The Failed Secret Plan | INVICTUS Ep.12 | STALKER Gamma Ironman Playthrough

[@Andrew-ss7jd]

Imagine you're an ecologist at the start: a normal day in the zone, a large group of your friends are waiting around the campfire preparing to head out and that weird but very well armed stalker who always calls you nerds is hanging around close by. You feel pretty safe and secure.. Suddenly without warning 3 Burors appear and begin attacking the group, bullets are flying everywhere and your friends are falling and dying you glance back at the unknown stalker and he is doing nothing, he stands there and watches you dying, above the noise you hear him saying something about 'hurrying up'. A cry brings you back to the fight. No! Demetri your friend and comrade since you entered this godforsaken place has fallen. You rally yourself and with a few lucky shots the last Buror is killed, you head back to the campfire to recover and treat your wounds, as you go you see the unknown stalker in a dead sprint going towards the bodies of the monsters. With his bare hands he rips anything of use off of them with inhuman speed then moves onto the next and the next after that. When he is done he sprints towards your dead comrades and strips them of everything they owned, he even takes the postcard Demitri found that time and was going to send back to his wife at home. You can't believe it. He's not done yet, now he sprints towards you; "Do you have any missions for me?!" "Do you have any missions for me?!" He asks over and over again. In shock you stammer something about needing Buror skin and he eagerly hands you the skin from the Buror you yourself just killed then sprints away to speak to Demetri's twin brother who is crying in the corner

[@edvardaskromelis6726]

Zone is a weird place indeed

[@TheGriphus1]

Bro you did my day ! Thank you hahaha i had a good laugh

[@Eladnav1]

**casually killst two fractures and a chimera while being in oneshot range and with maximum radiation** bro, you are a stalker god :D

[@Fat_Paws]

18:53 - Ceasefire just means they won't shoot you on sight, while still at range. If you get too close to an enemy faction member, the truce breaks. Named NPCs like Wolf or Dushman will still be hostile and open fire, even at range.

[@TheUnum]

2:53 A true horder in action. Run past the dying man to get to the loot. :)

[@viktorkovacs5873]

Disguising as a loner would have worked. Also the cease fire maybe can work as well if you don’t go too near a regular loner npc. At one point it wrote that you broke the rules and they started to attack

[@ursumihai8955]

At 18:54 it says you broke the rules.

[@HauteGameFR]

Why you dont find Expert Tools in the South : Attention "SPOIL" (kinda of) : This list shows the stash rarity tier for every location in the game. More of the same tier numbers (4, 5, 5, 5) in a single location = more spawn chance for that exact tier. Tier 1 = Ammo crafting kit Tier 2 = Basic toolkit Tier 3 = Advanced toolkit OR drug making kit Tier 5 = Expert toolkit (yes, there are no toolkits in Tier 4 stashes) local map_tiers = { ["k00_marsh"] = {1, 2}, ["l01_escape"] = {1, 2}, ["l05_bar"] = {1, 2}, ["l02_garbage"] = {1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3}, ["k01_darkscape"] = {1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3}, ["l04_darkvalley"] = {1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3}, ["k02_trucks_cemetery"] = {2, 2, 3, 3, 3}, ["l09_deadcity"] = {1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3}, ["l03_agroprom"] = {2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3}, ["l06_rostok"] = {2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3}, ["l07_military"] = {2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4}, ["l08_yantar"] = {2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3}, ["jupiter"] = {3, 3, 3, 4}, ["l03u_agr_underground"] = {3, 4, 5}, ["l10_limansk"] = {2, 3, 4, 4}, ["l08u_brainlab"] = {3, 4, 5}, ["l10_red_forest"] = {3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5}, ["labx8"] = {3, 4, 5}, ["l12_stancia"] = {3, 4, 4, 4, 4}, ["zaton"] = {3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5}, ["l12_stancia_2"] = {4, 4, 4, 5, 5}, ["l11_hospital"] = {4, 5}, ["jupiter_underground"] = {4, 4, 4, 4, 5}, ["l10u_bunker"] = {4, 5}, ["l10_radar"] = {4, 5, 5, 5}, ["l04u_labx18"] = {4, 5}, ["l11_pripyat"] = {3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5}, ["l12u_sarcofag"] = {4, 5, 5, 5, 5}, ["l12u_control_monolith"] = {4, 5, 5, 5, 5}, ["l13_generators"] = {4, 5, 5, 5, 5}, ["l13u_warlab"] = {4, 5, 5, 5, 5}, ["pripyat"] = {4, 5, 5, 5, 5}, ["y04_pole"] = {1,2}, } (My source : Official GAMMA Discord).

[@HauteGameFR]

The Clear Sky trader sells stashes coordinates like Sidorovich too.

[@XxMrRoachxX]

Turn off "Areas" in the PDA. It almost always interferes with fast travel in Anomaly. You're a stalker beast :)

[@Maximboyko86]

At 12:50 seems like you missed a red upgrade kit in the stash

[@4lew7898]

Outskirts for expert tools - first or second regular stash and its there, works every time. Not even such a hard area because all factions there usually hang out inside their hideouts. Radioprotectant meds are highly recommended though. BTW just doing Brain Scorcher and Strelok hideout missions should make loners stop being hostile.

[@antonyapostolov8252]

Radar and Outskirts have the highest probability of dropping expert tools. In my last playthrough, about half the stashes in outskirts had expert tools in them and radar (monolith base, not forest) have something like more than 50% chance.

[@kurgisempyrion6125]

Yeah got mine from Radar - but the early stash in the forest

[@antonyapostolov8252]

@@kurgisempyrion6125 You can get them in the forest, but from my many playthroughs I've noticed that the stashes inside the base have a significantly higher drop rate.

[@kwdblade4683]

If you join Duty, will your relationship reset with Free Stalkers? I know you talked about going over awhile ago. Also be careful about using the "take all" command, I have noticed it leaves things behind sometimes (you left a armor component behind in one of the stashes you looted).

[@govgamers2821]

12:14 guess time to bring radioprotectant 🙃

[@Deliverant]

Finally, thx a lot

[@zhorazavodskoy6622]

You can put on a loner suit even if its at 1% condition and then open Sidorovich's bunker door. Don't take it off while in there or you might be stuck forever as the door closes by itself sometimes (Sid has telekinesis).

[@jblcomp4387]

you'll have a much higher chance of getting tier 5 loot (expert tools) in radar and outskirts... even in the white stashes.

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Spent last episode getting all stashes in Radar, got nothing. Next episode is in Outskirts tho, who knows what happens there :)

[@generationne]

Actually with a bit of digging around in the files of G.A.M.M.A if I understood each stash has a tier ( 1 to 5) determining which items are contain. For each tier you have a 1/7 chance (according to the comments in the file) of getting the higher tier item. From what I got Expert Tools are a tier 5 item. Then each map has a random chance to have each stash. For example the hospital has 4 , 5 which is 50 / 50 T4 and T5 while jupiter has 3, 3, 3, 4 which is 25% chance Tier 4 and 75% chance to T3. From the default script, Jupiter has no possibility to get T5 (without the random 1/7 chance to get a stash above the tier of the map). Zaton has 1/6 chance to get T5 stash same for red forest. Radar has a 75% chance to get T5, Pripyat more than 75%. I've heard on the discord that stashes found from STALKER PDA's and on their body have more chances but can't confirm that. But from certainty a green stash in CNPP, Radar or pripyat has a really high chance. (Personally i'm a coward I edited the chance to not farm for days to get the tools)

[@dm-wm8vy]

Seems like the game decided that you'll have to search for the expert tools a while longer since you had two lucky chimera dodges in a suit that's basically a sandwich wrapper in terms of rupture protection. It's just karma after all ;-)

[@Sireristof1332]

@ 20:00 you can talk to sidrovitsch if ur in disguise, you don't need to pay. U can actually play as anyone which is cool. I did an speznaz undercover run and only was cover blown 2 or 3 times

[@SpecShadow]

Kinda weird that Snitch from the Bar in Rostok doesn't sell any stash info. Why give other NPCs some useful role when Sid can get 'em all.... 12:14 what are these plates doing here? 21:38 never saw anyone in this pit before

[@jinx0044]

Sid only sells stashes from the South part, so you would have spent your money fruitlessly.

[@RaxTheVirtuous]

love it bro, keep it up!

[@bakeroLJ]

idk if it was an option in the build that you were playing here but you could have had heavy repair kits a LONNG time ago by using the "expensive" craft option with advance tools. it looks expensive at first glance but if you craft the medium kits instead of buying them then its absolutley worth it.

[@BalborValis]

stashes in radar have a good chance of spawning expert tools, i got my from a standard stash right at the entrance from army warehouses.

[@zone_braker]

Doesnt the clear sky trader sell the stash coords as well?

[@Varrenor]

I've found expert tools in Red Forest, smaller area and if u want to get some artifacts its the best place to go, after 1 run i had 15 containers with rare artifacts.

[@Acunss22]

hey i have a 2 questions first how do you look when are going to repair a amor and looking how good is the protcions if only for gamma? 2 is stalker gamma really needs to be 70gb space for it?

[@Fat_Paws]

Can you even get Invictus with Beard dead? Never tried it as Military or other faction that doesn't get the traditional story mission.

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

Yup you realized my big fuckup xD

[@Fat_Paws]

@@CheekiBreekiTv Oh dear... How many days do you have to go back now lol.

[@justina6176]

How do you transfer items so quickly in inventory? I have to double click on everything I want to transfer. But I am using regular Anomaly.

[@rotoristworkshop6530]

Nothing will fail as long as you have the ability to save-scum :D And that's why I'm implementing save-scumming for Tunguska The Visitation... I finally caved in... To the savescummob...

[@ronshamai1861]

amazing as allways!

[@jansvoboda4293]

I was lucky to find my tools at Red Forrest. Going through Outskirts and Pripyat I have 6 now. Now I am at Sarcophagus, loosing 2 lives on My Murky Spirit run. Most monoliths go down on 1 or two shots of my SR-25, but sometimes there is is a guy that doesn't even flinch at multiple hits and 2 shots me while I peek from corner in between 2 pipes. Would be damn scary to do it on Invictus.

[@zetetick395]

Hey, if you ever do another Ironman would you consider doing it on ANOMALY - DARK SIGNAL? (as you've already done vanilla / GAMMA)

[@CheekiBreekiTv]

I'm not sure when I'll do another Ironman run, but you reminded me I really need to try dark signal at some point!

[@midnightapple4556]

Radiation has become real bad that I started to stock up on those radiation resist meds myself. Cooked bloodsucker meat for the most irradiated places is nice too. Gives like +40% rad resist for like 1 hr irl.

[@ikonhero]

I found the difficulty on getting expert tools to be a bit out of balance in Gamma. I like the overall system with not being able to trade weapons and armor, but almost not being able to get the expert tools makes it way too much of a grind.

[@_KB88]

Buying stash coords from Sid would only give you stash coords for the South I believe. Might be worth asking on the Discord for clarification.

[@NomadShadow1]

Good to know I’m not the only one who almost gets murderized because the zone decides to give me lag spikes

[@somavekony5436]

great content man!!!!

[@mdkaff]

What are your system specs at the moment?

[@ohmyshou1der]

18:28 I thought my pc finally died.

[@dethwisper]

90% of the expert tools I find come from radar. At least grab some radiation protection and check the green stash right by the entrance to army warehouses.

[@scheissgeist1320]

Please pack some rad meds (not talking about the injectable, but the pills). They weigh nothing, cost practically nothing from medics, and solve your rad problem. Alternatively, bloodsucker goulash does the trick too, and last a lot longer.

[@redford4ever]

Did I hallucinate that you sold full set of tools before in that run?

[@Sheriff_Ochs]

For anti-rads why not just carry some cigarettes on you at all times? They weigh basically nothing and are usually fine for taking care of most radiation. Also, why not just change factions to Duty or Ecologists for a while to be friendly with Loners? Get stash coordinates from Sidorovich and then switch back to Military. Or would that be going against the rules of Invictus?

[@kevintestagrossa]

you need to do a 'jesus christ' counter on these Invictus run videos. its like your go to thing to say when you are either close to death or shocked by the price of ammo from a vendor aha!

[@jevtaylor7351]

Buying stashes from Sidorovich and the other guy only gives stashes that are south, so no expert tools. Kinda lucky your plan didn't work out...

[@nicetohitu10]

@Cheeki Breeki. check CS main base and see the trader, believe he sells coordinates too.@community could someone doubble check that please???

[@Fat_Paws]

Since you are using backup saves already, here is an extra tip. Step 1 Bak up your saves. Preferably the entire folder. 2. Enable debug mode and check out all the stashes by teleporting to them directly. Create saves along the way since god mode/invisibility doesn't protect you from controller aura suicides and random physics deaths. See if any stash has expert tools and come up with a plan to get to it without dying. 3. Overwrite all the autosave, the original save you used debug mode with, and any saves you may have created while debug mode was active. 3.1 - Best way to ensure you do not accidently screw an invictus run is to simply to backup the entire save folder and overwrite it later.

[@kamilmchwsk9585]

I think after all this You should join nerds and do missions for every other factions still alive or at least have secured back, becouse now there are only monolith soldiers between You and end game so its no point to be shoot in the back by random rookie with sawn-off toz.

[@ea4571]

Man, radioprotectant is cheap...

[@raigarmullerson4838]

Cheers from Estonia

[@greasygameboy7780]

Over here is the difference between 91 and 92 ° on your compass

[@EvilDarkForcesRus]

for the secret plan the clear sky vendor in swamps will also sell stash locations bring some radioprotectant for the high radiation places, costs like 2k for 2 pills & should make you immune to all radiation, i always bring a half dozen also you CAN repair heavy armour with just advanced tools, its just a bit costly requiring 18 med repair kit charges to make a heavy armour repair kit & doesn't allow 3rd tier upgrades or exo suit repairs