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I just wonder how they will handle the military faction. My understanding is that Ukrainian military was not widely beloved by the populace at the time SoC was made (I just know someone will correct me if I'm wrong), hence them being enemy faction in SoC and portrayed as heavily corrupt. Although I guess this had already started to shift by CoP, where you play as a military member. I do hope Stalker 2 doesn't incorporate current events too heavily, it would strain versimilitude if the ingame factions get reduced to good UKR army and evil RU army.
Need to paint Ukraine army as a hero and Russian invasion into the game
But this is what we'll probably get.
 
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I would be deeply disapointed if the game doesnt have at least a few missions in which you fight rusnigger troops as they try to take over the Zone or something tbh fam.
Eh, it is natural for Stalkers to fight with the military, regardless of what kind of military that would be.
It's almost 100% certain that this time around the Ukrainian army will be depicted favorably unlike previous Stalker titles.
There is also a high chance, a new enemy faction will be in the game that will be suprise, surprise Russian.
Or maybe Monolith was Russian all along, plot twist.
 

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It's almost 100% certain that this time around the Ukrainian army will be depicted favorably unlike previous Stalker titles.
There is also a high chance, a new enemy faction will be in the game that will be suprise, surprise Russian.
Odds that HoC UKR army stalkers in will be invincible NPCs Todd-style? Or maybe you get a game over if you combat them?
I can't envision a game where you can and/or must shoot UKR army being released in the current climate.
 

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I would be deeply disapointed if the game doesnt have at least a few missions in which you fight rusnigger troops as they try to take over the Zone or something tbh fam.
Eh, it is natural for Stalkers to fight with the military, regardless of what kind of military that would be.
True. And even when the PC is one himself (like in CoP), the Zone's Stalkers in general are still hostile to the Military. Maybe the best solution is to make the nationality of the game's Military unspecified? Then everybody can make their own interpretation.
 

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I think an even bigger problem will be that the game will just be shit. All these "devs that made a game over a decade ago decided to get back to it and make a sequel" tales seem to end the same way: dogshit titles made by washed up has-beens.
 

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Negro and strong independent women stalkers when? Це Європа after all.
It's telling that Anomaly, probably the most popular Stalker mod, decided to include female stalkers (Hip) and nobody minds.
The fanbase will get what they deserve.

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It’s important and good to have things that are for men and aren’t interested in or concerned with women, and it’s easy to identify STALKER as that kind of thing.
Certainly. But at the same time one shouldn't be surprised that men are interested in women enough to include them in some fan-made patch. With mods you can have whatever fantasy you wish, as long as somebody can make it actually happen (because that's exactly what this is: a fantasy).

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Negro and strong independent women stalkers when? Це Європа after all.
It's telling that Anomaly, probably the most popular Stalker mod, decided to include female stalkers (Hip) and nobody minds.
The fanbase will get what they deserve.
It is almost as if men want to see some hot ladies in tight gear in their games...
Then people will complain about (or lack of) chainmail bikini equivalent of stalker gear in game.
 

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Then people will complain about (or lack of) chainmail bikini equivalent of stalker gear in game.
Someone will always complain about something. I would be more apprehensive to this kind of thing if it were to eat resources needed to develop the game in the first place, but if someone wants and can do something like this as a free addition to the game that's entirely optional to use, then he has my blessing. Modding is rarely a bad thing.
 

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Negro and strong independent women stalkers when? Це Європа after all.
It's telling that Anomaly, probably the most popular Stalker mod, decided to include female stalkers (Hip) and nobody minds.
The fanbase will get what they deserve.
What's the problem with female stalkers?
Breaks immershun, is distracting. Regressing back to barebones civilization means going back to the "might makes right" kindda world people used to inhabit for millennia. And that in turn necessarily drags women back to their previous roles.

In such a world every stronk yas queen trying to fearlessly roam the wasteland would be everyone's favourite juicy prey. Very soon everyone would get the memo and women would once again stay huddled around well guarded campfires.
 

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Negro and strong independent women stalkers when? Це Європа after all.
It's telling that Anomaly, probably the most popular Stalker mod, decided to include female stalkers (Hip) and nobody minds.
The fanbase will get what they deserve.
What's the problem with female stalkers?
Breaks immershun, is distracting. Regressing back to barebones civilization means going back to the "might makes right" kindda world people used to inhabit for millennia. And that in turn necessarily drags women back to their previous roles.

In such a world every stronk yas queen trying to fearlessly roam the wasteland would be everyone's favourite juicy prey. Very soon everyone would get the memo and women would once again stay huddled around well guarded campfires.
That was the point I made a few months back.
What the hell are women doing in The Zone? You know, surrounded by packs of mutants, bloodsuckers, chimeras, pseudogiants, bandits, mercenaries?
Yeah, man, not fun...
 

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Negro and strong independent women stalkers when? Це Європа after all.
It's telling that Anomaly, probably the most popular Stalker mod, decided to include female stalkers (Hip) and nobody minds.
The fanbase will get what they deserve.
What's the problem with female stalkers?
Breaks immershun, is distracting. Regressing back to barebones civilization means going back to the "might makes right" kindda world people used to inhabit for millennia. And that in turn necessarily drags women back to their previous roles.

In such a world every stronk yas queen trying to fearlessly roam the wasteland would be everyone's favourite juicy prey. Very soon everyone would get the memo and women would once again stay huddled around well guarded campfires.
That was the point I made a few months back.
What the hell are women doing in The Zone? You know, surrounded by packs of mutants, bloodsuckers, chimeras, pseudogiants, bandits, mercenaries?
Yeah, man, not fun...
Small amount of women stalkers makes sense. There are women in the military too, or working as guards. IMO it adds to immersion to have a few female stalkers somewhere in the zone (as long as you don't go full retard with 50/50 ratio or make the girls always be best like Obsidian does).
 

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