Gunslinger edition.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy guides, tips, information and much more:
https://rentry.co/STALKERTrilogyGuides

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy mods, anon's merges and resources:
https://rentry.co/STALKERTrilogyMods

Common misconceptions about Shadow of Chernobyl game mechanics:
https://www.metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/WhatYouKnowThatAintSo.html

Running S.T.A.L.K.E.R. on Linux:
docs.google.com/document/d/11HcSFSyb0DX3ymModXZ9tNdpTuktTioC

>BugTrap, crash to desktop, freeze/lockup? Find your crash log, stalker.
Check your Documents or game install directories for the xray_[your name].log file. If you can't find it, look in the location specified at the top of fsgame.ltx. Copy the last few lines from the log and paste them here if you want any help.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Trilogy new & popular mods:
>IWP Standalone
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack
Recommended addons: CotZ, Absolute Nature, Structures Redux

>SoC Update 1.4
https://vk.com/topic-147828435_49497922

>SOCGA
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalkershadowofchernobyl/mods/1089

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 mods and tools:
>nexus
https://www.nexusmods.com/games/stalker2heartofchornobyl

>Mod recommendations + config (less stutter, more fps, NO compiling + full Mouse fix)
https://pastebin.com/Ma6W4BcM

>Change viewmodel fov, enable console, remove black bars, skip intro
https://github.com/Lyall/STALKER2Tweak

Lost to the Zone >>527748278

https://youtu.be/2VXMEqFBXRE
Even in this comparison S2 looks flatter and bleaker than CoP. Does it actually look that bad?

https://youtu.be/AEcruuLqBDE
Maybe we should've listened to the critics from the start.
Morgan Park was right. S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 does suck, right guys??

Was SLOPPER 2 actually a tragedy???
https://youtu.be/GGrmeubNWUg
Not that I listen to or watch this fag, but maybe... he's right.

what was that controller doing with Mirone all this time?

>>528685869
It looks a bit worse in that video than normal. Maybe youtube upped the gamma.

But yes, the game does look very flat, especially during the day time and in these open-field environments. The lighting system paired with the hazy rendering and blurry grass makes the game look truly horrendous at times. That's why you'll notice that most of the screenshots people take to "prove" that the games look good are of indoor environments or during sunset but that's only a small portion of what you'll be seeing.

>>528686693
Nobody likes Morgan Park. He's just a grifter. Typical critic, but he definitely hit the nail on the head with S2.

>>528685869
>>528686693
>>528686978
Are these bot posts?

>>528687321
So, it's UE being incapable of doing proper shadows, or did GSC fuck it up somehow? It definitely feels like a lack of shadows/AO compared to X-Ray. That and the lack of contrast in the textures and the environment, but then again, shadows/AO give that contrast.

Guys, I just checked this out and I really agree with a lot of his points. I'm not really one for goy reviews or goytube in general, this one just really...
speaks to me.
https://youtu.be/EeXjrK0RDDs

okay but really why are they talking about a fucking DLC when the game itself isn't even fucking fixed yet?
dude this is retarded.
No a life and limansk dlc? Guess GSC just wants money
https://youtu.be/EMs-hqrHkRM

>>528689637
There were a series of back to back low effort posts in a few previous threads so it's clearly some baiting retard.

>>528689886
UE is probably using full dynamic lighting while the day/night cycle in xray was baked + dynamic.

>>528689886
Most likely that GSC fucked something up but this exact problem happens in other UE5 games too so I won't let Ebik off the hook completely. The whole point of of Lumen is that it's supposed to provide its own "real" ambient shadows using its raytracing technobabble instead of the way games used fake AO in the past but STALKER 2 struggles to flex it in the open world environments.

Lords of the Fallen also uses lumen and it fucked it up too. There are parts of that game that legit look like ps3/360 games because of how flat everything looks.

>>528691481
only way i can view this as positive is something along the lines of, modders can't pay AAA artists to make maps, lets allow the devs themselves to make the map bigger, so that when stalker 2 mods finally mature in 10 years time, we will have a huge map to play with

>>528694472
it will be very interesting to see if witcher 4 uses lumens at all or if they are having to heavily modify it

>>528691481
>>528691313
>>528685869
>>528686693
>>528686978
not clicking
eat shit

brb playing some CoP.

>>528685869
>retard youtubers play at shitty settings and crank up the gamma inb4 the barbecue sauce spamming bot faggot shows up because program triggering keyword was posted
>youtube rapes it even more because their bitrates and encoding settings are ass
>knuckle draggers STILL think the actual look of the game matches what they see on youtube and 4chan webms rather than playing the game themselves

>M1911
>Mosin-Nagant
>Mutant loot
will it save the game?!

>>528703521
Why would GSC add a puccian gun when they just removed the Russian signs???

>>528703521
It's beyond over.

>>528689637
Just broken Hivan, never mind him, his adorable.

>tfw when the most exciting thing is 'weapon reload'

>>528694472
>Lords of the Fallen
Currently playing this one. It has better optimization with ultra settings than S2 tho. Of course levels of both games are not comparable.

>>528709074
I love weapon renewal reload feature too))

>>528709864
Ukrainian boys are so cute! I can't believe Russia wants to deport them.

There is no A-Life 2.0. Instead, there is a primitive spawner that places enemies and allies around the player on a timer. NPCs teleport, resurrect a couple of minutes after death, see through walls and generally behave like idiots.

The following planned systems were found in the game files, but it clearly does not work as intended. Spawn parameters, NPC behavior and events are rigidly specified in the configs. No emergence and unpredictability.

>>528710869
I'm not surprised, actually, because enemies appear around you, even after you've cleared the location, which is completely illogical. They sometimes spawn right in front of you...
A stalker without A-life is not a stalker.

the amount of butthurt in these threads is both hilarious and sad

point out the butthurted i'm blind

oink oink

i can't do this anymore

>>528710869
What should we expect? Stalker 2 is a clumsy hack job, with a dead world, incredibly stupid AI, dead locations (which are simply boring to explore because they are empty), textures of the first part, etc. They probably cobbled together this miracle on their knee in six months, added Russophobia and put it in production.

>>528710869
>>528713652
Genuinely feel scammed for buying this, I’d refund it if I could

could've been a genre defining game

>>528714260
"Mods will fix it" is a bit of a joke but I do still have faith that it will end up being true. We just have to wait for GSC's contractual obligations to end, painful as it is.

stalker 2 modkit is literally releasing tomorrow dudes, just eat some patient.

>>528715216
I won't be happy until the game is completely free from the villainous clutches of GSC. You just know there will be bullshit "updates" that break any and every worthwhile mod.

>>528711679
the youtube spam after getting butthurt by a negative S2 video in previous thread

>>528715216
It will take a year minimum for any major gameplay mods to come out. Porting in a billion Tarkov guns will be fun for a bit, I guess, but patching the bugs and fixing the AI will take a very long time.

I wonder if people will even have the energy to mod STALKER 2. Anomalmeme is soaking up a lot of the scripting autists. I remember Fallout 4 having a neutered modding scene too because people preferred modding 3/New Vegas/Skyrim and I have a gut feeling STALKER 2 might experience something similar. Hope I'm wrong though.

https://youtu.be/RNAcBb3I_i4
Does this explain a life correctly? Everybody always mentions the "stalkers could complete the game before you if you weren't quick enough lol" but I'm not sure how true that is

I'm all ears!

>>528722754
at least it works.
they really came here from somewhere instead of just spawning nearby to give you the illusion of nearby stalkers existing.

>>528722943
They came there from outside the bunker. Those are the Topol's group and the bunker guards. They literally just spawn there and stay in one place forever...

>>528722943
The 100m bubble where nothing happens beyond that, the world is literally dead farther than that. You feel like you're just walking from point A to point B with nothing really happening in-between. The world does not interact with itself, if you run away from an encounter it just despawns. Main quests have the same issue, encounters are handpicked and scripted and you start noticing it after you leave the lesser zone. Stealth is bad even after they "parched" it. You start noticing AI is really bad, enemies shoot you and track you through walls, throw perfect nades without sporting you. AI has no regard for its own safety, they will not look for cover or move tactically, they will just stand in open spaces push you even if you're tucked in and clearly in a better position. That's just out if the top of my head the main things, but then you also have game breaking bugs on quests and stuff that can get you softblocked.

>>528719653
there isn't much explaining, but the details and the history irrelevant anyway. a-life just makes randomly generated NPCs persistent and they do things and wander around the zone, even when you aren't looking. some are overblowing the complexity of it. m&b warband got similar shit going with NPC parties roaming the map and doing their shit, winning battles and get stronger, or losing battles and get weaker / wiped out. the problem with systems like a-life, is that you have to build and balance the game around it. for anyone in charge of economic decisions it would seem like too much effort for something the player might not even notice. imagine explaining to someone like that why a-life is needed in the game. it's risky and can become a development sinkhole. funny, because without the drive to make something cool that may not be financially the optimal choice, stalker wouldn't be talked about today

>>528723875
anon, that webm is from older trilogy

Are people that worked on A-Life and x-ray still at GSC?
Do they even care about lost engine features and making the game something more than UE5 moviegame#3442?

>>528730218
>Are people that worked on A-Life and x-ray still at GSC?
this guy

>>528730218
There's Iassenev and that's about it. And it's unclear how much he participates in development.

>>528731389
he is the lead programmer and has been featured in the promotional material, so probably he did things

>>528731728
In December 2022 he gave an interview where he said he doesn't work that much on the game since the start of the war and mostly just consults other programmers or expresses his ideas if he has anything to say. Hopefully, that changed, but I've just never seen anything that would imply he takes an active part in development now.

>>528732306
>consults other programmers
by that I meant "gives consultation"

Not gonna lie bros trying to go back to CoP movement is hard for me. The movement and shooting in STALKER 2 feels good by default. The weird collision when walking up stairs or even walking through a door in the older stalker games is grating.

God, I wish STALKER 2 wasn't so shit in virtually everything but qol features. It's going to take several years for modders to fix it.

>>528733034
>trying to go back to CoP
you started with S2, faggot

>>528733189
Not true. I started with Clear Sky.

I just like the movement in STALKER 2.

>>528733034
just give it a year, then modded S2 will unironically be good

>>528734245
>just give it a year
this is the same level of cope as 2 weeks

>>528734458
no, its 26 times the cope level

see that cope?
you can climb it

>>528734245
I might die before then so I was hoping this wouldn't be the case. I waited too damn long for this game.

>>528734683
is pypa going to send you to ukraine or something?

>>528733034
>The weird collision when walking up stairs
Most stairs are fine. Some ladders are horribly bumpy. However Zulu's watchtower takes the cake. Those are the worst collisions on a staircase to ever exist in a videogame. Good god.

how many more freeplay "weapon packs" do we need before everyone is satisfied?

>>528731095
Is he still alive and kicking or did he end up like Yezhov?

>>528703510
>playing the game themselves
Sorry, don't feel like wasting hundreds of gigs of my disk space just to see if the hastily released, unfinished game is as bad as is shown on YouTube just so that some anonymous faggot will still lash out at me for not praising it to high heavens.

Gamma looks better than S2
This is it, the hard truth
A fucking modpack is better than what some shelled gay faggots could make in half a decade with sponsorships from major companies and donations from naive fools
Stalker 2 is a scam and you keep defending it

>>528743543
He was transferred to some tech-related non-combat position in the rear back in 2022, when the ruskies got pushed out of the northern regions. He appeared in the documentary they uploaded in 2024, so by that time at least he was still alive and well.

>>528719653
>"stalkers could complete the game before you if you weren't quick enough lol"
There's no way in hell they did all this work and then just deleted it because "uhm, reasons". Or like this faggot here says "That of course couldn't happen, so it had to be lobotomized a bit in order to work". Just look at this sentence, he has no clue. This would have been an amazing and ground-breaking feature, it would at least be an option you could toggle in the settings. Somebody correct me if I am wrong but I think this was just in the design docs but never implemented, and then it was used to generate hype and mystique.
This is a very bad video, there's hardly anything in there, there's misinformation, there's a badly timed terrible attempt at a joke. Just read the wiki. I think what I am seeing here is Lost Alpha which is the only remedying factor about this video.

Is there an up to date anomaly modpack without grok's shit plastered all over it?

>>528748435
the video is obviously poorly researched fanfic, but yes, it was only in the desdocs or interviews and was probably PR speak. however OLR 3.0 actually implements that shit i.e. stalkers can collect story documents before you. a few threads back some anon posted russian articles that go into detail about alife, and they're way more thorough than this slop.
>>528748867
besides forgotten zone which anons were praising or any other OWA based pack, i think they're all different flavors of grok shit. just make your own load order.

What's with the undeserved smugness the trannies in the gamma discord feel?
Went to see if there's a fix for enemies having x-ray vision through bushes and saw a bunch of people jerking themselves off after someone asked a question about it and making up lies.
They all kick and scream that the AI just guestimate and duuur ai won't forget where you are and yet I just experimented with it after getting killed by some BS and it's wrong.
If the AI is on the other side of the foliage and I relocate it will shoot where I've relocated, doesn't matter what distance (as long as it's an aggro range obviously)
If I enter aggro range with them on the other side of the foliage they will shoot me through the foliage.
Maybe I'll go back and re-do it with footage but I'm betting even if I post it they'll have 3 chatgpt assisted paragraphs of cope.

>>528750670
many typos I swear it is not a good morning sirs

>OLR goes into open beta
>separate team is trying to patch it on their own
>OLR dev gets harrassed for months by said team for not giving them his source files and dev tools
>goes on indefinite hiatus and drops off the forums
>mod progress stalls completely

hi_flyer tongues my anus

https://www.stalker2.com/news/patch-1-5

>inb4 SDK only lets you swap assets with minimal scripting

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1643320/view/525346350588494399

>>528754220
>Visualization range is slightly increased. Characters now appear in visualization range with relevant animations and equipped weapons. This reduces the "pop-in" effect and contributes to a more seamless character visualization.
Took them over half a fucking year. "Slightly" isn't anywhere near enough but at least it's something.
Assuming the A-Life updates work as advertised, this might be the first non-dogshit patch.

>>528751881
buildo faggots are the worst

>>528750670
edit the gamematerials.xr to make grass, bushes, tree leaves not semi transparent
pretty sure radiophobia did it

>>528750670
>>528755427
example
https://www.moddb.com/mods/radiophobia/downloads/radiophobia-3-npcs-cant-see-through-bshesu-optional

>>528754668
Probably more lies, waiting for test videos

>>528754668
>Life in the Zone is now simulated for all characters, not just those in the player's view.
>Characters continue to live their lives and pursue their goals in the Zone until they meet their end.
>The player can meet the same stalkers after some time.
My prediction. New NPCs still spawn within 100 meters. But once they are spawned they are added to a-life system and modelled until they die. In that case tit will be different from original A-Life that spawns and model ALL npcs on new game start.

>>528754668
I'll believe it when I see it.

>>528756025
>added to a-life system and modelled until they die
what are the odds they spawn in with a specific route to an encounter where one party gets wiped and the other despawns some time later

>>528754668
I'm getting Deja Vu reading these A-Life patch notes..

>>528754498
They call it Zone Kit Phase 1 in the trailer so...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR2DDPJHHcg

>>528756025
You can't just patch in something like this, the entire structure of the game was based on old school triggered spawns and events. They would have to come up with some serious duct tape like despawning everything on que to stop a dynamic system from interfering with a scripted system.

>>528756607
hurrr

>>528756690
Don't you have a war to die in?

>>528755813
I don't want to make it so the bushes are bullet proof, if there's a way to keep them able to shoot through it while I'm obviously hiding behind it I'm hoping I can figure it out.
There is an unchecked mod in the modlist I might look at and if that doesn't work I'll fuck around with gamematerials.xr.
Though to be honest I just got a decent gun with iron sights and now I feel board and kinda just wanna go back to AMK (I've only ever played vanilla and AMK before GAMMA and like 20 mins in misery back on a toaster that kept crashing)

https://youtu.be/yR2DDPJHHcg?si=lNf-UIXh6wx9a2vR
>Staged reloading
>New anomaly
>Mosin and 1911
>Mutant looting
>A-life "improvements"

>>528755813
>>528757761
Just tested it and it just makes the AI retarded
Really wonder how the fuck you're meant to go through great swamps, I haven't tried it yet.

>>528756607
I don't see how it is a problem. Old games also had scripted spawns and events.

>>528758821
>it just makes the AI retarded
record it

>>528756591
>Phase 1
for fucks sake, can they do NOTHING right? Literally the last strand of hope for this game is the modding tools, and they're trying their damnedest to kill that too.

>>528756591
>>528760169
>https://store.epicgames.com/uk/p/stalker-2-zone-kit
>Storage: 700 GB
IT'S FUCKING SEVEN HUNDRED GIGABYTES.
How much will be phase 2? Two terabytes?

>>528760616
no fucking way
that's like 10 UE5 engine kits

Just messing around in an old save and the visibility range of stalkers is definitely a lot better. Not going to bother testing but I can see a patrol all the way from the far wall in Wild Territory.

>>528760616
AHAHAHAHAHAH WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK

>>528760616
this can't be real

>>528761710

>>528762207
You can see them running into the treeline.

>>528762018
>this can't be real
Because it isn't, it's anti-Ukrainian propaganda. :^)

>>528762397
At around that point they despawn, which is noticeable through a scope. I cbf judging what distance that is from where I was standing in the first screenshot. I chased after them and they do appear to be moving in an "offline" state.

>>528760616
Based

>>528759524
Tomorrow, I have to sleep before I go to the cagie tonight.
I was referring to the GAMMA mod and not the one you linked btw, just reread my post and realized it mighta been a bit confusing

Went to check if its actually 700 gigs and looked at the plebbit thread.
These niggers will happily fork over $60 to get shit into their mouth directly from the anus so long as they are promised a burnt steak in 2-4 years.
A-Life will never even get up to par with OG much less surpass it, you can't just add a system like this in after the fact.

So A-Life is finally in?

>>528760616
>700 GB just to buff skif's pistol
Stalker 2 modding is officially dead on arrival. No one's going to bother if this is the barrier of emtry

>>528765019
>Stalker 2 modding is officially dead on arrival
It was known from the day it was announced that it would be based on Unreal, but of course everyone refused to believe it.

>>528764783
I'm seeing a few bugs with AI behaviour, sometimes they "stack" on top of each other and I've seen some stalkers shooting dutyers and the duty guys just stood there. There seems to be a system where they spawn in areas where you can't see them "pop" in. The radius of their visibility DOES seem to be widely expanded though. It's definitely a marked improvement, but I'm unsure how large of a step forward it is as of yet.

>>528760616
>528765019
Please say it ain't so..

>>528760616
>He doesn't have a dedicated 1TB nvme ssd just for the modkit

lol poorfag

>>528765226
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je-VV87hJKg
Nevermind, I just had a placebo effect. It still seems to be 100m.

>>528760616
>700 fucking gigabytes for modding tools
Are they legitimately retarded? And how large are the unpacked game files? Is this seriously going to max out to like a terabyte of space needed to mod the game?
Meanwhile you can mod SoC with nothing but the fucking Notepad. No, thank you.

>>528767638
there's 3 possibilities
>they made a typo and it's really 70gb
>they actually have no idea what they're doing
>they bloated SDK so the few people downloading will have a delayed reaction to the SDK being pure garbage

>>528767094
what a fucking joke
why is visualization range even a thing?
back in the day we had slider to limit grass range because our computer could not handle it.
but still, the stalkers had infinite visualization range.
now, the grass is infinite but stalkers are only 100m with no slider.

>>528769004
Vanilla CoP had a 150m bubble if I remember correctly.

>>528769004
because there was usually a hard limit on actors per map while grass was virtually on every visible surface
today vegatation is easier to keep track of than a bunch of hipoly retards in a seamless environment

>>528768349
>they actually have no idea what they're doing
I love STALKER but that usually seems to be the case.

7 months of potching, lodies and gontlemons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpgmoJwtgnM

>>528770505
7 months of patching to run a game with ps4 graphics at 66fps LMAO

>>528770505
AAAAA CUT NOW CUT NOW!!!!

>>528770505
sralker 2 everynyan

Fun fact, S2 was originally envisioned as a remake of Shadow of Chernobyl. Now imagine the horde of game journos and redditards telling people to play this shit instead of SoC if it fell through.

how do i join mutant faction

>>528771753
>wife
there are no women in the zone
this man is either a schizo or a homosexual

>>528760616
>not a typo
kek

Alright faggots I better see some good goddamn stalker 2 flashlight mods asap

>>528767094
gonna watch the first 2 minutes only then rant about how nothing changed bros

>Fixed an issue when Rodents kept making sounds after death
i liked this bug though

>>528772594
it's gonna take a fucking week, only people who bother to mod stalker seem like guys from russia or brazil. i dont know if they have megabit internet and download for modkit is 500gb

>>528772460
Fucking insane.

>>528772460
jesus fucking christ
what did they even put in there?
another game you can play while in editor?

So where is the new 1911 unique?

DOOMTROONS BTFO YET AGAIN
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1643320/view/525346350588494399?l=english
>>528710869
Get fucked, retard.

>>528773972
it was already tested to not work retard

I sure hope my MHM install keeps working haha

so instead of making a proper mod-kit, they just released 75% of the game as an uncompiled package, which is why it's 700gb
and still:
>you cant edit world map
>you cant make new quests
>scripting is REALLY limited, cant even query the game for a NPCs alliegence
>even putting weapons in the game is fucky, bc localization files aren't ready yet so you can make and import a new gun and animations but you cant then change the name or description
>its dubious wether or not you can put new 3d models in the world as well
>at this point, you can copy past what the game already had and put a new model on top,
>also as for mods requiring blueprints? you can only install ONE BP Mod, 2 will fuck your game up

>>528760616
>wtffffff the dev kit contains dev kit content including source files and uncompressed assets?!?!?!?!!?

>>528769004
OT had a switch distance of 150 meters (anything past that was offline) and levels designed so you typically could not see that far anyway. Even in COP with its open maps, you can't see the stalkers hanging out by the iron forest when you're on the other end of the map. Why are you lying?

>>528774271
>localization files aren't ready yet
wot

unreal engine 1 had built in localization files, i wonder how the hell GSC fucked that up

>>528774462
yes, you move the slider to 150m, and the map is designed in a clever way so you cannot see past 150m, hence it is infinite to the player, like the expanse of the universe is to humanity because we cannot build a telescope to see the edge of the universe as stars spawn in like stalkers spawn in S2

>>528774217
>n-noooo it d-d-d-d-d-doesn't work!!!!
Just how desperate are you?

Most STALKER modders are third worlders so this SDK size is a death sentence for the modding scene. It's actually over.

>>528775096
>this SDK size is a death sentence for the modding scene
This SDK is a death sentence for the modding scene. Even if all the third worlder modders would get a scrap metal 1TB HDD for it, you can't do shit with the SDK itself it's so limited. Meanwhile 90% of the trilogy can be modded with a fucking text editor.

But, you know, everyone predicting this the moment GSC announced they'd be using Unreal were told that they were wrong, so I guess it's not true.

>>528774785
>and the map is designed in a clever way so you cannot see past 150m
CoP's maps were fully open. In CS you could climb the tower in Swamps and it gave you enough elevation to theoretically see the whole map (you couldn't because of the world rendering distance)

>>528775096
they could barely play stalker 2 to begin with
this is fucking grim
and nobody from the first world would bother working on something that doesn't pay money right?
i heard you could make a mod for creation kit in bethesda game and make 5 figures if it turns out popular.

it's okay
if people can play gamma's 200 gb+ client, surely they have a spare 2tb nvme ssd to run devkit

>>528760616
>>528772460
Do you guys not have storage space??

>>528774328
The average devkit is about 100MB you buffoon because as it turns out if you already have the game you can just uncompress those assets.UE devkits are the outliers but they usually sit at <80GB with some retarded exceptions like the ARK devkit.

>GIVE US THE MODKIT!
>DON'T GIVE US THE MODKIT!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3490281130

>give me the keys to your treasury
>okay, here's 2 tonnes of liquid feces you can use to squeeze yourself through the keyhole

>>528776073
i kneel

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3507632130&searchtext=

>>528775804
Haha, funny, except for years now the entire industry's excuse for hiring 'jeet hordes and shitting out badly unoptimized slop was
>Just upgrade your PC
Look no further than ReToddler Howard saying that shit with a straight face once it turned out his opus magnum was so full of curry and cow shit that it could barely run in stable 60FPS on a 4080.
>>528775923
>UE devkits are the outliers
Yeah because UE is a shit engine written by a shit company for a shit game that only serves to sell as much shit to teenagers as possible. Fuck Timmy Swiney, fuck Unreal, fuck this entire industry. There's hundreds of 15-20 year old games to play that will be better than anything current day hacks can shit out.

i think we'll be alright, bros.

>>528776445
>Fuck Timmy Swiney, fuck Unreal, fuck this entire industry
UE3 was the downfall of the the console market and PC by extension
fuck this company

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPlO4XekUKs

oh, they actually fixed a-life. thought you guys said they would abandon the game?

Can't wait to be out of Early Access next year bros.

>>528776445
I modded for unreal engine 1 for the greater part of a decade starting in about 2002

It's mindblowing how convoluted and bad it got past UT2K4 (so some flavors of UE2.5, and 3+. UT2K4 was not terribly easy but it wasn't hard either)

I would imagine it's harder than ever to make decent mods, and is hamstrung to oblivion

>>528777585
They said they did, but how much better is it?

>>528777820
about tree fiddy

>>528777820
actually better, play the game and see for yourself.

>>528778018
sorry bro I have another 70 endings to do in last defense academy

>"The devs stated that they were not opposed to releasing the source down the line, but in the near term we will be relying on Blueprint and Lua to accomplish any logic changes or fixes."

>>528778241
blueprints infuriate me

When Epic removed unrealscript and put in blueprints -- they only removed the unrealscript compiler. blueprints use the SAME functions as unrealscript, thus making modding (and arguably creating games) way harder than it needed to be

instead of making unrealscript faster they just gimped it and made it dogshit

haven't tried their lua, but in other projects i've been on I found LuaJIT to be extremely fast, as long as the correct APIs are supplied the lua should be fine

>>528777585
They're contractually obligated to keep working on it as the ultimate edition promises 2 major expansions

>>528779364
They're at least fixing their shit unlike Bethesda.
I'm still fuckmad about Starfield.

>>528779594
bethesda had no business making a space game when they can barely make elder scrolls and fallout

It is really shameful how quickly they abandoned it though

>>528779594
starfield was fine, just because it didn't live up to your unrealistic expectations doesn't make it a bad game. and they didn't abandon it. they are still releasing updates for it.

>>528779934
real updates or copium updates?

t. dont own starfield

>>528779934
you just made me realize that i have more hours in starfield than stalker 2

>>528780092
cyka...

>>528780043
Copium updates
It's basically just stuff for their creation paid mods store.
The DLC they dropped last year was garbage and it looks like they abandoned the game to work on TESVI

>>528779934
Starfield has done irreparable damage to the Bethesda brand and you are coping hard

Starfield had to fail for microsoft execs to take charge for TESVI

>2007 + 18
>still no mod to get rid of the single pixel in the center of the crosshair
But why? Is it hardcoded?

>another .45 ACP pistol
>no Martha, Walker, HPSSM
>no default 9mm pistol at all
Huh????

what does a single gun actually do for a game you've already finished?

>>528775923
>nooo you can't just include the assets with the SDK instead of requiring a separate download
>muh 250gb HDD I refuse to supplement

>>528776445
>games are JEET and UNOPTIMIZED REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>t. has a computer that was low end in 2016 and refuses to get a job or upgrade

>>528784348
>lol poorfag cant get a good pc
Now I'm awaiting your rebuttal consisting of "lmfao if you don't have a 5090 you're still a poorfag" since this shit's so predictable.

>>528784198
>>528784348
Thank you for the damage control anon. 15 hryvnias have been deposited into your account.

>>528772594
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/221?tab=posts

Did you try google it?

>>528784198
>>528784348
prove you're not broke and download it yourself. It's just 700gb.

>>528784836
yes I know about it, I also know that this mod has not been updated since GSC put in their version of dynamic flashlight shadows and they look a little worse with this mod

>>528784715
Djakuyu

>>528775804
Unironically no. This meme only works for first worlders who consoom but don't create. The niggas who actually make shit at ap-pro are constantly bitching about a lack of storage. It has lead to mod delays even in the older games that didn't require 700GB for the SDK alone.

This will be a BIG hindrance for modders unless some autist makes a repack that removes all the unnecessary fluff.

>dev kit is 700 gigs
>mod assets per project ???????? gigs
have fun uploading any of that to nexus or whatever

>everyone still ranting about the SDK being 700GB and vasyans not being able to spare this much space for just the SDK alone
>forgetting that the SDK can only do reskins and remodels of existing content, not even 1/3rd of what can be done with X-Ray without an SDK with just a notepad
>also conveniently forgetting how people (rightfully) said you wouldn't be able to mod shit even with an SDK because it's Unreal years ago

>>528760616
More like 700 gigabytes of scam

i guess npcs loot now
also, 35 fps inside of rostock. amazing.

>>528785784
>forgetting
that was already posted in several replies
filesize being this huge is retarded and far easier to make fun of

A-life still spawn shit bubble, just tested it. Looks like this game is scam guys.

>>528786116
i tested your mom and she scammed me too

>>528785978
>that clipping
WOW, hoholian devs in work.

>>528786274
my cock clips your balls

where the fuck is the mutant hunter guy?

>>528786231
>>528786421
You are probably stupid brazilian or russian if you defend this scam game.

>>528786562
>brazilian
They play and mod GTA:SA, not STALKER.
>russian
They do nothing but mock S2 since they beef with Ukraine.

If you're gonna be using your run of the mill poor thirdie insults, at least get them right.

>>528786562
>stupid brazilian or russian
so, ukrainian?

>>528787151
Haha, yes.

>>528684853 (OP)
Are the GoG original versions uncensored? Absolutely not getting the remasters

>>528787360
>Are the GoG original versions uncensored?
Yes, and also the best base for modding. Assuming GSC hasn't retroactively fucked with the GOG releases.

>>528787360
Just use the repack in the OP

>>528787360
originals haven't been updated since early 10s, this whole community relies on modders

Any gunslinger like mods that aren't IWP?

>>528774271
>but you cant then change the name or description
That does sound like a lie. Lots of mods were able to add new items or change the description of existing ones even without SDK.

stalker 2 is saved

>>528789235
oh my fauci

>>528744357
nah he just died recently am afraid..

>>528760616
BULLSHIT!!

grok will save us with GAMMA 2
trvst the plan

>>528790439
Gamma 2 is canceled since Grok finally had sex and now has a kid

>>528784545
>I'm not poor
>I just have a 3 generation old i5 (low end, not even a k variant), slow ddr4 ram, and a former flagship (superseded by 3090Ti, also literally a 3080Ti with more VRAM) from two generations ago that can't run the game as-is without dlss or settings sacrifices

based baiter

>>528790964
>lmfao if you don't have a 5090 you're still a poorfag
Aaaaand there it is, like fucking clockwork. Unless you have a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, an RTX 5090 and 128GB of 4000MHz DDR5 RAM, you are a poorfag and have no rights to complain.

And if you're a
>>528791057
>"based baiter"
then picrel. This rig in total supersedes a PS5 Pro in computing power. If something can run on a PS5 Pro but can't run on this, then it's badly optimized, end of story.

>>528791358
It's obvious he's baiting since he uses the term "generations" like they still mean something instead of Nvidia releasing the same card but reheated with ai every year.

cool

>>528791358
>durr I don't have to face reality if I make up scenarios in my head where I'm right
>also Imma compare my computer to a console without knowing what (very low) settings consoles run the game on and cry about "unoptimization"
Hyperbolic crybaby retard doesn't know the difference between having modern hardware and "need"ing the latest flagship models of everything. Completely tracks with the "everything NEEDS to look like and run like 2007 games on my current hardware or it's JEEEEEEEEETS" mindset.

>>528793112
>Hyperbolic crybaby retard
Says who. Haven't read beyond that btw

>>528791684

>>528793370
is no bug, is anomaly)))))

IX-UEngine will save Stalker 2.

Imagine STALKER In Hyderabad...

>>528784348
brownest post itt
stalker 2 does not even look better than games from a decade ago and is even less complex than of stalker
so yes, it's jeetcide and you will never be White

>>528784348
bro just described 99.13% of the entire world!

test

>>528799042
Also reminder that the 60-70 series performance bracket is equivalent to the PS5/XSX. A 3090/4070 Ti/5070 is more powerful than the PS5 Pro's GPU. If you need more than that to match console performance, by definition, your game, is unoptimized.

>>528781194
stop getting your opinions from youtubers.

>>528786543
He got a-life.

>>528798256
>b-brown
Lazy /pol/troon can't come up with a single argument so he imagines everyone that disagrees with him or tells him to clean his room is some demographic he hates.

>>528803298
>not reading the entire reply chain before posting
geg

>>528787484
>>528787714
>>528788037
Thanks lads

So can we add new weapons yet or nah? Thinking about stealing that IWP MDR.

>>528803696
Yes, honestly this modkit lets you basically do everything...

>>528803860
...until you scroll up in this very thread and read that no, you cannot.

>>528803936
well they are full of shit then, we got the source files to mostly everything

>>528804113
Prove it then.

>>528803696
You can't do any features that target the cpp classes so no Call of Chernobyl or Gunslinger. Expect alot of minor mods that are just model swaps and the like.

>>528804172
>prove it
what do you think that 700gb is?

>>528803437
>noooo you HAVE to agree with me also you HAVE to make your games as performant on 2016+ hardware as games from 2006

>>528804237
>>528803936
Yeah sure, continue lying, just like you lied about gamma and anomaly removing the blue stripe from the train in the garbage depot tunnel.

>>528805625
>gamma and anomaly removing the blue stripe from the train in the garbage depot tunnel
Fucking, meds. Take them. Now.

>"modkit" released today
guess what they're working on?

>>528805625
>Lying
Have you even downloaded the thing bro? Show me how you're accessing the cpp classes

>>528805731
Is this the GAMMA 2 everyone is talking about?

>>528806992
>looks better than S2
>runs better than S2
Maybe one day GSC shills will accept the fact that Unreal was a mistake.

>run to rookie village
>found a dead stalker
>check his loot
>nothing worth taking so i leave it
>see stalker named rostyk loot the guy
>talk to rostyk
>trade
>looted stuff is in his trade window now
>run over to barn and farm
>come back to rookie village
>found rostyk again
>looted stuff is still in his trade window
i guess persistence is kinda real in stalker 2 now?

>>528807243
why does stalker 2 look so flat anyway

>>528775923
Retard.

>>528808521
ad hominem

>>528807243
You can get a better GPU, but you can't get better eyes.

>>528807883
Probably because you're playing with some meme custom config.

>>528775923
>The average devkit is about 100MB
frostbite and creation kit are like 100gb, your not even remotely correct.

Stalekr is awesome :DDD

>>528805731
Freeplay + AI fixes (spawns, simulations, accuracy) will save S2. The story was unmitigated trash and I can't believe that there are people who genuinely enjoyed any of it.

>>528757521
>no argument

>>528812704
>The story was unmitigated trash and I can't believe that there are people who genuinely enjoyed any of it.
has the story ever been good

>nimble gets me an mp5 chambered in .45acp

it's like a baby tommy gun

>>528763935
>alife
>soc
lmao

>>528775437
>CoP's maps were fully open.
what does that mean?

>>528812797
ShoC was a compelling tale. Our first introduction to the Zone and its mysteries, Strelok's story, etc. The presentation was well done.
CoP was a "grounded" tale. Undercover operator investigating military affairs against the backdrop of what returning players would already know. Presentation and gameplay were both good.

CS is literally made in the slavic tradition of fanficing a prequel sequence (this one is not good).

S2 is a tired rehashing of the worst aspects of the trilogy, complete with over the top nostalgiabait. And the presentation is awful movie game shit. Most of the characters have negative charisma. I still think about Tolik to this day. Meanwhile, whenever I replay S2 I make it a point to murder every annoying loner who "needs rescuing" in the first act, and I don't know or care what their faggot names are.

>>528775954
give us a modkit without requiring a terabyte of space.
most modders dont need level files that ought to chew off 500ish gb's

>>528814441
>I still think about Tolik to this day.

>>528814481
What they gave us is better then a neutered one with barely anything in it. This is a retarded complaint.

why couldn't they make a series of small, highly replayable games like CoP? That should be the stalker formula imo.
Goddammit it pains me.

>>528814665
>neutered
You're acting like giving us a modular SDK is impossible so it's either everything or nothing. You're retarded. GSC just dumped the SDK and all uncompressed assets into a big a single bin and called it a day when they could've made it modular.

Like I said before, this is a third world fanbase. GSC should know this by know. The people who GSC can expect to mod this game can barely run it at low settings. 700GB of uncompressed assets are useless to the vast majority of script autists or tacticool gun importers.

>>528815929
There is not a single modkit as complete as what GSC just gave us. You make complaints because you know fuck all of what your talking about.
>700GB of uncompressed assets are useless to the vast majority of script autists or tacticool gun importers.
Cool so delete what you dont need, its fucking hilarious you a non modder is complaining. Your opinion is utterly irrelevant.

>>528815929
>Like I said before, this is a third world fanbase. GSC should know this by know.
With this third world being majorly Russians, who GSC despises. You think they care? Not to mention that 700GB for an SDK is retarded even for first worlders who can afford a dedicated drive for it. Because they're not going to buy one just for the SDK, they're smart with their money too.
>>528816134
Well, you know, so far you're just a single anon having a shitfit over other anons not sucking off GSC at every step of the way, so, you know, gargle my balls.

>>528816458
>you're just a single anon having a shitfit
LOL you are the only one having a shitfit, i dont see anyone else making complaints, nice projection.

>>528786274
ur mom clips into my erect penis

>>528806262
You haven't downloaded it. Show proof you have it on your local system and are unable to code. You won't.

>>528816556
You tried speaking from a point of authority. One that you didn't have.
After being called out on it, you had to default to a "no you".

Just give up. Unless you're doing it for the sake of getting (You)'s, in which case, once again, gargle my balls.

>>528816806
>point of authority
Pointing out getting sources file better then not getting them, is a point of authority?, the fuck is this cope?
>After being called out on it, you had to default to a "no you".
I'm beginning to think your brown, because there isnt a single no u post here bud.

>>528807243
>z0mg I'm blown away by fancy shaders and a viewmodel from 2013 despite the entire level being a mix of 2003-2008 assets and textures and I'm going to pretend it looks better than the 2024 game
>>528812704
>analmemer actually thinks freeplayslop and radiant quests are what make stalker good

>>528816458
>OH NOOO WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE POOR RUSSIANS HOW ARE THEY GOING TO DOWNLO-frrrrrrrrrrrrrt
Why do you care so much about bullshit that makes no sense to care about? ARE you just crying for the sake of crying, the way you faggots have been since S2 came within months of its release date?

>>528805710
>>528376783

>>528791684
>>528793370
Just like told times, huh?

>>528816134
There's nothing about this modkit that's any more special than the Xray SDK or the creation engine one.
>Cool so delete what you dont need
Yeah, right after you download the entire 700GB on your thirdworld internet speeds and make enough room in your 1tb harddrive. Then you have to manually figure out all the dependencies before you start deleting things. Someone will eventually do it and create a repack, I'm sure, but it's something GSC should've thought of themselves.
>non modder is complaining.
I am a modder. I'm seeing a bunch of other modders groaning about the file size in the gamma discord. Haven't checked ap-pro yet but It doubt they're going to be too happy about it.

You don't mod so you obviously have no idea how annoying this is. Penny pinching for harddrive space is the standard.

https://youtu.be/1fzisPYAHSU?t=6367
>the tree pop-in
>indoor scenes look indistinguishable to gaymma
The constant defense of GSC must be some form of Stockholm syndrome, I swear.

>>528817537
>>There's nothing about this modkit that's any more special than the Xray SDK or the creation engine one.
Why would you say something you blatantly wrong? Creation engine is nowhere near as complete as this SDK is, you retarded brownoid. Great job exposing you dumbass.

>>528805710
read it again retard

>>528817537
>I am a modder. I'm seeing a bunch of other modders groaning about the file size in the gamma discord. Haven't checked ap-pro yet but It doubt they're going to be too happy about it.
Show us your mods

https://youtu.be/je-VV87hJKg
Still not as good as the trilogy.

stalker 2 will be fine bros
just wait 10 years, for unreal monolith engine and anomaly 2

>>528814665
holy shit.
READ THE POST

>>528817890
Once again, meds. You're delusional.

>>528818109
No one cares what a brownoid like you thinks

https://youtu.be/Y3GsITJgrBg

not sure where or what this is a parody of, but ok.

>>528817852
Yeah, you have no idea what you're talking about. I doubt you've ever launched an SDK in your life. >>528818009
I made a STCoPWP port for CoC and anon's HD arms pack. You can find them in the old /sg/ repo.

>>528802596
I played the game myself
I couldn’t even finish the dlc because it was fucking boring and had nothing to do
also Bethesda has been making games with guns for almost two decades and still doesn’t know how to have proper reload animations
you’re a retard if you think Starfield did anything new or interesting at all for open world rpg’s and you’re a faggot for assuming I base my opinions off of jewtubers

>>528817843
>the voice over
Jesus, I didn't know it was so bad.
>energy drinks work like in SoC instead of CoP
No wonder people are complaining about the lack of stamina. In CoP energy drinks were a good 60 seconds of sprinting if you kept your carry weight manageable.

>>528818267
E3-ified Strelok really do be lookin like

>>528818249
bitch i have the space. I have over 5tb on my pc. Its not a lot. That not my point.
Read it again then argue the point or fuck off.
Or continue projecting and calling posters poor or brown instead

don't ruin your kimber 1911 with attachments... keep it pure (muzzle break is ok)

>>528818639
>kimber
it's already ruined

>>528818625
>I HAVE A BIG MIGHTY COMPUTER WITH TONS OF SPACE
No one cares, find somewhere else to bitch faggot

>>528818209
are you saying they didnt?

>>528818736
concession accepted. good day, retard.

Since when are there so many baiting fags here? We had a brief dead period after S2 tourists left, and now this nonsense in every thread. Is it just a single retard?

>>528818334
no you didnt
no you can't

>>528818736
lick my crust anus you retarded faggot
i hope you get drone striked, not in minecraft

>>528819140
asspained roooooossian slavboo kids

so this is what stalker pvp looks like...

>>528819140
falseflagging is the new normal + it is summer

>>528819352
This is the part where you start memeing because I called you out. I've contributed more mods to this general than you ever will. You don't know what you're talking about. Stay mad.

>>528779364
>They're contractually obligated to keep working on it as the ultimate edition promises 2 major expansions
There are shitton of games that flopped so hard they simply cancelled all future dlcs and didn't even refund anything.

>>528819891
>There are shitton of games that flopped
the game sold well though

>>528820118
With S2 they're doing this trick where they announce "players" while being offered in a subscription service like Game Pass. So we have no idea how well the game sold.

>>528819871
anon. Im not the same poster.
just saying you dodnt and you cant find "them" in the repo

>>528820238
??? They are not listing game pass players as sales though, and we do know how many it sold, there was over 1.4 million copies sold on steam alone, so you cant even use the game pass example on that one.

>>528820508
Sauce? I'm willing to believe you, but I've only seen the "players" announcement on Steam.

>>528820585
https://gameworldobserver.com/2024/11/26/stalker-2-sales-1-4-million-copies-steam-revenue

>>528820812
Thanks anon.

>>528820973
https://vginsights.com/game/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-heart-of-chornobyl probably more useful, even though its an estimation, the game probably still sold over 1m copies.

>>528820812
It is 6m+ now

>>528821340
cool it with the antisemitism

I found the new unique 1911 if anyone is interested

>>528820292
https://rentry.co/STALKERTrilogyMods

You didn't check the right repos then (scroll down). The CoP repo is down though so I guess the HD arms mod I made is gone. I used to help people here import it into their own CoP/CS install, if any non-newfags still post here.

>>528821126
So I guess the DLCs are happening after all. Let's hope they're good.

>>528818798
I'm saying you're taking a mongolian basket weaving forum too seriously and starting to construct boogeymen in your mind.

Бyгpы пидapacы тyпыe

>>528821847
>im talking aabout irrelevaant made up shit
K

>>528821592
yes I did.
I know whats in coc repo.
>The CoP repo is down though
no its not. Thats what it is now.

>>528822619
Clearly you didn't.
>no its not. Thats what it is now.
Yes it is. The old repo was wiped clean. Learn how to use a computer, I linked it to you.

But like I said I know you're just going to start memeing so you can keep dragging this out.

https://youtu.be/2IrcHHY1d8I
Was this really a 1 year wait??

good night /sg/
stop arguing, just enjoy stalkan

>>528823578
it's practically still in early access, but they decided to rush assets and story before mechanics

>>528823578
I'm not clicking that, shill

>>528823118
retard, thats what I just fucking said to you.
I even quoted you

but like I said, I'm not that other poster you stupid bastard

>>528823578

Most Encouraging Sir !!! I Thank The Good Developers For Blessing This Onto My Personal Computer Which Runs this Game like a Juggernaut !

this thing is pretty good
one taps dogs

Is STALKER 2 good now?

>>528798256
>does not even look better than games from a decade ago
It seems you forgot how games looked a decade ago

>>528828272
That's the RTX update. This is what the game actually looked like on launch.

>>528818023
>Still not as good as the trilogy.
At least it's better than SoC now. Maybe one day they will reach CS/CoP.

witcher 3 is no match for stalker 2, even with remastered version on ultra settings.

Just finished patching up, can't loot mutants and the nugget won't show until now.
Do I need a new game for the patch to apply.

>>528805731
It's incredible how Gamma has ruined Stalker. CoC was only known among Stalker fans, then Analmeme became more mainstream and finally grokshit spat and shat on the core and soul of entire franchise, creating a bunch of fake fans.

>>528830817
I honestly wouldn't hate GAMMA as much if it didn't add a bunch of autistic 'difficulty' mechanics
>here at the Merc store we only sell NATO weapons so here's a broken M4 carbine, if you wanna repair it you gotta buy a new barrel from the technician which WILL break after you fire 90 rounds from it so make sure to buy a spare barrel as well, then you need 3 different types of repair tools to actually repair the gun, we turned off all the technicians
>forgot to mention, we ran out of 5.56 so there's no ammo for your gun at this location
anyone who enjoys this is a fucking retard

>update game
>30gb file
>something goes fucked
>can't patch it
>?
>check integrity
>multiple missing files
>have to download another 130gb
Why yes, I do love to nuke my SSD TBW again and again, how can you tell?

Master difficulty fucking when

https://youtu.be/ITkpLuZtUdA
New feedwater vid dropped and they're already arguing in the comments lmaoo

>>528832718
Dude you can't just attribute it fully to Gamma
This shit existed before Gamma. Try Misery or Anomaly or Call of Misery...
Gamma might have popularized it even more, but it existed beforehand

>>528834248
>pvp
who the hell wants that

>>528834830
people been talking about wanting multiplayer for months and then they goalpost it back to "w-well fix a-life first!!!" or "optimize the fucking game gsc."

>>528835182
multiplayer pve makes sense, but pvp? Nah

>>528834596
I was just pointing out why I personally do not like GAMMA
I did play Anomaly and the maintenance side of things weren't too autistic in my opinion
I do like the idea of repair kits, but not having 20 different components that go into repairing

>>528834248
apparently uniform loners watches this guy too, he commented on feed's 5 hour stalker lore post. pretty neat desu..
does anyone else here watch uniform?

>>528834248
dude sounds like he has something in his throat, feedwater more like drinkwater am i right? lmao!

>>528819140
A sudden flood of /v/children after a major patch is something to be expected at this point.

where can I get the new rifle?

>>528819140
all the bait posts were me
I am responsible for the shit posting
I am not sorry, and I will continue doing it

>>528837757
i found it in shops, dunno where u can loot it exactly

>>528834248
Why the fuck are we in this video?

>>528839128
so far hasn't spawn in my ongoing save, I hope I won't have to restart this shit again.

>>528826162
FUDDEH FIIIIH STOPPAN POWAAHHH

>>528834248
please stop shilling i cant take it anymore!!!!!

>>528833374
they did this shit to me 3 fucking times
I uninstalled and have been waiting for them to un fuck their shit.

>>528835823
there's actually quite a few new stalker channels cropping up so it doesn't surprise me. not a fan of this loser's cosplay thing though.

>>528839510
weird, mosin spawned in shops in my old save dating back to 1.0

>>528834248
>New feedwater vid dropped and they're already arguing in the comments lmaoo
3 comments
1 is you
the other 2 are one other guy.

my click doesnt count btw

>>528834248
MICROPHONES
HOW DO THEY WORK

>>528840049
got OXA mod installed, maybe there's a conflict.
Also can't loot mutants either.

>>528840091
I' just so tired of this fag's shit. I don't know what's worse, Gammatubers or this shit

>modders added in muzzleflash to guns
STALKER 2 IS SAVED

>shilling on /sg/
how many clicks do you actually get from this place? you'd be better off spamming your gay retard shit on /v/ or even /pol/

>>528840257
i didn't have that issue, just sounded parched. If there was like an actual audio besides talking we could get an idea of how it really sounds but I mean I've heard worse.

>>528840346
ok feedwater

>>528840285
mutant loot is RNG, like really bad RNG. i killed 4 bloodsuckers and only one of them was lootable, and i killed maybe 10 fleshes and none of them were lootable

>>528840575
Would you rather them keep spamming the stupid fucking sidorovich deer and handgun mod or the Thomas the tank engine above Zalissya? I know that mods open up to this sort of juvenile shit but if I was personally downloading 700 GB I wouldn't be doing it just to do that gay shit. I mean realistically, what is the timeframe on an actual stalker 2 mod? Or like an overhaul mod?

>>528841086
what are you talking about man, I'm actually happy about this

>>528840915
fucking retard or bot
call it.

>>528841072
is there even a way to verify this shit updated properly, I just got a notification for the patch in the bottom right corner and the option to skip the warmup. So far both weapons haven't spawn and mod menu hasn't shown up either, even though I have workshop mods enabled.

>>528841292
sound was fine

>>528841292
good bait but
not good enough.

>>528841395
Usually when games update you can look and see in the menu if the patch number changed. Does S2 not have that? I haven't played it in months so I don't really know.
Anyway, everyone is really hyping up this new update but I'm not holding my breath

>>528841437
>>528841587
no.
clean the cum out of your ears faggots

>>528841748
it just says this.

>>528841748
To expand on this everyone says that s2 will need at least a year or more to recover, but then this new patch comes out and they shit and piss themselves for gsc so I'm just not sure what to believe

>>528841939
The only hype was for the SDK, everything else is trash and already done by modders.
They might have fixed A-Life three times by now and it's still feels off somehow. Not having PDA messaged popping up every now and then probably plays into that.

>>528842236
Weren't the PDA pop-ups not vanilla anyway?

>>528842274
It's been too long I have no idea anymore.

Grok told me GSC hired him to make GAMMA 2 an official DLC. we won.

>>528841939
after all the lying and shilling, who's taking the "everything is fixed, you guys" after every patch seriously? btw. I'm still waiting waiting for S2 to become worth pirating

>>528843184
Anywhere that isn't here is lapping it up. There's a reason I come here but nobody ever understands and they just think I have a porn addiction or am a serial killer since all they know is /b

until I have NVG's, Master difficulty, binoculars, and repair kits, GSC has work to do

>>528843184
They say that with every patch and will keep saying it with every patch.
>1.01 fixed EVERYTHING A-life is back!
>1.3 fixed EVERYTHING A-life is back!
>1.4 fixed EVERYTHING A-life is back!
>1.5 fixed EVERYTHING A-life is back!
At least the modding tools are out. Now we'll just have to see if people care enough to actually do something worthwhile with it.

how many suns do you need

>>528848138
At least three more.

What was his name again?

>>528817537
>caring about what gaymma tourist say

It's over...

>>528848138
what mod is that?

>>528852663
gamma

>>528852663
it's the "enhanced" edition with this weapon pack: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3489350977

>>528841395
>>528841907
mod menu only shows on console i think, it's not there for me either. your game has the patch 1.5 in the corner so i would assume it's patched... so i don't know whats going on there. i managed to find a 1911 in the shop with duty at cement factory, and then i slept twice to make it day time, and then i traveled to slag heap and found mosin in the shop. maybe there is an unfortunate bug with your save file?

When is a mod coming to add different eyecolors to NPCs? Every NPC in STALKER 2 have brown eyes, every single one of them. Give Scar his iconic grey-blue eyes, please.

>>528854316
just give them all gas masks and call it a day.

>>528849628
third worlders were a mistake

>>528855205
but ukraine is a third world country

>>528854386
No. Lazy. Give actual differing eye colors to NPCs like they used to have across the trilogy.

>>528855548
second world by definition

>>528855636
a second world country can't be stuck in the same geographic area as a bunch of third worlders

First world: NATO nations
Second world: dirty commies
Third world: neutral nations

get it right

>>528855994
so, ugh, third world based?

>>528855723
i dont even know what the fuck you are saying
probably consult a dictionary next time before you make a fool out of yourself on 4channel

>>528856361
>on 4channel
you need to go back

Gammatrannies/tarkovtrannies deserve to die
Hope they stay in their contaiment zone

>>528856465
Man, you're an actual newfag. Get out.

>>528856536
>an actual newfag
okay, furry friday survivor

third worlders OWN this franchise
deal with it. you have nothing without us.

>delusional copium
many such cases

>>copium
the whole 700gb of it

>"That's true - 80% of OXA was built in a version of UE5.1 with no assets, and I can still do more blueprint modding there than I can in the modkit"
>"Yea I feel they're leaning way too hard on the whole 'add new stuff' aspect of modding. Sure, new weapons are cool, but Stalker didn't become incredibly popular amongst modders because you could add new guns. People want new mechanics, new features, new things to actually keep you engaged with the game, and the only reasonable method of doing that is via blueprint modding. Yet we have an SDK that's less capable at blueprint modding than a UE5.1 build thrown together by some guy who didn't know what a json file was 6 months ago."

>>528864943
>Stalker didn't become incredibly popular amongst modders because you could add new guns
>when first mods were gunfaggotry and /k/ shit

>>528864943
>whole 'add new stuff' aspect of modding
what exactly is he talking about? what would be the point of analmeme and its most prolific version if it wasnt for the "new stuff"?

freeplay is just awful

>>528869314
i think his point is anomaly.
you can add new guns and items to the game all you want, but it doesnt turn it into anomaly until you rewrite the entire game for freeplay, and for it to support new mechanics like crafting or cooking.

>>528870801
freeplay sucks because there's no progression vector to replace plot
miseryshit and grokslop attempts to slow it down by adding completely asinine conditions to player's state and equipment while ignoring the fundamental "what the fuck am I even doing this for"
you can't even RP in it properly since starting faction barely affects your playthrough with some relationship changes instead of gamechanging conditions like having actual fucking salary as a merc and having stalkers across the map trying to wipe your ass on a daily basis

Anomaly and its derivatives completely stagnated western modding to just do freeplayshit

it didn't start with anomaly, it started with the mod anomaly is based on: call of misery

>>528870801
How would one even go about fixing the freeplay in stalkan then? Having a main storyline to follow is one thing, even CoC moved in that direction with the unreleased version having Clear Sky plot I think. So I can see stuff like Anomaly Anthology which ports over storylines from the trilogy and other mods, or Legend Returns with predefined character and plot for each faction being viable options. What else? Leveling?

>>528828865
Speaking of the RTX update, my i5-12400+3090 rig can run it at >100FPS in Novigrad at 1080p at max raster settings, where it only caps off at ~120FPS due to the CPU bottlenecking the GPU. Even an in-house engine as janky as REDengine wrapped from DX11 to DX12 because everyone who worked on it is gone from the company is better optimized than Unreal 5 ever will be.

I don't know why people keep trying to pretend like Unreal is fine, because it's fucking not. Lumen is shit and ghosts like a motherfucker while not even delivering on it's promise of doing all the light work for you. Nanite doesn't solve shit and excuses devs to not optimize their assets, leading to bloated installation sizes and worsened performance on top of Unreal's issues. All of it is wasteful and unnecessarily forces you to buy more and more expensive hardware just so that you can match the performance of current gen consoles. The 3090/4070Ti/5070 is capable of so much more, yet all that extra computing power is being wasted on dev incompetence and laziness.

>>528840575
>https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1428
Just tested it. Literally zero FPS dips when shooting, it has no impact on performance. Surely, this game is heavily CPU bottlenecked, and it might affect systems with weaker GPUs. But then why didn't GSC make it as a togglable option in graphics menu?
It's literally the repeat of shadow casting flashlight. GSC removed flashlight shadows to save on performance, only to realize it had no noticeable impact, and later added them back.

to understand why freeplay is boring we have to think about how gameplay benefits from having a "plot" and scripted events
>player gets a quest or informal incentive to visit a location (loot/faction progress/weird shit happening)
>to get from A to B player needs to choose an optimal for his circumstances route (short with annoying obstacles, long and time-wasting but safe-ish)
>upon reaching the location he might run into an encounter and spend some time trying to figure out where the objective is/how to access the next area
>scenario either ends after the goal is complete or keeps things happening as the player tries to escape with loot and/or hand in the quest
freeplay on the other hand simply makes you beeline from one area to another doing very obvious menial fetch/kill quests with very obvious dangers and rewards
even with A-life nothing out of the ordinary like a random hostile faction raid on your location will happen
you're just going in and out of the same ruined factory, looting the same shit til overburdened, crawling to the nearest merchant trying to upgrade your rusty AK into a wunderwaffe that can destroy c-con from cordon in one shot

>>528758821
you tested what? Thats for radiophobia

>>528879745
>to understand why freeplay is boring
the problem is with you, friend. anomaly and adjacent mods wouldn't be popular if they were boring

>>528884604
popyular is good styalker
now join my yidscord and consoom

>>528879745
I think there’s simply just not enough rewards in exploring
questing is just an excuse to go out but the real goal is to acquire more desirable items
I think freeplay mods try to tackle this by adding multiple things the player needs just to access the normal gameplay loop but to me this is poor execution on the idea of introducing rewards to the player
no one wants to find broken guns, be forced to learn complex repair mechanics, carry a medical tent of healing items, ect.
instead there should be new and interesting systems introduced to the game that provide meaningful rewards
a simplistic ammo crafting system where the player can make better than factory ammo for their personal gun and the tools to make the ammo can be found in the world with hints on where to find them being mentioned by technicians
the higher rarity of the ammo tools the less resources required to make ammo
coffee brewing, find rare beans, require the player to set up at a campfire or kitchen, brew coffee that has various effects of giving stamina buffs, hunger/sleep resistance
maybe these specific examples aren’t the best but the point is that they are not intrusive or cannibalistic of existing mechanics and add meaningful rewards
Fantasy Life i has very little in common with STALKER but when I play that game theres just endless rewards for going out and exploring then taking all your loot back to craft away for hours
its a very simple game that successfully makes the player interested in interacting with the game world by layering systems together that all synchronize into a perfect loop of explore->gather->return->craft->repeat
I think freeplay can benefit by understanding this loop and executing on it correctly

>>528884854
>they are not intrusive or cannibalistic of existing mechanics and add meaningful rewards
no, those rewards are not meaningful in a setting where people go out on a limb to grab a shiny rock from a deathtrap that can boost your regenerative ability and speed by 2000%
it's the continuous refusal to go above rusty rifles and moist kevlar that keeps equipment progression at the hobo level instead of letting you run at 30km/h in exo while using whirligigs as trampolines
NOOOO
IT'S LE HECKIN SURVAIVA REALISMO /KKK/ SLOP
THAT'S WHAT WE NEED
LET'S BREW FUARKIN CAWFEEEEEE AND MAKE CARDBOARD HOUSES WITH A SMALL GARDEN AND A TINY TV ANTENNA SO WE CAN COZILY LIVE IN THE SWAMPS WATCHING TOP 10 NAKED SNORKS ON OUR PDA

>>528885810
crippling the player with systems that artificially elongate the hobo phase is cancer and anyone who asks for it is a retard in my eyes

>>528885810
you're hysterical

Did the new patch break the Ukrainian voice acting for anyone else? It only plays English in game now, cutscenes are fine.

>>528889901
it was supposed to add lipsync to ukr va, probably

>>528858668
2nd worlders, thougheverbeit

So did any of you asswipes play the new patch and can tell me how the game feels now in terms of A-Life or are you all Visajeets that can barely run OGSR in 2025?

>>528892736
>how the game feels now in terms of A-Life
it's about the same except with more spawn-in bugs

>>528892736
the enemies spawn far enough away to where I can pull out a bolt action sniper rifle and not feel like a retard

>>528892736
>>528894125
Waiting for the testers to prove the devs lied again, but glad it at least feels slightly better for anons who like long range encounters. I doubt the a-life actually operates offline like they are seeming to claim and I doubt they still don't just track right to the player's location like they did before.

>>528892736
>did any of you asswipes play the new patch
No. These patches do not have enough content to warrant a new playthrough. Some bug fixes? 2 new guns? More complex a-life sims? That's so minor for a 50+ hour long game. I'll try it again when they release DLC.

yesterday's stalker news, reminder what the russkies are doing while western modders only add new shaders and weapons ripped from cod to anomaly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J6NCsM4JU0

>>528894673
>DLC
Is it actually coming? What are they gonna add? A new area?

Finally figured out what was making Skinflint immortal. Turns out somewhere along the line someone added a models/capture file that made him unkillable.

>>528905710
>498/0

>>528906429
It's an extended mag.

>>528906518
>the extended mag in question
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YvoiYHs9Dk

>>528905710
I've had this happen when editing the mesh using OGF tool. Re-exporting the same object as a new OGF will fix it if you want to keep the model. Not sure why deleting parts of the mesh using that tool does that.

Is is the A-life actually persistent or not? Have people tested it?

I ran little tests myself before the patch and if you made a save just far enough away from a spawn point, you could fuck with the fake spawning system. Run forward and a bloodsucker spawns. Reload save, run forward and this time a pack of boars spawn, etc.

I don't know if I'm doing a good job at explaining it but if anyone wants to go through the trouble of setting up the right conditions, you'll be able to easily tell if the game is just randomly spawning shit or if there's actual persistence.

Waiting for my mods to get updated otherwise I'd test it myself. I don't have the energy to slog through the unmodded opening sequence just to test.

instead of spamming EFP or GAMMA clones, an interesting variant in freeplay is being a faction leader yourself. diplomacy mechanics with npc controlled factions, resource stockpile management and mainland supply/smuggling chain management. not just all-out team deathmatch like global war for no reason at all (other than fun). dispatch stalkers on quests. stalkers consume stockpiles of ammo and food. stalkers have specializations. some are better at fighting, some are better at finding artifacts, some are better at scavenging. send them out to find artifacts to make money for the faction. maybe the stalker gets a 20% cut. maybe you only give him 10% cut and he becomes discontent and defects to another faction instead. use money to purchase supplies like food and ammo from the mainland. dispatch stalkers who are good at fighting to escort these smuggling routes. or maybe you are bandits and dispatch men to raid smuggling routes instead. keep your faction well stocked and your stalkers happy and maybe you can expand your recruitment from loners. step on the toes of another faction and maybe you will have to resort to war. duty claims they have 'artifact collection rights' in truck cemetery. what kind of bullshit is that? send them a message to arrange a diplomatic meeting to discuss artifact collection rights or send them an angry message and declare war. maybe your end goal is to conquer the whole zone, or maybe your end goal is just to build tall and become prosperous. and yes, i'm basically saying turn the game into mount and blade bannerlord, fight me.

>>528854316
Anon, the game selects eye color based on your own.

>>528904776
>anomaly anthology
>recreates the storylines from the trilogy, making the "all stalkers in one!" meme actually real
>but also includes storylines from a dozen russki vasyan mods
>instead of releasing the trilogy storylines as separate mods and mod storylines as their own mods, it's all packed into a single modpack with dumb goofy HD models and their own special snowflake gameplay changes
>on one of the most bloated platforms to date
what the FUCK were they thinking?

>>528904776
>>528917146
Anthology may be the last hope for Anomaly. Slapping OP 2.2 on top of it is what has my hope of it being fun. Love my russki vasyan mods.

>>528917146
>what the FUCK were they thinking?
They don't, Russian factory workers get drunk on cheap vodka and come up with the most retarded shit. And that's the beauty of vasyan mods.

>>528915565
in stalker 2? it's a mix of random ass spawns and persistency right now.

the game spawns 'scenarios' outside of the player's 100m render bubble at preset locations, and waits for the player to enter within render range (or npcs to enter player range) to start the sequence
these scenarios can be:
>just a group of stalkers walking with a single destination in mind
>two groups of opposing stalkers ready for a firefight
>pack of mutants walking with destination
>stalkers and mutants primed for a fight
>a predetermined aftermath of a battle with dead bodies on the ground
>other things that you can probably think of
if the player or npc stalkers leave the 100m render range, the npcs go into offline mode. battles will be instantly resolved, and stalkers will continue moving to their destination despite being invisible. these npcs once spawned are now persistent, for example you can watch a fight between stalkers and mutant happen, see the mutants get killed and follow the stalkers back to rostok. you can then leave rostok and return, to find the same stalkers still here.
right now, only dogs, boars, bloodsuckers and fleshes are able to spawn 'naturally' in a-life. any other mutant spawns are hand placed at predetermined locations by the devs

>>528917146
Will Anthology ever be fully completed? It sounds like one of those mods that is so ambitious and big it'll never be finished. Not to mention the nightmare it must be to merge all of that shit together. Which mods have they merged already?

>>528904776
yes let's show them Anomaly westerners all those great projects that will never see the light of day

>>528921352
V1 is already out, you can play it right now. It's a bit buggy apparently but the story missions of all the games and a few mods are already fully implemented and playable to the end.

>>528924470
check ap-pro, new mods come out literally every month, and i'm not talking about vasyankas that come out everyday.

Psi zones are coming along nicely.

>>528933925
when can i experience this

>>528892736
get a load of this faggot

>>528911586
or you can just change the referenced capture file without editing the ogf otherwise

I wouldn't be able to play through STALKER 2 due to the VO work alone. It's either awful Bri'ish BS that's somehow more grating than the old trilogy EN VO, or Ukrainian which is just unbearable for me.
>inb4 butthurt vatnik
No, Polish. Ukrainian sounds like it's trying to be both Polish and Russian at the same time and it's fucking maddening to listen to.

>>528934740
A couple of months. There are some big changes left but I am making steady progress.

>>528935304
Buthurt poolak is even worse

>>528930721
yes, you are.

>>528935304
>muh feels
You didn't bitch when Clear Sky had 90% of the voices provided by Yuri Lowenthal or COP had non-actors doing all the voices.

>>528935304
>Ukrainian sounds like it's trying to be both Polish
lmao

>>528935304
ty ce kurwa blyat

>>528936538
what cope is this?
even eng dub has more soul than all of voice work in stalker 2 combined and that's not even counting how rus dub even for a single faction beats stalker 2

>>528935304
Coproinian is just Russian with all the Turko-Mongolic words replaced with Polish words.

stalker 2 should have been voiced in spanish

>>528853860
i.e. gotta restart the game from 0 again, fuck me, it's the forth time by now. I've reached SIRCA and got a exo, the zone doesn't want me to finish this trash.

Okay shills you've had enough time. Just tell me, is STALKER 2 good now?

>>528941075
It's OK, graphically is beautiful as UE5 allows it to be. Not nearly as good as the old games.
Wait until it's finished with patching and DLCs to buy if you want. Pirate now and play it yourself to make your own opinions.

why did it have to be UE5?

>>528941325
easy to use.

>>528941426
then why has it given me the worst experience with a video game ever?

>>528943138
Does that matter? You still bought the game and so have millions of other people. The fiduciary duty has been fulfilled.

>>528935182
What's a capture file and what relationship does it have to an OGF?

>>528943138
that's the whole thing with it. easy to use for game 'devs'. just drag and drop art assets and auto paint trees on the map. let lumens handle lighting and shadows for you. 'code' logic by moving colored blocks around. and there you have it, AAA grade assets input, F grade video game output.

>>528938861
And also steering more into the harsher Polish pronunciation so it ends up sounding really fucked when half of the words are Russian but spoken like Polish with all the g's replaced with h's. No wonder Ukies prefer speaking Russian for the most part.

>>528938803
>le heckin SOVL
Trying too hard.
>muh russian
Trying way too hard.

>>528943138
Because you're poor and blaming a game engine for your ewaste struggling with simple things.

>>528947859
>maximum copium

lol

>>528930721
most of that shit sucks, the ones that really show promise always fade away as years pass

>>528834596
Why not? Whether it existed before Gamma or not doesn't matter, the fact that Grok chose to bring it into Gamma is enough to justify the association.

>>528818470
rubber anomalies...

>>528955332
ZAMN did they finally fix the graphics? STALKER 2 looks good here. Praise GSC I knew they would fix this game.

>>528941075
yes its great go buy the uber suber doober deluxe edition right now!!!!

>>528963508
YES! They fixed everything with this new patch, can't wait to play it more.

>>528696013
Their ASVAB scores were too low and they're too poor to get a PC that can run Escape from Tarkov.

>>528968695
omg monny haiiii ~~~ :DD

>>528969314
HAAAAAAIIIII
>tfw the signal goes on
https://youtu.be/1WAlkyxz2mU?t=32

>>528832718
It's a distraction to keep you from questioning why you're even bothering to play freeplay.

>>528705694
it's half belgian so it gets a pass

>>528787360
Do you already have them on Steam? The original versions are still uncensored.

>>528970868
nah nigga, I've pirated that shit long time ago. I'm paying a cent for old games.

>>528970940
The original versions are untouched, only the "enhanced" edition was censored and it's a separate release. You can check the OP for a repack of the originals.

How different is this game since January? I believe that's when I decided to finally beat it after playing it since launch.

>>528971769
Some game breaking bugs are fixed, besides that, not much different. A-Life still under development, slightly better than before and less on the nose about spawning a squad of bandits behind you every time you check out a stash.
Latest patch added a M1911 and Mousse Nugget, and mutant hunting which is worst than the one available on nexus as mod.
Wait for sales after the big DLC is release or pirate it, not worth paying for it, not even for the ease of updates since every patch is 50 to 100 gb in size anyway.

I'm playing through the original trilogy for the first time and so far I love S.T.A.L.K.E.R. a lot, currently on Clear Sky.
I saw that Stalker 2 is on sale, is it worth buying at this price? I've heard mixed things about it online. Will I like it if I love the originals?

>>528972103
Well at least there's some progress being made at least.
>Wait for sales
I already bought it though. I even got the good goy edition.

>>528972272
pirate it, buy it if you like it. Standard procedure

>>528972429
s-stalker...

>>528972556
I also put over 300 hours into it.

>>528972272
>>528972437
Keep in mind that unless you buy the super duper extra deluxe edition you will be missing a bunch of unique weapons and armor.

>>528972272
I bought the Goy Deluxe Edition on release and regret it lmao.

Like the other anon said, you should consider pirating it for your first playthrough. There are key features still missing which makes me deeply regret supporting GSC.

Whether you like it or not depends on what you like about the originals. It's a competently made shooter with good production values. If you're the type of person who just rushes through the main story quest, you're in for a pretty good rollercoaster ride across the zone, with plenty of nostalgiabait to keep your basedlevels pumping.

If you like toying around with the intricacies of the older games (namely the A-life), you'll quickly realize that the game is one giant, barren wasteland with a few set pieces sprinkled around.

>>528974213
Damn stalker, I would shit on you for that but I have put just about the same. But I haven't finished it yet since I keep restarting my run everytime this fucking game gets updated.

>>528974825
90% is trash any way, good only for selling if you have a better pay mod.
>wow you got a unique merc armor
>cool it's obsolete two main quests later.

>ur poor lol
is this the new good morning sirs? my pc is worth your households monthly jeet salary, you are and your 16 brothers and sistaaars
games still shit

>>528975273
>no gimped ROPs
good find.

>>528974956
That was on just one, and only, run too.

>>528975410
The Zone smiles for some and shits for others, that's the way it goes I guess.

>>528975565
Yeah I had my fun. Not sure how but the game really got me in the Zone.
Just waiting for enough updates to make it feel a bit different. Or just wait for the DLC.

>>528975393
i must of got really good silicone on my 9950 also because it rarely goes over 60 degrees and its peak summer here, just lucky all round i guess
the game still runs like shit, looks like shit, plays like shit, the games just shit

>>528975160
That starting merc armor is the best light armor in the game.

>>528975827
Can I cool one off with a d15? My brown shit box has served me greatly I'm hesitant of passing it on to someone else.

>>528975273
A fool and his money.

>>528976012
Until you B line to yaniv and get the exo.

>>528976026
not sure stolger i dont really have a lot of experience with ayymd, i dont like fans anymore after the experience i had with my last build, 11900k + d15

>>528976136
>haha lol get a better pc ur poor
>NOOOOOOOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT
get a job jeet

>>528976254
mine cools a 12700k fine, it gets 65+ during summer, other wise it hovers around 55-60.
I'm tempted to get a 9800x3d in the future or whatever it's available in five years.

>>528976620
then i'd assume its probably going to be fine yeah, this cpu is very good i would never go back to intel'aviv now

>>528976729
the 12 gen is neat, last of the good ones before the rust buckets appeared, but I won't buy from the anymore either. the new am4 chip sold me the idea of going amd, if they keep up am5 alive like they did with the 4, that is.

build the perfect PC to run Stalker 2

>>528977075
FX6300
artic freezer 7
64GB DDR3 1333mhz
16TB WD Gold 5400 rpm
RTX 5090
1200W 80 platinum PSU
6000D airflow

>>528977256
what the fuck is an FX6300

>>528977813
Her name is bulldozer and she's very sensitive so don't mention her true core count. And she is hot, actually hot, don't hold her too much.

i loved shadow of chernobyl and clear sky
i have not seen a single gameplay video or stream or anything of stalker 2
did you guys enjoy the game? i haven't asked anybody for their opinion on it and it's on sale for decently cheap in my country rn and i have a good pc finally
also i heard they removed all of the commie shit from the originals in the remasters, did they do the same for 2?

>>528979386
theres nothing interesting to post about stalker 2 anymore, since 99% of the effort was put into the story, we have all seen the same cutscenes 10 times over now. and gameplay is just the same as any other first person shooter. you cannot even post clip of stalkers getting stuck in a anomaly and get exploded because it doesn’t exist.

>>528979386
dont buy it, you will get infected with the hohol tranny CIA globalhomo mind virus
its an unfinished game and it lacks some features, but its basically CoP, its just that butthurt russians keep seething at it like its another shoa because of political reasons

>>528979386
I enjoyed it but not enough to replay it anytime soon. I'd wait until they fix all the problems with the game first, if I were you. I played it on release and my experience was somewhat soiled by the bugs and lack of content beyond the main questline.
Play Call of Prypiat, if you haven't, while you're at it.
>did they do the same for 2?
Not really, which raises more questions as to why they did it in the Enhanced editions.
>>528981445
>you cannot even post clip of stalkers getting stuck in a anomaly and get exploded because it doesn’t exist

>>528981701
is that internet talk for russian butthurt?

>>528981872
i played prypiat too but honestly did not enjoy it as much as shadow and clear sky
thank you anon, i'm not one to be bothered too much by bugs, i reinstalled cyberpunk 2077 the other day and my car still spawns and drops from the sky whenever i call it and npcs still spawn sitting on top of each other lol

>>528975273
>only 32gb
>not a 5090

see, you're fucking poor.
yes its a joke

so they managed to name the places like garbage, army warehouses, great swamp, red forest etc… but what the fuck is a yantar?

>>528985162
it's a lake

>>528985162

>>528985162
yantard.

>>528985162
>what the fuck is a yantar?
Same question about VINTAR?
WHAT THE FUCK IS VINTAR?

>>528986314
these are not real words !!

>>528986314
bolt(action) = vint = vintovka = vintar

>>528987592
Thanks.
Slava Ukraina

>>528987592
Close, but not quite.
>bolt(action) = vint
The bolt, that you throw in anomalies, is just the same in translation, "bolt"; while the bolt, as a part of a rifle, is "zatvor".
The word "vint" actually means "a screw" and the term "vintovka" (rifle) comes from the fact that the gun barrel has threading (rifling), much like a screw, not because it's bolt-action.

I allowed myself a hot hot meal in the Zone

how do they deliver supplies across the zone?
airdrops?
couriers?

>>528990523
STALKERS

>>528990581
I don't remember ever getting a quest to grab 200kg of ammunition and sausages at the border to drag it to duty's base within a time limit

>>528990523
ZoneDash

>>528990707
the only person getting 200 kg of sausage in her zone is your mom

>>528992212
May a Springboard strike me down... I shall never recover from this...

Good morning /sg/.
What mods are we playing?

>picrel, IWP
>pic taken while preparing an ambush for two monolith guys one of which had a bounty on his head
>a controller showed up nearby so while they were occupied with each other I sniped the guy with the bounty and fucked off before his friend got killed
>also stumbled upon some scientists fighting burers, helped them although one died

>>528994718
IWP at the moment, Monolith playthrough
struggling to find any tools for the engineer though, combed the entire map for stashes but haven't found them. I'm hoping its not in that locked container on the bridge in Zaton, i don't think the keys for it spawn. At least I've got Forester but it gets expensive

As an aside, is there an actual Monolith questline? It said the story mode was available for all factions but its just giving me radiant/fetch quests basically

>>528985162
anna jantar famous singer

All right gaywads
I just finished SoC again and i'm looking to play some Analmeme, but i want to mod it
what are some good gun mods ? Not looking for the most autistic gunplay ever / best detail, just a nice variety of guns that feels nice. I've never really modded analmeme before (I dislike gamma)

I know everyone here hates anomaly but i don't care, give me good info

>>529000748
IWP

>>529000748
everyone itt is on an IWP binge, come back in 2 months

>>528994718
I only have SOC Gunslinger Addon currently installed.
SOCGA feels okay. The dynamic crosshair thing pisses me off so I just turn it off. The durability of some weapons is also annoying. A full mag for most 5.56 rifles ticks off 0.7 durability, which is annoying when some weapons like the chromed Benelli shotgun and the MP 153 seemingly have infinite durability - you can fire off 100 rounds and your durability won't move more than 0.3 at best. The economy is also hit or miss - feels really easy to make a lot of money fast. I like that they made upgrades possible on the OGSR engine but it's weird how weapon upgrades are sequential (you must upgrade the mag to get a better handguard, for example) and how for outfits you can choose only one arm to upgrade (example - choosing to get better Kevlar locks you out of getting anomaly protection and carrying capacity)
All in all a solid mod. There's a bit of weapon bloat but it's nothing egregious. The performance isn't bad either

>>528994718
I played Stranger, a decent short mod. I'm also halfway through OLR 2.5, but I put it on a hiatus. Might play RttZ or Fallen God next.

>>529001838
Not sure if it's because the mod has SOC for the base, but I find it a tad bit more enjoyable than COP gunslinger.
The economy in COP GA is also weird - progressing is somewhat slow unless you sell everything from stashes. Also due to the weapon rebalancing I never found myself using anything other than the AK74 and the Remington when mutant hunting. I had no incentive to use any other weapon - maybe streloks SGI when moving to Pripyat because it's 5.56. It would also be cool if they could make the missing guns like the G36. Other than that I don't like how master difficulty turns off your HUD. Dumb decision in my opinion

>>528792358
why would bloodsucker tentacles be hemostatic? they should contain blood thinners if anything, to stop the victim's arteries clogging from coagulation. there are real world animals that do this.

>>529001952
Thank you, brother.

>>529002360
in post-soviet ukraine, blood sucks you

>>529002449
jesus fuck

>>528832718
>>here at the Merc store we only sell NATO weapons so here's a broken M4 carbine, if you wanna repair it you gotta buy a new barrel from the technician which WILL break after you fire 90 rounds from it so make sure to buy a spare barrel as well, then you need 3 different types of repair tools to actually repair the gun, we turned off all the technicians
traders don't sell guns in gamma, you have to scavenge them and repair them. weapons are divided into classes, roughly based on strength (A is the weakest, D is the strongest), each class has its own repair kit, which will require the corresponding toolset to craft. You don't carry spare parts in gamma, you maintain your equipment.
>>forgot to mention, we ran out of 5.56 so there's no ammo for your gun at this location
traders are either Warsaw Pact aligned or NATO aligned, and this dictates what types of ammo they sell. Petrenko will never sell you 5.56, and Dushman will never sell you 5.45. If you need one type of ammo, and the nearest trader doesn't sell it, you can buy the corresponding class for the other faction group (e.g., 5.45 instead of 5.56), disassemble it, and then craft the ammo you need.

i was thinking about stalkerino 2

>>529002360
In SoC their description was just as you described. Who knows, why they changed it to say the exact opposite, I don't think whoever wrote the descriptions put much thought into them.

>>529003002
>each class has its own repair kit
why
what's so different in tools you're going to use to disassemble and clean a .50 cal rifle vs an m4?
a different brand of oil?

>>529003560
>why
to control progression. gamma doesn't want you to go from broken makarov directly to an end game souped up m4.

>>529003560
It's all about realism until it's the time to inconvenience the player, then realism goes out the window.
I remember when I downloaded Dead Air (one of the forks of Call of Misery, just like Anomaly) and I spawned in as a Loner with a TOZ-34. Kept doing simple quests and all was fine other than the retardedly low sprint speed. Until my TOZ started jamming. I hover over the thing in my inventory and it says "the gas piston is dirty, clean the gas piston".
>gas piston on a fucking double barrel
Uninstalled the shit mod immediately and never played any of its offshoots like Anomaly.

>>529003309
It's a small detail that I probably wouldn't even notice but it's still retarded
I mean fucking mosquitos have anticoagulants - why wouldn't a 6 foot vampire called the BLOODSUCKER have them too?

>>529003942
because blood clots easier with smaller wounds

>>529004058
you're not exactly making an open wound here,
an animal that feeds on blood needs to SUCK by puncturing a wide enough surface area while the blood is still being pumped by the hosts heart
now in the case of a bloodsucker all that blood might end up in a DEAD host which anticoags would keep from staying inside the body

>>528976142
>until you exploit the game
Okay retard.

>>529002842
???
hohol?

can we go back to simpler times of stacking stamina arts and looting freeman?

>>529005148
No. Those times will never return.

>>529005128
The stupid fucking HD model you retarded gorilla nigger.

>>529004608
.....

>>529005659
yes?

>>528963502
tbdesu STALKER's lore tends to steer in the same vein of "complete and utter bullshit" too so it fits

>complete and utter bullshit
>where you vacuum 50 year old guns

>>529005817
ur stupid.

>>529006413
how exactly?

Within 1 hour of gameplay on the new patch i've got:
>NPCs spawning on the roof of yaniv
>boars running inside yaniv
>7 bandits idle in the middle of a road
>broken trader idle animations
>artifacts spawning under the terrain
It's worse than day 1

>>529006806
it's called yanov

>>529006852
shut up yankiev

>>529005148
Never ever.

>>529006978

>>529007310
Early access S2 SDK

>>529007310
the OP 2.2 experience

>>529007310
>pc woke itself
a-life 3.0

>>529006903
>>529006852
>>529006806
Why is this game so political?

>>529009673
Free yanovstine

hohols are degenerates

>>528994718
sweet hud, is this from the discord? why aren't niggas uploading their IWP shit on moddb?

>>529009673
Iunno, ask GSC. They could've made it not political despite the war, yet they doubled and tripled down on making STALKER synonymous with it.

>>529000748
bump ???
Can i get more than one recommend ?
Or is vg that much of a shithole board

Is Anthology a good way to experience story mods like wind of time? Having all these different story mods in one open world sounds pretty cool but I'm worried how maybe mod specific features get lost in the port process

>>529020356
I don't play analmeme but like BaS and IWP are really popular. Just get some animation mods too

>>529020810
I'm highly skeptical. There's bound to be something going wrong considering they got 76 fucking levels. Plus I doubt the original mod devs' visions were fully preserved if you care about that. This anthology thing seems like an absolutely schizoid endeavor rivaling OP 2.2, they really didn't have to do any of this beyond porting the trilogy plot.

>>528991089
/sg/ in a nutshell
btw olrchads > gammafags

>>528994718
Also playing IWP with CotZ, I really dislike how fast progression is. Found a droplets in a stash that someone wanted for a task and he gave me a brand new G36. Happened in the first 20 minutes, I was still in leather jacket with a double barrel

>>529022738
My best fix for this has always been Ironman. It truly elevates the game to a new level most of the time.

>>529024696
>ironman with IWP grenades
And you're having fun?

>>529025038
Maybe I've just been lucky, but NPCs don't throw grenades all that often in my playthroughs.

Psi zones have been placed all over the Zone!

>>529025757
As soon as I hear the voiceline I have to haul ass
if the grenade indicator is on my screen at all it's a death sentence, even with good armour(skat 9)

>>529026081
critical psi level! you are become to zombie!

>>529009673
>stalker, a universal slav game since release
>2022 happens
>GSC refuses to add russian VO to S2 and renames all locations and currency to ukrainian versions
>GSC promotes itself as working literally on the frontlines and asks for donations and moral support
>recent stalker "remasters" remove all physical evidence of USSR bar the NPP explosion

So what exactly can and cannot be created right now with the stalker 2 modkit?

>>529022738
Oh and also I did a mission to assassinate some guy and promptly had to deal with an assassin myself who was carrying that weird Walter something rifle
You know, the one that costs like half a million at Nimble, even with max reputation

Now's the perfect time to repost this

https://youtu.be/HfBzl3Je6Og

Might end up in the wrong community, here it goes. There's only one or two key projects which truly get this rifle correctly, they often aren't distinct enough.

>>529029760
>same magazine as the Kalashnikov assault rifle

>>529029760
Me, I've seen plenty of mods that give it the 2 round burst at 1800rpm and first two shots of full auto at 1800rpm.
It's not 2015 anymore, if a mod doesn't have a correct Nikonov then it's in the minority. Recently I played Global War and despite it having a fairly shitty weapon mod integrated it still got the AN right.

I always dismissed baby ak as a lame starting weapon but she's a little monster once upgraded.

>>528805731
>>528812704
>freeplay
There's literally freeplay in the game by default. It's called just not doing primary quests. Do gaymmas just need horrible radiant fetch quests to supplement the existing repeatable quests?

>>528840257
>>528841803
What are you shitting your pants about? Is your audio broken? The video sounds just fine. He doesn't have a high end professional mic and hasn't run flashy EQs or compressors on it, that's it.

>You're a dumb terrorist retard dude.

GSC knew in advance there was likely an invasion of Ukraine set to happen in 2022, the choice is due to the fact it's apart of their own content regulations since the cultural landscape has significantly changed out of this period. They are free to do whatever they want in a title about shooting and killing, since none of those historical monuments are sacred pieces of geometry in twenty years design decisions surrounding S.T.A.L.K.E.R. during inception will shift. Are you statues can't get taken down or objects won't get destroyed? Microsoft is neutral with the Federation, therefore it's decision didn't revolve around their input and the conflict is entirely seperate of their choices as a studio, however it exists today.

https://youtu.be/vV6SbJMYC44

>>529030016
Long slender nior cock curved to the side, only a white person could think of such ingenuity. It doesn't use curved magazines, it's feed system is slanted otherwise the cartridges couldn't line up at 1800 RPM they'd get stuck in the receiver or top of the clip. Unless you're referring to it uses the 74M 30 rounds yes it does.

>modkit
>700gb

>>529030070
The stupidest shit is in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. if you press the mouse quick enough it won't output the full 2 or 3 rounds it just shoots one so even at 1800 RPM it never works properly. The Shadow of Chernobyl version is the nicest low quality style it's just 600 RPM auto sounds good. Everything else is typically poorly done to the extent the statistical accuracy is overshadowed cuz it doesn't look good to fire.

>>529026805
At this intensity it just crushes your head

>>529034242
Well that's good for all guns except the Nikonov. Imagine firing an MP5 on burst and being forced to shoot 3 shots every time.

this has to be a joke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCLEQsPR3Mw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPlO4XekUKs
why is the difference in quality so great

>>529006204
Glad we're not the only ones who sees this

>>529035614
How do you think it works?

You just don't commit or? The M16A4 shoots all three with one trigger pull, that's how it ought to go for rapid sequential presses. No idea about the HK5 if it works differently

closer and closer to live my tacticool fantasy in the zone

>>529036272
>How do you think it works?
I KNOW how it works.
3 round burst is just a ratcheting round limiter on full auto. If you release your finger quick enough you can still fire 1 single shot. The only difference between well set up burst systems like on H&K guns vs shittily set up ones like on the M16A2 is that the latter will "remember" the rounds fired. So if you fire 2 rounds in the first go, if you squeeze the trigger afterwards you will only fire 1 shot.

>>529034176
make sure you have a server rack ready for when the full kit drops

>>529035617
Dead on arrival.

>Literally you're in piss

>>529037624
Someone post the pic.

Clear sky lebedev "AHHH, What's going on my head is going to explode"

>>529035617
what's the problem?

>>529037867

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PByG44nMANk
shows how unplayable gamma is

>>529039693
isn't this guy supposed to be a hobo?

maybe now we can finally have some cool guns in stalker 2

no, you get memes and naked girls from some chink gacha to replace stalkers

do you have a single fact to back that up?

Good Morning Sirs !

No one needs to know those things

>>529039693
>video is almost an hour long
>scroll through the video and 80% of it is him just staring at various different uis and menus
You cannot make this shit up.

>>529037624
Fishing is already quite boring in real life, the only reason why anyone goes fishing is to drink beers and enjoy the sun. Why the fuck would you want to do it in a video game about shooting people and collecting dangerous artifacts. Lame and gay idea.

Are there any mods that make use of anomalies and art hunting in a smart way?
Not goldsphere levels of memeshit but as puzzles for good loot.

>>529044149
Have you played the Valley of Hwispers?

>>529044369
I did but it was a little too short

That inventory clutter is downright horrendous. Looking at garbage. It's one thing if you're adding canteens, everything else needs to go.

>>529044692
Have you played True Stalker?

>>529044839
not that one, thanks

>>529044757
umm you posted the wrong image

>>529044149
not really anything to do with the puzzles, but i enjoyed using dynamic anomalies overhaul and perk based artifacts mods when playing analmeme. DAO adds some interesting anomalies that can be used like jump pads or charge batteries or teleport you forward in time etc, which gives them some utility at least. and artifact perks add wacky interactive properties beyond classic passive stat boosts which is a bit more rewarding and can be used creatively.

Is there anything in Stalker 2 thats as cool as the huge military operation at the end of Soc?

>>529000748
I only know of BaS (boomsticks and sharpsticks) as a big weapons addon for Anomaly and it's pretty good. there are also countless smaller weapon addons

>>529047462
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyOv4i6KYbk
man, soc cnpp operation was actually kino.

>>529047462
no
ward sucks, and most of it is solo

Why does s2 have so many slop youtubers, all they do is repeat the patch notes verbatim, only 1 dude actually tests the changes

>>529048752
slop game = slop tubers
with that said i think there are two who do tests, ZoneSlug and the Vatislavoich or whatever
zoneslug probably committed suicide due to patch 1.5 though

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p1PtujwVyEk

Can someone explain how analmeme versions work?
I see a lot of addons for 1.5.1/1.5.2, are they compatible with 1.5.3 or do I need to rollback?

Anyone else notice that a lot of the campfires in Pripyat don't have light sources?

>mutants will still spawn right on top of you
I guess the next big patch will be mutant A-Life.

I hope they increase the bubble to 300-400m or so. Maybe allow people to decide for themselves how big the bubbles suppsed to be.

>>529049598
>he doesn't know about anomalous campfires

>>529051054
who's throwing jars of raspberry jam at you?

>>529052839
strelok

>>529049531
in my experience the vast majority of them work fine, 1.5.2 should work as is on 1.5.3 especially. something something DLTX compatibility. try looking at the recent comments on the mod page and see if people are complaining, then it's usually broken.

>>529048752
>>529049007
Because it's 2025 and that's what is popular youtube content these days, somehow. Any game with updates will get that. Hell, that genre has been around since minecraft was in alpha.

>>529048029
Shame most of it does entirely unnoticed in gameplay, some of it intentionally so considering the animation for dropping off soldiers is the helo sinking underground.

the intricate faction reputation mechanics of stalker 2

>>529056198
>it's ok when soups do it
*pays sid to become neutral with the military*
*travels through the southern cordon checkpoint into that military town map i forgot the name of*

welp. 1.5 was alright for about an hour or two. back to analmeme i guess.

All right I (>>529000748) just tried BaS and it's fucking garbage holy shit
it's shitty tarkov gun clones and doesn't replace everything, leading to a huge retarded mismatch

so shit

so there is no complete mod that changes every gun ? I really don't want something HQ, just something that makes the gun a bit better idfk

>>529051054
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF32DRg9opA

>>529057483
yes, all of those weapon packs only adds imported weapons from other games as new weapons, and don't change the vanilla guns.
you could take "Remove vanilla weapons" from bas but it can break other things like traders and npc loadouts.
if you just want vanilla anomaly guns to look better in a complete mod (addon to anomaly), you probably want something like "Vanilla Weapons Resmoothed & Relensed", or you can install various "replacer" mods from strogglet15 for example. and you probably need weapon reanimation mods like from blindxside.

>>529057483
the only really consistent gun packs in my opinion are IWP as a new standalone CoC fork and OWR, but both of 'em ain't for gaynomaly. IWP has a problem that it also adds stuff that might throw some people off, but it's still solid in my opinion. It'll get a new patch in the (near?) future with new 3 weapons

>>529059001
>blindxside
kek, that nigga will never finish the whole loadout

>>529057483
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/masks-reanimated-anomaly-arsenal-v10

>>529003847
Awesome.
>>529026081
Why

>>529056391
Which soups do this?

>>529065081
New Arsenal is the only one I played.
I haven't played NS.

>>529065081
>>529065170
To clarify my retarded wording: New Arsenal has a way to form a truce with the military, bandits or mercs if you pay an exorbitant amount of money, 80k rubles thereabouts.

>>529039063
Fish Granter, oh Fish Granter
Give me all the fishies!

chat, is this real?

>>529067179
a-life is SO BACK

>>529065170
>>529065835
Well, New Arsenal sucks.

>>529065835
>>529065081
Oblivion Lost, one of the first SOC mods, did this.

i would play iwp if there was anything else to do

>>529069765
No, it's not. The WW2 segment was kino.

>>529070526
like what

>>529005024
they left the exo there, not my fault these retarded slavs were too busy fondling czech tits (like every man should) and forgot to remove the exo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr0SIaw9YR4
IT'S HERE

>>529051054
>yellow markers

>>529073512
does it work with AOEngine?

>>529073512
stalker 2 is DEAD

>>529034176
I'll have to delete all my 3d porn for it.

>>529073512
doesn't work with gamma, what's the point.

Okay so IWP is exactly what i was looking for, but in the generic mod options and the game options i can't find something to deactivate the annoying burr when aiming with a gun.
Any tips ?

>>529078974
blur?
it should be right there in the options, maybe gameplay

>>529079370
yes, some kind of eye relief effect that only unblurs exactly where i aim.

>>529079598
depth of field

lavyktyak

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