It leans in very hard on the faction war system which doesn't really let you have time for quiet exploration. Also goofy as fuck combat music that I've grown to love but is very silly. The stalker games generally focus way too hard on the combat sometimes to the point of tedium and the stronger points have always been the quiet atmospheric exploration sections.

Wipeout 2048 if there's a way to get it to run at 60fps. Its a good wipeout but 30fps kinda stanky for a wipeout game

I'd pick emulating the ps2 versions of god of war directly since the retroid 5 should be able to handle that. The vita ports have really really bad audio quality among other issues but the audio is just....

You know there's other music than pop right? This is on par with people proclaiming gaming is dead after buying whatever the latest gaming fad shit and conveniently ignoring anything else

Too working class i eat only egg and cress sandwich

I might get a framework when the used thinkpads dry up. I have 4 atm so i don't think I'm running out any time soon

At this moment I'm using fedora with KDE and I'm quite enjoying it. It blends together the pros of rolling release with the managed aspects of other distros

This is such a batshit take I don't even know where to begin

I remember spending hours in the swamps messing with the faction wars and forgetting that there even was a continuation to the game. Also nerding over them dx10 effects and watching this trailer like a religion https://youtu.be/YAYLHAPPkvw

When I actually got my hands on clear sky back in the day it didnt even start lol "xray engine has stopped working"

Armored core 3 and stalker trilogy on ps5. Wish gsc ported the fixes into PC stalker :( but playing with the controller took some getting used to

Microsoft couldn't fight steam if you gave them trillions and 100 years because i mean they made the microsoft store and the xbox PC gamepass app and they're fucking diabolical. And at no point have they ever been fixed or improved or even understand the concept of what they're trying to deliver. Also battlenet only works for the like 10 games on it, it's about as shit as any other crappy client.

It won't and never will compete with steam

It's ok I'm gonna post butts to bring everyone back

His stuff is based in pseudoscience so its just made up shit for vibes. If I'm gonna operate in his headspace it would be something like cold means lower metabolism which means like some kind of pseudo cryostasis which means live longer

I post my butt and call the website OnlyButts

The dev is also working on a tribes inspired fps as well

He's obsessed with living forever and does stuff like taking blood plasma from his son and other really weird shit. He's not ok in the brain

That's the case for anything at McDonald's if its allowed to cool for even a minute its shit.

Its genuinely quite shit

• Game doesn't run on a 4080 super and doesn't even look good enough to warrant the performance it looks like any copy paste unreal 5 dreck. Frame pacing is all over the place so even high and capped framerates feel awful
• UI may as well be from far cry completely misses the aspect of what made the original games interface so good
• stealth is broken enemies see you from miles away through foliage then aimbot your brain and has that stupid 360 degree ubisoft enemy can see you ring that i hate
• mutants eat bullets makes bloodsuckers frustrating rather than scary
• game has forced on mouse accell and smoothing with no option to disable without messing in the configs
• no muzzle flash lighting or shadows cast from the torch which were very big features of the original game
• buttons don't register sometimes and need to be pressed twice weather this is to open or close inventory/pda or even worse to fucking quicksave where many times i realised it didn't save at all cos i have to press it twice
• difficulty modes copy modern game difficulty make you weaker and enemies bullet sponges and has nothing similar to the original trilogies master difficulty
• first encounter with a poltergeist went terribly unlike in shoc where you meet one in that bunker and it ynow levitates the object then throws it to give you time to identify and move.... This one the physics object moves AFTER IT HITS YOU so you only see it reacting BOUNCING OFF YOUR BODY and they are impossible to avoid like completely aimbot buckets
• english va is somehow worse than in the originals
• its made by nazis
• a-life 2.0 is reported currently as broken so its just a random enemy spawner ring around the player which is another significant staple of the original games
• stupid animations for inventory and PDA that really don't need to exist and just get in the way
• Even breaking open crates for stuff feels bad the model just disappears into a few particle effects rather than ynow actually falls apart into physics objects like the fucking original games managed to do
• fuzzy ass image like every fuzzy ass UE5 game

Positives:

• guns sound nice and have good animations

If ur getting the game pirate the gog version but its not worth it just play the originals. The design language adopted for this game was to make it more like a ubisoft game than take what made the originals so impactful.

I got the list above from the prologue i didn't need to play anything else

Smoking is the worst thing i ever did to myself

My favourite!