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

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KingElizabeth said:
I was not expecting to be farming potatoes within the first hour of playing a Roadside Picnic inspired slavjank rpg.
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I never bothered with farming. You can generally get as much food and pure alcohol as you need off the poor bastards that cross your path. Hell, i only ever used healing/rad/poison serums through my first playthrough.

Had some pretty fun emergent moments where I was picking off enemies in the dark with traps and a garrote wire while totally hammered, because i had t syndrome really bad. I don't want to get too into the thematic reasons it reminds me more of the book, some of it is subtextual stuff just in the premise, other things stand out about what characters say vs what you might notice going on.
 
Endlosung said:
A-life isn't coming until Stalker 3 rolls around.
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AKA never. A-Life was unique to GSC having their own in-house engine they could fuck around with freely. They could never replicate that with a game engine designed for Fortnite and GSC will shut down the second time. Your only hope is in all the vasyan modders like hi_flyer to pull off some insane modding tricks and then for someone who isn't a Russian factory worker to ease down the difficulty from "CBT" to "enjoyable" levels.
 
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Slav Power said:
AKA never. A-Life was unique to GSC having their own in-house engine they could fuck around with freely. They could never replicate that with a game engine designed for Fortnite and GSC will shut down the second time. Your only hope is in all the vasyan modders like hi_flyer to pull off some insane modding tricks and then for someone who isn't a Russian factory worker to ease down the difficulty from "CBT" to "enjoyable" levels.
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Calling this now, GSC will shut down in 2 years and revive in another 10 for Stalker 3.
 
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Endlosung said:
Calling this now, GSC will shut down in 2 years and revive in another 10 for Stalker 3.
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That or keep milking Stalker 2 with the 3 (now 2) promised DLC's while going "Guyz! Buy Stalker! Or muh evul Russian will take over muh Ukrwaaaaineee!"
 
Endlosung said:
Something like A-life can't be just added in a patch, it has to be implemented during development and built around. A-life isn't coming until Stalker 3 rolls around.
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Slav Power said:
AKA never. A-Life was unique to GSC having their own in-house engine
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Not really no.
The thing with A-Life is that, yhea it can, I mean youre gonna have to solve a lot of problems with AI fucking scripting and them going to places theyre not supposed to after it's implementation but A-Life in and of itself is a pretty typical use of NavMesh.
How it was supposed to work is that the NavMesh in Stalker also has in some nodes information for spawning NPCs, so that the entire map is rendered in a 2d representation in memory while you're playing and the do all their stuff, and then when you enter a map the AI can load in into and switch to an active AI mode. This way you can separate the AI modes for Passive and Active modes.
The thing is that, in Unreal Engine and Unity, you can do this. Adapt it so NPCs will only render in and switch to a Active state if they hit the render bubble and you're done, keep information about stalker squads and mutants (position and state) in your game save and have a singleton that handles all of this. This will make it so past saves are no longer compatible but you from there you can script the AI to act however you want. It's not an easy thing to do, but it's not impossible.
 
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Frightened Rabbit said:
It's not an easy thing to do, but it's not impossible.
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AKA it's not happening. We can also fantasize about a patch that rewrites the story, optimizes the game to run in 60fps on Ultra on rtx 1060, adds 20 new weapons, resizes the map so that it's not half empty etc, all of which are possible but won't be added, because they're just too much work after a full release.
The tired cat said:
That or keep milking Stalker 2 with the 3 (now 2) promised DLC's while going "Guyz! Buy Stalker! Or muh evul Russian will take over muh Ukrwaaaaineee!"
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Agreed, Jewtin killing Whites just to replace them with asiatics and jail the remaining Whites for hate speech is a tragedy, this shouldn't be used as an excuse for making a dogshit game. But they knew redditors have no standards and will eat it up.
 
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msd said:
Fuckin enable being able to turn off RTX you slavic shits, why do I need to slow my machine to a crawl because it has to process like 50 fucking shadows in a warehouse.

Just because I can run RTX, doesn't mean I want to.
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STALKER 2 doesn't have RTX. The enhanced versions of the original games doesn't have it either. All STALKER 2 has is UE5's version of RTX called Lumen. The enhanced versions of the original games have global illumination. You can turn it off and just use SSAO HDAO or HBAO. It's one of the things causing the blurry issue in those versions.

STALKER 2 is poorly optimized trash. It also uses UE5 which makes it worse. UE5 is a garbage engine. There is a reason why everyone calls games using UE5 slop. They often look like shit and run like shit.
msd said:
ID truly is back.

But yeah, nobody is like id, which is why I want the option to disable RTX, stalker 2 looks beautiful already
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No, STALKER 2 does not look beautiful. It looks like shit. It's all blurry because of UE5. It runs like shit as well. Anomaly with graphics mods look better than STALKER 2.

This is vanilla Anomaly with graphics mods and no GAMMA install.


It looks way better than STALKER 2. Much cleaner and more clear.
 
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So, I was re installing GAMMA and now its saying that the ddl files are blocked by windows. How can I fix this?
 
harbringer883 said:
So, I was re installing GAMMA and now its saying that the ddl files are blocked by windows. How can I fix this?
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It means you didn't follow the instructions on the how to install channel on the d*scord. They explicitly tell you to make the two folders for the install exempt from windows defender and to turn off real time protection during the install for this exact reason.
I've installed GAMMA 3-4 times now and follow the install to the letter and never had a problem.
So i guess to answer your question: The fix is start over and this time do EXACTLY what it says.
 
Epic_Doomslayah_93 said:
It means you didn't follow the instructions on the how to install channel on the d*scord. They explicitly tell you to make the two folders for the install exempt from windows defender and to turn off real time protection during the install for this exact reason.
I've installed GAMMA 3-4 times now and follow the install to the letter and never had a problem.
So i guess to answer your question: The fix is start over and this time do EXACTLY what it says.
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So, I did do this upon installation, but it turns out Norton 360 was being fucky, so I had to uninstall it.
 
Frightened Rabbit said:
Not really no.
The thing with A-Life is that, yhea it can, I mean youre gonna have to solve a lot of problems with AI fucking scripting and them going to places theyre not supposed to after it's implementation but A-Life in and of itself is a pretty typical use of NavMesh.
How it was supposed to work is that the NavMesh in Stalker also has in some nodes information for spawning NPCs, so that the entire map is rendered in a 2d representation in memory while you're playing and the do all their stuff, and then when you enter a map the AI can load in into and switch to an active AI mode. This way you can separate the AI modes for Passive and Active modes.
The thing is that, in Unreal Engine and Unity, you can do this. Adapt it so NPCs will only render in and switch to a Active state if they hit the render bubble and you're done, keep information about stalker squads and mutants (position and state) in your game save and have a singleton that handles all of this. This will make it so past saves are no longer compatible but you from there you can script the AI to act however you want. It's not an easy thing to do, but it's not impossible.
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STALKER 2 will sadly never have the level of mods the OG games and Anomaly/CoC have for one reason: the xray open source has been out SO LONG that there isn't really a reason to learn UE5 modding tools, which I'm sure are much different than xray modding tools, just to do something that you can probably do in xray anyway.
Not to say that I think S2 won't have ANY mods, I'm sure that in 1-3 years once the SDK comes out of beta there will be a decent array of mods that turn S2 into something resembling a half decent STALKER game, it just wont be as robust or as popular as the OGs.
 
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