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ENTER GODTRIOX

I need a game to fill up evenings for a few weeks. Is Stalker 2 decent now? Did they fix most glaring issues like seemingly dead world and spawns on your face now? Does it run fine now?

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I watched >>554099198 die. I was there. And I watched it die. I watched it sink to the bottom of page 10 and get archived. I could have saved it. But I didn’t.

>>555011991
It's alright. Spawns are still iffy but they are vastly improved compared to release. The game is still shallow and performance will always be subpar.

>>555012412
I bumped other threads to kill it faster. What a terrible episode of /sg/.

>>555012412

That's just how it is sometimes

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>>554993443
No. It's pay to win, you spend most of your time running to get to places, and "end game" is clan pvp shite.

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>>554956872
Because it costs money, retard.
"AI" was made for people like you.

>>555011991
Everything I read since the last patch is that the spawns are even more fucked than in 1.0 with 5 bloodsuckers around every corner, and that Burers and 'geists can throw things at you through walls.

>>555014217
>The game is still shallow
>implying the original games were deep in any way
lmao

>Everything I read
Play. The. Game.

>>555014217
>bumped other threads to kill it faster.
based

>>555018204
Prove me wrong, retarded amoeba.
You can't.

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>NOOOOO YOU MUST PLAY THE GAME TO FIND OUT THAT SOME OF THE MOST ANNOYING ENEMIES CAN NOW ATTACK YOU THROUGH WALLS WITH ATTACKS THAT IGNORE DAMAGE RESISTANCE AND THAT THEY'VE BEEN MADE TO SPAWN COMMONLY ON THE SURFACE, YOU CAN'T JUST READ ABOUT IT

Any tips on Faust? I thought the whole idea of getting that shit installed on my helmet was that he wouldn't be able to summon phantoms anymore.

Do I just shoot phantoms ujntil it's the real one that dies?

If Stalker 2 worked perfectly it wouldn't be a stalker game now would it

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Glad to see we're back.

>>555012412
I'm proud of you.

>>555022217
Just shoot the lamps and the one on his hip

>>555023348
This anon makes a solid argument.

>>555011991
Just play it and find out.

>>555032465
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3Hqqh3CwXU
reminder that they removed this song in the ""enhanced"" edition

>>555011991
I've been playing it, it runs good for me except for when I get to Zalissa or whatever the first hub is called, then it get some drops. As for the other stuff I can't speak in how vanilla is since I've been using mods for that

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It was very nostalgic revisiting the old rookie grounds

>>555011991
>Did they fix most glaring issues like seemingly dead world and spawns on your face now?
Yes, A-Life now works with enemies doing offline stuff and expanding territorial control. There still is a spawner that spawns shit within the player bubble, but the spawns are triggered from much further away and not just behind you. There also is a mod that removes the spawner if you so desire.
>Does it run fine now?
1.7 patch caused about 20% performance increase. The game runs fine for me, but I'm playing on 1080p with 7800X3D / 4070 Ti.

>>555037640
Yes, because it is russian. Got a problem?

I finished zero investment and want to play more story mods. What are some good ones bros?

>>555041738
Yes, because the Russian version is 10 times better.

>>555037640
What a shame. Firelake is peak STALKER. What else do the Enhanced Editions remove?

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wake up buildosoldats, SoC Recession addon dropped

https://ap-pro.ru/forums/topic/13985-soc-recession-addon/

>>555051834
Soviet symbols, the cnpp sign, posters

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>>555052759
Whoa, this looks cool. What is this? SoC with buildo aesthetic?

>>555052759
Wtf, I love Snowy

>>555052759
hell yeah
buildo autism will never die

>>555052759
Wow, this looks neat. Who made it

>>555052759
BUILDOFAGS..

>>555052759
we are so backk

>>555052759
absolute peak bros.

>>555052759
Snowy clutched this time frfr

>>555052759
>>555053125
Unironically I just made my third donation to his/her patreon but I was about to charge back lmaooo since nothing was happening I'm just glad it finally released.

>>555052759
Can I get more info? I don't want to click this link

>>555052759
Wake up babe new russian botnet dropped

>>555052759
>ap.pro
Dropped.
Go back to your country. Zigger

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>>555055601
NO, you VILL click ze link and you VILL use a translator

>>555052759
Wake up Ukraine!

>>555052759
Very funny sir, but I will not engage with the Russian ip grabber

Obvious samefag is obvious. You tipped your hand last thread.

At least this is actually STALKER related so kudos for that.

>>555052759
Good meme but isn't soc already build?

>>555039639
The whole of Cordon was nice to go back to really. Sid's english VA being solid was nice too.

>>555059262
Damn, I'm confused. Are we supporting the russians or are we denouncing them? This is a Ukrainian game, so... I kinda don't want to support the Russian (invader) (see: murderer, rapist) mod. Understand?
I'm sorry, real sorry, it's just uh... I'm not going to.

>>555052759
I am so ready

>>555052759
currently jelqing to this

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You guys notice how he stops and then picks up again when a post is made?

>>555052759
You again? Notice how when a post is made stop and then picks up

>>555052759
so fvvking hype!

>>555052759
>its vanilla soc on ixray

funny, amk forums blocked america
but not ap-pro

>>555061835
Stop defending Russia.
This is a video game board.

>>555052759
>>555063484

Hello John from Texas oblast.

put your name back on so you get filtered

>>555052759
my new favorite mod of all time.

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>>555018204
>meanwhile playing current patch stalker 2

>>555052759
just sick of this shit.

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>stop defending russia

>>555052759
my dick..

>>555064347
Skill issue. Read the conversation. Pass it down.

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>>555064347
That corny ass jump always reminds me of picrel.
You can mod them to have no jump attack or a longer cooldown on it.

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>>555064347

>Three bloodsuckers on veteran

Yikes

>>555012412
same, I refused to interact with the namefag attempting "troll" by acting like a retard. maybe he is actually mentally retarded, and xe can't help ximself

>>555064347
I'm playing stalker 2 for the first time and oh my faggot poltergeists eat bullets like crazy

just got to the last mission and its impossible to progress because monolith are aim botting me through walls from 200m away i cant even get to the foundation or whatever

>>555077135
SoC?

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>>555067029
Why can't someone mod it to fix the dogshit hit detection on it?

Is it me or does the open world for stalker 2 feel shit? Idk how to explain it, the OG stalker games were kind of open I guess, just divided into zones, but I prefer that over just a open world.

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>>555080472
The soul is gone. Common issue with modern vidya.

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>>555080951
It just feels like I'm just running between missions with not much going on, like I get a new mission 500-700m away, run to it, maybe I'll shoot a boar or dogs along the way. But like...where's the fighting? I feel like I'm barely getting combat, when I snuck into the military base I got to shoot some guys and was like hell yeah, but it's over so soon and I'm back to just running around.

In SoC you start out raiding a bandit camp, to fighting military by the bridge, then all the bandits in garbage. Like I want to kill shit and stalker 2 isn't letting me

And the anomalies and shit are frustrating as fuck in this game, like the poppy field mission. Does it get better?

>>555081815
You'll have a lot of shit to kill near the end of the game, too much just like the previous games.

>>555081815
The environment in SoC changes a lot through the game. Like you can find bloodsuckers in Agroprom later in the story.

>>555082040
>>555082310
Well I'll stick with it I guess, I hate to say it but this is reminding me of when I played fallout 4 lol

>>555082572
Fallout 4 had a bit more going on, at least with the automaton update and robot patrols iirc

>>555080472
I like the map itself. The way it's populated is balls, though. The "lair" system sounds good on paper but it's bugged to shit and/or tuned way wrong. The spawn bubble and director also don't help. It all feels fake. Fake frames, fake enemies, fake Stalker game.

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>>555073848
That's pretty much every enemy that isn't a regular human.

>>555079259
No idea. I bet it's probably not even a hitbox, just a distance check.

I'm once again installing stalker GAMMA

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Is GAMMA a better Stalker 2 than Stalker 2?

>>555096717
gamma's design philosophy is very different from what is traditionally known as a stalker game, so no, it's not.

>>555080472
>>555080951
>I had a feeling

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Protect this man at all costs.

>>555097203
>gamma's design philosophy is very different from what is traditionally known as a stalker game
so is stalker 2's

>>555103565
This
>open world sloppa complete with threat indicators for your tacked on stealth system where you just go up behind a dude and stab them with only one animation made for it that you'll see every time

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>>555052759
Based Snowy, I was just in the mood for another SoC replay

I've got to say that finding a code for stash that has Kharod and 3.5 gen NVGs was very fun, even if I didn't get it at first. That is all.

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I'd rather play misery-like mods than S2 any day. Nu-GSC fucking sucks. Hoarding crap to fix broken guns is more fun than playing farcry with a stalker skin. The best part about the OG games is that they provided assets for modders to work with. Also they lied about what S2 would offer in the prerelease trailers but I guess that's industry standard now huh

>>555011991
I’ve been playing since christmas and haven’t experienced any performance issues. 1440p with almost everything on epic using a 7800X3D / RX 7800 XT. in roughly 70 hours I’ve only had a few questionable encounters where enemy groups I hadn’t noticed suddenly appeared nearby. either I missed them or the game spawned them in. aside from that, I’m enjoying the game a lot. I don’t use any mods and I’ve disabled all the annoying UI elements except for health and ammo. the balancing feels very good to me and the progression from hobo to a well equipped soldier is surprisingly well executed. there are some disappointing aspects such as the missing low crouch or the simplified arena, but the game is currently in a solid state and could become a masterpiece with more updates and mods.

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>>555118758
>>555119773
I see that opinions are still vastly divided.

>>555103565
>I had a feeling

Should I use any mods for first S2 playthrough?

>>555123481
New game start freeplay. I'm serious. Do not engage with the story.

>>555123481
Nope. It's good as it is.

>>555123481
I'm playing vanilla on master and besides the economy being harder it's pretty fun. Aim for heads and learn how to avoid gunfire and doge enemy attacks, and remember to climb.

>>555098252
(Ooooo oooooh)

>no ixray IWP until next year
>still no gunslinger ixray
ixraybros it's not looking good

what is ixray

>>555139975
https://github.com/ixray-team

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>>555012412

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Did Skif fight in Donbass?
I mean the game tells you he's a veteran and that he had a shit time in the military but it never mentions him being in active combat.

>>555144289
The game has ammo produced in Luhansk, so I don't think the current war is canon.

>>555144510
>so I don't think the current war is canon.
I didn't think so too but the wiki
https://stalker.fandom.com/wiki/Skif
mentions him being in a war

>>555139591
is it eye ecks ray or nine ray

answer me

>>555145000
I've just been saying I-X Ray in my head.

>>555144626
True, but it's not mentioned where he served at all. I think it's just a way to explain how Skif is good at fighting.

>>555123481
Look up the Realistic Death animation mods and the blood fx mod, highly recommend them. The death animation mods just adds some more animations to how enemies die when you shoot them, and has a nice ragdoll effect where they just drop when you headshot them, helps with how in vanilla 2 you'll see the the same headshot animation over and over and over

The blood fx overhaul just adds cool blood effects, like dynamic blood pools under enemies when you kill them, like if you shoot a guy in the head you'll actually see blood dripping from the wound and shit. It's cool

ALSO, if you find enemies are top aim botty, which I did, try Malkanes better combat mod. Gives NPCs a dispersion effect like the player at medium to long range so they aren't just laser beaming you

>>555146259
Skif was a rising star in the pro MMA circuit before being press-ganged into service. He served with distinction in the Black Sea area and was allowed to return to civilian life shortly before the events of S2.

>>555064347
Skill issue. Prepare better.

>>555139591

Still waiting on the next IWP mini patch before I start a new playthrough. Hoping Road to Vostok gets it's early access sometime soon also.
IX-ray IWP will be the shit but a year? Cmon man that's a long time to sit and wait.

>>555145747
one ten ray? what the fuck

>>555154745
It's on a scale of one to ten

>>555157614
hahaha thank you anon

Is there a mod for S2 that just increases the range of bullets? So many mods try to do too much. I just don't want the bullets to fall to the ground after 50 yards.

>>555166969
Have you not visited a single technician?

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g'night /sg/

>>555174228
o kurwe

>>555123481

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>>555174228
gnight breh

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It's cool how the power plant level was even bigger in buildo.

How can they redeem stalker 2?

>>555194372
>they
GSC? Gutting 99% of their personnel and leaving only a dedicated liaison to support modders.
Modders? Backporting the map to One-Ten Ray/AOEngine.

>>555195435
I think if they just added the pda task system from Anomaly the game would be so much better. All you have in og 2 is quests from traders but those are time gated and don't pay shit

>>555195978
What do you mean by PDA task system? The mod mentioned here >>555125823 features a module that unlocks the side quests given by traders so that they are more like the repeatable tasks from ShoC, but I don't know if that particular module can be used alone (ie without the freeplay module).
There's also a multiplier for side quest reward money in the default S2 difficulty config file but you may need to edit that yourself if someone hasn't already uploaded such a mod.

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How's it hangin'?

>play s2
>have fun
>check thread
>sitposters still shitposting about the game they haven't played being "bad"

>>555204443
proofs?

>>555198087
How did you manage to get sleep warning?

>>555209607
That I would like to know as well. On my second playthrough i just chugged water and didn't sleep but the only time I got it was at the arena

>>555211039
>>555209607
Water and energy drinks are stimulants in stalker 2 and you'll never feel sleepy if you regularly consume them.

>>555064347
Grenade spam is your friend, and they aren't exactly hard to find. If at any point I am getting spammed by muties I throw them at my feet and run like hell.

>>555080472
>Is it me or does the open world for stalker 2 feel shit?
Common complaint. It's a variety blend of issues, that snowball into it feeling bad. Stamina is very small, and forces you to chug water/energy drinks. Those things also have weight and that weight adds up, and the stamina problem gets worse with more weight so you can't just hoard a 50 stack of energy drinks.

The biggest issue is a-life still doesn't work properly. Probably because of the open world. Pretty much the extent of it "working" now is patrols, which definitely generate within a radius of your presence in the world, generate and potentially intersect with like dogs or something causing a minor fight. It doesn't feel as "alive" as in the other games. I've never seen factions take and occupy territory, either. I've even cleared out a little ramshackle of bandits, and had a group of 3 loners stumble upon me mid-fight. Instead of taking the little area the bandits were nestled in, they continued on.
>I feel like I'm barely getting any combat
Depends. Some missions you will get waves spawned on you and it feels frustrating. Some encounters in general are clearly scripted. I came upon a controller at one point, and had a bunch of zombies out of nowhere start coming up a stairwell I had just seen to be clear. This wasn't a story mission, or even a side mission, just an area I was exploring. Pulled me straight out of the experience, it's like having a movie pan so far over you see all the lighting and cameras and realize you're watching a movie.
>the anomalies are shit
Yes. Artifact hunting is super gay in Stalker 2, especially because of that one bubble anomaly that sucks you in and implodes you. Shit despawns for about 0.3 seconds after a bolt, and never fails to get me as I'm making a run for it.
>does it get better?
It is what it is. I find the game enjoyable, but flawed. The game is technically great, the issues it has however are so large you are constantly reminded of them.

Honestly ALL of the animations in stalker 2 are like half as fast they should be for anyone with combat training and field experience.

>>555217114
weapon condition should make the bolt sticky, would've been a neat detail

>>555215402
>Stamina is very small
New jogging state does alleviate that quite a bit. That said, I still found myself chugging energy drinks while having yellow equip load, but that was like two, maybe three per loot run.

>Pretty much the extent of it "working" now is patrols, which definitely generate within a radius of your presence in the world, generate and potentially intersect with like dogs or something causing a minor fight.
The spawner does still exist, but there definitely are NPCs generated from offline there. I once ran back from far away to the same area several times and got jumped by a single Ward patrol wandering around the same bridge.
Also, there are definitely offline battles with NPCs looting shit from offline. I found a lot of corpses with multiple large guns and stuff on them.
Can't say much for lair takeovers, though, because I didn't concentrate on them.

>Artifact hunting is super gay in Stalker 2, especially because of that one bubble anomaly that sucks you in and implodes you
I had more issues with electric anomalies that instakill you. I haven't found the bubble to be that much of a problem. Also, I think artifact hunting is as fun as ever. Perhaps it would've been better for health management for artifacts to not spawn precisely inside anomalies, but that's a minor complaint.

>>555221863
Weapon condition feels kind of lazy the way it's either in green condition and literally nothing ever happens or it's red and suddenly becomes unusably jammy. That and NPCs not suffering from weapon malfunctions despite the fact two thirds of them are running around with red guns.

i have a question. what is it about npcs that is so taxing computationally that the spawn radius needs to be so small? what is it about them that makes hubs tank fps? zalissya for instance, all the fuckers do is laze about and piss occasionally. why does that eat fps?? what needs to be optimized so that render radius can be maxed and the a life spawn director removed? 500m switch distance should not be unreasonable in a setting with magnified optics

>>555215402
>>555222003
it's nice to see anons having a good discussion

Feel like the game is designed to drag the time out, from the animations, the way missions are structured, the stamina system, anomaly placement like a lot of them sprinkled along roads and footpaths, swamp placements on the map, shit gets really annoying, its like time wasting is 80% of what they think of when it comes to the survival aspect of the game.

>>555223581
>NPCs not suffering from weapon malfunctions despite the fact two thirds of them are running around with red guns.
not only that but their bullets go through ALOT of objects and walls to hit you but none of them carry AP bullets?

>>555211039
>>555211438
Does sleep actually accumulate like hunger? I thought it was only the cats that inflict this.

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Good day /sg/
It's fucking cold.

recent S2 mods that came out
>less shotgun recoil
>fast travel
>remove item weight
>no drunk color effect
>slower healing
>fast travel (again)
>performance optimization
>walk fast in water
>remove item weight (again)
>compass tweaks
>performance optimization (again)
>faster inventory scrolling
>backpack retexture
>hud tweaks
>healing tweaks (again)
>mutant heal tweaks
>performance optimization (again)

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pog

>>555238148
>dissapears at the end
SPOOKY

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>>555241434

>>555241434
is that a DANGEROUS MUTANT or a DEADLY ANOMALY?

>>555242048
It's likely a particle effect under the hood. I remember a GSC programming telling the birds are actually particles. Apparently it's made this way because of drastic optimization efforts during development.

Now sure, it beats me how the game was still released so unoptimized even the offline mode had been gutted temporarily.

>>555243114
*GSC programmer
fug

>>555215402
Sure, sure, now try actually playing the game. I'm seeing mercs take over bandit territories. I'm seeing duty take over bandit territories and setting up camp north of Rostok, and not just the ones that spawn for one of Barkeep's radiant quests. I'm seeing huge groups of freedom moving around.
>combat
Make up your mind. It's always whining about "enemies spawning on top of you" when combat is common, and then it's suddenly "uooooh nothing ever happens no fighting the open world suuuucks I want my linear corridors" when there's some breathing room.
>anomalies
They're the same ones from OT that behave in the same way, with new additions.
>>555224619
>why can't I speedrun this game

>>555238148
>sanic.exe

>>555243114
UE5

>>555251748
H-HAYAI!

Trying out the short story mod Winter Sniper for CoP since we just had a massive snowfall where I live. Seems pretty cozy so far.

Any Translation For Stalker Gamma in Hindi?

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>>555012412

I resent Metro because it took the place S2 could've had in 2012.
The fact that Metro is nowhere near as beloved as stalker despíte being more polished and cinematic proves me right.
Have you ever seen a a metro meme? Neither did i, meanwhile bandits alone provide endless fun, cheeki breeki is know by everyone even those who never played stalker.

>>555255272
Never heard of that mod before. What's it about?

>>555256738
Metro has nothing in common with Stalker beyond being Russian FPS. It sucks.

>>555215402
The bubble anomaly is what I've died to the most so far, it really needs some indicator of its kill range, if it had that it wouldn't feel so frustrating. Or at least don't have it one shot you

>>555224523
I think I found out what causes the zalissya fps drop from looking stuff up. It's the hair man, hair seems to tank fps there because you have so many people in that area and it's rendering all their hair at once. I lowered the hair setting to medium and noticed a big improvement, still notably worse performance than normal, but better

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>load up stalker 2 after not playing for a year
>think all the bugs have been fixed
>immediately greeted with this
sasuga hohols

>>555256738
I've tried to get into metro multiple times bit never could get into it. Furthest I made it was when you start fighting nazis but just got bored

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>>555228350
It's Cold/Freezing Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlAo8k7ByhM

>>555243114
That explains my deep disappointment when I tried to shoot a crow out of the sky like you can in SoC. I thought I was just a bad shot.

>>555255272
You're a monolith sniper in Pripyat and you have to find a certain artifact. It's pretty fun so far.

>>555256738
you don't realise that this is the good timeline BECAUSE original trilogy was so messy, it spawned a huge modding community and theres a stalker mod for everyones tastes. S2 being average really doesn't matter because there is a mod for you out there no matter how silly or realistic you want it. It also goes well with how the zone has been a concept for far longer than the games. I bet you that in 10 years stalker will still be a thing

>>555267449
comfy screenshot

>>555266636
I remember being amazed with the outdoor levels and general setting of metro but finding it far too linear, and that lead me to stalker mods. I think 2033 is still a good game in it's own way

Been playin Arc Raiders
Been wishing GSC was competent at literally anything and we could have an Arc Raiders style extraction game set in the zone with faction based mechanics.

>>555271237
I was hoping the S2 multiplayer was gonna be similar to Hunt Showdown but instead of a boss you would have to go through a bunch of anomalous zones and kill/not piss off packs of dogs, bloodsuckers etc. to extract with an artifact. Now there's no expectation for any sort of multiplayer mode lol

wow, og holden sighting. haven't seen this in a while.

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>>555012412
You did good. That last thread was pure cancer and it looks like that faggot either got banned or bored with us this go-round.

>>555270557
>I bet you that in 10 years stalker will still be a thing
I got a bunch of dudes into it in college because we played the STALKAN homebrew RPG /tg/ made, so yeah it's pretty far reaching even for people that aren't familiar with it, it's just a cool setting.

Gentle reminder to keep /sg/ faggot free by doing your part and reporting offtopic avatarfagging.

>>555279696
Sauce is still here. Guess what? Reporting obviously doesn't do a fucking thing.

>>555279696
Yeah I know. I don't think any of the staff care about us. I wish an IRC was still around to talk to them directly.

>>555266230
youve got to be shitting me

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Finished Winter Sniper. A solid, no-nonsense mod which felt like a free DLC for CoP. Took me 2.9 hours to finish the questline with some backtracking. Freeplay is available but there's only one map. It's good if you're like me and speedrun through the Pripyat section in CoP and want an opportunity to explore it more thoroughly.

>>555279873
What other recourse do we have? If I can get a shitpost deleted before you have to suffer seeing it or vice versa then it's a win.
>>555280079
It certainly feels that way. I'm going to go ahead and blame gachaniggers for this.

>>555281846
I just don't understand why we have had this stuff happen in the last year. Like some schizo just decided to make us their target until the general dies.

>>555282532
But it hasn't died

>>555282902
I said until it does. Meaning he'll be here until the bitter end.

>>555281309
Give it a try, I lowered the hair from epic to medium and the performance in hubs were a lot better

>>555284160
>deflecting from your bullshit

>>555284523
>deflecting
NTA but nothing is preventing you from posting here, offtopic or otherwise. This elaborate fantasy headcannon that you've invented about the lives of two shitposters occupying this general is extremely cringeworthy and not worth being brought up every time you see one of these posts.

>>555284889
Yeah the ai shitposter and sauce faggot are totally made up and in my head.

>>555285616
I never said it was a conspiracy fuck off.

>>555243278
It's because most people are almost solely pre-SIRCAA and people bee lining from story objective to story objective. There's nothing particularly wrong with that, but the game doesn't really tie a bow on it's features until you're at your route's point of no return, which in turn has more to do with how the open world isn't divided into areas by difficulty, but is rather a vehicle for larger shifts in Stalker demographics and mutant lair behaviour. Swamp gets populated by Stalkers only after your visit, Freedom / Duty won't start roaming out of their base proximities until you're Yaniv bound (and there is likely a whole slew of side-quests and faction mechanics that were cut from this particular point in the game) and so much more. I honestly blame some of these issues with the devs really not taking the time for the player to engage with the rest of the game after you're heading towards the ending most of this stuff is largely just missed, because visiting the other maps outside the northern areas is largely tied to side quests. I'm pretty sure releasing DLC that runs parallel with the main story can easily fix these issues, but you'll still have a ton of people whining about the world feeling empty for the first 10 hours or so.

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>>555285809
>never said it was a conspiracy
Sure thing schizoanon, now go find that IRC channel to personally air your grievances with the corrupt jannies to finally have these shitposters removed once and for all.

>>555286090
Tell me where I said it was a conspiracy. I said it was apathy on their part, which it clearly is.

>>555286090
the jannies are colluding with them to kill this general sounds like some insane schizo ramblings.

>>555282532
Trying to understand the mentally troubled is a fool's errand.

>>555286495
Don't engage, man. Just do as >>555279696 suggested. He'll get bored eventually.

>>555285887
>why can't I speedrun this game

>>555291187
>>555286495
>>555291074
it's nice to see anons having a good discussion

Is anyone else feeling really on-topic lately?

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>>555291859
Kind of. I want to try Stalker 2 again but I also want to wait for the engine update.

>>555291859
Yeah, kinda. Brain’s locked in but it picked dumb priorities. I’m in that loop where I wanna boot up Stalker 2, then remember it still runs like it’s held together with duct tape and hope. So I just sit there like an idiot waiting for the engine update like it’s gonna magically turn it into the game it was supposed to be at launch.

>>555292434
100 rubles deposited onto your Mir card, Ivan. Great work!

>>555293287
Inflation hit, huh? Last week it was at least enough for a loaf of bread and half a potato. Tell Moscow payroll they’re slacking.

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>>555292283

We're getting an engine update?

do you lick the shit out of your own asshole with that mouth? nigger.

>>555299323

>that pic
what a blast from the past. i wonder if /k/ still has stalker threads

>>555299323
I heard anons talk about it I thought S2 was

The Most IMMERSIVE Survival Shooter I've Ever Played (S.T.A.L.K.E.R. GAMMA)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMB_FpDleNQ

>>555061835
What did he mean by this?

>>555304401
How did Anomaly become so popular with normgroids? Like I have no issue with the mod and have even played it myself. But looking at the reception of the zero investment mod there's a lot of stalker fans that just want every fucking mod to be some realistic tactical shit where you can't heal without getting sone dumbass debuff or can't sleep to pass time without sleeping pills

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I just got jumpscared by a snork and it scared me.

>>555310357
Why did Strelok have such a fucked up hairline?

>>555310664
you would too after years of being in the zone

>>555310893
Scar didn't thoughbeit

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>>555310664
Seems pretty normal for him. Isn't Strelok in his mid 30's during SoC?

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>>555311545
>seems pretty normal

>>555311694
How old is Strelok supposed to be?

>>555311694
He need to hop on clav's looksmaxxing protocol.
finasteride+minoxidil can save him.

>>555310664
Slav

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>>555310664
many such cases

>>555310664
>griga.jpeg

>>555324564
Comfy

>>555324564
Man this fucking gate.
>be me
>big fan of this games since watching a slav streamer play the first one way back in 2019
>consume stalker media like crazy
>always thought this gate was cool
>s2 releases
>getoutofherestalker.wav
>the opening sequence is incredibly cinematic
>fuck yes finally stalkan
>on my way to zallisya after the tutorial
>chikibriki.ogg
>encounter the bandits shooting at each other in the small village
>manage to kill them all but take heavy damage
>one of their pdas has a stash coordinates
>get to the stash
>viper machine gun and meds
>breddy_good_hud.ogf
>use the meds immediately
>suddenly dogs
>beat them off but sustain even more damage than before
>no meds
>barely any health
>black_raven_circling_above_the_grave.ltx
>i need meds
>decide to beeline in the direction of the compass marker to get to town asap
>feeling like a true stalker
>when i see it
>the stalker gate
>activate xboxcast to share this moment with my stalker bros live
>slow walk through the gate for a cinematic replay
>fall 12 feet and die
>bros losing their shit calling me names and laughing at me
>worm_food_bump#.dds
>last save was 3 hours ago
>uninstall s2 and install A.R.E.A. instead
Fuck GSC.

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>>555329662
>i need meds

>>555333413
lol

>>555329662
>uninstall s2 and install A.R.E.A. instead
>uninstall kino to install jank trash
lol
sounds like you fucked up

>>555329662
>last save was 3 hours ago
Not sure if you're retarted or just lying piece of shit.

>>555337050
If you play on master your last save very well could be hours of progress behind you.

>>555308663
Personally I've always liked the misery elements like fixing broken guns and suits. Also the zone is only interesting to me as freeplay. I enjoy the gameplay loop of finding some artefacts, doing some quests and then chilling at the base, fixing shit up with all the stuff you found. Also being a random stalker is more immersive to me then some super important story guy. To each their own man.

oh boy
its starting to happen
https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1qnsc6t/love_this_mod/

>>555308663
I think they appeal to people who want to play as a "regular stalker" living in and exploring the zone rather than strelok embarking on some convoluted main character quest.

>>555338540
>s2 releases
There was no master on release. Even if he meant playstation release, playing on MASTER just for ragequit means he is still retarted.

first time playing any stalker game, about to start s2 master difficulty, what do they mean when they say if you enable saves in the menu you will lose your master rank?

>>555344458
The save will be considered "Veteran+" instead of "Master".
This is purely to indicate you changed the save system, gameplay will otherwise remain identical to master, this cannot be undone.

>>555344458
Don't do this unless you're are a comedy youtuber and ready to suffer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZx5GIL9zn4

>>555342351
this

>>555345359
>no autosaves on main objectives
lmao what the fuck were they thinking

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>>555336918
>s2 is kino
>A.R.E.A. is "jank trash"

>>555022217
>>555026584
Faust is one of the best moments to actually get use from grenade launchers or the RPG7

>>555329662
Tourist.

>>555271237
Honestly sounds like it would satisfy both crowds. Keep it casual and fun to play, like STALKER vanilla and Arc, none of that healing body parts or loading bullets into mags nonsense from EFT. But also Extraction based mechanics. Would be super fun honestly, a horror based extraction and the Zone is already an amazing setting. Fighting around anomalies, hunting mutants together, you decide what faction your account belongs to (with a quest chain involved if you ever want to swap factions), mercs get daily kill contracts, duty gets freedom kill missions, ecologists get science and artifact based missions, loners get a mix of things, some factions can have missions to protect loners or something, fuck it idk. There is so much to work with. You could even have Scavs along with the mutants and the scavs would be Military and Monolith. They could even sell MTX with faction based cosmetics. Fuck I just want a fun multiplayer experience in the zone so fucking badly bros. Fuck all this "CoP multiplayer co-op" shit. I don't want to run through these piss easy vanilla games with co-op.

>>555356160
Holy shit is that anti-woke comedian Josh Denny?

>>555022217
Shoot the lamp, use grenades.

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>>555356250
>>555336918
Stalker doesn't recognize peak slavjank kino when he sees it. Many such cases.

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>>555358304
>Linkin Park poster on back wall
KINO

Also [SESH]

If your have trouble with S2 try reducing draw distance quality, the game actually draws out ridiculously far that's why you can see the power plant from up high which is a huge strain on below i9 cpus

>>555371002
WAY too much hair on my nigga Strelok, see >>555311694

>>555329662
>dies to memery
>installs even more memery
I don't understand, anon.

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From what time to electro artifacts appear again in SoC?

>>555372513
At midnight, then disappear again at 5 am.

>>555372513
12am to 5am

>>555329662
Idk why you can die from like a 2 story height in S2 you could survive higher falls in the OG games. And moving super fucking slow in knee high water is retarded too.

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>>555378479
This is the thing that makes me fucking pissed off. Tons and tons of tiny little issues colliding into a big fuck-all mess
Why do my knees explode? Why do some upgrade paths provide the exact same fucking bonuses? Why is fully upgraded leather jacket more expensive than brand new exoskeleton? Why doesn't a single soul in the Zone hunt and carry artifacts or have them stashed away? Why are rewards for quests almost exclusively just boring money? WHY NO FUCKING BINOCULARS FUUUUUUUUUCK

>>555384570
The no binoculars is because they didn't want people seeing the no a-life shit and just see npcs disappear and spawn into existence

>>555384570
I constantly hold my fire because I can't tell who the fuck I'm looking at and it just ends up being hostiles half the time.
The lack of binoculars is criminal.

>>555378479
>>555384570
>>555387029
>why isn't fall damage buggy and inconsistent, sometimes killing you from jumping into a bush and sometimes doing no damage when falling from the roof of a building
>why isn't there binoculars so I can then cry about distant LOD objects looking like shit
>no I won't just use a scope to get the same effect, nor use the crosshair color identifier tool
Ironically, for all the whining about "optimization", OT was unoptimized because it had no LOD. Everything was at the maximum quality setting for your slider at all times.

>>555389337
>just carry around a sniper rifle at all times or carry a compatible rifle and attach a high mag optic every time you want to see something far away

>>555389848
>BAWWWW
Shut the fuck up. Nobody wants to hear your constant whining about imaginary issues.

>>555389337
Man, shouldn't the expectation that a sequel to a game after almost two decades to be at least on-par with the original design and systems be a standard? Shouldn't the new game innovate, refine and make things better and not worse?
>why isn't fall damage buggy and inconsistent, sometimes killing you from jumping into a bush and sometimes doing no damage when falling from the roof of a building
I don't even know what point you're trying to make. You just sound like a faggot
>why isn't there binoculars so I can then cry about distant LOD objects looking like shit
Even without binoculars it's still a visible problem and it's inherent to shitty optimization practices and choice of engine. Not adding binoculars doesn't alleviate it at all; it's absence just highlights the problems even more
>no I won't just use a scope to get the same effect
Not all guns have scopes. Not all scopes even have adequate magnification
>nor use the crosshair color identifier tool
This one is actually absurd, because OT had *both* you massive faggot, why should I now settle for less. Not to mention the fashion of purist immersionfags that play without crosshairs

>>555390692
>the game should be as buggy and inconsistent
You aren't supposed to be able to fall from the top of the CNPP to the ground and survive, retard. That's a bug. You're crying about dying in a scenario where you'd otherwise be laying in place for hours with broken legs waiting for something to finish you off.
>the game is unoptimized because.... distant LOD objects are lower fidelity.... but I want muh binoculars so I can look at them and cry about them looking like shiiiiiit
>SCOPES AREN'T STRONG ENOUGH
There are zero instances in any stalker game where you actually need a strong scope. What, do you want a zoom so powerful you can look at CNPP from Zalyssia and bawl about it looking blurry?
>mUH OLD GAYMES HAD THEM
Nobody cares.
>bUT WHATABOUT THE PURISTS
Nobody cares.

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>>555393116
Incoherrent, contradicting and absurd
Meds, now. Or kill yourself. Or both

>>555390692
>Man, shouldn't the expectation that a sequel to a game after almost two decades to be at least on-par with the original design and systems be a standard? Shouldn't the new game innovate, refine and make things better and not worse?
This is all that needs to be said really. I enjoyed a few aspects of S2 but the fact that it released with so much missing stuff from the OG games is deplorable.

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>page 10

>be me
>been playing AMK 1.4.0 for the last 5 or 6 weeks
>thoroughly enjoying
>decide to try AMK1.4.1 + NLC5 + NS3
>no AMK options to configure
>weird janky character movement
>they replaced merc suit in rookie village with bottles of vodka
>take job to rescue Nimble, they don't even give me a pistol
Uh guys, this is not a good start

>>555407732
Ok I'm just retarded, the AMK options are there

>>555356250
it is. it was a year or 2 ago, I doubt much has changed. play it and find out.

>>555418202
was an updat late 2025, so.. maybe?

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>>555394176
>see dissenting opinion that differs from your own
>have a schizophrenic meltdown over it
Where did you subhumans come from? Go back. You've shat this site up enough.

>>555358689
lp sucks ass

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>>555428036
>'Go back' mentioned every thread now

>>555429771
No. Fuck you.

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So what's up with this secret Holden lore? Can someone give me a qrd?

>>555430319
Mr. Holden has been here for months.

>>555390692
> shouldn't the expectation that a sequel to a game after almost two decades to be at least on-par with the original design and systems be a standard?
No. And if you genuinely think that your grasp on reality is like that of a small child, or you have been in a coma for the better part of those 20 years.

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I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I used the binoculars in each game.
Also the number of mod tourists completely unaware that the NPC render distance in all original games was 150 meters is very telling.

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What's the best STALKER 2 mod?

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>>555430319
>>555431853
no.

>>555436060
>>555428036

>>555433043
>Also the number of mod tourists completely unaware that the NPC render distance in all original games was 150 meters is very telling.
And that's still 1.5x more than what's in STALKER 2. Shouldn't that distance increase, or at least stay the same, instead of decrease for whatever reason? Especially since we now have an open-world map, long-distances in all directions are much, much more prevalent
>I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I used the binoculars in each game.
It's always better to have multiple tools at your disposal. If you don't use it, it's all right
But I personally don't like having my options cut down for arbitrary reasons

>>555436060
Blood fx overhaul + shays realistic death animations are cool as shit

>>555432385
While the experience and record proves otherwise, I'm categorically NOT accepting the process of enshittification as an acceptable reality, and I will call it out and I will grumble

>>555407732
I dunno, after trying this for a few hours I don't like it. You basically can't get hit in this mod. Once you get hit by either bullet or mutant, the camera spins around so violently that it's almost impossible to recover. Whoever thought this was a good design mechanic is crazy. The original AMK 1.4.0 mechanic where your head jerks to one side and perhaps you drop your weapon was at least recoverable. This I feel isn't. The damage you take and multiple bandages needed to stop bleeding is giving me shitty Clear Sky vibes on top of it all.

>>555393116
>the game should be as buggy and inconsistent
>You aren't supposed to be able to fall from the top of the CNPP to the ground and survive, retard
>You're crying about dying in a scenario where you'd otherwise be laying in place for hours with broken legs waiting for something to finish you off.
I still have no fucking idea what's your point, even with that ad absurdum and retarded attempt at some kind of "realism" argument? So let me reiterate my statement - the way how fall damage works is quite baffling in STALKER 2. Ironically, it is somewhat in the spirit of the original games in that regard, maybe as you are trying to infer in your ramblings? It's just its comparably much more frequent shitty tendency of killing the player a lot more even after a short fall or sliding down a slope
>What, do you want a zoom so powerful you can look at CNPP from Zalyssia and bawl about it looking blurry?
>but I want muh binoculars so I can look at them and cry about them looking like shiiiiiit
I know you're all for gobbling cocks, but don't put things into my mouth I didn't say you absolute disingenuous faggot
>bUT WHATABOUT THE PURISTS
>Nobody cares.
I don't particularly care. GSC apparently cares with the Immersion mode, so it's probably still a factor worth considering. Anyway, having more options and tools at your disposal is almost universally better
And damn, no binocs is just a pet peeve, a minor inconvenience, compared to much bigger problems with STALKER 2

>>555441837
A lot of mods do this for some reason, if you get hit hard your entire camera just shakes and turns and you feel like you just lose control for a few seconds. Le realism or something

>>555440646
>And that's still 1.5x more than what's in STALKER 2.
In a game that has 20 times lower foliage density.
>Shouldn't that distance increase, or at least stay the same,
Maybe if the game wasn't released on MS's shitboxes.
Also, increasing that distance is not an easy thing to do in a game with guns, because it would require making AI capable of reacting to the player at those distances (at least when attacked), without being fucking annoying at the same time like every Miseryslop mod.

>>555453548
>In a game that has 20 times lower foliage density.
Unfortunately, I would argue that doesn't really add to the gameplay much and brings its own baggage considering AI often doesn't give a shit about seeing you through all kinds of foliage, shooting you through it with aimbot precision and NPCs often taking useless cover behind every shrub and branch while staying completely exposed. Making these decisions of resource use (even without performance implications) and ultimately gameplay concessions (compared to prior games) are, at best, not helping the experience (with the obvious limited recon capability and long-range combat, NPCs visibly spawn popping, less intricate and way more concentrated online combat in general, etc.) and affect design at large (like weapon and ammo stats, their ballistics, used weapon sway and spread, and other derived values and behaviors, potentially even NPC AI, etc.)
>Also, increasing that distance is not an easy thing to do in a game with guns, because it would require making AI capable of reacting to the player at those distances
Now, if you mean that statement in game design in general, then that's just nonsense if you've ever played any ArmA game. Or literally any game that has even a semblance of long-range gunplay ambition
If we're talking about a fresh, new game on a new engine, then that's a conscious choice for one reason or another, be it performance, be it fucking up scripting, engine limitations (definitely not), or even purely a design decision with reasoning maybe something like "100 meters is enough". All in all, all things considered, a skill issue

>>555456106
>Now, if you mean that statement in game design in general, then that's just nonsense if you've ever played any ArmA game
ArmA falls under the same category as Miseryslop mods.
Normal people do not want to be shot at by enemies they cannot see that are made out of 5 gray/brown pixels surrounded by other gray/brown pixels on their screen, this is exactly the same issue as
>AI often doesn't give a shit about seeing you through all kinds of foliage
Which is also how it was in the originals.

>>555456106
>AI often doesn't give a shit about seeing you through all kinds of foliage, shooting you through it with aimbot precision
That hasn't happened to me since patch 1.7. Even relatively small shrubs and pine trees make enemies lose sight of you.

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>>555436904
Yes, he has been here longer than you, actually.

Newfag or tourist, call it...

>>555469027
>most people game with reasonable mouse space
>rolling shelf trained me to game with a 9" by 9" mouse pad from the age of six that I still use to this day

>>555469027
faggot or retarded faggot. call it.

>>555443065
>I can't read but will continue seething about every last pixel of the newest canon game for illegitimate reasons and crying "shill" at anyone who doesn't think not being able to buggily jump and fall 500 meters without taking damage is a bad thing

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I do find it hilarious that the Stalker fan base is just as divided as the factions in the game

>>555471385
its funny that you didnt understand what the "no" meant.
now you have the audacity of projection to say I'm butthurt and brown.
truly ironic.

you should stop ban evading and kill yourself asap

How much do I have left of the campaign if I left the doctor in the dome and returned to the camp south and got a package from the bandits with Roosevelt?

>>555482907
Based on your incredibly vague description, I'd say you're about 30% done.

>>555486668
the doctor in the bubble dome that knows Strelok

>>555451936
I understand trying to make it difficult. But at the same time, if it's so difficult that I have to reload my quicksave over 25 times to survive the Bandit assault on the vehicle graveyard in Garbage, it's unnaturally difficult. I am effectively using cover and I'm getting spun around where I can't recover or even run.

>>555482907
Roosevelt is alive? Did you just kill Varan right away or some shit?

>>555488897
Not sure? Not sure I remember who that is.

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>>555453548
Anon...

>>555489871
>can't count
>schizo delusions
>liar
fucking lol

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>>555492148
>can't count
You've been doing this across multiple threads.
>schizo delulu
Ironic.
>liar
Your posts speak for themselves.

>>555493157
they sure do

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>>555469027

Have you noticed that early to mid 2000s cameras have more clarity then today

>>555489536
The guy in the OG SOC bandit base who tells you to kill Roosevelt and the Shah. You can't miss him. The main quest forces you to go to his place to meet Nestor.

>>555500321

I ended up killing all three, Don't know if that was a good idea or not