>>550022574 (OP)
crafting these kits is resource intensive and to buy them it's outlandishly expensive

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Note to all stalkers:
Stop wishing for a more lively thread. It did not work before, it isn't working now, it won't work in the future.

>>550022574 (OP)
Haven't played stalker since I played SoC as a teen but this mod is making me want to revisit it and play the others too.

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>>550022874
I wish for a thread without the schizobot.

>>550022874
its also free and doesn't fake survival so...

>>550023183
how's that op 2.2 dlc?

>>550022874
Just don't play master difficulty then

>it has already started
nuke eet.

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Is xrMPE safe? Feels sketchy running a Russian .exe install file.

>>550024179
why would that bother you (it's safe)
China already has your data

>>550024820
So you're saying you've downloaded it and tried the Steam integration without getting your account hacked?

>>550024179
Run it through VirusTotal if you're concerned, and use your best judgement. It's outlandish, but I wouldn't put it past the Russians to burn a 0-day trying to snipe some gamers via spiked executables (as the replies to your post show, they *are* getting desperate).

>>550022574 (OP)
How do I get vanilla SoC with full Ukrainian voice overs? Also does the current GOG version need patching for bugfixes or am I good?

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>>550023183
>next thread will be infested with meat schizos instead
You know, how about we just stop wishing entirely.

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>>550028623
Is that one too many?

>>550029725
I got the same result, so it isn't a transient. That said, one out of 72 is likely a false positive. I hate to say "it's up to you", but if you feel comfortable taking the risk then it is probably (*PROBABLY*) safe. Just keep an eye out for anything weird and make sure you run a/v scans every now and again (note: you should be doing this anyways).

grok won

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>>550028703
>with full Ukrainian voice overs
You won't get a "full" voiceover, because even in Ukrainian localisation a large number of characters still speak in russian.
If you want your game to be in English but with Ukrainian voices, you can just install a regular version of SoC and put the voiceover files in your game folder. You won't get any subtitles in the game, though.
https://mega.nz/folder/sQUC2byS#wHrD47u9DAETiNtQIm7DhQ
>does the current GOG version need patching for bugfixes or am I good
The game works mostly fine on the latest patch, but if you really want to, you can install ZRP.

ADVANCED X-RAY IS OUT
https://github.com/DanceManiac/Advanced-X-Ray-Public/releases/tag/3.3.42

Go play SOC with IWP zdalgers

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>want to play STALKER like FPS
>it is made by trans furry
17 hours in and I am not sure if I should continue.

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>>550034021
thanks man

>>550032314
I blame Sseth that fucking traitor

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>>550024820
>>550024938
Ok Ivan, stop pissing your diaper over simple suspicion. Russa has been known to be the origin of scams and malware for decades. Most people don't want their computers to be part of a botnet.

>>550036815
Waiting to buy this when it is on sale

>try out gamma to see what the fuss is about
>having fun so far
>think the lurker models look uncanny
>check mod
>its a metro model rip

hate grok

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>he had to check the mod

>>550043481
Just keep an eye out for anything weird and make sure you run a/v scans every now and again (note: you should be doing this anyways).

>>550044412
The game works mostly fine on the latest patch, but if you really want to, you can install ZRP.

>>550035063
So is this packed with the IWP weapons? Is it even in English? Wanted to replay SoC and would be interested in trying this if it adds some new guns rather than it just being an engine upgrade

>>550044412
never played metro in my life

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>>550034021
>The game works mostly fine on the latest patch
It took me just 2 hours to get a complete softlock in SoC EE. First, the doors in the Yantar's research lab randomly decided to not open. After reloading the level from the autosave, Sakharov refused to come to talk to me, and even reloading didn't fix it.
It still has shitton of the bugs from the original.

>>550044928
could you link that by chance?

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>>550022574 (OP)
Do I keep playing Clear Sky my Lord?
I'm not enjoying it despite liking SoC quite a bit. The weapons seem much weaker and less accurate, enemies feel more bullet spongey, human encounters are cancer because of grenade spam. The fact most of the map is recycled doesn't help either: the sense of exploration and mystery of the first game isn't there anymore because of it. They removed energy drinks for who knows what reason, they were useful, detection bar seems to be gone too unless in my retardation I missed it somewhere. What is even the point of this game, it feels like an actual low effort cashgrab just to squeeze that couple more rubles out of people.
I'm past the point where those bandits spring a trap on you and steal your shit but have been fighting off the urge to quit the game entirely almost from the beginning, something about CS just isn't clicking with me. I don't know boss, does it get "good" eventually? Maybe I just don't "get" CS

>>550047030
>enemies feel more bullet spongey
just hit the head

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got that itch, downloaded radiophobia 3 and it feels good to be back in the zone

>>550043481
its also free and doesn't fake survival so...
>>550047030
>rubles
Sorry, Ivan Denisovich, we use hryvnia here! Go back to FSB headquarters and try again!

>>550047491
i've noticed a couple of small bugs, but so far no softlocks

>>550047730
I'm not reading these text walls (no offense)
you answered your own question in the very first sentence then wrote a paragraph arguing against your own interest

>>550047101
Haven't played stalker since I played SoC as a teen but this mod is making me want to revisit it and play the others too.

>>550047929
Anon-kun that guy ain't me, it's someone else copy pasting bits of my post. Someone's AI bot training ain't going too good, weird choice to be doing that on a STALKER general but hey ho what will you do

>>550048173
yeah just clocked that after but point still stands, if you aren't enjoying it just play something else
really cool that this general is just unusable now
I love 4chan

>>550048173
>>550047929
>>550048382
grok won.

>>550048173
They tried to report it even in IRC but mods dont care. Some mf said that mods or grape got paid off about it and at this point im inclined to believe it its been a fuckimg godsamn week of it. Even anons reporting it get warned instead. What the fuck???????

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>>550045798
Oh, I was talking about the original SoC, not the Enhanced Edition. I would not recommend EE to anyone, not in its current state, at least.
>the doors in the Yantar's research lab randomly decided to not open.
That could be because Kruglov or a random zombie got inside the airlock and bodyblocked the door, that happened to me a few times in the original.
Technically, you don't really need to do Sakharov's quests to complete the game. If you manage to kill Kruglov/Semenov with a lucky grenade throw from outside (the blast damage goes through walls), you can pick up the helmet from his body and it will still protect you from the Brain Scorcher.

>>550048897
Waiting to buy this when it is on sale
thanks man

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>>550048708
yeah it's basically the final nail in the coffin for /sg/
there's no good altchan to migrate to and /v/ will never work because it will just be shitflinging

>>550049771
Redit?

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>>550049940
it's basically /v/ (eg. 1 trilogy post for every 50 anomaly/gamma/stalker 2 posts)

>>550049768
thanks man

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>>550050402
go there if you want to man, I'm not stopping you

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>>550047030
>The weapons seem much weaker and less accurate
Upgrade them. Fully upgraded guns have pretty much pinpoint accuracy.
>human encounters are cancer because of grenade spam
Engage them from a longer distance. Or install SRP that nerfs the grenade spam.
>The fact most of the map is recycled doesn't help either: the sense of exploration and mystery of the first game isn't there
I don't know, that seems a bit subjective. I mean, just look at all the autists playing freeplay mods over and over, that use those same maps.
>They removed energy drinks for who knows what reason
What?
>detection bar seems to be gone too unless in my retardation I missed it somewhere
No, you are right, don't know why they didn't include it. You can still tell if you're spotted, if you have dynamic music on.

>>550047030
Energy drinks are in the game nigga, the first trader sells it, what pirated copy are you playing?

did they expand on factions in S2? like combat personalities. freedomers camouflaging in the trees and bushes, and monolits just walking people down and tanking shots?

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>>550058751
I finished it during release and started replaying last-week and honestly it doesn't feel all that different, probably gonna drop as I'm not having too much fun. I'll probably do a modded run of Call of Pripyat, or just play Gamma again with IDI KOM NYEH as my starting faction.

this narrative that theres a bot is pathetic, I've already tested this shit and its literally a couple schizos samefagging(or one using both his pc and phone devices) the reason why most of the time their posts aren't removed(because they would if it were legit bots) is because mods see that with those IPs that they talk and engage normally most of the time but decide to repeat the same shit other times to shit post and make it seem like theres a bot

>>550062145
lol

>>550062145
Ok. Why isnt he banned? The dick can post 200 replies in a thread and not get banned but i can honestly reply to someone and get a 3 day? Fuck off.

>>550062145
>already tested it
Are you the imagecuck?

>>550064112
ban evasion
there's nothing that can be done outside of rangebans and they aren't going to do that for one general on /vg/

>>550062145
>I've already tested this shit
And how? What kind of human-like behaviour did you encounter?
Your non-bot theory is theoretically possible, but the previous thread was spammed non-stop for 2 hours in a row even though there were no other posts made. It's just absolutely pointless to waste time when no-one posts, a schizo would try to disrupt the thread during actual discussion.

>>550064112
>>550065528
Nowadays, bots and ban evaders use residential proxies. Those are regular PCs infected with trojans combined into massive botnets. When those PCs are not used for DDoS attacks or crypto mining, they are used by hackers to provide proxy services. This way bots and ban evaders get access to millions of IPs from all around the world, from all kind of legit networks and ISPs. Range bans no longer works.
Some shitposters even created free public services specifically for 4chan ban evasion.

Its the c-consciousness falling apart

your so fat the noosphere couldnt contain you

How does /sg/ feel about female stalkers? Even though the only the girls in S2 are vendors, cooks and scientists, do you think it was idea?

>>550074383
*bad idea
WTF is my phone doing!? autocorrect stop it please.

/sg/ is a gay mans general, lets not get into female stalkers and similar nonsense

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>>550074383
>>550074513
GAMMA has female stalkers.
Therefore, Grok approves female stalkers.
And as we know Grok decides what's good or bad for Stalker.

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>>550074383

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>>550074383

>>550074383
>vendors, cooks and scientists
>no whores
baka, such a missed opportunity

>>550076956
but muh soggy knee in the current year...

>>550036815
fuck off shill

>>550042381
I torrented it. Search on 1337x.to

>>550048708
everyone should still report it.

>>550049771
/sg/ will still be here when the faggot kills himself or gets bored and fucks off

>>550077992
>women are only whores becuz da mean man controlling them

>current year retard logic

>>550074383
Honestly why not, i am already tired of seeing the same 4 faces everywhere

>>550074513
>autocorrect
turn it off.
inb4 I can't
the fuck kinda shitty phone doesnt let you

>>550091336
grok won

>>550080461
thanks man

>>550079840
fuck off shill

>>550075083
its also free and doesn't fake survival so...

>>550074383
thanks man

>>550065528
I wish for that level of solid, fast and responsive gameplay and performance from this game.
The way the game looks it should not be this hard to run at all
it looks the same aside from what looked like new

>>550048708
Just keep an eye out for anything weird and make sure you run a/v scans every now and again (note: you should be doing this anyways).

>see that gamma got added to GOG
>Eh alright I'll check it out
>You have to own either the shitty CoP remaster or S2, neither of which the mod needed in the first place
Seems slightly retarded
Next I'll be needing Hidden and Dangerous 2 just to play OLR

>>550075168
>>550075997
You think that with one of the DLCs/expansion we get to join a faction and if we join freedom Birch would let you sniff/taste her feet/pits?

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bot is ukrainian or amerimutt seething at russia
>source?
it was revealed to me by the z monolith

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>>550049771
that's fucking depressing, /sg/ became the only general where i'm a regular. the last few weeks really fucked everything up.
>>550049940
there are 300k+ people there and 90% of them are retards who would believe that everyone here participates in satire, because how in the world can you dislike gamma, and why are you posting memes with russian text, it's an ukrainian game you chud. a horrible place, worse than /v/.

Did anyone make an ultimate potato config for S2? I think I'm finally ready to play the game even if it looks like absolute booty cheeks. I tried on GeForce now but input lag is unbearable
Specs are GTX 1650 and i5 9300h (laptop unfortunately)

>>550110740
I'll get torched for it but I used to the stalker reddit pretty regularly
the anomaly and gammafags were obnoxious but prior to stalker 2, the reddit was generally a decent mix (maybe 40/60) of trilogy vs anomaly/gamma discussion
post-stalker 2 though there's just no point posting there
it's more like 60% s2, 35% anomaly/gamma, 5% trilogy at this point

>>550111881
Just wait.
If you wait, they will release the engine update, which might improve performance.
If you wait more, they will release 2 DLCs which will add more content.
If you wait even more, you will eventually upgrade your laptop/pc.
The more you wait, the better.

>>550110740
>listening to some tourist doom poster
lol
lmao

>>550112886
>Just wait.
I will not, fuck that Reddit ass excuse where people yap on and on about "b-b-but they will fix it" when this shouldn't have happened in the first place. They were playing with their dicks in Prague this whole time and released a technical mess, and I'm not talking about the bugs. SoC was buggy and unstable, but it ran well on systems of the time. S2 is both buggy and runs like ass on modern systems, and asides from that, has non-existent A-Life.
I WILL play it now to see what they did with the Zone and it's characters, graphical fidelity be damned

>>550035063
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14Wcknibml2EjJRGH-YYVhgsLeJ7nGV47/view
Weather rework mod is out, IWP port is coming out tomorrow

>>550114268
>I WILL play it now to see what they did with the Zone and it's characters
You might not enjoy the things they have done.

How do I make fighting the invisible mutant fucks less miserable? I just reached a camp with three of them. They are so god damn hard to hit. FUCK!

>>550111881

There's a mod called 'optimized tweaks v2' iirc that has three presets. The preset called BOOST2 is your best bet. Use that with far 3.1 frame gen and that'll be as good as it gets for you. Only drawback is that it gimps the lighting. To my taste it's preferable outdoors, makes things darker, makes nights much blacker, but indoors it's like enabling fullbright in source games, turns what are supposed to be dark danky tunnels and facilities into noon sunshine bright spaces, which kills the immersion somewhat.
You could try the BOOST option which retains the lighting somewhat but even with frame gen on your card it might not be good enough.
Here's hoping the engine update comes with tangible performance gains. It's not even just FPS either... Even without frame gen getting 70+FPS the game still feels like flabby ass. The frame times are all fucked up and it stutters so much.

>>550121831

Semi auto/auto shotguns. Wait until they charge at you, then sprint either side just before they leap attack. You'll get a good few seconds to unload on them, which with a semi auto shorty can be enough.
Fuck knows about 3 at a time though. My advice would be find somewhere to stand where they can't reach you and drop some nades on their heads.

Tried Prosector's Project for a few minutes and was impressed, so I decided I might try the IWP pack addon. However, that causes a ctd (just a bunch of � these unicode unknown things) when I start a new game. PP anon, where are you? I require your assistance, Stalker.

love dicks

is there a way to see gear stats for once its fully repaired in gamma?

>>550128597
can't
only in debug mode and spawning them in

>>550074383
At first, there were no female stalkers because The Zone scared them away. But then The Zone realised that she was getting too gay and allowed them in.

>>550128597

Hold ctrl when you hover over the item? That's what I think you're asking for. Shows you all the stats as if the weapon/armour was full condition.

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The Strelok boss fight is so fucking annoying

>>550132292
just do the save-load exploit

>>550132292
I had an easier time with him than Faust. Try going up to the top portions of the arena, I recall him doing his sanic speed move over and over without shooting me.
Bosses in FPS games are usually awful but man did I ever not like the ones in stalker 2.

>>550132575
>>550133072
Oh right, that anon didn't clarify which game. And Strelok fight is annoying in BOTH games.

>>550132028
niice ty

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Is NLC7 worth the hype?

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Playing Vanilla Clear Sky, have joined Freedom in the Faction Wars, and they've just stopped capping territory?

I've cleaned out Duty's base by myself, yet Freedom's squads all refuse to move up to even capture the entrace to Agroprom

Is this soft locked? Green is Freedom, Yellow are Loners, Red are Duty/Bandits.
ngl this is frustrating, I hate how much Mods change the base game, but this system is lowkey not working.
Anyway to fix this, or even mods you guys recommend? Mods that ONLY touch the Faction Wars preferably

>>550139847
faction wars are notoriously buggy
just carry on as usual and they'll either take it over or duty takes it back and you need to run it again
either way faction stuff is optional so you can skip it if all else fails

>>550138316
same answer as august of last year

>>550140016
NTA, but is there any mod that leans up faction wars?

>>550143357
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TCXsd40p4mMpaS2NsVNYiA-hMRlXhwGUB7J77Thvnjg/
try hardwarmod 3.2 from here maybe?
there's been a few different clan and faction mods over the years but I personally haven't played any as I never really liked the mechanic

>>550139847
unsure if the same issue
but at least for duty to kill freedom i had to do freedom questline first

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>>550139847
There's a github thread for SRP that explains how the faction wars work and what you can do to make your faction more aggressive:
https://github.com/Decane/SRP/issues/108
Basically, you need to edit a few things in configs\misc\faction_freedom.ltx. In my last game I managed to make Freedom completely annihilate Duty and conquer the entire Zone.

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>>550140016
>>550146934
>>550148548
Never mind, figured it out. The Squads at the entrance to Rostok/Army Warehouses in the Garbage needed to move through the Flea Market.
They give you a job to "Clear it out" you kill all the Loners (rip all the Digger/Traders) then they pass through it. I cleared it out again for them after the war and they captured it because why not.

Freedom squads finally moved into Agroprom, but to my surprise they actually occupied Duty's base, with men in the Watchtowers and a guide. Duty would respawn but would permanetly stay INSIDE the building itself. Effectively destroying them sort of.

First time i've helped Freedom in the Faction Wars, not sure if this is normal, I swear Duty respawn and retake Agroprom; like how Freedom respawn and capture parts of the Dark Valley

Also didn't know Freedom could have a squad in the Cordon lmao

Fuck the mission "A light in the end of the tunnel". It's not hard, but it's spooky as fuck. I love the atmosphere, but I also hate getting spooked.

Why do all these modders thnk that adding food eating sound effect like a woman getting gagged by dick is a good idea? CHOMP CHOMP GAGAG KHHHHHHHUUHUHHUHHU SLUURP MMMM

>>550160901
Autism

Just wiped out those military fuckers in South cordon (gamma) is that them gone for good now or are they just going keep spawning in and being a pain in the ass? Not got much reason to go there anyway but they attacked me for minding my own business so they ate it. Very satisfying shoot.

>>550160901
tarkov brain
overly loud eating sounds for no reason at all other than asmr (autistic sensory meridian response)

>>550167846
hi grok. thoughts on Anthology 2.0?

>>550068316
>Some shitposters even created free public services specifically for 4chan ban evasion.
How mentally ill and dedicated to ruining any discussion do people have to be for that? Anons seemed to despise each other less and generally be less faggoty back when people actually got hacked for downloading shit from here.

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Playing through SoC now and I gotta admit, I never turned in the bulldog grenade launcher to Duty before now. I always tried to stay neutral between Duty and Freedom. Had no idea about the PSZ-9MD armor and was so happy when I got it and Petrenko started selling me sniper rifles and ammo.

>>550170354
>How mentally ill and dedicated to ruining any discussion do people have to be for that?
He asks, on 4chan

>>550170354
well when you're a shill, even a paid shill
political propagandist, or even a dictatorship zionist terrorist state like israel, you gotta find ways around the censorship. :^)

>>550178680
So it is the ziggers or the oinkrainians that hate irsrael ?

>>550178913
I don't care.

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nyet

>>550189846
is that the car repo anomaly?

>>550190212
yep
lenders don't play

putin won

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>>550191161

>>550176583
Not enjoying what?

Tymoshenko won

>>550199460
if you're using ai to "upscale" these, stop.

>>550202923
Waiting to buy this when it is on sale

>>550202958
These are the included wallpapers with the GoG versions from many years ago. The only person here that needs to stop, is you.

putin and lukoshenko spitroasted tymoshenko

>>550191161
>>550203317
its also free and doesn't fake survival so...

>>550203420
Haven't played stalker since I played SoC as a teen but this mod is making me want to revisit it and play the others too.

>>550203367
>>550203419
>>550203489
kys you tranny cock sucking faggot. I hope your place burns down with you in it. Fuck you.

>>550203803
>Just don't play master difficulty then

>>550203317
which I have...

>>550047172
I think the one thing that stops R3 from being truly great is that god awful "realistic" outfits they gave to factions

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>>550132292
Nah, <<Strelok>> and the <<Colonel>> are pretty easy with a gauss gun / sniper. Now <<Scar>> and the final <<granite>> room is where the bullshit its at

>>550047881
its some stupid no life faggot copying replies and posting them

>>550203489
I'm playing OLR 2.5 FIXX 59 and so far so good, i got it from a completely trustworthy slav site.

Why did they drop the ball in 2 when it comes to fighting mutants? Fighting people feels good, but god damn does it feel bad fighting mutants.

They take a ton of hits, they are fast as hell making them hard to hit, but worst of all is that they don't respond to your gunshots. If I blast them with a shotgun I expect them to either die in one hit, or at least get knocked down.

>>550225123

It's frustrating ain't it? All the mutants have been suped up with massive health pools and turbo speed, jerky animations which, combined with the soupy input lag inherent to the game, makes fighting them a pain in the ass and a considerable waste of ammo. Let's make bloodsuckers super fast, super quiet, super tanky and have them spawn in behind you with no warning.
Doesn't help that a lot of the encounters are scripted, so you'll go into an area and it will just spawn a bloodsucker in with no heads up, no audio cue or anything, which will come straight at you. At least you can get mutant loot now, as if that's worth anything.
My advice is carry a saiga everywhere and buckshot mutants to death. Plentiful ammo on npc bodies and being able to hose mutants down point blank makes them easier to handle. Bloodsuckers -wait for the leap attack and sprint to the side, all the other little piss ant zoomy mutants jump up on a box/wall/car out of reach and pick them off. Burers and poltergeists, shoot their psy projectiles because they currently clip through almost all objects. Grenades also work well in close spaces. But yeah, just an annoyance and a total waste of resources for the most part. Fuck dog packs also. Fucking nuisance any time they spawn.

>>550225123

I think, at least on veteran, the human ai is definitely too accurate, too aware and too good with their shit weapons. It's okay in the open terrain because you can set up ambushes, funnel enemies through kill zones and dictate the engagement on your terms, but too many of the story missions have you approaching multiple enemies at a disadvantage, which turns the game into a whack a mole crawl because they will put a full mag into your little toe the nano second you pop it out of cover (cover which they also currently shoot through most of the time). If they toned them down a bit and had their shots disperse a little more they'd be more reasonable to fight.

>>550225123
>or at least get knocked down.
Huh? This is something that doesn't exist in any Stalker game or mod.

I fucking hate loading screens. Going through 3 loading screens in Anomaly just to get to a quest location is so annoying. I still wonder why no one bothered to merge smaller maps together, the engine would be able to handle it.

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>>550244018
>I still wonder why no one bothered to merge smaller maps together
Some russian will eventually get to it, no doubt.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16sC7JSFR3crmWF6dKHHR2M5EF95KUBlP/view

AWP (IWP with extra features port to Advanced Xray) is out, but unfortunately only for CoP, SoC and CS will come out later (sadge)

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STALKER 2 WON

>>550257230
>for free
lmao, fags who bought ultimate edition got cucked hard

>>550257230
Here's hoping those quests are in the Western part of the Zone.

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>>550257230
That's pretty baller of them.

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>>550257230
>Creation hub

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>>550257230
>creation hub
griger gonna to charge for mods too or is it something else?

Why on earth would anyone side with Ward? Duty at least was cool. These guys are just assholes, have no returning characters and simply suck

>>550258340
>>550259892
Apparently this meant "newly-created hub" (in the Burnt Forest).

>>550260489
Korshunov's based tho.

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STALKER 2 - Dropping A Massive Free Update PATCH 1.8/Stories Untold
>8 New quests
>7 New locations
>6 characters with stories
>creation hub

>>550260489
Korshunov is really well done if you like the no-nonsense commander who cares for his troops type. Plus it brings into perspective how most of the zone's inhabitants are lunatic squatters.

>>550262691
>>550263369
troons mad

no shilling stalker 2 in the stalker general please.

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Fucking kek, this fag >>550062145 might be right. It's not a bot, but some sperg manually copy-pasting the posts. See >>550263117, how would a bot randomly miss the first letter? It's something that happens when a person manually selects the text with the mouse.

>>550264224
That's great. Are we gonna ban him now?

have they fixed the worse than dogshit lighting and reflections in s2? does it still use lumenslop?

>>550264478
Look at this fag trying to save face kekarooo

>>550264224
>how would it randomly miss letters
if you've been paying attention, you'd notice it/he/her made all sorts of mistakes with the copied posts. next time, please read before you subject us to your retardation.
>>550263573
can't tell if this is real or fake. i like the game. i am gonna play the game. got a problem? go back.

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>>550047030
The addition of the upgrade system made weapons worse at their base levels, yes. It was a point of contention when the game was new, and remains the case in COP.

>>550244018
There's distance between each level. To make it work, they'd have to actually create new levels and terrain to make you traverse through. Mods like analmeme are tedious enough with the level changer being extended further out in Rostok -> Garbage and Wild Territory -> Yantar (but not where it would actually be beneficial, like Army Warehouses -> Radar). Imagine the horrendous slowed movement speed having to traverse long stretches of nothing, with anomalies plastered all over just to make sure adding a car in wouldn't be beneficial. You'd learn to stop crying about loading screens as if they were an actual issue if the alternative were to be forced to walk for 20 minutes to get from Garbage to Cordon.

>>550264713
this is what years of gammafaggotry does to your brain

>>550265130
The game works mostly fine on the latest patch, but if you really want to, you can install ZRP

>>550265235
who is this schizo tourist

>>550264354
thanks man

>>550265426
I blame Sseth that fucking traitor

>>550265130
crafting these kits is resource intensive and to buy them it's outlandishly expensive

>>550263568
grok won

>>550260785
i wish the process were simpler as it is with xray but it is what it is

>>550265663
its also free and doesn't fake survival so...

>>550265439
Here's hoping those quests are in the Western part of the Zone

>>550265525
The game works mostly fine on the latest patch, but if you really want to, you can install ZRP.

>>550265905
thanks man

>>550265581
riger gonna to charge for mods too or is it something else?

>>550266079
The game works mostly fine on the latest patch, but if you really want to, you can install ZRP

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lmao, he got triggered really hard

qrd on what happened to this general?

>>550266470
fuck off shill

>>550266326
some mentally ill freak got too triggered one day and set up a bot to spam the thread
it just copies and pastes random replies (sometimes bits, sometimes whole posts) and spams replies to random posts in the thread
it's basically unusable now and there's very few people left here

>>550267379
Actually there's quite a few of us left but I'm not sure how many there were compared to before (can someone check?)

>>550267460
it's much slower than it used to be and traffic has definitely decreased
it's too confusing to try to tell a spam post from a real one to be worth staying really, especially now that it appears to be using images too

>>550267379
huh, jannies sure are happy and quick to ban me if i say i dont care about a discordshit game yet here they are enabling this bullshit

>>550268342
>>550267379

>>550268342
they banned him like one time I think but he just evades
I saw other people say it was brought up in IRC even but nothing happens
basically 4chan's fucking dying, /vg/'s irrelevant and a specific general on /vg/ is so irrelevant that it could be 'p and they probably still wouldn't bother moderating it

>>550257230
thats very cash money of them. hot damn

>>550269153
fuck off retard

>>550268342
Jannies on /vr/ would ban your posts in seconds for posting about any game that they didn't consider real retro but ever since the site went down and the leak happened it's much less common now. I think a lot of them "retired" since they didn't want to get doxxed

>>550269306
new wave hookers(jannies)
https://youtu.be/0VStsPHDJYs [Embed]

>>550268461
Waiting to buy this when it is on sale

>>550268589
thanks man

>>550269863
fuck off retard

>>550268721
such a shame since this used to be the best general by far of the games relevant to me
>>550269306
it was here on vg and before the chicken jockey thing but it seems like things got worse

>>550270262
yeah it's fucking aids desu
I only really use the c-con discord from moddb at this point
reddit's an option but 90% of the posts are anomaly/gamma

>>550270017
>>550270059
kill yourself

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>go to stalker discord
>sperg mods literally 1984ring people for nothing and sperg GAMMA cycophants cant discuss the game normally
>go to /stalkergen/
>either a bot or groks friends shitposting non stop
Strelok wept

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>>550276325
Shit's pretty fucked, but /sg/ will never die.

DAS RITE!!!

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>analmeme
>"main" quest from petrenko to get documents from x19
>I already did x19 in the real main quest
>and sold the docs to barkeep
>there's nothing in the lab left for this other quest
Amazing. The last time I saw incompetence this great was a soup mod, where it didn't track an objective to kill a target unless you specifically struck the killing blow.

>>550276325
I'm just gonna play that Advanced XRay mod that someone linked last thread until this blows over

>>550029725
>Bkav Pro

Ya you're fine

>>550257230
hello? based department? yeah we got a winner

>>550257230
IDI KAM NYEH

>>550029725
>W32.AIDetectMalware
>AI
It's probably safe to not trust algorithms based on AI. That shit always has hallucinations.

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Look, it's IRL Dead City!

>>550288319
Go away Ivan Denisovich

>>550288319
not real because it was cut

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>>550288319
Anon, you can't just call every town with a lenin statue Dead City.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai55-dvzpEY [Embed]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBnjguppfaA [Embed]

huge dicks

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whens 1.8 dropping? 12 on the dot?

>>550318302
I would imagine it should be local time. But you'll see soon I guess.

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The Path Into The Abyss demo released some days ago, been trying it for a while, it's janky as hell even as a pre-alpha but i was actually impressed with the "A-Life" system they implemented, you can rob people, NPCs can kill/rob each other, you can even antagonize and piss off friendly NPCs, In my first 20 minutes I was listening to music on the radio and some random latinx sneaked up on me and robbed me at gunpoint, Jank aside, the AI system is surprisingly good and fun to experience

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Hey guys, winter anon here with more pictures. I'm excited for the new update that is releasing tomorrow. I have been mostly playing in Cement Factory again, hunting some stashes and trying new combination of weapons.

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>>550321348
I have also been enjoying Clear Sky. Yeah the grenade spam is annoying but I really like the faction wars and seeing the faction bars go up and down.

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>>550321692
IWP has become my forever free play mod. I just really like how the shooting feel, the animations and sounds are excellent. It's IMO vastly superior to Anomaly and its mods. Also it's really funny how the anything can spawn even in places that should be "safe". I will never get over that one pseudogiant that spawned near the southern entrance to Rostok and just wrecked Duty's shit.

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>>550322085
Does anyone have any recommendations on new mods to try out? After CS I think I will go on to play vanilla COP. Hopefully I finish the game this weekend, if work is kind to me.

>>550321348
>Hey guys, winter anon here with more pictures
What are the pictures from?

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>>550323241
Stalker 2. I'm using a mod that retextures the game to winter. If you are interested you can download it here stalker:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1719
＼(￣▽￣)/

>>550323769
Ok thanks. Maybe one day when I get a system I can run it on.

>>550321348
>>550321692
>>550322085
>>550322298
looks like battered shit

how should one get a freedom spy from agroprom to the freedom base in gamma? i think i need psy protection to go north through yantar and assuming duty will shoot at him if we go through their base

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>>550325935
Kinda yeah. I try my best but the laptop I play with at work is not really that great. I just want to share some pictures and talk about the games anyway.

>>550325935
stop looking in a mirror

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>>550327193
>making game mods while at work

>>550244018
>I still wonder why no one bothered to merge smaller maps together, the engine would be able to handle it.
I presume it fucks a-life significantly

Can they please update the zrp website please it's not fucking 2008 anymore and even back then it looked retardly outdated

how do stalkers get laid in the zone with so little women there?

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Henlo stalger frens,
can someone please explain me what is "buildo"?And don't make fun of me pls :v)

>>550333657
You're a stupid idiot I hate i hate you so much

yo yo yo its hump day

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>>550022574 (OP)
Is GAMMA fun?
Besides the trilogy, I've only played the base version of Analmeme with no addons. It was okay I guess, but I wasn't a big fan of all the bloat items and repair mechanics etc. Is GAMMA that but taken even further?
Does it do anything interesting in particular or is it just base Analmeme but with different balancing and new weapons?

>>550332897
write them a message with your ideas.
what are your ideas? "just update it bro" isnt really an idea

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>>550335727
BUILDO

>>550335727
dev builds

>>550338834
If you're an autist who likes tedium, then sure. It takes the bloat of Analmeme a bit further and makes countless questionable balancing decisions in order to make the basic gameplay loop focused on fixing your single digit percentage gear using essentially the same mechanics as Analmeme and its predecessors (which you can pretty much ignore in Analmeme) while cockblocking you from moving too quickly like some other freeplay mods. My best advice is honestly to just try it for an hour and report back. If you like the idea of what a lot of hardcore mods do, Prosector's Project is fun because it's pretty much Vanilla+ SoC with minimal bloat and hardcore mechanics that more or less make sense (artefacts are a little weird though).

>>550340340
>It takes the bloat of Analmeme a bit further and makes countless questionable balancing decisions in order to make the basic gameplay loop focused on fixing your single digit percentage gear using essentially the same mechanics as Analmeme and its predecessors (which you can pretty much ignore in Analmeme) while cockblocking you from moving too quickly like some other freeplay mods
Fuck that then. Thanks

>>550326694
turns out duty dont give a fuck, i walked right through their base with him following

>>550257230
>creation hub
>its just a hub that can appear in the burnt forest as a result of your choices in these new quests
esl fuckwits its nothing

>>550335727
Development builds. Unlike other games there were no clear titles like "alpha" or "beta" so it's all under the same build/buildo umbrella

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Any mods for any of the original trilogy that add new areas to the maps? or even new entire maps?

>>550346129
the uninstall wizard

>>550346129
yeah, a lot
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TCXsd40p4mMpaS2NsVNYiA-hMRlXhwGUB7J77Thvnjg/
just look for soup, soup-lite, and "new maps"

>>550347274
Awesome, thank you

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>>550322298
you could check out the new IX-Ray engine release with the many weather mod ports, if you are replaying CoP. Paradox Weather Unit looks really nice with their customized Absolute Nature mod, though I kinda don't like how the thunderstorms have different colored lightning all the time

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thinking it's kino time

>>550347424
no problem, if you're new to these kinds of mods, I'd recommend OGSR (I prefer legacy but gunslinger is there if you like gun porn) or Shadows Addon

>>550348992
Ok thx, I just looked at some Shadows Addon content, looks amazing.

>>550348817
>a molested form of old NS+OP 2.1
but why

When update?

>>550356142
yes

>>550356142
delayed 2 fucking days, dropping December 18th instead waited until now to tell everyone

Fuck gsc yo

>>550303804
That literally is Dead City though. Poliske is/was a town in the Exclusion Zone which GSC drew inspiration from.

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>>550365827
From what I've seen on the photos and videos from that town, there's not many similarities aside from that place on your picture and there's a ton of other towns in and outside the Zone with the exact same scenery. A lenin statue in front of the town council building with giant letters "SLAVA KPSS" was pretty much the standard for every city at the time.
Do you have any source that states Poliske was actually the inspiration?

>>550366789
It says so on the Poliske Wikipedia page but I see now that it has no source. So it was probably just some STALKER fan that threw it in there lol. My mistake, I thought Poliske is where GSC got Dead City from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliske#In_popular_culture

>take freedom mission off Lukash to 'defend the barrier' from a horde of zombies.
>How hard can this be? They're just zombies
>Turn up at the area, bunch of other freedom studs go charging in
>Heh, this is gonna be a cakewalk
>The freedom team gets absolutely bodies by the zombos in seconds after running right into the mix instead of using the fortifications as cover
>Now I've got to do it myself
>Wave after wave of them, running through precious ammo trying to headshot them through dense vegetation while they pinpoint full auto burst me anytime I eek out of cover
>Zombies performing tactical manoeuvres, using cover, crouching down, literally more tactically proficient than living 'master' stalkers
>Spend fucking ages picking them all off, using up all my fucking ammo, few more waves of freedom dipshits come to the fight and instantly get rocked even though there are considerably less zombies
>Finish the job, out of ammo, shit loot just a Mish mash of bits and some crap ammo to disassemble
>Lukash gives me a pat on the back and 25000 measly rubles that won't even really cover the cost of maintaining my stuff and resupplying

What a waste of time. Freedom really are a bunch of glue sniffers eh? Fucking useless stoners getting bent over by actual brain-dead psy zombies.
How the fuck hasn't monolith just steamrolled this whole area yet? I'm guessing because it's story mode. I bet if it were warfare mode they'd have smeared these greasy druggies all over the place day one. The price I pay for NATO gear.

>>550371526
It's a shame cause in SoC they were badass renegades.

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Any recommendations for comfy winter mods like SFZ lost story?

I'm doing the quest where you have to shut down 4 PSI emitters and then make your way to wherever Faust is, but the problem is that I'm stuck in a place with a wooden cabin and an emission coming. What choices do I hate? Staying in the cabin does nothing. Don't tell me I have to load a previous save please. That would be awful.

>>550379005
>>550379023
What?

>>550379149
It's some autistic kid trying to pretend he is a bot by posting random copy-pasted messages.

>>550378615
In the swamps near Clear Sky base, right? That's a scripted emission, and there's a place to hide (I don't remember which one).

>>550378419
true, and also had some goofy ass boss fights. Still good as a winter mod though, I liked it

>>550378615

Energy drinks, Hercules and sprint for wherever the waypoint is telling you to go.
If you can't make it, yep, earlier save.
Don't know why they made it so random as to what constitutes cover. In gamma you just go to the nearest thing resemble a building and you're good to go. In S2 it seems totally arbitrary as to what counts and it's definitely possible to be stuck in an emission with no viable shelter around. Just another design choice that makes wonder what the fuck they're smoking at gsc game world.

is he still melting down over gamma being official