The only accepted pronoun in the RF is special military operation
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sometimes in iwp cotz assassinating a stalker for someone will lead to a revenge contract where THE KILLER comes after you
this is great because asking people about it, they’ll either tell you where he is in case you want to be proactive or start flipping out at you about how you better stand 50 feet away so he doesn’t hit them trying to get you or that you’re a dead man. its like a stupid version of how people talk to you in the shadowrun snes game the entire time
and then theres guys like this who just say wild shit
anyway the best thing about the killer, you don’t have to sleep regularly in this game cuz you can keep chugging red bulls (literally) but when you do he shows up like 25 feet away like the morrowind dark brotherhood assassin and will just unload on you no matter how public or crowded the area is. its hilarious to hear your alarm clock go off and then suddenly get filled with holes from some dipshit with a street sweeper. in this case THE KILLER happened to strike when i was sleeping after defending the rookie village from being stampeded by literally 25 boars that killed a friend of mine
lol at a duty guy coming to avenge some random grunt, really hiding the connection between your faction here guys
the dynamic world of stalker…
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I stayed up for a long time and i can confirm that the killer actually does change zones to slowly approach you
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Thinking of using deepl to translate Combat Training 2 then clean it up into better english solely on the strength of how shitty this one video makes it look.
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Xbox made a making of documentary for Stalker 2?
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recently i started playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R: call of the zone. i got really overwhelmed at first, because you basically can do anything. the map is so insanely huge and you can just be A Guy in the world, roaming around doing oddjobs.
at first i thought doing an iron man run would be cool because it would both incentivize me to be careful while not being too clingy to a savefile. that was a bad idea. it takes time and experience to get a feel into navigating the game, so at first i was getting lit up / mauled by dogs / caught in a whirligig all the time and having to make a new character.
im now playing with a normal save at a hard difficulty level. it`s going well. my character is a clear sky guy, which is a faction i didn’t know anything about. apparently they used to be a bigger faction, but most of their guys were swindled into going on a suicide mission by some random merc and now there’s barely anything left of them. i started at the southernmost area of the map and am making my way north to find an important guy that can give me instructions.
i’m constantly getting the radiation disease thing and spending healing items to mitigate the effects. got my favorite batch of automatic weapons recently and a decent pair of shotguns. im gonna kill some guy who’s a huge stinker that every faction hates for cash.
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do cigarettes cure radiation in that one? the only thing I don’t like about smoking in stalker mods is how you throw the cigarette away after two puffs, you should be smoking that shit down to the filter in the zone! shits stressful!
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i do think i’ve found a pack yet, i’ll keep that in mind to see. the cost for the anti-radiation syringe is absurd and im blowing through most of my finances to restock on those
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vodka is a cheaper way to get rid of radiation, also radioprotectant is really useful in the swamps because putting your toe in water makes you fatally sick there. stuff also gets cheaper as you build rep with the faction, so doing odd jobs with clear sky guys helps with prices
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Translation of Боевая подготовка 2 BEGIN. Home to one of the most eye bleeding main menus I have seen in a Stalker mod. Check out these really useful difficulty names!
My plan is to use as much of the original English localization as possible, then my friend’s Arsenal Mod* translation for the weapons since this mod is of that era, and then DeepL hand revised for whatever schizo bullshit storyline additions since it’s a “global” mod from 2012 and they always have them. Then it’s a matter of playtesting to see if there are any untranslated strings from scripts left over/see how bad my Russian sucks.
*Countless Stalker mods from 2008-2014ish used AMK + Arsenal Mod as a base because you want 50 AK variants, right? Right??
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i cant wait to play a mod translated by my wife who got banned from a stalker discord for having pronouns in bio
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I was unable to use any of the arsenal mod translation because whatever absurdly autistic person made this wrote all their own descriptions for the weapons and ammo that tell you their muzzle velocity and what color the bullets are except when they tell you almost nothing instead, and I think it’s important to keep his completely inconsistent style intact.
The contrast between describing the model of optic a rifle uses or the exact killing power of an anti-personnel mine in excruciating detail with shit like “Shotgun pellets are effective against small animals and birds” or “It’s a regular bullet.” is so fucking funny. The mod also includes a .chm file that appears to be a mix of a manual for the mod and a “Real World Combat Guide” they wrote for actual soldiers to study that uses Stalker screenshots and diagrams. Is this edutainment??
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continuing on my adventure. i finally got in contact with the first main quest guy that was on my map this whole time. he asked me to go point at a village with three of his men to take out the monolith garrison stationed there.
fights are so brutal in this. you die so fast and visibility is usually poor. the fact it was raining didn’t help. the good thing is that enemies also tend to die somewhat fast to assault rifles, even if wearing armor. after many retries, me and my buddies were able to beat the monolith cultists and take back the village.
instead of going to the next main quest marker, i decided to continue bumming about the map. finally got enough money to afford a suit of armor and an ok short-medium range sight for my AK-74. apparently the guy i was offered money to kill had friends and those friends hired an assassin to kill me. he tried jumping me on my sleep, but i just camped by the door of the shack i was resting at with a shotgun. got him point-blank as he was coming through.
now i’m on a mission to find a dude who stole some other dude’s porn stash and give it back to the original owner. currently he’s at the northernmost tip of the map! it’s such an insane detour but its a funny mission and i’m making good money for the first time – all my weapons are 100% durability, i have lots of provisions and healing items and i finally have more than one magazine’s worth of ammo for all my four weapons.
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tfw a very turbid type takes advantage of your girlish credulity 
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Dying at the IGN guy saying he forgot what it’s like to make choices that actually lead to different things happening and how good it is until he played Stalker 2
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