Stealth optional, but recommended 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 (embed)

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

Lost to the Zone : >>529732481

>>530495551 (OP)
>install GAMMA
>30-40 fps with half the shit toned down
>update + disable AA and SMAA + fix CPU affinity
>100-160 fps even in Rostok with 25+ stalkers
How exactly this game runs terrifies me.

>>530496852
Slav magic

>>530495551 (OP)
>you try to pass by the bloodsuckers unnoticed
>suddenly one of the bloodsuckers farts in his sleep
>you're trying so hard not to laugh but you can't
>you die with a smile on your face

>>530497285
Event reconstruction

To the lake of Zaton rode a stranger one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say
No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip
For the stranger there among them had a little mak iron on his hip
Little mak on his hip

It was early in the morning when he rode into the ship
He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around
He's a bandit loose and running, came the whisper from each lip
And he's here to do some business with the little mak on his hip
Little mak on his hip

In this town there lived an bandit by the name of pripyat Red
Many stalkers had tried to take him and that many stalkers were dead
He was vicious and a killer though a youth of 24
And the notches on his makarov numbered one and 19 more
One and 19 more

Now the stranger started talking, made it plain to folks around
Was an SBU Major, wouldn't be too long on the ship
He came here to take a bandit back alive or maybe dead
And he said it didn't matter he was after pripyat red
After pripyat red

Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Pripyat Red
But the bandit didn't worry stalkers that tried before were dead
20 stalkers had tried to take him, 20 stalkers had made a slip
21 would be the Major with the little mak on his hip
Little mak on his hip

>>530498861
The morning passed so quickly, it was time for them to meet
It was 20 past 11 when they walked out in the Swamp
Folks were watching from the windows, everybody held their breath
They knew this handsome Major was about to meet his death
About to meet his death

There was 40 feet between them when they stopped to make their play
And the swiftness of the Major is still talked about today
Pripyat red had not cleared leather 'fore a bullet fairly ripped
And the Major's aim was deadly with the little Mak on his hip
Little Mak on his hip

It was over in a moment and the slavs had gathered round
There before them lay the body of the bandit on the ground
Oh, he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Major with the little mak on his hip
Little mak on his hip
Little mak, little mak
When he tried to match the Major with the little mak on his hip
Little mak on his hip

.

Gamma ruined stalker

>>530509037
Me banging your mom ruined muh dik

>>530497530
I can never overstate how much I love this image.

>>530507712
lol the steam review icon even though its not on steam

>>530496852
yeah the stability and performance
must be all that hacky vasyan shit that one fucking retard from the last thread was parroting.

what is stalker anothology?

>>530509037
Grok is this true?

>>530509037
just like dayz ruined arma
I will never not be mad

gpu power draw:
>ready or not
90W
>stalker 2
200W
>GAMMA
280W

what the fuck

gheeki beeki :---DDD

>>530520548
>he fell for grok's cryptominer

>>530521127
gpu usage not even 50% according to nvidia overlay too, what the fuck is it drawing so much power for lmao

>>530509037
It's just Misery lite on Anomaly.
Want to throw shit? Throw it at Misery

>>530517646
Man the first few weeks of DayZ before normies found it were glorious. You could run into any stranger and team up and half the time you could just interact and hang out with other groups. Fucking sociopaths ruined the game making everyone shoot on sight. The only places you'd start engaging other groups would be around Novy or Starry Sobor and around the Airfield. I survived the macaroni bean wars.

>>530527453
Here was the other pic I was looking for. I rolled around a lot with day/v/ when /vg/ first started and the mod had just come out. God I can't believe it was 13 years ago.

How often in your life have you entered a lab Anon

Sometimes, random mutant/bandit attacks messing up outpost NPC positions can be a little bit annoying

>>530530021

>>530532496
I hate the X-18 Pseudogiant so goddamn much. The most evil thing a mod maker could do is make it so that he could chase you through the entire facility.

Does GSC hate labs or something?
There's like 3 environments stalker is famous for: anomalous nature landscapes, abandoned factories and concrete buildings, and underground areas with rusty pipes and horror ambient.
For some reason it's all swamps and villages without spicing it up in any way, even if S2 has some more interactive anomalies.
Is it that much more profitable to make the player run back and forth across empty fields vs throwing him in a dungeon?

>>530534270
i would imagine labs cost more money to make than just painting empty fields with trees

>>530523313
Anomaly, Gamma Dead Air, etc. are all offshoots of Misery. The same type of cancer.

This Free Hardcore Survival Shooter CHANGED MY LIFE | S.T.A.L.K.E.R. G.A.M.M.A.

Now imagine how much better the world would be if grok was charging for his modpack

>>530538295
imagine the shitshow, charging people for software that's not even 90% made by you

>>530507712
>Look up previous videos
>It's all just Tarkov
Yea i figured

>>530538860
bethesda tried that once...

>>530538295
Now imagine how much better the world would be if the survival was faked

>>530523313
at least misery didn't attract literal trannies and faggot larpers

>>530540293
>literal trannies and faggot larpers
didn't all of them sign up to the foreign legion in 2022?

>>530523313
nah
misery was soul
anomaly is slop
gamma is extension of slop with groks faggot flavour

BUZZ OFF! I'M INSANE, I BELONG IN AN ASYLUM

https://youtu.be/2qFxNZksiSw?si=VDzpOc0eDGUj1NoY
>We can't fix the game in time
>We can't give you a roadmap yet
>But we can make a mo capped 4th wall breaking ingame commercial to announce a new port tho!

>>530534270
>>530534767
What are you yapping about? S2 has many underground locations. If they do even more, it will be unrealistic.

>>530545652
holy cringe

>>530545745
>If they do even more, it will be unrealistic.
so magic poppy fields are realistic but having large underground facilities in a post USSR country is pure fiction?
did you even play Metro?

>>530545652
You would also be mad if the PS version came out with XBOX version?

>>530534270
based schizo hi_flyer mogging gsc as always

>>530546260
>did you even play Metro?
Exodus one? Even less than the S2 has.
Don't know why i'm replying to a retard who compares games with completely different set locations.

>>530546302
Yes? Fuck consoles and fuck consoletards

>>530546925
>Exodus one?
no, the other 2 that are set in underground railway under moscow aka METRO, you fucking moron

>>530547914
And you compared the new Stalker but now old one?
What happened to /sg/? It used to be filled with smart players.

>lil metro fag burns out
>he wants Metro in stalker without any anomaly

Am I crazy or is the pacing in Stalker 2 kinda shit

I'm running around Zuton, chasing down Faust activating brain-roasting radars -- because? There's a boat with Sultan in it, a whole-ass settlement and it was never introduced?
Running back and forth for hours on end, converting water bottles into wasted time because I need to sleep, sell shit, repair my crap and then run back out into the boonies again because there's no fast travel outside of the guides

Does it get more focused, later on? Because right now, it just feels like fucking padding and I'm sick of this Goddamn swamp

>>530545745
>If they do even more, it will be unrealistic.
who cares? gsc originally wanted for all labs in the zone to be connected by an underground system, and in clear sky there were supposed to be huge catacombs and literal underground highways. stalker 2 could have fulfilled that.

>>530548883
What's the point? You can't place traders in labs like in Metro to refill your backpack. The point of X-labs to be scary. You not supposed to live there.

>>530548749
>Am I crazy or is the pacing in Stalker 2 kinda shit
It's bad, it is frustrating, there's nothing fun about the game what so ever. I'd rather go sand a wall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qFxNZksiSw

>>530550063
>You can't place traders in labs like in Metro to refill your backpack
anon-kun, that's what crates are for

>>530548749
>running around Zuton, chasing down Faust activating brain-roasting radars -- because?
Because he stole your super mega rare and expensive artefact. The radars keep his hideout concealed, you're turning them off so you can get to him.
>There's a boat with Sultan in it, a whole-ass settlement and it was never introduced?
It is introduced, you go there to meet Richter, who gives you further instructions how to get to Faust. NPCs on the boat can tell you about the ship and how it has changed since CoP.
>Running back and forth for hours on end, converting water bottles into wasted time because I need to sleep, sell shit, repair my crap and then run back out into the boonies again because there's no fast travel outside of the guides
Yeah, that's pretty much how it's going to be up until the last stage of the story, where it becomes a linear shooting gallery. So, quite close to how it was in the trilogy, but with more distance between objectives.

>>530545652
jesus. the moment they will release multiplayer stalker will be completely over. i wish the sequel was never created.

>>530551156
>So, quite close to how it was in the trilogy, but with more distance between objectives.
trilogy allowed you to teleport

>>530551156
Some of it might have been lost in translation, then. As it seemed to me, Faust made a sermon in front of Strider, took half of Noontide and fucked off, sent a team to stop Skif and Strider from tracking Monolith PDAs at the Warden azimuth station, then fucked off to Zuton. Then I track two Ward teams trying to get an infiltrator that I just ... Know about? Then we all kill each other because everybody just so damn bad wants to stop that infiltrator, and now I'm turning on that radar array the infiltrator so desperately wanted to turn on, then I'm swarmed with zombies. Then Richter knows I need to get to Clear Sky, so without telling me anything new, pushes me out to find a safari hunter.

I'll just chalk it up to slavjank and poor translation.

>>530550790
There should be mod to roll with own crates.

>>530534270
Half the game feels like you are going Underground either for the story or for exploration.

The one good thing I can say about Stalker 2 is that they stepped up exploration into Labs and underground Locations compared to the original. I dont quite get your criticism in that regard unless you are at the beginning of the game.

>>530551552
CS and CoP did, but SoC didn't have any fast travel.
>>530551572
Sorry, I assumed you were farther down the story than you actually are.
>Then I track two Ward teams trying to get an infiltrator that I just ... Know about?
You find out about the infiltrator when you listen to the Monolith communications after activating the antenna at the Azimuth station.
Then, if you're with the Ward, they just straight up send you to help those two teams, and if you're with the Spork, you find out about them by intercepting to the Ward comms using the sensors you've brought to the Spark dudes earlier, and then get the location of the infiltrator from their corpses.
>and now I'm turning on that radar array the infiltrator so desperately wanted to turn on
Yeah, that's apparently so Faust contacts you and reveals his whereabouts, taking you for the infiltrator, who finished his job. This IS somewhat dumb.
>Then Richter knows I need to get to Clear Sky
You tell him about it, he doesn't just telepathically know what you need.
>so without telling me anything new, pushes me out to find a safari hunter.
He doesn't want to be your guide because he once got a bunch of people killed on the job and now has PTSD or something, so he doesn't take clients anymore and thus sends you to another guide, who's currently supposed to be with said hunter.
It's not the best writing, sure, but it's still makes some sense.

>>530558136
>but SoC didn't have any fast travel
because other than walking back to cordon/agro for the decoder you didn't have to backtrack, it was very much a straight line

>>530558136
Recontextualizing it and helping me realize I probably missed some dialogue because of circumstance distracting me, it's not as bad as it seemed. Maybe my experience was degraded by my intense CQB/looting autism.

Thanks for the clarifications, anon.

Also, I am now trying to shut down these psi beacons and I gotta say, THIS SWAMP SUCKS

>>530550671
DO SWITCH 2 NEXT
just imagine

How were they planning to implement cars in buildo?
Was anomaly placement somehow less random and certain roads were actually drivable?

>>530558776
Eh, in SoC you do have to go through Garbage, like, five times, and visit the Bar four times during the main story, mostly because those are the central maps you have to go through to get to some other level. Which is something they could've avoided in S2, now that the Zone is seamless, but no.
After lab X18 in Dark Valley you're expected to return to Cordon and have to walk all the way back to the Bar from there, then there's the true ending detour you've mentioned. Many side missions take you back to previously visited locations as well.
There was plenty of backtracking there, it just didn't really feel like a major inconvenience, because the maps themselves weren't that big, and with the huge and mostly empty Stalker 2 map it's far more obvious.

>>530546827
>Straight tunnel three times the lenght of Cordon
Why? For what purpose?

>>530545652
Thanks for beta testing, PCcucks.

>>530566235
rat catacombs which connect nearly every map

>>530568536
wait the fuck up
so underground doesn't have to be segmented at all and exists under every map but surface needs level loads?

>>530545745
Just another /v/edditor or /v/atnik finding minuscule things to nitpick before dropping the mask entirely and just making shit up to whine about.

>>530551572
Are you an ESL trying to play the english version or just stupid? It's impossible to be lost in the story. It's incredibly easy to follow, unless maybe you're listening to podcasts and have tiktok and subway surfers playing in the corners while a dildo vibrates in your ass.

Oh, look, it's the thread janitor.

>>530558902
what's, strelok pulls out a switch 2 instead of a PDA from Dark's body and starts playing stalker 2 while Skif watches?

>>530569110
Haha look it's the edgy nu4channer coming in to show how edgy he is haha

>>530532204
I was just going to pay off varan cause I really don't want to get involved in bandit politics
I was walking in calmly with my weapon holstered but a nearby battle agitated some of the bandit guards and one of them randomly started shooting at me, the rest of them turned hostile when I shot back
I ended up killing all of them by retreating to covered high ground with my G36, but then I couldn't find varan to get the key, and the anomaly in the building killed me while I was looking for him
then after reloading it played out like normal, I paid him off, he betrayed me, I ran cause I had a much worse position

I still don't know where the fuck he went or why that one guard started shooting

>>530571054
kek

>>530571553
then while running away, the guard at the gate hadn't quite caught on that the others were betraying me, and just kind of looked at me before I shot him

:^(

>IWP+Cotz
>start on cordon with SKS
>get a 12 men squad to wipe out monolith and military
>3 bloodsuckers right at the entrance to the village
>chopper blasting at all times
>can't even cross the bridge because everyone is getting sucked from invis and throwing nades at each other
I thought this was supposed to be an "easy" map...

>>530571054
>https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1643320/view/525346984576422254
>Fixed an issue where two bandits at Varan's camp attacked Player without any reason during the King Of The Hill mission.
Bro, you should have waited for the patch.

>>530572791
>Fixed an issue when an NPC's corpse could fly away after killing them with a headshot.
finally

>>530572396
Those "take a squad and wipe the enemy forces" quests can be brutal, especially if the enemy faction has a helicopter (military in cordon). You fucked up.

>>530568914
i imagine catacombs use much less geometry since it's mostly boxes and corridors which allows it to be this massive piece of shit, whereas the connected surface maps probably take up a whole lot more resources?

I didnt expect the Strelok ending to that bad (not in terms of quality but the implication of it)

>>530576212
it made me remember that he was also a brainwash victim

>>530575734
>especially if the enemy faction has a helicopter
can I shoot it down?

>>530572396
If it gets overwhelming afaik cotz includes nocturnal mutants setting in the configs, which somewhat solves the bloodsucker question. I've been chased by a troupe of pseudogiants throughout the entire garbage, so every map is a shithole in IWP.

>>530577156
Yes, it takes some doing though.

>>530576212
i don't get the change in his behavior. in cop the only reason he contacted the military in pripyat was because he claimed to have information that would allow the destruction of the zone, and now he's acting like he must protect it for some reason.

>>530576212
If Strelok was able to build a kill on sight wall around the whole exclusion zone, why didn't c-con do the same from the start to keep all the stalkers out of the center? There's no reason to bother with a brain scorcher or monolith if you can just cast a huge fuck off barrier around yourself. Was that ever explained?

The best S2 ending is the Faust ending. That is an objective fact.

>>530581768
The best S2 ending is the Scar ending because it prevents S3 from being created.

Idk if you guys noticed, but if you have your weapons equiped and you get hurt by anomalies or explosions or anything, the weapons will degrade.
I ended up running with just un-upgraded Saiga, Rhino, and Skif's peestol.
And now im just using peestol and upgraded Kora - it is so good.

>>530581071
Probably bevause if the Heart of Chernobyl which amplifies Psi-stuff. However I though he used it to fill the spot of the remaining 7 Pods.

I'm more intrigued what his master plan is once he dies of old age.

>>530582021
Piss off, i want S3, except with Faust ending it can be fucking anywhere.
>>530582064
>implying he will die of old age
Fucker probably has an artefact somewhere that extends life, OR, he becomes like C-Con.

What's the fastest sneedrun of S2?

>>530579340
Listen to the notes in his hideout again.

>Piss off, i want S3, except with Faust ending it can be fucking anywhere.

>>530582419
who cares?
speedrunners are mentally ill trannies

>>530571054
I desperately want clearer faction uniforms/distinction/meta knowledge

>get a stash marker
>it leads to two storks locked up in a pen
>releasing them to get to the stash not only gives me a kickass suit of armour
>but also aggros the blueman group with the eagle patch on their shoulders
>for no other reason than that one random stash marker, I am now in the infinitywar with the blue man group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316HQ3769-s&list=RD316HQ3769-s&start_radio=1

>install mod that fucks with water radiation levels
>new save as Clear Sky, shitty starter outfit
>sometimes walking across the rickety puddle bridges I hear the footstep splash sound
>instantly 300 rads

>me and the ecologist I'm escorting all the way across the swamps

>>530583712
>hurr durr u liek game I no like so ur s-soiboi beard guy with glasses bald hat
How can you creatures still be stuck in 5-year-old mentality for a full decade?

>>530545652
isn’t that the entrance to iron forest?

>I am le faggot, you are le childe
you sure showed him...

>>530589930
I really hope that they will have Iron Forest and CNPP as one expansion, and Limansk as a second one. And more guns and consumables (like an actual apple juice that actually does remove radiation, and some foodstuffs that help with stamina regen). A few outfits would be nice, like army Bulat, or those stalker, army armors with overcoats and rain coats. A few more artefacts too.

>>530598895
for the love of god turn on anti aliasing

>>530610880
Tell that to whoever decided to use it as a promo screenshot in 2009. There were worse pics too.

heard modtools FINALLY released.
anything else changed?
do we already know any projects being worked on?

any other cool news? Im out of the loop since shitposting and talking trash about the game back in jan

>>530619137
Mod tools are out in a beta stage, I think they can only be used for skins, animations and modifying assets right now. There are already overhauls that do a ton of stuff - the big issue is lack of freeplay, the lack of side quest content and the usual Binocs/NVG type complaints. That being said there is a freeplay mod where you can change your start position, loadout and faction etc. The factions are broken though.

>>530619546
>modtools are only out in beta with limited functionality
there goes my interest in the game.
moving my ETA for good modded content from 2-3 years to indefinite

Should I get stalker 2 while its on sale? I have an rtx 2080, I heard the performance is pretty terrible so im unsure about it.

>>530621217
it's one of those games that are so resolution-limited you can only get good performance with upscaling from like 720p

>>530621217
It's "playable" on a 2080 but don't expect anything over 60 fps. I play on a 4070ti super and while the frame drops aren't as severe as they used to be I'm still dissatisfied with the performance. I suppose you won't have access to any of the framegen features either.

>>530581768
I don't care for the Skif ending and people who say it opens the most sequel/dlc potential are retarded. You're losing much of the appeal of the series in first place. Part of what's interesting about Stalker's setting is the fact that it's a localized, exclusive apocalypse. A localized apocalypse that people *willingly* travel to for riches, mystery, hardship and adventure, or because some see it as a higher calling. Others come because they're society's rejects. And then you have the region-specific Soviet backdrop to ground the lore with the Chernobyl alt history, and clandestine experiments often the subject of conspiracy theories. When you unleash the Zone on the whole world, the setting is little different from every other post-apocalyptic setting. Plus, even if the next Stalker game is set somewhere else, I don't expect the developers to make 'Louisiana except the zone' work as well as their home country.

>>530621496
>>530622041
So retarded. PC gaming is getting ridiculous with all the performance issues. I remember playing games on my PC that looked just as good if not better than Stalker 2 when the 2080 came out and getting 120+ frames.

>>530624478
PS4 was the perfect industry gatekeeper of "enough hardware to do anything you want" but "not enough to do it lazily or half-assed"

>>530626389
Mod to quick fap that gives you psi-protection buff for 30 min.

>>530624478
The first Dice Battlefront game was released 10 years ago and it looks and runs better than anything made today.

stalker 2 is dead! DEAD i tell ye
>capt: jaroo

>>530627975
still one of the only games to do ambient occlusion correctly

it's truly amazing how often people fuck this up
stalker 2 is a perfect example, you got lumen, you got ssao, you got what looks like distance field ao on some of the objects, you got some lighting baked into the textures, all mixed together in one giant mess

battlefront has clean, unlit textures with a high quality SSAO, which to my eyes looks like some variant of volumetric obscurance, as the sole source of occlusion, then for the interiors you have some fairly broad phase darkening and ambient lighting that doesn't step on SSAO's toes

this thread is dead as fucking hell.
so Stalker 2 actually killed the franchise?

>>530638972
gamma killed it, without faking it

>>530638972
Everyone is on the various Discords now.

>>530639156
naw its gotta be stalker 2
>huge visual update
>but everything else is actually dogshit
>people want visuals of stalker 2 with the gameplay of 1 but that doesnt exist (yet?)
>mod tools announced, so modders give up on old game

>>530638972
>S2 is mid to bad
>slop remasters that no one other than console plebs needed
>most of the modern modding is centered around CoC(k) derivatives
>OLR is "done"
>all meme mods are translated
what exactly do you expect coming here?

>>530639708
the same shit as pre Shit2 release
activity

Need to decompress from cleaning up cat diarrhoea on the carpet
Mods for this feel?

>>530641629
>cat diarrhoea on the carpet
was the carpet expensive?

>>530642705
Don't know desu
Deodorized the carpet
Doused it in Oust
Soaked it and scrubbed it with Handy Andy
Then gave it a joozh with the wet/dry vacuum cleaner
Then lit some incense to burn away the horror

Goldsphere I think

I took a break from this place to avoid S2 spoilers and then stopped playing S2 for moths but I finally beat it. I don't know how to feel about the endings and Strider was done dirty. The anomalies were cool and I enjoyed going back to the Cordon and Zaton, but I don't have much else to say. The game was just ok in the end.

>>530645687
I like how tragic his story is. He reappears, needs medical care, and for a moment it seems like the story is going to set up him being unbrainwashed. But then he's killed off unceremoniously, and his closure scene later is probably not even real. And the tragedy of Noontide is never addressed either. Really depressing.

>>530646816
The whole thing with Noontide is depressing yeah. I guess it's nice that Strider even reappears in the first place. At least Richter and Degtyarev make it.

>>530647880
And Nimble.

>>530647880
Bringing back really minor characters and giving them bigger roles can seem masturbatory, but Strider was the right one to pick. I'm also okay with Nimble getting a slightly bigger role since he was present in every game.

I did not care for Stalker 2. It insists upon itself.

Hello, Stalkers!

We've rolled out patch 1.5.1 for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. The chaos hour is over — bloodsuckers are no longer crashing our stalker parties inside hubs (they just couldn’t handle their drinks), and NPCs have learned to stay grounded, no more flying away after a particularly skillful headshot.

Full patchnote is here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1643320/view/525346984576422254

Also, this is your final opportunity to grab S.T.A.L.K.E.R.2: Heart of Chornobyl with a 30% discount during the Steam Summer Sale 2025. The sale will conclude on July 10th.

>>530652560
fuck off mol1t

>>530652708
you said thread dead, i'm just helping

Should I uninstall https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7 for the update

>>530652941
that mod always works no?

>>530641629
why does your cat have diarrhea? is it sick?

>>530653194
Please be patient I am retarded

>>530652990
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ????

STALKER

Is there any reason to picking loners other than for RP reasons?

Touhou collab when

>>530658352
already exists

>>530658352
Make it happen.

>>530657645
like in freeplay? they have access to a lot more areas and traders and such, the progression is balanced around being a loner i guess

>>530639708
>most of the modern modding is centered around CoC(k) derivatives
most of WESTERN modern modding is centered around CoC derivatives.
Also you could like make your own mod, if the status quo bothers you that much. Be the change yourself. Don't expect other niggas to do shit for you

>>530658746
>they have access to a lot more areas and traders
but scientists outclass them in every way

>>530659285
Not them but one day I'll get around to it, I've been reading the modding links posted last thread.

>>530662962
godspeed. Just remember, start small to get familiar with the things like it was said in the last thread

Good morning, thread

I'm trying to write a script function for dialog that checks if the player has 10 or more of an item in his inventory. I want the function to be able to check for more than one item, for example I want the function to return true if the player has 10 "bread" OR 10 "conserva".

Anyone here know how to do this? I've been trying to write the function myself. I figured out how to check for an item but I have no idea how to check for item count or create an item pool.

>>530671595
ask chatgpt

>>530668952
good day anon

>>530582784
you mean the one that he recorded for himself, in case of memory loss? this note explains why he is against sircaa, but it doesn't explain why he now wants to protect the zone from everyone and even personifies "her" in a way.
unless there is some other pda note that i've missed.

>>530672442
>ask chatgpt
>implying slop knows anything about x-ray modding
with AI's tendency to making up convincing bullshit you'd sooner code a different engine

The simple mind cannot comprehend esoteric slav coding techniques.

>>530671595
I know next to nothing about modding, but can't you just look up how they handled it in CoP with the quest to bring food to the starving mercs? I think it worked exactly as you described.

>>530684457
Good idea. I was looking for examples in the SoC game files but I couldn't find any.

>>530627975
no it doesn't, no matter how many dozens of times you spam this on /v/. Years were spent rightfully shitting on static, baked lighting and everything that comes with it, and all you jobless cucks are foaming at the mouth waiting to suck the proverbial cock of that outdated garbage just because hardware requirements are no longer "ewaste that mommy will feel ok with buying for me because I have no money or job and never will".
>>530624478
This is also untrue.
>>530639339
>>530639708
>/v/atniks and /v/edditors STILL crying and lying about stalker 2 because they can't run it and/or make everything political

>>530686378
F.E.A.R was so good, it shows how much of a difference attention to detail and polish can make.

>>530682416
give him context and link him api documentation

>>530650853
>>530650906
Right Nimble too. And I read up that Richter can die also, glad I chose a path where that didn't happen.

Never fake a survival.

>>530684457
You goddamn genius, it fucking worked. It's the function "zat_b103_actor_has_needed_food" in dialogs_zaton.script.
For anyone interested,
>get_story_object("actor"):iterate_inventory
needs to be changed to
>db.actor:iterate_inventory
so it works with SoC.

does degtyatrev die?!

>>530691235
Not that I'm aware of

Did /sg/ ever have a consensus as to what the "best" ending of S2 was?

>>530697389
>what the "best" ending of S2 was?
uninstalling

>>530698089
That isn't one of the four endings

>>530495551 (OP)
Just installed Stalker soc and ZRP (vanilla config) for my first playthrough, but I wanted to know a couple of things. How can I play in russian with english subs and is there a way to bind mouswheel to change weapons?

>>530698190
it's the hidden ending

>>530699010
>mouswheel to change weapons
anon, you have 6 buttons, 3 of which have nothing to do with combat and 1 is a knife
you will stay on the same weapon 90% of the time

>>530699010
>How can I play in russian with english subs
https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/in-game-cc-and-subtitles-1-00
https://www.moddb.com/downloads/authenticity-sound-pack-1-00
there's no subs in the base game so try these, check the description for installation info and there's a link to zrp-compatible version in the InGameCC comments

>>530698089
>>530697389
sometimes the winning move is not to play at all :^)

wut r sum gud mawds nao

does stalkgur 2 still heff no a-life

>>530699728
Ok I will stay with those controls then
>>530699837
Thanks mate

>>530697389
The one that aligns with your ideals. It currently isn't like SOC where it has fake endings and one that's canon.

>>530699010
just dont do it. install mods

>>530700678
don't forget to remap bandages and medkits to F1 and F2

>>530701413
I will, any other weird controls I should change?

>>530701720
yeah. attack to spacebar and forward to mouse1.

>>530701720
>>530702171
Ignore this one.

>>530697389
faust ending obviously

>>530699837
>>530700678
Careful about the subtitles mod. It used to keep crashing the game. If your game starts crashing in Sid's bunker, remember to disable that mod

>>530701720
>>530702262
Ignore this one.

>>530701720
flashlight to one of the mouse buttons or something like g
ammo type and underbarrel grenade launcher are a little awkward but not too far by default
I usually remap pda to m and inventory to tab

>>530702661
K thanks, also I'm starting in veteran, it sounds ok to me

>>530703068
difficulties below master give player resistance to enemy damage
they don't change anything else

>>530495551 (OP)
I'm in mood for some Clear Sky, is LFO worth playing? It seems like vasyan with a bunch of shit tacked on just because.

Have any interesting mods for Anomaly come out in the past few months?

>>530691235
he was blessed by the zone

>>530705993

>>530706294
finally. now we gaymin'

>>530705993
i guess so?
>TALKER
basically you can use the power of AI(slop) to literally talk to stalker npcs, they reply via PDA but their personalities are actually custom tuned so it's a pretty good addition if you don't mind paying 30cents a day
>Stray Companions
you can tame mutant dogs/cats to be your companion, can order it around to attack things or fetch items for you
>Modular Attachment System
reworked attachments for weapons. if a scope is supposed to fit on a gun based on it's rail attachment system, then it fits... if you are into all that realism gun stuff
>SSS update
SSS got updated to have TAA now, so if you're using 3d shader scope which forces fxaa/msaa off then you finally have somewhat of a solution to jaggys. other stuff like AO was improved too i think
>AOEngine
it's in some kind of public beta right now but it's multithreading for anomaly, so basically 50fps rostok is now 90fps or it would be on your system. some people are crying about it being closed-source and possibly russian malware, but its apparently made by v2v3v4 who is a well known modder

>>530686378
FEAR had baked lighting idiot

>>530707435
Thank you for the actual reply

>playing stalker vanilla when a million vanilla+ mods exist
youd have to be retarded.
some things like gunplay and viewmodels are hillariously outdated.

>>530709139
>baked lighting
it had both, just like stalker does
retard

>hillariously outdated

>>530709463
no problem, but just so you know, T.A.L.K.E.R. would not have been possible without B.U.T.T.P.L.U.G.
basically talker dev was looking for a way to connect anomaly to the internet (to talk to AI), and he found that buttplug has already come up with a solution. so everytime you talk to your fellow stalkers with that mod, remember that you are doing it with buttplug technology.

>>530684440
what is that from?

>>530712837
ai prompt

>>530709139
retard

>>530712923
>ai reads some shit
>parrots
>hahah I'm really thinking for myself

>>530710946
>viewmodels are hillariously outdated.
at least they are coherent with the rest of the game. nothing stings my eyes like weapon models ripped from random 2010s games against the background of an environment that uses textures created in 2002-2004.

>>530717108
iwp bros...

GET OUT OF THERE STALKER IT'S AN ANOMALY!

>>530710950
yes, and fear and stalker both look excellent
even crysis had some baked lighting in the terrain

this modern idiocy of trying to do everything raytraced that even massive render servers struggle with offline is just stupid and kills performance

>>530717108
usually, any mod that offers new weapon models also heavily mods the environment.
I have played several overhauls and most of the time found 0 issues with that.

>>530720214
it's much bigger than I thought
my mental image for ball lightning was always the one from tintin

>>530720469
probably depends on the energy involved, my guess is that the size varies

>>530720408
Yeah, like slapping textures from 2008-2014 on models from 2002-2004 and maybe taking a big steamy diarrhea dump on your face with shaders, reshade or otherwise, to hide all the issues (but it's ok because it's not modern games' volumetric fog hurr durr)

>>530726792
>keep slapping textures on 2004 models
it doesnt work like that. are you new here or some shit?

>Enhanced Edition with the release of Patch 1.2.
>Fixed image blurriness issue

They fixed it for real this time.
ggwp

>>530731773
>post process aa and blur
hurr durr y come it blur everything deeeeerrrrrrrr

>>530732553
Native FSR now works as it should.

>>530730374
Oh, now you're going to pretend these weapon pack modders are rolling in and replacing the models in the levels, editing the levels themselves with new brushes and all? Faggot retard.
>doesn't even reply to the actual post that was made
>instead replies to a misquoted fraction of it

Could someone post that super old mod flowchart image with the multiple games?
Thanks.

>>530732958
still has ghosting

>>530736028
yes, stalkers get entirely new models, as do weapons.
foliage gets replaced entirely, too. and the existing buildings and trees all look better with upgraded textures.
your point, cocksmoking niggerfaggot?

>>530737326
This one?

>>530732958
wasnt a shot at you or GSC my man, was just sayin

>>530737650
is that not inherent?

>>530738007
>this version we just put gamma in it
suicide yourself

>>530738007
Was thinking of the old one but either/or.

>>530742652
heres the older version

>>530740401
But it has Anomaly in le brown colors for that one poster who's obsessed with the mod and scat images

>>530743084
fitting then I guess.
I'm just being a twat cuz gamma is trash

>le brownslop
shiggidy

>>530509037
As a longtime GAMMA hater and pure trilogy truther, its really not that fucking bad bro and you can customize it to your liking. I took out a lot of the stupid shit and changed it up a good bit and its never a dull experience. If you play it as your first STALKER game youll always be a zombified tard though

>>530753835
however if you play stuff like IWP as your first playthrough you are based and redpilled

>>530514242
Anomaly with multiple SoC/CoP story mods merged together with a ton of other bullshit into a buggy ass STALKERSOUP version of Anomaly. You can freeplay like 40+ maps with new maps from the mods, or play through different mod storylines although I dont know if any are actually able to be completed yet still and you can only do one at a time obviously, you choose during character select. Look up Sidorovich Jr on youtube and download his repack to save yourself the hassle of installing it yourself

>>530548749
The whole game is pretty fucked bruh, as much as I'm trying to enjoy it its just never gonna be what the old trilogy was and we gotta accept that. No amount of mods can change the fact that its fundamentally Fallout 4 and Metro slop tier shit and not the raw ass slav wonder the OG stalker games were

>>530576119
Makes sense and probably also doesnt even use global illumination but not sure might be talking out my ass

>>530621217
Just get it and play on Geforce now if you dont like the performance and settings your rig can handle til you upgrade your card, you can play off a maxed rig for like $15-20 a month even a month or two is enough to finish the game

>>530754036
Global War or nothing

I might get back into Global War. Star Wars: Battlefront II but S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is always a fun time (when it isn't fucking up).

>>530720469

>>530738007
>>530742965
Check this one out.

>>530771690
snowy get psi helmet

>>530709139
baked not fried

>>530672442
>>530682416
According to this mods discription it can be used to help code.
"I barely did anything worthwhile with the X-Ray engine and the Lua scripts, as most of the heavy lifting was done by ChatGPT."
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/the-dump-series-pt1-lowered-anomaly-damage

>>530738007
>lost alpha dc
>lost alpha extended
There is also Lost Alpha Revisited, gonna install it now since I never got around to playing it.

>>530782609
holy fuck, anomalytards can't into editing configs

>>530786418
LAR is a DC patch that makes things less shit, mod is more or less the same

is IWP too cool for flowcharts?

>>530788413
whatmod hasn't been updated in over 2 years, and since it's not directly linked in the OP anymore there's no one to bitch about it

>>530786457
jsgme and mo2 were mistakes

>>530788548
thats why its not directly linked anymore, its a relic

where is the part in the flowchart that says “REAL survival”?

>>530788548
i remember the main links were in the first reply rather than hidden in the rentry where no one reads them, i liked that better since updates could be made more easily

>>530789209
feel free to suggest a better OP bro its not that hard and nothing else happening here anyway but the old OP was fairly convoluted and lot of it was redundant or outdated and really just there because of complacency

>>530788870
all they do is avoid having the whole set up reinstalled because you want to delete one mod
TEStards don't have these issues

>>530788870
>jsgme and mo2 were mistakes
nah, their fine, MO2 especially, since it made changing mod orders and troubleshooting quicker, if you play freeplayshit with addons. Mod loaders aren't the cause for retards being illiterate and unable to search for configs

You know what would be useful?
Training chatgpt on xray's script format and asking it where "function that does X" is.
Basically using it as code comments instead forcing it to write shit for you.

Best Overhaul mod for each game, go

>>530792852
SoC - Complete 2009
CS - CS Complete
CoP - CoP Complete

>>530793074
based

>>530792852
Shadows Addon
Clear Sky Revision
Snowy's Restoration Addon

>>530792852
Radiophobia
Uninstall
Vanilla

>>530792852
Oblivion Lost
perfect as is
Anomaly

commit die strelojak :--DD in minecraft of gourse :-DD
reward 1 twitch drop

>>530792852
SoC Enhanced Edition
CS Enhanced Edition
CoP Enhanced Edition

>>530775180
>AMK: Sidorovich Edition
Tell me more.

>>530771690
Tintin would never be freedom

>>530801232
is there a mod to replace all sidor voicelines with kane?

The enhanced editions are unironically the best way to play the OG games, Fuck the stuttery xray/ogsr/openxray engines borderline unplayable.

>>530788870
I use modloaders religiously since they help avoiding making a mess out of your game install. It makes perfect sense to keep your base install clean and then use a modloader to keep all the modifications separate. The issues start when you're a nigger cattle that only knows how to download shit, put it into a modloader and have absolutely zero troubleshooting skills and zero willingness to obtain them.

>>530808619
>stuttery xray/ogsr/openxray engines
>stuttery
vanilla SoC even without zrp never stuttered for me, microstutter is a CoP issue

CoP only stutters because you’re not playing on windows xp service pack 2 with 2.0Ghz pentium 4 and geforce 5700

>>530813216
first, windows 7 was king during CoP release
second, it stutters because their actor load-in is pure garbage on those maps

>>530814030
i exposed myself..

why do people hate clear sky so much

>gun accuracy is tuned way down to compensate for upgrades
>every shot makes you bleed like a pig
>faction war is the only side-activity in the game and it's broken
>it's buggy as shit in general
>main story is 50% rehash of SoC with updated maps
it's less hate and more of a "one and done" deal, because you'll never want to play it again

>>530815513
I don't, but I don't think I ever managed to complete the vanilla without game breaking bugs

>>530815513
The Clear Sky NPCs look like fucking toads.

>>530793212
based buildo connoisseur

>>530816192
>gun accuracy is tuned way down to compensate for upgrades
then upgrade them. it's one of the core elements of the gameplay and arguably the main reason why you earn money.
>every shot makes you bleed like a pig
there are doznes of bandages all around. explore, break boxes and containers, loot stashes.
>faction war is the only side-activity in the game
not true. there's bunch of fetch quests in almost every location, some unique optional missions, and random shik like the duty shooting range.
>and it's broken
>it's buggy as shit in general
can't argue with that, but most of the bugs can be cured with a quicksave.
>main story is 50% rehash of SoC with updated maps
for me, this is compensated by the huge amount of lore in dialogues and some actually interesting characters. the story isn't best, but there was much more thought put into worldbuilding.

>>530816607
Where else would the cthulhu worshipping fish men be other than the swamps?

>>530815513
personally I find it's too short, the corridor shooting at the end of stalker games is always the worst part and it comes earlier than any other game in CS

a lot of people seem to really dislike the gunplay although I had no problem with it

I knew something was wrong
why does the water glow like this in rainy weather? it's like the dark clouds aren't being reflected at all and it just sees a clear blue sky

>>530819206
>the corridor shooting at the end of stalker games is always the worst part
I can understand teleport sections but decoder hallway is iconic

>>530815513
It's ironic that Clear Sky has the best graphics out of the three original games. I read online that GSC used a fan-made mod for the graphics.

>>530827063
>used a fan-made mod
wouldn't surprise me, afaik they adapted some stuff from amk and a bunch of other fanmade shit for it too

>>530828353
>they adapted some stuff from amk and a bunch of other fanmade shit for it too
Any example?

>>530819698
yeah i don’t know what’s going on there

>>530829635
https://stalker.fandom.com/ru/wiki/Зaимcтвoвaния_из_пoльзoвaтeльcких_мoдификaций

>>530830265
Russian propaganda

>>530830265
So nothing was stolen and just rewritten. This is a serious accusation of code theft.
Anyway why is your wiki empty?

>>530831201
at no point did i imply they stole shit, reread my post. the link is probably fucked up because of cyrillic, just google the article name

crazy how the word 'adapted' can turn into 'stolen'

>>530830265
That's very interesting. Must be a modder's dream to be able to work on an actual game in whatever series they're passionate about.

>>530831201
>Anyway why is your wiki empty?
4chan auto-replaces cyrillic letters with latin counterparts where possible, for whatever reason. Possibly as a measure against the attempts to get around the spam filter. Here's the article:
https://stalker.fandom.com/ru/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BC%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%85_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B9

>>530816607
>most of the CS and COP character models are slapping super high poly high detail heads on the same body meshes and rigs as SOC
>only new-to-the-series armor models look any amount of updated
It's most jarring in dialog because they obviously never bothered to update the facial animation system, so you have stone faced guys barely more facially animated than Lonesome Road Ulysses as in they at least blink doing atrocious jaw flapping when even potato budget indie games have facefx.

>>530836136
holy shit, i just translated it.. Without russians this game would not be popular. Damn. I think we should thank the russians who popularised the game, i guess?

>>530834929
>Must be a modder's dream
that's how CS and TF started...

>>530838419
How would you get that impression from reading that article? It lists three mods that GSC took stuff from, one of them is made by a western dev, another one is basically just a porn gif for the TV screen, that's never used in the actual games and is only present in game files.
The only actually important contribution listed is AMK, which the devs have adapted a bunch of scripts from, still rewriting most of the code from scratch.
If you just wanted to /pol/bait, you've got to try harder than that.

>>530842520
modding brought some of the best games or concepts to the market but you cant make billions with mods so corponigger said no

>>530626389

>>530790063
>implying thats needed when you do it manually

but really it was a mistake because it flooded stalker with actual fucking retards
>>530808890
this.

>>530838419
This but unironically

>>530838419
Yes, Clear Sky is where the real Stalker began.

stalker 2 freeplay DLC leaked

>freeplay with no a-life
that's one way to make sure people never expect anything from GSC every again

>>530850373
proofs?

>>530850874
Not even GSC would be that dumb

>>530619546
You have to admit, NODs is a genuine big ass issue. The entire point of STALKER games was going from being the stalked running around in a panic in the dark to becoming a genuine terror popping heads in pitch black with your silenced gun of choice as bandit filth piss themselves. Binoculars aren't nearly as important for the sequel since shit only spawns near you for now, maybe if they ever get around to properly implementing distant spawns like the originals they can include binocs with it, but NODs are a far more critical issue.

>>530790063
Netimmerse/Gamebryo/Creation/Creation 2 were explicitly created and modified to load data both vanilla and modded as plugins that can be added and removed with the primary risk of removing one being its content disappearing from existing save files. Unreal 5, as well as the X-ray I know you were just about to simp for, were not designed that way. There's a reason Bethesda sticks with their engine that just works.

>>530856303
the main purpose of MO2 is to swap asset overrides on the fly, not load up plugins retard

Grokitach... RAPED... me...

>>530861519
Believe all women. He must be stopped.

>>530862262
>women

>>530836136
>The video is taken from the pornographic film Ass Worship 8
lol

has anyone played anthology 2.0?

>>530819698
some tard pointed the pistol to half past ten

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad63mpyVQAk

>>530889984
many such cases

>>530893976
zimply... EPIC!!!!!

prop_govno

>>530706294
Of course it is for Anomaly..

A-life made me shit my pants in stalker 2 today.
I was exploring some building when a chimera randomly ran past on a lower level at high speed. If I had been down there...

this message was sponsored by GSC game world

>>530658352
To this day I still remember this one mod for Call of Chernobyl that will change the textures on beds and add dakimakuras of Touhou characters but either I am retarded (most likely the case) or this mod became lost media as I'm no longer able to find it on ModDB where I first saw it years ago, this mod is the origin of this old meme too. I'd be surprised if it still out there somewhere

Wouldn't stalkers with internet access actually turn into massive weebs with no women in the zone?
Seeing what people post from ukraine, It's weird how no one has WWII porn stickers on their guns or a fucking dutch wife hidden anywhere.

>>530918401
The only CoC mod I'm aware of, that added dakimakuras, is MLR, but instead of Touhou it was mlp and Rozen Maiden. Though, there could be some micromods that add other characters too, they're extremely easy to make, it's basically just a texture swap.
>this mod is the origin of this old meme too
I'm not sure your pic comes from a CoC mod, I think it's older than that. Judging by Nimble's position, I'd guess it's SoC, someone just changed the mattress texture for the lulz, not an actual mod.

>>530921673
Huh that's interesting, perhaps my memory is rather hazy because I do remember seeing the mod over on ModDB and was only showcasing Touhou characters, taking into consideration they are easy to make perhaps it could be replicate it with similar or same dakimakura images, interesting nonetheless

Good morning, /sg/.

>>530920813
rhons quests vindicated??

>>530925906
>Illicit Material
Sounds about right.

Are you concerned with Stalker aesthetic? Do you choose armor and guns based on a theme?

>>530926973
If I'm playing as a loner in freeplay I usually only wear a Sunrise suit.

>>530926973
>theme
stalker doesn't have those
random pieces of equipment you wear tell their own story about how you rose up the ranks
it's not a fucking rpg fashion show, you use what you get

>>530925441
good day anon

are there any trans vtubers who play stalker and accept donations?
asking for a friend

>>530929541
lots of trannies in the gamma discord, go ask there

>>530705993
95% of analmeme modding is concetrated on adding more PMAG adapters to the mod, the other 5% is adding more visual clutter and shaders so that it can tank your performance further.
Anomaly and it's community are utterly detached from stalker and are not worth paying attention to.

>>530937626
wtf is a pmag adapter?

>>530937968
A term for a generic rifle firing 5.56 from standard AR magazines, AR 15 clones(and a few others) that have no reason to exist basically.

>>530940407
Retarded term.
G-d, I wish /k/ wasn't dead...

Relax, Baseded Jekan, it's priced in.

>>530658541
PLEASE FUCKING TELL ME WHERE I CAN FIDN IT I AM GOING TO EXPLODE

.

>>530940849
i couldn't find jack shit, sorry anon. seems like only the covers exist online and no one has leaked the full doujinshi. not sure if it's a fanbook or manga or fanfic, sources vary

>>530948583
thank you for trying, anon
maybe one day the Monolith will grant me what I wish for...

>>530947013
>>530948524
grok deserves to be executed for crimes against stalker community

>>530921673
>Ponykino
Based

>>530947013
>>530948524
Why the hell does every gayma sloptuber feel the need to point out that it's free? Is that really such a huge selling point? Do they understand that it's still just a mod repack with a pirated game inside?

>>530959656
Turd worlders who are not only broke but too stupid to figure out pirating

>>530959656
We live in the age of paid .wads. Having a modder not be so greedy as to charge money for his mod is refreshing.

Requesting immediate SITREP on current operational status of the STALKER anomaly. Intel indicates a recent breakthrough, with whispers of critical systemic vulnerabilities having been neutralized. Confirming reports that the platform has achieved stable operational parameters is paramount for mission readiness. Over.

>>530959782
>Turd worlders
you mean burgers that have been afraid of downloading a car since they were 5?

>>530843000
IWPgunbro, will the edited models replace the old ones or are they going to be their own thing?

>>530961648
this must be satire

>>530965538
You need to touch grass.

>>530965689
You need to see a medical professional if you think reactions like that are genuine.

>>530965689
>implying that you will see people pogfacing stalker gamma by going outside

>patch 1.5
>still spawning artefacts out of bounds
this is the bottom floor at the detention centre

>playing stalger 2
shiggidy

>>530969113
how does this even happen

>>530969113
Spooky

>>530959906
>paid .wads
Is Doomworld that fucked now? I only download what was included in Cacowards or what /vr/ releases, wasn't following on the most recent things happening around modding and wadmakers.

>>530974750
Idk, I haven't used it in a while.
But I'm talking about all the gzdoom games sold on steam.

>>530969113
The Zone works in mysterious ways. Artefacts could be spawned anywhere. I heard stories about a stalker and an artifact that got spawned right in his ass while he was sleeping.

>>530965117
Hello friend. For the most part, the new guns will have new entries. The only exception that comes to mind at the moment is the APB without the (hideous) luminous sights, this will replace the default model. Also be aware that any new models will not have variants for the ac14336742 red dot, because that sight is very gay and no self respecting S.T.A.C.K.E.R. uses it. Apologies for the delay in sharing. I am very lazy.

>>530974940
Eh unless it's just a standard Megawad being sold these don't count, things like Hedon deserve to be sold for how kino it was.

>>530850373
Iron Forest?

GAMMA looks and runs better than S2
UE is a plague upon gaming

>>530976404
>no ac10632 red dot variants
my inner autist would also like to have it for the guns that had it, but I respect your decision. Godspeed nevertheless

>implying groktard isn't going for the unreal engine slop aesthetic
you can rape xray but it will still look better than that shit

>modtools in beta
>thats 8 months after release
lol
only 3 years until the modding scene of stalger 2 is taking off...

>>530982204
I wish niggas redesigned buildings in anomaly. If I rsmember right there was a mod that was aiming to do just that but I guess its vapor ware since there has been like 2 obscure trailers.

The one thing Stalker 2 did well is buildings. Those abandoned Garages/Hangars/Factorys look amazing.

>>530959656
These people have never interacted with stalker or modding before anomaly/gamma, so yea they do. They are the absolute lowest of the low when it comes to playerbases.

>>530954340
get the fuck out

>>530977142
They absolutely do count.
If Ashes 2063, which absolutely blows all these meme paid .wads out of the water, can be free, so can all others.

>>530954340
stay chad

>>530988809
And they are majority of playerbase. Look at the twitch anomaly views count.

Anyone play that STALKER unlimited mod? Is it gamma slop?

>>531000197
it’s soup dslop for sure but not quite gamma slop yet since there’s no crafting

When's SoC Update 2.0 supposed to be finished? I was a new vanilla + style mod.

>>530709139
Having some baked lights is fine, but it had a lot of dynamic light sources thanks to pre-pass lighting. Games like FEAR and Stalker also don't use PBR which is how you end up with the crisp look and multiple moving light sources and no shitty blur everywhere.

Should I give gamma a try? I'm bored.

>>531011582
yeah sure why not

>>531013762
nta
Bitch, I was told here this is a bad mod. Now you telling me and him sure why not?

>>531017862
it's a good mod with some annoying mechanics
anons here are jaded and only want to play slavjank mods that can run on the same PC they used to play SoC at release

>>531019067
Fuck! 3 anons told me the GAMMA mod suck and for gays. Shouldn't listen this thread and ask on reddit or elsewhere.
Farewell

Okay I'm playing GAMMA. Should I just go for the max ultra hardcore difficulty/progression setting or what? I haven't played anomaly in such along time.

>>531021852
Play medium and read the tutorials in the PDA

>>531019067
>it's a good mod
lol
lmao

>>531017862
>>531020498
it bogs the game down with crafting, survival elements, and other modern bullshit, all the while being balancing like misery for maximum tedium
it's just bad

>>531037563
Damn that's a lot of artifacts.

>>531037563
ogsr gunslinger?

>>531038782
yeah, just one less slot than OP 2.2
>>531039807
old version of it yes
this bandit, Terminator, was bugged and would refuse to die even after reloading a 3 hour old save so I had to drop it

this stalker modpack looks kinda weird, bros

>>531049814
not stalker
go back to /trash/

>>531050212
Strelok's face made the leap to UE5 the best out of the three protagonists.

>>531021852
what, do you want your survival to be fake? play master on ironman.

Did something interesting for Chernobyl Freeplay. It doesn't make sense to me that the Monolith trades in money. They're a mind-controlled cult, why would they care about money? So instead of money trading I set up a dialog system that allows the player to exchange enemy faction patches or mutant parts in return for supplies. I think it's pretty cool.

>>531051439
It is weird, I don't know what they could even do with the money. It would make Monolith a more unique faction which is great but I wonder how it would balance out. Have you done much of a playthrough with it yet?

>>531052707
Haven't done a playthrough yet. It would change up the gameplay a lot when playing as Monolith which could be fun. But since their base is in Pripyat the player would have to travel far from home to get patches.

>>531051439
>Chernobyl Freeplay
Is this another freeplay mod I'm unaware of or are you calling it that as shorthand for CoC?

don't monolit need money to get supplies from mainland

what was monolith's tax policy?

>>531053379
It's my own mod that I am working on.

>>531054347
Oh, is this the one that's on ModDB by SixHundredCorpses?

>>531054475
Yes. That upload is critically unstable because I was a retard and made it on top of an already broken mod. I am remaking it, using a bugfixed version of DMM as a base this time.

>>531054751
Cool, looking forward to the new version.

>>531050212
>>531050606
>no scar
thats not strelok

>>531054962

>>531019067
I have a better PC than most people and GAMMA was one of the worst things I've played.

>>531052707
>I don't know what they could even do with the money
hookers

How do I add girl stalkers to IWP+CotZ, not seeing anything on moddb

>>531058958
some anomaly addons actually work on IWP, so you could try

>>531058846
The Monolith are 100% asexual.

>>531059152
if player has free will to move around the zone as monolith, then hookers aren't off the table either.

>>531059661
Movie idea: Monolith soldier becomes self-aware and goes on the ultimate quest to get laid.

>>531051439
That’s pretty cool. I’m all for giving factions their own gameplay quirks that make them more distinct than just swapping relations and spawn points. Feel like freeplay mods don’t focus enough on that aspect.

>>531051439
I dont quite get why modders dont have any imagination in that regard. Its the same symptom regarding quests in free play mods.

People focus on radiant quests or whatever they are called and the cookie cutter "main storyline" in gaymma/anomaly. Yet theres not a single mod that implements questlines (even if they are just short) to give the zone some flavor.

>>531064661
people who make freeplay mods only care about itembloat and "reimagining the stalker experience", while people who play them have standards so low they'd sooner turn the game into CoD with mutants

>>531049814
owo what's this

>>531064661
I get why freeplay mods focus on radiant quests, as they're replayable, but they sorely lack depth.
Why do you say there are no mods that implement questlines? There's a bunch of story mods out there.

>>531050606
Still looks 10 years younger than in the trilogy.

Discovered something weird about Doom's Mod Merge. It seems like there's something stopping breakable creates from spawning? I added two big crates to the all.spawn and for some reason they don't spawn. Same applies for seemingly all breakable crates. They are in the alife all.spawn files but for some reason they don't actually spawn.
I added the same crate spawns to vanilla SoC and it works fine? What a conundrum.

>>531065632
Project Silverlight. A stalker-like game currently being shilled on /v/. It seems cool, but personally the furry aesthetic is huge turn off for me.

degtyarev in stalger 2...

>>531049814
simmi is cute
CUTE

>>531072554
are you blind? they are lizard men not furry

I want to play OLR 3.0. Has there been any updates on it since the mod author released the source code? Nerfing illnesses for example?

>>531066623
All the NPCs look too young. And they all have brown eyes.

I added a bear to Chernobyl Freeplay! I imported it from Road to the North. Worked much better than I thought it would.

>>531080580
Why's it so fucking big??

>>531080580
Have you ever seen a bear in real life, anon?

>>531080717
>>531080839
It's a mutant bear!

any soup/kitchen-sink mods that aren't too convoluted like op 2.2?

>>531080236
i'm still wondering what guided the devs when they were creating hermann's new model

>>531083451
He now looks like a younger version of my former history professor from Russia.

>>531080580
>i added [fanfiction] to...
yep not interested anymore

>>531074137
What about him?

>>531086191
>bear
>fanfiction
does your wrangler know you're using the internet?

>>531089542
Please point me to 1 (one) reference in the original trilogy or official dev statements to giant bears in the Zone.

>>531089736
>giant
here's a (you), now go find some crayons to eat

>>531090361
I was literally at the zoo last week and saw brown bears from a meter away.
That thing is way bigger than the Stalker in the frame, even accounting for the forced perspective, and as tall as the player (at the shoulder, like a dog's height is measured, not at the head even).
Therefore, fuck off, retard.

>>531090710
yes, please fuck off thanks.

>>531092175
nigger

>>531088113
he used to be handsome

>>531065875
Qualitywise they are not really good. They are barely above radiant quests if at all.

Let me tell you about a quest in OGSR that you can do in Cordon. Theres basically a guy that tells you to go to fridge slightly west to Cordon with a friend since they heard theres loot in there. You go there and one of the guys opens hit and gets blown up because its booby trapped, then some asshole Stalker appears and starts making fun and tells you, he did it and shit escalates from there. The absurdity of the entire situation made it a fun small questline and I wish there was such type of questlines in anomaly/freeplay mods.

The issue between trilogy models and S2 models is pretty simple.

Just about all trilogy textures were based on photo reference, giving them that distinctive look, with unique NPC heads from CoP being done via head scanning, which, again, meant photo reference for textures. The good ol' fashioned way to do vidya assets.

S2 was the "new and improved" way of making assets, which involves procedural generation of all textures from scratch with shader nodes and whatnot, and the "unique" model heads were most likely made with MetaHuman, which, again, is procedural generation. You lose all that grit and imperfection and you're left with grade AAA Unreal slop.

Just compare the Pseudogiant model, in S2 he looks like a cartoon. Thanks, procedural generation! Maybe in the future devs will figure out how to use diffusion models trained to mimic those photo reference textures, so that they don't have to work as much over the assets but at the same time not making them look like utter shit.

what’s with NPCs being able to one hit melee a bloodsucker

>>531090710
A fuckoff huge bear is cool as hell and I'm putting it in my mod. Could be a rare mutant on par with the Pseudogiant or the Chimera. Ukraine is home to bears. It's the Zone, I ain't gotta explain shit.

what stalker 2 pda could have been like...

>>531110728
strelok get ipad

>>531097264
yeah desu it doesn't look real, it just looks like a really well painted plastic statue (like those warhammer things)

>>531097264
everything about unreal is just absolute slop

>>531111543
>prompt
>realistic, ultra-detailed, grotesque

>>531105130
you're god damn right

>>531054962
Wow, what an ugly girl!

>>531110728
G.A.M.M.A.?

>>531124453
>he wouldn't take that to smashville
gtfo

>>531124865

>>531125386
>L.U.T.s
more like S. L.U.T.s

>>531124453
is this iwp

stalker 2 blows donkey dick

https://files.catbox.moe/yrdo1f.mp4
It's a shame that Stalker 2 was overall disappointing. The atmosphere could be immersive sometimes. The music wasn't very memorable though.

>>531128093
Yes, with a modified m4 from the soon-to-coming A.I.W.E.F.I.W.P. (Anon's Improved Weapons Etc For Improved Weapons Pack) pack. E.T.A. (Estimated Time to Arrive) is sometime in the future.

>>531058958
I will also put together B.O.T.Z. (Bitches Of The Zone) pack for the sexual egalitarians of /sg/.

>>531133608
give it 3-5 years and full conversion mods and overhauls will fix it :^)

>>531137015
AEIOU

>>531149516
J.O.H.N.M.A.D.D.E.N.

>>531152059
F.O.O.T.B.A.L.L.

Just popping back. How's the mod scene looking?

Where can you buy AP ammo consistently in Stalker 2?

>>531154626
sidorovich had some last I traded with him, not sure if that's something that changes

>>530753835
how do you actually enjoy GAMMA? I usually just start as Clear Sky or Loner and either do the Clear Sky map, or for Loner just attack the military checkpoint at Cordon and get all their guns

>>531079232
the group of spergs trying to do third party fixes for 3.0 harassed the author into leaving for a year, i doubt much has changed and it’s still in open beta. it’s playable, just gotta be ready to cheese or godmode some parts. if you want a stable olr lite without all the 3.0 tism just go with vector of alienation imo

>>531164285
>vector of alienation
the one that has mod author shilling his book?

>>531164285
I mostly want 3.0 for the full A Life. If it's still open beta I will just wait. Played OLR 2.5 a year or two ago.

>>531166284
yes kek, it's a side quest where you meet his oc self insert and gotta find the chapters around the bar. also found out voa is made by the same guy who did stalker offlife freeplay mod for soc with a buildo theme, had fun with it back in the day so that's cool

>>531137015
add sex

>check r/stalker to see what these fags think about stalker 2 nowadays
>they are excited for a mod that adds crafting and item bloat
>they want a fucking fallout-like pda radio and wonder why it's not featured in the game to begin with
why are they like this. i feel like they don't even like stalker and only enjoy some bastardized version of it. when did this happen, gamma can't be the only thing to blame, right?

>>531178360
No, as always the mod to blame is Misery.

>>531178360
I wouldn't mind a radio. Stalker 2 has an insane amount of licensed music from various bands.

>>531178360
>why are they like this

>>531178360
>i feel like they don't even like stalker and only enjoy some bastardized version of it
they act like this because someone else shilled it as "russian fallout" to them at some point
most "gamers" today only care about the name and popular perception of something without applying any critical thinking, games made before 2010 suffer the most from it

Now that Offline A life is finally a thing in Stalker 2 though a very primitive one, will we gradually see the return of vicinity PDA chatting?

>>531181096
>vicinity PDA chatting
doubt it, can't distract the player from streaming the game and replying to discord pings

>>531181096
it wont come back because its not real a-life

are there any games besides old stalker and X series that have actual Alife?

>>531182081
i mean a-life is just a marketing gimmick term created by early gsc for whatever the hell they were trying to pull off. there are plenty of games with background simulation in the same vein. i doubt even nu-gsc understands what the fuck a-life actually means and what it’s supposed to be. space rangers came out years before stalker and had similar shit going on for example.

>>531182857
>here are plenty of games with background simulation in the same vein
such as? because stalker and X are the only two I know of, everything else just spawns shit around you randomly

I wish a CRPG with stalker AI existed...

>>531178360
The PDA mods existed far before Anomaly, newfag. The PDA always should have been a cool handheld device that did extra things.

>>531182857
>i doubt even nu-gsc understands what the fuck a-life actually means and what it’s supposed to be
they don't. if they would, they wouldn't advertise "a-life 2.0" before the release. because there is no such thing as a-life 1.0 in the first place. soc, cs, and cop all feature different forms of the background npc life simulation, it's not even progressive evolution of it, they are just different systems.
the a-life that gsc advertised all the way back in 2003 was never a real thing. 2004 builds of oblivion lost had a slightly more complex a-life than the release version of soc, but it was still a far cry from the original intentions. cs unironically has the most complex a-life in the original games, with actual offline fights of the faction war system. cop simplified it, npcs can't move between the locations, but they also perform more activities which makes a good illusion that they actually "live". which one of these is a-life 1.0?

>>531164285
>the group of spergs trying to do third party fixes for 3.0 harassed the author into leaving for a year
So hi_flyer didn't get drafted? That's good news, I guess.

>>531183258
Caravaneer 1 and 2 and uhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>531183980
That reasoning is simply in line with the game being called Stalker 2 when it's actually Stalker 4.

>>531181096
>"I just watched the A-Life director resolve a fight between Bandits and Fleshes in Garbage."

>>531183271
lol, i'm well aware, i was here before anomaly was a thing buddy. but i don't know what this has to do with the fact that expecting the sequel to feature things that were only present in mods, and which gsc never planned even for the trilogy, is naive, and when these things don't even fit into the game's concept, then it's straight up retarded.
you can listen to radio when you relax in bases/camps, the only safe places in the zone. when you're on the road, you are supposed to stay alert, not walk around with a loudspeaker or headphones. it goes against the theme of the game. listening to music on headphones in the zone is something so unusual that it is one of richter's recognizable features, and he carries an old cassette player, not a spotify playlist on his pda.

>>531164285
>harrased the author into leaving
didn't that also happen to the Last Day guy but for forever?

>>531186718
anon, if we don't have airpods in the zone, how are you supposed to stay comfy in the illusion of tacticool gameplay with a buttplug, sorry, B.U.T.T.P.L.U.G. up your ass vibrating at full force?

>>531183258
Oblivion.

>>531164285
>it's playable if you cheat
Yeah, high praise.

How is Radiophobia 3?

So in the Road to the North game files the bear is called "medwed". Is that slavic for bear?

>>531194849
Take a guess why Russkies clown on this idiot with bear memes.

>>531195018
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preved
>The picture, a modified version of John Lurie's watercolor Bear Surprise, whose popularity was stoked by emails and blogs, features a man and a woman having sex in the clearing of a forest, being surprised by a bear calling "Surprise!" with its paws raised. In later Russian adaptations, the bear shouts "Preved!" (a deliberate misspelling of privet, пpивéт – "hi!"). In keeping with a popular trend of image manipulation, the iconic bear — dubbed Medved [ru] (Russian: Meдвeд), a misspelling of мeдвeдь ("bear") — has been inserted into many other pictures where his appearance adds a new dimension to the joke.

So this guy's name is unfortunately similar to the meme? You learn something new every day.

>>531186718
>only present in mods
You mean like all the other features added in Stalker 2 and all the gay ass animations added that were only in mods?

>>531192304
oblivion uses spawns and it can't even spawn things correctly lol

>>531195984
what features? i honestly can't recall anything that would be directly inspired by mods, let alone wouldn't fit into the original games' concept. item usage animations are common in modern shooters, stalker 2 would quite possibly have them even if no mods introduced them. gsc already fucked around with the idea all the way back in 2004 by the way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrtYPXCjg74
and if my memory serves me right, the concept was also mentioned in 2010 desdocs of the canceled stalker 2, but i would have to check to be sure. in any case, it's not gsc copying modders.

>>531196162
So does stalker you fucking ape. Oblivion has its own full "alife" in the form of radiant ai (to be gutted and made simpler and less interesting in skyrim of course) and handles daily schedules of hundreds of different npcs, including the respawning bandits in caves. On occasion there will be scripted enemy spawns that appear when you do a thing, but stalker did the same thing back in SOC so it doesn't matter.

>watch one stalker 2 video
>youtube keeps recommending me things like this

>>531200350
Oblivion's ai is more akin to kingdom come deliverance's ai where each character inside a town is unique and has a set schedule but that schedule just repeats day after day, nothing changes, barely anything dynamic can happen and no choices are made. A-life gives the ai less of a schedule by giving it an aspect of choice of where to go and what to do when they get there where a single day in the life of a stalker or mutant will be different from the previous one, if they live long enough. In oblivion or kcd, nothing will happen to any npc unless the player intervenes.

>>531201904
It do be like that tho.

>>531200350
>including the respawning bandits in caves
To be fair 95% of them have one AI package and it makes them wander around their in-game location 24/7.

The other anon is right, Oblivion's AI allows for very little dynamics, it's all more or less scripted. The only thing I can think of is how NPCs with low enough responsibility will possibly steal food when their AI tells them to eat.

>>531200350
radiant AI only exists within the players bubble, there is no simulation outside of that bubble

it's all based on the fallout 3 spawning system which was trying to emulate the random encounters in fallout 2

>>531203103
it is annoying how anything stalker related will have youtube recommending gamma to you.

>>531201904
spend 30 minutes refreshing the main page and blocking every reddit tier video you see
it will immensely improve things for a couple of weeks then it starts again

>>531201904
My problem with these videos is they always use the bog standard graphics with the garbage reshade and the niggerbrown aesthetic. Fucking just reinstall aydins grass and trees to spring, throw some pipniks weather on there, and the game looks more beautiful and colorful than even CS

Gamma is fun and I'm tired of pretending it's not. A balls hard, but not unfun slog like Misershit, survival game with a-life is all I ever wanted. People who say it's slow haven't played it, you can run from Rookie Village to Xenotech and still have like 20% stamina left over. Compared to Vanilla where your character is winded by the little overpass/tunnel with the jeep and campfire in it. People who say "muh story" are just being disingenuous since no one goes into a freeplay mod with story expectations anyway. People who complain about the AI "never suffering the same issues as the player" are just retarded, since the AI in vanilla games aren't jamming weapons or suffering radiation or dying to anomalies or running out of ammo either and also who wants the AI in a video game to be a complete pushover and joke (which it does eventually when you get snipers, since stalker AI can't handle long distance combat)? People who complain about something that can be changed either by disabling/enabling a mod(s) or by changing it in the in-game settings are autists that want to feel like they are playing "the intended experience" but will then shit themselves that their free to play MODULAR game isn't tailored perfectly to themselves.

It's fun to feel like you are just some no name shmuck surviving in the zone. It's fun to have a survival game that doesn't feel like some cheap AAA slop that threw half baked and annoying survival mechanics on top to as a marketing gimmick (like any game that adds food mechanics when it isn't needed or wanted and just serves as an annoying checklist). It's fun to feel pressure in gunfights instead of feeling like I'm in total control with a makarov and leather jacket like 70% of mods and vanilla. I like starting a character and feeling like I worked really hard to get him where he's at rather than a mod like IWP where I'm already geared to the teeth within minutes and spend the rest of the time doming NPCs from so far they can't fight back.

>>530521219
Cryptominer.
I'm not even joking.

>>531206728
Cont.
The only part I dislike is the med system. If they could remove dizziness and cut the amount of meds in half, it would be my perfect stalker mod.

>>530568914
Surface could be not-segmented as well, modern systems are strong enough to run it but the amount of effort required for very little benefit is why nobody really tried.

>>531206728
What about the autistic crafting system, which is BY FAR the worst implementation of a system of that kind in any form of digital media since the discovery of electricity?

>>531203890
It's literally not scripted. It's based around having goals that npcs need to accomplish. It's basic in some forms, like npcs with a goal to pray at a temple more or less just standing in the temple for a few hours or the mages at class just sitting while a scholar stands in front of a podium instead of actually saying anything, but it's also a game that had to cut arenas and the city of Sutch because the xbox's shitty DVD ran out of space. Bandits will patrol their caves, converse with one another about random topics, and sleep. If you sneak around you can see this kind of behavior more than if you just bumrush everything.

>>531202763
Oblivion NPCs actually have schedules that vary depending on day of the week. They cut out a lot due to the infamous scenario where ncps would all get killed because they stole food and apparently didn't have packages that allowed for paying fines and being arrested, but there's a lot going on there.
As has been discussed here multiple times, Alife mostly just spawns people and has them be granted the singular goal of moving to an open smart terrain, activating combat subroutines as necessary.

>>531206728
fuck off grok

>>531207532
It's gotten a lot better over the many updates and a lot of the more autistic stuff was removed. I personally only craft bullets myself. Everything else I just buy off vendors.

>>531200350
>daily schedules
Majora's Mask has A-life confirmed

>>531207832
and yet npcs in oblivion and even kcd are stuck inside the settlements they spawn in unless scripted by a quest. A-life allows npcs to wander from map to map if their designated smart terrain happens to be on a different map, whether scripted by a quest or not That's a big difference between the two and what gave A-life a lot of appeal over radiant ai.

>>531193398
looks like nothing big changed

ps: radiophobia = brownslop

>>531210590
In reality that never happened, the important NPCs were bound to their smart terrain and random 'wandering' npcs were spawned at fixed points and given a path to follow which lead them to a kill spot. All the other times it looked like an NPC actually moved was a scripted spawn after triggering some quest event. A life never worked in a single game in the original trilogy. It doesn't work in any analmeme based mod either because the entire gameworld randomizes every time you load a save file.

>>531193398
Fun, I like. The dev still actively works on it and puts out patches. When it came out few years ago it was ass and buggy.
Just download and play it. If it's not to your liking, abandon it.

>>531193398
>>531213287
isn't it just misery for shoc?

I still wanna try R3 but with summer textures or whatever. Still haven't gotten around to doing that.
What summer textures do I need again?

>>531161565
Thats the problem desu, no matter who I pick or how I start whether its warfare or not I get bored eventually and just close the game desu. I think its from just playing the franchise for 10+ years I'm burnt out on it.

I would recommend the black market mod because fuck the stupid economy BS, I'm buying guns. Idc if they cost 500k I'd rather just save up and buy it than have to fucking kill 80000 monolith for the chance at a gun with a barrel over 70%.

Also get warfare a life overhaul so you can actually play warfare and run it along the story mode too. Probably my most fun playthroughs have been renegade warfare mode trying to take over the southern zone or just playing merc and fucking around and building up little forward bases across the most dangerous parts of the zone and trying to form up some kind of lore shit in my head

>>531213798
>R3 but with summer textures
that's just ogsr

>>531178360
Reddit has always been like this, what else could you have possibly expected

>>531209342
Same I just ignored that stupid shit and only make ammo and its way better. I dont mind using it for like PDA and artifact detectors either but thats about it

>>531213435
More like GAMMA/Last Day mod for SoC

Its up!

NEW GAMMA IS OUT
No new content though
Grok lost, literally fewer updates than S2

New GAMMA Update featuring: In-game dynamic tutorials for better onboarding of new players, new guns, more reliable animations (backpack, skinning...), new animations (NVGs...), hidden vehicles in north maps, vehicles improvements, many QoL, fixes, and balance improvements...

Fuck gayma and fuck grok!

>>531213042
I just tested a new game of analmeme and it's clearly preserving the a-life positions every time I load the save after quitting by using the debug map. Mercs loners start in darkscape and soon after a bandit squad spawns there, bandits and army always duking it out at the railroad crossing in cordon, bandits, renegade and poltergeist spawn in meadow. If what you were saying was true then the spawns would be different every time.
The only thing I've noticed while loading a save is that a squad nearby might start wandering in the opposite direction they were before the save. Implying their smart terrain destination was randomized and I say big whoop, at least it isn't radiant ai where they are confined to the rookie village and only wander around inside the village.
In the end, the system was at least built to allow for that kind of ai to function even if the original trilogy didn't utilize it fully, unlike oblivion or kcd.

>>531218678
Every single time I've played analmeme and save scummed after an encounter, the encounter was gone and npcs were in different positions.

>>531210590
>unless scripted by a quest
One of the countesses and her guards on a basic schedule go to a different town, and multiple npcs go from to town like the black horse couriers.
Also NPCs absolutely do move in real time while not close to the player. You can see this during the Dark Brotherhood dead drops quest when you're supposed to off that asshole dunmer who travels along the road. You can see his current location on the map even if you're on the other side of the country.
That doesn't even account for the fact all NPCs technically traverse to other maps when they do as little as enter or exit a house.

>>531215097
>RDR2 screenshot
What was your goal with this?

>>531216781
>new guns
Isn't it just one gun? KSG23

>>531219013
I've also mostly played analmeme with living zone and the ReDone level packs which change up how the a-life functions, so maybe that's your problem, you're playing with the base anomaly a-life and I'm not. And even despite what I witnessed with the debug map, the ai system isn't perfect. It's essentially a one of a kind in gaming so expecting to work flawlessly is a bit much especially when you compare it to modern bethesda.

>>531221165
>One of the countesses and her guards on a basic schedule go to a different town, and multiple npcs go from to town like the black horse couriers.
They are still on schedules so it really isn't much better than being confined to a town AND being on a schedule.
Also NPCs absolutely do move in real time while not close to the player. You can see this during the Dark Brotherhood dead drops quest when you're supposed to off that asshole dunmer who travels along the road. You can see his current location on the map even if you're on the other side of the country.
Again, it's a quest that's scripted.
>That doesn't even account for the fact all NPCs technically traverse to other maps when they do as little as enter or exit a house.
And this is just a cop out; the npcs moving into the house are still in the town since leaving the house will make them end up back in the same town.

>>531216781
>>531215125

nobody here plays that trash. fuck off.

>>531222325
>still in the town
They're separate maps. You could easily mistag a door and have it open an interior that's meant to be in the Shivering Isles and it would be just as much a map change as a correctly tagged door.
>quest that's scripted
He's on a schedule that has him moving around to different locations in real time.
>still on schedules
And "alife" npcs are purely on spawn>go to smart terrain>stay until death.

>>531183258
Artificial Academy 2

>>530521127
CPU bottlenecked game code, it's fun!

>>531228261
the vn porn game? what the fuck?

>>531184971
>>531183258
oh yes I just remembered fucking SPAZ 2 has it for some reason, full on "the AI can beat the game if you don't" a-life

>>531229143
It's not a VN, it's set in a school and the students you can fuck go around to their different classes, change outfits, go to the bathroom etc.

and there was an obscure indie game called pine, I think that simulates the NPC's too, and there are certain points in the story where you'll have to manipulate the faction relations to progress

>>531229143
Yes, the 3D school simulator porn game where every character does what it wants and interacts with all the other characters, builds relations or makes enemies while you do your own thing, like in a... you know... simulation. An A-life simulation.

>>531202763
>In oblivion or kcd, nothing will happen to any npc unless the player intervenes.
You just described Shadow of Chernobyl.

>stalker 2 was so shitty that /sg now discusses porn games and console rpgs

>>531230518
>porn game has a better a-life than stalker 2

>>531230092
Not entirely true. I remember playing SoC back in the day and witnessing a pack of flesh attack the bridge checkpoint completely unprompted.

>>531221165
oh yeah I forgot about that, that's only for certain named NPC's though, most NPC's are spawned with the random encounter system, so it's a partial alife

>>531230547
It's because you were nearby. Bandits can attack civilians in Oblivion too when the player is nearby.

You know, given how much Analmeme/GAYMMA fags love milsim shit getting forced into STALKER, how come modular backpacks aren't a thing? Kitting out a backpack with all the right MOLLE pouches would be right down their alley.

>>531233875
NLC has shit like that, very autistic.

>/v/atniks and /v/edditors are so invested in OLD GOOD NEW BAD they're derailing stalker 2 discussion into shitty porn games

>waaah why is this thread not a ragebait circlejerk like all the threads on my favorite porn board /v/
>GET ANGRY NOW WAAAAAAAAH

>>531237098
go back to gamma discord please

>>531237196
Go back to /v/ tourist, /sg/ always had X-Ray mod discussion and it always will. It's way more interesting than S2 discussion anyways.
>oh wow a new 500GB update dropped
>oh wow it fixed this tiny bug that should've been fixed on release like a year late
idk maybe start spamming some /pol/ shit and people will get angry enough to start shitflinging

my honest reaction

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

>>531242181
If he likes shit so much, put him next to a Whirligig and throw prop_govno into it.

>>531221165
I thought I had lost my horse in Oblivion by the unicorn grove then a few days later when I was swimming looking for quest fish scales near the Imperial City, I looked up while in the water and saw hooves flailing around on the surface.
Turns out my lost horse was crossing the water going south for who knows what reason. Oblivion is wild like that sometimes.

>>531242270
What the hell is going on

>>531243135
Russian youube lore

>>531252275
>yantar
I thought that was in the Cordon in LA?

>>531257113
iirc it's one of the early Yantar builds but yeah they swaped it with the carpark in LA.

>>531214019
yeah there is a real problem with trying to go further up north, I'm imagining you need like a ton of stuff like a good exoskeleton and a lot of batteries to even survive. seems extremely unfun.

>>531242270
stalker meets skibidi

>>531242270
I still prefer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIDEdi41zmo

both videos were really unfunny.
I prefer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RJWMRWHEUU

only real niggas remember insurgentdude

I started GAMMA and you guys weren't kidding, there is so much slop. Triggers and fuses and barrels and broken dildos, the list goes on. I have absolutely no idea what to do with any of this shit, it's genuinely overwhelming.

>>531275329
yeah i fucking hate item bloat and decision overloading

>>531268654
>Nikolai
No thanks, behold, SOVL
https://youtu.be/kO8_8HQuiTI?si=nSuaJMJm4yyZf265

>>531276568
>nikolai
>not soul
shiggidy

Why are there so many russians here? Has the russian 4chan been closed by FSB?

>>531276568
bruh wtf was that?

Your radio mod, good sir

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/967?tab=description

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3526187391

This one actually seems nice. Granted it kind of alters the atmosphere but it's nice to understand what all the signs and graffiti says. Guy says he's about a quarter of the way done. My interest is piqued.

>>531273510
Did they wipe out the channel? I remember they did a while back and then it got back up

>>531286796
I highly recommend playing with this mod
to play real Stalkan experience

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3508511173

>>531276568
Wow.

>>531286796
>>531293168
>they actually put their mods on steam workshop
Just how fucking greedy is Grigorovich?

>>531293168
>Speical texture localization

>>531275329
yes it makes no sense that someone was magdumping you moments before and then when you loot them you get a barely functioning gun with broken everything and no ammo at all

there are sliders that can be tweaked to make that better, but holy jesus what a fucking unfun time

>>531257113
>>531262925
it is cordon, the earliest version of it from build 1114. buildo yantar never had such a building.

Is Stalker 2 finally good now?
Have modders finally fixed the extremely glaring issues regarding firefights, AI, """"A-LIFE""""" and performance?
I've hold off on playing the game for so long waiting for it to come out of "beta" and want to check out if its the perfect time to play now

>>531301169
Thanks for correcting me, I had it saved like that from a few years ago so I'm not sure why I thought it was Yantar.

>>531301597
no

>>531301597
patches have improved things somewhat but it's not on the level of old stalker yet and probably won't be

What are some interesting mods for Clear Sky, something to spice up the vanilla experience?

>>531309782
yoctosfera if you can stand a small dose of vasyanism. clear sky revision if you know russian.

Is Gamma good or bad now

>>531312454
Everyone in this thread knows russian

>>531313938
Wish I did. Throw me some resources so I can learn the language.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3523687358
IT'S UP

SLURP SLURP SLURP

>>531314764
Can I use a boar's bladder and a filter to make a gas mask? If not then I'm not downloading.

>>531314652

>>531314764
GROK HIRE THIS MAN!

>>531315050
Nice, thanks.

>>531315050
>let's just randomly shift the sounds of latin for no reason
true soviet genius

stalger 2 is.... saved!

>>531301597
>have modders
bro what modders dude its a bunch of text files, kys.
come back in 3 years with that question

>>531315050

do people actually enjoy walking around with a backpack full of junk

>>531316732
>red powder green powder blue powder
jill sandwich

>>531316732
it's *immersive*. that's always the answer, and i'm always wondering whether it's the fans of those mods who are autistic, or whether i am because no matter how much i try, i cannot understand it.

>>531312493
Gamma was never good

stalker 2 has more sales than gamma + anomaly put together...

>>531316732
great value project zomboid

>>531318608
Umm a lot of people don't know this but S.T.A.L.K.E.R ANOMALY G.A.M.M.A is FREE

>>531316053
It's the other way around. Slavic sounds are Slavic, so Bulgarians created the Cyrillic to facilitate that. However, the hipster Slavs that chose Catholicism or Atheism over Orthodoxy said "fuck all that shit" and used Latin with funky squiggles, so you have ass backwards languages like Polish where you're expected to read "Brzęczyszczykiewicz Konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka" and you end up sounding like a stuttering snake.

>>531320607
mongolian being written in cyrillic is the funniest case

>>531317103
I hope this is not Strelok's blood

>>531314764
>>531314959
>>531316732
Far Cry 3 and its consequences have been a disaster for the game industry.

>>531322710
far cry 3 invented crafting? i thought minecraft did that

I've never played a stalker game before, should I buy stalker 2 rn or wait till it's on sale?

>>531326595
old image is old

>>531320607
half of cyrillic is literally just latin but with the wrong sounds

>>531326595
THAT'S ME IN THE SPOT LIGHT

>>531330719
LOSING MY RELIGION

How the fuck do i make it so the xbox gaypass version doesn't save in the retarded cloud and instead saves locally?

>>531294659
Workshop is free?

>>531330940
You need to have purchased the game on steam.

>>531237503
>STILL crying about s2 because he can't play it and it's new therefore BAD

>>531316732
Why do you have 2 pics of a cat

>>531290721
Thank /pol/. If one of theirs didn't shoot up a mosque while playing SERBIA STRONG, channels that had that and related videos uploaded wouldn't have been killed off for "hate speech" postfacto.

>>531314959
>>531314764
oh boy craftslop

>>531331004
>piratevegan reveals he's crying about it because he has to actually own the game

>>531334217
Where the FUCK do you think you are?

>>531334217
>steam is the only way to aquire games legally
The absolute fucking STATE of steamniggers.

How would YOU go about fixing the miseryslop crafting and repair mechanics? What kind of crafting system, if any, could actually work in stalkan? It's the biggest gripe against gaynomaly and now they're just porting everything over to S2 without a second thought. The obvious solution is to gut it entirely, but surely there's a better way to do this.

>>531335645
Make a completely new game where the UI for crafting and repairing isn't shit and it's actually intuitive to use instead of having to rely on trial and error.
Also set that completely new game in a setting that fits crafting and repairing, because Stalker ain't it.

>>531326595
do not buy stalger 2 and play gamma instead

>>531335645
the only ones who have a problem with anomaly's crafting, are retards. I know that because I once didn't understand it either, but then I rubbed 2 braincells together and understood it. took me whole 15 minutes of gameplay

>>531335645
just don't. stalker doesn't need crafting. a simple repair system is fine, but crafting is redundant in this type of game.

>>531335645
>What kind of crafting system, if any, could actually work in stalkan?
None, doesn't need it.

>>531338476
what about upgrades at the techy

>>531334882
Show me the other PC game stores Stalker 2 is sold. Ones that aren't just selling steam keys. You won't.
>b-but
You lost.

>>531335645
a bit of light gunsmithing to customize your weapons is fine, stalker 2 basically got that part right
I think the cooking system from the scalie game is pretty nice too, very light, basically just makes food items restore more if you cook them, it's comfy

>>531342006
https://www.gog.com/en/game/stalker_2_heart_of_chornobyl_standard_edition

You lost bigly, nigger

>>531331004
you're retarded

>>531342179
why buy drm free if you get treated like shit for doing so? what are you even paying for?

just pirate the gog release it's easy since it's drm free :)

>>531342410
>treated like shit
By letting me actually OWN the game?
I don't think so.
Steam Workshop being a closed garden that actually can remove stuff at any time foerever (even things you have downloaded already) like they did with gmod content is being treated like absolute dogpoo.

>>531342410
That's some pretty embarrassing damage control after that curb stomp you just received. Honestly, I would have just closed the thread and pretended like it never happened.

>>531342671
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zjwUN1mtJdCkgtTDRB2IoFp7PP41fraY-oFNY00fEkI

you get treated like shit
there's no point in financially supporting any game developer that you don't absolutely need to
and even then consider buying from key sites if you absolutely have to buy, since lots of devs have complained it even costs them money when you do so

>>531342993
you need to stop imagining in your head that everyone is your personal boogeyman

>we still have retarded /v/ tourists present
I want to go back to old, dead /sg/.

>>531343094
>list of games I have never purchased and have nothing to do with the topic
It's up to the dev/publisher to update their games, literally ZERO to do with the plattform itelf.
Shitty publisher? = No buy

>>531343273
I'm not sure how that relates at all to what I said. I'm just surprised you stuck around after being so thoroughly put in your place.

>>531343628
hundreds of games that treat you like shit for buying drm free, it's a pattern of behaviour across the entire industry
stalker 2 joins in by allowing steam DRM on mods, no game on steam has to allow workshop, or any other proprietary steam vendor lockin features.
they enabled it on purpose to hurt you for buying drm free

so don't buy at all

>>531315050
>>531316053
vodka addled brains don't work too well

>>531335645
uninstall.exe
BAM fucking fixed

>>531314652

Download a native speaker app like hellotalk or tandem and talk with natives

>>531331004
WRONG

>>531343918
What in the fuck are you talking about? Just install mods from moddb or something.

>>531322710
Crafting in Far Cry 3 made thematically sense within the game. Adrian is a clueless white boy who has to learn the traditional ways of the native warriors to save his friends. Predators being added was a big request from Far Cry 2, so tying the new predators into the theme of hunting to advance your warriors skills, and rewarding that in gameplay with craftable upgrades from the skins, ties everything nicely together for that game. The tatau, hunting and crafting, and drug fueled spirit journeys all tied into this theme.

Hunting has had no reason to exist in any other Far Cry game since then, except maybe Primal. It's just one of those features they add because it was in the last game, instead of tailoring the features of each new game to it's story and setting like they used to.

>>531347280
sorry I got jason brody mixed up with adrian brody for some reason lol

G.A.M.M.A. is FREE and has no DRM.

pls fuck off
bitch

>>531335645
This is a balancing issue. Anomaly's only crimes are 1, terrible art direction (misery ui) and 2, non-existant balance (it's a kitchen sink that is messy instead of orderly).
Generally speaking, crafting needs to be balanced against purchasing. It should be cheaper and or more available than goods at the merchant. This must scale, generally, with the "tier" of a good ie 9x18 fmj will be of similar "value" in both trade and craft, where 9x39 ap will be "cheaper" to craft than buy.
Looting is the third leg of this balancing act. Ideally, loot is not nerfed to increase difficulty. It must be natural, stalkers carry reasonable loadouts ie up to 90 or 120 rounds of their main weapon, a weapon in decent condition that can fire multiple bursts before jamming, and a suit in decent condition. I don't know if these drops can be modified by fight duration before death ( ie armor is degraded less with a clean headshot, ammo loot is higher if the enemy doesn't get to engage in a firefight with the player, etc) but this would help balance it. The player will be rewarded for fighting well. Hardcore enemy accuracy and ironman mode are standard in this regard.

>but having so much gear available is tantamount to cheating! muh hobo phase!

The player needs to be trained to think correctly. Misery et al are poverty simulators that attract hoarders and cowards. Would you prefer to loot every single trinket and underwear from an enemy, just to have enough roubles for a soda, or be discerning in your looting, taking what you personally desire for your quest (this rifle will help me dispatch the chimera I was contracted to kill, this medicine can be crafted into a higher tier, this ammo will sell at the trader, this suit will help me get close to my target undetected)? The answer, for humans, is obvious. The hobo mentality must be eradicated.

tldr crafting is a balance issue and most modders and players are retards

how to play gamma without inventory bloat

>>531372428
Don't play gamma.

>>531372428
Understand that 90% of items aren't actually bloat and have use applications.

>>531347280
ackshually
Far Cry 4 equally had reason to hunt, since it more or less copypasted and iterated on 3 in every way except having a protagonist with charisma that anyone cares about (Ajay is voiced by the same VA as the friend in 3 who gets raped by Buck, and is so devoid of any charisma and purpose they made two sequels with mute protagonists). It's 5-6 where hunting is pointless, to the point they cut the animation out, and the harvested materials become nothing more than vendor trash because you just upgrade gear with money. Or in 6, you just wear stupid looking outfits to get a fraction of the upgrades because all the upgrades and abilities are tied to clothes because they're stupid.

>>531368565
Crafting needs to fuck off entirely. If it were at least like New Vegas or 4 (ideally a mix, since 4's UI is leagues better) where you can make both general and improved ammo as well as repair kits and food from a simple, functional GUI, it could be tolerable. instead, it's carrying around actual garbage, hoping for lucky random loot rolls for tools and equipment, and choosing whether to pay for upgrades and repairs or pay to be allowed a whole five minutes on his workbench, where you can spend equal or greater amounts of money buying disposable parts to do the upgrades yourself for no actual benefit.

I love AI and India!

>the brain scorcher is real
>and it's running right now
>24/7

>>531392192
LONDON?

>>531392192
wait until you find out radar is real

>>531392521
>Near the radar there is a ionosphere control system "Circle". A complex of a few hundred small antennas was a helper system of the radar DUGA-3.
SO THE DUGA RADAR WAS THE BRAIN SCORCHER ALL ALONG IRL WTF

if the monolit is real then where are they?

>>531398918
It's Monolith you illiterate faggot.

I could barely afford to get myself to the Zone and smuggled in let alone arm myself with genuine Slavic surplus firearms. I would be become an indentured servant to Sidorovich after he "loaned" me some start up money.

>>531415458
>failing at stalkering
apply yo self

>>531372708
they may have use applications but that doesnt sttop them from feeling like bloat.
ive seen screens of people carrying like 40 items at all times

>>531372708
Just because you can put an item in the game doesn't mean you should. It's called restraint. Anything that disrupts the flow of the game and intentionally slow is down for no other reason than to waste time is an insult to you and your time. "The grind" they put in those games to sort through shit and collect things is an absolute waste of time. Ask yourself, is it actual gameplay or are you just sifting through UI bullshit?

>>531415458
>ah, marked one, good to see you
>one of my associates has gone missing recently and I'd like you to find him for me
>he owes me some money you see

>>531410267
Monolit is the Russian word, crybaby

>>531423058
>>531425364
Then don't pick everything up and just carry around what you need knowing that you may waste a bit of money along the way?
You are basically complaining for the sake of complaining.

Same niggers will tell me gun maintence in gamma is tedious as fuck.
The maintence in question after firing over 1k+ rounds in webm

>>531436979
wow, such an engaging gameplay. what's the point seperating parts for cleaning when it's just a matter of clicking anyway? why not just implement a single "clean the weapon" function so instead of clicking 10 times, you only have to click twice and get back to the actual game?

>>531439275
Because you can swap parts instead of cleaning.
You are literally complaining about doing 4 clicks every 2 hours.

>>531439275
>oh how dare I have to waste 0.5 more seconds I'd much rather have to run all the way to a mechanic and stop everything im doing instead!

It's up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtWLnyszIzQ

I'm Slung Nigger, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:.

>>531436979
do you think that webm makes it look anything but disgusting?

>>531445150
i dont speak russian, whats up