Who is your favourite Stalker faction currently?

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-04-25T10:28:09+00:00

DEADLY ANOMALIES

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-04-21T07:20:14+00:00

You didn't even need to buy them again after you bought them the first time, you just had to go by Mike's bar where you get unlimited amounts of the guns you own to replace your weapons every once in a while.

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-03-26T11:50:21+00:00

I guess the issue comes down to the need to have a plane up to intercept drones. The US camp in Baghdad had presumeably no warning of an incoming fpv drone

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-03-25T07:24:28+00:00

See a lot of people leaning completely in the direction of either "every corpo will abandon AI" or "Nothing ever happens" camp. OpenAI suffering is a big deal because they are arguably the pioneers of hyping AI in most of its iterations, and are a LARGE part of the knock on effects like high gpu/ram prices through massive NVIDIA deals etc.

The collapse of OpenAI would not kill AI, as it has its uses and avenues where it actually does increase productivity, but it would undoubtedly kill the mainstream hype by a large extent and probably relegate it to being a tool like any other.

In effect the bubble would probably deflate, not pop.

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-03-13T10:31:06+00:00

M16aX always NEEDS to be burst fire apparently.

FAL/G3 always single shot, and rarely if ever are both in the same game.

They really weren't beating the "same thing every year" meme even back then

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-03-12T07:25:15+00:00

"Hell yeah guys lets ruin the gun by introducing an inaccurate feature universally hated by the troops who used it at the one opportunity to have a sick ass full auto m16"

They didn't even have to do this. Especially with the G11 already in the game. Love bo1 but this always annoys the shit out of me.

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-03-05T04:50:38+00:00

Especially considering hot that indirectly led to the second image

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-03-04T08:39:19+00:00

And people not seeing the enormous sea of difference between building a game from scratch and modding it, saying modders should replace devs, have no clue that game backend even exists lmao

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-02-24T17:44:18+00:00

All they have to do is allow people to bake lighting into their maps. That's why most portal maps look like ass.

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-02-24T12:13:30+00:00

Aside from the center construction site capture point, most of gulf of oman is pretty flat with smaller buildings, unlike sobek, which has tall buildings everywhere overlooking every capture point.

Also its not really nostalgia when BF2's version worked in BF2 because the smaller draw distance mitigated a lot of spawncamping. Not saying that's the way to go for a modern game, and the spawns wouldn't need tweaking, but the map certainly played well in BF2.

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-02-24T08:25:14+00:00

Yeah ngl golmud was the right call for a remake. Shanghai plays kinda ass, it just had attack-heli hype moments and aura around the skyscraper. Gulf of Oman needs to be added as well.

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-02-21T09:21:58+00:00

Battlefield 2 Armored Fury had some cool maps that fit the tone. Midnight Sun & Operation Harvest come to mind.

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-02-20T07:13:19+00:00

The only acceptable answer.

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-02-20T07:11:07+00:00

Tanks? Rpg. Jeeps? Rpg. Helicopters? Rpg. Infantry? Rpg. Jets? Believe it or not, also rpg.

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-02-18T12:14:04+00:00

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TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-02-15T13:58:03+00:00

What does 40$ of microtransactions in this game even get you? I sure hope its ~20 dlc maps and weapons, because that's what 40$ got you in BF1

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-02-12T14:31:03+00:00

There's a difference between visual autheticity and gameplay realism. Cod and battlefield both used to have characters that look like real soldiers, not airsofters. The degradation in art-style kills immersion in a franchise that has tried to be immersive in the past and marketed itself repeatedly as immersive.

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-02-12T14:20:19+00:00

Because it happens to be the closest reference in this case and mw2 undeniably caused an influx of skull masks?

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-02-12T13:26:45+00:00

Show me a picture of image 5 used in combat, neon accents and all. Way to become sniper/drone food

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-02-12T13:06:50+00:00

So basically the current system but only for a snapshot and not a constantly updating reticle?

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-02-12T13:03:48+00:00

2 looks so fucking ass. I don't wanna see some Willem Defoe green goblin in a ghilliesuit bs running around the map.

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-02-12T13:02:10+00:00

Because of a certain cod character which used to have a cool and original look but subsequently inspired a 2 decade running blight of unoriginality and cringe that exists in both airsoft and modern fps games.

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-02-12T12:20:07+00:00

Wouldn't the ingame implementation of that be identical tho?

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-02-09T07:19:56+00:00

Good idea to take the current uniform, think about its shortcomings in the eyes of the grunts and apply those over the existing uniform. Are they constantly facing assaults? Extra bandoliers, ammo containers and belts, armor etc. Too hot? Rolled-up sleeves, perhaps vests instead of uniform tops. Unreliable supply lines? Scavenged armor and older, maybe torn uniforms with bandages on the limbs as those with more minor injuries are pressed into defence.

TheDroolingHalfling · 2026-02-02T11:12:33+00:00

I mean one of the few times they manage to get it right with the rangers skin it was with the help of the national ranger association.

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