STALKER 2 HAS FINALLY BEEN FIXEDI REPEAT, STALKER 2 HAS IS NOW FIXEDIT'S OVER, FAGGOTShttps://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1643320/view/719044892364375221https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khxNvRuhjGs
>>750396520blast bros, the engoodening is hereit's time to return to form
>>750396520if they just came out from the start and said the game was early access, id have a more favorable view. the lies and deception made me never want to play the game ever again. and i dont feel any different about that still.AAA games need to embrace the early access live development model instead of lying
>UE5 slop
huh, yandex must be back in operation
>>750396520I'm not downloading 200 gigabytes of Stalker 2 just to run around in an empty, overly stretched out goatse open world again.
>>750396654Reminder that THQ had to send someone to GSC to tell them to stop being complete retards and cut everything that doesn't function to get shadow of chernobyl out the door and it still shipped broken. GSC just makes broken games.
>>750396767>khokhol game>yandex
>emphasis on the A-Life bubble affecting performanceSo this game still runs like dookie ass for anyone running something below a 4070? UE5 doing UE5 things.
>>750396520i will never, i repeate, never buy stalker 2 under any circumstances
>>750396906Privet.
>>750396520who cares? the game is a complete slog
>>750396520Now it's basically at the level of a 2007 game. BarelyGood to see, don't get me wrong. But one would assume the general effort would not be just to release a sequel game, but also surpass the originals. Which, you know. Didn't happen. And it still isn't the case
>>750396520I'm just not buying the claim that this game is fixed. It was so absolutely fucked up on launch and such a joke that I can't see how they could fix this with the skeleton crew they got running around trying to patch the holes in this titanic. I was just shocked to see the legion of halfwits praising this broken far cry clone.
>play STALKER 2>script feels strange even by STALKER standards>realize the story is simply an allegory for the war in Ukraine>the Zone represents Russia>any attempts to contain it or to coexist with it fail>naivety by hippie stalkers is being punished as the Zone activates its sleeper agents>the men among the stalkers, previously freed from their brainwashing, turn hostile as soon as their master calls
>>750397569>picrelLiving around western white people is so tiresome, it's like they measure the 'goodness' of their day by the amount of 'activities' they can fit in it. An itemized list of how much progress they have made towards their day being good.>>750397596Thanks, I knew this game was gay but almost believed the gaslighting in the stalker generals about how it was just me.
theres no A life, the code was literally found within the first week that all its doing is spawning generic npcs within 100m that play out one of 15 scenarios
>>750397569Hey but it looks better and it has gay tracing and DLSS and upscaling and shiet, those constituate a good game.
>>750397905What still trips me up when dealing with them is when they ask how are you or how is your day, and you actually answar and they look like pic related. In my country nobody asks how your are or how is your day unless you actually care about the answer, so shit will never be not weird to me.
still hoping on GAMMA
>>750398108>In my country nobody asks how your are or how is your dayBurundi?
>>750397569>Now it's basically at the level of a 2007 game. Barelyit has been significantly better than the trilogy since the 2.0 updatesybau clueless negro
>>750398121Gamma (or anomaly) has coop now. Stalker 2 mogged forever and ever
>>750398013It has been 2 years, the A-Life was reintroduced better than the trilogy.You know nothing about this game.
>>750396520>STALKER 2 HAS FINALLY BEEN FIXED>still no a-life even remotely comparable to a 20 year old gameFell for hohol lies again award
Where did this newfangled "the sequel must be objectively an improvement in every way or else it's shit" notion come from? I don't understand it. A sequel can be better, sure, but it can also just try new/different things, a different approach to a similar formula, or try a new formula outright. Do you only watch a sequel to a movie, episode 2 of a show, the next chapter of a book only if it's better than the first? What happened to simply enjoying the medium and contents of it for what it is? Have you considered that if a sidegrade or minor downgrade isn't enjoyable to you, you were never really interested in the first place?
>>750398292Reading comprehension is difficult still, I see.
>>750398442what are you talking about, the a-life of s2 is miles better than any game in the trilogy
>>750396835Funny how when yandex went down the stalker 2 shitposters vanished. Odd one might say, curious even but certainly not perplexing.
>>750398108Yeah, I got so tired of them that I just say nothing when they ask what have I been up to. Most learn not to ask. The answer they're looking for is a list of mundane every day things people do that aren't worth talking about. Oh I took the dog for a walk, I washed my car, I ate breakfast, I did my fucking chores, I went to watch the sportsball game.
>>750398556
>>750398602>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1zM3ePkYPoCalm down Grigorovich, you may fool burgers on this site, but you won't fool me.
>>750398379Enlighten me, how? I'll entertain your opinion, even overlooking the fact that it took two additional years to apparently attain that status because hey, originals were also released in sorry state. Though one would assume GSC would learn from such experience (assuming they're the same company and same people, which they definitely are not)My point is, the game design at large did not evidently aim to surpass the originals, only to mimic them. And even at that low, low bar with decades of game experience and tech, it did not deliver at release. And even now it's a contentious issue. I don't think it surpassed the originals, even after all these updates and patches. You do
>>750398556The game is an objective improvement though. If somebody told me in 2010 that he combined the maps of all three STALKER games into one with no loading times in between, I'd call him a wizard. And the gunplay actually feels engaging. The game also gives you plenty of reasons to explore, and got pretty creative at times with its stashes. To this day, STALKER 2 is the smoothest a STALKER game has ever been at launch.People are just faggots who can't appreciate anything anymore.
No Russian accents on the english VAs, no buy
>>750396828That poor THQ representative crossed an active battlefield only to see some dogshit
>>750398991Look it is perfectly normal to have a dude from manchester in the deepest darkest part of ukraine.
>>750398823You intentionally missed the point, congratulations. >>750398987>The game is an objective improvement thoughThat wasn't really the point of my post. I wasn't saying S2 is any better or worse than any games, merely commenting on this weird notion that "if it's not better in every way it's shit"
>>750398987It's not stalker, it's the 'ukraine war happens to have some freaky shit in it' game. What I liked about the old game was the old world technology in it, the feeling was clearly of a world stuck in a bubble with the remains of the cold war. You start adding modern technology to the game and it's not that anymore.I'm not playing your political game, doesn't matter if it's about trannies or hohols. All these activists need to die.
>>750398918>almost 2 years agolol>>750398962how exactly do you think the alife worked in the original trilogy?
>>750399228What's so modern about the game? They added an M4A1 and an AS VAL? Did you forget the original STALKERs have railguns and exo-suit power armor? Its not that the world is stuck in a bubble with the remains of the cold war, its that the game takes place 500 miles from Moscow in a shitty SE-EURO warzone full of poverty bandits. You don't even understand the setting lol
Hello, I am John Smith-Wesson from Austingrad, Texas Oblast (Staunch republican and I love premier Donald John), and I advise you not to purchase STALKER 2. It is a thinly veiled propaganda effort by the Ukraine to portray the Special Military Operation (SVO) that Russia is apparently conducting, as evil.
>>750398108youre just autistic. you have to work on it
>>750398991The worst part is that even the original Ukrainian voice acting is total garbage because there's no Ukrainian voice acting industry and it sounds awful. It's so funny to see them larping as nationalists when even people who make a living doing this can't speak Ukrainian without a terrible accent.
>>750400032True, just like southerners in the US can't be nationalists because they have an accent.
>>750396654But them not being openly early access is what makes them AAA. This is a literal win/win situation for both gamers and the studios. The former get apologetic content and DLCs, the latter get regular player increases and spikes in sales across several years.>b-b-Nobody forces you to buy everything at launch.
>>750400032>Ukrainian without a terrible accentukrainian is just russian with a terrible accent
>>750399228>It's not stalkerThere's a weight limit.There's any inventory.There's guns and shootouts.There's mutants and stashes.There's artifact hunting.There's bandits, soldiers and different factions.There's traders and quests.There's radiation.There's creepy underground sections.There's choices, consequences and open encounter design.Your definition of what constitutes a "real" Stalker game is arbitrary.
>>750400403people like you is the reason why shit like fallout 4 exists
>>750398556You can absolutely do and try different things in a sequel. CS and CoP did exactly that, and they're generally considered fine at being sequels, quality of implementation asideThe thing with STALKER 2 is that it's been almost two decades since ShoC release and 15 since CoP as a last entry, and they've been sequels that also utilized almost all assets and systems based on the first game and building simply upon it and, most importantly, not making things necessarily worse. Now ask yourself, what improvement STALKER 2 really did? The seamless world is quite an achievement, sure. CoP attempted to do that with big maps. But that also opened a big can of worms of almost all open-world design games - massive disproportion and density of content and the lack of it in general compared to the world ingame, distances between quests and tasks, running all around the Zone all the time, and all that encompasses, like even things like the rewards for enduring it all then feeling not enough in the context of the game's economy, balance, etc. - it all just piles up. The complete experience is worse, even if the individual aspects may have been brought up to spec of the originals, some new things even being technically superior. But the complete package is just worseThe best illustration is to think that, you now have this big open world, but up until now, you could interact with things less at all times while playing. You can have this Dragunov rifle, but you can't ever fully utilize its range advantage. On the contrary, this revolver in 9x39 is strictly superior anyway, going full Revolver Ocelot is the optimal gameplay (I'm not going into balance and economy stuff in the game or I would go insane, that shit compared to disappointment makes me fucking livid)>>750399573Who's talking about A-Life? Yeah, they pretty much made it work offline, quite 1:1 as in originals. That was neat. Too bad it's still just the original A-Life, not how they tried to wank A-Life 2
>>750399949kek, no, they just want to hear good, or all good, or a variant, or keep talking and not even acknowledge it's a question, and it's more like saying hi, that is not a thing in my country.But if you answer the question honestly, they act like you're a fucking weirdo lmao.
>>750400485>can't argue, so he counters with a non-sequitur
>>750400363It is a blend of Old Russian and Polish, with a slight Turkish influence.
Not playing your console trash.
>>750400494>open map>FPS drops from 100 to 25
>>750399228You never played the first trilogy it seems. Stalker SoC takes place in 2012.
Anomaly is just better.The only selling point of Stalker 2 is that maps don't have transition screens between them, but that's not strictly an improvement for several reasons.
Wheres that retard that posts those 15 years old tutorial pictures in every fucking stalker thread?
No persistent a-life, no buy
>>750400871stalker 2 is anomaly if it was good tho>>750400885bleeding out in a trench probably
I'm getting so tired of this shit. I just installed a pirated copy of the game YESTERDAY and it took me 3 fucking hours and now you wanna tell me I gotta update again? Fuck you.
>>750400847That's because of the mod that tracks all the offline squads in real-time. It's a ghetto solution to prove a point the A-Life works in offlineIt does. Nothing spectacular. It took them way too long to implement it>>750400915It is persistent since 1.6 or 1.7 patch, I can't really remember which oneAgain, took them fuck-all long to implement it
>anomaly/gaymma is better!>there is no life!>the game is bad and they lied!>it's a console game!>[nsert orcoid seethe about piggers]God I love this shit. This game basically filtered every fucking thirdie slav with their early 2000s shitboxes, and also all the neets that can't afford a GPU from the last 3 years.The biggest fucking case of Fox-and-the-Grapes that has ever hit this board.
>>750400939There's no part of 2 that is better than Anomaly, unless you don't count PIP scopes since you need a separate addon to get them in Anomaly.
>>750401095Stop wasting your time, any attempt at proving the "there is no a-life, only a copycat of the trilogy" argument wrong is met with shitposting and non sequiturs.It's pointless, they willl never change their mind until they play the fucking game in the distant future.
>>750401110hey where have i seen the "you're too poor to play!!!" excuse before...oh yeah, dragon's dogma 2, whatever happened there?
>>750401325You mean the game they desperately had to fix over the last 2 years, and received the biggest and highest rated expansion pack crapcom has ever released?
>>750396654Based.Fuck Skifniggers eating nuGSC lies on a silver plate.
>>750399228based gamma secondary
>>750400865I bought the first game when it came out in 2007, still have the CD. I never liked the personal computers scattered around in the original, but thankfully that and the PDA were the only modern things in the game.
>>750401095It's still not 100% persistent, the game periodically deletes old NPCs to make room for those spawned with DirectorStill miles better than whatever we had on release though
>>750401552That happened in the trilogy as well, anon.
>>750401379Now we're blasting!
>>750401647>no argumentI accept your concession.
>>750398918Sergei Griga left S2 after what he saw the murder of his child. It's his brother running the dog shit parade.
>>750401571lol no it didn't
>>750396520>STALKER 2 HAS FINALLY BEEN FIXEDYeah sure bro, you say that every thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JAR5qd2h18
>THEY DIDN'T FIX A-LIFE BECAUSE IT'S NOT A 1:1 COPY OF WHAT ANALMEME AND GAMMA TROONS MODDED INTO OBLIVION OVER THE LAST DECADEwhen will this ever end
>>750396520Stalker 2's been fixed almost as many times as the Iran war's been won
still politically-woke
>>750402036 >THEY DIDN'T FIX A-LIFE BECAUSE IT'S NOT A 1:1 COPY OF WHAT ANALMEME AND GAMMA TROONS MODDED INTO OBLIVION OVER THE LAST DECADECorrect, stalker 2 is not and will never be anything more than slop as the community has perfected the stalker formula.
>>750402268at last, the gammatroon reveals xerself.
>>750402304>I want a slop game because....look I just do okay!?
>>750402424don't you have frogcock to suck, gammatroony?
So what makes the new and improved STALKER 2 A-Life better than the OGs or Anomaly?
Even if it's actually fixed I'm still not touching it considering it won't be done till they release the stupid new DLC
>>750402545The A-Life from OG is very primitive, people have rose-tinted glasses when it comes down to that.Stalker 2 has a completely different system that is both immensely more advanced than the OG, and pleasant to play with.
>>750402036>they removed all mentions of A-Life 2.0 from their website and Steam description so the shallow recreation of CoP basic bitch grid movement that took them more than a year to implement is totally fine nowon the day a ukrainian was born, a jew wept.
>>750396520not a poorfag so I might hop on it again sometimes
>>750402758You didn't tell me anything.
>>750402789...They didn't? They updated the store page.
>>750402758>t.go shill elsewhere
>>750402815oh yeah? how many 5090's do you own?
Jesus Christ the complete edition is expensive. Is the dlc worth it? Might as well stick to my backlog before buying it on a discount.
>>7504030183 PS3's.
>>750396520The game just feels cheap. It somehow feels even cheaper than Call of Pripyat which objectively has "worse" graphics and more "jank". It's also almost 20 years old. You can tell they stopped and restarted development several times over the last decade.
>>750403018one is enough
>>750403052Don't buy this shit unless it's on like a 80% discount.
>>750403052Cost of hope is pretty good. It does include the most bullshit fight in the entire game though.
>>750403142The DLC is only good if you side with duty.
>>750403254Doody is the best to side with story wiseFreedumb however gets the better missions and better weapon rewards
>>750403089until it catches fire
>"maximum" 'a-life' distance>still massively lower than what the OG games did 20 years ago
>>750402837>>750402879What exactly do you want me to explain? Do you not know how the Alife worked in the trilogy?>in SoC NPCs can never leave their assigned location without some quest related trigger>in SoC there are no offline fights, NPCs can never die if they are outside 150 meters>in SoC there are no randomized spawns, you always get the same NPCs spawning in the same smart terrains, and going to the same terrains>in SoC NPCs cannot move between levels at all when the actor (player) isn't on the same map as the NPCs and in render distance>in CS they finally introduce a persistent offline system, however it is extremely unripe as the dice system from S2 is missing and instead it's about squad numbers, so 5 npcs will always win against 4 in the offline simulation, leading to the constant tug of war in zones like Garbage and Agroprom >in CS the factior war script was ridden with bugs and completely broke NPC squad logic, as what little resemblance of A-Life from SoC is completely replaced by the faction war, meaning stalker squad never do anything that isn't strictly tied to their directive "go conquer that area">in CoP the offline simulation is finally reworked, and that will be the basis for CoC, Anomaly and Gaymma>in CoP NPCs patrol around the map and go back to their homebase at night, but NPCs cannot move between maps no matter what>in CoP faction war is gone, so the full length of the a-life task priority is finally introduced, as squads can explore, pinball between campfires, go artifact hunting (while not actually gathering anything, they only scout the anomaly with a detector as a default animation), they can also shoot and loot each other, but never outside the player bubble (so no offline fights)That shit was even less advanced than daily routines of radiant AI in Oblivion. In fact, even CoP's A-Life is just a more processor heavy radiant AI, still without offline fights, and without full freedom of movement.
>>750399007>stupid zoomer faggot doesn't know what ShoC isLmao
>>750403603>What exactly do you want me to explain?Nothing as we don't need to hear your lies.
>>750396520Did they fix A-life?>If yes, how?>If no, why not?
>>750403857>If no, why not?You can't fix a feature that is simply missing from the game.
>>750403670I'm actually a boomer you retarded faggot
>>750403815Lol, lmao even.Alright then, live in your own... 150ms bubble, then.
>>750398108Lmao is thirdie life that depressing and pathetic?
>>750403894End me.
>>750404036Just keep an eye out for people claiming the stalker 2 """""a-life""""" is better than the originals.
>>750399228Uh oh, zigger melty
>>750403857yeah>howfully simulated offline persistency, squads of stalkers spawn map-wide and follow a rigid task pipeline, they fight each other, loot each other, explore and loot areas, go artifact hunting, sell artifacts to traders, and complete the radiant quests given by npcs.mutants have a lair system where they will move around the zone looking for a "breeding lair", making a location their base and multiplying into additional squads. they still fight and "eat" stalkers they encounter.the offline simulation is completely map-wide with no loading screens or limits beyond the player's own new 150 meters "online bubble" (it was 100ms after this update)so essentially the a-life of stalker 2 is significantly better in everything than CoP's, which was already the only trilogy game with a real a-life system (albeit without the offline simulation)>>750403894>>750404150i think you should kill yourself as soon as possible for spreading misinformation and doomposting
>>750403089POOOOOOOOOORI have 10 of them inside 11 different PCs. Poorfags get out
Is this the most LARPed franchise of all time on /v/
>>750404154go back to your containment board troon.
>>750401262Analmeme is a dogshit tedium game for no life faggotsYou don't like STALKER
>>750404269I've watched enough ironman gamma streams to know stalker 2 is nothing like the earlier stalker games and is just your usual UE5 slop but virtue signalling because of a war.
>>750396520Ah so it’s still being beta tested? Let me know when the game is finally complete, then maybe. Until then feel free to continue coping, no matter the cost kek
>some sad russki draft dodging troon hounds every thread that mentions stalker 2 just to lie about it.You ain't ever seen sourest grapes.
>>750401325>Dragons Domga 2They just had a really successful DLC and Capcom consider it a core game now?Lmao what a fucking spastic post you made
Did they make the game not run like shi->UENevermind.
>>750404353>openly admitting to watching gaming streams>he thinks GAYMA is OG STALKERYou are precisely the kind of larper that I mentioned in my post
>>750404348>no counterpoint>just emotionUh oh they really did introduce foids into the zone, yeeesh
>>7504045252.0 runs a hell of a lot better
>>750404492>russkiKek rent free schizo troon, why so mad? Isnt STALKER 2 thriving now?
>>750404610tell me lies sweet little lies
was Anomaly that mod that gives you countless sliders to fiddle with and the starting config was pure garbage? I'm not sure if it was Misery, but I remember exploring in one of those mods and every single enemy I killed had guns so damaged so broken you couldn't get a single cent from them by selling to NPCs.I heard something like just change settings bro! Yeah I just need to fiddle for hours with shit I have no idea how bad it was until the mod stops being terrible. Why can't the modders make something good from the get go instead?
>>750404690>t. filteredMisery is the hardcore stalker experience and there is a reason why all the top quality mods use it as a base. If you want a journalist difficulty mode I suggest playing fallout 4.
>>750402476Slop lovers unite and slava ukraine XDDDD
how long until someone Claude's stalker 2 to have an actual improved A-LIFE from originals
>>750397596The Zone is an allegory for STALKER itself as a franchise and the different endings/factions represent different views on how the franchise should be handled. This should be quite obvious man
>>750401647Rent free, only nostalgia cucks keep sucking off DD1 btw, DD2 is best now forevermore lol
>>750404762But that's not hard, that's boring. I have no issues killing stuff, it's just pointless to even engage since I get nothing worthwhile from enemies. Then I have to carry 10 different kinds of weapon dismounting tools or whatever it was. This is just boring autismo retardation: the mod
>>750404795What about a-life in the originals games is missing from 2?
>>750404323Don't lose your head over it, tranny
>>750403603trvkefrankly, 90% of expectations towards alife (both the original one and 2.0) stem from iassenev interviews, in which he consistently failed to mention that all of his work was basically gone and replaced with primitive gulag system from build 1935 onwards
>>750404874everything basically
>>750404572Analmeme and its derivatives and pointless busy work to avoid actually playing the game, they're shit you stupid third world troon
>SIRCAA destroyed immediately after you get there>don't get to use it as a hubwhy?
>>750405316Such as?
>>750398991NO BUT IT'S OKAY WHEN CHERNOBYL AND DEATH OF STALIN DO IT BECAUSE IT JUST IS OKAYWHY ARE YOU RACIST WANTING WHITE PEOPLE DOING FAKE RUSSIAN VOCIES?????
>>750403603>A-Life was always badNow we're talking. STALKER was only ever good because it was slavjank. Turning it into Students' First UE5 project jank with the sequel is why it sucks. All of the inbred slav slap fighting in the world won't change that.
>>750396520>STALKER 2 HAS FINALLY BEEN FIXEDYou shills have been saying this since it released and it's still the same UE5slop with Stalker skin
>>750403603>>750405807few more years until westoids finally come to the same truth that every slav past middle school age knew since 2007: stalker was never good
>>750405715Death of Stalin was okay because they gave them funny british accents and they made Stalin a cockney
>>750406586Nah, Shadow of Chernobyl is one of the most atmospheric games ever made.
>>750406854I agree, the super vibrant happy funtime land graphics really do set the mood.
/v/tards will cry about engoodening with this and other games but lose their minds now that Cybercuck2077 had dual wielding now. I've never seen /v/ so hypocritical when it came to CDPR slop. Cyberpunk was shit and is still shit. And so is this game and all other engoodening games. If you cannot release a finished project as a AAA studio? Your entire dev team should be anally raped to death and then the offices should be firebombed
>>750407427you act like /v/ suddenly likes cyberpunk now
>>750396520Good, another flaw fixed. Sure hope hardware raytracing is next on the list, sofware lumen is giga ass.
>>750407427What the fuck are you on about this is like one of the only places that actively shits on that game
>>750396520[x] doubt
>>750407571That is because it is hip to contrarian. There is a reason why /v/ thinks gacha is the peak of vidya.
>>750407427My biggest gripe with CP is that the city is made of carton, outside of a couple of hubs (that don't have any activities to speak of) and missions the city is empty and dead. I wish there were more city simulation. Two hookers in entire city, no cool braindances outside of missions, no explorable megabuildings, nothing to do in bars, etc.
>>750401508I guess everyone wearing exoskeletons is an example of an ancient victorian tech.Clearly the world and setting you want to see doesn't match the setting of the game.
not giving 250GB of my SSD and not playing this turd eithersimple as
>>750403254Duty is retarded af in the DLC, literally poopskin ooga booga tier. And despite being decades in the zone, they never made a change.
>>750399228Does it have drones? I like drone games
>>750396835GSC is russian mob owned business. Any game studio founded in the 90's in Ukraine was. Those were the people investing in new tech. Since then GSC's also moved mostly to Prague, who's game industry is almost entirely ruin by Russian mobsters and affiliates.
>>750402879Grigachad has nothing to do with Stalker 2... and that's why it turned out shit
>>750409367I'm genuinely interested to hear even 1 (one) complaint about Duty's actions or motivations. They were shown caring about their soldiers, they assembled a small group of volunteers for the mission. They acted organised, no stupid moves. And they simply were trying to prevent those monsters to threaten the rest of the world.Meanwhile Freedom are silly enough to send people dying to catch some monster to then kill even more members fighting it in the arena.I feel that people complain about shit only for the sake of complaining.
Is max range buggy?
>>750396520They spelt Chernobyl wrong lol
>>750405715I like fake russian voices. the best part is they aren't even that far off unless they suck
>>750410212Chornobel is good countree grettings frum Gorbagge
>>750404494nta but it def was not a successful dlc because it didn't change peoples perceptions on the game, check out its steam reviews that still has it at 60% or something, people still think the game is horrible dog shit and not even the dlc saved it. crimson desert mogged it im every way imaginable
>>750404261>CoP didn't have offline a-life>It's better than any other trilogy game, it's just limited to 150m>unlike the originals, where everything would be simulated at >150m was a power move
I always post in stalker 2 threads saying the game is shit to virtue signal to the chuds i'm one of them. Then I lean back in my chair and feel mighty smug knowing I made a difference.
i support Russia because I'm brown so I don't care
>>750413059DD2>RECENT: Mostly Positive (79% of 1,885)DD2DA>ALL TIME: Very Positive (89% of 1,714)
>>750396520I'm just glad the outlines are back Binos in stalker feel incomplete without that feature.
>>750413451Ummmm, sweaty, analmaymay removed that feature to be more hardcore and realistic.
>>750404492There is no draft in Russia.
>>750413529Which just proves stalker 2 is slop for journalists.
>>750413402>recent>1885>for a game that supposedly sold millions
>>750413598And has a fraction of reviews on steam as sales, like every gameThe point is it clearly is changing the conception if the game, leave it to a frogposter to be a fucking retarded mongoloid
>>750398556People expect the new game to at least be as fun as the last games. Instead sequels/reboots/remakes are released in a barebones skeleton of a game and people are expected to just deal with it. Stalker2 on release was ROUGH and it's nice that they're patching it but it probably needed another year+ of full time development.
>>750413529>AnalmemeIsn't it just a bino upgrade? I played that bloated as fuck anomaly gamma mod recently and even it had tracking binos in it.
>>750413598>checked S2 DLC review count>1756 reviews (81% positive)Holy shit. DD2 DLC has somehow less reviews than S2 DLC.How did Capcom manage to fuck up this hard?
>>750413786Fucked if I know, I just made a joke. I also modded most of the autism out of it so I could just have a chill experience. At least until I get to red forest, it's always a gamble even if you're running light and can sprint right through it.
>>750409923Again as mentioned, they went full ooga booga about the oases despite Zulu first hand witnessing its miracles, healing him. They wasted literal decades trying to destroy the zone with 0 success, in fact it’s only been growing and getting worse (admittedly not because of Duty but because Strelok killed the C-Consciousness). The only good thing Duty did was the peace with Freedom but that also didn’t last because of their eternal chimpouts, may it be with the army warehouse or in Yanov. Yes, Myklukha was just greedy but even he got something going with the coupon system and made Rostok a sprawling heaven for all stalkers. Nonetheless I’m not complaining, the DLC is pretty good at showing both factions and nuances.
>>750397596Mind broken
>>750401110The best and only value 2 added to the franchise is 1. Condensed milk2. Weapon customizationThat's it. Whilst there might be a few souls out there that want to try it out of morbid curiosity but can't, I seriously doubt the vast majority of shit talkers have any desire to play this complete abortion of a sequel to a well beloved franchise.It does just about everything wrong, in the worst way possible, as if it's TRYING to be a steaming pile of shit on purpose.A world where STALKER 2 died in 2011, and remained dead forever is a better one the current one we are alive in.
with the visualisation range increase, how did the ballistics change? any better? the update dropped like midnight last night for me and didnt get to play it i just let it update while i went to bed
why do i feel like a big portion of s2 haters were the og mod makers who are mad at gsc for some reason?
>>750396835yandex are hohol sympathizers.>>750409679soviet mob you mean? like there are local mobs in ukraine and other countries that were part of ussr. I'm not saying there are no ties to russia, i genuinely dunno about the mob sphere, but like, there are local and ethnic mob groups out there, where your post suggest that it's all a one single group.
>>750414939>yandex are hohol sympathizers>its data centers and servers get bombed by ukraine??
>>750414782>spend years taking OG trilogy far beyond what the devs could have hoped for, also being unpaid like the mod devs>GSC comes along and drops a steaming shit you can't really mod so you're basically stuck making your own Stalker 2
>>750396520what could I possibly need a rangefinder for, especially when the last half of the game is in a tightly crowded city anyways
>>750396520Do enemys still spawn in a bubble around you?
do enemies still just spawn behind you the second you turn your back so you either flee the spawn point or get trapped in an infinite loop of killing them looting them and attempting to leave only for more of them to appear repeating the cycle
>>750414782S2 doesn't run on decade old laptops whereas CoC and its derivatives do.
>>750414279>they went full ooga booga about the oases despite Zulu first hand witnessing it was done by a god ugly screeching monster fetusThe same monster that feeds on human's fears and can send gruesome psi imagery into your head. The same monster from X-16 lab which zombified numerous stalkers. Produced by the same scientists responsible for controllers, burers and all other monstrosities in the Zone. Result of brutal and illegal experiments on live humans.There's no way you don't understand their motivation.
never played the first one is this one good?
>>750415540yep. but wait for a sale
this gane directly supports the killing of innocent russian civilians tho
>>750415221no anon, that feature was removed years ago with patch 1.5
>>750399228You'd be foolish to blame anyone but RussiaFuck Russia for denying us a proper sequel
>>750415652I bought the ultimate edition.
Bomb Ukraine. Why? Cause its funny.
>>750397596>Strelok is the bad guy and you have to kill him>after you kill him Skif marks "Kill the Strelok" as completed on the PDA and drops it on his body as a callback because all games are Marvel movies nowGlad I didn't buy this slop
>>750397596>>750415813t. wardniggers
>>750400286>the former gets to pay more and more for DLC that "fixes" the game and implement shit that should have been in base gameYeah, real win retard
>>750415880i didn't play it i have no idea what that means dumbass
>>750415540>never played the first one is this one good?FUCK NO.Do not bite the literal Microsoft-mandated psyop-shilling. The STALKER 2 ain't a "STALKER" game, and it is broken as fuck UE5 slop. 100% different, Westoids-driven team, with the game aimed at console tards.Only the original 2007-2009 STALKER games (yes, GAMES), that is Shadow Of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, and Call Of Pripyat, are worth your time.Just pirate them all, so you don't get the censored "Enhanced Editions" + can patch and mod them to your liking later on. The original devs are long gone; Sergei kicked them all out already back in 2012, which is when the REAL "STALKER 2" project was also killed.Here is the STALKER rookie guide pic. Play them in release order.best regards: true oldfag who already played the v1.000 of the first STALKER game back in 2007, and has since put 10k+ hours to all three games.
>>750415723You could give them 100 years, unlimited budget and support and the game would still have been shit. The people responsible for 2 have fuckall to do with original GSC and it shows given how they butcher stuff from the trilogy but still try to nostalgiabait anyway with it.
>>750415918so you're making shit up about the plot lmao
>>750415081But they are, or were at least. Same with VK that don't ban hohols criticizing russians, but do if it's the other way around (99% it's because hohol moderators are cheaper than russian ones, but still)
>>750415972https://youtu.be/T4fDKYsdo24?t=411I wish I was making this up.
>>750415652I will now buy your shitty gameRush B in hell fag
>>750415104>you can't really modIt has official SDK unlike the originals.And it's UE, it's a widely used engine, so there's shitton of information on the internet.about its modding.
>>750415937boomer desperately wanting new players to play their gay modded slop instead of a brand new game
>>750415937How many decades old is this pic?
>>750415652Actually they support Total Hohol Death just like any other Ukrainian company try to bait better
>>750416078>>750416110Salty, illiterate niggers.
>>750416020thats one of the 4 endings, anonyou are dishonest and possibly a tranny.
>>7504162123 of the 4 endings you kill Strelok Anon
>>750415939>The people responsible for 2 have fuckall to do with original GSCOne original developer and several tertiary team members and some family/friends from the original games have been killed in the war either on the frontlines or from civilian bombings.So again, literally everyone blames Russia rightly so. You can't just make a sweet game when your country is being invaded and loved ones are dead because of it.
>>750416259yes but in different circumstances
>>750398626do people really believe in these infantile conspiracy theories? This is russiagate-tier
>>750396520>impossible, it was made by ukrainians to fuck with russians!>ukraine is literally bombing russian kids!>i know because [insert kremlinbot article] told me!>no im not russian, i live in europe and i hope russia nukes my country!>it's a bad game, you are lying for ukraine gibs and propaganda!>ZELENSKY MUST DIE! TOTAL RUSSIAN VICTORY! (i am not russian tho, pinky promise)
>>750416434Yes since they have no idea about how actual bot farms work
>>750416169Nigga SGM and Swarts mod are from like 2012. Where is Gunslinger, IWP, Radiophobia 3. why recommend OGSE over OGSR with its 64 bit engine and general improvements etc. Literally just open moddb or that Russian modding forum.
>>750409367>T.bloodsuckerfucker
>>750415813Why does Strelok look 25 in this game
>>750404261>This time, for sure, they did create a real A-life, trust ! It's only the 12th time they said it !
Only Ukraine and Israel have the right to defend themselves. Slava Isrealia
>>750416729There is a reason why Freedom got bitches while Duty has soldiers named Mohamedov
>>750416809You lost tranny
>>750416764play the game anon, or watch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khxNvRuhjGshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn7pMZx3gfohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc1OTaj4V8khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je-VV87hJKgthat's exactly how it works, and how the trilogy A-life used to work
>>750416541>Where is Gunslinger, IWP, Radiophobia 3In the trash bin, 2 of the 3 mentioned are just no content gun wankery mods, what about them?
>>750416730>this is a 25 year old male according to anonWhich former USSR state do you live in?
>>750416452al jazeera is a legitimate news source
>>750416283you need to LARP harder if you want to be taken seriously - do you really believe anyone gives a flying fuck about anyone who thinks he will win the fight against Russia by pretending to be a righteous war hero in UA? The will be slaughtered like pigs and that's the reality they experienced. Blaming Russia, I don't think so. You fucked around and found out. So that's not how it works, nigger. The only right that would rightfully is their well deserved death, because you would have to be beyond retarded to believe that you had any fucking chance to begin with.
>>750417192Both of them add way more stuff other than guns. In Gunslinger it actually adds additional quests and mechanics like disguising to gain access to the merc complex in Zaton. I also prefer polished stuff over fillerslop like SGM (especially 2.2, 1.7 was fine).
>>750396520the devs placed photos of themselves in the the game that alone is red flag to me and the game is utter shit anywayshas nothing of the original STALKER titles or the mods like Gamma, it's just unreal slop
>>750417968how is that a red flag, plenty games have the devs insert pics of themselves in it
>>750417002obvious fake videos are obvious
>>750396520>option tothey would've made it function by default if it didn't come at some huge performance cost. How badly does it fuck up the fps?
>>750416259There are 3 people you can side with.You can side with an evil corpo bitch that wants to use the Zone to gain control over humanity.You can side with a schizo c-con agent who just follows the program and wants to brainwash everyone.Or you can side with Strelok who just doesn't want people like those 2 to fuck with the zone.If you side with one, you need to kill the other 2. It's that fucking simple. And there's one ending where you don't side with anyone, so you kill all 3. But I guess making choices is too hard for retarded zoomers.By the way, in the original Stalker 2 plot by the original GSC team from 2012 Strelok died off-screen. Pretty much Alien 3 level of garbage.
>>750397905>people who gain satisfaction from filling their days with activities build prosperous civilizations>niggers seethe at them from their mudhuts for practicing delayed gratificationa tale as old as time
>>750418035Because it's video game and not personal fucking self insert blog or the attension seeking war propaganda videos on their youtube channels. I want to explore the world and find new items, do my missions etc. That shit is immersion breaking as hell. I don't give a fuck about the devs I care about the product you deliver and you failed doing so.
>>750396520Look, did this game add all the DLC bullshit yet? I didn't get it at release because it was a broken mess. I saw one DLC released and they've done a ton of updates.
>>750416283>One original developer and several tertiary team members and some family/friends from the original games have been killedGood.>everyone blames RussiaFor what? Stalker Online? The failed NFTs? The original STALKER2 being in limbo by the IP owner because he wanted more money?Ukraine lost, Russia lost. Israel won, bigly.
>>750418234>By the way, in the original Stalker 2 plot by the original GSC team from 2012 Strelok died off-screen. Did he die in the zone doing what he loved at least?Instead of at the hands of some developer pet?
>>750418280man you are one soulless bastard, you never wanted to acknowledge something you spent years working on?
>>750416929>mutant nigger baby loving foid terroristsYea Duty's muslim gay sex is more lore friendly.Go suck Mykluha's cock and make nuGSC proud you S2 loving cocksucker.
>>750418064now that you have clicked on the spoiler, your mother will die in her sleep tonight. no immunities.
>>750418707oh yeah? do you know what the credits are for retard? Maybe next time, hopefully not ever again, you hire proper QA to test your trash of game then ask whether it is a good thing or not to place your ugly mugs in the middle of the fucking game. I promise you you aren't that important.
>>750418562There were multiple different story concepts, nothing was finalized.For example, in one version Strelok was the MC.But there was a version where you arrive to SIRCAA (where Strelok works), he dies in a sudden explosion, and you're blamed for his death. And you are supposed to find the real culprit.
The more I think over the years Duty are buch of fucking retards: you cant fight the Zone the way they want to and they became just another fucking Military arm strong arming Stalkers over nothing.Meanwhile Freedon got a baseline good ideas but they're too stupid it to execute it and will always flounder the opportunity of the Zone creating more problems.
>>750417968>>750418280Retarded fucking newfag.The original GSC literally did the same, there are multiple photos as easter eggs.Not only that, they literally put themselves as major NPCs.Fucking imbecile, kill yourself.
>>750396520>STALKER 2 HAS FINALLY BEEN FIXEDThey changed engine?
>>750415939>The people responsible for 2 have fuckall to do with original GSC and it shows given how they butcher stuff from the trilogy but still try to nostalgiabait anyway with it.the people responsible for fucking SoC had fuckall to do with SoC. GSC was already sacking and shuffling people around before the first game was even released all the tech, all the concept, all the art, all the leg work was frankensteined by an endless revolving door of employees throughout the franchises' life. The only constant is Grigo. Grigo is love. Grigo is life. Grigo is Pepsi. Grigo is Lamborghini.
>>750419596its not on UE6 yet sadly
>>750419291>newfagcreating an NPC of yourself is not the same shit as placed real life photos of yourself and others across the fucking gamedon't try to bring up the old game now, faggot and don't get me started with the easter eggs which have resemblance with other categories that have no place in the fucking game againyou are a dumb nigger and it clearly shows, the entire game is a immersion breaking wreck
>>750400536And rhats why you live in a shithole.>but im europoorYes you are now africa jr.
>>750419708>Literally making yourself the main character isn't the same as sneaking in a photoNo shit, you're absolutely retardedOne is much more of a self insert thing
Damn the secondaries really get riled up by stalker 2.
>>750419796Holy fuck you are so fucking retarded it's painful reading your vomit.You dumb nigger wouldn't even know who that NPC is or who he supposed to be by simply playing the game. But playing the game and seeing REAL LIFE PHOTOS as in A SELF INSERT BLOG POST across stages of the game is immersion breaking. How the fuck do you retard not get this? Nobody cares about you as a dev, nobody did back then nobody sure as fuck will now. Use the fucking credits for it. Place a whole fucking album into the credits and put a fucking Ukraine stamp on it. I don't give shit.
>>750419708>is not the same shit as placed real life photos of yourselfHoly kek, this retarded fucking newshit doubled down. I literally told you that they placed multiple real life photos as well. This retard is so fucking stupid he can't even read. Probably a jeet.
>>750420084You don't know who Strelok is a dev but you do know the photos are a dev?Why are you like this? Were you dropped on your head?
>>750420193You were clearly adopted since you still don't get it. >>750420174Look at this retarded subhuman mentioning the old game again. It's like I'm replying to retarded fucking niggers with IQ lower that a fish tank. What are you trying to defend here you retard? STALKER 2 or the devs placing photos in the game?
>>750420016It’s just Russians and their tertiary browns like Brazilians who constantly shill for them. For them it’s a culture war because it only uses Ukrainian words instead of Russian mixed in.
Guys, can Claude modify the Engine.ini to optimize the game?
>>750420347>old good new badThat's your entire thing, it was fine in ShoC (a game you never played) but bad in S2You're a shitskin retard faggot with no actual argument, face it you didn't know this happened back then and now you're seething
>>750420347Oh my god, this jeet is in full meltdown mode.
>>750420374ukrainian devs removed most of the Russian assets from the gamedon't try to stir shit up little faggot we know exactly who did what
Wtf are these prices? Fuck Ukraine.
>>750420406Yes because ini tweaks are the secret that dumbo devs don't know how to configure. Sub to my patreon for real optimised configurations with the starting "potato power!" tier at only 5 shekels a month.
>>750420428>old good new badImplying I'm wrong or something. But you still don't get it don't you. You are a fish tank IQ nigger. You are a adopted mental cripple. Read my posts again and then get your composure up, you utter subhuman, and reply again.Who are you trying to defend here you shit faced bastard?The game, STALKER 2 or the devs placing real life photos into the game? Don't make me shit down your throat because will. >>750420470>Oh my god, this jeet is in full meltdown mode.I accept your concession, nigger.
>>750420517*xbox adjucted tax pricing imagine even wanting to buy it tho, even pirating this 200gb+ is waste of bandwidth
>>750420814> even pirating this 200gb+ is waste of bandwidthA game that size is absurd with data caps.
>>750420850unlimited data but still a waste of bandwidth
>>750396635kek
luv me stalker 2
>>750420698You're having a melty because you didn't play ShoC and didn't realise the thing you're crying about they already did 2 decades agoWhat a pathetic mongoloid subhuman you are, if you had another brain cell to rub together in your thick empty skull you understand humiliating yourself more is sad, but you keep going
god damn this is a meltdown of epic proportions
>>750421296You must be a massive faggot for getting this upset at ShoC containing a devs face for the main character and dev photosWhat a strange and retarded seething fag you are
>>750421414it sure isleaving the STALKER 2 subhuman, with a gaping asshole and closing this thread since it's waste of my time
>>750420814>>750420850>>750420916turdies with poor internet lol
>>750421482>AIEEEEEEEEE
oh he's leaving now because he cant handle it anymore, pathetic
>>750421606>leaving>janny'dlollmao
it's genuinely insane how much of the "fandom" is people working entirely off assumptions of shit that never happened and was never in the games and mostly never playing the games ever or knowing what they were like when they came outthe larp has gone too far
The stalker 2 situation is INSANE!
>>750396520I stopped caring about this game when they changed the name to CHORNOBILwhen someone is this petty about politics you automatically know the game is shit
>>750423185ukranians aren't people anyway
gulf of america is a legitimate name
why does this game make russians seethe uncontrollably
Imagine shilling a game for free.
>>750398556>all those words and a shitty frog picture just to say "JUST MINDLESSLY CONSOOM GOY
>>750423607NGL those videos of russian soldiers fucking each other make me hard as fuck.
>>750424259link? i wanna see.. for science ofc
>>750396520Finally the REAL /sg/
>>750424523/sg/ doesn't need or want stalker 2 slop posters
>>750424852yeah thats why it dies before the bump limit regularly
still not real alife btw
>>750424930Quality over quantity.
>>750425109define real alife
>>750419708>>750420347This nigga still shows with his dad and plays with his penis, he told me
>average stalker 2 player
>average gammatroon
everyone itt need to kys
>>750426219I see gamma lives rent free in your head.
>>750396879Wardogs is UE5 and runs at 300fps on my rig, looks the same as stalker and has 100 players on a map probably the size of stalker.it's the devs not the engine.
>And I FUCKED him>And I took him into my own fucking >What was I *use the cock*>Shut the fuck up>He’ll never BITCH, ever since he was gay porn>Always the boner, couldn’t keep his dinner out of the pussy>But not our chicken… couldn’t be precious chicken!>Chop your balls off and die>And he gets to be a BITCH?! What a sick nigger!
[SESH]
>>750426571dilate
>>750426219>>750427741>
guess ill start a new playthrough, good time to finally play on master difficulty?
Performance aside does extending the A life bubble cause game breaking bugs since the original game wasn’t designed around it
>>750428843not really unless you consider enemies seeing you and shooting at you before you see them a bug
>>750425327Except yours are neither quality nor quantity
>>750428341I got hardstuck on Faust on master. Im about to restart
>>750429805rpg should one shot him tho after you take out all of his lamps around the arena, dont even have to hit him just the ground next to him should be fine
>>750428843Talking out of your ass: anon edition.There were mods that extended it to even 250m, and they did nothing.Shut up, lying little shit.
>>750396520So is fast travel with squad leaders cucked? From what I read it sounds like they won't take you anywhere if you're over encumbered. I'm assuming this means if you're in the yellow. Or is it red? Or is it when you're so full you can't even move?
>>750396520it was fixed like three or four major updates ago and even then it was still the best in the series. As if GSC even bothered updating the original buggy ass overrated trilogy that is only remembered for the mods that complete change the game into something it never was>>750396784>to run around in an empty, overly stretched out goatse open world againBut enough about SoC
>>750399760>Did you forget the original STALKERs have railguns and exo-suit power armor?NTA cuz I really don't get the big deal over modern shit in STALKER, but to try to use these as a gotcha is disingenuous because these are very deliberately explained to be experimental tech looted from the zone's old research areas. They're not modern tech, they're cold war experimental tech.
Thank you AI, we're truly living in a resurgence. It's so funny to me that there's people out there against it.
>>750396654You can blame Microsoft for that.
>>750425109>not real alifeyou mean the term GSC coined that is purely for marketing? The concept that BARELY exists or works in the og without mods?
>>750430978>thread about NPC ai>thinks it has anything to do with gen ai vibecode slopget help pajeet
>can't do roaming guides with master onFuck this.
I'm gonna buy the complete edition at full price and pray that some of my contribution goes towards a bullet that enters a Russian soldier's body.
>>750430939>They're not modern tech, they're cold war experimental tech.The fucking game has cutting edge weapons for the time like the F2000 and AN-94. It has satellite GPS location on your fucking pocket device. You don't even deal with fucking paper money in the zone everything is encrypted bank transactions to an account. The zone was not only current day for Ukraine in 2007 it was meant to be futuristic because the game was BORN futuristic as Oblivion Lost, a futuristic sci-fi shooter with space travel, dimensional portals and huge cyberpunk cities, and then it was transformed into a chernobyl-themed game.If anything Stalker should be MORE futuristic. There should be Halo power armor dudes. There should be robot companions that shoot lasers. There should be handheld energy weapons, hovercraft and dimensional portals.
>>750432496>replying to retardsshiggy diggy daggy dooderinoo doooo
>>750432496but there are dimensional portals
>>750433181no, only space and sometimes time portals but no cool new dimensions until Stalker 2 added the silent hill zone
>>750403942>does not deny being a stupid faggot
>>750432496>the game was BORN futuristic as Oblivion Lost, a futuristic sci-fi shooter with space travel, dimensional portals and huge cyberpunk cities, and then it was transformed into a chernobyl-themed game.okay but i like the chernobyl themed game and don't like oblivion lost
>>750397596Whats bad about the allegory? The War against Ukraine is bad?
>>750427779sauceanon... i yield......
>>750430998MS wanted you to have complete, bug-free games at launch. They used to charge the devs every time they released a patch.
>>750420517>chornobylkek
jagerblick is awesome, my favourite gun so far
>>750436942Think that's what I'll upgrade next.
>>750400286I don't think you know what a win/win is.
>A life visualization distance What does that even mean?
>>750437793It means you should close your blinds, Anon.
>>750437793AI will no longer spawn 75m out from you in a conga line because UE5 a shit.
Mavka hates me now. :(
gay sex with dalin
>>750403603Pretty much. All the best a life was modded into coc.
>>750401325>oh yeah, dragon's dogma 2, whatever happened there?Garnered a cult following much like the first despite its issues and just had a DLC release for it that has had threads every single day related to it reach bump limit praising it for almost 4 weeks now?
>>750438252thats not what it means, dumb retard
>>750396520>A-Life updated againCan I finally take a bunch of kill mutants/stalker contracts and have half of them complete themselves before I even leave the base I'm in because they A-Life'd into another group of enemies/walked into an anomaly somewhere or no? Always loved that happening in the others.
>>750440002Unironically yes, it happened to me at least once on a new 2.0 save.But don't expect to complete a mission like that 10 minutes later, despite what niggers itt are saying the open world zone is fucking immense and squads rarely meet each other.
>>750396520Too bad this game runs like shit because its ue5, or did they optimize already?
>>750396520>increasedlol, lmao. fuck thatIll take infinite in a game with 500-1000+m distances
>>750400286>the former get apologetic content and DLCs, the latter get regular player increases and spikes in sales across several years.clearly you have never played a good EA game in your lifeand yeah no stalker 2's sales were hard cucked by the shit reception
>>750396520I don't buy Ukrainian gamesI don't buy Unreal Engine games
>>750398556If New Game is not better than Old Game I can just play Old Game instead of buying New Game.Simple as.
>visualisation range increasewat a pathetic slop
>>750440406ok furry nigger
>>750398556>Where did this newfangled "the sequel must be objectively an improvement in every way or else it's shit"if it's not whats the point of the sequel
there are groups of humies fighting eachother every 200 meters and i never know who to help they arr rook same
>>750440582orc
>>750398556The "problem" with making sequels in the same series, is that i and everybody else on this planet will expect ALL the features from the last game to be as good as they were the last game, AND SO MANY COMPANIES FAIL AT DELIVERING THAT.Additionally, we want all of the same features to exist especially if it's an RPG. Deviation should be in how these features are explored by me, and the content of said feature, but the framework of the feature must remain the same. Story will obviously be different.If developers worked off this, they could make successful sequels.Do you want a perfect example? THE GREEK ORIGINALS God of war 1, God of war 2, God of war 3. If you've actually played all of them, you would know that each one is better than the last while preserving the same framework of features - weapons that power up and unlock new attack patterns as you go through the game, pre-fixed camera angles throughout the game, using said camera angles to hide secrets. Action sequences where you have to perform specific inputs in specific ways once you initiate them. Save points strewn throughout the map. Mostly linear combat encounters through handcrafted maps, with puzzle sequences in between. Cutscenes exist between these encounters. Player has no agency over how story encounters resolve except for combat. Badass music and animation. Badass linear story.That formula has been kept the same in every, single, game. And they were a MASSIVE success. If you play through the games, you won't actually notice that much of a difference between the combat of the first, the second, and the third, but you will notice a difference that it is better. It is more gory. It is more badass. It is more player driven, the theming makes it feel different, the fact that it's a linear story makes it feel different. It's like the best movie I've ever consumed, except it's a game.1/2
>>750398556>>7504409182/2!!!!So I think what people are complaining about is NOT that the sequel is not an improvement, but rather that the sequel has features that are downgraded from the previous game.Prime example: Mount & Blade Bannerlord. It is absolutely missing so much from warband, it's like a graphical mod with shitty voice acting.
>>750440880You'll get used to it eventually, at least until you get the binocular that has faction identification.Factions are still wearing their original color scheme from the OG.ISPF wear camo and ghilie suits, Ward are khaki colored, Spark are edgelords with black and green, and Corps are urban camo/white and gray stuff.The biggest issue are the fucking bandits, who wear a lot of stuff with colors shared with the Loners and the occasional balaclava.
A life status?
>>750440987yeah i had two groups of what looked like banditsit seemed like 5 or so guys were ganging up on one so i shot him and then 3 of them turned around blyating at medoes fucking over patrols ruin your chances of siding with a faction? im still in garbage
Don't they still need to add in the "groundbreaking and realistic" a.i and day to day simulation and etc
>>750440864filtered
>>750441038They never intended to add it. It was a marketing ploy
>>750441041No, S2 has a reputation system that is vastly different from both the trilogy and modded slop.There is a general "zone-wide" rep system that is really hard to fuck up, you can shoot Ward niggers for hours and they will never get mad, however several quest outcomes will actually turn the entire faction hostile.And then there is the "base" reputation which works as a localized system, where completing/failing missions, helping/shooting people, and attacking/defending the base itself will change your standing with said base and nothing else.You can tell how much people in a base like you by going on the map and hovering over the base icon, a green faction logo means they like you, a red one means they hate your guts.You are still at the very beginning of the game, you may want to learn more about the factions and which ones you like the most, because you will inevitably have to choose in the far future.tl;dr killing people doesnt make factions mad, siding with a faction in a quest will 100% and it's permanentIn order of appearance from the top: ISPF, Ward, Spark, Corps
>>750441247probably going to go with duty because i hated those freedom DUDE WEED LMAO fucking shits in SoC
>>750441318Based.
How the fuck are there still Burers, Controllers, Snorks etc man made mutants in Stalker 2? This triggers my autism the most.
>>750441619they reproduce by binary fission, especially the snorks
>Stalker fixed>Cyberpunk 2077 fixed>Bioware firedIf you told Americans that in 2026 Eastern Europe will clown on North America in video gaming industry they’d laugh. They are not laughing now
>>750398556Using a popular name to entice people into buying something that has almost nothing to do with it is disingenuous. Case in point, Darkest Dungeon 2, the gameplay loop is almost nothing like DD1. You either give people more or what they already liked with slight adjustments, or you name it something different.
>>750441713i wouldnt call cyberpoonk fixed i played it last year and had a few quests wig out on mebut it was more like eurojank i can actually play vs unplayable garbage at launch
game gets much more enjoyable once you can afford nvgsskif should have gotten one of those 15k lumen flashlights off amazon before heading to the zone because this place gets autistically dark
>>750437793I understand Alife from AMK. But here I don't get it. I haven't played it yet.
>>750396784Even if it was the best game in the world, I refuse to believe that 200 GB is all unique data. They could probably cut it down to 100 GB or even less. Just like Helldivers 2 went from 120+ to 25 GB.I bet UE5 games leave in all sorts of default trash which devs just can't be assed to clean up.
>>750441247So its broken and dumbed down next to the originals, got it.
>>750404762Not true in the slightest. Most, as you put it, "top quality mods" use Misery as its base is because they are filled with Misery devs. When Misery 1.2 and 2.0 were put out, they were trashed widely because they were fucking tedious and gained their popularity years after due to youtube and le hardcore experience memes, not because Misery is a great way to experience stalkkan or because it was great modbase.
>>750417802No, no they don't unless you count item animations as "way more stuff" i repeat: They are no content gun wankery mods to dick around with for a few hours and then forget they exist
>>750443921>because they are filled with Misery devsuh-huh, are the misery devs in the room with us now anon?
Surprised it took this long for someone to add the minimap back to the game. Finally I can ditch the gay Skyrim compass.
>>750444164The minimap always ruined immersion.
>>750444236Don't care, it was there since SoC so it should've been in Stalker 2.
They had one chance and they fucking blew it on opening day. They don't get another. It was over before it began. I'm not playing it. You already fucked up. It's simply far too late.Your "engoodening" is for naught.
clear sky >>>>>>> stalker 2 and it isn't even close
>>750396520I'm sorry man... I'm not going to buy it. I KNOW it's not what I wanted from stalker.>Opens stalker Anomaly
STALKER was never good and by consequence, never will be. Kill all Slavs.
>>750440145>optimizeSmall Ukrainian company, please understand. That will be 15 million + tax for DLC.
>>750415937>true oldfag who already played the v1.000 of the first STALKER game back in 2007true stalker fans downloaded the alpha back in 2003
>>750444469If you aren't playing R.O.M.E.O you aren't getting the best stalker experience.
>>750440145all stalker games run like shit
>>750444562Tell me more
>>750444650No but I am telling you to go play it.
>>750444596Dx8 soc runs perfectly on anything
>>750444698Sounds good boss
>>750444780Yeah the mass stuttering when npcs load in and out is fine.
>>750444904Nigga I was playing it on release at 30 fps. I'll deal with stuttering.
>>750443979TZP used to be pretty fucking vocal about how much they contributed to wider stalker modding ecosystem. You don't have to be defensive about it.
>>750444562saw the video for this yesterday and the pack looks pretty solid, looking forward to playing it on ironman when my fresh gamma install finishes in 1 quadrillion years
I wish we lived in a world where we had gotten a true Roadside Picnic game and not this shitty, buggy Slavic Innawoods dressup simulator faux RPG wannabe piece of fucking shit imposter.
>console multiplat>when the last three games were highly moddable games designed for the PC from the ground-upSorry, it's not a game for me. I will never buy it. Make it a PC exclusive next time and I'll reconsider.
>>750445310What was the last AAA PC exclusive game that's not an MMO?
>>750444428i do not enjoy the swamp or the whack ass shooting at strelok ending sequence
Why can't modern game developers make finished games anymore? How do these faggots ever even manage to finish school or training when all they ever put out is unfinished shit? Last time I checked, rushed/unfinished projects don't get a passing grade.
>>750445846Yet that is still leagues better than sloppa 2.
>>750446576When was the last time you checked?
>>750446576The only games GSC have ever released finished are the Cossacks titles.
>>750446696GRIM
let me inject a medkit stupida fuckin game
>>750444236Fuck you immersion fags. Literally kill yourself. You're ruining games. "Oh no if I have to see a loading screen I'll be ripped back into real life and remember I'm playing a video game ":(" KILL YOURSELF! YOU THINK YOUR GAY ASS COMPASS IS ANY BETTER! YOU FUCKING DIPSHIT NIGGER! i HOPE YOUR MOM AND DAD DISOWN YOU! I HOPE YOU SIBLINGS DISOWN YOU! YOUR WHOLE FAMILY! YOU LITERALLY WORTHLESS!
>>750446791No shoot him to take his unique gun.
>>750444428Shit Sky is literally the worse. I'd take Stalker 2 over that shit heap. Faggot. Nigger. Contrarian. Chink.
>>750446940based yellow paint enjoyer
>>750446993NEVER SAID ANYTHING ABOUT THE YELLOW PAINT YOU FUCKING RETARD! KILL YOURSELF TOO! IF NOT TELL ME YOUR CORDS SO I CAN DO IT MYSELF YOU FUCKING PUSSY!
>>750446956you some kind of monolith nigger?
>>750447043>immersion is le badWhich articles for polygon have you written anon?
>stalker 2 makes blind dogs radioactiveJust what I wanted when a pack of 8 jumps out of a bush - to bleed, glow AND lose all my health!
>my bullets go where im looking without having to sit completely still holding shift and ctrl to execute a SUPER SLAV SQUATholy soulless
>>750417381Stalker 2's strelok feels like fanfic, I can't believe they did him so dirty.
>>750398987>The game is an objective improvementSo much of an improvement that they're still reimplementing features that Shadow of Chernobyl (2007) had at release.I hope GSC at least pais you some hryvnias for your shilling.
>>750396520>fixed>still not ported to XRay engineI sleep
>>750447798>like....uhhhhh...LOOK STALKER 2 IS JUST SLOP OKAY!?
>>750432496>Oblivion Lost, a futuristic sci-fi shooter with space travel, dimensional portals and huge cyberpunk citiesI'd would pay a couple of grands to play this, it sounds like a good time
So now that the dust has settled, who was in the right? Mavka or Zulu?
>>750448225I wouldn't call it slop as they're still somewhat improving the game, but:>combat AI is still inferior to what we had 20 years ago>performance is still ass>a-life 2.0 nowhere to be seen, S2's a-life "simulation" gets mogged by anomaly and gamma>no meaningful sidequests beyond the first 3 regions>progression is nonexistent>mutant spawns still not fixedfor a studio with close to 500 people, so many aspects of the game are still inferior to the OG trilogy and the mods that followed after
>>750396520BASEDGET FUCKED RUSSIAYou lost. The "3-day SMO" has last longer than WW1. LOL. ONE AND A HALF MILLION ZIGGER CASUALTIES. THE ENTIRE ARSENAL BUILT BY THE SOVIET UNION OVER DECADES COMPLETLEY DEPLETED. NATO ENLARGED. Get FUCKED Russia.
>>750449172Plot wise zulu by far.
>>750449172Haven't played the DLC but Mavka fucking stabs you after you help her, fuck that bitch
>Devs putting all this effort into fixing a game that I thought was fine when I played on patch 1.3.I imagine the game would feel great for a first time playthrough at this point.
>boris, a stalker 2 thread has been detected, confirm?>confirmed>deploy the bots
Thinking of replaying the original Stalker trilogy because I never finished CS or CoP back in the day, only SoC. I tried Radiophobia 3 and it fucking sucked ass despite being the most highly recommended SoC mod. The difficulty is completely broken, after playing for an hour I ran out of food and water and meds and got 1-shot by a blowout. Are there any mods actually worth playing that don't destroy the difficulty of the game or am I better off just replaying vanilla SoC?
>>750449172Idk but I think the Duty rewards are a bit better and Mavka herself is kinda retarded. Duty does seem mega fucked though.
>>750449916Try CS, enjoy CoP.
Is there an easy way to update my fitgirl repack?I really don't want to download the whole thing again
Playing STALKER 2 for the first time and I have 2 questions.1: Why does this game have no snakes? I've seen lizards and frogs, but where are the snakes?2: Why is there no small transport vehicle like an e-scooter or just a damn bicycle? Why do I have to literally walk everywhere? I just had to walk back to Rostok from the dam and it took me 20 minutes of just walking.
>>750449916You should probably check out ZRP.
>>750449992Obviously no.
>>7504500341. Dunno, guess they're hard to animate2. Because zooming along at 50mph in the zone when anomalies can spawn in the middle of the road is a bad idea
>>750450087don't break my balls anon this shit is like 200GB and takes an hour to install I _REALLY_ don't wanna go through that again
>>750449992Are you retarded? The updates are right there, moron.
750404789literally a gaymma gr*oksucker take
>>750450034I recommend using a mod or something to give yourself infinite stamina and carry weight capacity. It makes things flow better when you don't have to return to a hub every 20 minutes to sell excess shit.
>>750450034I don’t think snakes have ever been in the Zone. And emissions fry vehicles so the only people we ever see use them are Ward who likely keep them in bunkers for storage.
>>750450146There is no point in downloading a repack.You save 30GB on downloads but you waste a lot of time for installing and you need a lot of empty space on your drive.
>>750449916The people who shill for radiophobia are complete retards. Hell most of them don't even finish it because the final assault is levels of bullshit even misery players would say is going too far.>t. someone who did beat it and will never play again
>>750450305We used to have tanks and trucks in the Zone in prior games, apparently.
Iy Dynt Gyt Iyt Dyo Uykraynyans Reylly Tylk Lyke Thys?
>>750450291The point of finite carry weight is not to force you to backtrack, it's to make you think about what's worth picking up. You might as well go all the way and use the console to give yourself a billion rubles if you're gonna be a cheater.
>>750442289Bet you ten bucks the entire UE beginner dev tools are just in there.
>>750397596Kek, wtf. The script was written before russia did the fullscale invasion, and it doesn't make any sense either way. Imagine that the character which is distinctly an ukie in a faction literally called "Freedom" trying to preserve "russia", which is also an antithesis to all that they stand for? Especially since one of the endings literally spreads the zone on the whole world.
>>750450481but muh 10% condition AK74MU worth 89 koupons!
>>750419008I think I heard about this one, the exploding strelok was supposed to be the counterpart(doppelganger) iirc
>>750450369Yup, more proof that stalker 2 is missing features.
>>750450481Running through CoP with a tiny load and only looting essentials and artifacts was fun.
>>750450481Except when you got a backpack filled with unique weapons that you can't throw away and have to painfully tread to a nearest stash
>>750450481No, I would still hit the weight limit even if I was only cherrypicking the good stuff. Removing the weight limit means I only go into hubs when I've got a bunch of missions to turn in. Then I get to have fun selling everything. Repair and upgrade costs in this game are insane. You don't get rich quickly because there's so much to spend funds on.
>>750450341I also beat it, about a month ago, and I don't really recall any part of the game being obnoxiously hard. I did burn through most of my meds and supplies in the final parts of the game, but I came prepared and made it through. My biggest complaint would be that the gold sphere quest is a little wacky, especially with the out of bound parts.That said, I wouldn't recommend it for someone playing SoC for the first time, but I wouldn't call it bad by any means for a player who is familiar with the game.
>>7504502912 already gives you an infinite mini sprint when yellow carry weight and below
>>750451567Now it does - on launch it didn't.
>>750451659whos talking about launch here?
>>750426905That's with framegen. A 5080 ($1600 GPU) only gets 93fps at 1440p without it.
>>750451694Everyone who says stalker 2 is missing features.
>>750452038so none of the people in the original conversation chain?
>>750396520is it actually good?
>>750450291you know you dont have to carry 40 medkits 20 bandages 30 energy drinks 20 cans of meat 10 breads 300 of each ammo and 20 grenades at once
>>750450224I'm fully updated to 2.1 thanks anon i'll suck your dick
>>750452715Have you read this thread!?
>>750443878You should probably kill yourself.
>>750452813Usually I just console in the heart of Chornobyl artefact and enjoy the CoD style health regen.
>>750454808most sane stalker 2 slurper
>>750450681>featureslmao, you just exposed yourself.Truck (single) existed only in a cutscene, and APCs (not tanks) were undriveable, they were simple props. What """features"""" are you even talking about, lol? And in any case Stalker 2 has trucks, APCs and helicopters as props as well.
lmao all these anons crashing out fr fr
>>750455392So those webms of driving in the zone are fake?
>>750456053No, they are simply mods. Vehicles were originally planed to be present in the game, and they were even shown in the early trailers, but later were cut from the game:https://youtu.be/oqQt-C6KB_8?t=192People liked that idea, so they reimplemented vehicles via mods.Stalker 2 also has prototype vehicle mods.
>>750418562He died on the toilet by way of massive heart attack.
I'm gonna be honest. I liked playing through all the stalker games vanilla. But with Stalker 2, the map is so fucking big I actually wish there was fast travel. I'd literally be doing nothing but walking and running for more than half an hour, repeatedly. I get more gameplay out of Death Stranding
>>750457786Does Stalker 2 have fun random anamolies?
>>750444528>Small Ukrainian company, please understandBut it is a small team, retardWhat are you even trying to say
>>750445005>at 30 fps. I'll deal with stuttering.>runs perfectlyIdiotI bet you also said that cybertrash 2077 ran well too
>be me>start master mode>go through the game>get one shot by barely grazing an electro anomaly>last time in hub is 2 hours ago>have to do everything all over again>get frustrated and die>back to where I started>don't want to play anymore"Expedition mode" sucks.
>>750457786>implying Death Stranding doesn't have amazing gameplay
>>750450390>zigger learns that there are other languages on the planet after being told by pootin that the entire world is speaking zigger language and needs to be saved from space nato nazis
>>750402758>Stalker 2 has a completely different system that is both immensely more advanced than the OG, and pleasant to play with.When I played the game it was literally just spawning in mobs.
>>750457786>I actually wish there was fast travelWish grantedThe last update has it
>>750398556>Where did this newfangled "the sequel must be objectively an improvement in every way or else it's shit" notion come fromYou're supposed to learn from the mistakes you make, if not, you're being retarded.If your first game has criticisms like 'gunplay isn't great, and weird animations', the solution is not to double down and make things even worse. Hell, just stay the same if you are worried you can't improve. Better than going downhill.Stalker 2 has objectively worse AI than fucking Call of Pripyat. That's not a good thing!
>>750457786They have added fast travel with stalker squad leaders in the latest patch. I haven't played it, since I already completed the game, but as far as I understand you can just talk to random NPC squad leader you meet in the open world, and he will be able to take you to the nearest hub.
>>750458476IMO that's not even the real issuethe real issue is the false advertising for years about how everything is going to be much more detailed and have so many more layers of interactivity than the original whilst actually containing LESS.Then the lying and the deletion of said advertising like 3 hours before the game released. Then an endless parade of lies and a massive shill campaign to attempt to both excuse and ignore all of it.
>>750458672And the cash grab NFTs when those were new.
>>750441318>hated the guys actually doing the work fighting monolith duty are a bunch of lazy military larpers
>>750396520Been lurking the thread, no idea why so many anons ITT are hellbent on shitting on the game with lies and IRL politicsStalker 2 is still pretty much stalker, with better graphics, gunplay, mechanics, and Alife (which is literally in the game, no idea what people are smoking to claim otherwise)I will say, it took a while to get used to the massive open world since albeit immersive, it feels unironically too much alive with too much to seeBut like the game is 1:1 with the oc trilogy, just bigger and betterI love all the little easter eggs and references for the people that have played all 3 xray gamesThere are a lot of mods that turn the game into a GAMMA-lite experience, if that's what you fuck withMaybe you guys should just play the game (again) in its current state?
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>>750458126It does. Custom difficulty with everything maxed (but no expedition mode) is what master should've been.
Classic stalker>has multiplayer, is belovedStalker 2>no multiplayer, is loathed
>>750460020What do you think multiplayer would be>pvp deathmatch>extraction shooter>mmorpg-like with the base game map
>>750460296extraction shooter easily, it's the only way to have the preorder and deluxe bonuses work
>>750460493Tldr? Didn't they just mention that they will give exclusive skins in MP? Why would they only work in the extraction genre?
>>750460650most of the deluxe and ultimate unique weapons will be "transferable to multiplayer", whatever that means
>>750461450That could just mean a skin, although it being an extraction shooter is the most likely outcome, yes.
