Thread 723485606

>causes incomprehensible seethe among the most superficial layer of the stalker community
But why?

Huge STALKER Fan Excited to Play It for First Time.jpg

>>723485606 (OP)
>turns stalker into minecraft
>zoomers love it

just SoC with ZRP for me, thanks

*breathes intensely*

I don't have a problem with Anomaly, but GAMMA adds way too much shit to the game. Anomaly is good fun with a select handful of mods to update the visuals and other mechanics in the game but honestly I couldn't care less for the weapon packs and stuff, the guns in anomaly are more than sufficient.

>>723485606 (OP)
never take anything the subhuman retards from /sg/ say seriously. they ALWAYS seethed at any mod that was more difficult than AMK 1.4.
do you remember how much seethe Misery 2.0 caused? I do, I was an /sg/ regular back then, and didn't even beat half of the mod, yet I spoke plenty of shit about Misery 2.0

t. is about to start another run in Misery 2.0, this time I'll play as assault, recon felt like playing in easy mode (I was playing the hard start, the one where you have only a knife and a flashlight, I'll do it again for assault)

ayo finally budget /sg/

>>723485606 (OP)
I liked it, was surprised how nice the graphics got as well. Definitely makes for a nice collection to start with and see what you like/dislike so you can mod it further

>>723486389
isn't the point of GAMMA to make the game into a highly autistic sandbox for people who have already played the everloving shit out of the trilogy and have to go to great lengths to milk more content out of the game?

>>723486962
GGGRRRRAAAAAAAUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!

>>723486404
>playing Misery
>2025

>>723486931
Not really, people that have played the ever loving shit out of the other games (like me) just play anomaly (and other mods) with a curated set of mods I like GAMMA adds too much crap to the game I don't want. I like the game to still be stalker just with some enhancements for things I want.

>>723486931
SSSHHUT UP YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKE ANY SENSE

>>723487042
>GAMMA adds too much crap to the game
LOL
LAMO EVEN

>>723486404
WOW HIS NAME IS LITERALLY GAMMA!

>>723487028
yesh nigga. I beat it for the first time this year. no I don't have a PC that can run gaymma, if I had a PC that can run gaymma I'd be playing that.

>>723485802
>>723486361
>>723486962
>>723487026
>>723487181
adun get it, is this grokitach???

>>723486389
I never really got the whole hate for Anomaly, it's just a more fleshed out and modular Call of Chernobyl. Slap the OWA on it and it plays fine.
GAMMA is Misery: Extreme Edition, just sucks all the fun away from the game.
The best freeplay Sdalger mod was Call of the Zone though. RIP DoctorX.

>>723487189
Great time to upgrade this coming Holiday Season, anon!

>>723487261
No, it's Chase Holden. Here's one of his spooky new Halloween masks - what do you think, anon?

>>723487265
>GAMMA is Misery: Extreme Edition, just sucks all the fun away from the game.
God you are an embarrassing faggot.

>>723487281
I have 3k saved up and I'm spending exactly 0 on PC components. other shit has more priority and I don't exactly shit money, mr Pidor Pidorovich.

>>723487356
>POMOGI MNE AAAAAAAA*sharts*

>>723487265
Yeah I played CoC first and then moved to anomaly after because I just wanted more of the sandbox expereince. People hate anomaly because it's similar to misery shit and unbalanced survival wise for literally no good reason, but I mod that out and make it so that NPCs drop more ammo and other stuff I want a realistic but fairly balanced zone survival experience not one that makes no sense where literally no-one in the game drops ammo or weapons because of stupid balance reasons.

>>723485606 (OP)
>>causes incomprehensible seethe among the most superficial layer of the stalker community
Yeah, it's incredible how many Anomaly/GAMMA-only posers mald over the OG trilogy being "clunky" and "janky". I guess Ecelebs claiming that it's bugs that make STALKER so cool was the result of so many people coping with 2's awful release.
>>723485802
>>723486361
>>723486962
>>723487026
Is this some Lolcow I have never heard of?

>>723487372
>oh man oh wow it's like im playing misery, but the extremely hardcore edition that i saw on youtube (it doesnt fake survival)

>>723486172
Based

>>723487450
How about you spend 10 minutes in the options to tune every knob know to mankind to make the experience less retarded y-NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER

>>723487448
It's Chase Holden, he's from /sg/.

>>723487372
he's just the average /sg/poster. the kind of faggot that thinks if he can't beat the game by spamming the army medkit he bound to mouse 4 then the mod is shit.
just laugh at them and tell those kind of retarded faggots to fuck off.

>>723487356
Is this Holden guy a GAMMA dev or why do you post him ITT?

>>723486584
Astonishing to find literal counterfeit sauceposts, but here we are...

>>723486931
>for people who have already played the everloving shit out of the trilogy
No, it's for people who don't actually like and have likely never played Stalker.

>>723487579
>It's Chase Holden, he's from /sg/.
wait, THAT Holden? the Holden that made LURK?

>>723487741
Yes, he's the creator of LURK mod.

>>723487638
See above.

Who is Grok and why should I care about his mod?

>>723487710
You are merely witnessing the inevitable.

>>723487782
>Yes, he's the creator of LURK mod.
damn, Holden is one of my idols, he wasted lots of time and effort into making what's possibly one of the worst mods ever made. what a legend, I wonder what kind of retard one has to be to think "we can make stalker better by removing artifacts's effects"

>>723487448
>*was the cause of
Though to be fair the
>Not bugs, ANOMALIES xD
-posting increased after the shitshow that was STALKER 2's release.

>>723487814
It's a mod for stalker, read a description and decide for yourself. This thread has gotten the attention of a massive sperg so you won't be getting a good answer here.

>>723488021
>a massive sperg
Who?

>>723488182
The one who screams about medkits bound to a hotkey and pretends he's hardcore for liking objectively terrible games.

>>723487537
Can you tune it so that it's basically
>realistic loot
>non-gay repairs - parts are kept, but you can take weapons apart without tools, need tools/workbench to upgrade, armors need at a kit to swap parts, workbench to upgrade
>free workbenches for faction-aligned mechanics, discounts for reputation
>disable all the you need food/water shit because I just honestly can't be fucked, it's not even a bad mechanic desu
Without having to download mods? That's almost what I'm playing with now in Anomaly and it's ok.

>>723488231
this post perfectly explains why /sg/ turned into shit 2bh
>IWP autist is Holden
>Holden seethes to no end about item animations
>90% of posts on /sg/ are Holden, which is also the faggot I'm replying to
>merely mentioning having army medkits bond to mouse4 is enough to send Holden into a hissyfit
lol

>>723487443
Any recommended mods to slap on Anomaly? I basically stopped playing stalker after burning out from playing so much CoC.
All I really want is the same CoC sand-box gameplay with more quests and shit to do.

>>723488469
Incredible new Holden lore just dropped...

>>723488231
To be fair, STALKER was never much of a hardcore game. In SoC there are artefacts lying all around the Cordon and Garbage which you can sell, and every (human) enemy drops bandages, food, medkits, and other supplies. The only reason for there being some who unironically believe the series is the Ukrainian equivalent of Dark Souls is
A: Casuals who quit after half an hour because the PM is borderline useless
B: People who only played milsim-inspired mods, especially GAMMA

>>723488469
I like gunslinger, which has item animations. I only go to /sg/ occasionally go check the status on mods I'm waiting on. Your posts are all easy to spot, because you're a demented shitposting gaymababy who screams about binding medkits to a hotkey any time someone calls gamma shit, because you think you're hardcore for liking a terrible game.

>>723488512
>Any recommended mods to slap on Anomaly?
Just install GAMMA and disable the mods/mechanics you don't like.

>>723488585
Guess I forgot
C: Eceleb faggots and their fans who never play games themselves

>>723488690
The game has literal sliders for everything yet people whine about how "no fun" it is. You can literally set it up so enemies drop 100% durability weapons and armor.

>>723488585
It was hilarious reaching Agroprom and getting ready to go up against army but then stopping on the way to collect a bajillion artifacts just laying around littering the grassy fields either side of the road.
>yeah, yeah blyat I'm coming to help I just
>OOOOH PIECE OF CANDY
>I get roubles first because saving your ass doesn't pay much cyka
>Pizdets! Snorker in the artifact field, ok I coming to help bratan

CS had some major problems but still improved on the formula with artifacts needing a detector and CoP was ultra comfy despite low stakes story. SoC was only truly good once mods brought out all the stuff that made it into CS/CoP that was intended for SoC.

>>723488512
I'd have to dig out my list, but I throw all the graphical ones on like screen space shaders etc., trader overhaul, soundscape overhaul, food and drink animations, weapon cover tilt, the one that shows you the patch of a stalker when you aim at them and then a rebalance one that adjusts the drops of stalkers but I can't remember what that's called. I mostly leave gameplay vanilla and only update it graphically and with QoL stuff.

>>723488512
I've went from IWP (I messed up with some graphical mods that I can't delete from my save) to Anomaly (with mods to simplify some stuff + graphics) but CotZ is the story/quests mod that you'd probably want. It expands on stuff much better than Anomaly, the quests are kinda bare in that. Don't listen to anons telling you to just go Anomaly, I like it, but the quests are not good and since DoctorX died we're not getting Analmeme CotZ :'(

Anomaly for better graphics and smoother running game, IWP + CotZ for proper A-life + quests. Fite me.

>>723488374
Yes to all, you stupid asshole.
That's the point of MODULAR in G.A.M.M.A.'s name.

>>723489310
What do you mean I can mod the game to my liking? I want to install mods and whine about the options!

>>723489310
Rude, the name doesn't explain how modular it is and I've yet to try GAMMA. You should eat some bread, drink vodka and relax by campfire, you seem anally agitated.

>>723487265
>analmeme
It's shitting misery (a diarrhea mod) on top of COC and clearly made by people who hate stalker. one of the main things of stalker is artifacts, and the way the mod is designed, artifacts are useless garbage and you use tacticool equipment instead.
GAYMMA just pushes it even further into anti-stalker tardkov territory.

>>723489461
>>723489475
G.A.M.M.A. is literally just a graphix modpack.
Every single feature can be tuned out, removed completely or amped to 1000x at fucking will.
It's astonishing how people are still bitching at it.
The true reason why GAYMMA sucks it's because it's 160 fucking gbs of drive size, and none of it matters because you can easily download each and every one of its modlets separately for your Anomaly folder.

>>723487638
Some spamming proxy site user developed an autistic obsession with this literally who and some brand of barbecue sauce, and keeps spamming /sg/ about both topics.

>>723489526
>the way the mod is designed, artifacts are useless garbage and you use tacticool equipment instead
...What?
Are we talking about GAMMA? The mod that adds so many new artifacts, it goes an extra mile to make 2 different categories for each of them?
The classic stat-stick artifacts typical of SoC, and the more ability-oriented ones from CS upwards?
You stupid fucking retard?
Holy shit you faggots really don't play videogames at all.

>>723489526
>GAYMMA just pushes it even further into anti-stalker tardkov territory.
Reading this sentence has given me an aneurysm.
I wish I could spawn an anomaly in your room rn, a-la Skif.
It's staggering how retarded you faggots actually are sometimes.

>>723489591
>160GB
>You have to download it by going to their discord
Holy shit lmao. Does the default 20 something GB install look bad? How do I download it without going to their discord?

>>723488585
It started earlier than that. AMK and Oblivion Lost increased the difficulty, and every slavjank SOC meme mod out there had a fetish for adjusting AI damage and accuracy so there was a 20% chance of an enemy's shot missing, 5% shot of being hit and surviving, and 75% chance of being shot and dying instantly.

>>723488512
Western Goods

>>723489821
I can't hear you from the lead-lined box I put you in

>>723489694
Actual newfag, Holdenposting and sauceposting are two distinct people (at least).

>>723490015
Removed a fucking year ago. Retard.

>>723488585
I laugh in the face of the concept of "difficulty" by having something like picrelated as my loadout

>>723485606 (OP)
I'm never making a groomcord account

>>723490172
In GAMMA? Anomaly still has them.

>>723485960
Its been years since i modded stalker, does it let you build bases or something?

>>723489707
>and the more ability-oriented ones from CS upwards?
NTA, but what the fuck are even you talking about? All artifacts in the original trilogy are pure stat sticks. Same for S2, except for the very few unique artifacts you get inside the mega anomalies.
Also, all perk artifacts in GAMMA are pure unusable garbage. Ironmanfags sometime carry an invisibility artifact, and that's it. And don't forget that occupying 2 artifact slots with a plate and a cooler is literally early-to-mid-game meta. And then another mandatory slot is a pelt (not an artifact).

>>723490694
it unironically does lmaooooOOOOOO

>>723485606 (OP)
Because it's popular
GAMMA is unironically the peak STALKER experience
Everything can be tweaked, if you dislike the grinding or crafting, just remove it
People are just mad that jewtubers are talking about it and STALKER is no longer muh sekrit club

>>723489707
They're shitty and irradiate you even when they're not equipped in analmeme. Gaymma making them cawadooty/fallout perks instead is just another flavor of AIDS.
>>723489821
>gaymmatroon can't comprehend his preferred mod and playstyle is antithetical to how ACTUAL stalker games play

>>723485606 (OP)
I have noticed that 95% of complains come from people who never played it or played some years old version.
It's parrots and retards, actually legit complains like grok fucking with the drop rate of expert tools or a lot of armors being shit are ultra rare and requires actually playing the game for longer than 2 hours.

>>723491078
Actual OG trilogy you just equip anti-rad artifact + effect artifacts that may or may not have radiation. What are you trying to say?

>>723491306
OT+ S2: Radioactive artifacts irradiate you if you're wearing them.
Analmeme: Radioactive artifacts irradiate you at all times. No equipping required. They irradiate you to death just being in your backpack. You have to put them in a heavy fucking 5kg lead lined container (1 per artifact) to transport them, and put them into a different, rarer, more expensive container to wear them without eating radiation.
Play the games so you can recognize the changes.

>>723485606 (OP)
There is no seethe, Grok is just retarded and constantly contradicts himself over the reasons he's changes stuff.
It's literally easier to just mod Anomaly yourself than to tweak GAMMA.

I just play vanilla MISERY. Sometimes i'm even sober when I do!

OP 2.2

>>723489694
>spamming proxy site user
Where do you people even come up with this shit?

>>723489707
perk artifacts are a literal joke, they suck ass and unironically have the meme
"If you do x you get a damage boost for 5 seconds!" like that actually fucking matters

>>723491750
>pretending the proxy site doesn't exist after it's been advertised here hundreds of times
>pretending it isn't being used when you can watch the spammer get banned and instantly come back to keep spamming, repeatedly, faster than a modem reboot with a dynamic ip can be done
>damage controlling this hard

>>723490172
>average SOUP enjoyer

>>723491574
Just checked, Analmeme lead-lined container is 0.2kg. Can you not use that in the suits? I say that because I haven't tried because the 2 artifacts I have found so far have been dogshit. IWP + arti mod was ok, close to originals.

>>723487265
>GAMMA is Misery: Extreme Edition, just sucks all the fun away from the game.
No it absolutely is not, GAMMA is mega duplo baby lego blocks compared to MISERY, which is genuinely miserable. It’s crazy how hard you guys miss buying guns and armor.

>>723488512
Some must have QoL mods
>MCM menu (make sure to install this one since a lot of mods will let you tweak settings through there)
>HUD icons time
>Better stats bars
>HTS bars
>Track compatible items
>sorting+
>PDA taskboard
>Nitpicker's modpack (install only StatsDisplay, TotalWeights and FastTransfer)

>>723491862
Literally what are you talking about? What site has been advertised? Do you have ANY evidence or screenshots of what you're referring to? Thanks for the screenshot btw this will go great with the rest of the schizopost lore that /sg/ has created about sauceanon and Holden.

>>723493251
Misery isn't even that bad to begin with.

>>723486931
Yes, the people making GAMMA genuinely love STALKER no matter how gopfucked retarded they are. My pretentious elitist faggot friend ended up loving GAMMA after I kept bugging him to play it.

>>723491078
They do not irradiated you when equipped. I was literally playing last week. Some of them lower your radiation resistance and other stats, though most are just straight upgrades.

>>723485606 (OP)
Reminder that Grok, the head GAMMA dude, announced his wife's miscarriage by pinging everyone on his discord.
Dude loss'd himself.

>>723494431
>his wife's miscarriage
Unreal - did this actually happen? I recall him announcing that his wife was pregnant a while back, but I can't remember when.

>>723485606 (OP)
I played Anomaly back in 2015 and had a blast, is GAMMA the same, worse, better? qrd?

>>723494552
Yes, I was there and it was fucking hilarious.
>Sorry guys, no update this week. We lost Grok Jr. in the womb
I was later banned from the discord for posting: https://files.catbox.moe/cyzmhb.mp4

>>723494671
Lmao faggots
I'm downloading Gayma right now and I bypassed the discord. Egotistical fuckwit.

>>723494431
>>723494671
jesus fuck christ are you serious? are there any screencaps of this?

>>723486931
No the point is to turn STALKER into an enjoyable experience for people who hate stalker and want to play EFT but suck too much to play multiplayer.

>>723494948
Unless he deleted it, I assume it's still in the announcements channel.
I'd screenshot it if I wasn't banned like I said. Try just searching for "grok jr" in announcements or something.

>>723494218
>Yes, the people making GAMMA genuinely love STALKER
no. they love the vision of stalker that they themselves have made up. grok himself admitted that he played the original games years ago and isn't interested in replaying or modding them.

>>723495115
>modding disrespects muh vision
Don’t be a faggot. What’s so special about replaying shit? You sound performative

>>723494552
>>723494948
>>723495045
he even posted the fucking frog

>>723495115
Based. They have their own idea of what STALKER is instead of being pretentious /vg/gers who believe that it's either linear janky shooters filled with bugs or Russian malware with Adidas tracksuits textures and meme references.

reminder
stop replying to the (You) starved ruskie that always tries to bait in gamma threads
he never even played original anomaly, he got filtered by 3 repair items his brain is too small, probably an actual irl retard

>>723495354
Ahhh there it is. Thank you anon for blessing this thread.

>>723495354
>Even adds a trigger warning

Grok is this true?

>>723495351
i'm not talking about discrespecting anyone's vision lmao. my point is that he doesn't like the actual games, he's not a fan of the stalker series, he only likes the general premise of it. so i wouldn't say that he "genuinely loves stalker".

>>723495541
Yes, you’re saying that he doesn’t like the games because when he mods them it’s now “his vision” as if that isn’t the entire point of a mod. Originalvisionfags are always performative lunatics

>>723495383
You forgot to cry about hot keyed medkits.

>>723495383
>i have my own idea of what poker is instead of being a pretentious pokerfag who believe it's a gambling card game, therefore i am based.

>>723489694
>>723491862
This is literally what you sound like.

>>723491669
The only one for me

>>723495354
>we lost Grok Jr
Why didn't they go find him?

>>723495729
>the rules of a multiplayer card game which is played for real life money
>the ‘vision’ (undefinable buzzword) a singleplayer video game

>>723495354
>we lost grok j-*bang*
that's the pepe I remember

>>723495638
>I modded half-life 2 into a dirt rally clone because I absolutely fucking hate first person shooters
>WTF WHAT DO YOU MEAN I DON'T LIKE HALF-LIFE UGH FUCKING PURISTS

This retarded zoomer poser is going to shit himself when he plays half life 2 for the first time and finds out there’s a dirt buggy in it

>>723496186
who?

>>723486404
Based.

>>723495751
NTA but I don't know what he's talking about either

>>723495638
I think you have missed the
>grok himself admitted that he played the original games years ago and isn't interested in replaying or modding them.
part of >>723495115.
Grok's knowledge about the original Stalker games is low. I remember seeing screencaps of him mistaking Anomaly lore with the actual canon lore
>inb4 who cares about that
I don't care much to be honest, but the point is that no, Grok doesn't love the Stalker series, he probably wouldn't consider himself a fan of the trilogy if you would have asked him. He loves his little project based on the Stalker games, and that's fine, but it wasn't created out of his love for this IP, but because he saw the potential in Anomaly to create a full-scale survival game based on the Stalker world and utilizing its elements.

Real ones remember...

Gamma? Never heard of it.

Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WyRnhnq0uA&list=RD1WyRnhnq0uA&start_radio=1

>>723488512
>All I really want is the same CoC sand-box gameplay with more quests and shit to do.
Just get IWP with CotZ, that's all you need for your CoC needs.

>>723496336
I didn’t miss that part, I was ignored when I asked why it mattered, and it’s not obvious to me that loving something is the same as studying something. If he didn’t like the IP it’s unlikely he would’ve spent any time on anomaly, never mind envision anything he could spend years doing with it. It still comes down to the fact that he modded it instead of replaying it therefore he must hate the “original vision” which is silly and impossible to actually articulate in a meaningful way.

>>723496924
>Just get IWP with CotZ
Been said before in the thread, but yes

>>723485606 (OP)
When's the next big yearly update?

>>723485606 (OP)
So for anyone wanting a TLDR of this thread
>autistic sperg who usually posts on /sg/ and pisses off everyone posts thread on /v/ about gaymma
>/sg/ virgins come in to troll and leave their own retarded opinions here
>gaymma players come in to explain why discount Tarkov-like is better than Tarkov
>any nuanced post gets buried as is tradition.
I swear to God you fucking retards have been having this same sperg out since misery came out.
The only good post I have seen here was Grok's stupid announcement to the GAMMA discord of the miscarriage of his unborn son with a pepe emoji. >>723495354
If there is something that never changed in the Stalker modding community is that more popular mods/modpacks are made by weird fucking people.
Ah well, I guess I will go back to having fun while playing SoC, Stalker 2, IWP and Analmeme.

>>723497470
(You)

>autistic sperg who usually posts on /sg/ and pisses off everyone posts thread on /v/ about gaymma
Just curious who exactly this mystery sperg is that multiple people in here are constantly mentioning? Do you seriously, genuinely believe some boogeyman that haunts your precious general?

>>723494671
>I was later banned from the discord for posting: files.catbox.moe/cyzmhb.mp4
And what the fuck exactly did you expect posting that there, socially maladjusted autist? A pat on the back?

>>723497470
Someone needs to mod a Four Loko or Mickey's malt liquor into her hand

>>723485606 (OP)
>mod pack makes everything in the game tedious

>723497470
Anon...

>>723497563
Actually that's pretty common on /vg/. Janitors there never leave their home threads, so dudes can just post whatever the fuck they want with zero chance of them being banned or it getting deleted.
Look at the halo general for an example, it's a fucking trash fire of random off topic posts.
SS13 also has its own few autists that spammed off-topic AI posts so much (Like upwards of 200 per thread) that the thread doesn't even exist anymore.

>>723497563
>Do you seriously, genuinely believe some boogeyman that haunts your precious general?
As a matter of fact, yes. You see /sg/ is frequented by the same group of retards that post daily. If you lurk enough you start to notice regulars in there. And in every thread there is this one retard that tries to "troll" the thread with stupid Analmeme and Gamma posts. For whatever reason this guy decided to smear his shit in /v/.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending /sg/. God forbid you like Stalker 2 because you will be mobbed to death, and they really do circle jerk stupid old stalker mods that are more annoying than fun to play.
My point is that this is a piss contest between some retarded neckbeards that spilled over into /v/ because someone needed validation.
Pretty gay shit desu.

>>723497063
He might have stumbled upon Anomaly, enjoyed it, and decided to mod it. It snowballed into Gamma being a thing. This doesn't mean that he loves the IP as a whole, or is a fan of the actual games. That's how I see it. Ofc it also doesn't mean that he dislikes or hates the ""vision"", but it's just not something he cares about. If Anomaly wouldn't be a thing, I don't believe that he would care about Stalker at all. Like I said, his knowledge about the original games isn't high (and I don't say that "in order to be a fan™ you need to have autistic knowledge about the series", but you know, at least recognize which lore elements are official and which are not?), neither is his knowledge about the general modding scene, he unironically seems to believe that russian modders only create shitpost soup mods.

>>723498185
But Stalker 2 did suck. It was a big disappointment, like DD2 and KCD2.

>>723498484
>KCD2
>big disappointment
You really should venture outside of your 4chan echo chamber sometime. This is literally the only place deluded enough to believe that narrative (that they themselves created).

>>723498484
Divine Divinity 2 wasn't that bad

>>723498484
>But Stalker 2 did suck.
It doesn't suck now though. Like after 1.6 it is pretty good imo.

>>723498746
>muh echo chamber
I played the game, you fucking faggot. I don't care what reddit thinks.

>>723498484
I haven't seen a single person "disappointed" in KCD2 that wasn't a chud shitting his pants over DA BLACK, DA JOOS or DA GAE.

I remember installing this mod and then looking at the discord announcements for help and then he had just posted that his wife had a miscarriage lol

Stalker 2 is the best vanilla stalker experience by far, especially now after 1.6

>>723499147
>I don't care what X thinks
You literally just tried to pass off the game as "big disappointment", which implies general public consensus, disingenuous clown.

>>723499102
I tried it after 1.4 and it still sucked pretty bad. Maybe if it released in the state it's in now I'd have enjoyed a playthrough, but at this point I'm just waiting for the modding tools they promised and hoping some good mods come out.

>>723499195
That's nice, but you're a faggot and neither your opinions nor those of your butt buddies on reddit matter.

>>723499305
Yeah I also am enjoying it as well anon. I am really positive about the future of this game. If the devs keep improving it as they have it could become legendary.
I'm not a fan of the early access release but I am happy it's getting a redemption arc.

>>723499351
>which implies
No it doesn't. The public at large has always been stupid.
>disingenuous
You're a redditor.

>>723499509
Once we get the DLC, I think it'll be inarguable.

GAMMAfags aren't even STALKERfags, they are GAMMAfags first and foremost which are in essence diet Tarkovfags.

>>723499305
Maybe if I could skip the slow as fuck start of the game. I just wanna roam around in the zone, not watch a bunch of cutscenes.

Also wish the faction war was a bigger part of Stalker 2.

>>723494389
Enough with the lying and gaslighting, faggot. I played it just last night. Instantly irradiated the second the artifact was removed from the lead-lined metal container.

>>723498475
>but you know, at least recognize which lore elements are official and which are not?
I’m not familiar with the utterance you’re referencing so I have no idea how severe the error is but we’re talking about a very old lore that has been translated from it’s original language which is very loosely adapted from multiple previous works, how many people here are seriously trivia-confident about their ability to distinguish canon lore from very similar and closely related fan material made in the same circumstances? It doesn’t help that Grok is retarded, French, and conceited (none of which can be used as ancillary to prove his respect for the IP)
>stumbled upon Anomaly, enjoyed it, and decided to mod it
I’m sure many people found out about STALKER in this manner, the difference is that it’s actually very unlikely for anomalyspawn to even bother going back and competing the trilogy, nevermind spend years of their life creating mods for that IP. The parsimonious interpretation is that the guy probably likes the IP if he has been slaving away making free content for years even while his wife is brining Grok JR a room over.

>>723499739
Every GAMMA player on earth unequivocally hates Tarkov

>>723499530
It in fact does imply that, nobody says "big disappointment" like that when referring to personal experience - that's just unnatural, you'd've at least added "for me". You're either an ESL, or you're being disingenuous. Concession accepted either way, clownshoes.

>>723499102
Bro, I just played it for the first time last month and I keep encountering packs of stalkers running circles around random buildings on the map "chased" by a random group of mutants and they never ever attack eachother or you. You can just wait for them to loop around again and knife them to death, it's so fucking bad i'm getting mad again.

>>723499454
Would you look at that, you're one of those /pol/tarded chudcels. What a surprise.

>>723499824
I don't see what's wrong with gamma's implementation, you do have the funny perk ones which kinda suck but you can just use them as fodder for upgrading the stat ones which are way better than the technology ones that you can craft. They already got rid of the lead containers and irradiating effects from anomaly

>>723500127
It does not, you pseudo-intellectual faggot.
>concession
No more replies. Redditors are subhuman.

>>723485606 (OP)
Last year while i was trying this mods i saw multiple post of retards asking to remove the anomalies from the game.
That should tip you in of why most of stalker hardcore HATE anomaly and gamma faggots, you guys want to play tarkov single play not stalker.

>>723499824
>Go to options
>Disable radiation from artifacts
No idea if the other anon is right about gamma now, I last played it a few years ago.

>>723500270
>did you just say faggot?
>polpolpolpol!
The people that call everyone they don't like /pol/ are one of the worst things to happen to this website.

>gaymma
>analmeme
This thread reads like I've just entered a room full of 1st graders. Do you fags seriously find butchering names into swear words funny, or is that just a reflex at this point?

>>723500495
The devs themselves hate the sci-fi aspects of the zone.
>.45 hydra exists only to kill mutants in like three hits
>All artifacts are fucking useless, high tier artifacts only spawn in the Generators map, literally the last area in the game
>Heavily encourage you to just use armor plates and other tacticool nonsense instead

>>723500270
>chudcels
Is this bait or are you genuinely this gay?

>>723500495
Misery/anomaly/gamma all add comically overpowered zone-shit like radiation death patches everywhere and insta-kill anomalies, if anything the tarkovfags hate it. You’re clearly very unfamiliar with the actual communities you’re talking about.

>>723500728
i had zero problems playing it... Maybe "skill issue".

>>723500551
No, I called you a /pol/tard because my post >>723499195 seems to have gotten your panties in a twist. I can only assume you read it and saw yourself in there.

>>723500932
>seems to have gotten your panties in a twist.
How do you figure? Try to answer without getting mad at the use of the word faggot.

>>723500659
Chuddies don't like being called that, that's all I'll say; ^)

>>723501071
How do you fags even end up here?

>>723500926
You interpreted that as complaining? No wonder you have no idea what you’re talking about, you’re clearly an illiterate retard. Many such cases.
>>723500637
Literally all of that is just leftover design from MISERY which is a mod I sunk hundreds of hours into before Tarkov was even a figment in some retarded gopnik’s head and before you knew what STALKER was. You’re all obsessed with the Tarkov zeitgeist but you’re too stupid to tell what’s associated with it and what is just regular gun autism.

>>723501018
I figure by your reply >>723499454, dumbass. My first post wasn't even directed at you, it just described a group of people, but you started sperging at me directly (because you felt called out). That other anon is right, you really are disingenuous as fuck.

>>723499195
>>723500270
>>723501071
did you know homosexuals rape children at a rate between 9x - 50x more than straight people?

>>723501264
They are fighting the good fight, they are the final resistance

>>723499102
It's pretty much the same it was on launch. They fixed a lot of bugs, you can loot mutants, and balanced some bullshit, but the core is still rotten. The fact that it takes them this long to add the most simplest shit is insane. Oh wow an entire update to add NVGs, cool. At this pace it's probably gonna take them 2-3 more years to finally add proper ALife.

>>723501264
Uh-oh. Is lil chuddie threatened? Safespace compromised?

>>723501365
>My first post wasn't even directed at you
You're a silly faggot.

>>723501457
Yea I finally gave it a chance after I heard they added A life AI but it's not even close. I'm actually curious what it was like before because the current AI is braindead/bugged

I've got time this weekend so I think I might grab some rough as balls vodka, some salami and have a session of stalker.

>>723501815
Stoli, my love

>>723501646
Looks like you just got outplayed. Bamboozled, even. Slapped across your chudcel face with thick, hard facts, if you will.

>>723501769
Old AI would just stand in place and maybe sometimes take cover. If you left an area and came back, everyone would just respawn instantly.

>>723490101
It's actually three or four. I helped out with the images. But the original holdenposter is still here.

Give it to me, how bad is the stalker 2 ai in terms of a-life?

>>723493659
owo dot veegee. The site spammed on pol and the images associated there with the creator. LURK more. Try again, newfag.

>>723501769
It's not just the AI, every system is half-baked at best. Factions are meaningless, loot is pointless, side-quests are a waste of time, anomalies and artifacts are dogshit, stamina is dumb etc etc etc. It's very much still in Early Access. I honestly don't know what the almost 500 bozos working at GSC are doing.

>>723502340
it manages to be worse than the original trilogy by a substantial margin. "But isnt it already pretty shallow in the original games?" trust me its worse the interesting things are way more scripted and localized to the player

>>723502340
/v/ hasn't played stalker 2 so you'll only get regurgitated youtube opinions.

>>723502340
Alife doesn't exist in stalker 2. NPCs will not leave their bases, they will not pick up loot, they will not wander around the map, the won't say shit over the PDA randomly, and they will just instantly respawn with random names the moment you leave the area and come back.

>>723498484
>big disappointment, like
>KCD2
do you fags live in some alternate reality? the game is 93% positive on steam vs 84% of kcd1. talk about delusional

>>723502340
They're the equivalent of CS 1.6 bots. There's no ALife.

>>723502752
It's a /pol/chud, so yeah, he does.

>>723501769
I think 1.4 was the "fixed" A-life so I started a new game. After the tutorial, 2 factions spawned and were fighting kind of far away, then when I got remotely close to them, one side started shooting at me even though I didn't fire and the other side was still shooting them. Absolute trash and nothing is fixed.

>>723502663
>all that text
>not one character of it is true

>>723502925
Seething slopper 2 player

>>723502287
Yeah same, I'm not the original but have been spreading the love of Holden ever since he first captured /sg/'s attention!

>>723502752
>>723502827
>exactly one minute apart
Imaging getting so mad that no one is taking you seriously that you make a shitpost pretending review aggregate sites matter when talking about KCD of all games, and then samefag. Play some video games or something. This isn't how anyone should spend their time.

>>723502925
I played this much through the game before getting bored and stopping, dude.
I WANTED to like the game, I loved the first three, but 2 is underbaked as fucked.

>>723502379
>some random as fuck chan site
>hasn't been posted or mentioned once
I checked the archives and there's no hits for it from any previous /sg/ thread so it's very obvious you're either lying or are an actual unmedicated schizo that needs to larp as a le heckin based oldtroon poster (lol) to maintain your sanity.

>>723503103
meds
i read through the replies and saw that cope already. all i can say is you're full of shit, fagola, you clearly tried to pass that off as majority opinion

>>723503441
The posts are EXACTLY one minute apart. You aren't going to fool anyone.

>>723503592
get a load of this fag kek
this is an anonymous website retard, you can just not reply. i get that you're embarrassed being caught lying but you don't have to try spin that ur a samefag narrative to get out of this here pickle

>>723502340
It isn't.
The 1.5 update significantly updated it, however you still have a "spawn" bubble around which becomes comically when going OOB.
It's not an issue unless you are an autistic nigger.

>>723497470
>/v/ermin
>nuanced posts
lol
lmao
lamao

>8hrts

It was on pol.
It's mostly for pol and other boards with flags since you can apparently evade and use other flags like a vp >>723503279n.

>>723503103
Chuddie... are you ok?

>>723502663
>NPCs will not leave their bases,
Neither did they in SoC.
>they will not pick up loot,
Neither did they in SoC.
>they will not wander around the map,
Neither did they in SoC.
>the won't say shit over the PDA randomly
Neither did they in SoC.
>and they will just instantly respawn
As they did in SoC.
>with random names the moment you leave the area and come back.
As they did in SoC.
The GAMMA troon reveals his true form.

>>723504145
>formatting gore
lol

>>723503963
>this is an anonymous website retard
And yet faggots like you still manage to stick out.

>>723504171
>SoC
We are 3 games and 18 years later now

>>723504436
you just can't stop can you? lmao whatever fag, you can have your last word after if you want, don't feel like doing back and forth with a paranoiac

>>723504630
That dies not disprove my argument.

>>723504145
>It was on pol.
>some half-assed explanation because you don't understand what you're talking about
>calls other posters newfags

Again, how is this even remotely relevant to your weird schizo accusations? It obviously doesn't support whatever narrative you're trying to construct.

>>723504926
Check the pol archive then

>>723498484
Fair enough, it was complete crap on release and still has major issues, though it's good that it is an actual STALKER game and didn't turn out to be Far Cry: Ukraine like many people expected. Regarding DD2, are there still people hoping that it'll get a Dark Arisen-tier expansion?
>KCD2
The only circles where it disappointed people were ones like this board, and honestly I can't really blame you if you find an African Muslim feminist lecturing a Jew-protecting bisexual (formerly straight) to be displaced in a sequel to a game that was praised for its immersive portrayal of medieval Bohemia. However, the general reception of the game is positive and even I can't deny that the gameplay was massively improved compared to KCD1.

>>723505004
Why do you keep mentioning /pol/ to me? Am I going to find some hidden, irrefutable evidence that the origin of Holden or sauceposting comes from there?

STALKER Thread on v and it feels just like the general. I don't know whether to be happy or despair.

Necesse is eating another 13 gigs of VRAM on the shitposting machine though.

>>723505127
Serves you well, you trusted an UNITY ENGINE user!!!!

>>723504897
Yes it does. We've had 20 years of improve a-life from the community and GSC couldn't even replicate that despite having microsoft's backing and a professional team.

>>723505246
Not like that. It's getting the Guild Wars 2 treatment for being shilled hard. Gave it 20b on Stheno to ensure post quality remains low.

>>723505038
No one is actually expecting DDDA2.
>and even I can't deny that the gameplay was massively improved compared to KCD1.
Nah. I played it for a while and the ridiculous amount of railroading and cinematic segments really put me off the game. Look at the first few hours of each game and how they played out. And no, I didn't stop there. I played some of where it opened up, but even then at its best it only felt like 1. At no point did it ever feel like it surpassed 1. The shitty writing put it over the top. There's a reason that despite all the extra hype and positive press that it still hasn't come close to the first game's sales numbers. And let's also not forget how you can't go inside the cathedral that they announced the fucking game in.

>>723503279
>shartyfag lies and gaslights about one of the sites his group uses to spam the site
>lets the mask slip by using sharty lingo

>>723505441
>

>>723505686
>sharty lingo
Huh?

>>723485606 (OP)
200+ POSTS OF NOTHING BUT NAMEFAGGING, SAMEFAGGING, GAYFAGGING, FAGGOTFAGGING, YOUTUBEFAGGING AND MORE
WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE JANNIES

>>723505686
>sharty mentioned
LMAO holy fuck this dude is a confirmed schizo

>>723490793
KINO
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>>723505994
At this point, there really needs to just be a separate GAMMA general thread that is distinct from /sg/

>>723505868
NTA but he unironically thinks 'oldtroon' came from "The Sharty"

>>723505994
This is a discord exclusive mod, it literally forces you to be a namefag and a cordtroon just to download it

>>723505535
>Nah. I played it for a while and the ridiculous amount of railroading and cinematic segments really put me off the game.
For me the main problem was the side quests being more railroaded an overall less memorable. In KCD1 you often had dozens of ways to approach them and different endings depending on that.
>There's a reason that despite all the extra hype and positive press that it still hasn't come close to the first game's sales numbers
This comes off as pretty disingenuous. KCD1 has been out for 7 years and constantly went on discounts. Warhorse announced 8 million sold only months after the sequel's announcement and did so with 10 million when KCD2 was already out.
>And let's also not forget how you can't go inside the cathedral that they announced the fucking game in.
You could argue that they did it out of laziness or spite, but I honestly think it's due to them wanting it to be a completely new location in the third DLC (which will be set in the Sedletz Monastery).

Aside from all that, when I mentioned "gameplay" I was strictly referring to gameplay mechanics.
>Crossbows
>Hand cannons
>Henry actually being able to aim a crossbow
>Clothing and equipment presets
>Smoother melee combat
>Expanded alchemy
>Blacksmithing
My bad though, should've been more specific in my previous post.

>>723485606 (OP)
What's so special about this thing? I've been playing a lot of modded Anomaly and enjoyed it greatly. All I am hearing from this thread is that it's a Tarkov-like rework of the original game, and that sounds gay.

>>723494671
>>723495354
>it was fucking hilarious
What kinda fucked up psychopath laughs at another man's misfortune like that? And all because you don't like his fucking modpack for a videogame? Actual subhuman lowlife behavior.

>>723506876
It's a modpack, no idea about the tarkov shit because I dont play multiplayer battle royale slop but gamma is just more mods build upon anomaly. If you like anomaly it's worth checking out at least

>>723506897
Groomcord is for subhuman lowlifes and that guy wants to force everyone to use it and read his blogposts so who gives a fuck about him

>>723506665
What you mean to say is the have-nots are salty shitposters.

>>723507304
>he uses a platform I don't like so it's ok his wife miscarried
Is this your way of trying to convince me you're not a psychopath? It's doing the opposite.

idk I've played the trilogy and still enjoy gamma

>but umm
>extrat analmeme version ahtever
>extrat gayman
>verion whatayver
>suck dick
I quit right theyre gamme is a meme

>>723506795
>KCD1 has been out for 7 years and constantly went on discounts. Warhorse announced 8 million sold only months after the sequel's announcement and did so with 10 million when KCD2 was already out.
Yes, but look at how fast something like DD2 sold compared to DD1 with all the hype and marketing. Even before everyone including ecelebs stopped getting hyped, it still hit 3 million sales.

>Aside from all that, when I mentioned "gameplay" I was strictly referring to gameplay mechanics.
Yeah but they simplified melee a bit, and they didn't fix the fact that lock on still exists. They added some stuff, but not enough, and the biggest thing was the quest design changes.

>>723499824
>Instantly irradiated the second the artifact was removed from the lead-lined metal container.
...
How old is the version of Gamma you're playing? They overhauled artifacts months ago.

>>723508260
>gaymma
We're talking about analmeme.

>>723508630
i play an anomaly modpack that hasn't updated in 3 years as my go-to and I'm fine with the radiation. gotta get those llmcs and artefact containers, no big deal.

For me, the only mod that's worth installing is Old World, or something based on it. Even then, I'm used to vanilla Anomaly's shit now, and OWA feels limited. I miss Muh Immersion.

>>723502663
NPCs in S2 do leave the bases, and they do loot bodies and even equip their weapons.
Random PDA chatting exists only in mods, and all the games have the same timer based respawn system.
You genuinely don't understand the idea behind A-Life. If you want to complain about it in S2, you should complain about lack of persistence. That's the main selling feature.

I've played the trilogy twice, played the shitty multiplayer, played several skinner box stalker MMOs including stalcraft, I watched the Andrei Tarkovsky movie thrice, once alone, twice with friends, I read roadside picnic twice. I even played through stalker 2 even though I didn't like it. I'm half tempted to learn russian just so I can read the stalker novelizations.

But liking Gamma and Anomaly as their own stalker experiences makes me a tourist.

>>723508823
Antithetical to how stalker is meant to be played.

>>723505994
It's equally fascinating and depressing to see just how many pathetic people actually WANT to talk about this shit. It's not even exclusive to stalker either.

>>723509103
>tempted to learn russian just so I can read the stalker novelizations
This better be a joke. Haхyй инocтpaнцы вooбщe yчaт язык этoй пoмoйнoй cтpaны бeз бyдyщeгo (пo кpaйнeй мepe пoд пpaвлeниeм пyтлepa и eгo жoпoлизoв) - зa гpaнью мoeгo пoнимaния.

>>723509663
My autism for this franchise knows no bounds.

>>723485606 (OP)
As someone who loves analmeme for being a loot hobo, GAMMA is just pure fucking trash. I looked at its modlist and figured I would remove 90%+ of it. The only thing I'm slightly interested in is whatever revamps they're doing to the A-life because regular anomaly is a bit boring now and the mods that do change it go too far.
To put simply, GAMMA is bloatshit for retards who can't pick their own mods, also vanilla autists being fags as usual.

>>723509151
>Options menu staring you in the face
>Dozens of mods you can just not install
>Nah ima whine
How is stalker meant to be played? Knife only while chugging energy drinks every 2 seconds?

Is the game STALCRAFT any gud?

>>723485606 (OP)
>like vanilla STALKER trilogy
>like gamma
>like anomaly
>like STALKER 2
Long live Clear Sky.

>>723509103
>But liking Gamma and Anomaly as their own stalker experiences makes me a tourist.
Correct

>>723509987
>muh 6 million hidden options buried in 30 different menus
>muh mods I'll pretend everyone with criticisms installed
Always with the disingenuous faggotry.
>How is stalker meant to be played?
Nice of you to admit you never played vanilla.

>>723500637
>t. has not played gamma
>.45 hydra exists only to kill mutants
because it's hollow point and HP rounds are shit against armor. What the fuck do you think it's supposed to be?
>All artifacts are fucking useless
??????
>Heavily encourage you to just use armor plates
>Oh no I use ONE armor slot for plates that really only give ballistic protection.
Get over yourself.

>>723510029
I got enjoyment out of it until I reached the bar equivalent and got tired of the retarded grind that was pickles because you had to go do objectives where enemy faction players (highly geared enemy players too because it's the fucking BAR) would come right out and just gun you down. That was years ago though.

>>723509103
Yes. Consuming sad soviet slopshit media is the most tourist thing ever. You don't read or watch stuff to read and watch it over and over again. You do so because you want to live it.
Get the fuck out to Ukraine.

>>723511439
Are there anomalies and artifacts in Ukraine?

Take the Goldsphere pill

I would like to forget that STALKER 2 exists.

>>723511629
Congrats, the wishgranter made you demented.

>>723502340
i played at release and would have npcs spawn behind me

/sg/ brain scorching gammaniggers once again!

>>723511749
>anon wishes to forget about S2 so he can play it and expirience it for the first time again
He really loves it.

>>723511627
Tried it. Running through anomaly minefields to do schizo item hunt quests was only fun for a few hours.

Clear Sky Reborn
>Haha wassap negr

>>723512040
>call anomaly a bloated unbalanced grindy mess
>praise soup garbage that is even more bloated, even more unbalanced and utterly broken ontop
The absolute mount everest of contrarianism.

>>723512257
soup garbage is even more bloated, even more unbalanced and utterly broken ontop
>The absolute mount everest of contrarianism.
Have you ever actually played any version of OP 2 or any "soup" mod that you speak of?

>>723486404
we out here defending misery. lol. someone post the devs reasoning to balance the mod

One day I will risk it an enter the slav zone.

>>723512456
Yes I did, Narodnaya solyanka was my starting point.

>>723512456
>Have you ever actually played any version of OP 2
whats the diff i thought 2.2 is the best one

>>723487265
its the Brutal Doom of stalker

>>723512581
nta but all I know about misery is the dev admitting he develops/tests with godmode on and doesn't actually care how hard it is, but this was years ago

>>723495354
:sadpepe: moment....

bit of IWP hehe

>>723485606 (OP)
cuz it's bad. No interesting story or missions so they just make obtaining a gun that doesn't suck a nonsensical chore that only applies to the player, so that you have *something* to chase and thus continue playing. I used to believe that muh A-Life justifies this "experience" but not anymore. This is still nothing like the game originally envisioned in early 2000s.

>>723510031
Based and enjoying everything the series and community has to offer pilled.

Hot take- I like Misery mod. Not because I'm good at it, get wealthy in it, feel comfy going outside in the day let alone night in it but because very few games that hand you a means to defend yourself have managed to keep me edged quite the same way. The bark of dogs in the distance, a dead body you come across suggesting something killed them, the hyper lethality of firefights and how every bullet is actually hurting your wallet and soul to waste or defend yourself with without an obvious gain to be had by putting yourself in that position. When I play most horror games but especially when I'm playing STALKER the horror games get lost on the sensation I'm the main character and that means I am here to fuck shit up.

>>723512587
Then you obviously have no idea what you're talking about because the "bloat" that you speak of in NS or OP (which is basically just a standalone mod with version 2.09 and beyond, built off of NS of course) is functionally very different compared to any of the large mod packs built off Anomaly. I'm assuming you're either ragebaiting or trolling.

>>723512628
There has been incrementally more content added in each version. The "best" version is subjective, as 2.2 has made probably the most changes between any of the other version jumps / upgrades and added some pretty controversial features and mechanics (the plague being one of them).

>>723495354
why are frogposters like this

>>723495354
hahahahhahahaha

>>723490694
You can like build stuff and place them in the world afaik, never did it tho.

>>723515881
dude... it has base building... it's like frankieonpcin1080p dayz base building... but in the ZONE!

>>723495354
lmao why announce this in a mod chat. at least it wasn't a comic

I'm still using Windows 10.

>>>/vg/541714807
Hi, /sg/! I'm still using Windows 10.

>>723491669
>Get 5th or so quest
>Get a razor from a backpack
>Go and pick razor from a backpack in a tunnel
>Spawns like 50 zombies with insane HP that give you instant radiation
>Can only kill them with like 20 grenades or kite them for 12 business days while hitting them with a sledgehammer.
>If you don't kill them they'll just roam and permanently kill all the quest givers
Some parts are cool but it's just pure slavoid slop designed to waste your time.

>>723516328
>half of this isn't even true
>filtered by literal zombies
I'm just going to be honest with you man, this isn't even a difficult quest. You literally just run through the horde, dodge the 4 - 6 Izloms that spawn, and then let their A-life go offline. That's it.

Then you get the GoPro "record killing mutants with anomalies capsules" quest from Akim, come back, kite them to a building, and let the anomalies do the work. I'm not even trying to troll or belittle you, this is NOT one of the harder parts of the mod. A little bullshit? Yes. But not difficult.

>>723498484
I FINISHED IT EARLIER TODAY AND I ENJOYED IT, IT WAS PRETTY LONG AND I WAS THOROUGHLY INTERESTED oops caps lock my bad

>>723516328
you can leave them alone for like two ingame weeks before they even get close to any questgivers and you can easily get all the grenades to kill them in cordon on the first day. you SHOULD be complaining about the exploding zombie mixed into the pack which is pure distilled hatred for people playing the game

So whats the actual best way to play stalker while also being modern?

>>723516507
I'm being very polite to him, but yeah this rant is only like 25% valid.

>>723516559
Radiophobia

>>723516559
Autumn Aurora 2.

>>723516594
No, this mod is dogshit.

Once road to vostok releases you'll forget about stalker anyway.

>>723485606 (OP)
>>causes incomprehensible seethe among the most superficial layer of the stalker community
explain, I don't know any drama with it

>>723512583
>Sponsored by 4A games
Qrd?

>>723516559
enhanced editions ;)

>>723516719
Sorry. Do you have screeds to back your argument?

>>723516719
Why?

>>723516470
It's not a difficult quest, just a shit quest designed to waste your time.
>Bro just do this 12 steps to kill them
Or you just load a save, pick up the grenades around the map, go back, fence jump out of bounds, go on top of the tunnel and just drop grenades from above.

>>723485606 (OP)
>Grok
Now wonder these fucking troons are shitting themselves over this

>>723516857
Is brown, is good. IIRC some of the AA2 devs work(ed) at 4A.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/autumn-aurora-compilation-mod/

>>723516559
Gamma has been in a good place graphically since 0.9.3. If you don't like how you can't buy guns you can turn that off or on. RNG can keep you locked out of things you can afford and needing to spend 20+ hours for something better than a shotgun can kind of suck.

>>723490694
Holy shit based
Downloading it tomorrow morning

>>723516996
>shit quest designed to waste your time.
It literally spawns in a large group of enemies that will give you a solid boost to Akim's first quest, which is entirely influenced by RNG (assuming you don't modify any spawn chance configs). Even then, the zombies are not difficult to kill and don't have "high HP." Not sure where you got that from, as there's nothing special about their parameters.

>Bro just do this 12 steps to kill them
There are vastly easier ways to kill them all that do NOT involve using out of bounds areas of the map... there's literally the entire ATP just down the road. If you're this lazy, you're not going to be able to play even 10% of this mod. That's just how it is. Go play something different, please, and don't waste your time. You'll feel much more fulfillment and less frustration.

>>723505994
>200+ POSTS OF NOTHING BUT NAMEFAGGING, SAMEFAGGING, GAYFAGGING, FAGGOTFAGGING,
Someone answer this truthfully, deadass. So is Gamma any good? Or no?

I like GAMMA for its graphics/weapons and little additions
but the autismo weapon parts/armor part gathering and the repetitive side quests are lame

>>723512581
Also he tried to explain the shitty performance of the mod with lore

>>723517641
> So is Gamma any good?
There is no clear answer; it's subjective.

>>723502340
>>723502663
>>723502872
>>723508907
Better A-Life than anything GSC or modders have ever achieved, this is A-Life 2.0. Nobody knows about this upcoming game outside of Latin America unfortunately. I just hope the English localisation will turn out okay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0gjyBdbm-Y

If GSC had figured out what this game has done with world AI then S2 may have gone over smoother. It's proper world AI persistence that is divided into active states by incremental steps.

>>723489591
I don't have a Discord account. Is there a Mega link?

>>723516559
>while also being modern?
Why does this matter at all? Just play the original games.

>>723516916
Not him, but when I played it, it was basically vanilla except enemies can see and accurately shoot you with AKs from distances that you'd normally need a scoped sniper rifle for.

>>723518938
Almost 20 years later and no game has even tried to copy A-Life principles.
And I'm not talking about FPS or RPG games only. Even sim games do not bother simulating all the NPCs.
It's because it's a fucking stupid idea. Tell me, if a tree falls in a forest with no one around, does it make a sound? What's the point of simulating NPC who spawns, lives and then dies without ever being seen by the player? What's the point to waste CPU resources on a randomly generated nobody to simulate his life which will end in a 2-second shootout? Even the best optimizations won't prevent this CPU waste.
People should not try to create another A-Life. It's not the only way to make the world feel dynamic and interesting.

>>723485606 (OP)
Is there something like this but where I don't spend a third of my playtime in menus?

>>723521462
Continuity and consistency. If you don't understand this, you're probably brown.

>>723521539
Fortnite

>>723521658
nope

>>723521570
Meanwhile, I don't need to use word "probably". You're a certified low IQ nigger.
First, you're a nigger because you're too stupid even for a baby-tier "tree falling in the wood" thought experiment. Why do you think I mentioned it?
Second, you're a nigger because you're too uneducated to know how all other games create continuity and consistency without simulating every single aspect of the world.

>>723495354
Fuck, poor guy.

>>723521539
anomaly, because progression isnt locked behind crafting

>>723522052
Foamstars

>>723522140
>You're a certified low IQ nigger.
I'm white with a STEM PhD. No amount of your anger will change this, so skip the anal pain about it.
>First, you're a nigger because you're too stupid even for a baby-tier "tree falling in the wood" thought experiment. Why do you think I mentioned it?
Because you thought it made a pertinent point. It didn't. The problem with your failed analogy is that in a game like Stalker, continuing the simulation means that the game world keep happening "unbroken" and the player can physically see and interact with the results of the fallen tree. A bandit shoots a soldier and takes the soldier's gun. Now that bandit has a new gun when the player encounters them. A squad of ecologists goes artifact hunting and gets wiped out by Freedumb, but the player enters the firefight and saves them because he happened to be going in that direction. Now I know your response is going to be something phenomenally retarded and short sighted like "Just randomly generate those things as the player gets near them" and that's why I said you're probably brown. You genuinely don't understand the importance or the appeal of a consistent world that makes sense and doesn't pull things out of thin air.
>Second, you're a nigger because you're too uneducated to know how all other games create continuity and consistency without simulating every single aspect of the world.
Wrong again. Randomly generating events, even within a constrained ruleset, is not nearly as effective as simulating all the NPCs and keeping track of their location, goals and inventory.

>>723517417
lol yeah, op2 has a ton of quests where you have to kill 100+ armored enemies

>>723523761
>A bandit shoots a soldier and takes the soldier's gun. Now that bandit has a new gun when the player encounters them
Meanwhile game spawns another bandit nearby, and due to highroll RNG the game gives the bandit the same weapon as starting gear. How would you, as a player, be able to distinguish these 2 situations?
If you had at least 2 digit IQ you would know I would ask this question. Because that's the whole point of the tree falling thought experiment. You have no means to confirm that the world functions the same way when you don't observe it. I called you a nigger for failing to understand it, and you wrote a whole fucking wall of text proving it. What a fucking retard.

>>723524476
>Meanwhile game spawns another bandit nearby, and due to highroll RNG the game gives the bandit the same weapon as starting gear. How would you, as a player, be able to distinguish these 2 situations?
NTA but the way you're talking about this in hypothetical screams "I got filtered by the concept and have no first hand experience." because your question here is immediately answered when you actually play for any meaningful amount of time. New guys spawn into the game world but its really easy to tell who's new because the spawn rules mostly limit that behavior to replacement squads. When you play the game you -know- who has died and is due for replacements because you more often than not influence that, see chatter over comms about it, or otherwise witness those major changes.

Likewise, for the persistent NPCs, you get to know them because you consistently see them out and about and back at bases. You see them clear an enemy squad. You SEE them loot the bodies and equip better gear. They persist the way Bethesda NPCs persist, only with actual world-spanning schedules which lends to the world's verisimilitude and resulting immersion.

>>723524808
>see them
>You see
>You SEE
Oh my god, a second low IQ nigger. That's literally OBSERVATION. If you see it, it's observation. You see the tree falling. You hear the sound it makes. Good fucking job, retard

>>723499102
Ehhh I got bored after ~20 hours of 1.6, its still a huge empty map with a billion trees and bushes that every 20 minutes you might see a group of bandits.
It just feels really empty and the environment looks way too busy, it's a chore to play.

>>723524476
>Meanwhile game spawns another bandit nearby, and due to highroll RNG the game gives the bandit the same weapon as starting gear.
What does this have to do with the first bandit getting the better gun?
>If you had at least 2 digit IQ you would know I would ask this question.
No, because that question is so stupid I don't see the point. You can't even pretend people don't notice because of how hated S2 was.

>>723485606 (OP)
haven't been into stalker for almost ten years
is gamma as toaster friendly as coc (if you drop the graphic improvements)?

>>723516996
Or, you know... you could just postpone this quest until you have better gear, instead of trying to climb a mountain in your slippers. These zombies will appear somewhere mid-game one more time, and you won't even notice them.

>>723521462
>Even the best optimizations won't prevent this CPU waste.
it's trivial to update ~1000 vector3's every few seconds anon, I've said this in every stalker thread to every one of you retards but ALife is not that computationally expensive at all.
but I do agree that most devs think like you and say it's not worth it, but there is a subtle difference to simulating everyone allowing a truly emergent world, I think you can feel the difference and even knowing it works like that adds to the experience.
in stalker 2 even now in 1.6 enemies spawn when you look away and look back.

>>723485606 (OP)
>disable campfire saves
>decrease progression difficulty to tourist
>increase rep and money rewards
>increase belt slots on all suits to 10

yep, it's gammer time

>>723525536
>What does this have to do with the first bandit getting the better gun?
Both bandits have the same gun. One gun is from a soldier, the other is from starting gear pool.
In GAMMA even though bandits usually have shittier gear, they still can sometimes spawn with C and D weapons depending on players rank.

And don't forget that the original point was not about the full simulation being useless. The point was it's not worth massive amount of CPU resources it requires.

>>723525030
My niglet. You can OBSERVE continuity absent direct OBSERVATION.

>>723526064
>it's trivial to update ~1000 vector3's every few seconds anon
Not trivial for Stalker because Anomaly/GAMMA die even on modern processors once you increase npc count or enable warfare mode.

>>723526764
AO engine exists nigga

>>723526361
>Both bandits have the same gun. One gun is from a soldier, the other is from starting gear pool.
Except bandits don't spawn with the same guns.
>but gaymma
Don't care.
>he point was it's not worth massive amount of CPU resources it requires.
You knowing less than nothing about how games work doesn't mean some CPU overhead for ticks on NPCs despawned isn't worth it for actual continuity.

>>723524363
People like >>723516996 never make it very far in mods like that, so it's not like they even have a point of reference for just how difficult it can get.

>>723526951
>but gaymma
>Don't care.
So what game are you talking about in Gamma thread? In SoC bandits couldn't even loot.

>You knowing less than nothing about how games work
Kek, what's the newest game you have played? Something from 2016? Modern games are heavily CPU bottlenecked.

>>723527662
NTA but what are you talking about, all the gaming CPU benchmarks have to run at 1080p because otherwise all the results are identical.

>>723490694
Theres a mod that lets you do it, pretty sure they just used that one and maybe edited it a bit. The act of building a base really doesn't make sense in STALKER though since the level/world designs never took into account the player could build things and really you want your gear near trader locations. So what you mostly end up doing is building a small camp inside a faction base near the vendor/mechanic to store and modify your shit and then never touching building again. As much fun as you might think decorating Strelok's hideout might be, no one wants to go down there every time they want to store or grab shit to sell/turn in for quests.

>>723528205
yeah I never built a base and im not sure why you would, I had a stash next to a central-ish trader and that was all you could ever need.

>>723485606 (OP)
>freeplay
lmao

>>723527662
>So what game are you talking about in Gamma thread?
The non-shit Stalker games and mods.
>Kek
Dumb third world monkey.
>Something from 2016? Modern games are heavily CPU bottlenecked.
You're so fucking stupid. You don't know anything about CPU utilization in game engines.

seething

>>723485606 (OP)
it's for autists wanting to pretend Stalker is some milsim shit

also attracts lots of retards who don't know anything about modding

>>723529323
>also attracts lots of retards who don't know anything about modding
engine modder here, what's the problem

>>723529323
absolutely nothing about gamma is even remotely mil-sim why is this retarded take constantly repeated

People drawn to the original stalkers liked that success depended on your skill and decision making. Stalker was essentially about you taking on the elements of the zone, being good at anomaly isn't an extra skill on top of that, you just need an encyclopedic knowledge of all the bullshit they've added + enough time and autism to overcome the tedium of what essentially amounts to an excel spreadsheet of different size springs and which one fits in your weapon's buffer tube or whatever. That isn't a skill based game, it is autistic nonsense. Now repeat from springs to batteries to screws to god knows what other autismal abominations they've created to obsess over meaningless details in place of actually playing a game.

Also, this in turn attracts the same complete fucking losers that ruin every milsim game like arma for example, and turn it from a military simulator GAME into a barbie doll dressup for people too fat/retarded to do like fifteen pushups. You know the kind of disgusting obese loser american on whom a plate carrier looks like a baby's T-shirt?? The tabard for the warriors of clan diabetes. Those are the kind of losers who like anomaly.

Ultimately its a non-game riddled with autistic unfun rules and holistically it is obviously designed for unemployed detestable losers and nobody else. Worst of all they aren't even the cool kind of unemployed loser gamer who is impressively skilled at some niche thing. They aren't even playing the properly intricate spreadsheet games like crusader kings or X3 Terran Conflict. They suck at video games, which is perhaps their worst crime of all.

man this guy really really does not like it when his gun jams

>>723530491
If you think any stalker game requires significant skill or decision making you are genuinely a fucking retard lmao

>>723530491
>get a gun that bandits carry
>hmm, now who might have more parts?
Shit's not even complicated, you just got intimidated by the amount of new items. People not wanting to remember parts is why it's an optional part of vanilla anomaly. Tarps and wire for your suits and helmets is really all you need to remember. Autoloot will save you hours if you're willing to look at the list of shit once.

>>723531510
The only thing unique to anomaly IS the autistic bullshit.

Compared to any other mod the AI isn't better, the monsters aren't better, the anomalies are the same, every mod adds blowouts and shit anyway. Literally the defining feature of anomaly is the boring autistic bullshit and your recommendation is to not engage with the autistic bullshit, which is what regular people already do by not downloading anomaly in the first place.

literally sobbing about a regular repair system and blaming everybody else for it

>>723531784
>won't even reply to my posts or make any coherent rebuttal, limiting yourself childish shitflinging
This only proves you are how autistic I said you are

>>723531661
My guy, it's a few dozen items at best. A games worth, if you will. I personally wouldn't recommend vanilla anomaly when there are so many mods for it that add things I consider essential.

i sound very mature when i dismiss everything a mod has to offer as "autistic bullshit"

>>723530491
>it is autistic nonsense
realism modders are unable to take criticism and pointing out that their rework is dogshit and unfun triggers them immensely.
i've found it's pretty consistent no matter the genre too. it's almost always designed and balanced in an arbitrary way that makes it complete bullshit that has no basis in reality.
>the same complete fucking losers that ruin every milsim game
the best way to get rid of those guys is to continually thank them for their service. any time they mic up just say those words, "Thank you for your service." until they leave in shame.

>>723531661
>waa anything I don't like is autistic
you're trying to get e-cred for how epicly skillful you are for playing vanilla stalker you're the biggest autismo itt

>>723531942
>Be a spastic until people stop talking to you
You sound very intelligent right now

>>723532026
nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with ridding the server of dumb niggers

>>723532056
You can also do that by loudly shitting your diaper whenever you are exposed to something you don't like

>>723532096
that thought never crossed my mind but thanks for sharing what you personally do when faced with adversity from online strangers
have another (You)

>>723532145
Nah I'm more of a gore spammer when I need to look retarded

>>723531942
>continually thank them for their service
kek, good one I'm going to start doing this.
>>723532003
cool strawman bro

>>723530491
But it's not hard

>>723532096
sounds fucking awesome, assembling a discord squad of anti-gaymmers and we're all taking diapy pics as we speak

Here is your next proper stalker game, bro.

>>723532261
It's hard for him please don't bully him about it

>>723532261
I never said it was hard. I said it was a laundry list of autistic bullshit and a chore to deal with. Doing the washing up by hand isn't difficult but is categorically a chore, and not a fun activity for 99.99% of humans.

Anomaly is not difficult, I never said it was difficult. Allow me to reiterate as clearly as possible, I believe the only requirements to succeed at anomaly are autism and unemployment, not intelligence.

>>723518938
the fuk is this? new mod of CoC or new game based on stalker?

I compared gun maintenance to doing laundry because I'm a very smart burger flipper

flea market... home...

>>723532568
>>723518938
There's also road to vostok, made by a finnish guy. It has a demo on nextfest which might hype you up but it doesn't have A-life or any of that shit yet, no idea what his plans are and early access games come and go with the wind so who knows where it will end up.

I just like playing anomaly with high npc count

>>723485606 (OP)
Because Grok is a retard and GAMMA sucked ass for the first 2 years of its existence.
Didn't help that grok would (and still does) go to other mods and say
>heh...you got a pretty god mod here...but my packs better!

I personally like it but it's far from perfect and Grok needs to be tard wrangled more often than not because he'll introduce dogshit design if left alone.
Also 90% of the work being done is by some Russian named Oleh these days while grok reaps the donations.

>>723532675
this looks like shit

Just give me a proper graphics mod with a weapons mod that has lots of weapons and customization, plus no female stalkers (they're not lore-friendly).
No discord, because even if you already have it, you have to roleplay in their shit to get the files, or act like they are some sort of treehouse club

>>723532510
I mean it's not difficult to keep track of or remember. Anomaly IS a sandbox game, it's as autistic as you want to make it. I wouldn't be as into it If it weren't for the graphical mods hitting just the right ambience for me.

I don't know man, if there are other mods that are just as tuned to be modular than I'd love to find them, but right now the amount of people that have worked on anomaly and its submods over the years have added enough content to it to make it hard to compare to anything BUT a grand autistic effort. It's not that popular = good, it's that popular = content.

Whats the best version of OGSR

>>723533065
Screen Space Shaders, don't bother with Enhanced shaders or whatever. I used Frosty weapons pack, idk if it's discord only, and some of the guns I wouldn't use again.

>>723533074
Good point and well said.

I reber using Stalkersoup a long time ago.
God it was such slavjank

>>723502340
not only is it more artificial feeling than actual vanilla stalker, the spawns are still fucked and you will have dogs spawn at the POI you're investigating after you just killed a pack of them to get in said POI

>>723533610
I dropped the game in the first hour because of this
Sheds that spawn infinite flesh or dogs like clown cars happens constantly
Didn't like how they just run at you and do that stupid jump either, didn't have the fight or flight behaviour like the ogs

who needs more than AMK

>>723507304
>Groomcord is for subhuman lowlifes
says the manchild who uses it to stalk people he doesn't like

>>723485606 (OP)
gaymma and gaymma shills are the worst thing to happen to stalker. these faggots couldnt handle getting btfo in day z and shitkov so they settled with a fag with a giant ego's modpack ( other people's work) for a shittier version of misery because they saw some faggot kiketuber shilling it. if only they fucked off to sptarkshit or pve tarkscam

ue5 being the second worst thing to happen to stalker

>>723485606 (OP)
>singleplayer game
>community

trannies gathering on discords doesn't make a community lmoa lmao

>>723494671
>https://files.catbox.moe/cyzmhb.mp4
What's the first track?

>>723485606 (OP)
>trooning out your game