Maximum Pain, the Brain Scorcher Run Begins! | INVICTUS Ep.8 | STALKER Gamma Ironman Playthrough

[@michal_alberski]

Three pseudogiants, a controller, two chimeras and a poltergeist, and all these attractions encountered only in the first half of the way between the checkpoint and the hole in the fence :D This is the reason why I always choose the road lying in the east. Monolith and mutants kill each other, making it easier for you. Nevertheless, the more I admire you for choosing this ambitious route and getting out of all the troubles, it's really impressive

[@Sheriff_Ochs]

Best hardcore Stalker run on KZbin atm! More please!

[@lordhapax7414]

This place, the radar, has been the death of a bunch of my runs. I'm excited to see the underground lab

[@jansvoboda4293]

I just made this run yesterday. I am no gamma veteran, so I so far only experienced the south of the barrier. I am playing iron-man with life granter. You do not need expert tools to repair heavy armor, there is alternate build that uses more resources (18 ticks of medium repair kit for example -> need to craft four). So I went there with the heavy Merc suite you had there and Sphere M12 helmet with Ranger gas mask as backup for high radiation and psy fields. Also took Moonlight artifact so ghosts did nothing to me. But this fancy med armor has almost equal protection, I would perhaps prefer it overall, but the Sphere was worth it. I used short FAL with Leupold 1.1-8 scope with the Docter III sight (as you have on the shorty) for CQB switch, UMP for mutants and SR-2 Veresk smg in pistol slot. Munition crafting was very important in the end, spent several kilos of ammo even when trying to be conservative. Still it cost me a few lives I gathered before. Approach to the base past the curved road is very tricky as they have a lot of angles to flank you, can re-man the towers when you do not expect it. The the fight back was very tense, it was battle for each room and corridor. I actually spent a night in the lab.

[@jansvoboda4293]

Actually made my stash at the fireplace next to the sandbags you wanted to use, but had radiation there. That's because I did not know where the hole in fence is and came from the road. On the way back, the black cloud anomaly/mutant spawned right next to the fire and stashes blocking by way and since I remembered rumors this one is very deadly and could not kill it with grenade, I just left all there including exoskeleton and took alternative shortest route through Red Forest back to Rostok. Now i rather did some chill journeys in the south to swamp for some 7.62x51 ammo as I can deal with Clear Sky as Duty.

[@kwdblade4683]

Love watching all your preparation for these runs, it has improved my own game and once I do a full run through on normal, definitely gonna try an Ironman.

[@kurgisempyrion6125]

You can get Expert tools in Radar - got a pack the other day. As for your "close call" - the guy you shot was a Legendary monolith so it might have been him causing the pain. Good luck getting out - I found that more tough than going in :)

[@friedrichmirle7689]

getting the heavy armour repair kit early game is possible. Advanced tools have a very expensive recipe for it (like 18 medium repair kit charges needed, might run you 100k to buy the ingredients to craft those). But the result is getting a good head-gear and heavy armour, rendering radiation a non-issue and improving surveivability immensely. Also, I do not get the Forester (frankly seems worse than other bolt action snipers). If you got an SVU (which for some reason is the one semiauto sniper only requiring a rifle repair kit, and rather common loner/bandit loot) you get 10 shots, same damage, similar scope and no ammo supply problems in your case. But the main thing is, quick follow up shots w/o losing sight picture. Also it's supressed by default.

[@MeatSnax]

I'm on my second playthrough of Gamma, gearing up for the Brain Scorcher, and this game is so much more fun when you know what to expect going into a big mission. I wish there were more detailed descriptions of what you should expect in a lab, there are so many things you can do to prepare correctly for who you'll be fighting, but 9 times out of 10 you're going in blind. I could see myself doing Iron Man runs IF you had a short briefing before difficult jobs. It's so cool to know you're gonna want morphine and an epi pen to rush the shutoff, and you should keep a P90 and plenty of explosives in your bag for close quarters with heavily armored stalkers.

[@MrPitics]

Hi! Great series so far. But I do have one thing to add. You might know this but just dont like to use, but scope kits, like the leupold or the pso, or the one installed on the Shakal has a red dot sight offset by 45 degrees from the main scope. if you press V you can change the scope sight from the high mag one to the red dot. and that makes the shakal perfectly capable in close quarters. also some guns ( like the shakal or the RD74) has laser that you can activate by holding L for a few secs. It really makes a difference when firing from the hip. Thanks to these I think th eshakal is a beast. So versatile. I mained it for one of my Duty runs all the way to the NPP. :D

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

yeah I dont remember which past episode I explained that it didn't work for some reason (tried everything, rebind all my keys etc etc) the scope switching wouldn't work. And i was pretty far in my run so didn't want top update/tinker too much with GAMMA so pretty much played without it :l

[@derpanzermacher9094]

Happy 2023 Cheeki all the best to you and the other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s

[@robfr5740]

19:18 be VERY careful with that door, i got killed once by it while opening it (no joke)

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Yeah I heard this a lot! Fortunately never happened to me (yet!)

[@tamfuwing1]

In Anomaly it shot me high up into the air so I had a lovely view of the whole Radar before coming down to a sticky end.

[@peur0_090]

J’avais tellement hâte, content d’être parmis les premiers à regarder!

[@Sondremacc]

niiice, been loving the invictus series!

[@monkeybomb1232]

Make sure you look out for D-Pro red dot sights. They are the best red dots in the game by far taking up none of your screen and have a simple red dot that works with NVG. They work especialy well with the extra zoom you get that will be assigned automaticaly to your extra mouse buttons if you have any. The sigts your using are best for pistols though and also have the zoom feature. You also want to be grinding up and crafting that super op artifact that gives like 50-90 of every stat, including a full 90% psy resist for a minor reduction in armor that can be overcome with the armor plates item or just put on when u need it.

[@jamesrustler8853]

hella grenade arm monolith man strikes again! we all know this leads to a successful invictus, but dang that uphill was treacherous. The loot pursuit complicated the approach, but i think we've all been there, you never know what the boys will drop four you.

[@makeitcraz6342]

"I like to be prepared for radar and get ammo, meds, and good armor" random loner..... "Nah hold my beer"

[@MessedUpSystem]

The first time I went to Radar for the Brain Machine there eas, I kid you not, FOUR chimeras, 1 pseudogiant (thankfully he got killed by the other mutants), 1 burer, 2 lurkers, 2 psy-dogs plus a horde of zombies right after the campfires at the entrance coming from Army Warehouses. Took me like 8-9 tries to deal with all of that. Oh and on the way out after having just used my medkits there was a bloodsucker just waiting xD

[@skankhunt_4319]

Nice one comrade breekis back

[@kwdblade4683]

Anybody else keep reaching for the f5 button while watching this XD

[@felikfelik1942]

Man, Radar is the scarier place. The moment last monolith that you knew using AWM, it's really chill my spine.

[@HauteGameFR]

Long press on "L" to put your laser ON.

[@novAviator01]

I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it I'm about to lose control and I think I like it

[@bliitztf72]

Really enjoying the series (: don't know if you already knew this. But if you press v. It will change to the red dot sight on your ak 105 for close range. It had a red dot on a slant. It's for long range and close range. And hold L for Lazer so u can hip fire

[@okazyjnie]

These episodes are coming out WAY too slow, can't wait for the next one ;)

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Ahahh doing my best to find some time editing with the holidays! We should have an episode every Friday for the next couple weeks tho :)

[@Nertaku_zockt]

Tipp: If you need Nato ammo just stock up on Nemiroff Vodka and go to the cook in Yantar. The amount he gives is not limited and even cheaper as when you buy it. ^^

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Very good tip indeed! I always forget about this guy!

[@Nertaku_zockt]

@@CheekiBreekiTv You are welcome fellow Stalker. Maybe pin me to help others too. :D

[@mystic_spider]

Radar counts for Expert tools. In fact, I found my very first kit inside the base you've tried getting into all this video.

[@plank3452]

not sure if you showed it off, but what are your settings? particularly offline combat and zcp if you have zcp on?

[@rednight1461]

Your lucky man in my run to radar i get like 6 chimeras 1 giant and 3 controllers it was like hell

[@doublet3n672]

How did you get so much ammo? i thought you bought it but you still have so much money.

[@SleepyGameFacts]

What's ironic is that in real life, the EOTech is used because it works the best with night vision

[@ghod2114]

God, how many juicy words the main character says, it’s crazy)) Someone who knows Russian will understand what I mean)

[@zetetick395]

You dumped the silencer in your stash (It got removed while upgrading the gun) 14:40

[@ea4571]

Everyone keeps talking about needing expert tools for heavy armor repair kit but there is another recipe for it which can be crafted using advanced tools.

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Yep, its just VERY expensive to craft

[@michelklepsattel5861]

@@CheekiBreekiTv true, but seriously man, you have more than 100k (and you would need that much MAX if you where to buy 4 of those kits, instead of crafting them) and unless those medium repair kits i saw weren't full, you already had 3 of the 5 needed for the heavy armor kit... AND a Merc ACE suit... i honestly don't know why you choose the merc seva armored suit when the ACE is just as good in terms of bullet protection but has more slots and better anomaly resists. That said, i haven't even come close to finish an invictus run, so hats off to you for that achivement and i'm looking forward to more episodes, cheers mate!

[@alp50ae]

You never have enough meds lol why would you take like 2 stims and leave behind just one knowing it weights nothing 😂 love this playthrough carry on

[@tomigun5180]

12:10 Where are the Monolith soldiers? Several of them should already have come to check out the noise, that who's entered the area and is killing the mutants. Edit: I guess they were fighting the Loners and mutants you found later.

[@yeoldecurmudgeon1969]

Hello there and friendly greetings! Let me say, I've learnt more from your videos about STALKER ANOMALY/GAMMA than from any other tutorial around there! So let me drop my humble two cents here... If you have a fairly advanced mouse, you can make a tiny macro on one of the extra button so that you can turn that button into an autofire for when you are using a pistol. You will then have (when properly tweaked) a machine gun rather than a pistol! 😆I can say it literaly saved my ass when loaded with proper bullets! I have an old G502 Hero and it works like charm! Is it cheating? I will let you to decide.

[@AndreaArturoGiuseppeGrossi]

LOL! Technically it is cheating but when you start fresh, anything goes to survive! 😉

[@ProduceBOY939]

Is there a “ best “ rifle in this game? Whats the best AK?

[@annabellerice839]

I know this has all been recorded prior, and you're just editing it, but good luck and good hunting Cheeki o7

[@albertzhang5237]

How the hell can you 125kg when I can't even carry 115kg with gravi and goldfish?

[@dadodieguez]

how you install mods in weapons???

[@F0r3v3rT0m0rr0w]

Another entertaining episode cya all next time stalkers

[@Murfy_]

why didnt you just use the canted sight on the side of your ak shakal? instead of using another gun just for the sight?

[@TXS175]

You are very good player. Can't wait for the lab

[@MisfitManiacJoe]

Iv'e been doing a pretend Invictus run to prepare for my real run. I got all the way into Outskirts and died. I was getting stashes and a Blowout happened... and OF COURSE Monolith were inside the building I went in for cover. Im so triggered! Side note though... you have SO much stuff! do you literally just loot everything and never sell stuff or?

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Yeah I'm a hoarder :l

[@gontrandtrand]

Coucou. Il y a un laser à activer sur la Shakal (maintenir L), mais vous le savez probablement déjà.

[@rifagus]

Wait how did you fix the rd dynamics' barrel? Aren't they need advance weapon repair tool or smth?

[@Arnerios]

Just rifle repair kit

[@Ching-cy8mh]

Hello Nice video I like your video

[@DarkDancer99]

You can activate the mod în gamma npc cant see thru foliage

[@NomadShadow1]

29:27 - "I love some juicy lewt!" I mean .... don't we all? Don't be ashamed and embrace your inner lewt goblin lol

[@telephonefan4559]

yelling at you to use the radioprotectant

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Yelling at myself while editing the video, can't believe I didn't see it for so long :D

[@jinx0044]

@@CheekiBreekiTv or just use purified bloodsucker goulash, 40% rad resist for about half an hour.

[@tamfuwing1]

5.56 can be bought in Swamps.

[@generationne]

I'm very surprised the SEVA is doing so bad. I know it's mercenary but still it would stop radiation of this level. Especially a sphere which is supposedly closed circuit helmet.

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Yeah it's kinda crazy! It's an old build of GAMMA so it might have been fixed since, but this is a very annoying probllem ahah!

[@TheKruxed]

You seeing a loner there, I had Sin at Cordon, maybe they are starting an exchange program

[@chompyoface]

I'm sure you figured this out after recording, but it is in fact possible to craft a Heavy Repair Kit with only Advanced Tools.

[@MisfitManiacJoe]

But who in the right mind is going to craft ... what is it? like 20 medium repair kits for it haha

[@mrquang11212]

You know what... If I got alot of time, I will hunt these artifact then craft better tier one. Example: Volat Emrald - good agains elemental Anomaly but weaken your body agains mutant, bullet and gravity-based anomaly. For radar run, Try craft Full Empty artifact... it resist everything except elemental Anomaly

[@redford4ever]

Phew that was intense. This certainly is one if not the toughest part of the game. Isn't the Red Forest approach safer? Still a heap of ppl to dominate but better angle?

[@Voytek1985]

Not really safer, cuz once you kill one Mono even silenced, whole base immediately is on you and sure you can take them easly one by one when they come out the corner, but biggest problem are grenades which they throw perfectly at your position.

[@redford4ever]

@@Voytek1985 Ah yes, STALKER's grenades.

[@renox4693]

You can craft a heavy Armor repair Kit with advanced tools

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

yes, but it's ridiculously expensive!

[@gafgaf2000]

Noice

[@panzerothelake2178]

In my most recent play through I got some kind of automatic shotgun with a drum mag and thankfully it made radar a breeze

[@cykablyat3680]

immagine working hours to get some decent gear just to lose it on iron man , damn boi you crazy

[@Archy11102]

Dude like when are you going to do reaction video to STALKER 2 Trailer?

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Ahahahh I'm pretty excited but not sure I have much to say in a video, we'll see :)