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Dibs on any Moonlight artifacts or Svarog detectors
Y'all ever just think about how Call Of Pripyat's plot is literally "The Ukrainian Government Screws Up Maps And Then Gets Paranoid"
CoP prob had the worst story.
It was dull and not really motivating to me.
SoC on the other hand...
Very immersive and enjoy it.
Though both have their pros and cons
But story-wise, SoC imo was more of an experience that I enjoyed.
Gameplay? Elaborate which parts of its gameplay were fun.
When you say overall, I’ll strongly assume you mean the terrain being abundant with fun and the side quest were nice?
I mean stuff like gunplay and all of that
The zone in CoP just felt dead.
And when I mean dead, it just didn’t seem fun to explore much
And yeah
The zone in CoP is pretty empty
I mean
What else is there to do
That's why I'm worried about stalker 2
Because how do you write a good story for a complete story arch
Well I just hope they make an immersive experience like SoC, a good faction war, BETTER than CS, and sorta like CoP with upgrading armor and guns
They just seem to excel very well on one part, than 2 games later make it somewhat bad.
I think the only thing exciting in CoP was going with the squad in Pripyat 1, and exploring Pripyat.
Other than that, not much.
Oh well, let’s see what we get. I have high expectations from GSC.
Mornin beetlejuices
Hi

ban
He quitted
you can still ban
bruh
anyone know what helmets have night vision in Coc?
ping or dm if you know so ill be able to see when I get back :)
Im playing S.T.A.l.K.E.R for the first time and doing Call of Pripyat cause I have had it in my library for quite some time so if anyone interested you can check my stream https://www.twitch.tv/redwingssssss
The only one in CoC I remmeber it has nightvision is the sphere helmet, or ome of those.
Dunno if it still has the radar upgrade
I kinda have a situation where I can’t stick to 1 gun for general ammo, any suggestions?(don’t mind the artifacts, those are getting sold)
LINK:
https://imgur.com/a/ae6gisi
how far are you in the game
1st off: snipers are pretty much useless in soc, dump it
2nd, buy NATO ammo
Snipers are useless except the holy VSS tho
just a worse version of the as val
AS Val's recoil is a bit high with that iron-sight for me, imo.
@storm bridge CoC should have the same helmets as CoP. As such, the Steel Helmet can be upgraded with NVG and both the Sphere-12M Helmet and the Tactical Helmet should come with NVG out-of-the-box
@finite dragon yeah I only used the sniper for when duty at warehouse asked me to shoot freedoms sniper.
I then stopped right there and didn’t raid freedom as I’m not trying to get on anyone’s bad reputation .
Anyways, when getting ready to defend from monolith coming from that dead forest when freedom asked me to help, I hear the alarms at freedoms base go off.
Duty raided them and killed them all, they didn’t even ask me to help, just blew the wall down and killed them all.
After that I kinda wanted to side with duty, literal units.
I switched to just using Big Ben and As Val
Since at this point of the game, I’m starting to get close to more exo skeletons.
I’m on the objective to go inside the Lab where I saved that one guy from bandits and killed that bandit leader.
how 2 find bread in shadow of chernobyl

Just loot dead bodies or buy from... I don't know, Barman in "100 Rads".
correct

Thankq
if stalker 2 is bad im going to be so sad tbh
but I think it will be good so im not going to worry
yeah you dont even have to THINK about it being bad
ah yes I got the steel helmet
upgraded with nvg and im so happy because the flashlight is useless at nighttime
i agree shouldnt worry about stalker 2 being bad should definitely preorder
epic style
Stalker 2 cant be bad
Why are snorks bullet sponges 
they just enjoy eating them
because you're playing Misery
I don't know myself
I mean
They say that it's the best freeplay
But all freeplays in general don't have much going for themselves
How can you be done with a freeplay?
when im bored of it
Ah
Why?
I completed a mission which gave me a vss for another mission which gave me twice the amount of the vss and I also killed a pseudogiant
a hell of a lot of money
What do you mean by that
well the dude said if I got him a vss hed pay twice the cost of it
but I got one for free
got like 90,000 from him
anomaly has all the maps, some new ones, expanded cooking, more melee stuff, disassembling clothing and guns and bullets and using components to replace bad parts on things or repair things
just alot of stuff i guess
Well, every freeplay has all vanilla maps IIRC
Also the ammount of maps doesn't really count when OP 2.1 exists
Amomawy is a CoC based mod (or rather Last Day based mod which is based on Call of Misery)
It's Last Day (which includes MLR 6.2 which is kind of useless and crappy) + Warfare + its own customizations
and they added their own story modes
MLR 8.3 has custom maps
The Misery implementation makes the gameplay awful, the outdated MLR keeps level design vanilla, and nobody really likes its story modes
sin quests

The story mode only grievance is having to go throught cnpp twice
Also unisg having a famas but nowhere to get better armor since they have no shops
I'm actually so agitated that I cap put a whole mag from a sniper TRS and 2 from my Big Ben deagle into a snork and he wont die.
Just blows my mind.
And it doesnt help that in the lab its so tight of space and fire anomalies are around, the snork just dominates in cqc/
just git gud
Yeah just overcome poor balance decisions
never play vanilla
well i played all 3 stalker games vanilla
I was referring to Ether's complaints above
I played all 3 vanilla too, when they were new
definitely not recommended
well CS was almost impossible to beat.
CS was a glitchy mess
Yup, you need SRP at least
otherwise Limansk and beyond is a crashfest + save game corruption fest
somehow I beat CS on like 1.5.04
Funny thing is that i've only crashed like once
CS is the most stable out of them all, funnily enough
Suppose so
SoC and CoP are not even close
I cant count how many times i had to repeat the CNPP mission is CS because strelok decided to disappear
it crashes the most by far
Guess the Zone favors me
if you're getting crashes in unmodded SoC and CoP then no
Definitely blessed by the Zone
Never play vanilla, unless you really want to know what stalker can offer without mods
I'd suggest trying vanilla after playing them with good mods, the reason being when first playing stalker you don't know if you'll like it or not, so might as well try to get the best experience possible with a vanilla+ type of mod like graphics mods + a weapon mod

My biggest complaint I have with the series is how inaccurate the guns are and how enemies are bullet sponges.
The crashes are a problem, but every gunfight just seems horrid with even a pristine condition gun.
weapon mods
M.O.D.S.
Yes I know, let me get thru VANILLA first.
wanirra
Question for the room
How did you get introduced to S.T.A.L.K.E.R first?
I'd heard about it for months at the time but a few years back I round a disc copy for Windows of Shadow Of Chernobyl in a Goodwill
Safe to say that changed a LOT about me
A well timed steam sale, and a well-timed 'this is the most terrifying game ever' review; I think specifically on the Bloodsuckers on all things being the 'scariest damn things'
And I started playing it, and I realized that no, this wasn't eurojank, this was the best FPS ever because of it's flaws.
Because of its flaws? Its flaws only make it worse
I got introduced to it back in 2008 when I first got into PC gaming since I had just gotten a good PC for the first time (GTX 260) and was looking for games with cutting edge tech, which led me to Clear Sky being hailed as one of the first Crysis competitors in terms of tech (along with Far Cry 2) so I got it at launch
Back in '13 when I was playing games like L4D2,crackdown(1&2) and recently decided to look over at my brothers laptop and see him play some spooky game.
Turns out it was CS(That was the first one of the series I played) and decided to give that a try. Turned out good.

Got introduced to it after SoC being released since someone suggested it as gopnik simulator, the bugs gave me an aneurism
After that I don't even remember and just binge them every few years
The game is super bingable
i just made it to Pripyat in CoP and holy s*** is this game amazing lol
astronomically better then the previous two games
IMO
story was awful what do you mean
more plotholes than CS and SoC combined along with the dumbest twist ever
SoC>CoP>CS
Ouch
SoC > CS > CoP by far
CoP had 0 substance in its story or writing
Even CS had good level design and world building, which CoP lacks severely
^
Even if CS is seriously gimped by its broken faction wars system, enemies with invincibility frames, and its rushed poor story
CS is prebaked as hell and really couldve used a few more years of development
I agree
I like them all but can admit CoP is the weakest link
I still enjoyed it regardless
i disliked CS because the end of the game was so glitchy and brutal for me.
CoP has a really bad end game and the entirity of pripyat is just forced bad story segments and another "epic fight" scene so I really hated it
tbh i don't even knew what happened in the end of CS
Darn
It turned into an arena shooter with portals and then strelok disappeared like 15 times
the only truly bad stalker game is CS
Guess you haven't played CoP?
I rather see CS as a challenge
CS is so borked that accuracy is bugged
ADS on some guns is actually more innacurate
@finite dragon so you have beaten CS vanilla?
like the TRS
you don't say
Then don't use the TRs 301 and use an AKM-74/2 instead?
that's a garbage excuse for a bad game
just use the gun that's worse because they broke the gun that's supposed to be bettee
the TRS is meant to be a direct upgrade from the ak
Seeing weapons as an upgrade is just what you want to see
daizen doesnt know what hes talking about once again
bratan
youre embarassing yourself
the trs is not a direct upgrade in CS
its supposed to be on par with the AK
5.45 vs 5.56
because of the upgrade system making them pretty much the same in functionality
ur fake news
CoP is way worse in balancing regards anyway
CoP is the worst campaign in the series
Is what a loser would say
I felt like CoP was the best game, but SoC and CS had a lot more character. Like, CoP was refined and balanced to focus on 'fun' at the cost of being more homogenized
It was the most refined
I feel like SoC had the best atmosphere and 'feel', while CS, uh, CS was the most ambitious and I really like the idea of faction wars.
So logically if you combine them all together you'll have the most refined product, that is also the most atmospheric, with ambitious faction war options
Thus Call of Chernobyl is the best mo-
I don't think I like any of the unmodded weapon sets though as much as a proper weapons mod though.
I like gun porn in my STALKER
I prefer EFT weapon modification
Ooooh?
CoP has the stupidest writing in the stalker series which says a lot
Call of Chernobyl has no story or meaningful content
and yes Escape from Shartkov is #1 gun porn game
CoP has a shit story and good game play
CS has mediocre story and mediocre story
SoC has a good story and shit game play

I get what you're saying, and I think I agree for the most part
In terms of gameplay, it's CoP > CS > SoC
ANd in terms of story, it's reversed
CS is kinda glitchy
CS has the worst out of the box gameplay
CoP gameplay suffers from how they shoved all anomalies into cordoned off sections of maps
What about Anomaly
which kind of defeats the purpose of anomalies
Anomaly isn't vanilla
I love the Penumbra games
😄
My stalker trifecta is OGSR, OLR, and NLC 7 Build 3.0
NLC would be my favorite probably
I remember when I just played dead air
If it was translated
That mod was a slog
So far I'm doing quite well in understanding the NLC machine translation
Also there are some extremely helpful guides, so if I ever don't know what to do I can refer to them
It also helps to know people who have played it of course
but I'm not even referring to the guide or other people much
I like how it really tries to make you figure out things and use your intuition, sort of like a classic RPG in that regard
and many quests are less linear and no longer have only one way to do them
Is NLC 7 on the mod list Doc
Very Radcy Product
the machine translation WILL get awful at times due to slang
and there's some ukrainian so that just got totally borked, although so far I've only heard of one character speaking ukrainian I think
But I can safely say it is the most intelligently designed mod I've ever seen in my 11 years of playing stalker
Is it standalone or do I need to fiddle with files
NLC 7 is standalone
you just have to download it and the translation and run XR_3DA.exe as admin (don't run the launcher)
OK
I'm new to STALKER, by the way.
have fun with clear sky 

Don't play without Sky Reclaimation project
yeah if you don't use Sky Reclamation Project, you might not be able to finish
basically an unofficial patch
and it comes with an optional weapon rebalance which you should use
here we go indeed
does anyone suggest not using SRP? If so, speak up
I'll stick with Vanilla for now

all SRP does is fix bugs
Which makes it easier
Didn't it fix bugs?
Do you know what a bug is
Yes
I'm not so sure that you do
Alright
"Don't worry clear sky, your future is great!"
Clear Sky's bugs are just a stupid burden, theres no reason to play without SRP
Yeah
I can say that Clear Sky has a lot of bugs. In my opinion, Call of Pripyat has less bugs, but what's worse, is Lefty's mission.
CoP is the least buggy one
I tried to complete this mission, but it has a bug, that Lefty's buddies couldn't move, which is why I had to save before getting the mission from Sakharov.
<@&524188717968261120> how can i play Mulitpleir Stalker call of Pripayt
oh my god lmao
Buy it 🙂
It is

It's just way more polished in general
i bought STALKER i have 3 stalkers in steam
I believe Clear Sky is the only game that can still be played Online
click on the option known as
"""""multiplayer"""""""
and join an active
"""""""server"""""""""
Yeah

But tbh
I have good memories from SoC and CS multiplayer, lmao
CS mp is surprisingly fun for what it is
Where are you from?
Serbia
i'll try to rent a Clear Sky server 😄
Can anyone assist me?
I am playing the stalkersoup mod and cannot find the marsh doctor in the basement in the rookie village
Me: killabout half of duty's HQ+ their general
Intercom:WE HAVE A MURDER KILL THIS STALKER
Also me:kills the rest of the duty faction at their small HQ
Intercom:Stalker, protect the world from the zone,Join duty!
wtf.
I also killed off everyone at Rostok and the speaker still said this.
Got annoying listening to how repetitive it was.
duty is eternal

not in soc, they or freedom dont benefit me
Yesterday I bought a new laptop. Of course as a Slav I felt obligated to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. first. And man, it was beutiful. As beautiful as a pile of artefacts.
100 ping is normal for old game with servers in eastern Europe. I have such ping too)
Not from my knowledge, no
Maybe RU has
They're trying to decipher a secret message
Now you mention it, the #🔍┃ask_gscarchive still needs to be updated
Yo, I think someone is suggestions said we shouldn't have a TT pistol
Today's youth, no respect for tradition, I tells ya
Some suggestions aren't that great
I don't expect a masterpiece out of this game, really
The originals weren't perfect, but the modding community ironed out the imperfections
So, really, just make a nice base and let the fans tinker.
Tha's my suggestion.
Oops, I'm in the wrong area
The TT comment was from me
And I was just saying
That it wouldn't be likely that some inexperienced gopnik took a tokarev to the zone
Have you ever shot it?
Yeah
Even excluding its somewhat of a rarity
Tokarev is heavy
Really heavy
And it is as much of a thumb breaker as deagle
If not worse thanks to the ergonomics of cheap material used to produce them
Same goes for Stechkin or APS
(Avtamatychny Puliemiot Stechkina?)
Without the holster stock it is impossible to use reliably in automatic fire mode
It's kinda obvious for an automatic handgun from that era
Yeah
Still, it is an impressive feat of engineering
But I've seen people who want APS in stalker 2
It is an iconic weapon, don't get me wrong
It just wouldn't be so often seen as glocks, makarovs and Walters P99
Three of those pistols are light, pretty reliable and easy to use
Maybe Beretta F92 aswell
It could be implemented as an exotic weapon, like the Black Kite
With Bandits walking around with them, but still even rare for them
Still, it's an historic weapon, so that would make it a bit weird
Game should not be too realistic
Rule of cool
I'd have to disagree, since it is located on our world
We don't yet have exoskeletons. At least, not in that way.
If we have any at all.
But it is a concept of reality
Like blind dogs navigating with noosphere IIRC
Are the wild dogs blind?
No indicator through my gameplay.
Maybe exos are powered by artifacts
But I love what they do with the black dog.
High radiation which could kill someone later.
It is like one of those hellhound or grims.
An omen of death.
The Devs never thought so far
You think they'll use the tree monster concept from the cancelled game?
I'd love to worry about camouflaged monsters.
You mean the Antropomorphus Dendromutantus Vulgaris?
I'd love to see the concept UI in stalker 2 XD
Big nerd flex
Forest Goblin
The tree looking mutant
Rock confirmed to me that the Forest Goblin won't be added
No clue about the others
Boooo
Such a fun idea
I'd love to see mutants which are much better to deal with in ways other than fighting.
Thinking like the librarians from the Metro 2033 game.
Blind Dogs and Pseudodogs are known to be territorial
As such, you can avoid fighting them altogether
Since they'll warn you when you come into their territory
Yeah
Generally, in STALKER, they are typically in my way.
except in most hardcore meme mods where they justlock onto you as soon as you load into the map
Meme Mods, yes
This is the case with most mutants, to be honest
The Zone is still a part of Nature
As such, Mutants will attack when you come into their territory
ive seen psuedodogs just charge at me as soon as i enter rostok from army warehouses in anomaly
Me too
It is old AI, I cannot blame.
Since Duty attacks the Zone, they retaliate against their attackers
No, that's not vanilla AI
that's cause of muh hardcore mod!!!11!!! for real gamers!!1!1
It doesn't matter who comes in their path. They'll tear them to shreds
I don't suppose psuedodogs have better lore than being irradiated mutant dogs?
Crimson's name is a shade of purple which does not play nicely with my vision.
From my knowledge, no
Very interesting way light works
Only that they're tameable and territorial, much like real animals
Yeah, purple usually works like that
I bet that noosphere or labs are responsible for all mutations
Because well
We all know that radiation doesn't work that way
It doesn't LIKELY work that way
No
So you agree
It just breaks bonds in DNA
Maybe I'm reaching too far.
ahem
just because something doesn't work that way irl doesnt mean it cant work that way in fiction
let fiction be FAKE
Well, it's based on our laws of physics
Quantum physics dictates that a broken object COULD suddenly fix itself, but of course, I guess it is not a good idea to hold your breath waiting.
And we have something called noosphere in stalker
It is the fiction element
That'd make fleshes actually don't die
Or make snorks lunge for such distances
We still don't know a lot about mutations
Only that they can't be triggered by radiation
Fleshes should definitely die.
Not because they are unhealthy, but because they are filth.
At least not in such a short time span
Well, anomalies and artifacts defy laws of physics already
Why must the laws of physics be such wet rags anyways?
Must be what?
That's only at the Zone
It means why must the laws of physics be so restrictive.
A wet rag or stick in the mud means something which is not fun or the opposite of fun.
I think we'll have reality all figured out in 10,000 years or less, unless we discover some broad new region of physics.
We probably won't be able to comprehend the world
It's just too complex
Like with quarks
We thought that nucleons are the limit
But there is something smaller
Which is most likely built from something even smaller
And so on, and so on
Also add the differences between quantum and relativity theorems
Not everything in the world can be explained
We don't even know the answer
So why the Zone?
You know, slapping noosphere as an explanation should be enough
I find the theory on quantum fluctuations potentially birthing universes to be quite fascinating.
That anything that is technically possible will eventually happen is a really neat idea.
Lol, praise be to the Glow
I am so excited that, as long as I am not killed, I will live long enough to see consciousness explained.
(Unless this leads us down a rabbit hole where consciousness is emergent from something or somewhere else.
I am already under the impression that consciousness alters the behavior of quanta around where it occurs)
Neurology is weird
I rather live in the here and suffering
But yeah, Schrodinger's Cat is interesting indeed
Reality is strange.
Too many options.
Maybe it's all fake, maybe this is only one aspect of it, so on and so forth.
Too much uncertainty.
The only lovecraftian horror is that of science's revelations.
Pretty much
We really don't know anything about our world
We just know some vague frames of existence
That's all
We live the line the world is laying down for is
That's all that matters
We can't just walk over to what could be
The future is uncertain
And yet, it is
Because whatever the future will be, it will definitely happen
No matter what
I don't know if I find determinism more confining or liberating.
We're playing a part of the greatest puzzel ever made
It's just waiting to be pieced together
From the world's beginning some particles were hitting other particles which were hitting other
And it all was already planned
With the first particle move
And this is where we stumble into the first dilemma
Was reality created through a Power or through Nature?
God?
It's not really a dilemma as much as a question with no known answers
The Big Bang?
Well, from what I'm seeing, if there is God, he is a big fuckin' meme lord
Guess that makes Memers Christians and Jews

Funnily enough, the Bible predicts some of the things that will happen and have happened already
Some of them.
And some people have predicted futures in ways luck can hardly explain alone.
Which does again cause me to think consciousness interacts with nature beyond the 5 senses.
But from all the way back from that time?
I cannot see now how the Bibles' end time prophecies can be fulfilled.
There is supposed to be a time of great war and rape, and yet these things are looking to soon fade in coming centuries.
Anything that makes us human now will likely undergo rapid transformation.
"Humans" will be less natural process and more man made design and materials.
Perhaps reality is so ever changing that divine beings one existed and were possible, but faded, to be replaced by solid laws and rules.
Perhaps the fantastical fades with time.
What's up with tarks?
How does a horse become bulky savage killer when they are herbivores?
Revering to the Stalker 2 mutants?
The magic explanation
Yep
As usual with Stalker
Some mutants are explained
Such as Controllers and Burers
But that's where it ends
Karlitos should have been added.
Could have been rather neutral instead of hostile.
Big teddy bear lookin' peaceable things.
That's what the Forest Goblin was focused to be
A peaceful mutant, they act as sirens, bringing Stalkers to sleep with their songs
After that, they grab the sleeping Stalker and bring them to their lair to feast on their bodies\
That's not very peaceful
Indeed, but not directly hostile
Now that would be neat.
The player might have to avoid falling asleep with either a prompt or getting distance from the creature.
Were sleeping bags part of vanilla stalker?
I ask because you'd have to be insane to sleep unguarded in the zone.
I don't think so
At least, not the release games
But I do not know about the Builds
I doubt it, though
You think they'll add new mutants in 2?
I have heavy doubts about it's odds of completion.
Might just be STALKER remake, really.
Same content level, prettier graphics.
that would be stupid
if what they say is true, then they have plenty of funding
AAA quality
Really?
eys
Yes
I bet I know who's behind that
sergiy sold is ferrari to pay for s2 
They are working hard with vodka-fueled 3D modeling computer, no doubt
I tell you, if the devs want to remove tushkanos
My heart will not be broken
They're pretty rare
They little shits
I believe it would be nice to see more of a swarm, instead of just a few of them
Add a bit of challenge to them, instead of being a waste of ammo
Yeah, a swarm would be both a challenge and a way to ensure the player always carries a grenade out of sheer fear of being unprepared.
Why the hell does my keyboard think I mean a name when I spell carries?
Who is more likely to be referring to someone named Carrie than to be using the words carry or carries?
The auto-correction system needs to be calibrated through experience
Anyways, chimeras.
Make them minibosses.
Make them horrifying.
Make them nearly something you want to avoid without some great gear.
They pretty much already are
Eh, few knife stabs or shotgun blasts while abusing cover and you got it.
Master Difficulty?
But imagine if the things could climb and crawl through spaces, making it a game of stealth to get past a chimera, resulting in almost certain death if you fail to get by it unnoticed.
Or Mod?
Sure, sure.
I am just saying, by default, make them the stuff of horror.
Give them new unique sounds.
Maybe even employ human speech as a lure.
Human Speech?
Yeah.
flesh were going to do that in the design docs

Creepy
they actually have cut voice lines for it too
Where could I find those?
I'd like a listen to those
one second
For now, the Controller and the Burer are the only Mutants capable of speech
Logical, as they were human experiments from the Secret Service
And their psychological powers, too
Making the chimera the beholder of STALKER... that is my dream
Definitely cannot find info on fleshes having speech.
Perhaps barried in Ukrainian or Russian or something somewhere deep in the web.
it's kind of an obscure thing but some mods restore the voice lines, i know OGSE has it on by default
I haven't seen anything about voicelines
It seems like RU Wikia is also citating fan-made books?
I guess what I was trying to express is that it would be awesome to have the Chimera be akin to the aliens in Alien: Isolation
Big fuckin' nope
The zone is definitely PTSD central
My conversational partners are gone
don't we have bloodsuckers for the big no no experience already?
I was thinking, what would be the biggest 'oh no' factor that hasn't yet been explored yet in a regular mutant
I think it would be a mutant that would infest the area around it in anomalies.
A kind of 'harbringer' of the zone that would be pushing the boundaries, and spreading it
The problem is that something like that would either need to be very big, I feel, to reflect the weight of a big awful thing that saturates the area around it in whirligigs,
Or inversely, very small, like a reptile or a toad or a rabbit
Something big could be more easily contained, in theory
Where something very small could not only be more likely to sneak through cordons, but also be in places where randomly generating anomolies would be very, very dangerous, like in underground labs
Im playing stalker soc again and im going to go to agroprom again, the last time i played it was horrible i ran out of ammo most of the time and had to go through there with a pistol how should i prepare before going there?
Buy a bunch of ammo
From who? I know i can move the door and go to the bar but duty will shoot me then
I already went though it before with ammo running out most of the time and it was horrible
buy ammo from sid and loot it from bodies
besides, it's not that hard
even when forced to use a pistol
just shoot everyone in the head
f5 f9
dead soldiers drop AK ammo
Restart the game on Master level
Be attentive
Im playing it already at the highest difficulty and i already went through agroprom with that too
i like how there's so many pseudogiants in coc
Do the duty still get aggressive if you open the gate to the bar and come back?
they probably do get hostile yeah
I have a lot of money so i could buy ammo, but comming back would be difficult
Still last time i went there i kept running out
Everyone is kind of touching on the important piece: you need to up your scav game
I generally run into ammo issues whenever I go to X-18, so I find that you need a balance of carefully managing ammo, to carefully picking firefights, to carefully letting people kill each other and looting the remainders.
how do you ever have ammo issues other than at the CNPP rush through the teleporters
the game is almost constantly throwing ammo at you
If you enter the bar by pushing the door open, duty guards will get aggressive forever, but there's only 3 of them and once you kill them the other duty is neutral and the door is open forever
I don't know what happens at X-18, I suspect it's because it's a long distance from a proper resupply unless you raid the bandit base on the north side of Dark Valley, which also tends to cost a lot of ammo to raid unless you are good at stealth
Can't even describe how helpful Big Ben is for me in Soc, legit a pocket AWP.
I'm running Sniper TRS-301 and Big ben, both holding 200+ rounds of AP ammo.
Also, Should I buy exo skeleton or heavily armored military suit?(don't know exact name, all I know is barkeeper is selling for 160k RU)
Dunno, exos are usually too much compromise for me, feel like suits only made for firefights, being able to mix a heavy suit with a good helmet outweights it tbh
No need to pay an upgrade to run neither
Yeah forget the exo than
Anyways, usually dark area's obscure my vision quite a bit, and first gen night vision are horrible,yet those suits provide better armor than the scientist suits.
I dont run into much anomalies, well, I ignore them really, though the SP99M suit has a much more clear night vision, yet armor is lower.
I want to be quite low on carry weight since I want to keep my running from never diminishing.
Whats your call?
use your flashlight + moonlight artifacts if you want infinite run
go into wild territory at midnight
there are moonlights that give +108 endurance
I know but I haven’t stopped by there at that time just to get them yet
CoC, be me, shooting baddies with .308 armor piercing rounds.
Bad guys still be taking a second and even third round sometimes.
One inch of me is visible from blocks away, get one-shotted in SCAT-9m armor by monolith with druganov
It is not fair
Sounds like you haven't gotten good yet buddy
Wait, are there unlisted artifact effects? Asking because the guy up above is saying flashlight effects moonlights.
@native ibex No, I was looking for a recommendation on armor for night vision since scientist have the best and military grade have the worst.
Moonlight is just an endurance artifact, nothing more.
And what was meant by flashlight was rather just take that option over reg NVG.
Oh
It would be neat though if, since it is named moonlight it could enhance the effects of the moon's light for the user.
Rather on the nose, though.
Or maybe certain artifacts have their own mechanic, like Moonlight makes the daylight really bright but gives slight night vision, etc,
I am having a problem with the stalkersoup mod but i am not sure where to ask
So i cleared out a military base and got the military documents and now i need to rescue mole but whenever i go towards him the mission is cancelled
maybe
looks like ill have to play another mod
and lose the like 20k worth of shit i got from killing a trader early on
if you want something like stalkersoup but more stable, I'd play Narodnaya Solyanka 2016 which is on moddb
2nd year school pictures 
Will S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s first game ever get patched?
I don't think it will
lol what
I don't think regular CoC is worth playing
Dead mod and there are various forks of it that are just better
well i like coc
why?
The story was atrocious and the zone itself wasn't very appealing to me besides somewhat of pripyat.
vanilla was probs a 5 1/2-6/10
If you like CoC, you should play one of the CoC forks that's just an expanded/better version of it, like Call of Chernobyl by stason174
coc is just a platform for modding
can't wait for Call of Chernobyl Back to the Roots to finish
yeah think of CoC as a platform
yeah what @cyan garden said
like gmod
yeah
CoC by stason174 has the most active free roam and improved levels
ill keep that in mind
anyways @shrewd dagger does barkeep stop selling high tier military grade armor in SoC after you finish brain scorch?
Because I just got done with that and wanted to liquidate all assets to get the 160K RU one and head out, instead I'm using a basic military grade suit 
no he doesn't
I think it has a low chance of appearing in his inventory
Hmph... Yeah I shoulda purchased it earlier before the scorcher, and I don't want an exo since I cant run :[
Yeah, exos are kinda meh in stalker
I mean
They're pretty cool novelty
And I really like the minimalistic/utilitaristic design of them
Going fast> having more armor
I like to have something against rupture aswell
Definitely carry weight
I love hauling tons of stuff back to my stash
G o l d f i s h
Carry weight is useful for a very long time
Especially when you are still trying to figure out what gun you really like
Carry 4 guns, who cares about healing and armor
There are medkits you can spam for that
I usually take a 5.56 a 7.62 and a shotgun plus a smg or a pistol that uses 9x19
Wait no, which caliber were the AK guns?
5.45 and 7.62
Then 5.45 not 7.62
Honestly I find most snipers pointless since you can just slap a pso-m-1 and you're fine and dandy
Or use the 5.56 rifles as marksman rifles too
How many medkits and anti rad packs are required to go thru cnpp safely?
I walked in with 20 med kits and 12 anti rad and it feels impossible
yeah its just such a stress fighting for anti rads and medkits when im getting swiss cheesed by exos and 9x39 rifles 24/7
I legit have not taken a break from a single bullet
even if im not near them, on the other side of the wall, they'll still shoot me{even though there bullets do not hit me}
and there prefire corner peaking skills are damn csgo comp finals-like.
Just let me beat this game so I can go to sleep 
Hello.
@lyric forge YOU SHALL NEVER SLEEP
name 1 thing why monolit bad
wherever i go a monolith jumps out of a bush and yells ''FOR MONOLITH''
Because you kill heretics
I mean, I get that some people are into stuff like masochism and mutilation, but I think that willfull lobotomy is a bit too far, you know
is it just me or the monolith has the best gear
To a certain extent

it has the best gear because of game laws
yes
they're late-game enemies
In that regard, the Military would have better gear
nobody likes the military
they're early enough in the game to give you some hard time but then they're just left for themselves after Agroprom
which makes them look very irrelevant
for the first time when you get out of the rookie village
they having an outpost under the bridge right?
have
would they let me through because when i saw them for the first time i killed them for the gear
talk about how bad it is?
nah just nice to have some company in the zone
misery is garbage

truth
play NLC 7 if you want a mod that does hardcore correctly
Hi hello can I get a mod
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I'm the real Jester
oop
yes
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convert genders too
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Does someone have a link to Open scopes for vanilla cop with AO3.1? I'm searching for it but i can't find anything.
Don't use arsenal overhaul
but i like it
it sucks
why tho?
i like the fact that the weapons in AO have generally more recoil and are harder to control.
Don't know how they behave in that
Let the man enjoy what he likes
stcop is better thanarsenal overhaul in almost every regard
I personally prefer stcop aswell
And I think that it's better
But don't make him download it
i will shill the superior mods
how do guns behave in it compared to AO?
realistically and goodly
STCoP 3.2 has far better model quality than AO, better animations, and it has PiP/dual render scopes that are gorgeous
What is it meaning for the scoles to duel render?
similarly sized selection to AO, and there's a beta CoC mod with STCoP 3.2 but it's not ready for prime time yet
dual render = only the scope zooms in not the rest of the picture
like this
https://i.imgur.com/d9sZvmF.jpg
Also, AO has a few extra weapons, but seem to not cause enemies to reel in pain when shot, so they tend to just keep shooting like terminators even when you pump lead into them
My STCOP just blacks out everything but what is seen through the scope
how good is your pc
It's nothing to do with that, but she can handle STALKER fine
I assume it's just the version used for CoC
ohhh for coc
yeah no coc's version isn't 3.2
its 2.9 i believe
3.2 has the PiP scopews
but thats only for cop as of right now
There's a CoC mod with STCoP 3.2 and PiP scopes, but it's a rough alpha right now
not even worthy of being called beta
it's called Back to the Roots
Well I finished SoC vanilla on master, off to CS now.
Damn that story was amazing......
Remember to use SRP with Clear Sky, otherwise you might not be able to finish it
I like how in the first part of Clear Sky your bullets just phase out of existence after traveling 3 inches
that's just how Clear Sky is by default, absolutely horrendous ballistics and balancing
SRP actually comes with optional files to undo that I believe
I just want to play the game vanilla and complete it.
I know mods can help and you may call me dumb for not using to fix the game, but vanilla is vanilla.
Trust me, when I'm done with CS and CoP vanilla im jumping right into anomaly or some mod
It was one hell of a pain playing SoC vanilla and how horrid the gun accuracy and DMG was, but I had to deal with it/
.*
Yeah if I can even remember those by the time I finish the whole series on master, DM me that if you can tho.
I tried installing anomaly and it crashed upon me spawning in so I just deleted the whole thing
Im kinda a pleb at installing and what not
I'm not the shiniest tool in the shed.
just played through lab X18 for the first time, damn that *Game-end.*s wild vro
ok i fixed it i made it say game-end
WARNED ONE! WHAT THE H*LL!
what the fr*ick bro >:C
We have to make some lullaby about collector
what like the baby yaga?
Hmm. He is kinda like Baba Yaga
idk im not on this server a lot
Ik
But trust me
Someone will swear
He might feel safe
Even comfortable
And suddenly out of the shadows he emerges
Covered in heavy clothes
Heavy from the suffering
Wet from the tears
And then BAM!
He warned the swearing guy
And reemerged into the shadow realm
With another soul of someone we call here
The Warned One
Yes
How do you do? Fellow stalkers
I think that I caught a cold
I dont have a first aid for you

buttholes
hihelp
