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Burers did nothing wrong.
Got out of the lesser zone early to loot Cordon and Zaton. Meeting Gaffer can wait.Got myself this nice looking barrel at the checkpoint in Northern Cordon (next to the stash with the wire trap)
>>582079443Quiets camp is in sight!
>>582079638Almost there!
>>582079860whatcha gonna do with dat
>>582079860With a little assistance from a trusty AK - its at the right spot!
>>582080141>>582080150 yay!
>>582079128Bure'ondre dindunuffin! A.D.A.B.
>>582080365He's just standing there. Menacingly!
>going into the anomaly in the base after you get rid of the flare still kills you instantlyEBIN
>>582080620Well this was fun. Will use the Northern path to go the Slag heap and then to Rostok to unload the mountain of broken guns in my stash on Ragman
Still looking for that old teaser GSC put out in 2011. As far as I recall it's nothing more than a short walk through a lush green swamp, no longer than 10s or so. I need to know I ain't going mad, and the thing actually exists.
14th for radiophobia 3 is baby's first mod for imbeciles and niggers
Damn so besides completely turning off the interface or using mods I guess theres no way to remove the ui icons on the right and the med counter on the bottom left huh. That sucks
Excuse me, what the actual FUCK?
>>582091769The Blasts.
>>582092568I already finished the DLC.
>>582092980While you were underground, they were having a blast(tm),
>>582091769Huh, so it wasn't just me.
>>582093247I'd have preferred a gigaherd of Boars than a pack of Pseudodogs.
Interestingly, all the boars fucked off when an emission started.
>>582093247>map says "Wrecked Wall">the wall isn't actually wrecked on your first visit here
>>582056910the most annoying shit about this chart is the different color reds for the "Radiation Damage when Equipped" column for no god damn reason, while every other column has the same color as they should
>>582051879>You know, the ones installation guide tells you aboutit doesn't. it need to be rewritten in actual English.
I wish you could get a skipjack off of those fixed scanners around the map. This fucker is so rare, I swear to god.
>>582095023I swear it's always a Rare artifact that's the last one, not the Legendary that you get annoyed with how many you have.Full set of Thunderberries and only thing I needed was a Starfish. Finally gave up and started doing 150m saves and reloading to get it and I still got more fucking Thunderberries. I swear it took at least half an hour of running and reloading to get the fucking thing.
I think the PDA notes are bugged, I can't find any old notes from any DLC area in them.They need to add a fucking search function to it.
>>582096154Yeah, I've gotten several hypercubes, compasses and liquid rocks now but never anything I actually want. Almost makes me believe the desire sensor is real.
>there are folks in this very thread what play with the crosshair on
>>582096731>Desire SensorWe need to find the X Lab that made it and shut it down.>>582098413>there are faggots that use the term "folks" and care if stalkers use crosshairs or not
>>582098563your anger betrays a guilty heart. turn off the crosshair, and be free.
Can those messages from the Faraday anomaly that you get on your PDA actually be used in some quests if you get them ahead of time?
>>582100339Not really, nothing really comes of outing Scoutmaster as Surgeon since he's still on your side and not the one that betrayed the group.. At best they're neat little lore tidbits when they're not stash locations.
>>582098563>the plot for Stalker 2 MP is a bunch of stalkers looking to disable the anti-wish granterI see now...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXoyZuAoVhA
>>582093452This is why you carry around F1 grenades.
Dolg is built different
>>582102441
Man in S2 on the higher mutant difficulty settings the chimera is basically instant death regardless of armour if the leap attack connects - the standing up animation takes so long the chimera usually gets in two swipes at you which is enough to kill you no matter how high your physical protection is.
Me and the boys taking control of the anus energy
https://youtu.be/Thp7x4xkcNk?vERY spookyanyone has any specially spooky mods for october?
>>582111826Just got that ending minutes ago. I don't like glowies but it was cool to see Korshunov being a real nigga throughout the whole Ward arc. Also makes more sense from the character's perspective as to knowing what the fuck is even going on in the Zone.I didn't do the last few things like the Faraday anomaly but for me it's time to uninstall and wait for DLC2 to do a full Spark run.
what happened to the mod scene of stalker 2? zomboid got an alife mod before stalker 2
>>582111826These are some freak proportions.
>>582117193Unreal Engine blueprints happenedThe official SDK provided by GSC demands a top-tier rig and a separate 1TB drive all to itself, yet it still allows you to do less than you could with X-Ray using nothing but Notepad++
>>582119496>+1TB drive to just make more pre-baked missions in a game that relies on voice actingI'll wait and see if an autist wrangles a crazy mod out of it
>>582117193You have to invest an entirely SSD's worth of storage just to download the sdkNo hobbyists are going to bother just to see if there's anything to make. This franchise is just cursed when it comes to devkits.
Just finished stalker 2, what the fuck were they thinking with that last granite squad fight?
>>582122047Gotta have something worth using the gauss gun on.
>SDK released>no Viktoria, Harpy, Birch, Mavka, or Agatha Kardashian modsAnomalychads stay winning.
>>582119496Didn't they split it later?
NPCs need better reaction times, goddamn.
>>582111826>>582118028huh?
>>582128273>(dies) (dies) (dies) (dies) (dies) (dies) they need to get rid of that shit, and turn off the constatd change aiming in screen hintkeep that shit for the console plebs but pc mustard race dont want it
>>582131636>constatd*constant
>>582131636>(dies)I think it's hilarious. I feel like that could be a good gag that people haven't exploited yet. Like "merely pretending" or something.
>>582137123thats what annoys me about it, it feel sway too fallout-ishlike a fucking narrator
>>582138604Stalker has had plenty of goofy shit from mistranslations or weird dialogue. This isn't anything new.
Pretty embarrassing how Active Matter devs came up with a bunch of more interesting anomalies than GSC did for S2.
>>582141101yes, it is new.??
>>582128273>cheeses the ai by abusing crouch walking>complains that the ai is bad
Home...
>>582151498The main road being so grassy in the Rookie Village is a bit silly. So much foot traffic would keep that beaten down if not dead.
>>582152576The Cordon village lost like 75% of it's traffic because of Zalyssia.
>>582123242Remove Hip has been a constant on all my Anomaly mod lists. Fuck all you S2 niggers, there are no wahmen in the Zone.
>Richter throwing a bitch fit cause I joined the Ward CHAD'sOh yeah I'm gonna take life advice from the guy drinking himself into an early grave
>>582154490His story was fucking dogshit anyway. Nothing of value was lost.
>>582154624He has a story?
>>582154078A real stalker fan wouldn't be playing anomaly in the first place you tourist.
Lost a lot of respect for Strelok when I found out he's balding and probably a virgin and his waifu is the Zone
>>582156119>A real Stalker wouldn't want to explore the Zone outside of the main characters and plot.Tell me you're a retarded nigger without saying you're a retarded nigger.
I don't think Skif is a virgin. I mean, he had an indirect kiss with Agatha, it's over for him.
Getting serious OT trilogy vibes from this DLC.
>>582076274>Skifniggers are retconning this /vg/ thread and deserve to be hanged
>first time meeting mavka has her make you run around getting swarmed by muties while she climbs up a tower instead of getting you onto the tower as well>she proceeds to make you wait even longeryeah fuck this cunt I already know I'm not siding with her
In cost of hope if you are wearing an exo that can't sprint is it even possible to complete the chase sections in russian silent hill?
off da fent
>Tired of freeplay slop>Think I'll finally get around to playing AMK>Boot up SoC for the first time in years>It's already installed>No memory of downloading itThe Zone is mysterious...
>>582166737death to all junkiesarriba snackbar
I remember a few years ago watching some guy who just discovered STALKER praising how the game didn't shit up it's factions like Fallout 4 by making everyone extreme opposites of each other. And here we are in the year of our lord 2026, where Nu-GSC decided to do exactly that, oh the joys of giving 0 fucks about the thing you're working on cause it ain't yours.They could have at least stolen a good faction from the fans if they're already stealing fan fiction.
>>582174738Retard.
>>582174738>good faction from the fansThey're all cringeGSC does need to be commended for making both Duty and Freedom even less likable than every single other faction (all of which you had to grit your teeth to follow to get any ending) in the base game.
I'm playing Radiophobia 3 right now. I joined Freedom and now everyone in Duty is shooting me on sight so I have no idea how to hand in my x18 shit to the barkeep in Rostok without having to massacre everyone there.Am I just fucked? Help a retard out.
>>582180482play vasyan mods win vasyan prizesiirc ogse (the mod radiophobia is based on) had the option to bribe hostile factions in exchange of ceasefire, try asking sid
>>582163404You can take the Exo off.
I'm sorry it had to end this way, friend
>>582181130
Post em
I'm hunting a pesudogiant with nothing more than a bolt action rifle and some AP rounds.
huh, never knew snork death squads were a feature
So who the fuck is that Agatha woman? I must've missed it but I don't think the game ever explains who she really is.
This shit is making me wanna uninstall the gameWorse than cnpp on socThis shit is awful, amok is an awful enemy, it gets iframes ffs, go kys for this one nu gsc play more souls before designing such an enemy fags
I just realized that I finished the DLC and I still have no idea why the Freedom outpost was massacred.
>>582192730If you don't have a shotgun don't even bother with this fight.Also use army medkits at this point what are you doing nigga.
>>582192730Managed to kill em after 20 deathsI wish this piece of shit fuckin otter a very nice rest in hellI'd carry his body to a vortex anomaly if I could be bothered, enough
>>582192730>Dude you just have hit the glowing weakpoint just like the bing bling wah-hoos!>But not at once, you have to wait until it finishes the animations between each one! Consistent design that fits right in with the yellow paint
>>582192730Protip: you don't actually have to kill them. Shoot the dude until he fucks off and the side door opens.
>>582194369>>But not at once, you have to wait until it finishes the animations between each one!Yeah that's the problemJunk clunky designUnintuitive iframes on gimmick enemies, yikes
>>582194423I think this bit is bugged because I blasted his ass with a grenade launcher and he went "I guess I'll have to kill you myself" as if I had killed the amoks.
>>582192730Wouldn't give a shit about how difficult they were if the design was good. They had so much fucking amazing art released of potentially new mutants but no, they had to go with this uninspired ass retard. What the actual fuck were they thinking?
>>582196119They need to remove the iframes and have em take chip dmg from the front (rni think it's buggy and it somewhat works but there's no blood splatter or anything, it's unintentional and bugged)Would go from shit to just mid
So if my Physical Protection bar is already filled, throwing a Compass on does absolutely nothing, right?
>>582197437I think there's supposed to be a kind of damage buffer that works like of like Halo 1 shields that excess physical protection might help.
>>582197437When your suit/helmet degrades you can lose up to ~30% of its stats, so having a Compass is good for keeping it maxed.
>>582198626Oh, good to know. I'm very autistic about going back to repair between missions and keeping my shit in top shape, but that makes a lot of sense.
Why yes I threw 10 quadrillion bolts at this thing to get it to where it needed to go, how can you tell
graphics are the only decent thing about this game (imhumbleo)
>everyone is an agent of C-ConciousnessWhy does it feel like modern GSC hates old Stalker?
Am I retarded or there's no way to get up there?
>>582208274Nevermind I am retarded, that was the easiest one yet
>>582204552You know you can shoot it, right?
>>582208835Yes, but shooting makes it harder since it pushes it harder/further, bolt is more controlled and it still pushes it enough.
So there isn't a single good ending for Stalker 2?
>>582210143Skif's and Korshunov's are good endings. Strelok's is debatable.
>>582210143No because the game was made by people who more concerned about "the message" than the player's enjoyment.It's also why shit stops making sense halfway through and why everyone is trying to fuck you over.
>>582210271>Korshunov/Ward you hand over control of the zone to whatever shady group that bankrolled the mind control and other experiments before 2006. They also built a ton of other generator facilities all over the planet, so they are likely able to see and control every human being on the planet>ScarZombify the zone and possibly the planet>StrelokZone under full lockdown, no entry or exit - those trying to cross get the ball-crusher anomaly. Monolith stay brainwashed and under control, just under Streloks command>SkifFollow the plan of the guy who disagreed with and split from c-con due to free will concerns, but had no problems using re-programmed agents to do his bidding and wants to release the current zone into the wild and most likely create new zones wherever the other generator facilities were builtThere should have been a 5th ending where you tell everyone to fuck off and just stuff the 8th pod with explosives. But this sort of writing is just not terrible enough.
>>582212528The canon ending is going to be Strelok's anyway and they're going to make it so someone pierced through in STALKER 3 anyway.
>>582210271>KorshunovHe made the most sense to me so I followed him but Hermann was telling me about a big conspiracy regarding that Agatha woman. I kinda liked Dalin too but something about the ending didn't sit right with me. Like I got rug pulled at the very end
>>582212528>Skif ending leads to Roadside PicnicKino, and in 10 years we will get Stalker 3 in Canada
>>582212528I guess I should actually pull the trigger and go past the point of no return and see the two endings I can since I told schizo to go fuck himself and I'm not a retard.
>>582213537>pajeets in stalkerPlease no, this was my biggest fear with 2 being funded by Microsaar and every second game having an Indian girlboss. I'll take "Swedish" any day over them.
>>582213537>>582214201To be fair there's only so much they can squeeze the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone for, we've already solved every mystery, checked every lab, killed every monster. Unless they do a big status quo change like another big ass Emission changing the landscape to be more alien like that Annihilation movie or just using another place with another Zone (don't know how they could make it work since Chernobyl is the beating heart of the franchise) in another place. They could also make it so the Zone expanded and covered more/all of Ukraine and go from there.
>>582214201I just picked a random country, in Roadside Picnic there are 6 zones around the world but it's never specified where. Stalker 2 is so huge and pretty much covers all they can do in Ukraine already
>>582215912>we've already solved every mystery, checked every lab, killed every monsterThere could always be ANOTHER secret lab under the underground secret lab.STALKER 3: Requiem
>>582215912>>582216536>>582216582we all know where Stalker 3 needs to take place, truly
>>582217212To the Stargate!
How can I get grass shadows working in CS? Always wanted to get the game looking like the promo photos
>>582212528The difference is Korshunov is a good man and doesn't trust SIRCAA or any of the scientists because he was there when C-Con and the monolith were made and saw how terrible it was first hand. He is in full control of the Zone, and Agatha can only tell him what to do, not command or control him directly. Whether he does anything they want is still up to him. The only ones I would trust are Korshunov or Strelok, and I chose the latter as my first playthrough, so this time it's Ward.
X19 gives you way too much loot, they made this fucking place on purpose to punish loot goblins like me, didn't they. There's a safe with a gun in every other rooms, fuck.
>>582220831Fucks sake
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 3 - Fukushima.
I think Stalker 3 should be a prequel set in 2006 where you play as Korshunov. The clusterfuck of that era could work well with A-Life.
>>582222469Stalker: Origins...
>>582221091Ok now I know they're just fucking with me
>>582222854Oh, they actually marked it. Neat.
>>582220661>trusting a complete schizo
>>582225025He didn't mention Scar.
>>582225025Strelok probably knows more about the Zone than anyone else alive, barring Doctor. I'd trust him with my life, and I did.
>>582225515Uh huh, he definitely doesn't behave like this guy.
>>582225515Been a while since I saw the ending but did he bar Skif from leaving too? Or was that just everyone else.
I don't understand why all these Stalkers love the zone. It'd be one thing if they were getting rich risking their lives but they're all just barely getting by eating bread and sausage like the average slav
>>582226348Most are criminals or people down on their luck, beats being locked up in a cell I guess.
Yantar is such a bullshit area, every single mutant spawns apparitions and I'm forced to waste all my ammo "killing" the illusions that instantly detect me and can go through wallsa much better mechanic would be to avoid psi damage by not looking at the apparition when it touches you, but no, gotta waste real bullets to "kill" the overpowered as fuck illusions lmao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yisjLiWc6fQThe wizard has returned
>>582179020>They're all cringeDo you even know what a quarter of these are let alone all?
>>582212528>>582220661I picked Strelok the first time because I'm secretly also a soulsfag and felt that John Stalker himself belongs in the pod.>>582226095Skif walks out dramatically as Strelok tells everyone to GTFO and he looks back from the Perimeter. So I guess some of the IPSF guys also get out in time too.Also holy fuck after rewatching it on YouTube Strelok's English voice actor sounds like he's literally slow in the head retarded. I think the only half decent ones are Strider and (sometimes) Scar.
>>582216582Wait, ANOTHER Nest under racco- I mean rostok!?
>>582226779are you playing GAMMA or some other modpack?I know GAMMA breaks ghosts by making them unnecessarily OP
FUCK that chimera
>>582233972>RGD-5s>killing anything everHow's Stalker difficulty?
>>582234721pretty chilli am not going through that double amok fight on any difficulty cept stalker
>>582233972Shows how broken stalker 2 is. In any other stalker game you'd be dead before the second grenade hit the ground as the chimera would leapt through the sky and fucked your shit up. Instead it just sat there and got killed by a handful of weak grenades.
>>581842713>>582233972shoot the chicken
>>582181021what's vasyan about that? it's on him to not think 5 minutes into the future and not realize that joining one faction will make the other hostile to him and so returning to their base of operations to get mission rewards might be a tad bit complicated from then on
>Faction Wars are backK I N O
>>582236963>only in CNPPShould've brought it to the entire zone
>>582227408>gone for a year>this is all he has to showMan's fallen off.
>>5822347211 RGD almost kills a chimera on Veteran.Retard.Mutants are weak to explosives.>>582235071Chimeras run away when they are wounded.
Has anyone here shot a grenade out of the air?
luv me ecologist suitswalk through acid n shietstill stop bulletnot look gay like exo wearers who enjoy the hug of a man
fug
>>582241674Pacan, how the fuck did you kill 1500 NPCs in 70 hours?
Stalker 2 needs an upgrade available for the AKs that gives them more penetration so they are more useful into the mid and late game. Doesn't need to be cheap, doesn't need to make them better than anything but given the entire zone shifts along with you just having something so they can shoot at dudes in exo suits and not need an entire drum mag to the head to drop them would be nice.
>>582251462A lotta Mercs, Zombies, Sparkers, CNPP Freedom and a good chunk of Monolols even though I ran through most of Pripyat. Only killed a few loners (guy at the Poppy Field who gives you a bum gun for the Virgin Mary painting) so it wasn't an act of murderhobo. I felt like I was running into Mercs every half a click on this playthrough.
>>582256193Moth fucking told you what would happen when you extorted him.
>>582256491Who the fuck is Moth?
>>582257769A merc you can meet in rostok.
>>582252948Use AP ammo. I used the combatant all the way until the Duga assault.
>>582227408>>582237671>>memspace shaderswhoopedydoo
>>582260793Yeah. The guy is a genius, he's a gigantic reason Anomaly looks as good as it does. And all the other x-ray engines just straight up jack his shit and use them. He's implemented so much cool shit with shaders, it's actually insane.
>>582261258
>>582260793Retard.The guy has done way more than just shaders.
>>582263506who is talking about the guy, retard.
>>582263894We're talking about his mod, retard.Hey @grok, how low does your IQ have to be to fail to follow a basic topic of conversation between 2 sentences without it being explicitly stated?
>>582256491Mercs were hostile to me before extorting him. Do they become neutral if I don't?
>>582265652how could you fail at such basic reading comprehension?you should kill yourself immediately, if you can.
Americans are at work. Post Stalker 2.
>>582277362>Americans are at work>at 1:24 in the morning
>>582219249CS can be so KINO, holy shit. Going through Forgotten Zone and I fucking swear, it's always either cloudy or rainy or just fucking dark. Feels bloody miserable.
goodnight /sg/you wankers
Time to rush through the main quests so I can get to part 2 of cost of hope. Siding with freedom this time.
>>582293621Goodnight anon, thanks for bei...>CigaretteSure wish I could smoke Cigarettes in STALKER 2, KynesPeace where the fuck are you! UPDATE THE MOD RIGHT THIS FUCKING SECOND, STOP PLAYING TOTAL WAR WARHAMMER 3 AND FIX IT!!!
>anon has such a strong nicotine addiction they need it even in their vidya
>>582298758You don't understand anon, you can't. Even I don't understand it myself. Stalker, the OG Trilogy and 2 both have such an effect on me when I'm playing that I can almost be there, so much so that if I smoke in game, I don't need to IRL.>inb4 going in to games machineI fucking wish, you'd never see me again.
>>582298398How do you know what he's doing with his time?
>>inb4 going in to games machineWhat?
>>582079443>>582079638>>582079860>>582080150>>582080365>>582080620I enjoyed this. Thank you, stalker.
>>582091769Hot damn that's a lot of swine.
>>582212964>STALKER 3HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Let me out.
>>582300035I'm sneaky and cunning of course.>>582300803Just an old story from an anon, don't worry about it too much.
>>582300803based tourist
so cringefuck spark faggost
If I do the early Cordon skip, will that encounter with the loner that has a unique 74u occur or do I need to finish the LZ quests for it to trigger?
>>582302282You know what you must do.
this mavka sniper is so beast(that i thought was a PSG1 but an anon here said is some typea g3)
>Freedumbers surely got this>They didn't>But left the Pseudogiant with 1 hp leftThanks for the ammo and the nail I guess
>>582305810Based Scar realizing not having insubordinate retards on your side is an advantage.
>>582307472This best be the sweatiest homosex ever written or I will be disappointed.
Rolling around in the tourist suit. ballistic helmet and the unique three line rifle from honta's hunting sidequest is the ultimate survivalist RP.
is there any mission in stalker 2 that takes you to yanovor should i just go there myselfcause i keep putting it off and doing missions but no mission has taken me there yet lol
>side with Mavka>feel betrayed and like I just helped create Faust 2.0 >side with Zulu>feel like I've done fucking nothing
>>582308468oh okay i think one main mission does take u there just googled it
>>582308468You do go to the yanov region as part of the main story (albeit pretty late). Honestly once you leave the lesser zone you should explore as your heart takes you as its not like you're going to break game balance in 5 seconds by finding all the best loot as you'd realistically have hours upon hours of gameplay before you come across the good stuff and even then, good weapons/armour are of high value which makes them murderously expensive to repair so unless you are also rushing to get LOADSEMONE they aren't as useful as you think.
>>582308486pic related is the typical duty member and sums up the entire duty side of things
>>582308836that part of the map is the only one i haven't visited 'yetalways weird to remember how up north yanov is in this more accurate to irl mapwhen in CoP its the southernmost point
>>582308836>once you leave the lesser zoneBut many A-Life factions start doing shit only after SIRCAA.
>>582309330Sure things get more lively but one shouldn't dampen the fun of exploration just for that.
>>582308134>hunting rifle>can't even equip a scopeWhat were they thinking?
>see a bloodsucker run straight into an electro anomaly and eat shitfeels good man.>>582310365Pic related
lmao I think honta has despawned from my game - he is not at his hut and isn't at the train tunnel either so i've not got his rifle from him.
always funny how both in the trilogy and 2 monolith has like 10x more soldiers than they ought to lore wise always just spawn in armies outta nowhere kek
>>582310458>Pic relatedMany animals can see you easily from the distance at which you could hope to use iron sights even with perfect eyesight.You also need much better accuracy when hunting than "center of body mass" to kill a large animal on the spot and not have to chase/track it.
>>582313387Given nothing exists beyond 100m iron sights work just fine on mutants.
NOOOO VICTORIA MY THICK THIGHS LOVE...is she safehope so
>>582317290This is why ward is the only route for me.
damn one of the most iconic pre center areasis now in like the middle
Funny how there are no women in duty but freedom have 3.
>>582324520Duty follows army rules. "It's not gay if it's under way."
>>582315498In game iron sights are barely usable at 50 meters.
See see how many an F1 grenade will get (probably zero).
>watching Stalker 2 credits>Co lead developer is named SemenWhat an unfortunate name...
>>582279346>never worked an overnightCan you honestly call yourself a man?
>>582336715The correct transliteration would be "Semyon", although passport agencies couldn't care less
>sgt dugway>is dug partway into the groundBRAVO NOLAN
>>582338984Semyon is a Russian form. Ukrainian form is literally Semen, pronounced like SEH-MEN.
top comfy
This is my first time ragequitting Stalker 2.Cordon. Bandits with shotguns sniping me from 400 meters.This game is dogshit.
>>582350256Based lies on the internet poster.
>>582350256
>>582350256If you shoot in bullet time your bullets will magnetize towards the enemies.
>>582350256the cordon is an endgame zone in s2also high ranked bandits use expanding shotgun ammo for some retarded reason
>>582354141>also high ranked bandits use expanding shotgun ammo for some retarded reasonTo kill stalkers who think a debut suit is real armour obviously.
>>582356248you have to be mentally deficient to use the debut suit that far into the gameit throws really good armor sets at you very often
I cannot in good faith use NATO weapons in a stalker game.
heh
>>582366862>jong>like dongI GET IT
>>582366474they were there since the start and are a definite classic tho
>>582367613I don't care if they were there from day one, strelok, scar and the major don't use nato weapons in cutscenes and it just feels right to stick to warsaw pact weapons.
>>582367918strelok went to the cnpp with an ak74uone of the worst weps out there in vanilla stalkerso idkI use both for variety
>>582368107>one of the worst weps out there in vanilla stalkerSomething only a western spy would say. The trusty and compact kalashnikov if a perfectly serviceable weapon.
>>582367918Strelok's signature rifle was the Sig-550 in Clear Sky and you find it in CoP.
>>582367918the original main characters of stalkers used these weapons, two western and one slavIn fact, the F-2000, the Groza and the Protecta are the three oldest weapons in all of stalker. They've been there before there was even a chernobyl setting.
>>582370170there was a concept of stalker without chernobyl? damn
>>582370331>he doesn't know buildo>he doesn't know about lev5-aztec>he doesn't know about the secret Codename: Outbreak connection
Why are the swamps such cancer?
>>582371116I just figured all that stuff somehow involved chernobyl>>582374394the shitty ass water traversal
I blame scar personally.
FUCK OFF WITH YOUR SWAMPS AND FUCK OFF WITH YOUR CHIMERA AND FUCK OFF WITH YOUR EMISSION
>>582379865That swamps mission was when I could tell not a single person play tested the gameIt was pure ass cancer
>>582366474Your loss.
>>582381729>>582379865Holy skill issue.
>>582366862He didn't riichi so good.
>>582337762I worked third in a fiberglass plant and I fucking hated it. Probably the worst job I ever had.
>>582350256Are you the same retard that was crying over how hard master was in the last thread?
bruh what the fuck is thisand yes thats more of them in the back
>>582383745Buckle up motherfucker. The snork spawn counter was fucking broken or something. I got jumped by like 20 of them down around Skadovsk and I was lucky enough to have a random squad of freedom guys around to take some of the heat off me.
>>582383087No I've been playing at the PoNR for a while, and this just happened yesterday without fucking explanation.And mind you, all they had were TOZ's, not the tacticool merc shotguns with the magazine.I've met like a squad of 12 bandits with nothing but shotguns.
bringing a gas stove and kerosene with me before heading to Radar saved methis game is so stressful holy shit
>>582384303I had multiple legit psydogs spawn on me in the Iron Forest, (((a-life))) is fucked
>>582405317Reminds me of shit from old mods.
>>582405527
>>582405527Lmao for sure, the psy-dog mechanic in 2 is even more retarded though in that the 'real' dog hops the second it does a telegraphed roar so the game plan is generally to weed out the fake dogs with tapfiring or your pistol and just open fire on the real one that bleeds.I guess they don't fuck with your vision at least compared to OLR 2.5/VoA psy-dogs but spawning several of them for no reason is pretty relentless and just made me hate pseudodogs even more than Burers. TPDD
>>582405527Remember loading up in Agroprom at one point after not visiting it for a while, and the map was so full of random mutants, including pseudogiants by the way, that the game just said fuck it and crashed. ZoA was definitely an experience.
>>582406532It was jank as fuck but I had a lot of fun with it.
>bloodsucker knocks me down>because im near an object he just continues hitting me while I'm on the ground instead of running away and kills mecool gameplay
>>582356527>it throws really good armor sets at you very ofteni stumbled into a tourist suit a few hours into the game and that bitch had several bonuses AND 3 artifact slots which i upgraded to 4 +1 leadi've come across a couple sets that had marginally better resistance to useless shit like chemical but i can't find something to beat mine
>>582409046skill issuejust evade the lunging overhead attack
>wants me to off beard and sultanI'd off sultan for free but my man beard lives so no, fuck you bitch.
...
>>582418174for all of 5 minutes
>finally find a new shotgun after like 20 hours>it's marginally worse in stats, but has a faster rate of fire and can load 8 shells instead of 6, good for dumping into mutant faces>techie at the current hub cannot upgrade it and i don't think there's a guide around herefug
>>582306541no way you made that last shot
>mfw I realise I can snipe the psi emitters in the swap in 2
so I just fucked my save in S2 with a shit mod after the first part of the DLC and just started helping the ward in zaton, do I cut my losses and restart without the mod or do I just finish it as a doomed save with the shit mod still installed?(the mod is shay's living zone)
>>582422970What is broken will only get more broken the longer you play.
Something I appreciate in SoC is how weak mutants like dogs and fleshes scamper around you and don't attack directly. It feels appropriate and realistic and is loads better than them beelining straight towards you like in every other Stalker mod ever.
Do you guys think it makes more sense for a Ward run to morph into a Strelok one and a Spark run into a Kaymanov one than vice versa?
>>582423581Picking spark is objectively the retard choice.
oblivion lost (2001) remake fucking when
>>582423332dogs circling you and going in to nip your ass one at a time is a stalker staple
>RPG passes clean through a pseudogiant and explodes on a tree behind it
>going to SIRCAA without knowing there is no personal stash after the slog in the swampsGiven you are a fair distance from any vendor when leaving the swamps it is kind of bullshit to not have a stash at egghead HQ since that section is decently long in of itself.
>>582417821Yeah I don't know what they were thinking with this one, no one on their sane mind would ally themselves with her. Even if you're the newiest newfag to the franchise she straight up tells you she's been playing them for personal gain.
>meeting sid again after 15 yearsI... wasn't ready for this.I really wasn't, I'm sorry.Some tears may have rolled down my cheeks.
>>582431893>dirge for the planet playing on his radio>closes dialogue with "good hunting stalker"I was 17 when I played SoC, back in 2009-2010.I wasn't ready for all of this again in S2.
>>582431893They did the OG characters so dirty it was fucking disgusting. Yeah, Sid was always a bit of an asshole, but he was the one that kept the rookie village together and was respected by fucking everyone in the Zone. Now he's just a grumpy old man that would rip you off even if you were bleeding out in front of him. I don't give two fucks how many things they "fix" with their DLCs and updates, the core of the story and characters is so fucked I physically cannot do a second playthrough.
>>582405527This is literally just SoC EE.I don't know what they did but I have never seen so many dogs at once in the original.
>>582431893
>>582432346> Sid was always a bit of an asshole, but he was the one that kept the rookie village together and was respected by fucking everyone in the Zone. Now he's just a grumpy old man that would rip you off even if you were bleeding out in front of him. Are you fucking stupid? He literally had you go kill random dudes because they were "bad for business" while paying you peanuts. He wasn't respected (lol) by anyone.>I don't give two fucks how many things they "fix" with their DLCs and updates, the core of the story and characters is so fucked I physically cannot do a second playthrough.Fix your Asperger's first.
Is the wanderer suit worth investing in to upgrade?
>>582432346based headcanon anon
>>582111826That's the weird wheel of Event Horizon. Nice!
>>582435992nah that is where the psychic indians come from
>>582434808>>582435491>Дaжe cтpaннo тaкoй вoпpoc cлышaть... Tы, вpoдe, в Зoнe нe пepвый дeнь, a пpo Cидopoвичa cпpaшивaeшь. Дa eгo кaждaя coбaкa в Зoнe знaeт! Caмый aвтopитeтный «кyпи-пpoдaй». Ecли Cидopoвич чтo-тo дocтaть нe мoжeт, знaчит, этo вooбщe нepeaльнo.(c) Wolf>Чтo зa вoпpoc! Кopдoн - этo ж пapaдный вхoд в Зoнy. Mы, cтaлкepы, чacтo cюдa хoдим. Tyт и oтдoхнyть мoжнo, и пaтpoнoв дoкyпить. Oпять жe, Cидopoвич зa apтeфaкты нeплoхиe дeньги дaёт.(c) Father Valerian>Хaбap тyт, кoнeчнo, пoжиpнee бyдeт. Дa тoлькo к Cидopoвичy нecти дaлeкoвaтo, a y мecтных цeны, yх...(c) random lonersKill all speedreaders
>>582436879>no argumentConcession accepted.Kill YOURSELF, retard. And maybe go play the game again and actually pay attention to the quests you take unlike when you were 14.
>>582437441>ImplyingNot him, but google translate is a click away you fucking retard.
>played a single playthrough of the first 3 stalker games>good games but haven't touched the autism some people have with thousands of hours played, so i don't recognize specific areas>reach the rusty ship hub>mfw
>>582437441>a local kingpin feared and revered enough to issue orders to kill rivals who attempt to seize his distribution channels, scammers using his good name, bandits who dare to mess with his men, potential moles and simply anyone who doesn't want to do business his way all while still being regarded as the most reputable trader on this side of the perimeter>"he wasn't respected by anyone""Starting town" merchant handing out lower rewards than later quest givers isn't unique to Stalker btw
>>582306541oh and yeah psg-1 is different, but very similar in some respectshttps://modernfirearms.net/en/sniper-rifles/standart-caliber-rifles/germany-standart-caliber-rifles/hk-psg-1-eng/
>>582439267So you just lack basic reading comprehension, okay.
>>no argument
>>582431893>>582432087>have mod that adds OG music and some music used in SoC mods>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v_1O0stnsY starts playing>get into a trance while wandering around hearing the OG ambiance sound effects and start thinking about how much has changed in my life since I was playing SoC on my lunch break at school, all the people and things that aren't around anymore, mistakes, regrets, health problems, etc.This game has stuck with me forever
>Mfw tourists still trying to talk shit about OG SidYou're embarrassing yourselves at this point, just give it up.
>>582366474I only use the m4a1 when I run out of 5.45 and 7.62 bullets and can't craft more
>>582441889Why does the Makarov look so fucking good man.
>>582441603Based, exact same feeling.You can take the stalker ouf to the Zone, but you can't take the Zone out fo the stalker...
>>582442609what anomaly is that /sg/
>>582442505cognitive bias
>>582443093>>582442609the mimic anomaly kek
I've been using Spitfire with AP ammo for hours now but it's starting to feel weak, don't think I'm strong enough to get to the end with an AKS-74U like Basedlok did. What gun should I try next? I was thinking of just spending all my money into .308 ammo and rolling a G3 or something like that.
Playing GAMMA.Thought I had enough AP ammo for x19.There is no such thing as enough AP ammo for x19.
Can you even reach this spatial anomaly?
>>582447164Look closely at the image you posted
>>582447503It's just the perspective, the blades are too far away.
>>582441889>seasoned ukranian war veteran.webm
>>582446786I think gamma forces you to use different calibersyou should be able to craft fmj rounds though, they're between hp and ap
>>582450096FMJ doesn't do shit. I've got a dragunov with me and monolith can eat like 4 FMJ headshots. I've also got an LMG and if I emptied 20 FMJ rounds into someone maybe it would down them, but I can't craft quantities like that from just scrapping the ammo I scavenge as I go.
>>582450716I just cleared half the Radar with the 74n 5.45 ap, then finished the other half with a bearcat pistol using 9x19 hp, and they were dropping like flies with headshotsmaybe you got unlucky with enemy helmets
>>582452432Radar is piss easy compared to x19 itself
Dalin tries not to fuck everything up challenge [impossible]
>>582452558haven't been there yetif x19 has higher tier monos then you probably ran into a lot of armorI should save my aps for later then
>>582450716. I've got a dragunov with me and monolith can eat like 4 FMJ headshotsWow, is this the super realism and better design than Stalker 2 that I've heard so much about?
>>582453286No, it's the super realism and better design of stalker gamma
>>582453220Everyone is expert or higher. Seriously go farm some AP ammo if you're considering doing it. Also keep in mind that you've got a bit under 11 minutes to do it
>>582453286>Wow, is this the super realism and better design than Stalker 2 that I've heard so much about?heavy armorwithout armor they die with a single head shot, hollow point staggers with 1 body shot and incapacitates with 2 or 3you can tell the armor tier just by looking at the enemy>>582453573Idk where to reliably farm ap ammoI usually just disassemble ammo that I don't use much but I don't get enough small rifle rounds, I usually get about 4 mags worth of ammo from disassembling and it takes several days to be able to craft more, so I'm cycling between 5.56 and 5.45
>>582455051By "farm" I meant more do missions to get money to buy it, or ammo you can disassemble and reconstruct into it.
https://youtu.be/EJZoU3Gjjos?t=548For the Anon who said that Mavka doesn't recognize you from the arena.
The way Skif and Mavka chose to comfort Zulu during his last moments was kinda touching, honestly.
>>582076274Stalker 2 is basically DOOM 2016 but open world and shittier overall.
>>582442505>>582444124its nothes rightmakarovs are sick as hell. stalger is the one applying the cognitive bias, by making makarovs fucking suck dick in-game, even tho theyre actually a GOAT of all time handgun
FUCKING DID IT! Finally managed to disable the brain scorcher. With a whole 10 seconds to spare.
>>582457121Aren't Makarov's rounds fairly weak?
>>582457281Nowadays comparatively, I suppose. >>582423581The only thing I'm sure of is that doing a Ward run should also have you siding with Duty in the DLC.
>>582457281i mean its a handgun. youre not hunting elephants with it. gommies made it to give to their officers so they could stay strapped at all times. its small and really easy to handle for nearly anyone. its exactly what its supposed to be.and in either case, if you get hit with boolet, no matter the size, its gonna fucking hurt. real bad.
>>582457121>even tho theyre actually a GOAT of all time handguntop fucking kek
>>582457281It's basically 9x17 MagnumGood by 1950s standards, but since Makarov is blowback pistol you can't increase propellant charge to modern loadings without turning it into Hi-Point in the process
>>582457281they are comparable to .380 ACP
>>582458185>>582458264>>582458654>>582458680/sg/ niggers when the task is to flex their /k/ autism instead of talking about the fucking games
The revolver is obviously the best
>>582457082This isn't Zone Slug's youtube comment section, retard. Go back.
>>582459050Sounds like /k/ autism to me.
>>582459050Hell yeah
>>582458972>>582459183/sg/ and innawoods threads literally started on /k/, faggot. Give it a rest and stop being butthurt because you're noguns.
>>582459381Watch the friendly fire, bro.
>>582457121>stalger is the one applying the cognitive bias, by making makarovs fucking suck dick in-gameSkif's PM is GOATed though.
>>582459595Kinda wish his had wood grips but that's just me.
>>582459183I don't know what you're talking about
>>582459307ugly gun
>>582459772How fucking dare you
>>582459307>revolver, but square!
>>582460078>he doesn't know it is hip to be squarestay uncool anon
>>582458284>small>light>ez to shoot>ez to disassemblewhat more could you actually want out of a sidearm? theyre solid.
>>582458972shut the fuck up faggot
>>582460301a better round
Is the Operator Exoskeleton the best one sans the Diamond one?
>>582460078>>revolver, but square!Yes.
>CoP configs folder has 1600 files>S2 configs/prototypes folder has 150000 files
>>582465990Why does your revolver have penis weights on it's trigger guard?
>>582466980Why do you know what a penis weight looks like, let alone know they exist?
True Path 2.1 is dogshit
>Master difficulty lowers mutant ability cooldowns by 50%lmao
>>582467950Let's change the subject
>have to defend zaliyysa or however it is spelt>start helping>BLOWOUT SOON FELLOW STALKERS>the only cover nearby is the town hall....which is locked because there is ongoing fightingIf it wasn't for the rolling quicksaves the game uses emissions might result in so, so many softlocks. Or on master just lmao get bent lose 30+ mins of play.
>>582469697Bro your anabiotics?
>>582426131>Hater8 models finally getting some attention hereI like his work for the most part, though I still kinda prefer SamArt's/Dynamic's models (with all their faults) to some extent.AVSV (SamArt's models aka True Stalker models) gives me a more purist vibe. Some of the heavy outfits, like the exos and soldiers, might still have some wonky proportions for some people, but I kinda like how bulky the exoskeletons and Bulat suits look. I also don't mind the arms looking more tubey than in H8 and in vanilla.H8 on the other hand includes a lot of nifty equipment on NPCs belts and does a lot of kitbashing, which bloats the amount of materials. Some of the models/textures from Nestandart are kinda atrocious, like the hood on the helmetless SSP suit, but it looks fine ingame. Not sure how I feel about some of the upscaled textures, I feel like some of them could use a touchup or smth. I personally find the vanilla textures just fine honestly. Some of the used heads also felt kinda off, but overall I don't want to be too negative about those NPCs. They clearly have some nice work put into them.I hope that someday we might get a better system for randomized NPC models, where you could give them a different head or equipment with just a config, instead of having hundreds of full models
>>582469916Last I checked I wasn't playing CoP.
>>582469697There's a bunch of houses there that should still work, not everything is destroyed.
>effects have description text that you can't read anywhere in the gameInteresting.
>>582112363That thing would literally makes me shit my pants. NOPE!
I'm really enjoying using honta's drahunka - popping heads and taking names. Though it is my workhorse when I go into limansk I will like have to ditch it for the SIC (which has worse stats overall) simply for the faster reload and significantly higher magazine size. The scope advantage of the SIC isn't so relevant there.Does help I play at 4k as the raw pixel count makes iron sights a bit easier to use.
Lost to the Zone for 2 hours
>>582474352I bet duty did this.
>>582473935>honta's drahunkaGood choice, you can use it till the end of the game.But I prefer pic : You can fix the x8 scope on it, plus a +10 mag and a silencer.
Bros, not like this...
>>582477074I will use that once I get to it. I'm a couple missions from cost of hope part 2 starting.
It makes no sense for this gun to be this light when it's basically 2 shotguns stuck together.
>reggae music playing in the distancewhat is the appropriate course of action, /sg/?
>>582480637Start looking for a scientist.
>>58248041690% of the gun is plastic, the only metal on the gun would be the receiver and the barrel. Have you never held a Kel-Tec gun before?
>>582479468>cost of hope"Silent Hill"s Limansk...
>>582480416>Rate of fire below 1/5>ShotgunNah
>>582480950The M860 itself is 3.2kg at base.
>>582481736Anon, you're not a Saiga cuck, are you?
>>582481864I know the KSG is only like 7 pounds IRL. That's like 3 KG I think.
>>582482965I dont have "a Saiga", I have THE Saiga.
>>582484490dangDANG
>>582484490>poop furniture
>>582483128>>582480950it's not a kel tec, it's a standard manufacturing DP-12 and it should weight around 4.2kg empty these suck fucking crusty rotting dead donkey dicks IRL, they got horrendous triggers, a very gritty and unpleasant pump and are not known for being reliable or lasting a long time at all since it's just a pile of chinesium plastic glued together ontop of two shotguns. They unironically make KSGs look good.
>>582486389>how tacticool do you want your shotgun sir?>yes
I happened to be reading a guide covering all unique weapons in stalker 2 and it features pic related but is missing how to obtain it. Checking a couple other sources has no mention of it so was this just pulled out of thin air or something?
>>582486389I didn't know this was a real shotgun, I thought it was a legally distinct KSG or something.>Sold at PSANo wonder.
>>582488369
They put the squeak back in the game!
>>582505047that squeak is unironically one of the high points of game design in the 00sthey better have the squeak
>THIS MOD DOES NOT WORK IN 2.0. UNINSTALL AND PLS BE PATIENT. UPDATES IN OFFICIAL S2 DISCORD MOD HUB. Please KynesPeaceZunaSW, I beg you. Is this about money? If it's about money, we can make a deal, I have been authorised by the Board to make a deal.
Is there even a single corner in Red Forest that isn't festering with Monolith? Impossible to get to Jupiter without wasting all my ammo on those fuckers.
This guy keeps following me around Rostok for some fucking reason. On Forgotten Zone. Worst thing about it is he just keeps shoving me about as he idly spins around and moves me away from conversations or digging through the stash or whatnot. Tried deleting him completely but another guy shows up, then another, then another. Is Rostok just fucking bugged or is this supposed to be some kind of mechanic where Duty has one guy watch you at all time? Either way, it's a fucking pain.
>>582509662nomods will be on discord only so I may be king of my fiefdomdissent will not be tolerated
Bros I am having so much fun, I thought it could not be possible anymoreI didn't feel this sense of discovery and alienation since the original trilogy
>>582519480>least subtle shill
>>582519704Yes I'm a fucking marketer, you are absolutely right Oh no I have been found out! What am I gonna do nowYou fucking prick
why, if Hermann sold you out to Faust, does he tell you to immediately leave before the IPSF shuts down the perimeter? did he just want you to drop the scanner so Faust would still find it, but he didn't want you to actually die?
>>582519807No you have me confused with someone else - Prick died in an emission.
>>582518615>Joins your Discord>Downloads mod>Say Nigger>Leaves your DiscordNothing personnel bratan
>>582519923>but he didn't want you to actually die?Yeah, probably as thanks for getting him the alpha.
So Cooling Towers is just dead space with an Arch Anomaly and the Red Fortress is just future DLC bait? I'm slightly disappointed but also somewhat hopeful that they'll add something to it at a later date. Time to head to Jupiter and continue to the end of this playthrough I guess.
>>582516330> jvk1166z.esp stalker edition
>>582519480>tfw 500 hours
>>582523293>Red Fortress is just future DLC bait?No.
what is goin on here..
So was Dead City just meant to be Pripyat 0.5?Or is there an equivalent in S2 that I haven't seen yet?
>>582520648make sure you re-upload it somewhere elseso fucking tired of faggots thinking that gating a mod scene behind a fucking dicksword is acceptable behavior. and im even more tired of the endless knuckledraggers that simply go along with it and thus encourage it
>>582526332I was larping sorry anon, never found the S2 modding Discord.
>>582526332>that simply go along with it and thus encourage itif you don't like it, don't use it, or make your own modpeople have gotten so fucking entitled when it comes to free mods in PC gaming, in every oldschool mod community I see a ton of entitlement as if they're paying for the modders' work or some shit, it's absurd, they do that shit for free in their own free time usually for their own reasons and then share it, you ain't entitled to give em shit that kinda stuff
>>582527347nokys faggot. go jump off a bridge. ideally a big tall one with no water under itdiscord is where information goes to dieif someone uploads their mods in such a way that it is only accessible via making an acct on a chink botnet, then mod piracy is no longer simply justifiable, it is literally an imperative
>>582527895>mod piracylmao you're such a pathetic faggot, again if you don't like it don't simply don't use it u sperg, modders gain nothing from you downloading their mods, this lvl of entitlement over free stuff is nigger tier behavior, most of em only use discord for convenience since it's easy to ping a big portion of the userbase immediately whenever there's an update (like gamma) and platforms like moddb have annoying limits whether u bother like a scared child to go into the discord on an alt, download the mod then re-ditribute it or not makes no difference to them either, it's just silly to give em shit over it
>>582528104(and also a lot of modders are autists with egos that do it for attention and its ez to get attention if ur the guy making the shit everyones using on the discord) not that I like that but you have to have somethin' wrong with you to work on mods for as long as someone like grok has (then again i think gamma takes donations, but ik a lot of other big mod projects that refuse to do that 'yet still spend years working on the mod)
>>582524828In the zone, men are men, boys are boys.
>>582527895>ideally a big tall one with no water under itIf it's tall enough water won't matter. It will still kill you.
R8 my hideout
>>582532657>not covered in vodka bottles and tourist delight>only 58fps inside a small room3/10 best I can do
>>582532657You need some tapestries for those walls man.
so there is a mission with sid that takes you through the cordon, cool, i don't remember if this was in 1.0 or if i quit the game due to bugs n performance befroe this point back then
>>582534053Its been there since day 1 iirc.
>>582534053>>582534660oh shit yeah so this is where u meet big S...
I upgraded this thing fullybut its simply worse than mavka's sniper it also 1hits but it handles way better, no huge recoil between every shot
>>582536845You also get it way too late into the game to enjoy it much unless you stall the main quest.
>>582533725I think you mean carpets.
>>582530909Yeah but you don't get the satisfaction of making a splash
>>582537408i have yet to find better in class weps than the arev for AR, mavka sniper for sniper and ram2 for shotgun (ik the ram is 100% the best tho) even the groza kinda handles like dogshit in stalker 2
>>582537703The Kharod is a straight upgrade from the ARev and you can find a 3 (I think) of them outside of Pripyat. There's also a few of them in CNPP.
step 1) three line rifle step 2) SICstep 3) there is no step 3
>>582538195Glutton?
>>582538257there is no step 3
Whoever designed the Death Cave in the Cordon needs to be shot in front of their loved ones.I understand the anomalies, I understand the controller, what I don't understand is why they thought making the cave with so many stupid stalagmites and outcroppings to get stuck into, especially when dealing with timed anomalies.I genuinely hope they get cancer and die, or worse get drafted to Ukraine and die gibbed by an orc drone.
>>582541401part and parcel of using UE5EVERYTHING must be ultradetailed and photorealistic
>>582541401Almost as if the team that made Stalker 2 was not the same team that made the trilogy, and did not understand the games nor why they were challenging
>>5825381951) Double Barrel2) G363) Arev4) Doble Barrel
>>582537923i think i've left like 5 kharods cause i thought they were g36sfuckguess i'll pick one up and try it out if its rly somehow better than arevcause im using the duty gun i got at the end of the DLCand even this thing feels worse to use than arev
>>582544547apparently kharod is based on this israeli rifle(please don't derail the thread with seethe about the country)
>>582544816I will say that the commercially available one does not have that cool handguard.
>>582537703Skill issue.
>>582484490>no pitchfork emblem>can't use drum magpass
Gordon doesn't need to hear all this, he's a highly trained professional!
>>582544816Ukraine has a bunch of licensed weapons they can manufacture
>>582548353You have problems, nigga, get professional help before you do something you can't undo.
>>582548674It's video game gore you fucking pussy. It's not the 90's and Mortal Kombat didn't just come out.
>>582548674fucks wrong with you dumbass niggasoldier of fortune 1 had more gore than that that's literally fallout 4 tier gore
>>582548827The mod should get a Mortal Kombat inspired version where killed NPC explode into multiple ribcages.
>after like 15 hours of meandering i find a techie in rostok that can upgrade my spsa14 so i can ditch the one i have>dump like 110 fucking K into the damn thing>feels good man>oh hey, i guess i'll do this arena thing>win first 4 rounds easily>last one is a bitch because it's a peashooter and the guy is apparently wearing 8 inches of steel as armor, but manage to do it>win a slight upgrade to the shotty i just upgraded
>>582550816It's gets D-12/Ram-2 tier penetration if that's any solace. Way more expensive to maintain, though.
>>582549414>soldier of fortune 1 had more gore than thatThanks for proving I'm talking to 80IQ subhumans.
>>582551068does penetration apply to mutants?because i don't see much reason to not tap headshot humans either way, since i can do it from pretty much any distance
>>582553491Weaker muties like boars, dogs, etc. don't have armor but snorks and above do so it helps. Expanding dart sucks for fighting large muties too.
Makarov in my right handMavka's booty in my leftDuty in my sightsKoupons on my mind-excerpt from the ballad of skif
>>582555679I just realized that Mavka's like 7 years older than Skif.
>>582555976>>582555679Wait, no, I forgot the game takes place in 2021 and Skif's only 25. Mavka's only 2 years older then.
We made it lads
>>582555812Pip looks like THAT?!
>>582559171Game world need to sue
>mfw I have about 3000 rounds of AK ammo sitting in my stashNever gonna use it at this rate.
>>582564470Sell it
>>582564470Get on my level.
>>582564470>>582565570I don't save more than 1 stack of 900 of each ammo type and force myself to sell the rest. I've yet to use any of it since every time I want to try a new gun I just buy the ammo or go out and find it. Is there a name for this type of autism?
>>582233972I look at my stack of 800 grenades in my stash and think just how funny it would be to put my guns away and just walk around bombing the shit out of The Zone.
>>582564470Sell the regular rounds and buy AP or other variants instead since all of them are more rare.
>>582568612Take the stack, drop all of them, and then shoot one.
>>582571479I'm not that drunk yet.Also they just fizzle out if you do it in the safe area.
>>582571479Ah, the ol' bethesda item special.
>>582564470>call of babymode difficulty
>>582572828>call of retard post
>do the first assault on duga mission>comeback to the checkpoint post mission to see if I can get in>see monolith sniper in a tower>pump 5 rounds from a SIC directly to the head>he is still standingGuess we just have invincible NPCs now. It wasn't even from extreme range in case you are wondering.
Retard.
>>582572402Stalker handles it quite well.
>>582575678Get 12 - maybe 15 gopniks together and you'll have all that gone within a day.
>>582516330what a dirtface mtherfucker
Just did the 2nd assault on Duga on Ward side, man, either this path is completely different or they nerfed this shit out of this whole encounter, I remember on Spark side this was just blasting Monolols left and right. I took the RPM but barely used it.That, and I think in their attempt of making stealth better they just made ALL suppressed weapons completely silent? Or is Warszawa an exception? Guys standing 10m away would not hear the shots at all.
>>582588598Given that fight has had quite a lot of "optimisation" since release I too don't know if the ward route is easy modo or GSC reduced number of npcs to stop the cpu rape.
>>582516330turn off companion following?>>582548674what the hell are you crying about??
I'm not sure which series has more secret labs in it - even MOAR secret than the other secret labs; resident evil or stalker.
>>582590286in RE there's usually one per gamein stalker given the numbering 20+ at least must exist right that'd mean more than REbut i rly dunno how many we've actually visited throughout the games
With 300 rounds and my trusty battle rifle i'm about to step into slav-ent hill. This time I am carrying a thunderberry and weird water so I can in fact keep my loot.
They lock this building doors after the Duga mission is done, and I left a bunch of shit in a bag in there that I looted along the way and from guys that were near it.I don't understand why would you need to lock that after Duga is "done".
>"why didn't I finish S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2?">load it up>"oh, that place is obviously clear">walk closer and people just pop in out of nowhereWhat the fuck were they thinking?
>don't play the game>make a shitpost based on something you saw in some youtubenigger videoGo back.
>NVG doesn't work in spooky townshit be spooky
DOOM 2016 but open world and shitter in every metric
>>582595040It would be spooky if it wasn't for the fact that there aren't really any dark places in there. Same thing with your flashlight.I really don't get the reason to do this and then NOT have dark, spooky corridors.
>>582595717??? most non-sensical thing ive read itt
>"no way the depot is completely empty in this ga-ACK"Guess I'll try it again when 3.0 arrives.
>>582596881Play with HDR on and it gets really dark.
>>582597541Might as well use fucking reshade and turn up your contrast by 100%.
>>582599337>has no idea how HDR worksDon't even give me your meme replies as i'm not gonna read them lol.
>>582597541>>582599920nta but who tf has a HDR monitorpersonally i'm looking to get an OLED soonshould make dark areas in stalker or other horror games quite spookier
>>582600205>nta but who tf has a HDR monitorAnyone who owns an oled or miniLED monitor. Anyone who uses an oled TV with their PC.
>>582599920>plays with a meme feature that isn't even properly implemented in the game and so it makes the game look different than it's intended>thinks he's rightlol
>>582588598It felt like the AI was much dumber, I was able to sneak around and pop Monolol skulls up to Faust and was already carrying an RPG-7 for his stupid lantern after struggling with him on release. Did Spark side on release and it definitely felt more action packed.However the first assault as Ward was pretty AIDS, enemies spawning in behind you and you have to wait for Faust to appear to just run and tank the damage from zombified Ward and Monolols.
>>582597495have you tried turning your settings up?
>>582597495Retard.
>>582597495Stream yourself doing a flip off a bridge.
>>582609951>start the game they made 17 years ago>the range is now 50% longer than their nu-trashGreat argument neanderthal.Idk what type of goycattle brain you need to defend this but it was extremely rarely an issue in the old games (at least for me).In 2 you can't even make it out of the lesser zone before it becomes an issue.It is unforgivably bad.
>>582589363Not a companion, just random Duty guy. I kill him off in console, another one takes his place. Then another, and another. Just resented at this point.
>>582593878>Someone else pointed it out so it's not valid criticismKill yourself.
>>582611479I accept your concession.
>>582611479>50%nigga you stupid
>/sg/ is only populated by shills nowThis franchise is truly finished.
>>582592802>Skifniggers defend this
>>582076274"Hell of a last couple weeks..."I haven't had much time or energy lately to post or follow the last few threads. Can someone give me a qrd on recent happenings or drama in here? Any notable fights or recent namefags I should be aware of?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R87bkp3yR2w
>>582616382See>>582609951And follow the instructions.
>>582617252Some guy is really upset that people are talking about stalker 2 in stalker general. That's about it.
>>582607358>>582609253>>582609951>>582614357>>582614424>>582617969all the same faggot btw
[ZC-OBS][CAM-03][20260927-2137][FRM-0002]Autumn is here... something stirs in the air.....
>>582618824these 2 are me>>>582607358(You)>>>582614424 (You)you're still mentally retarded.
>>582619308>ai slop
That faction war side quest in the CNPP felt like they were prototyping something for multiplayer.
>>582620330>buzzwords
>>582621967are you implying its not ai slop?
>>582618823Why are niggas still seething about this? It's really not that bad of a game anymore.
>>582622101Sour grapes, maybe.
>>582618823>>582620220>>582622101>>582622158all the same retarded shill btw
>>582622239>
>>582622239Kek, sad.
>>582622286>>582622341>posts ~40 seconds aparthmmm quite curious indeed
>>582622239>>582618824>>582616382>>582611479>>582595717>>582592802All the same retard BTW.
>>582622239>>582623305>>582618824same faggot btw
>>582617252Last couple of threads I've been trying to manifest a mod dev to update because I want smokeable cigarettes in STALKER 2.
This thread is actually just me and my psi-induced hallucinations.
So many Skifniggers and nuGSC apologists ITT.
>>582623305Gigantic schizo. Time to perscriptionally advised suck OP's anus before your meds.
>unreal jeet>gscord shill>ubislop fanyour S2 posters...
what if we took DOOM 2016 and made it open world and shitter in every way
>>582630807>Skifniggers deserve to be hanged by the balls by a Burer and killed by a Cossack vodka thrown by a controller
If Scar let you stay with your waifu in the Shining Zone would you choose his ending?
>>582632195>Shining ZoneNot falling for C-Con propaganda.
I have to beat hardcore GAMMA with my cousin when xrRazom coop mod updates and clickrads ROMEO modpack comes out he fell for the jewtube shillings and because I forced him to play the trilogy some years ago, I can't refuse. fug I'm such a double negr I hope it'll at least be stable
I hate burers.I hate controllers.I hate snorks.I hate pseudogiants.Total mutant death.
>>582640682t. Zulu
>when your bait on /v/ doesn't work and you come to /sg/
Out of terminal boredom I caved and bought the Stalker 2 expansion. Are there any recommended mods for it yet?
>>582643223Usual rec is to play vanilla first.
>>582645679>Usual rec is to uninstall and refund.Fix'd it there for you.
>>582643223Mods specifically for the expansion or S2 in general?
S2 the tunnel under the lake - anyone know how to get through the locked door on the right hand side when you walk into the tunnel? The one behind the mesh gate door, not the solid door that needs to levers to be pulled to open.
>>582655605The Iron Forest one?
>>582655605Look for a vent opening on the left side of the tunnel. There should be a room at the end of that that has a key you can use.
Check my koups, dub trips.
>>582654641Just in general. I hope there's an option to skip the intro by now..
>>582656713You can skip it now without any mods. Just press ESC.Also I'd recommend these:https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1447https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1956https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2706
>>582656713If you mean the intro cutscene, you can hold spacebar (I think) to fast forward it and most cutscenes.
>>582656910Thanks king.>>582657038I meant the tutorial segment. Aieee...
>>582657461There's an option to skip ahead to the DLC content. Maybe that'll work.
>>582657592I've always tapped out at the swamp segment, so I kinda want to stick through for a full playthrough. I was just hoping for an option to skip through the tutorial so I can get to stalkering in the early game.Surely this time I will enjoy it!
>>582516330I had this happen with a mercenary as a Skyer too, i think it happens when your faction and another faction are in bad relations but not quite at "shoot on sight" levels of bad, so the AI gets confused and just follows you around and stares at you.
>>582640370Update ETA?
>>582657461there is a mod to skip the tutorial segment and I can confirm it works and causes no issueshttps://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2480As for recommended mods, depends what you're looking for, I'd say just play as it is until you get bored and then try whatever seems cool, there's mostly vibecoded aislop on the nexus but some of it is pretty cool like CollectOwl and improved stashesIt can upset the economy a little bit but I hate how many of the stashes in vanilla stalker 2 have practically nothing inside them
>>582664532Apparently they're both about a week awayThere's also Anomaly Together but it seems to have some drama going on, dunno if it's just war related shitflinging or something more.
>>582666653>improved stashesThat the one that adds artis and gear to stashes? How does it compare to vanilla for ammo/meds found?
>>582625790I strongly dislike Hentai Strider.
>>582668731Compared to the stuff I've seen out there of him, that one's tame as hell.
Compiling Shaders
>>582669256Thankfully only lasts under a minute for me despite being on an almost potato PC.
Has anyone found anything interesting about Chief? I swear he was the guy dancing around in the Duga in one of the trailers and don't want to believe his final implementation is just him in the Iron Forest bunker.>>582131636Just turn off subtitles?
>>582669464So far after the Iron Forest stuff, he has minor involvement in one of the later quests in the DLC but it doesn't really tell you much about him. I'm assuming he might have a quest if you find a weird enough faraday anomaly since he seems to have a thing for those.
>>582208274>>582208449That one beat my ass as well. I'll cope by saying the flare effect and how it can kill you in two procs even with strong psi protection doesn't give you much time to think out the intended path. I also blame the lack of parkour mechanics. Imagine being able to go full Dying Light on some of these places.>>582233263I'd have to watch it again, but I'm pretty sure Skif is still innazone.
>>582145359>using stealth as an approach is "abusing crouch walking"I would pay to see you play Thief or Metal Gear Solid.
>>582670056I know there are mods that add higher ledge grabbing and ledge grabbing during jumping/falling but I have feeling they'll probably allow you to sequence break like crazy if you get creative.
>>582252948That's what the Fora and eventually Dnipro are for.>>582309330You also completely miss out on some quests in the Duga region at the very least if you wait that long.
>>582670501>That's what the Fora and eventually Dnipro are for.Yeah but most bullpup guns look generic and gay. The AK is iconic.
>>582670752At least the AKM-9B is a thing now.
>>582381729l2playskrubThe svamps were easy even on my very first playthrough when I didn't have the foreknowledge to bring only a small set of supplies in order to be able to loot every stash without being stuck in powerwalk mode. >>582431396It's a game with multiple choices and paths. It's entirely up to you to make the choice. (You) hopefully have past experience with the Skadovsk bros, but Skif doesn't. Pick and choose if you want to use yourself for a playthrough or adequately roleplay as Skif.
>>582659819KEK, so that's what it was. Forgotten Zone still seems to have a bit of a warfare mode, even if I didn't actually install it with warfare enabled, but yeah that clears it. He's just standing there staring, menacingly.
>>582432346Sidorovich is exactly as he was in the original games, anon. The only difference is he doesn't have the Clear Sky price increases that every freeplay shitmod decided defined his entire character. His VA even sounds like the old one while obviously not being the same David Agranov as before. Compared to Scar for obvious reasons, Strelok for slightly less obvious reasons, and Degtyarev for even less obvious reasons, Sid is exactly who he used to be. He's a really nice bit of comfy nostalgia, along with Hawaiian still doing his ALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA greeting.
>>582523293Red Fortress might get fleshed out a bit in the DLC, but more than likely what you'll get is that unfinished lab in the pond being added. RF is only used in one or two of the ending paths.
>>582671863For me, among the legacy side characters that got brought back, the one that had me pissed off at the outcome was Hatchet.
>>582622057So every image generated by AI (really just an LLM) is automatically "slop" to you? Do you see how ridiculous you look?>>582622586Vague shitposting is still shitposting.
>>582541401>>582542284>>582542526>go to a place called the "death cave">get assblasted when it's full of death
>>582673492something something OG trilogysomething something nu-GSCBut I will admit that the terrain in there is cancer.
>>582667893speaking of, this dudes playing Anomaly Together right nowthey both seem to know a decent amount and it looks decently stable https://www.twitch.tv/tomato
>>582656273I really can't find it. I turned the electricity off but searching around this key is proving elusive.
>>582674181It's not in that room, it's in the next one on top of a wooden drum thing turned into a table(?) and it also has a door leading to the outside.
>>582617252>vidJust what stalker 2 needed: red orchestra aiming, desaturation, and the overhead of running an aislop filter on top.>>582674143>tomatoOh boy, can't wait to hear him do impressions of the ex-friends he can't play with anymore mostly buckafter 1/4 of the 4 hour stream time is an intro.
>>582674383Here? Is it tied to a mission then as i'm just exploring.
>>582668191Yeah, the artis are nice, seems to only spawn common ones though>How does it compare to vanilla for ammo/meds found?Sometimes you'll find a random modified gun and 30-60 low quality bullets for it, sometimes you get a random stack of 30-40 high quality bullets which are nice for the stash but almost never actually compatible with my gun, otherwise it seems pretty much same as vanilla, pretty sure meds are identical to vanilla, you'll get 1 low quality medkit sometimes and a maybe few bandages
>>582674826>>582674383Wait i've just found it - it is sitting on the wooden cable drum.
>>582674980Nice.
I'm sorry, little one...
>>582675061TBD
>>582674863That's not bad, I'll try it out in my next playthrough along with that mod that gives higher ranked NPCs attachments for their guns. Always found it weird that almost 95% of the people in the Zone run their guns full stock.
>>582674754dunno about alldat, he sounds kinda funny though
>>582671863>Sidorovich is exactly as he was in the original gamesWe were obviously not playing the same game then. Feel free to look at it through rose tinted glasses but his attitude, the mood in the rookie village, and generally how everyone talks about him now is completely different to the original games. And I hope you understand I'm not talking about how he "feels", it's all about the lore, and it's as simple as in the originals he protected the rookie village and rookie Stalkers generally, while also earning the respect of everyone in the Zone. In contrast nu Sid is a sad, tired, jaded old man that looks at Stalkers as nothing but purses to be squeezed dry. No one likes him, no one respects him anymore and the rookie village is a shell of its former self. These are facts. You can choose to keep your rose tinted glasses and ignore these facts, but that's your call. This is not the same old Sid.
>can't enlongen Boomsticksad!also I'm pretty sure that's now how the sights are supposed to work
>>582233263>>582670056The soldiers are running INTO the Zone because the Checkpoint is about to explode. Skif is locked in with everyone else.I'm still debating with myself over which will be the canon ending, either Strelok because it makese sense that people CAN come into the Zone there's just going to be a shit ton of Monolith ready to fuck you up, or Caiman since it feels like the most involved one/harder to get but having the Zone expand planetwide sounds slightly dumb, that being said it is stated that there are other Generators in other places so who knows, maybe they'll actually give us STALKER 3 New Shithole.>>582675061Shhh he's sleeping
>>582673373>So every image generated by AI (really just an LLM) is automatically "slop" to you?ye pretty muchthird worlders love ai generated images and videos
>>582643223clear crouch, thank me later
>>582678625>he didn't play the gamesSad.>>>/v/
>>582643223>Better Destructible BoxesOne shot all boxes and make them drop random shit that disappears, immersive and saves you time and bullets>Improving Stashes LootMandatory, comes a tool that lets you configure all that stashes can contain and its chances. The fixed stashes with blueprints and quest items remain the same. Has compatibility for certain loot mods if you're into those. Vanilla stashes are meaningless and a waste of time, get this.>Quick Container and InventoryWill save you hours down the line>Quick PDAWill save you hours down the line>Destructible ContainersReduces the amount of loot the game throws at you and makes it so you get good shit when it does.There's also a mod that removes the million bandages and medkits the game has around if you're into more hardcore, I don't run it though.
>>582683517>make the game easier and make stashes give you godlootYou may as well suggest the mods that make mutants pushovers and give you infinite stamina, health, and inventory weight. Casual.
>mavka gives you a weapon>clapper>clap her (cheeks)You saucy minx
>>582688174>open config tool>lower or outright remove certain things from the Stashes>Make the game even harder if you want>Anon decides to vomit some diarrhea opinion yet again ignoring everything I said in the first postHang yourself
>>582680646>brings up completely unrelated point>"typing an image generation prompt into an llm means you're brown">>>/pol/
>>582690773>changing stashes at all
>>582690812Knew (You) are swarthy
>>582692193Whiter than you'll ever be, João.
>>582672085Why? Did you not let him escape?
>>582690491Best pump shotgun in the game. Only shotgun that does full damage, and I mean the entire bar. Phenomenal.
>>582671403Dynamic Faction Relations is on by default so you can turn it off to prevent that happening, or just do a few jobs for Duty whilst disguised as them.
Zulu was right btw.
I FUCKING HATE BEEPERS
>>582694805Yep. Not only was Mavka annoying but her motivations are extremely stupid. Yeah we should bring this fetus back to the Mainland because look Zulu the Oasis cured your wound! Let's just ignore my homie dying in the corner of the same room with a knife in his stomach. The only risk is that everybody either becomes a gibbering zombie under the control of Faust Jr. and/or entire cities are trapped in nightmare worlds like Limansk.Not even a big Doodyfag but Zulu is a real nigga and Freedom are basically quirky kikes in 2.
>mfw the fat walk back from X16 to rostok>>582695385You will never be a hip hop OG.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfia-vubraE
>>582695710>Skifniggers will still defend her
>it's another episode of "fight the bullshit fire poltergeist in the basement at the start of the second zone after the lesser zone" with all my bullshit mods that leaves me with like 5 hitpoints
Goddamn, skif is quick on the trigger;>go to the arena in cost of hope>mavka confronts freedom leader, shit goes sideways>skif immediately headshots two motherfuckers and one generic freedom guy instantly reaches for a grenade instead of the AK in his hand>time for a shoot out
>>582669464>Just turn off subtitles?yes but the point is it shouldn't be a subtitle
>>582673373>So every image generated by AI (really just an LLM) is automatically "slop" to you? Do you see how ridiculous you look?yes. 99.5%>(really just an LLMno.>Do you see how ridiculous you look?just how retarded are you anon??
>>582702609>gets mad at a skill issueYou could always play far cry 3 if you need something more in your lane.
>>582693724I did but the Ward went back on their promise.
Why yes, I DO need a 50 round drum mag on my arev, why do you ask?
>>582710040You can still help him escape and trick the ward into thinking he's dead. I flashed my ward badge and they believed me. He never lied to me and I never lied to him. A square deal deserve to be honored. He let me walk after having me dead to rights in that room of explosives so I let him go, too.
>>582705194Skif is a marine.
So far the freedom missions are more interesting than the duty ones in cost of hope.
>>582707705>yes. 99.5%Any specific source for this? Or is it just purely based off vibes?>no.Yes retard, what do you think AI is? Do you really think there's computer superintelligence pumping this shit out to people asking for it?>just how retarded are you anon??Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.
comfy...
>>582717685oops...
>>582714583Didn't have a Ward badge on me that time, sadly.
>>582719540Even without it could you not convince them he died?
>>582717685>>582717879skif kills without reason or remorse
>>582694321Funny thing is it's just this one guy. Can still hang around in Rostok and do quest for Duty just fine. Guess I'll just max out the relations with them and see where that goes. Also funny thing, installed the version of FZ that has no Clear Sky faction, just a few remnants here and there, but the faction is technically removed.
>>582719902There was no option and Hatchet was also present when I went back to the bunker.
>>582716176Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.exactly, you should stop.
>>582720214He is a force of nature.
shut the fuck up you fucking faggot no one cares
this little crybabby faggot lol
I feel like trying a new mod.
>>582717685>>582717879why is everything weirdly blurred but sharp and outlined at the same time?
>>582736013DLSS 5, probably.
>>582736013ai slop
>>582717685why do modern devs think smearing everything in vaseline looks goodnearly every modern aaa game looks like shit because of thatgame aesthetics peaked with UE4
>>582597495>scope view is the whole screen zoomed in
>want to play stalker again>browse moddb>download a mod>set it up>play for 8-10 hours no problem>all of a sudden non-stop crasheswell I guess I can't say its unexpected
>>582740828reminds me of BF3s ads view with the IRNV scope
>>582740828UE4 version had pip scopes
>>582741932>BF3>>582741997We traded this for? Luma? Nano lighting?
>>582742479actual pip murders your framerates thoughfake pip is better even if the resolution is shit
>>582742479yes, it was not my decision.I would have stayed with UE4 and pip scopes
>>582742479>>582740828absolutely nothing(almost) is stopping S2 devs from implementing shader based scopes
>>582735674How about you play one of the Spotlight mods from this OP or a past one
every time there's an emission I feel my (real) feet vibrate as if the floor is vibrating, every single timeam I the only one getting this shit?
>>582739726>>582739726That's not how the game looks. It was DLSS5 AI Slopped.
Why is the Hilka scanner such a PIECE OF SHIT>artifact 3m away>oop now it's 13 meters away>8 meters!>ooooh only 2 meters now, you're close!>SIKE, it's 10 meters away!AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>582758008Artefacts move.
>>582755354take your schizophrenia meds
>>582755354C-Con sent crows to your neighbourhood to watch you. Stay safe anon
>>582751647Shader scopes suck though, they give you a shitty low rez image. PiP or full screen zoom scopes are the way to go.
My heart says to side with zulu but my loins say mavka.
>>582765406What does your brain say?
>>582765627KILL!
>creeping and crawling through the some rusted maintenance tunnels>suddenly a gypsy dwarf walks out of the darkness>basically no cover for me>keep cool, clam and collected>instantly whip out Justice, my trusty rifle I stole from silent hill>bang bang bang bang rapid fire at the head>gypsy dwarf dies without ever seeing what killed itI love this weapon so much. Kills mutants and men with ease.
>>582758540Okay can it PLEASE stand still I've been at it for 15 minutes fuck this electro anomaly
>>582767249>Okay can it PLEASE stand still
>>582758008This is why I always beeline for the Bear as soon as I can leave Zalissya.
LMAO DUTY>sees me >"throwing grenada!">immediately throws it into the concrete pillar he is hiding behind>asplodes himself
It's still funny to me seeing Skif go to bed even when wearing the bulkier armors. These rinky-dink bed frames must be insanely strong.
Lets see who wins; one spicy boi with an RPG or two amoks.>>582774537Finest soviet steel.
>>582772523All of the non-retarded Dutyers died for Zulu in X16, please understand>>582768127>tracking artifact>fire version of this flying around>artifact now close enough and reveals itself>this floating fucker floats near it and fucking eats it
>>582643223Thanks for the recommends anons, been playing for a fair few hours now and it's comfy.Now, is there a mod that stops guns from sounding like firecrackers? I want to experience tinnitus when firing with an unsurpressed rifle in enclosed spaces if at all possible
I think i've just been fucked over. Doing the forgotten I should have 3 flickering flares by now but seemingly the one Otter gives me isn't in my inventory making completion of this quest impossible. I hope i've got an old enough save to try again.
>>582741997You mean the version that dropped below 30FPS on the trailer?
Hey guys rate my new gameplay videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJEfwvL_-Wo
>>582741932>IRNV scopeImagine how broken this shit would be in Anomaly.... I'm afraid we need someone to port this now.
>>582782227>4:3
>>582782606Hey it still works okay man
>>582778914https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1456This is the only mod I know that attempts something like that.
>>582783325Thanks for the rec, but that's some pretty bad sound balancing. SAD! Vanilla sounds it is.
>>582735674OP 2.2
>>582785503based>>582735674OP 2.2 is great until you hit CNPP where it unfortunately starts crashing every 10-15 minutes, at least for me
>>582751647>complain about performance in the game>demand feature that costs even more performance for no real benefit
>>582755354
>>582782227>vodkanon playing analmeme at a crusty old 1024x768 at vanilla SOC settings with the agp mod
>>582787774If it doesn't run on my phenom II it is slop plain and simple.
>>582786247>the about face after enjoying some fine asskinoIs Barkeep /ourguy/?
>>582755354you are IMMERSED, my friend
Sorry pseudogiant, you are no longer the most dangerous game.
Why THE FUCK do zombies do more damage than even monolith troopers in stalker 2? They also have a tendency to shoot you the second you poke your head around a corner.
>>582789890>shadow chimera is just an uglier pseudo giantthey didn't even try
>>582789890>Metal Gear larper>No knife sneak kills???
>>582795493>Metal Gear larperThat is where you are wrong, rookie. I'm just a melon popping machine and the night stalker is my choice against most mutants. I've killed so many snorks.
Man the final fight at the end of cost of hope if you side with freedom is so much easier than the one if you side with duty.
Clapper with or without the magazine upgrade?
>>582797643With as slow reloading is a death sentence.
>>582797925based eslanon
>>582789890Use case for the Kora variant that somehow has shittier durability than the UDPs?
>>582800378Night stalker is the best pistol in the game. The regular kora is the 2nd best.
>the "Wear and tear" and "Wear and tear from external sources" upgrade effects and descriptions are reversed>2 years since release BTW
>>582801504small indie dev pls understand
>>582801504After firing 210 rounds each.The % displayed is rounded to nearest integer, but the actual durability value is more granular.
The Monolith MRE looks appetizing despite its description.
>>582154078Faggot and/or Duty.
>>582801504Actually it seems like "Wear and tear" = "Increased durability"While "Wear and tear from external sources" = "Reduced durability loss per shot"Either way the description is incorrect though.
>>582806369>says duty twice
>>582803423I just bought a Wear & Tear upgrade for my Kriss*loud sudoku noises*
>>582801504"Wear and tear from external sources" is the most Gamma bullshit they added.
>>582811984You know your equipped weapons take damage from anomalies, right? This has been in the games since SoC.
>>582810246I think in most cases where these upgrades are exclusive the value is the same, so the effect would be the same (which makes it pointless).Unless the underlying calculations somehow result in different repair costs, I haven't tested that.
Amoks are badly designed. The fact that facing 2 at once is a NIGHTMARE scenario says it all. They don't stand still enough for me to shoot their backs. ALmost ever.
>>582814752You don't have to kill them in that fight and shotguns are one of the best weapons against them.
>>582815949>you get maybe 3 seconds of exposed back to shoot at them>suggest shotgunsNah. Maybe Saiga but that's it. Amok is badly designed. They gave them a gimmicky videogamey design but then a moveset that doesn't match.
>>582817229>just got to the iron forest chasing a stash>did the "find the squad mission" because it felt time-basedI have to fight multiple amoks?*nervous gulp cat*
>>582817826There's a scripted double Amok encounter in a sidequest LATE LATE LATE in the DLC.
>>582818017haha not my problem yet *innocent whistling*
Flare time is always supposed to spawn on the 6th generator right? It sure as shit isn't for me.
>>582818251Yup. just don't make my mistake. There's a reason you might not have your usual artifacts equipped before the fight. Make sure that once you've gotten pasdt the bit where they force you to wear 5 other artifacts that you swap back. I had to do the double amok from an autosave that gave me maybe 3 seconds to swap to better artifacts so I could sprint away from them long enough to win. If I took too long I'd get gangbanged while in the menu.
>>582818784Yes. I found mine spawned into a wall. Watch your detector.
>>582814752Use RPG's. Two shots on master puts one down.
>>582819687Yeah I'm not carrying that around. Maybe for the double amok fight in future playthroughs but that's it. RPGs are way too heavy. So completely not worth carrying.
>>582815949The fact that you can't break both of the glowy bits at the same time "Because the dev says so" is literal artificial difficulty.
>>582818947Well mine has spawned either inside the generator itself or on the ground waaaaaaaay below. I might need to find some sort of noclip cheat to have a look.
>>582819914People on rebbit found it spawned down lower and shared methods to get it. google it.
>>582818784If you drink vodka all the fake ones disappear.
>>582820012Yeah and the only marker left on my detector is impossible to reach.
>>582818017>>582814752It's hardly different from chimeras and pseudogiants being impossible to stand your ground against. You're supposed to use your brain and think about how to get around it. The double amok fight? "Otter" shooting at you is a strong enough hint you need to shoot him back so he runs away and you can enter the side door, then you can just blast the amoks from above.
>>582820245Have you tried save and exit to main menu, or leave the area and come back?
>>582820369It's 100% different from those because those ones you just kite and shoot forever. I had to cheese the amoks by jumping over pits so that they'd attack me for a second but I'd have the pit between us so I wouldn't insta-die from taking a stray punch from two amoks at once. The weakspot mechanic is dogshit because there's virtually no reliable way to manipulate their AI into getting you an opening. They suck ass. Badly make mutie that will likely be overused by retarded modders.
>>582820604Not yet but what is the fucking money this is the real one?
>>582820763LO AND FUCKING BEHOLDFUCK SAKE GSC FIX YOUR SHIT
>>582820681Literally the same with both. Unless you're on journalist mode, the chimera and pseudogiant aren't going to let you get far away, and the latter in particular will knock you down and then kill you while you're getting up.
>>582821875Nah. I've killed Pseudos in pairs. I've done the same to Chimeras. It's EASY because you can just magdump them. Amoks have just the one precious weakspot and their AI can't be manipulated into using the leaping attack that leaves a small opening. Since you can't just magdump them, they're absolute cancer. Their weakpoint system should be more gamey but it's not so they're just unfun and unbalanced.
Wish me luckif you know you know
AHAHAHA OH WOWI was on the level above the 2 amoks (the pipe between the platforms), one amok did his charge attack and it knocked me off despite me being, y'know, a floor above it.
>Forgotten Zone>First time in Zaton>Check in on Spartacus>He's surrounded by Skyers for some reason>ONLY SkyersWhat did Bazinga mean by this?
>>582824639clear sky are gaylike hard gayand they don't take no for an answer
SOME guns have a hidden durability per shot INCREASE paired with the upgrades that increase the max durability, so the result is that the max number of shots you can fire does not change. Which I guess would make sense if this was supposed to be the upgrade that makes them take less damage from other sources.But on guns where you don't have these 2 mods as mutually exclusive, the "Wear and tear" just gives you more durability without the downside.So if you, like me, picked the "Wear and tear" upgrade on the Glutton instead of the other one, you bricked your gun.Why can't you just be normal?
>>582782227holy fucking SOVL11... no ... 12/10!
>>582825331This is what happens when you don't tard wrangle.
three little burers sitting in a warehousealong came skif who mag dumped them from a saigathree little dead burers rotting in a warehouse
>bayun drops a rat kingHeh. No idea how rare this is as this is my first (so i'm guessing pretty rare) but it gets a sensible chuckle out of me.
>>582836547>>582836547>>582836547
>>582836067Is it random or is it one specific cat?
>>582838708I found it from a cat at substation #3 in the CNPP.
>>582782606>>582789159you're telling me this shit doesn't look comfy to play?
