STALKER GAMMA: The ONLY MOD to play while waiting for Stalker 2!

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

This is the original thumbnail I made for the video: imgur.com/cQfvpPB It summarizes pretty well my opinion on Stalker GAMMA :) Decided to go with something more "serious' in the end ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@markedn0ne]

You live in the world of Anomaly. So breaking up with Anomaly is not possible. GAMMA is your favourite avatar of ANOMALY!! GET IT!!? CHEEKE BREEKI DAMKE!!

[@rotoristworkshop6530]

Hello Cheeki Breeki - would you be interested in playing the "top-down STALKER" I created, called Tunguska: The Visitation? Thanks!

[@OmegaLegion]

try going to Aslan and tell me how much you enjoy the game

[@AndroidFerret]

The only ? Whats with efp3.0?

[@AndroidFerret]

Also . Are there a lot of new weapons and gear like efp ?

[@SurikatMeerkat]

I can't believe you mentioned Wormwood. It was a real passion project... And some of us who worked on it still talk about it, we had a real roadmap and ideas. We had a good team. We figured out COP mapping and were expanding on interiors, and adding new interiors to spaces already available in COP. Those were the days. I was so excited.

[@SurikatMeerkat]

I helped create new textures, we were adding old school propganda posters to walls. We were building posters for the factions. We worked on the weapon attachment system and expanded on that. But the big thing was to add to the maps, so many buildings were hollow husks and we wanted to open them.

[@markedn0ne]

What happened to that project? Can I download it?

[@shadowstorm7548]

@@markedn0ne My question too.

[@SurikatMeerkat]

@@markedn0ne I think there's an early public version available that only had some minor tweaks with gameplay. The main branch of the projects never did get a public release. We never finished our work. It's essentially abandonware now.

[@LevitatingGaming]

@@SurikatMeerkat You're a legend, much respect!!!

[@mstrelokm6023]

So glad GAMMA is getting the recognition it deserves. I actually head about it and tried it, while waiting for EFP 3.0 and I fell in love with it (to the point, where after finally getting EFP 3.0, I played it for about 2 hours and went back to GAMMA). Grok is super dedicated to the project and It is the Stalker experience I never knew I wanted, until I got it and now I can’t live without it

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Pretty much this!

[@agnosticlibertarian175]

Same here. I initially played gamma while waiting for efp,but gamma is far better

[@razielstalker]

It look really like epf 3 wich i love playing but what is different? Because for me it look the same but you can fuse artifact and thats it?

[@agnosticlibertarian175]

@@razielstalker gamma similar, but you have to get an artifact smelter, which you can get from sakharov for 30,000

[@niksarass]

@@agnosticlibertarian175 Can you please explain how Gamma is superior to EFP?

[@redshoehart]

I used to play EFP, but after trying Gamma there's no going back. Grok is the MVP.

[@RA7KO]

Can you keep your saves from EFP?, I cant go trough all of that sh*t again

[@unrealgamer3260]

@@RA7KO fuck no, its a completely different modlist, maybe play as a different faction this time?

[@RA7KO]

@@unrealgamer3260 eh well shit, ill bite the bullet then, Thanks for the reply kind stranger!

[@unrealgamer3260]

@@RA7KO good hunting stalker!

[@niksarass]

Can you explain why?

[@user_default]

You are definitely a great spokeperson of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R modding community. For sure i will have a look on Gamma. Thumbs up!

[@christusrex8158]

I was blown away. This modpack is exactly what I want out of Anomaly. Thank you so much for sharing this!

[@bogdan19992]

Playing stalker gamma for over 100 hours now and I can confirm that this mod pack is the go to place to enjoy anomaly. I will not be surprised even when stalker 2 comes around and come to the conclusion that stalker anomaly gamma will still be a better experience compared with stalker 2. This mod pack gets why stalker was fun and unique. Give it a spin. If you want an immersive shooter in an alien but grounded world, you came to the right place.

[@grok_gamma]

Thanks for the feedback 😊

[@FedorKai]

Is it only gameplay overhaul or it has better graphics and sounds too?

[@grok_gamma]

@@FedorKai better graphics and sounds indeed

[@FedorKai]

@@grok_gamma Awesome, I was about to try a graphic overhaul my self fearing I'd break the game, Gamma is exactly what I need.

[@bogdan19992]

@@FedorKaiBetter sounds and better graphics, especially the first person hand models and weapons.

[@pizleg4203]

Ah man i have been looking for a stalker mod pack that focuses on more of a reliance in crafting and cooking! I feel in most of them they are usually afterthoughts! Good stuff!

[@garriustius12]

The mod is actually surprisingly fun. If you have trouble with something or there are bugs you encounter, the discord has active moderators that'll help you out.

[@ganjatheninja]

yeah thats my entire problem not joining a discord for a fucking mod

[@masonfournier495]

@@ganjatheninja wah wah

[@r3v4n21]

Dead Air wasnt exactly based on Anomaly but rather the sequel to Call of Misery, which Last Day and in turn Anomaly were based on. Anomaly then incorporated a lot of Dead Airs new features. Kinda crazy to think what an impact Dead Air had despite releasing 4 years ago and not getting an update since

[@zetorrec]

same for rttn afaik

[@Lexbomb6464]

At least it's still getting worked on, although It'll probably go the way of Shoker 3.0 and still not be released a decade later.

[@xhg7a]

@@zetorrec A lot of really innovative rttn features like daytime radiation and filters still haven’t made thier way to economy

[@Ticklety]

Yet another well-made video that inspired me to play STALKER again. Keep it up!

[@bofad6074]

HOLY SHIT the fact it has its own installer is game changing, just opening mo2 and looking at the 220ish mods in efp makes me nervous

[@gang-ridertv5433]

I found an AI that gives randonly generated motivational quotes like u find at schools and offices. It gave a picture of a guy in chemical protection gear with a caption something to the effect of "One must always Stalk." Lol

[@masonfournier495]

I never played STALKER before Anomaly, and for a while I was hesitating to stay on Anomaly or go to Gamma, and ever since I installed Gamma I never regretted it. It's such a great modpack, so simple to install and keep updated, and the gameplay is just so fun. The beginning was insanely difficult, probably the hardest game I've tried and I'm adept to hard games, I love them. But once I got used to it, every mod and addon worked perfectly hand in hand, it was like every mod is perfect for each other. After 2 long playthroughs, I'm still thoroughly enjoying the game and I still haven't discovered everything, which is fantastic. One thing I wasn't sure about was the weapons you need to repair, but it's truly what makes Gamma special and once you get used to it and all the complicated systems it holds, it is so very fun to scavenge dead stalkers in order to get weapon parts and hopefully a nice weapon.

[@dsandoval9396]

*Two features THAT I ABSOLUTELY LOVED* found in clear sky (faction wars + complete mod) that i have YET to see in any other mods or add-ons is... 1. Item: Pad lock. It never made sense how everyone is a scavenger yet there are stashes everywhere and other stalkers leave them there. In the mod I played you could buy a padlock that you could throw into your chest/bag/box and only you could open it. Otherwise, you could leave it unlocked and hope it doesn't get raided which most likely happens. 2. Confrontations when raiding corpses. The same mod also had a feature I've never seen in any other mods. If there's a shootout and let's say 2 bandits are the victors and you come along and try to loot the bodies they just dropped they (they stalkers who killed them) will stop you and tell you to give it back. A dialogue box opens up and you can give 4 option responses. Starting from "Take it i don't want trouble" to "If you don't back off there's going to be one more body on the ground". Each response comes with a degree of "respect" lost by giving it, more respect lost the more aggressive your response. Respect is gained by helping that faction in any way (help killing enemy faction, acquiring bases/spots). The more Respect you have the the more you can lose when you give more aggressive responses. If you have no or low respect and the response you give is aggressive then THEIR response will be _MORE_ aggressive than yours usually ending in a shootout. If you have high respect then most times they back off, you just lost Respect towards your next encounter but you get to keep everything you looted. #2 actually has more dynamic options but that's the gist of it. When the shootout begins you can be quicker on the draw and kill them, have no respect, and keep all the loot. You can choose to play a real scumbag! These two features seem like they would be incorporated into other mods/add-ons because not only do they fit the world but make it way more fun, yet, I've never seen them incorporated all the way up to CoC 1.5! I hope Anomaly has them. Does GAMMA have something similar?

[@grok_gamma]

For the pad lock, there's a mod like this under development, not a fan of it honestly, getting your stuff stolen without knowing the system can be a real pain. In gamma there's nothing in unmarked stashes, you need to get info about stashes location from ennemies PDAs or by simply looting them (checking their notes on paper) or buying stash locations from traders. For the looting thing, there are various options like that in gamma making you unable to loot stuff from stalkers you didn't kill, or making other NPCs more prone to loot anything in the first come first served manner.

[@ekonelewa3278]

In EFP 3.0 you can make stashes and the npcs can't seach them (i dont know if this is in vanilla Anomaly because i never played it) Also, in the same mod you have NPC Loot Claim: Enemies killed by NPCs will make the bodies unlootable for the player, you can get up to 3 warnings before the NPCs that killed the body you're trying to loot turn hostile to you.

[@tincano-beans2114]

Anomoly has a mod where the person who kills another stalker gets dibs on his stuff. You get a few warnings before they get hostile if you try and loot.

[@Ccberry98]

Great video! Never heard of this one, was thinking of restarting an Anomaly campaign but kept putting it off because I’d have to pick allllllll the addons I wanted. This really simplifies things, thanks for the info :)

[@TheSpacegamer]

I've been playing GAMMA for the past week and I'll have to say this is the best Stalker experience you can have right now. Normally in Anomaly I get bored around the time you head into Radar because I'm walking around in an exo already with good guns. The removal of guns and outfits from traders is a fantastic change, you rely almost completely on stashes and looting to progress and its designed in a way that finding a high end item doesn't break progression because you will still have to obtain the parts and tools to make it functional again. There are daily updates to the pack and the installer makes it so it only takes 2 buttons and ~10 minutes to get the newest version, which is amazing considering there are 291 addons at the time I'm writing this.

[@cloacky4409]

Its subjective

[@EtherialofNowhere]

I may be incorrect, but both Dead air and Anomaly are based on COC, and Dead Air is an earlyer dead (badumts) branch. Wihle Anomaly had come later.

[@TheTrueJNR]

i saw this pack once a couple weeks ago and didn't think much of it, seems like i'll have to try it out! I love EFP already, can't wait to try GAMMA out

[@Patches131]

NOTE Community, In the GAMMA Options you can activate Loot animations for backpack looting bodies etc. very nice, also you can activate magazines

[@bohumirsipek1226]

In which section I can find the magazine option? Thanks

[@Patches131]

@@bohumirsipek1226 The Magazines has to be activated in the Anomaly Mod Organizer from GAMMA, where you start the game. Search for Magazines and you will find it and can acitvate them. But after that you have to start a new game. you are welcome

[@bohumirsipek1226]

@@Patches131 Found it. Thanks a lot :)

[@lemonstevie4870]

Probably spent about 40 hours with GAMMA on a loner so far. Just about to head into Radar after doing the defense mission. (Survivalist / Hard difficulties) I think GAMMA is fantastic, it's mostly what I want and I've encountered bugs and CTD's as is typical, but they're pretty infrequent for the most part. Progression feels very slow, probably due to the outfit and weapon repair mechanics and item crafting. On one hand, I'm largely used to being able to buy outfit and weapon upgrades from traders, but not being able to does add an "oh shit" reaction when you finally find an actual upgrade, like a radsuit or sphere-08 and above; and from there they haven't been difficult to repair as long as you have advanced tools. Same with weapons if you hoard weapon parts like I do, even though you can also use the associated repair kit to clean the parts and the weapon at the same time via the maintain weapon option if you must. I still haven't found expert tools, and I'm not sure if they are actually just that insanely rare now or I've been insanely unlucky, but not having them does it make it impossible to get the best NVG's and equipment upgrades. Overall, I think weapon and outfit repairs is different and nice at times, but I still think fresh outfits and weapons should be available either from higher reputation traders or at a high markup. Additionally having all my crafting stuff in one place discourages me from branching out too far from where I'm keeping them, which I think is just bad albeit a side effect and imo a problem Anomaly has always had, maybe leaning too hard into it. Pistols and some SMG's being able to go into the binoc slot is really nice and helps them not be irrelevant later when you are rocking two decked primaries like an AR / Shotgun or Sniper / Shotgun. Small thing, but limiting fast travel is a great compromise for me. Can't do it willy-nilly, have to pay for it according to distance, and it's on a cooldown, but can still do it when you're feeling lazy or just looted the merc base. Weapons still feel good. Buckshot should hurt a little more than throwing a twinkie at an obese person when it isn't against anything wearing something better than a leather jacket, but slugs will one or two shot if they penetrate still. .45 Hydrashok is insanely strong against mutants. Artifacts are weird now. I still don't know if I like it. My goal is to get a full durability compass, and I don't expect that to happen for a long time. You essentially fuse crappy artifacts to get good crappy artifacts, and then make more of those good crappy artifacts to combine them to increase their durability (and positive and negative effects). This pretty much means you can't really make money with artifacts in my experience, unless you really luck out and just get a full durability one, which I've only had happen once so far. It kinda feels like a goose chase trying to get the artifacts you need to make certain artifacts you'll also need to craft the artifacts you really want, and that part is rather tedious. Until I get high tier and durability artifacts, I have a hard time justifying using them over the much more easily crafted (and often more powerful) belt items like the improved freon or kevlar / carbon steel plates. I think the only direct positive I see in this at the time of writing is that you can eventually get the artifact you want, regardless of rarity, but it will take a lot of grinding anomaly fields to get it if it's a higher tier one. I always thought the limb health system was obnoxious, but I can see how other people would like it. It's not really too difficult to deal with, especially when you can start easily crafting fentanyl. I've noticed gravitational anomalies are more dangerous, which I like. Springboards aren't the only one that actually pose a threat anymore. Atmosphere is top notch with stuff like the Horror Overhaul and others. With most of the mods I've played, I'm kinda too used to standard STALKER gameplay and don't really get as immersed as I once did; GAMMA is able to reel me in and keep me reeled in and I end up playing it until 3 am when I do boot it up. Pretty spectacular mod, really. Updates are daily, big and small and Grok is always responding in his discord. I'm not really sure how the dude / dudette sleeps. Not having to install all the shit yourself is a big plus as well and is what kept me away from coming back to Anomaly all the time. Big 'ol wall. I'm just a dude. Try it yourself. Take it easy.

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Thanks for the detailed writeup! It's really nice to have a good review from someone who sunk a good chunk of the time in the mod!

[@grok_gamma]

Thanks for the big review Champ! Few points: - Artefacts do spawn everywhere and at anytime now. And with dedication you can quickly get your first compass rather fast. Once you go to red forest it's pretty fast to get whatever you want from the crafting system since tier 3 artefacts can spawn there directly. Indeed red forest is very dangerous, but I like it being so lucrative. Artefacts can still give you some money, especially for artefacts that are out of the crafting loop for Lucifer / Compass / Volat Emerald. Get a task asking for one, empower it to 98% and get about 40k RU in one go. Even tier 1 artefact at 20% in the beginning can give you like 1200 to 2000 RU in hard / survivalist. Just get these "get me that artefact" tasks instead of selling them if you want money 💰. - Buckshots are always hard to balance and changing the values can easily make them super broken.

[@blinddog]

Also Grok, the person behind the modpack is super great guy. It was super fun and great experience to work with him while i was making Gamma's trailer :)

[@viliussmproductions]

Very informative and well presented, especoally the bit about modding history

[@magshype]

i really wish they had kept dead air updated, that was the best mod made for stalker imo. it was absolutely brutal, the atmosphere was like no other, it was a struggle to get food, guns, armor etc. anomaly as nice as it is is way too bloated.

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Oh don't get me started on dead air!

[@krenkson]

I played about 100 hours of GAMMA... its amazing

[@grok_gamma]

Thank you ☺️👍

[@grok_gamma]

I actually cried 🥺 . Merci beaucoup

[@GuerrierGitan]

Gamma 💯💯💯

[@rvh1999]

Why?

[@Rohrkrepierer]

Great video, will definitely check out GAMMA!

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

You should!

[@grayfox1771]

I ended up installing anomaly on both my hard drives one with groks and the other with my own custom mod loadout .

[@Hightower2804TP]

Same!

[@OXY187]

One of the best mods I've ever played so far.

[@Acall2Witness]

Thank you cheeki breeki, it seems like this will pass up EFP 3.0. I’m currently deep in the sin missions on EFP 3.0 and I’m disappointed that I haven’t came across the m-60 machine gun. Found it no problem early on in EFP 2.5 lol.

[@Arnerios]

In EFP 3 Mercs sells it

[@Acall2Witness]

I kept going back to them having to disguise and literally have seconds scrolling through the traders guns and it never came up. O well I’m gunna start gamma soon. Does gamma have mags add on?

[@BigGalacticDragon]

@@Acall2Witness It is included in the mods it installs, but you have to manually turn it on

[@cloacky4409]

I feel like there are many mods you should try out while waiting for Stalker, because the beauty of it is that there are so many mod genres so every type of player is satisfied. Anomaly, OGSR, OLR and such. You can play anything you want while waiting for it and it'd be alright, probs.

[@Arpadiam]

i have more that 200 addons for anomaly and everything works as intended, No crash, NO save corruption, no bugs

[@bloodsalt]

This is amazing! Thank you for the video love letter

[@Deceneu66]

I'm really glad this was in my recommended feed. Thank you !

[@thatzaliasguy]

False. Radiophobia 3 is the way to play until STALKER 2 releases. Built on the OGSR x64 Engine, it contains the main story campaign of Shadow of Chernobyl + additional quests. GAMMA and Anomaly are just bloated Freeplay.

[@Fallub]

What an amazing explanation. Thank you.

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@lehardcorsaire6709]

OK, tu m'a convaincu. Je termine ma run sur Anomaly et j'irai voir ça

[@justivan3559]

Hmm, tried EFP and played a couple hours and got tired of it’s over complication. But making actually exploring buildings an incentive makes me want to try this. I’ll let y’all know how it goes.

[@VaiSwitch]

Oh man this further cements why it's great to be a Stalker player, so many great options. Been playing loads of EFP on Ironman and getting my arse kicked, really curious how different the experience will be on GAMMA, downloading now!

[@dealwolfstriked272]

Grok is the man for sure :)

[@grok_gamma]

Thanks 🙏

[@Ryunoku]

I personally like the Escape from Pripyat mod pack, I might give this one a try though when I do a new game.

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

EFP is an amazing mod pack, GAMMA is just one more option if you crave some more Stalker!

[@leodiiablo]

Vivement STALKER 2, merci pour la vidéo sur ce mod !

[@PoutyBun]

You're my go-to channel when I start hearing rumors about notable stalker mods coming out. I heard people mentioning Gamma over the in-game chat mod, and now that I see this video, i know I have to give this mod a try! I'm just sad because i'm already extremely far into my EFP run that I have to finish now! But jeez, this modpack looks amazing

[@tastychunks]

Babe wake up, new Cheeki Breeki video

[@shaskar]

Thank you very much for this review, you do good job with your videos. En plus avec l'accent français c'est encore plus compréhensible. Like you I love the huge work of Grokitach, it feet my vision of S.T.A.L.K.E.R This game and its community is one of the best things in this world !

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Yeah thats what I tried to convey in the video. There are now dozens of mods / addons packs out there and you can easily find something that fits the way you love to play the game. GAMMA definitely struck a cord for me :)

[@Davad66]

Nice to see you creating content again mate, I watched your Ironman way back when.

[@Turfut730]

As usual, thanks for the clear/condensed/informative content you make ! And now, you just..... have to make a let's play serie of gamma, I(WE)'d be happy to watch (pleeaase : ) ) Kurg

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

It's already in the works! A lets play is coming soon>

[@Turfut730]

@@CheekiBreekiTv glorious

[@fiecylick3981]

If people like a blocky version they can try out Stalkcraft to get an idea on what stalker is and if they like it they can play the actual game there. I recommend to try out similar games like it to get an idea on what it would be like so you can get a grasp on what to do sorta. And Stalcraft has online which is cool but also challenging.

[@secfeed6987]

looks good. So far EFP 3.0 has been my go too for the past few months. I think I will give this a go

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Same here, was playing pretty much only EFP until I started working on this video. Don't get me wrong, EFP is absolutely great, but like I tried to explain GAMMA really scratch an itch in the way I love to play Stalker. I'm never going back now!

[@magic9137]

@@CheekiBreekiTv So would you say this is better than EFP? Or does it just match your prefrences better.

[@mclarenf1gtr99]

I still miss the Misery 2.1 vibe and atmosphere. I just can't find that anywhere. For replay ability Anomaly is a very good mod, but I find that after some time, I start to know the majority of the spawn spots of mutants and NPCs and the bugs in the economy(Is it me or cooking meat is actually expensive?). In Misery I find that everything seems random. I can't seem to know where mutants spawn and where and when they will attack, as well as where NPCs will be and what faction they are. That is what makes Misery unpredictable and scary to travel on. You never know what you might find at the next corner and need to be always on alert. In Anomaly, Mutants and NPCs are more predictable. I know where they normally spawn and they will mostly just stay at one place doing nothing but just wait for the player to reach their lair and only then they act, when most of the time I spot them first.

[@grok_gamma]

GAMMA is much less predictable than Anomaly thanks to randomized spawns, random radiation areas and dynamic anomalies with more diversity

[@ThienNguyen-ef2kg]

i just wish they open up a forum for support and guides. gamma and efp guys hole up their resources in discord where useful information die in the thousands of messages. no one wants to ask/answer 1 same question for the hundredth times.

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

This is very true. I don't mind having the communities on discord, I mean whatever its the new thing these days, but having so much ressources / information lost because there's no way to search / track topics is a huge loss.

[@chloewebb5526]

I've been playing the same EFP 3.0 install from earlier this year without updating it because I've been afraid to mess with anything. I've got a tiny little 500GB SSD and havent wanted to uninstall EFP in order to try Gamma, and just in general wasn't sure if it was going to be something I liked more. But the systems in EFP just arent quite balanced in a way that keeps things interesting and I've made a thousand new characters at this point, and got bored with it a couple months ago. I think I'm finally downloading Gamma tonight. I remember seeing early builds of it and thinking it sounded like it would be good, but at this point so many people are raving about the current build that I would be stupid not to try it.

[@MBOmnis]

If it's so easy to install and play, there's no reason not to try it out. Thanks for the suggestion.

[@kekpg]

*With love from Siberia! There is also a mod called Anomaly: REDUX. The build quality is excellent, I advise you to try it! VPN to help, I just don't know if you can download this mod at home. Please do not touch and do not drag me into politics, I will not answer, I just advised to pass the time waiting for the second part.*

[@greelune5780]

Amazing video and the best STALKER 2 waiting room :D

[@Dideur]

Je sent dans l'accent qu'il y a du français, ça fait plaisir ! Superbe vidéo !

[@whalelakevillage]

I agree its the best stalker experience. Hard but very fun on Ironman

[@paulmouatib9999]

ça fait longtemps que j'ai pas rejoué à STALKER.... tu m'as donné envie avec ce nouveau pack Merci en tout cas, je n'en avais jamais entendu parlé

[@grok_gamma]

Amuses-toi bien :)

[@grimtide3438]

I would love to enjoy this, but I am really iffy when it comes to the gun repair system. I hate having to run around trying to find weapon parts, repair kits, tools to be able to start using a more acceptable gun. And so I end up running from trader to trader, stash to stash and finding nothing of what I need. I can not really enjoy the mechanics of the repair system if I can not use it because I can not find the required equipment, so for now I am gonna stick with expedition, because honestly getting shot at by NPCs with crazy good guns that never jam, only to search them and they have 10% condition is frustrating and makes no sense imo. Only issue with Expedition is it needs some tinkering to get working, and isn't quite out of the box. You need to re-install FDDA with the new install method otherwise you will get backpack crashes.

[@prodshisvi]

yeah they 100% need to cut all that junk to the point you need only few ingridients

[@tomaszproblem4875]

IDK but in EFP Mod pack, there be mod where you can "Disasamble" weapon with parts, fix them and put them back to the gun, only gun barrel u need fix in repair station. If someone ask me what i didn't enjoy, that be some guns/items are not working good, for example in EFP you can find guns without any parts, soo you need only fix condition to play with it. Another problem is with overall condytion of the gun, 0.5 and guns still drop too fast thier condytion in game, after 2-3 gun fight with good ammo, gun can drop from 100% to 90%....

[@tomigun5180]

I love everything in the game you mentioned. Yes, you have to work for your upgrades, valuable things are scarce in the Zone. If they weren't, everyone after a week would be running around in exosuits and G36s. It's not an instant gratification easy CoD game, and should never become one. And NPC's guns jam/need to be reloaded of course, just stay in cover and wait for it to happen.

[@grok_gamma]

What you want basically promotes being super powerful after 8 hours in the Zone and being fully geared after 3 days. It doesn't make any sense for a freeplay game. GAMMA aims at providing a long progression with a dangerous north (Monolith only use AP ammo which will penetrate any armor with a BR class below 40), but that's where all the good stuff is. Going though red forest feels like your first day at Cordon. Even after 19 days in the zone, you are still gearing up in GAMMA.

[@sashamakeev7547]

The part about "cant sleep" or "dont want to sleep" is the first thing i turn off in any mod. Like dude do you want me to sit and wait IRL for night to end or any other thing that i need?? Are you for real?

[@zetorrec]

true

[@TheSpacegamer]

Just eat sleeping pills

[@grok_gamma]

Just use sleeping pills. I'm planning on adding an option to pass time using "magazines" you usually find on bandits and using a deck of cards as well.

[@McGriddy51095]

i love stalker anomaly but my god i will go several hours and then enter any new zone and theres a good chance it will crash and close the game, and the annoyance of entering a zone and hoping it wont crash, and wondering when it WILL crash causing me to have to exit the zone and go around that zone sucks so much fun out of it. "ohhh, nice loot on this body, hope it doesn't crash on my way back to base"

[@ross_boss]

Even though some of the changes fit the way I like to play Stalker, this still just feels like another poor man's Tarkov. I'd love to see a mod that moves away from trying to copy the Tarkov gameplay elements and actually does something more Stalker-like. The Anomaly engine is having it's potential wasted

[@TheKillboy1000]

The second he said you cant buy guns made me lose all interest.

[@grok_gamma]

Tarkov has nothing to do with stalker gamma apart from few gameplay mechanics. Tarkov isn't immersive for one bit. It's a fun multiplayer online shooter with a deep progression and complex mechanics. Stalker gamma is a survival solo experience with craft, cooking etc, everything streamlined so it's not a pain like in Anomaly, while giving a smooth progression to the whole game. And comparing a passion project from few people doing that during their free time vs a famous modern online shooter actually shows how good stalker anomaly can be in the end.

[@grok_gamma]

@@TheKillboy1000 some people can't move from the anomaly and EFP economy principles which are simply bad and don't provide any incentive to go further north to become more powerful and take on new challenges.

[@arcane_peasant6416]

@RossBoss either troll or just stupid

[@wolfrodah]

i was looking for a mod that fits my playstyle, i think i found it thanks

[@flox__]

J'aime beaucoup tes vidéos ! Très agréable à regarder !

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

merci!

[@bolan4185]

the biggest thing i hate about anomaly and its modpacks is that the weapons are always in 1 to 10% condition, its unrealistic af, it should be from 40 to 80 percent for most guns, and as a trade off most of people should use some shittier stuff like aks74u, aks74, akm, sks and not ak-12's everywhere north of army warehouses

[@bolan4185]

@@itsty-ler oh, nice

[@eldonhill4840]

I just tweaked the ZCP settings in the mod configuration menu and made it so higher level stalkers are way more likely to drop higher durability gear, instead of only a little bit more likely like it is in regular gamma. That's the beauty of mods, they're super customizable

[@nyranstanton203]

looks good. Th eoriginal stalker is epic. Might have to replay it.

[@prodshisvi]

never heard about gamma, redux 1.1 was my last walkthrough, on the other hand here i like new systems with weapons, artifacts etc and especially that it has updater, only wish it had fonts like in redux its just a cherry on top

[@thelastminuteman7513]

Looks cool maybe Ill play that after I finish Radiophobia which is a complete Shadow Of Chernobyl mod pack.

[@donbehatin]

Yeah GAMMA is something special man.

[@globmonkey200716102]

Gamma sounds pretty good, with the new quests and artefact stuff and cheaper meds (EFP plz bro my legs), but the weapon and armor repairing stuff sounds tedious. I like EFP because once you hit your stride, you're more free to see a gun you like and buy it and play around with it after a little bit of this repairing-based gameplay in the early game, which also seems more realistic for factions with backing like the mercs or military, who it makes no sense would be getting no arms from their country/benefactor to brave the zone with. I'll probably still try the list though, just because I can.

[@grok_gamma]

The gun repair system, once you have the repair kit, is REALLY easy: right click gun > maintain parts > replace all parts. Tada, brand new gun at 100% condition.

[@enkhovy]

From the way you're talking about it, how can I not try it? lmao

[@SamAtreides]

Well I'm definitely excited for this!

[@mildahardbasser]

downloading right now!

[@AspirinSGD]

Dead air evolve from Call of Misery mod, not from Anomaly. RTTN too.

[@mercenarytao2524]

The first 2 things you started with are a nope for me . Not being able to buy guns and armor ? what ? makes no sense also finding empty cashes just because noone told me about them ? that breaks immersion and kinda the exploring part for me.. why would i explore if whenever i find a secret stash and its epmty? that thats what i hated about SOC so much.

[@SALTINBANK]

Je sais pas si t'es français mais merci depuis 2007 j'avais pas refoncer sur le meilleur jeu pour moi au monde ...

[@iainbaker6916]

CoC - Call of Misery - Last Day - Anomaly - mod packs (EFP/Gamma etc)

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

imgur.com/y2uu1k2 Very hard to explain concisely!

[@TITAN.ZofenTWRIJ]

it's good buy EFP 3.0 is the best modpack

[@Dark_Brandon_2024]

Misery 2.1.2 will always remain my favorite

[@liminal7934]

cool might try it later

[@boiledbone3966]

I love this mod so much

[@notsatan9944]

Grok sent me here.

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Welcome!

[@notsatan9944]

@@CheekiBreekiTv I've been watching your vids ever since i started playing Anomaly, now i don't feel like a noob anymore, thanks a llot man!

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

@@notsatan9944 Always glad to help and share my love for this game! :)

[@synkadus]

Didn't know west is so crazy about Stalker Damn

[@gran-roan]

I want more reviews on storyline content. Other than the Artifact "mixing" idea, I'm ok with slightly modded Stalker Anomaly. But need deep and interesting quests/characters to fill the void. And such reviews would be great.

[@grok_gamma]

Check out Prof Wavey channel, he played the new storylines and made videos of it.

[@gran-roan]

@@grok_gamma Ah, thanks mate

[@rinner2801]

Anomaly with PTGI is still my go-to.

[@hithere5561]

PTGI?

[@horror11]

really i dont want to join hundreds of discords jut to play mods, i dont know why this has been done latly from so many modders but it certainly does not do them a favor when many ppl just turn their backs to their mods because they dont want to join random discords. to bad i never can play this promising modpack.

[@grok_gamma]

It will be on moddb once it's balanced enough for 1.0 version.

[@CharcharoExplorer]

With all due respect, there were many big mods before Call of Chernobyl and there are current gigantic mods that have little to do with Anomaly. Most of the Ukrainian/Russian/Belarussian - just Eastern European community has a LOT more mods with their own stories and engine versions. The small English community is the exception not the rule.

[@cloacky4409]

The english community isn't small, though, and seems to be more loyal than the russian one so they are the most welcome.

[@CharcharoExplorer]

@@cloacky4409 The English community is relatively smaller. And I dont count just the Russians - the Ukrainians and other Eastern European fans who can speak Russian/Ukrainian are the big community. And mind you - mods like NLC7 make Anomaly and its similar mods (like Gamma) look ... underwhelming.

[@cloacky4409]

@@CharcharoExplorer I'd say that the sizes are comparable, but I can't really confirm that, I don't sit in the cyrillic-speaking part of the fandom at all. "And mind you - mods like NLC7 make Anomaly and its similar mods (like Gamma) look ... underwhelming." I hate these generic hard mods, but you must acknowledge the importance of Anomaly. I don't like Anomaly at all, yet it brought so many new people, opened so many possibilities and did so much stuff that it might be as important as mods such as CoC, for example.

[@CharcharoExplorer]

@@cloacky4409 NLC7 isnt a generic hard mod. It is a story mod. It literally has a brand new and better written main story and complex quests. It literally is closer to Pathologic 2's quest design than the original series. I know you are using a Pathologic 2 avatar so that should mean something to you. As for the community - check the views on RU/UA Stalker youtubers and then the EN-speaking ones. It isnt close.

[@cloacky4409]

@@CharcharoExplorer |NLC7 isnt a generic hard mod. It is a story mod. It literally has a brand new and better written main story and complex quests" So was misery and other hard mods. I just dislike stuff that tries to make stalker harder than it should be, I personally don't enjoy these types of mods. "It literally is closer to Pathologic 2's quest design than the original series. I know you are using a Pathologic 2 avatar so that should mean something to you." The game treats you like an adult and has timed quests which can impact the future of the town (or Zone in this case) and many characters can die? The game is a test of endurance where you have to make hard and immoral decisions to stay afloat? "As for the community - check the views on RU/UA Stalker youtubers and then the EN-speaking ones. It isnt close." I don't actively watch western youtubers, but ones like bluedrake or other guys who made anal-moly videos had decent views.

[@janvisagie231]

Stalker is one of my fav games of all times, therefore I also greatly enjoyed anomaly. Seems it just got better recently 🤘🏻

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Couldn't agree more!

[@Edario]

The background music: Hazy Dreamer

[@Catchy94]

What about the song at the end?

[@Edario]

@@Catchy94 get out of here stalker

[@Farencio]

I engage with the crafting and repair system of the pack, but really the inability to buy weapons or armor takes me put of the world. Not because it's make the game harder or something like that, but for a somewhat realist perspective it doesn't make sense. I mean, in the zone there's so much at stake that there's isn't a black market of weapons is puzzling. I mean, at least cold war era Soviet weaponry with prices adjusted to a excessive degree of inflation of the ruble and lack of supply in contrast with the excess of demand. In my country, Chile, guns are expensive and we have really strict regulatory laws that makes the adquisition and port of firearms really really hard. But if you have contacts you can buy weapons of ex military men that exchange them between them like toys in their collections. From WW2 rifles to Galils. But if you're a drug dealer or something like that you can buy ammunition, glocks and Uzis from the cops. If you're really can't access these markets, you can modify firearms that shoot blank ammunition to fire live rounds, and is particularly easy. But if you're really really really ingenious you can make your makeshift shotgun. Fun fact: the shotgun in the chilean survival horror game "tormented souls" is really similar to a typical makeshift shotgun that you can find in Chile.

[@eldonhill4840]

I kinda suspend my disbelief for that part for the sake of game balance, in the same way that I suspend my disbelief to accept that there's a group of scientists who tapped into the noosphere and became the c-consciousness and now control people's minds with untold levels of psychic energy, for example. Believing all that is a little more of a leap than believing that a trader doesn't have guns for sale, in my opinion

[@danielstockley5631]

I shouldn't enjoy Anomaly. No fast travel doesn't bother me but I don't like the loading screens but I'm hooked nonetheless. Looking forward to 2 for the seamless open world. And mods lol.

[@ClydoniusJonius]

I think I'll stick with soup mods until whenever the day comes

[@theFonzii]

i feel like gamma might as well be a soup mod of its own for anomaly. worth a shot

[@heyitsluno]

If I could figure out repairing things, this would be amazing, otherwise EFP is a bit easier to grasp

[@giga9849]

How much does this differ from EFP 3.0 because im still unsure what is different about it apart from that it runs better because it has less HD stuff

[@TheFps12]

I completely understand the encouragement to find and repair equipment vs buying them... but for the most part you can already do that yourself without this by either just adjusting economy settings to make stuff really expensive or just don't buy the stuff?

[@Ty6260]

Sure but that is only one of the very very many overhauls this pack provides and it also revamps the repair processes. I've played the entire series and got into mods since dead air and I promise GAMMA has the best sandbox gameplay by _miles,_ highly highly recommend

[@exanyt]

@@Ty6260 Played it, didn't like it, the repairing gets annoying hella fast and the no weapons buying is also annoying. I prefer EFP over this.

[@grok_gamma]

It's just about the whole tweaking and balance of about every system in the game. You can't really translate that in a video. Just try it and you'll understand ;) . Grafting stuff together is easy, create a complex alchemy so everything works fine together and everything is balanced is something else, and that's what gamma provides.

[@Ty6260]

@@exanyt Fair enough. Not everyone wants to be in the hobo phase for ~20 hours lol. Both are good

[@yo-kagame5629]

excellente vidéo, continue comme ça ! +1 abonné :)

[@ReaperCH90]

Very interesting, i am very new to stalker modding. Only know misery and the one mod where you can start from different starting points. But first i will probably replay Shadow of Chernobyl vanilla ahain after all this time

[@xenf1365]

Oh nice a video from Cheeki Breeki

[@EDDIE2Fast]

Love your videos. Thanks 👍

[@kyzar2756]

The only thing i realy waiting for is that they stitch the Maps together to one BIG Map but i think it will only happen when Stalker 2 comes out :/

[@akaroth7542]

One big seamless map would be amazing