#╓☢stalker-chat
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yeah black road
?
looks hella difficult
Extremely Slavic name. I wonder how you'd pronounce it.
im not an authority on ANYTHING russian but i read it ooopeer
starting to get mad cause it keeps dropping me duplicate books, I need the vol 2 of backpack crafting asap
im sure you could easily find someone here who is fluent in russian to tell ya
coming back after playing all the metro games is really cool
hearing the "lurker" screams gives flashbacks lol
this guy did something REALLY wrong for 3 different people to want him dead
there arent any duty light armors right? only the leather jacket
yeah i was thinkin that
Does anyone here actually uses burst fire?
Only on the AN-94
It's kinda funny the experience with burst fire was more or less a reflection of reality. IE, it seemed like a good way to ensure the accuracy of single shot while making it easier to get multiple rounds on target. But instead it's just combining the worst aspects of single shot and automatic. Better off just tap firing in automatic for standard combat engagements.
*Man,*these pistols drop real damn often. Excellent moneymakers if you have Black Market,and a surplus of parts.
They are T3 Warsaw Pact,though,so good luck selling them in the South.
Fighting sin is really miserable
I've had excellent success with a machine gun running FMJs.
Use HP against Sin. Only learned that recently. They have poor armor and a flat resistance boost.
Mid range. Short controlled bursts.
Sometimes poor armor, pretty much always bad helmets tho
So hydrashock headshots will down them real quick
Seems like most squads have an Exoskeleton wearing guy,at least for me. And most squads have at least one guy in SKAT equivalent.
FMJ is,generally speaking,safer and more forgiving.
That's the real Sin counter tho
I mean... I pitched one grenade and wiped out 2/3 or 3/4 of the reprisal squad sent as part of the Mortal Sin questline.
They were all bunched up. Couldn't resist.
Love my gun but all the optics suck ass send help
The EOTS-62 is an amazing sight.
In my CNPP raid in the last room i killed like 6 monolith with one nade
NATO merchants carry it.
Brother it's 400k 
I do not have
400k
I've got like 800kg of loot in my stashes and all of that probably isn't worth 400k
what the sleeping bag doin
Artifacts are good money makers. I sold a few mid/highish tier ones last hard run for 300k, once I was done putting together my end game artifact build.
I'm real sad because it's got a laser sight but for some reason the laser is minuscule and barely visible so i can't just slap a 4x and go canted in close quarter
Calling the elcan ass is wild
Then do jobs.
Make and sell artefacts. Especially fetch jobs for them. The better the condition,the bigger the payday.
If you have Black Market installed,make it a point to repair the gear you never plan on using,and sell it at appropriate merchants.
It just doesn't click for me for some reason
TBH, I've gotten bored of the Specter. It's just obviously the best sight that's reasonably affordable, and so I've used it on everything.
Wish there were more competition.
Wtf is this quest dawg
It's not the best it's Just good
You become blind if you need to move an aim and or jump
Red dots have their purpose, naturally, but for general zone exploration I can't think of a better overall optic. Variable zoom, clean crosshairs.
I wish I could afford a canted sight
I wish it had a zoom between 1x and 4x 
I find myself liking thermals more than any other offering. Clean sights is one thing. Unambiguous target acquisition is another thing entirely.
Red dots are for putting on my hydrashock smg
Thermals are better, but they're out of reach monetarily until late game, especially on hard. I still spend the most time running with a Specter mid game.
Can companions rank up while working with you?
Just noticed this Rookie named Rus is now experienced
yes they can
I've kept him alive since I've left rookie village after a new story
That's fucking cool
Is the laser really hard to see or is it me being colorblind? I swear it's on
Starting to realise, the early game is better than late game
I have too many guns now I dont know what to use
that laser pointer is not on
Hunt syn and mono
Anyone ever get stuck with n Northern Hospitality mission? I’ve killed everyone but no queue to go to the deserted hospital.
I swear to you it's on, i can barely see it in the dark
Thats going to give me more gun

I dont want more gun
All your guns are 100% condition? lol
I may of hoarded components
It was on in both pictures, the first one it was pointed at the lighter part of the wall
It's basically only visible on dark colors or with NV on 

least it's not a huge problem
something like the laser pointer separated from the gun (never happened
Sad cause i love going canted usually
The one redeeming factor is getting to blast Sid's face off with a KS-23.
Ive been thinking of accepting it, what do you have to do anyway
Go to the iron curtain anomaly
Fight evil shadow clones of yourself
go into the area under the anomaly
fight 2 controllers wearing sidorovich's skin
Then fight a big burer while explosions are dropped at your feet
Might be more im not sure
Sounds uh...fun?
- Fight clones of you with your gear (Or close to it), who vanish after you kill them. Basically just the Projections from the final part of the CNPP raid.
- Take down two Controllers who ambush you at close range, one in front, one behind.
- Take out a super Burer who will spawn grav anomalies on top of you, you can cheese him by hiding under the large thing in the central hangar.
Pay is very OK from this. Bring a very strong mutant killing weapon if you decide to go through with it.
There really doesnt seem like much to do in the north
Kinda, yeah. At this point, I just gear up for the CNPP raid and end my runs. Stick to Jupiter/Prip/Outskirts primarily, Zaton's pretty dull to run around in.
I spend most of the game preparing for the brain scorcher
So I can spend the rest of it preparing for CNPP
Still need to farm the north for that. Expert tools/exo suits/D class weapons/etc.
some guns like the ak74 pmc and venom dont have a laser pointer even when you turn it on
Might do a sledgehammer centered military run or somethin
Actually nah mercenary would work better
finally got a lapua sniperrifle but now i dont want to spend these bullets on random enemies that arent heavily armored monolithians
now do it again
yall idk if lapua is even worth using anymore, its so expensive that buying it is very unsustainable
Why i went back to my remington
throwing gold bricks at mutants
wait wtf i just got one of these and i upgraded it to 6 belt slots thinking it was just a glitch
i used it to shoot a renegade and now im regreting it
maybe i should just use my mdr
You *hand load it,*and keep it in reserve for shit like UNISG Nosorogs.
Man i'm hungry, thirsty and sleepy
I should have 6 energy drinks, nobody bad ever came out of drinking 6 energy drinks
He aura farming
They all came up from below,looking at where I fired from last. I'd since crossed the hall.
They didn't get to shoot.
flings a single 9-volt battery at Nako
Damn a burer hits you with his electric blast ONCE
Was worth upgrading
!mags
#🤖bot-commands
just loaded into the game without changing any mods or settings, and the UI is broken - shows my health, stamina, radiation being fully depleted, wont show stalker names/factions, and the inventory is no longer organized, its all just one big category
anybody know what could be causing this?
Started a quest to clear mutants and it gave me 5 npc allies, how fucked am i?
restarted pc and its fixed
if you're talking about the one the dude in yanov gives you, its like 4 pseudogiants or something
and one is really big
Oh no this one doesn't give you any ally, done it a few times
The one i got is in Outskirts
New weird gun spotted
is it me or does this look a bit low quality
No
it's the Scar H from Anomaly

I'm using Drunk's Miserable Masks and hiding BHS (unless I look down in-game) with SIBU (Somewhat Immersive BHS Ui)
got the big ol scope for the benelli
merc always have weird ass loadouts especially the higher ranks
Pressing H should also help iirc
Oooh baby
no, you just buy it
making it is too costly
money is easier to get than AP rifle bullets
just buy .338
i got one too that im lugging around just gotta get back to rostok to hand in like 10 different quests then im gonna buy some lockpicks and see what i get
Based
i think it only takes me like 2 days to make enough money to clean out 1-2 traders of .338
thats because money is a joke
Also I keep forgetting you can just craft lockpicks lol
pretty cheap, too, since it's like 3 metal pieces per
you can?
Yup
shit
yeah i made lockpicks cost 1 metal piece, its dumb it takes a whole 3 for 1
check the equipment section next time you're at a crafting bench. The lockpicks should be at the bottom.
kek
its funny because more often than not, i cant even make lockpicks
either i dont have metal scrap
or i dont have basics
dosnt show up for me in equipment
lemme find the lootbox mod im using
Not bad.
With the stupid fucken mirage quest super burer
Odd.
Do I want to use a ks-23
this is the one im using
yeah idunno, I'm using the most up-to-date version.
Or a .45 hydroshock strayer voigt
straight off moddb?
I think from the channel in this server
Oh sweet jesus i had nothing but Exo monos at the barrier defense call
I'm also using Western Goods, but I don't think that mod should be offering lockpicks.
i think it might be the diamond edition one but thats outdated so idk
And now I know why there's no self-loading 23*75mm shotgun shell ammo in the D class.
The shell literally lacks the grunt to cycle any manner of self-loading mechanism.
youre not, because this one is more up to date
and/or better
what I'm using
yea thats the one im using
hold on lemme look at mine
think if might of downloaded an old version on mistake ill have to check it later
Good bye ironman run, it was nice while it lasted
Depends on purpose.
Ks 23 does good job against more stronger mutants.
While .45 is more effective on low hp mutants in groups
that was a very unfortunate defense at the barrier
oh i have this one too then 
just looked
me when i misinform and lie

12 gauge shotguns are better than 23mm 
usually because higher fire rate
since theres the saigas
and the M1014
and the MP155
Depends on purpose, but 12 gauge is more all rounded
and almost any other semi shotgun
12 gauge is just better
more fire rate = more dps
= better
M1014....Best shotgun
KS23 is funnier
if only i knew where tf it spawns
including raptr
KS-12
UNISG // Freedom // Mercenary // Ecologist
Master / Legend
Monolith // Sin
Legend
there ^
now you know
Guess i was unlucky, killed a lot of master/legend mercs
youre best off farming ISG for it
Killed the bastard
Funnily enough i havent seen a single isg in that run
theres also chimera hunter
they only spawn up north
shitter
just take ks-23 at that point
or the ksg 23
i got one off a dead body might fix it up to fuck around with
they rarely spawn south
its ok for fun
never*
Never?
i used to have em in darkscape?
you shouldnt
huh
if you play as ISG, you spawn in darkscape
if you dont, they shouldnt be there
so no idea
hmmm
Welp round 2 of the ironman run lets go
i love hunting ISG
its one of my favorite pastimes
get your .338 rifle and get to hunting
Oh cool monolith exosuit
i bully the mercs more often than not
of course your .338 should be for nosorogs, and nothing else, i spare no expense ensuring they dont survive
i play as mercs 9/10
i mean at that rate, id just use the .338
I hate playing as the mercs sometimes because if unlucky you get psudogiant
for the pissants? no
love playing mercs for that reason
thats lucky
because neat thing about giants, theyre tanky
you know what that means
lure it to the base, and let the giant kill as many as possible before the mercs put it down
More loot
Yeah but it’s a bad day when it kills someone important
it wont
because it rarely ever makes it past the door
it usually kills the people outside
then dies
also, you just make a hard save
before you do this
reload it if you must
Then I am unlucky I’ve had it kill the trader and the medic once
Yeah
im impressed
His fukin body went out of the upper window when it did its stomp attack
Arslan killed it in the end but there was only 3 mercs left

thats hilarious
well, thats unlucky for you, but i always start a run like that
if it goes well
which it usually does
I brought an RPG-7 with ten warheads plus one in the pipe for the Limansk and beyond section of Mortal Sin. Overkill? I think NOT!

like i said im very unlucky
literally

i didnt realize the benelli had a 10 round mag decided to swap out the fraiser for it
Gonna make some bank off of these guns. Except for the RPG and Gauss. Gonna keep those for personal use.
They really should add a different name for the more tacticool version of this thing:
just so they don't share the same name at least 
Is that the only material difference? The top one can mount things?
yeah
- a laser sight
actually i'm not sure if you can attach the suppressor to the regular version or not as well.
Probably a side effect of the fact it's just a "kit". Though Swamp Thing manages to be a completely different weapon, so 🤷♂️
you can
ah
whats the keybind to open reshade
are companions supposed to be invincible lol
What kind? normal ones, no
oh its fanatic is that why
i always force him to come along with me
my lil loot mule
named characters also aren't supposed to be invincible
they just have super high damage reduction
but they can and will die
the only npcs that are actually supposed to be fully invincible but for one reason or another can die are strelok and his squad (who can die to damage not coming from the player sometimes and also player damage) and chernobog before the boss fight (who can die to player damage even if he's not supposed to be able to)
like say at the end of the deserted hospital you can straight up snipe chernobog before talking to him and softlock yourself in that part of mortal sin
gatekeeper is also not supposed to be able to die ever but he can super easily die when offline for whatever reason i don't think anybody has even dug into that bug
people just know it sometimes just happens so it's always in your best interest to get living legend breakthrogh done as soon as possible into the save
WHEREEE IS ITTTT
cant gatekeeper only die online if he like is rpgd
didnt know you can fail the quest to retrieve stolen artefacts by opening the artefact container
i just wanted to disassemble it :/
nah bro has all immunities set to 0
he should be fully unkillable
if he dies to player damage then you have gbo to blame because it just doesn't care about anything at all
yeah tbh I have no clue why those artefacts are still in containers
artifact containers got removed in the Artefact Overhaul
thats so clutch thank u
i was gonna say that that might be impossible to do nowadays because the item grab animation blocks sprint
but then i realized oflin did it completely naked
and with dogshit movement
that's actually a great proof for people that you can in fact enter the house without a red hazmat
Does scouting mean i have to kill the group of stalkers?
interactive pda?
does it? i somehow never noticed
Even then you could have so much stuff that gives burn res
idr any quest called scout the area in the base game but surely it's just kill people
why wouldn't it be
(interactive pda has a "scout the area" quest type that's literally just walk into the area and leave for the next one)
yeah i think you can even just buy surge suppressor at trader level 2 for a free 20% res
how is it free when you have to buy it 
thats what it is im pretty sure, ive never seen this task ever
i mean you don't have to work towards crafting it 
No wait we use ruble ah fuck
did you know that in the zone people trade with soviet rubles?
but it's still fun to speculate on conversion rates for basic stuff like idk energy drinks
It's fun to speculate for much money you're risking your life on fighting a boar or like 5 dogs
Why are my skies so bright when it's like 3am
Moon cycle
It's Just how some nights are
could be I guess
Or at specific time and weather
I've just noticed how when there's hardly any clouds out, the moon casts god rays like the sun lol
I gotcha
Seriously the game looks like silent hill or resident evil sometime, enjoy the one night it doesnt
That's sun rays too
Had no busyhands so far and i'm glad
Just seems real random when it happens for me
considering gunmoney says the c kit costs 15k and that anomaly starts in october 29 2018, putting together an ak rifle provided you have a piece of wood and some bent aluminum sheets (the kit manifests the functional parts into existance) would cost you 380usd (or 456 if you want to count the extra remaining charge)
either BHS won't show up as it should (I hide it with a mod unless I physically look down in-game), or ofc if animations just aren't working.
Nice

Guns are cheap in the zone
But Life is cheaper
day 6 no ash 12
It should be illegal to give sin nosorogs
Wtf you mean ash12
True
day 6 as in irl days its like my billionth run
Had to use 50 hydra shock rounds to the head to kill one
also i have storymode off because i've done the miracle machine too many times
and i just wanna go to RF at this point
Mmm
Yes
Cuz someone told me to use hydra shock on sin
And i have no idea why
But it seems to work
because they tend not to wear armor
70% damage reduction but armor works the same
if they are wearing armor you shouldnt
Okay
you wouldn't use hollow points on isg despite them having 30% damage reduction
I do wonder what the breakpoint is? As in, what level of armor it takes for the extra damage of HP to fall off and for FMJ/AP to be more effective.
I'm never using HP on unisg, that's for sure
well hydrashok has 10 pen

it has 0 no?
if the game had slower cycle rates for all guns then MAYBE you'd worry about them "breakpoints" but as it is you just hold lmb for 0.3 seconds more in the worst case scenario
it has 10
like a normal nosorog unit on hard takes 8 9x18fmj headshots at 20m out
which is basically none
I've had Sin tank stupid amounts of 7.62 NATO FMJ before.
Yup
i know because i have the game open and just looked
if you gonna fight unisg get a SVD or a sniper they are spooky
im playing without the search animation so as soon as i shoot
they jiggle peak and run for cover
who is best equipped to get to the center of the zone out of these
frankly power armor would absolutely curb stomp everything in the zone
a suit of power armor could fist fight a chimera
until he runs into electro anomaly
kid named bethesda fusion core duration
also he cant see at night while dude on the right can

If I can make guass rifle batteries by rubbing a Flash the right way, pretty sure I could jury rig some fusion cores.
fusion core in the lore can last a century
this is true
but lets be so real a dude in power armor would get mogged by .308 AP
because PA has shit dura in a lot of the games
if its whole BoS maybe they can do some dmg but a lone knight i dont see it
nobody in power armor would go to the center of the zone because they would be too busy trying to find some lost family member
As though the other two guys wouldn't also get mogged by .308 AP....
They can actually duck and cover
And are hard to hit
like a Controller
i think stalkers rendition of powered armor is more realistic than fallout even tho its less cool
artyom has plot armor and wont have any family members to look for considering the third book starts with him failing to nut because the radiation has turned his balls into raisins
im surprised that gsc didnt add some kind of fusion core like feature to exos in s2
its just diff approach
fallout armor is a suit, stalker is more like advanced army mesh system
i mean exoskeletons are also partly a suit
buut the suit can be separated from the exoskeleton
you are still flesh and bones in the exo
its just makes it so you can carry more jump higher distribute your weight
carry bigger klevar
it would be like fallout power armor without the armor
wheres the best base spot in rostok
just past the technician theres like a small cubicle of sorts past him and the stairs
very good plenty of space
is there an mp5 drum or bigger mag in .45acp?
just took a quick look in item spawner it does not look like it
:/
the mags literally exist
just cant retool
surely that needs to be fixed
or is it the universes way of nerfing the mp5 frasier lol
Lolwut, Artyom is a tank but we’re talking about Fallout power armor here
I can’t stand to use mags that don’t match the weapon model
use a tommygun 
What's y'all favorite caliber 
So 5.56? 
Whatever gets the job done.
I'm playing NATO weapons only so it's a pain to get
day 6 update: ASH-12 found 
12.7x55mm
Almost want to use this just because of how fucked up it looks
Been looking for the 12.7 pistol and still no luck
wtf this is literally the tarkov meta mutant build 
the exact same grip and foregrip
Have no clue who's helping newcomers here and statbot seems disabled
But here we go
Hope y'all like it
That explains it
Anyone know if the military helicopters de-aggro after a while?
welp i got an ump so that solves that problem
Huh. Probably has all the protective properties of a Red/Black deck,but that looks pretty stylish.
got that Supreme exo
5.7?
So you know the Monolith base in Pripyat?
The red ammo CLEARS it
Almost always bring a 5.7mm SMG for the BS. The red ammo is stupid cheap to craft since IIRC it's still pistol ammo, and that combined with the generous mag sizes means it's easy to just spray my way through.
Also, they're C class for some reason. Given they can be onehanded, I feel like they should be D class.
Not that you even need to spray
A few shots to the dome and the mono is gone
If I get unlucky and end up with the P90 that has the integrated sight (And don't equivalent exchange for one with a sight I can actually see through), spraying is more consistent.
Highly recommend
Prefer the MP7 myself, for purely aesthetic reasons.
I'm halfway through Mortal Sin and i've never seen one
They are crazy rare now. They feel like the RAPTR or USP Match Overwatch at this point.
I have veresk but p90 is cooler to me
I do kinda like that each run typically throws me a few rare weapons I almost never use. My last run gave me a KSG-23 and RD939. The on before that had the assault fal and USP Match.
Finally got a gun that can use one of those and it ain't working 😔
Found gamma p90 way too late in zaton merc base sadly
Given I always get the integrated red dot version, I do a little equivalent exchange from time to time to spice up runs. Fully repair a P90, throw it out, and debug in the MP7/P90 GAMMA.
oookay then off to finding tools and spare parts for my P90
and yup, cheap to reproduce that it uses handgun ammo
I just finished grabbing 3 artifacts for Chernov in AW. After getting the third one, the gold tracker disappeared. I went to see him and there is no option to finish quest..
thermite goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I killed Chernov in my own game

that's fucked
to get what? a G36, a FiveSeven (what I just discussed above) and full SSP-9 gear
it is

okay idk when the Stalker 2-esque artifact inspections got added, but this is cool asf

what're you talking about
how do you inspect 'em?
Right click on the artefact in inventory and click Inspect
Not there for me.
Mortal Sin quest line spawning so many dudes i'm going from 100 to 30fps
how up to date is your GAMMA?
554 mods?
okay that's really weird, because I think I'm a version behind you

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/artifacts-inspectionv10 this looks like a mod you can do it with, but what's weird is I don't have it
inspecting my meat chunk
funny you mention that
from what I can tell it's something added by FDDA Redone actually
yeah I'm not sure. I don't see anything about artefacts in the FDDA settings for my MCM.
guys
what is the overall defence-best scientific suit
never used them so i have no idea
Ruby gets like 90% fire res
Diamond can get like 6 belt slots
The regular orange one gets 7 belt slots its the best one
my game kept closing on launch without an error messege, when yesterday on the same installation it was working fine, restarted my pc and its working again
gamma truly works in mysterious ways
kinda cool to hold some chimera balls like that 
!how2reload / @drifting trench don't ping everyone or here etc
@drifting trench How to reload your gun:
If you are playing vanilla GAMMA: your unjam key = your reload key.
If you are playing with MAGAZINE MODS:
- Make sure you disabled the "GAMMA Unjam reload on the same key" mod
- Make sure you separately rebind the Reload command ("Reload Weapon & Put PDA Away") and the Unjam command ("Reload weapon/Unjam Weapon/PDA away")
- Make sure you added magazines to your loadout (alt-click or right click -> "add to loadout")
- Make sure your outfit actually has a slot that fits the mag (hint: PPSh drum mag is Large, the starting Sunrise suit has no Large mag slots)
welcome aboard the 5.45/5.56 train
this AK is very fun
was my go-to gun on that botched save
This one is in 7.63x39 tho
hmmm mp5 frasier or saiga with drum
Always the smg over the shotgun imo
restarting in the silliest way possible
The ascended gamma take is when you realize automatics are for mutants and shotguns are for stalkers
try them out and see what works best for you
Just a silly little merc
first order of the day is repairing that ppsh
because it's much better for south than any other gun
lmao
Ppsh is truly insane
Never tried it
With mags redux the drum mags are considered Large and you've got no space for those early on
it was removed from merc starter gear for "reasons"
mags moment
¯_(ツ)_/¯
I like me mags
when you have 71 bullets per mag you dont really need to reload lol
you can afford to go into your inventory to reload
its also ridiculously accurate if you can land your shots without any real zoom
I enjoy my 50 round 7.62*51 mag
I'm a dumbass so i play without ironsight zoom or free zoom
So unles i've got optics it's hard hitting anything far away
sorry, diidn't knew it
QUEST GIVER SITTING IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ANOMALY AND NOT MOVING 😄
Kicked in the back door of Rostok. I think I get why people play Freedom now
he is ragebaiting you
Tis why I use a pouch mod
choosing to fight in the MM in the sin questline was a mistake
this place is horrible to fight sinner in when they have burer, giant AND controller int he same room with them
Just did the brain scorcher side and i just had to clear the camp outside
Only sin and monolith
in the ladder part at the entrance, right at the bottom was 3 sinners with machinegun, a giant, 3 zombies, a burer and a snorker waiting for me
A lot of them but i just aggroed them then funneled them into the road back it was piss easy
i dont have enough nade for this
walking further in was another giant (the one that can leap), more burer, more MG sinners and 2 controllers
almost no cover other than cowering at a corner
Partly related but i would pay money for a mod that just removes any and all bushes from the game
theres a mod that makes it so npcs cant see through bushes
I hear it's busted cause it makes it so if you're inside a bush they don't know what to do
Since they believe you're inside a wall
Would make things way easy
yea but like you're not gonna be seeing outside of the bush very well either
maybe with thermals yea but if you have thermals you've already won the game
Started Clear Sky and the first mission clearing the bandits was a nightmare cause the swamp is all bushes and if they get a pixel of you they just start mag dumping
Yeah npcs not seeing through foliage is mandatory tbh
Just up to you not to abuse it like they abuse us lol
"Mandatory"

Mags is also mandatory
You know what else is mandatory
deleting GAMMA
Gotta say, really enjoying my current difficulty combo so far
It forces me to use everything I can get at just the right level
From what i've read they're not supposed the see through foliage baseline but it sure feels finicky
Maybe i'll try it next playthrough and see how it goes
They know your last known location when it comes to foliage
People tend to struggle due to the mentality of "Well if I can't see them, they can't see me."
If you keep moving, then it's not really that bad
-# Even kinda enjoying Great Swamp right now
The question then is how full of holes/what do the bushes actually cover
Cause sometimes they definitely snap at me even through foliage
welp time for brain scorcher
Great Swamps isn't as bad as people make, although I can say it is mainly a knowledge check
nahhh swamps is ass without changing the foliage thing
trying to attack the pump station for example
they will see you through the grass the ENTIRE time
It really isn't
I swear they do
whereas you can maybe see them if you get ontop of something
or peek through blades of grass
There's a wall of foliage and they mag dump at your exact location every time
Just keep moving 
back in the early days starting off with a sawed off double barrel
keep moving to where?
The seeing through foliage is still annoying, it's just that when I was starting out before without my current difficulty combo, I had nothing to make the annoyance worth it
theres no cover.
so you either run across the bridge into a hail of bullets or snipe from very far away with your shitty early tier guns
Now that things are more interesting, I can tolerate it better
there is a mod that will turn foliage into solid structure in npc minds
You move faster than they can lead their shots 
Just move and shoot them and avoid the bullets duh so easy skill issue
lmao
You can though that's the thing 
the mod is fine if you arent using it to cheese the ai
if you make it up to the pump station and you have something with more than 2 rounds in the chamber you likely survive
just hold corners
should be in your mo2 already just disabled
So no, it's not about "as bad as others make it out to be", as my experience remains the same, only augmented now
but having to wallrun strafe min max is not how the game should be played lol
There isn't a "This is how the game should be played", and I'm not telling you that it is
but it is something you can do to gain an advantage in gunfights
People heavily underestimate how much can movement influence a gunfight
we are just discussing the frustrations of the unbalanced foliage sight
you can literally sprint past gunfire cartoon style
Exactly
most people are well aware of that
if im in a panic situation i literally run in circles healing
but its also stupid
i mean
How is it stupid
and doesnt change the point about foliage at all
its a valid thing in most games to just start dodging
youre just arguing semantics
It's like you're saying people should be playing slow and methodical in my stalker gamma game
there isnt a point to argue foliage i play with the mod that disables npc from seeing through foliage
Playing a shooter the idea of dodging bullets by running in a straight line isn't really intuitive
you keep butting in acting like youre a better player by making a completely irrelevant point lol
it doesent break the game, as long as you arent hunkering down inside bushes
You don't run in a straight line
You run from side to side

It's not even acting like a better player but saying that there's an explanation as to how NPCs react to foliage
and how you can actually counter it by moving
ai aim is a little delayed so if you run 90° to them off to the side
People can do whatever they want with their GAMMA
this just in
you can avoid getting shot by avoiding getting shot
massive revelation
holy moly
at best 95% of the people here don't even play vanilla 
Yeah sideways
From side to side means zigzag to me
Strafe or Zig Zag 
i prefer shooting back lmao
I wouldn't try it
i trust in my aim way more than i do my movement and the rng to not get hit
because if you get hit once youre slowed down from the impact
Yeah that's why i jump right before i get to cover, can't stop you mid jump
who plays vanilla anomaly rn 
he meant vanilla modlist
554

Does vanilla gamma with mags count?
No
no
Sadge
mags break the balance anyway
I play vanilla plus
95 round mag into 30 round gun

I just don't like how Mags is implemented
Wdym a 50 round mag of 7.62x51 isn't balanced?
The fact there is no limit to the amount you can carry just takes away from the urgency of having a limited loadout lol
I see no issue whatsoever
my current run im using mags because ive never tried them
next run will be without them
There's a limit to the amount you can have in your loadout
Above that you'd have to reload from the inventory screen
depends on your armour and your backpack
Yeah but there isn't a limit to the amount you can carry
There is a limit, unless you don't count manual actions
You'll never need more mags than what you can have in your loadout anyway it's a non issue
with some guns it might actually be faster to open your inventory and drag the mag into the gun than reloading
like a lmg
And no limit to the amount you can carry is equivalent to vanilla in terms of tradeoffs
Why even bother having Mags in the first place then
to increase your mag size duh
i swear using mags i havent had to reload in a single gunfight
"Oh you can just carry more Magazines in the likelihood you run out" then just play without Mags lol
Because modular experience™
It's essentially the same, you are only adding time at looking into your inventory after a gunfight
or korth
with mags you can load 15 round mags
that thing is already busted on 7
15 makes it an S tier sidearm
There's a 30+ round mag for the hornet lmao
Seriously, you are rarely ever going to run out of ammo
it comes with 40 in vanilla
wdym
Jamming is the real threat anyway 
Does it ?
yes
Yeah I can understand people wanting to play with it
Then it's nerfed with mags
same goes for the mp5sd
it has 40 round mags in vanilla default
but with mags its 30
unless youre using 50 round drums
Unlucky
but I personally don't find it fun after playing with it for several playthroughs
I think it needs more work 

Need several more playthroughs then
It was cool until I realized I could carry more than my limit allows me without any drawbacks 
That was very early in I hope
and ppsh in stashes had fully loaded drums 
Easy ammo 
thats what i realized pretty much instantly

It was after like 4 runs
i need to sell off all my mags i dont use lmao
Oh I guess I might not need several playthroughs then lol
I initially respected the loadout limit 
Maybe a few instead
finding the 95 round 5.45 mag
that was the realisation mags are not balanced
or 75 round 7.62x39
You are supposed to use Fast Loading Mags but
95 > 30
Delicious c-mags~
i dont think ive used a single fast loading mag
theyre not common to begin with
much easier to find extended mags which will always be superior
No need to reload faster when the fighting is over before i have to reload 
Extended mags my beloved~
its really broken
But yeah, they definitely can benefit from affecting your weapon instead of nothing
You have gained more reputation among Loners
Ew loners
I should play a faction hated by everyone and build a shack in the woods next playthrough
Need to unlock them first, not done with quests
Maybe UNISG so i can get the english voice lines for once
Starting the game in the north with my 9mm, a tourist jacket and a dream
Eh? I can select it from the start
Organization-not-included-in-PDA
I know but i want to be legit
you know i never really figured out how to legitimately 1v1 the giant in the sewers after brain scorcher
facefull of HP ammo, buckshot, grenades
Gotta jump when he stomps
Or just run past since it's really not worth the ammo
you learn how to dodge the stomp, and 1v1s against Giants become pretty manageable
the stomps are okay
but he just closes the gap and claws me
I would never waste like 50 shots for a giant i don't have a mission to kill
Literally walk past
I always kill them, it's nice to have the parts when a task asks for them
And grenades against giants youve got a 50% chance they just knock them back at you
There's the special mission in Jupiter that asks you yo kill 4 of them and it seem to reset every day
hmmmmm
Not a bad pelt
I always take 3 IEDs for that one
If youve got a good knife
Good thing there's a tunnel~
Got the big one killed by an emission once
I just ran back to the scientist bunker and it died by itself
But for the big one you can also just go into the building that leads to oasis
He cant get past the second door
He too big
Wonder why this one resets and not the ones like mirage and such
Wish there was a way to target farm mutants now that you need so many parts for artifacts
You can change it via MCM
Easy to say Grok forgot 
Can't really know what's intended or not at this point 
nice pelt
I do like how much more common pelts are now
There are some pelts I’ve literally never been seen lol
i fixed my house its zombie proof
Until the recent updates
which pelts you never see ?
pelts are like a ~20% instead of a ~5% drop
you need high knife high scav skill and hunter kit
i always had a decent knife and a hunter kit in the past
scav skill and hunter kit doesn't influence drop chance
ah yeah only how good the pelt is
only the knife does
since 0.9.3
whaddya mean hunter kit doesn't influence drop chance 
it gives a chance to acquiring more parts 
max anyway
Only being able to use one hide makes 90% of them not worth using
But being able to use multiple would make them busted
i go check script 
all of them are useful depending on what suit you have or artis
some might eat a res that you need so you pick the boar pelt xd
90% of my playthrough i had chimera on, kept a controller one on me at all time for psy res and never ended up bothering to switch
ive been using BS one
Now that im end game i just use pseudogiant for easy BR cap
if you manage to craft compass wont you be capped anyway
Compass expensive
very much worth it
ive been using full empty one of the lightning balls bs pelt
as far as i can tell there is no distinction between pelts and other parts 
I miss old hunter backpack
Never used a hunters kit i thought it would take my backpack slot
it was kinda ass you always went for it
its nice to have more tools to use imo and not set and forget
oh wait do you mean more rolls for parts instead of a higher chance for a part? 
yeah
Full empty chimera pelt surge protector titanium grid and Kevlar plates
GOAT combo
g_flat's hunting kit rework changed it to just increase the chance
that's what it looks like anyways

You fool, you thought you could simply read the code
Sdalger ways are unknowable
When the game is actually 554 games in a trenchcoat 
still better than 98% of the games out there
For sure
only auto disassemble is from autolooter
there's a disassemble hotkey mod on moddb though
thats yuge
welcome to magnifiers 101
Can I somehow retract visor on my helmet?
how do i disable the "hold the gun up if im too close to a wall" animation?
oh found it
what helmet?
and why would you have a visor?
well, "military surplus helmet"
it shouldnt have a visor, its literally a steel bowl basically
well
it does
but it is okay because I dropped it, the visor was so fucked up that I could not see anything
and now I am stuck in X 18 with a poltergeist and idk how to get rid of it
you can just disable the helmet overlay in mcm
iirc
ahhhh okay
but the cracks are from the fact that it's broken
In normal settings actually, not mcm
yeah I know dw
I stole it from a Merc
and I just wanted it to the lab X 18
and then dispose of it after
tbf i wouldn't bother with these for south
you can get any decent gas mask once you have adv tools
that's the BS
or everything is spawning at wsame time
still the same snorks and bloodsuckers
because if I had the chance, I would go repair it
and broken one is better than none
well, BS was always like that in anomaly/gamma
before it was mutants on the way in then monolith on way out
there are a few bloodsuckers but they get dealt with by monos
yeah its not as good
it is still this way though
"Why wouldn't the Monolith be defending the BS when you first enter"
a few scripted spawns on the road
the atmosphere in BS is so creepy and puts you on edge
then tons of monos
BS is better as it's now, no more stupid mutants to deal with.
also it was easy to cheese with IEDs
well i wish atleast mutants spawned on the way out or something
Now "easy mode" BS = 2 Phantom Stars to get to the final room.
they still do if you go through the main road
the scariest part of BS now is the ambient music lmaooo

so you get to fight the Monolith on your way in, instead of the way out
It's cool that way, even if it skill issues some
anomaly/gamma BS was always heavily combat-focused
FUCKING POLTERGEISTS
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I hate them
and there is 4 of them there
fuuuuuuuuck
Burned your Shlong while doing so?
It is essentially the same with the way you fought Monolith
but now you have a timer
no, threw metal barrels at me
just move really slow and they wont notice u
damn I forgor about that
Crouch, move slow, shotgun blast them when close, sll fine.






