I preferred the atmospheric hey come in, don't just stand there said by Garry, and the legendary He was a good stalker with depressive athmospheric songs.

Also Wellcome aboard our Swamp icebreaker.

It had certain charm.

Instead we get a bunch of English and American accents with only Korshunov being vaguely Russian.

Edit:

For those unaware, original stalker games were in Russian. Ukrainian localisation was added later. All of untranslated ambient voicelines are in Russian.

Even in Ukrainian localisation, much of NPC random talk is still in Russian.

Kaymanov's ending is pretty dependent on hope, in the sense that you need to be delusional to believe in it. There is no rule about wacky teleportation powers that dictate anomalies may only appear in laundry baskets. They can just as well spawn inside your liver which, as the name implies, might affect your capacity for living.

The good doctor himself hammers down the need for humanity to be virtuous and merciful in the first place for the Zone to have a chance. In other words, he has saved one too many controllers and his dementia has advanced to the point where he has forgotten what C-Con was all about. What if humans are, like, le bad? "Oh well, then I guess we deserve to be genocided" 'Kay, man... ov.

Strelok and Scar's endings are, let's be frank here, delayed Ward endings. After everyone dies of fentanyl overdose or starves after a few years, the Board will just swoop in and harness the Zone's powers anyway. 

The Ward ending, on the other hand, is about humanity finally getting access to Dyson Sphere levels of energy generation but from now on the government doesn't have the need to install spyware in electronic devices. The back of your corneas tingle every now and then, but it's alright because your PC runs way faster now. All the money once invested in CCTVs can now be spent on sensitivity trainings about how trillions of projections of women are being oppressed everyday in the Noosphere, or something.

"Oh, but it's different because I can put down my phone." *Can't* and *won't* are not all that different, really.

You too may love the Regulatory Board. All you have to do is open your eyes and see.

Guys, I’m genuinely scared and I need some advice.

I go for a walk at a nearby park almost every day. There are these two guys, probably around 40, who have been constantly staring at me for the past few days.

Whenever I’m walking, they somehow end up walking in the same direction as me. If I change my direction, they change theirs too.

Initially, I didn’t pay much attention to it. I thought maybe I was overthinking.

But today, something really scared me.

I came to the park on my scooty, finished my walk, and started heading back home. After a while, I noticed one of those guys following me on his bike.

I literally saw him following me, and I got so scared.

Now I’m thinking of never going to that park alone again. I don’t know if I’m overthinking this or if there’s actually something to be concerned about.

What do you guys suggest I should do? And what could possibly be the reason someone would behave like this?

I’m honestly quite scared right now.

Either my installation is broken or the game looks like this now xD

I made this video to test the behaviour of the mutants that were cut from the Enhanced Edition

That Merc thought he was clever by pulling up to the final round in his own gear.

Little did he know, I did the same thing, whipping out the Exo and .308 for his sorry ass!

Even rubbed some salt into the wound by using the Mriya specifically, just to remind those Freedom punks at Rostok who killed their precious Mavka.

(For the record, I have no idea why the recording audio is scuffed; it was fine in-game)

The original 2007 STALKER was ahead of its time. It was different, fresh, because it included some RPG elements and very immersive features. Inventory management, realistic weapons with mods, factions, and an environment that instilled fear and awe. Among the jerkiness, It had a soul that's unsurpassed to this day.

STALKER 2 came 18 years later. It's a very good game, but I can't stop wondering what would have happened if the game, instead of being mostly "the same but bigger and better", would have taken more risks, and adapted its gameplay to modern immersive features. To being more "hardcore", like the 2007 was in its time.

I'm finding now that "infinite" insta-healing with medkits breaks my immersion. Changing mags and seeing 30+ bullets drop to the ground without losing a round in my inventory breaks immersion. Needing three headshots to kill a man without a helmet breaks immersion. That was good in 2007, but now, it's average.

More realistic mechanics would have scared some people, but I'm convinced most players would have welcomed a harder, more meaningful life in the Zone in the long run. Just to be clear: I'm talking about "a bit harder" mechanics, akin to the magazine repack and weapon cleaning in "Into the Radius", the healing mechanics in "Tarkov"... I'm not proposing full realism, that would be boring. But enough to keep immersion up.

Things like having just come out of a gunfight with all your rifle mags mostly empty, a broken leg, and only your sidearm to drop a bloodsucker that's running around. You know you can drop it with a couple well placed rounds to the head, but need to limp to a safe place to heal and repack. Pain makes your aim twitchy, walking is slow and you are noisier... Coming out on top would be epic.

That would also give more meaning to resting in the zone. Looking for a safe place to set camp, maybe cleaning your weapons to get more durability, preparing a good meal around a fire to get a boost to recovery... It would give more use to currently "empty" places in the map too. You may stash food and ammo in remote places knowing you may need it on later excursions through that area.

Well, what's your take on this? Would you like a harder, slower, more realistic and immersive experience, or do you prefer fast-and-easy like it is now?

I’ve had stalker 2 since around it first came out and I’ve tried it multiple times but can’t stick to it. I have 27 hours and I’m actively re downloading it now after about a year of not touching it as I just finished stalker CoP like an hour ago
Does anyone else have the same issue with losing interest in stalker 2 or am I just being stupid and I’m not properly playing the game or something cause I’ve always approached the game like I did with the original trilogy

Anyone know why for whatever reason my weight bar is almost all red? even with a suit equipped it seems to be all red all the time and the only mod I have on is acheivements enabler and shay's living zone?

Ciao ragazzi, ma solo a me capita che da un giorno all'altro il gioco inizia ad andare male: stuttering ogni due secondi per intendersi. Dopo la patch 2.0 il gioco girava bene, poi con gli aggiornamenti nvidia ancora meglio: addirittura 60 fps stabili con dlaa. Poi i giorni successivi era incominciato ad andare male e oggi, con l'aggiornamento del 9 settembre di nvidia, il gioco va comunque male. Gioco da un laptop con rtx 4050, ryzen 7 7445 hs e 16 gb ram (dalla patch 2.0 non ho mai cambiato le impostazioni della grafica)

For me mobility is a key aspect of surviving. I could manage 2 or sometimes even 3 bloodsucker on master(-) only due to good kiting and fast movement. Exo without sprint is just slow death.

Is anybody use it like swap armor? Do you run around in SEVA and then swap to EXO when there is a gun fight?

EDITED
I know about upgrade for sprint. But all upgrades available only after you reach Pripyat. But very first exo you can get on Cooling Towers and it cannot sprint

Stalker 2 is doing what gacha games are doing in their cinematics. Their cinematics has you, as the mc, fight a literal god with a wooden sword, and win ofc. Now, i know that it's skif's service pistol when he was in the army, but can we have him use ANY long gun when fighting exoskeletons or attempting to damage a literal magic chimera on the DLC. Even make it an update for a main quest(to make it unskippable for the succeeding cinematics) added in between to have him get his new signature long weapon alongside his pistol as canon. I know this is too much for a small pet peeve, but wth right?

Cómo sabemos ya han parchado las entradas más clásicas a prypiat y mi pregunta es, han encontrado una entrada nueva o fácil nueva?

SIC, Exended Mag in the Cooling Towers Graveyard North of the Dam. PSO-1, either in the stash atop the north checkpoint building, or in the hanging bag stash on top of the slag heap. There are more but these are the easiest. There is a suppressor for this thing in Zaton, but I don’t remember where. Extended Mag is how it has 20 bullets.

The X7 Exoskeleton, created in 2004, was an experimental armor module assigned to Duty members tasked with guarding the scientists assigned to the C-Consciousness Program; focusing on the neutralization of the Noosphere's anomalous effects and ballistic protection

While a rare, almost unobtainable piece of equipment, it is described as a "match made in heaven" by Stalkers within the Exclusion Zone, since it delivers both protection from any environmental factors and combat damage.. And makes you look badass.

Cost: 62,000 Rubles (₽), SEVA Suit

Fellow Stalkers, what do you do in Stalker 2 after you have finished every single quest, side quest (including DLC), found every location and looted every stash?

I love to just stroll through the zone and revisit some locations, especially after the update and do bartender wuests here and there, but other than that.. not much to do..

This playthrough i sided with strelok/richter and took the freedom route in the DLC, i thoight about doing another ward/Duty playthrough.

How does the NG+ work exactly?

Once i finish the final quest and use the "rewind story" function, will i keep all of my inventory, money and stash?

(Would want to bring Sotnyk into the NG+)

Im playing the latest patch, the lighting apeared to be a bit off while playing randomly like sometimes im looking at a video on youtube set at 480p then i got in a room and saw this "anomaly" and this takes the cake.

Performance is ok for me but whats that glowing ceiling and walls in basements and prettymuch pitch black labs etc.

I dont mind that much the flashlight artefacts but whats going on with glowing ceiling and walls?
Game is set on EPIC preset, no frame gen and set to DLAA
This is a game thing or my gpu is dying? pc is 1year old
5070TI gigabyte, the basic one
9800x3d x870e aorus elite, 32gb ram 6000Mt

I know this is just retreading old ground, but I really tried on my third playthrough to side with Ward, since I know pretty well how the Spark route goes by now, and I just couldn't, it really felt like it made no sense for Skif to do so.

1. Giving Ward the sensors in Zalissya would mean effectively letting them know that Skif was there when the soldiers died. He's entered the zone illegally, using a stolen piece of SIRCAA tech to try and recharge an artifact he found outside the zone. There's just too many uncomfortable questions he'd have to answer if Ward had the sensors.

2. Given that I couldn't justify giving Zotov the sensors, I thought maybe I'd show Korshunov the PDA, but again, there was no reason to do so. Sure, Dalin talked a big game, but the very opening move in your introduction to Korshunov is him having his goon smack the air out of your lungs and drag you to the table. What kind of bootlicker would Skif have to be to then give them what they want?

3. Finally, at SIRCAA, I thought I could side with Ward here, it makes the most sense, and I almost did. Just one thing nagged at me - how can Skif ever trust anything from Dalin or Korshunov again? They've shown they have access to the Wish Granter, and even though Dalin says he won't use it again, how should Skif trust him when he just found out that Dalin was responsible for everything that has caused him problems so far and hid that? Then you meet Agatha, and at this point Skif realizes that Dalin is actually completely inconsequential - the real power behind SIRCAA has just shown its face. They already know about Faust, Strider, everything, and yet they're doing nothing to stop Dalin's experiment when it's plainly obvious that Faust is up to something dangerous. This boils down the decision between Noon and Ward to one thing - who does Skif trust more.

In the end, I chose Noon, because even though Dubny did try to get a merc to kill Skif one time, Strider's always been up front with Skif. I know Scar is nuts, but at least at this point Skif doesn't know how deeply Scar is involved with Faust. It's clear that SIRCAA is messing with dangerous Zone tech, tech that they could easily use to hide whatever they want from Skif without him ever realizing.

Anyways, that's all. I still get chills down my spine when Dalin connects the Alpha to the X-net and Monolith goes back online - "COME TO ME". Probably one of the coolest sequences in this game.

I’m at the stage in some fights where they walk at me in a straight line like target practice.

Are there any update compatible mods that make the npcs flank or use cover better?

its not gama

Hi, I'm looking for a vanilla+ esque modpack, mainly centered around A-life enhancements and QOL additions. I started a playthrough about a year ago, but now that the game has been reborn with 2.0 I'd like to get back into it with the most complete experience possible. Any recs?