#⭐┃nospoilers_general

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finite dragon
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I am dead inside anyways

fallen dust
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colonel kovalsky has found 3 rats in his office

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his soldiers took care of it, dontworry

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u can check it out

sharp spear
finite dragon
half glade
finite dragon
sharp spear
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somehow

half glade
fallen dust
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cap n' tarasov

solemn tapir
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mahmud, go have your tea

finite dragon
sharp spear
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i literally have a pack of "ice tea"

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which is just slap this tea bag into cold water

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wait some minutes

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and drink it

fallen dust
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now the CoP ending with the 176 soldiers that i spawned

sharp spear
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tastes horrible anyway

finite dragon
half glade
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I could use some tea

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Throat hurts

sharp spear
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which are better

finite dragon
solemn tapir
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i drink sirup rn

finite dragon
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Based

solemn tapir
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yes

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literal sirup

sharp spear
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you sure it isnt freedom quality one?

solemn tapir
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no i dont drink freedom stuff

finite dragon
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Dead

solemn tapir
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its chernobyl free sirup

sharp spear
half glade
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Vodka from the zone existed until military shut it down irl

fallen dust
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"The Great Ukrainian Security Service has finally taken over Pripyat. With the help of Major Degtyarev, Colonel Kovalsky has called in 'small amounts' of soldiers to invade Pripyat. They marched all the way from Outside of the zone to Pripyat. They have eliminated all incoming threats as the 'small amounts of soldiers' had better gear and outnumbered the threat. Soon, the zone will be fully taken over by The Military and will be restored."

finite dragon
sharp spear
half glade
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Exactly

sharp spear
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the military is the true epitome of "no fun allowed"

half glade
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I want to go home and have fun

solemn tapir
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who tf dude who loves the fascist ukrainen army ?

finite dragon
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(because armour)

sharp spear
fallen dust
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ok bye

solemn tapir
sharp spear
finite dragon
sharp spear
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bribes military with joints

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doesnt work

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sweats maliciously

half glade
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Area doesn't work well

finite dragon
half glade
solemn tapir
finite dragon
sharp spear
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but lenin wanted to keep some tsar related people alive

finite dragon
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Aight offtop

half glade
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I dont want to get political but

sharp spear
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back to the topic before gods smite us down

half glade
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I want to shoot my self

finite dragon
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Join mercs, kill Hip

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Your life goal is now complete

solemn tapir
half glade
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Hip stink

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No women

sharp spear
finite dragon
sharp spear
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you cant

finite dragon
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"After I made it deep into the zone, can I make it deep inside you?"

sharp spear
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she has a loner faction role

finite dragon
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They changed it though

half glade
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At least anomaly gives a change to get rid of her without angering loners

finite dragon
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To asking for a "reward"

sharp spear
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imagine doing quests for her

finite dragon
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Although it initially confused me very much why she would kill me for asking for a reward

sharp spear
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literally scams you for a double barrel with scope

finite dragon
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Then I realized what reward meant

sharp spear
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then she wants a tuna can

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and then she wants a artefact

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which is so goddamn rare in anomaly i would shoot myself

finite dragon
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Artifacts

finite dragon
half glade
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Woman moment

finite dragon
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I was so pissed

finite dragon
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Is rar

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Artifacts in general are rare

sharp spear
finite dragon
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I can count the number of artifacts I got from artifact hunting on a single hand

sharp spear
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hell i was likely to find junk artefacts

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over the artefacts she wanted

finite dragon
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I completed the mission by getting artifacts as rewards lmao

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"The best spots are in the North" Yea kinda of a lie

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(most of the artifacts I found were in Lab X18)

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None of the artifacts I used to complete the job were found by me

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Its true lmao

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X-18 is full of artifacts

finite dragon
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I think a reason is cos AI stalkers hunt for artifacts too

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So you need to be quick after an emmision

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But that isn't the main reason

sharp spear
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ah yes the glorious hellhole of mutants has more artefacts than the entirety of northern and southern parts of the zone

finite dragon
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I can run to an anomaly field right after an emmision and somehow not find any even with a Veles detector

finite dragon
finite dragon
sharp spear
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stalkers loot them too

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thats the thing

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and some may be dumb

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like a lot

finite dragon
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They just copy pasted SoC artifacts in X-18 iirc

sharp spear
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and scream it in their PDAs

finite dragon
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Find it yourself kekw (in Lab X18)

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Or it feels like it

sharp spear
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to be honest

finite dragon
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Which is fine in SoC since artifacts are everywhere

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But Anomaly? Wow perfect logic

finite dragon
sharp spear
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i expected like way more cash for doing artefact related quests

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but i get some thousands

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and thats it

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literally wasting most of my supply trying to find one

finite dragon
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Might as well change the dialogue to "there are plenty of artifacts in X18"

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Because that's closer to the truth

finite dragon
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finite dragon
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Thing is

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X18 isn't a mission site

sharp spear
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oh it becomes part of a quest in anomaly

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ISG "hollow boundaries" questline

finite dragon
sharp spear
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so you are in jupiter underground after doing some questlines in HB

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your commanding officer Hermann wants you to go into every X-lab for documents or whatever

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and he gives you a psy helmet a full calibrated one somehow

finite dragon
sharp spear
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and take a guess which is the closest X-lab

finite dragon
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My suggestion would be to change rewards for the Hip job really

sharp spear
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X-goddamn-8

finite dragon
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To any artifact

finite dragon
sharp spear
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the absolute hellhole of flying props

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i already died one time in X-8 because a burer or whatever

finite dragon
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And Burers pretending to be babies

sharp spear
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so X-8 documents got into the air

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it slammed into me

finite dragon
sharp spear
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lost to the zone

finite dragon
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The developer of Anomaly must have loved Burers very much

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He adds one per lab

sharp spear
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i literally got killed by documents ballistics test

finite dragon
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X-16 after blacking out? Burer

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X-18 after killing pseudogiant? Burer

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My favorite mutant is well

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Thankfully there wasn't a burer in the Agroprom

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Flathead

sharp spear
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i imagine anomaly design document be "Throw it in and refuse to balance it or tweak it"

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like update 1.5.1 didnt introduce any balance changes

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so cats from 1.5.0 are still hellish

finite dragon
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They're working on balance anyway

sharp spear
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yeah in 1.6

finite dragon
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But ehhh

finite dragon
sharp spear
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which i highly doubt

finite dragon
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Weapons

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Not cats

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MOSIN NAGANT RELOAD

sharp spear
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thats the problem

finite dragon
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I WANT

sharp spear
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like the literal rest

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is more broken

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than the guns

finite dragon
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They decide to make the game harder by increasing HP of mutants

sharp spear
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cats have insane rupture damage

finite dragon
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Which is a stupid way

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AWT RELEASE FAST

sharp spear
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and are able to break your exoskeleton

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like quite literally

finite dragon
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In NLC 7 mutants have actual cool abilities

finite dragon
sharp spear
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but like a pack

finite dragon
sharp spear
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you can take that as a game ender

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boars take a quater or half of your health

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and stuff

finite dragon
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Depends if you see the cat first

sharp spear
finite dragon
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Cool abilities? Ye I got K.Od by a boar while flying

sharp spear
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whos apparently able to eat your nosorog exoskeleton

finite dragon
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I'm not mad tho

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real

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Very real

sharp spear
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warfare in anomaly is unplayable without overhauls or tweaks

finite dragon
# finite dragon Cool abilities? Ye I got K.Od by a boar while flying

"Mutants are made more challenging through intelligent redesign that avoids artificial difficulty. Most mutants have anomalous, creepy properties that double as a sort of second attack. For example, Pseudodogs are weakly telepathic and can throw off your aim + distort your vision but only when you aim at them (aim down sights/optic). Bloodsuckers emit a short range energy burst coupled with an eerie sound that stops your sprinting and damages you/causes bleeding, but this can be negated by a special artifact. Poltergeists can only be damaged by fire/explosions."

sharp spear
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if you dont play as monolith in warfare

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you dead

finite dragon
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Tushkanos also make you bleed

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Zombies make you hungry

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Cats make you sleepy

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None of the mutants are tanky but I dread every encounter

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Why? Intelligent design

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Something Anomaly lacks

finite dragon
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Meanwhile in Anomaly: "Mutants are made more challenging than vanilla through artificial design: more bullet sponginess (lazy way to achieve difficulty), blind dogs can 180 in mid air, all mutants have no footstep sounds for some reason."

finite dragon
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Also a tip for you

sharp spear
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thats their entire development thinking

finite dragon
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Get Borov to clear the entrance for you

sharp spear
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more content

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less refinements

finite dragon
finite dragon
finite dragon
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I haven't reached that part yet I just read the guide attached in the add-ons folder

finite dragon
finite dragon
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I think Anomaly has very great potential

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But in its current state its good on the surface but has many glaring issues

sharp spear
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also anomaly: "uh yeah lets make discord status thing and not care about balancing most mutants who are able to delete people"

finite dragon
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Although the developers are aware and they are working on the problems

sharp spear
finite dragon
sharp spear
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oh also

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their changelog sucks

solemn tapir
finite dragon
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And there are various add-ons being worked on that hopefully can fix it's flaws

sharp spear
finite dragon
sharp spear
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took a break

finite dragon
finite dragon
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The Freedom guy

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Everyone wants to add their own stuff

solemn tapir
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thats why i play sandstorm, i love its nagant reload

finite dragon
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Which means that in the end the quality is extremely inconsistent

finite dragon
finite dragon
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NLC balance ported to anomaly

sharp spear
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oh you want to hear a nightmare?

finite dragon
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NLC everything ported

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Make all the BaS people cope seethe and dilate

sharp spear
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TAZ guns are about to be ported into anomaly

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the big gun mod misery had

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ULTRABLOAT™️

finite dragon
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Also

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I haven't tried out TAZ I just heard that they use real gun sounds and as a consequence the guns all sound the same and are quite shite

sharp spear
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i think they want to port TAZ 3.0

finite dragon
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Port New Arsenal 7 weapons to Anomaly

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That'll be a much better add-on lmao

finite dragon
sharp spear
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because you know

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realistic gun sounds gotta be loud

finite dragon
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"NLC Guns and tweaks Anomaly"

proud nexus
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I do love Anomaly, but some animations could definitely do with some work

finite dragon
finite dragon
sharp spear
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whats funny like one guy who made road to the north mod

proud nexus
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That and the CoP areas could do with some love quest-wise

sharp spear
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already ported TAZ 2.0 guns

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and he took way less time than anomaly does lmao

finite dragon
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Description: You like NLC but doesn't want to download the mod itself? You can install this mod

solemn tapir
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insurgency or anomaly

finite dragon
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I wonder how much "low recoil" tards is going to react

solemn tapir
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choose guys

finite dragon
solemn tapir
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okay lets go

sharp spear
finite dragon
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Guns irl don't kick as much as they do in Anomaly

sharp spear
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if i put every upgrade into recoil

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i would have like a .22LR gun at this point with zero recoil

proud nexus
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IDK, Anomaly does have a lot of quality to it

hazy helm
finite dragon
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Anomaly guns have some weird stuff coded in them CarlKuwait recently found out

proud nexus
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Especially given its scale

pseudo rivet
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CoP AKM-74/2U recoil is boss

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😎

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finite dragon
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In Anomaly I spin around so fast while aiming I overcorrect and miss the target. Is this intentional or did some addon screw up all the guns?
Anomaly
control_inertion_factor = 1.0f
SoC
control_inertion_factor = 1.25f

sharp spear
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which makes handling stat completely worthless

proud nexus
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It's mostly the more minor stuff that needs refinement

sharp spear
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and TAZ has a PTRS a soviet anti tank gun

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SO YEAH

finite dragon
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Also recoil has issues

sharp spear
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STALKER CHOPPER

finite dragon
solemn tapir
finite dragon
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Recoil in Anomaly is scripted

sharp spear
finite dragon
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I've done some tests, apparently upgrades do like nothing

sharp spear
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all guns handle the same

pseudo rivet
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Depends

hazy helm
pseudo rivet
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Handling can be okay, but I guess we're talking about Anomaly

sharp spear
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i could literally do 360 with a anti tank gun in anomaly

finite dragon
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@finite dragon Actually fr, let's make an Anomaly tweak that looks like NLC

sharp spear
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thats how ridiculous the handling is

finite dragon
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I haven't tested all of Anomaly's weapons extensively

finite dragon
solemn tapir
finite dragon
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I want to test all of Anomaly's weapons at some point and break it down

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But rn I don't have a lot of time

pseudo rivet
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Also

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mfw anti tank rifle

finite dragon
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I might be able to test on Saturday

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Had some xperience with all the guns (they all look poop and recoil is kinda dead)

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If time permits

sharp spear
pseudo rivet
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Well

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Ahem

proud nexus
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Upgrades obviously do stuff, but not necessarily to handling 😜

sharp spear
pseudo rivet
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It's a mod

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Mods B wack

finite dragon
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First I'll start with vanilla Anomaly then EFP modpack

sharp spear
proud nexus
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And the guns do not all handle and recoil the same, no

finite dragon
proud nexus
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But some of them feel way too soft

finite dragon
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Although idk I didn't notice any big differences between efp and vanilla

pseudo rivet
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Wack

finite dragon
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Other than anims

finite dragon
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Another issue Anomaly has is inconsistencies

sharp spear
finite dragon
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Jk I don't have much experience in it

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Some scopes are very misaligned

sharp spear
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like is it just me or anomaly has a EFT addiction when it comes to community and such

finite dragon
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So I might not even port

pseudo rivet
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Anomaly has an EFT addiction

finite dragon
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And it's a mix of 2D and 3D scopes

proud nexus
pseudo rivet
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Just like Ray of Hope will become the next EFT

finite dragon
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Which I'm not a fan of

finite dragon
pseudo rivet
finite dragon
sharp spear
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yeah like agressor reshade

void vortex
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Ray of hopeless

sharp spear
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escape from pripyat and countless EFT related mods

void vortex
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When will that come out

proud nexus
pseudo rivet
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Agreed Kev

finite dragon
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That's why I said I plan on testing each and every weapon extensively

pseudo rivet
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Never

sharp spear
pseudo rivet
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XRMPE gang

void vortex
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I was excited.... 5 years ago

finite dragon
proud nexus
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Base Anomaly only had 2D scopes, which was fine

sharp spear
pseudo rivet
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I was excited when it was just a co-op mod and not a full-rework into a new game that'll never come out

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XRMPE gang

sharp spear
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and pip scopes would be problematic since they are usually dual render for muh immershun

finite dragon
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Well mods like boredgunner's OGSR already have 3D scopes

finite dragon
proud nexus
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But the AK-104 AB's ACOG and the Rakurs have 3D scope view, which screws with frames

void vortex
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I just want stalker + co-op. No extra bs

pseudo rivet
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Aye

finite dragon
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But there's a way to fix that

pseudo rivet
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Agreed

finite dragon
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Set frame limit to infinite

sharp spear
proud nexus
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AFAIK those are both BaS additions, right?

finite dragon
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You'll still get -50% FPS

half glade
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This chat is so lively damn

sharp spear
finite dragon
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@finite dragon Also every gun model is of poop

sharp spear
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i turn off V-sync just in case

half glade
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But nothing smart has been said

sharp spear
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and decrease grass density

void vortex
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Imagine hunting down mutants and looking for artifacts with your buddies

finite dragon
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Hm Anomaly has finished reinstallation

pseudo rivet
finite dragon
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Time to test the guns

half glade
finite dragon
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I just need to spawn every weapon

half glade
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I am indeed able to walk

pseudo rivet
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Down the straight and narrow?

proud nexus
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Even in the Bar, looking through that 3D sight tanks my frames

pseudo rivet
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Nice

sharp spear
pseudo rivet
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Show man

sharp spear
pseudo rivet
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Dang

sharp spear
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wheelchair b gone

finite dragon
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Anyone here has experience testing weapons extensively? I've only done so for call of duty and it was more of a casual side project for my friends

pseudo rivet
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Oh, yikes

proud nexus
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When normally frames aren't an issue, although I should probs chill out a bit on the grass density

sharp spear
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used to borrow it from a classmate in school

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and that classchad isnt in the school anymore

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and i finished basic school

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so yeah

proud nexus
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My frames do get hit a bit in larger/forested areas

finite dragon
sharp spear
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oppoturnity missed

finite dragon
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I do

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Hm alright pm I guess?

pseudo rivet
finite dragon
pseudo rivet
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But not Anomaly

sharp spear
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decisions for each faction is hella weird with provaks

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i literally seen a military member

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with a lever action gun

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lol

pseudo rivet
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Bruh wat

sharp spear
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and their trader even sells it

pseudo rivet
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Lmfao

sharp spear
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either military dont want to loose more AKs

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or they made their zone garrisons go wild

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literally wild west military

proud nexus
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Yeah this is why I stay away from Provak's and Trader Overhaul and stuff like that

half glade
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So like WEINER

sharp spear
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provak has trader overhaul in it

proud nexus
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Weird design choices everywhere

sharp spear
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but i find provaks literally funny

proud nexus
sharp spear
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i literally should make a quest to find a military memeber with a big iron

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i did see a military guy with a .22LR sidearm

half glade
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Why don't yall do some challenges in stalker

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There should be a channel to post some hard challenges u could so in stalker

pseudo rivet
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Holy Run with no damage

half glade
pseudo rivet
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Pripyat-1 with no armor and only a PMm

proud nexus
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Also not a fan of the EFT shader fad, just makes the game look horrifically grainy IMO

pseudo rivet
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Agroprom stealth run

sharp spear
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grenadier runs

proud nexus
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But each to their own

sharp spear
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i dislike EFT like mods for anomaly

half glade
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What games or mods sir

pseudo rivet
pseudo rivet
pseudo rivet
half glade
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Ok I save a screen shot

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Gonna do em

finite dragon
proud nexus
half glade
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I love challenges

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Irl and game ones

sharp spear
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literally goes insane

half glade
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Think there is tbh

proud nexus
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But I wouldn't recommend it

finite dragon
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No offense meant, but Anomaly player base is made up of sheeple

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They just consoom everything

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Without thinking too much

proud nexus
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It sometimes causes my game to crash

pseudo rivet
finite dragon
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And defend the mod like it's their life

sharp spear
finite dragon
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I would know, having been so recently of them myself

proud nexus
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Sadly yes

finite dragon
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I was an Anomaly fanboy too

sharp spear
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we already had a anomatard attack the wiki by putting a anomaly related article for meeker

finite dragon
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*was

finite dragon
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But that was last year

half glade
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@pseudo rivet ain't u gonna do these challenges ur self tho as well

proud nexus
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I still am an Anomaly fanboy tbh, but it has issues and rough edges

sharp spear
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if i could post pictures i could post the changes which were removed

pseudo rivet
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I did

finite dragon
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The main reason I changed was due to external influences

pseudo rivet
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Actually managed to do the Pripyat-1 run faster this way than that I usually do

finite dragon
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PM me

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I talked with people who actually knew about the game

sharp spear
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mk

finite dragon
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And re-examined some of my previous beliefs

tired anvil
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SurDno?

proud nexus
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I guess I'm still a fanboy cos I feel that if those rough edges get sorted, it'd easily be one of the best and most comprehensive mods

finite dragon
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Then I realized holy crap I'm such an idiot and a sheep

finite dragon
finite dragon
pseudo rivet
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Kek

finite dragon
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But I'm not going to overly criticise Anomaly fanboys or anything

half glade
sharp spear
pseudo rivet
finite dragon
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If you only listen to the echo chamber that is much of stalker internet nowadays, your brain dosen't have a chance to critically examine the mod

proud nexus
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That's fair

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But it IS a great mod 😜

finite dragon
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And I'm not one to criticize having been so recently of them myself

proud nexus
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Just needs some polish

finite dragon
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Yep agreed

pseudo rivet
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Mod = mod

finite dragon
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I hope it gets better with future updates

pseudo rivet
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It just B wat it B

proud nexus
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Yeah

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I do like the changes in 1.5.1

finite dragon
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The devs have indicated they're willing to fix the issues

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And they're aware of the issues

proud nexus
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But the older animations and sounds really need work

finite dragon
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I hope to see better weapon balance in 1.6

proud nexus
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Yeah

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The recoil on some weapons is far too soft

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And the inconsistent quality of the animations and sounds can be frustrating

finite dragon
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I just die internally a bit when I see people call Anomaly a game

proud nexus
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There are some weapons I want to use, but straight up won't just cos the anims for them are awful

finite dragon
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Or if they play it without playing the original trilogy

sharp spear
proud nexus
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It's hard to go back to a fair number of the default weapons once you've used BaS's

sharp spear
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we had to help a newcomer in the anomaly discord

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he refused to play vanilla games over graphics

proud nexus
sharp spear
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so the process was particulary straining my mind

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since we had to help him like with majority of stuff

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like anomalies and such

finite dragon
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I just sigh and tell myself to forget that poor silly idiot

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you want to suffer? go watch bluedrake42 he makes a video on anomaly and every words he said hurts me

proud nexus
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One of the guys on our Discord said he might later try to pick up the S2 figurine on eBay or something, I'm like "but you haven't even played the games", and he's like "gonna try S2" 😩

sharp spear
finite dragon
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26 minutes of pain

sharp spear
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im pretty sure he ruins some games by shedding lights on them

proud nexus
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It's like not playing BFBC2, BF3, BF4 or BF1 and then saying you're gonna play BF5

sharp spear
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hes already hated by project reality and squad players

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and some usually hate his approach to gaming

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they treat him as THAT guy who takes his game too seriously

wispy walrus
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ur suggesting bluedrake has a valid opinion

proud nexus
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I actually put a comment on BD's vid to highlight that the mode he's playing isn't the standard one and that the mod offers a lot more than shown

finite dragon
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and the comments section in his video oh god it's literally just like Chernobyl

sharp spear
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yeah because he made videos about squad and PR

wispy walrus
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btw did you know

sharp spear
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which made like 9 year olds or whatever

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come to the games

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and cause problems

wispy walrus
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he hosts reuploaded mods on his website

finite dragon
wispy walrus
sharp spear
finite dragon
sharp spear
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he could have linked the proper sites

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not put it on his website

wispy walrus
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he once uploaded a cracked Swat 3 install on his site

sharp spear
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sounds like worthless process to me

finite dragon
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this dude likes to milk gmod just like you said "being obsessed with this game"

sharp spear
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when i posted misery devs response to his anomaly vid

wispy walrus
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wait does bluedrake do gmod now

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that's a match im afraid of

sharp spear
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i dont play gmod MP so i dont care lol

finite dragon
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he make a lot of gmod videos

wispy walrus
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i hope he doesnt do rp too

finite dragon
wispy walrus
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that scares me to even think of

proud nexus
sharp spear
finite dragon
sharp spear
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if i can find it

finite dragon
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"COOL REALISTIC TACTICAL GUNS AND REALISTIC MOVEMENTS IS SO AMAZING. LOOK AT THIS GUN IT SHOOTS BULLET HOLY POO THIS IS SO EPIC XDDDDDDD PLEASE SEND HELP I'M HAVING A HEART ATTACK"

proud nexus
sharp spear
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yeah sure

wispy walrus
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but no just even listening to him talk grinds my gears

proud nexus
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On the one hand, it's nice for people to be drawing attention to the project, cos it is awesome, but ehh...

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Not quite the right kind of attention

finite dragon
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Then draw attention all you like

proud nexus
wispy walrus
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my favorite is BD decided to just make his own squad rip off lel

sharp spear
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multiple people in anomaly discord hate bluedrake

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so i got scapegoated just to save my homies

proud nexus
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Like I said, people jumping straight into Anomaly without playing the originals frustrates me

sharp spear
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anyway found the pick

finite dragon
wispy walrus
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everyone in the milsim community hates the guy

finite dragon
sharp spear
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posted the misery dev reactions to your DMs boyos

proud nexus
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Especially since a lot of stuff in Anomaly is DELIBERATELY aimed at people who know the OG stories and lore

sharp spear
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atleast i helped a guy who didnt play the originals along with other people doing the same to help him to understand

wispy walrus
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yeah that's normally last day left overs

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not stuff anomaly made

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lol

sharp spear
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except that one monolith fanboy who wanted to ruin it over

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and i told him to f off

wispy walrus
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the actual anomaly lore was pretty atrocious

sharp spear
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anomaly doesnt know lore but thats the problem

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they use lost to the zone storylines

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which was a mod for CoC

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to replace CoC documents hunt

finite dragon
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also why people likes to suggest new player to play complete mod like the mod does nothing. Bug fix? More like adding more bugs instead of fixing it

proud nexus
sharp spear
proud nexus
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They did a decebt job of setting it up so all of the factions are viable

sharp spear
proud nexus
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And the stories are pretty well done

sharp spear
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has to be ISG and sin

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ISG went from a research group to a militarized task force

proud nexus
sharp spear
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not sure what happened to the scientists

finite dragon
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edgy faction

sharp spear
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and have a secrecy fetish

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also rrrrrrr got muted for bad words kekw

proud nexus
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But I can't say it's totally awful, even though it's the weakest

finite dragon
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and sin is a mutant? sounds like some Disney bs

sharp spear
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back to why ISG is a dumb faction

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so their secrecy fetish

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is literally kill people who know anything about us

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essentially dank angels from warhammer 40k

proud nexus
finite dragon
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exde

sharp spear
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sin is led by chernobog

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zombified looking dude with psychic powers

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who can bypass your psy helmets somehow

finite dragon
finite dragon
proud nexus
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So if you think Sin as a concept is dumb, you sort of have to blame GSC for that one 😜

finite dragon
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so they are burers in human form

sharp spear
finite dragon
sharp spear
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since they were pretty much angery bandit-monolith hybrid

proud nexus
#

But yeah Chernobog is a bit overkill

sharp spear
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but sin in anomaly

finite dragon
sharp spear
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becomes neutral with monolith

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despite the fact that sin wants everyone dead

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and wanted to cause a emission

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at generators

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like behind monoliths CNPP door

proud nexus
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Some of that storyline is good, but it gets a bit too insane

finite dragon
sharp spear
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living legends is you simping for strelok

finite dragon
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Mortal Sin is kinda the best to me

proud nexus
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Yeah the first one is the best one

sharp spear
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mortal sin is focused on sin and how dumb they are

finite dragon
sharp spear
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operation afterglow is focused on ISG and their secrecy fetish and its a major fetch quest

proud nexus
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I like MS's concept, but it gets a bit much

sharp spear
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MS is pretty much clear sky but condensed

finite dragon
sharp spear
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it takes the idea of stalker vs stalker

finite dragon
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There's not much battles in MS

proud nexus
#

Afterglow is a nice way of tying up some characters, but ISG is a bit silly

finite dragon
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Heys STALKERSSS

sharp spear
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and amplifies it to edgy monolith wannabees and rock praisers

sharp spear
finite dragon
proud nexus
#

I do like where Afterglow goes

sharp spear
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quests later

proud nexus
sharp spear
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"uh yeah main boy go to a ISG camp they set up"

finite dragon
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If you do it at midnight, it seems like a stealth storyline

sharp spear
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majority of quests is you getting something

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and the camp is there to have a excuse of a USS spy in ISG ranks

proud nexus
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But I like where Afterglow's narrative goes with Degtyarev and Strelok

sharp spear
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just so you can deliver a dumb thing

sharp spear
finite dragon
proud nexus
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Honestly ISG could've been left out of it

sharp spear
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in reverse it would sound like a government change to me

finite dragon
proud nexus
sharp spear
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security state of ukraine

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mallcoplandia

finite dragon
proud nexus
#

But I'm honestly not bothered at all by that premise

sharp spear
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paul blart on his way to stop zone expansion

proud nexus
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Good excuse for him to be back in

sharp spear
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like where did he go

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like did he just escape the zone just to buy some ice cream or whatever

proud nexus
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Yeah he's says he's off to check something out at the end of LL

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But I don't remember if he tells you where he went when you next see him in Afterglow

sharp spear
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wish granter was bastardized in anomaly tbh

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literally becomes a physical thing

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confusion

proud nexus
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Yeah that's true

finite dragon
sharp spear
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"okay so C-con is dead and wish granter became a touchable thing"

sharp spear
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but anomaly made it a physical being after C-cons death

finite dragon
sharp spear
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and it apparently made a shard of monolith because C-con dead

finite dragon
proud nexus
#

Well yeah, actually pretty sure it was a physical thing in SoC, it just doesn't do anything 😜

finite dragon
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And then all monolith gone (jk I know they're worshipping trash)

still ridge
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Uh, no

sharp spear
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anomaly wanted to make a excuse why its still there

still ridge
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Monolith still exist after cop

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They’re still being controlled

finite dragon
proud nexus
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Yeah but I thought the rock itself was there, it just does nothing

finite dragon
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That has a lantern

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(It looks like one)

still ridge
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They were antennas

proud nexus
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I.e. it's a visual distraction

still ridge
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That were receiving signals

sharp spear
celest canyon
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There are Monolit near that radar structure in the trailer.

finite dragon
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Except smaller

still ridge
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yes, in CoP, the monolith were receiving messages and signals via the structures that were built

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that was an important plot point in cop

proud nexus
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And Strider's group

finite dragon
celest canyon
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I have a feeling that Monolith is going to take over every single structure that is related to radio equipment, to reconnect.

sharp spear
still ridge
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The fact of the matter is, the antennas were working

gusty trench
finite dragon
proud nexus
finite dragon
still ridge
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that’s how they were tipped off at the military’s plan to find the gauss rifle

finite dragon
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Why did you left us oh Nokia

celest canyon
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lmfao

still ridge
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Which is why they set up an ambush

gusty trench
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They tried to hear the Monolith, but they didn't do it.

still ridge
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because they were tipped off

proud nexus
finite dragon
sharp spear
finite dragon
#

So the ambush is just reclaiming the Item 62?

still ridge
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They’re still being controlled

proud nexus
still ridge
finite dragon
sharp spear
proud nexus
sharp spear
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man became indiana jones

celest canyon
still ridge
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They somehow KNEW that the military was planning on finding the gauss rifle, and were going to the area where they set an ambush

proud nexus
celest canyon
#

If Major was killed during that ambush, it was a gg for the Monolith.

finite dragon
sharp spear
finite dragon
#

The scraps told them

sharp spear
#

rogovets armored fridge

still ridge
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they’re receiving messages through the antenna

finite dragon
still ridge
#

Deggy literally said that they were actively receiving messages from the antenna

finite dragon
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From where

still ridge
#

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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we don’t know

finite dragon
sharp spear
celest canyon
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I think they were using some sort of artifact.

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It had the Spark effects.

finite dragon
still ridge
#

What we do know, is that they are still being controlled and receiving messages via the antennas

sharp spear
#

i wonder how many monolithians it took to make the scrap replica of monolith

celest canyon
still ridge
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They’ll still likely be a big part of S2, since they’re literally in the trailer

finite dragon
celest canyon
#

Ah yeah. The electrical discharge effect the antenna does, I can't help but connect it to the electrical effect on the radar structure we saw at the end of the trailer.

sharp spear
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i realized one of my friends implemented wish granter to SS13

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it didnt speak the wish granter lines

finite dragon
sharp spear
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it used "techno-russian" language instead

sharp spear
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wish granter is there

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it speaks random words

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instead of idi ko mne

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its more of a faction thing

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so we have revolutionaries in it

finite dragon
#

O

sharp spear
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and they are pretty much russian focused

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they have a monolith SEVA suit as a exclusive item and gauss gun

celest canyon
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I should've played Shadow of Chernobyl when I had the chance tbh

sharp spear
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we already made some stuff for the wish granter in burgerstation

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which fit the codebase than the vanillas

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"i want IRS to disappear" would just remove the need to pay taxes for one round
"i wish to be rich" you get money but insane taxes
"i want to rule the world" just deletes the players body his loot will be on ground
"i wish to be immortal" you turn into a goddamned statue loosing all your loot as it becomes one with the statue.

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they were my ideas for it

finite dragon
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I want to rule the world should be kinda like being a controller

sharp spear
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we have tax mercs as a group if you dont pay your taxes

sharp spear
finite dragon
sharp spear
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there are some beneficial stuff to it

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just to make interaction worth it

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anyway gotta go

finite dragon
#

See ya

proud nexus
celest canyon
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No, sadly

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Started with Call of Pripyat and that's it...

proud nexus
#

Grab it on Steam and install Autumn Aurora or something

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Then you can do the SoC story but with much better QoL

celest canyon
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My PC was fried, as soon as I get a new one, I'll play all of them.

proud nexus
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I'm sure some people will bite my head off for suggesting AA, but just threw out a mod that I ran with a long time ago 😛

hazy helm
proud nexus
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There're plenty of others that preserve the OG storyline

proud nexus
hazy helm
proud nexus
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I mean, on release it was a dated title graphically and mechanically 😛

celest canyon
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I don't care about age and all lol

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I'm a retro gamer myself

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Or was rather

proud nexus
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Not that the story is exactly ground-breaking, but it's the original and it has its charm

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So definitely worth a play, with or without mods

celest canyon
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I need to see Brain Scorcher

hazy helm
finite dragon
#

MOTZ is x64 bit

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Uses OGSR engine

proud nexus
#

I would absolutely run a couple of mods just to fix bugs with at least, though

finite dragon
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And looks sick as hell

proud nexus
hazy helm
finite dragon
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Or be a true chad

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Play vanilla

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Don't even use ZRP

hazy helm
#

vannila chad

finite dragon
#

Zrp changes some stuff

hazy helm
#

best chad

finite dragon
#

Like rewards

proud nexus
finite dragon
#

Max gives you a black Kite instead of a walker p9m

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Some of the Duty dialogues were changed

proud nexus
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I can't really abide Complete because it just doesn't feel the same, but hey, if people like it then go for it

pseudo rivet
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Wait, it changes dialogue?

keen needle
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I never liked the shooting/character animations in the previous original games. I felt like the sound of the guns just didn't make me feel satisfied when I killed an enemy soldier or whatever.

finite dragon
#

Yeah that's what SurDno said

hazy helm
pseudo rivet
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Sounds uber yikes

finite dragon
proud nexus
#

I think AMK doesn't really change anything, right?

finite dragon
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He recites NPC dialogues better than the Pope recites the Bible

proud nexus
finite dragon
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Complete is trash

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Why is it the top 3 most downloaded mods

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🤢

proud nexus
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Cos it's easy and accessible 🤷‍♂️

pseudo rivet
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Complete doesn't even exist

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It's just a myth

hazy helm
#

its just a bad dream

finite dragon
proud nexus
pseudo rivet
#

We's lorin' mane

proud nexus
#

Autumn Aurora is really nice visually and not too bad mechanically either, plus it keeps the storyline, but playing an x64 version does sound even better

finite dragon
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"I never liked the shooting/character animations"

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You'd think a small studio knows how to animate stuff?

pseudo rivet
#

Turn off your viewmodel in options

finite dragon
proud nexus
#

I purposefully ignore mods that make a point of overhauling the character models due to my nostalgia

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I love the vanilla character models, even if they're...um...rough around the edges, shall we say 😛

finite dragon
pseudo rivet
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I don't get what you're talking about

proud nexus
pseudo rivet
#

Mod models looks extremely amateurish

hazy helm
finite dragon
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Scar model my beloved

proud nexus
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Well, mostly

hazy helm
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most of the more popular dont fit in the zone

pseudo rivet
finite dragon
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Teeth man is confirmed scar

hazy helm
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and a lot come off as too taticool and jarring to the world,too contrasting

pseudo rivet
pseudo rivet
proud nexus
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The S2 ones so far look alright

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Tbh I'm just glad of the much-needed visual overhaul 😛

finite dragon
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The old models is kinda cool

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For the guns

proud nexus
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So I can look past issues with the validity of the models per se

pseudo rivet
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Nah, it combines both worn equipment with tacticool looking stuff

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It's the worst combination ever

hazy helm
proud nexus
pseudo rivet
#

Nah

finite dragon
#

AKM/74 my beloved

hazy helm
hazy helm
proud nexus
pseudo rivet
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You do realize that by saying tacticool, I mean absolutely made for no point other than to look fashionable and cringy

proud nexus
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Well yes, because for some of these factions, they would be meshing existing gear or uniforms with newer stuff

proud nexus
#

But I meant just more actual useful tac gear

pseudo rivet
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Like, I still don't get what this is supposed to be

Wat_is_this.jpg
hazy helm
pseudo rivet
#

Yikes man

hazy helm
#

duty wack

proud nexus
pseudo rivet
#

The older models looked realistic, despite some differences of the actual reference material

hazy helm
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yhea older models best

pseudo rivet
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But this is just made for fashion

proud nexus
#

Well, time to go and play more Anomaly, much to the frustration of people who hate it, I'm sure smile_degtyarev

pseudo rivet
hazy helm
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🤷‍♀️

pseudo rivet
#

Here's hoping we won't have another Duty Exoskeleton incident

proud nexus
#

Tbh if I met someone who'd played all of the original games with Complete, my happiness that they'd at least played the trilogy would still override my frustration that they'd played them with Complete

proud nexus
hazy helm
proud nexus
pseudo rivet
#

'nuff said, I hope

hazy helm
#

like we said Complete changes too much for it to be a reliable way to show others stalker,it trivialises the game

proud nexus
#

So still better than someone who hadn't played them at all 😛 or, God forbid, someone who hadn't played the originals and gone straight to CoC/Anomaly/DA

hazy helm
proud nexus
proud nexus
still ridge
proud nexus
#

It's not the end of the world, but what's wrong with just having a sewn patch...? It just looks a bit OTT

celest canyon
proud nexus
# celest canyon I think it should act as a tourniquet if needs be

Problem is that it's been fitted through those straps, so you'd presumably unhook it open, take it off through the straps (which looks unlikely to happen since the patch itself is too large to fit through), rehook it closed above wherever the wound is and then wrap it over a couple of times like a rubber band to get the necessary pressure, and even then it seems impossible to get the desired effect

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You need something thinner that can be more tightly bound, surely

celest canyon
#

The metal part will definitely cause more harm than the whole act of tourniquet is going to fix lol

wispy walrus
#

im back, apparently if you say a bad word 5 times you get a one hour mute, anyway, where'd i leave off at

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yeah anomaly lore

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if you'd seen the suit names and descriptions early on when they just added all the DAOO suits you'd have pulled your hair too

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they had stuff like

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LAST DAY COMBAT HELMET for the ranger helmets

proud nexus
#

Oof

wispy walrus
#

none of the duty suits had uniformed naming at all

proud nexus
#

I guess that's why they switched it to "Final Day"

wispy walrus
#

oh

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i tho they just made it the M10

proud nexus
#

Yeah it still isn't that great 😛

wispy walrus
#

lets not ignore the fact all the pathfinder sevas are somehow made by cs for every faction

pseudo rivet
proud nexus
pseudo rivet
proud nexus
#

Mercs have their own version with the ACE, which is awesome

wispy walrus
#

fun fact

proud nexus
#

I'm not gonna bash them too hard for trying to get more content in, especially since they made clear nods to Metro with that, but yeah, the backstory for that gear was a little weedy

wispy walrus
#

all these new suits least 70% added were from a dead air addon

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it had proper setting fitting lore

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they went

proud nexus
#

Yeah it doesn't surprise me

wispy walrus
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"hhhrrr lets give every faction a nosronog and rewrite it all"

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in the original dead air addon the nosronog was a duty specialty exo at the top tier

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while mercs got their own top tier

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so get this

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EVERY FACTION DIDN'T PLAY THE SAME

proud nexus
#

I haven't looked at the Nasarogs in detail because I don't use them, but are they differentiated between like with the faction exos?

pseudo rivet
#

Kinda like Vanilla

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Except modded

proud nexus
wispy walrus
#

you can't but you have to pick and choose the traders to tier up

proud nexus
#

But then again the last time I played DA was literal years ago and not for very long

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Ah kk

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I like a lot of DA's concepts, but altogether it just felt a little masochistic

#

And this is coming from someone who quite liked LD

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At some point I might give it another look-in

wispy walrus
#

dead air's main flaw atm is its the first release

#

and obviously meant to test the waters

proud nexus
#

Ye

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My biggest gripes with Anomaly rn are the inconsistency of animations and sounds (some of the mod's weapons are pretty nice, but some are awful) and the lack of much to do in the CoP areas

#

Yanov and Skadovsk really need more quests, especially when there are a decent number of NPCs in those areas that could give them, and yet just...don't

#

Particularly if you're in Story mode, you'd think they'd have quite the laundry list of things that need doing after being cut off from the rest of Zone civilisation by the Scorcher and are only now finally reunited after it's been turned off

still ridge
#

It’s different, sure, but not necessarily out of place

pseudo rivet
#

It B mane

proud nexus
#

Lol yeah, there is that

still ridge
finite dragon
#

SEVA is different between factions too

#

Merc SEVA is better than every other SEVA in stats

proud nexus
finite dragon
#

The second best SEVA is Duty SEVA

proud nexus
#

As in, Merc SEVA or ACE?

finite dragon
#

But it's worse in every single way

#

SEVA

proud nexus
#

Ah kk

#

The ACE is noice

pseudo rivet
#

Or rather, does it look realistic?

finite dragon
#

ACE provides best all round protection iirc

#

But mercs have best armour in Anomaly

proud nexus
#

Yeah it's generally just straight up better

finite dragon
#

How long does it take to finish the main Anomaly storyline I wonder?