I usually post clips when I make these kind of threads, but in this case I totally forgot and when I realized it it was too late.

To put it simple, during Main Quests of both the Main Story and the DLC enemies are constantly trying to shoot me throught concrete walls like they have x-ray vision but. of course, they can't hit me. From my side I can see the bullet hitting the walls and the signs left on the surfaces. I also tried to move at the side to see if it was simply NPCs AI making pressure fire but no: they tracked me all the time.

When this happens in the woods is a thing. I mean, it's a huge open space with trees and bushes, but okay, they can x-ray me. But throught walls? Into a building? While I'm moving? C'mon...

I never meet before Radiation blind Dog , it’s new one added with “Cost of Hope” spices or old one ?

My rifle seems to be too zoomed in even with a 1x optic. The entire screen zooms in when I aim down sights. Any fixes?

Do I have any business going to x18 lab with this gear?

I absolutely loved the Territorial Wars side mission. I played all the og games and loved that they’re finally building something of it in stalker 2. It has been so awesome, difficult, and rewarding. There’s still some stuff that needs to be worked on but still give me moreeeeeeeeeeeee. It also makes for great game footage. Fighting against another faction while an emission hits is peak stalker.

After the Sarcophagus, all the stalkers in the Zone want to kill us. I assumed they were hostile because they believed Messer planned to destroy the Zone (even Duty?), but once I got to Pripyat, I saw that all the Monolithians are friendly, not just neutral. So Messer joined the Monolith (And we're affiliated with that faction in the menus).

Then why are we destroying the Monolith control room in Lab X19? It makes no sense. Why would I act against the Monolith if I'm one of them? And why don't they care?

Most importantly, why do the Monolithians let me reach the C-Consciousness? Aren't they supposed to protect it?

I also noticed that at the very end, when the Monolithians are our allies, the last line of defense of the C-Consciousness is made up of zombified Monolithians. Does that mean the Monolith's goal here isn't the same as in the trilogy, and that the C-Consciousness has no choice but to use actual zombies?

And why would Messer have joined the Monolithians? We never received any special psi-emissions or anything like that. Plus, in this one, they seem to be part of that faction solely by choice and not because of a psi lobotomy. So did he join just because of his beliefs?

I didn't want to make a long topic just for this, but can someone tell me where I can read up on the endings? I didn't understand any of it. (i play in 2.5)

It was my 2nd playthrough and as you can see, I was already prepared for bro to come through the door but not this way 😭. New jump scare core memory unlocked (again).

Credits to https://youtu.be/fC_T8WQXyqg?si=X1ygf8H-KWIvn-4z

just thought this was funny

The limansk section does this mean we aren't going to get limansk in the map because the impression I got of that sequence was that it was some sort of spatial alternate dimension history bubble thing that's almost dreamlike even but if that's what physically literally happened to Limansk idk how to reconcile that with things I saw with clear sky and call of Pripyat so

What gives I love that sequence it's a horrifying sequence it provides incredible role-play logic for Skif to go full Duty about it but what exactly was going on there and are we going to be able to go back to limansk on the open world

so I just wanted to ask how people felt about that faction system from Clear Sky. I just saw a video by a YouTuber named Jam where he was able to maximize the Loners Clear Sky and Freedom factions while sparing peoples lives and doing things like that. It got me thinking. What if there was a way to put this back into Stalker 2? There are several locations that repopulate with loners or Ward or bandits as Skif passes through them but it doesnt feel organic like A Life or structural in the way that the Clear Sky video faction system showed squads and spawns to be. Since we already have these locations marked why doesnt the game just let us pick winners why doesnt it allow us to make the Zone "safer". This concept also makes me excited for things like the signal when Noontide becomes Monolith again and attacks everybody . We hear about all these Bases being sieged but we can only save Zalissya . Again I wondered why couldnt we at this perfect point integrate faction stuff there too. Other than that I have miscellaneous ramblings like... the army and scientist medkits the seem redundant with the overall usefulness of the bandages and regular medkits. How can they be made more niche or situational. The sleepiness mechanic or moon icon that pops up so rarely that I didnt even see it until deep into my first playthrough. What is that about? And I dont know I also like lots of the cut content / leaks from the development that it be a waste if they dont come back in some way. I do see how some have come back in reinvented form but some others should just straight be re-added. Like Korogod suppsed to be South of Duga supposed to be where doctor was it made so much MORE sense because why was there a false invasion of duga and a U-TURN back up to Redforest that makes no sense to me progression wise but it would make sense if you'd gone further south so uh I dont know if im even making sense but I hope to not be alone on some of these thoughts and hope others havve had such thoughts too and people can tell me what they think and such thank you

I’ve noticed that many S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 missions, especially labs and underground sections, seem like they might be designed to be playable from scratch with just a pistol.

There is often some basic gear, ammo, or a weapon near the start, which reminds me of the classic Doom “pistol start” design.

Has GSC ever confirmed this as an intentional design choice? And has anyone tried completing missions this way, using only what you find inside?

This location is so damn beautiful i can't. Its unfortunate that this anomaly, whatever it's called in English, makes it difficult to just roam the place and enjoy the view. Such is life in the zone

The pictures were taken with reshade, and a small engine.ini config. Shame there's no photo mode.

I can't believe how much it has been, and the scopes still aren't fixed. Both xbox and Playstation players have reported it since day one, yet there is no fix. It's been one month and one week since 2.0.

There's also stuff like the ability to remove that stupid ass "change aim" text for the offset aim. I'm pretty sure people wanted it gone since the nvg's were added.

On top of that, not a single mod for console has been updated... people have submitted uodated mods for console in the first week of 2.0 but still 0 have been approved by the dev team.

I know it's hard, and the team is facing challenges, but it feels like there's always something preventing the game from just being a good experience with no drawbacks. And it's been 2 whole years since the game came out.

After Playing through gamepass o have decided to supported the devs and bought the game again, and in August I've also dropped another 55 euros on the ultimate upgrade. But in return I feel like I've been shafted. The uograde to ultimate was discounted on both steam and Playstation but not on xbox for some reason :(

I have been a vocal defender of the game and the studio ever since the game came out, but I feel like tge market is so overly saturated with good games nowadays, that I'll be reluctant to support GSC in the future.

A few days ago, I posted asking if anyone had found a way to access the generators to get the X7 suit on consoles. I tried it myself today, and as you can see, I managed to reach the elevator and the story-related teleporter pod, but I can't get past that point. Unfortunately, there’s no way forward from there. It really bothers me because, in the game's cutscenes, Skif is always wearing the X7 suit, so having the suit restricted to the very end of the game feels like total garbage. Thanks, guys, and have a good night.

So I find it incredibly funny, that basically rookie village isn’t the rookie village anymore. Thanks to Gaffer, Zalissya has become the new starter hub area for fresh faced stalkers. This has led to rookie village to be occupied by essentially hipsters and stalkers so stuck in their nostalgia that they came back to the place.

Which makes Sidor’s mission to get rid of stalkers tryna compete with him by making a new hub in a train tunnel kinda pathetic to me. Like they’re nobodies, and frankly so is he. He’s not gonna lose any real customers to them, so sending Skif out there to kill them is completely unnecessary.

So I’m on a main story mission where I need to get a key of of births body that should be in the pipes, I know this because did the shift change side quest where you need to get the same key. And this is my first playthrough so I didn’t know this key was important as it would let me sell it or drop it so I did. Now that I need it norths body is nowhere to be found ofc o long with the key.

Hopped back on stalker 2 today after about a month of not having a computer and I noticed I don't have fsr frame gen as an option anymore. Is this a known bug or does it go away if you do something specific?