New piece of art and music track on site. From their FB page. >Hello, friends! >Do you like our update on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 website - stalker2.com/? >There is a lot of interesting things ahead - we will tell the latest news, rejoice you with exciting contests and, of course, talk about our games. >Join, Stalker! And you will not stay without artifacts.
>playing coc missouri merges Yikes! Play OLR like the real niggas.
Grayson Sanders
Considering how triggered some people get when some mods add female stalkers, I can't imagine the shitstorm if gsc does it as well.
Eli Foster
It'll come out when Bannerlord does
Kevin Jenkins
Why?
Isaac Brooks
Why wouldn't they? The second disaster in the games happened way before the real place got covered up.
Hudson Evans
I'll only play OLR when someone vastly overhaul the hud/graphics/weapons and hand models
Colton Bailey
I dunno, they could consider to update it to reflect real life.
Jeremiah Lewis
It's not even about /pol/, forced bullshit should not be condoned regardless of whose doing it unless you're a retard who enjoys being fed propaganda. I hope Bloodlines 2 doesn't fall to this but every sign points to it.
No, but they are using V5 ruleset and world building, change most of the interesting mechanics, toned on disciplines, changed important parts of the clans, for example, Tremere rebelling against the pyramid, all elders and the sabbath moved to middle east, Lasombra is basically useless, old version was basically Jackie, now you can see in the dark, India still standing, Camarilla now accepts thinbloods, Gehenna is basically a ciclycal vampire war rather than papa vamps waking up hungry and causing the apocalypse, but, one good thing happened, the second inquisition, governments decided to crack down on vampires across the world. Caine was the taxi driver.
>I hope Bloodlines 2 doesn't fall to this but every sign points to it. Not really. The biggest red flags are the pronouns selection and the senior writer. Mitsoda and Shaffer both being back is a good sign, and the devs have made it clear that getting Bloodlines 2 to feel like 1 was the priority. Their mention of active politicking in the games refers to the politics surrounding Kindred society and how they deal with rising technology. This thing could go either way, and how people hyperbolically declare the game shit, instead of having a balanced stance, irks me something fierce
Benjamin Allen
Considering that the game takes place after Bloodlines, it's probably going to use the same lore as originally
Greentexting allows to convey deeper emotions that wouldn't come across in text based communication. It is the closest thing there is to a sarcasm button or something similar. I hate the jews >I hate the jews
Leo Phillips
One of the book writers confirmed V5 was in development along side Bloodlines2, and White Wolf is quite autistic when comes plot, everything must be part of the books.
>One of the book writers confirmed V5 was in development along side Bloodlines2 I understand this, but they can't really fuck with the lore too much if it's going to fit in with 1. >and White Wolf is quite autistic when comes plot, everything must be part of the books. White Wolf means nothing. Paradox will have the final say
>buy COP after watching some random meme upload of a controller trolling someone so they couldn't leave the Jupiter train station by some Dark Souls YT'er >went in totally blind >ended up putting 90 hours into vanilla COP alone I'm excited lads
I want to believe. I remember when it was first announced and they showed off screenshots, I thought "Man, I can't wait to have a computer that can run that!"
Now, I have a computer that can run it, and it's still not out. Go figure.
>Freedom are the ones watching the barrier to keep monolith out in SoC >In CS it's literally just a bunch of based as fuck Loners holding the line Fuck, I can't believe I fell for Duty bullshit or that didn't hit me till now. The fucking stoners are doing more to protect the zone then them. They aren't wrong in the zone being a threat to mankind though, but even clear sky has done more then those cucks to actually stop it.
yes, but the devs confirmed that all the events of bloodlines 1 still happened and it's a direct sequel.
Henry Murphy
>download olr >can't drop off the decoy box anywhere and getting the military documents doesn't update the quest >first mission softlocks Nice mod faggots.
Brandon Baker
vanilla a-life is so boring now
Eli Watson
>whats a restart also youre supposed to just pick up the docs for XA6A
Angel Bell
>Bloodsucker after bloodsucking STALKER with 5 vodkas in him
>and thinbloods have powers Haven't they always had powers?
Asher Brown
its faster than doing 2x"
Noah Hill
Fuck, your right, my bad. I agree with the idea of duty to stop the zone but those faggots are too busy talking military dick to actually do anything to stop it. I tend to be friendly to freedom but never actually join up with them.
Why though? Its not like someone is going to go into the hardly accessible center of the radioactive, dangerous exclusion and build a new sarcophagus that would take years to build? i dont like this, stalkers mutants were always supposed to be humanoid prisoners, zombies who underwent exposure to radiation and mutated animals, not walking trees
>a fresh new vanilla stalker game just waiting for its bugs to be explored, patched, and modded it's like stalkers going into the zone for the first time again
They shoud just properly open source x-ray at this point. The sources were leaked years ago.
Ayden Parker
Lad. They're fucking mutants. Having a mutant turn into one of those bugs that blends in with leaves isn't far fetched.
Zachary Cox
>expecting anything other than an open world crafting survival game with Far Cry outposts It's going to have a console release
Brayden White
I dont think that even the zone couldnt evolve someone to the point that they can turn into trees so fast
Cooper Long
>not enjoying both
Luis Brown
Based
Christian Brown
>Souless
Jason Taylor
I'm very optimistic, but fact that they're going to use a different engine makes me a little bit concerned. Everything about the engine that made stalker great has to be reworked into another engine, which might prove difficult (i mean, imagine stalker with metro 2033 shooting feel). Too much polish could ruin the game, imagine stalker cop with carefully scripted encounters instead of (more or less janky and unpredictable) alive stuff. And modders won't be able to start working on their shit right on release, that's bad too. Then again, they couldn't release stalker 2 on x-ray technology nowadays, it just wouldn't sell. Making this kind of a sequel sounds like a terribly difficult job.
Imagine them stalking stalkers in the deep woods, peering around real trees to watch them and waiting until night falls to drag loners away. Imagine turning around at one point and seeing one of those lanky motherfuckers either sprinting after you or trying to go rigid and disguise itself. "Has there always been a tree there?" "Did that tree just move?" "Wow, this tree sure looks weird, must have been shaped by an anom--"
Tbh CoP already felt fairly scripted. A lot of main missions were creative and interesting but a lot more scripted than the previous entries. So it depends entirely on whether they try to model Stalker 2 more on SoC or CoP. We'll see.
Dominic Wilson
Imagine shared, semi-public, open developement, mby commision/competition based >all those turbo-autism driven Russian modders uniting to make the greatest game ever under the direction of GSC My fuckin' pants man Basically what I'm afraid It's like trying to make Call of Duty outside of that transmorphed, heavily modified Quake engine. It just wouldn't feel the same Though maybe they can nail it, who knows
Jacob Thompson
>post yfw STALKER BATTLE ROYALE I'm 99% that's what this'll be
Which is the best mod out there ?? Id say anomaly but i played only Coc and Dead Air
Parker Robinson
A-Life is going to be a real bitch to implement again. There are very few people in the industry who know how to write good AI and the original creator of A-Life left the company. I probably won't buy the game if the AI is shit.
>a super strong female kills the head of all factions and makes the zone disappear with the power of her estrogen. Her nickname is the 'controller' because the merest hint of pussy turns all male stalkers into zombies
Depends on what you're looking for. If you're talking about freeplay mods I'd say Anomaly. Only recently picked it up but really enjoyed it. Progression isn't as quick as vanilla CoCk where you can become OP within an hour while it also doesn't go all out with stupid autism shit like in Last Day. It's a nice balance and the 64bit engine is nice. Haven't played Dead Air so can't comment. Original DMM:AE for SoC was also a lot of fun while not being bloated.
Lincoln Hernandez
i smell sergei from this shit. I dont trust until i see some reviews out there. Until then i will get metro exodus on steam
John Wood
>game that takes place in an alternate reality should change to reflect real life
COP felt really empty outside of the missions. The number of crazy encounters you had were tiny compared to the previous games. Mods help it a little but it's not the same.
Shit I was never into stalker but I remember the memes here and stalker posts every fucking day. Twas great
Jordan Stewart
>playing unfinished games I hope you don't do this
Cooper James
how do fr*edom fags get the ganja? do they grow it in the zone or do they smuggle it inside the zone?
Mason Collins
outside of a little polish, olr is playable from start to finish
Julian Stewart
retard, I never go there, but if you like videogame and still don't boycott sjw shit on sight, you're worse than a cuck.
Noah Kelly
Agreed. CoP felt really like it was more of a zone themed amusement park than the zone. Add to that the bandits being neutral, mercs being neutral and its pretty fucking boring
Kevin Roberts
I agree. Loved the atmosphere and music of the maps but it definitely felt barren at times. Especially Pripyat areas which were just empty.
SoC was bustling. Maybe because each map was small and had clear main roads linking inhabited areas.
Carter Parker
of course they grow it in the zone. i would try chernobyl kush in a heartbeat, wouldnt you?
Benjamin Cook
kill yourself you fucking faggot holy shit
Landon Ross
Duty are dumb cunts who can't enforce their own rules and are built upon a fraud Freedom > Duty forever
Noah Morris
Both, probably
Joseph Price
Nah, I'd be afraid it would mess with your mind, giving you nightmares and visions.
I wonder what kind of dank ass zone hallucinogens freedom has cooked up
Henry Howard
>freedumbs actually protect the people from endless waves of mutants and monolith exoskeletons >all high rankings stalkers are either freedom neutral or mercs >dutards bully rookies at the garbage, keep disturbing everyone at rostok and get captured by fucking bandits
Julian Wright
>he doesn't bone the most dangerous mutants in the zone in order to establish his alpha male status yikes how low is your test
Grayson Barnes
>zoophiles and also necrophiliacs
is this what "freedom" does to a person?
Bentley Lopez
>VtMB2 >S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 Yup I think we're making western gaming great again
>clear sky >losing against ragtag slavs with rusty aks and old shotguns >get carried by a badass merc >fight towards the reactor >blow up in a emission and get your soldiers brainwashed >absolutely btfo in less than a week >your only job was to research the zone why the fuck are clear sky so goddamn lame yet have the best aesthetics
>Borderlands 3 get announced >Risk of rain 2 realeses >Stalker 2 is not dead >exam got pushed a week What a nice day
Carter Smith
they have their own account registration for Cossacks 3 though
Ethan Rivera
>photoshopped a plastic airsoft "gas mask" on a face >piece of art This is the first google result for "airsoft gas mask" by the way, this artist really put some work in.
I haven't played stalker in a while, what's this anomaly thing?
Charles Bennett
coc+misery+a bunch of coc addons so coc
Joshua King
I can already see how this would work, it basically camouflages with the trees and then appears behind you slashing with its limbs, and from that point on you'll never be around trees and feel safe ever again
Jaxson Edwards
why contain it, its cool
Asher Rogers
>literally preferring corridor shooter STALKER
Ryan Thomas
Oh, i never really liked CoC.
Elijah Anderson
Call of Chernobyl with Misery stuff features but without the meme difficulty, actually fun AI and a 64bit engine (that still run like shit)
>they >implying there's more than 1 person in the "studio"
Henry Hughes
back to /sg/ with you
Joshua Cox
You're now aware that they'll build the game for consoles as well. Meaning casual difficulty and no reading because it will remind normalfags of VNs which trigger them
Not enough bandages in the zone to stop this bleeding
Colton Brooks
kill yourself
Samuel Gray
Every once in a while, I search for r34 of female bloodsuckers and just ... imagine
Jaxon Brown
I tried to play SoC, and stopped just after killing my way through the military base. The game turned into dumb and unenjoyable murderfest at this point, the enemies breed like rabbits, and the bodies-sown landscape in particular spots was almost Drakengard-ian. I could get into Caim's mind, not so much the Marked One's. But I do enjoy that he isn't much at all like common fps protagonist, he's slavic ugly, aging and balding.
I want to see the further continuation of the whole noosphere/biosphere symbiosis. The concept art for S2 already teased at this with walking trees and parasitic pigs, but I want shit like completely anomalous buildings and areas, that become zoetic when you enter them, where the seasons change over the course of days, where the world geometry changes in subtle yet unsettling ways, and where time and space seem to stand still (maybe utilize some non-euclidean level design youtube.com/watch?v=_xFbRecjKQA), instead of just "spooky building/tunnel with some dangerous moss and mutants in them". The Zone would get progressively more alien and surreal as the game goes on.
Oh, and a complete rework of the AI system so it's closer to the original, more ambitious vision GSC had for ALife.
In the russian community it's well established CS and CoP are more like expansions to the first, even if they're standalone. Besides, the time gap is massive.
Joseph Lee
>This fag really believes that this "game" will come out and totally isnt a money scam.
That would be awesome. I know everyone wants what they love, but games have come a long way since the originals. Why not the mood of the originals but with more stuff? I'm not gonna get my hopes up, though.
think ill start another playthrough of SoC. whate overhaul should i play this time
Ian Nguyen
>"bonjour, marked one"
Bentley Howard
Fake news and r*ssian propaganda, OUN would beat that fags to death.
Samuel Baker
>Western >Slavs Also I'm on the fence about VTMB2 until more info/game is actually out.
Michael Diaz
>tfw nothing can recapture the feeling of entering Agroprom underground for the first time
Leo Reed
I thought it was a loner place and they just decided "fuck it, lets just not shoot each other for now." Sure Hawaiian is obviously a freedom lover but still.
Jeremiah Jones
scared shitless for the first time i miss that feel
It's one of them. The 1.5 beta has 3 questlines to follow, including one where Strelok comes back to the zone and you have to find him.
Carson Ramirez
Why is a gay couple infront of two straight couples?
Benjamin Flores
Those in control of the IP really, really wanted to insist he wasn't, despite the intent of the gamedevs - and more importantly the fact that the fans liked it.
Juan Young
>Lesbo >straight Ugh...
Dominic Baker
scared? I think you mean Lab X-18, Agroprom underground is the first underground spot - it has bandits, bloodsuckers, military and a controller before you exit to the middle of the military base
CoP would have been the best if it had more random shit actually going on top of the more scripted side quests. Most of them were nerds though.
Asher Adams
GSC's last game was a PC exclusive title though
Daniel Reed
I guess not related to the setting. >mod tools >single player campaign >free roam mode after the game is completed, create a character, select a faction, a starting location, starting equipment, and just live as a generic stalker >maybe reactive environment like in Far Cry 2 >improved factions interactions system >improved AI >Improved equipment customization
For the setting. >More unique and interesting labs >NPC world building like slaves being used by the bandits, civilians like the journalist in one of the dialogs, international stalkers trying to make a life in zone >Anomalies are more lethal >more love for mercs and scientists
I don't see the problem with female stalkers, one of the books had a african stalker.
What would happen with OpenGL, better performance?
Easton Garcia
coc 1.5
Alexander Gomez
This is all I fucking want
Nicholas Thomas
>changed important parts of the clans always been a thing. Malk ability was changed once way before all this and so was other clans >Tremere rebelling against the pyramid nothing new. Tremere have other groups once apart of them that rebelled >sabbath moved to middle east Yup because the elders ether told them too or because they want to fight the elder vamps. thats not new >Lasombra is basically useless and >India retcon. if you had played the game then you would understand that ravnos waking up cause a series of events that caused gehenumnumnum >Camarilla now accepts thinbloods depends on your worth. Think of it like when lacroix used you to gain the box but never expected you to survive. >Gehenna is basically a ciclycal vampire war cool. the antis will wake up faster since what wakes them up is mass vampire deaths not a magical day waking them up, but certain events taking place that compels them to wake up like revnos waking up, dying, the magic nuke destroying the afterlife and everything else.
user don't fall for the trap Yea Forums does with this game. I a leftist hate it because it was about people fighting for the rights of other people while having walks of all life to "OMG i'm a lesbian and born male, i also like to bite the dick off of trump supporters"(what i wrote actually happened)
Dominic Perez
There is no women in Zone. Only strong manly friendship
Carson Moore
More portable code.
Chase Robinson
what an awful post!
Charles Anderson
>retcon No, I will not accept retcons, ever, destroy India, kill half of the population, start a war between humanity and the supernatural, and let Lasombra have the shadow armor.
>Hip Ayy lmao, she's actually a ported character from one of the russian stalker books. Never got the obsession of writers with female stalkers though.
Samuel White
this because the overhaul makes it look like a shitty generic shooter made in unity
Nolan Robinson
in one game, and it was a prequel.
James Turner
Duty are LARPers who try to ruin everything for everyone else
I wish we'd get a game that perfectly marries shoc and cop
Dominic Wright
They retconned it so they could make an oc donutsteel story for him in their godawful cash-in fanfiction books that they used to justify ending the OWoD setting only to backtrack later because half the fanbase thought NWoD was shit. As far as 'canon' goes, everything is still on the table for the setting.
Nathaniel Thompson
There's plenty of minimods that tweak/expand CoC to be more difficult/immersive without the CoM autism and terribly overdone brown filter that makes everything ugly.
Jackson Fisher
I really don't get the hype. It's fucking nothing. They clearly don't even have an alpha.
You know they will. In fact, I believe if we all want the opposite we will get the exact opposite so lets try to confuse these people by wanting things we don't want and get the things that we really do want.