I was passing through the lesser zone hunting artifacts and I found this in the cave with the blood sucker. I'm loving stalker 2. Im about 30 hours in on a playthrough on master.

Here I am looking at the Shevchenko, about 100m away. It doesn't look that far away, because it isn't. The guard on the top deck just pops up and there's nothing in place to really conceal that. The binocs, while a great addition, do highlight the limitations of the vanilla bubble size.

I've seen some people in this sub defend this bubble distance by saying "you never really see past 100m anyway, it's so far" but it genuinely isn't. In the OG games, it was. Some maps were only 300m across. But this game is exponentially more massive. And there are plenty of open fields and sightlines where this becomes noticeable.

I do appreciate that the offline simulation now spans the whole zone. That's great, A-Life as a whole really feels quite good now. It's just the stuff you can see like this that still bugs me a little.

Maybe there is a hit to performance if you expand it. I don't quite see how, but maybe. Regardless, I hope that GSC meets us in the middle and figures out how to at least add an option in the settings to adjust the online bubble size to your preference. If possible. Something officially supported and semi-optimized by the devs.

Watching this documentary about Chornobyl and this familiar structure showed up. I really thought this theory was something conjured up by GSC storytellers?

Mods:

PRZ Beta via Clikrad Discord
DLSS 5 downscaled via Optiscaler
Grass Mod by Pankotan

Almost 1k hours in, btw.

I've always liked Clear Sky, maybe because they were blue. Anyway, I tried my best to recreate it, but ended up with a mix of two suits. In the future I may add some more pouches on the belt, but these would be only for my convenience.

About 100 shells and a 15-second reload, a 20-round drum isn’t enough to rule the entire Zone.

I used to hate this place... came back after 2.0 + last patch and... I'm in awe 😍 I feel a mix between a birdwatcher and a Navy SEAL lol

Screenshots taken on base PS5

So I got stalker 2 after they released the 2.0 update. I have been putting this game off until I deemed the game fixed. I gotta say the wait was worth it because I have not played an another game since I got this game. Easily in my top 10 games of all time. I literally cannot stop playing this game it’s so addicting. It’s also my first stalker game.

Was able to catch this cool scene while I was play today, and I've liked it enough to slightly edit it too.

Cost Of Hope is very good so far. Worth the wait.

I really hope it’s easy to follow because I don’t know the lore or anything about the world but the setting is so fucking awesome.

Bunch of criminals, outcasts, misfits, and treasure hunters all in one place and that place being Chernobyl. I also love first person I love dialogue options just seems like my perfect game and really hope I can stay hooked.

I noticed npcs who enter psi anomalies instantly turn into zombies while Skif can walk for a while and run away when starts to see illusions.

On screenshot, I have talked to dead Corp guy and in few seconds he has zombified, just after I unlocked building with Controller. I had to kill him. Controller had no line of sight and have never seen him and still done it. I thought Controller needs to do mental hand attack to zombify someone. After I killed Controller and exited there was new dude on dead guy's place.

Also there is Duty side-quest where you go to dam connecting Cooling Towers region with Cement Plant region. It also shows that Skif is psi resistant.

Lets be real, when it was in the game it made no sense and the gun it fit was completely wrong, plus it only fit a single like 2 guns, and one you needed to do a conversion on for that to work in the first place. I just feel like it has its place in this world, the SKS being added and being 7.62x54 feels... wrong? Its just a better SVD at this point. And a wooden AK model is already in the game, its behind Ragman. Why can't we have an AKM? It wouldn't only help diversify the games weaponry further. And I could see the addition of a MK47 mutant being cool as well. Maybe it could share a magazine attachment with the AKM. Just food for thought but I feel like 7.62 soviet has its place in this game.

Zone Kit Phase 2 Is Live: Quest Creation, Texts and Voiceover modifications, and More Modding Tools.

Check the details in our new blogpost: https://www.stalker2.com/news/zone-kit-phase-2-new-features

Just for info. Screenshots in full resolution (steam compression): https://we.tl/t-E6gQsMk4KrBs4itb

making it more stable its getting more intrusting now that A-LIFE is the base of how the mod is gonna work. my last post was bad quality because it's screen shoot i took from a video i send to my friends

feel free to support me and the project:

https://patreon.com/Stalker2multi?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink

Also a lot of zombies will come out of the second floor of the container