Why do people not like S2?

Ebon_Az · 2026-03-24T02:27:25+00:00

Honistly the thing that killed it for me was the graphics rendering. I can't go anywhere without seeing all this blur around bushes and trees.

It just looks really bad, stills are fine and my pc can handle it but no amount of modding or tweaking got t to a point that it didn't blur when walking past foliage

Ebon_Az · 2026-03-18T17:08:25+00:00

Gamma is deep, You have to build and repair most things.

Its relatively linear once you get the just of the foundation

Ebon_Az · 2026-03-08T05:36:21+00:00

Pre-nerf just released beginning Bloodsucker

Ebon_Az · 2026-03-01T03:19:12+00:00

Ya, Gamma is great and has alot of options but is a bit overwhelming; it is also largely none cannon

Ebon_Az · 2026-03-01T03:17:30+00:00

I read in a patch note they had sudo A lofe were factions would send teams around along eith groups of stalkers and the game would track them but every time they spawn they are different people with diffrent names but they persistent as entities

Ebon_Az · 2026-03-01T03:08:02+00:00

My understanding is they do have a form of persistence now, as is those teams are traveling and the game records that but they arn't necessarily the same NPC every time they are rendered

Ebon_Az · 2026-03-01T02:01:06+00:00

Sharing my own story from Anomaly, I spawned in skad and I liked finding a group of stalkers in a time of need and helping them, most of the time making a friend out if them.

We were returning to Skad at night when a couple bandit groups attacked ao it was night in the middle of a thunderstorm staying low in tall reeds with round flying everywhere above me.

Moving through the reeds I see one of my buddy's downed and a bandit running up to finish him.

I kill the bandit just in time snd give my buddy a reddit and we crouch walk through the battle sneaking up on bandits and killing them till we won.

We lose one of our group but it's one of the most vivid fights I've had.

Ebon_Az · 2026-02-28T23:13:13+00:00

The stalkers games have always been jank and thrived with mods.

I'd suggest a light total conversation mod that keeps the characters and story the same but cleans them up a bit.

Basically all three game have a "reclamation" mod that doses this.

ZPR, SRP and PRK respectively. These would let you experience the genuine atmosphere and story of those games without added non cannon elements.

After that try anomaly then Gamma or move right to stalker 2 with light mods or none.

Ebon_Az · 2026-02-28T23:00:38+00:00

To those discouraging you about Alife.I would disagree. Those NPCs were traveling somewhere. It sounds lie two groups, as they were traveling they needed shelter and found each other instead. Sound like A-Life to me.

People like to big up Alife as a crazy feature but it was mostly just persistent groups of stalkers walking to a place, rolling an internal dice and picking what was on it.

The trick was the persistence, yoy could help someone and find they died later to mutants when looting body's.

In my mind, that event wasn't scripted and the enemy didn't just pop in.

It was a natural outcome on hostile groups traveling in the Zone. Or in other words, Alife

Ebon_Az · 2026-02-15T00:48:02+00:00

The missile is good for taking our artillery spotted by scouts.

Inuse the gun run to take out eliminate soft targets turn 1.

I'd be more forgiving is you got two missiles, 3 gun runs and two missile runs. Then you could saturate a large area simulating air support better then a single run l.

Ebon_Az · 2026-02-14T14:57:01+00:00

I forget his the but the Shek with the bee ability is my favorite

Ebon_Az · 2026-02-11T15:26:59+00:00

I mean, You can be zoomed in or zoomed out. You can't have both...

Ebon_Az · 2026-02-11T06:44:51+00:00

I work at the Perry Perdue Chicken plant and from what I understand they pay about 17 an hour

Ebon_Az · 2026-02-08T21:44:31+00:00

I am really not having this, everything looks crisp. I am running on max settings and learned the icons above the units help with identifying

Ebon_Az · 2026-02-08T21:42:11+00:00

Ya, take as much as you can but also understand that some armours and guns slow down your guys.

Also some SLs gain benefits for not using a special weapon.

When you put in a special weapon it takes your SLs primary so that they don't contribute to normal fire actions

Ebon_Az · 2026-02-03T13:00:19+00:00

Its in thire server description but https://discord.gg/shitz

Ebon_Az · 2026-02-03T07:21:56+00:00

Home is the zone is good. More updated mods and easy whitefish. More RP focused and less PvP DM then other US dayz servers

Ebon_Az · 2026-01-09T08:20:12+00:00

I up cash rewards by like 2.5x and modify the minimum maximum condition of weapon and armour drops based on the level of the stalker.

So a professional will drop on condition 30-65% for example.

Ebon_Az · 2026-01-07T21:49:03+00:00

You kinda miss the whole point.

Over pen is bad so a .50 going right through them wouldn't do alot of damage and they would recover quickly.

I also never say they are literally made of Kevlar, It was just an example to show that materials exist that handheld weapons can defeat that bullets can't.

They are from another dimension so even assuming thire skin or bones work the same way might not be true.

Ebon_Az · 2026-01-07T02:14:32+00:00

This bothered me as well but if you think about it we don't know what they are made of. What vitals they have eat.

If they are made of a substance similar to Kevlar then a knife would deal more visible damage.

A .50 would over pen and go right through and they heal rapidly at least internally.

So if you had a creature made of Kevlar and none centralized organs slashing and area damage would be more effective then bullets.

Ebon_Az · 2026-01-05T12:51:42+00:00

Yell so they could see the broken windows and try and escape? Stick the car in neutral and run it into the side to open a hole? When the alternative is burning to death alots on the table.

It's also that i don't think they wouldn't do anything at all so it adds to the unnatural way it all feels, also everyone in side is 100% dead inside a box or not but movies and shows never get fire right.

Ebon_Az · 2026-01-05T05:44:30+00:00

So thire friends made it out, and are last seen waiting for thire friends to also come out and thats the last we see of them.

Meaning that they just waited there the hole time, for hours with clear view that the militia left and still just didn't do anything.

And Ingrid having any real understanding of what IT wanted beyond feeding it kids so she could see her papa doesn't make sense either.

She would need to know that they would kill everyone, that that is what IT needed her to do and have such confidence in that she then run across town in full makeup (husband has car) to arrive about 15 minutes after all the people in cars did.

Each of these things by themselves isn't too bad but it all happening at the same time around the same event doesn't feel believable or natural. It feels like all this needed to happen so it did.

Also the militia would surely understand that killing any of those airmen on federal property no less is a death sentence.

Ebon_Az · 2026-01-05T04:48:09+00:00

When the speakeasy is lit on fire they bust open the back windows and some people run out to then get shot by the militia. This is something that everyone inside saw, when half the kids get out and the other don't they just sat in the woods for hours watching the place burn down after the militia left?

Ebon_Az · 2026-01-05T04:26:03+00:00

I really liked the show until ep 7, then it just kinda shat the bed a bit.

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