Wanting bread with butter 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__________________________________________________________Игpa oкoнчeнa. >>584524591
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it's over
You know the deal guys...
>One of the few who got past the brain scorcher before it was shut down>Cucks Duty out of Rostok>Enough pull to get Ward off mercs who reach Rostok>Does what any sane person would have done with the embryos - checks for potential and comes to conclusion that they are not to be fucked with as relying on a mutant for anything is stupid>Tells Mavka to fuck off>Oversees a massive artifact export system that gets actual miracles to the mainlandThat's why Duty path is the right choice. Embryos gone, retards that followed Mavka all gone, what's left of Duty now busy getting daily doses of radiation at the CNPP, artifacts flowing out of the Zone.
I wonder, if the same guy who ported CotZ to IWP still works on a new update or if it's abandoned.I also wish anon would drop his IWP weapon addon. I crave for the full size SG550 and G36 with the PROPER optic.
[SESH]
>>585609119Skifniggers and their faggotry is unmatched accepting the massive shit nuGSC took upon the characters of the original trilogy, factions dog shit new writing.>Strelok plays with a monolith body like it's a doll>Scar retconned to the core>Chekov trying to make a new world order coz freedom lol>Doc betraying Strelok coz remember when we're friends n shiet?>Duty needing a DLC to have a chance at redemption.>Freedom casually having a foid mutant nigger loving terrorist.>Nerf Mercs lore and not giving them a hub in S2Stalker 2 makes the design documents of Oblivion lost and Anarchy Cell look like waste of time and inspiration.Griga was right to leave those reddit faggots to tongue their own assholes, Stalker died once he realised there's no way for Pepsi man to save it.
>>585645927my headcanon is scar was birthed after GSC saw harry potter movies and call of duty sucess back in the day and mixed them into shadow of chernobyl setting.
>>585645927thats enough internet for today kiddocome back when you learn some new words, or don't actually.
>>585649458no, you can't stop me.
>>585649458>T.skifnigger
>>585645927>foid mutant nigger loving terrorist.I'm gonna need a qrd on this one.
>>585653267Cost of Cope dlc, side with freedom, the foid stabs you for "Oh lol I get Lukash now here Skif take a look" and "runs away to find herself" with the niggerbaby experiments to be unleashed upon the world her girl power way not what Chekov wants even though he helped the foid bring down Mykluha.
>Scar retconned to the corelollmao even
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>>585653185>>585645927>>585653759
>>585653759>more like Cost of Cope
>>585627739How did he get up there?
>>585655431More importantly, how does he get down?
just finished s2 for the first time, did the kaymanov ending which was supposed to be the "good" ending but ends up not being a good ending afterall because you were duped/conned by faust to do his bidding? ok
The Skifnigger are out again to brain scorch and retcon the /sg/ filthy anarchists
>>585655315When they gonna add these lil niggas back in?
poorfag third worlders who cant run s2 on their potatos seething again
>>585642671Love how these guys try to pull this shit on Meчeный after doing the entire Agroprom underground and fighting/sneaking through a military base.
>>585623998Thread has been real shitty as of late. This one seems like it's going to be more of the same.I encourage you to download the blender and learn to DIY. It's gonna be a while.
>>585653759Holy fuck am I glad I decided with my nigga Zulu then. I was originally a Freedomfag in the original games but she was so poorly written (on top of what Freedom represents in base S2) that there was no way I was going to side with that emotionally unstable hoe.
>>585655514Yeah it's dumb. All the endings are dumb. Well the Ward one is all right I guess.
>>585656149>posts IWR mod>without any sort of update that any of us can playI have half a mind to start another STALKER 2 playthrough just to spite your smug nigger ass. You're the reason why normgroids love AnomaGAMMA.
>>585656149its already been a while.....
>>585656179Based.
>>585656327I have no idea what IWR is or why you playing S2 would spite me. I like playing and modifying IWP, for my own pleasure.
>>585656619Fine, it's IWP that I meant you fucking autist. Maybe you could stop crying about the thread and share some goods for us to play if you're so into the "DIY" aspect of your modding then.By the way, are you Australian?
>>585655058>Holden X G Hughes Polynesian Sauce collab in 2026Vhoa... now things are getting interesting...
>>585656856I am not autistic or Australian. My DIY modifications to IWP are not done in a polished way, I implement what I want to mess around with in the moment and enjoy it as is. Sharing a half-baked mod does not seem proper to me.
>>585658194Well I'm autistic and ArmenianWhat now, nigger?
>>585657846most tactful samefag
>ArmenianThis nigga listens to System of a Down.
>>585658352You have my deepest condolences.And I am not a nigger.
>>585658352>and Armenianso, black or mongolion mud
>>585658494WAKE UP
>>585656149And why do you suppose it has been so shitty as of late? Could it be the incessant skifnigger s2 shitflinging flamewars that have started up again?
>>585660828TABLE!
>screen takes up 80 percent of the hologrammic scopeWestslop.
>>585664928>the same retard keeps posting his boring webms using almost exclusively Warsaw pact weaponry and complains about "westslop"What's the deal? Is there some additional context or a meme I'm not aware of?
>>585661023GRAB A BRUSH AND PUT A LITTLE MAKE-UP!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsSZuCZ54A8
>start up ns ogsr 2026>very shortly see some big nig that was tamed to guard a mineVery interesting.
>>585667628First time playing NS? Also, enjoy the experience.
>>585670116Yeah. Didn't too much yet. I'm assuming this is some of the cut content?
Fucking hell what is this thing? Spooked me good.
>>585672151the north star of eternal bleeding
>>585673260Oh it bled me all right. Straight to death.
>>585673814kek, thats why its eternal
>>585678487mfw ded general times
>>585682098Last one died before the bump limit too. Such is life in the Zone.
>>585658194>Sharing a half-baked mod does not seem proper to me.eh, I feel like most people wouldn't really care if some icons or some shit might be missing and anons would be glad to have some new options for IWP.You could release it as a modders resource once or make a repository that would get updated by you every once in a while, when you feel like it, which would also be a also good option, imo, before a "final" or "1.0" type release.>>585656459>its already been a while.....this
Holy shit bros. Patch 2.1 and S2 is finally about to be on par with CoP.This is what 17 years of technological advancement is all about.Time to actually try and slog through the game now though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRvrAOs_RZc
>>585694505oh shitbrace for even more complaining when anon's i5 6400 catches fire
Great, so the bubble increased over 100m. This way you can see the non existent A-Life from even further away.
>>585695672A broken clock isn't right twice a day, it is just broken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KgjhATKYmwThe performance hit for pushing the a-life out to maximum seems to be pretty small.
>>585697514>pushing the a-life out>A-lifeYou keep using that word.
>playing gunslinger>a controller spawns directly outside of yanov station>no npcs attack it>can't shoot it because no weapons allowed>have to leave through the other entrance and basically pray I can snipe itThis seems fair and balanced
>>585699454You sure it actually spawned there and didn't just move about and eventually ended up there?
>>585700048Maybe but either way it is still some shit.
explain this shit to meEXPLAIN THIS SHIT TO MEITS THE FUCKING CUTSCENE WHEN ENTERING THE JUPITER UNDERGROUND AND A FUCKING CONTROLLER SPAWNED IN THE CUTSCENE MEANING EVERYONE INSTANTLY DIEDI AM BEYOND BEEF, I AM BEYOND MADI AM A LEVEL OF INCANDESCENT RAGE HOLY TEXTS ARE WRITTEN ABOUT
>>585703614RELOADING THE AUTOSAVE DOESN'T HELP
>>585703614>>585703868I've never seen this before.
>>585705272What I think is happening is there is a controller hiding out in the jupiter plant and when everyone gets teleported there is attacks as normal. The game seemingly doesn't do any checks to see if enemies are about so if there is one get fucked.I'm now trooping over to the plant to see if that motherfucker is there and kill it with extreme prejudice.
>>585706260I fucking knew it, this motherfucker's days are numbered.
>>585707079Mr President, we got him.
>>585694025>finally about to be on par with CoP.It's been on par since launch
>>585707284lolno, why do you lie?
REPAIR MY EXO YOU SON OF A BITCH
I don't have anything to complain about in Stalker 2 anymore...
>Oblivion Lost Remake 2.5is it good? what about OLR 3.0?
>>585713317Just make shit up about it and complain about that - its worked so well for the last few years.
stalkerino is fixed!!!>>>/v/750396520>>>/v/750396520>>>/v/750396520>>>/v/750396520>>>/v/750396520
>>585717136See>>585695672
I tested the new S2 rendering range.At maximum settings NPCs are rendered up to 200 meters away.But in hubs (Rostok, Zalissya, etc) the range drops to 140 meters only.No noticeable performance drop compared to the prev version, but that's probably because they are still limiting the rendering range in populated areas.
>>585722331>No noticeable performance drop compared to the prev versionbullshit
>2-antis complaining about npc performance while forgetting how often SOC performance plummeted and how the game hitched for 30+ seconds at a time when entering and leaving the bar back in the day
>>585729668SoC ran fan.
who?
>>585729668>SOC(You)
wooooooooow
>>585729668>pretending that the unreal slop that brings nothing new is completely finedo indians really?
>>585616832>first female story character>crazy libtard overly emotional backstabbing bitch what did GSC mean by this?
>>585730703Not on period-correct hardware. Too many zoomers out there playing the OT on computers from 2015 and newer and pretending the old games are "super optimized" because modern hardware can brute force old games.>>585732612>/v/edditor buzzwords and gibberish
>>585734582>pretending the old games are "super optimized" because modern hardware can brute force old games.Pretty much so today I will remind them.
>>585734582Idk I ran SoC on an Athlon 64 with 1.25gb of DDR just fine
>>585734582>>585735368Think I had a Radeon 2400XT as well
>>585735368Pentium D 3.2 GHz1024 Mb RAMGeforce 7600 GT 256 MbGeforce 7600 GT came out in 2006, just one year before SoC. It was low-medium series of GPU, something similar to modern Geforce x070 series. I had to play in DirectX 8 mode (static lighting) because the game just didn't have acceptable FPS in DX9 mode. And in 2007 anything stable above 30 fps was acceptable.So I doubt it ran fine for you, unless you also used DX8 mode.Now imagine if nowadays you bought Geforce 5070, and you could only play S2 on minimum settings.
>>585735368And you're not going to pretend it didn't chug like shit at certain intervals, right? That alife switch pause I mentioned consistently happened at the trigger for the hundred rads bar every single time on my Athlon 64 X2.
>>585703614Deserved for playing gunshitter
>>585737494Yup, I should've picked anomaly instead.
>>585736048>>585736310From my recollection I had no performance issues at about 40-48 fps. This was in 2010 though, Steam 1.0006 release, so that could be part of it.
>>585734582 >>585735301 I got the STALKER promo 2900XT (flagship Radeon at the time) in early 2008 and even at 1366x768 I remember messing with the settings to see which ones to keep on high and which to turn down. Ignored the DX10 and DX11 settings in CS and CoP because performance hit was too high.Got a GTX 960 afterwards and everything ran OK, except if I shot the water - instant 15FPS, which was fun whenever I got attacked by dogs in Zaton swamps.
What in the fuck is GammaI haven't played STALKER in over 10 years, finally get the itch to scratch because there's literally NO games to play nowadays (and STALKER 2 kinda sucked)THe fuck is Gamma it looks like an entirely new game, is it still STALKER? No way that modpack is stable either
>>585740960Gamma is stalker perfected - you owe it to yourself to play it.
>>585740960>>585741525less obvious samefagging pls
>>585609119any hope that 2.0 mods work on 2.1?NOT amused by having to reinstall everything and wait for moddertrannies to update their shit
>>585717136>the same retarded anon complaining that Stalker 2 is too modern and Stalker was supposed to be cold war/90s tech setting onlyeven in 2006 PDAs were pretty cutting edge tech jesus christ
>>585742776My guess is that large mods that change a bunch of shit will most likely need an update, but most small ones should work fine due to the recent bpatch method making sure they don't overwrite whole files.
>casually eats 2 RPG roundsnothin personnel, stalker
>>585747286fucking NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER shitGOD FUCKING DAMN IT I HATE MODDERS
>>585695672Stalker 2 won. Cope and seethe.
>>585735301>UltraI played CoP on a 4850 just fine.
>>585754237yeah, at 1280x960 maybe
>>585736048>>585736310>>585737887>>585754963Ooooh, yeah I was also playing on 1280x1024
>>585754237for funsies, have a crysis benchmark too
>>585623998can't you give claude the files and ask it to adapt CotZ to the newest version of IWP?
You fill your tummy with foodI'll fill your head with lead
>>585748241The devs fixing mutant health and armor changes so much balance for the better. On release I swear it took like a dozen RPG's on veteran to kill a pseudogiant because it had the armor of an exoskeleton or something on top of the shitload of health. Now it only takes two on master. They took all the armor away from mutants and gave them raw health and gave stalkers shitloads of armor but fuckall for health. It's a better balance.
>>585758009that pic isn't from stalker 2 lmao
>>585758009I know you meant this for STALKER 2 but I completely agree. Faggots here were saying "skill issue" when I thought that mutants more annoying and tedious than engaging but now that you effectively do things like that and auto fire a bloodsucker down like you would crown a Witch in Left 4 Dead and you also get mutant parts they're honestly fine now.Still not a fan of the stupid knockdown mechanics since this is stalker and not fucking Warcraft or League of Legends but you can't win 'em all.
god im so horny for my female cousin
>>585762545based pakistani poster
>>585762545Most of my extended family basically excommunicated my immediate family so I never had close relations with my cousins like a lot of other people seemingly did
>>585763845I've never been close with any of them, but man... need to just get my dick wet
>>585757770heh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1qwF80LtEM
Waiting on a mod that allows squad leaders to let you fast travel with them for master mode/custom rules on max.
>>585754963No, I'm just not retarded like the people who did those benchmarks. The settings on Ultra preset would cost you half of your framerate.Also running at resolutions above 1920x1080 even today causes huge, disproportional performance drop, it's an engine fault.
>>585754963In 1600x1200.
>>585755289Same. SOC ran pretty fine on that old 9600GT minus the aforementioned hitches, but god damn did CS become a slideshow when the godrays kicked in, and I'm pretty sure most of my COP experience was at best the low end of 30fps, even if I saved some performance by dropping the res to 1280x720.
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Huh, really thought this was going to be the correct code for this safe.
shiiieetthe stalker niggas are here bro
I asked Claude to scrape the internet for IWP gameplay and generate the improved video. This is that result.
>fall five feet in 2, dies>falls hundreds of feet in a cutscene and falls face flat, completely fineVery interesting.
>>585781946People play this shit? I'm getting motion sickness just from the schizo camera adjustments in the first half.
WINTER IS COMING
>>585664928>>585781946>that trilogy esque brown handguardsovl
>S2>outside palace of culture>2 burers have spawned>they have wandered near a squad of mercs>mercs go full dakka on them>meaning the retarded dwarves never drop their shields due to the hail of bullets>making them functionally invincibleWell that is a clusterfuck i'm going to avoid for now.
GSC.... come on man......use Claude if you have to fix this shit
Josh cheeseburger, what a guy.
>mfw a 19 strong snork swarmKinda felt like I was playing something akin to the raid redemption as I retreated further and further into the nearest building while they assault me down corridors and up stairs.
Elite Ward combat discipline and training.
>>585808848Reminds me when I was in the jupiter underground in CoP - zulu kept shooting me in the back of the head.
>>585713901There are multiple versions of 3.0. The original is said to have a lot of annoying features like diseases. Im playing through the OLR 3.0 Standalone patch, which is a streamlined unofficial version. Not sure which one to recommend to be honest.
>>585803267>the dirty joke about the controller and the squirreloh no poor squirrel
One hungry boi.
>>585803267What was the dirty joke about the controller and squirrel?
>>585811798I have>Пaтч OLR30-patch 3.0.12installed for a year now, am I fucked gameplaywise if I start it?
>have to murder an entire battalion of monolith to get the jaegerblickI had to leave so m any guns on the floor it hurts my soul.
>>585832152Wiping out the entire commieblock room by room while being all tacticool is reward enough.
I WASTED LIKE 10 MEDKITS RUNNING AROUND THIS HELLHOLE TRYING TO GET THE ARTIFACT TO REVEAL ITSELF BUT WHEN IT DID THIS FAT FUCK FLOATED NEAR IT AND FUCKING JUST ATE IT FUCK YOU
>>585670116>all those unused buildo models>dushman, voronin, and bes all have clones
>>585609119the gunplay in SoC and CS is like night and day holy shit
>>585838875Just upgrade your fucking guns, fucking hell. What's the fucking point of an upgrade system if the guns were flawless from the start.
>>585833498el problema de habilidad
I've had Call of Pripyat in my library for years but never really got into it. Should I bother getting SoC to try that? If I do, should I get enhanced edition or just the original and mod it?
Wow nice dead fucking thread. Fuck you faggots for ruining this shit again.
>skulking around pripyat outskirts>not looking to do or go anywhere just stalkin'>spot chimera>chimera spots me>run to a random ladder on a building south of the hospital to gain some height advantage>reach top, chimera IMMEDIATELY flies directly towards me and slaps me off the roof>run back to the ladder and climb back up>can hear chimera >can't see chimera>turn around>it's climbing the ladder behind me and is now eating my ass>magdump ineffectively while dying
>>585860580>it's climbing the ladderwhich soup is this?
I found this photo of your mom while exploring the zone.
>>585798732>brownits plum you fucking color blind muppet
>>585863359
>>585803267pripyat is now prypiatall you did was swap I and Yfuck you its pripyat and chernobylas bad as trump bein gretarded with thinking he can just change names of things
>>585833498lmaoIf you have max thermal resistance this thing barely does damage to you BTW.
>>585865689>color blind muppetI am actually
>>585866071>no people who live in a place can't decide what it is called!Based 13 colonies inhabitant.
>>585861015it's just base anomaly with my own personalized "i download whatever the fuck is new on moddb" mix
>>585866201I was recently advised this is the look of a 25 year old male.
>>585866347they can. but not because one douche in a temporary position of "power" says so.
>>585866526Maybe if you're a Slav struck by the Norwood Reaper like Strelok, I'm turning 30 this year and I still get mistaken for being in my early 20's and ID'd frequently.
>>585866347Genuine question, did they change the English spelling, or did they change the Cyrillic spelling and the English change is just supposed to more closely approximate that?
>>585810827loltoo many times that dumb fuck has done that to me or other squad mates
>>585868215 They're retroactively replacing the signage in the exclusion zone to be Ukrainian.And also, if you played STALKER 2, the answer of catering to the Western world should be obvious.
>>585869271>an updated translation based on the change in naming from the locals is cateringHOLLAND FOREVER
>>585869709Small indie studio, please understand :^)
>>585872759she looks chinese/mongolian
>>585849690there's a narrative to follow, with clear sky being a prequel to SoC and CoP its sequeli think SoC is worth playing but it's definitely not for everyone while the sequels are much more accessibleas for the original vs EE question i don't know if you still get the EE if you own the originals and viceversa
Where the FUCK is the mod that lets you use the squad guides on master?What is this bullshit?Where IS ITI DEMAND TO KNOW
>>585875116the ultraslopped ever-bloating S2AE shit has ityou just have to deal with the 90+ other features :^)
>>585875116Literally learn to do it yourself. It's a single text file to unpack, edit, and repack. Quit being so helpless.
>>585832152It's half way in, so I only did it half way. I'll eventually go back and wipe them all out just for fun. Think the first half will respawn though. I haven't even used the Jagerblick yet.
>>585874178>i don't know if you still get the EE if you own the originals and viceversayou do, both ways.if you had originals, you got EE's for free.if you buy new EE's, you get the originals for free.
>>585849690Original, no mods. Maybe those bug fix mods but I never needed them.EE is all right if you want a little more modern support, but they take out some of the Soviet assets and that's kinda gay. But if you don't care then EE might be all right. I've only done the first mission of SoC EE just to see for myself and it felt and played just fine.
>>585849690SoC + ZRP
>>585885048This, ZRP and SRP are basically just bugfixes, they don't detract from the vanilla experience.
>>585849690All of them. Release order. No mods. EE is fine, some butthurt vodkas like to make mountains out of anthills over some fixed missing brushes and spelling changes. EE comes with QOL like FOV updates, better multithreading, fancier visual effects, and optionally enabling COP's 4 quickslots in the othe two games.
>>585707284Nope. Those NPCs exist in CoP even if they aren't rendered until you come within a certain distance. There were no persistent random squads roaming around on S2 release, it would just randomly spawn one behind you which would disappear for good once you moved out of range.
>>585745826Stalker is actually somewhat futuristic. Exotic weapons like Groza, FN2000 etc, exoskeletons, so on. Stalker is a sci fi game first and and a lot of people forget that.
>>585839319CoPs guns were fine and the upgrade system was still relevant because it was actually useful. CSs upgrade system was very barebones and for most rifles amounted to either a.) turn it into a sniper rifle or b.) turn it into a smg with the locked upgrade paths. CoPs was miles better because you were not forced to upgrade a certain way or miss out and the upgrades were actually still useful even though the normal guns werent dogshit. Making the vanilla weapons dogshit to force players to upgrade is just garbage game design.
I never upgraded in CS or CoP. From what I remember, don't have the save files anymore so could be misremembering.
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Dug out my old PC and playing through SoC with ZRP - so insanely fun. Just about to head to Lab x-16 for the first time. Using the SIG - getting more accurate and pinging off headshots is so satisfying. Wish I had a proper magazines mod installed though but probably too late now.
>>585642671I got tricked by this guy yesterday. stood there in disbelief then went and executed his mate guarding the compound, turned around and threw a grenade at the others, then picked off the last of them efficiently with headshots. Felt superhuman
>>585887428>If you don't support censorship you're ruski filthYeah, no, go jump in a whirligig.
>>585891401>sloppa
>>585773904kek, I didnt even notice the first time I looked at that screenshot
>>585887428>shilling eeembarrassing, go back, newfag
is 1.4 finally here?
remember when russians hacked and leaked s2 before release? do you think that hurt sales in the end? s2 released in a pretty rough shape as is tho, was that because of the hack or nah
>>585913487nah
>>585913487why would it? and it's gsc, that shit was not launching in a good state, especially with unreal enginenormies bought that slop like any other aaa
>>585913980Well them and my retarded ass that was still hype like a moron over it. Only vidya I ever preordered and still regret it.
>>585894069>waaah there were some missing meshes that have since been restoredQuit crying about imaginary issues.>>585898995>noooo you HAVE to performatively express hatred and anger toward free upgrades to the OT with QOL updates you'd add in with mods anyway>>585913487Remember when SOC buildo leaked and it didn't negatively impact sales at all?
>>585896042>muh heckin sloppa Are you going to post the same shit in every thread? Are you actually capable of posting anything of substance? Fuck off and die.
Fuck Skifniggers and their nuGSC anus licking parade
*buys another car*nothing personal
>>585917661>I will completely disregard the point and keep gaslightingGo jump in an electro field, nugsc fagboy.
>>585929367>noooo you can't just dismiss my bullshit /pol/ talking points
>>585896042Do you need to get raped? Up your ass?
>>585896042>wrong use of the term sloppaJust use 'slop', sloppa is good like homemade chili or a kitchen sink SOUP.
SHIT YOUR PANTS NOW!said the pants shitting controller.
>>585943959Jokes on him I keep my underwear soiled at all times to throw blind dogs off the scent of human.
>>585942167>slop slop slopTake your bitch ass back to plebbit.
>>585945325oh yeah well *controls your mind into thinking you have clean underwear*SHIT YOUR PANTS NOW!said the pants shitting controller.
>samefags to defend his own AI slopcringe and pathetic
>muh heckin slop >it’s slopperino! You just made a slopperino, dude!!Just like “onions” was eventually co-opted by the left as yet another buzzword with an inverse meaning, so too has “slop” by these same retarded faggots.
>butthurt russiasimp cycles through at least five different schizo personalities to spam /sg/ to death and somehow doesn't get banned for itSure would be nice to have stalker discussion in /sg/ instead of one guy crying about EE and S2 and posting ai generated garbage nobody finds interesting.
>this miserable retard anti-shill thinks I’m not only the guy posting the AI Holden images, but am also trying to destabilize the thread by shilling for Russia and shitting on S2 every other post >apparently I’m also a schizo switching between different personalities / posting personas (?)Take a razor blade to the base of your penis. Go post stalker content if it bothers you so much, since clearly the thread is light on actual relevant content lately. But you won’t because all you know how to do is bitch, complain, and whine.
>>585978096
>>585924663yes, I'm going to post AI sloppa every time you poste irrelevent off topic AI sloppa.cry about it faggotmy shitty text reply is more substance than those posts.>>585934892>>585942167kill yourself faggot>>585968708>every accusation is a confessionpretty stupid tactic, but its fitting for you.die in a grease fire
>>585979605>replying to multiple anon’s posts at a time, fully believing he’s addressing one person>attempting to mirror aggressionEmbarrassing.
>>585979605You really are dumb, aren't you? Can you even comprehend why I do it?I'm keeping this thread alive. Me, singlehandedly, keeping this thread alive.You're just a pawn in my higher designs. No, you couldn't understand. Even now, as I lay the revelation upon you, you don't understand.This thread is all I have. You think I'm trying to kill /sg/? You stupid fucking idiot. I AM THE ONLY ONE KEEPING /sg/ ALIVE.Without me, this fucking shithole would be an irrelevant, empty wasteland.It's ME. Only ME that cares enough about /sg/ to do what you are too cowardly to do.You moron. No shit my AI art is offtopic. That's the point. To make you feel. To make you flame me. To make you post.AND YOU FUCKERS DON'T EVEN DO THAT.That's why I post offtopic AI art. That's why I samefag. To teach you what needs to be done. To stimulate this thrwad's corpse. To save /sg/.
>>585987575>blah blah blah made up narrative bullshit blah blah blahembarrassingwow what a great post
>>585988134Based
>>585988134you're /sg/'s saviorhere's your crown of thornsif we could all just strive to the heights of your posting grandureebinpost on topic, stalker related shit, of fuck off.
>>585989625>samefagging your own post
>>585979605>>585989498>>585989696>retarddit formatting>blatant ESLgo back to r/stalker seething shitskin
>>585988134not him and new fag but isn't this thread eternal?
>>585989818wow you got me there newfaggotoh wait no, you're a newfaggot, no, sorry better luck next time
>>585989858it is, xe has delusions of grandeur and hides behind them like a scared shitposter, afraid to be called out on his shitposting
>>585989696>of*or
>>585990005seethe more brownie
>s-seethe b-brownie
so comfy in here >chimeras on Jupiter
>wow you got me there newfaggot>oh wait no, you're a newfaggot, no, sorry better luck next time
truth hurts eh?
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>>585996131another back on Zatonluckily 3 loners were already engaging it when I ran up
>read that otter is suppose to give me a flare artifact but he doesn'tIs this a bug? I did the whole thing of finding Castro first. So not sure if I bugged the whole questline or not.
>newfag unrealslop shill hates ailmao, did this troon forget the memo that Timmy loves ai?
I asked Claude to scrape the internet for Clear Sky gameplay and generate the improved video. This is that result.
>>586013724>>585781946when release nugga??
>>586014002Somewhere between soon and never ever.And I am not a nugger.
>>586015743not even a chicken nugger?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PH4E2zx8ggtake no offense bruv
>>586016764I asked Claude to watch that video for me and generate a response. This is that result.
>>586017032I think it was this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcsXGHl_hwgwell hopefully sooner than never ever
>>586017510I appreciate you sending me videos, anon, but that website is blocked in my country.I would honestly like to get this package done and shared before the end of this year.
>>586017864well, thats shittygood luck with the work, hope you manage that, or at least around that timeframe
I gave up, I downloaded a cheat mod for carry weight. Stalker 2 is fucking retarded with how much shit it throws at you, stuff that you won't be able to go back for as well. Should probably get another mod for faster animations too because Skif loves to take a nap from every mutant slapping him and getting stunlocked to death.Love the game, but some of the things in this game is absolutely fucking retarded.
Lol, that's it? Foid stabs you and acts like you're supposed to be happy about it? Fucks off without even the smallest "Thanks".Glad I went with Zulu first, Freedomers are batshit insane compared to Duty and arguably in a worse state than if you pick the Duty side.
Stalker 2 is still dogshit despite almost 2 years of updates.What else do I play? Already beat the trilogy countless times. Gamma and Anomaly don't interest me as they're just brainless fetch quests with nonsensical progression.
>>586023830You aren't a real stalker fan.
>>586023830>Objective complete: Kill Strelok
>>586024738lmao the makarov will miss from that distance
>>586023830FZ is fun imo, but it is Anomaly based. It does have some story lines to follow, and throwbacks to the old games like artifacts not actually hidden until detected but up to you if it's something you'd care about. There is a pv on youtube if you care to watch it.
>>586023830Why, Radiophobia 3 of course!
>>586023830some soup mod
>>586023830story modsgoldpshere, spatial anomaly, valley of whispers, there's are many decent ones
>>586023830Play OP 2.2
has anyone played ROMEO yet? I usually prefer modding the base games over playing anomaly, but this seems neat. I wish everything wasn't so fucking grey though
>>586025621Radiophobia 3 is garbage>vanilla ShoC with gamma mechanics and brown & bloom filter
>>586034083>vanilla ShoC with gamma mechanics and brown & bloom filterSounds awesome and tackles the biggest complaint with gamma - the freeplay only approach.
>>586036918im not an analmemer but doesn't it have a main quest that's pretty similar to the games?
*thirst level up*>theatric unbottling followed by violent cock sucking sounds>GULP GULP GULP SWOOP DE WPP MMMM>AHHHH MMM*hunger level up*>more theatric rummaging in tin cans with a spoon or crushing a plastic bag>MUNCH GULP XAXAXAXA MMHM CRUNCH WOOP WOOP SQUIRT POP CRUNCHOkay whatever, unitnentional tard easting asmr. gotta get to that hill over there fast.>sprint for 3 seconds>asthma attack noiseswtf are these disgusting and retarded devs doing? Is this suppsoed to immerse me? the cookie monster eating sounds mod does a better job than this.
>>586032908might check it out this weekend
>>586032908Yeah I was forced to play it coop. It does look really nice at times but it's ass otherwise.Runs fine at start but you need a really strong system after disabling the scorcherThe gameflow is even slower than gayma because you have to stop and pull up your pda and not-pipboy every three fucking seconds, switch mask filters constantly, and lose a belt slot when underground because lol filter too weak you need oxygen tank))Gaymas whole 'shit gets harder the further north you are' thing is gone and you will get raped by exos in cordon if the game feels like itAI can randomly spot and pinpoint rape your asshole from 200 meters away at midnight, which I both liked and disliked. It's certainly way too aggressive for most maps, they constantly wig out at every faraway soundMutants come in gigapacks after like 40-50 hours ingame, 10 snorks or three chimeras isn't rare, and yet most mutant hunt quests will autocomplete in 0.3 seconds because humans just eradicate everything. This alone rapes the economy balance of the whole thing as you constantly get free rewardsThe not-pipboy, biggest meme of the pack, breaks with exos and gayma is unbearable without high as possible carryweight so fuck thatDon't know if picrel was a custom mission but it was fun
>>586082907That is a review I trust.
imma play stalker complete
>>586023830There are some story mods translated at modbb. Play those, some of them are pretty good.
>>586034083Careful, don't bring up R3 ITTThat one faggot shill will instantly appear to fiercely defend its honor
>>586096510Careful, don't bring up R3 ITTThat one faggot that got ass blasted by a mod will instantly appear to cry about how it filtered him hard, and why its shit and the worst mod ever
>this obvious shill faggot still thinks this mod is difficult enough to "filter" someone out>any mention of this past conversation instantly summons himEmbarrassing as hell. I should show you how much loot I was swimming in.The mod is shit. Get over it.
this crybabby still crying every time R3 is mentionedI'm a shill for making fun of you every time.lmfaoEmbarrassing as hell.The mod is shit in your opinion, man. Get over it.btw I reddit spaced just for you bby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr51AtkJePk
I like STALKER.
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>he actually spends his time making AI slop to post in a dead ass threadsad pathetic cretin
>>586061543>Mutants come in gigapacks after like 40-50 hours ingameReminds me of ZoA, KEK!
>>586115147And yet, here you are posting in it. Sad!
radiophobia is.... okay
>>586123434its ok if you don't like it or think its shit. everyone has their opinions, brother
>>586111185you are not welcome here
>>586126108I hope you like STALKER too! :)
what will it be, Stalker?
>>586128107https://youtu.be/9yg_2siRNGc?t=810got this on vinyl?
Bandits won't know what hit them.
>>586089918>>586140103well, hows it going so far?
>>586141351Well i've stopped for some food (gotta fuel the war machine) but I don't expect them bandits to be an issue. Now the army checkpoint south of cordon will be a different beast.
Easy, though I told these guys to hang back.
ah TV-bot, you always bring a smile to my face.
>kill randomly spawned grunt>kharodfirst of all, what's the point of the double kharod magazines if i have a high capacity one?slightly faster reload? seems kinda uselessalso, where i can find a techie that can upgrade it?for reference, i just repelled the attack on, malachite(?) after i talked with the C-consciousness hologram
>>586146246>slightly faster reload?Yes.
>>586146246Endgame weapons and armor are mostly Yanov and Pripyat only. You can also upgrade them once you get to the CNPP in the DLC.
>>586146618meh, for something so hard to get and one-weapon specific that's kinda disappointing>>586146914alright, thanks.kind of a shame that there isn't more of an upgrade curve, especially for stuff other than rifles and artifacts.i've been rocking the same heavy armor with 5 slots and the sledgehammer for like 80% of the playthrough
Solved the army dude problem.
>>586148020My gf was quite impressed with my efforts.
>wandered around for like 10 minutes while rescuing some techie tools because i didn't see the REALLY obvious crack in the wall poorly covered with boxes to get past a locked doorwelp, time to off myself
>>586011062Did you finish the main story? He doesn't call you until you do.
>>586146246You get one fast reload.Also maybe the double mags reduce your aiming speed less, though that would be weird since they would weigh more together than the extended one.
>>586023830Unfathomably based
>makes the shill seethevery based indeed
>>586031572Twenty minutes of vibecoding and I can play this shit without the wiki or a spreadsheet. Finally I can replay it without risking a trip to an insane asylum. Don't know how I managed before.
>there is only 1 (one) very specific shill that posts and enjoys S2 despite the past several months of thread activity being primarily focused on S2You retards can’t seriously believe this shit.
>>586146246Extended: more bullet, slower reloadDouble: 1/2 reloads are faster, 1/2 are close to the same speed as usual.If you have both, choose whatever fits your tacticool style better.
Fron the fog they came.
>>586092107>some story mods translated at modbbWhich ones would you recommend? True stalker was kinda shit. Spatial anomaly didn't captivate me at all so I ended up dropping it.
He ain't gonna make that wedding.
>>586163929ignore the schizo posting anon
>>586163304Any vibecoding to fix the constant crashing at the CNPP?
>>586173141That'd be ruining the OP 2.2. experience. Does it crash there though? It was fine for me in the SoC part of the storyline. Last time I did the later shit on CNPP/2 was in NS 2016 and it worked fine there.
>>586152012This is me in every game. I get lost extremely easily. The wet brain doesn't help.
>>586171410Strelok lookin like a Fortnite character
>>586173734I get there it starts the timer and crashes every 30 seconds to 5 minutes at random
>>586175150That is just the mail jacket for the bandit swag look.
>>586175150>>586176925Nigga what is this insane shit you’re playing?
havent played in a couple weekshaving to update your mods to 2.1 version is aggrevating as fuck
>>586179849nta, stalker complete
they got me
>>586179849Only the best mod for SHoC.
>>586182286I WARNED YOU ABOUT THOSE STAIRS BROI TOLD YOU
A-are stalker 2 bros allowed here?
>>586182607Yes but it triggers one autist.
>>586182607only if you've played the original trilogy.no, gamma does not count.
>>586183181>no, gamma does not count.
>>586183164Oh>>586183181Yeah back in the day
nobody told me Patrick Stewart passed.... what the flying fuck man
>>586185331he has yea
>>586185440just found out like 2 minutes ago, shit is fucking dildos. fuck this gay earth.
Wait uriel septum vii is dead!?
>>586185642Wrong thread, man
Are you guys going trick or treating?
I can confidently say complete is one of the best mods made for shadow of chernobyl.
she mirrin' my borscht
>>586182607Yes. There's a sperg that shitposts about it, so be prepared. I'm tired of people pretending STALKER 2 is bad. It's far from being the weakest in the series, even on launch it was never as bad as Clear Sky's instability and bugs. Following the first DLC and the 2.0 update the game was finally considered "unfucked" in my book and was worth playing.
Apparently love can bloom in the zone.
>>586190436I'm too old and I don't have any kids to hide behind as an excuse. Kids don't really trick or treat in my town anymore, it's all turned into trunk or treats where they meet up at church parking lots or something and swap candy.
>>586185642>let me see your artifact>we must close the monolith gates>Klavicus Blyat is corrupting all of Cordon>The emperor(bes) is DEAD!!!>enter agropgom >harvest dawn starts playing
>>586207714>v*sta
>Attention Stalkers! Chase Holden has been spotted in Yantar!
shut the fuck up
>>586213138Your edgy trooncase posting faggotry will get you nowhere here. Fuck off back to your gacha containment thread.
>>586207714God this is fucking amazing... I doff my proverbial cap to you, sir!
>>586213327you make no senseyou're a retardkill yourself
>>586217883Ironic post is ironic
what the fuck is wrong with my game
>>586224263>downloaded the Thanks Dox Edition
>>586225834>DoxDoc*
>no Uebic
Wait, ZRP has a woman?
I'm glad Stalker brings people together
>>586226615You're a fucking nigger.
>>586227057There's a little stalker in all of us.
>>586224263that's the finnish release of the game it just looks like that normally
Ive got the documents from X-16, I'm well past that in fact but this faggot duty leader won't appear in the bar. Is this a common bug? I'm playing ZRP I thought it was supposed to fix this shit
No Man's Home?
Is that a face!?
>>586243564Just an anomaly.
>>586243564Spoopy.
>>586243564Prop_govno pareidolia.
>>586243564yes
>>586273675This is what STALKER is all about.
Is a i5 12600k and 3060 12GB good enough to play Stalker 2?
>>586277473I played the whole game and DLC just recently with a 3070 8GB and i5 12600k and was getting a consistent 60fps on 1440p with DLSS on Quality. You might even get better frames since you have more VRAM.
>>586277996Thanks for the input bro. Currently replaying the trilogy in anticipation for Stalker 2 now that it's unfucked. DLSS is the AI frame-generation tech, right? Does it actually work and is it worth turning on?
how did you get a picture of me
>>586278340>Does it actually work and is it worth turning on?The image will get very ghosty, but you'll need up-scaling since a 3060 is way below a 3070 in raw power. Frame-gen and up-scaling are separate and I'd very much recommend leaving frame-gen off.
>>586278340>>586287768Yeah framegen is shit, looks smoother when running around sure but fucks with mouse movement/aiming a LOT on even the slightest framedrops (which happen in firefights because of the effects/enemy AI)DLSS is the upscaling and is a necessary evil if you want a good framerate at native res these days. I usually hate the vaseline smear it gives most games but I found it to be tolerable on Quality with the sharpness turned up about 25%.
>>586273675Where's "clean the scope with a microfiber cloth" menu option?
>>586278340>DLSS is the AI frame-generation tech, right?How the fuck is it possible for people in 2026 to not know what DLSS is?In the context of this discussion DLSS means upscaling. Do you remember playing games on your 1024x768 monitor, and the game was lagging, and you had to switch to 800x600 resolution to get more FPS, but everything was low res, pixelated and blurry?DLSS fixes that. It reduces game's internal resolution to gain more FPS, but then uses AI magic to make it look as if you're playing in native resolution. It's the greatest tech ever for underperforming PCs. It should be the first thing you turn on when you have bad performance.
lets fucking GOOOOOO!!
>>585733424some people need things to be spelled out for them
>>586292542mój czarnuchu, vanilla CS czy z modem?
>>586295102z ABR bo vanillę już parę razy ograłem
>>586295102Tha Last Murzyn
Happy Halloween, fellow stalkers. Anyone plan on getting niggered out tonight like me?
[ZC-OBS][CAM-15][20261031-1831][FRM-0015]Spooky vibes abound...
Happy Halloween you fucking fucks
>>586322365Me, same as yesterday but more.
>>586330592happy halloween
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>>586277473I played it on a 5900x and 3070 when it came out. Most I got was 40ish fps most of the time. I'd say it runs better now but I also have a 9800x3d and 5070ti now so could be that too.
[ZC-OBS][CAM-16][20261031-2019][FRM-0016]Happy Halloween, /sg/!
>the time went backThe zone strikes again.
>updated forgotten zone to 1.6.4>now it doesn't start
>>585609119In all seriousness, what do you think the Wish Granter would actually do if some retard made it all the way to Reactor 4 and just said something like "I wish butter and cheese were more readily available in the Zone?"
>>586362996He would drown in McDonalds xtra cheese and have a blind dog next to him with a piece of butter on his head
I hope this wasnt made with AI
Good lord this general is on life support, can't imagine why (i totally can).Well it had a good run, doesn't look like there is much reason to keep coming back, especially since nobody has found an answer for >>585614918 yet
>>586367197>he thinks this general will dielmaonobody told him?
>>586368973It already is dead, look at the quality of the posts not the quantity of them
anon pls
>>586206051hope the faction war update is real, CS style faction wars in S2 would be insane
sidorovitch! where is my SEVA suit!?
hey stalker, can you play the song about chimeras again?
Playing through SoC for the first timeJust made it through the power plant and told the group to fuck off now I've got cunts teleporting in from all over the shop. Mental. Running through the helis to get to the power plant was crazy, I had unlimited sprint so was dodging bullets and missiles, so much fun then got an exoskeleton and was blasting heads with the gauss rifle. Great game
>>586367197>Bashyone making a write-up after receiving too little attention on his projectI really hope that he gets to finnish his project, or at least the so called demo. I love the reanimated (and probably edited?) weapons and it would be cool to see more desctrutible physic props in the levels. The screenies from the SDK also look quite interesting.About that post on the BttS shitcord, I feel like to a certein degree you can't blame anyone for the sralker modding landscape being this stagnant. The SDK and workflow just has a much higher barrier to entry than in games like Doom, Empire at War or Men of War with their easier mapping tools. I feel like there is only a handful of genuinely good mods that aren't overly janky and include some fresh maps.
>>586146914>>586146246>Endgame weapons and armor are mostly Yanov and Pripyat only. You can also upgrade them once you get to the CNPP in the DLChow far along would that be?i just got an exoskeleton finally, but i can't upgrade that either.for reference>on strelok's trail from the main campaign>need to get C4 for zulu's assault to a lab for DLC
>>586388470SoC is the best one, unparalleled slavjank kino.>Running through the helis to get to the power plant was crazyWhat I love is that the military operation isn't random and unscripted, the radio messages that you hear and the troops movement form an actual scenario that you are almost guaranteed to miss because you have your own shit to do while it's unfolding and it's all very chaotic, but I admire that the devs made an effort to include it instead of just spawning a bunch of soldiers and helis without much thought. There are little details like soldiers panicking and addressing their comrades who are about to die by their names instead of using call signs, or a sniper humming a song on the comms between taking shots before the commander tells him to shut up, I love it.
>>586411034Is there a translation video of the CNPP raid? Never even knew about the sniper humming and always wondered what they're barking at each other but I don't understand vodka runes.
>>586407443Yanov station I think you can go to as soon as you can cross that bridge early in the game. Pripyat you'd have to get through a lot of the main story and get granted access to move beyond Yanov as it's blocked off. Might've been half-way in or completed DLC story for techie to upgrade your endgame stuff. Might be sooner because you need a story related upgrade for a sidequest.
>>586411887>Might be sooner because you need a story related upgrade for a sidequestthe psi helmet upgrade?i've done that already
>>586411497https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyOv4i6KYbkThis leddit post goes into even more detailhttps://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1cgb4ab/operation_monolith_analysis_pt_2_the_cnpp_raid/All the soldiers are voiced by one dude by the way, which is quite funny.
https://www.reddit.com/r/halloween/comments/1xl6xap/my_friend_and_i_dressed_as_clowns/What are we thinking?
>>586415747stalker?
>>586416320I want to suck on that clown's fat tits
Is there a good freeplay mod for 2 yet?>What do you mean by "good"?No cutscenes, no main quest, no locked main quest areas, no DLC storylines.
>>586420345yes s2 freeplay mod
>>586367197its really cringe seeing the AI faggot talk to himself all day, i dont want to be a part of this either but i hold out hope the threads will reinvigorate themselves
>>586424385Consider removing your genitals with a sharp razor blade. Fuck off.
Still alive? That's great.
>wants people to lob their goodies off and troon out like himcringe
>>586433242No, you just post and act like an ironypoisoned troon, so I'm giving you a suggestion on how you can easily transition. You should really consider it.
>>585733424Fanaticism is bad, never become a zealot/fanatic. Never give in to black/white moral/world view.
>>585801910LOL. I had this shit with bloodsuckers. Literally a 100 or so would spawn there. Lots of bloodsucker tongues out of that, and a lot of money, but god that shit is tedious to do.
>>585832152Reminds me of that time when i did that to find a flash drive. By the time i reached the other end of the block Monolith just respawned. Game is too happy being a shooter - no time to chill and take in the view/atmosphere.
>>586435478>bro just be a fence sitting faggot your whole life
>>586349208That time change made me think that 2 wasn't saving right.
I've genuinely enjoyed Holden's recent antics and am excited for what he'll have in store next year
Who the hell is Holden?
>>586449004he created LURK mod and is just a general lolcow in /sg/ now
>>586450371I never played that mod.>last post on the mod page almost 10 years agoInteresting.
The thread, lost to the zone.
>>586457652/sg/ never dies
>>586450371>>586449004A nobody that made a mod 16 years ago that some autist keeps making AI pictures over. It isn't even the right Holden that made lurk. I wish this shitposting sperg would kill himself. I wish the faggot posting the sauce would kill himself, I wish the "skiffnigger" poster would kill himself, too. I wish every fucking faggot that shitposts in this general would kill themselves. That said, if my gut is right, it's all the SAME FUCKING ASSHOLE.
>>586448757>>586450371no.
winter is comingprepare yourselves
>>586461920>one guy having multiple shitposting personasEven the zone doesn't house such horrors.
>>586463173Ready for comfy cold times and not being boiled by my own PC.
>>586463876You underestimate the powers of pure, distilled autism.
Who's stalkin'?
I'm stalkin right meow
>>586450371>>586461920the original holden pic is just some random redditor. i was here when it started and it was originally used as a reaction pic for either gamma haters or gamma shills, i can't even remember now. but it was literally just some random redditor's selfie. i don't know how it evolved into the 'lurk mod creator' lore. but it's retarded.
Don't worry about paying me Lukash, I'll kill that duty squad for free. It is the morally correct thing to do.
how do i get past the radiation death barrier surrounding Mirage for the main mission i've got?
>>586489521There is a path to that location that isn't instant death radiation.
>>586490325welp, i tried circling around and i didn't spot it. guess i'll take a better look. thanks
>>586491031protip: look at your map and see what is nearby
I have only one desire in the zone and that is to creep.
New ORB video if anyone cares. Aside from Skifniggers of course.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6dRQoJdf3Y
well i'm soldlet me hit that like button
fucking hell
going back into my stalker 2 save ladsi did a bit of the dlc
>>586508625I knew it wasn't just me and they made the AI even more retarded in combat.
monochromes...
>look guys, this heckin eceleb says GAME BADWhy is /sg/ infested with people who hold nothing but disdain for the game and anything related to it? I'd bet no other general on /vg/ has to deal with this thread-killing spam.
>>586470143Wow somehow missed this (I don’t really look at GSC’s social media too much), or else I would’ve posted this. Happy Halloween to you, anon!
>>586508625>[YouTube] I'm Tired of These Patches and This Community | Stalker 2 Patch 2.1He is absolutely right, fuck patches. The real GSC devs have never fixed their games. They just charged full price for a new game that reused 70% of content from the previous one and had even more bugs.I haven't watched the video, but it's probably some kind of genuine mental illness.
>>586528615The rest are full of actual pedophiles judging by the times I see something other than here when I type /vg/stalker.
>>586442994>common sense is bad when mutant babies can fuck up reality and your mind
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/3243?tab=descriptionIT'S HERE
>>586539014The difference is those fetuses can only react to an initial trigger, so as long as it's a good one you're fine. They aren't intelligent, they're basically an empathic mirror. If anything that makes them an anomaly with a heartbeat, not an actual mutant.
>>586528615I remember/mwog/ and then /gerg/, it was full of people that hated the game devs and played it despite how much they all complained in the general.
>>586442994>nuance can't exist>every postion can only be binary
The mutant spawn numbers in complete make stalker 2 mutant herds look easy.>walk around corner in wild territory>6 pseudodogs>4 snorks>10 rodents>2 bloodsuckers>all running straight at meEven better is on the final stretch before the transition back to the bar 16 blind dogs spawned.
>>586553947I remember complete being really easy.
>>586544275>unpacks mod>looks at shaders
>>586529905>I haven't watched the videoYou obviously haven't.
>>586508625Incessant whinging, but he's right about the AI. I don't know if its just Unreal being incapable of having complex NPC AI, but they can't even do the bare minimum.>neutral npcs still have a habit of not reacting to the player if they kill someone unless they stand directly in front of them>human npcs still have 'passive' animations that take years for them to get out of so lair based ones are comedically easy>two immobile npcs shooting each other when miles apart>certain mutant lairs and scripted events still have hardcoded limits for distance that enemies can chase the playerThe best fucking AI in the game is the mutant AI because its impossible to fuck up 'run at player in straight line' no matter how shit Unreal is.Unrelated, but does Master mode actually do anything other than buff anomaly damage? Mutant, bleed, and gun damage feel the exact same. Loot doesn't seem scarce either.
>>585670403Hey anon, sorry for the really late reply - if you're referring to the big nig, he is not cut content, but a librarian ported from Metro 2033.Hope you've been enjoying the modkino.
>>586561793A lot, and i do mean a lot, of what's wrong with the AI could be fixed by having more states between relaxed and in combat, a couple middle states like aware and danger where the NPCs are more switched on and scan around them every so often, avoid animations that lock them in and have their weapons at the readyAlso more combat profiles beyond the same fire and maneuver, like them getting defensive and digging in taking cover in a location and watching more angles without moving out, reinforcing eachother falling back instead of trying to advance on enemies, and if they do advance in big groups in a formation looking at more angles. Also more work into formations ie travelling in a diamond, advancing on enemies on a line or a wedge, clearing buildings in a file, etc. This shit should be EASY on UE5 seeing as tactical shooters also use it.
>>586563871>like them getting defensive and digging in taking cover in a location and watching more angles without moving outThis is the one thing I never see open world FPS games do and I can't fathom as to why. Its the perfect solution if you don't want players to just wait for the enemy to funnel out in conga lines. It also makes the design of the fighting arena not wasted since the player HAS to engage with it. When was the last time any of you shot the hundreds of red barrels around to kill an NPC?The only game that game I played recently that at least gave an illusion of depth in NPC combat was Insurgency 2.>bots would hold angles and never move unless you were capturing the objective>would spam fire walls to try and wallbang you>different reactions based on sound, crouch walking makes them slow turn once you're too close, gunshots make a near instant turn reaction>bots suppressive fire was insane and actually prevented you from peaking the same anglesToo bad the game ran like unfettered ass because, guess what, UNREAL ENGINE.(The game still had the issues of bots just eventually running in a straight to you as long as you waited long enough, but time required could be comedic. Had to wait what felt like 10 minutes for the last bot to show itself)
>>586562275Oh, huh. I played Metro 2033 and Last Light, but guess I forgot what those things actually looked like. I just remember "big ole scary gorilla thing".I haven't played much since getting spooked into whatever killed me last time, but mostly cause I try to juggle too many games at once. I might give it another go tonight.
>>586566881Insurgency Sandstorm has the large benefit of having fairly cramped MP maps where the devs can hard code a lot of behaviors like places that are good to defend and how to attack them and also test the squads moving through the mover and adjust them with movement markers, it's very easy to see how it works once you load up a modded map where the map maker hasn't quite gotten the same science down to control and stage bot movement and they just go full retard. Some official maps are still kinda busted like Last Light even but it's generally just a clue that a lot of well made AI in games has really only been good scripting until recently. Ready Or Not is also a big case of "the AI isn't smart, it just knows the map". However they do handle custom map a lot better because they have behaviors that react to specific map elements more than to the map as a whole, ie how to stack up and clear out a room and cover and move.THAT SAID, now we've got people successfully hooking AIs like Claude to games and having them control characters and even whole units in RTSs and such. I don't think we're gonna see games come prepackaged with a full AI model like that but that should definitely massively speed up the process of filling out a game map with markers and behaviors. As far as STALKER 2 goes, making all the indoor areas have an AI run through them and decide how to defend them once should leave you training data for NPCs to make the game much more interesting. Of course it should all be combined with better dynamic AI behaviors that regulate risk avoidance and coordination in prosecuting objectives in the game code itself.
So, did anyone test the new NPC Streaming distance thing? Which setting is the best?I feel like if put on maximum most quests will fucking break or worse, the game has working alife already i dont care about the bubble
>>586561793>Unrelated, but does Master mode actually do anything other than buff anomaly damage? Mutant, bleed, and gun damage feel the exact same. Loot doesn't seem scarce either.It almost doesn't seem like it at first, but you notice it a lot more when you go back on a lower difficulty. Especially once you got some decent gear. Loot isn't as scarce as I would have thought, but it's still is more limited. On my not-master custom rules save I have 700+ bandages with 6 days of play time while my stalker difficulty has a full stack plus some more with 4 days. I probably do use them more often in master, but that's still quite a bit more. So you get less, but they aren't necessarily busting your balls. It just makes the start a bit more rough.
>>586572676I put it on max and can't tell much of a difference. It didn't even affect my frame rate.
is there a way to climb this chunk of land between the sphere and cordon? i am not talking about the spoiler stuff, but the cliff that actually borders the 2 zonesthe old springboard glitch doesnt work anymore, they moved the anomaly away>whytheres always stalkers and people on top of it, idk if there is actually a hidden route or it's just an offline bug
>>586561793>complaining about unreal engine funny how it was never a problem when it was UE3 and every toaster could run it while almost every game on it ACTUALLY looked like straight garbage, UE is only ever a problem when it isn't "optimized" for decade old ewaste for not gsc not going full fledged rockstar on npc reactionsebin
>>585616832that retard literally only could take rostok because ward forced voronin give it to freedom
>>586577203the funny thing for me is that early, eeaaaaarly development stalker/oblivion lost was just using straight up ripped Unreal Tournament assets and code as placeholders. It's like poetry you know, it rhymes.
>>585616832Everything about the Duty path was better and basically puts Duty back on the map again after being raped by Ward and Freedom. Don't know what the fuck they were thinking with the Freedom path, every choice Mavka made was questionable, nearly destroys the faction and the reward at the end is her shoving a knife into you.Genuinely felt like the Freedom path was an afterthought.
>>586580161The reward is getting an oasis and a Freedom that cares about freedom instead of koupons again. The stabbing makes sense afterwards, it's literally explained to you in excruciating detail why it happened.
I'd let a girl stab me if she held my hand afterwards...
>try zrp complete>see a woman>she starts playing on the guitar and singingThis might actually be all right.
Did anyone try the VR mod?https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalkervr/downloads/stalkervrhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn5lUwLqh0g
Well i'm sorted.
Let's try these nightmare vision goggles.
>>586589428Does it work with AMK?
>>586032908Is this a pain in the ass to install? A video I skimmed about it made it sound like you have to install Anomaly, then GAMMA, and then Romeo after all that. Is Romeo even bigger than GAMMA? I was hoping it was a slightly less tedious GAMMA, more like Anomaly I guess? And that that would slim the install size a smidgen at least, but maybe it's even bigger...
>>586597135Ew. Flavored spirits suck ball hair. Although I will say at least it's a clear spirit. Brown spirits that are flavored gargle even more donkey balls. I will also say vanilla sounds the most tolerable of the flavors that often come with flavored spirits, but ultimately still ew.
>>586605197Well i'm not russian so I always mix my vodka. Normally I like a nice dark rum (neat of course).
>>586597135>stoliThink they filed for bankruptcy in the US, or at least whoever owned the rights for it did. Not sure how that will all work out. Not that that will matter for you. Either way, you're in for a fun time. I'm an experienced drinker(alcoholic) so I just shoot vodka like the slavs do when playing.
>>586607070>I always mix my vodka
>>586608703Vodka is just spicy potato water that is meant to be cheap and gets you fucked up fast - nobody but true slavs drink it for the taste. Now other, more respectable spirits are for drinking neat and appreciating.
>>586610065>spicy potato waterMost vodkas are made using grains, not potatoes.
>albino bloodsuckerexcuse me wtf r u doin
As we all know stoli vodka is the drink of a true stalker. I just wish green mark vodka didn't vanish from my corner of the world.
>not drinking vodka with a proper cheeki breeki name and a price to matchWhat, you're not some top shelf SNOB are you?
>>586610679We sell some good ones where I work that are made 100% out of potatoes, probably the best one is called Chopin. We have a cheaper Polish one called Luksusowa, then an American one called Blue Ice.>>586626045That shit is pure poison. Unfortunately Stolichnaya has gone bankrupt in the US, so it's going to disappear. That said, Kettle One is probably my favorite, it's clean and fairly neutral. The aforementioned Chopin is good, too. That said I'm not a big vodka guy, I'd rather drink whiskey.
I want to try this if I ever pluck up the courage to order it.
>>586608565Based. My grandpa would drink rum with tap water every night and I basically do the same with sparkling water because soda is trash.
>>586604640it's not any harder to install than gamma, just use the gamma installer and drag and drop the two romeo folders into the directory and you're done.
>>586636626Depending on the amount of rum in the mix that is someone who knows (or thinks) the tap water is no good and the alcohol is to sanitise it. That or they are just an alcoholic. No nightcaps are an old wives tale for effectiveness.
i dont remember the agroprom tunnel having infnitely respawning zombies and 30 burers one-shotting you
>>586640710If an enemy isn't one hit killing you can you truly say you played stalker?
