Psi. Its pronounced SIGH not SEE

[John Destiny]

Its driving me CRAZY

[dbond1]

There was also a convo (maybe with Sonya) where she pronounced corps as 'corpse'.

[LykosNychi]

It is in fact, "Psee" not "Sigh"
It's the same in Ukr dub, because it references "Psi-Radiation" same as "alpha" or "beta" or "Gamma" radiations.

"Psee" is the correct pronunciation.

[JackieTheDemon]

Publicado originalmente por LykosNychi:

It is in fact, "Psee" not "Sigh"
It's the same in Ukr dub, because it references "Psi-Radiation" same as "alpha" or "beta" or "Gamma" radiations.

"Psee" is the correct pronunciation.

No. It might as well be Psy-radation but spelled wrong because everything "psi" related is psychological manipulation.

(and psi-radiation is not a real thing)

[Beyond.Celsus]

Gangnam Style

[Grimtasy]

Publicado originalmente por JackieTheDemon:

Publicado originalmente por LykosNychi:

It is in fact, "Psee" not "Sigh"
It's the same in Ukr dub, because it references "Psi-Radiation" same as "alpha" or "beta" or "Gamma" radiations.

"Psee" is the correct pronunciation.

No. It might as well be Psy-radation but spelled wrong because everything "psi" related is psychological manipulation.

(and psi-radiation is not a real thing)

No, LykosNychi is right.
Psi referers to the Greek letter PSI, and it's pronounced PSEE.
Fun fact, if you search Greek letter Psi, you will see the faction symbol used by the noontiders.

The use of Psi instead of Psy to refer to "Psi fields" and "Psi emissions" is new to Stalker 2 though. In the OGs it was "Psy" and therefore pronounced "sigh".

It used to reference "Psy ops" and "Psychic" but now references Psi waves, as in specific radiation waves with an impact on human psyche.

[Arndell]

Publicado originalmente por JackieTheDemon:

(and psi-radiation is not a real thing)

Neither is Psy-radiation, psychic powers as a whole are fantasy magic.

It does make sense in the context of this game, we already have alpha, beta and gamma radiation, the whole zone is a fantasy "what if radiation had supernatural effects"

So using another greek letter to name a type of radiation fits with real world themes, plus it doubles as wordplay for psi/psy for the usual tropes of pscyhic effects.

Psi-radiation is the psychic element of fantasy magic, but given a real world based naming scheme.


I completed the game now and got used to the term on top of understanding the world more, it makes a lot of sense and I appreciate the effort to make it fit in with both real world naming schemes for radiation and the games fantasy take on it.

It's a good name.

[zero]

Every NPC also does a weird pause before they say it too.

[Grimtasy]

It's LEVIOOOOSA

[DeadMeat91]

Ψ

[Phasmata]

They aren't pronouncing it wrong. It's is Ψ, not "psy"

[HuevosYBacon]

I psi what you did there

[Cryptic]

Publicado originalmente por cTz:

Ukranian voices with English subtitles is the best way to go.

Exactly right

[TriGGrPuLLa]

Publicado originalmente por John Outlast:

Its driving me CRAZY

I noticed that too

[White ⁧⁧Wolf]

Pretty sure 'sigh' is just the way americans say it(so American English). In (global)English it could very well be 'see'.

One example is perhaps Gemini = 'jeh-mini' while Americans would say 'jeh-minaai/minigh'.

In any case it wouldn't be the first time that Americans pronounce things differently for some reason(to be more independent?).

What is really baffling though in games not set in America, nor made by Americans, is when the characters still pronounce things the American way. That's just plain weird and in those cases the developers could very well have been influenced by American media and lacking knowledge of what normal English sounds like.

[Soth]

Publicado originalmente por John Outlast:

Its driving me CRAZY

It's SEE not SIGH, akchually