Factions UI

[strangerism]

is there a way to see your relations with factions?

[Ammikaameri]

Not really. Only on the map, green is friendly, white is neutral and red is hostile.

[Dootslayer]

Originally posted by strangerism:

is there a way to see your relations with factions?

There are no real faction relations. You can butcher the ward while roaming and they will still like you.
It's smoke and mirrors and lies.

The only thing you can affect are traders , doing missions for certain towns. It's not worth the time wasted on it.

[lockwoodx]

Originally posted by Ammikaameri:

Not really. Only on the map, green is friendly, white is neutral and red is hostile.

You'd like to think white is neutral until you get near the border guards.

[Griffa87]

A factions tab on the PDA would have been super helpful for this. Bars to show your standing, information on the group themselves and their leader, their main base etc.

[Dootslayer]

Originally posted by Griffa87:

A factions tab on the PDA would have been super helpful for this. Bars to show your standing, information on the group themselves and their leader, their main base etc.

But they would need to make a functional faction system first wouldn't they?

[Meddle92]

Originally posted by Dootslayer:

Originally posted by strangerism:

is there a way to see your relations with factions?

There are no real faction relations. You can butcher the ward while roaming and they will still like you.
It's smoke and mirrors and lies.

The only thing you can affect are traders , doing missions for certain towns. It's not worth the time wasted on it.

Lol this game is a joke right now it's worse than all the previous ones.

[ImHelping]

A faction meter would mean even more tangible proof that faction reactions are arbitrary, buggy, and reliant more on mission scripts than your actions.

Granted, my mindset has been skewed by having once bugrepped so hard that the UI element I needed to prove the bugs were real was patched out of the game.

Also! Expect more whining and crying "This isn't *other franchise*!!!" over faction stuff, due to the clear sky trauma.

Clear Sky: Retroactively making you apologize to skyrim's "Well, it exists I guess" faction effort.

[Ammikaameri]

Originally posted by Dootslayer:

Originally posted by Griffa87:

A factions tab on the PDA would have been super helpful for this. Bars to show your standing, information on the group themselves and their leader, their main base etc.

But they would need to make a functional faction system first wouldn't they?

Do you have some proof it does not work except your experience with the Ward?
I'm currently friendly with bandits, loners and freedom.

Also as mentioned in the game, Ward has prevented all-out faction wars for the most part.

EDIT: I'm not saying it is perfect, it does need a lot of work. But it seems to be somewhat functional.

[Dootslayer]

Originally posted by Ammikaameri:

Originally posted by Dootslayer:

But they would need to make a functional faction system first wouldn't they?

Do you have some proof it does not work except your experience with the Ward?
I'm currently friendly with bandits, loners and freedom.

Also as mentioned in the game, Ward has prevented all-out faction wars for the most part.

Keep killing faction members, they will forgive you out of nowhere soon enough.

[Stalker2010]

No.

[Baron01]

Faction system is not fully implemented because even if some of the NPCs mentioned they are hiring, you can not join any faction. The interaction is limited to band-aid trade effect and that is about it. There is not even better gear at traders if you have better standing. Faction system is like most other systems in Stalker 2 just a shallow band-aid rather than any kind of evolution on what was in Stalker games 15 years ago, sadly.

[Myztkl©-Kev]

I can't even tell factions apart half the time. Everyone seems friendly every town I go to, all the vendors are either white or green (I have no red), but then most NPCs shoot on sight everywhere else. Usually I just approach with my gun put away and if they start shooting then I murder everyone. I once walked up to a POI and there was a fight between 2 factions and I couldn't tell who was who so I just ran around the outskirts of all the fighting and just shot at anyone who shot at me, it was 3 guys against like 5-6, the large group all shot at me, but the small group, one of the 3 guys was also shooting at me (even though I didn't shoot him, I reloaded save to test) I was able to run up and talk to the other 2 guys while the one dude was running around behind cover and ♥♥♥♥ taking shots at me, if I shot at him then the other 2 would shoot at me too.