S.T.A.L.K.E.R Thread

[Snekposter]

Call of Pripyat is great on the mechanic level, it adds a lot of shit that should be there already in SoC, but atmosphere-wise it's not as good as SoC. There's also the Misery mod for CoP which adds a shit ton of items (Stalker games just feel better where there is an autistic number of items and you can change between 12 different brands of vodka to cure radiation), weapons, improves gunfights and pretty much everything in the game, while still allowing you to play through the vanilla CoP story. CoP is a really easy game and Misery fixes that by forcing you to meticulously plan every venture out of Skadovsk up ahead (no headlamp at night? die instantly. no lead container going for an artifact? die instantly etc)

As for Clear Sky, we don't talk about it

Don't get MISERY. As the name implies its more about making things painful than making things difficult. Its also just as easy to break as basic CoP. Recon plus SEVA plus steel plates makes you damn near invincible. Especially because attachments like the plates reduce damage before the armor starts taking hits, so it lasts longer under fire than the heavy suits when you do that.

 

[McAfee'sCorpse]

I'm back. I finally finished SoC after taking a couple of weeks off of playing it because I was stuck on the brain scorcher section of the game. Pulled through, and beat the game legitimately. Partly because I don't know how to mod/unpack files. Nevertheless, I got the "I wish the zone would disappear" ending, but I knew I had made a backup save at the bar before going to Pripyat with the other stalkers. As we speak, I am currently beginning the push through Pripyat, having a meeting Doctor, and trying to get the real ending. There really isn't anything I can compare this game to besides one of my favorite game series, Metro. Stalker's atmosphere and the setting are unique and refreshing, and one of the most interesting and immersive open worlds I've ever played in a video game. The combat is pretty good and more tactical than most other shooters, and most of the time (keyword MOST) the enemies are fair in their spawning. The story is great but a little predictable though, but It is still serviceable. SoC is now probably one of my favorite games ever. Now I gotta play through Pripyat and maybe Clear Sky for the sequel coming next year.

 

[Kill a Troon for Pikamee]

Don't get MISERY. As the name implies its more about making things painful than making things difficult. Its also just as easy to break as basic CoP. Recon plus SEVA plus steel plates makes you damn near invincible. Especially because attachments like the plates reduce damage before the armor starts taking hits, so it lasts longer under fire than the heavy suits when you do that.

MISERY looks and feels great but I agree the fights are not very good

However, the Russians have managed to combine MISERY with Gunslinger and it feels like a completely different game from basic MISERY, you have all the good things from MISERY but all guns etc. are overhauled and it's probably the best shooting in any Stalker game. Loving it so far, the only downside is you have to play with the default class

 

[Snekposter]

MISERY looks and feels great but I agree the fights are not very good

However, the Russians have managed to combine MISERY with Gunslinger and it feels like a completely different game from basic MISERY, you have all the good things from MISERY but all guns etc. are overhauled and it's probably the best shooting in any Stalker game. Loving it so far, the only downside is you have to play with the default class

I hate how MISERY handled those classes. Mostly because when don't get hit is the name of the game being able to take slightly more damage as the Assault dude isn't handy. Especially since the heavy armors he gets the best use from are far worse than a SEVA thanks to attachments being king. And there's not really much of a reason to use a heavy weapon over something say the FAL Para given how close your fights typically are... and the weather makes Sniper painful since you know, its all fog and rain half the time.

 

[moocow]

Now I gotta play through Pripyat and maybe Clear Sky for the sequel coming next year.

I don't care what anyone says -- Clear Sky is just fine. The first couple of hours are rough (it's easily the toughest start of the three games) but IMHO it's pretty good after that. It doesn't quite rise to the standard set by SoC and doesn't feel nearly as open as CoP, but it's still fun and it's still a fine Stalker entry. And more Stalker is always a good thing.

 

[Internet!]

man STALKER brings back so many memories. No other game is as immersive as this one for me. Hyped as shit for STALKER 2 bros..

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

Wendigoon made a Stalker fan film. You can tell he a call of duty player that only know of stalker from /k/ memes and spooky moments on YouTube. Everyone dressed like call of duty characters and using AR-15s.

 

[JesusChristDenton]

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Wendigoon made a Stalker fan film. You can tell he a call of duty player that only know of stalker from /k/ memes and spooky moments on YouTube. Everyone dressed like call of duty characters and using AR-15s.

Never forget that these people are tourists, they don't give a shit about the franchises they "love" so much.

 

[SiccDicc]

Never forget that these people are tourists, they don't give a shit about the franchises they "love" so much.

"Get out of here, TOURIST!"

 

[Slav Power]

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Wendigoon made a Stalker fan film. You can tell he a call of duty player that only know of stalker from /k/ memes and spooky moments on YouTube. Everyone dressed like call of duty characters and using AR-15s.

Never forget that these people are tourists, they don't give a shit about the franchises they "love" so much.

No, the issue is that Wendigoon and most of the current western STALKER fandom learned of STALKER through OperatorDrewski shilling STALKER Anomaly/GAMMA, their first and only contact with the series is a mod that mashed together freeplay Call of Chernobyl with artificially difficult MISERY, and an addon for it that turns it into Escape from Tarkov. Then they declare themselves fans of the series and ruin it for everyone, throwing out all the old fans.

For comparison, here's what a proper STALKER fan film looks like. Made by people that actually care about the source material and want to faithfully represent it on the big picture.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

I've had the personal misfortune to interact with some of these tacticool faggots who think that STALKER is just Cawadoody and Tarkov, and they are, indeed, the biggest faggots ever. All of them I've ever known are literal cocksuckers or trannies, usually with heaps of anger toward someone in their life who probably just wanted them to act like a normal person instead of dressing up like an anime girl to go to grandma's for Thanksgiving.

It was incredibly jarring. Finding out this random faggot liked STALKER, I was like, "huh, no shit" and tried talking to it about SoC a bit, and it was clear there was a huge disconnect from the get go. Found out later, of course, that it had only played Anomaly and never even tried the (mostly) vanilla game and that the interest was not at all in the world or the atmosphere but "DA KIT". Like clockwork it cried about some Canadian (lol) law that was attempting to be passed that didn't let kids cut their own dicks off before the age of 4 without parental consent or something a few weeks later.

These "people" are a plague and it's a shame that yet another niche fanbase is being overrun by faggots and trannies.

 

[Slav Power]

The damage that Anomaly and GAMMA did to the STALKER community is one thing, but it also had a second major blow in 2022. This is a Ukrainian game with a large Russian fanbase, so the moment when the entire world started antagonizing Russia and glorifying Ukraine it got even worse. People no longer cared about the games, they only cared about getting mad at Russians because that's what the media is saying.

Add the pettiness of current day GSC to the mix and you've successfully destroyed a once uniform fanbase. r/stalker is just dicksucking Anomaly/GAMMA, /sg/ often turns into a shitshow because someone mentioned either Anomaly/GAMMA or Russia/Ukraine spat, and about every smaller community also got completely destroyed and divided, because of Anomaly/GAMMA and Russia/Ukraine spat.

 

[The tired cat]

The damage that Anomaly and GAMMA did to the STALKER community is one thing, but it also had a second major blow in 2022. This is a Ukrainian game with a large Russian fanbase, so the moment when the entire world started antagonizing Russia and glorifying Ukraine it got even worse. People no longer cared about the games, they only cared about getting mad at Russians because that's what the media is saying.

Add the pettiness of current day GSC to the mix and you've successfully destroyed a once uniform fanbase. r/stalker is just dicksucking Anomaly/GAMMA, /sg/ often turns into a shitshow because someone mentioned either Anomaly/GAMMA or Russia/Ukraine spat, and about every smaller community also got completely destroyed and divided, because of Anomaly/GAMMA and Russia/Ukraine spat.

Which is hilarious, since GSC keep fucking themselves a plenty, from stupidly leaking a build of the game of their discord to not knowing any English or Ukranian, yes, Im serious during several interviews when these jackholes were asked questions in UKRANIAN they asked to repeat them in RUSSIAN because they couldnt understand jack shit

 

[Lieutenant Rasczak]

You can tell he a call of duty player that only know of stalker from /k/ memes and spooky moments on YouTube. Everyone dressed like call of duty characters and using AR-15s.

Even old /k/ is pissed off or laughing at this film because it doesn't even have the atmosphere or aesthetic of the STALKER games. It looks more like Escape from Tarkov or the number of Escape from Tarkov esque mods for STALKER. Actually for that matter, Tarkovisation, soycom, or whatever you want to call it is a subject that could be gone over in detail much more. Because it's not just a phenomenon in STALKER alone, but it's in a lot of games and has even run rampant in the gun world.

EDIT: Reason why I brought up /k/ is because S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a fundamental part of the board's culture. From the S.T.A.L.K.E.R./innawoods challenge to various S.T.A.L.K.E.R. related memes being popularized because of /k/. It's a big chunk of the board's core culture.

 

[WULULULULU]

What these mega-terminally online faggots forget is that S.T.A.L.K.E.R is not about guns nor combat. Its about survival in an alieniated location that can and will kill you either because of mutants, fanatics or anomalies. The environment will always be the franchise' worst enemy, worse than bandits. It also has its somber moments. Friendship, camaraderie and trust factors in with various inhabitants, while also opening other traits such as betrayal and greed.

These worthless fucks have turned a survival-based FPS into a basic-bitch CoD Warzone map.

Also, these faggots almost always have a gacha game as one of their interests. Its either Nikki, GFL or Blue Archive, each with their own brand of degeneracy.

 

[Snekposter]

I fucking miss the old SoC vibe where you go into the Agroprom Underground and there's all sorts of fucked up glowy puddles and weird shit and then you have the GIANT MIND-MELTING BRAIN in X-16. Really gave a serious vibe of "Holy shit REALITY IS LITERALLY BROKEN" the later games don't quite have. Especially since they don't have uniques that are anomalous items in their own right like the regenerative body armor that sat in a Fruit Punch anomaly or the Combat Chaser shotgun that has a Gravi artifact attached to it to boost muzzle velocity and damage.

 

[realitysurf]

I fucking miss the old SoC vibe where you go into the Agroprom Underground and there's all sorts of fucked up glowy puddles and weird shit and then you have the GIANT MIND-MELTING BRAIN in X-16.

The first encounter with the controller in Agroprom Underground will always be the most memorable moments in gaming I've had. That fucking thing took me like 30 tries to kill. I don't think I've come close to what I felt during that encounter anywhere else in gaming. During the later half of the last Tarkov wipe I got really bored so I decided to try out Anomaly (having no clue that S.T.A.L.K.E.R had been subverted by trannies) so I downloaded GAMMA and did a playthrough. It didn't have an experience that felt like the original STALKER games at all. It really did feel like a Tarkov clone because the gameplay loot is just task --> loot. GAMMA just doesn't visit the absurdism of the zone and it feels like a completely different game. It was still fun, but it fucking sucks to see a game that I grew up on get colonized by eunuchs.

Also, these faggots almost always have a gacha game as one of their interests. Its either Nikki, GFL or Blue Archive, each with their own brand of degeneracy.

Can someone explain this Blue Archive shit to me? It looks like some generic gacha slop but I see it permeating into communities I participate in. Are the people who post this shit tranny freaks or chudbros?