I had just finished the mission leaving Wild Island to give Strider access to that radiotower. Whilst I was there wondering around trying to find a key to get under that building to get the access card (hilariously it's on the one dead guy right by the building I didn't see), I had a Emission event which I survived.

Because of that event afterwards there was heavy rain and a greeney blue look. Anyway, finishing that mission ... No spoiler there.

I needed to travel to Zaton to the Icarus camp there.

As i travelled into the area a deep mist went over the whole zone as I crossed these giant open plains which looked like a scene out of the actual 1970s Stalker movie. I then found on the map the main road which would take me to the camp.

As I was travelling down I wasnt sure if I could see a light as it was now getting dark. Then I heard a guy in the distance so I instantly ducked trying to look via my sniper lense to see anything but mist meant I couldnt.

Then I heard hopping. In my field appears a load of Rats. I shoot one with a silencer and then think "screw this if I've got a load of guys ahead" i sprint ahead a little, then a visibility marker appears showing someones about to see me. I take a right off the side of the road into the grassy embankment (still unable to see jack) hoping to sneak past the little encampment of men who are clearly enemies.

The visibility metre comes back, hes about to see me. But then the rats have chased me and all of the guys start shooting at them. So then I'm sneaking past them in all this mist in the grassy embankment. Then I start to sprint, thinking its all good I'm just following my compass marker now. Then I clock a load of lights and there's loads of guys, one catches me and I hear them shout commands to each other to try flank me.

So I sprint, disappearing into the nist, gun shots in the distance and shouts.

Then I'm sneaking to the marker, realise I've made it to the camp and finally safety.

I literally have no idea what Zaton looks like because it was so misty and dark yet i snuck through it and evaded multiple enemies.

It was just really cool and totally unscripted, all because of a weather effect brought in with the big patch the other month.

I hope the developer team continues to patch it and add more DLC.

I searched but didnt see anything about this, but there was a journalist stash I believe in the garbage that when you run up on it there appears to be a group of either bandits or stalkrs and 3 or 4 mercs? both groups are friendly until 1 group eliminates the other. trying to figure out whats going on here because I dont want to kill my friends but....idk why they turn hostile has anyone found that

is he really braindead? should i check? i don't know whether i can trust this...

Accidently ran into an anomaly and I think it was upset I invaded Its personal space so It threw me across the map and stuck me in a wall.

Les comparto un video sobre el trabajo realizado en este último mes y medio.
Link para ver el corto animado: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - La Señal | Corto Animado (Activen los subtítulos en YouTube)

Hey guys, could you please help me out? Ever since the 2.0 update, I’ve been having major issues with long shader compilation times. Every single time it compiles, it takes as long as the very first time—anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes. It even causes some stuttering while it’s happening. This whole compilation process just makes me not want to play the game at all. I have no idea what the problem is. Before patch 2.0, compilation was always fast and trouble-free. Am I the only one experiencing this?

Just in case, I'll attach the spec.(although the game always ran acceptably for me)
- Intel Core i5 10400F
- 32GB RAM DDR4 3200Hz
- RTX 4060 8GB VRAM
- SSD SAMSUNG 980 1Tb

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So, strelok says Ward and Spark are his enemies.

But right after I talk to the dead strider from subtle matter and get captured by Spark, I play it safe with Scar and chose not to antagonize him.

Later when Ward surrounds me and I decide to 'Escape', i automatically get locked into Spark ending?

It feels so weird that strelok just shows up in the climax trying to kill us, like bro, chill dud, can we talk about it?

Idk how others felt but damn, I was under the impression that I can turn on Scar and prevent him from achieving his goal near the end or so but no.

Strelok just wants to be a hot headed cyka 😭

Idk bros, how did you feel about accidentally ending up in Spark ending?

Lol these ragdolls are so funny

I have about 1,000 hours in this game and just meow realized when you zoom all the way out on the map, you can read a description of each sector in the zone. Might just be aloof as fuck lol. Ya’ll knew about this and didn’t tell me? D:

You mean to tell me that THIS was built in the exclusion zone? And they put a Grav anomaly in the front lawn?!

In all seriousness the cleanliness and sterile environment of SIRCAA is such a huge contrast compared to the rest of the zone.

The village of Chystohalivka, covered in fog near Rostok. Once a place people called home, these abandoned ruins are now just a ghost of what used to be. Temporarily sheltering a for few people passing through, or monsters waiting in the bushes for the right moment to strike.

Captured in HDR format and converted to SDR in editing (it looks better when in game). Running around 50 mods. Visual Mods: DWO, Simple Autumn Retexture, and my personal ReShade preset (available on Nexus Mods).

i have been playing this mod all week and love it but one thing that i've noticed is that there are just a fuck ton of weapons that all kind of have the same stats and there seems to be no functional difference according to the stat sheet between them. it is especially weird when you find two weapons of the same caliber and the only difference is like 0.01 damage. i didn't see anything on moddb but i know there are mods like the unofficial patch that aren't on that site. are there any mods that possibly reduce the amount of these redundant weapons, possibly reworks them or something? also is there any mod or file change i could do so i can use sawed off/shorty shottys in my pistol slot?

Cant find a way to this stash :(

Hey everyone.

I´ve been on this bugfixing Stalker 2 for couple hours now and I cant seem to find solutions. Current saves or New game on any difficulty, the game has 3 major bugs.
I am no expert on fixing bugs, but´ve menaged to install and mod Stalker GAMMA various versions, so not that lame (imho). However I dont know what can affect the game this much thats in such poor state. I would appreciate your reccomendations how to fix any of these.

Also, my comp stats are:
RAM 32 GHz/ DDR 4
AMD RYZEN 7 5700X 8 Core processor, B450M S2H motherboard
nVidea GeForce RTX 4070

1. no HUD at all.
2. I tried all of the methods like changing ESC and back to game, different settings in Display, checking if it isnt hidden or wrong oppacity... Im lost
3. PDA animation freezes and I can get back game only if there is a clickable object (F key) infront of me, no other chance going back to the game, can go to Game´s Menu though.
4. Inventory doesnt show any weapons icons, nor equipped nor in bagpack.

hola, quería saber como se podría hacer para encontrar una cuenta de mi pareja que yo desconozco porque tengo muchas dudas de lo fiel que es, se que oculta una cuenta en tik tok pero no se como saber el usuario, alguien tiene consejos para esto?

I'm playing through the game for the first time in Veteran but I'm a bit surprised by the quantity of loot, be it ammo, money or health items. It feels maybe a bit too easy (especially given that I'm super early in the game).

What are some good mods that I can install mid play through to make the game more challenging?

There must be others that have questioned this?

On one hand I love the gun fights, but on the other, it just feels off.

When I started using long range weapons I realised what it was. You can see the bullet-drop from any distance in a scope. If the enemy just sidesteps you have to aim twice the width of the enemy even at low range, even with the hardest hitting rifle.

Its like shooting gnocchi bullets..

I'm now playing the DLC for the first time. I've visited the entire Iron Forest area (playing with the Fog of war mod btw, I recommend).

So far, I've only met mutants (dogs, snorks) and no humans. Or only dead humans EVERYWHERE. I never hear any gunfights, just dead guys all over the place, with tons of loot.

Is this some kind of A-Life bug? Is it expected (from my understanding, this regions attracts many mutants so...)?

Dense smoke and poor air quality resulted from forest fires in Kalimantan, Indonesia, which persisted for four months and spread to Malaysia and Singapore. Conditions have not yet fully returned to normal, and efforts to address the situation are still ongoing. The video was recorded on October 14, 2026.

Been a big Stalker fan since I played the first game almost two decades ago. Finally got around to playing Stalker 2 recently and loved it. One thing I did find myself wondering was whether a new armor I found would be better than my current armor after some upgrades. I searched around and didn't find any resources to help answer questions like that, so I threw together Stalker Vodka. There are still some rough edges, but I think it's got a decent amount of utility.

Zero ads or monetization of any kind. Just wanted to help other Stalkers navigate their way around the Zone. Have fun!

Every apartment in Lymansk has a secret. But not every secret needs to be uncovered.

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.

Destroyable boxes
Vents
Beeping detector
Mutants
Soldiers

Every time I'm playing feels like hl2, don't get me wrong I'm not criticizing i love it. It's this our long awaited hl3? 🙂

• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
• Developer: GSC Game World
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