An Exercise in MISERY | STALKER GAMMA

I tried STALKER GAMMA. It bullied me more than tarkov does.
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I Already Knew - Miles Avida
Ain't Nothing to Worry About - Golden Age Radio
Joyride - Roy Edwin Williams

[@leviticus1132]

The cigarettes I use in this video ARE PROPS that do not contain any tobacco or nicotine. I do not encourage smoking.

[@AccountingDerek]

I LOVE TOBACCO

[@Esron13]

But what if everyone else is doing it and you want to look cool.

[@christopherterzakos6118]

You great big nerd!

[@spitfireflyer2205]

my Moclon homies love to smoke especially 500 cigarettes' at a time

[@deltazero3796]

+1

[@coldriversurvival8529]

"Through the power of chainsmoking and alcoholism, you too can stave off leukemia." Oh boy welcome to the channel.

[@chillcult1613]

as someone said, STALKER is like kick in the balls, yes people hate it but some people are REALLY into it

[@Don69420]

Thats one way to put it I guess lmao

[@MattZaharias]

Immensely satisfying one you have gathered the tools and such to repair your gear. There are efficient ways to do it, swapping damaged/worn parts and materials for fresh ones and it makes sense once you figure it out. The crafting and repair system are pretty deep.

[@csbr75]

Better than having someone slapping your balls expecting your dick to act like a ketchup bottle Unless you're into that shit

[@kurskfirebrand4494]

and then there's the third group. the people who don't like being kicked in the balls but eventually begin to love it.

[@chillcult1613]

@@MattZaharias Tbh i would love if the weapon conditions affect enemies too. Bro can't keep getting away with sniping me with 17% dur weapon 💀

[@unwariestthreegames1151]

To be honest it sounds like you would prefer the base game S.T.A.L.K.E.R Anomaly, your able to buy guns/armour from traders reducing the need to repair them until you get ones you like. GAMMA was deisgned to make anomaly harder for people that have played it for years and needed to freshen it up, it compiles the most used and beloved mods together and changes a few things around to make it harder (the storyline is basically the same but technically the events of GAMMA take place about 40 years [I think] after the events of anomaly)

[@nickq8093]

gamma's main design intent was actually specifically around the gear progression. base anomaly's progression sucks. most people just end up farming tasks in the south for rep and cash then buy the best gear available. There's nothing to actually incentivize heading north and engaging more dangerous enemies. gamma's weapon and armor repair is intended to incentivise gradually progressing north in search of better toolkits, weapons and armor, while mostly preventing the player from skipping progression by just merc'ing some dude with a fancy gun or armor. also the events of gamma are... literally the events of base anomaly, it's not a lore overhaul.

[@AsthmaQueen]

@@nickq8093 yeah i think personally if you could jump straight to end game weapons it would diminish alot of the feel of progression just because you got lucky and found a really nice gun. And then everything else would be pointless. Personally gamma play throughs are fun to me since never know what guns you end up maining through it.

[@49mozzer]

Or as a streamer I know said in response to this video - "Maybe you should just uninstall all the mods an just play the base Anomaly then, you fucking twat"

[@jaghataikhan2902]

+ you can turn on a mod that will make you able to buy guns.

[@thelitmango6333]

​@@nickq8093 yeah but it kills the immersion, traders not selling guns in a literal warzone and also the fact the guns work fine for them but just break the minute you pick them up makes no sense. If the gun jammed for them thatd be nice. Makes no sense ak-74 and ak parts in general would be such an issue to find there.

[@idkanymore6897]

if anyone wants to try this modpack, i highly, HIGHLY recommend turning on "NPC's cannot see through foliage" in the mod manager, it makes some scenarios WAY easier to deal with since the AI cant see through the dense foliage however, small warning, it does make certain scenarios cheese-able like if you're hiding behind a certain bush that you can see thru but they cant however so far i have not noticed a significant impact

[@changeling5984]

Wish I'd known this beforehand since I dropped GAMMA after being shot through the twenty-third Bush at the swamp water pump.

[@reidhanson4755]

This is... this is amazing advise. I've been playing GAMMA for years and I didn't even know this. There are still mods in the MO2 that shock me are turned off. I kinda hate rookie scavs ass blasting me through foliage as I attempt to snipe them and fucking up my armor / health status... but at the same time it does add a lot of challenge to those fights so I'm now torn if I wanna turn it off.

[@mikayari185]

I'm surprised it isn't on by default, which is mostly because of some bugs (there's one instance where you can't open stashes inside/across a bush), but for a game that demands a lot more tactical movement and careful execution, to exercise using the most abundant and cheapest camouflage in the Zone, they don't let you start off the modpack with it. Sometimes, it's not even as viable in active combat situations since i've had countless times dying to grenades inside bushes lmao, so it's pretty balanced too.

[@justanotheruser5407]

Amazing, now the Red Forest won't be speaking "Враг монолит" every time I pass through it.

[@aigaro9736]

I WAS PLAYING THIS GAME FOR OVER A YEAR NOW AND I DIDN'T KNEW IT

[@certifiedrat863]

As a person who really likes GAMMA, I get where you're coming from. It's great fun once you know what you're doing, but its really not friendly towards newer players.

[@wurfyy]

Yeah. Interestingly, for me it got kinda boring once I got the hang of it. It really sounds like I would enjoy cock and ball torture.

[@cykablyat3680]

yeah he should have started with base anomaly

[@certifiedrat863]

@@cykablyat3680 I wouldn't say base anomaly is much better. It's very much built as a game for those who have already played the original games.

[@cykablyat3680]

​@@certifiedrat863i agree, but its way friendlier to the new players, the fact that the progression is straight forward and crafting isnt an absolute necessity makes a huge difference

[@guyzomzgaming5515]

When I started I had never played a STALKER before and therefore I (at that recommendation of a buddy) added the debug menu to at least see what items were and where I might get them, literally just having the debug menu helped me so much to a point where I learned what was work to keeping and what was worth scraping/selling/what was worth scrapping to sell as parts etc. only gripe I had was that I couldn’t buy or sell guns but even then it never made or broke me to the point that I was annoyed as I always just game my “not a useful guns” to my companions as it was always better than what they had

[@lollma0]

General Sam tried to warn you

[@kennethoneal7026]

"No food, no bread, there's blood in my stool."

[@Morningstar-zl2gq]

@@kennethoneal7026 "the zone ain't shit, being a stalker blows"

[@orangemaidguy1912]

I'm not General Sam.

[@seanwallcroft6272]

@@Morningstar-zl2gq “this shit ain’t funny, I want some dome”

[@ArnovanWyk-q2j]

@@seanwallcroft6272 I am the op

[@SplashingMANGO]

Worth pointing out and Lev points it out himself: if you don’t like something about GAMMA, you can alter and configure more to your liking. I too dislike that every gun you find is held together by the sheer will of John Moses Browning himself, so instead I upped the condition values in the mod configuration menu in the in-game menu so that one’s an easy fix. The default doesn’t make sense either. A Master Stalker, a seasoned resident of the zone, having anything besides guns and gear in the best shape possible is absurd! Crank those numbers up! And for that matter, turn on debug mode. Spawn in the guns and gear you want. Life’s too short to not have fun

[@Kekatronic]

honestly it just feels flaccid to spawn in guns and items

[@SplashingMANGO]

@@Kekatronic to each their own

[@Ron-nr8lw]

I don’t like spawning in my own guns that kinda feels a bit too cheesy but using the packaged in black market overhaul and trader overhaul mods allows the games various sellers to sell equipment that’s pretty accurate to them (butcher has equipment like jaeger such as hunting rifles and shotguns, Sid has low level Warsaw gear) and it makes it feel more organic to ts the one hold over from vanilla anomaly I prefer

[@grok_gamma]

Tbh making enemies having good guns and good armors makes the progression way too fast. In 1 or 2 hours you can be set for the endgame. It’s about mastering the game mechanics. People having troubles repairing guns and armors just don’t understand the game mechanics. Everything is explained in the PDA. But indeed, you can tweak and play the game the way you like. Just don’t come up with stupid arguments like « it makes no sense / it’s not realistic ». You don’t like it, fair enough.

[@had_fun_once]

I do the same, too, and I'm assuming you also set the conditions at variable rates suitable for the ranks so you don't end up with rookies carrying high-condition weapons. Shout-out to all of the fellow not-casual-but-also-not-hardcore players out there.

[@spiderluvshalo]

The weapon repair kit doesn't use any of it's limited uses if you are replacing the parts with parts you already have (only if you replace a part you don't have). You just have to have the repair kit to do so. That only really applies to the barrel of a gun though as every other part can be removed/replaced without a repair kit. That means if you find a gun with a cleanable barrel (>60%) you can use the cleaning kit of the corresponding class to clean the barrel to 100% and replace the other parts manually without a repair kit. Knowing how the weapon/armor repair and crafting systems work is pretty integral to enjoying Gamma and there are plenty of guides out there. I do hope you give it another shot as there is a pretty solid progression system, but it doesn't feel like there is one if you don't make it past the very first part of it. On the off chance you do try it again, the biggest piece of advice I could give is to just not use a weapon if it has a high chance of jamming (most of those have shit barrels anyways and won't do much damage). You might have to stick with your starting pistol or shotgun for quite a while

[@Runswithfoot]

yeah i saw he kinda misunderstood the weapon repair kits and was about to make the same comment and i see alot of people come the same understanding he did when they play gamma my friends thought the same thing till i showed them how it works but once most people understand the repair system and progression they come to love the game problem is its alot of mods combined to make this experience making it hard for most people to get help without asking on discord and hoping someone responds

[@cassidy8307]

I don't blame him for misunderstanding the system. It's awfully convoluted. The devs are looking into simplifying it, though.

[@arenomusic]

It took me like 200 hours to understand that you can use the corresponding weapon repair kit to fully replace broken parts in each type of gun

[@TheHorzabora]

Because this is really simple to understand, among all the other mechanics…

[@ABSolution2468]

The sheer bed wetting, brick shitting fear i felt when the feral cats jumped me and left me bleeding to death is still fresh in my mind

[@frug5629]

I HATED feral cats in my first run. They're very quiet, fast, and can kill within a few swipes.

[@akh4n]

Basically, everything mentioned in this video about GAMMA is what I love about the game: the craft, the healing/limbs system, the weaponry, the atmosphere, the music. All the hardships you go through to eventually fix a gun and then kill someone with it...God, it doesn't get more satisfying than that, trust me! And the progression system is what makes this game good at any level/equipment

[@cherryrook8684]

Nothing more satisfying than barely winning a scrappy fight and then get blessed by RNG with a good weapon/part. You have to know the pain to truly appriciate the honey, 0 to hero never felt so great in a game. This would just not work the same if you could just roll up to a geared guy and smoke him and just get endgame gear (tho with addition of souls-like mod and possible loss of gear similar to an extraction looter i can kinda see the appeal of playing like that). The progression IS the gameplay in a sanbox like this tho

[@akh4n]

@@cherryrook8684 agreed, 100%

[@arenomusic]

When I get excited to find a BOLT CARRIER, I know I'm playing a good ass game

[@krefto1561]

Couldn't agree more

[@PURPLE-qr1xj]

i couldnt agree more but i do see where he is coming from as sum1 who may not like these types of games, also not to mention that while gamma is one of my favorite mods for stalker, i cant deny it isnt friendly to newer players of the stalker franchise but once you get into it, its like nothing else you can play or get ur hands on

[@noir9094]

I like how it's realistic with how well 1 dude can do against a whole level of enemies, yeah they'll probably die but with hope and a little crack they can do it

[@СтепанКононов-х8щ]

Well, I absolutely agree that GAMMA isn't for everyone. That said, I managed to mod it more to my liking, adding a bunch of nice things (namely artefacts, which you gotta find first tho), tweaking a few settings, and so on. Surprisingly, GAMMA is the most stable modpack in my experience. I also tried EFP modpack, but it had much more issues, although it was quite fun too. Idunno, I kinda got used to Gamma, and now know where to look for stuff, or how to do quests etc. Gamma's gameplay and progression loop requires you to do quests, hunt mutants for parts to progress quests, get stash info, loot stash, rinse and repeat. Not everyone likes it, and its totally fair

[@artybrandt]

Yeah its just a gameplay loop where the only thing that really changes is the little slice of map youre jn

[@SilentGhostSG]

GAMMA is niche for sure, barrier to entry is at the level of the wall in GoT and there's no real way to 'cheat' it unless you adjust the game/mods itself. I will say though there's some things that helped me starting out for anyone that wants to try it out give it another whirl Hoarding is your friend, picking a place like Rostok or Jupiter (if you can get there) that's relatively central and making it a home base to store extra stuff helps alot, have a place to return to and expand out from slowly. Tool Kits and base building are INTEGRAL to the game and is progression, you can replace parts yourself if you've got a workbench or tool kit in its inventory without using the charges of the repair kit. likewise you can use gun oils, kerosene, files, thread and a bunch of other cheaper, charge based tools to repair gun and armour parts you find provided they're not totally busted. if you're buying weapon repair kits and parts all the time you're going to hate the game because they're meant to be a last resort that basically bankrupts you when you can't get that last piece or tool that will push you up an entire tier of gear. Every set number of tasks/stashes you find will be a Green stash, those are where you find the good stuff that helps you take a big step forward like Tool kits, weapon repair kits, armour and weapons. Weapon progression is intentionally slow but equally rewarding, finding a P90 or an M4 Butcher and working away to finally fix it makes that first firefight where you shred 7 mercs like paper hit even harder, long term investment for huge catharsis. That being said, a good shotgun will never go out of style especially when you get used to the ammo types and applying them to the right situation. Guns are also alot easier to maintain once fully repaired and you feel motivated to keep them functioning because you put in the effort to fix it yourself. Gamma doesn't really go out of your way to tell you any of this but the general rule is "if it's expensive at a trader the game wants you to do it yourself, not buy it". None of this really changes the Gameplay loop or the inherent "grindiness" of going out on missions to get rewards to go out for stashes to get tools/parts to fix guns to do harder missions rinse. Repeat. Scream. Drink. Etc. But it takes what felt like a pointless, Sisyphean exercise in futility my first couple of playthroughs to a still slow but genuinely rewarding Tarkov-esque PvE grind from a jabroni with a paper mask and a toz who couldn't kill a boar without crying on a car roof to a radiation chewing monster who could kill a God. GAMMA is like a Rubiks cube that stabs you for trying to solve it, but for the people that consider that a challenge (freaks like me), its more rewarding than anything. Its not for most people, but it feels like home for the people it is made for. Whole lot of rambling, sorry for anyone who actually read this all the way through but i find this game engaging and endearing in a way few others have been ever, especially for free.

[@tbtt4773]

Man u'r god damn right about everything u said. GAMMA was my first stalker experience and it was freaking hard in the first hours as i didnt understood anything or how the game worked. But i seeked help on some youtube vidéos and the GAMMA discord, and when i got the general hang of it, it was a total blast. I'll never forget the feeling when i found a good weapon for the first time and be able to repair it after grinding like hell ! GAMMA is a game that is NOT New player friendly for sure, but if you have the will to keep going and overcome it, its one of the best game out there. Even tho i dont play it that much nowadays i still come back to it time to time to play a new run, the feeling u have when ur just à random stalker in a hostile world, yet amazingly beautifull is something i never felt in any other games. There is a vibe you just cant describe when you are walking under the rain, alone, on an abandonned road in the Outskirts... The only thing i dont really like in this video is that he is saying some stuff about the looting system/repair system that are false only bcs he didnt understood how it worked and didnt tried to understand how it works For the record i really had to play the game the hard way bcs i never changed any mods or changed any setting in the mods (except for the full loot system and the infinit bolts haha) Ps : im currently on a Merc run

[@cykablyat3680]

@@tbtt4773 damn bro , playing gamma as your first stalker game , you got my sympathy

[@yono367]

very well said, its a hardcore survival game tailored for existing fans of the franchise. definitely not for everyone and not what I would recommend to play first to newcomers

[@SilentGhostSG]

@@yono367 funny enough it was my first hands on experience with STALKER, i stuck my face in the blender and just stayed there til i memorized its attack pattern, horrible time, wouldn't reccomend but sometimes it works if you're the right kind of unhinged.

[@cr1tikal_arc]

definitely wouldn't call it "niche", afaik it's the biggest stalker community lmao, even more members than the anomaly discord. they recently had to request to increase their member cap to 750k because it was getting too full.

[@Lowgitech]

Finally a game where I can tell lev: Skill issue Game is amazing, but not for everyone! Just like souls games, it will turn you inside out but some people are into being turned inside out

[@cr1tikal_arc]

definitely not "skill issue" (this is one of the most obnoxious and annoying phrases people have ever come up with), most of the issues he had were just a lack of brain power lol. understanding the repair system doesn't require skill and the AI was definitely very problematic for some time as far as i can remember.

[@MillVillage]

Souls games are a million times more accessible than this.

[@NewbieTuwbie]

Gamma is one of those games that rewards you for investing in it. It doesn’t hand out fun for free, you’ve gotta earn it by actually trying to learn.

[@Deathman271]

Best description of Gamma that I know of

[@ryandupape6225]

This is a better review than the video

[@Casperski1312]

God this was exactly my experience as well. I almost immediately started cheesing the settings and spawned in decent weapons for myself. That said, the atmosphere is fucking. immaculate. I keep finding myself *almost* drawn back into playing it just so I can feel that lonely spooky vibe again.

[@justusbladetooth]

Seriously, if you find yourself falling into this. Don't play GAMMA, 'vanilla' Anomaly will actually be probably better and more engaging for you, you've got easy access to installing addons into it so long as you follow directions, or use a mod launcher. You'll get a way better experience out of it. GAMMA is to Anomaly, what MISERY is to STALKER CoP IMO.

[@Kekatronic]

bro went full wussy

[@Casperski1312]

@@Kekatronic hur dur man on computer not play game like I want him to >:( Get well soon, dweeb.

[@grok_gamma]

@@justusbladetooth Vanilla Anomaly is like, farm task while sleeping, get artefacts from the nearby fields and sell them, buy gear, done. In just a few hours you can easily get the best gear in the game while abusing the game mechanics. GAMMA is the culmination of people who played vanilla Anomaly for hundreds and hundreds of hours, making all gameplay systems sensical (from a gameplay perspective) and uncheesable. Sure a newbie might like Anomaly more, but he will quickly see the wrongs of Anomaly systems and GAMMA fixes almost all of them in its own way. Once you get into the logic of GAMMA it's hard to go back the other way around because of how rewarding the GAMMA systems are. But it's not for everyone, that's for sure.

[@justusbladetooth]

@@grok_gamma Respectfully? If you're going for 'meta gaming optimal strategy' then technically you're correct, but even then. You forget you need to do jobs to get reputation most of which cannot be farmed; unless you want to try fighting Monolith with basic jackets, and shotguns. Artefacts also are valuable but unless you take the risk to go to the scientists you'll be making chump change on the very common junk ones you'll see with a basic tier detector. I genuinely don't get the point of taking an already fiddly and crap repair system and making it MORE complicated; I already hated engaging with it so much I would rather get scalped by a merchant than mess with it. Anomaly by default already had a fairly solid progression curve designed to get you engaged with the mechanics of the game as well as the optional story and faction paths to direct you around. So a lot of GAMMA's tweaks feel like solutions in search a problem, outside of the deep immersion stuff like animations. You can still LIKE the mod, don't misunderstand me here: but calling it "THE" Anomaly experience is pure hubris IMO. Just my two cents.

[@Allurmage]

My favorite Tarkov content creator diving feet-first into the Zone? Oh boy. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has always given one of the best vibes in all of gaming. The world exists despite you, and while your actions might play a small part in what happens in it, your death is ultimately inconsequential. The immersion factor from this is unparalleled--you feel like you're part of the world, not beyond it. All these modpacks just add on top of that stellar basis. Unfortunately there's only so much these devs can do to fix the absolute jank that is the base game, and most modpacks followed MISERY where they just heap on more unnecessarily complex systems without considering if they SHOULD do it. Base Anomaly has the gunsmith problem too. Took me a whole day to figure it out.

[@FenrirGrayhound]

IMO Call of Pripyat still has the best experience and best story-driven gameplay of the series, especially with MISERY and stuff

[@stylefreak2344]

I highly recommend also playing the vanilla main games, the story and lore is amazing.

[@AnUnknownPlayer.]

Levititcus is making non Tarkov related content, LETS GOOOO

[@WalkingTank1]

A pal once said, "Play the old stalkers before you play anomaly"

[@sahilrahman5066]

Then you go for Gamma but man The old stalker games are already beating my ass in so I'm scared to try Anomaly and Gamma

[@cr1tikal_arc]

@@sahilrahman5066 probably because old stalker gunplay is fucking atrocious, gamma doesn't really have that, you'll actually hit what you're aiming at

[@plm6523]

I think starting off on Anomaly is nice, but starting with Gamma is crazy

[@HOAXEDtv]

Thats the best way

[@FenrirGrayhound]

@@cr1tikal_arc I mean, they are games from 2007-2009, what did you expect ? Also ZRP / SRP are the way to go to fix most problems in the OG games

[@Dindosh98]

If u find random broken guns, especially c or d tier weapons, and they have a good barrel keep it. You can drop in working parts on the weapon in your inventory without the repair kit. Just make sure that the gun is clean as the process takes away some points of durability. Also always pick up the .357 revolver, it has only two parts so you can clean them with the handgun repair kit and still have a charge left to repair other class A guns. .357 is a beast of a round early game and Butcher has it for cheaper

[@matnar0285]

Finding a gun with a good barrel is the best fins in the game

[@domaxltv]

I mean, GAMMA is specifically a modpack for people who want to interact with the weapon repair systems and stuff... The Escape from Pripyat modpack would likely fit a weak-lunged, noodle armed tarkov PMC who isn't used to chainsmoking while holding a KS-23 with one hand in case a mutant jumps out much better

[@flyingchair8103]

great video but you got the repair system wrong, you don't need to use a charge from your toolkit if you already have the required part, it's only the maintain feature that uses a charge. The vid was a certified banger. Btw I think there is a setting that allows killed enemies to drop guns that have less wear on them. Great vid though

[@cykablyat3680]

to be fair to him , the repair system isnt well explained in the game

[@CT-5634]

@@cykablyat3680the in game guide in the pda literally explains every new mechanic so well that a complete dolt like myself was able to understand how it worked

[@Nikkto474]

Helmet man said buckshot is the answer to my problems and i believe him

[@arenomusic]

He speaks truth

[@Bravo_-yx1tk]

I remember doing the Renegades elimination task. It was a three part mission, first one took place at the that stilts house in the swamp. Second was at the junction of Rookie village and Swamp and the last one was in a Village near the Electric Anomaly fields. And I did them as Clear Sky. Mind you Renegades hate Clear Sky more than free Stalkers. The first part I attempted 13 times, shut down the game because after 3 hours of continuous gameplay the inventory starts to bug out, and cried myself to sleep. The next day I attempted it a mere 8 times, succeeding at last, only getting a sporting shotgun which was assembled out of two similar ones because one had better durability and one had better parts. 2nd part was much easier. In that we actually get some backup by our guys, but they get butchered instantly. I had to use an artifact to get through it which stunned the enemy if they struck you. Got an AKS 74 U out of it. Third one just made me become partial Jesus as it had a radioactive Lake. So I smoked a ciggy, and ran over the lake to get into the encampment only to do what I had done in the second part of the mission. The total reward of this task is 12k roubles, a better A1 medkit (Blue cheese kit), and some rep. So yeah it was fun. Remember, the mission might kick your nuts out of your mouth, but when its done all the loot is yours till you start the next one. Oh and being overweight with loot kills you. So try to find a remember an empty stash. Sorry for the long rant.

[@kpsychopath]

I like these new videos, not because their new all that particularly. But mostly because i like your takes, your voice and the way you edit videos.

[@snaggletooth1773]

3:47 That scream took me out and seeing Nina killed me. God I needed that laugh.

[@Shadowwolf4671]

I just told my friend I installed G.A.M.M.A literally 1 minute before this video was posted

[@reidhanson4755]

Watch a guide and good luck. It's a blast... but not so newbie friendly.

[@southernbrain691]

I hope you're a fast learner like me,otherwise you're in for a world of hurt in that game

[@davydgrygoriev9116]

idk if you know but there is another modpack called EFP, escape from pripyat and it focuses more un gunplay n' shit whereas GAMMA focuses on survival and exploration

[@ogPunkcln]

A really good video. And yes, I'm one of the specific people that GAMMA appeals to. You have to work and be smart to stay alive in GAMMA, it's a pain in the ass and that's why I love it so much. Any tangible progression either it be crafting a new backpack, fixing up an AK, or finally having access to a proper toolkit is a big deal and it feels so good. So many games these days have you chase after lofty goals and bombard you with unlocks and player power that trivializes difficulty. GAMMA pulls me back and makes me appreciate the daily struggle and achievements again. Being forced to take it slow and walk around the zone (with amazing atmosphere and background music) put me in a calm and meditated state that no other game does.

[@mrbubbity7496]

Firstly id like to say, Thankyou for trying it! And it's entirely reasonable why you dont like it. The gun repair mechanic is complicated contrived and only explained through a PDA or youtube. The whole "NPC's using guns fine but when i use it, its broke as shit" IS BULLSHIT, I agree personally with most of what you've said. Personally? I love the repair system, I did *NOT* initially but now within 1-3 in game days i can get up to advanced tools with a fully functioning AK. There *is* an element of skill to it in knowing what items to use for what and how to stretch all your meds, repair kits, ammo n everything as far as you can. And I LOVE that. But not everyone *will* grow to like it, most people dont like it intially, some like it after they learn it. Not everyone will. I've dumped hundreds of hours into this game, and to be clear i do make small tweaks to the modpack to make it feel better. Which i feel is one of the big advantages it has. Dont like that you cant buy guns of traders? *Theres 1 mod to turn off to add them back*. I wouldn't forget about just stalker anomaly itself, GAMMA is an incredibly specific overly hardcore offshoot of anomaly, if you dont like GAMMA you may like anomaly. They are borderline entirely different games. Stalker GAMMA is the biggest one because it blew up, and admittedly for the gameplay it tries to give, it does it well. But alot of people like you, dont like that and thats *FINE*. Also alot of people say "go to the GAMMA discord if you have issues" which is partially true, but uh- (and i hope i dont get in trouble for saying this) unironically some of the people on there are kinda toxic. Some of the MAIN people i mean, long story short i got my entire save soft-locked at one point because i didnt understand how a quest worked. Regardless of what i did or how i did it, because i failed the quest and didnt reload a save, it soft-locked my ENTIRE campaign quest series thingy. The ONLY way i could fix it was by going back to a save 30 hours ago. That. Is bullshit. No game should have any way to soft-lock you out of content unintentionally, if it's a "you failed you dont get to do this quest" it'd be different. Thats not what this was. I asked people on the discord about it and got bombarded with "get good, skill issue" and i said "skill issue on the game soft-locking me out of the rest of the game? Because a quest timer doesnt reset?" and they said "yeah, skill issue we aint gonn fix it". Unironically I dont really like most of the stalker GAMMA community. The save lock issue hasnt been the only thing, and even some of the main stalker content creators have talked about how...... hostile and gate-keepy and toxic they can be. If you wanna enjoy stalker gamma, use the discord for technical/installation issues only, modify the GAMMA modpack if you dont enjoy the base game. Understand that some of the mechanics LIKE game's like Tarkov, you might grow to like even if you intially dislike them (not everyone will tho). And always remember that stalker anomaly....... exists? and there are other modpack offshoots of it that are less extreme?

[@mrbubbity7496]

If anyone want's to know the soft lock i encountered was this: I had to go into a "dungeon" to do a quest and disable a machine inside of it, upon entering a timer poped up at the top of the screen. Saying I had 20 minutes to do it, I had never done this dungeon, i didnt know how long it was or what way to go. So naturally I failed. At one point I got a cool gun from someone in the dungeon and thought "huh, what if i go and repair this and come back later when i have more gear?" So i left the dungeon (which it allowed me to) and repaired the gun and did 10-20 hours of gameplay. Came back only to find out that the timer for the dungeon, DOES NOT RESET. That is correct, if you do part of the dungeon, leave and come back. The timer has not reset. Meaning you can soft-lock yourself with 3 seconds on the timer like i did. Also meaning that the effective way to "leave the dungeon and try again later" is to reload a fucking save and time travel, rather than walking like a normal human being. Even if you wanted it to work like this you'd presumably warn the player before entering "you may not leave after you enter" and remove the exit prompt from the INSIDE of said dungeon. But no, there are zero safety measures to stop the player from soft-locking themselves. This isnt even a bug it's just an oversight from stalker anomaly. This is terrible design, and this for the record is what the discord told me was a "skill issue". And then proceeded to talk about how that's how it's always been so it's how it always SHOULD be. I dont *care* if you cant leave the dungeon after starting it, that's fine plenty of games do that. Yknow what games DONT do? Allow you to leave and not reset the timer meaning that you can soft-lock yourself. Even for the intended experience there is zero downside to adding a warning before entering, and removing the exit prompt. It gives the intended experience, warns the ignorant players about it, and stops them from soft locking themselves- that is incredibly easy and the fact that the discord tells me (and other's who regularly ask about this in the discord apparently) that it's a skill issue says alot about the community. PS: If any of the people reading this are ON the gamma discord, this isn't an attack, just some of the take's ive gotten from the server are...... with respect, fucking stupid. When have games *ever* done shit like what that dungeon does to soft-lock you and it be a "good" thing.

[@nickq8093]

@@mrbubbity7496 am a tester/modder for gamma. Literally didn't know about this issue LOL. so that would be a carryover from base anomaly, and is probably something we should address with the switch from fighting through monos on the way out to fighting them on the way in, as you're more likely to find incentive to leave as you fight your way in. i'm not sure on the feasibility of deactivating and reactivating the transition or resetting the timer. Xray engine is er... not straightforward in adjusting those sorta things and we aren't the base anomaly devs, if something is hardcoded we do not have access to tweak it.

[@mrbubbity7496]

@@nickq8093 yeah, I suspect it is anomaly related. And from what I’ve heard my proposition of disabling the exit prompt would be hard to do. Even just a warning of some kind in the game before you enter the dungeon would be amazing. Something to tell ignorant players like me that you can’t go in, then leave and come back later. The actual “bug” was understandable why it wasn’t fixed with gamma cuz it’s probably anomaly. I just got annoyed at the responses I got on the discord lol.

[@veryalive2563]

@@mrbubbity7496 you could enable debug menu and turn on god mode. yeah I agree that's stupid, it's just a solution to you problem

[@memedbengul4350]

it wasn't a skill issue, but a competence issue. you are at least partly to blame. but i agree, there should be a warning in the quest text itself that there is a timer.

[@l0sttacticz104]

this comment is dedicated to u giving this game another go the part about the repair system can be extremely frustrating to grasp at first but once you figure it out guns suddenly become more available to you earlier in the game as well tip for u every time you kill a poor soul strip their gun of every part and when you dump them in your stash if you have one throw out the ones under 50% then when you get a gun that you want to use you already have the parts that are also repairable for ur new gun you just need the tools for it that you can find in stashes( get coords from quests keep mutant parts for this specific case)same with armor although not as evident cause you rarely will find a better than ur already existing one

[@Sol-Orion]

If you just tap left alt it should autoloot anything worth taking, including weapon parts of decent durability. Idk if that's on by default autoloot might be a setting.

[@l0sttacticz104]

@@Sol-Orion pretty sure that's a setting

[@Nugire]

9:00 Everybody else is living the ork life. "It juz wörkz"

[@p8gaming669]

GAMMA is for cultured gentlemen who like CBT

[@noobguy9973]

See this is one of the reasons why we always say you should start with the 3 main games first straight from steam then try vanilla Stalker Anomaly a bit, maybe play one or two more mods and then try Gamma. The thing with STALKER mods and modpacks is that they all kinda just assume you have played the mainline games and know the basic gameplay loop of them hence their ''tutorials'' are kinda hard.

[@noobguy9973]

I actually recommend Escape from Pripyat or Dark Signal modpacks if you find Gamma way too tedious as those modpacks intentionally try to get it less quest grindy and not even include vast shader and texture mods Gamma is like 80GB yet EFP is like 10GB if you want those extra shaders you gotta download them yourself.

[@euytreryueyruteduyre9126]

Imagine stalker but in Florida

[@Kekatronic]

thats just jacksonville

[@GoldBean2752]

a true horror game

[@arenomusic]

​@@KekatronicThe Duval Exclusion Zone already exists

[@Cam64viper]

I just woke up to new Leviticus content, today's gonna be a great day 😎

[@SoldatRon.]

I get this is 2 months old, or you've been told of this already: there's 12 factions. not 9 - 3 hidden ones; or well. "4": Type out on your keyboard these to unlock them - greh, unlocks SIN. - renegade, unlocks the renegades. - isg, unlocks the U.N.I.S.G - Press Z on your keyboard, become a zombified STALKER.

[@edwestenhaver]

The machine spirit? Praise be to The Omnissiah

[@HiddenHunterSeven]

Honestly, as miserable as it is, I love it. Games have become so easy over time to cater to the masses, I am just happy to see the opposite for once. No colorful numbers and letters flashing on your screen to tell you how amazing you are for simply picking something up. Just suffering which makes it very rewarding.

[@csbr75]

A good way to "prepare" yourself for GAMMA is to do the following: 1. Play in this order: Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, Call of Prypiat, Anomaly, Anomaly with different mods (toy a lot with different mods so you learn how they behave in-game), then GAMMA 2. Do a first playthrough as a Loner at a lower difficulty, just so the game doesn't feel as punishing and slow. Use the opportunity to understand how the mod menu works, as some settings require you to start a new game (if you don't do so, your game may start crashing a lot - it's an engine limitation) 3. Feeling cozy in-game? Bump up the mutant/enemy population gradually 4. Finish at least the "Lost in the Zone" questline. Then, create a new savefile at highest difficulty and thoughest progression. Also check out for any new mods that might interest you

[@Anzei_Kazumi]

This sounds like "To enjoy this please go through CBT first and make sure to break your legs in the process. Then you are ready to break your neck." I love GAMMA but this isn't selling it, lmao.

[@bruhtholemew]

Sorry but the original trilogy will *not* help new players trying to get into Anomaly mod packs. They're so easy by comparison, and lack many of the systems that mods add. Even Stalker 2 will be very different from Anomaly mod packs.

[@dd805100]

He should just play anomoly bros not gonna go through 3 games this is what stalker hardcores don't get we don't wanna play 3 diff games just to have fun on 1

[@jomo5800]

If you're going to play the Trilogy, it's usually recommended to play at the highest difficulty. For some reason, the easiest difficulty makes everyone a bullet sponge. The hardest makes you and everyone killable in seconds.

[@bruhtholemew]

@@jomo5800 This is actually not true. It's a misconception brought on by SoC because the makarov and toz are terrible. In SoC easy gives you a 120% damage buff, and a 50% damage resistance. Master changes these to 100% and 0%. Enemies have 0% DR across all difficulty. You get less good loot rng on harder difficulty. In SoC and CS enemies have less grenade range on easier difficulties. CS and CoP lose the 120% damage buff on easy, but CS gives you 40% DR on master, and CoP gives you 85% on easy.

[@SteelRider]

Due to the nature of the zone, every gun you loot in the zone becomes a bolt action till you repair them

[@thegreenberretwearingbrony9678]

As a smoker, the fistful of ciggies sent me 😂

[@2_KidsInAtrenchCoat]

3:48 I love how that screan was cut perfectly with a 30 second ad

[@mel0nman803]

A big reason I love stalker gamma is its customization. I too was frustrated on my initial run where I couldn’t buy guns and every enemy gun was 0 durability. Luckily, 1 mod enabled and a couple settings later, I can pick up a 100% durability gun off an enemy and either use it or sell it. I also recommend tweaking loot so there is a small chance to find random stuff in an otherwise empty stash

[@reposaur]

though i didnt like gamma, im just happy it introduced me to other modpacks or even just anomaly in general. currently playing dark signal 2, its been hella fun and the warfare mode being mandatory makes it action packed enough for me

[@had_fun_once]

Yes, it's honestly fortunate that this modpack is as accessible as it is with lots of hard work from Grok and the others to make it so. Making your own modpack is a pain in the ass, and not in the good way like modding Bethesda games are. ModDB honestly sucks to browse through compared to Nexus.

[@LewisB3217]

Back as a growing teen, I beat a mod for stalker called MISERY, Gamma is sunshine and rainbows but for a newcomer it feels like the apocalypse 😂

[@christopherterzakos6118]

Thank you for another great vid levi , would love to see more gamma in the future! Saw the full video , sad you didnt love gamma but i understand , it can get really tedius , either way love the vids!

[@AccountingDerek]

did you watch the video

[@christopherterzakos6118]

​yeah just not all the way through immediately

[@salen-h4yl]

i love this game, because eventually you get soo rich, have everything unlocked, and have good gear. Then finally everything gets super duper easy

[@blackcatthegreat182]

anomaly is what you wanna play, GAMMA is a hardmode Anomaly effectively

[@andfriends11]

10:44 "That repair kit only has 3 uses." If you have all of the parts, it doesn't consume repair kit durability to swap parts. It only uses durability if you use it to clean/maintain a weapon or replace parts you don't have. You don't have to hunt down every individual part for a weapon if you have a repair kit. It can be used to replace a part at the cost of one of those uses. Likewise, you don't need a repair kit to fix every part of a gun. You can replace every part except the barrel in the field. Just drag and drop parts onto the weapons to replace them. You still need to clean the gun with a cleaning kit, but those are cheaper and sold by every technician.

[@Esron13]

Great video watched the whole thing!

[@Fun-n-sun]

Actually field stripping weapon parts and putting them on your gun is a lot better for repair, sure it slightly reduces overall weapon durability, but that’s why you use the weapon repair kit once cause they can repair a weapon even at 10% durability and then use weapon cleaning kits afterward.

[@panka1595]

posting this while someone updated their mod and broke the ENTIRE modpack COMPLETELY and there still is no fix is vile

[@tysopiccaso8711]

Skill issue

[@panka1595]

@@tysopiccaso8711 100%

[@novato257]

Well, maybe a try in STALKER AREA would make it more noticeable the ways of GAMMA of making a less painful experience. Tip: Always bring the GP9 to the run, and the hatchet.

[@leviticus1132]

Perhaps I’ll try again one day, but with every setting tweaked all the way to minimize the goofiness.

[@hansmadani8687]

bro when spread misinformation

[@hansmadani8687]

​@@leviticus1132stick to gamma or anomaly mod in general. A.R.E.A. is much more harder and tedious than this lol.

[@novato257]

​@@hansmadani8687 Sort of misinformation to trick someone into getting to play a more harder standalone mod. But GAMMA is pretty more easy to progress if you know the correct tips and tricks.

[@novato257]

​@@leviticus1132 Good, another tip. If the gme takes too long to load, put the render in DX9 in the graphics settings.

[@JustCenti-]

Btw they have a guide in the discord to disable the mod that removes weapons and armor from traders if you want it, and mods to tweak the weapon durability from corpses (Idk how compatible it is with gamma)

[@Ruggedtoaster]

Yes, if there was a better weapons and armor mechanic system, this game would be amazing. As it is I agree with you 100%, the game mechanics are designed to force you to grind out progress instead of actually letting you accomplish things.

[@Arcimage.]

Wooo yea baby, was waiting for a video from you today :D thanks

[@thelongcorgi985]

Two things to massively increase your enjoyment: Learn how to use repair kits (you don't have to consume a charge if you repair with the part at a bench) and learn crafting. You can craft a weapon repair kit for WAY cheaper than you can buy one, and dont have to worry about the trader's stock. And theres tons of other stuff you can craft, especially meds

[@phrog6073]

skill issue tbh

[@panzerkampfwagenviausf.eak5888]

This. I started playing Tarkov today and I will not lie, suddenly in Gamma i now feel like John Wick shredding a platoon of Monolith alone whereas Tarkov whooped my ass by sending a scav with some bubba'd AK to fuck me in the ass unlubed with it.

[@Splatpope]

the tedium is because gamma is built upon anomaly, built upon the old misery mod whose core concept was translating cock and ball torture into video-game mechanics

[@bogdankl2000]

the worst part of anomaly, not so much gamma as I feel this is less common, is the way body health system interacts with and anomalies and mutants, in gamma anomalies are very visible but if you play vanilla anomaly or something like EFP, they are almost invisible, and if you run body health system that and the mutants will ensure that whenever you take damage that damage, 90% of the time will go to your ducking legs and then you either have to spend all of your cash and inventory weight on meds or crawl around the zone for most of the game at a snail pace again, in gamma anomalies are a lot more visible so you don't run into the as often and even when I ran into them they sometimes don't hit the legs, same with the mutties, they don't always munch on the legs

[@Ashfired]

I am guessing you mean EFP instead of EFT right?

[@bogdankl2000]

@@Ashfired yep, pretty much, it feels like a lot of games try to ape tarkov or parts of it, I know fallout 4 has escape from boston and I could swear I heard about some others

[@ross_boss]

I once got shot in the shoulder and it broke my leg

[@dakota9821]

@@bogdankl2000 you realize that both stalker and FO4 came out BEFORE tarkov? Nikita literally said tarkov is basically a stalker rip off

[@casualponyfag2815]

@@dakota9821 you realize that the video you just watched had the ripped off voicelines from Tarkov? 7:44 They literally copy pasted BEAR voicelines in their mod... Tarkov took inspiration from Stalker, while some Stalker mod devs literally copy assets, sounds and GUI from Tarkov. Do you think there is a difference between taking inspiration and stealing?

[@MrAmericanGuy1]

lol good review. I’m glad you able to explain the Stalker factions in simple terms. And the world around it. A lot fans would make a paragraphs for each factions and I would get lost or confused about the factions.

[@cykablyat3680]

Not shitting on you bro, buts is hella funny to see you conplain about the stalker ai when you re a twrkov youtuber

[@CT-5634]

I can totally understand the frustration with gamma trust me when I first played it, it frustrated the hell out of me but once i understood everything i started having so much fun killing an enemy and taking their gun, repairing it and using it is just a great feeling at least for me

[@LittlegeckoAndFriends]

The real fun is in Escape From Prypiat. Nice video.

[@MissingCredentials]

I started with base Anomaly and worked my way up to GAMMA. Gamma is no joke with the progression and general difficulty. definitely not for everyone but definitely for me. Scraping my nutsack across a cheese grater is my favorite hobby

[@HyraxPensif]

You discover a new game and you decide to play to his hardest difficult, you half-read the tutorial step-by-step on your PDA and complain how hard the game is... Well, i'm sorry for you if you didn't are into reading stuff, but if you did more effort about it and play for your first try in a less difficult (like med-med) your experience on it could be different in a good way, but today you learned in the hard way. nice video :)

[@ImNotFine44]

in summary: dont play gamma, play anomaly

[@unturnedgaming7896]

Gamma anomaly

[@z0h33y]

The problem is that if you remove all the tedium, youre left with a very empty sandbox. There is a questline, but a large amount of playing GAMMA is just gearing, making small upgrades, working towards smaller things (like getting night vision).

[@Kyle-rw8ql]

After playing "vanilla" STALKER anomaly this video makes me want to play Gamma lmao.

[@josue1996jc]

hope you did it my brother, if you already are in the zone, there is no better way to experience it. when i started anomaly i felt it too dificult, 1 month later it was too easy, then i downloaded GAMMA but i saved scumm like a little bith for a month, then i deleted everthing and started grinding ironman (accesible zone uncheck) , so far i have dessabled the brainscorcher and i made the entire south my bitches, hope not to lose to controller in the north now xd. trust me, there is no other adrenaline rush like dissabeling the brainscorcher on ironman GAMMA. i felt like that kid that beated tetris a couple months ago XD. i cant fucking imagine how it will feel to attack limansk and the generators xd

[@gang-ridertv5433]

I recommend Stalker Anomaly, much easier to get guns from vendors. Gamma was made with the sole purpose of making guns hard to get.

[@grok_gamma]

This video can be summed up by: newbie started GAMMA in Hard Survivalist and simply got handled. Play in Easy Tourist, read your PDA guide as mentioned when spawning the first time. The game is *not* made so you can directly loot and use other enemies gear, because it would basically make you geared up in 30 minutes. And Hard Survivalist progression requires that you know ALL the game mechanics. In Easy Tourist, everything is made simpler so that you can discover the game systems. The repair system is easy in the sense that you just need a repair kit, right click gun, maintain, replace parts, done. You don't need to find all the parts, it consumes uses of the expensives repair kits though so it's more of a joker. Good parts naturally come while playing, just press Left Alt to auto loot the enemies, it will strip the green parts automatically. You can swap parts by drag and dropping parts on a gun, you don't need a repair kit for that, but it consumes a bit of the gun condition. Swapping parts in the bench with a repair kit doesn't consume repair kit uses, and it doesn't consume gun condition upon doing so (cleaner than the field swap). Parts in green can be cleaned while inside the gun, as stated by the cleaning kit description... Loot a gun with a green barrel, it will be prestine in no time. By the end of day 1 you can have a repaired AK without having any repair kit nor any toolkit. To get repair kits you need toolkits that you will naturally find by looting rare stashes (yellow ones) which you get naturally by doing tasks. Early on most pistols and SMGs can be repaired. You can buy SMG rounds for cheap and the A type repair kit is only 13k roubles. SMGs easily kill most enemies in 1 or 2 headshots down south. Some are tankier and need AP rounds, which you can also buy. Seeing that you have 30k roubles early on also shows something symptomatic of newbies: keeping for *whatever*. Roubles don't make you survive, ammo, better gear and healings do. Early on you should usually end up with 17 roubles in your pocket every time you visit an allied base by slowly building up your supplies. About your SVU comment: if you looted it in usable condition, you could have used it until the end of the game and one shotting most enemies with the correct ammo. Even so, you can be lucky and find such a gun with a green barrel and use it. Healing system ? Bandage + Yadulin = done. During fight bandages and medkits usually give you enough temp HP to hold on during the fights, it just puts pressure on you to not stay idle for too long and camping (the temp HP vanishes and you need to reapply a bandage to have limb temp HP again to not suffer from the many debuffs). But again, all your issues are coming up from: 1) Playing in Hard Survivalist. 2) Not learning the game mechanics (in game tutorials will be made at some point, meanwhile the PDA is a good source of information).

[@SkyChaser-]

The three uses of the repair kits are only when REPLACING parts via Mouse 2 on the weapon itself, you can use it as much as you want to swap parts around inside that menu in the workbench, the trader only sell them when you give them better toolkits, the game pushes you more towards crafting stuff yourself, and any other mechanic/feature someone may not understand can be explained in the built-in Wiki your PDA has under "Guide" tab.

[@XxXtremeAnime]

I love GAMMA but it's definitely an acquired taste.

[@WarchildAD]

I know it seems annoying at first but the more you play the easier it gets to get started. As long as you find a gun with a 100% barrel you can fix it without a tool kit just by dragging the good condition parts on to the weapon.

[@SerechII]

I had so much fun tackling that exact camp of renegades, I had nothing but a makarov with like 20 bullets and a bandage and I managed to slowly but surely pick them out a couple at a time, when they locked onto me I would run like hell to the clear sky base, outside of it were a couple houses I used as cover and to run around when they tried to flank me, I died like 6 times doing all this song and dance but eventually killed some of them, sold their loot and got more ammo and meds so I could keep thinning them out until eventually raiding the 2 guys left in the base, the loot was great, even got a cool gun that looked kinda like an aug that had a functional barrel I stashed to repair eventually The game IS brutal but it pushes you to be better and create stories of every single little encounter, most people probably know him but Drewski really showcases these aspects of GAMMA, no hate on anyone who doesn't like it tho, it is very niche but it's also freaking FREE so trying it out to see if it's your next obsession doesn't hurt, if anything the atmosphere is worth giving it a shot

[@supernova7314]

play originals first, heretic!

[@leviticus1132]

I thought about it, but this is the one that was always recommended to me as a "tarkov adjacent" experience

[@supernova7314]

@@leviticus1132 there's literally a modpack called EFP (Escape From Pripyat) and traders sell guns there Also anyone who doesn't recommend the originals first is a heretic

[@twofastjack]

Clear sky gang, we're nerds packin heat

[@OperatorVanta]

For what it's worth, it might be worth checking out a different modpack for STALKER Anomaly, or even modding STALKER Anomaly yourself. After all, GAMMA is a modpack for Anomaly and it's very possible to build out your own modpack or try new ones. GAMMA can indeed be very grindy, with a often frustrating and convoluted progression system

[@KeonieD]

Mate, nobody's angry, throughout the video i was just nodding and saying "yeah, yeah" the mod is ball busting if you go at it blindly, but it is very fun if you get a hold of it, similarly the way tarkov works(or at least should work) cool video

[@isaacromero3131]

The problems in this game can be changed, its a modded game with a config menu, the second I changed the loot values I was able to get months of progression in weeks, i was able to find all repair kits C class and below in the areas south of the red forest and Pripyat, absolutely changed my experience.

[@cassidy8307]

Some clarifications from a gamma fan: Gamma has tons of progression, you basically start as a hobo and slowly work your way up to tacticool guns and heavy armor by finding and repairing gear. Most of the best loot is found in stashes, so once you finish some missions exploration is encouraged. Collecting anomalies also becomes important later on to buff your stats. Weapons being in awful condition on enemy drops is indeed nonsensical, but it does make for a unique progression system where you can't just kill one guy and jumpstart to good gear. If you dislike it, you can change it around in the ingame mod settings menu. The weapon repair system is thankfully going to be simplified soon. However, you're not supposed to use better weapons like assault rifles for a while. Instead you find or craft handgun and historic weapon kits first. Traders can sell weapons by disabling "G.A.M.M.A. Economy" in the mod organizer. Enemies are usually not bullet sponges if you use correct ammotypes. BR0 for monsters, BR1 - 2 for lightly armored humans, BR3 - 4 for medium armor, BR5+ for heavy armor. There is a lategame faction named Sin that have huge damage resistance because of anomalies, though; best to use FMJ for them. If you're in a place where you need to constantly chug vodka or huff ciggies to deal with radiation, you should move back south and find a better mask or use long lasting anti-rad meds. The merc fight in great swamps is indeed painful. It's a lot better if you turn on "G.A.M.M.A. NPCs cannot see through foliage" in the mod organizer.

[@clunt_fecus]

STALKER GAMMA caters to people who are into trains and Sonic the Hedgehog. That said, it was one of my favorite gaming experiences and requires a lot of research to learn how the hell to actually play the game. And yes, that pump station fight in the swamp was some weapon grade malarkey.

[@spooderman4008]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans on their way to watch yet another victim meet their fate:

[@themizfit87]

ah yes stalker gamma. the game where i learned the phrase "you never escape the zone stalker" is quite literal. ive played gamma since nearly the beginning and still play it today its sometimes on fair and brutally challenging but to me its home. its taught me a lot, my 2 favorite things being always bring a geiger counter and to swear at people who i dont like in russian

[@Flugeo]

This vid is beautiful and you are really bringing something new in terms of entertainment and comedy. Everything was on point

[@styxriverr5237]

Misery is just not having fun leaving the body. Once all the not having fun has gone, you'll have fun. Also those repair kits only use charges when either used in crafting or repairing. If you are just replacing the parts with ones you already have then it won't expend a charge.

[@masterrTOM]

The good thing about gamma (or anomaly more especifically) is that you can mix and match what ever mods you want for the perfect experience I personally gave up trying to make gamma work and downloaded vanilla anomaly with some AI, inmersion, gun and QoL mods and im having the time of me life (and yeh, i also think the gun economy of gamma is kinda yikes, i never got to use the SV98 i wanted to use bcos i couldnt find the parts to repair it :c)

[@sultanamiasmatic]

Life hack: if you are tired of having shit weapons upon drop you can actually change the setting from the pause menu so that loot drops in better quality and you can adjust the percentages to however you like. I have mine set to where rookie stalkers will have slightly damaged loot and on occasion drop some useless shit but it’s highly unlikely, versus master stalkers and professionals have pristine equipment. This makes for a more fair and enjoyable experience as now you can swap your weapon parts with that of a fallen enemy’s. Bolt broken? Maybe Slava Booze, the bandit I just shot in the face has one on his body. It still is challenging without sacrificing a very important aspect of the game which was designed ENTIRELY to make you cry

[@nickq8093]

so to add context to why gamma is like it is, especially in regards to armor and weapon condition when looted + traders not selling guns/armor: base anomaly's progression is kinda trash, you basically just stay in the south of the zone until you've farmed enough money and rep to buy the best gear and then you head north to do actually interesting things and fight dangerous things. Grok (gamma's creator) didn't like this, and so gamma is designed with the intent that you have a gameplay loop of get toolkits + guns/armor -> repair equipment -> move further north in search of further toolkits + armor/weapon upgrades. broken guns aren't intended to be used, at least not as anything more than last resort. they jam every 2nd shot, deal vastly less damage, struggle to penetrate printer paper and generally just are detrimental to try use in a fight. Buckshot may be god's finger against mutant but if you got a 2% barrel then 9mm makarov HP from your starting pistol is gonna hit harder. also, counterintuitively the two most common starting areas people go for (cordon and swamps)... are kinda trash starting locations, swamps especially fools you into thinking the little mini CS questline is a beginner thing when it *REALLY* isn't. don't do those tasks till you have a good rifle, preferably with a magnified optic. the cover around those areas are shit and the enemies aren't particularly easy. Tho that bits not actually hugely on gamma. those are base anomaly things lol. Messing with quests is a bit nightmarish with the xray engine.

[@diegoalonsovelazquezramire9829]

it only has 3 uses but to repair a single item, u can replace all the stuff as many times as you want. In addition, the best way to repair a weapon is to get a weapon which has a barrel with 60% condition or above, then you simply field strip all the parts which are below 60% and then u repair it using a repair kit for the gun type (the cheap one that all the traders have at the start it should cost somewhere around 2k-5k depending on the weapon type)

[@fulop._.szilard3000]

crank up your FOV to 85...this isnt claustrophobia simulator Tip number 2: chose a shotgun as starting weapon and use slugshots....cheap and easy to buy ammo, and u can kill almost anything easily...as long as they dont use exo suits. Tip number 3: u can change almost everything in the menu, i recommend u to bump up bullet hit power or whatever its called in the game difficulty menu, makes your shots hit realistic, enemies get one or two shotted if u aim well. The games is intimidating at first...but once u get used to the systems and gameplay, u can pretty much gear up very fast...u just need experience. Or u can try EFP...escape from pripyat modpack.

[@diclonius7]

Stalker Gamma is a grind game. You grind out quests or go artifact hunting to make money so you can repair guns and armors and get toolkits.

[@NightCrawler1566]

I have play gamma and i think the same about the weapons system, but the game is really awesome. I think that coming from EFT you should try Escape From Pripyat, this mod along with some ingame tweaks, eliminates almost all the tedium.

[@foofoo3344]

Lorewise, average life expectancy of STALKERS in the zone does not go past 3 months.

[@BusterBuizel]

I figured out how your character jammed the shotgun: *He loaded the shells backwards in the heat of the moment*

[@jonne7725]

The problem with gamma is that it seems built on misery 2, with all of the problems that has. The repair system, the item bloat, the damage sponges shooting you with scuffed guns without problems, etc.

[@givmmemoney]

What is good is, at least for guns, I forgot where it was, but somewhere in the settings, you can set minimum and maximum durability of weapons

[@R.3.D..]

As a G.A.M.M.A player that loves to add mods making the game EVEN MORE difficult, like Magazines, Cold System, Long-as-Hell Animations... I agree - this game is pain, but I like it