🔨base-gamma-support

[willow hawk]

Yes even with a 3070

Usually I get 100+ fps but some locations under certain vision angle run at 40 fps

Might be related to the SSS addon but I'm not sure

Try changing SSAO option in the game menu

[magic reef]

Ok i have 3080 but cpu i7 4930k which is 6 core from 2014

I did not have this a week ago so some new mods are prob to blame :)

Ok will check ssao and grass. Thanks

[willow hawk]

Reduce DAO parameters in MCM

Mod config Menu

[magic reef]

Ok thanks

[paper sable]

Isn't it better to use hbao for Nvidia and hdao for AMD graphic cards?

[grave plover]

yes but with SSS ambient occlusion is revamped

[acoustic timber]

so i checked the manual and it doesnt seem to explain it

[graceful iron]

explain what?

[acoustic timber]

i got a good gas mask, went into anomaly field to get a junk artefact, no rads damage but my screen was blue and my health started draining?

[willow hawk]

Electric fields effect

just like toxic or flame fields

[acoustic timber]

so it will offset through elec resist?

[willow hawk]

yes

[acoustic timber]

thats actually pretty innovative, vanilla anomaly IIRC just reduces damage u take from walking into the anomaly

[graceful iron]

not exactly... but ok

[willow hawk]

Yes it's thanks to demonized DAO addon

Also, gravi anomalies doing this screen shake

[brittle apex]

Are there ways of obtaining melee weapons other than buying? I once looted an axe from dead merc but it was like 1 for 1000 bodies. Anyone had more luck?

[royal oxide]

No, I think I never found any melee weapon on a body.

[mental bear]

how would i reset the keymap to original? when i reset it just does the default for anomaly.

[topaz berry]

can someone show me where to find the detector for the first last dawn quest

the mission says south west but the tooltip says north west of the clear sky base

and i am confused

the north west anomaly from cs base is the bog stomper one

[steep pollen]

south west of the great swamps

Press F when you look for it, it's on the ground in the gravi anomalies

[topaz berry]

thank you very much

sadly i still cant find it

i wound 2 atefacts tho

[craggy fable]

Are mask overlays supposed to be barely visible?

I expected something massive, not a bit of distortion in the corners of the screen :)

[topaz berry]

you will se a diff when it gets damaged

cracks will apear

[lapis silo]

Yes, mask textures (just the overlay blocking your vision) were removed. You can enable them again, by deactivating GAMMA No Mask Textures addon in MO2

The mask effects, like glass breaking and water droplets are still there though

[magic reef]

Is there any reward in doing loner missions. Equipment with higher status?

[ruby rune]

Loner missions as in?

Story quests? Random quests?

[craggy fable]

By doing missions for factions you will get goodwill — and goodwill unlocks new trader tiers and new items.

For example, by advancing the Clear Sky tiers you can get Mauser K98 Forester, AK-105 Swamp Thing and Remington M700 upgrade kits. You still need to find the weapon and they cost an ungodly amounts of money, but all of those are worth it. You will also expand the offerings of the technicians — at the beginning you can only buy handguns, but eventually they will start offering the Historical and Army Rifle kits, alongside with armor repair kits including Exo.

[craggy fable]

You still won't be able to buy the weapons themselves (aside from some pretty rare exceptions), but you will be able to fix most of the stuff you find out in the open.

[magic reef]

Aha ok thanks for that info. Regardning Sid missions. Is there rewards from him too?

[magic reef]

I was thinking about Sid in the rookie village.

[tawdry cargo]

Hey lads, sorry just hopped on the mod.

am i able to check my set fire mode?

instead of kinda just switching it and hopin 😛

[craggy fable]

Yeah, he pays you 3-12K for every mission. The average is about 8K.

[topaz berry]

under your right leg hp

there is a number

[tawdry cargo]

ahh my man, thank you very much

[craggy fable]

Unless it is the Last Dawn mission that Clear Sky sends to Sidorovich, in which case you have to pay him after doing a quest for him.

[magic reef]

Ok so for CS you get a weapon but nothing from raising status with rookie village Sid?

[craggy fable]

Each faction has generic unlocks and unique unlocks. Raising the reputation with them will unlock those things in stores. Unique unlocks start showing up at Store Level 4 and Store Level 5. Those appear around 2 000 goodwill (you can see your goodwill with different factions in the relationships tab in your PDA)

• For Clear Sky, your unique unlock is AK-105 Swamp Thing upgrade kit.
• For Loners, your unique unlock is AK-12 Monolith upgrade kit.
• For Duty, your unique unlock is AK-105 Jackal upgrade kit.
• For Freedom... no idea, really. Haven't reached that yet.

As for generic unlocks, raising the Store Level will unlock new ammo types and attachments (scopes, silencers, etc.). Those depend on the faction allignement. For example, Clear Sky and Freedom start selling 5.56 NATO while Loners and Duty vendors start selling 5.45x39 for AK.

Raising the technician level (happens by bringing them the tools and raising the faction goodwill) will expand their repair kit offerings. With repair kits you can restore broken weapons you find on the bodies. Handguns repair kit is available from Store Level 1, while Historical and Army Rifle are unlocked later. There are also armor repair kits, but I am not sure how they unlock. My Clear Sky goodwill is at maximum and I can buy Medium and Exoskeleton armor repair kits, but not Light or Heavy.

[ruby rune]

There is

[lapis silo]

At max goodwill you can buy light, medium, Exo and Heavy repair kits from Mangun in Rostok, The technician in the skadovsk and probably more

[craggy fable]

I am not that chill with Loners or Duty just yet, but good to know! I do have maxed out Clear Sky goodwill and can buy Exo from Novikov, but he doesn't have Heavy or Light for some reason.

[slow fox]

I dont get why I cant maintain parts to clean the barrel of my VSS Merc

are there prerequesits or something

[topaz berry]

you can craft those easily

[slow fox]

I have a cleaning kit and a 76% barrel

or can i not clean barrels with that set?

[topaz berry]

for vss merc you need an advanced weapon kit

[lapis silo]

Or a heavy weapon cleaning kit

[slow fox]

i wanted to clean the barrel which is at 76% with the universal cleaning kit

[lapis silo]

Not a Rifle one

[lapis silo]

Not possible, you need the gun specific one

[slow fox]

cause the part is above 60 and its written that i can do that

[lapis silo]

THe Universal kit is only for gun condition

You need the specific cleaning kit of the gun to clean the parts

So, Handgun, Historical, Rifle or Heavy

[slow fox]

damn okay i just wasted 6k lol

thanks

[lapis silo]

Just remember, that there are both repair kits and cleaning kits

[lapis silo]

F

[slow fox]

cool i found the right one

now dakka dakka intensifies

unfortunate that the Sin guy doesnt do guided fast travel to Pripyat or something

[lapis silo]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/sin-upgrade-software This mod adds a guide to the Sin faction, maybe you can extract that from the mod and add it yourself to GAMMA

[tawdry cargo]

Anyone know why all the anims work fine, apart from the "chop body" one? i thought it had an anim?

[slow fox]

do you know if it is compatible with gamma?

im fine with mutants attacking me, its a quick source of income

[lapis silo]

Havent checked tbh, but the guide should be compatible. The rest maybe not

[lapis silo]

FDDA has one, which is disabled by default due to it causing busy hands. You can reenable it in MCM

[molten tartan]

Anyone else having these weird vertical laser effects?

If I stand in these lasers my psy meters empties instantly and I die.

[rotund wadi]

I can buy asku 74s from the freedom traders...is that supposed to happen? I thought there were no firearms for sale in the zone.

[rotund wadi]

That's a new anomaly, called radar I think, got look it up in the guide👍

[molten tartan]

I see. Good to know

[lapis silo]

Thats an anomaly lmao, a really, really weird one

Apparently the zones now creates Audiowaves which hurt your brain

[molten tartan]

Like Cardi B?

[lapis silo]

Yeah

[craggy fable]

I don't need them, to be honest. It's just a matter of principle :)

[willow hawk]

these are called 'anomalies'

[molten tartan]

Very first time I encountered this type

[ember vortex]

am I tripping or does the volat emerald give max stats even when its heavily damaged/low efficiency etc

[slow fox]

is that a normal chimera? it had a lot of health

it has a different skin i think

[lapis silo]

It's a black chimera. It's more tanky and does more damage

Arguably more dangerous than a pseudogiant

[slow fox]

well it aint got shit on an old rusty bus in Pripyat

but yes it did kill me a bunch of times

[lapis silo]

Ya, with the new actor damage balance, it can cut your balls clean off in one jump, even with heavy armor

My Merc ACE Suit is perfect for almost everything, but they just rip right through it, it's crazy

[craggy fable]

Nothing arguable about that. I have yet to die to a pseudo and killed four of them. Black Chimeras so far are 7-to-3 in my favour.

[lapis silo]

Fair enough

[mental token]

safe to remove reshade?

[lapis silo]

Yes, 100%. Just make sure to not remove any other files by accident (speaking from experience)

[desert robin]

Does anyone find companions are not very responsive? They seem to lag too far behind and dont feel fluent enough.. Like theres some huge delay or something

[craggy fable]

Yeah, they are a bit dumb. But I'll take it for another RPK on my side.

[lapis silo]

Yeah, but that's an issue with vanilla Anomaly. It's just how X-Ray handles NPCs

NPC enemies are also not the brightest

[craggy fable]

BTW, are the aiming presets the same between our companions and enemies? Gave Hip a Gauss Rifle and she can barely hit the broad side of the barn.

No complaints about her with an RPK, though, she does saturation fire well enough.

[slow fox]

what are yall using as armour for Sin runs?

The overcoat seems alright I guess but the normal berill 5m has double the rupture protection so..

[willow hawk]

Save reload

[ember vortex]

yeah it fixed it

[north turret]

hey guys, how do i get the unique weapons? you know the ones that only the most veteran of stalkers drop.

[gritty hemlock]

hey mates, is there any way to make the tooltips appear on the cursor and not on the upper left of the screen?

really enjoying this pack so far, amazing job

[lapis silo]

deactivate this mod

[gritty hemlock]

Thank you mate, I was looking for somethin in de MCM and general options

[ember vortex]

can you add dismantle all? or is it already in and I don't have it enabled for some reason

disassembling like 50 pistols 1 by 1 giving me rsi xD

[lapis silo]

It was in at some point but caused issues, which couldn't be fixed, so it was removed.

[ember vortex]

ah

[lapis silo]

It gave you armor parts in full condition sometimes, if I remember correctly

[viral stone]

Installing Maids icons... i get the modules part but what to pick on the Replacer Module? AIO DLTX? or Main icons?

[lapis silo]

Depends on what you want. You can choose AIO (All-In-One) in DLTX format for best and easiest results.

If you only want to have specific modules, you can choose Icon override and pick and choose your modules

The Other Main Icon thing you only use, if Maids is the only Icon pack you use, which is not the case for gamma. So, use AIO for a quick and easy install, or pick and choose the modules with Icon override for customizability

[viral stone]

okay i think i understand that

but should i merge or replace the files when the launcher asks for it

[lapis silo]

Replace

[viral stone]

gotcha

[brittle apex]

I just installed maid's icons. When I install scope o UMP 45 its texture get's buggy. Other weapons seems to work fine. Anyone have similiar issue?

[viral stone]

will test that in a minute

[lapis silo]

Buggy in what way? Sometimes the attachments are moved below the gun, so the icon doesnt stick out of it's space

[brittle apex]

Whole texture gets scrambled

[viral stone]

any specific scope you are using?

[brittle apex]

I tested it on eotech and c-something

Two vanilla scopes

[graceful iron]

texture quality possibly ?

[viral stone]

ump 45 and custom im testing

[brittle apex]

Oh sorry. I meant icon not the texture

[graceful iron]

yes i know that

increase texture quality

[viral stone]

after

before

max textures

[graceful iron]

oh ok...

[viral stone]

lower texture quality and most icons disappear i know that

but that is a feature not a bug

[graceful iron]

unintended feature

[viral stone]

crossposted in #old-bugs just now

[grave plover]

#📢announcements message grok fixed it

[viral stone]

uuuh neat

[graceful iron]

isnt that for gamma icons, not maids?

[brittle apex]

Yeah it for gamma icons

I had it enabled

[graceful iron]

wait so you didnt disable gamma icons when you enabled maids or?

[brittle apex]

I disabled it after I noticed scrambled icons. Still nothing changed

[viral stone]

it doesn't say to do so in mo

[brittle apex]

Also quick question: Where Gamma stores my screenshots? I can't find it

[graceful iron]

gammaRC3/overwrite/bin

[viral stone]

launching with the "fix" gimme like 5 minutes to load in and all

with the "fix"

[graceful iron]

as i said, its for gamma icons

the person who posted it as a solution

[viral stone]

hmmmm

[grave plover]

man i dont know it all, also it seems there is a lot of people disabling a lot of the pack which i didnt so i dont have the experience to break it all

[fallen tendon]

guys i have a question

can i run gamma on directX 9?

[graceful iron]

no, only dx8, 10 and 11

[fallen tendon]

damn

[grave plover]

8, 10 or 11, and in dx8 you will miss features like beefs nvgs

[graceful iron]

#old-framerate-optimisation for fps

[fallen tendon]

alright guys thanks

but out of curiosity

why gamma doesn't support dX 9

[grave plover]

gamma adds some shader mods that i suppose wont work with dx9

[graceful iron]

i dont think its shader mods, you can disable them just fine but still wont work for dx9

but i honestly have no idea why

[tame halo]

damn i just bought universal kit too and came searching why i cant clean parts with it

so the fact that description says it can is a bug?

[graceful iron]

what does it say?

[graceful iron]

English ? sorry i cant read that

[tame halo]

that you can repair parts with it if condition 60 or higher. it also says that you need to right click a pistol on any cleaning kit

[graceful iron]

grok messed something up in the translation ?

[tame halo]

gun = pistol i guess

got translated wrong

[graceful iron]

he uses google i believe, so that could explain, but that it can be used for parts? did he just put that line on every cleaning kit ?

[tame halo]

same line on every cleaning kit, including universal, which you cant use to clean parts

[tame halo]

only specific kits can

[tropic orbit]

Ngl I still think medkit should have post heals not first aid

But thats just me lmao

[graceful iron]

#old-feedback-suggestions its not realism, its balance

[tropic orbit]

Also yes I know theyre called first aid kits

[cloud bloom]

Hello, I'm new here. I was wondering If I have to download gamma file by file or can I download it all in its entirety?

[graceful iron]

#old-how-to you download the gammaRC3 zip file and extract and set it up and then the installer downloads and installs all mods to the portable mo2 instance

please, read #old-how-to

[cloud bloom]

Thank you very much.

[tropic orbit]

Although actual question

What's the fun level in WPO

[graceful iron]

has to do with the jam profanity

just changes the voicelines

[cloud bloom]

How big is the gamma file? I wanna know if I have the right one.

That sounded rude,

[graceful iron]

should be about 707mb before extracting, last time i checked

[cloud bloom]

Thank you captain.

[hollow apex]

@graceful iron Hi cat can you be more specific about this, I don't understand this line.

[graceful iron]

i really have no idea about it either

[hollow apex]

Giants HP ammo means large calibre HP?

[graceful iron]

i know HP damage was kinda broken against psuedogiants, maybe he did some fixes to that ammo

[hollow apex]

oh that make sense

so it's pseudo giant

[wraith token]

Yeah. HP was inferior to pseudo giants for some reason.

So grok made it so they do better dmg

[graceful iron]

it still takes 40 rounds to its face to kill it with hydrashock i miss the rex but i cant seem to get one and i am afraid grok "fixed" it

[hollow apex]

.338 Lapua use to one-shot that thing in the eye

[graceful iron]

oh i keep forgetting the eye weak spot, thanks for reminding me

[topaz berry]

the cs dawn questline is like only 4 quests?

or i forgot something?

[graceful iron]

no? which quest are you on?

[topaz berry]

i did the detector one, i killed the renegades and the army and got a thrash cs3 bodysuit

[graceful iron]

that suit is meant for early game, you are supposed to do the quests as early as possible

[warped ginkgo]

You need to be called at night by Spore after you deliver the anomaly detector in the swamp

[topaz berry]

its a new playthrough i got a berill 5 from a bandit

and thats why the cs3 is weak

[graceful iron]

and how did you repair the berill5 on a new playthrough ?

[warped ginkgo]

Around 1 am you will get a message to find a missing clear sky scout then the Quest proceeds

[topaz berry]

i crafted an adv tool kit

[graceful iron]

i think its about 23, not 1?

[topaz berry]

from 5 basic kits

[graceful iron]

you have to be in the swamps i think

thats not a new playthrough anymore, you have advanced toolkit

[topaz berry]

in the first hour or so

[hollow apex]

are these two refer to the same kit? that red one?

[graceful iron]

the first one is army rifle, the one crafted with advanced tools

the second one is advanced rifle, crafted with expert

[hollow apex]

ok nvm... silly me

[graceful iron]

but why change ak variants to expert ? idk they are very rare anyways

[ornate salmon]

just me without any people in the world?

[brittle apex]

Just you

[graceful iron]

what?

[ornate salmon]

i think i know why

theres legit

nobody

around

no stalker

[tidal raft]

Calibre reason.

[ornate salmon]

lemme try this, because i think its whats causing it

gimme a sec

[tidal raft]

It's the ZCP bug.

[brittle apex]

Check ZCP

[graceful iron]

why tell me tho, bruh

[ornate salmon]

oh, its from zcp?

guess im taking that off then

[tidal raft]

Disable, create a character, save, quit, enable ZCP, continue playing.

[ornate salmon]

oh, never knew that

alright

thanks for letting me know

also, the mcm entry where you can edit drop condition is from gamma itself, is it not?

[tidal raft]

Yes.

[ornate salmon]

right

thanks

[tropic orbit]

What's the point of giving hip medkits

[tidal raft]

So she can heal mid-fight. (I think)

[ornate salmon]

hip not invincible in gamma?

[tropic orbit]

Shes just very tanky

[brittle apex]

From what I noticed every companion heals automaticaly after few seconds

[tropic orbit]

Yeah

I thought hip would be healing me instead with that medkit lmao

[mental bear]

How do you reset keybinds to original?

do you have to fresh install?

[tidal raft]

copy the user.ltx from the gamma installer's addon folder.

[ornate salmon]

also, does gamma have that one ironman lives counter in pda mod?

also thank god hip isnt invincible in gamma

finally

[craggy fable]

Overall Hip is a bit disappointing as a dedicated companion.

I thought bringing her to Nimble would trigger something, but alas.

[magic reef]

Would a destroy item be good? Avoiding to litter the maps with broken items decreasing performance

[latent otter]

I have yet to find them mythical expert tools or advanced weapon repair kit , the only way to repair high tier gun is to be lucky with barrell rng

[graceful iron]

they despawn after a while but the best way to get rid of items you have but dont need is by donating them to traders

[viral stone]

is donating even raising goodwill?

[graceful iron]

just make sure the option in game settings is enabled to despawn items

[graceful iron]

it gives reputation, very little

[graceful iron]

go north, get stashes and craft your own advanced rifle kit

[brittle apex]

What are the consequences of having negative bleeding control? Do I get damaged overtime or just my bleeding wounds are more severe and harder to cure?

[graceful iron]

just harder to cure bleeding

but i have never seen the effects of large negative bleeding control, it could be worse

[brittle apex]

I use wrenched (-18 bleeding control) and I started to suspect that it gives me randomly limb damage

Maybe I just imagine things.

[ornate salmon]

quick question, im sure most of you are already aware of CRCR (Chernobyl Relay Chat Rebirth), the chat mod

why does it not work

in gamma?

well, for me at least

it worked in my efp installation, but doesnt anymore in my gamma installation

[graceful iron]

apparently you have to install it in the root folder of anomaly, there should be a guide video if you search on youtube

mo2 cant install it somehow

[ornate salmon]

yeah, it is there...its just somehow using the one i had in my efp folder

[graceful iron]

what?

[ornate salmon]

idk how to explain

i was expecting it to launch separately because i cant use the same crcr from another directory

it wont connect with the game

and when i launch the one in the folder i use for gamma (the vanilla anomaly folder, not the gamma rc3 one, and by vanilla i mean non-edited, but the virtual folder from mo2 is a different story)

it somehow puts me into the one that i had in the other directory

meaning i cannot use the chat in-game

does that make it more clear?

[graceful iron]

not really...you are using a clean anomaly folder for gamma and you installed the chat mod on that folder, right?

[ornate salmon]

yes

exactly that

[graceful iron]

you installed a completely new chat mod as well, didnt just copy it from an old anomaly folder or another modpack ?

[ornate salmon]

yes

[graceful iron]

does the mod work if you launch anomaly through the exe in anomaly/bin ? use the exe you usually use to launch anomaly

[ornate salmon]

well i can try, but that means i wont have gamma applied

[graceful iron]

just to make sure its working in the first place

[mental bear]

so if my leg is broke how do i repair it?

[brisk zinc]

I don't know what it does but since it's supposed to be harder to cure bleeding, I suppose that you'll need to use, like, two bandages instead of just one
If you happen to bleed, let us know if you remember it

[graceful iron]

#│📚manual healing section, but basically you want to either sleep or use a first aid (medkit for example) and then a post heal (yadulin for example)

[brittle apex]

From what I noticed single bandage is enough

[onyx peak]

does anyone know what the zoom mod is

[graceful iron]

free zoom?

[onyx peak]

i cant find it

[onyx peak]

ok thankyou

[graceful iron]

if you are trying to change the keybind its in mcm

[brisk zinc]

@graceful iron I guess this one as well?

[graceful iron]

its the v3 you have to edit if thats what you are trying to do

[onyx peak]

no its that i have non gamma mod game and i want to find what it is

[onyx peak]

well i use it to play warfare and others so i wanted to know

[ornate salmon]

@graceful iron it is working without gamma, but.....pretty much crashed right after i started moving

the strange thing is that it is launching the crcr CONNECTED to the efp installation

instead of separately for gamma

[graceful iron]

this could be something to do with the mod itself, maybe it allows one installation only or something? try asking the author or someone who knows more about it

[tropic orbit]

Does anything use the 50bmg rounds

[graceful iron]

no

[craggy fable]

I think it would step on the Gauss Rifle too much. I already prefer my Remington over it.

[tropic orbit]

I was honestly expecting the M82 to use it

[craggy fable]

Unless we get a Browning M2.

In which case I know just the Chimera pod to use it on.

[craggy fable]

Yeah, me too. But it makes sense when Gauss is already in the game.

[north turret]

does mags redux make them apear in traders offerts?

[tropic orbit]

Yes

It's strange because the traders offer you mags but not the guns early on

[north turret]

thx i was worried that i scrambled something up

does they offer guns in mid or late game?

[tropic orbit]

They offer guns depending on your rank and standing with the faction

[graceful iron]

make what appear in traders? magazines ?

[craggy fable]

I have maxed out Clear Sky support and they are willing to sell me literally two guns. Stetchkin pistol and some SMG I think.

By the time they were willing to sell those to me, I already had a tricked out AK-105.

[tropic orbit]

Lmao

Theyre holding out on you

[tidal raft]

they are willing to sell me literally two guns.
That's a known bug.

[craggy fable]

By the way, is there a way to get faction top-tier armor? I want a Clear Sky Exoskeleton but seems like I'll have to settle for Monolith since they are the only exo-wearing faction I can farm.

[tidal raft]

Clear Sky has Exo-skeletons. You'll have to swipe one off a dead CS member.

[craggy fable]

Yeah, I'm not killing my own guys. Well, Monolith it is.

[tidal raft]

Never said you had to do the deed.

But yes, more often than not—you'll have to make do with other factions' outfits.

[tropic orbit]

Get one dude as companion and jebait him into a firefight

[fiery jasper]

Seeing as armor is something that cant be bought maybe each faction should have a like hard mission to earn a suit of armor or something

[tropic orbit]

Afaik freedom rewards you with various freedom armor

[graceful iron]

the amount of times this has been suggested, no

[craggy fable]

Or maybe an option to swap a fully restored Exoskeleton of any other faction for the exo of your own.

But yeah, Monolith will do.

[graceful iron]

no

[tidal raft]

Too much work.

[tropic orbit]

Just jebait a cs dude into a firefight

[graceful iron]

grok said there is too much variance in stats and there is no 1-1 of the same suit type so it cant be done with out way too much work and breaking the whole balance of gamma

[tidal raft]

Take this:
#╓☢stalker-chat message

[fiery jasper]

The rare times ive actually used companions they always either last really long or die instantly, but every companion was always like doing just fine, then i hear a single burst and his icon disappears off my screen

[graceful iron]

oh i forgot i pinned that

[tidal raft]

Companions are pretty much useless.

[tropic orbit]

They ruin a lot of fights

By either running into your fire or pushing you out of cover

[fiery jasper]

At least in ironman they divert fire long enough to let me escape

Thats why i used them

I did once accidentally recruit a legend level loner and he fucking singlehandedly wiped a merc camp once

[tropic orbit]

I use hip as a pack mule

[fiery jasper]

I did kill like two guys but was majority him

[latent otter]

Companions are pack mules to get rich quicker

[tropic orbit]

Woman is immortal I tell you

She fires rpgs regularly too

[graceful iron]

and can easily murder you by shooting you in the back

[fiery jasper]

Anyone notice how the second an npc gets an AEK they're immediately like 4 times more deadly

[graceful iron]

the fire rate and the fact that they dont have recoil when using guns.. yes

all npcs

[fiery jasper]

I was a bandit once fighting duty, one had the 7.62 AEK and he killed my decently armored companion instantly with one burst

I just heard BRRT

[graceful iron]

its a 545 gun tho

[fiery jasper]

Theres a duty variant that uses 7.62x39

Idk if it was removed in gamma

This particular instance i was playing normal anomaly

Yeah its called the AEK-973 and its icon shows its suppsed to have a camo but in game model looks identical to the 971

i partly lied it has a brown tint not camo (seperate aek)

[graceful iron]

i always thought there was just one AEK and it used 545 only

[fiery jasper]

theres this one, the duty camo one and the normal

[tidal raft]

That's true for GAMMA.

[fiery jasper]

ive found the 973 only on duty guys and since the id for it says wpn_aek_duty i assume it only spawns on duty

[graceful iron]

oh, that could explain then

[fiery jasper]

anomaly has a lot of guns no surprise youd forget or never even see some

i always forget about the kimber 1911 and its lack of animations

[tribal plover]

You don't get to buy gear in GAMMA? Not outfits\weapons?

[graceful iron]

nope, #│📚manual

[tribal plover]

sadge i guess

[slow topaz]

Hey uh
Wanted to ask if it’s normal that during the installation that mo2 doesn’t ask for me to put the path and skip a big part of the set up part and already shows my anomaly path

[slow topaz]

Just realized I should’ve put this in #old-only-installer-support and not here

[fresh aspen]

Hey, which mods to disable to get rid of Enhanced Shaders and dont get the shader compilation error? I would like to play still with Beef NVG and other stuff. (deleted shader cache already)

[graceful iron]

#old-framerate-optimisation ? i think you have to right click and reinstall beef's nvg without the patch for enhanced shaders

just tick beef's nvg option, nothing else and then replace

[fresh aspen]

Lol cool, haven't know that there is such a nice option to reinstall mods

Thank you

[graceful iron]

make sure to delete the shaders_cache folder in anomaly/appdata as well

[fresh aspen]

yeah i know

Glossy SSR is already there somewhere?

[graceful iron]

it was removed from gamma, so its not in the mod list

[fresh aspen]

Last question, any info when the SR-25 replacer will be there? It looks so nice!

[graceful iron]

grok mentioned a large weapons change and update at the end of this month hopefully

[tender tusk]

How to get expert tools? Can they be only obtained in stashes? Are they hidden somewhere? I've been doing quests and looting stashes for 8 hours now and still nothing.

[graceful iron]

only in stashes north, they start spawning in red forest and the further north the better #│📚manual

make sure you have a psy helmet before you go anywhere close to red forest though

[craggy fable]

Army Warehouse and Dead City are safe, I think. It is only Radar and Red Forest that are affected.

[graceful iron]

maybe i should have said that differently, i meant red forest and further north need a psy helmet

limansk is safe from the psy emissions but not safe from the monolith swarms

[slow topaz]

Does anyone know?

[magic reef]

in the manual it says collect armor parts above 50% and weapon parts above 60%. Playing three weeks now and highest I have found is 24%. What am I doing wrong?

To clarify with weapon parts i mean the barrel

[tall stream]

Does changing core 0 in modorganizer.ini and adding those lines is the same as changing it manually and disabling core 0 from task manager?

[tidal raft]

It's the same effect.

[craggy fable]

It's random but you will eventually find a few.

Or you will find/unlock a weapon servicing kit that lets you straight-up replace weapon parts.

[tall stream]

Thought so. It seems I am turbo pepega since changing that ini file doesn’t work. It still uses core 0

[graceful iron]

you can also buy weapon parts from mechanics

[zenith magnet]

Can i momentarely disable the cast travel delay mod without breaking the game?

[craggy fable]

You can definitely go to the mod settings and set delay to 1 hour.

That's what I do.

[zenith magnet]

Thanks

[craggy fable]

Straight up disabling crashed the game for me once.

So I do that instead.

[zenith magnet]

Good to know

[graceful iron]

you can disable the mod just fine, shouldnt cause any issues

you cant put the timer in the addon to 0 hours, but you can disable the addon

[willow hawk]

Good barrels are rare. But read repair kit description

[serene cedar]

I've done several searches but cannot find how to make the inventory screen (backpack, trader, etc.) be totally opaque. I'm not a fan of the slightly transparent, and it's not good on my framerate. Is it possible to be opaque?

[magic reef]

Ok. Thanks. Going to focus on buying parts from npc now.

[gritty hemlock]

hey people, is there a constant hissing sound or a static in the atmosphere in your game?

sounds like a really sensitive microphone noise

[willow hawk]

It has 0 impact on Framerate

[tidal raft]

You sure you set your windows settings correct?

[willow hawk]

You don't need to buy parts, they are very expensive

[serene cedar]

Ok, good to know. Then it is probably just my CPU dealing with the icons and tooltips. Thank you.

If there is any way, aesthetically, to make it opaque, please let me know. I would appreciate that.

[gritty hemlock]

Oh yes, maybe it's just ambient sound, as soon as I pause the game it stops.

[willow hawk]

Edit the texture

[tender tusk]

Does anomalous bread give satiety? I keep looking at my satiety level and it is not going up and I have the bread in a module that removes radiation.

[serene cedar]

Ah, I see. Ok, thank you.

[tidal raft]

There is ambient noise of crickets late in the evening, yes.
Which could be interpreted as white noise.

[gritty hemlock]

I'll investigate further, I reloaded and it drastically toned down

I was in the Darkscape area

[tidal raft]

The weather may have changed.

[gritty hemlock]

Oh

[tidal raft]

The change comes gradually, but if you save & load the engine will pop in the current weather immediately.

[warped ginkgo]

Need to edit the .dds directly i think

[dense blaze]

Are there certain spots in the north where Expert Tools are more likely to spawn? I've spent 2,5 ingame weeks and still haven't found any, despite checking every stash in the North i can

[tidal raft]

Some players have reported Radar to be reliable, including me.

[dense blaze]

Ah its one of the few areas i havent been to yet this playthrough, Radar it is then

[wise sparrow]

are you checking marked stashes

[vale mantle]

quicksave button (f5) does not work - there's a little freeze and no save is created. Bug or (questionable) feature?

[tidal raft]

See YACS in MO2.

[tall stream]

Saves near campfires or daddy token every 240s

[dense blaze]

Yes, i know unmarked are (or should mostly be) empty

[runic plume]

aight so i decided to do the quest where i gotta go to the agroprom underground and get strelok's shit

i got inside from one of the unmarked entrances , smacked the blood suckers , got the case with military docs and strelok's folder and dipped

but the quest marker still stays on one of the entrances

i even "used" the strelok folder and again nothing

will this bite me in the ass later or should i keep going even tho the quest marker is still there?

[graceful iron]

the quest from the swamp doctor ? living legend storyline ?

[runic plume]

yea

he gave me the locations of all labs immediately

when i completed anomaly a year ago im not sure it was like that

[vale mantle]

so, quicksaving is now possible ONLY next to campfires and bases? Disableing YACS used to enable standard quicksaves

[tidal raft]

Yes, but you also have to disable 'YACS no quit' in MO2 as well.

[vale mantle]

ah

[graceful iron]

that one is a new storyline called Dr.x or something, the actual story mission is living legend and it didnt change

[runic plume]

lol aight , well imma keep doing the other labs and hope that this shit isnt bugged

cuz the folder i found says it contains the location of x18 but i already have all of them marked lmao

also does the ghillie suit help you stay concealed more cuz i found one and wonder if its worth repairing

[tidal raft]

No.

[runic plume]

xd

might just wear it for the bonus swag then

[graceful iron]

its just bad in stats as well

[vale mantle]

disabled it, still no f5 saving...

[runic plume]

good shit that im finding advanced tool kits in every other stash then

#ballin

[tidal raft]

Did you click the option of 'Campfire saving' on character creation?

[vale mantle]

no

[graceful iron]

can you save normally ?

[vale mantle]

nevermind, problem solved, i had to start a new game

[obtuse orbit]

Can I edit the camera height? Normally done with actor.ltx but it doesn't work with GAMMA

[craggy fable]

How do you upgrade your PDA to see the dead bodies? I assumed it would appear at the Ecologist vendors since they are cool with new tech, but it doesn't seem to be the case for me. I have LVL 3 Sakharov store and there's still only Level 1 PDA.

[graceful iron]

craft the next tiers, each tier is crafted with a tier of toolkits (basic-expert , 1-3.1)

[craggy fable]

Ah, crafting once again. Will do tomorrow, then.

Thanks!

[viral stone]

You can craft expert tools?!? I am just blind as hell … had about 20 basic toolkits at one point in an older playthrough

[hoary veldt]

No, cat means that you need the experts to craft 3.0 PDAs

You're still gonna have to find Experts in stashes

[willow hawk]

Nope

And anyways you don't need expert toolkits to dominate the game

[viral stone]

Aahh okay i misread.
Also just found a sks tactical with scope and silencer in a very early run. Worth keeping or just stick to the allmighty kar98k?

[graceful iron]

worth keeping, uses a more powerful round (in terms of AP power) and is semi auto, but dont try using it without repairing at least the barrel

[mental token]

whats up with the fade to black when i try to go through a level transition

trying to head into the garbage from cordon

just get fade to black for about 5 seconds and then im still in cordon

[willow hawk]

Save reload

[mental token]

that did it, thanks

[topaz berry]

How much does chambering to a diff ammo type affect reliability?

[strong ice]

should we post any/all crash logs we get? or only recurring crashes?

[wary field]

So I'm typing "sin" in the new game menu but they aren't available. Ironically this is the only faction i

I've legitly unlocked

[graceful iron]

type greh, they are called greh

[wary field]

oh gotcha thanks. Is that a change or has it always been that?

[graceful iron]

in the files they always have been called that

[craggy fable]

From my experience so far, not much. I am comparing my old AK-105 with native 5.45 with my current AK-12 rechambered to 5.56 and I can't say that it is worse. I'd still take a reliability upgrade or two to be on the safe side.

[topaz berry]

hmm i see

thanks

[topaz berry]

so i am doing the last dawn questline

ive met gamajun

and he only has generic text

but my pda tells me that i have to rescue him

i dont know what to do

since he looks pretty safe to me

[stable stag]

The squad of attacking monolith gets bugged. They were sat in the apartment complex straight opposite where you find gamajun for me

[spiral kestrel]

did u find out where this "dump" was ?

[graceful iron]

which quest is it ?

if its the garbage one then the dead body should be under the flea market

[willow hawk]

It was re-translated a long time ago

This is in the Garbage map

[spiral kestrel]

well i still got the build from december/january, i fear im gonna lose my saves if i update

[willow hawk]

no you won't

You will have addons that need to be disabled yes

But you need to follow #💽how-to-update from old versions

which is more complex than clicking 2 buttons

[spiral kestrel]

i wanted to wail til the main quests are done

is it achievable without updating ?

[willow hawk]

what ?

[spiral kestrel]

finishing main quests

[willow hawk]

Yes it is achievable since 1st version

[grave canopy]

are sniper rifles worth it?

[willow hawk]

Lol yes

7.62x54r AP ammo: one shots everything lol

7.62x51 snipers aren't that good later on

Since you have better full auto options

[ruby rune]

Where do i find this addon that makes you be able to talk to other stalkers?

[graceful iron]

#old-suggest

[warped ginkgo]

go touch some gras

isn't it already included tho

[graceful iron]

you mean the online chat ?

[tidal raft]

You will regret it.

[brittle apex]

There is nothing to regret

[graceful iron]

life decisions like "why have i installed this mod?"

[late herald]

i change some of the mods settings but every time i do an update all my mods's settings get a reset , there is a way to stop it ?

[ruby rune]

Da

[graceful iron]

there is a mod in your mod list called mcm values-rename to keep your changes

[graceful iron]

#old-suggest scroll up a bit

[ruby rune]

thank you catto

[vestal yacht]

im pressing button for nightvisons but nothing happens just sound of enableing it, im doing something wrong or is it a bug. Nigtvision for scopes works

[warped ginkgo]

hold N

[graceful iron]

#│💻keybinds-in-gamma hold n for nvgs and press m for night vision scopes

[vestal yacht]

oooo thanku you it works 🙂

[ruby rune]

Also where do i have to put the files for the mod to work?

[late herald]

ok what i need to do

[graceful iron]

rename the mod after you update make sure the renamed mod is enabled and disable the original mcm values

[craggy fable]

Can I just sell the documents I got from the laboratories?

Or are they important later?

I have three sets by now, and Sakharov offers about 40K for them/

[graceful iron]

you are required to find them for doctor x questline but i am not sure if you have to keep them or not

[magic reef]

Is there any way to avoid the pulse anomaly death?

[graceful iron]

move away? or take cover

[magic reef]

Ok thanks

[ornate salmon]

lootboxes compatible with gamma?

[granite orchid]

um so

I can't use my nvgs for some reason ?

Checked / rebound keybind just in case

doesn't seem to work at all

[graceful iron]

holding n to turn them on?

[granite orchid]

ah had to hold it mb completely forgot

thanks

[tidal raft]

Yes. Check the compatibility patch in MCM > ZCP after you've installed it.

[craggy fable]

I am doing the third quest in the Researchers line (the one that starts in the Marshes) and now need to bring back three artifacts from the Wild Territory.

Where is the third one, unmarked on the map?

Has to be in the Radioactive Factory or something, but fuck if I know where that is in Wild Territory.

[rotund moss]

its the building that is "blocked" by a bit of wood that you can either run into pieces or stab so you can have short cut, you know the one if you think about it: You come from Rostok, you walk past the Sniper nest, past the Garages on the left side and the very next thing is a Factory building a path and more factory buildings to your left. yes its the first one, yes it makes sense once you see it, no there is usually no artifact spawn as far as i know, yes i went there because i thought why not, yes the 2 mercs in there did get me

[craggy fable]

Aha! Thank you.

[keen cradle]

"brightness" under "basic light settings" isn't doing anything when I use the slider. Is this normal?

[tidal raft]

With Dynamic Tonemap, yes.

[viral stone]

do silencers reduce bullet impact/damage?

[rotund moss]

not to my knowledge, tho i end up with silencers to stop ringing the food bell for the zone anyway

[tidal raft]

Suppressors increase the wear and tear of your barrel. That's it for negative effects.

[timber orchid]

~~I don't wanna sound dumb, but where is this thingy located? "GAMMA RC3/ModOrganizer.ini" ~~ nvm, I've found it.

[vocal abyss]

why don't any traders sell armor?

[thorny hazel]

progression balance, you have to find and repair them yourself

[magic reef]

whats the opinion on the mag redux mod for gamma?

[tidal raft]

Makes it too easy since you find magasines full of ammunition all the time.

[thorny hazel]

too much micromanagement basically

[magic reef]

ok i agree

[thorny hazel]

you can turn it on in optional mods, but once you enable it on a save you cannot disable it

[brittle apex]

If you enable it and disable old ammo to new addon it is actually balanced, but you get even more micromanagement. For someone that may be an issue

[vocal abyss]

ok thanks. Same thing with guns?

[thorny hazel]

yes

[thorny hazel]

read carefully through #│📚manual to learn how to do it correctly

[royal oxide]

I used to play with it, but after some time it just grows tedious, and you swim in ammo

[valid estuary]

What're the recommended specs for this modpack?

[warped ginkgo]

something capable of running dx11

[valid estuary]

Just wonder if mine 1060 (6Gb) and Ryzen 5 3600 are enough for stable experience since this pack has graphical mods.

[north turret]

i have a 1070 - 7700k i7 and even have high texture modpacks installed

on 1080p its 120fps

should be good 👍

[thorny hazel]

should be ok, i have a 6gb 1060 in a laptop and I'm running at pretty much stable 60 fps at 1080p with the reshade on

[valid estuary]

Okay, thanks for the quick responses, gonna try it out

[slow topaz]

If you tweak enough you can get it running like a charm

[fiery jasper]

I do this and limit myself to where i cant use old ammo, i think it balances it out

[untold oriole]

So seeing as we are now encouraged to actually use upgrade kits since they don't consume repair charges, can they be made lighter? 3 kilos is almost the weight of lugging around a whole ass weapon and makes taking more than one or two at a time back to your stash impractical for what is essentially a minor upgrade you can just pay for anyway

[brisk zinc]

No wait, they don't consume upgrades, but repairs

@calm tangle is that right?

We were just talking about this

[craggy fable]

They are supposed to not consume repairs, but consume upgrades.

It appears for @Arctic they consume neither.

That's what I got.

[brisk zinc]

I got the other way around then, like:

If you repair, you use the thing
If you upgrade, you don't

[calm tangle]

The update is to for Repair Kits to no longer be consumed when upgrading. Upgrade Kits should still be consumed.

[brisk zinc]

Okay I got that right then

[craggy fable]

Get a pack mule. Hip can be hired after completing her quest, but a lot of other stalkers will agree to travel together.

[calm tangle]

The only way to consume a Repair Kit charge, is to use to Maintain Parts, or to Clean a weapon.

But Repairing or Upgrading does not consume anymore.

(Repairing never did).

[untold oriole]

I hate having companions, they just get in the way half the time

[brisk zinc]

Backpacks then, like stashes

Or, the cheat way, my favorite: fast travel

Or, use the PDA with Limited Fast Travel enabled (if Grok didn't remove the "feature")
Basically, when you're inside a map, you can use your PDA to "send" your stuff to one of your stashed, the drawback is that the distance is limited and you to be inside the same map, so you need to be close

[craggy fable]

Not a big fan of her AI either, but 109 kilos of real estate are more important.

Also she is decent with a machine gun.

[untold oriole]

Man I always forget about that mechanic...

[brisk zinc]

I've just found out like yesterday or two days ago, incredible mechanic

[untold oriole]

It's just not intuitive, like, why would someone think you were able to do that, just teleport shit to your stashes, it's very gamey, more so even than fast travel

[ember vortex]

anything that completely removes dizziness after using something like the rebirth drug

?

[craggy fable]

Nope, you gotta suffer.

You can remove dizziness after being headshot by using any medkit, but that's it.

It doesn't last that long and meant to stop you from using permanent health restore items in combat.

[untold oriole]

Don't energy drinks and caffeine pills do that though?

[craggy fable]

Huh, that's an unexpected interaction.

I'll check.

[untold oriole]

Anything that says it has a "sobering effect"

[craggy fable]

Tomorrow, probably.

[untold oriole]

Cuz it uses the alcohol camera sway right?

[delicate wharf]

plenty of stimulants will help with dizzyness though depending on the stimulant and how dizzy you are it won't fully fix it

[craggy fable]

Well, that unrealistic as hell but I guess for the game balance it makes sense.

Good to know, thanks for correcting me!

[graceful iron]

anything with alcohol sobering effect, caffeine tablets, energy drinks and mineral water are a few examples

[ember vortex]

ah nice cheers

[tawdry cargo]

So can i not buy guns AT ALL? or can i get supply level high enough to buy them?

[graceful iron]

#│📚manual you cant buy guns at all

[brisk zinc]

Armors too

[craggy fable]

You technically can due to some bugs. You are not meant to, though.

[vale mantle]

is there an option to tone down radiation damage a bit? someone had gone absolutely insane with it while i was gone, now it takes 3-4 seconds to get half the bar in completely random rad zone in the middle of the road

[graceful iron]

where in the zone? and what is your gasmask ?

[tawdry cargo]

cheers chaps

[calm tangle]

Its kind of crazy at first, but its incentive to get players to use the anti-rad resistance medicines, like Radioprotectant.

[tawdry cargo]

got any tips on how to acquire new guns? (easiest to repair)

My ppsh is.. slacking xD

[graceful iron]

shotguns early with buckshot and slugs can kill most things, and are not too hard to field repair if you loot one with a good barrel

[calm tangle]

I recommend using Radioprotectant to cross big rad areas, and if you want to go artifact hunting. Try out Potassium Iodine. It gives -41 Rads I believe, for about 180 seconds.

[calm tangle]

What cat said. Check every guns parts, and strip them. Keep the ones that are over 60% (60 because then you can repair the parts with tools from the Technician like Ramrod) If its 50% you will need a repair kit.

If your looking for a gun to acquire first, find one with a good condition barrel. It will be a waste of your time to pick up an AK74 with a 20% condition barrel and attempt to repair it.

[tawdry cargo]

brilliant, cheers again guys!

[calm tangle]

Generally, if you are looking for a gun to use. Make sure it is atleast 20% weapon condition (So that you can clean it with a universal repair kit) and a good condition barrel.

If its below 20% you will need the weapons specific repair kit, and depending where you are in progression, that can be a long time.

[graceful iron]

or you can pay a technician to clean the overall gun condition

[calm tangle]

Oof, right, yeah.

I forgot that Technician repair even exists now, since it barely does anything.

[graceful iron]

depending on the base cost of the gun, this can be really cheap early game if its a cheap gun like old pump or double barrel shotguns

[calm tangle]

Yeah.

Since i'm here, I guess i'll ask.

is the AK74 PMC not in the Merc loadouts?

I have been looking for one, for awhile, and have killed tons of Mercs between different characters, and have never obtained a PMC AK from them.

I know for sure, that Loners can spawn with the AK PMC.

[graceful iron]

not sure who has it but i have seen it a few times

[calm tangle]

Yeah, I have seen Loners have it, but haven't gotten it from Mercs.

I know Mercs are generally NATO-focused, but it is kind of odd to me that an AK-74 PMC, are not in the hands of PMCs ?

Loners get it, yet its kind of odd how they do, considering they are not a private military at all.

'In the Zone similar models are usually used by mercenaries, Ukrainian special forces, various PMCs"

[graceful iron]

you can check the loadouts for mercs

but if its not there then its probably because of the ammo type

[calm tangle]

Yeah, I would assume.

I am guessing, that load-out changes are definitely not high on the list of priorities for GAMMA changes yea?

[untold oriole]

I swear I got one off a merc before so

[graceful iron]

almost certain grok is working on them for the end of month update with removal of duplicates and addition of new guns

[calm tangle]

Oooh, awesome, that sounds good.

[calm tangle]

I am checking the loadout file, and they do not have AK-74 PMC anywhere.

SVDS PMC tho

Interestingly enough, Mercs can have AKs until Veteran rank.

They actually have more AK options then NATO too. Unless i'm looking at the wrong loadout file. don't think so tho.

[graceful iron]

its called killer or merc i cant remember

[calm tangle]

Oh shit, is it Killer?

I thought that was Sin

[delicate wharf]

sin is greh

[calm tangle]

fack

oh man

[graceful iron]

you were looking at a WP faction's loadouts thinking it was mercs

[calm tangle]

they do have AK PMC

but its only available for master rank

[calm tangle]

well, actually Mercs do have AK options too.

[graceful iron]

even so

[calm tangle]

it wasn't well layed out TBH

the veteran rank had 6 options for primaries lol

but the ranks above that, had lists that went on for awhile.

[graceful iron]

they will change anyways(i think) so i think its fine

[delicate wharf]

im not sure if they are inclusive or not btw. High rank might mean they can use that wep or below?

[calm tangle]

I believe rank determines what they will spawn with.

[graceful iron]

no, each rank has a full list of their weapons

you can look at the loadouts ltxs

[calm tangle]

If it worked like this, then I probably would've found a PMC AK by now.

but now I know lol, its only available to Master rank Mercs

Oof, sorry Loners, but my reputation is gonna be going up&down for a bit.

[vale mantle]

ive just started new game and i can barely get out the bar without dying instantly

[brisk zinc]

I agree with him, that part of the map is insane if you don't have good gear, especially Army Warehouse

[graceful iron]

go south, loot stashes there you dont just spawn and head for a more northern area

also you have to start with a gasmask and one of the suits

radiation will fill up a bit still but wont kill you if you have decent protection

[vale mantle]

i did start with a gas maaaaaask

im doing duty questline, i literally have to start in the bar

[delicate wharf]

what mask does duty start with?

[vale mantle]

well, i guess i will just chug chug CHUG on vodka

[vale mantle]

worst possible, refitted pbf ors smh

[delicate wharf]

I know merc start is a bit rough if you aren't careful. Def have to use those initial anti rad supplies you get

that ain't the worst

[vale mantle]

which is?

[delicate wharf]

loner gets the respirator one

[vale mantle]

sheeeesh

[graceful iron]

i started with that on a merc in dead city and its fine

[delicate wharf]

on my current run I found a light repair kit so I repaired a refitted pbf within the first couple ingame hours

yea mercs start with the pbf and army warehouses is hard but not impossible

[graceful iron]

thats a super lucky find

[delicate wharf]

though with dynamic rad zones its always potentially possible you got super unlucky

[vale mantle]

arena may be an option

[graceful iron]

the arena is not balanced in gamma, can still be done

[delicate wharf]

yea I think I may have crafted the first one and found the second? Idk had two end of day one and basic tools from hip

[tawdry cargo]

Back again my dudes, So i've aqcuired the Toz - 34 bizon for hip!

It doesn't say it's complete? has Gamma changed it?

[graceful iron]

its the toz194 in gamma

read what the quest says

[tawdry cargo]

Oh okay cheers man!

i skipped it, i've read the OG many times 😛

[graceful iron]

you should ask about extra mods in #🔨modded-gamma-support but for installing HD models go to #custom-textures

[slow topaz]

why do character models look like this on the rain?

[graceful iron]

something something with some visual mod causing too much gloss under the rain, not sure about the exact cause

[slow topaz]

oh

[graceful iron]

try gloss factor in #│🔧troubleshooting , not sure if it works

[slow topaz]

Oke

[tidal raft]

Pretty sure it is SSS.

[graceful iron]

it can be adjusted ?

[slow topaz]

[tidal raft]

Not sure. I haven't cared enough to find out.

[graceful iron]

looks like you will have to keep searching then

[slow topaz]

I thought it happened only to wolf but now I realized it happens with all npc models

[graceful iron]

not just npc models, but its not too visible

[slow topaz]

strange because the scenery is fine

[graceful iron]

most objects are affected by it

[slow topaz]

Oh now I see it

Btw did the compass mod change

I have it enable but it shows a minimap

[brisk zinc]

@slow topaz did you deactive the minimap?

[slow topaz]

yea

[brisk zinc]

[slow topaz]

[brisk zinc]

It did actually change

It wasn't like that before

[graceful iron]

maybe it has a mcm now ?

[slow topaz]

Oh I think I know what it is

It’s because the addon has different compass versions

maybe it can be it

so the default might be this one now?

[brisk zinc]

It does but if you look in the mods page there isn't anything like that

[slow topaz]

Oh

I remember deleting the xml file but maybe it is like this because of my graphical changes?

[brisk zinc]

It's clearly a you problem

[slow topaz]

[brisk zinc]

Try to delete that .xml file again

[graceful iron]

wait

[brisk zinc]

okay_cat with the solution?

Let's find out

[graceful iron]

what does the option do ?

[slow topaz]

that's the problem

Reinstalled the addon

will see if it works

Oke now it works it’s just incredibly small

[brisk zinc]

There are options in the installer about it

[slow topaz]

Yea I set it to size 200 now I guess it’ll do

[slow topaz]

I think I’m gonna disable sss
consuming too much fps and making the textures weird in the rain

is it worth it?

[north turret]

hello. im a huge dummy. i touched the sleep dep and water dep settings. How do I fix it? Im ok starting a new game.

[brisk zinc]

You start a new game

Simple as that

[north turret]

alright thanks

i wont make that mistake again

[brisk zinc]

Good

[warped ginkgo]

you better not

[brisk zinc]

[north turret]

"wait i cant sleep to heal limbs... oohhh.... thats why they said dont touch sleep deprevation settings..."

[brisk zinc]

Apart from that, it royally fucks up everything

You can still play with that save

But you will have issues, bugs, crashes, shit

At the point that the only thing you need to do is start a new game

[north turret]

if i want bugs, crashes, and general instability i'd just install SGM again.

[brisk zinc]

Don't know what that is

[north turret]

its a bad attempt at Nardonaya Solyanka but in COP

it has bloodsucker-monolith hybrids that can cloak and shoot at you while cloaked.

[brisk zinc]

Always wondered about that modpack if it's any good or even recommended (it's a modpack right?)

[slow topaz]

yo where is the gamma reshade preset located

my reshade menu can't locate it now that I made my own preset

[tidal raft]

With the installer.

[slow topaz]

somehow my preset went to overwrite folder

[brisk zinc]

GAMMA RC3.Grok's Modpack Installer\G.A.M.M.A\modpack_patches\bin\reshade-shaders

[slow topaz]

oke

[brisk zinc]

In /bin you can also find

[tidal raft]

#🔨base-gamma-support message

[brisk zinc]

Okay but you're too vague

[tidal raft]

"Teach a man how to fish.."

[sly reef]

hey, little question. I believe i saw somewhere a guide to make the game darker, but can't seem to find it. Can someone direct me to the proper guide for GAMMA ?

[hollow apex]

maybe try reshade's options?

[graceful iron]

that or try tweaking the mcm options for dynamic tonemap

[wise sparrow]

you can also adjust the darkness of nights in the vanilla options

[sly reef]

damn sweet i'll check these out, thanks !

[hollow apex]

is mag-dump gonna deteriorate gun parts more than single-shot? I mean, how do GAMMA handle gun parts deterioration? x% chance per bullet? or something to do with the firing speed?

[wise sparrow]

fwiw you should give the default setup a try it's in a pretty good spot imo. some nights that are clear will be well illuminated by a bright moon and others that are cloudy or have a new moon will be almost pitch black.

[sly reef]

yea been playing for a while now, i'm just a sucker for pitch black darkness

[wise sparrow]

there's a readme in the WPO folder that goes over how weapons degrade in WPO

[graceful iron]

shooting a gun faster seems to lower the overall and parts condition faster, and the rain makes them degrade even faster

[wise sparrow]

full auto will heat up your gun and deteriorate it much faster especially if you are using a suppressor

the barrel is independent of condition and lasts for 5000 rounds

[hollow apex]

interesting, so there's actually a heat value in game

[graceful iron]

another reason to not full auto

[wise sparrow]

i still full auto anyway 9x19 supremacy

[barren moon]

Pardon folks, running through the install; and in the instructions it says:
"Verify that 272 addons are active"

I seem to have..... 273? I assume this is just the result of an update, but figured I'd double check, and let you know to update the instructions page as well. :)

[graceful iron]

there is one new mod so 273 is correct

[barren moon]

Cheerio!

Well then, I've done my due diligence, and informed you that the instructions discord page still says 272))

[brisk zinc]

We need to remove that thing, it never is a fixed number

[barren moon]

Well Falco - wish me luck on HDD. FIngers crossed xD

[ancient hearth]

so which main quest stories do i get to do as a merc?

assuming living legend is off limits

[graceful iron]

you can do living legend just fine

you can do the new artefact hunters, clear sky's new dawn and Dr.x storylines all in addition to the main living legend storyline

#│📚manual

[ancient hearth]

but isnt that base in the laundromat a loner base

[graceful iron]

the whole story is filled with loners, yes, but dushman literally tells you that you will need to go undercover (basically disguise)

[ancient hearth]

ah ok

[graceful iron]

take the quest from dushman and go to swamps doc and ask him about strelok, for that part you dont even need a disguise as the doc does not mind you being a merc

[ancient hearth]

yeah i asked and got bad rep with mercs so i assumed i just shouldnt do it

[graceful iron]

the swamp doc will have a new option, something about the zone and thats how you start the Dr.x questline if you are interested in doing that one

[graceful iron]

it will do that here and there but you will have to do missions for mercs to get the rep back

[ancient hearth]

yep i activated this as well

thanks for the help friend

[graceful iron]

this stat in the pda statistics tab does not count junk artefacts and junk artefacts are always visible even without a detector, is this intended ?

[strong ice]

Sometimes when using the free zoom, it gets "stuck" zoomed in... until you reload the save.

this is sort of a severe bug as when using free zoom it makes you move very slowly, and can make it almost impossible to get to a campfire to quick save and reload, so unless you have a daddy save ready to use, or are within 15 meters of a campfire, it can be a serious annoyance. I had to walk halfway across the swamps stuck like that in order to quicksave and reload to fix it.

[drowsy girder]

sgm is a narodnaya solyanka?

aren't those usually like huge as fuck?

cumulative pack for example is what comes to mind when i see narodnaya solyanka

also correct me if i'm wrong, but wouldn't it make more sense if exos would speed you up instead of slowing you down? They do carry your weight after all

[graceful iron]

you can use console save anywhere

[strong ice]

True enough, but for people who don’t know that it could screw them over big time.

[graceful iron]

ask about it also, the freezoom bug is very rare unless you somehow spam it ?

[willow hawk]

more or less

[graceful iron]

why you flex, i cant seem to find artefacts other than junk and now i have to fuse even more

[willow hawk]

Also, I just got started

[plush jackal]

Is RAPTR here yet?! Also, is it safe to update and continue saves? (from about a month ago)

[willow hawk]

It's ready but not there yet

It will be part of a larger revamp of NPCs loadouts

And I'm also pushing lots of rebalance changes

and most likely the RAPTR update will be 1.0

[strong ice]

I experience it fairly frequently.. I've had it happen 3 times in the last 2 days.

[graceful iron]

what exactly causes it? spam of animations while zooming ?

i never experienced it

[strong ice]

It usually happens when I'm fighting, I'll pull my gun out and use freezoom, and it just gets stuck in freezoom, I don't think I spam it, but I'll use it while looking for an enemy or engaging them if I don't have a scope that's adequate.

I have it bound to my side mouse button, maybe that is a cause?

[graceful iron]

nope, it used to be the default button and it never caused issues

[willow hawk]

If you have view on toggle, it's a problem

[strong ice]

It's not on toggle for me, It's on hold to use

[willow hawk]

Never had the problem or very rarely...

[strong ice]

It just did it for me now the first time I pressed the button...

[willow hawk]

let me try something

[strong ice]

no guns out, nothing,

[graceful iron]

does pressing it again fix it ?

[strong ice]

nope,

have to reload the save, and it stays stuck on even after the loading of the save until I press it again,

Press freezoom button, freezoom is stuck, save game, load save, freezoom is still on, press freezoom button, unzooms and is fixed.

[tribal plover]

Duty expansions would only work with start of a new game?

[molten tartan]

Does anyone else have the issue that left-clicking gets stuck in the inventory or when firing a gun (emptying half the mag on full auto)? I have to left-click again to un-stick it.

[graceful iron]

its quite bugged(mild-game breaking), but i think you can add it to an existing save but you cant remove it from it after

but i think you should backup the save files before adding it just in-case

[tribal plover]

Anomaly doesn't suffer from all.spawn stiffness, eh?

Remember back in SOC modding it used to be hella pain in the ass due to that file

[willow hawk]

That script should be much more robust

[strong ice]

How do I install it?

[willow hawk]

ah

[strong ice]

I've never modded stalker before aside from modpacks lol

Just drag and drop into modules?

[willow hawk]

Download this. In MO2 > Ctrl+M > Show this > Click Ok > Tick it > make sure it's loaded last in MO2 (bottom)

[strong ice]

I presume I need to unzip it first? like onto my desktop?

[tribal plover]

Nah, MO will unpack it

[willow hawk]

Just tested it, there's an issue if you shoot full auto and THEN click zooming....

[strong ice]

It even does it to me without full auto

It did it earlier without me even having a gun out lol

[willow hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-wake-up-morning-morning-sleepy-gif-21844360

I don't know

[strong ice]

F

Should I put the fix into the "Gamma fixes" tab? or just leave it in the "disabled" tab?

[willow hawk]

Don't use the "fix"

it's even more bugued

Buy a scope

[fleet grail]

how can fix be more bugged

[willow hawk]

Because it uses another way of getting FOV which is affected by another script

[strong ice]

LMAO RIP

[tribal plover]

Mmm. How do i disable item drop via shift? It works even in trade menu, so if i want to trade shit and just whoosh items - he just drops it on ground instead of putting it in trade window.

[strong ice]

So tl;dr the script is actually a way to torture me? lol

[willow hawk]

MCM change key

[cobalt lintel]

Hey, I have a question in regards to armor repairs. Disclaimer: I'm very new at crafting (With a few hundred hours in game but only recently explored the crafting side of things). I'm in a save with about 50 hours in it and 95% of the time playing I've been running around with zero armor durability. I know i cannot repair it via mechanics but farming for a heavy armor repair kit seems an impossible task and that I've hit a wall. Any tips as to repair my armor? I feel like im doing something wrong and that this isnt normal. I hope this is the right channel, I'm not used to posting in these.

[strong ice]

Holy shit I just saw what you meant.... It's making it zoom, then getting stuck, then zooming even more, and now It's like 20x zoom level xD

[willow hawk]

yes

But without shooting > zooming the script would work better

[strong ice]

true enough

[tribal plover]

Get a toolkit for your armor, check your armor parts - find them via disassembling other armors with same parts or just by finding\bying parts themselves. Then fix parts and replace your outfits broken parts at mechanic table with toolkit, compatible to your armor.

[willow hawk]

I'll do another fix like on actor first update get the fov values

[strong ice]

I noticed you have like 2-3 different zoom mods in MO2...

could that be the cause?

[hoary veldt]

This, and use the emergency repair kits or whatever you have on hand to fix up the components you don't have if you can reach the repair %. Keep the glues for making extra repair kits and the like

[graceful iron]

#│📚manual but basically you need to do quests, get stash locations as rewards and get toolkits to craft repair kits, disassemble all armors you find and take any parts with a hammer or any parts that have 50% condition or above, repair the parts with an armour field kit or a sewing thread and then replace them into the suit using the crafting menu (while having the repair kit in your inventory, it wont consume the kit to replace the parts but its still needed)

there is a lot more to the whole crafting/repairing mechanics but explaining the whole thing is not much easier than learning it since it will be a wall of text and experiencing it with some basic knowledge #│📚manual is a better way to understand it

you can right click on a toolkit and open workbench, no need to use a technician's vice

[cobalt lintel]

Ah okay, thank you for the responses. It seems I'm going in the right direction its just getting all the materials for the heavy armor repair kit is incredibly expensive. I've been dedicating all my time to grinding quests to buy the materials needed to make this kit but I'm running on 40-50 hours with 0 armor durability, stuck to the bottom quarter of the map. I feel i would need 100k plus to buy everything I'd need to make the kit on top of necessities. I don't want to sound like I'm complaining. I love how much this mod is kicking my ass. It's just, is everybody else running around with 0 armor durability until 30+ hours?

[hoary veldt]

I try my best to fix up my armor ASAP, since I try not to abuse dying and reloading to saves. But everybody plays differently. The main idea is that you disassemble all the armors and focus on the lighter, more affordable armors and work your way up as you get the repair kits for the armors but there's honestly nothing stopping you from running around with 0 durability armor beyond less protection, so

[graceful iron]

with the progression you need to start small with a light suit (light suit repair kit compatible) and get a basic kit to craft the light suit kit, replace the parts and it will gain overall condition and then maintain it normally with repair kits to 100%

[fleet grail]

Your biggest issue is sticking to bottom corner of the map.

Default settings set that higher the stalker level, better the loot. Durability range of outfit drop goes up from 5, 10, 35 depending on the stalker's rank

[willow hawk]

Ok I fixed it #📢development

[fleet grail]

Also, Light, medium, heavy and exo have all diff durability ranges on loot tables

[willow hawk]

In case of issue, zoom in and it will reset to the FOV you start with (after loading) or last FOV you set in options menu

it should fix any FOV related issue 😉

After stress testing the system I had like one small issue (if you zoom in exactly when shooting I think) but if you zoom in again, everything is back to normal

[willow hawk]

Sticking to the bottom of the Zone won't make you progress

The idea is to know when to transition a bit more to the north

i.e. Limansk, Army Warehouses, etc

that's where the fat loot is

[graceful iron]

basic toolkits spawn in the south maps stashes (only marked stashes) and basically unlock the early game equipment and repair kits, and then you advance to middle maps like army warehouses (you will need some better rad res or you will die walking anywhere, so a decent early game gasmask is required) and look for stashes there to get an advanced kit and this will unlock a big part of mid-late game equipment and repair kits. expert only spawns north of army warehouses and you need a psy helmet to go there(even through red forest) and will unlock almost everything else for you to craft/repair wall of text

[willow hawk]

Also yes, Heavy repair kit is meant to be expensive with the advanced kit

[cobalt lintel]

You're right. I'm using late game tiered equipment I found off a geared guy when I cant even afford to maintain it. I'll switch back to my lighter armor and focus on making a kit for that first. Also, my rank expert. @willow hawk I agree haha! Its just i cant go anywhere else without dying from rads or psy fields. With my equipment always at 0, i simply cannot progress elsewhere.

[hoary veldt]

Keep that looted gear around in a stash though, when you nab an expert/the materials with an advanced, you can fix it right up and equip it for the Northern zones

Plus the catharsis of finally fixing the damn armor is there too

[willow hawk]

Armors getting damaged is mainly from anomalies when you don't have a high enough protection

[willow hawk]

Man yesterday night I finally got the expert toolkit and had to play Salt and Sacrifice, I still managed my gear for 2 hours and finally upgraded everything

[strong ice]

@willow hawk also I still am finding ammo parts on crows, figured I’d let you know.

[hoary veldt]

Meanwhile me, having to complete the main storylines without Expert tier gear because RNG is a bitch

[fleet grail]

Grampa's cabin workbench should have all toolkits to have a static expert toolkit, since he can upgrade all armor and all guns to max anyway

[cobalt lintel]

Also, unrelated topic but since you're all here. I'm having an issue where nearly every other gun I use is put in an endless weapon swap animation when trying to reload or use it. I looked through #old-bugs and #│🔧troubleshooting and couldn't find anything. Everything else has been working great.

[hoary veldt]

Is it jammed?

Pressed Z?

[cobalt lintel]

It could be, since its just me testing with low durability items. But i did end up reparing one to full and still having the same issue.

[fleet grail]

I dont understand the artificial gatekeeping of "not selling guns" or "haha, good luck getting a toolkit". It doesnt make the game any harder, just annoying and tidious.

[hoary veldt]

Try pressing Z, see if it works

[cobalt lintel]

I will try that now.

[hoary veldt]

If it doesn't fix it, you'll have to defer to the others

[graceful iron]

dont use broken guns or at least guns with damaged barrels, damaged barrels reduce the damage your gun does and other parts being damaged increase jamming chance

[fleet grail]

no ammo or mags(attached to your loadout) = that animation

[willow hawk]

For a completely abused price

[fleet grail]

25k for 5 minutes

[graceful iron]

dont do it