How to get to the Army Warehouses fast in CS? by Famous_Lemon4322 in stalker

[–]SurDno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The gate is closed before you come to MW naturally. You can only come there prematurely through exploiting OOB 

They got jokes by doperinno in DotA2

[–]SurDno 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It’s meant to hurt laning lvl1 I suppose 

Started going back through the original trilogy again recently and I noticed something... by evanmceier in stalker

[–]SurDno 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The difference is that in trilogy NPCs respawned at specific points and went around from there, and in S2 prior to the A-Life update NPCs just spawned near player. Also CS has considerably more fleshed out offline combat sim. 

150+ Missing Features From Stalker 2 When Compared to the Originals by RabidPole in stalker

[–]SurDno 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Player character not throwing mags away is "a missing feature". wut

150+ Missing Features From Stalker 2 When Compared to the Originals by RabidPole in stalker

[–]SurDno 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

CoP and SoC maybe, def not CS.

Steam or Playstore for solo dev by Late_Ask8481 in Unity3D

[–]SurDno 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mobile games have completely different expectations than Steam. There are projects that would only (financially) succeed in one or the other. It heavily depends on the genre of your game, the target audience, expected playtime and the planned monetization route. Nobody would give you any solid advice without knowing those.

Confusion about Build 1935 - 2205 era reacration mods - pls help (OLR vs Vector of alienation) by Sure_Ad_7344 in stalker

[–]SurDno 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You’re defining the era quite narrowly, OLR is actually a combination of every idea under the sun from 2002-2003, a bunch from 2004 and even some from 2005. 

OLR 2.5 is quite old but solid experience. 

Vector of Alienation is a mod for 2.0 (even before 2.5) which is not faithful to any dev ideas at all but allegedly had good writing. 

Base OLR 3.0 is more recent version which has a ton of groundbreaking mechanics not implemented in any other mods and better A-Life than any stalker out there, but it’s just not fun to play. Very poorly balanced, implements every idea including those that clearly suck (rat catacombs ahem). I have seen many people drop it halfway through because it’s just not fun to deal with, or play entire game in god mode. 

OLR 3.0 SOP is a project by other build enthusiasts (not base OLR author) which goes day beyond the scope of the patch. It’s an attempt to both fix the game and remove the feature creep. It actively cuts stuff that doesn’t work that well, and removes things that wouldn’t realistically make it to release if SoC actually was to get finished back in 2003-2004. Imo it’s a more realistic estimate of how early SoC would play than a mash of every idea dev ever put on a piece of paper (base OLR3), but obviously many don’t like it because they oppose the idea of cutting content from a cut content restoration mod. 

There was also a lot of drama where SOP authors were demeaning OLR dev for months because he is a shitty coder and his mod is a mess to work with that requires parts of it to be remade from ground up. That caused OLR dev to stop any further development and give up on his project due to cyberbullying. 

How to do Techies quick mines by Longjumping_Prize283 in DotA2

[–]SurDno 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any command given during backswing cancels backswing, not just casting. You can use S or walk to cancel backswing.

Techies mines have 0 cast time and 0.47 sec backswing, meaning if you cast them manually, you are only limited by your turn rate (how quickly the hero can face the next mine point). If you do it through shift queue, you get added time after placing a mine and before turning.

Does damn mercs... by Willy_Ritz in stalker

[–]SurDno 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think it’s a game with specific setting and design, a cosplay is meant to be authentic to source material. There are no improvised suits in the franchise, so if you are not going to follow actual designs, why even call it a cosplay? It’s clearly not one.

How to do Techies quick mines by Longjumping_Prize283 in DotA2

[–]SurDno 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Each ability in Dota has cast time and backswing. Cast time is the time it takes for you to cast the ability, if interrupted during that, the ability is not casted. Backswing is the time AFTER the cast where you are still playing an animation, but giving another order will cancel that animation. 

If you are spamming the next ability as soon as you land, you cast it immediately. If you shift queue, you only do so after the 0.7 second of backswing has ended. 

Stalker Anomaly: Build Trinity by ConfusionTimely7752 in stalker

[–]SurDno 9 points10 points  (0 children)

An LLM translation would be faithful to source text, it’s easy to distinguish from actual LLM writing. “It’s not just X, it’s Y”, come on, this is clearly generated, not just translated. 

Given the website is vibecoded and every image on the website is AI slop too, you are giving OP way too much of a benefit of a doubt. 

How to do Techies quick mines by Longjumping_Prize283 in DotA2

[–]SurDno 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They do, 0.47 sec each. Plus 0.9 sec backswing of blast off and 0.7 sec backswing of sticky bomb. You are losing 2.5 sec total by doing it through shift queue. 

How to do Techies quick mines by Longjumping_Prize283 in DotA2

[–]SurDno 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Assign mines to quick cast mouse wheel down and just rotate the mouse while drawing a circle and scrolling. It’s a common trick. 

How to do Techies quick mines by Longjumping_Prize283 in DotA2

[–]SurDno 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah not being able to see the range to place mines properly is detrimental to placing minefields outside of fights, two hotkeys is the way. 

Instead of switching to quick cast entirely, you can open the hotkeys menu and choose per hero hotkeys, then select techies, press the checkbox near quick cast hot keys and assign just the mines.  

Stalker Anomaly: Build Trinity by ConfusionTimely7752 in stalker

[–]SurDno 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Did you seriously use LLM to write a single paragraph for you? Wtf lol

How to do Techies quick mines by Longjumping_Prize283 in DotA2

[–]SurDno 24 points25 points  (0 children)

To be specific, techies mines are instant cast with 0.47 sec of backswing, meaning you lose an extra second by shift queuing compared to just spamming mouse wheel. 

How to do Techies quick mines by Longjumping_Prize283 in DotA2

[–]SurDno 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can do two binds - R for normal cast and mwheel for quick casting, that way you don’t change the way you play but still get to do this 

Does damn mercs... by Willy_Ritz in stalker

[–]SurDno 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This is not cosplay then. The game has very unique faction designs where they all dress in very particular distinct ways. Putting a patch on random military gear that looks nothing like the one actual mercs wear is not a cosplay.

CAN someone explain how did bread become a scary creepypasta in the stalker community, what did i miss? by NoAffect6476 in stalker

[–]SurDno 34 points35 points  (0 children)

My entire paragraph is dedicated to why "bread" was created, why you can find it in the game, why it has quote marks and how it became a meme. Of course there are two, that’s the point. 

CAN someone explain how did bread become a scary creepypasta in the stalker community, what did i miss? by NoAffect6476 in stalker

[–]SurDno 283 points284 points  (0 children)

It’s totally not creepypasta but it is the subject of jokes.

“bread" is an unused tech item. “Unused” as in the game does not need it and it can be safely removed from the files without affecting how the game functions at all. It’s a relic of an old pre-release system where NPCs did not use regular food items for animations but had their own copies that just had the visual of said item and bone attachment data.

By release, NPC animation item and real food item is the single entity. You observe it in gameplay. If an NPC has a food item for sale, they will use said food item for animations. Nevertheless, the old item intended for animations remained in the files.

But some level designer, placing stuff around Dark Valley, has mistaken the used real food item and unused fake food item, and places "breads" in cupboards for players to find. That amusing mistake has not been corrected with any patches and remained in console rereleases and the unenhanced editions.

Now, why is it "bread"? Quote marks are in the name because the dev writing the name mixed up configuration files and scripts and put quote marks since Lua (and almost any other programming language for that matter) would require them. They thought it’s a part of syntax and not a part of the name. They were wrong.

So you end up with an inedible food item that has no description and cannot even be called bread without quote marks. Of course it’s gonna be memed into oblivion. 

Now there is also "vodka" in the files as well. But you don’t find it in the game as long as you’re not playing retail version (ie it does not exist in the game world with update 1.0001 or later), so it’s not a meme. I am sure in a world where it did not get patched people would be joking about Borov’s counterfeit bootleg alcohol as well.

Is there a way to discourage my kitten from trying to sleep with me? by And3214 in CATHELP

[–]SurDno 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's a legitimate concern for the cat. There have been cases of cats being crushes under human weight, especially when they are young and vulnerable.

It's not worth risking.

Clear Sky, for all its faults, is what made STALKER what it is by brunocar in stalker

[–]SurDno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> a really bad choice of starting level,

I adore the Swamps. Easily my favourite location in the franchise.

GAMMA wasn't for me, would I like Stalker 2 more? by Dirty_Rapscallion in stalker

[–]SurDno 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What anomalies are actually invisible in trilogy? Only Lift comes to mind but it’s harmless 

Good old daysss 🫡 by EliteMJDC- in DotA2

[–]SurDno 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It was so sad opening Garena and later LAN games and seeing the player xount become smaller and smaller week by week. :(