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>>14944617

>hype

>for stalker

Call me when they make one actually finished game worth playing.

I wish there was shit to do in CoC

What recent mods came out that are worth playing? I played the shit out of CoC when that came out.

>>14945347

>I played the shit out of CoC when that came out.

What do you even do in it that is better than just playing the original games? This is a legit question because everytime I play it I never know what to do other than revisit some areas. I noticed the CoP areas still left in random story scripts.

>Being hyped for anything in current year

>>14945430

The second pic is cool, but the first one is way too overdone for stalker. It looks like a HL2 enemy on steroids.

>>14945434

its a placeholder name honestly, hopefully they'll change it instead of doing the retarded lazy thing that is just putting a "2" in there.

TRAILER IN 4 HOURS!!!

>>14945466

No shit? For real?

>>14945466

link or you're a nigger, dont play with my feelings

>>14945485

same

>>14945377

More maps and weapons, progression is less linear. You still have some of the previous games' story quests to follow depending on which faction you pick. The finale is way different too.

>>14945529

>Finale

Wait wut? I just dicked around and revisited most of the labs/underground areas. Didn't see signs of a story or 'finale' anywhere.

>>14945452

This. The first one reminds me of enemies in dead space, where most of them split into thin tentacles and shit like that. It also seems to be going for that "blood and gore" look that all the western games are going for, when Stalker always went for the deformed yet familiar look. The first one is meant to shock, while Stalker was more about getting this eerie, insidious feeling and setting that creeps up on you and works long term rather than short term.

>>14945562

At least in the version I played, you follow some of the old story bits like going to Strelok's hideout and such. The finale is a weird final boss fight by the monolith, after which you go to radar to the monolith war lab. It's different from SoCs ending.

>>14945298

>>14945430

>>14945479

Are these even official? Fan.com gives me doubts.

>>14945347

I'm having fun with Misery right now. If you play it, make sure you start out on black road since the normal start sends you out with way too much equipment that is way too good – once you manage to get out of the zombie-infested shithole they start you off in and get to Skadovsk, you can have fun trying to scrounge up enough money for a decent shooter and a shitty overcoat, then build from there.

>>14945698

I didn't have much fun playing it when I tried it years ago. The cost of everything just made it annoying to play and I wasn't a fan of the class system or inclusion of drugs.

>>14945673

They were on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 Wiki page in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R wiki and they usually citate their shit, though the page for it is broken right now for some reason.

In other words I don't know but god I hope so.

>>14945746

class system is stupid, but I successfully ignored it since start anyway. Higher cost of things is a plus – in-game economy in vanilla was utter shit and you ended with more money than you could ever use very soon. Now you're constantly short on cash meaning you have the motivation to earn it and go artifact hunting etc.

>>14945968

But games like Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat are already great games, mods just add onto the experience.

>>14946070

Sounds like Bethesda, but don't worry the Creation Club will even have people pay for that!

>>14946165

This shit comes up every time stalker is mentioned. It's bait and those fags never even played stalker, because the first thing anyone will tell you is "Play vanilla master on your first playthrough"

>>14946354

This. Even, dare I say it, Bethesda games are playable on vanilla. Mods, as was said before, just add to the experience.

Here's the movie for anyone who hasn't seen it already. Sage for off topic.

>>14948412

What the fuck even happened in that webm?

>>14949175

not him but I'll answer because it's pretty funny, he shot his legs so he couldn't move, then closed the door and threw a grenade at him kek

>>14949792

That's pretty fucked up.

But also hilarious.

>>14947096

I saw this movie a week or two ago. Not what I expected at all but very unique. I think it's one of those movies you have to watch at least once in your life.

>>14945673

>>14945808

Its concept art when Stalker 2 was originally in development.

Then the dev cunt cancelled the game

>>14949972

Console players are up their with protestants.

>>14949972

>>14950531

Did you finish masturbating to the new gears of whore game announced by based microsoft and you decided to come shit up a thread now that you're done?

trailer is less of 30 minutes holy shit guys!!!

>>14951343

>>>/cuckchan/

>>>/oveninaction/

Do any of the factions in CoC have a good hobo phase? I wanted to try monolith because they sounded really cool, but suddenly realized you get dropped off towards the end game and suddenly load up on OP gear. Same with Merc the other one who seemed interesting. It kinda sucks because I see a ton of potential in both these factions.

>>14952583

Nevermind. It's the Arsenal Overhaul mod for CoC. Gives everyone, even bandits, lategame weapons.

Anybody know what the stalkers are saying when they say

"sig dabuda"

I hear it a lot and want to know what it means

>Source Filmmaker

All hope just died.

What is with Call of Chernobyl and bandits casually walking around with PMKs, Strikers and Vintorez's? Shits broken

>>14945389

>seen this pic a hundred times

>only now notice "Is" and "Better"

Had a genuine kek.

>>14944617

>play STALKER for the first time

>decide to go murder an entire military base

>after some fighting climb up on the roof of a building to escape death

>find a cluster of soldiers all standing perfectly still

>kill them

>crawl down a ladder

>don't loot the corpses due to some combination of not wanting to manually loot and not wanting to be shot while looting

>go to Agroprom underground

>keep dying

>set the difficulty lower

>still keep dying

>realize the problem isn't difficulty but lack of ammo

>go back up to loot ammo again

>tfw gonna get a real desktop computer next month

>finally gonna try stalkin without the lag and stutter from my laptop

now this is hype

I wish there was shit to do in any stalker game. Holy shit these games are supposed to be open world, yet they really have nothing worth doing in it.

>>14989567

>No gay ass skyrim quest compass kill 5 rats nonsense/

>Nothing to do.

Go play Goyout 4 some more.

>>14989733

>Not enough wolf scrotum collecting missions that reward you with Todd giving you a rimjob while you hike that mountain?

<Collect the Snork part

<Collect the pseudodog tail

<Collect the Bloodsucker tentacle

<For a quest give that is on the other fucking end of the map, for a quest that was giving to you automatically

On a different note, does it make more sense to join the Duty raid or help Freedom defend the Army Warehouse in Shadow of Chernobyl? I currently use a stash in Rostok, but with Red Forest/Pripyat/Chernobyl NPP basically being end-game content with little need to revisit the other areas tied to the Duty base, buddying up with Freedom so you can rebuy supplies and ammo if need be seems more reasonable.

Or should I just ignore the two respective quests altogether?

>>14990406

>buddying up with Freedom so you can rebuy supplies and ammo if need be seems more reasonable.

I actually like to side against the faction that uses the same ammo as I do. That way when I'm running low I can take a tour through their base and stock up on free ammo and meds.

Their bases are also like 2 minute walks apart so its meaningless to pick them based on distance.

Fuck Clear Sky.

>>14976352

beats "me"

I've been playing AA2 for so long and still conflicted if I prefer banilla or not. I like what it adds though. Feels more squatty.

>>14992433

Interestingly enough, this would make it worth trading with other stalkers. Since you can buy their modded gun off them.

>>14948412

That looks pretty good, what mods did you use?

>>15014213

>sergeiy

More like Ser-GAY

I'm not sure about you guys, but a change of scenery for when you know I damn well mean if STALKER 2 comes out would be pretty nice. I tend to think of the roadside picnic locales, but that would be a far better fit there than in a Stalker game. I've seen people throwing around Fukushima, but hell, I'd even take an American city turned hellhole thanks to the US trying the same sorts of experiments.

>>14944657

Ah, the contra-contrarian. One of the rarest autists in the flesh.

>>15014295

Why? They'd have zero reason to. Eastern Europe is a pretty uncommon setting for games, let alone Chernobyl. It's what everyone expects out of a sequel. GSC also did a fantastic job of portraying parts of russian language, food, military and whatnot because they themselves are ukrainians, so if they tried a different setting it probably wouldn't be as authentic.

Not just that, but I'd imagine they'd get some pretty negative press if it was set in Fukushima because journobloggers might call it "insensitive". And there's a thousand shooters set in the US, people would just call it a Fallout copycat. They'd shoot themselves in the foot if they just threw one of their biggest selling points away.

>>14944617

To be brutally honest with you and knowing the history of GSC and Sergei I'm actually more "excited" about Metro Exodus

>>15014294

In spanish Ser(being)-Gay

>>15014295

While this could be a good idea, the appeal of STALKER games and to a lesser extent METRO is their slav take on slav fiction and how well they portray how shit everything would be in that scenario.

Slavs, having lived through the worst after the fall of USSR have a knack for telling really grounded and depressing stories, not depressing because they make you cry but because of the eerie authenticity in how things are, the way people act and the overall feel of the experience.

Making a game about a setting they don't know anything about would be suicide because it's hard to convey what you don't know. That said, I'd love to see a post-apocalyptic game in that vein made by japs to see what kind of approach they take.

>>15014213

>Stalker /fa/

How many pepsis this clothes would cost ?

>>15014715

>>15014573

Those are some pretty solid points. I guess I didn't realize what the repercussions would be for trying somewhere new. I was going to try and disagree about the whole articles bit, but after some of the other shit I've seen written, a clickbait article defending "those poor PoCs" wouldn't be out of the realm of reality.

If not a new location entirely, maybe more locations around Chernobyl itself.

>>14945434

>>14945458

Clear Sky is a prequel, therefore not 2.

Call of Pripyat is technically a sequel, but both CS and CoP are just standalone DLCs. Therefore S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is a fine title.

>>14946712

>Bethesda games are playable on vanilla.

Fallout 3/4 are certainly not, I'd argue Skyrim needs them too but I played like a hundred hours vanilla when it came out so that'd be me talking out of my fucking asshole.

>>15015535

I've had the same thing happen expect it happened in Yanov Station.

>>15015588

1.4.22 survival is bugged as fuck. I tried sleeping for 1 hour and it spawned in 13 zombies.

>>15024315

Well, my prediction was wrong, so score goes to the Zone. I don't even know what that was in there.

The place was packed with 22 stalkers just sitting on the ground chilling and chatting. The bloodsuckers were there, but they were just strolling around among the stalkers, fully visible. That's a lot of heresy, but I was on the clock so I had to ignore them for the greater objective.

On the way out, the predicted monolith squad did appear, but they burned through the heretics like a cleansing flame and I almost felt bad for killing them on the way out. Managed to find a gauss rifle and a minigun for my troubles, so I can now afford to repair my armor and one of my shooters.

It turned out to be a pretty good day.

>hype

>/v/

enjoy being called a shill by goons.

>>15025282

You really shouldn't be hyped for STALKER 2 though. Are there even any STALKER devs left at GSC?

No offence my dude but the game has a release date of 2021, three years from now, and we've yet to see any gameplay, so cool your jets on the hype

>>15025853

Wouldn't going to consultants be a bad thing anyways?

>>15025853

I remember shitting on someone on a previous STALKER 2 thread for being hyped, I told them given the nature of the announcement and the history of this title, the game was probably on early stages of development (but I didn't imagine it was just words on text document early) and that it probably needed a publisher because Sergei wouldn't be able to fund such endeavor by himself considering the average budget needed for a game these days.

This just confirms everything…

The only publisher mad enough and with enough money to pick this up right now would be THQNordic but I seriously doubt whoever picks it up is gonna put up with Sergei's bullshit. I can already smell the troubled development for this game and the fact that it isn't coming on 2021

>>15025853

Just fucking look at Cossacks 3. I don't think anyone is fooling themselves at this point. Best that can be hoped for is that they just take STALKER CoP engine, spend a bit of money on development so it doesn't look like a total and complete sham, and we get something to work with when it comes to openxray and its derivatives.

>>15028699

or just make something easier to mod. its annoying when your own hardware isnt whats bottlenecking stalker.

>>15026813

> the average budget needed for a game these days.

We're talking slavs here, they can produce a game for the price of a case of vodka. THQNordic producing would be interesting.

>>15028699

I really doubt they use that engine. If anything the game will be made with Unreal 4.

>>15028739

I know games are cheaper to produce there however that doesn't take away the fact that they need MILLIONS of dollars and I doubt Sergei saved his allowances for this.

THQNordic is the most likely publisher to pick that shit up. They've all but consolidated all of THQ's previous IPs and subsidiaries, even gone out of their way to publish "promising" indies like Mighty No.9, Kingdom Come Deliverance and Shenmue 3.

Also they own Deep Silver which published Clear Sky. Then again, if they decide to bite the bullet and fund this, I don't think they'll let Sergei do his shenanigans.

>>15028577

>if you kill the motherfuckers, the winners will be them

DEAD AIR HAS BEEN RELEASES NIGGERS

https://www.moddb.com/mods/dead-air/downloads/dead-air-english-translation

>>15037842

Also make a thread about it faggot

>>15014295

>try to psionically rewrite humanity's collective unconscious to brainwash mankind

>accidentally tear open a hole in the fabric of the universe in doing so that'll tear apart the Earth hopefully in a matter of decades

>halfway across the Earth a research team looks at what you've done and goes "y'know what? I should do this too."

>>15025853

"Surprise hit"? You understand that there were three STALKER games developed and published before that first version of STALKER 2, right? And you're aware that the development team that formed Vostok Games weren't the first development team formed to work on STALKER, right? That there had been at least one mass exodus of STALKER developers beforehand, forming 4A Games about a year before the release of Shadow of Chernobyl? Did you just think that Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat were so massively different from the first game just because, and not because it was a completely different development team (assuming that there wasn't another mass exodus of developers in between the two) working on them? And why the hell would someone need to "steal" an IP that they already own? And you're aware that the STALKER 2 that was being developed by the team that became Vostok Games would have been console trash, right? There have been so many interviews with former members of that development team stating that they left GSC during the development of that version of STALKER 2 because it was turning out to be console trash.

>Download Dead Air

>Expect a 100 times superior Call of Chernobyl that plays better, looks better, is better

<It's just a shitty Misery mod

<It looks nothing like in the videos and screenshots

<Bland brown everywhere

<Sound is not directional and sounds like shit

<Skills have retarded descriptions that don't explain what they even do

<Stealth doesn't work

<Ugly reshade makes the game colors look even more washed out and the sun effects are ridiculous and there is bloom everywhere

This was not the mod that I was promised. Call of Chernobyl with addons is still the best Stalkan experience. Dead Air is a false god.

>>15038758

Is Dead Air for 1.5 or 1.4.4 CoC? Can't seem to find for what version it is.

>>15039003

It is standalone and doesn't need CoC.

Just install it somewhere in it's own folder. Though I am warning you, the mod is so far uber garbage. The reshade by itself makes it look like shit. Colors are washed out and everything is bland. Stealth is still broken and the sound is a mess.

>>15042257

Same thing on my g36.

Its's my own fault because of weapons mod. Figure out where to edit weapon ltx files and weapon upgrade files. Now have a SCAR Light. Fuck you game I win.

>>15025853

That sounds exactly like something Sergei would do.

>>15044312

What mods do you run besides Dead Air? I want to switch from Misery that I picked up after not playing Stalker for years but I'm pretty bamboozled by the number of mods that can fit on CoC.

DA seems like a better, more open Misery. And it's got kar98 so I'm pretty much sold.

>>15044355

Since Dead Air has everything packed in database files (that seemingly currently can't be unpacked with the unpacker for CoC) you can't really go nuts with modding yet, I grabbed Structures Redux for CoC 1.5 and it runs without issue since it's just a texture replacement. Similar texture tweaks should be fine, though flora ones might not work (I remember trying one with Misery and it made the ground look fucked up and patchy). The game seemingly has that mod that lets factions go anywhere but toned down somewhat. I've seen a few zombies in swamps and Clear Sky in Cordon, but very few of them and absolutely no sign of Monolith. So it seems they dealt with the issue of it turning into a huge fucking mess as the game goes on.

In short grab Structures Redux as it's a huge improvement to building/vehicle/etc textures, besides that there's nothing so far unless you want to experiment.

ANyone know the russian for "Glory to the monolith"?

>>15046290

Я большой педик!

>dead air

>make it to army warehouses hoping I can sell mutant parts to that freedom merchant (forgot if he pays full price or not)

>approach freedom camp gate

>bunch of corpses and an izlom + 4 snorks running around

>deal with them assuming the guards just got killed

>get closer

>tons of screeching, moaning and other mutant sounds, some new barricades and a sign that I assume says danger/condemned or something

>the freedom base is abandoned, overrun by mutants and the entrance has monolith and freedom corpses scattered everywhere

I take it the guys who made this didn't like freedom lel.

>>15047162

Why would anyone like the zone's version of antifa?

>>15044312

Kill anyone in cordon inside a house and see what happens

>>15048357

I take it you refer to killing a friendly loner? If that's the case it's not really what most people would think of as stealth being broken. The game doesn't seem to check whether or not someone else is around to see you murdering a friendly before aggroing others of that friendly faction on the current map. It could do with being fixed but considering most people think of stealth as "sneaking up on enemies" saying stealth is broken without explaining what you mean is kinda misleading.

>>15046827

>Я большой педик!

мой русский не хорошо как я не дибил

>The fucking mod crashes every 5 minutes for no reason

Not even CoC with almost every fucking addon available crashes. Why the fuck does this pile of shit refuse to fucking work properly? I need to save every 4 minutes just to be safe.

Do you think they'll add new factions? Looking at Clear Sky, I wasn't really happy with any of those you could join

Freedom

>May be right about Duty killing off mutants only causes more of them to spawn due to influence of the C-Consciousness

>Large variety of members ranging from true idealists like the Duty commander to "Dude, weed lmao" stereotypes.

>Tolerate bandits and vice versa for some reason.

Duty

>Well-organized, force with many Stalkers that have military experience

>Want to "kill" the zone while having no idea how, also openly admit that their mutant purges only cause more of them to show up

>Cooperate with the government via Spetznaz/Ecologists

Loners

>Acknowledge that the infighting between Duty/Freedom is stupid

>Have some of the most experienced Stalkers in the Zone

>Most numerous faction in the Zone, but loose organization means they can not effectively put these numbers into use for large-scale campaigns

Bandits

>Hated via literally everyone except Freedomfags, have no meaningful purpose other than ripping off rookie stalkers. Have no actual desire to explore the zone.

>Shitty equipment even in the expert ranks. Do not even give good loot when they keep harassing you with shotguns and Vipers.

Mercs aren't playable, Military isn't playable, Clear Sky and Renegades are tutorial factions, and the Ecologists aren't playable either.

>>15050409

Thats the smallest of that games problems. I'd say the biggest is that they just copied the map from SoC and added a few areas

>>15051165

Use flash artifacts and just run everything that isn't a monolith asshole with an assault gun.

>>15056008

Why do you need girls other than the Zone?

>>15051165

Like the other loner said, use artifacts for stamina/weight and just run like hell. Also you don't need to bring a lot if stuff, in case you're burdened on your way there.

>>15052413

>is that any good?

In the videos and screenshots it looks awesome but in reality it is fucking garbage. It's just a Misery knock-off with better animations and other little gimmicks. It crashes every 5 minutes and the comment section is filled with people complaining about bugs.

And of course the devs who are russian once again let everyone know that Russians are the niggers of the white race and they never reply to any bug report and keep us all in the dark because apparently we westerners just don't matter to them.

Unless it get's fixed it's completely obsolete. Just play Call of Misery with your favorite addons and you got a much superior Dead Air.

>>15056060

Gunslinger when?

>>15056078

Never ever

>>15056224

Bloodsucker hookers.

>>15056008

The zone is a woman, she just needs taming.

>>15056280

>No. The zone is a brutal killing zone.

What are you, a Dutyfag? The Zone first and foremost is trying to defend itself against hostile elements (i.e. Stalkers) invading its body. It iwill not fall in love with you, but if you respect the zone, the zone respects you.

>>15056060

I never bothered touching anything Misery related since its initial release was a shitshow as well. Is there a modpack that unfucks it or something?

>>15056289

You could not change the current reality and the zone KICK you out!

>>15056331

ZRP if you actually want vanilla. I think it might also have some optional settings like NPC repairs and sleeping, but I'm not sure. But at that point it's not vanilla anymore.

>>15056289

>The Zone first and foremost is trying to defend itself against hostile elements

FREEDUMBS OUT!=

The Zone is the hostile element. It appeared out of nowhere on HUMAN territory. It needs to be destroyed.

>Dutyfag

Both freedumbs and dooties are retarded.

>>15056348

True, not so "vanilla"

But not able to fix your gear in ShoC runs I have not done since 2007. I think game needs that.

>>15038399

I know what you're saying but on the comment regarding the IP, if he's "afraid" of the IP being taken from him it means that he has a license which probably has an expiration day.

In business it's common practice to keep milking a property in order to not lose the rights to it. I don't know the details but if you don't do something with a license/property for an extended period of time it goes back to its creator or becomes public domain.

>>15056365

I looked it up and ZRP has a few mini-mods you can enable, like sleeping bags and repairs. I'd still suggest it since it doesn't change the game drastically but just fixes bugs for the most part.

>>14944617

>>15056383

What did he mean by this

>>15056378

Yeah I was exploring, the site could do an update though because download links wont work for jackshit.

>tfw you were 9 years old when SoC came out

>tfw you remember your older brother spending hours playing it

I haven't played it since I was 12, so ~2010, but I downloaded a GoG copy and ZRP.

Has anyone angered the military checkpoint and resulted in them invading the rookie village?

>>15056656

>Has anyone angered the military checkpoint and resulted in them invading the rookie village?

Pretty much everyone does that. Talk shit, get hit.

I haven't played CoP in a while. What's a good mod that adds weapon variety (especially bolt action rifles and auto shotguns) and neat animations to go with them?

>>15056964

If you want to only play CoP then go with either Arsenal Overhaul or STCoP Weapon Pack.

For graphics use Stalker Two K, along with the Grass Pack. For environment use AtmosFear 3.

I personally suggest getting Call of Chernobyl instead, since it has every single Stalker map plus some cut content.

Also, if the Stalker Two K textures are too big, I suggest using Absolute Structures Redux and Absolute Nature Redux. They are meant for Call of Chernobyl but should work with CoP too.

>>15057013

Thank you for the quick writeup. I was pretty much lost after a few years of not paying attention, the moddb page is full of mods and I had no fucking idea what to choose.

>>15057032

Most of the new stuff is garbage and unfinished mods. The only decent stuff released was Call of Chernobyl and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly. Everything else is mostly slavshit or shitty overhauls.

Most of the good stuff were released as addons for Call of Chernobyl. Just go to the mod's addons page and download whatever you like.

>>15056289

this freedomnigger shits up every single STALKER thread with his hippie nonsense.

Any way to improve performance with Call of Chernobyl? I only have a toaster to play on.

Are there any other large freeplay mods with all/many maps that is not too hard on a potato computer? I play Narodnaya Soljanka and it runs okayish, are there more mods similar to that?

>>15058635

I will be sure to try that, thanks.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

>>15058666

You're welcome, Satan

>>15062676

dude weed lmao

>>15056300

There is Les Miserables and a upcoming weapon pack.

>>15062624

Removed acid from the game.

>>15062990

It would be pretty interesting if they was a some kind of graphical mod where the Zone became more colorful and happy if you smoked some in game. Or muh patterns for acid. Or tunnel vision or whatever you get when you do coke.

At least Freedom would have an explanation for it's existence.

>>15063079

It somewhat exists

>>15056008

It's named after a movie.

>>15063937

It's based on a book.

>>15063953

I've only watched the movie, so fuck me I suppose.

>>15063980

the name of the book is "roadside picnic"

>>15066588

I know what it's called, I just don't know why they're called stalkers in it.

>>15067326

it stands for "Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killers, Explorers, Robbers"

>>15063097

You know, from the thumbnail I thought this was Far Cry 1

>>15069722

They were thinking "Oh fuck we're out of money for this one let's wrap this up somehow".

>Want to use the ASVAL/VSS in CoC+AO3 because it's my favorite IRL rifle

>It is made completely and utterly obsolete by any modded 7,62 rifle

Fuck this gay earth.

The HK417 fully upgraded with Acog, silencer, grenade launcher and AP rounds is the absolute best weapon in the entire game. There is no reason to even play with anything else. Meanwhile the VSS with the much heavier 9x39mm round does half the damage, has shitload of bulletdrop and is expensive to repair.

>>15070697

Anomaly.

Who do I sell damaged weapons to in Dead Air? Or with what do I dismantle them? Shit like crowbars do nothing.

I have some 5k worth sitting in my svidorovich lockbox.

>>15071405

I've never actually played any of the soup mods. Not sure if I'm missing out, but they do look hilarious.

On the upside, I pointed the out of place NPC models out on the moddb page and the author said he's gonna remove a few. So that's good.

>>15073395

Anomaly has a feature that lets you disassemble guns, provided you have the tools. You can also set weapon condition to be tied to NPC rank, so an expert is gonna drop a weapon that's better taken care of than a rookie.

>>15073888

No idea about Dead Air. It is a pile of garbage that crashes every 5 minutes for no reason. I have modded CoC to it's absolute limits and never crashes. Looks 1000 times better, runs 1000 times better and has 1000 more stuff to do. And yet Dead Air shits itself every time.

However, I'm sure the files must be roughly the same as CoC.

It should be at \gamedata\configs\misc\trade

Choose the trader you want and set 'buy_condition' to 0.0

If it's different then at least try to find something that looks somewhat similar. If the slavshit developer made his own retarded bloated scripts and paths that look nothing like the superior and easy-to-modify CoC ones then you're out of luck.

>>14944617

>read about stalker 2 getting announced

==!!!!GET HYPE!!!!=

>Play CoC

>Zaton is infested with zombies and monolith, doesn't look anything like it was back in CoP. No more comfy stalker patrols walking around, just mutants and retarded monolithdumbs. The map feels dead

>Yanov is 100% dead, devoid of all human life with the exception of the ecologists and some mercenary who I found patrolling some tree for some reason. The map is empty with only mutants living in it

What the fuck were they thinking? These maps were the comfy as fuck in CoP. Stalker patrols everywhere, firefights, etc. Now it's just an empty shithole.

>>15077780

Also in CoP you had Stalkers actually searching anomalies for artifacts. In CoC I haven't even seen a single loner walking outside of Skadovsk. And Yanov station is empty, just the trader lives in it.

>>15077780

>>15077793

Don't you have to disable the brainscorcher if you want areas north of it populate?

>>15081151

Not sure. I think the Brain Scorcher chiefly protected the center of the zone, whereas CoP takes place in sections that are as far north of the zone as the army warehouses are south of it.

Where is Ray of Hope?

>decide to try SGM 2.2 Lost Souls

>person I know tells me I absolutely must turn alpha squad on

>finally arrive in Zaton

>realize I've been had

Time to go grab that RPG-7 back

>>15083278

Mention it here if it does happen. Might give it a try if you get a bit further without one, failing that I'll wait for it to be toggleable.

>>15092060

>antifag in a stalker thread

like pottery

>>15092067

Excuse me?

>>15092070

You're excused, now get out commie.

>>15092070

>>15092075

Ian is rumoured to be pro-antifa, but is confirmed to be an outright denier of anti-white activity in South Africa, to the point of lashing out at people who try to expose it.

>>15092075

>posting a picture of a white genocide denying commie is acceptable

>>15092076

you were excused, commie faggot. Go now.

>>15092078

He's a member of an antifa group.

>>15092078

>>15092083

That's news to me. I always figured him to be pretty apolitical, since he always seems to want to avoid stirring shit up.

>He's a member of an antifa group.

Source?

Either way, sage for offtopic.

>>15092101

I thought he was making a joke regarding me killing a military guy in the game, not because of the image I posted.

>>15092096

>I always figured him to be pretty apolitical

Yeah, I was surprised, too.

>Source?

Haven't seen one, that's why I said rumoured. Supposedly he is a member of a "John Brown Gun Club," or something like that, but I wouldn't put much stock into that.

>>15092096

>>15092112

To clarify, no proofs of Antifa support, yes proofs of "South Africa is just fine, and fuck you if you think otherwise!" (although I keep it on my other PC)

>>15092114

>can't even sage properly

Well I may as well ask here: are there any games coming out that feel like stalker that aren't Metro?

>>15092121

every fucking time i turn around some guy online i found funny or interesting goes and does something retarded that insinuates that i shouldn't watch their videos anymore, what a drag.

>>15092121

Well, that's disappointing.

>>15092122

Escape from Tarkov, which sucks ass. Vostok is making a battle royale game, which will probably suck ass too. In short: no.

>>15092129

This is why you don't clench onto ecelebs. indulge but don't endorse, and watch his videos on hooktube or something.

>>15092137

I wasn't a worshipper of him by anime means but it's a bummer when they can't keep their politics to themselves

>>15092156

leftists can't help themselves, they don't care if they alienate half of their fanbase. virtue signalling is cancer

>>15092134

>I imagine they love these threads for larping reasons

Okay, fuck you. I already told you that I didn't know. You can't expect people to keep track of every personalities' political alignment at all times in the current year and lash out when they aren't informed. It's fucking insanity and I can't keep track of it. This shit seems to happen every other day I'm honestly tired of having to care about this horseshit so I don't step on someone's toes.

>>15092156

> by anime means

haha I meant "by any means"

>>15092172

You learned your lesson, don't be a faggot and you won't need to be bullied again.

>>15092172

I don't blame you, anon. You're okay by me.

>>15092194

The one being a faggot here is you and you know it.

>>15092194

Learned my lesson how? What do you expect me to do, spend all my free time to sift through the youtube comments of virtually every e-celeb and keep a fucking political chart of every single one of them? Eat shit. How about you try to educate next time instead of immediately lashing out like a retarded pit bull?

>>15092202

I appreciate it. I'm just sick of being unable to post anything without it being a political thing. The internet has become fucking awful, it used to not be like this 10 years back. Now it's impossible to avoid.

>>15092134

Well fuck. I really enjoy his channel and I'm sure I will keep watching his vids, but at least I'm unsubscribing and not liking any again.

Thanks for telling me.

>>15092230

Learned your lesson by being the target of a discussion based on something you posted that you didn't understand. Try and keep up.

>>15092252

And in the process you derailed an entire thread by insulting me, instead of just telling me flat and saving everyone time. Good job, anon!

>based on something you posted that you didn't understand.

So you're telling me I should not ever post anything again, just in case I might not be in the know?

>Try and keep up.

With what? Be more clear.

>>15092290

Is this your first bullyciding?

>>15092294

Is this your first time avoiding someone's questions? Because you know you're in the wrong?

>>15092304

Keep acting like a faggot and the thread will never be on topic

>>15092315

You know full well that's your fault.

Sure is a surge in here

>Decide to start using 5.56 guns in AO3

>They take an entire mag to kill someone

What did they mean by this

I want to use a damage multiplier addon, but that also works for NPCs, and half the NPCs are armed with G3 rifles that 2-shot me even in exosuits and I don't want that to get even worse.

wat do

>>15092330

The difference is I don't care.

>>15092348

You're assuming that I do. I'm fully aware I'm just arguing with a rotten person that's not worth arguing with. You don't have authority over anyone, you're just a fucking timesink and an energy siphon.

>>15092346

Isn't the balance in AO3 kinda busted, just due to the sheer volume of guns?

>>15092365

It uses roughly the same damage as vanilla CoP, so no.

>>15092490

I just remember the .308 rifles were god tier compared to everything else. Back when CoC only came out people usually recommended AO for quantity, STCoP for quality.

>>15092587

they somehow managed to make the same areas worse

HOLY SHIT STALKER 2 GAMEPLAY REVEALED

>>15092346

>AO3

I still dont understand why KS-23 is in 12 ga, its unique ammo + price was already a way to balance its insane damage.

Any other games besides Metro that (even if vaguely) scratch the STALKER itch? I'm disappointed with Dead Air but still want to play something along the same lines.

>>15092346

I'm pretty sure the damage addon works only against npc and not against you. It modifies the NPC's resistances to damage and changes the damage multipliers on certain parts on certain armors. Shooting a military guy in the stomach is better than shooting him in the chest since it kinda simulates them having plates in their vest now and that kind of jazz.

Just download it, I'm using it and the game is vastly better without having to mod individual ammos myself.

>>15098395

You're referring to the Warfighter addon right? I'm using it now too, and it has made firefights better, but it also makes you easier to kill.

>>15098454

Huh, well I didnt notice much change, I still get killed with 2-4 rounds.

>>15098463

With heavy armor and exoskeletons you most likely won't notice a difference. The addon made low-med tier armor weaker than it was in the base game, and made heavy/exosuits stronger than they were.

I'm using a fully-upgraded Hevy Seva suit and my surviveability has gone up.

>>15098466

I see, well I think the balance is pretty good. AI's wearing exos feel a bit more tankier than me but thats ok since they dont go for headshots as often as I do and the player can always pick positions a bit better than the AI to compensate for the slight disadvantage.

It's nice to kill and be killed in a few shots it actually makes it feel threatening when you get shot at.

Anyone playing dead air? Been looking at info and videos and it looks breddy gud.

Comments on the moddb page say its standalone meaning I dont need to instal it over my CoC I'm guessing?

>>15092346

What version of coc are you using? And what version of AO?

>>15098536

CoC 1.4.22. I would love to try 1.5 but I'm pretty sure half of my addons wouldn't work with it. I will wait until there is an official full release and addons start getting compatible.

As for AO, I use the latest version.

>>15113484

Protip: The Gauss rifle isn't the strongest weapon if you're using Arsenal Overhaul. The VKS does the most damage out of any weapon in the game, with the exception of the RPG maybe.

>>15122316

We're all one race, anon, the humen race. :)

>>15122316

Jesus, is that actually Karl?

>>15123860

If it isn't, they certainly have a good grasp of his mannerisms. Karl is supposedly neck-deep in the infosec community but he's almost completely oblivious as to what the internet actually is and how people interact.

He's like a stereotypical movie "tech" guy.

>>15092121

First screenshot was tampered with and posted from someone's phone to deceive, by the way. Anon admitted to it on /k/ in his sperg thread.

>>15122316

>1st pic

>"is just… ugh."

Holy shit what a fucking faggot ass commie.

>>15123884

Yeah, I recall him making a video regarding some security leak a while ago. And those posts do read like how he talks.

>>15123891

What did it originally say?

>>15114335

Thanks for the tip, but it'll take a while before I even have these available. We lost all resource points and the trader was only selling the low tier stuff. Also might end up using the gauss anyway just because it's cool and futuristic.

>>15038758

>Stealth doesn't work

You have to be as light as possible. The enemies hear your heavy footsteps. While I don't do knifing, only carrying a bolt action with the most efficient number of bullets possible and a sawned off pump action with stimpaks does wonders for your stealth. Also dropping ammo packs can help. I can basically run across the whole map and no bloodsucker, dog or snork comes. Ditto for sneaking in Dark Valley.

Black suits like the duty armor makes you basically invisible at night against low tier enemies. I kited the whole Dark Valley bandit bandwagon through the forests and their base while taking no damage. The suit color and its relation to the background is more important for stealth. Hiding beneath a pine tree also makes you invisible to high level enemies with night vision.

Just drop stuff you don't need in a field backpack above base level before you go on a stealth mission.

The only thing I would complain about is how everyone in the base somehow "knows" when you stealth kill someone with a silenced handgun headshot or knife stab. While you can set up a booby trap/mine for the inquisitive vatniks and hide, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

Also a tip for any bolt action/sniper user: you can load your weapon faster by dragging ammo from the inventory into your gun than doing it via the animation.

This also frees your carrying slots.

>>15124659

I play as Mercs and have edited his .txt file so he can sell me every armor and weapon in the game. If you don't like that though, then go to Nimble at the Cordon rookie village, he sells the VKS for 100,000 RU or something, I'm not sure how much exactly.

Once upgraded, it even has higher fire rate and accuracy than the Gauss. The only downside is the ridiculously expensive ammo, but it kills even exosuits with 1 shot unless RNG fuck you up. As an engame weapon however I doubt money will be an issue.

>>15127791

>The suit color and its relation to the background is more important for stealth.

Holy shit, so I an play both Stalkan and MGS at the same time? I thought Dead Air's concept of stealth was just retarded blind enemies with spot parameters down to the single digits. The absolute madman implemented legitimate stealth?

>>15128270

>I thought Dead Air's concept of stealth was just retarded blind enemies with spot parameters down to the single digits.

Nope it isn't just Dead Air. I noticed this in Misery before. Don't know about the vanilla since I haven't played it in 10 years.

The problem is that the vision distance for your enemies is really low in vanilla. They have a 140° vision cone and they can also hear you.

So that makes the problem that you described.

>The absolute madman implemented legitimate stealth?

Mind you that I also installed the tweak addon which makes it actually workable. Vanilla Dead Air has the same blind enemies where I could run up to the tree on the military checkpoint and no one would give a shit despite being 10m from them.

Now the military can see and shoot you almost instantly due to their "high level" and night vision. But you can play cat and mouse with bandits that use flashlights to paint targets on their faces.

>>15128413

I have no fucking idea why Stalker mods have a hard-on for making the traders asbolute jews. Guns need to be 70%+ ''almost perfect' condition to be sold - which rarely are. Their prices are always absurdly high and you always start with a shitty jacket no matter what faction you choose.

It makes no sense and it's not fun. I always have to exit the game to fix their shitty absurd trader parameters in order to make the game not cancer.

I hope S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is as good as CoP's mod but without the Misery hobo-phase autism.

>>15128700

Dead Air solves this somewhat as bartering with other stalkers is cheaper (though not as reliable). They generally value things higher than traders do while also not charging as much for things. e.g. shotgun rounds are 100RU each rather than 130, so if you carry some stuff with good trade values around and check stalker inventories you can get some good deals. I found one dude selling a pristine gas mask so bought it for some ammo and a pile of junk materials. Generally I only approach merchants for shit stalkers don't sell or stuff like the gas tank. I've had no problem getting enough ammo from bartering and killing bandits. I'd estimate that it's about 40% cheaper to barter considering the lower prices and higher sell values, you also find some really neat shit at times.

Besides that something to remember is that Librarian gives way better prices for mutant parts, so don't sell them to Sid, the medic at the Clear Sky base also sells Bandages/Vinca/Medkits for somewhere near half the price Sid does, and Spore will generally give you somewhat better prices for things you decide not to keep for barter but doesn't accept as many things as Sid (primarily crafting materials/junk).

I do think prices are a bit much for things only available from traders so I use a modified Lootmoney script to pad out my cash a little, but besides the cost of gun repair I'm pretty happy with the economy in Dead Air. It would be nice if instead of having to repair guns to full you could just have them repaired to 75% so you could sell them or repair defects by yourself without having to burn loads of repair kits though.

>>15130708

This. I get all of my vodka and crafting supplies from Stalkers.

Librarian is also best for the artifact trade. He'll give a 1/3 more than any other I encountered until Rostok. Money becomes no problem with harvesting artifacts. Garbage flamer anomalies are great for it since they yield high value Droplets.

Also get used to keeping all of the crap you find and crafting stuff out of it. It gives you a lot of disposable income. Army medkits f.e. can be made by via the first aid and that acid ampule. Bandages from cheap moonshine and light cloth. Both of them are abundant.

When you first get a crafting kit or a drug making kit KEEP IT. Give the next ones to doctors/mechanics of your choosing.

My questions:

Which is best: a medkit or a stimpack when looking at the net health gain?

Where are the mercenaries since I need a silencer and western ammo?

Any hard spawns for the Tier 3 crafting kit?

>>14944617

>Stalker

What is this 2009

>>15132955

>What is this 2009

God I wish

>>15132955

It came out in 2007