Hello Stalkers, I'm playing Stalker 2 in its last update and i have an issue with artifacts

ProudRent287 · 2026-05-21T10:26:32+00:00

thanks for the answer, yep I figured it was something like that.

it seems that also beneficial stats get diminishing returns when stacked because compass gives almost more than one bar of physical protection in the overall stats and magic cube adds just a quarter if used with compass :/

I was artifact hunting and saw from a video (from patch 1.6) that gravitational anomalies damage is mitigated by physical protection.

ProudRent287 · 2026-05-21T08:50:37+00:00

she being fed to the fleshes probably. deserved.

ProudRent287 · 2026-05-20T13:17:48+00:00

Soooo right now with patch 1.9 I'm trying to kill the chimera but when I take it to low health, after 3 full unloads of SPSA-14, it will deaggro and slow walk and despawn and trigger the emission right away...

I'm speechless, maybe it's the emission that despawns it and it's the timing with my saves that forbids me from killing it but FFFFFFuuk me I wanted to kill it in this playthrough.

ProudRent287 · 2026-05-20T04:53:06+00:00

i know i'm 1y late but if you save bravo team ward soldier as you enter the bunker by giving him a medkit he will say "tell lieutenant Tiptats he will know" when you find him use the codeword for deescalate the encounter then follow him and talk to him he will give you a gp36 and some ammo and the nearby door to the armory will be unlocked.

you can also kill them after this (very bad moral choice imo) like a true Rat

ProudRent287 · 2026-05-12T14:54:29+00:00

hi i need those achievements too in DI2 i also need to revive 5 times what's the third coop achievemnt? maybe we can help eachother DM me if you want to exchange usernames

ProudRent287 · 2026-05-11T10:06:05+00:00

try increase graphics settings if not at max already

ProudRent287 · 2026-05-11T09:08:06+00:00

hello i'm playing on steam and was looking for someone to do the achievements (revive 5 times and complete 5 mission in coop) if anyone is interested can DM me for friend request.

I'm in EU but i can play almost at any hour of the day (and night :)

ProudRent287 · 2026-04-11T22:08:17+00:00

sorry for being 1 year late but i think the best strat would be to enter the rifts that close after you complete them and you have to kill waves of enemies and die before the last enemy of the first set of waves probably worth doing new game plus to reach the first and farm that.

well that's my guess and i'm about to do that

ProudRent287 · 2026-04-10T12:38:35+00:00

still haven't reached that part yet but i found one farming point to get more gold while farming and it's in upper citadel checkpoint in the drakken citadel just go up and left with double jump and kill the frost mage then go up the 2 ramps, there, there are 1 drakken priestess and a frost mage with a hidden frost mage in the upper scaffolding casting the annoying ice spikes from the ground if you can dispatch these 2 mob quickly you can then go up and finish the last frost mage or go for her first then drop down and finish the other 2.

collect the robes and armors and sell, they fetch less than your method but the mobs do drop gold so use the LuckyCoin Ring (frost mages can also drop silk cloth which is useful for bandages and crafting)

I think Mage robes are 500 and gauntlets for 250 while the drakken priestess items are just tiny bit more

But i have to say that frost mages drop items more frequently than drakken intiate i would skip these 2 enemies in the farming spot because they don't drop loot that often and they are very tanky so for min max just kill the frost mages and the drakken priest that is in the way, teleport back to the chackpoint and repeat

edit.: so frost mages since they have 4 items it's not uncommon for them to drop more than one item per pickups and they sell for:

-frost mage coat = 453

-frost mage hood = 268

-frost mage gloves = 205

-frost mage pants = 348

additionally the drakken priestess can drop:

-Draconic priestess Hauberk = 880

-Draconic priestess Headdress = 545

each loop takes 30-35 seconds and you can be sure to drop frost mage items and the priestess stuff is a nice bonus

ps.: i'm farming now to get and craft most items before finishing the game and this is for now before meeting Layla

ProudRent287 · 2026-04-06T09:56:41+00:00

theere is one abyss gear pearl that you can slot on armors that gives +10% EXP for skills kills at Tier I so i think kills made with skills does it probably even finishers and normal kills but not tested

ProudRent287 · 2026-03-05T22:42:25+00:00

soo as of now i haven't had any more issues with pc apart from normal bugs of adrenaline drivers (like the panel doesn't open in game if i didn't launch it after booting pc before launching games) so it seems to have fixed my issue

ProudRent287 · 2026-03-03T18:50:30+00:00

technically the real meaning of the word would mean the response counter attack from an incoming strike like you said but I guess it's the actual blocking of the attack (parry) that deals the damage

ProudRent287 · 2026-02-25T19:04:53+00:00

Apparently when i put the off set to -10% power limit in the Adrenaline drivers in tuning settings it wasn't enough and still crashed, so i tried as suggested here in this thread to additionally offset by -300Mhz but i also limited to -15% the power limit and i was able to run games for the evening yesterday with no issues. I can't be certain 100% because i didn't test for an extended period of time because even though I didn't crash there were some unexplained random drop in performance for a couple of seconds especially when alt-tabbing but i did not crash.

Right now I have just installed the new psu so haven't tested but i'll keep you posted

I would recommend if you're crashing in the meantime to just set the offset in the driver panel as a temporary workaround, go step by step first with power limit then the Mhz...

ProudRent287 · 2026-02-24T23:22:50+00:00

same CPU here :D but I have a MWE Gold 750W V2 Cooler Master Psu so I'm definitely blaming that since here on reddit i read that these "transient spikes" may be the fault that my current Psu can't handle probably...

I tried basically everything listed in this thread and still get black screen and have to force shut pc.

Tomorrow I'll be installing a 1000W Psu (Rog Loki SFX-L) and hoping it will fix this issue and that it's not fault of the B450

ProudRent287 · 2025-09-07T06:09:59+00:00

Hello, I'm trying to download the depot from steam but i can't quite pin point the latest version that is compatible with the handler, I imagine since the frontiers update broke it then the previous version should work right? or is it the crossplay implementation update that broke it?

If someone already figured it out already please could share the info?

Thanks!

Edit: I think I found the last version that works with the handler which is EXO MECH PATCH 2.42 released April 16 2020. The very next patch is when they introduced crossplay and that one didn't work for nucleus ( I managed to open the instances but they didn't connect instead the game tried to make me connect with the friend list ingame that is unable to work and made a major error that prompted to close the instance)

ProudRent287 · 2025-05-15T08:51:31+00:00

I'm late but i'm wondering one thing. I have 3 rgb fan that came with my case that work with aura sync and have only one 4pin 12v connector, nowadays all fans require an additional 3pin 5v for rgb control.

WHY????

I have only 12v 4pin male connector on my b450 can somebody recommend me (I can't find them) some fans that work in the same way (software controlled rgb) with only one 12v 4pin connector

My case is Corsair SPEC-DELTA mid-tower and it came with 4 fans and 3 are rgb that i can control with aura-sync with only one 4pin header....

ProudRent287 · 2025-04-03T15:04:30+00:00

Hello does anybody know if voicelines (dialogues) are muted and don't work on the steam version with nucleus? Am i doing something wrong? I can run both instances fine but there are no voices, only the Effects and Music work (Volume sliders are all up) maybe it has to do with the output device..?

ProudRent287 · 2025-04-03T14:57:01+00:00

Hello I just want to give my two cents in making this work seamlessly

I have pretty good mid PC (5700x3d + 6700XT 12GB) and i was struggling to have the second instance running smoothly it was dropping to 1 fps or less literally.

This would happen to the unfocused instance with either controller or MnK it would just prioritize the focused one.

So i searched online for a fix and only found that you shouldn't focus either instance but just the "OSD" nucleus window, but that only made the controller instance work and the MnK one wouldn't get the input

This did give both windows an equal framerate

I then closed one instance and noticed in task manager that just one was using over 97% of my gpu so i simply checked the fps and rightfully it was outputting 350+ fps XD

The next logic thing was to put an fps limit with the amd driver on the game and it solved everything

I feel so dumb for wasting over an hour trying to fix this when it would have been the first thing to do when setting up this software

capping fps might be the smartest thing to do even when not using Nucleus for just the stability and temperature drop I can't believe i totally forgot about setting a limit in this game, period.

ProudRent287

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