So I Tried STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl..

[@ТэмпоралВременников]

Veteran difficulty doesn't mean you are a veteran in shooting games. It means you are a veteran stalker. If you can't see an anomaly even after what it did to a dog - you are as green as Kordon pines.

[@Skoshtwo]

No, it means the developers don't know how to balance the game to feel challenging and yet rewarding so they spread the balance into several artificially made difficulty settings that just increase/decrease the base stats of players and enemies.

[@loatheweb]

​@@Skoshtwocope

[@Skoshtwo]

@@loatheweb ?

[@donnyboi1990]

@@Skoshtwo soo... like every other game ever?

[@Skoshtwo]

@@donnyboi1990 The ones that the developers can't balance, yes.

[@rosgoncharuk2403]

This is an equivalent of watching a person endlessly trying to push a cube into a triangle hole...

[@gnerkus]

I suspect he does this on purpose in order to drive up engagement. He's been doing videos like this for a while so it seems to be working.

[@axelolord]

This. We all know, triangle goes into the square hole, not the other way around.

[@rosgoncharuk2403]

​@@gnerkus Nah, given how ignorant, distractive and dismissive he is - it really is his comprehension level.

[@gnerkus]

@@rosgoncharuk2403 He's played games at a high level so I think he's capable of doing that if he wants to.

[@x340x]

@@gnerkus most hard levels he done were not actually hard. and when it is he got through just because the game was entertaining enough to him. its not an act, you can easily tell when hes faking it and when hes actually just stupid. we saw this a hundred times, hes just unable to think and react quickly, he explained it already before. once a game requires to actually use your brain hes done. simple as

[@razorblazor571]

Asmongolds 5 golden rules to ruin a game for yourself: Choose hardest difficulty because ego. Skip all tutorials because ofc you know better. Never pay attention to sounds or UI indicators. Reading is for nerds! Don't pay attention to what the quest/mission is about. Who cares! Don't be careful. It'll be fine. The guys with guns are probably friendly.

[@bronzin1445]

To be fair, STALKER was made to be played on the highest difficulty. It’s similar to Metro’s Ranger mode and Witcher 3 on death march. This is only a problem in stalker 2

[@luxiet2518]

Also froze on place and do nothing with 5% HP :D

[@networknomad5600]

@@bronzin1445 Not really. STALKER wasn't designed to be played on the hardest difficulty where every enemy just becomes a stupid bullet sponge. If I wanted to play Fallout 3/4/76, I'd do that.

[@FelipeSantos-wu1uf]

Hes only used to WoW agro range

[@bronzin1445]

@@networknomad5600 they’re not bullets sponges…you dish out as much damage as you can take regardless of difficultly. Only the mutants are tanks.

[@NpcOfTheYear]

if you ever feel stupid, just remember. Asmon chose Veteran in S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 for his first play through.

[@blazermettro2059]

I hope I really hope people never let him live this down. He needs to be reminded of this one particular fault

[@BoostedPastime]

LOL

[@deadpool_mwtm]

Did the same, but I’ve played stalkers for years, I knew what I was signing up for, but i must say, I didn’t expect mutants to be so tanky even then

[@BrandonFrowen]

shit game.

[@blazermettro2059]

@BrandonFrowen Such an in-depth review

[@KiffgrasConnaisseur]

Players like Asmon are the reason why there´s minimaps, tutorial pins, compass with questmarkers and circles above every consumable object. Yet he shows it´s clearly not enough. :P

[@x340x]

*whole screen red and 5% HP* "is my health low?" while he sits in radiation pool eating bread for 4th time...

[@edwardcullen1739]

I'm 44. I suddenly feel like I have IQ 200... I cleared the original Stalker without KZbin to help me 😂

[@Ctrl_Fury]

Actual facts.

[@Pirate85_Original]

@edwardcullen1739 iam nearly 40 - same. 😂❤

[@FlashWarrior]

fun fact that when you are bleeding or low hp the healing item starts flashing

[@aftertwentea]

Asmon doesn't realise it yet but he would be a great gaming journalist.

[@RicardoAndrePt]

Isn't he is already?

[@fullenergika]

Savage

[@oceyho]

He literally is and he has 1000x more influence than those woke, agenda driven untalented game devs and journalists. Too good that with trump that the companies are already cleaning out those useless rats.

[@JDavis-mh4rg]

Might even have the audience for it too

[@IncredibleGoliath]

"Didn't play it, 7/10".

[@WoolfesGamingDen]

What has more radiation : Asmon’s room or Chernobyl

[@adastrawill]

His bathroom (Probably)

[@jcvader1404]

I'd rather choose the 2nd option, mutated cockroaches would've been a nightmare.

[@SirContent]

😂the answer is obvious, roach can stand radiation but not miasma of asmonghome

[@Grymm6698]

What if asmon lived in Chernobyl

[@cyleleghorn246]

​@@SirContentmiasma reminded me of dwarf fortress. We should get asmongold to play Dwarf Fortress, I think he'd pick it up really fast and have a lot of fun and his commentary on the game and everything that happens would be hilarious

[@Vodkavsky]

Asmon: *doesn't pay attention, chooses hardest difficulty, doesn't change tactics after repeated failures* Also Asmon: "Idk guys, the game just isn't for me."

[@sagitario-b2r]

He has a very high ego, then he makes excuses when the game doesn't go well, lack of calm too, but it's okay it's not a game for him

[@blazermettro2059]

That's what I'm saying! You'd think it common sense to play the game in its normal state, before you challenge hard mode.

[@SergeantGadriel]

5/10, bro is gaming journalist

[@Angel28366]

Kills all his friendly AI and sits in radiation to check his inventory 😂😂

[@lalo-kt4te]

XD

[@serberian]

What, that's a classic loner move.

[@saadb.3331]

😂

[@capnmoby9295]

Ahh rookie loner

[@LaymanGamin]

bro hes fakin it . hes played games for years. he knows that international gaming sound for radiation. we all do

[@Motgenror]

Gamers preaching how modern games are braindead. Same gamers: "uhh what do I do" in any situation where you have to think beyond pressing A.

[@SPACEGOD21]

Hes literally advocating for games to be simpler and dumbed down because everything is too hard for him as seen in the video.

[@Motgenror]

@@SPACEGOD21 Nah, to be fair to Zack he's not saying all games should be dumb, he's saying overcomplicated games should not be overcomplicated, like modern wow raids that were built for addons, not for human.

[@steamfeuver]

Streaming is basically the equivalent of playing a game under duress. If you take too much time reading tutorials/figuring things out, people get bored and leave. So a lot of streamers skip past dialogue/low-interaction content because it's not interesting for an audience watching. Tactical (ACTUAL TACTICAL, NO COD) shooters need you to be patient, take your time, and take fights carefully. This works against any streamer whose goal is to make content as entertaining and interesting as possible. In that sense, STALKER is the worst game for a streamer to play, especially if they don't know how the game works from the get go. Asmond is not a shooter player, let alone a Stalker player.

[@SPACEGOD21]

@@steamfeuver bro stop coping. your favourite streamer is trash at playing games and only is good for low effort react content. how come other streamers arent as bad as him while skipping tutorials? he didnt even skip most of them he just couldnt comprehend it

[@a-grin6989]

@@SPACEGOD21 the guy thought montenegro is a slur, don't expect much from him

[@bobdravs6902]

Watching Asmon play a game like this is like watching one of those Mobile Game ads where the player loses on purpose, I couldn't watch more than 15 minutes before I felt the overwhelming need to buy and play the game myself out of frustration.

[@DTKCEKDRK]

fr

[@bazdarinothebizier9085]

Underrated comment 😆😆😆😆😆

[@uaer309]

It's a marketing tactic y'all

[@saschaberger3212]

Crazy accurate

[@beDIFF-ERENT]

@@uaer309 It would be true for any other person but we know its Asmon, he`s been this way always lol. He may have some mental reasons for that thats why it can look weird sometimes but there is no way someone can fake it to that extent imo

[@nexli5130]

peak journalism gameplay

[@Z3rgatul]

lmao, and this guy loves to make fun of game journalists

[@beDIFF-ERENT]

@@Z3rgatul but he never claims to be one tho

[@Z3rgatul]

@@beDIFF-ERENT oh, wild asmon simp appeared 🤣

[@Андрій-ъ4э]

😄😄

[@beDIFF-ERENT]

@@Z3rgatul did I say something wrong o_0 ? Or stating facts is not cool anymore?

[@revelation9125]

“I don’t understand anything” dude you ignored half of the pop ups and didn’t use a flashlight for like 30 minutes.

[@phantom0590]

That's the problem. Instead of reading, he relied on chatters to help him. He finished the tutorial and didn't even know how the dog was killed (by an anomaly)

[@Utopian_Futures]

⁠@@phantom0590have not watched the video yet, but going immediately to comment section before and then reading your comment. Anomalies being the soul of Stalker is !! THE !! 1st word that comes to my mind when playing it. How can he walk around cluelessly, not knowing anomalies??!! It's like walking outside but not knowing that oxygen is keeping you alive. I don’t get it.

[@dacronicspotgaming6104]

Typical Asmongold

[@Dragon_Slayer_Ornstein]

He never reads the popups in any video game.

[@phantom0590]

@@Utopian_Futures 55:50

[@NerdGlasses256]

-Puts on max difficulty in a notoriously hard game -dies many times -Doen'T understand -Concludes the game isn'T for him XD

[@Nickyreaper2008]

The difficulty on Veteran is implemented horribly so I don't blame him. You have to blast a bloodsucker 20 times with buckshot because for some reason GSC decided to give them armor so you need AP bullets. For a fleshy mutant. Tbh without A-life, this game is not even worth playing, so he did the right thing. I'm saying this and I absolutely loved the originals and I still regularly play Anomaly and Gamma. I'll stick to those until this game is playable.

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

@@Nickyreaper2008 Veteran difficulty reduces player damage down to 0.85x which is utter bs while Bloodsuckers and other mutants already have insanely high HP pools for absolutely no reason. The bloodsucker is an agile stealth killer, not a tanky thick mutant... Also there is A-life in the game present, upcoming patch notes are about fixing it so its definitely there and I've seen bandits and stalkers fight across the zone. I find the game playable and better than Anomaly/Gamma in some aspects but not every and so much is still broken right now its truly bothersome but not bad enough for me not to at least do one playthrough but Gamma is where im gonna stay afterwards for now. Also im sitting on like 600 AK ammo (200 AP) and im just at Garbage/second area of the game while having like 30 spare medkits, bandages and swimm in food and supplies. I never had to buy ammo or struggle at all so far about supplies and can just spamm.

[@MrMilovanov]

​@@Nickyreaper2008 It's done this way, because in previous games, mutants were a joke. Now it's not and it makes it so much better imho

[@User54366]

To be fair all shooter games arent for him.

[@edwardcullen1739]

​​@@Nickyreaper2008 Your comment is asinine. Veteran is for people who have already completed the game or are absolute Stalker vets with A++ sadism. This is an RPG and nobody makes games like it. 2077 was in the ballpark, but not even close compared to the complexity. Shows just how far games have fallen and just how vapid a lot of streamers are...

[@RockoBam1]

"I've no idea how to play a game like this", it has a detailed map and quest markers.....

[@rilzic]

Blue glowing radiation is REAL. It's called Cherenkov radiation. Green glowing radiation is also real caused by Radioluminescence. Both only occur in very specific situations.

[@Ziggyvu]

That sounds make up

[@Ziggyvu]

Never mind it’s real lmao

[@pestrusiariopaezmengoso2868]

@@Ziggyvu Hahahaha, I did also look it up.

[@ragnarlothbrok6240]

​@@Ziggyvu You're definitely a man. Women never admit they were wrong, let alone come back to tell others they were wrong. Keep keeping it 💯 brother!

[@SAUCEyou]

@@ragnarlothbrok6240brother, you should try to hang out more in real life 😳😖

[@ufuk5872]

Asmon cannot make fun of game journalist after this, aint no way bruh.

[@Z3rgatul]

so true

[@griffiththechad9483]

He’ll still try to but it should always be mentioned how bad he is.

[@witar.]

He absolutely can cause those game journalists don't play games at all.

[@Xeil]

He at least played it, acknowledged it was good and said it wasn't for him. How are people ignoring that? Playing the game on hard isn't going to change the core game mechanics. Even veteran is difficult.

[@vast634]

Just not his type of game. Others dont like sports games, punch-em-ups or round based strategy...

[@Shadowslave604]

puts game on Veteran mode and wonders why bloodsuckers are hard. welcome to the zone stalker. cheeki breeki.

[@JaguarXJ]

He didn’t choose STALKER, he chose VETERAN…

[@Shadowslave604]

@JaguarXJ my bad. Fixed it

[@TrlDMC.1]

@@JaguarXJ Even on Stalker difficulty the Bloodsuckers are OP. I had to basically resort to camping with a shotgun in order to get past the first one.

[@wrrr1256]

@@TrlDMC.1 i didnt skill issue

[@echo5827]

"Throw bolt then run like hell" Okay lets walk into it. It killed me immediately wtf? Lets do it again. I died again huh ? lets try again, but I'm gonna throw a bolt this time. Okay it did something lets walk through. I died again what the hell? Lets try again lets throw a bolt then walk into it. I died again I don't understand. Lets try again, but running through this time. Oh wow it worked, weird I don't understand how it works

[@corhellion]

He died 16 times? In the intro? ...IGN needs to hire this man asap. Edit: And he killed the guy he was supposed to save. *clap* *clap*

[@ZeRO65432]

my man went balls deep into stalker on veteran difficulty without having any experience or at least paying any attention to the tutorials, that's brave. stupid, but brave.

[@losiglowful]

No kidding. Stalker on rookie is pretty much like most other games on hard.

[@Frankthetank302]

I've never played a stalker game till now I started on middle difficulty and was immediately killed by a fat dog creature that seemed to not be effected by bullets till it turned over dead

[@TheJohn_Highway]

@@losiglowful Not really. Stalker on Rookie is like any other shooter on "Easy". People are simply dumb as bricks and don't pay any attention to anything.

[@ryzelincurve8295]

its like going wretch on your first souls

[@Hillochill]

His management probably threw the title in his IN-BOX and he had to give it a go as part of his job. Glad to see him play the game but sad to see he barely made it past the introduction. There's like 39 hours more of gameplay left.

[@DonMcLame]

its so annoying when streamers ignore the tutorial then spend the next 15 mins asking questions the game literally told them

[@MasonB88]

You can just not watch. Like you can do anything else you want with your life.

[@zanza3762]

@@MasonB88and so he can critique. Useless comment.

[@koktszfung]

Classic asmongold

[@sunderland69]

It's a standard technique to ragebait

[@user-zg5ey5xo9i]

​@@MasonB88You can just not read comments. Like you can do anything else you want with your life.

[@pizzacrusty2489]

I honestly didn’t think he was gonna get past the bloodsucker

[@Czejenesku]

Why be against casual gaming if you are a casual yourself.

[@sagitario-b2r]

WTF!!! 🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣

[@jameslwjtoler]

I have never cringed this hard while watching somebody ATTEMPT to play a game

[@pmacfto]

I honestly thought he was trolling us then realised he wasn't!

[@jameslwjtoler]

@pmacfto EXACTLY! I played through the opening section after watching this. I wanted to make sure that it wasn't all in my head. It wasn't .

[@ntz752]

The fact that after all that he ended up killing the Npc he was supposed to save

[@theoDSP]

NPC moved in his crosshair

[@UserFromSumy]

This.

[@Андрій-ъ4э]

🤣🤣

[@Art-zs6sl]

It was such a great ending! It has to be hard to concentrate when you are playing/chatting/streaming

[@RavusNox-z5i]

Dude is just spraying in a game where you're supposed to be tactical.

[@redpaw2153]

whys the video only an hour? "im going to play on Hard mode" oh, thats why.

[@ezenatiello2017]

I just made a commest asking why only an hour, now i think i know now

[@eagleone5456]

I played for 15 hours on Veteran, after getting ambushed by three bloodsuckers at the same time in Wild Island, I switched to Stalker..

[@diztinger]

​@@eagleone5456bloodsussies ain't shit. Wasting 50 shotgun shells on chimera is surreal.

[@phantom0590]

33:44 that's why

[@Bfkcjsobsnjc]

Lmao I knew as soon as he clicked hard mode it was a wrap.

[@1521Palm]

"I don't understand anything". So why play on veteran? In this case Rookie difficulty was made for you, as a beginner to the franchise.

[@edwardcullen1739]

Because ego, obvs.

[@Vladinhousen]

Seriously… he threw all critical thinking out of the window 😂

[@sadge0]

It wouldn't be any better at rookie difficulty because he simply skips every tutorial and text on the screen because he thinks he knows better. Besides, he would never choose the lower difficulty yet alone the lowest one. Because of his ego. Usually when people choose max difficulty, they accept the fact that they'll have to fucking learn and immerse themselves into the game to enjoy it. Asmon doesn't do that. He's just unable to, and he proved that countless times now. He's like that one guy from the movie Idiocracy that was trying to push a cuboid into round hole

[@Krenisphia]

@@sadge0 I don't understand why some people play video games just to skip all the tutorials and text even if they have never played before. Why are they even playing if they don't truly care about it? The advent of livestreaming is really a blessing and a curse.

[@mathewunknown8266]

@@Krenisphia I often skip these things in many games, but re-read them if I happen to struggle. Most things can be intuited, I dont need popup when I hear geiger clicking, screen going wonky, and my HP depleting that standing by the "Warning Hazardous Radiation" sign will damage me. But for some, like asmon, even this isnt intuitive enough.

[@echo5827]

Him standing there trying to tank first mutant was hilarious. No movement, no attempt to heal, just standing still blindly shooting. Over and over and over again

[@Super_VRC]

Bro is trash JFL

[@sithmaster]

I am a game developer who is around 6 years older and probably played as many games as Asmon. This video here is either pure show or a complete disgrace on how to access a game the first time. I am sorrowful seeing this because the developers of this game, despite the bugs and very difficult development environment, managed to make the game pretty accessible at the start. But ignoring literally 90% of this and then running around like a headless chicken can't be blamed on the game mechanics. That is, again, disgraceful and very ignorant. I am ok with the statement that this game is good but nothing for him - but on the other hand, he did not put the minimum effort to understand the base mechanics who are part of the game design. IF he would act like this in POE, POE II, WoW or any Souls game, he could not play any of these games altogether. I normally don't care that he gives a skit on everything, and I watch his stream and videos regularly - but this here is the first time I can't be on the "all cool guys" side. That game deserves a little better - despite its rough start, and probably a couple more months of polish.

[@thefirst48gaming2]

Its a gamepass game. It was never gonna release working right. Gamepass is literally an early access program if a game releases straight onto it.

[@EEAMD-co6nw]

you took the words out of my mouth, tho im no game developer. I honestly think he personally didnt feel to play this game, but did so to get views or something. "can i cut my own leg?" its like he acts stupid. what a wasted oportunity

[@sheevikhanik]

To be fair a couple more months of polish is a lofty dream for a game that was supposed to come out in 2012 and came out in near 2025, real life wars or not lol

[@sithmaster]

@@sheevikhanik There is nothing to lol about. It came out and that is impressive. I was close on moving to Kyiv, a couple of weeks before the new war began. We had to move our whole Kyiv Team out to keep them safe. No matter how long development takes (Google Daykatana, Horizon Zero Dawn, ME Andromeda, etc how long it sometimes took from first draft to final release). -- I think I took the wrong approach.. even with this answer here. Back in the days, we got our Music Production Studio a new and unique mastering mixer. 4 metres long, 500 kilo. It took two years to build it and the creator said it will take around 1-2 years during daily usage to tune it. But then.. it will last for decades, alongside minor material-altering. If people would know more about this stuff, they would be less ducky when a game does not release 100% perfect. Yes, 15 years ago, this was less common but does anyone remember why Game Magazines with CDs were the hot skit? Because of the bugfixes for several games. But back then, a wall in Unreal Tournament consisted of two vertices and a simple texture. There were no Nanite Overdraw problems, Lumen card resolutions to take care of. The difficulty of keeping things bugfree raised and UE5 for sure is not the saint and savor for everything - the opposite, I would claim as UE5 dev. Does all of my talk here makes sense? Maybe not. Is it a wall of text? Yes. Does it make Stalker 2 better? No. But I hope that at least one person may get a better understanding how the world ticks.

[@eugeneborodenko5303]

100%

[@gnarlin4964]

Watching Asmongold playing Stalker has raised my blood pressure over 9000.

[@Gamer-kr8tc]

So you explode? Are you still alive?

[@xLuis89x]

It's over niiiine thousaaaand! - WHat? there is no way that can be right!

[@John-X]

this game looks boring af

[@diegomata1062]

This is the first time in my life i have rage quit a video lol

[@giantWario]

Asmon: Struggles with any single-player game that's not an RPG Also Asmon: Only plays them on the highest difficulty Seriously, why do you keep doing this dude? Just lower the difficulty so you won't get frustrated and quit after two hours!

[@uvbth]

I bet he’s doing it for cOnTeNt

[@Alexander-zt9kz]

To be fair, STALKER is one of those games that are really not for everyone and is especially not his type of game

[@vladyslavserdiuk2893]

I do it the same way.

[@wolfgb5217]

Also Stalker 2 is busted as fuck right now to so.. ​@@Alexander-zt9kz

[@ElemXCR]

@@Alexander-zt9kz Well now he finds out If he really thought it was like call of duty.. boy oh boy. But still... any game at the hardest setting is rough to watch for someone inexperience.

[@TheUltimateHacker007]

I love how he only remembers to save after killing the hostage and failing the mission

[@NeakMeakk]

Hostage? I don’t remember a mission like this.

[@TheSuchtitv]

​@@NeakMeakk 1:13:58 Locate Gloomy - Mission Failed on the left screen He probably killed him because he thought the enemy had gotten back up. But it was the quest NPC who got back up. you probably killed him too and dident notice.

[@NeakMeakk]

@ I know what you’re talking about. I didn’t kill him, just didn’t remember this for some reason. The devs should definitely fix that and not have him get up like that as soon as the enemies are dead. He should have been tied to a pole or something.

[@ZachariahMcNaughton]

I dont think Zack was paying enough attention to the mission to understand there was a hostage. Until after he got a clean headshot on him...

[@Metroiidd]

How can bro play videogames for a living and not understand basic game mechanics. "tHiS GaMe IS ConFuSinG tO ME". painful to watch lmao. It's so ironic because he's so vocally against casual player game design, yet he literally is such a casual in any new game.

[@bubbles1335]

Fr

[@bakerfly305]

It gets the people going, its a nice act

[@uqwqooe]

dude is walking contradiction when it comes to games. Says he doesn't want to play game that stress him out and goes into this game on highest difficulty. Quits 1 hour later, says the game is probably good to appease the fans and says its not for him just for an excuse to never touch it again lol

[@x340x]

​@@bakerfly305 nah, if you watch him for a while you can tell pretty easily when its an act and when he just hits his skill cap and get frustrated. and its always when the game actually requires some sort of brain activity

[@Keyshawn13]

​@@uqwqooeit's probably just for content but as well that he just has no game comprehension except for time sink/P2W/whale games. Like literally every new game he plays the first 1-2hrs he's complaining about not knowing shit 😅

[@youreprettygood2603]

Watching him play is so painful.

[@justanobody0]

maybe how Asmon plays is what viewers want to see tho?

[@TheJohn_Highway]

@@justanobody0 Nobody watches him because they find his awful skills "funny". They want to hear his opinion, that's it.

[@Bfkcjsobsnjc]

@@justanobody0 that's correct, and some people just love to hate watch too

[@makefoxhoundgreatagain842]

​@@TheJohn_Highway I do. I watch because he's funny especially when he's bad at a game

[@creckonic]

him eating bread and sausages mid fight was fking killing me 🤣

[@deannelson1388]

😆🤣😆🤣

[@BrxIghtside]

Thats stalker my guy

[@夜神せいが]

Just like Skyrim

[@carpenoctem]

Him realizing he was eating bread instead of using a health pack, only to eat bread again was so fking funny

[@dustysmoke4996]

He thought they were insta-health potions.

[@THEPROVOKER]

> Me when I think that some things are just too linear even for tutorial level > KZbinrs trying to be clueless challenge accepted

[@KurgerBing-p5i]

>using meme arrows on youtube

[@diegosolis9681]

Seeing Asmon's monkey brain trying to cope with actual games that are more than just a time pitfall for whales is absolutely infuriating but also endlessly entertaining. Like seeing a monkey hit a computer keyboard and then suddenly it writes "tits" on the screen by mere chance.

[@flint3609]

Lol. Game just bad. Fanboy triggered...

[@anthonyorourke4215]

Jewkraine lost...

[@beDIFF-ERENT]

​@@anthonyorourke4215 Oof, rus bots are everywhere, even in a game section. So desperate to spread their rot wherever and whenever they can, what a pity

[@Sockcatgoldpuppet]

Lol this is an underrated comment. Don't let the salt babies get you down. I enjoy watching asmond but this comment is unbelievably based.

[@Sockcatgoldpuppet]

​@anthonyorourke4215 can you please explain what this has to do with the game?

[@deadpool_mwtm]

“I don’t think hard mode is hard” Brother, you died more times in prologue than I did after 100h in. If you’d lowered your ego a bit you’d probably find that out that “Oh, veteran difficulty is hard for me, I should lower down the difficulty so I can enjoy the game”

[@captainchonk3358]

i never want to hear asmon complain about games being too casual again

[@TheHabsburgJaw]

The length of this stream tells me asmon didn't give the game a fair chance.

[@dustysmoke4996]

He didn't give himself a fair chance, gunning blind and not paying attention to all the critical information.

[@josh_nbd]

Dude barely completed the tutorial

[@ChimpanzeeUltra]

@@josh_nbd he was moving his FPS camera like a grandma :D

[@RavusNox-z5i]

Has he even played an FPS in the past? I don't think so.

[@you1027]

Asmon going into games on hard mode, expecting it to mean Blizzard style 'hard mode TM,' will never not be funny. In a tragic sort of way.

[@theoDSP]

AI needs some improvements it didnt look so hard.

[@Wild_Samurai]

@@theoDSPAI is braindead in this game. I played it several hours last night It’s when something tracks you behind walls, reinforcements spawns 3 feet in front of you and 1 shots you that’s lame But the actual AI is worse than most N64 games. Game is half baked

[@D3DREVO]

@@Wild_Samurai GSC did confirm that the AI is a little bugged because they redesigned it from STALKER 1 hence why they are calling the AI 2.0 They also stated they are trying to fix it.

[@gregg6398]

​@@D3DREVOthe AI is about as quality as Ukrainian soldiers. No wonder they have been getting stomped in this war.

[@wingsoficarus1139]

@@D3DREVO Thats weird, aside from some bugs I feel like the AI is actually pretty good in this game. I mean, I remember this one encounter with a pack of dogs that ended in them getting shot at by another group of stalkers resulting in the dogs running away, wailing. Not all of them even got hit by the shots either, that was just their reaction to being outnumbered. The meatball enemies though... yeah they're kind of dumb as soon as you get to higher ground.

[@singed420snowinit9]

Dude has no awareness or survival instincts whatsoever lol.

[@vaportwo3339]

You want awarneness from a person who’s not aware he has his house full with mold, roaches and etc? :D

[@makefoxhoundgreatagain842]

​@@vaportwo3339 that was sorted out bredda he had a clean up 🕺

[@skralle8037]

@@vaportwo3339 nah, he has awareness of the roaches and all that but not so much the mold to be fair

[@mokadelic4037]

Yeah bloodsuckers in STALKER are basically like Volatiles in Dying Light, you're better off avoiding them entirely xD

[@karlsmith8113]

Can master the skill tree of POE but struggles to figure out how to reload a weapon in Stalker 2 ....

[@VolodyaUaPl]

Brain fog😂

[@Czejenesku]

Dude, he uses guides for POE. he admitted it

[@johnnysmith5923]

@@Czejenesku Exactly, everybody uses guides unless you actually want to spend 100hrs watching guides and messing about on PoB instead of actually playing the game.

[@mathewunknown8266]

@@johnnysmith5923 I dont use guides, nor do I watch 100hrs of guides. I mess about on PoB and suffer when I hit t7 maps xD

[@Head_Drone]

Expect the gameplay of all the people calling the game trash like this, I love Asmon but holy... people have gotten too comfortable with how difficulty works in modern games

[@g4m3rm0j0]

This game is too hard to play on stream on veteran difficulty for the first time ever trying a game like this. All of the handholding and coddling is gone. No health bars running around during combat, no sidekick telling you everything you have to do all the time, no cursor leading you through to the next thing always. Even NPC's aren't okay with you running up to them with a gun pointed at them. These are the things that have made games dumbed down but now people are just used to it. Dependent on all of the hand holding. Sad times.

[@drake128]

Dr Disrespect muddled through

[@EmpyreanDreamer]

I mean this game does hold your hand to be fair. It's not a true stalker experience at all. Your objective is written on screen and marked at all times. You get a UI element showing you when a hostile npc is detecting you and from which direction. The game is also incredibly static with no A-Life system so you can cheese AI and spawns easily to get infinite meds and ammo. The original games gave you a fraction of the info this game does and the AI and spawns were not only dynamic but a lot smarter and more sneaky.

[@edwardcullen1739]

​@@EmpyreanDreamer It's no different to the original, really. You just have to have a little patience and be willing to actually learn and read what's on the screen...

[@MrEvans1]

​@EmpyreanDreamer they are fixing a life2 in december apparently

[@EmpyreanDreamer]

@@MrEvans1 Yeah thats big cope. Fixing suggests its actually in the game which we all know it isn't. Even whats there is bare bones compared to other open world games. Fallout has far better AI and thats not a high bar. One month is not a long enough timespan to add something this complex and realistically it would've been one of the first things they developed since A-Life is what makes the series unique. Lets not forget they were asked if it was in the game a day before release and they reassured it was, but there's a reason they removed it from the store page. Makes it harder to sue.

[@jamesb6102]

*Throw the bolt and then run like hell* Does everything BUT this. "What am i doing wrong?"

[@karlbro7287]

Following instructions... not even once.

[@glazpeekedjfk9039]

​@@karlbro7287 can't follow any instructions if you didnt heared them xD He didn't even payed attention for a single moment in this whole video

[@DuaLL1337]

First of all if you never ever played other stalker games, play this on rookie. 2nd: Just do what game tutorial tells you 3rd: Expect death in every corner, so approach the WHOLE game with caution If you followed this 3 steps you may consider yourself a rookie stalker where you wont die like an idiot without knowledge, good job!

[@hole-sawbear1500]

Rookie is for people who have never even played shooters. If you're familiar with shooter mechanics and can read, stalker difficulty is easily doable. If you're *good* at shooter mechanics and can read, veteran is also doable. You don't need to know anything about the franchise to play either difficulty. I don't know what is with stalker fans that have them believing that they're hot shit compared to other gamers, and that you need dozens of hours in the franchise in order to play it on hard.

[@thewitchidolsachika6682]

​@@hole-sawbear1500 this is so based and true.

[@danny3120]

Lich King has gone deaf and blind. Zero reaction to geiger counter going BRRRRRR!! Also can't see the bottles of vodka and energy drinks in his inventory.

[@neky684]

> be asmon > be damn bad at understanding mechanics > play game on hard > die often

[@Noxus11]

He realised that single player games are games to have fun with. He still fails to understand that you don't have to beat every game on the hardest mode they offer.

[@youtubeenjoyer1743]

The original Stalker game had such bad difficulty modes, the only playable one was the "highest", the Master.

[@CoupleDrinks]

@@Noxus11 spoken like a true coward

[@lolidasterner414]

Why not ? Unless its devil may crys dante must die anything other is welcomed.

[@GamerMarine89]

​@@youtubeenjoyer1743facts, and they still haven't learned balancing lolol

[@Andron322]

​@@lolidasterner414Man, i love DMD 😅

[@gorrvaskr5963]

Truly amazing that Asmon can’t play good games throughly yet he can put 200hrs in every bad DEI game

[@TheSyrx]

fr fr, I'm looking forward when he eventually plays Kingdome Come Deliverance and gets filtered within like 4 hours

[@skralle8037]

@@TheSyrx he got filtered out of this in less than 2..so..

[@notsure9301]

watching him stand in the open looking for the guy who is actively shooting him is painful... why would he ever think the hardest difficulty was a good idea xD

[@mathewunknown8266]

watching him standing in rad zone, gaiger clicking, screen snowing, health draining and he goes to map.... that was painful

[@erfan0085]

Game gives simple and easy to understand instructions Asmon:Huh?

[@johnnysmith5923]

@@kdhehjekshd What happened with metro???

[@towarzyszmarcin474]

​@@kdhehjekshd something happened with metro?

[@leon30517]

Spoiler alert: He gets filtered and quits instead of trying to stick with the mechanics

[@Esotericspirits]

is that even a spoiler at this point?

[@lowfade556]

Filtered cuz the game's poo

[@michaeljennings4787]

​@@lowfade556No, he's just bad

[@patrickboian8545]

Thank you for saving my time I believe you dropped this. 👑

[@youtubeenjoyer1743]

​@@lowfade556 Give this game a few years to get out of the early access. Either the devs will fix it out of shame, or the modders will.

[@jordanvoskamp]

"I'll play it on hard mode" famous last words

[@JellyDognuts]

The elephants foot growing in his living room is very pleased with this decision

[@AnimeGIFfy]

commentary summary: "is this a good guy?" "is this a bad guy?" "is my health low?" "i dont understand"

[@markshamp3699]

asmon is really intelligent in a lot of areas, but I will always be entertained by just how completely braindead he becomes when playing any game that requires any amount of actual thinking and real-world common sense to understand. this is what 25 years of blizzard does to a man.

[@CaesarSonOfMars]

Throws bolt into one anomaly then proceeds to run into a completely different anomaly. Jesus even with hundreds of people giving him tips baldy still can't follow instructions🤣

[@mao2587]

I mean, for someone who hasnt played stalker I wouldnt know the size of the anomaly, since is invisible ,so I could make the same mistakes

[@CaesarSonOfMars]

@@mao2587 bro just stop right there. He isn't someone who needs you to defend him just laugh at the situation

[@HandsomeGamerGuy]

@@mao2587 Ngl, you *see* the Anomaly. It's not invisible. And the Section he gets the Bolt teaches you toss a Bolt in front of you, check if its save. Or trigger the Anomaly, and while it recharges run across. He fails such a basic concept. Bro should stick to his WoW Grind.

[@Psycheman-l8i]

Playing every game on hard mode is a bad idea. Always skipping tutorial is a bad idea.

[@RealBadGaming52]

Him playing the game is a bad idea but fun to watch

[@Meitti]

STALKER games are these weird half-simulator type of slower shooters. If you can avoid a fight with a mutant, then do it, killing them gives you nothing.

[@Chamomileable]

SoC had mutant parts for quest items and sometimes monetary rewards but yeah. Mutant killing isn't really that important now with the lack of the Zone reputation listings.

[@karlbro7287]

Unless you belong to DUTY.

[@MumboJumboZXC]

@@Chamomileableso many things lost from the originals. A shame really.

[@hodenbacke55555]

It’s stupid they give zero reward

[@Shocknfunk]

@@hodenbacke55555there’s possible quests that may reward for it but I don’t know I’m not far into it at all. Same time like it was mentioned if you can avoid them outright then best to do so.

[@Da_W1ck]

When you trying Stalker thinking it's just a normal FPS game like COD.

[@Da_W1ck]

@@kdhehjekshd Well, that's even worse then. It's soo hard to watch. Idk what makes him pick this game among others like maybe BG3, isn't that closer to his style rather than an FPS? It's soo weird.

[@SnakeGeo]

Bro really rotted his brain playing WoW. I think he needs to stick with simple arcade style games

[@FantasyDungeonMaster]

no wonder he liked DA Vailguard😅

[@potheadfromthefuture2450]

A genuine case of brain rot. Dude went from an actual thinking person leading raids to actual brain rot behavior

[@RavusNox-z5i]

His brain was rotted before he went into WoW It's a game made for those people. It's why the gaming industry went to sh.t

[@3aMonolit]

The death counter hints that the game is tough. In this game, when you are told that the difficulty level is Veteran, it means that you at least need to know what is in your backpack, whether it is usable and how long it will last you, what dangers await you and how to deal with them. The zone is an uninhabitable radioactive wasteland with a strictly guarded perimeter and no laws.

[@thewitchidolsachika6682]

за мои 200 смертей на текущем сейве, 95% из них было от ваншотающих полей радиаций, воды и падений, ну и ещё в этот список можно добавить архи аномалии с пробами и ошибками разгадать их пазлы. все остальные 5% смертей этого прохождения на ветеране были от мутантов или неписей. эх, а меченый так-то облучение любое мог танчить с достаточным количеством аптечек, видимо скиф ещё не полностью заменил свою кровь на водку чтобы добиться такого же эффекта, поэтому ему придется падать без сознания от облучения из-за 1го неосторожного шага, увы.

[@Prosto_ValerA600]

He is too used to radiation in his room, that he doesn't find it dangerous in game too

[@TheWaterMagister]

watching asmon play a difficult game is alot like watching a toddler learning how to walk.

[@dustysmoke4996]

Toddlers learn faster.

[@00-Dima]

😂 This isn't your soy boy games on veteran its actually hard

[@jonassousa2273]

I love Asmomgold but he is the type of guy who complains about the game industry being too easy or too Ubisoft-like carrying the player's hand throughout the game but cannot play a game like S.T.A.L.K.E R 2, LEGEND OF ZELDA, or ELDEN RING when the game gives you freedom and lets you figure out the objectives and alternatives.

[@justanobody0]

isn't wukong like those games, he did well at wukong and he said it was game of the year

[@tsuki_moon.1]

Why you put shooter game in good game list lmao

[@jonassousa2273]

@@justanobody0 Hey, no Wukong is a linear sandbox, arcade type of game and the combat is 100x easier than Elden ring

[@jonassousa2273]

@@tsuki_moon.1 is not a good game list tsuki is about the level of freedom and challenges the game gives the players

[@AustinWilliams-p5p]

Watching him struggle with single player games is physically painful

[@jackcanox4015]

to be fair stalker is not a merciful experience ahha stalke was my first game for pc in around 2008 and i made the mistake to always play veteran and oh boy...it kicked my ass! all stalker game can be very challenging if you don't know how ot approach them!

[@Vss077]

@@jackcanox4015 the first stalker games for sure, but this is way more easier to "approach" as a new player. but in the end it is asmon & his 2004 game knowledge the first stalker i didnt even know what to do, stalker 2 basically takes u by the hand, explains most stuff & are seen as common sense mechanics these days

[@nexli5130]

@@jackcanox4015 sadly stlaker 2 is not hard at all tho :(

[@Restrocket]

@@Vss077 this new one is way harder than previous ones in my experience. Enemies see you from a mile away. The mutants are completely bulletproof. There is absolutely no way to kill even a hog in the open field.

[@PCgamerChannel]

Single player games are the only hard ones. What team games are hard?

[@JeronCradle]

One day, and that day may never come, Asmon is going to realise these games are totally his kinda game. I hope sooner rather than later.

[@PriceGG]

I was unsure if I would like the game or not since I never played the first one. I am about 20 hours in and loving it!

[@AlphaMachina]

I played them nearly two decades ago and was hooked from the start. I'm loving it too, but it's got a lot of problems and performance issues that need to be addressed before I would recommend anyone else buy it. That's just my opinion.

[@thipman]

@@AlphaMachinapretty solid for being made in a combat zone not to mention the dev team taking casualties.

[@xray606]

It has a strong smaller following. People seem to either love it or hate it.

[@SlavaBohu]

​​@@AlphaMachina I would buy it after the first update, the Metro game also had problems in the beginning, but they polished it up over time.

[@dandylion1987]

I do like it BUT... the game needs performance improvements badly, its quite buggy and some of the mechanics need looking at/balancing. Enemies are too spongy on veteran, player visibility to NPCs im sure is bugged, stutter is a massive problem. Its a diamond in the rough ATM

[@Baniq1986]

Sometimes you beat the game, sometimes the game beats you.

[@saddestcat]

Stalkers atmosphere is the best bro

[@Pvt.Parties]

I've been waiting for this. "I'm playing hard mode"

[@LifeEnjoyer463]

its over

[@Pvt.Parties]

​@@LifeEnjoyer463he'll be back 😅

[@mystdefiance1]

@@Pvt.Parties still waiting for him to finish his Cyberpunk run

[@coldsteel871]

Omg, watching you struggle with what to do with the bolt was killing me. The guy literally tells you what to do 😂.

[@User627_24]

It's a bold move to play THIS game in hard mode

[@kirkmashino4106]

not really, i have over 30 hours on veteran. i think it's funny a lot of streamers are playing on hard with the mutant nerf mod.

[@karlbro7287]

Cotton the bold move didn't pay off.

[@Roger-ug6bp]

I was always told that Stalker on Realism was the easiest difficulty because the enemies are one hit kills.

[@ZergleJerk]

​@@Roger-ug6bpit was still harder. The mutants were not the problem. It was the bandits (or anyone else with a gun that you pissed off). Mutants were usually alone or in small groups. Other humans would hunt you down in packs and volley fire at you from a fairly long distance away before you could find out where they all were. You could run into situations where it was impossible for you to win.

[@tero2444]

@@Roger-ug6bp Difficulty effects weapon spray, both yours and the enemies. The higher the difficulty, the more accurate the weapons become. This can heavily work out in your favour if you're a halfway decent aim. Headshots are absurdly rewarded in this game. But don't expect to not reload occasionally because some random enemy with a sniper got you from so far away that you didn't really have a chance.

[@EricCarvalho-zh8vs]

transmongold playing this is exactly why devs paint everything yellow

[@stobbabyningen]

u can turn off yellow in setting btw

[@mathewunknown8266]

@@stobbabyningen thats neat, didnt notice, thanks

[@TutorialsAndCo]

Comments, thank you for preventing me from wasting my time watching this lol

[@Oakoms]

mistake going on hard mode, oh well

[@Nipskie]

How?

[@lukesmith6871]

mistake making this comment

[@himanshupandey8771]

​@@Nipskie stalker games are usually so much punishing on normal difficulty. But he choose to go hard mode and you can see that damage he got from that invisible enemy

[@kevinh1792]

​@@AWo-m5hFirst time? They will fix it. It's a great game. I've only issues with the controls on xbox and the fact that A-life is broken

[@nexli5130]

@@himanshupandey8771 I'm playing on veteran difficulty and the game is not even hard 💀

[@Zargo1z]

Bro found out quick you don't jump into Stalker head first on max difficulty.

[@Moderation_Dodger]

Still blames the game, mechanics, genre... basically everything but the user.

[@dustysmoke4996]

@@Moderation_Dodger PEBKAC.

[@listofnihilist]

You can't swim in this game because your balls of steel are too heavy.

[@Bfkcjsobsnjc]

Lolz

[@kalanahansajith5534]

I remember Asmon Rage quitting Metro Exodus. Its just not his type. Born to be a WOW player

[@AdamSweres1990]

It seems obvious that you purposefully put the game on the hardest difficulty so you can tell people you stopped playing because it's too hard when you didn't want to play it in the first place. It took them 15+ years to make this game and it really is a good game. If you don't want to play it just say so instead of tip toeing around it.

[@ShadyLurker16]

HE does this shit ALL THE TIME, it really bizarre behavior tbh. Buys a game it seems like he knows he won't like simply because other people are playing it, puts it on hardest difficulty to try and compensate for his inferiority complex about not being good at games (or being very smart in general). Get's frustrated after about an hour of barely engaging with the game, claims he doesn't like the mechanics (or that the game is bad) and quits. Very predictable pattern.

[@marco12377]

What a weird ending... Asmon has trouble articulating he doesn't like the game mechanics of playing an FPS game? I guess farming anti-"woke" content is more Asmon's game at this point.

[@doktorfunkenstein6779]

So on Point. This needs to be the Top Comment.

[@palavarooki6155]

when has asmon really even playd fps games? hes just a washed mmo player and that just fine.

[@marco12377]

@@palavarooki6155 At this point he is a couple steps away from being a washed gamer in general... In a couple more years he might not be making any game related content, and just focus on "woke"/DEI/Right-Wing political content. Not for me, but I am sure everyone on Reddit will love it.

[@doktorfunkenstein6779]

@@palavarooki6155 Even in MMO's He sucks Hard, and If thats the Case why Is He desperately trying to get Clicks for playing Games He sucks? Dull Logic.

[@JETBLACKPRIEST]

@@marco12377 Bro in the last 8 days he's uploaded hour+ long videos on 4 or so different games. Stay salty. You can simply jog on if you're not interested in the content.

[@squidapple9662]

I'm getting the "Too much backseating stressing him out not gonna continue" vibes with this one, hope he can enjoy it off stream if so

[@johnnysmith5923]

Honestly he should've gone back to Hollow Knight.

[@ESPLTD782]

Let me guess, he quits because he doesn’t understand the mechanics and it’s too hard for him?

[@NoisR]

seems like it

[@rsmith8113]

The game just not that good

[@elcid5033]

@@rsmith8113 well according to 1.5 mil people it is

[@kakaroten]

He fails to learn new things sometimes, he doesn't even read the signs that tell him what to do

[@theoDSP]

bro its just not for him

[@dealwolfstriked272]

0:28 it was at this point that we all knew....he fucked up!

[@dustysmoke4996]

"I'm a wizard. I can do that."

[@jsml337g05u]

From: "I play it on hard mode. I'm a wizard, I can do that" To: "I don't like the mechanics" "I don't read" "I don't think it's my kind of game" "This is nuts" "It's just really dark" "Guys what do I do?" "I can't do this, this is insane" Yeah, he should just stick with games like the Korean dating sim, even though he sucks at that too

[@Clint_Beastwood87]

Filtered. You need to know stalker games in order to play on Veteran difficulty. Going in blindfolded is just asking to be pissed off and get filtered

[@MumboJumboZXC]

And filtered he was.

[@x340x]

bruh, i never played any Stalker game but im pretty sure i wouldve gotten way further than him on this difficulty. its not even the games fault, only harder thing to understand was the invisible zombie because you dont know if you should run or if the killing is possible (if you never played the game). other than that it was just his skill issue

[@tsuki_moon.1]

Shooter game is always boring.

[@Clint_Beastwood87]

@@tsuki_moon.1 🤡

[@RealBadGaming52]

Filtered ?

[@xMovingTarget]

actually painful to watch

[@NSXtacy-]

I've heard switching to the Ukrainian voice acting makes it so much more immersive.

[@zbaker0617]

First thing I did with the settings

[@BFG-rr9cv]

It does, also because the english vo is really crappy at times.

[@cyleleghorn246]

I like doing this. Ukrainian in stalker, Russian in metro 2033, Italian in assassin's creed, Korean in Crysis (which, funny enough, happened automatically if you raised the difficulty) and whatever language they had in the various far cry games. Some games have some good voice acting and it's worth switching. However I will say that even if it's in English I need subtitles or half of everything sounds like it's underwater, muffled. So I don't mind reading the subtitles since they'll be on anyways

[@PotatoeJoe69]

Yes and no. It does make the setting of Ukraine/Chernobyl feel more authentic, but having to stare at subtitles and missing what's actually happening (facial expressions, body language, environment, things in background) is a bummer. It's a wash. At least for me.

[@SicutCorvusVolat]

​​@@PotatoeJoe69gotta work on your reading speed bud

[@stephensotor8104]

I have this just running in the background while I am working. I heard a bunch of beeping and asmond saying "wa... what do I do?" I flipped to the tab and just saw him with a blinking Giger counter and a knife standing in front of a bunch of toxic waste. Fucking peak.

[@justinkendrick3753]

Its crazy how you ask questions to yourself in confusion, but refuse to just look at 3 or 4 chats saying the same things.. YOU DRANK WATER, THATS WHY THE EFFECT DIDNT GO AWAY😭

[@cry2love]

The only anomaly here is that Asmon lives at West but looks like born in Chornobyl

[@MrKrusten]

Asmon is consistent in struggling with singleplayer games this hard

[@wildmangeorgesrcchannel6916]

that is why you dont pick hard mode never having played stalker games before. you get got by the vampire in two swipes

[@Coka-Rolla]

This was about as hard to watch as watching a boomer at checkout, blankly staring at a card processor as it chimes “remove card now” for an hour.

[@Yabog00]

I hate hand holding in games and overly clingy tutorials but he makes it obvious why so many devs force it on us