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what the fuck happened why are there three threads
That's what happens when you post stupid shit in a different thread, and the mods ban you AND delete all of your posts across the entire website.
>>580995283qrd? don't see anything in the archive, how do we know the op of the previous thread was banned?
>>580995764you can't delete threads, only jannies and mods canthe jannies deleted the previous one at 64 poststhat means the previous OP got permabanned across the entire website
>>580996056Well shit.
>>580996147that happens if you are a complete and utter retard.assuming the gachaniggers won't drown the other 2 threads, we'll use them later>>580995443>>580995457
>>580996056No it doesn't. It could also just be a three-day or a week ban.
>>580996303Nah, they only nuke EVERYTHING YOU EVER DID if you're perma'd in most cases
>>580996303>It could also just be a three-day or a week ban.nah, deleting a full thread like that when the OP image was completely work-safe means the guy got permabanned for posting literal cp or other heinous shit somewhere else.
>>580995764>>580996056>>580996303i wasn't banned, i made the ecologist surrogate onei hoped spoilering the govno would've been sufficient, but guess jannies are hyper sensitive>>580996470within the last few weeks i've only been active here in /sg/
>>580996901sorry bratan, it looks like the resident tranny janny woke up and didnt like your thread
>>580997275>Pictures of shit are NSFW...The fuck?
>>580997486Go ahead and post actual real shit anywhere other than B or maybe a /gif/ scat thread and see how it goes.
>>580997602..I can't do that, I'm the current OP.Another thread deleted and we might actually split for no goddamn reason.
Mandatory request for the 2011 teaser trailer GSC put out then later hid, for S2 back when it was still running x-ray. Teaser's about 10s long and is nothing more than a walk through a lush green swamp. Reposting this again in hopes an oldfag that saved it still drops by from time to time.
>>580997275prop_govno is a classicalso i saw OPs on other blue boards post shit and it staying up (for example someone on /fa/ presenting his new boots above a toilet bowl with his fresh residue)
>>580998426It's not supposed to. The only times it happens is when it doesn't get reported or it's on a slow board. /fa/ is a slow board and might be only moderated by a couple dudes.
>>580998603alright, lesson learned
Scar did nothing wrong.
>Stash description: Tehe, I dropped my backpack in the middle of the street. I hope no one finds it.>Actual stash: 8 digit keypad that you have to assemble the code from 4 PDAs scattered in a 300m radius and decipher, an admitted easy, code hint from text sentences.
I love this thing so fucking much it's fucking unreal
also prop_govno can't be human based right?it's gotta be from a cow or something, it's flat like cow manure
>>580996901>jannies are hyper sensitiveYeah if it's not a drawn image of a naked cartoon child they get pretty crabby. I'm just glad a janny got GOVNO'd.
Man.Most of these bodies were already there when I got here too.
>>580998227I don't have it but I have the screenshots from it.
is Broken Rock actually a gravitational artifact or am I being lied to by all the sites that say so? I got a task for it from Sid like 20 hours ago, hit every artifact spawning anomaly field I come across, still never found it.
we were having a nice discussion about pregnant stalkers, then I come back to a 404 and 3 /sg/sI can't leave you guys alone for 5 minutes
>>581002607you picked up the task, that means you will NEVER find onerookie mistake
lol
>>581000827My man, I will take anything at this point. Just to know I ain't going insane and imagined it all.
>>580999754Inside:>3 bottles of vodka, 30 9x18 AP rounds, a loaf of bread and a flash drive for 500 coupons
>>581000428Wait until you recognize a mutant lair. A-Life simulation means there will be a pile of corpses and loot that respawns almost every time you go 101 meters away and come back.There's a spot in Pripyat that usually has 2 Buyuns, so there's like 4 dead ones and a slaughtered Monolith squad that weighs my pack down with loot.Or the Hornhead lair in Burnt Forest. Almost guaranteed to find a dead one, a live one, and a pile of Veteran corpses with decent loot. And since it's basically next door to Rascal and the other NK-5 guys (if you did the quest), all of it is worth taking since he buys broken shit.
>>581002712Can we pin the blame on Freedom for this?
if you got the freedom SEVA suit from near rostok you didn't beat the game
>>580995283Fellas i been dying to find out WHAT FROM this image is, if anything at all. I found it on here a few months ago and since then i used multiple image searchers, asked in multiple stalker discord servers, forums, groups, you name it, i got NOTHING on it.
>>581003703a brave freedom veteran may have made the rule-breaking posts but a cowardly duty officer deleted the thread
>>581003971I think it was a warden, honestly.
>>581003793I might be wrong but that looks like Stalcraft (or Stalzone) to me
>>581003361Alright, I'll just pack them all in a nice .zip just for you and put it on my mega.>inb4 dolphin pornRoll the dice, cunt.https://mega.nz/file/3gFxVaBD#Gm6F0byNkc5dz4jOsTloj90GhAzQW_8UloQhECPmRBo
>>581004135I just checked, I am, in fact, wrong
>>581004185>inb4 dolphin pornyou're a sick freak, I wish this was dolphin pornDO NOT download this
>>580995559someone wished for /sg/ to disappearwish granted, now there are three...
So can you play S2 forever before reaching the point of no return?I don't like the fact that none of the 4 endings let you freeroam afterwards, it's so stupid.
>>581004185wtf i downloaded it and my wallpaper turned into pic related?????
>>581004908That's literally Rodney Dangerfield.
>>581000167i dunno but i know that some autists traced where the photo was approximately taken based on the source photos archive leak
>>581004185Damn it, not a single one capped from that video. Still, thanks lad, will keep my ear to the ground a bit more I guess.
>>581005118
>>581005343I get no respect, I tells ya.
>>581005473>a loner tried to sell me a bunch of broken kalashnikovs, i told him to bugger off and he tossed a grenade in my bunker instead>i got no respect i tell ya!
>>581005118I always thought that Buildo Sid (Toad) looked suspiciously like him but I didn't think they literally took his face for the texture
>get gifted some homemade pickled onion and slanina from a romanian dude I know as thanks for a favour>ask him what does it got with/what goes with it>among the suggestions is a nice crisp vodkaWhelp after playing some stalker 2 due to the 2.0 update this seems like fate telling me what I need to do this weekend.
>>581006674please buy finnish or polish wodkadon't support the orc war machine
>>581006263they took his face from Natural Brn Killers
>>581003575The funniest thing about these changes is the bloodsucker in the cave below the village in lesser zone was dead when I went there to get the artifact.>>581003719Isn't Freedom variant the worst one and most expensive to repair?
>>581008539>Isn't Freedom variant the worst one and most expensive to repair?I don't know im just trying to fit in
>>581008632I appreciate your honesty.
>>581008539>>581008632>Tied for lightest SEVA suit>5/2 Artifact>Can get both +Stamina and +Carry Weight upgrades>Best radiation protection>Pretty much worst everything else>GreenI still used it for quite a while. I forget what I actually replaced it with, might have been the Liberty Exo you can find in the X-Monorail if you sided with Freedom in Cost of Hope and explored the Mercury once you got the Water Drop
>>581006829I could do something even more unspeakableenglish vodka
>>581006829>>581010832Canadian Vodka is decent. Alberta Pure is solid.
>>581010832>pommie vodka>>581011845>leaf vodka
>>581012005You realize Ukrainians settled much of the Canadian prairies right?
>>581012173>>581012005Like; Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba are like 9-13% Ukrainian. They know how to make some Vodka
>>581012173>>581012326
>>581012453You'd think this would upset me but>I hate the Canadian Flag and would prefer we return to the Red Ensign>I hate Canada>I hate CanadiansNothing you can do can hurt me more than being Canadian and living in Canada in 2026
>>581012619I was just yanking your chain, mate.No worries, that webm is 10 fucking years old.
>>581012791I know. I just think people need to know how horrible it is here and how unhappy we are. Because nobody cares or knows. Any time Canada is mentioned I'm glad to pop up and shit on us. It's an outlet.
fuck i'll never forget this layout
>>580997737>>580996303>>580996056you guys are dumbasses, only the post that gets you banned gets deleted when you get banned, not any previous or after that, the other thread simply got deleted due to the scat pic, /vg/ jannies are pretty sensitive about OP pics, only gachas are allowed to be risque with naked cunny
>>581013410You gonna get sucked.
this is supposed to be from when the major gassed em right?
Apparently if there are temporal anomalies in a cluster that spawns artifacts this makes it possible to spawn any type of artifact, not just one corresponding to the anomaly types?I just found a chemical one in Daredevil Path, and I found an electric one in the field near the school in Duga. Both of these are grav anomaly fields.
>>581014517yes
>>581012619>>581013045Glad to see another self-hating Canadian here. Would honestly go postal if I was anywhere but the rural Maritimes in this country, I've disliked the white trash that's around but can coexist with them much better than the jeets. Cannot imagine anywhere with a drop more of them and not having the coast.To make this thread related being around abandoned shit and nature as a kid from growing up in the middle of nowhere probably influenced my love of Stalker's setting.
Why do the repeatable tasks at Malachite pay so little? They're basically the same tier of rewards as Slag Heap.
>>581014517The red mist that sizzles you during that mission is implied to be the gas I think
>>581006829I'm surprised more ziggers didn't shit on this postdid the localisation thing really push all russniggers away from stalker?
>>581020401The only repeatable missions in the game that matter are vikky asking for mutant guts. Nothing else comes remotely close for effort vs payout. Harpy has some favourable missions for punking bandits nearby since the mission is so close but the reward is much less.
>>581024495The artifact missions are always worth it, but at Malachite you only get the 10K ones while Barkeep gives 30K ones.
>>581026605Harpy gave me a 30k one as well.
>>581019830Interesting... For me it was just the atmosphere and appeal of a spooky russkie shooter. Anyways, Roadside Picnic takes place in Canada according to many interpretations so... STALKER always has vague canadian ties.
>Skifniggers are meant to hang
>>581026940>>581024495>>581026605Harpy/Needle/Barman can give you 30k missions and occasionally even a rare 50k one for a top tier artifact like Hypercube. The trick with them is just hang onto your petals/crests/magic cubes so you can cash them in for 30k each time one of them gives you the mission.
>>581027598Doesn't viktoria payout like 32k for 5 bloodsucker tentacles?
>>581028130I didn't fucking say Viktoria. I said Needle. The Doctor.
>Duty medal on my bag nowNeato
Make sure to eat breakfast and sleep regularly. A rested stalker is a stalker that stays alive.
>find 4 dead bodies surrounding a dead pseudodog in the lesser zone>get a tail from the dog>one of the corpses has a 3 line rifle, albeit broken on itWell shit, i'll be having that k thnx bai.
>>5810319393 Line FUCKS until mid-late game. Godlike early game gun. Three Line + Cracker = GOATED loadout up to and until a little after SIRCAA
>>581028130Yeah but the rewards for the mutant parts are ridiculously overinflated.
I got an emission when I was near tornado archanomaly. It looks really cool.>>581032082You get a unique sniper rifle from Strider on Wild Island, so 3-line becomes obsolete long before SIRCAA.
>>581034994Lynx is heavier and more costly to upgrade. I left Lynx at home and stuck with Three Line especially because the ammo is too costly at that point so the bolt action helps make you preserve ammo. Meanwhile you can have a MAXED Mosin that onetaps any humanoid except Exo users and weighs virtually nothing and where carrying a lightweight little 50 stack of ammo is MORE than enough for most missions.
Wonder how many people sold this before actually using it because it's not correctly marked as a quest item.
>>581034994>>581035238The SKS hits harder than the SVD (75 vs. 70), has as much penetration (Only 10% less than Lynx but 10% more than an SVD), and weighs about the same as the Mosin after upgrades. Plus the added benefit of being semi-automatic, firing dirty MG rounds and not needing Match ammo, much more durability, and has a much better choice of optics, suffering only the fact that the 8x scope is either locked behind Pripyat or The Limansk Nightmare.The only real downside is the ugly bubba tacticool stock, but Justice fixes that. You'd need an SVU or Whip to hit harder, but you lose on weight and Match ammo requirements (Or equal penetration if you take the dirty ammo upgrade), and still never come close on durability.SIC is fucking OP and buttfucks the sniper balance. Only the M700 might be worth it for the higher damage that lets you 1 shot Burers, but even that could probably be sidestepped by pump action shotgun slugs at the cost of sniper range.
Also, why the hell was this left unused when they added the NPCs that pay for mutant parts?
>>581042236M14 still has DPS king status when you full auto it. But yeah SIc fucking rules. It's still not as hobo friendly though. Next playthrough I might use one a bit. I -love- Justice though. Def my new go-to in this Duty/Ward run I'm on right now.
>>581042362Anon, there's another DLC coming. They could easily use it then. I imagine this final mutant Hunter will be added once ALLL mutants have been added. btw. Amoks are in the world now right? I've only fought scripted Amoks so far. It's not just a 3 time only thing that they throw away? I want them to be around at least as often as Controllers.
>>581037201>selling anythingI'm sitting on like 100 PDA's.
>>581042583I saw a video where a guy found one in the wilds of the CNPP.
>>581042791Good enough. I like that. Just like Hornhead, it's okay if it's a regional thing. I just want it to be used. Mods are gonna go so fucking hard man. I'm hype. I know it won't be like OG Trilogy until much later but the new framework they laid out gives Mods so much potential. The world is so BIG and complex now. So much room for quests to be made
>>581042420But then you pretty much have to buy .308 since even on Stalker difficulty I'm finding maybe 5 rounds on Monolith with G3s. And it's twice the weight. Unless you're gearing up for a big game hunt and plan to flop your balls in the mutant's mouth while you bukake it with some real fucking NATO, it's not going to be worth it. And SIC semi-auto with a good tapping trigger finger is almost as good.>>581042583>>581042791Yeah, but fuck them. They ain't worth fighting.
>>581042995It's not nearly as serious DPS as M14 but yeah the ammo isn't great. I only switch to auto vs Chimera/Pseudo.
>>581042995I don't use any guns chambered in .308 but I find a good chunk on Mercs and found a LOT on the Freedumbs that I slaughtered at the CNPP.
>>581043738>>581042995>>581043104The whole ammo question isn't important. If you're skilled you're dropping people in 1-2 shots and if you're good at the game you're mega wealthy. I'm running a 6mil stash and a floating liquid coupon pool around 200k consistently in endgame. I can just buy all the .308 I find. And yeah Freedom love running .308 so there's that too.
Is the snork jump attack just a straight up one shot on Master? Must be really fun with that retarded hitbox.
>>581044832I needed >50% physical resistance to not get OHKO even on 3/4 custom mutant difficulty and they've been spawning fucking everywhere after SIRCAA, in groups upwards of 8 in size
>>581005118I get no artifacts I tell ya...
>>581045471Fucking Snorks man.I may just provide sniper support to Zombies just because FUCKING SNORKS
What a fucking asshole.And thank you to whoever spoiled this for me with a webm in a recent thread. Not sure if I'm upset I didn't crap myself or happy I was prepared for it, even though the first grenade seemed to be enough.
is OGSR a meme?
Anyone playing Forgotten Zone got some intel for me? I've found the Rad suit for sale in Skadovsk but only a tier 1 or basic Exo from Nimble. Is there a better Exo frame floating around somewhere or should I just wait until trader stock changes? I'm thinking I'll get the recharging power supply, can the Exo still support a backpack though?
>want to start a custom difficulty in HoC with max settings>zone max setting turns off compass>have shitty sense of direction even with it on sometimesMight just turn that down a notch. Or see if there's a mod with a compass item I can use. That'd be neat at least.
>>581049554Thought it was fine when I played the OGSR version of Goldensphere.
I think the School No1 in Pripyat hallucination anomaly spawns an artifact every time without needing an emission to recharge it. Just getting out of A-Life bubble range.>>581053556One of the, "GAMMA, but Stalker 2" mods had a handheld compass like a detector. No clue which one, I was just browsing mods when I saw it.
>>581053940>One of the, "GAMMA, but Stalker 2" mods had a handheld compass like a detector. No clue which one, I was just browsing mods when I saw it.Couldn't seem to find it, but I didn't search too hard. If you happen to come across it let me know. There does seem to be another mod that lets you reenable the compass on master mode, maybe it will work for custom mode too.
>>581056868i hope you flashed your router after posting this because ban evading usuallly results in an instant 30days ban
I am once again, asking, for the Cigarettes mod for STALKER 2 to be brought up to date.
>>581057106I'm not trying to ban evadeI only came on here to post this. they can ban this ip, I don't care, its not mine.4chan has been blocking wide ranges of IP's due to spam and abuse, and mine got caught in that stupid fucking practice, so I have to literally verify my email every time I want to post on 4chan anyways.its been like that off and on for months now.its not exactly a huge step to being banned anyways,>flashed my routerI dont think you know what you're saying
>>581057778are you messaging the mod author about it too?
I am death incarnate.>>581056868Feeding the troll is trolling.
>>581057876anon a dynamic isp vpn is like 2 dollars
>>581058630>20 fucking grenades
>>581058630>refuting idiots is trollingno.and exercise in fruitless futility, yeah sure.
>>581058657>you can use VPNs on 4chan>I can't change my ip at will anyways
>>581059038you can.you just can't use popular onesdynamic ISP vpns are not that popular and not blacklisted by 4chan
you have to be mentally ill and deluded to side with mavka. freedom proposes an idea that is worse than slavery.
freedoomers... we lost...
>>581059105interesting. I didnt know that.
>>581058630>"No on escapes the Monolith!" on repeat while I waddle through the Monolith apartment block making the Terminator police station scene look G rated>Gauss gun is too slow>Still super satisfying erasing dudes with itAlright, I've had my fun. Now my wallet aches and I think I slipped a disc lugging all that shit around.
>nik_flyer came back and started improving olr 3.0 againolr chads we won
In stalker 2 is there any more interaction with Skull if side with him in 1.8. Or is just siding him evil and he never appears or interacts with you again. Since zone kit phase 2 is out, curious if there's anything in there with him. Need to get around to downloading it. Gotta clear out a bunch of stuff or get an external.
Does Korshunov still ask Skif if he doesn't trust the ward even if you were siding with them the whole time after using the Monolith?
>>581063186You either betray NK-5 to Skull and he disappears if you're a dumb ass or you tell his Mercs to go fuck themselves, then fuck them up and eventually you let Rascal kill him since he has him flanked and you can get the unique burst fire only G36 from his cold, dead, and probably still shaking from the signal hands.
>>581058045No, never thought about that desu.>Number 17Soon I will be the greatest Stalker in the Zone!
>>581065249Dang. Was looking into doing an "evil" playthrough and they really give you little reason/rewards to doing it lol.
>>581065871>Legendary BanditsSeems silly that the bastards on the bottom of the totem pole could get to LEGENDARY!What mod, by the way?>>581066072Can't even shoot the crows for Bandit rep. 2 really wants you to be a little goody two shoes until the end choices.
>>581066072The game is kind of weird with the choices. Sometimes it wants you to be a dick, sometimes it doesn't.>>581066197>2 really wants you to be a little goody two shoesNot all the time. Well, at least with some minor stuff. Like the Drowned AK and the unique Fora-221. Or the quest with putting vodka in stashes.
>>581066310>Just being a dick>Zone justice, extremely justified>Just being a dickThey tell you not to take anything! You took advantage of those silly drunks trying to look after their buddy and YOU betrayed them all!
>>581066416>YOU betrayed them all!I did worse than that. I put in a anit-rad drug in one of the stashes, told him it was me, and he left his drinking "buddies" for good.
>>581066197Mod is Forgotten Zone and I gotta say, apart from a few niggles and a bit of instability, it has been wickedly fun.
>>581059420I'm gonna side with her in my current playthrough because I'm gonna try going for the Spark ending anyway.
>>581067179Thought about this as well since I'm doing a Spark ending. But man I really want that Dnipro.
>>581066310Yeah those are good quests because they do offer you a "better" reward. Personally, I think they need a new base/HQ that has a vendor, stash, the whole package. But they start out hostile to you. And the only way to gain access to it is by doing some evil stuff or the stuff that lets you side with Mercs. I think the following should apply (here's a list of almost all the times you can side with a merc or merc adjacent person, so be aware of spoilers): Sparing and Siding with Moth, not asking for coupons. Giving boogie machete's PDA. Siding with Kalyna. Saving/Helping Leshy. Siding with Skull. Helping Hatchet. Paying the guys for the collar near malachite. Helping the injured merc in the red forest for the main story. Then if you rep is high enough, being able to help and side with wolfhoundDo those things and you get rep for this new base and eventually work your way up to green/friendly. Unlocking their services. Plenty of Merc bases to choose from to do it too.
>fresh in the zone>see a merc for the first time>they shoot me on sightFuck mercs. TMD!
>>581067361I'm saving it for my next run where I'm gonna do Duty + Ward.
>>581002870This.I found 5 compass before I found a meat cube for a task.
I've never used a gauss gun in any stalker game.
>Forgotten Zone>quest to assassinate some Sgt>follow his trail from Garbage to Agroprom>some merc beats me to it>fight him and his mates while trying to dodge grenades in an electro anomaly>fights over, start looting>some military turn up>two guys>three>five of them now>turns out i dragged out the entire Agroprom garrison >manage to take down a few of them>fucking blowout siren starts>shotgun a couple of the stragglers, loot what i can before it hits>sprint into their own base and take shelter in the gate guardhouse>after a long wait, the blowouts over and the battle music kicks in again>eventually clear the place out while burning through ammo and medkitsall i wanted was a bountyreplace the mutants in picrel with soldiers and you're about there
>>581056868lmao, look a this seething retard
Christ...
>>581082625Freedom would never have this issue.
Why does the PTM monolith even exist?
>>581084458Same reason the Monolith SEVA exists.
>>581084458Weapon skins that loook cool. Every pistol in the game is irrelevant other than, maybe, the Rhino because Skif's pistol exists anyway. That being said, every PTM is useless because they're 1:1 with Skif's stats wise.
you WILL carry skif's pistol because muh cutscenes an you WILL like it
>>581078674such is life in the zone
There needs to be a long barrel rhino in stalker 2, for that authentic handcannon look you just know some idiot thought would be a good idea. Most powerful handgun in the world indeed.
>play stalker 2 for hours yesterday just fine>crashes more than unpatched SoC todayAt least i'm getting the true stalker experience.
I think it's pretty retarded that all random mercs you encounter in S2 are hostile to loners, some professionals they are if they just go around picking random fights with stalkers.Especially since the ones you encounter in fixed PoIs are neutral.
>>581089453I noticed this too. it's kind of dumb
>>581085641Every pistol is equal since you should only go for headshots with them anyway.Except for the 1911 which is fucking busted and does 100-150% more damage than every other one for no reason, including the unique 9mm one
throwing grenades keeps crashing my game! (forgotten zone)
man, 2 is actually fun.i just reached the iron forest by crawling through some toxic tunnel.i just wish the zone was somewhat more compact. or maybe i'm just a retard and managed to miss every single guide, because up until now i've been hotfooting everything.anyway, i got a couple of questions:is there a trick to hunting down moving artifacts? i've only encountered a couple until now, but everytime it has been a struggle. i'm not sure if i'm supposed to sneak up to it, or just run in spamming the grab item buttonalso, how is the DLC implemented? is it integrated into the main game or is it gonna spirit me away to some dedicated area?
>>581091441Many such cases with amalgamations of mods.
>>581097547Artifacts have a cooldown before they can move again, you just go after it, throw a bolt into the anomaly it went into and grab it, but if your detector is Echo or Hilka you're going to have a hard time catching them since often you won't be able to immediately tell in which direction it went.Sometimes you can manage to catch them while they move past you, but their movement is so stuttery it can be hard to even react in time.
>>581098181yeah, atm i only have the antenna one that gives me the distance but not the direction.i'm still loaded up on artifacts but good to know it's on a timer
>>581097547There's a Bear detector that's part of a side quest over at Cement Factory that's a lot better for chasing down artifacts if you want one.
>>581086254If they made the cutscenes in-game you could use whatever the fuck, but they had to bake them in.
>>581100425I guess they'd have to make new animations if Skif has a revolver during those scenes.
>>581097547You just broke into the DLC early fella.
>>581101046damn, should i back out?i don't want to have a giga spike in difficulty, or fasttrack to endgame gear.
>>581091441Then don't throw grenades.
>>581101886you can make some fast money but I haven't seen anything that op in iron forest yetIt is a pretty major difficulty spike if you haven't done anything in garbage yet though
>S2>dynamic light muzzle flash>realistic bullet damage>gore modmassive improvement on firefightskinda makes the mutants a pushover though, can one-tap basically anything in the game with buckshot
Radiation and Anomalies are the 2 worst mechanics in these games. I've played Stalker COP, GAMMA, I'm now 20+ hours into Stalker 2. I would love to enjoy these games, but they have legitimately the most unfun mechanics. Sometimes I'm just barreling across the zone and get insta'd by an anomaly, i'm trying to get to Diode now and I've reloaded 3 times trying to find the path too him and I can't just brute force the path. If I want to get an artifact it can take a very long time. I tried to save the guy in the electrical field 5 times of reloading before I gave up because he didn't move fast enough.I had the exact same thoughts on the 2 early games also. In theory they're decent ideas, in reality its just incredibly frustrating and makes me reload areas and saves multiple times.
>>581103579Git gud scrub.
>>581103579>save the guy in the electrical field 5 timesbro just throw bolts where you are intending to walk, if it explodes then don't go there, it's really simple, you even have an alarm to warn you that you're getting too close, those electric anomalies are completely static and predictableI can understand getting frustrated running into the random whirlygigs, but most anomalies have a really obvious gimmick that you just need to figure out and they're practically trivialised
>>581103937I can get out, I can't get the other dude out
>>581103145alright, think i'm going out then. i'm not in hard need of cash and the place is pretty spoopy
>>581103579>because he didn't move fast enough.There's a path around anomalies, so you don't need to rely on throwing bolts to discharge them. Don't forget to walk slowly and keep him close so that he doesn't cut corners.People love anomalies. You played GAMMA, and in that modpack you don't have anomaly detection sound, anomalies are often almost invisible, and walking into them is an instant death, not just a bit of damage. People wouldn't be making all those changes if they though they are not fun.
>nearly 2 years since release>some of the upgrade schemes are still bugged like they were on releaseAll of the double upgrades should be mutually exclusive, and this suit has a radiation resistance upgrade and container upgrade switched in places.
>>581104951like >>581105678 said, there's a path down one of the slopes where you don't have to rely on discharging the anomalies, it's a pretty straight-forward walk from the wooden ramp, over the small trench then to the road. The hardest part is getting him off the ramp because there's an anomaly right next to it
>>581100425The cutscenes are real time, in-game you retard. Only the ending movies are prerendered.
>>581103579Is this a reddit post?
>>581103579Fucking KEK, you think that's bad? Getting Kruglov back to Yantar without him getting shot by mercs or grilled in the tunnel, now that's fucking hard.
What the fuck is this
>>581106470Reminds me of my first attempt at the underground passage section in CoP. I was wholly unprepared for how dumb the squad was going to be.
>>581101886Probably yeah but the other guy is right Iron Forest isn't THAT bad
>>581106412No lol, I've picked up and played these games so many times over the years. I think I'm finally actually in on Stalker 2. Even still, there's so many elements of pure frustration in these games its ridiculous.
>>581106685The forbidden crackers.
So what's anon's favorite armor in 2?
>>581109047Zircon or Corundum. Out of the full suits the SEVA-D looks cool. Don't use Exos cause they're gay as fuck and I can't stand the noise. I wish we had more armor and helmet variety.
>>581106470since when does kruglov get grilled in the tunnel
>>581109998>I can't stand the noise.The exo servo sounds? Odd, I can barely hear them.
>>581110353Nearly all the time - he is infamously buggy and depending on how the shootout getting to the tunnel goes he will often walk into the anomalies and die.
>>581111261Ah okay - I don't doubt you. I just very often played through SoC and he always made it through the fire tunnel no problem
>Three Line Rifle doesn't shoot normal ammo>It only takes AP and Expanding ammo from the same caliberWhat the fuck
>get a full condition SVU from leshy after I bounced a grenade off the ceiling directly on his head>use it to take out a bunch of soldiers at the base south west of zalissya>mad loot>plus journo stashIts all coming up skif.
>>581114147>SVUDamn, he only ever dropped an SVD for me.
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>>581116105Cute feet.
>>581114715Wait I must've made a typo then. Either way normally I found it in shit condition but this time it was 100%
>>581116105Damn Mavka needs to wash her feet.
>>581112545I think you can mod it to accept fmj, or maybe that was the svd or something.Still, I can't understand their decisions sometimes. It's not even videogamey balance, just odd.
>>581109047For me, depends on who I'm siding with. Most of the time I align with loners/mercs. Since I lean neutral on many of the factions since they all have flaws. If we're including NPC armor, its the varan suit hands down. But playable, I always roll Sunrise suit or Wolfhound. But for each of the factions:>SparkSurvey or SEVA-I. They have the coolest SEVA look>DutyPSZ-9D>FreedomBulat>WardShturm (honestly, this is also very close to corp camo. So you can repurpose as corp armor)>EcologistThe S-Tier Discovery. I wish there were more SSP armors. Or at least color variations for existing ones to be less...standout-ish
>>581106685depleted u-238
>>581117428>Most of the time I align with loners/mercs.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0CBf5VDMaA
>>581117428I've seen some Corps boy have their own Varan variant as well, it was pretty cool.
>>581118458hell yeah>>581118616Yeah. I think all the Corps armor is recolor "military" gear. Since Varan is technically military gear in the devs eyes. Not sure if its still the same way, but I remember if you run to yaniv was soon as you leave the lower zone; you will actually see corps NPCs wearing IPSF gear. Because the lower rank, there's no corresponding corps gear.
>>581119813Correct, lots of F Tier Corps guys wear IPSF Varan
>mfw hearing an emission in stalker 2 on good headphones for the first time
>>581121897My headphones have haptic feedback so they bump and rattle around in response to the sounds. Makes it even more crazy. Haptic feedback headphones are SSS tier for first person shooters in general. Having them emphasize gunshots really makes the game more immersive makes the guns feel more feel.
>>581068374Lol this has been my experience post-SIRCAA but pre-Pripyat exploring the map. I see more Bulat/Exo Mercs just chilling ready to open fire on my ass than bandits. It feels like the intended progression but just weird to see this many hostile Mercs.
>>581122871What headphones? I have Beyerdynamics and the sound in this game is top tier stuff
>At the precipice of the point of no return>Still missing a Starfish artifact for a complete, Miracle Hoarder collection>Still missing ~5 BPs, most of which are tucked in the corners of Pripyat and one I just plain ol' missed since the Truck Graveyard is annoying to explore with the constant radiation>Save file says it's been a week of playing, started on the release of Cost of HopeI don't want it to end.
I never knew there was some passcode locked stashes at the top of malachite that requires some crazy jumping to get to. Apparently it was tied to some ARG or something but dunno lol.
>>581127456It also teased the White Noise quest added in the Stories Untold update.Starts with finding a key in the back of a car near a highly radioactive statue, leads you to an old workshop used by Banzai, then to internet, Malachite, back to the internet, and finally Malachite again. I think.
>>581125352I use razer kraken v3 but there's a few other haptic cans out there that aren't gaymur slop I think.
>>581126980don't be sad that it's ending, be happy it happened at all
>>581106685C-Conslop
>>581121897>>581125352I've been rocking a pair of HD598s and loving the spatial audio in 2. Sometimes when I'm high I'll just throw bolts around a room to hear how it sounds when hitting different surfaces lmao.
Is there anyway to remove stash markers if the stash is an empty, uninteractable bag?>>581109047I mean come on, it's a space suit
>>581129871The audio in stalker 2 is fantastic - at least now it is.
I've been lucky enough to keep an RPG on me with spare rockets for amoks. Fuck those things. Takes two shots on master. If I didn't have that those fights would be an absolute pain in the ass. I went into the CNPP with an RPG just in case and I'm glad it payed off.
>>581131237I had to kill the first scripted one you encounter while under the drunk effect. That was a lesson in pain.
Did they make the zombies spookier?I don't remember them being so talkative
>>581134175I think they did increase the amount zombie npcs bark. I also am convinced bandits say cheeki breeki a lot more.
>Diamond Exo still broken beyond belief
>>581111261NPCs in vanilla SoC automatically avoid anomalies, you must have had a mod installed.
>>581137998Well yeah, you get it right before the point of no return in the story. Realistically the falcon and fancy journo stash SSP-100M are more broken as they also can offer top tier protection and can be head as soon as you leave the lesser zone.
which quest lines were added since 1.0? will I find the x-16 ones naturally as I play or is it something I have to find?
>>581124552Most mercs are working for three people in the zone. Myklukha, endgame spoiler - Strelok, and CoH Spoiler - Nord. As far as I'm aware Spark doesn't engage with mercs. The primary people who hired mercs in S1 replaced them with the Ward. And the ward actively hunts down mercs. Rarely ecologists will engage with mercs and they are typically friendly in those situations. But yeah all the times a merc is friendly with you, they're typically either working for the ecologists or Myklukha.
>>581138796>NPCs in vanilla SoC automatically avoid anomaliesthat's not true
>>581140043>will I find the x-16 ones naturally as I play or is it something I have to find?X-16 is part of DLC main missions, impossible to miss if you do DLC story.If you meant X-18 (it was added after 1.0), then it's missable. You will get NPC quest marker in Slag Heap after you visited Wild Island during the sotry, and it will disappear right before the second Duga assault.
>playing stalker 2 with HDR on>come across a small building>sneak in the back door as I can hear voices>a bunch of mercs are hanging out at the front of the building>turns out it was a small store>get the drop on some of them through the windows>survivors return fire>dive for cover and then sneak into the back room that has a clear line of sight to the front door>its pitch black>hear footsteps outside>merc kicks the door in>the sudden illumination of outsideside light almost blinds me>however it gives a perfect silhouette of the merc as he enters>pop pop, watching motherfuckers dropThat was stylish and tense as i'm really not geared up to take on these mercs right now.
New Anomalous Dugout just dropped.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6GaBKtuo-w
>>581145076I don't watch any lore video under 2 hours long.
>>581145076I clicked this, subscribed, liked, and shared it on Discord.>>581145939Fuck off, r*ssian.
>>581112545>>Three Line Rifle doesn't shoot normal ammoWhat? Yes it does, only modern rifles don't allow regular grade without an upgrade.Retard.
>get to yanov station as merc in gamma>open door>loners inside see me>obliterate me before I can run out the doordamn I wasn't welcome in this neighbourhood I forgot
>>581150597when you come to yanov as a merc your better duck'cuz the loners are crazy as fuck
>>581150597Sundown town. Ain't no niggers in Yanov.
>>581152992
>>581155946what about marked juan?
>>581155946Doesn't rhyme. Cringe. Take your Weird Nut and get out of here faggot.
>>581138796No they don't, they will walk straight into them. The exo guy in Army Warehouses with a unique shotgun is a great example.
I just noticed that the psi effect you get from the fake artifact anomaly fields is not from the field itself, but instead you get a large dose every time you pick up a fake artifact.
>>581159378Or more like, it's being near the spawned fake artifacts that does this, if you don't have a detector out it doesn't affect you.
>>581138796Based plays modded but confuses it for vanilla gamer.
>>581160408Funniest part of my AMK playthrough was watching Kruglov be doomed by this random Whirligig over and over.
>>581161193why didnt you save him
>>581161452I didn't want to load the autosave, the random anomalies were decided once you zone into the map, and he was deadset on pathing that way. His fate was sealed.
>>581132419I've had to fight it under the effects of the weird water, too. That's why I use the RPG.
>>580976775 What the fuck happened here?
>>581145076>>581147840I see KEKs are still shitting up the thread...
>>581056868seems like you kinda deserved it desu
cocking about in swamps
>>581170848what are you cooking, anon?
It's NOT free and DOESN'T fake SURVIVALhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KaZvOHiUEI
>>581175980my cock is fere
>20 fucking years of The Zone>Still only 2 weapons that really utilize anomalous energies>And only one of them survived more than one gameGauss Gun and the Combat Chaser with chunk of Gravi jammed in the receiver, nothing else has utilized artifacts or Zone physics as a weapon. No artifact enhanced dirty bombs, no anomaly twisted weapon, not so much as some Bandits soaking ammo in radiation to make cancer bullets.
Is he ok?
>>581177953kawaii desu ne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c7DtsUmuAQ&t=319s
>>581182698
>>581175980That depth of field and field of view make me sick. God forbid I want to see shit.
>finally make it back to rostok after sircaa and zalissya>35k in repairsNow that was a long journey.
Ahem.Fuck Duty.Cement Factory is a shitty base. Your bed and stash is up 5 fucking flights of stairs. Their Shield of Duty Exosuit is the only one you can't find so you have to buy it from their merchant at a gacha's drop chance. This is excessively exacerbated by the fact you have to run back and forth to sleep and check Komisarov updated inventory.Also they're a bunch of cucks. Here I am, holding Freedom's Bounty, the reward for slaughtering tons of Duty to kick them out of the CNPP, and would you look at that! They're green! They're friendly to their very own Grim Reaper. Bunch of cryptofacist, xenophobic, pussy ass, losers who have failed every part of their mission to destroy the Zone.Tachenko? Bitch that got stuck in a spatial anomaly and killed himself because he couldn't handle it.Krylov? His name is literally loves to cry, what a bitch.Voronin? He wanted a ceasefire and didn't have the authority to keep his own men in line, another little bitch.
>>581186758Okay but why don't you have any ammo?
Okay, I'm convinced this shit is glitched. The fucker has TWO Cuirass Exos. I fucking bet the listing for his items has a typo and they forgot to put the "Heavy" for Shid of Duty so it rolls for two "Exoskeleton_Dolg_Armor" getting double Curry-Ass Exo.>>581187018I only pulled it out for the screenshot and I've been using Match and AP instead of normal ammo.
>>581175980Bodycam is a game for NPCs like this.>OMG so real>nothing in the game world is interactable/destructible in any way
>>581177152Here's the game for you, budhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2075100/Chernobylite_2_Exclusion_Zone/I'm afraid it's never getting finished though.
>>581186758>This is excessively exacerbated by the fact you have to run back and forth to sleep and check Komisarov updated inventory.Typical Freedomtard, can't just play the game normally.Probably cries on reddit that there are only 3 viable guns in the game.
>>581186758>Your bed and stash is up 5 fucking flights of stairsexercise, fatass
So is the upcoming multiplayer thing for S2 just gonna be TDM like in the old games or are they gonna be ambitious and do control points instead?
>>581190872They said it won't be round based multiplayer games, so a lot of people thought that implied co-op.
>>581191414So it's going be the adventures of Skif and his tulpa? That'll be fun.
>>581190872>>581191414Marathon died so that Stalker 2 Extraction Boogaloo can die
>>581191540>designated multiplayer underground sections where stalkers are trying to loot labs or something>you can join or invade other stalkers exploring the tunnels and labsThat simple.
>>581192581I'd rather it just be a horde mode. Something like Mass Effect 3's multiplayer.
>>581193005If I could have anything I'd want the entire Stalker 2 map as a multiplayer co-op game. Have like 50 or 100 players on one server and let it just be a sandbox. People can explore, or hunt, or do missions for NPC's, or do faction war stuff and fight over territory. Go nuts. Let people just live in the zone with their buddies.
>>581193252Would we get to pick a faction at the start or would we all be Skif essentially?
So they're not braindead idiots as Stalkers make them out to be, they still have enough brain to set up traps and shit, maybe even egos. >>581192581I've said it before, the extraction formula, sadly, would work well here, they now have space anomaly meme to make weird levels (or indoor spaces as you said) and have people run around doing objectives. Co-op would be interesting too. Having the whole map unlocked could also mean a somewhat persistent world with repeatable quests that 8-16 people would just run around.
>>581161951Answer me /sg/, if STALKER wasn't meant to have drivable vehicles in it, why are they so damn fun?
>>581194221Makes me wonder how many people fell for that S2 random encounter where a bandit tries selling you an artifact powered car.
I really hope stalker 2 MP is like EFT just without the cheating playerbase.
>>581195324>add in EFT-like MPIf this results in S2 needing a fucking anti-cheat I'm going to hate on MP forever.
>>581195412It is going to need anti-cheat no matter what unless you are happy with people injecting god mode and moving at sanic speeds because lmao mods.
>>581195492Better off just having a separate launcher for MP then.
Thinking about it the reason it doesn't have a free roam option already is because that's what the MP will be, isn't it.I'm assuming they will put in a GTA:O style "private" mode or something or just have bot "players", because it's a good opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, get single-player autists to buy in and lure them to MTX, as well as the Tarkovfags who will become their whales.
>wandering lights viewed on an oledThe only thing I can see is my reflection in the screen and I don't like it.
I love the Arev so much, it's unreal.
>>581206034Get that WHORE out of my face. There is only one true love in the zone and your bimbo is not it.
>>581207463>mag is flush with the gun instead of at an angle like the real thingWhat the fuck, I never noticed this. Literally unplayable.
>>581158829STFUhttps://youtu.be/TypDfQlKcjg
>>581177152Goldshere is cool, it has anomalous weaponry
I don't understand how anyone can play stalker and use westoid weapons. If you are not using that janky soviet shit why even bother? Ass Val and Gyoza are the shit.Especially that 5.45 gyoza <3 <3 <3
>>581210826>gyozaYou hungry, stalker?
>>581211019I call it the OTC (over the counter) GyozaPrescription dumplings nom nom nom
>>581210826I don't use a gun that has a girls name.
>>581213625you don't fuck any human that has a girls name either
>>581192581why couldnt they just do this with real simulated a-life?The fucking solo dev furfag game could do it just fine and allowed factions you pissed off to hunt you inside dungeons. How come GSG cant do it with 999 morbillion dollars of funding?
>>581213915Correct which is why ashley is the best name.
>>581214116What engine is the furfag game on?
>>581210826seriouslyif it doesn't have wooden components then my stalker does not touch it
>>581214443Justicebros, we're in! That AKM model in Ragman's shop is taunting us.
>>581214189nta but i believe it's also UE5
What is the deal with the radio waves screen effect that happens in the iron forest in stalker 2?
>>581214762If you walk around and try to get the radio waves thing on your screen get bigger (ie find the spot where the signal is strongest) you'll get a radio transmission.
I need your clothes, your bread and your artefacts.
>>581216463Is that gasmask in the game or is it unique to Skif?
>>581216627I believe unique to him. That said I don't know if you ever actually see his face in game so where people got the image from I dunno.
>>581191414They have also said explicitly they will not make co-op.
>>581195324>MP is like EFT just without the cheating playerbase.Are you retarded?
>>581217243It's in the game files, AFAIK.
>>581218396I swear there was a version of this that gave Skif goofy looking hair.
>>581218396Literally me
>>581218396This dude looks 40 years old and the smooth skin is just poor texture work.
Im gonna impart some zone wisdom on you niggasbite the end off a croissant and push a sausage into itit'll change your life
>>581195324I would kill a man just to have a simple coop mode
>>581223589>sausage roll>but sweetYeah, nah.
>>581223737How would that work? Just multiple Skifs terrorizing the zone?
>>581224956I wouldn't care, I would take the absolute laziest implementation, I just want to play a stalker game with my bros.It totally baffles me that the original games have some level of multiplayer operability yet afaik nobody has ever made a coop mod
>>581226538Speaking of, I'm surprised something like XRMPE isn't in the OP. It was pretty fun to play with friends through all of CoP. It being bundled with the Gunslinger mod was nice too.
>>581214170
TODAY I AM GOING TO abuse the arena with Decider and AP rounds
>>581223456Just use dlss5 to fix it.
wait so limansk is just in this flashback scene? not as an actual location on the map?
>>581229239It literally got swallowed by the spatial anomaly
>>581229789waitwhen did that even happentachenko vanished sometime between clear sky and cop? I thought that he was in the anomaly for way longer than that
>strelokfighter>doctorcleric>fangmage>ghostthief
Wasn't there some savefile tool that told you what you were missing? Picking through my stash to check which suits or weapons are missing an upgrade is maddening.>>581230405Time is definitely fucked inside the Limansk nightmare. How long it appears he spent in there is going to vastly different than how long he was lost outside of it. It's literally the only place you can find spoiled Tourist's Delights.As for the time line of when the spatial anomaly happened and if Limansk is still physically there or was shifted into the shadow realm? Nothing seems to be canonically established as one or the other. The best I can say is you can still see the starting area of the nightmare from across the river, next to the tower with a Sparker investigating the zombifying white noise signal. Given the 2025 KYUK ARG that lead up to Stories Untold and its proximity to Limansk, I have a hope and feeling that they'll continue in this direction and elaborate more on Limansk in future updates/DLC.>>581232483Wasn't Fang the only one that used an Exo? Isn't he the muscle.
Why is my Echo Detector forever marked as a quest item?
>>581233620What stage of the game are you at?
Not so sneaky now, motherfucker
>>581232483>schizo>insane>dead>dead
>>581234804So satisfying spotting one before it senses you, lining up the shot, and blowing his fucking brains out.
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2746?tab=description Someone test this out I love box camera movement but sadly I'm using Ultra+
>>581214189ue5The engine doesnt really matter for these things
The SIC having a faster swap speed almost invalidates the EMR for me. God, that thing was slow.
>Burer pulls my upgraded M700 out of my hands>From behind a wall when I'm LoSing it>Gun just disappears into the void foreverTBD
>>581235596That looks cool. I love games that have dynamic deadzone aiming shit like that. Red Orchestra 2 and Rising Storm 1 and 2 were so fucking cool for doing shit like that. Loved the way it felt in those games. I'll have to try that on a modded playthrough when I'm done with my master save. Also that furfag stalker game looks like pure cancer and shills on /v/ can suck my nuts.
>>581242385This is why I always keep 9x18 AP ammo on hand.
>>581243585AP doesn't do anything against most mutants. Skif's pistol is a hard counter, though, since burers can't pull it out of his hand. Just aim for the face, regular rounds work just as well.
>>581235691It also does more than the SVD-2 which is ridiculous. I'm surprised they didn't add a unique automatic version of it, like the AVT to the SVT. Justice is great. Love that gun.
>>581243998
insane foreshadowing from sid
>>581245734He knew and let the loners take the fall.
>>581245442I'm playing on master and I can't tell the difference with mutants if you're aiming at the right spots. With dudes in armor, yeah there's a huge difference but not with mutants. They've also rebalanced the game since that pic was made.
>>581245734What's this a reference to?
>>581246227>They've also rebalanced the game since that pic was made.Oh wish granter tell me more.
>>581223456It's probably just a placeholder since you're not meant to see his full face in-game. Also he's a Slav so looking 40 years old in your mid 20's is par for the course.
>>581233460>It's literally the only place you can find spoiled Tourist's DelightsI thought so too but you can find a few around some decomposing corpses inside those green trailers at CNPP.
>>581214116What is the furfag game we are talking about here?
>>581247160https://store.steampowered.com/app/2941710/Project_Silverfish/This, I think.
>>581246616Mutants have a lot less armor but more health and take a lot more crit damage, so we'll place shots can put them down really quick with regular and HP rounds. You don't want to use AP on mutants. You can put a bloodsucker down with like three or four shots with buckshot from a cracker, and the predator can do it in two to three shots. A saiga can kill a chimera in like 12 shots, and can kill a pseudogiant in a single drum mag of buckshot. You can kill a burer with a single 12 round mag from Skif's pistol if you're aiming for the head.
If they ever decide to add in a proper 9mm pistol, what would be the most likely candidate? Something from H&K? IWI? Local?
>>581248139Fort-12 would make the most sense.
>>581248390That one's 9x18 but I wouldn't mind seeing it again. Certainly better than just using Skif's PM all the time.
WEIRD WATER WHY WON'T YOU SPAWN!?
>>581249582I just ran around that little hill(?) near the center until I heard the humming sound.
>>581247487>we'll placeWith well placed shots* damn phone. Sorry I'm at work.
Pripyat don't need no stinkin' Medic.>>581248139Glawk Fordee.
>>581249730>GSC ever giving us 10mmC'mon, man.
>>581248139Fort-20 probablyCould stand in for any striker-fired pistol made in the last 20 years and we have matching SMG in the game already
>>581248139Beretta M9 is like the most ubiquitous 9mm pistol in games, so that one; followed by a Glock and then a P320 (doesn't matter that it's a piece of shit). Personally I want more pistols, the 5-7 is my favorite meme handgun. Deagle needs to come back.
>>581249867I didn't say Glock 10, I said Glock FORTY!Or do something sideways and add the Hudson-9 or Steyr M.
>>581249961The P90 was cut from one of the older games so maybe they can realize it now.>>581249912Never heard of this one. Is it a Fort original or another licensed one like the 221?
>>581250213I mean we need more guns in general, and way WAY more attachments that fit every gun.SMGs (even though they're kinda dying nowadays with short barrel rifles taking over) we need the P90, UMP, MP7 maybe.
>>581250478I definitely won't say no to the F2000 coming back.
>>581250213>Is it a Fort original or another licensed one like the 221CZ P-10C cloneOn that note, why the hell Bren 2/Sich is not in the game yet
>>581246520the 3 day special military operation
>>581250925Probably because the ARev fills its niche already. But if GSC ever decides to bring back 7.62x39 to the game then the Bren 2 might have a chance.
>>581248139Put the Walther and the Beretta back in. All of the guns from the previous games should be updated and added.
>>581249582
Just finished my full playthrough with DLC. I went for Ward ending.I noticed that even in their pre-rendered ending cutscene they still use software lumen. Just look how ugly water reflection is in the bottom left, it even has terrible screen-space cut-off.I thought that maybe devs have internal builds with full hardware lumen or raytracing, and they just don't release it because it's too demanding. But if they used software lumen even for their pre-rendered ending cutscenes, then they probably never managed to get real raytracing working. And the game might never get raytracing at all.
>>581252036FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCK just as it is about to hit 9pm an emission hits so I have to cheese it.
>>581253661>they just don't release it because it's too demandingActually Hardware Lumen runs better if you have a card from the last three gens. The game is CPU bound more than GPU bound anyway.
>>581253661Those movies were probably made on an earlier version of the engine than the release.
imma kill sultanskadovsk shall fly its flag once again
>shoot flesh>tourist delight falls outnow ain't that some shit
>Joins Spark>Kills Wardens in cold blood>Is a retard altogether during the initial quests>Becomes a ZombieI hope it was worth it, you fag
>>581257576
>>581254325>Hardware Lumen runs better if you have a card from the last three gensIt's a misconception.Hardware lumen does use RT cores, but it also does significantly more work than software lumen. It uses actual geometry for bounces instead of its approximation, it can use off-screen geometry. So overall it's still slower.
>duty so powerful even gravity is a mere suggestionRemind me again why anyone would side with freedumb?
>>581257576that is one ugly bastard
kinda disappointing that mavka doesn't recognise you from the arena
>>581259485gsc... hire this man
>>581259603>uses new position to give her massive tits instead
>>581259814An IQ too high?
>women in the zone
>>581263537No, the canon is wrong.
>>581263537That can that Birch is always sipping out of? That's no energy drink, that's LITERALLY my semen.
>>581265319sorry kid, I drank that one, it's actually MY semen
>>581267893You drank my semen? Lol FAGGOT!
>>581268674ugh way too cartoony and vibrant
Why do stalkers love condensed milk so much?
>>581272175Canned food.Rarely expires if kept stored properly, like most canned foods.Of course it will separate and "deposite" itself, so it won't be exactly palatable.Still edible, thoughbeit.
Did anyone notice the quests that just dropped enemies in a field with no cover resulting in a terrible fight? A quest fight should not have been so poorly designed.
>>581272175ex-soviet places love it cause they grew up with it as the only sweet they could regularly obtain or some shi and apparently if u boil it in the can u get some top tier custard and it even made its way into military rations etc desu never tried it irl tho i believe its just milk loaded w sugar
>>581242519>furfag stalker game looks like pure cancerI tried it a few months back and i think its cool honestly. It does a lot of things way worse than stalker, and a lot of things way better than stalker. And thats exactly how i want ripoff games to be.
>>581274460It genuinely sucks when a ripoff game is trying to be "just the same game again" instead of trying to shake things up, rebalance the focus towards each appeal the game has, etc. I want to play new games and not the exact same again.This is in the exact same logic for how i like stalker's sequels. SoC, CS and CoP have pretty different map structures/flow, a very different feeling to their main quest, different atmosphere and different appeals. Thats exactly how a sequel should be. If CS and CoP were just "SoC 2 and SoC 3" that would be pretty fucking boring. Of course this applies doubly as much for a new IPThis goes for any game or genre, mind you.
>Approached territory war mission from wrong angle>Slaughtered shittons of Freedomers on my way over>Arrive to base the defense objective>Clear it>Now all the spots I visited already are objectives>They dont auto-clear >Have to run around in circles for ages at each objective to make it clear>Finally finish >Duty themed Dnipro with Chimera scratches on itNeat.
>>581273786>desu never tried it irl tho i believe its just milk loaded w sugarIt is basically just thick milk that is extremely sweetened. Quite good for putting in a whole bunch of desserts and sweet drinks but just necking it neat makes my teeth itch at how sweet that would be.
>>581275001>Duty themed Dnipro with Chimera scratches on itaka the best assault rifle in the game hands down
>>581275001Congrats you got the best AR in the game. Top tier penetration with regular 5.45 (or 5.56, I was a dumbass and didn't do that upgrade). Dolgniggers win again.
>>581275001>They dont auto-clear >Have to run around in circles for ages at each objective to make it clearIt's so nice of them to implement faction war bugs from Clear Sky.
I knew eating that vindaloo was going to be a mistake.
>>581275334>>581275338>bullpupI'll stick with the vintar thanks.
>Carve Bayun for Whiskers>Get Ratking artifactUhhhhh>>581275890To be fair I think it was a-life sim being good. Even as I was initially just thinking "damn lotta Freedomers here" they were respawning and repopulating PoIs. A few times I had to fight off new guys who had moved in since I passed through initially. Often times once a group of Freedomers rolled up, got killed the objective would clear. >>581277456I'm gonna use it without any shame. I'll probably not go with Duty ever again.
>>581277456i never understood peoples' autism over bullpup vs not bullpup.>DUUUDE i wish this fps had a bullbup even if it plays exactly the same!!>NOOO i hate bullpup
hold on i remember limansk being around even in the end of CoPso when tf did it get swallowed
>>581278590bullpups are cool. People IRL are whiny cunts because they always have dogshit triggers because you have to make a big linkage mechanism to connect the trigger properly because of what a bullpup is You do get what they are right? Big barrel but shorter package because you slide the barrel as far back into the device as possible? So the trigger is AHEAD of the breach? >>581278671That was cloned nightmare Lymansk, not the real one.
>>581278590Gun autists ruin video games and Stalker is ground zero for these obnoxious autists. They can suck on my clipazine thinking that this game has always been how realistic the guns are.
>>581279067its very funny to see people talking about gun realism in a series that started with soc's "super bullets" mechanic
>>581277456>>581278590>>581279067the hate for bullups is weird... is it an autism thing?
>>581279067>>581279295Bro in a game bullpups are just aesthetics. The drawbacks only exist if you hold the actual gun. In a game it's only a vibe>>581279584Again: It's because they have dogshit triggers that suck ass. That's the tradeoff. You get the longer barrel while also keeping the gun smaller and shorter BUT the trigger will be dogshit because you can't place it in the spot where it usually goes, so making the trigger work in a new spot makes for a shitty trigger with a bunch of mechanical resistance.
>>581279767man i highly doubt the anon earlier shitting on bullpups cares about the triggers or has even shot one in his life, he just heard somethin bad about em on /k/ or smth and started parroting itcall me sherlock holmes for that deduction
>>581279918I'm just saying where the hate comes from. It's that and also they tend to be harder to service, especially in the field, because of that added complexity. Of course it's mostly LARPs or Euros with mandatory service who got trained on them and won't ever shut up.
>>581259485She does though.
>>581279067>muh realistic guns>doesn't even simulate the gun's weight with inertia>the only thing weight affects is ADS speed
>>581282726>you can't scalp bandits or strip stalkers naked to spare their life but also humiliate them in their last moments to psychologically wear them down and kill them anywaysUnrealistic. Nothing like ArmA Flashpoint. May as well be playing Gears of War honestly.
So the Poppy Field is a Psi Anomaly, right?
>stalker 2>price goes up story mission>go to the maze first>some rodents come out of the grass>more come>they keep coming>oh god what the fuckI did a count of the bodies and there were 21 of them. Twenty-fucking-one.>>581284143I reckon so.
>>581279767my PS90 (non cucked btw) has a good enough trigger
>>581284143The cats seem to incur the same tired/exhaustion effect than the Poppy Field does and they make you literally hear voices in your head so I would say it is.
>>581285675Yeah sure. Might help that it's small.
>>581279067>>581279295>she wasn't here for the golden age of stal/k/er threads30+ website
>>581287489I was and still thought you were cringe. /k/ threads were for faggots who were literally too afraid to go into the woods without a gun. If going to a national park or an abandoned building but with le Kalichnokov is stalker to you then get the fuck out of this general. Fucking loser.
Huh, when did they change the combatant AK to not be absolutely trashed when you pick it off the table? I'm sure it used to be low condition on release but I could be wrong.
>>581287952did a realistic gun beat you up or something? you sound deranged (and underage)
>>581285825>Might help that it's small.You're probably right, I have not used a longer/bigger bullpup.
>>581290231No. Stalker is not and has never been a /k/ game as much as you military rejects want it to be and have tried to force it into existence for the past two decades. You don't see people calling Counter-Strike or FEAR /k/ games but for some reason this gets attributed to Stalker.I would honestly say the survivalist autism of Misery/Anomaly/GAMMA is closer to the essence of the game than playing with your gunkopops shooting outdated AI because you were too fat to shoot brown people IRL.
>>581259017I had the same thing, he was sole survivor of a Poltergeist slaughter.I wish I quicker on the draw. He said the, "I just gotta hang in there." line.
NEATO
>It's another flytrap episodecome on bro give me something else
>>581291257About the only good thing to come from clear sky.
is mavka less of a retard if you side with her in the story?
>>581248139>>581248390>>581249912TheseHonestly Skif's pistol SHOULD have been a Fort. Not only have they not used PMs as a main sidearm for a while in the Ukrainian military(even going back to the time he was supposed to have served), his gun is stupid fucking OP for plot reasons and it'd be a lot more believable if it was at least a different model from the base games' objectively weakest gun. His could have been nickel plated too.
>>581294421Skif was a black market drained artifact dealer. His PM might not've been a service weapon.
>>581294421>>581294519It's called "honorary". Maybe it's a battlefield pickup?
>>581294821>>581294519>>581294421nvm I googled it. Somebody gifted it to him like a medal. Honorary weapons are gifts/awards from superiors.
>>581278974>>581279767That's not the only problem with bullpups. Because in essence you're putting more of the "actual gun" part of the weapon closer to your face you have a greater safety hazard in the case of a catastrophic malfunction(such as an out of battery detonation or squib load). That aside, the ejection is always a problem, outside of very specific designs that eject forward or downwards, you always have to mind the hot brass especially in enclosed spaces, which can annoying and even dangerous. Lastly, the ergos can present a problem because reaching under your arm to reload is awkward and gets worse when you wear a full combat load, armor, pouches, etc, and checking your chamber is harder(for some gun downright impossible), and you don't have a lot of space in the front to stabilize the gun by resting it on things or mount longer optics. and such.
no, NO!!!
I know nothing about guns other you point them and they go "PEW" and sometimes "PEWPEWPEW".
>made a new play through even though I'm not finished with my current one>going through the beginning area>binoculars on the table before you see the bloodsuckerWas this always here? I didn't see it last time.
>>581298592Welcome to the Zone, D.
So, my fellow fake fans and secondaries, what was your white whale for your last artifact to complete Miracle Hoarder? What was the last blueprint for Flash Royal?Me? I've been savescumming for what feels like an hour to get a Starfish.And I haven't a fucking clue what BP I'm missing. I took every single piece of equipment to a Technician and checked every single fucking upgrade tree and nothing was locked. The only suit I didn't check was Shield of Duty because I can't check it because it literally doesn't exist right now, but I've double checked every stash that had a Shield of Duty BP and they're all cleaned out so I'm pretty fucking sure I got that complete.
>>581301227Always since 2.0 when they added Binoculars.There's still fake binocular props sitting at observation areas that look like the mid-tier Yarsurb or whatever that you can't pick up. Even found both the fake prop and real pair on the same window sill in Pripyat.
>>581301381Complain on the internet and you shall be rewarded!
>>581301381>Shield of Duty blueprintsSpoilers ahead. Yes.
>>581301641Huh, somehow I totally missed it cause I had to buy my first one. Or maybe I went and found one. I definitely didn't have one until later anyway.
i'm doing the Sphere mission after SIRCAA now and I'm fairly sure I killed Solder during the first visit yet he's somehow alive now.Wasn't this a bug in 1.0?
>>581303218They're not a quest item so they get stolen when you get ambushed unless you stash them in the safe.
>>581304002Ah that must have been it, and somehow forgot to stash those. I did it this time. Still annoyed the AR16 and the AK disappear regardless. Guess I wouldn't have any bullets for the AR16 anyway.
>>581307245I think someone did some testing and it might be an invisible weight or size limit. Since containers auto-sort, large items like primary weapons end up on the bottom and are the first to be culled. If you stash less shit in the safe, you might be able to keep the rifles.I think.
>>581307693Since I still have the save, I gave it a try. Just the AR16, the AK, and the binoculars. Both the guns were gone, binoculars stayed.
>>581307245You can keep the 416 and the AK if they aren't at 100% durability. Fire one round out of each to get them to 99% and they will be in the safe after the cutscene.
>>581309469I used the AR, maybe not the AK though. It's not a big deal anyway. I got everything else at least.
Forgot you can get the Unknown AR416 pretty early on too. Man the repair costs on this is gonna suck now that I'm basically doing Master but no expedition. Maybe I should have just made the economy easy as well.
If this doesn't say Don't Dead Open Inside in Ukinese, I'll eat a Spoiled Canned Meat.
>>581313734It says "Cover [not sure about the second and third letters, only the O**PHИ is decipherable] your light and put a shine upon our souls."
>>581311195The economy is fine, just don't sell artifacts and only use those as quest rewards, and same thing with mutant parts. Also hoard everything. Everything. Once you get to Rostok you will sell all the red guns you can't sell to anyone else but Ragman. Normal stuff to Eugene, reds to Ragman. It also starts steamrolling later once you're picking up saigas and kharods off people. I got 70k from flipping guns after a gunfight with a bunch of monolith. The hobo phase takes a little longer on master but it isn't bad if you know what you're doing.
You guys running any mods for S2 or are you still running it vanilla?
>>581317137This isn't my first rodeo. Everything still costs more in the end, so even with my hoarding skills it will still take longer than playing on stalker.
>>581313734>crosshair>hud>random westlsop rail on akRevolting.
STALKER 2?
>>581247235Thanks Anon :3
>exploring jupiter in gamma>hey this would be a cool area for a base>keep going>wait>isn't this the oasis?>haven't played CoP since it came out nearly 20 years ago>get the heart>immediately get butt blasted by the spawned psidogsbased
>>581218396It's himJohn Ishygddt
>>581324585Sure wish I could smoke a cigarette in game...
>>581324459>asthma vision
>>581317137My main issue with master is its saving system because you WILL get zapped my an electro anomaly you swear you cleared or one shit because a poltergeist threw a exploding barrel instead of a wooden box at you from behind (or the fun one getting stuck on geometry) and these cheap deaths setting you back often significant amounts of playtime are really feels bad man moments due to being unfair.
>>581330660That's why I just did custom. The restricted saves are for masochists. Gave it some thought at first, but nah. I die enough on stalker difficulty.
>>581313734Wrap [us] with your light and brighten our souls
>>581332064Yeah maxed out custom is the way to go.
>>581294421>Not only have they not used PMs as a main sidearm for a while in the Ukrainian militaryExcept they still do?Fort-20 didn't enter limited service until 2024 and the other Fort pistols were only adopted by MVS and security agencies, not by Ministry of DefenseIf you aren't part of SSO (which marines certainly aren't) or some reconnaissance unit, you are still getting either PM, TT, or a foreign aid pistol (in order of probability)
I've become so friendly with ragman it would be rude not to invite him to my wedding.
this part was rly cool, reminds me of Control so much but its not rly scary, I think SoC is like 5x scarier than stalker 2something about the graphics of the old engine and the fact that poltergeists lost their edge in 2 with how many you fuckin kill, in SoC that one in the lab came outta nowhere
>>581334656For me, it's because I've been so desensitized to jumpscares thanks to playing a bunch of horror games over the years that nothing really spoops me in games anymore. Even chimera ambushes at most get a raised eyebrow from me nowadays.
>end up in iron forest>no idea how to get out>can't find the techie to repair my shit>can't find the stash to put my extra shit awayfuck.i'm at the freedom/duty camp thing, can i get a hint for one of those?
>>581335627Just progress the DLC quest a bit and you'll get access to a bunker that has a chest, a trader that's also a tech and later on, a guide.
>>581335606yeah that too, I've played a ton of horror games recently, compared to silent hill this is nothing, it's cool what they tried to do thoit reminds me of cry of fear a lot the apartments part>>581335627how tf did you get in there without going through the checkpoint where they give you a mission + a card for leaving again
>>581335763There's an optional route on the east end that's seemingly one-way only. It's how I got in too.
>>581335758alright, thanks. hopefully my shit doesn't disintegrate before that's done.>>581335763got a side mission for a "digger's tunnel" on the east side of the border
>>581324459>coomer>thinks he is in the position to judge anyonelolKill yourself.
>>581317137If you waste time lugging red guns around at a snail's pace you have brain problems.
pop pop
>>581337034The controller being immune to damage until the right time is bullshit.
>>581335763>>581335627Is the eastern checkpoint also closed before you do the quest? It's abandoned, even after you finish the first part there's no one there and the gate is open.Why the fuck did they have to dig that tunnel again?
>>581291719no she is the most braindead character in the game. i just can't stand her retarded attitude. zulu and strelok will always be my buddies
you can really feel the influence in this limansk segment from games like control and new vegas' dead money DLC kino
tachenko sks hell yeah
>>581340765It came with a muzzle device?
its weird how sometimes you can install both of these parallel upgrades, usually they're only one or the other
>>581341830I guess it would be too OP if you could get all upgrades for a gun. Although I'm sure there are mods that allow for this.
absolute dick vacuum lips
>>581342026Probably has that as a side hustle.
>>581242519It was updated to work with Ultra+ so I'm gonna take it for a spin
mercedes detected
>>581342395I hope it's a C63.
>>581343252bounces right off her fat asstoo bad she's too retarded to fuck
>>581343424shes fairly flat desu i wouldn't call it fat but its firm and fit
>>581242519>>581342306It works insanely good but there's a lot of shit to tweak to make it proper, it has a million options, per weapon, etc. Really good stuff for being purely AI slopped.
>>581341830Because the upgrade system is still full of bugs since release.
No wonder this shit is called the Death Cave, what a nasty trap
cool now I have two arevs
>>581346501No, you have the warszawa and a bunch of coupons.
>>581347123why thois it better than the normal arev fully upgraded?
>>581347221More common ammo.
>>581347617playing on stalker difficulty so i have more than enough 5.56 desuif it ain't better not gonna bothermaybe save 5.45 for the dnipro or whatever haven't gotten it yet
>we need to use the deformed creepy lab experiment fetus on the mainlandfuck is wrong w this dumbass bitch
>>581348630No one ever dicked her down.
Who is gonna save Lodoss now?
>>581336776Anything in the red that's worth more than a cracker is worth picking up.
>>581330660It's only bad at first, it really makes you slow down and take your time. I only die when I'm careless now, that said I have over 300 deaths on my master save. I died a lot early on. The territory war in the CNPP is actually a bit harrowing right now, I died because a blowout started and a bunch of dutyers swarmed the building I was in and I was alone, I switched between all three guns and still didn't have enough time to reload before I was shot to death. Grenades are damn brutal man.
>>581348630>magic healing techYes the mainland wants that
>>581349760nothing that comes from something that sinister can ever lead to good
>>581349838Everything can be made to appear sinister if you're idealogically motivated.
>>581330660>>581349756I should also add I never die from anomalies now, and usually my most common death still is dying from fall damage. Trying to platform and plummetting to my death is still more common than I'd like to say. The weird bolt is a game changer for master, you should prioritize getting that and weird water, and also the weird pot so you can drink those special energy drinks for added carry weight.
>>581340765It's an SVT.
>>581349939basically both "if its too good to be true, it isn't" and "things made from evil means cannot bring good" both apply w this shit, maxims that have made our species survive existence if the instinct is to shotgun something it's not worth using
>>581350207>muh boomer adagesCall me when Zulu's arm gets super cancer and falls off. Until then, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. The oasis never had a drawback other than being rare.
>>581349838Nuclear energy from the atom bomb.
>>581349436The traders that buy red guns pay much less for gear in the first place, you are aware of that, right?
>>581350178No, he's correct, it's an SKS-31.
>>581350487I can give a haul to ragman and regularly make over 10k coupons. It's worth doing for things that are worth over 3k, you can sell them for about 500-800 per to him. Late game too it really pays off when it's kharods and saigas.
>>581350495Justice looks like an SVT to me.
>>581350419it's not the samethe creepy fetus things are alive and bitter from being tortured and created for evil shithey must be destroyed man, too many unknownsespecially if freedumbers are entrusted w such responsibility
>>581351203They also magically heal you. You have to deal with it big boy. You are just like a little bitch who's scared of nuclear power.
>>581350974> It's worth doingNo it isn't. You could spend the time it will take you to drag those guns back to base doing an artifact run and get 5 times that money.Next you will tell me you pick up all the food items too?
>>581351091The 31 has a heatshield like the SVT, yeah.
>>581351548>Equip Weird Water>Mark local base on my map>Sprint directly towards the compass marker EZWhat are you a pirate who never played with the running rework? Never jogged?
hell yeah finally found one of these
>>581352000Shame you can't slap an M203 on it.
>>581352108gls are super clunky in this game desu
huh i thought they'd be hostile but looks like its chill
>>581351548>You could spend the time it will take you to drag those guns back to base doing an artifact run and get 5 times that money.If I can't bring it all back with me I drop the cheapest and bring the rest back with me. I'm going back to sell and repair my equipment anyway so it isn't wasting any time. I also would do the artifact mission so that's even more income. I don't understand why you wouldn't want extra money for nothing.
>>581352896He never played after 1.06 or whatever when they reworked stamina, stamina items and added jogging. It's the only answer that makes sense. Now that you can just job back at yellow weight, maybe pop an energy drink if you need to sprint from a Bloodsucker or Dog pack.
>>581352896>money for nothingTime is not "nothing".
>>581353181Again: You obviously haven't played since jogging got added. Stop posting pirate-kun
so many guns but i'll stick w my fully upgraded arev 5.56 for nowbest AR i've used so farneed a scope for the groza, idk why no scope fits it
>>581353593It can take one of the collimators and an ACOG.Yes, it's stupid.
Do I have to side with anyone to get the Leichtfuchs or do I get it normally just by progress Cost of Hope?
>>581353983Leichtfuchs is a Freedom weapon
>>581353297I'm playing right now, retard. You're fucking dumb.
>>581354327Then you know that jogging is fast and that getting overweight as fuck and just jogging home at yellow weight is fine. It can't be both. Either you play the game with jogging where you can travel quite fast INDEFINITELY so long as you aren't at red weight OR you're a pirate.
>>581353983Yeah, you have to side with Freedom so you can get the arena fight where Myklukha tries to kill Mavka and you for rallying Freedom against him for pursuing koupons over ideals. You have to pull it from his cold dead hands, ideally after t-bagging him.It's an okay weapon.
>For the final boss fight Strelok becomes Sonic The Hedgehog all of the the suddenLmao , what the fuck was that
>>581354592>It's an okay weapon.Good enough for me. It got a bit tiresome always gravitating towards 9x39 weapons so I felt like trying something different.
>>581354803It's Artifacts I ain't gotta explain shit
>>581355681I hope you're not planning on using a grenade launcher or the shotgun attachment. The unique angled foregrip prevents using them.
>>581355930Nah, I don't like either.
>>581354476>Then you know that jogging is fast No it fucking isn't. It's only slightly faster than normal movement speed when unencumbered. When you go into red it's slow as shit either way.
>>581357747>When you go into red it's slow as shit either way.So don't go into red>. It's only slightly faster than normal movement speed Bro it's like 50% of Sprint speed.
Can you not save this guy? I bust my ass to kill all the Monolols with headshots and it doesn't seem like anyone gets a shot off at him, and he still dies.
Vladimirskiy Central
>>581349939The things that make us laugh, make us cry. Like it says in the book.
>>581351493they can only heal minor injuries. lukash and zulu still died despite an oazis trying to heal them. nuclear weapons can be controlled but an embryo lives on its own.
I was thinking about the controller mutant in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.They're pretty smart, smart as or smarter than some people, Now smart people generally choose to be good or evil, so my question is, why is every single controller ever encountered evil, why don't any choose to be good, Do they not have free will?
>>581362806To be good or evil, you have to be capable of doing good and understanding it's good. Or basically have a soul. Evil is just the lack of good. Intelligence is not a moral category.What is soul? Would a lab-grown mutant have it? I dunno lol.
>>581363507I know intelligence is not a moral category, but it allows you to distinguish good from evil, so why do all of them choose to be evil?>What is soul?I'm gonna get theological, it's the immortal you, the essence of your body, what God gave you for eternity.>Would a lab-grown mutant have it?Controllers, burers, and even snorks? Probably because they were people before the experiments and second disaster.Poltergeists, Chimeras, psuedogiants, and bloodsuckers? Probably not. They have human DNA but they don't seem to originate from humans.
>>581365329I forgot which egghead said it or maybe I read it in some PDA but I recall that the controllers were essentially too lobotomized to be trusted to be Project X guards so they were just abandoned. Faust is what their ideal controller would be.
>>581365628>I recall that the controllers were essentially too lobotomized to be trusted to be Project X guards.Wait so they're actually retarded?
>>581366112Yeah, that was my main takeaway when I learned about their origin.
Found him randomly roaming the island after SIRCAA.
>>581368452Is that the zombified Noontider you were asked to spare?
>>581362806There is that one controller in CoP that tells you to go away.
>>581365628The Controller Program from X-5 that made Faust seems to be experimenting on taking Controller brain tissue and implanting it in a normal human subject to make an enhanced soldier.https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Controller_Project_Document_ExcerptThe Magic Vodka guy, Prof. Dvupalov, suggested that the precaution of lobotomizing the test subjects so you didn't have an uncontrolled super soldier was the reason why it was always failing. Faust wasn't lobotomized and was successful, literally at the end of funding so he got turned loose with no oversight to become a Monolith Preacher.
>>581368638Yeah. He had a PDA on him, but I don't remember is there anything you can do with it if you kill him in the first place.
>>581369716the pda is just a recording of his final moments, it doesn't actually do anything
>>581368824oh yeah, I forgot about him.
>>581352624>find Myklukha>see what his dialogue is after exterminating his faction from the CNPP and siding with Zulu>"yeah Mavka was a bitch and got what was coming to her but we can never be best friends after what you did">positive rep with Freedom, all vendors/mechanics are green>"You're always welcome in Rostok! :)"I guess it makes sense since it would affect the established main narrative and the game is consolized, but I figured the "calling off of the ceasefire" (even though I never saw Duty/Freedom shootouts in the main world after what I thought was going to be a total faction war) and murdering several of his niggas would at least make me unfriendly to Freedom.
>>581375779They probably just don't want to piss off the mega murder machine that is Skif.
>be me, download Desolation weapons mod for Anomaly.>3d scopes don't work, go into options and enable 3d scopes.>now everything around me is bright and glowing.wtf.
>>581376034It's why I prefer shader-based 2D scopes for its ease of use.
>>581376381I read that in the options, but didn't know what it was, what's the difference between shader based 2d scopes and regular 2d scopes?
>>581376635Regular would just be like how the OG trilogy does it and shader based would be pic rel: https://media.moddb.com/images/downloads/1/220/219923/scopes.gif
>>581375779>Kill Zulu>Wipe Duty from CNPP>Go to Cement factory>"You butchered tons of our men even our beloved Zulu!">That will be 16K
>>581376034Did you delete your shader cache?
>Scar bossfight>Aimbot>Gauss oneshots>Hits through walls >You have to let him get close to you to damage itHoly fucking cancer, did NO ONE play tested these horrible boss fights on harder difficulties???
>>581378683It went pretty smooth for me when I figured out what I had to do on Veteran. Just stealth it up.
>>581378092No.I'll try that.
>>581282078she didn't to me
>>581381875During the first part when you're in the lab with her and Zulu her dialogue changes. It's just one line though.
The retards at GSC still haven't patched the amd issues. holy fuck
>>581384957AMD gpus are so rare they are a rounding error.
Is it normal that I found the zombie swarm in the lab way harder than the amok and the pseudogiant?
>>581376034I REINSTALLED THE MOD NOW 3D SCOPES DON'T WORK AT ALL WTF FUCK THIS MOD FUCK STALKER FUCEKMANEW'S;TOW'3JP4INOW 3D SCOPES DON'T WORK AT ALL WTF!
>>581388692Yeah I died a couple of times even playing it on Veteran. Feels like the fuckers don't exactly have the stormtrooper aim they did in the original games in addition to higher level guns. I usually find Pseudogiants fine if I have the ammo and don't get bull rushed (the one in that section I just bailed because the explosions didn't seem to work properly) and Amoks are kind of a meme. Baiting them and the Snork lunge feels really janky or I guess Skif is rocking a big ol' caboose that we don't see from the first person perspective.
>>581375779Losing Rostok as a hub would be hardcore as fuck. And then imagine joining Spark so you have no access to chemical plant as well.
>>581390931>lose malachite>lose rostok>lose chemical plantBOY I SURE HOPE I DON'T HAVE TO GO TO DRUGA
>>581388836should've just followed the instructions
>>581386862Your brain cells are a rounding error.>>581384957Epic jeets have thousands of crash reports but they still can't figure it out even with AI.
>>581392770FUCK YOU NIGGER THERE IS NO FUCKING INSTRAUIAEFHACOITOS JUST A GODDAMN INSTALL PAGE IN MODDB GOOD FUCKING LUCK!HOW BOUT FUCK YOU AND FUCK THIS MOD AND FUCK ANOMALY AND FUCK EASTERUASBRNGFA FUCKGIN EUARFGOPAE1
>>581396030>calmest anomaly hater
>>581324459still at it eh??when release god damn it
I found the fish anomaly
>>581400553Full integration of all the guns and accessories into the economy is taking me longer than I'd like. Also configuring recoil and other stats. Also getting sidetracked adding something new and then playing with it. Also general procrastination.Soon!
>>581402638I noticed that too. Weird shit in the zone man is why I always keep a bottle of vodka to hand.
stop replying to yourself
I don't get it
>>581405273I usually just give up, some of the puzzles are too autistic in this game.It's probably some bullshit like "climb some tree and wait for a specific time of the day, then the moonlight will highlight the correct numbers".
>>581405273>>581406063Go outside and look through the windows.
>>581380280i was playing on Custom with all the sliders cranked up
>>581406063This nigga would never make it through a retro adventure game without a guide.
FUCK GRANITE SQUADFUCK THE WISH GRANTERFUCK EVERYTHING MONOLITHSHOOT NOONTIDERS ON SIGHT
Over 100 hours in I have found a total of 11 shotgun darts in S2.Did they forget to put that ammo in loot tables?
>>581409719Most people wouldn't.
>>581403825cool shitkeep at it, whatever you do don't just scrap it and release nothing good luck man
You couldn't write a female character like Scar without it being a quirk chungus and Mavka proves it.
During the first assault on Duga, was it explained why it was only the Ward guys that got instantly zombiefied and Skif is fine?
>>581418998I don't think so.
>>581324459>>581400553>>581403825This a mod anon is working on? What kind is it?
>>581421985I will generalize it as a weapon addition for IWP modanon can get into more details if he feels so inclined
>>581405273Look for an eye mark.
>>581414084I promised anon that I would deliver. Just not on time.>>581421985>>581422871Yes, a gun autism pack for IWP. I'm not actually making anything, just porting cool parts from Tarkov and editing existing meshes in IWP to increase variety. IWP is a solid base for gun autism and Tarkov assets are great quality.
>>581418998Generally speaking, the player character has a high innate psi-resistance compared to normal Stalkers. I think there's a side quest if you work with the Ward that explores the idea of psi-resistance levels.During the second assault on the Duga, after Faust is "defeated" when he has his little talk with you on the top of the antenna area, he calls you the Envoy. It's kind of a fan theory but it seems like The Zone chose Skif when it blew up his kitchen with the Alpha Artifact, suggesting he is special. Either was special or made special when it picked him.
>>581436517Oh fug
>>581436517>crosshairDeserved.
>581438384So true...
The next Stalker should be a prequel where you play as Korshunov.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/free-aim-stance-custom-fovwhat if Stalker with ArmA aiming
>>581446136I don't get it. there is nothing new there.
Aw hell nah
>>581456395>the annual duty grindr meetup
>>581446136Give me smoothly adjustable stance height first so I can actually aim and shoot through holes in things.
>>580995283>play stalker 2 years ago and stop because the save Zalissya quest is bugged>finally replay it >save zalissya quest is still buggedDid I miss the one patch window where they fixed this before breaking it again or was it always fucked?
>>581463368They did claim it was fixed ages ago but lmao. It is bullshit really as new players won't know to make a hard save before approaching and losing that location is a real pain for traversal.
>>581463368Works on my machine.
Mavka is a retard but i'd still plap her doggy
>>581464669Just so you don't need to look at her face right?
>>581464937precisely
>>581464669I haven't seen any rule 34 of her yet so I can make my ebin joke of censoring the naughty bits with the censored Generators.
Grim
>>581468443Why is mine at a different %?
>>581468443>>581469195Uhhh....
>>581468443>1% of players got the faraday anomaly stash coordinates
>>581469695Hmm, I wonder why?>Wandering around>Freaky screen effect>Silent Hill PTSD kicks in with all the fog and radio noises>Have to realize it's like finding an artifact with an Echo Detector>Have to find the exact inch that it actually comes in, if you walk past it, the spot movesThe first time I got one of the broadcasts it I was near the one (eventually) functional bridge to CNPP and I thought an Amok was going to come out of that freaky art deco train that looked like some kind of containment unit.
>>581470721>if you walk past it, the spot movesdoes it?mine were all just static, I could find the spot they would trigger and just return to that exact spot when I moved away from it and get a new transmission
>>581470721They patched it so it's easier to get the transmissions to play now.
This dude just survived an emission by pissing for its whole duration.It's a named NPC too, I don't remember these dudes.
>>581475364I'm willing to bet some of these fuckers just chug Anabiotics during these.
>>581475364>blowout? yeah whatever broski *pisses everywhere*
>>581475364What an absolute power move.
>>581475364Real zone shit...
Nice gun you have there Tyrant, shame you won't be needing it from now on.
>>581475364Noosphere energy is stored in the balls.
>>581468443>>581469195>>581469317This is for three reasons1. Steam doesnt count every single player to verify achievement rates. It actually works off of an estimation. It should be intuitive that counting every single player for every single game, on a statistic that updates frequently, would be completely retarded and wasteful. So instead it works off of estimates.I have no idea how they do their estimate as i dont work at valve.This is why you might see some silly values when a game has just released, like the common case of everything being either 100%, 50%, 25% or 0%.2. Steam updates that value every once in a while (I dont know the exact time but lets say 30-60 minutes)3. Steam will automatically cache these values for games in your libraryTherefore all three of you opened steam at different times when it had calculated slightly different estimates.
Why didn't Zulu try to save Mavka to enslave as breeding stock? Is he stupid?
>>581481908Any children birthed from Mavka would've been retarded like her.
MUTANT NAMES TIER LISTS TIER>Krovosos/BloodsuckerThat's what the players would've called it had the developers chose fancier word like "upyr">Kontrolior/ControllerPerfect case of semantic derivation, when a mundane unrelated word ("inspector") gains comletely new meaning due to sharing "control" root. That bit is lost in English sadly>Himera/ChimeraExpressive and threatening, perfect fit>Tushkan/JerboaNot actual jerboas despite the resemblance, that's why it's believable. Bonus points for dropping diminutive "-chik" suffix, so you instantly know it's "oversized jerboa" when you hear itA TIER>Slepoi pios/Blind dogDescriptive, memorable, easily shortable to just "dog". Good name for a fodder mutant>Psevdosobaka/PseudodogCool and simultaneously scientifically-sounding prefix, reflects the nature of mutant (looks like a dog despite not being one) perfectly>Psi-sobaka/Psy-dogNatural evolution of the source name, nothing much else to say>Zombi/ZombieProps for showing some scientists using more "serious" names like "cadaver" while everyone else just calls them what they are>Kot-baiun/BayunFolklore name that tells you everything you need to know instantly. Not S tier because of no adequate English adaptiation>PoltergeistPoltergeistB TIER>Plot'/FleshIt's hard to come up with name for a mutated pig, so it's alright>Psevdogigant/PseudogiantCan't see what's so "pseudo" in it>BurerI still have zero idea what it's supposed to mean>SnorkToo "literary", just like most other contestants. Still, the word is distinct and rolls off tongue easily, so I can see stalkers using it>Rogach/HornheadGood name, but seems excessive when "psi-deer" already works wellC TIER>Kaban/BoarBland name for a bland mutant>Rodent/Hamster/TushkanoNo idea why they've changed it when "jerboa" works just fine>AmokFancy, odd stress, doesn't bring anything to mind of an average eastern european man. Stalkers would've come up with something simpler in a minute
Does anyone here even likes the vanilla weapon balance? I'm playing xrmpe with a pal, and yeah the weapons are nice to look at and fun to shoot with, but the fights end so quick it's kinda boring. I'd say ShoC is the worst, but is still fun, Clear Sky is a bit better, Call of Pripyat almost perfected it, and then the SRP Alternative Ballistics addon for Clear Sky nailed the weapon balance, although the weapons felt a bit too accurate
>>581483280I thought the Gunslinger mod that came with XRMPE changed weapon balance? Or did you mean preferred full vanilla?
>>581483032>I still have zero idea what it's supposed to meanI've always thought it's "burgher" with gh removed.
>>581483280>Does anyone here even likes the vanilla weapon balance?I do. It makes the firefights less trivial and there is an actual progression of the weapons, when compared to a lot of mods.>I'd say ShoC is the worst, but is still fun, Clear Sky is a bit better, Call of Pripyat almost perfected itthe funny thing is that CoP has the worst stats in the trilogy, iirc
>>581483280Clear Sky balance would've been the best in trilogy had they not made enemies such bullet spongesI don't really like CoP approach, what's the purpose of making some guns inherently inferior even when fully upgraded when you can get your hands on "better" guns right off the bat?
Anyone else get a new update for Stalker 2? Some new hotfix maybe.
>>581484435>>581483280i tried that silverfish game mentioned above after i saw people posting it. i think it has a nice idea of how stalker gun progression should workIt makes early game guns more interesting because they are more genuinely mechanically shitty rather than being poorer in terms of pure stats alone.Their upgrades often usually rely on hyper-specialization to increase their strength, often through some specific artifact bullshit upgrade, rather than purely making them better and having them compete with more 'proper' normal guns.I cant comment on the lategame balance yet as i havent progressed far enough to know for sure, but if i understand correctly, the lategame weapons with artifact upgrades energy bullshit and etc is not meant to be a direct upgrade to typical rifles, but rather offer different qualities with more extreme upsides and downsides. So naturally theres less of "I want to replace my guns with this lategame gun" and moreso "I want to keep guns of multiple different tiers and roles".The Coil Gun might be a good example. It is essentially a ripoff of the gauss rifle, that much is obvious. But unlike the gauss rifle from Stalker, it doesnt feel like a straight upgrade to normal sniper rifles. Instead it focuses on positive extremes (IE: absolutely fucktarded levels of damage, can make ammo from trash you find around) and negative extremes (only one single bullet per reload, requires slowly charging your shot)So theres still reason to keep .388 and .50 cals in your inventory
>>581483458Yeah, I'd prefer full vanilla. I know why they went with Gunslinger, since they wanted something modern to work with their fancy third person animations. Maybe it's time to get off my ass and make an addon for a vanilla-like weapon balance. From what I've remembered it's probably really time consuming though, since you need fiddle with NPC models as well to look at the armor values and shit and take that into consideration when adjusting the weapons>>581484118>there is an actual progression of the weaponsI think that's what it is. You still see a difference in performance when you move from a AKM74/LR300 to more fancy rifles>>581484435>I don't really like CoP approach, what's the purpose of making some guns inherently inferior even when fully upgraded when you can get your hands on "better" guns right off the bat?I usually don't pick up weapons from stashes, so for example I like to upgrade my starting AKM-74U into an early game bullet hose. It is pretty dumb that you can just get a sniper rifle or vintorez right at the beginning of the game though. Dunno why they did that, when the previous games equipment progression was pretty tight
>>581486049I tried looking up videos for gameplay on it and after seeing how the guns are in 1st person, my extremely sensitive OCD ensured it that I wouldn't ever get the game.
>>581486631Yeah i felt some of that as i played itThe games' content seems great but i wish there was a stalker game of that huge scope but with more budget on the visualsI wonder how much id have to donate to the dev for him to halt all development to make hand animations.
>>581486873Have you tried Fargone? It has similar visuals (both games use assets from the same studio) but it's more Anomaly/Tarkov leaning.
WAIT SKIF HOLD ON. I FORGOT I HAD TO PEE
>>581487898No takebacksies, Colonel.
>>581486631>>581486873fuck off furfags
>>581485906Ye.>Stalkers!>Patch 2.0.6 is ready. This one is a minor crash fix patch that will help stalkers that experience annoying crashing anomalies too often, especially in the AMD region. >Backported several fixes for AMD GPU-related crashes.>Fixed several other high-priority crashes.>Stay tuned for more as we will continue to work on improving your experience in future updates.
>>581491005Nice.
freedom made a mistake letting this dutynigger in so he could destroy the best anomaly in the zone
>>581486160>Dunno why they did that, when the previous games equipment progression was pretty tightIt's a different design philosophy. I assume they wanted you to be able to follow your own preferred playstyle directly from the beginning.
>>581488063PLEASE SOLDIER, I'M LITERALLY SHITTING MYSELF IN THE POD
>>581487086i havent. but im usually more into games structured like a normal singleplayer playthrough like stalker and silverfish, less so sandboxy stuff
I haven't played since 1.0, is everything still a bullet sponge? if so what are the best balance mods?
I love stalker because it lets me use a G36I have an SL-8 irl but it's not the same...
>>581493276You can play on a custom difficulty setting now.
>>581493276Mutant health had been nerfed very close to release, and humans have never been spongey if you go for headshots. Granted, you also want to headshot mutants.
>>581491338Zulu was right btw.
>>581493778What I wanna know is where his PKM went.
>>581493890Dropped it in pripyat and some monolithian thief stole it.
>>581493890I would have liked to get an overpowered Zulu's PKM for helping Duty conquer the CNPP instead of an overpowered AR but I eventually did come across Glutton so all is good.
How the fuck is the existence of the Gauss rifle still a secret when you can even hear some random stalkers talk about it?
>>581483280>and then the SRP Alternative Ballistics addon for Clear Sky nailed the weapon balanceAre you retarded? With that mod you just spray NPCs from 100 meters with any assault rifle and they die without being able to do anything.
>>581496489Random stalkers talk all kinds of shit and likely it was just a drunken dream they had.
>>581496489he's not saying the eggheads didn't know about the existence of the gun, he's saying they did know about it ending up with monolith, the only thing secret is how to create them
>>581466771It's going to be nice one DLC 2 comes out, and we get cold Island, and there isn't a giant mass of cloud cover in the top right hand side of the map anymore.
>>581499427They better give us some new armors too. I've used nearly all the decent stuff by now.
>>581499427They said DLC2 is going to be more experimental narrativewise, so Spliff might not even be the protagonist.
>>581496489>Several experimental samples were made on the basis of technical documents for item 62. Following a series of test trials, it was decided not to go ahead with large scale deployment of the weapon due to the high cost of ammunition. You are not important enough to get the wunderwaffe, please understand
>>581499963They said the story for DLC2 would be different from DLC1, and said DLC1 was a faction conflict story. So DLC2 is probably not about two factions duking it out.
>>581500565I hope it features Deggy and the Corps. They're sorely lacking in screentime.
>>581501268They have already referenced CS with faction wars in the first DLC. They might as well reference CoP now.
>>581500047Monolols had them, tons of them were killed after the events of SoC, there's no way some of the rifles didn't end up getting in the hands of stalkers.And if it was that rare maybe don't put it in the hands of a random Monolol spawn squads.There's that event at the intercom tower, you can have a guy with a Gauss spawn there, half way through the game.
>>581501268I'd be surprised if ti didn't. Base game covered Ward, Spark, Sircca and Malachite, and DLC 1 dealt with Mercs, Duty, and Freedom. DLC 2 covering the Corps would make sense.Especially if they stick with thier comments that Stalker 2, and its 2 story DLC, would form a new trilogy similar to SoC, CS, and CoP. Base Stalker 2 was very remniscent of SoC. Cost of Hope had lcear CS inspirations. DLC2 being more of a kinda freeform, exploration, focused DLC, that expands on the northern parts of the zone, and the corps, would make sense as a CoP parallel.The various updates, and DLC1, also added new quests across the southern parts of the Zone, but the area around Yaniv, Jupiter, and Pripyat, has largely been untouched. Doing Cold Island + those areas, and adding new side quests in patches, and main/side quests in DLC2, would fill those areas out more.
>>581501723Would be the perfect time to bring back Cardan too. I remember he was in an audio log during one of the post-SIRCAA side quests.
I hope this update doesnt break many mods since it doesnt seem that big...
>>581499427Educate me on what the hell is cold island.
>>581502697A side effect of the Second Caribbean Experiment thwarted by Scar and the gange. It's supposed to be a frozen area around the CNPP's cooling pond.
>>581502825Is it actually mentioned anywhere in game?
>>581502697Cold Island is an island in the CNPP's cooling pond. Dalin did the 2nd Caribbean Experiment there, to try to create an Alpha artifact, but Scar/Spark came in and sabotaged the experiment to stop it. The result was a large part of the CNPP cooling pond area getting turned into a permanently frozen arch anomaly area. The experiment is also what caused anomolies to rarely spawn outside the zone, which is what led to Skiff's apartment gettign destroyed, the the Alpha Artifact forming in his apartment.
>>581502458I have a handful installed with one of them needing a UE4SS thing. Can confirm that everything works fine post-update so far.
>>581503015Yes, Scar and Dalin mention it by name during the MQ. There's also some new posters about the X-network that mention Cold Island in the DLC.
>difference between max thermal resistance and 4 bars is more than double damage taken from the exploding orb of deathIs there anywhere that actually has the fucking math on how the resistances work?
>>581505138I use my weird bolt around the flashbangs. Worth the hassle of charging that fucker.
>>581507478I mean the one that chases you, not the flashbang. That thing was a one hit kill when I had the SEVA-D (on veteran).
The electro anomaly that follows you in stalker 2 only chases you if you have artefacts equipped.
>>581508079took me too long to figure that one outcyka...
>>581508119I didn't, I found out due to having a tips & tricks video playing in the background while I was doing something unrelated and hearing that made me stop and take notice.
>>581508467I think what happened is I noticed a specific anomaly didnt chase me the first time since I hadn't equipped an artifact yet and I came back later and it chased me downbut it took two playthroughs to figure that one out
>>581503157>but Scar/Spark came in and sabotaged the experiment to stop it.It's really a cuck move to join Spark after learning this.>Scar: oh why did that artifact show up? Cause of the Carribean Experiments teehee. Oh and let me lie by omission. ;)
>>581508079The one that's in X18 doesn't care.
>herinb4 the wish granter has a female voice
>>581521571The wish granter is whatever it wants to be for the mind ensared by it. That's why some see God, and others see treasure or paradise. Some guys just want a smoking hot babe.
>>581484435>I don't really like CoP approach>you can get your hands on "better" guns right off the batOnly if you know where they are located. If you play for the first time, you won't know the locations. The stashes are well hidden, and it will take some time for you to get a stash marker.Also I distinctly remember that on my first playthrough of CoP as as kid I didn't upgrade a single weapon because I didn't find any of the basic tools.I like CoP's approach. The first time you get the regular experience, the second time you can rush for a better weapon if you want. Clear Sky's hobo start and clearing the whole swamps with only shotty and viper is the reason I never replay that game.
>>581521968>CoP as as kidMan I was 19 when it came out.
>the water anomaly just touches you and you instantly drownWhat the fuck were they thinking?
>>581522498How do you think it holds the water in a huge bubble? It sucks it in. So if you get too close, you get sucked in as well.
>when a pack of snorks stop in the middle of a fight with some loners to swerve directly at you
I want to hate 2 but I cant. There's plenty I dont like or would change if i was in charge of dev, but I cant bring myself to not do at least 1 full playthrough.
I dunno what this is but i'm going to throw a bolt in it and if nothing happens then shoot it.
>>581523086Honestly HoC feels like a pretty good sequel to CoP as far as the gameplay goes. Only complaint now is the a-life radius only being 100 meters. I'm glad they weren't inspired by any of the Misery derivatives.
Just put your hand in through the bars and turn the lock, is Skif retarded?
>>581523634It can steal whatever you're holding if you get too close.
>>581524498Usually this kind of doors are locked electronically, and can be unlocked by a button or some switch flip. There might be no lock on the other side.
So what happens if you do the Arena after you kill Mavka? Can you? Or does it fail?
>>581526212Mavka never goes back regardless so a guy takes over after that DLC starts.
>>581524785Nigga, that door is like 50 years old, and you can see the lock. They can be opened from the other side.
>>581526590Oh. Maybe I should start the DLC then. Does he say different stuff or is it word for word?
>>581526857No clue I did the arena before the DLC came out. My save is like a year old.
>>581527158Fair. I got my original playthrough when the game came out, and I got the new one but I did the Arena first for the shotgun and thinking I'd be locked out of it otherwise for some silly reason.
>download new amd fix update>crashes 10 minutes innow this is truly epic. Please just release ix-ray 1.4 so I can flush this turd, I'm over it
>>581528093What gpu do you use?
>>5815287967900xtx
>>581528887Wonder if I will have the same problem on my 9070xt. If you're wondering how I'm playing it if not on the 9070xt, I also have a 5070ti.
I was able to mostly play only getting crashes every 10 hours at worst, I swear if this patch makes things worse...
>you need 300+GB of free space to not spend an hour applying a 400MB patchThis method of patching games is not viable in the current economic climate.
The AMD crashing has been so inconsistent. Yesterday it crashed twice within 10 minutes of loading into the game yet the day before I played basically all day and it was rock solid.
>fight tyrant on stalker diff>used up all revolver ammo and had to finish him off with skif's ptm>fight tyrant on custom rules diff that is basically master>2 head shots with the revolverDamn, it really does make a difference.
>>581534873Master diff in 2 has a headshot damage multiplier added on top of the already existing multiplier
>>581511221>Lets do the experiment that caused the Zone again so we can profit from it!And you're blaming Spark for Skif's fridge exploding?
>>581536172Yes. It's like being mad at someone who technically shot you in the leg but only because someone else pushed his gun towards your leg.
>>581538347You're being mad at the guy who tackled the asshole who shot you in the leg.
>>581538445Said asshole wasn't pointing the gun in my direction in the first place. The asshole who tackled him is a schizo who hates guns.
>>581538605The Zone sent the Alpha at Skif because Dalin pissed in its cereal. Scar may be a brainwashed nut job, but Spark was, for one of the few times, in the right for sabotaging those assholes.
>>581538767Agree to disagree.
>>581538767That's hippie-schizo talk.
I'm guessing Quick Save is disabled for Master as well?
Oh shit the bump limit was hit.
