S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (Stalker) Thread

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Its over Stalkers. GSC and S.T.A.L.K.E.R is no more.
 
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If an errant shell hits the containment sarcophagus, they're gonna be playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 in real life!
 
Glad I'm not the only sperg who's been checking the status of STALKER.

The Steam forums are a real party right now:

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Cheeki Breeki meme videos are getting flagged as Offensive, too:
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On one hand, it does suck that S.T.A.L.K.E.R won’t get a fitting sequel due to what happening in Ukraine. Though, as much as I dislike to ask this, would this sequel be considered to be better than the first?

I’ve been wanting to play the Metro 2033 series for a while now, but with recent news of Russian celebrities and their famous stars bucking away from Putin and showing love to Ukraine, I do worry if the sequel managed to get influenced by the Westernized opinion on what they think about war between two nations that they’ve never set soil in.

I could be obviously wrong about this, but I don’t know how much S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 would last in current day today if most gamers of today will just look at RUSSIAN PUTIN BAD and not take a nuanced and introspective as to how war can really damage a person’s psyche.
 
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On one hand, it does suck that S.T.A.L.K.E.R won’t get a fitting sequel due to what happening in Ukraine. Though, as much as I dislike to ask this, would this sequel be considered to be better than the first?

I’ve been wanting to play the Metro 2033 series for a while now, but with recent news of Russian celebrities and their famous stars bucking away from Putin and showing love to Ukraine, I do worry if the sequel managed to get influenced by the Westernized opinion on what they think about war between two nations that they’ve never set soil in.

I could be obviously wrong about this, but I don’t know how much S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 would last in current day today if most gamers of today will just look at RUSSIAN PUTIN BAD and not take a nuanced and introspective as to how war can really damage a person’s psyche.
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The original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and its expansions were lightning in a bottle. Even before this shitfest happened, I had very little hope of the game ever living up to expectations. Luckily, the old games still exist, have tons of mods in active development and an open source engine recreation in the works.
 
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Is it true that the master is easy mode thing only applies to early versions of SoC? Just got killed while trying to sell junk guns to the trader. I don't know if it was radiation or he shot me.
 
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Is it true that the master is easy mode thing only applies to early versions of SoC? Just got killed while trying to sell junk guns to the trader. I don't know if it was radiation or he shot me.
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I've read somewhere (I think reddit, so take it with a grain of salt) that SoC used to also give enemies the same damage resistance as the player based on difficulty, which might explain the whole bullet sponge on lower difficulties myth. I don't think it's the case now for later versions, CS and CoP, as enemies have 0% resistance on all difficulties.

As for the dying part, I don't think dedicated traders (Sidorovich, Barman, etc.) can kill you (hell, Sid isn't even an actual NPC). You either died from rads, hunger, bleeding or got sniped by Ivan from across the map.
 
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I've read somewhere (I think reddit, so take it with a grain of salt) that SoC used to also give enemies the same damage resistance as the player based on difficulty, which might explain the whole bullet sponge on lower difficulties myth. I don't think it's the case now for later versions, CS and CoP, as enemies have 0% resistance on all difficulties.

As for the dying part, I don't think dedicated traders (Sidorovich, Barman, etc.) can kill you (hell, Sid isn't even an actual NPC). You either died from rads, hunger, bleeding or got sniped by Ivan from across the map.
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Figured out I died from radiation. Sticking with the idea that he shot me out of anger because it's way funnier.
 
Why the fuck does everyone praise Atmosfear? I just installed it on CS and it's so fucking ugly. Everything's colors are waaay off and it brings me down to 40 fps even on my 1070Ti.
 
The GAMMA modpack for Stalker: Anomaly is pretty damn neat. I found it out from a series of videos OperatorDrewski did. It changes up a lot of systems like medical, armor and gun repair, adds a crafting and cooking system. I'm having a lot of fun with it. If you do end up installing it remember to pay attention to how damaged your shit is because the cheaper repair items stop working after a certain threshold. I just ran into a burner anomaly and now my armor is 74% condition and now I have to buy a 10,000 ruble repair kit. 1669401119564.png
For some reason I really love the Great Swamp
 
So what's the best Sandbox mod to play these days? Anomaly? I'm out of the loop. I'd like one with some quest content but I mostly just want to schlep around the woods and shoot shit.
 
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So what's the best Sandbox mod to play these days? Anomaly? I'm out of the loop. I'd like one with some quest content but I mostly just want to schlep around the woods and shoot shit.
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Try Call of Pripyat or Shadow of Chernobyl first. If you like it, then give Anomaly a shot.
 
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2 things

Another STALKER's dev has died in a middle of ongoing Ukraine vs Russia war.

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Another 2 minutes of STALKER 2 trailer has released, showing some indications.

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  • OG guns such as sawn off double barreled TOZ, AKS-74u, and G36C has made a return under same alternated names.
  • Inventory layout has changed, along its icons.
  • Entire HUD also changed featuring compass lines and compass arrows, for better or worse.
  • Garbage map has made a return. Generator and Dead City map (from earlier trailer) will most likely playable in final product.
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The new trailer looked pretty good, but it didn't show the character leaning once. That kind of has me worried because without it the gameplay would change drastically. Hope it's actually in the game.
 
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