Thread 717826124

Stalker Thread.
Is the only thing I can do in Anomaly just do jobs and make it to the wish granter every time?

SLAVA UKRAINE

Freedom tongues my anus

Try not to be a merc.
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>>717826124 (OP)
>anomaly
>in the current year of our lord
cmon stalker, at least do gaymma

>>717826124 (OP)
Is STALKER 2 good if you play it for exploration and gunplay?

>>717826531
>scrape your finger
>use two bandaids
>get infection
>time to sleep!!
I’m good anon.
Anomaly is the farthest deviation I’m willing to go before it just becomes tryhard bullshit.

>>717826625
my bad, i was going to suggest old world addon to clean up the bullshit but thats for anomaly kek

>>717826124 (OP)
Yes. It's nothing more than just another freeroam-sandbox mod, with shitton of random shit poured on top.

Analmeme and Gaymma are practically anthithesis of what made STALKER good.

>>717826572
No, and no.
It's a fucking Ubishit-style Far Cry 6: Radioactive boogaloo.

The amount of zoom zoom "Stalker fans" that have never even touched the OG SoC-CoP is disgusting.

Also a daily reminder that they butchered the "Enhanced Editions" beyond repair. Always play the original 2007-2009 releases, and patch them to your liking.

>>717826815
true stalker is the closest thing to a remastered stalker expansion we would ever get its not even funny, 20 years of modding and everything else is either just reskinned vanilla, armafag bullshit, soup tier garbage or any combination of the three

>>717826815
SoC will always be my favorite

>>717826815
Have mods or others gone to fix the enhanced versions at all or even attempted to?

>>717826758
Cope harder Zigger.

>>717827996
those versions only allow retextures and remodels iirc, no scripts or any of the good stuff

Someone give me an actual rundown on the differences between Anomaly and GAMMA

>>717828132
I thought they changed some of the screen options and added shitty visual effects and lighting shit.

>>717826815
I remember SoC had clunky controls and all the guns looked terrible. CoP was the one I actually played, but now I’ll just stick with Anomaly

it does not matter what mod you play. Chimeras are still awful

>>717826124 (OP)
True Stalker was borderline experimental. I was having fun until that bullshit plot twist

>>717830002
bet it felt experimental when all you knew about stalker was gaymma after getting destroyed in tarkov and switched to savescumming a sp game

>>717830196
Who are you talking to?

>>717826496
These questions fucking suck

>>717829869
chimera ain't fucking shit
picrelated, it's me about to push a chimera's shit in in Misery

>>717826496
I got UNISG instead

>>717831264
It doesn't matter what stalker game you play, mutants will always jumpscare you.

bump

>>717831575
not in my experience. once I had enough experience dealing with any kind of mutant became a mere distraction from the hiking or urbex.
that is, until the moment the game completely clicked and I started dealing with mutants by just throwing grenades at them. I miss 2011, when I still didn't know the final solution to the m*tant problem.

oh and by the way. did you know in vanilla you can stab bloodsuckers to death with three knife swipes or just one stab?

>>717826496
>Merc
apparently just playing the game makes you a merc.

>>717832215
>go to truck cemetary early
>get controller jumpscared and hide behind a tree
>can't even look or shoot him but know he's getting close
>have a grenade i got from a Mongnolith I killed
>toss it behind the tree
>it kills him and wounds me but at least I lived
good shit. fucking hate controllers.

Post Raifu

>>717829345
>it's clunky ohhh it's clunky
unironically filtered

>>717832697
My starting gun for every character. Doesn't matter what faction.

>>717833173
>unironically filtered
Yeah I'm not into self harm, but hey good luck with your secret club

I have a question: Is palying as Monolith or bandit anything BUT an ass ache?
Why even do that if every other faction is hostile?

>>717826815
>All 3 games are quite enjoyable with the latest patches
The ending of Clear Sky was fucking miserable my nigger. That alone and how much of a broken mess that shit still is ruined it for me.
SoC and CoP are fine though.
>>717829345
The weapons are dogshit at the start but it get's better. Just get out of cordon and garbage quick.

>>717834385
I genuinely believe that CS is the worst of the three games just on its beginning and ending sections alone. i don't know why people like it.
the Great Swamps is both the biggest and worst area in the entire franchise, and the first time I ever got out of it, I had no bandages because none of the bandits dropped them or enough money to buy them between bandages and other things i also needed, and I was shot and bleeding out.
Miserable experience.

>>717829345
get to the first zone outside of Rostok and kill the guy in the top area with a customized rifle. that'll last you a quarter of the game because it's good and the ammo it needs is plentiful

bump

>>717834385
>>717835296
I mean, the guns looked like straight up PVC pipe guns which was fine, since you could mod them, I guess. But another problem was that you couldn't toggle ADS, and instead had to use an AHK script. That kind of turned me off the game, so I just jumped straight to CoP instead

once most of these ukropiggers are finally dead maybe an actually good stalker game will be made

>>717826572
No. I'm not one to hate on new games for being new and I really tried to enjoy Stalker 2, but it's just worse than the original games.

>>717832697
It just feels right.

>>717826572
Both asswipes that replied to you are seething boomers, don't listen to them. Stalker 2 is fun

>>717826496
>Your Result: Monolith

>>717836743
This but Sniper variant
>mfw savescumming rolling barrels uphill for half an hour just to get a Freedomer to drop his

>>717834283
>Why even do that if every other faction is hostile?
why not?

>>717837741
i know what you are

>>717838082
For me, it's savescumming with Nimble in CoP until he gives me Lynx

>>717837741
EEDEEKOMNEE

>>717837741
za monolit....

>>717838307
w-what?

>>717836847
You're an underage thirdie. Nothing you say matters.

>>717831575
>no sound
C'mon man.

>Freedom le bad
Why?
>because uhhh...they like, smoke weed and stuff
Loners do the exact same
>Shut up they're just bad okay!?

Do doody fags really?

>>717838641
I have friends talking in the background

>>717826124 (OP)
Guys imagine if Stalker had women in the zone. Wouldn't that be funny?

>>717838703
DUDE FREEDOM LMAO

>>717838752
тaк, yяви coбi

>>717838632
I'm 35 and from the US, and I played the originals before you were born. SoC being better than S2 doesn't mean S2 is bad

>>717838959
I'm also 35 and from the US. It would be very impressive if you played the original games in the 80s. Stalker 2 is shit, and you're likely lying about not being a thirdie child given that you type and argue like one.

>>717839073
Get as angry as you feel you need to, buddy

>>717839137
It's funny because you're the one who got assblasted about people not liking a shit game and came to post about "seething boomers." You sound like you play gaymma.

>>717839220
Nah, S2 is good

>>717839312
Nope. It was pretty bad.

>>717839626
I accept your concession

>>717838632
Says the Russian who's mad that his Dendi can't run STALKINO 2.

>>717838752
>>717838834
Nah, the Zone is a boys' club, girls don't belong there unless they plan to get raped.

>>717838752
Are there any female stalker mods for Analmeme

>>717839874
don't play stalker 2

>>717832324
there are some places in Misery where under the right circumstances you get multiple controllers, poltergeists and shittons of burers roaming about at the same time.

the solution is very simple: smoke a joint to block their psy damage area of effect (supposedly artifacs also work, but I normally stick with carry weight artifact because they provide stupid amounts of ballistic protection), then throw grenades at them. preferably F1s or grenade launcher grenades. pick off whatever stragglers with an SMG modded to have absurd rates of fire, loaded with hollowpoints. I love Misery's sheer insanity.

>>717831575

>the chaos and the strobing shadows from the muzzle flashes

Kino
Stalker 2 could never.
Even the lightning storms look pitiful compared to the dynamic shadows from all the trees , buildings and people in the original trilogy

>>717839762
I accept that you're a redditor and therefore nothing you say or think matters.

>>717839765
I have a 14700k and 5080. The performance being bad is unfortunate, but not anywhere close to the biggest problem the game has.

>>717840152
Analmeme with mutants in the very beginning fucking sucks. any bite or scrape makes you bleed and it fucking sucks if you need to get to point A to point B and you're broke with no bandaids and little ammo.
That story of the controller is just a later part of that.
I was going to the truck cemetary to pick up something for Sid.
I spawned into the west entrance and was immediaterly assaulted by 5 dogs, and a bloodsucker. I ran and killed them, The controller thing happened, leaving me with no bandaids, then got somewhat close to my target, found MORE dogs, a chimera, and a burar on the other side of a fence from the watch tower I sprinted up to funnel the dogs.

It's fucking brutal. I feel like they just front load spawns when you first start or enter areas because I don't know how those fucks who made this mod thought this was a good idea.

>>717836743
This and the g36 were laser bems

>>717840152
I can't into high ROF weapons because i'm not very good at aiming so i switch to semi-for most of the rifles i use unless it's a fucking big mutant i know I won't miss.

>>717831575
>blood sucker peeking over the door
>somehow teleports closer to you
I fucking hate these things i really do.

>>717834571
>enough money to buy them between bandages and other things i also needed, and I was shot and bleeding out.
try this
install the bleeding prevention upgrade the jacket you start with
upgrade the Makarov, put at the very least the extended magazine on it, preferably also go for the upgrade path that improves both rate of fire and accuracy. stick with the Makarov until you get an MP5, then convert it to 9x18
never, ever pick up shotgun ammo. it's heavy as shit and shotguns are completely useless in the great swamps
loot all of the food and vodka you come across, sell off of that shit to the bartender in the Clear Sky camp, he pays full price for that

if you follow my advice you'll have at least 20k and loads of upgraded gear by the time you get in Cordon. good luck, stalker.

>>717840760
Not a bad idea, senpai. Maybe i'll give CS another go.

Blyat

>>717840415
>spawn in and mobbed by mutants
every stalker game.

>tfw was a massive stalkerfag
>put around 800 hours in the trilogy with non-freeplay mods
>already thought stalker 2 looked ass when the trailers came out
>pre-ordered anyways just to support gsc
>pc died on stalker 2 launch day
>had to fix pc over a week before I got to play
>finally got to play it
>got 3 hours in
>disliked every second
>took a few weeks off
>one of the big patches dropped
>try again on a new save
>disliked every second
>left such a bad taste that I haven't played stalker since february
finally starting to get the itch again
might play through the enhanced editions just to get comfortable again then revisit OP2.2 perhaps

>>717840415
anon, consider the fact that the truck cemetery is not an area you are supposed to go in during the hobo phase - unless you know exactly what you're doing and have the right equipment.

>>717840558
what mouse have you got? if it's shit, get the cheapest gaming mouse that's made by a reputable brand on Amazon or whatever. I got myself an AOC mouse for like 12 euros earlier this year, it's heavy as shit and despite that it's way better than the shit tier HP wireless mouse I was using before (my G400 broke so I was using that as backup).

>>717826531
Gamma is anomaly retard

>>717834385
SoC had the worst selection of weapons. Fags that fellate it are playing mods.

>>717840835
do that and see what you think
another bit of advice I can give you is to never, under any circumstance, use the "upgraded ballistics" optional module that comes with SRP, it turns the game into the stereotypical "every gun is a death ray" shitfest and I really dislike such kind of gameplay in stalker.

>>717841126
this wasn't the hobo phase. I had fairly good armor and a competent rifle with my first few upgrades, a shotgun, NVG, and a few artifacts.
There was just a lot of shit there.

>>717841269
SRP? Is that the Skys Reclamation Project or something?
>every gun a deathray
I play Master Mode because i like being able to shoot something once and it dies, unless you're talking about something else.

>>717841062
A recent patch added some new weapons and ammo types as well as the ability to harvest mutant parts, and they fixed ALife

Why are handguns in the trilogy fucking awful?

>>717841001
Worst I've ever experienced it;
>loot hunting in X-16, already on edge and low on ammo
>come back up via the stairs loading zone you enter in through
>three Burers in my face the moment it loads
>feel my body jettison its soul in an instant as tard instincts take over and I spam my automatic blindly at the mass of dwarven facerapers
>die

>>717841062
I'm waiting on SoC Update 2.0.

>>717841508
They absolutely did not fix A-life. I tried that patch to see how it was and the "fighting factions" still were just spawning near me and would prioritize going after me even if I was just crouched in the bushes not shooting at anyone.

>>717841508
It wasn't even really those specific things, just a lot of the smaller shit
>play on veteran
>deal 25% less damage for literally no reason
>food and water rates are doubled
>but the food and water doesn't matter because there's like an unlimited amount of resources just out in the world
>no binoculars
>skif's pistol is one of the best weapons in the game
>outperforms a 74u in early game
>jump on a high object to escape mutants
>they just run away (this may have been fixed idk)
>fight a bloodsucker on veteran
>have to empty several magazines in-between slowdowns and bloodsucker attack animations to kill it

>>717826496
i know what faction i am
>what if i put my dick in the dick twister for science?
>do it, i'll film it and we can publish it for science
>yes... for science....
>also fuck the government even though they give me money because those guys are overreaching pricks who aren't in the zone

>>717841459
yeah, that's the mod you're thinking of. the thing about "master mode does more damage to both you and enemies" is a total misconception that was debunked a long time ago, but the thing about SRP improved ballistics turning every gun into a deathray isn't. I personally found vanilla Clear Sky gunplay serviceable 2bh. at least after upgrading guns a bit.

>>717841623
>snork running in place
>pistol shots entering a different dimension 3 inches after being shot
>switching to knife to kill something
That's the SoC early game experience alright.

>>717841779
I screenshot your idea for Great Swamps. i'll give it a shot when i have the courage to play CS again. thanks anon.

>>717838752
>>717838834
Stalker 2 has.
Freedom chick that sells armours.
That grumpy chick at Yaniv.
That scientist chick at Malachite.
And 4th one is the bandit one, but disappears should you do a certain quest.
I wish there were more of them - medics, traders, logistics, etc.
But yeah, sending them into combat is... pointless. Except as snipers.

>>717841917
you're welcome, stalker.

genuinely believe anyone who wants women in stalker is a faggot or tranny
there is no rational explanation for it

>>717839726
I am climaxing right now.
>those two Hornets
I came.

>>717842067
I guess i should ask though.
Barring the beginning being really rough and the ending - from what I've heard - being the worst to go through in the game; does Cs have any redeeming qualities to it inbetween?

>>717842148
some maps are cool, also artifacts in Clear Sky are absolutely busted. I'm talking "regenning health from a sliver of life to fully healed in less than 15 seconds" and "being able to carry more than 200kg of shit thanks to artifacts" tiers of busted.

>>717842148
nta but the ending is easily cheesed if you just climb up and down the ladder repeatedly and abuse saves
it's cheating but in stalker it's sometimes your best course of action, because the final fight in CS can also softlock
CS is my favorite but it's more for vibe purposes as retarded as that sounds
I just like the way it looks more than SoC or CoP, but it's more action focused than SoC with the (buggy) territory stuff, whether the territory wars is redeeming or not is up to preference

>>717841728
the people making this game didn't play it, it's very obvious when you come across the dumbest shit
>2 bloodsuckers taking turns knocking you down into a forced animation, preventing all combat and healing
>on top of the animation locking they also take mags to the body and heal way faster than they used to, they patched it to regenerate slower, but it was still pumped up artificially to make bloodsuckers more "intense" when they were literally a mid-game enemy that could be killed reliably with any weapon that wasn't a pistol
the more you play, the more you realize the developers don't actually play the game or do anything related to it other than listen to what others say, they KNEW the durability was ass, they KNEW the economy was bullshit, they KNEW the AI was downgraded and with retarded scripts, the KNEW all this and still shipped it while saying the enemies aren't just "spawning in" when you can literally empty a POI, wait five minutes, come back, and all the dogs you killed are back

>loot crate at the end of harrowing obstacle course
>1 vodka, a bandage, and 8 pistol bullets
they just randomly generate this loot for anything that isn't a blueprint

>>717841508
They did not fix A.I. at all. Still the same shit, except now if you are in the base of any faction and a blowout happens, some of those outside will not hide and die to the blowout. This is expecially prominent at the duty base.

>>717842336
>>loot crate at the end of harrowing obstacle course
>>1 vodka, a bandage, and 8 pistol bullets
>they just randomly generate this loot for anything that isn't a blueprint
yeah this is another one of the things that really annoyed me
granted I was spoiled by OP 2.2 where any stash can be a gamechanger, but even in the base games getting a nice suit or gun from a stash was great
making them all into generic resources was so fucking retarded and I know it's because they were too lazy to put effort in like they did with SoC

how does Alife continue to be both a thing that exists and something that doesn't work

is there a mod for Anamoly that lets guns not be fucking busted and broken if i pick it up off a dead body

>>717842124
really, lil' sister?

You should play CS
It's good

>>717841728
>>717842336
Yup.
>bloodsuckers
Should go down from 1-2 shotgun blasts, 3 at most if you hit the body.
Issue is that you can have that, you need to use expansive/yellow ammo, but that shit is rare and costly.
Animation lock is not even the worst of it. Its the case where they get behind you and start attacking you non-stop until you turn around or die. They get behind you even when there is no space/place or you actually body block the passage.
>loot
I hate that shit. Atleast they could've put attachements and more ammo there. Artefacts would be nice too.
>they KNEW
Idk anon if they play their game or not, but yeah, there is a lot of bullshit there that should not be there.
>while saying the enemies aren't just "spawning in" when you can literally empty a POI, wait five minutes, come back, and all the dogs you killed are back
That is the biggest issue IMO. Spawns. It is even worse in the wilds.
>walk for a minute or two
>stop to get bearings
>3 suckers spawned somewhere in the vicinity and are bumrushing you
No time to relax and take in the sights/environment. Its like they just want you to be constantly on the edge.

>>717842915
Yah, REALLY.

>>717843576
can you post pics for entertainment - I mean, scientific purposes please?

>>717843281
>Issue is that you can have that, you need to use expansive/yellow ammo, but that shit is rare and costly.
Armor piercing ammo/weapons make them crumple like tissue paper too, and even some normal weapons. I've been using the 1911 they added a bunch and 5-6 rounds in the chest usually drops bloodsuckers, the only real bullet sponges are burers, chimeras, and pseudogiants

>>717843809
No.

>>717842098
Yeah, even if the woman turns to prostitution, it's actually pointless

>>717842098
i mean, we can have a cute ecologist waifu

>>717843829
Yes, 1911 is really damn good. And relatively cheap. I use two of them from time to time.
>burers
Nah, one mag from AKS and they drop. I usually use that soviet smg with AP rounds, or Spitter.
>chimeras
I hate those shits. Annoying as hell because i have to kite them like no tomorrow.
>pseudogiants
Sponges for sure. I would not mind them, except that jump and knockdown they do really irritates me.
>if you have jumped up in the air and are in the air, you still get knocked down
>if you are on the elevation (like several concrete blocks), you still get knocked down
>if you manage to get some distance from it, you still get knocked down
I hate that shit even more than chimera.

>>717841673
I think it just depends on your disposition toward the factions, I just now did the mission right before you go to SIRCAA for the first time and there's a big gunfight between Ward and Spark outside after you talk to Scar, and both groups completely ignored me in favor of shooting at each other. I also remember a mission in Garbage I did a few days ago with one of the bandit bosses where his base was attacked by other bandits, and they also all completely ignored me in favor of shooting at each other because I apparently had never pissed either faction off

>>717844218
>one mag from AKS and they drop
They always turn on their shield before I can ever take them out with one magdump, I dunno if I'm just shit but it seems like half the time I spend fighting burers is spent waiting for their shield to go away

I didn’t get very far in S2z
What happened to Dooty and why/how did the Freedomfags takeover Rostok?

>>717843185
you shouldn't
the only good thing about CS is the Red Forest

>>717844579
Freedom became jews, they started focusing on trade and became one of the wealthiest factions in the Zone. Duty cucked out and now just guards the entrance to the power plant, Ward pretty much took over everything Duty was trying to accomplish and succeeded far better, probably just due to having massive external government and private funding

>>717826572
>Exploration
Early game, sure. Middle to Late game, no. After a while there's just nothing to find, nothing to buy and nothing to do since side quests dry up by then.
>Gunplay
No, not really. It's fun sometimes but enemy AI is retarded and gunfights are either very unfair where enemies with shotguns will snipe you when they spot you or they'll all stand out of cover shooting you like they're braindead. Mutants are all pretty crap except the bloodsucker which just feels unfair and the psychodogs where you're better off running away then fighting it.

Honestly, give it like 5 years for the devs to fix things and then mods on top of that for people to fix the things the devs said they would and it might be good then.

>>717844729
>red forest
I fucking HATE red forest in Analmeme though

>>717844976
>better off running away then fighting it.
better off running away than fighting it*

>>717845012
>Analmeme
no one is forcing you to play this autismo sim
i still don't understand why it became so popular

>>717844460
>is spent waiting for their shield to go away
Yes, that is exactly how it plays. You either sneak up on them or bum rush the location and pop them while they have no shield on, or bait them and hide/cover and wait for their shield to go down. Just watch out for weapons laying around, you have to unload those so you dont get gunned down.
Another trick is to get them to grab an object, then quickly get behind them, so that when they throw it, they hurt themselves with it.

>>717845173
It’s fun though it’s got a lot of trash in it, but I’ve gotten over it.
It has the SoC path of shit with a lot more stuff if you want.

>>717844579
Guard (Varta) came around, forced everyone to sign the deal called D4, and so Freedom got Rostok, and Duty got Concrete Factory. Then, because of Bar and location of Rostok, Freedom became happy merchants.

>>717845476
Can I kill all of freedom without consiquences?

>>717829869
Get the Soundscape overhaul addon. At least you'll know they're in the area if you're paying attention. Also bring buddies with you, NPCs can give you an edge in detecting mutants.
In Anomeme once you get a decent Nosrog + Empty + other slot items, chimeras, controllers and some anomalies are your only real issues. In my current setup I'm walking out in the open during psy-storms.

>>717826572
>exploration
Not really if you are after loot. Great if you are in for the environment/locations.
>gunplay
50/50. Sometimes it is great. Sometimes its the worst drag of your life.

get out if here, stalker

>>717845373
>get them to grab an object, then quickly get behind them, so that when they throw it, they hurt themselves with it.
That's actually clever, I'll have to try it

>>717846195
>if

>>717839726
Why'd you save this pic of my EDC?

>>717839726
Could an average Stalker carry this?

>>717847298
Yes it’s only 50kg

HEY BUDDYYYYYYY
Way to offload your crap on me, I'll know better next time!

>>717846216
Just mind the elevation, because burers are squat. This method also works on poltergeists, but more unreliable.
And that reminds me. North of Malachite, on Radar, there are 4 respawning poltergeists. Get a good Kora, and hunt them for organs, and thus for money.

>>717826496
>Your Result: Loner
Dumb quiz but I'm happy with the result

>>717838834
Literally built for Big Freedom Cock.

>>717839893
Stalker 2 has a couple women but almost all of them are burly old babushkas, the only one I can think of that wasn't is the ice queen mechanic at the base right outside Pripyat and she's absolute wife material

>>717826572
The gunplay could be better but exploration is fine. Honestly I had to start abandoning loot because caches were dumping high value suits on me constantly and I couldn't carry that shit

>>717848472
>he doesn't spend all his time in the -Zone overloading himself with scavenged guns, suits, ammo, and food and staggering back to the nearest base to sell it all for 20k coupons
ngmi

>>717829869
I love losing my permadeath run to a chimera after thirty hours again and again.

>>717845581
You can't kill anyone, sadly.
Actually, last time I played it you could kill anyone without consequences because of bug or something

freedom bros

>>717826572
Enemy AI is kinda trash compared to og games.

>>717850264
>no helmet
>no gun
would smoke this bitch and take all her shit in a heartbeat

>>717845373
I thought you had to pick up guns and if you just unloaded them, they'd still fire.

>>717850264
I bet that medkit has some of her used panties inside it

>>717850264
wtf I love freedom now

>>717833283
so disappointed they went with a more generic AR instead of this in stalker 2

>>717839726
This is my brain scorcher loadout

>>717851149
I haven't seen a LR-300 in a video game in like 12 years

>>717826572

It is a good game but it has so many issues that I can't recommend it at full.price.

Also use many different manual.saves.

>>717834571
I love the swamps, only grips is the rustling of the reeds is too loud, or just activates too often.

>>717826572
Stalker 2 is much better than /v/tards will tell you it is. It’s quite buggy, has very obvious missing features, but the exploration itself is top notch. It’s the bedt open world I’ve played in a really long time. I made it better with mods than reduce run speed and spring speed, adds the vaulting mod but made it so that it’s not unrealistic. Added a few mods for weapon balance, day night cycle. The only missing thing is a working a-life, whether it’s a mod or devs implement it again I dont care. Apparently they’ve been adding a-life tweaks bit by bit. I decided to not touch the game again until it’s really well updated. It shouldn’t be like it is now, because that just shows how shit the industry is, but honestly, in 5 years with mods and updates from devs, it will be one of the best games ever made.
And Im not a ukrainian shill I actually wish russians finish this war by steamrolling ukraine and reclaiming it. But the game deserves more love.

>>717851643
>the exploration itself is top notch. It’s the bedt open world I’ve played in a really long time.
What fucking planet are you living on?

>>717841728
bloodsuckers are the worst, fuck that retarded slow down, taking away my control.
Also fuck burers, ripping shit out of my hands and getting lost for good.
And fuck psi emissions, fucking spawning ghosts that shoot real bullets. At the very least psi-block should be readily purchaseable early on.

>>717847731
>that microstutter when the game autosaves

>>717852052
>fucking spawning ghosts that shoot real bullets
That is one thing that i just dont get why the fuck it was implemented.

>>717851643
>But the game deserves more love.
Yeah how about the game deserved more love from its developers?

>>717851839
NTA.
It depends on what one means by exploration.
If you mean that there is good loot hidden in secretive places and it takes some skill to get to it or that you can get cool shit by randomly stumbling on it? No, S2 fails at that. Good stuff is hard to come by and hard to find. Randomised stashes are shit without good loot (artefacts, armors, guns, attachements, actual aid and ammo).
If you mean abandoned facilities, environment, architecture, etc - yeah, S2 is damn good. However, you still have an issue of limited interaction - you cannot grab/push and move a box, you cannot do rope/climbing like in Far Cry 4, or traversals via interactables. So its just vibes, and if vibes are what makes exploration good for someone - then it is good in their view.

>>717826815
>Also a daily reminder that they butchered the "Enhanced Editions" beyond repair
I didn't even know there were enhanced editions. What specifically did they change in each game?

>>717826496
>isg
noice.

>>717851208
if you're insanely good you can do the whole Brain Scorcher with just a 9mm or 9x18 weapon and shittons of hand grenades, regardless of the mod

>>717853662
The best shit is the stuff you randomly stumble upon lmao. There's a random helmet on a roof in the tutorial bandit hideout, a full freedom suit in one of the Garbage bandit areas, the gun on top of the coolant tower, like a half dozen duty suits littering the place on the eastern side of the map. Another Freedom suit in the swamps, that one Spark outfit on top of Malachite that requires a bunch of jumping. Shit is all over the place

>>717853662
>If you mean abandoned facilities, environment, architecture, etc - yeah, S2 is damn good. However, you still have an issue of limited interaction
You said what I was about to say. Cool looking areas are nice for atmosphere, but if the world is really big, you need traversal options, interactions and mechanics, and some form of environment and traversal puzzles. Stalker 2 has basically none of that outside a few things like getting the unique artifacts, or the Duty tower, or the safes. But it's not enough given how much running around and carrying a bunch if equipment between places there is. You spend like half your game time just running between places carrying heavy loot to offset gun repair costs.

I thought i should post some tips to those who decide to play S2.

>anomalies can damage your equiped weapons
>unequip them before going into anomaly, save some money

>the more expensive the item, the more it costs to repair
>for armours, upgrades can significantly increase the value of the armour
>so avoid pricy ones or instal them when you have money saved
>or just dont buy anomaly protection upgrades
>use artefacts for that

>Kora 1911 is your second best gun
>Skif's pistol is your best gun
>get Nugget and use it because its dirt cheap and damn good for taking out human trash
>sawn-off is also good once upgraded, before you get Kora

>save artefacts and only turn them in for quest reward
>dont pick artefact quests, just keep stashing them
>sell vodka and beer

>you can get Bear detector right after you are free from Small Zone
>just bumrush to the Duty base at concrete factory, trader guy sells it
>once you have it, you can start artefact hunting in earnest

>physical protection on artefacts does not protect you from bullets/explosions/melee
>just from anomalies
>means Compass and such suck ass
>Liquid Stone is the best one
>do some artefact hunting before proceeding with quests/story

>>717826572
No
Play anomaly

>>717854493
>You spend like half your game time just running between places carrying heavy loot to offset gun repair costs.
Yup. That is the game.

>>717847731
KINO
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>>717854292
>a random helmet on a roof
Its not random at all. It is a fixed type of helmet.
And there is more of small shit like that in the starting area, yet none of the good stuff (like a bear detector or atleast Branch, or any of the advanced guns).
>lol lmao
Call me back when a random stash has artefacts in it, or sniper scope attachement, or drum mag for G36, or silencers for rifles/sniper rifles, or a grenade launcher, or a SEVA suit.

>>717855542
Some stashes do have attachments, but I don't know if those are fixed and the rest of the consumables are random or what.

>>717855542
A helmet on a roof is random by nature

>>717826496
>85% match for Merc
Nah how about Merc-maxxing instead, kill slavs get money.

>>717826815
>The amount of zoom zoom "Stalker fans" that have never even touched the OG SoC-CoP is disgusting.

>>717855796
They are fixed. You can get them even without stash coordinates. The issue is that they are few and far between. While most scopes and pistol/smg silencers you can get off traders, most of other attachements are in stashes. Want an expanded mag? Go find it. Want a paired mag? Go find it. Want X? Go find it and its the ONLY ONE in the zone. Its like that.

>>717856064
Call me when that helmet, "random by nature" is Mask-1.
>posts SEVA-V
And SEVA-D in on the top floor of the Cage.
And plain SEVA suit is in DUGA, guarded by a controller, and that is assuming that you dont get a bug where the corpse with the key doesnt spawn and thus you will never get it unless you use noclip.

>>717826496
>Ecologist (ISG - 76%)
Pretty much yeah, right on point. I like glowy artefacts. I am very partial to Ecologists.
>Duty, Monolith, Clear sky (58, 53, 53)
So what, i like to shoot mutants.

bamp

play IX-Ray anons

>>717858040
what's that? is it like, one of the many x64 conversions of SoC?

>>717858173
that's exactly what it is
the umpteenth x-ray fork

Does anyone here actually use companions?

>>717841062
The real devs of GSC already left before Stalker 2. When they said unreal engine and flipped the names around, I already knew it wasn't worth the buy.

>playing Anomeme
>raiding Chernobyl NPP with Strelok and pals, plus two other loners
>fucking psy-storm
>20 seconds away from the entrance that would provide cover
>psy-storm nukes the whole squad

>>717859946
always check the weather or wait for an emission to happen before doing anything big.

>>717856440
The expanded mags being rare is so dogshit. Just make it an expensive upgrade, you drunken mutts!

I'm not too keen on stalker shoc after x16, it turns too much into a shooting gallery.

Anyone here playing Analmeme please:
how the fuck do I even use upgrades i find in staches like shit for guns and armor? I found a sprint upgrade for Exoskeleton armor but I can't use it.

>>717861758
don't you have to find a manual on how to fix exoskeletons off from master stalkers or is that exclusively a gaymma thing?

>>717826124 (OP)
Za monolith

>>717861758
if its like in gamma then you have to use a workbench

I just got a PC what mods i should use to play a new run in stalker?
I already beat the trilogy some years ago and played coc too but i want something with missions or a story to do

>>717861758
You need:
- get the manual
- get the exo repair kit
- find a workbench/vices
And then instal the upgrade

>anomeme
Just cheat. The game is bullshit when it comes to armor/upgrades.
>upgrade anomaly resistances
>it does nothing
>upgrade ballistic res and impact
>it does nothing
Bullshit.

>>717862227
The manual, in anomaly at least, is to unlock crafting recipes of which some are weapon/armor upgrades.
>>717861758
Yeah, you use a workbench. An armorer will rent the use of it or you can kill him and have one for free.
You need other expensive, consumable toolkits to perform the installation. They can be crafted but again, you need a the recipes plus a lot of parts and autism.
I just sell all that shit and adjust prices and rewards to be more to my taste. Progression and difficulty customization is one of my favorite parts of Anomaly.

>>717862383
plat Autumn Aurora 2 for SoC, Misery for CoP, gaymma or IWP whatever for 'freeplay'

>>717862227
>>717862304
>>717862613
>>717862664
I remember in 1.5.1 you could also dissasemble weapons or field strip them whenever you wanted, is that not the case anymore for 1.5.2? Hell I don't see repair shops or weapon sellers selling weapon replacement parts anymore.

>>717862856
isn't Gamma even more autism than Anomaly?

>>717862882
You can disassemble/repair weapons/armors/items. You cannot upgrade them, you need the workbench.

>>717862934
yes but I love autism so there is that
t. greatly enjoys 7.62 Hard Life, which is about as autistic a /k/ game can get

>>717862978
I meant as an asside. 1.5.2 says i need a weapon toolkit or something to disassemble a gun now.

>>717862882
No, you can't buy replacement parts but you can get the tools to repair them to make the most of the installation cost. Hovering over the tool highlights compatible parts.

>>717853820
They 'enhanced' the graphics by giving Strelok cataracts so bad it feels like a UE5 game and censored all the Soviet murals and posters

>>717863161
Oh yeah, you need a swiss army knife or a multitool. Both are consumable but can be repaired, dont waste it on thw swiss knife tho. There might be a couple other disassembly tools, I forget, but you find them in boxes, random placement amd dead stalkers.

>>717863192
I genuinely kind of miss replacement parts from 1.5.1 It made leveling up the factions worth it because they have specific replacement parts and it made my gun feel special.

After playing CoP I can't play anything else. It's the closest thing to perfection...

>>717862856
Gayma and analmeme as well as any misery forks are gay. IWP with CoC questpack is based.

>>717864010
t. stalker expert (he can't play without having army medkit bound to his mouse's side buttons)

>>717826496
Shit questions, but I'm fine with the Merc life

Is there a Grocks/Nav's mask overlays mod for 1.5.2 Analmeme?

>>717862613
Don't artifacts/items still apply their effects, but it just doesn't register in the UI?

>>717864737
Sorry, but gaymafags don't get to pretend their opinions matter.

>>717826496
>ISG
aiiieeeeee

>>717865312
that's rich especially if it's coming from a subhuman from /sg/ that never learned how to play without abusing quicksaves.

>>717863318
what's the point of smelling a Mosin?

>>717865809
Sorry, but like I said, your opinions don't matter. You're a shit eating niggerfaggot subhuman that plays a retarded Tarkov wannabe mod for uppity thirdworlders who only like it because it's free. None of your opinions or insults matter. You're the eternal nigger of the Stalker fanbase, and you likely haven't even played the originals vanilla.

>>717826124 (OP)
Glad you asked stalker, just tried anomaly for the first time yesterday

anyone else in the camp of beating only soc with 0 mods

>>717866782
t. filtered because he can't spam medkits
don't worry /sg/bro, maybe you'll learn to play stalker by the time stalker 3 comes out.

>>717866656
delicious delicious nugget

do the ecologists have a eco suit with actual deffense?
I'm tired of running for artifacts, getting a minor scrape and having to repair my suit because repair costs for it are astronomical.

>>717867714
t. underage third world monkey

>>717868413
The green one provides a bit better but might as well get a SEVA.
Or are you playing Anomaly? I wanted to do an Eco playthrough and try the different color variants but I have a feeling they are mostly just flavoring than truly useful.

>>717868571
you do realize posting that kind of butthurt reply is like conceding defeat, right?

>>717868708
Analmeme. all the colored suits typically seem the same with some differances in eviro resistances and that's it. No ballistic or rupture res. I have an Exo suit for actual combat, but I don't like going out in the field and having a dog scratch my big toe and start gasping and dying for a medkit and also having to fix my suit.

>>717868712
You do realize that you're a third world monkey and a redditor, and no amount of throwing a tantrum or screaming "FILETEREDSSD!!!!" in response to someone calling your favorite game shit will make anyone take you seriously, right?

>>717868871
aaand concession accepted. thank you anon, the more butthurt you get, the more anons will realize how much of a cesspit of 89iq geniuses /sg/ is.

>>717869035
>concession accepted
I already pointed out that you were a redditor. You didn't need to restate it.

bamp

>>717869180
and I already pointed out you're a sub100IQ subhuman that can't play stalker without spamming quicksaves and gets butthurt about item animations as those can't let you spam medkits. how much do you want to bet the redditors that live in your head rent free don't have any problems with item animations and don't rely on quicksaves either?

>>717870074
The difference is that what I said is true.
>don't have any problems with item animations
I've played with gunslinger and similar mods. Nice strawman, but that isn't the problem with gayma and analmeme.
>and don't rely on quicksaves
Swing and a miss on the next strawman. You're definitely an underage third world monkey who uses reddit. No amount of pissing and shitting in anger will change that.

>>717870495
excuse me anon, there is one person that's part of this conversation that went into an autistic fit after being called a casual, and that certainly isn't me. and don't worry, your dignity is safe. not that you ever had much of it in first place. you can go back to /sg/ now, you successfully killed this thread and that clearly was your goal all along afterall.

>>717870731
Okay, shitskin monkey redditor.