STALKER 2 Is Here And EXCELLENT

[@tunaware]

This may sound stupid but i wasnt expecting it to be so much like the original games. Im so happy, hope the bad bugs get ironed out

[@albert8997]

no bugs! only anomaly!=)

[@PCZONE1]

@@tunaware agreed I thought they’d probably Ubisoft” stalker 2 for the modern audience so can’t wait to jump in now hope the bugs get sorted out quickly tho.

[@NoName-bk3su]

Honestly im glad it stuck to the the core gameplay of the original, bugs can be fixed but those core gameplay issues cant

[@DoctorDeathFPS]

He played before they released the day 1 patch which was huge

[@DoctorDeathFPS]

They’ve already released several patches since he played the game

[@ThrobRoss]

I started the original stalker series about six months ago and I really did enjoy it, but I did not put a lot of time in. So I’m no veteran. Yesterday I got to play about four hours of this game and I am absolutely addicted. It has blown me away. The gameplay, the world, the immersion, and the mechanics after a little bit of key bind switching has absolutely blown away. I am on a 4070 super with an I 710700f and it runs beautifully. I can’t wait to dive back in.

[@SpaceDad42]

Wow, that’s never been done before. 🙄

[@davidm.schreckii1426]

Same here man, totally pulled me right in, haven't had that happen to me in a game for quite some time, bad assery I tell ya, total bad assery

[@Swiftduck00]

@@ThrobRoss the key binds drive me insane. Half of them are hard coded, and even changing the binds in the config doc leave the old keybind still active so you can't use that key for anything else By the way, middle mouse toggles flashlight by default if anyone needs to know that so they don't waste an hour trying to change it from L.

[@ThrobRoss]

@ I didn’t notice that. I just bound my inventory and quick wheel to my side mouse buttons, my PDF to tab and I reversed quick slots and leans to where they should be.

[@ThrobRoss]

@@SpaceDad42 well, call me an innovator. Although I have no clue what you’re talking about. But I’m sure that’s never been done before either.

[@kqian349]

For those of you who have stated that A-life 2 feels underwhelming, the devs have acknowledged that its not working as intended in the current release build. Doesn’t make it any less disappointing, but it is something we can expect fixed either by the devs directly or by mods when the official tools drop. Hopefully that comes sooner than later since first play throughs are usually the ones we remember the most. Also, thanks for the vid good sir!

[@dom2flyy314]

If modders can give stalker 2 the love they gave with anomaly, this might be Game of the decade in my opinion

[@willyklips7164]

They can't it's not on the x-ray engine anymore it's on unreal engine and it's less modder friendly

[@AlphaMelGibson]

Not this decade but the next one maybe.. . 🤣

[@Krahamus]

@@willyklips7164 No its not, devs from squad game gave sdk or sold to what was post scriptum game and what is now squad42 or what ever name they changed, not to mention there are custom servers with custom mods, like star wars etc..gsc already told they modified the unreal engine a lot to the point that they start calling 5.1.gsc and its up to devs from the get go if they have in mind modding, before you start making game you already have to think if modding will be allowed and build sdk or modding support for game, but most game devs dont care, its not about that UE not moldable as xray is more how much devs let the game be modable

[@decreatious4520]

@@Krahamus I really want to see a gamma style modding scene for this game

[@brasso4984]

Imagine relying on modders to fix a game. Thst doesn’t make it a good game 😂

[@VanaheimRanger]

Those weren't roses...they were poppies...you were trippin' balls, lmao.

[@willslls8901]

Woah he got a opium od. Thats bad. Imagine all the mutants getting fd up on the stuff.

[@JPDD2]

The guy near them even said they were poppies lmao iono how he missed that.

[@dreaming4umanga]

Looks like everything I was hoping for too. I can dismiss bugs, those can be ironed out through updates and mods eventually. The gameplay and map are the most important and those aspects look incredible.

[@barsham7881]

Seen they have some problem witth enemy AI as well i hope they fix that fast

[@dreaming4umanga]

@@barsham7881 I played it for a few hours last night. I did not run into the enemy spawning issues other people are having but that is probably just a lack of play time. As for how it runs. I have a 4080 and i9-13950HX. I capped the frames to 60, everything on epic with DLSS se to performance and Frame Gen on. The only major issue I have seen so far is occasional micro stutter, otherwise it has been a nice experience. Older processors could be worse from what I have heard.

[@rpemulis]

@@barsham7881 they've already announced they already started looking into it and something isn't working right, patch coming soon.

[@davidm.schreckii1426]

I play on Xbox series x and shit runs smooth as butter for me and no ai enemy problems as well, for me this gunna is the first game in a long while to pull me in and keep me hooked, haven't had that happen for a long long time

[@dannyherbert4482]

It's so much better with the Ukrainian voice actors. All the English and American voices sounded so out of place, it just killed the atmosphere.

[@sgtjohnson49]

@@dannyherbert4482 yep Ukrainian with English subtitles is definitely peak. Same thing with the Metro series and Russian language with subtitles

[@VeritabIlIti]

I started watching a couple of reviews that were overly dismissive due to the bugs and technical issues (another game, another buggy launch - at least this one has the excuse of a goddamn war going on around it), but so few seemed to understand the promise. This impression absolutely does. Thank you!

[@Particle_Ghost]

It's hard to satisfy anyone anymore plus it's a small dev team of only about 50 people. Not only were the original games pretty glitchy, but look at how much complexity has been added to creating the games since then not including the cost. The team will be playing it extensively and patching it on a regular basis, not to mention mod support. I recently replied Legends of the Zone and trust me, while they still hold up, much of the favoritism is nostalgia, this game is better in every way.

[@s3m4jno5w4d]

SkillUp's obviously not a fan, I found ACG's review to be much better

[@Wintercide]

The bugs and performance issues aren't even very egregious. The game has a general slight stuttering issue and some small graphical bugs. Neither of those have ruined the experience for me so far. They are barely noticeable. I don't even have a crazy PC, unlike some of the youtubers complaining about these things. I have an I5, 16Gb ram, and an RTX 3060. I get over 70 fps 90% of the time and only the hub cities have reduced to below 60 so far.

[@RenesisActual]

I’m absolutely head over heels for this game. Haven’t felt this way about a video game in a long time and can’t wait to see what the modding community does with it.

[@TheFbiFilesRepeat]

Tip: for a more immersive experience, turn off music and wear headphones

[@davidm.schreckii1426]

Ohh great idea think I will do this after work tonight haha

[@activatewindows]

Will do that on another playthrough for sure. The music is really good. Going to enjoy it for now.

[@Chillbertti]

From all of the hundreds of reviews posted in the last minute, i chose the best one!

[@emilxert]

@@Chillbertti it’s like one of 15 reviews currently online or am I blind

[@inflatablepeas6649]

The opening to this gave ne old FrankieonPCin1080p vibes

[@mint5438]

The fact that A-life either isnt implemented or just doesn't exist saddens me.

[@rpemulis]

they already announced its there, its just a bit bugged. patch coming soon.

[@TheFlaptrapper]

My only current issue is that resources seem way too abundant

[@militarymann01]

Its wild that you can literally sit down anywhere and actually play a guitar.

[@DRGEngineer]

not to trying to sound negative but Into the Radius did it first in VR. really glad it was included in Stalker 2, if The Last of Us 2 was good for anything it was popularizing guitar mini-games in post-apoclyptic survival games.

[@martymcyourflysdown6872]

@@militarymann01 FO76 is like that too

[@bencoventry335]

My first stalker game and I loved it man so immersive I loved like how guns can break or lock and the animations and just everything loved it played for 2-3 hours

[@griff_the_boxer]

I’ll wait and get it on sale once some of the bugs get ironed out. Thanks for paying full price and beta testing it though

[@JimBobe]

I wish we had to load magazines and short reloads would waste ammo (unlesss you pick up the mags from the floor)!

[@jerbaancap5244]

Yeah except i feel like the movement could have been a little more heavy

[@MrMightyZ]

I’m loving it. I’ve played all the old games and love Pripyat and SOC and I get the complaints about Stalker2 but I’m just loving it. The strong examples of stuttering I’m seeing on PC in reviews is absent on XSX, DF told me why there’s no shader compilation stutter in UE on consoles but I can’t remember but on XSX with a fancy TV with VRR the game is creamy smooth and often looks beautiful. I’ve only played 6 hours but zero T posing or disembodied heads or hovering headphones or anything yet except the sound dropped out while I was speaking to Warlock once. So insofar as I’m on console, I agree with you, it’s joyous✌️

[@n3rdworldproblemz877]

I got a beefy pc and am very savy tweaking files and making my own performance mods. Getting 140 fps on epic. Looks phenomenal and having a blast,🎉

[@garthhancock3373]

Shit, even on this pissant XSS with the mnk hooked up it ain't bad either.

[@Sekhatt]

Ah, the reason there's no shader compilation stutter on consoles, is because all consoles are the same so the compilation can be done ahead of time. On PC, graphics cards are different, the compiled code **could** be completely different for each graphics card, so instead of ship a million versions of compiled shaders for each graphics card, they just let the users machine compile them for the card in use.

[@Progmium]

After updating the BIOS to address the Intel bug affecting the 13900+ CPUs, the game made a strong first impression with its gameplay. The immersion factor is exactly what I hoped for-challenging and fun, with a world that begs to be explored. However, I’m putting this game on hold until it’s optimized. It performs poorly on an RTX 3080 paired with a 13900 Core i9 at max settings (sub-25 fps at 4K with DLSS on performance). The optimization is lacking, reminiscent of Cyberpunk’s initial release. Not sure where the reviewers are getting their numbers from. While the visuals are good, they don’t justify the performance hit. If the game becomes fully open to modders, it could be a “Skyrim” for post-apocalyptic world enthusiasts for years to come.

[@SSHayden]

Can't get over the fact how bad the AI is. AI should be the building block of Stalker, and they have done jack shit with it, to actually make this a new Gen game. This is just Stalker 1 with much better graphics and other features, but AI is kinda even worse

[@SpregioCheeks]

Ya gotta pop the energy drinks in the poppy area. It's a side quest, that I'm sure you know now.

[@michaelbondy-ud9jx]

This is my goty hands down. It's been so long since I've played a game that I didn't want to stop playing. I damn near called off work today lol. I hope they make dlc and im usually against that.

[@choochootrain2145]

running it on 2070s and ryzen 7 5700x3d. never dip below 60. average about 70-85 fps most of the time. 60 fps in towns. game is great sofar about 5 hours in. plays just like old stalker

[@Wintercide]

The few issues I have are completely removed from performance. It's fairly annoying walking down a path and coming across a pack of dogs just to walk back down that path in the opposite direction and come across another pack of dogs. Or killing a pack of mutants around a POI for humans to show up and pin you down for a long while just for the mutants to spawn in again. Then have friendly humans show up. Interact and buy/sell for a few min and then even more mutants to spawn in. I think I had like 8 or 9 boar mutants spawn at once in that last example. I left the friendly humans to deal with it, no way I'm wasting the ammo after the super drawn out encounter I just had there anyways. Would also be nice if enemy humans couldn't spot you so easily as they can currently, especially when they randomly spawn in around you.

[@timetobargeinandgivemyopin7260]

I wonder if it's because the devs lied, multiple times, about including the "a-life" system that was in the previous games, which is a gigantic part of STALKERs game mechanics. Look it up.

[@Wintercide]

@@timetobargeinandgivemyopin7260 yep, I feel like they need to fix that specifically. there doesn't seem to be a living world like in past games, aside from that for the most part its an upgrade to the framework of the older games.

[@_bhuc3802]

I love how much well thought and researched your videos are , i prefer this over an 15 sec tik tok edit anyday

[@willslls8901]

Can you play in Ukrainian with english subtitles?

[@survive333]

Yes, you can. Also doing it like this, the Ukrainian language gives a bit more of that "zone feeling".

[@abominable5654]

@@survive333This is excellent, considering I speak Ukrainian but not very well. So I'll have the English subtitles to get me through what I struggle with and it'll help me keep getting better with the language 👌

[@joevibin3816]

I’m loving virtually everything except the bloodsuckers. I feel, at least in the early game where I am at, that they are overly difficult and deal a fuck ton of damage and spongey as fuck. Otherwise, this is genuinely a horror survival openworld game. Lol love it.

[@KID_CHAMELEON]

I played for about an hour or so last night. I want to like it but it's janky as hell on Xbox. Aiming is terrible. Even at 100% aim sensitivity it takes FOREVER to rotate your player. No deadzone adjustment, no way to change controller layout or customize controller binds, and inventory management on controller is slow and clunky. This has potential but needs A LOT of work on console. It's so bad right now I literally can't play it until they fix it.

[@YouTubeBLZ]

Never played a stalker I’m gonna try this when I got the time

[@ThePindar]

The game is fine but the performance is beyond ass

[@bioburden]

I really don't like how so many people are like "I can't wait until modders get their hands on this..." or "modders will fix this game" - how's about the devs make the absolute best game they can from day one?!

[@bushwookiee4690]

this is my first ever stalker game so im really excited to explore the world but on pc i have really bad performance issues i have a 4060 and im running the game at the medium settings

[@patrickbrowne2594]

Finally this game gives me a reason to play my series x 😂

[@DuggyDarko]

You finding the guy under attack in his cabin by 3 dudes near the beginning of the game is literally a scripted event. Also the mission where you looted a body and the guy refused to pay you, it's not a dynamic event it's scripted. He literally tells you not to loot the body FFS. And the guy in the windmill, it's also a scripted event tied to the main story! These aren't dynamic events that just happen! They happen for everyone.

[@markzola8142]

I must be lucky but in the 7 hours I've played it i haven't had one glitch

[@afalseerra9517]

Great game, but the release state is unforgivable. Paying full price for something that is damn near unplayable right now for me is flat out unacceptable. Again it’s a good game but it shouldn’t be released yet.

[@ffwdzwift4541]

People saying this is game of the year really need to get of the hypetrain. Atmosphere is nice and some elements are cool but it´s so not optimized, non existing A-life, mediocre graphics at best...we shouldn´t applaud for unfinished releases. I hope the potential of this game will be fully reached and gets the CP2077 treatment.

[@PacoElMapache]

Mad respect to the devs for on releasing on GOG

[@amirulasyrafsahrom3776]

I'm glad this game is free from the DEI filth..

[@IIExhibitAII]

At first I couldn’t get the game to run correctly and one of the first thing I did was turn on the hdr so the first hour I played this the graphics looked like garbage and was telling me how is this unreal 5 and during fight scenes the fps was dropping to 10 fps, and turned off the game for the night disappointed, but the next day I fixed all the performance issues but something was still off with the graphics so the I decided to check and hdr turned itself off somehow but once I turned it on I was like holy shit !! Especially during the storms at night on my asus pg32ucdm oled.. can’t wait to get out of work to get back at it lol😂.

[@jasongiles8263]

Idk, game just doesn’t feel right on xbox, somethings off. Really wanna get into it but the graphics feel too dated and not optimized.

[@Housian]

Game needs a lot of work but I like the vibe, pretty jank though

[@hooky17]

You wanted it to be a broken mess? Just kidding, to be fair I'll give it a hot minute to settle but then I'll be very excited to dive in to this

[@FeinkinFreky]

Man WTF at 5:00 ?!? How you gonna do that !?!?

[@railasvuo]

On the Xbox Series S the graphics are very poor. The game is probably 480p 😅 I don't even want to play this because graphics

[@spanden2640]

CHEEKI BREEKI I V DAMKI! *Hardbass and hopak intensifies*

[@desertxpunk]

As great as this game is i can already see them "fixing" it to quiet the kind of players that want everything handed to them. That kind of gamer that never finishes a game and has 100s of unfinished games that they, along with all the others like them, complain until they get the best games ruined then move onto the next one. I really hope I'm wrong but I've seen it happen to every single truly great game since they ruined boss soul weapons and blind summoning in the original Dark Souls.

[@barsham7881]

The stupid ai i've seen pushed me away, will come back later if they get it fixed

[@Kylewats]

Game of the year wow cool game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@cooky187]

Just wish it came with a new pc as mines on fire 💀🤣

[@cosmic-10r61]

Im about 8 hours in and loving it too... just got the viper upgraded with a holosight and laser... a few bugs like an ai dying who glitched out and an npc needed for a quest took awhile to appear despite the marker being there but the gameplay is fantastic... my frames are good but im bruteforcing with a 4090 in 4k on epic settings.

[@dannyherbert4482]

I'm seeing a lot of 1 star reviews on Xbox but I don't get it I've had no problems at all apart from 1 character sinking into the floor a little bit when I talked to him but I honestly just thought it was funny 😂 I seen someone complaining about invisible enemies and white dots on their screen and just facepalmed, poor kid obviously didn't know what he was getting himself into😆 I think it's slightly unfair to give a game a one star review just because you're bad at it.

[@pothefit]

I saw a one-star review on Xbox with a player complaining that there was no flashlight in the game

[@dkmail1]

Great !!! Thanks

[@Time_-x]

It really makes you FEEL like stalker

[@matko32]

how would you compare it to the Gamma and Anomaly gameplay wise ?

[@actualteddybear891]

Not at all. Gamma is a hardcore survival mod pack. Stalker 2 has more of a focus on narrative. It's closer to the original games than Gamma by miles.

[@Americawtff]

@@actualteddybear891 go play TRUE STALKER mod, it's basically stalker 2

[@Shooter_Mcgavin93]

@@actualteddybear891if you like gamma you’ll like this

[@s3m4jno5w4d]

Gamma and Anomaly have been in development for nearly 15 years and have had between 600 - 1000 people working on it. Calm down with that kind of question

[@Americawtff]

@@s3m4jno5w4d dude it's not like gamma and Anomaly brought about a resurrection of the game that led to the hype of stalker 2...

[@fettuccinitortellini5830]

WHATS THE INTRO SONG PLS. WITH THAT BEAUTIFUL ASS PIANO

[@bogdanipatov5157]

Huh, you play in Ukrainian. People are saying that Ukrainian voice localisation is better that is strange as most likely EN were a priority as everyone outside of UA would play with it

[@SrAntonio301]

It’s ok, it plays like a last gen game. The controls are terrible. They should have made it more like Tarkov are far as survival.

[@No-rl9wn]

😂😂😂😂 said no stalker fan EVER.

[@bannedmann4469]

Oof, I see some yellow tutorial paint there.

[@Dan420Bro]

@@bannedmann4469 you can turn off in settings

[@vadymorlov4234]

You can turn it off completely in the settings!

[@AGuyWithFace]

I'm absolutely loving it, liked I expected to. I've been one of the lucky ones and have great performance and zero detrimental bugs so far. My main complaint is that the hard difficulty makes nearly all of the mutants absolute bullet sponges. I died to a bloodsucker in the prologue about 9 times because a single hit from it would take away 90%, and since then I've found that a single bloodsucker takes a solid 15ish buckshot shells to kill... and I've ran into groups of 2-3 of them.

[@brianlawlor4221]

A jacked up Fallout.... Absolute dirt..

[@mrstronk]

To think this is the early build is insane

[@Kane.JimLahey.]

@@mrstronk This is the final product bud

[@Fleepage]

I have great FPS. 12700K, 32G DDR5, XFX Merc 319 7800XT. Playin on 1440p.

[@ohmanthatguy2443]

This is the culmination of all the modding the Stalker community put into the previous games.

[@A5tr0101]

Brilliant game, they nailed it. The atmosphere and combat is very fun. It'll improve given time also!

[@Papaswing71]

The dislike of this game is confusing. This game is well crafted, not perfect

[@decreatious4520]

most of the dislikes seem to be people thinking this is a fallout like game which it is not

[@KarolisZvirgzdas]

Main story events are scripted they not dynamic. World events excluding story also not working correctly. Stalkers don't wonder around like they used to and system is broken at the moment. World feels empty compared to previous games

[@chrismacatak]

CheekiBreeki²

[@Cryptixpx]

Boring ass game

[@NastyGrizz]

I got to play for 3 and a half hours last night after work and I will be doing the same tonight!!

[@k9vendettathewolfofmordor529]

People are saying the a life ai system is either bugged or just not there at all. Can someone confirm?

[@vladrazym9955]

Incredible game even with classic bugs 😂 Thanks for your review ❤

[@krejn]

yeah, great 'dynamic-ness' - ai encounters spawning within 50m from you, most of the time bugged or glitched into the ground. suuuper dynamic and immersive yeah

[@Lotions_11]

Anything to get off COD. Game looks killer

[@steveb3944]

Having watched SkillUp's review as well, I'm not sure 'Fantastic' is the correct description. So many bugs and technical issues it put's me off.

[@gEEL0VER]

You can always trust Skillup for an Honest review 👍🏻 It's free on GP, so I'll be having a dabble meself

[@TheTacticalBrit]

Using one reviewer as omen is the downfall of 90% of people

[@steveb3944]

True, but not only was it very extensive, he was playing on a very powerful PC (more powerful than most have got) and it was very in depth. I’m sure it will become good over time.

[@TheTacticalBrit]

@@steveb3944 His exact PC Build, at 40-50 fps on a 13900k, 4090, was what I was getting 170fps on (DLSS Quality)

[@Joe-ti7qd]

Shill up had a bad take.

[@mikew2911]

Ah, another Cope review. It's buggy, it's runs horrible, the AI is horrible, we're so back baby!

[@Joe-ti7qd]

You haven't played it. Talking out yer a$$

[@justinholtman]

If only on ps5. My pc I’m still working on sadly

[@deenman23]

you wanted a buggy broken mess? weird tastes

[@Joe-ti7qd]

Regurgitating youtuber takes? You haven't played it, anime kid. This is for adults anyway. Back to fortnite and cod with you.

[@ItsEd981]

Looks like Day Z.

[@zak1872]

Stalker has been around a lot longer then DayZ lol but yeah imagine if DayZ was single player, had a story, strictly FPS and instead of zombies, you have nuclear monsters and I'd say yeah you're pretty much on the right track with that comparison lol

[@Joe-ti7qd]

Sign me up then

[@willyklips7164]

Huge spoilers at 5:00.

[@SpaceDad42]

It’s a wizard of oz ripoff.

[@caerbenogg]

Dude, all reviews report this game is not a finished product! You played a different game?!

[@davidbueso3840]

@@caerbenogg what are you talking about. Stop being a hater. I've seen many videos, no one is saying is incomplete but rather bugs and frame clipping.

[@josh440]

@@caerbenogg if he's only played it with 12 hours he's likely played it with more patches.

[@TheTacticalBrit]

I encountered very few bugs. I have a good PC, but I have no idea if that is part of the equation.

[@gixxer6rdr229]

Lucky you. Even though it "released," an hour and a half ago, Xbox STILL says its too early. Typical broken BS.

[@ResonateAI]

@@gixxer6rdr229 it releases in 10 minutes brother

[@Jono_93]

My mate has been playing it for the past hour on Xbox, i'm still installing it. Neither of us have actually bought it. He said there isn't a deadzone setting so if you have any stick drift you're gonna need to use a low sense, just so you know. Can't turn off motion blur either...🤮

[@jeywhistle]

Nah ... Hard pass.

[@catc15engine]

What makes you think it's not worth it? I'm not saying you're wrong or anything, but what makes it that way

[@jeywhistle]

@catc15engine it just seems flat... I don't like these type of games. It is like Fallout. To me is slow and boring. Besides graphics are not appealing at all, and gameplay seems old school.. it is just my take.

[@Joe-ti7qd]

@jeywhistle fortnite and cod is more your thing and that's ok. This is more for adults.

[@afalseerra9517]

@@Joe-ti7qdI mean dude gave his opinion and you just strawman what he said, the only child here is you because someone doesn’t agree with you? You’re trash.

[@catc15engine]

@@jeywhistle I see, that makes a lot of sense to be honest. It's not a compromise for me but I know people are not the same.

[@brianlawlor4221]

Walk around killing zombies doing sweet F all. Where the hell is the fun?? Swear to go, games have just become absolutely Sht!! The fact we are even talking about this slow paced heap of crap is shocking itself. Talk about clutching at straws. The gaming industry makes billions and billions but we are fed absolute tripe! Enjoy this slow repetitive boring game... Imagine thinking this is good in '24. Jesus

[@77rockcity]

Bro, maybe in a year or so. Its so broken and unfinished

[@JaspenKerplunk]

NO 3P..... YEAHHHHHH!!! You will not see a streamer playing this 1p game from 3p view..... awesome. I hate it when a 1p game comes out that has 3p, and we never get to see it from 1p.... because they all stream for 3p. A-Life 2.0, no RNG BS. There is a background AI simulation going on as you play. It may take a few patches to get it where it needs to be, but this is how NPCs should be implemented. I can't stand many of the current open world games that use RNG or triggers for every NPC on their map. Making their games totally lifeless and contrived.

[@VN1X]

Who are you talking to?!

[@DrowsieDumbo]

@@VN1Xapparently you

[@JamesCarson-g6x]

pile of bugged crap, if that's what you wanted