Paying debts to Sid edition.__________________________________________________________>BugTrap, crash to desktop, freeze/lockup? Find your crash log, Stalker.Check your Documents or game install directories for the xray_[your name].log file. If you can't find it, look in the location specified at the top of fsgame.ltx. Copy the last few lines from the log and paste them here if you want any help.>Quickstart Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/1cnQeURGCjHTRPOGJH8G5ijP1fw5vbVWSE7opABcBpNk>Start Guide, beginner tips, and much morepastebin.com/FUPEbLiv>Mod Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/1JPA0hQZVJ6mSvTsp6Sy3CoAkObJOKeoPHEamDC19Lio>Miscellaneous Guidedocs.google.com/document/d/103nyaAM5PKgBwuZ35jRbv7VM7tEcvi1Scv6boOMe1RM>HUD Guide, modding basics, mod reviews, and AMK mod guidedocs.google.com/document/d/10yi79NUFhJrFO4hmGeKqaWSw35BJQv0Ve0OK94ioMEw>Performance Guides, Steam settingspastebin.com/nzXEevG7>Common misconceptions about Shadow of Chernobyl game mechanicsmetacognix.com/stlkrsoc/WhatYouKnowThatAintSo.html>Running S.T.A.L.K.E.R. on Linuxdocs.google.com/document/d/11HcSFSyb0DX3ymModXZ9tNdpTuktTioC>Xetrill's Modified LuaJIT for CS/CoP - improves performance, especially in script-heavy modsmega.co.nz/#F!BIISmQgK!KHZR01ljznUqJlcHUax-aQ>Game Repacks + Modding Toolsmega.nz/folder/gSBHmYYK#9-5ONxPwwChJhYSPWdKb5Q>Downgrade Patches (drag-and-drop)mega.co.nz/#F!M4BmDRCL!vfze70GSJDyv-HzWn7Dwww>S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Mod Portal Wikisdk.stalker-game.com/en/index.php?title=S.T.A.L.K.E.R._MOD_portal__________________________________________________________Lost to the Zone >>582076274
Modlists>C-Con Modlistdocs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GgBFCRIbc7TQ5DwWHvWaridX1G64PYoWItkLyr3pBPk>Various Story Mod recscheeki.zone__________________________________________________________S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy Mods>AMK AE 1.4.1+OWR+ARSENAL+SWO mergemega.nz/#F!4Q5SmIaJ!hu6jptaxeY3wQbIF2GzbWQ>Anon's /sg/ AMK repomega.nz/folder/KvhhSCwD#7pTnDImcvnVOvJfQUgImtw>Oblivion Lost Remake 2.5disk.yandex.ru/d/hmvQK9g8JDY_HA?w=1>Vector of Alienationdrive.google.com/drive/folders/1N2ksZBmO7Qz4cdUWose7X1iJw0nFnG05>OP 2.2 (Joint Pack, Cumulative Pack)rentry.org/cumpack22docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1me0bO3B_ZnwHLOYXqZDNyPfdFAL8nqp1oNkrbyFZ7cM>Shadows Addon + Anon's English translationap-pro.ru/forums/topic/1639-shadows-addon-08/files.catbox.moe/x1d4r5.7z>Lost Alphamoddb.com/mods/lost-alpha/downloads>Goldspheredrive.google.com/drive/folders/1lrrZiFZWaio1_SQsBMziCA8QNVAjqr8X>Spatial Anomalymoddb.com/mods/spatial-anomaly-update-4/downloads/spatial-anomaly-update-4-1-rus>SoC: Updatevk.com/topic-147828435_49497922>(NEW) Clear Sky GUNSLINGERmoddb.com/mods/clear-sky-gunslinger-mod__________________________________________________________Call of Chernobyl Repos & Offshoots>CoC Repomega.nz/folder/QfgQFR7J#_OXdHj2L13rfsX6UpFrVkA>Anon's CoC Definitive Editiondrive.google.com/drive/folders/1-1AHa4OKy1RpO9K6dVGZ3ds2I13tpEKA>Don't have Call of Pripyat but want to play Call of Chernobyl?-skip_reg on the .exe starting path after " or if you're using CoC on Steam game>properties>set launch optionsAlternatively, use this registry file mega.nz/#!uoYinJ7I!Lqj2DNIAkaVkcFUa1PLZzj80cVhAFK5D-9zbU2Iy5KI>IWPmoddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-packmoddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack/addons/cotz-quests-and-mechanics-for-iwp__________________________________________________________This Week's Spotlight>The First Days of the Zone: Creature in the Mistmoddb.com/mods/the-first-days-of-the-zone-the-creature-in-the-mist-translated
First for SGI-5k love
>>582837173thread ruined
>>582825331>>582801504I hope you are reporting this shit to GSC instead of just blog posting into the noosphere
>>582840818cyka blyat, here we go again
Flare time is saving me a mountain of medkits. At this point you'd think skif has started a chernobyl exclusion zone branch of the red cross.
What's the best faction and why is it Clear Sky?
>>582844206DAS RITE
>>582844206Sin is the best faction.
>>582692193>t.
Need a shooting range like this, instead of skeets.
I am once again, asking, for the standalone STALKER 2 Cigarette mod to be updated.
When you walk through the garden...
Looking for the old S2 teaser GSC took out around 2011, it's about 10s long and it's back when S2 was still running on X-Ray. You just see a walk through a lush green swamp, and I believe you'd equip a gas mask at about the end. That was it. Here's hoping there's still someone that archived it.
>>582837173we lost so much when GSC decided not to bring the classics backalso i wish bipods were a mechanic.
>>582851586>call of vaseline
>>582855612seething
>>582854769...you'd better watch your back...
>>582868856So that's what caused the vaseline effect.
anyone playing NS OGSR?It's got an English patch
>>582875991Nope, still dicking around FZ. How is it?
>>582836547So I just saved Squint and unlocked the entire map, and like the good shitter I am I went to explore remote parts of the game, mostly areas that were in the trilogy.The Iron Forest seems very scary.I have a question, is this area completely unaccessible or can you explore it with like a SEVA suit or enough anti-rad artifacts?Likewise, is the yellow area a mission-only place or can you actually explore and dick around?As soon as I try to step foot inside the Red Forest I get annihilated by Burers and radiations.
>>582877954Part of the white area is accessed via a side quest in the DLC later on and the yellow area is main quest related.
>>582878045Okay, so you can't actually walk all the way to Yanov using the road that leads to the Bridge of Death, right?
>>582878180The path on the left side of the pic? You can but I think there was a part of the place that had a ton of ambient psi.
>>582878261No, the one in the middle.
>>582878282Too much rads even with an exoskeleton and appropriate artifacts.
>>582878282nta but no you cantyou need a mod like https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/458to actually explore random areas on the map
>>582876503Had to turn down bloom through the console, but I am enjoying it. First time playing a soup mod, so the quests are new to me.Their ogsr version is pretty good, some jank remains, probably from ns scripts, but the experience has been good.Has stuff like mags and limited bolts, but after cordon they're less of a bother, a volume/weight system for inventory, kind of meh balance wise but does not prevent hoarding loot and a different upgrade system (gunslinger inspired? for guns).Stuff does look ai generated/touched in places like icons though.
>duga assault on masterwow, this is absolutely awful
>>582879781You can see why master wasn't available on launch and is a meme difficulty.
>>582879781It's the masochist difficulty for a reason.
Stalker 2 is too easy, I need a hardcore survival mode like muh OG mods>okay, here is master modeFUCK, NO STOP ITS TOO HARD REEEEEKinda reminds me of resident evil 4 remake in a way.
>>582879870>>582879871I was expecting master like in the originals. The master in the originals wasnt anywhere near this fucking gay
>>582879781I just ran away while injecting myself with Army Medkits and managed to do it just fine>>582879995Friendly reminder that most people ITTs didn't play the OGs Vanilla
>>582880538>Friendly reminder that most people ITTs didn't play the OGs VanillaWhat is the point when there are so many fantastic mods that objectively improve the experience and fix what GSC left broken? Do you play vampire the masquerade bloodlines without mods?
>>582875991>It's got an English patchWhat? WHERE and can you turn off ammo on belt?
>>582836547Will third time be the charm???
>>582883891>sombrero
>>582884010Don't worry about it
>>582878536Eh, if it doesn't feel off don't have any issues with icons getting touched up with ai. Mags also sounds neat too. I know FZ is supposed to be aiming for an OG feel but I kinda liked em. Neato, will look into it after I get enough of FZ, thanks Stalker.
>>582878282>>582877954With strong rad protection you can make it a decent bit down the road that leads to the cnpp west, but you'll unavoidably hit a spot where the rads accumulate faster than you can pop antirad.
>>582896349You can get all the way through spamming antirads but it's obviously not worth it.I think before 2.0 it was completely impassable.
>Early Stalker 2ALL THIS FUCKING BACKTRACKING FUCKAnyway, does the main story take you all over the map, or should I start exploring the neighboring zones of Garbage on my own?
>>582899335It's only cooling towers and cement factory that don't get any real attention but feel free to go exploring anyway.
Is Stalker 2 worth playing yet?
>>582900915Depends on how much you like escape from tarkov.
So due to cost of hope i've upset everyone at cement factory - the tooltips suggest I can visit someone and pay them off to reset reputation but who do I need to see?
>>582901724I assume it's their either their bartender or Voronin (if he's still alive, that is). Strangely, the Duty patrols I've encountered out in the world don't seem to be keen on gunning me down despite siding with Mavka.
>>582900915It's a modern stalker game, with all the positives and negatives that entails, it's good but nothing is ever going to replace the original trilogyThe story is markedly worse though, everyone got a little bit flanderised and has odd motivations, the only reason the main character is in the zone is because an anomaly fucked up his shitty apartment
>>582899335Just like old times, eh? Unless you mean to say you never ran back and forth in Cordon doing jobs and loot runs before moving on to Garbage in SOC.Like anon said, the northeast isn't used much by the main quest but portions of Cooling Towers is currently used by at least two ending paths but generally you get directed to or walk through every section. The only spoiler hint I'll give is the city south of Duga is accessible once you leave the Lesser Zone and you will easily miss some quests you can't do later if you don't visit it before a certain major turning point. I have missed said quest in both my playthroughs.
>>582902458>an anomaly fucked up his shitty apartmentAn anomaly formed in his shitty apartment far outside the zone and left behind a very strange artifact and he wants to know what the fuck happened.*
>>582902531I hope that trick to get the loner SEVA in south Duga still works in 2.0.
>>582880538I know this fact all too well>>582880938You can't fucking judge what the games are aout or how good the mods are if you don't play vanilla for a baseline. Anything other than ZRP is cancerous faggot first time advice from a faggot.
>>582883750Official, actually, in the settings.From what I read ammo belt is deeply coded into game so no mod/patch to remove it
>>582903760but it's not that bad
>>582902671>and he wants to know what the fuck happenedNo, he just wants his fucking apartment back. That is literally it.
>>582875991>>582878536Holy shit, is this the 2026 version (the one Shkrek is playing through on his channel)?Last I checked, there was a really outdated machine translation from like July 2023, but I don't think it's even compatible with the recent large patch that came out in March of this year. If this is actually decent and playable, it may be time for me to dive in.
>>582883891>NeustrashimyCan I get a qrd?
>>582875991I kinda got turned off be the weird installer downloader thingWhy can't they just package the whole thing and let us download it like all other mods why do I need to run your random executable
>>582907548Yeah. The translation is probably mostly up to date. I did notice some quirks here and there but I am esl so I can't judge the quality. Overall, it seems mostly fine to me and there is going to be an update soon tm
attempt no.3 to actually get to the end of stalker 2 before I am forced to stop by either the game (hard locked) or myself (installing questionable mods)
>>582909498I don't disagree, they probably want to force auto updates as the launcher updates the mod too. There is torrent file with the big files but the launcher is probably still mandatory.
>>582902671>hell portal opens in house>guess I better go to hellI just don't get it, but I guess that's why skif is a cool and tough and a stalker and I'm a fat chud sat at home playing video games
GODDAMN BLOOD SUCKERS ARE EVERYWHERE AIEEEEEE
>>582910008Fuck yes, I'll have to jump right on this then. I've been putting off my OP 2.2 playthrough ever since it came out and when I found out about this project it pretty much sealed it for me. Have fun with the Black Doctor storyline, OP really starts to get crazy around this point.
>Skifniggers deserve the rope
>>582911387Might have been some confusion, this is narodnaya solyanka ogsr not op ogsr
>>582880938>Do you play vampire the masquerade bloodlines without mods?You're probably baiting but stalker nowadays is much more stable and a more complete final product than Vampire. I've done a whole vanilla SoC playthrough last year and the only crash/bug I ran into was using an item off of a body (very avoidable). Can't say the same about VtMB.
>>582910765It's kinda the silliest one and lends itself to side with the Ward because he's not really pals with any stalkers and it's the easiest way to get a home back. Strelok is a blank slate, Scar we're not really told about but 2 retconned him to be a C-Consciousness agent, and really Degtyarev's makes the most sense as an undercover military stalker without being an OC donut steel operator.
>>582913295>retconnedHe was reprogrammed at the end of CS, remember? He was in the room at the end, though plasticwax lazied out and didn't include his specific model in the cutscene in favor of reusing game models for random stalkers and the strelok model form SOC. Lazy gits. The first part of CS's ending FMV is from Scar's perspective.
>>582912065Oh interesting, I was under the impression that only the OP + OGSR version had received the new UI with the AI upscaled icons. I know the NS + OGSR version is another project entirely but it looks like it's receiving similar updates?
What the FUCK was his problem?
>>582920124He doesn't like having to think.
>>582899335There is a lot of running, but you do know about guides, don't you?
>>582920124Slave mentallity.
>>582911384>he hasn't gotten the S.N.O.R.K. update
>>582920124edgy 14 yo discovers phylosophy for the first time
I wonder if we could've saved Strider by giving him the psi resist artifacts from Cost of Hope.
Had a side quest icon on this guy, you can talk to him about a PDA found on a dead merc in the boarded up house in Wild Territory, but it didn't lead to anything. Did I miss it because it's too late in the game, or is that just it?
>>582925716Maybe you could've gotten some coupons out of him had you picked the right dialogue choices but that's how it went down for me as well.
Reminder most Stalker 2 mods are STILL just .cfg edits lol
>>582920124You try being a blind amnesiac and see how you like it.
>>582920124He is a Word Bearer, don't try to understand or reason with them.
>>582920124He's a mutant.
>>582928106>mutantThe term is "experiment." We must be better stalkers.
>>582928483Oh i'm definitely going to be betterA BETTER SHOT THAT IS HOHOHOHOHOHO
>the in-game play time on your PDA increases even when the game is pausedNow I know why the fuck my play time is so high.Also why.
>>582932685small indie studio fighting a war, please understand
>>582932685
>>582907682You can't because i posted this image everywhere stalker related i could and got no answer as to where it's from
Isn't this the car scam guy? I found him dead in the village north of Rostok.
>>582934910This is how I used to walk around my parent's house still half cut from the night before going to work drunk for real, dark days.
>>582932685They tell you quite clearly the zone doesn't stop when you are jamming your face into your PDA.
>>582934910Unfortunate, but I also can sympathize. I've collected many images like this from the past ten years or so and I have not been able to definitively determine what mods they originate from. >>582936498Thanks, now I have something to associate this animation with.
>>582903760Where did you download it from? AP Pro link is broken
>>582936959>when the game is pausedCan you read?
>>582938613>game tracks time played>wtf it counts when i've got the game playing!
>>582905063>Psy-helath
>>582938534Their discord has download linkhttps://discord.com/invite/qEAftByndKI can drop the launcher link herehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15HrMAig0ySwFiAKur-WqxtyD1NiGhKY2
>>582938761Okay so you're fucking retarded, glad we cleared that up.
fuck you duty let me inLET ME IIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNN
>>582939335Blessed NS + OGSR anon, we will solve many mysteries of the zone together...
I think the new "A-life" system results in way too many scenes of a massacre that you come across with like 5-8 dead guys, just throwing loot at you.
I'm going to make a poor life choice tomorrow and drink some moonshine i've acquired (no idea how strong it is but smells like petrol and is likely over 50%) and play some stalker - either 2 or CoP or the most open spaces - and see where the evening goes.
>>582939507Next you'll complain Steam doesn't pause the time played tracker when you pause the game too.
>>582947493Okay so you're fucking retarded, glad we cleared that up.
>find loot in a random shed in the middle of nowhere>release zee bloodsuckers>walk into a chokepoint in the map>release zee bloodsuckers>sewers>release zee bloodsucker
>>582952612Think of how much money you will make back selling the bits you carve off them?
The games never paused when you opened up the PDA.
>>582944063Godspeed anon, and good luck. I've been meaning to have a good drunk stalker evening but just haven't had the motivation to actually sit down and drink enough to fruition. Inshallah, it will be done soon...
>>582955039Okay so you're fucking retarded, glad we cleared that up.
Get better bait.
>>582944063Shake it up. Bubbles should form. The faster they dissipate the stronger it is.
Project idea: DOOM 2016 but open world and shittier in every way
>>582959380drench that shit in vaseline and I'm sold
>>582959380>>582959698I sense a gamma config in the making!
>>582958883A quick shake and all the bubbles disappeared in about 2-3 seconds. My liver is in danger.
>>582960553I'd definitely proof that down or mix it with something. Or you can pretend your drinking the magic vodka in 2.
>>582961805I'm going all in. I'm not new to some high strength stuff, just need to take it in measured amounts rather than trying to chug it like a retard.
>>582962347Just like the other anon said, godspeed.
god i fucking hate zaton i hated zaton in call of pripyati hated it in call of chernobyli hated it in anomalyi hated it in gammai hate it in stalker 2this fucking place cannot make up its mind about what difficulty it wants to have, you'll be on cruise control and then suddenly get gangbanged by 300 snorks landing on your face from the fucking stratosphere
>>582947493Steam doesn't know that you paused the game you fucking retard.You literally have 80IQ.
>>582971280S2 Zaton made me want vehicles more than any part of the game. It's just so fucking open and barren.
>>582977336Claude, vibecode me a bicycle mod for Stalker 2.
god i fucking love zatoni love the swampy areasi love the shipwrecksi love the huge bucket wheel excavatori love the rural industrial aesthetics, especially the massive waste processing stationthis fucking place cannot make up its mind about what difficulty it wants to have, you'll be on cruise control and then suddenly get gangbanged by 300 snorks landing on your face from the fucking stratosphere, and i LOVE IT
I'm so craving baked apples...
>>582988057Cinnamon on top or homosexual.
The Brood and the Commissary are gonna tear us apart now, either them or their masters. What do we do?
>>582991327Yes.
>there are drivable vehicle mods in Stalker 2 nowCrazy.
>go to Cooling Towers>get shot at by two guys in a permanently on-fire building>find the way inside>ooo a safe>trying to open it crashes the game>okay that's weird let's restart>try to open the safe>crashHuh.
>>582993703You got any stash changing mods? I've never had that happen.
>>582993786Nope, nothing that touches stashes. Guess it's about time I hit some slavjank.
>>582993476Impossible, I was told stalker 2 modding is dead.
>>582998726https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2867https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2871https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2839https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2877https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2881You were lied to, brother. Hell, there are even new modded locations: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/2886
>>582998726well yeah the phase 2 of modding tools were released after the dlc
>>582999107The motorboat one looks comfy.
MooZe just uploaded unreleased SoC soundtrack (plus two Clear Sky prototype tracks)https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLOC0pNHiDN0
>come up to chemical plant>go in, everything locked>turn around>like 20 hostile people start shooting at me>???>whatever, reload>come up to a gate from the other side>sorry, we can't let you in, Ward only, no stalkers>i have a ward badge in my inventorywhat's up with that?
>>583007749Chemical plant access is story locked.
>>583005143This is actually huge
>>582998726AI vibecoding has given way to actual breakthroughs in making insane bullshit work on engines that never could be done before, stuff with Pro Skater in Call of Duty, Mario in Elden Ring, Skyrim in Minecraft or First Person Zomboid are all just small samples of what's to come. This is basically like decoding the human genome for gaming. We''re gonna see everything we''ve ever wanted happen so fast we'll start questioning what we actually want.>>583005143HOLY FUCK
>>583008171ugh.thanks.in the meantime, i stumbled into Energiya or however it's spelled, and apparently that's quest-locked too.that truck with a clear way in with a mid-air anomaly is pure evil tho.it 100% looks like you're supposed to use the anomaly to boost you onto the ledge
Was this path leading down always here? I could've sworn this wasn't here before 2.0 came.
I am the only one who unironically enjoys Zaton?
>>583012727Which version of Zaton?
>>583012815Mostly CoP'sBut it is fine on Anomaly
>>583014385My only real gripe of 2's Zaton is that huge empty space between Icarus and the Skadovsk doesn't really have much going on.
>>582958747Okay so you're fucking retarded, glad we cleared that up.
>>582988057It's October 1st... spooky season is upon us.....
>>583015962________Boo_________
>>583016036AIEEEEEEEE
Things that makes you go hmm
>>583017347Why is the Zone like this, bros?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thp7x4xkcNksome cool and some gay stuff, goldsphere/ogsr type shi>>583005143now that's randomreally liked Quagmire, sounds familiar somehow, and goes well with How will we make it
>hurr durr i'm a retarded bloodsucker
>>583005143>>583017872Apparently Quagmire was supposed to be Great Swamps ambient, while Tired Land was meant for Limansk
>>582981973This.
>>582981973Wait, wrong screenshot.
I haven't played since release. If I side with Spark, is the southwest portion of the map still completely cucked? Do I still not have any access to anything outside of Malachite/Rostok/Zalissya?
>>583020836Fairly certain it's only the Ward base in chem plant that you get locked out of.
>>583005143>>583020205Sooo when are we getting Anarchy Cell Remake (with doppelganger plot and Pripyat tunnel dwellers)?
>>583019465(Joke's on them, I was only pretending.)
>>583020282>>583020496God rays in CS and CoP were so fucking peak.
>>582948441>>582971723>REEEE MUH PLAY TIME I WANT IT TO NOT COOOOOOUNT
>>583011986It was, but there are locked doors there so it's not like you can go anywhere.
>>583021282Clear Sky Revision sadly does not add these things, but it has at least that dark look of that screenshot
>>583021529They looked good, but god damn. Clear Sky specifically, they were the kind of unoptimized everyone complaining about optimization these days could only DREAM of. I had a PC that exceeded almost all the requirements 9600GT was apparently weaker than the 8800GT, but the other specs were on par or better and every sunrise and sunset, my otherwise nicely performing I mean, it was probably in the 30s and 40s, but that was plenty at the time, especially with lots of experience playing games with worse framerates because lmaopoor and old integrated ATI iGPUs Clear Sky would transform into a game that could barely hit 20fps.
>>583010960So will AI make Xray less of a buggy mess that has functioning AA?
>>583027816>So will AI make Xray less of a buggy mess that has functioning AA?IX-Ray will/does that already
>>583020836There's a sidequest that can build you a hub in the Burnt Forest. It makes the southwest so much more bearable it's not even funny.
Hello /sg/, I'm about to pull the trigger. What difficulty settings are currently in the game and what do they do?Google only shows me 2024 and 2025 results that are probably outdated by now.
>>583032618All you need to know is that custom rules are a thing now so you can make your own difficulty.
>>583032618If you've read the threads so far and still think you'd enjoy it go for it I guess, /sg/ is full of Skifniggers these days so feel free to join their ranks.
