Thread 725219035

Been playing a lot of stalker lately and i wanna share some cool pics

Stalker stories are welcome

The trilogy has been my winter playthrough game for the last 10ish years, sometimes I break and do Misery or something for CoP or AA2 for SHoC but I always come back to play these games during the cold winter months.

Sleepy flowers

>>725219324
I bet the heroin that comes from the STALKER poppies would be so good

>>725219210
I just found out there were "enhanced versions" that i didn't even know about.
How are they?

>>725219537
DESU I don't know much about them but I think they remove things and don't 'enhance' much.

>>725219035 (OP)
Once I went out of Rostok on that path with a ditch, which happened after emission. I walked close to the bridge and then noticed 3 military guys inside the ditch with PKMs, they killed me immediately. That time, I felt like a stalker whose murder was ordered through the bartender

Would be cool to know what the writting means if there are any ukranians still alive

>Fall through map
>anomaly

>>725219035 (OP)
I understood what the cat was doing pretty late in the game so I casually looted houses in some village at the garbage, searched for the key to a locked garage, and really, though I got a bug and invisible bandits spawned around me. The cat was locked in that garage

Shooting it does nothing

>>725219035 (OP)
What mod?

>>725219537
They are okay, now. They ported all games to one codebase with dx12 render and added +- multithreaded things so it doesn't stutter anymore, also they added some cumulative gameplay fixes from fan patches. Originally, it was blurry as hell, but they fixed it and even added dlss support.
With a unified codebase, some things that were duct-taped broke down, but with the current version, it's okay

>>725220542
Must be Stalker 2

>nustalker
into the garbage it goes

>>725220810
Honestly I've forgotten about that game, it was so thoroughly mediocre.

>>725220828
What a blunder

>>725219035 (OP)
5 (five) chimeras

>>725220987
Why is your gun textureless?

>>725220987
1 (one) ladder climbing Pseudogiant.

>>725219537
AFAIK they were ugly as fuck, and censored a lot of things because they were explicitly russian. Not worth touching

>>725221216
Three (3) arms mauling your face

>>725219537
They work great on Steam Deck and have dedicated gamepad controls. Otherwise, pretty much the same games with some minor visual improvements.

I've only played the first trilogy and really liked it. There's no game like them. But what's so different from Stalker 2? By the videos and screenshots it seems like just stalker 1 but with better graphics?

>>725219537
They censored the fuck out of it, removed russian dub, removed soviet symbols, and more. Just a plain inferior version to the originals

GUNSLINGER WHEN?!

>>725219035 (OP)
Game turns to shit in pripyat unfortunately.

>>725219841
It's in Russian tho (with a grammar error)

>>725219035 (OP)
stalker 2 sucks ass

>>725219537
They're shit. Avoid them and play the originals.

>>725222284
>But what's so different from Stalker 2?
-Made by totally new, Westoid-driven team.
-Made for consoles (Xbox) first and foremost
-Runs on Unreal 5, meaning it looks AND runs like ass.
-Does not have even half the tech and features of OG Stalker trilogy, such as the A-LIFE, bullet physics, night-vision devices, or binocs. The AI is way worse and limited.
-80 dollars + DLC tip; devs started shilling BATTLE PASSES three years before release.

S2 is all around inferior knockoff. Period.

>>725222284
I've played the trilogy to death and to be fair the sound design is great, the anomalies are interesting and the exploration is really fun.
The quest system is kind of bland, I didn't particularly like the story though it had some cool moments and I wish they added some things at release that were not there.
It's a pretty cool game anon, give it a try if you played the trilogy.

>>725222650
I also have to agree with anon here the game runs like ass sometimes and it has some stuttering issues at times, also
>Pic relatedis the first minute and a half of the game

I can see you lmao

>>725222284
It's still a great game there's just a bunch of autists who refuse to be satisfied.

>>725222650
>night-vision devices, or binocs
Haven't they added those in a patch since?

>>725222650
>night-vision devices
lol update the copypasta anon, it's had NVGs for weeks now.

>>725223197
You're seeing either a paid anti-shill or autistic retard who likely has to re-pirate a new version of the game every time it's patched so he doesn't know.

>>725222650
>westoid-driven team
from the very onset they were westoid driven, other slav made games from the era had next to no western marketing at all but stalker was trying to be huge in western markets and I can specifically remember seeing it for the first time a GamePro mag in like 2006 or some shit.

>>725223248
>paid anti-shill
Is THAT the narrative of viral marketer homos now?
Not even trying to hide it any more, seeing how much ya "hate" pirates. Everyone and their mom pirated the OG trilogy back in the day, and it still became the biggest phenomena in Europe.

>>725222863
>>725223169
Looks cool. I'll give it a try. Thanks.

>>725222284
It's like SoC but bigger. Main-quest driven, spooky, and tragic. It doesn't have that comfy feeling from CoP. I played it after Metro Exodus, and it looks like some fairy tale for kids in comparison

>>725219035 (OP)
is there still no mod scene/tools?
its like they missed the whole thing that made the first game popular

>>725222650
the lighting fuckery in this game made it unplayable for me and I kept looking for mods to fix it but none of them did anything
Remember the AI upscales "remasters" of the OG stalker games?

>>725222650
Didn't they almost do a weird metaverse whateverthefuck to put your face in the game and back off when everyone clowned on them?
also
>that dither
That'd look so cool if it was intended

I'm still waiting for OLR 3.0's real A-Life system to be stolen and ported to another mod, or there to be a balance patch to OLR itself to make it not cancer to play.
It's fucking amazing how NPCs will actually do what they were advertised to do before SoC released, but god damn the rest of the mod with its
>Two different backpack carry limiting systems
>You can randomly catch a cold
>Traders close at night even though they just keep standing there anyway and NPCs can still trade with them
>Artifacts have unknown effects with no way to figure out what they do until you test them (Kind of cool, just needs an easier way to ID what they do other than "run into this anomaly and see if you take less damage)
>Mutants that are even bigger bullet sponges than Stalker 2 ones

>>725223874
>is there still no mod scene/tools?
Nope.

>>725224092
>I kept looking for mods to fix it but none of them did anything
It's a stock UE5 "feature". That's literally how the Lumen and Nanite work under the hood.

Only way to "fix" any of this would be to port the whole game to a BETTER game engine.

>>725223874
UE5 has no mods and no one mods for them. I think the engine just doesn't attract the type of people that like tinkering with games 4 fun. Another problem is the higher the definition of a game is, the harder it is to mod for it. If you want to change the textures of enemies or add guns in the trilogy the scuffed low resolution gives you a great margin of error, meanwhile if you want to add something to stalker 2 you basically have to be an industry-level modeller and texturer if you don't rip it from another game.

>>725223526
>Everyone and their mom pirated the OG trilogy back in the day
Akschually, as far as ex-USSR goes, a LOT of people were buying legit copies instead despite being all around pirates because supporting the local dev felt like a right thing to do.

>>725223723
so...this is the power of the monolith.......

>>725224356
Unlike other games, there are quite a lot of high textures and high poly models mods for Stalker.
The problem is UE5 itself because people hates it.

>>725224792
>pissing freedumb
Based monolithia

>>725224356
one would have thought it would be the easiest game engine to mod for since it has a large amount of people who know it
>>725224356
>Another problem is the higher the definition of a game is, the harder it is to mod for it. If you want to change the textures of enemies or add guns in the trilogy the scuffed low resolution gives you a great margin of error, meanwhile if you want to add something to stalker 2 you basically have to be an industry-level modeller and texturer if you don't rip it from another game.
not really higher polycount/texture res stuff isnt that much harder to make than stalker:soc level weapons thats certainly not the thing stopping stalker 2 modding from taking off.

>>725223723
faster

OP OGSR when?

>>725224667
>>725224792
Based

>>725221107
Chimeras scared it off the gun.

>>725225585
Sorry, Kruggy, but you're going in the backpack: https://files.catbox.moe/awpx6q.mp4

gsc did a dmca on misery
lol, lmao

>>725219841
>don't go
>toward the voice

>Be chilling with monolith bros playing guitar
>AN EMMISION IS APPROACHING
>Stand up ready to follow my monolith bros to cover
>They just stand there
>Emission is about to hit
>Turns out they just stay outside and bask in the emission
>Am in the middle of nowhere
>mfw

its not like oringinals releases weren't buggy as fuck I specifically remember shadow of Chernobyl crashing every 30 minutes

>>725225763
This is some next level artistic shit

>>725219035 (OP)
the UE5 smog really did fucking kill this game.
It looks fucking amazing when you stand still sometimes and take a screenshot, but god damn the second you move it turns into a fucking abstract painting.

>>725227430
No, this is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n94Z4yYgKHg

I'm generally against using mods, especially if it's a first play through. I've tried playing SoC like five times in the last 20 years and always get filtered by the first mission, where you go to the hideout of goons. I see people suggest "aiming fix mods" but is that really necessary to just do a basic play through?

>>725227724
SoC's random bullet spread is heinous and is the only thing I really dislike about it: https://youtu.be/Rq3rSWXOnxU
Using mods to fix it is perfectly acceptable.

>>725222557
IF CALLED UJRAINIAN LANGUAGE

>>725227724
>I've tried playing SoC like five times in the last 20 years and always get filtered by the first mission, where you go to the hideout of goons.
Holy shit, you SUCK!

>I see people suggest "aiming fix mods" but is that really necessary to just do a basic play through?
FUCK. NO.
The vanilla is perfectly fine.

Like said: you just suck.

>>725227915
Kill yourself, nigger.

I only play AA2. Feels good man.

>>725222310
damn that's some gigatranny shit

all anyone needs, if they must, is the Complete mods

>>725225380


>>725233909
>>725222310
They backtracked on the censorshit other than RU language. The soviet statues and posters are back.

>>725219537
they added a few QoL features like FoV adjustments but they all have a blurry image and for some reason they refuse to run in 4k downsampled mode

>>725230546
You sound like a bitch dude lol

>>725220957
Okay that's that. If anybody has any requests I made webms like this for 90% of the artifacts in S2. Just name it and odds are I can post it.

>>725233973
I still hate how ukrainian sounds.

>>725234276
Yeah it sounds like Quebecois french, ugly and less refined.

>>725219537
100% skip. Do Complete 2009 if you're going to bother with an augmented version

>>725226093
They don't care about this shit, all dmca claims you guys shilled to make them look bad turned out were sent by one schizo

>>725233876
Btw is it possible to catch the artifact in the psy-anomaly where you see tons of artifacts on the detector but they disappear in your hands?

>>725234161
And you shoot like a bitch, kid.

>>725234993
Yes. One of them is real. Grab until the detector stops detecting.

>>725223169
is this the new one? perhaps I treated it too harshly

>>725235123
>bragging about how good you are at a single player game
i'm not even that guy lul

>malachite quests still bugged
Tired of this shit game, second time some shitbug keeps me from finishing it.

>>725235284
>sucking at a single player game
Would not be me.

>>725222284
>But what's so different from Stalker 2? By the videos and screenshots it seems like just stalker 1 but with better graphics?
It looks like Stalker but doesn't feel like Stalker at all. The general pace of the game, the mechanics, the map design, all of it is wrong. The worst part is the butchered A-life and how mutants work.

>>725234231
Post em im collecting them

>>725222284
It's like CoP if it had content. Content is a bit stretched thin though due to how big the map is

>>725236578
Sure thing bud. I'll dump 'em until I'm bored or 404

>>725237396
Thanks bro, you're doing the monoliths work
>here's my cat as payment

fyi the whole thing I do with these is find a new artifact and then find a scenic spot/angle within the anomaly that spawns it to take the pic. So they're all found where the pics are from

>>725237601
no worries bro. Cute cat.

>>725224792
I wish i have pissing buddies.

>>725237839
You've never pissed out a campfire with your buddies?

>>725230539
Ah yes broken russian, chornobyl-san

>>725237856
Damn that's a really nice one

>>725237870
Not in each other's direction, no.

>>725238076
Some are better than others for sure. This one is kino for obvious reasons.

>>725219537
they're the same games essentially, but better, since the graphics look good and they removed the stupid russian symbology

>>725235123
ur so cool I wish I could be ur friend and suck ur dick bro ur so fuckin cool man I want to be you holy shit dude youre great man please let me be your friend dude

>first time ever playing STALKER call of pripyat
>huh so far this just seems like a janky slavshit shooter and there’s some weird niggerpigs running around too
>dunno why /v/ loves this shit so much, was i memed?
>whatever lets at least blast our way past this checkpoint where the guy wants €10 in rubles (i didnt wanna spend that)
>wtf this accuracy is dogshit and annoying
>ok whatever, wiped those fuckers out and looted more ammo
>awshit, gonna get into a full on gunfight here at this scrapyard, oh well at least the tracksuit wearing fucks are helping me
>win, loot n continue
>get a bit further into the game getting a hang of it
>nearly have an actual fucking heart attack the first time i get buttfucked by a bloodsucker
>had the volume fairly loud because muh shooter games muh loud pewpew
>ROAAAAR *unmanly scream from me*
and thats my STALKER story, ended up playing all of the 3 games after that

>>725238554
>get a bit further into the game
>nearly have an actual fucking heart attack the first time i get buttfucked by a bloodsucker

you literally destroy an entire bloodsucker lair in the first area....

>>725238710
I like the helicopter backdrop on this one
A mix of longing and regret

Some of the earlier ones are rougher and less pretty or I move the mouse around. I kinda wanna replace them but whatever.

>>725238919
The zone abounds in such vibes.

I always liked this one. Peaceful beauty

>>725233909
>Complete
I thought these made super gay gameplay changes

>>725239291
They do, they're very cringe.

In this case the Rat King was a reward from that Stalker walking away

Since the nigger mods nuked the other (better) Stalker/alcohol thread, what are you faggots drinking tonight?
You do drink, don't you?

>>725239657
Drinking some 7% Lemon Vodka Spritzer things. Think sweeter whiteclaw.

>>725219035 (OP)
I am playing stalker 2 outside of the spawn and A-life not being there. Its actually pretty well made. The gunplay is nice, exploration is nice too.

>replay call of pripyat
>look at the world map
>realize how much of it is inaccessible

IMO stalker 2 should have been the CoP map, but fully filled in

>>725239735
A-life is there now, it's not perfect but it's 100% there and I was able to prove it was around in a VERY broken state way back at release.

I think right now they have a problem where a-life entities get group spawn din big groups to fight one another at random instead of doing some of those fights offscreen. I keep seeing packs of 12 bandits spawn next to a couple Bloodsuckers and a squad of Loners or something. Anyways I'm not here to argue about it. A-life works now, it's just imperfect.

>>725222284
At the time of its release, it was a disaster and felt like a game in beta version. At least now its playable and actually really good. Now if they fix the stupid spawns and implement A-life it would be stalker 2

>old games
>tells you the effect of artifacts in numericals +/- 1 etc
>can easily pick optimal set up for running across the map or combat
>stalker 2
>just tells you strong or weak

>>725239657
Just beer for me, and some weed
Setsbthe mood real nice

>stalker 2
>IT HAS TO DO THE FUCKING SHADER THING EVERY GOD DAMN TIME
>9800X3D SOUNDS LIKE A NUCLEAR REACTOR AT 95 DEGREES CELSIUS

thinking about doing another gamma playthrough. what faction should i do?

>>725239887
A life is in anon. It's always been in. They're just struggling with the offline stuff and keeping better persistance. Even back at release I could find a lone guy, follow him for a while, run off and let him despawn then go back to where he SHOULD be and find him [the name would change but he'd be there reliably].

Now I find people with very random feeling loot and the encounters happen with or without me and never feel the same once. The only issue is sometimes it seems they spawn a big clump of a-life entities in one spot nearby me and they all fight and kill each other off. Feels like they should've be clumped the fuck up like that.

>>725239657
just drank a whisky and coke
gonna get a rum and coke now

>>725239887
A-life is implemented, the core issue is that nothing is simulated more than ~500m from the player. I am pretty sure thats just an engine limitation.

>>725239723
I'm from Europe so I never had Whiteclaw. I drank straight vodka earlier but I'm out so I switched to sambuca. Cheers!

Story incoming

>start playing stalker 2
>it fucking sucks
>stop playing stalker 2

>>725240081
>nothing is simulated more than ~500m
but then they simulate shadows and lumen nanite 1000m away

>>725219035 (OP)
>STALKER Stories

Clear Sky With the Atmosfear and Weapons Mod combo mixed with the community patch. Used to be on /vg/ dont visit there since 10 years ago.

Literally most kino STALKER experience you can possibly have. Trust me.

>>725239941
>Just beer for me,
Always a good choice. I'm not the weed type but I smoke.

its a shame because stalker 2 at moments looks really good outside but then theres the constant slog feeling and no amount of energy drinks can fix it.

in CoP you drink a energy drink it buffs stamina regen, in S2 it just fills stamina so you have to keep spamming them.

and then theres all the empty as fuck areas making it doubly worse

how did they fuck this up ?

>>725240060
I prefer clear spirits but everyone I've met who drank whiskey/rum and coke was a cool guy.

>>725240321
You're wrong
>Stay in green weight
>Stay well fed
>Drink water occasionally
You do realize if you pop and energy drink and wash it down with water that you get INFINITE stamina for about 2-3 seconds? And how fast you are when you're green weight? Add a Thunderberry in there and you can sprint forever.

>>725240124
Cheers!

>>725219537
I only have an interest in them after seeing they have acheivements but with how tiny the changes are which are basically censorship, and how virtually unchanged all the other jank is I would skip it.
But those cheevos....

>>725240472
wow a whole 3 seconds of infinite sprint

>>725240472
>>725240321
And before you sperg I don't mean LITERALLY infinite stamina but you can really cross spaces quickly at green with an endurance arti and while know that you need to not be hungry and that water stacks with energy drink

>>725240656
Followed by increased endurance for quite awhile afterwards. You simply gotta try to manage that hunger, if you're hungry your stamina sucks, even stage 1 baby hunger is bad [energy drinks can cause this btw, they cause a bit of hunger buildup]

Have you guys noticed there are no women in any of the stalker games like AT ALL?
What are they all fags?

S2 sounds disappointing but damn do the artifacts look good.

>>725240890
There's a few in S2.

>>725240928
It's not disappointing

>Best Zone ever
>Best exploration ever
>Shittons of content
>Fun feeling of choice and control in the main story
>Several vastly different endings
>Bossfights and they're actually fun
>Reasonable balance of memberberries and new stuff

The only issue was how it launched in Early Access mode. If it hit now there'd be no reason to complain if we got 1.6 as our first version [bringing back NVGs is huge imo]

>>725241097
okay fuck it I'm gonna download it.

>>725241286
Good luck! Don't underestimate the Three Line Rifle as a good early game option. I really enjoyed using one on my newest playthrough.

>>725241097
idk this seems like cope, isnt the game extremely sparsely populated with content?

>>725241097
>Shittons of content

you're trolling. the first area has like a dozen quests then every area braching out from it has 3 quests. then if you want to explore you will spend more resources than it was worth, use more ammo shooting bullet sponge creatures than it was worth.

maybe you get lucky and find a weapon, then you have haul all the way back just to sell it for enough to buy less bullets than you used

>>725240081
>I am pretty sure thats just an engine limitation.
Why do tech illiterates keep talking about engines?

>>725241286
don't fall for the shill anon, it's shit
once you get out of the starter area there's like 70% less content

>>725241512
No?
>every single PoI has at minimum a little urban exploration puzzle where you have to find your way into a locked room or onto a roof or something to find some mid/great loot
>Some have more than one thing to find AND are part of quests from NPCs or the main story

>>725241579
Anon, the story is very very long and the map is fuckhuge and every single PoI is either a place to meet people, an anomaly or a bespoke urban exploration puzzle. There's also lots of unmarked little spots to find. There's so many fun little rabbitholes to find yourself running down, finding a keypad locked safe and trying to figure out the password can be pretty engagig if you aren't a soulless guide user. Sometimes I'd try my best, come up short and just give up and move on. Made the world feel real.
>use more ammo shooting bullet sponge creatures than it was worth.
Sure if you try to use a TOZ and expect results you're gonna be mad. Mutant Hunting is about knowing who has armor and who doesn't and using ammo and guns to counteract that. Not only that but now Mutant looting is in and you can sell mutant loot or turn it in for quests for even better pay.
>then you have haul all the way back just to sell it for enough to buy less bullets than you used
Yes the launch economy was bad. It's better now.

Anyways I'm not here to defend this shit to pirates and retards. S2 [1.6] is the best vanilla STALKER experience ever.

I'm gonna wrap up dumping these webms for now. Dropping some secret special artifacts now.

>>725241962
Awww fuck anon i haven't found those yet...
That tornado town was fucking great the sound design for this game is amazing

That's it. My collection isn't complete but maybe I'll round it out in this new playthrough.

>>725242210
Also leaving this unspoilered because it doesn't show the anomaly where it's found.

>>725242302
Thanks anon, these webms will make a fine addition to my collection
>heres another pic of my cat

>>725242558
Cheers. What's the cat's name?

>>725242679
Don't laugh but me and my wife like GoT a lot so her name is cercei, she also has a brother jaime

S2 also has a ton of atmospheric fauna, it's really cool. Little lizards and frogs and shit all over.

>>725242891
That's sweet anon, I wouldn't judge that at all. Your photos actually had a tangible value to me beyond my own gratification in that I had MY wife take a peak, she liked them a lot. So thanks x2

>>725243119
Lmao, here's another one for the road
>when she was smoll

>>725243456
Adorable. Thanks. Glad you enjoyed my clips.

Fuck me I found another one I didn't post. I should really organize my files.

>>725241870
>the story is very very long
It also makes me remember clear sky fondly in comparison and that much is concerning.

>>725220805
Is there any point to the modding community moving to that engine or is it better to go off on open source x ray and just keep doing their thing? Considering how much a-life tanks performance (due to lack of multithreading afaik).

>>725223169
>it's a great game
>you can't see any enemies further than 50m because they won't spawn that far and just disappear if they walk far enough away
>UE5
>lumen shittiness
Nah.

>>725241962
>>725242079
>>725242152
man stalker 2 has so many artifacts, very surprised

>>725245814
>day 1 complaints
lol, they've patched the game a ton and you can mod it to make the spawn radius bigger.

>>725238912
He calls it call of pripyat but I'm pretty sure he means shadow of chernobyl. I don't remember there being a checkpoint anywhere other than cordon railway bridge.

>>725240050
>the name would change but he'd be there reliably
>posting nothing but pre-prepared marketing team webms of artifacts
>I'm a real anon, anons!

FUCK i keep finding ones I didn't post. I really thought I'd posted 90% of them.

>>725247149
These are just webms I made on my first playthrough anon.

>>725246761
>UE5
>day 1 complaints
Retard.
>bigger spawn radius
Yeah, shitty default UE5 enemy spawner instead of persistent Stalker mixed with random spawn mutants in places. Meanwhile stock CoP you can see flesh and dog packs from hundreds of metres away. You can look around and see stalkers just stalking in the world. Zone is also more comfy instead of some disjointed padded main story that turns into
>run to east of zone
>now run to south west
>now north east
>now south

>>725225585
I'm so happy my webm made from someone else's video is still getting used.