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Friday Fun Thread for November 15, 2024

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Any S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans out there? 5 days until release of the long-awaited sequel. The newly updated system requirements dashed my hopes for launch, unfortunately.
But GAMMA's latest update is launching on december 3rd, and it's a big one. Huge changes to artifacts, gear, damage system. And tooltips that are actually accurate and descriptive, for the first time ever.

God, I hope they won't make it political.

I never should have uninstalled GAMMA.

Never buckled down to install it.

Damn, those recommended requirements! I treated myself to what was a decently high end gaming computer at the start of 2021, with an RTX 3070 (non Ti), thinking I'll be good for a 5-6 years, and now it's already starting to fall outside of recommended requirements for new games.

Fellow 3070 enjoyer here. I feel your pain. I was looking at the $2k top end graphics cards on the market and crying into my cornflakes today.

The main problem with the GPU market today is that you can't buy a 3080 equivalent new for 400 USD. That's what people have been wanting since the 4000-series came out, but what they actually got for that cash was... the fourth release of a card equivalent to the GTX 1070/1080.

The 3070 was always a dead-end product; it was just supposed to be a 2080Ti but for a significantly less asking price than the 2080Ti was at that time. The 3080 was/is quite literally twice the card.

If it makes you feel any better, know that because the 1070 is still a mid-range GPU today, anything faster than a 1070 will work reasonably well. Sure, you might need to drop to 1080p or not get the fullest out of your high refresh rate monitor, but it's still going to work.

Just search "is gtx970 good for gaming 2024 reddit" and you'll feel much better about your situation.

Those sysreqs sound like they're giving up on their traditional audience playing games on PCs salvaged from an eastern bloc computer lab. Unless I'm behind the times and all the Estonians are rocking 3090s now.

Original Stalker was pretty brutal, don't you remember? I had a 'gaming' laptop and it ran like shit. I don't think that 'audience' played it around release.

I enjoyed the original pretty happily during initial release (and played and enjoyed with caveats Clear Sky), though I never got too heavily into the modded sphere. There was always a bit of tension between the different gameplay components -- the full Roadside Picnic where impatience was your worst enemy, the horror bits of a bloodsucker popping up out of nowhere, and the 'puzzle' of 'use sniper on guy' outdoor warfare always ground a bit at the edges -- but it was pretty enjoyable for what it was.

Not sure if I'll get the sequel any time soon, but good to keep in mind.

Guess I'll need a new gpu first. Frickin Unreal Engine. Might look pretty good but never runs great. I might hate it even after the gpu upgrade. Something always feels subtly off about UE's first person camera.

I've bought an AMD Ryzen 9800X3D and will be building a pretty monstrous pc soon, but will wait until the Nvidia 5000 series before getting a new gpu.

I like the idea of Stalker far more than I enjoy playing it, though, to be fair, I've only played the Anomaly mod which is a markedly different experience from vanilla in many regards.

Still, I expect that the devs have probably taken a hint from the things the community tinkered with over the decades since the last release, and I look forward to giving it a go.

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