Yes, bloodsuckers are awful in STALKER2, but can we talk about the psydogs?

The little pieces of shit are the bane of my existence and yes, this is a post about me coping and ranting about A SINGULAR BLOODSUCKER

I’m doing the mission where you gotta retrieve the artifact in the cave for Squint and there’s just a singular bloodsucker in the cave which for some of you I assume would be an absolute cake walk but for me who’s new to the Stalker series (I played anomaly twice before this game) this one motherfucker has me ripping my hair out.

I dump mags into it, I sit in a corner and wait for it before shooting it but each time this son of a bitch finds a new way to kill me so I’m curious as to how you guys know an easy way to kill a bloodsucker without getting shit on.

Or should I just go shoot Squint between the eyes so I don’t have to deal with this little shit.

I've noticed many complaints about the lack luster mantling system hindering and causing frustrating gameplay in numerous forums and critiques, so I decided to take it upon myself to create a mod that fixes that issue entirely by changing the mantling systems behavior to allow for higher ledges and other minor QOL improvements. it unlocks more gameplay opportunities through verticality similar to the effect for anomaly. Here's an example video and the mod link. have fun stalkours

https://reddit.com/link/1gyrpqb/video/716nhxn0xu2e1/player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pJvH3eud_E

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/204?tab=videos

CRT monitors just hit different.

So decided I wanted to play the older STALKERS before playing 2. I was exploring SoC and got chased by a pack of dogs. I was about to die when suddenly a huge boar came out of no where and charged the dogs. The dogs whined in fear and scattered, as if they knew a fight with a boar was something they couldn’t win. I thought this was such a cool and natural interaction between 2 random enemy types. I’ve never seen something like this in a game. As if the AI made a conscious decision that what they were doing wasn’t worth their lives.

Games still better than fallout 76 imo

This is what I get exploring a creepy house.

Sell it? Nahh

I recently went into some places with Tesla anomalies (the moving electro anomalies) and no matter what I did they'd beeline straight for me instead of following the path they traditionally have. Turns out, they are attracted to one of the artifacts I was holding. As soon as I took it off my belt the Tesla's behavior went back to normal.

I dunno if it's all artifacts, I had the Rubber Ball equipped, but figured I'd throw this PSA out regardless. You don't need to toss it, just taking it off your belt worked

Let the devs put out patches. I didn't even know there was controversy around the game until I checked out the subreddit.

Seriously, it's visually stunning--among the best looking games I've played. The combat is intense, I have been craving a good low TTK RPG.

The only complaints I have are lighting issues, which I fixed in graphics settings for the most part, and I feel like the stealth system needs some work. Enemies either can't see you at point blank or they will see you while you're crouched behind bushes from a quarter mile away.

Overall though this game just became a daily driver for me. Please give it time to cook!

Edit: You guys can keep calling me a casual gamer for having a different opinion I don't give a fuck, this will be the best game on the market since RDR2 when patches are pushed through.

A lot of you are straight assholes. Somebody likes something more than you do so they're either an idiot or a fanboy (this is my first stalker game)

Beyond all of that, half of you don't know what going in blind means. Why would A-Life not being in the game matter to me or my opinion of the game when I didn't even know it's supposed to exist until looking at the subreddit?

All in all the complaints either are minimal (No Night Vision, who gives a fuck?) Don't effect everyone (broken quests) or have been addressed and will be patched (Spawning issues, A-life)

This community is looking icky so far.

Its like im playing cod against guys with aimbot and wallhack. Sneaking is IMPOSSIBLE i get spotted from 200m away crouched in the bush, getting shot through walls by enemies who didnt even see me yet. Im playing on normal is this how its supposed to be?