Why I'm Afraid of STALKER 2

Today, DJ Peach Cobbler experiences a Stalker 2 anxiety attack. After becoming a cult-classic, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise is soon going to receive a sequel in the form of the imaginatively titled: STALKER 2.
But will GSC Game World stay true to the soul of what made Stalker a cult-classic to begin with? In the pursuit of having "modern" features, can what made Stalker special...disappear?
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idk probably
Music used:
Sovngarde - Skyrim OST
Skyrim Main Theme
God of War Main Theme - God of War 4 OST
Awake - Skyrim OST
God of War Main Theme - God of War 4 OST (yeah, again)
Max Payne 3 Theme
Hopes and Dreams Undertale Cover by EIM Piano • 【Undertale】 hopes and ...
108 Bits of the Zone - STALKER 2 OST
Stalker Ambient Guitar Tracks
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R Guitar t...
Portal 2 Main Theme
Cypher - Stalker 2 OST
Firelake Dirge for the Planet - Stalker OST
Ending Triumph - Half Life Alyx REMIX
• Half-Life: Alyx OST - ...
Cypher - Stalker 2 OST (YES, AGAIN)
That droning digeridoo is from the STALKER Anomaly mod, and can be found here:
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Videos used:
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METAL GEAR SOLID Gameplay Walkthrough Part 1 - Solid Snake (RETRO PSX Classic) - TetraNinja
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Kan Play: Far Cry 1 (PC) - BLIND Part #1 "It Kan't be that far" - WeKanGame
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Assassin's Creed Walkthrough Part 2 - Damascus (PC Let's Play Commentary) - TetraNinja
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God of War 3 Remastered Gameplay Walkthrough Part 2 (1080p 60fps) - High Quality Gaming
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Stick Guy Slamming His Head On Computer - Kingsmile11
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ALRIGHT, so I only learned literally while uploading this video...that the “Complete" 2012 mod that I've been using...adds fast travel, which I literally spent a decent portion of this video insisting shouldn’t be in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, at least not without making it super obtuse and a pain like in CoP or Clear Skies.
I didn’t use fast travel, of course, because I was unaware the mod added such a sickening feature.
I just wanted no more bugs and prettier graphics, is that so much to ask for?
As it stands, this is a crappy oversight, which shouldn’t detract from the thesis of the video. I was looking forward to making just one Stalker video without a major mistake, but I guess I can’t have nice things...

[@rookiecf3399]

The community manager of GSC GW responded to this video on their post on r/stalker: "We love most, if not all, the games that you've mentioned in the video, but as much as we want to make the Zone more appealing to the mainstream audience, the fact that we are based across the globe from the studios that are making these games heavily influences our vision of the gaming trends. While S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will definitely be different from the previous installments (a lot of time has passed, technology has evolved, yadda yadda yadda) the unique cultural imprint that every developer is carrying just won't allow us to make the game identical to what our colleagues are making. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was always about loneliness, the struggle for survival, and being just a cog within a grand mechanism, inner workings of which cannot be comprehended by a regular human. It's a feeling many of us can relate to and we hope to let you in on our perception of this feeling."

[@fristajlo765]

"stalker 2 was allways about loneliness..." so true

[@jerichoelopez]

Link to that response please

[@rookiecf3399]

@@jerichoelopez I can’t link it since KZbin keeps deleting it but you can easily find it yourself, it’s on r/stalker on a post named “are ya winning r/stalker?”. Scroll down to the very bottom of the post and you can find the response.

[@pineappleboi27]

this does bring a smile to my face

[@retroreaper3676]

Oh thank god they are listening to us. Still a little uneasy about a new Stalker coming out though.

[@BillyCobbOfficial]

Also in return of making the player feel unimportant you also get the sense that the world is constantly moving without you, making it feel more immersive.

[@BillyGates935]

That's cos it is, the A-life AI system is really well done.

[@sl0th259]

wh wha why r u here? STALKER x weezer when?

[@jicklord3487]

No way, Billy Cobb is a stalker fan?

[@Merudiana-the-local-demoness]

Earlier today I was doing a side mission where I had to kill another stalker, I was heading off to Garbage where he was located but then I looked at the PDA’s Encyclopedia to read up on some anomalies where I heard gun fire and then got a mission update saying to return to Sidorovich. That’s right, the guy I was supposed to kill wandered into Cordon and got killed by some NPCs, not even the player.

[@NcrXnbi]

Random notice: A bandit has died in garbage by dog attack. Me.- I could have saved him... But I wasn't there. Oh wait, it's just a bandit, nvm. Fuck them.

[@saintpoli6800]

I do wish more games had a story where you’re effectively unknown or someone tiny in the grand scheme. It’s honestly an enjoyable thing

[@flamingmanure]

souls games are right up ur alley. its even baked into the narrative.

[@saintpoli6800]

@@flamingmanure Literally platinumed Bloodborne haha

[@Ruinfire-fs9xu]

In kenshi your character is no one special...literally your character is the same as everyone else and has the same potential as everyone else since every character in the game can all go from level 1 to max level no matter who they are, plus even when your at max level while you can totally beat like 30 starving bandits by yourself that doesn't mean that you will do it flawlessly

[@StinksOS3]

@@Ruinfire-fs9xu Rimworld fits this bill too Unless you mod it to hell and all of a sudden you have a bunch of anime girls with nuke launchers

[@parasoldat66]

Try Kingdome come deliverance, you'll love it.

[@SenkaBandit]

>have a fully upgraded exoskeleton, best armor in the game >die in 3 hits from a mutated rat

[@mcfeddle]

Sounds about right.

[@uggachugga760]

Nah, Stalker isn’t that unfair. At worst your armour gets shredded

[@derf3001]

Shit happens

[@danio156]

Such is life in the zone

[@dylanwight5764]

that's because you didn't appeal to the Cheeki Breeki gods and slav crouch to punch the rat

[@Defferleffer]

My walkthrough in a nutshell "quicksave, quicksave, quicksave, WAIT did I remember to quicksave?"

[@vctoothpick1455]

All the games are soooo much fun if you play them like you don't have you quicksaves. It's a lot more adrenaline pumping and immersive. In my opinion the quicksave ruins the whole series.

[@low_sky9]

in the "Anomaly" mod (standalone mod of Call of Prypiat that make everything the devs should had made, and its free) you can set to only save on campfires and/or set a minimum time to save again

[@_454_]

@@low_sky9 yeah i played a playthrough with campfire saves only... it was soooo fun. and in the northern harder areas campfires are extremely rare, so you have to keep your eyes out and balls braced, it was so fun

[@yourlocalengineer]

And then you quicksave 0,5 seconds before instant death

[@_454_]

@@JennyMontecillo-yt2vs may i ask you, did you directly reply to me?

[@HulluJanne]

Fast travel was quite believable part in Clear Sky, as you had to pay for a guide to get you to places. And yet they managed to limit the amount of guides and the places you can go. It wasn't really necessary but for looting, side missions and some basic back and forth stuff it was nice to have.

[@__-vu3bv]

I think a nice middle ground could be like a taxi service or a bike or something that allowed for faster travel but not "fast travel"

[@pipopoikapelaa5468]

@@__-vu3bv How in the hell are you gonna get a working car in the zone?

[@__-vu3bv]

@@pipopoikapelaa5468 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@XxsniperxelitxomegaxlmaoxOwOxX]

@@pipopoikapelaa5468 monolith got em working once. but don't take my word for it.

[@pipopoikapelaa5468]

@@XxsniperxelitxomegaxlmaoxOwOxX Well yeah aside from death truck but still, not many working.

[@justdude2775]

Some of the newer Stalker mods contain something that's called "iron Man mode". It is basically an option that upon switching on, with your character's death all your saved files are deleted. And let me tell you, whatever feeling of danger and threat the Stalker world has, when you play with one life it is multiplied by 100.

[@rendydevilzz]

And then you enter new zone, and suddenly six snorks spawn all around you, bang all saves deleted. XD

[@Someone-vq6jk]

Yeah I hope they include that into the game, or someone makes a mod for it

[@Apost0345]

@@Someone-vq6jk that would be sick

[@hakkafuter]

Multiplied by 100 is an understatement. Welcome to heart attack simulator

[@justdude2775]

@@rendydevilzz that does definitely happen with the buggy engine so just press esc and quickly switch on god-mode. It's forgivable if it's just to combat a bug

[@Dar_Paz]

Dude, stalker hits you weirdly when the place you work at is an old warehouse in the Polish forest, and it literally looks like a location from the game.

[@Poodleinacan]

Can you hear that sound in the forest? Those grunting sounds. They are not boars or wild pigs... They are the sound of Snorks.

[@brandenbeaverbone5564]

@D_ans I can help you with the bandits

[@fanoftheredredeggman5298]

A Cursed polish Forest? That's almost as dangerous as a regular Finnish Forest

[@LIKEICARE84]

Spot on. If you live in a slavic country everything is so......familiar

[@trillrifaxegrindor4411]

@D_ans do they cheeky breeky?

[@Rivers256]

I've been playing anomaly mod every day since I discovered it. In other games, I've never cared about seeing random NPCs back at town, nor been so upset at finding their bodies several days later. RIP Georg Lucky Bastard. I love Stalker.

[@uncledoctor6920]

Same here. RIP Yury Bustard, legend of Freedom torn apart by pseudodogs.

[@sledgetype0029]

It's so fucking true. I started a new loner run just a couple weeks ago, and after a while the military attacked the Rookie Village, wiping out basically every loner there aside from Wolf and Fanatic. The village has been empty for days and it felt so weird and sad to sit down near the campfire where usually there were 5 or 6 guys while others walked up and down the road.

[@HeavyMedal]

@@sledgetype0029 you have to revenge them, thats what I would do cos I hate militari bois in the Stalker anyways 😀

[@sledgetype0029]

@@HeavyMedal and that's what i did. Loaded myself with ammo and bad intentions, then killed every military guy at the cordon checkpoint and at their base in agroprom. To this day i still check the rookie village every now and then to protect the rookies

[@jhitbob]

Rip Dennis Iroquois

[@bratanpaul9058]

IGN get's a review copy of Stalker 2. Reviewer - There's no fast travel, the game is not fair and it's full of bugs. I wouldn't recommend it. Every Stalker - Почему? Звучит идеально.

[@metalwarrior6668]

Smagu, kad lietuviai gerus žaidimus žaidžia :)

[@bratanpaul9058]

@@metalwarrior6668 mažai žmonių žaidžia šiuos žaidimus. Pabando Shadow of Chernobyl ir net neišeina iš Cordon. Pathetic

[@metalwarrior6668]

@@bratanpaul9058 Kas būtų jei Misery mod'ą pamėgintų ? :D

[@bratanpaul9058]

@@metalwarrior6668 Misery gal biškį pažaistų, bet Dead air pabandytų ir mestų

[@arnasgrismanauskas9071]

Prisimenu kada pirma kontroleri sutikau almost had a heart attack

[@johnsmith-kc1sn]

Something that made STALKER great especially at the time was A-Life system. The mutants and factions will continue doing what they do, with or without you really. It’s even a nice touch that when you die it just says “You died to the zone” and the world continues on until you reload.

[@dignusdingus3709]

Pop out from Duty's spot to head to Yantar and find this Loner guy just getting hounded by dogs as soon as I finish loading. Love this shit

[@yazavaworks]

@@dignusdingus3709 💀💀💀💀

[@Bednar121]

Exactly! I sometimes just sat down at the roof of Skadovsk, just watching how the world lives on its own through the scope of my VSS and smoked a cigarette before even doing anything remotely "active" in the game

[@3rdcain356]

@@Bednar121 HA! knew i wasnt the only one doing this shit!

[@Bednar121]

@@3rdcain356 *insert I Feel You Wojak meme here*

[@GhenTuongHB]

When I received a quest from Lebedev that asked me to help Clear Sky guys capturing a point, I thought "nah, I will check out this anomaly field first". Then the quest just completed and I got no reward. The Clear Sky guys captured the point without me. None of other games could give me a world that feels so alive like that of Stalker.

[@BlyatifulButter]

I recognize your name, you're an Anomaly mod developer right? By the way, this has nothing to do with STALKER, but, may I ask what your nationality is?

[@GhenTuongHB]

@@BlyatifulButter Viet Nam

[@BlyatifulButter]

@@GhenTuongHB Dude, no way, I'm from Vietnam too! I had been thinking that your username weirdly sounds like Vietnamese. Well, it's nice to know that STALKER is getting more recognition from the Vietnamese gaming community. Thanks for your hard work đồng chí!

[@frostsoul4199]

funnily enough, if i remember correctly the original design idea of Stalker was a game that can complete itself without the player's input. an NPC could just do the main quest as well and reap the rewards of the story without your aid.

[@TheWolfDude91]

hah funny, in mine they all died trying without me lol

[@smh02]

the charm of STALKER is in the details and the rough edges, i would honestly hate to lose it

[@Apost0345]

Honestly if GSC released a shitth looking 2004 graphics game that expands nicely on the already established story i would still love it

[@manformerlypigbukkit]

@@Apost0345 that was literally what CoP was (minus the jaw-dropping lighting engine that still wows me to this day), and people definitely enjoyed it! If we got more of that, I wouldn’t complain at all

[@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012]

STALKER is strong in terms of graphics, physics, lighting, and sounds, it falls only in terms of animations, voice acting and bugs, other aspects are excellent.

[@Edgariki]

@@manformerlypigbukkit if you removes npc and human structures, graphics looks amazing even to this day.

[@manformerlypigbukkit]

@@Edgariki zation during a thunderstorm definitely comes to mind lol

[@monoPRD]

"When the player is big, the world feels small." This is why I get so quickly bored while playing games. Great video!

[@slothprizon66]

Probably why I really don't enjoy Dying Light 2 as much as I enjoyed the 1st one. That, and the story just fucking sucks to play.

[@slothprizon66]

I only die from Rad zones and fall damage. Everything else is a cake walk.

[@diseasedworm9209]

@@slothprizon66 yeah sadly

[@dudebropog8750]

@@slothprizon66 you could said the same thing with dying light 1 but that your opinion

[@woulfhound]

Thats such a shame really, because it really takes that feeling of "there are great and terrible things out there and they will find you if you don't run and hide" right out of the game experience. Its like every survival horror is becoming Fallout 4.

[@blazzered2]

Stalker had fast travel (CS & CoP) however the difference between it & most games is you can’t fast travel on the spot, constantly. You had to find someone willing to “guide” you, & those guides would ask for payment to take you somewhere. As long as Stalker 2 keeps this kind of system, fast travel will be fine.

[@flikitisideways9953]

man im happy with the regular stalker with 2021 graphics

[@apeblackberry3641]

Same, I just want SOC with better graphics and animations and I will be happy forever.

[@infernal4591]

Mods will preserve old STALKERs for many years to come. Check out Autumn Aurora for SOC, its graphics are still joy. Or maybe Anomaly - this mod is like Stalker 2 already. Especially that it takes place after original trilogy.

[@flikitisideways9953]

@@infernal4591 i have but its still old stalker dont get me wrong i still dig it but its not the same the level of immersion on stalker 2 should be unlike anything weve ever experienced

[@Cedrikbr]

@@infernal4591 Check out Dead Air, it's about to realease 1.0 with better graphics, seasonal seamless transition and a fully new maganize system with proper gun repairs.

[@MrPhatNOB]

Agree but would like more bizarre and unexplained anomalies, hidden research labs outside of the storyline, undocumented mutants, unique mutants, unique weapons, hidden stash locations which require you to climb trees or dig a hole or roll a rock over to find. A lot more interactivity with your environment would be awesome. Also would like to be able to harvest plants and wood for their useful properties, even just wood for fire or making a spear ect. Also use plants or mutated plants or mushrooms to create remedies to reduce radiation, reduce hunger, stimulate, or stop bleeding ect..

[@acetrigger1337]

Western Gaming: "you are God! nothing can survive you... they are beneath you!" Eastern Gaming: "you are nothing... so go out there and be something, or be dead."

[@kenzo_desu]

I prefer games coming from eastern developers these days.

[@Axl4325]

That´s just eastern european culture in general now that I think about it. In an american film the protagonist saves the world, in eastern european (and especifically russian/soviet works) the protagonist barely has a hold of himself

[@mcom6859]

In my opinion, that's the thing in Eastern Europe. Eastern Eurioeans understand that they are nobodies and are just a part of a huge machine that wouldn't care much if they would disappear.

[@khoaanh2224]

I think you meant Slavic, asian game are borderline power fantasy though

[@mickycaneloni8431]

@@mcom6859 Blood has spreaded through their grass for thousands of years, they sure know what pain is, and thus The little joys of life. Such as sharing a bottle of Cossack to a fellow s.t.a.l.k.e.r meantime a lonely guitar sounds its old chords in the radioactive storm

[@josejuancerdabarraza3544]

STALKER games are the only ones where I couldn't manage to feel that my character was OP at any point, like you can get the best armor, the best gun with the most powerful ammo and a bunch of rare artifacts stacked and you were strong but not invincible all you needed was a bloodsucker or some monolith guys to remind you that

[@actualteddybear891]

That's my favorite kind of progression. You don't level up or become a god, you just become more seasoned. You learn how to navigate The Zone and you find better guns to shoot but you never master The Zone. Complacency gets you killed.

[@lclocean1887]

I really like how in Shadow of Chernobyl you were never the main character, how the world just sort of existed and you went with it. I remember once being with an important character to the story and we got caught in a gunfight with the military. He got shot in the head and fell straight down and I just... sort of stood there... like, no plot armor, no checkpoint, no mission reset, it just happened. You could still carry out the mission with the info on his PDA, but it's like, it was so different to any other game. That's the moment I realized how immersive this game was.

[@dutyer2005]

Was it mole? God he gets dropped so much in my playthroughs.

[@tdab3883]

I was on a work with the bandits, and they kill the leader of my squad that day they didn't pay me because the leader was supposed to pay me. I spent all my ammo in that mission not a single ruble

[@oksomynameisjeff4212]

funny story: On my recent playthrough as a mercenary in Anomaly, I was on my way to Sultan(The Bandit's Leader) and his mission for me is to kill a mercenary and that mercenary was on Dead City, but I've never paid any attention to it because my dumbass thought it's all about the money and I don't give a crap even if he's my ally or comrade. Consequently, that backfired because not only did I kill a mercenary in Dead City, but I killed a fellow mercenary with his fellow squad nearby like 3 meters away from him. And I went to Sultan and got my money, but as a result I have a restraining order from never entering the Dead City ever again. A few missions later, I forgot about the squad, but they sure did never forgot about my dumbass face and have any opportunity to kill me in any chances they got. And they sure do... And that's what I learned from the Zone, never be greedy.

[@ppurpleduck]

you shut down the miracle machine, brain scorcher, infiltrate the cnpp and destroy the c consciousness and aren’t the main character apparently

[@kruksal6541]

I was exploring Red Forest as a mercenary in Anomaly and I was with 2 other guys. With 1 of them I had been on numerous missions and expeditions, the other was a complete stranger to me. We ran into a chimera and my friend died almost instantly. The fact that I had known that man for maybe 3 in-game days and he just dies with no warning or nothing, but the zone just continued on. Absolutely nobody cared. That's what makes the STALKER games so. Fucking. Good.

[@somamohaaa]

Your point when you've said: "When the player is big, the world feels small." really hit the nail on the head. I'll take this with me from this video!

[@ferrarizor]

Late to this, but one thing that always fascinated me was waiting after the you are dead screen. A mutant drags you off to the bush to take a bite at you, few minutes later some stalkers come by and kill them and loot your body with no chill. This is what makes stalker unique, the zone is always alive.

[@MyLifeIsAFrickingMess_MRPOLSKA]

Gonna try this, just get murdered and observe

[@habos]

consider this a year late suggestion, if you like that you should play rain world, also amazing story, don't spoil yourself even if you don't play the game, it feels so good to figure things out, very similar things happen in that game, get killed by a lizard, proceed to watch it drag you body back to its nest only to be faced with 2 other lizards teaming up to eat your corpse and kill the other lizard, they win, watch them get impaled by a vulture, vulture take your body, you respawn in utter understanding that you are just another maggot in the middle of a complex food chain.

[@ferrarizor]

@@habos will check it out!

[@Deltapistol]

stalker call of pripyat also has fast travel but is situational depending on whether or not the group of stalkers you run into are friendly and you have the rubles to pay for the fast travel

[@juang1574]

I agree with this fast travel, it is more realistic, just like paying the bus driver for transportation. I will say that you need pilot to get to other parts of the zone, so it is necessary

[@karlrumenige3602]

@Zerk anomaly has guides who offer fast travel

[@onerxowns2202]

Yes, its NPC based, so only one simple thing of not getting all the time access to it already made players more qurious and less lazy

[@karlrumenige3602]

@Zerk Yeah the squads in Misery could be asked where they were headed and then used as a guide, that was nice. And the idea with the goodwill is neat, too. If there are possibilities to let goodwill and faction relation in general influence the world/game mechanics, it should be used. Makes the world more dynamic and gives the playstyle more consequences.

[@alextherussian7366]

People seem to ignore one of my favorites of the series, Clear Sky. I clear sky there where guides too, but you had to get to them and pay them some metric fuckton of cash to get somewhere fast. This is the way to do fast travel.

[@andreidragostin]

Some games: You Are Going To Die Other games: Nothing Can Kill You Stalker: That guy ded LMFAO

[@denismadarbiev6374]

Also Fallout. I'm weirdly atracted to games with radiation hazards in it.

[@Apost0345]

@@denismadarbiev6374 Older fallouts, sure. But FO4 and FO76 are a complete joke and are taking a piss on the franchise. FO 2 and NV are the absolute best parts of the series

[@denismadarbiev6374]

@@Apost0345 I never played FO 1 and 2, so my experience is 3 + mods, than New Vegas + mods, and FO 4 seemed not as good at first but you should try it, its still a Fallout game for all intents and purposes in my book

[@danio156]

Stalker: you shouldn't even gone out of bed

[@Apost0345]

@@denismadarbiev6374 I played through it a couple times when i used to be a huge fallout fan. But, at least in my opinion bethesda made fallouts don't stand a chance against Interplay and Obsidian ones

[@Sanetless]

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." The Zone is indifference personified. It doesn't care nor feel. It simply is.

[@OperatorMax1993]

Indeed It is indiscriminate

[@Dondolini94]

My insurance on stalker 2 is the modding community.

[@Dondolini94]

and as bad as it can be, i can always rely on Anomaly mod :D

[@Afterburn7]

As far as I have heard, they are making the game as mod friendly as possible which is the right call.

[@AllisterCaine]

@@Afterburn7 makes me trust the devs even more. They know what happened to stalker with the mods and they embrace it. I hope they have spent countless hours playing all of them, then they can't go wrong.

[@OoOoOo-we3dn]

Imma be mad if they don't get uamee on the soundtrack

[@rex-ch7lf]

I'm hoping the modding will also come to console. It'll be great to have another modable game that isn't from bethesda. If there is other modable games I dunno what they are

[@noob_toxic1719]

other games: *nothing can stop you, you are a god* S.T.A.L.K.E.R. : HAH look at that loser he just got rekt by an anomaly

[@Kuro-UWU]

Me: "Hahaha, brainscorcher goes BRRRR"

[@AndroidFerret]

Anomaly ? Most first time players get killed by flesh or rats

[@oddtomato1049]

Not even that, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. wouldn't even glance at you when you die. Because it doesn't care.

[@Dhips.]

or bandits blast you with their shotguns and loot your body.

[@doncoria9505]

don't be so cruel to the newbie, those vortex anomalies have more confirmed deaths than the chernobyl accident itself

[@lilyoungsterb1302]

I only played stalker cop but in that game there was fast travel of some kind, as you could travel with random stalkers to wherever they were going, although usually when you did that you got attacked by like 15 dudes and died immediately

[@ElidanVideos]

Fast travel was always there in a form of guides (think Skyrim carriages). Just shows that before making a video about something it might just be worthwhile to do a little basic research. Both main point of this video are based on the false premise and misinformation.

[@corogast]

@@ElidanVideos Clear Sky, and Call of Pripyat had them. Although, I really wouldn’t call the guides FTing you to a destination as a true FT. Seeing as the locations you went to through the Guide, are ONLY accessible through the guides. You cannot travel to them on foot like in Shadow of Chernobyl. (Unsure about foot traveling to another map on CS, I didn’t really play that one much.)

[@Frille512]

@@ElidanVideos It's not fast travel, you have to get to a guide to use it. And if you want to go to anothe part of the zone, that's atleast 1000 rubles

[@Drakon_Minaka]

Honestly, one of my favorite examples of this game not caring about me was when I got a mission from Duty to kill an enemy VIP in the Dark Valley. This was in the Call of Chernobyl mod, and I was just your run of the mill Clear Sky soldier. I fought the military in the swamp, gunned down bandits in the Cordon, kicked freedom ass while pushing through contested territory between them and Duty, etc. Every time I would either have to play my engagements carefully or hole up in a building and take pot shots outside of it while almost always walking away beaten to shit. So when I got to the Dark Valley, I immediately started moving towards the bandit base, when a Pseudogiant decided that my shit was unfucked and wanted to remedy that. Took a whole bunch of mags but I took it down, and then proceeded to make my way back to the enemy base. The whole fight in the base was me taking out the front guards, sniping as many people as I can, pushing in, falling back into a tower, and holing myself up in the tower like a the boogeyman hides in the closet. Took a while but I killed every bandit in the base and just barely came out alive, and decided it was time to go looting to make a profit. Found their armory, and while I was in the building I got a notification. "Defend the base from mutants." I was all alone. In an enemy base. Where I had just murdered everyone defending it. And the game just told me a horde of mutants were about to come barging in to realign my chakras. Needless to say I decided it was time to run. Unfortunately the horde of dogs outside disagreed. The only reason I lived was because I fell back into a building with military soldiers, and because of my actions on Duty's behalf and my constant killing of freedom and bandits, they were at the very least neutral towards clear sky now. So in other words, if I hadn't been such a duty fanboy, I might have ended up with a squad of really well equipped military soldiers unloading their guns into my chest as a horde of dogs wanted to eat my soul. The game didn't save me because I was important, it was just a series of unfortunate events that I only managed to survive due to previous technically unconnected actions, and even then it was by the skin of my teeth.

[@Gipfegrantler]

Holy Anomalies ! this story encapsules almost all the most important tropes of why STALKER series ( and mods ) is so loved and held to the highest esteem - thank you for your nice short story - I wish you and your journeys IRL and into the zone the very best of luck! Greetings from a longtime STALKER head / southern bavaria.

[@kliserktherockadept556]

Totally worth reading

[@midnightdragon67]

That's awesome!

[@KookoCraft]

CoC sucks play anomaly

[@Drakon_Minaka]

@@KookoCraft This was before I knew anomaly existed. Also, I disagree, but eh.

[@vapomaster6967]

Wow, never realized it, but Stalker is kinda like Gothic was. Thats probably explains why many fans of both games are from Poland, Russia etc.

[@headiii_plays]

Ahh. The GOTHIC games are german tho.

[@Relevus]

@@headiii_plays Made in Germany yes, but Eastern Europe soaked the games up. There's even official dubbing because it was so well received.

[@Johnsmith-rj5gt]

They both have npc called wolf too

[@vapomaster6967]

@@Johnsmith-rj5gt I only know Wolf from Gothic 2. Where is Wolf in Stalker?

[@Johnsmith-rj5gt]

@@vapomaster6967 wolf is in cordon

[@tiehat5856]

Funny thing about this "Marked One" title from the first game is that, considering the post-Soviet setting, it is actually more like a prison nickname you'd get from your inmates, which is ironically opposite to the usual "Chosen One" you get to play as.

[@Nomad-bl4yw]

devs be like "every game has to be SKYRIM!!"

[@DJPeachCobbler]

Every gamer wants to marry Todd Howard, and every developer seeks to copy him. This is the way. He WAS in the chess club, you know.

[@KhuniBacha]

@@DJPeachCobbler i hope igi will stay same as it was before

[@raychii7361]

Amen

[@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012]

@Joe Mama yeah man i mean tell me another game that lets me traps people souls inside a fork

[@judsongaiden9878]

Faxanadu was the Skyrim of the '80s.

[@sgtdopeaf757]

Hands down one of the best games I've ever played in my life and I do frequently revisit the zone. Cheeki Breeki Stalker

[@Apost0345]

Yessss it's the best game franchise, definitely the one that had the biggest impact on me. There is just nothing like it, and being a slav, zone just feels like home, a scary one but still home

[@sgtmi113r8]

Check out stalker anomaly, its a stondalone mod that adds a bunch of mods together and it is amazing

[@OSkarSS20]

Same! Few years back I got to build my first proper gaming pc and guess the first game I played on it - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Sorry, let me rephrase it - I meant games... All three of series. First as Vanilla game and then the glorious mods!

[@Exel3nce]

A shame it kinda bored me

[@LutzHerting]

For the last two weeks, I've been playing "STALKER Anomaly" (the greatest thing that happened to the STALKER universe since the original games) - after spending another week installing about 60 mods into it to make the world even more brutal and unforgiving than it already was. My first steps in the game were: Walk through the Rookie village to get the tutorial mission - get killed by two dogs that wandered into the village. Reload and hide while the dogs kill TWO other stalkers before being put down. Get tutorial mission to kill a few boars. Get one-shot killed by a single boar instantly. Try again and let the totally-strong-and-important (TM) village guardian go first. Boars kill him, then chase me into the village and wreak havoc before killing me. After several more reloads and several failed strategies I found a way to climb into an old car and kill the boars without them being able to reach me. Fetch an artifact as the second part of the tutorial. Get such a dose of radiation, that I barely make it back. Sell EVERYTHING I JUST EARNED just to get healed and not die. Finally walk away from the Rookie village. An emission hits and I have to sprint back to the village and take shelter. Wait out the emission, sit at the village campfire, listen to another STALKER play the guitar and contemplate #1 how totally and utterly fucked I am, #2 why I am doing this shit to myself, and #3 how totally and utterly awesome this game is. This was day 1 of my current playthrough - day 1 of the true STALKER experience. Anything less in the next game and it won't be STALKER.

[@Dev_242]

You should play Stalker Gamma

[@ohajohaha]

It's more stalker than the base game

[@Jelkitosix666]

Oh no another tarkomaly player

[@SIRLAWRENCE79]

only 60? wait when u hit 100 (i currently got 119) then anomaly shine like AAA! game (yes ! correspond for Factorial ;)

[@nomenium]

anomaly is dogshit play better mods tourist 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣 jk but play better mods jk again but still play better mods

[@eraserstraw9252]

I loved the quiet “exept darkwood” made me crack a smile

[@NcrXnbi]

Darkwood needs more love.

[@aderemiporsche]

@@NcrXnbi I agree. My first exposure to Darkwood was Mandalore Gaming's vid and since then, I never looked back.

[@jessh4016]

I love dark wood

[@mad1478]

Journalist "Well, its a big world, so theres fast travel right" GSC World " *snorts* "

[@Vonluchestein]

you actually have fast travel but you have to pay for it lol

[@matejkazbunda4769]

@@Vonluchestein And the guides usually cannot take you wherever you want. The option to join a travelling group in CoP was probably the best form of fast travel that could actually work for Stalker 2 imo.

[@Vonluchestein]

@@matejkazbunda4769 yeah its really restricted, just a few places but i think that's nice

[@sakib6258]

Yes there is... If you can haul your lazy ass there and pay for it with your kidney

[@Azathoth23]

I don't think they know what fast travel is

[@nexus274]

Every time an underwhelming AAA open-world game drops I'm compelled to come back and rewatch this video. Frictionless game design has me coming back here quite frequently.

[@Шилка]

I'm literally playing STALKER rn. Also, how does this dude only have 2k subscribers? His editing, way of talking, word choice, and delivery are amazing.

[@DJPeachCobbler]

Be the change you want to see in the world

[@mungojerrie86]

Absolutely, he definitely does feel and present like someone in the low six digit sub count.

[@Sigil_57]

@@DJPeachCobbler I just was, its criminal you're not at a few hundred thousand. Your videos are so much more professional and well put together than any fucking AAA youtuber our there. Love your work, hope your channel blows up soon ❤

[@КлимКо-д7у]

Absolutely agree. I expected about 100k subs, usual for that quality

[@BoSinnfan54]

I'd say this guy needs to swear less, and it would be perfect.

[@registeredblindgamer4350]

It took you 6 minutes to start talking about Stalker 2 almost half the god damn video. Although I do not see why they would add fast travel when they had guides previously in CS and CoP. I still walked everywhere mostly since the zone could be so dynamic at times. Especially when you get into mods.

[@abnerdoon4902]

I was literally confused when he talked about fast travel. Although I'm too stingy to pay a guide, they do exist.

[@registeredblindgamer4350]

@@abnerdoon4902 Yeah I never really used guides I always tried to save every ruble I could. Although in CS there were a few bugs where you could get infinite ammo by selling flash drives for money and buying them back for nothing.

[@MrAdamske]

@@abnerdoon4902 just hunt for artifacts. Even the shit ones sell for a few thousand and it adds up.

[@abnerdoon4902]

@@MrAdamske What if I told you I hoarded all of the artifacts I could get my hands on in a stash. Have you seen 30 artifacts in a single room glowing and floating around? My main source of income is doing hit jobs and looting the dead and selling their shit.

[@MrAdamske]

@@abnerdoon4902 I try to stack them into pillars or shrines or make massive pentagrams. Also jamming in as many artifacts as possible into Hawaiian's or Sidorovich's offices is fun. They start phasing through the NPC's. Once meet a friendly (most likely bugged) bloodsucker that followed me after I killed the lair xD

[@ryanwhitney3195]

In Stalker its not your character or destiny that makes you survive insurmountable odds, its planning, preparation, and a healthy supply of good luck. Very few games have had me stop mid "dungeon" realizing I'm out of resources and not as well equiped as I thought before leaving and grinding for better equipment before coming back. Stalker makes you consider the dangers of just moving to the next region, and if you are unprepared on anything, you're going to be lost to the zone real quick

[@MaxingThePayne]

Good points actually.But I think that GSC does know that community of Stalker is kinda diferent if you know what I mean, they wont create a world filled with massive amount of popping-out quests that just remind a player YOU HAVE TO DO IT.I really enjoyed all of 3 Stalkers and the one thing I adore is the atmosphere.Thing that you can approach the fireplace with few rookies around it and listen to the guitar song while waiting for the rain to end is more breathtaking than all of this cp2077 hype.Even if fast travel will be in Stalker 2, I wont use it, just because I want to meet some other npc's, take a look at entire environment is around me and feel the atmosphere just like I did 10 years ago

[@Apost0345]

God the campfires. They are just so damn perfect. You walk out of garbage, you are ambushed by a bloodsucker in the middle of a night, you barely kill him and without any medkit or bandage you stumble onto a group of stalkers sitting next to a campfire, just drinking and playing guitar. It's honestly the best moment I have ever experienced in games. It just feels so real, even with the shitty graphics you still feel like you are there and so is the stalker Vasya to your left. Best games ever

[@gpd4110]

true. but only if the devs realize this and create stories allowing for chats with every single npc u meet. who knows u might get a job or info. but players need more than stash locations and loot. new stories have to be implemented on npcs. creating a truly alive world is also about creating detailed npcs. changing evolving scripts according to your replies or questions. if this game comes out like a polished metro we just go back to anomaly with 30 added mods.

[@gpd4110]

You guys have to take a look at Scum. You can play it pve or pvp. game gives options to raid with friends or to be a loner and do construction and hunting scavenging. impressed so far. great graphics and super detailed item interaction like stalker.

[@ionutiordachi]

TRUE :))

[@kriptexxx]

Yeah, why bother starting to compete with Ubisoft on their kind of open world when they already have their own niche where they are kings?

[@anomolous5487]

As you could guess from my profile picture, I´m fairly invested in the stalker series. I must say, that I got your videos recommended for a few times now but ignored them. But after watching this one, I looked at the rest you had to offer, and what can I say, you got another sucscriber ontop of the 2718 existing ones. Came for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stayed for the content.

[@judsongaiden9878]

Wanna try some Zone Sportsmanship Challenges?

[@Intelwinsbigly]

Stalker anomaly???

[@anomolous5487]

@@Intelwinsbigly I started with anomaly, bought SoC, then CoP and finally Clear sky, which sadly dies once everytime I get past darkvalley. Also tried my hands on call of Chernobyl and gunslinger.

[@anomolous5487]

@@judsongaiden9878 and what would that be exactly,swimming contest in the great swamps? :)

[@elpatrico2562]

@@anomolous5487 Anomaly is cool, but I find it a bad mistake to start with it, because after you played the first 3 games, it's just a complete different perspective, not to mention all the thing you might miss. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to tell that you suck, thisis mostly for people who wants to start with Anomaly but stumbled into this comment. This is kind of the same reason I stopped playing the Witcher 3 halfway through and bought the previous game to actually understand all the shit what people are talking about: Why am I supposed to be negative to this redhead chick? Why is this black haired chick supposed to by my lover?

[@alillost8069]

came back to this vid as STALKER 2 looms on the horizon

[@p5ychodel]

I would recommend playing Kenshi, it doesn't have a story, and the factions there aren't the type you'd like.But that game has a pretty unique world in which also nobody cares about the player's character. But it's a pretty difficult and very buggy game.

[@Haha-id5qv]

In Kenshi there is no story, because you make the story and that why I love the game.

[@vizari9570]

Idk he might be fuck that one up. He's had some shit opinions before and with the age of kenshi's engine he might give up on it before even giving it a chance.

[@julietkilo9716]

Kenshi is a great game. When you set off to liberate all the slaves and accidentally turn into the mongol horde, turning the Holy Land into a hellblasted skin-peeled crucifixion hellscape, it really puts things into perspective on what kind of person you really are.

[@MidasMakeItRain]

Kenshi got a learning curve like a shear cliff. Its rough getting into it, but once you do its beautiful. You could have a little group of the single most godly characters in the wasteland and no one cares. They have their own cares.

[@pretzelfishesgaming1623]

my favorite story from watching my cousin play that game is when we purposefully started as prisoners in a camp full of cannibals just to see if we could escape and how far we'd make it

[@ZonsoAvalune]

I’ve been using the fast travel option in my Anomaly playthrough because of how the mod has you constantly running halfway across the zone for every side quest and it has vastly improved the experience. HOWEVER, it would absolutely RUIN a more traditional STALKER experience.

[@BULL3THOL3S]

That's why I use the backpack fast travel. You have to buy one, so there's a payment involved. Then you have to get to the spot where you want it in the first place, and hope it's not near constant enemies.

[@ZonsoAvalune]

@@BULL3THOL3S is that a new feature? It wasn’t there last time I played anomaly

[@BULL3THOL3S]

@@ZonsoAvalune it exists in the 1.5.1 version. If that helps at all.

[@midrovar5811]

yeah me too, i hate to run from AW to the swamps becuse skinkflint wants me to get the 420 he forgot, still i love going on expeditions and preparing to go out

[@romemaster]

I started playing with fast travel, then realized it makes the game less fun, so I’m going to restart my play through

[@celanvaril6200]

being so unimportant makes the moment where Npcs acknowledge your skills (in Call of Pripyat) feels so much better, because i know that because i shoot good and kill well that the npcs now know me for that

[@opesenator]

after so many dissapointing realses, ive finally learned my lesson. I will NEVER hype about a game until AFTER they realease it.

[@whoami1449]

Same

[@yuvalgabay1023]

Ptsd in cyber punl

[@maboilaurence8227]

Imagine they turn Freedom into the good guys and Duty into a non redeemable evil faction. The Zone needs to be destroyed now more than ever.

[@seydasneed]

Redditors would love it then

[@squeaky1963]

"Why it either Nazis or Fascists with video game factions"

[@Izgrim]

Just one thing on fast travel - there is fast travel in Stalker series ;P You can just talk to some guys on your way and offer them money so they take you safely to your destination. I don't remember if this mechanic was present in SoC and CS (in this one I think - yeah), but it was definitely present in CoP.

[@pz_faust6866]

That is basically if you want to go to the other side of the map, not just fast travel like other games since the 3 zones in CoP dont really connect to each other like previous 2.

[@Hords]

CS had it yea, You paid a guy in a certain location & he'd take you to any "major" area's you have discovered on your travels etc.

[@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012]

@@pz_faust6866 except you can fast travel inside 1 area

[@mrdeathamore]

Dude, you are the rare example of a gamer that actually understands what good games are. literally every point you made is solid.

[@Hitsari]

Dear god how well said! In Stalker you are just, stalker. Like everyone else, trying to get by and do best. I will be one sad stalker if Stalker 2 is shit. Anomaly set standards pretty high. (Play it, if u haven't"

[@sgtmi113r8]

I dont think anomaly will be able to be beat, its possible but all the mods they included and now how amazing and much better 1.5.1 is that just released its a super high bar to beat

[@gemizu4874]

I never played the originals, But i played Lost alpha and Dead Air, And more recently Anomaly and fuck me Anomaly is easily the best game/mod i have ever fucking played and i have still not finished it, I could spend hours writing out why i think so but anyone who has played it will understand, I hope the Stalker 2 devs take ALOT of inspiration from Anomaly and implement it.

[@deaj8450]

@@gemizu4874 I love anomaly but even on tourist economy everything is way too expensive. I don't want to have to save up my money for twenty real hours just to buy an AK. The vanilla games had reasonable prices. The top tier equipment was of course very expensive, but the other equipment was affordable.

[@gemizu4874]

@@deaj8450 Oh thats weird i actually enjoy the struggle haha! You can ofcourse just the use the weapons you find and you will survive just fine, And just repair any weapons you come across, Or even just download a mod that changes the weapon prices.

[@deaj8450]

@@gemizu4874 I pretty much refuse to use weapons under like 80% condition, very obsessive about my weapon and armor conditions. My bigger problem with it is that no NPC repairs/maintains their own weapons or armor, which is totally unimmersive for me. It would also help balance my problems with the economy. Idk, I like everything else about Anomaly but it feels like everything's price is inflated just to be a pain. I enjoy the struggle of the actual fights, anomalies, mutants, survival, etc. But not the weapon, armor, or repair kit prices. I feel like a Mosin shouldn't be that much more than a good pistol (look at how cheap a Mosin IRL is compared to a Beretta 92 or CZ75) yet if I have the money for one I might as well save for a better weapon because they aren't really much more expensive. Maybe it's more the curve of prices for lower tier equipment that bothers me more than all prices. Maybe it's because I rarely am able to find artifacts even if I go hunting right after an emission, and have literally never found one with an echo detector which is why a better detector is usually my first major purchase in game. I guess I wish getting into firefights was more profitable, because my favorite part of the game is the semi realistic gunplay and AI.

[@Azerai]

You do a great job of putting together my own disorganized feelings on why I'm worried about the sequel to one of my most beloved franchises. Thanks.

[@DJPeachCobbler]

ALRIGHT, so I only learned literally while uploading this video...that the “Complete" 2012 mod that I've been using...adds fast travel, which I literally spent a decent portion of this video insisting shouldn’t be in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, at least not without making it super obtuse and a pain to use. I didn’t use fast travel, of course, because I was unaware the mod added such a sickening feature. I just wanted no more bugs and prettier graphics, is that so much to ask for? As it stands, this is a crappy oversight, which shouldn’t detract from the thesis of the video. I was looking forward to making just *one* Stalker video without a major mistake, but I guess I can’t have nice things... There's also my omission of the guides in CS and CoP, sorry about that. The point still stands, considering that the feature is obtuse and still requires something from the player... as is tradition. Also, I have a Discord server, if you wanna join and make fun of me: discord.gg/2BB9Tx7

[@project22-ab88]

Peach what do you think of the Clear Sky faction? Do you think they deserve another chance to compete against other factions in the zone

[@Kwa-Tzu]

Hello fellow stalker. I don't know how, but you seem to be unaware of our bravest men called "guides". In Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat they function as a fast travel. It's also worth mention, that in Call of Pripyat every leader of a squad, that has neutral or friendly attitude towards you, can be asked to "travel as a group", even to specified location. It's a "fast travel" option inside one location, between more important places. I hope you will be aware now about hard working guides that risk their life to make a travels less dangerous. Anyway, good hunting stalker!

[@IgnoremE-cp7pu]

When you love the ZONE the ZONE don't give a single f*ck about you , S.T.A.L.K.E.R is love S.T.A.L.K.E.R is life

[@strezzi]

You have fast travel in form of guides who you pay cash...you could have mention that

[@DJPeachCobbler]

@@Kwa-Tzu I added that to the pinned comment, I appreciate it

[@derf3001]

stalker has fast travel, kinda, you can find people to guide you to locations then when they do you just teleport there

[@ceepert2153]

Yeah but those fit in the world. They make sense and are limited. They cost some money and there are only 3 locations you can switch between (CoP) You still have to do 80% of the traveling yourselfe

[@SpikeVike27]

@@ceepert2153 i guess you didnt payed enough attention, but in CoP (unmodded) every neutral or friendly NPC squad besides bandits and quest characters can guide you (fast travel with you) to most of location's land marks for a really small fee. Furthermore, they can take you for free to their own destination, if they have one. The thing is the fast travel dialog is hidden under a rather bizzare phrase "what are you doing now?", so i found out for myself only on second playthrough

[@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012]

@@ceepert2153 i don't think you played cop at all...

[@ceepert2153]

@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 Honestly I completly forgot those options even exist. I played CoP with Misery mod liek 5 times through and almost never used them, besides the Zaton Jupiter fast travel

[@latenrunor3591]

I'm a fan of STALKER Lost Alpha, because there fast travel = a rusty Moskvich that's held together with blue electric tape and running on derelict petrol leftovers from April 1986, and a gallon of Stolichnaya. ;)

[@ab-hx8qe]

Some pastry: existential horror and a power fantasy can’t coexist. Bloodborne: enters the chat

[@stef6490]

Roadside picnic is a must read when you're a Stalker fan. Good for you that you got it

[@ivyssauro123]

It changed my fucking life

[@olzhas1one755]

@@ivyssauro123 bruh

[@ivyssauro123]

@@olzhas1one755 now I'm depressed

[@zlostnypopolnik]

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[@lettuceman9439]

"What material lost will come back as a husk, eroded and decayed but valuable in return*

[@bloodgundemon4431]

Stalker was suppose to have those rough edges. It's part of the atmosphere.

[@kato1kalin]

Slav jank at it's finest

[@marianocarusso932]

yep crashes and uber ragdoll glitches makes the finest of atmospheres

[@manformerlypigbukkit]

@@marianocarusso932 aw cmon, the ragdolls are funny

[@marianocarusso932]

@@manformerlypigbukkit dont get it wrong is what i love the random bullshittery of Stalker

[@insanejughead]

The glitches are not part of the game, They are a part of the Zone.

[@willywallyb2379]

This is why I think games need to focus on atmosphere. I think one of the reason breath of the wild is so good is that unique fantasy setting, and this is why I think cyberpunk still has potential. Overall, I think environment is so important in creating a good game

[@VincentRoyceMorgan]

Then there is modded Stalker, like Misery mod or Anomaly. You feel even more vulnerable, yet you are given a fair chance at success... most of the time. Anomaly just had a new update a few days ago. No matter what happens to Stalker 2, mods for the first game will continue to exist, so I ain't worried.

[@unknownsoul9300]

Even if Stalker 2 turns out to be main stream, the modding community is going to move earth and sky to turn it into an Anomaly 2 for sure xD

[@tomh4164]

I do love Anomaly. Nothing gets that adrenaline pumping like running around with armour that is about a % better than running around naked at the start of each play through.

[@kingcars]

My favorite playthrough of SHoC was with a compilation of mods I found called "AMK Complete." Brought back a lot of things like full pager activity where STALKERS would report all sorts of daily events/sightings (which you could investigate and actually see for yourself), emissions/weather, less restricted A-life etc. It's the closest thing I've found to playing the game that GSC wanted to make when I started following development in the very early 2000s.

[@unknownsoul9300]

@@Mister_Don888 not really

[@davidgabriel5125]

@@Mister_Don888 it's a fantastic game you don't need to know much about the rest of the games since this one is pretty much a compilation of the 3. it is very well made and even if you are a beginner you will get the hang of it. but be warned it is addicting as hell (speaking from experience)

[@matthewburciaga8786]

4:40 seconds in "when the fuck is he gonna talk about stalker" 4:42 seconds "oh took you long enough"

[@tincano-beans2114]

He barely talks about it after that timestamp.

[@sidneytheapprentice]

yeah fr I was like did I click on the wrong video

[@mostlyforyt]

I respect your ability to speak in such a way that you sound like you're correct while being 100% incorrect, 10/10 would watch again

[@flameendcyborgguy883]

Stalker... The game that makes gamer the man.

[@punkst3r]

For a while, I've been searching for a game that presented a certain challenge/scratched a certain itch. I wanted a survival type game where I was always just one wrong step away from death, but I never felt cheated. Stalker is that. Alongside the thick atmosphere and progression loop, I can't get enough of it.

[@gerbolt8177]

Play darkwood

[@Rosu2022]

Project Zomboid

[@williamoneill9289]

I personally love God of war 4, but what I love so much about this channel is how it never feels reactionary, it feels like a conversation, keep it up man, love your stuff.

[@SstalkerS]

Darkwood be like "yes meat?" To the player

[@TheDKing67]

Bruh gow 4 got some killer storytelling in that canoe, don't @ me

[@onepoundswallowtwopoundcoc3115]

@😗

[@Geschichti]

Stalker anomaly gave me the same feeling dark souls gave me when i played it for the first time. i am no one and the world fucks me over everytime i make a mistake.

[@daCraze568]

Someday this guy will have millions of subscribers, mark my words

[@DJPeachCobbler]

Then, I'll do a foot reveal

[@ToldDoctor]

@@DJPeachCobbler i can wait

[@lupusdei4275]

God help us then.

[@shicksa]

@@DJPeachCobbler Screenshotting this for your eventual million subscriber foot reveal

[@XenrickDHeart]

I have hopes that it'll stay true to the original stalker games. But I get the concerns.

[@aurin_komak]

I just want a polished Stalker game with good graphics, good animations and less bugs And I'm all for a seamless open world, as long as there isn't fast travel. If there has to be fast travel, it should be turned off by default

[@coopdeshroop8948]

@@aurin_komak or like it was in call of Pripyat where you find and pay a fellow stalker to take you to a place in close to mid proximity of you

[@aurin_komak]

@@coopdeshroop8948 i prefer seamless

[@dankovac1609]

I hope the Devs can understand the importance of finally finishing STALKER as they first intended way back. It's just a matter of making that original idea true and not let greed influence their work. I think they're passionate enough to make the good call

[@ugrena7419]

@@aurin_komak I think they meant regarding fast travel. That's probably the best way to do it while staying true to the old games. It was there for those who wanted to use it, and it was rather expensive if I remember correctly.

[@albertwesker4266]

New stalker has been temporarily suspended...we know why

[@johndavidson4127]

Why is he keep avoiding the fact of Call Of Pripyat existence ?

[@JohnPeacekeeper]

He hasn't gotten to it yet I think. Last I saw he's still doing Clear Sky. It takes a LOT of time to clear each game. Like it took me 60+ hours JUST for Shadow of Chernobyl, and this is while I'm already a headshot machine. Because there's so much to see and explore and prepare and do before heading into the finale. You're kinda fucked if you head into the finale unprepared, let me tell you that.

[@ivory231]

@@JohnPeacekeeper bruh i beat shadow of chernobyl in 12.5 hours. And i aggre with the fact going into the end unprepareds sucks. I went there with eco armour an ak with a bit of ammo and my wits

[@Edgariki]

@@ivory231 If you will play for canon ending of SoC, trust me, you WILL spend a LOT of hours to prepare and going through to the end. Armor will shredded to zero durability, every ammo you bring will run out and weapon will be broken. Maybe i was bad in shooters but this sections its really was ballbusting 4 years ago.

[@ivory231]

@@Edgariki i agree i tried to do it and failed like 1m times

[@Demospammer9987]

Honestly your videos on this franchise describe why I love it almost perfectly. It's something I could never really explain myself.

[@JamesSmith-cv9di]

Yeah, this video hitting different with the Non Fuckable Toucan news ...

[@Fernandoenf2]

You should try stalker anomaly is the closest thing to a stalker 2 right now

[@dugssuperimportantmassages3872]

yes

[@dugssuperimportantmassages3872]

@@youtubeisgarbage900 addicted to it right now. Went from a loner to clear sky. Just so much possibility

[@messer7450]

No, its so overrated. OGSR is tier 1 mod.

[@AdamBorseti]

@@dugssuperimportantmassages3872 It's so addictive!

[@AdamBorseti]

@@dugssuperimportantmassages3872 Slap JSRS'S sound overhaul on it and be prepared for audio chocolate for your ears!

[@rodrigo_dm]

Just got this video suggested, watched and came to two conclusions: This is a really good video, like, not the kind of thing I see everyday in youtube. Analogue to stalker, its unique, has character and passion put into it. It's weird how it made me feel mainly two things: Happy to find a really good yet STILL small channel with great content and at the same time sad, for I have a channel myself (not this one), I've planned videos with stalker as subject and they will never be as polished as this one. Keep up the great work pal, this channel is going far soon enough. Cheers

[@fistfullofsalt6311]

I'm currently playing SoC on my PS5 and I'm so insanely in love with this franchise now. I really hope there isn't fast travel, a vehicle to help you get around just a little quicker sure, but not being able to have the fast travel is so terrifying to me, also Darkwood *chef's kiss* 10 outta 10 for making the player feel like they are just another piece of garbage that means nothing just trying to survive like everyone else. Stalker nails that itch that ive been missing in video games now a days, it fills that empty hole that is the desperate instinct of self preservation that video games are lacking now a day. That feeling of, oh i could go into that building there but i dont have to because there could be a bloodsucker or chimera lerking around any corner in there, so I'm *NOT* going in there because i want to live, but I really want to know what's in there, and no matter how good your equipment is, you can absolutely get bodied in an instant if you walk in there. That is the feeling a survival game should give you, especially an open world one.

[@Hazztech]

I'm also worried about stalker too. Get it? But seriously. The only thing we needed was an official CoC with a bigger budget, better ai, a sorta tarkov twist and less glitches

[@madamada7458]

thats literally stalker anomaly

[@Jaaaa315]

-This vid get's recommended to me Oh, great! I've been meaning to get back into stalker. -1 min into the video Oh, he's one of those...

[@Pinkmusak]

“It’s like Twitter, but fun!”

[@slavicgerman5104]

ok now we just need to figure out how to get GSC to watch this.

[@MTNDEWGANG]

They seem to be pretty active on social media.

[@xXRealXx]

@@MTNDEWGANG they might've even seen this.

[@fristajlo765]

It's popular video actually I won't be suprised if they watched this.

[@CarcharothQuijadasdelased]

Wait, he still don't know how the "difficulty" setting work on STALKER?

[@darthgiorgi4990]

Master difficulty doesn't increase the amount of damage you do to the enemies.

[@shekelboob]

@@darthgiorgi4990 what does it do then

[@oksomynameisjeff4212]

@@shekelboob The opposite. The more you set the difficulty to the max, the more smarter and harder the NPC's AI. Both allies and enemies. Even enemy creatures.

[@shekelboob]

@@oksomynameisjeff4212 i believe you

[@xxkillbotxx7553]

@@shekelboob He also left out the part where human enemies are just as squishy as you

[@crusaderanimation6967]

West games: Here give me your hand big boy, look you killed everyone with you're hand ! you just so powerfull. East games: Here's your old AK with accuracy of throwed rock in the world of mutants with physic powers... now you're on your own kid have fun

[@Amonny]

Stalker has never been dead. We have a huge community and thousands of mods. Many of these mods evolved into full-fledged games. PS: Watch the movie as well.

[@luigi8838]

I found your channel this last month. The way you start your videos and then flip them is great. Keep up the great job!

[@Morganaplays]

remember there are no friends in the zone the stalker 2 trailer

[@keppj0nes]

Stalker Anomaly is all you will need for at least the next couple years when you get a craving to play.

[@TDenterpriser]

I’m not waiting for the story or gameplay of STALKER 2. All I need is the mods

[@akdele5]

Don't worry, Stalker 2 will never come out

[@matejkazbunda4769]

You've just perfectly summed up the core reason why I enjoy Stalker. The only difference is that I wasn't able to find a word for it.

[@WroobelChannel]

You got some points, but I'm not very concern, honestly. Devs never gave me a reason to be worried. Remember, that after gsc went shut, owner, Grigorovich did not sold the rights to stalkes (and I'm sure there were offers from west), because he didn't want the title to be turned to call of duty. Check mate.

[@grundergesellscahftmkii6196]

So uh they just announce about those NFT and Metaverse shit that would be implemented to their game. Would you make follow up to that?

[@DJPeachCobbler]

Well, the script would just read: "This is far more stupid than I could've possibly imagined. Congratulations"

[@Herdanaz]

Well they backed up on that after community feedback

[@arthurbrito5139]

Was thinking of Darkwood literally seconds before you mentioned it, love it!

[@SgtGigawattz]

Honestly, all STALKER 2 needs to be it a graphical enhancement of the previous games with the immersion from mods like Gunslinger and Anomaly. So long as the core gameplay loop is essentially copied and pasted the game should be great.

[@boltuxs2674]

I didn't understand why you would be afraid of it, i get it now

[@syntax2679]

They're not doing nfts

[@boltuxs2674]

@@syntax2679 I'm glad they listened to the huge backlash and went back

[@serb1anarcher306]

The one that never played stalker, will never know what the true game is! But hey, cheer up, even if they fuck up, we have a modders that cant wait to give us TRUE STALKER EXPERIENCE!

[@gpd4110]

exactly what im thinking. get the vanilla then await for the real heros to shine.

[@_--_--_]

Not every game can be modded. But lets hope they make it so that it can be.

[@troubleinbound]

I totally believe the devs still understand what makes the zone so tangible and atmospheric. I could care less about the story if running around, getting killed for radioactive rocks is still fun. Plus, mods. If the game is sub par, mods will *absolutely* fix it. Look at Anomaly and how solid that is

[@DJPeachCobbler]

My fear isn't that GSC doesn't understand, it's that *investors* don't understand why it's so important that the game they've dumped all their money into *isn't* accessible. I have confidence in GSC. As always, my doubt lies with the suits behind the production that want to appeal to as broad a market as possible. Also, just started playing Anomaly today, am digging it so far. It's certainly got what I'm asking for, although I don't like how much they jerk Strelok off lol

[@aurin_komak]

@@DJPeachCobbler I played the story mode until it made me wander through an empty, highly radioactive swamp to meet a guy and then *go back*

[@mantis9128]

@@DJPeachCobbler It can be a pain to install but I’d recommend worlds over the mod dead air, as it’s one of the few mods that heavily capitalizes on the atmosphere of the zone and also just how insanely unforgiving and apathetic it is, even compared to anomaly on jacked up settings

[@Andrew85or]

I started a new Anomaly playthrough playing with warfare on. Good lord! Army Warehouse is nuts. I'm talking 30 monolith spawning while there's Army, Mercs, Freedom, Ecos and Duty all blasting each other. It's fantastic.

[@WroobelChannel]

@@DJPeachCobbler Remember, devs reincarnated S2 BECAUSE of such awesome community, keeping game alive. Grigorovich told it loud, so they are definitely blind for people needs. Just today, I saw a vid, where some totally random guy remastered and remade a guitar theme from latest trailer. Turned out very cool, and guess what. Gsc noticed that immidiately, shouted out for him with some love in the video comment section, and our musician was very suprised about it. This is how they hunt heads right now, which is very good move.

[@KosmataBradva]

My stubborn ass looted every weapon from the bandits, traveled back to town, sold it, went back, progressed by 20 meters, another bandit back, back to town... It has inventory and vendors, I'm exploiting it, like in every modern game. > greed ending > I love this game.

[@chrissantos1877]

Man, I never thought that someone would mention Darkwood in my entire life. And knowing that you like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (man, that's fucking an ass to write that title all the time) AND Darkwood is incredible, because I too think Darkwood have a great atmosphere, even with his simplistic top down perspective, which makes it even more incredible.

[@clayman_nhd]

There is one! * Shameless plug to another great videogame channel * (with a time stamp) kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5bFepywnaqarsk

[@project22-ab88]

Hopefully Clear Sky somehow rams its head into the story again Edit: We need your opinion on Clear Sky Another edit: Roadside picnic is pretty good you'll enjoy it

[@DJPeachCobbler]

The faction or the game? Although, I like them both quite a bit

[@project22-ab88]

@@DJPeachCobbler The Faction. I really love Clear Sky but I wanna hear your opinion

[@DJPeachCobbler]

@@project22-ab88 I like them, I liked Duty in that game as well, because they had similar goals. I definitely hope they make a return, I've yet to really play CoP, are they back?

[@angusgorry4788]

There's an Easter egg or two that mention Clear Sky, but they're not in CoP. (It's still plenty worth playing, though.) I also recommend Stalker: Anomaly, a full-concept overhaul for CoP that merges the maps from all 3 games, adds a whole bunch of new mechanics, and a fresh coat of paint. It feels very close to the original Stalker atmosphere.

[@project22-ab88]

@@angusgorry4788 Yea but isnt anomaly non canon?

[@bbillynotreally]

Mans really called god of war a bland gray mass, I feel like we played different games

[@Michael-dw1no]

And being nothing in a game makes those little victories feel so fucking powerful, I remember assaulting the freedom base alone and though I had to run I killed like 16 of them and that alone felt like such a triumph, and in most games that would just be the generic level