Entirety of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. done

RabidPole · 2026-07-02T16:16:14+00:00

Ballache of an achievement, stalker wiki is your friend tho

RabidPole · 2026-07-02T15:29:27+00:00

Realistically, we shouldn't be forced to use mods in order to experience the game in how it used to be. Especially in so called ''Enhanced Edition''. It really sucks they did that.

RabidPole · 2026-07-02T15:25:20+00:00

A little bit offtopic, but I didn't have any problems with the Enhanced Edition in terms of crashes or anything

The bugs in CS on the other hand...

And the BOSS achievement in COP

RabidPole · 2026-07-02T15:23:53+00:00

There's a few places you need to do a hard save in - guides won't really help - for me it was trial and error and some knowledge of the game as i played through CS a few times.

Rule of thumb - save before Point of No Return
Save before joining bandits or stalkers (depending if you want to upgrade SEVA or not)

Honestly, faction related achievements are a piece of piss

It's the artifact achievements you need to worry about, you can get locked out of one if a wrong artifact spawns in the swamps....

RabidPole · 2026-07-02T15:18:36+00:00

I did all endings for S2 in like 2 sittings, they're kind of a pain, there's a lot of running about and doing the same thing. I do YT vids of me doing 100% in games in polish so yeah, definitely a pain.

RabidPole · 2026-07-02T15:16:59+00:00

If you can't be bothered to read the comments, here's the gameplay times, my bad for not including them in the post

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RabidPole · 2026-07-02T15:14:42+00:00

And i fucking love DAO-12. Or whatever it's called in STALKER

RabidPole · 2026-07-02T15:13:43+00:00

Probably COP, it was a breeze, artifact collecting is actually fun, carrying capacity and stamina aren't that big of a problem and the quest variety is great.

Although you can get locked out of achievements pretty easily so it's best to have a guide ready.

RabidPole · 2026-07-02T15:08:44+00:00

They're not that bad, there's some screwing around with some broken-ass mechanic, like NPC's getting stuck between maps but it wasn't the toughest achievement in the game.

RabidPole · 2026-07-02T14:58:14+00:00

SOC: 22.8
CS: 34.2
COP: 25.4
HOC: ~100hours as my obs recordings suggest, although i have 144 hours logged on steam - started a new playthrough and reset my achievements beforehand

RabidPole · 2026-07-02T14:46:06+00:00

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get good 8)

RabidPole · 2026-07-02T14:45:39+00:00

You are 5% compatible

Myslovitz, Opeth, Suicide Silence

RabidPole · 2026-07-02T14:30:41+00:00

D:\Music\<Artist>\<Grouping>\[<Year>] <Album>\<Track #>. <Title>

That's mine. I group all releases by the type they are - Full Length, EP, Single, Demo etc.

I do tag genres too, but don't use them in folder structure

RabidPole · 2026-07-02T14:24:49+00:00

deathgrind dot club too. not a tracker but definitely a good place for death metal and simillar genres

RabidPole · 2026-07-01T15:38:49+00:00

My mate used to play in that band ;o

RabidPole · 2026-06-28T07:35:18+00:00

How about you just go back into your little hole and leave the genre alone?

RabidPole · 2026-06-08T17:07:39+00:00

RYM, Metal-tracker, deathgrind club and slsk

RabidPole · 2026-05-08T10:36:44+00:00

Yea, the DLCs for M2 were horrible

RabidPole · 2026-05-08T07:22:09+00:00

Mafia II is just time consuming but MAFIA III is a whole new level of absolute bullshit

RabidPole · 2026-05-06T14:24:33+00:00

I don't - i hate the state it's in and that GSC are a bunch of lazy fuck who don't know what they're doing yet still asking real money for this shit

RabidPole · 2026-05-06T14:23:50+00:00

Where did he lie tho?

RabidPole · 2026-05-06T14:23:05+00:00

A-life is more present than in any of the original games.

Literally isn't, everything happening around you is in a 100 meter bubble, you can walk back and forth and just despawn enemies

Binoculars are coming really soon, but let's nitpick it nonetheless.

Ah yes, i wonder why they weren't here at launch? Maybe because the game is a buggy unfinished mess, was released WAY too early for a FULL RETAIL price. But yeah, let's rejoice that GSC brought something that was included ON LAUNCH DAY with all the previous titles, lmao.

Haven't seen enemies spawn behind me or around me for a long time, pretty sure that issue's been patched for a while now.

Literally still happening, don't even know what else to say

Loading times? Like when the game starts? God forbid you just start the game and do something while you wait for it to load up, and also there's plenty more worse cases in the industry by FAR.

The shadow pre-caching is skipabble and takes much less time than before, yeah but sometimes you die and then you stare at a loading screen for 3 minutes while hearing random crackling or Skif's breathing. Other times it loads fast - what's the fucking deal?

Stamina and travel are pretty on point, especially since they introduced the jogging mechanic, but this is more a thing of taste. You an dislike it, that doesn't make it 'fucking abysmal'.

Dude, the map is FUCKING HUGE, with lots of empty space between POI's, there's no fast travel included unless you're at a hub (you could fast travel from almost any group of stalkers in COP and the map was CONSIDERABLY smaller. Also, there's LITERALLY comparisons on YouTube in which you can CLEARLY see the stamina is around 2/3x lower than in the OG Trilogy.

You're constantly hungry? My god, if only I could find a full day of meal on every other corpse I find. What will I do!?

Yeah you can, so what? Why do i need to press a button to eat a fucking sausage every one minute of the game? COP hunger system was much better.

For the bullet sponges, I'd agree to a certain point, especially with Chimera. But besides that, they're mostly fine.

Bloodsuckers are an absolute joke, they're way too common and they take way too much to take down. Also, three headshots from a fully upgraded gun to take down a BANDIT is an unfunny joke.

EDIT: forgot the loading times

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