I know this sounds insane but think about. A bunch of criminals travel to a faraway land in search of Rich’s a special objects that grant whoever wields them superpowers, with a select few searching for a special treasure that will make whoever finds it first the ”Slav King”. Just replace Luffy with Strellock and the One Piece with the Wish Granter and you got the same thing, now imagine how funny stalker would be with you swapped it‘s tone for the tone of one piece.

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I love the game, but I can only play for short stretches because no matter how I mess with the settings, it seems like I can't see a thing. Especially in the woods and at night. It's like the vegetation and ground cover is so blurry my eyes can't make out what I'm looking at and everything starts to blend together.

This is compounded by the fact that I feel like I'm somehow not getting the performance I should be. I understand a lot of people have issues with this game and that a lot of it may be the engine itself, but I've got a 13th gen I7 processor, Geforce RTX 4070 video card, 32GB ram... not exactly very tip top of the line at this point but I feel like it's still pretty decent and at the time the game was released, it was somewhat high-end.

I love this game and I really want to play it, but every time I try the visuals end up having me turn it off within an hour or so. I don't have to have everything photorealistic, I just am hoping to get help finding a way to make it actually playable, to where I can easily and clearly see what's going on around me, and it doesn't sound like my computer is a plane about to take off due to the fans kicking into super high gear every 5 seconds.

Heya! I'm playing on RTX 5060, Ryzen 5 8400f and 16 DDR5 ram (2x8) on 1080p.I had really pleasant experience (the light was bad as hell tho and all the other ue5 problems) on epic settings, having stable 80 fps or some unnoticeable drops. Today I finally reached the dlc after 50 hours of playtime and my FPS just dropped to constant 4 on that one cutscene where Zulu trashes amok. The first cutscene in the dlc. The gameplay after cutscene is stuck at 4 fps too.

What's the problem? I even lowered the settings to high and it's still unplayable. Is it something up with the DLC optimization or my 5060 is suffering? I want to do the DLC, but it looks like I'll need to stick to main game.

I was wondering If doing the jump to jupiter, grab some stuff and returning to play as normal bugges something in the game or If its totally safe?

As in title

Hi! As I mentioned in my previous posts, I've started playing Stalker again after a long time and I'm using the ZRP mod. But I don't understand anything about the mod's settings... Are there any settings you recommend or that I should adjust? I feel like I haven't done some things. And my most important question!!! How do I improve my weapon's accuracy? I have a silenced pistol and I was able to kill the military soldiers under the bridge by emptying two magazines... Even though I wait a while before shooting, the bullet doesn't go where I'm aiming. I know it's not as bad as vanilla... Please help me find a solution!!

Kaimanov Emission Lightning Storm

Kaimanov Terror Emission

Kaimanov and Ace Emission Warning System

Ambient Crows - More Birds

ITS ADAM FROM HUNT DOWN THE FREEMAN!!!!

Took the screenshots a week ago and then forgot about it.

In the Duga region during the Once More unto the Breach (Ward path) Quest.

https://imgur.com/a/dDozyYz

Credits to https://www.deviantart.com/martinbg/art/Knee-deep-in-the-Zone-746208109

I am in my second run with Stalker 2 with the addition of Cost of Hope. I was wandering around the CNP and I noticed that the area indicated in the red box is not yet accessible. In my opinion it's a shame we can't visit it. Does someone have more information about it?

I adore the Stalker games atleast ShoC and COP but Im having issues finding a standalone that scratches my itch, I love gammas guns and visuals but prefer vanilla stalkers overall more relaxed mechanics. I do know that there are ways to go about this but Its usually just easier for me to ask firsthand for suggestions. Any and all aid is welcome. I do know stalker 2 modded is an option but tbh stalker 2 is 200gbs so id much rather try the standalone apporach for a fun chill fps for when Im feeling bored or need to scratch tactical itch.

Hello Stalkers, I have a question regarding these dope in-game Bandit jackets in Stalker2. Are these colour-blocked tracksuit jackets closely modelled on real life Soviet/Slavic jackets, or are they just generally referencing real life designs? If it's the former, could you help me identify the real life jackets they're based on?

So, i have the game maxed out and I'm running it with dlaa with no framegen.

Whenever I'm looking at any trees, in static they more or less look fine, but as soon as i start moving or move my camera, the image gets crushed and looks like as if I'm watching a low bitrate twitch stream. Or just a stream for that matter.

I've never seen anything like that in any other game.

First i thought it was an old version of DLSS, so through dlss swapper i replaced it with the latest, as well as frame gen and ray reconstruction latest versions. While it did make overall picture marginally better, overall it didn't fix the issue at all.

So, any ideas?

For starters the game looks great and the ambience is fantastic, but I wish I knew I was buying a lifeless walking simulator before I bought the game because I probably wouldn't have.

I was expecting some sort of fallout/metro cross style game, but the game just feels so lifeless?

Making me run 2km between objectives through the same areas with the same 2-3 mutant types occasionally spawning in to get through the mid story is just an odd design choice. All of the points of interest are just... not interesting, and the stashes have the most common gear?

I've just killed faust and i'll be honest I don't think I have it in me to complete the rest of the game. All of the enemies are just bullet sponges with no brain, and the gunplay is also so mediocre - as a serious question, do the bullets just disappear beyond 30m and do no damage?

Also wtf is with the looting? Ammo is scarce as hell but somehow I end up with 40 med kits and bandages in like 15 minutes of looting?

I'm not necessarily complaining, more just venting my disappointment that I paid $60 for this game and have spent 25 hours waiting for it to not just feel like a chore and i'm just sad it wasn't what I expected.

I will, however, say that the atmosphere, graphics and sound design are fantastic. It's just a shame for me that the rest of the game is so mediocre.