>>537656895
Hey, glad to see someone with a similar experience. Yeah, I recall those posts as well. Every second post would be shit like
>Heyy guyz just starting off with this amazing tarkov spinoff! what game should I play first?
>On the evil gatekeeping problem in the GAMMA (stalker) community
>What was the reason the devs decided to go with xyz mechanic?
>>What do you mean it isn't in the game?
>>>Ohh right I forgot about those shitty old trashheaps LOL, I only visit this sub for GAMMA.

Funnily enough, the sub has gotten much better the last time I took a look at it (about three months ago methinks), but I've learned my lesson and just don't care about it now.

>is it bearable?
Not just bearable desu, it's amazing. I understand why you avoid shitcord, the average user is certainly quite something. But this specific server is probably unparalelled. It's filled to the brim with hardcore stalker nerds who discuss shit like the history of the game and the buildo documents and such, play like 50 different mods and often even review them or share their modpacks, have actual taste and love stalker for what it is, have pretty funny memes, are anti-gamma etc. You have multiple modmakers there sharing their dev process live, making mods that are so niche you wouldn't have heard of them otherwise. I've learned more about stalker as a game series and its' mods on there than I ever have before. It's cool basically, yeah. I'd recommend you visit it.