Thread 534373039

UPGRADE PACKS edition.

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

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

Common misconceptions about Shadow of Chernobyl game mechanics:
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
www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack
Recommended addons: CotZ, Absolute Nature, Structures Redux

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

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

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

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

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

Lost to the Zone >>533034805

>>534373039 (OP)
stalker 2 will never be fixed

i hope they fix stalker 2 in the 5-odd years i will play it

>>534373806
Same

>>534373039 (OP)
So what will this "additional content" actually consist of? If it's just a few new guns and textures it's not worth it.

>>534373039 (OP)
hey gsc how about upgrading stalker 2 to playable

Favorite stalker weapons by category?

>Handgun
PB
>Rifles
AKM74/2 for warsaw and SGI5K for nato
>Shotguns
Chaser 13
>Sniper Rifles
Vintorez
>Heavy
Bulldog-6

>>534383167
>Handgun
1911
>Rifles
1911
>Shotguns
1911
>Sniper Rifles
1911
>Heavy
1911
This is how it felt to play CoC leak with OWR.

>>534383167
>SIP 200M, Martha
>Sniper SGI5k, GP37
>AKMS-2/U (SoC), 9x18 Viper 5 (early game dakka machine)
>TOZ-66, SPSA-14
>SVU Mk/2
>Grenadespam

Kino weapon pack lads
https://youtu.be/04T6SQ2f-uk?feature=shared

>>534389716
Nice

>>534373383
They would have to reprogram the entire game system and rewrite the scripted bits to not interfere with it, it can't be fixed.

>>534389716
sovl

>>534400954
Not interfere?

>>534400954
lol sure

Am I supposed to do something to this wall? It's driving me insane

>>534418074
if an rpg dont blow it open then maybe it's just blocked

>>534400618
das me

>Stalker Sunrise mod
What the fuck is this garbage mod? Its like someone puked all over the screen with how fucked up the saturation is.

Its like they tried to copy Stalker 2's ambience for no reason at all.

>play gamma
>made the mistake of learning how it works
>get bored every time I acquire 2 fully functional weapons
how do I fix this

>>534434713
Play anything but dogshit gamma

>>534213129
Oh my fucking god
I'm so goddamn retarded
console is disabled on agony mode
I think I got hit by the brain scorcher irl

>>534434917
gamma has the best presentation and doesn't require me to spend days modding it over though
I wouldn't mind EFP but I know I'll miss things that are in gamma

WELL.

I'm not really sure how or why but my sixth playthrough of Chernobyl Freeplay was, all things considered, a smashing success. I made it a whole five in-game days with only a handful of issues, which were saves getting corrupted and your usual SoC jank. In every case reloading an older save and playing from there worked flawlessly. Adding those choppers back in seems to have worked wonders.

A few more tweaks and I believe the mod will be ready for release.

Rest in Peace DocX. He was a good Stalker.
https://youtu.be/VmtSUUQH8x4

>>534379615
>newfag doesn't understand how conversations work

>>534442948
Pour one out for a homie.

>>534450183
where dem zone gurlz at

>>534450183
>.25acp
lol, classic new arsenal
best part is that it probably still deals more damage than the makarov

>>534450183
What mod?

>>534450676
I'm pretty sure anon is playing New Arsenal.

>>534450445
Here's one.
>>534453431
New Arsenal 7

>>534450627
Haven't used it. I put it in a stash and forgot about it. Also found another 6mm pistol but this time it was Russian. Can't remember the name.

Is STALKER 2 good yet?

>>534458241
2 more weeks until the patch, then it will be. in the meantime you should buy the deluxe/ultimate upgrade pack that was just released.

>>534455908
>observe vladimir

any mods that add clutter/furniture/etc to pretty much everywhere but mainly bases? it's so boring seeing these little rundown shacks having nothing but a crate and cabinet in them, they should have shelves and tables and beds and another crate and makeshift drapes covering windows and doorways and all that stuff to make it look lived-in

>>534460386
>and all that stuff to make it look lived-in
isn't the whole point that they are not lived-in? most of the shit in them was looted long time ago or moved by stalkers to the actual bases where they live.

>>534461110
>to the actual bases where they live.
this is what I mean, rookie village in the cordon is bland, rostok is practically empty, etc it's all barebones and could use some sprucing up

>>534460386
I'm pretty sure you would love True Stalker's level design.

What file do I have to edit in campfire healing to make it faster?

>>534435217
no.

>>534435192
lol

>>534444561
irony.
you quoted the wrong person retard

up

>>534460386
A story mod called The Exception had some nice interiors while others were quite empty.

>major kuznetsov is invincible
>pidorovich has a buddy in agroprom
surely OP2 doesn't expect me to just not murder military for free AKs and ammo

>>534469289
>n-no u
ebin

>>534480327
its what I've been saying the whole time.
reminder: pretending to be retarded is not trolling.

>>534480208
You should avoid pissing off those guys because you can trade with them. Alerting the patrolling soldiers at the Cordon will also anger Kuznetsov and the Agroprom guy spends the daytime in the forest and at night he sleeps in the barracks. Avoid doing the Agroprom documents quest at night in order not to turn him hostile.

>>534481530
>Avoid doing the Agroprom documents quest at night in order not to turn him hostile.
Can't you stealth it? I always do that in vanilla because I hate killing innocent soldiers.

>>534480208
they probably made quest characters either really really hard to kill or invincible so the quest doesnt break and/or crash the game.
then again this is OP2 with invisible stashed with invisible stepping stones

>>534481823
I think you might be able to. Haven't tried.

any recipes for this weird anomaly?
>>534481530
>Alerting the patrolling soldiers at the Cordon will also anger Kuznetsov
are the soldiers at the base included?

I'm playing Goldsphere cause it's free and doesn't fake survival

>>534482867
From what I know it's just the ones patrolling on the train tracks between the bridge and the wrecked locomotive.

>walk 2cm to my right
>rad bar goes from 0 to 100 in 5 seconds
worst part of gamma

OP2 sounds like absolute aids

>>534486123
You'll end up playing it one day.

>>534484395
indeed
is anyone besides wolf, nimble and the new stash guy important at all in rookie village?

>>534490013
They'll start moving around the zone after you do some quests. You usually get a red message and a specific pda beep if an important npc dies. Try starting the collector's stashes chain if you haven't already. It gives some very useful starting items and doesn't require much work if you look up guides.

>>534481823
Apparently there are two suits that completely mask the sound of your footsteps, making sneaking easier. One is supposedly purchasable from Sid. The OP2 wiki has a bunch of info to make your life easier.

>>534498412
gn

Chernobyl Freeplay 2.0 releases tomorrow.

where is the teleporter to strelok's hideout
why is there a teleporter to strelok's hideout

>>534499604
>where is the teleporter to strelok's hideout
You have to wander around the underground looking for it. IIRC it will vanish and reappear somewhere else in the underground once you get to it.
>why is there a teleporter to strelok's hideout
Security I guess. You can disable it once you get to the hideout.

>playing as monolith
>talking to trader in palace of culture
>crow sounds in the distance
>trader closes dialog window and starts rp walking
>other dudes in the room do the same
>emission warning
>they kneel in front of the monument and start praying
yo this is creepy af

>>534498412
>letting your kitty anywhere near your nicotine vape shit

>>534498729
moddb yeah?

>>534503702
>NOOO THE CATS GONNA KNOCK OVER MY DRUGS DUDEWEED
>I HATE CATS TOXOPLASMOSIS LITTERBOX TRANNIES

>>534504090
meds schizo

and I was saying that because nicotine is toxic to cats.

>>534503831
Yes.

I wish we had the full size SIG550 and the og optic for the G36 in IWP

medkit

psyblock

>>534538376
umm sweatie stalger 2 had different writers, don't care, not canon

>>534512884
Nice man that is my next objective. I want to get atleast a decent seva suit

bandage

>>534498729
Maybe a stupid question but how does it load? Standalone, 1.04 or 1.06?

>>534547374
nta but pretty sure its for SoC 1.0006

>>534523681
New Arsenal 7 has two types of G36 and one also has a specific scope you can attach and detach. I think it runs on the OGSR engine. Could they be easily ported to IWP?

>>534523681
Also forgot to mention NA7 has the regular SIG, a shortened one and a sniper variant.

>>534550218
Does NA7 change much compared to NA6? I was playing NA6 but was quit in the middle and then eventually lost my save.
Does it still have the nazi time travel sequences?

>>534550365
I can't really say since I played 5.1 and 7 only. Seems 6 is already on the OGSR engine while 5.1 wasn't.
I'm guessing they added extra guns, armour and quests in 7.
Yes to the spoiler question. There's two at least (I've only gotten to SoC Pripyat and didn't visit the CoP maps).
One thing I liked about NA7 was that you could teleport by using demo_record 1, flying somewhere then pressing Enter. Makes some of the backtracking less of a pain. Also helps with repositioning if the mod decides to spawn an armoured personnel carrier right outside of a lab exit and you don't have explosives on you. There's also a spawner so you can fuck around from the start even if an AKS74-U can carry you until the brain scorcher.

>>534551401
is that a fucking spanish lever pistol

>>534554372
No.
Don't you recognize a beretta 93r?

>>534554927
bro it has wood on it bro it has to be 200 years old bro

>>534555016
Looks cool as fuck.

>>534554927
I can see how he could mistake it for the JoLoAr
https://youtu.be/s5qXk7nFunw

>>534555570
Me too, but come on, mistaking some rare gun nerd gun for something as prolific in media as the Raffica? That's just insane.

>>534555686
>prolific in media
one game and one movie is not "prolific"

>>534555756
https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Beretta_93R
retard nigger

>>534554927
>>534555686
I didn't even know it exists

>>534555835
ok you got me, but 1 good game and 2 good movies is still not prolific

>>534556457
>moving goalposts
I count 7 good films, 1 good tv show and 8 good vidya games.

>>534551401
How do I active the spawner?

>>534557408
nvm figured it out, it's F1.
I swear I tried F1 and it didn't work before.

>>534556979
I count 1 anon with shit taste

>>534561381
I count one baiting gorilla nigger.

>no staged reloads mod to go with magazine mod
>magazine mod doesn't visually change the gun
when will stalker 2 have thousands of mods

>>534562043
>magazine mod doesn't visually change the gun
No Stalker 1 through 3 mod did that until Gunslinger though.

>>534562636
But I'm playing it right now.

>>534560571
Search the rookie village houses. There's a stash with a crowbar so you can stop using the knife. Sid can also upgrade it for some cash.

>>534563729
ur lying

>>534565538
I just noticed that wasn't the image I meant to post, this was.

>>534568708
Sid's cooler brother. There's a cool rifle just sitting on a high tower on that map.

>>534570810
I know, a 7.62 sniper AK if I recall correctly. I played 5.1 and 6.

Is it possible to bring back the minimap counter and beeps for stalkers in the vicinity (GAMMA)? I don't want dots in the map, just the two I mentioned

lmao
how can modders make mods but be this retarded

Chernobyl Freeplay 2.0 is up.

I hope you guys enjoy the mod and I hope it runs well for you guys. Save corruptions were the only bugs I sometimes ran into on my last playthroughs. I wish I could fix them, but I have no idea why they happen and I suspect it's just X-Ray being X-Ray. Plus, I've been working on CF for a long time now and I'm feeling pretty burnt out.

Keep multiple saves, reloading an older save and playing from there works as a fix. I recommend everyone reads the Readme.

I did playthroughs as a loner, bandit, military and Monolith. My most stable playthrough was when I played as military. No idea if that's significant or not.

Good hunting, stalkers.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/chernobyl-freeplay

>>534442168
bromance

is the arena stash safe in OP2?
and how rare are controllers? I forgot you need a knife for mutant parts and by the time I found one the corpse in argroprom already despawned

Is STALKER 2 good now?

>>534577792
come back in one year

>>534576859
Will give it a try now, thanks for you effort

>>534577792
let them cook, just two more weeks.

>>534577662
You can get a free knife from Kuznetsov at the Cordon checkpoint. Just sneak up and murder a bloodsucker with it and you get to keep it.

>>534576859
Just finished SFZ and the exception, do you plan on updating this? Might come back in a while. Very nice to read your progress

>>534577662
No stashes are safe without a lock. Best thing to do is jump out of bounds at the start of the bar level before the duty checkpoint and put some backpacks down there.

>>534584882
For the time being, no, not unless some major issue comes up. In the future I may ask the C-Con discord to take a look at the mod but right now I need a little break from S.T.A.L.K.E.R..

>>534469289
Bwaaahahahaaaa still assmad
thats fucking hilarious.

>>534576859
how does this compare to gamma? ui looks dogshit so that's not a good start

>Bwaaahahahaaaa still assmad
>thats fucking hilarious.

Ztroon avatar posting...

>>534576859
Thanks, I've been waiting for this
>>534577792
Maybe in two years when some decent mods are released

>start as a bandit
>pick up a quest to deliver drgus to the car park
>get assaulted by 10 dogs and cats and run out of ammo
>my contact is just lying dead for no reason like he tripped
10/10

>>534594330
The bandits in the car park sometimes get stuck in the campfires and die, which is a bug in vanilla. But Necro never died in my playthroughs lol.

>>534590783
>when some decent mods are released
any modder actually bothering with stalker 2?

>>534555016
FUCKING ZOOOMERES
RREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>534576859
>Keep multiple saves, reloading an older save and playing from there works as a fix.
so, stalker as normal :^}

I count one prolapsed ass filled with gorilla semen

even zoomers know the 93r it's in calladooty

>>534588574
>ignores own retardation
>haha you're like mad or something
yeah makes pefect sense, retard

What S.T.A.L.K.E.R. faction are you?
https://www.gotoquiz.com/what_s_t_a_l_k_e_r_faction_are_you_1

>>534576859
figures the one comment is resident clown

>>534600490
Shitty quiz, most of the questions just boil down to "are you retarded or not"

>>534600490
Mercbros...

funnily enough my favorite faction are the mercs, i like ecologs too

>>534600490
Za Monolit

Of course it a Dutier

Your Result: Freedom

>>534600490
basically everyone's going to be a merc unless you game the quiz, it's a shame there's no fleshed out merc questlines

>>534562307
shoker 1 mod did. You could use as val mag on the vintorez and use a cmag on the g36c along with the original.

>>534611501
shoker is botnet

>>534612837
shoker 1 wasn't, it only had regular mod files.

>forgotten forest
I can see why

>>534418074
Kinda offtopic but in Bosnia (which is also Eastern European) many houses have doors and windows that are closed off with bricks and cement. I guess it's similar in Ukraine and the devs just put that in as a detail to make the world feel more "lived in" with rooms that are inaccessible.

love my tractor

my tractor doesn't love me very much

Why are there so few games like stalker? Games without retarded long winded writing. Exploring atmospheric areas with cool enemies. Guns guns and more guns. Good sound design. I play other rpgs or survival games and none of them get me invested like stalker. My only hope is beta decay and I don't even know if that'll release. All I want is exploration, guns, cool enemies and atmosphere. Do you guys have any recommendations?

i just ran over a soldier in my tractor. they glow in the dark
(fucking retarded new arsenal saving screenshots as .pngs when that format is so inefficient)

>>534622249
Do you seriously think that if I had any recommendations I would be playing a soup right now?

>>534622509
I remember with na4.8 or something along those numbers came out. I'm looking into generation zero right now. Not sure yet.

>>534565538
Why would I bother with a crowbar when I have my Arisaka bayonet?

>>534622249
Escape from Tarkov
maybe one day the pirated SPT version will have giga mods that basically make it stalker

Duty member shouldn't have fucked around, now it found out!

>>534633284
what a dreadful mask overlay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO5vJlGF1_s
when was the last time you've heard this song?

>>534634118
Its called stalkersoup

>>534600490
Shit guys I didn't even think this would have accounted for ISG. I figured I would have gotten either Loner, Clear Sky, or Ecologist.

>start new game (iron man) in cordon
>check tasks
>no bandit bounties in cordon
>start new game (iron man) in cordon

>>534576859
You might want to give traders some level of immunity or have their stock disappear entirely on death because picrel is too easy to do to get top tier free gear right off the bat. I just knifed the guy in the face and looted what I wanted with barely a reaction from my fellow mercs.

I have a confession... I've only ever beat CoP with Misery 2 installed.

>>534653130
I've never finished Clear Sky.

>>534649942
>I fucked my reputation and playthrough by killing my own faction trader

heh

>deliver God's divine retribution (F-1) to a bunch of bandit-tier niggers
>reputation goes down by 80
make it make sense

texturechads, how do I properly create a bump(#) texture with the SDK? Some threads ago IWPanon was talking about it with another anon, but I'm uncertain about some things.
I have my diffuse texture and a normal and specular map from crazybump. Do I have to do some fuckery with the channels from the normal and specular map before using it with the SDK or does the SDK do the work?
Also, can I use the specular map for the gloss texture or do I have to edit it slightly?

>>534600057
Bwaaahahahaaaa still assmad
thats fucking hilarious.

>>534659572
try this
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/stalker-bump-gen-tool


>Do I have to do some fuckery with the channels from the normal and specular map before using it with the SDK

yes and no.
if your source material was made for Open GL then yes, you have to flip blue channel in the normal map

and you have to put your textures into the sdk in a specific format.
honestly scripts and tools like the one I liked are more convenient, but may not add blue to some of the channels.

>>534660491
>but may not add blue

**but may not add blur

>>534660491
>try this
damn, I don't know why I haven't checked it from the get go when it was announced on anomalys shitcord

>and you have to put your textures into the sdk in a specific format
I know, I have all my stuff in tga

>honestly scripts and tools like the one I liked are more convenient
they sure are and the results are more than good enough, though I still would prefer to use the SDK in the future (autism). I'll keep those textures from the script as quasi placeholder assets

Thank you anon

>>534663005
>>and you have to put your textures into the sdk in a specific format
>I know, I have all my stuff in tga

thats good, but you also have to make special texture to make bump#

here, I just uploaded this video from my files. this used to be on youtube.
I did not make it, but I use it as a reference if I don't remember the order of things.
it doesn't go into specifics of what what in the bumps, it wasn't meant to.

https://mega.nz/file/5BgjWCBA#RCa8ycVaOLaZ_2sAvTHLhgXy0mZ6nUkeug4k5smPfQE

Launched a new run of IWP to do some Merc fuckery and no traders are spawning. Any clues?

>>534663005
do you know how to use the sdk? you put your raw textures in the rawdata folder, open actor editor and click images on the upper right side of the screen, select your texture and what you're processing it as (normal map, bump map), then it will output your new textures in the sdk gamedata folder. the .thm files will be in a folder named after the texture, make sure you edit this with xray tools' thm viewer (for example to specify the final folder that your bump map will be in, because by default it will path to the sdk gamedata structure).

also be aware that you may have to process each texture twice for it to work.

>>534634118
stalker anomaly without any mods fren

>>534627989
Longer range and more damage.

The empty tube can be used an an improvised single-use grenade launcher.

Is OP 2.2 worth playing?

>>534670036
Yeah but it's also heavy. Heavy melee means less ammo for my gats.

>>534670674
Will seeing stuff like this this make you angry?
>>534291553
>>534295248

>>534670674
Will seeing stuff like this make you angry?
>>534294998
>>534295248

>>534671618
When upgraded it can oneshot most mutants.

>>534672035
Counterpoint: if I wanted to fight in melee I'd have booted up Dying Light.

>>534641387
ooooo science

>>534670376
what would you use as the propellent?

i want to attach a bayonet

>>534673228
You can, in some mods. Gunslinger has it, New Arsenal has it but on only a few guns.

>>534672135
You'll get cornered by mutants at certain points.

>>534600490
anomalyfag hands were used to make that quiz, i'm certain of it.

shower

Am I just supposed to lose all my previous items after the cave dream in OP?

>>534675435
nvm

>>534674391
no shit. it has the retarded anomaly fanfic oc factions
>isg
>clearsky
>renegades
>>534641387

>>534673084
Gunpowder. Just crack open any boolit.

>>534666901
agony mode?

Found a cool AN-94 in the other swamps. Btw does anyone know where to find the damn helicopter black box?

>>534677426
Oh right, now I remembered it's in the fucking Cordon, the northern checkpoint.

>>534677426
if I'm remembering the right mission, it should be on the second floor of the cordon-garbage checkpoint, with a full auto 1911 alongside it

>>534678020
>>534678087
Yup. You need to find some Clear Sky guys in the dead marshes map and talk to one of them. Eventually you'll get sent to the Cordon checkpoint to jump on the house where you find the Walther in vanilla (but instead it's pic related).

>>534678198
They didn't tell me shit about the Cordon checkpoint. Such is life with soups.
But hey, at least I found a bunch of cool shit like this scoped Valmet.

>>534679080
There's a guy that looks like the CS mechanic and he gives you the next lead iirc.

And you can even swap between scope view and iron sight view.

>>534679080
In the dead marshes there's also a bandit near a shack with a unique Abakan. I think the duty guy at the bar wants it back.

>>534679346
see >>534677426

>>534649942
The Xiani config script has a feature that you can turn on/off where traders have their inventories wiped on death.
If you decide to kill your own faction's trader to get free loot then that is entirely on you.

>>534654587
I never even launched Clear Sky

>>534600490
My favourite faction is the Ecologists but I like the Mercs too.

is every god damn dog in OP2 a psydog

>>534681053
Neah. You'll know when a psydog is around.

>>534681053
>complaning abut dogs
Most likely you're talking about cats, they have a psi-aura. And wait when you have to fight shit like mosquito and parasite zombies. Or both at the same time

Love my revolver.

>>534681053
the OP2 stalker yearns for the screen shake

>>534681152
so making the screen blank white is just a thing normal dogs do?

Two foxes)))))))))

>>534681818
Yeah. The screen does that when dogs are near. Dunno why. Turn down brightness or turn off your flashlight.

I want to like GAMMA but the long load times make it very difficult. How the fuck does this thing needs 5+ minutes to start and 1 minute to load a fucking save? Jesus fucking christ.

>>534680904
i like how almost everyone is a merc according to this quiz. how do you even get duty anyway.

>>534683604
>How the fuck does this thing needs 5+ minutes to start and 1 minute to load a fucking save?
nigga what do you expect when gaymma has a billion of active scripts and things added through dltx? You could try the AOEngine

>>534600490
stupid quiz, terrible questions.

>>534685604
and terrible answers

>kill zombie in sewer tunnel
>explodes into plague rats

>>534685781
Hope you have explosives and a closed-cycle suit.

>>534685604
i couldnt find a better one

Why are there so many merc scumbags in this thread?

>go to Wild Territory at midnight to pick up some endurance artifacts
>Duty shootout between 10 Izloms next to the construction site, including Merc and loners
>some retards died in an electra on spawn (there's also a Bloodsuckers somewhere in the middle)
>get jumped by 2 snorks, a poltergeist and a bloodsucker near the railway
>found 4 endurance artifacts in the tunnel
Peak kino when everything works, seeing everything play out in such a free way is great stalkin

>>534675667
>>clearsky
>>renegades
>retarded anomaly fanfic oc factions
What?

Anyone else have issues typing a save name in OP?

>>534688763
Yeah. It may have to do with the encoding in options and if you have multiple keyboard languages on your pc (haven't tested switching) and whenever I open the console "_preset" pops up and I can't type anything without it replacing it. You can keybind individual hardsaves from the controls menu.

>save dootyer from bandits
>escapes and says the line
>can't talk to him
is this normal for OP2

>>534603649
What? I answered the question 100% earnestly and got freedom. As shit as that quiz is, it is definitely not skewed towards mercs.

>>534689927
He should return to the camp at the garbage and you can interact with him there. You can also save the duty guy who gets shot and thrown in the hole.

>>534690179
>You can also save the duty guy who gets shot and thrown in the hole.
is the reward for doing so worth putting up with his retarded ass running circles in the courtyard until one of the 12 bandits on the upper floor notices him and gapes his dootyhole?

>>534690850
I think he becomes a quest giver or something. You might also get an achievement and that resurrection artifact as a reward but I might be mistaken.

everyone is a fucking merc!!!

>>534691096
the hole guy?
because he doesn't give the important NPC died notification when his cranium inevitably gets even more vacated

>>534691401
He's not super important but it's good to have him around. I just checked and saving all the duty guys gives the rare Living Heart artifact that can be used to resurrect dead stalkers.

>>534691401
https://op-2.fandom.com/wiki/Rescue_%22Duty%22_member

Hands up!

>>534687717
Glad you like the mod, anon.

It's over.

>>534675667
ISG was cut content from SoC. Clear Sky and Renegades were in the aptly named Clear Sky, you dunce.

>>534716010
Clear Sky is fanfiction.

>>534716010
Renegades can barely be counted as a faction. They're just in CS so the game has a starting enemy that's different from the bandits.

>>534654587
>>534680864
play them

>>534688763
use the console to save?
save yoursavenaamehere

>>534716712
heres a (You)

>>534576859
I'm really having fun with Chernobyl Freeplay, i will probably imagedump some pictures and anecdotes i had soon

>>534687707
>>534691363
Everyone is in it for the money. Merc life is a honest livin

>>534727829
whats with the piss filter?

>>534728769
That's a Lost Alpha screenshot.

>>534600490
>/sg/
>5 mercs, an ISGer, a freedomer, a monolithian, and a single loner

>>534729529 Was meant for >>534729407

>>534729683
what's up with freedomer trying to fuck bloodsuckers?

>>534730317
horny zone weed

>>534728769
Awesome, please do.

>>534730317
That's slander, we don't do that. Well one guy did but his dick fell off from that so he doesn't do it anymore.

>>534730934
Found 2 PDA's that said otherwise....Guess the bloodsuckerwaifu pillow is real
>>534730427
Zone weed most be bombastic though!

>>534731502
You found 2 PDA is?

Blood lust is real.

>>534731587
Yup 2 loners were carrying them. Didn't know loner bros kept that dirt on you freedom broskis

>>534731979
Get your mind out of the gutter, Ben.

>>534731979
FUCKING KEK

>>534731979
I didn't know that there were THAT many bludsuka pics

>>534731979
>3/16/2014
lolwut

>>534731979
Funny how almost none of these look like actual bloodsuckers, just a hentai goonbag with a bloodsucker head. They're supposed to be gangly and have pure white eyes.

>>534733368
The games are old bro.

>>534576859
pretty good, but the random anomalies are a huge detriment and overkill - entire maps are shat on and NPCs cannot walk 5 metres without killing themselves

why on earth is this needed? vanilla anomaly placements would make the experience much better (not to mention taking some load off the xray engine)

>>534731502
Take a look at the operation bandits have in the zone. There's also >>534480125

>>534731979
such abomination i have witnessed with my eyes

>>534716010
>ISG was cut content from SoC.
From CS. And AFAIK, they were only supposed to be present in the intro sequence, where Scar would lead them to the Generators where they'd all die to a sudden emission never to appear in the game again.
All the lore around that "faction" is made up by mods, namely Anomaly.

>>534731979
ben...

>>534600490
Odd questions and odd answers. Should I take the personality quiz to see what kind of merc I am? I hope I'm a loving one.

>>534717848
They have a patch and you actively interact with them within the first hour of the game, it is what it is.

>>534729529
is that an explanation for the piss filter?

>>534739429
I guess. I didn't fiddle with the graphics.

>>534735241
this. and they weren't even called isg, just un members/researchers. them being some kind of secret un operators is an anomaly meme.

>>534739429
>>534740115
from what I remember, LA also has allow_r1_lights on by default. which was why all the campfires have that weird extra glow around it.
though hemi and ambient lighting probably in the mix too

I fucking hate limansk.
How the fuck do I get north of the Guard House?

>>534600490
mercfaggots.
i kill mercs...

>>534751513
Enter the upper floor of the building, find a hole in the floor in one of the rooms, drop down and exit through the door on the Eastern side of the house. You'll be on the opposite side of the barbed wire, blocking the way to the North.

>>534754438
Thanks/. I made it to the CNNP and am trying to find my way inside. I swear there's only one way in to this damn thing and it's massive.

blyat

>>534756440
What mod?

>>534756540
analmeme

>>534757068
The UI looks nice

>>534734521
I think the artifact respawn feature uses the random anomaly coordinates. Never tested it, though. Even if it does I could do an easy fix to work around that. I remember I removed the random anomalies in the original Chernobyl Freeplay because, like you said, they're pretty jank for everyone except the player.

>>534576859
Not trying to be a cunt but why should I play with this instead of CoC?

>>534758156
Just if you like SoC aesthetics.

>>534757228
Yeah it's alright. I don't remember what mods i used to make it look good but it looks ncie too. I wish the most expensive version of the NVGs wasn't still too fucking bright though.
I also wish Groks mask overlays worked. but they don't anymore i don't think.

>>534600490
Freedomers you should take this quiz next https://www.gotoquiz.com/how_girlish_are_you

>>534771172
sisters...

Is there a way to get that restored soviet symbology 2023 mod for stalker 2? It's been erased everywhere.

>>534373383
To be fair original Stalkers were never fixed by the devs either, arguably made worse with CoP.

>>534772275
They took it down? Fuck. I knew I should've made a backup.

>>534734612
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFSD202Dj78&list=RDlFSD202Dj78&start_radio=1

that looks comfy as fuck

>>534751961
>average duty murder hobo

>>534757763
I wouldn't mind if they weren't everywhere and yeah, it kind of turns the game into OLR where everyone just keeps dropping dead left and right
Also not sure if possible, but I think you should look into making NPCs immune to fire, because when you reenter maps way too many of them die (more than in vanilla)

when do traders start stocking PSO-3s in OP2?

>>534790494
No idea. Adrenalin in Agroprom (after you grab the documents) shows up and starts selling attachments but I can't recall if the pso was among them.

>>534758156
>Not trying to be a cunt but why should I play with this instead of CoC?
Coc isn't updated anymore
This is also homebrew so it deserves twice the support
Anyone paying attention to the older games now that goyslop 2 is out has a plus in my book

>>534585045
>In older versions of OP-2, it was needed to reduce the probability of NPCs stealing from standard containers. Since OP-2.1, they don't steal from standard containers anymore, so the locks are useless.
did 2.2 reintroduce stealing?

>>534792452
Dunno for sure. I dumped some broken guns and fuel canisters in a random blue container at the garbage and it didn't get stolen after changing maps.
A backpack I placed got stolen and I got a message about it.

>>534793382
according to wiki, world boxes are safe but backpacks aren't
but also according to wiki kuznetsov can die and he had other opinions on the matter even after two birdshots to the face

>>534793657
Important NPC can die but it will take more rounds than usual since they have high hp and resistances. The stash guy Kostya in Cordon will move to the Garbage after you finish his first quest and he can kill Kuznetsov while passing under the bridge.

>>534772275
>>534772820
bravo gsc, soviet nostalgiafags gtfo, stalker was never, ever meant to be associated with soviet symbolism, it's kremlin propaganda.

>>534797339
lame

>>534373039 (OP)
What settings in OGSR have the highest impact on performance? I'm playing on a PC with a 9070XT and 7800X3D, yet with most settings maxxed out I still get stutters.

Is there functioning anti-aliasing for the original three games yet?

>perfect AI accuracy, even at night
>kamikaze mutants
>tedious, far flung quests that pay a mere 3k roubles
>additional backpack weight enabling chronic loot goblin tendencies
>stash full of over a dozen shooters I'll never get around to using this character
Yep, it's IWP time.

>>534773761
You're damn right, senpai.

>>534801841
god I wish very very much that being obscured behind bushes and shit actually mattered in these games.
I hate them being able to see me but not me being able to see them.

Give it to me plain, anons. I played S2 when it came out via Goypass and it ran not to great despite having a rig that can handle it, and I fell off of it some time after Monolith repossesses the Wish Granter.
Does the game run better, and are the enemies smarter and not teleport on top of me anymore?

>>534803515
Check out Radiophobia 3. I didn't test it thoroughly, but it strongly seemed to me that the AI in that mod doesn't shoot you if their view of you is obscured by bushes

>>534803990
is the webm S2?

>>534803990
the enemies did not become smarter
the enemies do teleport

>>534806039
Yes?

>>534806526
Damn.

>>534803402
>F**ds in the Zone
Would only make sense if there was a brothel in Rostok.

>>534807868
how new do you have to be to not know ndtwofive in STALKER threads

are the fight gloves better at whacking zombies than the knives in OP2?

where are all the monolith hangouts in Anomaly? I want to kill those top-ranked dudes and climb my way through the rankings.

>>534808671
That's what the guides say. I've had more luck with the sledgehammer but apparently someone wants it for a quest later on so you'll have to repair it using rare melee weapons repair kits.

>>534808047
Feminism always existed.

>>534799801
SoC has a problem where campfires cause stutters on some systems. Could be that.

>>534731979
Jesus Christ Ben, hope you won't ask your wife to wear bloodsucker mask before getting laid

can someone convince me that OP2 isnt dogshit

no

I've been tracking this bounty target for half a day and somehow he's able to use these shortcuts but I can't? the tunnel is blocked off and the sewer pipe has metal bars, are they ever accessible or is it an npc only thing?

>>534808047
tfw no unbrainwashed monolith svd-weilding waifu

>>534822998
He could be in the labs, just like Frair in vanilla SoC shows on the map to be somewhere between the Garbage and Dark Valley yet he's in Agroprom underground.

>>534600490
>all these cuck mercs
So few true stalkers here. It explains a lot.

>>534803990
It runs just fine if you have a modern computer and aren't still trying to pretend an 8 year old gpu is fine.

>>534823148
I'm pretty sure he came out here in dark valley, there's a similar sewer pipe in darkscape, he was on the surface and I killed him

>>534823798
That's just a coincidence. That pipe is from the Clear Sky quest where mercs travel underground to attack Freedom.

>>534823907
I think you're hiding something

chillin'

>what the hell is this beeping sound
>why is it getting louder inside the building
>turns out a bandit spawned inside this locked room and kept spamming open on the door

>Bandit neutrality isn't strictly necessary to progress the game, as both Hog and Skimpy will talk even if hostile, but you will need to wipe the bandits out every time you want to talk to them, they can glitch out occasionally, and two bandit quests down the line can become harder as you need a way to speak to bandits other than Hog/Skimpy.
how important are those quests?

>>534821046
No, it is dogshit

Fat loot, time to buy an exo
>>534833879
If you're talking about OP 2.2, you want to stay neutral to the Dark Valley bandits, they have some important quest and chain quests

>>534836170
excellent, another 5 hours to backtrack thanks to a dooty nigger

>>534836624
>he think 5 hours is a lot
Yeah I hope you're playing with the wiki open 24/7 to not softlock your game by not avoiding a specific bug that happened in a week old save. Welcome to the penultimate Vasyanshit niggery. I gave up on OP somewhere around the 20th invisible teleports stash quests in the Sniper questline, wonder how far you will get.

>>534836170
You've killed a lot of mercs.

>>534823798
why did you crop out the bottom of the screenshot?

>>534845263
to hide the buff he got from fucking a bloodsucker

Just finished Stalker 2 and got the Strelok end. Boring game, I won't even try to get the other endings.

>>534730463
>>534728769
I really like the emphasis on dialog and worldbuilding on NPCs in general, it makes it feel so lively, but dialogs like this made me lol, the tongue in cheek reference (the one in the Bar) to Anomaly is kinda of immersion breaking, considering the mod has detailed care for the world, I still like it regardless, it gives the mod a certain 2010-2012 flair to it for some reason I cannot explain

>>534847465
This zombified on Cordon had a RPG! I was so lucky to not be hit by it, this is going to be useful for later

>>534837606
>Welcome to the penultimate Vasyanshit niggery.
Then what's the ultimate vasyanmod? I'd like to play it.

>>534847715
Accepted a mission to kill a certain bandit dealer, take that! they never saw that coming, I wish i took a picture on the impact frame, but i was too slow i guess

>>534847850
RERBORN and DOPPELGANGER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VeZxCOiGg0

>>534848000
That's just a meme mod, not to be taken seriously. Solyanka on the other hand is a mod that's actually meant to be played unironically.
So my search for the ultimate mod continues...

>>534847940
Woah, a emission hit, emissions on this mod feels really cool, I think the audio is different from the others? I really love how soc and cs emissions work, they suddenness of it makes it scary

>>534848162
Being such a legend of the Zone might find it's way to become one with the Zone, how is Guide floating? hax

>>534848156
Too hardcore for you?

>>534848419
Too unserious. Even their creator doesn't take them seriously.

>>534843130
Excellent. Fuck m*rcs.

>>534843130
They keep re-spawning in the Army Warehouses checkpoint and it's my best route to the north from Agroprom. And I glassed their base in the Red Forest. And I simply hate mercniggers
>>534847850
Some russian mod called DSH. It's a combination of NLC and OP

>>534848943
>wasting 9x39 on tushanko
just kick them

>>534848156
>That's just a meme mod, not to be taken seriously
No, it's what happens when 50+ year old boomers get into modding, everything in these mods is completely genuine

>>534849046
300 9x39 caliber bullets cost like 5k only. The reason why I'm not hauling my 2000 bullets stash is because 9x39 are quite heavy. Economy is easy and ammo is cheap, I can waste bullets on anything. Once I get bored with Military and do all the one-time missions and kill every enemy faction leader, I will switch to Monolith, the barter system sounds interesting and could make shopping for resources a challenge. If you're playing with normal traders the hardcore economy mod is pretty much mandatory, but this is my 1st playthrough so I went as vanilla as possible.

>>534847465
I considered removing the Anomaly joke but that felt like a cop out, like I was trying to hide it. Since my mod now uses sound effects from Anomaly I threw a little self-roast in there.
The joke was present in the original version of Chernobyl Freeplay too but there it's used by the secret trader.

>>534848162
The emission audio is mixed by me. I mixed blowout sounds from Anomaly together with spooky sound effects from SoC. The siren is from the first Silent Hill game.

>>534849730
>>534728769
Anons who are playing Chernobyl Freeplay, would you agree that the random anomaly feature should be removed?

The forest has burned, the lion is gone.

>>534797339
>hahaaa I posted it again
>Im not totally assblasted you are
kill yourself

>>534799801
playing on a non piece of shit ssd, tweaked alife.ltx

>>534799919
always has been
just force it in gfx control panel/ncidia inspector

>>534803515
it does, your mod is configured fucky.

>>534823787
1/10

is old world custom good?

>>534815980
In a rhombus, diagonals bisect each other at right angles.

>>534854107
>>534854107
I think the random anomalies are fun and don't see the issue with them. Yes everyone dies in them all the time, but I think it's funny and fits into the theme of how hostile the Zone is. Stumbling upon a random dead body next to an anomaly is part of the charm and I'd be sad to lose that sight.
From my playthrough I only have 1 major issue that's annoying me, the psy-fields. They seem manually placed by you juding by my experience, and, firstly, I wish you a testicular torsion for placing one right on top of the Yantar-ArmyWarehouse transition, and secondly, they get tiring and annoying VERY fast. In the worst way possbile and not as an obstacle. They are too common and there's too much of them on the map. Ideally I'd think you should set up the psy-field points so only 1 may be active on the given map, not fucking 3 of them, and the active one switches every 24 hours. If that's too hard to code then make it so the vanilla woozy effect only lasts a short second upon taking psy-damage regardless of your psy-health. If that's also impossible, just remove them. Maybe add a mutant that also has a psy-field aura by copying it from the Controller to add an actual randon chance of getting fucked by psy damage, the static fields serve no purpose and are annoying.
Everything else is great so far.

>>534801841
What the fuck is wrong with IWP mutants seriously? A single hit from a snork takes off more than half your healt in an EXOSKELETON and causes heavy bleeding, 2 tushkanos shred you like fucking paper.

>>534803990
One of the most disappionting things in Stalker 2 was that grenades don't have shrapnel anymore

>>534854107
>Anons who are playing Chernobyl Freeplay, would you agree that the random anomaly feature should be removed?

Of you can make it an optional that would be cool too

>>534857470
firstly, pussy
>randon

>>534848407
I'm back, following on
For some reason, there is a light coming from the floor, I have no idea but it looks cool? It is kinda off-putting(?) the more I see it

>>534859706
Looks exactly like those light grenades from OGSE

>>534859706
>>534859841
there's light on this spot as well

>>534858874
>of
*or

>>534859920
UNISG glow in the dark

>>534859706
>>534859920
stuck anomaly lights probably
caused by random anomalies feature?

>>534854107
>The emission audio is mixed by me
That's great, I really liked it, it is very spooky, well done
>would you agree that the random anomaly feature should be removed?
I sincerely like it, but if there's a way to make it optional it would be great too, I don't know if the psi-fields are actually random or manually placed, like anon>>534857470 said, I think it would be preferable to have certain places to have some 'set' psi-fields, I have found a psi-field on the roof in a house in Cordon (the one where nimble sleeps on) it felt strange.

I suggest to make them a little bit more lenient on the damage and duration, because there was some situations where I was on combat with some mutants and I had no option but to fight in a psi-field and I died because i was standing there for seconds, still... I like it since it gives the psi-oriented outfits to have more of a impact and a choice for the player, which I like, is there any kind of artefacts that brings some kind of psi-resistance?

Now that I think about it, it would be cool if the scientists can give you some kind of psi-protector for the player for the artefact inventory, it would be kind of neat, I don't know, what do you think?

New mutant

After the emission on Garbage, I followed Guide and he was going to the nearby bandit camp close to Cordon, I was looking with my binoculars on the other side and I found a bandit with a leather jacket but it was in all black, and I sniped him, after that I went for his body to loot him. But suddenly I heard gunshots, looked back and I found some Spetnaz soldiers and I managed to kill them in time, however I found that Ghost was ambushed by the military, RIP. he was a good stalker.

item use animations were a mistake

Floating pseudodog

That's the screenshots for now... I will play more tonight i hope, I'm really liking this mod
probably will translate it but for now im quite busy with life for starting projects again, great work anon, your mod is awesome cannot wait for future updates

>>534861891
Afraid of needles?

>>534854107
I want my VANILLA CROSSHAIR BACK YOU BASTARD
Mod has been fun so far, I didn't think I would enjoy a freeplay mod but seeing SOC with little to no breaks for a-life leads to so many fun or interesting scenarios. Monolith in the Cordon, Freedomers starting shit in Wild Territory and bandits sneaking their way into Yantar. Love it.

>>534854107
you could compromise by making NPC immune to anomalies like they are in CoC

>>534862132
lol

>>534799801
alsos set an appropriate fps cap for your monitor or use vsync

I really wish Stalker had realistic, semi-transparent rear sights...

>>534846724
I wouldn't agree that the whole game is boring, but the 2nd half dragged on too much. I did end up looking up the other endings on youtube tho.

>*blocks ur path*

this fucker made all my weapons disappear, what do?

>>534871724
Revert to a save where your weapons aren't lost and nade the fucker

>>534857470
>>534860921
Duly noted. The psi-zones are indeed manually placed by me. There are artifacts that shield against psi damage. With 100% psi protection the psi-zones deal no damage. Creating a psi-helmet for the Ecologists to sell isn't a bad idea, either.

>it gives the psi-oriented outfits to have more of a impact and a choice for the player
This was my idea for the psi-zones, plus they are a part of the lore so I wanted them in the mod.
As for the psi-zone in the Yantar/Army Warehouses level changer, it was there before I placed the level changer lol. But yeah, in hindsight it's a good idea to remove that psi-zone.

>>534864270
I always play with the crosshair turned off so I never noticed it wasn't the vanilla one lol.

I'm glad you are having fun with the mod, anons. It's great seeing it, that's what I always wanted with Chernobyl Freeplay but the original version was so damn buggy it was barely playable.
I'm taking all your feedback into consideration for when I make an update to the mod.

rostok looks... different

>>534442948
>no wife and kids
He was a good stalker.

>>534659052
They were just about to get they life back on track.

test

>>534869709
peep sights are always dogshit in video games because we dont have two eyes

>>534869709
what weapon is that?

>>534885015
good boy
dindu

Guys is stalker 2 really as bad as people say?

>>534891006
no
and yes
possibly maybe idk yeahno

Thoughts? I would love to play a vanilla only STALKER coop, I appreciate Xray mpe but i just want to play the base game, not a revamped game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6gxuyGz51Y
https://werasik2aa.github.io/StalkerTogether/download.html

>>534893812
Is it as good as people say?

>>534896781
no
and yes
possibly maybe idk yeahno

>>534897145
It's pretty good I just finished it

>>534891006
>>534896781
see
>>534900842

>>534854107
those psy zones you added are gay, put them in lore appropriate places only not in a random corner in x18 lmao also im getting crashes in like dark valley and x18 after dying when i reload a save

>>534909181
UR gay

>>534854107
>>534909181
just change them to rad zones :)

>>534909181
>also im getting crashes in like dark valley and x18 after dying when i reload a save

no crash log?
load an earlier save

>chimeras climbing ladders
excuse me????

>>534912670
realistically speaking it should be possible

>>534896620
>those artifacts
oh shit nigger what are you doing

How the fuck do I go to Cordon as Monolith?

>>534889563
Valmet RK62, that cool Finnish ak. Really accurate both in real life and the mod, except it has these shitty (in game) sights.

>>534855120
reminder that gsc removed the lion from the enhanced edition as well, because it's soviet.

are there any repercussions for knifing random stalkers quests ask you to as long as the reputation doesn't go low enough to be hostile?

I think the damage values in IWP might be a tad too high. Even with the low grenade spam addon, I'm still getting laser accurate nades being lobbed as long as I'm behind cover. It's like clear sky all over again.

>>534919513
mfw

>>534909181
"Lore appropriate places" in SoC would be Red Forest and Yantar as those are the only psi-zones present in the vanilla game. I'd argue the psi-zone in X-18 in the pyrogeist room is lore appropriate, those could be psi-mutants in those tubes.
As for your crash, I stated on release that you should keep multiple saves.

>>534913672
Cleanse your way there.

>>534923537
Grenades are just insane in IWP, feels like I'm playing cod 5 on veteran.

hey

fuck off

>quarter of the way into sharpshooter quest
>crows start screaming

Army warehouses at night as Monolith is rough.

uh what happened to the modchart?

>launch browser
>have to refresh the page because userscripts are unreliable anymore
>it loads the prior thread instead
???
>>534925612
>those could be psi-mutants in those tubes.
No, they're blatantly poltergeists.

>>534937178
This one? Hasn't been posted here in a long time.
Speaking of, the SoC mod repo appears empty to me. Anyone else seeing that?

>>534938265
>2023
god damn. thanks was looking for it
Speaking of the SoC mod repo yea it does appear pretty empty

>>534938265
>the SoC mod repo appears empty to me
Yeah, so are CS and CoP repos as well. Looks like someone hasn't been checking their MEGA account for a while, so the site erased all the data, leaving only empty folder paths. A shame.

>>534939220
>the site erased all the data
Please tell me someone has that shit backed up. There some gems on there.

>>534590158
Isn't it great?

captcha: SHHTW

>>534613839
yeah it's fucked

>>534849046
I always thought this was stupid

You can literally boot those and dogs away unless mortally injured, and at worst you'll suffer a few bites. They're not attack dogs. Even those are pussy. Case in point the Psuedodog is the toughest creature of this size you'll encounter. Since there are officially no mountain lions in the zone though those do exist

>>534945029
The point is that you can kick them in the game. Just aim at them and press F.

>>534945159
No you can't

>>534945440
Yes you can.

>~100 shells will surely be enough for X-18
>all 30 birdshots gone just to clear the staircase

In this Mod he's playing or what?

Those are stupid anyway

>>534945159
Kicking tushkanos is a CoC feature, I think, not sure if any other mods implemented it before. You cannot do that in vanilla, nor in CF, which is where that webm is from.

new roadmap just dropped

https://x.com/stalker_thegame/status/1955298424649080992
Doomcucks btfo yet again.

>>534950274
>update to 5.5.4
isn't the latest version (the one with real optimizations fixes) .6?

>>534896620
You vill play ze Gunslinger fork with 4K fingernail textures and 10 minute reload animations and you VILL be happy

Sorry, but I will NEVER praise GSC for giving us something that should've been in the game day one. It's going to be a year soon just for them to implement the bare minimum.

>>534950274
>NVDs
>binoculars
were they seriously missing from the game until now?

>>534950274
Strange how this has become the norm, isn't it? They release an incomplete game then spend the next ~2 years completing it through patches.

>>534953438
Yes. The state of modern games is THAT grim.

>>534950274
genuinely don't care anymore

>>534890390
Scatr looks like he went through a desiccation anomaly

Why are people suddenly acting like NVGs and binoculars are a game-defining feature? They were rarely useful in OG games.

>>534950274
how is this going to take them another half a year? when are the dlc/expansions coming?

>>534958469
It is very atmospheric scoping out your surrounding using the binocs. I use them a lot in SoC.

>>534958469
It's indicative of how low the bar is. Binoculars were always reasonably useful and you could watch some cool stuff with them. Firefights, dogs hauling away bodies to eat, even Bloodsuckers and Psydogs having a scrap. This was all present on release in SoC, and people just want S2 to be not totally dogshit at some point in its lifetime.

>>534958469
Is anyone acting like they were game defining? Binoculars were always useful to scope out locations and enemies up ahead, quick to draw and high magnification. In STALKER 2 if you don't have a sniper with a scope, your only option is to get close enough to them to see if they start shooting at you or not.

NVGs were just an upgraded flashlight that completely lit up dark rooms. Very useful for running around at night without drawing attention to yourself. If you didn't use NVGs while fucking around in labs or at night, you're just retarded.

They're not super important features but nice QoL items and the fact that they're missing from the game are proof of STALKER 2's fucked up design priorities. No reason to implement binoculars in the game when enemies don't roam around or even spawn unless you're standing next to them. No reason to implement NVGs when nights are about as bright as days.

>>534958469
I don't think binocs make much sense in Stalker 2 unless they increase the draw distance of NPCs

I actually don't want NVGs because they are essentially Batman vision EZ mode for interiors and night time, essentially defeating the whole point of underground locations and the night being spooky, scary and atmospheric
Only thing i could think they could do to balance it out is make them consume batteries so you can't just keep'em on carelessly

Stalker 2 is fun and I'm tired of pretending otherwise

>>534964051
>Is anyone acting like they were game defining?
Yeah? People have been screeching about it for 8 months. Now even more so, after A-Life has been somewhat improved.

>>534925612
what i am saying is you put them in retarded and random places like wild territory you fucking double nigger

>>534964051
1) Yes, they were important. They are twice as important in Stalker 2 since your flashlight is absolutely shit.
2) Modders added night vision very quickly. Stalker 2 updates drip content slower than modern Meinkraft.

i used binocs alot but not nvgs

I'm back on my bullshit.

>>534952631
retard

>game start: a PM will one shot you and every other human
>darkscape: a PM will one shot you but tracksuit bandits now need multiple head shots or half a 5.45 mag to the body
I don't like where this is going

Can you all see it (in archives of course)?
>>534959802
Not sure if it's possible

>>534958469
>bionuclars which let you use IFF at long distances are somehow not important whatsoever
least disingenuous GSC shill

>>534980918
was it cp ?

>>534982613
Yes, literally

>>534964860
It's honestly fine. Walking between bases especially after SIRCAA and the story gets pretty lumpy but it's fine for what it is. I was honestly expecting much more political preachiness but I think it did pretty well for not shoving that shit in.

>>534373039 (OP)
>TFW I purchased the ultimate edition after getting the standard before the upgrades came out
I am so fucking dumb.

Is there a version of lev5_aztec from build 1098 anywhere that's been converted to work with SoC? I can't get the older OL build levels to import into blender using the x-ray tools plugin, but if someone at some point made that aztec level playable in SoC, then that version of the level it should import fine. I need them pyramids bad

>>534958469
Because they're looking for reasons to cry. NVGs in SOC were dogshit in particular.
>obnoxiously looping sound
>tier 1 is most common and gives you a blurry unfocused image
>tier 2 is mostly on suits that give shit bullet resistance
After a little bit of time, you learn to identify enemy from ally without needing the binocs to see <150m.

I didn't know that Friar was chill like that

>>534945709
>birdshot

>>534980582
>Shit mod has shit balance
Classic

>>534998983
shouldn't it do the most damage up close and to mutants with shit bullet resistance?

>>534950274
all of this shit sounds like it should take no longer than 2 months other than a-life which they should have fixed before release anyway

>>535006843
I actually have no clue

>>535019835
ZAMN that's buildo?

>>535020050
Yeah, that's one of the promo screenshots showing off X-Ray's dynamic lighting capabilities, which I think they had to tone down a bit before release. At least, I don't remember seeing that much bloom in vanilla.
There were some more extreme examples as well.

>>534999242
>soup amalgamation
>balance
>sensible chuckle.wav

>>535021065
>>535019835

in anon we trust

holy shit
i decided to serve as a guide and thought it was just going to be a single sinner from red forest to cordon

>>534981867
>binoculars as IFF
this is such a comically "videogame" feature there's literally zero chance they'll bring it back

>>535028828
You think in a world with mutants and anomalies they couldn't figure out how to make a sci-fi pair of binoculars that couldn't do that? They ripped open a hole in the noosphere and fucked with space-time itself. What if the binoculars were tapped into the noosphere using an artifact that could discern the intent of the target towards the user to know if they were hostile or friendly?

>>535023379
Yes, those ballistics are a conscious choice of the dev.

>>535040040
read it again

>>535041181
I did.
It is still a form of balance. Unbalance is still balance, a decision consciously made by the developer. He chose to make the player die in 1 hit yet have the enemies tank multiple bullets, it wasn't by mistake.

>>535041284
yep everything fine tuned to play like shit untill you grind enough to become more than piece of wet paper.
its unbalanced shit and if you say otherwise you're mentally deficient and probably like cbt

>>535042830
>its not my rendition of balanced in my head cannon
:^]

>>534989146
>ackshually these things weren't that important or good in the old games so it's fine that they were cut from stalker 2
>gsc did nothing wrong, people just want to cry
slava ukraini.
fuck off you retarded shill.

>>535028828
>>535033972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip3DEMn1nHQ

>>535044020
Have you checked the chart?

>>535046287
slava ukraini
this. but unironically

are there any mods that remove women and niggers from stalker 2 yet? i'm not even joking, i want them gone for real, except those necessary for the plot.

>muh super realistic immersive giga mod
>bandits have thompsons
>not even the thompsons the USSR got

>>535050976
What mod? In New Arsenal bandits use the 1928 Thompsons which are the correct Thompsons that were supplied with lend-lease tanks.

>>535051873
GAMMA gives them M1A1s

>>535052028
>play meme mod
>get memed on

are there invisible non-aggressive creatures in IWP that just randomly wander around? Or am I losing it...

>>535054256
I wouldn't worry about it.

RealNature™

grok...

>>534990701
>that description

C.H.U.G.G.E.R.

>>535063126
Look, he probably didn't have a good model/texture/animations for a 1928 to put in his glorified soup.

>>535047295
what?

>>535063126
@grok is this true??????

>>535066603
Classic OG SOC translation, right up there with "hunting rifle (shotgun)" and "basement (attic)".

Is it over?

>>535074962
It's over. Over.

>>535074962
It will never be over. Never.

>>535074962
It might be over, we'll have to see.

>>535071216
My favourite is the jumps from the tooltips at the start of the game. The SoC slavjank translation is kino and if I ever mod shit myself, I'll try to replicate it.

Hey /sg/, haven't played almost anything for the last two years due to university stuff and my old pc finally shitting itself, so I missed stalker 2's release, but I got a new one recently, as well the gamepass to play Minecraft with my niece, and I saw stalker 2 in it's full 180gb glory in there, so I'm thorn between committing the storage space and giving it a go or just replaying SoC for the 300th time.
Can someone give me the rundown, is it worth it?

>>535085001
No. It's broken, runs like ass, and overall disappointing. Wait for another year or two. Play SoC again, or something like IWP, Chernobyl Freeplay, or whatever janky russian machine translated mod you prefer. There are a bunch of obscure mods being translated these days so there's always something to try out.

>>535085001
How about you play it and judge for yourself? S2 is many things, but it's unmistakably Stalker.

>>535086227
Idk, you can sure mistake it for Far Cry with a Russian coat of paint.

>>535086358
That's dishonest and you know it

>>535086748
No, not dishonest. I hate being dishonest.
Internalized contrarianism? Maybe, but not dishonesty.
It's a game with foreverially respawning enemies and rabid mutants that always fight to the death, unlike, say, fleshes or dogs in the original trilogy. But then again the last Far Cry I played was 2, so maybe Far Cry has changed since then.

>>535028828
if Call of Duty games could afford to have fucking heartbeat sensors in the current era then I wouldn't worry about IFF binoculars being a thing, the devs are just lazy faggots

>read roadmap
>basically a massive 2.0 patch
>in less than 4 months
lmao... sure pepsiman. We all know at least half the list will be delayed due to "zone anomalies" into mid 2026

>>535085001
Play it, bitch. What are you on about? Don't let /v/ doompost you away. You'll either like it or find some qualms to complain about, but after 16 fucking years it's absolutely worth trying.

>>535071216
>>535083031
this makes me wonder how did the translation process of soc looked like. did thq really not care about its state and allowed gsc to translate the texts on their own?

>>535086748
Fucking retard.

>>535093297
It was a "get it out the door" sort of situation iirc, so while I imagine someone did a quick sweep to make sure most things made sense, the stuff that doesn't really matter all that much slipped through.

>>535049275
make one.

>>535085001
ignore the pajeet
>thorn

>>535085589
if your computer is worth $200, you can at least play on 30fps, sandeep ranjeshrapoo

Does mentionnign or playing Gamma still cause immense seething in this thread, or can it be discussed?

>>535105079
It's discussed here pretty freely, or so I've seen. As long as you're not a plebbitard who considers stalkan to be "tarkov but singleplayer", I think most anons on here should remain civilized.

>>535105079
kill yourself

Is GAMMA good for you?

>>535106110
Its pretty weird honestly. Mount& Blade lives only through modding, the ArmA devs made it into their official business model to provide a barebones foundation fo rmodding. And the Stalker community...seethes about mods. What the fuck man.

>>535109803
gamma is shit. Total shit

>>535109803
I don't seethe about mods personally, but I do understand the seethe somewhat. M&B may live only through modding, but it certainly didn't have it's most popular and mainstream mod be a Mordhau clone with every newcomer for two years swearing up and down that M&B was literally Mordhau but singleplayer. It isn't happening much nowadays thankfully, but I can see why some anons are still upset.

>>535109803
You idiot, mods were never a problem to any Stalker community. Or maybe you're baiting for the sake of keeping the thread bumped. Faggot behavior regardless
>>535105431
Refer to this post. The problem with GAMMA are the fanboys that refuse to try other mods or in some cases even the original trilogy

>>534950580
UE 5.6 has mostly optimisations for hardware lumen, and S2 is stuck with software lumen.
One benefit of the upgrade is that they can move all foliage (grass and trees) to nanite. This should eliminate ugly tree popins. But I don't think the upgrade will have any noticeable impact on the performance.

>>535121760
That's a whole lotta artifacts.

>>535121760
Two (2) skulls?!?

>>535086748
Goyslop 2 sucks. Plenty of people say they like it, it's a good game, but it doesn't hold a candle to the originals.

>>535092306
If you read the fine text, it says some targets may not make 2025 (ue update, nvgs, ai, etc.) Not joking

>>535021065
Ahh yes it's like Oblivion all over again
truly a 2006 moment where all devs discovered bloom and put it fucking EVERYWHERE two layers thick
thankfully retinas grow back

The problem is not Gamma, it is what Gamma has made the community, and the evolution of mods into GAMMA, but mostly how Gamma or anomaly fans act with others

I just downloaded Radiophobia 3 and patched it from 1.18 to 1.19. Read the patchnotes after and there seem to have been some pretty drastic changes, some mechanics removed even.
Has anyone played both versions? Which one is better?

>>535124680
No, gamma is also the problem because the mod "maker" is a huge fucking faggot

>>535109803
What are you on about, not a single person here keeps replaying vanilla trilogy in an endless loop. There is a ton of good mods for Stalker, Gamma just represents a turn into the wrong direction. It is built on the misconception that people always enjoyed the games for being hardcore, "realistic" survival games, which could not be more wrong. They are horror games with a heavy atmosphere about crazy guys stuck in a wacky place and doing insane shit. Being extremely anal about realism actively destroys a lot of the fun aspects if the original games, because it forces you into autistic meta gaming and savescumming to circumvent tedium.

Back in the day people used to make funky story mods and added experimental and fun, although often broken, features like artifact fusing or some silly mutants. Players challenged themselves by roleplaying and forcing restrictions on themselves instead of having some modder put masochistic restrictions on their game.
Now you have a ton of guys who play Call of Fisting: Anal Rupture and after they died to a 9mm wound in the leg because they failed to find cover after getting shot so they could play the 30 sec bandaging animation will lean back in their chair and stroke their dick over what a realistic and gritty experience this is. Surely concluding their playthrough with killing their character through the console in some bed in rookie village, because in their roleplay he died from a urinary tract infection after walking through the swamps for too long.

Fuck Gamma

>>535109803
STALKER is more than just a mod platform, the 'mod platform' you have in mind is call of chernobyl or anomaly despite being independent mods based on the original games, they don't represent what made the games special for many players, yes, the mods are a corner pillar for the STALKER community, but it is not the whole identity of STALKER

stalker death match
Sidorovich 0-5
Barman 6-9

>>535135461
el judio del cordon...

>>535023974
>>535044248
Trust the plan, S.T.A.L.K.O.R. Two more weeks.

>>535145119
What mods for IWP have you got there (the gun, not the femoid)

>call of chernobyl is 10 years old
>stalker is over 20 counting build releases
>even still 2027 is only two years out
>misery is 13 years old
>faggots have been implementing and ruining stalker with tryhard nofun misery shit for over a goddamn decade

>>535148428
It's stuff that I have been porting from tarkov and hacking onto IWP guns (which are mostly [all?] from tarkov). I've been promising a release for /sg/ but I keep procrastinating. At this rate the official IWP patch might come out before I get my shit together.

i havent stalkered in like 3 years
anything interesting come out ?

>go to bar
>literally 20 bandits right at the entry point

>>535149412
Sounds neat. Would you mind telling me how to do that myself or would that be too troublesome and longwinded?

>>535152617
The best way to learn is to get the tools and start messing around. You need blender version 3.5, blender xray plugin, tarkov assets, asset studio, gimp or photoshop, cop sdk, and axr xray tools. OGF and object tools are also handy. The xray specific stuff can be found in the link in the OP under modding resources, for the rest just search the net.

The basic outline is import an OGF (weapon model) into blender, import tarkov assets (wavefront .obj), attach the new parts to the model (both "physically" and in terms of parameters), then export. The fine details here are the parameters. Once you have an OGF in blender you can see that each asset will have a texture, parent armature, and vertex groups assigned. Any new object that you add will need these parameters correctly assigned to them to work.

Just get started and post specific questions here and I and other anons will be happy to answer. Look up pavelblend on youtube, he is the author of the xray blender plugin and has videos specifically on working with blender for stalker.

The texture work (importing and formatting, not creation from scratch) is a whole other process, for now just start with model hacking.

>>535156750
Thank you, anon, I appreciate it. I'll see what I can cook up this weekend.

>>535149412
JUST FUCKING DOOO IT

>>535152617
and if you fuck up smoothing groups, and don't fix them, people will come to your house when you're not home and shit in your pillowcase

>>535157178
No problem. I left a bunch of details out of the quick rundown, mainly the idiosyncrasies of blender, but you'll figure it out. It's actually quite fun once you get the hang of things.

>>535159386
Giving ETAs was a big mistake. I'm sorry, anon. I will get it done soon, I promise.

>>534980582
>>535152046
lol

>>535164425
But did he actually have droplets in his inventory?

>>535164876
:O

Manually "flipping" the magnifier. I'm trying to adapt a script for anomaly that binds scope attaching/removing to a hotkey but I cannot into script editing and don't know if it's actually possible. For now, this will do.

>>535165789
New Arsenal does that.
You put the scope into a slot in your inventory and when you press a button your character attaches or detaches it. The same scope in that slot can also be used as makeshit binoculars.