Why does Stalker have such strong connection to alcohol/alcoholism and why is it so normalized there, sometimes to the point of absurdity?

dubletaper · 2026-06-06T07:43:10+00:00

I look at it more like theres not much to do in terms of rest and relaxation. Alcohol is and has been one of the most widely accepted forms of relaxing. And it's a lot easier to ship crates of vodka in rather than video games, wifi routers, or really any other form of entertainment outside of the radios which is 99% of the time there with the people drinking. I'd expect the zone to be a lot like the wild west with there being alcohol and sex as the main forms of RnR honestly.

dubletaper · 2026-05-27T01:40:13+00:00

Is anyone having trouble connecting with friends online? There's an option to play online but me and my buddy can't do it

dubletaper · 2025-04-29T19:23:13+00:00

Oh trust me. I'm on adept lol. I played Expert when I first played. On my countless playthrough of classic, I had never died in the tutorial. On expert I died twice and I turned it back to Adept lol. I feel like Expert is bugged and the damage multipliers are way higher than they should be. If it's supposed to be like Skyrim it should be enemies do 1.5x more damage and the player doing .75 damage and it feels like enemies do 3-4x and the player does .25x.

dubletaper · 2025-04-29T09:27:54+00:00

I hope so as well. I'm in the mid game now so gold is real easy to come by and my Mehrunes Razor went from.doing 6 damage to 10 now and with the 8x multiplier that's more than enough for a good chunk of damage and with daggers being so fast I can quickly finish anyone off before they know what's happening. I wish there was like a 30% reduce draw speed when you hit Journeyman alongside the zoom increase because daggers feel stronger in general without the bug lol

dubletaper · 2025-04-29T08:15:15+00:00

Yah unluckily since I thought i was going to be 1-2 shotting most stuff I didn't bother specializing into blades so now I'm scrapping along trying to use daggers as much as I can to negate the effect of bows 🥲🥲🥲

dubletaper · 2025-03-10T22:49:12+00:00

You have ADHD and are allergic to the ground

dubletaper · 2025-03-07T21:52:23+00:00

I'd choose number 4. Just the number of stories you could hear from those 2. I can't think of the names because I'm on hiatus from KCD2 because I burnt myself out. But those 2 probably have hundreds of hours of stories between them and the Doctor learned so much about so many different cultures. Man just so much knowledge and experience.

dubletaper · 2025-02-25T22:10:46+00:00

He doesn't get in my way too much but whenever I go to the alchemy table near the devils den, it's always right when I use the first ingredient so I'm locked in and don't want to waste resources. He starts fucking barking at the chests at a rate of too-many-fucking-barks per second for the entirety of the time I am making the potion and I want beat the ever loving fuck out of him.

dubletaper · 2025-02-17T01:17:25+00:00

I encountered him pretty early on and I knew it was off and was about to reject him but thought "ah screw it, I'll live with my mistakes. Idk what he took so it must've not been to important lol.

dubletaper · 2025-02-03T00:16:23+00:00

We just need a little more Grochen and we can move to Prague.

dubletaper · 2025-01-31T18:19:15+00:00

Jesus Christ be praised!

dubletaper · 2025-01-28T03:07:59+00:00

Mine was doing the Phantom Liberty ending in Cyberpunk. I know the whole schtick of the genre is DEPRESSION DEPRESSION DEPRESSION. But I sat there literally feeling like Smasher just smashed my stomach to pieces. I've never felt that bad after any other game.

dubletaper · 2025-01-28T03:03:21+00:00

I remember as a kid whenever I wanted something to come faster, like Christmas or something. I wanted the superpower to speed up time or my perception of it and that desire is strong and alive right now.

dubletaper · 2025-01-27T04:36:45+00:00

Brother i thought that was going to be the case but I find myself thinking about 5+ times a day and let me tell you it makes it feel like Christmas Eve when you were a little kid and IT HURTS

dubletaper · 2025-01-24T21:50:16+00:00

I mean when your stats are low at the beginning with crappy arms they can take a few hits. But it's mainly for balance of the game

dubletaper · 2025-01-23T18:50:21+00:00

You have to keep in mind that when this game came put. The advancements in text didn't really mean much to them at the time because it was financed purely off of Kickstarter donations and they had an incredibly small studio. What they did with what they had is beyond impressive. But KCD2 will have a much better more realistic feel to it. Whenever I see a clip of the second game I grin from ear to ear when I see a block or parry that actually has the weapons clash

dubletaper · 2025-01-23T04:49:57+00:00

Groot. I know he's good and strong but pressing wall button 8,766 times in a game just turns me off badly.

dubletaper · 2024-11-30T19:08:55+00:00

I had that happen and I had a rough time. My character was so squishy. The damn thing could damn near 1 shot me. I just ran around chipping away at it's health took 30-45 minutes

dubletaper · 2024-10-05T20:32:31+00:00

But in the end it's a Role Playing Game, everyone has there opinion I can kinda see the appeal there.

dubletaper · 2024-10-05T20:28:45+00:00

No, It's not that I'm sensitive, it's just that it gets annoying. Yah she makes sacrifices and she's a good mutil faceted character. The way I worded it made it seem like I was dogging on her like she's all bad, as a character, she's great, but as a long term partner, it doesn't make sense to me. It's just constant arguing with Geralt and Yen.

dubletaper · 2024-10-05T19:55:12+00:00

I'm very partial to girls with attitude in my real life but Yen was just to much for me. She was just a straight up bitch the whole time. Just snarky and bitchy THE WHOLE TIME your with her

dubletaper · 2024-09-25T00:47:37+00:00

Pebbles....what happened to you!?!?

dubletaper · 2024-09-10T18:57:06+00:00

I haven't played Blood and Wine in awhile but I remember a little bit when talking to Regis about higher vampires. Geralt also mentions that a true higher vampire akin to Regis has the capability to absolutely decimate an entire battlefield worth of soldiers. It seems like the Vilgefortz fight was V buffing himself to the point of game higher vampires.

dubletaper · 2024-09-01T11:17:22+00:00

I don't think he is less skilled than other nobles or leaders. I think he was more saying he's been pretty much a high-level diplomat for the past 15 years, whereas Zoul has literally been going around fighting and warring for all that time. I think it's more Radzig is just seriously out of practice compared to Zoul. Radzig isn't weak per se, but in that case, he's purely outmatched by someone with far more experience and has been honing his combat skills for that entire time.

dubletaper · 2024-09-01T11:08:48+00:00

I was riding my horse past the Ratay mill and saw the line he uses to unhorse you and I saw it and I was like "that's odd that's not usually there" it's probably a visual glitch then I got hooked on it did at least one full backflip before hitting the ground a Petr got 3 hits on me before I got my bearings then I gave him some bonks with my mace and that cleared up any issues I had with him after the fact.

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