TXC2: title change!
TXC2: CONTACT
LordZarano:
☢️
jacqui_lantern234: we get signal
jacqui_lantern234:
also, hey nerds! reminder that i love and cherish you all more than words can express 
TXC2: hello jacqui_lantern234 welcome
jacqui_lantern234:
@TXC2 hihi 
hope youre doing well
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jonnykefka: Y'know, I think we were playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. around when I first subbed too.
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TXC2: SUB HYPE BEGINS
jacqui_lantern234:
@jonnykefka yo thats cool as heck! also, congrats on 1st 
LordZarano: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Play it Forward (Alex heads into The Zone on Play it Forward. Game: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl) at Wed 10:00 AM PST (1s ago).
jonnykefka: I think that might be the first time that's happened too, that I'm the first sub in a day
jacqui_lantern234: @jonnykefka odang! i think i mightve had 1 or 2 of a giftsub renewal, but i could be totally wrong
jonnykefka: the badge is just for being old tho
TXC2: here we GO!
jacqui_lantern234:
lets go!!! 
TXC2: pay no attention to the void
ScrapyardGhostTrain: Anomaly located.
PsychoI3oy: throw a bolt at it to see if it goes away
jacqui_lantern234:
thanks, green screen
Strebenherz: Alex and the abyss, seems legit
TXC2: Hello Alex
jacqui_lantern234:
hai alex!
jonnykefka: you can't tell me there were never bolts given out as merch for STALKER sometime
TXC2: !patreon
Cptasparagus: Wargharbl
TXC2: is it on the streamer deck?
TXC2: !store
jonnykefka: yep. 11 years ago
DoodlestheGreat: When we last left our hero(?), he was well on his way towards reducing the population of the zone to single digits.
TXC2: LRR: it involved a lot of murder
Master_Gunner: I remember watching you stream stalker back in the AskAnAlex days.
TXC2:
ghyllnox: To be fair to you, those two were already dead
PsychoI3oy: now I'm confusing myself... I didn't finish sunday night's vod before Monday's stream, and was watching more of it this morning
jonnykefka: perhaps my favorite ye olde STALKER stream was the one that followed Prayer Warriors so that Alex and Cam could recover from massive psychic damage
TXC2:
as someone who started watching when LRR was already 10 years old, it's always weird to me being one of the longer time viewers 
JollyGee29: Heads up, there is a gamebreaking bug with the Back to Slag Heap mission.
ghyllnox:
Some new kind of glider
MrQwasu: isee the shutter speed synced with the blades
ButButTheJesus: um, helicopter? you seem to be malfunctioning
vingris_: It's a fixed wing helicopter, don't worry about it
ThatStonedTroll: whats up
TXC2:
see, the cool thing about helis is that they can glide when the rotors stop, unlike the crappy V-22
jonnykefka: @TXC2 I saw a squad of those in flight once. Weird-looking buggers
Cptasparagus: I mean my usual internet handle means "futile" in German so I get the vibe
TXC2: jonnykefka they sure are
terribleplan: I tend to be self-deprecating
ghyllnox: Euro 1st?
TXC2: the firster floor
JollyGee29: Hey Alex, when you get done with the conversation upstairs, Richter will call out to you. You need to ignore him until after the next Blowout, there is a bug with an NPC/cutscene trigger failing to spawn properly
Mathanwitch: good morning everyone except cops!
jonnykefka: sup G-man
TXC2: hello Mathanwitch welcome
Mathanwitch: and this guy in particular
TheAinMAP: Why would someone come all the way out here in a suit?
TXC2:
so being this close to the CNPP in a three piece means this guy has ALLLL the cancers now right? 
DigitalSeahorse:
splaatguy2011: maskipohaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
TXC2: interesting that scanner seems to be a proper noun
DoodlestheGreat: Siracha!
Mathanwitch: oh no. you're allied with the cops now. on the bright side - this gives access to a nice military base I was locked out of for the entire game. a price you pay for siding with furries
jonnykefka: Yeah this guy's not a scientist, he's either an administrator or a popsci speaker
jonnykefka: I get a real "dean for fundraising and development" vibe off this guy
DoodlestheGreat: Last time I ran into a group calling themselves The Institute, I blew up their reactor...
terribleplan: His science sounds a lot like a religion...
TXC2:
terribleplan or a business
PsychoI3oy: do you still get the rifle?
jonnykefka: save first...
TXC2: so Diode up here or not?....
ThatStonedTroll: i have a simple request
Mathanwitch:
get ready to get lightly trolled by almost every faction for wearing that badge 
jonnykefka: the test is not just to get the gun, but whether you then throw it down disdainfully
Mathanwitch: SRIRACHA institure xD
DigitalSeahorse: game audio is louder than you
DigitalSeahorse: thanks
PsychoI3oy: oh, is this Doom now?
DoodlestheGreat: Yeah, SIRACHA sounds like a spicy organization.
TXC2:
we're going all season 4 of Legend of Korra on the zone
JollyGee29: Alex, I advise not talking to Richter just yet
JollyGee29: I ran into a game-breaking bug, but you might be fine?
DigitalSeahorse: cause of a bug?
JollyGee29: There is a spawn trigger for the NPCs he sends you to
Mazrae: Hello Alex, how are you doing today
TXC2: hello Mazrae welcome
TXC2: well we a forest...before it became all red
Mathanwitch: Richter is "judge" in German. and he literally is very judgemental of our every choice in this game. coincidence? xD
DigitalSeahorse: so talk to Richter after the blowout happens?
ArmondoSC: youre gonna lose the scope right? cause it cant come off the other gun?
Steelwolf171: That brings up an interesting question. Would the lumber from forestry in the area have a higher background radiation than 'normal' lumber?
TXC2: no hot swapable scope? booo
PhoebeTheCoffeeWitch: you can usually, but this particular unique gun's scope is fixed
ArmondoSC: well i think its cause its a special named gun
ArmondoSC: yeah
TXC2: Steelwolf171 yes, by a lot
ArmondoSC: you could hold on to it until you find a scope?
ArmondoSC: fungible guns\
PsychoI3oy: could switch to the SVD for long range
ArmondoSC: does he sell a scope at this point?
TXC2: we have 3 different kinds of booze?
PsychoI3oy: vodka, beer, water, IIRC
Graham_LRR: @loadingreadyrun hey, uh… could you let me in? I changed coats and left my keys at home.
LoadingReadyRun: lol sure sec
ArmondoSC: wat
ArmondoSC: lol
ButButTheJesus:
omg 
RainyMint:
BrindleBoar: Nice.
Mathanwitch: lol
ButButTheJesus:
@Graham_LRR
TXC2: !break
LRRbot: Remember chat, break time for the streamer means break time for YOU, so unclench, get up, stretch, walk about a bit, and maybe refresh your drink, take your meds, or go to the toilet if you need to. Don't forget to wash your hands!
Mnemonicman:
DigitalSeahorse:
Spluuga: Should've meowed loudly tho
Strebenherz: Hope it's not too cold outside @Graham_LRR , stay warm
Graham_LRR: Very awkward 🤣 thank you!
TXC2: and we're back
RocknGrohlNerd:
Hi Alex, mods and chat. I'm 1 vod behind, but I had to pop in chat and say thank for the PiF it is so very fun. Also also ...hi future me 
Mangledpixel: drugs?
TXC2: hello RocknGrohlNerd welcome to the vod
ButButTheJesus: @Graham_LRR if he lets you in he's gonna start letting in all the strays
TXC2: walking Stanford prison experiments
Critterbot:
That was a pineapple.
Mathanwitch: yep
rabbitgta: Idk stuck in merica where we use fre dumb units
Strebenherz: question, how is the weather/temp over there for y'all?
PsychoI3oy: 1/4-20 is what camera mounts use
Mathanwitch: oh, this place
QuixoticScrivener: Where are we at plot wise? Like, what is our current story goal? Or are we just survival shootering?
JollyGee29: Ward is Duty with actual funding
malsareus: so not very light so far then
QuixoticScrivener: rescue Senior McGuffin
QuixoticScrivener: got it
Mathanwitch: bread in place of medkit be like: in the middle of battle, bleeding tremendously and 1 HP left - EATS BREAD. dies
TXC2: Stalker is about setting, not plot
ButButTheJesus: I'm slowly playing through this and I get lost story-wise
DoodlestheGreat: Similar to the Fallout games?
malsareus: jank 1st, mosin 2nd, story 5th?
DigitalSeahorse: the ability to durdle around
TXC2: DoodlestheGreat a little bit yeah
ButButTheJesus: and like, I don't know which faction does what
QuixoticScrivener: I figured we were generally "killing in a direction," I was just curious of the direction.
Amentur: @TXC2 I'd agree but 2 does offer a good bit of story. Even very differing missions at times depending on choices made
ButButTheJesus: how new is New Safe Confinement?
PsychoI3oy: 2018 sounds right
DigitalSeahorse: sounds right
terribleplan: Before everything popped off for sure...
PhoebeTheCoffeeWitch: wikipedia says completed nov 2016
Mathanwitch: @ButButTheJesus Freedom and Duty are good old factions. they are here but they are in the background. main stage is Ward (cops) vs Spark (kinda sorta antifa? faction). Spark used to be loners helping scientists but then Ward came and fucked them up real bad so they are out for revenge
ButButTheJesus: @Mathanwitch ah, thankee!
JollyGee29: You have to backspace the old code out
JollyGee29: Safe inside of a safe
Critterbot:
Got there!
TXC2: slanade gruncher time
Amentur: Underbarrel slenade gruncher
JollyGee29: You have to long-press your fire mode button to swap to it
JollyGee29: Or that
DigitalSeahorse: we got ammo?
ButButTheJesus:
wooo 
malsareus: try to fire it?
TXC2:
I watched a video the other day, where they said grenade as Gren-ard everytime
Mathanwitch: @ButButTheJesus and Freedom and Duty go a long way to previous games are lore coded in Ukrainian history. Loners are just people. Ordinary people of Ukraine. Duty (military. red and black you know who flags) - are generally disrespected and even hated. Freedom (green anarchist Makhno flags) are generally loved among the loners.
PsychoI3oy: not what I was expecting compared to m203
TXC2: NINJA !
Inari_Kitsune: Morning all
TXC2: hello Inari_Kitsune welcome
DigitalSeahorse: stoppin powah
GasCityGaming: Been playing myself and having the VODs on in the background since i can't always do the PiF live. Been REALLY enjoying your playthrough and your knowledge around so much of this stuff!
DigitalSeahorse: floating power line pole fragments?
ButButTheJesus: @Mathanwitch and I still haven't played Pripyat/Clear Sky, I bought them in the Trilogy release last year, hope to get to them eventually
ScrapyardGhostTrain: It was originally specific, now I think it's just general.
TXC2: I was thinking more like the dambusters bomb
DoodlestheGreat: Yeah, it was one of Barnes Wallis' wonder weapons.
Steelwolf171: British/Canadian developed
Mathanwitch: @ButButTheJesus I heard Stalker GAMMA/Anomaly are big nowadays when talking about previous games. It's f community built all-in-one modded trilogy - it goes as close as Remastered Stalker could have been.
LidofLoathing: I've been reading a bunch of books on the Napoleonic wars and the one that fascinates me is canister shot. What if you put a whole bunch of bullets in a tin can and fired that at the enemy?
TXC2: the Napoleonic wars were basically WW 0.5
LidofLoathing: it was god awful. the French were basically trained to walk to their death, because they kept to columns most of the time for reasons
GasCityGaming: machine guns sure is good at what they do
TXC2: to be fair, Don't run, walk, was how infantry worked for 4000 years
Critterbot: And artillery, it by far killed the most soldiers in WWI.
Spluuga: just watching cannon crew loading a chained balls into the cannon a few hundred meters away..
TXC2: range, rate of fire, accuracy all hit a critical threshold in the 20th century
GasCityGaming: send the explody thing over there is still a solid strat
Mathanwitch: funnily enough modern warfare is still artillery fight. plus drones. and like A LOT OF DRONES. up to 90% of hits are drones nowadays
TXC2: a 152mm HE shell is $800, can kill a 10 million dollar tank
JollyGee29: And a whole mag of 5.45??
Mathanwitch: you still need a lot of them for offensives
GasCityGaming: and javelins
Mathanwitch: *a lot of tanks
TXC2: the tank is still relevant 'cause noting does what it does
Creideiki_SE: The Chieftain has Opinions on his YouTube channel.
TXC2: what we are learning in Ukraine is that any amount of armour is better then none
Spluuga: tanks generally are good against ground vehicles I think
ButButTheJesus: what's a blowout vs emission? or is it the same?
TXC2: ButButTheJesus yes
ButButTheJesus: ah ok
GasCityGaming: and it was quickly discovered they needed infantry support
CataclysmicReverb: More good against structures, current tanks are just short range artillery, as it doesn't take much to destroy vehicles
TXC2: and they're only gonna get blinder as we move to remote turrets
Amentur:
The slavic punch through the wall 
Mazrae: Wall hacks
GasCityGaming: big bullat
DoodlestheGreat: A big 'ol rifle.
TXC2: 50 BMG was meant to be anti-tank
TXC2: EXPLOSIVE reactive armour
JollyGee29: "Let's block incoming explosions by exploding first"
CataclysmicReverb: Good old depleted uranium armor
Mathanwitch: yeah. it's still a meme in Ukraine to draw reactive armor on EVERYTHING
terribleplan: ERA: Fight explosions with more explosions
ScrapyardGhostTrain: @CataclysmicReverb That would actually be terrible, because it would catch fire.
Spluuga: Apparently the abrams operating in ukraine have just the standard plate armor which don't do well these days.
ScrapyardGhostTrain: @ScrapyardGhostTrain DU is extremely pyrophoric.
TXC2: Spluuga yeah, they're Abrams from the 1980's
PhoebeTheCoffeeWitch: The Polish army had a "reeeeallly long bolt action rifle" antitank weapon that inspired a lot of other ones and saw service in multiple countries. It couldn't actually penetrate the armor but hit with enough energy to cause spallation in the kind of armor you'd find in Panzer 2 or 3s
Mathanwitch: google "ukraine reactive armor memes", it's hilarious
Critterbot: Sounds like someone or something is having a time out there.
Spluuga: The russians were using reactive armor on their light armor vehicles.. ..which was not great for the drivers..
Mathanwitch: lol
LordZarano: If you throw something at armor hard enough the armor itself becomes the shrapnel that shreds the crew
TXC2:
armour that is more or less a claymore mine for incoming shells
Critterbot: Or you can use spaced armor, mostly used in WWII I think.
A_Dub888: Good morning stalkers, how’s the Zine?
malsareus: which Disturbed album though?
TXC2: hello A_Dub888 welcome
ScrapyardGhostTrain: HESH is hilarious.
TXC2: HESH FOREVER!
TXC2:
ButButTheJesus: @A_Dub888 noisy at the moment
JollyGee29: Oh, nice, bug dodged
Valthek: "the crew doesn't like that" - that's an understatement and a half
eid010n: to my understanding, HEAT is still technically kinetic as it relies on the kinetic energy of the jet rather than any melting effect, hence the term "explosively formed penetrator"
Spluuga: Hesh are just a improvised large hammer..
TXC2: the main reason we've kept HESH in the British army is that they're really good with buildings
TXC2: Scar, as in the Protag from Clear sky?
ScrapyardGhostTrain: The British Army is sadly going to lose the use of HESH soon, because the Challenger 3 is going to have a smoothbore gun & HESH works a lot better with a rifled gun.
Mathanwitch: I absolutely love this actor, OMG
JollyGee29: Yes, this is the PC from Clear Sky
TXC2: JollyGee29 neat
Mathanwitch: He's making "Hrenkas" (toast in ukr.). remember that for later
Mathanwitch: braaains!!!
JollyGee29: The bug I ran into was Scar failing to spawn, which broke the trigger for this cutscene.. and resulted in me getting stuck in this barn
ButButTheJesus: bwuh?
Mathanwitch: eternal spring! shining!
seanmrwick: wat?
ArmondoSC: chill zombies
Strebenherz: does this guy make any more sense with context
Mathanwitch: hahahahaha
Strebenherz: okay just casually propping the wood back up was gold
TXC2:
Strebenherz I think I'm more confused knowing who this guy is
Mathanwitch: they don't trust you because of the Ward badge
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Amentur: Zombies without guns seem pretty chill
Strebenherz: @TXC2 gotcha. I need to catch up, i've def missed plot relevant ones but also what
TXC2: it is called "wild island"
JollyGee29: Remember helping that one Stalker kill some dogs?
Mathanwitch: meow meow!
Mathanwitch: meow meow hiss!
JollyGee29: Pseudocat!
ButButTheJesus: skitterlings!
Mathanwitch: recipe of orange jam on the radio
Mathanwitch: oh no
Mathanwitch: who put collars on cats?
ArmondoSC: that was someones pet alex
Mathanwitch: it's a quest you can start in Zalissya by accepting hunt dogs from Nightinghale guy
DigitalSeahorse:
Mathanwitch: gamers can't swim
TXC2:
wow we're a 90's video game protag
SoundGuy0dB: I had those collars stuck in mu inventory for ages after the dogs quest - not sure if they patched in a fix for that yet
DigitalSeahorse:
catfish 
PhoebeTheCoffeeWitch: the clicking means you're getting extra value for your loot
Amentur: @SoundGuy0dB The quest that requires them is a bunch later in the game. I thought it was bugged for a while myself.
Mathanwitch: @SoundGuy0dB those are still bugged. and those are not the only quest items bugged. I gave up and installed zero quest item mod
Amentur: @SoundGuy0dB This is seperate to the quest you do in Zalissya
JollyGee29: Normal people won't buy armor or guns
Mathanwitch: @Amentur it kind of is and isn't. it's part of big side story about collars
TXC2: wait a minute, this island is a peninsula!
Spluuga: all the ammo with spicy reloads.. or tampered with oil
Spluuga: sounds about right
TXC2:
that sounds war crime-y
ArmondoSC: lil grunty sounds
ArmondoSC: uh oh
Seventy111: Anyone know if there's going to be a LRRMTG Fam Jam for Aetherdrift?
Zatengo subscribed at Tier 1. They've subscribed for 99 months!
Zatengo: 99 bottles of beer in the stash, 99 bottles of beer, you take one down get rid of rads, 98 bottles of beer in the stash
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Spluuga: wait til they figure out how to do c4 fidget spinners
TXC2: !events
SoundGuy0dB: I'm glad they patched the bug where it kept switching invert mouse off & I had to enable it after I started the game each time - it finally got fixed at the end of December. This is really getting me back in the mood to jump back on stalker 2
ButButTheJesus: ♪ aaaare ya achin'?
DoodlestheGreat: This is not what's meant by going ham...
ButButTheJesus: foooor some bacon? ♪
Mathanwitch: bubbly bubbles!
TXC2: giant time?
Mathanwitch: my impression is that shooting or bolting them makes things even worse somehow
Mathanwitch: smooch!
SoundGuy0dB: the mutants are mad you interrupted their bubble bath
TXC2: SNAKE EATER!
Invitare: mutants can't climb ladders
Invitare: too few fingers
Invitare: they mutated off
JohnLockeCole: Getting shot while you're climbing is a bad time, I could understand wont
JohnLockeCole: also hullo all
TXC2: hello JohnLockeCole welcome
SoundGuy0dB: when I last hit this place up ingame I got to the top of that tower & then they dropped an emission on me & I had to run for ages getting toasted. Not a un time
DigitalSeahorse:
ArmondoSC: did you just step on a mine?
JohnLockeCole: it's mine o'clock somewhere
malsareus: not my choice of decor
TXC2:
and now to one of the worst parts of CoP
JollyGee29: These ones are somewhat visible
ArmondoSC: crawling defeats minefields
jacqui_lantern234:
ok, im back from my little knitting lurk
Critterbot: Good thing you have so many feet reattachment kits.
jacqui_lantern234:
2nd reminder of the day that i love yall beyond measure
malsareus: time for morphine?
ArmondoSC: yeah if you didnt pay attention to meryls path you can just crawl through it
Zatengo: sweet, free nade
TXC2: (bender voice) "I'm 40% morphine!"
TXC2: not pissed either
Juliamon: The food you cram probably isn't helping
JollyGee29: Constant morphine and a diet of nothing but "sausages," bread, and canned.. stuff
malsareus: also at ealst 50% of the stuff you see are hallucinations
lightfut: Are you implying that video game characters have bodily functions?
malsareus: a base with a keep out sign made of mines
A_Dub888: @txc2 morphine’s a liquid right? he’ll pee it out eventually
TXC2:
A_Dub888 I think at this point we're sweating it out
TheAwkes: Just walking around with your hands up like you're pretending to be a t-rex all the time.
TXC2: bless you
RainyMint: Bless
Strebenherz: bless ya
malsareus: man imagine being a candlemaker in 40K, unlimited weath!
DigitalSeahorse: gazoomtits
matthaus_c: gezonedheit
DigitalSeahorse:
Laserbeaks_Fury: Name: Steward Occupation: Steward
matthaus_c: damn these guys are more amnesiac than Strelok
Mathanwitch:
1000
malsareus: how????
TheAwkes: I think that's called a Swedish pattern pipe wrench?
malsareus: how does that man inhale
Laserbeaks_Fury: it's okay, they're filtered
TXC2: with great skill
matthaus_c: it's the helmet-agnostic smoking anomaly
malsareus: doulbe filtered surely
matthaus_c: he's sho sleeby
Laserbeaks_Fury: MOOD
TXC2: big mood of a name
malsareus: hooch? sir we only work for sausage
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Dreadelicious: It an Alx
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TheDangerWaffle: Hi @Dreadelicious !
Dreadelicious: Hi Waffle!
JadedCynic:
*yawn* Good *checks* shit, evening? Hope things have been jankily fun, and cya in the VoD, I guess 
TXC2: hello JadedCynic welcome to the vod
Dreadelicious: Why is the air spicy
DoodlestheGreat: !break
LRRbot: Remember chat, break time for the streamer means break time for YOU, so unclench, get up, stretch, walk about a bit, and maybe refresh your drink, take your meds, or go to the toilet if you need to. Don't forget to wash your hands!
TXC2: !break
LRRbot: Remember chat, break time for the streamer means break time for YOU, so unclench, get up, stretch, walk about a bit, and maybe refresh your drink, take your meds, or go to the toilet if you need to. Don't forget to wash your hands!
TheAwkes: After these messages, we'll be right back.
matthaus_c: cycle your legs, stretch your fluids, smoke through your gas mask
Sacrenos: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Watch + Play (There's an endless amount of bad games out there. Thankfully Graham and Alex are cool enough dudes to wade through them. It's GARBAGE DAY Y'ALL!) at Wed 02:00 PM PST (2:20 from now).
LadyAiluros: nloop bleep
TXC2: and we're back
LadyAiluros: i finally get to see part of one of these live, thanks weather day!
TXC2: hello LadyAiluros welcome
LadyAiluros: I have been enjoying the VoDs of the playthrough and the cool discourse that comes with it!
JollyGee29: There is a storage box, a bed, and a tech here
SoundGuy0dB: ^
Mathanwitch: teleporting stash!
Mathanwitch: no vendor here though (not in the base). money and horilka are banned here
JollyGee29: You did just sell the last of your anti-rad
SoundGuy0dB: sadly no trader, but you can dump stuff in stash & use the guide to get to somewhere else to sell stuff if needed
SoundGuy0dB: Yeah this place is HOT
TXC2:
rads, chems, sparks, this place has it all
matthaus_c: sevas are so sweet
JollyGee29: Strider you might remember from Call of Pripyat
TXC2: strider, buddy, you look different
TXC2: it's good camo bront
Cptasparagus: "prove it, take your pants off"
SoundGuy0dB: I don't remember this guy from COP but think before this came out it was mostly Gamma I was playing for a good bit
ArmondoSC: i think he said striker not stalker
TXC2: SoundGuy0dB Strider is one of the guys you can recruit for the Jupiter mission
CataclysmicReverb: why would you make taller ants?
SoundGuy0dB: @TXC2 ahh, gotcha
TXC2: oh they fuckin
DigitalSeahorse:
TXC2: !clips
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Cptasparagus: are they both VL
matthaus_c: such is sex in the Zone
Spluuga: just bois leaning on each other
TheAwkes: They have to grant each others' wishes now.
Cptasparagus: hopefully they have their prophylactic bolts on them
TXC2:
TheAwkes
TreeVor84: the ol' phase kink
Mathanwitch: reminds me that we still have our second date in Prypiat promised
DigitalSeahorse:
Spluuga: just lacks some yellow paint..
TXC2: wolfman?
TheAinMAP: Beg pardon?
Dreadelicious: amgy man
CataclysmicReverb: Theraputic zombie growling class
DigitalSeahorse: inside the top room
Dreadelicious: Sir
TXC2: !sir
LRRbot: Sir? Sir! A rat has dug its teeth into your head.
Mathanwitch: speak to Lodochka, he'll tell you all about this zombie
TheAinMAP:
SoundGuy0dB: its the guy in the science bunker that gives the quest isn't it?
matthaus_c:
guess you are tolerated, not liked 
Raincoast_Bear: Good, err. Noon. Alex. So, is Stalker closer to Tarkov or Fallout? or is it somewhere in between?
TXC2: hello Raincoast_Bear it's kind of a mix of the two
SoundGuy0dB: Yeah Raincoat, Stalker inspired tarkov to a degree
Spluuga: Tarkov is just sweaty pvp
TXC2: tarkov has a very different gameplay loop then stalker/fallout
Mathanwitch: in the big ass bunker
Amentur: Tarkov for me leant in too much to the players being garbage collectors for the most part
Mathanwitch: go outside, you'll see it
Mathanwitch: lol, you died
SoundGuy0dB: yeah, it was more of an influence - I love tarkov but prefer the single player PVE server experience
matthaus_c: lmao
Dreadelicious: air too spicy
JollyGee29: No, this room is indoors, you just stood too close to some spicy metal
TheAwkes: That wasn't the emission. That was the radiation in the room.
TheDangerWaffle: oop
TheAinMAP:
Mathanwitch: I think you died from rad, not emission
SoundGuy0dB: if it says wait until the emission ends in the mission update section you will be ok
Mathanwitch: too close to the window
Invitare: Don't beg. Demand their pardon
matthaus_c: just a whiff of emission air
matthaus_c: it's like a mechanic's gutter thingy
matthaus_c: or a trench
SoundGuy0dB:
I got myself a nice real-steel AK74 airsoft gun at Christmas - took it to the field for the Christmas game & it was shooting hot so I couldn't use it & had to use my M4 
now I need to switch out the spring & havent had a chance yet
Mathanwitch: it was emission. I guess there's just safe boxes where you're immune and you stepped out of it a bit
SoundGuy0dB: I believe if you play this quest corretly you may get something nice that you will find useful
matthaus_c: the objective markers behave like you still have a minimap instead of a compass
JollyGee29: This dude gives you a short sidequest, too.
SoundGuy0dB: yeah the sidequest has a useful reward
LordZarano: !advice
LRRbot: Frog get big.
Mathanwitch: emission casualties lying around
JollyGee29: That's the zombie, yea
ArmondoSC: hes kinda chill
matthaus_c: is he doing zombie practice
Invitare: seems harmless
Invitare: he's just pointing a gun at you
matthaus_c: heartless
Critterbot: This must have been a fun day in the recording booth.
TXC2: the pink mist
TheDangerWaffle: I thought he was just drunk lmao
ArmondoSC:
but they asked you not to 
matthaus_c: brandish with him!
Strebenherz: zombie castle law
TheDangerWaffle: LMAO
matthaus_c: Dark Souls 2 ass fall damage
TheDangerWaffle: oh noes my bones CRONCH
Mazrae: We all saw that he came at you with a knife, right? Right?
Bruceski: "So how do you tell if someone's a Stalker?" "They tend to yeet."
Strebenherz: aside, thank you alex and all the other lrr'ers. y'all bring laughs in hard times
Cptasparagus: nah, im a scientist, I know the kind. Hygiene would be the first to go.
JollyGee29: Detector hype!
Amentur:
Mathanwitch: yay
SoundGuy0dB: grats - bear
Mathanwitch: that's a pretty good one
PhoebeTheCoffeeWitch: oh we love this one
TXC2: going up in the world!
Bruceski: Bear detector. If you're getting eaten, bear's near.
DigitalSeahorse:
SoundGuy0dB: yeah, you missed the intermediate one, in the questline where the guys ask you to stash vodka in the 3 stashes
SoundGuy0dB: if you go to the tree stash first there is a detector - I stole it lol - so had that until I got the bear#
Mathanwitch: oh, isn't main mission now in the same building where you completed the quest with the controller?
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: surprised this game doesnt have a camping mechanic
matthaus_c: oh they added a new detector between Echo and Bear?
SoundGuy0dB: yeah it shows distance
Mathanwitch: @matthaus_c yes, Hilka. it's beginners detector, but range is 100m
matthaus_c: oh that's neat
SoundGuy0dB: Hilka thats it
Strebenherz: what are snorks?
Mathanwitch: you could have got Hilka detetor if you robbed the stashes instead of putting horilka in, hehe
JollyGee29: Quiet is a proper Trader
Marvoleath: Howdy. I just learned today, that Chornobyl is densely populated by gray wolves. Are there wolves in this game, or just the weird dogs?
matthaus_c: pseudodogs are wolfish
SoundGuy0dB: yeah, because you went to the tree 3rd the guy was there before you could check the stash
TXC2: Marvoleath wild dogs and other mutants mostly
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Strebenherz: is Chornobyl not just an in-game spelling thing?
matthaus_c: @Strebenherz no, it's the correct Ukrainian spelling
TXC2: Strebenherz no, it's the Ukrainian spelling
matthaus_c: Chernobyl is Russian
Strebenherz: ahhh gotcha
ghyllnox: Your old detector?
Marvoleath: That's a shame, but I guess STALKER is more populated by more humans, which historically are not good for wolves
SoundGuy0dB: Yeah am glad the detectors never break
SoundGuy0dB: I hope they eventually add NVG's and improve the flashlight
matthaus_c: tbf I'm pretty sure Pseudodogs /are/ supposed to be wolves, just really fucked up mutant wolves
Mathanwitch: my Uni had a lot of students from Africa. all spoke better Ukrainian than I did at the time
terribleplan: Detectors getting less functional/accurate with damage levels
matthaus_c: my first Stalker game was Clear Sky, I was killed by Bad Water ALL the time
DigitalSeahorse: about 8 months
Marvoleath:
@matthaus_c I guess that's more interesting than "wolves with less cancer but more parasites"
Strebenherz: okay you say you're not much for the story of this game but that visual storytelling peak
Strebenherz: or rather msq I should say, that was worded awkwardly
LordZarano: Only a few years, I'm sure some joker would drive a bus around here eventually
JollyGee29: The visual storytelling is great, the plot tends to be so-so
Strebenherz: all those fucking cigarettes and the deadass car like
JollyGee29: Are you still in your ecologist?
TXC2: JollyGee29 sure are
Marvoleath: "enemy of my enemy" etc
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: the social contract in stalker-verse sure is complex
Marvoleath: @fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn shoot them, if they shoot back = enemy
Marvoleath:
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: @Marvoleath flawless
SoundGuy0dB: Found out the standard AK-74S has better stats than Valikovs - though you need to find a seperate PSO scope for it
SoundGuy0dB: I used Valikovs scoped one for ages until I found that out
MrQwasu: Am so lost, those were frens a second ago or leftovers of the previous group?
SoundGuy0dB: oh nice you found the grenade launcher
TXC2: MrQwasu the later I think
TheAwkes: It's a fully stacked version of an old worn out 74. The baseline ones you find can be made better than it.
TXC2: 30 in the mag, 1 in the chamber
matthaus_c: scopes are the one fixation I have about guns that will probably cause me to spend money at some point
matthaus_c: PSO reticles are so damn cool
terribleplan: Yeah, 31 if you reload early, 30 if you empty it first, I assume
TheAwkes:
Phantasy Star Online has reticles?! 
SoundGuy0dB: I kinda want to get a PSO for my AK74 Airsoft rifle - but they are kinda expensive & hard to get atm even the knockoffs
JollyGee29: While you're in this area, you can pop on down to the Ribs and test out your new detector
Critterbot: That's how guns work, most games don't bother with simulating that part of gun mechanics, but I appreciate it if a game does.
Strebenherz: @TheAwkes ngl my mind went there too. De Rol Le COME GET SOME
BrowneePointz: *smiles* Hampter
Critterbot: Well if it's a gun with a closed bolt that is.
SoundGuy0dB: that's a nice little collection of artifacts
SoundGuy0dB: I find it slightly annoying that the artifact recovery quests don't tell you what one you need before you accept - means you can be sitting with a quest for ages until you find the correct one
SoundGuy0dB: so I tend to avoid them & just sell arifacts for cash unless they are good ones for equipping
JollyGee29: The "Move" threshold for weight is 80
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matthaus_c:
holy shit 67 medkits 
SoundGuy0dB: Alex the walking medicine cabinet lol
TXC2: we're not wearing any amour
ghyllnox: I remember this being an issue when I was playing a couple of the Fallout games, not able to effectively make it to a trader to sell all the shit I was hoarding
matthaus_c: running a small clinic out of Hamster's store
MrQwasu: the 54 energy drinks sounds heavy
SoundGuy0dB:
172 bandages
JAGxTERRA: ugh I love this inventory management
matthaus_c:
it's a good thing stashes don't have a weight limit here
Mathanwitch: @SoundGuy0dB what's worse common artifacts stop dropping at some point and become practically unobtainable
Strebenherz: While watching is i haven't had any "oh snap the story is spoiled" moments. are those coming up still?
Strebenherz: watching this^
SoundGuy0dB: Yeah from someone that has had them, I wouldn't wish kidney stones on my worst enemy
matthaus_c: we've had some major plot beats happen, but the story in these games gets communicated very piecemeal until the endgame
TXC2: Strebenherz I'd say today's been one of the bigger story progression days so far
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: I couldve sworn this game was a sandbox tbqh
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: without a central plot
matthaus_c: it is!
matthaus_c: Stalker is many things to people
Critterbot: Don't forget to re-equip your artifacts.
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: so when do we free skyrim from the imperials
SoundGuy0dB: You can def treat it as a sandbox but some stuff is gated behind some story quests etc
Invitare: Gordon Freeman???
TXC2: our old stomping groudns
matthaus_c: that said Alex is right. a lot of perception of Stalker since Call of Pripyat has been due to modded versions like Call of Chernobyl and Anomaly, which are way more focused on the sandbox
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: @SoundGuy0dB are quests timed at all or can npc die to environmentals?
TheAwkes: The target reticle marker on the map.
JollyGee29: The Guide in this town is in the building next to the zeppelin tower
Mathanwitch: Nightinghale is the collar quest
matthaus_c: kind of a shame Stalker 2 modding is unlikely to take off as hard as X-ray Engine modding, but it's hard to compete when the entire X-ray source code leaked
SoundGuy0dB: @fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn I haven't came across any timed quests yet - however NPC's can die and end quests but alot of the quest givers are in bases etc. from what I have done sofar - I'm probably only around 1/4 through the story sofar tho
TheAwkes: I think it drops an autosave before fast travel.
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: @SoundGuy0dB thanks, this is useful to know \o
ArmondoSC: ooohhhhh
SoundGuy0dB: jackpot
SoundGuy0dB: you should be able to attach to a named AK
Mathanwitch: the song about Canada on the radio!
ArmondoSC: flatness?
TheAwkes: The importance of AP escalates quickly as you go forward to nastier areas.
SoundGuy0dB: In general I find AP better than rrange
TXC2: ArmondoSC bullets drop as they fly, "flatness" makes then drop less
ArmondoSC: oh that makes sense, i dont think ive seen it said that way
ScrapyardGhostTrain: "flatter" = higher muzzle velocity
Critterbot: @ArmondoSC That's what it's called sometimes, it confused me at first as well.
ArmondoSC: usually just called "bullet drop" or something
JollyGee29: Make sure to load your new gun
matthaus_c: oh shit I totally forgot it's also Watch+Play day
daveythecavey: Hey Alex big fan
ArmondoSC: i thought W&P was suppose to be last week
TXC2: hello daveythecavey welcome
TheAwkes: For a while, but with exceptions, it's like the Witcher in that you'll pack an anti-human gun and an anti-mutant gun.
TXC2: ArmondoSC it was, but Graham couldn't make it
Strebenherz: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Watch + Play (There's an endless amount of bad games out there. Thankfully Graham and Alex are cool enough dudes to wade through them. It's GARBAGE DAY Y'ALL!) at Wed 02:00 PM PST (1:14 from now).
SoundGuy0dB: range stat will mean a bit less damage dropoff over longer ranges, but AP more thanb makes up for it against armoured enemies & mutants with natural armour
ArmondoSC: oh i see
Wolfstrike_NL: It's on the schedule yes
matthaus_c:
switching to your secondary is always faster than reloading 
SoundGuy0dB: Skiffs pistol is effectively weightless apart from any attachments you have on it
daveythecavey: @TXC2 Thamks Nice to be here as always
Cptasparagus: (dies)
daveythecavey: STALKER without prone?
daveythecavey: wow
BrowneePointz: Guess this game is PRONE to not giving you good sightlines!
SoundGuy0dB: Am sure someone will eventually mod prone in
ArmondoSC: its not really better
SoundGuy0dB: Amazing what you can jsut find lying around
matthaus_c: that physical protection loss is a lot tbh
ArmondoSC: its only superior in being sold for coupons
daveythecavey: Thoughts on S2 compared to previous entries?
SoundGuy0dB: Yeah, Radiation & physical protection are pretty much the best stats for armour
matthaus_c:
platforming puzzles are the part no one ever talks about in these games
daveythecavey: A little parkour to get the blood flowing
Creideiki_SE: And then a bandage to stop the blood flowing again?
daveythecavey: Hah
matthaus_c:
trying to get to stashes in the Garbage Depot sometimes 
TheAwkes: Sometimes in this game I found myself drinking a water from some container just because Skif hadn't had any in a while, even though my stamina was full and it would do nothing.
Mathanwitch: hop stop Kanada! lalalalalala
TXC2: thanks for streaming Alex
Strebenherz:
SoundGuy0dB: I quite like the addition of the chalk marks on the walls that indicate some hidden stash locations - a little in-game environmental detail that also works for gameplay
ArmondoSC:
ShaneLeeAtk: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Watch + Play (There's an endless amount of bad games out there. Thankfully Graham and Alex are cool enough dudes to wade through them. It's GARBAGE DAY Y'ALL!) at Wed 02:00 PM PST (1:06 from now).
Amentur:
Thanks for exploring the Zone
TXC2: !patreon
TheAinMAP: Thank you for streaming.
TXC2: !store
matthaus_c: !alex
TXC2: !alex
daveythecavey: Thanks for the stream Alex!
matthaus_c: get yerself some shitpost doodles
matthaus_c: they're great
SoundGuy0dB: Later Alex
DigitalSeahorse: stickers on the etsy
TXC2: !events
DigitalSeahorse: and mugs
matthaus_c: just learned Serge placed 2nd in the last Monday Night Highlander!
SoundGuy0dB: Ohh, vibe different to live?
DoodlestheGreat: See you in an little bit, Alex. 10 q 4 strem
matthaus_c: @SoundGuy0dB vibe's like a lowkey live
Mathanwitch: thanks for the stream!
Marvoleath:
@matthaus_c did he play combo?
matthaus_c: @Marvoleath sure didn't, UB Midrange
TheAinMAP:
TXC2: !discord
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matthaus_c: list looks pretty tight too
DeM0nFiRe:
o/
TXC2: !contact
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DigitalSeahorse:
matthaus_c: it's up in CanlanderWinnersArchive on Moxfield
Juliamon: crash count: 3
SoundGuy0dB:
Now I'm gonna go play some Stalker 2 as well
matthaus_c:
I'm gonna jam an hour of Gamma
SoundGuy0dB: Gamma is fun, havent fired it up in a while since Stalker 2 came out
TXC2: I'm gonna watch unskipable
TXC2: goodnight everybody
SoundGuy0dB: Night folks
matthaus_c: night night
fiinnnaaaaannnnnnnn: !next
LRRbot: Next scheduled stream: Watch + Play (There's an endless amount of bad games out there. Thankfully Graham and Alex are cool enough dudes to wade through them. It's GARBAGE DAY Y'ALL!) at Wed 02:00 PM PST (59m from now).
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