ATTENTION TO HOW WE'RE FAILING IN OUR WA- I MEAN SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION!!!!!!!!!!
>>578295347Had nafo troons attack me on shitter because I used these words in my own language kek
>>578297594You go to it in Cost of Hope.
>>578288970I thought there were only going to be two dlcs. Still hoping the snow area is one of them.
COST OF COPE IS ACTUALLY GOODHOLY SHIT
>>578304008if it's so good then why hasn't anyone said anything about it in the past 15 hours
>>578304008one of the factions literally gets wiped out so here goes any hope of seeing factions wars between Duty and Freedom in the overworld lol.It's so conventient isn't it?
>>578305443lmao really. That's so fucking gay. I hate "big and dramatic" shit like this.
>>578301662Proofs?
new stalker 2 patch is up no idea what it doeswhens the best place to start stalker 2 btw?
>>578260898
so is the expansion worth getting?
>>578309569No idea since nobody ITT fucking posts anymore
>>578307079You literally see it in the cost of hope trailers and promo material you fucking retard
>>578304297all busy playing it
>5080>7800x3d>can get this fucking game to run abov 100fps without framegen and dlss balancedbro come ON
>>578312643Uhm...
bro was so eager to post his shitty op thumbnail that he misclicked
>>578312710sorry i got distracted stalking hunk on /v/
>>578312851>opNope, don't play zigger slop! I play the real game.
>>578313349This is ukrainophobic. Please leave. Racism isn't tolerated unless it is on b
>>578312817>>578312817>>578312817
Have to restart my progress again for S2 since I've repirated it.. just a few hours really but still..
>>578310341Rude.
