Should You Play S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s Strongest Mod?

[@torimaritime6955]

5:27 - Basically, that's your radiation resistance. If you were irradiated, it would flash the nuclear icon, white means minor, yellow being medium, and red meaning you should stop standing next to the nuclear reactor.

[@NattyNimrod]

Also if you hover your cursor over the different resistances long enough and don't move it, it'll display what resistance it is and information about it.

[@sharpasacueball]

I think the radiation builds up over time. Like it'll be white for a while when standing on water then turn yellow then red and will damage your hp.

[@chieppachat9381]

The flash of it will indicate you are irritated.

[@TheDarkkilla12]

Ah yes, the Red Forest. Where a simple package delivery turned to a massive gunfight with nearly every available Merc and Monolith soldier in that entire arena with monsters coming in third party style and making a mess of things. I lost more money doing the job and getting the pay than what it was worth and set me back a good bit on armor repair and meds. My guy was more medication filled as the average human body is in water.

[@kebubas]

ah! Red Forest.. the place I won't touch until I can maintain 10KGs of bandages, med kits, ibuprofen, coke and morphine at all times.

[@TheDarkkilla12]

@@kebubas you know you’re going to the red forest when you’re more equipped with meds you’ll burn through in five minutes than the ammo you’ll need to compensate for all the fighting you’ll be doing.

[@josedorsaith5261]

I ended up in the red forest, thinking it would be a shortcut. What a surprise that turned out to be

[@dimsthedimwit600]

@@josedorsaith5261 I mean it did save your character like 40 years of life

[@darkwillow1451]

Red forrest in anomaly is complete bullshit. The monoliths see you through all the vegetation with sniper accuracy and they land grenades at your feet from halfway to neverland. Its just tedious.

[@ИльяВалуев-я5ж]

As a guy who beat GAMMA's invictus mode (a.k.a ironman mode or 2-life run), I'd say it's not that bad, took me just about 135 attempts, some involving 50hrs+ of progress lost. No, i don't need psychological help. I think.

[@noita1337]

Any tips on how to convince the voices to stop after losing an iron man run that lasted more than 12 minutes?

[@fiddlerfiddle5761]

Nah what

[@smejkoondrejko]

Hat's off to you man, that is some serious dedication... or madness, maybe a bit of both:D

[@Bondrewd__21]

At that point your “I think” is only a 3 precent more actual thoughts, then an zombified stalker have.

[@howdy..]

he obviously save scummed the players that play ironman even laugh when you bring up save scumming cause they all do it and then they act like its so hard to play @@smejkoondrejko

[@subrezon]

To anybody thinking about playing Anomaly - take your time to look through the settings, there is a lot of quality of life stuff disabled by default, including: fast travel to visited locations or to manually placed backpack stashes (use with care, it will let you teleport even to locations where enemies have respawned), vanilla minimap in the corner (for people who don't know every location by heart), vanilla fullscreen PDA (for people who use it a lot to remember where to go and what to do), option to skip the animation of looting mutants (which gets old & annoying somewhere around mutant #5). Also, treat the "progression difficulty" less as a difficulty option and more of a flavor option. While higher difficulties are objectively more difficult due to less loot, higher prices and lower quest rewards, the easy difficulty allows you to more or less buy whatever equipment you want, try out lots of weapons & armors, not pay as much attention to the repair & upgrade system, and overall have a more dynamic & faster paced experience. This option is much better for multiple playthroughs, or shorter play sessions, or if you generally don't have a lot of time to play, offering the best time/enjoyment ratio. The high progression difficulty basically requires you to engage with the maintenance & upgrade systems due to technicians being prohibitively expensive, craft as much equipment yourself as possible, almost never buy weapons & armor and repair looted ones instead. It slows the game down a lot, severely restricts where you can go (especially early on), but also creates this very engaging dynamic of "what are the strongest enemies I can realistically whack with my current equipment?", where you start off hunting weak mutants & bandits with your shitty starting gear, eventually loot & repair a pump shotgun and a nice pistol or maybe even a basic rifle, gear up to hunting stronger mutants & military stalkers, maybe some mercenaries here and there, repair your first armored suit & assault rifle, then start poking around mid-late game areas to fight some strong mutants & Monolith, eventually waging systematic extermination of entire Monolith-controlled locations to hunt for specific weapons & gear. The progression is very slow, but very engaging. It's very exciting to find a cool weapon in an absolutely destroyed state, fully repair & upgrade it, you start feeling very attached to those guns & armors. Very cool experience, if you are into this sort of thing, and have the time & patience.

[@nate9948]

i wish i had the patience to play it like that

[@tales_and_tea441]

I had no idea about the fast travel, thank you so much

[@FVC1988sp]

this is what a real stalker have to say, lot of hours played by our partner, nice job but dont hunt Mercs because one day im gonna be in front of you :)

[@jg2323]

@@FVC1988sp Always hunt mercs, they have the best gear and everyone hates them so no one cares if you whack them :D

[@jg2323]

My only issue with progression difficulty was the hassle actually GETTING to mod my gear. Sometimes I can find basic tools right away, others it's a rediculous number of hours before I find them, and until I do I can't even do basic parts swaps on my gear. It's either pay a tech or pay slightly less buying repair stuff to do it myself while selling damaged parts for pennies.

[@Turntapp]

28:45 It's good to note that in the gameplay settings there is a fully fleshed out fast travel system, its just disabled by default.

[@skyjr13]

It’s also seamless as shit. If you fast travel within the same area it’s instant. I was shocked when I first did it. Cause you literally just put the pda down and you’re there.

[@FelipeLeonRandom]

if its gamma, its not in the "settings" but MCM, it's called Fair Fast Travel. The one from the settings will bug the game

[@Offofe85]

@@skyjr13Ik I’m late but I also like how it still depletes health

[@emreyldrm8550]

​@@FelipeLeonRandom İ fast travel sometimes and ı didnt change a setting. But it requires money to fast travel. Is it the same ft style or is there a free version?

[@handsomeoz9248]

​@@emreyldrm8550 I think there's some guide npcs that leave you fast travel for some money

[@thatsplinter]

8:05 You can return your PDA to it's previous position with the shift key! When I figured this out, it made so many things a lot easier.

[@bread7932]

Also the bottom right corner on the screen is a zoom in and out buttons

[@rjw2568]

you can also use R

[@metalncs1563]

i needed to read this so long ago

[@qweasdoUAttgl5300]

Thank you

[@mariusknappe1562]

this comment needs to be pinned

[@zephox873]

Thanks! I'm going through a stressful situation lately and your speech pattern and comedy is just making my day alot better thank you ! This is a great video.

[@owenkung5000]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@yono367]

The entire point of GAMMMA is to slow down the game and make every bit of progression feel like a great triumph, combine that with ironman mode and you've got one of the best hardcore survival experiences playable

[@ihatedrums]

100% agree. it's amazing what they were able to achieve

[@kordroll1955]

From realistic point of view GAMMA makes much more sense because if getting powerfull equipment was so easy, then why all of the stalkers wearing shit like homeless (they are homeless, but still)

[@StalkerQtya]

@@kordroll1955 It doesn't makes much sense in the OG games either. You are in the #1 country of armaments Black Market in Europe, and no one is able to buy some old soggy ass AK-47? Most of the guns Shadow of Chernobyl offers you at the start are actually harder to find. It's just game design philosophy and it works, because the OG stalker games are not meant to be milsims. But when you get to make a milsim, forcing this artificial boundary on the player for gameplay's sake just breaks immersion, then excusing it that it has anything to do with common sense or logic is just plain stupid.

[@kordroll1955]

@@StalkerQtya well, expecting logic from a video game based on fictional book is already stupid. I'm just saying if player can get equipment so easily than why NPCs doesn't have it. I'm not talking about main character bs from CoP, CS or SoC where player is "one man army". In GAMMA you are just a regular stalker so fact that regular stalker (player) can get much better equipment than other regular stalkers (NPCs) in less than a week is quite ridiculous

[@StalkerQtya]

@@kordroll1955 That's game balance thing and you have to count on the game will be a game to some point. I say, that arguing about OG game stalkers not advancing and getting better gear is due to the game not being an overly realistic milsim, but a game with a clear progress-route in mind from the devs, that you should not be able to get high-end gear at the starting zone and very few NPC's should have gear what could make the game overly difficult at the start to you or offer a way to give the player mid-game gear right off the start. Similar problem you can find in Fallout 4, where Bethesda just drops you a fully functional, pre-war power armour at the beginning of the game and keeps throwing at you pre-war weapons, making makeshift power armour and pipe weapons meaningless. GAMMA does not make sense. They have a very clear definition of forcing the player to scavenge and engage with the crafting system, to make the game harder and slow down progress. That's it. There is no reason why you shouldn't be able to just do regular Anomaly route and if you want to spend more money just to avoid crafting do that. The mod would be perfectly fine without the forced crafting system. And it's not even an optional feature, it's built into the mod and you can not turn it off.

[@butterphli3z]

the crafting is only overwhelming at first because of how many items there are but it quickly becomes easy within a playthrough

[@demyx0067]

And quickly becomes one of the most fun things. Always bring parts that are above 60%, you one day find a cool weapon you want to fix, go back to base, find out you actually have all the parts needed, and then restore it. The dopamine hit is exquisite

[@mentosvagabond]

10:25 You can hold F (the use button) to highlight item in the ground so you can find your gun easier. I notice that newbie to anomaly never knew of the repair system and alway has to grind money for repairing their armor and weapon endlessly.

[@josedorsaith5261]

It also gets cheaper to buy items & use services as you level up your trust with a faction

[@chomskysfavefive]

The repair system is so convoluted and requires so much bag space to commit to that grinding for technicians is pretty much the same level of effort. You're either money grinding for a technician or you're grinding for a good enough toolkit or enough parts or a good enough bag to fit all that stuff.

[@davidiobrando]

I've grown to absolutely love the weapon/armor repair system in GAMMA. At first, I didn't have a single clue what to do, I really hated that I found a sick ass gun, but simply couldn't use it. So, after hours upon hours of research and hundreds of hours of time played, I love it. It is really intricate and not at all beginner friendly, but the feeling of finding a RD-9x39 and a SVDS, stowing them away, finding Expert tools, crafting an Advanced weapong repair kit, finding the necessary weapong parts, repairing those parts and finally assembling a truly deadly weapon set-up is beyond rewarding.

[@cykablyat3680]

i love how it feels like an rpg, i hate the crafting too at first but when you get kited out it feels so satosfying

[@JeffarryLounder]

It's even better on ironman. The feeling of progress and narrowly surviving all odds, and the tension that forms as you get further and further in, afraid to lose EVERYTHING if you die really makes it far more immersive in my opinion than just being able to go back on old saves. I'm an ironman junkie at this point lmao. It's all I play.

[@smejkoondrejko]

It ieven better, because you feel like you actually assembled the weapon yourself, you put the time and care into making a great tool that you can use

[@novAviator01]

There’s no high like finding a weapon that requires a toolkit you don’t have the tools for with a green barrel love fixing advanced/type D weapons with nothing but basic tools

[@rayres1074]

Actually, you don't even need to make it to Expert tools - cleaning kits can repair guns above 15-25% condition IIRC (can't recall the exact value), and these are sold from the getgo. That's how I got my fully upgraded Steyr SSG in Cordon in the bum phase :) Seriously, when I found out you don't need weapon repair kits (like in hellhole Misery) life opened up to me in such a way I cannot describe with words.

[@waltonkromer2702]

Im not purist for one side or the other but I definitely see where people are coming from when they say how anomaly/gamma deviates from the traditional STALKER feel and I tend to agree more so on Gamma given I feel its just a little over bloated in terms of the mechanics, weapons, systems, and some of the devs decisions it introduces, but both experiences have their fans and anyones within their right to enjoy STALKER however they wish. Personally prefer base anomaly given how modular it can be and I can just pick and choose what I want to install, as I like some of the more survival oriented mods that I feel deepen some of the mechanics already present in STALKER but appreciate how much more limited it is in terms of weapons and gear as I feel it fits better with the authenticity of the setting and the OG games.

[@grzyb11]

The pda sounds are some of the best sounds ever and can fit into any survival fps game imo, even dayz or maybe even unturned

[@thrustybagladeur8984]

GAMMA is hella fun man. The crafting system is for sure a lot at first, basically requiring the player to spend at least an hour or 2 just learning it. But once you do, the game and progression makes sense and it's fairly balanced. Most of the earlygame you will have shitty old weapons, usually the starting SKS until you can get a decent shotgun or sniper. Then you bump up armor, or maybe get an AK. It really makes you feel like ur just another STALKER in the zone, trying to get by.

[@Apoxias]

I completely agree. The crafting system in GAMMA seems overwhelming at first glance, but once you realize it clearly tells you what you need to craft each and every thing you want, as well as going as far to highlight anything you are carrying, the vendor is selling, or you have in your stash that is related to that crafting, the experience becomes so much easier. It gives a real sense of satisfaction when you manage to repair a gun you've had your eye on using or a great armor you found and been working towards repairing, much more so than just slaving away at missions for a couple hours until you've collected enough money to buy a full set of gear.

[@thrustybagladeur8984]

instead we slave away at missions to get stash coordinates xD@@Apoxias

[@Polaf3456]

Just started playing GAMMA and after many deaths and a few hours of playing, I still have barely made it out of the starting area in Cordon. By this point in a normal or oblivion lost playthrough, id be at the junkyard by now. Even 2v1 Combat is punishing if you go about it wrong, and everything is very dangerous, even a dog. Maybe im going about things the wrong way, but I barely walk down the road and get ganked. Personally, I like it, its an extremely tactical approach to stalker that requires proactive thinking and planning. For the record, all of my settings are on default out of the box. Maybe my loadout is shit, maybe im just an idiot, but im having fun and extremely captivated playing the dark souls of stalker and thats all that matters.

[@pizzarollking4397]

I really like the Artifact melter. I have three locker boxes next to the Yantar bunker and I pour all my artifacts into it. STALKERs, Mutants and Anomolies stand no chance.

[@DankRobot]

​@@Polaf3456 GAMMA is a cake walk compared to misery, and progresses as fast as you want it to. I know someone who got expert tools in pripyat in 5 ingame days

[@romantolstykh7488]

You do a great job with these videos. Natural and relatable

[@christopherson93]

Anomoly being my first feel of stalker (I've seen and know about the og games) im loving it. playing on the lowest difficulty still makes the game tough, and that's what i love about it. there's the repair system and it feels great. scrapping guns for parts, using those parts to fix up your gun, or maintaining it is super rewarding. crafting ammo, devices, and other stuff is there too, its all there. its nice to have an option to use money rather sparingly but it draws away from learning a new mechanic that Anomoly offers. thats why alot of people complain about GAMMA. now i understand these arent "true STALKER experiences" but they are to me. At the end of the day, play however you want. enjoy games however you want. they are all valid.

[@Kebab136]

20:00 @Owen Kung you can change it manually tho. In GAMMA it's easier as there are sliders in mod options that allow you to precisely set what can be the top gear quality from various stalker ranks you kill, but there already exists a file somewhere there, a simple .txt file you can edit and input the values between 0.0 and 1.0 to describe the quality of stuff they will drop. Note that it's not something set in stone, it just pushes the span higher up, in GAMMA i set it up in a way that rookies still drop same shit, but i set it to slowly proggress with ranks up to the master stalkers dropping stuff between 85 and 95% quality i believe? Don't remember correctly but around 90% - again, same as you i like being rewarded accordingly. But another thing i think is priceless in GAMMA is how it handles fixing weapons and armors itself, as you can make your own workbench, disassemble guns and armors down to the basic parts, and a 30% gun can have everything totaled but a 90% basically pristine barrel, or a good trigger mechanism, and you can use these good parts when fixing a weapon you want to use, where 7.62 barrels will match other 7.62 guns etc. My run went like this: hoard guns, strip them, take everything above 50% and stash it, sell or dispose of everything below 50%, as above 50% guns are still somewhat repairable with various repair kits that you can find or buy, and it's much, MUCH less costly than paying 10000000 RU for fixing the gun, when you can just take the gun you want to fix, replace broken parts with better or even good ones (you can fix separate parts too to some extent, pushing that 90% part to 100% part is easy and it reflects on the overall gun %), and then when ending up with a gun that went from 15% to 85% fixing it once with an expensive repair kit, then going for the small repair kit, then using once the expensive cleaner, then the cheap cleaner and at 98% you just use stuff like cheap oil or straight up duct tape and get that pristine 100% gun for free. Manage the usage of repair kits, some repair guns that are 40%, some only work above 60, some 70 and so on, so using a heavy repair kit that works at 50 and lower on a gun that's 78 is a waste, when it's cheaper to find or buy some cheaper kit, some oils, lubricants, grease, cleaning solvants, duct tape or straight up loose screws.

[@Pebbleguy]

2:00 I'm gonna be honest, the "too tactical" thing is just a nitpick. The heart of the problem is the fact that Anomaly & its modpacks has started to literally OVERSHADOW the original trilogy. Also there are some Anomaly/GAMMA/EFP fans that have a habit of just disrespecting the original trilogy by acting like it doesn't exist or is so terrible its worth skipping. Anomaly/GAMMA/'EFP are all good mods but their design philosophies are totally different beasts from GSC's design philosophy. GSC focused on creating a story driven game with simple mechanics for the trilogy. Anomaly devs and its modpack devs focused on creating a survival sandbox with more complexity to the vanilla mechanics and additional mechanics not present in the trilogy.

[@filipbartkiewicz469]

It's sad that most newcomers think that Anomaly and Gamma brought so many new features while these mods brought actually few. Weapon repair, crafting, artifact management with LLMC or AAM, cigarettes, usage of items like water and cigarettes, skinning mutants etc WAS already there in year 2013 in MISERY mod for COP later brought to Call of Misery (Misery + Call of Chernobyl) Please don't forget about these mods when talking about massive gameplay overhaul of STALKER

[@Blap7]

A new mod just dropped, "True Stalker". It is insanely good. Story Focused, multiple protagonists, and perfect gameplay.

[@alumi1337]

one thing to note; true stalker uses openxray which runs 10000000x better (64 bit engine with less slavic jank)

[@Blap7]

@@alumi1337 true! I have not encountered a single crash yet, and i'm halfway through zar.. zra.. er, the military dude's part

[@cykablyat3680]

i loved it but the ending broke me :(

[@alumi1337]

@@Blap7 chapter 7 i believe

[@ArchOfficial]

@@alumi1337 So does Anomaly. Pretty sure they both use the exact same Monolith engine.

[@StalkerQtya]

31:56 You actually have tree. Living Legend: Findig Strelok, getting familiar with his new crew, mess with the Monolith faction, then help the gang infilitrate the NPP to steal a fragment from the destroyed Monolith. If you finish it, it opens the Renegades as a playable faction. Mortal Sin: Opens up a few days after you finished Living Legend. The Sin faction starts to getting more organized. Strelok returns to deal with the new Sin leader and asks for your help to put him down. If you finish this questline, it opens the Sin as a playable faction. Operation Afterglow: Opens up a few days later after you finished Mortal Sin. The UNISG sends an operative team to the Zone to catch Strelok. Major Degtarev arrives to Zaton to take Strelok back to the Secret Service. Your job is to weaken UNISG without officially involving the Ukrainian Military, then help Degtarev find Strelok and either convince him to return to the military or kill him, before UNISG captures him. If you finish this questline, it opens the UNISG as a playable faction. Don't get too hyped for them. Living Legend is far the best. I can't even remember Mortal Sin (Sin is just a worst Monolith faction without anything to offer. It would be neat to have some questlines involving them more than shooting poor man's monolith with a slightly different gear or if you could get unlockable mutant powers if you join them, but there is none) and Afterglow is painfully short and the UNISG is just a high level goon faction without much personality. The only reason these questlines exists to make sure you to give you some endgame goal, that you will travel to every location and interact with every faction the mod has to offer.

[@Mastermind9206]

quick tip bud... if you hold down 'F' you'll get name pop-ups for any items near the direction you're facing, making gathering items from the ground MASSIVELY easier, quicker and more efficient (works for artifacts as well so long as they're on the ground and not in stash, storage or corpse), however it also means that if there's A TON of items stacked together, you might end up picking them all at once Edit: DUDE!! :D i can't believe how hard i laughed at the part with the scared dog while you're crossing Limansk at 22:15 :D :D it just fit the emotional pain perfectly with the area :D

[@Blind_Hawk]

As someone who can speak funny slavic languages, the Stalkers do not make mother jokes, but often use her as an insult. When you hit bandits they say sometimes "twou matt" (not correct spelling, I tried to write it how it could sound like if you read it in english) which means "your mother!".

[@Alteroxx954]

I was turned away from this gamma by the over-the-top installation process,but i'll give it a fair shot once i have more time

[@SpencerMepham]

Great video Ive never touched Gamma but Vanilla Anomaly is my favourite way to play stalker. I look forward to Stalker 2 for a more linear story experience but I hope they take notes of the gun play from these mods.

[@uberschnilthegreat22]

5:27 This is how much radiation resistance you have. The higher the bar, the more intense of a radiation hotzone you need to be in before you start taking radiation damage. This is one of the most essential resistances you need to get to a high level, as many areas are heavily irradiated across the map. This can most easily be done by buying a high-grade gas mask from a vendor, or popping some radiation blocking pills that will temporarily boost rad resistance.

[@mnemonik61]

Some of the features mentioned here were in OG Call of Pripyat, btw. Like the ammo inventory highlight - that's even in Shadow of Chernobyl. Tip: it also appears with traders or random NPCs when you open the 'Trade' dialog.😃

[@pod1803]

For the PDA, try the "r" key for zooming out but keeping the PDA.

[@dsmal261]

Don't tell him about A.R.E.A.

[@nicholas7154]

DONT WORRY SIR, IM FROM S.T.A.L.K.E.R. G A M M A

[@Dimitrisantiago99]

You’re S.T.A.L.K.E.R GAMMA.

[@captainsafety88]

They all suck. Im from „True Stalker“ 😏

[@moldinmolders]

Here's some tips for gamma, in terms of weapon repairing. Mechanics and such begin to sell weapon repair kits when you give them toolkits. These repair kits can be exclusively used to repair your weapons, no need to field strip if you have these, as if one is in your inventory you can right click your weapon, click 'maintain parts' and you can outright replace broken parts of your weapon while getting some cleanliness back for total condition. This makes weapon repairs even easier than anomaly, AND cheaper, assuming you give toolkits to your mechanics. Also, you can do this in the field, no need go to a bench.

[@coolguystonky8853]

the radiation bar in your inventory shows you how much radiation protection you have the radiation above the stamina bar shows you how much radiation you have

[@leerockatansky]

awesome video, might actually start my third playthrough of anomaly after this vid

[@Flyright07]

I love all the sliders in the GAMMA mod. I can play it as they intended or move a few sliders and Boom!! Access to all the gear, no crafting, spawn whatever you want on the maps - endless possibilities

[@captainlongdongdizzle6560]

Osgr is another good mod that remasters Shadow of Chernobyl. It has all of the things you mentioned you like about gamma while keeping the core gameplay intact with added storylines and content that fit in universe very well. Honestly a separate video going over the history of stalker modding would be really interesting, there are tens of mods that are all really different

[@xXMapleVodkaXx]

As far as I'm aware, besides maybe Pokemon, no other game series has this many fanmade, fully complete standalone games.

[@captainlongdongdizzle6560]

@@xXMapleVodkaXx I'd agree with you. There are massive flow charts you can look up for exactly what kind of experience you want in stalker and there are at the very least like 40 full game modifications out there, not all in English though.

[@quiteindeed6809]

I really liked the "wipe" key and "show visor" options. Although, staring through a dripping wet busted visor sucks to start off with though.

[@timinamen1217]

Which one is show visor?

[@pivomanslovensko]

Very cool video i enjoyed both this and the 2hour stalker review

[@nicollassilva1283]

5:30 The radiation bar means how resistant you are to radiation, the more bars filled the more radiation resistant, you should invest in this because some areas are completely filled with radiation and it's also a pain in the ass to accidentally walk into a radiation pocket and have no anti-rad pills.

[@villings]

your videos keep getting better and better

[@spiguy420]

watched the series and this review. Very well done mate.

[@duobizarrobizarro]

GAMMA scratches a weird itch I've been having for years, and I've never even played the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, but damn; limping back from a couple of quests as the sun's setting, after almost dying 2 or 3 times on the way back because of some bandits, roaming Military or failing to dodge boars... And sitting down around a campfire in town, filling the stomach while hearing the other Stalkers chat about who knows what. And you chug a couple beers, as it starts getting dark, one of your Stalker pals pulls out a guitar and starts playing, and you stay around because going out at night without NVG is suicidal, and you aren't that sleepy yet, you probably still have to spend a few more minutes there just to heal anyway so why not just chill a bit more? Might be the last time you can until who knows when. It's great, it does have a hard learning curve (even harder if you are as dumb as me and try learning while doing ironman runs) but there's no other game like it. I would've loved it even more if somehow GAMMA managed to integrate F.E.A.R. AI behaviour into S.T.A.L.K.E.R. but that's just personal wishing tbh.

[@DerGrafLP]

The 'radiation bar' is displaying your protection against Radiation that your gear provides. If you take off your outfits and Gasmasks you'll see that it'll go to 0. There isn't a bar that shows your current radiation, that is what you need a geiger-counter for. Otherwise it'll show a flashing white radiation icon, which means you are irradiated. If it's flashing grey-ish, that means that you have an "anti-Radiation effect" working on yourself.

[@fatnesz]

A new Owen Kung STALKER video? Yes please!! Great content as per usual!

[@muhamadrizkyadrian9105]

27:17 agreed with this point, especially after you've finished Mortal Sin main mission, there will be radio chater talking about your character, you got bounty on your head and outsider/UNISG appearing in the zone searching for someone & something

[@abdigeh]

There is a mention of a wife from one of the StalkerS in SHOC it's mostly about how his wife is gonna be disappointed and what not

[@bless-o-blee7295]

I'm a huge fan of Gamma and yea it can take awhile to get into artefact crafting. I normally just hoard all of them and end up repairing/making new ones after I end up getting to the northern areas of the zone. You can go ahead and skip most artefact and easily stick with mutant pelts and other armor attachments on ya belt instead.

[@Снайпер_Хренов]

I would love to see you film a gameplay video as the Military, the Renegades or the Monolith. Since those are factions that are unplayable in the base games, I feel like they kinda make up the main part of anomaly, giving you a completely new experience

[@toddskie]

8:00 What I do to combat the not being able to zoom out is hit x when walking it will pull me out of the zoom but not put away my pda easier than putting it away and taking it out constantly while searching for an area.

[@Pajama_Mike]

great vid! something I noticed that you didn't do in your main playthrough was getting a newer backpack, which would've greatly helped with how many trips you needed to take. You can also modify how much things cost in the game play setting, along with how much people pay you. I usually put those towards my favor, so the money grind is cut down a little. Excited to see what you review next!

[@bigwetcorn4196]

23:23 IDK about Anomaly but in GAMMA there is a mod you can enable on the mod orginazer that turns "AI can see through bushes" off

[@bigwetcorn4196]

It's called "G.A.M.M.A. NPCs cannot see through foliage" and it's under the "G.A.M.M.A. Fixes"

[@goblindeter8258]

Gamma is really ambitious but I am still one of these guys who wants a precise experience, with my own mods I have decided to include myself! Make you own modpack if you are not affraid to crash and test a long time before actually playing the game... Otherwise go for Gamma, Escape from Pripyat and so on.

[@deus_nsf]

56:33 this is definitely not maxed out vanilla stalker though, it looks like it's set in the minimum quality "static lighting mode" aka DirectX 8, one need to set the game in "full dynamic lighting" to benefit from the DirectX 9.0c features which allows for much better textures and lighting :) Your point still holds though :)

[@datboi2250]

Good day sir, I've noticed your high quality video and I thought it would make a fine addition to my Stalker Gamma Modpack (ever heard of it?). Actually, I took the liberty to add it without waiting. Actually, I'm in the walls of your house right now...

[@roveradventures]

I still love how i found a gauss rifle monolith in army warhouse Then wondered why my upgraded exo was letting me lose 1/4 of my health from super long range. Till i found the monolith with a barret.... Gotta love it lol.

[@Grimnir_x]

I love the original trilogy but no one can deny they feel massively dated in 2024 so it's nice to see GAMMA updating the games somewhat to modern standards

[@sabnock31]

Sin faction actually gets expanded on in books. Depending on the author they're either half-mutants or on the way to be mutants, fanatics like monolith, or just psychos who want blood. In the latter there is an explanation for their bloodied clothes in game, they think that wearing clothes from the enemies you kill is prestigious and shows how you killed a high ranking stalker. The more blood the better.

[@zmielov50]

Гріх мав бути фракцією у оригінальній грі, але були вирізані...

[@sabnock31]

@@zmielov50 а где я говорил что они не из оригинала? Я только сказал что в книгах есть некоторя инфа про них. Не помню, вроде в "Мечта на поражение" упоминался Грех. Или еще в какой... Но то, что Грех, хоть и не часто, но появляется в книгах это я помню.

[@zmielov50]

@@sabnock31 в тих книжках чого тільки немає, як з лору так і без, навіть жіночі клани з феміністок )

[@sabnock31]

@@zmielov50 тю, за неимением лучшего, потребляем что есть. Я новую часть жду уже больше чем ждал ТЧ, можно и почитать от скуки. Но хотя да, есть там просто отвратные итории... Помню про чувака, который служит аватару Зоны, которая баба, и путешествует по времени убивая неугодных сталкеров. Такой бред.

[@zmielov50]

@@sabnock31 штук 10 прочитав, іноді гівно повне, іноді більш адекватне, нормальних може 2-3, сподобалась наче 1... ось цикл на основі Зони, але у стилі кіберпанк - Зона Смерті, куди цікавіше і приємніше, писали більш з розумом і не на хайпі гри

[@nguyenquyetthang1326]

The radiation bar represents your rad resistance

[@rimanahbvee]

Some of the features you enjoyed abt "chat" messages are in CoC by default

[@hitfan]

I was thinking the same about GAMMA until I played it a bit. When I finally fixed my AK-105 it was so damn satisfying, I just understood why ppl love it. And here I am on my second playthrough, this time on Hard Survivalist

[@nomenium]

why ppl love it? oh boy... who's gonna tell him thats only the youtube guys that like gamma.... you go to more degenerate places on the internet like discord, reddit, or 4chan (especially 4chan the stalker fans there dont even like stuff like lost alpha or coc) and people HATE it

[@hitfan]

@@nomenium it has quite good stats and double optics. In my second playthrough I used AKS+74U Tactician until I found AK-12 Monolith

[@k1llerlunat1c78]

How did you install gamma? I keep getting an error during extracting it

[@TheThingInMySink]

@@nomenium I hate to break it to you bud but looking at people's opinions on message boards and obscure discord groups populated by terminally online mentally ill people who refuse to seek professional help isn't really the best metric for measuring the popularity of a thing. Matter of fact if you go ask 4chan pretty much everything, including taking showers, talking to people, touching grass, going outside in general and cleaning your disgusting house, sucks ass. I would know because I used to frequent the place back when I was a terminally online mentally ill person who refused to seek professional help.

[@TheThingInMySink]

@@k1llerlunat1c78 What kind of error? Did you playtest it despite this? How many mods do you have active on MO2? Generally the discord has everything you need to know, I'd recommend asking there as well, don't forget to properly describe your exact issue though, those people get A LOT of requests for help, and they barely have time to respond as it is, so it helps immensely to have all the basics covered. Most issues I've had were network related, you may need to re-download / re check your installation. As long as you have the correct amount of mods activated after installation everything should be fine.

[@noahboat580]

Stalker ANOMALY was my first time even being in the zone, and it took a while for me to go from noob to pro. One mode that still boggles me is the warfare mode. It feels like both an arms race and a land race, and even if cpus are holding outposts they can get effortlessly taken over once more. If anyone can give me warfare tips let me know, particularly when either playing duty/monolith factions

[@xamnoir]

Video is nice! I put a lot of hours into Anomaly. The mentality by me was... first (vanila Anomaly) "This game is hard..." then, when l got used to it, l was "how can l make this harder?!" haha. For Fast Travel, you need to turn that on in the options, by gameplay. You can set it to "all available" or "visited only". There is also "backpack fast travel" where you make a FT point via your backpack... l think, never used it. As for my setup, sadly l don't use GAMMA, but might later! l'm using Expedition modpack (just copied everything in my Anomaly folder lol, goes simple), and still use MO2 with 61 extra mods on top. Some mods that GAMMA also uses. And for the game setup... yea... l made a thin line between challange and suicide... - Traders don't sell Armor and Guns (but sell all accessories for guns, some food and some medicine) - Trader prices, when you buy from them is at 2x the price, while you selling to them is 0,5x (Had a nice gun that cost 329k) - Mechanic repair and upgrde price is 2x (repair can cost from 5k up to 100k) - Goodwill gain is 0,8x (so it takes longer to be friend) - playing on Medium / Scavanger, but armor protection is set to "average" and not "good" (so you can die from a single hit) - Hardcore AI aim is turned on Ofc most of the 61 addons are QoL stuff to make things easier, found a nice ammo maker mod too, that won1t crash my game AND can change the values how much parts and powder you need, which l balanced out so the basic ammo is 1:1 scale. Fun thing asbout this setup is... if you play a harder faction, like Freedom, Bandit or Merc, the game can be somewhat easier, since you got way more enemies, which means more loot, more money and more parts. Playing easier factions will make the game harder, since less people to shoot, less loot and money. And since Traders don't sell armor and guns and set the ammo on low sale too, you are forced to use the crafting table too! Making your own ammo, repairing armor and or guns. Can be fun. But yea, like in GAMMA, some mods can be turned off so it's not a hell hole. I enjoy it, playing as Merc and trust me... l had at least... maybe a minimum of 50 reloads so far? haha.

[@Gizero7]

One time I got a quest to kill a stalker from an NPC in Rostok and by the time I made it to a rostok vendor to reup on ammo, he died. Easiest few thousand rubles I made.

[@demyx0067]

Doing gods work by spreading the word of these fantastic games and mods. But I can't believe you played through 3 mainline games, the Anomaly and GAMMA mods, while always opening the inventory to heal instead of just pressing F1 and F2.

[@Weaponsandstuff93]

Not to be nasty to anomaly but a lot of the credit it gets deserves to go to Call of Chernobyl, the original standalone mod it built off of.

[@throwaway-]

Last Day was the base for Anomaly. But god be damned, whoever developed the 64-bit Anomaly engine didn't choose CoC as a base, instead he chose a random mod of it. If it wasn't for that, Anomaly would have been even more moddable than it currently is.

[@TygříMast]

​@@throwaway-misery started this all ,i dont know if i should be glad or not

[@commandernomad2817]

And MISERY! don't forget MISERY, so many of these little features were added by the MISERY mod.

[@menace275]

I love anomaly, the game isn't afraid to make your life a living hell and I love it! Also, I loved your video; I really enjoyed your comedic commentary.

[@smuffinman]

I'm obsessed with GAMMA. I torture myself even more and make myself load and buy magazines.

[@cherryrook8684]

Another magazines enjoyer 🤝

[@LordDan1989]

15:30 - That artifact is underground.

[@SMILEY.45]

I played all 3 Stalker games back in like 2009 so jumping back in seems like a crazy fever dream trying to remember all the gameplay mechanics along with the new ones. I'm still learning which items can actually clean/repair parts. It was frustrating at first but once you spend enough hours trying to complete quests with a broken gun, you stop and read the manuals lol... Which is also a drain on precious resources but worth it in the end. Sitting around the fire studying field guides you could barely afford still requires a lot of food and water, leaving you with less money for ammo and upgrades... so even just sitting still in this game can get you killed. Your biggest enemy is invisible...time... I try to make my playthroughs as immersive as I can without relying on fast travel or quick saves. You're going to be spending a lot of time around the fire healing, so I suggest picking up an instrument if you come across one and keep it with you to pass the time (I chose the guitar) It's also worth investing in an axe early on because I found out you can chop trees for wood to make little camp sites for yourself. Nothing like getting paid to hunt some animals and sitting around the fire cooking up a meal and brewing some coffee. It's the long pauses between the action that make The Zone feel less like a nightmarish wasteland and more like a weekend camping trip with friends! I haven't played around much with the different companions and how the system works, but I accepted a quest to escort some Clear Sky to Yantar. After a failed bum rush to collect the payment, I found out that they will stay with you until you tell them you "Can't complete the job" so as long as you don't dismiss them, you have a squad (And some actually have decent weapons/armor) You won't get the full payment for not getting them to their destination on time, but you essentially have a free armed escort early on that you can use to protect you or carry junk. I don't exactly trust them to carry my loot yet because I'm worried they could leave or die at any time, potentially robbing me of thousands. It's not about the money or gear in the end, but the friends and experiences you make along the way :D

[@Long-Horse]

The radiation bar plus all the other effect bars are your resistance to whatever it is so if your Rad bar is full you have 100% resistance to radiation and will take no rads at all, same for the other bars, the best suit ive found in anomaly for it is the green rad suit, its 77% rad protection as well as like 80% chemical and like 70% psy resistance but it came at about 370k rubles.

[@Ritra-Official]

Old head here, loved this video, the lore is fantastic, the deeper you go the better.

[@maverick6177]

55:10 At least in the newest update, artefact hunting and "repairing" isn't all that tedious, took me like a solid 3 hunting sessions (about an hour long each maybe?) to get an empty to 100%. And I've enjoyed it a lot! Though... I didn't do any hunting until i had a good suit for it, the best detector AND some artefacts looted from monolith soldier with anomaly resistance. In the older versions, I didn't even bother. I just slapped the kevlar inserts and stuff in my suit and called it a day.

[@tonic503]

Anomaly isn't the biggest stalker mod by far. Cumulative Pak 2.2 is the biggest stalker mod in terms of content, multiple actual years worth of handwritten quests, multiple storylines, a grueling gameplay loop and 64 total locations, a huge monument of stalker modding with everything taken from everywhere. It also comes bundled with an English localization.

[@ArchOfficial]

Overall quality is quite mediocre though, hence "strongest" and not "biggest". Anomaly aims to be the definitive experience; which won't mean including everything by everyone.

[@tonic503]

@@ArchOfficial Well it is an acquired taste, but I find Anomaly incredibly shallow and boring compared to soup mods like OP. Anomaly doesn't aim to be the "definitive" stalker experience because aimless freeplay with randomly generated quests are as far from the main games as you can get. It's like saying Garry's Mod is the definitive Half-life 2 experience

[@ArchOfficial]

@@tonic503 Yeah, correction, they claim "customizable", not definitive. Coulda sworn that was the line before. Bit more accurate this way, anyway. I'd argue STALKER's core is in the overworld A-life interaction and underworld dungeons. Both are retained in Anomaly and improved. The story is just fluff on top of that IMO. Most story missions in STALKER are just CoD-y action shoot em up sections with highly scripted gameplay. The only interesting part is the text delivered story. This is largely how True Stalker is as well. Anomaly also retains a lot of the text based story, it's just not as extensive. There's nothing wrong with being linear and setpiece based, but it doesn't play to the strengths of the IP. I found Metro 2033 underwhelming due to precisely that. Now before someone argues something about the novel or the film, the games have nothing in common and retain zero of the aesthetic or atmosphere.

[@tonic503]

@@ArchOfficial Perhaps this is the way English speaking fans see it, I've never realized it before. I think the English translation in the OG games is extremely subpar in terms of conveying the atmosphere, which is why it's no wonder that most western fans disregard the plot as fluff. I personally was always encapsulated by the story and setting, seeing the gameplay as an accessory. This is also probably why there are hundreds of fan books for Stalker in russian and like two natively in English. I've also just now realized that this is the reason western Stalker fanfiction most often centers around survival and jobbing instead of grand action movie plots lol

[@ArchOfficial]

@@tonic503 The plot is interesting; the story is fluff. It's not so important that the Marked One talks to this Duty guy and shoots this Bandit to me. It doesn't even matter who the main character is or if there is any at all. A lot of people seem to agree which is why Anomaly has succeeded. The plot in Anomaly is quite in-line with the maingames, but it has less story, if that makes sense. Although I would argue 99% of Anomaly players don't actually know the story either way. As someone who does and has played all the mainline games I still see it as secondary to the interactive elements, though. Maybe the translation is bad as you say. The dialogue sure is.

[@malrec]

This was awesome. I love playing this game with anomaly/gamma. This is the most fun I've had in a game in awhile.

[@RenamedChannel]

7:06 The sound effects likely come from some stock sounds library, so they belong to neither Bethesda nor GSC.

[@abcdefghijklmop7659]

I’ve fallen in love with the stalker series because of this game

[@dichebach]

GAMMA sounds like my vibe . . . "Tarkov in the zone?" Fuck yeah, sign me up nice mic

[@leifkeane]

Wonderful. Thanks for the post!

[@xuwa3967]

Gammas crafting is awesome, it finally makes you fell good about yourself then you repair up a tiny pistol in your iron man run. Every accomplishment and fight makes your heart race. Such a beautiful mod. At first i thought its was too much but its easier than you think if you can read english

[@dragon_1gaming756]

6:15 LMAO I THOUGHT MY GAME WAS BUGGED WHAT

[@bubblesman01]

I've been playing and loving STALKER for over 15 years and honestly it makes me a little sad to see people getting angry at Anomaly and GAMMA. My first thought seeing them was "This will introduce so many people to STALKER!" not "These noobs don't understand what the original STALKER is all about 😠!!" Like, come on. In SoC you kill like over 500 enemies by the end of the game, I feel like people forget how action oriented the originals are. These mods (in my opinion) do a better job at capitalizing on the things we remember about the series, like the atmosphere and danger. And yes, I do enjoy fixing my weapons for 30 minutes, how did you know?

[@jeefneef9307]

It would be nice if more creative story mods outside of freeplay mods got more attention.

[@gemtownMANCHURIA]

"more people seeing thing i like" is good on paper but you can see the fruits of that particular idea when you take a peek at the gamma community. A horde of tarkov rejects that dismiss nearly everything that makes stalker what it is, cherry pick the few functions they like and expand upon those in their own perspective (grindy, hard and complicated or alternatively upping the polygon count of everything in an effort to 'enhance' the atmosphere) then belittle the players that prefer og trilogies story oriented gameplay. Oh yeah and most of these people didnt even touch any of the original games, how nice.. Gamma and by extension anomalies communities have brutal doom syndrome in my opinion, BD community is notorious for being droolers that want every doom mod to have compatibility with their "definitive" way of playing. Shoutouts to operator slopski for milking his tarkov rejects with gamma, hes getting that bag

[@veronicacampos1294]

​​@@gemtownMANCHURIA Gamma and anomaly players betlittle OG players" *10 seconds later* "dem Tarkov Rejects ruining my game bc putting 40 years old Soviet optics on a AKM is too much tacticool milsim tryhard, and fk operator drewski he didn't do anything wrong except he committed the ultimate sin of being a popular youtuber covering a mod that suited his personal taste, he should have covered instead that niche 2009 slav mod that made an eurojank game even jankier because that's the true way of experience this abstract form of intellectual easter european art". Bruh... the moment that Stalker received any kind of renewed attention during the last few years, it was a sect of OG players that started a Circlejerk about "Le Real Stalker" targeting anything Anomaly Related over doomer feelings that Stalker 2 was going to be influenced by the "Anomaly Tacticool larpers" and the general knee jerk reaction that a underrated semi forgotten franchise get a little a bit love but no because the og games, instead a different interpretation which in the OG players sect it sparked the "people like B so they must hate A" brainrot. On the other hand some of these reaction are understandable because half of newcomers flooded the subreddit and other every stalker forum with dumb questions about lore that were explained in the og games, and SOMEHOW these same newcomers didn't notice that anomaly it's a mod and not a canon game. But besides that, the reason anomaly it's so popular to newcomers it's that: 1) It's Free 2) Gameplay Generally Feels Good 3) compared to OG games anomaly it's easier to get into without having to deal with the acquired taste elements of the OG games (Clear Sky Gunplay it's a perfect example of what I'm talking about) Generally speaking OG Elistists treat the original series with extremely rose tinted glasses ignoring that at least the first two games are really wonky and require patience to get into (even for the time they released)CoP is mostly fine though to the story feels like a fever dream. I mean Even E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy (another Eurojank Gem) feels better to play that Stalker SoC/CS... and also generally Elistists discredit every new interpretation of the formula because it's not of their personal taste so that means it's bad and it must be rejected because if not stalker 2 is gonna be Tarkov 2, which is never going to happen considering how different these two games are. Funny that you mentioned the old Brutal Doom drama... because after a few years both communities (the purist Prboom and Chocolate Doom players against the Gzdoom players ) managed to coexist without any controversy at all, keep in mind that nobody gatekeeps doom (almost impossible to do) and the majority of people just enjoy both, it came without the expense of neither of one and the most aggravating group (the "I only play gzdoom mods" players) are a joke and nobody takes them seriously, in fact vanilla Doom is perfecly thriving alongside the popular gzdoom mods like Brutal Doom, PB, LITdoom etc. I don't understand why you pull "Brutal Doom ruined Doom Community" as an analogy to what gamma and anomaly are in relation to OG trilogy Stalker.

[@gemtownMANCHURIA]

@@veronicacampos1294damn i aint reading allat shit, none of my opinions are meant to be objective so yes FUCK TARKOV REJECTS FUCK OPERATOR SLOPSKI and FUCK CLEAR SKY!! GATEKEEP EVERYTHING.

[@kebubas]

If I remember correctly, STALKER always had one of the most gatekeeping puritan communities since all the way back to SoC. Even if a minority, they were the vocal ones. I'm a STALKER veteran and still I say GAMMA is THE definitive way to play STALKER these days with the amount of options/settings it provides, even though the missions get repetitive, esp if you are like me and like to hoard coveted mission items like drugs, mutant parts, ciggies and porn mags.

[@antonradke5943]

32:00 never played anomaly, but judging by how you’re describing it, this Strelok quest sounds like a separate/new story mission entirely. Which would actually make that Streloks FOURTH go at the center of the zone 😂 1st attempt - triggered the emission in the opening cutscene of Clear Sky 2nd attempt - Scar beams Streloks psionic protection with the Gauss Rifle, thus exposing him to the emission and inadvertently triggering it even bigger than everyone had anticipated, thus setting the events of SOC into motion (and I’m guessing, also killing Scar) 3rd attempt - after the amnesia, and going for the kill, with the target being the C-Consciousness . That’s assuming we’re sticking to the canon/true endings.

[@MaisenOfHarlots]

I don’t hate Anomaly or G.A.M.M.A., they have some features that I really do like. The factions, the disguise system, the crafting system, and gaining companions as you build your reputation are really neat features. However, I do agree that they really do deviate from the good old S.T.A.L.K.E.R. feel. All the tactical and modern survival mechanics really turns me off as someone who grew up fond of the trilogy. Just take out the mutants, anomaly, and other supernatural aspects from G.A.M.M.A. and you have discount Tarkov set in Chernobyl. And don’t get me started on the new fans who got into the franchise with G.A.M.M.A. blowing up as a mod. Don’t get me wrong, I love S.T.A.L.K.E.R. getting the recognition it deserves, but the mindset of the tacticool LARPer bro praising G.A.M.M.A. and completely dismissing the trilogy really rubs me the wrong way.

[@bigsauce1116]

Imo vanilla anomaly still has that og stalker feel. Gamma definitely doesn't though

[@MaisenOfHarlots]

@@bigsauce1116 agreed, that’s why I stuck with Anomaly for so long. To me it feels like Garry’s Mod for STALKER, it’s fun to mess around with.

[@DankRobot]

55:11 Getting a full empty artefact takes about 2 days of pure artefact grinding (depends on where you are tbh), so it's not bad at all And if it's bad, just change the artefact spawn rates in DAO

[@StalkerQtya]

5:27 That's radiation resistance coming from your gear, not your radiation level. You can only check rad level through a geiger counter. Radiation itself slowly damages you if high enough and nukes your stamina.

[@nafmaja5612]

i think the low wages jobs in Anomaly is such a great feature, kinda reminds me this is the kind of life i get if i dont make the academy comeback this semester

[@mzargeot5698]

From someone who recently decided to install GAMMA after playing vanilla anomaly for a good bit, Yes, I genuinely recommend the modpack, The game takes longer to play through and is less grindy, The spike in combat difficulty is also awesome. Be prepared to rage because of mutant dogs and cats though.

[@zmielov50]

😂

[@kebubas]

hearing that one track in the soundrack with the cat "meow" still makes me twitch... although the crows.. the crows gave me legitimate PTSD, as my heart would skip a beat every time I heard a crow IRL after playing GAMMA for a few days.

[@av812bb]

33:14 is that Кино - Группа Крови playing in the background? i cant hear it well so i cant tell.

[@decayingstorm0127]

22:40 fortunate son starts playing

[@yahohole5499]

funny how fast i got from playing complete vanilla to trying Gunslinger for CoP and then like "yeah it's time for gamma"

[@chridmill4554]

Good video, Ive never played a single vanilla stalker, i skipped anomaly & jumped straight into gamma in December of 2023 wanting a hardcore survival game that was difficult, punishing, & rewarding and i absolutely love it and i really find it weird some of these vanilla stalker elitists get so caught up and get pissy abt what other people enjoy to play in their free time i understand loyalty to a game and wanting to spread word of how good the vanilla games are but SOME of u vanilla stalker elitists are sooo weirdly emotional abt it. It is only game, and a single player one, smile more :)

[@EpicSOB_]

I was passively aware of the stalker series for a few years, but never really looked into it , then I saw a video about stalker gamma that youtube kicked Into a lot of people's recommendations at psudo random. I was looking for a new game to play, something violent and survival focused, and it seemed like a feast of a game. Now I come back to it every few months just to vibe with the zone.

[@SheenaVillalobos-y9j]

if you havent done gamma invictus with anomolous bread in your inventory, you just havent lived!

[@ciguy9505]

I like looking back after stalker 2 released and seeing how close gamma is in regards to the animations and gunplay is actually mind blowing, a part of me thinks that the stalker developers actually took a few notes from gamma which would be really cool if that's the case

[@General_Ward]

When going over progression you forgot that some of the weapon parts are insanely valuable since they can sometimes be used for multiple top teir weapons. Like wild cards in a deck they are much more flexible. And with those parts and knowledge, you might just make a 15% durability weapon repairable immediately. Then factor in that weapons range in where they will likely be found and you have a seperate avenue to getting geared. Red forest is simple. Just like in real life forrests are super dangerous, stick to the edge and either move very quickly or very methodically. Leaves are concealment but trees are cover.

[@karamelflan]

You can also repair those guns yourself by finding identical guns and disassembling them for their identical parts... BUT! Most guns share parts, so you can disassemble similar guns and find the parts for the gun you want repaired! It's a good system for those who are Monolith, Bandit or Mercenary, who are always far away from their home grounds.

[@GravSh4rk]

love the vids man

[@captainsafety88]

You know how to present a game and hold the viewer for a 1h video. You‘re very talented 👍

[@DankRobot]

Gamma's progression is as fast as you want it to be. In my loner playthrough I found basic tools on day 1 and fixed up a shotgun and sks. I had advanced tools by day 5

[@rottenchunky9561]

Yo Owen, just wanted to say your a real cool dude, I hate all these triple A youtubers and Iv been watching you from like 2K subs keep up the work

[@Doc_Rainbow]

54:26 for the first few days of playing gamma, get a all guns which got working Barrals... the Barrals are the Only thing you need the Workbench+Toolkit for to be replaced... everything else can be replaced in the field! just strip the part of a other weapon when you find the right one and drag and drop it on your broken gun... sometimes you first need to repair the Broken guns total condition to replace the parts with the Drag and Drop, for that use the Cleaning kits, you can get the condition up when the gun has over 10% overall condition, after that you can replace the parts... like i sayed when the barrle is broken, just dump the gun at the beginning, you have a lot of work to do before getting the chance to get a Toolkit or craft one...