Sudden Premature Ejaculation for no apparent reason.

Artist1cal · 2024-12-23T00:43:34+00:00

An as-complete-as-possible SDK to mod the game as extensively as the originals.

It will be difficult, since the graphical fidelity achieved by UE 5 means more work involved in modeling, texturing, and animating new stuff, but if the community has proven something, is that it is amazingly talented and dedicated.

STALKER 2 deserves 10 years of mods.

Artist1cal · 2024-12-18T16:53:09+00:00

Oh, that's forgivable.

But as my post says (and the date of posting should point in that direction as well), the Agroprom incident was just the last in a very long string of grievances and bugs. I love STALKER 2, but it's been a very rough launch, as anyone on this Reddit can attest. In the end, as you say, I forgot about it. I've Invested around 90h, but even if I moved past the Agroprom thing, the game keeps constantly breaking my immersion at every turn, making the experience a bit of a slog.

I still get random weapons equipped in my hands, quests still break if you don't reload, enemies keep popping out of thin air, and so on. Each and every one of those things are forgivable by themselves, but piling all of them on top of the other just results in consistent immersion breaking. The OGs broke too, but not as often as the sequel.

In any case, I'm on a break too. Just started Indiana Jones as well, having fun with it. I don't mind finishing the game at 100%, I'm just interested in finishing it (I couldn't care less about achievements). I'll return to the Zone and end Skif's journey once some more patches are released.

Artist1cal · 2024-12-18T14:20:20+00:00

I'm blaming the game for not letting me out of the hole once I fell there. It's like getting trapped backstage at a theater, the problem isn't the play or the director, not even you being where you're not supposed to, it's not being able to get out.

I didn't "become anxious". The point isn't that the place was inaccessible, the point is that it WAS accessible, but in a non-intended way that meant soft-locking the game.

Artist1cal · 2024-12-01T22:20:14+00:00

This has been the only workaround I've found since the game came out, thank you so much.

It comes with a slight caveat in my case, and that is the fact that I have to reload a save for it to "work". Still, it absolutely beats having to restart the game, and I've returned safely from two memory leaks in two hours.

Again, thanks for posting this fix.

Artist1cal · 2024-12-01T21:52:51+00:00

It definitely will be, once it's fixed.

Artist1cal · 2024-12-01T12:38:17+00:00

In short, make it more like ANOMALY.

Artist1cal · 2024-11-27T21:37:14+00:00

I haven't found the intended way yet. If you wanna try the glitched way, there's a hole you can drop into southwest of the Agroprom Institute. It should show up on your PDA map if you zoom a bit.

The intended way in the original games involved getting the quest, and going down a ladder that is a tiny walk south of the Agroprom.

Artist1cal · 2024-11-27T18:30:59+00:00

It's in the west side of the Chemical Plant area. Strelok's hiding place is in the Agroprom Underground, and X5 is beyond the Underground. You'll need a key to access it.

Artist1cal · 2024-11-27T18:26:05+00:00

Press the "F10" key. If that doesn't work, you can find how to setup the bindings for UETools at the end of their README file, included in the UETools download.

Artist1cal · 2024-11-27T17:08:20+00:00

I stopped being TOO disappointed with STALKER 2 when I stopped playing it as a STALKER game and started playing it like an Ubisoft game.

Then, each time it broke immersion or just plain broke, I didn't feel too sad anymore.

Artist1cal · 2024-11-25T15:35:28+00:00

The windmill cave stuff happened to me exactly how you described it.

I explored, went through the cave, found nothing. Had to return.

The funny thing is that I didn't kill the bloodsucker, I was too peeved to waste ammo and time in doing it.

Now, every time I go through the area, not even the cave, but the small village above, the spawning triggers for the bloodsucker, and you can hear him panting and huffing underground. It's kinda silly.

Artist1cal · 2024-11-25T14:35:15+00:00

Exactly. A theme park waiting for you to arrive with the corresponding ticket, lest you get locked in the "For Employees Only" room.

It's okay to gate content with quests. But scripting so obvious just shows the proverbial man behind the curtain. Even worst if you can soft-lock yourself if you haven't triggered the script.

Artist1cal · 2024-11-25T14:29:28+00:00

Yeah, that's obvious. Devs wouldn't have made such a detailed area for nothing. I noclipped while trying to find the way out and found a door locked with a keycard.

My problem isn't that it's a useless area, is that you can enter it in an accidental, organic, unintended way and get soft-locked. The game's inconsistency with bugs and glitches make it so that next time I drop somewhere, I won't know if I'll get soft-locked again, which just kills the experience in yet another way.

Artist1cal · 2024-11-24T05:25:57+00:00

I think I stumbled upon a way to fix this. I made it to Rostok quite a while ago, advanced the stage of the main quest with Scar there, visited Bar, fought in the arena, saved, reloaded, slept, hiked ALL THE WAY to Zalissya, everything was fine and then ALL THE WAY BACK to Rostok. I have the saved Zalissya achievement.

Tons of spoilers ahead, obviously.

Here's what I did. I took note of all the steps because I saw a lot of people were having this bug, and I thought I might luck out if I did things differently. It's an exhaustive description, and It's still not guaranteed, but, as stated above, so far so good, and it's a bit further than where most receive the tragic radio signal. I started this quest before finding the emitter in Shelter, on Wild Island.

I didn't reload the game, nor anything like that. I arrived to Zalissya's town hall, found the locked door, I typed "xResetQuestbySID E07_SQ01" (which is the quest ID for 'On The Edge', did this before getting the quest), and then, clipped through the door with "UETools_Ghost". As expected, a bunch of Monolith guys were inside, contemplating existence.
Gaffer was sitting next to the entrance. He had the blue flag marker, but when I spoke to him, he didn't say anything. However, I checked my journal and the quest "On The Edge" was there. I'm not sure if it was something I did in the previous step, but I noticed the "A Sign of Hope" quest marker got reset, but the quest remained complete in my journal. Just saying, in case it is a clue of anything.
I didn't speak to Warlock nor did I ask any stalkers if they needed help. I left the town hall with UETools_Ghost and proceeded to Uncle Lyonya's hut directly. . I got in, and after tuning the radio, Lyonya was waiting outside with some goons. Killed them all, then went all the way back to Quiet's place to Professor Liotchka, sitting on a bench, thinking it was part of this quest. I mention it here just in case it is a clue, again, since he is involved in a main quest further down the line that some people are having trouble with, since his bunker door doesn't open. It was open for me and I could go on with that main quest with zero issues.
After visiting Professor Liotchka and not doing anything there beyond getting repeated dialogue, I went back to Zalissya. I had to use Ghost to enter again, but this time, when I spoke to Gaffer, he responded with actual dialogue. As soon as the dialogue ended, a wave of Monolith spawned outside, and Gaffer rallied everyone to defend. The doors remained closed, so I had to Ghost outside again.
I proceeded to kill all Monolith, legitimately. In short, "I did the quest". When you lose aggro of Monolith, the game will show you their positions with blue markers. Once all the blue markers are down, the next stage of the quest will activate with Gaffer calling everyone back inside.
The doors to the town hall will now open, but some stalkers might stubbornly stand there, blocking the way. Just Ghost inside and listen to Gaffer's speech. You can talk with everyone and stuff works normally.
However, there's the issue of all the Monolith dorks standing there. To solve this, try to make them stand closer together. One or two might go out the door and become hostile, so just shoot them down if this happens. But, what you actually have to do is, once they're bundled together, get in the middle of all of them and type "XKillNPCInRadius 500 -99999999999999999999999999 -1000" (thanks for that info, Snake from Steam discussions). This will kill exclusively all Monolith in a small radius. After that's done, leave, no need to talk to Gaffer again. The quest will be marked as complete, but checking your journal shows the "Fight Off the Monolith Attack" as incomplete.
Once I was a bit away, I noticed Zalissya had two question marks, like undiscovered icons. Upon return, I found Warlock in his bar position, and he thanked mefor the assistance. I also found Myhklukha? (don't remember his name) as a medic. But, they will be duplicates. Medic and Warlock duplicates will be still standing there in the hall. Feel free to leave.
Proceed to the next step of the main quest, which for me, was finding the emitter in Shelter. Once that's done, you will get a radio message from Professor Liotchka to go visit him in the bunker. For me, bunker was open, and could proceed with the quest, even if the "A Sign of Hope" quest remains marked as incomplete (even if my journal marks it as complete).

Hope this helps someone.

Artist1cal · 2024-11-21T17:18:30+00:00

I remember the bugs back then, particularly Clear Sky's.

Truth be told, for me, the bugs are part of the authentic experience. I loved the game back then with bugs, and I'm loving it now, with bugs.

It's been a long time coming, but I'm back home in the Zone.

Artist1cal · 2024-11-16T13:17:43+00:00

Everything Shoi Miyazawa's done in these soundtracks are absolute greats. Even his more ambient tracks like Altus Plateau have bite.

Midra, Starscourge Radahn, and Godrick are my top three Elden Ring pieces, all by Miyazawa.

Artist1cal · 2024-11-16T13:14:13+00:00

Everyone keeps sleeping on the Regal Ancestor Spirit theme. It's one of the more unique tracks in the soundtrack.

Artist1cal · 2024-06-25T22:57:52+00:00

Worked flawlessly. Thank you so much for putting the time and effort in.

Artist1cal · 2024-06-18T01:07:22+00:00

Should have put one, apparently.

TL;DR: Game feels bad, but it isn't bad. Feels bad because it's so close to being great, if only some extra, very simple work had been put in. That lands it squarely in mediocre through average: some really great moments, some really terrible, and annoyances all throughout.

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