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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl

Iucounu

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Is this due to radiation? :lol:

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They do it for the viral marketing (and maybe a few nudges from Microsoft). Makes perfect sense from a marketing perspective, just a pity that it also turns the game into another americanized product in the process.
 

Jacov

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It makes sense: the Zone is a point of interest for all kinds of people. Most stalkers would be Ukrainian/Russian/Belarusian with a mix of other slavs and Baltic nations. Ocasional black person wouldn't be a surprise: there were plenty of Africans in USSR and there is plenty of them in Eastern Europe and Europian part of Russia. But we all know why this guy is in the trailer and is shown in close-up. We do.

I hope there will be more people from ex-Soviet republics of non-slav origin in the game. Kazakhs, Armenians, Georgians, etc. But I fear everyone in the game will be strictly Ukrainian, with a bit of blacks here and there to win some points with western crowd. And everyone will pretend that Russians and Belarusians don't exist.
 
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It makes sense: the Zone is a point of interest for all kinds of people. Most stalkers would be Ukrainian/Russian/Belarusian with a mix of other slavs and Baltic nations. Ocasional black person wouldn't be a surprise: there were plenty of Africans in USSR and there is plenty of them in Eastern Europe and Europian part of Russia. But we all know why this guy is in the trailer and is shown in close-up. We do.

I hope there will be more people from ex-Soviet republics of non-slav origin in the game. Kazakhs, Armenians, Georgians, etc. But I fear everyone in the game will be strictly Ukrainian, with a bit of blacks here and there to win some points with western crowd. And everyone will pretend that Russians and Belarusians don't exist.
Mercs should have a bunch of Westerners too. And UN if they make an appearence (Pakis and Pajeets would make sense here too, lots of UN forces from there).

Idk where you're getting the "there were plenty of Africans in USSR and there is plenty of them in Eastern Europe and Europian part of Russia" part though. Idk about Russia in particular, but there definitely isn't "plenty" of Africans in Eastern Europe. Some, yes. Plenty, no.
 

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Idk where you're getting the "there were plenty of Africans in USSR and there is plenty of them in Eastern Europe and Europian part of Russia" part though. Idk about Russia in particular, but there definitely isn't "plenty" of Africans in Eastern Europe. Some, yes. Plenty, no.
No such thing, slick.
Contrary to american cuck fantasies of NIGGERS BEING FUCKING EVERYWHERE AND A PART OF EVERY FUCKING CIVILIZATION there are NOT many (if there are even at all) niggers in Eastern/Southeastern Europe.
Niggers are truly exotic out here.
 

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Idk where you're getting the "there were plenty of Africans in USSR and there is plenty of them in Eastern Europe and Europian part of Russia" part though. Idk about Russia in particular, but there definitely isn't "plenty" of Africans in Eastern Europe. Some, yes. Plenty, no.
No such thing, slick.
Contrary to american cuck fantasies of NIGGERS BEING FUCKING EVERYWHERE AND A PART OF EVERY FUCKING CIVILIZATION there are NOT many (if there are even at all) niggers in Eastern/Southeastern Europe.
Niggers are truly exotic out here.
Yea, you'll have some students coming from ME and Africa and some tourists in bigger cities and that's pretty much it. Some Kebab store runners too, but those are usually from Pakistan or Bangladesh in my experience.
 

NecroLord

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Exactly.
By the way, many of those african students are somehow LESS retarded and violent than the US niggers.
US niggers are the worst, but pretty much everyone knows that.
The moslems are also pretty tame and well behaved here compared to the chimpouts in the West.
We Eastern Euros have experience in dealing with kebab, either with the sword, impalement (Hello Vlad) or through diplomacy.


Oh, and the game does not impress me in the slightest. Nowhere near the atmosphere of Shadow of Chernobyl.
 

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Just curious about a thing. Does anyone know any story beats from the sequel? It's a sequel, right? What could it be about, considering the wish granter was defeated?
 

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They never really explained whether or not The Zone is actually a living organism or not.
In Call of Pripyat, I believe those scientists in the bunker near Yanov theorized that it is actually expanding...
If so, how the hell can you destroy it?
 

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They never really explained whether or not The Zone is actually a living organism or not.
In Call of Pripyat, I believe those scientists in the bunker near Yanov theorized that it is actually expanding...
If so, how the hell can you destroy it?

COP basically stated that Strelok made it worse by destroying the C-Consciousness. Amongst their BS, they were actually preventing the zone from expanding.
 

NecroLord

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They never really explained whether or not The Zone is actually a living organism or not.
In Call of Pripyat, I believe those scientists in the bunker near Yanov theorized that it is actually expanding...
If so, how the hell can you destroy it?

COP basically stated that Strelok made it worse by destroying the C-Consciousness. Amongst their BS, they were actually preventing the zone from expanding.
Bingo!
Yes, I forgot about that.
There's also that really cool dialogue with the C-Consciousness near the end of Shadow of Chernobyl at the CNPP.
Really sounded like pure horror to be honest...
Good job, Strelok!
 
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Looks decent. Glad they did the trailer in Ukrainian with English subtitles this time, as its obviously the best way to play it for non-Ukrainian speakers. It‘s silly people had to mod the original game to get this option (in before retards here demanding back their English VO with silly slavic accents…).
 

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But we all know why this guy is in the trailer and is shown in close-up. We do.
To be honest I don't know why, except that lots of other media productions are also doing it, like a mass psychosis.

Don't get me wrong: in real life I rather socialize with Africans than East Europeans, but wokeism is of course never acceptable.
 

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Ocasional black person wouldn't be a surprise: there were plenty of Africans in USSR and there is plenty of them in Eastern Europe and Europian part of Russia. But we all know why this guy is in the trailer and is shown in close-up. We do.
What are you talking about? It is the Western Europe that has the largest concentration of black people outside of the United States, not the Eastern Europe:

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Also, keep in mind that in the entire United States of America black people consist of 12-15% of the population, which makes France's 8% a staggering amount by comparison. Some of this may be explained by the fact that citizenship was given to children of parents who were part of the former colonies and overseas territories (and France has most colonies in Africa).
 

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Ocasional black person wouldn't be a surprise: there were plenty of Africans in USSR and there is plenty of them in Eastern Europe and Europian part of Russia. But we all know why this guy is in the trailer and is shown in close-up. We do.
What are you talking about? It is the Western Europe that has the largest concentration of black people outside of the United States, not the Eastern Europe:

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Also, keep in mind that in the entire United States of America black people consist of 12-15% of the population, which makes France's 8% a staggering amount by comparison. Some of this may be explained by the fact that citizenship was given to children of parents who were part of the former colonies and overseas territories (and France has most colonies in Africa).
oh, famous african colonies of sweden
 

Jacov

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Ocasional black person wouldn't be a surprise: there were plenty of Africans in USSR and there is plenty of them in Eastern Europe and Europian part of Russia. But we all know why this guy is in the trailer and is shown in close-up. We do.
What are you talking about? It is the Western Europe that has the largest concentration of black people outside of the United States, not the Eastern Europe:

zdutuqu6gn5a1.jpg


Also, keep in mind that in the entire United States of America black people consist of 12-15% of the population, which makes France's 8% a staggering amount by comparison. Some of this may be explained by the fact that citizenship was given to children of parents who were part of the former colonies and overseas territories (and France has most colonies in Africa).
Plenty is probably a wrong word. I've been to Eastern Europe before 2022. There were enough blacks for me to see them almost every day. But keep in mind it was big cities, in smaller ones they are probably non-existent, same as in Russia.
I don't know how many of them were actual citizens though. Some of them were tourists perhaps?

Anyway, I'm not here to advocate for putting blacks in everything where they don't belong. I just think a random African in the Zone is not that far fetched.

P.S.: I've seen people throwing around photos of this guy who has been a Chernobyl disaster liquidator in 80s. People say that this negro dude in the trailer is a reference to him. It would have been a cool reference, because this IRL guy is quite famous here. But I don't think that's the case, he looks nothing like him. So it's most likely a diversity hire.
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NecroLord

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Ocasional black person wouldn't be a surprise: there were plenty of Africans in USSR and there is plenty of them in Eastern Europe and Europian part of Russia. But we all know why this guy is in the trailer and is shown in close-up. We do.
What are you talking about? It is the Western Europe that has the largest concentration of black people outside of the United States, not the Eastern Europe:

zdutuqu6gn5a1.jpg


Also, keep in mind that in the entire United States of America black people consist of 12-15% of the population, which makes France's 8% a staggering amount by comparison. Some of this may be explained by the fact that citizenship was given to children of parents who were part of the former colonies and overseas territories (and France has most colonies in Africa).
Plenty is probably a wrong word. I've been to Eastern Europe before 2022. There were enough blacks for me to see them almost every day. But keep in mind it was big cities, in smaller ones they are probably non-existent, same as in Russia.
I don't know how many of them were actual citizens though. Some of them were tourists perhaps?

Anyway, I'm not here to advocate for putting blacks in everything where they don't belong. I just think a random African in the Zone is not that far fetched.
No one wants niggers in videogames, my man.
No one wants niggers in everything, PERIOD.
Just kwan cucks who get off on seeing their wives and daughters fucked by blacks in BLACKED jewish productions...
 

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