Why did it have to die?

>>383769250
It was too good for this world.

It made the money.

>>383769250
It'll come back someday.

Heres a better question.
Why hasn't it been more influential?

>>383769250
Escape from Tarkov.

>>383771504
I think about this all the time. Not only are there no stalker clones, but there don't seem to be many games at all that take any major influence from it. It's like its been forgotten.

>>383771552
They are nothing alike.

>>383771504
>Why hasn't it been more influential?

It has. Just not in obvious ways.

>>383771504
There's plenty of nuclear fallout games set in russia. I'm sure it had some influence with that

>>383769250
call of chernobyl is pretty good, i would love to be able to capture another factions bases, but whatever

>>383771552
shill pls go

>>383770530
New from Ubisoft. STALKER (no periods). An open world first person shooter. Perform missions for your fellow STALKERS (again no periods) and choose a side from the many (two) factions fighting over salvage rights.

Climb abandoned towers to unlock your map and pinpoint artifacts. Harvest mutant dog tails to upgrade your pistol some how even though that makes no sense.

STALKER (no periods) by Ubisoft coming 2019 exclusively to the Play store and XboxoneX and PS4 and later the Nintendo Switch in early 2020.

>>383772085

You can do that in Stalker Clear Sky but it was also shit so not much of a feature.

bad graphics

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>>383769397
fpbp

>/v/ is surprised Stalker isn't liked by normies
Do you even

>>383769250
It did not die.
It is in coma.
Devs, like all good artists saw that they are unable to make a sequel that would be worthy of it's name.
Meanwhile, they make money and carefully gather ideas and.

Sadly, all so-called F2P online spiritual successors are destined to fail. Because they are made with money in mind.

>>383769250
Bad gameplay, highly repetitive, poor english translation, terrible gun mechanics, extremely bugged, poorly optimized engine.

This game is not even worth it for FREE.

Also, before anyone says "b-b-but there are tons of mods for this game and you endlessly play it hurr".

Yeah, you forgot to mention that these mods take WEEKS to install because some assets are always missing, and that you have to tweak some files manually and hope it will fix the problem...

But the most important thing, is the fact that those russian mods are crippled by trojans, malwares, keyloggers, and bitcoin miners.

"B-b-but it's just a false-positive from your antivirus! The russians would NEVER hack someone... I mean... w-why would they?"

Skip this game, and pray that a new one never comes out.

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>>383773236
get off this board. now.

anyone that unironically hates S.T.A.L.K.E.R. should be permabanned from /v/

no discussion.

>>383772865
Normies don't even know what STALKER is any more. It is, however, one of those titles that get brought up every time PC exclusives are mentioned, for a good reason too.

Ironically, the open and balls-busting style of the new Zelda game have added some very slight new trafic towards STALKER as well, thanks to some of their similarities (open maps, breaking weapons (with no fixing in 1st one), and being able to rush to the very end if you git gud...)

>>383772047
>There's plenty of nuclear fallout games set in russia
Russia itself has always been a nuclear fallout setting. Trust me, I have to live here.

>>383772865
It's very poplar in the slavlands. And SoC sold 2 millions in a year alone, despite being a PC exclusive back when everyone was screaming "PCs are dead".

>>383773236
Imagine being this stupid

>>383772987
>Devs, like all good artists saw that they are unable to make a sequel that would be worthy of it's name.
Not really. Sergey, the GSC head, just made shitloads of money and didn't even have to move his ass an inch to live a good life.

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Monilith did nothing wrong

the new metro game will get me through for now, but I'm still sad

>>383773450
Most of the traffic STALKER is getting at the moment is from Call of Chernobyl

>>383769250
There's THREE Stalker games out there. How many more do you want?

>>383772223
if UBI got stalker I would probably kill myself for real

>>383774389
At least 1.

>>383769250
Devs got fucked if I recall properly.

There are some good books in Stalker universe for your stalkerlust.

>>383773236
get out of here stalker

>>383774429

Could be worse, could be EA

>>383774764
could be worse, could be Bethesda

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>>383772223
The worst part about this post is how fucking accurate it is. This is exactly what it would sound like if Ubisoft made it. They would take STALKER and slap on all the shitty open world mechanics they rehash in every single one of their games. Ubisoft is by far one of the most creatively bankrupt companies in the industry.

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>>383774764
>>383774810
could be worse, could be... no, it couldn't go worse than them.

>>383769250
Spiritual sequel when. Call it
Raider. Adventurer. Pilferer. Introverts. Scavenger. Tresspasser

>>383774389
>last one released 2009
>sequel cancelled 5 and half years ago
Geez, I wonder.

>>383774974
kek

>>383773236
This.

Stalker is fucking TRASH. The same contrarian retards who pretend to like this shit are the same ones who claim divine cybermancy is good. This game is an embarssment compared to good fps-rpgs like deus ex

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>friend couldn't beat the car park and gave up

FUCK

>>383775159
>>>/r/eddit

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Stalker setting would make a fine roguelike.

Cataclysm DDA is pretty close and open source.

I would pay dosh for that.

>>383774508
Some Russian faggot realized that he actually owns the copyright for the Stalker movie and decided to sit on it for shits and giggles. It's the reason why the multiplayer shit-spinoff was called Survarium instead. Stalker is off limits.

So even if there could be a sequel, there couldn't be that tasty, sought-after "brand recognition" that seems to be so fucking important these days.

>>383774810
>see Controller mutant for the first time
>it's just a dialogue interaction

>>383775342
>Some Russian faggot realized that he actually owns the copyright for the Stalker movie and decided to sit on it for shits and giggles.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is not Stalker

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>>383775159

CoP > SoC > CS
Prove me wrong

>>383775342
This is so wrong I don't know where to begin

>>383773954
I know, actually. Grigorovich almost went full John Romero. But he is just one crazy guy.
But if you look at development history of SoC, you'll see what I mean.

>>383775342
S.T.A.L.K.E.R and Stalker are 2 completely different entities, they're just both based on the same source material.

GSC is back in business, so a new STALKER game is possible.

>>383775484
I won't even try

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To hardcore for western babies
They would rather play mindless casual garbage like fallout

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>>383775159
>>/out/

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>>383775660
apart from the head guy every single person who worked on stalker are gone.

>>383775484
I literally can't

Man, I forgot about S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

I should reinstall. I still haven't played CoP. Is it better than SoC? (which i fucking loved)

also someone post related images

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>>383769250
slavshit garbage, not even actual russians play this trashheap, only larping russianboo retards

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>>383775889
play cs and cop don't bitch out

>>383775159
stop baiting mandalore

>>383775426
>>383775632
Tell this to the copyright court. Most likely the owner of Stalker persuaded court that this actually infringes his rights and it fell through.

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anyone else had this problem with lost alpha where screenshots are taken and have the brightness all the way down? pic related, cause in game it looks fine. No other stalker game had this problem

>>383775889
Do play CS before CoP. I played CoP first and I realized how much of plot I missed.

>>383775951
Гдe твoй бoг тeпepь, чмыpeнышь?

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>>383775951
it's time for you to leave the zone

don't come back.

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>>383775342
Hold the fuck up, why wouldn't that dense Russian just let them make games and claim royalties instead? This would print him fucking money for years, what the fuck is wrong with this guy?

It's like a reverse case of The Witcher, where a copyright holder (original book author) sold the rights to the game devs for meagre amount of dosh and now that Witcher has gained huge popularity he regrets his decision.

Fucking slavs have no fucking brains or what?

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>>383775889

>>383769250
>stalker 2 cancelled
>2 Mmo's pop up based on stalker, Are shit tier
>stalker devs "we got dis, mmo stalker with multiplayer
>2 years in multiplayer beta
>another mmo survival stalker like pops up
>multiplayer beta too
fuck this gay earth

>>383777062
He's making shit up, GSC was making stalker 2 until they ran out of money and went bankrupt.

Survarium was started by ex employees but the game is a bad cod clone and has nothing that made stalker good

>>383777237
Go read some STALKER books. Quality depends on the writer and they offer different interpretation of the Zone, but they are fun to read nevertheless.

>>383777447
Except for sounds and visuals.
They are great, buy their f2p model would not let them release good game. They hadn't released any singleplayer content.

>>383773236
>>383775159
god shut the fuck up retards

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>>383777546
Which books would you recommend? I want to get into stalker books but I don't want to waste my time on some medicore shit that barely follows lore of the game

>>383777237
2 mmo's?
I know one is survarium, whats the other 2?

>>383777237
Escape From Tarkov is going pretty fast though, it's heading into beta later this month

>>383778476
>>383778489 is one of them, i assume. No idea what the other one he's talking about is.

>>383769250
Why the fuck is this game popular? No seriously, explain to me why you love this game? Cheeki Breeki is not an answer, as it seems to me it only does suspense and isolation well.

>Tried to play it because I was told it was filled with spooky mutated monsters and had great atmosphere
>Play one of the games for 3 hours
>Running across empty fields for like 4 hours
>See nothing but humans and some dogs
>Alt + F4, deleted all of the games I had downloaded

Simply epic game you have right there.

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>>383769250
dev team fell apart - some wanted to make it more story-driven and went on to making Metro. Others have gathered together to make a microtransaction cash-grab (some might call it "free to play") multiplayer only game, like shooting other people in the head was the best part of the game

>>383778698
i love the questions that already contain an answer in it.

Also, you're retard

>>383778698
play it

>>383778698
Most games only do a few things well, it's very rare that a game will do everything well.

Just let it go. Why does every game series need to have infinite sequels? SoC, CS and CoP are fine they way they are. I dont want to have the trilogy ruined by shitty "spiritual successors" or "revivals".

>>383778806
Want to know how i know you're talking out of your ass? Because there's only 1 empty field and it takes 5 minutes to cross.

>>383778910
>>383778996
>>383779071
I already did play SoC, and I'll tell you right now it's a buggy mess and the AI is retarded unless you're playing on a difficulty where you instantly die so you don't see them being retarded. I don't believe isolation and the atmosphere could be enough to make it have this big of a following.

>>383769250
Three games are enough
Quality over quantity

>>383779071
STALKER is far from doing everything well - the facial animations look absolute shite (like, sub 2001-tier bad) and the optimisation, especially dx10 and higher features, is far from optimal. Also, besides CoP, every title has high chance of player stumbling into game-breaking bug (although that was fixed with unofficial patch, it's still bullshit to install mandatory 3rd party patches to make the game playable)

That said, the rest is die cast solid piece of work (that includes level design, soundtrack and general feel of being in familiar, but completely twisted setting)

>>383779142
You wouldn't want SoC with the current graphics, and seamless level transitions?

>>383772047
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is not set in Russia btw

>>383779380
>I don't believe isolation and the atmosphere could be enough to make it have this big of a following
to each his own

>>383772047
please name some of those - i'd love to play more of those

>>383779417
Didn't say it did anon, i'm saying there aren't very many games that do, if any at all.

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>>383769250
Because Grigorovich is a greedy slav bitch who bought a ferrari first thing after game's success instead of investing into proper sequel and team development.
Now he scrapes dimes with shitty Cossacks sequel nobody gives a fuck about.

Fucking cunt, all his interviews sound like he gives 0 fucks about the game, he doesn't deserve such title in his pathetic shitty hands.

>>383779580
i thought you were explaining the point of why the game is so popular

>>383779447
Russia wishes Ukraine was Russia though

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>>383779417
But's it's literally the only game in it's genre so it's what we have to use.

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>>383772047
>chernobyl
>russia
Get the fuck out of here. Why the fuck you even post in Stalker thread, cunt?

>>383779627
No, i'm saying that saying it only does a few things well isn't a valid argument, because the same can be said for any game.

I get how you could have interpreted it that way though.

>>383779426
No because that won't happen. Just look at Lost Alpha.

>>383771552
>escape from russian scammers
>no anomalies
>no mutants
>merchants are done offscreen
>no towns or quests
>literally a alright looking, worse preforming, shittier DayZ
Why do people think this is anything related to STALKER beyond "russians xd"
STALKER wasn't even made by russians.

>>383771504
>Why hasn't it been more influential?

Too hardcore, so casuals didn't flock to it and thus send trends for the devs to develop more games like it.

>>383779856
The gear system is pretty S.T.A.L.K.E.R-esque, that's about it though

>STALKER's "spiritual successor"
>takes place in Russia and not Ukraine
Really makes you think.

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>>383778867
>tfw went through the STALKER 2 concept art gallery for the yearly mourning
>all those cool mutants
>the walking tree mutant
>your pic
>the monolith with gasmask stitched to their face
>all lost to the zone
This is the stalker feeling.

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>>383779426
>current graphics

um sweetie

>>383779426
Anon...

>>383776128
Lost alpha is a buggy piece of unfinished shit.
Wait for dezowave to release his developer edition or whatever with all the bugfixes (its never ever btw :^))

>>383772223
This. It's a good thing good franchises are dead lest they be molested by greedy publishers.

>>383780114
Looks like shit.

>>383780308
Considering when the game was made, that looks fucking amazing.

How about instead of shitposting you post valid criticism instead

>>383775484
CS > COP > SoC
I didnt like SoC, I dont think it portrayed the gritty atmosphere people said it does, the others (Namely CoP) did it much better.
CS mods are GOAT and thats why I put it above CoP

>>383771552
I was really into Tarkov until I realized it was confirmed almost 100% PVP focused.
What a waste of potential. Would have been perfect for PvE co-op.

>>383780419
>says it's current graphics
>looks like shit
For the year it was made it looks glorious. For the current graphics standards it looks like shit. Lighting still looks correct though, gotta give the modder props on that.

>>383780463
I haven't looked in to it much. Does that mean it's basically a PUBG style game?

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>>383780283
well I'm having fun so far from the few hours I've done, maps are good.

Obviously there has to be a way to fix this otherwise how did they get their screenshots? Version 1.5 is coming soon so it might get better.


>>383780308
sure bud

>>383780598
>>383780114
The scenery looks amazing (even without mods stalkan games have pretty backgrounds honestly), but the player's hands and gun look really out-of-place and I'm pretty sure there's no way of getting around that

>>383780530
That wasn't hard was it?
Also I should have pointed out I wasn't the poster of that image, I agree it doesn't hold up to the graphics of newer games

>>383771975
Please continue

>>383780538
Not really, you go into a map filled with AI and other players (players can also spawn in as the AI characters, called Scavs, Scav AI won't shoot other Scav players unless they kill a Scav) and you can either leave through one of the designated exits or you can wait out the clock. You keep whatever you leave with, it's really nothing like Battle Royale style games, it's more like DayZ but on a smaller scale.

>>383780769
Saying it looks like shit is valid criticism. No arbitrary concessions were told to be made before he posted Um no Sweetie. I can say it looks like shit because it does look like shit. Anyone with a brain can see that. Maybe if you would read the reply chain you would see him shitposting with a picture that looks subpar.

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What's the best stalker? Always started playing one or two of them for like 5 hours then just stopped

Anyone got that image with recommended mods?

>What's your favourite STALKER game out of the three

Which is the BEST one for:
>Gameplay
>Story
>Atmosphere

Convince me

>inb4 summer

>>383781016
All Stalker games universally share the same gameplay, story and atmosphere.

Pick one at random.

>>383781016
Anything but Clear Sky, unless you mod it heavily. But I don't recommend installing mods (except bug fixes) on your first playthrough.

>>383781080
I have COP installed RN

>>383779179
>Lying to defend your dog shit game.
I played for a good 4 hours and I saw nothing but fields.
Stalker is dog shit.

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>assault on fortified base by breaching into the wall with explosive
>midway through the assault, steal all their shit from the armory
>kill just about everybody simply because they had new weapons i never used
>ally self with assaulted camp, even tho i started the assault and killed both sides
Also, the assault on the final city before the reactor was absolutely fantastic, especially in the beginning where you have snipers on both sides of you and you have to spot them out with your comrades

>>383777546
The two I read in English, Southern Comfort and Northern Passage, are great.
My favorite is that bandit who drags an RPG everywhere he goes, just in case and because it's cool. Literally how I play the game

>>383781185
It depends on which Stalker he played.

>>383781175
>COP
>start in Cordon on Ironman
>find Freedom Exoskeleton in first blue chest
>get to wear if for five minutes until some Loner shitter pulls the army chopper back to base
The zone giveth, and the zone taketh away.

>>383781016
i personally like SoC the best because it has a special place in my heart

>gameplay
CoP
>story
i'd say they'd all be pretty even, i thought clear sky had a nice story
>atmosphere
CoP

>>383781162
>Anything but Clear Sky
Why, if you don't mind me asking?

If I did install mods I'd just use graphics and weather overhauls t b h f a m

>>383781016
PLAY THEM IN FUCKING RELEASE ORDER, ARE YOU FUCKING GENZTARDS TOO FUCKING FIDGETSPINNED TO USE YOUR FUCKING BRAINS

>>383781380
mostly the same maps and the last 2 levels are a really bad cod clone. Terrible

>>383781380
>Why
game is kinda broke, missions complete themselves because your side is too good and other things.

>>383778063
This depends on what's available in your country. You probably can't go wrong with Russian writers.

In my case I liked them all though every author has their own style and sees zone in a slightly different way. Specifically, one author is quite faithful to the game by making the zone quite populated and fairly tame, while other guy makes it totally dangerous and unpredictable with pretty sparse human population of zone. First guy focuses on action, the other guy on the mystery and suspense, though there is a fair bit of action too.

I cannot tell much about the quality though since it's very subjective and I found many times that there is no point listening to critics and reader's reviews, and it's better to have a read and decide yourself.

Just pick a book, but watch out as some of them are parts of series.

>>383781380
It's buggier than vanilla SoC. That's an accomplishment.

>>383781302
I don't know, since it was years ago now. I assume the first one since I usually play shit in order.
I had them all downloaded at the time though, so who knows.

>>383772085
theres a factions warfare mod where you can do exactly that for coc

>>383781490
I haven't encountered any bugs on my playthrough. It's a decent game.

>Be a little slav kid in 2007
>"This STALKER game seems pretty cool and a bit spooky"
>Get to the bloodsuckers section in Agroprom
>alt+f4 and never play the game again
At this point I've probably played over a thousand hours of SC and CoP combined, but I still haven't touched SoC again. Bloodsuckers aren't even scary to me anymore.

approaching Chernobyl is one of the greatest moments

>>383769250
the dumb slavs never put in on playstation

>>383776010
??

What's wrong with his review? Stalker is definitely in my top 3 and even I had to agree with most of what he said.

"It can be great, but it's not for everyone" or something.

>>383781398
And literally why should I do that?
I don't understand why people adhere to this rule. It's pointless. It makes no difference what order I play them in

>ITS WHAT THE DEVELOPER INTENDED WAAAAAAAAAH
Yeah and the developer probably intended I buy their games too; and that they were played in vanilla format. So nah

>>383781452
>>383781470
>>383781490
Wow, okay. Damn

I'm proud of you guys for giving me thoughtful; non flame responses. STALKER fans really are based

Maybe I'll go buy some vodka for my playthrough boys. You've convinced me, I'll dive back into COP tonight

>>383782221
You fucking tool.

Clear Sky answers many questions left unanswered in Shadow of Chernobyl. You will end up with more questions if you skip CS and go straight into Call of Pripyat after SoC.

I did just that, I skipped CS entirely and when after years I decided to give it a bash I realized how dumb I was to listen to the idiots who advised me to skip it.

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>>383773236
>>383775159
>shit opinion
Eh, whatev-
>But the most important thing, is the fact that those russian mods are crippled by trojans, malwares, keyloggers, and bitcoin miners.
Oh boy, I wonder who could be behind this post?

>>383782467
>I did just that, I skipped CS entirely and when after years I decided to give it a bash I realized how dumb I was to listen to the idiots who advised me to skip it.
Okay as long as you have a justification other than RELEASE ORDAH that seems fair enough

>>383782586
Also story is like the last feature I'm looking for anyway I just want to go full cheeki breeki

>>383780538
This
>>383780908

It's like a last-man-standing team deathmatch in small to large scale maps with AI bandits thrown into the mix. Survivors win what they find. Losers die and lose everything they're carrying.

PvP is really ruining potentially good games.

>>383779639
but this does not make the original argument any more true

>>383779604
>who bought a ferrari first thing after game's success instead of investing into proper sequel and team development.
He still has shitloads of money. He cancelled STALKER 2 because it would be too much of work to him.
Current GSC is managed by Sergey's brother.

SoC: Best Atmosphere and Story
CoP: Best overall gameplay
CS: Prolonged exposure may lead to brain damage

>>383781016
>Which is the BEST one for:
>Gameplay
CS >= CoP
>Story
SoC
>Atmosphere
SoC
Don't listen to fags and play without mods first.

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Alright, faggots. Where does your allegiance lie?

Mercenary, reporting in.

>>383781016
I'm literally not telling you shit

>>383784474
Merc here too, brother.

>>383773236
this is good satire

>>383784474
monolith manchurian agent

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>>383783435
>CoP: Best overall gameplay

>>383784474
Д O Л Г
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>>383785863
He's right tho

>>383786579
The gunplay in CS and CoP is worse than in SoC. Talking about vanilla now.

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>>383786579
How can you be so wrong

>>383779639
They hate each other though.

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>>383784474
DUDE WEED LMAO

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>>383787136
>>383787215
Are you retardet or somethin

>>383787331
So does North Korea and South Korea, doesn't mean the Norks wouldn't jump at the chance to take SK as thier own.

>>383784474
Nothing beats the loner life, stabbin' folks with my loner knife.

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Am I the only one that has become accustomed to Misery so much that vanilla CoP and other vanilla-like mods have become unplayable? Wishing that Missoury 2.2 comes out but it's like waiting for Half Life 3 at this point.

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>>383788797
It's in closed beta

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>>383788879

Did they change anything about mutant relations or will I be forced to change up the .ltx to avoid shit like pseudodog+snork attacks?

>>383788797
I played almost 1k hours in all STALKER games combined, tried all kinds of mods and I went back to vanilla. Mods kill the charm of these games to be honest.

>>383789038
Honestly this is the last redpill. Along with realizing that CoP is shit.

>>383789164
this

>>383789164
Oh my god yes. I even dare to say that CS with SRP is as good as CoP and SoC is the best game in the series.
The only acceptable mod is AMK 1.4 without Arsenal.

>>383789201
>>383789201
Of course no offense to CoP fans it's not a bad game but it's shit on principle. In fact, you coud say, dare I say, that it's a bad STALKER game, if you know what I mean.

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>>383788879

Hold the fuck up. Is that Call of Misery, you aussie fuck?

>>383784474
Bandito brother here family

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>>383789305
na OGSE, got some nice rays.

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>>383780439
woah someone who also shares a good opinion on CS mods

>>383769250

So it doesn't get milked to death like every other franchise.

Cause pc gaming is dead.

>>383791318
Bannerlord

>>383791784
It's gonna suck and you know it.

>>383784474
Guy who shoots you from the helicopter reporting in

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>>383778806
>plays for 3 hours
>this game sucks, i've seen everythinh this game has to offer.

abort yourself stalker.

>>383792370
you know norhing... john snow XDD

>>383771504
It didn't sell well. In order to have influence you need to have good sales.

>>383771504
It sold well, but only in countries with monopoly money.

>>383769250
the modding community is still going strong. its only a matter of time until misery is fully merged with call of chernobyl and i can stop existing in this world.

>>383772865
>>/v/ is surprised Stalker isn't liked by normies
but it is is though normies love le cheeki breeki memes

>>383780598
>that distance
>those hands
>that disgusting dof

>>383792929
>As of September 2008, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SOC has sold 2 million copies worldwide.

And I can assume SCS and COP added another few hundred k each to that

>>383772865
>"Anon this game is slow and boring."
>No it's not, it's brooding and a-atmospheric

I like STALKER but you need to be the right type of person to enjoy it, I think

This thread is the perfect example of why /v/ sucks.

You keep pretending that this game--and the whole series--is good, just because you want to be perceived as some kind of 1337 hipster that plays only some kind of less-known games.

"Look at those casual plebs, playing mainstream games like Call of Duty, Fallout 4, or The Witcher 3... Just LMFAO... Get to my level noobs... Ever heard of E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy or S.T.A.L.K.E.R? Of course you didn't, because you know nothing about REAL games!"

Gotta be contrarian, and show how cool you are by playing those indie games.

I actually fell for this trap, a few years ago, when the complete S.H.I.T.K.E.R collection was on sale on Steam...

I managed to finish the first game (SoC), not because I liked it, but because I wanted to see why everyone was recommending it here... and why there were like 4 simultaneous threads about it, on a daily basis.

The game was HORRIBLE. It was FULL of game-breaking BUGS. The dialogues were pretty big and detailed... but they made NO SENSE, and were translated using the Google-Translate tool. The guns felt like shooting rubber bullets, and their animations were AWFUL.

The list could go on and on, but I'll have to hold back, since I am approaching the word limit for this post.

PLEASE, don't fall for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R cancer that has grown on /v/. Just look at videos on Youtube, and judge by yourself before spending any money on this shit.

Peace.

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>>383794736
Good post I read it

>>383794169
yeah but either they dont know where it came from or havent played the game but still think its epic

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>>383794736

>>383794736
Fuck off, I liked it back in 2007.

>>383794736
What if i just genuinely enjoy playing it, ever think of that? /v/ isn't the contrarian hivemind you think it is, it may seem that way to a newfag, but if you've spent any time here at all and even in this very fucking thread you'd see that opinions differ greatly from anon to anon.

>>383794169
I know people who actually think it's a CS thing.

>>383794736
>playing through a whole game while not enjoying yourself
>get mad someone else enjoys it
You may be autistic

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>>383772223
>Climb abandoned towers to unlock your map and pinpoint artifacts

>>383794736
>It was FULL of game-breaking BUGS.
Name one.

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>>383795216
>>383795015
its takes >30 seconds to find out where the cheeki breeki meme came from

>>383795373
I remember getting a guaranteed BSOD in the beginning of CS when it was released, had to wait for a patch.

>>383795374
>implying normies look up where memes came from and don't just spout whatever they hear other people say

>>383795568
1: The post was talking about SoC.
B: We are not talking about playing the game these days, not when it first came out

>>383775414
>see Controller mutant
>use artifact power to slow down time and breathe fire

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>>383795301

>Kill and skin 10 burers to unlock another artifact slot

>Earn levels to further the S.T.A.L.K.E.R tatau on your arm

>Pre-Order now to get Zulu's special PKM.

>Choose between Duty or Freedom storyline. (You don't get to go loner)

>>383773236
>russian hackers
wtf #imwithher now

>>383778698
Great atmosphere.
Very spooky at best.
Impressive AI.
Satisfying gunplay thanks to bullet physics.
Properly challenging and lack of hand holding, without feeling artificially difficult.
Pretty as a button.
Fascinating lore and world.
Tons of mods.

>>383775183
You think that's bad my friend couldn't even take out the first group of bandits to get to Nimble.

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>>383781016
SoC is the best and the first one.
Here's the rookie guide to get ya started. Don't give up in the beginning! The hobo gear and game's kindergarten tier starting area Don't represent the entire game

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>>383796581
Yes. The car park is a literal pleb filter that keeps worst Cod kids away.

The ones that survive that baptism of fire usually storm through rest of the game just fine. For doubters, it's good to recommend new players to play at least up until the 100rad Bar.

>>383796987
>Not directly running to the army warehouses to get some sweet gear

>>383797660
>needing to loot armyfags to survive
Hell, free shits lying around everywhere.

>>383796509
>Great atmosphere.

No, it's not. Fallout 1, 2, 3, 4 all have a better atmosphere, and better weather effects.

>Very spooky at best.

Nope.

>Impressive AI.

Crouching with a pistol looking in another direction... then they insta headshot you. Just lmfao.

>Satisfying gunplay thanks to bullet physics.

Lol. Stop lying to yourself. The vanilla games have horrible gun mechanics. And there is no bullet drop.

>Properly challenging and lack of hand holding, without feeling artificially difficult.

The only challenging thing in the game, is the auto-aim that the enemies have... And I'm talking about the bandits that can one-shot you from far away with the rusty pistol.

The other challenging thing is trying to decypher the poorly translated English dialogues.
>Pretty as a button.

Lmfao. It's not only BAD LOOKING, but it's also extremely poorly optimized. Even today, Shadow of Chernobyl runs at 17FPS on a Titan Xp... with medium settings and 720p res.

>Fascinating lore and world.

Mutant dogs here, mutant dogs there. Zombie Stalker here, zombie Stalker there. I honestly saw ONE telekinesis monster (at the end of the first lab) and ONE invisible Bloodsucker in another lab.

Found one anomaly in the entire game.

>Tons of mods.

Most of them make the game crash, and fuck up your saved files. Plus, the majority is infected with malware.

>>383798274
I respect your opinion but I like it. It's an imperfect masterpiece in my opinion. A bug-riddled mess with clusters of bad design that shows the dedication of true enthusiasts that tried to make the best thing they themselves enjoy instead of the most profitable thing meant for the largest audience. In other words the slav Deus Ex.

>a 9 year old shitty slav engine has better algorithm for dynamic lighting than any game engine used for AAA games in the last five years
Slavs aren't wizards. Everyone else is shit.

>>383798561
>bug-riddled
Name one.

>>383779604
Nouveau rich Slavs are the worst.

what happened to Scar after CS? did he died?

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>>383799540
>story after SoC

>>383799540
He became Charon

>>383798793
Not him, but in my most recent playthrough of SoC with the Starter pack mod collection, which consists of mostly bug-fixes, I still had several times the A.I. completely spaz out, including a gorgeous opportunity to test our the ballistic models when ALL A.I. in Dark Valley simply stopped reacting to me, or to taking damage. They just went around doing their business while I literally walked around blasting them with shotguns into faces.
I also had A.I. stuck in a narrow door several times, resulting often in situation where player was strapped and had to reload.
Had the game flat out crash three times (mostly on loading) an engine overload.
Had physics bugging out countless times, entire objects not load up (but still have their collision map loaded in).
Animal A.I. spazzed out more often than it worked as supposed to. Enemies attempting to charge only to change their mind just in front of you, run back to their starting position, then repeat the process many times. This was particularly funny with the two Bloodsuckers in Wild Territory.
Had my character stuck in a wall or different collision detection numerous times.
Once I gained an incurable radiation bug, causing me to gain radiation damage even though I was in middle of Rostok factory with no source of radiation in
Sound bug caused me to hear snork sound loop permanently through Yantar, even inside the science base.
Oh yeah, and psi-helmet just flat out dissappeared from my inventory once. Thankfully it had no gameplay effect: the effects of it remained.

It's nothing compared to the original release though. Entire segments of the game were unavailable back then.
Fun fact, with the released 2007 version available in my country, only ONE ending was actually available without the player actually glitching the game himself.
No joke. I have my fair share of love for the series, but GOD it was buggy on release, and many of the less vital bugs exist even in the most patched out versions today.

>>383779927
>Too hardcore

This pretty much, you would need to actually become literally good at the game to truly experience the game itself, especially at Master difficulty since you and every other human is equally killable, except for the mutants since they literally eat everything you throw at them.

>>383803825
Basically none of this is true, especially the bullshit about master difficulty.
Stalker is challenging, sure. It's partially simply because of the design, partially because it also has unintuitive mechanics that it just stubbornly refuses to explain - in fact it has fuck all in terms of tutorialization what so ever - some of it to it's benefit, and some of it just makes you frustrated on your first half run.

But all of that "every other human is equally killable" shit is just plain old bullshit. The game just simply hands advantages to your enemies on higher difficulties to keep up the challenge. They FLAT OUT DO have considerably more health, they have simple resistances to non-head-shot damage that you as a player don't have, and they don't suffer a whole number of vision issues the player deals with.

The problem with Stalker never was that it's too hardcore or too difficult, to be honest. It's that it's too janky, too slow-paced, too buggy, too shit at exposition, and too nuanced in it's actual atmosphere. It just piles of various frustrations and not enough immediately gratifying hooks and that makes it a poor fit to general public.

>>383798274
There's no way this isn't bait

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>>383780114
Looks like a high res tex pack with what I assume is sweetFX or a reshade, possibly an ENB? I usually dislike DOF as someone that can see as far as the horizon, but this is actually kinda pretty

Just bought SoC on steam. Do I need any unofficial patches or mods? I'm happy playing vanilla but not if the game is literally broken

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>>383794736
you're a perfect example of why /v/ sucks, literally impossible to please

STALKER is a perfect example of game meant to be fun instead of being maximally profitable. If you're going to drag on a rough diamond like this might as well go glob on AAA knob.

leave and never return, gaming isn't going to ever fill the roaring void inside of you.

>>383804412
It does not matter if it's a bait or not, it's so damn fucking retarded that it does not deserve the attention.

>>383804705
Starter pack mod is probably the best choice of mods if you want basically vanilla but more polished experience of SoC. It's just bug fixes and graphics mods making the game look fancier, nothing that would actually affect the art direction, ballistics, balance, add or remove content (I think with the exception of a sleeping bag, which can save you some annoyances).
If you don't want even that, Zone Reclamation mod (which is part of the Starter pack mod) is at least a major bug-fix collection.

You can play the vanilla - the current versions of the game are not seriously broken anymore. But they do have bugs, and you probably really do want that fucking sleeping bag feature, because that was something insanely missing and retarded in original SoC.

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>>383804489
yeah enb, shame it won't work for me anymore. got it working for joint pak 2 and was looking forward to taking screenies in the new maps :/

>>383798274

>Fallout 3 or 4 having any 'atmosphere' at all
>He thinks S.T.A.L.K.E.R has no bullet drop

Please mate, at least have some class if you're going to bait people.

>>383775414
>one faction "stalkers"
>all other groups hostile upon seeing you.

>>383805361
Complete 2009?

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>>383798274
>This post

>>383798274
>STALKER has no ballistics

Nigger even the RPG-7 that's barely used in the game has an authentic scope with functioning target movement compensation grids.

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>>383805670
nope, enb. Should be a link on a AA2 enb yt video. Tweak it, you can control the lighting quite a bit in the config menu.

>>383806074
Since when does ENB change the color of the fruit punch?
And why would you even want it to do that?

>>383778806
>Play for 3 hours
>Running across empty fields for 4 hours
Maybe dont spend an extra hour running out in your countryside retard and play the game

>>383801505
>added mods

Who gives a fuck? We talking about vanilla here.

Why do people hate Clear Sky so much?

I remember playing it a while back for a short while and I encountered a gamebreaking bug that killed my motivation to play. I think my lack of motivation to continue was a combination of having to reload an old save and people here saying it wasn't worth their time playing and to avoid it.

Could anyone give me a pros and cons kinda thing? Playing CoP again and I'm fucking loving it.

>playing ironman
>get into firefight and end up getting pinned down by several enemies
>peak out and pop one of them
>"Loner and Military factions have declared a ceasefire"
>thank christ, i was down to by last 3 rounds
>poke head out
>instadeath
Life is suffering.

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>>383798274

>>383808604
>Who gives a fuck? We talking about vanilla here.
Dude, those mods are literally just bug fixes, textures and fucking sleeping bag. Vanilla IS bugger than this. A lot buggier. Are you retarded?

>>383810360
Most people hated it for it's very poor map designs, bugs and that terrible heli "bossfight".

>>383798274
>The vanilla games have horrible gun mechanics. And there is no bullet drop.

Nigger you can fire directly into the air with a pistol and catch the falling round with your own face.

Also pls gib good mod for CoP. I've played through all 3 games a couple of times but it's been years since I touched them.

>>383770530
Maybe, but it'll be shit. Look at Cossacks 3.

>>383798274
You son, are a liar, a horrible gamer, AND a total shit taste to boot.